Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations

Kamil Braun

Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations

Establish superpolynomial proof-line lower bounds for unrestricted DAG-like resolution over linear equations over each fixed odd prime field \(\mathbb F_p\), for ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{N+1}_N\); track the functional variant separately.

Origin: starting research record.

Starting point

Created on 21 September 2026 at the user’s request to investigate extension of the ordinary unary-PHP resolution-over-parities candidate beyond characteristic two. This thread is separate from odd-field multiplicity coverings and the main Frege program. Setup was followed by a user-assigned Spin on 21 September 2026.

Where we stand

External result, 7 October. Pang's Theorem 7.2(d) covers the target at exponential strength. The scope comparison passed; independent proof verification remains undone. The internal results below retain their own scope.

Proved: restricted classes of refutations are excluded at every odd prime. Polynomial-size refutations are impossible when every line has low nonlocal dimension (ternary, all-prime, \(N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\) and \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\)), or when each line splits into a probe-and-remainder part and a low-nonlocal part (split-line, all-prime); the occupancy class does not join them. At 4 degrees per block, the exclusions tolerate arbitrary lines: \(\Theta(n^\beta)\), \(\beta<1/2\) (the cell-support exceptional-lines theorem), and \(\Omega(n)\) (the linear exceptional-lines theorem).

Proved: local hardness, and gluing. Functional PHP stays hard at degree \(B\) under pairwise coherent product constraints on forms independent modulo constants on every row, given about \(2B\) rows and robustness \(O(B^2r^2)\) (constraints). Local corrections glue exactly along top syzygies (gluing, Tor); satisfiable members are never refuted alone (pinning), but adversaries break syzygy locality (review); generic members split and glue locally, column constraints form one component (Künneth, splitting, column). Planted and confined members satisfy the adversarial local-fall conjecture at width 1 (local falls, n = 7, confined); budget members are quiet below degree \((p-1)\log_pn\) (quiet members), and stable unions add (additivity). For selectors the gluing is finished: Tor vanishing through degree \(B\) gives hardness at \(B\), sharp at degrees 3 and 4 (glued double points, Taylor glue). Explicit designed width-\(k\) W families glue at every degree on disjoint columns (about \(n/k^2\) clauses), and on a column design about \(n^K\) clauses glue at W's degree \(22k\) (column-disjoint, bounded clusters); the capacity-sharp form reduces to a pattern-avoiding matching algebra (pattern theorem). Relative gluing's base holds at logarithmic degree, and t-wise locality fails (base, locality). The band's dependent forms are not covered (review).

Open: the window. Nothing recorded excludes blocks of intermediate projected rank. At \(p=3\) the window is about \([N/(4.4\times10^7),\ 1140N]\) under the semi-regular model (ceiling), after the clique-head dense side. At \(p\ge5\) the all-prime graph criterion and clique-head theorem give the same ends with a wider window.

Why the recorded lines stop short. For the window, per-block removal passes at most linearly many blocks (review), batching needs nested spans (review), reuse-free gluing reaches only lines near the conclusion (analysis), and fresh-block conservativity fails over PHP by completeness (review); by substitution the random calibration is an instance of the main record's wide-clause line (review), and the other window mechanisms are parked in The remaining route. For W, every recorded tool reformulates it or stops at a ceiling (mixed sections, literature pass).

W: generic and adversarial. Random product tops behave like random matrices up to the fill point (check, generic directness). Cell, sparse and column-statistic families satisfy W by reduction to expander graph PHP (cells, sparse, frozen cells). Under random prefixes (W_RS), light and column-statistic families fall to a spare pigeon or a carry chain (spare pigeon, chain residual), and blocks sharing few pigeon-weight vectors to type pinning (type pinning). The global-closure route reduces W_RS to row freeness of a subset of the allowed set (relative row freeness, review). That holds inside joint capacity whatever the falls (sub-family row freeness); every recorded structured obstruction has one, given pullback hypotheses on confined bases (row-free subsets, prefix model). In normal form coupled pairs fail the top lift but pass the lagged lift; shifting forms removes every coupling (coupled pairs, coupling removal, lagged lift). Pigeon-dance and PC-lift lines reduce to it too (lift review). Base-design multipliers (Lucas, colon) skip only excluded points where PHP is easily refutable (hiding fails, colon multipliers).

Open statements

Pang's theorem covers the target if correct; these internal sufficient statements remain separately open.

The goal follows from W by the proved logarithmic-prefix reduction, and from S1 by the proved compiler. By Taylor glue, W follows from Tor vanishing for the clause tops, open along three axes, highest risk first. The window route to S1 is a partial alternative (fate review).

W, wide clauses. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for fixed \(K\) and large \(n\): for every family of \(M=n^K\) blocks of affine forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b}\) there are prefix sets \(S_b\), \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\), such that weak unary PHP plus the clauses \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{2}\), \(i\notin S_b\), \(g=1-L^2\), with \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), has no PC refutation of degree \(22k\). Status: open; a randomized-prefix weakening suffices (W_RS). It follows from row freeness on the allowed set (thm:global-closure-gluing), conjectured for column forms at density \(\ge\frac12\) (conj:closed-row-freeness) and, weakest, for a top-lift subset (lift review).
A1, adversarial forms. W for all families. Status: open, highest risk. Proved for cell, sparse, row-sparse and frozen-cell blocks (cells, sparse, frozen cells, small residual); under random prefixes (W_RS) several structured classes are settled (spare pigeon, pinned rank, pins). Open: the dense core beyond joint capacity, where no pullback exists (A1 subset review). Every certificate there needs a Nullstellensatz design. A point design on the allowed set cannot be found by density or spread and meets the capacity barrier at few free columns; local designs, a measure on each block's allowed set, bypass the union (thinness equivalence, review). The certificate half needs a lagged-lift subset (conj:lagged-lift-subset) or, for random tops, lower-degree Taylor conditions of A3's kind (relation excess).
A2, width. Tor vanishing for tops of width \(k=\Theta(\log n)\). Status: open for adversarial forms (A1). For designed forms settled with A3: about \(n^{K-o(1)}\) explicit clauses with \(\Theta(k^2)\)-cell supports on a column design glue on the weak base through \(22k\) (bounded clusters).
A3, degree. Tor vanishing through degree \(22k=\Theta(\log n)\) (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base), or at one degree \(D'\ge22k\) given a design at \(D'-1\) (single degree). Status: open; core: Koszul range \(s\ge2k+4\). Designed clauses: Taylor generation holds at every degree when supports pairwise share few cells and columns (column Wilson, column-disjoint, bounded clusters); random tops act like random matrices (check, generic directness). For W_RS: randomized Taylor glue with members glued whole (single-block falls, pairs); early cross falls conjecturally need a shared piece, rare under random prefixes (fill-point falls, flat difference, shared pieces, review).
S1, window route. Weak unary PHP plus any \(n^K\) complete accuracy-one ENS blocks has no PC refutation of degree 11. Status: proved outside the window (graph criterion). In the window its gluing needs, for dense inventories, the lag bound \(C_{11}(\text{base}+M\text{ blocks})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{board}]\subseteq C_{11+O(\log M)}(\text{base})\), whose known proof path is the prefix reduction to W.

The remaining route

Prioritize the external proof audit.

Exclude the complete-board selector source using PHP structure. The compiler gives complete selector blocks at PC degree \(4p-1\); the goal needs every polynomial block inventory excluded, and only the window is left. What the window needs is a batched mechanism: weighted pieces glued at additive degree cost across many blocks, which no recorded mechanism provides. Excluded shortcuts: per-block removal, nested-span batching and reuse-free gluing (see Where we stand); a common restriction across sizes, defeated by a dyadic random inventory (calibration argument); arbitrary partial-moment extension, refuted by the three-selector control; and fresh-block conservativity in every exact form (refutation, rank three, completeness). Parked lines: the mixed-moment complex glues a separated pair at zero cost at the Nullstellensatz level only; the \(p\)-complex has coded-row exactness and one-predicate and ternary pair compatibility, but not arbitrary-family or full-source compatibility, and its many-operator lift holds for symmetric targets on free modules, follows from forced-forms exactness, and is proved at every degree for forms independent modulo constants on every row (short-generation theorem), and gluing its local corrections needs the tops' relative Tor vanishing (syzygies as Tor), on members that are spans, not pairs (pencil review); it was set aside for lack of a density mechanism (local-lift review), and later reviews returned to it as the batched mechanism, and its common-conditioning family form caps below \(N^2\) random blocks (wide-conditioning conjecture); the block complex reduces to the degree-\((D-1,D)\) quotient datum; the closure sub-line is weak (review); restriction mixtures reduce to a one-count design problem (top-size lemma), their restart condition. For ENS members, block-by-block gluing fails on shared linear parts, even with pairwise repair (gluing review). The gluing line is finished for selectors: Tor vanishing through degree \(B\) gives hardness at \(B\) (Taylor glue). Its generalization axes and tools are in the generalization review. Its degree-3 case holds at every \(n\) for about \(n^3/1330\) explicit selectors on private tetrahedra (tetrahedra); the capacity-sharp form is paused at the coupling; private supports end at degree \(2k+3\) and miss adversarial forms (review). Clause-level Taylor glue fails on pinnable two-block families, so adversarial gluing needs members as units (binomial review). Weighted replay, the common form of restriction and conditioning, handles at most about \(n/10\) surviving blocks with product weights, and conjecturally no weight certifies random families at \(K\ge1\), so A1 at \(K\ge1\) is sent to degree-free absorption (conditioning review, barrier). Blocks sharing few linear parts are settled by member pinning; the random-form line is parked (random-core review). Peeling further classes cannot reach families of many dense blocks, and the onto-PHP conjecture for column statistics is parked (peeling review); pinning a family is capped by per-pigeon rank (row-local review). The subspace criterion gives nothing at \(p=3\), per slot or jointly (slot Hilbert function, DAG review). What they lack is smallness in characteristic 3; a 3-integrality line gave integral PHP designs through degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\) but is parked (integral extension, auxiliary bits). The randomized-prefix program is parked: it produced no tool for many dense blocks, and over \(\mathbb F_3\) a negated equation cuts the cube only by a quadric (collective-core review). Substitutions into hard sources add nothing (composition collapse, gadgets). Current highest-risk step: a subset of the allowed set with the lagged lift (conj:lagged-lift-subset; lagged lift), which holds when low-degree consequences are certified by \(O(D)\) rows, as on restriction sets, unknown for dense families (fall bound, lagged route review); it and the Taylor form need a Nullstellensatz design, next sought as a local design (few-columns review). Beyond about \(n\) blocks, splitting across row-free members is top-degree row freeness, and the Taylor route with blocks as clusters needs the same Tor vanishing per block (convergence review, lift gluing, batched splitting); base-design multipliers (Lucas, colon) stay pointwise on the excluded set's PHP-hard part (colon multipliers).
Preserve the base and original-degree accounting. The ordinary compiler permits the weak base; use weak-only maps before adding functionality. No graph restriction is needed for its initial bridge; if a later normalization introduces one, justify its effect rather than importing complete-board stability. Keep all original companions and coefficient fields; the rank-one representation is optional, not a free source change.
Review and extend. Check any ternary mechanism against the ordering and mixed-interface controls, then establish every fixed odd prime. The target is standard syntactic Res(Lin), not characteristic zero or semantic inference. The statement set lists every endpoint against both controls; all endpoints passed independent audits (compiler, graph and maps, removal, remaining endpoints, affine endpoint), taking only imported theorems as given. None is Lean-verified or novelty-certified.

Proposed next step

Route item: scope-and-review. Audit Pang's rank-retention and approximation argument in arXiv:2610.00837v1 before treating the odd-prime target as independently verified. Its stated Theorem 7.2(d) covers the goal; internal sufficient statements are not automatically settled. This comparison does not resume Spin or change the queued leads.

Working mathematical context

The external comparison uses standard syntactic DAG rules and ordinary complete unary PHP, with \(r=1\) in Pang's Theorem 7.2(d). No semantic odd-prime rule or proof of the internal sufficient conditions is inferred.

Target and compiler

For every fixed odd prime \(p\) and \(K>0\), seek more than \(N^K\) proof lines for ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{N+1}_N\) in standard syntactic DAG-like Res(Lin); track functionality separately. Variables stay Boolean; growing fields and characteristic zero are outside the target. The rule audit separates written size, proof lines and stronger semantic systems.

The weak-base compiler gives at most \(S\) complete accuracy-one selector blocks, at most \(\binom{v+p-1}{p-1}\) actual input positions per block, and PC degree \(4p-1\). Ordinary PHP needs only Booleanity, column collisions and linear row equations; its wide initial values cost \(2p-1\). Functional-CNF initials need the functional compiler. Both retain every \(r^p-r\). The optional rank-one bridge uses \(P=1-rL\), \(LP\) and \(r^p-r\), at comparison cost \(p+1\) and replaced-companion cost \(2p+1\); these names are not free affine inputs.

Block reductions

The odd-characteristic classification identifies affine Boolean values modulo \(I_2\) as partial-row/column indicators or complements modulo rows. The affinization theorem makes \(1-L^2\) affine exactly for row/column-local \(L\) modulo rows, and its query corollary keeps companion cost five and compiler degree eleven; mixed selector-span cancellations are unclassified. The quotient-rank reduction uses \(r_a=\dim(V_a/(V_a\cap\overline{P_{\le1}}))\) in \(Q_2=P_{\le2}/I_2\) with old \(I_2\) certificates, and excludes \(r_a\le N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\), \(\sigma<1\), at polynomial inventory and polylog degree; the all-prime version works at degree \(\delta=p-1\). High rank is necessary, not sufficient, for hardness: the two-column family has rank \(N(N+1)\) but coefficient degree two. The common-factor control shows binary coordinate changes cannot be imported without their domain equations.

Graph criteria and the window

The distinct-head count bounds the filtered reduction image by \(4\binom sk\exp(k^2/s-qk/s^2)\) for \(q\le s(s-1)/4\), \(k\le s/4\); heads may overlap, and old degree-two relations certify the reductions. The ternary graph criterion excludes inventories whose blocks have projected rank at most \(R\) or at least \(Q_*=O(N^{3/2}\sqrt{\log N})\), with coefficient degree \(T=O(\sqrt{N\log N}+R)\) and \(TD+k\le N/10^6\); at \(D=11\), \(R\approx N/(4.4\times10^7)\). The clique extension admits blocks covering all pairs of \(m_*=O(\sqrt{N\log N})\) coordinates, and full-codimension charging has a model ceiling near \(1140N\). At every odd prime the all-prime graph criterion uses the bounded-degree head count, with \(RD\le c_pN\) and dense threshold \(Q^{(p)}_*=O_p(N^{p-3/2}\sqrt{\log N})\); the all-prime clique-head theorem covers \(\delta\)-subsets of \(m^{(p)}_*=O_p(\sqrt{N\log N})\) coordinates, which random dense blocks meet above rank about \((N\log N)^{(p-1)/2}\). Sunflower blocks reach neither dense side at \(p\ge5\).

Removal endpoints

The thinning theorem handles row exponent \(\alpha<1\) with \(O(\log n)\) probes per block, leaving \(n^\beta\) rows, \(0<\beta<1-\alpha\). The weak occupancy application permits \(L=c+\sum_j a_j\sigma_j+\sum_i b_iX_{ij_0}\) modulo rows; its freezing map leaves \(\lfloor n/(p-1)\rfloor-1\) holes and source replacement costs at most \(2p-1\). Do not use functional \(I_2\) reductions before this weak-only map. The shared-support endpoint leaves \(N=n^\beta\), \(\beta<\varepsilon/2\), for polynomially many supports of size \(n^{2-\varepsilon}\operatorname{polylog}n\); its mixed-profile extension adds \(t\le n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) probes per block when \(\alpha<\beta\), and needs degree-preserving old certificates for the supplied feature representations. The two-size dense control refutes a fixed-board low-probe/dense-rank dichotomy. Weighted elimination removes one block at cost \((p-1)\delta_1\).

Parked algebraic tools

The marked presentation records NS degree by \(z^D=0\) and PC closure by \(W_{j+1}=W_j+\sum_y y(W_j:z)\) from \(J_D\); nontrivial blocks are nonflat. The amplitude theorem gives \(\ker D^a=\operatorname{im}D^{p-a}\) at degree \(d\) with \(t\ge2d+p-a\) robust active rows; the two-form lift, one-predicate theorem and ternary pair theorem need collective width and robustness as stated there. The filtered obstruction quotient identifies \(H_1\) modulo liftable cycles with \(\ker z\), and identical barcodes can have different PC degrees. The column-cone normalization kills the PHP \(z\)-thickness, so its defect must be kept; the three-selector control derives \(a-b\) at degree three; the derived block complex gives no gluing. On one \(t\)-set of rows the zero-marginal space is the top cycle space of the \(t\times N\) chessboard complex, so \(\dim=\delta_t(N)\) when its lower homology vanishes, for \(N\ge2t-1\) by the imported connectivity bound (chessboard cycles). Generalization leads for the glued line: \(G\) as an Artinian reduction of the chessboard face ring, with Hochster's formula, for width; Gröbner or torus degenerations for degree; FI-module stability for \(n\); Čech and Leray vanishing on member covers for adversarial families (review).

Controls and testers

The first-active NS lift and all-prime pairing supply moments, not the coupled full-source lift; the pebbling and ordering controls rule out generic NS-only and PC-hardness-only lifting, so PHP-specific structure is needed. The torus, reserve-coordinate and absolute-budget controls exclude tested shortcuts only; the relative matching count needs compatible separation density; the reader audit retains unmet global-type, span-count and fresh-moment hypotheses. The all-prime disequality compiler is available, but its conversion obstruction leaves Boolean-domain conversion unproved. The exact GF(3) PC-closure tester and NS counterpart decide small conservativity questions, informative only when the base space is below the semantic space.

Gaps identified by formalization

No formalization is assigned to this thread. The linked generic binary compiler has recorded Lean coverage; the all-prime graph exclusion and unary composition remain working informal results. The new odd-prime selector translation is an informal working proof with finite local controls only; binary formalization does not verify it or this target. Check linked corrections before mathematical reliance.

Lead and bridge queue

Passed Outside leads and Absurd bridges awaiting development, oldest first (FIFO); rules in tools/lead_queue.py.

entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:1 (lead): entry-2026-09-21-geometry-survey: Standard monomials and order shattering (Mészáros–Rónyai, Standard Monomials and Extremal Vector Systems) with a degree-compatible order. Use the standard-monomial/shattering description of vanishing ideals of Boolean point sets, with a degree-compatible term order, to bound the filtered image of the separated space modulo the selectors and old relations. Concretely: enlarge the dense-head count by cheaply derived additional heads, each reducer carrying an explicit NS certificate, so that the image bound approaches the true Hilbert function while the certificate cost stays inside the PC ceiling. The lex-order control (H_S(1)=4 versus three lex standard monomials) shows the order must respect total degree. Audit: Never developed in this form; the shattering idea was later taken up as Anstee–Rónyai–Sali (design support bound, closed for failure-set sizes in sparse-failure-sets) and is still listed untested for gr F^Q in overdetermined-review, so the standard-monomial normal-form use remains open. Deduplicate against that later listing.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:2 (lead): entry-2026-09-21-geometry-survey: Solving degree versus last fall degree (Caminata–Gorla, Solving degree, last fall degree, and related invariants, Theorem 3.1). Caminata–Gorla split the solving degree of a system into its last fall degree and the largest degree of a reduced Gröbner basis for a degree-compatible order. Translated, the PC refutation degree of PHP plus the prefix clauses is controlled by degree falls of the supplied generators, and their regularity results with explicit hypotheses could bound the last fall degree of the homogenized clause system relative to the PHP base. The fixed-degree PC criterion of the marked fat point would be the bridge between the algorithmic invariant and PC degree. Audit: Recorded only as orientation in two entries; no later entry reads Theorem 3.1 or tests the translation from last fall degree to the degree-22k Tor-vanishing statement.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:3 (lead): entry-2026-09-21-geometry-survey: Semi-regular sequences (Bardet–Faugère–Salvy–Spaenlehauer) for selector systems modulo PHP. Bardet, Faugère, Salvy and Spaenlehauer analyse Boolean quadratic systems under semi-regularity: the Hilbert series is the truncated product and the first fall comes at the first nonpositive coefficient. Translated, PHP plus the clause tops would behave like a semi-regular system relative to the base, which is conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base; a proof technique or published bound for semi-regularity of Boolean quadrics would turn the heuristic into the A3 theorem. The survey noted the genericity hypotheses are missing for proof-derived selectors. Audit: Dismissed in the survey only for missing hypotheses (a scope objection); the idea was later relisted as an outside lead in budget-review (passed as a translation) and its open content is A3 itself. Deduplicate against entry-2026-09-27-budget-review:3.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:4 (lead): entry-2026-09-21-marked-homogeneous-geometry: Jordan degree type of multiplication by the marked variable z (Altafi–Iarrobino–Macias Marques, Def. 2.8, Prop. 2.19). The NS refutation degree is the length of the z-string through 1 in the homogenized presentation algebra A, and the Jordan degree type of multiplication by z records all string lengths via ranks of graded multiplication maps. Lefschetz-type or Jordan-type results for the distinguished element z, or for z on the tensor product of block algebras over the PHP algebra, would control degree falls. The entry warned that Lefschetz theorems need genericity and can fail in fixed small characteristic. Audit: Taken up later (jordan-type-literature, jordan-type-lead, Lefschetz leads in equivalence-route-review) but still listed as continuing in later standard reviews; not shown to have no remaining application. Deduplicate against entry-2026-09-27-equivalence-route-review:1.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:5 (lead): entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Hopfological algebra of p-complexes (Qi) for the p-nilpotent selector operators. Selector operators D_l satisfy D_l^p=0 but not D_l^2=0 at odd p, so the obstruction complex is a p-complex with amplitude homology. Qi's hopfological algebra (Khovanov–Qi) treats p-DG modules over F_p[x]/(x^p) with derived categories and Künneth-type results; it could supply exactness and lifting statements for many commuting p-nilpotent operators, the r-parameter lift the p-complex line lacks. Audit: Named only as a literature lead and never read; the p-complex line was parked for lack of an r-parameter lift and later returned to as the batched mechanism, so the lead still bears on it.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:6 (lead): entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Cohomological local-to-global consistency (Ó Conghaile, with Chan–Ng hierarchy lower bounds as controls). Organise local moment spaces (local designs on blocks or faces) as a presheaf with restriction maps; Ó Conghaile's cohomological k-consistency detects a Čech-type obstruction to extending compatible local sections, and Chan–Ng's lower bounds show where such algorithms fail. Translated, a global design for PHP plus many clauses would be assembled from local designs on each block's allowed set, with the obstruction class computed explicitly. Audit: Partly developed: matching-sheaf-gluing reduced it to an error-cancellation system and restriction-mixture-top-size to a one-count design problem (parked with a restart condition); Ó Conghaile's construction itself was never applied, and A1 now names local designs as the bypass of the union, where this lead bears directly.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:1 (bridge): entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Tseitin inconsistency as a zeroth-homology obstruction. For an oriented incidence system, solvability of prescribed charges is an image-of-boundary question and total charge per component is the H_0 obstruction; this explains why directly presented linear systems are easy for matching-characteristic algebraic reasoning. Translated, it suggests classifying which clause families have a homological (linear) refutation reason and separating them from those that need degree. Audit: Presented as a heuristic comparison and never tested as stated; later Tseitin appearances concern parity literature and onto-graph checks, and the record does not let me decide whether the comparison still bears on an open statement. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:2 (bridge): entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Hyperplane-arrangement complements: topology and finite-field point counts of the false sets. Full-field false sets of selector clauses are affine arrangement complements; complex arrangement cohomology and finite-field point counts (characteristic polynomial) give invariants of the clause's falsifying set. The translation would need to pass from arrangement data to the Boolean cube and to the degree filtration with original-generator certificates. Audit: Untested here (no bridge found in a short screen); later relisted as the Crapo–Rota/Athanasiadis finite-field method, still bearing on the falsifying sets of adversarial blocks. Deduplicate against entry-2026-09-26-collective-core-review:2.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:3 (bridge): entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Fundamental groups and nonabelian topology of the obstruction complex. Nonabelian invariants (fundamental groups, nonabelian cohomology) of a complex built from local moment extensions could detect gluing obstructions that linear homology misses. The review ranked them below homology with coefficient systems because the unknowns are linear over a field. Audit: Deprioritised without any test and never mentioned again; it is unclear whether a nonabelian invariant has any bearing on the linear gluing problems in the current open statements. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:7 (lead): entry-2026-09-22-random-calibration-route-review: Relative rank and regularization (Lampert–Ziegler), with Janzer and Kazhdan–Ziegler, for a rank-stratified first moment of degree falls. A degree fall at level B is an element of the degree-B conflict ideal vanishing on the annihilator of the forms, outside the trivial part; a first moment needs a rank of B-forms relative to the ideal and a count of low-rank elements. Lampert–Ziegler's rank relative to a collection of polynomials, combined with Janzer's partition-rank/analytic-rank bound and Kazhdan–Ziegler equidistribution, would supply that relative rank and the high-rank bias bound. Audit: Lampert–Ziegler is named once and never read; the degree-three first-moment entry left the Kazhdan–Ziegler exponent question unchecked, and the KZ part was later relisted in killer-moment-review. The relative-rank count still bears on random tops.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:8 (lead): entry-2026-09-23-column-tensor-review: Dade's lemma with Carlson's rank varieties, truncated to degrees at most D. Over the group algebra of (Z/3)^M, a module is free exactly when it is free over every cyclic shifted subgroup F_3[z]/(z^3), z a generic linear combination of the generators. A truncated version (freeness through degree D from single-element freeness plus Hilbert-series positivity) acting on the row-free model would give the joint many-form lift, that is, row freeness for many selectors at once. Audit: Heavily developed (truncated-dade, graded-dade, pencil-graded-dade) and fails in special position, but still listed as continuing in later standard reviews and bears on row freeness, the stated route to W. Deduplicate against entry-2026-09-27-directness-route-review:1 and entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-review:2.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:9 (lead): entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Artinian reduction of the chessboard complex's face ring and Hochster's formula (with chessboard connectivity and Shareshian–Wachs torsion). If the top algebra G (or a squarefree Gröbner degeneration of it) is an Artinian reduction of a face ring of a chessboard-type complex, Hochster's formula turns Tor vanishing for wide monomial tops into homology vanishing of induced chessboard subcomplexes, where chessboard connectivity and Shareshian–Wachs torsion apply. This targets the width axis (A2) and Tor vanishing for wide tops. Audit: Partly developed: the observations entry found Hochster's Tor is a different Tor, and the Gröbner-degeneration entry produced a squarefree complex Delta' for degree 3 only; no wide-top Tor statement followed. Carried later as standard item entry-2026-09-27-designed-line-review:1 (dedupe).
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:10 (lead): entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Lefschetz theorems for Artinian reductions of face rings and the anisotropy method (Adiprasito; Papadakis–Petrotou, odd characteristic). Maximal-rank multiplication by squares of forms on G is a Lefschetz-type property; characteristic-p anisotropy gives Lefschetz elements for generic Artinian reductions of face rings of spheres, pseudomanifolds and cycles. A characteristic-3 version adapted to the Frobenius syzygies (l^3 = 0) would supply Tor vanishing in degree for clause tops. Audit: Carried in entry-2026-09-25-outside-leads-review and tested in entry-2026-09-27-moment-route-review, which falsified it as a route to the F_3-random statement (generic over a transcendental extension; power-form Lefschetz fails since elements cube to zero). Whether a designed or explicit F_3 use remains is not settled. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:11 (lead): entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Gröbner and torus degenerations with upper semicontinuity of Tor (the method of the known cases of Fröberg's conjecture). Degenerate the algebra G (not the forms) to a monomial or torus-fixed fiber where Taylor resolutions compute Tor, prove vanishing or maximal rank there, and lift it back by semicontinuity. Targets Tor vanishing through degree 22k (A3) and row freeness. Audit: Positive at degree 3 (lem:degeneration-transfer), refuted for row freeness because the torus rescales the row sums (degeneration-row-freeness), and falsified for monomial row sums under one order only ("other orders were not searched"). Explicit F_3-rational specializations at higher degree remain untried. Related standard items: fall-tolerance-review:3, row-free-line-review.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:12 (lead): entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Representation stability for FI-modules (Church–Ellenberg–Farb) for the n to infinity axis. The map from n to K_t(n) is a functor on injections adding rows and labels; Noetherianity turns vanishing up to the generation degree into vanishing for all n. A fixed tuple of forms breaks the symmetry, so it needs equivariant configurations (orbit specializations) with M growing with n, or symmetry in law as for W_RS random families. Audit: Used successfully for the base (thm:tensor-power-freeness via Church–Ellenberg); for forms, falsified for adversarial coefficients (coupling-free review) and left "Not run" for the W_RS failure space, which is symmetric only in expectation (capacity review). The equivariant-family version was never attempted. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:13 (lead): entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Čech and Leray vanishing on the member cover. The gluing obstruction is a first Čech group on the cover of the inventory by its members, identified with Tor; a Leray-type theorem would make it vanish when the cover is good, with higher obstructions vanishing on overlaps. Candidate proof strategy for local falls on adversarial families (pencils are bad overlaps). Audit: Developed in the cover-gluing entries of 27 September but carried later as standard items entry-2026-09-26-fall-tolerance-review:2 and entry-2026-09-28-satisfiable-cover-review:1, whose audits govern it (dedupe).
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:14 (lead): entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-observations: Modular representation theory of (Z/3)^M: Dade's lemma, rank and support varieties, Jordan types. A = F_3[x_1..x_M]/(x_j^3) is the group algebra of (Z/3)^M with x_j = g_j - 1, so G is a representation with each generator acting as 1 + l_j, and Tor vanishing is truncated relative projectivity. Rank/support varieties and Jordan types could certify it beyond single generic elements. Audit: Heavily developed later (truncated and graded Dade, Jordan-type entries) and carried as standard items entry-2026-09-25-closure-route-review:1, entry-2026-09-27-directness-route-review:1, entry-2026-09-27-local-independence-review:3 and entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-review:2 (dedupe).
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:15 (lead): entry-2026-09-23-generic-line-review: Tropical leading weights with ties (extending lem:tropical-leading-bound). Assign tropical weights to cells so that the leading matrix of the double-point map is computable; tie-free weights cap at M(gamma_1-2), so use weights with ties and a second-order leading matrix to reach min(gamma_3, M(gamma_1-1)) on the pattern algebra for every n. Audit: Developed into thm:tetrahedral-double-points (about n^3/1330 explicit selectors at degree 3, every n); the capacity-sharp form is paused at the coupling, and whether tied weights extend beyond degree 3 or to wide tops was not tried. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:16 (lead): entry-2026-09-24-relative-line-review: Gale duality for the column model (squares of Gale-dual linear forms). Freeness of a column span in the column model equals the Hilbert function of Sym(V)/(m_1^2..m_n^2) with m_j the Gale transform of the hole-value configuration, a Fröberg/Alexander–Hirschowitz question for a specific point configuration. Locate the special position of the Gale points in the defective degree-4 and degree-5 configurations to decide column freeness. Audit: Partly developed (frobenius-class-apolarity handles the characteristic-3 apolarity), but the proposed special-position analysis of defective Gale configurations was not found later; column freeness at density one half is still conjectured in W.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:17 (lead): entry-2026-09-25-literature-wilson-review: Family-dependent substitution in the style of the Weak Rank Principle (Garlík, Gryaznov, Ren, Tzameret, arXiv 2608.08760). Find a substitution, depending on the family, that sends each W clause (1-L_i^2) prod L_j^2 into the PHP ideal at logarithmic degree, as Y := X^T A sends rank constraints into degree-2 consequences of functional PHP before Razborov's bound applies. Audit: Developed (dense-axiom literature, composition collapse, weak-rank selectors, base selectors) and carried as standard item entry-2026-09-26-thread-review-4:3, whose audit governs (dedupe); base selectors left a corollary with expensive selectors not pushed to a bound.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:18 (lead): entry-2026-09-25-literature-wilson-review: Symmetric-system lower-bound methods (Potechin–Grigoriev; Hakoniemi, Limaye and Tzameret functional lower bounds). These methods prove degree lower bounds by exploiting the symmetry of the whole system. W_RS families are invariant in law under permutations of pigeons and holes, so a symmetrized design (averaging a candidate over the group action) or an expected-case version might apply to random-prefix families even though a fixed adversarial family is not symmetric. Audit: Closed only by the one-step objection that an adversarial family breaks symmetry; no entry tried the symmetry-in-law version for W_RS.
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:19 (lead): entry-2026-09-25-literature-wilson-review: Closure of linear forms (Efremenko–Itsykson amortized closure; Efremenko–Garlík–Itsykson; Bhattacharya–Chattopadhyay; Byramji–Impagliazzo). Closure operators handle dense linear forms natively for regular or bounded-depth Res(+). An F_3 analogue for regular or bounded-depth Res(Lin_F3) on PHP plus dense blocks would be an intermediate target and a possible batched mechanism. Audit: Read in the source later (ordered closure: not span-invariant over F_3; parity literature); the closure sub-line is parked as weak, but whether a regular-fragment version at odd p was attempted is unclear. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit:20 (lead): entry-2026-09-25-literature-wilson-review: Wilson's mod-p inclusion-matrix rank theorem, in a several-form version. Column Wilson gives Taylor generation for one sparse clause at every degree; a mod-p rank theorem for several set systems at once would give Taylor generation for many clause tops, including the Koszul range and overlapping supports. Audit: Taken as the main line: several-form Wilson, column-disjoint Taylor, bounded clusters and conj:two-form-wilson-taylor; designed families are settled, while the block-line review found no local-to-global principle for many forms. It now lives as route conjectures rather than a lead. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-09-25-universality-review:1 (lead): Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems, for the universality proof. Kwan and Sauermann (arXiv:1909.02089) proved that a quadratic polynomial with point probabilities much above \(1/n\) is close to a low-rank quadratic form; Kwan later resolved the quadratic Littlewood–Offord problem (arXiv:2312.13826). Here, for fixed \(\ell'\), the contraction is a vector-valued quadratic map in \(\ell\). The divided-power collapse gives quadratic forms that factor through the \(w\) scalars \(\varphi_c(\ell_c)\), so their rank is at most \(w-1\): below generic, but growing with the support. Their large point probability comes from Frobenius residues, which real-variable inverse theorems do not see. Where it breaks: those results are over the reals or integers with Rademacher inputs, and scalar-valued. We need \(\mathbb F_3\), vector values and exponentially small point probabilities. Test. Passed in part. lead_tests.py at \(m=2\), \(N=8\) (16 variables): over six draws of \(\ell'\) and \(y\), the quadratic forms had ranks 0, 6, 3, 5, 3, 0 for a full-support divided power and 12, 13, 12, 13, 13, 13 for a uniform functional (lead_tests.json). The collapse is lower rank, but not of bounded rank, so a transfer must allow rank up to the support size.
entry-2026-09-25-universality-review:3 (lead): Gauss sums for the two-layer structure. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the character sum of a quadratic form of rank \(\rho\) has modulus \(3^{-\rho/2}\), with its phase fixed by the discriminant. So \(\mathbb E\,\omega^{\chi(y\tau)}=\mathbb E_{\ell'}\bigl[(i/\sqrt3)^{\rho(\ell')}\eta(\operatorname{disc}\ell')\bigr]\) exactly, where \(\rho\) and \(\operatorname{disc}\) belong to the quadratic form in \(\ell\), and \(\eta\) is the quadratic character. The bias of every killer term thus reduces to the joint distribution of the rank and discriminant of a quadratic-form pencil in \(\ell'\). Where it breaks: the moment needs cancellation across \(\ell'\) in the discriminant signs, not only the modulus, and nothing yet controls that joint distribution. Test. Passed. At \(m=1\), \(N=7\), the direct sum over all \(3^7\) values of \(\ell\) matched \(3^7(i/\sqrt3)^\rho\eta(\operatorname{disc})\) in 8 of 8 random trials, with maximal error \(3\times10^{-13}\).
entry-2026-09-25-universality-review:1 (bridge): Unitary designs from local random quantum circuits. Brandão, Harrow and Horodecki (Local random quantum circuits are approximate polynomial-designs, Comm. Math. Phys. 2016) show that products of local random gates match Haar moments up to order \(t\), through the spectral gap of a moment operator. Translation: a product top is built column by column from local random pieces, and the \(k\)-th killer moment is the \(k\)-th moment of the random subspace \(\tilde A_1\tau\). Universality up to order \(k\) is an approximate \(k\)-design property of that subspace over \(\mathbb F_3\). Wood's moment problem says the moments determine the Cohen–Lenstra law. So a finite-field design theorem for column-built subspaces would prove the conjecture. The finite-field analogue exists for Clifford groups, which are 3-designs over qudits. What a theorem there would give: a spectral-gap proof of universality, replacing the inverse theorem. Smallest test: compare the second moment at the fill with the Cohen–Lenstra value. Test. Passed. At the square fill, \(\mathbb E\,9^{\text{excess}}\) was 6.28 (\(m=2\), \(N=7\), 3964 samples), 5.96 (\(N=8\), 731) and 6.53 (\(m=1\), \(N=9\), 165). Cohen–Lenstra predicts 6, the number of subgroups of \(\mathbb F_3^2\). The first moments were 2.03, 2.01 and 2.02, against 2. At \(N=9\), \(m=2\), with 87 samples, no excess-2 event occurred and the second moment was 4.22.
entry-2026-09-25-universality-review:2 (bridge): The cavity method and the Aizenman–Sims–Starr scheme. Coja-Oghlan, Ergür, Gao, Hetterich and Rolvien (The rank of sparse random matrices, Random Structures Algorithms 2023, arXiv:1906.05757) determine ranks of random matrices over any field with a spin-glass interpolation that adds one row at a time, plus a perturbation suppressing short linear relations. Translation: our kernel adds one top at a time, and directness is the statement that each top's rank increment is full. Their perturbation, removing short relations, is the analogue of conditioning away divided-power collapse. What it would give: the rank formula \(\min(Br,D)\) up to \(o(D)\), a first-order result that falls short of Cohen–Lenstra but would prove directness up to \((1-\varepsilon)\) of the fill in the weak sense. Smallest test: check whether the expected rank increment of the \(B\)-th top, measured by the kernel, matches the interpolation's prediction \(r\) up to the fill. Test. Passed. In the near-fill runs every sample with all tops in \(E\) had full rank increments \(r\) below the fill at \(m=2\), \(N=7,8,9\), and at \(m=1\), \(N=11,12\).
entry-2026-09-25-binomial-route-review:1 (lead): Regularity of subspace arrangements (Derksen and Sidman, "A sharp bound for the Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity of subspace arrangements", Adv. Math. 172 (2002)), for A1. The ideal of a union of \(d\) linear subspaces has regularity at most \(d\). Applied to the homogenization, the allowed set of clauses on shared forms, a union of affine subspaces over the algebraic closure, has an ideal generated in degree at most its number of components, with every member fall inside it. Where it breaks: that number is exponential in \(k\) for W's clusters, and the Boolean base makes the variety a finite point set. Test. Passed, as a check of the local picture. For the three-shift pair, \(Z\) over the closure is six affine lines in \(\mathbb A^3\). Singular gave a generating set of its ideal (six_lines.sing), not a verified minimal basis, since minbase does not apply to inhomogeneous ideals. It consists of \(w\) and elements of degrees 3 and 4, within the bound 6, and \(w\) reduces to 0 modulo the ideal. \(w\) is the only quadric up to scalars, because the quadrics vanishing on the lines vanish on their \(\mathbb F_3\)-points, a one-dimensional space by thm:cell-resolvents (b) (identities.json, \(t=3\)). So the member's ideal is not generated by products, yet it has low degree.
entry-2026-09-25-closure-route-review:1 (lead): Dade's lemma and Carlson's rank varieties (Dade, Ann. of Math. 1978; Carlson, Invent. Math. 1983), with modules of constant Jordan type (Carlson, Friedlander and Pevtsova, J. reine angew. Math. 2008), for A1 on the closure route. \(\Lambda_u=\mathbb F_3[(\mathbb Z/3)^u]\). A module is free exactly when its restriction to every shifted cyclic subgroup is free, and the rank variety records where it is not. Closed row freeness is freeness of \(A_e\), so the tools of modular representation theory for elementary abelian groups apply to it. Where it breaks: the criterion needs all shifted cyclic subgroups for \(u>1\), and it detects freeness without proving it. Test. Passed. For \(u=1\) the rank variety is the Jordan type of \(r\), computed exactly above: free through degree 4 for the W-like members, not free for the refuted control.
entry-2026-09-25-closure-route-review:3 (lead): Mayer's homology of \(p\)-complexes and Spanier's comparison (Mayer, Ann. of Math. 1942; Spanier, "The Mayer homology theory", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1949), for the one-row condition. \((A_e,r)\) with the unsigned coboundary is a Mayer 3-complex on the lattice of hole sets. Spanier showed that for simplicial complexes Mayer homology is determined by ordinary homology. If a coefficient-system analogue held, freeness of \(A_e\) would reduce to acyclicity of the ordinary signed complex \((A_e,\delta)\), \(\delta(x_Yg)=\sum_j(-1)^{|\{y\in Y:y<j\}|}x_{Y+j}\,g|_{C_j=0}\). Where it breaks: Spanier's theorem is for constant coefficients, and here the coefficients vary. Test. Passed, with a caveat. In all 15 member and degree cases, the ordinary cohomology of \((A_e,\delta)\) vanished exactly where the short strings did. In the control, the nonzero dimensions matched the short strings one degree up for \(e=1,2\) (71 and 71, 35 and 35), and differed by one for \(e=0\) (36 against 35), at the edge of the computed range (vanishing_tops.json).
entry-2026-09-25-hole-splitting-review:2 (lead): \(\pi\)-points and generic Jordan types for truncated polynomial algebras (Friedlander and Pevtsova, "\(\Pi\)-supports for modules for finite group schemes", Duke Math. J. 2007), for the choice of operator. Freeness is detected on generic points: for these algebras, on generic combinations \(\sum_jc_je_j\) of the commuting square-zero operators. If \(A_e\) were free for \(r=\sum_je_j\) only because of its symmetry, generic combinations would show short strings. Where it breaks: the closure criterion needs \(r\) itself, not a generic operator. Test. Passed. For the two-block pair at \(N=10\), \(e=2\), three random weightings \(c_j\in\mathbb F_3^*\) give no short strings in degrees \(\le4\), the same as \(r\) (T2). So freeness is not special to the symmetric operator.
entry-2026-09-25-hole-splitting-review:2 (bridge): Phase transitions in statistical mechanics. Read the density of the allowed set as a temperature. conj:closed-row-freeness asks for density at least one half, a high-temperature phase. A phase transition in freeness would appear as short strings below some density. What a theorem there would give: a critical density below which the Koszul condition fails, which would calibrate the conjecture's hypothesis. Smallest test: a member far below density one half. Test. Passed. At density 0.17 the six-clause member's \(A_e\) is free in range (T3), so no transition is visible at \(N=10\). Size effects are not excluded.
entry-2026-09-26-recursion-review:1 (lead): Exponential sums for point counts (the character-sum method behind the theorems of Ax, 1964, and Katz, 1971, on \(p\)-divisibility of point counts), for conj:free-hole-good under A1. The count of \(Z'_a=\{\sum c\equiv a,\ \ell(c)\in\Omega\}\) expands in characters \(\prod_h(1+\omega^{t+u\cdot\varphi(h)})\), with \(t\ne0\) for the \(a\)-dependent part. Each factor has modulus 2 when \(u\cdot\varphi(h)\equiv-t\) and 1 otherwise. So the dependence on \(a\) is governed by \(\beta=\max_{u\ne0,c\ne0}\#\{h:u\cdot\varphi(h)=c\}\). Equivalently, \(n'-\beta\) is the Hamming distance from the nonzero multiples of the all-ones vector to the nonzero words of the code spanned by the forms. Where it breaks: counts are the sum of all degrees of the Hilbert function, so they cannot locate the degree where tops differ. Test. Passed. The fiber sizes by residue are 361, 372 and 401 for the dense pair, and 403, 402 and 395 for the random pair (T2). Per link, at \(e=2\), the tops are unequal exactly when \(n'-\beta\le3\). At \(|S|=0\), distance 4, the one link is equal. At \(|S|=1\), distance 4 gives 7 equal links and distance 3 gives 4 unequal. At \(|S|=2\), distance 4 gives 21 equal links, and distances 3 and 2 give 28 and 6 unequal. At \(e=1\) every such link was equal, and prop:free-hole-counterexample has distance 1 with unequal tops from \(e=1\) on. This is consistent with a threshold "unequal exactly when the distance is at most \(2e-1\)". That threshold is a guess from two degrees, not a claim.
entry-2026-09-26-recursion-review:2 (lead): Vertex decomposability (Provan and Billera, Math. Oper. Res. 1980), for conj:good-column. A good column is the analogue of a shedding vertex: deletion and link both recurse. Vertex decomposability requires shedding vertices at every level. Where it breaks: our deletion changes the slice value, so the "complexes" at the next level are different members, not subcomplexes. Test. Passed at the first level: T1 found all 12 columns good. The recorded two-step check shows thinning at the second level, which the analogy does not explain.
entry-2026-09-26-recursion-review:2 (bridge): Coset leaders of linear codes (the covering radius; MacWilliams and Sloane, ch. 1). Translation: the forms' coefficient vectors on the link holes span a ternary code. The all-ones vector's multiples form a coset direction. Fiber uniformity at a free hole becomes a statement about the weight of the coset of \(\mathbb F_3^*\mathbf 1\) relative to that code. What a theorem there would give: bounds on how many adversarial form families can put the all-ones vector at small distance. The covering radius and the weight distribution of cosets are classical. The adversary of A1 can force small distance, as prop:free-hole-counterexample does with distance 1. So this identifies exactly which adversarial families break uniformity. Test. Passed on the T2 data, read as distances. Unequal tops occur exactly at coset distance at most 3, at \(e=2\), on all 67 links.
entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review:1 (lead): Min-wise independent permutations and consistent sampling (Broder, Charikar, Frieze and Mitzenmacher, J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 2000; Manasse, McSherry and Talwar, 2010), for how random priority correlates overlapping blocks. Under a uniform order, two sets share their minimum with probability equal to their Jaccard similarity. Where it breaks: W's prefixes are top-\(k\) sets, and those agree far less often. Test. Passed (review_checks.json, M1). For blocks of 20 elements the top-1 agreement matched the Jaccard similarity: 0.141, 0.334 and 0.605 against 0.143, 0.333 and 0.600. The top-3 agreement was 0.001, 0.030 and 0.197, roughly the cube. So random priority correlates partially overlapping blocks only weakly for \(k\ge2\). Hole-type families do not care, since a hole keeps the top \(k\) of the union. Other overlapping blocks are the next exposure.
entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review-2:3 (lead): Counting principles modulo \(p\) (Beame and Riis, 1998), for the counting refutations that forced holes allow. Forcing every hole occupied turns the system into an onto-PHP, refuted by counting modulo 3 when \(m\not\equiv n\). Where it breaks: it needs almost all holes forced. Test. Passed (forced_holes.json). In the singleton-plus-hole family under a uniform order, the forced fraction was 0.96, 0.81, 0.44, 0.17, 0.05 and 0.00 for \(k=2,4,6,8,10,16\) at \(n=200\). At \(n=800\) it was 0.99 at \(k=2\) and 0.045 at \(k=12\). Pigeons without kept cells vanish near \(k\approx\ln n\). So counting threatens only below roughly \(2\ln n\), which W's \(k\) exceeds.
entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review-2:1 (bridge): Epidemic thresholds and directed percolation (Kermack–McKendrick; Broadbent and Hammersley). Translation: occupancy implications form a directed graph on holes. Forcing is an outbreak from the holes a single pigeon's row infects. Counting refutes when the outbreak is global. What a theorem there would give: a sharp threshold in \(k\) for global forcing, with the reproduction number falling as prefixes grow. Test. Passed. The simulation above shows a sharp drop of the forced fraction, whose location moves from \(k\approx6\) to \(k\approx10\)–\(12\) as \(n\) grows from 200 to 800, consistent with a threshold near \(c\ln n\).
entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-3:2 (lead): The record's closure route (conj:closed-row-freeness), which was motivated by column forms. Target: structured dense members. Where it breaks: its motivating instance, families of column forms, is now proved by freezing (thm:column-sparse-w). Test. Passed as a check of relevance. The closure route's column-form case is subsumed. Its remaining value is for members cut by dense non-column forms, which is exactly the dense core, where it needs the Koszul condition for non-column forms.
entry-2026-09-26-expander-core-review:1 (lead): The Mikša–Nordström closure operator (arXiv:1505.01358, Theorem 3.8 and Lemma 3.15), as the gluing base. Target: an extension lemma for functional graph PHP on expanders. Their operator \(R\) is linear, sends axioms to 0 and satisfies \(R(xt)=R(xR(t))\) through degree \(\delta s/(2d)\). Taylor glue needs more: every functional defined through a lower degree must extend. Where it breaks: \(R\) is one functional, built from supports and closures, while extension must hold for all. Test. Passed on its first hypothesis. Lemma 3.15's conditions hold through \(s/10\) on our \(G'\), by Theorem 4.9 and Step 2 of thm:cell-family-w. The extension property is untested and is the next step.
entry-2026-09-26-dense-core-review:1 (bridge): The renormalization group (Kadanoff's block spins, Wilson). Translation: the random matching is one coarse-graining step. It maps W on \(n\) pigeons to W on the residual, and the forms' constants flow. Row and column statistics are conserved quantities, which freezing handles. Sparse interactions are marginal, keeping Poisson-like constants, and the sparse mechanisms handle them. Dense interactions flow to the uniform fixed point. What a theorem there would give: universality. The residual W instance would depend on the adversary's dense forms only through their residual parts, with uniform shifts, so an adversarial statement would reduce to a semi-random one. Smallest test: do the three classes flow as predicted? The exact permanents at \(N\le14\) separate uniform random coefficients from the identity, but not yet product statistics. Test. Passed at \(N=200\): the constants were fixed, Poisson(1) mod 3, and within sampling noise of uniform, respectively.
entry-2026-09-26-conditioning-review:2 (lead): Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, "Sum of squares lower bounds for refuting any CSP" (STOC 2017). Sum-of-squares hardness persists up to about \(n^{(t+1)/2}\) random constraints when the predicate supports a \(t\)-wise uniform distribution. The degree bound degrades with the density, but there is no fixed cost for each constraint. Target: A1 at \(K\ge1\) for random families. It suggests that the collective condition is \(t\)-wise uniformity of the allowed patterns, which does not depend on the number of blocks. Where it breaks: PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) is not SoS, and linear structure mod 3 is PC-easy. Their constraints are local, W's forms are dense. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take an integer \(t\)-wise uniform multiset reduced mod 3, as an \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued \(\mu\). Interpolation gives \(\mu=\sum_v\mu(v)\prod_j(1-(x_j-v_j)^2)\), whose coefficient pairing with evaluation sums is triangular. It removes the monomials with at least \(k+1-t\) exponents 2 from \(\mu\) minus uniform, so \(\mu\) has degree at most \(2k-t+1\) in the forms instead of \(2k+2\). This does not hold for a real density, and the LP's rational solution may reduce to 0 mod 3. Even at best the saving is \(t+1\) degrees per block, while a single zeroed form already costs only 2. Test. Passed: an exact LP (review_tests.json) finds a pairwise-uniform distribution on a W clause's allowed patterns for \(k=3,4,5\), none for \(k=1,2\), and a 3-wise uniform one for \(k=4,5\). W's \(k=\Theta(\log n)\) is far above these thresholds.
entry-2026-09-26-conditioning-review:1 (bridge): The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion (statistical mechanics). Translation: each block is a polymer whose activity is the density of its forbidden set. Dense forms make every pair of polymers incompatible, a hard-core gas on the complete graph. The dual certificate of PHP plus all blocks would be a cluster expansion around the PHP functional. What a theorem there would give: absorption of all \(n^K\) blocks at no degree cost when the Kotecký–Preiss criterion holds. Smallest test: evaluate the criterion \(\sum_b|w_b|e^{a}\le a\) with the recorded budget. Test. Passed as a computation: the recorded worst case is \(\sum_b|w_b|\le10^{-3.08}\) at \(K=1\), \(n=10^3\) (info_budget.json), and \(a=0.01\) satisfies the criterion. The obstacle is the characteristic: the dual objects are \(\mathbb F_3\)-linear functionals with no notion of small activity, so the expansion needs a characteristic-0 or positivity surrogate that PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) does not provide.
entry-2026-09-26-conditioning-review:2 (bridge): \(\mathbb Z_3\) lattice gauge theory: Gauss's law and superselection sectors. Translation: a dense equation \(\sum c_{it}x_{it}\equiv b\) is a global \(\mathbb Z_3\) charge. Sparse conditioning says low-degree operators cannot tell the charge sector. In gauge theory a charge is locally detectable exactly when it is confined to a region. What a theorem there would give: the exact condition for invisibility, which for \(q=1\) is support not confined to a ball. Smallest test: compare with the one-equation condition of sparse conditioning. Test. Passed, tautologically at \(q=1\): there \(\operatorname{perm}M=2d_{c_1}d_{c_2}\), so sparse conditioning fails exactly when the support is confined within pairwise distance 2, which is the gauge picture's confined charge. For \(q>1\), and for \(n^K\) sectors, not run: the analogy supplies no prediction to test.
entry-2026-09-26-randomized-review:1 (lead): Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer's \(t\)-wise uniformity criterion, applied to randomized blocks. Target: the heavy core, where each block's allowed value set is the complement of zero patterns in \(\ker C\). If it supports a \(t'\)-wise uniform distribution for growing \(t'\), the SoS analogue would absorb \(n^{\Theta(t')}\) such constraints. Where it breaks: PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) is not SoS, and the recorded characteristic-3 obstruction to averaging stands. Test. Passed, consistent at \(h=4\) and for pairwise uniformity only. An exact LP found a pairwise-uniform distribution on the allowed value vectors for 10 of 10 random \(C\) with \(t=2\), and for 7 of 10 with \(t=1\) (rs_review_tests.json, R2). At \(t=2\) up to 81 of the 81 vectors are allowed, so that half is nearly vacuous. Three of 10 failed at \(t=1\).
entry-2026-09-26-random-core-review:1 (lead): Absolute irreducibility of outer tensor products over finite groups (Curtis–Reiner, Methods of Representation Theory I, §10). Target: a rational version of thm:generic-top-directness. Its step 1 works over \(\mathbb F_3\) itself. The natural module of \(\mathrm{GL}_m(3)\) is absolutely irreducible, outer tensor products of absolutely irreducible modules stay absolutely irreducible, and the scalar \(-1\) separates the summands. So \(\tilde A_j\) is an absolutely irreducible \(\mathbb F_3[G(\mathbb F_3)]\)-module. Where it breaks: Nenashev's step "\(V_g\) depends only on \(g\)" compares ideals of independent generic tuples. It has no analogue for random \(\mathbb F_3\)-points. Test. Passed: GAP's MeatAxe found \(\tilde A_j\) absolutely irreducible under \(G(\mathbb F_3)\) for \((m,N,j)=(1,5,2),(2,4,2),(2,4,3),(2,5,2),(3,3,2)\), of dimensions 10, 24, 32, 40 and 27 (T1).
entry-2026-09-26-random-core-review:1 (bridge): Pólya–Burnside isomer counting from chemistry. Translation: a pair of product tops at \(m=2\) is a molecule. Each column is an atom with one of the \(\mathrm{GL}_2(3)\)-orbit types of its four column vectors \((\ell_{1,c},\ell'_{1,c},\ell_{2,c},\ell'_{2,c})\). \(G(\mathbb F_3)\)-orbits of pairs are then chemical formulas: multisets of \(N\) atom types. What a theorem there would give: the two-top rational question depends only on the formula, of which there are polynomially many in \(N\). Random pairs concentrate on the formula weighted by orbit sizes, so the bad fraction reduces to finitely many type densities plus large deviations. Test. Passed: GAP found 171 orbits of \(\mathrm{GL}_2(3)\) on the 6561 four-tuples of vectors in \(\mathbb F_3^2\) (T3). So there are \(\binom{N+170}{170}\) formulas, polynomial in \(N\) for fixed \(m\). It helps only the random-form line, which this review parks.
entry-2026-09-26-peeling-review:1 (lead): Beame and Riis's designs (DIMACS Series 39, 1998, Definition 8.2 and Lemma 8.3) for conj:occupancy-pinned-php. A design gives a Nullstellensatz lower bound. When \(\binom N3\not\equiv\binom m3\pmod3\), for example at imbalance 3, the triple count forces a design to give nonzero values to monomials where one pigeon holds three holes. In the conjecture's regime \(e+1=3^\ell\), \(\ell\ge2\), Lucas's theorem gives \(\binom{N+3^\ell}3\equiv\binom N3\), and the triple count constrains nothing. Where it breaks: Nullstellensatz only, and it serves a parked conjecture. Test. Passed at the smallest informative size: at \(8\times5\) the onto system is not PC-refuted at degree 3, so it is not Nullstellensatz-refuted at total degree 3 either. By linear-algebra duality there is a total-degree-3 design: a functional \(L\) with \(L(1)=1\) and \(L(mf)=0\) for every axiom \(f\) and monomial \(m\) with \(\deg(mf)\le3\) (from the onto board check). Beame and Riis's designs use multiplier degree instead.
entry-2026-09-26-peeling-review:1 (bridge): 3-adic analysis. Translation: the \(k\)-set counts of onto weak PHP see only the base-3 digits of the pigeons' degree sum. A refutation by counting must see that the sum is exactly \(N\), not \(N+3^S\). In \(\mathbb Z_3\), \(N+3^S\to N\), so the two are 3-adically close. What a theorem there would give, heuristically: counts at levels \(k<3^S\) cannot tell \(N\) from \(N+3^S\), which suggests that counting refutations need degree about \(N\). Smallest test: Lucas's congruence and a valid virtual degree sequence. Test. Passed: \(\binom{N+3^S}k\equiv\binom Nk\pmod3\) for all \(k<3^S\), \(N=5,\dots,20\), \(S=2,3\). A sequence of pigeon degrees all \(\equiv1\pmod3\) and at most \(N\), summing to \(N+9\), exists for each \(N\). For example, at \(N=5\) with 8 pigeons: six of degree 1 and two of degree 4 (review_tests.json, B1). It serves only the parked conjecture.
entry-2026-09-26-dag-review:2 (bridge): Modular representation theory: the Brauer quotient (Brauer; Broué's \(p\)-permutation modules). Translation: for a \(p\)-group \(P\) acting on a module \(M\) in characteristic \(p\), \(\mathrm{Br}_P(M)=M^P/\sum_{Q<P}\mathrm{Tr}_Q^P(M^Q)\). On the ring of functions on the Boolean cube with \(P\) permuting the variables, it is restriction to the \(P\)-fixed subcube, the substitution \(x_e\mapsto y_{O(e)}\): at a fixed point an orbit sum \(\mathrm{Tr}(m)\) evaluates to \(3m=0\), and a fixed monomial evaluates to a product of the \(y_O\). A monomial's image has degree equal to the number of orbits it touches, about a third of its degree when it touches only free orbits of size 3. What a theorem there would give: restricting an invariant element of the degree-\(d\) PC-derivable space \(V_d\) to the fixed subcube gives a polynomial of degree about the number of orbits, not \(d\). The open question is whether that restriction is derivable in the fixed-point instance at that degree. A degree-\(d\) refutation cannot be symmetrized in characteristic 3, so the map must act on \(V_d^P\), which contains 1 once \(d\) reaches the refutation degree. Smallest test: the product formula \(\mathrm{Br}\bigl(\prod_{e\in O}(1-x_e)\bigr)=1-y_O\) for a free orbit of size 3. Test. Passed, but it is a definitional check that cannot fail: \(e_1=\mathrm{Tr}(x_e)\) and \(e_2=\mathrm{Tr}(x_ex_{e'})\) are traces from the trivial subgroup, \(e_3=y_O\) is fixed, and \(\prod(1-x_e)=1-e_1+e_2-e_3\). The bridge's real content is narrow. For plain PHP the fixed-point instance is again a PHP on orbits, of size about \(n/3\), whose PC degree is known. Pigeons are the free pigeon orbits and the fixed pigeons, holes likewise, and a free pigeon orbit has 3 mutually exclusive shifts into each free hole orbit and none into a fixed hole. Under the thread's encoding, with linear row equations, the restricted axioms have degree 1, and a transfer from degree \(d\) to about \(d/3\) on PHP alone would only be consistent with Razborov's degree bound, not improve it. Under clause axioms a pigeon clause touches one orbit per hole and does not shrink, so the target degree must include the restricted axiom degree.
entry-2026-09-26-integrality-review:1 (bridge): Integer solvability of linear systems: the Smith normal form (Heger's theorem), as used in integer programming. Translation: a design system with integer data has an integer solution whenever it has a rational one exactly when the relevant cokernel has no torsion. For a chessboard filling step \(\partial c=b\), integer versus rational solvability depends only on the torsion of \(\widetilde H_{k-2}(\Delta_{k,N};\mathbb Z)\), where \(\Delta_{k,N}\) is the complex of a \(k\)-pigeon, \(N\)-hole sub-board, the complex the integral extension uses. What a theorem there would give: criteria for integrality beyond the connectivity range. Smallest test: the torsion of the groups filling steps use, on the boards the DAG review computed (chessboard_homology.txt; chessboard complexes are symmetric in rows and columns). Test. Passed on those boards. For 6 holes the filling steps with \(k=5,6,7\) pigeons use \(H_3(\Delta_{5,6})\), \(H_4(\Delta_{6,6})\) and \(H_5(\Delta_{7,6})=H_5(M_{6,7})\), all free in the recorded data; for 5 holes, \(k=5\) uses \(H_3(M_{5,5})\), free. The recorded 3-torsion, in \(H_2(M_{5,5})\), \(H_3(M_{6,6})\) and \(H_3(M_{6,7})\), is in degree \(k-3\) or lower for those steps. Such torsion does enter the \(\mathbb F_3\) filling, through the universal coefficient theorem, but it does not affect integer versus rational solvability. Beyond the connectivity range, the obstruction on these boards is nonzero free homology.
entry-2026-09-26-type-capacity-review:1 (bridge): Dilute quenched disorder in statistical physics: the Harris criterion. Translation: each generic dense block is an impurity that forbids a random fraction \(3^{-t}\approx n^{-(K+1)}\) of the configurations, independently of the others given the forms. The whole family is a dilute quenched disorder of total density \(O(1/n)\) on the PHP ensemble. A theorem there says when weak disorder is irrelevant: it does not change the critical behaviour. Here that would be the PC degree. What it would give: a principle that dilute random constraints do not lower degree, for the right notion of dilution. Smallest test: whether the density is dilute in the relevant sense. Test. Passed as a count: the expected forbidden fraction is at most \(n^K3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\) under any fixed distribution, from the random-prefix review. The structured counterexamples to measure robustness are not dilute random sets. Whether PC degree obeys a Harris-type criterion is the question the bridge poses.
entry-2026-09-26-planted-review:1 (bridge): Statistical physics: quiet planting (Krzakala and Zdeborová, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 2009). Below the condensation threshold, a random constraint ensemble with a planted solution is contiguous to the unplanted one, so planting changes no typical property. Translation: the W_RS family is a random constraint ensemble on matchings; pinning or constraining at \(x^*\) plants a near-solution. What it would give: the planted view loses nothing, and a proof may use the planted point without paying for it. Smallest test: whether the density is far below any threshold. Test. Passed as a count. Each block forbids a fraction at most \(3^{-t}\le n^{-K-1}\) of any fixed distribution on points with \(g\ne0\), so \(n^K\) blocks forbid at most \(1/n\) in expectation. The planted and unplanted conditional laws of the prefix matrices then differ by \(O(1/n)\) in total variation, by the same first-moment count.
entry-2026-09-26-hybrid-route-review:1 (bridge): Longuet-Higgins' theorem on nonbonding orbitals of alternant hydrocarbons (J. Chem. Phys. 18, 1950), from Hückel theory. Translation: the pigeon–hole board is an alternant molecule with one excess starred atom. Nonbonding orbitals are vectors annihilated by the biadjacency matrix, found by the zero-sum rule: the coefficients around each unstarred atom sum to zero. Answers. It gives the degree-1 safety condition for the pins that the obstacle's designs would use. A pin set \(\{u=v\}\) is refuted at degree 1 exactly when a zero-sum combination of the row equations and the pins is a nonzero constant. For pinned column sums \(C_j=o_j\), a combination \(\sum_ia_i(\text{row}_i-1)+\sum_jb_j(C_j-o_j)\) is constant only if \(a_i+b_j=0\) for all \(i,j\). Then it equals \(a\bigl(\sum_jo_j-(n+1)\bigr)\), which is nonzero exactly when \(\sum_jo_j\not\equiv n+1\pmod 3\). This agrees with the recorded total-occupancy condition of thm:global-closure-gluing. It says nothing above degree 1. Test. Passed (the two-line computation above).
entry-2026-09-26-fall-tolerance-review:1 (lead): Resolvent saturation, the mechanism of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue: add the fallen consequences of degree \(\le D\) as constraints and require Taylor generation of the saturated tops. It is recorded for W's clauses and not followed for W_RS until now. Target: A3 for W_RS. Answers. It makes the gluing fall-tolerant by construction. If saturating pairs of members suffices, gluing becomes local again, at the level of pairs. Test. Passed for trees, falsified for cycles. Run here (triple_falls.m2, triple_falls.txt): three blocks, \(h=3\), \(t=1\), in the form-value model. The test compares \(\operatorname{gr}(J_1+J_2+J_3)\) with the sum of the pair saturations \(\operatorname{gr}(J_a+J_b)\). On chains (two shared forms, path nerve) the pair saturations generate the triple's graded ideal in 4 of 4 trials, although every trial had a falling pair. On triangles (cycle nerve) the triple has further falls in 3 of 4 trials: excesses 1, 1 in degrees 5 and 6; 2, 2 in 7 and 8; 3, 6, 3 in 6 to 8.
entry-2026-09-26-thread-review-5:3 (lead): Cohen–Lenstra universality for random matrices over finite fields (Wood's universality theorems, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 2019), recorded for product tops as conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra. Target: A1 and A3 for random families. Answers. Below the fill point, random constraint systems are direct, with no falls, with probability close to 1. That is a cost scaling with probability, since dependencies appear only with their random-matrix probability. Test. Passed at the counting level: W_RS's constraint count is a factor \(n^{-\Omega(t)}\) below the fill point (falsification attempt above), so universality, if it held for the members' saturated ideals, would give no cross-member falls below \(D\). It is not yet stated for member ideals, and single members already fall, so it must be stated relative to \(\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I_b\).
entry-2026-09-26-fall-line-review:1 (bridge): Smoothed analysis (Spielman and Teng, J. ACM 2004), from computer science: worst-case inputs under a small random perturbation behave like typical inputs. Translation: W_RS is a smoothed instance, with adversarial forms perturbed by random prefixes. Answers. A smoothed theorem for row freeness would show that the adversary's structure (shared pieces, dependencies) dissolves under the random prefixes. That is the form A1 needs: every family of forms, random prefixes only. Test. Passed at the level of falls: the 65 runs without a shared piece (53 in the shared-piece entry, 12 in the span check), most of them with adversarial forms, never fell early, and lem:shared-piece-rarity is a smoothed bound. The same test for row freeness needs three-row boards.
entry-2026-09-26-fall-line-review:2 (bridge): The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion (Comm. Math. Phys. 103, 1986), from statistical physics: a polymer gas with small activities has a convergent expansion over clusters of incompatible polymers. Translation: members are polymers, incompatibility is a shared form, and the activity is the probability \(h3^{-t}\) of a shared piece. Answers. Row-freeness defects of \(Q\) would be sums of contributions of small clusters, and the expansion would converge, with only local, rare clusters contributing. Test. Passed as arithmetic: the criterion \(\sum_{b'\sim b}w(b')e^{a}\le a\), with \(a=1\) and at most \(M\) neighbours, needs \(Mh3^{-t}\le1/e\), and W_RS has \(Mh3^{-t}\le h/(3n)\). Whether row-freeness defects are additive over clusters is untested.
entry-2026-09-27-witness-route-review:3 (lead): Standard monomial theory through Robinson–Schensted (Shareshian–Wachs, Theorem 6.3, as cor:rsk-monomial-basis). Target: local independence as a normal-form computation. Answers. Reduction to the monomials \(\gamma(S,T)\) is a normal form for \(A\). Independence of tops then means independence of their normal forms, a leading-term question in which density could supply distinct leading monomials. Test. Passed: cor:rsk-monomial-basis is proved above, and its count matches \(\dim A_d\). Whether leading terms of adversarial tops are distinct is the development question.
entry-2026-09-27-witness-route-review:1 (bridge): Slater determinants and the Slater–Condon rules (quantum chemistry). Translation: rows are particles, columns are orbitals, and column-injectivity is Pauli exclusion. A simplex functional \(\rho_{A,B}\) is a Slater determinant of \(|A|\) particles in \(|A|+1\) orbitals with one hole, carried by a ghost particle. A top is a product state of the forms. Answers. The Slater–Condon rules compute overlaps of determinants with product states as sums of minors. Local independence then becomes nondegeneracy of a Gram-type matrix of bordered minors, where density means many nonvanishing minors. Test. Passed: lem:ghost-slater-pairing is that overlap formula, proved above and checked against the difference (\(k=1\)) and the triangle-area form (\(k=2\)).
entry-2026-09-27-equivalence-route-review:1 (bridge): Gauge fixing and the Gribov ambiguity (theoretical physics; Gribov 1978, Singer 1978). Translation: representing a family modulo the row equations is choosing a gauge. Normal form is an axial gauge, the column representation another gauge, and the PHP-level ideal is the gauge-invariant content. Singer's theorem says a global gauge slice can fail to exist for topological reasons, while local gauges always exist. Answers. Obstacle (b) looks like a Gribov obstruction. On the patch where row \(i\) holds at most one pigeon, the functional localization works, and the partial-row family is a local gauge. The failure sits on the multi-pigeon patch. The remedy the bridge suggests is to fix the gauge patchwise and glue the patches by Mayer–Vietoris, rather than to seek one global equivalent family. Test. Passed: on the functional patch, \(x_{ic}r_i^{(1)}=x_{ic}\), so the varying-shift spread family has its pullback equivalent there, as computed above. The gluing across patches is open.
entry-2026-09-27-row-local-route-review:2 (lead): Linkage and the Mayer–Vietoris sequence of ideals (Peskine and Szpiro, Liaison des variétés algébriques, Invent. Math. 26, 1974). Target: the gluing of confined pieces. Answers. The sequence \(0\to R/(I\cap J)\to R/I\oplus R/J\to R/(I+J)\to0\) and its linkage refinements compute the invariants of a union from the pieces and a connecting map. A lift that is row-free must make that connecting map vanish, so the choice of lift becomes the choice of how the pieces glue. Test. Passed: the class \(r_i\tau\) of prop:confinement-nondistributivity is that connecting term. \(\tau\) lies in both pieces' top ideals and not in the union's.
entry-2026-09-27-dance-review:1 (lead): The basis of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall (ECCC TR97-042, Definition 2.5 and Proposition 2.8). Target: the PC lift. Answers. The basis \(B_d\) makes the PC closure of the pigeon axioms explicit, as \(\operatorname{span}(B_d\setminus T_d)\), with the monotonicity \(x_aQ_i\in B_d\) iff \(x_a\in B_{d-1}\) and \(i\notin\mathrm{dom}(a)\). PC hardness with clauses becomes 1 outside the \(R(x_{ij}\cdot)\)-closure of the \(R(C)\). The dance line's zero-prescribed designs are the first step of that closure. Test. Passed as a translation, checked against Definition 2.5, Proposition 2.8 and Theorem 2.9 of the source. The caveat is that the source's identities include the functional axioms \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}=0\), which the weak base lacks.
entry-2026-09-27-dance-review:2 (lead): Cone constructions for coboundary expansion (Gromov, 2010; Kozlov and Meshulam, Quantitative aspects of acyclicity, 2019). Target: multi-face coboundaries. Answers. A symmetric complex with a cone structure has every nonzero coboundary supported on many faces. For chessboard complexes this would make a sparse excluded set unlikely to contain one. Test. Passed in the model with independent exclusions. The smallest coboundary support, a single face's coface set, has \(N-k+1\) matchings. There are at most \(n^{2k}\) faces, and each coface set lies wholly in an excluded set of density \(O(1/n)\) with probability \(O(1/n)^{N-k+1}\) under independence. The union bound \(n^{2k}O(1/n)^{N-k+1}\) is \(o(1)\) in the relevant regime \(k\le D=O(\log n)\ll N\). The correlated exclusions of W_RS are outside that model.
entry-2026-09-27-dance-review:2 (bridge): Warning propagation and the cavity method (Mézard, Parisi and Zecchina, Science 297, 2002). Translation: a face exclusion is a warning sent to the parent face, and a cascade is warning propagation up the recursion. The set of faces with forced zeros is the core. Answers. The cavity method's threshold for a core decides whether forced zeros percolate. Test. Passed in the model with independent exclusions. A warning reaches a parent only if all of about \(n\) extensions of it by one pigeon are forced. Given the warning at hand, the other \(n-1\) extensions must also be forced. Each warning has about \(n\) parent-and-pigeon pairs, so at density \(O(1/n)\) the expected number of new warnings per warning is about \(n\cdot O(1/n)^{n-1}\ll1\), which is subcritical. Correlation through shared value vectors is outside the model.
entry-2026-09-27-lift-review:1 (bridge): Bootstrap percolation (Aizenman and Lebowitz, Metastability effects in bootstrap percolation, J. Phys. A 21, 1988). Translation: PC's multiplication of a derived multiple \(x_U\) to all supersets is a monotone infection of the matching lattice from the excluded matchings. On \(\mathcal Q_D\) the threshold is one infected submatching. On \(\mathcal A\), infection needs a drop, which is a higher threshold. Answers. Bootstrap theory locates the critical density at which infection spreads, which would say whether a support survives PC's forcing. Test. Passed as a translation on \(\mathcal Q_D\). With threshold one, the surviving fraction of \(D\)-matchings is about \(e^{-2^D\delta}\) in the independence model, so the process is supercritical, matching truncation forcing. The threshold on \(\mathcal A\) is not identified.
entry-2026-09-27-capacity-review:1 (bridge): Replica symmetry in random constraint satisfaction (Achlioptas and Coja-Oghlan, Algorithmic barriers from phase transitions, FOCS 2008). Translation: the allowed set is the solution space of a random CSP with one constraint per block, and top-lift subsets are clusters. Answers. Below the clustering threshold the solution space is one well-connected piece. Its typical subsets inherit the whole space's properties, which would make \(\mathcal A\) itself a top-lift subset. Test. Passed as a translation. The excluded density is \(O(1/n)\), so \(\mathcal A\) is all but a vanishing fraction of \(P\), deep in the replica-symmetric regime. This gave the reformulation above: \(I(\mathcal A)\) consists of the functions supported on the sparse set \(E\). It does not by itself give (S).
entry-2026-09-27-row-freeness-review:2 (bridge): Qutrit stabilizer codes (Gottesman, Fault-tolerant quantum computation with higher-dimensional systems, 1998), from quantum information. Translation: through \(g_i=1+r_i\), the row sums generate an elementary abelian 3-group acting on functions on \(Y\) of degree at most \(D\), like a group of qutrit Pauli \(X\)-type operators. Row freeness says that this function space is a sum of regular representations, a code with no nontrivial "logical" fixed subspace for any shifted subgroup. Answers. Code-distance arguments show that no low-weight operator acts trivially on a code space. An analogue would bound the degree at which any shifted direction \(1+\sum\alpha_ir_i\) can fail freeness on \(Y\). Test. Passed as a translation: the group-algebra identification holds in \(G\), since \(r_i^3=0\). No distance-type theorem is identified yet, and the truncated Dade counterexample shows that single-direction control alone does not suffice.
entry-2026-09-27-global-step-review:1 (lead): Lower bounds for linear 2-query locally decodable and correctable codes (Z. Dvir and A. Shpilka, Locally decodable codes with two queries and polynomial identity testing for depth 3 circuits, SIAM J. Comput. 36, 2007; O. Goldreich, H. Karloff, L. Schulman and L. Trevisan, Lower bounds for linear locally decodable codes and private information retrieval, Comput. Complexity 15, 2006). A linear code whose coordinates are each recoverable from many disjoint pairs has dimension logarithmic in its length. Answers. If every block's squared forms lie in \(\delta M\) disjoint three-term relations, the forms form a linear 2-query correctable code, so their span has dimension \(O(\log M/\delta)\), and the recorded low-rank reductions (pinned-rank vacuity) take over. Relation-rich planted structures would thus be low rank. Test. Passed as a translation for that regime: the Hadamard configuration (all forms of a subspace) attains logarithmic rank, so the bound is of the right shape. It does not reach structures in which each block lies in \(O(1)\) relations, which the bridges below show exist at high rank.
entry-2026-09-27-global-step-review:1 (bridge): Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks (G. Laman, On graphs and rigidity of plane skeletal structures, J. Engrg. Math. 4, 1970), in which self-stresses, the linear dependencies among edge constraints, appear exactly when some subframework is overbraced. Translation: blocks are joints, three-term relations are rigid triangles, and non-local syzygies are self-stresses. Answers. A counting criterion of Laman's kind would say which relation structures carry non-local classes: trees of triangles none, closed configurations some. That is a local test for the global step. Test. Passed: the tree of two triangles sharing a joint has no non-local class below its derived relation, while the closed configuration, where all four triangles on four joints are present, carries one.
entry-2026-09-27-convergence-review:2 (lead): Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series (R. Fröberg, An inequality for Hilbert series of graded algebras, Math. Scand. 56, 1985). Generic forms give the expected series \(\lvert\mathrm{HS}(R)\prod(1-t^{d_i})\rvert\). Answers. By prop:linear-transversality and its Tor characterization, the per-block condition is the Hilbert-series identity \(\mathrm{HS}(\widetilde A/(I_{<b}+V_b\widetilde A))\equiv\mathrm{HS}(\widetilde A/I_{<b})/\mathrm{HS}(T_b)\) modulo \(q^{D+1}\), an expected-series statement of Fröberg type. Proving it for random-prefix families is a genericity statement. Test. Passed as a consistency check: the recorded random-top computations follow random-matrix predictions up to the fill point (check, generic directness), which is Fröberg-type behaviour for the quotients that the identity compares. Adversarial forms are outside its scope.
entry-2026-09-27-convergence-review:1 (bridge): The cleaning lemma for quantum stabilizer codes (S. Bravyi and B. Terhal, A no-go theorem for a two-dimensional self-correcting quantum memory based on stabilizer codes, New J. Phys. 11, 2009). An erasure of a region is correctable exactly when no logical operator is supported on it, and then operators can be cleaned off the region. Translation: setting block \(b\)'s forms to zero is an erasure; the earlier clauses are the code; "no new relations" is correctability of the erasure. Answers. A distance statement, that no nonzero combination of earlier clauses lies in the ideal of any \(O(k)\)-dimensional span, would give the per-block condition in degree \(h\). A cleaning-type argument might carry it to higher degrees. Test. Passed on the degree-\(h\) case: prop:linear-transversality's necessary condition \(I_h\cap(V_b\widetilde A)_h=0\) is exactly that erasure-correctability statement, and a shared form is a logical operator of weight one, which fails it.
entry-2026-09-27-cover-gluing-review:2 (lead): Algebraic discrete Morse theory (M. Jöllenbeck and V. Welker, Minimal resolutions via algebraic discrete Morse theory, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 197, 2009; E. Sköldberg, Morse theory from an algebraic viewpoint, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358, 2006). An acyclic matching on a free complex, such as the Taylor complex, contracts it to a smaller complex on the critical cells. Answers. An acyclic matching on the family's Taylor-type complex whose critical 1-cells are all member-supported would prove (b'), and matchings can be built locally, cell by cell, without global freeness. Test. Passed as a consistency check: in the free regime the complex is a tensor product of the components' complexes (lem:kunneth-component-locality), and product matchings leave critical cells supported on single components, which reproduces prop:chain-cover-generation. Whether a local matching exists outside the free regime is the development.
entry-2026-09-28-relation-line-review:2 (bridge): The cluster expansion of statistical mechanics (R. Kotecký and D. Preiss, Cluster expansion for abstract polymer models, Comm. Math. Phys. 103, 1986). The logarithm of a partition function is a sum over connected clusters of polymers, dominated by small clusters when their activities are small. Translation: the correction of the board quotient's Hilbert series from the product formula is a sum over connected groups of members and relations, with the degree of a group's first contribution as its weight. Answers. A convergent expansion in which groups of size \(s\) enter only from degree about \(s\) times the involvement onset would give local generation through \(22k\) from groups of bounded size. Test. Passed as consistency on the chain: the leading correction at degree 5 is the sum of the single-relation polymers (\(2=1+1\)), and their overlap enters only at the next degree (\(4=3+3-2\)). This matches the shape of a cluster expansion, whose second-order terms subtract overlaps.
entry-2026-09-28-configuration-review:1 (lead): Projective Reed–Muller duality and small-weight codewords of projective-geometry codes (A. B. Sørensen, Projective Reed–Muller codes, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 37, 1991; B. Bagchi and S. P. Inamdar, Projective geometric codes, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 99, 2002). By the transversality criterion, relations with \(A=0\) are point functions orthogonal to all \((N-c)\)-spaces, codewords of the dual of a projective-geometry code, and the tensor relations are duals of projective Reed–Muller codes. Answers. A classification of the small-weight codewords of these duals would list every kind of non-local dependency among few members, local, tensor and any others. Each kind could then be tested for absorption, as alternative (a) needs, instead of locality. Test. Passed: GUAVA gives minimum weights 6 and 18 for the duals of the line codes of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,3)\) and \(\mathrm{PG}(3,3)\) (research/tools/pg_dual_min_weight.g, output research/results/odd-prime-configuration-review/pg_dual_min_weight.txt). These are the weights of \(\mathbf 1_{V}-\mathbf 1_{V'}\) for two \((c+1)\)-spaces meeting in a \(c\)-space, the coverage of a difference of two pencils, as the translation predicts.
entry-2026-09-28-configuration-review:2 (lead): Chevalley–Warning and the Ax–Katz theorem (J. Ax, Zeroes of polynomials over finite fields, Amer. J. Math. 86, 1964; N. M. Katz, On a theorem of Ax, Amer. J. Math. 93, 1971). Through the criterion, the tensor relation says that for every \(c\times c\) matrix pencil \(\sum_iw_iM_i\), the number of \(w\in\mathrm{PG}(c,3)\) where it is singular is \(1\) mod 3. That is Chevalley–Warning for its determinant. Answers. Ax–Katz divisibility controls zero counts of forms by their degrees. A description of the signed point sets on which the zero counts of all determinantal forms of degree \(c\) are constant mod 3 would describe all tensor-type dependencies. It would also say whether sparse, W_RS-like families can carry them, which bounds what alternative (b) must handle. Test. Passed: the degree condition predicts no relation for \(m=c\) and exactly one for \(m=c+1\), and both are confirmed for \(c=2,3\) (Part 4 of transversal_relations.txt).
entry-2026-09-28-configuration-review:3 (lead): The Combinatorial Nullstellensatz (N. Alon, Combinatorial Nullstellensatz, Combin. Probab. Comput. 8, 1999). A nonzero polynomial of degree \(d\) is nonzero somewhere on a grid \(S_1\times\dots\times S_r\) with \(|S_i|>\) its degree in each variable. Answers. If the base maps onto a grid in the form values, every nonzero clause sum is visible on it. Tensor dependencies then cannot lift for forms in general position on the base, which decides the lifting question and leaves only alternatives (a) and (b). Test. Passed: on the 7-by-6 weak base six random dense forms map onto all of \(\mathbb F_3^6\), and the tensor clause sum is nonzero at about two thirds of the base points (three seeds).
entry-2026-09-28-overdetermined-review:1 (lead): The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion (R. Kotecký and D. Preiss, Cluster expansion for abstract polymer models, Comm. Math. Phys. 103, 1986). A dilute gas of polymers with small weights has a convergent expansion of its partition function over connected clusters, when \(\sum_{\gamma'\not\sim\gamma}w(\gamma')e^{a(\gamma')}\le a(\gamma)\). Target: the overdetermined transfer. Answers. Read the blocks' excluded pieces as polymers, and a low-degree function on \(P\) supported on the excluded set as a sum over clusters. In the convergent regime the Hilbert function of the ideal of \(Q\) would be the members' sum plus corrections from connected clusters, each small in number. That is the degree-by-degree computation the obstacle asks for. It would break if algebraic interactions, falls, are not controlled by the weights, since dimension is not additive the way measure is. Test. Passed for the numerical condition. Each W_RS block's excluded value density is at most \(\mathbb E|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|/3^h\le3^{-t}\), so with \(M=n^K\) blocks and \(t=(K+1)\log_3n+O(\log\log n)\), \(\sum_bw_b\le n^K3^{-t}\), which is at most about \(1/n\) (smaller by the \(3^{-O(\log\log n)}\) factor when that term of \(t\) is positive). With the simplification \(a\equiv1\), the criterion reads \(e\sum_bw_b\le1\) on the complete incompatibility graph, and it holds with room. The algebraic translation is untested.
entry-2026-09-28-member-tensor-review:1 (lead): The record's conj:graded-dade-margin, in member form (stated in the pencil graded Dade line, proved for two directions by thm:pencil-graded-dade). Target: statement 1. Answers. The member form replaces cells by member rings and the cell support of a combination by \(\sum_{b\in I}(\delta_b-2)\). The margin \(N\ge4t+2F\) becomes a count of the member tensor's size against the acting space. A proof of the member form through \(D\) would settle statement 1 for families satisfying the margin. It would break if member rings with large \(\delta_b\) admit special positions that cells do not. Test. Passed: the margin needed in W's regime holds by counting. The necessary positivity of \(\prod_b\operatorname{HF}(M_b)/(1+t+t^2)^{r}\) through \(D\), with \(r=\dim K'\), is \((1+t+t^2)^{\sum h_b-r}\prod_b(1-\varepsilon_b(t))\), with \(\varepsilon_b\) starting at \(t^{\delta_b}\). Here \(r=\dim K'\) is of order \(Mh\), and \(\sum_bh_b-r\) is the dimension of the forms' span on the board, at most \(\dim G_1=mN-1\) (\(m\) rows, \(N\) columns of the board, not the one-row conjecture's cell count). Beyond capacity the span is close to \(mN\). So in degree \(d\le D\) the first factor contributes about \((mN)^d/d!\), while each \(\varepsilon_b\) enters only from degree \(\delta_b\approx4t=\Theta(\log n)\), with \(M=n^K\) members. This is a heuristic comparison of orders of growth, not a proof of positivity: \((mN)^{\delta}\) exceeds any fixed power of \(n\) times the members' contributions. The recorded counterexample, outside its margin, is consistent.
entry-2026-09-28-ideal-sum-review:1 (lead): The Alexander–Hirschowitz theorem with Terracini's lemma (J. Alexander and A. Hirschowitz, Polynomial interpolation in several variables, J. Algebraic Geom. 4 (1995) 201–222). General double points impose independent conditions on forms of every degree, except for an explicit list, proved by the Horace specialization method. Target: the first obstacle. Answers. By duality, directness of \(\sum_bI_b\) in degree \(j\) is surjectivity of \(T(W)_{2w-j}\to\bigoplus_b(T(W)/\operatorname{Ann}I_b)_{2w-j}\): interpolation on schemes supported on the member spans. A Horace-type theorem for \(T(W)\) would give directness for general spans with finitely many exceptions. It would break if the truncation, which kills cubes, removes the degenerations Horace needs. prop:no-horace-balancing already found no balancing on the PHP board itself. Test. Passed as a structural match. For two double points on \(\mathbb P^n\), quadrics fail by exactly one condition. So does the \((2,4,4)\) pair in dual degree 2, by the rank-one part \(A\otimes B\) that neither square covers.
entry-2026-09-28-ideal-sum-review:4 (lead): The spread lemma behind the sunflower bounds (R. Alweiss, S. Lovett, K. Wu and J. Zhang, Improved bounds for the sunflower lemma, Ann. of Math. 194 (2021) 795–815). A family in which no small set lies in too many members is spread, and a spread family behaves like a random one for covering questions. Otherwise some kernel set lies in many members, and one iterates on the link of the kernel. Target: the second obstacle. Answers. In subspace form: either some subspace \(Y\) lies in many member spans, and is pinned (cor:pinned-cluster-reduction) or merged, or the spans are spread. Spread spans should behave like general ones, which is where the interpolation statement is needed. Test. Passed on the extreme case. When all members share one span \(U\), the kernel is \(U\), the residual spans are zero, and pinning \(U\), of logarithmic dimension, settles the family. Not tested: a subspace version of the spread lemma and its degree cost; no subspace form was located.
entry-2026-09-28-value-side-review:1 (bridge): The decoupling theorem of quantum information (F. Dupuis, M. Berta, J. Wullschleger and R. Renner, One-shot decoupling, Commun. Math. Phys. 328 (2014) 251–284). A random unitary applied to one half of a system decouples it from a reference, once a dimension (min-entropy) condition holds. Translation: the halves become \(A=(\bar J_1)_d\) and \(B=(\bar J_2)_d\) in \(T(W)_d\), and the random unitary becomes a random \(g\in\mathrm{GL}(W,\mathbb F_3)\). Since \(\mathrm{GL}(W)\) acts transitively on each orbit \(O\), the first moment is exact: \(\mathbb E\,|A\cap gB|-1=\sum_O|A\cap O|\,|B\cap O|/|O|\). If the forms are uniformly random, the family's law is \(\mathrm{GL}(W)\)-invariant, so the second half may be taken to be a random translate. Answers. For random forms, directness of the halves in a degree \(d<2\delta_{\min}\) holds with positive probability once this orbit-weighted sum is below 1. What must be bounded is how much of the members' ideals lies on small orbits, the elements of low essential dimension. It does not apply to adversarial forms, whose only randomness is the prefixes. Test. Passed as a consistency check on \((2,4,4)\), with the dimensions of the quadric pair defect: two 9-dimensional ideals in the 21-dimensional degree-10 space. The orbit-free count \(3^{9+9-21}=1/27\) would predict directness, yet the defect is forced. The forced intersection element, dual to the rank-one part \(A\otimes B\), is a rank-2 functional on quadrics, in an orbit far smaller than \(3^{21}\). So the defect is carried by a small orbit, as the criterion requires.
entry-2026-09-28-certificate-halves-review:1 (lead): Pseudo-calibration, restricted to the design's support (B. Barak, S. Hopkins, J. Kelner, P. Kothari, A. Moitra and A. Potechin, A nearly tight sum-of-squares lower bound for the planted clique problem, FOCS 2016; exact form lem:multiplier-designs; relaxations prop:colon-multipliers and lem:support-absorption). Target: the Nullstellensatz half. At the Nullstellensatz level the base design is a point weight \(\nu_0\), the matching design of degree \(D_{\mathrm m}\le\lfloor(N+1)/2\rfloor\) supported on matchings of at most \(D_{\mathrm m}\) cells (prop:failure-set-criterion (3)), not a PC design of degree \(D_0\le N\) as in lem:multiplier-designs. Then \(\nu=\nu_0W\) is a degree-\(D\) point design whenever \(\deg W\le D_{\mathrm m}-D\), \(\sum\nu_0W\ne0\) and \(W\) vanishes on \(E\cap\operatorname{supp}\nu_0\), not on all of \(E\): constraint multiples are killed pointwise on the support, and row multiples \(b(r_i-1)\) by \(\nu_0\) since \(\deg(Wb)\le D_{\mathrm m}-1\). Relation to the record: this is the point-design case of lem:multiplier-designs with a design-dependent relaxation. It is not the colon condition of prop:colon-multipliers (1)–(3), which is design-independent and, by lem:support-absorption, relaxes pointwise vanishing only on residuals where PHP is refutable; here every excluded point outside the small matchings is skipped, whatever its refutability. Nor is it vacuous in the sense of prop:colon-multipliers (4): the functions vanishing on \(\operatorname{supp}\nu_0\) are killed by \(\nu_0\) and closed under multiplication, but do not contain \(\mathcal C_{D_{\mathrm m}}(R)\). Every point design supported inside \(\operatorname{supp}\nu_0\) has this form, with \(W=\nu/\nu_0\) there, so the content is a degree bound on that ratio. Answers. It replaces the vanishing-degree question for \(E\) by one for the killed matchings of at most \(D_{\mathrm m}\) cells, a set with far less structure to vanish on. For blocks whose forms are single cells, \(g_v=x_v\) on Boolean points, so each prefix element \(s_{b,1}\) is linear and product multipliers certify about \(D_{\mathrm m}-D\) blocks, still within capacity. Test. Passed in the cheap sense: the support restriction and the linear prefixes of cell blocks were checked above. Beyond capacity the dimension count is unfavourable (functions of degree \(D_{\mathrm m}-D\) are far fewer than the killed matchings), so a multiplier must exploit the algebraic structure of the killed sets; that is the next step.
entry-2026-09-28-few-columns-review:1 (lead): Local designs (prop:local-design-criterion, named in the record and not followed on this line; in the Sherali–Adams tradition of consistent local distributions). The exact Nullstellensatz dual of the base plus the closed members is a functional \(\mu\) with \(\mu(1)=1\), killing the row terms, and agreeing through degree \(D\) with a measure on each member's allowed set. Answers. It removes the union: with the members taken to be the single blocks, a thin failure set inside \(\bigcup_bE_b\) is no obstruction, since \(\mu\) needs to look like a measure only on each \(P_b=B\setminus E_b\) separately, where one-block pinning works. The remaining condition is compatibility: a common \(\mu\) whose degree-\(D\) moments are representable on every \(P_b\), that is, killing every degree-\(\le D\) function supported inside one block's excluded set. Test. Passed: with single blocks as members, the maximal-member collapse does not apply, since it needs a member that is a maximal satisfiable clause set and single blocks are not maximal once pairs of blocks are jointly satisfiable, as for random prefixes, where each point lies in a given \(E_b\) with probability at most \(3^{-t}\) (prop:sparse-failure-sets (6)), so two excluded sets cover in expectation at most a \(2\cdot3^{-t}\) fraction; a point design on \(\bigcap_bP_b\) is a special case, and a restricted matching design \(\nu_\rho\) is representable on \(P_b\) exactly when its trace on \(E_b\) is orthogonal to the functions of degree \(\le D\) supported in \(E_b\), which holds in particular when its support avoids \(E_b\); nothing recorded rules out a \(\rho\) with this property for all blocks.

Research record

21 September 2026 — Equation clauses remain the missing bridge after restoring the earlier odd-prime compiler

Status: source and dependency audit; no new lower bound or compiler. The known full-field obstruction does not cover Boolean-domain simulations. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Equation clauses remain the missing bridge after restoring the earlier odd-prime compiler”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-equation-clause-audit.

Question and stopping test. Does the existing binary compiler extend by a change of field, yielding a polynomial-in-proof-size one-level old-affine registry of polylogarithmic PC degree? Inspect the precise source rules and earlier conversions, stopping once a transfer or a specific missing implication is identified. The goal remains the standard odd-prime equation-clause lower bound, not a substitute disequality system.

Source convention

Part–Tzameret, revision 2, Section 3, pp. 14–15 defines lines as disjunctions of affine equations, with duplicate disjuncts contracted. From \(C\vee(f=0)\) and \(D\vee(g=0)\), resolution derives \(C\vee D\vee(\alpha f+\beta g=0)\). Weakening adds an equation; simplification deletes a false nonzero constant equation. Boolean axioms are \((x_i=0)\vee(x_i=1)\). The source counts total written size, not just lines. Its stronger semantic systems are distinguished from this syntactic calculus.

Accordingly, the branch keeps its stronger proof-line objective but must prove its own registry-inventory accounting. A lower bound only in written size would not establish that objective. Standard syntactic steps, not unrestricted Boolean-semantic consequence, are the initial target.

Recovered dependencies and falsification attempt

The 14 September disequality calculus already has a complete all-prime rule simulation. Its clause is \(\bigvee_i(g_i\ne0)\), so its falsifying set is an affine flat. Its \(p\)-way split has height-independent PC cost \(4h+p-1\), with all coefficient equations \(r^p-r\) retained. Rebuilding this split would not fill the equation-clause gap.

The same earlier entry contains the exact full-field conversion obstruction: \(\bigvee_{i=1}^w(y_i=0)\) needs \((p-1)^w\) affine-disequality CNF clauses in the same unrestricted coordinates. Its falsifying set is the nonzero box. Every affine subspace contained in that box is a point, since any nonconstant coordinate takes zero somewhere. Exact CNF conversion must cover all box points by these falsifying flats. Thus a blanket polynomial full-field conversion is already refuted by an inherited result. This is a rediscovered applicability boundary, not a new theorem.

The restriction to unrestricted field coordinates is essential. Boolean domains and extra variables change the representation problem, so this obstruction alone cannot rule out domain-aware proof translations. The binary basis compression preserves a common zero set; it cannot simply be applied to a union of equation hyperplanes at odd primes. Existing graph restriction still makes the initial clauses short, but does not bound intermediate equation-clause width.

Outcome and next action

The general implication still needed is: every short standard odd-prime equation-clause PHP refutation yields an augmented graph-PC refutation satisfying the all-prime old-affine exclusion hypotheses, on the same graph and within its degree budget. This audit discharges rule identification and eliminates rediscovery of the disequality compiler; it does not discharge that implication.

The next test is Boolean-domain conversion or a bounded-degree selector encoding. Any use of \(1-L^{p-1}\) as an input must confront that it is generally nonlinear, and any added names must retain their defining equations. Search the existing nonlinear-input and domain-compression results before building a new normalization. The current affine-only approach has a documented full-field limitation, while the domain-aware route remains untested here; no probability estimate or assertion that it is short is justified.

Checks and significance. Read the cited exact internal statements and PC identities, the original equation-clause rules and size definition, and the binary registry transfer. No numerical experiment or new kernel check was performed. No new claim is registered because this is an applicability audit of existing results. The source/version and inspected anchors are recorded in the accompanying audit file.

Process assessment. Bounded claim search recovered both the older compiler and the exact obstruction, avoiding a duplicate proof; the existing tools suffice and no framework change is needed.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	2 min 8.66 s
Marked reading and review windows	26.86 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 36.95 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4.85 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Standard equation clauses compile at constant degree into power-selector inputs

Status: working proof of a syntactic Res(Lin) transfer; no PHP lower bound. Its one-level inputs are degree-\(p-1\) selectors, generally not affine. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Standard equation clauses compile at constant degree into power-selector inputs”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-selector-clause-transfer.

Missing implication tested. Can arbitrary-width standard equation clauses be handled without exponential residue splitting, and with a degree bound independent of DAG height? We allow polynomial selector inputs temporarily but retain their exact form and degree; a successful translation must expose, rather than hide, the remaining exclusion obligation.

Statement and source format

Fix a prime \(p\), put \(\delta=p-1\), and let \(v\) old variables be Boolean. Let a standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation have \(S\) lines, with input CNF clauses of width at most \(w\). Include Boolean axioms among the initials and set \(w_*=\max(w,2)\). The rules are the resolution, literal weakening, simplification and contraction audited in the preceding entry; arbitrary semantic inference is not assumed.

For an affine equation \(L=0\), set \(t_L=1-L^\delta\). There is a complete one-level ENS family with at most \(S\) blocks, each at accuracy one and having at most \(\binom{v+\delta}{\delta}\) inputs, each input literally some \(t_L\) from its source line. With coefficient equations \(r^p-r\), this family and the ordinary CNF polynomial axioms have an ordinary PC refutation through

\[D=\max\{4p-1,\ p+w_*\delta\}.\]

No proof-height factor occurs. The initial polynomial for \(\bigvee_i(L_i=0)\) is \(F_A=\prod_iL_i\); for Boolean CNF literals these are affine coordinate forms, up to nonzero signs. For fixed \(p\), both the registry inventory and the coefficient-variable count are polynomial in \(S,v\), even if the original intermediate clauses have enormous width. This is an existence statement about a PC refutation and registry, not a bound on monomial-expanded PC length.

Compression and complete blocks

In each line choose a basis subset of its selectors in the vector space of ordinary polynomials of degree at most \(\delta\). Every omitted selector is a constant linear combination of this subset. The bound follows from the displayed ambient dimension. No Boolean quotient is needed for this compression. Empty spans have an empty basis. For the chosen basis \(B_C\), introduce fresh coefficients and set

\[P_C=1-\sum_{j\in B_C}r_{C,j}t_j,\qquad E_{C,j}=t_jP_C.\]

The complete block contains every companion \(E_{C,j}\) and every coefficient field equation. Thus \(\deg P_C\le p\), \(\deg E_{C,j}\le2p-1\). Any original selector in line \(C\) times \(P_C\) is a constant combination of these companions at the same ceiling. No derived line \(P_C\) is added as an axiom. For an empty basis \(P_C=1\), no coefficient variables or companions are required.

Boolean vanishing certificates used below

A polynomial in old Boolean variables that vanishes on the whole Boolean cube has an ordinary Boolean-ideal certificate through its own total degree: reduce each power using \(x_i^2-x_i\) without increasing degree; the remaining multilinear polynomial is zero by evaluation on the cube. This argument works over every field. It will be used only for an explicit local selector identity, not for any PHP consequence.

Initial values and one-premise rules

For an initial clause \(A\), its original selectors satisfy

\[1-\prod_{i=1}^{a}(1-t_i)=\sum_{i=1}^{a}t_i\prod_{j<i}(1-t_j),\qquad \prod_i(1-t_i)=F_A^\delta.\]

Multiply by \(P_A\). Each summand on the right is obtained from \(t_iP_A\), a constant combination of complete companions, by multiplying by the preceding factors. The term \(F_A^\delta P_A\) follows from the initial axiom \(F_A\). All terms have degree at most \(p+a\delta\); for Boolean axioms, \(F_A=x_i(x_i-1)\) is already an old Boolean equation. Hence the initial \(P_A\) is derived within \(D\).

For weakening from \(A\) to \(T\), every basis selector of \(A\) lies in the selector span of \(T\). The identity \(P_T=P_AP_T+\sum_jr_{A,j}t_jP_T\) derives \(P_T\) from the completed line \(P_A\) and the \(T\)-companions through \(\max(D,2p)\). Simplification deletes only \(a=0\) with \(a\ne0\), whose selector is identically zero, so the same argument applies. Contraction leaves the span unchanged.

Resolution and exact degree ledger

Consider premises \(A=C\vee(f=0)\), \(B=E\vee(g=0)\), and conclusion \(T=C\vee E\vee(h=0)\), where \(h=\alpha f+\beta g\). In the basis subset of \(A\), all selectors except possibly \(t_f\) come from \(C\); let \(r_f\) be its coefficient if selected, or zero otherwise. Likewise define \(r_g\). A selector that also occurs in the context can still be designated as pivot; the remaining ones are context selectors. Using the completed premise values and the \(T\)-companions derives

\[R_A=P_T-r_ft_fP_T=0,\qquad R_B=P_T-r_gt_gP_T=0\]

through \(\max(D,2p)\). For example \(R_A=P_AP_T+\sum_{j\text{ context}}r_{A,j}t_jP_T\). Each context selector is in the selector span of \(T\).

At every old Boolean assignment, \(t_ft_g(1-t_h)=0\): if both first selectors are one then \(f=g=0\), hence \(h=0\); otherwise their product is zero. Let \(I=t_ft_g(1-t_h)\). Its degree is at most \(3\delta\), so it has the Boolean certificate just proved. Also \(t_hP_T\) is a constant combination of \(T\)-companions. Consequently

\[Q=t_ft_gP_T=t_ft_g(t_hP_T)+IP_T=0\]

has a PC derivation through \(\max(D,4p-3)\). The last local step is the ordinary polynomial identity

\[P_T=R_A+r_ft_fR_B+r_fr_gQ.\]

The middle product has degree at most \(3p\). Constructing the last term by multiplying the completed \(Q\) line by its two coefficient variables costs at most \(4p-1\) even if its derivation previously reached \(4p-3\). Thus the entire inference fits \(D\). Multiplication by a polynomial means its expansion into monomials, each implemented by variable multiplications followed by field-linear combinations. Crucially, multiply the completed premise lines rather than their whole derivations; the degree does not accumulate along the DAG.

Induct through the original topological line order, in one fixed registry. The empty final clause has \(P_\varnothing=1\), so this yields the asserted PC refutation. Coefficient field equations remain in the source although this forward simulation does not need them. The empty-initial-clause case already has axiom one and is immediate.

What this does and does not settle

This proves a working translation for the actual standard equation-clause rules, with polynomial inventory and constant degree at constant initial width. After the usual graph restriction, the missing implication becomes exclusion of complete one-level families whose inputs are these specific shifted powers of affine forms. The all-prime affine theorem does not cover them. The earlier odd-prime nonlinearity control already shows that Boolean reduction does not generally make them affine. We therefore obtain no Res(Lin) lower bound here.

For \(p=3\) the precise target inputs are \(1-L^2\), not arbitrary quadratic polynomials. The next cycle should test a common-weight exclusion for that family, preserving its structure before demanding a theorem for all bounded-degree inputs. The known full-field conversion obstruction is respected: this transfer uses nonlinear inputs and does not assert an equivalent affine-disequality CNF.

Checks, dependencies and assessment

The proof above is self-contained given the audited syntactic rules, elementary polynomial linear algebra and ordinary PC definitions. It adapts the existing complete-block replay pattern; no semantic weakening theorem or binary compression theorem is invoked at odd primes. Exact finite tests over \(\mathbb F_3,\mathbb F_5,\mathbb F_7\) cover every \((f,g,\alpha,\beta)\), and removing the second-premise selector produces counterexamples in each field. The saved results check that local relation only; they are not a full primitive-PC or Lean verification.

Focused review. Basis compression uses literal polynomial spans, not unproved semantic implications. Initials retain their product axioms. Zero coefficients, absent pivots, duplicate selectors and empty bases are allowed. Both premise selectors are essential, as the negative controls demonstrate. Original input degree \(p-1\) is charged before any reduction; no auxiliary names or omitted defining equations are introduced. The remaining lower-bound obligation is untouched by simply observing that this degree is constant.

Contribution and process. This cycle discharges the forward syntactic transfer into a precisely restricted nonlinear source; it does not discharge source exclusion. That makes the next mathematical test concrete. Reusing the earlier disequality ledger avoided redundant rule development, and no framework change is warranted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 26.23 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 19.39 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 48.34 s
Computation design and coding	20.31 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	50.31 s
Individually measured computation	0.24 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.65 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Full-field selector zero sets need not shrink the graph weight space

Status: working obstruction to one proposed restriction map, not to the selector compiler or to Boolean-domain normalization. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Full-field selector zero sets need not shrink the graph weight space”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-selector-kernel-obstruction.

Test. The affine exclusion proof selects a common weight from kernels of restrictions to high-rank zero flats. Can the same step use the full-field common-zero set of many independent power selectors instead? The required implication is a small image of the actual graph-separated weight space, not merely a small geometric zero set. Stop if even one allowed selector tuple has injective restriction on that weight space.

A maximal-rank tuple with no multilinear restriction kernel

Fix an odd prime \(p\), old coordinates \(Y_1,\ldots,Y_s\), and the legal selector inputs \(g_i=1-Y_i^{p-1}\). Their underlying affine forms have rank \(s\), and the \(g_i\) are linearly independent ordinary polynomials. Their full-field common-zero set is \((\mathbb F_p^\times)^s\). Restriction to this set is injective on the whole space of multilinear polynomials, hence on every graph weight space spanned by squarefree matching monomials.

Proof. Choose distinct nonzero \(a,b\in\mathbb F_p\). A multilinear polynomial vanishing on \(\{a,b\}^s\) is zero. Induct on \(s\): write it as \(A(Y_1,\ldots,Y_{s-1})+Y_sB(Y_1,\ldots,Y_{s-1})\). Evaluating at \(a,b\) and subtracting gives \((a-b)B=0\) on the smaller grid, so the induction hypothesis gives \(B=0\) and then \(A=0\). The base case is constant polynomials. Since the two-point grid lies in the common-zero set, injectivity follows. In particular no nonzero graph weight can lie in the ordinary ideal generated by these selectors: membership would force vanishing on that set. Linear independence of the inputs follows by comparing the distinct monomials \(Y_i^{p-1}\). This proves the assertion.

The failure already occurs for \(p=3\) and a single accuracy-one block. An arbitrary equation clause listing the coordinate equations supplies precisely this kind of selector tuple, so the compiler does not prohibit it. This is a countercontrol to a universal normalization argument for its source class, not an assertion that a hard PHP refutation necessarily contains this line.

Why this does not refute the Boolean route

On the old Boolean cube, \(g_i\) equals \(1-Y_i\). Their common-zero set there is just the all-one assignment. For positive degree, a space spanned by degree-\(k\) matching monomials restricts to constants on that point and has image dimension at most one. For \(p=3\), the identity is explicitly \(g_i-(1-Y_i)=-(Y_i^2-Y_i)\); for general \(p\), the difference is a Boolean-ideal consequence through degree \(p-1\). Thus the full-field injectivity and the Boolean-domain collapse are compatible. The normalization must preserve Boolean relations rather than demand literal ideal membership in the selector ideal alone.

This control is not a proof that every selector tuple has a large affine part after Boolean reduction. The existing two-bit control gives \(1-(x+y)^{p-1}=(1-x)(1-y)\) on Boolean inputs for odd \(p\), whose quadratic term does not vanish. Coordinate selectors are therefore a falsification control, not a general solution.

Comparison with available nonlinear machinery

The binary quadratic rank-or-leading-pairs criterion retains the actual input span modulo Boolean equations and separates its affine part. Its high case additionally requires disjoint squarefree leading pairs and its dimension budget uses the compact binary cube-volume multiplier space. Its proof cannot simply be applied to a ternary graph-PHP weight space, or to arbitrary odd-prime affine coordinate changes, which need not preserve the Boolean cube. The later binary cubic endpoint is likewise not an all-prime theorem.

Outcome and next test. The full-field restriction variant is refuted, while the actual lower-bound implication remains open. Next examine the Boolean-reduced span of ternary selector inputs: separate its affine part and determine whether the remaining quadratic span admits an affordable common-weight map on the graph base. Check both coordinate selectors and selectors of sums of two bits. A successful theorem must work for arbitrary compiled tuples and must budget image loss against the actual graph weight dimension; a binary cube estimate is not a substitute.

Significance and checks. This elementary interpolation argument is a route-specific negative result, with no novelty claim. It uses no computation or new imported theorem, and no lower bound is asserted. The self-contained proof checks both the full-field kernel and the Boolean-domain countercontrol.

Process assessment. Testing the proposed map on a maximal-rank coordinate tuple ruled it out before developing a general Hilbert-function estimate; the existing search and excerpt tools were sufficient.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 49.84 s
Marked reading and review windows	25.70 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 46.80 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	29.60 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.74 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Existing all-prime quadratic maps do not yet meet the graph weight budget

Status: parameter audit of inherited bounds. The raw estimates do not prove a common kernel; no impossibility of a better relative map is claimed. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Existing all-prime quadratic maps do not yet meet the graph weight budget”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-graph-image-budget.

General claim under test. Combine a Boolean-domain quadratic reduction with the graph-separated multiplier space to exclude the ternary selector source. The goal needs contraction of the actual graph weight space sufficient for polynomially many blocks, plus affordable original-degree certificates. Merely recognizing selectors as quadratics does not give this.

Recovered positive ingredient. The leading-pair reduction lemma works over every prime, provided the original Boolean-coordinate input span supplies disjoint squarefree leading pairs. Its kernel has ordinary membership certificates modulo old Booleanity. The all-prime application already combines it with a compact bit-PHP row-cube separator; it is not restricted to characteristic two. However, that application does not use our graph unary base. This distinction sharpens the previous cycle’s comparison with the binary quadratic and cubic endpoints.

Budget test. Write \(s=15(N+1)\). The current graph construction guarantees a degree-\(k\) separated space of dimension at least \(\tfrac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk\), in its stated range. The inherited raw leading-pair image estimate is \((s+1)e^{-Rk^2/s^2}\binom sk\), with \(R\le s/2\). Their ratio (image upper bound divided by available dimension lower bound) is

\[2(s+1)\exp\left(\left(\frac5N-\frac R{s^2}\right)k^2\right)>1,\]

because \(R/s^2\le1/(2s)<5/N\). Thus these two displayed bounds cannot certify even one image smaller than the guaranteed weight space; multiplying by the number of blocks only worsens the comparison. This holds even if disjoint leading pairs are supplied for free. It does not compare the actual image and actual weight dimensions, which may be substantially better. In particular, it is not a proof that no useful kernel exists.

Why the compact cube proof does not remove this loss automatically. The compact multiplier construction has nearly the full degree-\(k\) monomial dimension because it may choose disjoint label cubes for each target monomial from the full label set. Sparse graph rows are confined to their prescribed neighbors; that cube-choice proof does not supply the same freedom. Conversely, a direct unary-to-bit substitution turns cells into label indicators of logarithmic degree and must be charged in every original input and initial axiom. Neither conversion has been proved here to preserve the needed budget.

Route assessment and alternative. The local all-prime map is a useful existing tool, but the present composition lacks both a structure theorem for arbitrary selector spans and a compatible graph-relative dimension estimate. The numerical mismatch means that parameter tuning of these raw bounds is not the next task. The next test should count reduction images relative to the graph matching space, with old row/hole equations explicitly included, and distinguish genuinely new leading constraints from old zero monomials. Such a theorem remains unproved.

Checks and process. Read the exact graph bound, local reduction lemma, all-prime compact application and cube-volume proof, and compare their hypotheses and displayed inequalities. No computational or formal verification is claimed. This audit introduces no new structural claim; bounded dependency retrieval found a stronger all-prime ingredient and prevented an unnecessary field-generalization exercise.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	1 min 47.72 s
Marked reading and review windows	25.99 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 16.99 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4.74 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — A relative count removes the shared collision loss for genuinely new quadratic heads

Status: working relative counting and reduction lemma; graph separation density and selector-head structure remain unproved. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A relative count removes the shared collision loss for genuinely new quadratic heads”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-relative-head-count.

Obligation and test. The raw quadratic image bound failed against the graph weight guarantee. Test whether counting both spaces relative to the same row/hole collision graph removes that mismatch. Stop at a proved relative count with explicit polynomial-membership scope, not an automatic lower bound.

Prior-work correction. Further targeted search found that the preceding cycle’s parameter mismatch was already recorded more generally as the graph absolute-head budget obstruction. The preceding entry is an application/rediscovery of that result, not new mathematics. Its next-action warning is retained. The strong-graph relative window and complete-board old-target preservation were also inspected: neither supplies the graph density and degree range demanded below for free.

Relative independent-set count

Let \(G\) be a simple graph on \(s\) vertices of maximum degree \(\Delta\), and let \(H\) consist of \(R\) vertex-disjoint pairs that are not edges of \(G\). Write \(Z_t(J)\) for the number of independent \(t\)-sets of graph \(J\). Put \(D=\Delta+1\), and suppose

\[2\le k\le\frac{s}{8(D+1)}.\]

Then

\[\frac{Z_k(G+H)}{Z_k(G)}\le\left(1-\frac{k(k-1)}{2s^2}\right)^R\le\exp\left(-\frac{Rk(k-1)}{2s^2}\right).\tag{RH-relative}\]

All denominators are positive: the greedy extension count below constructs independent sets up to the stated size. This is an estimate relative to the original graph’s independent sets, not to \(\binom sk\).

Proof by successive pair exclusions

For any graph \(J\) of maximum degree at most \(D\), count extensions of independent \((t-1)\)-sets. Each has at least \(s-(t-1)(D+1)\) available vertices. Hence

\[tZ_t(J)\ge[s-(t-1)(D+1)]Z_{t-1}(J).\]

For a uniform independent \(t\)-set and any vertex \(v\), deletion of \(v\) shows that its inclusion probability is at most \(Z_{t-1}(J)/Z_t(J)\), and consequently at most \(t/[s-(t-1)(D+1)]\). For \(t=0\) the inclusion probability is zero.

Let \(u,v\) be a nonedge of \(J\), and set \(U=N_J[u]\cup N_J[v]\), so \(|U|\le2(D+1)\). A union bound using the preceding marginals shows that at least the fraction

\[1-\frac{2(D+1)(k-2)}{s-(k-3)(D+1)}\ge\frac12\]

of all independent \((k-2)\)-sets avoid \(U\); for \(k=2\) that fraction is one. The inequality follows from \(k(D+1)\le s/8\): the subtracted term is at most \(2/7\). Each avoiding set extends uniquely by \(u,v\). On the other hand, double deletion bounds

\[k(k-1)Z_k(J)\le s^2 Z_{k-2}(J).\]

Indeed every independent \(k\)-set has \(k(k-1)\) ordered deletions, while any remaining \((k-2)\)-set has at most \(s^2\) ordered extensions. Thus the uniform independent \(k\)-set contains both endpoints with probability at least \(k(k-1)/(2s^2)\).

Add the pairs of \(H\) one at a time. Each is still a nonedge when added, and every intermediate graph has maximum degree at most \(\Delta+1=D\), since \(H\) is a matching. Adding that edge removes at least the stated fraction of independent \(k\)-sets. Multiplying these bounds proves (RH-relative), and \(1-x\le e^{-x}\) gives its exponential form. No independence of the pair events was assumed.

Degree-filtered image consequence in the original Boolean coordinates

Suppose old polynomial axioms include \(x_i^2-x_i\) and \(x_ux_v\) for every edge \(uv\) of \(G\). Suppose a tuple of actual quadratic inputs supplies constant combinations with monic, squarefree, pairwise disjoint leading monomials corresponding to \(H\), under one degree-compatible monomial order; Boolean reductions of those combinations are allowed with their degree-two certificates. Deterministic division by these polynomials and the displayed old monomials gives a linear map through degree \(k\). Its normal monomials are independent sets of \(G+H\). As in the inherited reduction argument, no Gröbner-basis assertion is required.

The extension count above, now for \(G+H\), gives \(Z_{t-1}/Z_t\le1/7\) for \(1\le t\le k\) under our hypotheses. Therefore its image dimension is at most

\[\sum_{t=0}^kZ_t(G+H)\le2Z_k(G+H)\le2\exp\left(-\frac{Rk(k-1)}{2s^2}\right)Z_k(G).\tag{RH-image}\]

A kernel polynomial has a degree-\(k\) certificate in the actual input ideal plus the explicitly used old Boolean and collision axioms. Original input cofactors have degree at most \(k-2\). All rewrite steps lower the monomial order and do not increase total degree; replacing the chosen combinations by original inputs preserves this ceiling. This is a Boolean-domain relative image estimate over any field.

Exact connection and remaining gap

For graph PHP, take vertices to be nondistinguished cells and let \(G\) join cells in a common row or hole. Its edges are genuine old degree-two consequences in the functional graph base. Independent sets correspond to matching monomials. A candidate head already in \(G\) is not a new constraint and must not be counted in \(R\). If a separated homogeneous weight space \(W\) has \(\dim W\ge cZ_k(G)\), then \(M\) such reduction maps with common lower head count \(R\) have a nonzero common kernel provided

\[2M\exp\left(-\frac{Rk(k-1)}{2s^2}\right)<c.\]

This last implication is linear algebra: the combined image dimension is smaller than \(\dim W\). It assumes the stated density and head data. Neither has been established for every compiled selector family. The fixed distinguished alternatives used by the existing graph detector may impose extra conflicts that are not old zero monomials. They cannot be inserted into \(G\) as free reduction axioms. Nor can the displayed conditional kernel alone certify all weighted ENS images without the original-degree replay ledger.

Next obligation. Determine whether a graph-separated matching space has adequate density relative to this actual old collision graph in the range \(k\gg\sqrt N\), or exhibit a failure. Read the existing robust compatible-pair separation before trying to replace its distinguished alternatives. If a suitable density is obtained, arbitrary selector spans still need a structural alternative supplying genuine new heads or an affordable low-rank map.

Checks and process

Exact compiled counting controls use an empty graph on 64 vertices at \(k=4\) and a cycle on 96 vertices at \(k=3\), adding the antipodal matching. All subset counts and rational product-bound comparisons are in the saved check report. The largest enumeration has \(\binom{64}{4}=635376\) candidates; these fixed tests are not a large search. The negative control treats an existing edge as a new head: the ratio remains one, violating the proposed strict reduction, as it should. These finite counts do not verify graph-PHP separation or all asymptotic hypotheses.

Contribution. The relative image estimate removes the shared old-collision loss from one part of the proposed comparison. The full selector-source exclusion remains open, with two explicit obligations: a dense separated matching space and a structural alternative for the actual input spans. This is a reusable working counting lemma, not a lower bound or novelty certification.

Process assessment. Targeted search exposed the preceding cycle’s rediscovery; counting the genuine old relations, rather than tuning that old obstruction, produced a new relative estimate with a falsifying existing-edge control.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 3.00 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 3.10 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 25.34 s
Computation design and coding	0.15 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	26.04 s
Individually measured computation	0.14 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	8.23 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Extra detector cells cannot be hidden from the selector reduction

Status: working Boolean-domain obstruction to a support-only kernel shortcut; no refutation of graph-PHP hardness or of a base-aware normalization. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Extra detector cells cannot be hidden from the selector reduction”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-selector-reserve-obstruction.

General mechanism tested. Enlarge the row’s allowed choices to provide alternative labels outside the weight support, then count reduction images only on that support. The required implication is that a large separated weight space on the chosen cells still loses dimension under reductions by actual selector inputs, which may read all cells. We test that compatibility before proving a stronger detector-density theorem.

The complete-board sparse-support detector can choose alternatives outside the support of the polynomial being detected. The fixed-graph detector instead uses fixed distinguished neighbors and explicit compatibility. Giving rows a larger reserve may help label selection, but reserve variables remain old variables in actual proof clauses. They cannot be omitted from reduction-image accounting or fixed to constants without a justified source transfer.

A ternary family with disjoint support heads and surjective Boolean projection

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take disjoint triples of Boolean variables \((x_i,y_i,z_i)\), \(1\le i\le r\), and selector inputs

\[q_i=1-(x_i+y_i+z_i)^2.\]

Designate \(x_i,y_i\) as the weight-support variables and \(z_i\) as reserve variables. For every Boolean assignment to all support variables, choose

\[z_i=(1-x_i)(1-y_i).\]

Then \(x_i+y_i+z_i\) is one at \((x_i,y_i)=(0,0),(0,1),(1,0)\), and two at \((1,1)\). In every case it is nonzero in \(\mathbb F_3\), so every \(q_i\) vanishes. Thus the Boolean common-zero set of the whole tuple projects onto the full support cube.

Consequence and proof. No nonzero multilinear polynomial solely in the \(x_i,y_i\) can belong to the ideal generated by these selectors and all old Boolean equations. Such membership would force it to vanish on every lifted Boolean assignment, hence on every support assignment. The usual induction on Boolean coordinates then says that the multilinear polynomial is zero. This rules out a support-only ideal kernel at every degree, without relying on a dimension approximation.

Nevertheless the Boolean representative of each selector is

\[\overline q_i=1-x_i-y_i-z_i+x_iy_i+x_iz_i+y_iz_i.\]

The difference from \(q_i\) is a combination of the three Boolean equations through degree two. Under a degree-lexicographic order placing all support variables before all reserve variables, its leading monomial is \(x_iy_i\). These \(r\) heads are squarefree, pairwise disjoint, and entirely in the designated support. Therefore those properties alone do not imply contraction when the ambient dimension is counted using only support coordinates. The actual reduction may replace a support monomial by terms containing reserve coordinates.

This does not contradict the relative counting lemma. That lemma counts normal monomials in the whole ambient variable set of its reduction. With all \(3r\) variables included its stated dimension bound remains the applicable one; replacing that ambient set by \(2r\) variables would be an additional false assertion. The example is already a legal selector tuple for an equation clause, without extra names or nonstandard inputs.

Scope, route assessment and next direction

The obstruction uses only the Boolean-domain ideal. It does not say that a polynomial cannot enter the ideal after additional graph-PHP equations are used, nor that graph-PHP has a short refutation. It also does not disprove a detector construction with extra cells. It shows that such a detector alone cannot provide a universal support-only selector kernel through the available domain reduction.

The current dimension-count line has produced a useful conditional relative estimate, but neither of its decisive hypotheses is automatic: the separated space and the reduction must use compatible ambient coordinates, and arbitrary selectors still need structural treatment. Two proposed shortcuts have failed on explicit allowed tuples: full-field restriction and hidden reserve coordinates. It is therefore premature to refine a support-density theorem while leaving this compatibility problem untouched.

Next test. Re-express the actual selectors as genuine rank-one affine-block values and inspect the existing pure-reader and retained-product tools. This is an alternative to the failing support-only comparison, not an assumed new solution: any naming must retain complete companions and coefficient domains, and the source equivalence must have a constant original-degree certificate. If the existing tools demand a global sublinear number of distinct forms or another unproved condition, record that exact condition and test it against arbitrary compiled clauses before developing the approach.

Checks and significance. The four possible support-bit pairs give the displayed explicit lifting; multilinear interpolation proves the all-\(r\) conclusion. No numerical or Lean verification was performed. This is a route-specific source-compatibility obstruction, with no novelty claim or general Res(Lin) lower-bound consequence.

Process assessment. Checking a single legal selector family prevented a potentially lengthy detector-density construction whose reserve-variable costs would not satisfy the actual compiler interface.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 47.02 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 42.83 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 35.09 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	21.47 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.62 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Equation selectors have a constant-degree bridge to genuine rank-one products

Status: working source bridge with no degree increase at the recorded compiler ceiling; existing reader exclusions still have unmet inventory/rank hypotheses. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Equation selectors have a constant-degree bridge to genuine rank-one products”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-rank-one-selector-bridge.

Test and endpoint. Replace the nonlinear selector representation by complete rank-one affine bottoms, without discarding definitions or changing the proof target, and check whether existing retained-product tools close the gap. Stop at an exact source bridge and a justified applicability verdict, rather than treating a renamed selector as an affine input.

Rank-one product equality and source transfer

Fix an odd prime \(p\), old Boolean variables, an affine form \(L\), and \(t=1-L^{p-1}\). Introduce one fresh accuracy-one complete affine block with coefficient \(r\), product \(P=1-rL\), companion \(E=LP\), and coefficient equation \(r^p-r\). Then \(P-t\) has an ordinary PC (indeed NS) derivation through degree \(p+1\), using the companion and old Booleanity.

Proof. The exact polynomial identity is

\[P-t=L^{p-2}E-r(L-L^p).\tag{RS-equality}\]

The affine polynomial \(L^p-L\) has a Boolean-ideal certificate through degree \(p\): Frobenius expresses it as a constant linear combination of \(x_i^p-x_i\), and \(x^p-x=(x^2-x)\sum_{j=0}^{p-2}x^j\). Both terms of (RS-equality) fit degree \(p+1\). No unproved semantic equivalence, coefficient restriction or extra defining axiom is used. The coefficient field equation remains in the complete source, even though this identity does not use it.

Now take any complete accuracy-one parent block on selectors \(t_1,\ldots,t_b\), with coefficients \(s_i\), product \(A=1-\sum_i s_it_i\), companions \(t_iA\), and fields \(s_i^p-s_i\). Replace it by a parent reading the genuine products \(P_i\) of fresh rank-one affine bottoms, with product \(Q=1-\sum_i s_iP_i\) and companions \(P_iQ\); keep every bottom companion and field. Sharing a bottom for repeated identical \(L_i\) is optional, and one may instead keep private copies.

The difference \(A-Q=\sum_i s_i(P_i-t_i)\) has a certificate through \(p+2\). For each original parent companion, use

\[t_iA=P_iQ+(t_i-P_i)Q+t_i(A-Q).\tag{RS-parent}\]

The new parent product has ordinary degree at most three, and its companions have degree at most five. The second term in (RS-parent) has a certificate through \(p+4\); the third through \(2p+1\). Since \(p\ge3\), the common ceiling is \(2p+1\). Consequently every degree-\(D\) PC refutation of the original selector source replays over this complete two-level source through \(\max(D,2p+1)\). Derive each replaced axiom once, then replay the original proof in its unchanged old and parent-coefficient variables; arbitrary coefficient use is allowed and no proof-height factor is introduced.

For the standard clause compiler, \(D\ge4p-1\), so there is no increase at all. The number of bottom blocks is at most the original selector occurrence inventory, itself at most \(S\binom{v+p-1}{p-1}\), and there are at most \(S\) parents. All parent inputs are individual positive whole products, not old-affine polynomials. Original expanded degrees are bottom product two/companion three and parent product three/companion five, plus field degree \(p\); constant/zero cases can be cleaned without larger cost.

Applicability audit of the existing reader tools

This is a genuine special case of the pure-reader source format: above the affine bottoms, inputs read only whole products. But that theorem charges the total number \(a\) of distinct proper nonzero bottom affine spans, with required old ceiling \(B=TD+(p-1)a\), where \(T=\max(1,p-2)\) at unit accuracy, and requires \(N\ge2B-1\). The compiler supplies a polynomial occurrence bound, not a sublinear bound on \(a\). The theorem therefore does not exclude every compiled source.

This is a real unsupported hypothesis, not an automatically small parameter: clauses may contain many distinct coordinate equations, already providing linearly many distinct one-dimensional spans in the number of variables. For graph PHP the variable count is linear in \(N\), and there is no proved coefficient small enough for the displayed additive budget, let alone a uniform sublinear bound. Adding or removing redundant bottom occurrences does not merge distinct affine spans.

The complement-exposed parent theorem also does not apply just because these are products. Our parent inputs are \(P_i\), whereas that theorem requires the actual parent span to expose \(P_i-1\), together with its other stated forms. With distinct proper private bottoms, the positive products need not span these complements. Evaluating all bottom coefficients at zero makes every \(P_i\) equal one; a purported identity expressing a constant through their span must also respect the independent nonconstant coefficient monomials. Comparing those monomials forces each coefficient to zero, so no nonzero constant lies in that span. Thus subtraction of one is not free. This is the already recorded positive-product boundary in the compiler-coverage audit, not a new obstruction theorem.

Finally, the affine-core semantic map measures the actual nonlinear quotient after bottom values are substituted. Substitution here gives exactly our original selectors. Its extra rank hypothesis must still be proved, rather than inferred from each bottom having rank one.

Outcome, review and next obligation

The source bridge is a useful explicit connection to existing retained-product machinery, but it does not solve the lower bound: the known pure-reader estimate depends on too many distinct bottom types, and the complement-exposed hypothesis is not guaranteed. This recovers the same hard positive-product family in a complete source, with no hidden field, definition or degree cost.

Focused review. Checked (RS-equality) as a literal polynomial identity, included every coefficient field, charged multiplication by the actual cubic parent product, and replayed original selector companions instead of pretending the substitution is a homomorphism on old variables. The argument covers private copies and shared identical forms. No numerical experiment, independent proof review or Lean formalization is claimed.

Next test. Inspect the existing span-stratum and common-functional tools specifically for parents listing rank-one positive products. Determine whether their consistency conditions can be established without an additive charge for every distinct affine form. A candidate must handle polynomially many arbitrary forms and retain the same low-degree source; a result requiring a bounded number of forms would not discharge this obligation.

Process assessment. The exact companion identity turns naming into a checkable constant-degree bridge; immediate hypothesis comparison prevents mistaking the existing reader theorem for an unrestricted solution.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 21.45 s
Marked reading and review windows	52.92 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 59.98 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	20.93 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.63 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Rank-one bottoms do not discharge the retained-parent consistency conditions

Status: inherited-tool audit; the exact positive-product parent extension remains unproved. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Rank-one bottoms do not discharge the retained-parent consistency conditions”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-reader-consistency-audit.

General implication tested. The rank-one source bridge is useful only if complete positive-product parents can be added without an unaffordable global type count. Test the existing span-stratum construction and coherent flat-conditionals theorem against arbitrary polynomial-inventory compiled families. Stop at their actual hypotheses; do not treat a sufficient special case as the full equation-clause target.

Span enumeration still sees collective complexity

The span-stratum theorem counts every distinct proper span generated by bottom subcollections through rank \(R\), plus boundary tests. If the bottom affine forms \(L_1,\ldots,L_a\) are independent and homogeneous, then their one-dimensional spans generate exactly \(\sum_{j=0}^{\min(R,a)}\binom aj\) distinct spans through rank \(R\). Different index subsets have different spans by independence. This is the rank-one instance of the direct-sum counting mechanism behind the existing cutoff obstruction; individual rank one does not make the count polynomial for a growing cutoff.

For a parent listing all corresponding products, the theorem’s displayed sufficient inventory includes this count. In its notation \(k=\lceil\sqrt{s\ln(16(\mathcal M+1))/A_0}\rceil\) and \(R\ge(4A_0+1)k\). When \(1\le R\le a/2\), the elementary bound \(\ln\binom aR\ge R\ln(a/R)\) makes the cutoff requirement grow with the low-span count itself. It cannot be replaced by the original number of bottom blocks. Distinct reference tuples may be easy or redundant in particular sources, but exploiting that would be an additional argument, not an application of the displayed bound.

The affine-core map likewise measures the span after substituting all bottom indicators, not their individual ranks. For example the homogeneous forms \(x_i+y_i\) on disjoint bit pairs are independent rank-one forms, while over \(\mathbb F_3\) their selectors are the independent nonlinear functions \((1-x_i)(1-y_i)\). Their distinct quadratic monomials prevent a nonzero combination from being affine on the full Boolean cube. Thus an arbitrary parent may retain a growing nonlinear quotient even though every bottom has rank one. This is a scope control, not a claim that this particular family is hard by every other method.

Coherent flat conditionals stop before fresh parent moments

The old-target preservation corollary supplies one retained annihilator and compatible components \(\mu_A(q)=\lambda(\chi_Aq)\) for a finite family of live affine flats within its degree cutoff. Its proof explicitly limits intersections by their selector-degree costs. It does not assign the fresh parent coefficient moments. In our source, a parent’s all-zero input event is simultaneous nonvanishing of its bottom affine forms, rather than a single affine flat. Expanding that event uses an arrangement of intersections; its degree/count costs cannot be discarded.

The earlier singleton-consistency analysis demonstrates the relevant logical boundary: compatible low prescriptions extend only if their prescribed value vanishes on every linear dependence in the actual domain. Its displayed collision residual and parameter window belong to that older binary setting and are not imported as a ternary proof. They provide a template for extracting the correct residual condition here, not an assertion that it vanishes.

Verdict and next action

The current line has discharged syntactic source construction, not low-degree source exclusion. Existing unconditional-looking shortcuts all rely on extra conditions: polynomial low-span enumeration, affordable global type count, compatible ambient image dimensions, or a fresh coefficient-moment extension. None has been verified for the full compiled family. The next task must address the last condition directly for our exact accuracy-one parent and rank-one bottoms, with both original degree and old PHP relations retained. It should end with an actual consistency proof or a specific residual witness, not another equivalent formulation labeled as a solution.

Checks and process. Read the exact source, inventory, cutoff and coherence statements, plus the earlier consistency residual. No new computation or formalization was performed. The audit prevents repeated attempts to use already recorded sufficient conditions without their hypotheses; no framework change is warranted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 59.57 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 22.50 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 32.23 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4.84 s

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21 September 2026 — All quadratic parents admit a joint NS lift at their first active degree

Status: working degree-five joint NS extension, with a sharp retained-cutoff control at p=3. It is not an augmented-PC annihilator or the compiler-degree endpoint. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “All quadratic parents admit a joint NS lift at their first active degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-first-active-parent-lift.

Concrete test. At the first degree where genuine accuracy-one quadratic-parent companions are active, determine whether arbitrary parent count already causes incompatible moment prescriptions. Stop with an actual joint extension or a residual counterexample. This tests the initial consistency mechanism, not the full lower-bound target.

Statement

Fix an odd prime \(p\). Let \(\Gamma\subseteq\mathbb F_p[y]\) be a retained system whose variables have field equations, or certificates for them through degree \(p\). Let \(\lambda:\mathbb F_p[y]_{\le B}\to\mathbb F_p\) be normalized and annihilate the original degree-\(B\) NS consequence space \(\mathcal I_B(\Gamma)\), where \(B=\max(5,2p)\).

Add any finite collection of complete accuracy-one parents, with private coefficient variables, no dependencies among parents, and nonzero inputs \(g_{a,i}(y)\) of actual ordinary degree exactly two. Each parent has

\[Q_a=1-\sum_j s_{a,j}g_{a,j},\qquad g_{a,i}Q_a,\qquad s_{a,j}^p-s_{a,j}.\]

There is a normalized ordinary degree-five NS functional for the entire augmented system agreeing with \(\lambda\) on all retained polynomials through degree five. There is no arity or parent-count bound. The exact-degree hypothesis makes every companion’s original degree five; lower-degree inputs would activate additional multiplier constraints and are outside this statement.

The only active parent equations

Put \(V=\mathbb F_p[y]_{\le4}/\mathcal I_4(\Gamma)\). For a fixed parent, seek functionals \(\mu_j\in V^*\) such that

\[\sum_j\mu_j(g_i g_j)=\lambda(g_i)\quad\text{for every }i.\tag{FA-system}\]

These are the companion equations at degree five: their legal cofactor is only a scalar. We now prove consistency, rather than postulating it.

For a vector \((c_i)_i\in\mathbb F_p^b\), put \(G=\sum_i c_i g_i\). A linear dependence among the left-hand coefficient rows of (FA-system) means precisely

\[Gg_j\in\mathcal I_4(\Gamma)\quad\text{for every }j.\]

Hence \(G^2=\sum_jc_jGg_j\in\mathcal I_4(\Gamma)\). Multiplying its certificate by \(G^{p-2}\) puts \(G^p\) in \(\mathcal I_{2p}(\Gamma)\). Since \(\deg G\le2\), Frobenius and telescoping monomials give \(G^p-G\in\mathcal I_{2p}(\Gamma)\) from the retained field equations. Thus \(G\in\mathcal I_B(\Gamma)\), so \(\sum_i c_i\lambda(g_i)=\lambda(G)=0\). Every coefficient-row dependence therefore also annihilates the prescribed right side. Finite-dimensional linear algebra supplies the \(\mu_j\). They may be chosen over \(\mathbb F_p\); no positivity or prescribed mixed moments are needed.

A single functional on all fresh variables

Reduce fresh coefficient monomials by \(s^p=s\), which never increases degree and never removes the support of a positive exponent. On monomials of total degree at most five, define \(\Lambda\) as follows: with no fresh factor, use \(\lambda\); with canonical fresh monomial exactly \(s_{a,j}\), use \(\mu_{a,j}\) on the retained factor; with every other nonempty canonical fresh monomial, use zero. Extend linearly. The retained argument of \(\mu_{a,j}\) has degree at most four, so it is in its domain. The construction uses one solved system (FA-system) per parent.

Fresh field equations and their legal multiples vanish by canonical reduction. A retained generator multiple has either the empty component, annihilated by \(\lambda\), a single-fresh component whose retained degree is at most four, annihilated by \(\mu_{a,j}\), or a zero component. Every parent companion is annihilated by (FA-system). There are no nonconstant companion multipliers at degree five, hence no omitted cross-parent equations. Finally \(\Lambda(1)=\lambda(1)=1\), and all retained moments through five are preserved. This proves the joint NS extension.

Why the retained cutoff cannot simply be five

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take four Boolean retained variables \(x,y,u,v\), put \(G=xy+uv\), and let \(\Gamma\) consist of Booleanity and the original degree-four axiom \(G^2\). Then \(G\notin\mathcal I_5(\Gamma)\). Indeed, a degree-five certificate would give \(G=AG^2\) on the Boolean cube for an affine polynomial \(A\). Setting \(x=y=1\) and varying \((u,v)\) through \((0,0),(1,0),(0,1)\) forces the \(u,v\) coefficients of \(A\) to zero. Setting \(u=v=1\) and varying \((x,y)\) through the same three pairs forces the other two coefficients to zero and the constant to one. At all four bits equal to one, however, \(G=2\), \(G^2=1\), so \(A=1\) is impossible.

The exact finite dual witness supplies point weights giving \(\lambda(1)=\lambda(G)=1\), while annihilating \(G^2\) and its four variable multiples. Since Boolean equations vanish pointwise, this is an old degree-five NS functional. Adding a single quadratic-input parent with companion \(G-rG^2\) derives \(G\) through five, by adding \(rG^2\). That old functional cannot extend. Conversely \(G\in\mathcal I_6(\Gamma)\) by the Frobenius argument above. Thus the extra retained degree in the ternary theorem is substantive. This is a counterexample to preserving every old degree-five functional, not to existence of some augmented functional over this satisfiable example.

Connection to the actual source and remaining limits

Every proper rank-one bottom product \(P=1-rL\) in the retained representation has actual degree two. After constant/zero cleanup, parents listing these products fit the theorem. An appropriate retained affine-layer annihilator through \(2p\) can therefore be extended jointly to degree-five NS, without paying for every bottom type. This is stronger at that cutoff than separately choosing one-parent slices.

The proof does not say that \(\Lambda\) annihilates the augmented PC closure. An NS annihilator need not survive arbitrary low-degree PC reuse. It also does not reach the compiler ceiling \(\max(4p-1,p+(p-1)w_*)\), which is larger than five. At degree six, old-variable and fresh-coefficient multiples of companions become active; moments involving two parents can no longer all be assigned zero independently. The next required test is whether the dependence-annihilation argument controls those coupled equations and PC reuse, or produces a specific residual obstruction.

Checks and contribution. The general proof treats every legal degree-five original axiom multiple and all fresh field reductions. The finite control solves a 7-by-16 system over \(\mathbb F_3\) and checks all 243 affine cofactors, with full point weights retained. It does not verify the asymptotic PHP endpoint. This is a new working initial-window extension, not a claim that the full reader problem is solved.

Process assessment. Extracting the actual first-active-degree dependence kernel yielded a consistency proof and a falsifying cutoff control, rather than another abstract restatement of linear extension.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 27.30 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 11.93 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 20.95 s
Computation design and coding	0.11 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	46.33 s
Individually measured computation	0.25 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.73 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Prime-field moment coordinates and the genuinely coupled degree-six system

Status: working all-prime rectangular pairing lemma and exact coupled NS equations. Joint degree-six feasibility and augmented PC exclusion remain open. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Prime-field moment coordinates and the genuinely coupled degree-six system”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-prime-pairing-and-degree-six.

Test. Determine what changes at degree six for the actual quadratic-input parents, and whether the characteristic-two moment-coordinate construction can be used legitimately over odd primes. The required endpoint is a consistent coupled extension with an affordable retained degree, not merely coordinates for an unsolved system.

Why the previous zero mixed components no longer work

For a proper rank-one bottom, \(P=1-rL\) and \(E=LP\) satisfy \(P^2-P=-rE\), through degree four. This cheap idempotence is available in the actual retained source. Nevertheless, consider two upper singleton parents on this same \(P\), with fresh coefficients \(s,t\). Their companions are \(P-sP^2\) and \(P-tP^2\), each of original degree five. If the retained moment of \(P\) is nonzero, the first-window equations and idempotence force \(\Lambda(sP)=\Lambda(tP)=\Lambda(P)\). At degree six the legal multiple \(t(P-sP^2)\) then forces \(\Lambda(stP^2)=\Lambda(P)\ne0\). Thus assigning all two-parent components zero cannot extend the previous construction unchanged.

This is a control on the prescription, not an obstruction to the source: setting \(s=t=1\) maps both companions to the old consequence \(P-P^2\). Identical singleton parents are easy and should be cleaned, not treated as a hard instance. The example only demonstrates that the mixed equations are real.

A retained pairing over every prime

Let \(\Gamma\) be a retained system over \(\mathbb F_p\), with field equations for all variables or certificates for them through degree \(p\). Write \(C_B=\mathcal C_B(\Gamma)\), assume \(1\notin C_B\), and let \(t\ge1\), \(pt\le B\). For \(u\le B\) put \(Q_u=\mathcal P_{\le u}/(C_B\cap\mathcal P_{\le u})\), a vector quotient, not an asserted algebra.

Working lemma. Over some finite extension \(K/\mathbb F_p\), one normalized \(\lambda\in\operatorname{Ann}(C_B)\) makes the pairing

\[Q_t\times Q_{(p-1)t}\longrightarrow K,\qquad ([f],[g])\longmapsto\lambda(fg)\]

nondegenerate in the first argument. Consequently every \(K\)-linear functional on \(Q_t\otimes K\) has a density represented by a polynomial of degree at most \((p-1)t\). The density need not be unique. For finitely many requested cutoffs, one \(\lambda\) works simultaneously; a field with more than the sum of their dimensions \(\dim Q_t\) suffices. When \(p=2\), the rectangular pairing becomes the square nonsingular pairing of the earlier binary lemma.

Proof using Frobenius and formal differentiation

The pairing is well defined: a completed PC consequence of degree at most \(t\) can be multiplied by a polynomial of degree at most \((p-1)t\) through the same ceiling \(B\), since their product degree is at most \(pt\). The same argument applies if the second factor is the consequence. This uses actual PC reuse, not closure of a truncated NS space.

Choose an \(\mathbb F_p\)-basis \(e_0=1,e_1,\ldots,e_{d-1}\) of \(Q_t\), with representatives through degree \(t\). Their values may be prescribed freely, subject to \(\lambda(1)=1\), and extended to an annihilator of \(C_B\). Choose such an affine family \(\lambda_z\) with \(\lambda_z(e_0)=1\) and \(\lambda_z(e_i)=z_i\) for \(i>0\). Work temporarily over the rational-function field \(\mathbb F_p(z_1,\ldots,z_{d-1})\).

If the pairing matrix did not have full row rank over this field, there would be a nonzero left-kernel vector, represented by \(a=\sum_i c_i(z)e_i\). Its pairing with every polynomial through \((p-1)t\) would vanish, including with \(a^{p-1}\). Each \(e_i\) is defined over \(\mathbb F_p\), so field reduction gives \(e_i^p-e_i\in C_B\) through degree \(pt\). Therefore

\[0=\lambda_z(a^p)=c_0(z)^p+\sum_{i=1}^{d-1}c_i(z)^p z_i.\]

Differentiate this rational-function identity with respect to \(z_j\). In characteristic \(p\), the derivative of every rational function’s \(p\)-th power is zero. The result is \(c_j(z)^p=0\), hence \(c_j=0\), for every \(j>0\). The original identity then gives \(c_0=0\), contradicting the kernel vector. If \(d=1\), the identity alone gives the contradiction. Thus some maximal minor is a nonzero polynomial of degree at most \(d\), because every matrix entry is affine in the functional parameters.

For several cutoffs, use the full affine space of normalized annihilators. For each cutoff at least one maximal minor is a nonzero polynomial on that space, as shown by the preceding affine subfamily argument. Their product is nonzero and has degree at most the sum of the \(d\)'s. A finite extension field larger than that degree has a specialization where it is nonzero. At that specialization the dual map from \(Q_{(p-1)t}\) onto \(Q_t^*\) is surjective, proving the density assertion. The extension changes functional values only; all source variables still have their original \(\mathbb F_p\) domains.

The degree-six parent equations and their coordinates

Let \(g_{a,i}\) be the actual degree-two inputs of each accuracy-one parent. An ordinary degree-six NS functional has an old component \(\lambda_0\) through degree six, single-fresh components \(\mu_{a,j}\) through five, and symmetric double-fresh components \(\nu_{a,j;b,l}\) through four. The latter includes repeated positions. At odd primes, \(s^2\) is not reduced to \(s\). The full active parent constraints are

\[\lambda_0(u g_{a,i})=\sum_j\mu_{a,j}(u g_{a,i}g_{a,j})\qquad(\deg u\le1),\]

\[\mu_{b,l}(g_{a,i})=\sum_j\nu_{b,l;a,j}(g_{a,i}g_{a,j})\qquad\text{for all }a,i,b,l.\]

Each component must also annihilate the legal retained axiom multiples at its cutoff. These equations exhaust the parent multipliers, since the original companion degree is five. Remaining fresh moments can be specified with consistent reduction by \(s^p=s\); no Boolean reduction is imposed on odd-prime coefficients.

For the stronger ansatz that each component annihilates the corresponding intersection with retained \(C_B\), the new pairing lemma supplies exact coordinates when \(B\ge6p\). Choose the common generic \(\lambda\) and express \(\lambda_0,\mu,\nu\) by density polynomials of degrees at most \(6(p-1),5(p-1),4(p-1)\), respectively. All pairings fit \(B\). The old component is an unknown normalized density, not automatically the constant one. This gives a finite coupled linear system in valid coordinates. It does not prove that the system has a solution.

Outcome and focused review

The initial extension attempt did not settle degree six. It identified a compulsory mixed component even for easy duplicate parents, and removed a characteristic-two restriction from the moment-coordinate tool with explicit degree cost. The general required implication remains joint feasibility plus control of augmented PC reuse at the actual compiler ceiling. Neither idempotence nor the existence of a pairing supplies that implication.

The pairing proof was checked for well-definedness on vector quotients, the normalized constant direction, rational-function coefficients, field reduction through \(pt\), and finite specialization. In particular, the Frobenius step uses \(\lambda_z(e_i^p)=\lambda_z(e_i)\), not the false identity \(\lambda_z(a^p)=\lambda_z(a)^p\) for extension-valued functionals. No numerical or Lean verification was performed.

Next test. Analyze the actual coupled coefficient-row dependencies using these coordinates, retaining the original PC/NS distinction. A solution must handle arbitrary parent arity and sharing; independently solving the displayed first equations is insufficient. Check any proposed cancellation against the duplicate-parent control and the existing mixed-interface counterexamples before extending the degree window.

Process assessment. The direct equation audit prevented reuse of the zero-mixed prescription; the Frobenius differentiation proof supplies the needed prime-field coordinates without silently importing the binary determinant argument.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 15.11 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 50.50 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 51.21 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	25.43 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.98 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Generic NS lifting already fails inside the rank-one positive-reader format

Status: working adaptation of the recorded pebbling control, with a degree-nine NS certificate. It is not a PHP counterexample; retained PC degree is only three. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Generic NS lifting already fails inside the rank-one positive-reader format”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-reader-NS-batching-control.

Line review and test. The degree-five lift and degree-six equations concern ordinary NS moments. Before refining this into a generic lift at the actual compiler window, test the claim that high retained NS degree alone controls polynomially many positive-product parents. The recorded pebbling prefix is the relevant obstruction, but it must be converted to our exact rank-one-bottom format before drawing that conclusion.

The complete source and its degree-nine refutation

Take a topologically ordered DAG on \(n\) vertices with indegree at most two and sink \(n\). Put \(b_i=1-x_i\), and use the old pebbling base

\[\mathcal F_G=\{b_i\prod_{j\in\operatorname{pred}(i)}x_j:i\le n\}\cup\{x_n\}\cup\{x_i^2-x_i:i\le n\}.\]

Over any prime field, add one complete rank-one affine bottom for each coordinate \(x_i\), with fresh \(r_i\), product \(P_i=1-r_ix_i\), companion \(F_i=x_iP_i\), and field equation \(r_i^p-r_i\). Denote this retained system by \(\Gamma_0\).

For every prefix \([k]\), add a complete accuracy-one parent on the individual positive products \(P_1,\ldots,P_k\), with fresh coefficients \(s_{k,j}\), product \(Q_k=1-\sum_{j\le k}s_{k,j}P_j\), companions \(P_iQ_k\) and fields \(s_{k,j}^p-s_{k,j}\). There are \(n\) bottoms and \(n\) parents, and \(n(n+1)/2\) parent companions. Bottom inputs have degree one; proper parent inputs have actual degree two, products three and companions five. Sharing is explicit: the same bottom products occur in several parents.

Working consequence. This complete source has an ordinary NS refutation through degree nine. Meanwhile \(\Gamma_0\) has exactly the same minimum NS refutation degree as \(\mathcal F_G\). On the imported high-pebbling family, that retained degree grows as recorded, so polynomial inventory and this exact source grammar do not yield a generic NS-only lifting theorem up to degree nine.

Proof with original-degree charges

Let \(A_k=1-\sum_{j\le k}s_{k,j}b_j\) be the products in the historical accuracy-one prefix certificate. That certificate refutes the old pebbling base augmented by companions \(b_iA_k\) through degree six. Each such original companion has degree three, hence every cofactor attached to it has degree at most three.

Write \(B_i=P_i-b_i\). The exact old/bottom certificate is

\[B_i=F_i+r_i(x_i^2-x_i),\]

through degree three. Also \(A_k-Q_k=\sum_{j\le k}s_{k,j}B_j\). Thus every original prefix companion is obtained from the new source by

\[b_iA_k=P_iQ_k-B_iQ_k+b_i\sum_{j\le k}s_{k,j}B_j.\]

After substituting the displayed certificate for each \(B_j\), the first term is a new parent axiom of degree five. The two pieces of \(B_iQ_k\) have ordinary degree at most six: \(F_i\) costs three and \(Q_k\) costs three, or \(r_i\) costs one, Booleanity two and \(Q_k\) three. The last sum costs at most five. Hence \(b_iA_k\) has an ordinary NS certificate through six. Substituting these certificates in the historical degree-six identity adds at most its degree-three companion cofactor, for a final ceiling nine. Old-generator terms retain their original ceiling. This is explicit NS certificate substitution, not PC final-line reuse.

For retained hardness, specialize all \(r_i=1\). Each bottom companion becomes \(x_i(1-x_i)\), an old Boolean axiom up to sign; its field equation becomes zero. This specialization does not raise degree. Therefore any NS refutation of \(\Gamma_0\) gives an old NS refutation of the same degree. The reverse inequality holds because the old base is contained in \(\Gamma_0\).

The recorded imported pebbling family supplies unbounded, polynomially growing old NS degree. Its source is de Rezende–Meir–Nordström–Robere, arXiv:2001.02481v1, whose abstract confirms the field-independent reversible-pebbling/NS correspondence. The exact graph-family parameterization is reused from the existing import, not newly re-proved here.

Why retained PC closure is essential to the next argument

The old pebbling base already has a PC refutation through degree three, by topological reuse of predecessor lines. So does \(\Gamma_0\). This control does not refute a lift assuming nonrefutable retained PC closure, and it does not refute a PHP-specific theorem. The new pairing explicitly requires \(1\notin C_B\), which fails here.

The control does rule out continuing the degree-five NS theorem into a universal ordinary-moment lift at the full compiler ceiling solely by raising the retained NS cutoff by a fixed polynomial in degree and logarithmic inventory. At fixed output degree nine and polynomial source inventory, the historical family still has much larger retained NS degree. Even two consecutive upper blocks per certificate term suffice, as inherited from the prefix identity; sparse local interaction by itself is not a rescue.

Decision. The next cycle must keep retained PC saturation as a real hypothesis in the coupled degree-six system, and determine which coefficient-row dependencies it kills. If only NS annihilation is used, this explicit source defeats the proposed endpoint. The lower bound still needs either that PC-based consistency construction or additional PHP structure; polishing a generic NS recurrence cannot solve it.

Checks and process. Read the exact historical prefix identity and old-PC proof, verified each replacement term’s ordinary degree, and checked the retained specialization. No numerical or Lean test was needed for these literal identities. The primary-source abstract was checked for field scope; the existing imported graph lower bound remains an imported dependency. This stress test prevented extending the wrong hypothesis to the compiler window.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 0.47 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 23.38 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	27.78 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	1.64 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.67 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Retained PC hardness alone also fails for the complete reader format

Status: working application of the existing ordering construction to rank-one readers, with constant-degree augmented PC refutations. PHP-specific structure remains essential. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Retained PC hardness alone also fails for the complete reader format”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-PC-hard-reader-control.

Test. The pebbling reader defeated NS-only hypotheses but had easy retained PC. Test the stronger proposed endpoint on a retained-PC-hard base before further generic consistency work. The relevant older ordering construction already refutes a broad generic transfer; here we check its exact rank-one positive-product representation and constant PC ceiling.

Imported base and already recorded source

Galesi–Lauria, Section 3, Lemma 1 and Theorems 1–2, supplies graph-ordering systems of constant initial degree and old PC degree \(\Omega(n)\) on an infinite bounded-degree expander family. The variables are \(x_{ij}\), \(i<j\), and cyclic-triangle equations enforce a total order. For oriented literals \(t_{ij}+t_{ji}=1\), the no-local-minimum axiom is \(\prod_{j\in N(i)}t_{ij}\). The stated construction has maximum graph degree at most nine. The relevant sections were checked in the author PDF; the degree lower bound is imported, not re-proved here.

The existing balanced minimum construction is stronger than the earlier literature-only audit: it already gives a complete one-level affine ENS source and an ordinary NS refutation. At accuracy one its degree is \(D_{\rm ord}=\max(2H+6,\Delta+2)\), where \(H=\lceil\log_2 n\rceil\), with polynomial inventory. The generic-transfer obstruction is therefore prior work, not a new discovery in this entry.

Exact reader-format application

Every input in that source is a Boolean old literal \(g=1-t_{ij}\). For each distinct needed literal, add a complete rank-one affine bottom on \(L=1-g=t_{ij}\), with product \(P=1-rL\), companion \(F=LP\) and field equation \(r^p-r\). Replace every original accuracy-one block on its literals \(g_j\) by an accuracy-one parent on the individual positive products \(P_j\). Keep all bottom and parent companions and coefficient fields.

Working control. Over every fixed prime, the retained ordering base plus these bottoms still has PC refutation degree \(\Omega(n)\). Adding the positive-product parents gives an ordinary PC refutation through \(\max(8,\Delta+2)\), at most eleven for the imported graph family. It also gives an ordinary NS refutation through \(D_{\rm ord}+3=O(\log n)\). The inventories are polynomial. Thus the exact source grammar and high retained PC degree do not imply augmented PC hardness in general.

Proof and degree accounting

First, the existing balanced construction has a constant PC ceiling before this representation change. Its local comparison and pair identities have ordinary NS proofs through eight at accuracy one, hence PC proofs through eight. At every internal tree node, the recorded partition recursion is

\[Z_A+Z_B-1=R+(\alpha-Z_A)(\beta-1)+(1-Z_B)(\alpha-1).\]

Here \(R\) is the locally proved comparison sum, and each displayed product or sum of block products has actual degree at most two. Once child partition identities have been derived, multiply their completed lines by the displayed degree-two factors through degree four, retaining the earlier ceiling eight. PC reuse therefore eliminates the tree-height accumulation that is present in the ordinary NS proof. At the root, the recorded old-axiom/companion identity costs \(\Delta+2\). This proves the original source’s PC ceiling \(\max(8,\Delta+2)\), without claiming its ordinary NS degree is constant.

For the new representation, \(L\) is a Boolean literal, so \(L^2-L\) is an old Boolean axiom up to its literal expansion. The literal identity

\[P-g=F+r(L^2-L)\]

has an NS certificate through three. For an original block \(A=1-\sum_j s_jg_j\) and its replacement \(Q=1-\sum_j s_jP_j\), use

\[g_iA=P_iQ-(P_i-g_i)Q+g_i\sum_j s_j(P_j-g_j).\]

Exactly as in the preceding pebbling conversion, every original degree-three companion has a new-source NS certificate through six. In PC, derive these original companions once and replay the constant-degree original proof in its unchanged old and parent-coefficient variables. Reusing their final degree-three polynomials preserves \(\max(8,\Delta+2)\). In NS, substituting the certificates in the existing degree-\(D_{\rm ord}\) identity adds at most three to the ceiling. No coefficient field axiom is omitted; the displayed witnesses simply do not need them.

Finally, specialize every bottom coefficient to one. Its product becomes \(1-L=g\), its companion becomes \(L(1-L)\), an old Boolean consequence through two, and its field equation becomes zero. This maps any retained PC refutation to an old ordering PC refutation without increasing degree. Retained PC degree is therefore at least the imported old lower bound; the reverse inequality follows from containment of the old axioms.

What this rules out for our branch

This is an application/refinement of the existing ordering no-go result to the exact rank-one reader source. It rules out proving the full desired reader exclusion from retained PC nonrefutability alone, even with polynomial inventory, individual rank-one bottoms and all complete field/companion equations. The degree-five NS lift and rectangular pairing are not refuted: neither asserts that all fresh-parent constraints are feasible with augmented PC closure at the full source ceiling.

The old base here is ordering, not PHP. A valid lower-bound proof must exploit a stronger PHP-specific property. In particular the full old matching-class preservation theorem supplies structured old-target information, not merely the absence of a refutation. It must be used at its exact complete-board scope and window; the graph counterpart preserves a specified subspace rather than every old target.

Next task. Test whether the matching old-target/filtration information forces the coupled parent residuals to vanish in their required cutoffs. Identify the exact point where this property is used and why the ordering control lacks the needed hypothesis. If raw bottom coefficients survive, their elimination must retain the original degree charge. Further generic pairing or per-parent feasibility lemmas alone would leave the decisive implication untouched.

Checks and process. Read the exact existing balanced source and its local/root identities; checked the PC-reuse version of its recurrence and both source-conversion ledgers. The imported graph degree lower bound and formula encoding were checked against the author PDF; no numerical or formal verification was performed. Targeted search recovered the already completed ordering construction, avoiding a redundant new source construction.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 9.61 s
Marked reading and review windows	18.67 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 5.55 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	31.95 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	5.46 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.98 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Linear row equations remove the initial-width cost on the complete unary board

Status: working PHP-specific full-board compiler with degree 4p-1. It removes a base-scope obstacle but does not exclude the nonlinear selector source. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Linear row equations remove the initial-width cost on the complete unary board”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-full-board-clause-bridge.

Required implication tested. The strongest old matching-class preservation theorem is on the complete unary board, whereas the earlier compilation used a sparse graph to make initial clauses short. Before seeking another graph-relative substitute, test whether PHP’s own linear row equations can derive the wide initial clause values cheaply. The generic CNF width bound is sufficient, not a necessity theorem for this special base.

Complete-board transfer

Fix a prime \(p\), write \(\delta=p-1\), and let \(v=N(N+1)\). Every \(S\)-line standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{N+1}_N\), or of its functional variant, yields a complete accuracy-one selector ENS family over the full functional linear-row PHP base, with at most \(S\) blocks and at most \(\binom{v+p-1}{p-1}\) inputs per block, and an ordinary PC refutation through

\[D=4p-1.\]

Each input is still literally \(1-L^{p-1}\) for a source affine equation \(L=0\). Every coefficient equation is retained. There is no restriction of the old cell board in this transfer and no assumption on intermediate clause width. This is the earlier selector compiler with a specialized proof of its pigeon initials; all inference and inventory arguments are unchanged.

The wide pigeon initial has a constant-degree certificate

For a fixed pigeon row let \(X_1,\ldots,X_N\) be its cells and let \(R=\sum_jX_j-1\) be the old linear row axiom. Encode the positive literal \(X_j\) as \(1-X_j=0\), with selector \(t_j=1-(1-X_j)^{p-1}\). For its compressed clause block write \(P=1-\sum_i r_i t_i\), where the selected selectors span all original row selectors as ordinary polynomials. Thus each \(t_jP\) is a constant combination of the block’s complete companions.

The univariate difference \(t_j-X_j\) vanishes at zero and one. For \(p>2\) it is a multiple of \(X_j^2-X_j\) through degree \(p-1\); for \(p=2\) it is identically zero. The exact identity

\[P=\sum_{j=1}^N t_jP-\sum_{j=1}^N(t_j-X_j)P-RP\tag{FB-row}\]

therefore derives \(P\). Its companion and Boolean-correction terms cost at most \(2p-1\), and the row-axiom term at most \(p+1\le2p-1\). The number of summands depends on \(N\), but the ordinary degree does not.

The linear row axiom is essential: if it is omitted, all \(X_j=0\) makes all selectors and companions zero while \(P=1\), and satisfies Booleanity and the exclusion axioms. This is an explicit falsification control for the proposed initial bridge.

Remaining initials and full replay

Hole clauses and functional row-exclusion clauses have width two; their ordinary clause products are the old quadratic exclusion axioms. Boolean-domain clauses likewise use the old Boolean equation. The earlier initial-product argument supplies each of these values through \(p+2(p-1)=3p-2\). The wide pigeon initials instead use (FB-row). Thus all initials and the earlier syntactic inference replay fit \(4p-1\).

For the weak unary CNF, use the functional algebraic base as an explicit strengthening. This is legitimate for a lower-bound reduction: every initial weak-CNF clause has the displayed value proof over that stronger base, and the functional base is exactly the one whose matching lower-bound properties are available. No onto axioms or extra column sums are added. The final empty clause still has value one.

For fixed \(p\), the inventory remains polynomial in \(S,N\). For odd \(p\), the rank-one retained representation also fits this same ceiling, since \(2p+1\le4p-1\). It is optional: the direct old-selector source already suffices to formulate the remaining exclusion problem on the complete board.

Clarification of the earlier graph-ordering claim

The earlier unary proof correctly restricts before applying a generic width-based CNF bridge. Its warning that compiling the full row first incurs degree \(N\) is a limitation of that generic bridge, not an unconditional necessity. Statements in this branch treating that order as mandatory were too strong; (FB-row) supplies an alternative. The previous graph proof and its result are not invalidated.

As a binary sanity check, the verified affine-DAG controller may use these actual initial-value proofs in place of its generic width estimate. Pigeon values then cost three, binary hole/domain values cost four, and the verified local inference ceiling is five. The existing complete-board affine exclusion consequently recovers the already recorded unrestricted unary parity theorem without a separate proof-graph restriction stage. No new binary lower bound or new Lean verification is claimed.

PHP-specific next obligation

The odd-prime source still has nonlinear inputs. But we can now use the complete-board old-target window without pretending it holds on an arbitrary sparse graph. In characteristic three, the optional rank-one bottoms also have a degree-preserving simultaneous specialization \(r_L=L\): their products become \(1-L^2\), and both companion and coefficient-field images are old Boolean consequences through three. Hence raw bottom variables need not remain in the proposed test of the old-selector source.

The next mathematical task is to use the full old matching/filtration information on the actual coupled selector residuals, distinguishing it from mere PC hardness, which the ordering control disproves as a sufficient hypothesis. The wide initial clause and complete-board scope are no longer the obstacle. Nonlinear source exclusion, augmented PC closure and the fixed-prime quantifiers remain open.

Review and process. Checked (FB-row), univariate Boolean divisibility, original companion degrees, the weak/functional strengthening, all quadratic initials and the unchanged compiler inventory. No numerical or formal verification was performed. The decisive improvement came from using the actual PHP row axiom rather than imposing the generic initial-width interface.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 23.84 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 36.61 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 2.63 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	36.51 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	8.09 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Functional PHP has row-or-column affine Boolean values at degree two

Status: working classification with exact degree-two controls. It identifies zero ternary selectors, not all mixed selector dependencies. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Functional PHP has row-or-column affine Boolean values at degree two”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-functional-affine-Booleanity.

Targeted PHP test. Determine which individual ternary selector inputs already vanish in the old low-degree quotient. The existing column-only theorem concerns weak linear-row PHP, without same-row exclusion axioms. Our new full-board compiler uses the functional base, so that theorem cannot be applied unchanged. The following classification accounts for the additional row equations explicitly.

Statement

Let \(N\ge4\), \(m=N+1\), and let \(\mathcal F^{\rm fun}_{m,N}\) consist of Booleanity, same-row and same-column exclusions, and \(\rho_i-1\). Over a field of odd characteristic, an affine polynomial \(b\) satisfies

\[b^2-b\in\mathcal I_2(\mathcal F^{\rm fun}_{m,N})\]

if and only if, modulo the linear span of the row equations, it is a partial-row indicator, a partial-column indicator, or the complement of one:

\[\sum_{j\in J}X_{ij},\qquad \sum_{i\in A}X_{ij},\qquad 1-\sum_{j\in J}X_{ij},\qquad 1-\sum_{i\in A}X_{ij}.\]

Empty subsets include constants. A row indicator’s complement is also a row indicator modulo its row equation. Membership and sufficiency here are at the original degree-two NS ceiling, not merely semantic Booleanity on a satisfying assignment.

Projected degree-two relations

Eliminate the last cell in every row by \(X_{iN}=1-S_i\), where \(S_i=\sum_{j<N}Y_{ij}\). This is an affine substitution. Every degree-two old certificate projects to a constant combination of:

\(Y_{ij}^2-Y_{ij}\);
same-row products \(Y_{ij}Y_{i\ell}\), \(j\ne\ell\), and same-column products \(Y_{ij}Y_{kj}\), \(i\ne k\);
\(F_{ik}=(1-S_i)(1-S_k)\), \(i\ne k\), from last-column exclusions.

All projected Boolean and same-row relations involving a last cell are already in the first two spans: expand \(S_i^2-S_i\) and \(Y_{ij}(1-S_i)\). Row multiples project to zero. Conversely these displayed relations have degree-two old certificates after the substitution is lifted. In particular, their span contains no nonzero affine polynomial. For each pair of rows, a cross monomial \(Y_{ij}Y_{k\ell}\) with \(j\ne\ell\) forces the coefficient of \(F_{ik}\) to zero in an affine target; then diagonal and collision monomials force the remaining coefficients to zero. Thus the affine part of the original \(\mathcal I_2\) is exactly the row-equation span.

The quadratic coefficient restriction

Write the projected affine form as \(b=c+\sum_{i,j<N}a_{ij}Y_{ij}\). For distinct rows \(i,k\), comparing cross monomials in \(b^2-b\) gives

\[a_{ij}a_{k\ell}=d_{ik}\quad\text{for every }j\ne\ell,\tag{FB-cross}\]

where division by two is valid. Indeed only \(F_{ik}\) has a nonzero coefficient on these cross-row, cross-column monomials, and that coefficient is constant across the pair of rows.

There are at least three projected columns. If \(d_{ik}\ne0\), all entries in the two row vectors are nonzero; comparing two entries against a third column makes each row vector constant. Any other nonzero row vector compared with one of these constant vectors must also be constant. In this case \(b=c+\sum_i a_iS_i\), which is a form supported on the last column modulo row equations.

If all \(d_{ik}=0\), then any two nonzero row vectors are each supported on the same single column: otherwise a nonzero entry in one and a nonzero entry in a different column in the other violate (FB-cross). With at least two nonzero rows this yields a column-supported form. With at most one nonzero row, it yields a row-supported form. The zero case is constant. This exhausts the quadratic restriction without imposing the weak-system’s same-row coefficient equations.

Reduce the remaining affine coefficients

For a row-supported form, write its values on the row’s one-hot states as \(\beta_j\). Using the row, Boolean and same-row axioms, its Booleanity polynomial reduces through degree two to \(\sum_j(\beta_j^2-\beta_j)X_{ij}\). This affine polynomial lies in the row span only if every coefficient is zero: its constant term is zero and other rows have no variables. Therefore every \(\beta_j\) is zero or one, giving a partial-row indicator.

For a column-supported form \(c+\sum_i a_iX_{ij}\), Boolean and column exclusions reduce its Booleanity polynomial to

\[c(c-1)+\sum_i a_i(a_i+2c-1)X_{ij}.\]

A column-supported affine polynomial lies in the row span only if it is zero, by inspecting other columns. Thus \(c\in\{0,1\}\), and the nonzero \(a_i\)'s are one when \(c=0\), or minus one when \(c=1\). These are the stated column indicators and complements.

Conversely an indicator \(S\) on a row or column satisfies \(S^2-S=\sum (X^2-X)+2\sum_{e<f}X_eX_f\), using the corresponding exclusions through two. Complements have the same Booleanity polynomial. A row-span change \(b-S\) changes Booleanity by \((b-S)(b+S-1)\), again through two. This completes necessity and sufficiency.

Consequence for actual ternary selectors

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), put \(b=(L+1)/2\). Then \(b^2-b=(L^2-1)/4\). Consequently \(1-L^2\in I_2\) precisely when \(L\) is, modulo rows, \(2S-1\) for an indicator or complement of the stated row/column kind. The old matching filtration theorem makes this the same zero test in \(C_B\) throughout its stable range \(N\ge2B-1\), \(2\le B\le m\). This gives an exact PHP-specific cleanup test for an individual selector that vanishes at a larger stable cutoff.

It does not classify arbitrary linear combinations of selectors, nor the products and cross-parent dependencies in the degree-six equations. The coupled source exclusion remains open. The weak-system column-only theorem is not contradicted: adding same-row exclusions genuinely enlarges the degree-two ideal.

Exact tests and limits

The independent checker builds the full ordinary degree-two NS span on the five-row, four-hole functional board, using all row multiples, Booleanity and both exclusions. It compares membership with the finite set of all row/column indicators modulo row gauges. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) it checks all affine forms in a canonical two-row slice and all four column slices; over \(\mathbb F_5\) it checks a canonical one-row slice. Both fields add 500 deterministic full-board samples and explicit positive/negative controls.

All 6,732 tests agree. Each NS matrix has 231 monomial columns and rank 165. The same-row sum \(X_{11}+X_{12}\) is accepted, unlike the earlier weak-system control; \(X_{11}+X_{22}\) is rejected. Results and the compiled checker are preserved. These bounded slices do not constitute exhaustive board-wide enumeration or replace the proof.

Contribution and process. The cycle identifies precisely which single ternary selector inputs disappear by old functional PHP equations, using a property absent from a generic retained-hardness assumption. It does not discharge mixed-parent consistency. Checking the existing theorem’s weak-base scope prevented incorrectly discarding the new row case.

Timing limitation. Initial reading, derivation and checker drafting preceded the corrected clock because a completed session label was reused; refused commands performed no computation. An invalid phase marker was then corrected before the successful checks.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 12.04 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 57.87 s
Computation design and coding	0.16 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 5.00 s
Individually measured computation	0.14 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	8.87 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — The affine selector interface has an exact row-or-column boundary in characteristic three

Status: working sharp affinization criterion and restricted-query lower-bound corollary; unrestricted mixed queries remain the goal. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The affine selector interface has an exact row-or-column boundary in characteristic three”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-selector-affine-boundary.

General hypothesis tested. Could every ternary equation selector become affine after using functional PHP equations, allowing direct application of the existing affine endpoint? The previous Booleanity proof gives a sharp answer, not merely another positive example.

Exactly which selectors have an affine representative

On the full functional \((N+1)\)-by-\(N\) board, \(N\ge4\), over \(\mathbb F_3\), an affine \(L\) has \(1-L^2-A\in I_2\) for some affine \(A\) if and only if \(L\), modulo the linear row equations, is supported in a single row or a single column (constants included).

Necessity. Repeat only the quadratic-coefficient part of the functional classification. After eliminating each last-row cell, write \(L=c+\sum a_{ij}Y_{ij}\). Subtracting an arbitrary affine \(A\) changes none of the quadratic coefficients. Membership therefore requires \(a_{ij}a_{k\ell}\) to be constant over \(j\ne\ell\), for each distinct row pair. With at least three projected columns, a nonzero constant forces both row vectors to be constant and then forces every other nonzero row vector to be constant, giving support in the eliminated column modulo rows. If every such constant is zero, two nonzero rows must be supported in the same single column; if only one row is nonzero its support is unrestricted. These are precisely column- and row-local forms. No Boolean-value restriction on the remaining coefficients is imposed because \(A\) may be any affine form.

Sufficiency and witnesses. For a row-local form \(L=c+\sum_j a_jX_{ij}\), let

\[A=\sum_j\bigl[1-(c+a_j)^2\bigr]X_{ij}.\]

Expanding the square and reducing by the row equation, Booleanity and same-row exclusions gives \(1-L^2-A\in I_2\). For a column-local form \(L=c+\sum_i a_iX_{ij}\), use

\[A=1-c^2+\sum_i\bigl[c^2-(c+a_i)^2\bigr]X_{ij}.\]

Booleanity and same-column exclusions give the degree-two certificate. A row-gauge change \(L-L_0\) changes the square by \((L-L_0)(L+L_0)\), also through two. This proves the equivalence with original-degree witnesses.

The old filtration theorem makes the criterion unchanged if membership is instead requested in an old \(C_B\) within its stable range: the difference still has degree at most two. Thus a genuinely mixed form does not acquire an affine representative just by allowing a larger stable old proof degree. For example \(L=X_{11}+X_{22}\) is not row- or column-local modulo rows, so its surviving cross-matching term cannot be removed this way.

What the affine endpoint consequently covers

Working restricted-query corollary. For every fixed \(K>0\), sufficiently large ordinary unary PHP, and its functional variant, has no \(\mathbb F_3\) standard syntactic Res(Lin) refutation of at most \(N^K\) lines in which every equation form is row- or column-local modulo row equations. Clauses may mix these forms, have arbitrary width, and share subproofs without a depth restriction. This is a restricted class of the original target, not a replacement for it.

Source reduction. Use the complete-board compiler at degree eleven. Replace every selector input \(q_i=1-L_i^2\) by its certified affine representative \(A_i\). For a block write \(P_q=1-\sum_i r_iq_i\), \(P_A=1-\sum_i r_iA_i\). Then \(P_q-P_A\) has an old NS certificate through three. The identity

\[q_iP_q=A_iP_A+(q_i-A_i)P_A+q_i(P_q-P_A)\]

derives every original companion from the new complete affine block through degree five: the three terms cost at most three, four and five respectively. Constant inputs remain unchanged; zero inputs can be omitted. All coefficient field equations remain the same. Derive these source axioms once and replay the original PC refutation, preserving its degree-eleven ceiling. The number of blocks and inputs remains polynomial.

The existing complete-board affine exclusion at \(p=3\) contradicts this refutation. That working theorem’s review limitations are inherited. This proves the corollary without a graph-before-compilation requirement.

Checks, general gap and next action

The independent checker tests \(L^2-L\in I_2+\mathcal P_{\le1}\), equivalent to selector affinization, against all row/column-local affine classes modulo rows. Its ordinary NS-plus-affine matrix has rank 181 in 231 columns on the five-row, four-hole ternary board. All 5,605 bounded two-row/column-slice and deterministic sample tests agree, with 3,124 positive decisions. The report and checker are retained. The reused checker’s renamed main function initially warned about its implicit return; adding an explicit return removed that warning, without changing the numerical algorithm or repeating the accepted tests.

The unrestricted goal still allows forms spanning multiple rows and columns. The result shows that wholesale conversion to affine inputs is false even modulo all stable old PHP consequences. Collective combinations of selectors can nevertheless have a much larger affine part than the individual inputs suggest. The next test is a degree-certified reduction of the whole input span modulo old relations, retaining the remaining nonlinear rank and its cost. Do not infer a bound on that rank from this individual-input classification.

Process and timing. Reusing the earlier coefficient proof isolated the exact boundary and avoided a new case enumeration. The initial proof sketch preceded this cycle’s clock; subsequent checking and recording are instrumented.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 5.46 s
Marked reading and review windows	28.08 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 18.85 s
Computation design and coding	40.05 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	28.31 s
Individually measured computation	0.14 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	10.04 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Certified PHP quotient rank gives a sublinear nonlinear-profile endpoint

Status: working complete-source exclusion under a sublinear quotient-rank hypothesis. A quadratic-rank two-column control shows this condition is sufficient, not necessary. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Certified PHP quotient rank gives a sublinear nonlinear-profile endpoint”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-PHP-quotient-rank.

Obligation tested. Individual selector classification does not control combinations. Test whether the whole input span can be reduced modulo actual old degree-two PHP certificates, then feed its remaining nonlinear rank into the existing complete profile map. The general goal still requires handling the large-rank remainder; no rank bound on arbitrary proof lines is assumed.

Statement on the complete functional board

Work over \(\mathbb F_3\), on full functional \(\mathrm{PHP}^{N+1}_N\). In \(Q_2=\mathcal P_{\le2}/I_2\), let \(V_a\) be the span of the actual selectors \(q_{a,i}=1-L_{a,i}^2\) in block \(a\), and let \(A_a=V_a\cap\overline{\mathcal P_{\le1}}\). Define the certified nonlinear quotient rank

\[r_a=\dim(V_a/A_a).\]

The quotient is by the degree-two NS consequence space, not the unrestricted ideal of the unsatisfiable base. Fix polynomial block inventory, a polylogarithmic proof-degree bound, and \(0\le\sigma<1\). If every \(r_a\le N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\), with fixed logarithmic exponent, then for sufficiently large \(N\) the complete accuracy-one selector source has no such ordinary PC refutation. All original companions and coefficient fields are included. This is a working application of the existing fixed-graph profile theorem after the following explicit complete-board source conversion.

Degree-certified basis conversion

Choose affine representatives \(F_1,\ldots,F_b\) for a basis of \(A_a\), then choose \(r_a\) original selector positions whose classes extend it to a basis of \(V_a\). Call the resulting list \(f_j\); every \(f_j\) is affine or an original selector. There are constant matrices giving

\[q_i=\sum_j\alpha_{ij}f_j+u_i,\qquad f_j=\sum_i\beta_{ji}q_i+v_j,\qquad u_i,v_j\in I_2.\tag{QR-basis}\]

These memberships supply original degree-two certificates by definition of the finite quotient. The second relation follows because each basis class lies in the original input span. Scalar blocks can first be cleaned; nonconstant original selectors have actual degree two. Ordinary polynomial basis compression bounds the input inventory polynomially even if an original line listed many redundant equations.

For a new complete block on \(f_j\) with coefficients \(t_j\), let \(P_f=1-\sum_jt_jf_j\). Map original coefficients by \(r_i=\sum_j\beta_{ji}t_j\). The original product becomes

\[\phi(P_q)=P_f+E,\qquad E=\sum_j t_jv_j\in I_3.\]

Here the degree-three membership means a certificate from the old axioms in the ring including the fresh \(t_j\); it is not an old-only polynomial identity. For each original companion,

\[q_i\phi(P_q)=\sum_j\alpha_{ij}f_jP_f+u_iP_f+q_iE.\]

Every term has a new-source certificate through five: \(\deg P_f\le3\), the old residuals cost two, and \(q_i\) has degree two. This is exactly the original companion ceiling. The coefficient-field image is a constant combination of the new \(t_j^3-t_j\), through three. All retained variables are fixed, and the variable substitution is linear. Thus source refutations transfer without degree increase, for both NS certificates and PC replay. The construction is simultaneous across the family; no per-block losses are added. It is the degree-certified input-basis principle, with both directions of (QR-basis) made explicit rather than treating old relations as free equalities.

Apply the existing complete profile map

Replace only the selected nonlinear basis positions by the rank-one affine-bottom representation. The resulting parents list old affine forms and individual whole products. For a mixed parent, the product comparison still has a certificate through five. Original affine-input companions are derived through six, and original quadratic-input companions through seven. Hence the PC ceiling becomes at most \(\max(D,7)\), a harmless constant enlargement; for the actual degree-eleven compiler it does not grow.

Choose a robust graph from the recorded profile endpoint, restrict this already converted complete-board proof, and apply its global row projection. All bottoms remain rank at most one. Every parent has at most \(r_a\) nonlinear basis positions plus affine inputs, so its nonlinear function-space quotient on the full remaining Boolean cube has dimension at most \(r_a\). Restrictions or row projection cannot increase that position count. This is not an assertion that old PHP quotient identities hold for free on a different graph: they were already used, with certificates, before restricting the proof.

The existing theorem therefore applies with \(\rho=0\) and the stated \(\sigma<1\). Its complete coefficient map has

\[T=O\!\left(N^{1/2}\operatorname{polylog}N+N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\right),\qquad TD+k=o(N),\]

within the fixed graph’s linear separation range. It preserves all source fields, original companions, sharing and raw coefficient uses. This proves the source exclusion. No new field extension or unproved PC-to-NS equality is used.

Applying the complete-board compiler gives a necessary condition on a hypothetical polynomial-line ternary refutation: for every fixed \(\sigma<1\), sufficiently large instances must have some clause whose selector span has nonlinear quotient rank greater than \(N^\sigma\). This does not prove that no such high-rank clause exists or that its presence makes a proof long.

Large rank alone is not hardness: an exact two-column control

Let \(m=N+1\), and for every \(i\ne k\) take

\[g_{ik}=1-(1+X_{i1}+X_{k2})^2.\]

Modulo Booleanity through two, \(g_{ik}\equiv X_{i1}X_{k2}\). These \(m(m-1)\) classes are linearly independent even modulo \(I_2+\mathcal P_{\le1}\). To see this, eliminate a column other than the first two. For each row pair, the projected cross-coefficient matrix of a putative relation is supported only at the first/second-column pair and its reverse. The old degree-two relations require this off-diagonal matrix to be constant; a third projected column forces that constant to zero. Thus both coefficients are zero for every row pair. The tuple’s nonlinear rank is \(m(m-1)=\Theta(N^2)\).

Yet a complete block on this tuple has a cheap old-only map: set its coefficient \(r_{ik}=X_{i1}X_{k2}\), of degree two. In the Boolean and row/column collision quotient, at most one of these matching indicators is nonzero. With \(C_j=\sum_iX_{ij}\), the product image is \(1-C_1C_2\), and every companion image is zero. Boolean/collision monomial reduction gives certificates through six for the actual companion images; coefficient fields also cost six. Thus any degree-\(D\) PC source proof under this map replays over the old base through \(2D\). This is an instance of the already available low-column-profile mechanism, not a new hard family.

The exact control on a five-row, four-hole board confirms nonlinear rank twenty for twenty selectors, and checks the map on all 31 valid states of the two columns. The wrong all-zero coefficient map fails on twenty of those states. Complete check results and code are preserved. These checks do not certify the asymptotic profile theorem; its exact source and degree hypotheses were read separately.

Route assessment and next task

The low nonlinear-rank case is now linked to the actual PHP quotient by an original-degree source reduction. The general missing implication is a structural alternative for the remaining tuples: high quotient rank may still have cheap column or other profiles, as the control shows, but arbitrary high-rank mixed forms are not covered. A rank count by itself is neither an obstruction nor a hardness measure.

The next test should distinguish high-rank tuples with cheap state profiles from those requiring a genuinely new image or consistency argument. Require a uniform criterion that preserves the actual input span and proof-degree budget, and test it on the two-column control. Do not replace the unrestricted goal with the proved low-rank sufficient condition.

Process assessment. The existing complete profile theorem supplied the asymptotic endpoint; the new work was the certified quotient conversion and its high-rank easy control. Starting the clock from the previous finisher avoided an instrumentation gap.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	15 min 19.86 s
Marked reading and review windows	4 min 52.98 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9 min 27.12 s
Computation design and coding	0.15 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	50.19 s
Individually measured computation	0.09 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	9.33 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Boolean-reduced polar rank does not support the binary head-extraction step at odd primes

Status: working extraction obstruction with exact finite controls; it does not refute selector-source exclusion or a domain-aware alternative. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Boolean-reduced polar rank does not support the binary head-extraction step at odd primes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-odd-polar-head-obstruction.

High-case test. The binary collective-rank lemma changes coordinates within the Boolean cube and extracts disjoint quadratic leading heads. Test whether its rank hypothesis alone can justify the corresponding move over odd primes, before importing the later binary dichotomy. The distinction between an ordinary quadratic representative and its Boolean reduction matters here.

A family of arbitrarily high reduced polar rank with few disjoint heads

Fix an odd prime \(p\), an integer \(a\ge p\), and disjoint groups of \(m\) Boolean variables, with total dimension \(v=am\). Let \(L\) be the sum of all variables and \(L_i\) the sum in group \(i\). Define \(f_i\) to be the multilinear Boolean representative of \(LL_i\), and let \(W=\operatorname{span}_{\mathbb F_p}\{f_1,\ldots,f_a\}\).

Every nonzero combination has polar rank at least \(m-2\), calculated from its canonical multilinear representative. Yet under every invertible affine change that maps the Boolean cube onto itself, and every degree-compatible monomial order, at most \(p-1\) members of \(W\) can have pairwise disjoint quadratic leading monomials. Taking \(m\ge4a^2+2\) therefore meets the numerical binary rank threshold while preventing the asserted \(a\) heads. The binary lemma itself is unchanged; its characteristic-two domain hypothesis is essential.

Rank proof

For a nonzero coefficient vector \(c\), let \(b\in\mathbb F_p^v\) be constant \(c_i\) on group \(i\), and let \(\mathbf1\) be the all-one vector. The ordinary product \(L\sum_i c_iL_i\) has polar matrix \(\mathbf1b^T+b\mathbf1^T\), of rank at most two. Replacing every \(x_j^2\) by \(x_j\) removes the diagonal contribution and gives the canonical polar matrix

\[B_c=\mathbf1b^T+b\mathbf1^T-2\operatorname{diag}(b).\]

The diagonal matrix has rank at least \(m\), since one group has nonzero coefficient and two is invertible. Rank subadditivity yields \(\operatorname{rank}B_c\ge m-2\). In particular the \(f_i\) are independent once \(m>2\). This is a property of Boolean-reduced representatives, not of the ordinary rank-two product.

The leading-head obstruction

Consider the graded square-zero algebra \(S=\mathbb F_p[x_1,\ldots,x_v]/(x_j^2)_j\), used only for the highest-degree parts of Boolean polynomials. The degree-two part of every member of \(W\) is the image of \(LM\) for some linear \(M\). In this algebra \(L^p=\sum_jx_j^p=0\). Consequently the product of the degree-two parts of any \(p\) members of \(W\) is zero.

If those \(p\) members had disjoint squarefree quadratic leading monomials, their product would have a nonzero squarefree leading monomial of degree \(2p\). A degree-compatible monomial order makes its coefficient the product of the nonzero leading coefficients; lower terms cannot cancel it. That term survives the square-zero quotient, a contradiction.

The argument survives all permissible affine cube automorphisms. Indeed, an affine function mapping every Boolean point into \(\{0,1\}\) has at most one nonzero variable coefficient in odd characteristic: its Booleanity polynomial has cross coefficient \(2a_i a_j\), which must vanish. An invertible affine cube automorphism is therefore a coordinate permutation with optional complements. Its highest-degree action is a signed permutation, preserving the square-zero algebra and the common-factor argument. Arbitrary invertible \(\mathbb F_p\)-linear changes need not preserve the Boolean cube and are not licensed to introduce new Boolean equations.

The control is easy by a different profile, and relates to the actual selectors

On Boolean points, \(f_i=LL_i\). Conditioning on the one field-valued affine probe \(L=\alpha\) makes every input equal to the affine function \(\alpha L_i\). Thus high reduced polar rank here coexists with a cheap common profile. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), an explicit complete-block reduction to affine inputs uses original coefficient images \(r_i=L t_i\), where \(t_i\) are the fresh coefficients of a target block on the \(L_i\). With \(H=\sum_i t_iL_i\), the source product is congruent to \(1-L^2H\), and its companions are congruent to \(LL_i(1-H)\), using \(L^3-L\) and the Boolean reductions. Their certificates cost at most six. The coefficient-field image is

\[(Lt_i)^3-Lt_i=L^3(t_i^3-t_i)+t_i(L^3-L),\]

also through six. The variable map has degree two, so the complete source maps to the affine source within a factor-two PC degree budget. This is a positive control for cheap profile handling, not a hard-source example.

At \(p=3\), these functions occur as actual selector combinations:

\[(1-(L-L_i)^2)-(1-(L+L_i)^2)=4LL_i=LL_i.\]

Thus the span of the \(2a\) legal equation selectors contains the displayed high-rank subspace after Boolean reduction. The obstruction concerns extraction from that subspace using only its reduced polar-rank data. It does not say that the larger selector span has no other useful directions, or that PHP-specific old relations cannot provide another representation.

Exact controls and route verdict

For \(p=3,a=3,m=38\), the checker evaluates all 26 nonzero combinations of the three polar matrices of order 114. The minimum reduced rank is 39, above the required 36; each ordinary product’s polar rank is at most two. Separate six-variable square-zero multiplication confirms the threefold product is zero in characteristic three and nonzero in characteristic five. All ranks and field controls are preserved. The all-parameter and coordinate-change statements are proved above, not inferred from these finite checks.

The proposed direct reuse of binary high-polar extraction is therefore invalid in this scope. A corrected alternative must recognize ordinary common-factor/probe representations before treating reduced polar rank as a high case, and must retain the actual Boolean-domain equations under any other coordinate change. The proved low PHP-quotient-rank endpoint remains valid; this control neither closes nor refutes the remaining high-rank selector exclusion.

Next task. Return to the actual ordinary affine-form/selector span and its certified old relations, rather than the polar matrices of one canonical Boolean representative. Test a source-compatible profile/high-case alternative against both this one-probe family and the two-column high-quotient-rank control. An extraction theorem that changes the domain or ignores those easy profiles cannot supply the required lower bound.

Process assessment. Reading the precise binary coordinate step and checking its field dependence produced a decisive countercontrol before an unsupported odd-prime theorem was used.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 23.71 s
Marked reading and review windows	7 min 57.85 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 25.45 s
Computation design and coding	0.18 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	51.28 s
Individually measured computation	0.15 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	8.80 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Counting all distinct quadratic heads supplies a genuine dense-rank case

Status: working low-or-dense graph-rank exclusion in characteristic three. It leaves an intermediate projected-rank window and does not prove unrestricted PHP hardness. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Counting all distinct quadratic heads supplies a genuine dense-rank case”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-dense-quadratic-heads.

High-case test. The previous obstruction concerned extracting many disjoint heads by a binary coordinate change. Test a different implication: a sufficiently large quadratic quotient rank already gives many distinct heads in the original coordinates, and their full edge graph may shrink the reduction image. No coordinate change or false Boolean equation is introduced.

An elementary filtered image bound

Let a graph on \(s\ge2\) vertices have \(q\le s(s-1)/4\) distinct edges, and let \(J_{\le k}\) count its independent sets of size at most \(k\), where \(1\le k\le s/4\). Put \(a=\sqrt{s(s-1)-2q}\). Then

\[J_{\le k}\le4\frac{a^k}{k!}\le4\binom sk\exp\left(\frac{k^2}{s}-\frac{qk}{s^2}\right).\tag{DH-count}\]

Proof. An ordered independent \(j\)-tuple is an ordered clique in the complement. If \(j\) is even, pair consecutive positions; there are at most \(a^j\) choices of the resulting ordered complement edges. If \(j\) is odd, the last vertex gives at most \(s a^{j-1}\) choices. Ignoring distinctness only enlarges these counts. Since \(a\ge s/2\), both give at most \(2a^j/j!\) independent \(j\)-sets. Consecutive terms backwards from \(k\) have ratio at most \(k/a\le1/2\), proving the first inequality.

For the second, use \(\log(a/s)\le-1/(2s)-q/s^2\), and

\[-\sum_{j=0}^{k-1}\log(1-j/s)\le\frac{k(k-1)}{2(s-k)}\le\frac{k^2}{s}.\]

Dividing \(a^k/k!\) by \(\binom sk\) and dropping the favorable term \(-k/(2s)\) proves (DH-count). This argument is purely combinatorial and does not require an imported clique theorem.

Reduction meaning. If \(q\) degree-two polynomials have distinct squarefree quadratic leading monomials, use their pairs as graph edges. Monomial-by-monomial reduction by these polynomials and old Booleanity, in a fixed degree-compatible order, has image dimension at most \(J_{\le k}\). Disjointness is unnecessary. Lower terms can overlap arbitrarily. When each divisor is a constant combination of actual inputs plus an old degree-two certificate, a kernel polynomial has

\[f=\sum_i c_i g_i+E,\qquad \deg c_i\le k-2,\qquad E\in I_k(\Gamma).\tag{DH-membership}\]

Every reduction decreases the monomial order and preserves the degree ceiling. This is a linear normal-form map, not a Gröbner-basis claim.

Finite source criterion on a separated graph

Work over \(\mathbb F_3\). Let \(H\) and \(W_k\) be a graph and matching space supplied by the sixteen-neighbor separation lemma, with \(s=15(N+1)\) nondistinguished coordinates, at sufficiently large \(N\) and \(k=O(\sqrt{N\log N})\). Project row coordinates as in the existing graph construction. Projected old degree-two generators have old graph certificates through two, so a proof of a polynomial in these coordinates lifts at the same ceiling at least two.

Consider \(M\ge1\) complete accuracy-one old-quadratic blocks, of input degree at most two, with all coefficient fields, and a requested PC degree \(D\ge5\). For each tuple let \(r_a\) be its nonlinear rank in \(P_{\le2}/I_2(\Gamma_H)\) modulo the affine image. Set

\[\Lambda=\log(64(M+1)),\quad k=\left\lceil\sqrt{N\Lambda}\right\rceil,\]

\[H_* =\left\lceil k+\frac{s}{k}\left(\Lambda+\frac{5k^2}{N}\right)\right\rceil,\quad Q_* =\left\lceil\frac{s^2}{k}\left(\frac{k^2}{s}+\frac{5k^2}{N}+\Lambda\right)\right\rceil.\]

Assume \(2\le k\le s/4\), \(Q_*\le s(s-1)/4\), and every block has either \(r_a\le R\) or \(r_a\ge Q_*\). Put \(T=2H_*+4R+2\) and require \(TD+k\le N/10^6\). Then the source has no ordinary PC refutation through \(D\).

For polynomial \(M\), polylogarithmic \(D\), and \(R\le N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\), \(\sigma<1\), these conditions hold eventually apart from the explicit low-or-dense rank hypothesis. Here \(H_*=O(\sqrt{N\log N})\), \(Q_*=O(N^{3/2}\sqrt{\log N})\), and \(TD+k=o(N)\). The ranks are measured after the specified graph restriction and row projection, not silently identified with full-board ranks.

Choose one weight for dense heads and large affine cores

For a dense block, reduce only quadratic coefficient columns modulo the quadratic parts of old \(I_2\), retaining all affine tails. Row reduction of the resulting input span supplies \(Q_*\) constant combinations with distinct quadratic leading monomials. Booleanity removes square pivots, so these are squarefree pairs. Their representatives differ from actual input combinations only by old degree-two certificates. We have not subtracted arbitrary affine equations from the source.

Apply (DH-count). Its image dimension is at most

\[4\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N-\Lambda}\le\frac{\tfrac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk}{8(M+1)}.\]

For low-rank blocks, use the two-sided certified basis conversion: affine basis inputs plus at most \(R\) quadratic representatives, with every source-axiom image proved through five. Since \(D\ge5\), PC replay stays within \(D\), including mixed-degree inputs. No degree-preserving NS flattening for every mixed-degree replacement is inferred.

For each proper affine core of rank at least \(H_*\), ordinary restriction to its common-zero flat has image dimension at most \(\binom sk\exp[-k(H_*-k)/s]\), hence at most the same graph-space lower bound divided by \(32(M+1)\). Unit cores need no restriction; empty or smaller cores use the exact prefix below. The sum of all dense and affine image dimensions is strictly smaller than \(\dim W_k\). Therefore a nonzero homogeneous \(f\in W_k\) lies in every required kernel simultaneously.

Complete maps and original-degree certificates

For a dense block, (DH-membership) gives \(f=\sum_i c_i g_i+E\). Set its coefficient images to \(\beta_i=fc_i\), of degree at most \(2k-2\). Its product becomes \(1-f^2+fE\), so

\[f g_iP(\beta)=g_i(f-f^3)+f^2g_iE.\]

The first term has an old Boolean certificate through \(3k+2\), and the second an old \(\Gamma_H\) certificate through the same ceiling. This is why the old residual \(E\) in the kernel representation is legal; it is not falsely declared Boolean-zero. Weighted coefficient fields cost at most \(7k\). All fit the original-degree budget \(Te+k\) with \(T\ge2k\).

For a low-rank block, normalize its affine core using the common weight. A high proper core uses its literal affine-ideal kernel representation to make its product \(1-f^2\), with coefficients through \(2k-1\). A core of rank below \(H_*\) uses its exact Fermat zero indicator, of degree below \(2H_*\); a unit core has product zero. Denote the resulting product by \(A\). For its at most \(R\) nonlinear basis inputs \(G_j\), append the exact prefix for \(\prod_j(1-G_j^2)\), making the product \(A\prod_j(1-G_j^2)\). Nonlinear coefficient degree is at most \(2H_*+4R-2\), and affine coefficients fit the same \(T\). On old Boolean points where \(f\ne0\), every companion vanishes. Boolean division certifies each weighted image at its actual degree, within \(Te+k\); coefficient fields cost \(3T+k\).

All maps use old coordinates only and share the same weight. Old axioms remain legal weighted multiples. Substituting and weighting the full PC proof therefore derives \(f\) over the old graph base through \(TD+k\). Its supplied separation excludes that consequence. This proves the finite criterion, without a fresh-field moment ansatz or a change of Boolean coordinates.

Checks, scope and remaining window

Exact enumeration on four 16-vertex head graphs checks all 65,536 subsets per graph and the rational form of (DH-count) at cutoff four. A duplicate-head control is rejected: one actual edge leaves 2,411 independent sets through four, while incorrectly counting it as sixty distinct heads would claim an upper bound of 2,400. Counts and code are retained. These finite checks concern the combinatorial estimate, not the asymptotic graph separator.

The earlier absolute-head obstruction assumed disjoint heads, hence at most \(s/2\) quadratic pairs. The new case uses up to quadratic-many distinct pairs and does not contradict it. It also avoids the invalid odd-prime polar extraction: all heads come from coefficient row reduction in the actual coordinates, and old relations have explicit certificates.

Combining this criterion with the full-board compiler means a hypothetical polynomial-line ternary proof must, on a graph supplied for these parameters, have some block in the intermediate projected-rank range \(R<r_a<Q_*\). It does not show that every proof can avoid this window, nor that high full-board rank stays high after restriction. The unrestricted lower bound remains open.

Next task. Address the intermediate window using source-compatible profile structure or a sharper reduction image, tested against the one-probe and two-column easy controls. A new hypothesis must reduce this actual remaining window, not merely restate that its rank is large.

Process and timing. Counting all distinct heads replaced an inapplicable coordinate-change argument with a direct reduction. Initial exploratory derivation preceded this cycle’s clock; subsequent work is instrumented, with interruption and pause-request handling mixed into the active windows. The user requested a pause after this checkpoint.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	18 min 1.39 s
Context restoration	39.22 s
Marked reading and review windows	20.46 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	15 min 41.89 s
Computation design and coding	0.15 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 10.50 s
Individually measured computation	0.09 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	9.09 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Broad geometry survey: filtered images and certificate costs must be controlled separately

Status: bounded literature and route review with elementary falsifying examples; no new PHP lower bound or unblocking theorem. Research pauses after this requested cycle. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Broad geometry survey: filtered images and certificate costs must be controlled separately”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-geometry-survey.

Question, stopping point and outcome

The missing implication is a uniform treatment of selector tuples in the intermediate projected-rank window of the low-or-dense criterion. At the user’s request, screen hyperplane arrangements, Hilbert functions/order shattering, regularity, algebraic cryptanalysis and scheme-theoretic language broadly. Stop after identifying their hypotheses, elementary failure controls and a concrete applicable next test; do not launch a new extended line. A privately supplied external conversation motivated the survey but is not a mathematical authority.

Outcome. No screened theorem closes the window. The useful refinement is to seek a degree-compatible reduction with certificates attached to its reducers, tracking both image dimension and derivation cost. This extends the already used head-count viewpoint rather than replacing the route with a generic geometry claim. The main notebook already discusses degree falls and semi-regular Hilbert-series heuristics; those are rediscovered connections, not new mechanisms.

1. Affine rank and density do not supply the needed restriction bound

Use rank of the linear part of the map \(x\mapsto(g_i(x))_i\), not dimension of a span containing constants. Its full-field image is an affine \(r\)-flat \(A\). A choice of \(r\) coordinate functions gives an injective projection of \(A\), so \(A\cap(\mathbb F_p^\times)^s\) has at most \((p-1)^r\) points. Each fiber is a translate of the common kernel. This validates the parallel-flat description on the full field, before intersecting with the Boolean cube. It does not identify the image of the Boolean cube with all of \(A\).

A direct falsification of rank-only shrinkage is \(g_i=1+x_i\), \(1\le i\le v\), over \(\mathbb F_3\). The linear rank is \(v\), but all values on the cube are nonzero, so the false set is the entire cube. Its degree-\(\le k\) restriction dimension is \(\sum_{j=0}^{\min(k,v)}\binom vj\): Boolean multilinear monomials are independent, as follows successively by evaluating each variable at zero and one. Moreover \(1-(1+x_i)^2=x_i-x_i^2\), already an old Boolean relation through two. Thus our certified nonlinear quotient correctly discards this example. It does not obstruct a theorem after appropriate cleanup, but raw affine rank cannot replace that cleanup. A vaguely specified factor “subexponential in rank” is not necessarily contradicted in the small-\(k\) regime; it must be small enough for the actual common-kernel inequality.

The density hint in the external discussion uses the support bound in the wrong direction. If a nonzero degree-\(k\) multilinear polynomial vanishes on \(S\), the bound on its support says \(1-|S|/2^v\ge2^{-k}\), not \(|S|/2^v\le2^{-k}\). The support bound follows by induction: for \(f=x_v a+b\), if \(a\ne0\), each assignment where \(a\ne0\) has at least one nonzero extension; otherwise discard \(x_v\). Sparse sets alone do not give a good filtered-image estimate: the \(v\) unit vectors have density \(v/2^v\), yet the coordinate functions restrict to \(v\) independent functions on them. No asymptotic theorem is inferred from a density heuristic.

2. Standard monomials are relevant; ordinary lexicographic order needs care

Mészáros–Rónyai, Standard Monomials and Extremal Vector Systems, §§1.2–1.3 relates shattering, standard monomials and coordinate downshifts. Its account distinguishes arbitrary term orders from lex orders and provides special criteria for order-independent bases. This supports using the framework, not assuming that a lex basis preserves total-degree filtration.

Here is an exact four-point control over any field. Let \(S=\{(yz,y,z):y,z\in\{0,1\}\}\). The vanishing ideal is generated by \(x-yz,y^2-y,z^2-z\): substitution leaves the Boolean two-variable quotient, whose evaluations on four points are independent. For lex order \(x>y>z\), these generators give standard monomials \(1,y,z,yz\), only three of degree at most one. But \(1,x,y,z\) restrict to \(1,yz,y,z\), four independent functions. Hence \(H_S(1)=4\), not three. A degree-compatible order, or a separately justified filtered basis, is necessary for the intended degree count. This control audits a potential use of order shattering; it does not refute the cited results.

The existing dense-head count already implements a partial standard-monomial argument with a degree-compatible order and explicit certificates. Its image may exceed the true Hilbert function because its reducers need not form a Gröbner basis. Improving that overestimate with cheaply derived additional heads is a concrete possibility; semantic Hilbert bounds alone would not provide those certificates.

3. Regularity has the right vocabulary but the wrong automatic conclusion

Derksen–Sidman bounds the regularity of the homogeneous ideal of an arrangement of \(d\) projective linear subspaces by \(d\). Applied naively to exponentially many components this does not meet our budget. Intersecting with the Boolean cube and using the original selector generators introduce further obligations; the arrangement ideal is not automatically the required presentation of our truncated consequence space.

Caminata–Gorla, Solving degree, last fall degree, and related invariants, Theorem 3.1, separates solving degree into last fall degree and the largest reduced-Gröbner-basis degree for a degree-compatible order. Their regularity study stresses hypotheses and homogenizing the supplied equations. This is useful orientation for the missing certificate cost; no theorem from these papers is imported as a PC or NS bound here. Solving-degree algorithms, bounded PC closure and NS certificates need their own exact translation.

In particular, a low-degree basis of the final ideal does not itself bound the degree needed to obtain that basis from the given axioms. For an unsatisfiable PHP system the unrestricted ideal is the unit ideal, yet its low-degree consequence spaces are precisely what the lower bound studies. Homogenizing an ideal and homogenizing a chosen generator list must not be interchanged without accounting for saturation and degree falls.

4. Semi-regularity, arrangements and schemes: promising language, missing hypotheses

Bardet–Faugère–Salvy–Spaenlehauer analyze Boolean quadratic solving under explicit algebraic assumptions. Arbitrary proof-derived selectors over \(\mathbb F_3\), together with structured PHP relations, do not come with those genericity assumptions. Search found the main notebook’s no-fall criterion and semi-regular-series discussion; its closure condition is an obligation, not a free theorem about augmented sources. The new literature connection does not discharge it.

Arrangement point counts or intersection data alone do not control the total-degree filtration of restrictions to the Boolean cube. No applicable arrangement-complement theorem was established in this short screen. The ordinary false-set ideal contains Booleanity, and its coordinate ring is a quotient of \(\prod_{a\in\{0,1\}^v}\mathbb F_p\): evaluation gives this isomorphism, with point indicators \(\prod_{a_i=1}x_i\prod_{a_i=0}(1-x_i)\). Every ideal in that product is a product of zero or whole-field ideals, so these quotients are reduced. Thus nilpotent structure is not the source of the semantic-versus-certificate gap here; the degree filtration and original presentation are. Homogenization can retain useful information at infinity, so zero-dimensionality is not a reason to dismiss all regularity or scheme methods. No positive-dimensional relaxation or base-change argument with the required quantitative transfer was found.

Route decision and concrete next test

Keep the unrestricted odd-prime PHP goal and the intermediate-rank obligation. Refine the next test to modest-degree Macaulay consequences of the actual selectors together with permitted old relations, retaining explicit NS witnesses for every new reducer. Compare their standard-monomial image bound with the same separated space \(W_k\), and independently track the cost of expressing a kernel weight in the original generators. Require the sum of image dimensions across all blocks to be strictly smaller than \(\dim W_k\), and require the resulting weighted companion and field certificates to remain inside the graph’s PC ceiling. Merely computing a smaller semantic Hilbert function, or a low-degree final basis, is not success.

Before a substantial computation, test the proposed criterion on the already recorded common-factor, two-column and reserve-coordinate controls. Stop or redirect if image savings require unaffordable certificate degrees, or if an allowed control defeats a uniform claim. This is a more specific experiment within the current route, not an assertion that higher-degree completion will solve it. The disequality compiler remains an alternative requiring an efficient domain-aware equation conversion.

Verification and provenance. The examples above were checked by their explicit symbolic arguments; no numerical sweep, dependency installation or formalization was performed. Primary-source scope was checked through the linked public pages and passages on 21 September 2026. An attempted older author-hosted lex-game PDF failed; the accessible Mészáros–Rónyai paper supplied the limited standard-monomial facts used here. No third-party full text is copied into the repository. Initial task framing preceded the clock; this cycle stops at the survey and checkpoint.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 29.79 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 10.13 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 54.28 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	7.77 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	17.61 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 2.

21 September 2026 — Full Boolean ideal completion cannot repair the absolute image bound

Status: working exact image obstruction with finite modular controls. It rules out a Boolean-only dimension shortcut, not PHP-relative reduction or the desired lower bound. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Full Boolean ideal completion cannot repair the absolute image bound”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-triple-exact-image.

Missing implication and test. The intermediate-rank selector case needs a simultaneous kernel whose certificates fit the graph degree budget. The geometry survey suggested additional certified reducers. Before a general completion computation, test whether unrestricted Boolean ideal completion can uniformly supply enough image contraction. Reuse the actual selector family from the reserve-coordinate control, now counting all coordinates. Stop at its exact filtered image and compare it with the existing graph guarantee.

Exact filtered quotient for the ternary triple family

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take \(r\ge1\) disjoint triples \((x_i,y_i,z_i)\), \(s=3r\), and actual selector inputs \(q_i=1-(x_i+y_i+z_i)^2\). Let \(S\) be their common-zero set on the Boolean cube and let \(J\) be generated by all \(q_i\) and Boolean equations. Then the associated graded Hilbert series of the total-degree filtration of \(\mathbb F_3[X]/J\) is

\[ (1+3t+2t^2)^r=(1+2t)^r(1+t)^r. \tag{TI-series} \]

In particular, the dimension \(H_S(k)\) of restrictions of degree-\(\le k\) polynomials is the sum of the coefficients through \(k\). The standard monomials are exactly the squarefree monomials containing no pair \(x_iy_i\), for a degree-compatible order with \(x_i>y_i>z_i\) in each triple. The original degree-two selector/Boolean generators already give this exact image; higher-degree completion cannot improve its dimension.

Proof in one triple. The false set consists of the six assignments of weights one and two; \(000\) and \(111\) are excluded. Modulo Booleanity through two,

\[ \bar q=1-x-y-z+xy+xz+yz,\qquad z\bar q\equiv xyz \quad\text{modulo Booleanity through three}. \]

Thus every squarefree monomial reduces, without increasing degree, to the span of \(1,x,y,z,xz,yz\): use \(\bar q\) for \(xy\), and \(z\bar q\) for \(xyz\). Each replacement has an NS witness from the original selector and Boolean equations at the degree of the replaced monomial. These six functions are independent on the six points. Indeed, vanishing of \(a_0+a_xx+a_yy+a_zz+a_{xz}xz+a_{yz}yz\) at the three singleton assignments gives \(a_x=a_y=a_z=-a_0\). Evaluation at \(110\) gives \(a_0=0\); evaluation at \(101\) and \(011\) then gives \(a_{xz}=a_{yz}=0\). So the quotient has no additional relations among these monomials, and its degree counts are \(1,3,2\).

For disjoint triples the evaluation matrix on product points is the tensor product of these invertible six-by-six matrices. Products of the six local basis elements are therefore independent. Local degree-preserving reductions span every filtered piece by products of total degree at most the cutoff. This proves (TI-series), the exact restriction dimension and the equality of \(J\) with the vanishing ideal of \(S\). The same argument shows that reducing only by Booleanity and the \(\bar q_i\) in the indicated degree-compatible order has these standard monomials: they span the quotient, are independent, and the leading forbidden pairs are \(x_iy_i\). All reduction witnesses retain their original degree ceiling.

The tuple has nonlinear rank exactly \(r\) modulo Booleanity and affine polynomials, since each \(\bar q_i\) has its own unique \(x_iy_i\) coefficient. This is a statement about the Boolean quotient, not a claim that its rank remains \(r\) modulo graph-PHP relations.

An actual-image obstruction, not just a loose upper estimate

For \(1\le k\le s/4\), count ordered \(k\)-subsets avoiding the \(r\) disjoint forbidden pairs. After \(j\) distinct allowed vertices have been chosen, at most \(j\) additional vertices are forbidden partners, so at least \(s-2j\) choices remain. Hence

\[ H_S(k)\ \ge\ \frac{\prod_{j=0}^{k-1}(s-2j)}{k!} \ \ge\ \binom sk\exp(-k^2/s). \tag{TI-lower} \]

For the second inequality, divide by \(\binom sk\) and apply \(\log(1-u)\ge-u/(1-u)\) to \(u=j/(s-j)\). The logarithm of the ratio is at least \(-\sum_{j<k}j/(s-2j)\ge-k(k-1)/(2(s-2k+2))\ge-k^2/s\). This is an exact inequality, with no probabilistic independence assumption.

Set \(s=15(N+1)\) and \(r=5(N+1)\). The available graph guarantee is \(L=\tfrac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk\). Therefore

\[ \frac{H_S(k)}{L}\ge 2\exp\!\left((5/N-1/s)k^2\right)>1. \]

Even the true full-cube restriction dimension cannot satisfy the sufficient absolute comparison \(H_S(k)<L\), already for one such block. Any linear reduction whose kernel consists of polynomials in \(J\) has image dimension at least \(H_S(k)\): its kernel is contained in the kernel of evaluation on \(S\), and rank-nullity applies. Thus arbitrary Boolean ideal completion, even with certificates free, cannot repair that particular comparison.

This strengthens the earlier disjoint-head estimate obstruction on a legal selector family: that record compared an upper estimate with a guaranteed lower estimate; here the actual Boolean image is already too large. It refines the prior reserve-coordinate example rather than introducing a new family. Its point density is \((3/4)^r\), exponentially small, while its low-degree image remains large. The obstacle is dimension relative to the guaranteed separator, not sparse point counting.

Limits, exact controls and route decision

The conclusion does not assert that the restriction of a particular \(W_k\) is injective, that the true graph-separated space has dimension only \(L\), or that the image remains large after adding bounded-degree old PHP relations. The full PHP ideal is the unit ideal and must not be used as an uncosted semantic quotient. Nor does the Boolean rank calculation identify the projected graph rank needed in the low-or-dense theorem.

An exact modular checker enumerated at most 64 Boolean assignments and 64 monomials. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), filtered ranks were \(1,4,6,6\) for one triple and \(1,7,20,32,36,36,36\) for two, agreeing with (TI-series). A field-change control over \(\mathbb F_5\), using the actual selectors \(1-L^4\), has ranks \(1,4,7,7\); the ternary formula correctly fails there. Complete results and the adjacent C++ checker are retained. These are bounded tests of the symbolic proof, not graph-PHP or asymptotic checks.

Next action. Continue the intermediate-rank obligation using the image of the actual separated space modulo a degree-bounded span generated by selectors and old graph relations, with explicit certificates. Do not perform a generic Boolean-only completion sweep: this exact control shows it cannot yield the required universal absolute bound. A successful relative estimate must retain the same \(W_k\), graph and degree ceiling and handle cheap-profile controls; otherwise reconsider the source-specific route.

Contribution and process assessment. This cycle discharges a falsification test, not the main missing implication: it makes the dependence on PHP-relative structure unavoidable for the proposed completion approach, and reusing an existing control avoided an uninformative large computation. No framework change was needed.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 56.29 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 34.98 s
Computation design and coding	38.76 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 33.30 s
Individually measured computation	0.09 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	9.16 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Row-local selectors enter the all-prime matching-reader endpoint

Status: working all-prime source exclusion and restricted-query Res(Lin) consequence for row support \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\), \(\alpha<1/5\). Unrestricted spread-out forms remain open. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Row-local selectors enter the all-prime matching-reader endpoint”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-row-local-switching.

Question and change of approach. The intermediate-rank case needs PHP-specific structure after the exact Boolean-image control. Before computing new relative kernels, inspect the recent main-notebook empty-aware switching theorem. It applies to actual incompatible matching terms and does not charge their number. Test whether bounded-row selectors have that representation with original-generator certificates, allowing different row supports for every input. Stop at a complete source conversion and its parameter range, or a failed degree ledger.

Certified expansion of one row-local selector

Use full functional unary PHP on \((n+1)\)-by-\(n\) over a prime field \(\mathbb F_p\). Suppose an affine form \(L\), modulo constant combinations of the old row equations, has a representative \(L'\) supported on a set \(A\) of \(t\) pigeon rows. Put \(\delta=p-1\), \(q=1-L^\delta\), and

\[ G=\sum_{\substack{\phi:A\hookrightarrow[n]\\L'(e_\phi)=0}} \prod_{i\in A}X_{i,\phi(i)}. \tag{RL-expansion} \]

Then \(q-G\in I_{\max(\delta,t)}(\Gamma_{\rm fun})\). All coefficients in \(G\) are one, and its matching terms are pairwise incompatible. The empty-row case is a constant zero or one. This is ordinary NS membership in the original ring, not just equality on models of an unsatisfiable base.

Proof. First \(L-L'\) has an old row certificate through one. Factoring \(L^\delta-(L')^\delta\) gives a certificate through \(\delta\). For any polynomial \(P\) supported on \(A\), reduce powers by Booleanity and monomials using two cells in one row by same-row exclusions, preserving the original degree. Each remaining monomial chooses at most one cell per row. Multiply it by the row sums of its missing rows to obtain a homogeneous row-state expansion. Telescoping these multiplications uses row-generator witnesses through \(t\). Thus

\[ P-\sum_{\phi:A\to[n]}P(e_\phi)\prod_{i\in A}X_{i,\phi(i)} \in I_{\max(\deg P,t)}. \]

The coefficients are fixed by evaluation at one-hot row assignments, where the row-state monomials are the point indicators. Apply this to \(P=1-(L')^\delta\); Fermat makes every coefficient zero or one. Every noninjective assignment term contains an old same-column collision, with a certificate through \(t\), and can be removed. Distinct injective assignments on the same \(A\) differ on some row, so their terms are incompatible by a same-row exclusion. This proves the assertion. It extends the monomial-reduction method of the two-row interpolation lemma; that lemma's recorded binary Lean coverage does not verify the present all-prime, arbitrary-row statement.

Complete source conversion, with the cost charged before switching

Let a complete accuracy-one block have old selectors \(q_i\) as inputs, with every support size at most \(R\). Replace them by the corresponding \(G_i\), keeping the same coefficient variables and all equations \(r_i^p-r_i\). Write \(C=\max(p-1,R,1)\), \(P_q=1-\sum_i r_iq_i\), \(P_G=1-\sum_i r_iG_i\), and

\[ E=P_q-P_G=\sum_i r_i(G_i-q_i)\in I_{C+1}. \]

This certificate is over the old generators but in the ring including the unchanged fresh coefficients. For every original companion,

\[ q_iP_q=G_iP_G+(q_i-G_i)P_G+q_iE. \tag{RL-companion} \]

The first term is a target companion of degree at most \(2R+1\). The second has an old certificate through \(C+R+1\), and the third through \(C+(p-1)+1\). All are at most \(2C+1\). Fields and old axioms are unchanged. Hence an ordinary source PC refutation through \(D\) gives a target PC refutation through

\[ D_*=\max(D,2C+1). \]

The replacement is simultaneous over the family; costs do not accumulate over inputs, blocks or proof height. A proof line is reused once derived. No degree-preserving NS-flattening assertion is needed. A block may have inputs on entirely different row sets; no common small row support for the whole tuple is assumed.

Source exclusion for every fixed exponent below one fifth

Working theorem. Fix a prime \(p\), \(0\le\alpha<1/5\), a polynomial block-count bound \(M\le n^c\), and fixed polylogarithmic factors. Suppose each input of each complete accuracy-one selector block is \(1-L^{p-1}\), where \(L\) is supported modulo rows on at most \(R\le n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows. Then for sufficiently large \(n\), no ordinary PC refutation of polylogarithmic degree exists over full functional unary PHP with these blocks and all coefficient fields.

Proof and parameters. Choose a fixed \(\beta\) with

\[ \alpha<\beta<(1-\alpha)/4,\qquad N=\lceil n^\beta\rceil. \]

This interval is nonempty precisely for \(\alpha<1/5\). Apply (RL-expansion) and (RL-companion), obtaining \(D_*=n^{\alpha+o(1)}\) (an upper bound also when \(\alpha=0\)). For every block, form the ordered disjunction of all matching terms appearing in its inputs. Term width is at most \(\max(1,R)\). The empty-aware switching estimate on a uniform partial matching leaving \((N+1)\)-by-\(N\) gives, for any fixed positive integer \(s\), a depth-\(s\) failure probability at most

\[ 2\left((N+2)\sqrt{\frac{8\max(1,R)N(N+1)}{n-N+1}}\right)^s =n^{-s(1-\alpha-4\beta)/2+o(1)}. \]

Its small-parameter and \(s\le N\) hypotheses hold for large \(n\). Choose \(s>2c/(1-\alpha-4\beta)\). The union bound over \(M\) blocks is \(o(1)\), so some restriction gives every block a tree of height below \(s\). The estimate is independent of the number of terms: the possibly large row-state expansions create no new blocks and no hidden factor \(n^R\) in this probability.

Use the complete matching-reader coefficient map from that same record, with \(T\le s\). Terms within each input remain incompatible under restriction. Its degree-\(T\) coefficients have all original companion images certified within \(T e_i\) and all coefficient-field images within \(Tp\). Therefore the target proof becomes an old functional-PHP PC refutation through

\[ B=sD_*=n^{\alpha+o(1)}=o(N). \]

The all-field old matching barrier excludes this once \(N\ge2B-1\). There are no remaining affine-source blocks in this application, so the mixed affine endpoint's additional degree conditions are unnecessary. This proves the theorem. The inherited switching and matching statements remain working research dependencies; the computation below does not independently verify them.

Consequence for ordinary unary PHP proof lines

The full-board compiler turns a hypothetical \(n^c\)-line standard syntactic Res(Lin) refutation over fixed \(\mathbb F_p\) into at most \(n^c\) complete selector blocks at degree \(4p-1\). Its span compression can select actual selector inputs, so row locality is retained. Thus, for every fixed \(\alpha<1/5\), the subclass in which every equation form is supported modulo rows on at most \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) pigeon rows has superpolynomial proof-line complexity for ordinary unary PHP. Strengthening the algebraic base to functional PHP is legitimate for excluding a refutation of the weaker ordinary CNF; functionality is not silently assumed in that CNF.

Equivalently, a hypothetical polynomial-line unrestricted refutation must contain a form exceeding that row-support budget, for each fixed \(\alpha<1/5\) and sufficiently large \(n\). This is a necessary locality obstruction, not an unrestricted line lower bound. It does not cover a single column-local form with coefficients varying across all rows; the earlier ternary row-or-column-query result therefore supplies a different scope. It is also stronger than requiring every whole clause to live on a common small row set: different inputs may collectively read every row.

The previous triple-family Boolean-image barrier is compatible with this theorem. Each triple selector reads at most three rows when interpreted in the full incidence board, so such complete-board selector families are covered regardless of block rank or how many triples a block contains. Their cheap removal uses a matching restriction and certified PHP structure, not a falsely improved full-cube Hilbert bound. This is a concrete family-level way around that obstruction.

Checks, remaining gap and process

Exact ordinary-polynomial NS identities were generated and checked over \(\mathbb F_3\) for one, two and three rows on four columns, and over \(\mathbb F_5\) for three rows. Certificate ceilings were respectively \(2,2,3,4\), exactly \(\max(p-1,t)\); removing a target matching term makes the certificate identity fail. A weak-row control over \(\mathbb F_3\) has four ones in its first row and one in a separate fifth column in its second row. It satisfies Booleanity, row sums and column collisions but violates same-row exclusions. For \(L=X_{00}+X_{01}\), its selector value is zero while the row-state expansion evaluates to two. Thus functionality is an essential hypothesis of this expansion. The checker explicitly verifies the retained axioms on this assignment. Full certificates, encoding and controls, with the adjacent C++ source, are retained. No new finite run purports to prove switching or asymptotic exclusion.

Remaining implication. The unrestricted goal still requires handling forms spread across many rows. Row support is different from nonlinear quotient rank; this theorem neither bounds that support in every short proof nor proves a complete rank/profile dichotomy. Next inspect whether a source-compatible small set of shared global probes can reduce those forms to row-local ones without multiplying profile cost by the number of inputs or blocks. Test the interface against dense low-rank forms and the one-probe control before attempting a broad branching construction.

Process assessment. Reading the newly merged matching-reader result before implementing relative matrices exposed an already proved stronger interface; exact original-generator expansion, rather than another generic kernel computation, supplied a new scoped endpoint. The proof-line consequence is a working application, with no independent novelty claim or new Lean coverage.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 33.55 s
Marked reading and review windows	9.00 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 6.22 s
Computation design and coding	3 min 10.42 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 56.80 s
Individually measured computation	0.31 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	10.81 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Clausewise logarithmic global probes can be combined with row-local queries

Status: working complete source transfer and scoped all-prime exclusion. The probe-plus-local decomposition is an explicit hypothesis, not a theorem about arbitrary clauses. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Clausewise logarithmic global probes can be combined with row-local queries”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-probe-row-local.

Missing implication and stopping point. The row-local theorem leaves spread-out forms. Test whether a shared global probe part can be handled without multiplying a cost for every input, fixing an unsupported affine fiber, or dropping fresh coefficient fields. The all-prime one-probe map and binary multicoordinate transfer suggest exact residue interpolation. Stop at a complete multi-probe ledger and its affordable scope; do not assume every clause has the required decomposition.

Setup and statement

Fix a prime \(p\), \(0\le\alpha<1/5\), and constants \(c,c_0\). Let \(M\le n^c\) complete accuracy-one old-selector blocks be given over full functional unary PHP. In each block \(a\), assume there are old affine probes \(U_{a,1},\ldots,U_{a,t_a}\), with \(t_a\le c_0\log_p n\), such that every input form admits

\[ L_{a,i}\equiv \ell_{a,i}+\sum_{j=1}^{t_a}b_{a,i,j}U_{a,j} \pmod{\operatorname{span}\{\rho_h-1\}}, \qquad |\operatorname{rows}(\ell_{a,i})| \le n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n . \tag{PL-setup} \]

The probes may be dense, dependent and different in every block. The local row sets may differ in every input. Then the source has no polylog-degree ordinary PC refutation for sufficiently large \(n\), with all coefficient fields retained. Consequently ordinary unary-PHP Res(Lin) over this fixed field has no polynomial-line refutation if every clause's forms admit (PL-setup) with these fixed bounds. This remains a restricted-source theorem.

The complete interpolation map

Work first with one block and \(t\) probes, putting \(\delta=p-1\), \(d=\delta t\). Remove scalar selector inputs first: zero inputs can have their coefficients set to zero, while an input one removes its whole block by the unit map. Every remaining actual input \(q_i=1-L_i^\delta\) has degree \(\delta\), so its original companion degree is \(e=2\delta+1\).

For each \(u\in\mathbb F_p^t\), define a row-local branch selector and an old residue indicator

\[ q_{u,i}=1-\left(\ell_i+\sum_jb_{i,j}u_j\right)^\delta,\qquad \chi_u=\prod_{j=1}^t\left(1-(U_j-u_j)^\delta\right). \]

Introduce one complete fresh block on \((q_{u,i})_i\), with coefficients \(R_{u,i}\), product \(P_u=1-\sum_iR_{u,i}q_{u,i}\), companions \(q_{u,i}P_u\) and all fields \(R_{u,i}^p-R_{u,i}\). Define

\[ \Phi(r_i)=\beta_i=\sum_u\chi_uR_{u,i},\quad V=\sum_u\chi_uP_u,\quad T=d+1. \tag{PL-map} \]

The sum of the univariate residue indicators is identically one: it has degree at most \(p-1\) and agrees with one at every field value. Hence \(\sum_u\chi_u=1\) as an ordinary polynomial identity. On each old Boolean assignment exactly one \(\chi_u\) is one, even when the probes are dependent. No equation fixing a probe value is added.

Original-degree certificates and all fresh fields

Let \(E_{u,i}=\chi_u(q_i-q_{u,i})\). First replace \(L_i\) by the right side of (PL-setup); factoring the difference of \(\delta\)-th powers costs \(\delta\) in old row certificates. After that replacement \(E_{u,i}\) vanishes at every old Boolean assignment, and Boolean division gives the remaining witness. Thus \(E_{u,i}\in I_{d+\delta}(\Gamma_{\rm fun})\). Keeping the new \(R\)'s formal gives the exact comparison

\[ \Delta=\Phi(P_q)-V=-\sum_{u,i}R_{u,i}E_{u,i} \in I_{d+\delta+1}(\Gamma_{\rm fun}). \]

Every original companion has the decomposition

\[ q_i\Phi(P_q) =q_i\Delta+\sum_u\chi_u(q_{u,i}P_u)+\sum_uE_{u,i}P_u . \tag{PL-companion} \]

All three certificate costs are at most \(d+2\delta+1\le T(2\delta+1)=Te\). The middle term uses actual branch companions. The other two use old certificates with their original degree charged; they are not free equalities in a semantic PHP quotient.

Frobenius supplies

\[ \beta_i^p-\beta_i =\sum_u\chi_u^p(R_{u,i}^p-R_{u,i}) +\sum_u(\chi_u^p-\chi_u)R_{u,i}. \tag{PL-fields} \]

The first sum uses genuine branch-field axioms through \(pd+p=pT\). The second has old Boolean witnesses through \(pd+1\le pT\). The coefficients are field-valued, not assumed Boolean. As a simple falsifying control for the wrong domain, over \(\mathbb F_3\) choose any old assignment and set its selected branch coefficient to two: then \(\beta_i=2\), its field equation holds, and \(\beta_i^2-\beta_i=2\ne0\).

The coefficient substitution has degree at most \(T\), fixes old variables and is simultaneous for every block with disjoint branch coefficients. All original axioms have images certified within \(T\) times their original degree. Consequently ordinary PC replay takes degree \(D\) to at most \(TD\); substituted NS cofactors also obey the same bound. There is no factor for the number of inputs, overlaps of probes, blocks or proof height. This is the multicoordinate prime-field extension of the cited interpolation mechanism, now with row-local selector branches rather than assumed affine branches.

Inventory and composition with the row-local endpoint

There are at most \(\sum_a p^{t_a}\le n^{c+c_0}\) branch blocks, and \(\max_aT_a=O(\log n)\). For polylogarithmic \(D\), the branch source still has polylogarithmic PC degree. Every branch input is a selector on at most \(R=n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows. Apply the row-local source exclusion. More explicitly, its matching expansion first costs

\[ D_*=\max\!\left(TD,\,2\max(p-1,R,1)+1\right); \]

it does not multiply the row-expansion cost by \(T\). Choose \(\alpha<\beta<(1-\alpha)/4\), leave \(N=\lceil n^\beta\rceil\) holes and choose constant switching height \(s>2(c+c_0)/(1-\alpha-4\beta)\). The resulting old degree \(sD_*=n^{\alpha+o(1)}\) is \(o(N)\), giving the contradiction. The full-board compiler supplies the stated proof-line consequence. Selecting actual input positions during span compression preserves a supplied common probe decomposition.

The exponential branch count has been paid, not hidden. For a polynomially growing \(t\), this application no longer has polynomial branch inventory; a new switching and degree argument would be required. Nor is “low rank” of an unrelated quadratic representation a certificate of (PL-setup). The full old coefficient matrix of the actual forms and the allowed row-equivalence rewrites matter.

Contribution, limits and next test

This adds dense global directions to the row-local endpoint without requiring a common local row support for the clause or common probes across the whole proof. It handles, for example, forms \(L_i=U+\ell_i\) with one arbitrary dense \(U\) and independently chosen allowed local \(\ell_i\). Families whose entire affine form span has logarithmic dimension are included with \(\ell_i=0\). Two-row mixed selectors from the earlier two-column control are included with no probes. These are consistency checks of the stated scope, not a classification of arbitrary high-rank sources.

The main missing implication is now explicit: a hypothetical short unrestricted proof might contain blocks having no affordable probe-plus-row-local decomposition and not covered by the dense graph-rank alternative. Nothing here rules that out. Before further profile refinements, test a proposed structural dichotomy on families of independent dense forms and inspect how a matching restriction changes the relevant affine and selector ranks. A mere restatement in terms of a decomposition parameter would not advance the unrestricted goal.

Review and process. Checked the literal partition identity, old row/Boolean witnesses, actual companion degrees, prime-field domains and the polynomial branch count. No numerical sweep or new formalization was needed for this extension of the recorded interpolation argument. Reusing that complete map avoided an invalid argument that would fix an affine fiber and then apply an unconditioned PHP theorem.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 35.79 s
Marked reading and review windows	40.30 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 48.21 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 58.94 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	8.34 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Dense selectors defeat the fixed-size dichotomy but become dense enough on smaller boards

Status: working probabilistic control with explicit bounds and local exact checks. It falsifies a fixed-size structural shortcut and identifies a smaller-board escape; no arbitrary-family theorem. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Dense selectors defeat the fixed-size dichotomy but become dense enough on smaller boards”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-dense-selector-scales.

General claim under review. The intended route needs every source block to become removable within one common degree budget. The current sufficient classes are small nonlinear rank, many quadratic heads, and logarithmic probes plus row-local remainders. Test the missing implication that choosing a sixteen-neighbor graph at the same board size always puts a block in one of these classes. Then test whether a further matching restriction changes the answer. Do not identify a counterexample to that fixed-size implication with a lower bound against all normalizers.

A simultaneous two-size control over \(\mathbb F_3\)

Let \(m=N+1\), \(h=\lceil100N\ln N\rceil\), and \(L=\lceil\sqrt N\rceil\). For sufficiently large \(N\), there are \(h\) linearly independent homogeneous forms \(F_1,\ldots,F_h\) in the full incidence variables of the \(m\)-by-\(N\) board with the following properties for the single legal selector tuple \(q_i=1-F_i^2\).

For every graph with sixteen distinct neighbors per row and every distinguished-neighbor choice, restrict to the graph and eliminate the distinguished variable by the row equation. The nonlinear selector rank modulo old \(I_2\) and affine polynomials lies strictly above \(N\) and at most \(h\).
On each such projected graph, no sublist of \(N\) of the actual forms admits a shared-affine-probe-plus-row-local representation with at most \(T_0=\lfloor N/10\rfloor\) probes and at most \(R_0=\lfloor N/(100\ln N)\rfloor\) rows in each local remainder. The probes, sublist and local supports may be chosen after the graph. In particular this excludes the proved logarithmic-probe/subfifth-row criterion for the whole list and for selected-input bases of its nonlinear quotient.
After every partial matching restriction leaving \((L+1)\)-by-\(L\), and on every sixteen-neighbor graph and distinguished projection of that residual board, the nonlinear selector rank is strictly above \(L^2\).

Sampling the full-board coefficient vectors independently and uniformly over \(\mathbb F_3\) has all these properties with probability tending to one. This is a quantitative construction argument, not an assigned probability that the research goal will succeed.

Dimension and uniform distribution after projection

Consider any sixteen-neighbor graph on an \((a+1)\)-by-\(a\) board. There are \(v=15(a+1)\) nondistinguished coordinates \(Y\). The old projected quadratic generators number at most

\[ 16(a+1)+\binom{16}{2}(a+1) +\sum_j\binom{d_j}{2} \le (136+8a)(a+1), \]

because \(d_j\le a+1\) and \(\sum_jd_j=16(a+1)\). Projected row equations vanish. All other individual projected generators still have degree two: their quadratic parts are squares, products in one row, or products across two distinct rows. Thus the quadratic parts of old \(I_2\) have dimension at most this generator count. Modding out affine polynomials leaves a quotient \(Q\) of the homogeneous quadratic coefficient space with

\[ \dim Q\ge \binom{v+1}{2}-(136+8a)(a+1) =\frac{(a+1)(209(a+1)-241)}2. \tag{DS-room} \]

This is only the degree-two NS quotient; no PC saturation or unrestricted ideal is inserted. Degree-one multiples of original row equations project to zero, so they add no missing quadratic directions.

For a sampled full-board form, the projected coefficient of \(Y_{ij}\) is \(c_{ij}-c_{i,p_i}\). Conditional on the distinguished coefficients, the nondistinguished coefficients remain independent uniform field elements. Hence the whole \(v\)-vector is uniform. A preceding matching restriction only adds a constant and discards other coefficients, so the same assertion holds for every fixed matching restriction and graph. Constants do not affect the nonlinear class of \(1-F_i^2\). Different sampled forms stay independent.

A rank-tail estimate for quadratic selectors

For uniform \(b\in\mathbb F_3^v\), the quadratic class is that of \(-(b\cdot Y)^2\). Squares span all homogeneous quadratics: use the coordinate squares and \((Y_j+Y_k)^2-Y_j^2-Y_k^2=2Y_jY_k\). Thus every nonzero linear functional on \(Q\) gives a nonzero quadratic polynomial in \(b\). Such a polynomial is nonzero on at least one third of \(\mathbb F_3^v\). For completeness, the usual degree-two root bound follows by induction: choose a variable of degree \(d\ge1\), bound vanishing of its leading coefficient by \((2-d)/3\), and otherwise bound its univariate zeros by \(d/3\).

Until the current span fills \(Q\), a functional annihilating that span therefore proves a conditional probability at least \(1/3\) of a rank increment. For any integer \(u<\dim Q\), \(u\le h\),

\[ \Pr(\operatorname{rank}\{q_1,\ldots,q_h\}\le u) \le \binom hu(2/3)^{h-u}. \tag{DS-tail} \]

Indeed, if the final rank is at most \(u\), all successful increments lie in some set of \(u\) positions. For a fixed such set, every other position must fail; on that event the preceding rank never exceeds \(u\), so the conditional failure bound remains valid. Union over the position sets. This also works when \(h>\dim Q\); only \(u<\dim Q\) is required.

There are at most \(N^{16(N+1)}\) ordered graph choices at the original size, which also cover all distinguished choices. Apply (DS-tail) with \(u=N\). The logarithm of the union bound is at most

\[ 16(N+1)\ln N+N\ln(eh/N)-(h-N)\ln(3/2) =\bigl(16-100\ln(3/2)+o(1)\bigr)N\ln N\to-\infty. \]

Here (DS-room) exceeds \(N\). This proves property 1 with failure probability tending to zero.

Counting all probe-plus-local representations, including selected sublists

For a fixed original-size graph and a fixed sublist of \(N\) forms, its linear coefficient matrix is uniform in \(\mathbb F_3^{N\times v}\). Any proposed representation gives a matrix decomposition \(A=CU+B\), where \(U\) has \(T_0\) rows, \(C\) has \(T_0\) columns and each row of \(B\) is supported on at most \(R_0\) of the \(N+1\) pigeon blocks, each of size fifteen. Padding allows fewer probes. All affine constants can be absorbed in local constants and do not change this necessary coefficient condition.

The number of such matrices is at most

\[ 3^{T_0v+NT_0} \left((R_0+1)(N+1)^{R_0}3^{15R_0}\right)^N. \tag{DS-local-count} \]

This enumerates the probes and their coefficients as well as every local support; it does not fix a preferred basis. Dividing by \(3^{Nv}\), the base-three logarithm tends to a negative constant times \(Nv\). In particular it is at most \(-Nv/2\) for sufficiently large \(N\): \(T_0/v\to1/150\), \(T_0/N\to1/10\), \(R_0\log_3(N+1)/v\to1/(1500\ln3)\), and the remaining normalized terms vanish. These estimates leave ample room below one.

Union over at most \(\binom hN\le h^N\) sublists and \(N^{16(N+1)}\) graphs still tends to zero, since their logarithms are \(O(N\ln N)\) whereas \(Nv=\Theta(N^2)\). This proves property 2. Because the nonlinear rank is above \(N\), any basis selected from actual selector positions contains an \(N\)-sublist and cannot evade this direct form-decomposition control. More general degree-certified changes to the input representation are not excluded.

The smaller-board rank is already in the dense regime

The number of matching restrictions leaving \(L+1\) rows and \(L\) holes is at most \((N+1)^{2N}\). For each, there are at most \(L^{16(L+1)}\) residual graph choices. Apply (DS-tail) with \(u=L^2\), which is below (DS-room). The log union bound is at most

\[ 2N\ln(N+1)+16(L+1)\ln L+ L^2\ln(eh/L^2)-(h-L^2)\ln(3/2). \]

Since \(L^2=N+O(\sqrt N)\), this is \((2-100\ln(3/2)+o(1))N\ln N\), tending to minus infinity. This proves property 3. Finally, the probability that the original \(h\) coefficient vectors are dependent is at most \(3^{h-N(N+1)}\), by a union bound over nonzero combinations. It also tends to zero. All properties therefore hold simultaneously for some family.

At the original size the upper rank \(h=O(N\ln N)\) is below the dense threshold \(Q_*=\Theta(N^{3/2})\) for one block, while the lower rank \(N\) is above every fixed sublinear-power low threshold. Together with property 2, this refutes the proposed exhaustiveness of those direct sufficient cases on an unchanged board, even after selecting the sparse graph adaptively.

At the smaller size, however, \(L^2\) eventually exceeds its threshold \(Q_*=\Theta(L^{3/2})\). Choose the residual graph supplied by the separated-space lemma and apply the existing dense-source map. For any polylogarithmic requested proof degree in the original \(N\), the resulting degree \(O(\sqrt L\,\operatorname{polylog}L)\) is \(o(L)\), within the old barrier. Thus these very same selector blocks are removable by the existing dense endpoint after a further matching restriction. The control does not refute a structural alternative that is allowed to choose a smaller board. It supplies positive evidence for that precise escape on this random family, not a universal restriction theorem.

Checks and assessment of the line

An exact local check tested all 728 nonzero quadratic functionals in three variables over \(\mathbb F_3\), each on all 27 coefficient vectors. Minimum nonzero support was \(12/27\), above the conservative \(1/3\) used in the proof. Square coefficient vectors span dimension six; over \(\mathbb F_2\) the negative control has dimension only three, confirming that this argument must not be ported across characteristic two. A two-row, three-neighbor coefficient projection has exactly three preimages for each of its 243 projected coefficient/constant values. Full counts and scope and the adjacent checker are retained. No finite enumeration of the asymptotic graph family was attempted.

The earlier dense affine survival control already warned that literal killing does not follow from rank. The present test concerns ternary nonlinear quotient ranks on all sixteen-neighbor projections and their change under a smaller matching residual, rather than reusing that binary claim beyond its scope.

Route assessment. Further refinements of a fixed-size local/probe dichotomy will not settle the unrestricted goal: the explicit count above defeats its current direct form, including selected-input bases. The successful smaller-board test supports investigating a degree-certified alternative across residual sizes. The necessary next implication is deterministic control for arbitrary input families, including structured low-support families; random-coefficient success alone cannot establish it. Test a quantitative rank-survival/profile alternative under a common matching restriction, retaining old quotient certificates and the original degree budget, or find a family that defeats that stronger claim.

Process assessment. One family tested both the proposed obstruction and its smaller-board escape, preventing an overstatement that generic dense forms defeat the whole route. The initial counting idea arose during the preceding checkpoint; the detailed proof and exact checks belong to this cycle. No framework change or independent novelty claim was needed.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 58.88 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9 min 16.43 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 24.16 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 8.49 s
Individually measured computation	0.08 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	9.71 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Restricting before expansion removes the one-fifth row-support limit

Status: working all-prime refinement: any fixed sublinear power of per-input row support is allowed, also with clausewise logarithmic global probes. Arbitrary dense remainders remain open. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Restricting before expansion removes the one-fifth row-support limit”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-row-thinning.

Missing implication and test. The route needs a common restriction that puts arbitrary allowed blocks in a proved removable class. The dense-family review showed that changing board size matters. Test the cheap-profile side uniformly for every coefficient family whose individual row remainders have sublinear-power support. The previous one-fifth bound charged an expansion on the original board; first restrict the actual constant-degree source instead. Stop at a simultaneous support bound with all inventory, probe and degree costs preserved.

Statement and exact scope

Fix a prime \(p\), \(0\le\alpha<1\), and fixed polynomial/polylogarithmic bounds. Consider \(M\le n^c\) complete accuracy-one selector blocks over full functional \((n+1)\)-by-\(n\) PHP, with all coefficient fields and a requested polylogarithmic PC degree. In each block suppose

\[ L_{a,i}\equiv \ell_{a,i}+\sum_{j=1}^{t_a}b_{a,i,j}U_{a,j} \pmod{\operatorname{span}\{\rho_h-1\}}, \quad t_a\le c_0\log_p n,\quad |\operatorname{rows}(\ell_{a,i})|\le n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n . \tag{RT-source} \]

The global affine probes may differ between blocks, and row supports may differ between inputs. For sufficiently large \(n\), there is no such PC refutation. With \(t_a=0\), this includes every fixed exponent \(\alpha<1\) of per-input row support. Via the full-board compiler it gives the corresponding superpolynomial proof-line lower bound for ordinary unary-PHP Res(Lin) whose clauses admit (RT-source). It does not assert that arbitrary clauses admit it.

Compress the actual selector inventory before counting supports

Write \(\delta=p-1\) and \(v=n(n+1)\). In each tuple, remove scalar zero inputs by setting their coefficients to zero; an actual input one allows the unit map removing its block. From the remaining selectors choose a basis of their ordinary polynomial span, consisting of actual input positions. There are at most \(\binom{v+\delta}{\delta}\) positions. Set every nonselected original coefficient to zero and identify selected coefficients with the new block coefficients. The product becomes exactly the basis product. Every original input is a constant combination of selected inputs, so its companion is the same combination of their companions. All nonscalar selectors have actual degree \(\delta\), so this costs no additional degree; coefficient fields become either zero or the corresponding genuine new field equation.

This complete source compression preserves every raw coefficient use under substitution and preserves the supplied row/probe representations because the basis positions are actual selectors. Thus the total number \(K\) of row-support sets needing a union bound satisfies

\[ K\le M\binom{n(n+1)+p-1}{p-1}\le n^C \]

for some fixed \(C>c+2(p-1)\) and sufficiently large \(n\). No assumption that the original tuples were short is needed. No basis change in the affine forms themselves is declared a free clause transformation.

One restriction thins all local remainders

Choose \(0<\beta<1-\alpha\), set \(n_1=\lceil n^\beta\rceil\), and take a uniform partial matching leaving \(n_1+1\) rows and \(n_1\) holes. Its live row set \(S\) is a uniform \((n_1+1)\)-subset of the \(n+1\) rows. For any fixed support set \(A\) of size at most \(R=n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\), and any fixed positive integer \(u\),

\[ \Pr(|A\cap S|\ge u) \le \binom Ru\,\frac{(n_1+1)_u}{(n+1)_u} \le \binom Ru\left(\frac{n_1+1}{n+1}\right)^u \le n^{-u(1-\alpha-\beta)+o(1)} . \tag{RT-tail} \]

The first inequality unions over the \(u\)-subsets of \(A\). The second follows term by term from \((n_1+1-j)/(n+1-j)\le(n_1+1)/(n+1)\). This is sampling without replacement; no independence or negative-association assumption about different supports is used. Pick a fixed integer \(u>(C+1)/(1-\alpha-\beta)\). Union over all \(K\) supports gives failure probability \(o(1)\). Some single matching restriction therefore leaves fewer than \(u\) live rows in every local remainder simultaneously.

Assigned rows make only constant contributions to each affine form. Original row equations restrict to zero or to the residual row equations, so (RT-source) remains a certified identity modulo rows. Global probes remain old affine forms and retain their number, not their original support. The restricted old base is precisely functional \((n_1+1)\)-by-\(n_1\) PHP. Restricting the existing PC proof does not increase degree.

All parameters still fit the established endpoint

Since \(n_1\) is a fixed power of \(n\), polynomial inventory stays polynomial in \(n_1\), the requested degree stays polylogarithmic, and \(t_a=O(\log n)=O(\log n_1)\). Every local remainder now reads only the constant number \(u-1\) of rows. Apply the complete logarithmic-probe theorem on this residual board with its local-support exponent zero. Its underlying row-state expansion costs only \(O_p(u)\), independently of the original \(R\); that is the order-of-operations gain.

Explicitly, residue interpolation costs \(T=O(\log n_1)\), followed by degree

\[ D_*=\max\!\left(TD,\,2\max(p-1,u-1,1)+1\right) =\operatorname{polylog}n_1. \]

A further matching restriction at the established endpoint leaves a fixed positive power of \(n_1\) holes and yields constant-height matching-reader maps, whose old degree is still polylogarithmic. The all-field linear old barrier then applies. No degree factor \(R\), product of support sizes, or sum over blocks has been introduced. For zero probes, simply use the constant-row case of the earlier direct theorem.

The constant-degree full-board compiler gives the proof-line consequence. The earlier one-fifth theorem and its logarithmic-probe extension remain valid, but their original row-support exponent restriction is no longer the best available bound. This is a refinement by reordering certified operations, not a correction of their proofs.

Checks and remaining implication

The exact support checker enumerated all 4,368 five-row live sets among sixteen rows, for twenty support-size/threshold pairs. It verified the hypergeometric counts, the witness-subset union bound and its power upper bound using integer arithmetic. The full-support control retains all five live rows on every sample, demonstrating why this thinning argument does not automatically extend to unrestricted row supports. All counts and bounds and the adjacent C++ checker are retained. This finite check does not substitute for the asymptotic union bound or the inherited source theorems.

The existing sublinear-feature theorem charges a common feature span for a whole parent. Here the local supports are bounded per input and can collectively cover the board, so that earlier hypothesis is not being inferred from their individual sizes. The new common restriction is the needed additional mechanism.

Contribution and next task. One deterministic sufficient side of the across-size alternative is now uniform over all coefficients: fixed sublinear-power row remainders become constant-row remainders simultaneously. The remaining family may require \(n^{1-o(1)}\) rows in some remainders even after all logarithmic-probe choices, and need not behave like the random dense control. The next task is to test whether structured spread-out coefficient families acquire dense nonlinear rank at a common smaller scale or have another proved cheap profile. Do not extrapolate (RT-tail) past its positive exponent or confuse this necessary locality obstruction with the unrestricted lower bound.

Process assessment. Checking a cheap preliminary restriction before the expensive conversion removed an artificial exponent limit; the broad structural implication remains open. The initial source reading also included exploratory interpretation before the mathematics marker. No framework change or new formalization was required.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 9.87 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 5.50 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	8 min 0.73 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 29.91 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 24.26 s
Individually measured computation	0.08 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	9.37 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Weak-base compilation makes column-occupancy freezing available

Status: working weak-base compiler audit and scoped all-prime source exclusion. Ordinary PHP is the target; the functional variant cannot use this freezing step unchanged. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Weak-base compilation makes column-occupancy freezing available”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-weak-base-occupancy.

Question and stopping point. Test a structured spread-out family, the ternary forms \(\sigma_j+\sigma_k\) with \(\sigma_j=\sum_iX_{ij}\), whose selectors represent pairs of empty holes modulo column axioms. Their row support is large and they need not fit a small common probe span. Before building a new graph or symmetric-count argument, inspect existing occupancy tools. The recorded freezing map handles all column statistics, but only on the weak base. The required missing interface is therefore whether the ordinary-CNF compiler really needs functionality. Stop after auditing that interface and a complete application, keeping the two bases distinct.

The ordinary unary compiler needs only the weak linear-row base

Let \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) contain \(X_{ij}^2-X_{ij}\), same-column collisions \(X_{ij}X_{i'j}\) for \(i\ne i'\), and the linear row equations \(\rho_i-1=\sum_jX_{ij}-1\). It does not contain same-row exclusions or onto axioms. Every \(S\)-line standard syntactic Res(Lin) refutation of ordinary unary PHP over fixed \(\mathbb F_p\) gives at most \(S\) complete accuracy-one selector blocks over \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\), with inputs \(q=1-L^{p-1}\), all coefficient fields, polynomial input inventory after actual-position compression, and a PC refutation through \(4p-1\).

Audit and proof. The previous complete-board proof deliberately strengthened to functional PHP, but the ordinary-CNF derivations use fewer generators. For a positive pigeon row put \(t_j=1-(1-X_{ij})^{p-1}\) and use its block product \(P\). The identity

\[ P=\sum_jt_jP-\sum_j(t_j-X_{ij})P-(\rho_i-1)P \]

uses only complete companions, Booleanity and the linear row equation, through \(2p-1\). The difference \(t_j-X_{ij}\) is Boolean-zero through \(p-1\). Hole initials have width two and use the same-column collision axiom; Boolean initials use Booleanity, both through \(3p-2\). There are no functional same-row initial clauses in ordinary PHP.

The full local-rule proof was reread: weakening, contraction and simplification use source spans and complete companions; resolution uses the Boolean identity \(t_ft_g(1-t_{\lambda f+\mu g})=0\), followed by the two completed premise lines. These steps require no PHP exclusions beyond the initials. Their ceiling remains \(4p-1\), with no proof-height factor. Thus the entire forward compilation already works over \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\).

This is a weaker algebraic strengthening of the ordinary CNF, not a removal of a CNF axiom. The functional-CNF variant still requires its same-row initials and retains the earlier functional-base compiler. Likewise, previous reductions certified only modulo functional \(I_2\) may not be applied before a weak-only map. One may explicitly strengthen a residual weak base later when a lower-bound endpoint permits it.

The existing affine freezing map is now applicable

The recorded occupancy map takes \(K=p-1\), makes a matching prefix of size \(n\bmod K\), and uses \(K\) copies of an \((N+1)\)-by-\(N\) residual board, where

\[ N=\left\lfloor n/(p-1)\right\rfloor-1. \]

Copied cells map to residual \(Y_{ij}\), a distinguished original row uses \(u_j=1-\sum_iY_{ij}\) in each column copy, and the other cells are constants. Every original column sum becomes a literal zero or one. The degree-one/two witnesses for the weak base were checked: copied rows and the distinguished row map to residual row combinations; \(u_j^2-u_j\) and \(Y_{ij}u_j\) have Boolean/column-collision certificates through two. Thus the affine map preserves ordinary PC degree and the original NS generator costs.

The existing statistic-package theorem already removes arbitrary finite packages depending only on column sums. In particular the empty-pair selector family is an application of that old theorem, not a new discovery. For the intended proof-line application, however, the initial cell-literal selectors must also be handled; they are not column statistics. The next argument includes them.

Functionality cannot be silently restored before freezing. The map repeats an empty-column indicator in the distinguished row and does not certify all same-row collisions. The recorded functional-freezing barrier is quantitative: its frozen pattern has imbalance \(p\), so an original-degree functional upgrade would leave at most \(2p-2\) holes, not an unbounded hard residual board.

One exceptional column per input, with arbitrary global occupancy shifts

Working source theorem. Fix \(p\) and polynomial block inventory. Suppose every old selector input is \(q_i=1-L_i^{p-1}\), where, modulo the weak row-equation span,

\[ L_i=c_i+\sum_{j=1}^{n}a_{ij}\sigma_j +\sum_{u=1}^{n+1}b_{iu}X_{u,j_i}. \tag{WC-input} \]

The exceptional column \(j_i\), all coefficients and the global occupancy part may differ in every input, with no common low-dimensional probe bound. Complete accuracy-one families of these inputs over the weak base have no polylog-degree ordinary PC refutation for sufficiently large \(n\). Therefore ordinary unary-PHP Res(Lin) proofs whose equation forms all satisfy (WC-input) have superpolynomially many lines. Ordinary literals are included, so this statement includes the actual initial clauses without an exemption.

Proof. Apply the weak occupancy map globally, leaving source coefficient variables free. Its literal freezing makes the first two terms in (WC-input) constant. The cells in one original column map either to constants or to affine functions of a single residual column: in a copied column they are zero, cells \(Y_{uj}\), or \(1-\sum_uY_{uj}\). Thus each transformed \(L_i\), modulo a residual row combination, is affine in one residual column. Row-equivalence errors have certificates through one, and taking the \((p-1)\)-st power raises that cost only to \(p-1\).

For a polynomial \(q'\) of degree at most \(\delta=p-1\) in one column \(Y_1,\ldots,Y_{N+1}\), the degree-complete column reduction gives

\[ F=q'(0)+\sum_u\bigl(q'(e_u)-q'(0)\bigr)Y_u,\qquad q'-F\in I_\delta({\rm BOOL}+{\rm column\ collisions}). \tag{WC-affine} \]

Indeed, erase monomials using two distinct cells of the column and reduce powers; the remaining affine coefficients are fixed by evaluation at the empty and singly occupied states. This preserves degree in the original polynomial ring, needs no row functionality, and works over every prime. Including the preceding row-equivalence witness, each actual transformed selector has an affine representative \(F_i\) with error certified through \(\delta\).

For the complete block keep its coefficient variables, set \(P_F=1-\sum_i r_iF_i\), and write \(E=P_q-P_F=\sum_i r_i(F_i-q_i)\). Then \(E\) has an old certificate through \(\delta+1\), and

\[ q_iP_q=F_iP_F+(q_i-F_i)P_F+q_iE. \tag{WC-complete} \]

These terms are certified through at most \(\max(3,\delta+2,2\delta+1)=2p-1\). Every fresh field equation is unchanged, and the comparison is simultaneous over all blocks. Thus a source degree \(D\) PC refutation yields one over the residual weak base plus complete old-affine blocks through \(\max(D,2p-1)\). Since \(N=\Theta_p(n)\), the all-prime affine endpoint excludes it. That endpoint may strengthen the residual base to functional PHP after the valid weak-base transformations. The weak-base compiler proves the stated ordinary-CNF consequence.

What changed in the route

The key new interface is the weak-base compiler, not a new freezing construction. It allows weak-only projections to act before functionality is imposed. The application handles spread-out occupancy directions that can collectively have linear dimension, plus a different whole-column perturbation in every query; it is not a disguised logarithmic-probe hypothesis. On the other hand a generic coefficient matrix is not row-constant outside one column, so (WC-input) is not claimed for arbitrary Res(Lin) queries.

The initial alternative was to seek new symmetric-count certificates for empty-pair graphs. The existing statistic map already handles that whole family for the ordinary weak-base route, so no additional graph certificate is needed here. This does not import that map into the functional variant or erase the separate elementary-symmetric obstruction to functional freezing.

Checks and evidence. This cycle reread the complete local compiler rules, the wide-row initial bridge, the freezing map's original-generator identities, column-state division and the affine endpoint. The archived 4,874 base-image checks and column-state certificate controls were reused as existing evidence, not rerun or described as new tests. The new argument is the explicit source composition above; no numerical experiment or Lean verification was performed.

Next obligation. Test what the weak affine freezing maps do to genuinely arbitrary coefficient families before choosing a functional graph. Seek a common projection leaving inputs in an already proved affine/local/profile class or creating a useful dense selector span. Do not replace this obligation with a symmetry assumption or apply functional quotient identities before a weak-only map.

Process assessment. Auditing the weakest base actually used by the compiler recovered a substantial existing normalization tool and avoided developing a redundant restricted-family argument. The unrestricted source exclusion and the functional variant's separate constraints remain open.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 23.90 s
Marked reading and review windows	45.37 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	10 min 15.32 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 14.84 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	8.36 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

21 September 2026 — Scalar rectangle mixing does not supply one layout for all source blocks

Status: working obstruction to a proposed simultaneous rectangle mixer, with an explicit cheap-support alternative for the same family. Arbitrary weak-source normalization remains open. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Scalar rectangle mixing does not supply one layout for all source blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-freezing-rectangle-review.

General implication under test. The weak compiler makes affine occupancy projections legal before functionality. A possible high case would use many nonzero coefficient rectangles to randomize residual coefficients. The goal, however, needs one map for the whole source family, not a favorable map for each input space. Test the implication “large minimum rectangle packing in every block supplies one common disjoint-column switch layout.” The counterfamily below refutes it even at linear nonlinear selector rank. It is nevertheless easy after a support-aware matching restriction, so this is a failure of that proposed classifier, not a hard source counterexample.

What the affine copy map measures

Write an old form as \(F=c+\sum_{ij}A_{ij}X_{ij}\). For a fixed \(K\)-copy weak freezing map, label the copied original rows \(r_{a,i}\), copied columns \(s_{a,j}\), and distinguished row \(*\). Its residual coefficient matrix is

\[ B_{ij}=\sum_{a=1}^{K} \left(A_{r_{a,i},s_{a,j}}-A_{*,s_{a,j}}\right). \tag{FR-coeff} \]

The remaining terms contribute a constant. In particular row-plus-column matrices \(A_{ij}=u_i+v_j\) become row-constant coefficient matrices, hence constants modulo residual row equations. This recovers the already used occupancy/row directions; it is not a statement that every other form has high residual rank.

A column-pair swap within one copy reverses the contribution of the corresponding anchored rectangle

\[ \Delta(A;r,*,j,k)=A_{rj}-A_{*j}-A_{rk}+A_{*k} \]

to a residual row's column difference. If the switched pairs are disjoint, their signs can be chosen independently. For a scalar sum \(Z=c+\sum_{\ell=1}^q\varepsilon_\ell d_\ell\) over an odd prime field, with independent uniform signs, let \(b\) be the number of nonzero \(d_\ell\). Fourier inversion gives

\[ \left|\Pr(Z=a)-\frac1p\right| \le \frac{p-1}{p}\left(\cos\frac{\pi}{p}\right)^b . \tag{FR-scalar} \]

Indeed every nontrivial character has expectation \(\prod_\ell\cos(2\pi t d_\ell/p)\), whose absolute value is at most the displayed power; average the \(p-1\) nontrivial characters. Thus scalar bias can be small. At a fixed prime the relevant target is closeness to \(1/p\), not a real-valued point-probability bound tending to zero.

Linear-rank source spaces with no common column-disjoint layout

For sufficiently large \(n\), set \(h=\lfloor n/10\rfloor\). There is a linear code \(V\subseteq\mathbb F_3^n\) of dimension \(h\) in which every nonzero vector has at least \(n/3\) nonzero coordinates. To see this, choose an \(n\times h\) generator matrix \(C\) uniformly. For fixed nonzero \(a\), the weight \(W\) of \(Ca\) has independent coordinates with nonzero probability \(2/3\), so

\[ \Pr(W<n/3)\le 2^{n/3}\mathbb E\,2^{-W} =2^{n/3}(2/3)^n. \]

Union over fewer than \(3^h\) nonzero \(a\) gives a bound tending to zero, since \(\ln3/10+\ln2/3+\ln(2/3)<0\). Positive minimum weight also proves full generator rank.

Use the first \(n\) rows of an \((n+1)\)-by-\(n\) board. For \(a=0,\ldots,n-1\), let \(\pi_a(i)=i+a\pmod n\), and let \(U_a\) consist of matrices supported on the permutation cells \((i,\pi_a(i))\), with weights from \(V\). The extra row is zero. The \(n\) supports partition the \(n\times n\) square.

Every nonzero matrix in every \(U_a\) has at least \(\lfloor n/12\rfloor\) vertex-disjoint nonzero rectangles. Of its at least \(n/3\) nonzero weights, at least \(n/6\) have the same value in \(\{1,2\}\). Pair those entries. The rectangle on each pair of their rows and permutation columns has difference \(2v\ne0\), since its cross entries vanish. These rectangles are mutually row- and column-disjoint.

Now let \(\mathcal R\) be any collection of coefficient-rectangle tests whose column pairs are disjoint. It may use a shared anchor row, as the actual freezing switches do. Then \(|\mathcal R|\le\lfloor n/2\rfloor\). Each rectangle touches only four cells, hence its evaluation functional can be nonzero on at most four of the spaces \(U_a\). If \(E_a:U_a\to\mathbb F_3^{\mathcal R}\) is the resulting test map,

\[ \sum_{a=0}^{n-1}\operatorname{rank}E_a \le \sum_a\#\{\text{tests nonzero on }U_a\} \le4|\mathcal R|\le2n. \tag{FR-capacity} \]

For \(h>2\), not all \(E_a\) can be injective. Some nonzero form combination in some block is invisible to every test in the common layout, despite its linear-size individual rectangle packing. Even selecting arbitrary three-dimensional subspaces in all blocks cannot make these maps simultaneously injective. This refutes the proposed common-code deduction. It does not exclude overlapping-column switches, other random maps, or a different complete source normalization.

The selector rank is genuinely linear before restriction

In block \(a\), take the \(h\) actual forms supplied by the columns of \(C\), supported on its permutation cells, and use selectors \(q_\ell=1-F_\ell^2\). Their nonlinear rank modulo functional old \(I_2\) and arbitrary affine polynomials is exactly \(h\), for large \(n\).

For a putative nonzero coefficient vector \(d\), the quadratic matrix of \(\sum_\ell d_\ell F_\ell^2\) in the permutation-cell variables is \(C\operatorname{diag}(d)C^{\mathsf T}\). If all its off-diagonal entries vanished, this would be a diagonal matrix. Every column belongs to the code \(V\), which contains no nonzero coordinate vector, so the diagonal matrix must be zero. A left inverse for \(C\) then forces \(\operatorname{diag}(d)=0\), a contradiction. Thus some cross term on two permutation cells survives Boolean reduction.

The degree-two signed detector in the proof of sparse-cell matching separation, with maximum row support one and \(n\ge5\), detects a highest-degree term of this polynomial. Its two selected rows also make it annihilate every affine polynomial, including ones outside the permutation support. It annihilates old \(I_2\). Therefore no such nonzero combination can become affine modulo \(I_2\). Independence modulo the stronger functional base also implies independence modulo the weak base. This is not merely an affine-form rank example.

The same whole family has a cheap common matching restriction

Take a uniform matching restriction leaving \(m=\lfloor n^{1/4}\rfloor\) holes and \(m+1\) rows. The live row and column sets are independent uniform subsets: for every such pair the number of matching bijections on their complements is the same. For a fixed permutation support \(F_a\), the probability that at least \(k\) of its cells survive is at most

\[ \binom nk\frac{(m+1)_k}{(n+1)_k} \frac{(m)_k}{(n)_k} \le n^{-k/2+o(1)} \quad\text{for fixed }k. \tag{FR-survival} \]

The cells of \(F_a\) have distinct rows and columns, so the witness-subset union bound gives the first expression exactly at the required marginals. At \(k=4\), union over all \(n\) blocks tends to zero. Some single restriction leaves at most three old cells in every block's common support; all its other form contributions are constants.

For each block evaluate its inputs on the at most eight Boolean assignments to those cells. At a state with a nonzero input choose its first such input and set its coefficient to the inverse value; at a common zero set all coefficients to zero. Boolean state interpolation gives old-only coefficient polynomials of degree at most three. Every actual companion image is Boolean-zero, certified through at most \(b+4\) when \(b\le3\) cells survive, and every coefficient-field image through \(3b\). For \(T=\max(1,b)\), these fit \(5T\) and \(3T\), the respective original degrees scaled by \(T\). Constant-state blocks use constant coefficients.

Apply these complete maps simultaneously. A polylog-degree source PC proof would become an old weak PHP proof through at most three times that degree, while the residual board has \(m=n^{1/4+o(1)}\) holes. The old linear lower bound excludes it. Functionality is not needed for these coefficient maps, because the residual dependence is on at most three individual Boolean cells. Thus the counterfamily is a proved easy family under a different common map. The failed rectangle classifier must recognize this support geometry rather than call it a hard residual.

Literature screen, exact checks and route assessment

The array inverse Littlewood–Offord theorem of Do, Nguyen, Phan, Tran and Vu concerns real-valued arrays; the Berger–Berkowitz–Devlin–Vu permutation paper likewise states real-valued hypotheses. Neither was imported as a fixed-prime rank theorem. The elementary modular formula (FR-scalar) is proved above. A separate encoding sanity check found Atserias–Bonet–Esteban's exponential weak-PHP bounds for Res(2); the ability of ternary equations to express two-literal conjunctions supplies no automatic easy PHP proof or transfer of those lower bounds to unrestricted Res(Lin).

The exact checker used \(n=30,h=3\), taking the 27 vectors of \(\mathbb F_3^3\) as code rows and padding zero rows. Its nonzero codewords have minimum weight eighteen, supplying four equal-value disjoint rectangles; the off-diagonal square map has rank three. A coordinate-basis control has off-diagonal rank zero. All 202,275 coefficient rectangles met the four-block incidence bound. Ten signed-sum counts over \(\mathbb F_3\) met the exact bound \(|3c_a-2^b|\le2\); counting zero differences as active fails, and signs do not randomize in characteristic two. Complete checked counts and the adjacent C++ source are retained. These finite tests do not claim a universal rank condenser.

Assessment of this line. Scalar anticoncentration is available but the common-layout step is false under the proposed minimum-packing hypothesis. Building a more elaborate one-block mixer would leave that obstruction untouched. A promising necessary alternative is to detect low-dimensional state profiles after sparse support restrictions; the same family demonstrates this concretely. The next bounded task is a uniform complete map for polynomially many blocks with subquadratic shared cell supports, followed by an explicit check of which base assumptions it uses. The unrestricted dense-support case and compatibility with weak-only maps remain open.

Process assessment. A family-level capacity count stopped a per-block construction before it became an unsupported global claim. Source reading and exploratory interpretation overlapped before the final mathematics marker; no old verification suite or formalization was rerun.

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Subquadratic shared cell supports admit one common constant-degree profile restriction

21 September 2026 · Working proof with exact finite combinatorial controls · Route: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Subquadratic shared cell supports admit one common constant-degree profile restriction”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-sparse-support-profiles.

Question and stopping point. The unrestricted goal requires removal of arbitrary complete selector blocks, not just high scalar mixing rank. The preceding common-layout obstruction is easy because its supports become small. Test the general sufficient condition that polynomially many blocks have subquadratic shared cell supports. Stop after a uniform restriction bound, full original-generator degree ledger and falsifying controls; the user requested a pause after this cycle.

Working theorem: shared sparse supports

Fix a prime \(p\), constants \(c,A\ge0\) and \(0<\varepsilon\le2\). On the balanced Boolean unary board with \(n+1\) rows and \(n\) holes, take at most \(n^c\) complete, one-level, old-input ENS blocks. Block \(a\) has arbitrary finitely many polynomial inputs \(g_{ai}(X)\), a positive integer accuracy \(h_a\), fresh coefficient variables, all their field equations, and all companions \[ g_{ai}P_a,\qquad P_a=\prod_{\ell=1}^{h_a}\left(1-\sum_i r_{ai\ell}g_{ai}\right). \] Assume that one cell set \(F_a\), of size at most \(n^{2-\varepsilon}(\log n)^A\), contains the variables of every input in that block. There are no inputs depending on other blocks' coefficients. Then the augmented weak or functional linear-row PHP system has no polylogarithmic-degree PC refutation for large \(n\). This also excludes NS refutations in that degree range. This is a common-support hypothesis within each block, not a bound on each input separately.

Consequently, for \(0<\varepsilon\le1\), ordinary unary PHP requires superpolynomially many proof lines in the subclass of standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) whose every clause has a union of cell supports of size at most \(n^{2-\varepsilon}(\log n)^A\). The same scoped conclusion holds for the functional variant. Apply the weak or functional compiler: selectors preserve the clause's common support, input-basis compression introduces no new variables, and degree is \(4p-1\). For any proposed polynomial line bound, the source block inventory is polynomial. The restriction \(\varepsilon\le1\) allows the ordinary pigeon initial clauses, whose support has \(n\) cells.

One restriction controls every support

Choose \(0<\beta<\min(1,\varepsilon/2)\), and set \(N=\lceil n^\beta\rceil\). Choose a uniform partial matching fixing \(n-N\) pigeons to distinct holes; retain \(N+1\) rows and \(N\) columns. The survivor sets are independent uniform subsets: every pair admits exactly \((n-N)!\) matched complements. Set matched cells to one, conflicting cells to zero, and keep only the survivor board. The weak and functional bases restrict to their corresponding residual bases. No substitution increases degree.

A fixed \(k\)-edge matching in \(F_a\) survives with probability \[ \frac{(N+1)_k}{(n+1)_k}\frac{(N)_k}{(n)_k}. \] There are at most \(|F_a|^k/k!\) such matchings. Thus for each fixed \(k\), \[ \Pr[\nu(F_a')\ge k]\le \frac{|F_a|^k}{k!}\frac{(N+1)_k}{(n+1)_k}\frac{(N)_k}{(n)_k} \le n^{-k(\varepsilon-2\beta)+o(1)}. \] Choose \(k\) with \(k(\varepsilon-2\beta)>c+1\). A union bound gives one restriction with \(\nu(F_a')<k\) simultaneously for all blocks. The endpoints of any maximal matching cover every edge; hence each residual support has a row/column vertex cover of size \(s_a\le2(k-1)\). This does not assert a constant number of residual cells: a row star can retain \(N\) edges and still have a one-vertex cover.

Complete local states and bounded certificates

Now strengthen the residual weak base to the functional base if necessary; a weak refutation would remain a refutation after strengthening. Write \(I_d\) for combinations of these original residual generators with every product of degree at most \(d\). For one support cover, query its \(r\) rows and \(t\) columns, \(s=r+t\). A queried row has states \(X_{ij}\), summed over all residual columns. A queried column has states \(X_{ij}\), summed over residual rows, together with the empty state \(u_j=1-\sum_iX_{ij}\). Row states sum to one modulo the row equation; column states sum to one literally. Empty states must be retained: no onto axiom is used.

Take products \(\pi_\tau\) of one indicator per queried vertex. They have degree at most \(s\). Discard locally inconsistent choices. Two occupied states disagreeing on a row or column contain a collision factor. An occupied cell and the empty state of its column vanish through degree two because \[ X_{ij}u_j=-(X_{ij}^2-X_{ij})-\sum_{b\ne i}X_{ij}X_{bj}. \] Multiplying by the other \(s-2\) factors gives a certificate through \(s\). These cases cover every inconsistent partial assignment. Expanding the full product of the state sums and telescoping the queried row equations consequently gives \[ 1-\sum_{\tau\ {\rm consistent}}\pi_\tau\in I_s. \] Consistency here is local matching consistency, not a complete PHP model.

Every supported cell touches a queried vertex, so a consistent state determines its Boolean value. For such a cell \(e\), the identity \(\pi_\tau(X_e-\tau(e))\in I_{s+1}\) follows from its chosen occupied indicator and Booleanity/collision, or from the displayed empty-state identity. Telescope a monomial one variable at a time, including repetitions, and extend linearly. For every polynomial \(g\) on this support, \[ \pi_\tau(g-g(\tau))\in I_{s+\deg g}. \] These are original-generator certificates; pointwise vanishing alone is not being used for the PHP relations. The construction combines the row-state first-success argument with empty-aware column states.

All companions, accuracies and coefficient fields

On each consistent state choose the first nonzero input, assign its coefficient the inverse of its value in \(\mathbb F_p\), and assign the other coefficients zero. If all inputs vanish, assign them all zero. Interpolate these values: \(\beta_i=\sum_\tau b_{i\tau}\pi_\tau\). Replace \(r_{i1}\) by \(\beta_i\) and every \(r_{i\ell}\), \(\ell>1\), by zero. The image of the actual product is therefore \(P'=1-\sum_i\beta_i g_i\), independent of the accuracy. Let \(V=\sum_{\tau:\,g_j(\tau)=0\ \forall j}\pi_\tau\), and let \(\delta_i,\delta\) denote the original pre-restriction input degrees and their maximum. The preceding identities give \[ P'-V\in I_{s+\delta},\qquad g_iV\in I_{s+\delta_i}, \qquad g_iP'\in I_{s+\delta+\delta_i}. \] For example, the first identity is the partition identity minus \(\sum_{\tau,i}b_{i\tau}\pi_\tau(g_i-g_i(\tau))\); the second uses that every summand state has \(g_i(\tau)=0\). Restriction may lower degrees, so using the original degrees is safe.

The coefficients \(\beta_i\) need only be field-valued, not Boolean. Their coefficients lie in \(\mathbb F_p\), so \(\beta_i^p-\beta_i\) vanishes on every Boolean assignment, even assignments violating PHP. Its multilinear reduction is identically zero; ordinary variable-by-variable Boolean reduction is an original Boolean-axiom certificate through degree at most \(ps\). The zero higher-accuracy coefficients have trivial fields.

Take \(T=\max(1,\max_a s_a)\), a constant. For a nonzero input, its original companion has degree \(e_i=h_a(\delta+1)+\delta_i\). Hence \[ s_a+\delta+\delta_i\le T e_i,\qquad ps_a\le Tp. \] Empty supports admit constant coefficient choices and exact zero companions; identically zero input companions are trivial. Every old variable has substitution degree one. Thus every substituted original generator has an old certificate within \(T\) times its original degree. Applying the substitution to all blocks at once replays any PC proof of degree \(D\) as an old functional PC proof of degree at most \(TD\): substitute addition lines linearly, simulate multiplication by a degree-\(\le T\) polynomial term by term, and initialize generators from the certificates. NS replay has the same bound. There is no multiplicative factor for the number of blocks or states.

Since \(\log n=\Theta(\log N)\), a polylogarithmic \(D\) gives \(TD=o(N)\). The all-field old matching barrier excludes this residual refutation (choose an old cutoff \(B\ge TD\) with \(N\ge2B-1\)). This proves the source statement.

Checks, scope and assessment

The new exact integer check enumerates all \(7{,}056\) pairs of four surviving rows and three surviving columns on a nine-by-eight board for each of six fixtures. It checks the matching union bound for \(k=1,2,3\), and that greedy maximal-matching endpoints cover every live edge with at most twice the maximum matching number. The fixtures are row/column stars, a matching, a four-by-four block, their two-star union, and the complete board. The row star retains three cells with matching number one; the complete board has matching number three in every restriction, a negative control against unsupported universal thinning. All checks passed. These finite graph checks test the combinatorial implementation, not the general algebraic proof. C++20 checker; complete counts. Build with g++ -std=c++20 -O2 check.cpp -o checker and run checker --out checks.json, both through the protected launcher.

Focused review. The row-star control prevents confusing cell count with vertex-cover size; column emptiness avoids an illicit onto axiom; the full source ledger retains arbitrary accuracy and every field equation. The result extends the preceding permutation-support example and complements the per-input row-remainder theorem, whose support unions may be dense. It needs functionality for the row states after restriction. It does not justify placing this profile before a subsequent weak-only occupancy-freezing map, and does not handle raw earlier coefficient inputs.

Contribution and remaining implication. This supplies a uniform complete-source endpoint for subquadratic shared supports, for every fixed prime. It does not show that arbitrary dense-support blocks become sparse or enter the dense-head endpoint on one compatible restriction. That necessary implication remains open; the positive result narrows the unresolved geometry without proving the unrestricted lower bound. Novelty has not been checked independently. Spin is paused after this checkpoint; a future resumed cycle should test that common sparse-profile/dense-image implication against the existing two-size dense control and common-layout obstruction before refining another scalar criterion.

Process assessment. The matching-number tail and mixed vertex profiles abstract the previous easy counterfamily without another growing case list; the existing bounded retrieval and exact checker suffice, so no framework change is warranted.

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Total instrumented interval	14 min 24.84 s
Context restoration	17.95 s
Marked reading and review windows	3.78 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 38.27 s
Computation design and coding	5 min 15.16 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 0.43 s
Individually measured computation	0.14 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	9.11 s

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Polynomially many global probes can share a sparse-support profile without new blocks

21 September 2026 · Working all-prime source extension and finite local controls · Route: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Polynomially many global probes can share a sparse-support profile without new blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-probe-sparse-profiles.

Missing implication and stopping point. Arbitrary dense selector blocks are not known to enter a cheap profile or dense-image case after one common restriction. Test whether dense dependence on a limited number of global quantities can coexist with the shared-support endpoint without the exponential auxiliary inventory of the earlier probe-branch construction. Stop at the exact degree ledger and a control against interpreting the resulting decomposition as a general classification. Spin resumed at the user's request; initial commentary and resume part one preceded this cycle's clock.

Working extension and its quantitative scope

Fix \(p,c,A\), \(0<\varepsilon\le2\) and \(0\le\alpha<\min(1,\varepsilon/2)\). Suppose at most \(n^c\) complete one-level old-input ENS blocks over weak or functional balanced unary PHP have the following supplied representations. In each block \(a\), choose \(t_a\le n^\alpha(\log n)^A\) old affine probes \(U_{aj}\) and a common cell set \(|F_a|\le n^{2-\varepsilon}(\log n)^A\). For every nonzero input \(g_{ai}\) of original degree \(\delta_{ai}\), require a polynomial \(G_{ai}(z,x)\) of degree at most \(\delta_{ai}\) with \[ g_{ai}-G_{ai}(U_a,X_{F_a})\in I_{\delta_{ai}}. \] The certificate is in the original old base, before any weak-only transformation. Then these complete blocks, at arbitrary positive accuracies and with every coefficient field equation retained, admit no polylog-degree PC or NS refutation for sufficiently large \(n\). The degree-preserving representation is a hypothesis, not an inference from semantic equality.

In particular, it applies to selectors \(g_i=1-L_i^{p-1}\) whenever each block's affine forms are, modulo row equations, linear combinations of its \(t_a\) probes plus forms on \(F_a\). Factoring differences of powers gives the required degree-\((p-1)\) certificates. Constant selectors are handled directly. Through the existing ordinary and functional compilers this yields corresponding restricted superpolynomial proof-line lower bounds; as before, \(\varepsilon\le1\) admits the wide ordinary pigeon initials.

Mixed finite-field and matching states

Choose \(\alpha<\beta<\min(1,\varepsilon/2)\) and leave \(N=\lceil n^\beta\rceil\) holes. The preceding matching-tail proof, applied only to the original \(n^c\) sets \(F_a\), supplies one restriction with constant-size row/column covers for every residual support. Neither probe values nor their number enter that union bound. The original certificates restrict without increasing degree. Strengthen a weak residual base to the functional base now if required.

For a block, let \(s\) be its cover size and \(\pi_\tau\) the consistent partial matching-state products from that proof. They have degree at most \(s\), partition one modulo \(I_s\), and satisfy \(\pi_\tau(H-H(\tau))\in I_{s+\deg H}\) for supported-cell polynomials. For \(u\in\mathbb F_p^t\), set \[ \chi_u=\prod_{j=1}^t\bigl(1-(U_j-u_j)^{p-1}\bigr),\qquad \theta_{u,\tau}=\chi_u\pi_\tau,\qquad d=(p-1)t+s. \] The field indicators sum to one literally, so \(1-\sum_{u,\tau}\theta_{u,\tau}\in I_d\). The probes may be dependent or conflict with a local state; no affine fiber equation is imposed and no satisfiability assertion is made about every combined state.

For the supplied representation, first replace supported cells by their values in \(\tau\), using the local state certificates term by term. Then replace probes by \(u\): \(\chi_u(H(U)-H(u))\) vanishes on the entire Boolean cube, and Boolean division certifies it through degree \((p-1)t+\deg H\). Multiplication by \(\pi_\tau\) adds at most \(s\). Including the supplied old certificate gives \[ \theta_{u,\tau}\bigl(g_i-G_i(u,\tau)\bigr)\in I_{d+\delta_i}. \] This argument keeps the original generators and handles inconsistent probe/local value combinations automatically.

Complete elimination and degree costs

On each combined state, select the first nonzero value \(G_i(u,\tau)\), set its coefficient to its inverse and all others to zero; if every value is zero, use all zeros. Let \(\beta_i\) be the interpolation of these coefficients against \(\theta_{u,\tau}\). Set the first accuracy row to \(\beta_i\), and every later accuracy row to zero. Thus \(\deg\beta_i\le d\), and the actual product image is \(P'=1-\sum_i\beta_i g_i\). Let \(V\) sum the combined-state indicators on which every input value is zero, and \(\delta=\max_i\delta_i\). Exactly as in the shared-support proof, \[ P'-V\in I_{d+\delta},\quad g_iV\in I_{d+\delta_i},\quad g_iP'\in I_{d+\delta+\delta_i}. \] Also \(\beta_i^p-\beta_i\) has a Boolean certificate through \(pd\), since its coefficients lie in \(\mathbb F_p\). It need not be a Boolean-valued polynomial.

With \(T=\max(1,\max_a d_a)\), every original companion of degree \(e_i=h_a(\delta+1)+\delta_i\) has image certificate through \(Te_i\), every coefficient field fits \(Tp\), and every substitution has degree at most \(T\). Constant/zero-input blocks use their direct scalar maps. One simultaneous substitution replays PC or NS degree \(D\) through \(TD\). Here \(T=O(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n)\), so \(TD=o(n^\beta)=o(N)\) for polylogarithmic \(D\), contradicting the old matching-filtration barrier.

There can be exponentially many combined states and many monomials in \(\beta_i\). This is allowed in a degree lower-bound argument: no proof-size bound for the substituted proof is asserted. Crucially, there are no new ENS blocks, hence no exponential inventory in the restriction estimate. The earlier logarithmic-probe theorem used auxiliary branch blocks because its local supports could differ across inputs without a common cover. The present result is a stronger probe allowance under a different, shared-support hypothesis, not an unrestricted replacement for that theorem.

What the algebraic decomposition does and does not establish

For affine input forms, the literal coefficient matrix restricted to cells outside \(F_a\) has rank at most \(t_a\) exactly when such a probe-plus-supported-remainder decomposition exists: choose a basis for those restricted rows, lift its forms as probes, and subtract their linear combinations. One may first apply supplied row-equation rewrites, whose certificates are degree one. Thus the new result handles dense support that becomes low rank after deleting a shared set of cells, without counting all probe fibers as separate blocks.

This rank condition cannot be a complete hardness invariant. Take all cell forms \(L_{ij}=X_{ij}\) in one tuple. Their coefficient matrix is the identity on \(n(n+1)\) cells; after deleting \(o(n^2)\) columns its rank is still \(\Theta(n^2)\). Yet every selector \(1-X_{ij}^{p-1}\) equals the affine input \(1-X_{ij}\) modulo Booleanity with certificate degree \(p-1\). The affine source endpoint already handles the complete tuple. Hence failure of the decomposition does not imply dense nonlinear selector rank. The two-size dense family and common-layout obstruction remain essential tests for any proposed family-wide alternative; no new implication for their arbitrary dense analogues is proved here.

Verification, significance and next direction

A new exact check uses a satisfiable two-row, three-hole board over \(p=3,5\), with the first row and first column queried and a dense affine probe. Its inputs are one selector and one affine polynomial. For each field it checks both coefficient fields on all 64 Boolean assignments and both companions on all six full matching assignments. Omitting the column-empty state causes two matching-model failures in each field. The coefficient maps take non-Boolean values in 20 and 32 of the tested coefficient evaluations, rejecting an incorrect Boolean coefficient-domain assumption. These are finite semantic controls, not a verification of the general original-generator certificate proof. C++20 checker; complete output. Build with g++ -std=c++20 -O2 check.cpp -o checker; run checker --out checks.json, using the protected launcher.

Focused review and contribution. Checked the exact partition, degree-preserving representation requirement, original companion costs, all field equations, accuracy cleanup and absence of a new-block inventory. This extends the complete sparse-profile endpoint to polynomially many dense probes. It advances that sufficient case; the necessary implication that arbitrary clauses admit some affordable complete removal remains unproved. The identity-matrix control prevents promoting coefficient deletion rank into a solution. Independent novelty has not been checked.

Next cycle. At the user's explicit encouragement, spend one bounded cycle developing a geometric object for the remaining problem. It should retain the degree filtration and the original-generator presentation, distinguish semantic emptiness from low-degree inconsistency, and offer an invariant that can be tested on both affine-cell and dense-selector controls. Developing the object itself is authorized even before an applicable deep theorem is identified.

Process assessment. Reusing the two existing interpolation proofs exposed an avoidable exponential auxiliary inventory; the new direct proof resolves that cost without new framework machinery or a repeated numerical sweep.

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Computation design and coding	43.40 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 16.95 s
Individually measured computation	0.14 s
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A marked fat point records proof degree; relative torsion, not ordinary flatness, is the geometric target

21 September 2026 · Working algebraic reformulation, exact controls and bounded geometry exploration · No new unrestricted lower bound. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A marked fat point records proof degree; relative torsion, not ordinary flatness, is the geometric target”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-marked-homogeneous-geometry.

Assignment and stopping point. At the user's encouragement, spend one cycle developing a nontrivial geometric object even without a preselected applicable theorem. The missing implication remains complete-source removal for arbitrary dense selector tuples. Stop after an exact bridge from the object to original-generator NS and PC degree, controls against misleading invariants, and a specific useful or obstructed geometric direction. This is not a claim that naming the obstruction solves it.

The object: retain the homogeneous presentation and mark the unit direction

For a finite list \(\mathcal F\subset k[y_1,\ldots,y_v]\), omit zero generators and let \(S=k[z,y_1,\ldots,y_v]\). Homogenize each supplied generator to its actual degree, set \[ J=(f^{\mathrm h}:f\in\mathcal F),\qquad A=S/J, \] and retain the marked class \(z\in A_1\). Do not saturate \(J\), and do not replace it by the homogenization of the final affine ideal. The linear isomorphism \(h_D:k[y]_{\le D}\to S_D\), \(h_D(f)=z^{D-\deg f}f^{\mathrm h}\), identifies the original-generator NS space \(I_D\) with \(J_D\). Indeed homogenize each cofactor product to degree \(D\); conversely dehomogenize a homogeneous representation. Hence \(1\in I_D\) precisely when \(z^D=0\) in \(A_D\). This is a reuse of historical homogenized separation, now including every old and fresh source variable.

For the full unsatisfiable Boolean PHP source, \(A\) is a finite graded local algebra supported at the origin, provided no constant contradiction is already a generator. Some power \(z^L\) lies in the homogeneous old ideal: the Boolean quotient is a product of field copies indexed by cube assignments, and the unsatisfiable old equations generate its unit ideal. Boolean homogenizations give \(y_i^2=zy_i\) for old cells. Fresh coefficient fields give \(r^p=z^{p-1}r\). Consequently every variable is nilpotent once \(z\) is, and \(A\) is finite-dimensional with radical the homogeneous maximal ideal. Thus \(\operatorname{Spec}A\) is a potentially large nonreduced point, while \(\operatorname{Proj}A\) and the \(z\ne0\) chart are empty. Projectivizing or saturating would erase the degree information. This presentation algebra is not the Rees algebra of the zero final affine quotient.

The cyclic module \(k[z]\cdot1\) has length equal to the first NS refutation degree. More generally the graded \(k[z]\)-module records the lengths and starting degrees of multiplication-by-\(z\) strings. This is the Jordan degree type studied by Altafi, Iarrobino and Macias Marques; their Definition 2.8 and Proposition 2.19 relate it to ranks of graded multiplication maps. We use that vocabulary and elementary linear algebra, not a Lefschetz theorem or a characteristic-zero result. The earlier dismissal of schemes based only on finite reduced Boolean solution sets misses this nonreduced presentation object.

Exact PC closure and a socle criterion

Working proposition. For any field, supplied polynomial system and \(D\ge1\), define subspaces of \(S_D\) by \[ W_0=J_D,\qquad W_{j+1}=W_j+\sum_{i=1}^v y_i(W_j:z),\qquad (W_j:z)=\{u\in S_{D-1}:zu\in W_j\}. \] This increasing sequence stabilizes after at most \(\dim S_D\) strict enlargements, and \[ W_\infty=h_D(C_D). \] Here \(C_D\) is the ordinary syntactic PC consequence space at ceiling \(D\), with all variables and original generators retained.

Proof. Every bounded NS representation can be derived by PC using its original generators and monomial multipliers, so \(J_D\subseteq h_D(C_D)\). A polynomial \(f\) of degree at most \(D\) has actual degree at most \(D-1\) exactly when \(h_D(f)\) is divisible by \(z\). For such \(f\), \(h_D(y_if)=y_i h_D(f)/z\). Thus the displayed operation is exactly a legal multiplication step, including multiplication after a cancellation has lowered actual degree. Addition is linear span. Induction gives both inclusions, and finite-dimensional stabilization proves the assertion. In particular a PC refutation exists at ceiling \(D\) precisely when \(z^D\in W_\infty\). No ordinary ideal saturation is substituted for this fixed-degree operation.

Let \[ T_D=\ker(z:A_{D-1}\longrightarrow A_D). \] Then \[ C_D=I_D \quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad y_iT_D=0\text{ in }A_D\text{ for every }i \quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad T_D\subseteq\operatorname{Soc}(A)_{D-1}. \] Here \(\operatorname{Soc}(A)\) means elements annihilated by every positive-degree generator; the statement also makes sense when \(A\) is not Artinian. To prove it, \(C_D=I_D\) is equivalent to \(W_0\) already being closed. The quotient of \((J_D:z)\) by \(J_{D-1}\) is exactly \(T_D\), and closure asks that every \(y_i\) annihilate this quotient in degree \(D\). Multiplication by \(z\) already vanishes there. This proves the equivalences.

The familiar no-fall criterion is the stronger sufficient condition \(T_D=0\); the exact condition permits torsion that all variables annihilate. For example \(\mathcal F=\{x^2-x,x^2\}\) has \(J=(x^2,xz)\). At \(D=2\), \(T_2=kx\ne0\), but \(xT_2=zT_2=0\), so PC and NS spaces agree despite a degree fall. This is an exact algebraic reformulation of truncated closure, not an independent lower-bound theorem.

A flat family with constant Hilbert function still has different marked NS degrees

Over any field take \[ \mathcal F_\lambda=\{x^2-x,\ x^2+(\lambda-1)x-1\},\qquad \lambda\ne1. \] Both supplied generators have degree two for every parameter. Their homogeneous ideal is \(J_\lambda=(x^2-xz,\lambda xz-z^2)\). The quotient has basis \(1,x,z,xz\), with \(x^2=xz,\ z^2=\lambda xz\), and all cubics zero. Indeed \(x^2z=xz^2=\lambda x^2z\), and \(1-\lambda\) is invertible; the remaining cubic monomials then vanish. The independent two degree-two relations leave \(xz\ne0\). These reductions work over \(k[\lambda,(1-\lambda)^{-1}]\), where the four displayed classes are a free basis. This is a flat parameter family with Hilbert function \((1,2,1)\).

At \(\lambda=0\), \(z^2=0\), so the NS refutation degree is two. At \(\lambda\ne0,1\), \(z^2=\lambda xz\ne0\) but \(z^3=0\), so it is three. Multiplication by \(z\) has Jordan type \((2,2)\) in the first case and \((3,1)\) in the second. Hilbert function alone misses even this difference. Nevertheless the PC refutation degree is two throughout: let \(q=f_2-f_1=\lambda x-1\); derive \(xq-\lambda f_1=(\lambda-1)x\), then \[ \frac{\lambda}{\lambda-1}(xq-\lambda f_1)-q=1. \] Every line has degree at most two. In the homogeneous algebra, \(\lambda x-z\in T_2\) and its product with \(x\) equals \((\lambda-1)xz\ne0\), exactly the active torsion detected by the proposition. Thus a long marked \(z\)-string alone is an NS statement, not a PC lower bound. At the excluded parameter \(\lambda=1\), \(x=1\) is a model; this is a satisfiable negative control.

The PHP-relative algebra and its tensor factors

Let \(A_0\) be the old homogenized PHP algebra. Adjoining only the fresh fields gives \[ B=A_0[r_1,\ldots,r_R]/(r_j^p-z^{p-1}r_j)_j. \] Monic division makes this a free \(A_0\)-module with basis \(r^\alpha\), \(0\le\alpha_j<p\), with graded shifts \(|\alpha|\). Therefore the old stable-filtration range gives injectivity of \(z:B_{d-1}\to B_d\) through the same ceiling: each coefficient is an old degree-shifted piece. Let \(K\) be the ideal of homogeneous companion images, so the complete source algebra is \(A=B/K\). In that range, \[ \ker(z:A_{D-1}\to A_D) \simeq\frac{K_D\cap zB_{D-1}}{zK_{D-1}}. \] The map sends a class of \(u\), for which \(zu\in K_D\), to \(zu\bmod zK_{D-1}\). Surjectivity is immediate; injectivity uses the stated injectivity of \(z\) on \(B_{D-1}\). This locates the newly created torsion in the companion ideal and keeps every coefficient field.

For a block with input degrees \(\delta_i\), maximum \(\delta\), and accuracy \(h\), its actual homogeneous companions are \(g_i^{\mathrm h}H\), where \[ H=\prod_{\ell=1}^h\left(z^{\delta+1} -\sum_jr_{j\ell}z^{\delta-\delta_j}g_j^{\mathrm h}\right). \] These formulas preserve the original joint degrees. With one-level old inputs and disjoint coefficient variables, the whole algebra is exactly the tensor product over \(A_0\) of the individual complete block algebras. Thus interactions of nonflat tensor factors are a real algebraic object here, not merely an analogy with a family of solution sets.

Ordinary flatness is unavailable for nontrivial positive-degree blocks

Working observation. Suppose a block has only positive-degree old inputs (zero and unit inputs have been cleaned up). Write its field-only extension as \(B_a\) and its companion ideal as \(K_a\), and suppose \(K_a\ne0\) in \(B_a\). With \(\mathfrak m=(A_0)_{>0}\), every homogeneous companion contains \(g_i^{\mathrm h}\in\mathfrak m\), so \(K_a\subseteq\mathfrak mB_a\). The algebra \(B_a/K_a\) is not flat over \(A_0\).

Proof. \(B_a\) is a finite free module over the finite local algebra \(A_0\). If \(B_a/K_a\) were flat, tensoring \(0\to K_a\to B_a\to B_a/K_a\to0\) with \(k=A_0/\mathfrak m\) would leave an injection \(K_a/\mathfrak mK_a\to B_a/\mathfrak mB_a\). This map is zero because \(K_a\subseteq\mathfrak mB_a\). Hence \(K_a=\mathfrak mK_a\); iterating the nilpotent maximal ideal gives \(K_a=0\), a contradiction. Equivalently the usual Tor exact sequence gives \[ \operatorname{Tor}^{A_0}_1(k,B_a/K_a)\simeq K_a/\mathfrak mK_a\ne0. \] This uses only the elementary exactness meaning of flatness and the nilpotent case of Nakayama's lemma; no deep flatness theorem is imported. The qualification \(K_a\ne0\) is essential.

This rules out a tempting sufficient endpoint—prove that all block extensions are flat and tensor them—before investing in it. Derived tensor products and graded Tor remain possible tools for organizing the failures, but merely observing nonzero Tor proves neither hardness nor easiness. The relevant issue is its degree and how multiplication reaches the old unit.

A complete affine ENS block already has harmless active torsion

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the satisfiable Boolean base \(x^2-x\), take the complete accuracy-one block with input \(g=x\), companion \(c=x(1-rx)\) and field \(r^3-r\). Put \(b=x^2-x\). Then \(q=c+rb=x(1-r)\in I_3\), and PC derives \(rq=rx-r^2x\) within degree three. But \(rq\notin I_3\): the entire original degree-three NS space is spanned by \(b,xb,rb,r^3-r,c\), and none contains the monomial \(r^2x\). In homogeneous form \(z\,x(z-r)\in J_3\), while \(r\,x(z-r)\notin J_3\). Hence the socle criterion fails for even this elementary complete block.

Nevertheless \(r=1\) is a degree-preserving retraction to the old Boolean system: the companion maps to \(-b\) and its field maps to zero. Thus no new old consequences are created at the same PC ceiling, despite the strict increase of the joint-variable PC space. This is not a PHP counterexample. It refutes the stronger proposed requirement of no active torsion for all complete blocks. A useful geometric endpoint must protect the old subspace or just \(z^D\), allowing harmless fresh-variable relations.

Evidence, route decision and next test

Exact modular elimination checked \(\mathcal F_\lambda\) for every parameter over \(\mathbb F_3,\mathbb F_5,\mathbb F_7\), including the satisfiable parameter, at degrees zero through five, plus the benign-torsion example in each field. A second ten-monomial check on the complete ENS example gives NS rank five, PC rank six, and old-variable intersection dimension two for both, with no unit in PC. All repaired checks passed. The first build had a C++ loop syntax error and the following attempted run had no binary; both tool failures are retained, not mathematical failures. family checker, full family ranks, ENS checker, ENS ranks. Compile each with g++ -std=c++20 -O2 and run with --out PATH, through the protected launcher.

Literature scope. The Jordan survey supplies terminology and multiplication-rank interpretation; no generic Lefschetz hypothesis is assumed for our distinguished \(z\) in fixed small characteristic. Caminata–Gorla, Theorem 3.1, distinguishes solving degree, last fall degree and final Gröbner-basis degree; our fixed-degree PC correspondence above is proved directly instead of equating those algorithmic measures. The historical homogenization lemma and existing no-fall criterion are acknowledged predecessors. The new value here is their precise relative-source packaging and its controls, with no novelty claim for the underlying commutative algebra.

Assessment of this line. The exploration did find a nontrivial scheme/module object: a marked graded fat point built as a tensor product of block algebras over the old PHP algebra. It also rules out unqualified Hilbert-function, full-source no-fall and ordinary-flatness approaches. It supplies no quantitative bound on propagation into the old unit, so the unrestricted goal is not closer by a proved general implication. The next bounded test is whether the tensor-factor presentation yields a degree-local relative torsion bound for several complete selector blocks, checked first against the existing ordering-source obstruction and the harmless affine block. A general tensor-product conservation principle cannot be assumed.

Process assessment. Building the object before searching for a theorem exposed the incorrect flatness and no-active-torsion endpoints early; the exact small controls distinguish the invariants without a large Gröbner computation. Future compile/run batches should stop immediately on compilation failure; no framework change is needed.

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Normalization separates the column states but erases the old PHP degree thickness

21 September 2026 · Working conductor calculation and geometric obstruction with exact finite controls · Spin stops after this checkpoint. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Normalization separates the column states but erases the old PHP degree thickness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-normalization-conductor.

Question and stopping point. The preceding marked-algebra cycle left a relative tensor-factor problem: can blockwise algebraic information protect the old unit at a degree cost independent of inventory? Before proposing such a theorem, test normalization and sections on the positive-dimensional old domain cone, before imposing the inconsistent PHP row equations. The inherited ordering control already prohibits a generic PC-hardness-only tensor argument, while the one-block old-target theorem pays an additive degree cost. Stop after an exact normalization/conductor calculation and its effect on the old PHP target. The user requested stopping Spin after this cycle.

Column cone, normalization and exact conductor

Let \(m=n+1\), \(n\ge1\), and work over any field \(k\). Define the homogeneous column-exclusive Boolean cone \[ R=k[z,X_{ij}]/(X_{ij}^2-zX_{ij},\,X_{ij}X_{i'j}:i\ne i'). \] A state \(a\in\Omega=\{0,1,\ldots,m\}^n\) declares each column empty or occupied by one row. Evaluation along the associated line sends \(X_{ij}\) to \(z\) if \(a_j=i\), and to zero otherwise. The resulting embedding is \[ R\hookrightarrow\widetilde R=\prod_{a\in\Omega}k[z]. \] This is the normalization, and its conductor is exactly \[ (R:\widetilde R)=z^n\widetilde R. \] Moreover, for \(D\ge0\), \[ \dim_kR_D=\sum_{q=0}^{\min(D,n)}\binom nq m^q,\qquad \dim_k(\widetilde R/R)_D=(m+1)^n-\sum_{q=0}^{\min(D,n)}\binom nq m^q. \]

Proof of the embedding and normalization. Reduce powers in a column with \(X^2=zX\), and discard products using different rows in one column. The surviving monomials \(X_T\), choosing at most one occupied cell per column, span \(R\) freely over \(k[z]\). They are independent: evaluation on the states gives tensor products of the one-column function basis \(1,\mathbf1_{a_j=1},\ldots,\mathbf1_{a_j=m}\), with the nonzero factors \(z^{|T|}\). Independence of this function basis over \(k\), and then over \(k(z)\), proves injectivity and uniqueness of normal form. Homogeneous degree \(D\) has precisely the displayed number of basis terms \(z^{D-|T|}X_T\).

Let \(e_a\) be the idempotent selecting the component \(a\). The product algebra \(\widetilde R\) is generated as an \(R\)-module by the finitely many \(e_a\); they are integral, satisfying \(e_a^2=e_a\). Its component rings \(k[z]\) are integrally closed. Inverting \(z\) in \(R\) already recovers every \(e_a\) by the products of column-state indicators, so the total quotient ring is \(\prod_a k(z)\). Thus \(\widetilde R\) is the integral closure of \(R\) in that ring.

Proof of the conductor. For state \(a\), multiply its \(n\) homogeneous column indicators: use \(X_{a_jj}\) for an occupied column and \(z-\sum_iX_{ij}\) for an empty one. The result evaluates to \(z^ne_a\), so \(z^n\widetilde R\subseteq R\). No nonzero point indicator has degree below \(n\) in the column function basis: each one-column indicator has a nonzero degree-one component, and their tensor product has a nonzero term using all \(n\) columns. Therefore \(z^De_a\notin R\) for \(D<n\). If \(f=(f_a(z))_a\) is in the conductor, multiply by \(e_a\); each homogeneous term of \(f_a(z)e_a\) must lie in \(R\), forcing \(z^n\mid f_a(z)\). Conversely that divisibility suffices. This proves the exact conductor and the stated quotient dimensions.

This is a geometric repackaging of the inherited column normal form. On the full Boolean cone in \(v\) independent variables, the same argument gives normalization \(\prod_{\{0,1\}^v}k[z]\) and conductor \(z^v\widetilde R\). Column exclusion improves that ambient cost from the number of cells to the number of columns, but not below the linear PHP scale.

Imposing PHP after normalization destroys the marked degree information

Let \(L=(\ell_i)_i\subset R\), where \(\ell_i=\sum_jX_{ij}-z\). The old weak homogeneous PHP algebra is \(A_0=R/L\). In component \(a\), \(\ell_i\) evaluates to \((c_i(a)-1)z\), where \(c_i(a)\) is the number of columns occupied by row \(i\). Since \(m=n+1\), every state has an empty row, for which the coefficient is \(-1\), nonzero in every characteristic. Hence \[ L\widetilde R=z\widetilde R,\qquad \widetilde R/L\widetilde R\simeq k^{(m+1)^n}. \] In this normalized quotient \(z\) vanishes in degree one.

In contrast \(z\ne0\) in \((R/L)_1\): a linear combination of the row equations equal to \(z\) would have coefficient zero on every \(X_{ij}\), forcing every row coefficient to be zero. The old matching barrier gives survival much farther in its stated stable range, also for this weak base since adding functional row exclusions only strengthens it. Thus the map \(R/L\to\widetilde R/L\widetilde R\) loses precisely relevant degree information already before any ENS block is added. Normalization is injective before quotienting; it is not a safe injective operation after the row constraints.

The finite-length module \(Q=\widetilde R/R\), concentrated in degrees below \(n\), records the missing information at the common vertex. From \(0\to R\to\widetilde R\to Q\to0\), the standard tensor exact sequence shows that the kernel of \(R/L\to\widetilde R/L\widetilde R\) is the image of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^R(Q,R/L)\). This statement does not assert that the preceding \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^R(\widetilde R,R/L)\) vanishes, nor that the displayed image is all of that Tor module. The old target's survival is therefore part of the nonexact behavior of this quotient operation, rather than something preserved by first separating the lines.

Sections exist after normalization, but the uniform descent cost is too high

Work now over \(\mathbb F_p\). Let \(C\) be the homogeneous algebra obtained by adding any finite family of complete one-level old-input ENS blocks and their fields to \(R\), still before adding the row equations. It is finite over \(R\), because every fresh field equation is monic in its coefficient variable. For each column state \(a\), set \(z=1\), evaluate all old inputs and choose coefficients separately in each block: select the inverse of one nonzero input in the first accuracy row, with all other coefficients zero, or use all zeros if every input is zero. Every companion and field then vanishes. This gives an \(R\)-algebra map \[ s:C\longrightarrow\widetilde R \] by sending a coefficient to the degree-one tuple \(z\) times its selected values. The map need not land in \(R\).

The conductor gives an \(R\)-linear homogeneous map \(E=z^ns:C\to R\) of degree \(n\), with \(E(1)=z^n\). It descends after adding any old homogeneous ideal, including the row equations. This is a uniform, inventory-independent module map, but its degree charge is \(n\), already beyond the old linear lower-bound window used in our route. It is not an algebra retraction: \(E(1)\ne1\), and \(E\) does not in general commute with multiplication by fresh variables. Thus it provides no automatic bounded-PC replay. For homogeneous NS certificates it gives the corresponding additive \(n\)-degree old-target transfer, with column normal-form reduction retaining original generator degrees.

The existence of some coefficient choices on every component therefore does not supply an affordable global profile. This is consistent with, and partly rediscovers, the historical independent-input barrier: a Boolean accuracy-one block on \(v\) independent coordinates requires coefficient degree at least \(v-1\) for pointwise removal. Its proof forces the product to be the unique degree-\(v\) point indicator. Likewise the weighted column-only barrier rules out an affordable universal packing repair without row equations, while its following corollary removes the same row blocks by constant coefficients once rows are used. The geometric calculation does not invalidate our PHP-relative profile endpoints; it explains why a domain-only normalization argument is stronger than what is needed.

Finite controls and assessment

The exact new check takes three rows, two columns and all sixteen column states, over \(\mathbb F_3\) and \(\mathbb F_5\). Evaluation ranks at degrees zero, one and two are \(1,7,16\); normalization ranks are \(16,16,16\), giving defect dimensions \(15,9,0\). Every point indicator fails membership in the degree-one space. Each normalized component has an empty-row equation killing \(z\). In the original row-quotient calculation, the degree-one row span has rank three and excludes the unit; the degree-two span modulo the column generators has rank fifteen in dimension sixteen and still excludes it. All checks passed. This small case illustrates the proved normalization failure; it is not evidence for a new asymptotic lower bound. C++20 checker; complete output. Compile with g++ -std=c++20 -O2 check.cpp -o checker and run checker --out checks.json, through the protected launcher.

Focused review. Checked the free column basis, all-characteristic point-indicator degree, exact conductor rather than only an upper bound, the empty-row argument, and the distinction between a weighted module map and a PC-compatible substitution. No normalization theorem about the final empty projective scheme is being used. The Tor statement is the exact-sequence image assertion, not an unjustified flatness claim. The preserved full row equations are essential in any stronger continuation.

Contribution and remaining gap. The geometry now isolates a concrete object to study: the graded normalization defect and its interaction with PHP rows and complete companion ideals. Generic normalization and pointwise sections cannot discharge the main obligation; they erase old target thickness or pay an unaffordable conductor cost. No degree-local bound for the coupled source has been proved. If this direction is resumed, the next useful test is a PHP-relative annihilator or pairing on the defect module that survives the row quotient and couples the blocks without summing one cost per block. It must beat the conductor scale and respect the marked-PC closure from the preceding entry. This is an exploratory target, not an established promising theorem.

Process assessment. Reading the historical pointwise barriers before attempting tensor descent prevented repackaging an already excluded mechanism as progress; the normalization calculation gives a sharper explanation and leaves the unresolved quantitative task explicit. No framework change was needed. Spin stops after the local checkpoint at the user's request.

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Topology proposals and a test of an augmented moment-extension complex

21 September 2026 · Working conditional lifting lemma, finite checks and route review · Ideas recorded before exploration; no full-source vanishing theorem. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Topology proposals and a test of an augmented moment-extension complex”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex.

Ideas retained from the supplied conversation and discussion

Purpose. The unrestricted odd-prime unary-PHP goal still needs a uniform way to handle complete selector blocks and their mixed coefficient moments. The private external conversation suggests topology, especially an obstruction complex modeled on the successful chessboard argument. These are proposals and literature leads, not imported theorems about the augmented source. The user explicitly requested recording all of them before pursuing the complex idea. Spin remains paused outside this single assigned cycle.

The existing chessboard template. On a prescribed row set, compatible lower matching moments prescribe an augmented boundary; extending to the next row degree requires a filling. The recorded marginal-cycle interface and all-field matching argument explain why this topology is relevant. The range \(N\ge2s-1\) is a sufficient filling range used by that proof, not a claim that every feature of the exact PC threshold is classified topologically.
An obstruction complex for complete extensions. Seek a chain complex, or a system of vector spaces over the matching faces, whose obstruction class measures failure to extend compatible low-degree moments after adding the actual companions and coefficient fields. It should reduce to the known chessboard mechanism when the blocks are absent. The sought gain is a structural filling theorem across many blocks, replacing or complementing weighted substitution. Merely writing a constraint matrix as a two-term complex is not such a gain.
Cohomological local-to-global consistency. Organize local moment spaces and restriction maps as a presheaf or coefficient system, with compatibility on overlaps. Ó Conghaile's cohomological consistency work is a concrete lead involving presheaves, Čech obstructions and equations over finite rings. Chan–Ng's later hierarchy lower bounds offer failure controls as well as techniques. Their results do not automatically translate to bounded PC or to our source grammar. Our recorded common-root control already shows that many local extensions of the same old marginal need not yield a globally compatible family.
Tseitin as a homological comparison. For an oriented incidence system over a field, solvability of prescribed charges is an image-of-boundary question; componentwise total charge is the zeroth-homology obstruction. This helps explain the accessibility of directly presented linear systems to matching-characteristic algebraic reasoning. It is a heuristic comparison, not a theorem that every CNF encoding of a homological inconsistency is easy for every linear proof system; encoding, degree and field must be specified.
Hyperplane-arrangement complements. The full-field false sets are affine arrangement complements; complex arrangement topology and finite-field point counts suggest cohomological invariants. Lifting an arrangement with the same combinatorics and passing to its intersection with the Boolean cube are separate issues. No bridge from those invariants to our filtered image and original-generator certificate budgets is established. The earlier geometry audit retains the relevant limitations.
Integral torsion and characteristic. Shareshian–Wachs provides a genuine lead on \(3\)-torsion in bottom homology of matching and chessboard complexes. Such torsion could matter near or outside vanishing ranges and when changing coefficient fields. It does not, by itself, explain the odd-prime extension obstruction or alter the all-field filling range already used. Threshold behavior is an optional later investigation, not the main task here.
Fundamental groups and nonabelian topology. These are lower-priority candidates because our immediate unknowns and compatibility constraints are linear over a field. This is a task-specific assessment, not a general impossibility of using nonabelian invariants in proof complexity. Homology with an appropriate coefficient system is the first object to try.

Tests for the chosen idea. Keep every original companion, coefficient field and mixed-block moment; preserve the actual degree ceiling. Distinguish a normalized NS functional from a PC annihilator that also respects reuse after degree drops. Recover the unaugmented matching picture, detect the existing local-to-global control, and avoid demanding pointwise coefficient selections that the historical packing barriers already rule out. At the end, assess whether a structural filling mechanism—not just a relabeling of the equations—has emerged and warrants another bounded cycle.

Exploration: use the existing matching complex, but change the differential

The claim search found an important predecessor: the main notebook already has a projective-family lifting lemma for commuting square-zero operators in characteristic two, and a wide-row matching application. Its later relative refinements remain characteristic two and require supplied compatible data. We therefore do not introduce a new abstract complex merely by renaming the moment matrix. The present construction extends one part of that mechanism to characteristic \(p\), while leaving the complete-source interface explicit.

Let \(A_0\) be the homogeneous functional matching algebra on \(m\) rows and \(N\) labels, with original row equations \(\sum_jX_{ij}-z\), Boolean homogenizations, and row/column collisions. It need not be an unsatisfiable board for the following construction. Put \[ G=A_0/(z) =k[X]/(X_{ij}^2,\ X_{ij}X_{ij'},\ X_{ij}X_{i'j},\ \sum_jX_{ij}),\qquad K_s=G_s^*. \] The space \(K_s\) is the top moment-correction space: it is the kernel of the restriction \(A_{0,s}^*\to A_{0,s-1}^*\) dual to multiplication by \(z\). In row multidegree \(S\), its elements are injection arrays with zero marginal when any row is deleted. With the usual row orientation, these are top cycles of the fixed-row chessboard complex. Thus the underlying matching spaces are the ones already supplied by the chessboard argument; no new geometric model of the old PHP base is assumed.

For a homogeneous linear form \(\ell\), let \(D_\ell:K_s\to K_{s-1}\) be dual to multiplication by \(\ell:G_{s-1}\to G_s\). These operators commute. In characteristic \(p\), \[ \ell^p=\sum_{ij}a_{ij}^{\,p}X_{ij}^{\,p}=0,\qquad D_\ell^p=0. \] This remains true after any field extension. But \(D_\ell^2\) need not vanish for odd \(p\): two independent square-zero coordinates already give \((x+y)^2=2xy\). The unsigned contraction produced by polynomial multiplication cannot simply be identified with an oriented simplicial boundary in odd characteristic.

Instead use the \(p\)-complex and its alternating ordinary complex \[ \cdots\longrightarrow K_{d+p} \xrightarrow{D_\ell}K_{d+p-1} \xrightarrow{D_\ell^{p-1}}K_d \xrightarrow{D_\ell}K_{d-1}\longrightarrow\cdots . \] Consecutive compositions vanish because \(D_\ell^p=0\). The first obstruction group is \[ H^{(1)}_d(\ell)= \ker(D_\ell:K_d\to K_{d-1})/ \operatorname{im}(D_\ell^{p-1}:K_{d+p-1}\to K_d); \] the adjacent group replaces the kernel by \(\ker D_\ell^{p-1}\) at \(K_{d+p-1}\) and the image by \(D_\ell K_{d+p}\). These are standard kinds of amplitude homology for a \(p\)-nilpotent operator; Qi's hopfological-algebra work is a literature lead, not an imported exactness theorem for our spaces.

This choice is tied to the actual odd-prime source: the leading operator for a selector \(q=1-L^{p-1}\), whose linear part is \(\ell\), is \(-D_\ell^{p-1}\). Thus the complex is sensitive to the degree and shape of the selector. It is a candidate layer of an augmented obstruction complex on chessboard moment corrections; it is not yet a complex proved equivalent to full augmented PC feasibility.

Working lemma: two-parameter common lifting in characteristic \(p\)

Let \(C_s\) be finite-dimensional graded spaces over a field \(k\) of characteristic \(p\), with commuting degree-minus-one operators \(D_1,D_2\) satisfying \(D_1^p=D_2^p=0\). Put \(\delta=p-1\). Suppose that for every nonzero pair \((u,v)\) over an algebraic closure, the operator \(\Theta=uD_1+vD_2\) satisfies \[ \ker(\Theta:C_d\to C_{d-1}) =\operatorname{im}(\Theta^\delta:C_{d+\delta}\to C_d), \] \[ \ker(\Theta^\delta:C_{d+\delta}\to C_d) =\operatorname{im}(\Theta:C_{d+p}\to C_{d+\delta}). \tag{TP-exact} \] Then every tuple \(z_0,\ldots,z_\delta\in C_d\) satisfying \[ D_1z_0=0,\quad D_1z_j+D_2z_{j-1}=0\ (1\le j\le\delta), \quad D_2z_\delta=0 \tag{TP-closed} \] has one \(w\in C_{d+\delta}\) with \[ \binom{\delta}{j}D_1^{\delta-j}D_2^jw=z_j\quad(0\le j\le\delta). \tag{TP-lift} \] Conversely every such image satisfies (TP-closed), without the exactness hypothesis. A linear right inverse on the compatible tuple space exists under (TP-exact).

Proof. Commutation and characteristic \(p\) give \(\Theta^p=0\). Work over the algebraic closure on \(\mathbf P^1\). Use the bundle complex \[ E_2=C_{d+p}\otimes\mathcal O(-1) \xrightarrow{\Theta} E_1=C_{d+\delta}\otimes\mathcal O \xrightarrow{\Theta^\delta} E_0=C_d\otimes\mathcal O(\delta) \xrightarrow{\Theta} E_{-1}=C_{d-1}\otimes\mathcal O(p). \] Hypothesis (TP-exact) gives exactness on every fiber at \(E_0,E_1\). The two adjacent ranks at each exact position sum to a constant dimension and each is at most its generic rank, so those ranks are constant. Hence the kernel sheaves and images give exact sequences \(0\to Z_1\to E_1\to Z_0\to0\) and \(0\to Z_2\to E_2\to Z_1\to0\), where \(Z_j\) is the kernel of the outgoing map.

On \(\mathbf P^1\), \(H^1(\mathcal O(-1))=0\), and \(H^2\) of a coherent sheaf vanishes. These are the standard two-chart calculation and cohomological dimension used in the predecessor; see Stacks Project, cohomology of projective space. The second exact sequence gives \(H^1(Z_1)=0\), so the first gives surjectivity \(H^0(E_1)\to H^0(Z_0)\). The polynomial section \(z(u,v)=\sum_{j=0}^{\delta}u^{\delta-j}v^jz_j\) lies in \(H^0(Z_0)\) exactly when (TP-closed) holds. Its preimage is a constant \(w\), since \(E_1\) has twist zero. Comparing coefficients in \(\Theta^\delta w=z(u,v)\) proves (TP-lift). Solvability descends to \(k\) because the ranks of a finite linear system and its augmented matrix do not change under field extension. Choosing a basis of the image gives the right inverse. Necessity follows by multiplying by \(\Theta\). This proves the lemma.

For \(p=2\) this recovers the two-operator instance of the existing projective lemma. For \(p=3\), the target is a triple and the lift is \((D_1^2w,\,2D_1D_2w,\,D_2^2w)\). The middle component is required data, not something that can be dropped when only the two endpoint selectors are written. The output adds \(p-1\) old degrees; the sufficient fiber test also needs the next old degree \(d+p\). No polynomial-block-inventory bound is obtained from this two-parameter statement.

A direct arbitrary-family port of the binary projective proof is not automatic. The alternating twists begin \(0,-1,-p,-p-1,\ldots\). Already on \(\mathbf P^2\) in characteristic three, \(\mathcal O(-3)\) has nonzero second cohomology, so the old negative-twist vanishing argument cannot simply be reused unchanged. This flags a proof obligation, not a counterexample to every possible many-operator lifting theorem.

Exact positive and negative controls

Abstract positive model. Take \(C\) to be the graded dual of \(k[t_1,t_2]/(t_1^p,t_2^p)\), with \(D_i\) dual to multiplication by \(t_i\). Every nonzero linear combination remains a truncated coordinate after a homogeneous invertible linear change, even over the algebraic closure. The module is free over that one-variable truncated algebra, so its length-\(p\) strings make both alternating maps exact in every degree. Exact modular checks at \(p=3,5\), \(d=0,1,2\), find equality of the full compatible target space and the joint image. The respective ranks are \(3,2,1\) and \(5,4,3\).

Individual exactness is insufficient. On the dual of \(k[t_1,t_2]/(t_1^p,t_2^2)\), take \(D_1\) dual to \(t_1\) and \(D_2\) dual to \(t_1+t_2\). For odd \(p\), each listed operator individually has only length-\(p\) strings: the algebra is free of rank two over either corresponding truncated coordinate algebra. But \(D_2-D_1\) comes from \(t_2\), whose strings have length two. At \(d=0\), all \(p\) scalar target coefficients satisfy (TP-closed), whereas the source degree \(p-1\) has dimension two and its image has rank two. Thus compatible tuples need not have a common lift if the whole pencil is not tested. The checker saves an explicit coordinate target outside the image at \(p=3,5\). This is a counterexample to the weakened hypothesis, not to the lemma.

Actual matching-space control. Use \(m=4\) and \(m=5\) rows, \(N=9\) labels identified with \(\mathbb F_3^2\), and the two forms \(\ell_1=\sum_{i,(a,b)}aX_{i,(a,b)}\), \(\ell_2=\sum_{i,(a,b)}bX_{i,(a,b)}\). These are satisfiable functional matching boards, not balanced unsatisfiable PHP instances. The forms are weighted column occupancies, a known easy source class under the weak-base freezing route; this tests the proposed operator exactness, not a new hard query family. In each row-pair component, the degree-two quotient has dimension \(72-17=55\); each row-triple component has dimension \(504-190=314\). The checker constructs the row-sum relation spaces exactly and reduces the multiplication maps modulo them.

Rows \(m\)	\(\dim G_2\)	\(\dim G_3\)	\(\operatorname{rank}(\ell_1:G_2\to G_3)\)	\(\dim\ker D_{\ell_1}^{2}-\dim\operatorname{im}D_{\ell_1}\) at \(K_2\)
4	330	1256	328	1
5	550	3140	549	0

In both cases \(\ell_1^2:G_0\to G_2\) has rank one, so the other exactness test at \(K_0\) holds. Every nonzero \(\mathbb F_3\)-pencil direction is equivalent to \(\ell_1\) by a \(\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbb F_3)\) permutation of the nine labels. This proves the same finite-field rank statements for all those directions, but says nothing yet about every algebraic-closure direction. The actual joint polarized map to the three-dimensional target at \(K_0\) has rank three in both boards. Thus the four-row fiber defect does not prevent this particular joint lift: the theorem's exactness hypotheses are sufficient, not necessary.

These tests are capable of rejecting the proposed hypotheses and distinguish a boundary defect from a successful joint image. They do not prove a general row/label range, do not establish exactness in positive target degree on matching spaces, and do not verify complete-source feasibility. The abstract checker and all abstract ranks and target indices, plus the matching checker and complete matching results, are retained. Compile with g++ -std=c++20 -O2 (the matching run used -O3) and run with --out PATH, through the protected launcher. All checks passed; no dependency installation or large exhaustive source enumeration was used.

What is still missing from an augmented obstruction complex

For an accuracy-one complete block \(P=1-\sum_jr_jq_j\), a degree-\(D\) NS functional must satisfy, for every legal original cofactor, \[ \Lambda(r^\alpha m q_i) -\sum_j\Lambda(r^{\alpha+e_j}m q_iq_j)=0,\qquad |\alpha|+\deg m\le D-e_i, \] where \(e_i\) is the original degree of \(q_iP\). The exponent support \(\alpha\) ranges across all blocks. Fresh exponents reduce by \(r^p=r\), with the degree of the unreduced original cofactor still paid. Higher accuracies expand the actual product and retain all its terms. The existing binary density coordinates make this coupling explicit, and the prime-field pairing supplies a possible coordinate interface with its larger density-degree cost.

The new complex captures a leading old-variable contraction layer of these equations. It does not supply their lower-degree terms, choose the intermediate polarized targets, or guarantee compatibility between different blocks. The common-root ordering control still refutes inferring global compatibility from separately available local extensions. Even a full normalized NS functional would not finish the PC task: the marked fixed-degree closure records the additional reuse after degree drops. Those conditions have not been identified with a vanishing theorem for this candidate complex.

The cohomological-consistency literature remains relevant, but the interface is not automatic. Ó Conghaile's construction uses compatible integral linear combinations of local sections and detects a particular obstruction to extending a local section (Appendix C); our unknowns are field-valued moments under a degree ceiling, not necessarily distributions on bounded-support satisfying assignments. Wide linear forms can mention the whole board at degree one. A support-size cover can therefore lose the polynomial-degree problem unless a translation is proved. The newer hierarchy lower bounds were screened at abstract level only; no theorem from them is used in the working lemma.

Assessment: one focused follow-up is deserved, a long commitment is not yet justified

What changed. There is now a natural odd-prime complex on the existing chessboard correction spaces, and a proved conditional two-parameter filling statement using projective cohomology. Exact controls show both a real matching-space obstruction and a nearby case where the proposed fiber obstruction vanishes. This goes beyond turning a linear system into a two-term complex. It also pinpoints the characteristic-two shortcut that cannot be copied: square-zero contraction becomes \(p\)-nilpotent contraction.

What did not change. The missing unrestricted implication—simultaneous complete-source removal with an affordable PC degree budget—remains open. The lowest-degree matching test is a preliminary control, not evidence that all mixed moments will extend. This is a working proof and route experiment, with no Lean verification or independent novelty claim.

Recommended next bounded cycle, if authorized. Prove or refute a quantitative amplitude-exactness bound for \(D_\ell,D_\ell^{p-1}\) on matching correction spaces at \(d\ge1\), uniformly over the algebraic closure, using collective row support and robust row-value evaluation hypotheses. Compare it with the existing coded-trade proof before inventing a new mechanism. If the fiber condition is unnecessarily strong, test a directly costed joint-lift criterion instead. A useful outcome must give a general range or a structural counterexample, not just more small ranks. Only after that should a further cycle try to derive the polarized compatibility data from complete source equations. No additional cycle is started here.

Focused correctness and process review. Checked the exact graded algebra, unsigned-versus-oriented distinction, \(p\)-nilpotence over field extensions, both projective exactness positions, the \(\mathcal O(-1)\) cohomology step, descent to the base field, binomial coefficients, and the finite checks' satisfiable-board scope. The prior claim search prevented rediscovering the binary projective argument without attribution. One actual matching-map test and an abstract bad-pencil control were more informative than a broad numerical sweep; no framework change is warranted.

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Coded rows give a general odd-prime amplitude-exactness range

21 September 2026 · Working all-prime coded-row induction and joint-lift corollary · Positive-degree exact finite controls. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Coded rows give a general odd-prime amplitude-exactness range”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-positive-degree-amplitude.

Missing implication and stopping point. The previous projective-line lemma required exactness of every pencil direction at two old moment degrees. Its matching tests covered only target degree zero. This cycle tests whether the inherited coded-row mechanism proves a general positive-degree range, rather than collecting more finite ranks. Stop at a complete amplitude theorem, its two-form consequence, original degree/label costs and below-threshold controls. The full coupled source and PC closure remain separate obligations.

Statement

Work over any field \(k\) of prime characteristic \(p\). On a functional matching board with arbitrary finite row set and label set \(\Omega\), let \(K_r\) be the top moment-correction space: the direct sum over \(r\)-row sets of injection arrays with every ordinary row marginal zero, with \(K_0=k\). For each row \(i\) in an active set \(I\), give a row function \(f_i:\Omega\to k\). Its weighted marginal is \(\delta_i\); put \(D_I=\sum_{i\in I}\delta_i\). These maps commute, \(\delta_i^2=0\), and \(D_I^p=0\).

Fix \(d\ge0\) and \(1\le a\le p-1\), and put \(b=p-a\). Suppose \[ |I|\ge 2d+b,\qquad Q=3d+2b, \tag{PA-room} \] and the evaluation matrix with rows \(1,f_i\) retains rank two after deletion of any at most \(Q\) labels, for every \(i\in I\). Then \[ \ker(D_I^a:K_d\to K_{d-a}) =\operatorname{im}(D_I^b:K_{d+b}\to K_d). \tag{PA-exact} \] Spaces of negative degree are zero. The lift can be chosen linearly. The theorem also holds with forced coded rows as below. It is a working extension of the characteristic-two forced-row proof; when \(p=2\), the predecessor's sharper row threshold \(t>d\) remains available.

Controlled insertion of one coded row

Fix a set \(F\) of forced rows, disjoint from an active set \(J\). Let \(V_r^F\) consist of arrays on row sets containing \(F\), with zero ordinary marginals and also zero \(f_i\)-weighted marginal for each \(i\in F\). All active contractions preserve these constraints. We prove the stronger version of (PA-exact) on \(V_d^F\), under \[ |J|\ge2(d-|F|)+b, \] with the same deletion allowance \(Q=3d+2b\) for all rows in \(F\cup J\).

Choose \(i\in J\). Let \(W_r\) denote the part of \(V_r^F\) avoiding \(i\), and \(U_r\) its part using \(i\). The map \(\delta_i:U_{r+1}\to W_r\) is onto whenever the needed deletion allowance is available. Indeed, the coded-disjoint-trade theorem expands every fixed-row component of a target into tensors whose forced rows have evaluation rank two and all other rows have rank one. Each tensor uses at most \(2r+|F|\) labels, and that theorem needs robustness through \(2r+|F|-1\) deletions. Outside those labels, choose a row-\(i\) vector \(c\) with ordinary sum zero and \(f_i\)-weighted sum one, supported on at most two labels. Its tensor product with the target tensor gives the insertion. The kernel of \(\delta_i\) is exactly the additional forced-row condition. No claim that this insertion commutes with the other contractions is needed.

Put \(A=D_{J\setminus\{i\}}\) and \(\delta=\delta_i\), so \(D_J=A+\delta\). Since \(A\delta=\delta A\) and \(\delta^2=0\), for every \(q\ge1\), \[ (A+\delta)^q=A^q+qA^{q-1}\delta. \tag{PA-binomial} \] Both terms have their literal integer coefficients reduced in \(k\).

Proof by induction on the number of active rows

Write \(e=d-|F|\). If \(e=0\), a target is supported on \(F\) alone. Expand it by coded trades, using at most \(3d\) labels per tensor. Choose \(b\) active rows and, successively outside the used labels, insert ordinary-zero, weighted-one factors. There are at most \(3d+2(b-1)\) forbidden labels at any insertion, within \(Q\). Divide the resulting tensor by \(b!\), which is invertible because \(b<p\). Its \(D_J^b\)-image is the target: precisely the \(b!\) orders deleting the inserted rows contribute. This proves the base case, including \(F=\varnothing,d=0\).

Now \(e>0\). Induct simultaneously for all amplitudes, using the strictly smaller active set \(J\setminus\{i\}\). Let \(z=w+u\in V_d^F\) be a \(D_J^a\)-cycle, with \(w\) avoiding \(i\) and \(u\) using it. The two row-support parts of \(D_J^az=0\) give \[ A^aw+aA^{a-1}\delta u=0,\qquad A^au=0. \] Applying \(A\) to the first equation yields \(A^{a+1}w=0\).

First correction: remove the part avoiding \(i\). If \(a<p-1\), induction at target degree \(d\) and amplitude \(a+1\) gives \(w=A^{b-1}h\), with \(h\in W_{d+b-1}\). The active threshold is \(|J|-1\ge2e+b-1\), exactly what that call needs. If \(a=p-1\), then \(b=1\) and simply set \(h=w\). Insert row \(i\) to choose \(v_1\in U_{d+b}\) with \(\delta v_1=h/b\). Formula (PA-binomial) shows that the part of \(D_J^bv_1\) avoiding \(i\) is \(w\). Therefore \(z'=z-D_J^bv_1\) uses row \(i\) only and remains a \(D_J^a\)-cycle. Its two cycle equations are \[ A^az'=0,\qquad A^{a-1}\delta z'=0, \] since \(a\ne0\) in \(k\).

Second correction: make row \(i\) forced. If \(a=1\), the second equation already says \(\delta z'=0\). If \(a>1\), put \(\eta=\delta z'\in W_{d-1}\). Induction at degree \(d-1\) and amplitude \(a-1\) gives \[ \eta=A^{b+1}h',\qquad h'\in W_{d+b}. \] Here the required active count is \(2(e-1)+(b+1)=2e+b-1\), again available. Insert \(i\) to choose \(u'\in U_{d+b+1}\) with \(\delta u'=h'\), and set \[ v_2=Au'-b h'\in V_{d+b}^F. \] Its first term uses \(i\); its second avoids \(i\). Consequently the avoiding part of \(D_J^bv_2\) is \(-bA^bh'+bA^{b-1}\delta Au'=0\), while \(\delta D_J^bv_2=A^{b+1}h'=\eta\). Thus \(z''=z'-D_J^bv_2\) uses row \(i\), has \(\delta z''=0\), and remains a \(D_J^a\)-cycle. For \(a=1\), take \(v_2=0,z''=z'\).

We now have \(z''\in V_d^{F\cup\{i\}}\) and \(A^az''=0\). Induction with the new forced set gives \(v_3\in V_{d+b}^{F\cup\{i\}}\) with \(A^bv_3=z''\): it needs only \(|J|-1\ge2(e-1)+b\). Because \(\delta v_3=0\), this is also \(D_J^bv_3=z''\). Hence \(v_1+v_2+v_3\) is the required lift. The reverse inclusion in (PA-exact) follows from \(D_J^{a+b}=D_J^p=0\).

Uniform labels and degrees. Every recursive target degree \(d'\) is at most the starting \(d\), and \(d'+b'\le d+b\). Forced rows number at most \(d'\). The largest inserted target \(h'\) therefore requires at most \(2(d'+b')+|F'|\le3d+2b=Q\) labels for its coded tensor. All smaller induction calls have no larger robustness requirement: changing \((d,a)\) to \((d,a+1)\) lowers \(Q\) by two, and changing it to \((d-1,a-1)\) lowers \(Q\) by one. The constant-only evaluation rows retain rank because the active rank-two hypothesis implies \(|\Omega|>Q\). Thus every coded-trade use and insertion is licensed. The output has degree \(d+b\); the construction can use auxiliary arrays through \(d+b+1\), which are contracted before forming the output. There is no iteration-dependent output degree or factor depending on the number of active rows. Fixed bases and insertion right inverses make the construction linear.

Corollary: the two-parameter matching lift has explicit room bounds

For two row-linear forms \(\ell_1,\ell_2\), suppose every nonzero algebraic-closure combination has at least \[ t\ge2d+2p-1 \] active rows and its active constant/predicate evaluation pairs remain rank two after any \[ Q_*=3d+3p-1 \] label deletions. Apply (PA-exact) with \(a=1\) at degree \(d\), and with \(a=p-1\) at degree \(d+p-1\). These are exactly the two fiber conditions of the projective-line lemma. Thus every compatible polarized target tuple has one lift in \(K_{d+p-1}\). The exactness construction may inspect arrays through \(d+p+1\), but the common-lift output still adds only \(p-1\) old degrees.

A concrete all-field way to satisfy the pencil hypotheses uses labels \(\mathbb F_p^\ell\), \(N=p^\ell\), and row predicates that are affine-linear functions of those labels over \(\mathbb F_p\). Remove rowwise constants on top spaces. Let \(A_i\) be the \(\ell\)-by-two matrix of coefficients on row \(i\), and require \[ \tau=\min_{0\ne c\in\mathbb F_p^2}|\{i:A_ic\ne0\}| \ge2d+2p-1,\qquad N>\frac{p}{p-1}(3d+3p-1). \] The minimum row support does not decrease over an algebraic closure: a nonzero kernel vector for the stacked coefficient matrices outside a given row set implies one over the base field. On an active row, an extension-field linear combination defines a nonzero \(\mathbb F_p\)-linear map from the labels to the extension field. Every value fiber has size at most \(N/p\); therefore any nonzero affine combination of \(1,f_i\) is supported on at least \((1-1/p)N\) labels. The displayed strict inequality gives the required rank robustness uniformly over the algebraic closure. Constant offsets do not affect the top operators.

This discharges the missing matching-exactness premise in a collectively wide two-form regime, including positive target degree. It does not assign the intermediate polarized targets from a complete source, combine an arbitrary number of forms, or establish augmented PC closure. Low-rank source tuples already have other normalization routes; the purpose here is a correction tool that can preserve supplied coupled data, not a new unrestricted proof-line bound.

Positive-degree checks and structural negative controls

A new exact \(\mathbb F_3\) computation uses twelve labels, with each of the three predicate values repeated four times on every active row. The evaluation pair survives deletion of any seven labels: at least two predicate values remain. This meets the theorem's allowances \(Q=7\) for \(a=1,d=1\) and \(Q=5\) for \(a=2,d=1\). The checker uses full degree-one targets, reduces multiplication by \(\ell\) and \(\ell^2\) modulo all top row relations, and verifies that every row-sum relation maps to zero.

Active rows	\(\dim G_1\)	\(\operatorname{rank}(\ell:G_1\to G_2)\)	\(\operatorname{rank}(\ell^2:G_1\to G_3)\)	Amplitude 1 defect at \(K_1\)	Amplitude 2 defect at \(K_1\)
2	22	21	0	21	1
3	33	33	31	1	0
4	44	44	43	0	0

The two zero-defect thresholds are precisely the predicted \(t\ge3\) and \(t\ge4\) in this degree. These are satisfiable functional matching boards, not PHP refutation instances. The matrices have at most 3,836 output coordinates and 48 input columns; relation reduction blocks have at most 1,320 coordinates. C++20 checker and complete parameters and ranks are retained. Compile with g++ -std=c++20 -O3 check.cpp -o checker and run with --out PATH, through the protected launcher.

The failures below threshold have short algebraic witnesses. With two active rows in characteristic three, write \(\ell=\ell_1+\ell_2\). Since a row-linear top form squares to zero, \(\ell(\ell_1-\ell_2)=0\), although \(\ell_1-\ell_2\ne0\). Thus the dual map \(D:K_2\to K_1\) cannot be onto. With three active rows, \(\ell^2(\ell_1-\ell_2)=0\) and \(\ell_1-\ell_2\notin k\ell\). Choose a degree-one top moment taking values \(1,-1,0\) on the three \(\ell_i\)'s, by using ordinary-zero row differences between two predicate values. It lies in \(\ker D\) but evaluates to two on \(\ell_1-\ell_2\), whereas every \(D^2\)-image annihilates that polynomial. This proves the amplitude-one failure without relying on rank counts. Inactive rows may be added without repairing these witnesses. These examples show that label abundance alone does not replace a row-width condition.

Review, significance and next obligation

The induction was checked for both boundary amplitudes, the \(d=0\) base case, the two distinct corrections, forced-row preservation, all factorial/division coefficients, the global deletion budget and field extension. Its signed second correction \(Au'-bh'\) is what replaces the simpler characteristic-two step; assuming a contraction-equivariant insertion would have been unjustified. The new finite controls verify positive target degree and falsify weaker width conditions.

A bounded literature search located Bell–Siemons–Jones, On modular homology in the Boolean algebra, II, as relevant background on unsigned incidence homology. No theorem from that paper is imported into this proof. The actual dependencies are the previously proved all-field coded-trade spanning theorem and the projective-line lemma. Independent novelty and correctness review of the resulting matching theorem remain worthwhile.

Contribution. This proves a general positive-degree exactness range, the explicit stopping point of the previous cycle. It advances the topological correction mechanism beyond finite degree-zero controls. The unrestricted odd-prime PHP goal remains open because complete-source equations still have to supply compatible polarized targets, uniformly across the entire family and with PC degree-drop closure preserved.

Next cycle. Test that source interface directly. For two genuine odd-prime selectors sharing a moment component, derive the required polarized compatibility equations from original companions and retained domains, or exhibit a complete-source obstruction. Keep the intermediate mixed components and original costs. Do not spend the next cycle sharpening the sufficient row/label constants before addressing this higher-risk compatibility step.

Process assessment. Reusing the forced-row proof exposed a two-correction induction; one targeted positive-degree matrix test plus explicit thin-row witnesses checked the mechanism more effectively than expanding the case list. No framework change is needed.

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Wide field predicates have stable conditioned moments; two selectors still need polarized completion

21 September 2026 · Working conditioned-filtration theorem and exact source endpoint identities · Joint completion remains open above the first window. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Wide field predicates have stable conditioned moments; two selectors still need polarized completion”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-field-predicate-source-interface.

Missing implication and stopping point. The amplitude theorem fills compatible top targets, but a source must supply those targets and preserve shared moments. Test the actual companion/field identities, not another improvement of the row threshold. This cycle proves a one-predicate prescribed-moment extension, derives the two-selector endpoint conditions, and identifies the unproved polarized-completion problem. It does not infer a joint source functional from independently extended product-value components.

Stable filtration after a wide allowed-value predicate

Let \(\Gamma\) be the functional matching system on \(m\) rows and \(N\) labels over \(\mathbb F_p\). Let \(L=c+\sum_i\sum_j f_i(j)X_{ij}\) be an old affine form. Fix a nonempty proper set \(A\subset\mathbb F_p\), put \(a=|A|\), and retain the literal degree-\(a\) equation \[ q_A(L)=0,\qquad q_A(T)=\prod_{\alpha\in A}(T-\alpha). \] Choose \(B\ge a\). Suppose \(t\ge2B-a\) active rows have their constant/predicate evaluation pair robust under deletion of any \(3B-a\) labels. Then every ordinary NS functional for \(\Gamma+q_A(L)\) through degree \(k\le B\) extends through degree \(B\). Consequently, with \(I_s^A\) the original-generator NS space, \[ I_B^A\cap\mathcal P_{\le k}=I_k^A,\qquad C_B(\Gamma+q_A(L))=I_B^A, \] and there is no degree-\(B\) PC refutation. The statement concerns one old field predicate, not a complete fresh ENS layer.

The assumptions imply \(m\ge B\) and \(N>3B-a\ge2B\), so the old matching extension theorem is available throughout. Rank robustness, rather than just a syntactically large row support, is required. For \(A=\mathbb F_p^\times\), the equation is \(L^{p-1}-1=0\), precisely the old constraint imposed on a block-product component by the selector companion \((1-L^{p-1})P=0\).

The one-step extension and its original-degree check

Extend one step, from degree \(s-1\) to \(s\le B\). If \(s<a\), the new predicate is inactive and the old extension suffices. Otherwise put \(d=s-a\), and let \(\mu\) annihilate \(I_{s-1}^A\). Choose any old-system extension \(E\mu\) through degree \(s\). Define the defect on \(\mathcal P_{\le d}\) by \[ z(f)=-(E\mu)(q_A(L)f). \] It annihilates old \(I_d\), because multiplication by \(q_A(L)\) fits old degree \(s\), and it vanishes below degree \(d\), because the previously supplied predicate equations are valid through \(s-1\). Thus \(z\in K_d\).

Let \(b=p-a\). Since \(q_A\) divides \(T^p-T\), write \[ \frac{T^p-T}{q_A(T)}=T^b+r_0(T),\qquad \deg r_0\le b-1. \] For \(\deg f\le d-b\), \[ (D_L^bz)(f)=-(E\mu)((L^p-L)f)+(E\mu)(q_A(L)r_0(L)f)=0. \] The first term has an old Boolean certificate through \(p+\deg f\le s\): Frobenius reduces an affine \(L^p-L\) to the individual Boolean field consequences, with original degree at most \(p\). The second has degree at most \(s-1\), and its predicate cofactor has degree at most \(d-1\), so it vanishes by the given \(\mu\). If \(d<b\), the cycle condition is vacuous. No semantic replacement of an original generator is used.

Apply the amplitude theorem with kernel exponent \(b\). It gives \(v\in K_{d+a}=K_s\) with \(D_L^av=z\), under the sufficient bounds \(t\ge2d+a=2s-a\) and robustness through \(3d+2a=3s-a\). The assumptions at \(B\) imply all these bounds. Since the leading term of \(q_A(L)\) is \(\ell^a\), the functional \(\widetilde\mu=E\mu+v\) annihilates every new degree-\(s\) predicate multiple and preserves \(\mu\). Fixed old sections and amplitude right inverses make this linear.

Iterating proves extension for every functional, not just one normalized design. Finite-dimensional duality yields filtration stability. A degree-\(B\) PC predecessor that can be multiplied by a variable has actual degree at most \(B-1\); stability puts it in \(I_{B-1}^A\), so that multiplication stays in \(I_B^A\). Hence \(C_B=I_B^A\). Starting with the normalized degree-zero functional proves nonrefutation. This argument preserves the actual degree \(a\) of the supplied predicate and does not replace it by a lower-degree normal form for free.

Comparison with existing conditioning. The old affine-conditioning gap can already give strong refutation lower bounds after a low-degree survival check. The same weighting argument works for \(\chi_A(L)=\sum_{\alpha\in A}(1-(L-\alpha)^{p-1})\), of degree at most \(p-1\): \(1-\chi_A\) is a multiple of \(q_A\) through that degree, and \(\chi_Aq_A\) has a Boolean certificate. Applying the new theorem only through \(p-1\) rules out an old degree-\((p-1)\) certificate for \(\chi_A\) under constant-prime row/label bounds; old stability and weighted PC replay then give the inherited long-window hardness conclusion. Thus the distinctive interface proved here is extension of arbitrary prescribed conditioned moments and intrinsic \(C_B=I_B^A\), not a claim that mere conditioned hardness first became available.

Two genuine selectors supply endpoint relations

Let \(\delta=p-1\), \(q_i=1-L_i^\delta\), and suppose \(\mu\) is an old functional through \(s-1\) annihilating the legal multiples of both \(q_1,q_2\). Put \(d=s-\delta\ge0\), choose an old extension \(E\mu\) through \(s\), and define \[ z_i(f)=\mu(f)-(E\mu)(L_i^\delta f),\qquad \deg f\le d. \] Each \(z_i\) lies in \(K_d\). The literal field identity \(L_i^p-L_i\) gives \[ D_i z_i=0. \] Indeed its evaluation on \(f\) of degree at most \(d-1\) is \(\mu(L_if)-(E\mu)(L_i^pf)=0\), within old degree \(s=d+p-1\). Also \[ D_1^\delta z_2=D_2^\delta z_1. \tag{EP-cross} \] For a test polynomial of degree at most \(d-\delta\), the two \(E\mu\)-terms cancel by commutativity, leaving \(\mu((L_1^\delta-L_2^\delta)f)=0\), supplied by the lower predicate equations. If that test degree is negative, the condition is vacuous. These are genuine original-degree consequences, not independently imposed compatibility assumptions.

To use the projective common lift, take \(z_0=z_1\) and \(z_\delta=z_2\) as endpoint data (indices \(0,\delta\) now refer to polarization). One still needs intermediate elements \(z_j\in K_d\) satisfying \[ D_1z_j+D_2z_{j-1}=0\quad(1\le j\le\delta). \tag{EP-completion} \] For \(p=3\) the single unknown middle element must solve \[ D_1z_{\mathrm{mid}}=-D_2z_0,\qquad D_2z_{\mathrm{mid}}=-D_1z_2. \] The self and cross relations imply the natural annihilator and commutation conditions for these right-hand sides. They do not by themselves invoke the earlier theorem: that theorem fills an already completed polarized tuple. Sufficiency of these endpoint conditions for general positive \(d\) on our matching module is not established in this cycle.

The first two target degrees do complete. At \(d=0\), all maps to \(K_{-1}\) vanish, so set the intermediate targets to zero. At \(d=1\) and odd \(p\), assume \(\ell_1,\ell_2\) are independent in \(G_1\), as guaranteed by positive collective row distance. Then \((D_1,D_2):K_1\to K_0^2=k^2\) is onto. Choose the two scalar evaluations of each intermediate \(z_j\) to satisfy the neighboring chain equations; for the last intermediate component choose its \(D_2\)-value to match the fixed endpoint. Every prescribed pair is realizable, so (EP-completion) holds. Under the collectively wide two-form hypotheses, this yields a common correction in both degrees. In particular, using the hypotheses at \(d=1\), the system with the two old nonzero-value predicates has stable filtration and PC=NS through old degree \(p\): below \(p-1\) both predicates are inactive, and the remaining two extensions are exactly \(d=0,1\). This is a small initial window, not the compiled source's full degree range.

What the actual product component supplies—and what it does not

For a genuine complete block with whole product \(P\), retain its original degree \(w\). A source functional \(\Lambda\) at cutoff \(D\) gives the component \(\mu_P(f)=\Lambda(Pf)\) through old degree \(D-w\). Multiplying any old original-generator certificate by \(P\) shows that this component is an old NS functional in that window. The companion \(q_iP\), of original degree \(w+\delta\), supplies its predicate equations through cofactor degree \(D-w-\delta\). Thus the endpoint identities above apply at their stated windows to this actual component. For a singleton input, the one-predicate theorem provides a compatible old extension of that component.

However \(P=1-\sum r_iq_i\) at accuracy one, or its actual higher-accuracy product, already couples \(\mu_P\) to raw coefficient moments. Those moments also enter other blocks through mixed cofactors, and every \(r^p-r\) remains an original equation. Choosing a new \(\mu_P\) does not establish that it comes from one extension of \(\Lambda\) preserving all these equations. Nor does a normalized NS functional automatically annihilate bounded PC closure. These are precisely why this result is a source-interface step, not a complete-block or whole-family lifting theorem.

Exact conditioned-system control

A new \(\mathbb F_3\) check uses a satisfiable three-row, nine-label functional matching board and \(L=\sum_{ij}(j\bmod3)X_{ij}\). For each \(\alpha=0,1,2\), add the literal affine equation \(L-\alpha\). At \(B=2,a=1\), the theorem requires three active rows and rank robustness after five label deletions, both satisfied: each value occurs on three labels. The checker works in all 244 matching normal-form monomials through degree two, with degree-preserving original Boolean/collision reductions. It builds the complete NS space and iterates legal PC multiplications only from polynomials of actual normal-form degree at most one.

For every value, the degree-one NS rank is four, the degree-two NS and PC ranks are both 79, their degree-one intersection has dimension four, and the unit is absent. A negative control replaces the wide form by one cell and imposes \(X_{00}=2\): degree-two NS already contains the unit, PC closure fills all 244 coordinates, and the low-degree intersection has dimension fourteen. Thus dropping the width/robustness hypotheses fails sharply. The checks concern the conditioned old system, not a full ENS source. C++20 checker; complete ranks. Compile with g++ -std=c++20 -O2 and run with --out PATH, through the protected launcher. All checks passed.

Assessment and next step

The source does supply the one-predicate obstruction equation and the two-selector endpoint self/cross relations; these are no longer merely external assumptions. The new conditioned-filtration proof also treats every allowed nonempty proper field-value set with the original predicate degree charged. The first polarized completion window is understood. The main gap remains joint completion at higher degrees and then coherent preservation of raw mixed coefficient equations across all blocks.

The next cycle should test the higher-degree endpoint-completion implication directly, rather than prove more variants of one-predicate conditioning. A useful outcome is a matching-module joint-lift theorem from the endpoint relations, or a structural counterexample showing what further source data are necessary. Even success there will still need a separate full-source and PC accounting argument. The unrestricted proof-line goal remains open.

Process assessment. Comparing with the older affine-conditioning gap prevented overstating conditioned hardness as the novelty; the new content is prescribed-moment extension and the exact boundary of automatic source compatibility. One complete degree-two conditioned-system check and an impossible-value control verified the relevant distinction; no framework change is needed.

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Two ternary selector endpoints can be completed at every moment degree

21 September 2026 · Working ternary joint-lift theorem and conditioned-filtration corollary · Full matching-image and thin-combination controls. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Two ternary selector endpoints can be completed at every moment degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-ternary-endpoint-completion.

Missing implication and stopping point. The preceding source audit derives endpoint self/cross relations but completes the polarized tuple only at degrees zero and one. Test higher-degree completion directly. Stop at a theorem from those actual endpoint conditions, or a counterexample under the collective-width hypotheses. Do not replace the target with more one-predicate cases. This cycle proves the ternary implication using the existing polarized lift at adjacent degrees; many-form and raw coefficient compatibility remain open.

Abstract completion from polarized lifting

Work over characteristic three, with nonnegatively graded spaces \(C_r\), zero in negative degrees, and commuting degree-minus-one maps \(D_1,D_2\) satisfying \(D_1^3=D_2^3=0\). Write \(\mathsf P(r)\) for the following property: every triple \((a,b,c)\in C_r^3\) satisfying \[ D_1a=0,\quad D_1b+D_2a=0,\quad D_1c+D_2b=0,\quad D_2c=0 \] has a common lift \(h\in C_{r+2}\) with \[ D_1^2h=a,\qquad 2D_1D_2h=b,\qquad D_2^2h=c. \] This is exactly the property supplied by the ternary projective-line lemma, not a new unproved operator assumption in the matching application.

Joint linear lift. If \(\mathsf P(r)\) holds, and also \(\mathsf P(r-1)\) when \(r\ge1\), then \[ D_1w=u,\quad D_2w=v,\quad w\in C_{r+1} \] is solvable exactly for pairs \(u,v\in C_r\) satisfying \[ D_1^2u=0,\qquad D_2^2v=0,\qquad D_2u=D_1v. \tag{JL} \] Necessity follows from cubical nilpotence and commutation.

Proof of sufficiency. For \(r\ge1\), the triple \[ (D_1u,\ 2D_2u,\ D_2v)\in C_{r-1}^3 \] satisfies the four polarized closure equations. The middle equations are multiples of three, using \(D_2u=D_1v\); the endpoints use the two square-annihilator conditions. Property \(\mathsf P(r-1)\) gives \(w_0\in C_{r+1}\) with these second derivatives. The residuals \(u'=u-D_1w_0,\ v'=v-D_2w_0\) are each killed by both \(D_1,D_2\). When \(r=0\), take \(w_0=0\); the same assertion follows from the negative-degree spaces being zero.

Apply \(\mathsf P(r)\) separately to \((u',0,0)\) and \((0,0,v')\), obtaining \(h_1,h_2\in C_{r+2}\). Their mixed derivatives vanish. Therefore \[ w=w_0+D_1h_1+D_2h_2 \] has \(D_1w=u\) and \(D_2w=v\). This proves (JL), with output degree \(r+1\); the temporary polarized lifts have degree \(r+2\). Linear choices of the earlier right inverses give a linear joint right inverse.

Working endpoint theorem. Assume \(\mathsf P(r)\) for all nonnegative \(r\le d\) (only \(d,d-1,d-2\), when nonnegative, are used). Then \[ D_1^2w=z_1,\qquad D_2^2w=z_2,\qquad w\in C_{d+2}, \] is solvable exactly when \[ D_1z_1=0,\qquad D_2z_2=0,\qquad D_1^2z_2=D_2^2z_1. \tag{TE} \] Again necessity is automatic. For sufficiency at \(d=0\), choose the middle polarized target zero. For \(d\ge1\), put \(u=-D_2z_1,\ v=-D_1z_2\in C_{d-1}\). The endpoint conditions imply (JL) for this pair: the square-annihilator equations follow from endpoint self-annihilation, and its cross equation is the last condition in (TE). The joint linear lift produces \(b\in C_d\) with \(D_1b=-D_2z_1,\ D_2b=-D_1z_2\). Thus \((z_1,b,z_2)\) is a closed polarized triple. Apply \(\mathsf P(d)\) to obtain \(w\). This supplies the previously missing intermediate component rather than assuming it.

Matching hypotheses and degree ledger

Take \(C_r=K_r=(A_0/(z))_r^*\), the functional matching correction spaces, and \(D_i=D_{\ell_i}\). The coded-row/projective corollary supplies all required \(\mathsf P(r)\), \(r\le d\), if every nonzero algebraic-closure combination of \(\ell_1,\ell_2\) has at least \[ 2d+5 \] active rows and each active constant/predicate evaluation pair survives deletion of any \[ 3d+8 \] labels. The larger-degree hypotheses imply the smaller ones. In the full-label model \(\Omega=\mathbb F_3^\ell\), with row predicates affine-linear in the label coordinates over \(\mathbb F_3\), it suffices to check collective row distance over \(\mathbb F_3\) and \(N>\tfrac32(3d+8)\), by the recorded algebraic-closure argument.

The final correction has old degree \(d+2\). The middle-target construction uses no degree above that output. The inherited amplitude proofs may inspect auxiliary matching arrays through \(d+4\); they are contracted before forming the output and are not assumed to be extra prescribed source moments. No factor proportional to the number of rows or to the size of a chosen basis occurs. This theorem is ternary; no identical higher-prime endpoint-completion statement is inferred from it.

Corollary: two collectively wide nonzero-value constraints have stable moments

Let \(L_1,L_2\) be old affine forms over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the functional matching base \(\Gamma\), and retain the original degree-two equations \(q_i=1-L_i^2=0\). Fix \(B\ge2\). Suppose every nonzero algebraic-closure combination has at least \(2B+1\) active rows, with the active evaluation pairs robust under deletion of any \(3B+2\) labels. Then every NS functional for \(\Gamma+q_1+q_2\) through degree \(k\le B\) extends through \(B\), and \[ I_B^{12}\cap\mathcal P_{\le k}=I_k^{12},\qquad C_B(\Gamma+q_1+q_2)=I_B^{12}. \] A normalized design exists, so there is no degree-\(B\) PC refutation. The nonrefutation conclusion also holds for weak balanced PHP with these predicates, since adding functionality only strengthens it; the filtration assertion is for the functional base. This is not an unconditional ENS-family lower bound.

Proof. Below degree two the predicates are inactive. At each later extension from \(s-1\) to \(s\le B\), choose an old extension \(E\mu\), put \(d=s-2\), and form the two defects exactly as in the source endpoint lemma. Its original-degree calculation gives all three conditions (TE). The present theorem supplies one \(v\in K_s\) correcting both defects simultaneously. It fixes every lower old moment, so this step can be iterated. The displayed width and deletion bounds are the maxima of \(2d+5\) and \(3d+8\) over \(d\le B-2\). They imply the old matching extension room. Duality gives filtration stability, and the ordinary degree-bounded multiplication argument gives PC=NS. Degree-zero normalization is preserved at every step.

The distinction from the previous one-predicate result is that a single correction now preserves both constraints at all degrees. For an actual complete block whose product component obeys these two companions, it supplies the corresponding simultaneous old component extension within the carried product-degree window. It still does not reconstruct a global functional on all raw coefficient variables or show compatibility with additional blocks.

Full-image check at the first higher-degree bottleneck

The new exact \(\mathbb F_3\) check uses nine rows and \(27\) labels \((a,b,c)\in\mathbb F_3^3\), with \(\ell_1=\sum_{ij}a(j)X_{ij}\) and \(\ell_2=\sum_{ij}b(j)X_{ij}\). Collective row distance is nine, and any active predicate has at least eighteen nonzero evaluations after adding any constant, so rank robustness through fourteen deletions holds. These meet the theorem's conditions at endpoint target degree \(d=2\). The board is satisfiable, not a balanced PHP refutation instance.

Polarized completion at \(d=2\) requires the joint linear map \(K_2\to K_1^2\). Its dual is \((f,g)\mapsto\ell_1f+\ell_2g\) from \(G_1^2\) to \(G_2\). Here \(\dim G_1=234\), \(\dim G_2=23{,}364\). The self square-annihilator conditions on \(K_1\) are vacuous, and the cross condition has rank one, so the compatible target dimension is \(467\). Exact quotient reduction gives joint image rank \(467\). Every input row-sum relation and the Koszul relation \((\ell_2,-\ell_1)\) map to zero, as independently checked by the program.

For a negative control replace the second row predicate by \(a+b\) on row zero and by \(a\) elsewhere. Both listed forms remain individually wide, but their difference is confined to one row. The compatible target dimension stays \(467\), while the joint image rank drops to \(441\). The loss has an explicit reason: for every row-zero form \(f\), the pair \((f,-f)\) is a syzygy since \((\ell_1-\ell_2)f=0\) in \(G_2\). These give 26 independent relations in addition to the ordinary Koszul relation.

An explicit target outside the joint image is \(u\) supported on row zero with values \(+1\) at label \((1,2,0)\) and \(-1\) at \((0,0,0)\), and \(v=0\). Its ordinary row sum is zero, \(D_2u=0=D_1v\), and both square-annihilator conditions are vacuous. The syzygy \((f,-f)\) for the first-coordinate row-zero predicate pairs to one with \((u,v)\), so no common lift exists. This falsifies replacing collective width by individual widths; it does not violate the theorem's hypotheses.

C++20 checker and full dimensions and ranks are retained. Compile with g++ -std=c++20 -O3 and run with --out PATH, through the protected launcher. The largest map has 23,364 quotient coordinates and 486 raw columns, with echelon rows below 30 MB. All checks passed. This verifies the relevant higher-degree matching bottleneck, not every degree or a full source certificate; the general assertion is supported by the proof above.

Contribution, review and next risk

The exact two-selector compatibility relations supplied by the source are now sufficient in the collectively wide ternary regime at every target degree, rather than only the first two. The proof was reviewed for the coefficient two, the characteristic-three cancellations, both boundary target degrees, use of adjacent polarized lifts, and preservation of lower moments. The negative control checks the collective hypothesis actually used.

The main unrestricted goal still needs arbitrary input families, arbitrary primes, and coherent raw mixed coefficient moments with original field equations and PC closure. Two-predicate stable filtration is stronger than mere conditioned hardness, but it is not a simultaneous complete-source construction. The next checkpoint should review family scaling: identify the first genuine three-selector compatibility obstruction and whether the pair construction preserves already-corrected components. A pairwise filling theorem alone cannot be promoted to a family theorem, in view of the recorded common-root counterexample. Do not declare the full obstruction complex exact on the basis of these pair results.

Process assessment. Reducing endpoint completion to a joint linear lift made the supplied source conditions usable without inventing extra moments; adjacent applications of the existing theorem resolved that lift. One complete image test and an explicit thin-combination syzygy checked the new interface. No framework change is needed.

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Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 56.10 s
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Three wide ternary selectors obstruct automatic extension even in a genuine PHP source

21 September 2026 · Working family-scaling obstruction and exact complete-source degree ledger · Pair lifting remains valid; automatic extension does not scale. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Three wide ternary selectors obstruct automatic extension even in a genuine PHP source”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-three-selector-coherence-review.

General claim under review. The topological line aims to extend low-degree moments through complete source constraints using matching fillings. The amplitude and pair theorems now establish real local tools. The unrestricted goal requires a simultaneous normalized PC annihilator for arbitrary polynomially many complete blocks, not extension of every arbitrarily chosen partial functional. Test whether pairwise wide conditioned-filtration results can simply be assembled. Stop at a source-faithful obstruction or a general assembly argument, and revise the next task accordingly.

The three-selector identity

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), write \(a=L_1\), \(b=L_2\), \(T=a-b\), and take the three genuine selectors \[ q_1=1-a^2,\qquad q_2=1-b^2,\qquad q_3=1-(a+b)^2. \] There is an ordinary polynomial identity \[ q_1+q_2+q_3=T^2. \tag{TF-square} \] Because \(a,b\) are old affine forms over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(T^3-T\) has an old Boolean certificate through degree three. Therefore \[ T=T(q_1+q_2+q_3)-(T^3-T) \tag{TF-linear} \] puts a new affine relation in the degree-three conditioned NS and PC spaces. This conclusion is not visible from the degree-two predicate equations alone. Every pair of the three underlying forms spans the same two-dimensional space, so every pair can satisfy the strongest collective-width hypotheses currently proved, while the triple has this additional relation.

The three displayed forms are linearly dependent. Thus the example refutes assembly from pairwise collective width; it does not refute a future theorem requiring independence and robust collective hypotheses for the whole family. Nevertheless the third selector cannot be discarded by taking a basis of the underlying linear forms: its mixed quadratic term is an additional selector direction. The unrestricted source permits this tuple.

A balanced-PHP functional that extends for every pair but not the triple

Take \(N=3^\ell\ge27\), \(m=N+1\), and full labels \(\mathbb F_3^\ell\). Let \(a\) and \(b\) be the sums of the first and second label-coordinate predicates over all rows. Every nonzero combination is nonconstant on every row; any constant/predicate evaluation pair survives fewer than \(2N/3\) label deletions. Put \(B_0=\lfloor N/6\rfloor\). Each pair among \(a,b,a+b\) therefore satisfies the two-predicate theorem through \(B_0\ge4\): \(m\ge2B_0+1\) and \(3B_0+2<2N/3\).

We first justify degree-two old designs with prescribed values \(a=\alpha,b=\beta\), for any \((\alpha,\beta)\in\mathbb F_3^2\). The joint linear lift proved in the preceding cycle supplies this small affine-conditioning application. At degree one the two independent linear forms give an onto map \(K_1\to K_0^2\). At degree two, given a conditioned degree-one functional and an old extension, the defects for \(a-\alpha,b-\beta\) belong to \(K_1\); their square-annihilator conditions are vacuous and their cross condition is \(\alpha\beta-\beta\alpha=0\). The joint linear lift corrects them. Its polarized hypotheses through degree one are available since \(m\ge7\) and the label pairs are robust through eleven deletions. Thus there is a normalized \(\lambda_{\alpha,\beta}\) through degree two satisfying both affine equations and all old axioms.

These designs evaluate every polynomial in \(a,b\) of total degree at most two at \((\alpha,\beta)\). Define the signed functional \[ \mu=\lambda_{1,1}+\lambda_{1,0}-\lambda_{2,0}. \] It is normalized and annihilates the old degree-two NS space. Direct evaluation gives \[ \mu(q_1)=\mu(q_2)=\mu(q_3)=0,\qquad \mu(T)=2. \] The three predicates have original degree two, so these scalar conditions are all their permitted multiples at cutoff two. Hence \(\mu\) is a degree-two design for the full triple. It cannot extend to degree three, because (TF-linear) would force its preserved value on \(T\) to be zero.

By contrast the same \(\mu\) extends through \(B_0\) for every pair of the predicates, by the pair theorem. This is a PHP-specific common-partial-moment obstruction: every pair permits a long extension of the same normalized degree-two functional, while the triple fails at the very next degree. It is not an assertion that those pair extensions agree on all their higher overlaps, and it does not contradict the pair theorem. In particular \(T\notin I_2(\Gamma+q_1+q_2+q_3)\) but \(T\in I_3\).

A complete ENS block exhibits the same obstruction at the original costs

Keep the balanced old base \(\Gamma\), and add one complete accuracy-one block \[ P=1-r_1q_1-r_2q_2-r_3q_3,\qquad E_i=q_iP,\qquad r_i^3-r_i. \] The literal original degrees are \(\deg P=3\), \(\deg E_i=5\), and \(\deg(TP)=4\). Multiplying (TF-linear) by \(P\) gives \[ TP=T(E_1+E_2+E_3)-P(T^3-T), \tag{TF-source} \] an original-generator NS certificate through degree six. It is also a PC derivation through six.

Extend \(\mu\), ignoring the new predicates, to an old degree-five design \(\mu_5\), using the old matching extension theorem. Define \(\Lambda(F)=\mu_5(F(X,0,0,0))\). This is a normalized degree-five NS design for the complete source. The fresh fields specialize to zero; old certificates stay within degree five; and each degree-five companion can only have a scalar cofactor, so its image \(q_i\) has value zero. But \[ \Lambda(TP)=\mu_5(T)=2. \] No degree-six source NS design can extend this particular \(\Lambda\). Thus the failure is not an artifact of replacing a block by uncharged old equations.

The source target actually first appears at PC degree six

Here the degree-five functional also annihilates degree-five PC closure; this needs an additional argument, not an inference from being an NS design. Let \(H\) consist of \(\Gamma\) and all fresh field equations. Its degree filtration is stable through five: reduce fresh exponents to \(0,1,2\), then apply old matching stability separately to each fresh monomial coefficient. The reduction is degree-nonincreasing and uses the original monic field equations, so \(I_5(H)\cap\mathcal P_{\le4}=I_4(H)\).

Set \(Q=q_1q_2\). Field reduction in \(a,b\) gives \[ q_i^2\equiv q_i,\qquad q_iq_j\equiv Q\quad(i\ne j) \] with old certificates through degree four. Consequently \[ E_i\equiv(1-r_i)q_i-\sum_{j\ne i}r_jQ \pmod{I_5(H)}. \] The degree-five leading classes are therefore \(-\sum_{j\ne i}r_j\,\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\). The three-by-three off-diagonal-ones matrix has determinant two in \(\mathbb F_3\), hence is invertible.

The old class \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\) is nonzero in \(G_4=(A_0/(z))_4\). An explicit separating top trade uses four rows and disjoint label pairs \[ ((0,0,0),(1,0,0)),\ ((0,0,1),(1,0,1)),\ ((0,0,2),(0,1,2)),\ ((2,0,0),(2,1,0)), \] padding remaining coordinates by zero. Take the tensor of the signed differences, with the second label positive. It has all ordinary marginals zero and evaluates \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\) to \(2!\,2!=1\) in \(\mathbb F_3\). Terms repeating a row vanish under the trade. The distinct fresh degree-one monomials remain independent over this old top class. Thus the three companion leading classes are independent.

Since companions have original degree five, every degree-five source NS element is an element of \(I_5(H)\) plus a scalar combination of the \(E_i\). If its actual degree is at most four, the leading-class independence forces all those scalars to vanish. Hence \[ I_5(H+E)\cap\mathcal P_{\le4}=I_4(H). \] Every legal variable multiplication from such a low-degree predecessor stays in \(I_5(H)\); therefore \(I_5(H+E)\) is PC-closed at ceiling five, and \(C_5=I_5\) for this source. The functional \(\Lambda\) proves \(TP\notin C_5\), while (TF-source) gives \(TP\in C_6\). This is an exact degree-six derivation threshold for a degree-four source target, not a refutation of the old PHP.

Why this does not refute source hardness or the local topology theorems

The three constraints are equivalent, over the field domain with certificates attached, to one nonzero-value constraint and a derived affine relation. Specifically, \[ q_2-q_1=T(a+b),\qquad q_3-q_1=bT, \] while (TF-linear) derives \(T\) through three. Thus a corrected source interface could account for this relation before choosing the affected low moments. It may not relabel that degree-three certificate as a free degree-one axiom.

This family already has only two affine features and is removable by the existing bounded-rank/probe methods. Its degree fall therefore does not show that the augmented problem is easy or that the topological route cannot succeed. It shows that the stronger proposed invariant—extend every moment functional satisfying only currently active original equations—is false even for a simple collectively wide pairwise regime. The earlier singleton raw-filtration control already ruled out full raw stability in general; the present example specifically tests and defeats naive scaling of our new wide-pair construction.

Verification and evidence

The exact symbolic checker verifies (TF-square), (TF-source), both repair identities, and all reduced pair products over \(\mathbb F_3\). In the five-variable feature ring \(a,b,r_1,r_2,r_3\), the functional supported at \((1,1,0,0,0),(1,0,0,0,0),(2,0,0,0,0)\), with weights \(1,1,-1\), passes all 108 legal degree-five field/companion checks and has value two on \(TP\). This feature-ring check is not itself a Boolean PHP computation; the balanced-PHP realization is proved above using the established matching lifts.

For a separate concrete model control, three full injections on a satisfiable nine-row, 27-label board share rows one through eight assigned to the eight nonzero labels in the first two-coordinate plane with third coordinate zero. Row zero receives respectively \((1,1,1),(1,0,1),(2,0,1)\). Their \(a,b\) sums are exactly the three feature values, and the same signed functional verifies the degree-two predicate calculation. The checker also evaluates the sixteen terms of the separating four-row trade and obtains one. All final checks passed. One initial build failed because a copied map key remained const in a structured binding; it was repaired, and the failed build is retained as a tool failure.

C++20 checker; complete identities, values, model assignments and trade result. Compile with g++ -std=c++20 -O2 and run with --out PATH, through the protected launcher. No unchanged suite was rerun to count as progress.

Evidence-based route assessment

The complex idea has produced genuine general matching tools and a ternary pair compatibility theorem. This cycle finds the first concrete obstruction to turning those into automatic family-wide extension: a three-selector relation must constrain the low moments before a later degree activates it. The obstruction is already present within one complete block, so it cannot be blamed only on a large number of parents or an unrelated generic base.

The route remains worth pursuing only with a source-aware choice of moments and original-cost derived relations. The main goal needs existence of a suitable joint PC annihilator, not continuation of every degree-five design. The next bounded task is therefore to construct or characterize the first mixed source window at degree six for ternary degree-two selector inputs, allowing the degree-five choices to be made afresh. Keep all fresh fields, all old/fresh linear cofactors of the degree-five companions, and the new cost-six relations. Compare with the earlier first-active degree-five lift. Success must give a uniform family argument or a genuine old-target obstruction, not merely another bad partial functional. Do not return to optimizing the now-proved pair theorem.

Process assessment. A three-form dependence supplied a sharper falsification than a larger rank sweep. Tracking it through an actual complete block exposed the needed distinction between selecting compatible moments and extending arbitrary ones; the reviewed next step now addresses that distinction. No framework change is needed.

Assessment after the user's cases-and-examples challenge

The user challenged the proposed progression through degrees two, three, four, five and six. That criticism identifies a real risk in the next task above. The amplitude theorem is already uniform in prime and degree, and ternary pair completion is uniform in degree; these are general results, not a list of successful small examples. The present small triple is a legitimate falsification of a named general assembly hypothesis. But choosing another fixed-degree window after that falsification does not by itself supply the missing arbitrary-family implication.

Accordingly, the proposed degree-six follow-up above is withdrawn as the default next task. The complex is viable as a proved local correction tool; its proposed automatic extension mechanism is obstructed, and its usefulness for the unrestricted lower bound remains conditional. The goal needs existence of one simultaneous normalized PC annihilator for polynomially many complete blocks through the compiler ceiling \(4p-1\), respecting all original companions and fields. Neither arbitrary partial-design extension nor pairwise width is sufficient evidence for this. Even a successful degree-six construction over \(\mathbb F_3\) would leave degree eleven and arbitrary-family PC closure unproved.

The next bounded test must identify and audit a uniform assembly mechanism, using the existing simultaneous-repair transformations and source-nonextension controls before introducing a new compatibility requirement. It must explain which hypotheses the actual source supplies and why the total degree cost stays within the old PHP budget. If no such supported mechanism survives the known obstructions, pivot back to PHP-specific removal; do not proceed through more degrees or family sizes as a substitute. This is methodological progress and a clarified obstruction, not a newly proved lower-bound case.

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Uniform assembly audit: the complex is a local tool, not yet a complete-source mechanism

21 September 2026 · Evidence-based route review · No uniform complete-source construction obtained; fixed-degree enumeration withdrawn. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Uniform assembly audit: the complex is a local tool, not yet a complete-source mechanism”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-uniform-complex-assembly-audit.

Missing implication and stopping point. The odd-prime goal needs exclusion of arbitrary polynomial inventories of complete accuracy-one selector blocks at compiler ceiling \(D=4p-1\). The proposed topological route would have to turn its local matching corrections into one normalized annihilator of the full degree-\(D\) PC space, or another valid complete-source removal. The user's cases-and-examples challenge prompted the preceding review to withdraw a degree-six follow-up. This cycle tests an existing uniform mechanism instead: can simultaneous reweighting exploit the proved complex fillings while avoiding accumulated block cost? Stop when its invariant and degree ledger either connect to the available theorem or expose an unsupported step.

What the topology actually proves

The amplitude theorem is uniform in odd prime and target degree: for \(1\le a<p\), \(\ker D^a=\operatorname{im}D^{p-a}\) on the stated matching layer, assuming its row-width and label-robustness bounds. The ternary endpoint theorem handles a collectively wide pair at every target degree. These are general working proofs. The earlier checks at particular small degrees were controls on those arguments, not their asserted scope.

These results do not provide corrections in the simultaneous kernels of every already imposed global selector and fresh-coefficient constraint. The coded-row induction permits its specified local row conditions; an arbitrary augmented ENS source is not such a condition. Reapplying the theorem on the bare old matching space after adding global constraints silently discards the invariant the next filling would have to preserve. The three-selector construction proves that the stronger proposal to extend every partial design satisfying currently active equations is false, even with pairwise collective width. It leaves existence of a suitably chosen full design open.

The existing whole-level repair genuinely assembles, but its proved cost does not fit

The historical whole-level exact repair lemma already handles arbitrary many same-level blocks. It maintains a weight \(W\) of nonzero old functional value. Whenever it repairs a block, it multiplies \(W\) by a cofactor and a nonzero-value indicator and chooses constant fresh coefficients. A repaired block then has an actual field-ideal vanishing identity. Later multiplications preserve that identity; uncommitted zero specializations are tested against the final weight. Thus the proof contains the simultaneous compatibility invariant rather than assuming it.

Its sufficient old NS budget is \[ B=D+\sum_a c_a(D),\qquad c_a(D)=\max\bigl(\{0\}\cup\{D-e_{ai}+(p-1)\delta_{ai}:e_{ai}\le D\}\bigr). \] For nonconstant literal selectors \(g_{ai}=1-L_{ai}^{p-1}\), accuracy one gives \(\delta_{ai}=p-1\) and \(e_{ai}=2p-1\). At \(D=4p-1\), the displayed general lemma gives \(c_a(D)=p^2+1\). Hence its stated bound is \(D+(p^2+1)M\) for \(M\) such blocks. Selector-specific identities may reduce this constant, and the actual proof charges only repaired blocks; neither observation supplies a bound on their number for arbitrary tuples. For the polynomial inventories needed to rule out every proof-size exponent, the stated bound need not fit the linear old PHP degree budget. This is a failure of the available guarantee, not a lower bound on the cost of all possible repairs.

Replacing a repair weight by an arbitrary low-degree moment correction from the complex does not preserve the field-ideal vanishing identities used by that proof. No theorem obtained here makes that replacement legitimate. Moreover the historical repair lemma constructs an NS design. A new full-source PC conclusion needs its own closure or replay argument; old matching PC=NS cannot simply be transferred to the augmented system.

Existing alternatives do not fill that step automatically

The common-feature conditioning lemma uses one shared weight and costs \((p-1)\sum_\nu\deg f_\nu\). This avoids a cost per block when a small common feature description is actually supplied. It does not show that arbitrary selector families have one. The branch's probe-plus-sparse-support construction instead gives simultaneous coefficient substitutions, with a maximum local degree cost and a full PC replay. That is a proved complete-source endpoint under its explicit profile hypothesis, not a consequence of complex exactness.

The single-parent survival criterion correctly chooses a new retained functional and therefore avoids demanding extension of arbitrary old choices. Its proof explicitly leaves persistence of the input-window premise and affordable simultaneous choices for many parents open. It cannot be iterated by citing the one-predicate complex theorem on the unchanged old base.

The earlier source-module nonextension control already distinguishes failure of one chosen design from failure of existence. The ordering-source control separately shows that growing local families can share an old marginal and still fail to assemble. That control is not PHP and does not prove the present route impossible; it means a general gluing claim must use an additional PHP-specific property and prove coherent compatibility, not just individual solvability.

Decision and contribution to the goal

No uniform assembly mechanism was obtained. The amplitude and pair theorems remain useful local tools, but this audit does not advance the required implication for arbitrary complete selector families. Automatic extension is obstructed; existence of an appropriately chosen PC annihilator is unresolved. There is no evidence here that a sequence of higher fixed-degree calculations will bridge that gap. Topology is therefore deprioritized as the immediate route to the lower bound, without retracting its proved local statements or claiming an impossibility theorem about all topological approaches.

Next task: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Return to the certificate-preserving restriction/removal route. Test a general multiscale alternative for genuine selector spaces: after one common matching restriction, can every block enter either an affordable profile case or the proved dense nonlinear-image case, with all ranks measured on the actual residual graph? Formulate the quantitative implication before examples. Check it against the known two-scale dense and sparse-support controls, including allowed affine cleanup. A uniform argument or a counterexample to that precise implication ends the test; a catalogue of easy families does not.

Verification and process assessment. This was a symbolic scope and degree-budget audit of the exact cited constructions; no new numerical experiment or literature novelty claim was needed. The initial metadata lookup displayed unnecessary catalogue boilerplate, so subsequent retrieval used exact notebook passages. The concrete process correction is to require a uniform composition mechanism before further degree windows; existing research rules already require this, so no framework rule was added.

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A degree-budgeted augmented complex avoids charging once per block

21 September 2026 · Working graded-complex construction and uniform degree bound · No homology-vanishing theorem or new unrestricted lower bound. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A degree-budgeted augmented complex avoids charging once per block”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-degree-budgeted-block-complex.

Assignment and change of direction. This cycle began by reading the existing multiscale rank/profile and probe-removal controls; no new restriction theorem was obtained. The user then asked whether a better complex could account for added blocks without the sequential costs. This is a valid distinction. The preceding audit rules out treating the available local fillings as an already proved assembly theorem, but does not justify deprioritizing constructions of a different augmented object on the basis of the sequential repair cost alone. The present task is to construct that object, preserve original degrees and PC semantics, and determine whether its degree bookkeeping intrinsically charges the total number of blocks. Stop at a precise construction and scope assessment; do not infer exactness just from having a complex.

Setup and working proposition

Fix a prime \(p\), put \(\delta=p-1\) and \(e=2p-1\), and use a finite complete accuracy-one selector family. Scalar zero/unit input cases can be removed by the existing direct maps. Every remaining nonconstant literal selector has original degree \(\delta\), and every original companion has degree \(e\). Let \(A_0\) be the old homogeneous PHP presentation algebra, keeping the homogenizing variable \(z\) and the original generators, as in the marked-algebra construction. Nothing is saturated. For each block \(a\), define \[ B_a=A_0[r_{ai}]_i/(r_{ai}^p-z^\delta r_{ai})_i,\qquad q_{ai}^{\rm h}=z^\delta-(L_{ai}^{\rm h})^\delta, \] \[ H_a=z^p-\sum_i r_{ai}q_{ai}^{\rm h},\qquad K_a=(q_{ai}^{\rm h}H_a)_i\subseteq B_a,\qquad A_a=B_a/K_a. \] Every variable has internal degree one, so \(H_a\) has degree \(p\), and the companion degree is exactly \(e\). Let \(B=\bigotimes_{A_0,a}B_a\), the old algebra with all fresh fields and no companions.

Proposition. Choose a minimal homogeneous free resolution \(F_{a,\bullet}\to A_a\) over \(B_a\), with \(F_{a,0}=B_a\). Extend it to \(B\), and form the total tensor complex \[ \mathcal T_\bullet=\bigotimes_{B,a}\bigl(B\otimes_{B_a}F_{a,\bullet}\bigr). \] Its zeroth homology is the complete original homogeneous source algebra \[ H_0(\mathcal T)=B/\sum_a K_aB. \] A summand of homological degree \(h\) that uses positive resolution degrees from \(j\) distinct blocks has every basis shift at least \[ je+h-j. \tag{DB-shift} \] Consequently its internal-degree-\(D\) piece vanishes unless \(je+h-j\le D\). At the compiler ceiling \(D=4p-1\), at most two distinct blocks can have positive resolution degree in a term. Terms with two such blocks occur only at total homological degrees two or three; terms with one can occur only through homological degree \(2p+1\). These bounds are independent of the total block inventory.

Construction and proof, including the original costs

The algebra \(B_a\) is connected and nonnegatively graded, with degree-zero field \(\mathbb F_p\). Its companion ideal is generated in degree \(e\). If this ideal is zero, use just \(F_{a,0}\). Otherwise choose a basis of \((K_a)_e\) from the supplied companions. Constant linear dependencies are removed without changing their common original cost; that basis generates \(K_a\) as an ideal. Thus \(F_{a,1}\) has all basis shifts \(e\).

For each later kernel, choose minimal homogeneous generators and map the free module on them onto the kernel. This recursively constructs a minimal resolution: the kernel of each minimal free cover is contained in the positive-degree maximal ideal times its domain. To see this, a relation with a nonzero constant coefficient would give a dependence between the chosen generator classes modulo the maximal ideal, contrary to their being a basis. Therefore every matrix entry in a later differential has positive degree. Induction gives a minimum shift \(e+i-1\) in \(F_{a,i}\) for \(i\ge1\). This is a degree bound, not an assertion that the resolution is short or easy to compute. The rings are Noetherian, so the modules in each homological degree can be taken finite.

Monic division in the fresh field equations gives \(B\) a free \(B_a\)-basis of monomials in the other blocks' coefficients, with exponents below \(p\). Hence extending \(F_a\) to \(B\) preserves exactness. The tensor differential is the signed sum of the factor differentials, with sign \((-1)^{i_1+\cdots+i_{a-1}}\) in position \(a\); thus its square is zero over odd characteristic as well. Its degree-zero term is \(B\), and the image into that term is exactly \(\sum_aK_aB\). This proves the assertion about \(H_0\), without assuming that the higher tensor homology vanishes.

If a tensor summand has positive degrees \(i_1,\ldots,i_j\), summing the minimum shifts gives \[ \sum_{\nu=1}^j(e+i_\nu-1)=je+h-j. \] The remaining coefficients lie in a nonnegatively graded ring and cannot lower this degree. Since \(h\ge j\), nonzero internal-degree-\(D\) terms require \(je\le D\). At \(D=4p-1\), \(3e=6p-3>D\), so \(j\le2\). When \(j=2\), the sharper inequality gives \(h\le D-2e+2=3\). When \(j=1\), it gives \(h\le D-e+1=2p+1\). This proves the uniform bound. For heterogeneous blocks the same argument uses \(\sum_{\nu=1}^j e_{a_\nu}+h-j\); no uniform-cost simplification should be made when actual original degrees differ.

Why a raw Koszul complex is not enough

One could start with a free generator \(\varepsilon_i\) of degree \(e\) for each companion and differential \(d\varepsilon_i=q_i^{\rm h}H_a\). But simply wedging these generators does not generally resolve \(A_a\). There are already common-factor syzygies \[ q_j^{\rm h}\varepsilon_i-q_i^{\rm h}\varepsilon_j \] of internal degree \(e+\delta=3p-2\), whereas a wedge of two companion generators has degree \(2e=4p-2\). In addition, the old Boolean equations imply \[ (L_i^{\rm h})^p=z^\delta L_i^{\rm h},\qquad (q_i^{\rm h})^2=z^\delta q_i^{\rm h} \] inside \(A_0\). Frobenius proves the first identity from \(X^p=z^\delta X\); expanding the square gives the second. Thus \((q_i^{\rm h}-z^\delta)\varepsilon_i\) is another first syzygy at cost \(e+\delta\). These formulas describe relations in the raw presentation; they need not be independent or form a generating list after minimal generators are chosen.

The full \(F_a\) retains all syzygies, including any arising from the old presentation and the coefficient fields. Using a resolution rather than declaring the naive Koszul complex exact is essential. Higher positive homology of \(\mathcal T\) then records interactions of the complete factors, rather than omitted within-block relations. This is the chain-level version of the earlier tensor-factor geometric object; the new contribution is the explicit internal-degree bound, not a novelty claim for derived tensor products.

The uniform term bound is not a pairwise-gluing theorem

Although a term has at most two positive-resolution factors at the compiler ceiling, its coefficient belongs to \(B\), which includes every block's fresh variables. A cycle is a sum of terms and may use arbitrarily many block indices across that sum. Degree-zero factors and coefficient monomials are not absent constraints. The result therefore does not imply that checking every two-block subsystem suffices, that a contradiction has a bounded-block witness, or that the tensor factors are flat.

In particular, the three-selector obstruction can live entirely within one \(F_a\), and is not excluded by the bound on distinct blocks. The generic ordering control still forbids inferring global compatibility from separate local solutions. The earlier nonflatness result also remains in force. We do not ask for vanishing of every higher Tor group: harmless fresh-variable phenomena can coexist with preservation of the old lower bound.

How this object retains the PC question

At internal degree \(D\), \(H_0(\mathcal T)_D=B_D/V_0\), where \(V_0=(\sum_aK_aB)_D\). Homogenizing a polynomial of degree at most \(D\) to degree \(D\) identifies this quotient with the quotient by original-generator NS consequences. In particular \(z^D\notin V_0\) is only an NS nonrefutation statement.

Retain the marked multiplication maps by \(z\), old variables and every fresh coefficient variable on the graded object. The exact PC closure construction, now written modulo the old and fresh-field presentation, is \[ V_{t+1}=V_t+\sum_{y\ne z} y\{u\in B_{D-1}:zu\in V_t\}. \tag{DB-PC} \] The old field-only ideal is homogeneous, so quotienting the original formula by it gives this formula exactly: changing a lift by an old relation changes its multiples by old relations. Thus a degree-\(D\) PC refutation exists precisely when the class of \(z^D\) belongs to the stabilized \(V_\infty\). No saturation by arbitrary powers of \(z\) is used.

The remaining target is to protect this marked old unit through (DB-PC), possibly using a filling or homological-transfer argument on \(\mathcal T\) together with the old chessboard contractions. The present construction does not prove that protection. In particular, fixed internal degree does not bound the number of PC closure iterations or rule out chains of cancellations across many blocks. Ordinary tensor homology or its unmarked dimensions alone are not a substitute for that step.

Assessment and next bounded test

The user's objection changes the assessment: the accumulated cost in sequential repair is not evidence that every augmented complex must pay that cost. Here is a uniform augmented object whose internal-degree terms have a bounded number of positive-resolution factors, regardless of the inventory. This removes that particular bookkeeping objection to studying a larger complex. It does not remove the actual missing lower-bound implication, and no new unrestricted source case is proved.

Further work on this specific construction is deserved. For odd-prime-clause-transfer, next identify the relative obstruction to preserving \(z^D\) under one step of (DB-PC), including the within-block syzygies above and the mixed two-factor terms. Determine whether an old chessboard filling can be lifted while respecting those maps with an inventory-independent degree bound. Stop at a proved sufficient preservation mechanism or an explicit failure of the proposed mechanism. Do not replace that test by more fixed-degree examples, assume arbitrary partial moments extend, demand full flatness, or claim that constructing the object establishes its required homology.

Focused review and process. Checked original companion shifts, freeness of the field-only base change, minimal-resolution shifts, tensor signs, zeroth homology and the exact fixed-ceiling PC operation. The claims are proved symbolically; no numerical sweep or independent novelty search was required. The initial restriction reading yielded no new result and the later user steering is recorded explicitly. The prior route assessment is preserved and qualified here rather than silently rewritten.

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Filter the augmented complex, retaining multiplication as well as persistence

21 September 2026 · Working filtered-complex bridge and exact barcode control · No unit-preservation theorem; Spin paused after this cycle. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, high reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Filter the augmented complex, retaining multiplication as well as persistence”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-filtered-complex-PC-obstruction.

Question and stopping point. Resume the goal by locating the obstruction to extending old chessboard fillings through the complete block complex. During the cycle the user proposed a filtration and persistent homology, then requested quick completion to conserve the weekly limit. Record the precise filtration, its relation to PC cancellation, and a falsifying test for whether ordinary persistence alone suffices. No further experiment or cycle is started. Initial commentary and resume part one preceded timing; the previous goal turn made progress by constructing and committing the degree-budgeted object.

A filtered complex and its degree-fall obstruction

Use the preceding notation: \(B\) is the old homogeneous PHP algebra with all fresh field equations, \(\mathcal T\) is the tensor complex of complete block resolutions, and \(A=H_0(\mathcal T)\) is the full original homogeneous source algebra. Assume multiplication by \(z\) on \(B\) is injective through degree \(D\). For functional PHP this holds in the recorded old stable-filtration range, and extends to \(B\) by its fresh-monomial free basis. It is not asserted outside that range.

At fixed internal degree \(D\), define an increasing filtration by subcomplexes \[ F_d\mathcal T_{*,D}=z^{D-d}\mathcal T_{*,d},\qquad 0\le d\le D. \] The maps are injective under the stated hypothesis, since each term is a direct sum of nonnegative shifts of \(B\). They commute with the differential. Thus \(H_i(F_d)\simeq H_i(\mathcal T)_d\), and the persistence maps are multiplication by \(z\). In degree zero the persistent module is \[ A_0\xrightarrow{z}A_1\xrightarrow{z}A_2\longrightarrow\cdots. \] The marked unit starts at degree zero; its image at \(d\) is \(z^d\). Its death is exactly the original-generator NS refutation degree. This gives a genuine bounded filtration, not merely a list of unrelated complexes.

Put \(\overline{\mathcal T}=\mathcal T/z\mathcal T\). There is a natural isomorphism \[ \frac{H_1(\overline{\mathcal T})_D} {\operatorname{im}(H_1(\mathcal T)_D\to H_1(\overline{\mathcal T})_D)} \ \simeq\ \ker(z:A_{D-1}\to A_D). \tag{FC-obstruction} \] Proof. Lift a cycle \(\bar v\) to \(v\in\mathcal T_{1,D}\). Its boundary has the form \(dv=zu\), uniquely in \(\mathcal T_{0,D}=B_D\). Send the class to \([u]\in A_{D-1}\). Changing the lift by \(zw\) changes \(u\) by \(dw\); changing a cycle by a boundary has the same harmless effect. Every class killed by \(z\) arises this way. If \([u]=0\), write \(u=dw\); then \(v-zw\) is a cycle upstairs, precisely the stated kernel. This proves the isomorphism directly.

Let \(V_0=(\sum_aK_aB)_D\subset B_D\), and let \(V_1\) be the space after one step of the fixed-ceiling PC closure. Then \(V_1/V_0\subset A_D\) is exactly the image of \[ \bigoplus_{y\ne z}\ker(z:A_{D-1}\to A_D)\longrightarrow A_D, \qquad (u_y)_y\longmapsto\sum_y yu_y. \] Indeed \(zu\in V_0\) is precisely the condition that the degree-\(D\) consequence has dropped actual degree and may be multiplied by a variable. Formula (FC-obstruction) therefore locates the first PC enlargement in the filtered complex. Subsequent closure steps must still be controlled; ordinary NS persistence does not already perform them.

The existing source control has a genuine persistent obstruction

In the ternary three-selector source, write \(T=a-b\), \(H=z^3-\sum_i r_iq_i^{\rm h}\), and \(u=TH\), of degree four. The exact identities are \[ \sum_iq_i^{\rm h}=T^2,\qquad T^3=z^2T,\qquad d\!\left(T\sum_i\varepsilon_i\right)=z^2u. \] The prior proof gives \(zu\ne0\) in \(A_5\), but \(z^2u=0\) in \(A_6\). Hence the reduced degree-six cycle has a nonzero obstruction under (FC-obstruction). A class born no later than degree four survives through five and dies at six. This reuses the previously proved control; it is not a new small-board experiment. It refutes vanishing of all obstruction groups throughout the window, not every possible theorem about the final ceiling. The block remains removable by known low-feature methods, so this homology is not itself evidence of a refutation.

Even identical marked persistence can have different PC degree

The following exact control tests the general hypothesis that the NS persistence module, including its marked unit, determines PC degree. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), with the same field equation \(x^3-x\), take \[ \mathcal F_+=\{x^2,\ x^2-x,\ x^3-1,\ x^3-x\}, \quad \mathcal F_-=\{x^2-1,\ x^2-x-1,\ x^3-1,\ x^3-x\}. \] All supplied degrees are respectively \(2,2,3,3\). Their original homogeneous presentation algebras are \[ A_+=k[x,z]/(x^2,xz,z^3),\qquad A_-=k[x,z]/(x^2-z^2,xz). \] For the second algebra, \(z^3=0\) follows by multiplying \(x^2-z^2\) by \(z\) and using \(xz=0\); also \(x^3=0\). Thus the two cubic supplied generators add no further relation. The first displayed presentation follows directly by subtracting the two quadratics and then reducing the cubic.

Both algebras have graded basis \(1,x,z,z^2\). As graded \(k[z]\)-modules, with the unit distinguished, both are \[ k[z]/(z^3)\ \oplus\ (k[z]/(z))(-1). \] Their full persistence barcodes are identical: \([0,3)\) and \([1,2)\), with the unit generating the first interval. Both have NS refutation degree three.

Nevertheless \(\deg_{\rm PC}(\mathcal F_+)=3\) and \(\deg_{\rm PC}(\mathcal F_-)=2\). For \(\mathcal F_+\), every axiom active at degree two is satisfied by \(x=0\), so no degree-two refutation exists; \(x\cdot x^2-(x^3-1)=1\) gives degree three. For \(\mathcal F_-\), subtract the quadratics to derive \(x\), multiply that completed line by \(x\), and subtract \(x^2-1\), all through degree two. The difference invisible to persistence is multiplication by \(x\): the \(z\)-torsion class \(x\) satisfies \(x\cdot x=0\) in \(A_+\), but \(x\cdot x=z^2\ne0\) in \(A_-\). These are field-domain algebraic controls, not PHP instances.

Thus even the complete zeroth persistence module with the unit marked does not determine PC degree. One must retain the variable-multiplication maps or equivalent chain-level data. The control does not refute a richer filtered complex with those maps, nor assert that every possible higher-homology invariant is insufficient.

Use the stronger existing elimination result as the baseline

The historical one-block PC elimination theorem and its proof were reread. It removes an arbitrary complete block at additive cost \((p-1)\delta\), using weighted specializations to derive its inputs and then reusing their completed lines in the zero-specialized proof. For selector degree \(\delta=p-1\), iterating gives \(D+(p-1)^2M\). This is a stronger PC baseline than the sequential NS repair budget inspected in the preceding assembly audit, although its uncontrolled inventory dependence remains. One-block unit preservation is therefore not a missing theorem to re-prove.

The ordering construction also retains its warning that generic old PC hardness and cheap local interactions do not supply global preservation. The filtered approach must use a specific PHP filling property. No such uniform multiplicative lifting has been proved in this cycle.

Sources, evidence and decision

The module viewpoint agrees with the abstract-level description in Skraba–Vejdemo-Johansson; no theorem beyond that terminology is imported here. Stacks, Section 12.24, supplies the standard filtered-complex and associated spectral-sequence framework. Its construction does not imply degeneration for our source. The older Zomorodian–Carlsson author PDF was inaccessible through the web tool; its full text was not needed for the elementary arguments above. All asserted identities and the barcode comparison are proved explicitly; no numerical experiment was performed.

Verification gate and completion. Codex reached its usage limit while preparing the claim metadata, before the checkpoint. Claude Code (Opus 5, high reasoning) completed the checkpoint under the same timing session at the user’s request. Before registering the claims, it independently rechecked the lift-and-divide proof of (FC-obstruction), including the use of \(z\)-injectivity on \(B\) and well-definedness under changes of lift and of cycle, the identification of \(V_1/V_0\), and both algebras of the \(\mathbb F_3\) control: their bases \(1,x,z,z^2\), their marked barcodes, and the PC degrees three and two. No fresh-context reviewer was run, because the user asked for prompt completion. The preparation time below includes about 1 h 35 min of idle waiting between the usage-limit stop and the resumed checkpoint; this cannot be separated retroactively.

Assessment. A filtration is more informative than a single leading-degree snapshot and exactly records delayed NS relations. The new obstruction map shows where PC uses those relations, while the same-barcode control proves that forgetting multiplication loses essential information. This sharpens the object and rules out an inadequate invariant; it does not establish the unrestricted lower bound or a new family-wide removal theorem.

Next task when Spin resumes. For odd-prime-clause-transfer, attempt a PHP-specific lifting of the chessboard contraction that respects the variable actions on this filtered object, allowing harmless torsion. Compare the resulting shared cost with \(D+(p-1)^2M\); success must improve the arbitrary-family bound, not merely reproduce one-block elimination or an equivalent description of PC closure. Stop if the proposed invariant cannot survive the known source controls. Spin is paused at the user's request to finish promptly.

Process assessment. The user’s filtration suggestion led to a precise refinement and a direct falsifying control for barcode-only reasoning. Existing source evidence and a symbolic four-dimensional comparison avoided another degree sweep; no framework change was needed.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	114 min 33.92 s
Marked reading and review windows	23.78 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	11 min 33.02 s
Computation design and coding	23.79 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	101 min 42.39 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	6.47 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	24.48 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: complexes add no PC invariant beyond two degrees of the source algebra

21 September 2026 · Route review with a working descent corollary · Complex/filtration line parked; next step moves to intermediate-rank dense blocks. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: complexes add no PC invariant beyond two degrees of the source algebra”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-complex-line-route-review.

Opening and route check. The user asked for one research cycle. The preceding entry proposed a PHP-specific lift of chessboard contractions that respects the variable actions on the filtered block complex. That task advances the top-level item odd-prime-clause-transfer. The missing implication for the goal is unchanged: for polynomially many complete accuracy-one selector blocks, including dense high-rank blocks, the old unit survives fixed-ceiling PC closure through \(4p-1\), possibly after a restriction. The last three entries on this item (the assembly audit, the block complex and its filtration) audited, built and filtered one complex without moving that implication. Before attempting the lift, this cycle therefore tests whether the object can carry the information the lift would need. The chance that completing this line advances the goal was judged low at the outset: the complex had so far produced exact bookkeeping, not a mechanism. No numerical estimate is given, because there is no calibrated method.

The line's general claim. A derived or filtered complex over the complete source, with its multiplication maps, can certify preservation of the old unit through PC closure at a cost independent of the block inventory, using a PHP-specific filling property.

What the goal needs from it. The complex would have to supply, for dense blocks, what the existing endpoints do not. Sparse and probe-sparse blocks are already handled at polynomial inventory by the shared-support and mixed-profile endpoints: one common random matching restriction, with a union bound over the blocks, followed by per-block interpolation whose degree is set by the per-block cover or probe size. The cost is not additive in the number of blocks, but it depends on the inventory exponent, and the mixed-profile endpoint also needs supplied degree-preserving old certificates. The one-block elimination theorem pays \((p-1)^2\) per block. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for complete old-quadratic blocks on the separated functional graph, the graph criterion handles blocks of low or dense projected rank and leaves intermediate projected ranks open. For \(p\ge5\) no dense-rank criterion is recorded.

Falsification attempt: fixed-ceiling PC closure descends to two degrees of \(H_0\)

Working corollary (a refinement of recorded results). The descent below is the one-line argument already used for the field-only quotient in (DB-PC) of the block-complex entry, applied to the full ideal \(J\). Its first step is the enlargement recorded in the filtered-complex entry. The new content is the sufficiency statement that closes the open remark of the same-barcode control. Let \(S\) be the polynomial ring in the variables \(y_1,\ldots,y_v\) and the homogenizing variable \(z\), let \(J\) be generated by the actual homogenizations of the supplied generators, and let \(A=S/J\). Fix \(D\ge1\). In \(A_D\) define \[ U_0=0,\qquad U_{t+1}=U_t+\sum_{i=1}^v y_i\,(U_t:_Az),\qquad (U:_Az)=\{a\in A_{D-1}: za\in U\}. \] Let \(\pi:S_D\to A_D\) be the quotient map and \(W_t\) the closure of the exact PC criterion. Then \(W_t=\pi^{-1}(U_t)\) for every \(t\). Consequently a PC refutation at ceiling \(D\) exists exactly when \(z\cdot[z^{D-1}]\in U_\infty\). No \(z\)-injectivity is assumed. This condition depends only on the finite-dimensional datum \[ \mathcal K_D(A)=\bigl(A_{D-1},\ A_D;\ z,y_1,\ldots,y_v:A_{D-1}\to A_D;\ [z^{D-1}]\bigr), \] a marked representation of the generalized Kronecker quiver with \(v+1\) arrows. Only the linear span of the maps \(y_i\) matters, because \(\sum_iy_i(V)\) is the image of \(V\) under that span. Two data are therefore equivalent when isomorphisms of \(A_{D-1}\) and \(A_D\) intertwine the \(z\)-maps, carry one span of \(y\)-maps onto the other and preserve the marked class; the number and labelling of variables are irrelevant. Dually, in the terminology of the historical duality lemma, a normalized ceiling-\(D\) PC annihilator exists exactly when there is a closed annihilator family: a subspace \(\Phi\subseteq A_D^*\) that satisfies \(y_i^*\Phi\subseteq z^*\Phi\) for every \(i\) and contains a functional \(\varphi\) with \(\varphi(z^D)\ne0\).

Proof. Induct on \(t\). For \(t=0\), \(W_0=J_D=\ker\pi\). Suppose \(W_t=\pi^{-1}(U_t)\), and let \(\pi':S_{D-1}\to A_{D-1}\) be the quotient map. Since \(\pi(zu)=z\pi'(u)\), \[ (W_t:z)=\{u\in S_{D-1}:zu\in W_t\}=\pi'^{-1}\bigl((U_t:_Az)\bigr). \] Also \(\pi(y_iu)=y_i\pi'(u)\), so \(\pi(W_{t+1})=U_{t+1}\). Finally \(W_{t+1}\supseteq W_t\supseteq\ker\pi\), hence \(W_{t+1}=\pi^{-1}(U_{t+1})\). The refutation criterion \(z^D\in W_\infty\) of the recorded proposition becomes \(\pi(z^D)\in U_\infty\).

For the dual form, put \(\Phi_\infty=U_\infty^\perp\). Write \(m_y:A_{D-1}\to A_D\) for multiplication by a variable. Then \((m_z^{-1}U)^\perp=m_z^*(U^\perp)\) in \(A_{D-1}^*\), and \(U\) is closed exactly when \(m_{y_i}(m_z^{-1}U)\subseteq U\), which holds exactly when \(m_{y_i}^*(U^\perp)\subseteq m_z^*(U^\perp)\). A subspace \(\Phi\) with the stated property has a closed annihilator containing \(U_0=0\), hence containing \(U_\infty\). So \(\varphi(z^D)\ne0\) for some \(\varphi\in\Phi\) forces \(z^D\notin U_\infty\). Conversely, \(\Phi_\infty\) itself qualifies whenever \(z^D\notin U_\infty\). This is linear algebra on finite-dimensional spaces. A single normalized annihilator need not itself satisfy the closure condition; the family \(\Phi_\infty\) does.

Consequence for the complex line. The block complex \(\mathcal T\) has \(H_0(\mathcal T)=A\) for the complete source. Two presentations, complexes or filtered complexes whose \(H_0\) have isomorphic marked data \(\mathcal K_D\) have the same ceiling-\(D\) PC refutability. Higher homology \(H_i(\mathcal T)\), \(i\ge1\), and the \(z\)-persistence module outside degrees \(D-1,D\) add no information about that refutability. Degrees below \(D-1\) enter only through \(J_{D-1}\) and \(J_D\). The data must still be iterated, up to \(\dim A_D\) closure steps, so this yields no cheap invariant. Higher homology can serve only to compute \(\mathcal K_D(A)\) and its closure steps: (FC-obstruction) computes \(\ker(z:A_{D-1}\to A_D)\), and every later step needs the relative version \((U_t:_Az)\) for a growing \(U_t\). This is a statement about invariants, not about methods. Chain-level data of \(\mathcal T\), such as block-local resolutions or filling maps, could still suggest a construction. But the lift proposed in the preceding entry must, whatever its construction, produce a closed annihilator family \(\Phi\) with \(y_i^*\Phi\subseteq z^*\Phi\) and \(\varphi(z^D)\ne0\). The complex supplies no such family and no property that forces one to exist. The same-barcode control is consistent with this: its two algebras have different \(\mathcal K_2\), since \(x\cdot x=0\) in one and \(x\cdot x=z^2\ne0\) in the other.

The degree-budgeted term bound does not change this. At most two blocks have positive resolution degree in a term, but \(A_{D-1}\) and \(A_D\) contain coefficient monomials from every block, and \(U_\infty\) is computed on all of them at once. The bound constrains the shape of \(\mathcal T\), not the size or coupling of \(\mathcal K_D(A)\). The three-selector obstruction already lies inside one block, where no bound on the number of interacting blocks applies.

The base in the filtration hypothesis

The filtration assumes \(z\) is injective on the field-only algebra \(B\) through \(D\), justified for the functional PHP base. The ordinary target compiles over the weak base \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) (weak-base compiler). This is not a gap for the complex line. The injectivity is claimed on \(B\) only, in the recorded stable-filtration range, which contains the constant ceiling \(4p-1\) for large \(N\). The complete-board transfer already compiles ordinary unary PHP over the full functional linear-row base, and adding generators can only lower the PC degree, so a lower bound over the functional base with the compiled blocks implies one over \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\). The recorded restriction applies only to removal maps certified for the weak base alone: those must be applied before any strengthening.

Assessment of this line

The complex and filtration line produced correct bookkeeping: the H₀ identification, the inventory-independent term bound, and the first-step obstruction. It also produced a useful negative control. By the descent corollary, the complex adds no PC-relevant invariant beyond \(\mathcal K_D(A)\) and its closure, the object recorded in the socle criterion before the complex existed. The line is parked for three reasons: no PHP-specific construction of a closed family \(\Phi\) has been proposed, the line has not touched dense blocks where the goal's obligation lies, and the assembly audit found no uniform assembly mechanism. It should be reopened only with a concrete PHP-specific statement about \(\mathcal K_D(A)\), for example a design family \(\Phi\) built from matching designs and block data, whose cost can be compared with \(D+(p-1)^2M\) and with the interpolation endpoints.

Next step on the highest-risk item

This cycle first drafted a restriction dichotomy as the next step: one random matching restriction would put every dense-support ternary block into the low or dense range of the graph criterion. The reviewer showed that the record already defeats it. Take one tuple of \(\lceil100L\ln L\rceil\) random full-support forms for each dyadic scale \(L\le n\), which is only \(O(\log n)\) blocks. Under a matching restriction the surviving coefficients of a random form remain uniform, and matched cells only add constants, which change a selector \(1-F^2\) by affine terms. So at residual size \(L\) the scale-\(L\) tuple behaves like the two-size control's tuple on an \(L\)-hole board: projected rank above \(L\), hence above \(L^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}L\), and at most \(O(L\log L)\), below \(Q_*(L)\). Every residual size therefore leaves an intermediate block. I checked the restriction step. The conclusion also requires three routine steps that are not written out: rerunning the control's union bound at each scale; rounding, by using for residual size \(L\) the dyadic scale \(L'\le L<2L'\), whose rank lies above \(L'\ge L/2\) and at most \(O(L'\log L')\), still below \(Q_*(L)\); and averaging over the random coefficients with Markov's inequality, to pass from a fixed restriction to a fixed inventory under a random restriction. It is therefore recorded as a calibration argument, not a registered claim. The same restriction test was the next task of the assembly audit, and the following cycle obtained no restriction theorem; the notebook already stated that no general restriction dichotomy follows.

The next step is therefore the intermediate-rank endpoint itself, resuming the parked test of the exact-image entry and the geometry-survey route decision. For \(p=3\), bound the image of the actual separated space \(W_k\) modulo a degree-bounded span generated by the selectors and old graph relations, with explicit NS certificates for every reducer. The sum of image dimensions over all blocks must stay below \(\dim W_k\), and the weighted certificates must stay inside the graph's PC ceiling. Test the criterion first on the recorded common-factor, two-column and reserve-coordinate controls, and on the dyadic random inventory above. The exact-image barrier already excludes Boolean-only completion. For \(p\ge5\) a dense-rank criterion must be established before any intermediate-rank endpoint.

Verification gate. Re-read from the notebook: the exact PC criterion, the block complex with (DB-PC), the filtered complex, the same-barcode control, both compilers, the ternary graph criterion and the two-size control. Claim searches covered closure, socle, quotient, Kronecker, truncated closure, design and restriction dichotomy. A standing fresh-context reviewer found the descent correct over every field, reported that the record gives it in substance (hence the corollary label), and required three precisions, all adopted: invariance up to the span of the \(y\)-maps, no \(z\)-injectivity hypothesis, and the annihilator terminology. A second review of the full draft required: weakening the claim from "no remaining lever" to "no additional PC invariant"; correcting the endpoint costs and the prime scope of the graph criterion; and replacing the drafted next step, which the dyadic inventory defeats and which repeated an earlier task. All changes were made. The reviewer also ran the recursion on the \(\mathbb F_3\) control at \(D=2\), recovering no refutation for \(A_+\) and a refutation for \(A_-\), and confirmed the base-monotonicity argument with its caveat on weak-only maps. No computation was needed.

Process assessment. The cycle was opened as the promised construction. Reading the recorded PC criterion first showed that its closure already carries the variable actions, so the cycle became a route review. The prerequisite about the weak base was raised in conversation and resolved from existing records. The first drafted next step repeated a task the assembly audit had already set and failed on. It was drafted after searching the claim index but before reading the parked items on the same route item, the order that CLAUDE.md prescribes the other way round. The standing reviewer caught it.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 52.31 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 18.28 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 11.39 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	10.41 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	12.23 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A closed moment tower reduces to the recorded mixed-moment system

21 September 2026 · Negative test of a proposed object; reformulation of recorded results · The three-selector obstruction is removed only by saturation, which reproduces the mixed-moment system. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A closed moment tower reduces to the recorded mixed-moment system”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-closed-moment-tower.

Question and stopping rule. The route review parked the resolution-side complex. In conversation the user asked whether a functional-side object in the spirit of the bit-PHP chessboard argument could do better. There, the unknown moments are chessboard chains, the marginal equations are their boundary, and homology vanishing gives extension. The success criteria were fixed before starting. (1) The object must have a vanishing condition that implies PC hardness at ceiling \(4p-1\). (2) The three-selector obstruction must appear as a nonzero class, and a filtration, degree window, restriction or saturation must remove it without circularity. (3) Only after that, new reach. This cycle tests (1) and (2) on route item odd-prime-clause-transfer. The existing functional-side parts are the augmented moment complex, the one-predicate theorem and the pair theorem; the proposed new ingredient was PC closure together with the block product \(P\).

The object

Let \(\Gamma\) be the functional linear-row PHP base, a legitimate strengthening for the ordinary target by the route review. Take one complete accuracy-one block with inputs \(q_i=1-L_i^{p-1}\), product \(P=1-\sum_jr_jq_j\) of degree \(p\), companions \(E_i=q_iP\) and fresh fields. Write src for \(\Gamma\) with fields and companions, and cond for \(\Gamma\) with fields and the selectors \(q_i\) themselves, in which every input is nonzero. Let \(C_d\) be the PC consequence space at ceiling \(d\), and \[ O_d=\frac{C_{d+1}\cap\mathcal P_{\le d}}{C_d}. \] A normalized annihilator of \(C_d\) extends to \(C_{d+1}\) exactly when it kills \(C_{d+1}\cap\mathcal P_{\le d}\); if all \(O_d\) vanish below \(D\) and \(1\notin C_0\), there is no refutation at ceiling \(D\). This is the historical duality lemma applied degree by degree. Without blocks, vanishing in the stable range is the matching filtration theorem that the bit-PHP paper derives from chessboard homology. Nonvanishing for sources is what the record calls failure of raw augmented filtration stability, already shown by the singleton control. Criterion (1) therefore holds only as an exact restatement.

Two maps connect the systems. Multiplying a cond derivation by \(P\) gives \(P\cdot C_c(\text{cond})\subseteq C_{c+p}(\text{src})\): axioms \(q_i\) become companions, old and field axioms \(a\) become \(aP\) derived monomial by monomial, and multiplication steps commute with \(P\). This is historical Lemma 1.4 with weight \(P\). Setting the fresh variables to zero maps \(C_d(\text{src})\) into \(C_d(\text{cond})\), as the recorded coefficient maps do. Multiplication by \(P\) thus induces \(\pi_P:O_d(\text{cond})\to O_{d+p}(\text{src})\).

The three-selector test

A nonzero transferred class. In the recorded control, (TF-source) is \(P\) times (TF-linear), so \(TP=\pi_P(T)\) with \(T\in C_3(\text{cond})\). Also \(T\notin C_2(\text{cond})\), since otherwise the transfer would give \(TP\in C_5(\text{src})\), contrary to the recorded equality \(C_5=I_5\) for that source. (The record proves only \(T\notin I_2\); this is the PC statement.) Hence \([TP]=\pi_P[T]\ne0\) in \(O_5(\text{src})\): the class is a genuine conditioned fall transported by \(P\).

Degree windows do not remove it. The fall lies between ceilings five and six, inside the compiler window \(4p-1=11\) at \(p=3\).

Restrictions preserve the derivation. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for all affine \(A,B\), \[ (1-A^2)+(1-B^2)+(1-(A+B)^2)=3-2(A^2+AB+B^2)=(A-B)^2 , \] so every partial matching restriction keeps \(T'P'\in C_6\), using the Boolean certificate of \(T'^3-T'\). Nonmembership in \(C_5\) on a residual board is not asserted. It needs a residual degree-two design separating \(T'\), which the record builds from joint-lift hypotheses on the full label board, together with the stable range and the four-row trade. A restriction can also make \(T'\) zero or a nonzero constant.

Saturation removes it, but not cheaply. Quotienting by the old and field ideal and by conditioned consequences multiplied by \(P\), \[ \overline O_d=\frac{C_{d+1}(\text{src})\cap\mathcal P_{\le d}}{\bigl(C_d(\text{src})+P\cdot C_{D-p}(\text{cond})+I_D(\Gamma+\text{fields})\bigr)\cap\mathcal P_{\le d}}, \] kills \([TP]\) through \(g=T\). The old and field ideal is needed. For example, the accuracy-one analogue of the singleton fall \(q(1-r)=Pq+r(q^2-q)\) leaves the Boolean remainder \(r(q^2-q)\) after taking \(g=q\). This accuracy-one version is derived here, not cited. The denominator still lies in \(C_D(\text{src})\).

Why this is circular for one block and known for many. Specialization alone gives: a source refutation implies a conditioned refutation, with no vanishing hypothesis. For one block the two regimes, a hard conditioned system via the coefficient map or a refutable one via selector substitution, are the recorded coefficient-map and one-block elimination pair, at additive cost \((p-1)\delta\). So a single-block vanishing statement for \(\overline O\) would add nothing about hardness. For many blocks the saturation must use products \(P_S=\prod_{a\in S}P_a\) and mixed conditioned systems for every block subset. That is the historical mixed-moment system. Historical Example 6.5 shows that separate block feasibility does not give a joint solution, and the assembly audit records the whole-level repair cost.

Assessment and next step

The test fails in the sense fixed in advance. The three-selector class is a conditioned fall transported by \(P\), so no degree window inside the compiler ceiling removes it, and restrictions preserve its derivation. The only modification that removes it is saturation by conditioned consequences. For one block that saturation adds nothing beyond one-block elimination, and for many blocks it is the recorded mixed-moment system with its recorded failure of joint feasibility. The functional-side tower is a faithful dual of the problem, but it gives no new mechanism, because the chessboard argument's key feature, an unconditional vanishing theorem, has no analogue once blocks are present. The one new observation is that the obstruction class factors through \(\pi_P\); it is recorded here without a separate claim.

The next step is unchanged from the route review: the intermediate-rank endpoint for \(p=3\), with the dyadic calibration inventory. A functional-side object should be reopened only with a proposed mechanism that controls the mixed-moment system across block subsets at a cost below the whole-level repair.

Verification gate. Re-read the three-selector review, the augmented moment complex entry and the relevant parts of the one-predicate and pair theorems; searched the claim record for raw filtration stability, conditioned filtrations and mixed-moment results. The standing reviewer checked every statement. It identified prior coverage (historical Lemmas 1.2, 1.4, 6.6 and Example 6.5, the singleton observation), and required four corrections, all adopted: the restriction claim limited to membership; the old and field ideal added to the saturation; the single-block conjecture dropped, because specialization already gives its only consequence; and the verdict reframed around the mixed-moment system. No computation was run. A further review pass was skipped to limit reviewer cost, since the final text only removes or weakens drafted claims.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 3.88 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 11.31 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 40.15 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	12.42 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A clique of heads lowers the ternary dense threshold from \(N^{3/2}\) to \(N\log N\) for clique-covering blocks

21 September 2026 · Working extension of the ternary graph criterion · Narrows the window for clique-covering blocks to a factor of about \(10^{12}\Lambda\); structured blocks unaffected. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A clique of heads lowers the ternary dense threshold from \(N^{3/2}\) to \(N\log N\) for clique-covering blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-clique-head-endpoint.

Question. The next step after the route review is the intermediate-rank endpoint for \(p=3\). The ternary graph criterion excludes blocks whose projected rank is at most \(R\) or at least \(Q_*=\Theta(N^{3/2}\sqrt{\log N})\). The missing implication is the window between. This cycle tests whether the dense threshold is an artifact of the image bound rather than of the kernel method, using the dyadic random inventory and the recorded structured controls as calibration. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The chance that this narrows the window was judged moderate at the outset, because the method's actual requirement is a degree-\(k\) Macaulay quotient, which the recorded proof bounds only through its degree-two leading monomials.

Where the dense threshold comes from

The recorded kernel condition (DH-membership) asks only that \(f=\sum_ic_ig_i+E\) with \(\deg c_i\le k-2\) and \(E\in I_k(\Gamma_H)\), that is, \(f\) lies in the degree-\(k\) Macaulay span of the block's inputs plus old relations. Each block's cost is the codimension of that span in the degree-\(k\) squarefree space. The proof bounds it by the number of independent sets of size at most \(k\) in the head graph of degree-two leading monomials, (DH-count), which is at most \(4\binom sk\exp(k^2/s-qk/s^2)\) for \(q\) distinct heads. Under lexicographic order, the degree-two initial set of a generic tuple of rank \(q\) is the \(q\) largest pairs \(x_1x_2,\ldots,x_1x_s,x_2x_3,\ldots\): about \(t=q/s\) centers, each adjacent to every vertex. This is a split graph whose centers form a clique of size about \(q/s\), and its independent sets are counted by the clique bound below with \(m\approx q/s\), giving the factor \(e^{-qk/s^2}\). A weight order can instead make the heads a clique on about \(\sqrt{2q}\) vertices. The gain comes from the size of the clique, so for generic tuples the recorded bound loses because of the order, not because of the blocks.

Lemma: a clique of heads acts like an affine core

Let \(s\ge2\), \(1\le k\le s/4\), \(1\le m\le s/4\), and let a graph on \(s\) vertices contain a clique on a set \(M\) of \(m\) vertices. Then the number of its independent sets of size at most \(k\) satisfies \[ J_{\le k}\ \le\ 8\binom sk\exp\!\left(-\frac{mk}{2s}\right). \tag{CH-count} \] Proof. An independent set contains at most one vertex of \(M\), so the number of independent \(j\)-sets is at most \(\binom{s-m}{j}+m\binom{s-m}{j-1}\). Since \(m+k\le s/2\), \(m\binom{s-m}{k-1}\le\frac{2mk}{s}\binom{s-m}{k}\), and \(\binom{s-m}{k}\le\binom sk(1-m/s)^k\le\binom sk e^{-mk/s}\). For \(j<k\) the terms decrease at least by the factor \(\frac{j+1}{s-m-j}\le\frac12\) as \(j\) decreases, so the sum over \(j\le k\) is at most twice the \(j=k\) term. Hence \(J_{\le k}\le2(1+2x)e^{-x}\binom sk\) with \(x=mk/s\), and \((1+2x)e^{-x/2}\le4\) for \(x\ge0\).

Realizing the clique as heads. Multilinearize with Booleanity first, so no squares remain. Order monomials by degree, then by the weight \(w_M\) that gives each coordinate of \(M\) weight one and every other coordinate weight zero, then lexicographically. This is a monomial order. Suppose every pair inside \(M\) is the leading monomial, under this order, of some element of the span of the block's inputs plus the old degree-two relations, that is, \[ \binom M2\subseteq\operatorname{in}_{w_M}\bigl(\operatorname{span}(g_i)+I_2(\Gamma_H)\bigr)_2 . \tag{CH-hyp} \] Then full reduced row echelon form on all \(\binom m2\) columns of pairs inside \(M\) supplies, for each such pair \(e\), a combination of inputs plus an old certificate whose leading monomial is \(e\) and whose other quadratic terms all have lower weight; without full reduction, other pairs of \(M\) have equal weight and are only lexicographically smaller. Old \(I_2\) elements used as reducers are absorbed in the old residual \(E\). The recorded monomial-by-monomial reduction applies unchanged, and its image dimension is at most (CH-count). This refines the distinct-head count; the nearest recorded head-choice device, for cyclic local domains, uses disjoint pairs only. A block whose quadratic coefficient space, reduced as in the recorded dense case, projects onto all coordinates of \(\binom M2\) satisfies (CH-hyp).

Theorem: clique blocks join the ternary criterion

Keep every hypothesis and parameter of the ternary graph criterion: \(\mathbb F_3\), the separated graph with \(s=15(N+1)\) coordinates, \(M_{\rm blk}\) complete accuracy-one old-quadratic blocks, \(\Lambda=\log(64(M_{\rm blk}+1))\), \(k=\lceil\sqrt{N\Lambda}\rceil\), and \(TD+k\le N/10^6\). Put \[ m_*=\left\lceil\frac{2s}{k}\left(\frac{5k^2}{N}+\Lambda+\log2\right)\right\rceil=O(\sqrt{N\log N}), \] and assume \(m_*\le s/4\). Allow a third kind of block: one satisfying (CH-hyp) for some coordinate set \(M\) of size \(m_*\), with its own weight order. Then the source still has no ordinary PC refutation through \(D\).

Proof. For such a block, (CH-count) gives image dimension at most \(8e^{-m_*k/(2s)}\binom sk\le\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N}/(16(M_{\rm blk}+1))\), which is the per-block share the recorded proof allots to dense blocks. The kernel element \(f\) then satisfies (DH-membership) for this block with \(\deg c_i\le k-2\) and an old \(I_k(\Gamma_H)\) residual, exactly as for a dense block. The recorded weight maps and original-degree certificates, \(\beta_i=fc_i\) and \(fg_iP(\beta)=g_i(f-f^3)+f^2g_iE\) within \(3k+2\), apply verbatim. The sum of all image dimensions stays below \(\dim W_k\), so a common nonzero \(f\in W_k\) exists, and the recorded replay derives it over the old graph base through \(TD+k\), contradicting separation.

Rank needed. After subtracting the pairs of \(M\) already covered by quadratic parts of old \(I_2(\Gamma_H)\), (CH-hyp) forces projected block rank at least \(\binom{m_*}2\approx1.6\times10^4\,N\Lambda\) minus that number, compared with \(Q_*=\Theta(N^{3/2}\sqrt\Lambda)\) for the dense case. The low-rank case reaches \(R\approx N/(4.4\times10^7)\): at the ceiling \(D=4p-1=11\) of the complete-board compiler (the criterion itself only requires \(D\ge5\)), \(T=2H_*+4R+2\) and \(TD+k\le N/10^6\) allow \(R\) linear in \(N\), not only \(N^\sigma\). For blocks satisfying (CH-hyp) whenever their rank permits, the open window therefore shrinks from \([N/(4.4\times10^7),\ \Theta(N^{3/2}\sqrt{\log N})]\) to \([N/(4.4\times10^7),\ 1.6\times10^4N\Lambda]\), a factor of about \(7\times10^{11}\Lambda\).

Calibration

Dyadic random inventory. For a uniformly random linear form \(F=\sum a_ux_u\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), the quadratic part of \(1-F^2\) modulo Booleanity has coefficient \(-2a_ua_v=a_ua_v\) on \(x_ux_v\), the off-diagonal part of \(aa^{\mathsf T}\). The projections of \(h\) independent such forms onto \(\mathbb F_3^{\binom M2}\) fail to span exactly when some nonzero zero-diagonal symmetric \(B\) has \(a^{\mathsf T}Ba=0\) for all \(h\) samples. In odd characteristic \(a\mapsto a^{\mathsf T}Ba\) is a quadratic form of rank \(r=\operatorname{rank}B\ge2\), whose zero proportion is \(1/3+O(3^{-r/2})\) by the standard count of zeros of quadratic forms over finite fields, and at most \(5/9\) for every \(r\ge2\). Stratify the union bound by rank. There are at most \(3^{rm}\) such \(B\) of rank \(r\), so ranks \(r<4\log_3m+c\) contribute at most \(3^{(4\log_3m+c)m}(5/9)^h\). The remaining at most \(3^{\binom m2}\) matrices contribute at most \(3^{\binom m2}3^{-h}e^{O(1)}\), because then \(3h\cdot3^{-r/2}=O(1)\) once \(h=O(m^2)\). Hence \(h\ge\binom m2+c'(\log m+\Lambda)\) makes the failure probability at most \(e^{-\Lambda}\) for fixed \(M\), for suitable absolute constants. This uses the recorded fact, from the two-size control, that graph restriction and row projection leave the coefficients uniform. Dyadic blocks with \(h_L=\lceil100L\ln L\rceil\) above \(\binom{m_*}2+c'(\log m_*+\Lambda)\) are therefore excluded, as are those below \(R\). The blocks left are those with \(h_L\) in \([N/(4.4\times10^7),\ 1.6\times10^4N\Lambda]\): about \(\log_2(7\times10^{11}\Lambda)\approx39+\log_2\Lambda\) dyadic scales. The inventory still defeats the extended criterion, but only through that band.

Structured controls. The recorded common-factor control has every quadratic term through one coordinate, so no pair inside a set avoiding that coordinate is a head and (CH-hyp) fails for every \(M\) of size at least two; it remains a one-probe case. The reserve-coordinate triple family has disjoint heads, so (CH-hyp) fails, consistent with the exact-image barrier, whose true image is too large for any reduction; that family is sparse and belongs to the support endpoint. The lemma does not claim a dichotomy for blocks that satisfy neither (CH-hyp) nor the recorded cases.

Assessment and next step

The kernel method's dense threshold was mostly an artifact of the lexicographic head graph. A weight order concentrating heads on a clique lowers it to \(\Theta(N\log N)\) for blocks whose span covers a clique of pairs, which includes random dense blocks of sufficient rank by the stratified bound above. The remaining window for such blocks is a factor of about \(7\times10^{11}\Lambda\). Closing it needs either a better separator, to lower both constants, or a sharper Macaulay-quotient bound using higher-degree consequences rather than degree-two heads. For structured blocks, a separate probe or support dichotomy is still needed.

Next step. Test whether the constant-factor band can be closed for random dense blocks with a Macaulay-quotient bound beyond degree-two heads, which for generic tuples predicts codimension about \(e^{-qk^2/s^2}\binom sk\) rather than \(e^{-\sqrt q\,k/s}\binom sk\). A table of semi-regular regularity-degree predictions, the first nonpositive coefficient of \((1+t)^s(1+t^2)^{-h}\), is retained with its script; it is heuristic orientation, not evidence for any bound. Separately, formulate the dichotomy for blocks failing (CH-hyp): a large projected clique, or a small coordinate set whose conditioning removes most of the quadratic rank.

Verification gate. Re-read the recorded distinct-head lemma, the ternary criterion and its proof; claim searches for clique and weight-order head choices found only a disjoint-pair device. A fresh-context reviewer, briefed narrowly, confirmed (CH-count), the monomial order, \(m_*\), the low-rank reach and the verbatim transfer of the dense-block proof. It required six corrections, all adopted: the lexicographic head graph is a split graph with a clique of about \(q/s\) centers, not a star forest; multilinearization and full reduced echelon form before taking heads; subtraction of pairs covered by old \(I_2\) in the rank requirement, and the explicit window constant; a link for \(D=11\); a proof, rather than an assertion, of the random projection threshold; and the refinement link. No computation beyond the prediction table was run.

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Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	12.39 s

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The contracting-homotopy proposal reduces to sequential elimination; savings need the common-weight kernel method

21 September 2026 · Negative test of a proposed mechanism; dual reformulation of recorded results · The explicit construction reproduces additive elimination exactly; savings require polynomial selectors under a shared weight. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The contracting-homotopy proposal reduces to sequential elimination; savings need the common-weight kernel method”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-contracting-homotopy-test.

Question and tests. In conversation the proposal was to start from Razborov's reduction operator for PHP, a contracting homotopy onto the old algebra, and add blocks with the homological perturbation lemma, hoping that the series \(\sum(\delta h)^n\) terminates at a cost independent of the number of blocks. The user assigned two tests: (1) the one-block series must reproduce one-block elimination at cost \((p-1)\delta=(p-1)^2\) for selector inputs; (2) on the historical two-block conflict (Example 6.5), the series must cost less than repairing moments. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The closed moment tower had already shown that the functional-side object reduces to the mixed-moment system, so the chance of a new mechanism was judged low at the outset; the test decides whether the series construction avoids that reduction.

NS: the perturbation series has one term

For Nullstellensatz, take the two-term complex whose degree-one part is formal products of monomials and axioms, with differential multiplication, and whose degree-zero part is \(\mathcal P_{\le D}\) in the joint ring of old and fresh variables, the old complex being extended to that ring. A contraction consists of a projection \(R\) onto a complement of \(I_D\) and a certificate chooser \(h\) with \(1-R=dh\) in degree zero. Adding a block adds new degree-one generators, companions times monomials, with differential \(\delta\) landing in degree zero. Since \(h\) maps into degree one and \(\delta\) is defined only on the new generators, \(\delta h=0\), so the transferred differential is just \(R\delta\). The perturbed quotient is \(\operatorname{im}R\) modulo \(R\) applied to the companion multiples. This is the prescribed-moment system again: the lemma adds no information in NS. For PC, Razborov's operator is not a chain contraction but a projection with \(R(xt)=R(xR(t))\) below the ceiling, and we know of no perturbation lemma for that fixed-point condition. The construction therefore has to be read off the one-block proof.

Test 1: the explicit dual of one-block elimination

Let \(\mathcal G\) be the old system with field equations, and add one block with inputs \(g_j\) of degree at most \(\delta\). Put \(D'=D+(p-1)\delta\). For an input \(g_j\) and \(\alpha\ne0\), let \(\sigma_{j,\alpha}\) set \(r_{1,j}=\alpha^{-1}\) and every other fresh variable to zero, and let \(\sigma_0\) set all fresh variables to zero. The proof of Theorem 7.6 shows that \[ \chi_\alpha(g_j)\,\sigma_{j,\alpha}\bigl(C_D(\mathcal G+\text{block})\bigr)\subseteq C_{D'}(\mathcal G). \] Every augmented axiom maps into old consequences within \(D'\), and historical Lemma 1.4 carries the inference steps. Assume \(1\notin C_{D'}(\mathcal G)\), so normalized old annihilators exist. Dually, the following dichotomy holds.

If for some \(j\), some \(\alpha\ne0\) and some normalized old annihilator \(\Lambda\) of \(C_{D'}(\mathcal G)\) has \(\Lambda(\chi_\alpha(g_j))\ne0\), then \(F\mapsto\Lambda(\chi_\alpha(g_j)\sigma_{j,\alpha}(F))/\Lambda(\chi_\alpha(g_j))\) is a normalized annihilator of \(C_D(\mathcal G+\text{block})\). The block fires with a constant selector on the input value \(g_j=\alpha\), weighted by \(\chi_\alpha(g_j)\) of degree \((p-1)\delta\).
Otherwise every normalized old annihilator kills \(\chi_\alpha(g_j)\) for all \(j\) and all \(\alpha\ne0\). Normalized annihilators span all annihilators, so every such \(\chi_\alpha(g_j)\) lies in \(C_{D'}(\mathcal G)\), and by the exact identity \(g=\sum_{\alpha\ne0}\alpha\chi_\alpha(g)\) of historical (eq:selectorlinear), of degree \((p-1)\delta\le D'\), so does every \(g_j\). Reusing these lines as in the proof gives \(\sigma_0(C_D(\mathcal G+\text{block}))\subseteq C_{D'}(\mathcal G)\). So \(\Lambda\circ\sigma_0\) works for any old annihilator \(\Lambda\) of \(C_{D'}(\mathcal G)\): no weight is needed, but the old functional is still required through \(D'\).

For selector inputs \(q=1-L^{p-1}\), \(\delta=p-1\) and the cost is \((p-1)^2\), as Test 1 required. The dual construction is explicit, but it is a case split with a weight, not a perturbation series.

Several blocks: every block costs the same

Iterating the dichotomy in reverse level order, as in historical Theorem 7.7, lowers the working degree by \((p-1)\delta_a\) for every block, whether it fires or not: in both bullets the old functional must annihilate \(C_{D'}\), because the second bullet only places the inputs in \(C_{D'}\), not in \(C_D\). A block is free only if its inputs already lie in \(C_D\) at the current working degree. So the explicit construction reproduces the additive cost \(D+(p-1)\sum_a\delta_a\) exactly and saves nothing. For inputs in old variables, the resulting functional is \(\Lambda_{\rm old}\) applied to \(F\) specialized and multiplied by the weights of the fired blocks; for blocks above level one each weight is itself specialized by the substitutions of the lower levels. Reading these products as the terms of \(\sum(\delta h)^n\) is only an analogy, since the NS computation above gives \(\delta h=0\).

Savings in this construction would require a block to be certified at the current degree without a weight, or several blocks to share one weight. Historical Lemma 7.9 shares a constant-substitution weight among blocks with equal input span. The common-weight kernel method of the ternary graph criterion and its clique extension goes beyond this construction: it uses polynomial selectors \(\beta_i=fc_i\) under one weight \(f\) lying in every block's degree-\(k\) Macaulay kernel, and a common \(f\) exists when the kernels' codimensions sum below the separated space. So the kernel method extends the dichotomy from constant to polynomial selectors, and it is the only recorded mechanism of this kind that shares one weight across blocks with different input spans.

Test 2: the two-block conflict

In Example 6.5 both blocks have the constant input \(1\), so \(1\) lies in every input span and Lemma 7.9 eliminates them at zero degree cost; the weighted construction fires both with constant selectors and no weight. The conflict in that example arises between single-block moment corrections chosen independently, which the sequential construction never makes. The example therefore does not discriminate. A discriminating case needs many fired blocks with different input spans, and there the only recorded way to share weights is the kernel counting.

Assessment

Test 1 passes: the explicit dual of one-block elimination costs \((p-1)^2\) per selector block. Test 2 is passed trivially, because the example is not a discriminating case. Made explicit, the contracting-homotopy proposal is sequential elimination and costs \((p-1)\delta\) for every block. Within constant substitutions it gains only for equal spans; beyond them, the recorded route to inventory-independent cost is the polynomial-selector kernel method, now extended by the clique-head endpoint. Together with the closed moment tower and the route review, the topological proposals tested today all reduce to recorded mechanisms. The open question they point to is the same: a common weight for many firing blocks with different input spans in the intermediate-rank window.

Next step. For odd-prime-clause-transfer, return to the intermediate window: a degree-\(k\) Macaulay-quotient bound beyond degree-two heads for random dense blocks, and a clique-or-probe dichotomy for structured blocks. The local-to-global cohomology lead should be reopened only with a concrete presheaf and a vanishing mechanism for sharing weights.

Verification gate. Re-read historical Theorems 7.6 and 7.7, Lemma 7.9, Example 6.5, and the recorded ternary criterion with its clique extension. A fresh-context reviewer, briefed narrowly, confirmed the NS computation, the dichotomy, the exact selector identity and the Test 2 verdict. It required corrections, all adopted: a non-firing block is still certified only through \(D'\), so every block costs \((p-1)\delta\) and the drafted per-fired-block cost was wrong; lower-level substitutions act on higher-level weights; the series reading is only an analogy; the kernel method extends rather than instantiates the construction; and the dichotomy's quantifiers and standing hypothesis are now explicit. No computation was run.

Measured timing
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Global tools: new leads, and what sheaf gluing on the matching site can add

21 September 2026 · Working proof of two linear-algebra gluing criteria; leads recorded · The dyadic test is formulated, not decided. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Global tools: new leads, and what sheaf gluing on the matching site can add”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-matching-sheaf-gluing.

Question. After three topological constructions reduced to recorded mechanisms (complex review, moment tower, homotopy test), the user asked for tools that see global rather than local structure. The missing implication is unchanged: one object, a weight or design, that works for polynomially many blocks with different input spans. This cycle records the leads not yet in the notebook and then formulates the sheaf lead on the matching site precisely, testing it against the dyadic random inventory. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer.

Leads

The sheaf and cohomological-consistency lead is item 3 of the augmented-obstruction entry, with the Ó Conghaile and Chan–Ng references and the common-root control; it is not restated. This entry adds its concrete site, below. The only proved gluing tool in the record is the main notebook's tree-gluing lemma for functionals on subalgebras generated by linear spaces under a running-intersection condition. Its companion observation shows that designs for every proper subfamily of one row need not glue. Three leads are new.

Excess intersection. The kernel method succeeds when the blocks' degree-\(k\) Macaulay kernels meet in a nonzero element, and it proves this only by counting codimensions, as if the kernels were in general position. Excess intersection theory (Fulton), with degeneracy-locus classes (the Porteous formula) and Schubert calculus in Grassmannians, studies intersections of special families that are larger than expected. These are statements over algebraically closed fields, so transferring them to nonzero intersections of \(\mathbb F_p\)-subspaces would need its own argument. A statement that PHP structure forces such excess for intermediate-rank blocks would close the window left by the clique-head endpoint. No candidate statement exists yet.
Forcing and nonstandard models. Ajtai's lower bound for PHP in bounded-depth Frege was proved by forcing over nonstandard models, and Krajíček's forcing with random variables builds Boolean-valued models from families of random variables on sample spaces. This is the global tool with a record against PHP itself; it is closer to logic than to topology, and it bears on the main notebook's goal as well as this thread.
Topoi. Topos approaches to local versus global consistency (for example Isham and Döring) and the sheaf-theoretic, cohomological treatment of contextuality by Abramsky with Brandenburger, and later Mansfield and Barbosa, largely repackage sheaf cohomology. A lower bound would still have to come from computing a specific sheaf's cohomology on a specific site, which is the sheaf lead. Lowest priority.

These are literature leads recorded at the user's request, not imported theorems about this source.

Site one: the poset of restrictions

Let \(\mathcal R\) be a set of partial matching restrictions \(\rho\), and for each \(\rho\) let \(A_\rho\) be a space of functionals on degree-\(\le D\) polynomials over the residual board. Restriction \(F\mapsto F|_\rho\) does not raise degree, so every \(\lambda\in A_\rho\) pulls back to a functional \(\lambda\circ\mathrm{res}_\rho\) on the full board.

No gluing with a bottom element. Restrictions ordered by extension have the empty restriction as least element, so a presheaf of designs on this poset has its global sections at the empty restriction. The recorded restriction method is exactly the pullback of one local section: if \(\lambda\) annihilates the residual source's closure, then \(\lambda\circ\mathrm{res}_\rho\) annihilates the source's, because a restriction maps source derivations to residual derivations. No gluing is involved, and a single restriction must handle every block. The dyadic inventory defeats exactly this.

Mixtures: an exact criterion. The new freedom is a linear combination \[ \Lambda=\sum_{\rho\in\mathcal R}w_\rho\,\lambda_\rho\circ\mathrm{res}_\rho \] of pulled-back local functionals that need not annihilate anything individually, provided their errors cancel. Let \(S\) be the span of all such pullbacks and \(W=C_D(\text{source})\). A normalized \(\Lambda\in S\) annihilating \(W\) exists if and only if \[ 1\notin W+S^\perp,\qquad S^\perp=\{F:\ \lambda(F|_\rho)=0\ \text{for all }\rho\in\mathcal R,\ \lambda\in A_\rho\}. \tag{MX} \] Proof. \(S\cap W^\perp=(S^\perp+W)^\perp\) in finite dimension, and a subspace of functionals contains one with \(\Lambda(1)\ne0\) exactly when \(1\) lies outside its annihilator.

If each \(A_\rho\) is the full annihilator space of the residual old consequences \(C_D(\Gamma|_\rho)\), then \(S^\perp=\{F: F|_\rho\in C_D(\Gamma|_\rho)\ \forall\rho\}\supseteq C_D(\Gamma)\). When this space lies inside \(W\), for example when \(\mathcal R\) contains the empty restriction, (MX) is just \(1\notin W\) and unconstrained mixtures restate the problem. Otherwise they give a strictly stronger sufficient condition, still with no construction. A construction comes from restricting the local sections to explicitly built ones, such as the designs produced by the recorded endpoints on residual boards; then \(S^\perp\) is determined by those constructions.

Site two: covers by subspace domains

Let \(V_1,\ldots,V_t\) be subspaces of a filtered polynomial space and \(\lambda_a\) functionals on \(V_a\) that agree on every pairwise overlap \(V_a\cap V_b\). They have a common extension to \(\sum_aV_a\) for every such choice exactly when the Mayer–Vietoris sequence \[ \bigoplus_{a<b}V_a\cap V_b\longrightarrow\bigoplus_aV_a\longrightarrow\sum_aV_a\longrightarrow0 \tag{MV} \] is exact in the middle, that is, when every relation \(\sum_av_a=0\) with \(v_a\in V_a\) is a sum of overlap relations. Call the middle homology \(H_1\) of the cover. Proof. The \(\lambda_a\) define a functional on \(\bigoplus V_a\) vanishing on the image of the overlaps; it descends to \(\sum V_a\) exactly when it vanishes on the kernel of the sum map, and every compatible family does so exactly when that kernel equals the image. The recorded tree-gluing lemma, stated over \(\mathbb F_2\), gives a sufficient condition for this vanishing for covers by truncated algebras \(A(U_a)_{\le b_a}\), and it needs agreement only along tree edges rather than on all pairs; (MV) is the general criterion.

Two examples show that \(H_1\) captures known obstructions.

The recorded row obstruction. In the old quotient, cover one row by the algebras of its coordinates \(X_{ij}\). Pairwise overlaps are constants, yet \(\sum_jX_{ij}=1\) is a relation among the pieces that no combination of overlap relations produces. It is a nonzero class of \(H_1\), and it is the degree-one relation that the recorded observation identifies as blocking global gluing.
Three concurrent lines. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), cover the degree-\(\le2\) part of \(\mathbb F_3[a,b]/(a^3-a,b^3-b)\) by the algebras of \(a\), \(b\) and \(a+b\), each spanned by \(1,L,L^2\). The direct sum has dimension nine and maps onto the six-dimensional space spanned by \(1,a,b,a^2,ab,b^2\), since \((a+b)^2=a^2+2ab+b^2\). The kernel has dimension three. Pairwise overlaps are the constants, whose relations span two dimensions. So \(H_1\) is one-dimensional, spanned by \(a+b-(a+b)=0\): local functionals agreeing on constants glue only if \(\lambda_1(a)+\lambda_2(b)=\lambda_3(a+b)\). This is the linear shadow of the three-selector configuration, in which every pair of the forms \(a,b,a+b\) behaves while the triple does not; it is an analogy, not an identification with the recorded degree-six obstruction.

The dyadic test

Subspace covers are vacuous for dense blocks. Every input of a dyadic block is a random form on the whole board, so each block's domain is the whole algebra and every cover of this kind is trivial. Site two can only help blocks with localized supports, which the support endpoints already handle.

Restriction mixtures reduce to error cancellation. Take as local sections the designs produced by the extended graph criterion on residual boards of size \(L\), ignoring the blocks whose projected rank at size \(L\) falls in the open window, a band of about \(40+\log_2\Lambda\) dyadic scales. Each such design annihilates the residual closure of the source without its band's blocks. Let \(\mathrm{band}(b)\) be the residual sizes \(L\) at which block \(b\)'s projected rank lies in the window. If that rank is roughly constant across sizes, as for the dyadic tuples while their size stays below the number of residual pairs, \(\mathrm{band}(b)\) is an interval of about \(40+\log_2\Lambda\) dyadic values; in general it depends on the projected rank at each \(L\). For the Nullstellensatz part, a mixture over sizes gives a design if, for every block \(b\), \[ \sum_{L\in\mathrm{band}(b)}\ \sum_{\rho\ \text{with residual size}\ L}w_\rho\,\lambda_\rho\bigl((mE^b_i)|_\rho\bigr)=0 \quad\text{for all legal multipliers }m\text{ and inputs }i, \] with normalization \(\sum_\rho w_\rho=1\). Blocks outside every band contribute nothing. A PC annihilator must in addition kill closure elements whose derivations pass through band blocks; (MX) with \(W=C_D(\text{source})\) contains those conditions, and the display does not. Each component violates the blocks of its band, and each block's constraints must be cancelled by components of the sizes in its band, so the system couples overlapping bands along the whole scale range. Whether it has a solution is not decided here. The counts do not settle it: both the number of cancellation conditions and the number of free weights and local designs grow with the board.

Assessment and next step

Sheaf gluing on the matching site adds one genuinely new freedom: mixtures of explicitly constructed local designs whose errors cancel across restrictions. On the restriction poset without mixtures it is the recorded restriction method; unconstrained mixtures restate the problem; covers by subspace domains are the Mayer–Vietoris condition, which explains the recorded row obstruction and generalizes the recorded tree lemma but is vacuous for dense blocks. The dyadic test is reduced to the error-cancellation system above, which is the precise form of the Ó Conghaile-style lead for this source.

Next step. For odd-prime-clause-transfer, decide the error-cancellation system on its simplest nonvacuous case: two adjacent residual sizes and one block that is in the band for both. Before any computation, count its conditions and free parameters at the smallest board where both sizes lie in the stable range, as CLAUDE.md requires, and check whether the endpoint designs at the two sizes can differ on that block's constraints at all. If their errors are forced to agree up to scale, no mixture cancels them and the lead closes; otherwise the system is the object to study.

Verification gate. Searched the notebooks and claim index for the three new leads and for restriction mixtures; re-read the recorded tree-gluing lemma and row obstruction. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer confirmed the pullback argument, the duality proof of (MX), the Mayer–Vietoris criterion as an equivalence over all pairwise-compatible families, and both examples, including the three-line dimension count. It required wording and scope corrections, all adopted: local spaces are spaces of functionals; unconstrained mixtures restate the problem only under the stated inclusion; the tree lemma is a sufficient condition with tree-edge agreement over \(\mathbb F_2\); the band width and its constant-rank assumption; corrected attributions for Porteous, Krajíček, Abramsky and topos approaches; and an allowed status. No computation was run.

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Macaulay-quotient bounds cannot close the ternary window with the current separator; the dyadic band is eliminated additively

21 September 2026 · Conditional ceiling under the semi-regular model; application of recorded elimination · The window's width is set by the separator, not by the quotient bound. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Macaulay-quotient bounds cannot close the ternary window with the current separator; the dyadic band is eliminated additively”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-macaulay-quotient-ceiling.

Question and counts first. The clique extension of the ternary graph criterion leaves, for random dense blocks, projected ranks in \([N/(4.4\times10^7),\ 1.6\times10^4N\Lambda]\), about \(39+\log_2\Lambda\) dyadic scales. The task was to bound the degree-\(k\) Macaulay quotient beyond degree-two heads, where the Boolean semi-regular model (compare the recorded relative Conjecture SR, a different, base-relative notion) predicts codimension about \(e^{-hk^2/s^2}\binom sk\) for \(h\) inputs. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Following CLAUDE.md, before attempting a proof I compared what full success would give with what the window needs. That comparison decides the cycle: even the model's value leaves most of the window, because the constants that set the window belong to the separator. The requested quick error-cancellation check is in the last section; its simplest case turns out to be vacuous.

What any exponential quotient bound can reach

The criterion and its clique extension compare each block's reduction image with the share \(\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N}/(16(M+1))\) of the separated space, whose guaranteed dimension is \(\tfrac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk\) for \(k=O(\sqrt{N\ln N})\).

(i) Arithmetic. Suppose a block of projected rank \(h\) has image at most \(A\binom sk\exp(-c\,hk^2/s^2)\) with constants \(A\ge1\), \(c>0\). This meets the share only if \[ h\ \ge\ \frac{s^2}{c}\left(\frac5N+\frac{\log(16A(M+1))}{k^2}\right)\ >\ \frac{1125N}{c}, \tag{MQ-ceiling} \] using \(s=15(N+1)\). The bound \(1125N/c\) holds for every \(k\): the gain \(hk^2/s^2\) and the separator's loss \(5k^2/N\) both scale with \(k^2\). At \(A=4\) the logarithm is exactly \(\Lambda\), and at the recorded \(k=\lceil\sqrt{N\Lambda}\rceil\) the threshold is at most \(6s^2/(cN)\approx1350N/c\). If the bound also credits the old relations, with image at most \(A\binom sk\exp(-\gamma k^2/N-c\,hk^2/s^2)\) for an old collision loss \(\gamma\), the same computation gives \(h\ge s^2((5-\gamma)/N+\Lambda/k^2)/c\).

(ii) No tuple beats the generic one. Fix \(k\) and the old space \(I_k(\Gamma_H)\). The dimension of the Macaulay space \(\operatorname{span}\{cg_i:\deg c\le k-2\}+I_k\) is the rank of a matrix whose entries are linear in the coefficients of \((g_1,\ldots,g_h)\). Its maximum is attained on a nonempty Zariski-open set of tuples over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), and an \(\mathbb F_3\)-matrix has the same rank over both fields. So a block with \(h\) inputs has full codimension in \(\mathcal P_{\le k}\) at least that of a generic tuple of \(h\) polynomials of degree at most two, with the same old space. The comparison below is for random dense selector blocks with \(h\) inputs, whose projected rank is about \(h\). Selector blocks, whose top forms in \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x_u^2)\) are squares \(\ell_i^2\) of linear forms, form a special family and can only do worse.

(iii) The model's value. For the Boolean semi-regular series \((1+t)^s(1+t^2)^{-h}\), a saddle-point estimate at \(t\approx k/s\) gives degree-\(k\) coefficient \(\binom sk\exp(-(1+o(1))hk^2/s^2)\) whenever \(hk/s^2\to0\). That holds throughout the window, since \(h=O(N)\) and \(k=O(\sqrt{N\log N})\). This is a heuristic derivation for the model series, not a proof about any block. In the model, \(c=1+o(1)\). The model ignores the old relations. The old quotient has dimension at most the matching-monomial count \(Z_k(G)\), heuristically about \(\binom sk e^{-0.93k^2/N}\), since each cell conflicts with about 28 others by row and hole. So the model's full codimension is about \(\binom sk e^{-0.93k^2/N-hk^2/s^2}\), that is, \(\gamma\approx0.93\). An exact check at \(s=3000\) confirms the regime. At \(k=40\) and \(80\), the coefficient ratio is between \(0.53e^{-x}\) and \(e^{-x}\) for \(x=hk^2/s^2\le3\). The first nonpositive coefficient, where the model quotient vanishes, lies beyond degree 400 for \(h\le800\), at 261 to 271 for \(h=3200\) (the two variants) and at 89 for \(h=12800\). Vanishing therefore needs \(h\) far above the window (table, script, both model variants \((1+t^2)^{-h}\) and \((1-t^2)^h\)).

Consequence. Under the model, any argument that charges each block its full Macaulay codimension in \(\mathcal P_{\le k}\) excludes random dense blocks only from about \(225(4.07+1)N\approx1140N\) up at the recorded \(k\), and from about \(915N\) up at every \(k\). The window becomes \([N/(4.4\times10^7),\ 1140N]\), a factor of about \(5\times10^{10}\) or 36 dyadic scales, instead of \(7\times10^{11}\Lambda\). The best possible quotient bound of this kind removes only about \(3.8+\log_2\Lambda\) scales. This extends the recorded absolute-head budget obstruction, which concerned disjoint-head estimates, to the generic codimension itself. It is conditional on the model for generic tuples. Unconditionally, only (i) and (ii) are proved.

What would close it. The remaining lever is the one isolated by the relative count: charge each block only its rank on \(W_k\), relative to the old normal-monomial count, instead of its full codimension. Suppose a separated space loses only \(e^{-ak^2/N}\) relative to that count, and blocks gain \(e^{-hk^2/s^2}\) relative to it. The dense threshold becomes about \(s^2(a/N+\Lambda/k^2)\). Meeting the low-rank reach \(N/(4.4\times10^7)\) then needs both \(a\lesssim5\times10^{-11}\) and \(k\gtrsim1.4\times10^5\sqrt{N\Lambda}\). The recorded guarantee gives only \(a\le5\), since its good monomials must also avoid the distinguished holes. Neither relative bound is proved, so this is the required size of a missing separator theorem, not a route.

Band blocks are eliminated additively

Keep the hypotheses of the criterion with its clique extension, but allow at most \(b\) arbitrary complete accuracy-one old-quadratic blocks, and replace \(TD+k\le N/10^6\) by \[ (2H_*+4R+2)(D+4b)+k\le N/10^6 . \] Then the source still has no PC refutation through \(D\). Proof. All blocks are level one: each removed block's inputs involve only board variables, so its fresh variables occur only in that block and its field equations, as Theorem 7.6 requires. The remaining system keeps Booleanity for the board variables and \(r^3-r\) for every remaining fresh variable. Historical Theorem 7.7 removes the \(b\) blocks one at a time, each at cost \((p-1)\delta=4\) for inputs \(1-L^2\). So a refutation through \(D\) yields one of the rest through \(D+4b\), which the criterion excludes at requested degree \(D+4b\ge5\). This is the recorded elimination-then-weight ledger with \(A=1\), \(C=4b\); It is also the pattern of the recorded reverse elimination over affine endpoints, which composes the same elimination with a downstream criterion. It is recorded as an application of both, not as a new claim.

The dyadic inventory. That inventory has one tuple per dyadic scale, so only its band is at issue. With \(b\) band blocks, the low reach falls to about \(N/(4\times10^6(11+4b))\), and the band has about \(\log_2(1.6\times10^4\Lambda\cdot4\times10^6(11+4b))+1\) scales. The fixed point is \(b\approx47\) to \(51\) and \(D+4b\approx200\) to \(216\) for \(\Lambda\) between 5 and 100. So, at the standard of the calibration argument and with the routine steps it lists, the criterion plus elimination handles the dyadic inventory. The recorded statements that the inventory defeats a common restriction and, through its band, the criterion alone remain true. The inventory no longer calibrates the combined method. A calibration for it needs more window blocks than elimination absorbs. An example is the thick dyadic inventory, with \(N\) independent random tuples at every scale: polynomially many blocks, about \(N\) times the number of band scales in the window.

The quick error-cancellation check

The sheaf entry asked about its simplest case: two adjacent residual sizes and one block in both bands, with counts first. The counts are as follows.

The criterion is nonvacuous only when \(TD+k\le N/10^6\) with \(T\ge2H_*\), \(H_*\approx k+(s/k)(\Lambda+5k^2/N)\approx91\sqrt{N\Lambda}\) and \(D=11\). That is \(2003\sqrt{N\Lambda}\le N/10^6\), or \(N\ge4.0\times10^{18}\Lambda\). Residual boards of both sizes must be at least this large, with \(k\ge2\times10^9\Lambda\) and designs of degree up to \(N/10^6\ge4\times10^{12}\Lambda\). No computation with actual designs is possible, so the question must be decided structurally.
One band block needs no mixture: the elimination above removes it at degree cost 4. More generally, taking \(R\) negligible, the budget absorbs up to about \(b_{\max}\approx\sqrt{N/\Lambda}/(7.3\times10^8)-11/4\) band blocks. So \(b_{\max}\ge1\) needs \(N\ge7.5\times10^{18}\Lambda\), about twice the nonvacuous threshold; at that threshold, \(b_{\max}=0\).

So the simplest case is vacuous. The mixture system matters only when more than \(b_{\max}\) blocks are in band, and then it faces the same missing implication as the kernel method: one design or weight for polynomially many window blocks with different input spans. The sheaf lead offers no mechanism for that yet. It stays parked, to be tested against the thick inventory if a mechanism appears.

Assessment and next step

The Macaulay line reached a model ceiling. Charging full quotient codimensions cannot close the window for random dense blocks even at the semi-regular value, because the separator's density loss grows at the same rate in \(k\) as the quotient's gain. The line's prospects through quotient bounds are weak. Closing the window through kernel counting would need a separated space nearly as large as the old normal-monomial count, and relative image bounds for general quadratic spans. The recorded separator is far from the first. The error-cancellation lead's simplest case is vacuous, and the dyadic inventory is handled by elimination, so the calibration is now the thick inventory.

Next step. For odd-prime-clause-transfer, run a route review of the ternary intermediate window. State the line's general claim, one weight for polynomially many window blocks. Test it against the thick dyadic inventory. Then decide between the relative-separator obligation, with the sizes above, and a mechanism that does not count codimensions.

Verification gate. Re-read the ternary criterion and its proof, the clique lemma and theorem with the dyadic calibration, the relative count, the separated-space lemma, the absolute-head budget, the elimination-then-weight ledger and historical Theorems 7.6 and 7.7. Claim searches covered semi-regularity, generic codimension, elimination composed with a criterion, calibration inventories and separator density. They found the related Conjecture SR and the reverse-elimination composition, now cited. One exact computation was run: the model-series table. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer confirmed the (MQ-ceiling) algebra, the semicontinuity step, the saddle regime, the degree cost and the dyadic fixed point. It required seven corrections, all adopted: the old relations in the quotient (ceiling about \(1140N\) rather than \(1350N\)); the table bounds and both regularity variants; the nonvacuous board size \(4.0\times10^{18}\Lambda\) from \(T\ge2H_*\), instead of the weaker \(5.3\times10^{14}\Lambda\); the offset in \(b_{\max}\); the board-only inputs that Theorem 7.6 needs; the input-count scope; and the two citations. The corrections only weaken or relocate constants, so no second pass was run.

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Route review: old-variable weights appear unable to handle the ternary window, and sign variables do not help

21 September 2026 · Route review of the ternary intermediate window · Falsification attempts; heuristic verdict on weight designs; next step makes it decisive. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: old-variable weights appear unable to handle the ternary window, and sign variables do not help”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 21 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-21-ternary-window-route-review.

The line's general claim. For \(p=3\), every polynomial inventory of complete accuracy-one selector blocks on the separated graph admits a design built from the recorded mechanisms. Low-rank blocks use exact Fermat prefixes, affine cores use restriction kernels, dense and clique blocks use one common old-variable weight \(f\) in every block's degree-\(k\) Macaulay kernel, and a bounded band uses additive elimination. Together these would exclude the compiled source at degree \(11\). What the goal needs is exactly this, for arbitrary inventories, including polynomially many blocks of projected rank in the window \([N/(4.4\times10^7),\ \approx1140N]\), where none of these mechanisms applies. The calibration is the thick dyadic inventory, with \(N\) independent random tuples per dyadic scale. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The last five research entries on this item produced one extension (the clique class), one ceiling and three reductions of topological proposals to recorded mechanisms. None moved the window's general implication, which is why this entry is a review.

Falsification attempts

F1. Is the thick-inventory source easy? If it had a cheap refutation, the window would be moot. I found none, and found no mechanism that could produce one:

A complete accuracy-one block with its fields is satisfiable for every board assignment. Write the inputs as \(q_i=1-L_i^2\), with companions \(q_iP\) and \(P=1-\sum_jr_jq_j\). When every form \(L_i\) is nonzero, all \(q_i\) vanish and \(P=1\) satisfies the companions. Otherwise the fields \(r_j\) select one \(q_j=1\) and make \(P=0\). So the blocks act only as extension variables.
The one recorded block-level shortcut, the three-selector control, needs linearly dependent inputs. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the four lines of a two-dimensional form space even satisfy \(\sum_\ell(1-\ell^2)=4-3A^2-3B^2=1\), which makes the block a tautology. Random forms in a block with \(h<s\) inputs are independent with high probability, so no such identity exists inside one block. Heuristically, for \(h<s\log2/\log1.5\approx1.71s\) the block's false set is a nonempty set of Boolean points of density about \((2/3)^h\); this is an expected count, not a proved concentration, and Boolean points are not \(\mathbb F_3\)-uniform. This covers only the bottom of the window, which reaches about \(76s\). Above about \(1.71s\), random blocks are expected to be tautologies on Boolean points, and the question there is only whether low degree sees it.
Identities among forms of different blocks abound, but companions of different blocks carry different products \(P_b\), and no recorded derivation combines them.

So the thick inventory stands as a calibration: its hardness is expected but unproved.

F2. Does a common weight fail in truth, or only in the bound? Heuristically, in truth. Let \(K_b\) be block \(b\)'s degree-\(k\) Macaulay kernel and \(W\) the recorded separated space, of dimension \(w\ge\tfrac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk\). Since \(K_b\supseteq I_k\) and \(W\cap I_k=0\), general position must be taken in \(\mathcal P_{\le k}/I_k\). There, if the image of \(K_b\) is in general position with respect to \(W\), then \(\dim(K_b\cap W)=\max(0,w-\operatorname{codim}K_b)\). Under the semi-regular model with the old collision loss of the ceiling entry, the codimension of \(K_b\) modulo \(I_k\) is about \(\binom sk e^{-0.93k^2/N-hk^2/s^2}\). This exceeds \(w\) whenever \(h\lesssim915N\), at every \(k\). So a single random block of rank well inside the window is expected to leave no weight in \(W\), before any second block is added. For independent random dense tuples, general position is the natural expectation, since nothing aligns a random tuple's kernel with the matching monomials. Actual selector blocks \(1-\ell^2\) are a special family whose codimension is at most the generic one, so their kernels may be larger, which would favour weights. The recorded low- and dense-rank mechanisms are therefore not merely short of each other by weak bounds: under these two heuristics they miss the window intrinsically.

F3. Mixtures of weights. The error-cancellation system mixes designs, \(\Lambda=\sum_tw_t\lambda(f_t\,\sigma_t(\cdot))\). Under F2's heuristics no component's weight lies in a window block's kernel, so every component violates every window block, and all of those errors must cancel in the sum. Each window block contributes about \(\operatorname{codim}K_b\ge w\) independent error conditions (F2). One component has at most \(w\) free weight parameters. Heuristically, cancellation therefore needs more components than window blocks, and errors that are far from generic. Counting does not forbid this once there are enough components, but no recorded mechanism supplies the structure. The natural structured candidate is a product design. Give monomials with fresh support \(S\) the weight \(F_S=\prod_{b\in S}f_b\), substitute \(\beta_j=f_bc_j\) with \(\sum_jc_jq_j=f_b-E\), and apply \(\lambda\). A companion multiple \(\tilde m\,q_iP_b\) whose multiplier has fresh support \(S'\not\ni b\) then has value \(\lambda(F_{S'}\tilde m\,q_i)-\lambda(F_{S'}f_b\,\tilde m\,q_i\,f_b(f_b-E))=\lambda(F_{S'}\tilde m\,q_i(1-f_b^3+f_b^2E))\). Pointwise \(1-f_b^3=1-f_b\), which does not vanish. The single-weight method avoids this only because every term, including the support-\(S'\) term, carries the factor \(f_b\). This is the joint-feasibility failure of historical Lemma 6.6 and Example 6.5, in weight form.

F4. Can sign variables make the false set affine, as in characteristic two? Over \(\mathbb F_2\) a selector's false set \(\{L=1\}\) is an affine flat, and the affine-core kernel gains \(e^{-kH/s}\), linear in the rank. That is why the binary route has no window. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the false set \(\{L^2=1\}\) is a union of two flats, and a block's false set is a union of \(2^h\) sign flats. Adding a Boolean sign variable \(\sigma\) with extension axiom \(L(L-1-\sigma)=0\) makes it affine, \(L=1+\sigma\), in the extended space. But \(\sigma\) is definable: \(\sigma:=L-L^2\) satisfies \(\sigma^2-\sigma=3L^2-3L+(L^4-L^2)-2(L^3-L)\) and \(L(L-1-\sigma)=L^3-L\). Both are Boolean consequences through degree four, since \(L^3=L\) on \(\mathbb F_3\)-values. So by substitution the extension costs at most a degree factor two, and adds no strength. Conversely, a degree-\(k\) kernel in the extended space pulls back to a Macaulay representation in \(x\) with multipliers of degree up to about \(2k\). On the flat \(\sigma\) is a function of \(x\), so the flat carries all functions of \(x\) and the extended image count gains nothing. The characteristic-two advantage is not reproducible by extension variables.

F5. Higher certificate degree. The weight method may use kernel certificates of degree \(K\) up to about \(T/2\), not only \(k\). Under the model, however, the Macaulay space gains no degree-\(\le k\) elements from larger \(K\) before the regularity degree. For \(h\) in the window that degree is heuristically at least about \(s^2/(12h)\ge N/60\) (see the table at \(s=3000\): beyond 400 for \(h\le800\), 261 to 271 at \(h=3200\), and 89 at \(h=12800\)). This is far beyond \(T\le N/10^7\).

Assessment of this line

The evidence is uniform. The ternary difficulty is the sign ambiguity \(L\in\{1,2\}\): it turns a block's false set into a union of flats, so every degree-bounded old-variable weight heuristically pays a quadratic rather than linear gain. The two recorded mechanisms, exact prefixes and weights, are both linear in \(N\) at the ends of the window and cannot meet. Mixtures have no recorded mechanism for cancellation, and sign variables are definable. The line's prospects, as a way to handle the window with old-variable weights, are weak. The verdict rests on two heuristics, the semi-regular model and general position. They are standard for random systems but unproved here, and they are the main remaining uncertainty. A second uncertainty is that actual selector blocks are special tuples whose kernels can exceed the generic ones. The binary balanced-rank obstruction is the analogous statement for random readers in the main thread; it concerns coverage after restriction, not weights, and is cited as a parallel, not a dependency.

Next step on the highest-risk item

Route item odd-prime-clause-transfer remains the highest risk. Make F2 decisive at one scale: for a random dense ternary tuple with \(h\) inputs well inside the window, say \(h=N\), prove that its degree-\(k\) Macaulay kernel meets the recorded \(W\) only in zero with high probability. Otherwise, exhibit the alignment that makes the intersection large. Either outcome decides the line. A proof shows that no old-variable weight design handles the window, and moves the route item to designs that are not weights, or to an argument that uses the derivation structure of actual Res(Lin) proofs. An alignment is precisely the missing mechanism. Before coding any finite analogue, count at the smallest parameters: the dimension of the matching-monomial span at degree \(k\), the codimension of one random block's kernel, and what general position predicts for their intersection. The test is nonvacuous only where the prediction lies strictly between zero and the trivial bound.

Verification gate. Re-read the ceiling entry, the ternary criterion's weight maps, historical Lemma 6.6 and Example 6.5, and the model table. Searches covered witness selectors for random dense blocks, general position of kernels, multi-weight designs and the binary-versus-ternary contrast. They found the binary dense-forms covering and balanced-rank results, cited as a parallel. No computation was run. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer verified F4's identities and its no-gain argument. It required changes, adopted: the orientation of the block-satisfiability sentence; heuristic labels for the density and nonemptiness in F1, and the fact that F1 covers only the bottom of the window; general position taken modulo \(I_k\), making \(915N\) the primary figure; the special-tuple uncertainty for actual selector blocks; hedging in F2, F3 and the assessment; the regularity figure \(s^2/(12h)\) instead of \(s^2/(8h)\), which the table contradicted; and the claim note. One requested change was not adopted. The reviewer computed the F3 error as \(1-f_b^2\) from \(P(\beta)\) alone, but the product design also weights support-\((S'\cup\{b\})\) terms by \(f_b\), which gives \(1-f_b^3+f_b^2E\). The design is now defined explicitly so the computation can be checked.

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Selector squares meet the good-matching space beyond general position in small graded tests

22 September 2026 · Finite check; mechanism unidentified · The general-position heuristic of the window review fails for selector squares at small scale. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Selector squares meet the good-matching space beyond general position in small graded tests”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-ternary-kernel-alignment.

Question. The window route review concluded, under two heuristics, that one random window block leaves no old-variable weight in the separated space \(W\). The heuristics were the semi-regular model and general position of the block's Macaulay kernel relative to \(W\). Its next step asked to make this decisive, or to find an alignment. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. An exact asymptotic proof was out of reach this cycle. This cycle instead tests the general-position heuristic exactly, at the smallest sizes where the test is nonvacuous. The test controls for generic quadrics and for random subspaces. It asks whether actual selector squares \(\ell^2\) behave differently, which was the review's second uncertainty.

The test: a graded necessary condition

Let \(A=\mathbb F_3[y]/(y_u^2)\) on the nondistinguished cells, and let \(W\) be spanned by homogeneous degree-\(k\) good matching monomials. If \(f\in W\) lies in \(\operatorname{span}\{cg_i:\deg c\le k-2\}+I_k\), then comparing degree-\(k\) parts gives \[ f\in J_k=\sum_i\tau_iA_{k-2}+T_k , \] where \(\tau_i\) is the degree-two part of \(g_i\) and \(T_k\) is spanned by the old degree-two top forms times \(A_{k-2}\). In the Boolean multilinear ring, the degree-\(k\) part of \(cg\) is the \(A\)-product of the top parts when \(\deg c+\deg g=k\) and zero when \(\deg c+\deg g<k\), since repeated variables lower degree. This is the standard leading-form argument, the same device as the graded image in the binary two-form no-fall criterion. Hence \(W\cap J_k=0\) excludes every weight in \(W\) for that block; the converse is not claimed. For a selector \(1-\ell^2\), \(\tau\) is, up to sign, the top form of \(\ell^2\), namely \(2\sum_{u<v}a_ua_vy_uy_v\). The old top forms on the projected graph base are the same-row and same-hole cell pairs. Every monomial containing such a pair lies in \(T_k\), so the computation runs on matching monomials. The remaining old top forms are \(y_u\sum_{v\in\text{row }i}y_v\) for \(u\) in hole \(p_i\), and the product of the cell sums of two rows sharing a distinguished hole.

Counts and setup

We work in \(Q=A_k/T_k\), with \(q=\dim Q\), \(w'\) the dimension of \(W\)'s image, and \(\beta\) that of \(J_k\)'s image. General position predicts \(\dim(W\cap J)=\max(0,w'+\beta-q)\). The test is nonvacuous only where \(q-w'<\beta<q\), and the script sweeps \(h\) across that band. The graphs are random \(d\)-neighbor graph PHP with \(N\) holes and \(N+1\) rows. The four configurations are (degree-\(k\) matching monomials, \(q\), \(w'\)):

\(N=6\), \(d=4\), \(k=3\): 539, 238, 28;
\(N=8\), \(d=4\), \(k=3\): 1577, 969, 181;
\(N=8\), \(d=4\), \(k=4\): 4292, 1014, 84;
\(N=9\), \(d=4\), \(k=4\): 6738, 2678, 468.

The separation range of the recorded \(W\) is vacuous at these sizes; the test concerns only the linear-algebraic alignment of \(J_k\) with the span of good monomials. For each \(h\) the script compares three kinds of block: squares of uniform forms \(\ell\), uniform quadratic forms (generic), and a control that keeps the squares' \(J_k\) but replaces \(W\) by a uniform random subspace of dimension \(w'\). That control isolates whether the excess comes from the position of \(W\). Ranks are exact modulo 3, with random row compression only where rows exceed columns by more than 40. The per-job seeds are deterministic.

Results

Controls. At \(k=4\) the random-subspace control matches the prediction in all 140 trials, and generic quadrics in all 88 informative trials. Another 52 generic trials have \(\beta=q\) and match trivially. At \(k=3\) they match everywhere except two generic trials at zero gap (\(w'+\beta=q\)), where chance intersections over \(\mathbb F_3\) are expected.
Squares have smaller images. One square contributes 228 to 229 dimensions at \((N,d,k)=(8,4,4)\) and 297 to 298 at \((9,4,4)\), with occasional lower values, against about 255 and 325 for a generic quadric, inferred from \(\beta\) at the smallest \(h\) (\(511/2\) and \(1630/5\)). At equal \(h\), generic \(\beta\) always exceeds square \(\beta\). The shortfall of about \(s\) per form matches the relations \(\ell y_u\cdot\ell^2=0\), which hold because \(\ell^3=0\) in \(A\); in the Boolean ring \(\ell^3=\ell\).
Squares align beyond general position at \(k=4\). At \(k=3\) squares match the prediction in every trial. At \(k=4\) they exceed it in 27 of 80 trials at \(N=8\) and 4 of 60 at \(N=9\), by 1 to 27 dimensions. Of these, 17 at \(N=8\) (all with \(h\le4\)) and all 4 at \(N=9\) (with \(h\le7\)) occur at positive gaps \(q-w'-\beta\), up to 741, where a chance intersection is impossible. The other 10 at \(N=8\) are at \(h=5\), with a positive prediction exceeded by 1 to 15. In some trials a single good monomial lies in \(J_4\).

Mechanism checks, both negative or inconclusive.

Cells where every form vanishes: 15 of the 27 excess cases at \(N=8\) have none.
Single-generator products: no good monomial equals \(\ell_i^2\,y_ay_b\) for one form and one pair of its cells whose compatible support is the complementary pair.
Forms vanishing on every cell of a row occur in 89% of excess trials at \(N=8\), against 47% of the others. At \(N=9\) such forms are common in all trials. The intersection vectors are not concentrated on those rows.

An independent implementation by the reviewer reproduces the strongest case exactly (\(q=1014\), \(w'=84\), \(\beta=899\), intersection 27 against a prediction of 0). It works in the full \(A_4\) with all 17550 monomials, builds its own old top forms and uses exact elimination without projection. The code, raw results, analysis scripts and that check, with outputs, are retained.

Assessment and next step

At \(k=4\), selector squares meet the good-matching space more than general position predicts, while generic quadrics and random subspaces do not. So, for this graded necessary condition at these sizes, general position is not a safe model for selector blocks. Its second uncertainty, that special tuples could have larger kernels relative to \(W\), is realized at small scale, in the direction that favours weights. The evidence is limited. The frequency and size of the excess fall from \(N=8\) to \(N=9\), consistent with a small-size effect, and only two sizes at one degree beyond three were tested. The mechanism is unidentified, and the graded condition is only necessary: an excess in \(J_k\) need not give an actual kernel element with lower-order terms. Next step: identify the mechanism from the single-monomial cases, by extracting a minimal generating combination, and derive a local criterion for a good monomial to lie in \(J_k\). Then decide from that criterion whether the alignment survives for dense random forms at \(s=15N\) or is a small-support effect. Only a surviving mechanism that is common to many blocks would give weights. The review's window verdict stands until then, but it is no longer decisive.

Verification gate. Re-read the window review, the ternary criterion's kernel condition and the projected old relations. Searched the record for graded or leading-form kernel tests; it gives the binary two-form criterion, cited. The computations ran on 14 worker processes with deterministic seeds. The first two runs used an older script version and non-reproducible seeds, and are superseded by the retained runs. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer reviewed the code line by line and found no artifact: the old top forms are complete, and the kinds differ only in the form used. It independently recomputed the strongest case in the full graded space with its own elimination, reproducing every number. Its eight wording and scoping changes were adopted: the control's construction, the informative-trial counts, the source of the generic per-form figures, the syzygy statement and the sign, the degree condition in the leading-form step, the split of the excess tallies, and scoping the assessment to the graded condition at these sizes.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	36 min 20.14 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 8.42 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 24.36 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 47.43 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	5.10 s
Individually measured computation	25 min 54.83 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

The selector alignment is a row collapse of the old quotient, and disappears at five neighbors in a small test

22 September 2026 · Finite check with an explicit mechanism; heuristic scaling · The excess disappears at five neighbors per row. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The selector alignment is a row collapse of the old quotient, and disappears at five neighbors in a small test”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-alignment-row-collapse.

Question. The graded alignment test found selector squares meeting the good-matching space beyond general position at degree four, and left the mechanism open. If the mechanism survived on the recorded sixteen-neighbor graph, it would be exactly what the window review said an alignment would have to be: a way for weights to beat counting. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. This cycle identifies the mechanism and tests its predicted scaling.

Localization

The analysis covers every excess trial of the test at \((N,d,k)=(8,4,4)\) and \((9,4,4)\). For each, it lists the good monomials \(y_S\) lying in \(J_4\), and checks whether one form's square, or a pair of squares, already puts \(y_S\) there. At \(N=8\), 10 of the 17 excess trials with \(h\le4\) have single good monomials in \(J_4\), 1 to 7 per trial. In seven of them one form suffices. Counting also \(h=5\), there are 21 single-form cases. At \(h=5\) most of \(W\) lies in \(J_4\) (58 to 84 of 84 good monomials), as general position already predicts. No excess trial at \(N=9\) has a single good monomial in \(J_4\). Greedy deletion then finds a minimal set of multipliers for each single-form case. Their sizes range from 1 to 57; five have two elements (scripts and outputs).

The mechanism in one case

Take \(S=\{14,15,20,21\}\), the cells \((4,0),(5,3),(6,4),(7,6)\) as (row, hole), with multipliers \(y_{14}y_{21}\) and \(y_{14}y_{23}\). Cells 21 and 23 are two of the three cells of row 7; its third cell is 22, at \((7,0)\). Row 7's distinguished hole is 2, which contains cells 9 and 18. The old quotient has the projected relation \[ y_u\,(y_{21}+y_{22}+y_{23})\in T\qquad(u\text{ in hole }2), \] the top form of \(x_{7,2}\,y_u=0\) with \(x_{7,2}=1-\sum_{\text{row }7}y\). The expansion of \(\ell^2y_{14}y_{21}\) modulo collisions has terms \(y_{14}y_{21}y_cy_d\) with \(\{c,d\}\) among \(\{9,15\},\{9,16\},\{9,20\},\{15,18\},\{15,20\},\{16,18\}\). The expansion of \(\ell^2y_{14}y_{23}\) has \(\{9,16\},\{9,20\},\{16,18\}\) with the same coefficients.

Each common term pairs up. For example, \(y_9y_{14}y_{16}(y_{21}+y_{23})\equiv-y_9y_{14}y_{16}y_{22}\equiv0\), because cell 22 shares hole 0 with cell 14.
The unpaired terms containing a hole-2 cell vanish by the same relation. For example, \(y_9y_{14}y_{15}y_{21}\equiv0\), because cells 22 and 23 collide with 14 and 15.

What remains is \(2\,y_{14}y_{15}y_{20}y_{21}=2y_S\). So \(y_S\) lies in \(J_4\) through one square and two multipliers. Three of the other four two-multiplier cases have the same shape: two multipliers differing in one cell of a row, whose remaining cells are blocked by collisions with the monomial. The fourth, \(S=\{1,9,14,24\}\) with multipliers \(\{5,14\}\) and \(\{9,14\}\), pairs cells of two different rows and was not analyzed. The larger minimal sets were not analyzed; they presumably chain the same collapse, but that is unverified.

What the mechanism is. The relation \(y_u\sum_{\text{row }i}y\) with \(u\) in hole \(p_i\) is the projected form of the row equation \(\sum_jX_{ij}=1\). It is the class that the sheaf entry identified as the recorded row obstruction in \(H_1\). When every other cell of row \(i\) is blocked by the monomial, it collapses a sum over the row to a single term. In the four analyzed cases, squares of forms reduce to single good monomials because their terms pair up across two multipliers that differ within one row.

Predicted scaling and its test

Heuristic. Each row has \(d-1\) cells. A collapse needs a row whose cells, apart from the two carrying the paired multipliers, are all blocked by the monomial: \(d-3\) cells, whose holes are random. The probability of that is roughly \((k/N)^{d-3}\) per row, up to polynomial factors. At \(d=4\), \(N=8\), \(k=4\), only one cell needs blocking and this is large. On the recorded sixteen-neighbor graph with \(k=O(\sqrt{N\log N})\) it is about \((k/N)^{13}\), which vanishes polynomially. This is a per-row, per-monomial probability. It does not bound the number of monomials and multiplier pairs, which is large, and it does not cover the unanalyzed larger minimal sets. It therefore predicts that collapsing configurations form a small fraction, not that they are absent. The prediction is that the excess alignment is a small-degree artifact, and that it already drops at \(d=5\), where two cells per row need blocking.

Test at \(d=5\). The same test ran at \((N,d,k)=(8,5,4)\): \(s=36\), 13628 matching monomials, \(q=5590\), \(w'=178\), \(h=9,\ldots,13\), with 16 square trials per \(h\) and 4 of each control. All 80 square trials match general position, 64 of them at positive gaps and 16 inside the band \(q-w'<\beta<q\). At \(d=4\) with the same \(N\) and \(k\), 27 of 80 trials exceeded it. Both controls match in all 40 trials. So one more cell per row removed the excess at this size, as the blocking count predicts. The evidence is one graph (seed 7) at one \((N,k)\). The \(d=4\) comparison used a different graph (seed 5) with 20 square trials per \(h\). The computation uses a new bit-sliced GF(3) elimination in C (gf3.c), which passes a self-test against the NumPy reference: exhaustive rank cases, plus randomized reduced-echelon and row-space checks. It also reproduces all 24 recorded trials of a check configuration at \((8,4,4)\) exactly. The earlier NumPy run of this configuration was killed for low system memory before saving anything; its normal-form step in alignment.py was changed to work in row chunks without changing results, and the reported \(d=5\) run used alignment_fast.py.

Assessment and next step

The only alignment found between selector squares and the good-matching space is a collapse through the row relation, and it needs rows whose cells a monomial can block. It disappeared at five neighbors per row in the one test run, and the blocking heuristic predicts it becomes a small fraction on the recorded sixteen-neighbor graph. The window review's verdict against old-variable weights in the window therefore stands again, with this second uncertainty tested at small scale. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): take the review's route decision. Weights are excluded heuristically, and the sheaf candidate on subspace contexts runs into the recorded subspace wall. So the remaining alternative is the derivation structure of actual Res(Lin) proofs, whose lines are not an arbitrary inventory. Search the record for proof-order design constructions and line-by-line invariants before formulating one, then test it against the thick inventory. That inventory is not derivable, so it cannot calibrate a derivation-aware method.

Sheaf check

The one nontrivial relation that produced extra weights here is the recorded row class. It acts only through local blocking, which the sixteen-neighbor graph makes negligible. No presheaf with a new vanishing or gluing property has appeared. The row class is the only \(H_1\) element that any computation has so far shown to matter. It enlarges the kernels available to weights only while rows are small enough to be blocked, so it gives no mechanism at the recorded graph degree. The natural presheaf in which a Res(Lin) line is local assigns to each bounded-dimension space of linear forms a joint value distribution, compatible under restriction, in the manner of sheaf-theoretic contextuality. Its sections would amount to PHP consistency under linear constraints of high rank. That is the recorded subspace wall: recorded and published techniques stop at rank of order \(n\). A cycle on that presheaf would have to start from the wall, not rediscover it.

Verification gate. Re-read the alignment entry, the window review and the projected old relations. The record search for subspace local-consistency objects found the main notebook's subspace wall, cited in the sheaf check. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the C library, its wrapper and the fast driver line by line. It reran the self-test, confirmed that the driver reproduces the 24 recorded trials, verified the worked mechanism with its own script, and confirmed every tally. It required six wording changes, all adopted: the two-row fourth case, the heuristic label and fraction scope of the scaling, the single-graph scope of the \(d=5\) evidence, "most" at \(h=5\), the self-test description, and the unused configuration. The first minimal-subset search timed out, because it rebuilt bases per pair and its runtime was not estimated. The first \(d=5\) attempt was killed for low system memory. Both were replaced by the optimized versions retained here.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	68 min 28.24 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 32.49 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	19 min 9.57 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 20.51 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	5.08 s
Individually measured computation	45 min 20.58 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 2.

Route review: the one weakening-free route to dense tuples found shields them, and shielding may decide the window calibration

22 September 2026 · Route review of derivation-aware alternatives · Weakening junk is removable; the one weakening-free gadget found shields its dense forms. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the one weakening-free route to dense tuples found shields them, and shielding may decide the window calibration”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-derivation-structure-route-review.

The line's general claim. The window review and the row-collapse check left old-variable weights heuristically unable to handle the ternary window. The remaining alternative named there is this: the lines of an actual \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation are not an arbitrary inventory. Some property of derivations would either exclude the thick dyadic inventory, or supply a mechanism that inventory-only methods lack. What the goal needs is an exclusion of the compiled source, at ceiling \(11\), for every inventory that polynomial-size refutations of ordinary unary PHP actually produce. If every polynomial inventory is produced, derivation structure can matter only through relations between lines. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer.

What the record offers

Searches for proof-order designs, line invariants, closure along derivations and weakening found no derivation-aware construction in either notebook. The binary endpoint, the unrestricted \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) theorem, is inventory-only: it restricts the actual proof to the graph and compiles every line into a registry slot. The published derivation-aware technique is the closure of Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson, which keeps a path of lines consistent with PHP under their linear constraints. In the record it appears as Corollary SL: safe systems of rank \(a\) with \(4(a-1)<n\) keep the base hard, at degree \(n/2-a+1\). The window reaches projected rank about \(1140N\), far above \(n/4\), and even blocks below \(n/4\) add their ranks under a common restriction. So a closure argument along a DAG meets the recorded subspace wall, where techniques stop at rank of order \(n\) (imported context: literature). One block at a time is not the difficulty: Corollary SL and the affine-core kernel handle single systems of moderate rank. The window is a simultaneous problem across many blocks. A common restriction adds their ranks, and a common weight pays counting.

Falsification attempts

F1. Weakening realizes every inventory, but is removable. The recorded rules (Part–Tzameret, audited here) include weakening. Given an initial clause \(A\) and equations \(\ell_1=0,\dots,\ell_h=0\), weaken \(A\) to \(X_1\), where \(X_j=A\vee\bigvee_{i\ge j}(\ell_i=0)\), and to \(Y_j=A\vee(\ell_j-1=0)\). Resolving \(X_j\) with \(Y_j\) on \(\ell_j\), with coefficients \(1,-1\), gives the false constant \(1=0\). Simplification deletes it, and contraction gives \(X_{j+1}\). After \(h\) steps the chain returns \(A\), which can replace a later use of the initial. So every tuple appears in a line that is an ancestor of the empty clause, at a cost of \(O(h)\) lines (at least \(3h\) when each weakening adds one equation). This does not make the thick inventory a calibration, because weakening can be eliminated syntactically, exactly as in resolution. Map each line \(C\) to a subline \(C^\circ\), with \(C^\circ=C\) on initials and \((C\vee E)^\circ=C^\circ\) on weakening. For resolution of \(C\vee(f=0)\) with \(D\vee(g=0)\), take the resolvent of the images, with the same \(\alpha,\beta\), if both contain the resolved equations, and otherwise the image lacking its equation, which is a subline of the resolvent. Simplification and contraction map to the same rules or to nothing. The image of the empty clause is empty, the image proof has no more lines and no larger written size, which is the measure of the source, and its lines are sublines of the originals. So without loss of generality refutations are weakening-free, and the chain above collapses to \(A\).

F2. Weakening-free derivations still carry dense forms, shielded. From the Boolean axioms \(B_i=(x_i=0)\vee(x_i-1=0)\) alone, resolving \(L_t=\bigvee_{i\le t}(x_i-1=0)\vee(\textstyle\sum_{i\le t}c_ix_i=0)\) on its last equation with \(B_{t+1}\) on \(x_{t+1}=0\), with coefficients \(1,c_{t+1}\), gives \(L_{t+1}\). Here \(L_1=B_1\) and \(c_1=1\). Ordering the support with a chosen variable \(x_1\) first gives every linear form with \(x_1\) in its support, up to scaling. Now fix \(U\ni1\) and \(X=\bigvee_{i\in U}(x_i-1=0)\). Let \(M=X\vee(\ell=0)\), and let \(L(\ell')=X\vee(\ell'=0)\) be the chain built along an ordering of \(U\) with \(1\) first, so \(\operatorname{supp}\ell'\subseteq U\), the coefficient of \(x_1\) in \(\ell'\) is one, and its shield is exactly \(X\). Resolve \(M\) on \(x_1-1=0\), coefficient \(\alpha\ne0\), with \(L(\ell')\) on \(\ell'\), coefficient one. The result keeps \(X\), because the second premise still contains \(x_1-1=0\), and adds \(\ell'+\alpha x_1-\alpha=0\). For a target linear part \(\lambda\) this forces \(\alpha=\lambda_1-1\), so \(\lambda_1\ne1\) is needed (after scaling \(\lambda\), possible for \(p\ge3\)), and the new equation is \(\lambda-\lambda_1+1=0\): the constant is not free. Repeating gives, in \(O(ht)\) lines without weakening, a line whose equations are the shield \(X\) together with \(h\) prescribed linear parts. It is a Boolean tautology, being soundly derived from the Boolean axioms. Since every support lies in \(U\), on the face \(x_U=0\) every dense equation is a constant: the first, homogeneous one is true and every added one is false. So the line holds because of \(X\) or the first equation, and its dense part carries no information anywhere. That is what "shielded" means here. Whether the recorded mechanisms exclude such blocks cheaply was not checked, and the gadget was not made an ancestor of the empty clause.

Coordinate shields are not preserved. Resolving a shielded line on \(x_1-1=0\) with a hole-exclusion clause \((x_1=0)\vee(x_k=0)\), coefficients \(1,-1\), replaces the shield equation \(x_1=1\) by \(x_k=0\) and leaves the dense equations untouched. The new shield no longer covers their support. The line is still shielded relative to the initials, because \(x_k=1\) with the hole axiom forces \(x_1=0\). So a useful notion of shielding must be semantic relative to the initials, not syntactic coverage of the support.

F3. Unshielded dense forms are expected, but structured ones. Counting derivations, with lines stating that a row sum or hole sum lies in \(\{0,1\}\), are expected to produce dense forms without a shield; no such derivation was written out here. Their forms are row and hole sums, not random tuples. The recorded row obstruction class of the row-collapse entry is the projected form of exactly these equations.

Assessment of this line

Weakening can be eliminated at no cost, so derivation structure does constrain which lines matter. The one weakening-free route to arbitrary dense tuples found here shields them, and the only unshielded dense forms considered are structured counting forms. One gadget and one counting family do not show anything about all derivations. Conditional on a definition of shielding, still to be given, the question divides the line. If some polynomial-size weakening-free refutation contains unshielded random dense tuples of window rank among the ancestors of the empty clause, derivation structure gives no leverage on the inventory. The window must then be handled as a simultaneous gluing problem across blocks. That problem is the historical mixed-moment system, whose pairwise-to-joint failure is Example 6.5, and whose one assembling repair has a cost that does not fit. If no refutation does, the calibration must be restated for shielded tuples, structured counting forms and partly shielded mixtures. It was too pessimistic only if those are cheaper to exclude, which is unchecked. The line's prospects are open: its decisive question is new and not yet attempted. The alternatives are either heuristically excluded (weights) or meet a recorded wall (closure).

Next step on the highest-risk item

Route item odd-prime-clause-transfer. Decide the shielding question. First define shielding semantically relative to the initials: a subset of a line's equations whose simultaneous falsity, together with the initials, forces a restriction on which the tuple's selectors are constants. Test the definition on the three recorded cases: the F2 gadget and its hole-clause variant must count as shielded, and the counting lines of F3 as allowed structured forms. Then either construct a polynomial-size weakening-free derivation, from the ordinary unary PHP initials over \(\mathbb F_3\), of an ancestor of the empty clause containing an unshielded random dense tuple of projected rank at least \(N/(4.4\times10^7)\), or find an invariant preserved by resolution with the initials, including the hole-exclusion clauses, and by simplification. If an invariant forces shielding, the next cycle checks whether shielded blocks fall under the affine-core kernel or exact prefixes on the graph base.

Sheaf check

This is the first object in the cycle with a locality that comes from derivations rather than from a chosen cover. A shielded line is informative only where its shield is false, a face cut out relative to the initials. Blocks would then be sections over the poset of coordinate faces, glued by restriction, and the site is the restriction poset, not the block-subset complex. Whether that presheaf has a vanishing property depends on the shielding question. If shielding fails, the only gluing site left is the block-subset complex, the mixed-moment system, whose recorded pairwise-to-joint failure stands.

Verification gate. Re-read Corollary SL with its proof, the recorded Part–Tzameret rules and the weakening step of the compiler, historical Example 6.5 and the whole-level repair of the assembly audit. Searches covered derivation-aware constructions, weakening elimination, shields, closure along derivations and the binary endpoint; none records weakening elimination or shielding. No computation was run. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the weakening chain, the elimination argument in every case and the gadget, which were verified only by this review. It required changes, all adopted: the chain cost, written size in the elimination, the gadget's hypotheses and exact constants, the precise meaning of shielding, the hole-clause obstruction to coordinate shields, softening the title and assessment, making the dichotomy conditional on a definition and not presuming shielded blocks easy, a semantic definition in the next step, and comparing ranks with Corollary SL.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 44.16 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 30.16 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	8 min 13.93 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	0.07 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Shielding made precise: resolving with a line true on the test set adds no information

22 September 2026 · Working observation (one step); assessment of the shielding question · The question looks no cheaper than a critical-assignment structure theorem. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Shielding made precise: resolving with a line true on the test set adds no information”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-shielding-falsification-sets.

Question. The derivation review asked whether weakening-free refutations must shield random dense tuples of window rank, and asked first for a semantic definition of shielding relative to the initials. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The definition cannot use all points satisfying the initials, because PHP has none, and every line is then vacuously implied. This cycle fixes a test set, proves the one-step fact behind the definition, and assesses whether the question is cheaper than the goal.

Definition and setting

Work over \(\mathbb F_3\) with the recorded rules, and with weakening-free refutations, which the review showed costs nothing. Let \(W\) be a set of Boolean points on which every initial except the row clauses is true. The main example is the critical assignments of ordinary unary PHP with \(N+1\) rows and \(N\) holes, the matchings that leave exactly one row unmatched. On it the Boolean axioms and the hole-exclusion clauses are true, and a row clause is falsified exactly where its row is unmatched. For a line \(C\), a disjunction of equations, let \(\mathrm F_W(C)\) be the set of points of \(W\) at which every equation of \(C\) is false. Call \(C\) a \(W\)-tautology if \(\mathrm F_W(C)=\varnothing\), and call two lines \(W\)-equivalent if they have the same \(\mathrm F_W\). A set \(E\) of equations of \(C\) is shielded in \(C\) if \(C\) is \(W\)-equivalent to \(C\setminus E\), and informative otherwise. In the realizability question, the line must be an ancestor of the empty clause.

The one-step observation

Observation. Let \(P_1=C\vee(f=0)\) and \(T=T'\vee(g=0)\), with \(T\) a \(W\)-tautology, and let \(R=C\vee T'\vee(\alpha f+\beta g=0)\) be their resolvent under the recorded rule. If \(\alpha\ne0\), then \(\mathrm F_W(R)=\mathrm F_W(C\vee T'\vee(f=0))\). If \(\alpha=0\), then \(R\) is a \(W\)-tautology.

Proof. Let \(w\in W\) falsify \(C\vee T'\). Since \(T\) is true at \(w\), \(g(w)=0\). So \((\alpha f+\beta g)(w)=\alpha f(w)\), which vanishes exactly when \(f(w)=0\) if \(\alpha\ne0\), and always if \(\alpha=0\). Points at which \(C\vee T'\) is true lie in neither set. \(\square\)

So resolution with a \(W\)-tautology shrinks the falsification set by the added disjuncts \(T'\), and its new equation can be replaced by the old \(f\) without changing \(\mathrm F_W\). (Deleting it would in general change \(\mathrm F_W\).) Simplification and contraction do not change \(\mathrm F_W\).

Conjecture-level extension, not proved. In a weakening-free derivation, every line should be \(W\)-equivalent to a line whose equations are built from the row-clause coordinates by resolutions between two \(W\)-falsifiable lines. That would need an induction: later steps resolve on \(\alpha f+\beta g\), not on \(f\), and resolution is not a congruence for \(W\)-equivalence, although at points falsifying the other disjuncts the scaling agrees. The claim is false with weakening, which adds any equation that holds somewhere on \(\mathrm F_W\) of the line.

The recorded cases

The Boolean-axiom gadget. Take as \(E\) its \(h\) added equations. Then \(C\setminus E=X\vee(\ell_1=0)\) is the chain line \(L(\ell_1)\), a Boolean tautology, so \(E\) is shielded. If \(E\) also contains the first, homogeneous equation, it is not shielded, since \(X\) alone is falsified on the face \(x_U=0\).
Its hole-clause variant. Resolving \(X\vee(\ell_1=0)\) with the same hole clause, in the same way, gives exactly \(C\setminus E\) of the resolved gadget line. It is a \(W\)-tautology on critical assignments, since both premises are, so \(E\) is again shielded.
Counting lines. Take \((s=0)\vee(s=1)\) for a row sum \(s\). It is a \(W\)-tautology, but no nonempty set of its equations is shielded, since the row is matched in some critical assignments and unmatched in others. For a hole sum, \((s=0)\) is shielded and \((s=1)\) is informative. What holds for all counting lines is the Observation: they are inert as resolution partners. The row equation \((s=1)\), derived from them and the row clause in several steps, is falsified exactly where row \(i\) is unmatched. It is informative, and it is the recorded row class. F3 of the review said counting derivations give unshielded dense forms; under this definition that holds for such row and hole equations, and they are structured.

What the shielding question becomes

If the conjecture-level extension holds, the dense forms that matter are those of \(W\)-falsifiable lines, generated by resolutions between two \(W\)-falsifiable lines. The review's question then asks which forms can be informative in \(W\)-falsifiable lines of small weakening-free \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutations. This is an analogy, not a reduction: it has the shape of a critical-assignment structure theorem, like the width argument for resolution, or the closure of Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson for \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\), which is proved only for bottom-regular proofs and which meets the recorded subspace wall in general. No implication in either direction between the shielding question and a lower bound is shown. For the other direction, realizability can presumably only be relative, since polynomial-size refutations are conjectured not to exist: from a refutation \(\pi\), build \(\pi'\) of size polynomial in \(|\pi|\) whose ancestors of the empty clause contain an informative random tuple. The Observation blocks one obvious insertion. Adding a random form to a line \(K=C\vee(f=0)\) of \(\pi\) through a two-equation partner \((f=0)\vee(g=0)\) with dense \(g\) is informative only if that partner is itself \(W\)-falsifiable. General partners \(T'\vee(g=0)\) were not analyzed.

Assessment and next step

Shielding is now defined relative to a test set, and the recorded gadget and its hole-clause variant are shielded, by short checks. The question the review called cheap does not look cheap. In my assessment, deciding it in the direction that helps the route, that informative tuples in small refutations are structured, would take a critical-assignment structure theorem for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) of the kind the closure methods attempt, and I see no reason it would avoid the wall. So derivation structure does not appear to offer a shortcut past the window, and the inventory-based formulation with the thick calibration remains the working one. Together with the heuristic exclusion of weights and the wall for closure, the record currently contains no mechanism that looks likely to handle the window. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): secure what the recorded mechanisms do prove. The record has no end-to-end corollary of the low-or-dense exclusion, whose index entry notes that full-board and graph-restricted ranks are not identified. State a superpolynomial lower bound for ordinary unary PHP in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) for refutations whose lines satisfy a rank hypothesis stated on the proof itself, for example every line's forms spanning rank at most a small multiple of \(N\), after checking that the graph restriction and projection do not raise rank. Write it as a lemma naming one probability space and one graph, with the exact accounting.

Sheaf check

In my assessment, the natural candidate is the assignment of falsification sets to lines, evaluated on critical assignments, with Observation-type steps acting by intersection with \(\mathrm F_W(T')\). The good property a glued object would need, low rank of informative forms on small patches, is the structure question above, and gluing does not supply it.

Verification gate. Re-read the derivation review, including the gadget and the hole-clause variant, and the recorded Part–Tzameret rules. Searched the record for falsification sets, critical assignments and tautology resolution. The matches, switching and decision-tree rows such as the two-role switching theorem and the wide-rounds transfer, do not contain the Observation. No computation was run. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer confirmed the Observation in every case, including \(\alpha=0\) and \(\beta=0\). It rejected the draft's claim that new forms are informative only through two falsifiable premises, since that needs an induction and fails with weakening; that claim is now a conjecture-level extension. It corrected the three recorded cases, the counting case substantially. It required the hypotheses on \(W\), the field, weakening-freeness and ancestry to be stated, and the analogies and assessments to be labelled as such. All changes were adopted.

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Ternary Res(Lin) refutations need lines with many independent nonlocal forms

22 September 2026 · Working proof (composition of recorded results) · Extends the row- and column-local corollary to nonlocal dimension \(N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Ternary Res(Lin) refutations need lines with many independent nonlocal forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-low-nonlocal-dimension-endpoint.

Question. The shielding entry found no live mechanism for the ternary window and asked to secure what the recorded mechanisms prove end to end. The row- and column-local corollary is the only recorded \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) endpoint on this thread. It needs every equation form to be local. The quotient-rank exclusion allows sublinear nonlinear rank per block, but no proof-system statement was drawn from it. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. A plain bound on the linear rank of lines cannot be the hypothesis, because every row clause has rank \(N\). The right measure counts only forms whose selectors are not affine.

Statement

Call an affine form on the \((N+1)\)-by-\(N\) board local if, modulo the linear row equations, it is supported in a single row or a single column, constants included. For a line of a \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation, its nonlocal dimension is the dimension of the span of the linear parts of those of its equations \(L=0\) whose form \(L\) is not local.

Corollary ND. Fix \(0<\varepsilon\le1/2\) and \(K>0\). For all sufficiently large \(N\), ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{N+1}_N\) and its functional variant have no standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation with at most \(N^K\) lines in which every line has nonlocal dimension at most \(N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\). Clauses may have arbitrary width, and subproofs may be shared without a depth restriction.

Proof

Suppose such a refutation has \(S\le N^K\) lines. The complete-board transfer at \(p=3\) gives a complete accuracy-one selector source over the full functional linear-row PHP base, with at most \(S\) blocks, at most \(\binom{v+2}{2}\) inputs per block, \(v=N(N+1)\), all coefficient fields, and an ordinary PC refutation through \(D=11\). Each input is literally \(q=1-L^2\) for an equation \(L=0\) of the source line of its block: by the selector compiler that the transfer specializes, a block's inputs are a basis subset, chosen by compression, of the selectors of that one line, and resolution uses the premises' completed values without adding their selectors as inputs. So \(V_a\) below lies in the span of the line's selectors. Both variants of PHP land on the full functional linear-row base, which is the base of the quotient-rank theorem and of the affine classification, with the same degree-two consequence space \(I_2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\).

Fix a block \(a\). In the notation of the quotient-rank theorem, let \(V_a\) be the span of its selectors in \(Q_2=\mathcal P_{\le2}/I_2\), let \(A_a=V_a\cap\overline{\mathcal P_{\le1}}\), and \(r_a=\dim(V_a/A_a)\). Since \(A_a\) is the intersection of \(V_a\) with the affine classes, \(V_a/A_a\) embeds into \(Q_2/\overline{\mathcal P_{\le1}}\), so \(r_a\) is at most the dimension of the span of the selector images there.

For a local form \(L\), the affine classification (\(N\ge4\)) gives an affine \(A\) with \(1-L^2-A\in I_2\). Its image is zero.
For a nonlocal form, write \(L=\ell+c\) with \(\ell\) linear and \(c\) constant. Then \(1-L^2=(1-c^2-2c\ell)-\ell^2\), whose image is that of \(-\ell^2\). Here \(\ell\) lies in the span \(U\) of the nonlocal linear parts of the line, of dimension \(r\le N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\). Hence \(\ell^2\) lies in the span of the products \(u_su_t\) of a basis of \(U\), of dimension at most \(r(r+1)/2\).

So \(r_a\le r(r+1)/2\le N^{1-2\varepsilon}\) when \(r\ge1\), and \(r_a=0\) when \(r=0\). The inventory is polynomial, the degree \(11\) is polylogarithmic (after the rank-one step inside that theorem its ceiling is \(\max(D,7)=11\)), and \(0\le\sigma=1-2\varepsilon<1\). Initial clauses have local forms only and cost nothing. The quotient-rank theorem, with no logarithmic factor needed, excludes the PC refutation for sufficiently large \(N\), where "sufficiently large" depends on \(K\) and \(\varepsilon\). \(\square\)

Scope

The case of nonlocal dimension zero is the recorded row- and column-local corollary. The new content is that any polynomial-size refutation needs, in some line, more than \(N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\) independent nonlocal forms, regardless of how many local forms it contains.
The bound \(r(r+1)/2\) is where the square root enters. The theorem applies to any line through \(r_a\) itself; the corollary uses only the linear bound, to keep a hypothesis stated on the proof itself.
This does not touch the window. Lines with nonlocal dimension above \(N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\) remain open. Their \(r_a\) is not determined by the dimension: it can be small or as large as \(r(r+1)/2\).

Assessment and next step

This is a proof-system statement with a hypothesis on the proof itself. It moves the recorded endpoint from no nonlocal forms to \(N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\) independent ones per line, for every fixed \(\varepsilon>0\). It is a partial result, not progress on the window. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): this line has now had a route review, two negative tests of derivation structure and this consolidation. The derivation review and the window review leave no recorded mechanism for the window. Hold a route review of the whole odd-prime thread: compare continuing on the ternary window with a publishable write-up of the recorded partial endpoints, and with the thread's other route items.

Sheaf check

No gluing is involved: the corollary uses one common weight, through the quotient-rank theorem. No sheaf with a new property appeared.

Verification gate. Re-read the statements of the complete-board transfer, the affine classification with its necessity and sufficiency proof, the quotient-rank theorem with its basis conversion, and the recorded row- and column-local corollary with its source reduction. Before drafting, a fresh-context reviewer checked whether the record already implies the statement and found that it does not: the local corollary is the case \(r=0\), and the related row-remainder and occupancy theorems allow different perturbations. No computation was run. A second narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the proof, reading the selector compiler's inventory argument to confirm that block inputs come from one line only, and found no mathematical gap. It required the citation of that compiler, an explicit statement of the common base, and the removal of three overclaims in the scope: an unproved example of small quadratic span, an unproved graph version at \(\varepsilon=0\), and the range of the open case. All changes were adopted.

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Route review of the odd-prime thread: the partial endpoints are secured, and the ternary window has no recorded mechanism

22 September 2026 · Route review of the whole odd-prime thread · Recommends consolidating the partial endpoints before any further window attempt. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the odd-prime thread: the partial endpoints are secured, and the ternary window has no recorded mechanism”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-odd-prime-thread-route-review.

The line's general claim. The binary endpoint, the unrestricted \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) theorem, compiles every line into a complete block and excludes the whole source with one common weight on a separated graph. The thread's claim is that this route extends to \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) for every fixed odd prime \(p\). The compiler extends (complete-board transfer, degree \(4p-1\)). What the goal needs is the exclusion step for every polynomial inventory of complete accuracy-one blocks on selectors \(1-L^{p-1}\). Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, the highest-risk item; the other two items, composition bookkeeping and review, depend on it.

What is secured

All primes, affine inputs: the all-prime affine exclusion.
\(p=3\), proof-system endpoints: every form row- or column-local (local corollary); every nonlocal part of each line of dimension at most \(N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\) (Corollary ND).
All primes, source level: forms on at most \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows, \(\alpha<1/5\) (row-support exclusion, with its recorded restricted-query \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) consequence), with the probe and occupancy variants.
\(p=3\), source level on a separated graph: projected nonlinear rank at most about \(N/(4.4\times10^7)\) or at least \(Q_*=O(N^{3/2}\sqrt{\log N})\) (low-or-dense criterion), lowered to about \(N\log N\) for clique heads, with the dyadic band removed by additive elimination.

The source-level results on the graph are not yet proof-system statements, because graph-projected ranks are not identified with ranks on the proof.

Falsification attempts

Is the target easy? With onto axioms it is. Deriving the row sums \(\sum_jx_{ij}=1\) and the hole sums \(\sum_ix_{ij}=1\), and adding them, gives \(0=1\) over \(\mathbb F_p\) in polynomial size, because \(N+1\ne N\). This standard counting argument needs the onto axioms. Ordinary PHP only gives hole sums in \(\{0,1\}\), and a sum of \(N\) such values modulo \(p\) cannot be compared with \(N+1\) without tracking it beyond \(p\). The thread's window review found no cheap refutation of the thick inventory's source either. The target is therefore not refuted by counting.

Is the window an artifact of the method? Every tested line says no so far. Old-variable weights miss it heuristically: a sign ambiguity \(L\in\{1,2\}\) makes each block's false set a union of flats, so the Macaulay gain is quadratic in \(k\) like the separator's loss (ceiling, review). The only alignment found is a small-degree row collapse. Sign variables are definable. Mixtures and product designs reproduce the historical mixed-moment failure. Topological and sheaf objects reduced to recorded mechanisms (complex review, moment tower, matching sheaf). Closure along derivations meets the recorded subspace wall, and derivation structure does not appear to help. The two main uncertainties remain as the window review stated them: the semi-regular model and general position are heuristics, and proving them for random quadrics would touch the open Fröberg-type questions.

Assessment of this line

The binary route extends as far as the flat structure of the false sets allows, and stops where the sign ambiguity starts. Within the thread, progress in the last two days has been partial endpoints and precise obstructions, not movement on the window. The evidence against old-variable weights in the window is heuristic but consistent, and no recorded mechanism of another kind survives testing. The prospects of the window, by the methods in the record, are weak. The partial endpoints are real and currently scattered across entries and levels (source or proof system, graph or complete board).

Next step on the highest-risk item

Route item odd-prime-clause-transfer remains the highest risk, and no cycle on the window is proposed until a new mechanism is named. The next step consolidates, under route item scope-and-review: state in one place every proof-system consequence the recorded source exclusions give for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\), with exact hypotheses stated on the proof. That means the local corollary, Corollary ND and the recorded row-support consequence, checked for mutual implications and combined where a line may mix their hypotheses. Record which graph-level statements do not yet have one. A new window attempt is worth a cycle only if it names a mechanism that is not an old-variable weight, a closure along derivations or a gluing of local designs, and tests it first on the thick inventory.

Sheaf check

Across the thread, every glued object tried (the block complex, the moment tower, the matching sheaf, the falsification-set presheaf) either computes the recorded PC data or needs a structure theorem that gluing does not supply. No sheaf with a vanishing property beyond the recorded mechanisms has appeared. A new one would have to handle the sign ambiguity itself. A double cover by sign variables does not, since the window review showed those variables are definable at degree two, and none is proposed here.

Verification gate. Re-read the living sections, the window and derivation reviews, the index rows of every cited endpoint, and the thread's literature screen. The onto counting argument is standard and was not searched separately. No computation was run. No reviewer was used, since the entry states no new result beyond the counting remark.

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The recorded odd-prime Res(Lin) endpoints form three incomparable classes, and mixing them across lines is open

22 September 2026 · Consolidation with separating examples · Three incomparable proof-line classes; no statement covers refutations mixing them. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The recorded odd-prime Res(Lin) endpoints form three incomparable classes, and mixing them across lines is open”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-odd-prime-endpoint-consolidation.

Question. The thread route review asked to state in one place every proof-system consequence of the recorded source exclusions, with hypotheses on the proof, and to check mutual implications. Route item: scope-and-review. Throughout, the object is ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\), and the recorded functional variants are noted where they are stated. "Superpolynomial" means that for every \(K\), refutations with at most \(n^K\) lines are excluded for large \(n\). Forms are taken modulo the linear row equations. All four results below compile through the complete-board or weak-base transfer, whose block inputs are selectors of one line.

The recorded classes

Remainder class, every fixed \(p\) (sublinear row-remainder exclusion). Fix \(\alpha<1\). Each line has at most \(c_0\log_pn\) affine probes \(U_j\), and each of its forms is \(\ell+\sum_jb_jU_j\) with \(\ell\) supported on at most \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows. The probes may differ between lines. This contains the row-support and log-probe classes.
Nonlocal-dimension class, \(p=3\) (Corollary ND). Fix \(\varepsilon>0\). In each line, the forms that are not row- or column-local span dimension at most \(n^{1/2-\varepsilon}\). This contains the local corollary, the case of dimension zero.
Occupancy class, every fixed \(p\), weak base (occupancy-shifted columns). Each form is a global affine column-occupancy statistic plus an arbitrary perturbation inside one column. Statistics and columns may differ between forms.

Mutual relations

The three classes are pairwise incomparable. The separating lines are elementary. In each, the property shown is the one the other class needs, checked against its definition.

ND but not remainder. A line with \(n^{0.4}\) independent random dense forms over all cells has nonlocal dimension \(n^{0.4}\), which is within ND for \(\varepsilon<0.1\). For the remainder class, the forms modulo any \(O(\log n)\) probes span a space of dimension at least \(n^{0.4}-O(\log n)\). With high probability each such residual still involves almost every row.
Remainder but not ND. Take the forms \(x_{1,j}+x_{2,j+1}\), \(j=1,\dots,n-1\). Each reads two rows, so it lies in the remainder class with no probes. None is local: it has two rows and two different columns, and reducing modulo the row equations changes neither. They are independent, so the nonlocal dimension is \(n-1\).
Occupancy versus the others. A line whose forms are distinct column-occupancy statistics, independent in number \(n^{0.9}\), lies in the occupancy class. It is outside ND because its nonlocal dimension is too large. It is outside the remainder class when the statistics involve most rows and are independent beyond \(O(\log n)\) probes. Conversely, random dense forms lie in neither the occupancy class nor its perturbations.

Within the classes, the local corollary is the dimension-zero case of ND. The remainder class with \(t=0\) and one row contains the row-local forms. Column-local forms lie in ND at no cost. In the remainder class each counts as a probe, so a line may contain only \(O(\log n)\) independent column-local forms.

What is not covered

Mixing across lines. Each result assumes its hypothesis for every line of the refutation. A refutation whose lines fall into different classes, some in the remainder class and some in ND, is covered by none of them. The exclusion mechanisms differ: the remainder class uses a matching restriction, switching and a reader coefficient map, while ND uses one weight through the quotient-rank theorem. Combining them would need one design that handles both kinds of block. A matching restriction is compatible with a common weight in the graph construction, which suggests a combined statement may be within reach. That is untested.
Graph-level statements. The low-or-dense criterion and its clique extension are stated on graph-projected ranks. They have no proof-system form, because projection can lower rank and the dense side is not inherited from the proof.
The window itself. Lines with many independent nonlocal forms spread over many rows, in number beyond \(n^{1/2}\) and beyond logarithmically many probes, fall under none of the classes.

Assessment and next step

The recorded proof-system endpoints are three incomparable classes. None of them states that a refutation may mix classes across lines, and that is the most direct strengthening available from the recorded mechanisms. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test whether ND and the remainder class combine. Every block in a mixed inventory is either of ND type (nonlocal quotient rank at most \(n^{1-2\varepsilon}\)) or of remainder type. Check whether the matching restriction of the remainder proof preserves the quotient-rank hypothesis of the ND blocks, and whether the quotient-rank theorem's weight survives on the restricted board. The smallest nonvacuous inventory has one block of each type. The count to make first is the degree budget: \(sD_*=n^{\alpha+o(1)}\) for the remainder blocks against the quotient-rank theorem's degree requirement on the restricted board of size \(N=n^\beta\).

Sheaf check

The mixing question is a gluing question in the literal sense. There are two local exclusion mechanisms, each valid on its class of blocks, and the task is to glue them over one inventory. It is the first gluing problem on this thread where both local pieces are proved theorems. Whether they glue depends on the common restriction, which is the next step's test.

Verification gate. Re-read the statements of the four cited theorems and their proof-system consequences in the notebook: the sublinear-remainder statement with its compression, the row-support consequence, the occupancy index row, and Corollary ND. The separating examples were checked against each definition in the text. No claim search beyond the thread's own endpoint rows was needed, since nothing new is stated. No computation was run. No reviewer was used, since the entry adds no result.

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Refutations mixing row-support lines and low-nonlocal-dimension lines are still excluded

22 September 2026 · Working proof (one combined replay of recorded maps) · Mixed endpoint for row support \(n^{\alpha}\), \(\alpha<1/5\), and nonlocal dimension \(n^\eta\), \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Refutations mixing row-support lines and low-nonlocal-dimension lines are still excluded”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-mixed-remainder-nonlocal-endpoint.

Question. The consolidation found the recorded proof-system classes pairwise incomparable, and no statement covering refutations whose lines fall into different classes. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. This cycle tests whether the row-support class and the nonlocal-dimension class combine. The two exclusions use different mechanisms: a matching restriction with switching and an old-only reader map, and a common weight on a robust graph. The question is whether one replay can use both. The recorded precedent of a failed composition, the heavy-round composition gap, concerned two switching arguments on different families. Here only one switching argument is used.

Statement

Forms are taken modulo the linear row equations, and "local" and "nonlocal dimension" are as in Corollary ND.

Proposition MX. Fix \(0\le\alpha<1/5\), \(0\le\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\) and \(K>0\). For all sufficiently large \(n\), ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) and its functional variant have no standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation with at most \(n^K\) lines in which every line satisfies at least one of:

every equation form of the line is supported on at most \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows, with a fixed logarithmic exponent;
the line has nonlocal dimension at most \(n^\eta\).

Different lines may satisfy different alternatives.

Proof

Parameters. Choose fixed \(\beta\) and \(\sigma\) with \[ \max(\alpha,2\eta)<\beta<\frac{1-\alpha}4,\qquad \frac{2\eta}{\beta}<\sigma<1 , \] which is possible because \(\alpha<1/5\) and \(2\eta<(1-\alpha)/4\). Put \(N=\lceil n^\beta\rceil\) and fix an integer \(s>2K/(1-\alpha-4\beta)\). The polylogarithmic factor of \(R\) is absorbed into the \(o(1)\) of the switching exponent, and "sufficiently large" depends on \(\alpha\), \(\eta\), \(K\) and that fixed polylogarithmic exponent.

Compilation. The complete-board transfer gives at most \(n^K\) complete accuracy-one blocks over the full functional linear-row base on the \((n+1)\)-by-\(n\) board, with an ordinary PC refutation \(\Pi\) through \(D=11\). By the selector compiler, a block's inputs are selectors \(q=1-L^2\) of equations of one line. Call a block of type (i) or (ii) according to an alternative its line satisfies, choosing (i) when both hold.

Row-local expansion, charged to the axioms only. For each input of a type-(i) block, (RL-expansion) of the row-local expansion lemma gives an exact coefficient-one sum \(G\) of pairwise incompatible matching terms with \(q-G\in I_C\), where \(C=\max(2,R,1)\) and \(R=n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\). The source is not replaced. The identity is used only below, to certify axiom images.

One restriction. Apply the empty-aware switching estimate, exactly as in the row-support exclusion, to the ordered disjunctions of the terms of the type-(i) blocks only. Their term width is at most \(\max(1,R)\), and there are at most \(n^K\) of them. With these parameters, a uniform partial matching leaving an \((N+1)\)-by-\(N\) board gives every type-(i) block a residual tree of height below \(s\), except with probability \(o(1)\). Fix such a restriction \(\rho\). It is a ring map sending the old functional axioms of the large board to old axioms of the residual board or to zero, as in that proof, so every old certificate survives with its degree.

Type-(ii) blocks after \(\rho\). Restriction is affine on forms. A row-local form becomes row-local or constant, a column-local form becomes column-local or constant, and the span of the images of the nonlocal linear parts has dimension at most \(n^\eta\). So, exactly as in the proof of Corollary ND on the residual functional board (\(N\ge4\)), every type-(ii) block has certified nonlinear quotient rank \(r_a\le n^{2\eta}\le N^{\sigma}\) for large \(n\). Apply the quotient-rank theorem's degree-certified basis conversion and rank-one representation to the type-(ii) blocks only. This rewrites the proof with ceiling \(\max(D,7)=11\), which is the \(D\) used below. The conversion is blockwise, its certificates are over the old residual base, and type-(i) axioms pass through it unchanged. The type-(ii) coefficient images below are the linear pull-back \(r_i=\sum_j\beta_{ji}t_j\) composed with the semantic map. The rank condition is needed after the graph restriction and row projection. As in the quotient-rank theorem, restriction and projection do not increase the number of nonlinear basis positions, so the power-range parameters are bottom exponent \(0\) and parent exponent \(\sigma\), with \(0+\sigma<1\).

Graph and weight. On the residual board choose a robust graph and row projection as in the power-range corollary, and restrict \(\Pi\) further to it. The converted type-(ii) blocks form a two-level source with bottom rank at most one and parent quotient rank at most \(N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\). The two-level semantic map for these blocks alone gives one weight \(f\) of degree at most \(k=N^{1/2}\operatorname{polylog}N\) and coefficient images of degree at most \(T=O(N^{1/2}\operatorname{polylog}N+N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N)\). Every weighted companion and field image of these blocks is certified through \(Te+k\) and \(3T+k\) (its step 4). The weight \(f\) and its degree \(k\) are built only from the parent affine cores and unused bottom tuples of the converted type-(ii) blocks, an inventory of at most \(n^K=N^{K/\beta}\) blocks, polynomial in \(N\). Type-(i) blocks add no cores, and the graph does not depend on them.

Type-(i) coefficient map. For a type-(i) block, the complete matching-reader interface on its residual tree of height \(t<s\), applied to its expanded inputs \(g_i=\rho(G_i)\) of degree at most \(R\), gives old polynomials \(v,\beta_i\) of degree at most \(t\) with \[ 1-v-\sum_i\beta_ig_i\in\mathcal I_{t+R},\qquad g_iv\in\mathcal I_{t+R},\qquad \beta_i^3-\beta_i\in\mathcal I_{3t}. \] Map the original coefficient \(r_i\) of input \(q_i\) to \(\beta_i\). Write \(\bar q_i=\rho(q_i)\). The product image is \(1-\sum_i\beta_i\bar q_i=v+(1-v-\sum_i\beta_ig_i)+\sum_i\beta_i(g_i-\bar q_i)\), and \(g_i-\bar q_i\in\mathcal I_C\). Therefore each companion image satisfies \[ \bar q_i\Bigl(1-\sum_j\beta_j\bar q_j\Bigr)=g_iv+(\bar q_i-g_i)v+\bar q_i\Bigl[(1-v-\textstyle\sum_j\beta_jg_j)+\sum_j\beta_j(g_j-\bar q_j)\Bigr]\in\mathcal I_{C+t+2}, \] since \(C\ge R\) and \(\bar q_i\) has degree two. Field images lie in \(\mathcal I_{3t}\). These are ideal memberships over the old residual base. The graph restriction is a ring map on the old axioms, and the affine row projection \(\Psi\) of the projection lemma maps every old graph axiom to one with an old projected proof through degree two. Applying both to \(v\), the \(\beta_i\) and every membership keeps them over the projected base \(\Gamma'_H\) with the same degrees, and PC proofs over \(\Gamma'_H\) with ceiling at least two lift back to \(\Gamma_H\).

One replay. Substitute all coefficient variables of \(\Pi\) by their images: the type-(ii) images of degree at most \(T\), and the type-(i) images of degree at most \(t<s\). Multiply every line by \(f\). Work over \(\Gamma'_H\), as in step 4 of the semantic map. That step certifies each axiom image separately, and the only fact it uses about the base is that weighted old projected graph axioms are legal multiples. Separation holds against the old graph ideal, not only Booleanity. So axioms whose images are old-ideal members, rather than zero on the whole cube, are admissible. The type-(ii) axiom images are certified by that step. A type-(i) axiom image lies in \(\mathcal I_{C+t+2}\), so its weighted multiple is derivable through \(C+t+2+k\). The substituted proof derives \(f\) over the old graph base through \[ B=\max\bigl(\max(T,s)D,\ C+s+2\bigr)+k=O\bigl(N^{1/2}\operatorname{polylog}N+N^{\sigma}\operatorname{polylog}N+n^{\alpha}\operatorname{polylog}n\bigr). \] Since \(\sigma<1\) and \(n^\alpha=N^{\alpha/\beta}\) with \(\alpha/\beta<1\), this is \(o(N)\), so \(B\le N/10^6\) for large \(n\), inside the graph's linear separation range. Separation is needed through \(B\), not through the map theorem's \(TD+k\). This is why step 4 is rerun here, instead of citing the map theorem or the power-range corollary as a black box. Lifting the projected proof back to the graph base contradicts separation. \(\square\)

Scope

It recovers the \(\mathbb F_3\) Res(Lin) consequence of the row-support exclusion (only type-(i) lines), though not that theorem's polylogarithmic-degree PC statement over every prime, and Corollary ND in a weaker range (\(\eta<1/8\) instead of \(1/2\)). The loss is the restriction to a board of size \(n^\beta\), \(\beta<1/4\), which the switching step needs.
The replay differs from the row-support proof: it uses the original degree-eleven proof and charges the expansion cost \(C\) to the axiom images only, instead of replaying a converted proof at degree \(\max(D,2C+1)\). Charging \(C\) to the axioms keeps \(B\) additive, of order \(11T+C+k\). Replaying the converted proof at degree \(\max(D,2C+1)\) would give about \(N^{1/2}n^\alpha\), which can exceed \(N\).
The probe and sublinear-remainder refinements (\(\alpha<1\)) and the occupancy class are not included. Their mechanisms add a preliminary restriction or a column freezing, whose interaction with the weight was not checked.
This is still a restricted class. A line with many independent nonlocal forms spread over many rows lies in neither alternative.

Assessment and next step

The first gluing of two proved local mechanisms on this thread succeeds: a restriction chosen for one class and a weight chosen for the other coexist in one replay, because the old-only reader images of the first class become weighted multiples of old consequences, at a cost \(C+t+2+k\) that fits the weight's separation range since \(n^\alpha=o(N)\). The price is the smaller board. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test whether the sublinear-remainder refinement, with its preliminary restriction and logarithmically many probes per line, combines in the same way. That would give \(\alpha<1\) for type (i). Then assess whether mixing within one line, with some forms of each kind, is reachable by splitting the block's inputs. The window itself is unchanged.

Sheaf check

This is a genuine gluing with a good property: two local exclusion mechanisms, each proved on its class of blocks, glue along one restriction and one weight, and the glued object excludes the mixed source. What made it glue is that one mechanism's local sections, the reader images, lie in the old ideal. They are therefore compatible with a weight whose separation range contains their cost \(C+t+2+k\). That property is specific to old-only maps, so it does not suggest a way to glue two weighted mechanisms, which is what the window would need.

Verification gate. Re-read the statement and proof of the row-local expansion lemma, the row-support exclusion with its switching parameters, the empty-aware reader interface (EH-profile), the quotient-rank conversion, and steps 2 to 5 of the two-level semantic map with its power-range corollary. Before drafting, a fresh-context reviewer checked the record and found no statement covering mixed inventories. It noted the heavy-round composition gap as a precedent, which concerns two switching arguments and does not apply here. No computation was run. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer attacked the parameters, the replay degree, the type-(i) map on unconverted inputs, the reader interface after restriction, the compatibility with the weighted replay, and the type-(ii) rank after restriction. Its verdict: the proof holds with fixes, and no mathematical gap was found. Its required changes were all adopted: the row projection and lifting, explicit use of step 4 against the old graph ideal, separation through \(B\), the concrete inventory behind the weight, the order of conversion and rank checks, the dependence of "sufficiently large", and three scope and wording corrections.

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The mixed exclusion extends to every sublinear row-remainder exponent with logarithmically many probes

22 September 2026 · Working proof (one combined replay of recorded maps) · Proposition MX′: \(\alpha<1\) with \(O(\log n)\) probes per line, nonlocal dimension \(n^\eta\), \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The mixed exclusion extends to every sublinear row-remainder exponent with logarithmically many probes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-mixed-probe-remainder-endpoint.

Question. Proposition MX excluded refutations mixing row-support lines, with \(\alpha<1/5\), and lines of nonlocal dimension at most \(n^\eta\). Its next step asked whether the sublinear row-remainder exclusion, with a preliminary restriction and logarithmically many probes per line, combines with the weight in the same single replay. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The test is whether its probe interpolation is a coefficient substitution whose images the weighted replay accepts. It is: the recorded map (PL-map) substitutes \(r_i\mapsto\sum_u\chi_uR_{u,i}\) with exact identities.

Statement

Proposition MX′. Fix \(0\le\alpha<1\), \(0\le\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\), and constants \(c_0,K>0\). For all sufficiently large \(n\), ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) and its functional variant have no standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation with at most \(n^K\) lines in which every line satisfies at least one of:

there are old affine probes \(U_1,\dots,U_t\), \(t\le c_0\log_3n\), depending on the line, such that every equation form \(L\) of the line satisfies \(L\equiv\ell+\sum_jb_jU_j\) modulo the row equations, with \(\ell\) supported on at most \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows (fixed logarithmic exponent);
the line has nonlocal dimension at most \(n^\eta\).

With no probes and \(\alpha<1/5\), this is Proposition MX.

Proof

The proof is that of Proposition MX, with the type-(i) handling replaced by the sublinear-remainder route. Compilation, the graph, the weight, the projection and the single weighted replay through step 4 of the two-level semantic map are as there.

Parameters. Choose fixed \(\beta_1,\beta_2,\sigma\) with \[ \beta_1<1-\alpha,\qquad \beta_2<\tfrac14,\qquad 2\eta<\beta_1\beta_2\sigma,\qquad \sigma<1, \] possible because \(2\eta<(1-\alpha)/4\). Put \(n_1=\lceil n^{\beta_1}\rceil\) and \(N=\lceil n_1^{\beta_2}\rceil\). Fix integers \(m>C/(1-\alpha-\beta_1)\), with \(C\) the exponent of the support count below, and \(s>2(K+c_0)/(\beta_1(1-4\beta_2))\). "Sufficiently large" depends on \(\alpha,\eta,c_0,K\) and the fixed polylogarithmic exponent.

Order of operations. Compression of the type-(i) blocks; the first restriction \(\rho_1\); the probe interpolation on the \(n_1\)-board; row-local expansion of the branch inputs; the second restriction \(\rho_2\); the type-(ii) conversion on the final board; graph restriction and row projection \(\Psi\); and last, the substitution of the branch coefficients by reader polynomials and the weighted replay.

Compression and first restriction. Apply the sublinear-remainder proof's compression to type-(i) blocks only: each keeps a basis of actual selector positions, and the nonselected coefficients are set to zero as part of the substitution. Since the kept inputs are actual selectors, the probe representation is preserved, and the number of local support sets is at most \(n^C\) for a fixed \(C\). Without compression this count would fail, because a line may list unboundedly many equations. By (RT-tail) and the union bound, one uniform partial matching \(\rho_1\) leaving an \((n_1+1)\)-by-\(n_1\) board leaves fewer than \(m\) live rows in every local remainder \(\ell\) of every type-(i) input, since \(n^Cn^{-m(1-\alpha-\beta_1)+o(1)}=o(1)\). The representation (i) becomes a certified identity modulo the residual row equations, with the same number of probes. Type-(ii) blocks keep nonlocal dimension at most \(n^\eta\), as in MX.

Probe interpolation. For each type-(i) block, the log-probe map (PL-map) introduces, for each \(u\in\mathbb F_3^t\), a branch tuple \(q_{u,i}=1-(\ell_i+\sum_jb_{i,j}u_j)^2\) with formal coefficients \(R_{u,i}\), and sets \(\Phi(r_i)=\sum_u\chi_uR_{u,i}\), where \(\chi_u\) is the residue indicator of degree \(d=2t=O(\log n)\). The exact identities (PL-companion) and (PL-fields) express every original companion and field image as old-ideal terms plus \(\chi_u\) or \(\chi_u^3\) times branch companions or branch fields, through \(d+5\) and \(3d+3\). These are memberships in the ring that includes the formal \(R_{u,i}\). There are \(3^t\le n^{c_0}\) branches per block. A branch input that has become constant is handled per branch: coefficient zero for a zero selector, and the unit map (coefficient one on it, zero on the others) for a unit selector, whose branch companions then vanish exactly.

Second restriction and reader maps. Each nonconstant branch input reads fewer than \(m\) rows modulo rows. Row-local expansion gives \(q_{u,i}-G_{u,i}\in\mathcal I_C\) with \(C=\max(2,m-1)\), a constant. Apply the empty-aware switching estimate on the \((n_1+1)\)-by-\(n_1\) board, with local exponent zero and term width below \(m\), to the branch disjunctions only. There are at most \(n^K3^t\le n_1^{(K+c_0)/\beta_1}\) of them. By the choice of \(s\), a matching \(\rho_2\) leaving \((N+1)\)-by-\(N\) gives every branch a residual tree of height below \(s\), with probability \(1-o(1)\). Extend \(\rho_2\) to fix the formal \(R_{u,i}\). The identity \(\sum_u\chi_u=1\) is a polynomial identity, so it survives every ring map. The memberships \(E_{u,i}\in\mathcal I_{d+2}\), the witnesses for \(\chi_u^3-\chi_u\) and the expansion identities are old-ideal memberships. They are carried with their degrees by \(\rho_2\), which sends old axioms to old axioms or zero, by the graph restriction and by \(\Psi\), and projected proofs through degree two lift back. The reader interface on the final base gives old polynomials \(\beta_{u,i}\) of degree below \(s\), with every branch companion image in \(\mathcal I_{C+s+2}\) and every branch field image in \(\mathcal I_{3s}\), by MX's computation applied to the branch tuples.

Composite images. Substituting \(R_{u,i}\mapsto\beta_{u,i}\) last is a ring map fixing old generators. Each original type-(i) coefficient receives the old image \(\sum_u\chi_u\beta_{u,i}\), of degree at most \(d+s\). In (PL-companion) the term \(q_i\Delta\) becomes \(-q_i\sum_{u,j}\beta_{u,j}E_{u,j}\in\mathcal I_{d+s+4}\), the term \(\sum_uE_{u,i}P_u\) becomes a member of \(\mathcal I_{d+s+4}\), and \(\sum_u\chi_u(q_{u,i}P_u)\) becomes a member of \(\mathcal I_{d+C+s+2}\). By (PL-fields), field images lie in \(\mathcal I_{3d+3s}\).

Replay. The type-(ii) blocks are converted on the final residual board after both restrictions, as in MX. Restriction and projection do not increase the number of nonlinear basis positions, so the only rank check needed is \(n^{2\eta}\le N^\sigma\), which holds for large \(n\) by the choice \(2\eta<\beta_1\beta_2\sigma\). Over the projected graph base on the final board, multiply by the common weight of the type-(ii) blocks. The type-(ii) images are certified by step 4 of the semantic map, and the type-(i) images are weighted multiples of old-ideal members. With \(T=O(N^{1/2}\operatorname{polylog}N+N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N)\) for the type-(ii) map, the replay derives the weight through \[ B=\max(T,d+s)\cdot11+\max(d+C+s+2,\ 3d+3s)+k=o(N), \] since \(\sigma<1\) and \(d=O(\log n)=O(\log N)\). This contradicts separation. \(\square\)

Scope

MX′ recovers the \(\mathbb F_3\) Res(Lin) consequence of the sublinear-remainder exclusion (only type-(i) lines), not that theorem's polylogarithmic-degree PC statement over every prime. It extends Proposition MX from \(\alpha<1/5\) to \(\alpha<1\), with probes. Type (ii) keeps MX's reduced range \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\), not Corollary ND's \(\eta<1/2\), and it shrinks as \(\alpha\) grows.
The occupancy class is still not included, and one line may not mix the two alternatives among its forms.
The window is untouched: a line with many independent nonlocal forms spread over most rows lies in neither alternative.

Assessment and next step

The combined replay absorbs the probe interpolation, because that interpolation is a coefficient substitution with exact identities, at the price of a second restriction that shrinks the board to \(n^{\beta_1\beta_2}\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), and in the reduced range \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\), the recorded proof-system classes other than occupancy now glue across lines. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): mixing within a line. A line whose forms split into a type-(i) part and a low-nonlocal part gives one block whose inputs are of both kinds. Test whether a block-splitting identity separates such a block into a probe-and-remainder part and a quotient-rank part at a controlled degree. Test it first on the smallest mixed block, one row-remainder input and one dense input.

Sheaf check

The gluing across lines now covers the row-remainder, probe and nonlocal-dimension classes treated here. What made the type-(i) sections glue is that their certificates reach the old ideal, and for the probe classes only after the second substitution \(R\mapsto\beta\); before it they involve formal branch coefficients. A gluing inside one block would need the two local mechanisms to share coefficient variables, which is a different and harder compatibility.

Verification gate. Re-read Proposition MX and its review, the sublinear-remainder proof (RT-tail and the order of operations), the log-probe map with (PL-map), (PL-companion) and (PL-fields), and the switching parameters at local exponent zero. No computation was run. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer attacked the parameters, the switching union bound over branch blocks, the order of the restrictions, the composite substitution and its identities, and the final degree. Its verdict: the proof holds with fixes, with no mathematical gap found. Its required changes were all adopted: an explicit \(s\) and live-row bound \(m\), the compression step, the order of operations and the ring-map facts, constant branch inputs, the explicit type-(i) degree, where the type-(ii) conversion happens, and scope, assessment and sheaf wording.

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Preparation and checkpoint work	5.82 s
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Lines mixing remainder forms and low-nonlocal forms are still excluded: the block product splits

22 September 2026 · Working proof (product split in one weighted replay) · Proposition MX″: each line's equations split into a probe-and-remainder part and a part of nonlocal dimension \(n^\eta\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Lines mixing remainder forms and low-nonlocal forms are still excluded: the block product splits”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-within-line-mixed-endpoint.

Question. Proposition MX′ lets different lines satisfy different alternatives. Its next step asked for mixing within one line, where one block has inputs of both kinds and a single product \(P\). Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The obstruction named there is that both parts share \(P\), so the two coefficient maps cannot be chosen independently. The idea tested here is to scale one part's coefficients by the other part's product image, so that \(P\) factors. This is the device of the packed product (LPF-value) in the two-level semantic map, whose first row carries the affine-core product times a bin product.

Statement

Proposition MX″. Fix \(0\le\alpha<1\), \(0\le\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\), and constants \(c_0,K>0\). For all sufficiently large \(n\), ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) and its functional variant have no standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation with at most \(n^K\) lines in which the equations of every line split into two sets \(\mathcal A\) and \(\mathcal B\) such that:

for some old affine probes \(U_1,\dots,U_t\), \(t\le c_0\log_3n\), depending on the line, every form in \(\mathcal A\) is, modulo the row equations, a combination of the probes plus a remainder on at most \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows (fixed logarithmic exponent);
the subtuple \(\mathcal B\) has nonlocal dimension at most \(n^\eta\), as defined in Corollary ND: its equations whose forms are not row- or column-local have linear parts spanning dimension at most \(n^\eta\).

Taking \(\mathcal A\) or \(\mathcal B\) empty in every line gives Proposition MX′.

The product split

Consider one complete accuracy-one block with inputs \(q_i\), \(i\in\mathcal A\), and \(q_j\), \(j\in\mathcal B\), coefficients \(r\), and \[ P=1-\sum_{i\in\mathcal A}r_iq_i-\sum_{j\in\mathcal B}r_jq_j . \] Let \(\Theta\) map the \(\mathcal B\)-coefficients to their images under MX′'s type-(ii) map applied to the subtuple \(\mathcal B\) alone. Write \(P_{\mathcal B}\) for the resulting image of \(1-\sum_{\mathcal B}r_jq_j\). The two-level parent is the \(\mathcal B\)-subtuple alone, as a complete accuracy-one block, so one row carries all its nonlinear factors and \(P_{\mathcal B}\) is the full packed product (LPF-value) up to the conversion error below. The weight \(f\) is built from the affine cores of the \(\mathcal B\)-subtuples only; \(\mathcal A\)-inputs never enter a parent. The quotient-rank conversion, its error \(E\) with \(\varphi(1-\sum_{\mathcal B}r_jq_j)=P_f+E\), and the new bottom blocks of the rank-one representation depend only on \(\mathcal B\)-data: the pull-back is linear in the \(\mathcal B\)-coefficients, and bottom companions vanish on the whole cube independently of the parent. Let \(\gamma_i\) be the images of the \(\mathcal A\)-coefficients under MX′'s type-(i) composite map applied to the subtuple \(\mathcal A\) alone, and \(P_{\mathcal A}=1-\sum_{\mathcal A}\gamma_iq_i\). Define \[ \Theta(r_i)=P_{\mathcal B}\,\gamma_i\quad(i\in\mathcal A). \] Then, exactly, \[ \Theta(P)=P_{\mathcal B}-P_{\mathcal B}\sum_{i\in\mathcal A}\gamma_iq_i=P_{\mathcal B}\,P_{\mathcal A}. \tag{SPLIT} \] Now the axiom images, all under the final restrictions, graph restriction and projection, are as follows.

\(\mathcal B\)-companions. \(q_j\Theta(P)=(q_jP_{\mathcal B})P_{\mathcal A}\). In MX′, \(f\,q_jP_{\mathcal B}\) equals a polynomial vanishing on the whole Boolean cube (the step-4 packed image, by the pointwise argument of that step) plus an old-ideal member carrying the conversion error \(E\) and the replacement of \(q_j\) by its converted input modulo the row equations. Multiplying both by \(P_{\mathcal A}\) keeps the first vanishing on the cube, certified by Boolean division, and the second in the old ideal. The degree is MX′'s \(\mathcal B\)-certificate degree, including \(E\), plus \(\deg P_{\mathcal A}\le d+s+2\).
\(\mathcal A\)-companions. \(q_i\Theta(P)=P_{\mathcal B}\,(q_iP_{\mathcal A})\). MX′ certifies \(q_iP_{\mathcal A}\) in the old ideal through \(D_{\mathcal A}=\max(d+C+s+2,\,d+s+4)\). Multiplying by \(P_{\mathcal B}\) and \(f\) keeps it in the old ideal, through \(D_{\mathcal A}+\deg P_{\mathcal B}+k\).
\(\mathcal B\)-fields are unchanged from MX′.
\(\mathcal A\)-fields. \(P_{\mathcal B}\gamma_i\) is an \(\mathbb F_3\)-polynomial in Boolean old variables, so \((P_{\mathcal B}\gamma_i)^3-P_{\mathcal B}\gamma_i\) vanishes on the whole cube pointwise. Boolean division certifies it through \(3(T+1+d+s)\), with no weight needed.

Here \(\deg P_{\mathcal B}\le T+1\) and \(\deg\gamma_i\le d+s\), in the notation of MX′.

Proof of MX″

Run the proof of MX′ with each block's inputs divided into its \(\mathcal A\)- and \(\mathcal B\)-subtuples. The compression basis for type (i) is chosen inside the \(\mathcal A\)-subtuple, so nonselected \(\mathcal A\)-inputs are combinations of selected ones and their companions are combinations of certified \(\mathcal A\)-companions. The unit-selector branch map acts within \(P_{\mathcal A}\) only. An equation whose form fits both parts is assigned to one of them, and the split is a fixed partition of the line's equations, so no input is counted twice. The first restriction, the probe interpolation, the second restriction and the reader maps act on the \(\mathcal A\)-subtuples. The switching union bound counts at most \(n^K3^t\) branch disjunctions, as before. The type-(ii) rank check, conversion and weight act on the \(\mathcal B\)-subtuples, whose inventory is again at most \(n^K\) blocks. Restriction does not increase the nonlocal dimension of a \(\mathcal B\)-subtuple and keeps local forms local. The two subtuple maps are the ones MX′ uses. The quotient-rank conversion of a \(\mathcal B\)-subtuple is the linear pull-back on the \(\mathcal B\)-coefficients only, and its product identity holds for the partial product \(1-\sum_{\mathcal B}r_jq_j\), since it is linear in those coefficients. Combine them by (SPLIT). Every coefficient image has degree at most \(T+1+d+s\). Every weighted axiom image is certified as above. The replay derives the weight through \(B\) at most the maximum of: \(11(T+1+d+s)+k\) for the replayed lines; \(D_{\mathcal A}+T+1+k\) for \(\mathcal A\)-companions; MX′'s \(\mathcal B\)-certificate degree plus \(d+s+2\) for \(\mathcal B\)-companions; and \(3(T+1+d+s)\) for \(\mathcal A\)-fields. Each is \(o(N)\), with \(T=O(N^{1/2}\operatorname{polylog}N+N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N)\) and \(d=O(\log N)\). This contradicts separation. \(\square\)

Scope

MX″ contains MX and MX′. In each line, forms may be of three kinds: probe-and-remainder forms (remainders on \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows, \(\alpha<1\) fixed, plus \(O(\log n)\) shared probes), row- and column-local forms (free), and at most \(n^\eta\) further independent nonlocal directions, with \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\). It is incomparable with Corollary ND, which allows \(\eta<1/2\) without remainders, and with the occupancy class.
The occupancy class is still not included.
The window is untouched: a line needing many independent directions spread over most rows, beyond logarithmically many probes, satisfies neither part.

Assessment and next step

Within-line mixing of the two kinds costs only an additive degree, because the block product splits exactly under a scaled substitution. The limits of the combined class are the occupancy class, which is not included; the reduced range \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\) instead of Corollary ND's \(1/2\); and the restriction to \(\mathbb F_3\). Splitting does not reach the window. Every \(\mathcal B\)-part carries its own affine-core product, of degree at least about \(N^{1/2}\operatorname{polylog}N\), and a part of quotient rank near \(N^\sigma\) costs \(N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\). So only \(o(N^{1/2})\) parts fit the budget, with total nonlocal rank far below the \(\Theta(N)\) of a random dense window block. Only a two-part split is proved in any case. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test whether the occupancy class's column freezing on the weak base is compatible with the weighted replay. That is the last recorded class outside the combined statement. If it is not, or once it is done, the thread's remaining work is the window, for which no mechanism is named, and a route review should decide whether to pause the thread.

Sheaf check

(SPLIT) is a gluing of two local sections inside one block: the product image is the product of the two parts' images, and each part's axioms are certified by its own mechanism. It is the gluing rule with a vanishing statement that the loop asked for, but it is multiplicative. Each weighted part adds at least about \(N^{1/2}\) to the degree, so at most \(o(N^{1/2})\) parts glue within the linear budget. That is far from the \(\Theta(N)\) independent directions of a window block.

Verification gate. Re-read Proposition MX′ with its review, (LPF-value) and step 4 of the two-level semantic map, the quotient-rank conversion's product identity, and the log-probe identities. Ran tools/search-claims.py on block splitting, product factorization and scaled coefficients. Its top hits were the fresh-block degree lemma, the costed-partition semantic map and the two-level semantic map. The nearest recorded device is the latter's packed product, cited. No computation was run. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked (SPLIT) and the four certifications. Its verdict: the proof holds with fixes, with no gap in MX″. It corrected the \(\mathcal B\)-companion justification, which must carry the conversion error \(E\), and simplified the \(\mathcal A\)-fields to direct Boolean division. It required the parent to be the \(\mathcal B\)-subtuple alone, compression inside \(\mathcal A\), the defined notion of nonlocal dimension and explicit degrees. It also replaced the overclaims in scope, assessment and next step with the per-part cost count, which shows that splitting cannot reach the window. All changes were adopted.

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The occupancy class does not join the combined exclusion by composition: column freezing spreads the distinguished row

22 September 2026 · Negative test with an explicit line · The global freezing map sends row-local forms on the distinguished row to column-sum forms of rank about \(N\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The occupancy class does not join the combined exclusion by composition: column freezing spreads the distinguished row”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-occupancy-mix-obstruction.

Question. Proposition MX″ combined the remainder and nonlocal-dimension classes. Its next step asked whether the occupancy class, the last recorded class outside it, is compatible with the single weighted replay. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The occupancy proof applies the recorded column-freezing map globally, before anything else. So composition requires that this map keep every MX″ line inside MX″'s hypotheses.

The map

At \(p=3\) the map takes \(K=2\). It makes a small matching prefix, relabels the remaining rows as two copies of \(N+1\) residual rows plus one distinguished row \(*\), and relabels the columns as two empty columns and two copies of \(N\) residual columns, with \(N=\lfloor n/2\rfloor-1\). A copied cell maps to the residual cell \(y_{ij}\). A cell of the distinguished row in residual column \(j\) of either copy maps to \(q_j=1-\sum_iy_{ij}\). Empty columns and off-copy cells map to zero. It is one global affine map on old variables, valid on the weak base.

A line that leaves the combined class

Let \(x_{*,j}\) denote the cell of the distinguished row in residual column \(j\) of the first copy. Consider a line containing the equations \(x_{*,1}+x_{*,j}=0\), for \(j=2,\dots,N\). Before the map, each form is row-local, supported in the single row \(*\). The line satisfies both alternatives of MX″: its remainders read one row, and its nonlocal dimension is zero. After the map the forms become \[ q_1+q_j=2-\sigma'_1-\sigma'_j,\qquad \sigma'_j=\sum_iy_{ij}. \]

They are nonlocal. Modulo residual row equations, row \(i\) of the linear part is \(e_1+e_j+c_i\mathbf 1\). It is never zero, so the form is not row-local. For \(N\ge4\) it is not supported in one column unless \(c_i=0\) for all \(i\), and then its support is two columns. So the form is not column-local either.
Their nonlocal dimension is at least \(N-2\). Modulo rows, \(\sum_j\sigma'_j\) is constant, so the \(\sigma'_j\) span a space of dimension \(N-1\). The forms \(\sigma'_1+\sigma'_j\) for \(j\ge2\) span a subspace of codimension at most one.
They violate alternative (a). Differences \(\sigma'_j-\sigma'_k\) of two such forms would have to lie in the span of \(O(\log n)\) probes plus forms on about \(2n^\alpha\) rows. Restricted to the rows outside those remainders, the differences span dimension about \(N-2\), which \(O(\log n)\) probes cannot contain.

So one line of MX″'s class maps outside both alternatives. Composition through the global freezing map fails.

The distinguished row can be chosen, but only once for the whole refutation. A refutation may contain lines like this for every row, so no choice avoids them. The occupancy exclusion may still combine with the others by an argument that does not freeze globally, but none is recorded or proposed here.

Assessment and next step

Gluing the recorded classes has reached its natural end: the remainder and nonlocal classes glue, within lines and across them, and the occupancy class stays separate because its mechanism changes coordinates globally. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): hold the route review planned in MX″. The window has no named mechanism, splitting cannot reach it, and the partial endpoints are now consolidated. The review should decide whether to pause the thread, and name what a restart would need.

Sheaf check

This is a failure of restriction compatibility. The freezing map is not a morphism of the site on which the other mechanisms glue, since it does not send local forms to local forms. The occupancy section therefore lives on a different site. Gluing across sites would need a common refinement, and none is available.

Verification gate. Re-read the occupancy theorem and its proof, the recorded column-freezing map and its base images, and Proposition MX″'s hypotheses with Corollary ND's definition of locality. The example was checked against those definitions in the text. No computation was run. No reviewer was used, since the entry states only a negative example whose checks are elementary.

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Marked reading and review windows	1 min 1.74 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	52.98 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	9.05 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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Route review: pause the ternary window; extend the partial endpoints to every odd prime

22 September 2026 · Route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer · Pauses window work until a restart condition holds; next: all-prime form of Corollary ND. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: pause the ternary window; extend the partial endpoints to every odd prime”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-odd-prime-pause-review.

The line's general claim. Every polynomial inventory of complete accuracy-one ternary selector blocks can be excluded at compiler degree \(11\) by the recorded route: compilation, restriction and one common weight. What the goal needs is this claim in full, and then its analogue for every odd prime. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, since the window is its only open part at \(p=3\).

Evidence since the thread review

The partial endpoints were consolidated and glued: Corollary ND and Propositions MX, MX′ and MX″. Each passed a fresh-context review.
The occupancy class does not join them by composition.
No step touched the window.

Falsification attempt: can gluing reach the window?

This is the last live idea from the recent cycles, so it was tested by a count. Split a window block of nonlocal rank \(h\ge N/(4.4\times10^7)\) into parts handled by the weight, glued by the product split (SPLIT). A part of quotient rank at most \(N^\sigma\) has nonlocal dimension about \(N^{\sigma/2}\), because quotient rank is quadratic in nonlocal dimension. So about \(h/N^{\sigma/2}\) parts are needed. Each part adds at least the affine-core cost of about \(N^{1/2}\) to the degree of the product image, since the product is multiplied part by part. The total is at least about \(hN^{(1-\sigma)/2}\ge hN^{1/4}\) for \(\sigma\le1/2\), and at least \(hN^{\sigma/2}\) for larger \(\sigma\). Both far exceed the linear budget \(N/10^6\). Only two-part splits are proved in any case. Gluing cannot reach the window at these costs.

Every other tested line is recorded as negative or heuristic-negative in the thread review: weights, alignment, sign variables, mixtures, complexes and sheaves, closure and derivation structure.

Assessment of this line

The recorded route has reached the limit of its mechanisms at \(p=3\). Its partial results are consolidated and reviewed. The window's prospects by recorded methods are weak, as the thread review already found. Further cycles on the window without a new mechanism would repeat reformulations, which the workspace rules count against a line. The decision is to pause window work.

Restart conditions

Window work should restart only if one of these holds:

a proposed mechanism excludes a single random dense ternary block of nonlocal rank \(\Theta(N)\), jointly with the recorded weight, at degree \(o(N)\) on the separated graph (this is the decisive calibration: no recorded mechanism does it);
a proof, or a usable published bound, for the semi-regular or general-position behaviour of Boolean quadratic selector systems modulo PHP, which would turn the window review's heuristic verdict into a theorem and so tell which way to go;
external progress on DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) lower bounds for PHP-type principles that supplies a mechanism for the sign ambiguity \(L\in\{1,2\}\).

Next step

Redirect to route item scope-and-review, "establish every fixed odd prime", for the partial endpoints. Corollary ND is stated only for \(p=3\), because the affine classification and the quotient-rank conversion are ternary. For \(p\ge5\), the selector \(1-L^{p-1}\) of a nonlocal form lies in the degree-\((p-1)\) span of its nonlocal directions, of dimension about \(r^{p-1}/(p-1)!\). The all-prime power-range corollary then suggests nonlocal dimension \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\). Check first which steps are ternary-specific: the classification of forms whose selector has an affine representative, and the certified quotient conversion in degree \(p-1\). The row-local expansion and column reduction already work over every prime, which suggests that local forms are again free.

Sheaf check

The loop's question has a definite answer for this thread. The one gluing with a good property found here, the product split across and within lines, is multiplicative in degree. Every weighted part costs at least \(N^{1/2}\), so it glues boundedly many rank-limited pieces and not the \(\Theta(N)\) independent directions of a window block. A sheaf that could reach the window would need additive gluing costs for weighted pieces, which none of the recorded weight mechanisms has.

Verification gate. Re-read the thread review, the consolidation, Propositions MX to MX″ with their reviews, and the occupancy obstruction. The splitting count uses the recorded per-part costs, as confirmed by the MX″ reviewer. No computation was run. No reviewer was used for this review.

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Every odd prime: quotient-rank exclusion in degree \(p-1\) and Res(Lin) lines of nonlocal dimension \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\)

22 September 2026 · Working proof · Extends the quotient-rank exclusion and Corollary ND to every odd prime. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Every odd prime: quotient-rank exclusion in degree \(p-1\) and Res(Lin) lines of nonlocal dimension \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-allprime-nonlocal-dimension.

Question. The pause review redirected effort to route item scope-and-review, "establish every fixed odd prime", for the partial endpoints. Corollary ND is stated for \(p=3\) only. Its two ternary steps are the affine classification of local selectors and the quotient conversion in degree two. This entry checks each step for general odd \(p\).

Statements

Fix an odd prime \(p\) and put \(\delta=p-1\). On the full functional linear-row base of the \((n+1)\)-by-\(n\) board, let \(I_\delta\) be the degree-\(\delta\) consequence space and \(Q_\delta=\mathcal P_{\le\delta}/I_\delta\). For a complete accuracy-one selector block \(a\), let \(V_a\) be the span of its selectors \(q=1-L^{\delta}\) in \(Q_\delta\), let \(A_a=V_a\cap\overline{\mathcal P_{\le1}}\), and let \(r_a=\dim(V_a/A_a)\). The board parameter is \(N=n\).

Theorem QRp. Fix a polynomial block inventory, a polylogarithmic PC degree bound \(D\), and \(0\le\sigma<1\). If every \(r_a\le N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\), with a fixed logarithmic exponent, then for sufficiently large \(N\) the complete accuracy-one selector source over the full functional base has no ordinary PC refutation through \(D\). All companions and coefficient fields are included. Internally the replay ceiling is \(\max(D,2p+1)\), still polylogarithmic.

Corollary NDp. Fix \(0<\varepsilon\le1/\delta\) and \(K>0\). For all sufficiently large \(n\), ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) and its functional variant have no standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation with at most \(n^K\) lines in which every line has nonlocal dimension at most \(n^{1/\delta-\varepsilon}\). Nonlocal dimension is as in Corollary ND: the dimension of the span of the linear parts of the line's equations whose forms are not row- or column-local modulo the row equations. At \(p=3\) this is Corollary ND.

Proof of Theorem QRp

The proof of the ternary quotient-rank theorem is written with degree two in three places, and each generalizes to degree \(\delta\).

Basis conversion. Choose affine representatives for a basis of \(A_a\) and extend by \(r_a\) actual selector positions to a basis \(f_j\) of \(V_a\). There are constant matrices with \(q_i=\sum_j\alpha_{ij}f_j+u_i\) and \(f_j=\sum_i\beta_{ji}q_i+v_j\), where \(u_i,v_j\in I_\delta\). Map \(r_i=\sum_j\beta_{ji}t_j\) for a new complete block on the \(f_j\) with product \(P_f\). Then \(\varphi(P_q)=P_f+E\) with \(E=\sum_jt_jv_j\in I_{\delta+1}\), and \[ q_i\varphi(P_q)=\sum_j\alpha_{ij}f_jP_f+u_iP_f+q_iE . \] Scalar blocks are cleaned first, as in the ternary proof. Here \(\deg P_f\le\delta+1\). The first term is a combination of new companions \(f_jP_f\) of degree \(2\delta+1\). The second term is certified through \(2\delta+1\), since \(u_i\in I_\delta\). The third is too, since \(v_j\in I_\delta\) makes \(E=\sum_jt_jv_j\) certified through \(\delta+1\). This equals the original companion degree \(\delta+(\delta+1)=2p-1\), so source refutations transfer without degree increase. Coefficient fields map by Frobenius: \((\sum_j\beta_{ji}t_j)^p-\sum_j\beta_{ji}t_j=\sum_j\beta_{ji}(t_j^p-t_j)\), because \(\beta\in\mathbb F_p\).
Rank-one representation. Replace the \(r_a\) selected selector positions by products of fresh rank-one affine bottoms, using the rank-one selector bridge, which holds for every odd \(p\). The bridge is stated for parents whose inputs are all selectors. Here parents mix affine basis inputs \(F\) with selected selectors, so the accounting is as follows. The product difference \(A-Q=\sum_is_i(P_i-t_i)\) is certified through \(p+2\). An affine-input companion satisfies \(FA=FQ+F(A-Q)\), through \(p+3\). A selector companion satisfies (RS-parent), through \(2p+1\). The replay ceiling becomes \(\max(D,2p+1)\); at \(p=3\) this reproduces the ternary five, six and seven. Parents then read old affine forms and at most \(r_a\) whole bottom products.
Endpoint. Choose a robust graph and row projection from the power-range corollary, which is stated for every fixed prime with polynomial inventory. (Its proof uses \(\delta\) for a different quantity, not \(p-1\).) The transfer gives at most \(\binom{v+p-1}{p-1}\) inputs per block, and conversion does not increase this. Restriction and projection do not increase the number of nonlinear basis positions, so the parent's nonlinear function-space rank on the restricted cube satisfies \(c_a\le r_a\le N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\), and the bottom ranks are at most one (\(\rho=0\)). Since \(0+\sigma<1\), the corollary excludes the refutation. \(\square\)

Proof of Corollary NDp

Compile with the complete-board transfer at degree \(4p-1\ge2p+1\), obtaining at most \(n^K\) blocks. As in Corollary ND, by the selector compiler, a block's inputs are a compression-chosen basis subset of the selectors of one line, and resolution adds no premise selectors as inputs. So \(V_a\) lies in that line's selector span. Initial clauses have only local forms. Fix a block with nonlocal dimension \(r\le n^{1/\delta-\varepsilon}\).

Local forms have affine classes in \(Q_\delta\). A row-local \(L\) has a representative \(L'\) on one row. The row-local expansion with \(t=1\), valid over every prime, gives \(q-G\in I_{\max(\delta,1)}=I_\delta\), where \(G\) is a sum of cells of that row, which is affine. A column-local \(L\) has a representative \(L'\) supported in one column. Then \(L^\delta-L'^\delta=(L-L')\sum_aL^aL'^{\delta-1-a}\), with \(L-L'\) a constant combination of row axioms, which costs degree \(\delta\). The degree-complete column reduction (WC-affine), valid over every prime, gives an affine \(F\) with \(1-L'^\delta-F\in I_\delta(\mathrm{BOOL}+\text{column collisions})\). This weak space lies in \(I_\delta\) of the full functional base, which contains both generator sets. So \(q-F\in I_\delta\).
Nonlocal forms contribute a bounded span. Write \(L=\ell+c\) with \(\ell\) in the span \(U\) of the nonlocal linear parts, \(\dim U=r\). Then \(1-L^\delta=1-\sum_{k=0}^{\delta}\binom\delta kc^{\delta-k}\ell^k\). Modulo affine polynomials this is a combination of \(\ell^2,\dots,\ell^\delta\), each in the span of the monomials of degree \(k\) in a basis of \(U\).

Since \(V_a/A_a\) embeds in \(Q_\delta/\overline{\mathcal P_{\le1}}\), \[ r_a\le\sum_{k=2}^{\delta}\binom{r+k-1}{k}\le\binom{r+\delta}{\delta}\le(r+\delta)^{\delta}. \] For \(\delta\le r\le n^{1/\delta-\varepsilon}\) this gives \(r_a\le(2r)^\delta\le2^\delta n^{1-\delta\varepsilon}\), and for \(r<\delta\) it gives \(r_a=O_p(1)\). So Theorem QRp applies with \(\sigma=1-\delta\varepsilon<1\), the constant being absorbed. Both variants of PHP compile to the full functional base, as in Corollary ND. \(\square\)

Scope

Theorem QRp and Corollary NDp extend Corollary ND and the ternary quotient-rank theorem from \(p=3\) to every fixed odd prime. The exponent \(1/(p-1)\) comes from the degree-\(\delta\) span of powers of \(\delta\)-th degree in the nonlocal directions.
The mixed Propositions MX to MX″ are still stated only at \(p=3\). Their other ingredients (switching, reader maps, log-probe interpolation) are recorded for every prime, but an all-prime MX″ is open, and its rank parameter must be rechecked.
For \(p\ge5\) the ternary graph criterion's dense side has no analogue in the record, as before.

Assessment and next step

The ternary-specific steps of Corollary ND were only its degree-two notation: the local classification needs only sufficiency, which the all-prime expansion and column reduction supply, and the quotient conversion carries over to degree \(p-1\) with one new piece of accounting, for mixed parents in the rank-one step. Next step (scope-and-review): transcribe Proposition MX″ to every odd prime, checking the one parameter that changes, the type-(ii) rank bound \(n^{\delta\eta}\le N^\sigma\), and whether any MX step used \(p=3\) beyond notation.

Sheaf check

Nothing new glues here: this is a change of degree in an existing single-weight argument.

Verification gate. Re-read the ternary quotient-rank theorem with its basis conversion and rank-one step, the rank-one selector bridge for odd \(p\), the power-range corollary, the row-local expansion lemma and the degree-complete column reduction, and Corollary ND. No computation was run. Before drafting, a fresh-context reviewer checked the record and found neither statement: only \(p=3\) is recorded, and the flagged obstructions concern polar head extraction and uniform selector removal, which this proof does not use, since the classification needs only sufficiency. A second fresh-context reviewer checked the proof. Its verdict: the proof holds with fixes, with no mathematical gap. It required the first-term and field costs of the conversion, the mixed-parent ceiling in the rank-one step, dropping the unused hypothesis \(D\ge2p+1\), the inclusion of the weak column reduction in the full base, the provenance of block inputs, explicit exponent arithmetic, and the removal of an unchecked MX″ threshold. All were adopted.

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Preparation and checkpoint work	15.61 s
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Every odd prime: lines mixing remainder forms and low-nonlocal forms are excluded

22 September 2026 · Working proof · Transcribes Proposition MX″ to every odd prime, with nonlocal exponent \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/(4(p-1))\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Every odd prime: lines mixing remainder forms and low-nonlocal forms are excluded”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-allprime-mixed-endpoint.

Question. Proposition MX″ is stated for \(p=3\). Its nonlocal part now has an all-prime form, Theorem QRp. Route item: scope-and-review. This entry checks every step of MX, MX′ and MX″ for uses of \(p=3\) beyond notation, and recomputes the one parameter that changes.

Statement

Proposition MXp. Fix an odd prime \(p\), \(\delta=p-1\), \(0\le\alpha<1\), \(0\le\eta<(1-\alpha)/(4\delta)\), and constants \(c_0,K>0\). For all sufficiently large \(n\), ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) and its functional variant have no standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation with at most \(n^K\) lines in which the equations of every line are partitioned into two fixed sets \(\mathcal A\) and \(\mathcal B\) such that: (a) for some old affine probes \(U_1,\dots,U_t\), \(t\le c_0\log_pn\), depending on the line, every form in \(\mathcal A\) is, modulo the row equations, a combination of the probes plus a remainder on at most \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows, with a fixed logarithmic exponent; and (b) \(\mathcal B\) has nonlocal dimension at most \(n^\eta\). At \(p=3\) this is MX″.

Proof: step-by-step check

Step	Recorded scope	Change for general \(p\)
Compiler	every prime, degree \(4p-1\)	\(D=4p-1\), polylog
Compression, first restriction (RT-tail)	every prime	a fixed support-count exponent \(C_0\), as in MX′ (lines at most \(n^K\), compressed inputs at most \(\dim\mathcal P_{\le\delta}\le n^{2\delta+1}\)); renamed from MX′'s \(C\) to avoid the clash with the row-local constant
Probe interpolation (PL-map), (PL-companion), (PL-fields)	every prime	\(p^t\le n^{c_0}\) branches, so the switching union bound counts \(n^Kp^t\le n^{K+c_0}\) disjunctions and \(s>2(K+c_0)/(\beta_1(1-4\beta_2))\) is unchanged; \(d=\delta t\); \(E_{u,i}\in I_{d+\delta}\); residue witnesses \(\chi_u^p-\chi_u\); \(\sum_u\chi_u=1\) is a polynomial identity for every \(p\); companion cost \(d+2\delta+1\), field cost \(pd+p\)
Row-local expansion	every prime, functional base	\(C=\max(\delta,m-1)\)
Empty-aware switching, reader interface (EH-profile)	every field	fields \(\beta^p-\beta\in\mathcal I_{ps}\)
Type-(i) composite certificate (MX)	algebra valid over any field	companion image in \(\mathcal I_{C+s+\delta}\), since \(\bar q_i\) has degree \(\delta\)
Nonlocal conversion, rank-one step, weight	Theorem QRp, every odd prime	ceiling \(\max(D,2p+1)=4p-1\); \(r_a\le(2r)^\delta\)
Weight, \(T\), weighted replay (step 4), projection lemma	every prime: the two-level semantic map and its power-range corollary are stated for a fixed arbitrary prime, as QRp uses them with \(\rho=0\); the projection lemma is field-independent	\(T=O(N^{1/2}\operatorname{polylog}N+N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N)\) with constants depending on \(p\); pointwise vanishing of weighted companion images holds over \(\mathbb F_p\)
(SPLIT) and its four certifications (MX″)	algebra valid over any \(\mathbb F_p\)	\(\mathcal A\)-fields: \((P_{\mathcal B}\gamma_i)^p-P_{\mathcal B}\gamma_i\) vanishes on the cube pointwise, Boolean division through \(p(T+1+d+s)\)

In the MX computation of the type-(i) companion image, the exponent two of \(\bar q_i\) is \(\delta\) in general. Otherwise every identity is written over an arbitrary prime field. (SPLIT) uses only linearity of the product in the coefficients. The \(\mathcal B\)-companion certificate uses the pointwise vanishing of step 4 of the semantic map, which holds for every prime.

The changed parameter

Choose \(\beta_1<1-\alpha\), \(\beta_2<1/4\) and \(\sigma<1\) with \(\delta\eta<\beta_1\beta_2\sigma\), which is possible because \(\delta\eta<(1-\alpha)/4\). Put \(N=n^{\beta_1\beta_2}\). Here \(r_a\) is the rank in \(Q_\delta\) over the full functional base of the final \((N+1)\)-by-\(N\) board, as Theorem QRp defines it. Restriction keeps local forms local or constant, and a \(\mathcal B\)-subtuple of nonlocal dimension \(r\le n^\eta\) keeps it after both restrictions. By the rank count of Corollary NDp, \(r_a\le(2r)^\delta\le2^\delta n^{\delta\eta}\le N^\sigma\) for large \(n\), when \(r\ge\delta\), and \(r_a=O_p(1)\) otherwise. The switching exponent condition \(\beta_2<1/4\) at local exponent zero, the choice of \(m\) and \(s\), and the replay bound \[ B\le\max\bigl(D(T+1+d+s)+k,\ D_{\mathcal A}+T+1+k,\ D_{\mathcal B}+d+s+\delta,\ p(T+1+d+s)\bigr)=o(N) \] are unchanged in form. Here \(T=O(N^{1/2}\operatorname{polylog}N+N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N)\), \(d=O(\log N)\), \(D_{\mathcal A}=\max(d+C+s+\delta,\ d+s+2\delta)\), from the \((q-G)P'\) term with \(\deg P'\le s+\delta\) and from \(q_i\Delta\) with \(E\in I_{d+\delta}\), and \(D_{\mathcal B}\) is the nonlocal certificate degree of QRp including the conversion error. The leading factor \(D=4p-1\) is the ternary \(11\). The constants depend on \(p\). \(\square\)

Scope and next step

MXp is the all-prime form of MX″. At \(p=3\) it has the same range, and in general \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/(4(p-1))\). It recovers the \(\mathbb F_p\) Res(Lin) consequence of the sublinear-remainder exclusion, and contains Corollary NDp's case of remainder-free lines only in this reduced range. The occupancy class and the window are as before. The ternary graph criterion's dense side still has no \(p\ge5\) analogue. Next step (scope-and-review): the MX family, Corollary ND and the quotient-rank exclusion now hold for every odd prime; the occupancy class and the dense graph criterion do not. Update the thread's summary for a possible write-up. Window work stays paused under the pause review, whose restart conditions are unchanged. A write-up or publication needs the user's direction.

Sheaf check

Nothing new glues: the same two-part product split, at a general prime.

Verification gate. Re-read MX, MX′ and MX″ with their reviews, Theorem QRp and Corollary NDp with their review, and the scope lines of the recorded switching, reader, log-probe, row-local, semantic-map and projection results. Searched the record with tools/search-claims.py for all-prime mixed or quotient-rank endpoints; its matches are the recorded ternary MX results and the all-prime ingredients cited in the table. No computation was run. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked every step for hidden uses of \(p=3\). Its verdict: the proof holds with fixes, with no gap and no hidden use of \(p=3\) beyond the listed degree substitutions. Its required changes were all adopted: the precise statement, the support-count constant and its name, the per-prime union bound and witnesses, the explicit \(D_{\mathcal A}\), the all-prime sources for the weight and step 4, the definition of \(r_a\) on the final board, and the scope overclaim.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	3 min 32.60 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 54.85 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	37.61 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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The additive gluing exists at Nullstellensatz level; its polynomial-calculus form is fresh-block conservativity, stated here for \(\mathbb F_3\)

22 September 2026 · Formulation and conjecture · Zero-cost PC gluing would follow from ternary conservativity over the PHP base. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The additive gluing exists at Nullstellensatz level; its polynomial-calculus form is fresh-block conservativity, stated here for \(\mathbb F_3\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-mixed-moment-gluing-pc-gap.

Question. The user overrode the pause. The next step asked to formulate the mixed-moment system of historical Lemma 6.6 as a gluing complex over block subsets. The target was a vanishing statement at additive degree cost, which the product split lacks. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Missing implication: a gluing of per-block exclusions whose degree cost does not grow with the number of blocks.

The complex, for the compiled source

Take the compiled source at \(p\): blocks \(b\) with selectors \(g_{b,i}=1-L_{b,i}^{\delta}\), \(\delta=p-1\), fresh coefficients \(r_{b,i}\) with fields \(r^p=r\), products \(P_b=1-\sum_ir_{b,i}g_{b,i}\), and companion degree \(e=2\delta+1\). The axioms are the old axioms (Boolean equations and the linear-row PHP base), the fields and the companions \(g_{b,i}P_b\). The product \(P_b\) is not an axiom, as in the compiler. A linear functional \(\Lambda\) on the joint polynomials of degree at most \(D\) splits into components \(\mu_\alpha(q)=\Lambda(qr^\alpha)\) on old polynomials of degree at most \(D-|\alpha|\). Here \(\alpha\) ranges over reduced fresh monomials, with exponents at most \(\delta\). \(\Lambda\) annihilates the degree-\(D\) ideal of the augmented system exactly when:

each \(\mu_\alpha\) annihilates the old ideal (Boolean plus PHP) through \(D-|\alpha|\);
for every block \(b\), input \(i\), reduced monomial \(\beta\) and old \(q\) with \(\deg q+|\beta|\le D-e\), \[ \mu_\beta(qg_{b,i})=\sum_j\mu_{\beta\oplus e_{b,j}}(qg_{b,i}g_{b,j}), \] where \(\oplus\) adds an exponent and reduces \(r^p\) to \(r\).

Grading by the support \(S(\alpha)\) of blocks gives a Čech-type complex. An equation with \(b\notin S(\beta)\) links support \(S\) to \(S\cup\{b\}\). One with \(b\in S(\beta)\) is a revisit inside \(S\). It is exactly the dual of the augmented degree-\(D\) NS space in fresh-monomial coordinates. Historical Lemma 6.6, parametrized by selected inputs through \(T_{S,J}\), is a sufficient specialization of it. At \(D=4p-1\) and \(e=2p-1\), the equations link supports of up to \(2p+1\) blocks, not two.

The recorded additive gluing, and why randomness helps it

In the historical first mixed band, the exact pair duality (PAIR-dual) shows that pair components exist whenever \(W_a\cap W_b=0\) for the product spaces \(W_b=\operatorname{span}\{[qg_{b,i}g_{b,j}]\}\). It gives a design at the same degree, with no family-count factor. For one pair in that band, the gluing costs nothing. The analogous product spaces here are \(W_b(\beta)\), spanned by the classes of \(qg_{b,i}g_{b,j}\) with \(\deg q\le D-e-|\beta|\), inside the old quotient of degree \(D-|\beta|-1\). For a window block of \(h\le cN\) inputs on \(s=15(N+1)\) coordinates: \[ \dim W_b(\beta)\le h^2\binom{s+D-e-|\beta|}{D-e-|\beta|}, \] which is smaller, by a factor of about \(h^2m^{2\delta}/s^{2\delta}\) with \(m=D-|\beta|-1\), than \(\binom sm\), an upper bound for the quotient. So, heuristically, two independent random window blocks have separated product spaces, by the same general-position reasoning that the window review used against weights. Here randomness helps. The spaces are structured, not random, so this is a heuristic. Pairwise separation settles only the pair case. The deeper complex needs higher-order conditions: each \(W_b\) against the sum of the others, and the revisit equations. Separation fails for blocks that share inputs, which actual inventories have. That is the structured form of the historical Example 6.5, whose two blocks have the same constant input.

The obstruction: this is Nullstellensatz, and the target is PC

A design in the historical sense (foundations) annihilates the degree-\(D\) NS space. The recorded pair transfer says explicitly that it asserts nothing for PC. The compiler produces PC refutations through \(4p-1\). By the standard simulation, PC replays as NS only with degree growing with the derivation's depth. So at fixed \(D\), an NS exclusion reaches only refutations of bounded depth. The PC form needs the closure: a normalized functional annihilating \(\mathcal C_D\), built degree by degree through the fall spaces \(O_d\) of the closed moment tower.

The PC form of zero-cost gluing is conservativity

The record already states the PC-level property, over \(\mathbb F_2\): conj:level-one-fresh-block-conservativity. It says a fresh accuracy-one affine block adds no degree-\(D\) consequence in the existing variables, over Boolean equations plus earlier complete accuracy-one affine blocks. It is open, with about twenty exact checks. Applied block by block over its own base, it would glue any number of blocks at zero cost. That base does not contain PHP. The recorded proved costs are additive: M blocks cost \(M\max(\delta,k)\) (obs:few-fresh-blocks-conservative-over-unary-PHP), or about \((M+1)D\) (thm:fresh-block-conservativity-loss-bound). They fail once \(M\) is about \(N/2\), and the thick inventory has polynomially many blocks. The recorded binary refutation of a stronger form, ex:same-degree-interface-preservation-refuted, needs a second-level base block. Selector blocks are one level over the old variables, so it does not apply here.

Over a Boolean base alone, conservativity is trivial. A complete block is satisfiable at every old point, so every sound old consequence vanishes on the whole cube and lies in the Boolean ideal at its degree. The content lies in the existing fresh variables of earlier blocks, where the base is not degree-exact.

Conjecture C3. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let a base consist of an old system \(\mathcal F\) together with complete accuracy-one selector blocks. Complete means all companions and fields are present. The inputs are \(1-L^2\) with \(L\) affine, and the axioms are companions and fields only. Let a fresh complete block have forms whose linear parts are linearly independent. Let the existing variables be the old variables and the coefficients of the base blocks, excluding the fresh block's. Then, for every \(D\ge5\), with degree measured jointly, \[ \mathcal C_D(\text{base}+\text{block})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}]=\mathcal C_D(\text{base})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}]. \] The two cases are \(\mathcal F\) Boolean (C3-B) and \(\mathcal F\) the functional linear-row PHP base (C3-PHP).

If C3-PHP held, adding the compiled blocks one at a time would keep the old part of the closure equal to \(\mathcal C_{11}(\text{PHP})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{old}]\). By the all-field old matching barrier, that space does not contain \(1\) for large \(n\). The compiled source consists only of blocks, companions and fields over the old base, and an empty line's block has no axioms. So no refutation through \(11\) would exist. The hypothesis on independent forms is there because the three-selector control uses dependent forms, and the four-line identity \(\sum_\ell(1-\ell^2)=1\) turns a block with dependent forms into a tautology. Whether the three-selector control even violates conservativity is not recorded. Its fall is \(TP\), which contains fresh variables of the same block, not an existing-variable consequence. C3 allows inputs shared across blocks, since independence is required only within a block. Actual lines can contain dependent forms. Compression to a basis of the selector span does not remove dependence among forms whose selectors are independent. So C3 would still leave that reduction step open.

Assessment and next step

The NS formulation gives an exact gluing complex, whose pair case separates at zero cost and heuristically favours random blocks, unlike weights. The NS–PC gap is located, and the PC form that would suffice is conservativity over the PHP base (C3-PHP). Prospects: open. The binary conjecture has consistent checks and no counterexample. The ternary form has not been tested at all. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test C3 exactly at the smallest nonvacuous sizes, with a GF(3) PC-closure tool built on the recorded bit-sliced elimination.

Nonvacuous setting. The base must contain at least one earlier block, because a pure Boolean base makes the test trivial. \(D\ge5\), the companion degree.
Size count. With \(v\) old Boolean variables and \(t\) fresh coefficients (exponents at most two), the monomials of degree at most \(D\) number at most \(\sum_{a+b\le D}\binom va\,c_t(b)\), where \(c_t(b)\) counts reduced fresh monomials of degree \(b\). For \(v=8\), two blocks of three inputs (\(t=6\)) and \(D=6\), this is below \(10^5\), well within the tool's range.
Controls. The three-selector block with dependent forms, to check whether it breaks conservativity. A block sharing one input with the base block, the structured Example 6.5 case. The binary analogue at the recorded sizes, to reproduce a recorded conservative case.
Outcome. A C3 counterexample with independent forms would locate the exact PC obstruction to zero-cost gluing. Consistent conservativity would justify attacking C3 by proof, starting from the recorded binary proofs at rank two (cor:affine-rank-two-same-degree-conservativity).

Sheaf check

No restriction maps are proved here. The candidate is the assignment of augmented closures to block sets, with the passage to existing variables as restriction. Conservativity would say that adding a block changes nothing after restriction. Its NS shadow is the separated mixed-moment system. Whether ternary conservativity holds is the next test.

Verification gate. Re-read historical Lemmas 6.6 to 6.8, Example 6.5 and Corollary 6.9, the first-mixed-band equations and the exact pair duality with its transfer, the foundations' definition of a design, and the closed-moment-tower entry. Searches covered fall additivity, pair feasibility and conservativity. They found the binary conservativity conjecture, its loss bounds, the few-blocks corollary, the second-level refutation and the rank-two conservativity corollary, all cited. No computation was run. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer found the NS formulation essentially sound. It required: the axiom list; Lemma 6.6 described as a sufficient specialization; the depth \(2p+1\); the dimension ratio with its \(m\)-dependence, labelled heuristic; pair separation limited to the pair case; precise definitions in C3; the NS–PC simulation; and cuts to overclaims. All were adopted. Its main objection was that C3 plus induction cannot exclude the compiled source, because the empty clause's block adds the contradiction. That objection assumed the product \(P\) is an axiom. In the compiled source only companions and fields are axioms, so an empty block adds none. The induction is now written out over the PHP base, with the old barrier cited.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 9.62 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 35.63 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 33.93 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	0.06 s

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Ternary fresh-block conservativity fails over bases with two or more blocks

22 September 2026 · Refutation (finite check) · Conjecture C3 fails over Boolean bases with two or three blocks, at \(D=6\) and \(D=7\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Ternary fresh-block conservativity fails over bases with two or more blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-ternary-conservativity-refuted.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The mixed-moment entry reduced zero-cost gluing at PC level to Conjecture C3. Over the PHP base (C3-PHP), induction over the compiled blocks would then exclude every compiled source with independent forms per line. The missing implication is C3 itself. This cycle tests it with exact closures over a Boolean base (C3-B), whose failure already rules out the inductive use. A sound new existing-variable consequence of a fresh block with independent forms refutes C3. Conservativity in unsaturated instances, defined below, would support it.

Setting and tool

Work in \(R=\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_v,r_1,\dots,r_t]/(x^2-x,\ r^3-r)\), with joint degree on reduced monomials. A block with affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) in \(x\) has inputs \(g_i=1-L_i^2\), coefficients \(r_i\), product \(P=1-\sum_ir_ig_i\) and companions \(g_iP\) of degree five. The axioms are the companions only; \(P\) is not an axiom. The closure \(\mathcal C_D\) is the smallest subspace of \(R_{\le D}\) containing the generators and closed under \(f\mapsto yf\) for every variable \(y\) whenever \(\deg f\le D-1\). This is degree-\(D\) PC with the Boolean and field axioms: reduction never raises degree, every correction \(m(x^2-x)\) or \(m(r^3-r)\) used has degree at most \(D\), and reduction commutes with multiplication. The existing variables are \(x\) and the base blocks' coefficients. Setting the fresh coefficients to zero is a ring map that fixes the base generators, kills their field equations and does not raise degree. So \(\mathcal C_D(\text{base})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}]\) is computed in the smaller ring.

The script conservativity.py iterates \(V\leftarrow V+y\,(V\cap R_{\le D-1})\) to a fixpoint with the recorded bit-sliced GF(3) elimination. Columns are ordered by decreasing degree, so the echelon rows with a pivot of degree at most \(D-1\) span \(V\cap R_{\le D-1}\). A second echelon form with the fresh monomials first gives \(\dim(V\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}])\) as the number of pivots in existing columns. Forms are random, with deterministic seeds, and linearly independent within each block, as C3 requires.

Nonvacuity count

At \(D=5\) a companion cannot be multiplied, so the tests start at \(D=6\). A second count matters more. Every fresh block is satisfiable above every point: where some \(g_i=1\) put \(r_i=1\) and the other coefficients \(0\), so \(P=0\); where all \(g_i=0\), \(P=1\) and every companion vanishes. So every existing-variable consequence of base plus block vanishes on the base's solution set \(S\). Let the semantic dimension be \(\dim\{f\in\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}]_{\le D}: f|_S=0\}\). When \(\dim\mathcal C_D(\text{base})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}]\) equals it, the base closure is saturated and conservativity at \(D\) is forced by soundness. The gap between the two bounds what any fresh block can add. The script saturation.py computes the semantic dimension by evaluating all monomials on \(S\). The count was made after the first runs, not before, and it changed their reading: every one-block base with two-input blocks was saturated at every degree run (\(D=6,7,8\), and \(D=6,7\) for the dependent control), and all twelve two-block bases run at \(D=8\) were saturated. Those tests decided nothing.

Results

Base (\(v\) variables)	Fresh block	\(D\)	Instances	Unsaturated	With a rise	Total gap	Total rise
one block, 2 inputs (\(v=6\)): random, shared input, dependent three-selector forms	2 or 3 inputs	6, 7, 8 (dependent: 6, 7)	32	0	0	0	0
one block, 3 inputs (\(v=6\))	3 inputs	6	3	3	0	35	0
one block, 3 inputs (\(v=6\))	3 inputs	7	3	0	0	0	0
two blocks, 2 inputs each (\(v=6\))	2 inputs	6	18	14	5	130	20
two blocks, 2 inputs each (\(v=6\))	2 inputs	7	42	4	1	22	1
two blocks, 2 inputs each (\(v=6\))	2 inputs	8	12	0	0	0	0
three blocks, 2 inputs each (\(v=5\))	2 inputs	6	8	8	5	78	12
three blocks, 2 inputs each (\(v=5\))	2 inputs	7	4	4	0	42	0
three blocks, 2 inputs each (\(v=5\))	2 inputs	8	1	1	0	4	0

A rise is \(\dim(\mathcal C_D(\text{base}+B)\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}])-\dim(\mathcal C_D(\text{base})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}])\). No rise exceeded its gap, and none occurred in a saturated instance. Among the unsaturated multi-block instances, 10 of 22 gained new consequences at \(D=6\) and 1 of 8 at \(D=7\). The three-block runs at \(D=7\) and \(D=8\) used only the seeds unsaturated there. Two controls confirm that the tool detects rises: adding a fake old axiom \(x_1x_2x_3\) gives rises of 40 to 60, and adding \(P_B\) as an axiom, which is not a complete block, gives rises of 71 to 180. The full per-instance table is c3_summary.txt.

Witnesses

The script witness.py extracts the new existing-variable elements and checks them independently of the fresh-first bookkeeping. Non-membership in the base closure is tested by rank in the smaller ring's own coordinates. Soundness is tested by evaluation on every base solution. It also finds the least degree at which the base closure contains the element.

At \(D=6\), over three two-block bases (seeds 1, 2, 3 of the first family): five new elements of degree 6, with 510 to 1144 terms. All vanish on the base solutions (2070 to 2160 points out of \(2^6\cdot3^4=5184\)), and all lie in \(\mathcal C_7(\text{base})\).
At \(D=7\), over one two-block base: one new element of degree 7 with 1418 terms. It vanishes on all 2448 base solutions and lies in \(\mathcal C_8(\text{base})\).

So each witness costs the base exactly one degree more. The rises do not come from linear dependence across blocks: in the \(D=7\) witness and in four of the ten \(D=6\) rising instances, the six linear parts of the base and fresh forms are linearly independent, spanning \(\mathbb F_3^6\).

Claim

Refutation (finite check). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), there are Boolean bases consisting of two complete accuracy-one selector blocks with two inputs each on \(v=6\) variables, and fresh complete two-input blocks whose four base forms and two fresh forms have linearly independent linear parts, such that \[ \mathcal C_D(\text{base}+B)\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}]\supsetneq\mathcal C_D(\text{base})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}] \] at \(D=6\), and also at \(D=7\). Every new element found lies in \(\mathcal C_{D+1}(\text{base})\). In particular Conjecture C3, stated for every \(D\ge5\), is false in the case C3-B, with independent forms both within and across blocks. The explicit forms and polynomials are stored in the witness files.

Scope

C3-PHP is not tested directly. A nonvacuous PHP test needs boards whose PHP refutation degree exceeds \(D\ge6\), far beyond exact closure. The inductive use of C3-PHP needs conservativity over the PHP base plus earlier blocks, and all observed failures have at least two base blocks. The PHP axioms could in principle prevent the new consequences, but no mechanism for that is known.
The lag. Every witness enters the base closure one degree higher. A one-degree loss per block, added over polynomially many blocks, would destroy the induction at the fixed degree \(11\). Whether the loss accumulates is almost untestable at these sizes. The script lowgap.py shows that \(\mathcal C_7(\text{base})\cap R_{\le6}\) equals the semantic space in 25 of the 26 multi-block bases at \(D=6\), so containment one degree up is forced there. On the exception (gap 2), accumulate.py added a second random fresh block, in 8 seeds, to the block with the 13-dimensional rise. The existing part stayed 420-dimensional, inside \(\mathcal C_7(\text{base})\): the second block added nothing. The power is low: the existing part could grow by at most 3 dimensions (semantic dimension 423) and leave \(\mathcal C_7(\text{base})\) by at most 2, and the test measures only the variables existing before both blocks, not consequences of the second block in the first block's coefficients. This single case is the only accumulation test.
Higher degree. Rises thin out: 10 of 22 unsaturated instances at \(D=6\), 1 of 8 at \(D=7\). The gaps do not always shrink; one three-block base has gap 12 at \(D=6\) and 24 at \(D=7\). At \(D=8\), all twenty one- and two-block bases run are saturated, and seven of eight three-block bases (\(v=5\), 11664 base monomials); the eighth has gap 4. C3 restricted to \(D\ge8\), which is all the induction at \(D=11\) needs, is therefore tested only by that one instance, with 46121 monomials after adding the fresh block. That instance is conservative: rise 0 against gap 4, with the full closure reaching dimension 27198 after nine rounds. The binary refutation goes the other way as \(D\) grows, with one new consequence at \(D=7\) and ten at \(D=8\).
Comparison with the binary record. Over \(\mathbb F_2\), a two-input block is provably conservative over any Boolean base. Over a second-level base, binary fresh blocks lose zero degrees at rank two, one at rank three and two at rank four, under the proved loss ceiling. The one recorded binary level-one gain needs mixed accuracies \((2,2,1)\). The ternary failures here have level one, accuracy one throughout and rank two, and still lose one degree. So the ternary case is worse than the binary cases cited here, and the binary level-one conjecture is untouched.
One-block bases. The only nonvacuous one-block tests are the three three-input instances at \(D=6\), all conservative. This is too little to support a one-block conservativity statement.

Sheaf check

The candidate assignment, augmented closures with restriction to existing variables, is not stable under adding a block: a block changes the degree-\(D\) sections on the existing variables. The obstruction is concrete, a one-degree lag. A sheaf built from fixed-degree closures would have to charge that lag, and no candidate glues weighted pieces at additive cost.

Assessment and next step

The PC form of zero-cost gluing proposed in the mixed-moment entry fails in its inductive form over Boolean bases. What survives is C3 restricted to \(D\ge8\), a lagged conservativity whose loss does not accumulate, or a statement about all blocks at once over the PHP base, which is close to the original problem. Prospects of the conservativity line: weak, but not closed. Its stated form is refuted. The restricted form at \(D\ge8\) survives its single nonvacuous test, and rises thin from 10 of 22 unsaturated instances at \(D=6\) to 1 of 8 at \(D=7\) and 0 of 1 at \(D=8\). No mechanism explains either the lag or the thinning, and the binary record shows losses growing with \(D\). Nonvacuous tests at \(D\ge8\) are rare at the reachable sizes: one base in 28 was unsaturated at \(D=8\), and larger bases need incremental elimination. Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): a route review of the window line after this refutation, as the evidence-based assessment and the rule on failed mechanisms require. It should weigh C3 at \(D\ge8\) and a non-accumulating lag, together with the cost of a nonvacuous test, against the other recorded candidates, rather than refining the refuted mechanism directly.

Verification gate. Re-read Conjecture C3 and its inductive use in the mixed-moment entry, the binary level-one conjecture, the binary rank-two conservativity corollary, the binary same-degree refutation, the rank-dependent binary losses, the binary loss ceiling and the heterogeneous level-one gain. Searched the record with tools/search-claims.py for fresh-block conservativity, second-level refutation and degree lag, and followed the relationships of the binary refutation; the matches are the binary records cited above, and no ternary check exists. Checks run: the controls; the witness extraction with independent rank, soundness and least-degree checks; the saturation and next-degree counts; the accumulation check; and a regression after changing the closure to a bit-packed basis, which reproduced the two-block results exactly. The count against the statement under test was made after the first runs. It showed that the results for one-block bases with two-input blocks, and for the bases run at \(D=8\) before the count, were vacuous, and they are reported as such. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the closure, the existing-part count, the block generators and the witness tests. Its verdict: no bug that could produce a spurious rise; the refutation at \(D=6\) stands. It required recording the one-degree lag, the need for two base blocks, the untested accumulation and whether base forms may overlap the fresh span. C3 allows that overlap, and rises occur without it. A second narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the bit-packed closure, the saturation, next-degree, accumulation and summary scripts, and every number in this entry against the stored files. Its verdict: the code is exact, the numbers match and the refutation is supported. It required five corrections of overclaimed wording: the extent of the \(D=8\) saturation, the thinning of gaps, an unsupported monomial count, the vacuity of the one-block tests, and causal wording about two base blocks. It also asked for the power of the accumulation test. All were adopted, and the \(D=8\) count for three-block bases was run as it suggested. The binary comparisons, outside its brief, were checked against the claim records. The \(D=8\) run came after both reviews. It used the reviewed code with the OpenMP build of the same elimination routine, and it adds one data point, not a new claim.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	108 min 49.76 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	27 min 12.66 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	24.74 s
Individually measured computation	81 min 12.23 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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Route review after the C3 refutation: test one block over a nontrivial base before gluing

22 September 2026 · Route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer · Separates the single-block calibration from gluing; next: one fresh block over unsaturated random-equation bases. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the C3 refutation: test one block over a nontrivial base before gluing”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-conservativity-route-review.

The line's general claim. The ternary window can be closed by adding the compiled blocks to the PHP base one at a time, each adding nothing, or nothing that accumulates, to the existing-variable part of the degree-\(11\) closure. This is Conjecture C3 over the PHP base, or a lagged form of it. What the goal needs from this line is that statement at \(D=11\) for every compiled block over PHP plus all earlier blocks. Its first case, a single dense block over PHP alone, is the conservative form of the decisive calibration in the pause review: exclude one random dense block of rank \(\Theta(N)\) at degree \(o(N)\).

Evidence

The refutation entry found that over Boolean bases with two or three blocks, a fresh two-input block adds sound existing-variable consequences at \(D=6\) and \(D=7\), each one degree before the base proves it. Rises thin from 10 of 22 unsaturated instances at \(D=6\) to 1 of 8 at \(D=7\) and 0 of 1 at \(D=8\). Accumulation was tested only once, with low power. The binary record has one-degree losses as well, growing with \(D\) and with rank.

Falsification attempts

Does the refutation already defeat the line at \(D=11\)? No. At \(D=11\) the slack above the companion degree is six, and the failures seen so far occur with slack one or two. The thinning favours the line; the binary growth with \(D\) counts against it. Neither is a mechanism.
Is the failure about gluing at all? Not necessarily. In the multi-block tests the existing ring contains the earlier blocks' coefficients, and those blocks make the base nontrivial on it. A single block over a nontrivial old base has the same shape without any gluing, and it was never tested: a pure Boolean base makes the test trivial, and one-block bases with two-input blocks were saturated. If single blocks already add consequences, the conservativity approach fails even for the calibration, and gluing is not the issue.
Can that shape be tested without vacuity? The companion degree five forces \(D\ge6\), so the base must stay unsaturated at degree six or more. The script proxy_count.py shows that Tseitin bases over \(\mathbb F_3\) on \(K_{3,3}\), the cube \(Q_3\) and the Petersen graph (9 to 15 variables) are saturated at \(D=6,7,8\) with consistent charges, and contain \(1\) with inconsistent ones. Hardness above degree six needs dozens of variables, beyond exact closure. Another script, proxy_count2.py, finds usable proxies: a single random quadratic or cubic equation on 10 or 12 Boolean variables is unsaturated at \(D=6\), with gaps from 106 to 827. A cubic on 12 variables is also unsaturated at \(D=7\) (gaps 1088 and 1124), as is one of two quadratics on 12 variables (gap 376). Two quadratics are mostly saturated. The reason is that every polynomial vanishing on \(\{f=0\}\) is a multiple of \(f\), but the natural multiplier has degree \(\deg f+D\). With a fresh block of two or three inputs, the spaces have 3690 to 27950 monomials, which is feasible.

Assessment of this line

Weak. Its inductive form is refuted, no mechanism explains the one-degree lag or its thinning, and its single-block case is untested. The next test can at least separate the two possible failure modes. If one block over an unsaturated random-equation base adds old consequences, conservativity fails without gluing, including in the calibration's conservative form, and the line should be dropped in favour of mechanisms that tolerate block consequences. If single blocks stay conservative in every nonvacuous instance, the failure is specific to multi-block bases. The single-block calibration would then have finite support in conservative form, and the question becomes a mechanism for it over PHP at \(D=11\), starting from the binary rank-two substitution \(r=(1,1+g_1)\).

Next step

Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Test single-block conservativity over unsaturated random-equation bases. Base: one random quadratic or cubic equation on \(v=10\) or \(12\) Boolean variables, with deterministic seeds. Fresh block: two or three dense forms with independent linear parts. Degrees: \(D=6\), and \(D=7\) for the cubic on 12 variables. Report the rise against the saturation gap for each instance, and extract witnesses as before. Controls: a fake old axiom, \(P_B\) as an axiom, and a saturated base (two quadratics). The count above bounds the spaces by \(2.8\times10^4\) monomials.

Sheaf check

No gluing is proposed. The review asks whether the restriction of augmented closures to old variables already changes for a single block, before any gluing.

Verification gate. Re-read the pause review with its restart conditions, the window review, the refutation entry and the binary loss records cited there. Searched the record with tools/search-claims.py for single-block conservativity over hard bases and for augmented-PHP closures; the matches are the binary small-board check (8 holes at degree four, low power) and the records already cited, with no ternary single-block test. The counts were run with the reviewed closure code. No reviewer was used for this review, since it adds no mathematical claim.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 21.28 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 16.67 s
Individually measured computation	8 min 59.52 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	5.09 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

One fresh block over a nontrivial base: two-input blocks can lose a degree, blocks of three to six inputs stayed conservative at \(D=6\)

22 September 2026 · Finite check · One two-input block over a random quadratic base loses a degree. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One fresh block over a nontrivial base: two-input blocks can lose a degree, blocks of three to six inputs stayed conservative at \(D=6\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-single-block-conservativity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The route review asked whether the C3 failures need gluing, or whether one fresh block already adds old consequences over a nontrivial old base. The second case is the conservative form of the pause review's calibration, one dense block over PHP. A rise in an unsaturated instance answers the question. Conservativity in every nonvacuous instance would localize the failures to multi-block bases.

Setting

The ring, closure, blocks and existing-part computation are those of the refutation entry, with no base blocks: the existing variables are the old variables \(x_1,\dots,x_v\). The base \(F\) is one random equation \(f=0\), with uniform coefficients on all monomials of degree at most \(d\in\{2,3\}\), on \(v\in\{10,12\}\) Boolean variables. The fresh block has \(h\) random affine forms with independent linear parts, \(2\le h\le6\). Seeds are deterministic. The script is single_block.py. For each instance it reports the saturation gap, the semantic dimension minus \(\dim\mathcal C_D(F)\), and the rise, \(\dim(\mathcal C_D(F+B)\cap\mathbb F_3[x])-\dim\mathcal C_D(F)\). For each rise it extracts every new element, checks it on all solutions of \(F\), and finds the least \(D'\le D+2\) with the element in \(\mathcal C_{D'}(F)\).

Results at \(D=6\)

Base	\(h\)	Instances	Gaps	Instances with a rise	Rises
quadratic, \(v=10\)	2	4	106–124	4	106, 113, 124, 120: each equals its gap
quadratic, \(v=10\)	3, 4, 5, 6	4, 3, 3, 3	106–124	0	0
cubic, \(v=10\)	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	4, 4, 3, 3, 3	321–346	0	0
quadratic, \(v=12\)	2, 3	4, 4	326–383	0	0
cubic, \(v=12\)	2, 3	4, 4	791–856	0	0

All 50 instances are unsaturated. The 4 rises all come from two-input blocks over the quadratic bases on 10 variables. In each, the block fills the whole gap: \(\mathcal C_6(F+B)\cap\mathbb F_3[x]\) is the degree-6 semantic space, which equals the degree-\(\le6\) part of \(\mathcal C_7(F)\). All 463 new elements have degree 6 and 169 to 575 terms. All vanish on every solution of \(F\) (339 to 357 points), and all lie in \(\mathcal C_7(F)\). The other 12 two-input instances and all 34 instances with \(h\ge3\) are conservative. Only the four quadratic bases on 10 variables discriminate between ranks, since over the other bases even two-input blocks never rose. Over them, 13 instances have \(h\ge3\): four with \(h=3\), and three each with \(h=4,5,6\). Controls: a fake old axiom \(x_1x_2x_3\) gives a rise of 63, and \(P_B\) as an axiom gives 508. Two saturated two-quadratic bases serve as soundness checks, since a rise there is impossible, and give none. After a change to packed counting, the controls and the \(D=6\) batch were rerun with the final script and reproduced every value and witness exactly.

A second batch at \(D=7\), over the quadratic and cubic bases on 12 variables with \(h=2,3\) and four seeds each, was stopped by the session host under system-wide memory pressure before finishing. The route review's saturation count found those bases unsaturated at \(D=7\) for the first two cubic seeds (gaps 1124 and 1088) and for one quadratic seed (gap 376). The batch was not rerun in this cycle.

Why two-input blocks are cheap anyway

Lemma FA (first-active substitution). Let \(F'\) be any system in old Boolean variables \(x\) and further variables \(s\) with \(s^3=s\), for example PHP together with other blocks. Let \(B_1,\dots,B_M\) be selector blocks with at most \(h\ge2\) inputs each: inputs \(g=1-L^2\) with \(L\) affine in the variables of \(F'\), and private coefficients \(r\) that occur in no axiom other than their own block's companions and fields. The blocks need not be complete: omitting companions only shrinks the left side below. Then, for every \(D\), with the closure step \(f\mapsto yf\) allowed when \(\deg f\le D-1\), as in the refutation entry, \[ \mathcal C_D(F'+B_1+\dots+B_M)\cap\mathbb F_3[x,s]\subseteq\mathcal C_{2(h-1)D}(F'). \] Proof. Work in \(\mathcal B=\mathbb F_3[x,s]/(x^2-x,\ s^3-s)\), where degree-bounded PC closure with the Boolean and field axioms is the closure used above. Map \(x\mapsto x\), \(s\mapsto s\) and \(r_{b,i}\mapsto\prod_{j<i}L_{b,j}^2=\prod_{j<i}(1-g_{b,j})\). Since \(\mathcal B\) is the ring of \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued functions on the points of the cube and field, and \(L^2\) takes values in \(\{0,1\}\), the images of \(r\) are idempotent. So \(r^3-r\mapsto0\) in \(\mathcal B\), and the map is a ring homomorphism \(\varphi\). By telescoping, \(\sum_ir_{b,i}g_{b,i}\mapsto1-\prod_j(1-g_{b,j})\). So \(P_b\mapsto\prod_j(1-g_{b,j})\), and every companion \(g_{b,i}P_b\mapsto0\), since \(g(1-g)=0\) in \(\mathcal B\). The axioms of \(F'\) contain no \(r\) and are fixed. The image of \(r_{b,i}\) has degree \(2(i-1)\le2(h-1)\), and other variables keep degree one, which is at most \(2(h-1)\) because \(h\ge2\). So \(\deg\varphi(m)\le2(h-1)\deg m\) for every monomial. By induction over the closure steps, \(\varphi(\mathcal C_D(F'+B))\subseteq\mathcal C_{2(h-1)D}(F')\). Generators map to axioms of \(F'\) or to \(0\). A step \(f\mapsto yf\) with \(\deg f\le D-1\) maps to \(\varphi(y)\varphi(f)\), with \(\deg\varphi(f)\le2(h-1)(D-1)\). When \(y\) is not a removed coefficient this is one multiplication, applied to an element of degree at most \(2(h-1)(D-1)\le2(h-1)D-1\), again because \(h\ge2\). When \(y=r_{b,i}\), it is \(2(i-1)\) successive multiplications by affine forms, and the last is applied to an element of degree at most \(2(h-1)(D-1)+2(i-1)-1<2(h-1)D\). Finally \(\varphi\) fixes \(\mathbb F_3[x,s]\). \(\square\)

For two-input blocks the factor is 2, while the losses observed above and in the refutation entry are one degree. Lemma FA is the ternary first-active form of the recorded binary rank-two substitution \(r=(1,1+g_1)\). It complements the degree-factor low-polar transfer, which at \(p=3\) removes level-one blocks with old-affine inputs of rank \(R\) at factor \(3R+1\) but does not treat selector inputs \(1-L^2\). Lemma FA removes blocks with boundedly many inputs and private coefficients from a source at a constant degree factor, and leaves the remaining blocks in the base. It is useless for blocks with about \(N\) inputs.

Assessment

Gluing is not needed for failure, at rank two. One two-input block over a single quadratic equation on 10 variables reaches at degree 6 what the base reaches only at degree 7. So conservativity fails without gluing. The four failures are at rank two, where Lemma FA bounds the cost anyway.
Rank three and above. No block with three to six inputs rose. The discriminating evidence is only the 13 higher-rank instances over the four bases where two-input blocks rose, with three bases for each \(h\ge4\); the other 21 instances with \(h\ge3\) are over bases where no block rose. The three one-block-base instances of the refutation entry, with three-input blocks, were also conservative. All multi-block failures there also had two-input fresh blocks. A refined route would remove low-rank blocks by substitution first and ask conservativity only for blocks of rank at least three. That refinement is not conjectured here. All the evidence is at \(D=6\), one degree above the companions. In the binary record the loss grows with rank, so higher-rank blocks may simply need more degree to show a loss.
Relation to the goal. The window's blocks have rank about \(N\). Suppose the two-input blocks of a compiled source are level-one with private coefficients feeding no other block. Lemma FA then removes them, taking degree \(11\) to \(22\). A multi-block rank-at-least-three form of conservativity, over PHP plus the remaining blocks at degree \(22\), would then suffice, since \(22\) lies far below the PHP degree lower bound. That step leaves the window's blocks of rank about \(N\) untouched, and they are the whole difficulty. Nothing here bears on PHP directly.

Sheaf check

The restriction of augmented closures to old variables changes already for one two-input block over a nontrivial base. For ranks three to six it did not change in any test: 13 discriminating instances, all at \(D=6\).

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test the rank-at-least-three form where the evidence is weakest. Run fresh blocks with three and four inputs at \(D=7\) over the bases unsaturated there, and three-input fresh blocks over multi-block bases whose blocks have three inputs, at \(D=6\) and \(D=7\), counting saturation first. Use at most four workers, since the host has 14 GB in total. A rise refutes the refinement. No rise at \(D=7\) makes it worth formulating, with a search for a mechanism that separates rank two from rank three.

Verification gate. Re-read the refutation entry, the route review, the binary rank-two substitution and the low-polar transfer statement. Searched the record with tools/search-claims.py for single-block conservativity over hard bases and for first-active or Fermat-prefix substitutions; the closest records are the binary rank-two substitution, the low-polar transfer (old-affine inputs, degree factor \(pR+1\)) and the constant-row clamp. None treats selector inputs \(1-L^2\), and Lemma FA is labelled as their ternary selector counterpart. Checks run: the controls, their regression after the change to packed counting, and the witness checks. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the new script, every number against the stored files, and the remark with its proof. Its verdict: the code and the counts are right, and the substitution argument is correct. It required a rerun of the \(D=6\) batch with the final script, which reproduced everything. It also required the source of the \(D=7\) gaps, calling the saturated bases soundness checks, and precise hypotheses for the lemma: the step rule, private coefficients, and the remaining blocks placed in the base. It asked for the lemma to be labelled a refinement of the low-polar transfer and registered, for the rank evidence to be narrowed to the 13 discriminating instances, and for conditions on the route sentence. All were adopted. A second fresh-context reviewer, given only the lemma, found no mathematical error. It required stating where \(h\ge2\) is used, weakening the level and completeness hypotheses, a justification of the field images, and a corrected comparison with the low-polar transfer. All were adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	30 min 26.60 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	13 min 41.54 s
Individually measured computation	16 min 40.27 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	4.79 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Three-input fresh blocks also lose a degree over bases of three-input blocks, at \(D=6\) and \(D=7\)

22 September 2026 · Refutation (finite check) · Refutes the rank-at-least-three refinement of fresh-block conservativity. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Three-input fresh blocks also lose a degree over bases of three-input blocks, at \(D=6\) and \(D=7\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-rank-three-conservativity-refuted.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The single-block entry found losses only for two-input blocks, which Lemma FA removes at degree factor two. It proposed to test the refinement that fresh blocks with at least three inputs are conservative, where the evidence was weakest: over multi-block bases, and at \(D=7\). A rise in an unsaturated instance refutes the refinement.

Setting and counts

The tool, closure and checks are those of the refutation entry. Each base has two complete three-input blocks on \(v=5\) or \(v=6\) Boolean variables, with forms independent within each block and deterministic seeds. The fresh block has three inputs. The saturation count came first. All twelve bases (six per \(v\)) are unsaturated at \(D=6\), with gaps 12 to 77, and eleven are unsaturated at \(D=7\), with gaps 1 to 105. The full spaces have 19241 and 26584 monomials at \(D=6\), and 43100 and 62341 at \(D=7\). The \(D=7\) runs used the three largest-gap bases on 5 variables (gaps 22, 25, 22) and the two largest on 6 (98, 105).

Results

\(v\)	\(D\)	Instances	Unsaturated	With a rise	Gaps	Rises
5	6	6	6	2	12–35	4, 1 (others 0)
6	6	6	6	6	40–77	5, 3, 3, 7, 15, 10
5	7	3	3	0	22–25	0
6	7	2	2	2	98, 105	8, 2

Every rise is within its gap. The witness script witness2.py checks the new elements with the same tests as before. It vectorizes the soundness check and extracts only the existing-variable rows from a packed echelon form, so that it runs at 62341 monomials. At \(D=6\) it checked three instances (6 variables, seed 4; 5 variables, seeds 2 and 5): 20 new elements of degree 6, with 2043 to 2698 terms, all vanishing on every base solution and all in \(\mathcal C_7(\text{base})\). At \(D=7\) it checked both instances on 6 variables: 10 new elements of degree 7, with 6877 to 7336 terms, all vanishing on every base solution and all in \(\mathcal C_8(\text{base})\). All three witness files were produced by the committed script. An earlier version re-echeloned after every chunk and spanned the same space. On the two instances on 5 variables, the committed script reproduced the reviewed witness.py path exactly, including term counts.

Claim

Refutation (finite check). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), there are Boolean bases of two complete accuracy-one selector blocks with three inputs each on 6 variables, and fresh complete three-input blocks, such that \(\mathcal C_D(\text{base}+B)\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}]\supsetneq\mathcal C_D(\text{base})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}]\) at \(D=6\) and at \(D=7\). Every checked new element lies in \(\mathcal C_{D+1}(\text{base})\). So the refinement "fresh blocks with at least three inputs are conservative" is false in the multi-block setting that the induction needs.

What the tests now show

Every loss verified in these three entries is exactly one degree, for two- and three-input fresh blocks, at \(D=6\) and \(D=7\).
Whether a fresh block gains depends on the base, not only on its own rank. Over single random equations, blocks with three to six inputs never gained. Over bases made of blocks, three-input blocks gained in 8 of 12 instances at \(D=6\).
At \(D=7\), both instances on 6 variables rose (by 8 and 2, against rises of 5 and 10 at \(D=6\)). None of the three on 5 variables did, including the two that rose at \(D=6\). These five instances were selected by gap, so they indicate no trend.

Assessment

Exact conservativity fails in every tested form: the stated C3, the single-block form (at rank two), and the rank-at-least-three refinement (at rank three). Fresh blocks of rank four or more over bases of blocks were not tested. The route review's decision rule therefore applies: the line gives way to mechanisms that tolerate block consequences. Two such directions remain, and neither has a mechanism. One is a lag that does not accumulate along the induction. The other is a bound for all blocks at once, \(\mathcal C_{11}(\mathrm{PHP}+\text{blocks})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{old}]\subseteq\mathcal C_{g}(\mathrm{PHP})\) with \(g=o(N)\) uniformly in rank. Lemma FA gives this with \(g=22(h-1)\), which is useless at rank about \(N\). Prospects of the conservativity line: weak. Its exact forms are closed for fresh ranks two and three, and nothing suggests that larger ranks behave better over bases of blocks.

Sheaf check

No restriction map of augmented closures to existing variables is stable under adding a block of rank two or three over a base of blocks. In every witnessed instance the obstruction is one degree.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): a route review of the window line now that exact conservativity is closed. It should weigh the two lag-tolerant directions above against the recorded weight and product-split mechanisms and the pause review's restart conditions, and decide which necessary implication the next cycles attack. Among the options is an accumulation test on the three-input bases on 6 variables. They are unsaturated at \(D=7\), but the test is nonvacuous only if the degree-\(\le6\) part of \(\mathcal C_7(\text{base})\) is, and that must be counted first.

Verification gate. Re-read the single-block entry, Lemma FA, the refutation entry and the route review. The saturation count preceded the runs. Witnesses were checked on five of the ten rising instances, at two degrees: 30 new elements, all sound, each entering the base closure exactly one degree higher. The leaner witness path was regression-tested against the reviewed one. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the witness script and every number against the files. Its verdict: the code is right and the numbers match, except the description of the \(D=7\) selection. It required that correction, the provenance of each witness file (all three were then regenerated with the committed script), dropping a trend claim that rested on selected instances, and limiting the scope to fresh ranks two and three. All were adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	126 min 31.53 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	6 min 57.93 s
Individually measured computation	119 min 28.66 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	4.93 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: after exact conservativity, the one live hypothesis is a uniform one-degree lag, which exact PC tests cannot reach

22 September 2026 · Route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer · No external mechanism; PC lag tests are almost always vacuous; next: Nullstellensatz-level loss against rank. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: after exact conservativity, the one live hypothesis is a uniform one-degree lag, which exact PC tests cannot reach”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-window-lag-route-review.

The line's general claim. The window can be closed by controlling what the compiled blocks add to the degree-\(11\) closure over PHP. Its exact form, fresh-block conservativity, is closed for fresh blocks of two and three inputs (refutation, single block, rank three). What the goal needs from this line is a bound for all blocks at once, \[ \mathcal C_{11}(\mathrm{PHP}+\text{blocks})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{old}]\subseteq\mathcal C_{g}(\mathrm{PHP}),\qquad g=o(N), \] uniform in rank, or an induction whose losses do not accumulate. Its first case, one dense block of rank \(\Theta(N)\), is the pause review's decisive calibration. Lemma FA gives the bound only with \(g=22(h-1)\).

Evidence

Every loss verified so far is exactly one degree. That covers fresh blocks with two and three inputs, at \(D=6\) and \(D=7\), over bases of blocks and over single random equations. Blocks with three to six inputs over single random equations did not lose at all. In the binary record, losses over a second-level base grow with rank: zero, one and two degrees at ranks two, three and four.

Falsification attempts

Does outside work supply a mechanism? This is the pause review's third restart condition, and it is not met. A search on 22 September 2026 found the following:
- Part and Tzameret, Resolution with counting: exponential tree-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_F)\) bounds for PHP over every field, and DAG-like bounds over \(\mathbb Q\) for subset sum.
- Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson: regular \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\).
- Impagliazzo, Mouli and Pitassi, PC with extension variables over finite fields: size bounds when each extension variable depends on \(O(\log n)\) original variables.
- This project's own bit-PHP \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) paper, over \(\mathbb F_2\).
The window's block coefficients depend on dense forms of rank about \(N\), outside every one of these.
Can exact PC tests separate a uniform one-degree lag from a lag that grows with rank? Almost never at reachable sizes. A loss of two degrees at \(D=6\) is detectable only if the degree-\(\le6\) part of \(\mathcal C_7(\text{base})\) is below the semantic space. The script lowgap.py finds that part saturated in 25 of 26 two- and three-block bases with two-input blocks, and in 11 of 12 bases of three-input blocks. Each exception has gap 2.
The one probe. On the exception among the three-input bases (6 variables, seed 0), fresh blocks with four and with five inputs were run at \(D=6\). The script witness2.py found 4 and 1 new elements respectively, all sound and all in \(\mathcal C_7(\text{base})\): losses of one degree, where two would have been visible. A three-input block over the same base lost one degree on 5 dimensions. This is consistent with a uniform lag, but it rests on one base with room for only two dimensions.

Assessment of this line

Weak, but not closed. The exact forms are closed. The surviving hypothesis would suffice if true for PHP: adding any number of blocks, of any rank, costs at most one degree. It is consistent with every PC test, but PC tests can almost never falsify it, and it has no mechanism. The binary rank dependence counts against it. Refining the PC experiments further would add cases, not decide the hypothesis.

Next step

Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Measure the loss against rank at the Nullstellensatz level. There a closure is one span with no iteration, NS spaces saturate later than PC spaces, and the recorded binary coefficient criterion has its ternary form in the mixed-moment system. First count, for bases of three-input blocks, how many degrees above \(D\) the NS spaces stay unsaturated. Then measure the least NS degree containing each new existing-variable consequence of fresh blocks with 2 to 6 inputs. If NS losses grow with rank, a uniform PC lag is implausible, and the line closes. The next review should then turn to the calibration by other means. If NS losses stay at one degree while room for more exists, a uniform NS lag bound becomes a statement worth proving through the mixed-moment system.

Sheaf check

No new gluing. The lag, if uniform, would be the additive cost that the sheaf question asked for: one degree per addition, not per block. That is the only form in which this line still bears on it.

Verification gate. Re-read the pause review's restart conditions, the three conservativity entries, Lemma FA and the binary rank-dependent loss record. The literature search is cited above; no paper was downloaded. The counts and the probe used the reviewed scripts, and the probe's base was checked to be the counted one. No reviewer was used for this review, since it adds no mathematical claim.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 28.18 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 27.39 s
Individually measured computation	3 min 56.20 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	4.59 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Fresh blocks add no Nullstellensatz consequences where polynomial calculus gains: the one-degree losses come from reuse

22 September 2026 · Finite check and working proof · NS rises are zero in all 53 tests, while PC gains on the same instances at \(D=6\); Lemma SB bounds one block's loss by \(2h\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Fresh blocks add no Nullstellensatz consequences where polynomial calculus gains: the one-degree losses come from reuse”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-ns-level-no-loss.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The missing implication is a bound on what the compiled blocks add to the old part of the degree-\(11\) closure that does not accumulate over the blocks. The only surviving candidate is a uniform one-degree lag, and exact PC tests almost never have room to see a larger loss. The route review therefore proposed to measure the loss against rank at the Nullstellensatz level. NS spaces stay far from saturation for several degrees, so losses of several degrees are visible there. Its decision rule was the following. NS losses growing with rank would make a uniform PC lag implausible. NS losses fixed at one degree, with room for more, would make a uniform NS lag bound worth proving.

Setting and counts

Here \(\mathrm{NS}_D(G)\) is the span of the reduced products \(mg\) with \(g\in G\) and \(\deg m+\deg g\le D\), in the ring reduced by the Boolean and field axioms. Each generator is charged at the degree of its reduced form, and some companions reduce below degree 5; base and extension use the same convention. The bases are those of the rank-three entry: two complete three-input blocks on \(v=5\) or \(6\) Boolean variables, with deterministic seeds. A fresh block with \(h\) inputs is added. For each instance the script ns_lag.py computes \(X=\mathrm{NS}_D(\text{base}+B)\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{existing}]\) and finds the least \(D'\le D+4\) with \(X\subseteq\mathrm{NS}_{D'}(\text{base})\). The loss is \(D'-D\). It also checks that \(X\) vanishes at every base solution. Every base solution extends to the block (\(r=e_j\) if some \(L_j\) vanishes there, and \(r=0\) otherwise), so this is necessary. It tests \(X\) only, not the base spaces or the completeness of \(X\).

The counts came first. Let the room at \(D'\) be the semantic dimension (degree-\(\le D\) polynomials vanishing on the base solutions) minus \(\dim\mathrm{NS}_{D'}(\text{base})\cap R_{\le D}\). A loss of \(L\) degrees is visible only if the room at \(D+L-1\) is positive.

Bases	\(D\)	Room at \(D,\dots,D+4\) (range over bases)	Monomials, fresh \(h=2,3\)
12 (\(v=5,6\))	6	898–1312, 809–1154, 436–780, 98–317, 0–16	up to 26584 (\(h=3\))
6 (\(v=5\))	8	4620–5346, 2690–3908, 1163–1945, 261–599, 0–48	46121, 84113

So losses of up to four degrees are visible at both \(D=6\) and \(D=8\). The PC closures of the same bases are nearly saturated: PC gaps are 12–77 at \(D=6\) and 0–11 at \(D=8\).

Results

\(D\)	Fresh inputs \(h\)	NS tests	NS rise	PC on the same instances
6	2, 3, 4, 5	40	0 in all	\(h=3\): gains in 8 of 12, by 1 to 15
8	2, 3	12	0 in all	\(h=2\): no gain on the 4 bases with a PC gap
8	4	1	0	not run
8 (control, \(P\) an axiom)	2, 3	2	304 and 87, unsound	—

The full spaces have up to 56285 monomials at \(D=6\), and 46121, 84113 and 146454 for \(h=2,3,4\) at \(D=8\) (counts recorded in ns_fresh_forms.json, together with every fresh block used). Eight pairs of a base and a rank at \(D=6\) were skipped. Drawing a fresh block of that rank redraws the base there, so the script refuses the pair. The three-input blocks at \(D=6\) are the fresh blocks of the rank-three PC runs, drawn from the same seeds. The soundness check passed in every test except the control. A rerun with \(h=2,3,4\) at \(D=8\) on all six bases was stopped by the harness under system memory pressure after eight instances, and it was not restarted. Seven of them repeat instances of ns_losses_r3d8.json with identical zero results. The eighth is the only four-input test (5 variables, seed 3). Its log is kept with the results as ns_losses_D8_rerun_partial.txt. The PC twin at \(D=8\) used the committed tester conservativity.py on the same bases and the same two-input fresh blocks.

What the tests show

The route review's decision rule does not apply. Both of its outcomes assumed that NS losses exist. There are none in any test, at any rank from two to five, with room for losses of up to four degrees. So the NS level cannot measure how the PC loss depends on rank.
The PC losses come from reuse. At \(D=6\), on the same instances with three-input blocks, PC gains in 8 of 12, by up to 15 dimensions, and NS gains nothing. A new PC element is therefore not in \(\mathrm{NS}_D(\text{base}+B)\). Its derivation must multiply lines whose top-degree terms cancelled. The round-by-round probe pc_rounds.py shows how much reuse these closures involve. On the six instances where every nonzero generator has degree 5, the first round of the closure at \(D=6\) is exactly \(\mathrm{NS}_6(\text{base}+B)\), and it holds only 5–7% of the final existing-variable part. On the other six, the first round lacks the higher multiples of the low-degree generators. The closures stabilize after 6 to 9 rounds. The probe reproduces the PC tester's dimensions on all 12 instances. It does not isolate which reuse produces the gain.
At \(D=8\) there is no contrast. The PC twin of the NS tests, two-input blocks over the four bases with a positive PC gap (gaps 1, 3, 6, 11), is conservative on all four. So the \(D=8\) tests show only that NS does not lose either.
NS is much weaker than PC here. At \(D=6\), \(\dim\mathrm{NS}_6(\text{base})\) is 53 to 239, against PC closures of 901 to 1539. At \(D=8\), \(\dim\mathrm{NS}_8(\text{base})\) is 996 to 2413, against 5642 to 7033. So NS conservativity on these bases says little about PC. It does agree with the binary level-one conjecture, which is an NS statement: no fresh block over a base of level-one blocks has shown an NS loss in either characteristic.
A correction to the route review's evidence. The route review counted the binary rank-dependent losses against a uniform PC lag. Those are NS losses over a second-level base, measured by an NS checker. They are not evidence about PC losses over level-one bases, and the ternary NS analogue over level-one bases shows no loss at all. The review's assessment of the line does not rest on this point.

A proved ceiling for one block

Lemma SB (single-block loss, rank-dependent form). Work over \(\mathbb F_3\) with existing variables \(Y\): Boolean \(x\) and further variables \(s\) with \(s^3=s\). Let \(\Gamma_0\subseteq\mathbb F_3[Y]\) be any system. A fresh selector block has inputs \(g_i=1-L_i^2\), \(i\le h\), with \(L_i\) affine in \(Y\), fresh coefficients \(r_1,\dots,r_h\), \(P=1-\sum_ir_ig_i\), and axioms \(g_iP\) and \(r_i^3-r_i\). Let \(\Gamma_1\) be \(\Gamma_0\) with this block. Degrees are joint degrees, and the Boolean and field axioms are available throughout. Then for every \(t\in\mathbb F_3[Y]\): \[ t\in\mathcal C_D(\Gamma_1)\ \Rightarrow\ t\in\mathcal C_{D+2h}(\Gamma_0),\qquad t\in\mathrm{NS}_D(\Gamma_1)\ \Rightarrow\ t\in\mathrm{NS}_{D+2h}(\Gamma_0). \]

Proof. Work in \(\mathcal B=\mathbb F_3[Y]/(x^2-x,\ s^3-s)\), the ring of \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued functions on the points of the cube and field. Each \(L_i\) takes values in \(\mathbb F_3\), so \(L_i^2\in\{0,1\}\), and \(g_iL_i^2=0\) and \(g_i(1-g_i)=0\) in \(\mathcal B\). A product that vanishes in \(\mathcal B\) is a combination of Boolean and field axiom multiples within its own degree.

Specialization. Substitute \(r=c\in\mathbb F_3^h\) in a derivation of \(t\). Lines keep or lower their degree. Multiplication by \(r_i\) becomes multiplication by the scalar \(c_i\), the fields \(r_i^3-r_i\) vanish, the companions become \(g_iP(c)\) with \(P(c)=1-\sum_ic_ig_i\), and \(t\) is unchanged. So \(t\) has a degree-\(D\) derivation (or certificate) from \(\Gamma_0\cup A_c\), with \(A_c=\{g_iP(c)\}_i\).
Weighting. Let \(w\in\mathbb F_3[Y]\) have degree at most \(e\), with \(wa=0\) in \(\mathcal B\) for every \(a\in A_c\). Multiply every line of the specialized derivation by \(w\). An axiom \(a\in\Gamma_0\) becomes \(wa\), which is derived from \(a\) by multiplications within degree \(\deg a+e\le D+e\). An axiom in \(A_c\) becomes \(0\). Linear combinations commute with the weighting, and a step \(f\mapsto yf\) with \(\deg f\le D-1\) becomes \(wf\mapsto y(wf)\) with \(\deg(wf)\le D+e-1\). So \(wt\in\mathcal C_{D+e}(\Gamma_0)\). For a certificate \(t=\sum_km_ka_k\), the same multiplication gives \(wt\in\mathrm{NS}_{D+e}(\Gamma_0)\).
Input annihilation. For \(c=e_j\), \(P(e_j)=1-g_j=L_j^2\) and \(A_{e_j}=\{g_iL_j^2\}_i\). With \(w=g_j\) of degree 2, \(g_j\cdot g_iL_j^2=g_i\cdot g_jL_j^2=0\). So \(g_jt\in\mathcal C_{D+2}(\Gamma_0)\) for every \(j\).
Zero specialization. For \(c=0\), \(A_0=\{g_i\}_i\). With \(w=M=\prod_j(1-g_j)\), of degree at most \(2h\), \(Mg_i=0\). So \(Mt\in\mathcal C_{D+2h}(\Gamma_0)\).
Assembly. Expanding \(M=\sum_S(-1)^{|S|}g_S\) gives \(t=Mt+\sum_{S\ne\varnothing}(-1)^{|S|+1}g_St\). For \(S\ne\varnothing\) take \(j\in S\). Then \(g_St=g_{S\setminus j}\,(g_jt)\) comes from \(g_jt\in\mathcal C_{D+2}(\Gamma_0)\) by \(|S|-1\) multiplications by inputs, each done as \(g_iF=F-L_i(L_iF)\) with two multiplications by the affine form \(L_i\). Every element multiplied along the way has degree at most \(D+2|S|-1\le D+2h-1\), since \(\deg t\le D\). So \(t\in\mathcal C_{D+2h}(\Gamma_0)\). The NS case is the same identity, since NS spaces are closed under multiplication at the cost of degree. \(\square\)

Relation to the record. Lemma SB is a refinement of two recorded results, not a new method. Steps 1–3 are the first stage of the recorded old-consequence transfer at \(\alpha=1\): specialize \(r=e_j\) and weight every PC line. The weight is \(g_j\), of degree 2, instead of \(\chi_1(g_j)=1-(g_j-1)^2\), of degree \((p-1)\delta=4\). This is possible because \(g_j\) takes only the values 0 and 1. Step 4 is that lemma's second stage with the weight \(M\) in place of \(t\). The assembly is the rank-dependent half of the binary specialization bound (\(D+k\delta\), stated there for NS and accuracy \(h\)). Lemma SB differs from that bound in three ways: its inputs must be 0/1-valued, weighting replaces the charged-degree bookkeeping, and it covers accuracy one only. The old-consequence transfer gives a rank-independent PC bound over every \(\mathbb F_p\), \(\max\{D+(p-1)\delta,\ D+\deg t,\ p\deg t\}\), which is \(\max\{D+4,D+\deg t,3\deg t\}\) here. Lemma SB is sharper only when \(2h\) is below \(\max\{4,\deg t,3\deg t-D\}\), that is, for few inputs and targets of high degree. The tested new elements have degree at most \(D\). For them the old-consequence transfer, a PC statement whose second stage reuses a derived line, allows at most \(2D\) extra degrees. Lemma SB allows \(4\) for two inputs and \(6\) for three. At the NS level, which is what the tests below measure, Lemma SB is the only recorded ternary ceiling. Lemma FA treats all blocks at once, at the degree factor \(2(h-1)\). Applied block by block, Lemma SB costs \(2\sum_bh_b\) in total. That is additive in the total rank and useless for the window.

Hypotheses not used. The selector form enters only through \(g_i^2=g_i\) in \(\mathcal B\) and \(\deg g_i\le2\), and affinity of \(L_i\) only through that degree. The fresh field axioms, completeness of the companion set and linear independence of the forms are not used; \(\deg t\le D\) holds automatically.

Precision on the recorded instances

A random form \(ax_k+a\) with \(a\ne0\) never vanishes on the cube. Its input \(1-L^2\) is then identically zero, and its companion vanishes. Every degenerate form found has this shape. The scan covered every recorded instance whose forms are stored: the PC result files, the single-block files, and the NS draws recorded by ns_fresh_forms.py. It found the following.

Three bases of the rank-three entry (5 variables, seed 3; 6 variables, seeds 1 and 2), where one of the two base blocks has effectively two inputs. The last two are among the \(D=6\) PC rises, with 3 each. So two of the eight rank-three rises at \(D=6\) are over such a base. The other six, including every witnessed instance, are not.
One fresh input in a six-input block of the single-block entry, which did not rise.
One fresh input in the small3 instance with seed 0 of the refutation entry, conservative at \(D=6\) and \(D=7\).
One fresh input in the fake-axiom control tiny with seed 1, which rose as a control should.

No fresh block of the NS tests is degenerate. Apart from the control, no instance that rose has a degenerate fresh input. The recorded claims stand, since each is witnessed by instances without degenerate inputs.

Assessment

This cycle does not advance the missing implication. It locates the recorded losses: they are PC effects produced by reuse, with no NS counterpart on the tested bases. That removes the NS level as a place to measure the lag. A uniform PC lag remains the one candidate that would suffice. It still has no mechanism, and exact PC tests can almost never falsify it. The proved single-block costs are additive: \(2h\) by Lemma SB, a factor \(2(h-1)\) by Lemma FA, and the old-consequence transfer's rank-independent charge. None is uniform in the number of blocks. Prospects of the conservativity and lag line: weak. Its decisive question is now a PC mechanism for a loss that does not accumulate, and nothing in the tests points to one.

Sheaf check

At the NS level, the restriction of augmented spaces to existing variables does not change in any test. That is the additive gluing the mixed-moment entry found at the NS level. In PC it changes by one degree. So the NS gluing is consistent with these data, and the PC gluing fails.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): a route review of the window line. Five cycles have left the same implication untouched: a non-accumulating bound on what the blocks add to the old part of the degree-\(11\) closure. The review should decide whether any PC mechanism for a non-accumulating lag is in sight, or whether the window needs a direct construction instead. A direct construction would be a degree-\(11\) functional on old and block variables that annihilates \(\mathcal C_{11}(\mathrm{PHP}+\text{blocks})\) and gives \(1\) the value \(1\), built from the PHP pseudo-expectation. It should weigh these against the pause review's restart conditions.

Verification gate. Re-read the route review's decision rule, the rank-three entry, Lemma FA, the binary specialization bound, the old-consequence transfer and the binary level-one and rank-dependent-loss records. The rank-dependent loss data were confirmed to come from an NS checker. The NS counts preceded the loss runs. The rewritten ns_lag.py was regression-tested against its earlier sparse version (equal row spans on four spaces, equal counts on all 18 bases). The control with \(P\) as an axiom fires. The round probe reproduces the PC tester on all 12 instances. Before drafting Lemma SB, a fresh-context reviewer confirmed that the record has only the binary NS form, and that the ternary statement is a direct transfer. A second fresh-context reviewer checked the lemma and the code; it also brute-forced tiny instances. Its verdict: the proof is correct in PC and NS, and the code computes what it states. It required several corrections, all adopted: crediting the old-consequence transfer's two stages, degree "at most \(D\)" for the new elements, the reduced-degree NS convention, the stated limits of the soundness check, and withdrawing a claim that the first closure round equals \(\mathrm{NS}_6\) on every instance. A third fresh-context reviewer checked every number against the result files and confirmed all but four points, which were corrected: the shape of the degenerate forms and two unlisted instances with them, the count of instances in the stopped run, an unsupported remark on base rounds, and missing records of the NS fresh blocks, now written by ns_fresh_forms.py.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	128 min 48.81 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	16 min 44.26 s
Individually measured computation	111 min 59.91 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	4.64 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 3.

Route review: completeness of resolution refutes every block-count-independent conservativity or lag over PHP; the window needs a size-sensitive mechanism

22 September 2026 · Route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer · Completeness refutes C3-PHP and block-count-independent lags; one block costs at most 4 degrees; next: exclusions plus few arbitrary lines. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: completeness of resolution refutes every block-count-independent conservativity or lag over PHP; the window needs a size-sensitive mechanism”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-block-count-route-review.

The line's general claim. The window can be closed by controlling what the compiled blocks add to the old part of the degree-\(11\) closure over PHP. Its forms were exact conservativity over the PHP base (Conjecture C3, case C3-PHP) and, after the Boolean-base refutations, a uniform lag: any number of blocks of any rank costs a bounded number of degrees. What the goal needs is that no polynomial family of compiled blocks over the full functional linear-row PHP base \(F_N\) has a PC refutation through degree \(11\). The goal is a size lower bound, so the size of the family must enter.

Falsification attempt: completeness

This review asked whether the line's hypotheses are consistent with the completeness of the proof system. They are not. The conclusion below follows at once from the conjecture's own reduction paragraph, which puts no bound on the size of the source. The record never drew it, and the registry still listed C3-PHP as untested.

Observation CR (completeness refutation). Let \(d_N\) be the least \(D\) with \(1\in\mathcal C_D(F_N)\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). By the all-field matching barrier, \(d_N>B\) whenever \(N\ge2B-1\), so \(d_N>11\) for \(N\ge21\). Let \(T_N\) be the number of lines of some resolution refutation of \(\mathrm{PHP}^{N+1}_N\); a complete decision tree gives \(T_N\le2^{N(N+1)+1}\). Then:

there are at most \(T_N\) complete accuracy-one selector blocks over \(F_N\), each with linearly independent single-variable forms, whose union with \(F_N\) has a PC refutation through degree \(11\);
Conjecture C3 fails over the PHP base at every degree \(D\) with \(11\le D<d_N\), for every \(N\ge21\); the degrees \(5\le D\le10\) over PHP and the Boolean case C3-B are untouched;
if \(\mathcal C_{11}(F_N+\text{blocks})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{old}]\subseteq\mathcal C_{11+f(M)}(F_N)\) holds for every family of \(M\) compiled blocks, then \(f(M_N)\ge d_N-11\), where \(M_N\le T_N\) is the number of blocks in (1). In particular no cumulative bound independent of \(M\) holds. The lag review's hypothesis, that adding any number of blocks costs at most one degree, is such a bound and is false over PHP. Lags that accumulate per block, such as one degree per block or Lemma SB's \(2h\), are not contradicted.

Proof. Take a resolution refutation whose clauses are non-tautological and contain each variable at most once; the decision-tree refutation has this form. It is a standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation. Read each literal as an equation \(x-a=0\) with \(a\in\{0,1\}\). Resolving \(C\vee(x-1=0)\) with \(E\vee(x=0)\) by the resolution rule with \(h=(x-1)-x\) gives \(C\vee E\vee(-1=0)\). Simplification deletes the false equation, and contraction merges repeated literals. By the complete-board transfer, the refutation yields at most \(T_N\) complete accuracy-one selector blocks over \(F_N\), with a PC refutation through \(4p-1=11\). Each block's inputs are a basis subset of the line's selectors \(1-L^2\). In a line without the false equation, the selectors \(1-(x-a)^2=1-a^2+2ax-x^2\) of distinct variables are linearly independent polynomials, since each has its own \(x^2\) term. So the basis keeps all of them, and their forms \(x-a\) have independent linear parts. The false equation's selector \(1-(-1)^2\) is zero, so it lies in no basis. The line with it therefore has the same block inputs as its simplification. This proves (1). For (2), add the blocks one at a time in line order. Each is fresh over \(F_N\) and the earlier blocks, with independent forms, and its inputs involve old variables only. If C3-PHP held at some \(D\) with \(11\le D<d_N\), induction would give \(\mathcal C_D(F_N+\text{all blocks})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{old}]=\mathcal C_D(F_N)\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{old}]\), which does not contain \(1\). But \(1\in\mathcal C_{11}(F_N+\text{all blocks})\subseteq\mathcal C_D(F_N+\text{all blocks})\) by (1). For (3), apply the bound to the family of (1) with \(t=1\): \(1\in\mathcal C_{11+f(M_N)}(F_N)\), so \(11+f(M_N)\ge d_N\). \(\square\)

So the conservativity line was false over PHP, at the degrees that matter, from the start. The mixed-moment entry's inference "if C3-PHP held … no refutation through 11 would exist" proves too much: it would exclude refutations of every size. The exact computations tested only the Boolean-base case C3-B, which completeness does not touch, since a Boolean base is satisfiable. Any valid lag bound \(f\) must grow with the number of blocks. With the trivial bound on \(T_N\), \(f\) must reach \(d_N-11\ge N/2-11\) somewhere below \(M=2^{N(N+1)+1}\). What the goal needs is \(f(\mathrm{poly}(N))<d_N-11\).

Falsification attempt: is one dense block the obstacle?

No. The recorded old-consequence transfer with target \(t=1\) removes one fresh block of any rank and accuracy from any base, at a cost of \((p-1)\delta=4\) degrees. Its inputs may be old polynomials of degree at most 2, and its coefficients must be private. So a single random dense block of rank \(\Theta(N)\) is excluded jointly with any exclusion that holds four degrees higher. The pause review's first restart condition, stated for one block, is therefore met by a recorded result, so it does not calibrate what the window needs. The real calibration is the number of window blocks. Removing \(K\) blocks one at a time costs \(4K\), which is additive, as completeness requires.

Assessment of this line

Closed in its block-count-independent forms. Exact conservativity and cumulative lags over PHP are refuted by Observation CR, and the Boolean-base tests could not have detected this. What survives is the correct shape of the problem: a size-sensitive exclusion, with a per-block cost that stays small only for polynomially many blocks. The recorded exclusions are size-sensitive through one matching restriction and a union bound. Examples are subquadratic cell support and sub-fifth row support, both at polylogarithmic degree. Dense window blocks survive such restrictions, and no recorded mechanism replaces the union bound for them. Prospects of the window by recorded methods: weak, as before. The review does not change that verdict, but it removes a false hypothesis and fixes the scale. Each window block costs at most 4 degrees, and a polynomial number of them is the whole difficulty.

Next step

Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Compose the recorded exclusions with the old-consequence transfer. Remove up to \(K\) arbitrary lines' blocks at \(4K\) degrees, then apply an exclusion that holds at degree \(11+4K\). The claim to state and check is an endpoint: polynomial-size refutations in which all but \(K=\mathrm{polylog}(N)\) lines satisfy a recorded exclusion hypothesis, and the remaining \(K\) lines are arbitrary. First search the record for this composition and check that each exclusion holds at degree \(11+4K\) with the block removal preceding its restriction. Then find the largest \(K\) the recorded parameter ranges allow. If the record has no such composition, it would be the first endpoint that admits window lines at all. The gap from polylogarithmically many to polynomially many window lines is then the precise open problem.

Sheaf check

Observation CR says that no gluing with block-count-independent cost exists over PHP, whether for sheaves, conservativity or lags. A good sheaf would have to pay per piece, and the old-consequence transfer is the recorded per-piece gluing, at 4 degrees a block.

Verification gate. Re-read the pause review with its restart conditions, the C3 conjecture and its reduction paragraph, the complete-board transfer and the equation-clause compiler with its rules (resolution, weakening, simplification, contraction and the basis compression of selectors), the all-field matching filtration, the old-consequence transfer, and the NS entry. Searched the record for the completeness argument, for block-count dependence and for few-block results; the closest is the binary additive bound for few fresh blocks over unary PHP, which does not state it. Before drafting, a fresh-context reviewer answered whether the record implies Observation CR and checked the argument. Its verdict: implied by the C3 reduction paragraph but never drawn, and the argument is correct. It required naming the degree range of the refutation, making the clause form explicit, evaluating the bound at the actual number of blocks, and separating cumulative bounds from per-block lags. All were adopted, and the result is recorded as an observation, not a new lemma. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 5.11 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	11 min 44.85 s
Individually measured computation	20.12 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Short refutations of PHP need polynomially many wide lines: per-block elimination composed with the cell-support exclusion

22 September 2026 · Working proof · Polynomial-size refutations of unary PHP need \(\Omega(n^\beta)\) lines of cell support above \(n^{2-\varepsilon}\operatorname{polylog}n\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Short refutations of PHP need polynomially many wide lines: per-block elimination composed with the cell-support exclusion”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-exceptional-lines.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The missing implication is the exclusion of polynomial-size refutations whose lines include polynomially many window lines. The block-count review showed that any mechanism must use the number of blocks. It also showed that one block of any rank costs at most \((p-1)^2\) degrees. It proposed to test how far per-block elimination, composed with a recorded exclusion, can go. The answer is either an endpoint with a stated number of arbitrary lines, or an obstruction in the composition, for example an exclusion that holds only at polylogarithmic degree.

Removing arbitrary blocks: the recorded elimination

No new lemma is needed here. The recorded old-consequence transfer with target \(t=1\) (so \(k=0\)) turns a degree-\(d\) refutation of \(\mathcal G\cup\mathcal E_U\cup\mathcal R_U\) into one of \(\mathcal G\) of degree \(d+(p-1)\delta\). Here \(U\) is one complete block whose inputs have degree at most \(\delta\), whose coefficients occur in no axiom of \(\mathcal G\), and \(\mathcal G\) may contain other blocks' companions. Applied block by block, it removes \(K\) such blocks at total cost \(K(p-1)\delta\). This is the additive charge of the recorded balanced elimination. The removal is valid only while no remaining block's inputs use a removed block's coefficients (compare the later-dependency example). One-level blocks with old inputs, as produced by the compiler, satisfy this. For compiled selector blocks \(\delta=p-1\), so each removal costs \((p-1)^2\), which is 4 at \(p=3\).

The composition

Theorem Y (cell-support exclusion with exceptional lines). Fix a prime \(p\), \(0<\varepsilon\le1\), \(A\ge0\), \(c>0\) and \(0<\beta<\varepsilon/2\). Let \(k\) be the least integer with \(k(\varepsilon-2\beta)>c+1\), and \(T=\max(1,2(k-1))\). For large \(n\), with \(N=\lceil n^\beta\rceil\), put \[ K_n=\left\lfloor\frac{\lfloor (N+1)/2\rfloor/T-(4p-1)}{(p-1)^2}\right\rfloor=\Theta(n^\beta). \] Every standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\), or of its functional variant, with at most \(n^c\) lines has more than \(K_n\) lines whose clause has a union of cell supports larger than \(n^{2-\varepsilon}(\log n)^A\).

Proof. Call a line narrow if its union of cell supports has at most \(n^{2-\varepsilon}(\log n)^A\) cells, and wide otherwise. Suppose a refutation has at most \(n^c\) lines, of which at most \(K_n\) are wide.

Compile. The complete-board transfer applies to refutations of ordinary unary PHP and of its functional variant alike, and compiles over the full functional linear-row PHP base. It gives one complete accuracy-one selector block per line, hence at most \(n^c\) blocks, with a PC refutation of degree \(4p-1\). Each input is literally a selector \(1-L^{p-1}\) of an equation of its line, of degree at most \(p-1\), and the input-basis compression selects actual selectors, so a narrow line's block has all inputs on its line's cell set. This is the same observation as in the cell-support exclusion's own corollary.
Remove the wide blocks. Let \(K\) be the number of wide lines' blocks; \(K\le K_n\), since a line with an empty selector basis has no block. The recorded elimination with \(\delta=p-1\) removes them one at a time. At each step the base still contains the wide blocks not yet removed, which the old-consequence transfer allows. The result is a PC refutation of the base plus the narrow blocks only, of degree \(D'=4p-1+K(p-1)^2\le\lfloor(N+1)/2\rfloor/T\).
Restrict and replay. Apply the proof of the cell-support exclusion to this refutation. Its restriction is a uniform partial matching leaving \(N+1\) rows and \(N\) columns. A union bound over the at most \(n^c\) narrow blocks gives one restriction with residual matching number below \(k\) in every block, hence a residual vertex cover of size \(s_a\le2(k-1)\le T\). The large-\(n\) threshold of this union bound depends on \(A\) and \(k\), not on any degree. The recorded proof sets \(T=\max(1,\max_as_a)\), but its replay inequalities \(s_a+\delta+\delta_i\le Te_i\) and \(ps_a\le Tp\) need only \(T\ge\max(1,s_a)\), so the fixed \(T\) above is a valid choice. The restriction and the coefficient substitution depend only on the narrow blocks. The eliminated refutation contains no variable of a removed block, since the old-consequence transfer specializes them to constants. So the exclusion's hypotheses (complete one-level blocks with old inputs, fresh coefficients, all companions and fields, common support) are checked on exactly the narrow blocks. Its coefficient substitution then replays any PC proof of degree \(D'\) as an old functional-PHP proof of degree at most \(TD'\), with no factor for the number of blocks.
Contradiction. Put \(B=\lfloor(N+1)/2\rfloor\). Then \(N\ge2B-1\) and \(TD'\le B\), so the all-field matching barrier excludes the residual refutation.

The recorded exclusion is stated for polylogarithmic degree. Its proof gives the linear replay bound \(TD\) for every \(D\), and the final cutoff \(TD\le B\) is the only place the degree enters. \(\square\) The proof works for every \(0<\varepsilon<2\), and \(c\ge0\) suffices. For \(\varepsilon>1\) the statement is trivial. Every refutation contains all \(n+1\) pigeon clauses as lines: dropping one leaves a satisfiable set, and the system is sound. Each pigeon clause has \(n\) cells, more than \(n^{2-\varepsilon}(\log n)^A\) when \(\varepsilon>1\), and \(n+1>K_n\).

What it gives

As far as the record shows, the first endpoint that admits arbitrary lines. The exceptional lines may be window lines, dense lines or anything else. For \(\varepsilon=1\), a polynomial-size refutation needs \(\Omega(n^\beta)\) lines whose cell support exceeds \(n\operatorname{polylog}n\), for every fixed \(\beta<1/2\). The constant depends on \(p\), and on \((c,\varepsilon,\beta)\) through \(T\), which grows as \(\beta\to\varepsilon/2\).
Where it stops. The count of tolerated wide lines is at most the residual PHP degree, about \(N/2\le n^{1/2}\), because each removal costs a constant. Observation CR shows that some growth with the number of blocks is unavoidable; per-block removal grows linearly. The window problem is now quantitative: a refutation with polynomially many window lines, more than \(n^{1/2}\), is not excluded.
Other exclusions. The same composition applies to any exclusion that meets four conditions. Its restriction and substitution are chosen independently of the proof degree. The compiled narrow blocks meet its block hypotheses. It replays a degree-\(D\) refutation at a degree \(\varphi(D)\) that is monotone in \(D\). And it ends with the barrier at a cutoff \(B\). It then tolerates \(K\) exceptional lines while \(\varphi(4p-1+K(p-1)^2)\le B\). The row-support exclusion's replay degree \(sD_*\) goes through its row-state expansion. How that depends on the proof degree is not checked here, so no count is claimed for it.

Assessment

This is a real but modest step: a quantitative refinement of the cell-support exclusion, proposed with polylogarithmic \(K\) in the block-count review and proved here with \(K=\Theta(n^\beta)\). It turns the review's scale argument into a stated endpoint, and it shows that the cell-support exclusion tolerates a polynomial number of arbitrary lines, not only a polylogarithmic one. It does not touch the window's core. Per-block removal can never absorb more exceptional lines than the residual PHP degree allows. Excluding polynomially many window lines still needs a mechanism that handles many dense blocks together, and none is recorded. Prospects of the window line: weak, unchanged.

Sheaf check

The recorded elimination is the per-piece gluing, at \((p-1)^2\) degrees a piece. Theorem Y glues it to one restriction-based exclusion. The composition works because the removals happen before the restriction and the exclusion's replay is linear in the degree. No gluing of the exceptional pieces among themselves is used.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): determine the replay degree of the other recorded exclusions as a function of the proof degree, starting with Corollary ND, whose class, nonlocal dimension below \(N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\) per line, lies next to the window. An exceptional-line count for Corollary ND would say that a polynomial-size refutation needs polynomially many lines of large nonlocal dimension, which are window or dense lines. That is the quantitative form of the window problem. Excluding more than about \(\sqrt n\) such lines needs a mechanism charging a window block less than a constant, for example one that removes many blocks together using structure a single restriction exposes. Random dense forms keep matching number about \(N\) under any matching restriction, so no residual-cover count can supply it.

Verification gate. Re-read the old-consequence transfer (statement, hypotheses and the case \(t=1\)), the balanced-elimination record, the later-dependency example, the complete-board transfer and the equation-clause compiler's compression paragraph, the cell-support exclusion with its full proof, and the all-field matching filtration. Searched the record for the composition under the elimination and exclusion names. A first fresh-context reviewer, asked whether the record implies the result, found the per-block elimination already recorded, so it is cited rather than restated as a lemma. It also found the composition only proposed, with polylogarithmic \(K\), in the block-count review. It asked to confirm one block per line, accuracy one, input degree \(p-1\) and the functional base for ordinary PHP; all hold and are now stated. A second fresh-context reviewer tried to break the proof and found no break. It required clarifications of the choice of \(T\), the order of elimination and restriction, the count \(K\), the unused hypothesis \(N+1\ge B\) and the role of \(\varepsilon\le1\). It also required replacing an unproved \(n^{1/2-o(1)}\) claim by \(\Omega(n^\beta)\) for each fixed \(\beta\). All were adopted. No computation was run.

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Total instrumented interval	10 min 4.05 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	9 min 51.28 s
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Short refutations need about \(\sqrt{n}\) lines of large nonlocal dimension: wide blocks removed after the common weight

22 September 2026 · Working proof · Polynomial-size \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of PHP need \(\Omega(\sqrt{n/\log n})\) lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Short refutations need about \(\sqrt{n}\) lines of large nonlocal dimension: wide blocks removed after the common weight”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-nonlocal-exceptional-lines.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The missing implication is unchanged: exclude polynomial-size refutations that contain polynomially many window lines. Theorem Y admits \(\Theta(n^\beta)\) arbitrary lines, \(\beta<1/2\), on top of the cell-support exclusion. Its next step asked for the same count for Corollary NDp, whose class, lines of nonlocal dimension at most \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\), lies next to the window. The task is to find how each step of the quotient-rank chain depends on the proof degree, and where the wide blocks are best removed. The test ends with a count, or with a step whose parameters depend on the proof degree.

How the chain depends on the proof degree

Fix an odd prime \(p\) and put \(\delta=p-1\). The chain of Theorem QRp has five steps. Only the last one depends on the proof degree \(D\).

The complete-board transfer gives one complete accuracy-one selector block per line and a PC refutation through \(4p-1\).
The degree-certified basis conversion does not raise the degree when \(D\ge2p-1\). The rank-one representation raises it to \(\max(D,2p+1)\). Both act block by block, and other blocks' axioms pass through unchanged.
The robust graph \(H\) is fixed before the source is seen, in section 4 of the fixed-graph entry: 128 neighbors per row, right degree at most \(\lceil(\ln n)^2\rceil\), boundary expansion \(\delta_H=64\) through \(L=\lfloor\gamma n\rfloor\). Its separation ceiling is \(B_H=\lfloor\delta_HL/(4d)\rfloor\) with \(d=128\), so \(\lambda n\le B_H\le n\) for a fixed \(\lambda>0\) and large \(n\). The restriction to \(H\) and the row projection are ring maps, chosen once.
The two-level semantic map chooses one weight \(f\) of degree at most \(k_n\) and coefficient images of degree at most \(T_n\). By the fixed-graph theorem, \(k_n=\lceil\sqrt{s\ln(16(M+1))/A_0}\rceil\), where \(s\le128(n+1)\) is the number of nondistinguished edges, \(A_0=2d\Delta\ge256\), and \(M\) is the number of parent affine cores and unused bottom tuples. The map degree is \(T_n=\max\{\tau,\,T_A+1+\delta'\max_a(\ell_a-1)_+\}\) with \(T_A=(p-1)(4A_0+1)k_n\). These depend on the graph, on \(M\) and on the blocks' quotient ranks, not on \(D\).
Step 4 of that map, the global substitution, replays a degree-\(D\) proof as a derivation of \(f\) over the projected graph base through \(T_nD+k_n\). Separation needs \(T_nD+k_n\le B_H\). Coefficient fields cost \(pT_n+k_n\), which is at most \(T_nD+k_n\) because \(D\ge4p-1\ge p\), so there is no further additive term.

So the degree enters only through the replay \(T_nD+k_n\). There are two places to remove the wide blocks. Removing them before the map, as in Theorem Y, costs \(\delta^2\) proof degrees per block, and each proof degree costs \(T_n\) after the map. This gives the count \(n^{\min(1/2,\delta\varepsilon)}/\operatorname{polylog}n\), and is not recorded further. Removing them after the map costs only the weight's degree \(k_n\) per block, which is better for every \(\varepsilon\).

The theorem

Theorem NDX (nonlocal-dimension exclusion with exceptional lines). Fix an odd prime \(p\), \(\delta=p-1\), \(\varepsilon>0\) and \(c>0\). There is \(C>0\), depending only on \(p\) and \(c\), such that for all sufficiently large \(n\) the following holds. Every standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\), or of its functional variant, with at most \(n^c\) lines has more than \(C\sqrt{n/\ln n}\) lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/\delta-\varepsilon}\). Nonlocal dimension is as in Corollary ND.

Proof. Call a line narrow if its nonlocal dimension is at most \(n^{1/\delta-\varepsilon}\), and wide otherwise. Suppose a refutation has at most \(n^c\) lines, of which \(K\) are wide.

Compile. The complete-board transfer gives at most \(n^c\) complete accuracy-one selector blocks over the full functional linear-row base, one per line, and a PC refutation \(\Pi\) through \(4p-1\). Each block's inputs are selectors \(1-L^\delta\) of equations of its line. Call a block narrow or wide according to its line; at most \(K\) blocks are wide.
Convert the narrow blocks. By the proof of Corollary NDp, each narrow block has \(r_a\le2^\delta n^{1-\delta\varepsilon}\), or \(r_a=O_p(1)\) when its nonlocal dimension is below \(\delta\). For \(\varepsilon\ge1/\delta\) the threshold is below one, narrow lines have only local forms, and \(r_a=0\). Apply the basis conversion and the rank-one representation of Theorem QRp to the narrow blocks only. The wide blocks' axioms pass through unchanged. The ceiling stays \(\max(4p-1,2p+1)=4p-1\).
Restrict, project and map. Restrict \(\Pi\) to \(H\) and apply the row projection \(\Psi\). Both are degree-nonincreasing ring maps. Old axioms go to axioms of the projected graph base \(\Gamma'_H\), each with an old proof through degree two (projection lemma). A wide block goes to a complete one-level block \(W'\) whose inputs are old polynomials of degree at most \(\delta\), with its private coefficients, companions and fields. Build the two-level map from the converted narrow blocks alone, as in the power-range corollary with bottom exponent \(0\) and parent exponent \(\sigma=1-\delta\varepsilon\). Its inventory satisfies \(M\le n^c(1+(2n^2)^{\delta})\). Let \(\sigma\) substitute the narrow coefficients by their images, of degree at most \(T_n\), and fix \(Y\) and every wide-block variable. Replace each line \(\ell\) by \(f\sigma(\ell)\). A monomial with \(j\) narrow coefficient variables and total degree \(e\) maps to degree at most \(jT_n+(e-j)\le T_ne\), since \(T_n\ge1\). So a line of degree \(e\) maps to degree at most \(T_ne+k_n\), and multiplication by any variable, narrow, wide or old, is replayed within \(T_n(4p-1)+k_n\). Narrow companion and field images are certified from \(\Gamma'_H\) through \(T_ne+k_n\) and \(pT_n+k_n\) by step 4. An old axiom or a wide-block axiom \(A\) satisfies \(\sigma(A)=A\), and \(fA\) is a legal multiple of degree \(\deg A+k_n\). This parallels the replay of Proposition MX, which keeps the axiom images of a second block class. The result is a PC derivation of \(f\) from \(\Gamma'_H\) together with the at most \(K\) blocks \(W'\), through \(d_0=(4p-1)T_n+k_n\).
Remove the wide blocks after the map. Apply the recorded old-consequence transfer (BC) with target \(t=f\), to one wide block at a time. The base consists of \(\Gamma'_H\) and the wide blocks not yet removed. BC needs a Boolean or field equation for every old variable. \(\Gamma'_H\) contains Booleanity in \(Y\), and the remaining wide blocks are complete, so their coefficient fields \(r^p-r\) are present. The removed block's coefficients occur nowhere else. Its inputs, like \(f\), lie in \(\mathbb F_p[Y]\), so BC's domain reductions use Booleanity in \(Y\) only. The target is an old polynomial of degree at most \(k_n\). A derivation of degree \(d\ge pk_n\) becomes one of degree at most \(\max\{d+\delta^2,\,d+k_n,\,pk_n\}=d+\max(\delta^2,k_n)\). Since \(T_n\ge T_A\ge k_n\), the starting degree satisfies \(d_0\ge pk_n\). After \(K\) removals, \(f\) is derived from \(\Gamma'_H\) through \(d_K=d_0+K\max(\delta^2,k_n)\).
Contradiction. The ceiling \(d_K\) is at least two, so the proof lifts to \(\Gamma_H\) with the same ceiling. The fixed-graph separation lemma applies at \(k=k_n\) for large \(n\). Its conditions (FG-pairs) hold: \(k_n(A_0+1)/s=O(n^{-1/2}(\ln n)^{5/2})\to0\), \(z=8ed^2\Delta k_n/(\delta_Hs)=O(n^{-1/2}(\ln n)^{5/2})\), \(\xi=emz^{\delta_H/4}=emz^{16}=O(n^{-7}\operatorname{polylog}n)\to0\), and \(k_n\le m-L\) since \(k_n=o(n)\). Also \(B_H\ge d\) for large \(n\). So \(f\), a nonzero combination of good degree-\(k_n\) monomials, is separated from \(\mathcal C_B(\Gamma_H)\) for \(k_n\le B\le B_H\). Since \(k_n\le d_K\), this forces \(d_K>B_H\).
Arithmetic. By the fixed-graph formula, \(k_n\le\sqrt{(c+2p)\,n\ln n}\) for large \(n\), using \(s\le128(n+1)\), \(A_0\ge256\) and \(\ln(16(M+1))\le(c+2\delta+1)\ln n\). Also \(T_A\le5(p-1)A_0k_n=O(\sqrt{A_0s\ln(16(M+1))}+A_0)=O(\sqrt n(\ln n)^{3/2})\), using \(A_0\le256\lceil(\ln n)^2\rceil\). With rank-one bottoms and accuracy one, \(\tau=\max(1,p-2)\), \(\delta'=\delta\) and \((\ell_a-1)_+\le\delta c_a\le\delta r_a\). Hence \(T_n=O_p(\sqrt n(\ln n)^{3/2}+n^{1-\delta\varepsilon})=o(n)\), so \((4p-1)T_n+k_n\le B_H/2\) for large \(n\). Also \(k_n\ge\sqrt{s\ln16/A_0}\ge\sqrt{127(n+1)\ln16/(512(\ln n)^2)}\), which exceeds \(\delta^2\) for large \(n\). Then \(d_K>B_H\) forces \(K>(B_H/2)/k_n\ge(\lambda/2)\sqrt{n/((c+2p)\ln n)}\). Take \(C=\lambda/(2\sqrt{c+2p})\); logarithms are natural. \(\square\)

"Sufficiently large" depends on \(p\), \(c\) and \(\varepsilon\), through \(T_n=o(n)\) and the fixed-graph conditions. Only \(\varepsilon>0\) is used, for \(T_n=o(n)\); values \(\varepsilon\ge1/\delta\) give weaker statements, about lines with a nonlocal form. The count does not depend on \(\varepsilon\), only the threshold does. With \(\varepsilon\) small, a polynomial-size refutation needs \(\Omega(\sqrt{n/\ln n})\) lines whose nonlocal dimension is almost \(n^{1/(p-1)}\). At \(p=3\), these are lines with more than \(n^{1/2-\varepsilon}\) independent nonlocal forms.

The limit of per-block removal

Observation. With the recorded fixed-graph weight and the recorded accounting, neither order of removal certifies more than \(O(\sqrt n\,\ln n)\) exceptional lines. The weight \(f\) is a nonzero combination of good degree-\(k_n\) monomials, so \(\deg f=k_n\). After the map, BC's recorded bound charges at least \(\deg f=k_n\) per removal, through its second stage, which weights every line by the target. The actual degree increase may be smaller, since that stage first sets the removed coefficients to zero, but the proof above cannot certify more. Before the map, BC charges \((p-1)\) times the input degree, which is exactly \(\delta^2\) because wide inputs come from nonconstant forms. After the map each proof degree costs \(T_n\), so the charge is \(\delta^2T_n\ge k_n\). The weight's own counting needs \(A_0k_n^2/s\ge\ln(16(M+1))\ge\ln16\), so \(k_n\ge\sqrt{s\ln16/A_0}\ge c'\sqrt n/\ln n\), using \(s\ge127(n+1)\) and \(A_0\le256(\lceil(\ln n)^2\rceil)\). Since the budget is at most \(B_H\le n\), there are at most \(n/k_n=O(\sqrt n\ln n)\) removals. Theorem Y stops below the same scale for a different reason: its count is at most the residual PHP degree, about \(N/2\) with \(N=\lceil n^\beta\rceil\) and \(\beta<1/2\). This is a limit of these two constructions, not a lower bound for other methods.

What it gives

A count for the class next to the window. Theorem Y counts lines of large cell support. Theorem NDX counts lines with many independent nonlocal forms, which is the property of window lines, and it holds at every odd prime. Neither implies the other: a line can have small cell support and large nonlocal dimension, and conversely.
Why the order matters. Blocks handled by the common weight cost a maximum over blocks; their number enters only through \(\ln M\) in \(k_n\). Blocks removed one at a time cost a sum. Removing them after the map charges each one the weight's degree instead of the map's multiplier on four proof degrees.
What remains. A refutation with polynomially many window lines, more than about \(\sqrt n\), is not excluded. The window is still the whole difficulty.

Assessment

This is a modest step, of the same kind as Theorem Y. It gives the quantitative form of Corollary NDp and shows that removal after the weight beats removal before it. Like Theorem Y, it is a special case: it refines an endpoint without moving the missing implication. Two consecutive cycles now end at the same square-root scale, for different reasons, so per-block removal is not the mechanism the window needs. In the common-weight framework, the window needs dense blocks to be handled by the map, at a cost that is a maximum over blocks. The recorded parent map costs about the nonlinear quotient rank, and a dense line's rank can be quadratic in its nonlocal dimension. Prospects of the window line: weak, unchanged.

Sheaf check

The common weight is one global section over all narrow blocks, and its cost does not add up over them. The wide blocks are glued on afterwards, one piece at a time, and each piece costs the section's degree. That per-piece cost is where \(\sqrt n\) enters. A good sheaf for the window would have to put dense blocks into the global section.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): a route review. Theorems Y and NDX are refinements of recorded endpoints that leave the missing implication untouched, which calls for a review under the route-check rule. The review should weigh three options. The first is a per-block map for dense blocks inside the common-weight framework, where cost is a maximum over blocks; the question is whether one dense selector block admits a coefficient map of degree \(o(n)\) on the weight's support. The second is a write-up of the partial endpoints under scope-and-review. The third is the thread's other route items.

Verification gate. Re-read the fixed-graph entry (the pair-counting lemma, the fixed-graph theorem with its \(k\), \(R\), \(T\) and ceiling, and the graph class), the two-level semantic map with its step 4 and power-range corollary, the projection lemma, the rank-one bridge, the ternary quotient-rank theorem, Theorem QRp and Corollary NDp, Corollary ND, Proposition MX's replay, the old-consequence transfer (BC) and Theorem Y. Searched the record for exceptional lines, nonlocal dimension and per-block elimination, and for BC with a weighted target. The closest records are Theorem Y and the binary few-fresh-blocks remark, which removes blocks sequentially over the unweighted base. Before drafting, a fresh-context reviewer was asked whether the record implies the result, for the removal-before-map version. It found the result not recorded and implied only through Theorem Y's unchecked template. It asked to show explicitly that the graph, weight and map degree do not depend on the proof degree, to check for additive terms in the ceiling, to derive the count, and to prove or drop the limit remark. All four are addressed above. After drafting, a second fresh-context reviewer, given the draft and excerpts of the fixed-graph theorem, the two-level map, the projection lemma, BC, Theorem QRp and the rank-one bridge, tried to break the proof. Its verdict: the proof holds, and none of H, f, \(k_n\), \(T_n\) or \(M\) depends on the proof degree. It required the (FG-pairs) check at \(k_n\), the monomial count for the replay with wide variables kept, a self-contained argument for keeping the wide axioms, BC's field equations for the remaining wide coefficients, the field-image cost, and an in-proof bound \(k_n\ge\delta^2\). It also found the hypothesis \(\varepsilon\le1/\delta\) unused and asked for a weaker wording of the limit observation. All were adopted, and \(\varepsilon\le1/\delta\) was dropped. No computation was run.

Measured timing
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Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	12 min 17.39 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	6 min 24.01 s
Individually measured computation	8.55 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Route review: per-block removal cannot pass a linear number of window lines, and the window needs a batched mechanism

22 September 2026 · Route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer · Per-block removal is capped at \(O(n)\) window lines; the recorded accounting reaches \(\sqrt n\); no batched mechanism is recorded. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: per-block removal cannot pass a linear number of window lines, and the window needs a batched mechanism”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-per-block-ceiling-route-review.

The line's general claim. Polynomial-size \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutations of PHP can be excluded by combining the recorded exclusions for non-window lines with a mechanism for the window lines, the lines of projected rank of order \(n\). The last two research entries tested the simplest such mechanism: remove each window line's block on its own, and exclude the rest. Theorem Y and Theorem NDX give \(\Theta(n^\beta)\), \(\beta<1/2\), and \(\Omega(\sqrt{n/\log n})\) arbitrary lines respectively. What the goal needs is to tolerate polynomially many window lines, since nothing forces a short refutation to have few of them. By Observation CR, the cost of adding \(M\) blocks must grow with \(M\), but completeness only forces it to reach \(d_N-11\) somewhere below \(2^{O(N^2)}\) blocks. So a cost of order \((\log M)^a\) with \(a\ge1/2\) is consistent with completeness, and it would suffice. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Both entries were refinements of recorded endpoints, which is why this cycle is a review.

Falsification attempts

F1. How far can per-block removal go? Not beyond a linear number of blocks. The recorded exclusions end with a Boolean degree barrier. The matching barrier is at most about half the board, and the graph separation ceiling \(B_H\) is at most \(n\). Each recorded one-block elimination charges at least one degree of that final replay: \((p-1)\delta\ge1\) degrees for target one, and at least \(\deg t\) for a target \(t\). So any such composition tolerates at most \(n\) removed blocks, whatever the order and the exclusion. The recorded accounting gives less: about \(\sqrt n\) in both theorems (limit). The gap between \(\sqrt n\) and \(n\) comes from one step. After the map, the old-consequence transfer's second stage weights every line by the target \(f\), which costs \(\deg f\approx\sqrt n\) per block. In the replayed derivation every use of a block axiom is already a multiple of \(f\), so that stage may be unnecessary. If so, each block costs \((p-1)^2\), and Theorem NDX would give \(\Omega(n)\) window lines, the ceiling. This is a candidate, not a claim; it is the next step.

F2. Can blocks be removed together, at less than the sum of their costs? The recorded attempt, balanced elimination, keeps the additive total. The reason is structural. The first stage for one block weights the current derivation by that block's input selectors. That derivation still contains the other blocks' axioms. Doing the first stages in parallel would make each block's derivation use the others' companions, a circular dependency, and sequential stages multiply their weights. No recorded argument breaks the cycle.

F3. Can a max-type mechanism take window blocks? The two mechanisms whose cost is a maximum over blocks are a common restriction and a common weight. For the first, the calibration argument gives a dyadic random inventory that defeats a common restriction across sizes, and random dense forms keep matching number about \(N\) under matching restrictions. For the second, the window review (F2 there) expects a single random window block to leave no weight in the separated space. That expectation rests on the semi-regular model and general position. The alignment tests found the only departure from general position to be a row collapse that fades as rows grow. The window's two ends are both linear in \(N\): exact prefix maps cost about twice the rank, and the degree barrier is at most \(n\). So the prefix side stops below \(N/40\), and weights are expected to start only near \(10^3N\).

F4. Does outside work supply a batched mechanism? The lag review searched on 22 September 2026 and found none. The published methods for dense linear lines, safe systems and closure, apply to regular or bounded-depth proofs, where the argument follows one path of the proof. They work at linear rank, the window's scale, but not for arbitrary DAG-like proofs.

Assessment of this line

Weak, unchanged. The per-block sub-line is closed at a linear ceiling. It is at \(\sqrt n\) with the recorded accounting and possibly \(\Theta(n)\) with the sharper one, and neither is the polynomial count the goal needs. What remains is a batched mechanism: a joint elimination, or a max-type map for window blocks, with cumulative cost sublinear in the number of blocks. Completeness allows one. Every recorded max-type mechanism fails on window blocks, heuristically for weights and by the calibration argument for restrictions. The recorded joint elimination is additive. The evidence is a proved ceiling for the removal route, and heuristics, not proofs, for the other two.

Next step on the highest-risk item

Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. First settle the per-block sub-line at its ceiling. The lemma to prove says that if a PC derivation of an old target \(t\) uses a fresh block's axioms only through multiples of \(t\), the block is eliminated at \((p-1)\delta\) degrees, keeping that property for the other blocks. Applied after the map in Theorem NDX, it would give \(\Omega(n)\) lines of large nonlocal dimension. It needs the record check and a breaking reviewer. After that, the next cycle should formulate the batched question at its smallest case: whether the first stages of two blocks can share one weighting, and whether the derivation order of the compiled refutation breaks the circular dependency of F2. If neither yields a mechanism, the review after that should weigh the scope-and-review write-up against continuing.

Sheaf check

The removal route glues local sections one at a time, and each gluing costs the per-piece charge; the ceiling says such gluings stop at a linear number of pieces. A useful sheaf would glue many window pieces at once. F2's circular dependency is the obstruction to doing that with elimination stages: each piece's local section is defined only relative to the others.

Verification gate. No result is claimed. Re-read the window review (F1 to F5), the alignment entry, the lag review's literature paragraph, Observation CR, Theorems Y and NDX with the limit observation, and the old-consequence transfer's three stages. Searched the record for elimination from target-weighted derivations and for balanced or joint elimination. The closest records are the balanced-elimination audit and the binary few-fresh-blocks remark. Neither states the weighted form, so it goes through the full gate in its own cycle. No computation was run.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	12 min 0.82 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	10 min 42.54 s
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Target-weighted elimination removes a block at \((p-1)\delta\) degrees: short refutations need \(\Omega(n)\) lines of large nonlocal dimension

22 September 2026 · Working proof · Polynomial-size \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of PHP need \(\Omega(n)\) lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Target-weighted elimination removes a block at \((p-1)\delta\) degrees: short refutations need \(\Omega(n)\) lines of large nonlocal dimension”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-weighted-elimination.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The route review found that per-block removal cannot pass a linear number of window lines. The recorded accounting reaches only about \(\sqrt n\). The gap comes from the old-consequence transfer (BC): after the map of Theorem NDX, its second stage weights every line by the target \(f\), at \(\deg f\approx\sqrt n\) per block. This cycle tests whether that stage is needed when every use of a block's axioms already carries the target. The test ends with a proof of the cheaper elimination, or with a step of BC that the weighting does not replace. The missing implication itself, polynomially many window lines, is not addressed: the ceiling is linear.

The lemma

Setting. Work over \(\mathbb F_p\), as in BC. Let \(Y\) be the old variables and \(\mathcal G_0\subseteq\mathbb F_p[Y]\) a set of axioms that contains the Boolean or field equation of every variable of \(Y\). Let \(U_1,\ldots,U_K\) be complete blocks of any accuracy. Each \(U_b\) has nonzero inputs \(f_{b,i}\in\mathbb F_p[Y]\) of degree at most \(\delta_b\), accuracy \(h_b\), private coefficients \(R_b=\{r_{b,v,i}\}\) disjoint from \(Y\) and from the other blocks, product \(P_b=\prod_{v=1}^{h_b}\bigl(1-\sum_ir_{b,v,i}f_{b,i}\bigr)\), companions \(E_{b,i}=f_{b,i}P_b\) and field equations \(r^p-r\), \(r\in R_b\). Zero inputs are dropped. Fix a target \(t\in\mathbb F_p[Y]\). A \(t\)-weighted leaf of \(U_b\) is a polynomial \(twA\) with \(w\in\mathbb F_p[Y]\) and \(A\) an axiom of \(U_b\). A PC derivation is \(t\)-weighted if it derives \(t\) from \(\mathcal G_0\) and finitely many \(t\)-weighted leaves, each treated as an axiom of degree \(\deg(twA)\). Such a leaf is a legal multiple of \(A\), derivable from \(A\) within \(\deg(twA)\), so a \(t\)-weighted derivation of degree \(d\) is an ordinary PC derivation of degree \(d\) from \(\mathcal G_0\) and the blocks.

Lemma WE (target-weighted elimination). If a \(t\)-weighted derivation has degree \(d\), there is a \(t\)-weighted derivation of degree at most \(d+(p-1)\delta_1\) that uses leaves of \(U_2,\ldots,U_K\) only. Removing all \(K\) blocks in turn gives a derivation of \(t\) from \(\mathcal G_0\) alone through \(d+(p-1)\sum_b\delta_b\).

Proof. Write \(U=U_1\), \(R=R_1\), \(f_i=f_{1,i}\), \(\delta=\delta_1\), and let \(\pi\) be the given derivation.

First stage, as in BC. Run this stage for every input \(f_j\) whose companion occurs in a leaf of \(U\). Fix such a \(j\) and \(\alpha\in\mathbb F_p^\times\). Specialize \(r_{1,1,j}=\alpha^{-1}\), the coefficient of \(f_j\) in the first row, and every other variable of \(R\) to zero; then \(P_U\) becomes \(1-\alpha^{-1}f_j\). Multiply every line of \(\pi\) by \(\chi_\alpha(f_j)=1-(f_j-\alpha)^{p-1}\). Each line gains at most \((p-1)\delta\) in degree, and inference steps stay valid, since specialization is a ring map fixing \(Y\) and the other blocks' variables. A leaf \(twE_i\) of \(U\) becomes \(\chi_\alpha(f_j)\,tw\,f_i(1-\alpha^{-1}f_j)=\alpha^{-1}tw\,f_i(f_j^p-f_j)\) by the polynomial identity of BC. Its degree is at most \(\deg(tw)+\deg f_i+p\deg f_j\le\deg(twE_i)-1+(p-1)\deg f_j\le d+(p-1)\delta\), since \(\deg P_U\ge1+\deg f_j\). It lies in \(\mathbb F_p[Y]\), because \(t\), \(w\) and the inputs do, and it vanishes on the Boolean or \(\mathbb F_p\)-valued domain of \(Y\). So domain reduction certifies it from the equations of \(Y\) in \(\mathcal G_0\) within its own degree; the other blocks' field equations are not needed, and they may stay inside weighted leaves. A field leaf \(tw(r^p-r)\) becomes zero. A leaf \(twB\) of another block becomes \(t(\chi_\alpha(f_j)w)B\), again a \(t\)-weighted leaf, since \(B\) does not involve \(R\) and \(\chi_\alpha(f_j)w\in\mathbb F_p[Y]\). This preservation is what makes the induction on \(K\) valid. Axioms of \(\mathcal G_0\) become legal multiples. The last line is \(\chi_\alpha(f_j)t\). Since \(\sum_{\alpha\ne0}\alpha\chi_\alpha(x)=x\) is a polynomial identity, combining over \(\alpha\) derives \(tf_j\) through \(d+(p-1)\delta\), from \(\mathcal G_0\) and \(t\)-weighted leaves of the other blocks.
Second stage, without weighting. Specialize every variable of \(R\) to zero in \(\pi\) itself. Then \(P_U\) becomes \(1\), so a leaf \(twE_i\) becomes \(twf_i\). Derive it from the line \(tf_i\) of the first stage by multiplying by \(w\), within \(\deg(twf_i)\le\deg(twE_i)\le d\). Field leaves become zero. Leaves of other blocks, axioms of \(\mathcal G_0\) and the target \(t\) do not involve \(R\) and are unchanged. The result derives \(t\) through \(\max(d,d+(p-1)\delta)\), and every block axiom it uses sits in a \(t\)-weighted leaf of \(U_2,\ldots,U_K\). \(\square\)

The proof never uses that the blocks are complete or that their field equations are present: leaves of any subset of a block's axioms are handled the same way. This is BC's first stage followed by specialization. BC's second stage weights \(\pi\) by \(t\), because in general a companion leaf is used without the factor \(t\). Its third stage then removes the square \(t^2\). In a \(t\)-weighted derivation the factor is already present, so both are unnecessary. The charges \(d+\deg t\) and \(p\deg t\) disappear, and the stages do not accumulate: the derivation stays \(t\)-weighted. For \(t=1\) every derivation is \(1\)-weighted, and the lemma is BC's case \(t=1\). The recorded prime-dependent loss is consistent with it: its derivation uses the companion \(x(1-rx)\) without a factor of the target \(x\), so it is not \(x\)-weighted.

The linear count

Theorem NDX′. Fix an odd prime \(p\), \(\delta=p-1\), \(\varepsilon>0\) and \(c>0\). There is \(C>0\), depending only on \(p\), such that for all sufficiently large \(n\) the following holds. Every standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\), or of its functional variant, with at most \(n^c\) lines has more than \(Cn\) lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/\delta-\varepsilon}\).

Proof. Follow the proof of Theorem NDX through its step 3. With \(K\) wide lines, it gives a PC derivation \(\pi_0\) of the weight \(f\) through \(d_0=(4p-1)T_n+k_n\). The derivation is over the projected graph base \(\Gamma'_H\), which contains Booleanity in \(Y\), and the at most \(K\) wide blocks \(W'\). Lemma WE needs three facts about \(\pi_0\). It derives \(f\) from \(\Gamma'_H\subseteq\mathbb F_p[Y]\) and the multiples \(fA\) of wide-block axioms; the narrow images, the projection-lemma proofs and the replayed multiplications are all derived from \(\Gamma'_H\). Each wide axiom \(A\) enters only through \(fA\), taken as a leaf with \(w=1\). And distinct wide blocks have disjoint coefficient sets outside \(Y\), with nonzero inputs in \(\mathbb F_p[Y]\) of degree at most \(\delta\). So \(\pi_0\) is \(f\)-weighted for the target \(t=f\in\mathbb F_p[Y]\), with \(\mathcal G_0=\Gamma'_H\). Lemma WE, applied \(K\) times, derives \(f\) from \(\Gamma'_H\) through \(d_K\le d_0+K\delta^2\), since each charge is \((p-1)\delta_b\le\delta^2\). Step 5 of Theorem NDX then applies unchanged. The proof lifts to \(\Gamma_H\), and the separation of \(f\) through \(B_H\) forces \(d_K>B_H\). By step 6 there, \(d_0\le B_H/2\) for large \(n\). So \(B_H<d_K\le B_H/2+K\delta^2\), and \(K>B_H/(2\delta^2)\). The graph family of the fixed-graph entry (its section 4) has \(L=\lfloor\gamma n\rfloor\) for a fixed \(\gamma>0\), \(\delta_H=64\) and \(d=128\). So \(B_H\ge\lambda n\) for large \(n\), with \(\lambda=\gamma/9\) independent of \(c\) and \(\varepsilon\). Take \(C=\lambda/(2\delta^2)\). \(\square\)

The count now meets the linear ceiling of the route review, up to the constant. It depends on \(c\) and \(\varepsilon\) only through "sufficiently large". The limit observation of Theorem NDX concerned BC's recorded accounting and stands as stated; Lemma WE is a different accounting.

Assessment

The per-block sub-line is now settled up to constants. A polynomial-size refutation needs linearly many lines with more than \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\) independent nonlocal forms, and no per-block argument can ask for more than linearly many. At \(p=3\) this makes the quantitative problem exact up to constants: refutations with at most \(Cn\) lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/2-\varepsilon}\) are excluded, and those with more are open. It is a real improvement, from \(\sqrt n\) to \(n\), but it is a refinement of the same kind as Theorems Y and NDX. The window line's prospects stay weak: what remains is a batched mechanism, and none is recorded.

Sheaf check

Lemma WE is a gluing statement. Once the global section, the weight, is chosen, each window piece glues on at a constant cost, because every piece is already expressed relative to that section. What does not glue is many pieces at once: each piece's first stage is defined relative to the others, which is the circular dependency of the route review.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): pose the batched question at two blocks. Take a \(t\)-weighted derivation with two wide blocks, and ask whether removing both can ever cost less than \(2(p-1)\delta\). If it cannot, find a family that forces the sum. The alternative is a joint first stage that breaks the circular dependency, for example by following the derivation order of the compiled refutation. A forced sum over every base would show that a batched mechanism must use PHP structure. If this gives no mechanism, the following review should weigh the scope-and-review write-up against continuing.

Verification gate. Re-read the old-consequence transfer (setting, statement and all three stages), the prime-dependent loss example, the mixed elimination and clamping audit, the greedy internal-reference transfer, and the proof of Theorem NDX with its limit observation. Searched the record for elimination from target-weighted derivations, for the old-consequence transfer's second stage and for joint elimination. Before drafting, a fresh-context reviewer answered whether the record implies Lemma WE. Its verdict: implied by BC's first stage but never stated, to be recorded as a refinement of BC. The greedy transfer it flagged retains its terminal blocks rather than eliminating them, so it is not a special case. It found no contradiction. It asked for the leaf degree, the use of the equations of \(Y\) only, and the preservation of weighting to be stated; all three are. A second fresh-context reviewer, given the draft, BC in full and the proof of Theorem NDX, tried to break both results and could not build a weighted derivation needing more than \(d+(p-1)\delta\). Its verdict: both are correct. It required writing out \(P_b\) and the row index of the specialized coefficient, running the first stage for every used input, an inequality for the leaf degree, a precise description of \(\pi_0\) instead of "every line is \(f\sigma(\ell)\)", the inequality chain for \(K\), the independence of \(\lambda\) from \(c\) and \(\varepsilon\), and dropping an ambiguous remark on Theorem Y. It also found completeness of the blocks unused. All were adopted; the unused hypothesis is noted rather than removed, so the stated claim is unchanged. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 20.25 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 33.91 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 42.85 s
Individually measured computation	3.35 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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Route review: blocks batch only when their spans nest, and window blocks do not

22 September 2026 · Route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer · The recorded batch theorems need spans nested modulo annihilators; window blocks are not; next: test a reuse-free gluing. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: blocks batch only when their spans nest, and window blocks do not”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-batching-route-review.

The line's general claim. After the common weight, the window blocks can be removed together, at a cost that grows more slowly than their number. What the goal needs is that polynomially many window blocks cost \(o(n)\) degrees in the final replay. Theorem NDX′ reaches the linear ceiling of one-at-a-time removal. The last review asked whether two blocks can ever cost less than the sum, and whether derivation order breaks the circular dependency between their first stages. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer.

Falsification attempt: does the record contain a batched mechanism?

Yes, and it answers the two-block question. The historical nested-span theorem removes a chain of blocks with input spans \(V_1\subseteq\cdots\subseteq V_s\) for one charge \((p-1)\delta\), whatever its length. Its target form, the batch modulo target annihilators (TAB), needs nesting only modulo a space \(H\) with \(tH\) cheaply derivable. The historical core–residual theorem relaxes nesting to nested cores, at a multiplier that grows with the residual rank. These theorems break the circular dependency by nesting. When the current input \(f\) lies in every later block's span, every later block can be specialized to the product \(1-\alpha^{-1}f\) at once. Its companions then become field consequences, not axioms that still need removing. So two blocks cost one charge when their spans nest modulo \(H\), and every recorded argument charges the sum otherwise.

Window blocks do not nest, for two reasons.

What an annihilator space can absorb. After the map, \(H\) must satisfy \(fH\subseteq\mathcal C_c(\Gamma_H)\) for the weight \(f\). It contains the PHP consequences of low degree, which the quotient rank already factors out. For one matching monomial, the affine annihilators are exactly the recorded space \(H_M\), by the rigidity theorem (MAR) of the TAB entry. If \(H\) lies in the PHP consequences plus affine forms, then \(V_a\subseteq V_b+H\) forces the nonlinear quotients to nest. For a window block these have rank up to about \(r^2/2\) at nonlocal dimension \(r\). The record does not characterize nonlinear annihilators of the weight, but nothing in it makes the nonlinear parts of two random dense lines nested modulo annihilators.
Derivation order does not create nesting. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), resolving on equations \(L_A=0\) and \(L_B=0\), with \(L_A,L_B\) affine, produces \(\alpha L_A+\beta L_B=0\) with \(\alpha,\beta\ne0\). Since \(\alpha^2=\beta^2=1\), its selector is \(1-(\alpha L_A+\beta L_B)^2=(1-L_A^2)+(1-L_B^2)-1-2\alpha\beta L_AL_B\). The product \(L_AL_B\) is not in general in the span of the premises' selectors. So a resolvent's span lies in the sum of its premises' spans, the constants and the one product \(L_AL_B\). It drops the resolved selectors, so in general it neither contains nor is contained in a premise's span. Only weakening steps, which add equations, give nested spans.

So the record's batched mechanisms apply exactly to nested or low-residual families, and dense window lines are neither.

What completeness leaves open

Observation CR refutes every block-count-independent PC lag over PHP, because the compiled refutation reuses lines. It does not refute a reuse-free statement. The NS test found that fresh blocks add nothing at the Nullstellensatz level in all 53 small cases, where PC gains. The binary form of that statement is the open level-one conjecture. CR's argument does not apply to an NS form as it stands: it uses the PC compilation, whose degree bound relies on reuse. Whether completeness refutes an NS form independent of the block count depends on the NS degree of compiled refutations, which grows with how deeply lines are reused. Nothing recorded bounds it. If such a statement held, it would batch window blocks for free, but only where they are used without PC reuse. Its possible use is therefore an endpoint in which the cost depends on how deeply window lines are reused, not on how many there are. That use is not formulated yet, and the conjecture is unproved even for one binary block.

Assessment of this line

Weak. Per-block removal is at its ceiling (Theorem NDX′). The recorded batch theorems need nesting, which window blocks lack, and derivation order does not supply it. Max-type weights and restrictions fail on window blocks (last review, F3). The one statement these arguments do not reach is reuse-free gluing. It is a conjecture with small-case support, and it would reach only window lines that are not reused deeply. The user overrode the earlier pause, so window work continues. This review recommends that the next window cycle test that one open possibility, and that the scope-and-review write-up of the partial endpoints (Corollaries ND and NDp, Propositions MX″ and MXp, Theorems Y and NDX′, Lemma WE) be scheduled as the thread's productive alternative.

Next step on the highest-risk item

Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Formulate the reuse-free gluing precisely and test it before any use. The statement is a mixed one: a PC-closed old base, with window blocks used in NS form. The cost to count is the unfolding of window-dependent reuse in the compiled refutation. First check it against completeness: some compiled refutation must lie outside its reach at every size. Then test it at the smallest nonvacuous size against the NS test's bases, stating the count first. If it fails, or its unfolding cost is linear in the number of window lines anyway, recommend the write-up.

Sheaf check

Nested spans are exactly a sheaf condition that glues for free: along a chain, each section restricts to the next, and one global charge covers the chain. Window blocks form an antichain, so there is nothing to glue along. The reuse-free statement is the only remaining gluing that the completeness argument does not reach. At the NS level, sections over different blocks do not interact through reuse.

Verification gate. No result is claimed. Re-read the nested-span and core–residual theorems, the target-annihilator batch theorem with its annihilator rigidity, Observation CR, the NS test and the level-one conjecture's registry record. The two remarks are elementary: the first is linear algebra, and the second expands a square. Searched the record for nested-span, core and target batching, and for antichains and chain covers of blocks; nothing states a batched mechanism for non-nested dense blocks. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 43.98 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 45.72 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 52.12 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 6.01 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Reuse-free gluing would reach only window lines near the conclusion, and it implies a linear depth bound

22 September 2026 · Negative analysis · Unfolding reuse costs about \(2p\) degrees per inference below a window line; the window line's last open possibility gives no size bound. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Reuse-free gluing would reach only window lines near the conclusion, and it implies a linear depth bound”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-reuse-free-gluing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The batching review left one gluing statement that the completeness argument does not reach: fresh blocks used without PC reuse add nothing, independently of their number. It asked to formulate that statement, check it against completeness, and find what it costs to use. The stated rule was to recommend the write-up if the cost of use turned out to be linear.

Formulation

Let \(\mathcal G\) be an old base and \(\mathcal W\) the axioms of fresh one-level blocks. Write \(\mathrm{NS}_d(\mathcal W)\) for combinations \(\sum_Ag_AA\) with \(A\in\mathcal W\) and \(\deg(g_AA)\le d\). The mixed statement (MNS) is: for every old \(t\), if \(t\in\mathcal C_d(\mathcal G)+\mathrm{NS}_d(\mathcal W)\), then \(t\in\mathcal C_{d+c}(\mathcal G)\), with \(c\) independent of the number of blocks. The base may be used with PC reuse; the blocks may not. The NS test supports its pure-NS case at small sizes. The open binary level-one conjecture is a PC statement for one fresh block over level-one bases. The batching review called it the binary form of this statement; more precisely, MNS asks less of each block, which may not be reused, but asks it for any number of blocks. The ternary PC form, Conjecture C3, is refuted.

How a compiled refutation unfolds

The selector compiler works inference by inference. For a resolution step with premises \(A\), \(B\) and conclusion \(T\), it derives \(P_T\) from the completed premise lines through \[ P_T=R_A+r_ft_fR_B+r_fr_gQ,\qquad R_A=P_AP_T+\sum_jr_{A,j}t_jP_T, \] and similarly for \(R_B\). So \(P_A\) enters multiplied by \(P_T\), of degree at most \(p\), and \(P_B\) multiplied by \(r_ft_fP_T\), of degree at most \(2p\). Weakening multiplies the premise by \(P_T\) in the same way. The PC refutation avoids accumulation because it multiplies the completed premise lines, not their derivations. Rewriting it with no reuse of block-dependent lines substitutes each premise's expression into its uses. Along a path of \(\ell\) inferences the multipliers then multiply, so the resulting degree is at most about \(2p\ell\) plus the compiler's ceiling \(4p-1\). This is the standard PC-to-NS conversion, which costs degree times depth; nothing better is recorded.

Check against completeness

Apply MNS with \(\mathcal G=F_N\) and all blocks of a compiled refutation of depth \(h\). The unfolded refutation puts \(1\) in \(\mathcal C_{4p-1}(F_N)+\mathrm{NS}_{O(ph)}(\mathcal W)\). MNS would give \(1\in\mathcal C_{O(ph)+c}(F_N)\). The matching barrier puts \(d_N\) above \((N+1)/2\). So MNS implies that every \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation of PHP, of any size, has depth \(\Omega(N/p)\). Completeness refutes MNS if some refutation is shallower than that; otherwise this argument does not decide it. A linear depth bound is plausible. Closure arguments, recorded for linear systems over \(\mathbb F_2\) on the bit encoding, keep systems of rank below \(cN\) consistent with a partial matching. A form over \(\mathbb F_p\) for unary PHP is not recorded. So MNS is at least as strong as an unrecorded depth lower bound, and its consistency with completeness is open, not settled.

What it would give

Suppose MNS held. After the common weight, the narrow blocks are mapped and may be reused. Every line that depends on a window block has to be unfolded, and each inference between a window line and the empty clause adds about \(2p\) degrees. After the map these degrees are multiplied by \(T_n\approx\sqrt n\) against a budget of about \(\lambda n\). So MNS would batch only window lines within about \(\lambda n/(2pT_n)=\sqrt n/\operatorname{polylog}n\) inferences of the conclusion, together with the \(Cn\) lines of Theorem NDX′ anywhere. A polynomial-size refutation can place its window lines deep in the derivation, and then the unfolding cost is linear in its depth. So the endpoint would be a new special class, of shallow window lines, and not the unrestricted statement. A small computation cannot change this, because the limit is in the unfolding, not in MNS. No computation was run.

Assessment

The last open possibility on the window line does not lead to the goal. It is a conjecture at least as strong as an unrecorded depth lower bound, and even if proved it would reach only window lines near the conclusion. By the rule the review set, the unfolding cost is linear, so this entry recommends the scope-and-review write-up. The window line's prospects remain weak. Every recorded route to it is now closed or conditional:

weights and restrictions, heuristically;
per-block removal, at its linear ceiling;
nesting-based batching, which window blocks lack;
reuse-free gluing, which is limited by depth.

Sheaf check

At the Nullstellensatz level, sections over different blocks do not interact, which is why the test found no loss. The sections still have to be glued along the derivation. Each inference contributes a multiplier, and the gluing cost is the length of the path, not the number of pieces. The window problem needs gluing along arbitrary DAGs at a cost independent of their depth, and no recorded object does that.

Next step

Next step (scope-and-review): write up the partial endpoints as one statement set:

Corollaries ND and NDp;
Propositions MX″ and MXp;
Theorems Y and NDX′, with Lemma WE;
the linear ceiling of per-block removal.

Check each against the ordering and mixed-interface controls, as the route item requires, and list exactly what remains open: refutations with superlinearly many lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\). Restart the window line on any of three events:

a batched mechanism for non-nested dense blocks;
a proof of the level-one conjecture together with a depth-independent way to use it;
outside work on DAG-like proofs with dense linear lines.

Verification gate. No result is claimed. Re-read the selector compiler's resolution and weakening steps, the batching review, the NS test, the level-one conjecture's record, the matching barrier and Theorem NDX′. The implication from MNS to a depth bound uses only the compiler's local form and the barrier. The unfolding bound is the standard conversion and is stated as an upper bound for this compiler, not as a lower bound for every conversion. Searched the record for depth lower bounds of \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin})\) refutations of PHP and for reuse-free or NS-level gluing. None states a depth lower bound for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of unary PHP. The literature context records closure and size bounds for bounded-depth \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) on the bit encoding. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 49.03 s
Marked reading and review windows	55.35 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	57.09 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 56.46 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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Statement set: what is proved about \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of unary PHP, checked against the controls

22 September 2026 · Consolidation · Every recorded endpoint in one list, checked against the ordering and mixed-interface controls, with the exact open case. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Statement set: what is proved about \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of unary PHP, checked against the controls”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-odd-prime-statement-set.

Question. Route item: scope-and-review. The reuse-free gluing analysis closed or made conditional the last recorded route to the window and recommended a write-up of the partial endpoints. The consolidation of the same day predates the mixed endpoints, the all-prime extensions and the exceptional-line theorems. This entry replaces its list. It states each endpoint once with its hypotheses, checks each against the two controls the route item names, and states exactly what remains open. No new result is claimed.

Conventions

The object is ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) and, where stated, its functional variant. Refutations are standard syntactic \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations, with size measured in lines, and with no restriction on width, depth or sharing unless stated. "Excluded" means that for every fixed \(c\), refutations with at most \(n^c\) lines do not exist for large \(n\). Forms are taken modulo the linear row equations. A form is local if it is supported in one row or one column. A line's nonlocal dimension is the dimension of the span of the linear parts of its nonlocal equations. Its cell support is the union of the supports of its forms. Every endpoint compiles the refutation by the complete-board transfer or its weak-base form, one block per line, and ends at a PHP-specific barrier, such as the matching filtration or the separation of a fixed robust graph.

Endpoints in which every line lies in one class

Local lines, \(p=3\): every form row- or column-local (local corollary). It is the case of nonlocal dimension zero of the next item, which holds for every odd \(p\).
Low nonlocal dimension, every odd \(p\): nonlocal dimension at most \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\) (Corollary NDp).
Probes plus row remainders, every fixed \(p\): each line has \(O(\log n)\) affine probes, and each form is a probe combination plus a remainder on \(n^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}n\) rows, \(\alpha<1\) (remainder exclusion). It contains the row-support class.
Column occupancy, every fixed \(p\), weak base: each form is a global affine column-occupancy statistic plus a perturbation inside one column (occupancy exclusion).
Subquadratic cell support, every fixed \(p\): cell support at most \(n^{2-\varepsilon}\operatorname{polylog}n\) (cell-support exclusion).

Endpoints that mix classes

Across lines, \(p=3\): each line lies in the row-support class with \(\alpha<1/5\), or has nonlocal dimension at most \(n^\eta\) with \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\) (Proposition MX). With probes and \(\alpha<1\), this is Proposition MX′.
Within lines: each line splits into a part with shared probes and row remainders and a part of nonlocal dimension at most \(n^\eta\). This is Proposition MX″ at \(p=3\), and Proposition MXp at every odd \(p\), with \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/(4(p-1))\).
The occupancy class does not join these mixtures by composition.

Endpoints that allow arbitrary lines

Theorem Y, every fixed \(p\): a polynomial-size refutation has more than \(\Theta(n^\beta)\) lines of cell support above \(n^{2-\varepsilon}(\log n)^A\), for \(\beta<\varepsilon/2\).
Theorem NDX′, every odd \(p\): a polynomial-size refutation has more than \(Cn\) lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\), with \(C\) depending only on \(p\). It supersedes Theorem NDX.
Both rest on removing blocks one at a time: the old-consequence transfer for Theorem Y, and Lemma WE for NDX′.

Limits of the methods

Observation CR: completeness of resolution refutes every bound on what compiled blocks add over PHP that does not depend on their number.
Per-block removal cannot pass a linear number of window lines (ceiling review); Theorem NDX′ reaches this ceiling up to constants.
The recorded batch theorems need spans nested modulo annihilators, which window blocks lack (batching review).
Reuse-free gluing would reach only window lines near the conclusion (analysis).
Common weights and restrictions are expected to fail on window blocks, heuristically (window review).

Check against the two controls

Ordering control. The balanced minimum source on the graph-ordering principle has one complete block for every node \(S\) of a balanced partition tree and every \(i\in S\): about \(n\log_2n\) blocks with affine inputs. Its source degree is \(O(h\log n)\), while the old PC degree of the expander ordering family is \(\Omega(n)\). So over a general base no elimination can be charged independently of the number of blocks. Every endpoint above ends at a PHP-specific barrier, not at a generic transfer, so the control does not apply to them. The two generic statements are consistent with it. Lemma WE with target one charges \((p-1)\sum_b\delta_b\), about \((p-1)n\log_2n\) on this source. So it bounds the old degree by the source degree plus that charge, which is above the \(\Omega(n)\) lower bound. Observation CR concerns PHP only. The control does add one fact to the limits above. A batched mechanism for window blocks cannot be generic: it must use PHP structure.

Mixed-interface control. The canonical-OR certificates give a binary helper block that gains one degree over a retained second-level base. That is within the per-block charge \((p-1)\delta=1\) of BC and Lemma WE at \(p=2\). The endpoints above remove only one-level compiled blocks, whose inputs are old, so the second-level base of the control does not arise in them. None of the listed statements asserts conservativity, so none is contradicted.

Relations

The line classes are pairwise incomparable, by the separating examples of the consolidation. Theorems Y and NDX′ are incomparable too. The forms \(x_{1,j}+x_{2,j+1}\), \(j<n\), have cell support \(2n-2\) and nonlocal dimension \(n-1\). Row-local forms \(\sum_ja_{i,j}x_{i,j}\) with all \(a_{i,j}\ne0\), one for each row \(i\), have nonlocal dimension zero and cell support \(n(n+1)\).

What remains open

The window. To escape every endpoint above, a polynomial-size refutation must have more than \(Cn\) lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\) (Theorem NDX′) and more than \(\Theta(n^\beta)\) lines of cell support above \(n^{2-\varepsilon}\operatorname{polylog}n\) (Theorem Y). It must also have lines outside the mixed and occupancy classes. No statement excludes such refutations. At \(p=3\) their typical dense lines have projected rank of order \(n\) spread over many rows. Nested chains and shallow placement of these lines would help only through arguments that are not proved (batching review, reuse-free analysis).
The occupancy class in mixtures.
Dense-rank criteria for \(p\ge5\). The graph-level dense side exists only at \(p=3\), and it has no proof-system form at any prime.
Verification. No endpoint is Lean-verified or independently checked for novelty. The endpoints depend on the working complete-board transfer and on the fixed-graph and quotient-rank chain, which have fresh-context reviews only.

Assessment

The thread has a coherent set of partial results. They exclude short refutations whose dense lines are few, local, low-dimensional, sparsely supported, probe-structured or mixtures of these. Up to constants they also give the exact number of dense lines that per-block methods tolerate. They do not give the goal, and every recorded route to the rest is closed or conditional. As a statement set it is ready for review. A publication would need an independent check of the complete-board transfer and the fixed-graph chain first.

Sheaf check

The statement set is the list of local sections the thread has: each endpoint is an exclusion on one class of lines, and the mixed propositions are the gluings that worked. The window is the region no local section covers. It is also where the recorded gluings fail: per piece at linear cost, by nesting, or by reuse-free assembly.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer, thread level): a thread route review. It should ask whether any route item remains live. The window's routes are closed or conditional; same-graph composition is a bookkeeping item; this entry completes the scope-and-review write-up. If no item is live, the thread should wait for a user decision rather than produce further special cases. The options are an independent check of the complete-board transfer with the fixed-graph chain, toward publication; a Lean assignment; or a new window idea from outside the recorded mechanisms.

Verification gate. No result is claimed. Every endpoint was restated from its registered summary and anchor, with its prime range and parameters, and every anchor was checked to exist. The two controls were re-read in full, and the ordering source's block count, about \(n\log_2n\), was computed from its construction. The two incomparability examples for Theorems Y and NDX′ were checked against the definitions: support and nonlocal dimension. No computation or reviewer was needed.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 20.24 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 55.18 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	24.93 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Thread route review: no live mechanism for the window; audit the foundations the endpoints share

22 September 2026 · Route review of the odd-prime thread · Window weak with no live mechanism; next: independent audit of the selector compiler and complete-board transfer. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Thread route review: no live mechanism for the window; audit the foundations the endpoints share”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-thread-review-foundations.

The thread's general claim. Superpolynomial lower bounds for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of unary PHP, at every odd prime, follow by compiling a refutation into complete selector blocks over PHP and excluding the compiled source. What the goal needs is the case the statement set leaves open. A polynomial-size refutation can escape every endpoint only with more than \(Cn\) lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\), more than \(\Theta(n^\beta)\) lines of large cell support, and lines outside the mixed and occupancy classes. Route item under review: all three, starting from odd-prime-clause-transfer.

Falsification attempt: is any mechanism class unexamined?

Within the compile-and-exclude framework, a mechanism either charges blocks by a maximum or by a sum. Max-type charges come from a common weight or a common restriction. Both are expected to fail on window blocks: the weight heuristically, through the window review and the alignment tests, and the restriction through the dyadic calibration. Sum-type charges stop at a linear number of blocks (ceiling review), which Theorem NDX′ reaches. Between the two, batching needs nested spans, which window blocks lack (batching review). By the ordering control, any batching must use PHP structure. Reuse-free gluing is conditional and limited by depth (analysis). A different compilation does not help: sign variables that make selector false sets affine are definable and add nothing (window review, F4). Outside the framework, the published methods for dense linear lines cover regular or bounded-depth proofs only (lag review). No class of mechanism remains unexamined, and none reaches the open case.

Assessment of each route item

odd-prime-clause-transfer (the window): weak. The evidence is a proved linear ceiling for per-block removal, the recorded limits of batching, and heuristics against weights and restrictions. No live mechanism exists. The restart conditions are those of the statement set: a batched mechanism for non-nested dense blocks that uses PHP structure, a proof of the level-one conjecture with a depth-independent use, or outside work.
same-graph-composition: bookkeeping that serves the other items; it has no open content of its own.
scope-and-review: the statement set is written. One task remains: an independent check of the foundations. Every endpoint depends on the selector compiler and the complete-board transfer. The ND family also depends on the fixed-graph theorem, the two-level map and the quotient-rank theorem. All are working proofs, several produced by another agent, and the registry records no independent audit and no Lean coverage for any of them. An error there would affect every endpoint at once. This is the highest-value task that does not need a new idea.

Next step

Route item: scope-and-review. Audit the selector compiler and the complete-board transfer independently. Brief a fresh-context reviewer with their full statements and proofs only. Ask it to check the per-inference degree ledger for resolution, weakening, simplification and contraction; the initial-clause bridge for ordinary and functional PHP; the compression to a basis subset; and the claim that one block per line suffices. Record the audit as a dated entry. If it passes, audit the fixed-graph chain next. The window line waits for a restart condition or a user decision.

Sheaf check

The thread's local sections, the line-class exclusions, are all built on one covering: the compiled blocks. The audit checks that this covering is sound before anything is glued on it. No new gluing is proposed.

Verification gate. No result is claimed. Re-read the statement set, the four reviews and analyses it cites, and the registry records of the foundational claims: their status and formalization scope. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	1 min 11.25 s
Marked reading and review windows	32.69 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	38.43 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Independent audit: the selector compiler and the complete-board transfer are sound, with a sharper local ledger

22 September 2026 · Audit · Sound; no mathematical gap. Local ceiling \(\max(3p,4p-3)\); four statements made explicit. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Independent audit: the selector compiler and the complete-board transfer are sound, with a sharper local ledger”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-compiler-audit.

Question. Route item: scope-and-review. The thread review found that every endpoint of the thread rests on two working proofs with no independent audit: the selector compiler and the complete-board transfer. This entry records such an audit. A fresh-context reviewer received only the full text of the two entries and the rule convention of the equation-clause audit, and was asked to break them.

What was checked, and passed

Compression. An omitted selector times \(P_C\) is a constant combination of companions. The inventory bound \(\binom{v+\delta}{\delta}\) holds, the zero selector is never in a basis, and an empty basis gives \(P_C=1\).
Initial clauses. The telescoping identity and \(\prod_i(1-t_i)=F_A^\delta\) are exact. The degree is \(p+a\delta\), and \(3p-2\) for Boolean, hole and row-exclusion initials. For the pigeon rows of the complete-board transfer, \(t_j-X_j\) is divisible by \(X_j^2-X_j\) for odd \(p\) and is zero for \(p=2\). The pigeon bridge costs \(2p-1\) and fails without the row equation, as the entry's own control states.
One-premise rules. Weakening, simplification and contraction reduce to \(P_T=P_AP_T+\sum_jr_{A,j}t_jP_T\), at degree \(2p\).
Resolution. The identity \(t_ft_g(1-t_h)=0\) holds for every \(p\) and all \(\alpha,\beta\), on all of \(\mathbb F_p^v\): if \(f=g=0\) then \(h=0\). The line \(Q\) is derived at degree \(4p-3\), and the final identity \(P_T=R_A+r_ft_fR_B+r_fr_gQ\) checks symbolically.
The DAG. Each completed line \(P_C\) has degree \(p\) and is reused, so degree does not accumulate along the DAG.
The end. The empty clause arises by simplification with \(P_\varnothing=1\), so the final line is a PC refutation.

Clarifications recorded here

The original entries are not rewritten; these statements hold for them as written.

Sharper local ledger. In the resolution step, \(Q=t_ft_gP_T\) has degree \(3p-2\), and \(r_ft_fR_B\) and \(r_fr_gQ\) both have degree \(3p\). The line \(IP_T\) has degree \(4p-3\). So the local ceiling is \(\max(3p,4p-3)\): this is \(4p-3\) for \(p\ge3\), and \(6\) for \(p=2\). The compiler's ceiling \(4p-1\) is valid but loose. The sentence about reaching \(4p-1\) "even if its derivation previously reached \(4p-3\)" mixes a line's degree with its derivation's, and the reuse argument that follows it is the correct one. Every endpoint that uses \(4p-1\) stays valid.
Boolean axioms. The certificate for \(IP_T\) uses \(x_i^2-x_i\) for every variable of \(f\) and \(g\). The base must therefore contain all \(v\) Boolean equations, whether or not the source uses their Boolean initials. The complete-board transfer's base contains them.
Degenerate resolvents. If \(h\) is a nonzero constant, then \(t_h=0\) and \(I=t_ft_g\), which still vanishes on the cube. If \(\alpha=\beta=0\), then \(t_h=1\) and \(P_T\) is itself a combination of companions. If \(t_f\) coincides with a context selector, fix the designation once per inference. Either choice works: as context it gives \(r_f=0\) and \(R_A=P_T\); as pivot it gives the stated \(R_A\). If \(t_f\) is not in the chosen basis, then \(R_A=P_T\).
Binary remark. The complete-board entry's binary sanity paragraph cites a local ceiling of five and a separate affine-DAG controller. That paragraph depends on the controller, and it is not checked here. The compiler's own \(p=2\) ledger is six. No odd-prime endpoint uses the paragraph.

The auditor also noted that for ordinary PHP the replay never uses row exclusions, so it lands in the weak linear-row base. The registry already records this.

Consequence

Every endpoint in the statement set starts from these two proofs, and they now have an independent audit. The sharper ledger \(4p-3\) would lower every "\(4p-1\)" in the endpoints by two degrees. No asymptotic statement changes, so the endpoints are not restated.

Next step

Next step (scope-and-review): audit the chain behind Corollary NDp and Theorem NDX′ in the same way:

the fixed-graph pair-counting lemma and theorem, with the graph class;
the two-level semantic map with its step 4;
the quotient-rank theorem with its basis conversion and rank-one step.

These are larger. Split the audit into the graph part and the map part, with one fresh reviewer each and excerpts in a scratch file.

Sheaf check

No gluing is involved; this audit checks the covering on which the thread's local sections are built.

Verification gate. The audit was run by a fresh-context reviewer given only the two entries and the rule convention, with six targeted checks. Its verdict: sound with fixes, and every fix presentational or a statement of scope. The degree ledger was recomputed independently: \(\deg Q=2(p-1)+p=3p-2\), \(\deg(IP_T)=3(p-1)+p=4p-3\), and the two terms of the final identity have degree \(3p\). No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 39.53 s
Marked reading and review windows	4 min 51.47 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	53.71 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	50.66 s
Individually measured computation	3.56 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Independent audit: the fixed-graph chain and the two-level and quotient-rank maps are sound

22 September 2026 · Audit · Sound; no mathematical gap. Seven statements made explicit; one displayed formula does not render. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Independent audit: the fixed-graph chain and the two-level and quotient-rank maps are sound”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-graph-map-audit.

Question. Route item: scope-and-review. After the compiler audit, the rest of the chain behind Corollary NDp and Theorem NDX′ had fresh-context reviews only. This entry records an independent audit in two parts, each by one fresh-context auditor that read only a scratch file of excerpts and was asked to break the argument.

Graph part. The pair-counting and separation lemma, the fixed-graph theorem with its uniform range and graph class, and the maps it takes from the all-prime source exclusion. The imported Mikša–Nordström degree bound was taken as given, and its hypotheses were checked where it is applied.
Map part. The two-level semantic map with its step 4 and power-range corollary, the projection lemma, Theorem QRp with its basis conversion, the rank-one bridge, and the rank count of Corollary NDp.

What was checked, and passed

Pair counting. The conflict degree is at most \(2d\Delta-2<A_0\). Each step of the recurrence has \(x=A_0j/(s-j)\le1/3\), and \(\sum_{j<k}j/(s-j)\le k^2/s\), so \(i_k\ge e^{-2A_0k^2/s}\binom sk\). The containment probability is at most \((2k/s)^r\). The boundary-deletion union bound gives \(\xi/(1-\xi)\le1/3\), so at least two thirds of the independent sets are good.
Separation. The residual graph keeps left degree at most \(d\) and expansion \(\delta/2\), so the imported bound gives degree above \(\delta L/(4d)\), within its hypotheses. All \(2^k\) signed restrictions send the graph base to the same residual system, because the \(2k\) labels are distinct. The detector's CNF-to-linear-row transfer is valid at \(\max(B,d)\le\delta L/(4d)\), in every characteristic.
Fixed-graph theorem. The flat-restriction image bound \(\binom{s-r+k}k\le e^{-k(r-k)/s}\binom sk\) and \(r-k>4A_0k\) give \(e^{-4A_0k^2/s}\). The joint kernel is nonzero because \(e^{2A_0k^2/s}\ge256(M+1)^2>2M\). The maps have degree at most \(T=(p-1)R\), and the replay stays within \(TD+k\).
Graph class. Fewer than \(64t\) unique neighbours give a neighbourhood of at most \(96t\). The constant \(C=2e^{97}96^{32}\) is exact. The hole degrees have mean at most \(256\), with tail at most \((256e/Q)^Q\).
Two-level map. Used-bottom companions vanish on the whole cube, because \(\prod_{u\ne0}(1-uF)=1-F^{p-1}\) is an identity. Parent companions vanish where \(f\ne0\), because (LPF-value) is the indicator of the common zero set of the basis of \(V_a\), which equals that of the actual inputs. The coefficient fields vanish, and the Boolean division is certified through \(Te+k\) and \(pT+k\). The costs \(\delta(\ell_a-1)\) and \(T_A+1+\delta(\ell_a-1)\) match (LPF-map-cost). The power-range corollary holds with \(\rho+\sigma<1\).
Quotient rank. \(\varphi(P_q)=P_f+\sum_jt_jv_j\) with the error in \(I_{\delta+1}\), and the companion identity is certified through \(2\delta+1=2p-1\). The coefficient fields map correctly because \(\beta\in\mathbb F_p\). After restriction and projection, \(c_a\le r_a\).
Rank-one bridge. (RS-equality) and (RS-parent) are exact identities. The ceiling is \(\max(D,2p+1)\), also for mixed parents, and \(4p-1\ge2p+1\).
Rank count of NDp. Local selectors map to zero in \(Q_\delta/P_{\le1}\). The nonlocal ones lie in the span of monomials of degree \(2\) to \(\delta\) in a basis of \(U\), so the rank is at most \(\binom{r+\delta}\delta\le(2r)^\delta\).

Clarifications recorded here

The audited entries are not rewritten, and every statement below holds for them as written.

Unused hypotheses of the pair-counting lemma. The proof never uses \(k\le m-L\), and it needs only \(\delta/2>0\), not \(\delta>1\). The first keeps at least \(L\) rows in the residual graph. Only that use could need it: if the imported expander definition presupposes that many rows. It is harmless in the asymptotic range, where \(L\le m/2\) and \(k=o(m)\).
Proof degree. The fixed-graph theorem must be read without the step of the source exclusion that raises \(D\) to at least \(\max(16,p)\), because that would change \(TD+k\). A generator of original degree \(e>D\) is never used, and a used one costs at most \(Te+k\le TD+k\). So \(D<p\) needs no adjustment, and \(D\) enters only through \(TD+k\le\delta L/(4d)\).
The graph-class sums. "The same geometric bounds as before" means the following. For \(t\le\sqrt N\) the terms are at most \((CN^{-15.5})^t\), with sum \(o(1)\). For \(\sqrt N<t\le\gamma N\) each term is at most \(8^{-t}\), with sum \(O(8^{-\sqrt N})\). The choice \(\gamma\le1/192\) gives \(96t\le N/2\), which the containing hole set needs.
The uniform range. "\(\Delta=\operatorname{polylog}N\)" means one fixed bound for all graphs, such as \(\Delta\le\lceil(\ln N)^2\rceil\), which the graph class supplies. Uniformity over graphs needs a common bound.
The row-local case of NDp. The passage from a row-local \(L\) to its representative \(L'\) on one row uses the same identity as the column case: \(L^\delta-L'^\delta=(L-L')\sum_aL^aL'^{\delta-1-a}\), where \(L-L'\) is a constant combination of row axioms, at degree \(\delta\).
Order of steps in Theorem QRp. The ternary theorem states it and QRp inherits it. The basis conversion, which uses the \(I_\delta\) certificates, and the rank-one bridge are applied on the complete functional board, before restriction and projection. The restricted base is the graph base with its functional row and column exclusions, and the fixed-graph separation holds for exactly that base. The projection lemma's telescoping through degree \(2\) covers these generators, as checked for \(x_dx_e\) and \(x_d^2-x_d\).
A formula that does not render. In section 3 of the two-level map, the prefix identity is written with a raw "<" before a letter. The HTML parser reads it as the start of a tag, so the displayed formula breaks. The intended identity, which the auditor checked, is \[ 1-B_{a,u}=\sum_tv_t\prod_{b<t}(1-v_bG_{j_b})\,G_{j_t}. \] A scan of the main notebook finds 30 raw "<" characters followed by a letter inside mathematics, all in older entries; the side notebooks have none. An in-place escape is a repair that the append-only check does not currently allow.

Consequence

The chain behind Corollary NDp now has independent audits from the compiler to the graph barrier. Theorem NDX′ uses the same chain together with Lemma WE. The imported Mikša–Nordström theorem remains a published dependency. The statement set's verification item is discharged for this chain. It remains open for the endpoints outside it, among them the removal mechanisms of the two arbitrary-line theorems: the old-consequence transfer behind Theorem Y, and Lemma WE with the exceptional-line assembly behind Theorem NDX′.

Next step

Next step (scope-and-review): audit the two removal mechanisms in the same way, with one fresh auditor each. The first is the old-consequence transfer with its three stages and the ledger \(\max(d+(p-1)\delta,d+k,pk)\), as Theorem Y uses it. The second is Lemma WE together with the assembly of Theorem NDX′. After that, the statement set needs a novelty check against the literature.

Sheaf check

No gluing is involved. The graph part checks the global object on which all local sections are compared: one fixed robust graph and one common weight. The map part checks the restriction maps from compiled blocks to that object.

Verification gate. The two auditors read only the excerpt files and ran no searches. Both verdicts: sound with fixes, where every fix is wording, a statement of scope or rendering. Independently rechecked here: the neighbourhood bound \(64t+(128t-64t)/2=96t\); the constant \(C\), from \(\binom{N+1}t\binom N{96t}(96t/N)^{128t}\le[2e^{97}96^{32}(t/N)^{31}]^t\); the two ranges of the graph-class sum; the prefix identity \(1-\prod_t(1-x_t)=\sum_tx_t\prod_{b<t}(1-x_b)\); the condition \(\rho+\sigma<1\) in the notebook source; and the scan for raw "<". No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 46.59 s
Marked reading and review windows	11 min 16.47 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	26.38 s
Individually measured computation	3.61 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Independent audit: the removal mechanisms behind Theorems Y and NDX′ are sound

22 September 2026 · Audit · Sound; no mathematical gap. Old-consequence transfer, Theorem Y, Lemma WE and Theorems NDX and NDX′ checked; clarifications only. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Independent audit: the removal mechanisms behind Theorems Y and NDX′ are sound”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-removal-audit.

Question. Route item: scope-and-review. The graph and map audit left unaudited the removal mechanisms of the two theorems that allow arbitrary lines. This entry records their audit, in two parts, each by one fresh-context auditor that read only a scratch file of excerpts and was asked to break the argument.

Theorem Y part. The old-consequence transfer (BC) with its later-dependency control, Theorem Y, the part of the cell-support exclusion that Theorem Y uses, and the statement of the matching barrier.
NDX′ part. BC, the degree analysis and proof of Theorem NDX, Lemma WE and Theorem NDX′. The chain audited in the two earlier audits was taken as given, and its hypotheses were checked where it is applied.

What was checked, and passed

BC, first stage. Setting \(r_{1,j}=\alpha^{-1}\) and every other coefficient to zero makes \(P_U=1-\alpha^{-1}f_j\) at every accuracy, and the field equations vanish. The identity \(\chi_\alpha(y)(\alpha-y)=y^p-y\) is exact, and \(\sum_{\alpha\ne0}\alpha\chi_\alpha(x)=x\) holds as polynomials, because both sides have degree at most \(p-1\) and agree on \(\mathbb F_p\). Multiplications by a coefficient variable become scalar multiples. Every weighted line stays within \(d+(p-1)\delta\), and so does the domain reduction, because a used companion forces \(d\ge\delta_i+h(\delta+1)\).
BC, second and third stages. The first-stage lines \(f_it\) are reused as finished lines, so the ceiling is \(\max(B_1,d+k)\). The steps \(t^2\to t^p\to t\) stay within \(pk\), and \(t=1\) gives \(d+(p-1)\delta\).
Theorem Y. Compiled inputs are selectors in the cell variables, so a removed block's coefficients occur neither in the base nor in any remaining block. This gives both BC's freshness and the later-dependency restriction. Each removal adds \((p-1)\delta\le(p-1)^2\), and no variable of a removed block survives. The replay of the cell-support exclusion has degree at most \(TD'\) for every \(D'\), not only polylogarithmic \(D'\). The constants of step 4 hold with \(B=\lfloor(N+1)/2\rfloor\): \(N\ge2B-1\), \(m=N+1\ge B\), \(TD'\le B\), and \(K_n=\Theta(n^\beta)\).
Lemma WE. Both identities of the first stage hold. The leaf is certified from the equations of \(Y\) alone, a field leaf vanishes, and a leaf of another block stays \(t\)-weighted, so the induction on the number of blocks is valid. In the second stage, the leaf \(twf_i\) comes from the first-stage line \(tf_i\) within its own degree. The charges add to \(d+(p-1)\sum_b\delta_b\), with nothing else accumulating.
Theorem NDX. A multiplication by a narrow coefficient in step 3 stays within \((4p-1)T_n+k_n\), and a wide axiom is fixed by \(\sigma\), so it enters only as \(fA\). The wide inputs lie in \(\mathbb F_p[Y]\) with degree at most \(\delta\), and their coefficient sets are private. BC's hypotheses hold at each removal. The rates of (FG-pairs), the bounds on \(k_n\) and \(T_A\), \(T_n=o(n)\) and \((4p-1)T_n+k_n\le B_H/2\) all check, and so does \(C=\lambda/(2\sqrt{c+2p})\).
Theorem NDX′. The derivation \(\pi_0\) is \(f\)-weighted with \(\mathcal G_0=\Gamma'_H\), and \(B_H<d_K\le B_H/2+K\delta^2\) gives \(K>B_H/(2\delta^2)\).

Clarifications recorded here

The audited entries are not rewritten, and every statement below holds for them as written.

Where Theorem Y uses \(T\). Besides the two replay inequalities that Theorem Y names, the replay of the cell-support exclusion uses \(T\) in two more places. The multiplication step needs \(\deg\beta\le s_a\le T\), and old variables need substitution degree \(1\le T\). The fixed \(T=\max(1,2(k-1))\) covers both.
Which degree is \(D'\). The certificate bound \(s_a+\delta+\delta_i\le Te_i\) is charged against the original companion degree \(e_i\le D'\). So \(D'\) is the degree of the eliminated refutation before the restriction.
The barrier's conclusion. Theorem Y uses that the residual system has no refutation through \(B\); Theorem NDX′ uses the graph separation instead. This is the barrier's stability statement at degree zero. Under \(m\ge B\) and \(N\ge\max(1,2B-1)\) it gives \(\mathcal I_B\cap\mathcal P_{\le0}=\mathcal I_0=\{0\}\) and \(\mathcal C_B=\mathcal I_B\), so \(1\notin\mathcal C_B\).
Unused hypotheses. BC never uses completeness of the removed block, as Lemma WE's entry already notes for Lemma WE. Theorem Y's restriction \(\varepsilon\le1\) keeps the statement nontrivial and is not used by the proof, as the remark after the proof says.
Degrees in Lemma WE. The leaf bound uses \(\deg P_U=h(1+\max_i\deg f_i)\), which holds because the coefficient variables are distinct, and additivity of total degree in \(\mathbb F_p[Y,R]\). A nonzero constant input is covered, since then \(\chi_\alpha\) is constant and \(\deg P_U\ge1\) still holds.
Variables in NDX step 3. The substitution \(\sigma\) replaces every variable that the narrow conversion introduces, not only the narrow coefficients. A stray variable could also be set to zero, a ring map that does not raise the degree.
Constants of NDX and NDX′. The lower bound on \(k_n\) in step 6 of NDX is not needed: \(\delta^2\) is a constant, so \(\max(\delta^2,k_n)\le\sqrt{(c+2p)n\ln n}\) for large \(n\) anyway. In NDX′, Lemma WE is applied at most \(K\) times. Since \(d_K\ge d_0\ge k_n\) and \(d_K\ge2\), the assumption \(d_K\le B_H\) would put \(B=d_K\) in the separation range. The constant \(\gamma\) of the graph class is absolute, so \(C=\gamma/(18\delta^2)\) depends only on \(p\).

The excerpt file for the Theorem Y part ended before step 4 of the proof and the remark after it, through an extraction error made here. The auditor rechecked the constants of step 4 independently. It also asked that step 4 name \(B\) and that the remark treat \(\varepsilon>1\) as the trivial case. The entry does both.

Consequence

The chains of Corollary NDp and of both theorems that allow arbitrary lines, Theorem Y and Theorem NDX′, now have independent audits, from the compiler to the barrier. The imported Mikša–Nordström theorem and the matching barrier are the dependencies they take as given. The statement set made publication wait for an independent check of the complete-board transfer and the fixed-graph chain, and that condition is met. Still unaudited are the full restriction argument of the cell-support exclusion, the remainder and occupancy exclusions and the mixed propositions.

Next step

Next step (scope-and-review): a novelty check of the statement set against the literature. The 22 September search looked for mechanisms, not for prior versions of these endpoints. Search for superpolynomial lower bounds for DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\), or for \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) restricted by line structure, rank or support, on PHP or on any formula, from 2018 to 2026. Compare the results found with Corollary NDp and Theorems Y and NDX′, and with this project's own binary result. Record the sources, what each proves, and whether any endpoint is known, implied or new. Audit the remaining endpoints afterwards.

Sheaf check

No gluing is involved. The audited mechanisms are the per-piece gluing maps of the thread: each removes one piece at a constant cost, relative to a fixed global section, the weight \(f\) or the target \(1\).

Verification gate. The two auditors read only the excerpt files and ran no searches. Verdicts: sound with wording fixes (Theorem Y part) and sound (NDX′ part). Independently rechecked here: the identity \(\chi_\alpha(y)(\alpha-y)=(\alpha-y)+(y-\alpha)^p=y^p-y\); \(B_H=\lfloor\lfloor\gamma n\rfloor/8\rfloor\ge\gamma n/9\) for large \(n\), from \(\delta_H/(4d)=1/8\); the number \(s=127(n+1)\) of nondistinguished edges; the barrier's stability statement for every \(0\le t\le B\) in its living summary; and that the entry's step 4 and remark, missing from the excerpt, state what the auditor asked for. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 36.82 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	10 min 33.02 s
Individually measured computation	3.66 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Novelty check: no prior DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) lower bound for PHP was found, restricted or not

22 September 2026 · Literature review · None of the thread's endpoints found or implied in the sources checked; closest relatives recorded; novelty is not certified. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Novelty check: no prior DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) lower bound for PHP was found, restricted or not”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-novelty-check.

Question. Route item: scope-and-review. The removal audit completed the independent audits of the chains behind Corollary NDp and Theorems Y and NDX′. The statement set still lacked a novelty check: the search of 22 September looked for mechanisms, not for earlier versions of the endpoints. This entry asks, for each endpoint, whether it is known, implied by a known result, or not found.

Method

Two fresh-context searchers received a short file with the endpoints and their definitions, and read primary sources: abstracts and the relevant theorems. The first covered resolution over linear equations over fields other than \(\mathbb F_2\), and polynomial calculus with extension variables. The second covered resolution over parities and the linear branching programs and parity decision trees used for it. Both were asked to mark what they could not open. The closest relatives were then opened again here.

What the literature proves

Over fields other than \(\mathbb F_2\).

Raz and Tzameret (arXiv 0708.1529, APAL 2008) work over \(\mathbb Z\). They give polynomial-size \(\mathrm{R}^0(\mathrm{lin})\) refutations of PHP, so PHP is easy in characteristic zero, and prove an exponential bound for \(\mathrm{R}^0(\mathrm{lin})\) on clique-colouring.
Part and Tzameret (arXiv 1806.09383, Comput. Complexity 2021) prove exponential tree-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_F)\) bounds for PHP over every field, and DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb Q})\) bounds for subset sum.
Khaniki (ECCC TR20-034, ToCL 2022) studies \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{PC}_d)\) over finite rings. It proves nearly quadratic DAG-like bounds for Tseitin mod \(q\) and random \(k\)-CNFs, and tree-like bounds for PHP. Its method passes from lines to extension variables, width and PC degree. This is the closest precedent of the thread's compilation.
Part (arXiv 2202.08214, version 3, April 2026) proves bounds for subset sum in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_q})\), \(\operatorname{char}\ge5\), in a regular DAG-like fragment and tree-like.
Polynomial calculus with extension variables over \(\mathbb F_p\). Impagliazzo, Mouli and Pitassi (CCC 2023) allow extension variables of arity \(O(\log n)\). Dahiya, Mahajan and Mouli (SAT 2024) allow \(N^{1+\varepsilon(1-\delta)}\) extension variables of arity at most \(N^{1-\varepsilon}\), and prove \(\exp(\Omega(N^{\varepsilon\delta}/\operatorname{polylog}N))\) for XOR-ified generalized PHP formulas. Alekseev (CCC 2021) shows that extension PC with radicals over \(\mathbb Q\) simulates \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin})\).

Over \(\mathbb F_2\).

Krajíček (arXiv 1611.08680, J. Math. Log. 2018), section 4, translates a line \(\{f_1,\ldots,f_k\}\) to \(\prod_i(1-f_i)\). With Razborov's degree bound, every \(\mathrm{R}(\mathrm{LIN}/\mathbb F_2)\) refutation of unary functional PHP with linear row clauses then has a line with at least \(n/2\) equations. No size bound follows. Section 4 was read here in full.
Tree-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\): unary PHP needs size \(2^{\Omega(n)}\) (Itsykson and Sokolov; their pages could not be opened, and the statement comes from citing papers). Oparin (SAT 2016) gives a matching upper bound \(2^{O(n)}\).
Regular and bounded-depth \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\):
- Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson (STOC 2024): bit PHP. Their Theorem 5.5 gives every DAG-like refutation a line of rank at least \(n/4\).
- Bhattacharya, Chattopadhyay and Dvořák (CCC 2024).
- Alekseev and Itsykson (STOC 2025).
- Efremenko and Itsykson (CCC 2025, STOC 2026).
- Bhattacharya, Chattopadhyay and Byramji (STOC 2026): depth up to \(N^{2-\varepsilon}\).
- Byramji and Impagliazzo (arXiv 2511.20023): bit PHP at depth up to \(N^{2-\varepsilon}\). They also show that the block-lifted unary functional PHP needs \(\exp(\Omega(n^2/D))\) at depth \(D\).
Read-once linear branching programs: Gryaznov, Pudlák and Talebanfard (CCC 2022), and Li and Zhong (CCC 2024).
This project's preprint (arXiv 2609.23015): unrestricted DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\), bit PHP.

Verdict for each endpoint

Restricted line classes: local lines, Corollary NDp, probes with row remainders, occupancy, cell support and the mixtures. Not found and not implied. Every published bound found for resolution over linear equations is tree-like, restricts the shape of the DAG (regularity, depth), concerns another formula or field, or is at most nearly quadratic. None restricts what the lines contain. The nearest statements find one wide line. Krajíček finds \(n/2\) equations in some line over \(\mathbb F_2\), and Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson find rank \(n/4\) in some line for bit PHP. These exclude refutations whose every line is narrow, at every size. They do not imply Corollary NDp, which bounds only the nonlocal part of a line and leaves its number of local equations free.
Cell support. The nearest statement is Dahiya, Mahajan and Mouli. Their arity \(N^{1-\varepsilon}\) resembles cell support \(n^{2-\varepsilon}\), which is about \(N^{1-\varepsilon/2}\) in the \(N\approx n^2\) cell variables. But they bound the number of extension variables by \(N^{1+\varepsilon(1-\delta)}\), where the thread allows \(n^c\) lines, and their formula is different. Not implied.
Counts of exceptional lines: Theorem Y and Theorem NDX′. Not found. The known arguments find one wide or high-rank line; none counts such lines in a short refutation.
Binary analogues. The \(\mathbb F_2\) literature restricts DAG-like proofs only by regularity and depth, never by the structure of the forms in a line.
Upper bounds. No DAG-like refutation of unary PHP shorter than tree-like size was found, in \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) or in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\). Over \(\mathbb Z\), polynomial-size refutations exist, so the analogues of the endpoints fail in characteristic zero. The thread's compiler uses the finite field through the selectors \(1-L^{p-1}\).

The translation of lines into polynomial calculus has precedents: Krajíček's section 4, Khaniki, and Part and Tzameret. The thread's contributions are, as far as this search shows, the complete-block compiler with its degree ledger and the exclusions of compiled sources. That includes the counts of exceptional lines, for which no analogue was found even over \(\mathbb F_2\).

A correction to the search brief

The brief given to the searchers attributed this project's binary unary result to its preprint arXiv 2609.23015. That is wrong. The preprint proves a lower bound for the bit encoding of PHP, and its introduction says it does not address unary PHP. The unary binary theorem is the separate working theorem of the main notebook, which its registry record already describes as separate from the preprint. The record is consistent; only the brief was wrong.

Consequence

No source checked contains or implies any endpoint of the statement set. As far as this search shows, they are the first superpolynomial size lower bounds for classes of DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of PHP at an odd prime, and the first counts of exceptional lines in any \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_F)\). Novelty is not certified. The search is bounded, several sources were read only through abstracts, and some pages could not be opened. So Corollary NDp and Theorems Y and NDX′ are registered here as novelty candidates for review, not as established new results. Two gaps remain before the statement set could be published: an expert review, and audits of the endpoints not yet audited.

Next step

Next step (scope-and-review): audit the remaining endpoints of the statement set, with one fresh auditor each for two parts. The first part is the full restriction argument of the cell-support exclusion and the remainder exclusion. The second is the occupancy exclusion and Proposition MXp. Then the thread waits for a user decision on the statement set, publication or a restart condition of the window.

Sheaf check

No gluing is involved. The check asks whether any published local section already covers one of the thread's line classes; none was found.

Verification gate. The two searchers ran their searches independently and marked unopened sources: the Itsykson–Sokolov pages, the journal version of Part–Tzameret, the ACM pages of STOC 2026 and Garlík–Kołodziejczyk. Opened again here: the Dahiya–Mahajan–Mouli abstract, the Khaniki abstract, the abstract and version dates of Part's preprint, and section 4 of Krajíček's paper in full, which confirms the statement above. Both searchers found the brief's misattribution independently. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 41.50 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	14 min 34.45 s
Individually measured computation	6.92 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Independent audit of the remaining endpoints: cell support, remainders, occupancy and the mixed propositions

22 September 2026 · Audit · Remaining endpoints sound; two stated bounds of MX″ and MXp corrected, with no change to any conclusion; the whole statement set is now audited. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Independent audit of the remaining endpoints: cell support, remainders, occupancy and the mixed propositions”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-endpoint-audit.

Question. Route item: scope-and-review. After the novelty check, the statement set still had four endpoints without an independent audit. This entry records their audit in three parts, and a fourth for Proposition MX′, each by one fresh-context auditor that read only a scratch file of excerpts and was asked to break the argument. Cited endpoints outside a part were taken as given, and their hypotheses were checked where they are applied.

Part A. The full cell-support exclusion and the remainder exclusion, with the statements of the row-local and probe endpoints it composes with.
Part B. The occupancy exclusion, with the column-state reduction and the column freezing map.
Part C. Propositions MX, MX″ and MXp.

Part A: cell support and remainders

Verdict: sound with fixes; no step fails. Checked:

The surviving row and column sets are independent and uniform, and the survival probability of a \(k\)-matching is right. The tail \(n^{-k(\varepsilon-2\beta)+o(1)}\), with \(\beta<\varepsilon/2\) and \(k(\varepsilon-2\beta)>c+1\), gives the union bound, and the residual cover satisfies \(s_a\le2(k-1)\).
The partition identity lies in \(I_s\). Row exclusions are used only after the base is strengthened to functional. The certificates hold at the stated degrees: \(P'-V\in I_{s+\delta}\), \(g_iV\in I_{s+\delta_i}\), \(g_iP'\in I_{s+\delta+\delta_i}\), and the field certificate within \(ps\). The replay through \(TD\) is valid, and the barrier applies with \(N\ge2B-1\).
The compiler corollary preserves support and does not raise the degree, and \(\varepsilon\le1\) admits the pigeon clauses.
In the remainder exclusion, compression costs no degree. A fixed \(u>(C+1)/(1-\alpha-\beta)\) makes the tail \(n^{-u(1-\alpha-\beta)+o(1)}\) cover every support. The row equations and the source hypothesis survive the restriction, and the probes keep their number.

Clarifications:

The remainder exclusion applies the probe endpoint on the residual board with \(n_1=\lceil n^\beta\rceil\). Its constants in \(n_1\) are \(M\le n_1^{c/\beta}\), \(t_a\le(c_0/\beta)\log_pn_1\), at most \(u-1\) local rows, so \(\alpha=0\), and \(D=\operatorname{polylog}n_1\). "Sufficiently large" is taken in \(n_1\).
The paragraph "All parameters still fit" quotes the degree ledger \(D_*=\max(TD,2\max(p-1,R,1)+1)\) and \(sD_*=n^{\alpha+o(1)}\). The ledger is recorded in the composition section of the probe endpoint's entry, not in its statement. The conclusion needs only the statement.
Each input of the remainder exclusion is an old selector \(1-L^{p-1}\), with \(L\) an old affine form. Its compiler is the complete-board transfer, which gives accuracy-one blocks whose inputs are the selectors of the clause's own forms. A form that becomes constant under the restriction gives an input \(0\) or \(1\). Such an input fits the probe endpoint with empty row support, or its block is removed by the unit map.
In the cell-support exclusion, \(\delta\) is the largest actual degree of a nonzero input, so \(\deg P_a=h_a(\delta+1)\) exactly, as in the removal audit. Also \(Te_i\le TD\), because only generators of degree at most \(D\) occur in a proof of degree \(D\).

Part B: occupancy

Verdict: sound with fixes. The auditor made its verdict conditional on one point: the final endpoint must accept blocks that mix affine inputs from different columns. That point is settled below. Checked:

The pigeon-row bridge satisfies \(t_j-X_{ij}\in I_{p-1}(\mathrm{Bool})\). The hole and Boolean initials hold through \(3p-2\).
The freezing map \(\Phi\) is an affine substitution of variables, hence a ring map. Every \(\sigma_j\) becomes \(0\) or \(1\), and the distinguished row equation holds because \(K+1=0\). The certificates for Booleanity of \(q_j\) and for \(y_{ij}q_j\) hold through degree \(2\). The residual board has \(N=\lfloor n/(p-1)\rfloor-1\) holes and \(N+1\) pigeons. The inputs become affine in one column each, modulo a residual row combination, and each input may use its own column.
The column-state identity is exact, with bounds \(\max(3,p+1,2p-1)=2p-1\) for every \(p\ge2\). All coefficient fields are kept, and the base is strengthened to functional only after \(\Phi\).

Resolved here:

The final endpoint. "The all-prime affine endpoint" is the all-prime unary affine source exclusion. Its statement admits any complete one-level family whose inputs are affine in the old cells over \(\mathbb F_p\), at every accuracy, on the weak or functional base, with polynomial inventory and polylogarithmic degree. So blocks that mix single-column inputs from different columns are covered, and so are constant inputs, through the zero and unit spans. The degree excluded is \(\max(4p-1,2p-1)=4p-1\). The auditor observed that at \(p=2\) such an endpoint would cover every \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) refutation, and concluded that it must be restricted. It is restricted only by inventory and degree. At \(p=2\) it gives exactly the recorded binary unary theorem, so the observation is consistent with the record.
The weak-base compiler. The compiler's compression uses literal polynomial spans of degree at most \(\delta\), with "no Boolean quotient" (selector compiler). So compression and the source spans of weakening and simplification use no base generator, and no functional identity precedes \(\Phi\). The ceiling \(4p-1\) for the local rules is that of the selector compiler. Its local steps use only the Boolean equations, which the weak base contains, as the compiler audit requires.
Lines and inventory. Compression leaves at most \(\binom{v+p-1}{p-1}\) actual inputs per block, whatever a line's number of disjuncts. So the inventory is polynomial in the number of lines, as the endpoint requires.

Part C: the mixed propositions

Verdict: sound with fixes. Checked:

In MX, the exponent \(\beta\) exists exactly when \(\alpha<1/5\) and \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/8\), and \(n^\alpha=o(N)\) because \(\beta>\alpha\). The type-(i) companion identity is exact and lies in \(\mathcal I_{C+t+2}\).
(SPLIT) is exact. Costs add everywhere and multiply only by the constant \(D\).
In MXp, the union bound over branches is \(n^Kp^t\le n^{K+c_0}\). Parameters with \(\delta\eta<\beta_1\beta_2\sigma\), \(\beta_1<1-\alpha\), \(\beta_2<1/4\) and \(\sigma<1\) exist exactly when \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/(4\delta)\). The boundary cases \(\alpha=0\), \(\eta=0\), \(t=0\) and \(r<\delta\) hold.

Corrections to stated bounds. They change no conclusion.

The degree of \(P_{\mathcal B}\). MX″ and MXp state \(\deg P_{\mathcal B}\le T+1\). But \(P_{\mathcal B}=1-\sum_{\mathcal B}\Theta(r_j)q_j\), with \(\deg\Theta(r_j)\le T\) and \(\deg q_j\le\delta\), so the bound is \(T+\delta\): \(T+2\) at \(p=3\). This was checked here from the definitions. So \(T+1\) becomes \(T+\delta\) in four places: the coefficient-image degree \(T+\delta+d+s\), the replay term \(D(T+\delta+d+s)+k\), the \(\mathcal A\)-companion term \(D_{\mathcal A}+T+\delta+k\), and the \(\mathcal A\)-field term. The field term is \(p(T+\delta+d+s)+k\), since every replayed axiom image carries the weight \(f\). Every term remains \(o(N)\), because \(T=o(N)\), \(d=O(\log N)\), and \(s\) and \(\delta\) are constants.
The type-(ii) rank in MX. The bound \(r_a\le n^{2\eta}\) should read \(r_a\le(2r)^2\le4n^{2\eta}\), which is MXp's count at \(p=3\). Since the condition \(2\eta<\beta\sigma\) is strict, \(4n^{2\eta}\le N^\sigma\) for large \(n\), and nothing changes.

Clarifications:

Mixed blocks. The compiled refutation is not rewritten for a block whose forms fall into both parts. \(\Theta\) substitutes that block's coefficients directly. The certificate of \(f\,q_jP_{\mathcal B}\) is a polynomial identity: a polynomial that vanishes on the cube plus old-ideal terms. It uses (LPF-value) and the pointwise argument of step 4 of the two-level map for the \(\mathcal B\)-subtuple's inputs. It does not need the subtuple to be a block of the compiled refutation, and the graph and map audit confirmed that this pointwise conclusion concerns only the image polynomials.
The degree \(D_{\mathcal B}\). MX″ takes \(D_{\mathcal B}\) from MX′'s \(\mathcal B\)-certificate. Whether it is of order \(Te+k\) or \(DT+k\), it is \(o(N)\).
"\(D=4p-1\), polylog" in MXp's table. The compiler's degree is the constant \(4p-1\). It lies in the polylogarithmic range that the cited endpoints assume, and no polylogarithmic factor enters \(D\).
The separation. MXp's final contradiction is with the fixed-graph separation that Theorem QRp uses, with its linear range. The graph and map audit checked it at every prime. The ternary dense graph criterion, which has no \(p\ge5\) analogue, is not used.
The constants \(m\) and \(C_0\). The \(m\) in MXp's \(C=\max(\delta,m-1)\) is MX′'s fixed integer \(m>C_0/(1-\alpha-\beta_1)\). It bounds the rows that a nonconstant branch input reads after the second restriction. \(C_0\) is MX′'s support-count exponent. It is fixed for each \(p\), because the compressed inventory is at most \(n^{K+2\delta+1}\), as MXp's table says.

Proposition MX′. MX″ runs the proof of MX′, which was outside the excerpt of part C, so a fourth fresh auditor checked MX′ alone. Verdict: sound with fixes. The range check and the formula for \(s\) are correct. Clarifications:

Two constants named \(C\). MX′ uses \(C\) both for the support-count exponent and for the expansion degree \(C=\max(2,m-1)\). They are different constants. The support exponent is \(C_0\), as MXp renames it, and with that reading \(m>C_0/(1-\alpha-\beta_1)\) is not circular. The exponents \(\beta_1,\beta_2,\sigma\) are positive.
The support count. The union bound runs over the one chosen remainder of each kept input, not over every representation modulo rows. With at most \(n^K\) blocks and polynomially many kept inputs per block, a fixed \(C_0\) exists, for example \(K+2\delta+1\), as in MXp.
The switching count. \(n^K3^t\) counts one branch disjunction per line and branch. This holds because each line compiles to one block, and the reader switches the whole branch disjunction. A polynomial factor more would raise only the constant \(s\).
Empty branches. A branch whose inputs have all become zero selectors has an empty disjunction. The empty-aware reader handles it as an empty leaf.
The branch product. \(P_u=1-\sum_iR_{u,i}q_{u,i}\) is the product of (PL-map) in the probe endpoint. It is linear in the formal \(R\), and its old part has degree \(\delta=2\). After the reader substitution of degree \(s\), its image \(P'\) has degree at most \(s+2\), which the bounds \(\mathcal I_{d+s+4}\) and \(\mathcal I_{C+s+2}\) need. The term \(d+s+4\) is absorbed by \(d+C+s+2\) because \(C\ge2\).
The replay bound. It must also carry the type-(ii) certificate degree \(D_{\mathcal B}\) of step 4, as MX″ writes it: \(B\le11\max(T,d+s)+\max(D_{\mathcal A},D_{\mathcal B})+k\). The weight degree is \(k=O(\sqrt{N\log N})\) on the final board, by the fixed-graph formula with inventory polynomial in \(n=N^{O(1)}\), as in step 6 of Theorem NDX. So every term is \(o(N)\).

Consequence

Every endpoint of the statement set now has an independent audit, together with the chain it uses. The chains share the compiler, the fixed graph and maps and the removal mechanisms. No gap was found. Two stated bounds of MX″ and MXp are corrected above, the degree of \(P_{\mathcal B}\) and a missing \(+k\), and no conclusion changes. The rest are clarifications. One dependency remains outside the audits: the all-prime unary affine source exclusion. The occupancy exclusion ends at it, and at \(p=2\) it gives the binary unary theorem. Only its coefficient maps were checked, in the graph and map audit. Its own graph and separation, on the sixteen-neighbour graph, were not. The imported Mikša–Nordström theorem and the matching barrier remain taken as given.

Next step

Next step (scope-and-review): audit the all-prime unary affine source exclusion in the same way. Check its sixteen-neighbour graph and eight-neighbour boundary expansion, its separation through \(N/10^6\), the parameters \(k=\lceil\sqrt{N\ln(16(M+1))}\rceil\) and \(R=301k\), and the affine row-replacement identity. It is the last unaudited dependency of the statement set. It is also the engine of the binary unary theorem, whose registry record asks for exactly this review. After it, the thread waits for a user decision on the audited and novelty-checked statement set.

Sheaf check

The mixed propositions are the thread's working gluings. This audit checks that each local section and each recorded gluing holds on the common covering of compiled blocks. No new gluing is proposed.

Verification gate. Four fresh-context auditors read only their excerpt files and ran no searches. All four verdicts: sound with fixes. Checked here against the notebook: the composition section of the probe endpoint, which records the degree ledger; the statement of the all-prime affine endpoint, which admits any complete one-level family with affine inputs; the compiler's literal-span compression, with "no Boolean quotient"; MX′'s definition of \(m\) and its support exponent; the branch product of (PL-map); and the degree \(T+\delta\) of \(P_{\mathcal B}\), from its definition. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	16 min 54.93 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	16 min 51.19 s
Individually measured computation	3.61 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Independent audit: the graph-weight endpoint, its all-prime extension and the binary unary theorem are sound

22 September 2026 · Audit · Sound; no mathematical gap. The binary endpoint is over \(\mathbb F_2\); tautological lines after restriction are deleted; the fixed-graph core is stated once. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Independent audit: the graph-weight endpoint, its all-prime extension and the binary unary theorem are sound”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-affine-endpoint-audit.

Question. Route item: scope-and-review. The endpoint audit left one dependency of the statement set unaudited: the all-prime unary affine source exclusion, at which the occupancy endpoint ends. At \(p=2\), its entry also proves the binary unary theorem: superpolynomial bounds for unrestricted DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) refutations of unary PHP. That theorem's registry record asks for exactly this review. Two fresh-context auditors read one excerpt file, each asked to break one part.

Part C. The graph-weight entry: the imported Mikša–Nordström bound with its encoding transfer, the signed restriction detector, the random sixteen-neighbour graph, the count and separation of good monomials, and the binary endpoint.
Part D. The all-prime extension and the end-to-end binary theorem, taking part C's statements as given.

What was checked, and passed

Detector. The encoding transfer is valid in the right direction. Every axiom restricts to \(0\) or to a residual axiom, because the \(2k\) holes are distinct. The signed sum is \(\delta_{M',M}\) on all degree-\(k\) monomials, including in characteristic \(2\).
Graph. The \(\binom{16}9(2k/N)^9\) union bound, the neighbourhood argument, \(C=250e^6\approx1.0\times10^5<182250\), the geometric sum and the tail, and the imported bound \(\lfloor n'/10^4\rfloor/8>N/10^6\) all hold. Both exponential lower bounds of the count hold.
Binary endpoint. \(Rk/s=20k^2/(N+1)\ge10k^2/N\), \(e^{5k^2/N}\ge(16(M+1))^5>4M\), and the coefficient maps have degree at most \(T\). The graph depends only on \(N\) and \(k(M)\). It is fixed before the source and never changed.
All-prime extension. The affine row-replacement identity keeps every summand within \(2h+1\) over any field. The image ratio holds, since \(r-k>300k\) gives at least \(20k^2/(N+1)\ge10k^2/N\). The Fermat map has degree \(k(p-1)-1\), the prefix telescoping is correct, and the prefix map has degree \((p-1)r-1\). The certificates satisfy \(T+2+k\le Te+k\), and the coefficient fields cost \(pT+k\). The separation uses no fact about characteristic \(2\).
Binary theorem. \(M_*\ge3S+t_H\), the degree \(D=18\) and \(18\cdot301+1=5419\) are correct. The same graph serves the restriction and the separation, and under the semantic rule the restriction preserves the proof, which covers both rule conventions.

Clarifications recorded here

The audited entries are not rewritten, and every statement below holds for them as written.

The binary endpoint is over \(\mathbb F_2\). Its theorem does not name the field, but three steps use characteristic \(2\). First, a high tuple's membership with cofactors of degree at most \(k-1\) uses that every free assignment of a consistent flat lifts to a Boolean point. Second, the phrase "vanish where \(f=1\)" assumes \(\mathbb F_2\). Third, the weighted coefficient fields cost \(2T+k\) because the values are \(0\) or \(1\). The section title calls the endpoint binary. The all-prime extension replaces exactly this step by restriction to affine zero flats over \(\mathbb F_p\).
Good monomials. "Good" should be defined by the expansion event, not by hardness over a named field. The imported theorem does not depend on the field, so one graph and one monomial set then work over every field. Because \(p\) is fixed before the graph is chosen, the all-prime extension in any case needs the separated space only over \(\mathbb F_p\).
Tautological lines after restriction. The binary theorem treats only initial clauses that the graph restriction makes tautological. Inner lines can become tautological too. Delete every tautological line by induction. If one premise of a step is tautological, the conclusion is tautological or a weakening of the other premise, and the step becomes a one-premise semantic weakening. If both premises are tautological, so is the conclusion. The empty clause is never tautological. So the number of lines stays at most \(S\), and the semantic convention covers the new weakening steps.
The fixed-graph core, stated once. Both parts cite the proofs of the binary endpoint and of the all-prime extension, not a lemma. Their common content is the following. Let \(H\) be the graph, with its distinguished coordinates and the space \(W_k\) of (GS-space), and let \(\Gamma_H\) be its base over \(\mathbb F_p\). Take any complete one-level family with old-affine inputs and at most \(M\) blocks, with \(2M<e^{5k^2/N}\), and a PC refutation through \(D\ge p\). Then some nonzero \(f\in W_k\) lies in \(\mathcal C_B(\Gamma_H)\), with \(B=(p-1)301k\,D+k\). Separation of \(W_k\) through \(N/10^6\) then excludes the refutation. The budget \(2M<e^{5k^2/N}\) follows from \(5k^2/N\ge5\ln(16(M+1))\).
Rank and properness. Rank, properness and the zero and unit cleanup are computed on the row-replaced tuple in the \(s=15(N+1)\) coordinates. For a proper tuple, the affine rank equals the codimension of its zero flat over \(\mathbb F_p\). The product \(1-f^{p-1}\) of a high tuple uses that its coefficient rows after the first are zero, as for low tuples.
Blocks and tuples. Each block of a one-level family has exactly one input tuple, so the loss bound charges one flat per high block. In the tail bound, \(b_k(n)=\sum_{j\le k}\binom nj\), and the factor \(2\) needs \(k/(s-R-k+1)\le1/2\). The first eight surviving neighbours are independent uniform eight-subsets. Given the deletions and the row-wise product event, the conditional law is invariant under permutations of the surviving holes, and a product event keeps the rows independent.
Unused hypotheses. Raising \(D\) to at least \(16\) is not needed. The ledger needs only \(D\ge2\), so that \(2T+k\le TD+k\), and \(e\le D\) for every used companion, so that \(Te+k\le B\). The lower limit \(8\) of (GS-space) is not used. The bound of \(\max(16,16(N+1)+2)\) inputs per slot is not a hypothesis of the endpoint.

The binary theorem compiles a refutation by its own CNF-to-affine-registry transfer: width-sixteen initial clauses, accuracy one, PC degree \(18\). That transfer lies outside the excerpt and was taken as given. It is the one part of the binary theorem's chain that this audit does not cover.

Consequence

Every dependency of the statement set now has an independent audit. The only exceptions are the imported Mikša–Nordström theorem and matching barrier, which are taken as given. For the binary unary theorem, the graph-weight construction and the composition have now been reviewed, as its record asked. Its own CNF compiler has not.

Next step

Next step (scope-and-review, thread level): a thread route review. The statement set is audited and novelty-checked, and the window has no live mechanism. The review should weigh three options. The first is a write-up of the statement set for expert review, which needs a user decision. The second is an audit of the binary CNF compiler, which would complete the review of the binary theorem, a main-notebook item. The third is a new window attempt from outside the recorded mechanism classes. For each, the review should state what it needs.

Sheaf check

The audited core is the global object of the thread: one fixed robust graph and one common weight space against which every local section is compared. The tautological-line fix is a restriction map on the proof. It sends each line to a line or deletes it, and it keeps the gluing along the DAG.

Verification gate. Two fresh-context auditors read only the excerpt file and ran no searches. Both verdicts: sound with fixes, where the fixes make statements explicit and add or strengthen no claim. Checked here: the case analysis for a step with a tautological premise; the budget \(e^{5k^2/N}\ge(16(M+1))^5>2M\); and the claim identifiers of both audited entries. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 10.55 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	10 min 6.75 s
Individually measured computation	3.66 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Thread route review: the statement set is complete; bounded-depth closure is the one outside mechanism not yet tested at odd primes

22 September 2026 · Route review of the odd-prime thread · Window weak; write-up awaits a user decision; next: test an \(\mathbb F_p\) closure lemma for unary PHP, the first step of a bounded-depth endpoint. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Thread route review: the statement set is complete; bounded-depth closure is the one outside mechanism not yet tested at odd primes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-thread-review-after-audits.

The thread's general claim. Superpolynomial lower bounds for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of unary PHP, at every odd prime, follow by compiling a refutation into complete selector blocks over PHP and excluding the compiled source. What the goal needs is the case the statement set leaves open: refutations with more than \(Cn\) window lines, of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\), outside every recorded class. Since the last thread review, the statement set has been audited end to end, the last step being the affine endpoint audit, and the novelty check found none of its endpoints in the literature. Route items under review: all three.

Falsification attempt: is a restart condition met?

The statement set named three restart conditions for the window.

A batched mechanism for non-nested dense blocks. None was found. The audits confirm the recorded limits: per-block removal is linear (Theorem NDX′), and the batch theorems need nesting.
A proof of the level-one conjecture with a depth-independent use. No progress; the reuse-free analysis showed that any use is limited by depth.
Outside work on DAG-like proofs with dense linear lines. The novelty check found work that the lag review had not listed. Bhattacharya, Chattopadhyay and Byramji (STOC 2026) and Byramji and Impagliazzo (arXiv 2511.20023) prove bounds for \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) up to depth \(N^{2-\varepsilon}\), for bit PHP and for a block-lifted unary functional PHP. These are DAG-like proofs with arbitrary dense lines, restricted only in depth, at a depth far beyond the earlier \(O(n\log n)\). They work over \(\mathbb F_2\), on other encodings. Like every closure method, they follow one path of the proof, as F4 of the ceiling review recorded. So the condition is not met for the unrestricted goal.

One fact changes the assessment of the third condition. These bounds are the only recorded mechanism that handles dense lines of the window's rank in DAG-like proofs of large depth. None of the thread's endpoints admits more than \(Cn\) window lines at any depth. So a bounded-depth endpoint for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) on unary PHP would be the first odd-prime statement that admits arbitrarily many window lines. It would still not be the goal: depth is a restriction, and the gap between depth-restricted and DAG-like proofs is exactly what closure methods do not cross.

Assessment of each route item

odd-prime-clause-transfer (the window): weak, unchanged. No mechanism within the compile-and-exclude framework; the audits add confidence in the partial results, not a route to the rest.
same-graph-composition: bookkeeping; nothing open.
scope-and-review: complete up to external review. Every endpoint and dependency is independently audited, except for the imported theorems, and the novelty check found none of the endpoints in the literature. Whether to write the statement set up for expert review, or as a preprint, is a publication decision that belongs to the user. Separately, the binary unary theorem of the main notebook lacks only an audit of its own CNF compiler; that is a main-notebook task.

A candidate line and its first obligation

A bounded-depth endpoint at odd primes would need two pieces. The first is an \(\mathbb F_p\) closure lemma for unary PHP. Given a linear system over \(\mathbb F_p\) in the cell variables of rank \(a\), it would find a partial matching on \(O(a)\) rows and holes after which the system is implied, while PHP on the remaining board stays hard, with degree about \(n/2-O(a)\). The second is a path argument that keeps the rank of the system along a path below the depth bound. The record has the first piece only over \(\mathbb F_2\) and for bit labels (Corollary SL), and the matching filtration over every field. Two obstructions must be checked first. Over \(\mathbb F_p\), sums of row equations count modulo \(p\): onto-PHP is refuted at once by comparing row and column sums, so the closure must not introduce onto-type column equations. And a dense form over \(\mathbb F_p\) can take \(p\) values, so closure must handle equations \(L=u\) for every \(u\), not only parities.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test the first obligation of the bounded-depth line. Read the closure lemma of Byramji and Impagliazzo (arXiv 2511.20023) and of Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson, and state its exact \(\mathbb F_p\) analogue for ordinary unary PHP. Check it against the two obstructions above: modular counting of row sums, and multi-valued dense forms. Then either prove it at rank \(a\le cn\) or find the obstruction. If the closure lemma fails at odd primes, record why and close the line. The write-up of the statement set waits for a user decision, which this review surfaces.

Sheaf check

Closure methods glue along one path: each node's linear system restricts to its successor's, and the section is a partial matching that extends along the path. That is why they reach bounded depth and not DAGs, where a node has several parents whose closures need not agree. The thread's endpoints glue across the covering by compiled blocks, at a cost per block. The two gluings are complementary, and neither reaches the window.

Verification gate. No result is claimed. Re-read the statement set's restart conditions, the lag review's literature paragraph and F4 of the ceiling review, the reuse-free analysis, Corollary SL's record, and the novelty check's source list. The bounded-depth results are cited from the searchers' reading of their abstracts and theorems; their closure lemmas have not yet been read here. The onto-PHP remark is the elementary identity \(\sum_i(\rho_i-1)-\sum_j(\kappa_j-1)=-1\) for row sums \(\rho_i\) and column sums \(\kappa_j\) on \(n+1\) rows and \(n\) holes. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 39.52 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 39.39 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Bounded-depth closure for unary PHP: the known hard distributions are easy for linear queries at every prime, and a modular-collision distribution is the open candidate

22 September 2026 · Working proof of the Observation, for plain and functional unary PHP · One-defect assignments have linear decision trees of depth \(O(\log n)\) over every \(\mathbb F_p\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Bounded-depth closure for unary PHP: the known hard distributions are easy for linear queries at every prime, and a modular-collision distribution is the open candidate”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-fp-closure-obstruction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The thread review found one outside mechanism not yet tested at odd primes: closure, which bounds \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) proofs of depth up to \(N^{2-\varepsilon}\) with dense lines. A bounded-depth endpoint for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) on unary PHP would be the first odd-prime statement that admits arbitrarily many window lines. The review set the first obligation: an \(\mathbb F_p\) closure lemma for ordinary unary PHP, tested against modular counting and multi-valued forms. The test ends with the lemma proved, or with an obstruction that closes the line or names what it needs.

What the method needs

A fresh-context reader extracted the method from three sources: Byramji and Impagliazzo (BI, arXiv 2511.20023v1), Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson (EGI, ECCC TR23-187) and Bhattacharya and Chattopadhyay (arXiv 2507.23008v2). The method has two parts.

Closure at one node. A set of independent forms is safe when its span contains no dangerous set, that is no \(F\) with more forms than blocks in its support. The closure of a system is the least set of blocks whose zeroing leaves a safe system, and it grows by at most one block per equation. A locally consistent system of rank \(t\) has a solution injective outside \(t+1\) pigeons (EGI Lemma 7.1). This part is linear algebra and is expected to transfer to \(\mathbb F_p\).
A path argument. A random walk with restarts runs down the proof, sampling from a hard distribution \(\mu\) conditioned on the current linear system (BI, after Alekseev and Itsykson). The distribution needs three properties:
- a safe system of rank \(r\) is satisfied with probability \(2^{-\Omega(r)}\) (BI Lemma 4.6 gives \((3/4)^r\), Lemma 5.7 \((7/8)^{\lceil r/4\rceil}\));
- parity queries can be simulated by revealing a few blocks;
- the false-clause search is hard on its support.
For bit PHP the distributions are near-permutations: every hole label used, one label twice.

For plain unary PHP the authors do not use this method. They prove their bound for a block-lifted unary functional PHP instead. Their Remark A.4 gives two reasons. Under the unary versions of their distributions "each bit is extremely likely to be 0", which makes parity queries hard to simulate, and safe systems get no useful bound on their probability. They add that this is to be expected, because on near-permutations a parity decision tree with \(O(\log n)\) queries solves the false-clause search.

The one-defect classes are easy at every prime

Observation. Fix a prime \(p\), and unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\), plain or functional. On each class of assignments below, some linear decision tree over \(\mathbb F_p\) of depth \(O(\log n)\) finds a falsified clause. Each query reads the value of a linear form in the cells.

Near-permutations: every pigeon in exactly one hole, every hole used, so one hole \(j^*\) holds two pigeons. These are the unary versions of BI's distributions.
One empty pigeon: one pigeon in no hole, the other \(n\) pigeons matched bijectively to the \(n\) holes. This is the other one-defect class, with the defect on the pigeon side.

Proof. Class 1. For a set \(H\) of holes, the form \(\sum_{j\in H}\sum_ix_{ij}\) counts the pigeons in \(H\), which is \(|H|+[j^*\in H]\). Its value modulo \(p\), compared with the known \(|H|\), tells whether \(j^*\in H\). Binary search finds \(j^*\) with \(\lceil\log_2n\rceil\) queries. For a set \(P\) of pigeons, \(\sum_{i\in P}x_{ij^*}\in\{0,1,2\}\), and for \(p\ge3\) these values are distinct modulo \(p\). A binary search that keeps a part of value at least one finds a pigeon \(i_1\) in \(j^*\). A second search over the other pigeons finds \(i_2\). The hole clause \(\neg x_{i_1j^*}\vee\neg x_{i_2j^*}\) is falsified. For \(p=2\), BI's tree applies. Class 2. For a set \(P\) of pigeons, \(\sum_{i\in P}\sum_jx_{ij}=|P|-[i^*\in P]\), where \(i^*\) is the empty pigeon. Binary search finds \(i^*\), and its pigeon clause is falsified. Both trees output only hole and pigeon clauses, so they serve plain PHP as well as functional PHP. \(\square\)

The known distributions are therefore easy for linear queries at every prime, not only at \(p=2\). Here is a heuristic reading of BI's "this is to be expected", not a theorem. The walk samples only from \(\mu\) conditioned on the current system. A contradiction at a leaf needs that system's rank to exceed the depth \(q\) of the linear trees that are correct on the support of \(\mu\). For both classes \(q=O(\log n)\), so such a \(\mu\) can force nothing at depth \(D\ge C\log n\). For odd \(p\), more doubled holes do not help either: if a constant fraction of holes hold exactly two pigeons, a few single-hole queries find one with high probability. So a usable \(\mu\) must not put constant mass on count-localizable one-defect assignments.

A modular-collision candidate

Counting modulo \(p\) suggests a distribution that the Observation does not reach. Let one hole \(j^*\) hold \(p+1\) pigeons and \(p-1\) holes \(E\) be empty, with every other hole holding one pigeon. For \(p=2\): three pigeons in \(j^*\) and one empty hole. The counts check: \((p+1)+(n-p)=n+1\) pigeons. Every hole's occupancy is then \(1\) modulo \(p\), except in \(E\), where it is \(0\). So every form \(\sum_jw_j\,\mathrm{occ}(j)\) takes the value \(\sum_{j\notin E}w_j\) modulo \(p\), independent of \(j^*\). Hole counts locate \(E\), but not \(j^*\), and the only falsified clauses are the hole clauses at \(j^*\). This is the modular-counting test the review asked for.

Whether this distribution is hard for general linear queries is open. Two partial remarks:

An upper bound. Sampling a pigeon, locating its hole by binary search and testing that hole with random pigeon subsets finds a pigeon in \(j^*\) with about \((n/p)\log n\) queries. So the search needs at most about that depth, and the candidate is not easy by this strategy.
No known lower bound. None has been attempted. BI's two other reasons, sparse bits and the missing probability bound for safe systems, apply to this candidate as to any unary distribution.

A small exact computation would not decide the question: at reachable sizes, such as \(p=3\) and \(n=5\) with \(900\) assignments, logarithmic and linear depths coincide.

What this settles and what it does not

The bounded-depth line is not closed. It is conditional on a hard distribution for unary PHP under linear queries over \(\mathbb F_p\) with the method's three properties. The one-defect distributions, the natural transfer of BI's, fail the third property at every prime. The modular-collision candidate evades that failure. Whether it has all three properties is the line's open question. Proving the one-node closure lemma over \(\mathbb F_p\) would add nothing until the question is settled. At \(p=2\) the question is less pressing, because the binary unary theorem gives a superpolynomial bound with no depth restriction. A bounded-depth bound could still be exponential. The obstruction is to the known distributions, not to the statement. Tree-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_F)\) refutations of \(\mathrm{PHP}^m_n\) need size \(2^{\Omega(n)}\) over every field (Part and Tzameret, Theorem 38, as the novelty check's searcher read it). By the expected correspondence between linear decision trees and tree-like refutations, no polynomial-size linear tree solves the search on all assignments.

Assessment

This entry leaves the window line's prospects weak, as before, with one new conditional sub-line. The unary encoding, which makes the compile-and-exclude framework work, is what makes the known distributions easy: a hole's occupancy is a linear form. Of the sources read and the record, the other outside mechanisms bound the arity of extension variables, as Impagliazzo–Mouli–Pitassi and Dahiya–Mahajan–Mouli do. Dense window lines exceed that arity.

Sheaf check

Closure glues sections along a path, controlled by a measure on assignments. The known measures concentrate on one-defect assignments, where a global section, the location of the defect, is computable from \(O(\log n)\) linear readings. The modular-collision measure hides the defect from every occupancy form. Whether it also hides it from all linear readings decides whether the path gluing has anything to work with.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test the modular-collision candidate against general linear queries over \(\mathbb F_p\). First look for a linear decision tree of depth \(n^{o(1)}\) that finds a falsified clause on its support. Queries that count the pigeons of a set \(P\) in a set of holes \(H\), with \(P\) random, are the obvious try. If none is found, attempt a lower bound of order \(n^c\) on its depth. If the candidate is easy, record the tree and close the line. If it is hard, examine its safe-system probability next.

Verification gate. Re-read the three sources' method through the reader's extraction, and BI's Remark A.4 verbatim. Searched the record for near-permutation search, parity decision trees on PHP and safe systems. It holds Corollary SL and the parity-tree records for bit labels, but no linear-query analysis of unary PHP distributions. A fresh-context reviewer checked the Observation for every prime, including \(p=2\) and \(p=3\), and confirmed it. It required:

narrowing the claim from few-defect to one-defect classes;
replacing an undefined bound by the walk's mechanism, labelled heuristic;
stating that the trees serve plain PHP;
narrowing the literature claims to the sources read;
weakening "does not arise" at \(p=2\).

It also proposed the modular-collision distribution, whose occupancy identity was checked here. Its main finding was that the draft's conclusion, that the line closes, did not follow; the conclusion is now conditional. The upper-bound remark and the vacuity of small computations were added here after the review. They weaken rather than strengthen the conclusions, so no second pass was run. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 1.37 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	12 min 57.58 s
Individually measured computation	3.66 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Column dichotomy: for unary PHP, charging column forms makes the closure method's probability bound incompatible with linear search hardness, and for fixed \(p\) safety forbids exempting them as Byramji and Impagliazzo do

22 September 2026 · Working proof of the dichotomy, for unary PHP on every bipartite board and every prime. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Column dichotomy: for unary PHP, charging column forms makes the closure method's probability bound incompatible with linear search hardness, and for fixed \(p\) safety forbids exempting them as Byramji and Impagliazzo do”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-modular-collision-test.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The last entry made the bounded-depth closure line conditional on a hard distribution \(\mu\) for unary PHP under linear queries over \(\mathbb F_p\), with three properties.

Every safe system of rank \(r\) holds with probability at most \(2^{-\Omega(r)}\).
Linear queries can be simulated by revealing a few blocks.
The false-clause search is hard: every linear tree of the walk's step depth fails to find a falsified clause with at least constant probability. This is the linear-query analogue of the condition Byramji and Impagliazzo use for ordinary trees (\(1/4\) in their Section 2.1).

It proposed the modular-collision distribution, which hides the defect from every occupancy form, and asked to test it. This entry tests property 1 before property 3. The test ends with a candidate that survives, or with the reason no candidate can.

Two cheap safe systems

Blocks are pigeon rows, as in Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson: a linearly independent set \(F\) of forms is dangerous when \(|F|\) exceeds the number of rows in its support, and a system is safe when its span contains no dangerous set. Let \(G\) be a bipartite graph between the pigeons \([n+1]\) and the holes \([n]\); the full board is the complete graph. Assignments are functional within \(G\): each pigeon sits in exactly one of its neighbouring holes.

Row systems. For distinct pigeons \(i_1,\ldots,i_r\) and holes \(h_t\in N(i_t)\), the system \(\{x_{i_t,h_t}=0\}\) is safe of rank \(r\). The span of any \(s\) of its forms has support in exactly \(s\) rows. For any distribution \(\nu\), choosing each \(h_t\) with \(\nu(f(i_t)=h_t)\le1/\deg(i_t)\) makes the system hold with probability at least \(1-\sum_t1/\deg(i_t)\). On the full board this is at least \(1-r/n\), which is at least \(1/2\) for every \(r\le n/2\). This is the second reason of Byramji and Impagliazzo's Remark A.4, made exact. A bounded-degree graph removes it: there each such equation costs a constant share.
Column systems. For a set \(H'\) of \(r\) holes, let \(\mathrm{col}_h=\sum_{i\in N(h)}x_{ih}\), which is the occupancy of \(h\). The forms \(\mathrm{col}_h\), \(h\in H'\), have disjoint supports, so they have rank \(r\). The system \(\{\mathrm{col}_h=1:h\in H'\}\) is safe whenever \(G\) satisfies Hall's condition for \(H'\), that is \(|N(T)|\ge|T|\) for every \(T\subseteq H'\). Then \(s\) independent forms in the span use at least \(s\) holes, and so at least \(s\) rows. Hall's condition holds whenever \(G\) has a matching that covers \(H'\). Under the modular-collision distribution, restricted to any graph where its support is nonempty, this system holds unless a hole of \(H'\) is empty, because \(p+1\equiv1\). Fix one assignment \(f_0\) in the support and let \(H_0\) be the \(n-p+1\) holes it occupies. One pigeon per hole gives a matching that covers \(H_0\), so every \(H'\subseteq H_0\) satisfies Hall's condition. The expected number of empty holes in \(H_0\) is at most \(p-1\), so the \(r\) holes of \(H_0\) least likely to be empty have total emptiness probability at most \((p-1)r/(n-p+1)\). For that \(H'\) the system holds with probability at least \(1-(p-1)r/(n-p+1)\).

The fresh-context reviewer found the column systems. For \(p=o(n)\), in particular for fixed \(p\), they show that the modular-collision candidate fails property 1 on every graph where its support is nonempty: the bound stays at least \(1/2\) for all \(r\le(n-p+1)/(2(p-1))\). The proposition below shows that this is not special to one distribution.

The dichotomy

Proposition (column dichotomy). Let \(p\) be any prime, \(G\) a bipartite graph between \([n+1]\) and \([n]\), \(\nu\) a distribution on functional assignments within \(G\), and \(H_0\) a set of \(n_0\ge n/2\) holes. Let \(1\le r_0\le n_0\) and \(\delta\ge0\). Let \(H'\) be a uniformly random set of \(r_0\) holes of \(H_0\), independent of the assignment, and suppose \[ \Pr\bigl(\mathrm{col}_h\equiv1\pmod p\text{ for all }h\in H'\bigr)\le\delta . \tag{COL} \] Then for every \(0<\eta<1\) there is a linear decision tree over \(\mathbb F_p\) of depth \(O\bigl(r_0\log(2/\eta)\,(\log n+\log(2/\eta))\bigr)\). It finds a falsified hole clause with probability at least \(1-\tfrac43\delta-\eta\) under \(\nu\). Each of its queries only tests whether a linear form is zero.

(COL) is weaker than the per-set bound: that each system \(\{\mathrm{col}_h=1:h\in H'\}\) with \(H'\subseteq H_0\), \(|H'|=r_0\), has probability at most \(\delta\). If \(G\) has a matching that covers at least \(n/2\) holes, let \(H_0\) be the holes it covers. The systems are then safe by Hall's condition. So property 1 applied to them, with \(\delta=2^{-cr_0}\), gives (COL). Choosing \(r_0=\lceil\log_2(8/(3\eta))/c\rceil\) makes \(\tfrac43\delta\le\eta/2\), and the depth is then \(O(\log n)\) for fixed \(c\) and \(\eta\). If \(G\) has no matching that covers \(n/2\) holes, no hypothesis is needed. Choosing one pigeon in each occupied hole gives a matching, so every assignment within \(G\) leaves more than \(n/2\) holes empty. By the count in step 2 below, a random pigeon then lies in a hole of occupancy at least \(2\) with probability above \(1/2\). So the dichotomy covers every board.

Proof.

Many visible holes, with high probability. Call a hole visible when its occupancy is not \(1\) modulo \(p\). Let \(V\) be the set of visible holes, \(Z\) the number of empty holes, and \(C\) the number of holes with occupancy at least \(2\). Occupancies sum to \(n+1\) over \(n\) holes, so \(\sum_h(\mathrm{occ}(h)-1)=1\). Hence \(\sum_{\mathrm{occ}(h)\ge2}(\mathrm{occ}(h)-1)=1+Z\), and \(C\le1+Z\). A visible hole is empty or has occupancy at least \(2\), so \(|V|\le Z+C\le2Z+1\). For a fixed assignment with \(|V\cap H_0|\le n_0/(4r_0)\), a union bound gives \(\Pr_{H'}(H'\cap V=\varnothing)\ge1-r_0|V\cap H_0|/n_0\ge3/4\). By (COL), \(\Pr(H'\cap V=\varnothing)\le\delta\) jointly. So \(\nu(|V\cap H_0|\le n_0/(4r_0))\le\tfrac43\delta\).
A random pigeon finds a collision. For an assignment with \(|V\cap H_0|>n_0/(4r_0)\), \(|V|>n/(8r_0)\), so \(Z\ge(|V|-1)/2>n/(16r_0)-1/2\). A uniformly random pigeon lies in a hole of occupancy at least \(2\) with probability \(\sum_{\mathrm{occ}\ge2}\mathrm{occ}/(n+1)\ge(1+Z)/(n+1)\ge1/(17r_0)\), since \(17r_0(n/(16r_0)+1/2)\ge n+1\).
One trial. Pick a random pigeon \(i\).
- Find its hole \(h=f(i)\) by binary search with the forms \(\sum_{g\in S}x_{ig}\), \(S\subseteq N(i)\), which take the values \(0\) and \(1\): \(\lceil\log_2n\rceil\) queries.
- Test whether \(h\) holds another pigeon. Query \(\sum_{i'\in P}x_{i'h}\) for \(t\) independent uniformly random subsets \(P\) of \(N(h)\setminus\{i\}\). If \(k\ge1\) other pigeons sit in \(h\), each value is \(\mathrm{Bin}(k,1/2)\) modulo \(p\). That value is nonzero with probability at least \(1/2\): conditioned on all coins but one, the last coin changes the value by \(1\), which is not \(0\) modulo \(p\). If \(k=0\), every value is \(0\). So the test errs only when \(k\ge1\), with probability at most \(2^{-t}\).
- Given a set \(P\) with nonzero value, halve \(P\) repeatedly. Query one half; if its value is zero, the other half has the nonzero value, because the two values add up. This finds a pigeon \(i_2\ne i\) in \(h\) with \(O(\log n)\) queries.
- Output the hole clause \(\neg x_{ih}\vee\neg x_{i_2h}\). It is falsified.
A trial has depth \(O(\log n+t)\). On an assignment with \(|V\cap H_0|>n_0/(4r_0)\), it succeeds with probability at least \((1-2^{-t})/(17r_0)\ge1/(34r_0)\).
Repetition. Take \(t=\lceil\log_2(2/\eta)\rceil\) and \(T=\lceil34r_0\ln(2/\eta)\rceil\) independent trials. On such an assignment all trials fail with probability at most \(\eta/2\). With step 1, the total failure probability is at most \(\tfrac43\delta+\eta/2\). Fixing the random choices to their best value gives a deterministic tree with at least the same success probability under \(\nu\). \(\square\)

Every query is a linear form over \(\mathbb F_p\) in the cells, and the output is a hole clause. So the tree serves plain and functional PHP alike. At \(p=2\) it suggests why Byramji and Impagliazzo work with bit PHP and with a block-lifted unary PHP: column parities are linear in the unary encoding but not in the bit encoding.

Consequence: charging column forms

On the full board, the row systems already refute property 1 for every distribution. The dichotomy matters on sparse boards, such as bounded-degree graphs, where row systems are expensive. Suppose property 1 charges column systems like any other safe system. Then (COL) holds for small \(\delta\), and the tree succeeds with probability above \(3/4\) at depth \(O(\log n)\). For this method property 3 must be the linear-query analogue of the \((p,q)\)-DT-hardness that Byramji and Impagliazzo cite from Bhattacharya and Chattopadhyay. At the empty restriction, with \(\nu_\varnothing=\mu\), every linear tree over \(\mathbb F_p\) of depth \(q\) must reach a leaf falsifying no clause with probability at least \(1/3\). The tree contradicts this whenever \(q\ge C\log n\). Their definition itself concerns ordinary trees that query variables. In the unary encoding such trees need about \(n\) queries to locate one pigeon, so the dichotomy does not contradict it. So on any board, no distribution has property 1 in this form together with linear search hardness.

Consequence: exempting column forms

Byramji and Impagliazzo's Lemma 5.7 treats bit PHP with \(m\) blocks of \(l\) bits. Its hypotheses are that \(\Psi\) is safe; that \(\langle\Psi\rangle\) contains the \(l\) column-sum equations \(\sum_ix_{i,j}=\sum_{y\in S}y_j\); that \(\mu\) is uniform on permutations of a multiset \(S\) with \(|S|=m\), whose colouring has at most \(n/20\) red elements (the section applies it to multisets with no string more than twice); that the rank is \(l+r\); and that \(m-2r\ge3n/4\). The conclusion is \(\Pr[x\text{ satisfies }\Psi]\le(7/8)^{\lceil r/4\rceil}\). So the column sums are in the span and exempted from the charge. Under \(\mu\) they are fixed.

The unary analogue is blocked by safety itself. Under the modular-collision distribution conditioned on its empty set \(E\), every occupancy form is fixed modulo \(p\), as BI's column sums are. But the cells in \(E\) are then zero, so the board is PHP on the \(n+1\) pigeons and the \(n'=n-p+1\) holes outside \(E\). A safe system whose span contains the \(n'\) occupancy forms and \(r\) further independent forms has \(n'+r\) independent forms supported in at most \(n+1\) rows, so it is dangerous once \(r>p\). Without conditioning, the \(n\) occupancy forms leave room for \(r\le1\). The walk must handle systems whose non-column rank reaches order \(\log S\) in one step, where \(S\) is the proof size, and grows over the restarts. So for fixed \(p\) this cap blocks the exemption; for \(p\) comparable with \(\log S\) it would not. In BI's setting the room \(m-l\) is large, since \(l\) is logarithmic in the number of holes; their Lemma 5.8 hypothesis \(m>2r+l\) reflects the same count. Lemma 5.8 also relies on its absorbing block \(i_0\), whose \(l\) bits take arbitrary affine values, each a legal hole. A unary row must be a unit vector, so it cannot absorb such corrections.

So for fixed \(p\) the exemption cannot be copied. A column-exempt version for unary PHP needs a new danger notion, for example rank counted modulo the occupancy span. With it, it needs a closure lemma in place of Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's Lemma 7.1, a probability bound in the new rank, and a restriction step. It also needs hardness of the search, whose best known tree for the modular-collision candidate is sampling with about \((n/p)\log n\) queries. None of these pieces has a recorded or cited analogue. Even with all of them, the result would be a bounded-depth endpoint, not the goal.

Assessment

The bounded-depth sub-line is no longer a transfer of a known method. For unary PHP on any board, charging column forms makes the probability property incompatible with linear search hardness, at every prime. For fixed \(p\), safety does not allow exempting them in the way Byramji and Impagliazzo do. What remains needs new closure machinery. Its first test is whether any danger notion modulo the occupancy span admits a closure lemma. The sub-line's prospects are weak, and the window line's prospects stay weak. The structural reason is the one the last entry found: the unary encoding, which the compile-and-exclude framework needs, makes occupancy a linear form.

Sheaf check

The closure method glues local sections, one row at a time, along a path, and pays for each by a loss of measure. For unary PHP, column readings are global sections. If the method charges them, they either carry measure, and then one of them helps locate a collision, or they carry none and glue for free. Exempting them would make them a fixed global section. For unary PHP that section has almost the full rank of the board, \(n'\) forms on \(n+1\) rows, so safety leaves room for at most \(p\) further forms beside it, far below the rank the walk accumulates when \(p\) is fixed. Gluing would have to be measured modulo the global section, which no recorded closure notion does.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer, thread level): a thread route review. It should weigh the bounded-depth sub-line against the other open directions and choose the next step. The sub-line now needs new closure machinery, and its payoff is limited to bounded depth. If it continues, its first test is a closure lemma for rank counted modulo the occupancy span. The write-up of the audited statement set and the binary compiler audit await user decisions.

Verification gate. Re-read verbatim from the source text: Byramji and Impagliazzo's Lemmas 5.7 and 5.8 with the preamble of their Section 5.2, the \((p,q)\)-DT-hardness definition and the walk of their Section 2.1; and the last entry's Observation. Record searches for column, occupancy, safe system, collision, random pigeon, decision tree, hard distribution and closure found no earlier dichotomy. The nearest records are the last entry's Observation, which the Proposition extends, and the remark that a parity tree may query the constant sum of all column sums (HW reading). The draft went through three fresh-context reviews:

First draft. It proposed a graph-restricted candidate. The reviewer found the column systems, which refute it.
First pass on the dichotomy. Verdict: sound with fixes. The Proposition and all four steps checked. The main gap: exempting column forms as BI do is blocked by safety. The other fixes were the absorbing-block sentence, the remark that the full board adds nothing new, the Hall's-condition fix, the averaged (COL), \(\log(2/\eta)\) in the depth, the full Lemma 5.7 hypotheses and the meta line. The hypothesis \(n\ge8\) was unused and is dropped.
Second pass. The extension to every board strengthened the claim, so a second pass checked it: sound with fixes. The constants and the no-matching case checked. The fixes only qualify claims: property 3 is the linear-query analogue, not BI's own definition; on sparse boards the result is an incompatibility, not a failure of the bound; the safety cap binds for fixed \(p\); and the modular-collision failure needs \(p=o(n)\). "No string more than twice" was confirmed in BI's Section 5.2. No third pass was run, because these fixes only weaken claims.

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Thread route review: bounded-depth closure for unary PHP would need a new method; its first test is a danger notion measured on forced cells

22 September 2026 · Route review of the odd-prime thread · Window weak; closure sub-line weak, payoff limited to bounded depth. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Thread route review: bounded-depth closure for unary PHP would need a new method; its first test is a danger notion measured on forced cells”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-closure-route-review.

The thread's general claim. Superpolynomial lower bounds for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of unary PHP, at every odd prime, follow by compiling a refutation into complete selector blocks and excluding the compiled source. What the goal needs is the case the statement set leaves open: refutations with more than \(Cn\) window lines, of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\). The last thread review found one outside mechanism that handles such lines in DAG-like proofs of bounded depth, the closure method of Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson and of Byramji and Impagliazzo. Two cycles tested it for unary PHP: the one-defect analysis and the column dichotomy. Route items under review: all three, with the closure sub-line of the first.

Falsification attempt: does the method transfer to unary PHP?

The method has three parts: a safety notion with pigeon rows as blocks, a probability bound for safe systems under a hard distribution, and a restriction step that implies a safe system while keeping PHP hard on the free rows. Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's path argument also needs the negation of every axiom to be locally inconsistent: no solution may be injective on the closure. For unary PHP each part now has a recorded obstruction.

Safety. Over \(\mathbb F_p\) with \(p\) odd, the equation \(x_{i_1j}+x_{i_2j}=2\) has rank one, and every \(0/1\) solution puts both pigeons in hole \(j\). A single nonzero form is never dangerous, so this system is safe with pigeon rows as blocks. Its closure is empty, so it is locally consistent although it falsifies a hole clause, and every restriction implying it falsifies that clause. The same holds for the rank-two system \(\{x_{i_1j}=1,\ x_{i_2j}=1\}\), whose two independent forms have support in two rows. In the bit encoding over \(\mathbb F_p\), a system of forms supported on the two rows that fixes both labels needs at least \(\lceil2l/(p-1)\rceil\) independent forms, since a system of rank \(r\) with a \(0/1\) solution forces at most \(r(p-1)\) bits (shown below). It is therefore dangerous once \(l\ge p\), and the negated hole clause itself, with \(2l\) forms, is dangerous once \(l\ge2\). This is an elementary remark, checked below.
Probability. By the column dichotomy, a bound that charges the occupancy forms is incompatible with linear search hardness on every board, at every prime.
Exemption. Exempting the occupancy forms as Byramji and Impagliazzo exempt column sums is blocked by safety for fixed \(p\). Under the modular-collision distribution conditioned on its empty set, the \(n-p+1\) occupancy forms outside that set are fixed, and a safe system has room for at most \(p\) further forms beside them. Without conditioning, the room is one form.

So for fixed \(p\) the method does not transfer as is. What would be needed is a new closure method for the unary encoding: a new danger notion, a closure lemma, a probability bound, a restriction step and a hard distribution. Byramji and Impagliazzo give their own reasons, in Remark A.4, for working with a block-lifted unary PHP; the obstructions above are consistent with them.

Assessment of each route item

odd-prime-clause-transfer, the window: weak, unchanged. No batched mechanism is recorded, and the one recorded outside mechanism does not transfer as is.
odd-prime-clause-transfer, the closure sub-line: weak. Its prospects rest on designing a new closure method for the unary encoding. Its payoff is limited to bounded depth. Full success would give the first statement in this record that admits arbitrarily many window lines at an odd prime, but only for refutations of bounded depth, which is still a restriction and not the goal. It is the only recorded candidate that could handle more than \(Cn\) window lines, if it can be built.
same-graph-composition: bookkeeping; nothing open.
scope-and-review: complete up to external review. The write-up of the statement set, and the audit of the binary theorem's CNF compiler in the main notebook, await user decisions.

The first test of a unary closure notion

Obstruction 1 refutes the pigeon-row notion, and more generally any notion that depends only on the span and does not flag the single form \(x_{i_1j}+x_{i_2j}\). The alternative chosen here is to measure danger on forced cells. A system forces a cell when all its \(0/1\) solutions agree on that cell.

Lemma (forced cells). Over \(\mathbb F_p\), a linear system of rank \(r\) in \(0/1\) variables that has a \(0/1\) solution forces at most \(r(p-1)\) variables.

Proof. Let \(x^*\) be a \(0/1\) solution, choose \(r\) independent forms that span the system's forms, and let \(c_t\in\mathbb F_p^r\) be the column of variable \(t\). Flipping \(t\) changes the form values by \(+c_t\) if \(x^*_t=0\) and by \(-c_t\) if \(x^*_t=1\). Suppose \(r(p-1)+1\) variables were forced. By Olson's theorem, the Davenport constant of \(\mathbb F_p^r\) is \(r(p-1)+1\), so every sequence of that length, repeats and zeros allowed, has a nonempty subsequence summing to zero. Some nonempty set of the forced variables therefore has signed columns summing to zero, and flipping all of them gives another \(0/1\) solution. That contradicts forcing. \(\square\)

Collisions and empty pigeons are the forced patterns to forbid, so a notion must charge rows and holes together. A charge on rows alone lets a collision through, and a charge on holes alone lets an empty pigeon through. For the forced cells \(\{(i_1,j),(i_2,j)\}\) of the collision system, the minimal vertex covers are \(\{\text{hole }j\}\) and \(\{\text{rows }i_1,i_2\}\). They are incomparable, and each makes the negated hole clause locally inconsistent, since no solution sends \(i_1\) and \(i_2\) to distinct holes or leaves at most one pigeon in \(j\). So a closure made of covers needs a canonical rule. A heuristic warning goes with this. Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's closure theory rests on their Theorem 3.1, a Rado-type min-max, which holds whenever each form is charged to one block of any family, overlapping or not. A matching charge takes a row and a hole together, which is an intersection of three matroids. No general min-max theorem is known for that, and the problem is NP-hard in general.

The candidate to test is an iterated forced-cell closure, taken modulo the occupancy span. Let \(O\) be the occupancy equations fixed by the modular-collision distribution conditioned on its empty set \(E\): \(\mathrm{col}_h=1\) for \(h\notin E\), and every cell of \(E\) zero. For a system \(\Phi\), count its rank as \(\dim(\langle\Phi\rangle+\langle O\rangle)-\dim\langle O\rangle\). Count its forced cells as those forced by \(\Phi\cup O\) but not by \(O\) alone. Start with the rows and holes of those cells. Substitute values for them from a solution, recompute the cells forced in the residual system, add their rows and holes, and repeat until nothing new is forced. One-shot covers already have size at most \(r(p-1)\) without \(O\), by the Lemma. So the test concerns the iteration, and \(O\): the Lemma is proved without \(O\), and whether a bound linear in the rank survives modulo \(O\) is part of the test. The test ends in one of three ways. The closure may depend on the substituted solution with no canonical choice. It may fail to be monotone under weakening. Or it may exceed any constant times the rank. Any one of these closes this candidate, not the whole sub-line. If none happens, the next obligations are a restriction step for systems of rank up to \(cn\), then the probability bound and the search hardness for the modular-collision distribution on a bounded-degree graph.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test the iterated forced-cell closure modulo the occupancy span. Read Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's Sections 3 to 5 exactly and state the analogues of their uniqueness, monotonicity and size bound for it. Then prove them, or find an example where the closure has no canonical choice, is not monotone, or grows faster than the rank. The first check is whether the Lemma's bound survives modulo \(O\).

Sheaf check

Rows as blocks glue local sections pigeon by pigeon, and a collision forced by a single equation is a section that nothing forbids. A closure that forbids it must see the forced cells, which depend on the values of the forms and not only on their supports. It must also treat a pigeon and a hole as one gluing step. The fixed occupancy forms remain a global section that the gluing must be measured against.

Verification gate. Re-read verbatim: Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's Sections 1.3 and 3 to 4 (safety, Theorem 3.1, closure, Lemmas 4.7 and 4.9, local consistency and the path argument), and the column dichotomy for obstructions 2 and 3. Record searches for safe systems, unary rows and blocks, hole clauses, restriction and danger, and for Olson, Davenport and forced cells, found no earlier forced-cell bound or unary closure notion. The nearest record, Corollary SL, concerns label bits over \(\mathbb F_2\). Olson's theorem is imported. Two fresh-context reviews:

First pass. Verdict: gap. The draft proposed a danger notion on supports, charged by matchings. The reviewer showed that over \(\mathbb F_p\) a rank-one equation forces a collision, so any notion on supports passes it. The reviewer supplied the forced-cell bound through Olson's theorem. It also showed that the draft's growth test was wrong, since Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's own closure can jump by many rows with one form; their total size bound is the right analogue. It required qualifying "does not transfer", the bit comparison and two claims about the sources. The first-test section was rewritten.
Second pass. The rewrite added the forced-cell bound and the non-uniqueness example, so a second reviewer checked them. Verdict: sound with fixes. The flipping proof and the bit comparison are correct. The fixes were these: the bound needs a \(0/1\) solution; supports fail only for notions that depend on the span; the covers in the example must be vertex covers of the forced cells; the min-max remark is a heuristic; and the test needed one concrete candidate, a precise meaning of "modulo the occupancy span" and a stated end. These fixes only weaken or sharpen claims, so no third pass was run.

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Forced-cell closures for unary PHP: the forced-cell bound survives modulo the occupancy equations, but forcing cannot define local consistency

22 September 2026 · Working proof of the bound, every prime; counterexample to forced-cell closures, for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\), \(p\) odd. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Forced-cell closures for unary PHP: the forced-cell bound survives modulo the occupancy equations, but forcing cannot define local consistency”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-forced-cell-closure-test.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The route review proposed testing an iterated forced-cell closure for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\), taken modulo the occupancy equations of the modular-collision distribution. Its first check was whether the bound of Lemma (forced cells), at most \(r(p-1)\) forced cells for rank \(r\), survives modulo those equations. Then the closure had to be tested for a canonical choice, monotonicity and a size bound. The test ends when the candidate passes, or when one of these fails. A failure closes this candidate, not the closure sub-line.

What the closure is for

Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's path argument uses the closure through local consistency. A system is locally consistent if some solution is injective on its closure. Two properties are needed.

Leaves. The negation of every axiom is locally inconsistent.
Delayer step. If \(\Phi\) is locally consistent and its rank is small, then for every form \(f\) some value \(\alpha\) keeps \(\Phi\wedge(f=\alpha)\) locally consistent.

For a forced-cell closure, local consistency reads as follows. \(\Phi\) together with the occupancy equations has a \(0/1\) solution, the cells forced to \(1\) form a partial matching, and no pigeon has all its cells forced to \(0\). The leaf property then holds for hole and pigeon clauses.

The bound modulo the occupancy equations

Let \(G\) be a bipartite graph between pigeons and holes. Let the variables be its cells \(x_{ih}\), with values in \(\{0,1\}\). For each hole \(h\), let \(\mathrm{col}_h\) be the sum of the cells of column \(h\), and let \(O\) be the equations \(\mathrm{col}_h=b_h\) with fixed \(b_h\in\mathbb F_p\). For a linear system \(\Phi\), its rank modulo \(O\) is \(\dim(\langle\Phi\rangle+\langle\mathrm{col}\rangle)-\dim\langle\mathrm{col}\rangle\).

Lemma (forced cells modulo occupancy). Let \(p\) be any prime. Suppose \(\Phi\cup O\) has a \(0/1\) solution and \(\Phi\) has rank \(r\) modulo \(O\). Then at most \(r\,p\,(p-1)\) cells are forced by \(\Phi\cup O\) without being forced by \(O\) alone.

Proof. Let \(x^*\) be a \(0/1\) solution of \(\Phi\cup O\). Choose forms \(g_1,\ldots,g_r\) with \(\langle\Phi\rangle+\langle\mathrm{col}\rangle=\langle g_1,\ldots,g_r\rangle\oplus\langle\mathrm{col}\rangle\). A \(0/1\) assignment \(y\) solves \(\Phi\cup O\) exactly when it satisfies \(O\) and \(g(y)=g(x^*)\): each form of \(\Phi\) is a combination of the \(g_k\) and the column forms, and conversely. For a cell \(t\) let \(c_t\in\mathbb F_p^r\) be its coefficients in \(g_1,\ldots,g_r\) and \(\sigma_t=1-2x^*_t\in\{\pm1\}\). Flipping a set \(U\) of cells changes \(g\) by \(\sum_{t\in U}\sigma_tc_t\) and \(\mathrm{col}_h\) by \(\sum_{t\in U\cap\mathrm{col}\,h}\sigma_t\). Let \(F\) be the set of cells forced by \(\Phi\cup O\) but not by \(O\) alone, and \(H_F\) the set of holes whose columns meet \(F\).

Few columns. For each \(h\in H_F\) pick \(t_h\in F\) in column \(h\). Since \(O\) alone does not force \(t_h\), some \(0/1\) solution \(y^h\) of \(O\) differs from \(x^*\) at \(t_h\). Let \(U_h\) be the set of cells of column \(h\) where \(y^h\) and \(x^*\) differ. Then \(t_h\in U_h\), \(\sum_{t\in U_h}\sigma_t=b_h-b_h=0\), and we set \(v_h=\sum_{t\in U_h}\sigma_tc_t\in\mathbb F_p^r\). The Davenport constant of \(\mathbb F_p^r\) is \(r(p-1)+1\) (Olson). If \(|H_F|\ge r(p-1)+1\), some nonempty \(S\subseteq H_F\) has \(\sum_{h\in S}v_h=0\). The sets \(U_h\) lie in distinct columns, so flipping \(\bigcup_{h\in S}U_h\) keeps \(O\) and \(g\), and gives a solution that differs from \(x^*\) at every \(t_h\), \(h\in S\). That contradicts forcing, so \(|H_F|\le r(p-1)\).
Few cells. For \(t\in F\) let \(w_t=\sigma_t\,(e_{h(t)},c_t)\in\mathbb F_p^{H_F}\times\mathbb F_p^r\), where \(h(t)\) is the hole of \(t\). If \(|F|\ge(|H_F|+r)(p-1)+1\), Olson's theorem gives a nonempty \(T\subseteq F\) with \(\sum_{t\in T}w_t=0\). Flipping \(T\) changes every \(\mathrm{col}_h\) by \(0\) and \(g\) by \(0\). That again contradicts forcing. So \(|F|\le(|H_F|+r)(p-1)\le(r(p-1)+r)(p-1)=r\,p\,(p-1)\). \(\square\)

The right-hand sides \(b_h\) are arbitrary, so the Lemma covers the modular-collision distribution conditioned on its empty set \(E\): \(b_h=1\) outside \(E\), with the cells of \(E\) deleted. The first check passes. The constant rises from \(p-1\) to \(p(p-1)\).

Forcing cannot define local consistency

Example. Take distinct pigeons \(1,2,3\) and a hole \(a\), on any graph in which \(a\) has at least \(p\) further neighbours and every other hole has at least two neighbours, for instance the full board with at least \(p+3\) pigeons. Let \[ \Phi=\{x_{1a}+x_{2a}+x_{3a}=2\}, \] with the occupancy equations \(\mathrm{col}_h=1\). The three cells hold \(0/1\) values, so their sum lies in \(\{0,1,2,3\}\). It is \(2\) modulo \(p\) only when it equals \(2\), because \(2-p<0\) and \(2+p>3\). So every solution puts exactly two of the pigeons \(1,2,3\) in \(a\), a collision. Yet \(\Phi\cup O\) forces no cell. Any two of the three cells can be the ones, and any \(p-1\) of the at least \(p\) further neighbours of \(a\) then make its occupancy \(p+1\), so no further cell of \(a\) is forced either. The rank of \(\Phi\) modulo \(O\) is one.

One-shot closure. \(\Phi\wedge(x_{1a}=1)\) has rank \(2\) and one forced cell, \(1a\), so by the reading above it is locally consistent. Now take \(f=x_{2a}\). For \(\alpha=1\), cells \(1a\) and \(2a\) are forced to \(1\), a collision. For \(\alpha=0\), cell \(3a\) is forced to \(1\), and \(1a\), \(3a\) collide. No other value has a \(0/1\) solution. So no \(\alpha\) keeps local consistency.
Iterated closure. Iteration adds matching propagation: a cell forced to \(1\) sets the rest of its row and column to \(0\). \(\Phi\) forces nothing, so it is locally consistent. Take \(f=x_{1a}\). For \(\alpha=1\), propagation sets \(x_{2a}=x_{3a}=0\), and the equation fails. For \(\alpha=0\), cells \(2a\) and \(3a\) are forced to \(1\). So the Delayer step fails already at rank one.

Both forced-cell candidates are canonical. The one-shot one is also monotone, and by the Lemma it has size at most \(2rp(p-1)\) rows and holes beyond those forced by \(O\). Neither supports the Delayer step, so both are refuted. The reason is that a rank-one equation can force a collision without forcing any cell.

Any workable notion must reject such systems. Suppose a notion of local consistency has four properties. Locally consistent systems have a \(0/1\) solution. The notion is monotone under implication over \(0/1\) points. It has the leaf property. It supports the Delayer step for systems of rank below \(m\). Let \(\Phi\) be a system whose forms are supported on \(m\) given cells, all of whose \(0/1\) solutions contain a collision among those cells. If \(\Phi\) were locally consistent, querying the \(m\) cells one at a time would keep local consistency while fixing all of them. The rank stays at most \(m\), and each answer is the value at a \(0/1\) solution. The fixed values would then be a \(0/1\) solution of \(\Phi\) on those cells, which contains a collision. So the system would imply the negation of a hole clause over \(0/1\) points, which monotonicity and the leaf property forbid. So \(\Phi\) must be locally inconsistent. If local consistency asks for a solution that is a matching on the closure, the closure must see a collision in every solution. In the example this means containing \(a\), or rows of which every solution puts two into \(a\), for instance \(1,2,3\).

Calibration. For \(p\ge5\), such collisions can spread over many holes. For \(2\le k\le p-2\), take \(k\) holes \(h_1,\ldots,h_k\), each with two designated pigeons out of \(2k\) distinct pigeons. Let each hole have at least \(2p\) further neighbours, and every other hole at least two neighbours. Take the equation that the sum of the \(2k\) designated cells is \(k+1\). The sum lies in \(\{0,\ldots,2k\}\), with \(k+1-p<0\) and \(k+1+p>2k\), so exactly \(k+1\) designated cells are one and some \(h_j\) holds two designated pigeons. No cell is forced, since any \(k+1\) of the \(2k\) cells, with \(2k-1\ge k+1\), can be the ones. For each \(j\), some solution doubles \(h_j\) and puts one designated pigeon in each other hole. It adds \(p-1\) further neighbours of \(h_j\), of its choice, gives the other designated holes no further pigeon, and puts exactly one pigeon in every remaining hole. Its only collisions are in \(h_j\). A closure that sees a collision in all these solutions must, for each \(j\), contain \(h_j\), or both designated pigeons of \(h_j\), or all but at most \(p-2\) of the further neighbours of \(h_j\). The last option costs at least \(p+2\) rows. So the closure has at least \(\min(k,p+2)=k\) rows and holes, and one equation already needs at least \(p-2\). For comparison, the Lemma's bound on forced cells is \(r\,p\,(p-1)\).

What local consistency needs instead

In Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's argument the Delayer step rests on freedom outside the closure: with the closure fixed, a safe system constrains at most one bit per pigeon, so any few further pigeons can be placed injectively. The example shows that forcing does not measure this freedom for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\). The proposal is to measure extendability. Call \(\Phi\) free outside \(C\), for a set \(C\) of rows and holes, when every partial matching of a few pigeons outside \(C\) into holes outside \(C\) extends to a solution of \(\Phi\cup O\) in which each placed pigeon has the rest of its row zero. Without that row condition every system would be free outside the empty set. Local consistency would ask for a solution that is a matching on a closure \(C\) of size \(O_p(\text{rank})\) outside which \(\Phi\) is free. Freedom alone does not settle the example. With two extra pigeons, \(\{a\}\) is not enough: placing pigeons \(1\) and \(2\) outside \(a\) would force \(x_{3a}=2\). The requirement that \(\Phi\) be locally inconsistent comes from the rejection argument above, not from freedom. The notion is therefore a proposal whose details, including how local consistency uses \(C\), decide whether it works. The Delayer avoids the example by choosing another value, for instance \(0\), when the form is first queried.

Assessment

The candidate named by the route review is refuted, and the sub-line continues with a sharper requirement. The bound modulo the occupancy equations is a usable tool. The open question is now whether a closure of size \(O_p(\text{rank})\) outside which the system is free exists for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\). For \(p\ge5\), single equations already force collisions spread over up to \(p-2\) holes. That is consistent with a bound linear in the rank for fixed \(p\), but it is the kind of spreading a proof must control. The payoff remains a bounded-depth endpoint, not the goal, and the window's prospects are unchanged.

Sheaf check

Local consistency is a gluing condition: a section on the closure, a matching, must extend over the rest. Forcing measures only sections that are unique. The example has no unique section on any cell, and still no section that is a matching on its three pigeons and one hole. The obstruction is a failure to extend, not a forced value, so the closure must be defined by extension.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): define the extendability closure exactly. Fix the number of extra pigeons, the treatment of the occupancy equations and a canonical choice. Then try to prove a size bound of the form \(C_p\cdot\text{rank}\) by zero-sum arguments like the Lemma's, or find a rank-one family whose closure must grow with \(n\). The calibration family is the first test case, and the Delayer step on the example is the second.

Verification gate. Re-read verbatim: Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's Sections 1.3.3 and 4 (local consistency, the weakening and resolution steps, the Delayer step, Lemma 4.7), and the route review's Lemma and candidate. Before the proof was drafted, a record check was run on the Lemma's statement. It found only the route review's Lemma, which proves the bound without the occupancy equations and lists this case as open. Olson's theorem is imported. My first draft of the example used \(x_{1a}+x_{2a}+x_{3b}+x_{4b}=3\), which fails at \(p=3\) because the all-zero assignment also has sum \(0\equiv3\). It was replaced by the single-hole example before review, and the four-cell pattern survives as the case \(k=2\) of the calibration. A fresh-context reviewer checked the entry. Verdict: sound with fixes. The Lemma's proof was confirmed, and it holds for every prime. The fixes:

With exactly \(p-1\) further neighbours of \(a\), the further cells are forced and the example collapses. It now requires \(p\) further neighbours and two neighbours for every other hole.
The lists of what a closure must contain were not exhaustive, since further neighbours also witness collisions. They were completed, and the calibration's bound was re-derived with \(2p\) further neighbours per hole.
"Per unit of rank" and a comparison with the Lemma were overclaims and were removed.
The rejection argument needed \(0/1\) solutions and implication over \(0/1\) points. It did not use rank one, and it needs the Delayer step only below rank \(m\).
The extendability notion needed the row condition, and it is now marked as a proposal. Freedom alone does not make the example inconsistent.

These fixes weaken or qualify claims. The one extension, to every prime, is the reviewer's own check, so no second pass was run. No computation was run.

Measured timing
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Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	8 min 46.91 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 35.19 s
Individually measured computation	3.61 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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A vertex-cover closure for plain unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\): size, leaves and span weakening hold, but hole covers trap pigeons and the Delayer step fails through the greedy continuation

22 September 2026 · Working proofs of size, leaves, span weakening and an onto lemma; a counterexample to the Delayer reduction. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A vertex-cover closure for plain unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\): size, leaves and span weakening hold, but hole covers trap pigeons and the Delayer step fails through the greedy continuation”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-vertex-cover-closure.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The forced-cell test showed that local consistency for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\) cannot be defined by forcing. It proposed a closure defined by extendability and asked for a size bound \(C_p\cdot\text{rank}\), or a rank-one family whose closure grows with \(n\). This entry defines a closure that does not depend on right-hand sides and proves its size bound, the leaf property and weakening under span containment. The third property Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's path argument needs is the Delayer step. The entry's first reduction of it was refuted in review by a trapped-pigeon example, recorded below. The entry also finds a rank-one family of the kind asked for, but only for functional PHP. The test ends with the closure's properties proved or refuted, and the open part stated exactly.

Setting and definitions

Let \(G\) be a bipartite graph between pigeons and holes, with cells \(x_{ih}\in\{0,1\}\). The target is plain PHP on \(G\): pigeon clauses \(\bigvee_{h\in N(i)}x_{ih}\) and hole clauses \(\neg x_{ih}\vee\neg x_{jh}\), with no functional clauses. This is the thread's default weak PHP. Linear forms are over \(\mathbb F_p\). For a set \(S\) of rows and holes, \(F[\backslash S]\) sets to zero every cell in a row or a hole of \(S\). For a set \(X\) of cells, \(\tau(X)\) is the least number of rows and holes covering \(X\), which by König's theorem is its matching number.

Danger. Fix \(\theta\ge1\). A nonzero subspace \(U\) of forms is \(\theta\)-dangerous when \(\tau(\operatorname{supp}U)<\theta\dim U\). A set \(F\) is \(\theta\)-safe when \(\langle F\rangle\) has no \(\theta\)-dangerous subspace. The notion depends on the forms only, not on right-hand sides.
Greedy closure. Starting from a set \(S_0\), while \(\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle\) has a \(\theta\)-dangerous subspace \(U\), add to \(S\) a minimum cover of \(\operatorname{supp}U\).
Injective solutions. A \(0/1\) assignment is \(S\)-injective when every hole of \(S\) holds at most one pigeon, and every pigeon of \(S\) lies in at least one hole, in holes that no other pigeon of \(S\) uses. Every pigeon whose holes all lie in \(S\) counts as a pigeon of \(S\).
Local consistency. Fix a budget \(B\). A system \(\Phi\) is locally consistent when some \(S\) with \(|S|\le B\) makes \(\Phi[\backslash S]\) \(\theta\)-safe and \(\Phi\) has an \(S\)-injective \(0/1\) solution. The occupancy equations are left out here; see the open list below.

Size

Lemma A (potential). Every step of the greedy closure strictly decreases \(|S|+\theta\dim\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle\). So the output \(S\) satisfies \(|S|\le|S_0|+\theta\dim\langle F[\backslash S_0]\rangle\), and from \(S_0=\varnothing\), \(|S|\le\theta\operatorname{rank}F\).

Proof. Let \(U\) be the dangerous subspace, of dimension \(d\), and \(K\) its cover, with \(|K|=\tau(\operatorname{supp}U)<\theta d\). Zeroing \(K\) is a linear map from \(\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle\) onto \(\langle F[\backslash(S\cup K)]\rangle\), and it kills \(U\), since every form in \(U\) is supported on cells that \(K\) covers. So the dimension drops by at least \(d\), while \(|S|\) grows by less than \(\theta d\). \(\square\)

Adding one form raises \(\dim\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle\) by at most one, so the potential rises by at most \(\theta\) per added form. The closure therefore stays within \(\theta\) times the number of added forms.

Leaves, weakening, and the examples

Proposition B.

Weakening under span containment. If \(\Phi\) is locally consistent with witness \(S\), and \(\Psi\) is implied by \(\Phi\) over \(0/1\) points with \(\langle\Psi\rangle\subseteq\langle\Phi\rangle\), then \(\Psi\) is locally consistent with the same \(S\). Every subspace of \(\langle\Psi[\backslash S]\rangle\) lies in \(\langle\Phi[\backslash S]\rangle\), and an \(S\)-injective solution of \(\Phi\) solves \(\Psi\). The span hypothesis matters. Over \(\mathbb F_2\), Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson derive it from semantic implication, but over \(\mathbb F_p\) with \(0/1\) points it does not follow: over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(x_1+x_2=2\) implies \(x_1=1\). So the path argument over \(\mathbb F_p\) must use proof rules whose premises' forms lie in the span of the conclusion's negation and the resolved form.
Leaves. Let \(\theta>1\). The negation of a hole clause, \(\{x_{ih}=1,\ x_{jh}=1\}\), is not locally consistent. Each single-cell form has cover number \(1<\theta\), so a witness must cover cell \(ih\) by row \(i\) or hole \(h\), and likewise \(jh\). Then it contains \(h\), which would hold two pigeons, or both \(i\) and \(j\), which would share \(h\). The negation of a pigeon clause, \(\{x_{ih}=0:h\in N(i)\}\), is not locally consistent either. A witness contains row \(i\), or all of \(N(i)\), and then \(i\) counts as a pigeon of \(S\). Either way \(i\) must lie in a hole. The empty system is locally consistent, with witness \(\varnothing\), if no pigeon is isolated.
The examples. Let \(\theta>p-2\). The form \(x_{1a}+x_{2a}+x_{3a}\) of the forced-cell test has cover number \(1\). Any witness contains \(a\), or rows \(1,2,3\). So the equation \(=2\) is not locally consistent, while \(=0\) and \(=1\) are with witness \(\{a\}\), provided pigeons \(1,2,3\) have holes other than \(a\); otherwise \(\{a\}\) traps them. The calibration form, over \(k\le p-2\) holes with two pigeons each, has cover number \(k<\theta\). A witness therefore covers every one of its cells, and an \(S\)-injective solution has at most one pigeon per hole, so the value \(k+1\) is rejected. Both results match the necessary condition recorded there.

The free part is realizable

Lemma C (onto). Let \(F\) be a set of forms over \(\mathbb F_p\) in \(0/1\) variables, of rank \(r\ge1\). Let \(l\) be an integer with \((1-1/p)^{\,l-p+2}\,r<1\); \(l\ge p\ln r+p-1\) suffices. Suppose \(|\operatorname{supp}U|\ge l\dim U\) for every nonzero subspace \(U\subseteq\langle F\rangle\). Then every value of \(F\) attained by some assignment over \(\mathbb F_p\) is attained by a \(0/1\) assignment.

Proof. Choose independent \(g_1,\ldots,g_r\) spanning \(\langle F\rangle\) and let \(c_t\in\mathbb F_p^r\) be the column of variable \(t\). The columns span \(\mathbb F_p^r\), and it suffices to attain every value of \(g\). For a set \(A\) of variables whose columns span \(W\), the forms vanishing on \(W\) make up a subspace \(U\) of dimension \(r-\dim W\), and \(\operatorname{supp}U\) is the set of variables with column outside \(W\). So the hypothesis says that at least \(l(r-\operatorname{rank}A)\) variables lie outside every such \(A\). By the Nash-Williams–Edmonds base-packing theorem, the columns contain \(l\) disjoint bases. By Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Proposition 3.1, the union of \(l\) bases of \(\mathbb F_p^r\) with \((1-1/p)^{l-p+2}r<1\) is an additive basis. Every vector is then a sum of a subset of the columns, which is the value at a \(0/1\) assignment. The sufficient bound follows from \((1-1/p)^{p\ln r+1}r<e^{-\ln r}r=1\). \(\square\)

A \(\theta\)-safe set with \(\theta\ge l\) satisfies the hypothesis, since \(|\operatorname{supp}U|\ge\tau(\operatorname{supp}U)\). For \(r=1\) the lemma is Cauchy–Davenport: \(p-1\) nonzero coefficients reach every value.

The Delayer step: a first reduction and its failure

Suppose \(\Phi\) is locally consistent with witness \(S\) and \(S\)-injective solution \(x\), and let \(f\) be a form. The first reduction continues the greedy closure on \((\Phi\cup\{f\})[\backslash S]\) to \(S'=S\cup N\). If \(|S'|\le B\) and \(\Phi\) has an \(S'\)-injective solution \(y\), then \(\alpha=f(y)\) keeps \(\Phi\wedge(f=\alpha)\) locally consistent with witness \(S'\). To build \(y\), keep \(x\) on the cells of \(S\) and choose the cells of \(N\). The free cells then have to realize the remaining values of \(\Phi[\backslash S']\), a subspace of the safe \((\Phi\cup\{f\})[\backslash S']\). By Lemma C they can, provided \(\theta\ge l\) for its rank; \(\theta\ge p\ln|\text{cells}|+p-1\) suffices for all ranks. The values are consistent exactly when \(\psi(y_N)=\psi(x)\) for every form \(\psi\) of \(\langle\Phi[\backslash S]\rangle\) supported on the cells of \(N\), where \(y_N\) is the assignment on those cells. So only the value that \(x\) gives is needed. Two conditions remain: the budget \(|S'|\le B\), which fails along a path when witnesses are carried, and an \(N\)-injective \(y_N\) with those values.

Counterexample, found in review. The second condition can fail even when no form is supported on \(N\). Take \[ \Phi=\{x_{as_1}+x_{cs_1}=1,\ x_{bs_2}+x_{ds_2}=1\}. \] Each form has cover number \(1\), with the unique minimum covers \(\{s_1\}\) and \(\{s_2\}\), so the greedy closure is \(S=\{s_1,s_2\}\). Let \(x\) put \(a\) in \(s_1\) and \(b\) in \(s_2\). Now let \(f=x_{kh}+x_{k'h}\), with \(N(k)=\{s_1,h\}\) and \(N(k')=\{s_2,h\}\). Its unique minimum cover is \(\{h\}\), so \(N=\{h\}\). Then \(k\) and \(k'\) are trapped. Each must lie in a hole. By \(\Phi\), \(s_1\) holds one of \(a,c\) and \(s_2\) one of \(b,d\), and a hole of \(S\) holds at most one pigeon, so both must use \(h\). So \(\Phi\) has no \(S'\)-injective solution at all, for any \(x\) and any \(\alpha\). Yet, if \(c\) has a hole other than \(s_1\), \(\Phi\wedge(f=1)\) is locally consistent with the different witness \(\{a,c,s_2,h\}\): put \(a\) in \(s_1\), \(c\) in another hole, \(b\) in \(s_2\), \(k'\) in \(h\) and \(k\) in \(s_1\). This works for every \(\theta>1\) and every \(p\). So the reduction through the greedy continuation is refuted.

The failure is Hall's condition for the pigeons the closure places, not linear algebra. Hole covers make it worse because they trap pigeons, but covers by rows alone fail on the same example: \(k\) and \(k'\) would join the closure and still have only \(h\) free. Two changes are needed.

A graph with expansion. The standard remedy for graph PHP is a bipartite expander and a budget small against its expansion. Then every small set of pigeons keeps many free holes after the closure's holes and pigeons are removed.
A cover-choice rule. Covers should be chosen by a rule that keeps Hall's condition, or by the Delayer, not by the greedy minimum.

(MR′), open. On such an expander, with such a rule, let \(G_N\) be the forms of \(\langle\Phi[\backslash S]\rangle\) supported on the cells of the new part \(N\). The question is whether some assignment to those cells takes the values that \(x\) gives on \(G_N\), is injective on \(N\) and its trapped pigeons, and is compatible with \(x\) on \(S\). For \(\dim G_N=1\) a natural route uses a matching of at least \(p-1\) cells in the support, which exists by König's theorem, and switches along it. For larger dimension a natural route is a matching whose columns contain an additive basis. That is a common independent set of the \(l\)-fold union of the column matroid and two partition matroids. No general min-max theorem is known for such intersections, and the problem is NP-hard in general. A greedy matching is guaranteed at least a fraction \(\theta/(\theta+2)\) of the rank: it stops at size \(s\) with the uncovered forms supported on the \(2s\) rows and holes it used. A topological Hall theorem, Aharoni and Berger's for a matroid and a simplicial complex, is a lead: it would need a lower bound on the connectivity of bipartite matching complexes, which was not checked here.

Size. Lemma C needs \(\theta\ge l\approx p\ln r+p-1\), so the closure bound \(\theta\cdot\text{rank}\) is \(O(p\,r\log r)\), not \(C_p\cdot\text{rank}\) for a constant \(C_p\). A constant \(\theta\) would need the conjecture of Jaeger, Linial, Payan and Tarsi that a number of bases depending on \(p\) alone forms an additive basis, which Alon, Linial and Meshulam record as open.

Two limits found on the way

No canonical closure. For \(F=\{x_{1a}+\cdots+x_{ma}\}\) and \(\theta>1\), the sets \(S\) that make \(F[\backslash S]\) safe are those containing \(a\) or all rows \(1,\ldots,m\). The two minimal ones, \(\{a\}\) and \(\{1,\ldots,m\}\), meet in the empty set, which is not closing, and their union has \(m+1\) elements. So there is no least closing set, and the union of the minimal ones is not bounded by the rank. Local consistency above therefore uses an existential witness. That suffices for the weakening step, but Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's rank argument also compares the closures of a clause and its premises. With witnesses carried along a path, the size bound is in the number of steps, not in the rank. Arguments that recompute a closure at each node, as the random walk with restarts does, can use Lemma A there. They then need a solution injective on the recomputed closure, which the walk has to supply.
Functional PHP needs row sums exempted. With functional clauses \(\neg x_{ih}\vee\neg x_{ih'}\), a pigeon of \(S\) must lie in exactly one hole. The rank-one system \(\sum_{i\in R}\sum_{h}x_{ih}=|R|+1\) then forces a violation among \(R\) in every \(0/1\) solution. By the rejection argument of the forced-cell test, it must be locally inconsistent when the Delayer step holds up to rank \(\sum_{i\in R}\deg i\). A solution can place the violation at any pigeon of \(R\) with degree at least two, so a closure that sees it covers all cells of \(R\). Its size is at least their cover number, which is \(|R|\) when \(R\) has a matching into its holes. One equation then needs a closure unbounded in the rank. For plain PHP a pigeon may lie in several holes, and the system is harmless. For functional PHP, the row sums would have to be exempted, as the column sums are, which runs into the safety cap of the column dichotomy.

Assessment

The closure sub-line now has a definition with a proved size bound, of order \(p\,r\log r\), the leaf property, weakening under span containment, and an onto lemma for the free part without the occupancy equations. The Delayer step is open and its first reduction is refuted. The refutation is a Hall failure that an expander and a cover-choice rule should address, but that is a further design step, not a repair. Four items remain open, in order of risk:

the Delayer step on expanders, with (MR′);
the occupancy equations, which a single hole's cover number already flags as dangerous;
a canonical closure, or a path argument that recomputes closures;
F_p proof rules with span containment for weakening.

Beyond these, the bounded-depth route still needs the probability bound, a restriction step and search hardness, and its payoff is a bounded-depth endpoint, not the goal. The sub-line's prospects remain weak.

Sheaf check

The closure is where local sections are pinned down: pigeons and holes whose placement the system constrains. Outside it, Lemma C says every section extends, as long as the forms spread over enough cells. The counterexample is a gluing failure of a different kind: pinning a hole removes it from every neighbouring pigeon's options, so sections on the closure can fail to extend for reasons of matching alone. Expansion is the condition under which removing a few holes and pigeons leaves the matching sheaf flabby.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): restate local consistency on a bipartite expander with a cover-choice rule that preserves Hall's condition. Then prove the Delayer step in its smallest cases. In dimension \(0\) the question is Hall's condition alone, and in dimension \(1\) it is one form with \(p-1\) switches along a matching. Exhaustive search is not an option beyond dimension one. At \(p=3\), dimension two and \(\theta=3\), a cover number of at least \(6\) needs a six-cell matching, so at least six rows and six holes. The two-dimensional subspaces of \(\mathbb F_3^{36}\) number about \(3^{68}\). If the small cases hold, read Aharoni and Berger's theorem and the connectivity of bipartite matching complexes for the general case.

Verification gate. Re-read verbatim: Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's Sections 1.3.3 and 4, and Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Proposition 3.1 in the source. The Nash-Williams–Edmonds base-packing theorem is standard and imported. Aharoni and Berger's theorem was read only in a search summary and is not used. Record searches for base packing, additive bases, vertex-cover closures and potentials, and row-count obstructions found nothing that implies Lemmas A and C or the closure. The nearest records, the forced-cell lemma and a row-transversal criterion, are different statements. Before review, I corrected four points in my own draft: an unused degree hypothesis, the rank-one case of (MR) stated as proved, an overclaim about recomputed closures, and the test size. A fresh-context reviewer then checked the entry. Verdict: gap. Lemmas A and C, the leaves and span weakening check out. The reviewer refuted the draft's reduction of the Delayer step with the trapped-pigeon example, which I verified and recorded above. The reduction and "(MR)" were withdrawn, and the title and assessment were revised. The reviewer also required these fixes:

the span hypothesis for weakening, which semantic implication over \(\mathbb F_p\) does not give;
the size \(O(p\,r\log r)\) in place of \(C_p\cdot\text{rank}\);
the consistency condition \(\psi(y_N)=\psi(x)\), and the budget as a separate condition;
the greedy fraction as a guarantee;
the union matroid in the matroid remark;
the proviso on pigeons \(1,2,3\) in the example;
the cover-number wording in the functional bullet;
local consistency of the empty system;
a next step that starts in dimensions \(0\) and \(1\), with the count for dimension two made now.

These fixes remove or weaken claims. The one added claim is the reviewer's own counterexample, which I checked. So no second pass was run. No computation was run.

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Route review: the vertex-cover closure handles rank-one collisions, but block column sums revive the column dichotomy and the Delayer step is open; the closure sub-line stays weak

22 September 2026 · Route review of the closure sub-line · Weak; block column sums revive the column dichotomy; next: danger modulo the occupancy span, then Hall on expanders. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the vertex-cover closure handles rank-one collisions, but block column sums revive the column dichotomy and the Delayer step is open; the closure sub-line stays weak”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-closure-candidates-review.

The line's general claim. A closure theory for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\) would support Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's path argument and, with a hard distribution, Byramji and Impagliazzo's random walk. It would give size lower bounds for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of bounded depth. What the goal needs is more: the thread's goal is unrestricted refutations, and bounded depth is a restriction. The line is the only recorded candidate that could handle more than \(Cn\) window lines, if it can be built. Since the last route review, two cycles have tested closure candidates. The forced-cell test refuted forcing as a basis for local consistency. The vertex-cover closure proved a size bound, the leaf property and weakening under span containment, and its reviewer refuted the greedy reduction of its Delayer step.

Falsification attempt: the live candidate against the recorded obstructions

The candidate is the vertex-cover closure: a subspace \(U\) of forms is dangerous when the rows and holes covering its support number fewer than \(\theta\dim U\). The candidate was checked against each obstruction recorded on this line.

Rank-one collisions. \(x_{1a}+x_{2a}+x_{3a}=2\) forces a collision at rank one. Its support has cover number one, so it is dangerous, and the value \(2\) is rejected. So is the calibration family. Handled.
The column dichotomy. Every nonzero form on a single hole is dangerous. So is every system of occupancy forms with fewer than \(\theta\) holes per dimension: \(r\) occupancy forms on distinct holes have cover number at most \(r<\theta r\). But block sums behave differently. Take disjoint blocks \(B_1,\ldots,B_r\) of \(\theta\) holes each, with a single matching covering their union. The system of sums \(\sum_{h\in B_j}\mathrm{col}_h\) is \(\theta\)-safe. These sums have disjoint supports, so a subspace \(U\) is supported on all cells at the holes of \(\bigcup_{j\in J}B_j\), for some \(J\) with \(|J|\ge\dim U\). By König's theorem that support has cover number \(\theta|J|\ge\theta\dim U\). One matching for each block separately is not enough: two blocks whose holes meet only the same \(\theta\) pigeons have cover number \(\theta<2\theta\). The dichotomy's proof applies to block sums, as checked below. A block whose sum differs from its size contains a visible hole, whose occupancy is not \(1\) modulo \(p\). So, if safe block systems are charged, a linear tree of depth \(O(r_0\theta\log(2/\eta)(\log n+\log(2/\eta)))\) finds a falsified hole clause with high probability. For fixed \(\eta\) and a charge \(2^{-cr_0}\), the depth is \(O(\theta\log n)\). So, for the random walk's probability bound, the obstruction survives under the vertex-cover notion, with its depth threshold raised by the factor \(\theta\). A constant \(\theta\) would need the open additive-basis conjecture of item 6. The alternative is a danger notion that does not charge safe block systems. Measuring danger modulo the occupancy span is one candidate way to do that, and it belongs to the open item on the occupancy equations. For the distribution-free path argument the obstruction does not arise.
The safety cap. The cap concerned safety with pigeon rows as blocks. A witness can pin the holes of the occupancy forms that actually appear in a system, at a cost of one per hole. But the occupancy equations themselves were left out of local consistency and remain open.
Functional PHP. For functional PHP, one row-count equation over pigeons \(R\) needs a closure at least the cover number of \(R\)'s cells, which is \(|R|\) when \(R\) has a matching into its holes. This holds if the Delayer step holds up to rank \(\sum_{i\in R}\deg i\). So the candidate is restricted to plain PHP, the thread's default. A lower bound for plain PHP is the weaker statement.
No canonical closure, and weakening. No least closing set exists, so local consistency uses an existential witness. A path argument then bounds the closure by the number of steps, not the rank. Weakening holds under span containment, which semantic implication over \(\mathbb F_p\) with \(0/1\) points does not give. So the path argument needs proof rules with that property. Open.
Size. The onto lemma needs \(\theta\) of order \(p\ln r\), so the closure bound is \(O(p\,r\log r)\). A constant \(\theta\) would need the open conjecture of Jaeger, Linial, Payan and Tarsi. Accepted for bounded depth.
The Delayer step. Its reduction through the greedy continuation is refuted by the trapped-pigeon example. Covers by rows fail on the same example, because the pigeons that join the closure still have only one free hole. What is refuted is the reduction, not the Delayer step. The step also needs (MR′): an assignment on the new cells, injective there, with prescribed values. The natural route is a matching whose columns contain an additive basis, a matroid intersection with no known min-max theorem that is NP-hard in general. Open.

Block sums, checked here. Let \(\theta\ge1\) be an integer with \(r_0\theta\le n_0\). In the column dichotomy's step 1, replace the random set \(H'\) of \(r_0\) holes by \(r_0\) disjoint blocks of \(\theta\) holes of \(H_0\), chosen uniformly at random, so that each chosen hole is uniform on \(H_0\). The hypothesis is that, over the blocks and \(\nu\) together, every chosen block sum is \(\theta\) modulo \(p\) with probability at most \(\delta\). A fixed assignment with \(|V\cap H_0|\le n_0/(4r_0\theta)\) has all chosen blocks disjoint from the visible set \(V\) with probability at least \(3/4\), by the union bound over the \(r_0\theta\) chosen holes. Then every chosen block sum equals the block size modulo \(p\). So the hypothesis gives \(\nu(|V\cap H_0|\le n_0/(4r_0\theta))\le\tfrac43\delta\). Steps 2 to 4 run as before with \(r_0\theta\) in place of \(r_0\). The success probability of one trial becomes at least \(1/(34r_0\theta)\), which gives the stated depth.

Assessment

odd-prime-clause-transfer, the window: weak, unchanged.
odd-prime-clause-transfer, the closure sub-line: weak. The vertex-cover closure handles rank-one collisions and has a size bound, the leaf property and span weakening. Four items are open, in order of risk:
1. the occupancy span: block sums revive the column dichotomy for the random walk, so either its depth threshold rises by the factor \(\theta\), or the danger notion must stop charging safe block systems, for instance by measuring danger modulo the occupancy span;
2. the Delayer step, with Hall's condition for the closure's own pigeons and (MR′);
3. proof rules with span containment;
4. a canonical closure, or a path argument that recomputes closures.
Expanders and a Hall-preserving cover rule are a further design step, not a known repair. After these come the probability bound, the restriction step and search hardness. The payoff is still limited to bounded depth.
same-graph-composition: nothing open.
scope-and-review: complete up to external review. The write-up and the binary compiler audit await user decisions.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test the candidate remedy for block sums first, because for the random walk they are where the dichotomy bites. Define danger modulo the occupancy span, measuring each subspace by the cover number of its best representative modulo that span. Test whether Lemma A's potential bound and the leaf property survive. Then extend the onto lemma to the occupancy equations. After that, restate the closure on a bounded-degree expander. Require Hall's condition for the closure's own pigeons into the holes that are not pinned. The test case is the trapped-pigeon example's analogue on an expander: a pigeon of degree \(d\) whose other \(d-1\) holes the closure pins.

Sheaf check

The vertex-cover notion pins a hole's occupancy as a local section when it appears alone. Summed over enough holes, occupancy becomes a safe, global-looking section again, and the column dichotomy returns. Quotienting the occupancy span out, instead of pinning it piece by piece, is the candidate remedy. Hall's condition for the pinned pigeons, and the injective gluing (MR′) on new closure cells, remain the other two gluing obstructions.

Verification gate. No result is registered. Re-read in full: the vertex-cover closure entry, the forced-cell test, and the proposition and proof of the column dichotomy, whose proof the block-sum paragraph adapts. Two fresh-context review passes were run.

First pass. Verdict: sound with fixes. It showed that the draft's claim that the column dichotomy does not apply was false, because block column sums over at least \(\theta\) holes are safe. It also found that several items strengthened the previous entry, and that the draft omitted two of its limits: span containment and the size \(O(p\,r\log r)\). Further fixes: the assessment and sheaf check overclaimed, and the next step's test case was vacuous. The entry was rewritten. The rewrite added the block-sum extension of the dichotomy.
Second pass. It checked the extension, which adds a claim. Verdict: sound with fixes. Safety needs one matching over all blocks. The random-block hypotheses had to be stated. The obstruction survives with its depth threshold raised by the factor \(\theta\). Quotienting by the occupancy span is a candidate remedy, not a forced one. These fixes only qualify claims.

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The vertex-cover closure modulo the occupancy span: occupancy forms are exempted without a cap, the potential bound and the leaves survive, and the onto lemma extends to the occupancy equations

22 September 2026 · Working proofs for plain unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\): potential, leaves, block sums and the onto lemma, modulo the occupancy span. The Delayer step remains open. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The vertex-cover closure modulo the occupancy span: occupancy forms are exempted without a cap, the potential bound and the leaves survive, and the onto lemma extends to the occupancy equations”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-closure-modulo-occupancy.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The route review found that block column sums over at least \(\theta\) holes are safe under the vertex-cover closure. It found that the column dichotomy then applies to them, with its depth threshold raised by the factor \(\theta\). It proposed measuring danger modulo the occupancy span, and testing whether the potential bound and the leaf property survive, and whether the onto lemma extends to the occupancy equations. The test ends when each of these holds or fails.

Definitions

Let \(G\) be a bipartite graph between pigeons and holes in which every hole has at least two neighbours. The target is plain PHP on \(G\). Forms are over \(\mathbb F_p\) in the cells \(x_{ih}\in\{0,1\}\), and \(O\) is the occupancy equations \(\mathrm{col}_h=1\), \(h\in H\). For a set \(S\) of rows and holes, \(W_S=\langle\mathrm{col}_h[\backslash S]:h\notin S\rangle\) is the occupancy span after \(S\) is zeroed.

Danger modulo \(W\). For a subspace \(U\subseteq\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle\), let \(d_W(U)=\dim\bigl((U+W_S)/W_S\bigr)\). Let \(\tau_W(U)\) be the least cover number \(\tau(\operatorname{supp}U')\) over subspaces \(U'\) with \(U'+W_S=U+W_S\) and \(\dim U'=d_W(U)\), the representatives of \(U\). \(U\) is \(\theta\)-dangerous modulo \(W\) when \(d_W(U)\ge1\) and \(\tau_W(U)<\theta\,d_W(U)\), and \(F[\backslash S]\) is safe modulo \(W\) when no subspace is.
Greedy closure. While \(\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle\) has a dangerous subspace \(U\), take a representative \(U'\) with \(\tau(\operatorname{supp}U')=\tau_W(U)\), and add a minimum cover of \(\operatorname{supp}U'\) to \(S\).
Absorbed cells and pigeons of \(S\). A cell \(ih\) with \(i\) and \(h\) outside \(S\) is absorbed when every other cell of column \(h\) lies in a row of \(S\). Then \(\mathrm{col}_h[\backslash S]=x_{ih}\), and \(O\) determines \(x_{ih}\) from the cells of \(S\). A pigeon counts as a pigeon of \(S\) when each of its cells is zeroed by \(S\) or absorbed. This extends the earlier rule for pigeons whose holes all lie in \(S\).
Local consistency. Fix a budget \(\beta\). \(\Phi\) is locally consistent when some \(S\) with \(|S|\le\beta\) makes \(\Phi[\backslash S]\) safe modulo \(W\), and \(\Phi\cup O\) has an \(S\)-injective \(0/1\) solution. That is, every hole of \(S\) holds at most one pigeon, and every pigeon of \(S\) lies in at least one hole, in holes no other pigeon of \(S\) uses.

The potential bound

Lemma A\(_W\). Every step of the greedy closure strictly decreases \(|S|+\theta\dim\bigl((\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle+W_S)/W_S\bigr)\). So from \(S_0=\varnothing\), \(|S|\le\theta\dim\bigl((\langle F\rangle+W)/W\bigr)\).

Proof. Zeroing the cover \(K\) maps \(\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle+W_S\) onto \(\langle F[\backslash(S\cup K)]\rangle+W_{S\cup K}\), and it maps \(W_S\) onto \(W_{S\cup K}\), since \(\mathrm{col}_h[\backslash S]\) goes to \(\mathrm{col}_h[\backslash(S\cup K)]\), which is zero for \(h\in K\). So it induces a surjection of the quotients by the occupancy spans. The representative \(U'\) lies in \(\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle+W_S\), meets \(W_S\) only in \(0\), and has dimension \(d=d_W(U)\). Its image in the first quotient therefore has dimension \(d\), and it lies in the kernel, since \(K\) covers \(\operatorname{supp}U'\). So the quotient dimension drops by at least \(d\), while \(|S|\) grows by \(\tau_W(U)<\theta d\). \(\square\)

Block sums \(\sum_{h\in B}\mathrm{col}_h\), and every other form of the occupancy span, have \(d_W=0\), so they are exempted, as Byramji and Impagliazzo exempt column sums. The column dichotomy said exemption fails for fixed \(p\). The reason was the safety cap: with pigeon rows as blocks, a safe system has room for at most \(p\) forms beside the occupancy span. Here danger is measured by covers of representatives modulo the span, not by counting forms against rows, so no cap arises. The exempted values are fixed by \(O\), which local consistency imposes, and any other value of a block sum contradicts \(O\). So the column dichotomy's charged horn does not arise, because block sums are not charged, and its exempted horn is no longer blocked by the cap. Whether the probability bound holds for the remaining safe systems is a separate question.

Leaves and the examples

Proposition B\(_W\). Let \(\theta>1\). The empty system is locally consistent with witness \(\varnothing\): since every hole has at least two neighbours, no cell is absorbed and no pigeon counts as a pigeon of \(\varnothing\), and \(O\) has a \(0/1\) solution, one cell per column.

Hole clauses. \(\{x_{ih}=1,\ x_{jh}=1\}\) is not locally consistent. A single cell \(x_{ih}\) is its own representative, supported in column \(h\), so its \(\tau_W\) is at most \(1\). A witness must therefore make it zero or put it into \(W_S\). The only element of \(W_S\) that can equal \(x_{ih}\) is \(\mathrm{col}_h[\backslash S]\). So the witness kills the cell by row \(i\), by hole \(h\), or by absorbing \(ih\), which puts every other neighbour of \(h\) into \(S\). The same holds for \(jh\). If \(h\in S\), then \(h\) holds two pigeons. If \(i,j\in S\), they share \(h\). Otherwise exactly one of \(i,j\) is in \(S\), and the other's cell is absorbed. Then two pigeons lie in \(h\), and all neighbours of \(h\) except the one outside \(S\) are in \(S\). By \(O\) the occupancy of \(h\) is then at least \(p+1\), so at least \(p-1\ge1\) further pigeons of \(S\) lie in \(h\), next to the one of \(i,j\) in \(S\). Two pigeons of \(S\) share a hole.
Pigeon clauses. \(\{x_{ih}=0:h\in N(i)\}\) is not locally consistent. A witness kills every cell of \(i\), by row \(i\), by its hole, or by absorbing it. Then \(i\) counts as a pigeon of \(S\) and must lie in a hole.
The examples. \(x_{1a}+x_{2a}+x_{3a}\) is its own representative, supported in column \(a\), so it is dangerous unless the witness makes it zero or puts it into \(W_S\). The witness pins \(a\), or takes rows \(1,2,3\), or takes every neighbour of \(a\) outside \(\{1,2,3\}\), possibly with some of \(1,2,3\). In the last case, with the value \(2\), two of the pigeons \(1,2,3\) lie in \(a\). By \(O\) the occupancy of \(a\) is then at least \(p+1\), so at least \(p-1\ge2\) further pigeons lie in \(a\), all of them in \(S\). So the value \(2\) is rejected in every case, as the rejection argument requires. The calibration family, over \(k\le p-2\) holes, is rejected in the same way when \(\theta>p-2\). For \(\theta\le k\) its form can be safe with \(S=\varnothing\), and then a solution with one hole holding \(p+1\) pigeons outside \(S\) accepts the value \(k+1\).

The onto lemma with the occupancy equations

Lemma C\(_W\). Let \(l\) be as in Lemma C for rank \(r\), the rank of \(\Phi\cup O\). Suppose \(\Phi\) is safe modulo \(W\) with \(\theta\ge2l\), and every hole has at least \(2l\) cells. Then every value of \(\Phi\cup O\) attained over \(\mathbb F_p\) is attained by a \(0/1\) assignment.

Proof. Lemma C needs \(|\operatorname{supp}U|\ge l\dim U\) for every nonzero \(U\subseteq\langle\Phi\cup O\rangle\). The number \(\tau_W(U)\) depends only on \(U+W\). For \(U\subseteq\langle\Phi\rangle+W\), the modular law gives \(U+W=V+W\) with \(V=(U+W)\cap\langle\Phi\rangle\), so safety of \(\Phi\) modulo \(W\) bounds it for every such \(U\). Let \(d_1=\dim(U\cap W)\) and \(d_2=\dim U-d_1\), and let \(U''\subseteq U\) be a complement of \(U\cap W\). A subspace of \(W\) of dimension \(d_1\) contains, for each of at least \(d_1\) holes, an element in which that column has a nonzero coefficient. Its support therefore covers those columns in full, which is at least \(2l\,d_1\) cells. \(U''\) is a representative of \(U\) modulo \(W\). If \(d_2\ge1\), safety gives \(|\operatorname{supp}U''|\ge\tau(\operatorname{supp}U'')\ge\theta d_2\ge2l\,d_2\). Both supports lie in \(\operatorname{supp}U\), so \(|\operatorname{supp}U|\ge\max(2ld_1,2ld_2)\ge l(d_1+d_2)\). \(\square\)

In the Delayer step the lemma is applied to the free cells, so every hole outside the closure needs \(2l\) free cells. With \(l\) of order \(p\ln r\), the graph needs degree at least of order \(p\log n\). That is necessary, not sufficient: the closure does not by itself keep \(2l\) free cells in every column, since an absorbed hole has one free cell and closure rows erode columns. The free-cell condition is part of what the expander step must provide. A graph restriction of that degree still transfers lower bounds to full PHP.

What remains

The Delayer step. Its greedy reduction was refuted by trapped pigeons, and absorbed cells now trap pigeons too. The next obligation is Hall's condition for the closure's own pigeons on an expander, and then (MR′).
Row sums, an open question. The random walk's hard distribution is functional, and row sums are fixed for the pigeons it maps. Whether the probability bound also needs a quotient by row sums is open. Two cautions apply. First, \(\sum_i\mathrm{row}_i=\sum_h\mathrm{col}_h\), so modulo \(W\) a row sum over a set of pigeons is minus the row sum over the complement, and its danger depends on both. Second, imposing every row equation together with \(O\) is inconsistent over \(\mathbb F_p\) when the numbers of pigeons and holes differ modulo \(p\). A distribution with occupancy one per hole also leaves some pigeons unmapped. Any row quotient would have to impose only some row equations.
Span containment, a canonical closure, the probability bound, the restriction step and search hardness, as recorded in the route review.

Assessment

The candidate remedy works where it was tested. The quotient keeps the potential bound and the leaves, and exempts block column sums without the safety cap. It also makes the free part realizable together with the occupancy equations, provided every hole outside the closure keeps at least \(2l\) free cells, which needs degree at least of order \(p\log n\). Row sums under a functional distribution are an open question on the other side. The Delayer step is still the main open item. The closure sub-line is still weak: several design steps remain, and the payoff is limited to bounded depth.

Sheaf check

Quotienting by the occupancy span treats hole occupancy as data fixed by the distribution, as Byramji and Impagliazzo treat their column sums. The difference from the safety cap is that danger is measured by covers of representatives, not by counting forms against rows. So the quotient costs nothing in the bound. Absorbed cells are the local shadow of the quotient: a cell whose column is otherwise pinned is determined by the global section. Its pigeon joins the closure when all of the pigeon's cells are zeroed or absorbed.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): the Delayer step on an expander of degree of order \(p\log n\), modulo the occupancy span. Add to the closure the pigeons whose free neighbourhood becomes too small, and prove Hall's condition for the closure's own pigeons into the holes that are not pinned. The test case is a pigeon of degree \(d\) whose other \(d-1\) holes are pinned or absorbed. In parallel, decide which row equations a functional hard distribution would let local consistency impose.

Verification gate. Re-read in full: the vertex-cover closure (Lemmas A and C, the leaves), the route review (block sums) and the column dichotomy (the safety cap). Record searches for danger modulo the occupancy span, absorbed cells and trapped pigeons, and onto lemmas with occupancy found nothing that implies these statements. Before review, I corrected three points in my own draft: which representatives a single cell has, the mixed witnesses in the example, and why safety covers subspaces of \(\langle\Phi\rangle+W\). A fresh-context reviewer checked the entry. Verdict: sound with fixes. It confirmed Lemma A\(_W\), the hole and pigeon leaves under \(O\), the three-cell example and the split in Lemma C\(_W\). The fixes:

the calibration family needs \(\theta>p-2\);
block sums are exempted, not merely uncharged, and the entry now names why exemption is no longer blocked;
the degree remark is a necessary condition, and realizability is conditional on free cells;
the row-sum remark was wrong, since row sums over complementary sets are opposite modulo \(W\) and imposing all row equations with \(O\) is inconsistent, so it is now an open question;
the unused two-neighbour hypothesis now carries the local consistency of the empty system;
four points of wording.

These fixes remove or weaken claims, and the root statement is elementary, so no second pass was run. No computation was run.

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A star closure for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\) satisfies the Delayer step on the full board, after the vertex-cover and matching-edge closures fail it

22 September 2026 · Working proofs for plain unary PHP on the full board over \(\mathbb F_p\): one pigeon per hole, and the star closure's one-node Delayer step. Refutations of two other closures. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A star closure for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\) satisfies the Delayer step on the full board, after the vertex-cover and matching-edge closures fail it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-star-closure-delayer-step.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The closure modulo the occupancy span left the Delayer step open. The proposed next step was Hall's condition for the closure's own pigeons on an expander, followed by the value-matching problem (MR′). This entry tests the Delayer step on the full board, where the graph is not in the way. The test ends with the step proved for some closure, or with an obstruction that does not depend on the graph.

Setting

The board is complete: pigeons \([n+1]\), holes \([n]\), cells \(x_{ih}\in\{0,1\}\). The target is plain PHP, with pigeon clauses and hole clauses. Forms are over \(\mathbb F_p\). \(O\) is the occupancy equations \(\mathrm{col}_h=1\), and danger is measured modulo the occupancy span \(W\), by cover numbers of representatives, as in the previous entry. For a rank \(r\ge1\), \(l_r\) denotes the least integer with \((1-1/p)^{l_r-p+2}\,r<1\), as in Lemma C. Throughout, \(\theta>1\) and every closure has at most \(n/2\) lines.

Hall's condition is not the obstruction on the full board

A pigeon is trapped when all its holes are pinned, and a cell is absorbed when every other cell of its column lies in a closure row. On the full board the first needs \(n\) pinned holes and the second \(n\) closure rows, so neither happens while the closure has fewer than \(n\) lines. With at most \(n/2\) lines, every pigeon keeps at least \(n/2\) free holes, and every hole at least \(n/2\) free cells. The expander step is therefore not needed on the full board. The two failures below occur there all the same.

Two closures that fail the Delayer step

Private holes. Under the vertex-cover closure, a pigeon of the witness \(S\) must avoid the holes of the other pigeons of \(S\), but other pigeons may share its hole. Let \(k=\lceil\theta\rceil\), let \(h_1,\ldots,h_k\) be distinct holes, and let \(1,\ldots,k\) and \(j_1,\ldots,j_k\) be \(2k\) distinct pigeons, with \(n\ge2k+p\). Let

\[ \Phi=\{x_{ih_i}=1\ (i\le k),\quad \textstyle\sum_{i\le k}x_{j_ih_i}=1\}. \]

Every \(0/1\) solution collides. The second equation makes \(\#\{i:x_{j_ih_i}=1\}\equiv1\pmod p\), so some \(x_{j_ih_i}=1\), and hole \(h_i\) holds \(i\) and \(j_i\).
The vertex-cover closure accepts \(\Phi\). Take \(S=\{1,\ldots,k\}\), as rows. Then \(\Phi[\backslash S]=\{\psi\}\) with \(\psi=\sum_ix_{j_ih_i}\). A representative \(\psi+\sum_hc_h\,\mathrm{col}_h[\backslash S]\) has nonzero coefficients in each column \(h_i\): at \(j_ih_i\) if \(c_{h_i}\ne-1\), and at every other free cell of the column if \(c_{h_i}=-1\). Choosing one such cell per column, greedily with distinct rows, gives a matching of size \(k\). So \(\tau_W(\psi)\ge k\ge\theta\), and \(\Phi[\backslash S]\) is safe. An \(S\)-injective solution puts pigeon \(i\) only in \(h_i\). It puts \(j_1\) and \(p-1\) further pigeons outside \(S\cup\{j_1\}\) into \(h_1\), and one pigeon outside \(S\) into every hole outside \(\{h_1,\ldots,h_k\}\). The condition \(n\ge2k+p\) is more than the example uses; it is there for convenience.
The Delayer step fails. This is the rejection argument, made direct. Query the cells \(x_{j_ih_i}\) one at a time. If each query had an answer that keeps local consistency, the system after all \(k\) queries would be locally consistent, and so it would have a \(0/1\) solution together with \(O\). That solution solves \(\Phi\), so some \(x_{j_ih_i}\) is \(1\) in it, and the answer to that query was \(1\). The system would then contain the equations \(x_{ih_i}=1\) and \(x_{j_ih_i}=1\). Span weakening (Proposition B) holds verbatim modulo \(W\) with \(O\) imposed: danger depends only on the subspace and \(W_S\), and an \(S\)-injective solution of the system with \(O\) solves each subsystem with \(O\). So the negated hole clause would be locally consistent, against the leaf property (Proposition B\(_W\)). Hence some query has no locally consistent answer. The system it is asked of has rank at most \(2k\): \(\Phi\) has rank \(k+1\), and the first \(k-1\) answers add at most \(k-1\).

The same example, with the same witness, refutes the version without occupancy equations in the vertex-cover entry. Both refutations hold for every budget \(\beta\ge k\) and every \(\theta>1\) with \(2\lceil\theta\rceil+p\le n\). That includes the range \(\theta\ge2l\) that Lemma C\(_W\) needs, where \(l\) is of order \(p\log n\), so the failure lies where the closure was meant to work.

Row sums. The natural repair makes each closure pigeon own its hole: closing by matching edges, as the standard PHP restriction does. Local consistency then asks for a partial matching \(\rho\) with \(\Phi|_\rho\) safe modulo \(W_\rho\) and \(\Phi|_\rho\cup O_\rho\) solvable in \(0/1\). This fails for plain PHP at rank two. Let \(R\) be a set of \(k=\lceil\theta\rceil\) pigeons, \(n\ge\max(2k,p)\), and \(v\not\equiv k\pmod p\).

\(\{\sum_{i\in R}\mathrm{row}_i=v\}\) is locally consistent with \(\rho=\varnothing\). In a representative \(\sum_R\mathrm{row}_i+\sum_hc_h\,\mathrm{col}_h\), column \(h\) is supported on the rows of \(R\) if \(c_h=0\), on the other rows if \(c_h=-1\), and on the whole column otherwise. If at least \(k\) columns have \(c_h=0\), the support contains a \(k\)-matching inside \(R\). Otherwise at least \(n-k+1\ge k\) columns carry the other rows. Either way \(\tau_W\ge k\ge\theta\). A solution puts one pigeon in each hole, with \(R\) occupying \(v'\) holes for some \(v'\in[0,n]\) with \(v'\equiv v\), which exists since \(n\ge p\).
No answer to \(\mathrm{row}_{i_1}\), \(i_1\in R\), is locally consistent. Let \(\rho\) be a witness. A matched row restricts to the constant \(1\). So, up to constants, the restricted span contains \(\mathrm{row}_{i_1}|_\rho\) if \(i_1\) is unmatched, and \(\sum_{i\in R'}\mathrm{row}_i|_\rho\), where \(R'\) is the unmatched part of \(R\setminus\{i_1\}\). A nonzero such form lies outside \(W_\rho\), because another free pigeon and a free hole exist. Its cover number is at most \(1\), respectively \(|R'|\le k-1<\theta\), so it is dangerous. Hence \(\rho\) matches all of \(R\), and then \(\sum_R\mathrm{row}_i=k\not\equiv v\).

In plain PHP a pigeon may lie in several holes. The two examples suggest that a closure pigeon should be allowed several holes, and that its holes should hold no other pigeon.

One pigeon per hole

Lemma E. Let \(\Psi\) be affine equations over \(\mathbb F_p\) in the cells of a complete bipartite board, with pigeons \(P'\ne\varnothing\) and holes \(H'\). Let \(W=\langle\mathrm{col}_h:h\in H'\rangle\) and \(O'=\{\mathrm{col}_h=1:h\in H'\}\). Suppose \(\Psi\cup O'\) is consistent over \(\mathbb F_p\) and \(\langle\Psi\rangle\) is \(\theta\)-safe modulo \(W\). Let \(q=\dim\bigl((\langle\Psi\rangle+W)/W\bigr)\), and \(\theta\ge l_q\) if \(q\ge1\). Then for every map \(d:H'\to P'\) there is a \(0/1\) solution of \(\Psi\cup O'\) in which every hole holds exactly one pigeon, and that pigeon is \(d(h)\) for all but at most \(l_q\,q\) holes \(h\).

Proof. Choose \(\psi_1,\ldots,\psi_q\in\langle\Psi\rangle\) with \(\langle\Psi\rangle+W=\langle\psi_1,\ldots,\psi_q\rangle\oplus W\), and an \(\mathbb F_p\) solution \(z\) of \(\Psi\cup O'\). Let \(b_k=\psi_k(z)\).

Reduction. A \(0/1\) point \(x\) that satisfies \(O'\) and \(\psi_k(x)=b_k\) for all \(k\) satisfies \(\Psi\). An equation of \(\Psi\) with linear part \(\sum_k\lambda_k\psi_k+\sum_hc_h\,\mathrm{col}_h\) takes the value \(\sum_k\lambda_kb_k+\sum_hc_h\) at \(x\), as at \(z\). If \(q=0\), put pigeon \(d(h)\) in every hole \(h\) and stop.
Switches. For a cell \(t\) let \(c_t=(\psi_1(t),\ldots,\psi_q(t))\in\mathbb F_p^q\). For \(t=(i,h)\) let \(s_t=c_t-c_{(d(h),h)}\). For a set \(T\) of cells with at most one per column, let \(x_T\) put pigeon \(i\) in hole \(h\) if \((i,h)\in T\), and pigeon \(d(h)\) otherwise. Then every hole holds exactly one pigeon, and \(\psi(x_T)=\sum_hc_{(d(h),h)}+\sum_{t\in T}s_t\). So it suffices to find a set \(Z\) of cells, at most one per column, whose switch vectors contain \(l_q\) disjoint bases of \(\mathbb F_p^q\). By Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Proposition 3.1 their subset sums then cover \(\mathbb F_p^q\), and some \(T\subseteq Z\) gives \(\psi_k(x_T)=b_k\) for all \(k\).
Matroid intersection. Let \(M\) be the linear matroid of the vectors \(s_t\) on the set \(E\) of cells, \(M_1\) the union of \(l_q\) copies of \(M\), and \(M_2\) the partition matroid allowing one cell per column. A common independent set of size \(l_qq\) is the required \(Z\), since each of the \(l_q\) parts is independent of size at most \(q\). By Edmonds' intersection theorem and the Nash-Williams rank formula for \(M_1\), it suffices that \[ |A\setminus B|+l_q\,r_M(B)+\mathrm{cols}(E\setminus A)\ \ge\ l_q\,q\qquad(B\subseteq A\subseteq E), \] where \(\mathrm{cols}(X)\) is the number of columns that meet \(X\). Each column meeting \(E\setminus B\) meets \(E\setminus A\) or contains a cell of \(A\setminus B\), so the left side is at least \(l_q\,r_M(B)+\mathrm{cols}(E\setminus B)\).
Safety gives the count. Let \(S=\langle s_t:t\in B\rangle\) and \(U=\{\sum_k\mu_k\psi_k:\mu\perp S\}\), so \(\dim U=q-r_M(B)\) and \(U\cap W=0\). If some form of \(U\) is not constant on column \(h\), then \(\mu\cdot s_{(i,h)}\ne0\) for some \(\mu\perp S\) and some \(i\), so \((i,h)\notin B\). Hence \(\mathrm{cols}(E\setminus B)\) is at least the number \(\mathrm{nc}(U)\) of columns on which \(U\) is not constant. Subtracting from each basis form of \(U\) its constant value times \(\mathrm{col}_h\), on each column where \(U\) is constant, gives a representative supported on the other columns. Those columns cover it, so \(\tau_W(U)\le\mathrm{nc}(U)\). Safety gives \(\tau_W(U)\ge\theta\dim U\) when \(\dim U\ge1\). So \(\mathrm{cols}(E\setminus B)\ge\theta(q-r_M(B))\ge l_q(q-r_M(B))\), which is the required inequality. \(\square\)

Only the column partition is constrained, because in plain PHP a pigeon may lie in several holes. That keeps the problem to two matroids, where Edmonds' theorem applies. (MR′) also constrained rows, which made it a three-matroid problem. Lemma E needs \(\theta\ge l_q\), not the \(2l\) of Lemma C\(_W\), and it needs no count of free cells per hole. The proof never uses that the board is complete. On a bipartite graph in which every hole has a neighbour, the same argument works with \(d(h)\) a neighbour of \(h\), since \(W\), the switch vectors, \(\mathrm{cols}\) and \(\mathrm{nc}\) are all taken column by column.

The star closure

Definition. A star system \(\sigma\) is a set \(P_\sigma\) of closure pigeons, a set \(H_\sigma\) of closure holes and an owner map \(\mathrm{own}:H_\sigma\to P_\sigma\). It is not required to be onto: a closure pigeon may own no hole. Its size \(|\sigma|\) is \(|P_\sigma|+|H_\sigma|\). Its pattern sets every cell in a row of \(P_\sigma\) or a column of \(H_\sigma\): \(x_{ih}=1\) exactly when \(h\in H_\sigma\) and \(\mathrm{own}(h)=i\). So a closure pigeon lies exactly in the holes it owns, and a closure hole holds exactly its owner. \(\Phi|_\sigma\) substitutes the pattern. \(W_\sigma\), \(O_\sigma\) and danger modulo \(W_\sigma\) refer to the free board: pigeons outside \(P_\sigma\) and holes outside \(H_\sigma\). \(\Phi\) is locally consistent, with budget \(\beta\le n/2\), when some \(\sigma\) with \(|\sigma|\le\beta\) makes \(\Phi|_\sigma\) \(\theta\)-safe modulo \(W_\sigma\) and \(\Phi|_\sigma\cup O_\sigma\) has a \(0/1\) solution.

Proposition S. Let \(\theta>1\) and \(\beta\ge1\).

Hole clauses. The system \(\{x_{ih}=1,\ x_{jh}=1\}\) is not locally consistent. If moreover \(\theta\ge l_r\), and \(\Phi\) has rank at most \(r\) and is locally consistent, then \(\Phi\cup O\) has a \(0/1\) solution in which every hole holds exactly one pigeon. In particular \(\Phi\) then implies no collision over \(0/1\) points.
Pigeon clauses. The system \(\{x_{ih}=0:h\in[n]\}\) is locally consistent, with \(i\) a closure pigeon owning nothing. But no system of rank below \(n/(p-1)\) that has a \(0/1\) solution implies it over \(0/1\) points.
Delayer step, one-node form. Let \(\theta\ge l_r\) and let \(\Phi\) have rank at most \(r\). If \(\Phi\) is locally consistent with witness \(\sigma\), and \(f\) is a form, then for some \(\alpha\in\mathbb F_p\) the system \(\Phi\wedge(f=\alpha)\) is locally consistent with a witness \(\sigma^*\) that extends \(\sigma\), provided the bound below is at most \(\beta\). Let \(D\) and \(D^*\) be the dimensions of \(\langle\Phi|_\sigma\rangle\) and \(\langle(\Phi\cup\{f\})|_{\sigma^*}\rangle\) modulo the occupancy spans of their free boards. Then \(|\sigma^*|+3\theta D^*\le|\sigma|+3\theta(D+1)+l_rD\), so \(|\sigma^*|\le|\sigma|+4\theta(D+1)\).

Proof of 1. For the second claim, apply Lemma E to \(\Phi|_\sigma\) on the free board, whose rank modulo \(W_\sigma\) is at most \(r\). Every closure hole holds exactly its owner, so the combined assignment has one pigeon per hole. For the negated hole clause: a free cell \(x_{ih}\) is a form outside \(W_\sigma\), since its column has other free cells, with cover number \(1<\theta\). So both cells lie in closure lines, and the pattern makes \(x_{ih}=x_{jh}=1\) only if \(h\) has two owners.

Proof of 2. The first claim is immediate. For the second, let \(x\) be a \(0/1\) solution of a system of rank \(r'\) with row \(i\) zero, and let \(v_h\in\mathbb F_p^{r'}\) be the coefficients of the cell \(ih\) in a basis of its forms. If \(n\ge r'(p-1)+1\), Olson's theorem gives a nonempty set \(J\) of holes with \(\sum_{h\in J}v_h=0\), and setting the cells \(ih\), \(h\in J\), to \(1\) gives a solution with row \(i\) nonzero.

Proof of 3. By Lemma E applied to \(\Phi|_\sigma\) there is a \(0/1\) solution \(y\) of \(\Phi|_\sigma\cup O_\sigma\) with exactly one pigeon in every free hole. Let \(d\) put at most two holes on each free pigeon; there are more than \(n/2\) free pigeons. Then pigeon \(j\)'s \(y\)-star \(A_j=\{h:y_{jh}=1\}\) has at most \(2+z_j\) holes, where \(z_j\) counts the switched cells of \(Z\) in row \(j\). The stars of distinct pigeons are disjoint, and a pigeon's star holds no other pigeon.

Greedy continuation. Start from \(\sigma_0=\sigma\). While \(\langle(\Phi\cup\{f\})|_{\sigma_t}\rangle\) has a dangerous subspace \(U\) modulo \(W_{\sigma_t}\), take a representative \(U'\) of dimension \(d=d_W(U)\) and a minimum cover \(K\) of its support by free rows \(K_R\) and free holes \(K_H\). Let \(J\) be \(K_R\) together with the \(y\)-pigeons of the holes of \(K_H\). Add each \(j\in J\) to the closure pigeons, with owned holes \(A_j\).
Well defined. The pigeon of a free hole \(h\) is free at stage \(t\): if it had joined, \(h\) would be in its star and so not free. Likewise every hole of a free pigeon's star is free.
The pattern agrees with \(y\). On a new closure row \(j\), \(y\) has ones exactly on \(A_j\). On a new closure column \(h\), \(y\) has exactly one one, at its owner. So the pattern of \(\sigma_t\) agrees with the full assignment, and \(y\) restricted to the free board solves \(\Phi|_{\sigma_t}\cup O_{\sigma_t}\) at every stage. No value has to be matched.
Size. The step zeroes the lines of \(K\), so it kills \(U'\). As in Lemma A\(_W\), the dimension of \(\langle(\Phi\cup\{f\})|_{\sigma_t}\rangle\) modulo \(W_{\sigma_t}\) drops by at least \(d\). The step adds at most \(|J|+\sum_{j\in J}|A_j|\le3|K|+\sum_{j\in J}z_j\) lines, with \(|K|<\theta d\). Each pigeon joins once, and \(\sum_jz_j\le|Z|\le l_rD\). So the potential \(|\sigma_t|+3\theta\) times the quotient dimension rises, over the whole continuation, only by the switched holes, at most \(l_rD\) in all. The quotient dimension starts at most \(D+1\), which gives the bound. The second form uses \(l_r\le\theta\).
Conclusion. At the end, \((\Phi\cup\{f\})|_{\sigma^*}\) is safe. For every \(\alpha\), \((\Phi\wedge(f=\alpha))|_{\sigma^*}\) has the same span, so it is safe. Let \(\alpha\) be the value of \(f\) at the pattern of \(\sigma\) together with \(y\). Then \(y\), restricted to the free board of \(\sigma^*\), solves \((\Phi\wedge(f=\alpha))|_{\sigma^*}\cup O_{\sigma^*}\). \(\square\)

The path form is easy. Along a single path the Delayer can keep one assignment. Start from the empty system with a near-matching \(y_0\): every hole holds a different pigeon, and one pigeon is empty. Answer every query by its value at \(y_0\), and extend the closure by \(y_0\)-stars as in the proof of part 3. That proof applies at every step with the same \(y_0\), whose stars have at most one hole. So each greedy step adds at most \(2|K|\) lines, and after \(T\) queries the closure has at most \(2\theta T\) lines. Neither Lemma E nor \(\theta\ge l_r\) is needed there, since \(y_0\) itself shows that no collision is implied. The content of part 3 is therefore the one-node form: a small safe star closure for every locally consistent system, including systems reached by answers that are not values at one fixed assignment. A Delayer who chooses among several good answers, as in bottleneck counting, needs that form. There, re-choosing \(y\) at a node can add up to \(l_rD\) switched holes. Along \(T\) such steps the bound can become quadratic in \(T\), unless \(Z\) can be chosen with boundedly many cells per row, a three-matroid condition not proved here.

The examples. The star closure rejects the private-hole system: each cell \(x_{ih_i}\) has cover number \(1\), so every \(h_i\) is owned, by \(i\), and then \(\psi=0\). It accepts the row-sum system, and when asked \(\mathrm{row}_{i_1}\) it answers the size of \(i_1\)'s star modulo \(p\). It rejects \(x_{1a}+x_{2a}+x_{3a}=2\) and the calibration family, because a hole has one owner. For \(\theta\ge l_r\), every system of rank at most \(r\) it accepts has a solution with one pigeon per hole, by part 1, so it passes the rejection test automatically.

What this settles and what it does not

Settled for the star closure on the full board: the Delayer step in its one-node form. Hall's condition is no issue there, and the value-matching problem (MR′) is bypassed rather than solved: the pattern is read off one global solution, so nothing is left to match or place.
Pigeon clauses. Local consistency no longer rejects negated pigeon clauses. A path argument that accumulates the answered equations reaches a pigeon clause only at rank \(n/(p-1)\), so below that rank only hole clauses are leaves. An argument of Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's kind keeps the negated clause instead, and concludes that some line has a negation of large rank. Every refutation of unary PHP contains a pigeon clause, since hole clauses alone are satisfied by the all-zero assignment, and its negation has rank \(n\). So that conclusion is empty here.
Weakening. A path argument that keeps the accumulated system never weakens it, so the span-containment item is not needed there.
Budget. Along a path with one kept assignment the closure is linear in the number of queries. In the one-node form each step adds at most \(4\theta(D+1)\) lines, and along paths that re-choose \(y\) the total may be quadratic.
Open: a canonical closure for bottleneck counting, and the random walk's distribution side: the probability bound for safe systems, simulation and search hardness. The known one-defect distributions are easy (analysis), and whether the modular-collision candidate is hard is open. Row sums under a functional distribution also remain open.

Assessment

For plain unary PHP on the full board over \(\mathbb F_p\), the star closure has the per-step size bound, the hole-clause leaves and the Delayer step in its one-node form. It lacks the pigeon-clause leaf, which only a path below rank \(n/(p-1)\) avoids, and it has no canonical form. Along a single path the Delayer step is easy. So the content is that every locally consistent system has a small safe star closure, which a Delayer with several good answers needs. The key steps were to let closure pigeons own several holes and to read the pattern off one global solution. The distribution side has not moved. The known distributions are easy for linear queries, and the payoff of the sub-line is still a bounded-depth endpoint, not the goal. The sub-line stays weak, but its highest risk has moved from the closure to the distribution.

Sheaf check

Lemma E is a gluing statement. A section chooses one pigeon per hole, and the choices glue across columns whenever safety leaves enough columns on which the forms vary. Edmonds' theorem is then a Hall condition for the column cover. The star closure pins a few rows and columns to the values of one global section. So the pinned part glues to the rest by construction, which is what the earlier closures lacked. The private-hole failure was a section that was local on the closure's rows but not on their holes.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): a route review of the bounded-depth sub-line, now that the star closure has the one-step properties on the full board. The canonical closure, and whether the random walk needs the path form or the one-node form, are still open. It should state what the random walk needs from a distribution, given the star closure. That is a probability bound for safe systems, simulation of linear queries, and search hardness on a support where every hole's occupancy is \(1\) modulo \(p\) outside a known set. The review should check the modular-collision candidate against the column dichotomy and Lemma E, and weigh the bounded-depth payoff against returning to the window.

Verification gate. Re-read in full: the closure modulo the occupancy span (definitions, Lemma A\(_W\), Proposition B\(_W\), Lemma C\(_W\)), the vertex-cover closure (Proposition B, Lemma C) and the rejection argument of the forced-cell test. Before drafting, a fresh subagent checked the three statements against the record. It found none of them. The nearest records are the onto lemma with occupancy, which has a weaker conclusion under stronger hypotheses, and the rejection argument, of which the private-hole failure is an instance. Searches for matroid intersection, one pigeon per hole, private holes, row sums and pigeon-clause rank found nothing more. Edmonds' intersection theorem, the Nash-Williams union formula, Olson's theorem and Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Proposition 3.1 are imported. A fresh-context reviewer checked the draft against excerpts of these dependencies. Verdict: sound with fixes. It confirmed Lemma E, the three parts of Proposition S and both refutations. Its main finding was that along one path the Delayer can keep a single assignment, which makes the path form easy, with a linear budget. The draft's quadratic path bound was wrong as stated, and the entry now says that the content is the one-node form. Further fixes:

in the private-hole example: the pigeons outside \(S\) in the solution, the direct rejection argument, span weakening modulo \(W\), the rank bound and the range of \(\theta\);
in the row-sum example: \(n\ge p\), and the span and \(W\) steps;
"suggests" instead of "must" after the examples;
the potential form of the size bound, and safety of \(\Phi\wedge(f=\alpha)\) for every \(\alpha\);
the hypotheses each part of Proposition S uses;
the remark that Lemma E holds on any bipartite graph;
(MR′) bypassed rather than solved, Hall's condition only on the full board, the remark on Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's argument now argued, and the assessment and next step narrowed.

The two added claims, the path form and the graph remark, are the reviewer's own and were checked here. The other fixes weaken or qualify claims, so no second pass was run. No computation was run.

Measured timing
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Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	33 min 41.99 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	17 min 55.68 s
Individually measured computation	3.69 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: after the star closure, the bounded-depth sub-line still meets both obstacles that Byramji and Impagliazzo name for unary PHP

22 September 2026 · Route review of the closure sub-line · Weak; the closure no longer blocks it, but sparse forms and an easy-looking distribution do; next: search hardness of the modular-collision near-bijection. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: after the star closure, the bounded-depth sub-line still meets both obstacles that Byramji and Impagliazzo name for unary PHP”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-star-closure-route-review.

The line's general claim. A closure theory for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\), a hard distribution and a random walk with restarts would give size lower bounds for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of bounded depth. That would be the first odd-prime statement admitting arbitrarily many window lines. What the goal needs is more: the thread's goal is unrestricted refutations, and bounded depth is a restriction. Since the last review, danger is measured modulo the occupancy span, and a star closure has the Delayer step in one-node form on the full board. Route item under review: odd-prime-clause-transfer, its closure sub-line.

What the random walk needs

Section 2 of Byramji and Impagliazzo (arXiv 2511.20023v1) was re-read in the source for this review. For bit PHP with \(n+1\) pigeons they use permutation inversion: a uniform permutation of the available strings, where the goal is to find the pigeon holding a special string. The walk needs four ingredients:

Simulation. Each parity query is localized to one bit that is uniform given the rest. They find the bit by pairing the pigeon with a partner whose string differs in one bit, and swapping the two. A query is simulated by revealing about two blocks in expectation.
Search hardness. A tree of depth \(d\) reveals the special pigeon with probability \(O(d/n)\).
A probability bound. A safe system that contains the parities fixed on permutations holds with probability \(2^{-\Omega(r)}\) in its rank \(r\) beyond those. By a closure argument, the bound is applied to the safe dimension \(|\mathrm{Cl}(\Phi)|+\mathrm{rk}(\Phi[\backslash\mathrm{Cl}(\Phi)])\).
A restriction. The safe part is implied by pairs of blocks assigned pairs of strings that differ in one bit, so that fixed blocks never collide.

Their Remark A.4 gives two reasons why unary PHP resists this. Under unary distributions each cell is very likely \(0\), which defeats both simulation and the probability bound. And on near-permutations a parity tree of depth \(O(\log n)\) solves the search.

Falsification attempt: which obstacles does the star closure remove?

The closure and the restriction. These are what the recent entries built. The star closure gives the one-node Delayer step. Lemma E gives solutions with one pigeon per hole, which play the role of the permutation-respecting restriction. It is the plain-PHP analogue; the functional analogue is discussed below. Not an obstacle now.
Sparse forms and the probability bound: still an obstacle. The column-dichotomy entry recorded that the system \(\{x_{i_th_t}=0:t\le r\}\), over distinct pigeons and suitably chosen holes, holds with probability at least \(1-r/n\) under every distribution on the full board. Choosing the holes greedily also makes them distinct, at a bound of at least \(1-2r/n\) for \(r\le n/2\): the \(t\)-th pigeon has a free hole of probability at most \(1/(n-t+1)\). The cells then form a matching, so the star closure must pin at least \(r\) lines. A bound of the form \(\Pr[\Phi]\le c^{\,\text{closure size}+\text{safe rank}}\) therefore fails on the full board for every distribution. Systems of sparse forms that are each likely \(0\) behave the same way. This is Remark A.4's first reason, and the star closure does not touch it. A likely remedy is to let the witness delete cells that the system sets to \(0\), turning the board into a graph of high minimum degree, and to charge probability only for pinned lines. That is untested. On a sparse board, pigeon clauses become reachable at rank \(\deg/(p-1)\), so the star closure's empty closure pigeons would then need Hall's condition after all. With minimum degree at least \(n/2\) they do not.
The distribution: still an obstacle. Three candidates are on record.
- The one-defect classes are easy (Observation).
- So is the uniform product distribution, in which each pigeon picks a uniform hole. Its first pigeon's hole is found with \(\lceil\log_pn\rceil\) queries \(\sum_hc_hx_{1h}\), with \(c_h\) the digits of \(h\) in base \(p\). That hole holds another pigeon with probability about \(1-1/e\), and random pigeon subsets with halving, as in the proof of the column dichotomy, find it in \(O(\log n)\) further queries. This is a routine variant of the Observation.
- The modular-collision near-bijection is untested. Fix a set \(E\) of \(p-1\) holes, and let \(\mu_E\) be uniform over maps from the \(n+1\) pigeons onto the holes outside \(E\) in which one hole \(h^*\) receives \(p+1\) pigeons and every other hole one. It is functional: every row sum is \(1\), and every column sum is \(1\) modulo \(p\) outside \(E\). These equations are consistent, since \(n+1\equiv n-(p-1)\pmod p\). Every form in the span of rows and columns is constant on its support, and so carries no information about \(h^*\). The best known tree samples pigeons, locates each hole and tests it. That needs about \(n/p\) pigeons and \((n/p)\log_pn\) queries. A tree that only reveals pigeons needs about \(n/p\) of them, the birthday bound for the \(p+1\) colliding pigeons. No lower bound for linear queries is known, and none was attempted here.
Functional versus plain. \(\mu_E\) is functional, so it would give a lower bound for functional PHP, which implies one for plain PHP. Under a functional distribution the row sums are fixed. The closure should then measure danger modulo rows and columns and impose the row equations. Closure pigeons then own exactly one hole, as in a matching-edge closure. The row-sum failure no longer arises, because \(\{\sum_R\mathrm{row}_i=v\}\) with \(v\not\equiv|R|\) contradicts the imposed rows. But Lemma E would then need a row constraint as well, which makes it a three-matroid problem again. The one-node Delayer step of that version is open. The path form stays easy, with a kept near-bijection, and Byramji and Impagliazzo's swapped pairs of blocks are the analogue to test.

Assessment

odd-prime-clause-transfer, the closure sub-line: weak. The closure is no longer what blocks it, but both obstacles of Remark A.4 stand for unary PHP. Sparse forms defeat the probability bound on the full board for every distribution. And the only untested candidate distribution has a heuristic case for hardness, no proof. Both need new ingredients: a hardness proof with a simulation that handles sparse queries, and an accounting that deletes likely-zero cells. The payoff is still a bounded-depth endpoint, not the goal.
odd-prime-clause-transfer, the window: weak, unchanged.
same-graph-composition: nothing open.
scope-and-review: complete up to external review. The write-up and the binary compiler audit await user decisions.

The highest risk is the distribution. Without a distribution that is hard for linear queries, no accounting helps, and a fast tree for \(\mu_E\) would close the sub-line.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): test the search hardness of \(\mu_E\) for linear decision trees over \(\mathbb F_p\).

Look for a fast tree beyond sampling. Bilinear queries \(\sum_{i,h}a_ib_hx_{ih}\) with random \(a\), \(b\) are the first attack, then queries mixing a few pigeons' rows with column information.
If none is found, attempt a lower bound of order \(n^c\) through a simulation lemma. Each query is localized either to a swap of two pigeons' holes, which changes a dense query with constant probability, or, for a query whose weight sits on few cells, to revealing the pigeon of a heavy cell. The lemma should reveal \(O(1)\) pigeons per query in expectation.

A collision is then revealed only when two of the \(p+1\) colliding pigeons are revealed, which has probability \(O((dp/n)^2)\) for \(d\) revealed pigeons. The target is thus depth \(\Omega(n/p)\) up to logarithmic factors. That is consistent with the sampling tree, the only extremal example known, and it is what a bounded-depth bound would need. The test ends with such a bound, or with a fast tree, which would close the sub-line.

Sheaf check

The walk glues along a path through a measure. The fixed forms of the distribution, here rows and columns, are global sections constant on its support, and the closure must quotient them. Sparse forms are local sections that are almost surely \(0\), so they carry no measure. The closure should delete them, not pin them. The collision is a section visible only to pairs of colliding pigeons. Whether linear readings can glue many pigeons' partial information into that pair is the open question.

Verification gate. No result is registered. Re-read in the source: Byramji and Impagliazzo's Section 2.1, on the walk with restarts, and Section 2.2, on permutation inversion, simulation, the probability bound and the restriction. Re-read in the record: the column-dichotomy entry, including its row systems and consequences; the one-defect Observation; and the star-closure entry. The product-distribution remark and the consistency check for \(\mu_E\) were verified here. Record searches for product distributions, near-bijections and switch simulations found only the Observation and the column dichotomy. No computation was run.

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Search on the modular-collision near-bijection: no attack found beats sampling, two simulations for lower bounds are blocked, and a swap simulation needs a dense-graph framework

22 September 2026 · Working proofs of route obstructions and simulation lemmas; no lower bound for the \(\mu_E\) search. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Search on the modular-collision near-bijection: no attack found beats sampling, two simulations for lower bounds are blocked, and a swap simulation needs a dense-graph framework”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-modular-collision-search.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The route review named the distribution as the highest risk of the bounded-depth sub-line. It asked whether linear decision trees over \(\mathbb F_p\) can find the collision of the modular-collision near-bijection \(\mu_E\) faster than sampling, and, if not, for a lower bound through a simulation lemma. The test ends with a fast tree, which would close the sub-line, or with a lower bound, or with the obstruction that stops the proof.

The problem as permutation statistics

Let \(p\ge3\), let \(E\) be a fixed set of \(p-1\) holes, and let \(H'\) be the other \(n'=n-p+1\ge2\) holes. Under \(\mu_E\), a map \(g\) from the \(n+1\) pigeons onto \(H'\) is uniform among those in which one hole \(h^*\) receives a set \(S^*\) of \(p+1\) pigeons and every other hole of \(H'\) one pigeon. The counts agree: \((p+1)+(n'-1)=n+1\). A query with coefficient matrix \(C\) has the value \(Q_C(g)=\sum_iC(i,g(i))\) modulo \(p\). The goal is two pigeons of \(S^*\).

The cells of the columns in \(E\) are \(0\) on the support. A query is constant on the support exactly when its restriction to the pigeons \(\times\,H'\) is additive: \(C(i,h)=a_i+b_h\). Such queries are constant because row sums are \(1\) and column sums are fixed modulo \(p\). Conversely, any two pigeons and any two holes of \(H'\) occur together in some support point, so invariance under swaps forces additivity. So only \(C\) restricted to the pigeons \(\times\,H'\), modulo additive matrices, carries information.

Attacks: none found beats sampling

Counts over all pigeons ignore \(h^*\). \(\sum_iF(g(i))=\sum_{h\in H'}F(h)\) modulo \(p\) for every hole function \(F\), because \(h^*\)'s count \(p+1\) is \(1\) modulo \(p\). So for a pigeon set \(A\), the sums over \(A\) and over its complement add up to a known constant. Sums over a subset are informative: that is how the sampling tree learns holes. Integer sums over all pigeons would locate \(h^*\), but they need carries, and carries are not linear.
Equality tests are cheap, but they do not help. For two pigeons \(i_1,i_2\) and random \(b\), \(\sum_hb_h(x_{i_1h}-x_{i_2h})=b_{g(i_1)}-b_{g(i_2)}\). It is \(0\) when they share a hole, and otherwise nonzero except with probability \(1/p\). Hashing holes into \(n/p\) buckets, learning bucket labels with \(\log_p(n/p)\) queries per pigeon, and testing equal labels costs about \((n/p)(\log_p(n/p)+O(1))\) queries. That is the sampling tree up to one query per pigeon. Every tree found touches about \(n/p\) pigeons individually, the birthday bound for \(S^*\).

No tree beating this was found. That is evidence, not a proof.

Two simulations that cannot give lower bounds

Observation R.

Communication with players holding cells. Partition the cells among \(k\) players, each knowing its own cells. A deterministic protocol with \(O(k\log n)\) bits finds two pigeons of \(S^*\). Each player sends the integer \(\sum hx_{ih}\) over its cells. The total is \(\sum_ig(i)=\sum_{h\in H'}h+p\,h^*\), which gives \(h^*\). The players then speak in turn, each naming its pigeons in \(h^*\), and stop after two names. A depth-\(d\) linear tree gives a protocol with \(O(kd\log p)\) bits. So no communication bound obtained through this simulation can give more than \(d=O(\log n/\log p)\), for any \(k\). This covers only simulations in which the players hold actual cells. It does not cover lifted simulations, where for instance each cell is split into additive shares over \(\mathbb F_p\). There a depth-\(d\) tree still gives an \(O(d\log p)\)-bit two-party protocol, and integer sums are not available.
Single-swap sensitivity. There are \(K=O(\log n)\) fixed queries that separate every support point from each of its swaps: whenever two pigeons lie in different holes, exchanging their holes changes some query. Take \(C_k(i,h)=w_k(i)\,c_k(h)\) with independent uniform \(w_k\) and \(c_k\). For pigeons \(s,u\) in holes \(h\ne h'\), the change is \((w_k(s)-w_k(u))(c_k(h)-c_k(h'))\). It is nonzero with probability \((1-1/p)^2\ge4/9\), using \(p\ge3\), independently over \(k\). The change depends only on \(s,u,h,h'\), so a union bound over at most \((n+1)^2n^2\) choices gives the claim for \(K>\ln((n+1)^2n^2)/\ln(9/5)\). So arguments that only show that a successful tree must separate the input from single swaps of its output pigeons give at most \(O(\log n)\). This does not cover arguments over longer cycles, several swaps, or adversary methods.

Both simulations lose because they ignore the modular blindness, which is what makes \(\mu_E\) plausibly hard. A proof through either kind of simulation needs arithmetic modulo \(p\) at the level of the players or the swaps.

What a swap simulation needs

Byramji and Impagliazzo localize a parity query to one bit that is uniform and independent of the rest. The unary analogue of their partner trick is to reveal an unordered pair of pigeons together with their unordered pair of holes. Given this, both orders are equally likely.

Lemma L1 (swaps detect non-additive queries). This is the easy direction of the standard four-point test for functions of the form \(a(x)+b(y)\). For \(C\in\mathbb F_p^{P\times H}\), let \(\mathrm{dist}(C)\) be the least fraction of cells where \(C\) differs from an additive matrix. For independent uniform \(i,i'\in P\) and \(h,h'\in H\), the swap difference \(\delta=C(i,h)+C(i',h')-C(i,h')-C(i',h)\) is nonzero with probability at least \(\mathrm{dist}(C)\). The same holds for a uniform bijection between \(m\) pigeons and \(m\) holes, with a uniform pair of distinct pigeons and their holes. Under \(\mu_E\), with \(H=H'\) and \(P\) all pigeons, a uniform pair of distinct pigeons gives \(\delta\ne0\) with probability at least \((1-O(p^2/m^2))\,\mathrm{dist}(C)\).

Proof. Fix \(i'\) and \(h'\). The matrix \(A(i,h)=C(i,h')+C(i',h)-C(i',h')\) is additive, and \(\delta\ne0\) exactly when \(C(i,h)\ne A(i,h)\). So \(\Pr_{i,h}[\delta\ne0]\ge\mathrm{dist}(C)\) for every \(i',h'\), and averaging gives the first claim. Under a bijection, the pigeon pair is uniform among distinct pairs, and the hole pair is independent of it and uniform among distinct pairs. That is the independent law conditioned on \(i\ne i'\) and \(h\ne h'\). Coincidences give \(\delta=0\), so conditioning on no coincidence can only raise the probability. Under \(\mu_E\) the law is invariant under permutations of \(H'\). So, given \(g(i)\ne g(i')\), which has probability \(1-O(p^2/m^2)\), the hole pair is uniform among distinct pairs, and the same argument applies. \(\square\)

Lemma L2 (localization over \(\mathbb F_p\) on many swaps). Let \(\beta_1,\ldots,\beta_t\) be independent uniform bits, \(\delta_1,\ldots,\delta_t\in\mathbb F_p\) nonzero, and \(S=\sum_k\delta_k\beta_k\). Then \(|\Pr[S=v]-1/p|\le\frac{p-1}p\cos(\pi/p)^t\le e^{-\pi^2t/(2p^2)}\) for every \(v\). If every \(\delta_k\) is \(\pm1\), as for queries with coefficients given by a \(0/1\) rectangle, then \(\max_v|\Pr[S=v]-1/p|\ge\frac{\sqrt2}p\cos(\pi/p)^t\).

Proof. For \(\xi\ne0\), \(|\mathbb E\,\omega^{\xi\delta_k\beta_k}|=|\cos(\pi\xi\delta_k/p)|\le\cos(\pi/p)\), since \(\xi\delta_k\not\equiv0\). Fourier inversion gives \(|\Pr[S=v]-1/p|\le\frac1p\sum_{\xi\ne0}\prod_k|\mathbb E\,\omega^{\xi\delta_k\beta_k}|\), and \(\cos x\le e^{-x^2/2}\) on \([0,\pi/2]\). If every \(\delta_k=\pm1\), the transform at \(\xi=\pm1\) has modulus exactly \(\cos(\pi/p)^t\). Parseval then gives \(\sum_v(\Pr[S=v]-1/p)^2\ge\frac2p\cos(\pi/p)^{2t}\), and the maximum is at least the root mean square over the \(p\) values. \(\square\)

One swap bit gives \(S\) two values for every \(p\). Over \(\mathbb F_2\) those cover the field, so conditioning on a query leaves the rest untouched. For odd \(p\) they do not: conditioning on \(Q=v\) through one swap confines the rest of the sum to two values. By Lemma L2, about \(p^2\log(p/\eta)\) swaps with nonzero differences, among disjoint random pairs, suffice for \(\cos(\pi/p)^t\le\eta/p\). Then conditioning on the query's value changes the law of the rest by a factor \(1\pm O(\eta)\). Given the unordered data, disjoint pairs have independent orders, and their contributions add. For rectangle queries, reaching the same precision also needs about \(p^2\log(1/\eta)\) swaps. For other differences fewer can suffice: with \(\delta_k=2^{k-1}\), \(S\) is uniform on \(\{0,\ldots,2^t-1\}\) reduced modulo \(p\), and \(t\approx\log_2(p/\eta)\) is enough.

Where the simulation stops. By Lemma L1, a query with \(\mathrm{dist}(C)\ge\varepsilon\), measured on the unrevealed pigeons against the unrevealed holes of \(H'\), is localized after revealing \(O(p^2L/\varepsilon)\) pigeons, where \(L=\log(p/\eta)\). A query with \(\mathrm{dist}(C)<\varepsilon\) is an additive matrix plus a sparse part with fewer than \(\varepsilon m^2\) cells. It is decided by the pigeons that land on those cells, about \(\varepsilon m\) of them in expectation. With \(\varepsilon\approx p\sqrt{L/m}\), either way a query costs about \(p\sqrt{Lm}\) revealed pigeons. Keeping the number of revealed pigeons times \((p+1)/n\) small would give search hardness up to depth about \(c\sqrt n/(p^2\sqrt L)\). That accounting is first order only. The main gap is the sparse case. Revealing the pigeons that land on the sparse cells also conditions every other pigeon to avoid them. These conditionings accumulate, up to a constant fraction of all cells over the relevant depth, and the law of the rest drifts away from a uniform bijection. Three further steps are needed and not proved:

concentration of the number of nonzero differences among disjoint pairs of one bijection. Lemma L1 gives only the expectation, and revealing pairs one by one loses about \(2r/m\) of the distance after \(r\) pigeons, which is of order \(\varepsilon\) at this balance;
accumulation of the factors \(1\pm O(\eta)\) over \(d\) queries, by a hybrid argument with \(\eta\lesssim1/d^2\);
conceding when a revealed pigeon lies in \(S^*\). The additive part of a sparse query is constant only while \(h^*\) is unrevealed. Pigeons or holes revealed because they lost half their cells fit the same budget.

A proof would work with uniform near-bijections inside a dense bipartite graph \(G\), revealing a pigeon or hole once it loses half its cells. The dense case changes there too. Swaps must be \(4\)-cycles of \(G\), and more queries can be nearly invariant than the additive ones: if \(G\) is close to two blocks, queries additive on each block are almost invariant. So Lemma L1 needs a version for \(G\), relative to the queries constant on the support, together with a lower bound of order \(1/m^2\) on the law of swap quadruples. The same framework, in which likely-zero cells are deleted, is what the route review proposed for the probability bound.

Assessment

The test did not end: no fast tree was found, and no lower bound was proved. It narrowed the proof. Communication simulations in which players hold cells, and single-swap sensitivity arguments, cannot give more than a logarithmic bound. Lifted simulations and adversary arguments remain open routes. Byramji and Impagliazzo's one-bit localization becomes a localization on many swaps; for rectangle queries about \(p^2\log\) of them are necessary. The main missing ingredient is a simulation for uniform near-bijections in dense bipartite graphs under cell deletions. The probability bound needs the same framework. The sub-line stays weak: its payoff is a bounded-depth endpoint, and both of its obstacles need this unproved framework.

Sheaf check

The collision is a global section that every reading modulo \(p\) of all pigeons at once misses: counts glue it away, since \(p+1\equiv1\). Integer readings would glue it back, which is why protocols whose players hold cells find it, while linear trees apparently do not. A swap is a local section of two pigeons that is invisible to additive readings. Lemma L1 measures how much of a reading lives on such local sections.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): the dense-graph simulation. Let \(G\) be a bipartite graph between the unrevealed pigeons and holes in which every vertex keeps at least a fraction \(1/2+\gamma\) of its original degree, with at most about \(c/p\) of all cells deleted. Let \(\nu_G\) be the uniform near-bijection with a \((p+1)\)-hole inside \(G\). The degree slack keeps \(\nu_G\) defined: at exactly one half, two complete blocks meet the condition, and for odd \(p\) the support can be empty.

Prove the marginal bound \(\nu_G(g(i)=h)=O(1/m)\) for every edge, and that the special set stays spread.
Prove the \(4\)-cycle version of Lemma L1 with a lower bound of order \(1/m^2\) on swap quadruples.
Prove steps (a) to (c).

Together they would give search hardness up to depth about \(\sqrt n/p^2\), up to logarithms, far beyond the \(O(\log n)\) of the easy distributions. If the marginals fail, record the graph family that breaks them.

Verification gate. Re-read: the route review, Byramji and Impagliazzo's Section 2.2 (the partner trick and permutation inversion), and the column-dichotomy entry's sampling tree. Record searches for communication protocols, sensitivity, Fourier bounds over \(\mathbb Z_p\) and additivity tests found nothing related. A fresh-context reviewer checked the draft. Verdict: sound with fixes. It confirmed Lemmas L1 and L2 and Observations R.1 and R.2 as proved. Its fixes concern scope and completeness:

queries constant on the support are those additive on the pigeons \(\times\,H'\), since the columns of \(E\) are free, and distances are measured there;
R.1 holds for every \(k\), and for any partition of cells, but not for lifted simulations;
R.2 needs \(p\ge3\) and covers only single swaps;
Lemma L1 needs no \(2/m\) loss, and has a \(\mu_E\) version; it is the easy direction of a standard test;
Lemma L2 proves sufficiency; necessity holds only for \(\pm1\) differences, with a Parseval bound, and \(\delta_k=2^{k-1}\) shows that fewer swaps can suffice;
the simulation accounting lacked steps (a) to (c), and the dense case also changes inside \(G\);
the next step needs degree slack, and the assessment's claims were narrowed.

The \(\mu_E\) version of Lemma L1 and the lower bound in Lemma L2 are the reviewer's own additions, and both were checked here. The other fixes weaken or qualify claims, so no second pass was run. No computation was run.

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The modular-collision near-bijection is hard for linear trees over \(\mathbb F_p\): depth about \(n^{1/3}\), by swap localization in dense graphs

22 September 2026 · Working proof: search hardness of \(\mu_E\) for linear decision trees up to depth about \(n^{1/3}\) · odd-prime-clause-transfer. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The modular-collision near-bijection is hard for linear trees over \(\mathbb F_p\): depth about \(n^{1/3}\), by swap localization in dense graphs”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-modular-collision-hardness.

Question. The last route review found the distribution to be the highest risk of the bounded-depth sub-line: no distribution was known to be hard for linear queries over \(\mathbb F_p\) on unary PHP. The search test reduced a lower bound for the modular-collision near-bijection \(\mu_E\) to a swap simulation inside dense bipartite graphs, and listed what was missing: marginals of the uniform law in such graphs, a four-cycle version of Lemma L1, and steps (a) to (c). The missing implication is: a linear tree over \(\mathbb F_p\) of small depth finds a collision under \(\mu_E\) only with small probability. The test ends with a proof of that, or with a graph family or a tree that breaks one of the steps.

Outcome. The implication holds up to depth about \(n^{1/3}\) (Theorem S). On the way, the framework proposed in the last next step turned out to be too weak: at degree fraction \(1/2+\gamma\) with \(\gamma\le1/6\), the four-cycle test can fail (Example H). Revealing a vertex once it loses a twentieth of its cells repairs this. A second issue, not listed before, is that combinations of queries must be localized jointly. It costs a factor that brings the depth from about \(\sqrt n\) down to about \(n^{1/3}\).

Setting

Let \(p\ge3\) be prime. \(E\) is a fixed set of \(p-1\) holes and \(H'\) the other \(m=n-p+1\) holes. For a bipartite graph \(G\) between a pigeon set \(A\) and a hole set \(B\) with \(|A|=|B|+p\), let \(\nu_G\) be the uniform law on maps \(g:A\to B\) with \(g(i)\in N_G(i)\) for every \(i\), in which one hole \(h^*\) receives a set \(S^*\) of \(p+1\) pigeons and every other hole exactly one. Holes other than \(h^*\) are regular. Then \(\mu_E=\nu_{G_0}\) for the complete graph \(G_0\) between the \(n+1\) pigeons and \(H'\). Write \(a=|A|\) and \(b=|B|\). We assume that every pigeon misses at most \(\mu\) holes of \(B\), and every hole misses at most \(\mu'\) pigeons of \(A\). Put \(F_1=b-\mu-\mu'-1\), \(F_2=b-\mu-\mu'-p-1\) and \(F_3=b-\mu-\mu'-3\), all assumed positive.

If \(C(i,h)=\alpha_i+\beta_h\) on the edges of \(G\), then \(\sum_iC(i,g(i))=\sum_i\alpha_i+\sum_h\beta_h+p\beta_{h^*}\) is constant modulo \(p\) on the support of \(\nu_G\). This holds for every \(G\), and it is why the modular collision is invisible to additive queries.

Marginals in dense graphs

Lemma M. Under the assumptions above, for every pigeon \(i\), every edge \((i,h)\) and every pigeon \(i'\ne i\):

\(\nu_G(g(i)=h,\ h\text{ regular})\le1/F_1\);
\(\nu_G(g(i)=h=h^*)\le\frac{p+1}{F_1}\nu_G(h^*=h)\), hence \(\nu_G(i\in S^*)\le(p+1)/F_1\) and \(\nu_G(g(i)=h)\le(p+2)/F_1\);
\(\nu_G(i,i'\in S^*)\le p(p+1)/F_1^2\);
\(\nu_G(h^*=h)\le p!\,b^p/((b-1)F_2^p)\) for every hole \(h\);
\(\nu_G(g(i)=h,\ h\text{ regular})\ge\ell(G):=\frac{F_3(1-\theta)}{(b-1)(b-2)}\), where \(\theta=\frac{2p+3}{F_1}+\frac{p!\,b^p}{(b-1)F_2^p}\);
for distinct holes \(h\ne h'\) with \((i,h),(i',h')\in G\), \(\nu_G(g(i)=h,\ g(i')=h',\ h,h'\text{ regular})\ge\ell(G)\,\ell(G-i-h)\).

Proof. All parts are switchings. In each, a map \(g\) together with a choice is sent to a map \(g'\) together with reverse data from which \(g\) and the choice are recovered. So the number of pairs \((g,\text{choice})\) is at most the number of pairs \((g',\text{reverse data})\).

(1), (2). Let \(g(i)=h\). Choose a pigeon \(i'\) with \(g(i')\in N(i)\setminus\{h\}\) and \(i'\in N(h)\), and exchange the holes of \(i\) and \(i'\). Hole counts and the special hole are unchanged, and both new cells are edges. Every hole has at least one pigeon, so at least \(b-\mu-1\) pigeons sit on holes of \(N(i)\setminus\{h\}\). At most \(\mu'\) of them miss \(h\), which leaves at least \(F_1\) choices. Given \(g'\), the pigeon \(i'\) is one of the pigeons of \(g'\) in \(h\): there is one if \(h\) is regular and \(p+1\) if \(h=h^*\). Hence \(F_1\,\nu(g(i)=h,\,h\text{ regular})\le\nu(g(i)\ne h,\,h\text{ regular})\le1\), and \(F_1\,\nu(g(i)=h=h^*)\le(p+1)\,\nu(g(i)\ne h=h^*)\). Summing the second bound over \(h\) gives \(\nu(i\in S^*)\le(p+1)/F_1\), and adding the two bounds gives \(\nu(g(i)=h)\le(p+2)/F_1\).

(3). Let \(g(i)=g(i')=h=h^*\). Exchange \(i'\) with a pigeon \(i''\) on a hole of \(N(i')\setminus\{h\}\) with \(i''\in N(h)\). There are at least \(F_1\) choices, and the result keeps \(g'(i)=h=h^*\) and has \(g'(i')\ne h\). The reverse data is \(i''\in g'^{-1}(h)\setminus\{i\}\), with \(p\) choices. So \(\nu(g(i)=g(i')=h=h^*)\le\frac p{F_1}\nu(g(i)=h=h^*)\). Summing over \(h\) and using (2) gives (3).

(4). Let \(h^*=h\). Choose a hole \(h''\ne h\) (\(b-1\) ways) and a pigeon \(s_0\in S^*\) (\(p+1\) ways). List \(S^*\setminus\{s_0\}\) as \(s_1,\ldots,s_p\) in a fixed order. Then choose distinct pigeons \(t_1,\ldots,t_p\) in turn, with \(t_k\in N(h'')\) and \(g(t_k)\in N(s_k)\setminus\{h,h''\}\). The holes of \(N(s_k)\setminus\{h,h''\}\) are regular and carry at least \(b-\mu-2\) pigeons. Removing those that miss \(h''\) and the earlier \(t\)'s leaves at least \(F_2\) choices for each \(k\). Set \(g'(s_k)=g(t_k)\) and \(g'(t_k)=h''\) for \(k\le p\). Then \(h\) keeps only \(s_0\), \(h''\) has \(p+1\) pigeons, and every hole \(g(t_k)\) still has one. So \(g'\) lies in the support, with special hole \(h''\). The reverse data is an ordered \(p\)-tuple \((t_k)\) from \(g'^{-1}(h'')\), at most \((p+1)!\) choices, and the holes \(g(t_k)=g'(s_k)\), at most \(b^p\) choices, since \(s_k=g'^{-1}(g(t_k))\). Hence \(\nu(h^*=h)(b-1)(p+1)F_2^p\le(p+1)!\,b^p\).

(5). Let \(\Omega_0\) be the set of maps with \(g(i)=x\ne h\) and both \(x\) and \(h\) regular. Let \(j=g^{-1}(h)\). Choose a regular hole \(y\in N(j)\setminus\{x,h\}\) whose pigeon \(k=g^{-1}(y)\) lies in \(N(x)\): there are at least \(F_3\) choices. Set \(g'(i)=h\), \(g'(j)=y\) and \(g'(k)=x\). Counts and the special hole are unchanged, and \(g'(i)=h\) with \(h\) regular. The reverse data is \((x,y)\), with at most \((b-1)(b-2)\) choices, since \(k=g'^{-1}(x)\) and \(j=g'^{-1}(y)\). So \(\nu(g(i)=h,\,h\text{ regular})\ge F_3\,\nu(\Omega_0)/((b-1)(b-2))\). By (1), (2) and (4), \(\nu(\Omega_0)\ge1-\frac{p+2}{F_1}-\frac{p+1}{F_1}-\nu(h^*=h)\ge1-\theta\).

(6). Given \(g(i)=h\) with \(h\) regular, the rest of \(g\) is distributed as \(\nu_{G-i-h}\), and \(G-i-h\) satisfies the same missing bounds. Apply (5) twice. \(\square\)

So the edge marginals are \(\Theta(1/b)\), each pigeon is special with probability \(O(p/b)\), and the special hole has marginal \(O_p(1/b)\). The constant \(p!\) in (4) is crude, but the proof below uses it only for fixed \(p\).

The four-cycle test in dense graphs

For \(C:E(G)\to\mathbb F_p\), let \(\mathrm{dist}_G(C)\) be the least fraction of edges of \(G\) on which \(C\) differs from a function \(\alpha_i+\beta_h\). Let \(\mathcal Q\) be the set of \((i,i',h,h')\) with \(i\ne i'\), \(h\ne h'\) and all four cells in \(G\). Let \(\rho_G(C)\) be the fraction of \(\mathcal Q\) on which \(\delta=C(i,h)+C(i',h')-C(i,h')-C(i',h)\ne0\).

Lemma T. Let \(G\) be any bipartite graph between \(A\) and \(B\) with the missing bounds \(\mu\) and \(\mu'\); the relation \(|A|=|B|+p\) is not used. If \(3\mu<b\), then \(\mathrm{dist}_G(C)\le K\rho_G(C)\) with

\[K=\frac{b(a-1)}{(a-\mu')(b-\mu)}\Bigl(1+\frac{3b}{b-3\mu}\Bigr)\Bigl(\frac b{b-2\mu}\Bigr)^2 .\]

Proof. For pigeons \(i\ne i'\) let \(N_{ii'}=N(i)\cap N(i')\). It has \(n_{ii'}\ge b-2\mu\) elements. Let \(D_{ii'}(h)=C(i,h)-C(i',h)\) on \(N_{ii'}\), and let \(c_{ii'}\) be a most frequent value of \(D_{ii'}\), chosen with \(c_{i'i}=-c_{ii'}\). Let \(\mathrm{err}(i,i')\) be the fraction of \(N_{ii'}\) where \(D_{ii'}\ne c_{ii'}\). If \(q_v\) are the frequencies of \(D_{ii'}\), the ordered pairs \(h\ne h'\) of \(N_{ii'}\) with \(D_{ii'}(h)\ne D_{ii'}(h')\) number \(n_{ii'}^2(1-\sum_vq_v^2)\ge n_{ii'}^2\,\mathrm{err}(i,i')\). Since \(|\mathcal Q|\le a(a-1)b^2\), the mean \(\bar e\) of \(\mathrm{err}\) over ordered pairs of distinct pigeons satisfies \(\bar e\le(b/(b-2\mu))^2\rho_G(C)\).

Fix \(i_0\) with \(\frac1{a-1}\sum_{i\ne i_0}\mathrm{err}(i,i_0)\le\bar e\). Set \(\alpha_{i_0}=0\) and \(\alpha_i=c_{i,i_0}\), and let \(\beta_h\) be a most frequent value of \(f_h(i)=C(i,h)-\alpha_i\) over \(i\in N(h)\). At a hole \(h\), the number of \(i\in N(h)\) with \(f_h(i)\ne\beta_h\) is at most \(\frac1{|N(h)|}\) times the number of ordered pairs \(i\ne\tilde\imath\) in \(N(h)\) with \(f_h(i)\ne f_h(\tilde\imath)\), by the same frequency inequality. For such a pair, \(h\in N_{i\tilde\imath}\) and \(D_{i\tilde\imath}(h)\ne\alpha_i-\alpha_{\tilde\imath}\). Call the pair coherent if \(c_{i\tilde\imath}=\alpha_i-\alpha_{\tilde\imath}\). A coherent pair contributes at most \(b\,\mathrm{err}(i,\tilde\imath)\) holes, and any pair at most \(b\). Summing over \(h\) and using \(|N(h)|\ge a-\mu'\):

\[\#\{(i,h)\in G:C(i,h)\ne\alpha_i+\beta_h\}\le\frac{b\,a(a-1)}{a-\mu'}\bigl(\bar e+P\bigr),\]

where \(P\) is the fraction of ordered pairs that are not coherent. Pairs containing \(i_0\) are coherent by construction. For \(i,\tilde\imath,i_0\) distinct, the set \(N(i)\cap N(\tilde\imath)\cap N(i_0)\) has at least \(b-3\mu>0\) elements, and on it \(D_{i\tilde\imath}=D_{ii_0}-D_{\tilde\imath i_0}\). If some hole there has all three differences equal to their chosen values, the pair is coherent. The holes where this fails number at most \(b(\mathrm{err}(i,i_0)+\mathrm{err}(\tilde\imath,i_0)+\mathrm{err}(i,\tilde\imath))\). So an incoherent pair has this sum at least \((b-3\mu)/b\). By Markov's inequality and the choice of \(i_0\), \(P\le3\bar e\,b/(b-3\mu)\). Dividing by \(|G|\ge a(b-\mu)\) gives the claim. \(\square\)

With \(\mu\le b/15\) and \(\mu'\le a/15\), \(K\le7.3\). If \(\rho_G(C)=0\), then \(C\) is additive on \(G\). So below the threshold \(\mu<b/3\), queries invariant under all swaps along four-cycles are exactly the additive ones. A finite check confirms this exact version on 72 random graphs, for \(p=3,5\) and sizes up to \(9\times9\). Its generator also caps the missing cells of holes, which the lemma does not need, and it does not test the constant \(K\).

Example H (the threshold is needed). Split \(A=A_1\cup A_2\cup A_3\) and \(B=B_1\cup B_2\cup B_3\), and let \((i,h)\) be an edge exactly when \(i\in A_k\), \(h\in B_l\) and \(k\ne l\). Every vertex is adjacent to about two thirds of the other side. Let \(C=1\) on \(A_1\times B_2\) and \(0\) elsewhere. A four-cycle uses at most two pigeon classes and two hole classes. Two distinct pigeon classes and two distinct hole classes cannot all be pairwise different in \(\{1,2,3\}\). So one of them repeats, and then \(\delta=0\). Around the six classes, \(C\) has alternating sum \(1\), so it is not additive. Its query \(\#\{i\in A_1:g(i)\in B_2\}\bmod p\) is a flow value on the six classes, with one free parameter. A computation over the full support of \(\nu_G\) finds it taking every value modulo \(3\), for \(p=3\), \(|B_l|=2,2,2\) and \(|A_k|=3,3,3\). It does the same for \(|A_k|=5,2,2\), an extra instance whose holes in \(B_1\) have degree fraction \(4/9\). A rotation along a six-cycle does change \(C\), but no simulation by four-cycle swaps can localize this query. The example sits exactly at \(3\mu=b\), degree fraction \(2/3\). So it defeats the hypothesis of the last next step, degree fraction \(1/2+\gamma\), for \(\gamma\le1/6\). The simulation below therefore reveals any vertex that misses more than \(m/20\) cells.

Lemma L1_G (swaps under \(\nu_G\)). Let \(i\ne i'\) be a uniform pair of distinct pigeons and \(g\sim\nu_G\). The event Good is that \(g(i)\) and \(g(i')\) are distinct regular holes, that \((i,g(i'))\) and \((i',g(i))\) are edges, and that \(\delta\ne0\). It has probability at least \(\rho_G(C)(b-2\mu)(b-2\mu-1)\,\ell(G)\,\ell_1\), where \(\ell_1\) is the least \(\ell(G-i-h)\) over edges \((i,h)\). Proof. Sum Lemma M(6) over the elements of \(\mathcal Q\) with \(\delta\ne0\). There are \(\rho_G(C)|\mathcal Q|\) of them, and \(|\mathcal Q|\ge a(a-1)(b-2\mu)(b-2\mu-1)\). \(\square\)

Let \(\mu,\mu'\le b/15\), so also \(\mu'\le a/15\) inside Lemma T, and let \(b\) be large in terms of \(p\). Then \((b-2\mu)(b-2\mu-1)\,\ell(G)\,\ell_1\) tends to \((13/15)^4(1-\theta)^2\approx0.564(1-\theta)^2\). With \(\theta\le0.07\) and \(K\le7.3\), this gives \(\Pr[\text{Good}]\ge\mathrm{dist}_G(C)/K_0\) with \(K_0\approx12.9\le15\). On the complete board, this is Lemma L1 of the search test up to the constant. Given the unordered pair of holes \(\{g(i),g(i')\}\) and the rest of \(g\), both orientations are equally likely when the four-cycle is present, since both lie in the support. The orientation is then a uniform bit.

Systems of swap bits

Lemma F. Let \(M\in\mathbb F_p^{k\times T}\), let \(\beta\in\{0,1\}^T\) be uniform and independent of a further variable \(X\), and let \(W\le\mathbb F_p^k\) be a subspace. Suppose \(u=u(X)\in\mathbb F_p^k\), with \(\xi\cdot u(X)\) constant in \(X\) for every \(\xi\in W\). Suppose also that \(\xi^{\mathsf T}M\) has at least \(t_0\) nonzero entries for every \(\xi\notin W\). Then \(\Pr_\beta[M\beta=u(X)]=Z+\mathcal E(X)\), where \(Z\ge0\) does not depend on \(X\) and \(|\mathcal E(X)|\le\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0}\le e^{-\pi^2t_0/(2p^2)}\).

Proof. Fourier inversion gives \(\Pr[M\beta=u]=p^{-k}\sum_\xi\omega^{-\xi\cdot u}\prod_c\frac{1+\omega^{(\xi^{\mathsf T}M)_c}}2\). The terms with \(\xi\notin W\) have modulus at most \(p^{-k}\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0}\) each, as in Lemma L2. The terms with \(\xi\in W\) sum to \(Z=p^{-k}|W|\Pr_\beta[M\beta-u\in W^\perp]\ge0\), which depends on \(u\) only through the values \(\xi\cdot u\) with \(\xi\in W\). \(\square\)

Search hardness

Theorem S. For every odd prime \(p\) there are \(C_p\) and \(n_p\) such that the following holds for \(n\ge n_p\). Every linear decision tree over \(\mathbb F_p\) of depth \(d\ge1\) on the variables \(x_{ih}\) that outputs two distinct pigeons outputs two pigeons of one hole under \(\mu_E\) with probability at most \(C_p\,d\sqrt{(d+\ln n)/n}\). Its queries may be arbitrary affine forms. So success probability \(1/2\) needs depth \(\Omega_p(n^{1/3})\).

Parameters. We may assume that the bound is below \(1\). Let \(\kappa=1/n\) and \(\mu=\lfloor m/20\rfloor\). Let \(t_0=\lceil\frac{p^2}2(d\ln p+\ln(16m/\kappa))\rceil\). Since \(p^2/2\ge\max(2p^2/\pi^2,4)\), this gives \(\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0}\le\kappa/(16mp^d)\) and \(e^{-t_0/4}\le\kappa/(16mp^d)\). Let \(\varepsilon=\sqrt{200K_0t_0/m}\), \(q=\varepsilon/(2K_0)\) and \(T=\lceil2t_0/q\rceil\le\varepsilon m/40\).

The simulation. It runs along a path of the tree from the root, using \(g\sim\mu_E\) and its own randomness. All paths share one random tape, so the simulation along a node's path extends the simulation along each prefix. It is therefore defined along the path the tree actually takes, and failure and success below refer to that run. Along a fixed path the queries \(C_1,\ldots,C_d\) are fixed. The simulation stops with failure at the first of the events below. Its state before query \(k\) consists of:

the graph \(G_k\) of unrevealed pigeons \(A_k\) and holes \(B_k\), with deleted cells, in which every vertex misses at most \(\mu\) cells and \(|B_k|\ge3m/4\);
fully revealed pigeons with their holes, all regular;
a list of pairs: two pigeons \(\{i,i'\}\) and their unordered holes \(\{h,h'\}\), both regular, with the four-cycle present in the graph at the time and the orientation not revealed;
a subspace \(W_{k-1}\le\mathbb F_p^{k-1}\);
the matrix \(M\) whose entry for query \(j\) and a pair is the swap difference \(\delta_j\) of \(C_j\) on that pair.

For \(\xi\in\mathbb F_p^{k}\) write \(C_\xi=\sum_j\xi_jC_j\). The invariants are:

given the revealed data \(U_{<k}\) and no failure, the unrevealed part \(X_k\) of \(g\) has law \(\nu_{G_k}\), and the orientations are independent uniform bits independent of \(X_k\);
\(C_\xi\) is additive on \(G_k\) for every \(\xi\in W_{k-1}\);
\(\xi^{\mathsf T}M\) has at least \(t_0\) nonzero entries for every \(\xi\in\mathbb F_p^{k-1}\setminus W_{k-1}\).

Initially \(G_1=G_0\) and \(W_0=0\). Step \(k\):

Close combinations. While some \(\xi\notin W\) with \(\xi_k\ne0\) has \(\mathrm{dist}_G(C_\xi)<\varepsilon\), run a round. Take a nearest additive function and the set \(T_\xi\) of edges where \(C_\xi\) differs from it, so \(|T_\xi|<\varepsilon|G|\). First reveal, one at a time, every vertex that would miss more than \(\mu\) cells once \(T_\xi\) is deleted: a pigeon with its hole, or a hole with its pigeon. Fail if a revealed hole is \(h^*\). Then reveal every remaining pigeon \(i\) with \((i,g(i))\in T_\xi\), together with its hole, and fail if such a hole is \(h^*\). Delete \(T_\xi\) and the revealed vertices, and add \(\xi\) to \(W\). Each round raises \(\dim W\), so there are at most \(d\) rounds on the whole path. Every revelation happens in a graph that still satisfies the missing bound, because cells are deleted only after the vertices that would exceed it are gone.
Pairs. Draw \(T\) times a uniform pair of distinct unrevealed pigeons, and reveal their unordered holes. Fail if the holes coincide or one is \(h^*\). If the four-cycle is absent, only one orientation is possible, and the pair is revealed in full. Otherwise it joins the list. Remove its vertices either way. Fail if some \(\xi\notin W\) with \(\xi_k\ne0\) has fewer than \(t_0\) nonzero entries in the new columns of \(\xi^{\mathsf T}M\).

Throughout, the simulation fails as soon as more than \(m/4\) pigeons have been removed from the graph, counting the pigeons of pairs. Every removal takes a pigeon and a hole, so the cap keeps \(|B_k|\ge3m/4\).

At a leaf, the tree succeeds without failure if both output pigeons lie in one hole and no failure occurred.

The invariants hold.

(A): every revealing step conditions on events of the unrevealed part. Given its outcome and regular revealed holes, the rest is uniform on the completions in the smaller graph. Orientations are fixed when their pair is drawn and never enter a later event.
(B): after a round, \(C_\xi\) equals its nearest additive function on the remaining edges. \(W\) is spanned by \(W_{k-1}\) and such \(\xi\), additivity is closed under linear combinations, and it passes to subgraphs.
(C): \(W_{k-1}\times\{0\}\subseteq W_k\), so a combination \((\xi',0)\notin W_k\) has \(\xi'\notin W_{k-1}\) and keeps its earlier columns. \(W_k\) may also gain vectors with \(\xi_k=0\), which is harmless. Combinations with \(\xi_k\ne0\) outside \(W_k\) are handled by the check in step 2.
Degrees: a deleted cell adds \(1\) to the missing count of one pigeon and one hole, and removing vertices never increases a count. So the invariant on missing cells holds.

Failure probabilities in the prior. We bound each failure given the state just before it, using Lemma M with \(\mu,\mu'\le b/15\) and \(b\ge3m/4\).

Phase 1 of a round, the revelations of vertices that would exceed the missing bound. Each happens in a graph that meets the bound, and fails with probability at most \(c_2(p+p!(1.2)^p)/m\) by Lemma M(2) and (4). All rounds together delete at most \(d\varepsilon ab\) cells. A vertex revealed in phase 1 would have more than \(\mu\) missing cells, and each deleted cell is missing for one pigeon and one hole. So there are at most \(2d\varepsilon ab/\mu\le45d\varepsilon m\) such revelations, each removing one pigeon.
Phase 2 of a round, the revelation of the pigeons on \(T_\xi\), restricted to the graph after phase 1, which meets the missing bound. It fails with probability at most \(\sum_{(i,h)\in T_\xi}\nu(g(i)=h=h^*)\le\frac{p+1}{F_1}|T_\xi|\max_h\nu(h^*=h)\le\iota:=c_1(p+1)p!\,(1.2)^p\varepsilon\). It reveals \(\sum_{(i,h)\in T_\xi}\nu(g(i)=h)\le|T_\xi|/F_1+\iota\le\varepsilon ab/F_1+\iota\le2\varepsilon a\) pigeons in expectation, by Lemma M(1) and (2).
A pair draw fails with probability at most \(2(p+1)/F_1\), since each of its pigeons lies in \(S^*\) with probability at most \((p+1)/F_1\).
The check of step 2, bounded given the state at the start of step 2. Every \(\xi\) concerned then has \(\mathrm{dist}\ge\varepsilon\). It keeps \(\mathrm{dist}\ge\varepsilon/2\) during the draws. Indeed, an additive function on a subgraph \(G'\) extends to \(G\), so \(\mathrm{dist}_{G'}\ge\mathrm{dist}_G-\Delta/|G'|\), where \(\Delta\le2T(a+b)\le4Ta\) counts the edges removed. Here \(4T\le\varepsilon m/10\) and \(|G'|\ge0.9a\cdot0.7m\), so the loss is below \(\varepsilon/6\). By Lemmas T and L1_G, each draw is Good for \(\xi\) with probability at least \(q\), given the past. Draws after a failure are counted as Good. The number of Good draws then dominates a binomial \(\mathrm{Bin}(T,q)\), with \(Tq\ge2t_0\), and falls below \(t_0\) with probability at most \(e^{-t_0/4}\). A union bound over at most \(p^k\) combinations gives at most \(\kappa/(16m)\).
At a leaf without failure, two pigeons in one hole must both lie in \(S^*\). A revealed pigeon in \(S^*\) would have caused failure. So both are unrevealed, and by Lemma M(3) this has probability at most \(p(p+1)/F_1^2\).
Removed pigeons. In the prior, their expected number is at most \(2d\varepsilon a\) in phase 2, \(45d\varepsilon m\) in phase 1 and \(2dT\) in pairs, at most \(51d\varepsilon m\) in all. The cap is handled after the transfer.

From the prior to the tree. Let \(u\) be a node at depth \(k-1\) with answers \(v_u\). Along the path of \(u\), the tree reaches \(u\) exactly when \(M\beta=v_u-K(X_k)\). Here \(K\) collects the contributions of revealed pigeons, of the reference orientations of pairs, and of \(X_k\). For \(\xi\in W_{k-1}\), \(\xi\cdot K(X_k)\) is constant on the support of \(\nu_{G_k}\), by (B) and the additivity remark. By (A), \(\beta\) is independent of \(X_k\) and of the randomness of step \(k\), given \(U_{<k}\). So Lemma F applies with (C). For every event \(\mathcal D\) determined by \(U_{<k}\), \(X_k\) and the randomness of step \(k\), and contained in "no failure before step \(k\)",

\[\Pr[\text{reach }u,\ \mathcal D]=\mathbb E\bigl[1_{\mathcal D}(Z+\mathcal E(X_k))\bigr],\qquad |\mathcal E|\le\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0},\]

where \(Z\ge0\) is a function of \(U_{<k}\).

Take a sub-step \(s\), indexed globally along the run: the \(j\)-th phase-1 revelation, phase 2 of the \(j\)-th round, the \(j\)-th pair draw, the \(j\)-th check, or the leaf. At a node \(u\) at depth \(k-1\), let \(\mathcal D_u\) be "\(s\) occurs in step \(k\) without earlier failure", determined by the state at the start of \(s\), and \(\mathcal E_u\subseteq\mathcal D_u\) "\(s\) fails". For the check, the state is taken at the start of step 2. Suppose \(\Pr[\mathcal E_u\mid\text{state}]\le\beta_s\) in the prior, for a number \(\beta_s\). Since \(Z\) is known at the start of \(s\),

\[\mathbb E[1_{\mathcal E_u}Z]=\mathbb E\bigl[Z\,1_{\mathcal D_u}\Pr(\mathcal E_u\mid\text{state})\bigr]\le\beta_s\,\mathbb E[1_{\mathcal D_u}Z]\le\beta_s\bigl(\Pr[\text{reach }u,\ \mathcal D_u]+\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0}\bigr),\]

and so \(\Pr[\text{reach }u,\ \mathcal E_u]\le\beta_s(\Pr[\text{reach }u,\ \mathcal D_u]+\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0})+\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0}\). The simulations share one tape, and along the run \(s\) occurs at most once. So the events "reach \(u\) and \(\mathcal D_u\)" are disjoint over the nodes \(u\), of which there are at most \(2p^d\). Summing over \(u\), the sub-step \(s\) fails along the run with probability at most \(\beta_s+4p^d\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0}\le\beta_s+\kappa/(4m)\).

Since \(\varepsilon\le c_4p\sqrt{(d+\ln n)/n}\), taking \(C_p\ge204c_4p\) makes the bound trivial unless \(d\varepsilon\le1/204\), which we assume. Then there are at most \(d+45d\varepsilon m+dT+d+1\le3m\) sub-steps. The same computation with the number \(R_s\le a\) of pigeons removed at \(s\), where \(\mathbb E[R_s\mid\text{state}]\le r_s\), gives \(\mathbb E[R_s\text{ along the run}]\le r_s+(r_s+a)\,2p^d\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0}\le r_s+\kappa/2\). By Markov's inequality, the cap fails with probability at most \(\frac4m(\sum_sr_s+2)\le204d\varepsilon+8/m\). Collecting the bounds, with \(d\) rounds, at most \(45d\varepsilon m\) phase-1 revelations, \(dT\) pair draws, \(d\) checks and the leaf:

\[\Pr[\text{success}]\le d\iota+45d\varepsilon\,c_2\bigl(p+p!(1.2)^p\bigr)+dT\,\frac{2(p+1)}{F_1}+\frac{d\kappa}{16m}+\frac{p(p+1)}{F_1^2}+204d\varepsilon+\frac8m+\kappa .\]

Here \(dT\cdot2(p+1)/F_1\le0.1(p+1)d\varepsilon\), so the right side is at most \(c_3(p+1)\,p!\,(1.2)^p\,d\varepsilon+O(p^2/n^2)+O(1/n)\le C_p\,d\sqrt{(d+\ln n)/n}\), since \(\varepsilon=O(p\sqrt{(d\ln p+\ln n)/m})\). \(\square\)

What this does and does not give

It removes one of the two obstacles of Byramji and Impagliazzo's Remark A.4 for unary PHP, in its search form. The modular collision is a distribution on which linear trees over \(\mathbb F_p\) need polynomial depth, against \(O(\log n)\) for the one-defect classes (Observation). The sampling tree needs about \(n/p\) pigeons. So the truth lies between about \(n^{1/3}\) and \(n\).
It is search hardness only. The random walk also needs a probability bound for safe systems and a restriction. The proof suggests the form of the bound: the probability of a system of \(k\) answers is about \(Z\le p^{-(k-\dim W)}\), where \(W\) is the span of combinations close to additive. Their sparse parts are handled by revealing and deleting cells, not by charging probability. The system \(\{x_{i_th_t}=0\}\) that defeats a probability bound on the full board has \(W\) equal to everything, so it is charged nothing. This matches the deletion accounting proposed by the review. It is not yet a probability bound for the walk, whose systems are the lines of a refutation, not the answers of a tree.
Where depth is lost: the square root comes from balancing sparse revelation, \(\varepsilon m\) per round, against localization, \(t_0/\varepsilon\) pairs per step. The factor \(d\) inside \(t_0\) comes from the union bound over the \(p^k\) combinations and from the Fourier sum.

Assessment

The test ended with a proof, pending the gate below. The distribution obstacle of the sub-line is removed in search form, up to depth about \(n^{1/3}\). The sparse-forms obstacle now has a candidate accounting suggested by the same simulation: rank minus near-additive dimension. For the bounded-depth endpoint, the remaining risk is the probability bound and a restriction compatible with the star closure. The sub-line is stronger than at the review, but its payoff is unchanged, a bounded-depth endpoint, so it stays weak for the goal. The window, which the goal needs, is unchanged.

Sheaf check

The simulation glues local sections, the orientations of disjoint swaps, into a near-uniform global answer. Combinations that no swap sees are the sections that are constant up to a sparse defect, and they are glued by revelation, not by randomness. Example H is a space where the four-cycles do not generate the cycle space: a global section whose local restrictions to every swap vanish. Density above two thirds kills that first cohomology, which is Lemma T's threshold.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): the probability bound for the random walk under \(\mu_E\). For a linear system \(\Phi\) over \(\mathbb F_p\), let \(W(\Phi)\) be the span of combinations within \(\varepsilon\) of additive on the current graph. Prove that \(\Pr_{\mu_E}[\Phi]\le p^{-(\mathrm{rk}\,\Phi-\dim W(\Phi))+o(1)}\), after revealing the pigeons on the sparse parts. Then check it against the star closure: which closures the witness can afford, and whether the Delayer step survives cell deletion. Test first on the sparse systems of the review and on systems mixing one dense form with many cells. If the bound fails, record the system that breaks it.

Verification gate. Re-read in the notebook: the search-test entry's setting and its Lemmas L1 and L2, excerpted for the reviewer, and the star-closure route review. Record check: a record-check agent searched the index and the historical index. It found all four statements new and none refuted. Lemma T refines L1, and Lemma F extends L2, of the search test. The finite check (four_cycle_check.py, deterministic seed) confirmed the exact version of Lemma T on 72 random dense graphs, and Example H on three blow-ups. A fresh-context reviewer checked the draft and the code, and reproduced the output byte for byte. Verdict: sound with fixes, with no mathematical break. Its fixes:

the transfer needed a shared random tape across nodes, its conditions stated, the step-2 check bounded from the start of step 2, and the cap transferred explicitly on removed pigeons, pairs included;
base cases for invariants (B) and (C);
the derivations of the expected phase-2 count, the distance loss and \(K_0\);
the independence hypothesis of Lemma F;
Example H limited to four-cycle swaps and to \(\gamma\le1/6\), with the \(5,2,2\) instance marked as extra;
the scope of the finite check.

Unused hypotheses: Lemmas M, T, L1_G and F use neither primality nor oddness, and Lemma M holds for every integer \(p\ge1\). Lemma T holds for any bipartite graph. Theorem S uses \(p\ge3\) only through \(p^2/2\ge4\) in \(t_0\), and primality only for linearity over \(\mathbb F_p\) and the span \(W\). The fixes write out steps or narrow claims, and the written-out transfer is the reviewer's own formulation, checked here, so no second pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	44 min 20.80 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	18 min 51.10 s
Computation design and coding	59.18 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	18 min 48.32 s
Individually measured computation	4.41 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	5 min 37.66 s

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At odd primes the walk's restriction is the binding step: restrictions keeping the modular-collision hardness imply only near-additive lines, and carrying the rest stays below the depth every refutation already has

22 September 2026 · Working proofs of a restriction lemma and a padding construction; the walk analysis is heuristic · odd-prime-clause-transfer. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “At odd primes the walk's restriction is the binding step: restrictions keeping the modular-collision hardness imply only near-additive lines, and carrying the rest stays below the depth every refutation already has”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-walk-restriction-odd-prime.

Question. The committed next step was the probability bound of the random walk under \(\mu_E\). The route check asks first whether a probability bound would be used at all. The walk also needs, at each stage, a restriction that implies the falsifying set of the node it reaches and leaves a problem of the same kind. The missing implication tested here is: in the family where Theorem S gives hardness, a restriction of small cost implies the lines the walk reaches. The test ends with a proof or a refutation of that.

Outcome. The implication fails. In standard \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\), whose lines are disjunctions of equations, a line is falsified on a box: a conjunction of inequations \(L_j\ne a_j\). Within the dense family, a restriction implies an inequation only at a cost linear in \(n\), unless its form is close to additive (Lemma R). Every refutation can be padded, at four times the size, so that the first stage of any walk meets such an inequation (Proposition P). The alternative of carrying these inequations as conditions has, if the budget of Theorem S carries over, a reach of depth about \(n^{2/3}\). That is below the depth \(\Omega(n)\) which every refutation already needs, by a known tree-like bound. The same fact supersedes the depth bound that Theorem S gives directly.

Depth: Theorem S against a known bound

A refutation of depth \(D\) gives a linear decision tree over \(\mathbb F_p\) of depth \(D\) for the false-clause search. Start at the empty clause and keep a line falsified by the input. At a line derived from \(A\vee(L_1=a_1)\) and \(B\vee(L_2=a_2)\) by the linear-combination rule, one query of \(L_1\) finds a falsified premise. Weakening and the removal of false constant equations need no query, and Boolean axioms are never falsified. Leaves at other axioms output an arbitrary pair of pigeons. Under \(\mu_E\), only hole clauses at \(h^*\) are falsified, for the plain and the functional encoding. So Theorem S gives depth at least \(c_pn^{1/3}\), with \(c_p=(2C_p^2)^{-1/3}\).

This is superseded. Part and Tzameret (Resolution with counting, ITCS 2020, Theorem 38, read in the source) prove that every tree-like \(\mathrm{Res}_{sw}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F})\) refutation of \(\neg\mathrm{PHP}^m_n\) has size \(2^{\Omega((n-1)/2)}\), for every field. The encoding is plain, with pigeon and hole clauses, and \(\mathrm{Res}_{sw}\) simulates tree-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin})\). Unfolding a DAG refutation of depth \(D\) gives a tree-like one of size at most \(2^{D+1}\). So every \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation of plain PHP already has depth \(\Omega(n)\). The novelty check of 22 September covered DAG-like size bounds only; this tree-like bound was not on record in the thread.

Restrictions in the dense family

A dense class is given by a set \(F\) of fixed pigeons, sent to distinct holes of \(H'\), and a graph \(G'\) between the remaining pigeons \(A'\) and the holes \(B'=H'\) minus those of \(F\). So \(|A'|=|B'|+p\). The graph \(G'\), and every \(G'-i-h\) for an edge \((i,h)\), satisfies the hypotheses of Lemma M with \(F_3>0\) and \(\theta<1\). Every pigeon misses fewer than \(|B'|/3\) holes. The class consists of all maps that extend \(F\) and lie in the support of \(\nu_{G'}\) on \(A'\). These are the stages on which Theorem S gives hardness. For a form \(L=\sum C(i,h)x_{ih}+c\), \(\mathrm{dist}\) is the distance of \(C\), on pigeons \(\times\,H'\), from additive matrices. Cells of the columns in \(E\) are zero on every class.

Lemma R.

If \(L=a\) on the whole class, then \(C\) is additive on \(G'\).
If \(L\ne a\) on the whole class, then no map in the class has \(p-1\) pairwise disjoint detecting swaps. A detecting swap is a pair of pigeons of \(A'\) in distinct regular holes whose four-cycle lies in \(G'\) and whose swap changes \(L\). Moreover \(\rho_{G'}(C)\le4(p-2)/\bigl(a'(b'-2\mu)(b'-2\mu-1)\ell(G')\ell_1\bigr)\), where \(\ell_1\) is the least \(\ell(G'-i-h)\). In the regime of Theorem S (\(\mu,\mu'\le b'/15\), \(\theta\le0.07\), \(b'\) large), this gives \(\mathrm{dist}_{G'}(C)\le4(p-2)K_0/a'\) with \(K_0\le15\).
In that regime, suppose the class implies \(L=a\) or \(L\ne a\), and \(\mathrm{dist}_{G_0}(C)\ge\varepsilon\) on the complete board \(G_0\) between the \(n+1\) pigeons and \(H'\). Let \(D\) be the set of deleted cells between remaining vertices. Then \(|F|(m+n+1)+|D|\ge\varepsilon(n+1)m-4(p-2)K_0m\). In particular, \(|F|\ge\varepsilon m/4\) or \(|D|\ge\varepsilon(n+1)m/2-4(p-2)K_0m\).

Proof. On the class, \(L(g)=\mathrm{const}+\sum_{i\in A'}C(i,g(i))\).

(1). For every four-cycle \((i,i',h,h')\) of \(G'\), Lemma M(6) gives a map in the class with \(g(i)=h\), \(g(i')=h'\) and both holes regular. Exchanging the two holes gives another map in the class, and \(L\) changes by \(-\delta\). So \(\delta=0\) on every four-cycle, \(\rho_{G'}(C)=0\), and \(C\) is additive by Lemma T.

(2). Disjoint swaps commute, and each keeps the class. Take \(p-1\) disjoint detecting swaps, with changes \(-\delta_1,\ldots,-\delta_{p-1}\), all nonzero. Applying a subset \(K\) of them gives a map with value \(L(g)-\sum_{k\in K}\delta_k\). The subset sums of \(p-1\) nonzero elements of \(\mathbb F_p\) cover \(\mathbb F_p\), which is the mechanism of the forced-cells lemma. Indeed, adding an element \(x\ne0\) to a set of subset sums \(\Sigma\ne\mathbb F_p\) enlarges it, since \(\Sigma+x=\Sigma\) would make \(\Sigma\) a union of cosets of \(\langle x\rangle=\mathbb F_p\). So some map in the class has \(L=a\), a contradiction.

For a map \(g\), the detecting pairs form a graph on \(A'\) with no matching of \(p-1\) edges. A maximal matching has at most \(p-2\) edges, and its at most \(2(p-2)\) vertices cover every detecting pair. So a uniform pair of distinct pigeons is detecting with probability at most \(4(p-2)/a'\), for every \(g\). The event is the event Good of Lemma L1_G, whose probability under \(g\sim\nu_{G'}\) is at least \(\rho_{G'}(C)(b'-2\mu)(b'-2\mu-1)\ell(G')\ell_1\). This gives the bound on \(\rho\). In the regime, \(\Pr[\text{Good}]\ge\mathrm{dist}_{G'}(C)/K_0\) gives the bound on \(\mathrm{dist}\).

(3). An additive function on \(G'\) extends to \(G_0\), with arbitrary values on the removed vertices. So \(\mathrm{dist}_{G_0}(C)(n+1)m\le\mathrm{dist}_{G'}(C)|G'|+|G_0\setminus G'|\). The cells outside \(G'\) lie in the rows of \(F\) (at most \(|F|m\)), in the columns of the holes of \(F\) (at most \(|F|(n+1)\)), or in \(D\), and \(|G'|\le a'm\). If \(|F|<\varepsilon m/4\), then \(|F|(m+n+1)<\varepsilon(n+1)m/2\), using \(m\le n+1\). \(\square\)

What the proof uses:

Part (1) and the first claim of (2) use only that every four-cycle of \(G'\) occurs as a swap in the class.
The count in (2) is pure combinatorics.
The bound "fewer than \(|B'|/3\)" enters only through Lemma T.

A class implying a box must imply each of its inequations, and Lemma R bounds each one separately. The same restriction can serve several inequations, so the costs need not add.

Padding makes the first stage expensive

Proposition P. Let \(\Pi\) be a \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation of size \(S\) and depth \(D\). Let \(L\) be a linear form and \(a\ne a'\) in \(\mathbb F_p\). There is a refutation \(\Pi'\) of size at most \(4S+2\) and depth at most \(D+3\) in which every line other than the axioms and the last two lines contains \(L=a\) or \(L=a'\) as a disjunct.

Proof. For \(c\in\{a,a'\}\), add the disjunct \(L=c\) to every line of \(\Pi\). An axiom \(A\) gives \(A\vee(L=c)\) by one weakening. The linear-combination rule, weakening and the removal of false constant equations apply unchanged with the extra disjunct carried along. So the copy derives \(L=c\). Combining \(L=a\) with \(L=a'\) by the coefficients \(1,-1\) gives \(0=a-a'\), a false constant equation, and removing it gives the empty clause. \(\square\)

Take for \(L\) the indicator of \(P_1\times H_1\), for halves \(P_1\) of the pigeons and \(H_1\) of \(H'\). On the complete board with \(a\) pigeons and \(b\) holes, a cell lies in a fraction \(4/(ab)\) of the four-cycles. Every four-cycle with \(\delta\ne0\) contains a cell where \(C\) differs from a given additive matrix. Hence \(\mathrm{dist}\ge\rho/4\). A uniform four-cycle splits both halves with probability about \(1/4\) and then has \(\delta=\pm1\), so \(\mathrm{dist}_{G_0}(C)\ge1/16-o(1)\). A walk on \(\Pi'\) descends at least three levels in its first stage. Unless the search is solved, it reaches a line containing \(L=a\) or \(L=a'\). So the first stage's class implies \(L\ne c\) for some \(c\), and by Lemma R(3) it fixes at least about \(m/64\) pigeons or deletes about \(nm/32\) cells. Nesting \(k\) paddings, with forms supported on disjoint blocks of pigeons, multiplies the size by \(4^k\) and should make \(k\) stages expensive; that is not proved here.

What the walk needs at odd primes (heuristic)

The restriction, not the probability bound, is binding. Within the dense family, the walk can neither imply far inequations cheaply (Lemma R) nor avoid them (Proposition P). With stages of depth about \(n^{1/3}\), reaching depth beyond \(n\) takes more than \(n^{2/3}\) stages, and each stage then has a budget below about \(n^{1/3}\) pigeons.
Carrying inequations. The alternative is to condition on the far inequations of each node instead of implying them. Sparse literals would still be handled by restrictions, which Lemma R does not exclude; a single literal \(x_{ih}=1\) is implied by fixing pigeon \(i\) to \(h\). Conditioning on far forms leaves the swap simulation untilted only under four conditions:
1. the main term must be exactly \(p^{-k}\), the \(\xi=0\) term of Lemma F, since \(M\) depends on the unrevealed part;
2. the bound \(t_0\) must hold outside a set of much smaller probability than the conditioning event;
3. the claim concerns the pair structure, not the orientation bits, which the answers constrain;
4. \(t_0\gg p^2J\ln p\) for \(J\) carried inequations.
None of these is proved.
Its reach. Suppose Theorem S's budget carries over, so that carried far rank plus depth stays below about \(n^{1/3}\), up to constants depending on \(p\). This extrapolates the \((J+d)^{3/2}/\sqrt n\) form of Theorem S and is not justified. Then about \(n^{1/3}/(p\ln S)\) stages of depth \(n^{1/3}\) give \(D\ln S\gtrsim n^{2/3}/p\). That is vacuous, because every refutation already has depth \(\Omega(n)\). A useful carrying walk would need carried rank of order \(n^{2/3+\Omega(1)}\) at depth \(n^{1/3}\), far outside what the swap simulation handles.

Assessment

The test ended with a refutation of the implication as posed. Proposition P makes it rigorous for the first stage. The probability bound was the wrong next obligation.

Within the family where hardness is proved, restrictions cannot imply the far inequations that a padded refutation puts in the walk's way.
Carrying the inequations instead reaches, heuristically, only depths that every refutation exceeds.
The direct depth bound of Theorem S is superseded by a known tree-like bound.

For the closure sub-line, the random walk at odd \(p\) now needs a restriction family outside the dense classes, one that keeps a far inequation implied at bounded cost. Classes with affine links between cells would be an example. No candidate is known. Theorem S keeps its value as the first hard distribution for linear search at odd \(p\), but its route to a proof-system bound is blocked at the restriction. The sub-line is weak, and a route review is due before further work on it.

Sheaf check

A restriction is a local section that must glue to the whole falsifying set of a line. On the dense family, the four-cycles transport values across the class. So a far inequation cannot be glued from sections of the family: every section implying it is near-additive, or removes a linear part of the board. The box is not a flat, so no product of cell sections covers its complement. Carrying inequations replaces gluing by conditioning. Conditioning is consistent only while swaps keep the carried values independent of the rest, and its budget is where that fails.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): a route review of the closure sub-line and of the thread. It should weigh three new facts: Theorem S, Lemma R with Proposition P, and the known \(\Omega(n)\) depth bound. It should ask two questions:

whether any restriction family beyond dense classes can imply far inequations at odd \(p\) at bounded cost, for instance affine links between cells or bit-like gadgets inside unary rows;
whether the sub-line has any payoff beyond depth \(n\).

It should also say where the window line stands after the pause-review override.

Verification gate. Re-read: the statements of Theorem S and Lemmas M, T, L1_G and F from the notebook, excerpted for the reviewer; the forced-cells lemma of the closure route review; Byramji and Impagliazzo's Section 2 and Remark A.4 in the source; and Part and Tzameret's Theorem 38 in the source (ITCS 2020 version, a scratch copy that is not stored). Record check: a record-check agent found the depth corollary implied by Theorem S but unregistered, and Lemma R new, with its subset-sum step as in the forced-cells lemma. A fresh-context reviewer checked the first draft. Verdict: sound with fixes, with the depth corollary and Lemma R standing. Its fixes:

the corollary needed a novelty check. The literature search it prompted found Part and Tzameret's bound, which supersedes it, so the corollary is kept as a remark and not registered;
Lemma R's hypotheses: Lemma M for every \(G'-i-h\), the regime for (2) and (3), \(K_0\le15\), and the holes of \(F\) in \(H'\);
costs do not add across inequations;
the heuristic refutation is replaced by Proposition P, the reviewer's two-copy construction, checked here;
a reach-probability sentence, the stage count \(O(1/\varepsilon)\) and a distance-decay estimate were wrong and are removed;
the no-tilt claim is made conditional on four conditions, and the \(n^{1/3}\) budget is labelled an extrapolation;
wording: far rather than dense, a box is in general not a flat, and the sheaf sentence;
the next step, whose budget question the depth floor made moot, is replaced by a route review.

The distance bound for the quadrant form was added after the review; it is the standard count \(\mathrm{dist}\ge\rho/4\), checked here. No second pass was run: the corrections remove or weaken claims, and the one added result, Proposition P, is the reviewer's own construction. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	30 min 49.33 s
Marked reading and review windows	8 min 44.00 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	19 min 46.68 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 8.00 s
Individually measured computation	10.51 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: restrictions cannot imply far inequations cheaply, and walks that carry them are capped a logarithmic factor above the depth floor; back to the window's decisive calibration

22 September 2026 · Route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer · Closure sub-line: restriction blocked heuristically, carrying capped near the depth floor; window: weak, unchanged; next: the decisive calibration by swap-averaged designs. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: restrictions cannot imply far inequations cheaply, and walks that carry them are capped a logarithmic factor above the depth floor; back to the window's decisive calibration”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-closure-walk-route-review.

The lines' general claims. The closure sub-line claims that a random walk in the style of Byramji and Impagliazzo gives size lower bounds for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutations of unary PHP of bounded depth. It would combine a hard distribution, a closure and restrictions. The window line claims that dense-support blocks of intermediate projected rank can be excluded by a gluing of weighted pieces at additive degree cost. What the goal needs is superpolynomial size for unrestricted DAG-like refutations. The statement set leaves open refutations with more than \(Cn\) window lines of nonlocal dimension above \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\). A bounded-depth result helps the goal only as a partial endpoint, and it is meaningful only beyond depth \(\Omega(n)\): Part and Tzameret's tree-like bound, unfolded, gives every refutation that depth. Route item under review: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The user's override of the pause review stands: window work continues.

Evidence since the last review

Theorem S: under the modular collision \(\mu_E\), linear trees over \(\mathbb F_p\) need depth about \(n^{1/3}\) to find a collision. This is the first hard distribution for linear search on unary PHP at odd \(p\), with dense-graph marginals (Lemma M) and a four-cycle test with a sharp two-thirds threshold (Lemma T).
Lemma R and Proposition P: restrictions that keep this hardness imply a far inequation only at linear cost. Padding puts such an inequation into the first stage of every walk, at four times the size.
The known tree-like bound gives every refutation depth \(\Omega(n)\). It supersedes Theorem S's direct depth bound.

Falsification attempt 1: restrictions beyond the dense classes

The previous entry asked whether restrictions outside the dense classes can imply far inequations at bounded cost. Four kinds were examined.

Graph classes of any density. Such a class fixes some pigeons and confines each other pigeon to a set of holes, given by a graph \(G'\); it consists of all admissible maps on \(G'\) extending the fixed part. Bit-like gadgets inside rows are of this kind: fixing each pigeon's side of a cut is a confinement. The first claim of Lemma R(2) uses three facts only. The class is closed under swaps along four-cycles of \(G'\) between regular holes. A regular hole holds one pigeon, so swaps on disjoint pairs use disjoint holes, commute, and keep each other's holes regular. And \(L(g)=\mathrm{const}+\sum_iC(i,g(i))\) for every map. So that claim holds for every graph class: a class implying \(L\ne a\) has no map with \(p-1\) disjoint detecting swaps. The distance bounds of Lemma R(2) and (3) need Lemma M's hypotheses and the regime of Theorem S, and do not carry over. That is why the next step is heuristic. Take the cut form \(L=\mathbf 1[P_1\times H_1]\) of Proposition P. Among swaps along four-cycles of \(G'\) between regular holes, a swap detects exactly when it exchanges a pigeon of \(P_1\) and a pigeon outside \(P_1\) whose holes lie on opposite sides of the cut. So, heuristically, once at most \(2(p-2)\) pigeons per map are set aside, \(G'\) has no crossing four-cycle: none with one pigeon in each half and one hole on each side. One way is to confine every pigeon of \(P_1\) to its side, which fixes \(L\). Another is to send \(P_1\) and its complement to disjoint hole sets \(X\) and \(Y\). Every hole is occupied, with occupancy \(\equiv1\pmod p\), so then \(L\equiv|X\cap H_1|\).
Nesting. The previous entry noted that nested paddings, with forms on disjoint blocks of pigeons, should make \(k\) stages expensive. That design cannot accumulate confinement, since each pigeon meets one cut. Use instead \(k\) independent random cuts on all pigeons, and pad directly. Weaken every axiom by all \(k\) disjuncts \(L_j=c_j\), and run one copy of \(\Pi\) for each of the \(2^k\) choices \(c_j\in\{a_j,a_j'\}\). At the bottom, eliminate the cut forms one at a time: combining two lines that differ only in \(c_1\) gives a false constant equation, and removing it drops \(L_1\). The size is about \(2^kS\) and the depth \(D+2k\). Every line other than an axiom and the bottom \(2k\) levels contains all \(k\) disjuncts. So a walk that passes depth \(2k\) needs classes implying a box of \(k\) cut inequations. By the previous bullet, heuristically, each block of pigeons and holes within which the class allows swaps is, for each cut, one-sided in the pigeon cut or in the hole cut. A block of \(s\) pigeons and \(s\) holes then has \(s\lesssim\sqrt{nm}\,2^{-k/2}\), where \(m\) is the number of holes, and disjoint hole sets as above attain this. With \(k=C\log_2n\) the size grows by the factor \(n^C\), and for \(C>2\) a typical pigeon keeps \(O(1)\) holes.
Affine restrictions, such as affine links between cells. An affine function that is not constant on a flat takes every value there. So a flat that implies \(L\ne a\) by linear algebra alone, that is on the whole flat over \(\mathbb F_p\), fixes \(L\), and this is carrying \(L\) as an equation. The class is only the maps inside the flat, and implications that use Booleanity or the hole axioms are not covered. They include every graph class, since fixing or deleting a cell is an affine restriction.
Nonlinear gadgets. The walk recurses on a \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation of a smaller unary PHP, and a nonlinear gadget turns linear lines into polynomial lines of higher degree. An affine gadget cannot help: realizing the unit vectors of a row with \(a\) allowed holes needs at least \(a-1\) free variables, so shrinking a row means deleting holes, which is confinement.

So, heuristically and within these scopes, no kind implies far inequations at bounded cost. Graph classes pay by confinement, which random nested cuts make total. Affine classes whose implication is linear-algebraic reduce to carrying. Nonlinear gadgets are excluded by the recursion, not refuted.

Falsification attempt 2: can a walk that carries inequations pass the floor?

The walk must then carry far inequations as conditions. Stage \(i\) works under \(\mu_E\) conditioned on a box of \(J\) carried far inequations, and runs the refutation for \(d\) levels. Depth \(D\) takes \(D/d\) stages. A line reached with probability at least \(1/(4S)\) has at most about \(p\ln(4S)\) near-independent far inequations, and a refutation can make each stage add that many. So the analysis must tolerate \(J\approx(D/d)\,p\ln S\).

Stage failures add. A stage fails when its \(d\) levels reach a falsified axiom. Under \(\mu_E\) that means they find a collision. A refutation of depth \(D\) sends the walk to an axiom within \(D\) levels. So if each stage fails with probability at most \(\delta\), a walk says something about depth \(D\) only when \((D/d)\,\delta<1\). Theorem S gives \(\delta\approx C_pd\sqrt{(d+\ln n)/n}\). Then \(D\lesssim\sqrt{n/(d+\ln n)}/C_p\), at most about \(\sqrt n\), and the walk covers no refutation at all, since every refutation has depth \(\Omega(n)\).

No stage lemma about arbitrary trees does much better. Under \(\mu_E\) each pigeon lies in \(h^*\) with probability \((p+1)/(n+1)\).

A tree finds a pigeon's hole by binary search with the \(0/1\)-valued queries \(\sum_{h\in A}x_{ih}\), in about \(\log_2n\) queries.
It then looks for a second pigeon in that hole by column counts over subsets of the other pigeons. If the hole is \(h^*\), a random subset holds a number of the other \(p\) pigeons that is nonzero modulo \(p\) with probability \(1-2^{1-p}\). Once a count lies strictly between \(0\) and \(p\), halving is exact.
So \(O(\log n)\) queries find a collision with probability about \((p+1)/n\). A tree of depth \(d\) makes about \(d/\log n\) such attempts on distinct pigeons, and succeeds with probability about \(dp/(n\log n)\).

Hence \(\delta\gtrsim dp/(n\log n)\) for every lemma about arbitrary linear trees, and \(D\lesssim n\log n/p\). That is at most a logarithmic factor above the floor. Passing it would need a stage bound that uses the refutation's size, and no recorded analysis does.

The carried box within that window. A first count charged every close combination of an adaptive query with carried forms the whole \(\ell_1\) weight \(2^J\) of the box. In the Fourier expansion of the box's normalized indicator \(f\) over the carried forms \(L\), the coefficients have absolute value \((p-1)^{-|\mathrm{supp}\,\xi|}\). The fresh-context reviewer argued that this over-charges, since the tilt from \(sQ+\xi\cdot L\) is \(|\hat f(\xi)|\le1\) times its bias. Its finer heuristic count has three regimes:

combinations below Theorem S's threshold are revealed;
a band up to the far scale \(\tau\) of the carried span holds at most one \(\xi\) for each \(s\);
one batch of swaps covers everything above \(\tau/2\), and \(J\) enters only there, fitting when \(J\lesssim\tau m/(K_0p^2)\).

Clusters \(L_0+\sigma_j\) of mutually close forms seem to cost about \(p^2J\) up to logarithms as well. With disjoint rows, detections add over \(\mathrm{supp}\,\xi\). With shared rows, one reveal serves the whole cluster. So the box is probably affordable. With a stage lemma of the optimal order \(\delta\approx dp/(n\log n)\), at \(d\) up to about \(n^{1/3}\), the count \(\ln S\gtrsim md/(p^3D)\) would give superpolynomial size throughout the window. That lemma is far stronger than Theorem S.

So this attempt caps the carrying walk rather than refuting it. At best it gives size bounds for depths between the floor \(\Omega(n)\) and about \(n\log n/p\), and only through a sharp stage lemma that is not in hand.

Assessment

odd-prime-clause-transfer, closure sub-line: weak, and capped near the floor. Theorem S stands as an independent result: the first hard distribution for linear search on unary PHP at odd \(p\). The restriction route is blocked on the dense classes by Lemma R, and heuristically on every graph class by random nested cuts. The carrying route is capped at depth about \(n\log n/p\) by the generic collision search. Even its best case, a sharp stage lemma, gives bounded-depth bounds only in a logarithmic window above the floor. The named obligation is kept on record: a stage bound of order \(dp/(n\log n)\) under a carried box.
odd-prime-clause-transfer, window: weak, unchanged since the pause review. No restart condition of that review has been met; the user's override keeps the line open. Its decisive calibration asks whether the weighted replay can absorb one dense block of rank \(\Theta(N)\) at degree \(o(N)\). One analogy from the walk suggests a design-side mechanism. There, a carried box appears to be absorbed by one batch of swaps at a cost linear in its rank, even when its forms cluster. Reweighting by its selector instead costs degree multiplicatively, like the product split (SPLIT).
same-graph-composition: nothing open.
scope-and-review: a novelty gap was found. The novelty check of 22 September covered DAG-like size bounds only, and missed tree-like results. Part and Tzameret's bound supersedes Theorem S's depth corollary. It does not touch the DAG-like endpoints of the statement set. Any write-up must cite the tree-like literature (Itsykson and Sokolov over \(\mathbb F_2\), Part and Tzameret over every field). The write-up and the binary compiler audit still await user decisions.

The highest risk is the window, which the goal needs and which no recorded mechanism reaches. The closure sub-line cannot reach the goal and has a thin best case, so the next step returns to the window.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): the decisive calibration of the pause review, through the distributional analogy.

The object. A window block is a line whose negation is a box of \(h\) inequations, with \(h\) of order \(N\) in the calibration. In the weighted replay its product \(P\) must map to the box selector \(\prod_iL_i^{p-1}\), of degree \(h(p-1)\). The product split (SPLIT) factors this image part by part, and the pause review counted at least \(N^{1/2}\) per weighted part.
The question. Is there a replay that certifies the product's image at degree \(o(N)\) by averaging over the swaps that the weight's pigeon-matching symmetry supplies, instead of through the selector? A negative answer must name the replay constraint that swap averaging cannot meet.
Examples to evaluate first. One random dense block of rank \(\Theta(N)\) with the recorded weight, the calibration itself. And the two-part (SPLIT) case, whose product image is known, as a control that any candidate must reproduce.
First read in full the calibration statement and its restart conditions, the window review, (SPLIT) with its affine-core cost, the single-block check with Lemma FA, and the NS-level test with Lemma SB. Lemma SB already bounds one block's loss by \(2h\); the calibration asks for \(o(N)\) when \(h=\Theta(N)\).
What success gives. Success on one block meets a restart condition of the pause review. It is not the goal, which needs every window block of a refutation at once.
No finite test over PHP is in reach. A ternary selector block has companions of degree five, so a test needs a board whose PHP degree exceeds five. The recorded binary closure check reaches refutation degree above four only at eight holes, whose degree-six spaces are far beyond exact closure.

This is a proof attempt. It ends with a precise statement of swap-averaged certification and either a proof for one dense block or a named obstruction.

Sheaf check

A carried box seems to glue to a stage's queries at a cost linear in its rank. One batch of swaps makes each far combination independent of the rest, and each query combination meets at most one close one. The walk fails for another reason: its stages are glued by restarting, and failures add over the restarts. The window has a related shape: fresh blocks glue at the Nullstellensatz level, and PC reuse is where degree is lost. The swap-averaged design asks whether the walk's cheap gluing of one box has an algebraic counterpart.

Verification gate. No result is registered. Re-read in the notebook: Theorem S, Lemma R, Proposition P with its nesting remark, and the tree-like bound; the pause review with its restart conditions, the single-block check and the NS-level test; the living sections. Searched the record with tools/search-claims.py for padding, nesting and graph-class restrictions, and for affine restrictions and box Fourier weight. The matches were Proposition P, Lemma R and Theorem S, with no graph-class or carried-box analysis. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer made two passes.

First pass, on the first draft. Lemma R(2) extends to graph classes in its first claim only. The confinement conclusion was widened to disjoint hole sets. The nesting was redefined directly, with random cuts on all pigeons, and its counts corrected. The affine and gadget bullets were scoped. The carrying count was restated in the target depth \(D\). The first draft's ceiling over-charged close combinations, and it had declared the closure sub-line blocked for that wrong reason.
Second pass, on the revision. Stage failures add, which removes the revision's claimed reach of depth \(n^{4/3}\). A cost quadratic in a cluster's size was unsupported. The density-tilt remark was only approximate and is dropped. Theorem S's budget does not absorb the box's weight without a modified proof.

All fixes are applied. The generic collision search, which turns the second pass's point into the cap at \(n\log n/p\), was added afterwards and checked here; it is elementary. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	38 min 40.30 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 44.82 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	33 min 59.20 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 56.15 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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Correction to the closure-walk route review: its window calibration was already met; the next step moves to the dense side at \(p\ge5\)

22 September 2026 · Correction of a route review, odd-prime-clause-transfer · Withdraws its window assessment and next step; next: a dense-rank criterion for \(p\ge5\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Correction to the closure-walk route review: its window calibration was already met; the next step moves to the dense side at \(p\ge5\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-closure-walk-review-correction.

What is corrected. The closure-walk route review stated two things about the window. It said that no restart condition of the pause review had been met. And it set as next step that review's "decisive calibration": exclude one random dense block of rank \(\Theta(N)\), jointly with the recorded weight, at degree \(o(N)\). Both are wrong. The block-count review had already settled the calibration. The recorded old-consequence transfer with target \(1\) removes one fresh block of any rank and accuracy from any base, at \((p-1)\delta=4\) degrees. So a single dense block is excluded jointly with any exclusion that holds four degrees higher, and that review concluded: "The real calibration is the number of window blocks." The statement set then replaced the restart conditions with three. None of them is met, as the thread review after the audits checked:

a batched mechanism for non-nested dense blocks that uses PHP structure;
a proof of the level-one conjecture with a depth-independent use;
outside work on DAG-like proofs with dense linear lines.

The review's window assessment and its next step, swap-averaged certification of one block, are withdrawn. Its analyses of restrictions and of carrying walks do not depend on this and stand as recorded, heuristic where marked. The error came from restating the calibration from the pause review without searching for later entries that met it.

The distributional analogy against the real calibration

The review's analogy was that a walk absorbs a carried box cheaply. Against the number of window blocks it offers nothing. A walk never handles a refutation's lines jointly. It meets them one path at a time. At the end of a stage it conditions on one line's box, whose far rank is at most about \(p\ln(4S)\) for a line reached with probability at least \(1/(4S)\). It pays for the polynomially many lines through a union bound over lines. The block-count review recorded the same shape for the compile-and-exclude framework. Its size-sensitive exclusions work through one matching restriction and a union bound, dense window blocks survive such restrictions, and no recorded mechanism replaces the union bound for them. So the analogy transfers the obstruction, not a mechanism.

The walk cap and Byramji and Impagliazzo's Remark A.4

The review capped every walk with restarted stages at depth about \(n\log n/p\). The reason is that a linear tree finds a collision with probability about \(dp/(n\log n)\) under any collision distribution on the plain unary encoding. This is the randomized odd-prime counterpart of Remark A.4 of Byramji and Impagliazzo (arXiv 2511.20023, read in the source). There, for near-permutations over \(\mathbb F_2\), a deterministic parity tree finds the doubled hole by binary search over holes and then its two pigeons, in \(O(\log n)\) queries. Over \(\mathbb F_p\) the modular collision \(\mu_E\) defeats the binary search over holes, because every column sum outside \(E\) is \(1\) modulo \(p\). That is why Theorem S holds at all. The randomized search locates one pigeon's hole and then tests for a partner, and it still succeeds with probability about \(p/n\) per \(O(\log n)\) queries. The known bounds beyond depth \(n\), theirs and those of Bhattacharya, Chattopadhyay and Byramji, are for bit PHP and for a block-lifted unary functional PHP. That is consistent with the cap, since in those encodings linear queries find a collision much more slowly. Those proofs were not checked here.

Assessment and next step

Both lines of odd-prime-clause-transfer are weak. The window has no candidate for any restart condition, and the user's override keeps it open for one. The closure sub-line on the plain encoding is capped near the floor. One open piece of this route item can be attacked with recorded tools: the dense side at \(p\ge5\). For \(p=3\), dense projected rank is excluded on separated graphs by the clique-head criterion, above a threshold \(\Theta(N\log N)\). For \(p\ge5\) the low side holds, through Corollary NDp and the all-prime quotient-rank exclusion, but no dense-rank criterion is recorded. So at \(p\ge5\) the open case is everything above nonlocal dimension \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\).

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): a dense-rank criterion for \(p\ge5\).

Read in full the clique-head criterion with its image lemma and review, the ternary low-or-dense graph criterion, and the all-prime quotient-rank exclusion, which carried the low side to every prime.
List where the ternary proof uses \(p=3\): the selector degree \(p-1=2\), the compiler degree \(4p-1\), and any identity special to squares.
State the \(p\ge5\) analogue with its threshold, and prove it or name the prime-specific obstruction.

Evaluate the threshold first on the two extremal inputs of the ternary proof, a random dense block and a clique-head block, and compare it with \(n^{1/(p-1)}\). Success narrows the open case at \(p\ge5\) to an intermediate window, as at \(p=3\). It does not reach the goal.

Sheaf check

No gluing is proposed. The correction removes a claimed local-to-global step for one block, which the record already glued at four degrees.

Verification gate. No result is registered. Re-read: the block-count review's single-block paragraph and its assessment, the statement set's restart conditions as checked in the thread review after the audits, the pause review's restart conditions, and Remark A.4 in the source of Byramji and Impagliazzo. The record search for the \(p\ge5\) dense side found only the statement that none is recorded, repeated in three entries. No reviewer was used, since the entry withdraws claims and adds none. A process rule was added to CLAUDE.md: restate a restart condition or calibration only from the latest entry that states it, after searching for later entries that met or replaced it.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 50.89 s
Marked reading and review windows	5 min 6.97 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	43.79 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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A head count for heads of any degree: at \(p\ge5\) the dense threshold of the kernel method is about \(N^{p-3/2}\)

22 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · Lemma HDH bounds independent sets for heads of degree up to \(p-1\); the \(p\ge5\) dense side reduces to transcribing the ternary criterion. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A head count for heads of any degree: at \(p\ge5\) the dense threshold of the kernel method is about \(N^{p-3/2}\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-hypergraph-head-count.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. At \(p\ge5\) the low side of the window holds through Corollary NDp, but no dense side is recorded. So the open case there is everything above nonlocal dimension \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\). The ternary dense side is the low-or-dense graph criterion. It finds one weight \(f\) in a separated matching space \(W_k\) that lies in the kernel of every block's reduction map. Its dense step counts the distinct leading monomials (heads) of a block's input span, which are pairs at \(p=3\). At \(p\ge5\) the inputs \(1-L^{p-1}\) have degree \(\delta=p-1\), so their heads are sets of up to \(\delta\) coordinates. The missing implication tested here is the count: do many heads of degree up to \(\delta\) force a small reduction image, as many pairs do? A counting lemma with a nonvacuous threshold answers yes for the count. A family of large rank whose heads defeat every count would answer no.

The counting step of the ternary criterion

If polynomials have distinct squarefree leading monomials, monomial-by-monomial reduction by them and Booleanity, in a fixed degree-compatible order, has an image of degree-\(\le k\) monomials divisible by no head. Its dimension is at most \(J_{\le k}\), the number of sets of at most \(k\) coordinates containing no head. The ternary criterion bounds \(J_{\le k}\) for pairs by (DH-count), \(J_{\le k}\le4\binom sk\exp(k^2/s-qk/s^2)\) for \(q\) distinct pairs. It needs the image of each dense block to be at most \(4\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N-\Lambda}\), where \(\Lambda=\log(64(M+1))\) for \(M\) blocks, \(s=15(N+1)\) and \(k=\lceil\sqrt{N\Lambda}\rceil\). Then the images of all blocks together stay below \(\dim W_k\ge\frac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk\).

Lemma HDH (distinct heads of bounded degree)

Let \(\delta\ge2\) and \(k\le s/4\). Let \(\mathcal H\) be a family of \(q\) distinct subsets of \([s]\), each of size between \(1\) and \(\delta\). Let \(\mathcal E\) be the family of \(\delta\)-subsets of \([s]\) that contain a member of \(\mathcal H\), and put \(\theta=|\mathcal E|/\binom s\delta\). Then \(\theta\ge q/(2^\delta\binom s\delta)\), with \(\theta=q/\binom s\delta\) when every member has size \(\delta\). The number \(J_{\le k}\) of subsets of \([s]\) of size at most \(k\) that contain no member of \(\mathcal H\) satisfies

\[ J_{\le k}\ \le\ \sum_{j<\delta}\binom sj\;+\;2.3\binom sk\exp\Bigl(\frac{k(\delta-1)}{s}-\frac{k\theta}{\delta}\Bigr).\tag{HDH} \]

When \(k<\delta\) the first term alone bounds \(J_{\le k}\). The application uses heads of size at least \(2\).

Proof. A \(\delta\)-set contains at most \(2^\delta\) members of \(\mathcal H\), and each member lies in some \(\delta\)-set, so \(q\le2^\delta|\mathcal E|\). For \(|K|\ge\delta\), the set \(K\) contains a member of \(\mathcal H\) exactly when it contains a member of \(\mathcal E\): a member inside \(K\) extends inside \(K\) to a \(\delta\)-set. So for \(j\ge\delta\), \(J_j\) counts the \(j\)-sets all of whose \(\delta\)-subsets lie in \(\mathcal F\), the complement of \(\mathcal E\) among the \(\delta\)-sets.

If \(\mathcal F\) is empty, \(J_j=0\) for \(j\ge\delta\). Otherwise write \(|\mathcal F|=\binom x\delta\) with real \(\delta\le x\le s\). Apply Lovász's form of the Kruskal–Katona theorem (Lovász, Combinatorial Problems and Exercises, 13.31, imported) to the family of those \(j\)-sets, whose \(\delta\)-shadow lies in \(\mathcal F\). If \(J_j\ge1\), write \(J_j=\binom yj\) with real \(y\ge j\). Then \(\binom y\delta\le|\mathcal F|=\binom x\delta\), so \(y\le x\) and \(J_j\le\binom xj\). In particular \(J_j=0\) when \(x<j\). The factors \((x-i)/(s-i)\) decrease in \(i\), so \(1-\theta=\prod_{i<\delta}\frac{x-i}{s-i}\ge\bigl(\frac{x-\delta+1}{s-\delta+1}\bigr)^\delta\). Hence \(x\le\delta-1+s(1-\theta)^{1/\delta}\), and

\[ \frac xs\le\frac{\delta-1}s+1-\frac\theta\delta\le\exp\Bigl(\frac{\delta-1}s-\frac\theta\delta\Bigr). \]

For \(x\ge j\) every factor of \(\binom xj/\binom sj=\prod_{i<j}\frac{x-i}{s-i}\) lies in \([0,x/s]\), so \(\binom xj\le\binom sj(x/s)^j\). This gives \(J_j\le T_j:=\binom sj\exp\bigl(j(\delta-1)/s-j\theta/\delta\bigr)\). For \(\delta\le j<k\), \(T_j/T_{j+1}=\frac{j+1}{s-j}\,e^{\theta/\delta-(\delta-1)/s}\le\frac13e^{1/2}<0.55\), because \(k\le s/4\) and \(\theta/\delta\le1/2\). So \(\sum_{\delta\le j\le k}T_j\le T_k/0.45\le2.3\,T_k\), and the sets of size below \(\delta\) contribute at most \(\sum_{j<\delta}\binom sj\). \(\square\)

For \(\delta=2\), every head is a pair, and the exponent is \(k/s-kq/(s(s-1))\). That is slightly sharper than (DH-count), whose first term is \(k^2/s\).

The dense threshold at \(p\ge5\)

Keep \(s,\Lambda,k\) as in the ternary criterion, and put \(\delta=p-1\) and

\[ Q^{(p)}_*=\Bigl\lceil2^\delta\,\delta\binom s\delta\Bigl(\frac{\delta-1}s+\frac{5k}N+\frac{\Lambda+1}k\Bigr)\Bigr\rceil . \]

Suppose a block supplies at least \(Q^{(p)}_*\) combinations with distinct squarefree heads of degrees \(2\) to \(\delta\). Then \(k\theta/\delta\ge k(\delta-1)/s+5k^2/N+\Lambda+1\), so the second term of (HDH) is at most \(2.3e^{-1}\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N-\Lambda}\). For a polynomial inventory \(M\), the first term is at most \(\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N-\Lambda}\) for large \(N\), since \(e^{5k^2/N+\Lambda}\) is then polynomial in \(N\). So \(J_{\le k}\) is below the ternary requirement \(4\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N-\Lambda}\). The reduction meaning carries over: reducing by polynomials with distinct squarefree heads of degree up to \(\delta\), with multipliers of degree at most \(k\) minus the head's degree, keeps the degree ceiling and has image at most \(J_{\le k}\). Which old relations the heads are taken modulo at degree \(\delta\), and the lower bound on \(\dim W_k\) at \(p\ge5\), belong to the transcription and are not checked here. For a polynomial inventory, \(Q^{(p)}_*=O_p(N^{\delta-1/2}\sqrt{\log N})\). A block's span can have up to \(\sum_{2\le j\le\delta}\binom sj=\Theta_p(N^\delta)\) heads, so the threshold is not vacuous. When every head has degree \(\delta\), the factor \(2^\delta\) can be dropped. At \(p=3\) this is the ternary \(Q_*=\Theta(N^{3/2}\sqrt\Lambda)\) up to constants. If the heads are taken in the quotient where Corollary NDp bounds the rank, \(q\le r_a\le\binom{v+\delta}{\delta}\), and a block reaching \(Q^{(p)}_*\) has nonlocal dimension \(v\) of at least about \(N^{1-1/(2\delta)}\).

This settles only the counting step. The rest of the ternary criterion has not been checked at \(p\ge5\), and the next step lists what must be.

Observation SH: a sunflower family (control)

A rank of order \(s^2\), which counts as dense at \(p=3\), gives no useful count at \(p\ge5\). Take distinct Boolean coordinates \(y_1,\dots,y_a\), \(y'_1,\dots,y'_b\) and a set \(Z\) of at least \(p-3\) further ones, and an affine form \(z\) with support exactly \(Z\). Consider the block with inputs \(q_{ij}=1-(y_i+y'_j+z)^\delta\). Put \(B=(2+z)^\delta-2(1+z)^\delta+z^\delta\) and \(A=(1+z)^\delta-z^\delta\). Booleanity gives

\[ q_{ij}=1-z^\delta-(y_i+y'_j)A-y_iy'_jB,\qquad q_{ij}-q_{i1}-q_{1j}+q_{11}=-(y_i-y_1)(y'_j-y'_1)B . \]

Here \(B\) has degree exactly \(p-3\) in \(z\), with leading coefficient \((p-1)(p-2)\ne0\). After multilinear reduction, every \((p-3)\)-subset of \(Z\) appears in its top part with a nonzero coefficient. The same holds for the top parts of \(A\), of degree \(p-2\), and of \(z^\delta\), of degree \(p-1\), whenever \(Z\) is that large. For \(z=\sum_tc_tz_t+c_0\), each such coefficient is \((p-1)!\prod c_t=-\prod c_t\).

Fix a degree-compatible monomial order, and label the coordinates so that \(y_1\) and \(y'_1\) are the smallest in their groups. Under any monomial order the largest \(j\)-subset of \(Z\) is the set of its \(j\) largest coordinates, so these sets are nested. Let \(m^*\) be the \(p-3\) largest coordinates of \(Z\), which is the head of \(B\). The \(ab\) elements

\((y_i-y_1)(y'_j-y'_1)B\) for \(i,j\ge2\), with heads \(y_iy'_jm^*\);
\((y_i-y_1)(A+y'_1B)\) for \(i\ge2\), and \((y'_j-y'_1)(A+y_1B)\) for \(j\ge2\), whose heads are \(y_i\) or \(y'_j\) times a set containing \(m^*\);
and \(q_{11}\), whose head is \(u\) times the top \((p-1-|u|)\) coordinates of \(Z\) for some \(u\subseteq\{y_1,y'_1\}\);

have pairwise distinct heads. So they form an echelon basis of the span, which therefore has dimension \(ab\), and every head of the span contains \(m^*\). Heads of products of polynomials in disjoint variables multiply. A \(k\)-set contains \(m^*\) with probability at most \((k/s)^{p-3}\), so the head count gives no useful bound for this block, although its span has dimension \(ab\), up to about \(s^2/4\), with no affine element. This does not contradict Lemma HDH: \(ab\) stays far below \(Q^{(p)}_*\).

At \(p=3\), \(B\) is the constant \(2\) and the heads \(y_iy'_j\) are spread pairs. The family is consistent with the threshold above, since \(ab\le s^2\) lies far below \(N^{p-3/2}\). It is the \(p\ge5\) selector instance of the recorded common-factor controls (the clique-head entry's structured controls, and the shared-factor cubic barrier). It is also a one-probe case: fixing \(z=c\) leaves inputs of degree at most two. The dimension is that of the span in the Boolean ring. Its certified rank modulo the old relations and the affine image is not computed.

Checks

hypergraph_head_count.py enumerates all sets exactly on 90 families: uniform, mixed-size, split (all \(\delta\)-sets meeting a set \(T\)), clique-type and sunflower. The parameters are \(s\) from 12 to 16 and \(\delta\) from 2 to 4, with deterministic seed 20260922. The summed bound is tested wherever \(\delta\le k\le s/4\), in 89 cases, 13 of them at \(\delta=4\) on 16 coordinates. It checks the Kruskal–Katona step, the per-size bound, the summed bound (HDH) and \(q\le2^\delta|\mathcal E|\). All hold. The Kruskal–Katona step is attained (ratio 1.0) in the clique and split cases. The largest ratio \(J_k/T_k\) is 0.85.
sunflower_heads.py computes the span exactly over \(\mathbb F_5\) and \(\mathbb F_7\), with \(\mathbb F_3\) as control, for up to 20 inputs. It uses eight monomial orders per instance: \(Z\) first, \(Z\) last, and six random rankings. It confirms the identity, the degree of \(B\), dimension \(ab\), all heads of degree \(\delta\), and every head containing \(m^*\), the \(p-3\) largest coordinates of \(Z\). At \(p=3\) all heads are spread pairs.

Assessment

The count transfers. Lemma HDH replaces (DH-count) for heads of any bounded degree, and at \(p\ge5\) it gives a dense threshold of order \(N^{p-3/2}\sqrt{\log N}\) inside the possible range \(N^{p-1}\). The sunflower family shows the count is needed in this form. At \(p\ge5\), blocks of span dimension up to about \(N^2\) can have all heads through a fixed set, so no rank threshold below that can come from counting heads. Such blocks are one-probe cases. The dense side at \(p\ge5\) is not proved: the ternary criterion has other steps whose degrees and certificates depend on \(p\). Even when proved, it leaves a window from \(N^\sigma\) to \(N^{p-3/2}\) in quotient rank, far wider than at \(p=3\), and it does not touch the goal.

Next step

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): transcribe the ternary low-or-dense graph criterion to every odd prime, with Lemma HDH in its dense step. Check each \(p\)-dependent step against its source:

the field scope of the separated space \(W_k\);
the reduction of degree-\(2\) to \(\delta\) coefficient columns modulo the old \(I_\delta\), with certified representatives;
the product map with images \(\beta_i=f^{p-2}c_i\), giving the product \(1-f^{p-1}+f^{p-2}E\) and weighted companions \(g_i(f-f^p)+f^{p-1}g_iE\), with certificate and field degrees;
the low side's exact prefix \(\prod_j(1-G_j^{p-1})\) and Fermat zero indicators for small affine cores;
the affine-core restriction bound;
the final budget \(TD+k\le N/10^6\) at the compiler degree \(4p-1\).

The step ends with an all-prime criterion with explicit thresholds, or with the step that fails.

Sheaf check

The kernel method glues one section, the weight, across all blocks by dimension counting: each block removes at most its image from \(W_k\). Lemma HDH bounds that removal for sections of any degree. The sunflower family is a block whose removal is nearly total, because its sections share a common factor. It is glued instead by a probe that fixes the factor.

Verification gate. Re-read the ternary graph criterion (DH-count, DH-membership and the dense step), the clique-head entry with its structured controls, the all-prime quotient-rank entry, and Corollary NDp's rank bound. Searched the record with tools/search-claims.py for hypergraph and Kruskal–Katona head counts, for higher-degree heads, and for common-factor head barriers. No record counts heads above degree two, and none uses Kruskal–Katona. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the draft and the two scripts. It found one gap: the product bound for \(\binom xj\) fails when \(x<j-1\), where the count is zero anyway, and the proof now says so. Its other fixes were also applied: the unused size and \(k\ge\delta\) hypotheses were dropped, and the polynomial-inventory condition was added. It also asked that the reduction meaning at degree \(\delta\) be stated and the untranscribed parts named, and that the top parts of \(A\) and \(z^\delta\) be covered in SH. The SH opening was rephrased, and a nonvacuous \(\delta=4\) summed check added. A record-check agent was given Observation SH before drafting. It found SH new for \(p\ge5\) and an instance of the recorded common-factor controls. It corrected the order condition, making \(y_1\) and \(y'_1\) minimal. It sharpened the covering sets, and noted the one-probe routing and that the rank is only the span dimension. All are adopted. Both scripts ran under compute.sh with deterministic seeds.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	21 min 59.14 s
Marked reading and review windows	21 min 12.35 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	34.56 s
Individually measured computation	4.21 s
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The low-or-dense graph criterion at every odd prime: a dense side for \(p\ge5\)

22 September 2026 · Working proof · Theorem GCp: the ternary graph criterion at every odd prime, with Lemma HDH in the dense step; the \(p\ge5\) window runs from \(R\) to about \(N^{p-3/2}\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The low-or-dense graph criterion at every odd prime: a dense side for \(p\ge5\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-allprime-graph-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The head-count entry proved the counting step of a dense side for \(p\ge5\) and listed the other \(p\)-dependent steps of the ternary low-or-dense graph criterion. This entry checks each against its source. A complete transcription gives \(p\ge5\) a dense side, which the statement set lacks. A step that fails would locate a prime-specific obstruction.

Setting

Fix an odd prime \(p\) and put \(\delta=p-1\). Take the graph \(H\), the \(s=15(N+1)\) nondistinguished coordinates \(Y\) and the space \(W_k\) of the separated-space lemma. Its statement holds over every field: \(\dim W_k\ge\frac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk\), and \(W_k\cap\mathcal C_B(\Gamma_H)=\{0\}\) for \(\max(k,8)\le B\le N/10^6\). Here \(\Gamma_H\) is functional graph PHP with linear row equations. Restrict every cell outside \(H\) to zero, and replace each distinguished cell in the block inputs by \(1\) minus the other cells of its row. This changes each input \(g\) to some \(g'\) with \(g-g'\) in the ideal of the row equations, certified through \(\delta\). With the same coefficients, \(P-P'=\sum_ir_i(g'_i-g_i)\) is certified through \(\delta+1\). So \(gP-g'P'=(g-g')P+g'(P-P')\) is certified through the companion degree \(2\delta+1\), and the source transfers at its original ceilings.

Consider \(M\) complete accuracy-one blocks whose inputs are old polynomials of degree at most \(\delta\), such as selectors \(1-L^\delta\), with all coefficient fields. The companion degree is \(2\delta+1=2p-1\). Fix a requested PC degree \(D\ge2p-1\). For block \(a\), let \(V_a\) be its input span, and let \(r_a\) be the dimension of \(V_a\) in \(\mathcal P_{\le\delta}/I_\delta(\Gamma_H)\) modulo the affine image, after the restriction and projection. Put

\[ \Lambda=\log(64(M+1)),\quad k=\lceil\sqrt{N\Lambda}\rceil,\quad H_*=\Bigl\lceil k+\frac sk\Bigl(\Lambda+\frac{5k^2}N\Bigr)\Bigr\rceil, \] \[ Q^{(p)}_*=\Bigl\lceil2^\delta\,\delta\binom s\delta\Bigl(\frac{\delta-1}s+\frac{5k}N+\frac{\Lambda+1}k\Bigr)\Bigr\rceil,\qquad T=(p-1)(H_*+\delta R)+p . \]

Theorem GCp

Assume a polynomial inventory, so that \(\Lambda=O(\log N)\) and \(k=O(\sqrt{N\log N})\) as the separated-space lemma requires, and let \(N\) be sufficiently large. Assume \(k\le s/4\), that every block has \(r_a\le R\) or \(r_a\ge Q^{(p)}_*\), and \(TD+k\le N/10^6\). Then the source has no ordinary PC refutation through \(D\). Since \(T\ge(p-1)\delta R\), the budget needs \(RD\le c_pN\). For polylogarithmic \(D\) it holds eventually with \(R\le N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\), \(\sigma<1\), as in the ternary criterion. For bounded \(D\), such as the compiler degree \(4p-1\), it holds with \(R\le c_pN\). Then \(H_*=O(\sqrt{N\log N})\) and \(Q^{(p)}_*=O_p(N^{p-3/2}\sqrt{\log N})\). At \(p=3\) this is the ternary criterion, with slightly different constants in \(Q_*\) and \(T\).

Proof

Dense heads. Let block \(a\) have \(r_a\ge Q^{(p)}_*\). Its inputs are polynomials in \(Y\) after the projection \(\Pi\), which substitutes each distinguished cell. For every \(e\), \(e-\Pi(e)\) is a multiple of row equations certified through \(\deg e\), so \(\Pi(I_\delta)\subseteq I_\delta\). And \(v=e+a\) with \(e\in I_\delta\) and \(a\) affine gives \(v=\Pi(e)+\Pi(a)\). So \(r_a\) is also the dimension of \(V_a\) in \(\mathcal P_{\le\delta}(Y)\) modulo \(\Pi(I_\delta)+\mathcal P_{\le1}(Y)\). This matters at \(\delta\ge3\): an element of \(I_\delta\) with a head in \(Y\) can carry lower nonlinear monomials in distinguished cells. Work in \(\mathcal P_{\le\delta}(Y)\) with the degree-compatible order used for the later reduction. Row-reduce the nonlinear coefficient columns of \(V_a\), the monomials of degrees \(2\) to \(\delta\), modulo the nonlinear parts of \(\Pi(I_\delta)\), keeping all affine tails. The rank of this reduction is \(r_a\). It supplies \(r_a\) polynomials \(y_h=v_h-e_h\), with \(v_h\) a constant combination of actual inputs and \(e_h\in\Pi(I_\delta)\) certified through \(\delta\). Their leading monomials are distinct squarefree subsets of \(Y\), of sizes \(2\) to \(\delta\), because Booleanity removes squares. No affine equation is subtracted. Reducing degree-\(\le k\) monomials by the \(y_h\) and Booleanity, in a degree-compatible order, keeps the degree ceiling. By Lemma HDH and the head-count entry's arithmetic, its image has dimension at most \(4\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N-\Lambda}=\frac{\frac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk}{8(M+1)}\). A kernel element has the form

\[ f=\sum_ic_ig_i+E,\qquad\deg c_i\le k-2,\qquad E\in I_{k+\delta-2}(\Gamma_H),\tag{GCp-membership} \]

with \(g_i\) the actual inputs. A head of degree \(d\) gets a multiplier of degree at most \(k-d\le k-2\), and \(e_h\) is certified through \(\delta\), so \(E\) is certified through \(k+\delta-2\). At \(p=3\) this is \(k\), as in the ternary criterion.

Affine cores. For a block with \(r_a\le R\), apply the all-prime degree-certified basis conversion of Theorem QRp. Its new inputs are affine representatives \(F_1,\dots,F_b\) of the affine part of \(V_a\), taken in \(Y\) by applying \(\Pi\), and at most \(r_a\) actual inputs \(G_j\). Every source axiom image is certified through the original companion degree \(2p-1\le D\), and coefficient fields map by Frobenius. After zero and unit cleanup, call the span of the \(F\)s the core. A proper core of rank at least \(H_*\) restricts to its common zero flat by substituting pivot coordinates, with image in multilinear polynomials of degree at most \(k\) in the other coordinates. That image has dimension at most \(\binom sk\exp[-k(H_*-k)/s]\le\frac{\frac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk}{32(M+1)}\), as in the ternary criterion. None of this depends on the field. Its kernel elements have the form \(f=\sum_jc_jF_j+B\) with \(\deg c_j\le k-1\) and \(B\) a Boolean multiple in the free coordinates.

One weight. The images of all blocks together have dimension below \(\dim W_k\). So some nonzero homogeneous \(f\in W_k\) lies in every kernel.

Dense map. Map the coefficient of \(g_i\) to \(\beta_i=f^{p-2}c_i\), of degree at most \((p-1)k-2\). The product becomes

\[ 1-\sum_i\beta_ig_i=1-f^{p-1}+f^{p-2}E,\qquad f\,g_iP(\beta)=g_i(f-f^p)+f^{p-1}g_iE . \]

The polynomial \(f^p-f\) vanishes on the Boolean cube, since \(f\) takes values in \(\mathbb F_p\), so the first term has a Boolean certificate through \(pk+\delta\). The second has an old certificate through \(pk+2\delta-2\), within \(T(2p-1)+k\). The weighted field image \(f(\beta_i^p-\beta_i)\) vanishes on the cube, through \(p(p-1)k+k\).

Low map. The affine part is normalized to a product \(A\):

A high proper core maps \(t_j\mapsto f^{p-2}c_j\), so \(A=1-f^{p-1}+f^{p-2}B\), with coefficient degree at most \((p-1)k-1\).
A core of rank \(h<H_*\) uses the exact Fermat zero indicator \(A=\prod_{j\le h}(1-F_j^\delta)\). This is \(1-\sum_jF_j\cdot F_j^{\delta-1}\prod_{i<j}(1-F_i^\delta)\), with coefficient degree below \((p-1)H_*\).
A unit core has product zero, and an empty core has \(A=1\).

For the nonlinear inputs, the exact prefix \(\beta_j=A\,G_j^{\delta-1}\prod_{i<j}(1-G_i^\delta)\) telescopes to the product \(A\prod_j(1-G_j^\delta)\). Its coefficient degree is at most \((p-1)H_*+(p-1)\delta R\le T\). At every Boolean point with \(f\ne0\), each companion image vanishes:

\(G_j(1-G_j^\delta)=G_j-G_j^p=0\);
\(F_jA=0\), for a small core by the zero indicator, and for a high core because \(f^{p-1}=1\) and \(B=0\) there.

So every weighted companion image vanishes on the cube, and Boolean division certifies it at its actual degree, at most \(T+2p-1+k\le T(2p-1)+k\). Weighted coefficient fields vanish on the cube, through \(pT+k\).

Replay. All maps use old coordinates only and share the weight \(f\). Old axioms stay legal weighted multiples. Every weighted source-axiom image is certified through \(Te+k\) for its original degree \(e\le D\). Fields cost at most \(pT+k\), which is below \(TD+k\) because \(D\ge2p-1\ge p\). Substituting and weighting the PC proof therefore derives \(f\) over \(\Gamma_H\) through \(TD+k\le N/10^6\). This contradicts the separation of \(W_k\), since \(\max(k,8)\le TD+k\) because \(T\ge p\) and \(D\ge2p-1\). \(\square\)

Scope

Theorem GCp is the ternary criterion transcribed. Six things change with \(p\): the degree of heads (Lemma HDH); taking heads in \(Y\) modulo the projected ideal; the certificate degree \(k+\delta-2\) of \(E\); the power \(f^{p-1}\) in the maps; the Fermat indicators of degree \(p-1\) per form; and the cost \((p-1)\delta\) per nonlinear input. The graph, the separated space and the affine-core bound do not.
Corollary NDp bounds a block's rank on the full functional base by \(\binom{v+\delta}\delta\) for nonlocal dimension \(v\). Restriction to \(H\) maps the full base's ideal into \(I_\delta(\Gamma_H)\), \(\Pi\) maps that into itself, and both keep affine polynomials affine. So the rank after restriction and projection is at most the full-board rank. For bounded \(D\) the low side then covers \(v\) up to about \(N^{1/(p-1)}\), and the dense side needs \(v\) of at least about \(N^{1-1/(2(p-1))}\). At \(p=3\) the window is \([N^{1/2},N^{3/4}]\) in these terms; at \(p\ge5\) it is wider.
Structured blocks such as the sunflower family, with span dimension up to about \(N^2\), cannot reach the dense threshold at \(p\ge5\). The ternary clique-head refinement is not transcribed here.
With the complete-board compiler at degree \(D=4p-1\), a polynomial inventory and \(R=c_pN\), a polynomial-line \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation must, on the supplied graph, have a block with \(R<r_a<Q^{(p)}_*\). This is a necessary condition, not a lower bound for refutations containing such blocks.

Checks

map_identities.py checks the \(p\)-dependent identities exactly, modulo Booleanity, over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\mathbb F_5\) and \(\mathbb F_7\). It uses random instances in six Boolean variables with deterministic seeds. It checks the dense product and companion identities, the telescoping of the zero indicator and of the prefix, and the high-core product with \(B=0\). All hold in all twelve trials, four per prime. In this Boolean-reduced arithmetic \(f^p\equiv f\), so its vanishing checks for \(g(f-f^p)\) and for the fields are automatic, and it checks no degree bound. The degree ledger rests on the proof.

Assessment and next step

The transcription went through without a prime-specific obstruction. Every odd prime now has a low-or-dense criterion, and the statement set gains a dense side at \(p\ge5\). The window is wider there and still open, and the goal is not reached.

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): transcribe the clique-head refinement to every odd prime. At \(p\ge5\) a head family containing all \((p-1)\)-subsets of a set \(M\) needs \(|M|\) of order \(\sqrt{N\log N}\), as at \(p=3\). So the rank needed would drop from about \(N^{p-3/2}\) to about \((N\log N)^{(p-1)/2}\). Then update the statement set's \(p\ge5\) lines with Theorem GCp.

Sheaf check

One section, the weight, glues across all blocks by dimension counting, now at every prime. The local conditions differ only in degree: heads of degree up to \(p-1\), and Fermat indicators of degree \(p-1\).

Verification gate. Re-read the ternary graph criterion's statement and proof, the separated-space lemma (stated over every field), Theorem QRp's basis conversion, Corollary NDp's rank bound, and Lemma HDH. The record check of the head-count entry found no dense criterion for \(p\ge5\) in the record. A search with tools/search-claims.py for all-prime graph and dense-rank exclusions found only the ternary criterion, its clique-head refinement, the all-prime affine and quotient-rank exclusions, and the binary quadratic and cubic ones. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the draft and the identity script. It found one gap. At \(\delta\ge3\) the heads must be taken in \(Y\) modulo the projected ideal, or they may lie outside the coordinates that Lemma HDH counts. The proof now does this. It also corrected the certificate degree of \(E\) to \(k+\delta-2\), and moved the polynomial inventory and large \(N\) into the hypotheses. It made the range of \(R\) depend on whether \(D\) is bounded, and dropped two unused hypotheses. It justified the rank comparison with Corollary NDp, rephrased the sunflower remark, and described the identity check accurately. All fixes are applied. They repair and restrict; none strengthens a claim.

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Clique heads at every odd prime: random dense blocks at \(p\ge5\) are excluded from rank about \((N\log N)^{(p-1)/2}\)

22 September 2026 · Working proof · Theorem CHp adds clique-covering blocks to Theorem GCp at every odd prime; random dense blocks qualify above about \((N\log N)^{(p-1)/2}\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Clique heads at every odd prime: random dense blocks at \(p\ge5\) are excluded from rank about \((N\log N)^{(p-1)/2}\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-allprime-clique-head.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Theorem GCp gives every odd prime a dense side, but at \(p\ge5\) its threshold \(Q^{(p)}_*\approx N^{p-3/2}\) comes from the worst-case head count. At \(p=3\) the clique-head refinement lowered the threshold from \(N^{3/2}\) to \(N\log N\) for blocks whose heads cover all pairs of a coordinate set. Does the same work with heads of degree \(\delta=p-1\)? The test ends with a transcribed theorem and a count for random dense blocks, or with the step that fails.

Lemma CH\(_\delta\) (a clique of heads of degree \(\delta\))

Let \(2\le\delta\le m\), and \(k,m\le s/4\). Let a family of subsets of \([s]\) contain every \(\delta\)-subset of a set \(M\) of size \(m\). Then the number of sets of size at most \(k\) that contain no member satisfies

\[ J_{\le k}\le2C_\delta\binom sk\exp\Bigl(-\frac{mk}{2s}\Bigr),\qquad C_\delta=\sup_{x\ge0}(1+2x)^{\delta-1}e^{-x/2}=(4(\delta-1))^{\delta-1}e^{1/4-(\delta-1)}. \]

Proof. Such a set contains at most \(\delta-1\) points of \(M\). So the number of such \(j\)-sets is at most \(\sum_{i<\delta}\binom mi\binom{s-m}{j-i}\). Since \(m+j\le s/2\), \(\binom{s-m}{j-i}\le\binom{s-m}j(2j/s)^i\). Also \(\binom mi\le m^i/i!\le\binom{\delta-1}i m^i\), so the sum is at most \(\binom{s-m}j(1+2mj/s)^{\delta-1}\), and \(\binom{s-m}j\le\binom sj e^{-mj/s}\). Call this bound \(T_j\). For \(j<k\), \(T_j/T_{j+1}\le\frac{j+1}{s-j}e^{m/s}\le\frac13e^{1/4}<0.43\). So the sum over \(j\le k\) is at most \(2T_k\le2\binom sk e^{-x}(1+2x)^{\delta-1}\) with \(x=mk/s\), and \((1+2x)^{\delta-1}e^{-x/2}\le C_\delta\). The maximum is at \(1+2x=4(\delta-1)\). \(\square\)

At \(\delta=2\), \(C_2=4e^{-3/4}<4\), and the bound is the ternary (CH-count) \(8\binom sk e^{-mk/(2s)}\), with a better constant.

Theorem CHp

Keep every parameter of Theorem GCp, and replace its rank hypothesis by a trichotomy: every block has \(r_a\le R\), or \(r_a\ge Q^{(p)}_*\), or satisfies (CH\(_\delta\)-hyp) below. Put

\[ m^{(p)}_*=\Bigl\lceil\frac{2s}k\Bigl(\frac{5k^2}N+\Lambda+\log\frac{C_\delta}2\Bigr)\Bigr\rceil=O_p(\sqrt{N\log N}), \]

and assume \(m^{(p)}_*\le s/4\). The third kind of block is one admitting a set \(M\subseteq Y\) of size \(m^{(p)}_*\) for which, in the monomial order that compares first by degree, then by the additive weight \(w_M\) giving each coordinate of \(M\) weight one and every other coordinate weight zero, and then lexicographically,

\[ \binom M\delta\subseteq\operatorname{in}\bigl(\operatorname{span}(\Pi(g_i))+\Pi(I_\delta)\bigr)_\delta ,\tag{CH\(_\delta\)-hyp} \]

where \(\Pi\) is the projection of Theorem GCp and \(g_i\) are the block's actual inputs. Then the source still has no ordinary PC refutation through \(D\).

Proof. Multilinearize by Booleanity first, so that no squares remain. This is needed before heads are taken: \(w_M\) is additive and counts multiplicities, so a non-squarefree degree-\(\delta\) monomial in \(M\)-coordinates has the same weight \(\delta\) as a \(\delta\)-subset of \(M\) and can beat it lexicographically.

Full reduced row echelon form on the \(\binom m\delta\) columns indexed by \(\delta\)-subsets of \(M\) gives, for each such subset \(S\), a polynomial \(y_S=\sum_i\lambda_i\Pi(g_i)-e_S\) with \(e_S\in\Pi(I_\delta)\), whose leading monomial is \(S\): full reduction clears every other column of \(\binom M\delta\), and every remaining degree-\(\delta\) monomial has strictly smaller weight. Reduce degree-\(\le k\) monomials by these \(\binom m\delta\) polynomials and Booleanity, in this degree-compatible order. All heads have degree exactly \(\delta\), so the multipliers have degree at most \(k-\delta\) and the degree ceiling \(k\) is kept. A normal form is supported on sets containing no \(\delta\)-subset of \(M\), so by Lemma CH\(_\delta\) the image has dimension at most \(2C_\delta e^{-m^{(p)}_*k/(2s)}\binom sk\le4\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N-\Lambda}\), by the choice of \(m^{(p)}_*\). That is the share Theorem GCp allots to a dense block.

A kernel element \(f\) therefore satisfies (GCp-membership). Each \(g_i-\Pi(g_i)\) is a multiple of row equations certified through \(\delta\), so writing the combination in the actual inputs changes \(y_S\) by an element certified through \(\delta\), which joins \(e_S\) in the old residual. Hence \(f=\sum_ic_ig_i+E\) with \(\deg c_i\le k-\delta\) and \(E\in I_k(\Gamma_H)\subseteq I_{k+\delta-2}(\Gamma_H)\), and \(\deg\beta_i=\deg f^{p-2}c_i\le(p-1)k-\delta\). Theorem GCp's dense map, its identities and its certificates apply unchanged, a fortiori. The sum of all image dimensions stays below \(\dim W_k\), so a common nonzero weight \(f\in W_k\) exists, and the replay derives it over \(\Gamma_H\) through \(TD+k\), contradicting separation exactly as in Theorem GCp. \(\square\)

Remark: the old relations alone never satisfy (CH\(_\delta\)-hyp). Keep the order \((\deg,w_M,\text{lex})\) throughout; the reduction needs only that \(w_M\) is additive and that each reducer is \(w_M\)-largest at its head, and Lemma CH\(_\delta\)'s count does not depend on the order. Let \(M'\subseteq M\) have size \(m\), and suppose every \(\delta\)-subset of \(M'\) were a head of \(\Pi(I_\delta)\). A subset of \(M'\) inherits this, so we may take \(m=m^{(p)}_*-c\) for any \(c\le m^{(p)}_*-\delta\); then \(\delta\le m\le m^{(p)}_*\le s/4\) and Lemma CH\(_\delta\) applies. Reduce multilinear polynomials of degree \(k\) by those reducers, with multipliers of degree at most \(k-\delta\). Each step subtracts \(\mu g\) with \(g\in\Pi(I_\delta)\subseteq I_\delta(\Gamma_H)\) and \(\deg\mu\le k-\delta\), so it stays inside \(I_k(\Gamma_H)\). The image has dimension at most \(2C_\delta\binom sk e^{-mk/(2s)}\le4\binom sk e^{-5k^2/N-\Lambda}e^{ck/(2s)}\), which is below \(\dim W_k\ge\frac12e^{-5k^2/N}\binom sk\) as soon as \(e^{ck/(2s)}<8(M+1)\), that is

\[ c<\frac{2s}k\log\bigl(8(M+1)\bigr)=O_p(\sqrt{N\log N}). \]

Some nonzero \(f\in W_k\) would then lie in \(I_k(\Gamma_H)\subseteq\mathcal C_B(\Gamma_H)\), where \(\max(k,8)\le B=TD+k\) since \(k=\lceil\sqrt{N\Lambda}\rceil\ge8\) in this range, against the separated-space lemma. So (CH\(_\delta\)-hyp) cannot be met by the old relations alone: the block's inputs must contribute a head.

Random dense blocks

Choose \(M\) in advance, of size \(m=m^{(p)}_*\), in distinct rows of \(Y\); this is possible because \(Y\) has \(15\) coordinates in each of the \(N+1\) rows and \(m^{(p)}_*=O_p(\sqrt{N\log N})\). Consider a block whose \(h\) inputs are selectors \(1-L^\delta\) of independent uniform forms \(L=\sum a_ux_u\). Graph restriction and row projection replace the coefficient of a cell \(u\) by \(a'_u=a_u-a_{d(r_u)}\), where \(d(r_u)\) is the distinguished cell of \(u\)'s row. Since \(M\) meets each row at most once, the \(a'_u\), \(u\in M\), stay independent and uniform.

After multilinear reduction, the coefficient of \(\prod_{u\in S}x_u\), for a \(\delta\)-subset \(S\) of \(M\), in \(\Pi(1-L^\delta)\) is \(-\delta!\prod_{u\in S}a'_u=\prod_{u\in S}a'_u\), by Wilson's theorem, because only the term \(T=S\) of the expansion contributes to a squarefree monomial of this degree. So (CH\(_\delta\)-hyp) holds as soon as these projected vectors span \(\mathbb F_p^{\binom M\delta}\). They fail to span only if some nonzero \(B\) makes the multilinear polynomial \(\sum_SB_S\prod_{u\in S}a'_u\), of degree \(\delta\), vanish at all \(h\) samples. A nonzero multilinear polynomial of degree \(\delta\) vanishes at a uniform point of \(\mathbb F_p^m\) with probability at most \(\varepsilon_p=1-(1-1/p)^\delta\); this follows by induction, splitting off one variable at a time. A union bound over \(B\) gives failure probability at most \(p^{\binom m\delta}\varepsilon_p^h\le e^{-\Lambda}\) once

\[ h\ge\frac{\binom m\delta\ln p+\Lambda}{\ln(1/\varepsilon_p)} . \]

The factor \(\ln p/\ln(1/\varepsilon_p)\) is about \(3.05\) at \(p=5\) and \(3.85\) at \(p=7\). This number of inputs is \(\Theta_p((N\log N)^{\delta/2})\), against \(Q^{(p)}_*=O_p(N^{p-3/2}\sqrt{\log N})\). At \(p=5\) that is about \(N^2\log^2N\) instead of \(N^{3.5}\). At \(p=3\) it matches the ternary \(\Theta(N\log N)\), with a weaker constant than the ternary stratified count. The threshold is proved sufficient for the full-spanning route; a smaller \(h\) is not excluded, since \(\Pi(I_\delta)\) may already supply some subsets \(S\).

Scope

For random dense blocks the window at \(p\ge5\) narrows to \([R,\ c_p(N\log N)^{(p-1)/2}]\) in the number of inputs, as the ternary refinement narrowed it at \(p=3\). It is still far wider than at \(p=3\), and no window closes: the dyadic random inventory still has blocks in the window at every prime.
Common-factor blocks are not covered from the input side. In the recorded sunflower control \(q_{ij}=1-z^\delta-(y_i+y'_j)A-y_iy'_jB\), where \(z^\delta,A,B\) are polynomials in the coordinates of \(Z\) of degrees \(\delta,\delta-1,\delta-2\), and \(y_i,y'_j\) and \(Z\) lie in \(Y\), so \(\Pi\) fixes each input. Hence every degree-\(\delta\) monomial of every element of the span, before and after multilinearization, has at least \(\delta-2=p-3\ge1\) of its coordinates in \(Z\) at \(p\ge5\), and every \(\delta\)-subset \(S\subseteq M\setminus Z\) has coefficient zero throughout the input span. That alone does not refute (CH\(_\delta\)-hyp): \(S\) could still head a sum whose two parts cancel above \(S\), and this entry does not decide it. What the remark does give is that the old relations cannot supply every \(\delta\)-subset on their own, so such a block's inputs would have to head the sum through cancellation. These blocks stay open here and remain one-probe cases, as recorded.
Nothing here reaches the goal, which needs all window blocks at once.

Checks

clique_head_check.py checks the entry's countable steps exactly. For all \(1135\) admissible tuples with \(8\le s\le40\), \(m,k\le s/4\) and \(2\le\delta\le\min(m,6)\), the exact count \(J_{\le k}=\sum_{j\le k}\sum_{i<\delta}\binom mi\binom{s-m}{j-i}\) lies below Lemma CH\(_\delta\)'s bound, the largest ratio being \(0.479\); the closed form agrees with brute-force enumeration of all subsets on the smallest boards. For the vanishing bound, every nonzero homogeneous multilinear form of degree \(\delta\) in \(m\) variables is enumerated for five \((p,m,\delta)\) triples and sampled with deterministic seeds for five more: none vanishes at more than the fraction \(\varepsilon_p\) of \(\mathbb F_p^m\), and a single monomial attains \(\varepsilon_p\) in every case, so the test is tight and a wrong exponent would show. Möbius inversion of \(1-L^\delta\) on the cube confirms the Wilson coefficient \(\prod_{u\in S}a_u\) at \(p=3,5,7\), and a separate check confirms that the projection replaces \(a_u\) by \(a_u-a_{d(r_u)}\). These are finite checks of the counting and coefficient steps; the degree ledger and the kernel argument rest on the proof.

Assessment and next step

The clique-head refinement transcribes to every prime with one new constant, \(C_\delta\). The random-block count replaces the ternary quadratic-form zeros by a multilinear Schwartz–Zippel bound. With Theorems GCp and CHp, the statement set's \(p\ge5\) exclusions now parallel \(p=3\), with wider windows. This line of work, all-prime transcription, is complete. It narrows the random-inventory window at \(p\ge5\), as the ternary refinement did at \(p=3\), but closes no window at any prime, and the route item's missing implication is unchanged: a batched mechanism for many non-nested dense blocks.

Next step (odd-prime-clause-transfer): a route review of the window at every prime. It should weigh the statement set's restart conditions against what the all-prime criteria add: they fix the window's ends at every prime, but give no mechanism inside it. It should decide whether any line remains for the window, or whether the thread's work should now go to the write-up that awaits the user's decision.

Sheaf check

The weight is one section glued across blocks by dimension counting. A clique of heads makes a block's local condition act like an affine core of rank \(m\), at every prime. The gluing is unchanged.

Verification gate. Re-read, from the notebook, Theorem GCp's statement and proof (the projection \(\Pi\), the per-block dense share, (GCp-membership) and the dense map), the separated-space lemma, the ternary clique-head refinement with its (CH-hyp) and \(m_*\), Lemma HDH and Observation SH. Searches with tools/search-claims.py for clique heads at degree \(\delta\), for weight-order head selection, for multilinear Schwartz–Zippel spanning and for the reduction-image technique returned only those four records, all cited here. clique_head_check.py was run; all its checks pass. A fresh-context reviewer required eight changes to the draft, all adopted: multilinearize by Booleanity before taking heads, since the additive weight does not separate a non-squarefree degree-\(\delta\) monomial from a \(\delta\)-subset of \(M\); write \(\Pi(g_i)\) in (CH\(_\delta\)-hyp) and absorb \(g_i-\Pi(g_i)\) into the old residual; drop the unused “distinct columns” and justify that \(M\) exists; state the trichotomy explicitly; and correct the assessment, which contradicted the entry's own scope. A second reviewer, briefed only on the two arguments those fixes introduced, found a gap in the common-factor bullet: a \(\delta\)-set with coefficient zero throughout the input span can still head a sum whose parts cancel above it. That bullet now claims only what is proved, and the remark was restricted to the old relations alone, with its \(c\)-bound, its \(I_k\) membership and its use of Lemma CH\(_\delta\)'s hypotheses made explicit. Both rounds only removed or weakened claims.

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Correction: what the clique-head checks actually cover, and three clauses of Theorem CHp

22 September 2026 · Correction to the clique-head entry · The finite checks are narrower than its Checks section claimed; three proof clauses are added. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Correction: what the clique-head checks actually cover, and three clauses of Theorem CHp”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-clique-head-check-correction.

What is corrected. A review of clique_head_check.py arrived after that entry was committed. It confirmed every function and every number, and found no error in Lemma CH\(_\delta\), Theorem CHp, the remark or the random-block count. It did show that the entry's Checks section describes the evidence more strongly than the runs support, and it asked for three clauses in the proofs. Both are recorded here; the earlier entry stands otherwise.

The checks are narrower than claimed

Over the whole sweep \(m,k\le s/4\le10\), so \(mk/(2s)\le s/32\le1.25\) and \(e^{-mk/(2s)}\ge e^{-1.25}\). The \(1135\) cases therefore exercise essentially the constant \(C_\delta\) only, whereas at the point of use \(m^{(p)}_*k/(2s)=5k^2/N+\Lambda+\log(C_\delta/2)\), about \(6\Lambda\). The sweep is a check of the constant, not of the exponential regime.
The sweep covers \(\delta\le6\), that is \(p\le7\), not every odd prime.
In the five sampled \(\varepsilon_p\) cases the extremal single monomial is appended to the sample by construction, so "attained" is not a finding there; attainment is a finding only in the five exhaustive cases, and "within bound" in the sampled cases is a random probe. The sharp value of \(\varepsilon_p\) for multilinear forms is the Alon–Füredi bound.
No case has \(\delta=p-1\) at \(p=7\); the on-parameter pairs tested are \((p,\delta)=(3,2)\) and \((5,4)\).
The enumerated forms are homogeneous of degree exactly \(\delta\). That is the case the random-block count uses, and it is the hypothesis under which \(\varepsilon_p\) is stated here.
The projection check compares two rearrangements of the same sum, so it tests the sign convention of \(a'_u=a_u-a_{d(r_u)}\), not the projection step itself.

Three clauses in the proofs

In the remark, the reduction multilinearizes each product \(\mu g\); the Boolean axioms lie in \(I_2(\Gamma_H)\subseteq I_k(\Gamma_H)\), so multilinearization stays inside \(I_k(\Gamma_H)\) and the image count, which counts multilinear monomials, applies.
The remark's deletion needs \(c\le m^{(p)}_*-\delta\) as well as \(c<(2s/k)\log(8(M+1))\). These are compatible: \(\log(8(M+1))=\Lambda-\log8\), so \(m^{(p)}_*-(2s/k)\log(8(M+1))\ge(2s/k)(5k^2/N+\log(4C_\delta))\), and \(\log(4C_\delta)\ge\log(16e^{-3/4})>2\) for \(\delta\ge2\), so the difference exceeds \(\delta\) in the range of use.
In the common-factor bullet, that \(y_i,y'_j\) and \(Z\) lie in \(Y\), so that \(\Pi\) fixes each input, is a condition the construction is chosen to satisfy; it is not part of Observation SH as recorded.

Sheaf check

Nothing glues here: this is a correction to an evidence description and three clauses of an existing argument.

Verification gate. The corrections come from a fresh-context reviewer briefed on the revised remark, the revised scope bullet and the script, with the dependency excerpts in a scratch file. Every item it required is recorded above; none strengthens a claim, and it confirmed the mathematics of the corrected entry. No new computation was run, and no claim metadata changes, since no new statement is made.

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Descriptive names for the thread's results, with the complete map from the old letter codes

22 September 2026 · Editorial: renaming only · Every letter-coded result of this notebook gets a descriptive name; no statement changes. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, default effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Descriptive names for the thread's results, with the complete map from the old letter codes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-result-names.

Why. The results of this thread were labelled with letter codes such as Theorem GCp, Corollary NDp and Lemma WE. The codes say nothing about the statements and have to be looked up at every use. The main notebook names results after what they say (the light lemma, the few-light-rows theorem, the separation theorem), and this thread now does the same. From this entry on, the living sections and new entries use the names below. Earlier entries keep their codes under the append-only rule; this table is the key for reading them.

The map

Rows follow the order in which the results were recorded. Each name links to its exact statement; nothing in any statement, hypothesis or status changes.

Old label	Name	What it says
Corollary ND	the ternary nonlocal-dimension corollary	No \(N^K\)-line \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation whose every line has nonlocal dimension at most \(N^{1/2-\varepsilon}\).
Theorem QRp	the all-prime quotient-rank theorem	The quotient-rank exclusion at degree \(\delta=p-1\): blocks with \(r_a\le N^\sigma\operatorname{polylog}N\) give no PC refutation through polylogarithmic \(D\).
Corollary NDp	the all-prime nonlocal-dimension corollary	The ternary nonlocal-dimension corollary at every odd prime, with nonlocal dimension \(n^{1/(p-1)-\varepsilon}\).
Proposition MX	the mixed-lines proposition	Over \(\mathbb F_3\), each line is a row-support line (\(\alpha<1/5\)) or has nonlocal dimension at most \(n^\eta\).
Proposition MX′	the mixed-probe proposition	As the mixed-lines proposition, with \(O(\log n)\) probes plus a sublinear row remainder, \(\alpha<1\).
Proposition MX″	the split-line proposition	Over \(\mathbb F_3\), the equations of each line split into a probe-and-remainder part and a part of nonlocal dimension \(n^\eta\).
Proposition MXp	the all-prime split-line proposition	The split-line proposition at every odd prime, with \(\eta<(1-\alpha)/(4(p-1))\).
Conjecture C3	the fresh-block conservativity conjecture	A fresh complete block adds no old consequence to the degree-\(D\) closure; refuted as stated.
Observation CR	the completeness observation	Completeness of resolution refutes fresh-block conservativity over PHP with every block-count-independent lag.
Lemma FA	the first-active substitution lemma	Selector blocks with private coefficients can be substituted by their first-active expansion.
Lemma SB	the one-block loss lemma	At the Nullstellensatz level one block loses at most \(2h\) degrees.
Theorem Y	the cell-support exceptional-lines theorem	The cell-support exclusion survives \(\Theta(n^\beta)\) arbitrary lines, \(\beta<1/2\).
Theorem NDX	the nonlocal exceptional-lines theorem	A polynomial-size refutation has more than \(C\sqrt{n/\ln n}\) lines of large nonlocal dimension.
Lemma WE	the weighted-elimination lemma	Target-weighted elimination removes one block at cost \((p-1)\delta_1\) in degree.
Theorem NDX′	the linear exceptional-lines theorem	The nonlocal exceptional-lines theorem with \(\Omega(n)\) lines, by weighted elimination.
Lemma A	the potential lemma	Each greedy closure step decreases \(\|S\|+\theta\dim\langle F[\backslash S]\rangle\).
Proposition B	the span-weakening proposition	Local consistency passes to consequences whose span lies in the premise span; the leaf cases.
Lemma C	the onto lemma	Wide support in every subspace makes every attainable value attainable at a \(0/1\) point.
Lemma A\(_W\), Proposition B\(_W\), Lemma C\(_W\)	the potential lemma, span-weakening proposition and onto lemma modulo occupancy	The same three statements with safety measured modulo the occupancy span \(W\).
Lemma E	the prescribed-matching lemma	A safe consistent system has a \(0/1\) solution matching any prescribed map \(d\) on all but \(l_qq\) holes.
Proposition S	the star-closure proposition	Hole and pigeon clauses under the star closure, and the one-node Delayer step.
Lemma L1	the swap-test lemma	A random four-cycle swap detects a non-additive query in proportion to its distance from additive.
Lemma L2	the localization lemma	A sum of many nonzero multiples of independent bits is close to uniform over \(\mathbb F_p\).
Observation R	the cell-communication observation	Players holding cells find a collision with \(O(k\log n)\) bits, so this simulation gives no lower bound.
Lemma M	the marginal-bounds lemma	Switching bounds on the marginals of the near-bijection distribution \(\nu_G\).
Lemma T	the graph swap-test lemma	The swap test on any bipartite graph with bounded missing degrees: \(\mathrm{dist}_G\le K\rho_G\).
Lemma F	the Fourier-tail lemma	\(\Pr_\beta[M\beta=u(X)]\) is independent of \(X\) up to \(\cos(\pi/p)^{t_0}\).
Theorem S	the modular-collision theorem	Linear trees over \(\mathbb F_p\) need depth about \(n^{1/3}\) to find a modular collision.
Lemma R	the detecting-swaps lemma	A dense class implying \(L\ne a\) has no map with \(p-1\) disjoint detecting swaps; implying \(L=a\) forces additivity.
Proposition P	the padding proposition	At four times the size, every line of a refutation can carry \(L=a\) or \(L=a'\).
Lemma HDH	the bounded-degree head-count lemma	Distinct heads of size at most \(\delta\) leave few free sets of size at most \(k\).
Observation SH	the sunflower observation	Sunflower families have rank of order \(s^2\) but give no useful head count at \(p\ge5\).
Theorem GCp	the all-prime graph criterion	Low-or-dense projected rank excludes PC refutations through \(D\) at every odd prime.
Lemma CH\(_\delta\)	the clique-count lemma	Sets of size at most \(k\) avoiding every \(\delta\)-subset of an \(m\)-set number at most \(2C_\delta\binom sk e^{-mk/(2s)}\).
Theorem CHp	the all-prime clique-head theorem	The all-prime graph criterion with a third, clique-head kind of block, at threshold \(m^{(p)}_*=O_p(\sqrt{N\log N})\).

Labels kept

Corollary SL is the main record's label for the Efremenko–Garlík–Itsykson safe-system corollary; this thread only cites it.
Remark A.4 is Byramji and Impagliazzo's, and Conjecture SR is from the literature on semi-regular sequences; both are external.
BC (the old-consequence transfer), BI and EGI are abbreviations of recorded results and cited papers, not names of results of this thread.

The claim registry follows: for the claims of this thread, summaries, assessments, significance notes and record links now use these names, and their field reviews were refreshed as an editorial change. Claim identifiers do not change, and dated review notes keep the old codes, which this table resolves.

Verification gate. Not applicable: no mathematics is stated or changed. Each name was chosen after reading the linked statement, and the table was checked against a scan of the notebook for every coded label.

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Restriction mixtures of endpoint designs reduce to one input count: the top-size lemma

22 September 2026 · Conditional result: an elementary lemma, applied under a typicality hypothesis · The mixture lead reduces to a one-count design problem and gives no mechanism for it. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Restriction mixtures of endpoint designs reduce to one input count: the top-size lemma”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-restriction-mixture-top-size.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The sheaf entry proposed mixtures \(\Lambda=\sum_\rho w_\rho\,\lambda_\rho\circ\mathrm{res}_\rho\) of pulled-back endpoint designs whose errors cancel. The Macaulay-ceiling entry found its simplest case vacuous, because elimination removes a single band block, and parked the lead until it could be tested against a thick inventory. The window's missing implication is one design for polynomially many window blocks with different input spans. Mixtures could supply something new only by using the sizes at which a window block is easy: dense below its band and low above it. The user asked for a short cycle on this lead. It tests whether a successful mixture on a thick inventory must still solve a window problem without help from any endpoint. The test ends with a reduction of that kind or with a mixture pattern that avoids it.

What the record already gives

If a component at size \(L\) handles a block \(b\), meaning that its pullback annihilates what \(b\) contributes, then only components at sizes in \(b\)'s band can carry errors on \(b\), and those errors must cancel among themselves. This is the band-cancellation condition in the sheaf entry's dyadic test. It holds for every block and needs no new lemma. What it leaves open is normalization: the band components' weights might sum to zero, so that each block is cancelled by a zero-sum combination while the total weight sits elsewhere. The lemma below rules this out for the blocks whose band starts at the largest size the mixture uses.

The top-size lemma

Let each component have a residual size \(|\rho|\) and a normalized local functional, \(\lambda_\rho(1)=1\), and let \(\sum_\rho w_\rho=1\). Put \(W(L)=\sum_{|\rho|=L}w_\rho\), let \(\mathcal L=\{L:W(L)\ne0\}\), which is nonempty, and let \(L_{\max}=\max\mathcal L\). Let \(U\) be a subspace of polynomials and \(I\) a set of sizes with \(L_{\max}\in I\), \(I\cap\mathcal L=\{L_{\max}\}\), and such that every component with \(|\rho|\notin I\) has a pullback annihilating \(U\). If \(\Lambda\) annihilates \(U\), then \[ \Lambda_I=W(L_{\max})^{-1}\sum_{|\rho|\in I}w_\rho\,\lambda_\rho\circ\mathrm{res}_\rho \] is normalized and annihilates \(U\), together with every subspace that all the pullbacks annihilate.

Proof. The sizes in \(I\) other than \(L_{\max}\) have \(W=0\), so \(\Lambda_I(1)=W(L_{\max})^{-1}\sum_{L\in I}W(L)=1\). For \(u\in U\), the components outside \(I\) vanish on \(u\), so \(0=\Lambda(u)=W(L_{\max})\Lambda_I(u)\). The last clause holds because \(\Lambda_I\) is a combination of the components. \(\square\)

The lemma is elementary linear algebra. Its only content beyond band cancellation is that the size-\(L_{\max}\) components carry nonzero total weight, and the components at the other sizes in \(I\) have zero total weight at each size.

Application to a thick inventory

Write \(n\) for the board size, \(L\) for a residual size and \(\Lambda_M=\log(64(M+1))\) for the criterion's count parameter, where \(M\) is the number of blocks. Take as components the sheaf entry's local sections: at residual size \(L\), a design that annihilates the residual closure through \(D\) of the source without its band blocks, those whose projected rank at that restriction lies strictly between \(R(L)=L/(4.4\times10^7)\) and the dense end \(Q(L)\). Here \(Q(L)\) is an integer threshold at or above which the clique extension handles a tuple. The recorded value for random tuples is about \(1.6\times10^4L\Lambda_M\) (the dyadic band). Fix \(Q\) at every size \(2\le L\le n\) so that \(Q(L)-Q(L-1)\ge1\) and \(Q(L-1)>R(L)\). The linear threshold \(1.6\times10^4L\Lambda_M\) satisfies both at every size. Designs exist only above the nonvacuity threshold \(L\ge4\times10^{18}\Lambda_M\).

The calibration inventory has \(n\) independent tuples of \(h\) uniform random forms for every integer \(h\le Q(n)\). That is about \(1.6\times10^4\Lambda_Mn^2\) blocks, polynomially many. Write \(B_h\) for the tuples with \(h\) forms. The application assumes the following.

(T) At every component used, at size \(L\), each tuple of \(B_h\) with \(h\ge Q(L)\) has projected rank at least \(Q(L)\).

The low side needs no hypothesis, because the rank is at most \(h\). For one fixed restriction, (T) holds with high probability, since restriction leaves the coefficients uniform (the two-size control). The mixture's restrictions may be chosen after the inventory and may be exponentially many, however, and the recorded failure bound, about \(e^{-\Lambda_M}\) per restriction, admits no union bound over such a family. So (T) is an unproved hypothesis, and everything below is conditional on it.

Take \(h\) an integer with \(Q(L_{\max}-1)\le h<Q(L_{\max})\); it exists because \(Q(L_{\max})-Q(L_{\max}-1)\ge1\), and it lies in the inventory because \(h<Q(L_{\max})\le Q(n)\). Let \(I=\{L:R(L)<h<Q(L)\}\). Then \(L_{\max}\in I\), because \(h\ge Q(L_{\max}-1)>R(L_{\max})\), and no size \(L\le L_{\max}-1\) is in \(I\), because \(Q(L)\le Q(L_{\max}-1)\le h\). Hence \(I\cap\mathcal L=\{L_{\max}\}\). Let \(U=C_D(\Gamma+B_h)\), the degree-\(D\) PC closure of the old base \(\Gamma\) with the blocks of \(B_h\).

A component with \(|\rho|\notin I\) has every tuple of \(B_h\) outside its band: below \(R\) automatically, above \(Q\) by (T). Its design therefore annihilates the residual closure of \(\Gamma|_\rho\) with \(B_h|_\rho\). Restriction maps a degree-\(D\) derivation to a residual derivation of the same degree, so \(F\in C_D(\Gamma+B_h)\) implies \(F|_\rho\in C_D((\Gamma+B_h)|_\rho)\). This is the pullback step of the sheaf entry. So the pullback annihilates \(U\). A successful PC mixture annihilates \(C_D\) of the whole source, which contains \(U\).

Conclusion, under (T). Every normalized restriction mixture of these endpoint designs that annihilates the source's closure through \(D\) contains a normalized sub-mixture \(\Lambda_I\) that is a degree-\(D\) PC design for \(\Gamma+B_h\), where \(h\) is determined by the largest size used. The design is for the \(n\) random tuples of one input count, and no component of \(\Lambda_I\) is required to handle \(B_h\). Only components outside \(I\) are guaranteed to handle it, and those do not enter \(\Lambda_I\).

What this does to the lead

Under (T), the mixture lead on this inventory reduces to the one-count problem: build a PC design for the old base plus \(n\) independent random window tuples of one input count, as a combination of designs that are not required to handle them. The one-count problem is a special case of the window problem, whose general form has polynomially many different input spans, so it may be easier. Nothing recorded solves it. The lemma asserts that the sub-mixture exists; it does not construct it. This does not refute mixtures. My judgment is that mixtures contribute no mechanism for this problem and that the lead adds no leverage beyond it, and it stays parked with that problem as its restart condition. The sheaf entry's claim that unconstrained mixtures restate the problem is not used here. It needs the empty restriction, or \(S^\perp\subseteq W\), and the sub-mixture here uses only endpoint designs at sizes in \(I\).

Besides (T) and the conditions on \(Q\), the reduction needs only one inventory feature: for the largest size \(L_{\max}\) that the mixture uses, some input count \(h\) with \(Q(L_{\max}-1)\le h<Q(L_{\max})\) must carry \(n\) tuples. A sparser inventory, such as the dyadic one, can miss that interval, and then this argument says nothing. The dyadic inventory is already handled by elimination.

Verification gate. Re-read from the notebook: the sheaf entry's mixture criterion (MX), the pullback argument and the dyadic test with its band-cancellation display; the dyadic band paragraph of the clique entry; and the Macaulay-ceiling entry's dyadic paragraph and quick error-cancellation check. My claim searches covered restriction mixtures, cancellation, sheaf, localization, pullback designs and the thick dyadic calibration, and the reviewer ran one for mixture restriction cancellation localization. None records this lemma. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer found the first draft's lemma correct but its induction redundant, since separation is needed only at the largest size, and found its conclusions overstated. It required the following, all adopted. A second focused pass on the strengthened PC step confirmed it under (T) and required small additions, also adopted: the in-inventory check for \(h\), \(Q\) fixed at every size, and "not required to handle" in place of an unproved in-band claim. The first pass required:

separate the recorded band cancellation from the lemma's only new content, normalization at the top size;
take \(U\) to be the PC closure, with the restriction-of-derivations step, so that the conclusion is a PC design;
weaken the hypothesis (T) to the dense side and make the application conditional on it;
drop "restates the problem" and "as hard as the window";
state the lead's closure as a judgment;
fix \(Q\) exactly, with unit gap \(\ge1\) and \(Q(L-1)>R(L)\);
remove a misplaced elimination remark;
rename the clashing symbols.

No computation was run, since no finite size is nonvacuous: the criterion needs \(L\ge4\times10^{18}\Lambda_M\).

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Family compatibility through affine conditioning: a wide-conditioning conjecture and its quadratic ceiling

22 September 2026 · Route review of the \(p\)-complex family line, with a conjecture, a counting ceiling and a control · The family question is reduced, not answered. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Family compatibility through affine conditioning: a wide-conditioning conjecture and its quadratic ceiling”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-p-complex-family-transversal.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The \(p\)-complex line gives designs that extend under wide conditions: the amplitude theorem, the two-form lift, the one-predicate theorem and the ternary pair theorem. The three-selector control refuted assembling them from pairs, but only for the stronger aim of extending every functional that satisfies the active equations. The window needs one normalized design for polynomially many blocks. The user asked for a short cycle on family compatibility. This cycle states the family target as existence and tests its most direct family form: one affine conditioning that serves every block. It ends with the reach of that form, compared with polynomially many window blocks.

The target is existence

In the three-selector control, the forms \(a,b,a+b\) are all nonzero exactly when \(a=b\ne0\). The control's own degree-two design \(\lambda_{1,1}\) gives \(q_1,q_2,q_3\) the values \(0,0,1-4=0\) in \(\mathbb F_3\), so it is a design for the triple, though only through degree two. The compiler needs \(4p-1=11\), and existence there is not shown. The control therefore refutes extension of the signed functional \(\mu\), not the existence of a family design. Family compatibility should be asked as existence: given a family of blocks, does some normalized design annihilate the closure through the required degree?

The transversal special case of Lemma K

The recorded constant-row clamp (Lemma K) substitutes constants for the coefficient rows of complete first-level blocks, over any prime. The substitution maps each product \(P_b\) to \(Q_b=\prod_u(1-\lambda_{b,u})\), with \(\lambda_{b,u}\) in the block's span. So the blocks have no degree-\(D\) PC refutation if the old base with the axioms \(g_{b,i}Q_b\) has none. A transversal is the choice, in each block \(b\) of the weak-base compiler, of one input \(L_b^*=L_{b,i^*(b)}\). The special case sets \(r_{b,i^*}\mapsto1\) and the other coefficients \(\mapsto0\). This assumes the ordinary compiler, without the optional rank-one bridge; with the bridge and \(r\mapsto0\), the axiom \(LP\) becomes \(L\), a further conditioning. Then \(Q_b=(L_b^*)^{p-1}\), and the companion images are \(g_{b,i}(L_b^*)^{p-1}\), each saying "\(L_b^*=0\) or \(L_{b,i}\ne0\)". The stronger system \(\{L_b^*=0\}\) derives every such image at degree \(2p-2\le D\). So a degree-\(D\) refutation of the source gives one of the old base plus \(\{L_b^*=0\}\). This step is lossy: a design for the affine conditioning gives a design for the source, but not conversely. Neither completeness of the blocks nor any PHP property is used.

So a transversal whose affine conditioning keeps the base hard at \(D=4p-1\) excludes the whole inventory. Up to linear rank this is no gain over the record. The affine-flat conditioning theorem gives only a certificate-or-hardness dichotomy: for the full functional base with \(N\ge2B-1\) and \(\tau=(p-1)r\le B/2\), either a Nullstellensatz refutation through \(\tau\) or none in PC through \(D\) with \(D+\tau\le B\). No transversal is shown to fall on the good side. The recorded linear exceptional-lines theorem and the bottom-count lift, whose reach is linear in the number of distinct bottom input spans, already cover linearly many blocks directly.

A conjecture beyond linear rank, and a control

Work modulo the row equations. A linear part is \(\sum_i\sum_jf_i(j)X_{ij}\), each \(f_i\) defined up to a constant. It is active on row \(i\) when \(f_i\) is nonconstant, and \(Q\)-robust there when \(f_i\) differs from every constant on more than \(Q\) labels.

The wide-conditioning conjecture. For each odd \(p\) and each \(D\) there are \(t\) and \(Q\) with the following property. Take the ordinary unary PHP base and an affine system whose linear parts are independent modulo the rows. If every nonzero coefficient combination of those linear parts is \(Q\)-robust on at least \(t\) rows, the base plus the system has no degree-\(D\) PC refutation. The only rank bound is the automatic \(d_t\) below.

The recorded results give special cases only at their own parameters. For one form the one-predicate theorem with \(A=\{\alpha\}\) needs \(t\ge2B-1\) and robustness through \(3B-1\), on the functional base. For two forms the two-form lift needs \(2d+2p-1\) active rows and robustness through \(3d+3p-1\) deletions, for every direction of the pencil over the algebraic closure. The three-selector control uses the two-form case only at degree two. Many forms would need an \(r\)-parameter lift. The projective proof does not port: the topological entry notes \(H^2(\mathbf P^2,\mathcal O(-3))\ne0\) in characteristic three. The conjecture is a statement about affine systems, not about sources. It does not exclude refutations of PHP itself, so completeness does not bear on it.

Width alone is not enough. Take the column occupancies \(C_j=\sum_iX_{ij}\) and the system \(C_j=1\) for \(j<N\). Its linear parts are independent modulo rows. A combination \(\sum_{j<N}c_jC_j\) has row function \(c_j\) on \(j<N\) and \(0\) at \(N\), which is nonconstant on every row unless \(c=0\). So the system has the largest possible width, \(N+1\). Yet the row equations give \(C_N=2\) at degree one. Booleanity and the collisions give \(C_N^2-C_N\in I_2\), and \[ C_N(C_N-2)-(C_N^2-C_N)+(C_N-2)=-2 \] is a nonzero constant for odd \(p\). That is a degree-two refutation. Robustness fails here: \(\sum_{j<N}C_j\) has row function \(1_{j<N}\), one label from constant, and each single \(C_j\) is non-robust too. The recorded forced-cells lemma made the same point with a thin rank-one equation; this control shows that width does not rescue it.

The quadratic ceiling of the width hypothesis

Dimension bound. The linear parts modulo rows form a space of dimension \(\mathcal D=(N+1)(N-1)\). Those supported on a fixed set of \(t-1\) rows form a subspace of dimension \((t-1)(N-1)\). A span \(V\) whose nonzero elements are all active on at least \(t\) rows meets that subspace only in zero, so \[ \dim V\le d_t=(N+2-t)(N-1)<N^2. \]

Random blocks. Consider \(M\) blocks with at most \(h\le N^{O(1)}\) inputs each, where inputs of different blocks are independent and uniform modulo the rows. Independence within a block is not used. This is the model of the dyadic and thick calibrations. A transversal whose span satisfies the width hypothesis lies in some \(d_t\)-dimensional subspace. There are at most \(2p^{d_t(\mathcal D-d_t)}\) such subspaces and \(h^M\) transversals, and a fixed transversal lies in a fixed subspace with probability \(p^{-M(\mathcal D-d_t)}\). Hence the probability that some transversal satisfies the width-\(t\) hypothesis, for \(t\ge2\), is at most \[ 2h^Mp^{-(M-d_t)(t-1)(N-1)}, \] which is negligible once \(M\ge(1+c\log_ph/N)\,d_t\) for a suitable constant \(c\). The robustness parameter plays no role here.

What the ceiling says. The conjecture, even if true, certifies no transversal for an inventory of about \(d_t<N^2\) or more random blocks. With \(N^3\) random window blocks, polynomially many, it certifies nothing. The ceiling does not show that the conditioned base is refutable, or that no transversal or other constant substitution gives a design. Lemma K's general substitutions give non-affine conditionings, \(g_{b,i}Q_b\), which this count does not cover. It limits a sufficient condition, not the mechanism.

What this does to the family line

This cycle has reduced the family question for transversal designs; it has not answered it. Below linear rank the reduction adds nothing to the record. Beyond it, the natural hypothesis is the wide-conditioning conjecture. That conjecture is unproved even at constant degree, and its width condition stops certifying transversals below \(N^2\) random blocks. The remaining family designs are these:

Lemma K's non-affine substitutions, for which the record's hypothesis is Question H with density \(M2^{-h}\) over \(\mathbb F_2\);
mixtures of substitution designs;
the \(p\)-complex's moment corrections applied block by block.

Combining them is the gluing problem, which the three-selector control and the top-size lemma leave without a mechanism. My assessment is that the \(p\)-complex stays a local correction tool, not a batching mechanism for polynomially many window blocks. The wide-conditioning conjecture is recorded for its own sake. If true, it would give quadratic reach, beyond the recorded linear endpoints, but still not the goal.

Route review of the \(p\)-complex family line

The line's general claim. The \(p\)-complex's local extension theorems assemble into one normalized design for every polynomial inventory of complete selector blocks, at the compiler's degree \(4p-1\). What the goal needs from it is that assembly for polynomially many window blocks with different input spans, on the ordinary unary base.

Falsification attempt. This cycle tried the most direct assembly: one affine conditioning that serves every block. Up to linear rank it adds nothing to the record. Beyond that it needs the unproved wide-conditioning conjecture, and width is necessary but not sufficient, as the column control shows. The conjecture's width hypothesis cannot certify any transversal for about \(N^2\) or more random blocks. The earlier three-selector control refutes assembling extensions pair by pair. Every other assembly is the gluing problem.

Assessment of this line only. Weak as a route to the goal. The line proved genuine local theorems: exactness, and one-form, two-form and pair lifts. Its three family forms, however, have each met a recorded limit or remain unproved: extension from pairs (refuted), common affine conditioning (conjectural and capped below \(N^2\)), and block-by-block correction (the gluing problem). No recorded ingredient scales with the number of blocks, and the window needs exactly that. The line remains a source of local tools.

Next step, on the highest-risk item (odd-prime-clause-transfer). Do not open a further \(p\)-complex cycle unless it comes with an \(r\)-parameter lift or a gluing mechanism that uses the block count. The thread-level decision is the statement set's choice, which awaits the user: park the thread, assign Lean work on the transfer, or bring a new idea for the window. The wide-conditioning conjecture could be tested at constant degree on small robust systems as a side question. It does not address the window.

Verification gate. Re-read from the notebooks: the amplitude theorem, the two-form lift, the one-predicate theorem and its source-interface section, the ternary pair theorem's assessment, and the three-selector control with its design \(\lambda_{\alpha,\beta}\). Also the working context's compiler summary, the affine-flat conditioning theorem, and the zero-substitution theorem. My claim searches covered transversal and zero substitution, common affine restriction, wide affine systems, safe systems over \(\mathbb F_p\) and point conditioning. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer confirmed the substitution proof, the control's arithmetic for every odd \(p\), the dimension bound and the union bound. It required the following, all adopted:

label the reduction a special case of the recorded Lemma K, which I had missed, and note that it is lossy;
restrict "point designs" to transversal affine conditioning;
restate the ceiling as a limit of the conjectured hypothesis rather than of the mechanism;
drop "settled in both directions";
state the affine-flat result as a dichotomy for the functional base, and cite the bottom-count lift;
require independent linear parts in the conjecture;
give the one- and two-form special cases their actual parameters;
state the degree of the three-selector design;
sharpen the threshold to about \(d_t\);
note the unused hypotheses and the rank-one bridge;
shorten the status line.

These corrections weaken or rescope, so no second pass was run. No computation was run: the control is a hand refutation, and the ceiling is a count.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 0.03 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 35.74 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 27.31 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	43.11 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	13.86 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Random affine conditioning of unary PHP: quadratic thresholds that fit a dimension law, and the one-count problem

22 September 2026 · Finite check (\(D=2,3\), \(n\le10\)) and conjecture · The one-count problem reduces to a random-conditioning law. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Random affine conditioning of unary PHP: quadratic thresholds that fit a dimension law, and the one-count problem”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-random-affine-conditioning.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The top-size lemma reduced restriction mixtures to the one-count problem: a degree-\(D\) PC design, \(D=4p-1\), for the base plus \(m\) independent random window tuples of one input count. The family review noted the transversal special case of the recorded constant-row clamp. Choosing one input per tuple reduces any inventory whose inputs are independent and uniform to PHP plus \(m\) uniformly random affine equations: if that system has no degree-\(D\) refutation, neither has the source. The recorded weight mechanism, the affine-flat conditioning theorem, reaches only rank about \(n/(4(p-1))\), because a weight supported on the solution flat has degree \((p-1)m\). The one-count problem with \(n\) tuples needs rank \(n\). The missing implication tested here is whether random conditioning keeps PHP hard up to linear rank or beyond. Its answer fixes the reach of the transversal mechanism for random inventories. The test ends at exact thresholds on boards large enough to separate linear from quadratic growth.

The computation

Work over \(\mathbb F_3\) in the multilinear ring on the \(n(n+1)\) cells of ordinary weak unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\). The generators are the row equations \(\sum_jX_{ij}-1\) and the column collisions \(X_{ij}X_{i'j}\). Add \(M\) affine equations with every coefficient and constant uniform in \(\mathbb F_3\). The degree-\(D\) PC closure is computed exactly by the closure routine of the ternary conservativity tester, run on multilinear monomials. For each seed one random sequence of equations is fixed, and bisection over its prefixes finds the least refuted \(M\); refutability is monotone in nested prefixes. At every listed \((n,D)\), PHP alone is not refuted, so the thresholds are nonvacuous.

Two predictions were on the table. The weight mechanism guarantees only linear rank, so a threshold growing linearly in \(n\) would leave the one-count problem out of reach. The wide-conditioning conjecture asserts hardness when every combination is \(Q\)-robustly active on at least some \(t\) rows. With the choice \(t=2D+1\) suggested by the family review, a random span keeps that width up to rank about \((n+2-t)(n-1)-\log_3\binom{n+1}{t-1}\): a union over row sets makes some set fail about \(\log_3\binom{n+1}{2D}\) equations before the generic count. The space of linear parts modulo rows has dimension \((n+1)(n-1)\). Recorded context: the bit-encoding Conjecture H1 conjectures PC degree at least \(c\min(n,\dim W/\ell)\) for a uniformly random affine subspace \(W\), with an elementary projection upper bound \(\lceil\dim W/\ell\rceil+O(1)\). The random-flat avoidance corollary proves hardness for \(M\le N/8\) random binary flats of logarithmic codimension.

\(D\)	\(n\)	Columns	Least refuted \(M\), per seed	First \(M\) with a combination on \(\le2D\) rows, per seed	\((n+1-2D)(n-1)+1\)
2	3	79	1, 1, 1, 1, 1	not computed	1
2	4	211	4, 5, 5, 5, 4	1, 3, 2, 3, 2	4
2	5	466	10, 10, 11, 11	5, 5, 4, 7	9
2	6	904	18, 18, 18, 17	9, 13, 14, 11	16
2	7	1,597	27, 27, 27, 27	18, 22, 21, 21	25
2	8	2,629	37, 37, 37, 37	30, 31, 31, 31	36
2	9	4,096	50, 50	45, 45	49
2	10	6,106	64, 64	58, 58	64
3	5	4,526	2, 2, 1	1, 1, 1	1
3	6	12,384	7, 7, 7	2, 4, 4	6
3	7	19,321*	14, 14	10, 11	13

*Computed with the fast driver described under Evidence, in the collision quotient. Its column count is smaller, and its thresholds are identical to the plain driver's at \(n=8\), \(D=2\) and \(n=5,6\), \(D=3\).

At \(n=4\), degree three already refutes PHP alone, which matches the formula's value \(n+1-2D<0\) there.

What the thresholds show

Quadratic, not linear. At \(D=2\) the mean threshold grows as \(1,4.6,10.5,17.75,27,37,50,64\) for \(n=3,\dots,10\). Its second differences average about \(1.6\), consistent with the formula's \(2\). Every least refuted \(M\) lies between \(0\) and \(2\) above \((n+1-2D)(n-1)+1\), never below, at both degrees. The formula is met exactly at \(n=3\), in two \(n=4\) seeds, at \(n=10\) (all at \(D=2\)), and in one \(n=5\), \(D=3\) seed. At these sizes the weight mechanism's linear rank is not the limit of random conditioning.
Some row set against every row set. The projection of the flat \(A\) onto the coordinates of a row set \(T\) is onto exactly when no nonzero combination in the span is supported on \(T\). The width column therefore records when projection first fails for some set of \(2D\) rows, and the formula when it must fail for every such set. The first comes about \(\log_3\binom{n+1}{2D}\) earlier: that predicts \(58.7\) at \(n=10\), where \(58\) is observed. Refutation lags the first thin combination by \(2\) to \(9\) equations at \(D=2\) and by \(0\) to \(5\) at \(D=3\); one \(n=5\), \(D=3\) seed has both at \(M=1\). So at these sizes one or a few thin combinations do not refute. With \(t=2D+1\), the minimum-width hypothesis fails earlier than hardness does, by a lower-order \(O(D\log n)\) term. The data bear on the conjecture only under that choice of \(t\), and not on its robustness condition. The direction is sound: support on at most \(2D\) rows falsifies the hypothesis.
A dimension heuristic fits. The thresholds sit where the solution flat \(A\), of dimension \((n+1)(n-1)-M\) modulo rows, falls below \(2D(n-1)\). Below that dimension, projection onto a set of \(2D\) rows, whose coordinates have dimension \(2D(n-1)\), cannot be onto for any row set. This is a heuristic prediction: the projection count proves nothing about refutability. At \(M=0\) it predicts that PHP alone survives degree \(D\) while \(2D\le n+1\), consistent with Razborov's lower bound of about \(n/2+1\). The data confirm this only at \(n=3,4,5\). In this form each \(n-1\) random equations lower the refutation degree by about one half. It is the unary analogue of H1's projection bound, with each row contributing \(n-1\) coordinates in place of \(\ell\) bits, and here both sides fit, with constant \(1/2\).

The random-conditioning law (conjecture). Over \(\mathbb F_p\), let \(A\) be the solution flat of \(M\) independent uniformly random affine equations, of dimension \(a=(n+1)(n-1)-M\) modulo rows. With high probability the ordinary unary PHP base plus these equations has no degree-\(D\) PC refutation when \(a\ge2D(n-1)+c\), and has one when \(a\le2D(n-1)-c'\), for constants \(c,c'\) independent of \(n\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(D=2,3\) the data fit it with a hardness offset of \(0\) to \(2\): no margin is measured on the hardness side. Only the hardness side matters here. The law refines H1 in the ordinary unary encoding. The law is checked at small \(n\) and fixed \(D\) only. Its constants may depend on \(D\) and \(p\), and the boards are far below the degree \(4p-1\) at which it would be used.

What it gives, and what it does not

Suppose the law holds at \(D=4p-1\) for the relevant \(p\). Choose, by a fixed rule, one input per tuple, uniform over all affine forms on the \(n(n+1)\) cells with a uniform constant and independent across tuples. The transversal substitution sends a degree-\(D\) refutation of the source to one of PHP plus the \(m\) chosen equations: each substituted companion \(g_{b,i}(L_b^*)^{p-1}\) is \(L_b^*\) times a polynomial of degree \(2p-3\), derivable within degree \(2p-2\le D\). So with high probability over such an inventory, the one-count problem reduces to the law with \(m\) up to about \((n+1-2D)(n-1)\) less its constant. At \(p=3\), \(D=11\), that includes \(m=n\) once \(n\) exceeds about \(23\) plus the law's unknown constants. The same holds with high probability for any inventory of at most about \(n^2-2Dn\) blocks whose chosen inputs have this distribution, window or not.

It does not reach polynomially many blocks. The transversal system's rank is at most the dimension \((n+1)(n-1)\), and the quadratic ceiling already caps every point design of this kind. An inventory of \(n^3\) random window blocks, or the thick inventory with about \(1.6\times10^4\Lambda_Mn^2\) blocks, is beyond it. For those, a block's clause must be used as a clause, not replaced by one of its equations. Lemma K's non-affine constant substitutions, for example all coefficients equal to one, turn a block into the degree-\(2(p-1)\) constraints \(g_i\sum_{j\ne i}g_j=0\) rather than an equation. They are not capped by the dimension count, and they are the natural next object.

Assessment and next step

The one-count problem is reduced to the random-conditioning law, which has consistent small-board evidence over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(D\le3\) and a precise form refining H1. Its constants may depend on \(D\) and \(p\), and it is untested near \(D=11\). The law is not on the critical path: even proved, transversals reach at most about \(n^2\) random blocks, and the goal needs polynomially many. Larger boards would sharpen its constants without moving the general implication, so none are planned.

The last three cycles share a pattern. Every mechanism that removes the blocks' fresh variables by substitution lands in a fixed old design space. Constant substitutions, transversals and point designs are all of this kind. The dimension of that space is about \(n^{O(Ds)}\) for substitution degree \(s\), and generic blocks consume it. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the general statement behind this pattern, not more cases. One outcome is a capacity theorem: every substitution design of degree \(s\) handles at most \(n^{O(Ds)}\) generic window blocks, whatever the substitution. The other is a construction whose substitution degree grows with the inventory's polynomial degree, stays within PHP's degree barrier and keeps the companion images in the old ideal. The first would be an obstruction covering every substitution-based mechanism at once. The second is the missing mechanism.

Process. Two points. First, predicting the threshold before the runs, and computing each sample's actual width drop, located the width hypothesis as a lower-order \(O(D\log n)\) correction to the dimension count, where a single confirmation would have missed it. Second, the first \(n=7\), \(D=3\) run was launched single-threaded, with no time estimate and with collision monomials kept as columns. It was replaced by an exact reduced, incremental and parallel driver, about 8 times faster on the validation sizes. The launcher now requires an estimate and parallel threads for long runs.

Evidence. research/results/odd_prime_one_count_20260922/: random_conditioning.py, random_conditioning_fast.py (the collision quotient, incremental closure and OpenMP elimination; its fast_*.json outputs reproduce the plain thresholds) and width_drop.py, with seeds \(1000n+10D+s\), and every threshold_n*_D*.json, fast_n*_D*.json and width_n*_D*.json. The first \(n=7\), \(D=3\) run was interrupted and has no result file. Run each through the protected launcher with --n --D --seeds --out.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	41 min 36.34 s
Marked reading and review windows	51.28 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	20.66 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 18.20 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	29.20 s
Individually measured computation	38 min 31.63 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	4.44 s
Overlapping tool categories, counted once	0.94 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 2.

Substitution designs are not capped at a fixed polynomial: a capacity count and the partial-prefix conjecture

22 September 2026 · Heuristic count, one calibration check and a conjecture · The proposed capacity statement would not obstruct; partial prefixes are the construction to test. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Substitution designs are not capped at a fixed polynomial: a capacity count and the partial-prefix conjecture”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-substitution-capacity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The random-conditioning entry proposed a general statement behind its last three cycles. After substitution, a design lives in a fixed old design space of dimension about \(n^{O(Ds)}\), so every substitution design of degree \(s\) might handle only \(n^{O(Ds)}\) generic blocks. The missing implication is a mechanism for polynomially many window blocks. This cycle asks whether that capacity statement would be an obstruction or points to a construction. It ends with a count that settles which, and with the construction's precise form.

A correction to the framing

The \(n^2\) ceiling of the family review concerns the strengthened system \(\{L_b^*=0\}\). An affine system has rank at most \((n+1)(n-1)\), so it caps at about \(n^2\) blocks. The images that Lemma K's substitution actually produces are weaker. For the transversal they are \(g_{b,i}(L_b^*)^{p-1}\), \(i\ne i^*\): "\(L_b^*=0\), or every other input of the block is nonzero". These are clause-like, not affine, and no rank bound applies to them. The ceiling limits the strengthened conditioning, not substitution.

The capacity count

Write \(d_k=\dim\big(P_{\le k}/C_k(\Gamma)\big)\) for the degree-\(k\) quotient of the ordinary weak base, so a degree-\(D\) design is a functional on a space of dimension \(d_D\). A constraint polynomial \(c\) of degree \(e\) imposes the conditions \(\Lambda(mc)=0\) for \(\deg m\le D-e\), at most \(d_{D-e}\) of them. If the constraints of different blocks behave generically, \(M\) blocks with \(q\) constraint polynomials of degree \(e\) each exhaust the design space near \[ M\approx\frac{d_D}{q\,d_{D-e}}. \tag{CC} \] Since \(d_k\) grows like \(n^{2k}/k!\) while \(k\ll n\), (CC) is about \((D-e)!\,n^{2e}/(D!\,q)\). This is a heuristic: it assumes independence of constraints, and it ignores derivable clauses, which cost nothing, and forced contradictions, which cost everything.

Calibration against the measured law. For affine equations, \(q=1\) and \(e=1\), and (CC) is \(d_D/d_{D-1}\). One exact computation gives the quotient dimensions in the collision quotient:

\(D\)	\(n\)	\(d_{D-1}\)	\(d_D\)	\(d_D/d_{D-1}\)	Measured law \((n+1-2D)(n-1)+1\)
2	4, 5, 6, 7	16, 25, 36, 49	76, 220, 498, 973	4.75, 8.8, 13.8, 19.9	4, 9, 16, 25
2	8, 9, 10	64, 81, 100	1720, 2826, 4390	26.9, 34.9, 43.9	36, 49, 64
3	5, 6, 7	220, 498, 973	656, 3067, 9661	3.0, 6.2, 9.9	1, 6, 13

The count has the measured quadratic growth, but its constant is off. The ratio of threshold to count is \(0.84,1.02,1.16,1.26,1.34,1.40,1.46\) at \(D=2\), \(n=4,\dots,10\), and \(0.34,0.97,1.31\) at \(D=3\), \(n=5,6,7\). It is still rising, and to leading order it tends to \(D\): (CC) is about \(n^2/D\), while the law is about \(n^2\). At the smallest boards the count lies above the law. One guess for the shortfall is that different equations' multiples overlap, which (CC) ignores; it is untested. (CC) is an order-of-magnitude guide for growth in \(n\), with an unknown constant factor.

What the count says about substitution

Take the transversal images at \(p=3\): \(q=h-1\) constraints of degree \(e=2(p-1)=4\). Then (CC) is about \(n^{8}/h\), far above the affine \(n^2\), though still a fixed polynomial. More generally, a substitution whose product image \(Q_b=1-\sum_j\beta_{b,j}g_{b,j}\) has degree \(s'\) gives constraints \(g_{b,i}Q_b\) of degree \(e=p-1+s'\), and (CC) is about \(n^{2(p-1+s')}/h\). The capacity rises with \(s'\) without bound. An inventory of \(n^K\) generic window blocks is within the count once \(s'\) is about \(K/2\), a constant. If the substituted coefficients \(\beta\) have degree \(\delta\), a line of degree at most \(D\) in the old variables and the \(r\)'s becomes one of degree at most \(D\max(1,\delta)\). The images are new axioms of degree \(e\). The substituted refutation therefore has degree at most \(\max(D\max(1,\delta),e)\): a constant, far below PHP's degree barrier of about \(n/2\).

So the capacity statement proposed last cycle, "every substitution design of degree \(s\) handles at most \(n^{O(Ds)}\) generic blocks", would not be an obstruction even if proved: \(s\) may be chosen as a constant depending on the inventory's exponent. Counting does not rule out substitution designs for polynomial inventories. It does not show that they work either. Non-generic behaviour, derivable clauses, and low-degree contradictions forced by one block's images together with PHP all remain possible obstructions. The question is whether suitable substitutions exist whose images behave generically.

The partial-prefix construction

For a block \(b\) and a set \(S_b\) of \(k\) of its inputs, substitute the exact prefix on \(S_b\) alone: \(\beta_{b,j}=\prod_{l\in S_b,\,l<j}(1-g_{b,l})\) for \(j\in S_b\), and \(\beta_{b,j}=0\) otherwise. Then \(Q_b=\prod_{j\in S_b}(1-g_{b,j})=\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\), of degree \((p-1)k\), and the images are \[ g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\quad(i\notin S_b):\qquad\text{"if an input outside }S_b\text{ is zero, one in }S_b\text{ is zero".} \] The case \(k=h\) is the exact prefix, which leaves no constraints but costs degree \((p-1)h\). The case \(k=1\) is the transversal, whose \(\beta\) are constants. The field images \(\beta^p-\beta\) vanish modulo Booleanity: \(L^p=L\), so each \(L^{p-1}\) and each product of them is idempotent. Here \(\delta=(p-1)(k-1)\) and \(e=(p-1)(k+1)\). By Lemma K, a degree-\(D\) refutation of the source gives one of \(\Gamma\) plus the images of degree at most \(B_k=\max\big(D\max(1,(p-1)(k-1)),(p-1)(k+1)\big)\). The compiler degree is \(D=4p-1\), from the weak-base compiler.

The partial-prefix capacity conjecture. For each odd \(p\) and \(K\) there is \(k\), independent of \(n\) and of the block widths, with the following property. Take \(M\le n^K\) blocks of widths \(h_b\), with \(k<h_b\le n^{O(1)}\). Draw every input of every block independently as \(\sum_{ij}c_{ij}X_{ij}+c_0\), with all coefficients uniform in \(\mathbb F_p\). Take \(S_b\) to be the first \(k\) inputs of block \(b\), a rule fixed before sampling. Then, with probability tending to one as \(n\to\infty\), the ordinary unary base plus the partial-prefix images has no PC refutation of degree \(B_k\) with \(D=4p-1\). By (CC) one expects \(k\) of about \(K/(2(p-1))-1\), that is \(k=O(K/p)\). The width regime matters: for bounded widths the exact prefix already gives constant degree \(D(p-1)h\), and the conjecture would say nothing new. Its content is for widths that grow with \(n\), as window blocks do, where \(h=\Theta(n)\).

The conjecture uses the size, as a sufficient condition must: \(k\) grows with \(K\), and exponentially many blocks exceed every fixed capacity. That is consistent with the exponential refutations that completeness guarantees. It concerns random inventories, the calibration for the window, not arbitrary ones. The goal-level statement would add: for every inventory of at most \(n^K\) blocks, some choice of the subsets \(S_b\) keeps the images hard. That is stronger and untested.

Can it be tested?

At \(p=3\) the images have degree \(e=2(k+1)\ge4\). A test at degree \(D\ge e+1=5\) is nonvacuous only for refuting the images themselves, a weaker statement than the conjecture, which concerns the substituted degree \(B_k\). Even that needs PHP hard at degree 5, so \(n\ge9\). In the collision quotient that is about \(\binom{9}{5}10^5\approx1.3\times10^7\) columns: not feasible with dense elimination. The binary analogue is already on record. The random-clause Nullstellensatz check (check:unary-avoidance-ns-spaces) computed exact spaces over \(\mathbb F_2\) for the functional unary base with random clauses of \(h\le3\) parities, at degrees two to four on six to eight holes. Every clause added the predicted dimension increment, 1 entered only at exhaustion, and the recorded PC jumps were the forced falls. It confirmed the predicted Nullstellensatz dimension increments, not (CC)'s block-count threshold. That is consistent with the independence assumption behind (CC) at the Nullstellensatz level, for clause-like constraints over \(\mathbb F_2\). It is the related Conjecture SR regime of semi-regular behaviour. So no new binary test is needed, and the open point for odd primes is whether the partial-prefix images behave the same way, beyond the Nullstellensatz level.

Assessment and next step

The count reverses last cycle's proposed next step. That particular capacity statement is empty as an obstruction, though obstructions of other kinds remain possible. The construction direction has a concrete candidate that uses the size. What remains is the candidate's hardness. The recorded hardness results this cycle's searches found concern affine or single-predicate conditioning, apart from the binary Nullstellensatz check. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to prove the hardness side of the conjecture for \(k=1\) at constant degree, or to find the obstruction that defeats it. The \(k=1\) images say "\(L_1=0\) or all other inputs nonzero". The natural tool is the \(p\)-complex's prescribed-moment extension with one conditioned form and one wide predicate family per block. The recorded binary random-clause check already supports (CC) for clause-like constraints at the Nullstellensatz level, so the proof attempt should aim at the polynomial-calculus side, where the check saw forced falls only.

Process. Checking what the proposed statement would give before trying to prove it saved a cycle: counting showed that it could not be an obstruction. The prior-record search then found the binary test I was about to propose, already done.

Evidence. research/results/odd_prime_substitution_capacity_20260922/: quotient_dims.py and quotient_dims.json, which reuse the fast driver's collision quotient. Run with --out PATH through the protected launcher.

Verification gate. Re-read from the notebooks: Lemma K's statement, the family review's transversal and ceiling, the random-conditioning entry's law and table, the weak-base compiler's degree, and the recorded random-clause check. Claim searches covered partial and exact prefixes, substitution capacity and clause conditioning. They found the binary random-clause check, now cited in place of a proposed test, and the related Conjecture SR. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer confirmed the partial-prefix algebra, the idempotence of the substituted coefficients and the central point that the capacity statement cannot obstruct. It required the following, all adopted:

restate the calibration: the gap tends to a factor \(D\) rather than staying within 1.5, and the count lies above the law at small boards;
fix the conjecture's quantifiers: the input distribution, a fixed rule for \(S_b\), the limit \(n\to\infty\), and \(k<h\) independent of \(n\);
note that the conjecture is trivial for bounded widths;
derive the substituted degree \(B_k\) exactly from Lemma K, using one formula throughout;
correct the estimate for \(k\);
soften the obstruction claim, the reading of the binary check and a universal claim about the record;
say what a degree-5 test would and would not decide.

The corrections weaken or restate, so no second pass was run.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	5 min 20.55 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 4.92 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3.56 s
Individually measured computation	7.63 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	4.45 s

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Route review: the random-calibration line is the odd-prime form of the recorded wide-clause line, parked at the relative-rank count

22 September 2026 · Route review with rediscovery labels · The next step targets the recorded degree-three obstruction with a rank-stratified first moment. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the random-calibration line is the odd-prime form of the recorded wide-clause line, parked at the relative-rank count”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-random-calibration-route-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Random window inventories of every polynomial size are excluded at the compiler degree \(4p-1\) by substitution designs. By the constant-row clamp (lem:constant-row-clamp), a substitution turns each block into images added to the base, and the base stays hard under polynomially many generic images. The last three cycles built this: random affine conditioning, the capacity count and the partial-prefix conjecture, and the transversal reduction before them. What the goal needs is more: arbitrary inventories, the ones polynomial-size refutations actually produce, not random ones.

Rediscovery

This cycle opened on the \(k=1\) hardness of the partial-prefix conjecture. The route check read the main record's wide-clause line, which I had not read before designing the last two cycles. The index searches of those cycles used the thread's vocabulary (prefix, conditioning, capacity) and missed it. The same objects are recorded there over \(\mathbb F_2\):

The random-conditioning law is the odd-prime analogue of the proved uniform degree-two theorem (thm:uniform-parity-degree-two). That theorem shows the functional unary base keeps degree two under up to \(N^2-\sqrt2N^{3/2}(1+o(1))\) uniform parity constraints, matching the forced count. The odd-prime thresholds measured last cycle at \(D=2,3\) are the same phenomenon. They are new only as finite evidence at odd \(p\) and degree three.
The capacity count (CC) is the recorded forced-fall count \(M^*\approx\gamma_B/\gamma_{B-h}\) of Conjecture SR (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, obs:forced-degree-fall).
The partial-prefix conjecture is the wide-clause hardness statement, which says that generic clauses do no harm before the count forces a fall. Here it is written for substitution images at odd \(p\). The recorded point-support remark already explains why a design fixed before the clauses cannot work, which is the transversal and point-design ceiling seen here.

What the thread adds is the translation itself: through substitution, the random window inventory of the odd-prime problem becomes an instance of that line. The translation shows the odd-prime window, at the random calibration, needs nothing beyond the wide-clause statement at constant degree.

Falsification attempt

The recorded line was parked, with its reason (ctx:HW-parked-relative-rank-count). At level \(B\ge3\) a degree fall is an element of the degree-\(B\) part \(\bar K_B\) of the conflict ideal that vanishes on the annihilator \(U\) of the forms. It must lie outside the trivial part \(\bar W\wedge\bar K_{B-1}\). The event "vanishes on \(U\)" is dominated by that trivial part, so a first moment over \(\bar K_B\) needs a rank of \(B\)-forms relative to the ideal, and a count of the elements of low rank. None was known. The compiler degree is \(4p-1\ge11\), so the odd-prime random calibration sits squarely behind this obstruction. The measured \(D=3\) thresholds show the phenomenon persists at degree three, but they do not touch the missing count. The second recorded gap also applies unchanged: the clauses a proof produces are not random.

Assessment of this line

Weak for the goal, for the same two reasons as the recorded line. The counting evidence is consistent and now spans two characteristics and degrees two and three. But the proof technique for many wide forms at once stops at degree two, and nothing addresses proof-chosen clauses. The line's one genuinely new contribution is that the odd-prime window, at the random calibration, reduces to that line's missing step. It is not a separate problem.

Next step: a rank-stratified first moment at degree three

The obstruction asks for "a notion of rank of a \(B\)-form relative to the ideal and a count of the elements of low rank". The record already imports two relevant tools, used in the cubic polar-tensor line:

Janzer's bound (imp:Janzer-finite-field-partition-rank): partition rank is polynomial in analytic rank, uniformly in all dimensions, over every fixed finite field.
Kazhdan–Ziegler effective universality (imp:KZ-effective-affine-universality): families of high rank have equidistributed affine pullbacks.

The relative-rank theory of Lampert and Ziegler, rank relative to a collection of polynomials, is not in the record. The plan is to stratify the first moment over \(\bar K_B\) by partition rank \(r\) of \(\xi\) restricted to \(U\), and to compare two sides:

High rank. Bias bounds make vanishing on a random \(U\) improbable, with probability about \(q^{-c\,r}\) or better after Janzer's conversion.
Low rank. \(\xi\) is a short sum of products of lower-degree forms. The recorded decomposable computation, where vanishing forces a factor into \(\bar W\) and hence the trivial part, has to be generalized to sums of \(r\) products, with a count of such sums about \(q^{O(r\dim\bar K_{B-1})}\).

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to write this balance at \(B=3\) over \(\mathbb F_p\) and decide whether it closes, as a theorem or as an explicit failure of the exponents. It should first be calibrated on the uniform degree-two theorem, whose proof is the \(B=2\) case with matrix rank. If it closes, it would give the first constant-degree hardness for many random wide forms, the missing step of the recorded line, and through transversals it would settle the one-count problem. The proof-chosen-clause gap would remain. If it fails, the failure names which exponent is wrong, and this route to the random calibration closes.

Process. The last two cycles' prior-record searches used the thread's own vocabulary. Searching instead by the objects involved (random clauses, degree falls, semi-regular) found the recorded line at once. CLAUDE.md already asks for searches "under their structural names as well as the current vocabulary"; I did not apply it to the capacity count. No framework change is needed beyond applying it.

Verification gate. Re-read from the main notebook: the wide-clause reading with Conjecture SR, the forced-fall count and the point-support remark; the uniform degree-two theorem's statement; and the degree-three obstruction with the parking decision. Claim searches covered semi-regularity, degree fall, forced count, no-fall criterion, and relative, partition and analytic rank. The last group found the imported Janzer and Kazhdan–Ziegler results and the cubic polar-tensor lemma, but no relative-rank theory. This entry proves nothing new: it labels rediscoveries and states a next step. So no reviewer was needed beyond checking each identification against the recorded statement, done above.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 28.74 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 9.20 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 5.37 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	9.62 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	4.55 s

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Logarithmic partial prefixes reduce ordinary unary PHP at odd primes to an odd-prime wide-clause statement; the degree-three first moment needs a thinness theorem

22 September 2026 · Conditional reduction theorem and an entropy lemma · The ordinary-PHP lower bound follows from an odd-prime analogue of the recorded wide-clause statement. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Logarithmic partial prefixes reduce ordinary unary PHP at odd primes to an odd-prime wide-clause statement; the degree-three first moment needs a thinness theorem”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 22 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-22-degree-three-first-moment.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The route review sent this cycle to the recorded degree-three obstruction of the main record's wide-clause line. It proposed a partition-rank first moment. Reading the record first showed that the degree-three program went further on 20 September than the parking decision suggested:

an exact dimension of the degree-three conflict space, cubic dimension (lem:cubic-conflict-space-dimension);
nontrivial relative cubic kernels forced below \(d\approx\sqrt6N^{3/2}\);
kernels of factor rank up to about \(N^{1/4}\) excluded (thm:bounded-factor-rank-relative-cubic-kernels), with a ceiling of that order for the method;
an exact identity reducing the relative kernel to the rank of \(E\otimes K\to\Lambda^3E\) under quadratic faithfulness (lem:faithful-quadratics-syzygy-injection);
a fixed six-hole example whose affine system has a degree-three PC refutation although the Nullstellensatz level sees no contradiction.

The last point made the affine, no-fall model too strong, and the cubic endpoint review parked it in favour of the actual wide-companion obligation. This cycle asks two things. What does a first moment at degree three need? And can the odd-prime problem use that obligation directly?

1. The logarithmic partial prefix

The substitution-capacity entry defined the partial prefix of size \(k\) on sets \(S_b\): each block's product becomes \(Q_b=\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\). By the constant-row clamp's argument there, a degree-\(D\) refutation of the source gives a refutation of the base plus the images \(g_{b,i}Q_b\), \(i\notin S_b\), of degree at most \(B_k=\max(D\max(1,(p-1)(k-1)),(p-1)(k+1))\). That entry took \(k\) constant, for random inventories. Here \(k\) grows logarithmically, and the inventory is arbitrary.

The odd-prime wide-clause statement. For an odd prime \(p\) and constants \(K,c\), consider the following system. It consists of the ordinary weak unary base \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) for \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) (Booleanity, column collisions and the linear row equations modulo \(p\), with no same-row exclusions and no onto axioms, as in the weak-base compiler) together with the axioms \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\), for \(M\le n^K\) families of affine forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b}\), subsets \(S_b\) with \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\), \(i\notin S_b\), and \(g=1-L^{p-1}\). The parameters satisfy \[ M\Big(1-\frac1p\Big)^{k}<1,\qquad k\le c\log n . \] The statement is that for every such family of forms there is a choice of the sets \(S_b\) for which this system has no PC refutation of degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\).

Each block's product \(Q_b\) is the indicator that the forms \(L_{b,j}\), \(j\in S_b\), are all nonzero, that is, that the inputs \(g_{b,j}\) all vanish. The axioms say that on that set every other input \(g_{b,i}\) of the block vanishes too. For independent forms with uniform values the set has density \((1-1/p)^k\), and the condition \(M(1-1/p)^k<1\) is then the analogue of the recorded \(M2^{-h}<1\). The proof below uses it only as a parameter condition. The statement does not require independence, and on Boolean points the actual density can be larger: \(X-1\) is nonzero exactly when \(X=0\).

It is an analogue of the recorded wide-clause statement, not a special case of it. The two differ in four ways. The recorded statement uses the functional base where this one uses the weak base; the weak base is smaller, so this statement is not implied by it. It lets the chooser take any flat cut out by forms in the block's span, where this one allows only subsets of the given inputs; the chooser here has less freedom. It asks for polylogarithmic degree, where this one fixes degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\), which is weaker. And it requires \(h\ge c'\log_2N\). Over odd \(p\) the sets are not flats.

Theorem (logarithmic-prefix reduction). Fix an odd prime \(p\) and \(K\). Suppose the odd-prime wide-clause statement holds with \(M=n^K\) and \(k=\lceil(K+1)\log n/\log\frac p{p-1}\rceil\). Then for all large \(n\), no \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) has at most \(n^K\) lines. So if the odd-prime wide-clause statement holds for every \(K\), unary PHP needs superpolynomially many lines.

Proof. A refutation with \(S\le n^K\) lines compiles, by the weak-base compiler, into a source of at most \(S\) complete accuracy-one blocks, each with old affine inputs, that has a PC refutation of degree \(D=4p-1\). Apply the partial prefix of size \(k\) on the sets \(S_b\) that the odd-prime wide-clause statement supplies. Blocks with \(h_b\le k\) receive the full prefix, and their companions map into the Boolean ideal. Each block has its own fresh coefficients, so the substitution is well defined. The compiler adds no other axioms: initial-value lines are derived inside the refutation, and the optional rank-one bridge is not used. The substitution maps every fresh coefficient to \(0\) or to a product of at most \(k-1\) selector complements of degree \(p-1\) each. These are idempotent modulo Booleanity: \(L^p-L\) follows from Booleanity at degree \(p\). So each field image \(\beta^p-\beta\), of degree \(p(p-1)(k-1)\le D(p-1)(k-1)\), is derivable within the bound. Every line of degree at most \(D\) in the old variables and the coefficients maps to one of degree at most \(D\max(1,(p-1)(k-1))\). The companions \(g_{b,i}P_b\) map to \(g_{b,i}Q_b\), of degree \((p-1)(k+1)\), which is zero modulo Fermat for \(i\in S_b\) and an axiom of the odd-prime wide-clause statement for \(i\notin S_b\). The old axioms are unchanged. The image is a PC refutation of the the odd-prime wide-clause statement system of degree at most \((4p-1)(p-1)k\), with \(M\le n^K\) and \(M(1-1/p)^k\le n^K\cdot n^{-(K+1)}<1\), contradicting the odd-prime wide-clause statement. The degree is \(O(\log n)\), far below PHP's own barrier of about \(n/2\). \(\square\)

The reduction makes no assumption on the inventory: no window, no randomness, no rank condition. It covers ordinary unary PHP; the functional variant would need the functional compiler and the statement over the functional base. It moves the entire difficulty into the odd-prime wide-clause statement, a statement of the same type as the main record's central wide-companion obligation. The binary side of that obligation is open. So this is a conditional theorem, and it tells which statement to prove. The recorded all-prime affine source exclusion does not already give it. That theorem covers blocks whose inputs are old affine forms, while compiled blocks have selector inputs \(1-L^{p-1}\) of degree \(p-1\), which are affine only for row- or column-local \(L\).

The sets \(S_b\) must be chosen suitably. The recorded row-clause failure does not carry over to the weak base, which has no same-row exclusions. Here is one that does. For each hole \(t\), take a block with forms \(X_{jt}-1\) over all pigeons \(j\), and use the same set \(S\) of \(k\) pigeons in every block. Then \(g_{j}=X_{jt}\) and \(L^{p-1}=1-X\) on Boolean points, and modulo collisions each image \(X_{it}\prod_{j\in S}(1-X_{jt})\) is \(X_{it}\). So every cell of a pigeon outside \(S\) is zero, and that pigeon's row equation gives \(1=0\), at degree about \((p-1)(k+1)+1\). A random choice of \(S_b\) per hole leaves an expander-like graph PHP instead, so the statement is not trivially false on this family. The density condition uses the size, as a sufficient condition must. It fails for exponentially many blocks, consistent with the exponential refutations that completeness gives.

2. What a degree-three first moment needs

Work in the recorded setting over \(\mathbb F_2\): \(n=N^2-1\), \(\bar K\subseteq\Lambda^2V\) the conflict two-forms, \(\bar K_3=V\wedge\bar K\), and \(U\) a uniform \(d\)-subspace of \(V^*\) with \(\bar W=U^\perp\). A nontrivial relative cubic kernel is an element of \(\bar K_3\) that vanishes on \(U\) and lies outside \(\bar W\wedge\bar K\).

The entropy lemma. Let \(S\subseteq\bar K_3\) be the elements whose event "vanishes on \(U\) and is not in \(\bar W\wedge\bar K\)" is nonempty. Then the per-element first moment \(\sum_{\xi}\Pr[\ldots]\) is at least \(|S|/(3.5\cdot2^{d(n-d)})\), and \(d(n-d)\le n^2/4<N^4/4\).

Proof. A nonempty event over uniform \(d\)-subspaces has probability at least one over their number, which is at most \(3.5\cdot2^{d(n-d)}\) over \(\mathbb F_2\). \(\square\)

By the recorded dimension formula, \(\dim\bar K_3=\binom{(N+1)(N-1)}3-\binom{N+1}3(N^3-6N^2+8N-1)=\Theta(N^5)\). For example, the same-row pairs of basis cells times a basis cell of another row already give \(\tfrac12N^5(1-o(1))\) independent elements. So a union bound over single elements below one needs \(|S|<3.47\cdot2^{d(n-d)}\le3.47\cdot2^{N^4/4}\): the elements that can vanish nontrivially on some \(d\)-subspace must be an exponentially thin part of \(\bar K_3\). At degree two the entropy count does not obstruct: there \(\dim\bar K=\Theta(N^3)\) is below \(d(n-d)\), about \(\sqrt2N^{7/2}\) at the degree-two forced dimension \(d\approx\sqrt2N^{3/2}\). The obstruction applies only to union bounds over single elements. Unions over coarser witnesses are not covered, such as classes modulo \(\bar W\wedge\bar K\), kernel subspaces, or the restrictions \(\xi|_U\). The recorded exclusion of factor rank up to \(N^{1/4}\) proves a piece of the needed thinness. Its method's ceiling at that rank means the remainder needs a different argument. With the exact formula, the ratio \(\dim\bar K_3/(n^2/4)\) is \(55.6,247,1015,4087\) at \(N=16,64,256,1024\), and \(\dim\bar K_3/N^5\) is \(0.86,0.97,0.99,1.00\).

The imported regularity results. Janzer's bound (imp:Janzer-finite-field-partition-rank) concerns one tensor's bias, not the joint vanishing of many values. Kazhdan–Ziegler effective universality (imp:KZ-effective-affine-universality) has a rank threshold polynomial in the target dimension, the family size and the uniformity exponent. Here the joint event has \(\binom d3\) values at \(d\) of order \(N^{3/2}\), and a three-form on \(V\) has partition rank at most \(n<N^2\). Whether the imported exponents admit that rank was not checked in this cycle, so it is open whether these tools supply the high-rank side. Either way, a thinness theorem for the low-rank side needs structure specific to \(\bar K\).

Assessment and next step

Part 1 is the main result. The lower bound for ordinary unary PHP, not only the window or the random calibration, follows from the odd-prime wide-clause statement, the odd-prime analogue of the main record's central open obligation. The two threads therefore need the same kind of statement: hardness of PHP under polynomially many wide clauses of logarithmic codimension and total density below one. Part 2 explains, with exact counts, why the recorded random-case approach stalls at degree three. The recorded affine and no-fall models are stronger than the odd-prime wide-clause statement needs.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is a choice rule for the sets \(S_b\), stated and proved against structured families: the hole family above, collision-derived lines and occupancy lines. The proof should show that a random or balanced choice turns each such family into a graph PHP whose recorded degree bounds apply. Exact closures cannot test this. At \(p=3\) the density condition allows only one block at \(k=1\). Two blocks need \(k=2\), with images of degree 6 and PHP hard at degree 7, so \(n\ge13\), far beyond exact elimination. The step is therefore a proof, with the hole family as its first case.

Process. Reading the recorded degree-three program before drafting replaced a planned partition-rank attempt, which cannot close, by an exact statement of what is missing. Asking what the odd-prime problem could use directly then produced the reduction, which the capacity entry had one parameter away.

Verification gate. Re-read from the main notebook: the wide-clause statement with its falsification attempts, the cubic dimension formula and relative-kernel bound, the bounded-factor-rank theorem's statement, the syzygy-injection lemma, the cubic endpoint review, and the imported Janzer and Kazhdan–Ziegler statements. From this notebook: the weak-base compiler's degree and block form, and the partial-prefix substitution. Claim searches covered sequential exposure, restriction rank, matrix spaces, Cartan's lemma, entropy first moments, and the odd-prime wide-companion and density vocabulary. They found the recorded cubic program, now cited, and no odd-prime wide-clause statement. One exact computation compared the size of \(\bar K_3\) with the entropy ceiling at four board sizes. A narrowly briefed fresh-context reviewer checked the reduction's proof in full: the degree bound, the telescoping of the product, the Fermat vanishing for inputs in \(S_b\), and the final degree for all \(k\ge1\). It found the reduction correct and not trivially true or false on the families it tested. It required the following, all adopted:

correct the comparison with the binary statement, which differs in base, chooser freedom, degree and width;
describe the density as a parameter condition, with the correct indicator;
name the weak base and restrict the scope to ordinary PHP;
state the proof's omitted checks;
replace the binary row-clause failure mode by the hole family, which works over the weak base;
redo the next step's nonvacuity count;
recompute the Part 2 ratios from the exact formula, and narrow the entropy lemma to single-element unions;
weaken the Kazhdan–Ziegler remark to an unchecked exponent question;
distinguish the all-prime affine source exclusion;
replace a letter-suffix name.

The corrections weaken or restate, apart from the hole-family example, which is a direct degree computation, so no second pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	15 min 55.06 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 33.45 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	12 min 13.63 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3.59 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	4.39 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Choosing the prefix sets: random sets make the hole family a sparse graph PHP, but padding refutes the uniform rule

23 September 2026 · Conditional proposition and a refutation · The uniform random rule fails under padding; the choice rule must see which inputs can vanish. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Choosing the prefix sets: random sets make the hole family a sparse graph PHP, but padding refutes the uniform rule”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-random-choice-rule.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The logarithmic-prefix reduction makes the odd-prime wide-clause statement sufficient for the ordinary-PHP goal, provided the prefix sets \(S_b\) are chosen suitably. The reviewer's hole family shows that one shared set refutes at low degree. The general implication at stake: a uniformly random choice of \(S_b\) keeps every polynomial family hard. The recorded random-conditioning and wide-clause evidence covers the generic extreme, uniformly random forms. This cycle studies the opposite extreme, literal-like forms, for the mechanism rather than as one more case, and tests the uniform rule. It ends with a conditional result for the hole family and a refutation of the uniform rule.

The hole family under a random choice

For each hole \(t\le n\) take the block \(b_t\) with the \(n+1\) inputs \(L_{t,j}=X_{jt}-1\), and choose \(S_t\), a \(k\)-subset of the pigeons, uniformly and independently. On Boolean points \(L^{p-1}=1-X\) and \(g=1-L^{p-1}=X\), with certificates of degree \(p-1\). So the image for \(i\notin S_t\) is \[ X_{it}\prod_{j\in S_t}(1-X_{jt})\;\equiv\;X_{it}\pmod{\text{collisions}}, \] because every other term of the product's expansion contains a collision \(X_{it}X_{jt}\). This holds at degree \(k+1\le(p-1)(k+1)\). Conversely each image is a multiple of \(X_{it}\). So at any degree at least \((p-1)(k+1)\), the base plus the images has the same PC closure as the base plus \(\{X_{it}=0:(i,t)\notin G_S\}\), where \(G_S=\{(i,t):i\in S_t\}\). That is the weak graph PHP on the random bipartite graph \(G_S\). Every hole has degree exactly \(k\), and each pigeon has binomial degree with mean \(kn/(n+1)\).

Proposition (hole family). Let \(k=\lceil(K+1)\ln n/\ln\frac p{p-1}\rceil\) be the reduction's value. Since \(1/\ln\frac p{p-1}>1\), this exceeds \((1+\varepsilon)\ln n\), so isolated pigeons, of probability about \(e^{-k}\) each, are absent with high probability. For smaller \(k\), below \((1-\varepsilon)\ln n\), they exist and the family is refuted at degree \(O(k)\). Suppose \(G_S\) is, with high probability, an \((s,\delta)\)-boundary expander on the pigeon side with maximum pigeon degree \(d=O(\log n)\) and \(\delta s/(2d)\) above \((4p-1)(p-1)k+d\). Then with high probability the hole family's image system has no PC refutation of degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\).

Proof. By the equivalence above, a refutation of the image system at that degree is one of the weak graph PHP on \(G_S\): set the deleted variables to 0, which does not raise degree and leaves each row equation over the pigeon's neighbours. The functional graph PHP's axioms derive the weak base's: \(1-\sum_{t\in N(i)}X_{it}\) follows from the pigeon clause and the row exclusions at degree \(d_i\). So such a refutation gives a functional one of degree at most \((4p-1)(p-1)k+d\). The imported Miksa–Nordström bound (ctx:php-linear-constraints-literature) excludes it. \(\square\)

The expansion hypothesis is heuristic here. For random bipartite graphs of logarithmic degree one expects unique-neighbour expansion with \(\delta\approx k\) for pigeon sets up to \(s\approx n/k\), and \(d\approx k\). That gives \(\delta s/(2d)\) of order \(n/k\), far above the needed degree, but it is not proved here. The imported Miksa–Nordström statement was not rechecked for the exact hypotheses: the side of the expansion, whether \(d\) is the maximum left degree, whether their functional graph PHP includes row exclusions, and whether it holds over \(\mathbb F_p\). So the proposition is conditional on both, and covers this one family.

The mechanism in this family

In the hole family, \(Q_{b_t}=\prod_{j\in S_t}(1-X_{jt})\) is the indicator that no pigeon of \(S_t\) sits in hole \(t\), which holds on almost all PHP-like points, far from the parameter density \((1-1/p)^k\). The images do not act as generic clauses there. Modulo the base they collapse to cell deletions, and a random choice leaves an expanding graph. Together with the shared-set example of the reduction entry, this shows that the density condition is not sufficient by itself. For this family the working measure is the expansion of the surviving graph.

Padding refutes the uniform rule

The fresh-context reviewer found a counterexample to the uniform random rule, which the draft had conjectured for all families. Take \(M=n\) blocks. For each hole \(t\), block \(b_t\) has one real input \(B_t=X_{1t}-1\) and \(N\approx n^2\) filler inputs that never vanish on Boolean points, for instance the distinct forms \(2-X_v\) over the other cells, with values 2 and 1. A uniform \(k\)-subset contains \(B_t\) with probability \(k/(N+1)\approx k/n^2\). So with probability at least \(1-k/n\), every \(S_{b_t}\) consists of fillers only. Then \(Q_{b_t}\equiv1\) at degree \((p-1)k\), since each filler's \(L^{p-1}\) is 1 on Boolean points. The fillers' own images vanish, because their \(g\) is 0. The real input's image is \(g_{B_t}\equiv X_{1t}\). All of pigeon 1's cells are deleted, and its row equation gives \(1=0\) at degree about \((p-1)(k+1)\), far below \((4p-1)(p-1)k\).

So a uniform choice can be turned back into the adversary's fixed choice by padding with forms that never, or almost never, vanish. The existential wide-clause statement survives this example: put \(B_t\) in \(S_{b_t}\). Any choice rule must see which inputs can vanish. Every candidate rule should be tested against padding by forms that are never zero, and by forms that are zero only on a vanishing fraction of points.

Assessment and next step

This cycle gives a conditional result for one family and refutes the natural uniform rule. The existential wide-clause statement, which the logarithmic-prefix reduction needs, stands. It needs a choice rule that looks at the inputs. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to define a rule that weights inputs by how often they vanish, and test it against the padding counterexample and the hole family. One candidate draws inputs with probability proportional to their vanishing mass under a fixed PHP design, one of degree above the image degree, so that the design sees each \(g_i\). The step also has to decide whether such a weighted rule reduces the literal-like part to cell deletions and the generic part to clauses. If no input-weighted rule survives padding by forms that vanish only on a polynomially small fraction, the existential statement needs a choice that depends on the whole family, and that is the next object.

Process. Stating the uniform rule as a general conjecture let the reviewer refute it in one step. That was worth more than extending the hole family. A padding test belongs in every future choice-rule statement.

Verification gate. Re-read: the logarithmic-prefix reduction and its hole-family remark, the imported Miksa–Nordström statement as recorded, and the recorded separated-space lemma, which is for a constructed sixteen-neighbour graph and so is not used. The collision reduction \(X_{it}\prod(1-X_{jt})\equiv X_{it}\) and the equivalence of closures were checked directly. Claim searches for random graph PHP, boundary expansion and choice rules found the imported literature context and the separated-space lemma, and no prior choice-rule statement. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the hole-family algebra, the closure equivalence and the conditional proof. It refuted the uniform-rule conjecture by padding, and required the reduction's exact \(k\), the isolated-pigeon threshold, the imported hypotheses to be named, and the overclaims removed. All were adopted, and the entry is reframed around the refutation.

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Measure-based choice rules fail: collision padding refutes the density rule, and a choice rule must be invariant modulo the base

23 September 2026 · Two working lemmas and a refutation · Any rule measuring vanishing under a fixed measure can be padded against. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Measure-based choice rules fail: collision padding refutes the density rule, and a choice rule must be invariant modulo the base”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-density-choice-rule.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The choice-rule entry refuted the uniform choice of prefix sets by padding with never-zero forms. The logarithmic-prefix reduction needs some suitable choice. The general implication at stake: a choice rule that sees which inputs can vanish makes the images of every block family either generic clauses of small total density, or structured constraints that a recorded mechanism handles. This cycle defines such a rule and tests it against padding. It ends with the rule refuted and with the property any rule must have.

The rule

Let \(\mu\) be the product measure on cell assignments in which each pigeon independently picks a uniform hole. The row equations hold; collisions may fail. Under \(\mu\) an affine form is \(L=c+\sum_if_i(U_i)\), with \(U_i\) the hole of pigeon \(i\) and \(f_i(t)\) the coefficient of \(X_{it}\). For a set \(S\) of a block's inputs let \(q(S)=\mu(\text{every }L_j,\ j\in S,\text{ is nonzero})\), the reference density of \(Q_S=\prod_{j\in S}L_j^{p-1}\). The density rule chooses \(S_b\), of size \(\min(k,h_b)\), minimizing \(q\), with ties broken uniformly at random.

Lemma (padding immunity). Let \(R\) be a set of a block's inputs, and suppose every other input has vanishing mass \(\mu(L=0)\le m_0\). Then, with \(k\) replaced by \(\min(k,h_b)\), the rule's density satisfies \(\min_{|S|=k}q(S)\ge\min_{T\subseteq R,\,|T|\le k}q(T)-k\,m_0\). In particular, inputs of \(\mu\)-mass 0 cannot lower the density below what \(R\) achieves; in that case \(q(S)=q(S\cap R)\). The immunity covers only \(\mu\)-null padding, not padding that is null modulo the base, as the next section shows.

Proof. \(q\) is non-increasing under enlarging \(S\). By the union bound, \(q(S)\ge q(S\cap R)-\sum_{j\in S\setminus R}\mu(L_j=0)\ge q(S\cap R)-k\,m_0\), and \(|S\cap R|\le k\). \(\square\)

In the padding counterexample, the real input's own density is about \(1-1/n\) and every filler has mass 0. A set containing the real input has density \(1-1/n\), strictly below the fillers' density of 1, so the rule does choose it. With the real input chosen, the filler images vanish modulo the Boolean axioms at degree \((p-1)(k+1)\), the real input has no image, and the padding refutation disappears. In the hole family every \(k\)-subset has the same density, \((1-1/n)^k\) under \(\mu\), so ties make the rule a uniform random choice, and the conditional hole-family proposition applies. The lemma removes padding as a way of hiding inputs; it does not by itself make every family good.

When the density is small

Lemma (anti-concentration under \(\mu\)). Call a row function \(f\) \(\eta\)-robust if every value class has at most \((1-\eta)n\) labels. Let \(L_1,\dots,L_k\) be forms such that every nonzero \(\mathbb F_p\)-combination has at least \(t\) \(\eta\)-robust rows. Then for every \(v\in\mathbb F_p^k\), \[ \big|\mu(L=v)-p^{-k}\big|\le(1-c_p\eta/2)^t,\qquad c_p=1-\cos(2\pi/p), \] and hence \(q(\{L_1,\dots,L_k\})\le(1-1/p)^k+p^k(1-c_p\eta/2)^t\).

Proof. For one row with value frequencies \(q_v\) and \(\omega=e^{2\pi i/p}\), \[ \Big|\sum_vq_v\omega^v\Big|^2=1-\sum_{u<v}2q_uq_v\big(1-\cos\tfrac{2\pi(u-v)}p\big)\le1-c_p\Big(1-\sum_vq_v^2\Big)\le1-c_p\eta, \] since \(\sum q_v^2\le\max q_v\le1-\eta\). So \(|E\omega^{f(U)}|\le1-c_p\eta/2\). For \(a\ne0\), the combination \(a\cdot L\) has at least \(t\) robust rows, the rows are independent under \(\mu\), and so \(|E\omega^{a\cdot L}|\le(1-c_p\eta/2)^t\). Fourier inversion over \(\mathbb F_p^k\) gives the first bound, and summing over the \((p-1)^k\) nonzero vectors \(v\) gives the second. \(\square\)

So for \(k\) inputs whose span is robustly wide, with \(t\gg k\log p/(c_p\eta)\), which is of order \(kp^2\log p/\eta\), that set has density at most \((1-1/p)^k+p^k(1-c_p\eta/2)^t\). The rule takes a minimum, which other inputs may push lower, as the next section shows.

Collision padding refutes the density rule

The fresh-context reviewer found padding that the rule prefers. For hole \(t\), keep the real input \(B_t=X_{1t}-1\), of \(\mu\)-mass \(1/n\). For every other hole \(s\), add the filler \(F_s=C_s-2\), with \(C_s=\sum_iX_{is}\) the column sum. Modulo collisions and Booleanity \(C_s\) is idempotent, so \(F_s\in\{-2,-1\}\) and \(F_s^{p-1}\equiv1\) at degree about \(p-1\): modulo the base, the fillers never vanish. Under \(\mu\), however, \(C_s\) is about Poisson(1), so \(\mu(F_s=0)\) is about \(e^{-1}/2\approx0.18\). Any \(k\) fillers have density about \(0.82^k\). Every set containing \(B_t\) has density about \((1-1/n)\,0.82^{k-1}\), which is larger, so the rule picks fillers only. Then \(Q\equiv1\) modulo the base, the fillers' images vanish, \(g_{B_t}Q\equiv X_{1t}\), pigeon 1 loses every cell, and the system is refuted at degree about \((p-1)(k+1)\). This is the draft-7 failure again. The cause is that \(\mu\) satisfies the rows but not the collisions, so \(\mu\)-mass is not invariant modulo the base.

The same objection applies to every fixed measure, because none is supported on solutions of the base: there are none. For instance, under "a random injection with pigeon \(n+1\) unplaced", the forms \(R_{n+1}+(R_i-1)\) vanish with mass 1 and are \(\equiv1\) modulo the base. So a choice rule must measure vanishing modulo the base, up to the substituted degree \(B=(4p-1)(p-1)k\). An input that the base proves nonzero within degree \(B\) must never be counted as helping. A fixed measure cannot do that. A degree-\(B\) object of the base, such as a design, might, but the anti-concentration lemma would have to be re-proved for it, since rows are no longer independent.

What the classification survives as

The draft classified blocks as generic (\(k\) robustly wide inputs), narrow (low nonlocal dimension, covered by the recorded endpoints), and a rare-local remainder described as Res(\(t\)) lines. The last description is wrong. The lemma with \(k=1\) gives only that an input of mass below \(1/(2p)\) has fewer than about \(2\ln(2p)/(c_p\eta)\) robust rows, and few robust rows does not mean few pigeons. The column form \(C_s-3\) at \(p=5\) has mass about \(0.06\), no robust row, and depends on every pigeon. The remainder also contains correlated inputs of mass about \(1/p\) each, such as one wide form plus local perturbations. What survives is the generic class, with the anti-concentration bound, and the narrow class, with the recorded endpoints. The rest is unclassified.

Assessment and next step

Two measure-based rules have now been refuted by padding: the uniform rule by never-zero forms, and the density rule by forms that vanish only on collisions. Each failure has the same cause, a measure that disagrees with the base. The general requirement is a base-invariant choice: the rule's notion of "this input can vanish" must be unchanged by adding base consequences of degree at most \(B\). The reduction needs only the existence of a good choice, not a computable rule. So the next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to formulate the existential choice directly in base-invariant terms. Exclude every input the base proves nonzero within degree \(B\), and characterize the good sets by a condition on the degree-\(B\) closure. Then test the formulation against both padding types and the hole family. If the characterization turns out to be the wide-clause statement restated, that shows the choice problem cannot be separated from the hardness problem, and the next object is the hardness problem itself.

Process. A second padding refutation, of the same kind as the first, shows that the next rule must be tested against base-null padding before it is written down, not after.

Verification gate. Re-read: the choice-rule entry's padding counterexample and hole-family proposition, the logarithmic-prefix reduction, and the nonlocal-dimension endpoint statements with their exceptional-line tolerance. The anti-concentration bound was derived directly, with explicit constants. Claim searches for Res(\(k\)) and \(k\)-DNF PHP bounds and for rare local events found no imported Res(\(k\)) result. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed both lemmas' proofs, including every step of the character bound. It refuted the density rule with collision padding, showed the rare-local description wrong with the column form, and required the threshold to include \(c_p\) and the density claim to become an upper bound. All were adopted, and the entry is reframed around the refutation.

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Route review: every open line of the thread now meets at one statement, polynomial calculus under many wide constraints

23 September 2026 · Route review · Choosing the prefix sets cannot be separated from hardness; the next step is the three-predicate case of the core statement. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: every open line of the thread now meets at one statement, polynomial calculus under many wide constraints”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-core-statement-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The logarithmic-prefix reduction proves that the superpolynomial lower bound for ordinary unary PHP in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) follows from the odd-prime wide-clause statement. For every polynomial family of blocks there is a choice of prefix sets \(S_b\) of logarithmic size such that the weak base plus the images \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\) has no PC refutation of degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\). What the goal needs is exactly that statement.

Choice and hardness cannot be separated

The last two cycles tried to split the statement into a choice rule plus a hardness theorem for the chosen system.

The uniform rule was refuted by never-zero padding.
The density rule was refuted by collision padding. No fixed measure agrees with the base, because the base has no solutions.
A fixed design is the base-invariant substitute for a measure. It helps only where the images are structured. For the hole family it works if chosen correctly: take a design \(\Lambda_0\) of graph PHP on a fixed random graph \(G\) of hole degree \(k\), and choose each \(S_t\) as hole \(t\)'s neighbourhood in \(G\). The images then delete exactly the cells outside \(G\), which \(\Lambda_0\) annihilates. For generic blocks it fails. An image \(g_iQ_S\) of a collectively wide set is annihilated, with all its multipliers, by a fixed functional only by accident. Each such constraint cuts the space of designs, which is the capacity count of the substitution entry. So polynomially many generic constraints need a design built for them, not chosen in advance.

So for generic blocks, a certificate that a choice is good is a design of the chosen system itself. There the choice problem is the hardness problem, and the wide-clause statement cannot be reduced to a choice rule plus a hardness theorem with a fixed witness. Structured blocks, literal and occupancy types, can be handled by fixed designs of restricted boards.

The core statement

Collecting the thread's lines shows they meet at one statement. Call it the core statement. PHP stays hard at polylogarithmic degree under polynomially many constraints, each asserting that a collectively wide family of forms avoids a small set of values, with total density below one. It appears in each line below.

The \(p\)-complex. The one-predicate and two-form lifts prove it for one or two constraints. The three-selector control refutes assembling it from pairs when the forms are dependent. Family compatibility is exactly its many-constraint case.
Random conditioning. The random-conditioning law and the recorded \(\mathbb F_2\) uniform degree-two theorem prove or support it for random affine constraints at degrees two and three. The entropy lemma explains why their counting method stops at degree three.
The logarithmic-prefix reduction. Its images are constraints of this kind.
The main record. Its central open obligation, the binary wide-clause statement, has this form.

The recorded endpoints handle narrow and occupancy-type constraints. The hole family shows that literal-type constraints reduce to graph PHP. What is left is the collectively wide case. The core statement is shared with the main goal, so progress on it serves both threads.

Falsification attempt

Could the core statement be false for polynomially many wide constraints of small total density? The recorded attacks all fail in ways that avoid it:

the structured row-clause example needs badly chosen flats;
the paddings defeat choice rules, not the existential statement;
the six-hole affine example has density above one;
the forced falls of the counting line occur beyond the density threshold.

No recorded construction refutes it inside its hypotheses. It is consistent with completeness, since it quantifies over polynomially many constraints. It also uses the size, as a sufficient condition must.

Assessment of this line

This line is weak in what it can deliver now, but clear in what it needs. The thread's goal rests on one statement, open in both characteristics. It is supported by consistent evidence at small degree and small size, and by proofs for one or two constraints. No known PC lower-bound technique handles dense constraints in quantity: expansion arguments need sparse constraints, and the counting method stops at degree three. The main record put its own version at about 3 percent. The odd-prime thread adds no counterevidence, and its reduction makes the statement sufficient for its whole goal.

Next step: the three-constraint case, aiming at the induction

The smallest open case of the core statement is three constraints whose forms are collectively wide and linearly independent. The recorded three-selector control only covers dependent forms. The two-form lift handles pairs through the \(p\)-complex's exactness for two commuting operators. For three it needs exactness of the Koszul-type complex of three operators, where the recorded projective proof does not port, since \(H^2(\mathbf P^2,\mathcal O(-3))\ne0\) in characteristic three.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to prove joint extension for three independent, collectively wide ternary predicates. The point of the case is not the number three but the inductive step from \(r\) to \(r+1\) constraints: a proof that adds one wide constraint to a system already known to extend, at a degree cost that does not grow with \(r\). A proof at \(r=3\) that uses only the \(r=2\) statement and the new constraint's width would be that induction. A proof that needs all three at once shows where the cost enters. The coded-row induction of the amplitude theorem, which adds one active row at a time with forced rows, is the model to adapt. Its analogue would add one constraint at a time with the earlier constraints forced.

One requirement follows from the size rule. An induction whose hypothesis is the joint width of all forms added so far reaches at most about \(n^2\) constraints, because beyond the dimension ceiling the forms span everything and joint width fails. The core statement needs polynomially many constraints. So the inductive step must rely on each new constraint's own width together with a density or genericity condition relative to the earlier ones, not on the joint width of all of them. The three-constraint case should be proved in that form, or the proof should show why it cannot be.

Process. Choice rules were refuted three times: by two paddings, and by a fixed design for generic blocks. The review makes the point general: the choice cannot be split off, and the thread's lines have one common core.

Verification gate. Re-read: the logarithmic-prefix reduction, both padding refutations, the hole-family proposition, the \(p\)-complex family review, the three-selector control, the random-conditioning entry and the entropy lemma. A first draft claimed that no fixed design handles the hole family. That is wrong: a design of graph PHP on a fixed random graph, with each \(S_t\) adapted to it, handles it. The section now restricts the inseparability to generic blocks. A claim search for simultaneous extension of many wide predicates found the recorded one- and two-predicate results and no three-predicate statement.

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Closed tuples need not lift for three or more forms at odd primes; symmetric targets lift on free modules, and the lift obstruction is an Ext group

23 September 2026 · Refutation and a working lemma · The many-operator lift holds for symmetric targets on free modules only. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Closed tuples need not lift for three or more forms at odd primes; symmetric targets lift on free modules, and the lift obstruction is an Ext group”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-symmetric-lift.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The core-statement review asked for an inductive step of joint extension from \(r\) to \(r+1\) wide constraints. The \(p\)-complex's tool for joint extension is the polarized common lift of the two-parameter lemma. The review noted that its projective proof does not port to three operators, since its third twist is \(-p\), which equals \(-3\) at \(p=3\), and \(H^2(\mathbf P^2,\mathcal O(-3))\ne0\). The implication at stake: exactness of every pencil direction, which width supplies through the amplitude theorem, gives an \(r\)-operator common lift. This cycle tests that on the free module, where every pencil is exact at every degree. It ends with the implication refuted, its correct form proved on free modules, and the remaining obstruction identified.

Width does not replace density

The cycle first checked whether width in every row, without density, controls the threshold. Take random occupancy forms \(L=\sum_sc_sC_s\), where \(C_s\) is the column sum and \(c\) is uniform in \(\mathbb F_3^n\). Add the predicates \(1-L^2\) (that is, \(L\ne0\)) to the weak base over \(\mathbb F_3\). Every nonzero combination is again an occupancy form, active on every row and robust unless its coefficients are nearly constant; the forms span at most \(n-1\) dimensions modulo rows and constants. The fast closure driver found the least refuted count at degree two: \(8\) and \(13\) at \(n=6\), and \(21\) and \(21\) at \(n=8\) (two seeds each). The general-form law is \(16\) and \(36\). These forms are refuted earlier than general ones, although they are as wide as possible. Each predicate forbids the set \(L=0\), of density \(1/3\); the core statement's density hypothesis bounds the total density of the forbidden sets below one, so these systems are far outside it. The check shows only that width does not substitute for density. Files: research/results/odd_prime_twise_width_20260923/occupancy_predicates.py and occupancy_n6.json, occupancy_n8.json.

Setting

Let \(k\) have prime characteristic \(p\) (odd, except in the remarks on \(p=2\)), and put \(\delta=p-1\) and \(R=k[D_1,\dots,D_r]/(D_1^p,\dots,D_r^p)\). This is the group algebra of \((\mathbb Z/p)^r\), with \(D_i=g_i-1\). Let \(C=\bigoplus_sC_s\) be a finite-dimensional graded \(R\)-module with each \(D_i\) of degree \(-1\). The \(p\)-complex with \(r\) forms is such a module. The weighted marginal \(\delta_i^f\) is linear in the row function \(f\); marginals on different rows commute, and on the same row both orders vanish, since \(\delta_i\) kills summands without row \(i\). So the forms' operators \(D_j=\sum_i\delta_i^{f^{(j)}_i}\) commute, and each \(\Theta_u\) is a sum of commuting square-zero maps, so \(\Theta_u^p=0\). Let \(A=\{\alpha\in\mathbb N^r:|\alpha|=\delta\}\) and \(m(\alpha)=\delta!/\alpha!\), a unit mod \(p\). Put \(\Theta_u=\sum_iu_iD_i\). The polarized lift of \(w\in C_{d+\delta}\) is the tuple \(\Lambda w=(m(\alpha)D^\alpha w)_{\alpha\in A}\) in \(C_d\), the coefficients of \(\Theta_u^\delta w\). A tuple \(z=(z_\alpha)\) in \(C_d\) is

closed if \(\Theta_u\sum_\alpha u^\alpha z_\alpha=0\) identically in \(u\), i.e. \(\sum_{i:\,b_i\ge1}D_iz_{b-e_i}=0\) for every \(|b|=p\). This is the two-parameter lemma's condition (TP-closed) for \(r=2\).
symmetric if \(D_iz_\alpha/m(\alpha)=D_jz_\beta/m(\beta)\) whenever \(\alpha+e_i=\beta+e_j\), and \(D_iz_{\delta e_i}=0\) for each \(i\).

Every lift is symmetric: \(D_iD^\alpha w=D^{\alpha+e_i}w\) depends only on \(\alpha+e_i\), and \(D_i^p=0\). Every symmetric tuple is closed. If \(\mu_b\) is the common value of \(D_iz_{b-e_i}/m(b-e_i)\), the closedness sum for \(b\) is \(\mu_b\sum_im(b-e_i)=\mu_b\,p!/b!\), since \(\sum_i\delta!\,b_i/b!=\delta!\,p/b!\). This is \(0\) mod \(p\) unless \(b=pe_i\), where the second symmetry condition applies. For \(r=2\) the two notions coincide, and so they do for \(p=2\) and every \(r\), where closedness reads \(D_iz_j+D_jz_i=0\) and \(D_iz_i=0\): this is the self/cross closedness of the recorded characteristic-two projective family lemma. For \(r=2\), the two preimages of \(b=(b_1,b_2)\) have \(m(b-e_1)/m(b-e_2)=b_1/b_2=-1\) mod \(p\), so the one symmetry equation is the closedness equation. For \(r\ge3\), a \(b\) with three nonzero coordinates has three preimages, and closedness gives one equation where symmetry gives two.

The closed-tuple lift fails for three or more operators

Proposition (closed-tuple failure). Let \(N_j=\binom{j+r-1}{r-1}\) count monomials of degree \(j\) in \(r\) variables. Suppose \(d\ge1\) and the map \(\pi:C_d\to C_{d-1}^r\), \(v\mapsto(D_iv)_i\), is surjective. Then the closed tuples in \(C_d\) exceed the lifts \(\Lambda C_{d+\delta}\) in dimension by at least \[ \dim C_{d-1}\cdot\Delta(p,r),\qquad \Delta(p,r)=rN_{p-1}-2N_p+r=N_{p-1}\,\frac{(r-2)(p-2)-2}{p}+r . \] \(\Delta(p,r)>0\) for every odd \(p\) and \(r\ge3\), and \(\Delta=0\) when \(r=2\) or \(p=2\).

Proof. Apply \(\pi\) to every entry. A tuple \(z\) maps to \(x_{\alpha,i}=D_iz_\alpha\in C_{d-1}\), and closedness depends only on \(x\): \(\sum_{(\alpha,i):\alpha+e_i=b}x_{\alpha,i}=0\) for each \(|b|=p\). These \(N_p\) equations involve disjoint sets of unknowns, each nonempty, and \(\pi\) is surjective, so the closed tuples map onto a space of dimension \(\dim C_{d-1}(rN_{p-1}-N_p)\). A lift maps to \(x_{\alpha,i}=m(\alpha)D^{\alpha+e_i}w\), which is determined by the moments \(D^bw\) with \(|b|=p\) and \(b\ne pe_i\), since \(D_i^p=0\). So the lifts map into a space of dimension at most \(\dim C_{d-1}(N_p-r)\). Lifts are closed, so the codimension is at least the difference. For the sign, \(N_p=N_{p-1}(p+r-1)/p\) gives the second form of \(\Delta\). If \(r\ge4\) or \(p\ge5\) (with \(r\ge3\)), then \((r-2)(p-2)\ge2\) and \(\Delta\ge r\). At \(p=r=3\), \(\Delta=-6/3+3=1\). For \(r=2\), \(N_{p-1}=p\) gives \(\Delta=-2+2=0\). For \(p=2\), \(\Delta=r^2-r(r+1)+r=0\). \(\square\)

In the matching complex. Take the top moment-correction spaces \(K\) of the amplitude theorem with \(r\) forms whose row functions are linearly independent modulo rows and constants. Then \(K_0=k\), and \(\pi:K_1\to k^r\) is given by \(r\) independent functionals, so it is surjective. Hence, at \(d=1\), there is a closed tuple indexed by \(A\) with no polarized lift, for every \(r\ge3\) and every odd \(p\), however wide the forms are. No width or robustness hypothesis can give the closed-tuple form of the \(r\)-operator lemma. For the free module \(R\) itself the pencil hypothesis holds at every degree: over \(\bar k\), a linear change of the \(D_i\) makes \(\Theta_u\) a coordinate, since \((\sum a_{ij}D_j)^p=\sum a_{ij}^pD_j^p=0\). The finite check agrees with \(\Delta\) exactly. It uses \(R\) with the monomials of degree \(e\) placed in degree \(r(p-1)-e\), so that the \(D_i\) lower degree. The table is lemma degree \(d=1\), where \(\dim C_0=1\):

\(p,r\)	closed	lifts	\(\Delta\)
3, 3	8	7	1
3, 4	20	16	4
5, 3	24	18	6
7, 3	48	33	15

Failures also occur at higher lemma degrees (for \(p=7,r=3\), at \(d=1,\dots,5\)); the binary cases and \(r=2\) fail nowhere. Files: free_module_lift.py, free_module_lift_graded.py and their JSON outputs in the same directory.

Symmetric targets lift on free modules

Lemma (symmetric lifting). Let \(F\) be a finitely generated graded free \(R\)-module. Every symmetric tuple \(z\) in \(F_d\) is \(\Lambda w\) for some \(w\in F_{d+\delta}\).

Proof. Put \(\zeta_\alpha=z_\alpha/m(\alpha)\). Let \(J\subset R\) be the ideal generated by the monomials \(D^\alpha\), \(\alpha\in A\). It has the \(k\)-basis of nonzero monomials \(D^\gamma\) with \(|\gamma|\ge\delta\) and all \(\gamma_i\le p-1\). Define \(\varphi(D^\gamma)=D^{\gamma-\alpha}\zeta_\alpha\) for any \(\alpha\in A\) with \(\alpha\le\gamma\).

Well defined. Two choices \(\alpha,\alpha'\le\gamma\) in \(A\) are joined by moves \(\alpha\to\alpha-e_j+e_i\) that stay below \(\gamma\): move one unit at a time from a coordinate where the current index exceeds \(\alpha'\) to one where it falls short. For one move, write \(\alpha=\beta+e_j\) and \(\alpha'=\beta+e_i\). Then \(\gamma-\beta\ge e_i+e_j\), and both values equal \(D^{\gamma-\beta-e_i-e_j}\) applied to \(D_i\zeta_{\beta+e_j}=D_j\zeta_{\beta+e_i}\), which is the symmetry condition.
\(R\)-linear. If \(\gamma_k<p-1\), then \(\varphi(D_kD^\gamma)=D_k\varphi(D^\gamma)\) with the same \(\alpha\). If \(\gamma_k=p-1\), then \(D_kD^\gamma=0\), and choosing \(\alpha=\delta e_k\le\gamma\) gives \(D_k\varphi(D^\gamma)=D^{\gamma-\delta e_k}D_k\zeta_{\delta e_k}=0\) by the second symmetry condition.

So \(\varphi:J\to F\) is an \(R\)-module map. The group algebra \(R\) is a Frobenius algebra, hence self-injective, so the free module \(F\) is injective and \(\varphi\) extends to \(R\to F\). Put \(w=\tilde\varphi(1)\). Then \(D^\alpha w=\varphi(D^\alpha)=\zeta_\alpha\), that is, \(z=\Lambda w\). The equations are homogeneous, so the degree-\((d+\delta)\) component of \(w\) is also a solution. \(\square\)

The finite check found symmetric tuples equal to lifts at every degree of \(R\) for \((p,r)=(3,3),(3,4),(5,3),(7,3),(5,4)\) (symmetric_lift.py, symmetric_lift.json).

The obstruction for a general module. The proof identifies symmetric tuples in \(C\) with \(\operatorname{Hom}_R(J,C)\) in the matching degree, and lifts with the image of \(\operatorname{Hom}_R(R,C)=C\). From \(0\to J\to R\to R/J\to0\), the symmetric tuples modulo lifts form \(\operatorname{Ext}^1_R(R/J,C)\) in that degree, with \(J=\mathfrak m^{p-1}\). By Dade's lemma (E. C. Dade, Ann. of Math. 108, 1978), a finite-dimensional \(R\)-module is free exactly when its restriction to every cyclic shifted subgroup \(k[\Theta_u]/(\Theta_u^p)\), \(u\in\bar k^r\setminus0\), is free. That is pencil exactness at every degree. So pencil exactness at every degree implies symmetric lifting at every degree, for every \(r\): freeness holds after extension to \(\bar k\), and solvability of the lifting equations descends to \(k\) because the ranks of a finite linear system and its augmented matrix do not change under field extension, as in the two-parameter lemma. Dade's lemma is imported and is not used in the lemma's proof.

What this does to the inductive step

The \(r\)-operator lift must be stated for symmetric targets. The closed form is false for every \(r\ge3\), so the missing step was never a proof technique for a true statement. For \(r=2\), and for \(p=2\), the two forms coincide, which is why the recorded lemmas needed only closedness.

Two gaps remain before this gives joint extension for many forms.

A degree window. The amplitude theorem gives pencil exactness only at degrees \(d\) with \(t\ge2d+p-a\) robust rows, not at every degree. So Dade's lemma does not apply as stated, and the matching complex need not be free. What is needed is a window version: vanishing of \(\operatorname{Ext}^1_R(R/\mathfrak m^{p-1},C)_d\) from pencil exactness in a bounded range of degrees around \(d\). The two-parameter lemma is such a statement for \(r=2\), using degrees \(d\), \(d+\delta\) and \(d+p\). At \(p=2\) the recorded projective family lemma uses exactness through degrees \(d,\dots,d+r-1\), a range that grows with \(r\). Whether it must grow at odd \(p\) is open. That is the point where the inductive step's cost may depend on \(r\).
The quadratic ceiling. Pencil exactness is needed for every direction in the span of all \(r\) forms. The span of more than about \(N^2\) forms contains narrow forms (the dimension bound \(d_t<N^2\)). So even with a window lemma, and even if symmetric lifting yields joint extension, which is not shown, this module route reaches the wide-conditioning conjecture's quadratic range, not polynomially many constraints. The core statement needs a mechanism that uses each constraint's own width with density, which the module lift does not supply.

Assessment and next step

This cycle settles the three-operator question in the \(p\)-complex line: the closed-tuple lift is false, the symmetric lift is the right statement, it holds on free modules, and its obstruction is an Ext group. A window lemma would be the local ingredient of joint extension for up to quadratically many wide forms; turning symmetric lifts into joint extension is a further unproved step, and the reach would still be short of the goal. Any mechanism for the core statement that works on at most \(t=\operatorname{polylog}\) constraints at a time needs this ingredient at a degree cost independent of \(t\). The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to decide the window question at the smallest nonvacuous size, then bound it.

Start at \(r=3\), \(p=3\) and \(d=1\), where the proposition lives. There \(K_0=k\), and a symmetric 6-tuple splits into its moment part, the values \(D^bw\) for the \(N_3-3=7\) mixed \(b\), and a part in \(\bigcap_j\ker D^{(j)}\subset K_1\). Decide by hand whether both parts lift from \(K_3\) under the two-parameter lemma's hypotheses. A computation is costly here: the robustness condition needs \(N>\tfrac32(3d+3p-1)=16.5\) labels, so labels \(\mathbb F_3^3\), and with eight rows \(\dim K_3\le\binom83\cdot27\cdot26\cdot25\approx9.8\times10^5\). A smaller board is useful only if pencil exactness is checked on it directly. If symmetric lifting fails at \(d=1\), pencil exactness at the two-parameter lemma's degrees is not enough for three operators, and the window must widen. If it holds, try the window lemma by induction on \(r\), with the two-parameter lemma as the base and the free-module proof as a guide. The cycle ends with the window's size as a function of \(r\), or with a counterexample.

Verification gate. Re-read: the two-parameter lemma and its proof, the amplitude theorem's statement, the family-transversal entry's dimension bound, and the ternary pair theorem's claim record. Claim searches (many-operator lifting, Dade and rank varieties, constant Jordan type, polarized three-operator lift) found the characteristic-two projective family lemma, the two-parameter lemma, the ternary pair theorem and the wide-conditioning conjecture, and no three-operator result at odd \(p\). The proposition's count was checked against the free-module computation at four \((p,r)\), with exact agreement. The lemma was checked at five \((p,r)\), at every degree. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the projection count, the formula and sign of \(\Delta\), the table, the symmetric-lift construction including the boundary case, the Ext identification and the statement of Dade's lemma. It required: commutation of different forms' operators to be proved, the characteristic-two family lemma and its growing window to be cited, descent to \(k\), the freeness assertion weakened, the claim about joint extension marked unproved, the ternary pair comparison dropped, and the tuple sizes and the density convention stated. All were adopted.

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Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	3.30 s

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Symmetric lifting follows from adding one form at a time with the earlier forms forced; in the matching complex no growth of the needed width is seen up to five forms

23 September 2026 · Working reduction lemma and a finite check · The forced-forms exactness it needs is unproved. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Symmetric lifting follows from adding one form at a time with the earlier forms forced; in the matching complex no growth of the needed width is seen up to five forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-cocycle-reduction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The symmetric-lift entry showed that the \(p\)-complex's many-operator lift holds for symmetric targets on free modules, and asked whether it holds in the matching complex \(K\) from pencil exactness in a degree window whose size does not grow with the number \(r\) of forms. Any mechanism for the core statement that treats polylogarithmically many constraints at a time needs that. At \(p=2\) the recorded projective family lemma and the collective parity-trade theorem (thm:collective-parity-trade-lift) need width \(d+s-1\) for \(s\) forms, which grows with \(s\). This cycle measures the width the matching complex actually needs, and looks for a proof whose window is independent of \(r\). It ends with a reduction whose number of levels is independent of \(r\), and with the measurement.

Finite check: the width threshold does not grow with \(r\)

Work at \(p=3\) and lemma degree \(d=1\), in the matching complex with the definitions of the amplitude theorem: \(K_s\) is the direct sum over \(s\)-row sets of arrays on injections into the labels with zero ordinary marginal in every row, and \(\delta_i\) is the \(f_i\)-weighted marginal. The script computes the symmetric tuples in \(K_1\) exactly, and the rank of the polarized lift map \(K_3\to K_1^{A}\), block by block over 3-row sets. First, dense random row functions on \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels:

At \(R=N=6\) the symmetric tuples have dimension 169 and all lift; the closed tuples have dimension 170, the one-dimensional deficit of the closed-tuple failure. At \(R=N=9\): 421 symmetric, all lift, 422 closed.
Narrow controls fail: \(R=N=3\) lifts none of 25; \(R=6,N=4\) lifts 20 of 97.

Then \(r\) forms with disjoint supports of \(t\) rows each, random row functions, \(N=7\) labels. The table gives symmetric dimension and lift rank; \(t=3\) fails and \(t=4\) lifts for every \(r\) tested (\(t\le2\) was run only for \(r\le3\)).

\(r\)	\(t=2\)	\(t=3\)	\(t=4\)
2	68 / 44	104 / 102	140 / 140
3	205 / 166	313 / 310	421 / 421
4	—	696 / 690	936 / 936
5	—	1305 / 1297	1755 / 1755

For \(r=2\) symmetric equals closed, so the first row is the recorded two-parameter regime. The threshold is one board and one seed per cell, at one degree, so it is evidence, not a theorem. No growth is seen for \(r\le5\) at \(d=1\) with \(N=7\). A linear law such as \(d+r-1\) would be separated only at \(r=5\), and logarithmic growth, or growth at higher \(d\), is not excluded. Larger runs of the same test would sharpen constants off the critical path, so the series stops here. Files: research/results/odd_prime_window_lift_20260923/ (matching_symmetric_lift.py, width_threshold.py and JSON outputs).

Reduction: symmetric lifting from first-order cocycles

Use the setting of the symmetric-lift entry: \(R=k[D_1,\dots,D_r]/(D_i^p)\), a graded \(R\)-module \(C\) with each \(D_i\) of degree \(-1\), \(\delta=p-1\), \(A=\{|\alpha|=\delta\}\), and symmetric tuples. Call \((c_1,\dots,c_r)\in C_{s-1}^r\) a cocycle if \(D_jc_i=D_ic_j\) for all \(i,j\) and \(D_i^{p-1}c_i=0\) for all \(i\). Say \(C\) has cocycle lifting at level \(s\) if every cocycle in \(C_{s-1}^r\) equals \((D_ic)_i\) for some \(c\in C_s\). For \(p=2\) cocycles are the self/cross-closed tuples of the recorded characteristic-two lemmas, and there \(\delta=1\) makes the first lemma below trivial: cocycle lifting at \(p=2\) is the recorded collective parity-trade theorem's conclusion.

Lemma (cocycle reduction). If \(C\) has cocycle lifting at levels \(d+1,\dots,d+\delta\), then every symmetric tuple in \(C_d\) is a polarized lift \(\Lambda w\), \(w\in C_{d+\delta}\).

Proof. Let \(\zeta_\alpha=z_\alpha/m(\alpha)\). The symmetric-lift entry's construction gives a well-defined \(R\)-linear map \(\varphi\) from \(J=\mathfrak m^{\delta}\) to \(C\) with \(\varphi(D^\alpha)=\zeta_\alpha\). Its proof uses only the symmetry conditions, not freeness. We build, for \(q=0,\dots,\delta\), elements \(u^{(q)}_\gamma\in C_{d+q}\) for \(|\gamma|=\delta-q\), with \(u^{(0)}_\alpha=\zeta_\alpha\) and \[ D_iu^{(q)}_\gamma=u^{(q-1)}_{\gamma+e_i}\qquad(1\le q\le\delta,\ |\gamma|=\delta-q,\ 1\le i\le r). \] By induction this gives \(D^\beta u^{(q)}_\gamma=\zeta_{\gamma+\beta}\) for \(|\beta|=q\). Here \(\gamma+\beta\in A\), because \(\gamma_i+\beta_i\le\delta\). Suppose \(u^{(q-1)}\) is built, and fix \(\gamma\) with \(|\gamma|=\delta-q\). Put \(c_i=u^{(q-1)}_{\gamma+e_i}\in C_{d+q-1}\).

Cross condition: for \(q=1\), \(D_jc_i=D_j\zeta_{\gamma+e_i}\) and \(D_ic_j=D_i\zeta_{\gamma+e_j}\) agree by symmetry. For \(q\ge2\), both equal \(u^{(q-2)}_{\gamma+e_i+e_j}\).
Self condition: \(D_i^{p-1}c_i=D_i^{p-q}\,D_i^{q-1}u^{(q-1)}_{\gamma+e_i}=D_i^{p-q}\zeta_{\gamma+qe_i}=\varphi(D_i^{p-q}D^{\gamma+qe_i})\). The last monomial has \(i\)-exponent \(\gamma_i+p\ge p\), so it is \(0\) in \(R\).

So \((c_i)\) is a cocycle, and cocycle lifting at level \(d+q\) gives \(u^{(q)}_\gamma\in C_{d+q}\) with \(D_iu^{(q)}_\gamma=c_i\). At \(q=\delta\), \(w=u^{(\delta)}_0\in C_{d+\delta}\) satisfies \(D^\alpha w=\zeta_\alpha\) for every \(\alpha\in A\), which is \(z=\Lambda w\). \(\square\)

Lemma (forced-forms cocycle lifting). Put \(M_j=\bigcap_{l>j}\ker D_l\), with \(M_r=C\). Suppose that for each \(j\), every \(x\in M_j\cap C_{s-1}\) with \(D_j^{p-1}x=0\) equals \(D_jy\) for some \(y\in M_j\cap C_s\). Then \(C\) has cocycle lifting at level \(s\).

Proof. Let \((c_i)\) be a cocycle. Since \(c_r\in M_r\) and \(D_r^{p-1}c_r=0\), write \(c_r=D_ry_r\) and replace \(c_i\) by \(c_i-D_iy_r\) for every \(i\). This is again a cocycle, now with \(c_r=0\). Then \(D_rc_i=D_ic_r=0\), so every \(c_i\in M_{r-1}\). Next \(c_{r-1}\in M_{r-1}\) and \(D_{r-1}^{p-1}c_{r-1}=0\), so \(c_{r-1}=D_{r-1}y_{r-1}\) with \(y_{r-1}\in M_{r-1}\). Subtracting \((D_iy_{r-1})_i\) keeps \(c_r=0\), because \(D_ry_{r-1}=0\), and makes \(c_{r-1}=0\). By the cross condition the remaining \(c_i\) then lie in \(M_{r-2}\). Continue down to \(j=1\). The subtracted gradients sum to \((D_ic)_i\) with \(c=\sum_jy_j\). \(\square\)

The elimination is the standard argument for first cohomology of commuting operators. Its hypothesis, lifting inside the joint kernel of other forms, is the odd-prime counterpart of the recorded binary relative coded parity lift: global targets in the common top kernel of local codes lift within that kernel, at width \(d+s-1\). That proof goes through the projective lemma, not through elimination. So the lemma is recorded as a refinement of the odd-prime route with a binary analogue, not as a new mechanism.

Together: symmetric lifting at degree \(d\) follows from the hypothesis of the second lemma at the \(p-1\) levels \(d+1,\dots,d+\delta\). The number of levels does not depend on \(r\). The dependence on \(r\) now sits in the forced-forms hypothesis, where \(M_j\) carries \(r-j\) forced forms; in the binary analogue the width needed grows with exactly that number, so the width this hypothesis needs may still grow with \(r\). The hypothesis is one statement about one form at a time: the form \(D_j\) is exact, in the position \(\ker D^{p-1}=\operatorname{im}D\), on the joint kernel of the forms added before it. This is the shape the core-statement review asked for: an inductive step from \(r\) to \(r+1\) with the earlier constraints forced. On a free module the hypothesis holds: for \(F=R\), \(M_j=R_j\prod_{l>j}D_l^{p-1}\) with \(R_j=k[D_1,\dots,D_j]/(D_i^p)\), which is free over \(R_j\), hence over \(k[D_j]/(D_j^p)\), so \(\ker D_j^{p-1}=\operatorname{im}D_j\) inside \(M_j\), degree by degree. In the matching complex it is unproved. The amplitude theorem's forced-row version forces the weighted marginals of individual rows, not the vanishing of a whole form's operator, so it does not apply directly.

What this changes

Symmetric lifting, the local ingredient of joint extension, now has a sufficient condition: forced-forms exactness at \(p-1\) levels. It is only sufficient; it may fail where cocycle or symmetric lifting holds. The measured threshold shows no growth with \(r\) up to five forms at \(d=1\). The two gaps of the symmetric-lift entry change as follows.

The window gap becomes forced-forms exactness in the matching complex, whose width may still depend on the number of forced forms.
The quadratic ceiling is unchanged. The joint kernels shrink as forms are added, and once the forms span everything no wide form is left. The joint extension step from symmetric lifts to designs is also still unproved.

Assessment and next step

The local ingredient now has a one-form-at-a-time sufficient condition, and the data at \(d=1\) show no growth in \(r\) up to five forms. The route to the core statement still lacks a mechanism for density. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is forced-forms exactness. First test it directly in the matching complex at \(p=3\), \(r=3\), disjoint supports of \(t=4\) rows and \(N=7\) labels, at the levels \(s=2,3\) the reduction uses, together with cocycle lifting itself at those levels, so that a failure of the stronger condition is not mistaken for a failure of the reduction's hypothesis. \(K_2\) has \(66\cdot29=1914\) dimensions and \(K_3\) has \(220\cdot104=22{,}880\), so level 3 needs the compiled GF(3) elimination, not the Python one. If it holds, adapt the amplitude theorem's forced-row induction so that the forced object is a whole form's operator. The test ends the question for this size; the proof attempt ends with forced-forms exactness at a width independent of \(r\), or with the point where the forced form's width enters.

Verification gate. Re-read: the amplitude theorem's statement and the definitions of \(K\) and \(\delta_i\) (moment-correction spaces as top chessboard cycles), the symmetric-lift entry's lemma and construction of \(\varphi\), and the recorded binary claims found by the search (projective family lemma, collective parity-trade theorem, relative coded parity lift). Claim searches for cocycle and gradient lifting, self/cross-closed tuples and forced-row exactness on joint kernels found those binary results and no odd-prime reduction. The lift ranks are exact computations over \(\mathbb F_3\), with closed-tuple dimensions as a control. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed both inductions, the free-module claim and the scripts. It required: the binary analogues to be cited in the body and the lemma labelled as their odd-prime counterpart, the statement that the forced-forms width may still grow with \(r\), "sufficient" instead of an equivalence, no binary contrast, the finite-check conclusion limited to \(r\le5\) at \(d=1\), the untested small \(t\) stated, the control file regenerated with its closed-tuple count, and cocycle lifting added to the next test. All were adopted.

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Total instrumented interval	10 min 48.91 s
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Computation design and coding	2 min 35.54 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	48.13 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 43.56 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	6.76 s

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Forced-forms exactness in the matching complex: in these checks additional forced forms do not raise the width, which coincides with the amplitude theorem's one-form row count

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Three forms on seven labels, levels two and three. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Forced-forms exactness in the matching complex: in these checks additional forced forms do not raise the width, which coincides with the amplitude theorem's one-form row count”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-forced-forms-check.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The cocycle reduction derives the symmetric many-operator lift at degree \(d\) from forced-forms exactness at the levels \(s=d+1,\dots,d+\delta\): every \(x\in M_j\cap K_{s-1}\) with \(D_j^{p-1}x=0\) is \(D_jy\) with \(y\in M_j\cap K_s\), where \(M_j=\bigcap_{l>j}\ker D_l\). It left open whether this holds in the matching complex, and whether the width it needs grows with the number \(r-j\) of forced forms, as the width of the binary analogues does. This cycle computes both sides exactly at the smallest nonvacuous size, \(p=3\), \(d=1\) (levels 2 and 3), together with cocycle lifting itself, the reduction's actual hypothesis. It ends with the width at which each holds, with and without forced forms.

The computation

The matching complex is as in the amplitude theorem. \(K_s\) is spanned by arrays on injections of \(s\)-row sets into \(N=7\) labels with zero ordinary marginal in every row, and \(D_l\) is the sum of the \(f^{(l)}_i\)-weighted marginals. The script builds \(D_l:K_s\to U_{s-1}\) block by block in per-set bases of \(K_s\). Here \(U_{s-1}\) is the full array space; it contains \(K_{s-1}\). All ranks are exact over \(\mathbb F_3\) with the recorded bit-sliced elimination. For each level and each \(j=r,\dots,1\) it compares

\(\dim(\ker D_j^{2}\cap M_j\cap K_{s-1})\) with \(\dim D_j(M_j\cap K_s)\): forced-forms exactness holds when they are equal;
the cocycles in \(K_{s-1}^r\) with the gradients of \(K_s\): cocycle lifting.

At level 2, \(D_j^2\) maps \(K_1\) to zero, so the kernel side is all of \(M_j\cap K_1\). Forms have disjoint supports of \(t\) rows each, or are dense (every form on all \(rt\) rows), with random row functions. The largest case has \(\dim K_3=47{,}320\). Each case ran in under 90 seconds on 12 threads.

Results

Level 3 entries are kernel / image for \(j=r,\dots,1\), then cocycles / gradients. Level 2 was exact in every case with \(N=7\), including \(t=3\) (\(54/54,53/53,52/52\) and \(159/159\)), matching its row condition \(|I|\ge3\). Seeds are recorded in the JSON outputs (0, 24, 25, 33, 34, 35, 104, 105).

forms	level 3, forced-forms exactness	level 3, cocycles
\(r=2\), disjoint, \(t=4\)	811/810, 763/759	1574/1569
\(r=2\), disjoint, \(t=5\)	1304/1304, 1244/1244	2548/2548
\(r=3\), disjoint, \(t=3\)	1043/1027, 989/973, 936/920	2968/2920
\(r=3\), disjoint, \(t=4\)	1913/1912, 1841/1840, 1770/1766	5524/5518
\(r=3\), disjoint, \(t=5\)	3044/3044, 2954/2954, 2865/2865	8863/8863
\(r=3\), dense, 12 rows	1913/1913, 1841/1841, 1770/1770	5524/5524
\(r=3\), dense, 15 rows	3044/3044, 2954/2954, 2865/2865	8863/8863

A tiny control (\(r=2\), \(t=2\), \(N=5\)) fails at both levels.

What the numbers say

The threshold coincides here with the one-form row count. At level 3 the case \(j=r\) has no forced form. It is plain exactness of one form in the position \(\ker D^2=\operatorname{im}D\) on \(K_2\). The amplitude theorem's row condition for that position is \(|I|\ge2\cdot2+1=5\). With disjoint supports it first holds at \(t=5\), and there every forced case holds too, for one and for two forced forms. Its robustness condition, \(Q=8\) deletions, cannot hold with seven labels, and fails at level 2 too. So exactness holds although the robustness hypothesis fails: that hypothesis is not necessary at this size. With one label count and one seed per case, the data cannot separate the row count from label effects.
Below the threshold, forced positions can fail by more. At \(r=3\), \(t=4\) the deficits for \(j=3,2,1\) are \(1,1,4\). At \(r=2\), \(t=4\) they are \(1,4\), so a single forced form already reaches four. The deficit is not a function of the number of forced forms. At \(r=3\), \(t=3\) every position fails by 16. No forced position failed at a width where the unforced position holds.
The reduction costs one level of width, not more. Symmetric lifting at \(d=1\) held already at \(t=4\) (previous entry). The reduction's hypothesis needs \(t=5\) with disjoint supports, because it uses exactness on \(K_{d+\delta-1}\) in the position \(\ker D^{p-1}=\operatorname{im}D\). That costs \(2(d+\delta-1)+1\) rows by the amplitude theorem. The recorded two-parameter lemma uses the \(K_{d+\delta}\) position, which costs \(2(d+\delta)+1\), more than the reduction. Dense forms at 12 rows satisfy everything.

So, at this size, the dependence on \(r\) that the cocycle reduction moved into the forced-forms hypothesis does not appear: the width needed coincides with the amplitude theorem's row count for one form. The evidence is one seed per case, one label count, \(d=1\) and at most two forced forms. The case \(r=4\) would need about 8 GB for the stacked operators and would only extend a prediction that already failed at two forced forms, so the series stops here.

Assessment and next step

The local ingredient of the core statement now has a concrete target. Prove forced-forms exactness in the matching complex at the one-form width of the amplitude theorem, uniformly in the number of forced forms. The data at the smallest size support that target. A proof would give the symmetric many-operator lift for any number of wide forms at a degree cost independent of that number, within the quadratic ceiling. The step from symmetric lifts to joint extension and the density mechanism would remain open.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is that proof for disjoint supports. Decompose \(K\) by the set \(A\subseteq I_l\) of rows of a forced form's support that an array uses. The other forms' operators preserve this grading, and \(D_l\) is the differential of a cube over subsets of \(I_l\), built from commuting square-zero maps \(\delta_i\). The plan has three parts:

show that each graded piece is exact for \(D_j\) at the amplitude theorem's width, as a forced-row statement with ordinary rather than weighted marginals on \(A\);
show that the kernel of the cube differential inherits exactness;
induct on the number of forced forms.

The cycle ends with the proof, or with the step where the forced forms' number enters.

Verification gate. Re-read: the cocycle-reduction entry's two lemmas and next step, the amplitude theorem's statement with its row and robustness conditions, and the definition of \(K\). The script reuses the matching-complex conventions of the previous entry's check. The tiny and \(t=3\) cases fail at level 3 as controls, and in every output the image is at most the kernel and the gradients at most the cocycles. No mathematical claim is made beyond the finite check. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that the script computes the stated quantities, including the level-2 handling of \(D_j^2\) and kernels taken in the full array space, and that the table and row counts are right. It required the level-2 threshold corrected to \(t\ge3\), the deficit pattern stated for both \(r\), "coincides" instead of "is" for the threshold, the robustness remark clarified, "additional" instead of "earlier" forced forms, and the seeds recorded. All were adopted.

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Individually measured computation	3 min 53.76 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	3.35 s

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Route review: the local-lift line has a sharp target but does not reach density; the next step moves to how density enters

23 September 2026 · Route review · The forced-forms proof met two obstacles; linear window growth in the number of forced forms is enough for a local mechanism. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the local-lift line has a sharp target but does not reach density; the next step moves to how density enters”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-local-lift-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The last three cycles built a local ingredient for the core statement. They found:

the \(p\)-complex's many-operator lift holds for symmetric targets;
it follows from forced-forms exactness, where each form is exact on the joint kernel of the forms already added;
that hypothesis holds in the matching complex at \(p=3\), \(d=1\), from the amplitude theorem's one-form row count, with up to two forced forms.

The line's claim is that joint extension for many wide constraints can be built from this ingredient. What the goal needs is the core statement: polynomially many collectively wide constraints of total density below one, at polylogarithmic degree.

The proof attempt, and a correction of the requirement

This cycle opened on a proof of forced-forms exactness for forms with disjoint supports. The smallest case is one forced form: \(\Theta\) exact, in the position \(\ker\Theta^{p-1}=\operatorname{im}\Theta\), on \(\ker D\). Two routes stopped.

The projective route gives nothing at odd \(p\). A solution is a constant section \(y\) of \(M_s\otimes\mathcal O\) with \((u\Theta+vD)y=u\,x\) for all \((u:v)\). With exact pencils, the obstruction to lifting \(u\,x\) lies in \(H^1\) of the kernel bundle of \(u\Theta+vD\) on \(M_s\). That bundle is resolved by \(M_{s+\delta}\otimes\mathcal O(-\delta)\), and \(H^1(\mathbf P^1,\mathcal O(-\delta))\) has dimension \(\delta-1\), nonzero for \(p\ge3\). At \(p=2\) it vanishes, which is why the binary lemmas go through. So the vanishing argument of the two-parameter lemma gives no proof in this position at odd \(p\). This is a limit of the method, not a counterexample: the computed cases hold.
Row insertion does not preserve a forced form. The amplitude theorem's induction inserts an active row \(i\) by tensoring with a vector \(c\) on row \(i\), chosen outside the labels of each small tensor of a coded-trade expansion. A weighted marginal on a forced row \(k\) then acquires the correction \(c(\omega)f_k(\omega)\) at the collision label. So insertion commutes with \(D_l\) only when one \(c\) avoids the labels of every tensor, which is impossible for targets of large support. The forced-row version of the theorem avoids this by forcing individual weighted marginals, which \(\bigcap_{i\in I_l}\ker\delta_i\subsetneq\ker D_l\) does not capture.

The requirement was also overstated. The earlier entries asked for a degree cost independent of the number of forced forms. A local mechanism handles at most \(t=\operatorname{polylog}n\) constraints at a time. So a window that grows by \(O(p)\) per forced form costs \(O(pt)\) extra degree and \(O(pt)\) extra rows of width. Both are polylogarithmic, within the core statement's degree and far below the forms' width. Linear growth is enough; that is what an induction over forced forms using the two-parameter lemma at each step would give, if the one-forced-form position could be handled.

Falsification attempt: does anything in the record refute the line's use of density?

The core statement's density condition is the one hypothesis the local line never uses. The record's refutations and falls all sit at total density at least one:

the random affine thresholds, whose equations each forbid density \(1-1/p\);
the occupancy predicates of the symmetric-lift entry, refuted from 8 predicates of density \(1/3\) each;
the three-selector control, whose selectors \(a\ne0\), \(b\ne0\), \(a+b\ne0\) forbid density \(1/3\) each, total exactly one. The degree fall there derives the consequence \(a=b\), not a refutation, and the satisfying set \(a=b\ne0\) keeps density \(2/9\).

So no recorded example refutes the core statement, and the three-selector control sits exactly at the density boundary. But none of the line's results uses density either. A principle deriving joint extension from local lifts alone would hold at every density. It would then contradict the occupancy and affine refutations, provided their small subfamilies have local designs; the next step checks that. So the local line cannot be the whole mechanism. Density has to enter in the gluing.

Assessment of this line

The local-lift line has made steady progress on its own question:

a refutation of the closed-tuple lift;
the symmetric lift on free modules;
a reduction to forced-forms exactness;
finite evidence that the hypothesis holds at the one-form width.

Its remaining proof is harder than expected at odd \(p\). More importantly, it is not the highest-risk part. Even complete, it supplies local lifts for polylogarithmically many constraints, or at most about \(N^2\) wide forms. It is silent on density, which the occupancy and affine examples show is indispensable. Continuing to refine it would be refining a sufficient sub-step while the necessary one stays untouched. The line is set aside with a restart condition: a density mechanism that consumes local lifts of \(O(\operatorname{polylog})\) forms.

Next step: how density enters the gluing

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to state a density-weighted local-to-global principle precisely, and test it against the record before any proof. Its shape: if every subfamily of at most \(t\) constraints has a degree-\(D+O(pt)\) design, and the constraints' total density is below one, then the whole family has a degree-\(D\) design. Density must enter through counting over \(\mathbb F_p\): through the number of value patterns of the forms that avoid all forbidden sets, not through probabilities, which a finite-field design cannot use.

First, check the principle against the occupancy predicates, the random affine thresholds and the three-selector control. For each, compute the total density and the size of the subfamilies a refutation uses. The principle must exclude each refuted case through the density hypothesis alone.
Then find its simplest nontrivial case. The candidate is constraints on disjoint row blocks, where local lifts are available. There, compare total density just below one with just above one at the same local data.

The cycle ends with a principle consistent with the record and a named first case, or with a recorded example that no density-weighted principle can accommodate.

Process. Three cycles refined one sub-step before this review asked whether it is the critical one. The route check in CLAUDE.md already requires that question when a line produces special cases without moving the general implication; it applied a cycle earlier than it was asked.

Verification gate. Re-read: the core-statement review, the last three entries, the two-parameter lemma's proof, the amplitude theorem's forced-row induction, and the three-selector control. The \(H^1\) computation uses \(h^1(\mathbf P^1,\mathcal O(m))=-m-1\) for \(m\le-2\). The density values are those of the cited entries. This review proves nothing new and registers no claim.

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Density is not what the thresholds follow: one constraint reduces to wide conditioning of one pattern, two kinds of deciding design are capped, and Conjecture SR's count fits the recorded thresholds

23 September 2026 · A working lemma, a control and observations · The density hypothesis is a surrogate; the count of Conjecture SR is the working heuristic. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Density is not what the thresholds follow: one constraint reduces to wide conditioning of one pattern, two kinds of deciding design are capped, and Conjecture SR's count fits the recorded thresholds”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-density-principle.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The local-lift review asked for a density-weighted local-to-global principle, checked against the record. The implication at stake: the core statement's hypothesis that the total density of the forbidden sets is below one is what makes many wide constraints harmless. This cycle tests where density can act and ends with it replaced.

Setting

A constraint \(b\) has forms \(L_b=(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,k_b})\), affine over \(\mathbb F_p\), and a forbidden set \(F_b\subseteq\mathbb F_p^{k_b}\) of density \(\rho_b=|F_b|p^{-k_b}\). It is imposed by the equations \(\chi_v(L_b)=0\) for \(v\in F_b\), where \(\chi_v(L)=\prod_j\bigl(1-(L_j-v_j)^{p-1}\bigr)\) has degree \((p-1)k_b\). Two identities are used. First, \(\sum_{v\in\mathbb F_p^k}\chi_v(L)=1\) as polynomials, since \(\sum_{c\in\mathbb F_p}(1-(y-c)^{p-1})=1\). Second, \((y-v)\bigl(1-(y-v)^{p-1}\bigr)=y-y^p\) exactly, since \(v^p=v\). So \((L_j-v_j)\chi_v(L)\) is \((L_j-L_j^p)\) times a polynomial, of degree at most \((p-1)k+1\). And \(L^p-L=\sum_ia_i(x_i^p-x_i)\) for an affine form \(L=c+\sum_ia_ix_i\), with \(x^p-x=(x^2-x)(x^{p-2}+\dots+1)\), so Booleanity derives it at degree \(p\).

The planned test is vacuous

Every refutation and degree fall in the record has total density at least one:

random affine equations, each forbidding density \(1-1/p\);
the occupancy predicates of the symmetric-lift entry, each forbidding density \(1/3\);
the three-selector control, at total exactly one, which derives a consequence, not a refutation.

So the record cannot test a principle whose only extra hypothesis is density below one. The tests below replace it.

One constraint: density plays no role

Lemma (single-constraint dichotomy). Let \(B\) be any polynomial system containing the Boolean axioms, and fix affine forms \(L=(L_1,\dots,L_k)\). The PHP axioms are not used: part 1 uses nothing from \(B\), and part 2 uses only Booleanity.

If \(B+\{L=v\}\) has no PC refutation of degree \(E\), then for every \(F\) with \(v\notin F\), \(B+\{\chi_w(L)=0:w\in F\}\) has none of degree \(E\).
If \(B+\{L=v\}\) has a PC refutation of degree \(E'\) for some \(v\), then \(B\) derives \(\chi_v(L)=0\) at degree \(E'+(p-1)k\). So the constraint forbidding \(F=\mathbb F_p^k\setminus\{v\}\), of density \(1-p^{-k}<1\), is refuted at degree \(E'+(p-1)k\).

Proof.

For \(w\in F\) choose a coordinate \(j\) with \(w_j\ne v_j\). The factor \(1-(L_j-w_j)^{p-1}\) of \(\chi_w\), taken modulo \(L_j-v_j\), becomes \(1-(v_j-w_j)^{p-1}=0\). So \(\chi_w=(L_j-v_j)h_w\) exactly, with \(\deg h_w<(p-1)k\). In a PC refutation of the constraint system, replace each axiom line \(\chi_w\) by its derivation from \(L_j-v_j\) by multiplications, of degree \(\deg\chi_w\le E\). This gives a refutation of \(B+\{L=v\}\) of degree \(E\).
Multiply every line of a degree-\(E'\) PC refutation of \(B+\{L=v\}\) by \(\chi_v\). Linear combinations and multiplications by variables commute with this, and degrees rise by \((p-1)k\). Lines from \(B\) become multiples of axioms of \(B\). An axiom line \(L_j-v_j\) becomes, by the second identity, a multiple of \(L_j^p-L_j\) of degree at most \((p-1)k+1\), derivable from Booleanity. The last line becomes \(\chi_v\). So \(B\) derives \(\chi_v\) at degree \(E'+(p-1)k\). With the constraint equations, \(1=\chi_v+\sum_{w\ne v}\chi_w\) by the first identity. \(\square\)

So, over all forbidden sets \(F\ne\mathbb F_p^k\) on fixed forms \(L\), harmlessness of every such constraint is equivalent, up to \((p-1)k\) degrees, to hardness of the affine conditioning \(L=v\) for every pattern \(v\). Density plays no part beyond \(F\ne\mathbb F_p^k\). This is the question of the recorded wide-conditioning conjecture. The mechanism is the Fermat-selector dichotomy of the recorded retained affine-conditioning corollary (cor:retained-affine-conditioning-gap): either the selector lies in the base's ideal at its own degree, or conditioning preserves hardness. That corollary is for a complete affine layer over the full functional board; this lemma restates it for avoidance constraints on any Boolean base, so it is a refinement, not a new mechanism.

Robustness is necessary even at small density

Control (Boolean image). Take the occupancy forms \(C_1,\dots,C_k\), where \(C_s\) is the sum of column \(s\), and forbid \(F=\{0,1\}^k\), of density \((2/p)^k<1\). The weak base with this one constraint is refuted at degree \((p-1)k\).

Proof. By Booleanity and the collisions, \(C_s^2-C_s\) lies in \(B\) at degree two. The polynomial \(e_s=\chi_0(C_s)+\chi_1(C_s)-1\) has degree at most \(p-1\) and vanishes at \(0\) and \(1\), so \(e_s=C_s(C_s-1)q_s\). Then \(\sum_{v\in\{0,1\}^k}\chi_v=\prod_s(1+e_s)=1+\sum_{\emptyset\ne S}\prod_{s\in S}e_s\). Every term of the last sum is a multiple of some \(C_s^2-C_s\), of degree at most \((p-1)k\). Subtracting the constraint equations gives \(1=0\). \(\square\)

For \(k<N\) every nonzero combination of the \(C_s\) is active on every row (with all \(N\) columns, \(\sum_sC_s\) is constant modulo rows). But a single \(C_s\) has row function one label away from a constant, so the family is not robust. The recorded control \(C_j=1\) made the same point for affine equations at density above one; this one shows that density below one does not replace robustness.

Deciding designs are capped

Call a design deciding if it satisfies every constraint by conditioning on an event that implies it. The two kinds below stop short of polynomially many generic constraints. The constant-row clamp's non-affine substitutions and mixtures of designs are not covered.

Affine deciding. Conditioning on \(L_b=w_b\) for allowed joint patterns needs the joint span of the conditioned forms to be wide. Otherwise the wide-conditioning conjecture certifies nothing, and by the recorded dimension bound that caps it below \(N^2\). At full rank the cap is real, not only a limit of the conjecture; between the dimension bound and full rank nothing is shown. Observation: once the conditioned forms span all linear parts modulo rows, every cell is fixed to a constant modulo the row equations. The base axioms then become constants, and one of them is nonzero because PHP has no Boolean solutions. That is a refutation of degree at most two. Density enters the affine route only through a union bound over \(\mathbb F_p\): if each constraint's forms are independent modulo rows and constants, the joint allowed patterns in the image \(W\) of the joint linear map have density at least \(1-\sum_b\rho_b>0\). That is correct, but useful only below the cap.
Multiplier deciding. Conditioning a base design on the product \(\prod_b s_b\) of satisfaction indicators \(s_b=1-\sum_{v\in F_b}\chi_v\) is the recorded old-multiplier mechanism of the flat value-choice corollary (cor:rank-free-flat-value-choice). Its degree \(\sum_b(p-1)k_b\) plus the target degree \(D\) must stay below the base's own degree, about \(N/2\). So it reaches fewer than \(N/(2(p-1)k)\) constraints.

So a design for polynomially many generic constraints can be neither affine-deciding nor multiplier-deciding. The remaining candidates are non-deciding designs, which annihilate \(m\chi_v\) for low-degree \(m\) without conditioning on satisfaction, like the \(p\)-complex's moment corrections, and the clamp's non-affine substitutions and mixtures, which these caps do not cover.

Density does not govern the recorded thresholds; Conjecture SR's count fits them

Density below one is far from necessary. The recorded random-conditioning thresholds keep the base hard with many random affine equations, each forbidding density \(1-1/p\):

13 equations at \(n=7\), \(D=3\), total density about \(8.7\);
63 equations at \(n=10\), \(D=2\) (both seeds refuted from 64), total density 42.

What fits these thresholds is the semi-regular count of the recorded Conjecture SR (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base), in the minimal-generator presentation: one linear generator \(L-c\) per equation. Let \(d_j\) be the dimension of the base's degree-\(j\) quotient (\(d_0=1\)), computed here exactly with the recorded driver. For the equations, all of degree \(h=1\), the count predicts the first refuted \(M\) as the least \(M\) with \(\sum_{i\ge0}(-1)^i\binom Mi d_{D-i}\le0\):

case	\(d_1,d_2,d_3\)	predicted crossing	measured
\(n=10\), \(D=2\)	100, 4390	64.2	64
\(n=7\), \(D=3\)	49, 973, 9661	about 14.4	14
\(n=6\), \(D=3\)	36, 498, 3067	about 8.1	7

The count depends on the presentation: with the \(\chi\) presentation an affine equation over \(\mathbb F_3\) has two generators of degree two, and the naive count is far too large. It also needs robustness: it predicts hardness for the Boolean-image control, which is refuted at once. So the working heuristic is Conjecture SR for collectively robustly wide constraints, in minimal presentation. Density enters it only through the number of generators, a factor small next to the degree ratio \(d_{D-h}/d_D\). For the logarithmic-prefix images, \(M=n^{O(1)}\) generators of degree about \((p-1)k\) with \(k=\Theta(\log n)\), the count leaves superpolynomial room at every polylogarithmic \(D\). So the core statement's density hypothesis is a union-bound surrogate, and the statement is best read as Conjecture SR for such constraints, as the random-calibration review already identified. This cycle adds that no density-based principle is a separate route, and that the count fits the affine thresholds with Koszul terms included (files: research/results/odd_prime_density_principle_20260923/).

Assessment and next step

The density-weighted principle is withdrawn as a formulation: density acts only in deciding designs, which are capped, and it is not what governs hardness. The line's target is Conjecture SR for robust wide constraints. The regime that matters first is \(D<2h\). There no product of two constraints fits in degree \(D\), so in the Macaulay-count heuristic a fall first shows as a rank deficiency of the multiplication map from \(\bigoplus_b(P/I)_{\le D-h}\,c_b\) to \((P/I)_{\le D}\). PC closure is not the Macaulay count, so this is the heuristic's form, not a proved equivalence. The question is of Hochster–Laksov type, relative to the base. Hochster and Laksov proved maximal rank one degree above the generators for generic forms in a polynomial ring; the record does not contain it. The recorded uniform degree-two theorem is its relative case \(h=1\), \(D=2\). The recorded degree-three obstruction concerns \(h=1\), \(D=3=h+2\).

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the first new relative case, quadratic constraints at one degree above them: \(h=2\), \(D=3\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), with random selector constraints \(1-L^2=0\). The capacity count gives a prediction from the base quotient's dimensions \(d_1\) and \(d_3\). Compare it with the exact least refuted count on \(n=6,7\) using the recorded fast closure driver, whose \(D=3\) runs took about one and twelve minutes. Then read the proof of Hochster–Laksov for a step that transfers to the quotient by the PHP ideal. A selector constraint has one quadratic generator, and \(2h=4>3\), so the count predicts the first refuted \(M\) near \(d_3/d_1\): about 85 at \(n=6\) and 197 at \(n=7\). Those differ from the affine thresholds 7 and 14 and are below the trivial bound \(d_3\). At \(n=6\) a bisection over \(M\le200\) needs about eight closures, each close to the recorded one-minute \(D=3\) run, so it is reachable; \(n=7\) is optional. Agreement supports Conjecture SR one degree above quadratic generators; a clear early fall locates the first failure of the count. The cycle ends with the measured threshold against that prediction, and with the transfer point in the Hochster–Laksov proof or the step that fails relative to PHP.

Verification gate. Re-read: the core-statement and local-lift reviews, the wide-conditioning conjecture with its \(C_j=1\) control and dimension bound, the flat value-choice corollary's statement, the random-conditioning JSON outputs at \(n=7\), \(D=3\) and \(n=10\), \(D=2\), and the three-selector control. Claim searches (old-consequence transfer, conjunction and normalization, occupancy Boolean pattern, one-predicate conditioning, weighted conditioning, single-constraint pattern conditioning, Hochster–Laksov and Fröberg) found the transfer lemma, the flat value-choice corollary, the retained affine-conditioning corollary, the one-predicate theorem, Conjecture SR and the semi-regularity source audit, and no statement of Hochster–Laksov. The quotient dimensions were computed exactly for this entry. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed both identities, the lemma's conclusions, the Boolean-image algebra and the union bound. It required: the proofs rewritten line by line for PC instead of as Nullstellensatz sums, the unused PHP hypotheses stated, the recorded retained affine-conditioning corollary cited as the same mechanism, the non-robustness witness corrected, the claim about non-deciding designs restricted to the two capped kinds, the affine cap qualified between the dimension bound and full rank, the capacity count stated with its presentation, robustness and predicted-versus-measured numbers and labelled as Conjecture SR, the maximal-rank statement weakened to heuristic form, and the next step's predictions computed. All were adopted.

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Total instrumented interval	13 min 32.10 s
Marked reading and review windows	7 min 35.92 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 14.79 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 16.91 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	12.66 s
Individually measured computation	8.11 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	3.71 s

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Quadratic selectors show no degree fall relative to PHP until the graded count forces one: the count with the Frobenius syzygy predicts every sampled threshold

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Selectors \(1-L^2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degree three, \(n=6,7\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Quadratic selectors show no degree fall relative to PHP until the graded count forces one: the count with the Frobenius syzygy predicts every sampled threshold”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-selector-semiregularity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The density-principle entry read the core statement as Conjecture SR, relative semi-regularity (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base), for collectively robustly wide constraints. It proposed the first new test one degree above the generators: random selector constraints \(1-L^2=0\) (that is, \(L\ne0\)) over \(\mathbb F_3\) at PC degree \(D=3\). The implication at stake is that the base with such constraints has no degree fall before the count forces one. For generic forms in a polynomial ring, the Hochster–Laksov theorem proves the one-degree-above case; the selectors here are squares of linear forms, a special family. The test ends with the measured thresholds and ranks against the count.

The count, corrected

The previous entry's predictions (85 at \(n=6\), 197 at \(n=7\)) used cumulative dimensions \(d_j\). The recorded forced-fall count uses the graded dimensions \(\gamma_j=d_j-d_{j-1}\) of the base quotient, and it must include the syzygies the field forces. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) with Boolean variables, \(L^3=L\) for every affine form, so \(L\cdot(1-L^2)\equiv0\). Each selector therefore has one trivial linear syzygy. Of its \(\gamma_1\) linear multipliers, only \(\gamma_1-1\) give new degree-three top parts. With \(2h=4>3\) there is no product of two constraints in degree three. The count assumes that the base's own degree-three closure has no fall; this is checked below. It predicts:

no degree fall while \(M(\gamma_1-1)<\gamma_3\);
closure rank \(\operatorname{rank}_0+(\gamma_1)M\) until then, where \(\operatorname{rank}_0\) is the base's own closure rank. That is one lower-degree row (the constraint) plus \(\gamma_1-1\) new top rows per constraint;
the first degree fall at \(M=\lceil\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\rceil\), once the degree-three top part is exhausted. That refutation follows at the same \(M\) is an observed outcome, not a consequence of the count.

From the exact quotient dimensions of the previous entry: at \(n=6\), \(\gamma=(1,35,462,2569)\) and \(\operatorname{rank}_0=4571\), so the prediction is \(\lceil2569/34\rceil=76\). At \(n=7\), \(\gamma=(1,48,924,8688)\), so it is \(\lceil8688/47\rceil=185\). With graded dimensions, the affine thresholds of the previous entry become crossings 63.17, 13.35 and 7.15 (first predicted \(M\) 64, 14 and 8) against measured 64, 14 and 7. The affine case at \(n=6\) is refuted one equation early, so for affine generators there is a small early fall at that size.

Measurements

Exact PC closures over \(\mathbb F_3\) in the collision quotient, with the recorded fast driver. Each constraint is \(1-L^2\) for a uniformly random affine form \(L\) in the cells. The least refuted \(M\) was found by bisection on a fixed sequence of constraints per seed.

\(n\)	predicted	least refuted \(M\)
6	76	76, 76, 76 (seeds 9060–9062)
7	185	185, 185 (seeds 9070, 9071)

At \(n=6\), seed 9060, the closure was split by degree. In the reduced echelon form with degree-three columns first, the rows pivoting in degree three give the rank of the projection onto the degree-three part. The other rows give the dimension of the closure's degree-\(\le2\) part. A degree fall would raise the second count beyond \(280+M\).

\(M\)	0	20	50	70	74	75	76
degree-3 projection	4291	4971	5991	6671	6807	6841	6860
degree \(\le2\) part	280	300	330	350	354	355	778

Through \(M=75\) the parts are exactly \(4291+34M\) and \(280+M\). The base's own values leave exactly \(\gamma_3=6860-4291=2569\) free top dimensions, and 280 is the base's degree-two closure rank, so the base has no fall of its own at degree three. So there is no degree fall before the count's crossing. At \(M=76\) the degree-three part is exhausted (6860 is every degree-three column), the degree-\(\le2\) part jumps, and the system is refuted. Files: research/results/odd_prime_selector_sr_20260923/ (selector_threshold.py, selector_threshold_lib.py, degree_split.py, selector_n6_D3.json, selector_n7_D3.json, degree_split_n6.json).

What this shows

On the sampled seeds the base with quadratic selectors is semi-regular at degree three, with the Frobenius syzygy as the only extra relation: random squares \(1-L^2\) have no unexpected linear syzygies modulo the PHP ideal before the count forces them. The earlier evidence for Conjecture SR was the affine case (degree-one generators: the recorded uniform degree-two theorem and the random-conditioning thresholds). This is the first check with nonlinear generators, and at these sizes the selector thresholds match with no slack. The occupancy predicates of the symmetric-lift entry fell far earlier, at 8 to 21 at \(D=2\). They are the low-dimensional control: their forms span only \(n-1\) dimensions modulo rows and constants, so they generate a small subalgebra.

Literature and the proof route

The selectors are squares of linear forms, whose top parts \(-\bigl(\sum_ic_ix_i\bigr)^2\) lie on the square variety, not generic quadrics. The closest classical setting is powers of general linear forms (Fröberg–Hollman, Iarrobino), where exceptions to the expected Hilbert function are known; those sources have not been read here. For generic forms, Hochster and Laksov (The linear syzygies of generic forms, Comm. Algebra 15, 1987) proved maximal rank one degree above generators of degree at least two. A recent preprint, Boij, Dannetun and Lundqvist, arXiv:2605.03872 (May 2026), reports Fröberg's prediction through degree \(d+2\) for any number of forms, and through \(2d-1\) when the number of variables is large. According to its HTML text, the method is Hochster–Laksov's. It stratifies multiplier tuples by rank, bounds the bad locus with the fiber-dimension theorem, and closes the count with Macaulay's bound on Hilbert-function growth, over an infinite field. These statements come from a summary of the paper and were not checked against its proofs. The relative transfer would do three things:

replace the polynomial ring by the associated graded algebra of the base quotient, which is standard graded, so Macaulay's growth bound still applies;
replace the fiber-dimension step by a first moment over \(\mathbb F_p\): the expected number of nontrivial linear syzygies, summed over multiplier tuples stratified by rank;
count the Frobenius syzygies \(L\cdot(1-L^{p-1})\) as expected.

The record's degree-three first moment failed on an entropy count for affine generators two degrees above them. One degree above is the regime where the recorded uniform degree-two theorem succeeded for affine generators. The reach is limited even if the transfer works. The logarithmic-prefix images need degree about \((4p-1)\) times their generator degree, beyond \(2d-1\). So a relative maximal-rank theorem for squares at one degree above would be the first nonlinear case of Conjecture SR, not the goal.

Assessment and next step

This is the strongest evidence yet for Conjecture SR relative to PHP with nonlinear generators. The prediction matched all five seeds at two sizes, and the degree split at one seed at \(n=6\) shows no fall before the crossing. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to prove the relative maximal-rank statement for random selectors \(1-L^2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degree three. It is a first moment over nonzero tuples \((a_b)\) of linear multipliers, taken modulo the Frobenius syzygies. The event is that \(\sum_ba_b\operatorname{top}(c_b)=0\) in the degree-three graded part, and \(\operatorname{top}(c_b)\) is a quadratic function of the uniform form \(L_b\), not uniform on a linear space. So the bound needs a Schwartz–Zippel or quadratic character-sum estimate for \(\sum_ba_b\,q(L_b)\). Stratify the tuples by the rank of that quadratic map, and compare the first moment with the prediction \(M(\gamma_1-1)<\gamma_3\). The recorded uniform degree-two theorem (thm:uniform-parity-degree-two) is the model only for its affine-generator part. The cycle ends with the theorem, or with the rank stratum where the first moment exceeds one.

Verification gate. Re-read: the density-principle entry's count and its quotient dimensions, and the forced-fall count's graded form in the recorded Conjecture SR statement. The predictions use exact quotient dimensions. The rank equality \(4571+35M\) at five values is an exact check of the no-fall claim at \(n=6\), independent of the bisection. Claim searches (Hochster–Laksov, Fröberg, maximal rank, semi-regularity) found Conjecture SR, the forced-fall count and the semi-regularity source audit, and no prior selector test or Hochster–Laksov statement. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the driver's construction and the bisection. It required: the stale docstring fixed, the no-fall claim measured by the degree split rather than the total rank, refutation at the crossing labelled as observed, the count's assumption stated and checked, the affine early fall noted, the selectors described as squares with the powers-of-linear-forms literature as the relevant analog, the next step's probability bound restated for a quadratic map, and the overclaims narrowed to the sampled seeds. All were adopted.

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Total instrumented interval	25 min 43.32 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 22.88 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 33.02 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4.58 s
Individually measured computation	20 min 39.09 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	3.75 s

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Selector degree falls: a kernel criterion, an exact first-moment identity, and a proof that the unconditioned moment is useless

23 September 2026 · Working lemma and an obstruction · The unconditioned first moment fails provably; a spread event is needed. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Selector degree falls: a kernel criterion, an exact first-moment identity, and a proof that the unconditioned moment is useless”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-selector-first-moment.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The selector check found no degree fall for random selectors \(1-L^2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degree three until the graded count forces one. It proposed proving this by a first moment. The implication at stake is the relative maximal-rank statement, the first case of Conjecture SR with nonlinear generators. This cycle sets up the first moment exactly and tests whether it can be bounded by its typical value. It ends with the identity and with the form the proof must take.

Setting

Let \(J\subseteq P=\mathbb F_3[x_{ij}]\) be the homogeneous ideal generated by \(x_{ij}^2\), the collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) and the row forms \(\sum_jx_{ij}\), and put \(A=P/J\) with graded dimensions \(\gamma_j\). When the base's own closure has no degree fall through degree three, \(A_j\) is the base's graded quotient in degrees \(j\le3\). The degree split checked this at \(n=6\). A selector \(c_b=1-L_b^2\) has linear part \(\ell_b\in A_1\) and top part \(-\ell_b^2\in A_2\). Define \[ \Phi:A_1^M\to A_3,\qquad(a_b)\mapsto\sum_ba_b\ell_b^2 . \] In characteristic three \(\ell^3=\sum_ia_i^3x_i^3=0\) in \(A\), so \(\ker\Phi\) contains the Frobenius kernel \(F_\ell=\{(\lambda_b\ell_b)\}\), of dimension \(M\) when every \(\ell_b\ne0\).

Kernel criterion

Lemma (selector kernel criterion). Suppose the base has no degree fall through degree three and \(\ker\Phi=F_\ell\). (This implies that the squares \(\ell_b^2\) are linearly independent in \(A_2\) when \(\gamma_1\ge2\): a relation \(\sum\alpha_b\ell_b^2=0\) would give the kernel tuple \((\alpha_ba)\) for any \(a\) not proportional to the \(\ell_b\).) Then adding the selectors causes no degree fall at degree three. The degree-three closure's part of degree at most two is the base's plus the span of the \(c_b\).

Proof. Let \(V\) be the span of the base's degree-three closure and the products \(mc_b\) with \(\deg m\le1\). It suffices to show that the part of \(V\) of degree at most two is the base's degree-two closure plus \(\langle c_b\rangle\), since then \(V\) is closed under multiplication by variables within degree three and is the closure. Because the base has no fall, the degree-three components of base-closure elements lie in \(J_3\), and a base-closure element of degree at most two lies in the base's degree-two closure. Take \(v=\sum_b(\alpha_b+a_b)c_b+\beta\) with \(\beta\) in the base's closure, \(\alpha_b\) constants and \(a_b\) linear, of degree at most two. Its degree-three part is \(-\sum_ba_b\ell_b^2\) plus an element of \(J_3\), so \(\sum_ba_b\ell_b^2=0\) in \(A_3\) and \((a_b)\in F_\ell\). So \(a_b=\lambda_b\ell_b+r_b\) with \(r_b\) in the span of the row forms. Write \(L_b=\ell_b+\kappa_b\). Then \(\ell_bc_b=L_bc_b-\kappa_bc_b\), and \(L_bc_b=L_b-L_b^3\) lies in the base at degree three: \(L^3-L=\sum_ia_i(x_i^3-x_i)\) for \(L=\kappa+\sum_ia_ix_i\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), and \(x^3-x=(x+1)(x^2-x)\). A row form \(R_i\) gives \(R_ic_b=(R_i-1)c_b+c_b\), again in the base plus \(\langle c_b\rangle\). So \(v\) lies in the base's closure plus \(\langle c_b\rangle\), and its base part has degree at most two. One level down, \(\sum_b\alpha_bc_b\) of degree at most one would need \(\sum_b\alpha_b\ell_b^2=0\) in \(A_2\), which is excluded. \(\square\)

An exact first-moment identity

Identity. For independent uniform \(\ell_b\in A_1\), \[ \mathbb E\,|\ker\Phi|=3^{M\gamma_1-\gamma_3}\sum_{\chi\in A_3^*}\pi(\chi)^M,\qquad\pi(\chi)=\Pr_{\ell}\bigl[\chi(a\ell^2)=0\ \ \forall a\in A_1\bigr]. \] Proof. \(\mathbb E|\ker\Phi|=\sum_a\Pr[\Phi(a)=0]\). Write the indicator of \(\Phi(a)=0\) as \(3^{-\gamma_3}\sum_\chi\omega^{\chi(\Phi(a))}\), and use independence over \(b\). Then note \(\sum_{a\in A_1}\omega^{\chi(a\ell^2)}=3^{\gamma_1}\cdot\mathbf 1[\chi(A_1\ell^2)=0]\), because \(a\mapsto\chi(a\ell^2)\) is linear. \(\square\)

Equivalently, \(\sum_\chi\pi(\chi)^M\) is the expected number of killers, the \(\chi\) vanishing on the image of \(\Phi\). If \(\ker\Phi=F_\ell\) with every \(\ell_b\ne0\), the number of killers is exactly \(\mathcal B=3^{\gamma_3-M(\gamma_1-1)}\). Otherwise it is at least \(3\mathcal B\): either the kernel is larger, or \(z\ge1\) of the \(\ell_b\) vanish and \(\dim\ker\Phi\ge M-z+z\gamma_1\ge M+1\). So \(\Pr[\ker\Phi\ne F_\ell]\le(\mathbb E[\#\text{killers}]-\mathcal B)/(2\mathcal B)\), and a proof along these lines would need \(\mathbb E[\#\text{killers}]=\mathcal B(1+o(1))\).

The unconditioned first moment is useless

Observation (column squares). If \(\ell=\sum_ia_ix_{ij}\) lies in the span of one column, then \(\ell^2=0\) in \(A_2\), by \(x^2=0\) and the collisions. Modulo rows the column forms of one column span at most \(n+1\) dimensions, so a uniform \(\ell\) is a column form with probability \(p\ge(1-o(1))\,n\,3^{n+1-\gamma_1}\). Let \(r_b\) be the rank of \(a\mapsto a\ell_b^2\). Then \(r_b\le\gamma_1-1\) when \(\ell_b\ne0\), \(r_b=0\) for column forms, and \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi\le\sum_br_b\). With the \(\ell_b\) independent, \[ \mathbb E[\#\text{killers}]=3^{\gamma_3}\,\mathbb E\,3^{-\operatorname{rank}\Phi}\ \ge\ 3^{\gamma_3}\prod_b\mathbb E\,3^{-r_b}\ \ge\ \mathcal B\,\bigl(1+n3^n(1-o(1))\bigr)^M . \] At \(n=6\), \(M=73\), that is about \(\mathcal B\cdot3^{557}\). So the killer moment is provably useless without conditioning. In particular the mean of \(\pi(\chi)\) is not about \(3^{-(\gamma_1-1)}\): it exceeds that by a factor of about \(n3^n\), coming from the rare \(\ell\) with small square rank.

Spread event. The bad \(\ell\) are exactly those whose square has a large annihilator: \(\dim\{a\in A_1:a\ell^2=0\}>1\). This covers column forms and also low-support forms such as \(x_{1j}+x_{2k}\), which \(e=x_{3j}\) kills. Define the spread event \(\mathcal S\) as: every \(\ell_b\) has \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_1}(\ell_b^2)=1\). Its complement has probability roughly \(M\,n\,3^{n+1-\gamma_1}\) (to be proved), negligible for \(M\) polynomial. Without it, the stratum of single-form tuples fails outright, with about \(Mn3^{n+1}\) expected bad tuples.

Proof plan

The recorded uniform degree-two theorem (thm:uniform-parity-degree-two) avoids the same problem in two ways:

it conditions on the event that the forms are independent;
it takes the first moment over the objects witnessing a fall, stratified by rank, with the low-rank strata counted separately.

The analog here, on the spread event and with every \(\ell_b\ne0\), is \(\Pr[\ker\Phi\ne F_\ell]\le\mathbb E\,|\ker\Phi\setminus F_\ell|/(2\cdot3^M)\). The expectation is a sum over fixed tuples \(a\) of \(\Pr[\Phi(a)=0,\ a\notin F_\ell]\); the event must exclude \(F_\ell\), since \(F_\ell\) depends on \(\ell\). Stratify the tuples as in Hochster–Laksov by \(t=\dim\operatorname{span}\{a_b\}\) and by the support size \(s\) of the coefficient matrix. For a tuple of span dimension \(t\) with basis \(e_1,\dots,e_t\), \(\Phi(a)=\sum_ke_kQ_k\) with \(Q_k=\sum_bc_{bk}\ell_b^2\). So the event is a linear syzygy of \(t\) terms among combinations of random squares. With \(N_{t,s}\) tuples in a stratum, the union bound closes if \(\sum_{t,s}N_{t,s}\,p_{t,s}=o(3^M)\), where \(p_{t,s}\) bounds the stratum's probability on \(\mathcal S\). At \(t=\gamma_1\) with full support, the count \(3^{M\gamma_1}\) against \(3^{-\gamma_3}\) gives \(3^{M\gamma_1-\gamma_3}\), which is \(o(3^M)\) exactly when \(M(\gamma_1-1)<\gamma_3\) with room: the graded count. The small-\(t\) strata are where the square structure of \(\ell_b^2\), not uniformity, decides the probability.

Assessment and next step

The cycle proved the reduction of "no fall" to a kernel statement and an exact identity, and proved that the natural moment of that identity is useless without conditioning. It named the spread event the proof needs. No stratum is bounded yet.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to bound the complement of the spread event, then the smallest strata, \(t=1\) and \(t=2\). For \(t=1\), bound \(\Pr[e\cdot\sum_bc_b\ell_b^2=0]\) for fixed \(e\in A_1\) and \(c\in\mathbb F_3^M\) through the rank of the quadratic form \(\sum_bc_b\ell_b^2\) restricted to the annihilator of \(e\). This covers the support of \(c\) being one, two or many forms. Then do the same for \(t=2\). The target is the exponent \(t(\gamma_1+M)\) with room. Compute the exact probabilities at \(n=6\) for supports one and two. Enumerate \(e\) up to the symmetry group \(S_{n+1}\times S_n\) of pigeons and holes. For each orbit representative, compute \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(e)\) and the distribution of the rank of a random square restricted to it by exact rank computations over \(\mathbb F_3\) in \(A_2\) (dimension 462), sampling \(\ell\) rather than enumerating all \(3^{35}\). The cycle ends with the two strata bounded, or with the stratum whose probability is too large, which would be a structural exception like those known for powers of linear forms.

Verification gate. Re-read: the selector check (its count and degree split), the uniform degree-two theorem's statement and proof (its two-form fall criterion, first moment over \(\bar K\) by rank, independence event), and the selector construction. The criterion and the identity are proved above. A fresh-context reviewer found the column-square obstruction, which replaced a Poisson heuristic, and required the spread event, the normalization of the union bound with the event \(a\notin F_\ell\), the criterion's independence hypothesis noted as implied, a non-circular spanning argument, the identity \(x^3-x=(x+1)(x^2-x)\), the case of vanishing \(\ell_b\) in the killer count, and the plan relabelled. All were adopted.

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Total instrumented interval	8 min 23.83 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 44.40 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 3.81 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	28.36 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.26 s

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The spread lemma: four robust pigeons force the square's annihilator to be the form itself

23 September 2026 · Working lemma and a finite check · The spread event fails with probability at most \(M\cdot3^{-(1-o(1))n^2}\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The spread lemma: four robust pigeons force the square's annihilator to be the form itself”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-spread-lemma.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The first-moment entry reduced the no-fall statement for random selectors \(1-L^2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degree three to a kernel statement. It proved that the proof must condition on a spread event: every linear part \(\ell_b\) has \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_1}(\ell_b^2)=\langle\ell_b\rangle\). This cycle determines which \(\ell\) fail it, proves a sufficient condition, and bounds the failure probability. It ends with that lemma, or with a family of bad forms of noticeable probability.

Setting

\(A=\mathbb F_3[x_{ij}]/(x_{ij}^2,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j},\ \sum_jx_{ij})\), with \(n\) holes and \(n+1\) pigeons. A linear form in \(A_1\) is a family of row functions \(f_i:[n]\to\mathbb F_3\), one per pigeon, each defined up to a constant: \(\ell=\sum_{i,j}f_i(j)x_{ij}\). Call \(f\) \(q\)-robust if it takes at least two values on every set of \(n-q\) labels.

The monomials and the row relations respect the multiset of pigeons, so \(A_3\) splits into components by pigeon multiset. For three distinct pigeons \(T=\{a,b,c\}\), the component is the space of functions on injections \(T\to[n]\) modulo the span of the functions that depend on only two coordinates. The relation \(R_a\,x_{bj}x_{cj'}\) is such a function, the collisions having removed \(j_a\in\{j,j'\}\). For three pairs of labels \(P_a,P_b,P_c\) with all six labels distinct, the mixed third difference \(\Delta_{P_a,P_b,P_c}\) (the alternating sum over the eight injections choosing one label from each pair) kills every two-coordinate function. For a product it is the product of the first differences \(\delta f(P)=f(j)-f(j')\).

The spread lemma

Lemma (spread lemma). Let \(n\ge8\) and \(\ell\in A_1\) with row functions \(f_i\). If at least four pigeons have \(6\)-robust row functions, then \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_1}(\ell^2)=\langle\ell\rangle\).

Proof. Since \(\ell^3=0\), \(\ell\) annihilates \(\ell^2\). Let \(e\in A_1\), with row functions \(g_i\), satisfy \(e\ell^2=0\). Since \(\ell^2=2\sum_{u<v}\ell_u\ell_vx_ux_v\), the component of \(e\ell^2\) on a triple \(T=\{a,b,c\}\) is twice the function \(g_a\otimes f_b\otimes f_c+f_a\otimes g_b\otimes f_c+f_a\otimes f_b\otimes g_c\) on injections. Shifting any row function by a constant changes this only by two-coordinate functions. Its vanishing in \(A_3\) and the product rule give, for all disjoint pairs \(P_a,P_b,P_c\), \[ \delta g_a\,\delta f_b\,\delta f_c+\delta f_a\,\delta g_b\,\delta f_c+\delta f_a\,\delta f_b\,\delta g_c=0. \tag{SP} \] For a robust pigeon \(x\) and a pair \(P\) with \(\delta f_x(P)\ne0\), put \(r_x(P)=\delta g_x(P)/\delta f_x(P)\). Let \(x,y,z\) be robust and let \(P,P''\) be two pairs of \(x\) with nonzero differences. By \(6\)-robustness choose a pair \(Q_y\) of \(y\) avoiding the at most four labels of \(P\cup P''\), and a pair \(Q_z\) of \(z\) avoiding those and \(Q_y\), at most six labels, both with nonzero differences. Then (SP), divided by the three nonzero differences, gives \(r_x(P)+r_y(Q_y)+r_z(Q_z)=0=r_x(P'')+r_y(Q_y)+r_z(Q_z)\). So \(r_x\) is a constant \(\mu_x\), and \(\mu_x+\mu_y+\mu_z=0\) for every three robust pigeons. With four robust pigeons \(a,b,c,d\), the triples \(\{a,b,c\}\) and \(\{a,b,d\}\) give \(\mu_c=\mu_d\), and by symmetry all are equal to some \(\mu\); \(3\mu=0\) holds automatically in \(\mathbb F_3\).

Now let \(y\) be any pigeon and \(P\) any pair of its labels. Choose pairs of two robust pigeons \(b,c\ne y\) avoiding \(P\) and each other (at most four excluded labels), with nonzero differences. Then (SP) gives \(\delta f_b\,\delta f_c\,(\delta g_y+2\mu\,\delta f_y)=0\), that is \(\delta g_y(P)=\mu\,\delta f_y(P)\), since \(-2=1\) in \(\mathbb F_3\). This covers robust \(y\) at pairs with \(\delta f_y=0\), and non-robust or zero row functions. So \(g_y-\mu f_y\) is constant for every pigeon, and \(e=\mu\ell\) in \(A_1\). \(\square\)

The hypothesis may be far from necessary: the probes at \(n=6\), below the lemma's range, found no bad form among samples on three or more pigeons.

Failure probability. As in the first-moment entry, each linear part \(\ell_b\) is uniform in \(A_1\): its row functions are independent and uniform modulo constants, and robustness does not change under constant shifts. For a uniform row function, the probability of being constant on some set of \(n-6\) labels is at most \(\binom n6\,3^{7-n}\). The \(n+1\) row functions of a uniform \(\ell\) are independent, so fewer than four are \(6\)-robust with probability at most \(\binom{n+1}{3}\bigl(\binom n6\,3^{7-n}\bigr)^{n-2}=3^{-(1-o(1))n^2}\). A union over the \(M\) constraints gives \(\Pr[\mathcal S^c]\le M\binom{n+1}3\bigl(\binom n63^{7-n}\bigr)^{n-2}\), superpolynomially small for \(M=n^{O(1)}\). The bound says nothing at the checked size \(n=6\), which is below the lemma's range, and becomes meaningful from about \(n=16\).

Finite check at \(n=6\)

The script builds \(A\) exactly in degrees one to three: 6860 degree-three monomials, relation rank 4291, \(\gamma_3=2569\), \(\gamma_1=35\). It computes \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_1}(q)\) by one GF(3) rank per sample.

probe	samples	\(\dim\operatorname{Ann}\)
\(\ell^2\), \(\ell\) uniform	100	1 in all
\(\ell^2\), \(\ell\) on 1 pigeon	20	1 (1), 2 (7), 3 (3), 14 (9)
\(\ell^2\), \(\ell\) on 2 pigeons	20	1 (17), 2 (3)
\(\ell^2\), \(\ell\) on 3 to 7 pigeons	20 each	1 in all
\(\ell^2\), \(\ell\) a column form	1	35 (\(\ell^2=0\))
\(\ell_1^2\pm\ell_2^2\), uniform	100	0 in all
\(\ell_1^2+\ell_2^2\), each on 1 or 2 pigeons	20 each	0 in 14 and 19; the rest 1 to 14
\(\ell_1^2+\ell_2^2\), each on 3 pigeons	20	0 in all

The bad forms found were supported on at most two pigeons (not all such forms are bad), or had narrow row functions such as column forms, consistent with the lemma. The last rows are the stratum \(t=1\) with two terms of the kernel union bound: \(e(\ell_1^2\pm\ell_2^2)=0\) never occurs for uniform forms in these samples. Files: research/results/odd_prime_spread_event_20260923/annihilators.py, annihilators_n6.json.

Assessment and next step

The spread event is now proved to fail with probability at most \(M\cdot3^{-(1-o(1))n^2}\), and its proof gives a method: third differences on triple components turn annihilation in \(A_3\) into multilinear identities among row functions. The same method should handle the stratum \(t=1\) with support \(s\ge2\). There \(e\sum_bc_b\ell_b^2=0\) gives \(\sum_bc_b\sum_{\rm cyc}\delta g\,\delta f^{(b)}\delta f^{(b)}=0\), and for independent uniform \(\ell_b\) this should force \(e=0\).

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to prove that, bound its failure probability, and count the stratum's contribution. Then extend to \(t=2\), where the identity has two unknown row-function families. The proof ends with those strata bounded, or with the smallest support where the triple method stops forcing \(e=0\).

Verification gate. Re-read: the first-moment entry (the spread event and the union-bound plan), the construction of \(A\) and its component split, and the selector check's dimensions, which the script reproduces (\(\gamma_1=35\), \(\gamma_3=2569\)). The third-difference product rule was checked numerically, 200 random instances at \(n=7\). A first proof draft used \(4\)-robustness, which does not leave room for the third pigeon's pair; the lemma now assumes \(6\)-robustness and \(n\ge8\). A claim search (annihilator, square, robust row functions, third difference, triple) found the ternary pair theorem and bit-annihilator lemmas, and no statement of this lemma. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the component decomposition, the triple component of \(e\ell^2\), the label counts with \(6\)-robustness, the equality of the \(\mu\), the final step, the probability bound (first below one at \(n=16\)) and the table against the data. It required the bound stated as an upper bound for the union, the uniformity of the \(\ell_b\) cited, an undefined generalization removed, and the finite-check wording narrowed to the samples. All were adopted.

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Computation design and coding	1 min 39.84 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4.46 s
Individually measured computation	23.26 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	3.30 s

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The span-one stratum: no single multiplier kills a combination of two to \(cn^3/\log M\) random squares, except on a rare event

23 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional above \(2\gamma_1\) on a multiplication bound. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The span-one stratum: no single multiplier kills a combination of two to \(cn^3/\log M\) random squares, except on a rare event”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-span-one-stratum.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The first-moment entry reduced the no-fall statement for random selectors \(1-L^2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degree three to this: \(\ker\Phi\) contains only the Frobenius kernel. The spread lemma handled a single square. This cycle treats the kernel tuples of span dimension one, \(a_b=c_be\), with support \(S=\operatorname{supp}c\) of size \(s\ge2\). The event is \(eQ_c=0\) with \(Q_c=\sum_{b\in S}c_b\ell_b^2\). The cycle ends with the stratum bounded, or with the support size where the method stops.

Notation

As in the spread lemma, forms are families of row functions: \(\ell_b\leftrightarrow(f^b_x)_x\) and \(e\leftrightarrow(g_x)_x\), each defined up to constants. The triple component of \(eQ_c\) on pigeons \(\{x,y,z\}\) has third differences, over disjoint label pairs \(P_x,P_y,P_z\), \[ \sum_{\rm cyc}\delta g_x(P_x)\,C\bigl(u_y(P_y),u_z(P_z)\bigr)=0,\qquad u_x(P)=(\delta f^b_x(P))_{b\in S},\quad C(u,v)=\sum_bc_bu^bv^b . \tag{S1} \] The \(\ell_b\) are independent across \(b\) and uniform in \(A_1\), as drawn in the selector check; both probability bounds below use this. Write \(H_{yz}=\sum_bc_bf^b_y\otimes f^b_z\), a function on label pairs, for fixed representatives of the row functions (uniform ones in the probability parts). Then (S1) reads \(\sum_{\rm cyc}\delta g_x\,\Delta^2_{P_y,P_z}H_{yz}=0\).

Supports two to four

Call pigeon \(x\) good for \(S\) if the \(s+1\) functions \(\{f^b_x\}_{b\in S}\cup\{1\}\) are linearly independent on every set of \(n-8\) labels. Then the vectors \(u_x(P)\), over pairs \(P\) inside any such set, span \(\mathbb F_3^S\).

Lemma (small support). If \(2\le s\) and at least three pigeons are good for \(S\), then \(eQ_c=0\) implies \(e=0\), for every \(c\) with \(\operatorname{supp}c=S\) and every \(e\). With support one, \(e=\mu\ell_b\) is a solution, which the spread lemma handles.

Proof.

Each good \(g_x\) lies in the span of the \(f^b_x\). Let \(x,y,z\) be good. Choose disjoint pairs \(P_y,P_z\) with \(C(u_y,u_z)\ne0\), possible by spanning. For every pair \(P_x\) in the \(n-4\) remaining labels, (S1) gives \(\delta g_x(P_x)=\lambda(u_x(P_x))\) for a linear functional \(\lambda\). So \(g_x-\sum_b\lambda_bf^b_x\) is constant there. Any two labels lie in such a set. The coefficients are unique on the intersection of two such sets, which has at least \(n-8\) labels, by goodness. So \(g_x=\sum_b\kappa^b_xf^b_x+\text{const}\).
The coefficients vanish. Substitute into (S1) for good \(x,y,z\). The resulting trilinear form in \((u_x,u_y,u_z)\) vanishes on realizable triples, which span in each argument with the other two fixed. So it vanishes identically. For \(b\ne b_0\), the monomial \(u^b_xu^{b_0}_yu^{b_0}_z\) arises only from \(\kappa^b_xc_{b_0}\). Since \(s\ge2\), some \(b_0\ne b\) has \(c_{b_0}\ne0\), so \(\kappa^b_x=0\), and \(g_x\) is constant.
Other pigeons. For any pigeon \(w\), take two good pigeons \(y,z\ne w\). Then (S1) gives \(\delta g_w(P_w)C(u_y,u_z)=0\). Choosing pairs avoiding \(P_w\) with \(C\ne0\) gives \(\delta g_w=0\). \(\square\)

For uniform row functions, pigeon \(x\) fails to be good with probability at most \(\binom n8\,3^{s+9-n}\): there are \(3^s\) nonzero coefficient patterns, and each gives a constant on \(n-8\) labels with probability \(3^{1-(n-8)}\). So fewer than three pigeons are good with probability at most \(\binom{n+1}2\bigl(\binom n83^{s+9-n}\bigr)^{n-1}=3^{-(1-o(1))n^2}\) for \(s\le4\). A union over the at most \(M^4\) supports keeps this superpolynomially small. The event depends only on the \(\ell_b\), so it covers every \(c\) and \(e\) at once.

Supports five and more

Lemma (rank). Suppose that for every pigeon \(x\) there are pigeons \(y\ne z\), both \(\ne x\), such that \(H_{yz}\) has three \(5\times5\) blocks of rank \(5\). Each block has disjoint row and column label sets, and the three blocks use 30 distinct labels. Then \(eQ_c=0\) implies \(e=0\).

Proof. Suppose \(g_x\) is not constant, and choose \(P_x\) with \(\delta g_x(P_x)\ne0\). Take \(y,z\) as assumed, and a block \(R\times C\) of rank five avoiding the two labels of \(P_x\). By (S1), for pairs \(P_y\subseteq R\) and \(P_z\subseteq C\), which are disjoint from each other and from \(P_x\), \[ \Delta^2_{P_y,P_z}\bigl(H_{yz}+\delta g_x^{-1}(g_y\otimes\eta+\theta\otimes g_z)\bigr)=0, \] where \(\eta(j)=H_{xz}(p,j)-H_{xz}(p',j)\) and \(\theta(j)=H_{xy}(p,j)-H_{xy}(p',j)\) for \(P_x=(p,p')\). A function on \(R\times C\) whose second differences all vanish has the form \(a(j)+b(j')\). So \(H_{yz}\) restricted to \(R\times C\) has rank at most \(2+2=4\), for every choice of representatives, a contradiction. So every \(g_x\) is constant and \(e=0\). \(\square\)

For a fixed \((S,c)\) with \(s\ge5\), a block equals \(F_R\operatorname{diag}(c)F_C^{\mathsf T}\) with independent uniform \(5\times s\) matrices. If \(F_R\operatorname{diag}(c)\) has rank five, which happens with probability at least \(q_0=\prod_{i=1}^5(1-3^{-i})\approx0.561\), then the block is a uniform \(5\times5\) matrix and is invertible with probability \(q_0\). So each block has rank five with probability at least \(q_0^2>0.31\). Blocks on disjoint labels are independent. With \(\lfloor n/10\rfloor\) of them, a pair \((y,z)\) fails with probability \(3^{-\Omega(n)}\). Disjoint pigeon pairs are independent, so a pigeon \(x\) finds no good pair with probability \(3^{-\Omega(n^2)}\), and a union over the \(n+1\) pigeons keeps this bound.

Taking \(k\times k\) blocks with \(k=\lfloor n/12\rfloor\), five disjoint ones, improves this for large \(s\). Write \(A=F_R\operatorname{diag}(c)\). Then \(\Pr[\operatorname{rank}A=r]\lesssim3^{-(k-r)(s-r)}\), and given that rank, the block \(AF_C^{\mathsf T}\) has rank at most four with probability \(\lesssim3^{-(r-4)(k-4)}\). The sum over \(r\) is dominated near \(r\approx(s+4)/2\), which gives an exponent of \((s-4)(4k-s-12)/4\) for \(s\le k\). So a \(k\times k\) block has rank at most four with probability at most \(C\,k\,3^{-\frac34(k-4)(\min(s,k)-4)}\). So the failure probability for fixed \((S,c)\) is \(3^{-\Omega(n^2(\min(s,n)-4))}\). Against the \((2M)^s\) choices of \((S,c)\), the union bound closes for \(5\le s\le c\,n^3/\log M\) and some constant \(c>0\).

Supports above \(2\gamma_1\): conditional on a multiplication bound

For \(s\ge2\gamma_1+2\) the combination \(Q_c\) is nearly uniform on \(A_2\). The squares span \(A_2\), since \(\ell m=(\ell+m)^2-(\ell-m)^2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). So a nonzero \(\chi\in A_2^*\) defines a nonzero quadratic form \(\ell\mapsto\chi(\ell^2)\) of some rank \(r\ge1\), and \(|\mathbb E\,\omega^{\chi(c_b\ell^2)}|=3^{-r/2}\). There are at most \(3^{r\gamma_1}\) forms of rank \(r\). For any subspace \(W\subseteq A_2\) of codimension \(k\), \[ \Pr[Q_c\in W]\le3^{-k}\Bigl(1+\sum_{r\ge1}3^{r\gamma_1-rs/2}\Bigr)\le2\cdot3^{-k}. \] Apply this to \(W=\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(e)\), whose codimension is \(\dim(eA_2)\), and take a union over the \(3^{\gamma_1}\) choices of \(e\) and the at most \(3^M\) choices of \(c\). The stratum closes for these supports if \[ k_{\min}=\min_{e\ne0}\dim(eA_2)\ \ge\ M+\gamma_1+\omega(1). \tag{MM} \] The two regimes overlap, because \(2\gamma_1\approx2n^2\) is below \(cn^3/\log M\) for large \(n\).

Evidence for (MM). At \(n=6\): \(\dim(eA_2)=266\) for a variable and for a column form, 461 for ten random \(e\), and 391 to 452 for ten forms on one pigeon. The bound needed near the threshold is \(M+\gamma_1\approx110\). A proof sketch by the same triple method: if \(g_x\) is not constant, then (S1) with \(Q\) in place of \(Q_c\) determines each pair component \(q_{yz}\) of \(q\in\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(e)\), \(y,z\ne x\). It fixes \(q_{yz}\) modulo row, column and diagonal parts from \(q_{xy}\) and \(q_{xz}\). The free data are the \(q_{xy}\), the row, column and diagonal parts, and the same-pigeon components \(\{y,y\}\), each \(O(n^3)\) in total. So \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(e)=O(n^3)\), and \(k_{\min}\ge\gamma_2-O(n^3)\). Since \(\gamma_2\approx n^4/2\), this is above \(M+\gamma_1\) for \(M\) up to the threshold, which is about \(n^4/6\). The sketch is not yet written out, so this regime is conditional.

Finite check

At \(n=6\), \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_1}(Q_c)=0\) in all 20 samples for each support size 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 16, 35 and 70, with random nonzero \(c\). This is below the lemmas' ranges, which need \(n\) large. Files: research/results/odd_prime_span_one_20260923/ (support_probe.py, mult_dims.py and JSON outputs).

Assessment and next step

The span-one stratum is now proved for supports from two up to \(cn^3/\log M\), with failure probability \(3^{-\Omega(n^2)}\) after the union. It is conditional on (MM) above \(2\gamma_1\). The methods are the spread lemma's third differences, and a rank bound for the pair functions \(H_{yz}\).

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer has two parts. First, write out the proof of (MM), the bound \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(e)=O(n^3)\). Then extend the rank lemma to span dimension two, where \(e_1Q_1+e_2Q_2=0\) gives two terms per cycle of (S1). The rank argument should carry over with block rank six, because the right side then has rank at most \(2\cdot2+2\). The cycle ends with (MM) proved and the span-two stratum bounded, or with the obstruction.

Verification gate. Re-read: the spread lemma (component decomposition, third differences, robustness counting) and the first-moment entry (kernel criterion, strata). The block probability \(q_0\) was computed. A claim search (span one stratum, squares, annihilator, rank, block) found no restatement. The nearest record is the rank-one relative cubic-kernel exclusion, the first stratum of the degree-three question for affine generators over \(\mathbb F_2\) in exterior form. It is the analogue for different generators, not the same statement. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed (S1), the spanning, gluing and monomial steps, the rank-four derivation, \(q_0\), the Gauss-sum and rank-count bounds and the (MM) union. It found the \(k\times k\) block exponent too strong by \((s-4)^2/4\), now corrected with the sum over the rank of \(F_R\operatorname{diag}(c)\); the conclusions survive. It also required the support condition, independence across \(b\), fixed representatives, the union over \(x\), the meta and title qualified, and the (MM) count completed. All were adopted.

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Total instrumented interval	8 min 30.98 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 31.35 s
Computation design and coding	3 min 32.33 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4.42 s
Individually measured computation	19.54 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	3.36 s

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Route review: the selector line proves random cases one degree up; its deterministic core points to a structure-versus-randomness dichotomy

23 September 2026 · Route review · The line is productive but random; the next step states its deterministic conditions and matches their failures to recorded endpoints. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the selector line proves random cases one degree up; its deterministic core points to a structure-versus-randomness dichotomy”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-selector-line-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the density-principle entry, the thread reads its core statement as Conjecture SR, relative semi-regularity, for collectively robustly wide constraints. The last four cycles developed its first nonlinear case, random selectors \(1-L^2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degree three:

exact thresholds with no early fall (selector check);
a kernel criterion and a union bound (first-moment entry);
the spread event (spread lemma);
the span-one stratum (span-one entry).

What the goal needs. The logarithmic-prefix reduction needs Conjecture SR at degree about \((4p-1)\) times the constraint degree \(h=(p-1)(k+1)\), not at \(h+1\). It also needs it for constraints whose forms come from a refutation and are not random. The prefix sets are the only choice left to us.

Falsification attempt

The proofs so far are deterministic statements under stated conditions, plus a probability bound for those conditions. The conditions used are:

each constraint's row functions are robust on at least four pigeons (spread lemma);
small groups of constraints have jointly robust row functions (supports two to four);
the pair functions \(H_{yz}\) of every small combination have rank-five blocks (supports five and more);
the squares are independent in \(A_2\);
the multiplication bound (MM).

Every early fall in the record violates one of them:

the Boolean-image control violates robustness;
the occupancy predicates have forms in an \(n\)-dimensional subalgebra, so their squares become dependent in \(A_2\) after about \(n^2/2\) constraints (refuted from 8 to 21 at degree two);
column forms square to zero;
the three-selector control uses dependent forms.

No recorded example satisfies all five conditions and falls early. That is consistent with a dichotomy but does not prove one.

Assessment of this line

The line is productive: exact evidence, a working reduction, and two strata proved with new methods (third differences on triple components, and a rank bound for pair functions). But it proves only the random calibration, and only at one degree above the generators. The two gaps between it and the goal are untouched:

higher degree, where the kernel tuples become multipliers of degree \(D-h\) and the triple method would need higher mixed differences on larger pigeon sets;
adversarial families.

Continuing stratum by stratum at degree three would refine a random special case. The part of this line that bears on the second gap is that its proofs are deterministic under explicit pseudorandomness conditions. That suggests a structure-versus-randomness dichotomy. A family that satisfies the conditions has no early fall. A family that violates one has a structural feature: few robust pigeons, dependent row functions, low-rank pair functions, or a small span. Structural features of that kind are what the recorded endpoints exploit: low nonlocal dimension, narrow and literal-type blocks, the graph criteria. This is a new route for adversarial families, and the only one the thread has for them.

Next step: state the dichotomy at one degree above and test its structured side

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to write the deterministic theorem at degree \(h+1\) for quadratic selectors: if a family satisfies conditions 1 to 5 for all small subfamilies, it has no degree-three fall. The spread and span-one proofs already give this for the strata done; the higher-span strata remain. Then classify the ways a family can violate each condition. For each violation, check against the record whether a recorded endpoint applies to the constraints involved, or whether it can be removed by choosing the prefix sets, the one freedom the reduction leaves. The cycle ends with the dichotomy stated and each violation type either matched to an endpoint or named as a new obstruction. A violation type no endpoint handles would be the thread's sharpest open case.

Verification gate. Re-read: the four entries of the line, the density-principle entry and the logarithmic-prefix reduction's degree requirement. The claim search for structure-versus-randomness or deterministic pseudorandomness conditions found nothing similar. This review proves nothing new and registers no claim.

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Structured side, first test: every overloaded sub-span forces a fall, and at these sizes nothing else does

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Selectors over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degree three, \(n=6\), forms in random subspaces of dimension 5 to 20. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Structured side, first test: every overloaded sub-span forces a fall, and at these sizes nothing else does”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-relative-span-count.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The selector-line review proposed a dichotomy. Families meeting the deterministic conditions of the selector proofs have no early fall. Families violating one have a structural feature, to be matched to the record. The first condition to test needs no randomness to violate: the forms spread over enough dimensions. A family whose forms lie in a small subspace \(V\) violates it, as the occupancy predicates do. How do such families fall: by a count relative to \(V\), which would make the structured side tractable, or with no count? The test ends with measured first falls and refutations against the relative counts.

Counts relative to a span

Let the linear parts \(\ell_b\) be uniform among the nonzero vectors of a random \(d\)-dimensional subspace \(V\) of cell forms, with random constants. For a subfamily \(T\) whose forms span \(V_T\), of dimension \(d_T\), the map \(V_T\otimes\operatorname{span}\{\ell_b^2\}_{b\in T}\to V_T^3\), \((a_b)\mapsto\sum a_b\ell_b^2\), has the Frobenius kernel \(\{(\lambda_b\ell_b)\}\) of dimension \(|T|\). By dimension count it has a larger kernel once \[ |T|\,(d_T-1)>\dim V_T^3,\qquad \dim V_T^3\le\binom{d_T+2}3-d_T, \tag{OV} \] the bound because every cube vanishes in \(A\) in characteristic three. Call such a \(T\) overloaded. For \(d_T=2\), (OV) is \(|T|\ge3\): three forms in a two-dimensional span, the recorded three-selector control. For \(d_T=3\) it is \(|T|\ge4\). The global count is \(M_3=\dim(A_1V^2)/(\gamma_1-1)\) from the selector check. The \(V\)-internal count, \(T\) the whole family, is forced from \(M_V^{+}=\lfloor\dim V^3/(d-1)\rfloor+1\).

Measurements

Exact at \(n=6\), \(D=3\). Dimensions are GF(3) ranks in \(A\). The fall excess \(E(M)\) is the dimension of the closure's part of degree at most two, minus its no-fall value \(280+M\), where 280 is the base's own value, recomputed. It was scanned linearly in \(M\) up to the first refutation. The table also records the smallest linearly dependent subset among the forms up to the first fall. The squares were independent in \(A_2\) at every first fall (rank \(=M\)).

\(d\), seed	\(\dim A_1V^2\), \(\dim V^3\)	\(M_3\), \(M_V^+\)	first fall	least refuted	smallest dependent subset before the fall
5, 0	480, 30	14.1, 8	7	13	3
5, 1	480, 30	14.1, 8	5	12	4
8, 0	1084, 112	31.9, 17	13	19	4
8, 1	1084, 112	31.9, 17	16	17	4
12, 0	2145, 352	63.1, 33	33	33	4
12, 1	2144, 352	63.1, 33	32	32	5
20, 0 and 1	2569, 1520	75.6, 81	76	76	none of size \(\le5\)

Files: research/results/odd_prime_span_relative_20260923/. subspace_thresholds.py and subspace_n6_scan.json hold the full excess sequences. The earlier runs, superseded_*.json, contained degenerate constraints (a zero linear part with constant 0 is the constraint \(1=0\)) and used a bisection for the fall that the excess, not being monotone, does not justify.

Reading

When no small subfamily is overloaded, the family collapses at a count. At \(d=20\) the global count \(M_3\) binds, and fall and refutation coincide at 76, as for uniform forms. At \(d=12\) the \(V\)-internal count binds, and fall and refutation coincide within one of its forced value 33, half the global one. This suggests, from two dimensions only, that the count to use is the minimum over the spans the family generates.
Every earlier fall comes with an overloaded small subfamily. The early falls at \(d=5\) and \(d=8\) start with a small excess (1 at first) and are preceded by a dependent subset of size 3 or 4. A dependent triple spans two dimensions and a dependent four-set spans at most three, both overloaded by (OV). At \(d=12\), seed 1, the smallest dependent subset has size five, spanning four dimensions, and (OV) needs six forms there; that run falls only at the whole-span count. At these sizes nothing else produced a fall. Two cautions: the table shows an overloaded subfamily exists before each early fall, not that it causes the fall, and \(\dim V_T^3\) was not computed for the subfamilies.
What this suggests for the reduction (heuristic). The structured side looks like "some subfamily overloads its own span". The logarithmic-prefix images have degree \(h\). The analogous overload at degree \(D\) needs about \(\dim V_T^{D}/\dim V_T^{D-h}\) images inside one span \(V_T\). That number is of order \(d_T^{\,h}\), which is \(n^{\Theta(\log d_T)}\) and so polynomial only for bounded \(d_T\). So an adversary can overload only spans of bounded dimension with polynomially many images. What their consequences are, and whether the base survives them, is the open structured case.

Assessment and next step

The structured side's first test supports the dichotomy's shape and sharpens it. The violation to study is an overloaded span of bounded dimension, of which the three-selector control is the smallest instance. A count relative to each span decides when it bites.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to plant \(t\) selectors whose forms lie in a fixed two-dimensional span \(\langle a,b\rangle\) into a uniform family at \(n=6\). Measure the consequences and the refutation threshold. The prediction: the overload's consequences stay inside the span. That means affine relations pinning \(a\) and \(b\) to values allowed by the planted constraints, since three or more selectors on a two-dimensional span leave few allowed value pairs. The rest of the family then behaves as a uniform family over the base conditioned on those at most two affine equations. So the refutation threshold should equal the graded count of the base conditioned on \(a,b\), computed from its own quotient dimensions. The uniform family's threshold is 76 (selector check). The conditioned count is below 76 by a computable amount. A threshold far below it would falsify the prediction and show that an overloaded span propagates beyond itself. The cycle ends with that comparison and, if it holds, a proof that the consequences of an overloaded bounded span are affine relations inside it.

Verification gate. Re-read: the selector-line review, the selector check, the three-selector control's identity, and the quotient-rank exclusion's statement as summarized in the working context. The relative counts are exact dimensions from the same algebra construction as the spread-lemma probes, which reproduce \(\gamma_1=35\) and \(\gamma_3=2569\). The no-fall value 280 is the base's degree-two closure rank from the degree split. A fresh-context reviewer found degenerate constraints in the first runs (a zero linear part with constant 0, and one vacuous constraint), a non-monotone excess under the bisection, an unsupported attribution of the early falls to triples, loose matching claims, reduction arithmetic that was off (\(d^h\) is polynomial only for bounded \(d\)), a letter-code name, and a next-step test whose outcomes were all compatible with it. The runs were redone with nonzero forms and a linear scan, the reading was rebuilt on the new data, and the test now has a quantitative prediction.

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Total instrumented interval	44 min 52.44 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	23.12 s
Computation design and coding	5 min 31.41 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4.45 s
Individually measured computation	38 min 50.16 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	3.31 s

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Constraints on a bounded span are equivalent to conditioning on their allowed patterns; a planted overload matches the conditioned count exactly

23 September 2026 · Working lemma and a finite check · Planted point-pin at \(n=6\), \(D=3\), two seeds. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Constraints on a bounded span are equivalent to conditioning on their allowed patterns; a planted overload matches the conditioned count exactly”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-planted-overload.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The relative-span entry found every early selector fall preceded by an overloaded span. It predicted that an overloaded two-dimensional span only pins its own forms, so the rest of the family behaves as over the base conditioned on them. This cycle tests that prediction quantitatively and proves the mechanism. It ends with the comparison and the lemma.

Planted overload: measurement

At \(n=6\), \(D=3\), over \(\mathbb F_3\): take random cell forms \(a,b\) and a target \(v\in\mathbb F_3^2\). Plant the eight selectors \(1-(\alpha a+\beta b-c)^2\), one for each direction \((\alpha,\beta)\in\{(1,0),(0,1),(1,1),(1,2)\}\) and each value \(c\ne\alpha v_1+\beta v_2\). They forbid every value pair of \((a,b)\) except \(v\). Then add uniform selectors.

seed	\(a-v_1\), \(b-v_2\) in the degree-3 closure	least refuted \(M\) after the planted eight	least refuted \(M\) with \(a=v_1\), \(b=v_2\) imposed directly	graded count of the conditioned base
0	both	53	53	\(\lceil1682/32\rceil=53\)
1	both	53	53	53

The conditioned base has quotient dimensions \(34,427,2109\) through degrees one to three, so graded dimensions \(\gamma'=(1,33,393,1682)\). Its count is \(\lceil\gamma'_3/(\gamma'_1-1)\rceil\), as in the selector check. In this run (\(n=6\), \(D=3\), two seeds, \(P\) a single point) the overload derives the affine relations at degree three, and the rest of the family is refuted exactly where the conditioned base's count says. Files: research/results/odd_prime_planted_overload_20260923/planted.py, planted_n6.json.

The mechanism

The mechanism is an elementary fact about functions of finitely many affine forms. It is stated here for use on the structured side, not as a new mechanism.

Lemma (bounded-span equivalence). Let \(y_1,\dots,y_d\) be affine forms in the Boolean variables over \(\mathbb F_p\). Take constraints \(c_j=c_j(y)\), polynomials of degree at most \(e\) in \(y\), and let \(P\subseteq\mathbb F_p^d\) be their common zero set, the allowed patterns. Then the base plus the constraints derives every polynomial \(f(y)\) vanishing on \(P\), of degree at most \((p-1)d\) in \(y\), in PC of degree at most \((p-1)d+e\). Conversely each \(c_j\) vanishes on \(P\). So at that degree the constraints are equivalent to the ideal \(I(P)\) of polynomials in \(y\) vanishing on \(P\). If \(P=\varnothing\) this is a refutation. If \(P=\{v\}\), it derives \(y_i-v_i\).

Proof. The ring \(R=\mathbb F_p[y]/(y_i^p-y_i)\) is the algebra of all functions \(\mathbb F_p^d\to\mathbb F_p\), a product of copies of \(\mathbb F_p\). So the ideal the \(c_j\) generate in \(R\) is the ideal of functions vanishing on their common zero set: \(f=\sum_jh_jc_j\) in \(R\), with each \(h_j\) reduced, of degree at most \((p-1)d\). In \(\mathbb F_p[y]\), \(f-\sum_jh_jc_j\) lies in the ideal of the \(y_i^p-y_i\). It has degree at most \(\Delta=(p-1)d+e\). Reduction by these generators does not raise degree, so its certificate has degree at most \(\Delta\). Substituting the affine forms, \(y_i^p-y_i=\sum_ka_k(x_k^p-x_k)\) is derivable from Booleanity at degree \(p\), since \(x^p-x=(x^2-x)(x^{p-2}+\dots+1)\). So the whole identity is a PC derivation of degree at most \(\Delta\). \(\square\)

For selectors, \(e=p-1\), so the degree bound is \((p-1)(d+1)\): six for \(d=2\) at \(p=3\). So the lemma gives the equivalence at degree six. That degree three already suffices in the planted runs is measured, not explained by the lemma.

What density limits

Pinning a bounded span costs density, but density below one does not forbid it. Two selectors on one form, \(L\ne0\) and \(L\ne1\), pin \(L=2\) at degree two with total density \(2/3\). The lemma applies to every allowed set \(P\), not only to the overloaded spans of the relative-span entry. What density limits is how much can be pinned. In the uniform measure on patterns of a span, the forbidden sets of the constraints on it must cover the complement of \(P\). Their densities therefore sum to at least \(1-|P|p^{-d}\), and a point-pin costs at least \(1-p^{-d}\ge2/3\). With total density below one, at most one form can be pinned to a point. Every other bounded span keeps an allowed set of positive density. This measure is on patterns of the span, not on Boolean points: a nonempty \(P\) does not by itself mean that some Boolean assignment realizes an allowed pattern.

The overloads of the relative-span entry need more. For selectors at \(p=3\) with \(d_T=2\), the condition \(|T|(d_T-1)>\dim V_T^3\) needs \(|T|\ge3\) when \(\dim V_T^3=2\) (the monomials \(a^2b,ab^2\); cubes vanish), which holds for generic \(a,b\) but is not proved here. That is total density at least one. For the logarithmic-prefix images no separate count is needed. An image whose forms all lie in a span of dimension \(d\) is a polynomial in the \(d\) forms, so modulo the Frobenius relations it is a function on \(\mathbb F_p^d\), whatever its degree \(h\). By the lemma, a family of images confined to one span is equivalent, at degree \((p-1)(d+1)\), to conditioning on its allowed set \(P\). The density bound above then applies: with total density below one, such families can pin at most one form to a point and otherwise leave positive-density pattern sets. A first draft of this paragraph estimated the images needed for an overload as \(d^h/h!\). That estimate was wrong: in \(A\) the span generates at most \(\mathbb F_3[y]/(y_i^3)\), which vanishes above degree \(2d\).

Assessment and next step

What this cycle establishes is scoped. Constraints on a bounded span are equivalent, at degree \((p-1)(d+1)\), to conditioning on their allowed patterns (lemma). A planted point-pin makes the rest of the family follow the conditioned count exactly (measured at \(n=6\)). For constraints confined to a bounded span, selectors or prefix images, density below one allows only positive-density pattern restrictions and at most one point-pin; the overloads found before the early falls need density at least one for selectors. So the structured side seen so far adds no new obstruction. The core statement's remaining content is its pseudorandom side at the degrees the reduction needs, \(D\approx(4p-1)h\), far above \(h+1\).

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the pseudorandom side one step higher, at degree \(h+2\), for selectors at \(p=3\) (\(D=4\)). There the kernel tuples are quadratic multipliers. The triple method's analogue uses four-pigeon components of \(A_4\) and fourth mixed differences. This is also the degree where the recorded degree-three obstruction stopped the affine first moment. First measure the \(D=4\) thresholds for random selectors at the smallest board where the base survives degree four. By the random-conditioning law that is \(n\ge8\); the collision quotient there has about \(4.6\times10^5\) degree-four columns, so compute its size first and use \(n=8\) only if it fits. Compare with the graded count \(\gamma_4/\gamma_2\)-type prediction, with Frobenius and Koszul corrections. The cycle ends with that comparison, or with the size estimate showing it out of reach and the four-pigeon identity derived instead.

Verification gate. Re-read: the relative-span entry (the overload condition and its data) and the three-selector control's identity, which is the case \(d=2\) of the lemma. The lemma's proof uses only that finite function algebras are products of fields, degree-compatible reduction, and the Frobenius relations derived from Booleanity. The planted measurements are exact closures with the recorded driver. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the lemma (a Nullstellensatz derivation from Booleanity only), the planted construction and all numbers. It found the density paragraph wrong: two selectors on one form pin it below density one, the overload condition gives no lower bound on \(|T|\) from an upper bound on \(\dim V_T^3\), and the union-bound measure is on patterns, not Boolean points. It also required the claims scoped to the runs, and the next step re-aimed, since the image arithmetic already decides the overload question. All were adopted.

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At degree four, random squares follow the semi-regular count in a run up to the fill point, and the spread lemma extends to quadratic multipliers

23 September 2026 · Working lemma and a finite check · Selector squares over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degree four. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “At degree four, random squares follow the semi-regular count in a run up to the fill point, and the spread lemma extends to quadratic multipliers”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-degree-four-spread.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The planted-overload entry left the pseudorandom side of the core statement as its content, at the degrees the reduction needs, \(D\approx(4p-1)h\). The selector results so far are at degree three. This cycle goes one degree higher, to \(D=4\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), where the multipliers are quadratic. Its first question: does the exact semi-regular count, which gave the degree-three thresholds, still hold? The count is corrected for the Frobenius and Koszul syzygies. Its second question: does the degree-three spread lemma's method prove the single-square part of that count? The cycle ends with the comparison and with the lemma or the point where the method stops.

Size check

The PC closure at \(n=8\), \(D=4\), the smallest board where the base survives degree four, has \(502{,}435\) collision-free monomial columns, \(459{,}270\) of them in degree four. A dense GF(3) elimination of that size needs tens of gigabytes, beyond the 10 GB limit, so the refutation threshold itself was not measured. The graded question is smaller. \(A_k\) splits by the pigeon multiset of its monomials, and each component's relations \(R_i\cdot m\) stay inside it. So normal forms can be computed one component at a time: at most \(1680\) columns at \(n=8\), with no global elimination. This reproduces the recorded degree-three counts, \(\lceil\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\rceil=76,185\) at \(n=6,7\).

The degree-four count and its test

For \(M\) linear forms \(\ell_b\) put \(\Phi_4:A_2^M\to A_4\), \((a_b)\mapsto\sum_ba_b\ell_b^2\). Since \(\ell_b^3=0\), its kernel contains the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_bA_1e_b\). It also contains the Koszul syzygies \(\ell_c^2e_b-\ell_b^2e_c\). The semi-regular model says there are no others below the fill point, that is, \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4=\min\bigl(\gamma_4,\ M(\gamma_2-\gamma_1)-\binom M2\bigr)\). This is the \(t^4\) coefficient of \(\mathrm{HS}_A(t)\bigl((1-t^2)/(1-t^3)\bigr)^M\), whose \(t^3\) coefficient gives the degree-three count. The fill point is the least \(M\) at which that coefficient is nonpositive.

\(n\)	\(\gamma_1,\gamma_2,\gamma_3,\gamma_4\)	degree-three fill	degree-four fill	\(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(\ell^2)\), uniform \(\ell\)	\(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4\) against the model
6	35, 462, 2569, 3094	76	8	41 (\(=\gamma_1+6\)), 7 samples (2 component, 5 global)	not run
7	48, 924, 8688, 34950	185	41	48 \(=\gamma_1\), 2 samples	equal at \(M=2,5,20,39,40,41\), one seed
8	63, 1656, 22929, 168147	370	110	63 \(=\gamma_1\), 3 samples	not completed: the \(M=30\) run built its rows but was stopped during elimination because the machine ran low on memory

In one run at \(n=7\) (one seed, six values of \(M\)) the rank equals the model's value at every tested \(M\), through the fill point: \(34260\) at \(M=40\) and the full \(\gamma_4=34950\) at \(M=41\). So for \(M\le40\) the kernel has the dimension \(M\gamma_1+\binom M2\) that the Frobenius and Koszul syzygies would span if independent; their independence was not checked separately. At the fill point the kernel is larger, as it must be. For every sampled form \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_1}(\ell)=0\), so \(\dim\ell A_1=\gamma_1\) (lin_ann.py, lin_ann.txt). So at \(n=7,8\) the sampled squares have \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(\ell^2)=\ell A_1\). At \(n=6\) each has six further annihilators, so the model already fails there at \(M=1\). This small-board effect lies below the lemma's range. The degree-four graded fill comes far earlier than the degree-three one. The refutation threshold at degree four was not measured (see the size check), and a graded fill is not by itself a refutation. Files: research/results/odd_prime_degree_four_20260923/. ann4c.py and a4lib.py hold the component construction, phi4.py the rank test (outputs at \(n=7\) only), gammas.py the counts, and ann4c_n*.json, phi4_n*.json, gammas.txt the outputs. ann4.py and ann4_n6.json are the global-elimination cross-check at \(n=6\).

Component identities

Notation as in the spread lemma: \(\ell\) has row functions \(f_i\), and \(\delta f(P)=f(j)-f(j')\) for a label pair \(P=(j,j')\). A quadratic \(q\in A_2\) has two kinds of components. On two distinct pigeons \(\{x,y\}\) the component is a function \(h_{xy}\) on injections \(\{x,y\}\to[n]\), modulo functions of one coordinate. Write \(H_{xy}(P_x,P_y)\) for its mixed second difference over disjoint pairs. On a repeated pigeon \(\{a,a\}\) the component is a function \(h_{aa}\) on 2-sets of labels, modulo the stars \(\{j,j'\}\mapsto\varphi(j)+\varphi(j')\), since \(R_ax_{aj}=\sum_{j'\ne j}x_{aj}x_{aj'}\).

In \(A_4\), the component on four distinct pigeons is the space of functions on injections modulo functions of three coordinates. The mixed fourth difference over four disjoint pairs kills the latter. The component on \(\{a,a,c,d\}\) is the space of functions of an \(a\)-edge and a label for each of \(c\) and \(d\). Its relations are stars in the edge and functions independent of \(j_c\) or of \(j_d\). The operator \[ \square(j_1,j_2,j_3,j_4)\,e=e(j_1j_2)-e(j_2j_4)+e(j_4j_3)-e(j_3j_1), \] on four distinct labels, kills stars. Applied with first differences in \(c\) and \(d\), it kills all these relations. On products, \(\square(f\otimes f)=\delta f(j_1,j_4)\,\delta f(j_2,j_3)\). Since \(\ell^2=2\sum_{u<v}\ell_u\ell_vx_ux_v\), expanding \(q\ell^2=0\) gives two identities. The first holds for distinct pigeons \(a,b,c,d\) and pairwise disjoint pairs: \[ \sum_{\{X,Y\}}H_X(P_X)\,\delta f_Y(P_Y)=0, \tag{I4} \] the sum over the three ways of splitting \(\{a,b,c,d\}\) into two pairs, each counted in both orders (six terms), with \(\delta f_Y\) the product of the two first differences. The common factor 2 is dropped here and in (IR). The second holds on \(\{a,a,c,d\}\), with \(P=(j_1,j_4)\), \(P'=(j_2,j_3)\): \[ \square h_{aa}\,\delta f_c\,\delta f_d+\bigl(H_{ac}(P,P_c)\delta f_a(P')+\delta f_a(P)H_{ac}(P',P_c)\bigr)\delta f_d+\bigl(H_{ad}(P,P_d)\delta f_a(P')+\delta f_a(P)H_{ad}(P',P_d)\bigr)\delta f_c+H_{cd}(P_c,P_d)\,\delta f_a(P)\,\delta f_a(P')=0. \tag{IR} \] Both were checked numerically against direct products at \(n=8\), in 200 random \((q,\ell)\). Both operators vanished on 200 sampled relation rows each; for \(\square\) these include 82 star relations \(R_a x_{aj}x_{cj_c}x_{dj_d}\) (check_identities.py, check_identities_n8.txt).

The degree-four spread lemma

Call a row function \(f\) \(\rho\)-robust if it is nonconstant on \([n]\setminus X\) for every label set \(X\) with \(|X|\le\rho\). So for every such \(X\) it has a pair outside \(X\) with nonzero difference.

Lemma (degree-four spread lemma). Let \(\ell\in A_1\). If at least seven pigeons have \(12\)-robust row functions, then \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(\ell^2)=\ell A_1\). (This forces \(n\ge14\). The proof never uses that there is exactly one more pigeon than holes, so it holds for any numbers of pigeons and holes.)

Proof. \(\ell A_1\subseteq\operatorname{Ann}(\ell^2)\) since \(\ell^3=0\). Let \(q\ell^2=0\). Let \(\mathcal R\) be the set of robust pigeons. A frame is \(F=(c,d,P_c,P_d)\) with \(c\ne d\) in \(\mathcal R\), \(P_c,P_d\) disjoint and \(\delta f_c(P_c)\,\delta f_d(P_d)\ne0\). Put \(L_F=P_c\cup P_d\), \(\Lambda_F=[n]\setminus L_F\), \(\Xi_F=\{\text{pigeons}\}\setminus\{c,d\}\).

Step 1 (local form). Fix a frame. For \(a,b\in\Xi_F\) distinct and disjoint pairs \(P_a,P_b\subseteq\Lambda_F\), divide (I4) by \(\Delta_F=\delta f_c(P_c)\,\delta f_d(P_d)\): \[ H_{ab}(P_a,P_b)=\kappa\,\delta f_a\delta f_b+u_a(P_a)\,\delta f_b(P_b)+\delta f_a(P_a)\,u_b(P_b), \] with \(\kappa=-H_{cd}(P_c,P_d)/\Delta_F\) and \(u_x(P)=-H_{xc}(P,P_c)/\delta f_c(P_c)-H_{xd}(P,P_d)/\delta f_d(P_d)\). Now \(H_{xc}(P,P_c)=\psi(j)-\psi(j')\) for \(\psi(j)=h_{xc}(j,c_1)-h_{xc}(j,c_2)\), so \(u_x=\delta\tilde u_x\) for a row function \(\tilde u_x\) on \(\Lambda_F\) that does not depend on the partner pigeon. Put \(g^F_x=\tilde u_x+2\kappa f_x\) (note \(4\kappa=\kappa\) in \(\mathbb F_3\)). Then \(H_{ab}\) is the mixed second difference of \(f_a\otimes g^F_b+g^F_a\otimes f_b\), the \(\{a,b\}\) component of \(\ell g^F\). No robustness of \(a,b\) is used. A function on injections into a label set of size at least four whose mixed second differences all vanish is separable. Indeed, \(h(j,k)-h(j',k)\) is then independent of \(k\) and additive in \((j,j')\), so it equals \(\alpha(j)-\alpha(j')\), and \(h-\alpha\) depends on \(k\) only. So on \(\Lambda_F\) the pieces \(h_{ab}\) and \((\ell g^F)_{ab}\) agree modulo separable functions, for all distinct \(a,b\in\Xi_F\).

Step 2 (uniqueness). Let \(\Lambda\) be a label set and \(\Xi\) a pigeon set containing three pigeons of \(\mathcal R\), with \(|[n]\setminus\Lambda|\le8\). Suppose row functions \(k_x\) (\(x\in\Xi\)) make \(f_a\otimes k_b+k_a\otimes f_b\) separable on \(\Lambda\) for all distinct \(a,b\in\Xi\). Then every \(k_x\) is constant on \(\Lambda\). Indeed, \(\delta f_a(P)\delta k_b(Q)+\delta k_a(P)\delta f_b(Q)=0\) for disjoint pairs in \(\Lambda\). For three robust \(a,b,e\in\Xi\) and pairwise disjoint pairs with nonzero differences, the ratios \(r=\delta k/\delta f\) satisfy \(r_a=-r_b=r_e=-r_a\). They exist since each pair avoids at most \(8+2+2=12\) labels. So \(r_a(P)=0\) for every such pair \(P\) of a robust \(a\). For any \(b\in\Xi\) and pair \(Q\subseteq\Lambda\), choose robust \(a\ne b\) and \(P\subseteq\Lambda\setminus Q\) with \(\delta f_a(P)\ne0\), avoiding at most 10 labels. Then \(\delta f_a(P)\delta k_b(Q)=-\delta k_a(P)\delta f_b(Q)=0\).

Step 3 (gluing). For frames \(F,F'\), apply Step 2 to \(k=g^F-g^{F'}\) on \(\Lambda_F\cap\Lambda_{F'}\) and \(\Xi_F\cap\Xi_{F'}\). The latter omits at most four pigeons, so it contains three of the seven robust ones. So \(g^F_x-g^{F'}_x\) is constant on \(\Lambda_F\cap\Lambda_{F'}\). For a pigeon \(x\), choose frames \(F_1,F_2\) avoiding \(x\) with \(L_{F_1}\cap L_{F_2}=\varnothing\); they exist by \(6\)-robustness. Set \(g_x=g^{F_1}_x\) on \(\Lambda_{F_1}\), and \(g_x=g^{F_2}_x+\mu_x\) on \(L_{F_1}\subseteq\Lambda_{F_2}\), with \(\mu_x\) the constant for which \(g^{F_2}_x+\mu_x=g^{F_1}_x\) on \(\Lambda_{F_1}\cap\Lambda_{F_2}\). For any frame \(F\) avoiding \(x\), \(g_x-g^F_x\) is constant on \(\Lambda_F\cap\Lambda_{F_1}\) and on \(\Lambda_F\cap\Lambda_{F_2}\). The two constants agree on the nonempty triple intersection, and these two sets cover \(\Lambda_F\). So \(g_x-g^F_x\) is constant on \(\Lambda_F\).

Step 4 (distinct pigeons). Put \(q'=q-\ell g\in\operatorname{Ann}(\ell^2)\). Let \(a\ne b\) and \(P,Q\) be disjoint pairs. Choose a frame \(F\) with \(c,d\notin\{a,b\}\) and \(L_F\cap(P\cup Q)=\varnothing\). This needs four robust pigeons and pairs avoiding at most six labels. On \(\Lambda_F\), \(h_{ab}-(\ell g^F)_{ab}\) is separable by Step 1. \((\ell(g-g^F))_{ab}\) is separable too, since \(g-g^F\) is row-constant there. So the mixed second difference of \(q'_{ab}\) at \((P,Q)\) vanishes. By the separability fact, every distinct-pigeon component of \(q'\) is zero in \(A_2\).

Step 5 (repeated pigeons). With every \(H'\) zero, (IR) for \(q'\) reads \(\square h'_{aa}(j_1,\dots,j_4)\,\delta f_c(P_c)\,\delta f_d(P_d)=0\). Choose robust \(c,d\ne a\) with pairs avoiding the four labels and each other. Then \(\square h'_{aa}=0\) for all four distinct labels. An edge function with all \(\square\) zero is a star when \(n\ge4\). Put \(\varphi(j)=\tfrac12\bigl(e(jk)+e(jm)-e(km)\bigr)\). It does not depend on \(k,m\), because the three pairings of any four labels have equal sums, and \(e(jk)=\varphi(j)+\varphi(k)\). So \(h'_{aa}=0\) in \(A_2\), hence \(q'=0\) and \(q=\ell g\). \(\square\)

Failure probability. For a uniform row function, the probability of being constant on some \((n-12)\)-set is at most \(\binom n{12}3^{13-n}\). As in the spread lemma, the row functions of a uniform \(\ell\) are independent and uniform modulo constants. So fewer than seven of the \(n+1\) are \(12\)-robust with probability at most \(\binom{n+1}{6}\bigl(\binom n{12}3^{13-n}\bigr)^{n-5}=3^{-(1-o(1))n^2}\). This bound first drops below one at \(n=31\), where it is about \(3.6\times10^{-6}\). For \(M\) squares a union bound multiplies it by \(M\). The constants 12 and seven are what this proof's label counts need, not optimized. The data at \(n=7,8\), below the lemma's range, already show \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(\ell^2)=\ell A_1\) for the sampled uniform forms.

Assessment and next step

At degree four the picture of degree three repeats, one level up. The exact semi-regular count with Frobenius and Koszul corrections holds, measured at \(n=7\) through the fill point. The single-square part of the count, the Frobenius exactness, is proved for spread forms. The proof's method is general: fix the pairs of two robust pigeons, read the identity as a local product, and glue. Fixing one pigeon's pair also gives a contraction identity. For a pigeon \(d\) and a pair \(P_d=(j,j')\) with \(c=\delta f_d(P_d)\ne0\), let \(\partial\) take the coefficient of \(x_{dj}\) minus that of \(x_{dj'}\), and then restrict: set pigeon \(d\)'s variables and the variables of holes \(j,j'\) to zero. Let \('\) denote the restriction alone. Both maps are well defined on \(A\), with values in the algebra \(A'\) of the board with \(n\) pigeons and \(n-2\) holes. They satisfy \(\partial(ab)=\partial a\cdot b'+a'\cdot\partial b\) and \(\partial\ell=c\). Applied to \(q\ell^2=0\), with \(q\) of degree \(k\), this gives \(\partial q\cdot\ell'^2+2c\,q'\ell'=0\), so \(q'-(\partial q/c)\ell'\) annihilates \(\ell'\) in \(A'\) (since \(1/(2c)=-1/c\) in \(\mathbb F_3\)). Single-square exactness at degree \(k\) is \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_k}(\ell^2)=\ell A_{k-1}\). Its companion is \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_k}(\ell)=\ell^2A_{k-2}\). On each restricted board the identity reduces the first to the companion, and vice versa. Reassembling the restrictions into a statement on the full board is the open gluing step. Since the smaller boards have more pigeons than holes plus one, the statements must be made for general pigeon and hole counts. The lemma's proof already allows this.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is that induction. State the pair of single-square exactness statements for all \(k\le cn\) and prove them by contraction, with the gluing of Step 3 generalized to multipliers determined only modulo \(\ell^2A_{k-3}\). Test each statement at \(n=7,8\), \(k=2,3\) with the component code before relying on it. It ends with the induction proved, or with the degree at which the gluing fails and the data showing why. The multi-square strata, where the Koszul syzygies enter, come after.

Verification gate. Re-read: the spread lemma's statement and proof, its component split of \(A_3\) and its probability bound, and the selector check's count, which the component code reproduces. The count is \(\lceil\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\rceil=76,185\). Before drafting, a claim search found no recorded degree-four statement. The searches used annihilator, square, quadratic, degree four, robust, fourth difference, four pigeons, Koszul and semi-regular. A reviewer given only the statement confirmed that the record neither states nor implies it. Checks: (I4) and (IR) against direct products, and both operators on relation rows, including star relations after a first version of the check skipped them. The linear annihilators \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_1}(\ell)\) were computed for every sampled form. A fresh-context reviewer checked the component descriptions, both identities, the label counts, the separability and star facts, the gluing, the model's coefficients and all fill points, and found the proof correct. It required several corrections, all adopted. The first group scoped the evidence: one seed; no Frobenius-plus-Koszul claim at the fill point, where the kernel is larger; \(\dim\ell A_1\) computed rather than assumed; the \(n=6\) failure stated; and no refutation claimed from a graded fill. The second group concerned the lemma: the unused hypothesis \(n\ge14\) dropped, the probability bound located (below one from \(n=31\)), \(\partial\) defined explicitly, the general board shape of the contraction noted, the gluing named as open, and clashing symbols renamed.

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Route review: single-square exactness is recorded at every degree; the selector line reduces to lifting over many forms at once

23 September 2026 · Route review with a working lemma and a finite check · Per-degree work stops; next, a truncated Dade lemma for many forms. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: single-square exactness is recorded at every degree; the selector line reduces to lifting over many forms at once”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-column-tensor-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the selector-line review the thread has read the core statement's pseudorandom side as Conjecture SR for selectors \(1-L^2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). It proved it degree by degree through kernel strata. The results so far are exact thresholds at degree three and the degree-four count. The single-square annihilators are handled by the spread lemma and its degree-four version. The previous entry proposed extending single-square exactness to every degree by a contraction induction.

What the goal needs. The logarithmic-prefix reduction needs Conjecture SR at degree about \((4p-1)h\) for polynomially many constraints whose forms come from a refutation. The count must hold jointly for all of them, up to the fill point.

Finding 1: the single-square part is recorded, in dual form

The amplitude theorem of 21 September states \(\ker D^a=\operatorname{im}D^{p-a}\) on the top moment-correction spaces \(K_d\) of functional matching boards, with \(D=\sum_i\delta_i\) the sum of weighted marginals. \(K_d\) is dual to the functional top algebra in degree \(d\), and \(\delta_i\) is adjoint to multiplication by the row-\(i\) part of \(\ell\). A complex of finite-dimensional spaces is exact exactly when its dual is. So at \(p=3\), \(a=2\) gives \(\operatorname{Ann}(\ell)=\ell^2A_{d-2}\), and \(a=1\) gives \(\operatorname{Ann}(\ell^2)=\ell A_{d-1}\), on functional boards at every degree \(d\). It needs \(2d+3-a\) active rows that stay nonconstant after deleting \(3d+2(3-a)\) labels. The robustness convention is the same as the spread lemmas' own. For uniform forms that range is roughly \(d\lesssim n/3\).

Consequences for the record:

The recorded theorem at \(d=1\), \(a=1\) gives the spread lemma for 7-robust forms, with four rows. The weak algebra maps onto the functional one, so an annihilator in the weak algebra is one in the functional algebra. The two algebras coincide in degree one, where the conclusion \(e\in\ell A_0\) lives. The spread lemma itself assumes only 6-robustness, so it refines the recorded case in robustness.
The degree-four spread lemma's functional part is the case \(d=2\), and the theorem's constants are better: six rows and 10-robustness, where the lemma asks for seven and 12. Its own content is Step 5, the repeated-pigeon components that the weak board adds.
So the spread lemma, and the degree-four lemma's functional part, rediscover recorded results; the registry now links them. The gate searches of those cycles used the multiplication words (annihilator, square). They missed the dual words (contraction, weighted marginal, amplitude). The verification gate in CLAUDE.md now asks for a search under the dual formulation.
The contraction induction proposed last cycle is not needed on functional boards.

Finding 2: exactness on the column tensor

Let \(T=\bigotimes_{j}C_j\), with \(C_j=\mathbb F_3\oplus V_j\), \(V_j^2=0\) and \(V_j=\langle x_{ij}\rangle_i\), be the collision algebra without row relations. Then \(A=T/(R_0,\dots,R_n)\).

Lemma (column-tensor exactness). Let \(\ell=\sum_jy_j\) with \(y_j\in V_j\), and let \(c\) be the number of columns with \(y_j\ne0\). Then \(\operatorname{Ann}_{T_k}(\ell)=\ell^2T_{k-2}\) and \(\operatorname{Ann}_{T_k}(\ell^2)=\ell T_{k-1}\) for all \(k<\lfloor c/2\rfloor\), and the second fails at \(k=\lfloor c/2\rfloor\).

Proof. \(H=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) with \(x\) primitive is a Hopf algebra: \(\Delta(x^3)=x^3\otimes1+1\otimes x^3\) in characteristic three. Multiplication by \(\ell\) on \(T\) is the diagonal action of \(x\) on the tensor product of the \(H\)-modules \(C_j\), where \(x\) acts on \(C_j\) by \(y_j\). Write \(V_a[s]\) for the graded indecomposable \(H\)-module of length \(a\) starting in degree \(s\). If \(y_j\ne0\), then \(C_j=V_2[0]\oplus V_1[1]^{\dim V_j-1}\) (basis \(1,y_j\) and a complement); otherwise \(C_j\) is trivial. The rules are these. \(V_1[s]\otimes M=M[s]\). Free modules stay free under tensor products, since \(H\otimes M\cong H\otimes M^{\mathrm{triv}}\) for a Hopf algebra. Directly, \(V_2[0]\otimes V_2[0]=V_3[0]\oplus V_1[1]\): \(e_0e_0\mapsto e_1e_0+e_0e_1\mapsto2e_1e_1\) is a chain of length three, and \(x(e_0e_1-e_1e_0)=0\). By induction \(V_2[0]^{\otimes c}\) is free plus one summand \(N_c\). Here \(N_c=V_1[c/2]\) for \(c\) even and \(V_2[(c-1)/2]\) for \(c\) odd: tensoring \(N_{c-1}\) with \(V_2[0]\) gives \(V_3\oplus V_1\) or \(V_2\) at the stated shift. Expanding each nonzero column as \(V_2[0]\oplus V_1[1]^{\dim V_j-1}\), \(T\) is a sum over the sets \(S\) of columns that contribute their \(V_2[0]\). Each term is \(V_2[0]^{\otimes|S|}\) shifted by \(c-|S|\) (plus degree-zero trivial factors from the zero columns). Its non-free part \(N_{|S|}[c-|S|]\) starts in degree \(\lfloor|S|/2\rfloor+c-|S|\ge\lfloor c/2\rfloor\), with equality when \(S\) is all \(c\) columns. So the non-free part of \(T\) starts exactly in degree \(\lfloor c/2\rfloor\). Free summands \(V_3[s]\) satisfy both exactness statements. A summand \(V_1[s]\) or the bottom of \(V_2[s]\) is killed by \(\ell^2\) and is not in \(\ell T\). The top of \(V_2[s]\) is killed by \(\ell\) and is not in \(\ell^2T\). So both statements hold below \(\lfloor c/2\rfloor\), and the second fails there. \(\square\)

The lemma needs no robustness, only \(c\) nonzero columns. Column forms have \(c=1\), and there it fails at once (\(\ell^2=0\)). What it does not cover is the row relations. In the Nakayama sense of Finding 3, \(T\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) through degree \(c/2\) for even \(c\) and \((c+1)/2\) for odd \(c\). The summand \(V_1[s]\) first breaks the isomorphism in degree \(s+1\), and \(V_2[s]\) in degree \(s+2\).

Finding 3: the weak board, measured

By graded Nakayama, \(A\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) through degree \(D\) exactly when the Hilbert function of \(A/\ell A\) equals that of \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)\) through \(D\). Freeness through \(D\) gives \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_k}(\ell)=\ell^2A_{k-2}\) for \(k\le D-1\) and \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_k}(\ell^2)=\ell A_{k-1}\) for \(k\le D-2\). Likewise, with \(\gamma_k=\dim A_k\), the rows act freely on \(T\) through \(D\) exactly when \(\gamma_k=[t^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_T/(1+t+t^2)^{n+1}\) for \(k\le D\). Measured with uniform forms (component code of the degree-four entry):

\(n\)	\(A\) free over \(\ell\) through	first failure	rows free on \(T\) through	\(T\) free over \(\ell\) through (lemma, \(c=n\))
6	3	degree 4: \(1237\) against \(559\); \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(\ell^2)=41\) against 35 and \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_3}(\ell)=712\) against 34	3 (\(\gamma_4=3094\) against 2240)	3
7	3	degree 4: \(26316\) against \(26309\); \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_3}(\ell)=54\) against 47	at least 4	4
8	at least 4	none through degree 4	at least 4	4

These are two samples at \(n=6,7\) and one at \(n=8\); the computations stop at degree four. In the same Nakayama sense, the weak board stops no later than \(T\), and sometimes earlier. At \(n=7\) it fails in degree four, where \(T\) is still free. At \(n=6\), \(\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(\ell^2)\) is too large although \(T\)'s holds there. So the row relations cost exactness. The column-tensor lemma bounds what can be hoped for and does not explain where \(A\) stops. Files: research/results/odd_prime_column_tensor_20260923/, lexact.py, lexact_n*.json, rows_free.py, rows_free.txt.

Finding 4: what the joint count needs

Let \(U=\bigotimes_b\mathbb F_3[y_b]/(y_b^3)\), acting on \(A\otimes N\), \(N=\bigotimes_bN_b\), \(N_b=\mathbb F_3[y_b]/(y_b^2)\). Here \(y_b\) acts on \(A\) by \(\ell_b\) and on \(N_b\) by its generator. \(U\) is cocommutative with antipode \(y\mapsto-y\), and \(A\) with \(\ell\mapsto-\ell\) is isomorphic to \(A\) by the degree sign. So \(A\otimes_UN\cong(A\otimes N)/U^+(A\otimes N)\), and \(A\otimes_UN=A/(\ell_1^2,\dots,\ell_M^2)\). Hence if \(A\otimes N\) is free over \(U\) through \(D\) (Nakayama sense), the selector count \(\mathrm{HS}_A\bigl((1+t)/(1+t+t^2)\bigr)^M\) holds through \(D\).

\(U\) is the group algebra of \((\mathbb Z/3)^M\). By Dade's lemma, with Carlson's rank varieties, a finite-dimensional \(U\)-module is free exactly when it is free over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3[z]/(z^3)\) for every nonzero \(z=\sum\beta_by_b\) with \(\beta\in\overline{\mathbb F}_3^M\). What the count needs is a truncated version: freeness through \(D\). The single-element test is computable on the row-free model \(T\otimes N\), acted on by the row generators and the selectors; on \(A\otimes N\) the rows act as zero. For \(z=\sum\beta_by_b+\sum\alpha_iR_i\), the tensor rules of Finding 2 apply. Each board column where the column part of \(z\) is nonzero contributes a \(V_2\), and so does each selector with \(\beta_b\ne0\). So single-element freeness on \(T\otimes N\) is governed by a column count: board columns plus selector support. It fails early only for combinations with small selector support whose forms nearly cancel, the overload structure of the relative-span entry. For uniform families one expects no early single-element failure over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\); this was not checked. Carrying single-element freeness from \(T\otimes N\) to \(A\otimes N\) is heuristic, since the rows themselves are not free on \(T\) at every size (the \(n=6\) row of the table).

Two limits. First, the truncated passage from single elements to the whole family must use the count. For uniform families the count fails at the fill point. So if, as expected, no single element fails early, any truncated local-to-global statement needs Hilbert-series positivity as a hypothesis. Second, the record has this passage only for two forms. The ternary projective-line lemma and the ternary pair theorem build a common lift from exactness in every pencil direction \(D_1+\lambda D_2\). That is a truncated rank-two Dade statement. The two-form corollary asks for \(2d+2p-1\) rows for a lift from \(K_d\) to \(K_{d+p-1}\), against \(2d+p-a\) for one form's exactness at degree \(d\). These are different statements, so how the cost grows with the number of forms is unknown. If it grew linearly, only \(O(n/p)\) selectors could be handled, far below the fill point.

Falsification attempt

The freeness route predicts that a single-element failure breaks the count exactly at the degree where freeness first fails. A linear dependency \(\sum_{b\in S}\beta_b\ell_b=0\) makes \(z=\sum_{b\in S}\beta_by_b\) act only on \(N_S\cong V_2^{\otimes|S|}\). Its non-free summand is \(N_{|S|}\). \(U\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[z]/(z^3)\). A linear change of the generators \(y_b\) that makes \(z\) one of them keeps the ideal of cubes, because cubing is additive in characteristic three. So \(U\cong\mathbb F_3[z]/(z^3)\otimes(\text{the rest})\). Hence \(U\)-freeness of \(A\otimes N\) fails by degree 3 for \(|S|=3\) (summand \(V_2[1]\)) and by degree 4 for \(|S|=5\) (summand \(V_2[2]\)). The prediction was tested with \(\ell_S\) summing to zero and uniform other forms:

dependency, degree, \(n\)	freeness	count: rank against model
\(\|S\|=5\), degree 3, \(n=6\), two seeds	no failure from this \(z\) through 3	equal at \(M=5,\dots,76\), through the fill
\(\|S\|=3\), degree 3, \(n=6\)	fails by 3	one short at \(M=3,5,10,40\) (e.g. \(101\) against \(102\))
\(\|S\|=5\), degree 4, \(n=7\)	fails by 4	one short at \(M=5,10,20\) (e.g. \(4369\) against \(4370\))

In each case the count failed at the predicted degree, by one dimension. Each family was tested at one degree only. The three-term case has the explicit syzygy \(\ell_1^2\ell_2-\ell_2^2\ell_1-\ell_3^2(\ell_1-\ell_2)=0\) for \(\ell_3=\ell_1+\ell_2\). The prediction survived. So freeness is a sharp proxy for the count in these tests. Files: dependent_count.py, dependent_count_n6_s*.json, dependent3_deg3_n6.json, dependent5_deg4_n7.json.

Assessment

The selector line's per-degree cycles produced correct special cases. Their single-square core was already recorded in dual form, on functional boards, over a degree range of order \(n/3\). The line's actual open content is the joint statement for many forms. In the freeness picture that is a truncated Dade lemma for \((\mathbb Z/3)^M\) acting on \(A\otimes N\), with the Hilbert series' positivity as its hypothesis. It is the batched mechanism the remaining route names as missing, reached here from the algebra side. The record's rank-two case is the projective-line lemma. Further degree-by-degree strata do not move this.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, first read the standard proofs of Dade's lemma and of rank varieties for elementary abelian groups, and determine which steps survive truncation to degrees at most \(D\). Then try to generalize the projective-line lemma from pencils to planes. The test is three forms: given exactness in every direction \(\sum\lambda_bD_b\), \(\lambda\in\mathbb P^2(\overline{\mathbb F}_3)\), at the needed degrees, when does a common lift exist? Determine the degree, row and robustness loss of the third form. Check candidates against three uniform selectors at \(n=7\), degree four, where the count is known to hold. The cycle ends with the rank-three lemma, or with a measured growth of the loss.

Verification gate. Re-read: the amplitude theorem's statement (spaces, operators, room and deletion hypotheses), the projective-line lemma's statement and the two-form corollary's summary. A reviewer given only the column-tensor statement found no record of it; the searches used tensor product, Hopf, Jordan block, amplitude, weighted marginal and collision algebra. Checks: \(\ell\)-exactness and row freeness computed exactly at \(n=6,7,8\) through degree four, and the dependency controls at degrees three and four. A fresh-context reviewer checked the entry and required changes, all adopted. Its main finding was that a first version misread the five-term dependency: its non-free summand breaks freeness only in degree four, not three. That version's conclusion, that freeness is more than the count needs, was withdrawn. The degree-four and three-term controls were then run, and they support the opposite reading. The reviewer also required:

the truncated claim stated against Dade's lemma, which holds for whole modules;
the single-element analysis placed on \(T\otimes N\), where the rows act;
the table compared in one sense, showing that the rows cost exactness;
a step added to the column-tensor proof for the extra column summands;
the spread lemma's robustness relation to the recorded theorem corrected;
the degree range of the amplitude theorem stated;
the growth of the lifting cost called unknown.

A focused second pass over the revised sections confirmed all numbers against the data. It required four precisions, all adopted: a conditional in the first limit, "fails by" instead of "first fails" in the controls, one tested degree per family, and the change of generators behind the freeness of \(U\) over \(z\).

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A truncated Dade lemma needs more than single-element freeness and positivity: special position breaks it

23 September 2026 · Refutation and a finite check · Column tensors over \(\mathbb F_3\), complete and rank-one columns. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A truncated Dade lemma needs more than single-element freeness and positivity: special position breaks it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-truncated-dade.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The column-tensor review read the joint selector count as freeness of a column tensor over \(u(\mathfrak g)=\mathbb F_3[z_1,\dots,z_r]/(z_i^3)\) through a degree \(D\). It asked for a truncated Dade lemma: single-element freeness, meaning freeness over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3[z]/(z^3)\) for every nonzero \(z\), together with nonnegativity of the predicted Hilbert function, should imply freeness through \(D\). This cycle tests that statement on the smallest structured models, where both hypotheses can be computed exactly. It ends with agreement over the tested range, or with a counterexample.

Models and equivalences

A column is \(L_c=\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c\) with \(V_c^2=0\), on which \(\mathfrak g\) acts through a linear map \(\varphi_c:\mathfrak g\to V_c\), sending \(1\mapsto\varphi_c(z)\). A column tensor is \(X=\bigotimes_cL_c\) with the diagonal action. The collision algebra \(T\) of the board is the case of complete columns, \(\varphi_j\) an isomorphism from the row span onto \(V_j=\langle x_{ij}\rangle_i\). Selector columns have rank one. By graded Nakayama, \(X\) is free through \(D\) exactly when \(\dim(X/\mathfrak gX)_k=W_k:=[t^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_X/(1+t+t^2)^r\) for \(k\le D\). So nonnegativity of \(W_k\) through \(D\) is necessary.

For a single element \(z\), let \(c(z)\) be the number of columns with \(\varphi_c(z)\ne0\). Each such column restricts to \(V_2\oplus(\dim V_c-1)\cdot\text{trivial}[1]\). So, as in the proof of the column-tensor lemma, \(X|_z\) is a sum of pieces \(V_2^{\otimes c'}[c-c']\otimes(\text{trivial})\) with \(c'\le c\), and the shift offsets the smaller \(c'\). Hence \(X|_z\) is free, in the Nakayama sense, exactly through \(c/2\) for even \(c\) and \((c+1)/2\) for odd \(c\). For rank-one columns only \(c'=c\) occurs. The minimum of \(c(z)\) over \(z\in\mathfrak g\otimes\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) is computable over \(\mathbb F_3\). For rank-one columns \(\varphi_c=\lambda_c\), the \(\mathbb F_3\)-points of an \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\)-hyperplane lie in an \(\mathbb F_3\)-hyperplane. So \(\min c(z)=m-\max_h\#\{c:\lambda_c\in h\}\) over the \(\mathbb F_3\)-hyperplanes \(h\).

The statement under test predicts freeness exactly through \(\min(\text{single-element range},\text{last }k\text{ with }W_k\ge0)\).

Test 1: complete columns

\(X=L^{\otimes m}\) with \(L=\mathbb F_3\oplus\mathfrak g\), for \(r=\dim\mathfrak g\le5\) and \(m\le8\). There are 35 cases, each computed up to degree \(m\) or until a degree had more than 40,000 basis elements. In all 35 the measured freeness degree equals the prediction, or reaches the last computed degree when the computation stopped first. Here the two bounds nearly coincide, so this test mainly confirms the single-element part.

Test 2: rank-one columns

This is the pure selector model: \(X=\mathbb F_3[t_1,\dots,t_m]/(t_c^2)\), with \(z_i=\sum_c\lambda_c(e_i)t_c\) for random \(\lambda_c\in\mathbb F_3^r\setminus0\). Modulo the \(z_i\), \[ X/\mathfrak gX\cong\mathbb F_3[s_1,\dots,s_{m-r}]/(\mu_1^2,\dots,\mu_m^2), \] with \(\mu_c\) the image of \(t_c\). This needs \(\operatorname{rank}\Lambda=r\), which follows from \(\min c(z)>0\); otherwise the prediction is freeness through degree 0 and nothing is tested. So the test asks for the Hilbert function of \(m\) squares of linear forms in \(m-r\) variables. In characteristic zero, the degree-two part of this question is the classical one: the squares are dependent exactly when the points \([\mu_c]\) fail to impose independent conditions on quadrics. From degree three on the characteristic-three problem differs. Every cube of a linear form lies in \((\mu_c^2)\), since \(\ell^3=\sum a_c^3t_c^3=0\) in \(X\). So \(W\) is not the characteristic-zero expected series: for \(r=6\), \(m=14\), \(W_3=14\), while \((1+t)^{14}(1-t)^6\) gives 8. Inverse systems in degree at least three would also need divided powers. Commands: ctf.py --rs 1,2,3,4,5 --ms 2,...,8 --maxcols 40000, rank1.py --rs 2,...,6 --ms 6,...,14 --trials 4 (seed 0) and rank1.py --rs 3,...,7 --ms 10,...,16 --trials 12 --seed 1. Computed: 100 instances with \(r\le6\), \(m\le14\), and 240 with \(r\le7\), \(m\le16\), each through the predicted degree plus one.

outcome	instances
freeness exactly as predicted	333
fails one degree early, at \(W_k=0\) (quotient 1, e.g. \(r=3\), \(m=6\), degree 2)	6
fails one degree early with \(W_k>0\)	1

Counterexample. Take \(r=6\), \(m=14\), with the \(\lambda_c\) stored in rank1_large.json. At most 9 of the 14 forms lie in one hyperplane, so \(c(z)\ge5\) for every \(z\ne0\). So \(X\) is free over every single element through degree 3. The predicted Hilbert function is \(W=(1,8,22,14,\dots)\), positive through degree 3. But \(\dim(X/\mathfrak gX)=(1,8,22,15)\): freeness fails in degree 3 by one dimension. An independent recomputation with plain NumPy elimination confirms the quotient dimensions and the hyperplane count (verify_instance.py, verify_instance.txt).

So, for general column tensors over \(\mathbb F_3\), the truncated Dade lemma is false in the form "single-element freeness through \(D\) plus \(W_k\ge0\) (even \(W_k>0\)) implies freeness through \(D\)". The counterexample uses rank-one columns. The version restricted to the board's own tensors, with complete row columns and selector columns, is untested beyond Test 1 and remains open. The six boundary failures, all in degree two, are the classical kind of special position. With \(r=3\), \(m=6\), the six squares \(\mu_c^2\) in three variables are dependent exactly when the six points \([\mu_c]\) lie on a conic. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) that is frequent. The strictly positive case is a degree-three defect of 14 squares in 8 variables, measured against the characteristic-three prediction \(W\); it has no direct fat-point counterpart. Files: research/results/odd_prime_truncated_dade_20260923/, ctf.py, ctf.json, rank1.py, rank1.json, rank1_large.json.

What this means for the route

In the freeness picture, the batched mechanism is not a consequence of single-element exactness, which is the recorded amplitude theorem's kind of statement, together with counting. It also needs a genericity hypothesis excluding special position. It is of the same type as Fröberg-type and fat-point interpolation statements, which are open in general. But the predicted series \(W\) differs from Fröberg's from degree three on, so no existing conjecture is the statement needed here. Two structural remarks bound where special position can hide:

Every finite instance has a bounded number \(m-r\) of quotient variables, so the defects above carry no information about growth by themselves. If a defect in the board setting comes from forms confined to a bounded span, the bounded-span equivalence resolves it as conditioning on allowed patterns, on the structured side. How \(m-r\) in this model translates into the span of board forms was not worked out.
For the goal, the forms come from a refutation, not from a random source. An adversary could aim for special position in a span whose dimension grows with \(n\). Whether such configurations exist in the board algebra with a positive predicted count is the open question. The uniform families measured so far show none, at degree three (\(n=6,7\)) and four (\(n=7\)).

Assessment and next step

The tested statement is refuted as stated. Single-element freeness plus positivity decided freeness in 333 of 340 random rank-one instances and in all complete-column cases. The failures are special-position defects in small spans. The missing hypothesis is a genericity condition, and the route now needs to know whether that condition can fail only through bounded-span structure.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the core test, on constructed special-position families with growing span. Candidates are forms from a conic or a rational normal curve, and Frobenius- or subspace-structured configurations, in \(v=m-r\) quotient variables for \(v\) from 9 to about 15, at degree three. Say a defect in degree \(k\) has a bounded core if a subset \(C\) of the forms, spanning at most \(d_0\) dimensions, already has a degree-\(k\) relation among the \(\mu_c^2\), \(c\in C\), beyond the Frobenius and Koszul ones. The hypothesis to test predicts that every defect has a bounded core with \(d_0\) independent of \(v\). Sizes: in the \(X\) model degree three has \(\binom m3\) basis elements (560 at \(m=16\), 4060 at \(m=30\)); in the quotient ring, at most \(\binom{v+2}3\) monomials (455 at \(v=13\)). Random frequencies are a secondary control only, since the goal's forms are adversarial. The step ends with a family that has a defect without a bounded core, which is a new obstruction for the structured side, or with the core found in every constructed defect.

Verification gate. Re-read: the column-tensor lemma's decomposition, which is the source of the single-element ranges, and the bounded-span equivalence's statement. The counterexample was recomputed by independent code. The complete-column predictions were rechecked after the positivity criterion was corrected from \(W_k>0\) to \(W_k\ge0\): a zero coefficient is allowed. A fresh-context reviewer reran the independent check and confirmed the refutation, the counts and the Nakayama and hyperplane reductions. It required corrections, all adopted: the single-element formula for columns of rank above one; the rank hypothesis; the interpolation analogy restricted to degree two, since cubes of linear forms vanish in characteristic three; the refutation scoped to general column tensors; the bounded-span remark weakened; and the next step rebuilt around constructed families, a defined core and stated sizes.

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Special position against bounded cores: a pencil of quadrics gives defects whose only core spans almost every dimension

23 September 2026 · Finite check and a working lemma · Evidence against bounded cores, rank-one model, degree two. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Special position against bounded cores: a pencil of quadrics gives defects whose only core spans almost every dimension”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-special-position-cores.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The truncated Dade entry found that single-element freeness plus a positive predicted Hilbert function does not imply freeness: special position breaks it. Its next step asked whether every such defect has a bounded core: a subset of the forms, spanning a bounded number \(d_0\) of dimensions, whose squares already carry the extra relation. If so, the structured side could absorb special position through the bounded-span equivalence. The cycle ends with a constructed family that has a defect without a bounded core, or with a core found in every constructed defect.

Single-element failures always have a bounded core

In the rank-one model, \(X=\mathbb F_3[t_1,\dots,t_m]/(t_c^2)\) is acted on by generators \(z_i=\sum_c\lambda_c(e_i)t_c\). The quotient is \(X/\mathfrak gX\cong\mathbb F_3[s_1,\dots,s_v]/(\mu_1^2,\dots,\mu_m^2)\), with \(v=m-r\). Take the generators to be a basis of the linear dependencies (so \(\operatorname{rank}\Lambda=r\), and \(z\Lambda\ne0\) for \(z\ne0\)) \(\sum_ca_c\mu_c=0\) of the points \(\mu_c\in\mathbb F_3^v\). Every model with \(\operatorname{rank}\Lambda=r\) has this form, since the rows of \(\Lambda\) span the dependencies of the images \(\mu_c\).

Lemma (girth lemma). \(\min_{z\ne0}c(z)\), over \(z\in\mathfrak g\otimes\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), equals the girth of the configuration: the smallest number of the \(\mu_c\) carrying a nontrivial linear dependency.

Proof. \(c(z)\) is the number of columns with \(\lambda_c(z)\ne0\), the support of the vector \((\lambda_c(z))_c=z\Lambda\). As \(z\) ranges over \(\mathbb F_3^r\setminus0\), \(z\Lambda\) ranges over the nonzero dependencies, so the minimum over \(\mathbb F_3\) is the girth. Over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), the zero set \(\{c:\lambda_c(z)=0\}\) is the set of columns \(\lambda_c\) in the hyperplane \(z^\perp\). These are \(\mathbb F_3\)-vectors, and \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank equals \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\)-rank, so they span at most \(r-1\) dimensions over \(\mathbb F_3\). Hence they lie in \(y^\perp\) for some nonzero \(y\in\mathbb F_3^r\), and \(\operatorname{supp}(y\Lambda)\subseteq\operatorname{supp}(z\Lambda)\). So the minimum is the same. \(\square\)

The single-element range is \(\lceil c/2\rceil\), so a single-element failure at or below degree \(D\) needs \(c\le2D-2\): a circuit of at most \(2D-2\) forms, spanning at most \(2D-3\) dimensions. In that sense single-element failures are always localized in a small span. This is not a core in the degree-two sense used below, since a failure at degree above two is not a relation among squares.

A defect whose only core is everything

Construction (rejection sampling: up to 200 attempts per trial until a pencil with an extra \(\mathbb F_3\)-base point appears). Choose \(N=\binom{v+1}2-2\) points \(\mu_1,\dots,\mu_N\in\mathbb P^{v-1}(\mathbb F_3)\). They are taken from a random greedy cap, so no three are collinear. When the quadrics through them form a pencil, the \(N\) points impose independent conditions on quadrics. Add an \(\mathbb F_3\)-point \(\mu_{N+1}\) of the pencil's base locus not among them. The base point lies on every quadric of the pencil, so its square lies in the span of the other \(N\) squares in the space \(S_2\) of quadrics, of dimension \(\binom{v+1}2\). Hence the dependency space among the \(m=N+1\) squares is exactly one-dimensional and contains the added point in its support. The degree-two count predicts \(W_2=\binom{v+1}2-m=1\), but the quotient has dimension 2. The single-element range is at least 2, since distinct projective points have girth at least 3. The cap does not raise this: the base point can be collinear with two cap points, and the girth is 3 in 4 of the 5 instances where it was computed. What the cap prevents is a support of four collinear points. So this is a defect within the predicted range, with \(W_2>0\). So every subset of forms whose squares are dependent contains the dependency's support: that support is the only possible core.

\(v\)	\(m\)	support of the only dependency (3 trials)	its span dimension	tensor-model quotient against \(W\)
4	9	9, 8, 8	4, 4, 4	\((1,4,2)\) against \((1,4,1)\)
5	14	10, 10, 8	5, 5, 4	\((1,5,2)\) against \((1,5,1)\)
6	20	14, 14, 14	6, 6, 6	\((1,6,2)\) against \((1,6,1)\)
7	27	18, 14, 19	7, 7, 7	not run

The only core spans all \(v\) dimensions in 11 of 12 instances and \(v-1\) in the twelfth, and its size tends to grow with \(v\). This is evidence against bounded cores, not a refutation. It excludes \(d_0\le6\) only in the sampled instances, and a proof that the span grows with \(v\) is missing. Without the cap condition, random points over \(\mathbb F_3\) often give a line (support 4, span 2), and otherwise small supports: 6 and 7 points spanning 3 dimensions at \(v=5\), 8 spanning 4 and 12 spanning 6 at \(v=6\). Lines are the small-field effect behind the earlier boundary failures. Files: research/results/odd_prime_special_position_20260923/, pencil.py, pencil.json (random points), pencil_cap.json (caps), and xcheck.py, xcheck.txt for the tensor-model cross-check.

What such a defect is in the board

For selectors \(1-L_c^2\) with \(L_c=\ell_c+k_c\), a relation \(\sum_ca_c\ell_c^2=0\) among the squares in \(A_2\) means that \(\sum_ca_c\ell_c^2\) reduces, modulo the base at degree two (through \(x^2=x\), collisions and the row equations), to an affine function \(g\). Since \(1-L_c^2=1-k_c^2-2k_c\ell_c-\ell_c^2\), the linear combination \(\sum_ca_c(1-L_c^2)\) of the selectors gives at degree two the affine consequence \[ \textstyle\sum_ca_c(1-k_c^2)-2\sum_ca_ck_c\ell_c-g=0 . \] So a special-position defect of this kind is a fall to an affine equation among the forms. For homogeneous forms (\(k_c=0\)) it reads \(\sum_ca_c=g\), which is a refutation when \(g\) is a constant different from \(\sum_ca_c\). On patterns this is visible directly. In the rank-one model the relation is an identity of reduced polynomials in \(v\) variables, reduced because the degree two is below three, hence an identity of functions on \(\mathbb F_3^v\). This fails for products of squares, whose degree \(2w\ge4\) is not reduced under \(x^3=x\). So on the allowed patterns, those avoiding every forbidden hyperplane \(\{L_c=0\}\), the affine consequence must hold. A refutation means the \(m\) forbidden hyperplanes cover all patterns.

The constructed families have \(m\approx v^2/2\) selectors of density \(1/3\) each, so their total density is far above one. The route's constraints are wide, each of small density and the total below one. The planted-overload entry recorded that, for constraints on one bounded span, total density below one leaves allowed patterns of positive density and allows at most one point-pin. Whether special position without a bounded core can occur, or can matter, at total density below one is not settled by this model.

Assessment and next step

Single-element failures are localized in small spans (girth lemma). Special-position defects need not be, as far as the data go: a pencil of quadrics through a cap produces defects whose only core spans all or almost all of \(v\le7\) dimensions. So bounded spans alone are unlikely to close the structured side. The constructed defects have high density, and the goal's regime has low density.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to test low density directly, where a count rules out the pencil mechanism at the constraints' own degree. Total density below one with width \(w\) allows fewer than \(3^w\) constraints: at most 8 for \(w=2\) and 26 for \(w=3\). A degree-\(2w\) special position like the pencil needs about \(\dim S_{2w}=\binom{v+2w-1}{2w}\) constraints (15 at \(v=3\), \(w=2\)), so it is possible only for \(v\le3\). So low-density defects can only appear above degree \(2w\), through multipliers. The model: the truncated ring \(B=\mathbb F_3[s_1,\dots,s_v]/(s_i^3)\), where cubes of all linear forms vanish, with constraint tops \(\prod_{i\in T_b}\mu_i^2\), \(b\le M\), \(|T_b|=w\). The prediction is \(\mathrm{HS}_B\prod_b\bigl(1-t^{2w}/(1+t+t^2)^w\bigr)\), exact when all \(Mw\) forms are independent. A defect is a Hilbert-function value above the prediction's positive part in a degree where every lower value agrees. Smallest nonvacuous case: \(w=2\), \(M\le8\), \(Mw>v\), degrees 5 to 8. \(\dim B_k=[t^k](1+t+t^2)^v\) is at most about 3,000 for \(v\le9\), \(k\le8\). Search special configurations (forms on a conic, a quadric or a subspace) for a defect without a bounded core. The step ends with such a defect, or with the finding that every defect at \(M\le8\) has a core of bounded span.

Verification gate. Re-read: the truncated Dade entry's model, its equivalences and its core definition, and the bounded-span equivalence and density statements of the planted-overload entry. The degree-two defects were cross-checked in the tensor model at \(v=4,5,6\) (xcheck.txt). A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the table against the data and the affine-consequence algebra. It required changes, all adopted. The status is downgraded from refutation to evidence, since 12 instances cannot exclude every fixed \(d_0\). The girth lemma's \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) step is made explicit, and its bounded-core claim is weakened to localization with exact bounds. The one-dimensionality of the dependency is proved, not observed. The girth statements about caps and the random-point supports are corrected. The degree-two limitation of the pattern argument is noted. The next step is rebuilt around the density count, with a model, a prediction and sizes.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 37.42 s
Computation design and coding	5 min 34.89 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	0.07 s
Individually measured computation	2.46 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

At total density below one, random product-constraint defects come from overlapping subfamilies

23 September 2026 · Finite check · 144 random instances, \(v\le9\), degree at most eight. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “At total density below one, random product-constraint defects come from overlapping subfamilies”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-low-density-cores.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The special-position entry gave evidence that degree-two defects of selector squares need not have a bounded core. Its families have total density far above one. The route's constraints are wide, with total density below one, and a count excludes the pencil mechanism there. Width-\(w\) constraints number fewer than \(3^w\), while a degree-\(2w\) pencil needs about \(\binom{v+2w-1}{2w}\) of them. So this cycle asks whether defects above the constraint degree, at density below one, still have bounded cores. It ends with a defect without a small core, or with the cores of all defects found.

Model

Take the truncated ring \(B=\mathbb F_3[s_1,\dots,s_v]/(s_i^3)\). Every cube of a linear form vanishes there, and it plays the role of \(u(\mathfrak g)\) with the forms as pseudo-independent variables. Constraint \(b\) has top \(P_b=\mu_{2b}^2\mu_{2b+1}^2\), with its two forms linearly independent. A proportional pair would give \(P_b=\mu^4=0\), a degenerate constraint, excluded. There are \(M\le8\) constraints, of density \(1/9\) each, so the total is at most \(8/9\), and \(2M>v\), so the forms are dependent. A linear change of variables is an automorphism of \(B\), since \((\sum a_is_i)^3=\sum a_is_i^3\) in characteristic three, so the ideal \((s_i^3)\) is stable under it. For independent forms the ideal of tops is therefore monomial after a change of variables: \(B/I\cong\bigotimes_b\mathbb F_3[x,y]/(x^3,y^3,x^2y^2)\otimes(\text{rest})\), with Hilbert function exactly \[ W=\mathrm{HS}_B\,\bigl(1-t^4/(1+t+t^2)^2\bigr)^M . \] Every tested instance has \(2M>v\), so there \(W\) is a heuristic prediction of Fröberg type, never exact. The expected Hilbert function is \(W\) truncated at its first nonpositive coefficient, zero from there on. A defect is the first degree where the Hilbert function \(H\) of \(B/(P_1,\dots,P_M)\) differs from it. Its core is a smallest subfamily \(S\) whose own quotient already has a defect by that degree; its span is the dimension of the span of its \(2|S|\) forms. A first run compared against \(\max(W,0)\), without truncation, and kept degenerate constraints. Both produced spurious defects, and it is kept only as products_small.json.

Results

There were 144 random instances, six for each of 24 pairs \((v,M)\) with \(4\le v\le9\), \(M\in\{3,4,5,6,8\}\), \(2M>v\), each computed through degree 8 (products.py, products.json).

\(v\)	instances	with an overlapping pair (four forms spanning \(\le3\))	with a defect	defect without an overlapping pair
4	30	28	15	0
5	30	20	21	1
6	24	10	11	1
7	24	5	5	0
8	18	0	0	0
9	18	1	1	0

All 53 defects are excesses, \(H\) above the truncated prediction. Their cores:

43 are pairs spanning 3 dimensions, with the defect in degree 6.
3 are pairs spanning 2 dimensions, in degree 4.
4 are triples or quadruples spanning 3 dimensions, in degree 5 (3 and 1 cases).
2 are triples spanning 4 dimensions, in degree 7. These are the two defects without an overlapping pair.
1 is a family of seven spanning all four dimensions of a \(v=4\) instance, in degree 5. That is essentially the whole family, not a small core; the instance also contains an overlapping pair.

Every core's span is at most the defect degree, and the largest span is 4. The \(v=4\) row is largely vacuous. For \(M\ge4\) the truncated prediction is already zero from degree 6 (from degree 5 at \(M=8\)), so the degree-6 pair mechanism cannot show: 13 instances with an overlapping pair have no defect. At \(v\ge5\), every instance with an overlapping pair has a defect. At \(v=8,9\), with 10 to 16 forms, defects occur only in the one instance containing an overlapping pair. Otherwise the Hilbert function matches the truncated prediction through degree 8, although the forms are dependent.

Reading

The defects are small subfamilies of constraints whose forms overlap, so that their span \(d_S\) is below \(2|S|\). They fail in degrees near the top \(2d_S\) of their own small truncated ring. This matches the relative counts of the relative-span entry: a subfamily fails its own count before the whole family does. The mechanism the data show is at the top of the small ring. The subfamily's own prediction \(W_S\) turns negative at degree \(2d_S\), while its Hilbert function is at least 0, and the excess appears there. A heuristic first-moment reading: at low density a subfamily of large span cannot fill its middle degrees, since each width-\(w\) factor removes a proportion of order \(3^{-w}\) there. That count concerns \(H>0\), not excess syzygies, so it does not exclude defects in the middle degrees. This suggests a hypothesis: at total density below one, a defect in degree \(D\) has a core of span at most about \(D\). The present runs barely test it: with \(v\le9\) and \(D\) from 4 to 8, every span is at most \(v\), which is about \(D\) anyway. Only the span-3 cores in degree 6 and the span-4 cores in degree 7 carry content. A nonvacuous test needs \(v\) well above \(D\), for example \(v\ge2D\), with the truncated prediction positive through degree \(D\). The pencil family of the previous entry violates it only at high density. Cores of bounded span are the bounded-span structure that the bounded-span equivalence resolves as pattern conditioning.

Assessment and next step

In this model, at total density below one, in 144 random instances with \(v\le9\) and degrees at most eight, every defect found comes from an overlapping subfamily of span at most 4 and at most the defect degree. That supports the structure-versus-randomness dichotomy in the regime the goal needs. The instances are random, so an adversarial low-density family with a large-span defect is not excluded.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the first case, at \(w=2\). Lemma to prove: if a family of width-two product constraints has its first defect in degree at most 6, then it contains a pair of constraints whose four forms span at most 3 dimensions, or a degenerate or smaller overlap. For general \(w\) the pair's own prediction, \((1+t+t^2)^d-2t^{2w}(1+t+t^2)^{d-w}+t^{4w}(1+t+t^2)^{d-2w}\) with \(d=2w-1\), first turns negative at \(2d=4w-2\). So the general statement concerns degree \(4w-2\), and \(4w-2=2w+2\) only at \(w=2\). The enumerable part is the pairs and triples of constraints. Up to \(\mathrm{GL}_v(\mathbb F_3)\), a pair is determined by the linear relations among its four forms, and a triple by those among six forms spanning at most 6 dimensions. These are few orbits, which can be listed and checked in \(B\) with \(v=d_S\) through degree 8. The whole families cannot be enumerated: at \(v=6\) there are 364 projective points and about 66,000 constraints. Families would be tested by random and structured sampling in nonvacuous cases, \(v=5\), \(M\le4\) and \(v=6\), \(M\le8\), where the truncated prediction is positive at degree 6 and \(2M>v\). The proof would show that a degree-6 syzygy beyond the Koszul and Frobenius ones, in a family without an overlapping pair, is impossible. The step ends with that lemma, or with a family without an overlapping pair that has a defect in degree at most 6.

Verification gate. Re-read: the special-position entry (the core definition, the density count and the pencil families) and the relative-span entry's overload pattern. A first run was discarded and kept only as products_small.json: it compared against \(\max(W,0)\) and kept degenerate constraints. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the model, the code's defect and core detection, and the table and the 53 cores against the data. It required corrections, all adopted: the \(M\) values stated; the change-of-variables step for the prediction, and its heuristic status when \(2M>v\); the vacuous \(v=4\) row noted; the seven-constraint core not called small; the hypothesis marked as barely tested, with a nonvacuous range; the first-moment reading separated from the excess mechanism; and the next step corrected to \(w=2\), with the general degree \(4w-2\), "contains a pair" wording and enumerable sizes.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 7.96 s
Computation design and coding	4 min 42.17 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	0.07 s
Individually measured computation	25.73 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: the freeness line is a column-tensor analogue of the recorded r-parameter lift, and its form needs genericity

23 September 2026 · Route review with a finite check · The line re-derives the recorded obstruction; the next step moves to the board itself. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the freeness line is a column-tensor analogue of the recorded r-parameter lift, and its form needs genericity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-freeness-line-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the column-tensor review, the thread has read the joint count for many constraints as freeness of a column tensor over \(u(\mathfrak g)\) through a degree \(D\). The step it needs is a truncated local-to-global lemma: single-element exactness plus positivity implies joint exactness. Three cycles tested that statement in toy models:

it fails in special position (truncated Dade entry);
at high density, special-position defects need not have a bounded core (special-position entry);
at total density below one, the random defects found have small overlapping cores (low-density entry).

What the goal needs. Joint exactness, or at least absence of refutation, for polynomially many wide constraints whose forms come from a refutation. This must hold relative to the PHP base \(A\) itself, at degree about \((4p-1)h\).

Relation to the record

The recorded wide-conditioning conjecture (22 September) states the affine case of this program. It adds unary PHP and an affine system whose nonzero combinations are all robust on many rows, and claims no degree-\(D\) refutation. Its claim-index assessment records that "the \(r\)-parameter lift it needs is unproved and the projective proof does not port". The truncated Dade lemma of the last three cycles is the column-tensor analogue of that \(r\)-parameter lift. Two correspondences, which are analogies rather than identities:

The conjecture's hypothesis, that every nonzero combination is robust, plays the role of the single-element hypothesis. It is combinatorial, and it yields single-element exactness or non-refutation only through the recorded one-form case.
Both pictures cap the number of forms, from different sources. The conjecture's dimension bound (a width-\(t\) span has dimension below \(N^2\)) limits how many random blocks can admit such a span. The freeness picture's positivity cap is a Hilbert-series condition, \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)^{\dim\mathfrak g}\ge0\) through \(D\). At degree four it allows only \(r\le5\) at \(n=7\), far below \(N^2\).

The record also has a proved positive case: the many-operator lift holds for symmetric targets on free modules. The local-lift review set that many-operator lift aside "for lack of a density mechanism". The special-position failure below lies outside that proved case. So the freeness line re-derived a recorded obstruction in another language.

What it adds to the record:

The column-tensor form of the \(r\)-parameter lift is false. Single-element exactness plus positivity does not imply joint exactness; a genericity condition excluding special position is also needed.
Single-element failures are localized: the girth lemma puts them in circuits.
Special position at high density can involve the whole span.
At total density below one, every special-position defect found, random or adversarial, contains an overlapping pair or triple; a search forbidding them found no defect.

None of this is about the PHP base. The toy models are the free ring \(\mathbb F_3[s]/(s_i^3)\) and rank-one column tensors. In the free ring \(B\), quotients by linearly independent linear forms are always exact. Since \((\sum a_is_i)^3=\sum a_i^3s_i^3\) in characteristic three, \(B=S(V)/(v^3:v\in V)\) does not depend on the basis, so \(B\) modulo independent linear forms is again a truncated polynomial ring. So special position of linear forms cannot arise there, and the affine case of the conjecture is invisible. The toy-model constraints were the nonlinear products \(\mu_a^2\mu_b^2\), which is where special position arose.

Falsification attempt

The low-density entry's working claim was tested adversarially: at total density below one, a defect needs an overlapping pair or triple. A subfamily \(S\) overlaps when its \(2|S|\) forms span fewer than \(2|S|\) dimensions. The search used \(v=8\), \(M=8\) width-two product constraints in the free ring. It forbade overlapping pairs and triples, and hill-climbed over single-form changes to maximize the total excess \(\sum_k\max(0,H_k-T_k)\) through degree 8.

Correct condition (every pair spans 4, every triple spans 6): three random restarts and three with all forms on a random quadric, 300 steps each, about 140 admissible evaluations per restart. No excess in any degree through 8.
A first, looser version forbade only triples spanning fewer than 5 dimensions, so it admitted overlapping triples (span 5). It found defects with excess 25 (first in degree 7), 3 and 1 (degree 8). Their minimal cores were 5 constraints spanning 5 dimensions, 4 spanning 5, and 5 spanning 6. Each contains overlapping triples, so these runs do not bear on the claim. Two further runs at \(v=10\) found no defect. They are kept, relabelled, as loose_triples_*.json.

So the narrow claim survived the adversarial search at \(v=8\). This is weak evidence: six local searches in a toy model. The broader form, that a core's span is at most the defect degree, was not tested. At \(v=8\) it holds automatically for degree-8 defects, and the \(v=10\) runs found no defect. Files: research/results/odd_prime_freeness_review_20260923/, adversary.py, adversary_v8.json, adversary_v8_quadric.json, adversary_cores.py, and the loose_triples_* files.

Assessment

The freeness line is not converging on a proof. It reformulated the recorded \(r\)-parameter lift and showed that its natural form needs a genericity hypothesis. It gathered evidence in toy models that at low density the genericity fails only through small overlapping subfamilies. An adversarial search forbidding overlapping pairs and triples found no defect at \(v=8\). That evidence is random or search-based, in a model without the PHP base, and it does not touch the step the recorded conjecture needs. Further toy-model cycles would add special cases. What remains untested is whether the PHP base itself produces special position for robust affine systems. The toy models cannot show this, and the recorded conjecture depends on it.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, test the board version directly: special position of robust affine systems in \(A\). By graded Nakayama, \(A\) is free over \(u(\langle\ell_1,\dots,\ell_r\rangle)\) through \(D\) exactly when the Hilbert function of \(A/(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_r)\) equals \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)^r\) through \(D\). Fix \(t\) and \(Q\) first, and check that \(r\)-systems with every nonzero combination \(Q\)-robust on \(t\) rows exist at \(n=7\), \(r\le5\); the conjecture only asserts that some \(t\) and \(Q\) work. Then search, randomly and by hill-climbing, for such systems but whose quotient exceeds the prediction in a degree where the prediction is positive. Such a system is a PHP-specific special-position defect.

The smallest nonvacuous sizes, computed from the graded dimensions, are \(n=7\) with \(r\le5\) and \(n=8\) with \(r\le10\), at degree four. The prediction's degree-four coefficient is 490 at \(n=7\), \(r=5\), and 6557 at \(n=8\), \(r=10\). The rank computations are \(r\gamma_3\times\gamma_4\): \(5\cdot8688\times34950\) at \(n=7\), about 0.19 GB packed. At \(n=8\), \(10\cdot22929\times168147\approx3.9\times10^{10}\) entries need about 9.6 GB at two bits per entry, at the memory cap. So \(n=8\) needs streamed elimination, or only the rank of the image in \(A_4\) accumulated in blocks, or smaller \(r\). A defect in the homogeneous quotient is a necessary precondition for a fall of the affine system, not a refutation, and the conjecture is about refutation: for a defect found, check whether a fall and then a refutation follow. Degree four is far below the \((4p-1)h\) the goal needs, so a null result bounds only low degrees. The step ends with the search's outcome at both sizes.

Verification gate. Re-read: the wide-conditioning conjecture's statement and its assessment in the claim index, the remaining route's wording on the parked lines, and the low-density entry's definition of overlap. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the run counts, the core descriptions and the nonvacuity coefficients (490; \(r=6\) gives \(-4011\); 6557; \(r=11\) gives \(-2485\)). Its main finding was that the first adversarial search used a looser triple condition than the low-density entry's definition. The "refutation" drawn from it was withdrawn, and the search was rerun with the correct condition, finding nothing. It also required:

the correspondences stated as analogies;
the recorded positive case of the many-operator lift noted;
free-ring exactness restricted to independent forms, with its reason;
the \(n=8\) memory estimate corrected to 9.6 GB, with methods that fit;
the next step weakened: a defect is a precondition for a fall, and degree four bounds only low degrees;
the quotation attributed to the claim index.

All were adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	28 min 47.41 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 49.22 s
Computation design and coding	3 min 26.09 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	0.08 s
Individually measured computation	23 min 32.02 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

On the board, column-type affine systems are special: robust on every row, yet non-free early and sometimes refuted at degree three

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(n=6,7\), degrees three and four. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “On the board, column-type affine systems are special: robust on every row, yet non-free early and sometimes refuted at degree three”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-column-type-affine.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The freeness-line review redirected the line to the board itself. Does the PHP algebra \(A\) put robust affine systems in special position? The hypothesis to meet is that of the recorded wide-conditioning conjecture: every nonzero combination is \(Q\)-robust on at least \(t\) rows. A defect is excess in the Hilbert function of \(A/(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_r)\) over \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)^r\), truncated. The cycle ends with the search's outcome and a first check of whether defects lead to refutations.

Three families at \(n=7\)

Robustness was checked over all nonzero \(\mathbb F_3\)-combinations, with \(Q=2\), \(t=5\).

Random: uniform forms, \(r=2,\dots,5\), three trials each. No defect through degree 3 in any of the 12.
Column-type: every row carries the same hole function \(\varphi_b\), so \(\ell_{\varphi}=\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j\) with \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\). Every combination is again column-type, and it is \(Q\)-robust on all rows when its hole function is. Since \(\sum_j\psi(j)C_j\) lies in the row span exactly when \(\psi\) is constant, a column-type system is independent modulo rows exactly when no nonzero combination has a constant hole function, which the robustness check guarantees. Defects appeared in all six systems: degree-3 excesses of 47 to 69 at \(r=2\), and 147 at \(r=3\), with one extra dimension already in degree 2. No robust column-type system with \(r\ge4\) was found in 500 draws. A Hamming-bound count explains why: robust combinations need a ternary code containing the all-ones vector with minimum distance at least \(Q+1\), which caps \(r\) at 3 for \(n=7\), \(Q=2\).
Mixed: alternating column-type and uniform forms. Defects in all 12 systems, 2 to 154 in degree 3, and one extra dimension already in degree 2 at \(r=5\).

A single column-type form is already non-free. Through degree 4, two such forms gave excesses \((0,0,0,22,1138)\) and \((0,0,0,1,676)\), while a random form gave \((0,0,0,0,7)\). The 7 is the known degree-four failure at \(n=7\) from the column-tensor review.

Refutations at degree three

These are exact PC closures with the recorded affine-conditioning closure code, for PHP plus \(r\) column-type equations \(\ell_{\varphi_b}=c_b\), over every right-hand side \(c\). Each is compared with random affine systems of the same size. For each right-hand side the run also checks whether a Boolean occupancy vector \(y\in\{0,1\}^n\) exists with \(\sum_jy_j\equiv n+1\) and \(\sum_j\varphi_b(j)y_j=c_b\). The column sums \(C_j\) are Boolean modulo collisions at degree two, and the rows force \(\sum_jC_j=n+1\).

\(n\), \(r\)	robustness \(Q\) of the system	column-type right-hand sides refuted	random systems refuted
6, 1 (two systems)	2, 2	1 of 3 each (\(c=1\), resp. \(c=0\))	0 of 3 each
6, 2 (two systems)	1, 1	9 of 9 each	0 of 9 each
7, 1	3	0 of 3	0 of 3
7, 2	1	2 of 9 (\(c=(0,2),(1,2)\))	0 of 9

At \(r\le2\), every right-hand side, refuted or not, has a Boolean occupancy solution, so the check does not discriminate there and the occupancy reduction does not explain those refutations. In an earlier run at \(n=6\), occupancy_n6_D3.json, two \(r=3\) systems (robustness 1 and 0) were refuted for all 27 right-hand sides. Of these, 17 and 12 have an occupancy solution. At \(n=7\) the symmetric value \(c_b\equiv\tfrac{n+1}{n}\sum_j\varphi_b(j)\), \((2,1)\) there, is not refuted, but neither are six other right-hand sides. At \(n=6\) this value is undefined, since \(n\equiv0\pmod3\). Only the \(r=2\), \(Q=1\) rows are like-for-like between the sizes, and there the effect weakens from 9 of 9 to 2 of 9; the \(r=1\) rows compare \(Q=2\) with \(Q=3\). Plain PHP is not refuted at degree three at either size. Files: research/results/odd_prime_board_affine_20260923/, board_affine.py, n7_K3_*.json, n7_K4_*_r1.json, occupancy_refute.py, occupancy_n6_D3_rhs.json, occupancy_n7_D3.json. occupancy_n6_D3.json is the earlier run without per-right-hand-side detail, which includes the \(r=3\) systems.

A heuristic account

Column-type forms live in the subalgebra generated by the column sums, where \(C_j^2=0\) and \(\sum_jC_j\equiv0\) modulo rows. A model is \(R=\mathbb F_3[t_1,\dots,t_n]/(t_j^2,z)\) with \(z=\sum_jt_j\). For a hole function \(\varphi\), let \(c=n-\max_a\#\varphi^{-1}(a)\), the smallest column count in the pencil \(\langle z,\ell_\varphi\rangle\). By the definition of robustness, \(\varphi\) is \(Q\)-robust exactly when \(c\ge Q+1\). The column-tensor lemma does not cover the quotient by \(z\), so the model was computed directly (model_ring.py, model_ring_n7.json, model_ring_n8.json). For single forms the first excess of \(R/(\ell_\varphi)\) over \(\mathrm{HS}_R/(1+t+t^2)\) is in degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\):

\(n=7\): degree 2 for \(c=1,2\), degree 3 for \(c=3,4\);
\(n=8\): degree 4 for the two \(c=5\) forms below, where the truncated prediction is already 0, and degree 2 for \(c=2\).

In \(A\), the two single forms (\(c=3,4\)) also first fail in degree 3. So for single forms the heuristic reads: a \(Q\)-robust column-type form is free through at least \(\lceil(Q+1)/2\rceil\), whatever \(n\). If this carries over to \(A\), the wide-conditioning conjecture's \(Q\) must be at least about \(2D\) for single column-type forms.

Three limits:

Systems can fail earlier. The \(n=7\), \(r=3\) column systems have \(c\ge3\) in every combination, yet show a degree-2 excess in \(A\). The model predicts none for them.
Non-freeness does not imply refutation. The \(Q=3\) single form at \(n=7\) is non-free in degree 3 but was never refuted at \(D=3\), so the heuristic makes no refutation prediction.
It assumes that \(A\) behaves like a free extension of the column subalgebra, which is unproved.

Assessment and next step

The board does produce special position for affine systems that the toy models could not show: occupancy (column-type) forms. They meet the row-robustness hypothesis of the wide-conditioning conjecture, fail freeness early, and give degree-three refutations that random systems do not. The refutations seen come from \(Q\le2\). For single forms, the model predicts that the freeness failures are a small-\(Q\) effect set by the value multiplicities of the hole functions, which would calibrate the conjecture, not contradict it.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to test the single-form prediction at \(n=8\), \(D=3\), where the heuristic makes a definite claim. Plain PHP should survive degree three there (random-conditioning law), and the run checks it. The closure has about \(4.3\times10^4\) columns. Compare single column-type forms with \(c=5\) (\(Q=4\), the maximum at \(n=8\), since some value occurs at least three times) against forms with \(c\le2\). Two examples with \(c=5\) are \(\varphi_1=(0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2)\) and \(\varphi_2=(0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1)\). Measure, for each form, the first excess degree of \(A/(\ell_\varphi)\) and the refutation count over the 3 right-hand sides.

The heuristic predicts a first excess in degree 4 for \(c=5\), and in degree 2 for \(c\le2\). An excess in degree 3 or lower at \(c=5\) falsifies the account. Refutations at \(c=5\) would mean \(Q\) must grow faster than about \(2D\). The pair \(\varphi_1,\varphi_2\), with every combination of multiplicities \((3,3,2)\), is a secondary test, since systems can fail earlier. The step ends with these degrees and counts.

Verification gate. Re-read: the wide-conditioning conjecture's statement, including its independence and robustness hypotheses; the recorded affine-conditioning closure code's interface and its base rows; and the column-tensor review's weak-board data. A fresh-context reviewer checked the robustness code against the definition, the Hamming bound and all numbers against the data. It required corrections, all adopted:

the occupancy claim restricted to \(r\le2\), with the \(r=3\) data reported;
the refuting \(Q\) corrected to at most 2;
the independence modulo rows made explicit;
the model-ring computation reported as a computation, not as a consequence of the lemma. It was reproduced independently: first excess in degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\).
the heuristic restricted to single forms, with two limits: systems fail earlier, and non-freeness does not predict refutation;
the comparison between \(n=6\) and \(n=7\) confounded unless like-for-like;
the next step rebuilt around single forms at \(n=8\), with an explicit \(Q=4\) example and a falsifying outcome.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	48 min 55.48 s
Computation design and coding	10 min 12.31 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	0.07 s
Individually measured computation	38 min 43.10 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

At \(n=8\), single column-type forms first fail exactly where the column-subalgebra model says

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(n=8\), freeness through degree four and refutations at degree three. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “At \(n=8\), single column-type forms first fail exactly where the column-subalgebra model says”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-column-type-n8.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The column-type entry found that occupancy forms \(\ell_\varphi=\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j\) meet the row-robustness hypothesis of the wide-conditioning conjecture but fail freeness early and, at small robustness, give degree-three refutations. A model of the column subalgebra predicts that a single form first fails in degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\), with \(c=n-\max_a\#\varphi^{-1}(a)\). A \(Q\)-robust \(\varphi\) has \(c\ge Q+1\). The test was set at \(n=8\), \(D=3\): an excess in degree 3 or lower at \(c=5\) falsifies the account. The cycle ends with the first excess degrees and the refutation counts.

First excess degrees

The Hilbert function of \(A/(\ell_\varphi)\) was computed through degree 4 and compared with \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)\), truncated (board_affine.py --phis, n8_K4_explicit.json). The degree-four rank needs \(22929\times168147\) entries. A first run built them densely, about 4 GB, and was stopped by the memory limit. The final run packs them in chunks of 2000 rows.

\(\varphi\)	\(c\)	predicted first excess	excess in degrees 0–4
\((0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2)\)	5	4	\((0,0,0,0,119)\)
\((0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1)\)	5	4	\((0,0,0,0,119)\)
\((0,0,0,0,1,1,1,2)\)	4	3	\((0,0,0,1,484)\)
\((1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0)\)	2	2	\((0,0,1,125,4349)\)

All four match. A random form at \(n=8\) has no excess through degree four (column-tensor review). So on the board a single column-type form is free through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil\) and not beyond, in these cases. Together with the two single forms at \(n=7\) (column-type entry), the formula now holds in six board cases, and in all eight model-ring cases computed.

Refutations at degree three

Exact closures of PHP plus the column-type equations over every right-hand side, with random affine systems of the same size for comparison. Plain PHP is not refuted at degree three at \(n=8\). The recorded closure routine multiplies 400 rows by all 72 variables at once, about 5 GB of dense integers at this size, and was stopped by the memory limit. The script now uses the same closure in chunks of 40 rows, converted to bytes per variable. This computes the same closure. Reducing modulo 3 per block equals reducing after stacking. The loop stops only after a full pass with no growth, so its fixed point is the least space closed under multiplying its part of degree at most \(D-1\) by variables, whatever the chunk size. The columns are ordered by degree, as in the original, so pivot degree is polynomial degree. As a control, the modified routine reproduced the recorded \(n=7\) two-form count exactly: 2 of 9, at \(c=(0,2)\) and \((1,2)\) (control_n7_pair_new_closure.json). Each single-form closure took about 30 seconds, each two-form closure about 100.

system	robustness \(Q\)	right-hand sides refuted	random systems refuted
\(\varphi=(0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2)\)	4	0 of 3	0 of 3
\(\varphi=(0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1)\)	4	0 of 3	0 of 3
\(\varphi=(0,0,0,0,1,1,1,2)\)	3	0 of 3	0 of 3
\(\varphi=(1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0)\)	1	0 of 3	0 of 3
the two \(c=5\) forms together	4	0 of 9	0 of 9
a random column-type pair	2	0 of 9	0 of 9

Nothing is refuted. Degree-three refutations of column-type systems were not observed at \(n=8\) in the systems tested: one pair each at \(Q=2\) and \(Q=4\), and single forms down to \(Q=1\). The two-form rows go from 9 of 9 at \(n=6\) (\(Q=1\)), to 2 of 9 at \(n=7\) (\(Q=1\)), to 0 of 9 at \(n=8\) (\(Q=2\)). \(Q\) changes along this sequence, and there is one pair per size. So the trend is suggestive, not like-for-like: an \(n=8\) pair with \(Q=1\) was not run. The \(c=2\) form is non-free already in degree 2 and yet not refuted, a further instance of non-freeness without refutation. Files: occupancy_n8_D3_phi1.json, occupancy_n8_D3_singles.json, occupancy_n8_D3_pairQ4.json, occupancy_n8_D3_pair_random.json, with the closure's control in control_n7_pair_new_closure.json.

Assessment and next step

At \(n=8\) the single-form freeness formula holds in all four cases. No degree-three refutation of a column-type system was observed at \(n=8\). So occupancy forms show no evidence against the wide-conditioning conjecture, which is about refutation. They calibrate the freeness route to it instead. A column-type form with column count \(c\) is free exactly through \(\lceil c/2\rceil\) in the cases computed. So a proof through freeness, such as the \(r\)-parameter lift, needs \(Q\) at least about \(2D-2\) for such forms. That is a constraint on the route, not on the conjecture: non-freeness does not imply refutation, as the \(c=2\) form shows.

The comparison with the recorded amplitude theorem crosses board types. The theorem is stated on functional boards, and every computation here is on the weak board, so it gives no bound on the computed \(A\). On functional boards it applies to column-type forms, since all rows are robust. Freeness over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) needs \(a=1\) and \(a=2\) together, and the binding case \(p-a=2\) requires \(3d+4\le c-1\), that is \(d\le\lfloor(c-5)/3\rfloor\). Its degree \(d\) is the degree of the top algebra, the same grading as the Hilbert function of \(A/(\ell)\). At \(c=5\) this covers only \(d=0\), and for \(c\le4\) nothing, so at \(n=8\) the comparison is vacuous. Asymptotically it gives about \(c/3\) against the observed \(\lceil c/2\rceil\).

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the upper bound, which is the calibration that matters. For every \(\varphi\), \(A\) should fail to be free over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell_\varphi]/(\ell_\varphi^3)\) through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\). Construct an explicit witness in the model ring \(R=\mathbb F_3[t]/(t_j^2,\sum_jt_j)\): a nonzero class of degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\) in \(\ker\ell/\operatorname{im}\ell^2\) or in \(\ker\ell^2/\operatorname{im}\ell\). Build it from the value-class sums \(S_a=\sum_{\varphi(j)=a}C_j\), so that \(\ell_\varphi=S_1-S_2\). Then show it stays nonzero modulo the ideal of the board.

A proof bounds the freeness route at \(Q\ge2D-2\) for occupancy forms, for every \(n\). The lower bound, freeness through \(\lceil c/2\rceil\), would only sharpen the recorded \(c/3\) by a constant factor, off the critical path, and is not pursued. The step ends with the witness and its survival proved, or with the point where survival fails.

Verification gate. Re-read: the column-type entry (\(c\), the model ring and its predictions), the amplitude theorem's statement including its board type, and the recorded closure routine. The modified closure was checked against a recorded count (above). A fresh-context reviewer confirmed all tables against the data and the equivalence of the modified closure. It required changes, all adopted:

the refutation trend reworded as not like-for-like;
the amplitude comparison made explicit (\(d\le\lfloor(c-5)/3\rfloor\), vacuous at \(n=8\), and across board types);
an unproved pencil claim dropped;
the upper-bound plan given a named witness;
the lower bound set aside as off the critical path;
the role of freeness stated as a constraint on the proof route, not on the conjecture.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	122 min 24.52 s
Computation design and coding	4 min 59.53 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	0.07 s
Individually measured computation	117 min 24.92 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 3.

The occupancy non-freeness theorem: a column-type form is not free through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\)

23 September 2026 · Working proof · Explicit witnesses, checked numerically at \(n=8\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The occupancy non-freeness theorem: a column-type form is not free through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-occupancy-witness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The \(n=8\) column-type entry found that single occupancy forms \(\ell_\varphi=\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j\), \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\), first fail freeness in degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\). Here \(c=n-\max_a\#\varphi^{-1}(a)\), and six board cases were checked. It proposed proving the upper bound for every \(n\) with an explicit witness. That bound is the calibration that matters for the freeness route to the wide-conditioning conjecture. The cycle ends with the proof or with the point where the witness fails to survive.

Statement

Let \(A\) be the top algebra of weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\): \(n\) holes, \(n+1\) pigeons, relations \(x_{ij}^2\), \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) and the row forms \(R_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\). Let \(\varphi:[n]\to\mathbb F_3\), let \(a\in\mathbb F_3\) be any value, and let \(c=c_a=n-\#\varphi^{-1}(a)\ge0\), the number of active holes where \(\varphi\ne a\). The bound is strongest for \(a\) a most frequent value, where \(c=n-\max_a\#\varphi^{-1}(a)\).

Theorem (occupancy non-freeness theorem). \(A\) is not free over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell_\varphi]/(\ell_\varphi^3)\) through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\). Explicitly:

if \(c\) is even, there is \(w\in A_{c/2}\) with \(\ell_\varphi w=0\) and \(w\notin\ell_\varphi^2A_{c/2-2}\);
if \(c\) is odd, there is \(w\in A_{(c-1)/2}\) with \(\ell_\varphi^2w=0\) and \(w\notin\ell_\varphi A_{(c-3)/2}\).

The same holds for the functional top algebra, where also \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}=0\), and for any number of pigeons at least \(\lceil c/2\rceil\), on the complete pigeon–hole board. On a board with restricted edges the proof needs each chosen pigeon to be adjacent to both labels of its pair.

Proof

Reduction to the active holes. In \(A\), \(C_j^2=\sum_ix_{ij}^2+2\sum_{i<i'}x_{ij}x_{i'j}=0\) and \(\sum_jC_j=\sum_iR_i=0\). Put \(\mu_j=\varphi(j)-a\), which is nonzero exactly on the active holes. Then \(\ell_\varphi=\sum_j\mu_jC_j+a\sum_jC_j=\sum_j\mu_jC_j\). Split the active holes into \(S_1=\{\mu_j=1\}\) and \(S_2=\{\mu_j=2\}\).

The witness. Pair up holes inside \(S_1\) and inside \(S_2\) as far as possible. For each such pair \(\{p,q\}\) take the factor \(F_{pq}=\mu_pC_p-\mu_qC_q\). Here \(\mu_p=\mu_q\), so \(F_{pq}=\mu_p(C_p-C_q)\). Three cases remain:

Both \(|S_1|\) and \(|S_2|\) are even. Then \(c\) is even and every active hole is paired. Put \(w=\prod F_{pq}\), of degree \(c/2\).
Both are odd, leaving \(r_1\in S_1\), \(r_2\in S_2\). Then \(c\) is even. Add the mixed factor \(F_{r_1r_2}=C_{r_1}+C_{r_2}\) and put \(w=\prod F\), of degree \(c/2\).
Exactly one is odd, leaving one hole \(r\). Then \(c\) is odd. Put \(w=\prod F_{pq}\) over the in-class pairs, of degree \((c-1)/2\).

Write \(\ell_\varphi=\sum_{\text{pairs}}(\mu_pC_p+\mu_qC_q)\), plus \(\mu_rC_r\) in case 3. Since \(C^2=0\), each pair's part kills its own factor. For an in-class pair, \[ (\mu_pC_p+\mu_qC_q)(\mu_pC_p-\mu_qC_q)=\mu_p^2C_p^2-\mu_q^2C_q^2=0. \] For the mixed pair, \((C_{r_1}+2C_{r_2})(C_{r_1}+C_{r_2})=3C_{r_1}C_{r_2}=0\). Hence \(\ell_\varphi w=0\) in cases 1 and 2. In case 3, \(\ell_\varphi w=\mu_rC_rw\). Then \(\ell_\varphi^2w=\mu_rC_r\ell_\varphi w=\mu_r^2C_r^2w=0\): the pair parts kill \(w\), and \(C_r^2=0\).

A functional that detects \(w\). Let \(k\) be the degree of \(w\), and fix \(k\) distinct pigeons, one per factor. The component of \(A_k\) on these pigeons is the space of functions on injections from them into the holes, modulo functions that do not depend on some pigeon's coordinate. For the pigeon \(x\) of factor \(F\), choose a label pair \(P_x\):

\(P_x=(p,q)\) for an in-class pair;
\(P_x=(r_1,h_0)\) for the mixed pair, where \(h_0\) is a hole with \(\varphi(h_0)=a\). One exists, since \(a\) is a value of \(\varphi\).

These pairs are pairwise disjoint. The mixed \(k\)-th difference \(\Delta\) over them kills every function independent of some coordinate, hence every relation. So it is a well-defined functional on this component of \(A_k\).

Expand \(w\) in monomials. Its component is \(h(J)=\sum_\sigma\prod_Fg_F(J(\sigma(F)))\), over bijections \(\sigma\) from factors to the chosen pigeons, where \(g_F\) is the coefficient function of \(F\) on holes. In \(\Delta h\), every evaluation point assigns pigeon \(x\) a label of \(P_x\). That label lies in the support of \(x\)'s own factor only, since the supports are disjoint, or in no support if it is \(h_0\). So only \(\sigma\) equal to the chosen assignment contributes, and \[ \Delta w=\prod_{\text{in-class}}\bigl(g(p)-g(q)\bigr)\cdot\bigl(1-0\bigr)^{[\text{case 2}]}=\prod\bigl(\mu_p-(-\mu_p)\bigr)=\prod2\mu_p\ne0 . \] So \(w\ne0\) in \(A\).

\(\Delta\) vanishes on \(\ell_\varphi^2A_{k-2}\), in cases 1 and 2. A product \(\ell_\varphi^2v\) meets this distinct-pigeon component only through a component of \(v\) on \(k-2\) of the chosen pigeons, times the component of \(\ell_\varphi^2\) on the remaining two pigeons \(\{x,y\}\). The latter is \(2\,\varphi\otimes\varphi\), since every pigeon's row function is \(\varphi\). Its difference over \(P_x,P_y\) is \(2\,\delta\varphi(P_x)\,\delta\varphi(P_y)\). For an in-class pair, \(\delta\varphi(p,q)=\varphi(p)-\varphi(q)=0\). At most one chosen pigeon, the mixed one, has \(\delta\varphi\ne0\), so every two-element set \(\{x,y\}\) contains an in-class pigeon and the term vanishes. Hence \(\Delta(\ell_\varphi^2v)=0\), and \(w\notin\ell_\varphi^2A_{k-2}\). When \(k\le1\) (\(c\le2\) in cases 1 and 2), \(\ell_\varphi^2A_{k-2}=0\) and there is nothing to check; \(c=0\) is case 1 with \(w=1\).

\(\Delta\) vanishes on \(\ell_\varphi A_{k-1}\), in case 3. Similarly \(\Delta(\ell_\varphi v)=\sum_x\delta\varphi(P_x)\,\Delta_{\text{rest}}(v)\). All pairs are in-class here, so every \(\delta\varphi(P_x)=0\). Hence \(w\notin\ell_\varphi A_{k-1}\). For \(c=1\), \(k=0\), \(w=1\): then \(\ell_\varphi^2=\mu_r^2C_r^2=0\) and \(\ell_\varphi A_{-1}=0\), so freeness fails through degree 2.

Nakayama. If \(A\) were free over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) through degree \(D\), then for \(k\le D-1\) every element of \(A_k\) killed by \(\ell\) would lie in \(\ell^2A\), and for \(k\le D-2\) every element killed by \(\ell^2\) would lie in \(\ell A\). Cases 1 and 2 give \(k=c/2\), so freeness fails through \(c/2+1\). Case 3 gives \(k=(c-1)/2\), so it fails through \((c+3)/2\). Both equal \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\).

Two remarks on scope. Nothing used that there are \(n+1\) pigeons, only at least \(k\) of them. And on the functional board every monomial and relation used lies in distinct-pigeon components, so the proof holds there too. \(\square\)

Checks

The witnesses were built and tested in \(A\) at \(n=8\) for five hole functions (witness_check.py, witness_n8.json). In each, \(w\) is killed as stated and lies outside the stated image. For the first four, the implied first failure matches the Hilbert functions measured in the \(n=8\) entry; the fifth was not measured:

\((0,0,0,0,1,1,1,2)\), case 2: degree 3;
\((0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2)\), \((0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1)\) and \((0,0,1,1,2,2,0,1)\), case 3: degree 4;
\((1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0)\), case 1: degree 2.

Consequence for the freeness route

Corollary (freeness robustness bound). A hole function \(\varphi\) is \(Q\)-robust when it stays nonconstant after deleting any \(Q\) labels, the convention of the conjecture and of the column-type entries. This holds exactly when every value class has at most \(n-Q-1\) holes, that is \(c\ge Q+1\) for the most frequent value. For \(n\ge3(Q+1)/2\), \(c=Q+1\) is attained: put \(n-Q-1\) holes in one class and split the other \(Q+1\) between two classes of size at most \(n-Q-1\). So for the freeness route to the wide-conditioning conjecture to reach degree \(D\) for all \(Q\)-robust column-type forms, it needs \(\lceil(Q+1)/2\rceil\ge D\), that is \(Q\ge2D-2\).

This is a necessary condition on proofs through freeness, not on the conjecture: non-freeness does not imply refutation, as the \(n=8\) data showed. Related recorded results treat occupancy as special in other settings. The two-form no-fall criterion over \(\mathbb F_2\) fails for column sums at degree two, and the occupancy closure and column dichotomy results exempt or use occupancy forms. None states this degree.

Assessment and next step

For the only PHP-specific special position found for robust affine systems, single occupancy forms, the upper bound of the freeness range is now proved on the complete weak and functional boards. The lower bound, freeness through \(\lceil c/2\rceil\), is measured in six cases. It is proved only up to about \(c/3\), by the amplitude theorem on functional boards, and is open beyond that. The freeness route therefore needs robustness \(Q\ge2D-2\). The conjecture already lets \(Q\) depend on \(D\), so this does not threaten it.

The search for board special position has done what it set out to do. It found occupancy forms, proved their non-freeness bound, and found no other special position for robust affine systems (random systems free through degree three at \(n=7\)). The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is a route review. It should weigh the remaining obstruction, the joint \(r\)-parameter lift with genericity, against the alternatives recorded in the remaining route, and choose the next research line.

Verification gate. Re-read: the column-type entries (definitions of \(c\) and of robustness, and the measured degrees), the component description of \(A\) and the mixed-difference functional from the degree-four spread lemma, and graded Nakayama as used in the column-tensor review. The witnesses were checked numerically at \(n=8\) for five hole functions. A claim search (column form, occupancy, exactness, witness, mixed difference) found occupancy treated as special in other settings, not this degree. A fresh-context reviewer found the proof correct and required scope changes, all adopted:

any value \(a\), with no \(c\ge1\);
the edge cases \(k\le1\) and \(c=1\);
an upper-bound-only title;
the board scope stated;
robustness defined, with the range of \(n\) where \(c=Q+1\) is attained;
the assessment reworded, since the lower bound is open beyond about \(c/3\).

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Route review: the calibrations are in; the batched mechanism is still the recorded \(r\)-parameter lift

23 September 2026 · Route review · Recent lines calibrate the conjecture and the freeness route; the next step searches the board for a non-pointwise defect. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the calibrations are in; the batched mechanism is still the recorded \(r\)-parameter lift”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-clause-transfer-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the freeness-line review the thread has tested the board side of the program. It asked whether the PHP algebra puts robust affine systems in special position, and what that costs a proof of the wide-conditioning conjecture through freeness. The general claim behind it is this. The batched mechanism the route item needs would follow from freeness of \(A\) over the forms' span, the \(r\)-parameter lift. Single-element exactness, positivity and a genericity condition that the board supplies would then imply that freeness.

What the goal needs. The route item needs a degree-\(D\) design for PHP plus polynomially many wide window blocks. A sketch, not a recorded proof: freeness of \(A\) over the span \(\mathfrak g\) of independent forms through \(D\) would give it, since the forms then behave like independent pattern variables, and a point of the constraints' pattern set would give the design. Freeness through \(D\) needs positivity of \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)^r\) through \(D\). From the recorded graded dimensions, the degree-3 positivity fill is \(r=8,14,22\) at \(n=6,7,8\), against the random-conditioning law's \(L=(N+1-2D)(N-1)+1=6,13,22\). Both are of order \((N+1-2D)(N-1)\). So the freeness route can at most handle inventories of fewer than about \((N+1-2D)(N-1)\) forms. That includes the restriction-mixture line's recorded one-count problem, \(n\) random tuples of one input count. The full window needs more.

What the recent cycles established

Special position on the board, so far only occupancy. Random robust affine systems were free through degree three at \(n=7\). Column-type (occupancy) forms were not (column-type entry). Their degree-three refutations appeared only at \(n=6,7\) and small robustness, and none were observed at \(n=8\) (\(n=8\) entry).
A proved calibration. The occupancy non-freeness theorem shows a column-type form is not free through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\). So freeness-based proofs need robustness \(Q\ge2D-2\).
The single-element range is recorded. The amplitude theorem gives it in dual form, and the spread lemmas were rediscoveries of parts of it.
The joint step is the recorded \(r\)-parameter lift. Its column-tensor analogue fails in special position, already at \(r=3\): six points on a conic give a degree-two defect at \(W=0\) (truncated Dade entry).

Falsification attempt

Two known refutation mechanisms could contradict the conjecture's hypothesis: the recorded random-conditioning law, and occupancy. The test is whether either does.

Occupancy. Column-type systems meet the row-robustness hypothesis. They are refuted at degree three only at small \(n\) and small \(Q\), and not at \(n=8\) in the systems tested. Since the conjecture lets \(Q\) depend on \(D\), no contradiction.

The random-conditioning law. About \(L=(N+1-2D)(N-1)+1\) random affine equations refute PHP at degree \(D\). The law is empirical, recorded from finite closures. Could a law-size system meet the hypothesis? The conjecture's own dimension bound answers part of this rigorously. A span whose nonzero elements are all active on at least \(t\) rows has dimension at most \((N+2-t)(N-1)\), and \(L>(N+2-t)(N-1)\) exactly when \((t-1-2D)(N-1)+1>0\), that is \(t\ge2D+1\). So for \(t\ge2D+1\) no system of \(L\) independent forms meets the width hypothesis, and the law cannot contradict the conjecture.

For \(t\le2D\) the question is open, and only a heuristic count is available. A combination supported on at most \(t-1\) rows lies in the span with expected count about \(\binom{N+1}{t-1}3^{(N-1)(t-1-2D)+1}\), since the span has codimension \(2D(N-1)-1\) modulo rows. That is small only for large \(N\): for \(D=3\), \(t=6\), \(N=6\) it is about 0.26. Combinations that fail \(Q\)-robustness on some rows are more numerous, and law-size systems may contain them. So whether a law-size system can meet the hypothesis with \(t\le2D\) is not settled here.

The attempt did not falsify the conjecture. It produced one rigorous consistency statement, that for \(t\ge2D+1\) the law is excluded by the dimension bound. It also produced one proved calibration of the freeness route: \(Q\ge2D-2\), since \(\varphi\) is \(Q\)-robust exactly when \(c\ge Q+1\), and non-freeness through \(D\) occurs exactly when \(c\le2D-2\).

Assessment of this line

The board side has been useful but has not moved the item's missing implication. It produced a proved non-freeness bound for occupancy forms, the only board special position found, with an \(n=8\) observation of no refutations. It also produced consistency checks of the conjecture against the known refutation mechanisms. The batched mechanism is still the recorded \(r\)-parameter lift. In the toy models the implication from pointwise exactness and positivity fails once \(r\ge3\), so a proof needs an input specific to the board.

Whether the board supplies that genericity for robust forms is the open question closest to a mechanism. It is also the one the current tools can test. Even full success, a freeness lift for all robust families, reaches only inventories below the positivity fill, about \((N+1-2D)(N-1)\) forms. That covers the one-count problem, not the whole window. Prospects are moderate for the one-count problem and weak for the full window.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, search the board for a non-pointwise defect. That is a robust affine system of \(r\le5\) forms at \(n=7\), degree at most 4, where every nonzero \(\mathbb F_3\)-combination is single-element free through the degree, yet the joint quotient \(A/(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_r)\) exceeds \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)^r\) where the prediction is positive. It would be the board analogue of the toy counterexamples.

Sizes at \(n=7\), degree 4: a single-form test is a rank of \(8688\times34950\), about 30 seconds, with 13 combinations at \(r=3\) and 121 at \(r=5\). The joint test is at most \(43440\times34950\), about 2 minutes. Families to try:

random robust systems;
column-type systems whose hole functions come from the toy's special configurations (points on a conic, pencils of quadrics), since the column subalgebra embeds the rank-one model;
mixtures of the two.

\(\mathbb F_3\)-combinations only approximate the \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) pencil. A candidate can still be explained by a non-free point over an extension field, and \(\mathbb F_9\) does not exhaust those points. So before calling a candidate a non-pointwise defect, compute the rank-drop locus of the single-element maps over the closure, as the rank of a matrix over \(\mathbb F_3[w]\) along each line of the pencil. Otherwise report only the weaker finding, that every \(\mathbb F_3\)-combination is free. A defect found would show that the \(r\)-parameter lift needs more than robustness even on the board. Its absence in the structured families would be evidence that the board supplies genericity for small \(r\). That is the input a proof of the \(r=3\) lift would take. The step ends with the search's outcome.

Verification gate. Re-read: the wide-conditioning conjecture's entry (statement, dimension bound, ceiling paragraph, column control), the restriction-mixture line's one-count problem, and the recent entries summarized above. The positivity fills were computed from the recorded graded dimensions. A fresh-context reviewer found errors in a first draft's heuristic section:

a small-\(N\) dichotomy overclaimed from an expected count;
\(O(\cdot)\) used for a lower bound;
a trivial \(N^2\) cap in place of the positivity fill;
an \(\mathbb F_3\)-only test presented as a pencil test;
overclaiming assessment wording.

It also asked to check \(Q\ge2D-2\), which is right with robustness meaning \(c\ge Q+1\). The section was rebuilt around the rigorous comparison \(L>(N+2-t)(N-1)\) exactly when \(t\ge2D+1\), and the rest was corrected as required.

Measured timing
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Marked reading and review windows	5 min 33.14 s
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On the board, an occupancy pair is a non-pointwise defect: every point of its pencil is free, the pair is not

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(n=8\), degree three. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “On the board, an occupancy pair is a non-pointwise defect: every point of its pencil is free, the pair is not”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-occupancy-pair-defect.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The clause-transfer review asked for a non-pointwise defect on the board. That is an affine system whose every nonzero combination is single-element free through the degree, while the joint quotient \(A/(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_r)\) exceeds \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)^r\) where that prediction is positive. Before a candidate counts, the rank-drop locus of the single-element maps must be computed over the closure. A defect would show that the \(r\)-parameter lift of the wide-conditioning conjecture needs more than robustness even on the board. The step ends with the search's outcome.

The review sized the search at \(n=7\), degree four, \(r\le5\). This cycle used \(n=8\), degree three instead. There the prediction stays positive up to \(r=21\) (the fill is at \(r=22\)), so much larger spans are tested. The earlier column-type entry had found random systems at \(n=7\) free through degree three. \(n=7\) at degree four was not run.

Single-element freeness over the closure

For a pair \(\ell_a,\ell_b\), let \(z_w=\ell_a+w\ell_b\), with \(w\in\overline{\mathbb F}_3\cup\{\infty\}\) (\(z_\infty=\ell_b\)). In degree \(k\) let \(G_k(w)=G_a+wG_b\) be the matrix of multiplication by \(z_w\) from \(A_{k-1}\) to \(A_k\). By graded Nakayama, \(z_w\) is free through degree 3 exactly when \(\dim(A/z_wA)_k=\gamma_k-\operatorname{rank}G_k(w)\) equals \([t^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)=\gamma_k-\gamma_{k-1}+\gamma_{k-3}\) for \(k\le3\). At \(n=8\), with \(\gamma=(1,63,1656,22929)\) and \(\ell_a,\ell_b\) independent modulo rows (so degree 1 holds), that means rank \(\gamma_1=63\) in degree 2 and \(\gamma_2-\gamma_0=1655\) in degree 3.

A pencil has its normal rank \(\rho\), its rank over \(\mathbb F_3(w)\), at every point of \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\cup\{\infty\}\) except its eigenvalues. By the Kronecker form, \(\rho=\sum\varepsilon_i+\sum\eta_j+k_{\mathrm{reg}}\). Here \(\varepsilon_i\) and \(\eta_j\) are the right and left minimal indices, and \(k_{\mathrm{reg}}\) is the total size of the regular part, the finite and infinite eigenvalues counted with multiplicity. The minimal indices come from ranks over \(\mathbb F_3\). Let \(T_d\) be the block-Toeplitz matrix of the equations \(G(w)x(w)=0\) for polynomial vectors \(x\) of degree at most \(d\). With \(N=\gamma_k\) the number of columns of \(G\), \(\operatorname{rank}T_d-\operatorname{rank}T_{d-1}=N-\#\{i:\varepsilon_i\le d\}\ge\rho\), with equality exactly when every \(\varepsilon_i\le d\). In that case \(\sum\varepsilon_i=\operatorname{rank}T_d-(d+1)\rho\). The left indices work the same way, with the polynomial vectors \(y(w)\), \(y(w)G(w)=0\), and \(m=\gamma_{k-1}\) in place of \(N\).

The script takes \(\hat\rho\), the largest rank at the four \(\mathbb F_3\)-points and the six \(\mathbb F_9\)-points, so \(\hat\rho\le\rho\). It stops when the difference equals \(\hat\rho\). Since the difference is at least \(\rho\), this also certifies \(\rho=\hat\rho\). So \(k_{\mathrm{reg}}=0\) means that every \(z_w\) over the closure has rank \(\rho\) (pencil_closure.py).

As a control, the pencil of \(\varphi_a=(0,0,0,0,1,1,1,2)\) (\(c=4\), non-free in degree 3) and \(\varphi_b=(0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2)\) was run. It gives \(k_{\mathrm{reg}}=1\) in degree 2 and \(143\) in degree 3. The rank drops at the bad \(\mathbb F_3\)-points \(w=0,1,2\), to 1654, 1654 and 1530 in degree 3 (control_pencil_closure.json).

Random robust systems: one defect, and it is pointwise

Uniform random systems at \(n=8\), with robustness \(Q=2\), \(t=5\) required: \(r=4,8,12,16,19,20,21,22\), two trials each, Hilbert function through degree 3 (n8_K3_random.json). Fifteen of the sixteen match the truncated prediction exactly. At \(r=22\), \(W_3=-468\) and the quotient is 0 in degree 3. The exception is one system at \(r=21\): \(H_3=75\) against \(W_3=74\).

Robustness was checked over all combinations only up to \(r=10\), and over 20000 sampled combinations above that. A random row function has column count at most 2 with probability \(p=387/6561\approx0.059\). A random combination fails \((Q,t)=(2,5)\) when at least 5 of its 9 rows do, with probability \(\sum_{k\ge5}\binom9kp^k(1-p)^{9-k}\approx7.4\times10^{-5}\). Up to scalars there are \((3^r-1)/2\) combinations, so about 20 failing ones are expected at \(r=12\), and about \(3.8\times10^5\) at \(r=21\). The systems with \(r\ge12\) are therefore very likely not robust in the conjecture's sense.

The \(r=21\) excess is pointwise, in the sense that the span contains a non-free element (defect21.py, defect21_pointwise.py):

Removing any one of six forms keeps an excess of 1 at \(r=20\) (\(H_3=660\) against 659). Removing any of the other fifteen, the core, gives an exact quotient.
200 random combinations are all single-element free.
The \(2^{14}\) combinations with full support on the core, one per scalar class, were ranked by their number of 2-robust rows and then by total column count. Of the 40 lowest, one is non-free: \(H=(1,62,1593,21275)\) against \(T_3=21274\). Its excess is 1, as in the joint quotient. Its support is the core, which is consistent with the removal pattern. It is not a proof that this combination causes the joint excess, since removing a core form need not remove every non-free combination.
Its rows have column counts \((2,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,2)\). It is 2-robust on 6 rows, so it meets \((Q,t)=(2,5)\), and it is not 3-robust on any row.

This is the single-element failure the occupancy non-freeness theorem calibrates: \(Q=2<2D-2=4\).

The occupancy pair

Consider column-type systems whose every nonzero combination has column count at least 5. Every combination is then 4-robust on all 9 rows, the largest robustness possible at \(n=8\). The holes give a multiset of 8 points of \(\mathbb F_3^r\). A functional's value classes are three parallel hyperplanes, so the condition says that no hyperplane holds more than 3 of the points.

No such triple exists. All \(\binom{27}{8}\) sets of 8 points of \(\mathbb F_3^3\) were enumerated, and none qualifies. A repeated point \(p\) is excluded by counting. Each of the 13 planes through \(p\) can then hold one more point. Each of the 6 other points lies on 4 planes through \(p\), which gives 24 incidences against a capacity of 13.
The pairs are forced. Of the 12870 multisets of 8 points of \(\mathbb F_3^2\), exactly 9 qualify. They are the affine plane \(\mathrm{AG}(2,3)\) minus one point (classify_configs.py, classify_configs.json). Every nonzero functional then takes its values with multiplicities \((3,3,2)\), so \(c=5\).

Any two such pairs are related by a permutation of holes and an affine change of \(\mathbb F_3^2\). The linear part changes the basis of the span. A translation adds constants to the \(\varphi_b\), which changes \(\ell\) by a multiple of \(\sum_jC_j=\sum_iR_i\). That is zero in \(A\). On the affine system it is \(n+1=9\equiv0\), so a translation changes neither the forms nor the right-hand sides. So up to symmetry there is exactly one such pair, and the three random draws (n8_K3_column_robust.json) are one data point. The class is exhausted by it.

It gives \(H=(1,61,1531,19685)\) against \(W=(1,61,1531,19682)\). That is an excess of 3 in degree 3, where \(W_3>0\). For its pencil, computed for all three draws, \(k_{\mathrm{reg}}=0\) in degrees 2 and 3:

degree 2: \(\rho=63\), \(\sum\varepsilon=63\), \(\sum\eta=0\);
degree 3: \(\rho=1655\), \(\sum\varepsilon=1653\), \(\sum\eta=2\). The left index 2 is \(z_w^2\).

The ranks at all \(\mathbb F_3\)- and \(\mathbb F_9\)-points equal the targets (n8_K3_pair_closure.json). So every nonzero element of the span over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) is free through degree 3, yet the pair is not. This is a non-pointwise defect on the board with \(r=2\). The smallest toy counterexample with a positive prediction needed \(r=6\) (truncated Dade entry).

How special the position is

Replacements remove it. Replacing the row functions of both forms on \(s\) random rows by uniform ones gives exact quotients for \(s=1,2,3,5\), three trials each (n8_K3_perturbed_pairs.json). The same file has \(s=9\), which is just a random pair and also exact. Changing a single coefficient of one form also gives exact quotients, in six trials (n8_K3_perturbed_entry.json).
Sub-boards keep it. Setting both forms to zero on \(s=1,2,3,4\) rows keeps the excess of exactly 3. Every one of these pencils again has \(k_{\mathrm{reg}}=0\) in degrees 2 and 3 (n8_K3_partial_pairs.json, n8_K3_partial_closure.json). Trials with the same \(s\) are equivalent under pigeon permutations, so this is four cases, one for each \(s\). The defect depends on the hole-side configuration placed on any 5 or more rows, where each combination is 4-robust on \(9-s\) rows.
The column-subalgebra model. In \(R=\mathbb F_3[t_1,\dots,t_8]/(t_j^2,\sum_jt_j)\), the pair gives \(R/(\ell_1,\ell_2)=(1,5,7,1)\) against the untruncated \(\mathrm{HS}_R/(1+t+t^2)^2=(1,5,7,-2)\). Each of the four single combinations is free in \(R\) through degree 3 (model_pair.py, model_pair_n8.json). So in the model this is the toy's boundary kind of defect, one degree early where the prediction has reached zero. In \(A\) the prediction is positive.
No transfer from the model. If \(A\) were free over \(R\) through degree 3, then \(A/(\ell_1,\ell_2)\) would have excess \(1-(-2)=3\) in degree 3, as observed. But it is not. \(A/(C_1,\dots,C_8)\) has dimensions \((1,56,1308,16080)\) against \(\mathrm{HS}_A/\mathrm{HS}_R=(1,56,1244,13072)\), since \(C_jx_{ij}=0\) (free_over_columns.py). So the equality of the two excesses is unexplained.

Refutation

The recorded \(n=8\) pair \(\varphi_1=(0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2)\), \(\varphi_2=(0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1)\) (\(n=8\) entry) has value pairs \(\mathrm{AG}(2,3)\) minus \((2,2)\), so it is the pair above up to symmetry. None of its 9 right-hand sides is refuted at degree 3. The symmetries map the nine affine systems of one representative bijectively onto those of another: hole permutations are symmetries of PHP, a linear change mixes the right-hand sides linearly, and translations change nothing. So the full occupancy pair is not refuted at degree three for any right-hand side.

The sub-board pairs behave differently. For a pair on a set \(I\) of used pigeons, an affine map of \(\mathbb F_3^2\) fixing the missing point \(p\) is realized by a hole permutation. It relates the system with right-hand side \(c\) to the one with \(M(c-|I|p)+|I|p\), where \(M\) is its linear part, since each used row sums to 1. So the right-hand sides fall into two classes, \(|I|p\) and the other eight. For the full pair, \(|I|=9\equiv0\). Exact degree-3 closures, with the closure code of the \(n=8\) entry (partial_refute.py):

pair	rows used \(t\)	generic right-hand side	special right-hand side \(\|I\|p\)
full occupancy pair	9	not refuted (recorded)	not refuted (recorded)
sub-board, 2 rows zero	7	\((0,0)\): not refuted, so none of the eight is	not computed
sub-board, 4 rows zero	5	\((0,0)\): refuted, so all eight are	not computed

The 5-row pair is locally satisfiable at \((0,0)\): the five used pigeons can be placed in distinct holes to meet both equations, and every right-hand side is met by some such placement. So the refutation uses PHP beyond the five pigeons. Every nonzero combination of this pair is 4-robust on all 5 used rows, and the two forms are independent modulo rows. So at \(D=3\) the wide-conditioning conjecture cannot hold with \(t\le5\) and \(Q\le4\). That is a calibration, since the conjecture only asks for some \(t\) and \(Q\) for each \(D\). It agrees with the clause-transfer review's heuristic \(t\ge2D+1=7\): the 7-row pair was not refuted at a generic right-hand side. The 5-row and 7-row pairs have the same homogeneous excess 3, so that excess does not predict refutation.

These computations were cut short by the computation budget. Refuted closures are slow here, because the closure grows to its fixed point before the test for 1: the refuted one took about 15 minutes. A first run over all right-hand sides was stopped after that one closure (n8_D3_partial_refute_run1.log), and the two special right-hand sides were stopped unfinished. A control on the same 5 rows, with an independent hole permutation on each row, was prepared but not run (rowwise_control.py). It keeps every combination 4-robust on every used row but is not column-type.

Assessment and next step

The search found both kinds of defect. The random defect is pointwise, a \(Q=2\) combination, as the occupancy calibration predicts. The structured one is not pointwise. An occupancy pair, 4-robust (that is, \(Q=2D-2\)) on up to all nine rows, with positive prediction and every point of its pencil free over the closure, still fails freeness in degree 3. So the \(r\)-parameter lift in its freeness form is false on the board already at \(r=2\), under the calibration the single forms gave. The genericity condition missing in the toy models is missing on the board too. The only non-pointwise failure observed is the occupancy pair and its restrictions to sub-boards. Every replacement or single-coefficient change tested restores freeness. The random systems say little about robust spans, since those with \(r\ge12\) were most likely not robust.

For the conjecture itself, the full pair is not refuted at degree three, but its restriction to five rows is, at every generic right-hand side. That bounds the conjecture's parameters at \(D=3\): \(t\ge6\) or \(Q\ge5\). For the freeness route the pair matters regardless of refutation. Occupancy spans would have to be split off first, for instance by the recorded weak occupancy application, and freeness asked only of what remains. Whether that is enough depends on whether occupancy defects stay inside a bounded degree or grow with the robustness.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer finishes the refutation side first, since it bears on the conjecture itself. Add an early exit to the closure, stopping once 1 is in the span. Then decide the two special right-hand sides, and run the row-wise control at \((0,0)\). A refutation of the control would put the \(t=5\) refutation down to narrow robust support. No refutation would tie it to column alignment. Non-refuted closures took about 160 seconds, so the four fit well inside the 30-minute budget.

With the budget left, test in the column-subalgebra model whether the occupancy pair's joint defect grows with robustness. That model predicted the first failure degree of every single form computed on the board, and this pair's first defect degree. The configurations are the plane with each point taken \(m\) times. The counts were made first (model_series.py):

\(n=9\) (full plane, \(c=6\)): the model's prediction is \((1,6,12,5,-9)\), positive through degree 3, and single forms should be free through 3.
\(n=16\) (the plane minus a point, doubled, \(c=10\)): the prediction is positive through degree 8, and single forms should be free through 5. Degrees up to 6 need at most \(\binom{16}{8}=12870\) columns.

A joint defect at degree 5 or less at \(n=16\) would mean occupancy spans must be split off before any freeness argument, at every robustness. The step ends with the four refutation results and the two defect degrees.

Verification gate. Re-read: the wide-conditioning conjecture's statement (robustness, independence modulo rows, \(t\) and \(Q\) depending on \(D\) only); the truncated Dade entry's models and counterexample; the occupancy non-freeness theorem; the \(n=8\) entry's pair and its closure code. Claim searches (pencil and Kronecker methods, occupancy pairs, partial occupancy, non-pointwise defects) found no recorded board analogue. The pencil count was validated on a control pencil with known bad points, and the configuration classification was checked by enumeration. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the Kronecker argument, the Toeplitz orientation in the code and every number against the data. It required changes, all adopted:

\(N\), \(m\) and \(\hat\rho\le\rho\) made explicit;
the triple search replaced by the nonexistence enumeration, and the pairs stated as forced;
the three draws, and the sub-board trials with equal \(s\), counted as one case each;
the translation argument corrected: \(\sum_jC_j=9\equiv0\) on the affine system;
the robustness estimate recomputed (\(7.4\times10^{-5}\), up to scalars);
the assessment restricted to what was observed.

The refutation paragraphs were added after this review. A second fresh-context reviewer checked them: the missing point \(p=(1,2)\) and the generic class of \((0,0)\) for both sub-boards, the symmetry derivation, the hypothesis with \(t=5\), \(Q=4\), and the local satisfiability by enumeration. It required no changes.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	110 min 47.75 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 27.21 s
Computation design and coding	8 min 58.94 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	0.07 s
Individually measured computation	97 min 21.53 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 2.

Sub-boards of the occupancy pair: degree-three refutations up to seven rows, and the joint defect catches up with the single range

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(n=8\), degree three; column-subalgebra model to \(n=16\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sub-boards of the occupancy pair: degree-three refutations up to seven rows, and the joint defect catches up with the single range”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-sub-board-refutations.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The occupancy pair entry left four refutation cases open. Its pair has hole values forming the affine plane over \(\mathbb F_3\) minus a point \(p\), and it is placed on the first \(t\) of the 9 rows. The open cases were the special right-hand side \(|I|p\) for \(t=5\) and \(t=7\), where \(I\) is the set of used pigeons, and a control that is 4-robust on the same rows but not column-type. That entry also asked whether the pair's joint freeness defect stays at bounded degree as robustness grows. The first question calibrates the wide-conditioning conjecture itself; the second calibrates the freeness route to it. The cycle ends with the results.

An early-exit closure

The PC closure's columns are in descending degree, so the constant monomial is the last column. So 1 lies in the span exactly when that column is a pivot. The closure now stops there (early_closure.py). That gives the same verdict, since the full closure contains every intermediate span. Non-refuted closures still run to the fixed point. On the known refuted case (5 rows, right-hand side \((0,0)\)) it gave the same verdict in 280 seconds instead of 977 (n8_D3_early_exit_validation.json; the times are in the two runs' logs, n8_D3_partial_refute_run1.log and the archived session record of this cycle).

Refutations by number of rows

By the symmetry of the previous entry, the right-hand sides of a pair on \(t=|I|\) rows form two classes: the special value \(|I|p\), with \(p=(1,2)\) here, and the other eight. Locally infeasible means that no injective placement of the used pigeons into the holes meets the right-hand side (local_feasibility.py, local_feasibility.json). Degree-3 closures: the 5-row generic case from the previous entry (n8_D3_partial_refute_run1.log, confirmed by n8_D3_early_exit_validation.json), the 7-row generic case from a full closure (n8_D3_partial_refute.json), and the new ones with early exit (n8_D3_partial_refute_special.json, n8_D3_partial_refute_s1.json):

rows \(t\)	locally infeasible right-hand sides	generic class (8)	special class \(\|I\|p\)
9 (full pair)	all nine: 9 pigeons have no injective placement (PHP itself)	not refuted (recorded)	not refuted (recorded)
8	the 8 generic ones	not refuted	not refuted
7	the special one	not refuted	refuted
6	none	not computed	not computed
5	none	refuted	not refuted

Two different mechanisms appear.

At \(t=5\): counting beyond the used pigeons. Every right-hand side is locally feasible. Any feasible placement of the five used pigeons extends to a full matching once one of the other pigeons is dropped. So the refutation uses the pigeonhole count, and adding two robust equations on five rows brings it down to degree 3.
At \(t=7\): a local contradiction. Seven pigeons in eight holes leave one hole empty. The special right-hand side forces the empty hole to carry the missing value \(p\), which no hole carries. So injectivity on the used pigeons contradicts the system without the pigeonhole count. It is not a contradiction of mod-3 occupancy alone. Boolean occupancies with \(\sum_jC'_j\equiv7\) and the right weighted sum exist, but only with 4 occupied holes. So degree-3 PC also rules out collisions among the seven pigeons.

A local contradiction is not automatically cheap. At \(t=8\) the used pigeons fill all 8 holes, so the sum is fixed and eight right-hand sides are locally infeasible. None is refuted at degree 3: a bijection needs more than degree 3 to certify.

Calibration. Every nonzero combination of the 7-row pair is 4-robust on all 7 used rows, and the forms are independent modulo rows. So at \(D=3\) the conjecture cannot hold with \(t\le7\) and \(Q\le4\): it needs \(t\ge8\) or \(Q\ge5\). This supersedes the bound \(t\ge6\) or \(Q\ge5\) of the previous entry. It also contradicts, at \(Q=4\), the agreement that entry noted with the review's heuristic \(t\ge2D+1=7\). The conjecture's hypothesis has no local-consistency condition, and the 7-row case uses one. The record's local-consistency notions belong to the closure sub-line, for example the star closure, not to this conjecture.

The control

The control keeps the same 5 rows, but each row carries its own random hole permutation of the configuration. So every combination is still 4-robust on every used row, but the forms are not column-type (rowwise_control.py, n8_D3_rowwise_control.json). It has no freeness defect: \(H=(1,61,1531,19682)=W\). At \((0,0)\) it is locally feasible and not refuted. The previous symmetry does not apply to it, and this is one random instance at one right-hand side. So the finding is only that this row-wise-permuted instance is not refuted at \((0,0)\), where the column-type pair on the same rows is.

The joint defect in the model

In \(R=\mathbb F_3[t_1,\dots,t_n]/(t_j^2,\sum_jt_j)\), through degree 7, the plane configurations give the following (model_scaling.py, model_scaling.json; the \(n=8\) row from model_pair_n8.json).

configuration	\(c\)	singles first fail	pair first fails	prediction there
\(n=8\), plane minus a point	5	4	3	\(-2\)
\(n=9\), full plane	6	4	3	5
\(n=16\), plane minus a point, doubled	10	6	6	551

The singles fail at \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\), as the occupancy formula says. The pair fails one degree early at \(n=8\) and \(n=9\). At \(n=8\) that failure is only against the truncated prediction 0, since the prediction there is \(-2\). Only \(n=9\) fails early where the prediction is positive. At \(n=16\) the pair first fails at degree 6, where the singles do too, with the prediction still positive. By the criterion set in advance, a joint defect at degree at most 5 at \(n=16\) would have meant that occupancy spans must be split off at every robustness. That did not happen. So in the model the early failure was not seen at \(n=16\). This is one configuration per size. The model is not exact for \(A\), which is not free over the column subalgebra. It did predict the first failure degree of every single form computed on the board, and of this pair.

Assessment and next step

For the freeness route the news is mildly good: in the model the pair's early failure was not seen at \(n=16\), though the pair still fails there at the single-element range. For the conjecture the news is a sharper calibration, \(t\ge8\) or \(Q\ge5\) at \(D=3\) and \(n=8\), and an observation about its statement. Robust systems can be locally infeasible, and one such system is refuted at degree 3. Suppose a family of locally infeasible systems, with both the number of robust rows and the robustness growing, kept a bounded refutation degree. Then the conjecture would be false at that degree for every choice of \(t\) and \(Q\). It would then need a local-consistency hypothesis, as the closure sub-line has.

The natural family is the one-empty-hole construction: \(n\) holes whose values miss a point \(p\) of \(\mathbb F_3^2\), \(n-1\) used pigeons, and the right-hand side forcing the empty hole onto \(p\). At \(n=8\) it is refuted at degree 3.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer tests it at \(n=9\): 9 holes carrying the 8 values with one value \(d\) doubled, 8 used rows, and the right-hand side \(d+p\). With one hole empty the used sum is \(d-p-\psi(h)\), so this forces \(\psi(h)=p\). By enumeration it is the only locally infeasible right-hand side. Every combination is 4-robust and no more, so \(n=9\) tests only the \(t\) branch of the calibration, at degree 3. First check the mod-3 occupancy relaxation, as above. The degree-3 space at \(n=9\) has about 88,000 monomials, twice \(n=8\), so a Python closure may take about 30 minutes. Write the closure in C++ with incremental reduction first, as the computation rules now suggest. A refutation at \(n=9\) would extend the calibration to \(t\ge9\) or \(Q\ge5\). The family would become a candidate against the conjecture as stated only if it also stays refuted as the robustness grows, for example with each value taken \(m\) times. No refutation would suggest, not show, that the 7-row case is a small-\(n\) effect. The step ends with the \(n=9\) verdict.

Verification gate. Re-read: the wide-conditioning conjecture's statement, the previous entry's symmetry argument and data, and the closure code. The early exit was validated against a full closure on a refuted case. Local feasibility and the mod-3 occupancy relaxation were checked by enumeration. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the early-exit argument against the elimination code, every table entry (including \(p=(1,2)\) and each special value \(|I|p\)), the 7-row explanation, the calibration's hypotheses, the model numbers and the \(n=9\) monomial count (87,691). It required changes, all adopted:

sources cited for the timings and for every table entry;
the \(n=8\) model failure identified as a failure against the truncated prediction only;
the model and control conclusions restricted to the instances computed;
the contradiction with the previous entry's heuristic \(t\ge2D+1\) stated;
the \(n=9\) right-hand side given as \(d+p\), with its test limited to the \(t\) branch.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	27 min 18.48 s
Computation design and coding	7 min 33.62 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 1.69 s
Individually measured computation	18 min 43.03 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: the affine-conditioning line left the core statement's regime of small constraints; back to low density, with overlapping constraints merged

23 September 2026 · Route review · The affine line is weak for the goal; the next step tests component-corrected predictions at low density. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the affine-conditioning line left the core statement's regime of small constraints; back to low density, with overlapping constraints merged”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-affine-line-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the freeness-line review, the thread has worked on affine systems on the board. The claim behind it was that the batched mechanism would follow from freeness of the PHP algebra \(A\) over the forms' span: the \(r\)-parameter lift of the wide-conditioning conjecture, with that conjecture as the target.

What the goal needs. The goal rests on the core statement. PHP must stay hard at polylogarithmic degree under polynomially many constraints, each saying that a collectively wide family of forms avoids a small set of values, with total density below one. Here the density of a constraint is the fraction of its family's value tuples it forbids, as in the low-density entry. Each constraint must forbid a small set of values. An affine equation forbids \(1-1/p\) of its form's values. An affine system of \(r\) equations, read as one constraint on its family, forbids \(1-p^{-r}\) of them, below one but not small. So the wide-conditioning conjecture concerns constraints that are not small. The core-statement review listed random affine constraints as support for the core statement. They support this large-constraint analogue, not the statement itself. Its own recorded ceiling says that even if true it certifies no transversal at about \(N^2\) random blocks. The ceiling limits it as a sufficient condition, not the underlying mechanism, and does not cover non-affine conditionings. The clause-transfer review reached the same cap from the freeness side.

What the line established

The occupancy non-freeness theorem: freeness proofs need \(Q\ge2D-2\) for column-type forms.
A non-pointwise freeness defect on the board at \(r=2\) (occupancy pair). In the column-subalgebra model its one-degree-early failure was not seen at \(n=16\).
A calibration of the conjecture at degree 3 and \(n=8\): \(t\ge8\) or \(Q\ge5\) (sub-board refutations). Also, its hypothesis admits robust systems that are locally infeasible.

Falsification attempt

Do these refutations contradict a recorded positive result, or the core statement?

The recorded lifts. The two-form lift needs evaluation robustness through \(3d+3p-1=3d+8\) deleted labels, the labels being the 8 holes, and its size condition \(N>p(3d+3p-1)/(p-1)\ge12\). Neither holds at \(n=8\) for any \(d\), so all \(n=8\) refutations lie outside it. No contradiction.
The core statement. The refuted 5-row system is one constraint on a two-form family, "the pair avoids eight of its nine values", of density \(8/9\). That is not a small set of values, and its width is 5 rows. The core statement lets the width grow with \(n\), polylogarithmically in the prefix reduction. So a degree-3 refutation at width 5 is consistent with it on both counts.
A density-small version. A density-\(1/9\) constraint would forbid one value of the pair. Its refutation status was not computed. It is the natural low-density analogue.

So the attempt found no contradiction. It confirmed that the line's objects are constraints that are not small, outside the core statement's hypothesis.

Assessment of this line

The affine line is weak for the goal. Its target conjecture is capped, as a sufficient condition, below \(N^2\) random blocks by its own dimension bound. Its natural proof route, freeness, fails in its plain form at \(r=2\) on one structured span, the occupancy pair; in the model that failure was not seen at higher robustness. Its recent cycles produced calibrations, which are special cases at \(n=8\), not a mechanism. None of it concerns polynomially many small constraints, the core statement's regime. Further affine cycles would refine a statement the goal cannot use as it stands.

One observation carries over: robust systems can be locally infeasible, and the closure sub-line's local-consistency notions may be needed in any correct version of such statements.

Next step: merge overlapping constraints, then test the remainder

The last cycle in the core statement's regime was the low-density entry. In the truncated ring \(B=\mathbb F_3[s_1,\dots,s_v]/(s_i^3)\), with width-two product constraints \(\mu_a^2\mu_b^2\) of total density below one, all 53 defects in 144 random instances came from overlapping subfamilies. Those are constraints whose forms span fewer dimensions than their number.

Those defects were measured against the independent-product prediction \(W=\mathrm{HS}_B(1-t^4/(1+t+t^2)^2)^M\). For an overlapping subfamily that prediction is simply wrong: its forms live in a small span, with its own exact quotient ring. Such a subfamily is bounded-span structure. The recorded bounded-span equivalence turns it into conditioning on its allowed patterns.

So the natural decomposition is structure plus remainder. Call a subfamily of constraints a circuit when its forms span fewer than \(2|S|\) dimensions but those of every proper subfamily span the full \(2|S'|\). Merge constraints into components, connecting two when they lie in a common circuit of at most three constraints. Replace each component's factor in the prediction by its own exact series: the Hilbert series of the component's quotient, divided by that of the truncated ring on its span. Keep the truncation rule, zero from the first nonpositive coefficient. If families met this component-corrected prediction whenever their components are small, that would suggest the inductive step the core statement needs splits in two:

bounded components, handled on the structured side by the bounded-span equivalence;
a genericity theorem for families of components whose spans do not overlap.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer recomputes the 144 recorded instances (products.json) with the component-corrected prediction. The prediction to test is that \(H\) equals the corrected truncated prediction through degree 8 in every instance with at least two components. Instances forming a single component are tautological and excluded. A circuit's own excess is removed by construction, so the test is whether any mismatch remains elsewhere, including new mismatches the correction creates. A mismatch would be special position that the small overlaps do not explain, at low density. That is the obstruction the inductive step would have to face.

The recorded instances have \(v\le9\), the range the low-density entry called barely tested, since a nonvacuous test needs \(v\ge2D\). So after the recorded instances, sample new ones at \(v=12\). There the truncated ring has dimensions \((1,12,78,352,1221,3432,8074,16236,28314)\) through degree 8, so a degree-8 rank with \(M\le8\) constraints is at most about \(8\cdot1221\times28314\), well within reach. The corrected prediction's positivity through the tested degree is checked per instance before its comparison counts. The board version needs its own sizing: a two-form predicate has degree 4 on \(A\), so it needs degree at least 5 there. The step ends with the corrected comparison on the recorded and the \(v=12\) instances.

Verification gate. Re-read: the core-statement review (the statement, its density wording and its list of supporting lines), the low-density entry (model, prediction, cores), the wide-conditioning conjecture's ceiling paragraph, the bounded-span equivalence, the two-form lift's claim row, and the recent affine entries summarized above. Claim searches for merged or component-corrected predictions found the relative-span entry's overloaded subfamilies, on the structured side, and no such correction. A fresh-context reviewer required changes, all adopted:

the density convention stated, and the exclusion of the affine line rested on constraints not being small, since an \(r\)-equation system read as one constraint has density \(1-p^{-r}<1\);
"closed" weakened to "weak", with the ceiling described as a limit on a sufficient condition;
the two-form lift's labels and size condition made explicit;
components defined through circuits, since any triple containing an overlapping pair also has deficient span;
the test made able to fail: exact agreement required, single-component instances excluded, and the barely-tested range of the recorded data noted, with a \(v=12\) extension sized;
the unsized board step reduced to its degree constraint.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 48.23 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 24.49 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 23.65 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	0.09 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Merging overlapping constraints explains most low-density defects; at \(v=12\) neither random nor planted mid-size circuits fail through degree eight

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Width-two product constraints in \(\mathbb F_3[s]/(s_i^3)\), \(v\le12\), degree at most eight. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Merging overlapping constraints explains most low-density defects; at \(v=12\) neither random nor planted mid-size circuits fail through degree eight”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-component-correction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The affine-line review returned the thread to the core statement's regime of small constraints. The low-density entry found every recorded defect in an overlapping subfamily, but measured it against the independent-product prediction, which is wrong for such a subfamily by construction. This cycle recomputes those instances with a component-corrected prediction, then samples at \(v=12\), where overlap-free random families are typical, and plants mid-size circuits there. The cycle ends with the comparison.

The corrected prediction

The model is the low-density entry's: \(B=\mathbb F_3[s_1,\dots,s_v]/(s_i^3)\), with \(M\) constraints whose tops are \(P_b=\mu_{2b}^2\mu_{2b+1}^2\), each of density \(1/9\).

A circuit is a set \(S\) of constraints whose \(2|S|\) forms span fewer than \(2|S|\) dimensions, while every proper nonempty subset has full span.
Constraints are merged into components along circuits of at most three constraints.
A component \(C\) whose forms span \(d_C\) dimensions contributes the factor \(\mathrm{HS}(B_C/(P_b:b\in C))/(1+t+t^2)^{d_C}\). Here \(B_C\) is the truncated ring on the span, and the quotient is computed exactly in it. A component without a circuit is one constraint, with the old factor \(1-t^4/(1+t+t^2)^2\).
The corrected prediction is \(\mathrm{HS}_B\) times the product of the factors, truncated at its first nonpositive coefficient.

It is exact when the component spans are in direct sum, since the quotient is then a tensor product. Otherwise it is a heuristic, like the old one (component.py).

The recorded instances

The 144 recorded instances (\(v\le9\), \(M\le8\), \(2M>v\)) are mostly degenerate for this test. When six forms lie in at most five dimensions, every triple is deficient, so at \(v\le5\) the circuits almost always connect everything, and often at \(v=6,7\). Only four instances at \(v\le5\) have two or more components.

83 instances form a single component. The comparison is tautological there. They hold 44 of the 53 recorded defects.
61 instances have two or more components. They hold 9 recorded defects. After correction, 7 of the 9 disappear and no new mismatch appears.
The two that remain are at \(v=4\) (excess 1 in degree 6, where the corrected prediction is 0) and at \(v=5\) (\(H_7=8\) against a corrected prediction of 6). In both, two components of span 3 lie inside a space of dimension 4 or 5. So their spans overlap, and the tensor-product justification fails (component_v4_9.json).

So on the recorded data every defect is explained by overlaps: circuits of at most three constraints, or components whose spans intersect. Most instances are too small to test anything else.

Overlap-free random families at \(v=12\)

At \(v=12\) the ring has dimensions \((1,12,78,352,1221,3432,8074,16236,28314)\) through degree 8. With \(M=7\) or 8 the prediction stays positive through degree 8 (\(W_8=24030\) and \(23422\)). The \(2M=14\) or 16 forms are dependent, but random pairs span 4 dimensions and circuits of at most three are rare, so the corrected and old predictions coincide. Four of the six families do contain circuits of five constraints spanning 9 dimensions.

Six random families, three for each \(M\), all have Hilbert function exactly the prediction through degree 8 (products_v12.json, from the low-density entry's products.py). No defect, although the forms are dependent. Their smallest deficient subfamilies span 9 or 11 dimensions. The low-density entry's pattern would put such a subfamily's failure near the top of its own ring, about degree \(2d_S\), far above 8, if it fails at all; see below. So the result agrees with the hypothesis "a defect in degree \(D\) has a core of span at most about \(D\)". It cannot separate that hypothesis from stronger ones, since all of them predict no defect here.

Planted mid-size circuits

One circuit was planted at \(v=12\): \(k\) constraints with their \(2k\) forms in a random \(d\)-dimensional subspace, \(d<2k\), no proper subset deficient, and no circuit of at most three in the whole family of 8. Other circuits of four or five constraints can occur and do: for example, two families with a planted span-7 circuit contain a second one. Three families each for \((k,d)=(4,6),(4,7),(5,8),(5,9)\) were computed through degree 8 (planted_circuit.py, planted_circuit_v12.json). All twelve match the prediction exactly through degree 8.

The circuits were then examined on their own (own_ring.py, own_ring_v12.json). Every circuit of at most five constraints in the eighteen \(v=12\) families was listed: 34 in the planted families and 9 in the random ones, with spans 6 to 9. Each was computed in the truncated ring on its span, through degree \(2d\), against its own truncated prediction. None has a defect in any degree. So these mid-size circuits are generic even in their own ring. The pattern "a subfamily fails near the top of its ring, at about twice its span" holds for the recorded small cores of span 2 to 4, and not for these.

The refutation criterion set in advance, a defect by degree 6 from a span-9 circuit, was not met. The random families already contained span-9 circuits.

Assessment and next step

The component picture survives, in a sharper form. Every defect seen in this model is explained by a small overlapping subfamily, of span at most 4. Circuits of span 6 to 9 showed no defect at all, even in their own ring. Overlap-free families at \(v=12\), random or with planted mid-size circuits, meet the prediction through degree 8. That is what the inductive step of the core statement would need in the model: bounded components on the structured side, genericity for the rest. Three limits:

the model has no PHP base;
the families are random, while the goal's forms come from a refutation;
the planted circuits are random inside their spans, so special position inside a mid-size span (a conic, a pencil) was not tested.

The core statement is about PHP, which the model lacks. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer moves the test to the board algebra \(A\). Width-two pair constraints have top \(\ell_a^2\ell_b^2\) of degree 4. The prediction \(\mathrm{HS}_A(1-t^4/(1+t+t^2)^2)^M\) is the model's with \(\mathrm{HS}_A\) in place of \(\mathrm{HS}_B\).

The counts were made first (gamma.py). At \(n=6\) the graded dimensions are \((1,35,462,2569,3094,21,0)\), and at \(n=7\) they are \((1,48,924,8688,34950,21792,28)\). At \(n=7\) the prediction is positive in degree 5, for instance \(W_5=21424\) at \(M=8\), and negative in degree 6, where \(A\) is only 28-dimensional. So \(n=7\) tests only degree 5, one above the constraints, which sees only linear syzygies. The model's overlapping-pair defect sits at degree 6 and would not show. A board test of the model's pattern needs \(n=8\) in degree 6.

The step counts \(\gamma_5,\gamma_6\) at \(n=8\) and the prediction there. If the degree-6 rank, about \(M\gamma_2\) rows by \(\gamma_6\) columns, fits the run limit, compare three kinds of family: a planted overlapping pair, where the model predicts a defect near degree 6; random wide pairs; and overlap-free families. It ends with that comparison, or with the count showing what it would cost.

Verification gate. Re-read: the low-density entry (model, prediction, the 53 cores), the affine-line review's definition of the test, and the bounded-span equivalence. Claim searches (merged or component-corrected predictions, overlap-free genericity) found only the relative-span entry's overloaded subfamilies. A fresh-context reviewer verified the component code, including the factor's exactness for spans in direct sum, and every count against the data. It required changes, all adopted:

the pattern "failure at about twice the span" withdrawn for mid-size circuits: its own-ring check, reproduced here for all 43 circuits, shows them generic;
the random \(v=12\) families described correctly, since four of them contain span-9 circuits;
the other circuits in the planted families stated;
the \(v\le5\) statement corrected to "almost always";
a stale code comment removed.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 45.68 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 28.61 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 35.87 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	15.09 s
Individually measured computation	6 min 25.98 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

On the board at \(n=7\), low-density product constraints meet the component-corrected prediction in degree five

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(n=7\), degrees four and five. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “On the board at \(n=7\), low-density product constraints meet the component-corrected prediction in degree five”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-board-low-density.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The component correction found, in a model without the PHP base, that every low-density defect comes from a small overlapping subfamily and is predicted by that component's exact series. Does the board algebra \(A\) behave the same way? The cycle ends with the comparison at the largest degree the available sizes allow.

Sizes

Width-two pair constraints have top \(P_b=\ell_{2b}^2\ell_{2b+1}^2\) of degree 4. The plain prediction is \(W=\mathrm{HS}_A(1-t^4/(1+t+t^2)^2)^M\). The component-corrected prediction replaces the planted component's factor by its exact series in the model ring on its span.

The graded dimensions are \((1,35,462,2569,3094,21,0)\) at \(n=6\) and \((1,48,924,8688,34950,21792,28)\) at \(n=7\) (gamma.py, in the component-correction results). At \(n=7\) and \(M=8\), \(W\) is positive in degree 5 and negative in degree 6 (\(W_6=-6604\)), so only degrees 4 and 5 are informative, the latter only for linear syzygies.

A count of \(\gamma_5,\gamma_6\) at \(n=8\), needed for a degree-6 test, was stopped by the system because the machine ran low on memory. It was not restarted.

Comparison at \(n=7\), \(M=8\)

Forms are random row functions on all 8 rows. \(\dim(A/(P_1,\dots,P_8))_k\) was computed exactly for \(k=4,5\) (board_low_density.py, n7_M8.json):

Random families (three): \(H=(34942,21424)=W\) in degrees 4 and 5.
A planted overlapping pair (two constraints whose four forms span 3 dimensions) plus six random constraints, three trials: \(H=W\). Relative to the plain prediction the model puts this pair's defect in degree 6 (its own series differs by \(t^6\)), so none is expected in degree 5.
A planted triple (three constraints whose six forms lie in a random 3-dimensional span) plus five random constraints, three trials. Two match \(W\), as does the model for them. In the third, the three tops are linearly dependent, already in the model ring (model \(H_4=4\) against 3). The board shows excess \((1,46)\) in degrees 4 and 5. The component-corrected prediction gives exactly \((34943,21470)\): the correction is \(\gamma_1-2\gamma_0=46\) in degree 5 (corrected_prediction.py, corrected_prediction_n7.json).

So in all nine families the board's Hilbert function through degree 5 equals the component-corrected prediction, computed from the model ring on the planted span.

Assessment and next step

In the degrees available at \(n=7\), \(A\) behaves like the model locally. Random constraints are free there, and a planted component contributes exactly its own model series. That is the first board evidence for the split of the inductive step suggested by the component correction. It is weak evidence: degree 5 sees only linear syzygies, one degree above the constraints, where the model's small-core defects, at degree 6 for pairs spanning 3, cannot yet appear.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the degree-6 test at \(n=8\). First count \(\gamma_5,\gamma_6\) there, one degree at a time and within the memory budget, since the system stopped the combined count this time. Then compare a planted overlapping pair, where the model predicts a degree-6 defect, with random and overlap-free families. At \(n=8\), \(M=8\), \(\gamma_2=1656\), the degree-6 rank has \(M\gamma_2=13{,}248\) rows, the constraints times the degree-2 multipliers, and \(\gamma_6\) columns. If the count shows the dense elimination does not fit the memory budget, write it in C++ with incremental reduction, as the computation rules suggest. The step ends with the degree-6 comparison or with the count.

Verification gate. Re-read: the component-correction entry (the corrected prediction), the low-density entry's model, and the board code's product and normal-form routines. A fresh-context reviewer checked that the degree-5 part of the ideal is spanned by the computed products, since \(A\) is generated in degree 1. It recomputed the corrected predictions, which are now also produced by corrected_prediction.py, and confirmed every number against the data. It found that the script does not guarantee the planted span's dimension modulo rows. The stored forms were checked instead: the planted forms have rank 3 modulo rows, each constraint's pair rank 2, and the families rank 13 (triples) and 15 (pairs). It also required wording changes, all adopted: the degree-6 defect of the pair stated relative to the plain prediction, "at \(M=8\)" added, an unverified remark on the stopped job removed, and the next step stated without waiting and with its size.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	30 min 46.47 s
Computation design and coding	25 min 29.47 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	16.54 s
Individually measured computation	5 min 0.33 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

At \(n=8\), degree six, the board matches the model's degree-six coefficient for an overlapping pair; a C++ tool makes the test cheap

23 September 2026 · Working lemma and finite checks · Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(n=8\), degree six; model catalogue in three variables. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “At \(n=8\), degree six, the board matches the model's degree-six coefficient for an overlapping pair; a C++ tool makes the test cheap”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-board-degree-six.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The board low-density entry found that at \(n=7\), in degrees 4 and 5, the board algebra \(A\) meets the component-corrected prediction. Those degrees see only linear syzygies. The model's first small-core defect, from an overlapping pair of constraints, sits in degree 6, which needs \(n=8\). A Python count of \(\gamma_5,\gamma_6\) at \(n=8\) had been stopped by the system for low memory. At the user's request the computation was rewritten in C++. The cycle ends with the degree-6 comparison.

The tool

board_degk.cpp computes \(\dim(A/(P_1,\dots,P_M))_k\), where \(P_b=\ell_{2b}^2\ell_{2b+1}^2\).

\(A_k\) splits into components by pigeon multiset. In each component the row relations \(\sum_{j\ \mathrm{free}}x_{ij}m'\) have \(n-k+1\) terms. They are put into sparse echelon form one component at a time, which gives \(\gamma_k\).
The rank of the image of \(\{P_bm\}\), for \(m\) running over the monomials of degree \(k-4\), equals the rank of the pairing matrix \(\langle P_bm,f_s\rangle\) with \(S\) random elements \(f_s\) of the dual of \(A_k\), the balanced functions. \(S\) is the largest family's row count plus 64, since several families share the \(f_s\). The \(f_s\) are drawn per component by back-substitution, with free coordinates uniform on \(\mathbb F_3\). So a family's rank falls short with probability at most about \(3^{-64}\), about \(4\cdot3^{-64}\) for the four families. The error is one-sided, and fixed seeds make it pseudorandom. A shortfall would show as an excess, exactly like the \(+1\) below, which is why the runs were repeated with the uniform draw.
The pairing is accumulated in one pass over the degree-\(k\) monomials \(u\), split as \(u=m+t\) with weight \(P_b[t]\).

Memory stays at one component plus the accumulator, at most 0.8 GB here.

Validation: it reproduces \(\gamma_4=3094\) at \(n=6\), \(\gamma_4=34950\) and \(\gamma_5=21792\) at \(n=7\), and all three recorded \(n=7\) degree-5 values of the previous entry (21424, 21470, 21424).

Results at \(n=8\)

\(\gamma_5=489{,}069\) (46 seconds) and \(\gamma_6=153{,}573\) (12 minutes). One random constraint has rank 1531 in degree 6, which is \(\gamma_2-2\gamma_1+\gamma_0\), as the plain prediction says. Four families were built (make_n8_inputs.py, n8_families.json). The planted pair's four forms span 3 dimensions modulo rows.

family	\(M\)	\(H_6\)	plain prediction	corrected prediction
random	2	150511	150511	150511
planted overlapping pair	2	150512	150511	150512
random	4	147449	147449	147449
planted pair plus two random	4	147450	147449	147450

A first run drew the free coordinates with \(\Pr(0)=1/2\), for which the union bound above fails. All four values were recomputed with the uniform draw and are unchanged (in_n8_k6_C.txt, in_n8_k6_D.txt, n8_k6_results.json). The inputs come from make_n8_inputs.py, which regenerates them byte for byte. So on the board, in degree 6, the overlapping pair adds exactly the model's degree-6 coefficient, 1, and random constraints are free.

The overlapping-pair lemma and the local catalogue

Let \(B_V=\mathbb F_3[V]/(v^3:v\in V)\) be the truncated ring on a 3-dimensional space \(V\), with dimensions \((1,3,6,7,6,3,1)\). For a 2-dimensional \(W=\langle\mu,\nu\rangle\subset V\), put \(P_W=\mu^2\nu^2\).

Lemma (overlapping-pair lemma). For distinct 2-dimensional \(W_1,W_2\subset V\), \(B_V/(P_{W_1},P_{W_2})\) has Hilbert function \((1,3,6,7,4,1,0)\). Its series minus the untruncated prediction \((1+t+t^2)^3(1-t^4/(1+t+t^2)^2)^2\) is \(t^6-t^8/(1+t+t^2)\). If \(V\) is a subspace of a larger \(V'\), the quotient of \(B_{V'}\) has this series times \((1+t+t^2)^{\dim V'-3}\).

Proof. In characteristic 3, \(v^3=\sum_ic_i^3x_i^3=\sum_ic_ix_i^3\) for \(v=\sum_ic_ix_i\), so the ideal \((v^3:v\in V)\) is generated by the cubes of a basis. Hence \(B_V=\mathbb F_3[x_1,x_2,x_3]/(x_1^3,x_2^3,x_3^3)\) is a complete intersection, so Gorenstein, with socle in degree 6, and multiplication pairs \(B_j\) with \(B_{6-j}\) perfectly. Choose a basis \(\mu,\nu,\omega\) with \(W=\langle\mu,\nu\rangle\). Then \(P_W\) is \(x^2y^2\) in these coordinates.

A quadric \(q\) kills \(P_W\) exactly when it has no \(\omega^2\) term. So the annihilator of \(P_W\) in degree 2 is the hyperplane \(W\cdot V\), and \(P_W\) is determined up to a scalar by \(W\). For \(W_1\ne W_2\) the hyperplanes differ: if \(W_1\cap W_2=\langle u\rangle\), \(W_1=\langle u,a\rangle\), \(W_2=\langle u,b\rangle\), then \(a^2\in W_1V\setminus W_2V\). So \(P_{W_1},P_{W_2}\) are independent in degree 4, and \(H_4=6-2=4\).
In degree 5, \(V\cdot P_W\) is spanned by \(\omega P_W\), because \(W\cdot P_W=0\) (cubes vanish). Under the pairing with \(B_1\), \(\omega P_W\) is a functional whose kernel contains \(W\). It is nonzero, since \(\omega^2P_W\) spans the socle, so its kernel is exactly \(W\). Distinct kernels make \(\omega_1P_{W_1}\) and \(\omega_2P_{W_2}\) independent, and \(H_5=3-2=1\).
In degree 6, \(\omega_1^2P_{W_1}\) spans the socle, so \(H_6=0\). Degrees at most 3 are untouched.

The untruncated prediction is \((1,3,6,7,4,1,-1,0,\dots)\) through degree 7, and differs beyond that by \(-t^8/(1+t+t^2)\). Finally, \(B_{V'}\cong B_V\otimes B_{V''}\) for a complement \(V''\), and the ideal is extended from \(B_V\), so the quotient is \((B_V/(P))\otimes B_{V''}\). \(\square\)

So in a truncated ring of dimension \(d'\ge3\), an overlapping pair's excess is \((t^6-t^8/(1+t+t^2))(1+t+t^2)^{d'-3}\). Its degree-6 coefficient is 1, and its degree-7 coefficient is \(d'-3\). The \(+1\) observed on the board is consistent with the degree-6 coefficient. It is not derived from the lemma, since \(A\) is not a truncated ring. A complete enumeration agrees and extends it (local_catalogue.py, local_catalogue.json). Series minus the untruncated prediction, through degree 6:

pairs spanning 2 dimensions, that is duplicate constraints with \(W_1=W_2\): \(t^4\), all 12 configurations, computed in two variables through degree 4;
pairs spanning 3: \(t^6\), all 144;
triples spanning 3: \(2t^6\) (15,552 configurations), \(t^4+t^5+2t^6\) (5,184, the tops dependent) and \(t^5+2t^6\) (3,456).

Configurations are counted with the first constraint fixed to \((e_1,e_2)\) and the other forms as projective points. The squares make that reduction exact.

Assessment and next step

This is the strongest evidence yet for the split suggested by the component correction. On the board, at \(n=8\) and in degree 6, random low-density constraints are free, and an overlapping pair adds exactly the degree-6 coefficient the lemma computes in the model. The limits are one planted configuration, four families, one degree and random forms. The split itself is still a hypothesis, and its generic half, freeness of overlap-free families, is unproved in the model and on the board.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is mathematical. State the component hypothesis precisely for \(A\): for low-density product constraints, \(\mathrm{HS}(A/(P))\) equals \(\mathrm{HS}_A\) times the product of the component factors, truncated, through degree \(D\). Then derive what it would give for the core statement. The core statement is about refutations of affine constraints, not homogeneous tops, so the link needs the recorded no-fall criteria between top-degree series and PC refutations. Check the derived bound against the recorded ceilings, including the inventory size and degree the goal needs. The step ends with that derivation, or with the point where the link fails. The overlapping-pair lemma and the direct-sum exactness of the component factors are candidates for the next Formalize run.

Verification gate. Re-read: the component-correction and board low-density entries, the low-density entry's model, and a4lib's product and normal-form routines, against which the tool was validated. A claim search for the pair lemma (socle, truncated ring, overlapping pair) found no recorded statement. A fresh-context reviewer checked every step of the lemma, the tool's method (balanced functions as the dual, null-space back-substitution, the coefficient formula, the use of all monomials as multipliers), the probability bound and every number. It required changes, all adopted:

the board claim limited to the degree-6 coefficient, and the lemma's extension stated with its full series;
the complete-intersection step justified by \(v^3=\sum c_ix_i^3\);
the term count corrected to \(n-k+1\);
the bound stated for shared functions, and the one-sided error made explicit;
the input generation made reproducible and checked byte for byte;
the duplicate-pair case described as computed.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	95 min 36.44 s
Computation design and coding	9 min 15.81 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	31 min 47.75 s
Individually measured computation	54 min 32.75 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A component hypothesis with local freeness would exclude low-degree refutations; Frobenius and Koszul syzygies lift, and an overlapping pair lifts exactly when its forbidden lines meet

23 September 2026 · Conditional result with a lemma and a finite check · Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), forbid-value constraints. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A component hypothesis with local freeness would exclude low-degree refutations; Frobenius and Koszul syzygies lift, and an overlapping pair lifts exactly when its forbidden lines meet”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-component-hypothesis.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The board degree-six entry supports a split of the core statement's inductive step: bounded overlapping components, and genericity for the rest. Its next step asked what that split would give for the core statement, which is about PC refutations of affine constraints, not about Hilbert functions of their tops. The cycle ends with the derivation, or with the point where the link fails.

The link is recorded

Homogenize the base and the constraints with a variable \(z\), as in the marked presentation. The \(z\)-quotient of the homogenized base is its top algebra, here \(A=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x_{ij}^2,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j},\ \sum_jx_{ij})\). There are no degree falls through \(D\) exactly when \(z\) is injective below \(D\). Then bounded PC equals the Nullstellensatz span, and \(z^D\ne0\), so there is no refutation of degree \(D\).

The recorded filtered obstruction quotient identifies what can break injectivity. In the base's own \(z\)-injective range, the top syzygies \(\sum_ba_bP_b=0\) in \(A\) modulo the liftable ones are exactly \(\ker z\). Call a top syzygy \((\sigma_b)\) liftable if it has lifts \(\tilde\sigma_b\) with \(\sum_b\tilde\sigma_bg_b^{\mathrm h}=z\rho\), \(\rho\) in the constraint ideal. Equivalently, after subtracting \(z\) times a representation of \(\rho\), it is the reduction modulo \(z\) of an exact relation among the \(g_b^{\mathrm h}\). So no refutation of degree \(D\) follows from two conditions:

(a) the base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\);
(b) every top syzygy of degree at most \(D\) is generated by liftable ones.

The recorded quotient concerns the block tensor complex. The same two-term argument works for any presentation, and the direct proof below supplies it.

Which syzygies lift

Take constraints that forbid one value of a family of forms: \(g=\prod_{k=1}^w\bigl(1-(\ell_k-a_k)^2\bigr)\), with top \(P=(-1)^w\prod_k\ell_k^2\).

Lemma (Frobenius lift). On the weak unary base over \(\mathbb F_3\), \((\ell_k-a_k)\,g\) lies in the base ideal for every \(k\), at degree \(2w+1\). So the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_kP=0\) of \(A\) lift, with zero correction. Koszul syzygies \(P_ce_b-P_be_c\) lift trivially.

Proof. In characteristic 3, \(\ell^3=\sum_ic_ix_i^3\) for \(\ell=\sum_ic_ix_i\). Booleanity gives \(x_i^3-x_i=(x_i+1)(x_i^2-x_i)\), so \(\ell^3-\ell=\sum_ic_i(x_i+1)(x_i^2-x_i)\) and \((\ell-a)^3\equiv\ell-a\) modulo the base ideal. Hence \((\ell_k-a_k)(1-(\ell_k-a_k)^2)\equiv0\), and \((\ell_k-a_k)g\) is a multiple of it. The derivation uses the Booleanity axioms times monomials of degree at most \(2w-1\), so it stays within degree \(2w+1\). \(\square\)

What remains are syzygies special to overlapping subfamilies, the component-local ones. They need not lift, and the smallest case already shows it. Take two constraints on pairs whose four forms span 3 dimensions, a component of the kind in the overlapping-pair lemma. Each forbids an affine line \(L_b\) of \(\mathbb F_3^3\). In the function ring \(\mathbb F_3[y_1,y_2,y_3]/(y_i^3-y_i)\), whose top algebra is the truncated ring, the Nullstellensatz span was compared with the no-fall value from the lemma's Hilbert function \((1,3,6,7,4,1,0)\). All configurations were checked, with the first pair fixed to \((e_1,e_2)\) and all right-hand sides (pair_lifting.py, pair_lifting.json).

In the 3,888 cases where \(L_1\) and \(L_2\) meet, there is no fall through degree 6. The pair's degree-6 top syzygy lifts in the function ring of the span.
In the 7,776 cases where they are disjoint, there is a fall of exactly 1 in degree 6. The ideal then contains every function vanishing off the 6 forbidden points. That space has dimension 6, while the tops predict 5.

The count explains it: the tops predict \(27-22=5\) independent conditions, and two lines forbid 5 points only if they meet. A fall inside a component is not a refutation, since the allowed set is nonempty. It means the component's constraints generate more than their tops show.

By the bounded-span equivalence, a component's constraints are equivalent, at bounded degree, to the ideal \(I(P_C)\) of functions of its span vanishing on its allowed patterns \(P_C\). A degree-compatible basis of \(I(P_C)\), one whose leading forms generate the leading-form ideal, has only liftable syzygies by construction. So the right local factor is that of \(I(P_C)\)'s leading-form ideal, not of the raw tops. The overlapping-pair lemma's \(+t^6\) is the factor only when the lines meet.

The local picture is not enough by itself. Its leading forms live in the graded ring \(\operatorname{gr}R_C=\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^3)\) of the span, and the natural map \(\varphi_C:\operatorname{gr}R_C\to A\) can have a kernel coming from the PHP relations. The reviewer's example: one constraint forbidding \(\ell=0\) for the narrow form \(\ell=x_{11}+x_{21}\). Its allowed set \(\{1,2\}\) is nonempty and its local basis is \(y^2-1\). But \(\ell^2=0\) in \(A\), by \(x^2=0\) and the collision, so the coefficient 1 is a top syzygy of none of the kinds above. It does not lift: modulo the base, \(g^{\mathrm h}\equiv z(z-\ell)\), and \(z-\ell\) is not in the ideal in degree 1. Here the base derives \(\ell=1\) at degree 2, a fall. Local freeness of \(A\) over each component's span, that is injectivity of \(\varphi_C\), must therefore be assumed. That is where width enters: narrow forms violate it, and so does the occupancy pair, whose span is not free in degree 3.

The component hypothesis and what it gives

Component hypothesis (conjecture). Let \(g_1,\dots,g_M\) be forbid-value constraints on the weak unary base. Group them into components along circuits of bounded size, and replace each component \(C\) by a degree-compatible basis of \(I(P_C)\) on its span. Assume that each component satisfies \((p-1)d_C+2w_C\le D\), where \(d_C\) is its span's dimension and \(w_C\) its largest width, and that \(\varphi_C\) is injective through degree \(D\) (local freeness). Then through degree \(D\), every syzygy of the resulting leading forms in \(A\) is generated by Koszul syzygies, Frobenius syzygies and component-local syzygies: the images under \(\varphi_C\) of syzygies in \(\operatorname{gr}R_C\).

Conditional result. Suppose the base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\), every component's allowed set \(P_C\) is nonempty, and the component hypothesis holds through \(D\), with its local-freeness and degree assumptions. Then the base plus the constraints has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. By the bounded-span equivalence, a component's constraints and the basis of \(I(P_C)\) derive each other within degree \((p-1)d_C+2w_C\le D\), so the ceiling-\(D\) consequence space is unchanged. Nonempty \(P_C\) means the basis does not contain a nonzero constant. By the hypothesis, every top syzygy is generated by Koszul, Frobenius and component-local ones. The first two lift by the lemma. The component-local ones lift because a degree-compatible basis has lifting syzygies in the span's function ring, whose relations \(y^3=y\) homogenize through the Booleanity derivation of the lemma. So condition (b) holds.

Directly, without citing the obstruction quotient: let \(\bar A_0\) be the homogenized base algebra, and let \(u\in\bar A_0\) of degree \(k<D\) satisfy \(zu=\sum_bc_bg_b^{\mathrm h}\). Reducing modulo \(z\) gives a top syzygy \(\sum_b\bar c_bP_b=0\) in \(A\). By (b) it is a combination \(\sum_s\alpha_s\sigma_s\) of liftable syzygies, with lifts \(\sum_b\tilde\sigma_{s,b}g_b^{\mathrm h}=z\rho_s\), and \(c_b-\sum_s\tilde\alpha_s\tilde\sigma_{s,b}=zd_b\) for some \(d_b\). Then \(zu=z\bigl(\sum_s\tilde\alpha_s\rho_s+\sum_bd_bg_b^{\mathrm h}\bigr)\). By (a), from degree \(k\) to \(k+1\le D\), \(u\) lies in the constraint ideal. So \(z\) is injective below \(D\) on the full homogenized algebra. Then \(T_D=0\), and the socle criterion gives \(C_D=I_D\). Finally \(z^D\ne0\), since \(1\ne0\) in degree 0: no supplied generator is a nonzero constant. \(\square\)

The hypothesis is the Fröberg-type genericity the thread has circled: the model and board data of the last cycles are its only support. Its expected Fröberg-type consequence, not derived here, is that the Hilbert function of \(A\) modulo the leading forms equals \(\mathrm{HS}_A\) times the local factors, truncated. That would need exactness beyond the first syzygies. That is what the component correction, the board low-density entry and the board degree-six entry tested, with raw tops in place of pattern ideals. Those tests planted components whose tops happen to lift or did not examine lifting, so they bear on the hypothesis's Hilbert-function form, not on lifting.

Against the goal

A heuristic on size. The hypothesis concerns small constraints. The dimension ceiling of the wide-conditioning conjecture came from affine equations, each forbidding two thirds of a form's values. A forbid-value constraint on a width-\(w\) family forbids \(3^{-w}\) of its values. The prediction \(\mathrm{HS}_A\prod_b(1-t^{2w_b}/(1+t+t^2)^{w_b})\) stays positive through \(D\) roughly while the total density \(\sum_b3^{-w_b}\) is below one, the core statement's own condition. This is a heuristic reading of the product, not a computed bound, and it assumes local freeness throughout.
Condition (a) on the base. The base's \(z\)-injective range is not established here for the weak unary base at the degrees the goal needs, about \((4p-1)h\). It is a property of PHP alone. The recorded obstruction quotient uses it as a hypothesis too.
What is left. For forbid-value constraints, no refutation of degree \(D\) would follow from: the corrected hypothesis for the families a refutation produces, local freeness, nonempty allowed sets, spans of dimension at most about \(D/(p-1)\), and (a). The logarithmic-prefix images \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\) are not forbid-value products, so applying this to the core statement needs an adaptation. The hypothesis is open in the model and on the board, and random evidence cannot settle it for adversarial families.

Next step

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer first adapts the constraint form: rewrite the logarithmic-prefix images \(g_{b,i}\prod_jL_{b,j}^{p-1}\) as forbid-value constraints, or extend the Frobenius lemma to them, since without that the conditional result does not reach the core statement. Then it tests the lifting side of the hypothesis on the board. Take components of the recorded kinds with both kinds of right-hand side: overlapping pairs with meeting and with disjoint forbidden lines, and a triple of each type in the catalogue. Plant them among random constraints at \(n=7\), degrees 4 and 5, and at \(n=8\), degree 6. Compare the full homogenized closure with the prediction built from \(I(P_C)\). The closure is needed here, not only the top algebra: that is the extension board_degk.cpp needs. Size it before coding. The step ends with the comparison, or with the size count if it does not fit.

Verification gate. Re-read: the socle criterion and its proof, the statement of the filtered obstruction quotient, and the bounded-span equivalence with its proof. Claim searches found the recorded obstruction quotient, which the reduction here follows, and no recorded Frobenius lift or component hypothesis. The pair computation enumerates all configurations up to the stated normalization. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the Frobenius lemma, the induction and the pair data. It refuted the first formulation of the hypothesis with the narrow-form example above, which is now part of the entry. It required changes, all adopted:

local freeness of \(A\) over each component's span added, with component-local syzygies defined as images from \(\operatorname{gr}R_C\);
the degree condition \((p-1)d_C+2w_C\le D\) added;
one definition of liftable;
the end of the proof completed (\(T_D=0\), \(1\ne0\));
the Hilbert-function consequence called expected, not derived;
the size heading made heuristic;
the conditions for the core statement listed, including that the prefix images are not forbid-value products.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 49.16 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 22.81 s
Computation design and coding	6 min 19.86 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	26.84 s
Individually measured computation	39.51 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Prefix images are families of forbid-value constraints; their components are whole blocks, so the component route meets the core statement's inductive step

23 September 2026 · Working lemma and analysis · Weak unary base over \(\mathbb F_p\), logarithmic-prefix images. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Prefix images are families of forbid-value constraints; their components are whole blocks, so the component route meets the core statement's inductive step”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-prefix-adaptation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The component hypothesis is stated for forbid-value constraints \(\prod_k(1-(\ell_k-a_k)^{p-1})\). The goal's constraints are the logarithmic-prefix images \(g_iQ\), with \(g_i=1-L_i^{p-1}\), \(Q=\prod_{j\in S}L_j^{p-1}\), \(|S|=k\) of order \(\log n\), and degree budget \((4p-1)(p-1)k\). Can the hypothesis be applied to them? The cycle ends with the adapted statement, or with the obstruction.

The raw images are not forbid-value constraints

The top of \(g_iQ\) is \(-\prod_{j\in S\cup\{i\}}L_j^{p-1}\), the same as that of a forbid-value constraint on the same forms. But the Frobenius syzygies do not lift the same way. For \(j\in S\), \(L_j\cdot g_iQ\equiv L_j\,g_i\,Q_{S\setminus j}\) modulo the base, because \(L_j^p\equiv L_j\). The right side has degree \((p-1)k+1\) and vanishes on every allowed point, since \(g_iQ=0\) forbids \(L_i=0\) with all \(L_{j'}\ne0\). So the raw image derives a lower-degree consequence, a degree fall, whenever the top \(L_jL_i^{p-1}\prod_{S\setminus j}L^{p-1}\) is nonzero in \(A\). For \(i\) itself the lift is exact: \(L_i(1-L_i^{p-1})\equiv0\).

The rewrite

Lemma (prefix rewrite). On the weak unary base over \(\mathbb F_p\), the image \(g_iQ\) and the \((p-1)^{k}\) forbid-value constraints \[ G_a=(1-L_i^{p-1})\prod_{j\in S}\bigl(1-(L_j-a_j)^{p-1}\bigr),\qquad a\in(\mathbb F_p^\times)^S, \] derive each other in PC of degree at most \((p-1)(2k+1)\).

Proof. Every identity used is an identity of functions of single affine forms \(L\), in \(\mathbb F_p[L]/(L^p-L)\), and \(L^p-L\) follows from Booleanity at degree \(p\) (as in the logarithmic-prefix proof).

For \(a\ne0\), \(L^{p-1}(1-(L-a)^{p-1})\equiv1-(L-a)^{p-1}\), since both sides are the indicator of \(L=a\). So \(G_a\equiv g_iQ\cdot\prod_{j\in S}(1-(L_j-a_j)^{p-1})\), a multiple of \(g_iQ\) of degree at most \((p-1)(2k+1)\).
Conversely, \(L^{p-1}=\sum_{a\ne0}(1-(L-a)^{p-1})\) exactly as polynomials, since both sides have degree below \(p\) and agree as functions. Expanding \(Q\) gives \(g_iQ=\sum_aG_a\) exactly.

The multiples of \(L^p-L\) used in the first direction stay within degree \((p-1)(2k+1)\). \(\square\)

For \(k\ge1\) and \(p\ge3\) the bound is below the budget \((4p-1)(p-1)k\). So within the budget the prefix system is a system of forbid-value constraints on the same forms, with the same allowed patterns, and each \(G_a\) has value 0 on \(L_i\). This matches the component hypothesis's syntax. It does not remove falls: all \((p-1)^k\) of the \(G_a\) share the top \(\pm\prod L^{p-1}\), so each difference \(G_a\mp G_{a'}\) is itself a fall. Both kinds of fall are local to the block, and only replacing the block by a basis of its pattern ideal \(I(P_C)\) absorbs them. The Frobenius lemma, the conditional result and the degree condition were stated at \(p=3\), and the discussion below applies them there. Their odd-\(p\) versions, \((\ell-a)^p\equiv\ell-a\) at degree \((p-1)w+1\) and the bounded-span degree at general \(p\), are not checked here.

The components are blocks

Assume each \(G_a\)'s forms are independent, as the definition of a circuit requires. The \((p-1)^k\) constraints from one image share their \(k+1\) forms, and images \(i,i'\) of one block share the \(k\) forms of \(S_b\). Their families span at most \(k+2<2(k+1)\) dimensions, so they form circuits. So each block's constraints merge into one component, whose span is the block's whole input set, of dimension up to \(h_b\). The component hypothesis needs \((p-1)d_C+2w_C\le D\) for the bounded-span equivalence. That allows spans of order \((4p-1)k\), that is \(O(\log n)\) inputs per block. Compiled blocks have up to \(\binom{v+p-1}{p-1}\) inputs, the weak-base compiler's input bound, polynomial in \(n\), so for general inventories the local part is not bounded. Blocks sharing forms merge further.

What remains is a different split. The local part is one block: the constraints from one family of forms, with its own allowed-pattern set. Nothing recorded handles it in general. The one-predicate theorem concerns one old affine form with one predicate, on the functional base, with robust active rows. It does not cover a block with many inputs and a pattern set on the weak base. The global part is genericity across blocks: syzygies of the blocks' leading forms generated by Koszul syzygies between blocks and by syzygies inside each block. That is the inductive step of the core statement, adding one wide constraint to a system known to extend, in the language of syzygies. The core-statement review asked for it at a degree cost that does not grow with the number of constraints.

Assessment and next step

The adaptation succeeds for the constraint form's syntax, with the rewrite lemma, and fails for boundedness. The hypothesis's other conditions are also unmet in general. Local freeness fails for narrow blocks: the hole family's forms \(X_{jt}-1\) collide in \(A\). Nonempty allowed sets and the base condition (a) are separate requirements. In the goal's setting the components of the hypothesis are whole blocks, not bounded overlaps. The low-density evidence of the last cycles concerned constraints on 2 to 5 forms, and it supports Koszul-type genericity between small components. It does not address blocks with many inputs, or several blocks overlapping in forms. So the component line has reformulated the core statement's inductive step, with a conditional exclusion theorem attached. It has not proved it.

That makes the next cycle a route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer, before more component work. Five research cycles have passed since the affine-line review. The review should weigh the one-block local part, which nothing recorded covers for many inputs, against the cross-block genericity, which is open, and decide what to test or prove next. The step ends with that review.

Verification gate. Re-read: the odd-prime wide-clause statement and the reduction's form of \(g\), \(Q\), \(S_b\) and the budget, and the component hypothesis with its degree condition. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the fall computation, the rewrite lemma, the budget check and the merging argument. It required changes, all adopted:

the fall stated as conditional on the top being nonzero in \(A\);
the claim that the rewrite cures falls withdrawn, since the \(G_a\) share one top;
the lemma's degree tightened, with the second direction exact;
the scope restricted to \(p=3\), where the hypothesis is stated;
local freeness and the other hypotheses stated as unmet in general;
the input bound attributed to the compiler;
the one-predicate theorem described correctly;
the independence assumption for circuits stated.

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Route review: the component line gives a clean conditional theorem, but its conditions fail for the goal's blocks; the next cross-block case needs a proof

23 September 2026 · Route review · The component line restates the missing step precisely; the next step is a proof: the two-form lift extended to two width-two constraints. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the component line gives a clean conditional theorem, but its conditions fail for the goal's blocks; the next cross-block case needs a proof”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-component-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the affine-line review, the thread has worked in the core statement's regime of small constraints. The claim is that the batched mechanism is syzygy genericity. Group the constraints into components, and replace each by its pattern ideal. Then every syzygy of the leading forms should be generated by Koszul, Frobenius and component-local ones. Given that, the recorded marked presentation excludes low-degree refutations: that is the conditional result of the component hypothesis.

What the goal needs. The odd-prime wide-clause statement of the logarithmic-prefix reduction. For \(M=n^K\) blocks, with \(M(1-1/p)^k<1\) and \(k\) of order \(\log n\), some choice of prefixes must leave the weak base plus the images with no PC refutation of degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\).

What the line established

Every low-density defect seen in the model comes from a small overlap (component correction). On the board, at \(n=7\) in degree 5 and at \(n=8\) in degree 6, random constraints meet the prediction, and an overlapping pair adds exactly its model coefficient (\(n=7\), \(n=8\)).
Proved: the overlapping-pair lemma, the Frobenius lift and the prefix rewrite. There is also a C++ tool that makes degree-6 board tests at \(n=8\) take minutes.
The conditional result, with its hypotheses: the component hypothesis itself, local freeness, bounded spans, nonempty allowed sets, and the base \(z\)-injective.
In the goal's setting the components are whole blocks (prefix adaptation).

Falsification attempt

Can the hypothesis hold for the blocks a refutation produces? Its conditions fail in the recorded ways (prefix adaptation):

The degree condition \((p-1)d_C+2w_C\le D\) allows spans of \(O(\log n)\) forms. A block's span, the whole component in the goal's setting, can reach the compiler's polynomial input bound.
Local freeness fails for narrow blocks: the hole family's forms collide in \(A\).

If the degree condition were dropped, local freeness would still be capped. It needs \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)^{d_C}\) nonnegative through \(D\). The fill was computed only at \(D=3\) (\(r=8,14,22\) at \(n=6,7,8\), clause-transfer review), of order \((N+1-2D)(N-1)\). A span can reach \(\dim A_1=(N+1)(N-1)\).

The one-block local part is also not covered. The recorded weighted elimination removes compiled blocks with private coefficient variables from a weighted derivation, at additive cost \(d+(p-1)\sum_b\delta_b\). It does not apply to prefix-image axioms, which have no private variables, and nothing recorded covers one block with many inputs. What the goal needs is a cost that does not grow with the number of blocks.

What can computation test of the cross-block part? Let \(e\) be the initial degree of the blocks' leading-form ideals \(J_b\). The independence formula below predicts \(J_1\cap J_2=0\) in degrees below \(2e\), and the Koszul products only from degree \(2e\). So a test below \(2e\) can detect a non-Koszul interaction, a nonzero intersection, but it cannot test the Koszul-level prediction. The degree-6 families at \(n=8\) (several constraints with degree-4 tops) found no such low-degree interaction, and they did find the overlapping pair's local one. How large \(A_8\) is at \(n=8\) or \(9\), and so whether degree 8 is within reach, was not checked. Degree 8 needs at least 8 holes, and at \(n=9\) it is spanned by \(\binom98\cdot10^8=9\cdot10^8\) monomials before the relations. So the random small cases say nothing yet about Koszul-level behaviour in the goal's regime.

Assessment of this line

The line has made the missing step precise. There is a clean conditional theorem: syzygy genericity plus lifting excludes refutations. It has calibrated where small overlaps matter, with a proved local lemma. The evidence says random small constraints behave generically on the board. But the hypothesis's conditions fail for the goal's blocks, and its local freeness is capped by span, like the affine line. The cross-block genericity it needs remains a Fröberg-type statement, open. The random small cases that support it saw no low-degree interaction, but did not reach the degree where Koszul-level behaviour would show. For the goal as stated the line is weak. Its reusable part is the conditional theorem's shape. With the base \(z\)-injective, top syzygies generated by liftable kinds exclude refutations, and nothing in that shape needs freeness.

Next step: the smallest cross-block case, by proof

The smallest cross-block case already recorded is two single forms. The two-form lift gives a common polarized matching lift of two row-linear forms from \(K_d\) to \(K_{d+p-1}\). It needs every pencil direction over the algebraic closure to have at least \(2d+2p-1\) active rows and evaluation robustness through \(3d+3p-1\) deleted labels. It works on the functional base, requires supplied compatible polarized targets, and does not assemble a full source. The next case in the small-constraint regime is two width-two constraints, with tops \(\mu_1^2\nu_1^2\) and \(\mu_2^2\nu_2^2\). Call the four forms collectively wide when every nonzero combination over the algebraic closure satisfies the two-form lift's row and robustness conditions.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer attempts that two-product lift: a common extension for the pair, under collective width, through a degree linear in the width. The route is to read the two-form lift's proof (the projective-line lemma with the amplitude theorem) and extend its pencil argument from one form per constraint to a pair of forms. A proof would be the first cross-block case in the goal's regime. A failure would show which part of the two-form machinery does not extend to products, and that would redirect the line. The step ends with the proof or with that point.

The independence formula, \(\mathrm{HS}(A/(J_1+J_2))=\mathrm{HS}(A/J_1)\mathrm{HS}(A/J_2)/\mathrm{HS}_A\), equivalently \(\mathrm{HS}(J_1\cap J_2)=\mathrm{HS}(J_1)\mathrm{HS}(J_2)/\mathrm{HS}_A\), remains the heuristic Hilbert-function form of the target. Here \(J_b\) must be the full leading-form ideal of the block. For \(k=1\) it contains degree-3 forms \(L_1L_i^2\) beyond the raw tops.

Verification gate. Re-read: the clause-transfer review's fill values, the component hypothesis and its conditional result, the prefix adaptation, and the weighted-elimination lemma. A fresh-context reviewer found that the first draft aimed the falsification at spans the hypothesis already excludes, misdescribed weighted elimination, and proposed a test with the wrong ideal that could not fail below degree 8. It required changes, all adopted:

the falsification restated around the recorded failures (degree condition, narrow blocks), with the fill as a secondary point computed only at \(D=3\);
weighted elimination described correctly, with the missing ingredient a cost independent of the number of blocks;
the computational test replaced by an account of what tests below degree \(2e\) can and cannot detect;
the next step made a proof;
wording on the \(n=7\) evidence and the hypotheses corrected.

A second focused pass then corrected an overreach in the revision: below \(2e\) a test can still detect non-Koszul interaction, so "invisible at computable sizes" was withdrawn. It also asked that the size claims be limited to what was counted, and that the two-form lift's conditions be stated.

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The two-product lift needs the multi-operator step; for a pencil, joint freeness is a splitting-type condition on its kernel bundle

23 September 2026 · Working identity and a finite check · Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(n=8\), degree three; pencils of two forms. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The two-product lift needs the multi-operator step; for a pencil, joint freeness is a splitting-type condition on its kernel bundle”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-pencil-splitting.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The component review proposed extending the recorded two-form lift to two width-two constraints. The cycle ends with that lift, or with the point where the machinery fails.

Where the recorded machinery stops

The two-form lift applies the projective-line lemma. Given alternating exactness for every direction of a pencil of two commuting \(p\)-nilpotent operators, it lifts closed polarized targets. Its proof works on the projective line of directions. Two width-two constraints involve four forms, hence four operators \(D_{\mu_1},D_{\nu_1},D_{\mu_2},D_{\nu_2}\), and a joint lift needs conditions over all directions of their span. For four operators the directions form \(\mathbf P^3\). The record says the extension beyond two operators is not automatic but a proof obligation: the corresponding cohomology groups, such as \(H^2(\mathbf P^2,\mathcal O(-3))\), do not vanish, and characteristic three matters because the twist \(-p\) equals \(-3\). Stronger recorded results settle the naive form. The symmetric-lift entry shows that the closed-tuple form of the two-parameter lemma is false for three or more operators (obs:closed-tuple-lift-fails-three-operators). It proves a symmetric lifting lemma on free modules, with the obstruction for general modules an \(\operatorname{Ext}^1\) group (lem:symmetric-lift-free-modules). The truncated Dade entry shows that exactness along every direction does not imply the joint statement without a genericity condition. So the recorded machinery does not give the two-product lift. This is the recorded obstruction, not a new one.

A structural reading of the genericity condition for pencils

For two forms the missing condition can be identified exactly. Let \(G(w)=G_a+wG_b\) be the degree-\(k\) multiplication pencil from \(A_{k-1}\) to \(A_k\), \(N=\gamma_k\), with right minimal indices \(\varepsilon_i\). There are \(N-\rho\) of them, where \(\rho\) is the normal rank.

Lemma (pencil splitting identity). \(\#\{i:\varepsilon_i=0\}=\dim\bigl(A/(\ell_a,\ell_b)\bigr)_k\). The right kernel sheaf of \(G(w)\) on \(\mathbf P^1\) splits as \(\bigoplus_i\mathcal O(-\varepsilon_i)\) (the minimal-basis theorem of Forney, imported). It has rank \(N-\rho\) and degree \(-\sum_i\varepsilon_i=-(\rho-\sum_j\eta_j-k_{\mathrm{reg}})\), and the joint quotient in degree \(k\) is its number of trivial summands. If \(G(w)\) has rank \(\rho\) at every point of \(\mathbf P^1\), including \(\infty\), its fibres are the pointwise kernels.

Proof. The minimal indices of degree 0 count the constant vectors \(x\) with \(G_ax=G_bx=0\), the common right kernel of the two maps. That kernel is dual to \(A_k/(\ell_aA_{k-1}+\ell_bA_{k-1})\), and it has dimension \(N-\operatorname{rank}[G_a;G_b]\). The splitting of the kernel sheaf by the minimal indices is Forney's minimal-basis theorem, and the degree formula is the Kronecker count \(\rho=\sum\varepsilon_i+\sum\eta_j+k_{\mathrm{reg}}\). \(\square\)

So for two forms, freeness in degree \(k\) holds exactly when the number of trivial summands equals the prediction \([t^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+t+t^2)^2\). A non-pointwise defect is then a change in splitting type at fixed rank and degree.

The Toeplitz ranks of the recorded pencil computation give the splitting types directly: \(\#\{\varepsilon\le d\}=N-(\operatorname{rank}T_d-\operatorname{rank}T_{d-1})\). At \(n=8\), degree 3, \(N=22929\), \(\rho=1655\) (pencil_closure.py, splitting_n8.json):

pencil	\(\varepsilon=0\)	\(\varepsilon=1\)	\(\varepsilon=2\)
occupancy pair	19685	1525	64
two random pairs	19682	1531	61

For both, \(k_{\mathrm{reg}}=0\) and \(\sum\eta=2\) exactly, so both have \(\sum\varepsilon=1653\) and 21274 summands. The occupancy pair's bundle has 3 more trivial summands and 3 more summands \(\mathcal O(-2)\), and 6 fewer \(\mathcal O(-1)\), than the random pairs. The 3 extra trivial summands are its joint excess of 3. The random pairs have 19682 trivial summands, the prediction, so they are free in degree 3. Their splitting is not the balanced one, which would have only \(\mathcal O\) and \(\mathcal O(-1)\). Whether the free splitting type is unique was not shown.

Assessment and next step

The two-product lift is out of reach of the recorded tools: it needs the multi-operator step. For pencils, the genericity it needs has a precise form, a splitting-type condition on kernel bundles over \(\mathbf P^1\). For more forms the natural analogue is a family of sheaves over \(\mathbf P^{r-1}\) attached to modules over \(u(\mathfrak g)\). That is the setting of the theory of modules of constant Jordan type and their vector bundles. The record has used it only through a claim search in the symmetric-lift entry's gate, and through Dade's lemma, imported there.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is a literature step, with web access. As pointers only: Carlson–Friedlander–Pevtsova, Modules of constant Jordan type (J. reine angew. Math. 2008); Friedlander–Pevtsova on the associated bundles; and Carlson–Friedlander–Suslin (Comment. Math. Helv. 2011) on modules of equal images and equal kernels. This also discharges the truncated Dade entry's pending literature step on Dade's lemma and rank varieties. Ask two questions:

Is there a freeness or projectivity criterion, or a statement about "equal images" or "equal kernels" modules, that controls the joint behaviour from pointwise data plus bundle invariants?
Does anything survive truncation to a degree range, which is what the thread needs?

Record the exact statements, their hypotheses and their field conventions, and test the most promising one against the occupancy pair's splitting data above. The step ends with the literature findings and that test.

Verification gate. Re-read: the two-parameter lemma's statement and final paragraph, the symmetric-lift entry (the closed-tuple refutation and the symmetric lifting lemma), the truncated Dade entry, and the recorded pencil computation. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the identity, its orientation and every number in the table. It required changes, all adopted:

the degree stated through \(\rho\) and \(\sum\eta\), which are not pointwise data;
the splitting cited to Forney's theorem, with no eigenvalue hypothesis needed for the count;
the freeness criterion limited to the count of trivial summands;
the recorded obstruction described accurately, with its stronger recorded forms cited;
the literature named as pointers only.

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Constant Jordan type: pointwise data never control the bundles, so the missing genericity is not in the literature's criteria; r = 2 is recorded, r ≥ 3 is the open case

23 September 2026 · Literature step · Modules of constant Jordan type and their bundles; no new mathematics. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Constant Jordan type: pointwise data never control the bundles, so the missing genericity is not in the literature's criteria; r = 2 is recorded, r ≥ 3 is the open case”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-jordan-type-literature.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The pencil splitting entry read a non-pointwise defect as a jump in the splitting type of a kernel bundle. It asked whether the theory of modules of constant Jordan type gives a freeness criterion from pointwise data plus bundle invariants, and whether anything survives truncation to a degree range. The cycle ends with the findings.

Sources read and what they say

Carlson, Friedlander and Pevtsova, Modules of constant Jordan type, J. reine angew. Math. 614 (2008) 191–234, arXiv:0707.3845, read in the arXiv version. For a finite group scheme over a field of characteristic \(p\), a module has constant Jordan type if its Jordan type is the same at every \(\pi\)-point. For an elementary abelian \(p\)-group, the \(\pi\)-points are the points of the rank variety, that is the directions in \(\mathfrak g\) in the thread's notation. The class is closed under sums, summands, duals, tensor products and Heller shifts. Example 2.2 and Remark 2.3 recall Jantzen's example: for rank 2, \(kE/I^2\) and its dual have the same Jordan type at every point but are not isomorphic. That is the classical form of the thread's non-pointwise phenomenon. Section 7 derives a case of Macaulay's generalized principal ideal theorem from this theory. No statement in the paper concerns graded modules truncated to a degree range.
Benson and Pevtsova, A realization theorem for modules of constant Jordan type and vector bundles, arXiv:1007.3827, from the abstract and search summaries, not read in full. Functors \(\mathcal F_i\) send modules of constant Jordan type for a rank-\(r\) elementary abelian group to vector bundles on \(\mathbf P^{r-1}\). Every vector bundle of rank \(s\) is \(\mathcal F_1\) of some module of stable constant Jordan type \([1]^s\), up to a Frobenius twist when \(p\) is odd. For odd \(p\) the Chern numbers of such bundles are divisible by \(p\).
Carlson, Friedlander and Suslin on modules of equal images and equal kernels, Comment. Math. Helv. 2011. Located by search as a pointer, not read.
Chindris, Kang and Kline, The Jordan type of a multiparameter persistence module, arXiv:2510.22116. It concerns modules over posets, not polynomial rings or linear forms, and is not relevant.

What this means for the thread

For whole, finite-dimensional modules, Dade's lemma, imported in the symmetric-lift entry, already turns freeness at every point into freeness. The thread's problem is the truncated version, where it fails (truncated Dade entry). The literature explains why no pointwise criterion can replace it. By the realization theorem, fixing the Jordan types at all points leaves the bundles essentially arbitrary. Global information, the bundles, is not controlled by local information, the Jordan types. The pencil splitting identity says the same for two forms: pointwise freeness fixes the kernel bundle's rank and, with the left indices, its degree, but not its splitting type. So any genericity input must constrain bundle-level data directly. The sources read contain no criterion for graded, truncated modules.

Checked against the record, the two-form case is already covered under width. The two-form lift proves joint lifting for collectively wide pencils on the functional base. The occupancy pair falls outside it: its robustness condition \(3d+3p-1\) exceeds the 8 labels at \(n=8\). So for \(r=2\), width supplies the bundle genericity, by the recorded proof. The open case begins at \(r=3\), where bundles on \(\mathbf P^2\) need not split, and where the record shows that the closed-tuple form of the lift is false.

A small consistency check, not a test of any criterion. The degrees of the degree-3 kernel bundles in the pencil splitting entry are \(-1653=-3\cdot551\), divisible by \(p=3\), in line with the divisibility of Chern numbers for odd \(p\). The theorem concerns whole modules of stable constant Jordan type, not the truncated graded case, so this proves nothing.

Assessment and next step

The literature confirms the structural picture and gives vocabulary, but no tool the thread can apply. What remains is the \(r\ge3\) genericity for wide forms, the open core of the batched step.

The symmetric-lift entry proposed a concrete first case that was never carried out: decide by hand, at \(r=3\), \(p=3\), \(d=1\), whether symmetric tuples lift under the two-parameter lemma's hypotheses. That is the smallest place where the open case can be decided. There \(K_0=k\), and a symmetric 6-tuple splits into its moment part and a part in the common kernel. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer takes it up. Re-read that entry's setup and its Ext identification, then decide the case by hand. The step ends with a proof that the window at \(r=3\), \(d=1\) is covered by the two-parameter hypotheses, or with a counterexample showing it must widen.

Verification gate. Literature step: the statements above are recorded as imported pointers with their sources and the depth of reading, and none is relied on for a new result. The Carlson–Friedlander–Pevtsova paper was read in its arXiv text for the definitions, Proposition 2.1 with Example 2.2 and Remark 2.3, and Section 7. The Benson–Pevtsova statement comes from the abstract and search summaries. The full text is not in the repository, since third-party papers are not committed. The claim that no truncated criterion appears refers only to what was read.

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At the first degree, symmetric tuples of any number of forms lift in the matching complex under linear width, because joint kernels are spanned by short elements

23 September 2026 · Working proof and a finite check · Lemma degree \(d=1\), \(p=3\), any number \(r\) of forms. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “At the first degree, symmetric tuples of any number of forms lift in the matching complex under linear width, because joint kernels are spanned by short elements”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-first-degree-lift.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The previous entry proposed deciding by hand whether symmetric tuples lift at \(r=3\), \(p=3\), \(d=1\) (the symmetric-lift entry's first case). This cycle does so.

Correction to the previous entry. The literature entry called this case "never carried out". That is wrong. The cocycle-reduction entry computed it exactly: symmetric tuples lift at \(d=1\) for \(r\le5\) forms from width \(t=4\) (ex:matching-symmetric-lift-width). It also reduced symmetric lifting to forced-forms exactness, which the forced-forms check found at the one-form row count. The local-lift review then set the line aside, with restart condition "a density mechanism that consumes local lifts of \(O(\operatorname{polylog})\) forms". That condition has not been met, although two later reviews came back to the joint statement for many forms (see below). The pencil splitting entry and the literature entry cited the symmetric-lift entry without these three successors. What this cycle adds is a proof where the record had a finite check and an unproved reduction.

Setting

Let \(k\) be a field of characteristic 3. Use the matching complex of the amplitude theorem, with \(r\) forms.

\(K_s\) is the direct sum, over \(s\)-row sets, of arrays on injections into the labels \(\Omega\), with zero ordinary marginal in every row. \(K_0=k\), and \(K_1=\bigoplus_iV_i\), where \(V_i\) is the space of sum-zero functions on \(\Omega\) for row \(i\).
Form \(j\) has row functions \(f^{(j)}_i\), and \(D_j=\sum_i\delta_i^{f^{(j)}_i}\). For \(x\in V_i\), put \(F_i(x)=(\langle f^{(j)}_i,x\rangle)_j\in k^r\), and let \(P_i=F_i(V_i)\). Put \(\Theta_u=\sum_ju_jD_j\).
A nonzero \(u\in k^r\) is active on row \(i\) if \(u\notin P_i^\perp\), that is, if \(\sum_ju_jf^{(j)}_i\) is not constant. The forms have width \(t\) if every nonzero \(u\) is active on at least \(t\) rows.
They are \(L\)-robust if, for every row \(i\), the evaluation matrix \(M_i\) with rows \(1,f^{(1)}_i,\dots,f^{(r)}_i\) keeps its rank after deletion of any \(L\) labels.

With \(\delta=2\) and \(A=\{\alpha\in\mathbb N^r:|\alpha|=2\}\), the polarized lift is \(\Lambda w=(D^\alpha w)_{\alpha\in A}\). This omits the unit factors \(m(\alpha)\), so the symmetry conditions below are stated for \(\zeta_\alpha=z_\alpha/m(\alpha)\). A tuple \((\zeta_\alpha)\) in \(K_1\) is symmetric if \(D_j\zeta_\alpha=D_i\zeta_\beta\) whenever \(\alpha+e_j=\beta+e_i\), and \(D_i\zeta_{2e_i}=0\). The common value is a scalar \(\mu_b\), for \(|b|=3\), with \(\mu_{3e_i}=0\).

Lemma (first-degree lift). Suppose the forms have width at least \(r+3\) and are \((r+1)(r+2)\)-robust. Then every symmetric tuple in \(K_1\) is \(\Lambda w\) for some \(w\in K_3\).

Proof

Tensors. Let \(x\in V_a\), \(c\in V_s\), \(c'\in V_t\) lie on three distinct rows, with pairwise disjoint label supports. Their tensor \(x\otimes c\otimes c'\) is supported on injections, and each ordinary marginal is a multiple of a factor's sum, hence zero, so the tensor lies in \(K_3\). The weighted marginal on a row multiplies by that factor's evaluation, which gives \[ \Theta_u^2(x\otimes c\otimes c')=2\bigl[(u\cdot p_a)(u\cdot p_s)\,c'+(u\cdot p_a)(u\cdot p_t)\,c+(u\cdot p_s)(u\cdot p_t)\,x\bigr], \] with \(p_a=F_a(x)\), \(p_s=F_s(c)\), \(p_t=F_t(c')\). Likewise \(D^bw=b!\,[u^b]\,(u\cdot p_a)(u\cdot p_s)(u\cdot p_t)\) for \(|b|=3\). Here \(\Theta_u^2=\sum_\alpha m(\alpha)u^\alpha D^\alpha\), and for \(D^b\), with \(|b|=3\), each assignment of the three operators to the three rows counts \(b!\) times.

Choosing factors. By robustness, if \(T\) is a set of at most \((r+1)(r+2)\) labels, the matrix \(M_i\) restricted to \(\Omega\setminus T\) has the same column space. That space contains \((0,p)\) for every \(p\in P_i\). So for every \(p\in P_i\) there is \(c\in V_i\) with \(F_i(c)=p\), supported off \(T\), on at most \(\operatorname{rank}M_i\le r+1\) labels.

Spanning. Suppose \(\beta\) is a symmetric bilinear form on \(k^r\) that vanishes on \(P_s\times P_t\) for all distinct \(s,t\) outside a row set \(S\) with \(|S|\le r+1\). Fix \(s\notin S\). A \(u\) orthogonal to every \(P_t\), \(t\notin S\cup\{s\}\), is active on at most \(r+2\) rows, so \(u=0\) by width. Hence those \(P_t\) span \(k^r\), and \(\beta(p,\cdot)=0\) for \(p\in P_s\). The \(P_s\), \(s\notin S\), also span \(k^r\), so \(\beta=0\). The products \((u\cdot p)(u\cdot q)\) therefore span all quadratic forms in \(u\), since a linear functional on quadratic forms that vanishes on them defines such a \(\beta\). In the same way, width at least 3 shows that the products \((u\cdot p)(u\cdot q)(u\cdot q')\), with \(p,q,q'\) from three distinct rows, span all cubic forms.

Moments. Every sum of the tensors above lies in \(K_3\). Their mixed moments \(D^bw=b![u^b]\cdots\), with \(b!\in\{1,2\}\) a unit, therefore take every value in \(k^{\{b\text{ mixed}\}}\): the cubic forms are spanned, using labels at most \(2(r+1)\) at a time. Given a symmetric tuple \(\zeta\) with moments \(\mu\), take such a \(w_1\) with \(D^bw_1=\mu_b\). Then \(\zeta-\Lambda w_1\) is symmetric with all moments zero, so each entry lies in the joint kernel \[ Z=\{x\in K_1:\ D_jx=0\ \text{for all }j\}=\Bigl\{x:\ \textstyle\sum_iF_i(x_i)=0\Bigr\}. \]

Short generation of \(Z\). Call \(x\in Z\) short if it is supported on at most \(r+1\) rows and at most \((r+1)^2\) labels. \(Z\) is spanned by short elements.

The kernel of \(x\mapsto(F_i(x_i))_i\) is \(\bigoplus_i(V_i\cap\ker F_i)\). Each summand is the kernel of \(M_i\), which is spanned by circuit vectors. A circuit vector lies on one row and has at most \(\operatorname{rank}M_i+1\le r+2\) labels.
The image of \(Z\) is the set of \((p_i)\in\bigoplus_iP_i\) with \(\sum_ip_i=0\). Choose a basis of each \(P_i\). The linear relations among all these basis vectors of \(k^r\) are spanned by circuits, which have at most \(r+1\) terms and so involve at most \(r+1\) rows. Lift each circuit by choosing, on each of its rows, some \(x_i\in V_i\) with the required evaluation and at most \(r+1\) labels.

Kernel part. Let \(x=\sum_{i\in S}x_i\in Z\) be short, with \(p_i=F_i(x_i)\) and \(\sum_ip_i=0\). Take rows \(s\ne t\) outside \(S\), with \(c\in V_s\) and \(c'\in V_t\) chosen as above, off the labels of \(x\) and off each other. That uses at most \((r+1)^2+(r+1)\) labels. Then \(w=\sum_{i\in S}x_i\otimes c\otimes c'\in K_3\). In the sum of the displayed formula over \(i\), the terms in \(c\) and \(c'\) carry the factor \(u\cdot\sum_ip_i=0\), so \[ \Theta_u^2w=2\,(u\cdot p_s)(u\cdot p_t)\,x . \] So \(\Lambda w=(\lambda_\alpha x)_\alpha\), where \(\lambda_\alpha\) is \(2[u^\alpha](u\cdot p_s)(u\cdot p_t)/m(\alpha)\). By the spanning step, these quadratic forms span all quadratic forms, so every tuple \((\lambda_\alpha x)_\alpha\), with arbitrary scalars \(\lambda_\alpha\), is a lift. With short generation, every tuple of elements of \(Z\) is a lift, including \(\zeta-\Lambda w_1\). \(\square\)

The method is the one of the recorded binary lifts, the multirow predicate-trade lift and the relative coded parity lift: lift a joint-kernel element by tensoring with fresh row vectors chosen off its labels. Those results are in characteristic two and go through the projective lemma. Here the odd-prime obstacle, polarization with \(\delta=2\), is met by the spanning of quadratic forms. Each piece gets its own inserted vectors \(c,c'\), chosen off that piece's labels. That is what avoids the obstacle recorded in the local-lift review: one inserted vector cannot avoid the labels of every tensor of a large target. Only the single-row kernel pieces need no cancellation between rows. For a piece over several rows, the cancellation is exact because the same \(c,c'\) serve every row of that piece. Nothing in the proof requires a row with \(P_i=k^r\). So a lack of joint row rank, forms that are dependent modulo constants on every row, is no obstruction; the check below confirms this.

Finite check

The script first_degree_lift.py computes, over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(r=3\), the dimension of the symmetric tuples as a nullity, and the rank of \(\Lambda\). It checks that the image satisfies the symmetry equations.

On small boards, \(K_3\) is the exact nullspace of the marginal map on each row triple. This was run for \(N=6\) and \(9\) labels, \(R=3,\dots,7\) rows, two seeds each, with generic forms and with forms dependent on every row (\(f^{(3)}_i=a_if^{(1)}_i+b_if^{(2)}_i\), so \(\dim P_i\le2\)). Lifting holds in every case of width at least 4 and fails in every case of width at most 3. Examples: generic, 3 rows, 9 labels, 116 of 133; dependent, width 3, 5 rows, 9 labels, 228 of 229. Lifting holds in every dependent case of width 4 or 5.
On a board meeting the hypotheses, labels \(\mathbb F_3^4\) with random full-rank linear row maps to \(\mathbb F_3^3\), 6 and 7 rows, width 6 and 7 and 53-robust, sampled difference tensors reach the full symmetric dimension: 2869 of 2869 and 3349 of 3349. That proves the lemma's conclusion on these two boards.

In 15.9 seconds, the output is research/results/odd_prime_first_degree_lift_20260923/first_degree_lift.json. The measured threshold, width 4, matches the recorded one and lies below the lemma's \(r+3\). The lemma's width is sufficient, not sharp.

What this changes

At the first degree, the multi-operator lift is proved for any number of forms, with width linear in \(r\), output degree \(d+\delta\), and no exactness hypothesis. Linear growth is what the local-lift review found sufficient. The local-lift review set this line aside for lack of a density mechanism. The later column-tensor and clause-transfer reviews came back to the joint statement for many forms as the batched mechanism the route item needs, reached from the algebra side. They asked for an input specific to the board, because the implication from pointwise exactness fails in the toy models once \(r\ge3\). Short generation of joint kernels is such an input: it uses the board's tensor structure, which the toy models lack.

A conjectured extension to every degree \(d\) has two parts, both open.

Short generation: the joint kernels \(Z_s=\bigcap_j\ker D_j\cap K_s\), for \(1\le s\le d\), are spanned by elements on \(O(r)\) rows and labels.
Moment descent: the moments \(\mu_b\in K_{d-1}\), for \(|b|=3\), are realized as \(D^bw\) together with their own symmetry conditions, and so on down to \(K_0\).

A sketch suggests that the descent runs through the same tensor argument, with \(D^b\) applied directly instead of polarization, since \(b!\) is a unit when every \(b_i\le2\). It is not checked here. Given both parts, a short piece of \(Z_s\) would lift by tensoring with fresh vectors on \(d-s+2\) new rows.

The step from symmetric lifts to joint extension, the density mechanism, and the quadratic ceiling of the wide-conditioning conjecture all remain as recorded.

Assessment and next step

The cycle proved its case, and more: every \(r\) at the first degree. Two of the last three cycles took their question from an entry without reading its successors. The route check now requires a search for later links to a cited entry (CLAUDE.md).

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is short generation at level two, the first open part of the extension. Test first, at \(r=3\) with random forms, \(R=8\) rows and \(N=7\) labels:

\(K_2\) has \(28\cdot29=812\) dimensions, and \(Z_2\) has codimension at most \(8\cdot6\cdot3=144\) in it;
compare \(Z_2\) with the span of its elements supported on \(m\) rows, for \(m=4,5,6\): 70, 56 and 28 row sets, of at most 174, 290 and 435 dimensions.

With \(R=8>m\), shortness is a real restriction, and the test can fail. Then prove the observed bound, following the circuit argument of level one: row-local kernels, plus relations among the images. Then take up the moment descent. The step ends with short generation at level two proved, or with a joint-kernel element that no short elements span.

Verification gate. Re-read, from the notebook:

the amplitude theorem's statement and its definitions of \(K_s\) and \(\delta_i\);
the symmetric-lift entry's setting, lemma and next step;
the cocycle-reduction entry, the forced-forms check and the local-lift review;
the conclusions of the column-tensor and clause-transfer reviews.

Claim searches for symmetric lifting, polarized and moment lifts, and joint-kernel lifting found:

the cocycle reduction and the finite width check;
the free-module lemma;
the ternary pair theorem;
the binary multirow and relative coded lifts.

The exact \(\mathbb F_3\) check above tests the conclusion on boards meeting the hypotheses, and controls below width 4 fail. A fresh-context reviewer, given the draft, these dependencies and the script, found that the record does not imply the lemma for \(r\ge3\). It found no gap in the tensor formulas, the spanning, the short generation, the label budget or the reduction, and no unused hypothesis; width \(r+3\) is used only in the kernel part. It confirmed every number against the JSON. It required changes, all adopted:

the degree-\(d\) extension stated as a conjecture with two open parts;
\(\dim P_i\le2\) for the dependent family;
the label count of the 228-of-229 example;
"linear" for the row maps;
the binary analogues cited.

These changes only weaken or clarify the claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	18 min 57.36 s
Marked reading and review windows	11 min 1.90 s
Computation design and coding	7 min 21.76 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	17.44 s
Individually measured computation	16.13 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Symmetric lifting at every degree reduces to short generation of joint kernels, which holds at level two; the second-degree lift follows

23 September 2026 · Working proofs and finite checks · Matching complex, \(p=3\), any number \(r\) of forms. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Symmetric lifting at every degree reduces to short generation of joint kernels, which holds at level two; the second-degree lift follows”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-short-generation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The batched mechanism the item names is the joint lift for many forms. The first-degree lift proved it at lemma degree one, and it split the extension to every degree into two open parts: short generation of the joint kernels \(Z_s=\bigcap_j\ker D_j\cap K_s\), and a moment descent. This cycle tests short generation at level two, then tries to prove it and the descent. It ends with proofs, or with a joint-kernel element that no short elements span.

Finite check: level-two kernels are spanned on four or five rows

The script short_generation.py computes \(Z_2\) exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\). For each \(m\) it also computes the span of the subspaces \(Z_2(U)\), the elements supported on pairs inside an \(m\)-row set \(U\). Forms are random; "dependent" means the third form is a combination of the first two on every row.

forms, rows, labels	\(\dim K_2\)	\(\dim Z_2\)	span at \(m=2,3,4,5\)
3 generic, 8, 7 (two seeds)	812	671	72 or 85, 551, 671, 671
3 generic, 10, 7	1305	1128	109 or 139, 918, 1128, 1128
3 generic, 8, 9	1540	1351	455, 1231, 1351, 1351
3 dependent, 8, 7	812	671	252/259, 603/605, 669/671, 671
3 dependent, 10, 7	1305	1128	414/415, 1006/1007, 1128, 1128
3 dependent, 8, 9	1540	1351	756, 1284/1285, 1351, 1351
2 generic, 9, 7	1044	937	333, 856, 937, 937
4 generic, 9, 7	1044	834	9, 571, 834, 834

Every row with three forms has two seeds, and the rows with two and four forms have one. Four rows suffice in every case but one dependent seed, which needs five, and \(m=6\) (and 7, where computed) adds nothing. The number of rows needed does not grow with \(r\) from 2 to 4, or with the board. So short generation holds at these sizes, with far fewer rows than the bound proved below.

Setting

Use the setting of the first-degree lift: a field \(k\) of characteristic 3, the matching complex \(K_s\), and \(r\) forms with operators \(D_j\) and evaluations \(F_i:V_i\to P_i\subseteq k^r\). Width, robustness and the evaluation matrices \(M_i\) are as defined there. Let \(R_1=\{(p_i)\in\bigoplus_iP_i:\sum_ip_i=0\}\), the relations among the rows' evaluations. A symmetric tuple \((\zeta_\alpha)_{|\alpha|=2}\) in \(K_d\) defines an \(R\)-linear map \(\varphi\) from \(\mathfrak m^2\) to \(K\) with \(\varphi(D^\alpha)=\zeta_\alpha\), by the construction of the symmetric-lift entry, which uses only the symmetry conditions. Put \(\tau_b=\varphi(D^b)\in K_{d+2-|b|}\) for \(|b|\ge2\); \(\tau_b=0\) when some \(b_j\ge3\). Say \(Z_s\) is \((\rho,\lambda)\)-short if it is spanned by elements each supported on at most \(\rho\) rows and \(\lambda\) labels.

The reduction

Lemma (short-generation reduction). Fix \(d\ge1\). Suppose that for each \(1\le s\le d\), \(Z_s\) is \((\rho_s,\lambda_s)\)-short. Suppose the width is at least \(\max_{0\le s\le d}(\rho_s+d+2-s)\), with \(\rho_0=0\). Suppose the forms are robust through \(\max_{0\le s\le d}\bigl(\lambda_s+(d+1-s)(r+1)\bigr)\) deleted labels, with \(\lambda_0=0\). Then every symmetric tuple in \(K_d\) is \((D^\alpha w)_{|\alpha|=2}\) for some \(w\in K_{d+2}\).

Proof. Put \(q_s=d+2-s\).

Tensors of short pieces. Let \(x\in Z_s\) be short on a row set \(S\), and let \(c_1,\dots,c_q\in V_{t_1},\dots,V_{t_q}\) lie on distinct rows outside \(S\), with label supports disjoint from each other and from \(x\). Then \(w=x\otimes c_1\otimes\dots\otimes c_q\in K_{s+q}\), and each \(D_j\) splits as \(D_j^{x}+D_j^{c}\), commuting parts acting on different tensor factors. Since every \(D_j^{x}\) kills \(x\) (for \(s=0\), \(x=1\)), \(D^bw=x\otimes D^b(c_1\otimes\dots\otimes c_q)\). This vanishes for \(|b|>q\), and for \(|b|=q\) equals \(b!\,[u^b]\prod_k(u\cdot p_k)\,x\), with \(p_k=F_{t_k}(c_k)\): each operator must hit a different \(c\)-row, and \(\Pi_jb_j!\) orders give the same term. When every \(b_j\le2\), \(b!\) is a power of 2, a unit.
Spanning. Suppose a symmetric \(q\)-linear form on \(k^r\) vanishes on \(P_{t_1}\times\dots\times P_{t_q}\) for all distinct rows outside \(S\). Fix all arguments but the last. The last ranges over rows outside \(S\) and the \(q-1\) fixed rows. Their \(P_t\) span \(k^r\), since a \(u\) orthogonal to all of them is active on at most \(|S|+q-1<\) width rows. So the form vanishes, by induction on the fixed arguments. A linear functional on forms of degree \(q\) that vanishes on the products \(\prod_k(u\cdot p_k)\) defines such a symmetric \(q\)-linear form, so it vanishes on all products of linear forms, hence on all monomials. Hence the products span all forms of degree \(q\). The vectors \(c_k\) exist, off the labels already used, by robustness, as in the first-degree lift. So every tuple \((\lambda_bx)_{|b|=q}\) with \(\lambda_b=0\) whenever some \(b_j\ge3\) is \((D^bw)_b\) for some \(w\) with \(D^{b'}w=0\) for \(|b'|>q\).
Descending induction. We build \(w^{(q)}\in K_{d+2}\), for \(q=d+2\) down to 2, with \(D^bw^{(q)}=\tau_b\) for all \(|b|\ge q\). Given \(w^{(q+1)}\), with \(w^{(d+3)}=0\), put \(\eta_b=\tau_b-D^bw^{(q+1)}\) for \(|b|=q\). Then \(D_j\eta_b=\tau_{b+e_j}-D^{b+e_j}w^{(q+1)}=0\) for every \(j\). So each \(\eta_b\) lies in \(Z_s\), \(s=d+2-q\) (for \(s=0\) this is no condition), and \(\eta_b=0\) when some \(b_j\ge3\). Fix a spanning set \(\{x_\ell\}\) of short elements of \(Z_s\), write \(\eta_b=\sum_\ell\lambda_{b,\ell}x_\ell\) with \(\lambda_{b,\ell}=0\) whenever some \(b_j\ge3\), and apply the previous point to each tuple \((\lambda_{b,\ell}x_\ell)_b\). The result is \(v\) with \(D^bv=\eta_b\) for \(|b|=q\) and \(D^{b'}v=0\) for \(|b'|>q\). Put \(w^{(q)}=w^{(q+1)}+v\). At \(q=2\), \(D^\alpha w^{(2)}=\zeta_\alpha\). \(\square\)

At \(d=1\), with \(\rho_1=r+1\) and \(\lambda_1=(r+1)^2\), this is the first-degree lift. It gives the conclusion of the cocycle reduction with short generation in place of its unproved forced-forms exactness. The output degree is \(d+2\) at every \(d\): no window is needed.

Short generation at level two

Lemma (level-two short generation). Put \(K=(r^3+r^2+2)/2\). If the forms are robust through \(2r+3\) deleted labels, then \(Z_2\) is \((\rho_2,\lambda_2)\)-short, with \(\rho_2=r^3+r^2+r+2\) and \(\lambda_2=8K(r+1)^3\).

Proof. For \(x\in K_2\) with pair components \(x_{ii'}\), let \(g_i(x_{ii'})\in V_i\otimes P_{i'}\) be the contraction of row \(i'\) by all \(r\) forms at once. The component of \((D_jx)_j\) on row \(i\) is \(\sum_{i'}g_i(x_{ii'})\), so \(x\in Z_2\) exactly when \[ \textstyle\sum_{i'\ne i}g_i(x_{ii'})=0\ \text{in } V_i\otimes k^r\quad\text{for every row } i . \] This condition depends only on the data \((g_i(x_{ii'}),g_{i'}(x_{ii'}))\) of each pair. Let \(Y\) be the elements whose every pair component has zero data. Each component of an element of \(Y\) is an injection array annihilated by both rows' evaluation matrices. By the recorded coded-trade spanning theorem, with robustness \(2r+3\), such arrays are spanned by tensors on one pair of rows with at most \(r+2\) labels per row. So \(Y\) is \((2,2r+4)\)-short, and \(Z_2\) is spanned by \(Y\) together with short realizations of generators of the data space.

Choose a set \(B_i\) of \(\operatorname{rank}M_i\le r+1\) labels on which the columns of \(M_i\) are independent and span its column space. Every \(p\in P_i\) then has a unique \(\sigma_i(p)\in V_i\) supported on \(B_i\) with \(F_i(\sigma_i(p))=p\), and \(\sigma_i\) is linear. Write \(V_i=\ker_i\oplus\sigma_i(P_i)\), \(\ker_i=V_i\cap\ker F_i\). The data of a pair split into two parts:

parts in \(\ker_i\otimes P_{i'}\);
a tensor \(e_{ii'}=(F_i\otimes1)g_i(x_{ii'})\in P_i\otimes P_{i'}\), which by compatibility is also \((1\otimes F_{i'})g_{i'}(x_{ii'})\).

The row conditions split the same way, and the data space is \(D^0\oplus T\):

\(D^0=\bigoplus_i\ker_i\otimes R_1^{(\ne i)}\), where \(R_1^{(\ne i)}\) consists of the relations not using row \(i\);
\(T\) is the set of symmetric edge tensors \((e_{ii'})\) with \(\sum_{i'}e_{ii'}=0\) in \(P_i\otimes k^r\) for every \(i\).

The part \(D^0\). It is spanned by \(a\otimes\rho\), with \(a\) a circuit vector of \(\ker_i\) (at most \(r+2\) labels) and \(\rho\) a circuit of \(R_1\) avoiding row \(i\) (at most \(r+1\) rows). Realize it by \(\sum_{i'}a\otimes c_{i'}\), with \(F_{i'}(c_{i'})=\rho_{i'}\) and \(c_{i'}\) off the support of \(a\). Its data are \(a\otimes\rho_{i'}\) on row \(i\), and \(F_i(a)\otimes c_{i'}=0\) on row \(i'\). It has \(r+2\) rows and at most \((r+2)+(r+1)^2\) labels.
The part \(T\) is \(\{t\in R_1\otimes R_1:\ t\text{ symmetric},\ t_{ii}=0\text{ for all } i\}\). The row conditions say \((1\otimes\Sigma)t=0\), where \(\Sigma\) is the sum map, so \(t\in P\otimes R_1\) with \(P=\bigoplus_iP_i\). Symmetry gives \(t\in R_1\otimes P\), hence \(t\in R_1\otimes R_1\). The converse is immediate.
Generators of \(T\). Choose a basis of \(\sum_iP_i\) made of basis vectors of the \(P_i\) on a set \(B_0\) of at most \(r\) rows. The fundamental circuits \(\rho_v\), one for each other basis vector \(v\) of each \(P_i\), form a basis of \(R_1\), each supported on \(B_0\cup\{\text{row}(v)\}\). Write \(t=\sum c_{vv'}\rho_v\otimes\rho_{v'}\) with \(c\) symmetric. At a row \(i\notin B_0\), the diagonal block is \(\sum c_{vv'}\,v\otimes v'\) over the basis vectors \(v,v'\) of \(P_i\), so \(c_{vv'}=0\) there. At each of the at most \(r\) rows of \(B_0\), the diagonal block gives at most \(\dim\operatorname{Sym}^2P_i\le r(r+1)/2\) linear equations. So \(T\) is the kernel of a linear map \(E\) of rank at most \(K-1\) on the coordinates \(c_{vv'}\) with \(\text{row}(v)\ne\text{row}(v')\) or both in \(B_0\). A kernel is spanned by vectors with at most \(\operatorname{rank}E+1\le K\) nonzero coordinates. Each coordinate \(\rho_v\odot\rho_{v'}\) is supported on \(B_0\) and two further rows. So \(T\) is spanned by elements on at most \(r+2K=\rho_2\) rows.
Realizing \(T\). Split the blocks \(t_{ii'}\), \(i<i'\), of such a generator into rank-one pieces \(p\otimes q\in P_i\otimes P_{i'}\). There are at most \(2K(r+1)^2\) of them. Realize each piece as follows. Let \(x=\sigma_i(p)\otimes c\) with \(F_{i'}(c)=q\) and \(c\) off the support of \(\sigma_i(p)\). Let \(\kappa=c-\sigma_{i'}(q)\in\ker_{i'}\), and let \(x'=-y\otimes\kappa\) with \(F_i(y)=p\) and \(y\) off the support of \(\kappa\). Then \(x+x'\) has data \(\sigma_i(p)\otimes q\) on row \(i\) and \(\sigma_{i'}(q)\otimes p\) on row \(i'\), the data of the piece. It uses at most \(4(r+1)\) labels. Summing gives the generator's data, and the sum lies in \(Z_2\). It has at most \(\rho_2\) rows and \(8K(r+1)^3=\lambda_2\) labels.

Every element of \(Z_2\) minus the realization of its data lies in \(Y\). \(\square\)

The recorded two-row product-code criterion is the obstruction to realizing prescribed two-row data with fixed supports. The realization above avoids it by choosing supports off one another, as robustness allows.

Lemma (second-degree lift). Suppose the forms have width at least \(r^3+r^2+r+4\) and are robust through \(\lambda_2+r+1\) deleted labels. Then every symmetric tuple in \(K_2\) is \((D^\alpha w)_{|\alpha|=2}\) for some \(w\in K_4\).

Proof. Apply the reduction with \(d=2\). The first-degree lift's short generation gives \((\rho_1,\lambda_1)=(r+1,(r+1)^2)\), and the level-two lemma gives \((\rho_2,\lambda_2)\). The reduction's width is then \(\max(4,\,r+4,\,\rho_2+2)=r^3+r^2+r+4\). Its robustness is \(\max(3(r+1),\,(r+1)^2+2(r+1),\,\lambda_2+r+1)=\lambda_2+r+1\), which also covers the \(2r+3\) of the level-two lemma. \(\square\)

Finite check of the second-degree lift

second_degree_lift.py computes the rank of \(\Lambda:K_4\to K_2^A\), with \(K_4\) exact, and the dimension of the symmetric tuples in \(K_2\), at \(r=3\) with 7 labels. It checks that the image satisfies the symmetry equations.

forms	rows	width	\(\operatorname{rank}\Lambda\) / symmetric
generic	5	5	1125 / 1413
generic	6	6	2217 / 2217
generic	7	7	3195 / 3195
generic	8	8	4347 / 4347
dependent	5	3	1114 / 1413
dependent	6	4	2142 / 2217
dependent	7	4	3170 / 3195
dependent	8	4	4319 / 4347

Widths are computed by widths.py (widths.json) for the same seeds. Lifting holds exactly from width 6. Together with the threshold of width 4 at \(d=1\), this fits width \(2d+2\) at \(r=3\), one seed per case: the amplitude theorem's count for one form in the position \(\ker D^{p-1}=\operatorname{im}D\) at \(K_{d+1}\). These boards do not meet the lemma's hypotheses, so this is evidence about the true threshold, not a check of the lemma. The proved width is polynomial in \(r\) because the circuit bound for \(T\) is crude; the level-two check needed at most five rows.

What this changes

The symmetric many-form lift is proved at degrees one and two for any number of forms, at output degree \(d+2\), with no exactness hypothesis. For every degree, only short generation of \(Z_s\) at \(s\ge3\) remains; the moment descent is proved.

At level three the level-two argument does not carry over as it stands. The analogue of \(T\) is the space of symmetric tensors in \(R_1^{\otimes3}\) with zero blocks wherever two slots lie on one row. Its diagonal conditions carry a free third slot, so their number is not bounded by \(r\), and the circuit bound fails. Mixed parts also appear, kernel vectors on some slots and \(T\)-type tensors on the others.

The lift remains a local ingredient. It covers polylogarithmically many forms at a time within the quadratic ceiling. The step from symmetric lifts to joint extension and the density mechanism are open, as recorded in the local-lift review.

Assessment and next step

This line now moves its general implication: two degrees are proved, and every degree has a clean sufficient condition that the data support. Four research cycles have passed since the last review.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is short generation at level three. First test it: at \(r=3\), 8 rows and 7 labels, \(K_3\) has \(56\cdot104=5824\) dimensions, and \(Z_3\) should be compared with spans on \(m=4,\dots,7\) rows. Then look for a proof that replaces the circuit bound with an induction on the level. One candidate is the fundamental-circuit coordinates, with the zero-diagonal conditions imposed one slot pair at a time. The step ends with short generation at level three proved or refuted. The cycle after it should be a route review: whether a lift at every degree is what the batched mechanism needs, and what joint extension and density still require.

Verification gate. Re-read, from the notebook:

the first-degree lift, with its setting, proof and short generation of \(Z_1\);
the symmetric-lift entry's construction of \(\varphi\);
the cocycle reduction's statement.

Before drafting, a narrowly briefed reviewer checked whether the record implies the reduction or the level-two statement. It found that neither is implied. It asked for citations of the coded-trade spanning theorem, the two-row product-code criterion, the first-degree lift and the cocycle reduction.

Checks: the exact spans of \(Z_2\), and the exact rank of the degree-two lift, whose image is checked against the symmetry equations.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error in the three lemmas. It checked the coded-trade theorem itself, over any field, with deletion allowance at most \(2r+3\) and supports at most \(r+2\) per row. It confirmed every table entry against the outputs. It required changes, all adopted:

each pair's block realized once, not twice;
a construction of the section \(\sigma_i\) with small supports;
the step from multilinear forms to spanning written out;
the decomposition in the descending induction made explicit;
the widths computed by a script;
the threshold remark restricted to \(r=3\);
the seed counts and \(m=7\) coverage stated.

The changes clarify or weaken, so no further pass was made.

Timing note. In this entry and the first-degree lift, several phase markers used invalid category names and failed silently. So the first-degree lift's table puts its reasoning, review and checkpoint time under "Computation design and coding". This entry's table does the same before the review window.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	26 min 4.36 s
Marked reading and review windows	18.39 s
Computation design and coding	6 min 20.59 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 16.26 s
Individually measured computation	14 min 3.62 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	1 min 5.49 s

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Short generation at every level: stated for all parameters, and proved by peeling rows where every row has full evaluation space and labels are ignored

23 September 2026 · Working proof in a label-free model, and a conjecture · Joint kernels of \(r\) forms at every level. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Short generation at every level: stated for all parameters, and proved by peeling rows where every row has full evaluation space and labels are ignored”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-peeling-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The short-generation reduction proves the symmetric many-form lift at every degree once each joint kernel \(Z_s\) is spanned by elements on few rows. The cycle opened with a test at level three, and then kept testing further cases. The user asked when a general statement would come. This entry states it, and proves its core in a model without labels.

General statement. Conjecture conj:short-generation: in the matching complex over characteristic 3, with \(r\) forms and width and robustness large enough in terms of \(s\) and \(r\), \(Z_s=\bigcap_j\ker D_j\cap K_s\) is spanned by elements supported on at most \(\rho_s\) rows, where \(\rho_s\) depends only on \(s\) and \(r\). The conjectured bound is \(\rho_s\le s(r+1)\), and \(\rho_s\le2s\) when every row's evaluation space is all of \(k^r\). With the reduction, this would give the symmetric lift at every degree \(d\), with width \(\max_s(\rho_s+d+2-s)\) and output degree \(d+2\).

The data, read against the statement

At \(r=3\) with generic forms (every \(P_i=k^3\)), \(Z_2\) needs 4 rows at 8 and 10 rows (previous entry). \(Z_3\) needs 6 rows at 8 rows (two seeds) and at 10 rows (one seed, 7 labels): the spans on \(m=4,5,6\) rows are 131 or 497, 3338 and 3534 of 3534 at 8 rows, and 747, 8222 and 8747 of 8747 at 10 rows. That is \(2s\) at both levels, with no growth in the number of rows. Forms dependent on every row (\(\dim P_i\le2\)) needed 5 rows at level two in one seed, within \(s(r+1)\). The level-three runs with dependent forms and with four forms were stopped by the jobs' time limits of 25 and 28 minutes and gave no data. Files: short_generation3.py and its logs, in research/results/odd_prime_short_generation_20260923/.

The label-free model

Forget labels and ordinary marginals. Give each row \(i\) of a finite row set a subspace \(P_i\subseteq k^r\), over any field \(k\). Let \(\Lambda_t\) be the square-free tensors of degree \(t\): \[ \Lambda_t=\bigoplus_{|S|=t}\ \bigotimes_{i\in S}P_i , \] and for \(u\in(k^r)^*\) let \(\partial_u:\Lambda_t\to\Lambda_{t-1}\) be the contraction \(\partial_u(\otimes_{i\in S}p_i)=\sum_{i\in S}u(p_i)\,\otimes_{S\setminus i}p\). Put \(T_t=\bigcap_u\ker\partial_u\). This is the part of the joint kernel that the level-two proof isolated: there \(T_2\) appeared as the symmetric zero-diagonal tensors in \(R_1\otimes R_1\), and \(T_1=R_1\). With one form and \(P_i=k\), \(T_t\) is the kernel of the down map from \(t\)-sets to \((t-1)\)-sets of rows.

Lemma (peeling locality). If every \(P_i\) equals one space \(P\), then \(T_t\) is spanned by elements supported on at most \(2t\) rows, for every \(t\) and every number of rows.

Proof. Induction on \(t\), and for fixed \(t\) on the number \(n\) of rows. For \(t=0\), \(T_0=k\), and for \(n\le2t\) there is nothing to prove. Let \(n>2t\), fix a row \(n\) and a basis \(b_1,\dots,b_m\) of \(P\), and write \(x\in T_t\) as \(x=x'+\sum_ky_k\otimes b_k^{(n)}\). Here \(x'\) is supported on sets avoiding \(n\), and \(y_k\in\Lambda_{t-1}\) on the other rows. The part of \(\partial_ux\) on sets containing \(n\) is \(\sum_k\partial_uy_k\otimes b_k^{(n)}\). It vanishes, so every \(y_k\in T_{t-1}\) of the other rows. By induction on \(t\), each \(y_k\) is a sum of elements \(y\in T_{t-1}\) on at most \(2t-2\) rows. For such a \(y\) and \(b\in P\), choose a row \(a\ne n\) outside the rows of \(y\); it exists because \(n-1>2t-2\). Put \[ \gamma=y\otimes b^{(n)}-y\otimes b^{(a)} . \] Then \(\partial_u\gamma=\partial_uy\otimes(b^{(n)}-b^{(a)})+u(b)\,(y-y)=0\), so \(\gamma\in T_t\), supported on at most \(2t\) rows, with part \(y\otimes b^{(n)}\) at row \(n\). Subtracting these \(\gamma\) from \(x\) leaves an element of \(T_t\) on the rows other than \(n\), and induction on \(n\) finishes. \(\square\)

The same step works for arbitrary \(P_i\) whenever \(b\in P_n\) is a sum of vectors \(b_l\in P_{a_l}\) from rows outside the rows of \(y\) and \(n\). Replace the second term by \(\sum_ly\otimes b_l^{(a_l)}\). Then \(r\) spare rows suffice, and each piece has at most \(\rho_{t-1}+r+1\) rows. The spare rows must remain available as rows are peeled. A reserve that still spans each \(P_n\) after the deletion of any \(\rho_{t-1}+1\) rows can need about \(r(\rho_{t-1}+1)\) rows, for example lines each repeated \(\rho_{t-1}+1\) times. So this route gives only \(\rho_t\lesssim r(\rho_{t-1}+2)\), exponential in \(t\), and the conjectured linear bound for arbitrary \(P_i\) is open.

A consistency check in the scalar model. For \(t\le4\) with \(n\) from \(2t\) to \(2t+3\), and for \(t=5\) with \(n=10,11,12\), two things hold over \(\mathbb F_3\) (scalar_generators.py). The kernel's dimension equals Wilson's count for inclusion matrices modulo 3, \(\sum_{0\le i\le t,\ 3\mid t-i}\bigl[\binom ni-\binom n{i-1}\bigr]\), valid for \(n\ge2t-1\). And the kernel is spanned by products of \(i\) disjoint differences with a constant on the \((t-i)\)-subsets of a block of \(t-i+2\) rows. The term \(i=t\) is the span of the polytabloids. The extra elements occur exactly for the \(i\) with \(t-i\) a positive multiple of 3: one extra dimension at \(t=3\), and \(n-1\) at \(t=4\). The lemma does not need them, and its bound \(2t\) holds over every field. In the data, \(2t\) rows are needed at every tested \(n\) for \(t=2\), and at \(n\le2t+1\) for \(t=3,4\). Beyond that, 5 and 6 rows suffice. For one form, the lemma is close to the Graver–Jurkat theorem that null designs are generated over \(\mathbb Z\) by pods. That result is cited as a pointer only and not used; it does not carry over to \(\mathbb F_3\), where the kernel is larger than the reduction of the integral one.

What this changes

Short generation has one proof pattern at every level, peeling one row at a time with a spare row. In the label-free model with a common evaluation space it gives \(2t\), the bound the matching-complex data show for generic forms at levels two and three. Two steps separate it from the conjecture:

Labels. In \(K_s\), the row-\(n\) part of \(x\) is \(\sum_\omega y_\omega\otimes e_\omega\), where \(y_\omega\in Z_{s-1}\) avoids label \(\omega\) and \(\sum_\omega y_\omega=0\). It has to be rewritten as a sum of short \(y\otimes v\), with \(v\) a sum-zero vector on row \(n\) off the labels of \(y\). The level-two proof did this with the coded-trade spanning theorem and realizations off supports; the general level needs the same bookkeeping.
Unequal evaluation spaces. A linear bound needs spare rows that stay available while rows are peeled.

Assessment and next step

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the peeling proof in the matching complex itself, for forms whose evaluation space is all of \(k^r\) on every row, at every level \(s\). It handles labels by choosing, for each short piece, a partner label outside its support, with robustness polynomial in \(s\) and \(r\). A proof gives short generation with \(\rho_s=2s\). With the reduction, it then gives the symmetric many-form lift at every degree for such forms, with width \(2d+2\) at degree \(d\) (\(\max_s(2s+d+2-s)\), attained at \(s=d\)), the threshold the finite checks show at \(d=1,2\). The step ends with that theorem, or with the point where labels break the peeling. The route review then follows. It asks what the goal's forms look like on their rows, and what joint extension and density still need.

Verification gate. Re-read, from the notebook: the short-generation entry (the reduction, the level-two proof and its decomposition into \(Y\), \(D^0\) and \(T\)).

A fresh-context reviewer found that the record does not imply the lemma; its two searches found no matching row. It found no gap in the proof over any field: the row-\(n\) part, the spare row, the contraction of \(\gamma\), the base cases, and the use of a common \(P\) only where it is needed. It confirmed the width formula and every number against the logs. It required changes, all adopted:

the scalar data's range and the rows they need, stated exactly;
the extra generators tied to \(t-i\) a positive multiple of 3;
Wilson's count written with its range;
the reason for the exponential reserve bound given.

It suggested the Graver–Jurkat pointer. The changes only correct or weaken statements.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	56 min 0.53 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 49.84 s
Computation design and coding	26.20 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	58.99 s
Individually measured computation	50 min 51.28 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	54.21 s

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Short generation holds at every level when every row sees all forms, with 2s rows; the symmetric many-form lift follows at every degree

23 September 2026 · Working proof · Matching complex, forms independent modulo constants on every row; the lift at every degree. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Short generation holds at every level when every row sees all forms, with 2s rows; the symmetric many-form lift follows at every degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-short-generation-theorem.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The peeling-locality entry proved short generation without labels. It left the labels of the matching complex as the step between that and the conjecture. This cycle proves the labelled statement for full evaluation spaces, at every level. The label control is taken from the recorded coded-trade spanning theorem.

General statement. Conjecture conj:short-generation, proved here as thm:short-generation-full-spaces for forms with \(P_i=k^r\) on every row: for every \(s\), taking \(d=s\), \(Z_s\) is spanned by elements on at most \(2s\) rows and \(s(r+2)+2s(r+1)(2s(r+2)+r+2)\) labels, which is \(O(s^2r^2)\). With the short-generation reduction this gives cor:symmetric-lift-every-degree: symmetric tuples in \(K_d\) lift to \(K_{d+2}\) for every \(d\), on \(2d+2\) rows with label robustness \(O(d^2r^2)\). For unequal evaluation spaces the conjecture's bound \(s(r+1)\) remains open.

Setting

Let \(k\) be a field; the theorem below holds over any field, and characteristic 3 enters only through the reduction in the corollary. A board has rows \(\mathcal R\) and, for each row \(i\), a set \(\Omega_i\) of allowed labels. \(K_s\) consists of arrays on injections of \(s\)-row sets that send each row \(i\) into \(\Omega_i\), with zero ordinary marginal in every row. The forms and operators \(D_j\) are as in the first-degree lift. \(M_i\) is row \(i\)'s evaluation matrix, with rows \(1,f^{(1)}_i,\dots,f^{(r)}_i\). Full means \(\operatorname{rank}M_i=r+1\) on every row, that is \(P_i=k^r\). A basis of row \(i\) is a set of \(r+1\) labels on which \(M_i\) is invertible. The board is \(L\)-robust if every \(M_i\) keeps rank \(r+1\) after the deletion of any \(L\) labels.

For a row set \(F\), \(Z_s^F\) consists of the arrays in \(K_s\) supported on sets containing \(F\) with two properties. Each row of \(F\) is forced: it is annihilated by \(M_i\), so all its weighted marginals vanish. And \(\sum_{i\notin F}\delta_i^{f^{(j)}}\) vanishes for every \(j\). \(Z_s=Z_s^\varnothing\). Two facts follow because operators on different rows commute and \(\delta_i^2=0\).

Slices. For \(x\in Z_s^F\), the slice \(x_{(i,b)}\), fixing label \(b\) at row \(i\), is an array on the other rows. It avoids \(b\) and lies in \(Z_{s-1}^{F\setminus i}\).
Codeword pieces. If \(M_ic=0\) for \(c\) on a row \(i\) outside the rows of \(\eta\in Z_{s-1}^{F\setminus i}\), with labels disjoint from those of \(\eta\), then \(c\otimes\eta\in Z_s^F\).

Reserves. Fix \(d\ge1\) and nested row sets \(A_1\subset A_2\subset\dots\subset A_d\), with \(|A_s|=2s-1\). Call the rows of \(A_d\) reserve rows. For each reserve row \(a\), fix a label set \(\Lambda_a\): the union of \(m\) pairwise disjoint bases of row \(a\). The sets \(\Lambda_a\) are pairwise disjoint for different reserve rows.

An array is tame at \(a\) if its labels at row \(a\) lie in \(\Lambda_a\), and tame if it is tame at every reserve row.
Its outer labels are its labels at non-reserve rows, together with its labels at any reserve row \(a\) that lie outside \(\Lambda_a\).

The support \(\operatorname{supp}x\) of an array is the set of rows it uses. The point of these definitions: if \(y\) has no content at a reserve row \(a\), then every label of \(y\) inside \(\Lambda_a\) is an outer label of \(y\). Put \(\mu_s=s(r+2)\) and \(\lambda_s=\mu_s+2s(r+1)m\). A level-\(s\) piece is an element of \(Z_s^F\) on at most \(2s\) rows, with at most \(\mu_s\) outer labels and at most \(\lambda_s\) labels in all.

The theorem

Theorem (short generation for full spaces). Let the forms be full (this is implied by the robustness below, which keeps rank \(r+1\)), and let the board have at least \(2d-1\) rows. Take \(m=2d(r+2)+r+2\), and let the board be robust through \[ L_d=(2d-1)(r+1)m+\lambda_d+(r+1)+d(r+2). \] Then for \(0\le s\le d\) and every \(F\), every \(x\in Z_s^F\) is a sum of level-\(s\) pieces. So \(Z_s\) is spanned by elements on at most \(2s\) rows and \(\lambda_s=O(d^2r^2)\) labels, for \(s\le d\). The disjoint sets \(\Lambda_a\) exist, since \(L_d\ge(2d-1)(r+1)m\).

The proof proves two statements together, by induction on \(s\), on boards obtained from the given one by deleting at most \((d-s)(r+2)\) labels:

(T) every tame \(x\in Z_s^F\) is a sum of tame level-\(s\) pieces supported inside \(\operatorname{supp}x\cup A_s\);
(T*) every \(x\in Z_s^F\) is a sum of level-\(s\) pieces, and every piece is tame at each reserve row where \(x\) is tame.

At \(s=0\), \(Z_0=k\) is spanned by the empty array. The label choices below are possible because of three counts.

At a non-reserve row, the labels to avoid number at most \(\lambda_{s-1}+(r+1)\) labels of pieces and cleared labels, plus \(d(r+2)\) deleted labels, plus \(|\bigcup_a\Lambda_a|\) when a basis must avoid the reserved sets. \(L_d\) covers these.
At a reserve row \(a\), a piece \(y\) with no content at \(a\) meets \(\Lambda_a\) only in its outer labels, at most \(\mu_{s-1}\). The cleared labels add \(r+1\) and the deletions \(d(r+2)\). Since \(m>\mu_d+(r+1)+d(r+2)\), one of the \(m\) disjoint bases in \(\Lambda_a\) avoids all of them.
So a vector \(c\) on a row with prescribed \(M c\), or a codeword with a prescribed coefficient at one label, can be taken off any such set. At a reserve row it can be taken inside \(\Lambda_a\), apart from the prescribed label.

Proof of (T), forced case \(F\ne\varnothing\). This is the argument of the recorded coded-trade spanning theorem. Pick \(i\in F\), and choose a basis \(B\) of row \(i\): inside \(\Lambda_i\) if \(i\) is a reserve row, and off \(\bigcup_a\Lambda_a\) otherwise. A tame \(x\) carries labels of \(B\) only at row \(i\) and at non-reserve rows, since the \(\Lambda_a\) are disjoint.

Remove the labels of \(B\) one at a time from every row that carries them, row \(i\) included, as in the coded-trade proof. For the next label \(b\), with \(H\subseteq B\) already removed from every row, and a row \(i'\) carrying \(b\), the slice \(x_{(i',b)}\) is tame and lies in \(Z_{s-1}^{F\setminus i'}\), on the board without \(H\cup\{b\}\). By (T) at level \(s-1\) it is a sum of tame pieces \(\eta\). For each \(\eta\), a codeword \(c\) on row \(i'\) with \(c(b)=1\) and its other labels off \(H\cup\{b\}\cup L(\eta)\), inside \(\Lambda_{i'}\) if \(i'\) is a reserve row, gives the tame piece \(c\otimes\eta\). Subtracting these removes \(b\) at row \(i'\) and adds no label of \(H\cup\{b\}\).
Then, for each label \(j\notin B\) at row \(i\), subtract \((e_j-\operatorname{rep}_B(j))\otimes\eta\) for the tame pieces \(\eta\) of the slice at \((i,j)\). The slice avoids \(j\) and \(B\) and is decomposed on the board without \(B\cup\{j\}\), so its pieces avoid them too. This is where the allowance of \(r+2\) deleted labels per level is used. The codeword lies inside \(\Lambda_i\) when \(i\) is a reserve row, because \(j\in\Lambda_i\) by tameness.
What remains has row-\(i\) labels in \(B\) and is annihilated by \(M_i\) there. Its other rows avoid \(B\), and \(M_i\) is invertible on \(B\), so it is zero.

Each piece has at most \(2s-1\) rows, and at most \(\mu_{s-1}+r+2\) outer labels; the codeword contributes outer labels only at a non-reserve row. Each lies inside \(\operatorname{supp}x\cup A_{s-1}\).

Proof of (T), unforced case \(F=\varnothing\). Process the rows \(n\in\operatorname{supp}x\setminus A_s\) one at a time.

The data \(z_j=\delta_n^{f^{(j)}}x\) are tame elements of \(Z_{s-1}\), supported off \(n\). By (T) they are sums of tame pieces \(w\) inside \(\operatorname{supp}x\setminus\{n\}\cup A_{s-1}\), on at most \(2s-2\) rows.
For each \(w\) and \(j\), take \(v\) on row \(n\) with \(M_nv=(0,e_j)\), off the labels of \(w\), and inside \(\Lambda_n\) if \(n\) is a reserve row. Take a spare \(a\in A_s\) outside the rows of \(w\); it exists since \(|A_s|=2s-1>2s-2\). Take \(c\) on row \(a\) with \(M_ac=(0,e_j)\), inside \(\Lambda_a\) and off the labels of \(w\).
Then \(\gamma=w\otimes v-w\otimes c\) lies in \(Z_s\), because \(D_l\gamma=w\,(F_n(v)-F_a(c))_l=0\). It is tame, on at most \(2s\) rows, with at most \(\mu_{s-1}+r+1\) outer labels, inside \(\operatorname{supp}x\cup A_s\), and its row-\(n\) data are \(w\) at index \(j\).
After subtracting all \(\gamma\), the row-\(n\) data vanish. The part on sets containing \(n\) lies in \(Z_s^{\{n\}}\) and is tame, so the forced case decomposes it. The part avoiding \(n\) lies in \(Z_s\), is tame, and is supported inside \(\operatorname{supp}x\setminus\{n\}\cup A_s\).

When no row outside \(A_s\) is left, the remainder is tame and supported on \(A_s\). It is itself a piece: \(2s-1\) rows, no outer labels, and at most \((2s-1)(r+1)m\) labels. No row is ever deleted, so the induction is used only on the given board, with labels deleted.

Proof of (T*). Make \(x\) tame first. Take the reserve rows \(a\) at which \(x\) is not tame, one at a time. For each label \(b\notin\Lambda_a\) at row \(a\), the slice \(x_{(a,b)}\) lies in \(Z_{s-1}^{F\setminus a}\), on the board without \(b\). By (T*) at level \(s-1\) it is a sum of pieces \(\eta\), tame wherever the slice is. For each \(\eta\), take a codeword \(c\) on row \(a\) with \(c(b)=1\) and its other labels inside \(\Lambda_a\setminus L(\eta)\). The piece \(c\otimes\eta\) has at most \(\mu_{s-1}+1\) outer labels. Subtracting these makes row \(a\) tame and keeps every row that was already tame tame. When all reserve rows are tame, apply (T). \(\square\)

The row-forcing step is the odd-prime, many-form form of the induction in the recorded wide-row predicate exactness theorem, which forces one active row at a time into a weighted-marginal code with coded trades, in characteristic two and for one predicate. The reserves with disjoint reserved labels are new here.

Corollary (symmetric lift at every degree). Let \(k\) have characteristic 3 and the forms be full, which the robustness below implies. Let the board have at least \(2d+2\) rows and be robust through \(L_d+(d+1)(r+1)=O(d^2r^2)\). Then every symmetric tuple \((\zeta_\alpha)_{|\alpha|=2}\) in \(K_d\) is \((D^\alpha w)_{|\alpha|=2}\) for some \(w\in K_{d+2}\).

Proof. Apply the short-generation reduction with \(\rho_s=2s\) and \(\lambda_s\) from the theorem. The reserves need only \(2d-1\) rows. With full spaces, every direction is active on every row, so the width is the number of rows. The reduction needs \(\max_s(2s+d+2-s)=2d+2\) of them, and robustness \(\max_s(\lambda_s+(d+1-s)(r+1))\le L_d+(d+1)(r+1)\). \(\square\)

What this changes, and what it does not

For forms that are independent modulo constants on every row, the symmetric many-form lift is now proved at every degree. It has output degree \(d+2\), any number of forms, row count \(2d+2\), the threshold the finite checks show at \(d=1,2\), and label robustness polynomial in \(d\) and \(r\), \(O(d^2r^2)\). No exactness hypothesis is used. This is the local ingredient the cocycle reduction asked for, and its forced-forms hypothesis is no longer needed.

A first version of the proof had a gap, found by the reviewer. It made row \(n\) forced with pieces from level \(s-1\) that could use row \(n\) or rows already cleared, and repairing that by deleting rows made the required row count grow with the level. The reserves with disjoint reserved labels remove the need to delete rows, and they make the label bounds polynomial.

What it does not give:

Fullness excludes rows where some combination of the forms is constant. For unequal evaluation spaces the conjecture's bound \(s(r+1)\) remains open.
The step from symmetric lifts to joint extension, and the density mechanism, remain as the local-lift review recorded.

Assessment and next step

This is the sixth research entry since the last route review, so the next cycle on odd-prime-clause-transfer is a route review; the turn guidance says so too.

The review should weigh the proved local lift against what the goal needs, and against the other open parts:

the label cost \(O(d^2r^2)\) against the boards' \(N\);
fullness against the goal's forms;
the step from symmetric lifts to joint extension;
the density mechanism.

It should then choose the highest-risk one to attack.

Verification gate. Re-read, from the notebook: the short-generation entry (the reduction and its hypotheses), the peeling-locality entry, and the recorded coded-trade spanning theorem with its proof. The claim search found no recorded result that implies the theorem. It found the recorded wide-row predicate exactness theorem as the precedent for forcing rows, now cited.

A first fresh-context review found a fatal gap in the first version. The unforced step used level-\(s-1\) pieces that could lie on row \(n\) or on cleared rows. Repairing that by deleting rows broke the row-count requirement, so the first version proved only \(s\le2\). It also required:

a precise induction statement;
the forced case on the right board;
the removal of an unused remark;
a citation of the row-forcing precedent.

The proof was rebuilt with nested reserves, disjoint reserved labels and the tame invariant, which also made the label bounds polynomial. Because the rebuilt proof changed the claim, a second fresh-context pass reviewed it, trying to break the support invariant, tameness, the outer-label bounds, the counts, the forced final step and the corollary. It found no gap. It required:

the \(2d-1\) row hypothesis;
explicit wording for removing \(B\) at row \(i\) as well, and for decomposing the slices at \((i,j)\) on the board without \(B\cup\{j\}\);
the theorem stated over any field;
fullness noted as implied by robustness;
the \(d=s\) specialization in the General statement;
a definition of support.

All were adopted. No finite check was run: the finite thresholds at \(d=1,2\), recorded in the earlier entries, match the corollary's \(2d+2\).

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Marked reading and review windows	17 min 32.38 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	18.84 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	3 min 2.61 s

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Route review: the many-form lift is proved; the next obligation is completing r selectors' endpoint data to symmetric tuples

23 September 2026 · Route review · The local lift holds at every degree for full robust forms; its next consumer is r-selector completion. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the many-form lift is proved; the next obligation is completing r selectors' endpoint data to symmetric tuples”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-lift-route-review.

The line's general claim. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the component review, the thread has worked on the joint lift for many forms, the batched mechanism named by the clause-transfer review. Its local form is now proved.

The short-generation reduction reduces the symmetric lift to spanning of joint kernels by short elements.
The short-generation theorem proves that spanning for forms independent modulo constants on every row. So symmetric tuples in \(K_d\) lift to \(K_{d+2}\) on \(2d+2\) rows, with label robustness \(O(d^2r^2)\).

The line's claim is that this local lift, fed by the source, gives hardness under many wide constraints.

What the goal needs. The core statement, read by the density entry as Conjecture SR for robust wide constraints. PHP must stay hard at polylogarithmic degree under polynomially many such constraints. Along this line that splits into three obligations:

the source must supply symmetric tuples to lift;
the lift must hold for the goal's forms;
batches of polylogarithmically many constraints must glue across polynomially many.

Falsification attempt

Do the recorded refutations contradict the new theorem, or the line's claim that local lifts feed hardness? Each falls outside the theorem's hypotheses, in an informative way.

Occupancy predicates (symmetric-lift entry), refuted from 8 predicates. The column forms have row functions that are indicators, so they are full. But one deleted label makes a column form constant on a row, so robustness fails. The robustness hypothesis is what excludes them, as the density entry's Boolean-image control already showed.
The random affine law: about \((N+1-2D)(N-1)\) equations refute at degree \(D\). That is \(r\) of order \(N^2\), while the theorem's robustness \(O(d^2r^2)\) needs far more labels than \(N\). Below \(r\approx\sqrt N\) the law predicts hardness, consistent with the lift.
The three-selector control: the forms \(a,b,a+b\) are dependent, hence not full, and it derives a consequence, not a refutation.
The closed-tuple failure: the theorem lifts symmetric tuples only.

So nothing recorded refutes the line. But the occupancy case shows that full forms with local lifts can still be refuted. The hypotheses that matter are robustness and the source's supply of symmetric tuples.

Assessment of this line

The local part is now strong: a theorem at every degree, for any number of forms, with the row threshold the data show, and with polynomial label cost.

The obligations above differ in risk.

Source compatibility, highest risk. For two ternary selectors the recorded ternary pair theorem completes the source's endpoint data at every degree. Those data are the self relations \(D_iz_i=0\) and the cross relations \(D_1^2z_2=D_2^2z_1\). For \(r\) selectors the source's endpoint relations are pairwise, while the lift needs a symmetric tuple with mixed entries \(z_{e_i+e_j}\) and triple consistency \(D_kz_{e_i+e_j}=D_iz_{e_j+e_k}\). For \(r=2\) the two notions agree. For \(r\ge3\) the symmetric-lift entry showed that closedness is strictly weaker than symmetry, so pairwise endpoint data may fail to complete. If they fail for the source, the many-predicate route fails whatever the lift can do.
The goal's forms. Fullness requires every form to be active on every row, jointly independent. Collectively wide forms from compiled blocks need not be. For unequal evaluation spaces, the peeling spares must cover each row's space, and the reserve argument then gives only a bound exponential in the level. The conjectured \(s(r+1)\) is open.
Gluing. Beyond polylogarithmic batches, the line is still bounded by the quadratic ceiling of common conditioning. It needs the Conjecture SR-type genericity that no line has reached. This is the deepest item, and it has resisted several lines. It is not the next test, because the first item decides whether batches exist at all.

Next step: r-selector completion

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer states and tests r-selector completion at \(p=3\). Take \(r\) ternary selectors on full, robust, independent forms. For endpoint data \((z_i)\) in \(K_d\) satisfying the source's self and pairwise cross relations, the question is whether mixed entries \(z_{e_i+e_j}\) exist making \((z_\alpha)_{|\alpha|=2}\) a symmetric tuple. The new theorem then lifts it.

First decide it where it is exact: at \(d=1\), where \(K_0=k\), the conditions are linear in scalar moments. On the free module, where the symmetric lift holds, pairwise data may still carry a triple-consistency obstruction.
If completion fails, find which further source relation, if any, restores it, from the source identities of the source-interface entry.
If it holds, the one-predicate theorem's conditioned filtration extends to \(r\) predicates for full robust forms. That would be the core statement for polylogarithmically many constraints, and the batch that gluing needs.

The step ends with the completion lemma proved, or with the obstruction and the source relation it requires.

Process. The turn-start guidance announced this review before the cycle began, and the finish-time check would have enforced it.

Verification gate. Re-read: the core-statement review, the density entry, and the short-generation theorem and reduction. Also re-read the source-interface entry's endpoint relations and its statement that many-form completion is open, together with the claim records of the one-predicate theorem, the two-selector compatibility lemma and the ternary pair theorem. Each falsification case was checked against the theorem's exact hypotheses. The occupancy forms' non-robustness is the density entry's recorded control. This review proves nothing new and registers no claim.

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Total instrumented interval	2 min 0.16 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 7.44 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3.28 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	49.43 s

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Endpoint data of any number of ternary selectors complete at every degree; functional PHP keeps stable moments under many wide selectors

23 September 2026 · Working proofs and a finite check · Ternary selectors on forms independent modulo constants on every row. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Endpoint data of any number of ternary selectors complete at every degree; functional PHP keeps stable moments under many wide selectors”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-selector-completion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The route review ranked source compatibility highest. Do the source's endpoint data for \(r\) ternary selectors, the self relations \(D_iz_i=0\) and pairwise cross relations \(D_i^2z_j=D_j^2z_i\), yield one common correction? The review expected that they might have to complete to a symmetric tuple, with triple-consistency conditions that pairwise data need not satisfy.

General statement. thm:many-selector-completion: for \(r\) forms independent modulo constants on every row, on at least \(2d+2\) rows with label robustness \(O(d^2r^2)\) (\(d\ge1\); \(d=0\) needs only 2 rows), every endpoint family \((z_i)\) in \(K_d\) satisfying the self and cross relations equals \((D_i^2w)\) for one \(w\in K_{d+2}\), for every \(d\) and \(r\). cor:many-ternary-selectors-filtration: functional PHP with the \(r\) nonzero-value selectors \(1-L_i^2\) then has stable moments and no PC refutation of degree \(B\).

The source asks only for the pure moments

The recorded endpoint lemma sets \(z_i(f)=\mu(f)-(E\mu)(L_i^2f)\), \(\deg f\le d=s-2\), for an old functional \(\mu\) through \(s-1\) annihilating the legal multiples of every \(q_i=1-L_i^2\), and an old extension \(E\mu\). Its proof is pairwise, so for \(r\) selectors it gives \(D_iz_i=0\) and \(D_i^2z_j=D_j^2z_i\) for all \(i,j\). A correction \(w\in K_{d+2}\) of \(E\mu\) repairs every predicate at once exactly when \(D_i^2w=z_i\) for all \(i\). The mixed moments \(D_iD_jw\) are not prescribed.

So the lift needed is not the symmetric lift, and no triple consistency arises. The review's concern was about the wrong target.

Lifting on an upward-closed set of moments

Use the setting of the short-generation reduction at \(p=3\): the matching complex \(K\), \(r\) forms with operators \(D_j\), and joint kernels \(Z_s\). Let \(E\) be a set of exponent vectors with \(|b|\ge2\) that is upward closed: \(b\in E\) implies \(b+e_j\in E\). A target family on \(E\) is a choice \(\tau_b\in K_{d+2-|b|}\) for \(b\in E\) with two properties:

\(D_j\tau_b=\tau_{b+e_j}\);
\(\tau_b=0\) whenever some \(b_j\ge3\).

Lemma (upward-closed lift). Under the hypotheses of the short-generation reduction at degree \(d\), every target family on \(E\) is \((D^bw)_{b\in E}\) for some \(w\in K_{d+2}\).

Proof. Repeat the reduction's descending induction, keeping only the moments in \(E\). Build \(w^{(q)}\), for \(q=d+2\) down to \(2\), with \(D^bw^{(q)}=\tau_b\) for \(b\in E\), \(|b|\ge q\). The residuals \(\eta_b=\tau_b-D^bw^{(q+1)}\), for \(b\in E\) with \(|b|=q\), satisfy \(D_j\eta_b=\tau_{b+e_j}-D^{b+e_j}w^{(q+1)}=0\), because \(b+e_j\in E\). So they lie in \(Z_{d+2-q}\), and \(\eta_b=0\) when some \(b_j\ge3\). The tensor pieces of the reduction give any prescribed tuple of such residuals as \((D^bv)\) on all \(|b|=q\) with every \(b_j\le2\), and hence on the part of it in \(E\). They also have \(D^{b'}v=0\) for \(|b'|>q\), so no higher target is disturbed. Moments outside \(E\) are never constrained. \(\square\)

With \(E\) all of \(\{|b|\ge2\}\) this is the reduction itself. The pure case is \(E=\{b:\ b_i\ge2\text{ for some }i\}\), the exponents of the ideal \((D_1^2,\dots,D_r^2)\).

Theorem (many-selector completion). Let \(d\ge1\), and let the forms be independent modulo constants on every row, on a board with at least \(2d+2\) rows that is robust through \(L_d+(d+1)(r+1)\) labels. Here \(L_d=(2d-1)(r+1)m+\lambda_d+(r+1)+d(r+2)\), with \(m=2d(r+2)+r+2\) and \(\lambda_s=s(r+2)+2s(r+1)m\), from the short-generation theorem. So \(L_d=O(d^2r^2)\), and it is nondecreasing in \(d\). Let \(z_1,\dots,z_r\in K_d\) satisfy \(D_iz_i=0\) and \(D_i^2z_j=D_j^2z_i\). Then there is \(w\in K_{d+2}\) with \(D_i^2w=z_i\) for every \(i\).

Proof. For \(b\) in the pure \(E\), put \(\tau_b=D^{b-2e_i}z_i\) for any \(i\) with \(b_i\ge2\).

Well defined. If \(b_i,b_j\ge2\), the two choices differ by \(D^{b-2e_i-2e_j}(D_j^2z_i-D_i^2z_j)=0\).
Vanishing. If some \(b_j\ge3\), choose \(i=j\). Then \(b-2e_j\) has \(j\)-exponent at least one, and \(D_jz_j=0\) gives \(\tau_b=0\).
Compatible. \(D_j\tau_b=\tau_{b+e_j}\) is immediate.

The short-generation theorem, with robustness \(L_d\), gives \(Z_s\) spanned by elements on \(\rho_s=2s\) rows and \(\lambda_s\) labels for \(s\le d\). The reduction's hypotheses then read as follows.

Width: \(\max_s(\rho_s+d+2-s)=\max_s(s+d+2)=2d+2\). With full forms the width is the number of rows.
Robustness: \(\max_s(\lambda_s+(d+1-s)(r+1))\le\lambda_d+(d+1)(r+1)\le L_d+(d+1)(r+1)\), since \(\lambda_s\) is nondecreasing in \(s\) and \(\lambda_d\le L_d\).

The upward-closed lift then gives \(w\), and at \(|b|=2\) it reads \(D_i^2w=z_i\). \(\square\)

The case \(d=0\). Here \(K_0=k\) and only the reduction's top step is used: tensors of two fresh vectors on two rows, whose products span the quadratic forms. That needs 2 rows and robustness \(r+1\). So \(z_i=D_i^2w\) for some \(w\in K_2\) under these weaker conditions.

Corollary (many ternary selectors). Let \(L_1,\dots,L_r\) be old affine forms over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the functional matching base \(\Gamma\), with the degree-two equations \(q_i=1-L_i^2\). Let their row-linear parts be independent modulo constants on every row. Fix \(B\ge2\), and let the board have at least \(\max(2B-2,2)\) rows and be robust through \(L_{\max(B-2,1)}+(B-1)(r+1)\). Since \(L_d\) is nondecreasing, this covers every \(d\le B-2\). It also implies at least \(2B\) labels, so the recorded old matching extension room holds. Then every NS functional for \(\Gamma+q_1+\dots+q_r\) through degree \(k\le B\) extends through \(B\). The filtration is stable and PC equals NS through \(B\), a normalized design exists, and there is no PC refutation of degree \(B\). The nonrefutation also holds for weak balanced PHP with these predicates, since adding functionality only strengthens the base, as in the recorded two-selector corollary.

Proof. This is the recorded two-selector corollary's argument with \(r\) selectors.

Below degree two the predicates are inactive.
At each extension from \(s-1\) to \(s\le B\), form the \(r\) defects with \(d=s-2\). They satisfy the relations above, and the theorem gives one correction fixing all of them and every lower moment.
Degree-zero normalization is kept. Duality gives filtration stability, and degree-bounded multiplication gives PC equal to NS.

The row and robustness bounds are the theorem's at \(d\le B-2\), and at \(d=0\) its separate case, whose robustness \(r+1\) is at most \(L_1\). Every nonzero combination of full forms is active on every row, so the recorded width conditions hold. \(\square\)

Finite check

pure_lift.py computes the rank of \(w\mapsto(D_i^2w)_i\) from \(K_4\) and the dimension of endpoint data in \(K_2\) at \(r=3\), with 7 labels, exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\). It checks that every lift satisfies the relations.

forms	rows	rank / endpoint data
generic	5	774 / 777
generic	6	1194 / 1194
generic	7	1698 / 1698
dependent on every row, width 3, 4, 4 (`widths.json`, same forms and seeds)	5, 6, 7	746 / 777, 1193 / 1194, 1698 / 1698

Generic forms complete exactly from \(2d+2=6\) rows. The dependent forms are not full, and they lift at 7 rows but not at 6. The boards do not meet the robustness hypothesis, so the check tests the conclusion, not the lemma. Output: research/results/odd_prime_selector_completion_20260923/pure_lift.json.

What this changes

The source-compatibility risk the route review ranked highest does not arise for selectors: their endpoint data ask only for the pure moments, and those always complete. So for any number \(r\) of nonzero-value ternary selectors on full forms, functional PHP has no refutation of degree \(B\). The conditions are \(2B-2\) rows and label robustness polynomial in \(B\) and \(r\). This is the core statement for single-form constraints, far beyond the recorded two selectors. Each selector forbids density \(1/3\), so the total density \(r/3\) is well above one. This agrees with the density entry's finding that density does not govern hardness.

The regime it reaches is set by fullness and robustness. Fullness needs \(r+1\le N\). Robustness \(O(B^2r^2)\le N\) allows \(r\) up to about \(\sqrt N/B\) constraints. The recorded refutations lie outside that regime:

the occupancy predicates are not robust;
the random selector thresholds, 16 at \(n=6\) and 36 at \(n=8\), exceed \(N-1\);
the recorded three-selector degree fall (obs:three-wide-ternary-selectors-degree-fall) uses \(a,b,a+b\). Every pair of them extends but the triple falls at degree three: pairwise relations do not suffice when the forms are dependent. Independence on every row excludes it, and it shows that hypothesis is needed.

Three steps remain open between this and the goal:

constraints on several forms, as in the logarithmic-prefix images \(g_iQ\), whose endpoint data are not yet derived;
forms that are not full;
gluing with the raw coefficient equations across blocks, which the source-interface entry left open.

Assessment and next step

The line produced a theorem at the level of constraint systems, not only local lifts. The next obligation along it is multi-form constraints. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer derives the source's endpoint data for one product constraint \(\prod_{j\le k}(1-(L_j-a_j)^2)\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), the forbid-value form of the prefix rewrite, and finds which upward-closed target set it prescribes. If that set is upward closed with consistent targets, the lemma applies at once and the prefix images follow for full robust forms. The step ends with that set and its lift, or with the relation the source fails to supply.

Verification gate. Re-read, from the notebook: the recorded endpoint relations and the two-selector theorem and corollary, the short-generation reduction, and the short-generation theorem's parameters. The claim search found the recorded three-selector degree fall: pairs extend, the dependent triple falls. It is excluded here by independence on every row, which it shows to be necessary. The search found nothing recorded that implies completion for more than two selectors. The exact check tests the conclusion at \(d=2\).

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the upward-closed lift;
the pure target family;
that a common correction needs only the pure moments, in agreement with the recorded two-selector theorem, whose middle target serves its own lifting property;
the table.

It required changes, all adopted:

the theorem stated for \(d\ge1\), with \(d=0\) separate at robustness \(r+1\);
the width and robustness arithmetic shown, with \(L_d\) quoted;
monotonicity of \(L_d\) for the corollary;
the reason for weak balanced PHP;
the exponent set renamed;
the three-selector degree fall named;
the widths sourced.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	8 min 1.23 s
Marked reading and review windows	5 min 14.45 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 3.59 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	25.01 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 5.23 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	12.96 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Coherent product constraints complete at every degree; incoherent pairs derive lower-degree consequences

23 September 2026 · Working proofs · Product constraints with linear or point-indicator factors, forms independent modulo constants on every row. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Coherent product constraints complete at every degree; incoherent pairs derive lower-degree consequences”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-product-constraints.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The selector completion proved that functional PHP stays hard under many single-form selectors. The goal's constraints involve several forms: the prefix images \(g_iQ\) and their forbid-value rewrites. What endpoint data does such a constraint give, and when do many of them complete together?

General statement. thm:coherent-product-constraints: a system of product constraints over \(\mathbb F_3\) on forms that are jointly independent modulo constants on every row completes at every degree, for any number of constraints, if every pair of constraints is coherent. Each factor is linear or a point indicator in a single form. Coherent means: on each shared form, the factors are equal, or one is \(\chi_a\) and the other \(L-a'\) with \(a'\ne a\). The board needs enough rows and label robustness \(O(B^2r^2)\), with \(r\) the number of forms. cor:coherent-product-constraints-filtration: the conditioned filtration is stable and there is no PC refutation of degree \(B\). obs:incoherent-pair-fall: an incoherent pair derives, from multiples at its common top degree, a lower-degree polynomial vanishing wherever both constraints vanish.

Product constraints and their endpoint data

Work over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the functional matching base \(\Gamma\), with old affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_r\) and row-linear parts \(\ell_j\). Let \(\chi_a(L)=1-(L-a)^2\), the indicator of \(L=a\). A product constraint is an equation \[ C=\prod_{j\in S_C}h_{C,j}(L_j)=0,\qquad h_{C,j}\in\{\,L_j-a,\ \chi_a(L_j)\,\}. \] Its top part is \(c_C\,\ell^{b_C}\), with \(b_{C,j}=\deg h_{C,j}\in\{1,2\}\) and \(c_C=\pm1\). Examples:

selectors, \(\chi_0(L)=1-L^2\);
affine equations \(L-a\);
forbid-value constraints \(\prod_j\chi_{v_j}(L_j)\);
the prefix images in the form \(\chi_0(L_i)\prod_{j\in S}L_j\). This vanishes exactly where \(g_iQ\) does, and each derives the other: multiply by \(\prod_SL_j\), respectively reduce \(L_j^3=L_j\).

At an extension from \(s-1\) to \(s\), let \(\mu\) be an old functional through \(s-1\) annihilating the legal multiples of every constraint, and \(E\mu\) an old extension through \(s\). For \(\deg f\le d_C=s-|b_C|\) put \(z_C(f)=(E\mu)(Cf)\). It vanishes when \(\deg f<d_C\), since \(\mu\) annihilates the legal multiple \(Cf\). As in the recorded endpoint lemma, \(z_C\in K_{d_C}\). A correction \(w\in K_s\) changes \((E\mu)(Cf)\) by \(c_C(D^{b_C}w)(f)\). So all constraints are repaired by one \(w\) exactly when \[ D^{b_C}w=\hat z_C:=-z_C/c_C\quad\text{for every }C. \]

Self relations. \(D_j^{3-b_{C,j}}\hat z_C=0\) for \(j\in S_C\).

Proof. Both cases use two facts. \(E\mu\) annihilates base multiples through \(s\), and \(L^3-L\) lies in the base at degree 3.

For \(h=\chi_a\), \(\chi_a(L)\,L-a\,\chi_a(L)=(L-a)\chi_a(L)=L-L^3\). So \(z_C(\ell_jf)=a\,(E\mu)(Cf)+(E\mu)(\text{base multiple})\). Here \(\deg(Cf)\le s-1\), so the first term is \(a\,\mu(Cf)=0\).
For \(h=L-a\) with \(a\ne0\), \((L-a)L^2=(L^3-L)+(L-a)(-aL)\), using \(a^2=1\). So \(z_C(\ell_j^2f)\) is a base term plus a multiple of \((E\mu)(C\,L_jf)\), of degree \(s-1\). For \(a=0\), \(L\cdot L^2=(L^3-L)+L\), so the remainder is a multiple of \((E\mu)(Cf)\), of degree at most \(s-2\). In both cases \(\mu\) annihilates the remainder as a legal multiple of \(C\).

The replacement of \(\ell_j^m\) by \(L_j^m\) changes the argument only by a lower-degree legal multiple of \(C\). \(\square\)

Coherence and cross relations. Call two constraints coherent if, on every shared form \(j\), either \(h_{C,j}=h_{C',j}\), or one factor is \(\chi_a\) and the other \(L-a'\) with \(a'\ne a\). Then, with \(b=\max(b_C,b_{C'})\) coordinatewise, \[ D^{b-b_C}\hat z_C=D^{b-b_{C'}}\hat z_{C'} . \]

Proof. Build polynomials \(X\) and \(Y\), products of single-form factors with tops \(\pm\ell^{b-b_C}\) and \(\pm\ell^{b-b_{C'}}\), with \(CX=C'Y\) exactly.

On forms of \(C'\) only, \(X\) takes \(C'\)'s factor, and symmetrically for \(Y\).
On a shared form with equal factors, both take \(1\).
If \(C\) has \(\chi_a\) and \(C'\) has \(L-a'\) with \(a'\ne a\), then \(\chi_a(L)\) vanishes at \(a'\), so \(\chi_a=(L-a')y\) with \(y\) linear. So \(Y\) takes \(y\) and \(X\) takes \(1\).

Then \(D^{b-b_C}\hat z_C(f)=-(E\mu)(CXf)/c_{CX}\): replacing \(\ell^{b-b_C}\) by \(X/c_X\) changes the argument by a lower-degree legal multiple of \(C\). Likewise \(D^{b-b_{C'}}\hat z_{C'}(f)=-(E\mu)(C'Yf)/c_{C'Y}\). The two polynomials are equal, and so are their top coefficients. \(\square\)

Observation (incoherent pairs). For every incoherent pair, suitable multiples of the two constraints of degree \(|b|\), with \(b\) their common top, differ by a nonzero polynomial of lower degree. That polynomial lies in their degree-\(|b|\) span and vanishes wherever both constraints vanish. Let \(H_0\) be the product of the remaining factors.

Two indicators \(\chi_a,\chi_{a'}\) on one form, \(a\ne a'\): \(\chi_a-\chi_{a'}=(a-a')(2L-a-a')\) gives \(H_0\,(2L_j-a-a')\), one degree lower. Where both constraints vanish and \(H_0\ne0\), \(L_j\) avoids \(a\) and \(a'\), so \(2L_j-a-a'=0\).
Two linear factors \(L-a\), \(L-a'\), \(a\ne a'\): their difference is the constant \(a'-a\), giving \(H_0\), one degree lower.
\(\chi_a\) against \(L-a\): \(\chi_a+(L-a)^2=1\) exactly, giving \(H_0\), two degrees lower.

Whether such a polynomial is a genuine degree fall, outside the lower-degree closure, is not shown here in general. In the case of \(\chi_a\) against \(L-a'\), multiples of the lower-degree constraint may already give it below \(|b|\). The prefix-adaptation entry recorded falls of this kind between the rewrites \(G_a\). So coherence is the condition the proof uses. The incoherent cases produce the kind of local interaction that the component line merges.

The graded upward-closed lift

Lemma (graded upward-closed lift). Work in the matching complex over characteristic 3 with \(r\) forms. Fix an extension degree \(s\) and an upward-closed set \(E\) of exponent vectors with minimal order \(h=\min_{b\in E}|b|\ge1\). A target family is a choice of \(\tau_b\in K_{s-|b|}\), \(b\in E\), with \(D_j\tau_b=\tau_{b+e_j}\), and \(\tau_b=0\) whenever some \(b_j\ge3\). Put \(t_0=s-h\). Suppose:

for \(1\le t\le t_0\), \(Z_t\) is spanned by elements on at most \(2t\) rows and \(\lambda_t\) labels;
every nonzero combination of the forms is active on at least \(2s-h\) rows;
the board is robust through \(\max_{0\le t\le t_0}\bigl(\lambda_t+(s-t-1)(r+1)\bigr)\), with \(\lambda_0=0\).

Then some \(w\in K_s\) has \(D^bw=\tau_b\) for all \(b\in E\).

Proof. Build \(w^{(q)}\in K_s\), for \(q=s\) down to \(h\), with \(D^bw^{(q)}=\tau_b\) for \(b\in E\), \(|b|\ge q\); start from \(w^{(s+1)}=0\).

Residuals. For \(b\in E\) with \(|b|=q\), put \(\eta_b=\tau_b-D^bw^{(q+1)}\). Since \(E\) is upward closed, \(D_j\eta_b=\tau_{b+e_j}-D^{b+e_j}w^{(q+1)}=0\). So \(\eta_b\in Z_{s-q}\), where \(Z_0=K_0=k\), and \(\eta_b=0\) if some \(b_j\ge3\). Write each \(\eta_b\) in a fixed spanning set of short elements \(x\) of \(Z_{s-q}\): \(\eta_b=\sum_x\lambda_{b,x}x\), with \(\lambda_{b,x}=0\) when some \(b_j\ge3\).
Pieces. For a short \(x\) on a row set \(S\), with \(|S|\le2(s-q)\), take \(q\) rows outside \(S\) and vectors \(c_1,\dots,c_q\) on them with prescribed evaluations \(p_k\). Choose them off the labels of \(x\) and of each other, which robustness allows. The tensor \(x\otimes c_1\otimes\dots\otimes c_q\) lies in \(K_s\). Each \(D_j\) splits into a part on \(x\), which kills \(x\), and a part on the \(c\)'s. So \(D^b\) of the tensor vanishes for \(|b|>q\), and equals \(b!\,[u^b]\prod_k(u\cdot p_k)\,x\) for \(|b|=q\).
Spanning. The products \(\prod_k(u\cdot p_k)\), over distinct rows outside \(S\), span all forms of degree \(q\). Every nonzero \(u\) is active on more than \(|S|+q-1\) rows, so the evaluation spaces outside any \(|S|+q-1\) rows span \(k^r\), and the multilinear argument of the reduction applies. For \(q=1\) this is one fresh row: the evaluations \(p\) of vectors on rows outside \(S\) span \(k^r\), since the forms are active outside \(S\), so \((u\cdot p)\) spans the linear forms. Because \(b!\) is a unit when every \(b_j\le2\), the coefficient tuples \((b![u^b]F)_{|b|=q}\) range over all tuples. So some combination \(v\) of pieces has \(D^bv=\eta_b\) for \(b\in E\), \(|b|=q\), and \(D^{b'}v=0\) for \(|b'|>q\). Put \(w^{(q)}=w^{(q+1)}+v\).

At \(q=h\), \(w=w^{(h)}\) satisfies every target. The avoidances number at most \(\lambda_{s-q}+(q-1)(r+1)\). \(\square\)

With \(E\subseteq\{|b|\ge2\}\) and \(s=d+2\) this is the recorded upward-closed lift.

The theorem

Theorem (coherent product constraints). Let \(r\) forms be independent modulo constants on every row, and let \(\mathcal C\) be a pairwise coherent set of product constraints on them, of any size. Let \(h=\min_C|b_C|\ge1\), fix \(s\ge h\), and put \(t_0=s-h\). Suppose the board has at least \(2s-h\) rows. Suppose it is robust through \(L_{t_0}+s(r+1)\), with \(L_{t_0}\) from the short-generation theorem for \(t_0\ge1\), and \(s(r+1)\) alone when \(t_0=0\). Then the endpoint data \((\hat z_C)\) above equal \((D^{b_C}w)\) for one \(w\in K_s\).

Proof. Let \(E=\bigcup_C(b_C+\mathbb N^r)\), which is upward closed. For \(b\in E\), put \(\tau_b=D^{b-b_C}\hat z_C\) for any \(C\) with \(b\ge b_C\).

Well defined. Two choices \(C,C'\) agree by applying \(D^{b-\max(b_C,b_{C'})}\) to the cross relation.
Vanishing. If some \(b_j\ge3\), choose any admissible \(C\). The exponent of \(j\) in \(b-b_C\) is at least \(3-b_{C,j}\) when \(j\in S_C\), and at least 3 otherwise. So the self relation, or \(D_j^3=0\), gives \(\tau_b=0\).
Compatible. \(D_j\tau_b=\tau_{b+e_j}\) is immediate.

Apply the graded upward-closed lift. The short-generation theorem gives \(\rho_t=2t\) and \(\lambda_t\) for \(t\le t_0\). It needs \(2t_0-1\) rows, at most the \(2s-h=2t_0+h\) assumed, and robustness \(L_{t_0}\). With full forms the width is the number of rows. The lemma's robustness is at most \(\lambda_{t_0}+s(r+1)\le L_{t_0}+s(r+1)\). At \(h=1\) the row count is \(2t_0+1\), one fewer than the selector theorem's \(2d+2\).

\(\square\)

Corollary (coherent product constraints: stable moments). Under the theorem's hypotheses for every \(s\le B\), every NS functional for \(\Gamma+\mathcal C\) through degree \(k\le B\) extends through \(B\). The filtration is stable, PC equals NS through \(B\), a normalized design exists, and there is no PC refutation of degree \(B\). The nonrefutation holds also for weak balanced PHP with these constraints, as in the recorded two-selector corollary. Since \(L_t\) is nondecreasing, the hypotheses at \(s=B\) cover every \(s\le B\): \(2B-h\) rows and robustness \(L_{\max(B-h,1)}+B(r+1)=O(B^2r^2)\). This robustness gives at least \(B(r+1)\ge2B\) labels, so the recorded old matching extension room holds and \(E\mu\) exists.

Proof. Iterate the theorem over the extensions from \(s-1\) to \(s\le B\). Below degree \(h\) no constraint is active. Each step corrects all constraints at once and fixes every lower moment. Duality and degree-bounded multiplication give stability and PC equal to NS, as in the recorded two-selector corollary. \(\square\)

Consequences

Affine equations. A system of affine equations \(L_j=a_j\) on forms independent modulo constants on every row is coherent: each equation sits on its own form. So functional PHP has no degree-\(B\) refutation under it, given \(2B-1\) rows and robustness \(O(B^2r^2)\). Functional PHP has more axioms than ordinary unary PHP, so the ordinary base has no such refutation either. This is a bounded-\(r\), \(p=3\) analogue of the recorded wide-conditioning conjecture (conj:wide-affine-conditioning), not a proof of it. The conjecture asks for per-combination width and robustness depending only on \(p\) and \(D\), at every odd \(p\). Here robustness is a label count that grows with \(r\), and fullness is a different hypothesis from width. For comparison, the recorded random-conditioning law, an empirical count (clause-transfer review), places refutations of random systems near \((N+1-2D)(N-1)\) equations.
Forbid-value constraints. These are coherent when any two agree on the values of their shared forms.
Prefix images, as \(C_{b,i}=\chi_0(L_{b,i})\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}\), with every prefix factor \(L_j-0\) as the prefix construction gives. Images of one block are coherent: they share identical prefix factors, and their image forms are distinct and outside \(S_b\). Images of different blocks are coherent unless an image form of one lies in the prefix set of the other, which is \(\chi_0\) against \(L-0\). With other prefix values, two prefix factors on a shared form could also be incoherent. Since \(g_iQ=C_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_j\), each original image is a multiple of \(C_{b,i}\) at the same degree. So a degree-\(B\) refutation with the \(g_iQ\) gives one with the \(C_{b,i}\): only nonrefutation transfers, not the stable filtration. The wide-clause statement asks for nonrefutation over the weak base, which has fewer axioms than the functional base, so it transfers too. So the conclusion holds for families in which no image form is another block's prefix form, at every polylogarithmic degree, provided all forms are jointly full and robust.

What this changes

The constraint type is no longer the obstacle. Every coherent system of product constraints completes. Incoherent pairs derive lower-degree consequences, the local interactions the component line identified. Two limits remain.

Quantity. Joint fullness and robustness \(O(B^2r^2)\le N\) bound the total number of forms by about \(\sqrt N/B\). The goal's inventories have polynomially many blocks, far more forms than labels, so all forms cannot be jointly full.
Incoherence. This comes from overlapping blocks, where an image form is another block's prefix form. It needs the merging of the component line.

The first limit is where the gluing problem now sits. The lift uses all forms as one family of commuting operators, so it cannot exceed the forms' joint rank. What is needed is a version where each constraint uses only its own forms, with the joint condition replaced by one that polynomially many forms can satisfy.

Assessment and next step

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to glue local sections. The global correction problem \(D^{b_C}w=\hat z_C\) is linear in \(w\). It is unsolvable exactly when a syzygy \(\sum_C\ell^{b_C}g_C=0\) of the tops, in the top algebra, pairs nonzero with the defects. The theorem solves every subsystem whose forms are jointly full and robust. So the defects vanish on every syzygy supported inside such a subsystem, and the local solutions glue whenever the top syzygies through degree \(B\) are spanned by local ones.

Prove that gluing lemma.
State the remaining conjecture, local generation of the top syzygies, a Fröberg-type statement in the board's top algebra.
Test it against the random affine law, where long linear dependencies among about \(N^2\) forms are exactly non-local syzygies.

The step ends with the lemma, and with the conjecture stated and tested.

Verification gate. Re-read, from the notebook: the recorded endpoint relations, the two-selector theorem and corollary, the selector-completion entry with the upward-closed lift, the short-generation theorem's parameters, the prefix-adaptation entry, and conj:wide-affine-conditioning. The claim search found no recorded result that implies the theorem; the nearest are the two-selector lift and the selector completion, which it generalizes. No finite check was run: the selector check already tests the lift at its threshold.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the endpoint data, the self and cross relations, and the observation's computations. It required changes, all adopted:

the affine consequence restated as a bounded-\(r\), \(p=3\) analogue of the wide-conditioning conjecture, with the transfer to the ordinary base and the empirical status of the law;
the observation and title weakened: incoherent pairs derive lower-degree consequences, and a genuine fall is not shown in general;
the self-relation wording at \(a=0\);
the graded upward-closed lift stated and proved as its own lemma, including the one-vector step and the short-generation row requirement;
the extension-room check and the bound at \(B=h\);
the prefix transfer stated as nonrefutation only, with the prefix-value assumption.

These changes weaken claims or make an existing argument explicit, so no further pass was made.

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Local corrections glue exactly along the top syzygies: hardness for any number of constraints reduces to local generation of syzygies

23 September 2026 · Working proofs and a conjecture · Product constraints on the functional base over \(\mathbb F_3\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Local corrections glue exactly along the top syzygies: hardness for any number of constraints reduces to local generation of syzygies”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-gluing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The product-constraints theorem corrects any coherent system whose forms are jointly full and robust. Joint fullness caps the total at about \(\sqrt N/B\) forms, while the goal has polynomially many blocks. Can local corrections, each on a small full subsystem, be glued into one?

General statement. lem:syzygy-gluing: at each extension step, one correction exists exactly when the defects vanish on every syzygy of the constraints' tops in the top algebra. thm:glued-product-constraints: for any number of product constraints, if the top syzygies through degree \(B\) are spanned by syzygies supported in coherent subsystems with jointly full robust forms, then functional PHP has no refutation of degree \(B\), nor does weak balanced PHP. The board needs about \(2B\) rows and label robustness \(O(B^2r_{\max}^2)\), with \(r_{\max}\) the largest number of forms in one subsystem. conj:local-top-syzygies: for the goal's constraint families, the top syzygies through the needed degree are spanned by such local ones.

The obstruction to gluing is a syzygy pairing

Work on the functional matching base over \(\mathbb F_3\). \(G=\bigoplus_tG_t\) is its top algebra, and \(K_t=G_t^*\) is the matching complex, as recorded in the two-selector theorem's matching hypotheses (\(K_r=(A_0/(z))_r^*\)). The pairing is perfect in every degree, and \(\langle w,\ell_jg\rangle=\langle D_jw,g\rangle\) for \(w\in K_t\), \(g\in G_{t-1\,}\). At an extension from \(s-1\) to \(s\), each product constraint \(C\) has top \(c_C\ell^{b_C}\) and defect \(\hat z_C\in K_{s-|b_C|}\), as in the product-constraints entry. One correction \(w\in K_s\) repairs every constraint exactly when \(D^{b_C}w=\hat z_C\) for all \(C\). Call \((g_C)\in\bigoplus_CG_{s-|b_C|}\) a top syzygy of degree \(s\) if \(\sum_C\ell^{b_C}g_C=0\) in \(G_s\), and say it is supported in a set \(U\) of constraints if \(g_C=0\) for \(C\notin U\).

Lemma (syzygy gluing).

A correction \(w\in K_s\) with \(D^{b_C}w=\hat z_C\) for all \(C\) exists if and only if \(\sum_C\langle\hat z_C,g_C\rangle=0\) for every top syzygy \((g_C)\) of degree \(s\).
Let \(\mathcal U\) be a family of sets of constraints. Suppose each \(U\in\mathcal U\) has a local correction \(w_U\in K_s\) with \(D^{b_C}w_U=\hat z_C\) for \(C\in U\). Suppose the top syzygies of degree \(s\) are spanned by syzygies each supported in some \(U\in\mathcal U\). Then a global correction exists.

Proof.

The map \(\Phi:w\mapsto(D^{b_C}w)_C\) goes from \(K_s\) to \(\bigoplus_CK_{s-|b_C|}\). Under the perfect pairings, its dual is \((g_C)\mapsto\sum_C\ell^{b_C}g_C\), whose kernel is the space of top syzygies. In finite dimension the image of \(\Phi\) is the annihilator of the dual's kernel.
For a syzygy supported in \(U\), \(\sum_C\langle\hat z_C,g_C\rangle=\sum_{C\in U}\langle D^{b_C}w_U,g_C\rangle=\langle w_U,\sum_C\ell^{b_C}g_C\rangle=0\). The pairing is linear, so it vanishes on the span, and part 1 applies.

\(\square\)

In sheaf language, the local corrections are sections over the members of \(\mathcal U\), and the Čech obstruction to gluing is the defect pairing on syzygies that are not locally generated. Part 1 is the functional-side dual of the recorded filtered obstruction quotient (prop:graded-cone-PC-obstruction), in which top syzygies modulo liftable ones equal \(\ker z\). Here the syzygies are paired with the defects of one extension step instead. The recorded filtered tree gluing (lem:filtered-affine-tree-gluing) glues compatible filtered Boolean-algebra functionals over \(\mathbb F_2\) under a running-intersection tree condition. The present lemma needs no tree structure: its condition is on the syzygies, and it works one moment degree at a time.

The glued theorem

Theorem (glued product constraints). Let \(\mathcal C\) be any finite set of product constraints over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the functional base. The factors are linear or point indicators, as in the product-constraints entry. Let \(\mathcal U\) be a family of subsystems. Each \(U\in\mathcal U\) is pairwise coherent, with forms jointly independent modulo constants on every row, and \(r_U\) of them. Let \(h=\min_C|b_C|\) and fix \(B\ge h\). Suppose the board has at least \(2B-h\) rows and is robust through \(\max_{U}\bigl(L_{\max(B-h,1)}(r_U)+B(r_U+1)\bigr)\), where \(L_t(r)\) is the short-generation theorem's robustness for \(r\) forms. Suppose also that for every \(s\le B\), the top syzygies of degree \(s\) of all of \(\mathcal C\) are spanned by syzygies supported in members of \(\mathcal U\). Then:

every NS functional for \(\Gamma+\mathcal C\) through degree \(k\le B\) extends through \(B\);
the filtration is stable, PC equals NS through \(B\), and a normalized design exists;
there is no PC refutation of degree \(B\), also for weak balanced PHP with these constraints, as in the recorded two-selector corollary.

Proof. Iterate over the extensions from \(s-1\) to \(s\le B\), as in the recorded two-selector corollary. At each step the defects \(\hat z_C\) come from one old functional \(\mu\), which annihilates the legal multiples of every constraint, and one old extension \(E\mu\). The recorded matching extension room gives \(E\mu\), since the robustness gives at least \(2B\) labels. For \(U\in\mathcal U\), the defects of its constraints are exactly the product-constraints theorem's endpoint data for the subsystem \(U\). That theorem, with \(r_U\) forms, gives a local correction \(w_U\). Its row and robustness hypotheses at each \(s\le B\) are covered: each \(U\) has minimal order \(h_U\ge h\), and \(L_t(r)\) is nondecreasing in \(t\) and \(r\). The lemma glues the local corrections. \(\square\)

The only global hypothesis is the syzygy condition. The board's size requirements depend on the largest subsystem, not on the number of constraints.

How this sits in the record

The recorded component hypothesis gave a conditional exclusion theorem from three inputs. The glued theorem changes each of them.

(a), \(z\)-injectivity of the weak base, is replaced by the recorded extension property of the functional base. That is where the \(2B\)-label hypothesis enters. Nonrefutation then transfers to weak balanced PHP.
Local freeness of each component becomes the fullness and robustness hypothesis, under which local solvability is proved.
(b), generation of top syzygies by liftable ones, becomes generation by syzygies supported in solvable members. Koszul syzygies of coherent, jointly full pairs are of this kind when the pair is a member. So are Frobenius and other single-constraint syzygies when the constraint lies in a member. For an incoherent pair the Koszul syzygy is where the fall of the product-constraints entry lives, and the defect pairing on it need not vanish.

The main remaining hypothesis is the Fröberg-type genericity of the tops that the thread has circled since the core-statement review. It is now isolated as a statement about syzygies alone.

The conjecture, and the test against the affine law

Conjecture (local top syzygies). Take an inventory whose prefix-image constraints \(\chi_0(L_{b,i})\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}\) are pairwise coherent, that is, no image form lies in another block's prefix set. Suppose each single constraint and each pair of them has jointly full, robust forms. Then through degree \(B=(4p-1)(p-1)k\), their top syzygies in \(G\) are spanned by syzygies supported on single constraints and on pairs. Merging incoherent overlaps is left open. It would need a replacement for each merged component that consists of product constraints, is equivalent within degree \(B\), and is pairwise coherent, and none is given here.

The affine analogue, set against the recorded random-conditioning law, which is empirical. For \(M\) affine equations the tops are linear forms \(\ell_j\). Two kinds of syzygy are local when their members are solvable: pair syzygies \(\ell_{j'}e_j-\ell_je_{j'}\), and single-constraint syzygies \(g\,e_j\) with \(\ell_jg=0\) in \(G\), such as \(\ell_j^2e_j\). A linear dependence \(\sum_j\alpha_j\ell_j=0\) in \(G_1\) is a syzygy of degree 1. It is non-local when its circuit is not in the span of dependences inside members, and since the tops of a full member are independent, every such dependence is non-local. That holds even for a consistent system, whose defect pairing on it vanishes. So local generation is strictly stronger than hardness. In a fixed degree \(D\), the pairing map from \(\bigoplus_jG_{D-1}\) to \(G_D\) must have a large kernel once \(M\dim G_{D-1}\) exceeds \(\dim G_D\), and the kernel beyond the Koszul-type count is where non-local syzygies must appear. The density entry found that count, Conjecture SR's semi-regular count, to match the recorded thresholds (64.2 against 64, 14.4 against 14, 8.1 against 7). Those counts were computed on the recorded driver's base; the functional base's \(G\) is smaller, and its crossing may come earlier. So the affine analogue of the conjecture, read as holding below the crossing, is consistent with the recorded refutations, provided the single and pair members are locally solvable. It has not been computed that the local syzygies span everything below the crossing.

Assessment and next step

The goal now reduces, along this line, to one algebraic statement: local generation of the top syzygies in the board's top algebra through polylogarithmic degree. The rest is proved or recorded:

the local corrections, for full robust forms;
the gluing, which is exact linear algebra;
the base's extension, on the functional base.

The remaining limits are the fullness of each subsystem's forms, and the merging of incoherent overlaps into coherent components.

The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer tests the conjecture where it can fail. For random affine equations at \(n=6,7\), degree 3, and \(n=10\), degree 2, compute the first \(M\) at which the top syzygies of degree \(D\) in \(G\) are not spanned by single and pair syzygies. Compare it with the recorded least refuted \(M\): 7, 14 and 64. A refutation over the weak base is also one over the functional base. Suppose the single and pair subsystems are locally solvable, which the local theorem guarantees only on boards larger than these, and should be checked directly at these sizes. Suppose also that the base extension \(E\mu\) exists at these sizes. Then a refutation forces a failed extension step at some degree \(s\le D\), and the lemma makes it a gluing failure there. The test is nonvacuous because a failure far below the refuted \(M\) would show that local generation is much stronger than hardness needs. Agreement at the thresholds would support the conjecture's range.

So check that \(E\mu\) exists at \(n=6,7,10\), and measure non-local syzygies at every degree \(s\le D\), not only at \(D\). Before coding, count the dimensions of \(G_t\) for the functional board at these sizes. The density entry's base-quotient dimensions at \(n=7\), namely 49, 973 and 9661, are for the recorded driver's base and indicate only the scale. Compare the pairing map's size with the compiled \(\mathbb F_3\) elimination. The step ends with the measured first failure against the thresholds.

Verification gate. Re-read, from the notebook: the product-constraints entry, the two-selector theorem's matching identification \(K=(A_0/(z))^*\), the component-hypothesis entry, and the density entry's thresholds. The claim search found the recorded filtered obstruction quotient, of which part 1 of the lemma is the functional-side dual, and the recorded filtered tree gluing over \(\mathbb F_2\). Neither implies the lemma or the glued theorem.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed both parts of the lemma. It also confirmed that the local defects are exactly the product-constraints theorem's endpoint data for each member. It required changes, all adopted:

the perfect pairing \(K_t=G_t^*\) cited;
the lemma related to the recorded obstruction quotient and tree gluing;
Koszul and single-constraint syzygies called local only when their pair or constraint is a solvable member;
(a) and local freeness described as replaced by hypotheses, not bypassed;
the transfer limited to weak balanced PHP;
the conjecture restated for coherent families, with merging left open;
the affine discussion made an analogue, with local generation noted as strictly stronger than hardness, and the base of the semi-regular counts stated;
the next step to check the base extension and measure all degrees;
the monotonicity used for the bookkeeping stated.

The changes weaken or qualify claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	5 min 2.12 s
Marked reading and review windows	52.09 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 49.00 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	1 min 21.02 s

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Local generation of top syzygies is a Tor group: for linear tops it is the recorded truncated freeness

23 September 2026 · Working proof and a finite check · Top algebra of the functional board; affine tops at \(n=6\), degree 3. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Local generation of top syzygies is a Tor group: for linear tops it is the recorded truncated freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-syzygy-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The gluing entry reduced hardness for any number of product constraints to conj:local-top-syzygies: through degree \(B\), the top syzygies in the functional board's top algebra \(G\) are spanned by syzygies supported on single constraints and pairs. It proposed a test on the affine analogue. The test measures the first number \(M\) of random affine equations at which local generation fails, and compares it with the recorded least refuted \(M\) (7, 14 and 64). The cycle ends with that measurement, or with a reason why it cannot bear on the conjecture.

General statement. prop:syzygies-as-tor: for tops that are monomials in linear forms, the top syzygies modulo those generated on single constraints and pairs by the Taylor syzygies of the tops' monomial ideal \(J\) form \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)\), where \(A=\mathbb F_p[x_1,\dots,x_M]/(x_j^p)\) acts through the forms. For linear tops, Koszul-and-Frobenius generation through degree \(s\) holds exactly when \(G\) is free over \(A\) through \(s\), which is the recorded truncated-freeness question. The finite check is ex:affine-syzygy-locality-small-board.

Syzygies as a Tor group

Let \(k=\mathbb F_p\) and let \(G=\bigoplus_{t\ge0}G_t\) be the functional board's top algebra, a commutative graded algebra with \(G_0=k\) and \(K_t=G_t^*\), as in the gluing entry. Every \(\ell\in G_1\) has \(\ell^p=0\): each cell squares to zero in \(G\), so \(\ell^p\) is \(p!\) times a sum of products of distinct cells. This is the dual of the recorded \(D^p=0\). Take \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_M\in G_1\) and \(A=k[x_1,\dots,x_M]/(x_1^p,\dots,x_M^p)\), graded by \(\deg x_j=1\). Then \(G\) is a graded \(A\)-module through \(x_j\mapsto\ell_j\); \(A\) is the recorded \(u(\mathfrak g)\). A constraint \(C\) has top \(\ell^{b_C}=\prod_j\ell_j^{b_{C,j}}\) with \(0\le b_{C,j}\le p-1\), up to a nonzero scalar. Let \(J\subseteq A\) be the ideal generated by the \(x^{b_C}\). A top syzygy of degree \(s\) is \((g_C)\in\bigoplus_CG_{s-|b_C|}\) with \(\sum_C\ell^{b_C}g_C=0\), as in the gluing lemma.

The Taylor syzygies are the \(G\)-multiples of the following elements of \(\bigoplus_CAe_C\):

for a pair \(C\ne C'\), with \(m=\max(b_C,b_{C'})\) componentwise, \(x^{m-b_C}e_C-x^{m-b_{C'}}e_{C'}\);
for one constraint \(C\) and one index \(j\), \(x_j^{p-b_{C,j}}e_C\).

Each is supported on one constraint or one pair. For linear tops, \(b_C=e_{j}\), they are the Koszul syzygies \(x_{j'}e_j-x_je_{j'}\) and the Frobenius syzygies \(x_j^{p-1}e_j\).

Proposition (syzygies as Tor).

In each degree \(s\), the top syzygies modulo the span of the Taylor syzygies are isomorphic to \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)_s\). So if this group vanishes for all \(s\le B\), every top syzygy through degree \(B\) is a sum of syzygies supported on single constraints and pairs.
For linear tops, \(J=\mathfrak m=(x_1,\dots,x_M)\). Let \(W_t=[q^t]\,\mathrm{HS}_G(q)/(1+q+\dots+q^{p-1})^M\). The top syzygies through degree \(s\) are generated by Koszul and Frobenius syzygies exactly when \(\dim(G/\mathfrak mG)_t=W_t\) for every \(t\le s\), that is, when \(G\) is free over \(A\) through \(s\) in the graded-Nakayama sense of the truncated Dade entry. In particular \(W_t\ge0\) for \(t\le s\) is necessary.

Proof.

Let \(S=k[x_1,\dots,x_M]\) and \(J'=(x^{b_C})_C+(x_j^p)_j\), a monomial ideal of \(S\). Its syzygy module is generated by the pairwise Taylor syzygies of its generators (Taylor's resolution). A relation \(\sum_Ca_Cx^{b_C}=0\) in \(A\) lifts to a relation of \(J'\) in \(S\), and projecting away the coefficients on the \(x_j^p\) gives back \((a_C)\). A pair of two constraints gives the first kind of Taylor syzygy. A pair of \(x^{b_C}\) and \(x_j^p\) gives the second kind. A pair of two powers \(x_j^p,x_{j'}^p\) projects to zero. So the kernel \(Z\) of \(F=\bigoplus_CAe_C\to J\), \(e_C\mapsto x^{b_C}\), is generated by the Taylor syzygies. Hence \(J\otimes_AG=\operatorname{coker}(Z\otimes_AG\to F\otimes_AG)\), which is \(\bigoplus_CGe_C\) modulo the Taylor syzygies. The sequence \(0\to J\to A\to A/J\to0\) and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A,G)=0\) give \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)=\ker(J\otimes_AG\to G)\). The map sends \(\sum_Cg_Ce_C\) to \(\sum_C\ell^{b_C}g_C\), so its kernel is the top syzygies modulo the Taylor syzygies. All maps are graded, with \(e_C\) in degree \(|b_C|\).
Part 1 with \(J=\mathfrak m\) identifies the syzygies modulo Koszul and Frobenius ones with \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(k,G)\). Put \(V=G/\mathfrak mG\), choose a graded section \(V\to G\), and let \(\pi:A\otimes_kV\to G\) be the induced map. It is onto by graded Nakayama, since \(\mathfrak m\) is nilpotent. Let \(\Omega=\ker\pi\). The long exact sequence, with \(\pi\otimes k\) an isomorphism \(V\to V\), gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(k,G)\cong\Omega/\mathfrak m\Omega\). The lowest nonzero degree of \(\Omega\) survives in \(\Omega/\mathfrak m\Omega\), because \(\mathfrak m\Omega\) starts one degree higher. So \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(k,G)_t=0\) for all \(t\le s\) exactly when \(\Omega_t=0\) for all \(t\le s\). That holds exactly when \(\dim G_t=\dim(A\otimes V)_t\) for \(t\le s\), that is, when \(\mathrm{HS}_G\equiv\mathrm{HS}_V\cdot(1+\dots+q^{p-1})^M\) modulo \(q^{s+1}\). Dividing by the unit power series gives the condition on \(\dim V_t\). Since \(\dim V_t\ge0\), \(W_t\ge0\) is necessary.

\(\square\)

Relation to the record.

For \(J=\mathfrak m^{p-1}\), part 1 is implied by the recorded symmetric lifting lemma (lem:symmetric-lift-free-modules), in dual form. That lemma identifies symmetric tuples modulo lifts with \(\operatorname{Ext}^1_A(A/\mathfrak m^{p-1},K)\). Its conditions are only the adjacent pairs, \(a+e_i=a'+e_{i'}\), and one Frobenius condition for each \(i\), on \(z_{(p-1)e_i}\). They form a generating subset of the Taylor syzygies of \(\mathfrak m^{p-1}\), so the recorded lemma is the sharper statement there. The duality \(\operatorname{Ext}^1_A(A/J,K)\cong\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)^*\) holds for any algebra, by adjunction and exactness of the \(k\)-dual, since \(K=G^*\). For an arbitrary monomial ideal \(J\), part 1 generalizes the lemma's Ext clause.
Part 2's count is the one the truncated Dade entry recorded for column tensors. The new step is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(k,G)\cong\Omega/\mathfrak m\Omega\), which identifies Koszul-and-Frobenius generation with that freeness.
The recorded finite check ex:selector-degree-four-semiregular concerns square tops \(\ell_j^2\) in the weak base's top algebra at \(n=7\), \(p=3\), with one seed. It found \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4=\min(\gamma_4,M(\gamma_2-\gamma_1)-\binom M2)\) for \(M=2,5,20,39,40,41\). Below the fill point this is the Taylor count, so it is evidence for \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/(x_j^2)_j,\cdot)_4=0\) over that algebra for \(M\le40\). At \(M=41\) the fill point is passed (\(41\cdot876-820>\gamma_4=34950\)), and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\ne0\) there. Freeness over all of \(A\) fails much earlier on that algebra. With \((\gamma_1,\gamma_2,\gamma_3)=(48,924,8688)\), \(W_3\) is negative from \(M=14\), and \(W_2\) from \(M=27\).

Scope.

The gluing lemma calls a syzygy local whenever it is supported in a solvable member. That includes single syzygies \(ge_C\) with any \(g\) in the annihilator of the top, and every pair-supported syzygy. So in general Taylor generation implies the gluing lemma's local generation, but not conversely. The two agree when no single constraint and no pair has syzygies beyond its Taylor ones. For linear tops under the conjecture's hypotheses this holds, within the degrees the recorded results cover. For a wide single form, the dual of the amplitude theorem's \(\ker D=\operatorname{im}D^{p-1}\) gives \(\operatorname{Ann}(\ell)=\ell^{p-1}G\). For a jointly full robust pair, the recorded two-form lift applies. So for linear tops the conjecture's local generation is equivalent to \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(k,G)=0\). For product tops, agreement on a single constraint needs \(\operatorname{Ann}(\ell^{b})=\sum_j\ell_j^{p-b_j}G\), which the single-form result does not give.
Part 2 takes one constraint for each form, with top \(\ell_j\). A linear dependence among the \(\ell_j\) in \(G_1\) is then a non-Taylor syzygy of degree 1, and freeness correctly fails. In part 1, where constraints are indexed separately, two constraints with the same top give \(e_C-e_{C'}\). That is a Taylor syzygy and pair-supported, so it is local.
The truncated Dade entry studied column tensors, which have no row relations, and left open the version for the board's own algebra. So the affine analogue is the same kind of question for \(G\), not a recorded one. That entry's counterexample (ex:truncated-dade-special-position) shows that freeness can fail even where \(W_t>0\).
For linear tops, \(W_1=g_1-M\) and \(W_2=g_2-Mg_1+\binom M2\), with \(g_t=\dim G_t\), for \(p\ge3\). On the functional board \(g_1=(n+1)(n-1)\) and \(g_2=\binom{n+1}2(n^2-3n+1)\). So \(W_2<0\) for \(M\) within about \(\sqrt2\,n^{3/2}\) of \(n^2\), and \(W_1<0\) beyond \(n^2-1\). Any family of at least about \(n^2-\sqrt2\,n^{3/2}\) linear tops has non-Taylor syzygies by degree 2.

The computation

The board is \(n=6\): 7 rows and 6 labels, with \((g_1,g_2,g_3)=(35,399,1645)\). A first script, syzygy_locality.py, drew uniform forms and compared \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi\) with the count \(L_{\mathrm{kos}}\) of targets consistent with single and Koszul syzygies. It was stopped after its \(n=6\) runs, for two reasons. Its forms were not full in pairs on every row, which is outside the conjecture's hypotheses. And it tested Koszul generation, not the conjecture's pair generation. The partial log is kept as koszul_locality_partial.txt. There seed 1 already fails at \(M=3\), in degree 3, with a pair that is not full on one row.

The second script, syzygy_locality2.py, draws forms by rejection so that every pair is independent modulo constants on every row. For \(M=2,\dots,7\), seeds 1 and 2, and degrees \(s\le3\), it computes four quantities:

\(\operatorname{rank}\Phi\), where \(\Phi\) maps \(K_s\) to \(K_{s-1}^M\) by \(w\mapsto(D_jw)_j\);
\(L_2\), the dimension of the targets whose restriction to every pair has a correction, which is dual to all pair-supported syzygies;
\(L_3\), the same for triples, computed when \(L_2\) fails;
\(L_{\mathrm{kos}}\), and the number of pairs whose own targets are not all corrected.

Syzygies of degree \(s\) are generated on pairs exactly when \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi=L_2\). All computations are exact over \(\mathbb F_3\). semiregular_check.py compares \(\dim(G/\mathfrak mG)_t=g_t-\operatorname{rank}\Phi_t\) with \(W_t\).

\(M\)	\(W_3\)	\(\dim(G/\mathfrak mG)_3\), seeds 1, 2	\(L_{\mathrm{kos}}-\operatorname{rank}\Phi_3\), seeds 1, 2	\(L_3\) vs \(L_2\)
2	884	884, 884	0, 0	—
3	555	555, 555	0, 0	—
4	259	259, 259	0, 0	—
5	−5	0, 22	5, 27	equal
6	−238	0, 0	238, 238	1 lower in seed 1; equal in seed 2
7	−441	0, 0	441, 441	1 lower in both

What the table shows:

In degrees 1 and 2, every case is local and \(\dim(G/\mathfrak mG)_t=W_t\).
In degree 3, all twelve cases agree with part 2: Koszul-and-Frobenius generation holds exactly when the series matches. In every case \(L_2=L_{\mathrm{kos}}\), and no pair is incomplete. So on this board, pair generation and Koszul generation coincide.
Local generation fails first at \(M=5\), where \(W_3\) first turns negative, in both seeds. Since \(\Omega_t=0\) for \(t<3\), the deficiency is \(\dim\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(k,G)_3=\dim\Omega_3=\dim(G/\mathfrak mG)_3-W_3\). In seed 1 the forms fill \(G_3\), so it is \(0+5\). Seed 2 is in special position: its forms leave 22 dimensions unfilled, and the deficiency is \(22+5=27\). At \(M=6,7\) it is \(238\) and \(441\) in both seeds. Triples barely help.

Against the thresholds. The recorded least refuted \(M\) at \(n=6\), \(D=3\) is 7. It was computed on the weak base with the recorded driver, and a weak-base refutation is also a functional-base refutation. So the functional base's own threshold is at most 7, and it was not computed. Local generation fails at 5, where \(W_3\) crosses zero. Either the functional base is refuted at 5 or 6, or between 5 and the functional threshold the defects vanish on non-local syzygies. The runs at \(n=7\) and \(n=10\) were not made. By part 2, what they measure is the Hilbert series of \(G/\mathfrak mG\), the quantity the proposition identifies. And no reachable board meets the conjecture's robustness: at \(d=3\) the short-generation theorem's \(L_3(2)\) is about 950 labels.

Command: python3 syzygy_locality2.py locality_n6.json 7 6 3 8 1 2, then python3 semiregular_check.py locality_n6.json semiregular_n6.json, in research/results/odd_prime_syzygy_locality_20260923. The two seeds took about 6 minutes each.

What this means for the route

The gluing lemma reduced hardness for many constraints to local generation of the top syzygies. The proposition identifies local generation, in its Taylor form, with \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)=0\) through \(B\). For linear tops that is truncated freeness of \(G\) over the forms' algebra, the question the column-tensor and truncated Dade entries left open for the board's own algebra. So, for linear tops, the gluing route leads back to the open core recorded there. It does not go around it. Freeness fails once the semi-regular series turns negative, and with about \(n^2\) or more linear tops that happens by degree 2. The finite check agrees with this at \(n=6\).

For product tops the target is weaker than freeness: only \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)\) has to vanish, for the monomial ideal \(J\) of the tops. On the weak base's top algebra at \(n=7\), with one seed, the recorded square-top data show that relative vanishing in degree 4 for up to 40 forms. Freeness over all of \(A\) fails there from 14 forms on. That relative vanishing, for the goal's prefix-image tops on \(G\), is now the Taylor-form content of conj:local-top-syzygies, and it is the next object.

Assessment of the line. The gluing line did not escape the recorded genericity core. For linear tops it is that core, and it fails at the semi-regular crossing. Its one remaining advantage is for tops of higher degree, where the needed vanishing is relative to \(J\). The only evidence for relative vanishing beyond freeness is the square-top check, on a different algebra, with one seed and at most 40 forms. Whether it survives polynomially many prefix-image tops is open, and no recorded mechanism proves it.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: at \(p=3\), find a sufficient condition for \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)=0\) through degree \(s\) for square tops, \(J=(x_1^2,\dots,x_M^2)\). A general statement would explain the recorded count \(\min(\gamma_4,M(\gamma_2-\gamma_1)-\binom M2)\) below the fill point. A candidate tool is the subring \(k[y_j]/(y_j^2)\), \(y_j\mapsto x_j^2\), which is well defined because \(x^4=0\) at \(p=3\). But \(A\) is not free over it: each variable contributes \(k[y]/(y^2)\oplus k\). So a Hilbert-series criterion like part 2's cannot be assumed, and the extra summand has to be handled. First check what the recorded rank formula says about \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) and the annihilators \(\operatorname{Ann}(\ell_j^2)\). The step ends with a proof of a sufficient condition, or with an obstruction to one.

Verification gate.

Re-read from the notebook: the gluing entry (its lemma, conjecture and proposed test), the truncated Dade entry's models paragraph, the Jordan-type literature entry, and the random-conditioning law's discussion.
Claim searches: Koszul and syzygy generation, Tor and semi-regular series, Taylor resolutions of monomial ideals, and tensor and annihilator models.
Prior-record check: before drafting, a reviewer was asked whether the record already implies the proposition. It found three connections: the dual form for \(J=\mathfrak m^{p-1}\) in the symmetric lifting lemma, the Nakayama count in the truncated Dade entry, and the square-top check. All are cited above.
Computation: exact ranks over \(\mathbb F_3\). The reviewer recomputed \(W_3\) and checked the table against the result file.
Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed both parts of the proof, the roots of \(W_2\) and the table. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the unneeded self-injectivity hypothesis dropped;
- the relation to the symmetric lifting lemma stated precisely;
- the square-top evidence limited to at most 40 forms, one seed and the weak base's algebra, with its freeness crossings computed;
- the scope of Taylor generation against local generation made consistent, with the linear-top equivalence under the hypotheses stated, and the product-top annihilator condition noted;
- the repeated-top case clarified;
- the deficiency formula derived;
- the next step restricted to \(p=3\), with the non-freeness of the subring noted.

The changes qualify or restrict claims. The linear-top equivalence only makes explicit what the route paragraph already used, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	29 min 16.82 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 41.84 s
Computation design and coding	50.56 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	53.61 s
Individually measured computation	20 min 50.66 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.16 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Route review: at p = 3, selectors on a pencil refute pairwise local syzygies; gluing needs a site of spans

23 September 2026 · Route review with a refutation · Pencil identity at every odd prime; refutation at \(p=3\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: at p = 3, selectors on a pencil refute pairwise local syzygies; gluing needs a site of spans”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-pencil-syzygy-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. This is the fifth research cycle since the lift route review. The previous entry reduced the gluing line's conjecture (conj:local-top-syzygies) to the vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)\). Before looking for a sufficient condition for that vanishing, this review tries to falsify the conjecture on the smallest configurations its hypotheses allow. It then assesses the line.

General statement. obs:pencil-selector-syzygy: for every odd \(p\), the selector tops of the \(p+1\) forms of a pencil satisfy a scalar linear relation of degree \(p-1\). When the pencil's forms have pairwise independent \((p-1)\)th powers in \(G\), that relation is not generated by syzygies supported on single constraints and pairs. At \(p=3\) the recorded symmetric lift supplies that independence under the conjecture's own hypotheses. So the conjecture is false as stated.

The line's claim and what the goal needs

The line claims a batched mechanism for the window. Take local corrections on small subsystems, from the product-constraints theorem, and glue them along top syzygies with the gluing lemma. This proves hardness for any number of coherent product constraints, provided the top syzygies through degree \(B\) are generated on members that have corrections. The goal needs this for every inventory compiled from a small refutation. Such inventories are arbitrary, not random, at \(B\) polylogarithmic.

Falsification: the pencil syzygy

Work on the functional board's top algebra \(G\) over \(\mathbb F_p\), as in the gluing entry. A selector constraint on a form \(L\) is \(1-(L-a)^{p-1}\), with top \(-L^{p-1}\). Take two forms \(\ell,\ell'\) and the \(p+1\) forms of their pencil, one for each point of \(\mathbf P^1(\mathbb F_p)\): \(v_c=\ell+c\ell'\) for \(c\in\mathbb F_p\), and \(v_\infty=\ell'\).

Observation (pencil syzygy).

\(\sum_{c\in\mathbb F_p}v_c^{\,p-1}+v_\infty^{\,p-1}=0\) in any commutative \(\mathbb F_p\)-algebra, and so in \(G_{p-1}\). Hence \((g_C)=(1,\dots,1)\) is a top syzygy of degree \(p-1\) of the \(p+1\) selectors, with any constants \(a_C\).
Suppose the \(p+1\) powers \(v^{p-1}\) are pairwise linearly independent in \(G_{p-1}\). Then this syzygy is not a sum of syzygies supported on single constraints and pairs.
At \(p=3\), the powers are pairwise independent whenever \(\ell,\ell'\) are independent modulo constants on every row, on a board with at least 4 rows that is robust through \(L_1+6\) labels. Here \(L_1\) is the short-generation theorem's robustness for two forms. So the four selectors are a counterexample to conj:local-top-syzygies within its hypotheses:
- each selector is the prefix image \(\chi_0(v-a_v)\) with an empty prefix set, so pairwise coherence (no image form in another block's prefix set) holds vacuously;
- all six pairs of the four forms span the same pencil, so each single constraint and each pair has forms independent modulo constants on every row, the gluing entry's joint fullness;
- its robustness is the glued theorem's threshold \(\max_U(L_{\max(B-h,1)}(r_U)+B(r_U+1))\) with \(r_U\le2\), which is at least \(L_1+6\). Boards robust through it exist for every \(B\), by taking enough labels.

Proof.

Expand: \(\sum_c(\ell+c\ell')^{p-1}=\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\binom{p-1}k\ell^{p-1-k}\ell'^k\sum_cc^k\). The power sum \(\sum_{c\in\mathbb F_p}c^k\) is \(p=0\) for \(k=0\), and \(0\) for \(0<k<p-1\). For \(k=p-1\) it is \(-1\). So the sum is \(-\ell'^{p-1}\), and adding \(v_\infty^{p-1}=\ell'^{p-1}\) gives \(0\). Rescaling a representative by \(\lambda\in\mathbb F_p^\times\) multiplies its power by \(\lambda^{p-1}=1\).
The tops have degree \(p-1\), so a syzygy of degree \(p-1\) has scalar coefficients. A syzygy supported on one constraint or on a pair is then \(\alpha v^{p-1}=0\) or \(\alpha v^{p-1}+\beta w^{p-1}=0\). Pairwise independence forces \(\alpha=\beta=0\). So every syzygy of this degree supported on at most two constraints is zero, and the pencil syzygy, which is nonzero, is not in their span.
Suppose \(\alpha\ell^2+\beta\ell'^2=0\) in \(G_2\), with \(\ell,\ell'\) any two of the four forms. Multiply by \(g\in G_1\) and pair with \(w\in K_3\): \(\langle\alpha D_\ell^2w+\beta D_{\ell'}^2w,g\rangle=0\) for all \(g\), so \(\alpha D_\ell^2w+\beta D_{\ell'}^2w=0\) for all \(w\in K_3\). Here we use the perfect pairing \(K_t=G_t^*\) and the adjunction \(\langle w,\ell g\rangle=\langle D_\ell w,g\rangle\), both recorded in the gluing entry. Take \(0\ne\zeta\in K_1\) with \(D_\ell\zeta=D_{\ell'}\zeta=0\). It exists because \((D_\ell,D_{\ell'})\) maps \(K_1\) to \(K_0^2\), and \(\dim K_0=1\), while \(\dim K_1=R(N-1)>2\) for a board with \(R\ge4\) rows and \(N\ge2\) labels. The vector \(\zeta\) satisfies the symmetric-tuple conditions for \((\zeta,0,0)\) in \(K_1\). The recorded symmetric lift at every degree (cor:symmetric-lift-every-degree, \(d=1\), \(r=2\)) gives \(w\in K_3\) with \(D_\ell^2w=m\zeta\) for a unit \(m\), and \(D_{\ell'}^2w=0\). Hence \(\alpha=0\), and by symmetry \(\beta=0\). All six pairs of the four forms span the same pencil, so each pair satisfies the same hypotheses.

\(\square\)

Relation to the record. At \(p=3\) the relation is the recorded three-selector identity, \(q_1+q_2+q_3=(a-b)^2\), read as a syzygy among four tops. Multiplying it by \(a-b\) gives that entry's degree-three fall, \((a-b)(a^2+b^2+(a+b)^2)=0\), a syzygy of the three selectors alone. Whether that three-term syzygy is non-local is not shown here. Its four-selector completion is what refutes the conjecture. The gluing entry's conjecture should have been tested against this recorded control, which the remaining route lists; its verification gate searched the index but did not do so. The component hypothesis grouped constraints along bounded circuits. The special-position cores entry recorded evidence against bounded cores: in the rank-one model at \(v\le7\), dependencies supported on 8 to 19 points, excluding core size at most 6 in the samples only, at total selector density far above one. Over \(\mathbb F_p\), the pencil relation is the simplest case of the power-sum identity \(\sum_{v\in\mathbb F_p^w}f(v)=0\) for \(\deg f<w(p-1)\).

What survives:

the gluing lemma and the glued theorem, which are conditional on the syzygy hypothesis;
the syzygies-as-Tor proposition;
the local theory.

What fails is the choice of members. Singles and pairs do not generate the syzygies even in the conjecture's own hypotheses. The members must contain every pencil, and more generally every set of constraints whose forms span a small space in special position.

Assessment of the line

The local theory is strong and general: short generation, product constraints and exact gluing are proved at every degree. The global obligation is now visible in its exact form. It is an analogue of the recorded component hypothesis on the functional base. That hypothesis was stated for forbid-value constraints on the weak unary base, and prefix images need the adaptation it notes. Syzygies must be generated on members closed under small-span dependencies, and each member needs its own local correction. Three pieces of evidence bear on it.

Linear tops fail at the semi-regular crossing.
Pairwise locality fails on a pencil at constant size.
Recorded special-position cores are large in small samples at high density.

Two obstacles are recorded, and no mechanism for either:

merging a member whose constraints become incoherent point indicators when rewritten on a basis of its span;
controlling adversarial cores.

The line has turned the batched mechanism into a precise algebraic statement about a site of subsystems. It has not made that statement easier than the recorded core. The pencil case, however, is small, fully explicit and decidable by hand. The gluing formalism also says exactly what a member must provide.

Next step: pencils as open sets

The sheaf picture changes its site: members are spans of forms, not pairs. The first test is whether a pencil is a legitimate member. On odd-prime-clause-transfer, at \(p=3\), take the four selectors of a pencil, with forbidden values \(a_v\). Their constraints cut out a solution set \(P\subseteq\mathbb F_3^2\) of \((\ell,\ell')\). Decide, as a general statement for jointly full robust \(\ell,\ell'\):

when \(P\ne\emptyset\), does the subsystem have a local correction at every degree, so that the defect pairing on every syzygy supported in the pencil vanishes?
when \(P=\emptyset\), which happens exactly when the four forbidden lines are concurrent, does a refutation exist at degree at most 4?

The candidate method is to rewrite the pencil subsystem on the basis \((\ell,\ell')\) as conditions on the point set \(P\). The difficulty is the incoherent point-indicator pairs this produces. Read the recorded pair-component lifting check first. There, an overlapping pair has no fall through degree 6 exactly when its forbidden lines meet. The step ends with a proof that satisfiable pencils are members, or with the obstruction that stops them.

Verification gate.

Re-read from the notebook: the three-selector identity, the symmetric lift at every degree (cor:symmetric-lift-every-degree), the gluing entry's conjecture and its hypotheses, and the syzygies-as-Tor entry.
Claim searches: pencil, selector power-sum and concurrent-line relations. They found the three-selector fall, the special-position cores and the local configuration catalogue, all cited.

Checks: a brute-force count over all 81 choices of forbidden values confirmed that the four forbidden lines cover \(\mathbb F_3^2\) exactly when they are concurrent.
Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the power-sum identity, the scalar-coefficient argument and the symmetric-tuple check. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the selectors' admissibility checked against the conjecture's definitions, including its robustness threshold;
- the duality used in part 3 cited, and the dimension count for \(\zeta\) completed;
- all six pairs covered;
- the refutation limited to \(p=3\);
- the three-selector relation to the record stated precisely;
- the special-position evidence stated with its sample limits;
- the component hypothesis called an analogue.

The changes restrict or qualify the claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
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Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 26.48 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Coherent product systems cut out exactly grid up-sets: every pencil is covered, most solution sets on a three-dimensional span are not

23 September 2026 · Working proofs and an exhaustive check · Solution sets of coherent product systems on a span of forms, \(p=3\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Coherent product systems cut out exactly grid up-sets: every pencil is covered, most solution sets on a three-dimensional span are not”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-pencil-members.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The pencil review showed that gluing members must contain pencils. It asked whether a satisfiable pencil subsystem has a local correction, and whether an unsatisfiable one is refuted at low degree. The underlying question is general. Which constraint sets on a span of forms can the product-constraints theorem handle after rewriting? The cycle ends with a characterization, or with an obstruction.

General statement. prop:coherent-sets-are-up-sets: on a span of dimension \(w\), the solution sets of pairwise coherent product systems on jointly independent forms are exactly the up-sets of a coordinatewise total order on \(\mathbb F_3^w\), for some basis. For \(w=2\) this is every subset. For \(w=3\) it is at most \(49{,}533{,}120\) of the \(2^{27}-1\) nonempty subsets. cor:pencil-subsystems: a constraint set on a pencil is refuted at degree 6 or less for selectors when its solution set is empty. When the solution set is a proper nonempty subset, the set has no refutation wherever the coherent two-form system that rewrites it has none.

Coherent systems and up-sets

Work over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the functional base. Let \(W\) be a span of affine forms of dimension \(w\), with a basis \(u_1,\dots,u_w\) independent modulo constants on every row. An invertible linear change of basis, with constant shifts, preserves this property, so every basis of \(W\) has it. A product constraint on forms of \(W\), in the sense of the product-constraints theorem, is \(C=\prod_jh_j(L_j)\) with each factor \(1\), \(L_j-a\) or \(\chi_a(L_j)=1-(L_j-a)^2\). That theorem needs the forms used to be jointly independent modulo constants on every row. Within \(W\) these are at most \(w\) forms, which extend to a basis, so we may take the forms to be \(u_1,\dots,u_w\). Coherence of a pair means that on each shared form the factors are equal, or one is \(\chi_a\) and the other \(L-a'\) with \(a'\ne a\). Identify a point of \(\mathbb F_3^w\) with the values of \((u_1,\dots,u_w)\).

Proposition (coherent sets are up-sets). Order the three values of each coordinate by a total order, and give \(\mathbb F_3^w\) the product order. For every pairwise coherent family \(\mathcal F\) of product constraints on the basis \(u\), there are orders for which the common zero set \(Z(\mathcal F)\) is an up-set. Conversely, for every basis, every choice of orders and every nonempty up-set \(U\), some pairwise coherent family on that basis has \(Z(\mathcal F)=U\).

Proof. Coherence fixes, on each form \(u_j\), at most one indicator value \(a_j\) and at most one linear value \(a'_j\), with \(a'_j\ne a_j\) when both occur: two different indicators or two different linear factors on one form are incoherent. Choose unused values freely, keeping \(a'_j\ne a_j\), and rank the values of coordinate \(j\) as \(a_j\) at level 0, the remaining value at level 1, and \(a'_j\) at level 2.

\(\chi_{a_j}(u_j)\) vanishes exactly at level at least 1.
\(u_j-a'_j\) vanishes exactly at level 2.

So a constraint vanishes at \(x\) exactly when some coordinate \(j\) in its support has level at least \(t_j\), with \(t_j=1\) for an indicator and \(t_j=2\) for a linear factor. That set is the complement of the principal down-set of the point \(y\) with \(y_j=t_j-1\) on the support and \(y_j=2\) elsewhere. So it is an up-set, and so is the intersection \(Z(\mathcal F)\).

Conversely, let \(U\) be a nonempty up-set with complement \(D\), a down-set. Then \(D\) is the union of the principal down-sets of its maximal elements \(y\), and none of them is the top point, since \(U\ne\varnothing\). For each such \(y\), the complement of its down-set is \(\{x:\exists j,\ \mathrm{level}(x_j)>y_j\}\). That is the zero set of \(\prod_{j:\,y_j<2}h_j\), with \(h_j=\chi_{a_j}(u_j)\) if \(y_j=0\) and \(h_j=u_j-a'_j\) if \(y_j=1\). All these constraints use the single indicator value \(a_j\) and the single linear value \(a'_j\ne a_j\) on each form, so they are pairwise coherent, and their common zero set is \(U\). If \(D\) is empty the family is empty. \(\square\)

Two dimensions: every set. An exhaustive check, coherent_pencil_sets.py, tries the 6 bases of \(\mathbb F_3^2\) among the pencil's 4 directions, all values \(a_j\) and \(a'_j\), and all subfamilies. It finds every one of the 510 proper nonempty subsets of \(\mathbb F_3^2\) as such a zero set, and it records one witness for each. For example, \(\{(0,0),(1,0),(0,1)\}\) is cut out by \(uv\), \(\chi_2(u)\) and \(\chi_2(v)\). So, for \(w=2\), every nonempty \(P\subseteq\mathbb F_3^2\) is the solution set of a pairwise coherent family on some basis of the pencil.

Three dimensions: most sets are not. Count the pairs (up-set, order) that could describe a subset of \(\mathbb F_3^3\):

unordered bases, up to scaling each form, number \(13\cdot12\cdot9/6=234\);
orders number \((3!)^3=216\) for each basis;
up-sets of the grid \(\{0,1,2\}^3\) number 980, the plane partitions in a \(3\times3\times3\) box.

So at most \(234\cdot216\cdot980=49{,}533{,}120\) nonempty subsets of \(\mathbb F_3^3\) are solution sets of coherent systems. There are \(2^{27}-1=134{,}217{,}727\) nonempty subsets, so at least 84 million are not.

Pencils

Corollary (pencil subsystems). Let \(\ell,\ell'\) be affine forms. Let \(\mathcal U\) be a finite set of constraints, each a polynomial of degree at most \(e\) in forms of the pencil \(\langle\ell,\ell'\rangle\), with common zero set \(P\subseteq\mathbb F_3^2\).

If \(P=\varnothing\), the functional base plus \(\mathcal U\) has a PC refutation of degree at most \(4+e\), which is 6 for selectors. This part needs no hypothesis on \(\ell,\ell'\).
Suppose the row-linear parts of \(\ell,\ell'\) are independent modulo constants on every row, and \(P\) is a proper nonempty subset. Let \(\mathcal F_P\) be a coherent family on a basis \((u,v)\) of the pencil with \(Z(\mathcal F_P)=P\), which exists by the check. Let \(h=\min_{C\in\mathcal F_P}|b_C|\ge1\), where \(b_C\) is the exponent vector of the top of \(C\), as in the product-constraints entry. Suppose \(B\ge\max(8,e)\), and the board has at least \(2B-h\) rows and is robust through \(L_{\max(B-h,1)}+3B\), with \(L_t\) the short-generation robustness for two forms. Then the functional base plus \(\mathcal U\) has no PC refutation of degree \(B\).

Proof. All constraints are polynomials in \(u,v\). Work on the functional base, which contains Booleanity.

This is the recorded bounded-span equivalence (lem:bounded-span-equivalence) with \(d=2\), \(p=3\): it derives \(1\) at degree at most \((p-1)d+e=4+e\).
Each constraint of \(\mathcal U\) vanishes on \(P=Z(\mathcal F_P)\) and, reduced modulo \(u^3-u\) and \(v^3-v\), has degree at most 4 in \((u,v)\). The members of \(\mathcal F_P\) have degree at most 4. So bounded-span equivalence, applied to \(\mathcal F_P\), derives the reduced form of every constraint of \(\mathcal U\) at PC degree at most \(4+4=8\). Adding back multiples of \(u^3-u\) and \(v^3-v\), which are derivable at degree 3, gives the constraint itself at degree at most \(\max(8,e)\). Take a PC refutation of the base plus \(\mathcal U\) of degree \(D\). First derive each constraint of \(\mathcal U\) from \(\mathcal F_P\), then run the refutation. This is a PC refutation of the base plus \(\mathcal F_P\) of degree at most \(\max(D,8,e)\). The coherent product-constraints corollary, with \(r=2\) forms and the stated rows and robustness, excludes a refutation of the base plus \(\mathcal F_P\) of degree at most \(B\). Since \(B\ge\max(8,e)\), a refutation with \(D\le B\) would give one of degree at most \(B\), so \(D>B\). \(\square\)

When \(P=\mathbb F_3^2\), every constraint of \(\mathcal U\) vanishes identically as a function. It then follows from Booleanity at degree \(\max(e,3)\), and the question reduces to the base alone. With \(B\ge4+e\), bounded-span equivalence also derives each member of \(\mathcal F_P\) from \(\mathcal U\). A transfer of the corollary's stable moments would need that two-way equivalence at degree \(B\), but no such transfer is claimed here.

On the pencil review's two questions:

An unsatisfiable pencil is refuted at degree 6. The review asked for degree at most 4, which remains open.
A satisfiable isolated pencil has no refutation of degree \(B\). That is nonrefutation, not the local correction the review asked for. A correction would need the corollary's stable moments to transfer through the two-way equivalence.

What this does and does not give the gluing line

Isolated members. Any member whose forms lie in a pencil can be rewritten into the product-constraints theorem's setting.
Several members. This does not follow. Each pencil gets its own basis and its own family \(\mathcal F_P\). Two rewritten members that share a form, or a member and another constraint on a shared form, need not be coherent. Their forms need not be jointly independent on every row. The rewrite also changes the tops, so the syzygy hypothesis of the glued theorem has to be checked again for the new generators. The corollary is a statement about one pencil, not about members inside an inventory.
Spans of dimension three and more. The proposition shows that rewriting into coherent product systems on forms of the span fails for most solution sets, counted uniformly over subsets of \(\mathbb F_3^3\). The count includes the empty up-set, so it is slightly loose. A member whose solution set is not an up-set, for any basis and orders, needs a local theory beyond product constraints: a lift for constraints whose zero set is an arbitrary pattern set, or a proof that such members are refuted, or harmless, at low degree.

Assessment. The sheaf picture now has isolated pencils as local pieces that are not refuted, one at a time. Two things are missing: compatibility between overlapping rewritten members, and a local theory for three-dimensional spans whose solution sets are not up-sets. The second is a sharp, finite question at its smallest case.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer, at \(p=3\): take the smallest solution sets \(P\subseteq\mathbb F_3^3\) that are not up-sets for any basis and orders, found by exhaustive search over the 234 bases and 216 orders. For one such \(P\), with three jointly full forms on a robust board, decide by proof whether conditioning on \(P\) has local corrections at every degree, or is refuted at degree at most \((p-1)\cdot3+4=10\) by bounded-span equivalence together with some further mechanism. The search is small: \(2^{27}\) subsets against about \(5\times10^7\) describable ones, done as a count over up-sets, not an enumeration of subsets. The step ends with a lift for non-up-set members, or with an obstruction that makes them refutable or harmless.

Verification gate.

Re-read from the notebook: the product-constraints theorem's coherence definition and corollary, and the bounded-span equivalence lemma with its proof.
Prior-record check: before drafting, a reviewer was asked whether the record already implies the statements. It found that the degree part is the recorded bounded-span equivalence, now cited, with degree 6 in place of this cycle's first estimate of 8. It found that the classification is not recorded. It required the scope limits on several members, now stated.
Exhaustive check: all 510 proper nonempty subsets, with witnesses stored.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the proposition in both directions, the level encoding, the three-dimensional count and the check script. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the full set \(P=\mathbb F_3^2\) excluded from part 2 and treated separately;
- the unused bound \(4+e\) dropped, with its use for two-way equivalence noted;
- part 1 stated without the independence hypothesis;
- the answers to the pencil review stated honestly, as degree 6 against the requested 4, and nonrefutation rather than correction;
- the degree bookkeeping and \(b_C\) made explicit;
- the title and the scope of the three-dimensional count made precise.

The changes weaken or restrict claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	9 min 59.58 s
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Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 52.83 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 2.26 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.29 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A satisfiable member is never refuted on its own: pinning to one allowed point suffices, and the gluing obstruction lies in compatibility

23 September 2026 · Working proof · Constraint sets on a span of jointly full forms over \(\mathbb F_3\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A satisfiable member is never refuted on its own: pinning to one allowed point suffices, and the gluing obstruction lies in compatibility”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-member-pinning.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The pencil-members entry rewrote an isolated pencil into a coherent two-form system to show it is not refuted. It proposed treating three-dimensional solution sets that no coherent system cuts out. Before doing so, this cycle asks whether nonrefutation of an isolated member needs any rewriting at all. It ends with a general statement, or with a member that is refuted although satisfiable.

General statement. lem:member-pinning: for any constraint set on a span of \(w\) jointly full forms over \(\mathbb F_3\), with a nonempty solution set, the functional base plus the set has no PC refutation of degree \(B\) on the boards where an affine system on \(w\) forms has none. It composes the recorded single-constraint dichotomy, extended from point indicators to any constraint vanishing at the pinned point, with the product-constraints corollary. So an isolated member is never the obstruction, whatever its solution set.

The pinning lemma

Lemma (member pinning). Let \(u_1,\dots,u_w\) be affine forms over \(\mathbb F_3\) whose row-linear parts are independent modulo constants on every row. Let \(\mathcal U\) be a set of constraints, each an axiom line \(c(u)\) given as a polynomial in the forms \(u\), with common zero set \(P\subseteq\mathbb F_3^w\) nonempty. Fix \(q\in P\). Suppose the board has at least \(2B-1\) rows and is robust through \(L_{\max(B-1,1)}+B(w+1)\), with \(L_t\) the short-generation robustness for \(w\) forms. Then the functional base plus \(\mathcal U\) has no PC refutation of degree \(B\).

Proof.

The affine system \(u_j=q_j\), \(j\le w\), puts each equation on its own form, so it is pairwise coherent. By the coherent product-constraints corollary, with \(r=w\), \(h=1\) and the stated rows and robustness, the functional base plus this system has no PC refutation of degree \(B\).
Each constraint is \(c(u)\) for a polynomial \(c\in\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_w]\) with \(c(q)=0\). Division in \(\mathbb F_3[y]\) by the \(y_j-q_j\) gives \(c=\sum_j(y_j-q_j)h_j\) with \(\deg h_j<\deg c\). Substituting \(y=u\) gives an exact identity in the Boolean variables. The linear parts of the \(u_j\) are linearly independent, which follows from the row-wise hypothesis. So the degree of \(c(u)\) in the Boolean variables equals its degree in \(y\), and no monomial of top degree cancels. So \(c\) is derivable from the affine system by multiplications, at degree \(\deg c\). This is the substitution in part 1 of the recorded single-constraint dichotomy (lem:single-constraint-conditioning-equivalence), which treats point indicators \(\chi_w\), \(w\ne q\). The same proof applies to any \(c\) vanishing at \(q\).
In a PC refutation of the base plus \(\mathcal U\) of degree \(D\), replace each axiom line \(c\) by its derivation, of degree \(\deg c\le D\). This gives a refutation of the base plus the affine system of degree \(D\). By step 1, \(D>B\). \(\square\)

Relation to the record.

The lemma is a composition of recorded results. The pinning step is the single-constraint dichotomy's part 1, and the rest is the product-constraints corollary for affine systems. For a pencil, \(w=2\), pinning removes part 2 of cor:pencil-subsystems' condition \(B\ge\max(8,e)\) and its need for the up-set classification. The cost is that pinning always runs at \(h=1\), so it needs \(2B-1\) rows and robustness \(L_{\max(B-1,1)}+3B\). Part 2 allows \(h\ge2\), with fewer rows. So pinning subsumes part 2 only when the rewritten family has \(h=1\). That part stays correct. The classification of coherent sets (prop:coherent-sets-are-up-sets) is not needed for nonrefutation of an isolated member. It matters only where rewritten members must be coherent with each other.
Pinning every constraint of an inventory to one global point is a deciding design. The recorded ceiling (obs:deciding-designs-capped) says that affine conditioning on forms spanning all linear parts modulo rows fixes every cell and is refuted at degree at most 2. So pinning is capped below about \(N^2\) independent forms. The lemma is the member-sized case of that recorded mechanism, not a way past its ceiling.

What gluing is about

Each member, taken alone, has functionals that satisfy it: pin it to any allowed point. The recorded gluing lemma asks for more. Its corrections must repair the defects \(\hat z_C\), which come from one global functional \(\mu\) and its extension. They are not arbitrary functionals satisfying the member, and \(\mu\) is fixed before the member is looked at. The lemma does not settle whether a member's defects can be repaired. It is necessary that \(\mu\) be compatible with the member's consequences at lower degree. The pencil's degree fall \(\sum_vC_v=\lambda\), an affine polynomial, shows this. Whether this compatibility is also sufficient is not shown. So the remaining obstruction concerns two compatibilities:

between members, where they share forms;
between each member and the global functional.

In the sheaf language used since the gluing entry, satisfying functionals exist on every member, and the question is whether compatible ones come from one global section. The problem has the structure of a global-section problem for a presheaf of local functionals, the form in which Abramsky and Brandenburger cast contextuality. Here the functionals are PC pseudo-expectations, not probability distributions, and the board's top algebra supplies the gluing maps. That is a statement of the problem's shape, not a result.

Pinning gives global sections as long as one point satisfies all members, with the union of the pinned forms small enough for the affine theory. Once the inventory's forms span all linear parts modulo rows, it cannot: the recorded ceiling refutes any global pinning at degree 2. The recorded selector thresholds (ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds), a finite check at small \(n\), show hardness beyond that regime. At \(n=6\), 76 selectors on uniform affine forms are not refuted at degree 3, although their forms span \(G_1\), of dimension 35. So the global sections that exist there are mixed, not pinned, and no recorded mechanism constructs them.

Assessment and next step

The member-level questions are now closed for nonrefutation, at every span dimension. What remains is the mixed-section problem: construct compatible corrections when no point assignment covers the inventory. The only recorded route to it is the syzygy condition, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)=0\) through \(B\), for the tops of the whole inventory. For square tops the recorded evidence covers up to 40 forms at \(n=7\), with one seed, on the weak base's algebra.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer, at \(p=3\): explain the recorded square-top count \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4=\min(\gamma_4,M(\gamma_2-\gamma_1)-\binom M2)\) on the weak base's algebra at \(n=7\). The target is an expected rank modulo Koszul syzygies, not a bound set by the domain and codomain. So there are two open conditions: rank at least the target, carried by a nonzero minor, and independence of the Koszul syzygies in the kernel. Both hold for generic forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) once one specialization satisfies them. The F_3 case needs a separate argument, since the minors' degrees exceed 3. The candidate is permutation forms, \(\ell_j=\sum_ix_{i,\pi_j(i)}\) for permutations \(\pi_j\), defined for every \(M\). Their squares are sums of matching monomials, so \(\Phi_4\) becomes a combinatorial incidence map. First compute its rank at \(n=7\) for \(M=2,5,20,39,40\), as recorded, with \(\gamma_4=34950\) columns and at most \(40\cdot924\) rows. If it matches, look for a combinatorial proof for all \(n\). If it does not, the specialization is too special. This covers generic, not adversarial, inventories.

Verification gate.

Re-read from the notebook: the product-constraints corollary (rows, robustness, \(h\)), the bounded-span equivalence lemma, the pencil-members corollary, and the deciding-designs ceiling.
Claim searches: point conditioning, deciding designs and pinning. They found the single-constraint dichotomy, which is the pinning mechanism, now cited with its proof re-read, and the deciding-designs ceiling, cited as the global version. The first draft proved the pinning step through bounded-span equivalence at degree \(\max(2w+1,e)\). The dichotomy's substitution removes that condition.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the division identity and the PC replacement, and that the affine system meets the corollary's hypotheses. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the subsumption of the pencil corollary limited;
- unused hypotheses dropped;
- the degree of \(c(u)\) justified by independence of the linear parts;
- the unproved sufficiency of compatibility weakened to necessity, and the title reworded;
- the selector comparison restated as spanning \(G_1\), and labelled as a finite check;
- "far past pinning" at \(n=7\) dropped;
- the next step's two open conditions separated, the F_3 remark corrected, and the disjoint-support specialization, which exists only for at most \(n+1\) forms, replaced by permutation forms.

The changes weaken or restrict claims. The new specialization is a proposal, not a claim. So no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 19.30 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 36.77 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 42.39 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

At n = 7, generic square tops have only Frobenius and Koszul syzygies in degree 4, proved by one orbit specialization

23 September 2026 · Working proof by exact specialization, and a conjecture · Square tops in degree 4 on the weak unary top algebra, \(n=7\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “At n = 7, generic square tops have only Frobenius and Koszul syzygies in degree 4, proved by one orbit specialization”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-generic-square-tops.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The member-pinning entry moved the gluing obstruction to compatibility. The only recorded route to compatible sections is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,\cdot)=0\) for the inventory's tops. For square tops the degree-four spread entry measured \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4=\min(\gamma_4,M(\gamma_2-\gamma_1)-\binom M2)\) at \(n=7\) with one random seed. Can that count be proved, for generic forms, from one specialization? The cycle ends with a proof or a failed specialization.

General statement. conj:square-top-degree-four-semiregular: for every \(n\ge7\) and generic linear forms, the degree-4 syzygies of square tops on the weak unary top algebra are exactly the Frobenius and Koszul ones, below the degree-4 fill point. prop:generic-square-tops-degree-four proves it at \(n=7\) for every \(M\le40\).

Setting

\(A\) is the weak unary PHP top algebra at \(n\) holes over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), as in the degree-four spread entry. At \(n=7\) its dimensions are \((\gamma_1,\gamma_2,\gamma_4)=(48,924,34950)\). For linear forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_M\in A_1\), let \(\Phi_4:\bigoplus_jA_2e_j\to A_4\), \((a_j)\mapsto\sum_ja_j\ell_j^2\). Its kernel contains two kinds of generators:

Frobenius: \(\ell_jm\,e_j\) for \(m\) in a basis of \(A_1\), since \(\ell_j^3=0\);
Koszul: \(\ell_k^2e_j-\ell_j^2e_k\) for \(k<j\).

There are \(g_M=M\gamma_1+\binom M2\) of them. Put \(T_M=M\gamma_2-g_M\), which is the recorded count below the fill point: \(T_M\le\gamma_4\) exactly for \(M\le40\) at \(n=7\). The syzygies-as-Tor proposition was stated for the functional board's \(G\). Its Taylor-resolution argument applies to any graded module over \(R=\overline{\mathbb F}_3[x_1,\dots,x_M]/(x_j^3)\), here \(A\). For \(J=(x_j^2)\), the image of the Taylor syzygies in degree 4 is exactly the span of the listed generators. So "kernel equals their span" is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^R(R/J,A)_4=0\).

The proposition

Proposition (generic square tops in degree four). At \(n=7\), for every \(M\le40\), there is a nonempty Zariski-open set of \(M\)-tuples of forms on which the Frobenius and Koszul generators are linearly independent and span \(\ker\Phi_4\), and \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4=T_M\). At \(M=41\), \(\Phi_4\) is onto \(A_4\) on a nonempty open set.

Proof. Two conditions are open in the forms, since each is the nonvanishing of some minor of a matrix whose entries are polynomials in the forms' coefficients:

(a) \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4\ge\min(T_M,\gamma_4)\);
(b) the \(g_M\) generators have rank \(g_M\).

Both hold at the orbit specialization below, which is an \(\mathbb F_3\)-point, so each defines a nonempty open subset of the irreducible affine space of \(M\)-tuples, and so does their intersection. At a point of the intersection, with \(M\le40\):

the kernel contains the generators' span, of dimension \(g_M\);
it has dimension \(M\gamma_2-\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4\le M\gamma_2-T_M=g_M\).

So the kernel equals the span, and \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4=T_M\). At \(M=41\), (a) says \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4=\gamma_4\). \(\square\)

The specialization. Take one uniform form \(\ell\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), seed 0. Take its images under the \(8\cdot7=56\) cyclic shifts \((i,a)\mapsto(i+r,a+h)\) of pigeons and holes, in a seeded random order, and use the first \(M\) of them. function_phi4.py --family orbit computed \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4\) for every prefix \(M=1,\dots,41\): it equals \(\min(T_M,\gamma_4)\) in all 41 cases. taylor_independence.py computed the generators' rank for every prefix: it equals \(g_M\) in all 41 cases. So (a) and (b) hold at every \(M\le41\). At \(M=41\) the kernel has dimension \(41\cdot924-34950=2934\), which exceeds \(g_{41}=2788\) by 146, so there \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\ne0\) for every tuple, since \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4\le\gamma_4\) always. The result file's field coef is ignored by the orbit family.

A failed specialization. Function forms, \(\ell_j=\sum_ic_{j,i}x_{i,\sigma_j(i)}\), with one cell per pigeon, uniform \(\sigma_j\) and random nonzero \(c_{j,i}\), fall short of \(T_M\):

by 2 at \(M=2\), 196 at \(M=5\) and 606 at \(M=20\), at \(n=7\);
by 35 at \(M=2\) at \(n=6\), against 12 for uniform forms.

A likely explanation is that concentrating each pigeon on one cell makes pigeons that pick the same hole collide, so their products vanish. The failure of this family proves nothing about necessity. At \(n=6\) the sampled uniform forms also fall short, by \(6\) per form, matching the recorded annihilator excess \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}_{A_2}(\ell^2)=\gamma_1+6\) for sampled forms there. A sample only bounds the generic kernel from above, so generic failure at \(n=6\) is not proved.

Computation. The ranks come from one incremental elimination over \(\mathbb F_3\), which gives every prefix rank. It is gf3_prefix.c: bit-sliced rows, as in the recorded gf3.c, with a fully reduced basis and OpenMP over a block's rows. It was checked against the recorded elimination on 20 random block matrices. It took 222 s for all 41 prefixes, where re-eliminating each \(M\) separately took 396 s for six of them. The generator check took 1 s. Results and scripts are in research/results/odd_prime_permutation_forms_20260923.

What this gives and what it does not

It is a proof, not a sample. For generic square tops at \(n=7\), the degree-4 syzygies are exactly the Taylor ones below the fill point, \(M\le40\). The degree-four spread entry's one-seed count is confirmed as the generic behaviour.
It is one degree at one board size, on the weak base's algebra, not on the functional board's \(G\).
It is generic, not adversarial. The goal's inventories come from an arbitrary small refutation, and the pencil review showed that special position creates non-Taylor syzygies at constant size. A generic statement cannot exclude them.

Conjecture (square tops in degree four). For every \(n\ge7\), generic forms, and \(M\) below the degree-4 fill point, \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi_4=T_M\), and \(\ker\Phi_4\) is spanned by the Frobenius and Koszul generators. The proof above reduces each \((n,M)\) to one specialization. A proof for all \(n\) would need specializations whose rank is computable in general. The orbit family is equivariant under the shift group when \(M\) is the whole group, of order \(n(n+1)\), prime to 3 when \(3\nmid n(n+1)\). But the fill point lies below the whole group, so partial orbits, which carry no equivariance, are what matter.

Assessment and next step

Since the pencil review, the gluing line has produced three results:

isolated members are harmless;
coherent rewriting is limited to grid up-sets;
generic square tops are Taylor-local in degree 4 at \(n=7\).

All three are local or generic. The goal needs compatibility for adversarial inventories, which have special-position configurations. No mechanism for that is in view. That is a line producing special cases without moving its general implication, so the next cycle is a route review.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: a route review of the gluing line. State its general claim, and what the goal needs for adversarial inventories. Attempt a falsification: an adversarial square-top family in special position below the fill point that loses Taylor locality in degree 4 while PHP stays unrefuted, so that hardness there must come from defect vanishing. Then weigh the gluing line against the recorded alternatives and propose the next research on the highest-risk item.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the degree-four spread entry's claim and its script phi4.py, whose a4lib machinery function_phi4.py reuses, and the syzygies-as-Tor proposition.
Claim searches: semi-regular, square tops and specialization. They found the recorded degree-four count and the semi-regularity conjecture relative to the base (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base), both cited.
Checks: the prefix-rank kernel was self-tested against the recorded elimination.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the proof, the numbers, the scripts, the prefix ordering and the C kernel. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- "through the fill point" corrected to "below";
- the \(n=6\) and function-form statements weakened to what samples show;
- the Tor reading justified for \(A\);
- a letter-coded name replaced by the claim ID.

The changes weaken claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	21 min 24.19 s
Marked reading and review windows	29.73 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 21.15 s
Computation design and coding	4 min 21.54 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	37.85 s
Individually measured computation	10 min 30.28 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	3.64 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 2.

Route review: the gluing line localizes everything except compatibility, and adversarial inventories defeat syzygy locality at constant size

23 September 2026 · Route review · The gluing line on odd-prime-clause-transfer. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the gluing line localizes everything except compatibility, and adversarial inventories defeat syzygy locality at constant size”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-gluing-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The generic square-tops entry judged the gluing line to be producing local or generic results while the goal needs adversarial ones. It asked for this review.

General statement. The line's claim is thm:glued-product-constraints: hardness for any number of product constraints follows from local corrections and generation of the top syzygies on members that have them. Its recorded falsifications are obs:pencil-selector-syzygy and lem:member-pinning. Together they show that syzygy locality fails for satisfiable, unrefuted inventories at constant size.

The line's claim and what the goal needs

The line shows the following:

Local hardness. Coherent product systems on jointly full robust forms complete at every degree.
Exact gluing. A global correction exists exactly when the defects vanish on every top syzygy. Modulo the tops' Taylor syzygies, those syzygies form \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)\).
Members. Any satisfiable member is harmless on its own.

The goal needs this for the inventory compiled from an arbitrary polynomial-size refutation, at polylogarithmic \(B\), and in the window. Such an inventory has polynomially many forms, far more than \(N^2\), and they are in whatever position the refutation chooses.

Falsification

The pencil already gives the falsification. Four selectors on a pencil at \(p=3\), with forbidden lines not concurrent, form a satisfiable member. By member pinning it is not refuted on robust boards. Yet by the pencil syzygy it has a non-Taylor syzygy in degree 2. So Taylor locality is not necessary for hardness, and an adversary can break it with four constraints. By contrast, generic square tops at \(n=7\) are Taylor-local in degree 4 below the fill point. So locality is a property of general position, which the goal's inventories need not have.

The pencil also shows what replaces locality. Its four constraints sum to an affine polynomial \(\lambda\), a degree fall from 2 to 1. The defect pairing on the pencil syzygy vanishes only if the global functional already respects \(\lambda\). An adversarial inventory can chain such falls. A derived affine consequence of one member lies in new pencils with other members' forms, and so on. This cascade is how PC refutes, and controlling it is the lower bound itself. The gluing formalism locates the cascade exactly, in the defect pairing on non-Taylor syzygies, but it does not control it.

Assessment of the gluing line

The line has turned the batched mechanism into a precise local-to-global statement. Every local ingredient is proved at every degree, and the global obstruction is identified as a Tor group. Generic evidence supports vanishing of that obstruction below the semi-regular crossing. For the goal, the line faces three limits:

Its only sufficient condition for compatibility, Tor vanishing, fails for adversarial inventories at constant size.
The replacement condition, defect vanishing, is equivalent to hardness of the cascade of local falls, and no mechanism is recorded for it.
The component version needs closure under falls. The recorded special-position cores are large in small samples at high density.

So the line is weak as a route to the goal in its current form. It is strong as a framework: whatever mechanism controls the cascade will enter as defect vanishing on span-supported syzygies.

Next step: test whether falls are local

One named general hypothesis would let the line proceed.

Local-fall hypothesis. Below the semi-regular crossing, every degree fall of a selector inventory at degree \(D\) is generated by the bounded-span consequences of its span-closed members. These are the consequences that bounded-span equivalence derives inside each member.

If it holds, the members' local closures are the whole cascade below the crossing. Gluing then applies to the closed inventory, with local corrections from member pinning and the product-constraints theorem. If it fails, some fall is global, and the line needs a new idea there.

On odd-prime-clause-transfer: test the hypothesis with the recorded fast closure driver and its degree split, at \(n=6\), \(D=3\). Use inventories of random selectors with planted satisfiable pencils. Each pencil's four constraints sum to its affine fall \(\lambda\), whose multiples enter the closure below the top degree. The prediction is additivity. The degree split, low part and top part, equals the recorded no-fall split for the random selectors (\(280+M\) low, \(4291+34M\) top), plus, for each pencil, the change in split that the base plus that pencil alone produces, computed on its own.

The prediction is exact and falsifiable below the crossing \(M=76\).
The smallest nonvacuous case is one pencil among random selectors.
A cascade shows up as a low part larger than the additive prediction, before the crossing.

Count first: each closure at \(n=6\), \(D=3\) took about a minute, and this needs a handful of \(M\) values. Before running, check that the driver's elimination is a compiled kernel and computes every prefix in one incremental pass, as the new compiled-kernel rule requires. The step ends with the measured split against the prediction.

Verification gate. A review. It re-read the pencil review, member pinning, the syzygies-as-Tor proposition, the generic square-tops proposition, and the recorded selector thresholds with their degree split. It adds no mathematical claim, so no reviewer pass was made beyond those of the cited entries.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	1 min 55.29 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 13.85 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	41.31 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A satisfiable pencil is an affine equation plus a selector at degree 3, and planted pencils show almost no global fall before refutation

23 September 2026 · Working proof, conjecture and finite check · Selector inventories with planted pencils, \(p=3\), \(n=6\), \(D=3\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A satisfiable pencil is an affine equation plus a selector at degree 3, and planted pencils show almost no global fall before refutation”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-local-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The gluing-line review found that adversarial inventories break syzygy locality with four constraints, a pencil. It asked whether the degree falls such configurations create stay local, or cascade before the semi-regular crossing. The cycle ends with the measured degree split of planted-pencil inventories against an additive prediction.

General statement. lem:pencil-reduction: at \(p=3\), the four selectors of a satisfiable pencil and the pair consisting of one affine equation and one selector on a transversal form derive each other at PC degree 3, for any affine forms. conj:local-falls: below the semi-regular crossing of the inventory with each span-closed member replaced by its local reduction, a selector inventory's low-degree closure never exceeds the base's and those members' own, and refutation comes within a few constraints of that crossing. The finite check is ex:planted-pencil-thresholds.

The pencil reduction

Lemma (pencil reduction). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), work in \(\mathbb F_3[y_1,y_2]\) and put \(L_1=y_1\), \(L_2=y_2\). Take \(L_3=L_1+L_2+c_3\) and \(L_4=L_1-L_2+c_4\) with \((c_3,c_4)\ne(0,0)\), and the selectors \(C_v=1-L_v^2\). Put \(\lambda=\sum_vC_v\). Then:

\(\lambda=1-c_3^2-c_4^2+(c_3+c_4)y_1+(c_3-c_4)y_2\) is a nonconstant affine polynomial.
The common zero set \(P\subseteq\mathbb F_3^2\) of the four selector polynomials has exactly two points, both on \(\lambda=0\). At least one \(\tau\in\{y_1,y_2\}\) is not parallel to \(\lambda\), and any such \(\tau\) takes different values at the two points. Let \(t\) be the third value.
The two systems \(\{C_1,\dots,C_4\}\) and \(\{\lambda,\chi_t(\tau)\}\), with \(\chi_t(\tau)=1-(\tau-t)^2\), derive each other at PC degree at most 3. So, over any base, they have the same PC closure at every degree \(D\ge3\). All identities are polynomial identities in \(y\), so they hold after substituting any affine forms \(L_1,L_2\) in any variables. No independence of \(L_1,L_2\) is needed; if they are dependent, \(\lambda\) may become constant after substitution, and the reduced system says so.

Proof.

Expanding, \(\sum_vL_v^2=3L_1^2+3L_2^2+2(c_3+c_4)L_1+2(c_3-c_4)L_2+c_3^2+c_4^2\). Since \(3=0\) and \(4=1\), this gives the formula for \(\lambda\). The linear part vanishes only if \(c_3+c_4=c_3-c_4=0\), which forces \(c_3=c_4=0\).
This is the recorded classification of pencil solution sets: all 72 satisfiable choices of four forbidden values give two points (pencil members). Each \(C_v\) vanishes on \(P\), so \(\lambda\) does too. Since \(\lambda\) is nonconstant, at least one of \(y_1,y_2\) is not parallel to it. Any \(\tau\) not parallel to \(\lambda\) restricts to a bijection from the line \(\lambda=0\), which contains \(P\), onto \(\mathbb F_3\). So it separates the two points.
Use \((\lambda,\tau)\) as affine coordinates on the pencil. Each \(C_w\) is a polynomial \(F_w(\lambda,\tau)\) of degree at most 2. Exactly, \(F_w(\lambda,\tau)-F_w(0,\tau)=\lambda h_w\) with \(\deg h_w\le1\). The polynomial \(F_w(0,\tau)\) has degree at most 2 and vanishes at the two \(\tau\)-values \(t\pm1\) of \(P\). So it equals \(\kappa_w(\tau-t-1)(\tau-t+1)=-\kappa_w\chi_t(\tau)\). Hence \(C_w=h_w\lambda-\kappa_w\chi_t(\tau)\) as polynomials, and each \(C_w\) is derived from \(\{\lambda,\chi_t(\tau)\}\) at degree 2. Conversely, \(\lambda=\sum_vC_v\) needs no multiplication. If every \(\kappa_w\) were zero, each \(C_w\) would be a multiple of \(\lambda\), and \(P\) would be the whole line \(\lambda=0\), of three points. So some \(\kappa_w\ne0\), and \(\chi_t(\tau)=\kappa_w^{-1}(h_w\sum_vC_v-C_w)\) is derived at degree 3. All identities are in \(\mathbb F_3[y_1,y_2]\). \(\square\)

So at \(D\ge3\) a satisfiable pencil is a coherent product system on the two forms \(\lambda,\tau\): one affine equation and one selector. This lowers the degree of the recorded bounded-span equivalence from 6 to 3 for pencils. The exact check pencil_equivalence.py compared the two degree-3 closures at \(n=6\) for 3 seeds and all 8 offsets \((c_3,c_4)\), and found them equal in all 24 cases.

Planted pencils among random selectors

local_falls.py computes the degree-3 closure of weak unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^7_6\) plus \(k\) planted satisfiable pencils, then the first \(M\) selectors of the recorded random sequence. It reports the closure's low part (degree below 3) and top part (degree 3) at every \(M\). The prediction is additive: the recorded no-fall split for the random selectors, \(280+M\) low and \(4291+34M\) top, plus each pencil's own change, measured alone as \(+37\) low and \(+494\) top.

The elimination is a new compiled kernel, gf3_basis.c. It keeps a persistent fully reduced basis over \(\mathbb F_3\), and each product row is inserted once, so one closure per inventory gives every checkpoint. A closure took 1 to 2 s, against about a minute for the recorded driver, and it reproduced the recorded split for the base and for 20 random selectors.

Results, for 3 pencil seeds and \(k=0,\dots,7\), sampled at \(M=0,5,10,15\) and then in steps of 1 from 20 to 76:

Almost no global fall. The low part never exceeds the additive prediction without overlaps before refutation. It equals the prediction for \(k\le1\). For \(k\ge2\) it falls short, by 0 to 13, because the pencils' own contributions overlap. One event goes beyond the overlaps. At seed 2, \(k=2\), \(M=48\), the low part rises by 2 instead of 1, from 400 to 402, and the top part by 60 instead of 32. That is a fall of one dimension beyond the members' own, two steps before refutation at \(M=50\).
Refutation at the capacity crossing. For \(k\le4\), until the event above, the top part grows by \(34-k\) per random selector. One interpretation, not verified, is that each pencil's affine form \(\lambda\) meets each selector in one Koszul overlap. The least refuted \(M\) equals the first \(M\) at which the extrapolated top part exceeds the 6860 degree-3 columns. This is exact in 14 of the 15 cases with \(k\le4\), where \(M\) is sampled in steps of 1. The values are \(76,63,51,39,27\), with seed 3 at \(k=4\) giving 28, as its own extrapolation predicts. The exception is seed 2 at \(k=2\), refuted at 50 against 51, after the event above. For \(k=5,6\), refutation lies in the sampled interval that contains the prediction.
Pencils behave as affine equations. Seven pencils alone are refuted at degree 3. This matches the recorded least refuted number of random affine equations at \(n=6\), \(D=3\), which is 7. By the lemma, seven pencils are seven affine equations plus seven selectors.

Conjecture (local falls). Take a selector inventory on the weak unary base at \(p=3\) and degree \(D\). Replace each span-closed member by its local reduction, as the pencil lemma does for pencils. Then, below the semi-regular crossing of the reduced inventory, the closure's degree-\(<D\) part never exceeds the sum of the base's and the members' own, and refutation occurs within a bounded number of constraints of the crossing. The exact form, with equality less overlaps, fails in one run by one dimension two steps before refutation. The evidence is the check above: one board size, one degree and planted pencils, where members are known in advance. Adversarial inventories may hide members of larger span, whose reductions are not coherent (the up-set limit).

What this means for the route

At these sizes the falls an adversary can plant with pencils stay local. Each pencil acts as an affine equation plus one selector, and refutation comes when the reduced inventory's count fills the top degree, give or take a step, with one fall of a single dimension just before it. That is the picture the gluing line needs: close each member locally, then glue below the crossing. The next obligation is the one the review named: members of larger span, and members hidden in the inventory rather than planted. The first is a three-dimensional span whose solution set is not a grid up-set for any basis of the span, since it has no coherent reduction.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer, at \(p=3\): find the reduction of a three-dimensional member whose allowed set is not a grid up-set. Take selectors on the 13 directions of a three-dimensional span with an allowed set that is not a grid up-set for any basis of the span. Decide whether their degree-\(D\) closure, for some small \(D\), equals that of a coherent system on derived forms, as for pencils. If it does not, find what extra it derives. The planted-member closure test gives the evidence: an exact comparison of closures at \(n=6\), \(D=3\) and 4, with the kernel above. A proof, or a counterexample to coherent reduction, ends the step.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the gluing-line review, the pencil-members classification, bounded-span equivalence, and the recorded selector thresholds with their degree split.
Checks: the closure kernel reproduced the recorded split. The pencil reduction was checked in all 24 cases.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the lemma's identities, the degrees and the closure kernel's correctness argument, a downward induction on insertion order. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the lemma stated in \(\mathbb F_3[y]\), with \(P\) as a zero set and the transversality argument completed;
- the case counts corrected to the actual sampling grid;
- the one fall beyond the members' own reported, at seed 2, \(k=2\), \(M=48\), and the conjecture weakened accordingly;
- the Koszul-overlap reading of the slope labelled an interpretation;
- the route paragraph and the up-set quantifier corrected.

The changes weaken or correct claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 0.78 s
Marked reading and review windows	45.87 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 53.48 s
Computation design and coding	5 min 22.58 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	26.13 s
Individually measured computation	2 min 32.59 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A member with no coherent reduction also falls only locally: four selectors on a three-dimensional span, planted among random selectors

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Selector members on three-dimensional spans, \(p=3\), \(n=6\), \(D=3\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A member with no coherent reduction also falls only locally: four selectors on a three-dimensional span, planted among random selectors”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-plane-members.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The local-falls entry reduced pencils to coherent systems and found their falls local. It asked about members whose allowed set is not a grid up-set for any basis of their span, which have no coherent reduction. Do their falls also stay local, or does the missing reduction show up as a global fall? The cycle ends with the smallest such member measured against the additive prediction.

General statement. conj:local-falls: below the semi-regular crossing, a selector inventory's low-degree closure never exceeds the base's and its members' own, with refutation near the crossing. This cycle tests it on members outside the coherent class, with the finite checks ex:describable-sets-f3-cubed and ex:plane-member-falls.

The smallest member without a coherent reduction

describable.c, a C enumeration, lists every subset of \(\mathbb F_3^3\) that is a grid up-set for some basis and coordinatewise orders. It uses 234 bases, 216 orders and 980 grid up-sets. 13,905,349 of the 134,217,727 nonempty subsets are describable. The earlier bound of 49,533,120 was only the product of the numbers of bases, orders and up-sets, which counts many sets repeatedly. The enumeration then scans every selector arrangement with at most one forbidden plane per direction, \(4^{13}\) of them, and records which have a nonempty allowed set that is not describable. It ran in 3 s.

With at most 3 planes, every allowed set is describable.
With exactly 4 planes, 18,954 arrangements have non-describable allowed sets, of sizes 5 and 6.
With 5 or more planes, every nonempty allowed set is describable.

An example of size 5: forbid \(A=0\), \(A+C=0\), \(B=1\) and \(B+C=0\) for coordinates \(A,B,C\). The four forms span three dimensions, and they are two pairs linked through \(C\).

Planted among random selectors

plane_falls.py repeats the local-falls design with this member. It uses random affine forms \(A,B,C\) for each copy, \(k=0,1,2,3,4,6,8\) copies, and then the recorded random selector sequence at \(n=6\), \(D=3\). The closures use the incremental kernel gf3_basis.c. There were 2 member seeds, with \(M\) sampled at \(0,5,10,15,20\) and then in steps of 1 up to 76: the option --Ms 0,5,10,15,20,21,...,76.

Own contribution. Alone, a member adds \(+5\) to the low part and \(+167\) to the top part. Four random selectors would add \(+4\) and \(+136\). So the member has one extra low dimension, a local fall, and 31 extra top dimensions.
No global fall. For every \(k\) and \(M\) before refutation, the low part equals the additive prediction exactly, with excess 0. So is the top part: the random selectors add 34 each, with no overlap with the members.
Refutation at the capacity crossing. The least refuted \(M\) is 76, 71, 66, 61, 56, 47 and 37 for \(k=0,1,2,3,4,6,8\). That is exactly the first \(M\) with \(4291+167k+34M>6860\), in all 14 cases.

The two seeds gave identical counts, as the structural counts suggest.

What this means

At \(n=6\), \(D=3\), this one member, the size-5 arrangement, behaves like a coherent one. Its falls are its own, it adds to the count additively, and refutation comes when the count fills the top degree. The hypothesis this supports is that the coherent reduction is a proof device, not what the local-fall law needs. The size-6 arrangement and the other four-plane arrangements were not planted, and both seeds gave identical counts. With the pencil runs, this is evidence for the local-fall conjecture from two member types at one board size and one degree, with planted rather than hidden members. The one recorded deviation stays that of the local-falls entry, a single dimension at one pencil run.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: prove additivity for members on independent spans. Take members \(S_1,S_2\), polynomial constraints in forms of spans \(W_1,W_2\), with \(W_1\cap W_2=0\). Suppose \(W_1\oplus W_2\) has a basis independent modulo constants on every row on a board robust as in the product-constraints theorem. Claim: the degree-\(<D\) part of the PC closure of the base plus \(S_1\cup S_2\) is the subspace sum of the degree-\(<D\) parts for the base plus \(S_1\) and the base plus \(S_2\). Their intersection is the base's own degree-\(<D\) part, so the increments over the base add, as the runs measured. The planned proof has three steps, none of them proved yet:

the short-generation theorem makes \(G\) free, through \(D\), over the truncated algebra of \(W_1\oplus W_2\), by the syzygies-as-Tor proposition's part 2;
over a free module, the syzygies of \(J_1+J_2\), with \(J_i\) in disjoint variables, come from those of \(J_1\), of \(J_2\), and Koszul pairs, by Künneth;
the gluing lemma then adds no fall beyond the members'.

The step ends with that lemma, or with the gap between top-algebra freeness and the closure's low part.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the local-falls entry, the coherent-sets proposition and its count, and the recorded selector split.
Checks: the planted-member closures reproduce the recorded base and random splits.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the enumeration logic, the example, and every number against the result files. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the sampling grid and invocation stated;
- the conclusions restricted to this member at these sizes;
- an unchecked causal clause dropped;
- the product bound described for what it is;
- the next step's claim made precise, with its steps marked as unproved.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 4.27 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 45.68 s
Computation design and coding	34.95 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 5.28 s
Individually measured computation	38.23 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A stable union has additive closures: coherent members on a jointly full union add degree by degree

23 September 2026 · Working proofs · PC closures of unions of constraint systems; coherent members, \(p=3\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A stable union has additive closures: coherent members on a jointly full union add degree by degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-additivity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The plane-members entry measured exact additivity of planted members' closures below the crossing. It asked for a proof in the first general case, members on independent spans. The cycle ends with a lemma, or with the gap between top-algebra freeness and the closure's low part.

General statement. lem:closure-additivity: for any base and constraint systems \(F_1,F_2\), suppose the union has PC closure equal to its NS span at every degree through \(D\), and every NS functional of the union through a degree \(k\le D\) extends through \(D\). Then the union has no fall, and its closures, including their parts of each lower degree, are the sums of the members' closures. cor:coherent-member-additivity: this holds for any two coherent product systems whose union is coherent on jointly full robust forms. That includes members on independent spans whose sum is jointly full and robust for the combined number of forms.

Definitions

Work in the free polynomial ring \(\mathbb F[x]\), with Booleanity and the other field axioms inside the base \(\Gamma\), as in the recorded functional base. Write \(P_{\le d}\) for polynomials of degree at most \(d\), so that \(\deg(mf)=\deg m+\deg f\).

For a set \(F\) of polynomials, \(\mathrm{NS}_d(F)\) is the span of all products \(mf\) with \(f\in\Gamma\cup F\), \(m\) a monomial, and \(\deg(mf)\le d\).
\(\mathrm{PC}_d(F)\) is the smallest subspace of \(P_{\le d}\) that contains \(\Gamma\cup F\) in degree at most \(d\) and is closed under multiplication by a variable whenever the result has degree at most \(d\).

Always \(\mathrm{NS}_d(F)\subseteq\mathrm{PC}_d(F)\), both are monotone in \(F\), and \(\mathrm{NS}_d(F_1\cup F_2)=\mathrm{NS}_d(F_1)+\mathrm{NS}_d(F_2)\), since every generator of the left side is a generator of one summand.

Extension implies stability. Suppose every NS functional through \(k\) extends through \(D\). That is, every linear functional on \(P_{\le k}\) vanishing on \(\mathrm{NS}_k\) is the restriction of one on \(P_{\le D}\) vanishing on \(\mathrm{NS}_D\). Then \(\mathrm{NS}_D\cap P_{\le k}=\mathrm{NS}_k\).

The inclusion \(\supseteq\) is clear. If \(g\in\mathrm{NS}_D\cap P_{\le k}\) were not in \(\mathrm{NS}_k\), some functional on \(P_{\le k}\) would vanish on \(\mathrm{NS}_k\) but not at \(g\). Its extension would vanish on \(\mathrm{NS}_D\ni g\), a contradiction.

The additivity lemma

Lemma (closure additivity). Let \(F=F_1\cup F_2\) and suppose, for every \(d\le D\):

(i) \(\mathrm{PC}_d(F)=\mathrm{NS}_d(F)\);
(ii) every NS functional for \(\Gamma+F\) through \(d\) extends through \(D\).

Then, for every \(d\le D\):

\(\mathrm{PC}_d(F)=\mathrm{PC}_d(F_1)+\mathrm{PC}_d(F_2)\);
\(\mathrm{PC}_D(F)\cap P_{\le d}=\mathrm{PC}_d(F_1)+\mathrm{PC}_d(F_2)=\bigl(\mathrm{PC}_D(F_1)\cap P_{\le d}\bigr)+\bigl(\mathrm{PC}_D(F_2)\cap P_{\le d}\bigr)\).

In particular, the union has no fall at all: its filtration is stable, \(\mathrm{PC}_D(F)\cap P_{\le d}=\mathrm{PC}_d(F)\). Every fall of a member must then already lie in \(\mathrm{PC}_d(F_1)+\mathrm{PC}_d(F_2)\). A member with a fall not absorbed there violates the hypotheses. The content of the lemma is in (i) and (ii): a stable union has additive closures. Part 1 uses only (i) at \(d\). Part 2 uses (i) at \(d\) and at \(D\), and (ii) at \(d\).

Proof.

\(\mathrm{PC}_d(F)=\mathrm{NS}_d(F)=\mathrm{NS}_d(F_1)+\mathrm{NS}_d(F_2)\subseteq\mathrm{PC}_d(F_1)+\mathrm{PC}_d(F_2)\subseteq\mathrm{PC}_d(F)\), by (i), additivity of NS spans, and monotonicity.
By (i) and the extension-implies-stability argument, \(\mathrm{PC}_D(F)\cap P_{\le d}=\mathrm{NS}_D(F)\cap P_{\le d}=\mathrm{NS}_d(F)=\mathrm{PC}_d(F)\). By part 1 this is \(\mathrm{PC}_d(F_1)+\mathrm{PC}_d(F_2)\). This sum lies in \(\bigl(\mathrm{PC}_D(F_1)\cap P_{\le d}\bigr)+\bigl(\mathrm{PC}_D(F_2)\cap P_{\le d}\bigr)\), since \(\mathrm{PC}_d(F_i)\subseteq\mathrm{PC}_D(F_i)\) and has degree at most \(d\). That in turn lies in \(\mathrm{PC}_D(F)\cap P_{\le d}\), by monotonicity. So all three are equal. \(\square\)

Hypotheses (i) and (ii) are on the union only. The recorded no-fall criterion (lem:no-fall-criterion) is related. There, stability of the filtration makes the normal-form PC closure equal to the NS-type span.

It gives a sum of subspaces, not additivity of dimensions over the base. The increments over \(\mathrm{PC}(\emptyset)\) add exactly when \(\mathrm{PC}_d(F_1)\cap\mathrm{PC}_d(F_2)=\mathrm{PC}_d(\emptyset)\). The runs measured that equality, and the lemma does not give it.

Coherent members

Corollary (coherent member additivity). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the functional base, let \(\mathcal C_1,\mathcal C_2\) be product constraint systems whose union is pairwise coherent, on forms jointly independent modulo constants on every row. Suppose the board meets the coherent product-constraints corollary's rows and robustness for the union's \(r\) forms and some \(B\). Then parts 1 and 2 of the lemma hold for \(F_i=\mathcal C_i\), for every \(d\le D=B\).

This covers members on independent spans \(W_1\cap W_2=0\), provided the \(r_1+r_2\) forms together are jointly independent modulo constants on every row and the board meets the rows and robustness for \(r_1+r_2\) forms. The two members then share no form, so coherence across them holds vacuously, and the union is coherent as soon as each member is. Every constraint is nontrivial, with \(h=\min|b_C|\ge1\), as the theorem requires.

Proof. The corollary gives, for the union, that \(\mathrm{PC}_B=\mathrm{NS}_B\), and that every NS functional through \(k\le B\) extends through \(B\), which is (ii). For \(d\le B\), (i) follows: \(\mathrm{PC}_d\subseteq\mathrm{PC}_B\cap P_{\le d}=\mathrm{NS}_B\cap P_{\le d}=\mathrm{NS}_d\subseteq\mathrm{PC}_d\), using the extension-implies-stability argument. \(\square\)

What this settles and what it does not

For coherent members, the local-fall law holds at every degree through \(B\), on a jointly full robust union. Their falls are their own, which for coherent systems means none, since the corollary says each has no fall.
For members with their own falls, such as the plane member measured last cycle with one extra low dimension, the lemma needs (i) and (ii) for the union, and no recorded theorem gives them. The natural route is to close each member, replacing \(F_i\) by generators of \(\mathrm{PC}_D(F_i)\), and then show (i) and (ii) for the union of the closed members. That is the local-fall conjecture restated through the lemma, not a proof of it.
Joint fullness of the union caps the total number of forms at about \(\sqrt N/B\), as the product-constraints entry recorded. The goal's inventories exceed that. Beyond it, (i) and (ii) for the union are the batched mechanism itself.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: find a sufficient condition for (i) and (ii) for the union of closed members when the union is not jointly full. (i) and (ii) are needed only after closing the members. The data support the local-fall target, not (i) and (ii) directly. Below the capacity crossing, planted members and random selectors showed exact additivity of the increments, far beyond joint fullness: 76 selectors against \(\dim G_1=35\). The candidate mechanism is the one the gluing entry made exact: an NS functional for the union extends exactly when the defects vanish on its top syzygies. By the syzygies-as-Tor proposition, those syzygies are Taylor-generated when \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)\) vanishes. So the step is to prove, or refute by construction, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) vanishing for square tops in general position below the fill point at \(n=7\). The generic-square-tops proposition already gives degree 4. The next case is degree 5, at \(n=7\), with the prefix-rank kernel.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the coherent product-constraints corollary's statement (PC equals NS; NS functionals extend) and the plane-members data.
Claim search: additivity, union of closures, and NS span. It found the recorded stable-filtration statements, cited as the corollary's.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the lemma's inclusions and the duality argument. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the free polynomial ring fixed as the setting, so that NS lies inside PC;
- the lemma framed as "a stable union has additive closures", with the hypotheses used by each part stated;
- PC equal to NS at every lower degree derived from the corollary's wording;
- the independent-spans case restated with joint fullness for the combined forms;
- an unsupported clause on pencils dropped;
- the evidence claim in the next step corrected.

The changes weaken or restrict claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 31.43 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 2.65 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 28.65 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The local-fall law holds at a second board size: n = 7, with an all-C closure

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Planted pencils and plane members at \(n=7\), \(D=3\), \(p=3\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The local-fall law holds at a second board size: n = 7, with an all-C closure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-local-falls-n7.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The additivity entry proposed extending the generic square-top result to degree 5 at \(n=7\). The count this entry did first shows that step is nearly vacuous. The square-top series for the weak base at \(n=7\) is \((1,48,924,8688,34950,21792,28)\), and its degree-5 coefficient is already negative at \(M=3\), so degree 5 tests only \(M\le2\). It was replaced by a test that can fail at the second reachable board size: does the local-fall law of the local-falls and plane-members entries hold at \(n=7\), \(D=3\)?

General statement. conj:local-falls: below the semi-regular crossing, a selector inventory's low-degree closure never exceeds the base's and its members' own, and refutation comes within a few constraints of that crossing. The finite check is ex:local-falls-n7.

Results

The board has 19,321 columns, 17,920 of them of degree 3. The recorded random selector sequence is refuted at \(M=185\), as recorded, and each selector adds 47 to the top part. The design matches the earlier entries: \(k=1,2,4,8\) planted pencils or plane members, 2 seeds each, with \(M\) sampled at \(0,20,\dots,120\) and then in steps of 1 from 140 to 186.

No global fall. For pencils, the low part never exceeds the additive prediction. The excess is \(0,-1,-6,-28\) for \(k=1,2,4,8\), the negative values being overlaps between pencils. For plane members the excess is exactly 0 throughout.
Plane members: refutation at the additive capacity crossing. The least refuted \(M\) is 180, 175, 166 and 146 for \(k=1,2,4,8\). That is exactly the first \(M\) at which the random series' top part plus the members' own exceeds 17,920, in all 8 cases.
Pencils: refutation at the crossing of their own slope. The top part grows by \(47-k\) per selector, as at \(n=6\), where it was read as one overlap of each pencil's affine form with each selector. The least refuted \(M\) is 168, 152, 120 and 60. Extrapolating each series' own top part to 17,920 gives 168, 152, 119 and 59: exact for \(k=1,2\), and one step early for \(k=4,8\), in both seeds.

Both seeds gave identical counts. With the \(n=6\) entries, the law now holds at two board sizes for both member types, with one recorded deviation of one dimension.

The computation, redone without waste

The first \(n=7\) runs used the earlier driver. It ran the elimination in C, but it formed products in Python. It also restarted the base closure and the random series for every series. On the user's objection, it was replaced before the analysis by gf3_closure.c. That kernel runs the whole closure loop in C, including table-driven products with GF(3) accumulation, and it was checked against the earlier machinery at \(n=5\). It is orchestrated by local_falls3.py, which computes the base closure and the random series once and copies them for every member type, seed and \(k\). All four series took 260 s, against about 560 s for the earlier four runs, and gave identical counts. The Python setup of the monomial space, 16 s, is the remaining overhead.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: prove the one-overlap law for a pencil and a selector. Take a satisfiable pencil on forms \(\ell,\ell'\) and one selector on a third form \(L\), with \(\ell,\ell',L\) jointly full and robust. Show that the degree-3 top part of their joint closure is the sum of the separate top parts minus exactly one, the Koszul overlap of the pencil's affine form with \(L^2\). The route:

the pencil reduction makes the system coherent on \(\lambda,\tau,L\);
the coherent product-constraints corollary makes PC equal NS;
the top of the NS span in degree 3 is then computed by Taylor syzygies over a free module, which follows from the short-generation theorem for three forms.

This would explain the measured slope \(47-k\) locally. The step ends with that lemma, or with the term that breaks it.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the local-falls and plane-members entries and their prediction rules.
Checks: the new kernel was checked against the earlier machinery at \(n=5\), and the reuse driver against the four earlier \(n=7\) series, with identical counts. All numbers above were read from lf3_n7.json by script.
Review: this is a finite check that adds no new mathematical claim, and no reviewer pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	17 min 36.47 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	50.36 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 50.46 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 1.98 s
Individually measured computation	13 min 53.39 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Overlapping tool categories, counted once	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: the local-fall line is supported and proved in the jointly full case; its core is an interpolation theorem for the matching complex

23 September 2026 · Route review · The local-fall and gluing line on odd-prime-clause-transfer. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the local-fall line is supported and proved in the jointly full case; its core is an interpolation theorem for the matching complex”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-local-fall-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The n = 7 entry proposed a one-overlap lemma for a pencil and a selector. That lemma would be proved on a jointly full triple of forms. It would explain one measured slope, but it would not move the line's general implication. By the route-check rule that makes this cycle a review.

General statement. The line's claim is conj:local-falls, which is proved for coherent members on a jointly full union as cor:coherent-member-additivity. Its missing general implication is stability of the union beyond joint fullness. For random tops that is the semi-regularity conjecture relative to the base (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base).

What the line has established

Local. Members are harmless alone (member pinning). Pencils reduce to an affine equation plus a selector at degree 3. Closures of a stable union add.
Measured. At \(n=6\) and \(n=7\), \(D=3\), planted members of two kinds, with and without a coherent reduction, fall only locally. Refutation comes at the top-degree capacity crossing of the reduced count, with one deviation of one dimension.
Missing. The union's stability, meaning PC equal to NS with extendable functionals, once the forms exceed joint fullness, about \(\sqrt N/B\) of them. Every measured inventory is far beyond that. Nothing proves stability there, even for random tops.

Falsification attempt

The sharpest recorded prediction is the capacity law. For \(M\) random selectors, refutation at degree 3 comes exactly at \(\lceil\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\rceil\), which is 76, 185 and 370 at \(n=6,7,8\). Planted members shift it additively. If the union had a global fall of lower order, refutation would come earlier than the count. It never has, at two board sizes and several member types. So the law has survived the tests that could break it at reachable sizes. What it lacks is a mechanism.

The core, read as interpolation

In degree 3 the capacity law is a maximal-rank statement. For \(M\) generic linear forms, the conditions \(D_{\ell_j}^2w=0\) on the matching complex \(K_3\) have the expected codimension \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\). The \(-1\) comes from the Frobenius syzygy of each square. Dually, the degree-3 part of the ideal of squares \(\ell_j^2\) in the top algebra has the expected dimension. In a polynomial ring the same statement is classical. By apolarity (Emsalem–Iarrobino), \((\ell^2)^\perp\) in degree 3 consists of the cubics singular at the point \([\ell]\). So the statement is the Alexander–Hirschowitz theorem for double points on cubics: generic double points impose independent conditions, with a known list of exceptions. Its proof is a degeneration, the Horace method. One specializes some points onto a hyperplane and runs a residual exact sequence, by induction on dimension and degree. The matching complex has a natural analogue of a hyperplane section: restriction to the board with one row or one hole removed. The recorded peeling-locality and short-generation arguments already induct over rows this way.

Assessment of the line. The local theory is complete. The empirical law is sharp and has survived falsification at two sizes. The missing piece is now named in classical terms: an interpolation theorem, double-point independence for generic forms on the matching complex, first in degree 3. Two cautions:

Such a theorem covers random tops, not adversarial ones. The local-fall law for planted members would still need the gluing of members, the additivity lemma, with this theorem supplying the union's stability.
Degree 3 is the first rung. The goal needs polylogarithmic degree.

So the line is promising as a structural reduction and uncertain as a route to the goal.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: read the Horace method, in the Alexander–Hirschowitz proof as simplified by Brambilla and Ottaviani, to find the degeneration step. Then attempt a Horace-type induction for the matching complex in degree 3. Specialize some of the forms to vanish on one row. Use the exact sequence relating \(K_3\) of the board to \(K_3\) and \(K_2\) of the board without that row, through the recorded peeling decomposition. Show that the double-point conditions stay independent up to the capacity \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\) for all \(n\) above a threshold. The recorded thresholds at \(n=6,7,8\) are the base cases and checks. The step ends with the induction step proved, or with the term that fails.

Verification gate. A review. It re-read the local-falls, plane-members, additivity and n = 7 entries, the semi-regularity conjecture and its literature note, and the recorded selector thresholds. The apolarity correspondence is standard: forms vanishing to order \(d-a+1\) at \([\ell]\) are the perpendicular of \(\ell^a\) in degree \(d\). The Alexander–Hirschowitz statement is cited from the literature, not relied on for any claim.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 53.58 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	58.09 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 55.35 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A row-by-row Horace identity for double-point conditions on the matching complex

23 September 2026 · Working proof · Double-point conditions \(D_\ell^2w=0\) on the functional matching complex in degree 3. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A row-by-row Horace identity for double-point conditions on the matching complex”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-row-horace.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The local-fall line review read the degree-3 capacity law as an interpolation statement. For \(M\) generic forms, the double-point conditions \(D_{\ell}^2w=0\) on \(K_3\) have the expected codimension \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\). It proposed a Horace-type induction over the board's rows. This cycle read the method and derived the matching complex's version of its central sequence. It ends with an exact identity, and with the arithmetic that decides where plain induction suffices.

General statement. lem:row-horace-identity: for any board, row \(i\) and forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_M\), the double-point solution space \(Z\subseteq K_3\) satisfies \(\dim Z=\dim\ker T+\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}}-\operatorname{rank}(Z_{\mathrm{res}}\to\operatorname{coker}T)\). Here \(T\) is the trace problem on the board without row \(i\), \(Z_{\mathrm{res}}\) a residual problem, and the cokernel is taken in \(\bigoplus_\ell\ker D'_\ell|_{K'_1}\). It is the matching-complex analogue of the Castelnuovo sequence in the Horace method, with the trace's excess passed to the residual through an explicit coupling map.

The method read

Brambilla and Ottaviani, On the Alexander–Hirschowitz theorem (arXiv:math/0701409), read in its arXiv text, Sections 4 and 5. Section 4 gives the Horace lemma. For double points \(X\) and a hyperplane \(H\) containing \(u\) of them, the Castelnuovo sequence \(0\to I_{\tilde X}(d-1)\to I_X(d)\to I_{X\cap H,H}(d)\) gives \(\dim I_X(d)\le\dim I_{\tilde X}(d-1)+\dim I_{X\cap H}(d)\). Independence follows when the trace and the residual are independent and their expected dimensions have the same sign. Section 5 proves the cubic case with codimension-three subspaces instead of hyperplanes, to avoid arithmetic mismatches. The mismatched cases elsewhere need the differential Horace method. The paper is not in the repository.

The row split

Let a board have \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels, and let \(K_t\) be the arrays on injective labelings of \(t\)-sets of rows with zero ordinary marginals. Fix a row \(i\). Each zero-marginal condition concerns one row set, so \(K_t=K'_t\oplus K^{\ni i}_t\), where:

\(K'_t\) consists of the arrays on sets avoiding \(i\), which is the complex of the board without row \(i\);
\(K^{\ni i}_t\) consists of the arrays on sets containing \(i\).

For a form \(\ell\), write \(D_\ell=D'_\ell+\partial_\ell\), where \(\partial_\ell\) removes row \(i\) and \(D'_\ell\) removes the other rows. Since \(D_\ell\) maps \(K_t\) to \(K_{t-1}\) and the decomposition is by row sets:

\(D'_\ell\) preserves both summands, and on \(K'\) it is the operator of the smaller board;
\(\partial_\ell\) maps \(K^{\ni i}_t\) to \(K'_{t-1}\) and kills \(K'_t\);
\(\partial_\ell^2=0\).

Define:

\(T:K'_3\to\bigoplus_\ell K'_1\), by \(w_0\mapsto(D'^2_\ell w_0)_\ell\), the trace problem;
\(Z_{\mathrm{res}}=\{w_1\in K^{\ni i}_3:D'^2_\ell w_1=0\ \forall\ell\}\), the residual problem;
\(C:Z_{\mathrm{res}}\to\bigoplus_\ell K'_1\), by \(w_1\mapsto\bigl((\partial_\ell D'_\ell+D'_\ell\partial_\ell)w_1\bigr)_\ell\), the coupling.

Put \(Z=\{w\in K_3:D_\ell^2w=0\ \forall\ell\}\).

Lemma (row Horace identity). \(Z=\{w_0+w_1:\ w_1\in Z_{\mathrm{res}},\ Tw_0=-Cw_1\}\). Hence

\[ \dim Z=\dim\ker T+\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}}-\dim\bigl((C(Z_{\mathrm{res}})+\operatorname{im}T)/\operatorname{im}T\bigr). \]

Proof. For \(w=w_0+w_1\), expand \(D_\ell^2=(D'_\ell+\partial_\ell)^2\):

\(D_\ell^2w_0=D'^2_\ell w_0\in K'_1\), since \(\partial_\ell\) kills \(K'\);
\(D_\ell^2w_1=D'^2_\ell w_1+(\partial_\ell D'_\ell+D'_\ell\partial_\ell)w_1\), with the first term in \(K^{\ni i}_1\) and the second in \(K'_1\), since \(\partial_\ell^2=0\).

So \(D_\ell^2w=0\) for all \(\ell\) exactly when \(D'^2_\ell w_1=0\) for all \(\ell\) and \(Tw_0=-Cw_1\). The solutions are the \(w_1\in C^{-1}(\operatorname{im}T)\), each with a coset of \(\ker T\). \(\square\)

The lemma holds over any field, for any forms: it uses neither characteristic 3, nor \(D^3=0\), nor genericity.

Where the coupling lands. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), where \(D_\ell^3=0\), \(C(Z_{\mathrm{res}})\subseteq\bigoplus_\ell\ker D'_\ell|_{K'_1}\). For \(w_1\in Z_{\mathrm{res}}\), \(D_\ell^3w_1=D'^3_\ell w_1+D'_\ell Cw_1+\partial_\ell D'^2_\ell w_1\), because \(\partial_\ell Cw_1=0\) with \(Cw_1\in K'\). The left side is 0, and \(D'^2_\ell w_1=0\) kills the first and last terms, so \(D'_\ell Cw_1=0\).

Where the conditions go. Each form imposes at most \(\gamma_1-1\) conditions on \(K_3\), since \(D_\ell^2w\) lies in \(\ker D_\ell\) on \(K_1\). For a general \(w\) the trace component is not in \(\ker D'_\ell\). The relation \(D_\ell^3w=0\) couples the trace part and the residual part. Once the residual conditions hold, the count splits as \(\gamma'_1-1\) on the trace and \(N-1\) on the residual, since \(\gamma_1=R(N-1)\) and \(\gamma'_1=(R-1)(N-1)\). On the residual:

\(K^{\ni i}_3\) is the space of tuples \((W_a)_{a\le N}\) with \(W_a\in K_2\) of the board without row \(i\) and without label \(a\), and \(\sum_aW_a=0\);
each condition \(D'^2_\ell W_a=0\) is a scalar;
the sum over \(a\) vanishes automatically, which leaves \(N-1\) conditions per form.

The trace space and the residual space have dimensions \(\gamma'_3\) and \(\gamma_3-\gamma'_3\), with \(\gamma_t=\binom Rt\delta_t(N)\) and \(\delta_t(N)=\sum_j(-1)^j\binom tj(N)_{t-j}\).

Corollary (expected dimension from the pieces). Work over \(\mathbb F_3\), and suppose no \(\ell\) is constant modulo constants on every row of the smaller board. Then \(\dim\ker D'_\ell|_{K'_1}=\gamma'_1-1\) and \(\dim\ker D_\ell|_{K_1}=\gamma_1-1\). Suppose \(T\) has maximal rank into \(\bigoplus_\ell\ker D'_\ell|_{K'_1}\), and \(Z_{\mathrm{res}}\) has its expected dimension \(\max(\dim K^{\ni i}_3-M(N-1),0)\).

If \(M(\gamma'_1-1)\le\gamma'_3\), then \(Z\) has its expected dimension.
If \(M(\gamma'_1-1)>\gamma'_3\), then \(Z\) has its expected dimension exactly when the coupling \(Z_{\mathrm{res}}\to\operatorname{coker}T\) has maximal rank.

The first case is the Horace lemma's case (i). The second is where differential Horace is needed, made here into an explicit rank condition.

Proof. In the first case \(T\) is onto its target, which contains \(C(Z_{\mathrm{res}})\), so the correction term vanishes. The residual is not overdetermined here, because its capacity exceeds the trace's (next section). So \(\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}}=\dim K^{\ni i}_3-M(N-1)\), and the dimensions add to \(\gamma_3-M(\gamma_1-1)\). In the second case \(T\) is injective, and the identity gives \(\dim Z=\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}}-\operatorname{rank}\). Here \(\operatorname{rank}\le\min(M(\gamma'_1-1)-\gamma'_3,\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}})\), with equality exactly for maximal rank, which is what the expected dimension requires. \(\square\)

Arithmetic: why row-by-row induction with this split is not enough

Each block of three rows contributes the same dimension, so \(\gamma'_3=\frac{R-3}R\gamma_3\) and \(\gamma_3-\gamma'_3=\frac3R\gamma_3\). With \(\gamma_1=R(N-1)\) and \(\gamma'_1=(R-1)(N-1)\), two comparisons follow:

the trace's capacity \(\gamma'_3/(\gamma'_1-1)\) is below the total \(\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\), which reduces to \(3<2R(N-1)\);
the residual's capacity \((\gamma_3-\gamma'_3)/(N-1)\) is above the total, which reduces to \(3R(N-1)-3>R(N-1)\).

Both hold on every nontrivial board. For the functional board with \(R=n+1\), \(N=n\), the numbers use \(\gamma_t=\binom Rt\delta_t(N)\), with \(\delta_t(N)=\sum_j(-1)^j\binom tj(N)_{t-j}\), the count of zero-marginal arrays on one \(t\)-set. That formula assumes independent marginal conditions. It fails for small \(N\) (\(\delta_3(4)=-1\)). At \(n=6\) it gives \(\gamma_3=1645\), which matches the computed \(\dim K_3\). In the table it is used only for \(n\ge6\).

\(n\)	total	trace	residual
6	48.4	32.4	141.0
7	123.9	88.8	364.0
10	806.5	645.8	2395.0
20	19244.9	17322.6	57590.0

So with this one-row split the crossing always falls in the corollary's second case. Every form enters both the trace and the residual, so there is no parameter like the number of points Horace puts on the hyperplane to rebalance the two. Consider an induction on the rows at a fixed \(M\) that uses only the first case. At a total capacity \(M\) it needs the smaller board nondefective at the same \(M\), which exceeds that board's own capacity. That is its second case, which the first case never proves. Splits along several rows or along labels, and the codimension-three subspaces of Brambilla and Ottaviani's cubic proof, were not examined. Everything therefore rests on two statements:

(B) the residual problem is nondefective. It asks for one scalar condition \(D'^2_\ell W_a=0\) per form and label \(a\), with \(\ell\) restricted to the board without row \(i\) and label \(a\), on the space of tuples \((W_a)\) constrained by \(\sum_aW_a=0\);
(C) in the window between the trace's capacity and the total, the coupling has maximal rank.

Scope. This is the functional matching complex, the home of the recorded local theory. The recorded selector thresholds were measured on the weak base, whose marginal conditions do not split by row sets. So the capacity law has not yet been checked on the functional board.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: measure the three pieces on the functional board at \(n=6,7,8\). Use random forms and a compiled GF(3) elimination:

the rank of the full double-point map on \(K_3\), which checks the functional capacity law, of sizes \(\gamma_3=1645,5824,16044\);
the rank of \(T\);
the dimension of \(Z_{\mathrm{res}}\), which checks (B);
the rank of the coupling into \(\operatorname{coker}T\), which checks (C).

Do this for every \(M\) around the capacity, in one incremental pass. The smallest nonvacuous size is \(n=6\), where the window \(M=33,\dots,49\) lies between the trace capacity and the total. At \(n=8\) the full map is a dense system of about \(16044\) columns and \(259\cdot62\approx16000\) rows over \(\mathbb F_3\), about 64 MB bit-sliced. Packed incremental elimination is cubic, about \(4\times10^{12}/64\) word operations, a few minutes with OpenMP. The step ends with (B) and (C) confirmed or refuted at the reachable sizes, and, if confirmed, a proof attempt for (B).

Verification gate.

Re-read: the matching complex's definition and the operators \(D_\ell\), and the local-fall line review.
Checks: the capacities were computed from the closed formula for \(\gamma_t\). At \(n=6\) it gives \(\gamma_3=1645\), which matches the \(\dim K_3\) recorded in the syzygy-locality entry.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the split, the lemma, the residual description and the table, and verified \(\gamma_3=16044\) at \(n=8\). It required the following changes, all adopted:
- where the coupling lands proved on its own, and the cokernel's target fixed;
- the condition split qualified;
- positivity of the residual justified in case 1;
- the hypotheses the lemma does not use, and those the corollary does, stated;
- the capacity comparison proved in general;
- the formula's range stated, and the no-rebalancing claim limited to this split;
- (B) worded correctly, and the next step's count made concrete.

The changes weaken, qualify or supply proofs, so no further pass was made.

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Marked reading and review windows	1 min 59.91 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 52.63 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 14.25 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	26.42 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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Double-point conditions have maximal rank on the functional matching complex at n = 6, 7, 8, and both Horace inputs hold there up to the capacity

23 September 2026 · Working proof by exact specialization · Degree 3, functional board, generic forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), \(n=6,7,8\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Double-point conditions have maximal rank on the functional matching complex at n = 6, 7, 8, and both Horace inputs hold there up to the capacity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-horace-pieces.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The row Horace identity reduced double-point independence on \(K_3\) to two inputs, (B) nondefectiveness of the residual and (C) maximal rank of the coupling. It also noted that the capacity law had been measured only on the weak base. Do the capacity law, (B) and (C) hold on the functional board at the reachable sizes? The smallest nonvacuous case is \(n=6\), with window \(M=33,\dots,49\).

General statement. prop:double-points-generic-small-boards: at \(n=6,7,8\), on the functional matching complex over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), generic forms give the following for every \(M\):

the double-point map \(w\mapsto(D_\ell^2w)_\ell\) on \(K_3\) has rank \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\);
so does the trace map of the row Horace identity;
the residual map and the coupling have their expected ranks for every \(M\le M_{\max}\), which exceeds the total capacity. That covers the whole range the Horace reduction needs.

The computation

horace_pieces.py builds the maps sparse: the operators \(D_\ell\) from index structures, and a block basis of \(K_3\) with one local zero-marginal basis per row triple. It computes three rank series in one incremental pass each, with the compiled prefix-rank kernel gf3_prefix.c: the full map, the trace \(T\) on the board without the last row, and the residual on the arrays containing it, with \(D'_\ell\) as \(D_\ell\) with that row's coefficients zeroed. By the identity, the coupling's rank is \(r_{\mathrm{full}}-r_T-r_{\mathrm{res}}\), so no nullspace is needed. The forms are uniform over \(\mathbb F_3\), with every form checked to be nonconstant on every row, seed 1, for \(M=1,\dots,\lfloor1.15\,\mathrm{capacity}\rfloor+2\).

\(n\)	\(\gamma_3\)	trace \(\gamma'_3\)	residual	capacity	\(M\) range	deviations
6	1645	940	705	48.4	1–57	none
7	5824	3640	2184	123.9	1–144	none
8	16044	10696	5348	258.8	1–299	none

"None" means that for every \(M\) in the range, all four ranks equal their expected values:

full: \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\);
trace: \(\min(\gamma'_3,M(\gamma'_1-1))\);
residual: \(\min(\dim K^{\ni i}_3,M(N-1))\);
coupling: \(\min(M(\gamma'_1-1)-r_T,\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}})\).

The three boards took 25 s in all. Control: function forms, with one nonzero cell per row, deviate at \(n=6\) in all four series, first at \(M=16\), \(1\), \(17\) and \(16\), so the checks can fail.

From one specialization to generic forms

Proposition (double points on small boards). At \(n=6,7,8\), with \(M_{\max}=57,144,299\):

For every \(M\ge1\), there is a nonempty Zariski-open set of \(M\)-tuples of forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) on which the double-point map on \(K_3\) and the trace map \(T\) have maximal rank.
For every \(M\le M_{\max}\), the residual map also has maximal rank on such a set. The coupling into \(\operatorname{coker}T\), with the cokernel taken in the per-form targets \(\ker D'_\ell|_{K'_1}\) of total dimension \(M(\gamma'_1-1)\), then has rank \(\min(M(\gamma'_1-1)-r_T,\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}})\).

Proof. Each rank condition "rank at least \(r\)" is the nonvanishing of an \(r\)-minor of a matrix whose entries are polynomials in the forms' coefficients. So it is open, and nonempty once it holds at one point. For \(M\le M_{\max}\) all three hold at the computed \(\mathbb F_3\)-point, so they hold on a common nonempty open set of the irreducible affine space of tuples. For \(M>M_{\max}\), the full and trace maps have already reached their column counts at \(M_{\max}\), which exceeds their capacities. Adding forms cannot lower a rank, so their maximal rank persists for the prefix tuple and its extensions, which form a nonempty open set. The residual map has not reached its column count at \(M_{\max}\): its capacity is 141, 364 and 764, and at \(M_{\max}\) its rank is 285 of 705, 864 of 2184 and 2093 of 5348. So part 2 is limited to \(M\le M_{\max}\). There, the coupling's rank is \(r_{\mathrm{full}}-r_T-r_{\mathrm{res}}\) by the identity, which equals the expected value at the computed point. \(\square\)

The range the reduction needs. The row Horace corollary uses (B) and (C) for \(M\) up to the total capacity. Above it, \(Z=0\) at \(M=\lceil\mathrm{capacity}\rceil\) persists, since ranks cannot drop. So part 2 covers the whole range at these sizes. The residual's own injective regime, up to its larger capacity, is untested at all three sizes.

So on the functional board, at these sizes, the degree-3 capacity law is a theorem for generic forms, as is the row Horace reduction's claim that (B) and (C) hold.

What this gives and what it does not

The capacity law, first measured on the weak base, now holds with proof, for generic forms, on the functional board at \(n=6,7,8\). This is the interpolation statement of the local-fall line review at those sizes.
For all \(n\), the row identity reduces the statement to (B) and (C) at every smaller board, for \(M\) up to the total capacity. The data show both holding in that range, with no exception, at three sizes. They are still conjectures for general \(n\).
The forms are generic. Adversarial inventories, and degrees above 3, are outside this.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: prove (B), residual nondefectiveness, for all \(n\) and every \(M\) up to the total capacity. The residual is a coupled simple-point problem. For each label \(a\), the scalar conditions \(D'^2_\ell W_a=0\) say that \(W_a\) is orthogonal to the squares \(\ell^2\) restricted to the board without row \(i\) and label \(a\). These are Veronese-type conditions, and squares span degree 2. The tuples are coupled only by \(\sum_aW_a=0\). Attempt a proof by generic independence of squares in each slice, plus a count of how the single coupling relation interacts with the slices. Then consider (C) with the same slice structure. The step ends with (B) proved, or with the obstruction.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the row Horace identity and its corollary.
Checks: the \(\gamma_3\) values match the closed formula and the earlier computed 1645. The control family deviates. All numbers were read from the result files by the script. The residual was checked only up to \(M_{\max}\), below its own capacity.
Proof: the specialization argument is the one reviewed for the generic square-tops proposition. The upward persistence uses only that ranks cannot drop when rows are added.
Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the script, the block-triangular rank relation and the data. It found that the persistence step wrongly included the residual, whose capacity lies far above \(M_{\max}\). Part 2 is now limited to \(M\le M_{\max}\), and the range the reduction needs is stated. The changes weaken the claim, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 6.61 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 37.97 s
Computation design and coding	53.63 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 8.30 s
Individually measured computation	26.58 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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The Horace residual is nondefective for generic forms, by comparing label slices; the zero-marginal spaces are chessboard-complex cycles

23 September 2026 · Working proof, lemma and finite check · Horace residual on any board; chessboard complexes, \(t\le5\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Horace residual is nondefective for generic forms, by comparing label slices; the zero-marginal spaces are chessboard-complex cycles”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-residual-nondefective.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The small-boards entry proved double-point independence at \(n=6,7,8\) and asked for input (B) of the row Horace identity for all \(n\): the residual problem is nondefective for \(M\) up to the total capacity. The cycle ends with a proof or an obstruction.

General statement. prop:residual-nondefective: for any board with \(R\) rows and \(N\ge2\) labels, any row \(i\), and generic forms over an infinite field of characteristic other than 2, the residual map has rank \(M(N-1)\) whenever \(M\le\dim K_2\) of the board with \(R-1\) rows and \(N-2\) labels. For the PHP boards that covers every \(M\) up to the total capacity: for \(n=6,\dots,10\) by exact dimensions, and for all \(n\ge6\) given the dimension formula. lem:zero-marginal-chessboard-cycles: the zero-marginal space on one \(t\)-set of rows with \(N\) labels is the top cycle space of the \(t\times N\) chessboard complex, so the dimension formula is its Euler characteristic and holds when the lower reduced homology vanishes. ex:chessboard-formula-range: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for \(t\le4\), \(N\le8\), the formula holds exactly when \(N\ge2t-1\), and no 3-torsion is visible on five boards with \(t\le5\).

Setting

Let \(B'\) be the board without row \(i\), with \(N\) labels, and \(V=K_2(B')\). For a label \(a\), let \(V_a\subseteq V\) be the arrays vanishing on labelings that use \(a\); these are exactly the zero-marginal arrays of the slice without label \(a\). For \(a\ne b\), let \(V_{a,b}=V_a\cap V_b\). As recorded in the row Horace entry, \(K^{\ni i}_3\cong X=\{(W_a)_a\in\bigoplus_aV_a:\sum_aW_a=0\}\), with \(W_a\) the part where row \(i\) carries label \(a\). A form \(\ell\), restricted to \(B'\), gives the functional \(q_\ell\) on 2-row arrays, \(q_\ell(\{x,y\},\tau)=2\ell(x,\tau x)\ell(y,\tau y)\), so that \(D'^2_\ell W(\emptyset)=\langle W,q_\ell\rangle\). The residual conditions are \(\langle W_a,q_\ell\rangle=0\) for every form \(\ell\) and label \(a\).

The proposition

Proposition (residual nondefectiveness). Work over an infinite field \(\mathbb F\) of characteristic other than 2, such as \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), with \(N\ge2\). Let \(m=\dim V_{a,b}\), the same for all \(a\ne b\), and \(M\le m\). For \(M\)-tuples of forms on the full board in a nonempty Zariski-open set, the residual conditions have rank exactly \(M(N-1)\) on \(X\). So \(\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}}=\dim K^{\ni i}_3-M(N-1)\).

Proof.

Squares span each slice. The polarization \(q_{\ell+\ell'}-q_\ell-q_{\ell'}\) of two cell indicators, \(\ell\) at \((x,c)\) and \(\ell'\) at \((y,d)\) with \(x\ne y\) and \(c\ne d\) both different from \(a,b\), is \(2\) times the coordinate functional of the array cell \((\{x,y\},(c,d))\). Since \(2\ne0\) in \(\mathbb F\), the squares span all coordinate functionals of the slice, and so all of \(V_{a,b}^*\).
Generic independence. The map \(\ell\mapsto q_\ell|_{V_{a,b}}\) is polynomial on the affine space of forms, and its image spans \(V_{a,b}^*\). So for \(M\le m\), the \(M\)-tuples with independent images form a nonempty open set. It is open by a minor. It is nonempty by induction, because the forms whose square lies in a proper subspace form a proper closed set. Intersect over the finitely many pairs \(a\ne b\). The forms live on the full board, and restriction to \(B'\) is a linear surjection, so the preimage of a nonempty open set is nonempty and open. The images are then also independent on each \(V_a\supseteq V_{a,b}\), and on \(V\).
Dualizing. \(X=\ker(\Sigma:\bigoplus V_a\to V)\), so \(X^*=\bigl(\bigoplus V_a^*\bigr)/\operatorname{im}\Sigma^*\), where \(\Sigma^*g=(g|_{V_a})_a\). The condition for \((\ell,a)\) is the class of \(q_\ell|_{V_a}\) in slot \(a\). With \(S_a=\operatorname{span}\{q_\ell|_{V_a}\}\), of dimension \(M\) by step 2, the rank of all conditions is \(NM-\dim\bigl(\bigoplus_aS_a\cap\operatorname{im}\Sigma^*\bigr)\).
Comparing slices. Let \(U=\{g\in V^*:g|_{V_a}\in S_a\ \forall a\}\). For \(g\in U\), write \(g|_{V_a}=\sum_\ell c^a_\ell q_\ell|_{V_a}\). For \(a\ne b\), restricting to \(V_{a,b}\) gives \(\sum_\ell(c^a_\ell-c^b_\ell)q_\ell|_{V_{a,b}}=0\), so \(c^a=c^b\) by step 2. With the common coefficients \(c\), \(g-\sum_\ell c_\ell q_\ell\) vanishes on every \(V_a\). So \(U=\operatorname{span}\{q_\ell\}\oplus\ker\Sigma^*\), where the sum is direct because a combination of squares vanishing on \(V_a\) is zero by step 2. Hence \(\dim\bigl(\bigoplus S_a\cap\operatorname{im}\Sigma^*\bigr)=\dim U-\dim\ker\Sigma^*=M\), and the rank is \(NM-M=M(N-1)\). \(\square\)

The proof uses characteristic other than 2 (step 1) and an infinite field (step 2), not characteristic 3. Over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) it does not by itself give forms defined over \(\mathbb F_3\); for that, one \(\mathbb F_3\)-point of the open set must be exhibited, as in the small-boards entry.

The range

For the PHP board, \(R=n+1\) and \(N=n\), so \(m=\binom n2\delta_2(n-2)\). The row Horace reduction needs (B) for \(M\) up to the total capacity \(\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\).

\(n=6,\dots,10\). Computed exactly: the zero-marginal dimensions per row pair with \(n-2\) labels are 5, 11, 19, 29 and 41. Those per row triple with \(n\) labels are 47, 104, 191, 314 and 479, matching the formula \(\delta_t(N)=\sum_j(-1)^j\binom tj(N)_{t-j}\). Then \(m=75,231,532,1044,1845\) against capacities 48.4, 123.9, 258.8, 477.0 and 806.5.
General \(n\). With the formula, \(m\ge\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\) becomes \(3(n^2-7n+11)(n^2-2)\ge(n+1)(n^3-6n^2+8n-1)\). Expanding, it is equivalent to \(2n^4-16n^3+25n^2+35n-65\ge0\). The strict inequality holds for all \(n\ge6\): the values are 181 at \(n=6\) and 719 at \(n=7\), and for \(n\ge8\), \(2n^3(n-8)\ge0\) and \(25n^2+35n-65>0\). At \(n=5\) the value is \(-15\).

The general case uses the formula twice: as a lower bound for \(m\), through \(\delta_2(n-2)\), and as an upper bound for \(\gamma_3\), through \(\delta_3(n)\). The formula is verified for \(n\le10\) (residual_range.py). The next section reduces it to a connectivity property of chessboard complexes.

A lead: the zero-marginal spaces are chessboard-complex cycles

The user pointed to the chessboard complex, whose integral homology has 3-torsion by Shareshian and Wachs (arXiv:math/0409054), as a possible source of our exactness properties over \(\mathbb F_3\). The augmented obstruction-complex review recorded the same torsion lead. The following identification connects it to the dimension formula used above.

Lemma (chessboard cycles). Over any field, the space of arrays on injective labelings of a fixed \(t\)-set of rows with \(N\) labels and zero ordinary marginals equals the top cycle space \(Z_{t-1}\) of the \(t\times N\) chessboard complex \(M_{t,N}\). Its faces are the rook placements, the injective partial labelings. Hence its dimension is \(\delta_t(N)+\sum_{j<t-1}(-1)^{t-j}\dim\tilde H_j(M_{t,N})\), and it equals \(\delta_t(N)\) whenever the reduced homology below degree \(t-1\) vanishes over that field.

Proof. The \((t-1)\)-faces are the full placements, one rook in each row, since a placement has at most one rook per row. The boundary of a full placement \(\sigma\) is \(\sum_x\pm(\sigma\setminus x)\), over its rows \(x\). Faces \(\sigma\setminus x\) for different \(x\) have different row sets. For a fixed \(x\) and a fixed partial placement \(\rho\) of the other rows, the sign depends only on the position of \(x\). So the coefficient of \(\rho\) in \(\partial w\) is \(\pm\sum_cw(\rho\cup\{(x,c)\})\), the marginal of \(w\) in row \(x\) at \(\rho\). So \(\partial w=0\) exactly when every marginal vanishes. There are no \(t\)-faces, so \(Z_{t-1}=\tilde H_{t-1}\). The dimension statement is the Euler–Poincaré formula, with \(\delta_t(N)=\sum_j(-1)^j\binom tj(N)_{t-j}\) the alternating count of faces, the empty face included. \(\square\)

Consequence, conditional on an imported theorem not re-read here. Björner, Lovász, Vrećica and Živaljević showed that \(M_{m,n}\) is \((\nu-2)\)-connected, with \(\nu=\min(m,n,\lfloor(m+n+1)/3\rfloor)\), as the bound is usually quoted. If so, the formula \(\delta_t(N)\) holds for \(N\ge2t-1\). That covers \(\delta_2(n-2)\) for \(n\ge5\) and \(\delta_3(n)\) for \(n\ge5\), and so would make the range above unconditional for all \(n\ge6\) once the theorem is imported with its exact statement.

Checks.

chessboard_formula.py computed the exact dimension over \(\mathbb F_3\) for \(t=2,3,4\) and \(N\le8\), 16 boards. It equals \(\delta_t(N)\) exactly when \(N\ge2t-1\), in all 16 cases. That includes the recorded failure \(\delta_3(4)=-1\) against dimension 1, and a surplus of 5 at \(t=4\), \(N=6\), where \(\nu=3<t\).
chessboard_torsion.py compared the dimensions over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\mathbb Q\) and \(\mathbb F_{10007}\) on the five boards \((t,N)=(3,4),(4,5),(4,6),(5,6),(5,7)\). They agree on all five, so no 3-torsion in \(\tilde H_{t-2}\) is visible there, which is the only torsion the top cycle space can see, by universal coefficients. The board \((5,8)\) timed out after 110 s in a Python-level elimination, which should have been the compiled kernel, and was dropped.

So the identification is proved, and the formula's range is the chessboard connectivity range, given the imported theorem. The torsion lead is untested so far: every comparison found the dimensions independent of the field. Among the spaces considered here, and if the connectivity theorem holds, torsion can affect only top cycle spaces with \(N<2t-1\), far from the degrees \(t\ll N\) that the route uses. It could also enter through other maps, such as the operators \(D_\ell\) or the cokernels of the double-point conditions, which were not examined.

What this gives

With (B) proved in the needed range, for \(n=6,\dots,10\) unconditionally and for larger \(n\) given the dimension formula (see the lead above), the row Horace corollary reduces double-point independence on \(K_3\) for all \(n\) to two inputs:

maximal rank of the trace, which is the same statement on the board with one row fewer and \(N\) labels, and so is an induction over boards with \(R\le N+1\);
(C), maximal rank of the coupling in the window between the trace's capacity and the total.

The induction's boards change shape, with fewer rows than labels plus one. So its base cases are small boards of every shape, not only the PHP ones, and the capacity comparisons of the row Horace entry have to be rechecked for those shapes.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: attack (C). In the window, \(T\) is injective, and the coupling \(C=(\partial D'+D'\partial)\) maps \(Z_{\mathrm{res}}\) into \(\operatorname{coker}T\). Find a structure for \(\operatorname{coker}T\), such as a slice decomposition like the one used here, that makes the rank computable. In parallel, measure (C) and the trace's maximal rank on boards of all shapes \(R\le N+1\) at small sizes, to fix the induction's base cases. The sizes are small; the largest has \(\gamma_3\) about 16,000. The step ends with (C) proved, or with its failure pinned down.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the row Horace entry's residual description and the small-boards proposition.
Checks: the dimensions for \(n=6,\dots,10\) were computed from the recorded marginal-basis routine. The measured residual ranks at \(n=6,7,8\) equal \(M(N-1)\), consistent with the proposition.

Record check: claim searches for residual, slice, squares, polarization, double points and Horace found only this thread's Horace records. Searching the notebook for the chessboard complex found the torsion lead in the augmented obstruction-complex review, now linked.
Fresh-context review of the proposition and range: no mathematical error. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- \(N\ge2\) in place of \(N\ge3\);
- characteristic other than 2 and an infinite field named as the only field hypotheses;
- a proof of the polynomial bound;
- the dependence on the formula stated in "What this gives";
- genericity under restriction to \(B'\) justified.

Second review, of the chessboard lemma, a new claim: it confirmed the identification, the Euler–Poincaré signs, the range \(N\ge2t-1\), the universal-coefficient claim, and the connectivity bound as usually stated, though not against the source. It required three scope changes to the interpretation, all adopted. They weaken claims, so no further pass was made.

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Individually measured computation	2 min 1.30 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.58 s

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The coupling condition, transposed: syzygies of the trace squares times the removed row, and specializations that keep it

23 September 2026 · Working proof, conjecture and finite check · The row Horace coupling, \(n=6,7,8\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The coupling condition, transposed: syzygies of the trace squares times the removed row, and specializations that keep it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-coupling-dual.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The residual entry proved input (B) of the row Horace identity for all boards, and asked for (C), the coupling. It proposed to transpose (C) and to look for a specialization of the removed row's coefficients under which (C) becomes provable. The cycle ends with the transpose, and with the specializations that do and do not keep (C).

General statement. lem:coupling-dual: for any board, row \(i\) and forms, the rank of the double-point multiplication \(\mu\) equals the trace rank plus the dimension of the residual image plus the image of the trace syzygies under multiplication by \(2\ell_i\ell'\). If the residual map is injective, the kernel of \(\mu\) is the set of trace syzygies whose image lies in the residual image. conj:aligned-double-points: for every \(n\ge6\), forms whose row-\(i\) part is one cell \(x_{i,a}\) and whose other rows avoid label \(a\), with \(a\) balanced over the forms, have double points of maximal rank. The finite check is ex:coupling-specializations.

The transpose

Work in the top algebra \(G\) of a board with \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels over a field \(\mathbb F\), with \(K_t=G_t^*\). \(G\) is the polynomial ring in the cells modulo products of two cells in one row or one label, squares, and the row sums \(\sum_cx_{r,c}\) for every row \(r\). \(D_\ell\) is the transpose of multiplication by \(\ell\). So \(Z=\{w:D_\ell^2w=0\ \forall\ell\}\) is the annihilator of the image of

\[\mu:\bigoplus_\ell G_1\to G_3,\qquad(u_\ell)\mapsto\sum_\ell\ell^2u_\ell.\]

Fix a row \(i\). Every relation involves monomials on one row set, so \(G_t=G'_t\oplus G^{\ni i}_t\), with \(G'\) the top algebra of the board without row \(i\). Write \(\ell=\ell'+\ell_i\) and \(u=u'+v\) the same way; \(G^{\ni i}_1\) has dimension \(N-1\). Define:

the trace \(\mu':\bigoplus_\ell G'_1\to G'_3\), \((u'_\ell)\mapsto\sum_\ell\ell'^2u'_\ell\);
the residual \(\rho:\bigoplus_\ell G^{\ni i}_1\to G^{\ni i}_3\), \((v_\ell)\mapsto\sum_\ell\ell'^2v_\ell\);
the coupling transpose \(\beta:\ker\mu'\to G^{\ni i}_3\), \(u'\mapsto2\sum_\ell\ell_i\ell'u'_\ell\).

Lemma (coupling dual).

\(\operatorname{rank}\mu=\operatorname{rank}\mu'+\dim\bigl(\operatorname{im}\rho+\beta(\ker\mu')\bigr)\).
If \(\rho\) is injective, \((u',v)\mapsto u'\) maps \(\ker\mu\) isomorphically onto \(A=\{u'\in\ker\mu':\beta(u')\in\operatorname{im}\rho\}\).
In characteristic 3, suppose \(\rho\) is injective and every \(\ell'\ne0\) in \(G'_1\). Then \(A\) contains the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell'e_\ell\), a space of dimension \(M\). Also \(\operatorname{rank}\mu=M(\gamma_1-1)\) exactly when \(A\) is spanned by them.

Proof. Two cells in one row multiply to zero, so \(\ell_i^2=0\), and \(\ell^2=\ell'^2+2\ell_i\ell'\). Then

\[\ell^2(u'+v)=\ell'^2u'+\bigl(2\ell_i\ell'u'+\ell'^2v\bigr),\]

where the first term lies in \(G'_3\), the second in \(G^{\ni i}_3\), and the term \(2\ell_i\ell'v\) vanishes. So \(\mu\) is block triangular.

Projecting \(\operatorname{im}\mu\) to \(G'_3\) gives \(\operatorname{im}\mu'\). The fibre over 0 is \(\{\sum_\ell 2\ell_i\ell'u'_\ell+\rho(v):u'\in\ker\mu'\}=\beta(\ker\mu')+\operatorname{im}\rho\).
\((u',v)\in\ker\mu\) exactly when \(u'\in\ker\mu'\) and \(\rho(v)=-\beta(u')\). When \(\rho\) is injective, \(v\) is determined by \(u'\) and exists exactly when \(\beta(u')\in\operatorname{im}\rho\).
\(\ell^3=0\) in characteristic 3, so \(\ker\mu\ni\ell e_\ell\), whose image under part 2 is \(\ell'e_\ell\). These are independent because they lie in different summands and \(\ell'\ne0\). So \(\dim\ker\mu\ge M\). Equality means \(\operatorname{rank}\mu=M\gamma_1-M\), which by part 2 means \(A\) is their span. \(\square\)

This is the transpose of the row Horace identity: \(\mu'\) and \(\rho\) are the transposes of \(T\) and of the residual map. Since \((\operatorname{coker}T)^*=\ker\mu'\), \(\beta\) modulo \(\operatorname{im}\rho\) is the transpose of the coupling \(Z_{\mathrm{res}}\to\operatorname{coker}T\). The proof above is independent of it and makes the coupling explicit. By (B), \(\rho\) is injective for generic forms when \(M\le m\), which covers the total capacity for \(n=6,\dots,10\), and for all \(n\ge6\) given the dimension formula (residual entry). So (C) below the capacity says this: a syzygy of the squares on the smaller board that becomes, after multiplication by \(2\ell_i\ell'\), a combination of residual conditions is a Frobenius syzygy. The row-\(i\) coefficients enter only through \(\beta\), linearly and independently of \(\ker\mu'\).

In label slots. As in the residual entry, \(G^{\ni i}_3\cong\bigl(\bigoplus_aV_a^*\bigr)/\operatorname{im}\Sigma^*\), where \(x_{i,a}g\) corresponds to \(g|_{V_a}\) in slot \(a\). With \(\ell_i=\sum_ac_{\ell,a}x_{i,a}\), \(\beta(u')\) has slot-\(a\) entry \(2\sum_\ell c_{\ell,a}\ell'u'_\ell|_{V_a}\).

The one-slot bound. Suppose every form has \(\ell_i=c_\ell x_{i,a_0}\), with one label for all forms, \(N\ge2\), and the squares restricted to some \(V_{a_0,b}\) independent, which holds for generic \(\ell'\) when \(M\le m\) (residual entry; \(m=75,231,532\) exceeds every \(M\) tested). Then \(\beta(\ker\mu')\) lies in slot \(a_0\), which has dimension at most \(m_1=\dim V_{a_0}\). That slot meets \(\operatorname{im}\rho\) in at least the image of \(S_{a_0}\), of dimension \(M\): an element of \(S_{a_0}\) in slot \(a_0\) alone that lies in \(\operatorname{im}\Sigma^*\) comes from some \(g\in V^*\) with \(g|_{V_{a_0}}=\sum_\ell c_\ell q_\ell|_{V_{a_0}}\) and \(g|_{V_b}=0\). Restricting to \(V_{a_0,b}\subseteq V_b\) gives \(\sum_\ell c_\ell q_\ell|_{V_{a_0,b}}=0\), so \(c=0\) by independence there. So

\[\dim\bigl(\operatorname{im}\rho+\beta(\ker\mu')\bigr)\le\operatorname{rank}\rho+m_1-M.\]

(C) then fails as soon as \(M(\gamma'_1-1)-\operatorname{rank}\mu'>m_1-M\) in the window, while \(\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}}\) is larger. In the window the trace is surjective for generic forms, \(\operatorname{rank}\mu'=\gamma'_3\), so the onset is the least \(M\) with \(M\gamma'_1>\gamma'_3+m_1\). On the PHP board \(m_1=\binom n2\delta_2(n-1)\). Below, this predicts the first failure exactly.

Specializations

coupling_dual.py computes the trace and residual ranks once for uniform random \(\ell'\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), seed 1. It then computes the full rank for three choices of \(\ell_i\), with every prefix \(M\le\lfloor1.15\cdot\text{capacity}\rfloor+2\) in one pass of the compiled prefix-rank kernel. The coupling rank is the full rank minus the other two, compared with \(\min(M(\gamma'_1-1)-\operatorname{rank}T,\dim Z_{\mathrm{res}})\).

\(\ell_i\)	\(n=6\) (57 values of \(M\))	\(n=7\) (144)	\(n=8\) (299)
uniform	no deviation	no deviation	no deviation
one cell, labels balanced	no deviation	no deviation	no deviation
one cell, same label	deviates for all \(M\ge37\)	all \(M\ge97\)	all \(M\ge206\)

The trace ranks had no deviation, so the trace is surjective in the window for this seed. The one-slot bound then predicts the first failure from \(30M>940+165\), \(42M>3640+399\) and \(56M>10696+812\), that is at 37, 97 and 206, as observed. From the onset on, the observed coupling rank equals \(m_1-M\) exactly, at every \(M\) and all three sizes, so the bound is attained. Its hypothesis, independence of the squares on some \(V_{a_0,b}\), was assumed for the seed's forms, not checked separately.

aligned.py goes further. Form \(k\) has \(\ell_i=x_{i,a}\) with \(a=k\bmod N\), and its other rows avoid label \(a\), uniform elsewhere. So each label class lives on the slice without its label. At \(n=6\) and 7, the full, trace, residual and coupling ranks equal their expected values for every \(M\le\lfloor1.15\cdot\text{capacity}\rfloor+2\), 57 and 144 values. \(n=8\) was not run.

Cross forms, the analogue of points off the hyperplane. A form supported on row \(i\) and one label column restricts to a column form on the smaller board, whose square is zero. So it adds nothing to the trace, like a point off the Horace hyperplane. But it imposes too few conditions. With \(\ell'^2=0\) and \(\ell_iv=0\), \(\ell^2u=2\ell_i\ell'u'\), so a cross form imposes at most \(\gamma'_1-1=(R-1)(N-1)-1\) conditions, since \(u'=\ell'\) is in the kernel. That is fewer than \(\gamma_1-1\) when \(N\ge2\). Every configuration containing a cross form therefore falls short below the capacity. cross_count.py found the five sampled cross forms imposing 24 conditions each at \(n=6\), against \(\gamma_1-1=34\). At \(n=7\), four imposed 35 against 47 and one imposed 28. The Alexander–Hirschowitz balancing does not transfer this way.

What this means

By openness, one specialization with maximal rank proves the generic statement. So a proof of the double-point theorem for all \(n\) may assume aligned forms. In the aligned configuration, slot \(a\) of \(\beta\) sees only the forms of label class \(a\), and these live on the slice \(V_a\). Setting \(x_{i,a}=1\) turns such a form into the affine form \(1+\ell'\) on that slice. That suggests an induction over slices for inhomogeneous double points, which is not yet formulated.

Conjecture (aligned double points). Over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), for every \(n\ge6\) and every \(M\), take forms \(\ell_k=x_{i,a_k}+\ell'_k\) with \(a_k=k\bmod N\), and \(\ell'_k\) generic on the other rows subject to avoiding label \(a_k\). Then \(\operatorname{rank}\mu=\min(M(\gamma_1-1),\gamma_3)\), the maximum allowed by the Frobenius kernel. By openness this implies the generic double-point theorem. Evidence: \(n=6,7\), one seed, \(M\le\lfloor1.15\cdot\text{capacity}\rfloor+2\).

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: formulate the aligned problem slice by slice and look for an induction. Under \(x_{i,a}=1\), class \(a\) becomes affine forms \(1+\ell'\) on the board with \(R-1\) rows and \(N-1\) labels. Write the aligned coupling condition as a statement about these affine double points on the \(N\) slices, glued along the doubly deleted slices \(V_{a,b}\) as in the residual proof. Then test whether that statement follows from the homogeneous statement on the smaller boards, which is the induction hypothesis. Count first: at \(n=6\) the window has \(M=33,\dots,48\) and 5 to 8 forms per class. The step ends with an inductive proof, or with the first place where the affine terms break it, located by a computation on the aligned configuration.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the row Horace identity and corollary, and the residual entry's slot description.
Claim searches: coupling, transpose, syzygies of squares, specialization and aligned. They found only this thread's Horace records, cited.
Checks: the uniform family reproduces the recorded small-board ranks. The control's failure onset matches the one-slot bound at all three sizes.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the lemma's three parts, the Frobenius count, the onsets, the table and the openness argument, and found no unused hypothesis. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- a general bound for cross forms in place of samples;
- the sampling range stated exactly;
- the trace's surjectivity made explicit in the onset formula;
- the one-slot proof's wording corrected;
- the transpose stated for the coupling into \(\operatorname{coker}T\);
- the range of (B) cited;
- the conjecture's field, rank and balancing stated;
- a typo fixed.

An unsupported explanation of the one 28-condition cross form was dropped: that form used label 5, not the label its row-\(i\) part omits. The changes add only the cross-form bound, a one-line consequence of the lemma's product rule, and the observed attainment of the bound, read from the result file. So no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 14.72 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	8 min 2.23 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 14.31 s
Individually measured computation	58.05 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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An edge Castelnuovo sequence from the chessboard complex, and why no Horace split balances

23 September 2026 · Working proofs and finite check · Matching complexes of bipartite boards; row and edge splits. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “An edge Castelnuovo sequence from the chessboard complex, and why no Horace split balances”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-edge-sequence.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The coupling-dual entry proposed to prove the coupling condition (C) for aligned forms by an induction over slices. Each label class of forms becomes affine forms on a board with one row and one label fewer. The cycle asks what such an induction would rest on and where it breaks.

General statement. lem:edge-castelnuovo-sequence: for any bipartite board \(\Gamma\) and edge \(e\), multiplication by \(x_e\) and deletion of \(e\) give an exact sequence \(0\to G_{t-1}(\Gamma/e)\to G_t(\Gamma)\to G_t(\Gamma\setminus e)\to0\) whenever the deleted board's matching complexes on \(t\)-sets of rows containing the edge's row have no reduced homology in degree \(t-2\). prop:no-horace-balancing: for the row split, and for every edge split of the PHP board with \(n=6,\dots,10\), the trace is overdetermined at the total capacity; for all \(n\ge4\) this holds given the dimension formula and the homology hypothesis. A form whose trace part squares to zero imposes fewer conditions than the maximum \(\gamma_1-1\). So the Horace method's case without coupling does not apply to these splits, and every proof by them must control a coupling. The finite check is ex:edge-sequence-exactness.

Boards and the edge sequence

A board \(\Gamma\) is a bipartite graph between rows and labels. Its top algebra \(G(\Gamma)\) is the polynomial ring in the edge variables \(x_{r,c}\) modulo:

products of two edges sharing a row or a label;
squares;
the row sums \(\sum_{c\in N(r)}x_{r,c}\).

\(K_t(\Gamma)=G_t(\Gamma)^*\) is the space of arrays on \(t\)-matchings with zero row marginals. The complete board with \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels is the functional board. For an edge \(e=(i,a)\):

\(\Gamma\setminus e\) deletes the edge;
\(\Gamma/e\) deletes row \(i\) and label \(a\).

Lemma (edge Castelnuovo sequence). Over any field:

\(G(\Gamma)/(x_e)=G(\Gamma\setminus e)\). Multiplication by \(x_e\) induces a surjection \(G_{t-1}(\Gamma/e)\to x_eG_{t-1}(\Gamma)\), so the sequence \(G_{t-1}(\Gamma/e)\to G_t(\Gamma)\to G_t(\Gamma\setminus e)\to0\) is exact.
For a set \(S\) of \(t\) rows, let \(M_S(\Gamma)\) be the matching complex of \(\Gamma\) restricted to \(S\). Suppose \(\tilde H_{t-2}(M_S(\Gamma\setminus e))=0\) for every \(t\)-set \(S\ni i\). Then the first map is injective, and \(\dim G_t(\Gamma)=\dim G_t(\Gamma\setminus e)+\dim G_{t-1}(\Gamma/e)\).

Proof.

Killing \(x_e\) turns the row-\(i\) sum into the sum over the remaining neighbours, and leaves every other relation a relation of \(\Gamma\setminus e\). So \(G(\Gamma)/(x_e)=G(\Gamma\setminus e)\). The map \(g\mapsto x_eg\) kills every monomial using row \(i\) or label \(a\), since those collide with \(e\). For a row \(r\ne i\), \(x_e\sum_{c\in N(r)\setminus a}x_{r,c}=x_e\cdot(\text{row sum})-x_ex_{r,a}=0\) in \(G(\Gamma)\). So the map factors through \(G(\Gamma/e)\) and is onto \(x_eG_{t-1}(\Gamma)\), the kernel of the quotient map.
Dually, it suffices that \(K_t(\Gamma)\to K_{t-1}(\Gamma/e)\), taking the coefficients on matchings through \(e\), is onto. Its kernel is \(K_t(\Gamma\setminus e)\), and the image lies in \(K_{t-1}(\Gamma/e)\), since a row marginal at a face through \(e\) sums over labels other than \(a\). Work one row set \(S\ni i\) at a time. As in the chessboard-cycles lemma, zero marginals mean zero boundary in \(M_S\). A cycle \(z\) of the link \(M_{S\setminus i}(\Gamma/e)\) is a \((t-2)\)-cycle of \(M_S(\Gamma\setminus e)\). By the hypothesis \(z=\pm\partial y\) with \(y\) a chain of \(M_S(\Gamma\setminus e)\), with the sign chosen so that \(w=e*z+y\) has \(\partial w=0\), because \(\partial(e*z)=\pm z\). Then \(w\) is a preimage. \(\square\)

This is the deletion–link sequence of the matching complex, read in top degree. It is the analogue of the Castelnuovo sequence \(0\to I_{\tilde X}(d-1)\to I_X(d)\to I_{X\cap H,H}(d)\) of the Horace method, with the degree drop in the residual. edge_sequence.py computed \(\dim K_t\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) and \(\mathbb Q\) for \(t=2,3\) on the complete boards \((R,N)=(4,3),(5,4),(6,5),(7,6),(5,5),(4,5)\) minus one edge. The sequence was exact in all 24 cases, including \(\dim K_3=1645=1480+165\) at \((7,6)\). For \(t=3\) on the PHP board the hypothesis concerns the \(3\times n\) chessboard minus one cell. edge_homology.py found \(\tilde H_1=0\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) and \(\mathbb Q\) for \(n=5,\dots,10\), and \(\tilde H_1\) of dimension 2 at \(n=4\), where the sequence was nevertheless exact: the hypothesis is sufficient, not necessary.

No Horace split balances

Proposition (no Horace balancing). Take the PHP board, \(R=n+1\), \(N=n\), with \(n\ge6\), and forms in characteristic 3.

Edge split. If the edge sequence is exact in degree 3, which holds for \(n=5,\dots,10\) (below), the trace problem on \(\Gamma\setminus e\) has capacity below the total capacity if and only if \(c=\dim G_2(\Gamma/e)\) exceeds the total capacity \(\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\).
For \(n=6,\dots,10\), \(c=165,399,812,1476,2475\) exceeds the total capacity \(48.4,123.9,258.8,477.0,806.5\), by factors 3.41 to 3.07. So at the total capacity the trace is overdetermined. For all \(n\), with the dimension formula, \(c=\binom n2(n^2-5n+5)\), and \(c(\gamma_1-1)-\gamma_3\) is \(\frac{n(n-1)}6\bigl(2n^4-10n^3+7n^2+23n-29\bigr)\). That is positive for \(n\ge4\): the value is 47 at \(n=4\), and for \(n\ge5\), \(2n^3(n-5)\ge0\) and \(7n^2+23n-29>0\). At \(n=3\) it is \(-5\). The formula itself is conditional on the imported connectivity theorem, as in the residual entry.
The row split was recorded in the row Horace entry: its trace capacity is below the total on every nontrivial board.
Trace-free forms. Call a form trace-free if its trace part has square zero: for the row split, \(\ell'^2=0\) in \(G'\); for the edge split, \(\ell=cx_e+\lambda\) with \(\lambda\) a combination of edges other than \(e\) and \(\lambda^2=0\) in \(G(\Gamma)\). The decomposition is not unique, because \(x_e\) equals minus the other row-\(i\) edges; the condition asks for one such \(\lambda\). This is stronger than contributing nothing to the trace. A trace-free form imposes fewer conditions than the maximum \(\gamma_1-1\), which generic forms attain at \(n=6,7,8\) (small boards). Part 4 holds in any characteristic.
- for the row split, with \(\ell'^2=0\), at most \(\gamma'_1-1=(R-1)(N-1)-1\), for \(N\ge2\);
- for the edge split, at most \(\gamma_1(\Gamma/e)-1\).

Proof.

Exactness gives \(\gamma_3(\Gamma\setminus e)=\gamma_3-c\), and \(\gamma_1(\Gamma\setminus e)=\gamma_1-1\), so a generic form imposes \(\gamma_1-2\) conditions on the trace. Then \((\gamma_3-c)/(\gamma_1-2)<\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\) is equivalent to \(\gamma_3<c(\gamma_1-1)\).
The numbers are the computed dimensions of the residual entry, with \(c=\binom n2\delta_2(n-1)\).
Recorded.
For the row split, \(\ell^2=2\ell_i\ell'\) and \(\ell_iv=0\), so \(\ell^2u=2\ell_i\ell'u'\), which vanishes at \(u'=\ell'\). For the edge split, \(x_e^2=0\) and \(\lambda^2=0\) give \(\ell^2=2cx_e\lambda\). Its products \(\ell^2u=2cx_e\lambda u\) depend on \(u\) only modulo the edges meeting \(e\), by the lemma's part 1. So they form the image of \(G_1(\Gamma/e)\), which contains \(u=\lambda\) modulo those edges, where the product vanishes. \(\square\)

In the Alexander–Hirschowitz method, balancing comes from points off the hyperplane, which give nothing to the trace and a full double point to the residual. Here the trace-free forms lose at least \(N-1\) conditions each, so they cannot be used below the capacity. With the trace overdetermined, every argument by these splits is in the differential case, where the coupling must be controlled.

Where a slice induction breaks (heuristic)

At the total capacity, an aligned configuration has about \(\lceil\text{capacity}/N\rceil\) forms per class: 9, 18, 33, 53 and 81 for \(n=6,\dots,10\). The row-split trace capacities are 32.4, 88.8, 194.5, 371.5 and 645.8 (edge_homology.py), about 0.67 to 0.80 of the total, and larger than the class size at each of these \(n\). If the forms of one class are generic enough for the trace to have maximal rank on them, which was not checked separately, a single class has only Frobenius syzygies. The window syzygies in the transposed coupling are then all cross-class. Slot \(a\) sees them only through their class-\(a\) components. So, conditionally on that assumption, a slice-by-slice induction has no slice-level statement to use. The inductive hypothesis on smaller boards would have to control how the global syzygies of the trace split over classes, and none of the recorded statements does that.

Assessment

The Horace line has proved (B) for all \(n\), made (C) explicit, and supplied the edge sequence, exact under its homology hypothesis. Two cycles on (C) have not proved it. This cycle shows that neither the row split nor any edge split avoids a coupling, and, heuristically, that an induction over slices meets it at the gluing. The general implication, double-point independence for all \(n\), has not moved since (B). So the next cycle is a route review.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: a route review of the double-point line. Weigh the prospects for (C) against the alternatives:

a differential Horace degeneration over several rows at once, using the edge sequence;
explicit specializations whose rank is computable for all \(n\), such as equivariant ones;
a secant-variety reading, in which \(\ell^2G_1\) is the image of the differential of the divided cube \(\ell\mapsto e_3(\ell)\), a map whose differential kills the radial direction in characteristic 3;
a return to the adversarial question, which the generic theorem does not answer.

Then propose the next research on the highest-risk item.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the row Horace entry, the residual entry (the chessboard-cycles lemma and the dimensions) and the coupling-dual entry.
Claim searches: deletion, contraction, edge, exact sequence, link and homology; and trace-free, deficient, balancing and hyperplane. They found only this thread's Horace records and the recorded amplitude exactness theorems, which concern the operators \(D\) and not this sequence.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed both parts of the lemma, the equivalence in the proposition and every quoted number. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the homology hypothesis checked, for \(n=4,\dots,10\);
- the all-\(n\) comparison proved from the polynomials, with its conditionality stated;
- trace-free defined as square zero;
- \(\gamma_1-1\) called the maximum;
- the slice paragraph labelled heuristic, with its capacities named;
- the assessment narrowed to the row and edge splits.

The added claims are the homology check, read from its result file, and the polynomial comparison, a one-line proof. So no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 54.80 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 45.70 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	6 min 7.53 s
Individually measured computation	1.43 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: the double-point line is a generic theory three rungs below the goal; the adversarial rung comes first

23 September 2026 · Route review · The double-point line on odd-prime-clause-transfer. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the double-point line is a generic theory three rungs below the goal; the adversarial rung comes first”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-double-point-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The edge-sequence entry found that no row or edge split avoids the coupling condition (C). The line's general implication has not moved since the residual theorem, which makes this cycle a route review. It was designed after re-reading three recorded statements:

the local-fall line review;
the reduction the goal rests on (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction);
the random-calibration review, which ties the window to the main record's parked wide-clause line (ctx:HW-parked-relative-rank-count).

General statement. The line's claim is conj:aligned-double-points, and through it the generic double-point theorem: for generic forms, the double-point conditions on \(K_3\) have maximal rank. That is the degree-3, width-1 case of the semi-regularity conjecture relative to the base (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base). The line has proved the residual input for all \(n\) (prop:residual-nondefective) and the tools recorded since. Its open input is the coupling (C).

What the goal needs

By the logarithmic-prefix reduction, it suffices to show the following. Weak unary PHP plus the clauses \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\) of any \(M=n^K\) families of affine forms has no PC refutation of degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\). Here:

the width is \(k=\lceil(K+1)\log n/\log(p/(p-1))\rceil\), logarithmic in \(n\);
the prefix sets \(S_b\) are chosen suitably, and the recorded padding refutations show that the choice must see which inputs can vanish;
the parameters satisfy \(M(1-1/p)^k<1\).

So the goal differs from the line's statement in three ways: adversarial families instead of generic forms, width \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\) at \(p=3\) instead of width 1, and degree \(22k\) instead of 3.

Falsification attempts

Can a generic theorem be transferred to adversarial families? The lower-bound prover controls three things:

the choice of \(S_b\) inside each family;
restrictions and substitutions of the board;
the degree.

A linear dependency among forms, such as a pencil \(L_3=L_1+L_2+c\), survives every substitution, because substitution is linear. An adversary whose families have exactly \(k\) forms leaves no choice of \(S_b\), and it can place all of them in a low-dimensional subspace. So no step the prover controls moves an adversarial inventory into general position, and a generic maximal-rank theorem does not transfer. The recorded pencil review showed the consequence at width 1: four constraints in special position create a fall and a non-Taylor syzygy. Any adversarial statement must therefore be relative to the linear dependencies of the forms, as the local-fall conjecture is. This attempt succeeds against the line as a route: even complete success, the generic theorem at every degree and width, leaves the adversarial gap exactly where the random-calibration review recorded it, "the clauses a proof produces are not random".

Can adversaries compress width cheaply? Take two width-\(k\) clauses \((L_1=1)\vee R\) and \((L_1=2)\vee R\), where \(R\) is a disjunction of \(k-1\) affine equations. If \(R\) fails, both \(L_1=1\) and \(L_1=2\) must hold, which is impossible. So together they imply \(R\), of width \(k-1\), at every odd \(p\). A binary tree of such pairs removes one unit of width per factor 2 in clauses. Reaching width \(w\) costs \(2^{k-w}\) clauses, while the reduction's parameter condition allows \(M<(p/(p-1))^k\le(3/2)^k\). So this attack reaches width 0 only past the budget, and it stops above width \(k\bigl(1-\log(3/2)/\log2\bigr)\approx0.42k\) at \(p=3\), still logarithmic. This does not bound other compressions. It shows only that the obvious one is priced out by the reduction's own condition.

Assessment of the double-point line

The line is strong as a structural theory of the generic case:

an exact Horace identity, and the transpose of its coupling;
the residual theorem for every board;
the edge Castelnuovo sequence, drawn from chessboard topology;
a sharp conjectured specialization, the aligned forms.

It is weak as a route to the goal. Its open input (C) is the differential Horace step, with no balancing available. Its full success would settle the generic case at degree 3 and width 1, the first rung on each of three axes. It would not touch the adversarial gap, which the first falsification attempt shows no generic statement can close. The random calibration itself sits at the compiler degree \(4p-1=11\), behind the parked relative-rank obstruction, so the degree-3 theorem does not settle that either. The line is paused at (C), with the aligned conjecture as its restart point: the step that would advance it is a proof of (C) for aligned forms.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The adversarial rung is the highest risk. The one recorded adversarial candidate is the local-fall conjecture: after each span-closed member is replaced by its local reduction, the closure has no global fall below the reduced crossing. Its evidence covers planted members of span at most 3, at \(n=6,7\), and \(D=3\). The adversary's strongest move, by the first attempt, is to confine many forms to one subspace of moderate dimension \(d\). Such a subspace is a single member of span \(d\), whose local reduction is expensive when \(d\) grows. That is where a global fall, if any, should appear first.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: test the local-fall conjecture against confined families.

Families. Planted selector families whose forms all lie in a random subspace \(W\subseteq G_1\) of dimension \(d=4,\dots,8\), with \(M_W\) forms from \(W\), up to all its directions, plus the recorded random selector sequence, at \(n=6\), \(D=3\).
Prediction. The conjecture predicts additivity: the base's split, plus the member's own change computed alone, plus the random selectors' recorded increments. Refutation should come at the reduced crossing.
Count first. The member's own closure at \(d\le8\) fits the recorded compiled kernel, at 1 to 2 s per closure at \(n=6\). The prediction is nonvacuous from \(d=4\), since plane members (\(d=3\)) were additive and the pencil review's special syzygies live in any span \(\ge2\).
What ends the step. A global fall beyond the member's own refutes the conjecture in its adversarial regime, and the line's restart must then be relative to a new invariant. Additivity up to \(d=8\) extends the evidence to the regime an adversary would use. The next question would then be a proof for confined members, through the recorded bounded-span equivalence.

Verification gate. A review. It re-read three records: the logarithmic-prefix reduction's statement and assessment, the random-calibration review's account of the parked obstruction, and the local-fall line review. Claim searches covered width compression, adversarial families, shared prefix sets and clause width reduction. They found the reduction, the padding refutations and the local-fall conjecture, all cited. The width-compression example is a two-line semantic check. The review registers no claim, and no reviewer pass was made beyond those of the cited entries.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 0.48 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	31.90 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 28.58 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Confined families fall only locally: selectors packed into one subspace of dimension up to 8

23 September 2026 · Finite check · Confined selector families at \(n=6\), \(D=3\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Confined families fall only locally: selectors packed into one subspace of dimension up to 8”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-confined-families.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The double-point review named adversarial families as the highest-risk rung. An adversary's strongest recorded move is to confine many forms to one subspace, whose local reduction grows with its dimension. Does a confined family create a global fall, a closure beyond its own and the base's, before the reduced crossing?

General statement. conj:local-falls: after each span-closed member is replaced by its local reduction, the closure below the reduced crossing never exceeds the base's and the members' own, and refutation comes within a bounded number of constraints of the crossing. The finite check ex:confined-family-falls tests it on members of span up to 8.

Design and count

confined.py draws \(d\) random affine forms \(A_1,\dots,A_d\) on weak unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^7_6\), spanning \(W\), and a planted point \(z\in\mathbb F_3^d\).

It picks \(m\) distinct directions \(c\) of \(\mathbb F_3^d\), up to sign, and plants the selectors \(1-(L_c-f_c)^2\) with \(L_c=\sum_tc_tA_t\). Each forbids a value \(f_c\ne c\cdot z\), so \(z\) meets every selector and the family is satisfiable on its span.
The recorded random selector sequence follows.

The closure kernel is the recorded compiled one, with one incremental pass per family and every \(M=0,\dots,90\).

The additive prediction is:

the base's split, 280 low and 4291 top;
plus the family's own change, computed alone;
plus \(+1\) low and \(+34\) top per random selector.

There are 6860 degree-3 columns. The configurations are \(d\in\{4,5,6,8\}\) and \(m\in\{d,2d,4d\}\), 12 families, run in 28 s (invocation and timings in confined_s1.log). The test is nonvacuous from \(d=4\): plane members (\(d=3\)) were additive, and the prediction fails if the low part ever exceeds it.

Results

\(d\)	\(m\)	own low / top	low excess before refutation	top slope	refuted at \(M\)	additive prediction	extrapolated crossing
4	4	38 / 527	0	33	62	61	62
4	8	106 / 1310	0	31	41	38	41
4	16	138 / 1638	0	30	32	28	32
5	5	5 / 170	0	34	71	71	71
5	10	46 / 777	0	33	55	53	55
5	20	170 / 1965	0	29	21	18	21
6	6	6 / 203	0	34	70	70	70
6	12	20 / 630	0	34	57	58	58
6	24	203 / 2309	0	28	10	8	10
8	8	8 / 272	0	34	68	68	68
8	16	31 / 949	0	34	48	48	48
8	32	498 / 2569	refuted alone, at \(M=0\)

The top slope is the per-selector growth of the top part at the last two unrefuted checkpoints. The additive prediction is the first \(M\) at which the predicted top part exceeds 6860. The extrapolated crossing is the first \(M\) at which the observed top part, continued at the observed slope, exceeds 6860. It is fitted to the run, so agreement with it is close to automatic and shows only that refutation comes when the top degree fills.

No global fall. In the 11 families not refuted alone, the low part equals the additive prediction at every \(M\) before refutation.
Only the low part is additive. The top part falls short of the prediction in 6 of the 11 families, by up to 124, because the slope drops from 34 to between 28 and 33 per selector. The drop follows the family's own low part rather than \(m\): it occurs exactly when the own low part is at least 38. That is an overlap between the family and each random selector, not a fall. Its mechanism was not identified. So the driver's full additive statement fails for the top part, and the conjecture's low-part claim is what survives.
Refutation near the crossing. Against the additive prediction, refutation comes later in 6 families, by up to 4 (\(d=4\), \(m=16\): 32 against 28), because of the overlaps, and one step earlier in one (\(d=6\), \(m=12\): 57 against 58). It matches in the other 4. In every family it comes within 4 constraints of the additive count, with no low excess.
A family that refutes alone. At \(d=8\), \(m=32\), the family refutes PHP at degree 3 by itself, with 32 selectors where 76 random ones are needed. This does not contradict member pinning, whose hypotheses need the forms independent modulo constants on every row. Here \(d=8\) exceeds the row dimension \(N-1=5\) modulo constants.

An explanation, not checked in the run: each selector forbids a third of \(\mathbb F_3^d\), so about \(d\log3/\log(3/2)\approx2.7d\) selectors pin the span near one point. By bounded-span equivalence the member then derives about \(d\) affine equations, and the recorded least number of random affine equations refuting at \(n=6\), \(D=3\) is 7. The \(4d\) families at \(d=4,5,6\) are also past \(2.7d\): their expected numbers of allowed points besides \(z\), \(3^d(2/3)^m\), are about 0.12, 0.07 and 0.04, so they are likely pinned too. They pin fewer than 7 coordinates, and they do not refute alone, which fits the explanation. So a confined member's own contribution can itself be a refutation. The local-fall conjecture counts that as local, and it is.

What this means

At width 1 the adversary's confined move produces no global fall at spans up to 8, one board size and one degree. It does let a member refute on its own once it pins its span, at about 2.7 selectors per affine equation.

At the goal's parameters, pinning is priced out by counting. The reduction's clauses say that some \(L_j=0\), and a clause of width \(k\) with independent forms fails on a fraction \((1-1/p)^k\) of its span. At the reduction's \(k=\lceil(K+1)\log n/\log(p/(p-1))\rceil\) and \(M=n^K\), \(M(1-1/p)^k\le1/n\). So, if every clause has exactly \(k\) forms with linearly independent linear parts, all \(M\) clauses together leave at least a fraction \(1-1/n\) of their joint span allowed, by the union bound, and no family can pin it. The fractions are over the abstract \(\mathbb F_p^d\), not over the points realizable on the board. Two cases are not covered. Clauses with dependent forms can fail more often, although not always: \(L\) and \(L+1\) are both nonzero on only a third of the points. And the reduction takes \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\), so a family with \(h_b<k\) forms gives a narrower clause, which fails on a larger fraction. Whether the reduction's choices avoid both is not checked here. The same budget priced out the review's width compression.

The local-fall conjecture thus survives the confined move where it can be tested, and the move's one effect is priced out at the goal's parameters. What remains open for adversaries is the gluing of many members at the goal's width and degree, which no computation at width 1 reaches.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: take the adversarial test to width 2, the first width where the reduction's clauses are products. Clauses \(L_1^2L_2^2\) in unary encoding have degree 4, so the smallest PC degree that tests them is \(D=5\).

Count first. The recorded closure space at \(n=6\), \(D=5\) has 144,495 columns, 100,842 of them in degree 5, and a dense basis of about 5 GB, beyond the budget. At \(n=5\), \(D=5\) it has 16,807 columns, 7,776 in degree 5, and a dense basis of 0.07 GB. So the test runs at \(n=5\). The additive prediction needs the random width-2 split first: the per-clause low and top increments, measured as for selectors.
Then. Plant confined width-2 families, pairs of forms from one subspace \(W\), and compare with the prediction, including whether pinning needs about \(d\log3/\log(9/5)\approx1.9d\) clauses, since a width-2 clause excludes \(4/9\) of its span.
Scope. The goal's regime, \(M<(3/2)^k\) at logarithmic \(k\), lies far below every crossing and is out of reach at testable sizes. The width-2 test probes the capacity regime as a proxy, where members and random clauses interact the most.
What ends the step. A global fall at width 2 would locate the adversarial obstruction at the goal's first product width. Additivity would extend the local-fall picture one rung toward the goal's width.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the local-falls and plane-members entries (design, prediction, recorded split) and bounded-span equivalence.
Claim searches: span pinning, allowed set and the random-point count. They found bounded-span equivalence and the deciding-designs cap, cited or consistent.
Checks: the base split reproduces the recorded 280 and 4291. The prediction's column count was corrected, before the full run, from all 7638 columns to the 6860 top columns.
Claim scope: the entry registers a finite check only. The counting remark is the first-moment reading of the reduction's parameter condition, stated without a new claim. A first draft confused selectors, which exclude \(1/p\) of a span, with the reduction's clauses, which exclude \((1-1/p)^k\); this was corrected before review.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed every own split, the zero low excess, the slopes, the refutation points, the base split, the satisfiability of the families and the counting bounds. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the degree-5 column count corrected, which moves the next step to \(n=5\);
- the additive prediction's refutation points reported, with the fitted crossing described as such;
- the top part's non-additivity stated;
- the pinning explanation checked against the other \(4d\) families;
- the counting remark's caveats completed;
- the overlap described by the own low part;
- the run log saved.

The changes weaken or correct claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 15.46 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 51.95 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	22.07 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 1.30 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Members within the budget are quiet in low degree, and width 2 is beyond computation

23 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · Span consequences of clause families within the reduction's budget. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Members within the budget are quiet in low degree, and width 2 is beyond computation”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-quiet-members.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The confined-families entry proposed to test the local-fall conjecture at width 2, at \(n=5\), \(D=5\). The cycle asks whether that test can decide anything, and, if not, what can be proved about adversarial members at the goal's width.

General statement. lem:quiet-members: if \(m\) clauses of width \(k\), each with linearly independent linear parts, allow a set \(P\subseteq\mathbb F_p^d\) of their span, then every nonzero reduced polynomial vanishing on \(P\) has degree at least \((p-1)\log_p\bigl(1/(m(1-1/p)^k)\bigr)\). At the logarithmic-prefix reduction's parameters this is at least \((p-1)\log_pn\). So a member within the budget has no local consequence of degree below that. The finite check is ex:quiet-members-check.

Width 2 is out of computational reach

A width-2 clause \(L_1^2L_2^2\) has degree 4, so a test needs a degree \(D\ge5\) at which the base is not refuted by itself. horizon.py recorded the closure space of the recorded kernel and the base's own closure, for weak unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\):

\(n\)	\(D\)	columns	dense basis	base alone
6	3	7,638	0.01 GB	not refuted, rank 4,571
5	4	9,031	0.02 GB	refuted (full rank)
6	4	43,653	0.48 GB	refuted (full rank), in 97 s
6	5	144,495	5.22 GB	not computed; refuted, since refuted at \(D=4\)
7	5	850,809	181 GB	not computed

So the base refutes at degree 4 at both \(n=5\) and \(n=6\), and the first board that might survive degree 5 costs about 181 GB dense, far beyond the 10 GB budget. The step proposed by the confined-families entry is vacuous at every size in reach. The count should have been checked against the base's refutation degree before proposing it.

The lemma

Lemma (quiet members). Let \(p\) be prime and \(y=(y_1,\dots,y_d)\) coordinates on \(\mathbb F_p^d\). Let \(P\) be the common zero set of \(m\) clauses \(C_b(y)=\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}(y)^{p-1}\), each with \(|S_b|=k\) affine forms whose linear parts are linearly independent, so \(k\le d\). If a nonzero polynomial \(g\), of degree at most \(p-1\) in each variable and of total degree \(r\), vanishes on \(P\), then

\[p^{-r/(p-1)}\le m(1-1/p)^k,\qquad\text{that is}\qquad r\ge(p-1)\log_p\frac1{m(1-1/p)^k}.\]

Proof.

A clause fails where all its \(k\) forms are nonzero. Independent linear parts make the \(k\) values uniform and independent on \(\mathbb F_p^d\), so the clause fails on exactly a fraction \((1-1/p)^k\). By the union bound, \(P\) has fraction at least \(1-m(1-1/p)^k\).
\(g\) vanishes on \(P\), so its nonzero set has fraction at most \(m(1-1/p)^k\).
\(g\) is a nonzero codeword of the generalized Reed–Muller code of order \(r\), whose minimum weight (Kasami, Lin and Peterson) is at least \(p^{d-r/(p-1)}\). So its nonzero set has fraction at least \(p^{-r/(p-1)}\). \(\square\)

Corollary (quiet members at the reduction's parameters). Take \(k=\lceil(K+1)\log n/\log(p/(p-1))\rceil\) and at most \(M=n^K\) clauses, so that \(m(1-1/p)^k\le n^K\cdot n^{-(K+1)}=1/n\). Then every nonzero function on a member's span that vanishes on its allowed set has \(y\)-degree at least \((p-1)\log_pn\). Here a member is any subfamily of the clauses whose forms lie in the span, each clause with independent linear parts. These functions are what bounded-span equivalence derives from the member, its local reduction.

What it gives, and what it does not

With the local-fall conjecture. Below the reduced crossing, every fall of a budget inventory would then be generated by polynomials of \(y\)-degree at least \((p-1)\log_pn\) in some member's span. An adversary cannot use members to create constant-degree falls. The width-1 phenomena that did so, pencils and pinned spans, are exactly members outside the budget.
Not the goal's degree, even at best. The goal needs hardness at PC degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\). That exceeds \((p-1)\log_pn\) by the factor \((4p-1)(K+1)\ln p/\ln(p/(p-1))\), about \(29.8(K+1)\) at \(p=3\). There is also a ceiling. Each clause's product \(\prod_jL_{b,j}\), of degree \(k\), vanishes on \(P\), so the least degree is never above \(k\), and order \(k\) is the best any improvement can give. Even then it would fall short of the goal's degree by a factor of about \(4p^2\). What an order-\(k\) bound would buy is structural: members' local falls would stay within a constant factor of the clause width, so any fall to much lower degree would have to be global. At the budget, the current bound is about \(0.37k/(K+1)\) at \(p=3\) against the ceiling \(k\). For a single clause it is \(0.37k\).
Hypotheses. The lemma counts over the abstract \(\mathbb F_p^d\), and it needs each clause's forms to be independent. The reduction takes \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\), and clauses of dependent or fewer forms fail more often, as the confined-families entry noted. It also bounds \(y\)-degree. The \(x\)-degree of a consequence can be lower after Boolean reduction.

Check. quiet_members.py computed exactly, over \(\mathbb F_3\), the least degree of a nonzero reduced polynomial vanishing on \(P\). It used random families with \(d=3,4,5\), \(k=1,2,3\) and \(m\in\{1,2,3,4,6,8,12\}\), three trials each, 189 families. No family violated the bound, and 76 came within one degree of it. Of these 76, only 27 have a positive bound: 135 of the 189 families have \(m(2/3)^k\ge1\), where the bound is 0.

Next step

The user directed, after this cycle, to finish the gluing line at the parameters where it is attainable, and only then to generalize. That supersedes the double-point review's pause of the line.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: state and prove the glued theorem at the attainable parameters. Combine the recorded pieces into one statement with one probability space and one board:

member pinning;
the gluing lemma and syzygies as Tor;
the proved Tor vanishing for generic square tops, in degree 4 at \(n=7\) for \(M\le40\);
the double-point theorem for generic forms on the functional board, in degree 3 at \(n=6,7,8\).

The target is a statement of the form: weak unary or functional PHP plus \(M\) generic selectors has no PC refutation of degree \(D\), for every \(M\) below the proved range, at those \(n\). First re-read each piece's exact hypotheses, the board, the base and the degree convention. The step ends with the glued theorem proved at those parameters, or with the named hypothesis that fails to compose. Generalizing to all \(n\), through the coupling condition (C), comes after. Also open, from this cycle: whether the quiet-members exponent reaches order \(k\) for product-structured families.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the reduction's statement and parameters, bounded-span equivalence, and the confined-families entry's counting remark and caveats.
Claim searches: Reed–Muller minimum distance, allowed set, zero-set density, multiplicity Schwartz–Zippel and the refutation degree of weak unary PHP. They found the binary multiplicity cover audit and the endpoint theorems, none of which states this lemma.

Record check before drafting: a fresh-context subagent, given only the statement, found no recorded result implying it. It confirmed the weakening of the Kasami–Lin–Peterson weight, the union bound and the corollary's arithmetic, and asked for the two scope points now stated: the degree is the reduced \(y\)-degree, and independence needs \(k\le d\).

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the lemma, the direction of the Reed–Muller weakening, the union bound and the check's counts, and found no unused hypothesis. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the degree gap corrected to about \(29.8(K+1)\), and the 0.37 given its \(1/(K+1)\);
- the ceiling at degree \(k\) stated, with what full success would and would not buy;
- "nonzero" added to the corollary;
- the width-2 sizes taken from a saved result file;
- the trivial cases of the check counted.

The changes weaken or correct claims, and the one addition, the ceiling, is a one-line observation. So no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	17 min 7.24 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	11 min 36.17 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	58.63 s
Individually measured computation	4 min 32.32 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The glue holds in degree 3: independent double points make PHP with selectors unrefutable, and the bound is sharp

23 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · Functional PHP with selectors, degree 3, any board with at least five labels. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The glue holds in degree 3: independent double points make PHP with selectors unrefutable, and the bound is sharp”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-glued-double-points.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The user directed finishing the gluing line at the parameters where it is attainable, before generalizing (quiet-members entry). The recorded glued theorem needs label robustness of order \(B^2r^2\), about 70 labels at \(B=3\). The proved generic interpolation, double-point independence, holds only at \(n\le8\). Do the two meet anywhere?

General statement. thm:glued-double-points: on the functional board with \(R\ge3\) rows and \(N\ge5\) labels, functional PHP plus any selectors over \(\mathbb F_3\) \(1-(L_j-v_j)^2\) has no PC refutation of degree 3 whenever two conditions hold: the squares \(\ell_j^2\) of the linear parts are independent in \(G_2\), and the double points \(\sum_j\ell_j^2G_1\) have their full dimension \(M(\gamma_1-1)\) in \(G_3\). No robustness is needed. The finite check ex:functional-capacity-sharp shows that, for random forms at \(n=6,7\), refutation comes exactly at the first \(M\) past the capacity.

The theorem

Work over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the functional matching base with \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels, its top algebra \(G\), and \(K_t=G_t^*\), as in the gluing entry. A selector \(C_j=\chi_{v_j}(L_j)=1-(L_j-v_j)^2\) forbids the value \(v_j\) of the affine form \(L_j\). Its top is \(-\ell_j^2\), with \(\ell_j\in G_1\) the linear part, so \(b_{C_j}=2\). The forms and forbidden values are over \(\mathbb F_3\), since the self relation below uses \(L^3-L\) in the base. The ranks in (a) and (b) are the same over \(\mathbb F_3\) and over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\).

Theorem (glued double points). Suppose \(N\ge5\) and \(R\ge3\), and that the linear parts satisfy:

(a) \(\ell_1^2,\dots,\ell_M^2\) are linearly independent in \(G_2\);
(b) \(\dim\sum_j\ell_j^2G_1=M(\gamma_1-1)\) in \(G_3\), that is, the double-point conditions \(D_{\ell_j}^2w=0\) on \(K_3\) are independent.

Then every NS functional for functional PHP plus \(C_1,\dots,C_M\) through degree \(k\le3\) extends through degree 3. The filtration is stable, PC equals NS through 3, and there is no PC refutation of degree 3. The same holds for weak balanced PHP with these selectors.

Proof. Iterate the extensions from \(s-1\) to \(s\le3\), as in the recorded glued theorem's proof.

Base extensions. At each step, the old functional \(\mu\) annihilates the legal multiples of every constraint. An old extension \(E\mu\) through \(s\) exists by the recorded matching extension theorem, which needs \(m\ge B=3\) rows and \(N\ge2B-1=5\) labels. Nothing else in the proof uses the board's size.
\(s\le1\). No selector is active below its degree \(h=2\), so \(E\mu\) itself extends.
\(s=2\) and \(s=3\). By the syzygy-gluing lemma (part 1), a correction \(w\in K_s\) with \(D_{\ell_j}^2w=\hat z_{C_j}\) for all \(j\) exists if and only if \(\sum_j\langle\hat z_{C_j},g_j\rangle=0\) for every top syzygy \((g_j)\), \(g_j\in G_{s-2}\), \(\sum_j\ell_j^2g_j=0\).
- At \(s=2\) the \(g_j\) are scalars, and (a) leaves only \(g=0\).
- At \(s=3\) the syzygies are the kernel of \(\mu_3:\bigoplus_jG_1\to G_3\), \((g_j)\mapsto\sum_j\ell_j^2g_j\). It contains the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_je_j\), since \(\ell^3=0\). They are \(M\) independent vectors, because each \(\ell_j\ne0\) by (a). By (b), \(\dim\ker\mu_3=M\gamma_1-M(\gamma_1-1)=M\), so the kernel is exactly their span.
- On \(\ell_je_j\) the pairing is \(\langle\hat z_{C_j},\ell_j\rangle=(D_{\ell_j}\hat z_{C_j})(1)\). That vanishes by the recorded self relation \(D_j^{3-b_{C,j}}\hat z_C=0\) of the product-constraints entry. The self relation uses only that \(E\mu\) annihilates base multiples through \(s\), and that \(L^3-L\) lies in the base at degree 3. It needs no robustness.
Conclusion. Each correction fixes every lower moment. Duality and degree-bounded multiplication give stability and PC equal to NS, and the nonrefutation transfers to weak balanced PHP, as in the recorded corollaries. \(\square\)

In the sheaf language of the gluing entry, each selector's local section exists by its self relation. The Čech obstruction is the defect pairing on syzygies that are not Frobenius, and hypothesis (b) says there are none. The theorem glues the sheaf in degree 3 at every board where (b) holds. The robustness in the recorded glued theorem was needed only to produce local sections at every degree for large subsystems. Here the subsystems are single selectors, and their sections come free.

Corollary (explicit witnesses). At \(n=6\), with the two recorded random sequences, and at \(n=7\), with the one below, the \(\mathbb F_3\) forms satisfy (a) and (b) for every prefix \(M\le48\), respectively \(M\le123\), which are \(\lfloor\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\rfloor\). So functional PHP plus those selectors, with any forbidden values, has no PC refutation of degree 3. At \(n=8\), the small-boards proposition's \(\mathbb F_3\) specialization satisfies (b) for every prefix up to capacity, but (a) was not checked there, so the conclusion at \(n=8\) is conditional on (a) for those forms. The generic statement over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) does not by itself give \(\mathbb F_3\) forms, since a nonempty Zariski-open set need not contain an \(\mathbb F_3\)-point.

For all \(n\) and \(\mathbb F_3\) forms meeting (a), the theorem reduces degree-3 hardness to double-point independence at those forms, and so to the coupling condition (C) of the row Horace reduction.

Sharpness

glued_check.py takes one uniform random selector sequence over \(\mathbb F_3\), with forms nonconstant on every row. For every prefix it computes three things:

(a) and (b) at those forms, from prefix ranks in the compiled kernel;
whether the degree-3 PC closure of functional PHP plus the prefix contains 1, from the incremental compiled closure;
the functional base, which is the weak base plus the row collisions.

\(n\)	seed	capacity \(\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\)	(a) and (b) hold up to \(M\)	first refuted \(M\)
6	1	48.4	48	49
6	2	48.4	48	49
7	1	123.9	123	124

The theorem predicts no refutation while (a) and (b) hold. It passed, and refutation came at the very next constraint in all three runs. At that constraint, (b) fails only by the dimension count \(M(\gamma_1-1)>\gamma_3\). So random \(\mathbb F_3\) forms are refuted at the first \(M\) past capacity: the degree-3 capacity law holds exactly on the functional board at \(n=6,7\) for these sequences. The theorem is sufficient, and observed tight for random forms. Whether (b) is also necessary, for forms in special position, is not shown. The recorded weak-base thresholds are later (76 and 185) because the weak base lacks the row collisions.

What is glued, and what is next

The gluing line is finished in degree 3: hardness for any number of selectors follows from double-point independence, and for random forms at \(n=6,7\) the two thresholds coincide. Double-point independence is proved at \(n=6,7,8\) and reduced to (C) for all \(n\). Generalizing means:

(C) for all \(n\), with the aligned conjecture as the restart point, which would give degree 3, for forms meeting (a), on every board with five or more labels;
higher degree, where the syzygies of degree \(s\ge4\) include Koszul pairs \(\ell_k^2e_j-\ell_j^2e_k\), whose pairing with the defects is the recorded cross relation. The generic square-tops entry proved the degree-4 analogue of (b) at \(n=7\) on the weak base's algebra.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: glue degree 4. State the degree-4 analogue of the theorem. Hypothesis (b4): the kernel of \((g_j)\mapsto\sum_j\ell_j^2g_j\) on \(\bigoplus_jG_2\) is spanned by the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_jG_1e_j\), which pair to zero by the self relation, and the Koszul pairs \(\ell_k^2e_j-\ell_j^2e_k\). Prove that the defects vanish on the Koszul pairs, from the recorded cross relation, for selectors on distinct forms.

Count first. At \(B=4\) the extension theorem needs \(N\ge7\), so the smallest valid board is \(n=7\). Both the weak and the functional base refute themselves at \(D=4\) for \(n=5,6\) (functional_base.py), consistent with that. At \(n=7\), \(D=4\) the closure space has 162,681 columns, about 6.6 GB dense, within the budget but heavy. So first check whether the functional base survives degree 4 there.
Then. Verify (b4) on the functional algebra at \(n=7\) for one \(\mathbb F_3\) sequence, and test sharpness.
What ends the step. The degree-4 theorem proved, with an explicit witness at \(n=7\). Or the named obstruction: the base refuting at \(n=7\), \(D=4\), or a syzygy beyond Frobenius and Koszul.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the syzygy-gluing lemma and the glued theorem's proof, the product-constraints entry's endpoint data and self relations, the main notebook's matching extension theorem (\(m\ge B\) rows, \(N\ge2B-1\) labels) and the small-boards proposition.
Claim searches: glued, extension room and robustness. They found the glued theorem, whose robustness this result avoids at degree 3, and the binary matching-extension audit.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the four proof steps, including that (b) makes the degree-3 kernel exactly the Frobenius span, and that the self relation gives the vanishing pairing without robustness. It also confirmed the script's hypotheses and the table. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the forms and values over \(\mathbb F_3\), and the corollary restricted to explicit \(\mathbb F_3\) witnesses;
- the extension requirement corrected to \(N\ge5\), \(R\ge3\);
- the sharpness claims narrowed to sufficiency, observed tight;
- the next step moved to \(n=7\), where degree 4 is within the hypotheses;
- the degree-4 Frobenius syzygies stated.

The changes weaken or restrict claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 31.23 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 1.33 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 24.29 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 17.64 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 47.83 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Taylor generation glues at every degree without robustness; degree 4 is glued at n = 7

23 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · Functional PHP with selectors, any degree \(B\), boards with at least \(2B-1\) labels. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Taylor generation glues at every degree without robustness; degree 4 is glued at n = 7”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-taylor-glue.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The glued double-points entry glued degree 3 and asked for degree 4, where the top syzygies of the squares include Koszul pairs. The user directed finishing the gluing line before generalizing. Does the degree-3 argument extend to every degree, and does degree 4 glue at its smallest valid board?

General statement. thm:taylor-glue: on the functional board with \(R\ge B\) rows and \(N\ge2B-1\) labels (on the PHP board \(R=N+1\), so the row condition follows), functional PHP plus any selectors over \(\mathbb F_3\) has no PC refutation of degree \(B\) whenever the top syzygies of the squares \(\ell_j^2\) in every degree \(s\le B\) are spanned by the Taylor syzygies, that is, whenever \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)_s=0\) for \(s\le B\) in the notation of syzygies as Tor. No robustness is needed. The finite check ex:degree-four-glue-n7 verifies the degree-4 hypothesis for an explicit \(\mathbb F_3\) sequence at \(n=7\), \(M\le20\), and records where refutation comes.

The theorem

The setting is the glued double-points entry's: selectors \(C_j=1-(L_j-v_j)^2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), with tops \(-\ell_j^2\), on the functional matching base, top algebra \(G\), \(K_t=G_t^*\). The Taylor syzygies of the squares in degree \(s\) are spanned by:

the Frobenius syzygies \(g\,\ell_je_j\), \(g\in G_{s-3}\), since \(\ell_j^3=0\);
the Koszul syzygies \(g\,(\ell_k^2e_j-\ell_j^2e_k)\), \(g\in G_{s-4}\).

By the recorded syzygies-as-Tor proposition, the top syzygies modulo these are \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)_s\), with \(A=\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_M]/(x_j^3)\) acting by \(x_j\mapsto\ell_j\) and \(J=(x_j^2)\).

Theorem (Taylor glue). Let \(B\ge2\), and suppose the board has \(R\ge B\) rows and \(N\ge2B-1\) labels. If for every \(s\le B\) the degree-\(s\) top syzygies of the squares are spanned by the Taylor syzygies, then every NS functional for functional PHP plus \(C_1,\dots,C_M\) through degree \(k\le B\) extends through \(B\). The filtration is stable, PC equals NS through \(B\), and there is no PC refutation of degree \(B\).

Proof. Iterate the extensions from \(s-1\) to \(s\le B\) as in the glued double-points theorem. The base extension \(E\mu\) exists by the matching extension theorem, which needs \(R\ge B\) rows and \(N\ge2B-1\) labels. By the syzygy-gluing lemma, part 1, a correction exists if and only if the defects pair to zero with every top syzygy. By hypothesis it suffices to check the Taylor generators.

Frobenius. \(\langle\hat z_{C_j},g\ell_j\rangle=(D_gD_{\ell_j}\hat z_{C_j})(1)=0\), by the self relation \(D_{\ell_j}\hat z_{C_j}=0\).
Koszul. \(\langle\hat z_{C_j},g\ell_k^2\rangle-\langle\hat z_{C_k},g\ell_j^2\rangle=\bigl(D_g(D_{\ell_k}^2\hat z_{C_j}-D_{\ell_j}^2\hat z_{C_k})\bigr)(1)=0\), by the cross relation \(D^{b-b_C}\hat z_C=D^{b-b_{C'}}\hat z_{C'}\). Two selectors on different indexed forms share no form, so they are coherent, and \(b=b_C+b_{C'}\).

Both relations were proved from two facts only: \(E\mu\) annihilates base multiples through \(s\), and \(\mu\) annihilates legal multiples of lower degree (\(C\cdot C'=C'\cdot C\) for the cross relation, \(L^3-L\) in the base for the self relation). Neither uses robustness or independence of the forms. The rest is as in the glued double-points theorem. \(\square\)

The glued double-points theorem is the case \(B=3\): at \(s=2\) there are no Taylor syzygies, so the hypothesis is independence of the squares, and at \(s=3\) only the Frobenius ones \(\ell_je_j\). The recorded glued theorem needed robustness of order \(B^2r^2\) to produce local corrections for general subsystems. For selectors, the self and cross relations make every Taylor syzygy harmless directly, so Tor vanishing alone decides the gluing.

Degree 4 at n = 7

At \(B=4\) the matching extension theorem needs \(N\ge7\), so \(n=7\) is the smallest board. Two new pieces of code:

fspace.py is the functional quotient space for the recorded all-C closure: monomials with distinct pigeons and distinct holes, collisions zero. Its self-test reproduces the recorded functional computation at \(n=6\), \(D=3\): codimension 2,080 and the first refutation at 49.
base_n7.py found functional \(\mathrm{PHP}^8_7\) not refuted by its own degree-4 closure, with 71,793 columns, in 6 s. \(\mathrm{PHP}^7_6\) is refuted at degree 4.

deg4_check.py takes one uniform \(\mathbb F_3\) sequence, forms nonconstant on every row, seed 1. For every prefix it computes:

(a), squares independent in \(G_2\);
(b), degree-3 syzygies only Frobenius: rank \(M(\gamma_1-1)\) on \(K_3\);
(b4), the dimension \(M\gamma_2-\operatorname{rank}\mu_4\) of the degree-4 syzygies compared with the rank of the Frobenius and Koszul generators. Equality means the generators span the kernel, because they lie in it: \(\ell_j^3=0\) in \(G\), which has characteristic 3 and squarefree rows, and the Koszul pairs cancel;
whether the degree-4 closure contains 1.

Here \(\gamma_1,\dots,\gamma_4=48,812,5824,15750\). The ranks use the compiled prefix-rank kernel and the closure the all-C kernel. The board and generator construction is vectorized. It reproduced the ranks of an earlier run built with Python loops at all 20 prefixes. That run timed out at \(M=21\), and its log is saved as deg4_n7_s1_loopbuilt_timedout.log.

Result. (a), (b) and (b4) hold at every prefix \(M\le20\). At \(M=20\) the degree-4 syzygies have dimension 1150, equal to the rank of the Frobenius and Koszul generators, and \(\operatorname{rank}\mu_4=15090<\gamma_4\). The degree-4 closure contains 1 first at \(M=21\). There \(\operatorname{rank}\mu_4\) reaches \(\gamma_4=15750\), so (b4) fails only by the dimension count: the syzygies (1302) exceed the generators (1218). So the theorem's prediction passed with an explicit \(\mathbb F_3\) witness at degree 4. As at degree 3, the random sequence is refuted at the first selector past the degree-4 capacity.

Cost. The prefix closures took 0.7 to 31 s each through \(M=20\). The refuting step took 313 s of the 645 s of closure time recorded in the result file, and the run took 667 s by its log (deg4_n7_s1.log), because the closure kernel runs to saturation after 1 has entered. Since the prefix ranks already settle \(M\le20\) through the theorem, one batch closure of the first 20 selectors, then single steps with an early stop at 1, would have answered the same question. That waste was identified after launch. The early stop belongs in the kernel, and CLAUDE.md now requires designing each run from its question.

What is glued, and what remains

The gluing line is finished at every degree in this form: for selectors, hardness through degree \(B\) follows from Tor vanishing through \(B\) on boards with at least \(B\) rows and \(2B-1\) labels. Tor vanishing is verified for explicit seeded \(\mathbb F_3\) sequences only: in degree 3 for \(M\le48\) at \(n=6\) and \(M\le123\) at \(n=7\), and in degree 4 for \(M\le20\) at \(n=7\). It is not verified for all forms at those \(n\). In both degrees those sequences are refuted at the next selector. Generalizing now means proving Tor vanishing, for generic or suitable forms, at all \(n\) and degrees. That is the semi-regularity statement, whose degree-3 case the double-point line reduced to the coupling condition (C). The adversarial and wide-clause axes of the double-point review remain beyond it.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer, by the user's plan to generalize once glued: prove degree-3 Tor vanishing for all \(n\). That is the coupling condition (C) of the row Horace reduction, with the aligned double-points conjecture as its restart point. Start from the transposed coupling: for aligned forms, a trace syzygy whose product with \(2\ell_i\ell'\) lies in the residual span must be Frobenius. First add the early stop to gf3_closure.c: end the closure when the constant enters, check it against the recorded refutation points (49, 124, 21), and use it in every later sharpness test. The step ends with (C) proved for aligned forms, or with the exact place where the aligned coupling fails, located by the transposed-coupling computation at \(n=6,7\).

Verification gate.

Re-read: the syzygy-gluing lemma, the syzygies-as-Tor proposition, the product-constraints entry's self and cross relations with their proofs, the matching extension theorem's requirement and the glued double-points entry.
Claim searches: Taylor, gluing and robustness. They found the glued theorem and the syzygies-as-Tor remark that Taylor generation implies local generation. That remark still needs local corrections, and so robustness, which this theorem avoids for selectors.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the Frobenius and Koszul pairings, including the commutation of \(D_g\), the coherence of selectors on different forms, the \(B=3\) reduction, the Tor identification, the check's code and every number. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the timings taken from saved files, and the earlier run's log saved;
- one row symbol, and the weak-balanced clause dropped, since the check covers only the functional base;
- the reason that equal dimensions give spanning stated;
- the verified range stated per seed and per size.

The changes weaken or correct claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	33 min 2.10 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	10 min 25.32 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 7.46 s
Individually measured computation	21 min 29.18 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 5.

Route review: what the glued sheaf covers, what each parameter needs, and the tools that might carry it

23 September 2026 · Route review · The glued line on odd-prime-clause-transfer, before generalization. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: what the glued sheaf covers, what each parameter needs, and the tools that might carry it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The Taylor-glue entry finished the gluing line for selectors. The user asked for a table of the glued sheaf's parameters against the goal, with a direction for each, and for the leads from modern algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and category theory to be recorded. This review sets the direction for generalization.

General statement. The line's claim is thm:taylor-glue: for selectors on the functional board with at least \(B\) rows and \(2B-1\) labels, Tor vanishing through degree \(B\) (\(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)_s=0\), \(s\le B\)) gives no PC refutation of degree \(B\). The gluing theorem holds at every \(n\) and \(B\). The small values in the table are where its hypothesis has been verified, for explicit seeded \(\mathbb F_3\) sequences. So generalizing mostly means proving the hypothesis, not re-proving the gluing.

The parameters against the goal

The goal's requirements come from the logarithmic-prefix reduction (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction).

Parameter	Glued sheaf	Goal needs	Direction
Characteristic \(p\)	3	every fixed odd prime	Port, likely routine. Selectors become \(1-(L-v)^{p-1}\) with tops \(\ell^{p-1}\), Frobenius uses \(\ell^p=0\), the self relation \(L^p-L\) in the base, and \(A=\mathbb F_p[x]/(x^p)\). The gluing lemma and the Tor framework are stated for all \(p\); the self and cross relations need rechecking for exponent \(p-1\).
Degree \(B\)	theorem: every \(B\); Tor vanishing verified at \(B=3\) and \(4\)	PC degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\), logarithmic in \(n\)	Higher-degree Tor vanishing, the semi-regularity conjecture (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base). Tools: the edge Castelnuovo sequence and row Horace induction, both valid in every degree; interpolation of Alexander–Hirschowitz type; specialization plus openness for base cases; Gröbner or torus degenerations (below).
Board size \(n\) (\(R=n+1\), \(N=n\))	theorem: every \(n\) with \(N\ge2B-1\); Tor vanishing verified at \(n=6,7\) (degree 3) and \(n=7\) (degree 4)	all large \(n\)	The double-point line. Row Horace reduces degree 3 to (B) and (C). (B) is proved for \(n=6,\dots,10\), and for all \(n\ge6\) given the dimension formula, which follows from the chessboard connectivity theorem once imported. (C) is open, restarting from the aligned conjecture through the transposed coupling. The trace induction needs base cases on boards of other shapes. Representation stability is a lead (below).
Rows and labels needed	\(R\ge B\), \(N\ge2B-1\)	\(B\) logarithmic, far below \(n\)	None needed: the requirement is linear in \(B\). The old robustness of order \(B^2r^2\) is gone.
Number of constraints \(M\)	up to capacity: 48 and 123 in degree 3, 20 in degree 4, observed sharp	\(M=n^K\)	No new mechanism, only Tor vanishing up to \(M\). At logarithmic degree the capacity grows superpolynomially, so \(n^K\) lies far below it.
Constraint width	1: selectors, tops \(\ell^2\)	product clauses \(g\prod_{j\in S}L_j^{p-1}\) of width \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\) at \(p=3\)	A real gap. The Tor framework covers monomial tops \(\ell^{b_C}\), and cross relations are recorded for coherent product constraints. Needed: Tor vanishing for wide tops, the width part of the semi-regularity conjecture; incoherent overlaps, which are open; the quiet-members lemma bounds members' local consequences below degree \((p-1)\log_pn\). Computation cannot reach width 2: degree 5 at \(n=7\) needs about 181 GB. Hochster's formula is a lead (below).
Forms	explicit seeded \(\mathbb F_3\) sequences, standing in for generic forms	arbitrary, adversarial families from a refutation	The largest gap. Special position survives every choice of prefix sets and every substitution, so no generic theorem transfers (review). Needed: a stratified, relative theorem, the local-fall conjecture. Evidence: planted, pencil and confined members, of span up to 8. Proved pieces: member pinning, bounded-span equivalence, quiet members. Čech and Leray vanishing on the member cover is a lead (below).
Field of the forms	\(\mathbb F_3\), witnesses checked directly	\(\mathbb F_3\)	No change of field. But a generic statement over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) does not give \(\mathbb F_3\) forms: an all-\(n\) theorem must produce \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational families, or be the adversarial statement, where the issue disappears.
Base	functional unary PHP	ordinary unary PHP, which compiles to the weak base	None. Functional PHP has more axioms, so its hardness implies the weak base's. The functional base is also the one with structure: its top algebra splits over row sets into chessboard-complex cycle spaces, and the Horace splits, the edge sequence, the matching extension theorem and the self and cross relations all use that. Switch only if an obstruction due to the row-collision axioms appears.
Proof system	PC and NS degree	size of standard Res(Lin\(_{\mathbb F_p}\)) proofs	None beyond degree: the recorded compiler and reduction convert the degree statement. Their requirements are the width, degree and adversarial rows.

So three parameters need genuinely new mathematics, in order of risk: adversarial forms, logarithmic width, and logarithmic degree through Tor vanishing. Two need proofs of the double-point kind: \(n\to\infty\), which is (C), and general \(p\). The rest need nothing.

Leads from algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and category theory

These are proposals, not results. None has been checked against our algebra beyond the stated evidence.

Artinian reduction and Hochster's formula (width; most striking).
- Idea: \(G\) looks like an Artinian reduction of the face ring of the chessboard complex: squarefree monomials in the edge variables, quotiented by the row sums as linear forms. If that identification holds, Hochster's formula expresses the Tor of such rings through the homology of induced subcomplexes. Tor vanishing for wide monomial tops would then become homology vanishing on chessboard-type subcomplexes. The chessboard connectivity theorem and Shareshian–Wachs torsion would then enter as tools.
- Related tools: the modern Lefschetz theorems for Artinian reductions of face rings, Adiprasito's generic Lefschetz theorems and the anisotropy method of Papadakis and Petrotou with its extension to odd characteristic.
- Caveats: those theorems are for spheres and manifolds, and chessboard complexes are neither. In characteristic 3, \(\ell^3=0\) breaks strong Lefschetz in its usual form; the Frobenius syzygies are exactly that failure, so any Lefschetz input needs a characteristic-\(p\) version.
- Status: the identification of \(G\) is unverified. It is cheap to test.
Gröbner and torus degenerations with semicontinuity (degree). The Tor hypothesis is of Fröberg type: squares of generic forms have the expected Hilbert function below capacity. Fröberg's conjecture is open in general even for polynomial rings, but its known cases are proved by degenerating to monomial or torus-fixed configurations, where Taylor resolutions compute Tor, and lifting by semicontinuity. Our regime is favourable: many variables, \(M\) far below capacity, low degree and only the injective side. This is the systematic form of the specialization plus openness already used at degrees 3 and 4.
Representation stability (\(n\to\infty\)). \(n\mapsto K_t(n)\) is a functor on a category of injections, adding rows and labels. That is the FI-module setting of Church, Ellenberg and Farb, where Noetherianity turns vanishing up to the generation degree into vanishing for all \(n\). The dimension formula \(\delta_t\) is a polynomial in \(N\), the typical signature. The catch is that a fixed tuple of forms breaks the symmetry. It needs equivariant configurations, such as the orbit specializations used in degree 4, with \(M\) growing with \(n\).
Čech and Leray vanishing on the member cover (adversarial). The gluing obstruction is a first Čech group on the cover of the inventory by its members, identified with Tor. A Leray-type theorem would make it vanish when the cover is good, with its own higher obstructions vanishing on overlaps. That is a candidate proof strategy for the local-fall law; the pencil is precisely a bad overlap.
Stratifications, and a warning. Flattening stratification and constructibility say the space of form tuples splits into finitely many strata with constant Tor. But the adversary picks the stratum. Mnëv universality says configuration strata can be arbitrarily complicated, so a stratum-by-stratum classification is hopeless. Any adversarial theorem must use local data only, the members, as the local-fall conjecture does.
Category theory.
- Where it helps: functoriality on injection categories, lead 3, and the identification of the gluing obstruction with Čech cohomology and Tor, lead 4.
- Where it does not: the Yoneda lemma, since our objects are explicit finite-dimensional spaces with explicit maps. Adjunctions between the functional and weak bases would be tidy but unproductive.

Assessment and direction

The glued line is complete in form: for selectors, hardness through degree \(B\) is exactly Tor vanishing through \(B\) on small-resource boards, and it is observed sharp at degrees 3 and 4. What remains is the generalization of its hypothesis along three hard axes, adversarial, width and degree, and two routine ones, \(n\) and \(p\).

The cheapest decisive test is lead 1. If \(G\) is an Artinian reduction of the chessboard complex's face ring, Hochster's formula and the Lefschetz literature become available, and topology connects to the width axis. If it is not, the mismatch identifies the right algebra. Lead 2 is the systematic continuation of what already worked for degree. Lead 3 is for \(n\to\infty\) once an equivariant family is in hand. The coupling condition (C) stays the concrete open step for \(n\to\infty\) in degree 3.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: test lead 1.

Test. Compare the Hilbert function of \(G\) for the functional board, \(\dim G_t=\binom Rt\delta_t(N)\) where the formula holds, with the \(h\)-vector of the chessboard complex \(M_{R,N}\) and with the Hilbert function of its face ring modulo squares and the row sums, at small \((R,N)\).
Count first. The face numbers are closed forms, and the exact quotients are small linear algebra at \(R\le8\), \(N\le7\).
Then. If an identification holds, state Hochster's formula for the relevant Tor, and test it on the recorded degree-3 and degree-4 witnesses. If none holds, record the mismatch and the algebra \(G\) actually is.
What ends the step. An identification with its consequences for wide tops, or a precise negative.

Verification gate. A review. It re-read the Taylor-glue and glued double-points entries, the double-point review, the quiet-members and confined-families entries, and the logarithmic-prefix reduction's statement. It registers no claim. The literature named in the leads (Hochster's formula, the Lefschetz and anisotropy theorems, Fröberg's conjecture, FI-modules, Mnëv universality) is cited from memory as context, not relied on for any claim. Each must be read in its source before use.

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What standard theory says about the glued sheaf, and a sharper next step

23 September 2026 · Route review · Observations on Taylor glue; next step refined to a Gröbner degeneration of \(G\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “What standard theory says about the glued sheaf, and a sharper next step”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-observations.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. After the generalization review, the user asked:

what modern algebraic geometry says about the glued sheaf;
whether witnesses are easier than proofs;
whether Fröberg's conjecture deserves a branch;
whether any of this changes the next step.

This short cycle records the answers.

General statement. The line's claim is unchanged, thm:taylor-glue: for selectors, Tor vanishing through degree \(B\) gives no PC refutation of degree \(B\). This entry records consequences of standard theory for it and refines the next step. It proves nothing new.

Observations

Gluing is open and generic. Tor vanishing through \(B\) is maximal rank of finitely many multiplication maps. So, for fixed \((n,B,M)\), the tuples of forms where the sheaf glues form a Zariski-open set, dense over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) once one witness exists. The witnesses at degrees 3 and 4 give such dense sets. Failure lies on a closed determinantal locus, which is where adversarial inventories live. By Mnëv universality that locus can be as complicated as arbitrary varieties, so it cannot be classified. Witnesses over \(\mathbb F_3\) hold over every extension field, but a dense open set over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) need not contain \(\mathbb F_3\)-points.
A modular representation. In characteristic 3, \(A=\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_M]/(x_j^3)\) is the group algebra of \((\mathbb Z/3)^M\), with \(x_j=g_j-1\). So \(G\) is a representation of an elementary abelian 3-group, each generator acting as \(1+\ell_j\). Tor vanishing is a truncated, relative projectivity, the subject of Dade's lemma, rank and support varieties, and Jordan types. The shortcut through Dade's lemma, reducing to single generic elements, is refuted in the truncated setting by the recorded truncated Dade counterexample: freeness over every single element plus positivity does not imply truncated freeness without a genericity hypothesis. Only self-injectivity of the group algebra has been used successfully, in the symmetric lifting lemma.
Sharpness as a Hilbert series. Tor vanishing through \(B\) means \(G/(\ell_j^2)\) has its expected Hilbert function through \(B\), as the syzygies-as-Tor proposition states for linear tops. The observed refutations at 49, 124 and 21 are where that expected count first fails in the top degree. So "hardness ends exactly at capacity" is a semi-regularity statement of Fröberg type for \(G\).
Apolarity. \(K_t=G_t^*\), with \(D_\ell\) the transpose of multiplication by \(\ell\), is Macaulay inverse-system duality. That is why degree 3 read as the matching-complex analogue of Alexander–Hirschowitz double points.
Witnesses and families. One witness settles one \((n,B,M)\) generically, but the goal needs every \(n\), \(B\) of order \(\log n\) and \(M\) up to \(n^K\). The checks outgrow any computer quickly, and witnesses are evidence on the generic side, not about adversaries. What scales is a witness family: forms defined for every \(n\) by a rule, with ranks provable uniformly. Alexander–Hirschowitz and the known cases of Fröberg's conjecture are proved that way, and the aligned forms are the candidate here.
Fröberg's conjecture. It concerns generic forms in a polynomial ring, is open in general, and is proved only in special cases, as recalled from the literature (to be read in the sources before use). Our need is weaker and different: our algebra is \(G\), on the injective side, in low degree, far below capacity, with squares of linear forms, the powers-of-forms variant closer to Alexander–Hirschowitz. A branch on Fröberg itself would be a long detour off the critical path. The known-case literature is the reading list for the degeneration lead. A side notebook on the semi-regularity of \(G\) is warranted if that work grows into its own program (recorded in the remaining route).
Hochster's formula concerns a different Tor. It computes the Tor of a face ring over its polynomial ring with respect to the coordinate variables. Ours is Tor over \(A\) acting through generic forms. Using it requires a flat degeneration to a monomial situation first.
Degenerating the forms is obstructed in \(G\). Squares of small-support forms impose too few conditions.
- A single-cell form has square 0.
- A two-cell form \(\ell=x_{r,c}+x_{s,d}\), \(r\ne s\), \(c\ne d\), has the monomial square \(2x_{r,c}x_{s,d}\). Then \(\ell^2G_1\) is spanned by \(x_{r,c}x_{s,d}x_e\), with \(e\) in the other \(R-2\) rows and the other \(N-2\) labels. In each such row, the row sum times \(x_{r,c}x_{s,d}\) is one relation among those \(N-2\) cells. So a two-cell form imposes at most \((R-2)(N-3)\) conditions: 15 at \(n=6\), against \(\gamma_1-1=34\).
- This is the phenomenon behind the recorded failures of function forms and cross forms.
Monomial specializations of the forms therefore cannot certify maximal rank.
Degenerating the algebra is the viable version. Take a Gröbner degeneration of the relations defining \(G\): squares, row and label collisions, row sums. Keep the forms generic, since multiplication by them is defined on the degenerate algebra. The expected mechanism: in a flat family of \(A\)-modules, Tor dimensions are upper semicontinuous, so vanishing on the degenerate fiber would imply vanishing for \(G\). That needs checking in this setting, including that \(\ell_j^3=0\) holds in every fiber for \(A\) to act. If the initial ideal is squarefree, the degenerate algebra is of Stanley–Reisner type for some complex \(\Delta'\), and Tor becomes combinatorial, where Hochster-type formulas and the chessboard topology apply.

Route update

The recorded next step asked whether \(G\) is an Artinian reduction of the chessboard complex's face ring. Observations 7 to 9 make it precise.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: compute a Gröbner basis of the ideal defining \(G\) for the functional board at small \((R,N)\), from \((3,2)\) up to \((7,6)\) if feasible.

First question: is the initial ideal squarefree, and if so, which complex \(\Delta'\) does it define? Compare its face numbers with \(\dim G_t\).
Then: check whether the degeneration is a flat family of \(A\)-modules for generic forms. At \(n=6\), degree 3, test whether Tor vanishing holds on the degenerate fiber for the recorded witnesses. That is the direction semicontinuity needs.
Count first: the polynomial ring has \(RN\) variables, 42 at \(n=6\), and the ideal is generated in degrees 1 and 2, so small Gröbner computations suffice. Use a compiled Gröbner implementation if one is available locally. Otherwise the linear-algebra version, degree by degree up to 4, through the recorded compiled elimination kernels.
What ends the step: a squarefree degeneration with Tor vanishing on it, which opens the Hochster route, or the precise way the degeneration fails.

After that, a witness family for (C) through the aligned forms remains the concrete route to \(n\to\infty\) in degree 3.

Verification gate. A review. It re-read the truncated-Dade record and the syzygies-as-Tor proposition, and the two-cell bound is proved in observation 8. Observations 1 to 7 rest on standard facts:

semicontinuity of rank, and base change for field extensions;
the isomorphism \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\cong\mathbb F_3[\mathbb Z/3]\);
Hochster's formula, Fröberg's conjecture, Dade's lemma and Mnëv universality, recalled as context.

Semicontinuity of Tor in flat families, in observation 9, is to be checked in this setting during the next step. The literature is to be read in the sources before any is used in a proof. No claim is registered.

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A Gröbner degeneration makes degree 3 combinatorial: pattern-avoiding matchings carry the double points

23 September 2026 · Working proof, conjecture and finite check · Lex degeneration of the functional top algebra, degree 3, \(n=5\) to 8. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A Gröbner degeneration makes degree 3 combinatorial: pattern-avoiding matchings carry the double points”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-groebner-degeneration.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The observations entry proposed to degenerate the algebra \(G\), not the forms. What is the initial ideal of \(G\)'s relations, and does degree-3 Tor vanishing hold on the degenerate algebra? If it does, semicontinuity carries it back to \(G\).

General statement. lem:degeneration-transfer: for any term order, if the double-point map on the degenerate algebra \(\operatorname{in}(G)\) attains \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\) at some forms, the double-point map on \(G\) attains it for generic forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\). conj:initial-complex-patterns: in the lex order, for every \(n\ge5\), the initial complex through degree 3 is the complex of matchings of the \(R\times(N-1)\) board avoiding five fixed label patterns. ex:degenerate-double-points: the degenerate algebra attains the maximal double-point rank at \(n=6,7,8\).

Correction: the chessboard connectivity theorem is already in the record

The residual entry called the connectivity theorem of Björner, Lovász, Vrećica and Živaljević "imported, not re-read" and asked for it to be imported with its exact statement. The record already contains it, and its searches did not surface it:

the homological bound over \(\mathbb F_2\) for every rectangular board, as augmented cycle filling for cell counts \(k<\min(a,b,\lfloor(a+b+1)/3\rfloor)\), formalized in Lean (formalization/third-party-claims/ChessboardHomology.lean, by a star-cover argument);
its informal expansion, proof:chessboard-homology-expansion;
its binary uses, thm:chessboard-quadratic-design-extension and thm:functional-PHP-stable-filtration.

What this thread needs is the bound over \(\mathbb F_3\): the dimension formula, the range of (B) and the edge sequence's hypothesis. As published, the theorem is a homotopy statement: the chessboard complex is \((\nu-2)\)-connected. That gives integral homology vanishing in the same range, and so vanishing over \(\mathbb F_3\). So the \(\mathbb F_3\) range is available as an imported statement, pending a re-read of the source. What the record lacks is a verified \(\mathbb F_3\) proof. The formalized star-cover argument is over \(\mathbb F_2\), and vanishing over \(\mathbb F_2\) alone would not imply vanishing over \(\mathbb F_3\). Porting it with oriented faces is needed only for a verified proof. The residual and edge-sequence entries' dependence is restated accordingly.

The degeneration

\(G\) is the polynomial ring in the cells \(x_{r,c}\) modulo squares, row and label collisions, and the row sums. Eliminate \(x_{r,N-1}=-\sum_{c<N-1}x_{r,c}\), and write \(y_{r,c}\), \(c<N-1\), for the remaining cells.

The squares and collisions of the \(y\) are monomials. Modulo them the basis is the matchings of the \(R\times(N-1)\) board.
Collisions with the eliminated label become one quadric per pair of rows, \(q_{rs}=\sum_{c\ne c'}y_{r,c}y_{s,c'}\), \(r<s\). Indeed \(x_{r,N-1}^2\) and \(x_{r,N-1}y_{r,c}\) expand into squares and row collisions of the \(y\). The label collision \(x_{r,N-1}x_{s,N-1}=\sum_{c,c'}y_{r,c}y_{s,c'}\) becomes \(q_{rs}\) modulo the label collisions \(y_{r,c}y_{s,c}\).

So \(G=\mathbb F_3[y]/\bigl((y^2)+(\text{collisions})+(q_{rs})\bigr)\). Every non-squarefree monomial is a leading term, so for any term order the standard monomials are squarefree matchings closed under taking subsets: a simplicial complex \(\Delta'\). The degenerate algebra \(\operatorname{in}(G)\) has the faces of \(\Delta'\) as basis, and multiplies faces to their union when that is a face, and to 0 otherwise.

degeneration.py computes, in lex order with the variables \(y_{r,c}\) decreasing in \(r(N-1)+c\), the leading monomials of \(\operatorname{span}\{q_{rs}m\}\) in each degree \(t\). They are the pivots of an echelon form over the matchings, sorted in decreasing order, from the compiled \(\mathbb F_3\) elimination. The standard monomials number exactly \(\dim G_t=\binom Rt\delta_t(N)\): 165 and 280 at \(n=5\), 399 and 1645 at \(n=6\), in degrees 2 and 3.

The initial complex through degree 3

patterns.py compares the minimal generators of the initial ideal with an explicit list at \(n=5,6,7,8\), and they agree exactly:

size 2: \(\{(r,0),(s,1)\}\) for every \(r<s\);
size 3: for every row triple \(r<s<u\), the four label patterns \((0,2,3)\), \((1,0,2)\), \((1,2,0)\), \((1,2,3)\) on rows \(r,s,u\).

The counts are 15, 21, 28, 36 generators of size 2 and 80, 140, 224, 336 of size 3, that is \(\binom R2\) and \(4\binom R3\).

Conjecture (initial-complex patterns). For every \(n\ge5\), in this lex order, the faces of \(\Delta'\) of size at most 3 are the matchings of size at most 3 of the \(R\times(N-1)\) board that avoid these five patterns. Consequently the degree-\(\le3\) part of \(\operatorname{in}(G)\) is a fixed combinatorial algebra, uniform in \(n\). The patterns involve only labels 0 to 3 and the relative order of rows. The size-2 part is immediate: \(q_{rs}\) has leading term \(y_{r,0}y_{s,1}\), and each row pair gives one relation. A proof in degree 3 would reduce the S-pairs of the \(q_{rs}\) to computations on three rows and the first four labels.

Transfer to \(G\)

Lemma (degeneration transfer). Fix a term order and linear forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_M\) in the \(y\). Write \(\gamma_t=\dim G_t=\dim\operatorname{in}(G)_t\), so \(\gamma_1=R(N-1)\). In characteristic 3, \(\ell^3=\sum_ia_i^3y_i^3=0\) on both algebras, since the cross coefficients 3 and 6 vanish and \(y_i^2=0\). So each \(\ell_j\) lies in the kernel of its own block, and the double-point rank is at most \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\) on both. If the double-point map \((u_j)\mapsto\sum_j\ell_j^2u_j\), from \(\bigoplus\operatorname{in}(G)_1\) to \(\operatorname{in}(G)_3\), attains that bound, then the same map on \(G\) attains it for forms in a nonempty Zariski-open set over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\).

Proof. Choose an integral weight \(w\) with \(\operatorname{in}_w(I)=\operatorname{in}(I)\) in degrees \(\le3\). The weight homogenization \(I_\tau\) of \(I\) gives the standard Gröbner family over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3[\tau]\): it is flat, its fiber at \(\tau=0\) is \(\operatorname{in}(G)\), and for \(\tau\ne0\) the substitution \(y_i\mapsto\tau^{w_i}y_i\) identifies the fiber with \(G\). By flatness the standard monomials are a basis of every fiber in each degree. In that basis the double-point map with the fixed forms \(\ell_j\) is a matrix whose entries are polynomials in \(\tau\). Its rank at \(\tau=0\) is at most its rank at all but finitely many \(\tau\), and it is bounded above by the same maximum on every fiber. At such \(\tau\ne0\), the map is the double-point map of \(G\) at the rescaled forms \(\ell_j(\tau^{w}y)\), so the bound is attained at some point, and attaining it is an open condition. \(\square\)

Maximal rank on \(G\) at \(M\le\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\) is hypothesis (b) of the glued double-points theorem, for forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\). The transfer gives genericity, not an \(\mathbb F_3\) witness. Our direct \(\mathbb F_3\) witnesses on \(G\) stand as before.

Double points on the degenerate algebra

degeneration.py --dp computes the double-point map on \(\operatorname{in}(G)\) through the face products, for one random \(\mathbb F_3\) sequence of forms in \(y\), rejection-sampled so that every row has a nonzero coefficient. It checks every prefix \(M\) against \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\):

\(n\)	\(\gamma_1\)	\(\gamma_3\)	prefixes \(M\)	deviations
6	35	1,645	1 to 57	none
7	48	5,824	1 to 144	none
8	63	16,044	1 to 299	none

The degenerate algebra therefore has maximal double-point rank at every \(M\) in these ranges. With the lemma, degree-3 Tor vanishing on \(G\) for generic forms at \(n=6,7,8\) follows again, now through a combinatorial algebra.

What this changes

If the pattern conjecture holds, degree-3 Tor vanishing for all \(n\) would follow from a rank statement on an explicit monomial algebra: matchings avoiding five fixed label patterns, uniform in \(n\). The transfer goes one way only, so this is a sufficient condition. We expect the Horace machinery to simplify there, with monomial pieces after a row split and combinatorial trace, residual and coupling maps. That is unchecked. Also, the lex order breaks the symmetry between rows, so the pieces left after a row split need not be pattern algebras of the same kind.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: first, prove the pattern conjecture by reducing the S-pairs of the \(q_{rs}\) to three rows and four labels. Then attack double points on the pattern algebra with the row Horace split, where every map is combinatorial. The residual and trace pieces should reduce to smaller pattern algebras. The coupling is the part to watch. Count first: the pattern algebra's pieces at \(n=6\) are the same sizes as before (\(\gamma_3=1645\)), so each Horace piece can be checked directly on it.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the definition of \(G\) in the coupling-dual entry, the glued double-points theorem's hypothesis (b), and the chessboard records named in the correction.
Checks: the standard monomial counts equal \(\dim G_t\) at \(n=5,\dots,8\) in degrees 2 and 3, the pattern description holds exactly at \(n=5,\dots,8\), and the double-point ranks are listed above.

Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the lex column order, the pivots as leading monomials, the minimal-generator test, the face-product matrix, the weight and flatness argument, and every count. It required the following changes, all adopted:
- the reduction's one-line check;
- the maximal-rank bound on both algebras, which is where characteristic 3 enters, and \(\gamma_t\) defined;
- the sampling described exactly;
- "reduces" weakened to "would follow from", and the Horace expectations hedged;
- the correction completed: the published theorem is homotopical, so the \(\mathbb F_3\) range is available as an import pending a re-read, and only a verified proof needs the port.

The changes weaken or correct claims, and the one addition, the upper bound, is a one-line computation. So no further pass was made.

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The pattern theorem: the degenerate algebra is pattern-avoiding matchings for every n, and the degree-3 dimension formula needs no import

23 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · Lex initial complex of the functional top algebra, degrees 2 and 3, every board with \(N\ge5\) labels. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The pattern theorem: the degenerate algebra is pattern-avoiding matchings for every n, and the degree-3 dimension formula needs no import”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-pattern-theorem.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The degeneration entry found the lex initial complex through degree 3 to be the matchings avoiding five label patterns, exactly at \(n=5,\dots,8\), and conjectured it for all \(n\). This cycle proves it.

General statement. thm:initial-complex-patterns: on the functional board with \(R\) rows and \(N\ge5\) labels (the PHP board has \(R=n+1\), \(N=n\), so \(n\ge5\)), in the lex order of the degeneration entry, the standard monomials of degree at most 3 of the functional top algebra \(G\) are exactly the matchings of the \(R\times(N-1)\) board avoiding the five patterns. cor:three-row-dimension-formula: over \(\mathbb F_3\), the zero-marginal arrays on 3 rows with \(N\ge5\) labels have dimension \(\delta_3(N)=N^3-6N^2+8N-1\), and the \(3\times N\) chessboard complex has \(\tilde H_1(\,\cdot\,;\mathbb F_3)=0\) (false for \(N=3,4\)), with no appeal to the connectivity theorem.

Setting

As in the degeneration entry: a board with \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels (for PHP, \(R=n+1\), \(N=n\)), \(L=N-1\), variables \(y_{r,c}\) (\(c<L\)), and \(G=\mathbb F_3[y]/\bigl((y^2)+(\text{collisions})+(q_{rs})\bigr)\) with \(q_{rs}=\sum_{c\ne c'}y_{r,c}y_{s,c'}\). The lex order has the variables decreasing in \(r(N-1)+c\). Let \(Q\) be the image of the ideal generated by the \(q_{rs}\) in the span of matchings.

\(Q_t\) splits over \(t\)-sets of rows, since \(q_{rs}m\) lives on the rows of \(m\) and \(\{r,s\}\).
On a row triple \(a<b<c\) a matching is an injective label tuple \((f_a,f_b,f_c)\). A monomial is larger in lex exactly when its tuple is lexicographically smaller: the row-\(a\) variable decides first, and a smaller label means a larger variable.
So the leading term of an element is its smallest tuple.

The theorem

Theorem (initial-complex patterns). Let \(N\ge5\), so \(L\ge4\).

In degree 2, on rows \(r<s\), the leading terms of \(Q_2\) are exactly \(y_{r,0}y_{s,1}\).
In degree 3, on rows \(a<b<c\), the leading terms of \(Q_3\) are exactly:
- the tuples with a 0 on a row above a 1, of which there are \(3(L-2)\);
- the four tuples \((0,2,3)\), \((1,0,2)\), \((1,2,0)\) and \((1,2,3)\).

So the standard monomials of degree at most 3, the faces of \(\Delta'\) of size at most 3, are the matchings avoiding these patterns.

Proof.

Degree 2. On rows \(r<s\), \(Q_2=\langle q_{rs}\rangle\). The smallest tuple of \(q_{rs}\) is \((0,1)\).

Degree 3: leading terms from explicit elements. On rows \(a<b<c\):

A tuple with 0 on row \(i\), 1 on a lower row \(j\), and label \(d\) on the third row \(k\) is the smallest tuple of \(q_{ij}y_{k,d}\). The support of \(q_{ij}y_{k,d}\) is all injective tuples with \(d\) on row \(k\).
\(q_{ac}y_{b,0}\) is the sum of all tuples with 0 on row \(b\), so its smallest tuple is \((1,0,2)\).
\(q_{ab}y_{c,0}\) likewise has smallest tuple \((1,2,0)\).
For a label \(x\), \[e_{\ne x}=\sum_{d\ne x}q_{ab}y_{c,d}-q_{bc}y_{a,x}-q_{ac}y_{b,x}\] is the sum of all tuples avoiding \(x\). The first sum covers every tuple with \(f_c\ne x\), and the two subtracted terms are exactly the tuples in it with \(f_a=x\), respectively \(f_b=x\). So \(e_{\ne0}\) has smallest tuple \((1,2,3)\), and \(e_{\ne1}\) has \((0,2,3)\).
The four patterns contain no 0 above a 1, so these are \(3(L-2)+4\) distinct leading terms. Hence \(\dim Q_3^{(abc)}\ge3(L-2)+4\).

Degree 3: an upper bound on the leading terms. On the triple, \(G_3^{(abc)}\) is the quotient of the \(L(L-1)(L-2)\) tuples by \(Q_3^{(abc)}\). It is dual to the zero-marginal arrays on 3 rows with \(N\) labels. By the chessboard-cycles lemma, those form the top cycle space \(Z_2\) of the chessboard complex \(M_{3,N}\). Neither this lemma (residual entry) nor the duality \(K_t=G_t^*\) (gluing entry) uses the connectivity theorem; both are direct identifications. That complex is connected for \(N\ge3\): two cells in different rows and labels are adjacent, and any two cells are joined through a third. So \(\tilde H_0=0\) and \(\tilde H_{-1}=0\). The Euler–Poincaré relation then gives \[\dim Z_2=\dim\tilde H_2=\tilde\chi+\dim\tilde H_1\ge\tilde\chi=\delta_3(N),\] the alternating face count with the empty face. So \(\dim Q_3^{(abc)}\le L(L-1)(L-2)-\delta_3(N)\).

The bounds meet. With \(N=L+1\), \[L(L-1)(L-2)-3(L-2)-4=N^3-6N^2+8N-1=\delta_3(N).\] So \(\dim Q_3^{(abc)}=3(L-2)+4\), and the leading terms found are all of them. \(\square\)

Corollary (three-row dimension formula). For \(N\ge5\), over \(\mathbb F_3\), the zero-marginal arrays on 3 rows with \(N\) labels have dimension exactly \(\delta_3(N)\), and \(\tilde H_1(M_{3,N};\mathbb F_3)=0\).

Proof. Equality holds throughout the chain above, so \(\dim\tilde H_1=0\). \(\square\)

The two-row formula \(\delta_2(N')=N'^2-3N'+1\), for \(N'\ge3\), is the cycle space of a connected graph, also unconditional. The residual entry's all-\(n\) range used exactly \(\delta_2(n-2)\) and \(\delta_3(n)\). In the residual entry's range section, \(m=\binom n2\delta_2(n-2)\) is the two-row formula with \(N'=n-2\ge4\), and \(\gamma_3=\binom{n+1}3\delta_3(n)\) is the three-row formula with \(N=n\ge6\). So the residual theorem's range, \(m\ge\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\) for all \(n\ge6\), now holds without the connectivity theorem. Only that dependency is removed. The edge sequence's degree-3 hypothesis, about the \(3\times n\) board minus one cell, and the formula for more than three rows still rest on the connectivity theorem or on computation.

Check

verify_patterns.py checks exactly, for \(L=4,\dots,9\) on one row triple:

the identities for \(e_{\ne0}\) and \(e_{\ne1}\), and the supports of the two \(q\cdot y\) products;
their smallest tuples;
that every tuple with a 0 above a 1 is the smallest tuple of some \(q\cdot y\) product;
the count identity.

All hold, consistent with the generator lists found at \(n=5,\dots,8\).

What this gives, and next

The transfer lemma uses the degenerate algebra only in degrees at most 3: the double-point map runs from \(\operatorname{in}(G)_1\) to \(\operatorname{in}(G)_3\). So faces of size at most 3 determine it, and the theorem describes exactly those. Degree-3 Tor vanishing for generic forms on \(G\), at every \(n\ge5\), would therefore follow from maximal double-point rank on one explicit algebra: the matchings of size at most 3 of an \(R\times(N-1)\) board avoiding five fixed patterns, with faces multiplying to their union. The theorem says nothing about faces of size 4 or more, which a degree-4 version would need.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: prove maximal double-point rank on the pattern algebra for all \(n\).

Setting. Rows enter the patterns only through their order, so induction on the last row is natural. In lex order the last row's variables are the smallest, so removing the last row leaves a pattern algebra of the same kind with one row fewer. Check that first.
Split. Split the degree-3 faces by whether they use the last row. The pieces are:
- a trace on the smaller pattern algebra;
- a residual of degree-2 faces on the other rows, restricted by the patterns;
- a coupling, now combinatorial.
Count first. At \(n=6\), \(\gamma_1=35\) and \(\gamma_3=1645\) (degeneration entry). Compute each piece's rank for random forms before attempting proofs.
What ends the step. An inductive proof, or the piece that fails.

Verification gate.

Re-read: the degeneration entry's construction, and the chessboard-cycles lemma for the identification of \(G_3\) per triple with \(Z_2\).
Checks: verify_patterns.py, and the recorded pattern computations at \(n=5,\dots,8\).
Claim searches: initial ideal, Gröbner, pattern-avoiding matchings and leading terms; and three rows, zero marginals, dimension formula, Euler characteristic and chessboard. They found the degeneration records, the chessboard records and lem:matching-marginal-cycle. That lemma identifies compatible matching moments with augmented chessboard cycles, the moment-side counterpart of the chessboard-cycles identification used here. None states the pattern theorem or the unconditional three-row formula.
Fresh-context review: the reviewer confirmed the lex order, the explicit elements and their supports, the distinctness of the leading terms, the connectivity argument, the Euler-characteristic signs, the count identity and the two-row formula, and found no mathematical error. It required changes, all adopted: definitions of \(n\), \(R\) and \(N\); the independence of the lemmas used from the connectivity theorem; the exact residual dependency removed and the ones that remain; the degrees the transfer lemma needs; an anchor for the sizes; and the field for \(\tilde H_1\). They restrict or clarify claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 15.71 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 58.45 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 16.70 s
Individually measured computation	0.43 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Row induction on the pattern algebra: the residual comes free, three rows are defective, and the coupling remains

23 September 2026 · Working proofs and finite checks · Double points on the pattern algebra, row split and a tropical bound. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Row induction on the pattern algebra: the residual comes free, three rows are defective, and the coupling remains”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-pattern-row-reduction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The pattern theorem reduced degree-3 Tor vanishing for generic forms, at every \(n\), to maximal double-point rank on an explicit monomial algebra \(P\), by the transfer lemma. Its next step proposed a proof by induction on the last row: split the degree-3 faces into trace, residual and coupling pieces, compute each piece's rank first, and end with an inductive proof or the piece that fails. The cycle ends with the piece that fails. The coupling is the same obstacle as on \(G\), and the monomial structure of \(P\) is not used by the row split. A tropical lower bound that does use it is tested as the next mechanism.

General statement. lem:pattern-row-reduction: on the pattern algebra \(P(R,L)\) in characteristic 3 with \(R\ge4\) and \(L\ge5\), the last-row split is exact. The residual splits into label slices without a quotient, and it is injective for generic forms at every \(M\le\lceil\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\rceil\). So maximal rank at \((R,L)\) is equivalent to a trace-plus-coupling rank condition, which reduces to the coupling alone when the trace has maximal rank on \(P(R-1,L)\). At the capacity the trace is overdetermined, so the coupling cannot be avoided. Separately, the three-row defect: on three rows every form imposes at most \(\gamma_1-2\) conditions, so the induction cannot start below four rows. lem:tropical-leading-bound: for forms whose coefficients carry tie-free integer powers of \(t\), the double-point rank of generic forms is at least the number of distinct pairs (winning form, heaviest cell) over the 3-faces, and that number is at most \(M(\gamma_1-2)\), so tie-free weights never certify maximal rank at or below the capacity. The finite checks are ex:pattern-general-boards and ex:tropical-tie-free-count.

Setting

For \(R\) rows and \(L\ge4\) labels, \(P=P(R,L)\) has as basis the matchings of at most 3 cells of the \(R\times L\) board, with rows \(0,\dots,R-1\) and labels \(0,\dots,L-1\), that avoid two kinds of pattern:

a 0 on a row above a 1;
on rows \(a<b<c\), the label tuples \((0,2,3)\), \((1,0,2)\), \((1,2,0)\) and \((1,2,3)\).

Two disjoint faces multiply to their union when that is a face, and every other product is 0; in particular \(x^2=0\) for a cell \(x\); degrees above 3 are not used. By the pattern theorem, \(P(R,L)\) is the lex initial algebra of the functional top algebra of the board with \(R\) rows and \(N=L+1\ge5\) labels, through degree 3. The PHP board has \(R=n+1\) and \(L=n-1\).

Whether a matching avoids the patterns depends only on the relative order of its rows. So a row triple carries \(T(L)=L(L-1)(L-2)-3(L-2)-4=\delta_3(L+1)\) faces:

\(\gamma_1=RL\);
\(\gamma_3=\binom R3T(L)\);
the capacity is \(\operatorname{cap}(R,L)=\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\): 48.4 at \(n=6\), 123.9 at \(n=7\).

For forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_M\in P_1\), the double-point map is

\[\mu:\bigoplus_{j}P_1\to P_3,\qquad(u_j)\mapsto\sum_j\ell_j^2u_j.\]

In characteristic 3, \(\ell^3=6\sum_{x<y<z}c_xc_yc_z\,xyz=0\), so \(\ell_je_j\in\ker\mu\) (the Frobenius syzygies), and \(\operatorname{rank}\mu\le\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\), called maximal rank. Genericity is over an infinite field of characteristic 3, such as \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\).

The row reduction

Let \(P'\) be the span of the faces avoiding the last row \(R-1\), and \(P^{\rm last}\) the span of those using it. Write \(\ell_j=\ell'_j+\lambda_j\), with \(\lambda_j\) supported on the last row, and \(u_j=u'_j+v_j\) likewise. As in the coupling-dual entry, define:

the trace \(\mu':(u'_j)\mapsto\sum_j\ell'^2_ju'_j\);
the residual \(\rho:(v_j)\mapsto\sum_j\ell'^2_jv_j\);
\(\beta:\ker\mu'\to P^{\rm last}_3\), \(u'\mapsto2\sum_j\lambda_j\ell'_ju'_j\).

For a label \(c\), let \(V_c\subseteq P'_2\) be spanned by the 2-faces \(f\) of \(P'\) such that \(f\cup\{(R-1,c)\}\) is a face, and let \(\pi_c\) be the coordinate projection onto \(V_c\). Write \(d_c=\dim V_c\).

Lemma (pattern row reduction). Let \(R\ge4\), \(L\ge5\), in characteristic 3. Parts 1 to 3 hold in any characteristic, and parts 1 and 2 for every \(R\ge2\), \(L\ge4\). The bounds \(R\ge4\), \(L\ge5\) enter only the constants of parts 3 and 5; characteristic 3 enters parts 4 and 5, through the Frobenius syzygies and the definition of maximal rank.

Exact split. \(P'=P(R-1,L)\), \(P_t=P'_t\oplus P^{\rm last}_t\), and \(\operatorname{rank}\mu=\operatorname{rank}\mu'+\dim(\operatorname{im}\rho+\beta(\ker\mu'))\).
Slices. \(P^{\rm last}_3=\bigoplus_cy_{R-1,c}V_c\), and \(\rho=\bigoplus_c\rho_c\) with \(\rho_c:\mathbb F^M\to V_c\), \((v_{jc})_j\mapsto\sum_jv_{jc}\pi_c(\ell'^2_j)\). Here \(v_j=\sum_cv_{jc}y_{R-1,c}\). With \(C=\binom{R-1}2\):
- \(d_0=C((L-1)(L-2)-1)\), and \(d_c\) has the same value for \(c\ge4\);
- \(d_1=C(L-2)(L-3)\);
- \(d_2=C((L-1)(L-2)-2)\);
- \(d_3=C((L-1)(L-2)-3)\).
The minimum is \(d_1\).
Residual. For generic \(\ell'_j\), \(\rho\) is injective if and only if \(M\le d_1\). Moreover \(\lceil\operatorname{cap}(R,L)\rceil\le d_1\).
Reduction. For generic forms and \(M\le d_1\), \(\operatorname{rank}\mu=\operatorname{rank}\mu'+ML+\dim\kappa\), with \(\kappa=(\operatorname{im}\rho+\beta(\ker\mu'))/\operatorname{im}\rho\). So \(\mu\) has maximal rank exactly when \(\operatorname{rank}\mu'+\dim\kappa=\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))-ML\). When \(\mu'\) has maximal rank on \(P(R-1,L)\), this is a condition on \(\kappa\) alone. Maximal rank at every \(M\) follows from maximal rank at \(M=\lfloor\operatorname{cap}\rfloor\) and \(M=\lceil\operatorname{cap}\rceil\).
The trace is overdetermined. \(\operatorname{cap}(R,L)-\operatorname{cap}(R-1,L)>5\). So at \(M=\lfloor\operatorname{cap}(R,L)\rfloor\), maximal rank requires \(\dim\kappa\) equal to \(M(\gamma'_1-1)-\operatorname{rank}\mu'\), which is positive when the trace has maximal rank.

Three-row defect. In characteristic 3, on \(P(3,L)\) with \(L\ge4\), every form \(\ell\) satisfies \(\operatorname{rank}(u\mapsto\ell^2u)\le\gamma_1-2\). So \(\operatorname{rank}\mu\le M(\gamma_1-2)\), below maximal rank whenever \(M(\gamma_1-2)<\gamma_3\), in particular at \(M=1\), since \(\gamma_1-2=3L-2<T(L)\) for \(L\ge4\). The rank bound itself needs no bound on \(L\). On \(R\ge4\) rows the row rescalings used below give only the Frobenius syzygy.

Proof.

A face of \(P\) avoiding the last row avoids the patterns exactly as a face of \(P(R-1,L)\), since the patterns see only relative row order. A product of faces uses the last row exactly when a factor does. So the split is a direct sum compatible with multiplication by \(P'\). Two cells in one row multiply to 0, so \(\lambda_j^2=0\), \(\ell_j^2=\ell'^2_j+2\lambda_j\ell'_j\), and \(2\lambda_j\ell'_jv_j=0\). This is all the proof of the coupling-dual lemma uses. Its parts 1 and 2 therefore hold verbatim on \(P\).
A 3-face using the last row is \(f\cup\{(R-1,c)\}\) with \(f\) a 2-face of \(P'\) in \(V_c\). The basis vectors \(y_{R-1,c}f\) for distinct pairs \((c,f)\) are distinct faces, which gives the direct sum. For a 2-face \(g\) of \(P'\), \(y_{R-1,c}\,g\) is the face \(g\cup\{(R-1,c)\}\) when \(g\in V_c\), and 0 otherwise. So \(\ell'^2_jy_{R-1,c}=y_{R-1,c}\,\pi_c(\ell'^2_j)\), which gives the formula for \(\rho\). For the counts, take a pair of rows \(a<b<R-1\) and labels \((x,y)\) distinct from \(c\). A 0 above a 1 excludes \((x,y)=(0,1)\), and also any 0 when \(c=1\). The four triple patterns end in \(c=3,2,0,3\) and exclude \((0,2)\) and \((1,2)\) when \(c=3\), \((1,0)\) when \(c=2\), and \((1,2)\) when \(c=0\). Counting the ordered pairs from the \(L-1\) labels other than \(c\) gives the four values. The smallest is \(d_1\): \((L-2)(L-3)<(L-1)(L-2)-3\) for \(L\ge4\). The values sum to \(C\,T(L)=\gamma_3-\gamma'_3\).
For a 2-face \(\{x,y\}\) of \(P'\), \((x+y)^2=2xy\), since \(x^2=y^2=0\). So the squares of forms in \(P'_1\) span \(P'_2\), and their projections span each \(V_c\). If \(M\le d_c\), some \(M\) squares have independent projections to \(V_c\). The corresponding \(M\times M\) minor is a polynomial in the coefficients of \(\ell'_1,\dots,\ell'_M\), nonzero at one point, hence on a nonempty Zariski-open set. Intersecting over the finitely many \(c\) gives injectivity of every \(\rho_c\) when \(M\le d_1\). If \(M>d_1\), then \(\rho_1\) cannot be injective. For the bound, \(T(L)\le L(L-1)(L-2)\) gives \[\frac{\operatorname{cap}(R,L)}{d_1}\le\frac{\binom R3L(L-1)(L-2)}{(RL-1)\binom{R-1}2(L-2)(L-3)}=\frac{RL}{RL-1}\cdot\frac{L-1}{3(L-3)}\le\frac{20}{19}\cdot\frac23<0.71.\] The last step holds because both factors decrease in \(R\) and \(L\). Since \(d_1\ge3\cdot3\cdot2=18\), \(\lceil\operatorname{cap}\rceil\le0.71d_1+1\le d_1\).
By parts 1 and 3, \(\dim(\operatorname{im}\rho+\beta(\ker\mu'))=ML+\dim\kappa\). The two opens of generic forms (for \(\rho\) and for \(\mu'\)) intersect. For monotonicity: \(\dim\ker\mu\ge M\), with equality exactly at rank \(M(\gamma_1-1)\). If the kernel is spanned by the Frobenius syzygies at \(M_0\) forms, then for the first \(M<M_0\) of them the kernel is its intersection with the first \(M\) summands, again Frobenius. Surjectivity at \(M_0\) persists for more forms.
Write \(\binom R3=C\cdot R/3\) and \(\binom{R-1}3=C(R-3)/3\). Then \[\operatorname{cap}(R,L)-\operatorname{cap}(R-1,L)=\frac{C\,T(L)}{3}\Bigl(\frac R{RL-1}-\frac{R-3}{(R-1)L-1}\Bigr)=\frac{C\,T(L)\,(2RL-3)}{3(RL-1)((R-1)L-1)},\] because \(R((R-1)L-1)-(R-3)(RL-1)=2RL-3\). With \((2RL-3)/(RL-1)\ge2-1/19\) and \(C/((R-1)L-1)\ge(R-2)/(2L)\), the difference is at least \(1.9\,(R-2)T(L)/(6L)\ge1.9\cdot2\cdot9.4/6>5\). Here \(T(L)/L\) increases from \(47/5=9.4\) at \(L=5\). So \(\lfloor\operatorname{cap}(R,L)\rfloor>\operatorname{cap}(R-1,L)\). Then \(M(\gamma'_1-1)>\gamma'_3\), so a maximal-rank trace is surjective with a kernel beyond the Frobenius syzygies. The claim follows from part 4 with \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))=M(\gamma_1-1)=M(\gamma'_1-1)+ML\). \(\square\)

Proof of the three-row defect. Let \(a_r\) be the row-\(r\) part of \(\ell\), so \(a_r^2=0\) and \(\ell^2=2\sum_{r<s}a_ra_s\). For scalars \(\lambda_r\), \[\ell^2\sum_r\lambda_ra_r=2\sum_{r<s<t}(\lambda_r+\lambda_s+\lambda_t)\,a_ra_sa_t.\] On three rows this is \(2(\lambda_0+\lambda_1+\lambda_2)a_0a_1a_2\), which vanishes on the 2-dimensional space \(\sum\lambda_r=0\). The \(a_r\) are independent, since they are nonzero with disjoint supports. On \(R\ge4\) rows the products for different row triples lie in different summands. Where they are nonzero, the kernel condition is \(\lambda_r+\lambda_s+\lambda_t=0\) for every triple. Two triples differing in one row force all \(\lambda_r\) to be equal, and \(3\lambda=0\) holds, which is the Frobenius syzygy. This rules out only this defect on four or more rows. If instead some \(a_r=0\) on three rows, say \(a_0=0\), then \(\ell^2=2a_1a_2\) and \(\ell^2u=2a_1a_2u_0\) depends only on the row-0 part \(u_0\), so the rank is at most \(L\le\gamma_1-2=3L-2\). \(\square\)

Relation to the record. Parts 1 and 4 adapt the coupling-dual lemma from \(G\) to \(P\). Part 5 is the pattern-algebra case of the overdetermined row-split trace recorded in the row Horace entry and used in no Horace balancing. On \(G\) the residual's slots are taken modulo the image of the row sums, and the residual theorem needed the dimension formula for its range. On \(P\), parts 2 and 3 are free, which is the only simplification. The coupling \(\kappa\) is the object that conj:aligned-double-points addresses on \(G\), and the edge-sequence entry's heuristic, that window syzygies are cross-class, applies unchanged.

Computations

pieces_P.py computes the full, trace and residual ranks on \(P(R,L)\) with the compiled prefix-rank kernel, for uniform random \(\mathbb F_3\) forms, every \(M\) up to a bound in one pass. The coupling is the difference.

PHP boards. At \(n=6\) and \(7\), every \(M\le57\) and \(M\le144\) was tested, for two families of last-row parts: uniform, and one cell \(y_{R-1,\,j\bmod L}\). Unlike the aligned family, the other rows here are uniform. All four pieces equal their expected values for both families.
General boards (grid.sh, grid2.sh, seeds.sh), every \(M\le\lceil\operatorname{cap}\rceil+1\), uniform family. The summary is from summarize.py.

Boards	Result
\(R=3\), \(L=4,\dots,7\)	Full rank deviates from \(M=1\) on, in every seed (seeds 1–4 at \(L=5,6\)), as the three-row defect predicts
\(L=4\), \(R=4,\dots,9\)	Deviations in every seed tried, at varying \(M\). Outside \(L\ge5\); not separated from \(\mathbb F_3\) sampling
\(R=4\), \(L=7\)	Seed 1 deviates at 7 values from \(M=22\); seeds 2, 3 and 4 have none. A sampling miss: one maximal-rank point suffices
\(R=4\): \(L=5,6,8,9\). \(R=5\): \(L=5,\dots,10\). \(R=6\): \(L=5,6,7,9,10\). \(R=7,8,9\): \(L=5,6,7\)	No deviation in any piece at any \(M\)

slice_counts.py checks \(T(L)\), \(\gamma_3\), the four slice dimensions and \(\lceil\operatorname{cap}\rceil\le d_1=\min_cd_c\) by enumeration on the 49 boards \(R=4,\dots,10\), \(L=5,\dots,11\). All agree, with \(\lceil\operatorname{cap}\rceil/d_1\le0.556\).

What the row induction needs

By the lemma, a row induction at fixed \(L=n-1\) from \(R=4\) to \(R=n+1\) needs two inputs:

maximal rank on \(P(4,L)\) for every \(L\ge5\), itself an infinite family, which holds at \(L=5,\dots,9\) in the checks;
the coupling condition on \(\kappa\) at every \((R,L)\) with \(5\le R\le L+2\), at \(M=\lfloor\operatorname{cap}\rfloor\) and \(\lceil\operatorname{cap}\rceil\).

The second is the open obligation (C) of the row Horace entry, now on \(P\). The degeneration made the residual free, but not the coupling. Nothing in the row split uses that \(P\) is monomial.

A tropical lower bound that uses the monomial structure

Lemma (tropical leading bound). Give the forms coefficients \(c_{j,x}t^{w_j(x)}\), with generic \(c\) and integer weights \(w_j\). For a 3-face \(F\), let \(m(F)=\min_{j,\,u\in F}\bigl(w_j(F)-w_j(u)\bigr)\), where \(w_j(F)=\sum_{x\in F}w_j(x)\). Let \(A_0\) be the matrix of \(\mu\) with row \(F\) replaced by the coefficients of its terms of order \(m(F)\). Then generic forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) give \(\operatorname{rank}\mu\ge\operatorname{rank}A_0\). If the weights are tie-free, that is each minimum is attained at a single pair \((j(F),z(F))\), then \(z(F)\) is the \(w_{j(F)}\)-heaviest cell of \(F\). In that case \(\operatorname{rank}A_0\) is the number of distinct pairs \((j(F),z(F))\), and this number is at most \(M(\gamma_1-2)\).

Proof. The entry of \(\mu\) at row \(F\) and column \((j,u)\), \(u\in F\), is \(2c_{j,x}c_{j,y}t^{w_j(F)-w_j(u)}\), where \(\{x,y\}=F\setminus u\). Multiply row \(F\) by \(t^{-m(F)}\). The matrix becomes \(A_0+tB(t)\), with polynomial entries, and its rank over \(\mathbb F(t,c)\) is unchanged. A minor nonzero in \(A_0\) is a polynomial in \(t\) and \(c\) that is nonzero at \(t=0\), so it is nonzero at some point with \(t\ne0\) in \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\). That point is a choice of forms of rank at least \(\operatorname{rank}A_0\). The forms of rank at least \(r\) form a Zariski-open set, so once it is nonempty it contains generic forms. When the weights are tie-free, each row of \(A_0\) has one nonzero entry, at \((j(F),z(F))\). Rows sharing a column are proportional, and rows at distinct columns are independent. For the upper bound, the two \(w_j\)-lightest cells are never the \(w_j\)-heaviest cell of a 3-face, which has three distinct cells. So form \(j\) meets at most \(\gamma_1-2\) columns, and the count is at most \(M(\gamma_1-2)\). \(\square\)

This is the simplest case of Draisma's tropical approach to secant dimensions (J. Pure Appl. Algebra, 2008; not re-read). In the general method, ties give blocks with several entries per row, whose ranks are computed locally.

tropical_count.py evaluates the tie-free bound with 20 draws each of uniform random real weights (tie-free almost surely, and replaceable by integers without changing the minima) and of noisy bilinear functions of row and label. The fraction reported is the best draw's count over the maximal rank \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\).

\(n\)	\(M\)	random	bilinear
6	24	0.662	0.121
6	48, 49	0.464, 0.466	0.064, 0.064
7	61	0.646	0.050
7	123, 124	0.478, 0.453	0.028, 0.022

Tie-free weights reach less than half of the maximal rank at the capacity, and by the upper bound no tie-free weights can reach it at any \(M\le\operatorname{cap}\): \(M(\gamma_1-2)<M(\gamma_1-1)\), and \(\gamma_3\) is reached only from \(M\ge\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-2)\). Ties are therefore necessary. Weights with ties turn each form's region into a block whose leading matrix is a small double-point matrix. The method succeeds if the blocks can be made recognizable, for example as pieces of smaller pattern algebras, so that their ranks follow for all \(n\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read from the notebook: the coupling-dual lemma and its proof, the pattern theorem's setting and statement, the transfer lemma's statement and the no-balancing proposition. Claim searches for the row split (coupling, Horace, residual) found the coupling-dual lemma, the row Horace identity, no Horace balancing and the aligned conjecture, all cited as the \(G\)-versions. Searches for tropical, leading-term and winning-region bounds found nothing. slice_counts.py checks the counting formulas by enumeration. A fresh-context reviewer, given only the draft and the dependency excerpts, found no mathematical error and recomputed the slice counts and both inequality chains. It required six changes, all adopted:

hypotheses per part, and the three-row defect as a separate statement;
\(x^2=0\) in the multiplication rule;
the zero-row-part case;
Zariski-openness instead of an overloaded "maximal rank";
the upper bound \(M(\gamma_1-2)\), which makes ties necessary;
the attribution of the row-split trace.

The bound strengthened a claim, so a second pass was made. It required stating the defect for \(L\ge4\) and putting the bound into the lemma statement, both adopted.

Remaining gap

Degree-3 Tor vanishing at every \(n\) still needs maximal rank on \(P(n+1,n-1)\). By the row route, that needs the coupling at every board with \(R\ge5\), and maximal rank on \(P(4,L)\) for every \(L\). The tropical route needs weights with ties whose leading blocks have provable rank. Neither exists yet.

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Individually measured computation	2 min 43.70 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	2.92 s

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Route review: the degeneration did not bypass the coupling, so the next step returns to adversarial members

23 September 2026 · Route review · The generic double-point line at degree 3, after the degeneration, pattern and row-reduction cycles. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the degeneration did not bypass the coupling, so the next step returns to adversarial members”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-generic-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The double-point review paused the generic double-point line at the coupling (C). The generalization review called \(n\) a routine axis and put the adversarial, width and degree axes first. The next three cycles went back to \(n\) at degree 3 through a Gröbner degeneration:

degeneration;
pattern theorem;
row reduction.

The last one found the same coupling on the degenerate algebra. By the route check, a line that keeps producing special cases without moving its general implication calls for a review before its next step. This is that review.

General statement. The line's claim is the degree-3, width-1 case of conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, reached through lem:degeneration-transfer: generic forms have maximal double-point rank on the pattern algebra \(P(n+1,n-1)\) for every \(n\). Through thm:taylor-glue, that gives hardness at degree 3 for generic selector inventories up to the capacity.

What the goal needs

As the double-point review recorded from the logarithmic-prefix reduction, the goal needs three things beyond this line's claim:

adversarial families of forms instead of generic ones;
product clauses of width \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\) at \(p=3\) instead of selectors;
PC degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\) instead of 3.

The line's full success settles the first rung of the degree axis in the generic case. Its value to the goal is as a method that might extend to higher degree, not as a step the goal uses.

Falsification attempts

Does the degeneration bypass the coupling? No. On the pattern algebra the residual comes free: it is injective up to the capacity for every board with at least 4 rows and 5 labels, with no dimension formula. But the trace is again overdetermined at the capacity, and maximal rank is again equivalent to the coupling (row reduction, parts 4 and 5). The one mechanism found that uses the monomial structure, the tropical leading bound, cannot certify maximal rank with tie-free weights: it is capped at \(M(\gamma_1-2)\). Weights with ties are untested.

Does the three-row defect recur at larger size? The defect found on three rows is diagonal, a rescaling of the form's own cells. Such defects are the only structural ones known, so the natural attempt to break maximal rank at every \(n\) is to look for them on more rows.

Remark (no diagonal defect from four rows). In characteristic 3, let \(\ell=\sum_xc_xx\) with every \(c_x\ne0\) on \(P(R,L)\), \(R\ge4\), \(L\ge4\). The only \(u=\sum_x\nu_xc_xx\) with \(\ell^2u=0\) are the multiples of \(\ell\), the Frobenius syzygy.

Proof. \(\ell^2u=2\sum_{F=\{x,y,z\}}c_xc_yc_z(\nu_x+\nu_y+\nu_z)F\), a sum over the 3-faces. So the condition is \(\nu_x+\nu_y+\nu_z=0\) on every 3-face. Fix a row triple, and two cells \(z=(r,a)\), \(z'=(r,b)\) in one of its rows.

If \(L\ge8\), take labels \(e\ne f\), both at least 4 and outside \(\{a,b\}\), and put \(x\), \(y\) on the triple's other two rows with those labels. Then \(\{x,y,z\}\) and \(\{x,y,z'\}\) are faces: the only possible 0 or 1 among their labels is \(a\) or \(b\), and a triple pattern needs all three labels in \(\{0,1,2,3\}\). So \(\nu_z=\nu_{z'}\).
For \(4\le L\le8\), diagonal_defect.py computes the solution space on three rows exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\). It has dimension 2, which is the row-constant vectors with zero sum, a space of dimension 2. So \(\nu\) is constant on each row of every triple here too.

So \(\nu\) is constant on each row, with values \(\nu_r\), and \(\nu_r+\nu_s+\nu_t=0\) for every row triple, since every triple carries a 3-face (labels 4, 5, 6 when \(L\ge7\); for \(L\le6\) the computed dimension 2 would be 3 otherwise). With \(R\ge4\), two triples that differ in one row give \(\nu_r=\nu_{r'}\), so \(\nu\) is constant, and \(3\nu=0\) holds in characteristic 3. \(\square\)

The same script computes the whole diagonal kernel for \(R=3,\dots,9\), \(L=4,\dots,8\): dimension 1 whenever \(R\ge4\), and 2 at \(R=3\). The attempt fails: no diagonal syzygy \(\ell^2u=0\) of a full-support form survives beyond three rows. The remark tests only this single-form shape; the three-row defect is of this shape, and non-diagonal or multi-form defects are not excluded.

Assessment of the generic line

The degeneration cycles added three results:

a proved combinatorial model, the pattern theorem, with the three-row dimension formula unconditional;
an unconditional residual;
the tie-free cap and the three-row base.

They did not move the open input. The coupling (C) is unchanged, now in two algebras. The only untested mechanism is tropical weights with ties, and even its full success would give the generic, width-1, degree-3 rung. That is a model case for one hard axis, degree, while the adversarial axis would stay untouched. The line is paused again at (C). It has two restart points: the aligned conjecture, and tied tropical weights on \(P\). Evidence for the line itself stays strong: maximal rank holds on every board tested with at least 4 rows and 5 labels (row reduction).

The highest-risk item and the next step

The adversarial axis is the highest risk, as both reviews found. Its recorded candidate, the local-fall conjecture, is supported by closure computations at width 1 on planted, pencil, plane and confined members (confined families). Those runs test the conclusion. They do not supply a mechanism that would prove it. The gluing framework supplies one. By the syzygy-gluing lemma, hardness fails only through defects on top syzygies. The pencil review showed that syzygies must be taken over spans, not singles and pairs. So the mechanism step is to test whether, for adversarial inventories, the top syzygies are generated by those local to members plus the Frobenius syzygies. That is the hypothesis a relative Taylor glue would need, with each member replaced by its local reduction.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer: test member-local generation of the top syzygies.

Setting. On \(G\) at \(n=6\), in degrees 2 and 3, take a member of selectors confined to a random subspace \(W\) of linear parts, \(\dim W=d=2,\dots,5\), with all or half of its directions. Follow it with the recorded random selector sequence, over every \(M\) up to the refutation.
Compute. \(\dim\ker\mu\) in each degree, against the member's own kernel plus one Frobenius syzygy per random form in degree 3.
Count first. \(\gamma_1=35\), \(\gamma_2=399\) and \(\gamma_3=1645\) at \(n=6\). The member's tops, the squares of the linear parts of its forms, span at most \(\binom{d+1}2\) dimensions of \(G_2\), so its degree-2 syzygies number at least its size minus that. Its \((3^d-1)/2\) directions reach 121 at \(d=5\), above the degree-3 capacity 48, so its own kernel is large there. The informative quantity is the excess of \(\ker\mu\) over the local prediction. A member satisfiable on its span is never refuted alone (pinning).
What ends the step. Non-local syzygies below the member-adjusted crossing, which would mean the relative theorem needs another invariant. Or locality at every tested \(d\), in which case the next step drafts the relative glue statement and checks it against the pencil fall of the three-selector control.

Verification gate

Verification gate. A review. It re-read four entries: the double-point review (the goal's requirements and the line's assessment), the generalization review (the axes and their ranking), the confined-families entry (the adversarial evidence and its open gap) and the pencil-syzygy review (why members must be spans). Claim searches for member-local syzygies, relative Tor and span-closed members found the refuted pairwise-local conjecture, syzygy gluing, Taylor glue and the local-fall conjecture, and no member-local generation test. The remark's argument is short, and its three-row base case is computed exactly. A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error, and its three wording changes were adopted: the remark's single-form scope, a 3-face on every row triple, and tops as squares of linear parts. It registers no claim.

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Computation design and coding	0.06 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 10.49 s
Individually measured computation	0.59 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Components with independent spans glue by Künneth, and generic members stay local beyond that range

23 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · Selector members on the functional top algebra, degrees 2 and 3. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Components with independent spans glue by Künneth, and generic members stay local beyond that range”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 23 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-23-kunneth-components.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The generic-line review proposed a test. For inventories made of span-closed members plus random selectors, are the top syzygies generated by those local to one member and the Frobenius syzygies? That is the hypothesis a relative Taylor glue would need. The record already states it: the component hypothesis (conj:component-hypothesis), with local freeness and a conditional exclusion theorem, on the weak base with forbid-value constraints. The review's searches missed it, as noted below. So this cycle tests that hypothesis on the functional base with selector tops, and proves it in one regime.

General statement. lem:kunneth-component-locality holds over \(\mathbb F_3\) through the freeness degree \(B\). Suppose constraints are grouped into components whose spans form a direct sum \(W=\bigoplus_iW_i\), and the algebra is free through degree \(B\) over \(T=\operatorname{Sym}(W)/(\text{cubes})\) (joint freeness). Then through \(B\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of the tops is the sum over components of each component's own \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\), tensored with the other components' quotients. So every top syzygy is generated by the syzygies of \(A\) and the component-local ones. This proves the syzygy conclusion of conj:component-hypothesis for components with independent spans, under joint rather than local freeness. The finite check ex:member-configurations-free covers generic members on \(G\) at \(n=6,7\), and also inventories whose spans are not independent.

Setting

\(G\) is the functional top algebra over \(\mathbb F_3\): \(R=n+1\) rows, \(N=n\) labels, \(\gamma_t=\dim G_t\). At \(n=6\), \(\gamma_1=35\), \(\gamma_2=399\) and \(\gamma_3=1645\); at \(n=7\), \(\gamma_1=48\) and \(\gamma_3=5824\). Linear forms \(\ell\in G_1\) satisfy \(\ell^3=0\).

A selector has top \(\ell^2\). For forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_M\), the degree-2 rank is \(\dim\operatorname{span}\{\ell_j^2\}\). The degree-3 rank is that of \(\mu:(u_j)\mapsto\sum_j\ell_j^2u_j\) from \(\bigoplus G_1\) to \(G_3\).

A member is the set of all directions (up to sign) of a subspace \(W\subseteq G_1\) of dimension \(d\), or a subset of them. \(A=\mathbb F_3[x_j]/(x_j^3)\) acts on \(G\) by \(x_j\mapsto\ell_j\), and \(J\) is generated by the tops. By the syzygies-as-Tor proposition, the top syzygies modulo those coming from \(A\) are \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)\).

The Künneth lemma

Lemma (Künneth component locality). Let \(G\) be a graded commutative \(\mathbb F_3\)-algebra with \(\ell^3=0\) for \(\ell\in G_1\). Let \(U=U_1\sqcup\dots\sqcup U_m\subseteq G_1\) be linear forms, with \(U_i\subseteq W_i\) for subspaces forming a direct sum \(W=W_1\oplus\dots\oplus W_m\) in \(G_1\). The forms within one \(U_i\) may be linearly dependent, as in a member; the proof uses only \(\ell_j\in W_i\). Put:

\(T_i=\operatorname{Sym}(W_i)/(w^3:w\in W_i)\) and \(T=\operatorname{Sym}(W)/(w^3:w\in W)\);
\(A_i=\mathbb F_3[x_j:j\in U_i]/(x_j^3)\) and \(A=\bigotimes_iA_i\);
\(J_i\subseteq A_i\) any homogeneous ideals with chosen homogeneous generating sets, and \(J=\sum_iJ_iA\), generated by their union.

Suppose \(G\) is free through degree \(B\) over \(T\): for some graded vector space \(C\), a graded (degree-preserving) \(T\)-linear map \(T\otimes C\to G\) is bijective in degrees at most \(B\). Then for \(s\le B\),

\[\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)_s\cong\Bigl[\bigoplus_i\Bigl(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{A_i}(A_i/J_i,T_i)\otimes\bigotimes_{k\ne i}T_k/J_kT_k\Bigr)\otimes C\Bigr]_s.\]

Every class in the \(i\)-th summand is represented by a syzygy supported on generators of \(J_i\). So through degree \(B\), every syzygy on \(G\) of the chosen generators of \(J\) (the union of those of the \(J_i\); mixed generators such as sums across components would break the support claim) is a sum of two kinds:

\(G\)-combinations of images of syzygies over \(A\): the \(A_i\)-syzygies of each \(J_i\), which are component-local, and the cross-component Koszul syzygies; for selectors, the Frobenius and Koszul syzygies;
syzygies supported on one component.

Proof.

\(T\) acts, and splits. In characteristic 3, \((\sum_iw_i)^3=\sum_iw_i^3\). So the cube ideal of \(W\) is generated by the cubes of the \(W_i\), and \(T=\bigotimes_iT_i\). Since \(\ell^3=0\) in \(G_1\), the map \(\operatorname{Sym}(W)\to G\) factors through \(T\), and \(A\) acts on \(T\) factorwise: \(x_j\) for \(j\in U_i\) acts as \(\ell_j\in W_i\subseteq T_i\). Also \(A/J=\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\).
Truncation. Let \(P_\bullet\to A/J\) be a graded free resolution with generators in degrees \(\ge0\). In degree \(s\), \(P_i\otimes_AG\) is a sum of copies of \(G_{s-e}\) with \(e\ge0\), and its maps use only the action of \(A\) on \(G_{\le s}\). A graded \(A\)-linear map \(F\to G\) that is bijective in degrees \(\le B\) therefore gives isomorphisms of complexes \((P_\bullet\otimes F)_s\to(P_\bullet\otimes G)_s\) in each internal degree \(s\le B\), hence isomorphisms on \(\operatorname{Tor}_\bullet^A(A/J,-)_s\). Apply this to \(F=T\otimes C\), which is \(A\)-linear because it is \(T\)-linear.
Freeness. As an \(A\)-module, \(T\otimes C\) is a sum of shifted copies of \(T\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}^A(A/J,T\otimes C)=\operatorname{Tor}^A(A/J,T)\otimes C\).
Künneth. Over a field, the tensor product of free resolutions of the \(A_i/J_i\) over the \(A_i\) is a free resolution of \(A/J\) over \(A\). Tensoring with \(T=\bigotimes T_i\) gives the tensor product of the complexes \(P^{(i)}_\bullet\otimes_{A_i}T_i\). The Künneth formula over a field gives \(\operatorname{Tor}^A(A/J,T)\cong\bigotimes_i\operatorname{Tor}^{A_i}(A_i/J_i,T_i)\), and its homological degree-1 part is the displayed sum, with \(\operatorname{Tor}_0^{A_k}(A_k/J_k,T_k)=T_k/J_kT_k\).
Syzygies. For generators \(g_c\) of \(J\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)=\ker(J\otimes_AG\to G)\) is the quotient of the syzygies \(\{(u_c):\sum g_cu_c=0\}\) by the \(G\)-span of the images of the \(A\)-syzygies of the \(g_c\). Read off the tensor resolution, \(P_1\) has as basis the union of the chosen generators of the \(J_i\), and \(P_2\) contributes the \(A_i\)-syzygies of each \(J_i\) and the cross-component Koszul syzygies. The \(i\)-th summand comes from \(P^{(i)}_1\otimes T_i\), so its classes are represented by syzygies supported on the generators of \(J_i\). \(\square\)

Relation to the record. In the component hypothesis, the record's base algebra \(A\) is the lemma's \(G\), and \(\operatorname{gr}R_{C_i}\) is the lemma's \(T_i\) when \(U_i\) spans \(W_i\). The record's leading forms are elements of \(T_i\). They become \(J_i\) by lifting along \(A_i\to T_i\), which is onto because \(U_i\) spans \(W_i\). Its "component-local" syzygies are \(G\)-multiples of \(\varphi_C\)-images of \(T_i\)-syzygies, which is what the \(i\)-th summand gives. The weak base satisfies \(\ell^3=0\) on \(G_1\), by the recorded Frobenius lemma. With this translation the lemma proves the hypothesis's syzygy conclusion in one regime:

components with independent spans;
joint freeness over \(\bigotimes_i\operatorname{gr}R_{C_i}\), which implies that entry's local freeness, the injectivity of each \(\varphi_C\) through \(B\): \(1\in C_0\), and \(T\) is free over each \(T_i\).

With that entry's Frobenius lift and its conditional theorem, it gives the exclusion theorem in that regime, for the constraint forms that entry covers, under its remaining hypotheses: a base \(z\)-injective below \(D\), nonempty allowed sets \(P_C\), \((p-1)d_C+2w_C\le D\), and joint freeness through \(B\ge D\). The gluing lemma turns local generation into gluing but does not prove it, so it does not imply this lemma; the lemma supplies local generation in this regime. Two things are left outside:

spans that are jointly dependent, the only case at the goal's parameters, since \(M=n^K\) forms span at most \(\gamma_1=O(n^2)\) dimensions;
freeness itself, which fails for special spans: narrow forms, and the occupancy pair.

The generic-line review searched for member-local syzygies and relative Tor, not for the record's word "component". That is how it missed the hypothesis.

Computations

member_local.py, overlap.py, freeness_range.py and many_members.py compute degree-2 and degree-3 ranks on \(G\) with the recorded Board class. Each series is one pass of the compiled prefix-rank kernel. The freeness prediction comes from freeness.py. If \(G\) is free through degree 3 over \(T=\operatorname{Sym}(W)/(\text{cubes})\), with \(W\) of dimension \(d\) spanned by the linear parts and \(V_2\) the span of their squares in \(T_2\), then:

the degree-2 rank is \(\dim V_2\);
the degree-3 rank is \(\dim V_2\,(\gamma_1-d)+\dim(V_2W)\), with \(V_2W\) computed in \(T_3\).

Freeness range. For a random \(W\) with basis \(a_1,\dots,a_d\), the forms \(a_i\) and \(a_i+a_j\) give squares spanning \(\operatorname{Sym}^2W\). The full free counts are \(\binom{d+1}2\) in degree 2 and \(\binom{d+1}2(\gamma_1-d)+\binom{d+2}3-d\) in degree 3.
- At \(n=6\) the ranks equal the free counts for \(d=1,\dots,10\). At \(d=11,12\), where the count exceeds \(\gamma_3\), the degree-3 rank saturates at \(\gamma_3\).
- At \(n=7\) they equal the free counts for every \(d\le12\).
Single and disjoint members (\(n=6\), seeds 1 and 2, 20 runs by the result file). The configurations were:
- one member: \(d=2\) with all directions, and \(d=3,4,5\) with all or half of their directions;
- two members with \(d=3\), or with \(d=4\);
- four pencils.
Each was followed by 60 random selectors. In all 20 runs the member ranks equal the freeness prediction. For full members that is 101, 199, 326 and 480 in degree 3, for \(d=2,\dots,5\). Half members have their own predicted values: 167 or 199 at \(d=3\), depending on the seed, and the full values at \(d=4,5\), where half the directions already span \(\operatorname{Sym}^2W\). Several members add up, and the random selectors add \(1\) and \(\gamma_1-1\) per form up to saturation. That is member-locality with generic random forms.
Overlapping members (\(n=6\), seeds 1 and 2). Take all directions of \(W_1\) and \(W_2\), with \(\dim W_1\cap W_2=k\). The degree-2 ranks satisfy the member-local prediction \(r(U_1)+r(U_2)-r(U_1\cap U_2)\). The degree-3 ranks fall short of it:
- by 1 for \((d_1,d_2,k)=(2,2,1)\);
- by 4 for \((3,3,1)\);
- by 2 for \((3,3,2)\) and for \((2,3,1)\);
- by 0 for \(k=0\).
That is \(k(d_1-k)(d_2-k)\) in each case, the cross monomials \(abc\) with \(a\) shared and \(b\), \(c\) private, since \((ab)c=(ac)b\). Every rank equals the freeness prediction over the joint span. Overlapping members are therefore local to their joint span, one component in the hypothesis's sense, not to each member. Random selectors appended to them add generically, up to saturation.
Beyond the lemma's range. Many members from independent random subspaces, with ranks additive up to saturation in every case:
- at \(n=6\): 30 pencils, 15 members of dimension 3 and 6 of dimension 4;
- at \(n=7\): 45 pencils.
At \(n=6\) degree 3 saturates before the spans exceed \(\gamma_1\), so there only degree 2, with spans up to 60 dimensions against \(\gamma_1=35\), tests the dependent regime. At \(n=7\), degree 3 tests it for 25 to 41 pencils, with spans of 50 to 82 dimensions against \(\gamma_1=48\). There the ranks are exactly \(140\) per pencil, up to \(\gamma_3=5824\) at 42 pencils.

What this means

On the functional base with selector tops, in degrees 2 and 3, generic members behave exactly as joint freeness predicts. Ranks equal to the prediction mean their syzygies are exactly those from \(T\), since the \(T\)-syzygies inject with the predicted dimension:

their syzygies are those of the truncated symmetric algebra of their span;
members from independent spans are local;
overlapping members are local to their joint span;
generic selectors appended to any member configuration tested add the maximal \(1\) and \(\gamma_1-1\) per form, up to saturation.

This supports the analogue of the component hypothesis on the functional base with selector tops, in degrees at most 3, with members as span components. It includes a regime where the spans are jointly dependent, the \(n=7\) pencils. The Künneth lemma proves it where the spans are independent and freeness holds. It is evidence about generic subspaces only. An adversary chooses the spans, and freeness fails for special ones.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the component hypothesis with its conditional result and the reviewer's narrow-form example, the syzygies-as-Tor proposition, and the symmetric lifting lemma's setting. Claim searches under the cycle's words (member-local, relative Tor) missed the component hypothesis. Searches under Künneth, direct sum, freeness over the span and relative semi-regularity found it, together with syzygies as Tor, the free-module lift and the occupancy results; none contains the Künneth lemma. Every quoted number is read from the result files. A fresh-context reviewer found the Künneth and truncation steps sound and checked the counts. It required clarifications, all adopted:

generators as the union of those of the \(J_i\);
a graded map;
dependent forms allowed;
the \(G\)-span of \(A\)-syzygies, including cross Koszul;
the notation translation to the component-hypothesis entry;
why joint freeness implies local freeness;
the exclusion theorem's remaining hypotheses;
the relation to the gluing lemma;
the scope of the conclusions.

Its run count of 22 was checked against the result file, which has 20 because \(d=2\) has no half configuration. The changes restrict or clarify, so no second pass was made.

Remaining gap

Component locality for jointly dependent spans, at the goal's width and degree, and freeness for the spans an adversary can choose. The recorded obstructions to freeness are narrow forms, the occupancy pair and column-type forms.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	18 min 15.33 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 41.89 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	8 min 21.47 s
Computation design and coding	42.40 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 20.78 s
Individually measured computation	4 min 7.76 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.02 s

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Injectivity is not freeness: the occupancy pair refutes the component hypothesis as summarized, and non-free members can still split off

24 September 2026 · Refutation of a formulation, working proof and finite check · Local freeness in the component hypothesis; weak unary PHP at \(n=8\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Injectivity is not freeness: the occupancy pair refutes the component hypothesis as summarized, and non-free members can still split off”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-injectivity-is-not-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The Künneth entry proposed a freeness condition for spans in terms the reduction can guarantee, such as: every nonzero form of \(W\) is \(Q\)-robust with \(Q\) of order \(B\). Both the Künneth lemma and the component hypothesis assume freeness. The cycle ends with the condition, or with a robust span that is not free.

General statement. ex:component-hypothesis-injectivity-counterexample: the recorded 4-robust occupancy pair, with equation constraints, meets every hypothesis of conj:component-hypothesis as its summary states it, where local freeness is injectivity of \(\varphi_C\), at every \(D\ge6\), and at every \(D\ge4\) if the circuit grouping takes the forms as two components. Its syzygies are not generated as the conclusion requires, so that formulation is false. The hypothesis entry's prose reading, \(A\) free over the span through \(D\), excludes the pair. lem:tensor-splitting-locality: the Künneth lemma holds with freeness replaced by a tensor splitting \(G\cong(\bigotimes_iM_i)\otimes C\) with arbitrary member modules \(M_i\). So non-free members can still be local. ex:occupancy-pair-random-splitting: random linear forms act freely on \(A/(\ell_1,\ell_2)A\) for this pair at \(n=8\) through degree 3, as such a splitting predicts.

The candidate is already refuted

The occupancy pair on the weak unary PHP top algebra \(A\) at \(n=8\) has two column-type forms, \(\ell_b=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)C_j\). Their hole values are the affine plane \(\mathrm{AG}(2,3)\) minus a point. Every nonzero combination has column count at least 5, so it is 4-robust on all 9 rows, and every element \(\ell_1+w\ell_2\), \(w\in\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) or \(w=\infty\) (that is, \(\ell_2\)), is free through degree 3. Yet \(A/(\ell_1,\ell_2)A\) has Hilbert function \((1,61,1531,19685)\) against the free prediction \((1,61,1531,19682)\). So a span can be robust in every element, with \(Q=4>3\), and still not be free in degree 3. The candidate condition fails on a recorded example. Any freeness condition must depend on more than the robustness of single elements.

Injectivity is not freeness

The component hypothesis assumes "local freeness (the map \(\operatorname{gr}R_C\to A\) injective through \(D\))" in its summary. Its entry's prose calls this "local freeness of \(A\) over each component's span, that is injectivity of \(\varphi_C\)", and it lists the occupancy pair as violating it, "whose span is not free in degree 3". The two readings differ, and the pair separates them.

Notation: in this section and the next, \(A\) is the weak unary top algebra, as in the recorded occupancy entries; in the lemma below, as in the Künneth entry, \(A=\bigotimes A_i\) and the top algebra is \(G\).

Counterexample. Take the pair's forms \(\ell_1,\ell_2\) (n8_K3_column_robust.json, first run, with the hole functions \((2,0,2,0,1,0,1,2)\) and \((1,0,0,2,1,1,0,2)\) on every row), and the equation constraints \(\ell_1=b_1\), \(\ell_2=b_2\) for any right-hand side.

Each equation is two forbid-value constraints on its form, forbidding the other two values. In the hypothesis's notation a forbid-value constraint is \(\prod_{k=1}^w(1-(\ell_k-a_k)^2)\), with width \(w\) the number of factors, so these have width 1. The two forms are independent, so the grouping along circuits may take them as one component, with \(d_C=2\), \(w_C=1\) and \((p-1)d_C+2w_C=6\), or as two components, with \(d_C=1\) and \((p-1)d_C+2w_C=4\). Both groupings work below, at every \(D\ge6\), respectively \(D\ge4\); for \(D=4,5\) with one component the degree hypothesis fails.
Its allowed set \(P_C=\{(b_1,b_2)\}\) is nonempty, and \(I(P_C)=(y_1-b_1,y_2-b_2)\) has the degree-compatible basis \(\{y_1-b_1,y_2-b_2\}\), with leading forms \(y_1,y_2\).
\(\varphi_C:\mathbb F_3[y_1,y_2]/(y_1^3,y_2^3)\to A\) is injective in every degree, and so is each \(\mathbb F_3[y_i]/(y_i^3)\to A\) for the two-component grouping. In degree 1, \(\dim A/(\ell_1,\ell_2)A=61=63-2\). pair_image.py computes the span of \(\ell_1^2,\ell_1\ell_2,\ell_2^2\) in \(A_2\), of dimension 3, and of \(\ell_1^2\ell_2,\ell_1\ell_2^2\) in \(A_3\), of dimension 2. pair_top.py finds \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\ne0\) in \(A_4\), a vector with 39,852 nonzero coordinates in the 168,147-dimensional \(A_4\). The top degree of the source is 4, and each degree is injective.
The conclusion asks that every syzygy of the leading forms \(\ell_1,\ell_2\) in \(A\) through degree \(D\) be generated by Koszul, Frobenius and component-local syzygies. The component-local ones are the images of syzygies of \((y_1,y_2)\) in \(\mathbb F_3[y_1,y_2]/(y^3)\), which are themselves generated by the Koszul and Frobenius syzygies. With two components the local syzygies are the per-form Frobenius ones. Either way, the conclusion is Koszul-and-Frobenius generation for the linear tops \(\ell_1,\ell_2\) through degree 3 at least. Degrees are internal: a syzygy \((u_1,u_2)\) with \(\ell_1u_1+\ell_2u_2=0\) has degree 3 when \(u_1,u_2\) have degree 2, and "through degree \(D\)" uses the same convention. This fails, by the next paragraph: there are three independent syzygies of degree 3 that are not so generated. The same identification is the syzygies-as-Tor proposition for the functional board; the argument below does not rely on it.

So the summary's formulation is false, at every \(D\ge6\), and at every \(D\ge4\) if the circuit grouping takes the forms as two components. Under the prose reading, freeness of \(A\) over \(\operatorname{gr}R_C\) through \(D\), the pair is excluded, and with a single component the conclusion is then the Künneth lemma's case \(m=1\).

Measured non-freeness, and the syzygies it gives. Let \(T=\mathbb F_3[y_1,y_2]/(y^3)\), acting on \(A\) through \(\varphi_C\), and let \(V\subseteq A\) be a graded complement lifting a basis of \(A/(\ell_1,\ell_2)A\). By graded Nakayama, the \(T\)-linear map \(T\otimes V\to A\) is onto. Its dimensions through degree 3:

\(\mathrm{HS}_T=(1,2,3,2,1)\) and \(\mathrm{HS}_A=(1,63,1656,22929)\);
in degrees 1 and 2 the source has dimensions \(61+2=63\) and \(1531+2\cdot61+3=1656\), so the map is bijective there;
in degree 3 the source has dimension \(19685+2\cdot1531+3\cdot61+2=22932\), so the kernel \(K\) has \(\dim K_3=3\).

\(K\subseteq T_+\otimes V\), since the map is injective on \(1\otimes V\) modulo \((\ell_1,\ell_2)A\). From \(0\to K\to T\otimes V\to A\to0\) with \(T\otimes V\) free, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,A)\cong K/T_+K\), which in degree 3 is \(K_3\), of dimension 3. The minimal resolution of \(\mathbb F_3\) over \(T\) has first map \((y_1,y_2)\) and second map generated by the Koszul syzygy \((y_2,-y_1)\) and the Frobenius syzygies \((y_1^2,0)\), \((0,y_2^2)\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,A)\) is the space of syzygies \((u_1,u_2)\), \(\ell_1u_1+\ell_2u_2=0\), modulo those generated by Koszul and Frobenius. In degree 3 it has dimension 3. The pair's own image algebra is all of \(T\) (item 3), so no smaller algebra of the pair makes \(A\) free either.

No refutation follows. The recorded runs did not refute the pair at degree 3, and \(D\ge4\) is not computed. Only the conjecture's syzygy conclusion fails, not the exclusion it was meant to give.

Tensor splitting

Lemma (tensor-splitting locality). Let \(G\) be a graded commutative \(\mathbb F_3\)-algebra, and \(U=U_1\sqcup\dots\sqcup U_m\subseteq G_1\) linear forms with \(\ell^3=0\) for \(\ell\in U\), so that \(A=\bigotimes_iA_i\), \(A_i=\mathbb F_3[x_j:j\in U_i]/(x_j^3)\), acts on \(G\) by \(x_j\mapsto\ell_j\). No independence of the spans of the \(U_i\) is assumed. Let \(J_i\subseteq A_i\) be homogeneous ideals with chosen generating sets, \(J=\sum_iJ_iA\), and \(M_i\) graded \(A_i\)-modules. Let \(C\) be a graded vector space, with \(A\) acting on \((\bigotimes_iM_i)\otimes C\) by \(A_i\) on its own factor \(M_i\) and trivially on \(C\). Suppose a graded \(A\)-linear map \((\bigotimes_iM_i)\otimes C\to G\) is bijective in degrees at most \(B\). Then for \(s\le B\),

\[\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)_s\cong\Bigl[\bigoplus_i\Bigl(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{A_i}(A_i/J_i,M_i)\otimes\bigotimes_{k\ne i}M_k/J_kM_k\Bigr)\otimes C\Bigr]_s.\]

So through degree \(B\), for the union of chosen generating sets of the \(J_i\), every syzygy is a \(G\)-combination of images of \(A\)-syzygies and of syzygies supported on one member's generators.

Proof. Steps 2 to 5 of the Künneth lemma's proof, with \(T\otimes C\) replaced by \((\bigotimes M_i)\otimes C\). The truncation step needs only a graded \(A\)-linear map bijective in degrees \(\le B\). The Künneth formula over a field applies to \(\bigotimes_iP^{(i)}_\bullet\otimes_{A_i}M_i\). From step 1 only \(A/J=\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\) is used; its part about \(T\) is dropped. \(\square\)

Whether a splitting can exist when the spans of the \(U_i\) are dependent is left open: the lemma does not need independence, but splittings are known here only in the independent case (freeness) and in the tested case below.

The freeness hypothesis is the case \(M_i=T_i\). A non-free member, such as the occupancy pair, can be a factor, with \(M_i\) any \(A_i\)-module, provided the rest of the algebra splits off from it. Its own \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{A_i}(A_i/J_i,M_i)\) then contains its non-Koszul syzygies, which are still local. For the gluing framework this is the natural hypothesis: a member's peculiar syzygies are its own business, decided by its own closure, as the local-fall conjecture posits.

The occupancy pair splits off from random forms

pair_split.py appends \(k=1,\dots,5\) uniform random linear forms to the pair on \(A\) at \(n=8\). It computes the Hilbert function of \(A/(\ell_1,\ell_2,r_1,\dots,r_k)A\) through degree 3 in one incremental pass, with rows in normal form from the recorded a4lib machinery and the compiled prefix-rank kernel. The pair's prefix reproduces the recorded \((1,61,1531,19685)\). A splitting \(A\cong M_{\rm pair}\otimes T_{\rm rand}\otimes C\) predicts \([q^t]\,(1,61,1531,19685)/(1+q+q^2)^k\) for the quotients. The degree-3 values are 18155, 16686, 15277, 13927 and 12635 for \(k=1,\dots,5\), each equal to the prediction, and the degree-1 and degree-2 values agree as well. So, for one nested random sequence (seed 1), the random forms act freely on the pair's quotient through degree 3. That is the splitting's prediction for \(\operatorname{Tor}_0\). It is consistent with the lemma's hypothesis but does not prove it, since the splitting is a statement about higher Tor as well.

What this means

If the occupancy pair is not refuted at the target degree (known at degree 3 only), freeness cannot be the hypothesis of a relative gluing theorem that covers robust members: the pair is robust and not free, even over its own algebra. The tensor-splitting form keeps locality without freeness. In the one case tested, the recorded non-free pair plus random forms, its \(\operatorname{Tor}_0\) prediction holds. The component hypothesis needs its local-freeness clause corrected to the freeness reading, or replaced by a splitting hypothesis.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the component hypothesis entry (statement, conditional result, the narrow-form example and its prose on local freeness), the occupancy-pair entry's configuration and Hilbert functions (reproduced here from the recorded forms), the syzygies-as-Tor statement and the Künneth lemma. Claim searches for freeness over spans, occupancy and robust spans found the occupancy theorem, the occupancy-pair records, the column-type records and the component hypothesis. None records the injectivity counterexample or a splitting lemma. A fresh-context reviewer found the Nakayama count, the injectivity in degrees 1 to 4 and the reduction to Koszul-and-Frobenius generation correct. It required changes, all adopted:

both groupings of the pair, with the degree range \(D\ge4\);
the record's definition of width;
a self-contained Tor argument in place of the functional-board proposition;
separated notation;
the trivial action on \(C\), \(\ell^3=0\) and no independence assumption in the lemma;
the scope of the splitting check and of "unrefuted".

The wider range and the new Tor argument add to the claim, so a second pass was made. It found the Tor argument, both groupings and the degree arithmetic correct, and required one consistent statement of the range and the grading convention, both adopted.

Remaining gap

A proof of splitting, or of locality, for non-free members among other members, and not only among random forms. In particular: two occupancy pairs, and a pair with column-type forms of low robustness, which the recorded runs refute at degree 3 on small boards. Whether the pair is refuted at \(D=6\) is not computed.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 24.89 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 29.50 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 55.73 s
Computation design and coding	26.10 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 17.70 s
Individually measured computation	14.78 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.08 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A robust joint span does not make column members split, while a robust column component splits off from generic forms

24 September 2026 · Conjecture and finite check · Tensor splitting between members, weak unary PHP at \(n=8,9\), degree 3. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A robust joint span does not make column members split, while a robust column component splits off from generic forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-column-members-split.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The injectivity entry replaced freeness by a tensor splitting \(A\cong(\bigotimes_iM_i)\otimes C\) (lem:tensor-splitting-locality), and found the recorded occupancy pair splitting off from random forms. Do non-free members split from each other? This is the adversary's member-member interaction. The cycle ends with the splitting's Tor-0 prediction tested on column-type members, or with the obstruction.

General statement. conj:column-component-splitting has two parts, on the weak unary PHP top algebra over \(\mathbb F_3\):

column-type constraints are taken as one component, since a robust joint span does not guarantee that column members split;
a column component whose span has every nonzero form with column count \(c\ge Q+1\), with \(Q\ge2t-2\), splits off from generic forms through degree \(t\). That is the splitting of lem:tensor-splitting-locality with this component as one factor.

The bound \(Q\ge2t-2\) is the occupancy theorem's single-form freeness range. At \(t=3\) it is \(Q\ge4\), which is what the data cover. The finite check ex:column-member-splitting, at \(n=8,9\) in degree 3 with one seed per configuration, supports it:

column members failed to split in every case: two occupancy pairs, the pair with a column form, and at \(n=9\) a free pair with a free form whose joint 3-dimensional span is 4-robust, the one robust instance;
the robust components, the pair at \(n=8\) and the 3-dimensional span at \(n=9\), split off from random forms;
one component with a narrow direction at \(n=8\) did not.

Components with \(c=3,4\) were not tested against random forms.

Design and count

\(A\) is the weak unary PHP top algebra at \(n=8\), with \(\mathrm{HS}_A=(1,63,1656,22929)\) through degree 3. \(P\) is the recorded 4-robust occupancy pair, with \(\mathrm{HS}(A/PA)=(1,61,1531,19685)\). A column-type form is \(\ell_\varphi=\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j\), and its column count is \(c=n-\max_a|\varphi^{-1}(a)|\). By the occupancy non-freeness theorem it is not free through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\).

member_split.py computes \(\mathrm{HS}(A/P'A)\) and \(\mathrm{HS}(A/(P,P')A)\) through degree 3 for two kinds of second member \(P'\):

\(P\) under a random hole permutation, two seeds;
one column-type form with \(c=2,3,4,5\).

Rows are normal forms of monomial times form, from the recorded a4lib machinery. The pair's rows are computed once and cached, and ranks come from the compiled prefix kernel. A configuration takes 3 to 6 s. The prediction is nonvacuous: any shortfall of the ideal \((P,P')A\) against the product formula is a syzygy between the members.

Results

Second member	\(\mathrm{HS}(A/P'A)\)	\(\mathrm{HS}(A/(P,P')A)\)	Predicted	Excess	Min \(c\) in joint span
\(P\) permuted, seed 1	(1, 61, 1531, 19685)	(1, 59, 1421, 17444)	(1, 59, 1410, 16689)	11 and 755	1
\(P\) permuted, seed 2	(1, 61, 1531, 19685)	(1, 59, 1428, 17700)	(1, 59, 1410, 16689)	18 and 1011	1
column, \(c=2\)	(1, 62, 1594, 21399)	(1, 60, 1471, 18312)	(1, 60, 1471, 18278)	0 and 34	2
column, \(c=3\)	(1, 62, 1593, 21299)	(1, 60, 1470, 18240)	(1, 60, 1470, 18180)	0 and 60	3
column, \(c=4\)	(1, 62, 1593, 21275)	(1, 60, 1470, 18240)	(1, 60, 1470, 18156)	0 and 84	3
column, \(c=5\)	(1, 62, 1593, 21274)	(1, 60, 1471, 18304)	(1, 60, 1470, 18155)	1 and 149	2

Excesses are given in degrees 2 and 3. Degree 1 always agrees.

The column form with \(c=5\) is itself free through degree 3: 21274 is \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+q+q^2)\) in degree 3. Its span with \(P\) contains the direction \((1,0,2)\), with column count 2, which by the occupancy theorem fails freeness in degree 2. This is consistent with the degree-2 excess of 1; that direction's own excess was not computed. The pair \(P\) itself is not free, at 19685 against 19682.

column_random.py takes the grouped column member, \(P\) plus that form, and appends five random forms. The quotient then exceeds the splitting prediction by exactly 3 per random form in degree 3: \(3,6,9,12,15\). So this member with a narrow direction does not split off from random forms (seed 1; the link to the narrow direction is an observation, not an established cause), while the robust pair does (injectivity entry).

Separating the readings at n = 9

At \(n=8\) the failures above fit two readings:

(a) column-type members never split;
(b) splitting fails only through narrow directions of the joint span, where narrow at degree 3 means \(c\le4\), non-free through degree 3 by the occupancy theorem.

The recorded classification leaves no robust column span of dimension 3 at \(n=8\). A random search finds one at \(n=9\): hole functions \((0,2,0,2,0,2,2,1,0)\), \((2,0,2,2,1,1,0,0,1)\) and \((2,1,0,2,0,2,0,0,2)\), whose 13 directions all have \(c\ge5\), so the span is 4-robust. robust_split.py computes, at \(n=9\) through degree 3, with \(\mathrm{HS}_A=(1,80,2745,51940)\):

\(P=\{\ell_1,\ell_2\}\) has \(\mathrm{HS}(A/PA)=(1,78,2586,46532)\), and \(P'=\{\ell_3\}\) has \((1,79,2665,49196)\). Both are the free values, so both members are free.
\(\mathrm{HS}(A/(P,P')A)=(1,77,2508,43954)\), against the splitting prediction \((1,77,2508,43947)\): an excess of 7 in degree 3. The members do not split, and the robust 3-dimensional span is not free.
With the span as one member \(S\) followed by four random forms (one seed), the quotients equal \([q^t]\,\mathrm{HS}(A/SA)/(1+q+q^2)^k\) exactly, for \(k=1,\dots,4\): 41447, 39017, 36663 and 34384 in degree 3.

So reading (b) is false. With \(c\ge5\), the occupancy theorem places each direction's non-freeness only at degree \(\lceil5/2\rceil+1=4\), and indeed both members are free. Every single direction is therefore free through degree 3, and the excess of 7 cannot come from a narrow direction. A robust joint span does not make column members split. Reading (a) holds in every case tested. The robust column component still splits off from generic forms, as the occupancy pair did at \(n=8\). The narrow component at \(n=8\) does not; its narrow direction has \(c=2\), within the recorded refutable range.

What this means

For the relative gluing line, the evidence says the adversary's special structure concentrates in one place:

generic members split and are local (Künneth entry);
a robust column component is one factor that splits off from them;
inside it, locality between column constraints fails.

The column component is the occupancy structure, and its local theory is the recorded occupancy problem, the window's dense side. The line thus reduces, in this evidence, the adversarial gluing question to the column component's own closure. That is a reduction to a known hard part, not a solution of it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the occupancy non-freeness theorem's statement, the occupancy-pair records (configuration, classification at \(n=8\), Hilbert functions) and the tensor-splitting lemma. The pair's recorded Hilbert function is reproduced from its forms in every run. Every number above is read from the result files. The column counts of the joint spans were computed by enumerating their directions. Claim searches for column subalgebra splitting, robust column spans and freeness, and the wide-conditioning line found the occupancy theorem and the occupancy-pair records, which cover single forms and the 2-dimensional pair. None states the column-component splitting. A fresh-context reviewer checked every number against the result files and recomputed every prediction. It required changes, all adopted:

the non-splitting claim restricted to its one robust instance;
an explicit \(Q(t)\) in the conjecture;
the step that makes the \(n=9\) case decisive;
narrow defined;
single seeds stated;
the \(n=8\) narrow-direction link given as an observation.

They restrict the claims, so no second pass was made.

Remaining gap

A proof of the column-component splitting, or its failure at larger \(n\), degree or span dimension. The robustness needed as a function of the degree. The local theory of the column component itself, which is the occupancy window.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 48.21 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 51.20 s
Computation design and coding	27.45 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 39.69 s
Individually measured computation	48.79 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.07 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Where column splitting was tested: non-robust single forms split off, a non-robust three-form component does not, and n = 10 was not reached

24 September 2026 · Finite check · Column-component splitting at its boundary, weak unary PHP at \(n=8\), degree 3. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Where column splitting was tested: non-robust single forms split off, a non-robust three-form component does not, and n = 10 was not reached”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-column-splitting-tests.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The column-members entry proposed testing conj:column-component-splitting where it could fail. The candidates were column components with \(c=3,4\), a larger \(n\), and degree 4. Its next step also stated a stronger prediction than the registered conjecture: splitting from random forms exactly when \(Q\ge2t-2\). The cycle ends with the boundary cases computed, or with the case that breaks the conjecture.

General statement. The statement under test is conj:column-component-splitting. A column component whose span has every nonzero form with \(c\ge Q+1\), \(Q\ge2t-2\), splits off from generic forms through degree \(t\). The finite check ex:column-splitting-boundary finds no counterexample. It refutes the stronger "exactly when" reading proposed in the last next step: single column forms with \(c=2,3,4\), which are non-free with \(Q<4\), split off from random forms. The one component that does not split is the three-form component at \(n=8\) with a \(c=2\) direction, and its failure persists across two seeds. The test at \(n=10\) was killed by the memory limit.

Computations

col_member_random.py takes a column member \(S\), given by hole functions, followed by \(k=4\) uniform random forms on weak unary PHP. It compares the quotients through degree 3 with the splitting prediction \([q^t]\,\mathrm{HS}(A/SA)/(1+q+q^2)^k\), in one incremental pass per degree.

Member (\(n=8\))	min \(c\)	\(\mathrm{HS}(A/SA)\) against free	Degree-3 excess, \(k=0..4\)
one form, \(c=2\)	2	(1, 62, 1594, 21399) against (1, 62, 1593, 21274)	0, 0, 0, 0, 0
the direction \((1,0,2)\) of the failing component	2	(1, 62, 1594, 21399)	0, 0, 0, 0, 0
one form, \(c=3\)	3	(1, 62, 1593, 21299) against (1, 62, 1593, 21274)	0, 0, 0, 0, 0
one form, \(c=4\)	4	(1, 62, 1593, 21275) against (1, 62, 1593, 21274)	0, 0, 0, 0, 0
the occupancy pair plus the \(c=5\) form, seed 2	2	(1, 60, 1471, 18304) against (1, 60, 1470, 18152)	0, 3, 6, 9, 12

Non-freeness of a member does not by itself prevent splitting. Every single column form tested, down to \(c=2\), splits off from random forms although it is not free in degree 2 or 3. The three-form component fails by 3 per random form with a second random sequence, as with the first (column-members entry). Its failure therefore comes from the three-form component, not from its narrow direction alone, which splits off by itself.

The robust three-dimensional span at \(n=10\) (hole functions \((0,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,1,1)\), \((1,0,1,1,0,2,2,2,1,0)\), \((0,1,1,0,2,1,0,1,2,0)\), all 13 directions with \(c\ge5\)) was launched without a memory estimate. The watchdog killed it at the 10 GB combined limit after 52 s, during the recorded a4lib degree-3 setup. That is a tool failure from an unsized launch, not a mathematical outcome. A robust four-dimensional span first exists at \(n=11\), by random search.

What this means

The conjecture survives its boundary tests at \(n=8\). Its sufficient condition, robustness with \(Q\ge2t-2\), is not necessary: non-robust single forms split off too. So the obstruction to splitting is a property of multi-form column components, seen here in one non-robust three-form component, and not of narrow directions. The robust three-form component at \(n=9\) splits off (column-members entry). The next tests need \(n\ge10\) through degree 3, or degree 4 at \(n=8\). Both need a sized computation: a sparse quotient or Macaulay2, not the dense a4lib setup.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the conjecture's registered statement, the occupancy non-freeness theorem's degree bound, and the column-members entry's configurations. Every number above is read from the result files, and the hole functions of the failing component are those of the column-members entry. The entry registers a finite check and no proof. Its only inference, that non-robust single forms are not covered by the stronger reading, is a direct comparison with the table. No reviewer was used.

Remaining gap

Robust column components at \(n\ge10\), four-dimensional robust spans at \(n\ge11\), degree 4, and what distinguishes the non-splitting three-form component from the splitting ones.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 40.03 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 18.32 s
Computation design and coding	0.06 s
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Members without falls have liftable syzygies, so a member splitting glues; at n = 10 robust column members miss splitting by only one dimension

24 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · Relative gluing refining the component hypothesis's link; column splitting at \(n=10\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Members without falls have liftable syzygies, so a member splitting glues; at n = 10 robust column members miss splitting by only one dimension”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-column-splitting-n10.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The boundary-tests entry asked for conj:column-component-splitting at sizes the dense setup cannot reach, using Macaulay2 sized first. Two questions:

Do two free column members in a robust span still fail to split at \(n=10\), as at \(n=9\)?
Does the span split off from random forms?

General statement. thm:relative-gluing refines the recorded two-condition link of the component hypothesis (conj:component-hypothesis): a base \(z\)-injective below \(D\), plus every top syzygy through \(D\) generated by liftable ones, excludes refutations of degree \(D\). The new part is a lemma: a member whose own system has no fall below \(D\) has only liftable top syzygies. With the exact lifting of cross-member Koszul syzygies, this gives the theorem. Suppose the base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\), the top algebra splits as a module over the members' form algebras through \(D\) (the hypothesis of lem:tensor-splitting-locality, each top being a polynomial in its own member's forms), and each member alone has no fall below \(D\). Then there is no global fall below \(D\), and no PC refutation of degree \(D\) unless a generator is a nonzero constant. Under the splitting, for the reduced members' tops, this proves the special case of the local-fall conjecture's first clause in which no member falls. For the column component, conj:column-component-splitting is tested.

The relative gluing theorem

Setting, as in the component-hypothesis entry. \(B\) is the quotient of the polynomial ring in the variables and \(z\) by the homogenizations of the supplied base generators, not their saturation, as the socle criterion requires. \(A_{\rm top}=B/zB\) is its top algebra, by definition. The constraints \(g_b\), \(b\in U=U_1\sqcup\dots\sqcup U_m\), are grouped into members \(U_i\), with homogenizations \(g_b^{\rm h}\) and tops \(P_b\in A_{\rm top}\). For \(V\subseteq U\), \(J_V=(g_b^{\rm h}:b\in V)\subseteq B\). A top syzygy is \((\sigma_b)\) with \(\sum\sigma_bP_b=0\) in \(A_{\rm top}\). It is liftable (in \(V\)) if homogeneous lifts \(\tilde\sigma_b\) satisfy \(\sum\tilde\sigma_bg_b^{\rm h}=z\rho\) with \(\rho\in J_V\). "No fall below \(D\)" for a system means \(z\) is injective on its homogenized algebra in degrees below \(D\), that is from degree \(k\) to \(k+1\) for \(k<D\).

Theorem (relative gluing). Assume four conditions:

(a) \(z\) is injective on \(B\) below \(D\);
(b) through degree \(D\), every top syzygy of all the constraints is an \(A_{\rm top}\)-combination of homogeneous syzygies of degree at most \(D\) of two kinds: cross-member Koszul syzygies \(P_ce_b-P_be_c\), with \(b\), \(c\) in different members, and syzygies supported on a single member. This follows from lem:tensor-splitting-locality under two conditions. First, \(A_{\rm top}\), as a module over \(A=\bigotimes_iA_i\) (with \(A_i\) generated by member \(i\)'s linear forms and acting through them), is isomorphic to \((\bigotimes_iM_i)\otimes C\) in degrees at most \(D\). Second, each top \(P_b\), \(b\in U_i\), is the image of a generator of \(J_i\subseteq A_i\), a polynomial in member \(i\)'s forms only. Over \(A\) the syzygies of \(\sum J_i\) are then cross Koszul syzygies plus \(A_i\)-syzygies, which are member-supported, and the Tor term is member-supported;
(c) every top syzygy of degree at most \(D\) supported on a single member is liftable in \(U\). This holds in particular when, for each \(i\), \(z\) is injective on \(B/J_{U_i}\) below \(D\): the member alone has no fall (step 1);
(d) no constraint \(g_b\) and no base generator is a nonzero constant, so \(B_0=\mathbb F\).

Then \(z\) is injective on \(B/J_U\) below \(D\), and base plus constraints has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof.

Member syzygies lift when members have no fall. Let \((\sigma_b)_{b\in U_i}\) be a top syzygy of degree \(s\le D\) supported on \(U_i\), and take any homogeneous lifts. Then \(\sum\tilde\sigma_bg_b^{\rm h}\) reduces to \(0\) in \(A_{\rm top}=B/zB\), so it equals \(z\rho\) with \(\rho\in B\) of degree \(s-1<D\). Since \(z\rho\in J_{U_i}\), (c) gives \(\rho\in J_{U_i}\subseteq J_U\). So the syzygy is liftable, which proves the sufficient condition stated in (c).
Cross Koszul syzygies lift, exactly: \(g_c^{\rm h}e_b-g_b^{\rm h}e_c\) gives \(0=z\cdot0\).
Combinations. If \((\sigma_b)\) lifts with \(\rho\), then \((h\sigma_b)\) lifts with \(\tilde h\rho\) for \(h\in A_{\rm top}\), where \(\tilde h\) is a homogeneous lift of \(h\). Sums of liftable syzygies lift. By (b), every top syzygy of degree at most \(D\) is liftable.
No fall. This is the direct argument of the component-hypothesis entry. Let \(u\in B\) of degree \(k<D\) satisfy \(zu=\sum_bc_bg_b^{\rm h}\). Reducing modulo \(z\) gives a top syzygy \((\bar c_b)\) of degree \(k+1\le D\). By step 3 it is \(\sum_s\alpha_s\sigma_s\) with liftable \(\sigma_s\), lifts \(\sum_b\tilde\sigma_{s,b}g_b^{\rm h}=z\rho_s\), \(\rho_s\in J_U\). Then \(c_b-\sum_s\tilde\alpha_s\tilde\sigma_{s,b}=zd_b\), so \(zu=z\bigl(\sum_s\tilde\alpha_s\rho_s+\sum_bd_bg_b^{\rm h}\bigr)\). By (a), \(u\in J_U\). So \(z\) is injective on \(B/J_U\) below \(D\).
No refutation. By the socle criterion, fixed-degree PC closure then equals the Nullstellensatz span in degree \(D\), and \(z^D\ne0\) there, because by (d) no generator is a nonzero constant, so \(1\ne0\) in degree 0 of \(B/J_U\). \(\square\)

Relation to the record. The component-hypothesis entry already proves that (a), together with generation of every top syzygy through \(D\) by liftable ones, excludes refutations of degree \(D\). Steps 3 to 5 repeat that argument, so the theorem is a refinement of it. The new parts are two:

step 1, a member with no fall of its own has only liftable syzygies;
cross-member Koszul syzygies lift exactly.

Together with the splitting lemma, they replace that entry's syzygy hypothesis and its pattern-ideal bases by a splitting and member no-fall.

Taylor glue (thm:taylor-glue) is the case of single-selector members whose member syzygies are Frobenius. Its Tor-vanishing hypothesis gives (b) directly, with freeness only one sufficient condition. (c) holds there by the self relation \(\ell C^{\rm h}=z\,vC^{\rm h}\), not through no-fall. Taylor glue is stated dually, through functional extension, and obtains (a) from the matching extension theorem.

For the local-fall conjecture the theorem proves only a special case of the first clause: under (b) for the members' tops, if no member falls, there is no global fall. It gives no bound when members do fall, which is the conjecture's content after local reduction, and nothing about where refutation occurs relative to the crossing. When a member does fall, as in the pencil fall of the three-selector control, (c) is not given by no-fall. The member must first be replaced by its closure, and (b) is needed for the closure's tops. The occupancy pair is non-free. Whether its own system falls below \(D\) decides (c) for it through step 1, and is not computed.

Method and validation

weak_hf.py writes a Macaulay2 script for the weak unary top algebra \(A=\mathbb F_3[x_{ij}]/(x_{ij}^2,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j},\ \sum_jx_{ij})\) and for its quotients by lists of linear forms. It computes Hilbert functions through degree 3 from the leading terms of a Gröbner basis truncated at degree 3, which is exact there because every generator is homogeneous. It reproduces the recorded values:

\(\mathrm{HS}_A=(1,63,1656,22929)\) and the occupancy pair's \((1,61,1531,19685)\) at \(n=8\), in 11 s;
\(\mathrm{HS}_A=(1,80,2745,51940)\) at \(n=9\), in 5 s and 386 MB.

predict.py computes the splitting and freeness predictions from the saved values.

Results at n = 10

The span has hole functions \((0,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,1,1)\), \((1,0,1,1,0,2,2,2,1,0)\) and \((0,1,1,0,2,1,0,1,2,0)\), all 13 directions with \(c\ge5\). Through degree 3:

\(\mathrm{HS}_A=(1,99,4290,105721)\);
\(P\): \((1,97,4093,97242)\), the free value;
\(P'\): \((1,98,4191,101432)\), the free value;
the span \(S=P\cup P'\): \((1,96,3996,93151)\), against both the splitting and the free prediction \((1,96,3996,93150)\).

So the two free members fail to split by 1, and the span misses freeness by 1. At \(n=9\) the corresponding excess was 7.

The three systems with random forms appended did not finish. The run ended after 351 s with only the first four Hilbert functions printed, and a peak resident size of 8.9 GB. The estimate from \(n=9\) was far too low: random dense forms change the Gröbner basis's growth. That half is a tool limit, not a result.

What this means

The non-splitting of robust column members persists at \(n=10\), so the conjecture's first part, that a robust joint span does not guarantee splitting, has a second instance. But it shrinks from 7 to 1, on different spans. If robust column spans become free as \(n\) grows, their members split automatically, since freeness is the case \(M_i=T_i\) of the splitting lemma. The column component would then stop being special for robust spans at large \(n\). Only narrow column structure would remain, which the local-fall conjecture reduces away. Two sizes on different spans cannot decide this. It is the question the column component's role in the route now turns on.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the component hypothesis's link and direct proof, the socle criterion, the tensor-splitting lemma, Taylor glue's statement and the local-fall conjecture. A fresh-context reviewer checked steps 1 to 4 (degrees, uniqueness of lifts modulo \(zB\), the use of (a)) and found every hypothesis used. It required changes, all adopted:

the exact module form of the splitting in (b), with tops as polynomials in their member's forms;
"liftable in \(U\)";
constant base generators excluded, with \(B\) defined by the supplied homogenizations;
Taylor glue described through Tor vanishing, not freeness;
the local-fall claim limited to the no-member-fall case of the first clause;
the theorem presented as a refinement of the recorded link, with step 1 as the new part.

The changes restrict the claims, so no second pass was made. The Macaulay2 construction was validated against three recorded Hilbert functions. The predictions are recomputed from the saved values by predict.py. The robustness of the span was checked over all 13 directions.

Remaining gap

The random-form half at \(n=10\) needs a lighter method, such as fewer or sparser random forms, or a compiled sparse quotient. Robust spans at \(n=11,12\) would show the trend of the excess, with the same memory caveat. The relative gluing theorem with a column factor is still to be stated.

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The column model matches the column defects in degree 3, and its quotients are squares of Gale-dual linear forms

24 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · Column spans on weak unary PHP; the column model through degree 5, \(n\le20\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The column model matches the column defects in degree 3, and its quotients are squares of Gale-dual linear forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-column-model-gale.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The user asked for algebraic geometry that makes a jump. The column component is where the adversary's structure concentrates (column members), and only a description of its bad configurations could reach adversarial inventories. Zariski openness only shows the good set is dense. The cycle asks two questions:

Does the recorded column model reproduce the board's column defects, which were measured at the limit of the computations?
If so, what classical object do its defects become?

General statement. prop:column-model-gale holds for every \(n\) and every column span. The column model's quotient by a span of hole functions \(\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\) is \(\mathbb F_3[s_1,\dots,s_{n-e}]/(m_1^2,\dots,m_n^2)\), with \(e\) the dimension of the span of \(\mathbf 1,\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\), where the \(m_j\) are the images of the hole variables. They are the Gale transform of the hole-value configuration \(\{(1,\varphi_1(j),\dots,\varphi_d(j))\}_j\). So freeness of a column span in the model is the Hilbert function of an ideal of squares of linear forms, a question of Fröberg and Alexander–Hirschowitz type about a specific point configuration. The finite check ex:column-model-excess finds the model's degree-3 excess equal to the board's in all three measured cases (3, 7, 1). In the model, the sampled robust three-dimensional spans (two per \(n\)) are free through degree 3 for \(n=11,\dots,14\). Where the degree-4 prediction is positive, some keep defects of 1 to 3 up to \(n=17\), others are free, and the three sampled at \(n=16,18,20\) are free in degree 4. Every configuration tested in degree 5 is defective: 6, 1 and 1 at \(n=16,18,20\).

The Gale-dual reduction

The column model is \(R=\mathbb F_3[t_1,\dots,t_n]/(t_j^2,\ \sum_jt_j)\), the recorded model in which a column-type form \(\ell_\varphi=\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j\) acts as \(\sum_j\varphi(j)t_j\).

Proposition (column model and Gale duality). Let \(\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d:[n]\to\mathbb F_3\), and let \(W\subseteq\mathbb F_3^n\) be the span of the vectors \(\mathbf 1,\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\), of dimension \(e\). Put \(V=\mathbb F_3^n/W\), with \(m_j\in V\) the image of the \(j\)-th unit vector. Then, as graded algebras,

\[R/(\ell_{\varphi_1},\dots,\ell_{\varphi_d})R\;\cong\;\operatorname{Sym}(V)/(m_1^2,\dots,m_n^2),\]

a polynomial ring in \(n-e\) variables modulo the squares of the \(n\) vectors \(m_j\). The configuration \(\{m_j\}\subseteq V\) is the Gale transform of the configuration of columns \(\{(1,\varphi_1(j),\dots,\varphi_d(j))\}\subseteq\mathbb F_3^{d+1}\): the linear relations among the \(m_j\) are exactly the vectors of \(W\).

Proof. Write \(S=\mathbb F_3[t_1,\dots,t_n]=\operatorname{Sym}(\mathbb F_3^n)\). Then

\[R/(\ell_{\varphi})R=S/\bigl((t_j^2)_j+(\textstyle\sum_jt_j)+(\ell_{\varphi_b})_b\bigr).\]

The linear forms \(\sum_jt_j\) and \(\ell_{\varphi_b}\) span \(W\subseteq S_1\). So \(S/(W)=\operatorname{Sym}(\mathbb F_3^n/W)=\operatorname{Sym}(V)\), and \(t_j\mapsto m_j\) carries \(t_j^2\) to \(m_j^2\). A relation \(\sum_ja_jm_j=0\) in \(V\) holds exactly when \(\sum_ja_je_j\in W\), which is the definition of the Gale transform of the columns of the \((d+1)\times n\) matrix with rows \(\mathbf 1,\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\) (up to its usual normalization when \(e<d+1\)). \(\square\)

Consequences:

Freeness of the span in the model through degree \(t\) means \(\mathrm{HF}(\operatorname{Sym}(V)/(m_j^2))_s=[q^s]\,\mathrm{HS}_R/(1+q+q^2)^d\) for \(s\le t\). That is a Fröberg-type statement for squares of \(n\) specific linear forms in \(n-e\) variables.
In characteristic 0, the apolarity of Emsalem and Iarrobino gives \((m_1^2,\dots,m_n^2)_s=((I_Z)_s)^\perp\), with \(Z\) the fat points of multiplicity \(s-1\) at the points \([m_j]\in\mathbb P(V)\). So the ideal's degree-\(s\) dimension is the number of conditions \(Z\) imposes on degree-\(s\) forms, and the quotient's degree-\(s\) part has dimension \(\dim(I_Z)_s\), the degree-\(s\) forms with those fat points. Degree 3 is then double points on cubics, the Alexander–Hirschowitz setting.
Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the dual side needs divided powers, and whether that identification holds as stated is not checked here.
The Gale transform is the setting of Eisenbud and Popescu's projective geometry of Gale duality, recalled here as context and not read.

The \(\mathbb Z/3\) view gives a heuristic for the single-form case. \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) is the group algebra of \(\mathbb Z/3\), and multiplication by \(\sum_jt_j\) on \(\bigotimes_{j\le c}\mathbb F_3[t_j]/(t_j^2)\) is the primitive (derivation) action \(x\otimes1+1\otimes x\) on a tensor power of the Jordan block \(J_2\). For these small blocks the primitive and group-like tensor structures give the same Jordan decompositions. By \(J_2\otimes J_2=J_3\oplus J_1\) and \(J_3\otimes J_2=J_3\oplus J_3\), \(J_2^{\otimes c}\) is free up to one block of size 1 or 2 sitting in the middle degree. That matches the recorded first failure at \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\) for \(c=2,\dots,5\), if the non-free block sits in the middle degree, which is asserted and not shown. The model's relation \(\sum t_j=0\) is not accounted for here, so this is an explanation of the pattern, not a proof.

Computations

column_model.py computes \(\mathrm{HF}(R/(\ell_\varphi)R)\) through degree 3 for the three spans measured on the board. The rank computations are exact over GF(3), on the squarefree monomials.

Span	Model \(\mathrm{HF}\)	Free prediction	Model excess, degree 3	Board excess, degree 3
occupancy pair, \(n=8\)	(1, 5, 7, 1)	(1, 5, 7, −2)	3	3
robust 3-span, \(n=9\)	(1, 5, 6, 1)	(1, 5, 6, −6)	7	7
robust 3-span, \(n=10\)	(1, 6, 11, 1)	(1, 6, 11, 0)	1	1

In all three cases the model's free prediction is nonpositive in degree 3, and the actual value is 1. The board's defect is the model running out of room.

model_scaling_n.py draws random 4-robust three-dimensional spans (all 13 directions with \(c\ge5\)) and computes the model excess, one or two configurations per \(n\):

Degree 3: excess 7 at \(n=9\), 1 at \(n=10\), and 0 at \(n=11,\dots,14\), where the prediction is positive.
Degree 4: 15 at \(n=11\) and 11 and 9 at 12, where the prediction is nonpositive (−15, −4), so these are truncation. Where it is positive: 4 and 3 at 13, 2 and 1 at 14, 0 and 3 at 15, 1 and 0 at 16, 0 and 1 at 17, and 0 for the degree-5 runs' configurations at 16, 18 and 20.
Degree 5: 6 at \(n=16\), 1 at 18, 1 at 20.

So the defects shrink with \(n\), but some configurations keep a small defect even where the prediction is positive, and every tested configuration is defective in degree 5. The random robust configurations are points of \(\mathbb F_3^3\) with multiplicities, which is special position, and the defects vary between configurations.

What this means

In degree 3, in the three measured cases, all of them truncation cases where the model's prediction is nonpositive, the board's column defects equal the model's. By the proposition, the model's defects are Hilbert-function defects of an ideal of squares of Gale-dual linear forms. The adversary's column configurations are finite point sets over \(\mathbb F_3\). If the model is exact for \(A\), a criterion for which configurations are defective, in the language of interpolation of fat points and of Gale duality, would describe the bad set for every column span an adversary can choose. That is the kind of statement openness cannot give. Neither the criterion nor the exactness of the model for \(A\) in general is established. The recorded entry found \(A\) not free over the column subalgebra, and only three cases are compared here.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the recorded column model and its scaling entry, and the board excesses of the column-members and \(n=10\) entries. A fresh-context reviewer checked the proposition and its proof, including the Gale transform over any field and the case \(e<d+1\), every number against the result files, and the 4-robustness of all 21 sampled spans. It required changes, all adopted:

the apolarity statement, which had the conditions and the quotient swapped;
\(n-e\) variables;
per-degree statements of the data, with the truncation cases marked;
"matches in degree 3" in place of "carries exactly", with the bad-set sentence conditional on the model's exactness;
the primitive action in the \(\mathbb Z/3\) heuristic.

The changes restrict or correct, so no second pass was made.

Remaining gap

A proof that the board's column defects equal the model's. The defect criterion for the Gale-dual squares ideal, starting from the defective configurations found in degrees 4 and 5. The characteristic-3 form of the apolarity to fat points.

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Individually measured computation	26.83 s
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Route review: relative gluing reduces the adversary to the base and the column component, and survives a sub-board falsification attempt

24 September 2026 · Route review with a finite check · The relative gluing line since the generic-line review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: relative gluing reduces the adversary to the base and the column component, and survives a sub-board falsification attempt”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-relative-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Six research entries followed the generic-line review:

Künneth components;
injectivity is not freeness;
column members;
boundary tests;
relative gluing and \(n=10\);
Gale duality.

This review states the line's claim, what the goal needs from it, a falsification attempt, and an assessment. It ends with the next step on the highest-risk item.

General statement. The line's claim has two parts:

thm:relative-gluing: a base without falls, tops that split by members, and members without falls of their own exclude refutations of degree \(D\);
conj:column-component-splitting: the only structure that does not split is the column component.

The falsification attempt is ex:subboard-member-splitting.

What the goal needs

By the logarithmic-prefix reduction, the goal needs no PC refutation of degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\), with \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), for the product clauses that any \(n^K\) adversarial families produce. The relative gluing theorem covers any constraint tops that are polynomials in their member's forms, product clauses included. So the goal reduces to its three hypotheses at that degree:

(a) weak unary PHP alone has no fall below \(D\), a property of PHP only, open at logarithmic degree;
(b) the adversary's families split by members, which the column component violates internally, so the column constraints must be one member;
(c) each member, the column component included, has no fall of its own after local reduction.

Falsification attempt: sub-board members

If some structure other than column-type failed to split, the claim that the obstruction concentrates in the column component would be false. Forms confined to a sub-board are the natural candidate, because narrow forms are the recorded non-free structure besides column forms. subboard_split.py takes two uniform random forms supported on the cells of three holes, over all pigeons, as a member. At \(n=8\) through degree 3 it tests three splitting predictions:

against four random forms;
against a second such member on three disjoint holes;
against one sharing a hole.

With two seeds, the member is strongly non-free, with degree-3 excess 71 over the free prediction. Yet all three predictions hold exactly, with excess 0 in every degree, on both seeds. Non-freeness does not stop a sub-board member from splitting, even from an overlapping one. The attempt fails, and the claim survives in the one alternative structure tested.

Assessment of the relative line

Structurally the line is strong. It proved three results:

a gluing theorem that turns member-local information into global hardness, with Taylor glue as a special case;
a splitting lemma that tolerates non-free members;
a correction of the recorded component hypothesis.

Its evidence isolates one non-splitting structure, the column component. The Gale reduction turns that component's model into point-configuration geometry.

It has not moved the goal's core obligations. Hypothesis (a) is untouched. The column component's own closure, (c) for it, is the recorded occupancy window, the thread's oldest open problem. All evidence is at width 1, degree at most 3 (5 in the model) and \(n\le10\) on the board. So the line has relocated the adversarial difficulty, precisely, into two statements the record already knew to be hard. It has not reduced them.

Of the two, (a) is a statement about PHP alone and may be within reach of known methods. Razborov's polynomial-calculus degree lower bound for PHP and its explicit description of the PHP ideal are the natural source, to be read before use. The column component is the adversarial core. The geometry of the Gale-dual squares is the one new handle on it, and it is untested beyond three matched cases and scaling in the model.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The column component is the highest risk: it is where hardness could fail. The next step stays on it, as proposed before this review.

Find the special position of the Gale points \([m_j]\) in the defective degree-4 and degree-5 model configurations at \(n=15,\dots,20\).
Test a candidate defect criterion exhaustively on robust configurations at small \(n\), up to symmetry.
Derive the characteristic-3 apolarity.

In parallel, and cheaply, read Razborov's PHP analysis for hypothesis (a).

Verification gate

Verification gate. A review. It re-read the relative gluing theorem, the column-component conjecture, the Gale proposition and the logarithmic-prefix reduction's requirements as restated in the double-point review. The sub-board computation uses the recorded a4lib machinery, validated in the earlier column entries, and its numbers are read from the result files. It registers one finite check.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	4 min 7.62 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	50.67 s
Computation design and coding	0.06 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 52.75 s
Individually measured computation	23.06 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.08 s

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Conjecturally, a column span is free when its worst direction is: a graded Dade-type criterion fits 96 of 97 cases, and the defects are not overfull Gale flats

24 September 2026 · Lemma, refutations, conjecture and finite check · Column model, spans of dimension 2 to 4, degrees 3 to 5, \(n\le20\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Conjecturally, a column span is free when its worst direction is: a graded Dade-type criterion fits 96 of 97 cases, and the defects are not overfull Gale flats”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-worst-direction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The relative-line review put the column component first. It asked for the special position behind the column model's degree-4 and degree-5 defects, and a criterion for them. The cycle ends with a criterion, or with defects that no simple special position explains.

General statement. conj:worst-direction-freeness: for fixed span dimension \(d\) and degree \(t\), and \(n\ge n_0(d,t)\), a column span is free in the column model through degree \(t\) exactly when every nonzero direction has column count \(c\ge2t-1\), that is \(c_{\min}\ge2t-1\), the single-form threshold. lem:gale-group-algebra: in characteristic 3 the Gale-dual quotient is \(T_r/(m_1^2,\dots,m_n^2)\) with \(T_r=\mathbb F_3[(\mathbb Z/3)^r]\), so the column component's model is again squares of linear forms on a group algebra. The finite check ex:worst-direction-tests supports the conjecture in 96 of 97 configurations. Its one exception, near capacity, refutes the version without the size condition, and the check also refutes the overfull-flat explanation of the defects.

The group-algebra form

Lemma (Gale quotient as a group-algebra quotient). In the setting of prop:column-model-gale, \(\operatorname{Sym}(V)/(m_1^2,\dots,m_n^2)=T_V/(m_1^2,\dots,m_n^2)\), where \(T_V=\operatorname{Sym}(V)/(v^3:v\in V)\cong\mathbb F_3[(\mathbb Z/3)^r]\), \(r=\dim V\).

Proof. The \(m_j\) span \(V\), since the \(e_j\) span \(\mathbb F_3^n\). For \(v=\sum_jc_jm_j\), characteristic 3 gives \(v^3=\sum_jc_j^3m_j^3\), and \(m_j^3=m_j\cdot m_j^2\) lies in the ideal. So every cube of a linear form lies in \((m_j^2)\), and the quotient factors through \(T_V\). \(\square\)

So the column component's model is an instance of the thread's own question: squares of linear forms on a free group algebra, here in the Gale-dual position. tr_squares.py computes \(\mathrm{HF}(T_r/(m_j^2))\) directly. It equals the column model's in all six degree-4 configurations at \(n=15,16,17\), an independent check of the proposition. For \(n\) uniform random vectors in \(\mathbb F_3^r\), five draws per configuration, the result reaches the free prediction in 20 of 30 draws, against 3 of the 6 model configurations. Random \(\mathbb F_3\) vectors are themselves often in special position, so these data do not separate special position from a counting effect. A first draft read only two draws per configuration and claimed all were free; the full count above replaces that claim.

Not flats

gale_flats.py computes, for the model configurations of the Gale entry, the largest number of Gale points in flats of rank 1, 2 and 3. In every configuration, defective or free, the Gale points are in general position there: at most 1, 2 and 3 points respectively. So the defects do not come from overfull Gale flats of rank at most 3, the only flats tested. That candidate is refuted; special position of other kinds is not.

The worst direction

In the primal hole configurations, the defects did not track repeated values or lines. They tracked the minimum column count \(c_{\min}\) over the span's nonzero directions. For a single column form with count \(c\), the occupancy theorem and the \(\mathbb Z/3\) heuristic of the Gale entry give freeness exactly through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil\), that is through degree \(t\) iff \(c\ge2t-1\). In the positive-prediction cases of the Gale entry, every degree-4 defect had \(c_{\min}\le6\), every degree-4 free span \(c_{\min}\ge7\), and every degree-5 span tested \(c_{\min}\le8\) and a defect.

worst_direction.py tests this deliberately. It draws random hole functions with a prescribed \(c_{\min}\) and compares freeness in the model with the criterion \(c_{\min}\ge2t-1\).

\(d\)	\(t\)	\(n\)	\(c_{\min}\)	Cases	Agree
2	3	10, 12, 14	3–6	24	24
2	4	13, 15, 17	5–8	24	24
3	4	15, 16, 17	5–8	24	24
3	5	18, 20	7–10	8	8
4	3	12, 14	4–6	11	10
4	4	16, 18	6–8	6	6

All predictions were positive. The exception is \(n=12\), \(d=4\), \(t=3\), \(c_{\min}=6\): Hilbert function \((1,7,16,8)\) against the free \((1,7,16,5)\). The prediction there is small (5), close to capacity. The same \(d\) and \(t\) at \(n=14\) agree in all six cases. So the criterion without a size condition is false, and the conjecture requires \(n\ge n_0(d,t)\).

A heuristic for why the worst direction might decide. Dade's lemma detects ungraded, full freeness over \((\mathbb Z/3)^d\) on cyclic shifted subgroups over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), and the conjecture is a graded, truncated analogue of it. Non-rational directions have column counts no smaller than the rational ones. For \(u\in\overline{\mathbb F}_3^{\,d}\), let \(W_u=u^\perp\cap\mathbb F_3^d\), a proper rational subspace. Two holes take the same value under \(u\) exactly when \(\varphi(j)-\varphi(j')\in W_u\). A rational \(u'\ne0\) with \(W_u\subseteq u'^\perp\) has classes that are unions of classes of \(u\), so \(c(u)\ge c(u')\ge c_{\min}\). But \(\ell_u\) can take more than three values in \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), and the single-form threshold is recorded only for \(\mathbb F_3\) values. So "no worse" also needs freeness to depend only on the partition of the holes, monotonically under refinement. That step is open. The recorded truncated Dade counterexample shows that such a lemma fails for general column tensors. The data suggest the truncated analogue holds for column spans away from capacity; this is a heuristic, not an argument. The rank-variety theory of elementary abelian groups (Carlson, Friedlander–Pevtsova) is the tool for a proof, recalled here as context.

What it would give

Everything in this paragraph is conditional on the conjecture and on the model being exact for \(A\), which is checked in degree 3 in three cases. Condition (c) at PC degree \(D\) concerns the syzygies of the squares \(\ell_i^2\) in degrees at most \(D\). By the truncation step of the Künneth lemma, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) through degree \(D\) depends only on degrees at most \(D\). Freeness of the column component over the algebra of its forms through degree \(D\) therefore makes that \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) the algebra's own: Frobenius \(y_ie_i\) and Koszul \(y_j^2e_i-y_i^2e_j\). So the threshold is \(c\ge2D-1\) at degree \(t=D\). Q-robustness bounds every value class by \(n-Q-1\) holes, so \(c\ge Q+1\), and \(c\ge2D-1\) is \(Q\ge2D-2\), the threshold of conj:column-component-splitting. Such a component would be free through degree \(D\). Its top syzygies would be Koszul and Frobenius, which lift by the recorded Frobenius lemma. That is condition (c) of the relative gluing theorem for the column component. The only remaining column obstruction would be narrow directions, with \(c<2t-1\), which involve few holes, the local structure the local-fall conjecture reduces away. At the goal's degree, \(t\) of order \(\log n\), the threshold \(c\ge2t-1\) is logarithmic in \(n\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the Gale proposition, the occupancy theorem's threshold, the recorded truncated Dade counterexample, and the relative gluing theorem's condition (c). A fresh-context reviewer checked the lemma and its proof, the table counts, the exception, the \(n=14\) agreement and the flat counts against the result files. It required changes, all adopted:

withdraw the random-vector claim, which rested on a partial reading of the output, and give the full count of 20 of 30;
mark the criterion as conjectural in the title;
correct the non-rational-direction argument and state its open step;
make the degree bookkeeping and the \(Q\)/\(c\) correspondence explicit and label the chain conditional;
limit the flat refutation to rank at most 3;
mark the Dade link as heuristic.

The changes restrict or withdraw claims, so no second pass was made.

Remaining gap

A proof of the worst-direction criterion with an explicit \(n_0(d,t)\), perhaps via rank varieties, since \(T_r\) is a group algebra. Model exactness for \(A\). And the exceptional configuration at \(n=12\): what distinguishes it.

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Every pencil class obeys the worst-direction criterion except the affine plane, and a tensor-decomposition proof fails on degree-0 blocks

24 September 2026 · Finite check and a failed proof route · Pencils in the column model, degrees 3 to 5, \(n\le14\), exhaustive up to symmetry. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Every pencil class obeys the worst-direction criterion except the affine plane, and a tensor-decomposition proof fails on degree-0 blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-pencil-exhaustive.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The worst-direction entry proposed proving conj:worst-direction-freeness for pencils first. Before a proof, the pencil case turns out to be finite at each size and can be decided exhaustively. The cycle does that and tries one proof route.

General statement. The statement under test is conj:worst-direction-freeness for \(d=2\): for \(n\ge n_0(2,t)\), a pencil of column forms is free in the column model through degree \(t\) iff its four rational directions all have column count \(c\ge2t-1\). The finite check ex:pencil-worst-direction confirms it on every pencil class at degree 3 for \(n=10,11,12\), at degree 4 for \(n=9,\dots,14\), and at degree 5 for \(n=12,13,14\). The only exceptions at the sizes tested are two configurations at degree 3. One is the affine plane \(\mathrm{AG}(2,3)\), every point once, at \(n=9\). The other is the plane minus a point, the recorded occupancy pair, at \(n=8\). So \(n_0(2,3)=10\) at the sizes tested.

Reduction to a finite check

A pencil's column model depends only on the multiset of value points \((\varphi_1(j),\varphi_2(j))\in\mathbb F_3^2\), up to the affine group \(\mathrm{AGL}(2,3)\) of 432 elements:

hole permutations do not change \(R\) or the quotient;
a change of basis of the pencil does not change the span;
adding a constant to a hole function changes a form by a multiple of \(\sum_jt_j=0\).

pencil_exhaustive.py enumerates the compositions of \(n\) into 9 multiplicities, reduces them modulo \(\mathrm{AGL}(2,3)\), and discards the classes whose span is not 2-dimensional modulo constants. For each remaining class it computes \(c_{\min}\) over the four rational directions and the model Hilbert function through degree \(t\), by exact GF(3) ranks, and compares freeness with the criterion.

Results

\(t\)	\(n\)	Classes	Agree	Prediction positive	Exceptions
3	8	54	53	no	plane minus a point: \(c_{\min}=5\), \(\mathrm{HF}\) (1, 5, 7, 1) against (1, 5, 7, −2)
3	9	94	93	yes	the plane: \(c_{\min}=6\), \(\mathrm{HF}\) (1, 6, 12, 7) against (1, 6, 12, 5)
3	10, 11, 12	156, 252, 403	all	yes	none
4	9, 10	94, 156	all	no	none
4	11, 12, 13, 14	252, 403, 618, 938	all	yes	none
5	12	403	all	no	none
5	13, 14	618, 938	all	yes	none

The two exceptions are the most uniform configurations, every point of the plane used once, rather than concentrated ones. At \(n=9\) the prediction is positive and the plane still fails, so the size condition of the conjecture is needed even for pencils. From \(n=10\) on no exception occurs at the degrees tested.

A proof route that fails

A natural attempt drops the relation \(\sum_jt_j=0\) by treating the constant as a third direction. It writes \(\mathbb F_3[t]/(t_j^2)=\bigotimes_p B_p\) over value points \(p\), with \(B_p\) the \(m_p\)-th tensor power of the Jordan block \(J_2\), inflated along the affine character \((1,p)\). The algebra \(\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^3)\) with primitive \(y\) is a Hopf algebra, so projective tensor anything is projective. Each \(B_p\) is free over \(\mathbb Z/3\) up to one small block in its middle degree. Expanding, every term with free factors along a spanning set of characters is free. The non-free terms need all points off some line to contribute their small blocks, which first happens near degree \(c/2\) for that line's direction: the criterion.

The argument fails for two reasons. A point of multiplicity 1 contributes \(B_p=J_2\), a non-free block starting in degree 0. And freeness through degree \(t\) is a statement about relations in low degree, not about direct summands: the whole module has dimension \(2^n\), never divisible by 27, so it is never free. The two exceptions are exactly configurations made of multiplicity-1 points. A proof must control truncated freeness directly. The rank-variety or vector-bundle view of the pencil, Grothendieck splitting of its kernel sheaf on \(\mathbf P^1\), is the remaining candidate.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the worst-direction conjecture and its data, and the recorded pencil splitting identity. The symmetry reduction preserves the model's Hilbert function, by the three reasons listed. The enumeration is exhaustive over compositions, and every number above is read from the result files. The exceptions coincide with the recorded occupancy pair and the model's recorded full-plane configuration. The entry has no proof, only a failed route, and was not sent to a reviewer.

Remaining gap

A proof for pencils, and \(n_0(d,t)\) in general. Model exactness for \(A\), which carries every column statement to the board: the next step tests it on all pencil classes at \(n=8,9\).

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The column model is a direct summand of the weak PHP algebra, so every column defect lifts to the board

24 September 2026 · Working proof · The weak unary top algebra over its column subalgebra, every \(n\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The column model is a direct summand of the weak PHP algebra, so every column defect lifts to the board”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-column-model-summand.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Every column statement since the Gale entry was made in the column model, with its exactness for the board algebra \(A\) only computed. The user asked for general formulas instead of further cases. The cycle asks what the relation between \(A\) and the model is, for every \(n\).

General statement. prop:column-model-summand holds for every \(n\) and every column span. As a module over the column subalgebra, the weak unary top algebra \(A\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) decomposes as \(A=R\oplus A_{\ge1}\) by a grading, the U-degree. \(R=\mathbb F_3[C_1,\dots,C_n]/(C_j^2,\sum_jC_j)\) is exactly the column model, the U-degree-0 part. Consequently, for any column span:

\(\mathrm{HF}(A/(\ell_\varphi)A)=\mathrm{HF}(R/(\ell_\varphi)R)+\mathrm{HF}(A_{\ge1}/(\ell_\varphi)A_{\ge1})\);
the board's excess over the free prediction is the model's excess plus that of \(A_{\ge1}\);
if the model is not free through degree \(t\), neither is \(A\).

Setting

\(A=\mathbb F_3[x_{ij}:i\in[n+1],\,j\in[n]]/(x_{ij}^2,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j}\ (i\ne i'),\ r_i)\) with row sums \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\), as in the component-hypothesis entry. Its column sums are \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\), and a column-type form is \(\ell_\varphi=\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j\). \(K=\mathbb F_3[C_1,\dots,C_n]/(C_j^2)\) is the free column algebra, and the model \(R\) is \(K/(\sum_jC_j)\).

The decomposition

Proposition (column model as a summand). Let \(B=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x_{ij}^2,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j})\), so \(A=B/(r_0,\dots,r_n)\). For each hole \(j\) let \(U_j=\operatorname{span}\{x_{ij}:i\ge1\}\). Then:

\(B=\bigotimes_jB_j\) with \(B_j=\mathbb F_3\oplus\mathbb F_3C_j\oplus U_j\), all products inside \(B_j\) zero. Hence \(B=\bigoplus_{S\subseteq[n]}K_{[n]\setminus S}\otimes U_S\), with \(K_T=\mathbb F_3[C_j:j\in T]/(C_j^2)\) and \(U_S=\bigotimes_{j\in S}U_j\). Call \(|S|\) the U-degree. The summand of U-degree \(k\) is a \(K\)-submodule, with \(C_j\) acting as zero on the factor \(U_j\).
\(r_i\) has U-degree 1 for \(i\ge1\), and \(r_0\equiv s:=\sum_jC_j\) modulo \((r_1,\dots,r_n)\), with \(s\) of U-degree 0. So the ideal \((r_0,\dots,r_n)=(s,r_1,\dots,r_n)\) is homogeneous for the U-degree, and \(A=\bigoplus_{k\ge0}A^{(k)}\) as \(K\)-modules.
\(A^{(0)}=K/(s)=R\).

Proof.

The relations of \(B\) involve one hole at a time, so \(B\) is the tensor product of the algebras \(B_j=\mathbb F_3[x_{0j},\dots,x_{nj}]/(\text{all products})=\mathbb F_3\oplus V_j\), with \(V_j\) the span of the \(x_{ij}\). Since \(x_{0j}=C_j-\sum_{i\ge1}x_{ij}\), \(V_j=\mathbb F_3C_j\oplus U_j\). Expanding the tensor product over the choice, for each \(j\), of \(\mathbb F_3\oplus\mathbb F_3C_j\) or \(U_j\) gives the sum over \(S\). The column sums act factorwise and kill \(U_j\), since products in \(V_j\) vanish. So each summand is a \(K\)-submodule on which \(C_j\) for \(j\in S\) acts as 0, and it is isomorphic to \(K_{[n]\setminus S}\otimes U_S\).
For \(i\ge1\), \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\) with \(x_{ij}\in U_j\), which is U-degree 1. And \(r_0=\sum_jx_{0j}=\sum_jC_j-\sum_{i\ge1}r_i\). Multiplication by an element of fixed U-degree shifts the U-degree by that amount: products of summands for \(S\), \(S'\) vanish unless \(S\cap S'=\emptyset\), where they land in \(S\cup S'\), or unless a \(C_j\) meets \(U_j\), where they are 0. So the ideal generated by U-homogeneous elements is U-homogeneous, and the quotient inherits the grading as \(K\)-modules.
The ideal \(\sum_{i\ge1}r_iB\) lies in U-degree at least 1. So the U-degree-0 part of \(A\) is \(B^{(0)}/(sB)^{(0)}=K/sK\). \(\square\)

Corollary. Let \(\ell_{\varphi_1},\dots,\ell_{\varphi_d}\) be column forms, and let \(S_d=\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_d]/(x_i^3)\), the group algebra of \((\mathbb Z/3)^d\), act on both \(A\) and \(R\) by \(x_b\mapsto\ell_{\varphi_b}\). It is one algebra for both, and it is self-injective. The column subalgebra of \(A\) is exactly \(R\), since \(K\cap I=I^{(0)}=sK\). The forms lie in \(K\), in U-degree 0, so they preserve the decomposition: \(A/(\ell)A=R/(\ell)R\oplus A_{\ge1}/(\ell)A_{\ge1}\). Take the free prediction of a module \(M\) to be the untruncated coefficients \([q^s]\,\mathrm{HS}_M/(1+q+q^2)^d\), which are linear in \(\mathrm{HS}_M\). Since \(\mathrm{HS}_A=\mathrm{HS}_R+\mathrm{HS}_{A_{\ge1}}\), the board's excess is the model's excess plus \(A_{\ge1}\)'s. Freeness over \(S_d\) through degree \(t\) is the vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{S_d}(\mathbb F_3,-)\) in degrees at most \(t\), and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of a direct sum is the direct sum. So if \(R\) is not free through \(t\), neither is \(A\). \(\square\)

What it explains, and what is left

Every model defect is a board defect, for every \(n\). This includes the single-form threshold, so the non-free direction of the worst-direction criterion transfers from the model to the board with no computation. In the 54 pencil classes at \(n=8\) and the 25 robust ones at \(n=9\) compared in this cycle's validation runs (board_pencils.py, compare_n9.py), the board's excess was never below the model's. By additivity, that means \(A_{\ge1}\)'s excess was nonnegative in these data. The decomposition alone forces only the lowest nonzero coefficient of a non-free summand's excess to be positive.
Model exactness through degree \(t\) is the freeness of \(A_{\ge1}\) through \(t\). Zero excess through \(t\) means that the surjection \(G\otimes S_d\to M\), from lifts \(G\) of generators, is an isomorphism through \(t\). At \(n=9\) the board equals the model in all 25 robust pencil classes (\(c_{\min}\ge4\)), so \(A_{\ge1}\) contributes nothing there. At \(n=8\) it contributes large excesses exactly for narrow pencils (\(c_{\min}\le3\), board excess 27 to 600 in degree 3 against the model's 3 to 8).
A route to the free direction. \(A^{(k)}\) is \(\bigoplus_{|S|=k}K_{[n]\setminus S}\otimes U_S\) modulo \(s\) and the images of the \(r_i\) from U-degree \(k-1\). Its pieces are column models on the holes outside \(S\), shifted by \(k\). A robust span loses at most \(k\) of its column count on \([n]\setminus S\) while the degree drops by \(k\): \(c-k\ge2(t-k)-1\) whenever \(c\ge2t-1\). Here \(c\) is the column count of a direction of the span restricted to the holes outside \(S\). Removing a hole lowers each class size of that direction by at most one, so \(c\) drops by at most \(k\). Under the worst-direction conjecture, every piece would then be free in the needed range. Suppose the row-sum relations admit an exact resolution in the U-direction, by pieces of the same form; that resolution is still to be found, and is not the Koszul complex of the \(r_i\), which are not expected to form a regular sequence. Then freeness of \(A^{(k)}\) would follow, because \(S_d\) is self-injective and a module with a finite resolution by free \(S_d\)-modules is free. The truncated form of that step needs care. This is a route, not a result.

With this, the column chain has three links. The proposition carries every model defect to the board. The worst-direction criterion in the model is conjectured, with exhaustive pencil evidence. Model exactness for robust spans is the freeness of \(A_{\ge1}\), for which the route above is the next step.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the weak base's definition in the component-hypothesis entry, the column model and the Gale proposition. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed four points: the tensor structure of \(B\), the splitting \(V_j=\mathbb F_3C_j\oplus U_j\) in any characteristic, the U-grading as an algebra grading, and \(A^{(0)}=K/sK\). It required changes, all adopted:

the untruncated, linear free prediction;
one self-injective algebra \(S_d\) acting on both \(R\) and \(A\), with the column subalgebra of \(A\) identified with \(R\);
nonnegativity of \(A_{\ge1}\)'s excess attributed to the data, not to the decomposition;
"through degree \(t\)";
the route's caveats: the resolution is not the Koszul complex, \(c\) is defined on sub-hole-sets, and the conjecture is assumed.

The changes restrict or make precise, so no second pass was made.

Remaining gap

Exactness of the U-direction row-sum complex, and the truncated free-resolution step, which together would give model exactness for robust spans. A proof of the worst-direction criterion in the model.

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The base condition of relative gluing is the matching-moment theorem on the functional base; on the weak base it splits by row content, and functionality kills the symmetric column sums

24 September 2026 · Working proofs · Condition (a) of relative gluing on the functional and weak unary bases, every \(n\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The base condition of relative gluing is the matching-moment theorem on the functional base; on the weak base it splits by row content, and functionality kills the symmetric column sums”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-base-condition.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The relative-line review reduced the goal to three hypotheses of the relative gluing theorem and called the first one, (a), "weak unary PHP alone has no fall below \(D\)", untouched and open at logarithmic degree, on the weak base. The user pointed to our bit PHP paper for inspiration. Its Step 3 rests on a theorem that every low-degree functional of the functional PHP axioms extends, proved from chessboard homology. The cycle asks what exactly (a) needs, on which base, and what a change of base costs the column component.

General statement. lem:functional-relative-gluing: over every field, on the functional unary base with \(N\ge\max(1,2D-1)\) columns and any number of rows, hypothesis (a) of the relative gluing theorem holds, so constraints satisfying (b), (c) and (d) with respect to the functional top algebra \(G\) have no PC refutation of degree \(D\), and neither do they together with the weak base \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\). So (a) is proved on the functional base, as the gluing entry had already used for its own theorem; the review stated it for the weak base, where it remains open. prop:weak-content-splitting: on the weak base, the extension step from degree \(k\) to \(k+1\) splits over row contents \(c\), \(|c|=k+1\); the contents with at most one cell per row form exactly the functional step, and, when \(N\ge\max(1,2k+1)\), (a) for the weak base holds in degree \(k\) exactly when, for every annihilator \(\mu\) of the degree-\(k\) weak NS space, every content with a repeated row has a solution of \(\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}\nu(T+(i,j))=(2-c_i)\mu(T)\). prop:functional-column-symmetric-relations: \(e_k(C_1,\dots,C_N)=0\) in \(G\) for every \(k\ge1\), while \(e_p\ne0\) in the column model whenever \(N=qp+p-1\) with \(p\nmid q\). So for those \(N\) the column model, a direct summand of the weak algebra, does not embed in \(G\): its image is a proper quotient.

Two versions of the matching-moment theorem

The record holds the theorem in two forms, and a cycle using it must pick the one that covers its field and board.

thm:all-field-matching-filtration, informal, working proof: over every field, with \(m\ge B\) rows and \(N\ge2B-1\) columns. It fills oriented chains, with the chain coefficient \((-1)^jz_T\) on a matching missing the \(j\)-th row of the row set.
audit:matching-extension-arbitrary-row-count, established and Lean-verified (formalization/claims/MatchingFiltration.lean), and Theorem 3.2 of the paper: over \(\mathbb F_2\) only, for every \(m\), with \(N\ge\max(1,2B-1)\). Its filling is unoriented, since the cycle condition reads \(z_U+z_U=0\).

The formalized version drops the row hypothesis by one remark: if a row set would need \(s>m\) rows, there is no such set and nothing to fill. The oriented argument fills each row set separately in the same way, so the remark applies to it verbatim. Over every field, then, the theorem holds with \(N\ge\max(1,2B-1)\) and any \(m\). Only the \(\mathbb F_2\) case is Lean-verified. \(\mathbb F_3\), the thread's field, needs the oriented informal version. On the PHP board \(m=N+1\ge B\), so the row hypothesis never mattered there. The registry had no edge between the two versions. This entry adds one.

The functional gluing lemma

Setting. \(\mathbb F\) is any field. The functional base \(\Gamma_{\rm f}\) on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns has generators \(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}\), \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}\) (\(j\ne j'\)), \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) (\(i\ne i'\)) and \(\rho_i-1\), \(\rho_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\). The weak base \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) omits the row exclusions \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}\). For a generator set \(\Gamma\), \(I_k(\Gamma)\) is the span of the products \(ug\), \(g\in\Gamma\), \(u\) a monomial, \(\deg u+\deg g\le k\). \(B_\Gamma\) is the polynomial ring in the variables and \(z\) modulo the homogenizations \(g^{\rm h}\) of the generators, as in the relative gluing theorem. \(G\) is \(B_{\Gamma_{\rm f}}/zB_{\Gamma_{\rm f}}\), the functional top algebra with relations \(x_{ij}^2\), both exclusions, and \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\).

Step 0 (injectivity is stability). For every generator set and every \(k\), \(z:(B_\Gamma)_k\to(B_\Gamma)_{k+1}\) is injective if and only if \(I_{k+1}(\Gamma)\cap\mathcal P_{\le k}=I_k(\Gamma)\), where \(\mathcal P_{\le k}\) is the space of polynomials of degree at most \(k\).

Proof. Setting \(z=1\) is a linear bijection from the degree-\(k\) forms in the variables and \(z\) onto \(\mathcal P_{\le k}\). Since \(\deg g^{\rm h}=\deg g\), the degree-\(k\) part of the ideal is spanned by the products \(u\,g^{\rm h}z^{e}\) with \(\deg u+e=k-\deg g\), and setting \(z=1\) maps them onto the products \(ug\) with \(\deg u\le k-\deg g\), which span \(I_k(\Gamma)\). For a form \(v\) of degree \(k\), \(zv\) lies in the ideal exactly when \(v|_{z=1}\in I_{k+1}(\Gamma)\), and \(v\) lies in it exactly when \(v|_{z=1}\in I_k(\Gamma)\). \(\square\)

Lemma (functional gluing). Let \(N\ge\max(1,2D-1)\) and \(m\) arbitrary. Let the constraints \(g_b\), \(b\in U\), grouped into members, satisfy hypotheses (b) and (c) of the relative gluing theorem through \(D\) for the base \(\Gamma_{\rm f}\), with tops in \(G\), and let no constraint be a nonzero constant. Then:

\(z\) is injective on \(B_{\Gamma_{\rm f}}/J_U\) below \(D\);
\(\Gamma_{\rm f}\) together with the constraints has no PC refutation of degree \(D\);
\(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) together with the constraints has none either.

Proof. By the all-field theorem with the row remark, applied with \(B=D\), \(I_D(\Gamma_{\rm f})\cap\mathcal P_{\le k}=I_k(\Gamma_{\rm f})\) for every \(k\le D\). For \(k<D\), \(I_{k+1}\subseteq I_D\) gives \(I_{k+1}\cap\mathcal P_{\le k}=I_k\). By Step 0, \(z\) is injective on \(B_{\Gamma_{\rm f}}\) below \(D\), which is hypothesis (a). No functional generator is a constant, so (d) holds. The relative gluing theorem then gives items 1 and 2. Its steps 1 to 4 are linear algebra over the field, and its step 5 uses the socle criterion, which is stated and proved for any field and supplied system. For item 3, \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\subseteq\Gamma_{\rm f}\), so a degree-\(D\) PC refutation from \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) and the constraints is one from \(\Gamma_{\rm f}\) and the constraints. \(\square\)

Either base may carry the goal's reduction: the complete-board transfer compiles refutations of ordinary unary PHP over the functional linear-row base, as the base remark of the complex line records.

So on the functional base, (a) is a theorem in the linear range \(D\le(N+1)/2\), far beyond the goal's logarithmic degree. It is the paper's Step 3 input with orientations. The gluing entry made this replacement for the glued product-constraints theorem. The relative-line review restated (a) for the weak base and missed that option.

The weak base splits by row content

Whether the line should change base depends on what (a) costs on the weak base. A column-injective set \(T\) is a set of cells with distinct columns; rows may repeat. Its content is the vector \(c(T)\) with \(c_i(T)\) the number of its cells in row \(i\).

Proposition (content splitting). Over every field, for \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns and every \(k\ge0\):

The functionals on \(\mathcal P_{\le k}\) annihilating \(I_k(\Gamma_{\rm w})\) are exactly the functions \(\mu\) on column-injective sets of size at most \(k\) satisfying, for \(|T|\le k-1\) and every row \(i\), \[\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}\mu\bigl(T\cup\{(i,j)\}\bigr)=\bigl(1-c_i(T)\bigr)\mu(T).\tag{W}\] The value on a monomial is \(\mu\) of its support if that support is column-injective, and \(0\) otherwise.
\(z\) is injective on \(B_{\Gamma_{\rm w}}\) in degree \(k\) if and only if, for every such \(\mu\) and every content \(c\) with \(|c|=k+1\), there is a function \(\nu\) on the column-injective sets of content \(c\) with \[\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}\nu\bigl(T\cup\{(i,j)\}\bigr)=(2-c_i)\,\mu(T)\qquad(i\in\operatorname{supp}c,\ c(T)=c-e_i).\tag{W\(_c\)}\]
For a content with every \(c_i\le1\), (W\(_c\)) is the functional step (OP-marginals) for \(\mu\) restricted to matchings, and it is solvable when \(N\ge\max(1,2k+1)\). (The recorded chessboard-cycle identification treats this case.) So (a) for \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) through \(D\) is equivalent, when \(N\ge2D-1\), to the solvability of (W\(_c\)) for every content with a repeated row and \(|c|\le D\).

Proof.

Booleanity multiples \(u(x^2-x)\) within degree \(k\) identify every monomial with its squarefree support. Column exclusions kill supports that repeat a column. So an annihilator is a function \(\mu\) on column-injective sets of size at most \(k\), subject only to the row-equation multiples. By Booleanity within degree \(k\), it suffices to take the multipliers \(u=x_T\), \(T\) column-injective, \(|T|\le k-1\). In \(x_T(\rho_i-1)\), the term \(x_Tx_{ij}\) contributes \(\mu(T)\) if \((i,j)\in T\), which happens for \(c_i(T)\) columns. It contributes \(0\) if column \(j\) holds a cell of another row, and \(\mu(T\cup\{(i,j)\})\) if \(j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)\). This is (W).
By Step 0 and finite-dimensional duality, \(z\) is injective in degree \(k\) if and only if every annihilator of \(I_k\) is the restriction of an annihilator of \(I_{k+1}\). By item 1, the extension must assign values to the column-injective \((k+1)\)-sets so that (W) holds for \(|T|=k\). The equation for \((T,i)\) involves only sets of content \(c(T)+e_i\), and \(c_i(T)=c_i-1\) there, which gives the coefficient \(2-c_i\). Each unknown and each equation belongs to exactly one content, so the system is the direct sum of the systems (W\(_c\)).
For \(c\) the indicator of a row set \(S\), the sets of content \(c\) are the matchings on \(S\), and the equations are those of unused rows, with coefficient \(1\): these are the OP-marginals. \(\mu\) restricted to matchings satisfies (W) for matchings \(T\) and unused rows \(i\), which are the OP-marginals below \(k\). So it annihilates \(I_k(\Gamma_{\rm f})\), and the all-field theorem with \(B=k+1\) extends it. For a matching \(T\) and a used row \(i\), the equation belongs to the content \(c(T)+e_i\), which repeats row \(i\). \(\square\)

Two kinds of repeated content are settled by the argument below.

If \(c_i=2\) in \(\mathbb F\) for every \(i\in\operatorname{supp}c\), the right side of (W\(_c\)) vanishes, and \(\nu=0\) solves it. This covers \(c=2e_a\).
\(c=2e_a+e_b\), the smallest content on two rows, is solvable when the characteristic is not 2 and \(N\ge5\). A vector orthogonal to the image assigns \(w_A\) to the row-\(b\) equation of a pair \(A\) in row \(a\), and \(h(x,j)\) to the row-\(a\) equation of the set \(\{(a,x),(b,j)\}\). Orthogonality means \(w_A+h(a_1,j)+h(a_2,j)=0\) for \(A=\{a_1,a_2\}\) and every \(j\notin A\). For \(j\ne j'\), put \(d_x=h(x,j)-h(x,j')\). Any two distinct \(x,y\notin\{j,j'\}\) give \(d_x=-d_y\). Three such columns, available when \(N\ge5\), give \(2d_y=0\), so \(h(x,j)=h(x)\) and \(w_A=-h(a_1)-h(a_2)\). The right side pairs with this vector to \(-\sum_xh(x)\sum_{y\ne x}\mu(\{(a,x),(a,y)\})\), where (W) for \(T=\{(a,x)\}\), \(i=a\), makes the inner sum \((1-1)\mu=0\).

The other content of size 3, \(c=3e_a\), has right side \(-\mu\) in every characteristic and is not settled; its solvability depends on the rank of the inclusion matrix of pairs in triples in characteristic \(p\). The general repeated content is open. It is a filling problem on the complex of column-injective sets with at most \(c_i\) cells in row \(i\), a multiple chessboard complex in the sense of Jojić, Vrećica and Živaljević (not yet read). Its unknowns are symmetric, not alternating, in the cells of a repeated row. Heuristically, in characteristic \(p\) this is the difference between symmetric and divided powers, and the chessboard homology need not apply directly; this is not proved.

Functionality kills the symmetric column sums

Changing to the functional base changes the column component's ring. \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\), \(R=\mathbb F[t_1,\dots,t_N]/(t_j^2,\sum_jt_j)\) is the column model, and \(e_k\) is the \(k\)-th elementary symmetric polynomial.

Proposition (functional column relations). Over every field:

\(e_k(C_1,\dots,C_N)=\sum_{|I|=k}\prod_{i\in I}r_i=0\) in \(G\) for every \(k\ge1\).
\(e_k\ne0\) in \(R_k\) if and only if some function \(f\) on \(k\)-subsets of \([N]\) with \(\sum_{j\notin S'}f(S'\cup\{j\})=0\) for every \((k-1)\)-set \(S'\) has \(\sum_Sf(S)\ne0\). Over \(\mathbb F_p\), this holds for \(k=p\) and \(N=qp+p-1\) with \(p\nmid q\).
For those \(N\), \(R\to G\), \(t_j\mapsto C_j\), is not injective. In the weak algebra \(A\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), where \(R\) is a direct summand (prop:column-model-summand), \(e_3(C)\ne0\) at \(N=5,8,14,\dots\), including the thread's recorded board \(n=8\).

Proof.

Expanding \(\prod_{j\in S}C_j\), row exclusions leave the terms that put distinct rows on the columns of \(S\). Summing over \(S\), \(e_k(C)\) is the sum of \(x_T\) over all \(k\)-matchings \(T\). Expanding \(\prod_{i\in I}r_i\), column exclusions leave the terms with distinct columns on the rows of \(I\). Summing over \(I\) gives the same sum. Each \(r_i\) is \(0\) in \(G\).
\(R_k\) is the span of the \(k\)-sets modulo the span of \(\bigl(\sum_jt_j\bigr)t_{S'}=\sum_{j\notin S'}t_{S'\cup\{j\}}\). Its dual is the space of such \(f\), and \(f\) pairs with \(e_k\) to \(\sum_Sf(S)\). For \(k=p\) and \(N=qp+p-1\), the constant \(f=1\) has marginals \(N-p+1=qp\equiv0\). Its total is \(\binom Np\equiv\binom q1\binom{p-1}0=q\pmod p\) by Lucas' theorem.
Item 3 follows from items 1 and 2. In \(A\), \(e_3(C)\) is the image of \(e_3\in R\), which is nonzero by item 2, under the split inclusion. \(\square\)

Dehomogenized, item 1 is the top form of a counting identity of the functional base: \(\sum_T x_T\), over the \(k\)-matchings, equals \(\binom mk\) modulo the base at degree \(k\), because \(\prod_{i\in I}\rho_i=1\). In the column variables it says that the number of occupied \(k\)-sets of holes is \(\binom mk\). This is pigeon counting, and it lives in the column ring only when rows are functional. On the weak base a row may hold \(1+p\) cells, and the identity has no column form.

What this means

On the functional base, hypothesis (a) is not an open PHP problem: it is our own theorem, with the degree range \(D\le(N+1)/2\), and the goal's reduction then needs only (b), (c) and (d) for the constraints, stated on \(G\). The price is the column component. The summand and the worst-direction work were done on the weak algebra \(A\), where the column model is a direct summand. On \(G\) the model does not embed for \(N=qp+p-1\), \(p\nmid q\): every \(e_k(C)\) vanishes there, and \(e_p\), nonzero in \(R\) for those \(N\), is killed, carrying pigeon counting into the column ring. So there are two consistent routes:

Functional base. (a) is proved. The column component must be redone on \(G\), starting from the image of \(R\) in \(G\), whose kernel contains every \(e_{jp}\) (the other \(e_k\) are already \(0\) in \(R\), since \(ke_k=e_1e_{k-1}\)).
Weak base. The column machinery stands. (a) reduces to the repeated-content systems (W\(_c\)), a PHP-only filling problem of the same kind as the paper's, with one of the two contents of size 3 solved above, in characteristic other than 2 and for \(N\ge5\).

The weak route keeps more recorded work, and its remaining piece of (a) is a single well-posed statement. The next step takes it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read from their sources: the relative gluing theorem and its proof; the all-field matching filtration and the paper's matching-moment lemma, theorem and corollary, with the Lean audit's scope line (\(\mathbb F_2\), any \(m\)); the socle criterion's field scope; the column-model summand statement; and the complete-board transfer. The claim search for the content splitting found only the chessboard-cycle identification of the 0/1 case. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed Step 0, the row remark over every field, the derivation of (W) and its content decomposition, the \(2e_a+e_b\) argument, and the column computations. It required these changes, all adopted:

the Step 0 degree argument through \(\deg g^{\rm h}=\deg g\);
the socle criterion's any-field scope, stated with a link;
(d) assumed for the constraints only;
"ordinary PHP" replaced by the weak base, and the review's assessment corrected only on the functional base;
the \(N\) hypothesis and the quantifier over \(\mu\) in the content statement;
\(3e_a\) recorded as the other, unsettled content of size 3;
the symmetric-power remark marked heuristic;
non-embedding limited to \(N=qp+p-1\).

The changes only weaken or correct claims, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

(W\(_c\)) for every content with a repeated row, over \(\mathbb F_3\), at \(N\ge2|c|-1\) or any linear bound.
The image of \(R\) in \(G\): is its kernel exactly \((e_p,e_{2p},\dots)\)?
(b) and (c) for the column component on either base.

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One-row contents of the weak base extend at every degree, and at the tested column counts the weak base falls exactly when the functional base does

24 September 2026 · Working proofs, conjecture and finite check · Hypothesis (a) of relative gluing on the weak unary base. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One-row contents of the weak base extend at every degree, and at the tested column counts the weak base falls exactly when the functional base does”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-repeated-contents.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The base-condition entry reduced hypothesis (a) of relative gluing on the weak base to the repeated-content systems (W\(_c\)). It solved \(c=2e_a+e_b\) and left \(3e_a\) and every larger content open. The weak base keeps the column summand, so (a) there decides whether the relative line can stay on it. The cycle asks whether (a) holds on the weak base in the functional range \(N\ge2D-1\), and proves as much of it as the record's tools allow.

General statement. thm:weak-single-row-contents: over every prime field and for every \(k\), when \(N\ge2k+1\) every content confined to one row, \(c=(k+1)e_a\), has a solution of (W\(_c\)) for every annihilator \(\mu\). The proof combines Wilson's rank formula for inclusion matrices with the weak chain \(\partial\mu_j=(2-j)\mu_{j-1}\). lem:weak-row-reduction: the weak base on \(m\) rows is \(z\)-injective in degree \(k\) whenever the weak base on some \(r\) rows with \(k+1\le r\le m\) and the same \(N\) is. conj:weak-base-stability: over \(\mathbb F_p\), the weak base on \(m\ge D\) rows is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) when \(N\ge2D-1\), as the functional base is; the PHP board has \(m=N+1\ge D\). ex:weak-base-stability-small verifies it over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(D=4\), \(N=7\), and \(D=5\), \(N=9\), for every \(m\ge D\), and shows that at \(N=6\), \(D=4\) both bases fall.

Setting

As in the base-condition entry: \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) is the weak base on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns over \(\mathbb F_p\); an annihilator through degree \(k\) is a function \(\mu\) on column-injective sets of size at most \(k\) satisfying (W); the extension to \(k+1\) splits into the content systems (W\(_c\)), \(|c|=k+1\), with coefficient \(2-c_i\) on row \(i\). For \(t\le u\), \(W_{t,u}\) is the inclusion matrix of \(t\)-subsets against \(u\)-subsets of \([N]\), acting on functions on \(u\)-sets by \((W_{t,u}f)(Z)=\sum_{Y\supseteq Z}f(Y)\). It satisfies \(W_{t,j}W_{j,u}=\binom{u-t}{j-t}W_{t,u}\).

One-row contents

Imported (Wilson's rank formula). R. M. Wilson, A diagonal form for the incidence matrices of \(t\)-subsets vs. \(k\)-subsets, European J. Combin. 11 (1990) 609–615: for \(t\le\min(u,N-u)\), the rank of \(W_{t,u}\) over \(\mathbb F_p\) is \(\sum_i m_i\) over the \(i\le t\) with \(p\nmid\binom{u-i}{t-i}\), where \(m_i=\binom Ni-\binom N{i-1}\). The paper was not read for this entry; the statement is the standard one.

Theorem (one-row contents). Let \(p\) be prime, \(k\ge1\), \(N\ge2k+1\), \(m\ge1\), and let \(\mu\) annihilate \(I_k(\Gamma_{\rm w})\). For every row \(a\), the system (W\(_c\)) with \(c=(k+1)e_a\), \[\sum_{j\notin Y}\nu(Y\cup\{j\})=(1-k)\,\mu_k(Y)\qquad(Y\subseteq[N],\ |Y|=k),\] has a solution \(\nu\) on the \((k+1)\)-subsets of \([N]\). Here \(\mu_t(Y)\) is \(\mu\) of the set of cells \(\{a\}\times Y\).

Proof.

The chain. For \(1\le j\le k\), (W) for \(T=\{a\}\times Y\), \(|Y|=j-1\), and row \(a\) reads \(W_{j-1,j}\mu_j=(2-j)\mu_{j-1}\).
If \(k\equiv1\pmod p\), the right side is \(0\) and \(\nu=0\) solves the system.
The cokernel. The system is \(W_{k,k+1}\nu=(1-k)\mu_k\). It is solvable if and only if \((1-k)\mu_k\) is orthogonal to \(\ker W_{k,k+1}^{\mathsf T}\). Let \(I_{\rm bad}=\{0\le i\le k:i\equiv k+1\pmod p\}\). It is empty exactly when \(k<p-1\); then Wilson's formula with \(t=k\), \(u=k+1\) (valid since \(N\ge2k+1\)) gives full rank and there is nothing to prove. Otherwise its largest element is \(i_*=k+1-p\), so \(k-i_*=p-1\).
- For \(i\in I_{\rm bad}\), \(W_{k,k+1}^{\mathsf T}W_{i,k}^{\mathsf T}=(W_{i,k}W_{k,k+1})^{\mathsf T}=(k+1-i)W_{i,k+1}^{\mathsf T}=0\), so \(\operatorname{Im}W_{i_*,k}^{\mathsf T}\subseteq\ker W_{k,k+1}^{\mathsf T}\).
- Wilson's formula with \(t=k\), \(u=k+1\) gives \(\dim\ker W_{k,k+1}^{\mathsf T}=\binom Nk-\operatorname{rank}=\sum_{i\in I_{\rm bad}}m_i\), since \(\binom{k+1-i}{k-i}=k+1-i\).
- With \(t=i_*\), \(u=k\) (valid since \(i_*<k\le N-k\)), \(\binom{k-i}{i_*-i}\) for \(i\le i_*\) is \(\binom{b+p-1}{b}\) with \(b=i_*-i\). By Lucas' theorem it is \(1\) when \(p\mid b\), from the digits \(\binom{p-1}{0}\binom{b/p}{b/p}\). When \(p\nmid b\) its last digits give \(\binom{r-1}{r}=0\), \(r\) the last digit of \(b\). So \(\operatorname{rank}W_{i_*,k}=\sum_{i\in I_{\rm bad}}m_i\).
Hence \(\ker W_{k,k+1}^{\mathsf T}=\operatorname{Im}W_{i_*,k}^{\mathsf T}\), and the system is solvable exactly when \((1-k)\,W_{i_*,k}\mu_k=0\).
The chain kills it. For \(i_*<j\le k\), \(W_{i_*,j-1}W_{j-1,j}=(j-i_*)W_{i_*,j}\) with \(1\le j-i_*\le p-1\), so by item 1 \[W_{i_*,k}\mu_k=\prod_{j=i_*+1}^{k}\frac{2-j}{j-i_*}\;\mu_{i_*}.\] The \(p-1\) consecutive values \(j=i_*+1,\dots,k\) meet every residue except \(i_*\equiv k+1\). So some \(j\equiv2\pmod p\) occurs unless \(k\equiv1\), which item 2 handled, and the product is \(0\). \(\square\)

The theorem settles the content \(3e_a\) left open by the base-condition entry: over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(k=2\), \(i_*=0\), and \(W_{0,2}\mu_2=\tfrac{(2-1)(2-2)}{1\cdot2}\mu_0=0\). It uses only row \(a\), so it holds on any board. The obstruction space \(\operatorname{Im}W_{i_*,k}^{\mathsf T}\) is annihilated by the weak chain relations, not by a filling as in the matching-moment theorem.

Row reduction

Lemma (row reduction). Over any field, let \(k+1\le r\le m\). If the weak base on \(r\) rows and \(N\) columns is \(z\)-injective in degree \(k\), so is the weak base on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns.

Proof. By the content splitting (prop:weak-content-splitting, item 2), it suffices to solve (W\(_c\)) for every annihilator \(\mu\) through \(k\) on \(m\) rows and every content \(c\), \(|c|=k+1\). The support of \(c\) has at most \(k+1\le r\) rows. Choose \(r\) rows \(R'\supseteq\operatorname{supp}c\). The restriction of \(\mu\) to the column-injective sets within \(R'\) satisfies (W) for every \(T\) within \(R'\) and every row \(i\in R'\), since those equations are among \(\mu\)'s. So it annihilates \(I_k\) of the weak base on \(R'\), and by hypothesis, the content splitting and the isomorphism of all \(r\)-row boards, it extends there. The extension solves (W\(_c\)), whose equations and right side involve only rows of \(R'\). \(\square\)

So (a) for the weak base through \(D\) follows from the \(D\)-row board for every \(m\ge D\). The lemma goes one way only: a fall on \(D\) rows is not shown to give a fall on more rows, since extending an annihilator by zero violates (W) for an added row. Boards with fewer than \(D\) rows are not reached.

Exact test

Tested statement. conj:weak-base-stability at the smallest open degrees. For \(p\) odd the contents of size at most 3 are settled: one-row contents by the theorem, \(2e_a+e_b\) by the base-condition entry (characteristic not 2, \(N\ge5\)), and the thin ones by the matching-moment theorem. In size 4, \(4e_a\) is covered by the theorem (\(N\ge7\)), \(2e_a+2e_b\) has right side \(0\), and the thin content is covered by matching moments. The first open contents are \(2e_a+e_b+e_c\) and \(3e_a+e_b\), which enter at \(D=4\), \(N\ge7\). By row reduction the 4-row board gives every \(k<4\) on every \(m\ge4\), and the 5-row board every \(k<5\) on every \(m\ge5\). The quantity is \(\dim\ker(z:B_k\to B_{k+1})=\mathrm{HF}_B(k)+\mathrm{HF}_A(k+1)-\mathrm{HF}_B(k+1)\), from Hilbert functions through \(D\) of the homogenized base \(B\) and of \(A=B/zB\). The conjecture predicts \(0\) for every \(k<D\), and a positive value at \(N\ge2D-1\) refutes it.

base_injectivity.py writes a Macaulay2 script for each case. It reads the Hilbert functions from the leading terms of Gröbner bases truncated at \(D\), which is exact there since all generators are homogeneous. Results, all over \(\mathbb F_3\) (d4.json, d5.json):

base	rows × \(N\)	\(D\)	\(\dim\ker z\) in degrees \(0,\dots,D-1\)	role
weak	6 × 5	4	0, 0, 0, 451	control: full PHP board, \(N<2D-1\)
functional	4 × 7	4	0, 0, 0, 0	control: covered by the theorem
weak	4 × 7	4	0, 0, 0, 0	test
weak	4 × 6	4	0, 0, 0, 69	boundary
functional	4 × 6	4	0, 0, 0, 5	boundary
weak	5 × 9	5	0, 0, 0, 0, 0	test

The control falls, so the test can detect a fall. The weak base is injective in every degree below \(D\) on the 4 × 7 board at \(D=4\) and on the 5 × 9 board at \(D=5\), so, by row reduction, on every board with \(m\ge D\) rows at these \((D,N)\). The 5 × 9 case ran in Singular after Macaulay2 stopped with a garbage-collector heap error (a tool failure); Singular reproduced the three Macaulay2 cases exactly (validate_singular.json) and took 521 s. At \(N=6\) both bases fall at degree 4, so the range \(N\ge2D-1\) is sharp for both there.

What this means

On the weak base, hypothesis (a) is now proved for every content confined to one row, and verified at \((D,N)=(4,7)\) and \((5,9)\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) for every \(m\ge D\). The remaining contents mix fat and thin rows. Heuristically, for one fat row with thin rows, the thin equations are a chessboard problem for each fixed fat set, and the fat equations then leave a one-row (Wilson) problem with values in top chessboard designs on the complementary columns; this is not proved, and it suggests where a proof could combine the two methods. The evidence supports keeping the relative line on the weak base, with (a) a conjecture there in the same range as the functional theorem.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the content splitting and the base-condition entry's two settled contents; the matching-moment theorem's range. The claim search for Wilson-type arguments over the weak base found nothing recorded. The computation was checked against a control that must fall (the refuted 6 × 5 board), against the functional theorem at 4 × 7, and across two engines. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the one-row theorem (chain, identities, both Wilson counts, Lucas cases, residue argument, the empty and \(k\equiv1\) cases) and the row-reduction lemma. It required these changes, all adopted:

\(2e_a+2e_b\) removed from the open contents, since its right side is 0;
"for \(p\) odd" on the settled size-3 contents;
row reduction stated as one-way, with the conjecture and the check restricted to \(m\ge D\);
the check's scope given as the exact \((D,N)\) pairs, and the title limited to the tested column counts;
the fat-plus-thin sketch labelled heuristic;
\(I_{\rm bad}\) and \(i_*=k+1-p\) made explicit.

The changes only weaken or correct claims, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

A proof of conj:weak-base-stability for contents with a fat row and further rows; heuristically a Wilson problem with coefficients in chessboard top designs.
Boards with fewer than \(D\) rows, and characteristic 2, where \(2e_a+e_b\) is open.
Wilson's rank formula is imported without reading the paper.

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The weak base has no falls below D when N ≥ (p−1)D²: a free seed in a block of columns makes the column tensor power free in low degree

24 September 2026 · Working proof · Hypothesis (a) of relative gluing on the weak unary base, every \(p\), \(D\le\sqrt{N/(p-1)}\). Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The weak base has no falls below D when N ≥ (p−1)D²: a free seed in a block of columns makes the column tensor power free in low degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-weak-base-stability.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The repeated-contents entry proved hypothesis (a) on the weak base only for one-row contents, and verified it through \(D=5\). The user asked for (a) settled in general. The goal needs it at degree \(D=O(\log N)\), so any range \(N\ge\mathrm{poly}(D)\) suffices. The cycle asks for a proof in such a range.

General statement. thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic: over any field of characteristic \(p\), the homogenized weak unary base on \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\) columns is \(z\)-injective below \(D\). So hypothesis (a) of the relative gluing theorem holds on the weak base at the goal's logarithmic degree. The proof rests on lem:free-seed-tensor: if a graded module \(W\) over the Hopf algebra \(T=\mathbb F[R_1,\dots,R_u]/(R_i^p)\), with primitive \(R_i\), lives in degrees \(\ge0\) and satisfies \(W_0=\mathbb F\cdot w\) and \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(w)=0\), then \(W^{\otimes n}\otimes M\) is, for every graded \(T\)-module \(M\) living in degrees \(\ge0\), a free module plus a module concentrated in degrees \(\ge n\). The row sums then have only Frobenius syzygies through degree \(D\), and these lift.

Setting

\(\mathbb F\) has characteristic \(p\). The weak base on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns has generators \(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}\), \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) (\(i\ne i'\)) and \(\rho_i-1\), \(\rho_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\). Put \(\tilde A_z=\mathbb F[x,z]/(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}z,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j})\), \(f_i=r_i-z\) with \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\), and \(B=\tilde A_z/(f_1,\dots,f_m)\), the homogenized weak base. Put \(\tilde A=\tilde A_z/z\tilde A_z=\mathbb F[x]/(x_{ij}^2,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j})\) and \(A=\tilde A/(r_1,\dots,r_m)\), the weak top algebra.

Step 1: falls come from non-Frobenius syzygies

Lemma. \(\ker(z:B_k\to B_{k+1})\) is the image of the connecting map \(\delta:H_1(r_1,\dots,r_m;\tilde A)_{k+1}\to B_k\), and \(\delta\) vanishes on the classes of the cycles \(r_i^{p-1}a\,e_i\), \(a\in\tilde A_{k+1-p}\). (With \(e_i\) in degree 1, a cycle of degree \(k+1\) has coefficients in \(\tilde A_k\).)

Proof.

\(\tilde A_z\) is free over \(\mathbb F[z]\) with basis the monomials \(x_T\), \(T\) column-injective. The relations \(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}z\) and \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) form a Gröbner basis for any degree order with every \(x_{ij}>z\), in which \(x_{ij}^2\) leads: pairs with coprime leading terms and pairs of monomials reduce to \(0\), and the remaining ones, \(x_{i'j}(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}z)-x_{ij}(x_{ij}x_{i'j})=-x_{ij}x_{i'j}z\), reduce to \(0\). So \(z\) is a nonzerodivisor on \(\tilde A_z\).
The Koszul complexes \(K=K(f;\tilde A_z)\) have free terms, so \(0\to K(-1)\xrightarrow{z}K\to K(r;\tilde A)\to0\) is exact. Its long exact sequence contains \(H_1(r;\tilde A)_{k+1}\xrightarrow{\delta}H_0(K)_k\xrightarrow{z}H_0(K)_{k+1}\), and \(H_0(K)=B\). Hence \(\ker z=\operatorname{im}\delta\).
\(\delta\) of a cycle \((a_i)\), \(a_i\in\tilde A_k\), is computed thus: take any homogeneous lifts \(\tilde a_i\in(\tilde A_z)_k\); then \(\sum_i\tilde a_if_i=zu\) for a unique \(u\) of degree \(k\), and \(\delta[(a_i)]\) is the class of \(u\) in \(B_k\). As a connecting map, \(\delta\) does not depend on the lifts or on the representative of the class, so item 4 may use a particular lift.
In \(\tilde A_z\), which has characteristic \(p\), \(r_i^p=\sum_jx_{ij}^p=\sum_jx_{ij}z^{p-1}=r_iz^{p-1}\), since \(x^p=xz^{p-1}\) follows from \(x^2=xz\). So \(\tilde ar_i^{p-1}f_i=\tilde a(r_iz^{p-1}-zr_i^{p-1})=-z\,\tilde ar_i\,(r_i^{p-2}-z^{p-2})\). Since \(r_i^{p-2}-z^{p-2}=f_ih\) for a polynomial \(h\), \(u=-\tilde ar_ihf_i\) lies in \((f)\), and \(\delta\) of the class is \(0\). For \(p=2\), \(u=0\) directly. \(\square\)

Step 2: the free seed

\(T=\mathbb F[R_1,\dots,R_u]/(R_1^p,\dots,R_u^p)\) is a graded Hopf algebra with \(R_i\) primitive and antipode \(R_i\mapsto-R_i\): \((R_i\otimes1+1\otimes R_i)^p=R_i^p\otimes1+1\otimes R_i^p\) in characteristic \(p\), so \((R^p)\) is a Hopf ideal. It is cocommutative, and as a finite-dimensional graded complete intersection it is a graded Frobenius algebra, hence injective as a graded module over itself. \(T\) acts on tensor products diagonally.

Lemma (free seed). Let \(W\) be a graded \(T\)-module in degrees \(\ge0\) with \(W_0=\mathbb F w\) and \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(w)=0\), and let \(M\) be a graded \(T\)-module in degrees \(\ge0\). Then for every \(n\ge1\), \(W^{\otimes n}\otimes M\cong F\oplus Q\) as graded \(T\)-modules, with \(F\) graded free and \(Q\) concentrated in degrees \(\ge n\).

Proof. \(T\to W\), \(t\mapsto tw\), is injective and graded, so its image \(T\cdot w\cong T\) is a graded direct summand by injectivity: \(W=Tw\oplus Q_1\). Since \(W\) lives in degrees \(\ge0\) and \(W_0=\mathbb Fw\), \(Q_1\) lives in degrees \(\ge1\). Expanding \((Tw\oplus Q_1)^{\otimes n}\otimes M\), every term with a factor \(Tw\) is, after moving it to the front (the swap is \(T\)-linear by cocommutativity), \(T\otimes X\cong T\otimes X^{\rm triv}\) by the tensor identity \(t\otimes x\mapsto\sum t_{(1)}\otimes \sigma(t_{(2)})x\), \(\sigma\) the antipode, which is graded free. The remaining term \(Q_1^{\otimes n}\otimes M\) lives in degrees \(\ge n\). \(\square\)

Step 3: the column tensor power

On \(u\) rows, \(\tilde A=V_1\otimes\cdots\otimes V_N\) as algebras, with \(V_j=\mathbb F\oplus\operatorname{span}(x_{1j},\dots,x_{uj})\) and all products in \(V_j^+\) zero. Multiplication by \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\) is the diagonal action of the primitive \(R_i\), with \(R_i\) acting on \(V_j\) as multiplication by \(x_{ij}\). Since \(r_i^p=0\) in \(\tilde A\), this makes \(\tilde A\) a graded \(T\)-module, and \(H_1(r;\tilde A)=\operatorname{Tor}^{\mathcal S}_1(\mathbb F,\tilde A)\) for \(\mathcal S=\mathbb F[R_1,\dots,R_u]\) acting through \(T\).

Let \(b=u(p-1)\) and \(W=V_1\otimes\cdots\otimes V_b\), the algebra \(\tilde A\) on \(b\) columns, with \(w=1\). Then \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(1)=0\). Indeed, for \(0\le a_i\le p-1\), \[\prod_ir_i^{a_i}=\prod_ia_i!\sum_{(P_i)}\prod_ix_{i,P_i},\] the sum over pairwise disjoint column sets with \(|P_i|=a_i\), because \(x^2=0\) removes repeated columns within a row and column exclusions remove shared columns across rows. Since \(\sum_ia_i\le b\), some such family exists. \(\prod a_i!\ne0\) in characteristic \(p\), and different exponent vectors have different row contents, so the images of the basis \(R^a\) of \(T\) are linearly independent.

Write \(N=bn+e\), \(0\le e<b\). Then \(\tilde A\cong W^{\otimes n}\otimes(V_1\otimes\cdots\otimes V_e)\), and by the free-seed lemma \(\tilde A\cong(T\otimes C)\oplus Q\) with \(C\) a graded vector space and \(Q\) in degrees \(\ge n\).

Consequence. For \(d\le n\), \(H_1(r;\tilde A)_d\) is spanned by the classes of cycles \(r_i^{p-1}a\,e_i\). \(\operatorname{Tor}^{\mathcal S}_1(\mathbb F,Q)_d\) is a subquotient of \(Q_{d-1}\otimes\operatorname{span}(e_i)=0\). \(\operatorname{Tor}^{\mathcal S}_1(\mathbb F,T\otimes C)=\operatorname{Tor}^{\mathcal S}_1(\mathbb F,T)\otimes C\), and for the complete intersection \(T=\mathcal S/(R_i^p)\) it is spanned by the cycles \(R_i^{p-1}e_i\). Under the \(T\)-linear embedding of \(T\otimes C\) into \(\tilde A\) these become \(r_i^{p-1}a\,e_i\).

The theorem

Theorem (weak base stability, quadratic range). Over any field of characteristic \(p\), let \(D\ge1\), \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\). The homogenized weak unary base on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns is \(z\)-injective below \(D\).

Proof. Fix \(k<D\) and take \(u=D\) rows. On the \(u\)-row board, \(N\ge(p-1)D\cdot D=b\,D\), so \(n\ge D\ge k+1\). By Step 3, \(H_1(r;\tilde A)_{k+1}\) is spanned by Frobenius classes, and by Step 1 \(\delta\) kills them, so \(z\) is injective on \(B_k\) of the \(u\)-row board. This is the notion of the row-reduction lemma: there, \(z\)-injectivity in degree \(k\) is \(\ker(z:B_k\to B_{k+1})=0\), which prop:weak-content-splitting translates into extension of annihilators. Since \(k+1\le u\le m\), the row-reduction lemma (lem:weak-row-reduction) gives \(z\)-injectivity in degree \(k\) on \(m\) rows. \(\square\)

For fixed \(p\), at the goal's degree \(D=c\log N\) the hypothesis \(N\ge(p-1)c^2\log^2N\) holds for large \(N\). So hypothesis (a) of the relative gluing theorem holds on the weak base in the range the goal uses; on the functional base it holds for \(D\le(N+1)/2\) by lem:functional-relative-gluing (base condition). On the weak base the column-model summand remains available.

Relation to the record and the data

The theorem gives the quadratic range. The recorded conjecture conj:weak-base-stability asks for \(N\ge2D-1\), the functional theorem's range, and remains open there.
The recorded Hilbert functions are consistent with the stronger form of Step 3, freeness of \(\tilde A\) over \(T\) through \(D\) at \(N=2D-1\); equality with the prediction is necessary for that freeness, not sufficient. On the 4 × 7 board at \(D=4\) and the 5 × 9 board at \(D=5\), \(\mathrm{HF}_A\) equals \([q^t]\,(1+uq)^N\bigl((1-q)/(1-q^p)\bigr)^u\), the prediction of freeness on \(u\) rows (1, 24, 230, 1064, 2001 and 1, 40, 685, 6445, 35005, 99649). On the boards that fall it does not: at 4 × 6 the value in degree 4 is 256 against 145. These are the existing result files d4.json and d5.json, reread; no new computation was run.
The method is the recorded one of the column-tensor review (lem:column-tensor-exactness), which treats one form over \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) through the decomposition \(V_2\otimes V_2=V_3\oplus V_1[1]\). The free-seed lemma is its version for several forms at once. For one form over \(\mathbb F_3\) with nonzero column parts in \(c\) columns, a seed sits on 2 such columns, \(n=\lfloor c/2\rfloor\), and the lemma recovers the positive half of that result, freeness below \(\lfloor c/2\rfloor\); it does not give the failure at \(\lfloor c/2\rfloor\). The lemma does not contradict the recorded counterexample to a truncated Dade lemma (ex:truncated-dade-special-position), which is a rank-one column tensor on 14 columns with six forms acting diagonally. A seed for six forms over \(\mathbb F_3\) needs a block whose top degree reaches that of \(T\), 12, so at least 12 columns; with 14 columns \(n\le1\), and the lemma says nothing above degree 1.
The argument does not transfer to the functional base: row exclusions break the tensor product over columns.
Remark, not a result: column-type forms act on the column algebra \(K=\bigotimes_j\mathbb F[C_j]/(C_j^2)\) diagonally as primitive elements, so the lemma would give freeness of \(K\) in low degree if enough disjoint column blocks each carried a free seed. No seed is exhibited here, and the column model is \(K/(\sum_jC_j)\), so a further step would be needed.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the row-reduction lemma and the content splitting; the recorded single-form column-tensor result and the truncated-Dade counterexample. A claim search for the tensor-identity device found only the single-form precedent. A fresh-context reviewer checked Steps 1 to 3 and the theorem: the Gröbner basis, the exact sequence and the connecting map's degrees, the Frobenius lift including \(p=2\), the Hopf ideal, graded self-injectivity, the tensor identity, the seed injectivity and the \(H_1\) conclusion. It recomputed the freeness predictions 1, 24, 230, 1064, 2001 and 145. It found no unused hypothesis. It required these changes, all adopted:

the hypothesis that \(W\) lives in degrees \(\ge0\);
the Gröbner order and S-pairs stated exactly;
explicit degrees, and independence of \(\delta\) from the lift;
separate symbols for the row count, the column sets, the ring and the antipode;
the link between the two notions of \(z\)-injectivity;
"for fixed \(p\)", and the functional base cited by claim;
the exact relation to the single-form result and the corrected reason for the Dade counterexample;
the column-form remark marked as unproved;
the Hilbert-function remark stated as a necessary condition only.

The changes add one hypothesis that the application already met and otherwise clarify or weaken, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

The linear range \(N\ge2D-1\) (conj:weak-base-stability). It is not needed for the goal.
(b) and (c) of relative gluing for the column component. The free-seed device is the candidate tool for the column algebra.

Measured timing
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Route review: the base condition is settled at logarithmic degree, and the relative line now rests on the column component alone

24 September 2026 · Route review · The relative gluing line after the base-condition cycles. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the base condition is settled at logarithmic degree, and the relative line now rests on the column component alone”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-base-settled-review.

General statement. The line's claim is thm:relative-gluing with its base hypothesis discharged. On the weak unary base with \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic), or on the functional base with \(N\ge2D-1\) (lem:functional-relative-gluing), constraints whose tops split by members as in hypothesis (b), and whose members have no falls of their own as in (c), have no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

What the goal needs

By the logarithmic-prefix reduction, the goal needs no PC refutation of degree \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k\), \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), for the product clauses of any \(n^K\) adversarial families. That is \(D=O(\log n)\) for fixed \(p\) and \(K\), so \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\) holds for large \(n\), and hypothesis (a) is now a theorem there. What remains is (b) and (c) for those families at logarithmic width:

(b): the tops split by members. Tested only at width 1, degree at most 3, \(n\le10\). The column constraints do not split among themselves and form one member.
(c) for the column component: its own closure has no fall. This is the occupancy window.
(c) for narrow members: the local-fall conjecture, tested at width 1 only.

Falsification attempt: the new results against recorded obstructions

If either new result contradicted a recorded obstruction, the base would not be settled. Four confrontations, all with recorded data and statements:

Recorded falls of the weak base. The weak base falls at degree 3 on the refuted 5- and 6-column boards and on the 4 × 6 board at \(D=4\) (repeated contents). All three have \(N<(p-1)D^2=32\). No conflict.
The truncated Dade counterexample (ex:truncated-dade-special-position): six forms on 14 columns. A free seed there needs 12 columns, so the lemma asserts nothing beyond degree 1. No conflict.
The occupancy non-freeness theorem (thm:occupancy-non-freeness): a column form with \(c=n-\#\varphi^{-1}(a)\) is not free through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\). On the column algebra \(K=\bigotimes_j\mathbb F_3[C_j]/(C_j^2)\), the free-seed lemma gives freeness below \(\lfloor c'/2\rfloor\), where \(c'\) counts the columns with \(\varphi(j)\ne0\). In the model, \(\sum_jC_j=0\) lets \(\varphi\) shift by a constant, so the best \(c'\) is \(c\). The seed bound lies below the recorded failure. No conflict.
The functional column relations (prop:functional-column-symmetric-relations): on the functional base, the column model does not embed. The weak theorem leaves the line on the weak base, where the model is a direct summand. No conflict.

The attempt fails. The confrontations are consistency checks, not tests of (b) or (c).

Assessment of the relative line

The line now has a proved skeleton. Relative gluing, with its base hypothesis proved in the goal's range on the base that keeps the column summand, reduces the goal to local statements about members. Three cycles turned the base condition from "untouched" into a theorem. The free-seed lemma is the first tool in the record that gives freeness of a column tensor power under several forms at once in a provable range.

The obligations that carry the difficulty are untouched: (b) at logarithmic width and (c) for the column component. The column component's closure is where PHP counting enters. On the functional base the counting relations \(e_{jp}(C)\) are visible in the column ring, and on the weak base they are not. So (c) on the weak base asks whether the column constraints of an adversary can reconstruct counting from the column model alone. All evidence for (b) and (c) is at width 1, degree at most 3 on the board (5 in the model) and \(n\le10\).

The highest-risk item and the next step

(c) for the column component is the highest risk. Next step: apply the free-seed lemma to column spans, as the proposed next step states.

State when a block of columns carries a free seed for a span's truncated algebra on \(K\), in terms of the span's column structure.
Pass from \(K\) to the model \(R=K/(\sum_jC_j)\), and by the summand to the weak algebra's column part.
Compare the result with the worst-direction conjecture: it should give a provable, weaker range for the conjecture's free direction.

This would replace the conjectured worst-direction criterion with a theorem in a polynomial range, which is enough for logarithmic degree.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statements confronted above from the registry: ex:truncated-dade-special-position, thm:occupancy-non-freeness, prop:functional-column-symmetric-relations and the recorded weak-base falls. The review adds no claim, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Column seeds: a column span is free in the model through degree t when an affine basis of its values has multiplicity (p−1)(t+1)

24 September 2026 · Working proof · The free direction of the worst-direction conjecture, in a provable range. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Column seeds: a column span is free in the model through degree t when an affine basis of its values has multiplicity (p−1)(t+1)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-column-seeds.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The route review left hypothesis (c) for the column component as the highest risk. The recorded chain to (c) for robust column components uses conj:worst-direction-freeness for the column model and model exactness for the board. The cycle applies the free-seed lemma (lem:free-seed-tensor) to column spans, to prove a free direction for the model in a range polynomial in the degree.

General statement. thm:column-seed-freeness: over a field of characteristic \(p\), let \(\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\) be hole functions on \([n]\). Call a set \(B\) of holes a seed when, for every \(e\le(d+1)(p-1)\), the products \(\prod_{j\in S}L_j\), \(S\subseteq B\), \(|S|=e\), of the forms \(L_j(y)=y_0+\sum_b\varphi_b(j)y_b\) span the degree-\(e\) part of \(\mathbb F[y_0,\dots,y_d]/(y_0^p,\dots,y_d^p)\). If the holes contain \(t+1\) pairwise disjoint seeds, then the column model \(R=\mathbb F[C_1,\dots,C_n]/(C_j^2,\sum_jC_j)\) is free over \(\mathbb F[\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d]/(\ell_b^p)\), \(\ell_b=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)C_j\), through degree \(t\), with no lower bound on \(n\). One seed already forces \(1,\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\) to be linearly independent, since otherwise the \(L_j\) span a proper subspace of the linear forms, so \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) span a \(d\)-dimensional space of forms. In particular this holds when some affine basis of \(\mathbb F^d\) has all its points taken as values \((\varphi_1(j),\dots,\varphi_d(j))\) by at least \((p-1)(t+1)\) holes each.

The algebra

\(K=\bigotimes_{j=1}^nV_j\) with \(V_j=\mathbb F\oplus\mathbb FC_j\), \(C_j^2=0\), is the free column algebra, and \(R=K/(s)\) with \(s=\sum_jC_j\). Put \(\ell_0=s\) and \(T=\mathbb F[L_0,\dots,L_d]/(L_b^p)\) with \(L_b\) primitive, acting on \(K\) by \(L_b\mapsto\ell_b\). Multiplication by \(\ell_b=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)C_j\), with \(\varphi_0\equiv1\), is the diagonal action in which \(L_b\) acts on \(V_j\) as multiplication by \(\varphi_b(j)C_j\). Since \(\ell_b^p=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)^pC_j^p=0\), \(K\) is a graded \(T\)-module.

Seeds

Lemma (seed criterion). For a set \(B\) of holes, \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(1)=0\) in \(K_B=\bigotimes_{j\in B}V_j\) if and only if \(B\) is a seed.

Proof. For \(0\le a_b\le p-1\), expanding the product and using \(C_j^2=0\) gives \[\prod_bL_b^{a_b}\cdot1=\prod_ba_b!\sum_{S\subseteq B,\ |S|=|a|}\Bigl([y^a]\prod_{j\in S}L_j(y)\Bigr)C_S.\] The \(|a|\) factors go to distinct holes. A hole receiving a factor \(L_b\) contributes \(\varphi_b(j)\), and the sum over assignments with the given multiplicities is the coefficient of \(y^a\), up to the orderings \(\prod a_b!\), which are units. Images of different degrees \(|a|\) are independent. Within degree \(e\), the images of the \(y^a\) with all \(a_b\le p-1\) are independent exactly when the matrix \(\bigl([y^a]\prod_{j\in S}L_j\bigr)_{a,S}\) has full row rank. That is, when the \(\prod_{j\in S}L_j\), reduced modulo \((y_b^p)\), span the degree-\(e\) part of the truncated ring. The basis of the truncated ring is the \(y^a\) with \(a_b\le p-1\). \(\square\)

Lemma (multiplicity seeds). If \(B\) contains \(p-1\) holes with value \(P_i\) for each point \(P_i\) of an affine basis \(P_0,\dots,P_d\) of \(\mathbb F^d\), then \(B\) is a seed.

Proof. The forms \(M_i=y_0+\langle P_i,y'\rangle\), \(y'=(y_1,\dots,y_d)\), are a basis of the linear forms, since the \((1,P_i)\) are linearly independent. In characteristic \(p\) the ideal \((y_0^p,\dots,y_d^p)\) is the ideal generated by the \(p\)-th powers of all linear forms, because \((\sum c_by_b)^p=\sum c_b^py_b^p\). So it equals \((M_0^p,\dots,M_d^p)\), and the truncated ring has the basis \(\prod_iM_i^{k_i}\), \(k_i\le p-1\). Each such monomial is \(\prod_{j\in S}L_j\) for \(S\) made of \(k_i\) of the \(p-1\) holes of value \(P_i\). \(\square\)

The theorem

Theorem (column seeds). Let \(\mathbb F\) have characteristic \(p\), and let \([n]\) contain \(t+1\) pairwise disjoint seeds for \(\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\). Then \(\mathrm{HF}(R/(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d)R)_k=[q^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_R\,\bigl((1-q)/(1-q^p)\bigr)^d\) for \(k\le t\), and \(R\) is a free \(\mathbb F[\ell]/(\ell^p)\)-module plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\). For \(p=3\) this is freeness through \(t\) in the sense of conj:worst-direction-freeness, whose divisor \((1+q+q^2)^d\) is \(((1-q^3)/(1-q))^d\); for other \(p\) it is the same notion with \((1-q^p)/(1-q)\).

Proof.

Group the holes as \(B_0,\dots,B_t\) (the seeds) and the rest. \(K=K_{B_0}\otimes\cdots\otimes K_{B_t}\otimes K_{\rm rest}\) as algebras, and multiplication by \(\ell_b\) is the diagonal action of the primitive \(L_b\) on this tensor product, by the Leibniz rule. By the seed criterion, \(T\to K_{B_i}\), \(t\mapsto t\cdot1\), is injective. By graded self-injectivity of \(T\), \(K_{B_i}=T\cdot1\oplus Q_{1,i}\), with \(Q_{1,i}\) in degrees \(\ge1\) because \((K_{B_i})_0=\mathbb F\cdot1\). Expand \(\bigl(\bigotimes_i(T\cdot1\oplus Q_{1,i})\bigr)\otimes K_{\rm rest}\). Every term with a factor \(T\cdot1\) is graded free, by cocommutativity (to move that factor to the front) and the tensor identity. The remaining term \(\bigotimes_iQ_{1,i}\otimes K_{\rm rest}\) lies in degrees \(\ge t+1\). Hence \(K\cong(T\otimes C)\oplus Q\) by a graded \(T\)-linear isomorphism, where \(T\) acts on \(T\otimes C\) through the left factor, \(C\) is a graded vector space and \(Q\) lies in degrees \(\ge t+1\). This is the free-seed lemma's argument with unequal factors.
\(R/(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d)R=K/(\ell_0,\dots,\ell_d)K=\mathbb F\otimes_TK\). Its Hilbert function is \(\mathrm{HS}_C\) plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\).
Reducing the \(T\)-linear isomorphism modulo \(\ell_0\) gives \(R=K/\ell_0K\cong(T/L_0T\otimes C)\oplus Q/\ell_0Q\) as \(T'\)-modules, with \(T/L_0T=\mathbb F[L_1,\dots,L_d]/(L^p)=:T'\). So \(\mathrm{HS}_R=\mathrm{HS}_{T'}\mathrm{HS}_C\) plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\), and \([q^k]\mathrm{HS}_R/\mathrm{HS}_{T'}=[q^k]\mathrm{HS}_C\) for \(k\le t\). Here \(\mathrm{HS}_{T'}=((1-q^p)/(1-q))^d\) has constant term 1.
Items 2 and 3 give the equality for \(k\le t\). As a \(T'\)-module, \(R\) is \(T'\otimes C\) plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\), which is freeness through \(t\). \(\square\)

Corollary (multiplicity form). If some affine basis of \(\mathbb F^d\) has each of its points as the value of at least \((p-1)(t+1)\) holes, the column model is free through degree \(t\).

Comparison with the conjecture. The multiplicity hypothesis forces every nonzero direction \(\lambda\) to have column count \(c(\lambda)\ge(p-1)(t+1)\), the number of holes outside the most frequent level set of \(\lambda\circ\varphi\). A nonconstant affine function is not constant on an affine basis, so at least one basis point, with its \((p-1)(t+1)\) holes, lies outside that level set. For \(p=3\) this gives \(c\ge2t+2>2t-1\). The corollary therefore lies strictly inside the conjectured free range, consistently with the conjecture. It also misses spans the conjecture covers. For \(d=1\), \(p=3\), value multiplicities \((n-2t,t,t)\) give \(c=2t\ge2t-1\), but no value other than the first is taken \(2(t+1)\) times. The gap lies in how the holes are distributed among values, not only in their number.

What this means

The worst-direction conjecture now has a proved sufficient condition for freeness, strictly inside its conjectured range: multiplicity \((p-1)(t+1)\) on an affine basis of the values. The "if" direction at the conjectured threshold \(c\ge2t-1\), and the converse, remain open.
For \(p=3\), where the summand is stated, model freeness is the \(U\)-degree-0 half of freeness of the weak board; the summand has not been checked for other \(p\). Model exactness, freeness of \(A_{\ge1}\), is still needed for the board.
The multiplicity form needs \((p-1)(d+1)(t+1)\) holes at least, and needs repeated values. A span of dimension \(d\approx\log_pn\) can take mostly distinct values, and then only the general seed criterion can apply: products of distinct forms \(L_j\) spanning the truncated ring. It resembles the Gale entry's reformulation through squares of the Gale transform, but the relation between the two is not worked out.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the free-seed lemma and its proof, the statement of conj:worst-direction-freeness, and the summand proposition's scope. A fresh-context reviewer checked the diagonal action and \(\ell_b^p=0\), including \(b=0\); the seed-criterion formula, its \(a_b!\) factor and its converse; the equality \((y_b^p)=(M_i^p)\) and the monomial basis; and the Hilbert-series bookkeeping. It required these changes, all adopted:

the independence hypothesis dropped, as it is implied by one seed;
the general-\(p\) definition of freeness through \(t\) stated;
the unequal-factor splitting written out;
the \(T\)-linearity of the splitting made explicit;
the comparison with the conjectured threshold made precise, with a consistency check and an example the corollary misses;
the transfer to the board limited to \(p=3\).

The changes clarify or weaken, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Freeness of \(A_{\ge1}\) for spans with seeds (model exactness).
Seeds for spans with mostly distinct values (the general criterion).
Hypothesis (b) at logarithmic width.

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Board seeds: the weak PHP algebra is free over a column span through degree t on polynomial multiplicities, by reduction to t+1 rows

24 September 2026 · Working proofs · Board freeness over column forms, and condition (c) for seeded selector members. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Board seeds: the weak PHP algebra is free over a column span through degree t on polynomial multiplicities, by reduction to t+1 rows”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-board-seeds.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The column-seeds entry proved freeness in the column model. The recorded chain from freeness to hypothesis (c) for column members of selectors needs freeness of the board algebra \(A\) itself (worst-direction entry, the paragraph on condition (c)). Model exactness, freeness of \(A_{\ge1}\), was the missing link. The cycle asks for board freeness directly.

General statement. lem:board-content-reduction: over any field, the weak unary top algebra \(A\) on \(m\) rows and \(n\) holes splits, as a module over the column-type forms, into summands \(A^{(c)}\) indexed by the row contents \(c\) of rows \(1,\dots,m-1\). The summand \(A^{(c)}\) depends only on the rows in the support of \(c\) and lives in degrees \(\ge|c|\). So \(A\) is free through degree \(t\) exactly when the weak algebra on \(\min(m,t+1)\) rows is. thm:board-seed-freeness: in characteristic \(p\), let hole functions \(\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\) have an affine basis \(P_0,\dots,P_d\) of \(\mathbb F^d\) among their values, with \(P_0\) taken by at least \((p-1)(t+1)^2\) holes and each \(P_b\), \(b\ge1\), by at least \((p-1)(t+1)\) holes. Then \(A\), on any number of rows, is free through degree \(t\) over \(\mathbb F[W_1,\dots,W_d]/(W_b^p)\) acting by \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b\). cor:seeded-selector-members: at \(p=3\), a member of selectors \(1-(L_b-v_b)^2\) with column-type linear parts satisfying the condition at \(t=D\) satisfies hypothesis (c) of relative gluing through \(D\).

Content reduction

As in the summand entry, write \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\) and eliminate row 0 by \(x_{0j}=C_j-u_j\), \(u_j=\sum_{i\ge1}x_{ij}\). Then \(A=B/(s,r_1,\dots,r_{m-1})\) with \(B=\bigotimes_j(\mathbb F\oplus\mathbb FC_j\oplus U_j)\), \(U_j=\operatorname{span}(x_{ij}:i\ge1)\), \(C_j^2=C_jU_j=U_j^2=0\), \(s=\sum_jC_j\) and \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\). The summand entry derives this presentation over \(\mathbb F_3\). It holds over any field: \(C_j\) and the \(x_{ij}\) lie in the square-zero part \(V_j^+\) of column \(j\), which uses every \(x_{ij}^2\) and every \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\), so \(C_j^2=C_jU_j=U_j^2=0\).

Lemma (content reduction). Over any field, \(B\) is graded by the row content \(c\in\mathbb N^{\{1,\dots,m-1\}}\) of its \(x\)-part. The relations \(s\) (content 0) and \(r_i\) (content \(e_i\)) are homogeneous, and every column-type form \(\ell_\varphi=\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j\) has content 0. Hence \(A=\bigoplus_cA^{(c)}\) as graded modules over any graded connected algebra acting through content-0 elements, such as \(\mathbb F[W_1,\dots,W_d]/(W_b^p)\) acting by \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b\), with \(A^{(c)}=B^{(c)}/\bigl(sB^{(c)}+\sum_{i\in\operatorname{supp}c}r_iB^{(c-e_i)}\bigr)\). This depends only on the rows in \(\operatorname{supp}c\) and on the holes, and lives in degrees \(\ge|c|\). Consequently, \(A\) on \(m\) rows is a free module plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\) over such an algebra exactly when the weak algebra on \(u=\min(m,t+1)\) rows is.

Proof. The grading and the homogeneity are immediate. For a content \(c\) with \(|c|\le t\), \(|\operatorname{supp}c|\le\min(m-1,t)=u-1\), so the support can be renamed into rows \(1,\dots,u-1\). The renaming gives an isomorphism \(B_m^{(c)}\cong B_u^{(c)}\) that fixes every \(C_j\) and commutes with multiplication by the \(C_j\), because the rules \(C_j^2=C_jU_j=0\) are the same on both sides. It carries the relations to the relations, so \(A_m^{(c)}\cong A_u^{(c)}\) with the same action of the forms. Conversely, every summand of \(A_u\) is a summand of \(A_m\). By the Krull–Schmidt theorem for finite-dimensional graded modules, a direct summand of a module of the form (free) \(\oplus\) (degrees \(\ge t+1\)) has the same form, and summands with \(|c|\ge t+1\) lie in degrees \(\ge t+1\). Both directions follow. \(\square\)

This is the column-form analogue of the row reduction for the weak base (lem:weak-row-reduction). Unlike it, it is an equivalence.

Seeds on few rows

On \(u\) rows, \(\tilde A_u=\mathbb F[x_{ij}]/(x_{ij}^2,x_{ij}x_{i'j})=\bigotimes_jV_j\), with \(V_j=\mathbb F\oplus\operatorname{span}(x_{0j},\dots,x_{u-1,j})\) square-zero, and \(A_u=\tilde A_u/(r_0,\dots,r_{u-1})\). Let \(T=\mathbb F[Y_0,\dots,Y_{u-1},W_1,\dots,W_d]/(Y_i^p,W_b^p)\) with primitive generators act by \(Y_i\mapsto r_i\) and \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)C_j\). On \(V_j\), \(Y_i\) sends \(1\) to \(x_{ij}\) and \(W_b\) sends \(1\) to \(\varphi_b(j)\sum_ix_{ij}\). Multiplication in \(\tilde A_u\) is the diagonal action, and all \(p\)-th powers vanish.

Seed criterion. To a cell \((i,j)\) attach the form \(M_{ij}=y_i+\langle\varphi(j),w\rangle\) in \(\mathbb F[y_0,\dots,y_{u-1},w_1,\dots,w_d]\). For a set \(B\) of holes, \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(1)=0\) in \(\bigotimes_{j\in B}V_j\) if and only if, in every degree, the products \(\prod_{(i,j)\in X}M_{ij}\) over column-injective cell sets \(X\subseteq[u]\times B\) span the truncated ring \(\mathbb F[y,w]/(y^p,w^p)\). The proof is that of the column-seed criterion. A factor \(Y_i\) placed on hole \(j\) gives \(x_{ij}\), and a factor \(W_b\) gives \(\varphi_b(j)x_{ij}\) for some row \(i\). So \(\prod Y^aW^c\cdot1=\prod a!\,c!\sum_X\bigl([y^aw^c]\prod_{(i,j)\in X}M_{ij}\bigr)x_X\), and the factorials are units since the exponents are at most \(p-1\).

Lemma (board seed blocks). A hole set \(B\) is a seed in this sense if, for an affine basis \(P_0,\dots,P_d\), it contains \(u(p-1)\) holes of value \(P_0\) and \(p-1\) holes of value \(P_b\) for each \(b\ge1\).

Proof. Assign to row \(i\) its own \(p-1\) holes of value \(P_0\), and to row 0 also the holes of value \(P_b\). The forms \(y_i+\langle P_0,w\rangle\), \(0\le i<u\), and \(y_0+\langle P_b,w\rangle\), \(1\le b\le d\), are a basis of the linear forms. The differences \(\langle P_b-P_0,w\rangle\) span the \(w\)-forms, since \(P_0,\dots,P_d\) is an affine basis, and then each \(y_i\) is in the span. In characteristic \(p\) the truncation ideal is generated by the \(p\)-th powers of any basis of linear forms. So the products of at most \(p-1\) copies of each basis form are a basis of the truncated ring. Each is \(\prod_{(i,j)\in X}M_{ij}\) for \(X\) made of assigned cells on distinct holes. \(\square\)

The theorem

Theorem (board seeds). Let \(\mathbb F\) have characteristic \(p\), \(t\ge0\), and let \(\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\) have an affine basis of values \(P_0,\dots,P_d\) with multiplicities at least \((p-1)(t+1)^2\) at \(P_0\) and \((p-1)(t+1)\) at each \(P_b\). Then the weak unary top algebra \(A\) on any number \(m\ge1\) of rows is a free module over \(T'=\mathbb F[W_1,\dots,W_d]/(W_b^p)\), acting by \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b\), plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\). In particular, \(\mathrm{HF}(A/(\ell)A)_k=[q^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_A\bigl((1-q)/(1-q^p)\bigr)^d\) for \(k\le t\).

Proof.

By content reduction it suffices to treat \(u=\min(m,t+1)\le t+1\) rows.
The multiplicities give \(t+1\) disjoint seed blocks, since \(u(p-1)(t+1)\le(p-1)(t+1)^2\).
By the free-seed argument with unequal factors, as in the column-seeds entry (graded self-injectivity of \(T\), cocommutativity, the tensor identity), \(\tilde A_u\cong(T\otimes C)\oplus Q\) by a graded \(T\)-linear isomorphism, with \(Q\) in degrees \(\ge t+1\).
Reducing modulo \(Y_0,\dots,Y_{u-1}\), which act as \(r_0,\dots,r_{u-1}\), gives \(A_u\cong(T/(Y)\otimes C)\oplus Q/(Y)Q\) as modules over \(T/(Y)=T'\), acting by the \(\ell_b\). The first summand is free and the second lies in degrees \(\ge t+1\).
The Hilbert-function identity follows as in the column-seeds theorem. \(\square\)

Corollary (seeded selector members). Let \(p=3\), and let a member \(U_i\) of the relative gluing theorem consist of selectors \(g_b=1-(L_b-v_b)^2\), \(b=1,\dots,d\), on the weak unary base, where \(L_b\) has column-type linear part \(\ell_b=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)C_j\) and \(v_b\in\mathbb F_3\). If \(\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d\) satisfy the multiplicity condition with \(t=D\), the member satisfies hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing through \(D\).

Hypothesis (c) reads: every top syzygy of degree at most \(D\) supported on a single member is liftable in \(U\). A top syzygy is \((\sigma_b)\) with \(\sum_b\sigma_bP_b=0\) in \(A_{\rm top}=B/zB\), here the weak top algebra \(A\), with tops \(P_b=-\ell_b^2\). Liftable means that homogeneous lifts satisfy \(\sum_b\tilde\sigma_bg_b^{\rm h}=z\rho\) with \(\rho\in J_U\).

Proof.

The syzygies live in the free part. By the theorem, \(A\cong(T'\otimes C)\oplus Q'\) as graded \(T'\)-modules, with \(T'=\mathbb F_3[W_1,\dots,W_d]/(W_b^3)\) and \(Q'\) in degrees \(\ge D+1\). A member syzygy of degree \(s\le D\) has \(\sigma_b\in A_{s-2}\), and the equation \(\sum_bW_b^2\sigma_b=0\) holds separately in each summand. The \(Q'\)-components of the \(\sigma_b\) have degree \(s-2<D+1\), so they vanish. Hence \((\sigma_b)\) lies in \((T'\otimes C)^d\) and is a syzygy of \((W_b^2)\) on the free module \(T'\otimes C\), that is, a sum \(\sum_kz_k\otimes c_k\) of syzygies \(z_k\) of \((W_b^2)\) in \(T'\).
Syzygies of the squares in \(T'\). \(T'=\bigotimes_b\mathbb F_3[W_b]/(W_b^3)\), and the Koszul complex of \((W_1^2,\dots,W_d^2)\) on \(T'\) is the tensor product of the complexes \(\mathbb F_3[W]/(W^3)\xrightarrow{W^2}\mathbb F_3[W]/(W^3)\). Each has \(H_1=\ker W^2=(W)\), generated by the class of \(We\). By the Künneth formula over a field, \(H_1\) of the product is \(\bigoplus_bH_1^{(b)}\otimes\bigotimes_{c\ne b}H_0^{(c)}\), which is spanned by classes of \(W_be_b\) times elements of \(T'\). So every syzygy of \((W_b^2)\) in \(T'\) is a \(T'\)-combination of the Frobenius syzygies \(W_be_b\) and the Koszul syzygies \(W_c^2e_b-W_b^2e_c\).
Back in \(A\). The isomorphism is \(T'\)-linear. So the image of \(\bigl(\sum_k\alpha_kW_be_b+\cdots\bigr)\otimes c\) is an \(A\)-combination of \(\ell_be_b\) and of \(\ell_c^2e_b-\ell_b^2e_c\): the image of \((W_bt)\otimes c\) is \(\ell_b\) times the image of \(t\otimes c\). Hence every member syzygy of degree at most \(D\) is an \(A\)-combination of Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_be_b\) and member Koszul syzygies.
Lifting. Koszul syzygies lift exactly: \(g_c^{\rm h}g_b^{\rm h}-g_b^{\rm h}g_c^{\rm h}=0\). The Frobenius syzygies lift with zero correction by the recorded Frobenius lift lemma (component-hypothesis entry). Its hypotheses are the weak unary base over \(\mathbb F_3\) and constraints \(\prod_k(1-(\ell_k-a_k)^2)\), here with \(w=1\). It gives \((L_b-v_b)g_b\) in the base ideal at degree 3, so \(\ell_bg_b^{\rm h}=z\,v_bg_b^{\rm h}\) modulo the homogenized base, with \(v_bg_b^{\rm h}\in J_U\). Liftable syzygies are closed under \(A\)-combinations (step 3 of the relative gluing proof). \(\square\)

Relation to the record. The worst-direction entry sketched this chain conditionally on conj:worst-direction-freeness and on model exactness, which together would give freeness of \(A\). Here freeness of \(A\) is proved under the multiplicity condition, which replaces both. The chain's threshold \(c\ge2D-1\) and its \(Q\)-robustness step are not used.

What this means

Model exactness is no longer needed for spans with seeds: the board is treated directly, by reducing to \(t+1\) rows and using seeds for the row sums and the column forms together.
At the goal's degree \(D=O(\log n)\), the condition asks for an affine basis of values with multiplicities of order \(\log^2n\) at one point and \(\log n\) at the others, about \((d+1)(p-1)(D+1)+(p-1)(D+1)^2\) holes in all. So spans of dimension up to about \(\log n\) are covered when their values concentrate on an affine basis. Not covered: spans whose values have no affine basis with these multiplicities, for example nearly injective \(\varphi\); and narrow members, which the local-fall conjecture treats.
Hypothesis (b), splitting between members, is untouched.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the summand presentation; the column-seeds theorem and the free-seed argument; the relative gluing theorem's hypothesis (c) and proof steps; the recorded Frobenius lift lemma and its hypotheses; and the worst-direction entry's conditional chain. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the presentation over any field, the content grading and homogeneity, the diagonal action, the seed-criterion formula, the basis of \(u+d\) forms and its realization on distinct holes, the block count, the splitting, the reduction modulo \(Y\), and the Hilbert-function identity. It found no unused hypothesis. It required these changes, all adopted:

the presentation justified through \(V_j^2=0\);
content reduction stated as an equivalence, with its renaming isomorphism made explicit;
the truncated algebra named as an abstract algebra acting through the forms;
the corollary proved in full, with (c) quoted, the free-part splitting, the Künneth computation of the syzygies of the squares, and the Frobenius lift lemma checked against selectors;
the relation to the recorded chain restated;
the corollary registered as its own claim;
the coverage remark corrected;
notation made uniform.

The written-out corollary adds no hypothesis beyond the reviewed theorem and the recorded lemma; no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Seeds for spans with mostly distinct values: products of distinct cell forms spanning the truncated ring without repeated values.
Members that are not selectors (product clauses of width above 1): their own syzygies in the truncated algebra.
Hypothesis (b) at logarithmic width.

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Span transfer: on a free column span, a member's syzygies lift when they lift in the finite function ring of the span, so Gröbner-augmented seeded members satisfy condition (c)

24 September 2026 · Working proof · Hypothesis (c) of relative gluing for Gröbner-augmented members on seeded column spans. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Span transfer: on a free column span, a member's syzygies lift when they lift in the finite function ring of the span, so Gröbner-augmented seeded members satisfy condition (c)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-span-transfer.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The board-seeds entry proved hypothesis (c) for selector members on seeded column spans. The goal's members are product clauses of logarithmic width (lem:prefix-image-rewrite) and their unions. The cycle asks what (c) needs for a member of arbitrary polynomial constraints in the forms of one span.

General statement. lem:span-transfer: in characteristic \(p\), let a member consist of the constraints \(g_k=h_k(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d)\) on the weak unary base, where the \(\ell_b\) are linear forms with coefficients in \(\mathbb F_p\) and the \(h_k\) are reduced polynomials over \(\mathbb F_p\) (every exponent below \(p\)). Suppose \(A\cong(T'\otimes C)\oplus Q'\) by a graded isomorphism, linear over \(T'=\mathbb F_p[W]/(W^p)\) acting by \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b\), with \(Q'\) in degrees \(\ge D+1\). Suppose also that the member has no fall below \(D\) in its span ring \(\mathbb F_p[y,z]/(y_b^p-y_bz^{p-1},h_k^{\rm h})\). Then the member satisfies hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing through \(D\). thm:seeded-member-condition: for column-type forms whose values are seeded at \(t=D\) (thm:board-seed-freeness), and a member with nonempty allowed set in \(\mathbb F_p^d\), adding \(h(\ell)\) for \(h\) in a reduced degree-order Gröbner basis of \((h_k)+(y_b^p-y_b)\) gives a member that satisfies (c) through \(D\) and (d). A lower bound for the augmented system is one for the original.

Setting

The weak base has generators \(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}\), \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) and \(\rho_i-1\). \(B\) is the quotient by their homogenizations, \(A=B/zB\), and \(J_U\) is the ideal of all homogenized constraints, as in the relative gluing theorem. A constraint \(g_k\) is the expanded polynomial \(h_k(\ell)\) in the \(x_{ij}\), homogenized at its own degree in \(x\). The span ring is \(S=\mathbb F_p[y_1,\dots,y_d,z]/(y_b^p-y_bz^{p-1})\), with top algebra \(S/zS=T'\). \(\phi:\mathbb F_p[y,z]\to\mathbb F_p[x,z]\) is the graded ring map \(y_b\mapsto\ell_b\), \(z\mapsto z\). "No fall below \(D\) in the span ring" means that \(z\) is injective from degree \(k\) to \(k+1\), \(k<D\), on \(S/(h_k^{\rm h})\).

The transfer lemma

Lemma (span transfer). Under the hypotheses of the general statement, every top syzygy of the member of degree at most \(D\) is liftable, with correction in \(J_{U_i}\subseteq J_U\). The lemma uses no property of the forms beyond \(\mathbb F_p\) coefficients and the freeness hypothesis; for column-type forms, the board-seed theorem supplies that hypothesis.

Proof.

\(\phi\) respects the bases. In characteristic \(p\), with coefficients in \(\mathbb F_p\), \(\ell_b^p=\sum c_{ij}^px_{ij}^p=\sum c_{ij}x_{ij}^p\). And \(x^p-xz^{p-1}=(x^2-xz)\sum_{j=0}^{p-2}x^jz^{p-2-j}\). So \(\phi(y_b^p-y_bz^{p-1})\) lies in the ideal of the homogenized Booleanity generators.
Tops. The decomposition gives an injective \(T'\)-linear map \(T'\to A\), \(t\mapsto t\cdot1\), in all degrees, because \(A_0=\mathbb F_p\) lies in \(T'\otimes C\). For reduced \(h_k\), the top form \(\operatorname{in}(h_k)\) is a nonzero element of \(T'\), so \(\operatorname{in}(h_k)(\ell)\ne0\) in \(A\). Then \(\operatorname{in}(h_k)(\ell)\ne0\) in \(\mathbb F_p[x]\) as well, so \(\deg_xg_k=\deg h_k\). Hence \(g_k^{\rm h}=\phi(h_k^{\rm h})\), and the top of \(g_k\) is \(P_k=\operatorname{in}(h_k)(\ell)\).
Syzygies are span syzygies. Let \((\sigma_k)\) be a member syzygy of degree \(s\le D\), so \(\sigma_k\in A_{s-\deg h_k}\) with \(s-\deg h_k<D+1\). The \(Q'\)-components of the \(\sigma_k\) vanish, so \(\sigma_k=\sum_j\tau_{kj}\cdot\hat c_j\), with \(\tau_{kj}\in T'\), a basis \(c_j\) of \(C\) and \(\hat c_j\) the image of \(1\otimes c_j\). The syzygy equation reads \(\sum_j\bigl(\sum_k\tau_{kj}\operatorname{in}(h_k)\bigr)\otimes c_j=0\) in \(T'\otimes C\). So for each \(j\), \(\zeta_j=(\tau_{kj})_k\) is a syzygy of the \(\operatorname{in}(h_k)\) in \(T'\), a top syzygy of the span system, and \((\sigma_k)=\sum_j\hat c_j\cdot\zeta_j(\ell)\).
Lift in the span ring. Take homogeneous lifts \(\tilde\tau_{kj}\in\mathbb F_p[y,z]\). Then \(\sum_k\tilde\tau_{kj}h_k^{\rm h}\) vanishes modulo \(z\) in \(S\), so it equals \(z\rho_j\) in \(S\), with \(\deg\rho_j=\deg\zeta_j-1\le D-1\). Since \(z\rho_j\in(h^{\rm h})S\), injectivity of \(z\) on \(S/(h^{\rm h})\) from degree \(\deg\zeta_j-1\) to \(\deg\zeta_j\le D\) gives \(\rho_j\in(h^{\rm h})S\). This is step 1 of the relative gluing proof, applied in \(S\). Write \(\rho_j=\sum_kr_{kj}h_k^{\rm h}+\beta_j\) in \(\mathbb F_p[y,z]\), with \(\beta_j\) in the ideal of the \(y_b^p-y_bz^{p-1}\).
Transfer. \(\phi\) is graded and reduces modulo \(z\) to \(y\mapsto\ell\), so \(\phi(\tilde\tau_{kj})\) is a homogeneous lift of \(\tau_{kj}(\ell)\). Applying \(\phi\) and item 1, \(\sum_k\phi(\tilde\tau_{kj})g_k^{\rm h}=z\sum_k\phi(r_{kj})g_k^{\rm h}\) in \(B\). So each \(\zeta_j(\ell)\) is liftable, with correction in \(J_{U_i}\). Liftable syzygies are closed under \(A\)-combinations (step 3 of the relative gluing proof), so \((\sigma_k)\) is liftable. \(\square\)

Seeded members

Theorem (seeded members). In characteristic \(p\), let a member consist of constraints \(g_k=h_k(\ell)\), with \(h_k\) reduced over \(\mathbb F_p\), in column-type forms \(\ell_b=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)C_j\), \(\varphi_b\) with values in \(\mathbb F_p\). Let the values have an affine basis with multiplicities \((p-1)(D+1)^2\) at one point and \((p-1)(D+1)\) at the others, and let the allowed set \(Z=\{y\in\mathbb F_p^d:h_k(y)=0\ \forall k\}\) be nonempty. Let \(G\) be the reduced Gröbner basis, for a degree order, of \(I=(h_k)+(y_b^p-y_b)\), without the elements \(y_b^p-y_b\). Then the member \(\{g_k\}\cup\{h(\ell):h\in G\}\) satisfies hypotheses (c) and (d) of thm:relative-gluing through \(D\).

Proof.

\(G\) is reduced. \(y_b^p\) is in the leading-term ideal of \(I\). The only element of the reduced basis with leading monomial \(y_b^p\) is \(y_b^p-y_b\), which is removed. Every other element has no monomial divisible by a leading monomial of the basis, so all its exponents are below \(p\).
No fall in the span ring. \(G\cup\{h_k\}\cup\{y_b^p-y_b\}\) lies in \(I\) and contains a Gröbner basis of \(I\), so it is one, for a degree order. Every element of \(I\) of degree at most \(k\) is then a combination \(\sum q_gg\) with \(\deg q_g+\deg g\le k\). So the homogenizations generate the homogenization of \(I\), which is \(z\)-saturated, and \(z\) is injective on the span system in every degree.
Freeness. The board-seed theorem gives the decomposition of \(A\) required by the lemma. The lemma gives (c).
(d). Since \((y_b^p-y_b)\subseteq I\), \(\mathbb F_p[y]/I\) is the ring of functions on \(Z\), so \(Z\ne\emptyset\) means \(1\notin I\), and no \(h\in G\) is a nonzero constant. Each \(h\) is reduced, and each nonconstant \(h\) has \(\operatorname{in}(h)(\ell)\ne0\) by item 2 of the lemma. So \(h(\ell)\) is a nonconstant polynomial in \(x\). \(\square\)

Reduction is free at degree \(D\). For a constraint \(h(\ell)\) with \(h\) not reduced, \(\deg h\le D\), and \(\mathbb F_p\) coefficients, let \(h^{\rm red}\) be the reduction modulo \((y_b^p-y_b)\). The standard representation \(h-h^{\rm red}=\sum_br_b(y_b^p-y_b)\) has \(\deg r_b+p\le\deg h\). By item 1, \(\ell_b^p-\ell_b\) has a Nullstellensatz certificate of degree \(p\) from Booleanity. So \(h(\ell)=h^{\rm red}(\ell)+N\) with \(N\) in the base's Nullstellensatz span of degree \(\le\deg h\le D\). Each constraint is then derivable from the other within degree \(D\), and the two systems have the same fixed-degree-\(D\) PC closure. The goal's product clauses of degree at most \(D\) may therefore be taken reduced.

Augmentation is harmless. The original constraints are a subset of the augmented system, so any PC refutation of the original system is a refutation of the augmented one. No refutation for the augmented system therefore implies none for the original. The relative gluing theorem is applied to the augmented system, and its hypothesis (b) must be checked for the augmented tops. The two sufficient conditions of lem:tensor-splitting-locality behave as follows. The module condition on \(A\) over the members' form algebras does not involve the constraints. The second condition, that every top is a polynomial in its member's forms, holds for each \(\operatorname{in}(h)(\ell)\), \(h\in G\).

What this means

For column members, hypothesis (c) now holds for any \(\mathbb F_p\)-polynomial constraints in the forms of one seeded span with nonempty allowed set, after Gröbner augmentation. The member's own falls are removed by the augmentation.
The width of the constraints enters only through the span dimension \(d\): a clause of width \(w\) on independent forms has \(d\ge w\). The seed condition needs \((p-1)(D+1)^2+d(p-1)(D+1)=(p-1)(D+1)(D+1+d)\) holes on an affine basis of values.
Open for (c): column spans without a heavy affine basis of values, and non-column members. Hypothesis (b) is open throughout, and must be checked for augmented tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the relative gluing theorem's hypotheses and proof steps 1 and 3; the board-seed theorem's decomposition; the tensor-splitting lemma's conditions; the logarithmic-prefix rewrite. A fresh-context reviewer checked the base transfer, the tops, the free-part argument, the lift in the span ring, the transfer, and the Gröbner facts, and found the argument sound. It required these changes, all adopted:

\(\mathbb F_p\) coefficients and Booleanity among the base generators;
freeness as the global decomposition;
the degree step in item 2;
the \(T'\)-linearity step written out;
the correction placed in \(J_{U_i}\);
reducedness of \(G\);
(d) at the level of \(x\);
the reason for harmlessness, and (b) for augmented tops;
the hole count;
width entering through \(d\);
unused hypotheses removed from the lemma.

The changes make statements precise and weaken two claims, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Column spans whose values have no heavy affine basis.
Non-column (narrow) members.
Hypothesis (b) at logarithmic width, now the main open condition of the line.

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Occupancy transfer: every column member's content-0 syzygies lift after augmentation, whatever its span; content 1 is a gluing of column models on sub-boards

24 September 2026 · Working proofs and finite check · Hypothesis (c) for column members of any span, content 0; content 1. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Occupancy transfer: every column member's content-0 syzygies lift after augmentation, whatever its span; content 1 is a gluing of column models on sub-boards”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-occupancy-transfer.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The span-transfer entry proved hypothesis (c) for column members on seeded spans. The recorded column non-splitting makes all column constraints one member. Its span dimension \(d\) is the adversary's choice, and for \(d\) above about \(n/((p-1)(D+1))\) no seed exists. The cycle asks what can be proved for column members of any span dimension.

General statement. lem:occupancy-transfer: over \(\mathbb F_p\), for a column member, meaning constraints \(h_k(C_1,\dots,C_n)\) with \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\), whose system in the occupancy ring \(O=\mathbb F_p[C,z]/(C_j^2-C_jz,\ \sum_jC_j-mz)\) (\(m\) the number of rows) has no fall below \(D\), the content-0 component of every member top syzygy of degree at most \(D\) is liftable. After augmentation by a degree-order Gröbner basis in the occupancy ring, this holds for every column member with nonempty allowed set, with no condition on the span. lem:occupancy-stability: the occupancy system alone, a single weak row with right-hand side \(m\), has no fall below \(D\) when \(n\ge2D-1\), and its top algebra is the column model \(R\). prop:content-one-restriction: the content-\(e_i\) summand of the weak algebra is \(\operatorname{coker}\bigl(\rho:R_{[n]}\to\bigoplus_jR_{[n]\setminus j}\bigr)\), \(\rho(f)=(f|_{C_j=0})_j\), shifted by one degree. ex:restriction-injectivity-small: over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\rho\) is injective in degree \(t\) in all 24 tested cases with \(2t<n\), \(n\le11\), \(t\le4\), and fails in five of the nine tested cases with \(2t\ge n\).

Occupancy stability

Lemma (occupancy stability). Over \(\mathbb F_p\), for every \(m\) and \(n\ge2D-1\), \(O\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\). Its top algebra \(O/zO\) is \(R=\mathbb F_p[C]/(C_j^2,\sum_jC_j)\).

Proof. \(z\)-injectivity from degree \(k\) to \(k+1\) means that every annihilator of the degree-\(k\) Nullstellensatz space extends to degree \(k+1\) (the base-condition entry's Step 0 and duality). The system is a single weak row with right-hand side \(m\) in place of 1, so the only content systems are \(c=(k+1)e_a\). For \(k=0\) the system is \(\sum_j\nu(\{j\})=m\mu_0\), solvable since \(n\ge1\). For \(k\ge1\), the proof of thm:weak-single-row-contents (repeated contents) goes through with the chain \(W_{j-1,j}\mu_j=(m-j+1)\mu_{j-1}\) and the system \(W_{k,k+1}\nu=(m-k)\mu_k\). The kernel identification is unchanged. \(W_{i_*,k}\mu_k\) carries the factor \(\prod_{j=i_*+1}^k(m-j+1)\) over \(p-1\) consecutive \(j\), which vanishes unless \(m+1\equiv i_*\equiv k+1\), that is \(k\equiv m\). In that case the right side \((m-k)\mu_k\) is zero. \(\square\)

The lemma is standalone. It shows that the column model is the top algebra of a system with no falls in the range the goal uses. The transfer lemma below does not need it.

Content decomposition of member syzygies

As in the board-seeds entry, with row 0 eliminated, \(A=\bigoplus_cA^{(c)}\) over the column algebra \(K=\mathbb F_p[C]/(C_j^2)\). Here \(A^{(c)}=E^{(c)}/(sE^{(c)}+\sum_ir_iE^{(c-e_i)})\) with \(E=\bigotimes_j(\mathbb F\oplus\mathbb FC_j\oplus U_j)\) and \(s=\sum_jC_j\). \(A^{(0)}=E^{(0)}/sE^{(0)}=K/(s)=R\), because every \(r_i\), \(i\ge1\), raises content. This holds over any field. A column member's tops \(P_k\) (the top-degree form of \(h_k\), evaluated at \(C\), possibly zero) have content 0. So a member syzygy \((\sigma_k)\) splits into content components \((\sigma_k^{(c)})\), each a syzygy in \(A^{(c)}\). Liftable syzygies are closed under sums, so \((\sigma_k)\) is liftable when every component is.

Occupancy transfer

Lemma (occupancy transfer). Over \(\mathbb F_p\), let a member consist of \(g_k=h_k(C)\) for polynomials \(h_k\in\mathbb F_p[C]\), and suppose \(z\) is injective below \(D\) on \(O/(h_k^{\rm h})\). Then the content-0 component of every member top syzygy of degree at most \(D\) is liftable, with correction in the member's ideal.

Proof.

The map. \(\phi:C_j\mapsto\sum_ix_{ij}\), \(z\mapsto z\), is an injective graded map, since the \(C_j\) go to linearly independent linear forms. So \(g_k^{\rm h}=\phi(h_k^{\rm h})\) for every \(h_k\). \(\phi\) sends \(C_j^2-C_jz\) to \(\sum_i(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}z)+2\sum_{i<i'}x_{ij}x_{i'j}\), and \(\sum_jC_j-mz\), \(m\) the number of rows, to \(\sum_i(r_i-z)\). Both lie in the homogenized weak base ideal.
Lift. The content-0 component \((\sigma^{(0)}_k)\) is a syzygy of the \(P_k\) in \(R=O/zO\), a top syzygy of the system \(O/(h^{\rm h})\). Step 1 of the relative gluing proof, in \(O\) with the injectivity hypothesis, gives homogeneous lifts \(\tilde\sigma_k\) with \(\sum_k\tilde\sigma_kh_k^{\rm h}=z\sum_kq_kh_k^{\rm h}\) modulo the occupancy relations.
Transfer. Applying \(\phi\) and item 1 gives \(\sum_k\phi(\tilde\sigma_k)g_k^{\rm h}=z\sum_k\phi(q_k)g_k^{\rm h}\) in the homogenized weak base ring. \(\phi(\tilde\sigma_k)\) lifts \(\sigma^{(0)}_k\), because \(R\to A\) is \(C\mapsto C\). \(\square\)

Augmentation. For a member with nonempty allowed set in \(\{C\in\{0,1\}^n:\sum_jC_j\equiv m\}\), add \(h(C)\) for every element \(h\) of a reduced degree-order Gröbner basis of \((C_j^2-C_j,\ \sum_jC_j-m,\ h_k)\). The generators then contain a Gröbner basis of the member's ideal in the occupancy ring, so \(O/(h^{\rm h})\) is \(z\)-saturated and has no fall in any degree. Generators of degree above \(D\) do not affect degrees at most \(D\). The allowed set is nonempty, so no added generator is a nonzero constant. Adding constraints only makes refutations easier, since the original system is a subset of the augmented one. No span dimension, seed or multiplicity condition enters. The augmented member has more tops, so hypothesis (b) must hold for them.

Content one

Proposition (content-one restriction). Over any field, for each row \(i\ge1\), \(A^{(e_i)}_d\cong\operatorname{coker}(\rho)_{d-1}\) as \(K\)-modules, where \(\rho:R_{[n]}\to\bigoplus_{j=1}^nR_{[n]\setminus j}\), \(f\mapsto(f|_{C_j=0})_j\). Here \(R_{[n]\setminus j}=K_{[n]\setminus j}/(\sum_{j'\ne j}C_{j'})\) is the column model on the other holes, with \(C_j\) acting as 0 on the \(j\)-th summand. The shift is by the degree of \(x_{ij}\).

Proof. \(E^{(e_i)}=\bigoplus_jK_{[n]\setminus j}\,x_{ij}\), since \(C_jx_{ij}=0\). The relations in content \(e_i\) are \(sE^{(e_i)}\), where \(s\) acts on the \(j\)-th summand as \(s_j=\sum_{j'\ne j}C_{j'}\), and \(r_iE^{(0)}=\{\sum_jf\,x_{ij}:f\in K\}\). The first quotient is \(\bigoplus_jR_{[n]\setminus j}\), shifted. The image of \(f\in K\) is \((f|_{C_j=0})_j\), which depends only on \(f\) modulo \(s\), since \(s|_{C_j=0}=s_j\). \(\square\)

Finite check: injectivity of \(\rho\). Dually, \(\rho\) is injective in degree \(t\) of \(R\) exactly when the zero-marginal functions on \(t\)-subsets of \([n]\) are spanned by the zero-extensions of zero-marginal functions on \(t\)-subsets of \([n]\setminus j\), \(j=1,\dots,n\), since \(\rho^*\) is extension by zero. In characteristic 0 this holds for \(2t<n\): polytabloids span the zero-marginal space for \(t\le n/2\) and are supported on \(2t\) holes. In characteristic \(p\) the zero-marginal space can be larger, by Wilson's formula only when \(t\ge p\). rho_injectivity.py computes both dimensions exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\) for \(3\le n\le11\), \(1\le t\le\min(4,n-1)\) (rho_p3.json). In all 24 cases with \(2t<n\), \(\rho\) is injective. Of the nine cases with \(2t\ge n\), it fails in five: \((n,t)=(4,2),(5,3),(6,3),(6,4),(8,4)\). The test can decide: it detects failures, and the goal needs only degrees \(t\le D-1\) with \(n\ge2D+1\), inside \(2t<n\).

What this means

For column members of any span dimension, the content-0 part of hypothesis (c) is proved, after augmentation, whose tops (b) must then accommodate. What remains of (c) lives in the components with content \(c\ne0\), \(|c|\le D\). The gluing description is proved for \(c=e_i\).
Proposed route, not proved. Split \(0\to\ker\rho\to R\to\bigoplus_jR_{[n]\setminus j}\to A^{(e_i)}\to0\) into two short exact sequences. If \(\ker\rho=0\) in the relevant degrees, as the check suggests for \(2t<n\), relate content-one syzygies to those of the restricted members in the column models on \(n-1\) holes. Three things would then be needed: a transfer of their lifts into the weak base through \(x_{ij}\cdot\phi\), for occupancy right-hand side \(m-1\); augmentation of the restricted members, since restricting a Gröbner basis does not give one; and the connecting maps. Higher contents would need the analogous gluings, not yet described.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the one-row theorem and its proof, the board-seeds content reduction, and the relative gluing theorem's steps 1 and 3. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the content-0 lift and the content-one proposition, and the residue argument of occupancy stability. It required these changes, all adopted:

unused hypotheses dropped from the transfer lemma: normal forms, stability, nonzero tops;
augmentation by the full Gröbner basis, consistent with the lemma;
the normal-form reduction removed;
(b) for the augmented tops noted;
the stability proof completed: the duality, the single content, and \(k=0\);
notation separated, with \(m\) stated as the number of rows;
the degree shift stated;
the long-exact-sequence paragraph relabeled as a proposed route, with its three missing pieces;
the General statement limited to what is proved;
the characteristic-\(p\) remark qualified.

The injectivity check was added after the review. It is exact and registered separately. The changes weaken or correct claims, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

A proof that \(\rho\) is injective for \(2t<n\) over \(\mathbb F_p\), and the proposed route for content one.
Contents \(|c|\ge2\).
Hypothesis (b), including for augmented tops.

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The restriction map of column models is injective below n/2 in every characteristic, so content one is resolved by column models on n and n−1 holes

24 September 2026 · Working proof · Injectivity of the restriction map \(\rho\) for \(2t<n\), any field of characteristic \(p\) or 0; cycle odd-prime-restriction-injectivity. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The restriction map of column models is injective below n/2 in every characteristic, so content one is resolved by column models on n and n−1 holes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-restriction-injectivity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The occupancy-transfer entry proved hypothesis (c) for column members in content 0. It showed that content one is \(\operatorname{coker}\bigl(\rho:R_{[n]}\to\bigoplus_jR_{[n]\setminus j}\bigr)\), and found \(\rho\) injective in all 24 tested cases with \(2t<n\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) (ex:restriction-injectivity-small). The cycle asks for a proof.

General statement. thm:restriction-injectivity: over any field of characteristic \(p\) or 0, for \(n\ge2t+1\), every zero-marginal function on the \(t\)-subsets of \([n]\) is a sum of zero-marginal functions each vanishing on the sets that contain some hole \(j\) and zero-marginal on \([n]\setminus j\). Equivalently, \(\rho\) is injective in degree \(t\). So for every row \(i\ge1\), \(0\to R_{[n]}\to\bigoplus_jR_{[n]\setminus j}\to A^{(e_i)}\to0\) is exact with the first two terms in degree \(t\) and \(A^{(e_i)}\) in degree \(t+1\), for \(t\le(n-1)/2\). lem:placed-pigeon-identity: multiplying by \(x_{ij}\) carries the occupancy relations of the other holes, with right-hand side \(m-1\), into the homogenized weak base ideal. So a lifting identity for the specialized member \(h^{\rm h}|_{C_j=z}\) in the occupancy ring of the other holes gives an identity for \(x_{ij}\) times a lift on the \(j\)-th summand, one piece of the proposed content-one route.

Notation

For a finite set \(X\) and \(t\ge0\), \(Z_t(X)\) is the space of functions \(f\) on \(t\)-subsets of \(X\) with zero marginals: \(\sum_{k\in X\setminus S'}f(S'\cup\{k\})=0\) for every \((t-1)\)-subset \(S'\). \(Z_0(X)=\mathbb F\). For \(j\in X\), \(\iota_j\) extends a function on \(t\)-subsets of \(X\setminus j\) by zero, and \(\iota_jZ_t(X\setminus j)\subseteq Z_t(X)\). Indeed, at \(S'\not\ni j\) the extra term \(f(S'\cup\{j\})\) is 0, and at \(S'\ni j\) every term is 0. The link at \(j\) is \(f^{+j}(S')=f(S'\cup\{j\})\), for \((t-1)\)-subsets \(S'\) of \(X\setminus j\). \(R_X\) is the column model on \(X\), with \((R_X)_t^*=Z_t(X)\), and \(\rho^*\) is extension by zero (occupancy-transfer entry).

Two lemmas

Lemma 1 (links are zero-marginal). For \(f\in Z_t(X)\), \(f^{+j}\in Z_{t-1}(X\setminus j)\). If moreover \(f^{+j}=0\), then \(f\in\iota_jZ_t(X\setminus j)\).

Proof. The marginal of \(f^{+j}\) at a \((t-2)\)-subset \(T\) of \(X\setminus j\) is \(\sum_{k\notin T\cup\{j\}}f(T\cup\{j,k\})\), the marginal of \(f\) at \(T\cup\{j\}\), which is 0. If \(f^{+j}=0\), then \(f\) vanishes on sets containing \(j\). The marginals of its restriction to \(X\setminus j\) are those of \(f\) at sets avoiding \(j\), minus the term \(f(S'\cup\{j\})=0\), so they vanish. \(\square\)

Lemma 2 (link surjectivity). Over a field of characteristic \(p\) or 0, if \(|X|\ge2t\) and \(t\ge1\), then \(Z_t(X)\to Z_{t-1}(X\setminus j)\), \(f\mapsto f^{+j}\), is surjective.

Proof. Given \(h\in Z_{t-1}(X\setminus j)\), set \(f(S'\cup\{j\})=h(S')\), and look for the values \(f_0\) of \(f\) on \(t\)-subsets of \(Y=X\setminus j\).

The marginals of \(f\) at sets containing \(j\) are marginals of \(h\), which vanish.
At a \((t-1)\)-subset \(S''\subseteq Y\), the marginal is \((W_{t-1,t}f_0)(S'')+h(S'')\), with \(W_{t-1,t}\) the inclusion matrix on \(Y\).

So we need \(-h\in\operatorname{Im}W_{t-1,t}\) on \(Y\), \(|Y|\ge2t-1=2(t-1)+1\). For \(t=1\), \(h\) is a constant and \(\operatorname{Im}W_{0,1}=\mathbb F\) because \(Y\ne\emptyset\). Let \(t\ge2\). By the kernel identification in the proof of thm:weak-single-row-contents (repeated contents), applied with \(k=t-1\) on \(Y\), \(\ker W_{t-1,t}^{\mathsf T}=\operatorname{Im}W_{i_*,t-1}^{\mathsf T}\). The lemma uses only the cokernel paragraph of that proof, which needs only \(|Y|\ge2k+1\). Here \(i_*\) is the largest \(i\le t-1\) with \(i\equiv t\pmod p\), and the kernel is 0 if there is none. The identification is proved over \(\mathbb F_p\). Both sides are given by integer matrices, so the dimensions and the equality persist over any field of characteristic \(p\). In characteristic 0 the kernel is 0: for a prime \(p>t\), Wilson's formula gives full rank over \(\mathbb F_p\), since every \(\binom{t-i}{t-1-i}=t-i\) lies in \(1,\dots,t\), and the rank of an integer matrix over \(\mathbb Q\) is at least its rank over \(\mathbb F_p\). So it suffices that \(W_{i_*,t-1}h=0\). Since \(i_*\le t-p\le t-2\), \(W_{i_*,t-2}W_{t-2,t-1}=(t-1-i_*)W_{i_*,t-1}\), and \(t-1-i_*\equiv-1\pmod p\) is a unit. Hence \(W_{i_*,t-1}h=(t-1-i_*)^{-1}W_{i_*,t-2}(W_{t-2,t-1}h)=0\), because \(W_{t-2,t-1}h\) is the marginal of \(h\). \(\square\)

The theorem

Theorem (restriction injectivity). Over a field of characteristic \(p\) or 0, for \(t\ge0\) and \(|X|\ge2t+1\), \(Z_t(X)=\sum_{j\in X}\iota_jZ_t(X\setminus j)\).

Proof. By induction on \(t\). For \(t=0\), \(\iota_jZ_0(X\setminus j)=Z_0(X)\). Let \(t\ge1\), \(f\in Z_t(X)\), and fix \(j\in X\).

By Lemma 1, \(h=f^{+j}\in Z_{t-1}(X\setminus j)\). Since \(|X\setminus j|\ge2t\ge2(t-1)+1\), the induction hypothesis gives \(h=\sum_{k\ne j}\iota_kh_k\) with \(h_k\in Z_{t-1}(X\setminus\{j,k\})\).
For each \(k\ne j\), Lemma 2 on \(X'=X\setminus k\), \(|X'|\ge2t\), with the point \(j\), gives \(\varphi_k\in Z_t(X\setminus k)\) with \(\varphi_k^{+j}=h_k\). Then \(\iota_k\varphi_k\in Z_t(X)\), and \((\iota_k\varphi_k)^{+j}=\iota_kh_k\): on sets containing \(k\) both sides are 0.
\(\varphi=\sum_{k\ne j}\iota_k\varphi_k\) lies in the span and satisfies \(\varphi^{+j}=h=f^{+j}\). By Lemma 1, \(f-\varphi\in\iota_jZ_t(X\setminus j)\). So \(f=\varphi+(f-\varphi)\) lies in the span. \(\square\)

Corollary. For \(n\ge2t+1\), \(\rho\) is injective in degree \(t\), since \(\rho^*\) is extension by zero and the theorem is its surjectivity. For every row \(i\ge1\), \(0\to R_{[n]}\to\bigoplus_jR_{[n]\setminus j}\to A^{(e_i)}\to0\) is exact with the first two terms in degree \(t\) and \(A^{(e_i)}\) in degree \(t+1\) (the shift by \(\deg x_{ij}\)), for \(t\le(n-1)/2\). The goal needs only \(t\le D-1\) with \(n\ge2D+1\) (occupancy-transfer entry), which lies inside this range.

The theorem proves ex:restriction-injectivity-small's pattern for \(2t<n\) at every \(n\) and \(p\). The recorded failures all have \(2t\ge n\), outside the theorem.

The placed-pigeon identity

Lemma (placed pigeon). With \(m\) rows, any row \(i\), hole \(j\), and \(C_{j'}\) standing for \(\sum_{i'}x_{i'j'}\): \(x_{ij}(C_j-z)\), \(x_{ij}\bigl(\sum_{j'\ne j}C_{j'}-(m-1)z\bigr)\) and \(x_{ij}(C_{j'}^2-C_{j'}z)\) lie in the homogenized weak base ideal. So \(x_{ij}\,H(C,z)\equiv x_{ij}\,H(C,z)|_{C_j=z}\) modulo that ideal for every polynomial \(H\).

Proof. \(x_{ij}C_j=x_{ij}^2+\sum_{i'\ne i}x_{ij}x_{i'j}\equiv x_{ij}z\), by Booleanity and column exclusions. So \(x_{ij}(C_j-z)\) lies in the ideal, and \(x_{ij}\bigl(\sum_{j'\ne j}C_{j'}-(m-1)z\bigr)=x_{ij}\bigl(\sum_{j'}C_{j'}-mz\bigr)-x_{ij}(C_j-z)\). The first term is \(x_{ij}\sum_{i'}(r_{i'}-z)\). The relations \(C_{j'}^2-C_{j'}z\) are in the ideal by the occupancy transfer lemma. Substituting \(C_j\to z\) in \(h\) changes \(x_{ij}h\) by multiples of \(x_{ij}(C_j-z)\). \(\square\)

Apply this to \(H=h_k^{\rm h}\), the homogenized member, and its specialization \(h_k^{\rm h}|_{C_j=z}\), a polynomial in the other holes' \(C\) and \(z\). Take an identity \(\sum_k\tilde\sigma_k\,h_k^{\rm h}|_{C_j=z}=z\sum_kq_k\,h_k^{\rm h}|_{C_j=z}\) in the occupancy ring of the holes \([n]\setminus j\) with right-hand side \(m-1\). Multiplied by \(x_{ij}\), it becomes \(\sum_kx_{ij}\tilde\sigma_k\,g_k^{\rm h}\equiv z\sum_kx_{ij}q_k\,g_k^{\rm h}\) modulo the homogenized weak base. That is an identity for \(x_{ij}\) times a lift on the \(j\)-th summand. Using the specialization of the homogenized member, rather than the homogenization of the restricted member, avoids a power of \(z\) whenever \(h_k|_{C_j=1}\) has lower degree than \(h_k\). A content-\(e_i\) syzygy is a sum over \(j\) whose summands need not be syzygies separately, so what the route still needs is:

augmentation of the restricted members, since restricting a Gröbner basis does not give one;
the long exact sequence of the resolution above for the member's syzygies: syzygies on \(\bigoplus_jR_{[n]\setminus j}\), plus the kernel of \(R/(P)\to\bigoplus_jR_{[n]\setminus j}/(P|_j)\), whose lifts must be compared.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the one-row theorem's kernel identification and its hypotheses, and the occupancy-transfer entry's content-one proposition and transfer lemma. A fresh-context reviewer checked Lemma 1, the extension by zero, the marginal computation of Lemma 2, \(i_*\le t-2\) and the unit, the product formula, the induction sizes, the link of \(\iota_k\varphi_k\), the final step, the duality with \(\rho\), and the placed-pigeon memberships, and found no error. It required these changes, all adopted:

characteristic 0 and general fields of characteristic \(p\) justified;
\(t=1\) handled directly;
the degree shift of \(A^{(e_i)}\) stated;
the degree claim replaced by the recorded need;
the title corrected;
two unused hypotheses dropped from the placed-pigeon lemma;
the transfer restated for the specialized homogenized member, and narrowed to one summand.

The changes add justifications and narrow claims, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

The content-one syzygy argument: the two items above.
Contents \(|c|\ge2\): the analogous resolutions over several removed holes.
Hypothesis (b).

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Placed-pigeon falls: a column member without occupancy falls can fall on the board, and after its placed-pigeon closure it falls exactly like the weak base on the merged board

24 September 2026 · Refutation by finite check, and conjecture · Hypothesis (c) for column members beyond content 0; cycle odd-prime-content-one. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Placed-pigeon falls: a column member without occupancy falls can fall on the board, and after its placed-pigeon closure it falls exactly like the weak base on the merged board”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-placed-pigeon-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The occupancy-transfer entry proved hypothesis (c) for column members in content 0, and the restriction-injectivity entry resolved content one by column models on \(n\) and \(n-1\) holes. The proposed route for content one needed the specialized members, with one pigeon placed, to have no falls. The cycle first tests whether a column member whose occupancy system has no fall can fall on the board at all.

General statement. ex:placed-pigeon-falls refutes the extension of occupancy transfer to all contents. The member \(\{C_1C_2\}\), holes 1 and 2 not both occupied, has no fall in the occupancy ring, yet with the weak base it falls on the board. The falls come from placed pigeons: \(x_{i1}C_2\equiv x_{i1}C_1C_2\) is derivable at degree 3 but not at its own degree 2. After the member is closed under its placed-pigeon consequences, derivable one degree higher by lem:placed-pigeon-identity, the remaining falls coincide in every tested case with those of the weak base on the board with holes 1 and 2 merged. conj:effective-board: for a column member, the weak base plus the member's placed-pigeon closure has, below \(D\), the falls of the weak base on the member's effective board. Hypothesis (c) for column members is then hypothesis (a) on a smaller board.

The test

Tested statement. Hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing for the member \(\{C_1C_2\}\), \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\): the homogenized weak base plus \((C_1C_2)^{\rm h}\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\). Its occupancy system \(\{C_j^2-C_j,\ \sum C_j-m,\ C_1C_2\}\) has no fall, so the occupancy-transfer argument covers its content-0 syzygies. The quantity is \(\dim\ker(z:B_k\to B_{k+1})\), from exact Hilbert functions truncated at \(D\) in Singular (member_fall.py, fall.json). Controls: the base alone, and the weak base on \(N-1\) columns (merged_compare.json, the recorded base_injectivity.py).

rows × \(N\)	\(D\)	base	base + \(C_1C_2\)	base + closure	weak base, rows × \((N-1)\)
3 × 5	3	0, 0, 0	0, 0, 5	0, 0, 8	0, 0, 8
3 × 7	4	0, 0, 0, 0	0, 0, 4, 52	0, 0, 0, 21	0, 0, 0, 21
4 × 7	4	0, 0, 0, 0	0, 0, 6, 106	0, 0, 0, 69	0, 0, 0, 69

The entries are \(\dim\ker z\) in degrees \(0,\dots,D-1\). The closure adds, for all rows \(i,i'\), the placed-pigeon consequences \(x_{i1}C_2\) and \(x_{i2}C_1\) (a pigeon in one hole empties the other), and \(x_{i1}x_{i'2}\) (no pigeons in both).

What the numbers show

The member falls. On the 3 × 7 board the fall in degree 2 has dimension 4. That is the span of \(x_{i1}C_2\) and \(x_{i2}C_1\), \(i=0,1,2\), modulo their two sums over \(i\), which equal \(C_1C_2\) and so lie in the member ideal at degree 2. Each \(x_{i1}C_2\) is derivable at degree 3: \(x_{i1}\cdot C_1C_2\equiv x_{i1}C_2\) by the placed-pigeon identity (\(x_{i1}C_1\equiv x_{i1}\)). So occupancy no-fall does not imply board no-fall, and hypothesis (c) fails for this member as it stands.
The closure removes the placed-pigeon falls, and what remains is the merged board. The closure's elements are derivable from the member at one degree more, so the closed system has the same PC closure at every degree \(D\ge3\). Its falls equal, in all three cases, those of the weak base on \(N-1\) columns. Semantically, \(C_1C_2=0\) with its closure makes holes 1 and 2 one hole: \(y_i=x_{i1}+x_{i2}\) satisfies \(y_i^2\equiv y_i\) and \(y_iy_{i'}\equiv0\) modulo the closure, and the row sums become those of the merged board. At \(N=7\), \(D=4\), the merged board has \(N-1=6<2D-1\) columns, below the stability range of conj:weak-base-stability, and its falls appear.

The conjecture

Conjecture (effective board). For a column member with allowed set \(Z\) in the occupancy cube, let its placed-pigeon closure be the member together with all \(x_Xf\) for column-injective cell sets \(X\) of size at most \(D\) and polynomials \(f\) in the other holes' \(C\) vanishing on the points of \(Z\) with the holes of \(X\) occupied, of degree at most \(D-|X|\). Below \(D\), the weak base plus the closure falls exactly as the weak base on the member's effective board does: the board on which \(Z\) becomes a structure of merged or removed holes. In particular, for members that merge holes, the closure is stable below \(D\) when the merged board has at least \((p-1)D^2\) columns (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic).

Evidence: the three exact matches above, for the simplest merging member. What is checked directly: the closure is derivable one degree higher (lem:placed-pigeon-identity). The merged base maps into the closed system through \(y_i=x_{i1}+x_{i2}\): \(y_i^2-y_i\equiv2x_{i1}x_{i2}\), \(y_iy_{i'}\equiv x_{i1}x_{i'2}+x_{i2}x_{i'1}\) modulo column exclusions, and both lie in the closure, while the row sums map to row sums. Open: a definition of the effective board for general \(Z\), and the isomorphism of fall spaces.

What this means

Hypothesis (c) must be applied to members after placed-pigeon closure. The closure carries pigeon cells, so hypothesis (b) must allow tops of positive content, and the tensor-splitting framework, stated for tops in the members' form algebras, must be extended.
If the conjecture holds, (c) for column members is hypothesis (a) on a smaller board, and a column member is harmless exactly when it leaves an effective board in the stability range. For the goal, the column constraints come from wide clauses in the budget (lem:quiet-members), each forbidding a fraction about \(p^{-k}\) of the occupancy patterns. How far such constraints can shrink the effective board is the question that decides the column component.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the relative gluing theorem's hypothesis (c), the occupancy-transfer lemma's scope (content 0), and the placed-pigeon identity. The Singular driver reproduced the base-alone controls. They show no fall, matching the recorded weak-base data (these sizes lie below the proved quadratic range). The merged-board values come from the recorded, cross-engine-validated base_injectivity.py. The fall dimension 4 at 3 × 7 is explained after the run by 6 placed-pigeon products minus 2 sums; the value 5 at 3 × 5 is not explained. The entry registers one finite check and one conjecture, and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

Remaining gap

A proof of the effective-board conjecture, first for merging members.
The extension of hypothesis (b) to members with tops of positive content.
The size of the effective board left by budget column members.

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Route review: column members act as board restrictions; the exact effective-board law fails below the stability range, and its stability form is the target

24 September 2026 · Route review with a refutation · The relative gluing line after the column-member cycles; cycle odd-prime-effective-board-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: column members act as board restrictions; the exact effective-board law fails below the stability range, and its stability form is the target”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-effective-board-review.

General statement. The line's claim is thm:relative-gluing with (a) proved at logarithmic degree (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic). For column members, (c) holds after Gröbner augmentation on seeded spans (thm:seeded-member-condition) and in content 0 for any span (lem:occupancy-transfer). Beyond content 0 it holds only after placed-pigeon closure (ex:placed-pigeon-falls). The review's new claim is conj:effective-board-stability: for a column member whose closed system is a weak base on an effective board, the closed system is stable below \(D\) when that board is in the stability range. ex:merge-three-effective-board refutes the exact form of conj:effective-board below that range.

What the goal needs

At degree \(D=O(\log n)\), for the product clauses of any \(n^K\) adversarial families:

(a): proved.
(c) for the column component, which cannot split: after placed-pigeon closure, no falls below \(D\). If column members act as board restrictions, this asks that the adversary's column constraints leave an effective board in the stability range, of order \(D^2\) columns.
(c) for non-column members: open.
(b) for closed members, whose tops carry pigeon cells: open, and the tensor-splitting framework needs extending.

Falsification attempt: a three-hole merge

If the exact effective-board law held, merging holes 1, 2, 3 (\(C_aC_b=0\), \(a\ne b\)) with its placed-pigeon closure (\(x_{ia}C_b\), \(x_{ia}x_{i'b}\)) would fall exactly like the weak base on \(N-2\) columns. merge3.py computes the closed system's falls exactly in Singular (merge3.json), and base_injectivity.py the comparison (merge3_compare.json). Values are \(\dim\ker z\) in degrees 0 to 3, \(D=4\), over \(\mathbb F_3\):

rows × \(N\)	closed merge of 3	weak base, rows × \((N-2)\)
4 × 8	0, 0, 0, 69	0, 0, 0, 69
3 × 9	0, 0, 0, 0	0, 0, 0, 0
3 × 7	0, 0, 0, 108	0, 0, 0, 48

The exact law fails at 3 × 7, where the merged board has 5 columns, below \(2D-1=7\). There the closed system falls more than the merged base. It holds at 4 × 8, and at 3 × 9, where the merged board has 7 columns and neither falls. The attempt refutes the exact form. It leaves the stability form, which matters for the goal: no falls when the effective board is in range.

Why the stability form should be provable for merging members

For a merge of a hole set \(H\), the closed system is exactly a weak base with one fat column. The generators \(x_{ia}x_{i'b}\), \(a\ne b\in H\), together with the column exclusions inside each hole of \(H\), make the span of all \(x_{ia}\), \(a\in H\), a square-zero column. The member's constraints \(C_aC_b\) and \(x_{ia}C_b\) are combinations of these. The proof of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic uses:

a column tensor product with square-zero columns and a \(z\)-free lift;
row sums acting diagonally;
Frobenius lifts;
seeds made of ordinary columns;
row reduction.

A fat column is one more tensor factor, the module \(M\) of the free-seed lemma. So the closed system should be stable below \(D\) whenever the ordinary columns number at least \((p-1)D^2\). This is the next step, to be written as a proof.

Assessment of the line

In twelve cycles the line went from four conjectural hypotheses to a proved base condition (a), a proved member condition (c) in two regimes, seeded spans and content 0, and a precise picture of what remains. Column members behave as restrictions of the board. Their harm is measured by how much board they leave, which is the PHP counting question in its natural form.

The evidence for this picture is exact, but at sizes \(n\le9\) and \(D\le4\). Its exact form has now failed once, below the stability range. Two parts are untested at the goal's scale:

whether budget column constraints, wide and few, can shrink the effective board below order \(D^2\);
whether (b) survives the closure.

Both are where the thread's oldest difficulty, the occupancy window, now sits.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The column component remains the highest risk. Next:

Prove conj:effective-board-stability for merging members, by the fat-column extension of the weak-base stability proof.
Then ask what effective boards budget column constraints can produce: members that forbid a \(p^{-k}\) fraction of occupancy patterns on spans of dimension about \(\log n\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the placed-pigeon-falls entry and its conjecture, the weak-base stability proof's ingredients, and the free-seed lemma. The comparison values come from the recorded, cross-engine-validated driver. The refutation is exact; the stability form is recorded as a conjecture. No reviewer pass was run, since the review adds no proof.

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Fat columns: a weak board with merged holes has no falls below D when (p−1)D² holes stay unmerged, so merging members satisfy condition (c) after closure

24 September 2026 · Working proof · Effective-board stability for merging column members, every \(p\); cycle odd-prime-fat-columns. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Fat columns: a weak board with merged holes has no falls below D when (p−1)D² holes stay unmerged, so merging members satisfy condition (c) after closure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-fat-columns.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The effective-board review found that a merging column member, closed under its placed-pigeon consequences, is exactly a weak base with a fat column. It proposed proving conj:effective-board-stability for such members by extending the weak-base stability proof. The cycle carries this out.

General statement. thm:fat-board-stability: over a field of characteristic \(p\), take a weak board whose columns are ordinary or fat. A fat column is a set of cells \((i,a)\), \(a\) in a hole set \(H\), with every product of two distinct of its cells a generator. If the board has \(m\ge D\) rows and at least \((p-1)D^2\) ordinary columns, its homogenized base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\). cor:merging-members: for disjoint hole sets \(H_1,\dots,H_q\), the weak base plus the merging constraints \(C_aC_b\) (\(a\ne b\) in the same \(H_s\)) and their placed-pigeon closure generates the same homogenized ideal as such a fat board. So if at least \((p-1)D^2\) holes lie outside \(\bigcup_sH_s\), the closed system has no fall below \(D\) and no PC refutation of degree \(D\). The closed member satisfies hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing through \(D\). Hypothesis (b) must then accommodate its tops, which are not polynomials in the column sums. The unclosed system has no refutation of degree \(D\) either.

The fat board

Rows \(0,\dots,m-1\). Columns are ordinary holes \(j\), with cells \((i,j)\), or fat columns \(F\) with cells \((i,a)\), \(a\in H_F\). The generators are Booleanity \(x_c^2-x_c\) for every cell, the products \(x_cx_{c'}\) of distinct cells in the same column, ordinary or fat, and the row equations \(\sum_{c\in\text{row }i}x_c-1\). An ordinary column is the case \(|H|=1\), with the usual column exclusions.

The proof

Theorem (fat-board stability). Under the hypotheses of the general statement, \(z\) is injective on the homogenized fat base below \(D\).

Proof. The proof of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic (weak-base stability) goes through, with these changes.

Step 1 (falls come from non-Frobenius syzygies). \(\tilde A_z=\mathbb F[x,z]/(x_c^2-x_cz,\ x_cx_{c'})\), for all pairs of distinct cells in a common column. Use a degree order with every \(x_c>z\), so \(x_c^2\) leads. Then \(\tilde A_z\) is free over \(\mathbb F[z]\) on the monomials \(x_T\), \(T\) meeting each column in at most one cell. The only S-pairs without coprime leading terms, other than pairs of monomials, are \(x_{c'}(x_c^2-x_cz)-x_c(x_cx_{c'})=-x_cx_{c'}z\), and symmetrically in \(c'\); they reduce to 0. The Koszul exact sequence, the connecting map and the Frobenius lift are unchanged: \(r_i^p=\sum_cx_c^p=r_iz^{p-1}\) in characteristic \(p\).
Step 2 (free seed). Unchanged.
Step 3 (column tensor power). On \(u\) rows, \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_{\text{columns}}V\). An ordinary column has \(V=\mathbb F\oplus\operatorname{span}(x_{ij}:i<u)\). A fat column has \(V_F=\mathbb F\oplus\operatorname{span}(x_{ia}:i<u,\ a\in H_F)\). Both are square-zero. \(R_i\) acts on \(V_F\) as multiplication by \(y_i=\sum_{a\in H_F}x_{ia}\), which sends \(1\) to \(y_i\) and every \(x_{ia}\) to 0. The \(y_i\) commute, and \(y_i^p=0\), so \(V_F\) is a \(T\)-module. Multiplication by \(r_i\) is the diagonal primitive action, as before. The seeds are taken among the ordinary columns: \(b=u(p-1)\) of them carry a free copy of \(T\), by the same computation. The fat columns, the ordinary columns of the leftover \(e\), and the other ordinary columns outside the seed blocks form the factor \(M\) of the free-seed lemma, which may be any graded module in degrees \(\ge0\). With at least \((p-1)D\cdot D\) ordinary columns and \(u=D\), there are \(n\ge D\) seed blocks.
Row reduction. The content splitting and the row-reduction lemma (lem:weak-row-reduction) go through. Annihilators are functions \(\mu\) on cell sets meeting each column at most once. For \(|T|\le k-1\) and each row \(i\), the equation is \(\sum_c\mu(T\cup\{c\})=(1-c_i(T))\mu(T)\). The sum runs over the cells \(c\) of row \(i\) whose column, ordinary or fat, meets no cell of \(T\), and \(c_i(T)\) counts the cells of \(T\) in row \(i\), fat cells included. Every equation involves one row content. Restricting an \(m\)-row annihilator to the sets within \(r\) rows gives an \(r\)-row fat-board annihilator, since each row-\(i\) equation involves only the rows of \(T\cup\{i\}\). The rest of the restriction argument is unchanged.

So \(z\) is injective below \(D\) on the \(D\)-row fat board, and by row reduction on \(m\ge D\) rows. \(\square\)

Merging members

Corollary (merging members). Over a field of characteristic \(p\), let \(H_1,\dots,H_q\) be disjoint hole sets, and let the member \(U\) consist of the constraints \(C_aC_b\) for \(a\ne b\) in a common \(H_s\), with \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\). Let the closure \(\bar U\) be \(U\) together with \(x_{ia}C_b\) and \(x_{ia}x_{i'b}\), for all rows \(i,i'\), \(i=i'\) included, and \(a\ne b\) in a common \(H_s\). The \(x_{ia}C_b\) and the \(C_aC_b\) are sums of the \(x_{ia}x_{i'b}\). If at least \((p-1)D^2\) holes lie outside \(\bigcup_sH_s\) and \(m\ge D\), then:

the weak base plus \(\bar U\) generates, in every degree, the same homogenized ideal as the fat base with fat columns \(H_1,\dots,H_q\). So it has no fall below \(D\), and no PC refutation of degree \(D\): by the socle criterion, as in step 5 of the relative gluing proof, \(z\)-injectivity below \(D\) with no constant generator excludes one;
the weak base plus \(U\) alone has no PC refutation of degree \(D\), since its generators are a subset;
\(\bar U\), as a member of the relative gluing theorem, satisfies hypothesis (c): every top syzygy of degree at most \(D\) supported on it is liftable. This follows from the sufficient condition stated in (c), \(z\) injective on the base plus the member below \(D\), which is item 1. The relative gluing theorem allows any polynomial constraints as members, so \(\bar U\) is admissible. Its tops are not polynomials in the column sums, which matters for (b), not for (c).

Proof. For item 1, the generators of the weak base plus \(\bar U\) are Booleanity, the column exclusions inside each hole, the products \(x_{ia}x_{i'b}\) across holes of one \(H_s\), and the row equations. Together these are all products of distinct cells in each fat column. \(C_aC_b=\sum_{i,i'}x_{ia}x_{i'b}\) and \(x_{ia}C_b=\sum_{i'}x_{ia}x_{i'b}\) lie in the ideal they generate at the same degree. The theorem applies with the unmerged holes as ordinary columns. Items 2 and 3 follow as stated. \(\square\)

Relation to the data. At \(p=3\) the corollary needs at least 18 unmerged holes for \(D=3\) and 32 for \(D=4\). The tested boards of ex:placed-pigeon-falls and ex:merge-three-effective-board have 5 to 9 columns, so the data lie below the proved range, neither testing the corollary nor following from it. Those checks compared the closed system, the fat base, with the ordinary weak base on \(N-|H|+1\) columns. The fat base's falls can exceed that board's (3 × 7: 108 against 48), so the exact effective-board law is not claimed.

The closure is also cheap to derive. \(x_{ia}\cdot C_aC_b\equiv x_{ia}C_b\) at degree 3 by the placed-pigeon identity, and \(x_{i'b}\cdot x_{ia}C_b\equiv z\,x_{ia}x_{i'b}\). So the closure is PC-derivable from the member at degree 3. For lower bounds only the subset direction of item 2 is needed.

What this means

conj:effective-board-stability, stated with at least \((p-1)D^2\) ordinary columns, is proved for merging members in that range.
Remark: a member forcing \(C_j=0\) gives \(x_{ij}C_j\equiv x_{ij}z\), so each \(x_{ij}\) is derivable at degree 2, and the system is the weak base on \(N-1\) columns. Removals therefore reduce the ordinary column count by one.
Other column members, such as couplings \(C_1=C_2\) or cardinality patterns on several holes, are not known to close to fat boards. Their effective boards are not yet defined.
For the goal, the question becomes which effective boards the budget column constraints can produce, and whether they always leave order \(D^2\) ordinary columns.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the weak-base stability proof in full, the row-reduction lemma and content splitting, the relative gluing theorem's hypothesis (c) and step 5, and the two finite checks. A fresh-context reviewer found the theorem's proof correct (Steps 1 to 3 and row reduction), item 1 of the corollary correct with the ideal-equality wording, and no unused hypothesis. It required these changes, all adopted:

the data placed below the proved range;
the comparison board named correctly;
(c) quoted and matched in degree, with admissibility and the consequence for (b);
\(\bar U\) defined explicitly, with \(i=i'\);
ideal equality in place of identity;
the term order and the symmetric S-pairs;
the fat module's \(T\)-structure;
the row equation and the restriction step written out;
the socle criterion cited for nonrefutation;
the removal remark derived and the coupling remark weakened;
the derivation degree stated.

The changes make statements precise or weaken them, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Column members whose closure is not a fat board.
The effective boards of budget column constraints.
Hypothesis (b) for closed members; non-column members.

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Conditioning on occupancy: the weak base with every column sum fixed has no falls below D when N ≥ (p−1)D²

24 September 2026 · Working proof · The weak onto system, every \(p\); cycle odd-prime-budget-columns. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Conditioning on occupancy: the weak base with every column sum fixed has no falls below D when N ≥ (p−1)D²”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-onto-stability.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The fat-columns entry proved hypothesis (c) for merging column members after closure. For general column members the entry proposed classifying budget constraints. That test cannot decide at computable sizes: a wide clause has degree \((p-1)k\) and is invisible below \(D\) there. The cycle takes another route. A column member constrains the occupancy vector, so condition on it: fix every column sum. The question is whether the weak base conditioned on a full occupancy pattern, a weak onto system, keeps the base's stability. If it does, it is the fiber statement for a general column member.

General statement. thm:onto-stability: over a field of characteristic \(p\), let the weak onto system on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns be the weak unary base together with the column equations \(C_j-1\), \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\), for every column. If \(m\equiv N\pmod p\) and \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\), its homogenization is \(z\)-injective below \(D\). If \(m\not\equiv N\), it is refuted at degree 1. Conditioning the weak base on an occupancy pattern with support \(S\) gives, after deleting the variables of empty columns, which are derived at degree 2, the onto system on the columns of \(S\). So this reduced conditioned system is stable below \(D\) when \(|S|\ge(p-1)D^2\) and \(|S|\equiv m\). The unreduced conditioned system has falls at degree 1, one for each deleted variable.

Setting

\(\tilde A_z=\mathbb F[x,z]/(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}z,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j})\) and \(\tilde A=\tilde A_z/z\tilde A_z=\bigotimes_jV_j\), \(V_j=\mathbb F\oplus\operatorname{span}(x_{ij}:i<m)\) square-zero, as in the weak-base stability entry, with rows indexed \(0,\dots,m-1\) here (the entry uses \(1,\dots,m\)). The onto system is \(B=\tilde A_z/(r_i-z,\ C_j-z)\). Since \(\sum_ir_i=\sum_jC_j\) in \(\tilde A_z\), \((r_0-z)=\sum_j(C_j-z)-\sum_{i\ge1}(r_i-z)+(N-m)z\). If \(N\not\equiv m\), this puts \(z\) in the homogenized ideal at degree 1, so the dehomogenized system derives 1 at degree 1. If \(N\equiv m\), \(r_0-z\) is redundant, and \(B=\tilde A_z/(f)\) for the sequence \(f=(r_1-z,\dots,r_{m-1}-z,\ C_1-z,\dots,C_N-z)\) with tops \((r_1,\dots,r_{m-1},C_1,\dots,C_N)\).

The proof

Theorem (onto stability). Under the hypotheses of the general statement with \(m\equiv N\pmod p\), \(z\) is injective on \(B\) below \(D\).

Proof. By Step 1 of the weak-base stability proof, which uses only that \(\tilde A_z\) is \(z\)-free and that the generators are homogeneous of degree 1, \(\ker(z:B_k\to B_{k+1})\) is the image of the connecting map \(\delta\) on \(H_1(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1},C_1,\dots,C_N;\tilde A)_{k+1}\). Call a Koszul 1-cycle \(((a_i)_{i\ge1},(b_j)_j)\), with \(\sum_ia_ir_i+\sum_jb_jC_j=0\) in \(\tilde A\), liftable when \(\delta\) kills its class. Liftable cycles form a subspace. It contains the following:

Koszul boundaries, among the \(r\), among the \(C\), and mixed. Their lifts are exact.
Frobenius cycles \(r_i^{p-1}c\,e_i\). \(\tilde a\,r_i^{p-1}(r_i-z)\in z\,(r_i-z)\) as in the weak-base proof, since \(r_i^p=r_iz^{p-1}\) in \(\tilde A_z\).
Placed cycles \(x_{ij}y\,e'_j\), for any \(y\). These are cycles since \(x_{ij}C_j=0\) in \(\tilde A\). In \(\tilde A_z\), \(x_{ij}C_j=x_{ij}^2+\sum_{i'\ne i}x_{ij}x_{i'j}=x_{ij}z\), so \(\tilde y\,x_{ij}(C_j-z)=0\) and \(u=0\).

We show every cycle of degree \(k+1\le D\) is a sum of these.

Modulo the column sums. The \(C_j\) act column by column, so \(\bar A=\tilde A/(C_1,\dots,C_N)\tilde A=\bigotimes_jW_j\), with \(W_j=V_j/\mathbb FC_j\). A basis of \(W_j^+\) is given by the images \(\bar x_{ij}\), \(i\ge1\), since \(\bar x_{0j}=-\sum_{i\ge1}\bar x_{ij}\). So \(W_j\) is the column module of the weak board on rows \(1,\dots,m-1\), and \(\bar r_i\), \(i\ge1\), acts on \(\bar A\) as that board's row sums act. In other words, \(\bar A\) is the column tensor power \(\tilde A_{m-1}\) of the weak board on \(m-1\) rows, with its row sums.
Row-sum syzygies modulo the column sums are Frobenius. \(\bar A\) is graded by the row content of rows \(1,\dots,m-1\), and each \(\bar r_i\) has content \(e_i\). The content-\(c\) parts of \(K_1\) and \(K_2\) of \(K(\bar r;\bar A)\) coincide with the content-\(c\) parts of \(K(\bar r_{\operatorname{supp}c};\bar A_{\operatorname{supp}c})\), the complex of the weak column tensor power on the \(u=|\operatorname{supp}c|\) rows of \(\operatorname{supp}c\). So the content components of a cycle of degree \(k+1\le D\) are cycles there, with \(u\le\min(k+1,m-1)\). On \(u\) rows, Step 3 of the weak-base stability proof (free seeds) with blocks of \(b=(p-1)u\le(p-1)D\) columns gives \(n\ge D\) blocks from \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\), so \(H_1\) in degrees \(\le D\) is spanned by Frobenius classes. Frobenius cycles and boundaries have content-homogeneous components of the same kinds, so each content component is Frobenius plus a boundary. Hence \(\bar a_i=\bar r_i^{\,p-1}\bar c_i+\sum_{i'}\bar r_{i'}\bar t_{ii'}\) with \(\bar t\) antisymmetric.
Lift and subtract. Lift to \(\tilde A\), with \(c_i\), \(t\) and \(w_{ij}\) homogeneous of the right degrees and \(t\) antisymmetric (lift \(\bar t_{ii'}\) for \(i<i'\) and set \(t_{i'i}=-t_{ii'}\)): \(a_i=r_i^{p-1}c_i+\sum_{i'}r_{i'}t_{ii'}+\sum_jC_jw_{ij}\). Subtract the Frobenius cycles \(r_i^{p-1}c_ie_i\), the \(r\)-Koszul boundaries of \(t\), and the mixed boundaries \(C_jw_{ij}e_i-r_iw_{ij}e'_j\). The remainder is a cycle \((0,(b'_j))\), a syzygy of the column sums alone.
Column-sum syzygies are placed. The Koszul complex of \((C_j)\) on \(\bigotimes_jV_j\) is the tensor product of the complexes \(V_j\xrightarrow{C_j}V_j\). Each has \(H_1=\ker C_j=V_j^+=\operatorname{span}(x_{ij})\), since \(C_j\cdot1=C_j\ne0\) and \(C_jV_j^+=0\). By the Künneth formula over a field, \(H_1\) of the product is spanned by classes \(x_{ij}y\,e'_j\). So \((0,b')\) is a sum of placed cycles and \(C\)-Koszul boundaries. \(\square\)

Conditioning

For an occupancy pattern \(c\in\{0,1\}^N\) with support \(S\), the conditioned system is the weak base with \(C_j-c_j\) for all \(j\). For \(j\notin S\), \(x_{ij}\cdot C_j\equiv x_{ij}\) at degree 2, by Booleanity and column exclusions, so \(x_{ij}\) is derived at degree 2. In the homogenized system \(x_{ij}z\) lies in the ideal while \(x_{ij}\) does not at degree 1: the functional with \(z\mapsto0\) and values \(+1,-1,-1,+1\) at \((i,j),(i,j'),(i',j),(i',j')\) kills every degree-1 generator. So the unreduced conditioned system falls at degree 1. Deleting the variables \(x_{ij}\), \(j\notin S\), which is the restriction setting them to 0, gives the onto system on the columns of \(S\) with \(m\) rows. A PC refutation of degree \(D\) of the conditioned system restricts to one of the reduced system, whose generators the restriction maps to generators or to 0. By the theorem the reduced system is stable below \(D\), hence has no refutation of degree \(D\) (by the socle criterion), when \(|S|\ge(p-1)D^2\) and \(|S|\equiv m\pmod p\). On the PHP board, \(m=N+1\) and \(|S|\le N\).

What this means

The fibers of a column member are stable in reduced form: for each allowed occupancy pattern with support large enough and of the right residue, the weak base conditioned on it, with the empty columns' variables deleted, has no falls below \(D\). Its only extra falls before deletion are those variables, derived at degree 2. Patterns with the wrong residue are excluded by the base at degree 1, which is the occupancy ring's relation \(\sum_jC_j=m\).
Proposed route for general column members, not proved. A member with allowed set \(Z\) should be stable when every pattern of \(Z\) has a large support. Its annihilators would be glued from occupancy-ring annihilators on \(Z\), stable after augmentation by lem:occupancy-transfer, and onto-system annihilators on each fiber, stable by this theorem. The gluing across fibers is the missing piece. It is a relative-gluing statement with the occupancy ring as the base and the fibers as the members.
Patterns of support below \((p-1)D^2\) are not covered, since they lie outside the hypothesis \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\). On the PHP board every pattern, large or small, is excluded only by counting, since \(|S|\le N<m\). The theorem shows that for large supports this counting needs degree at least \(D\). Whether small supports need separate treatment is open.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the weak-base stability proof in full (Step 1, the free-seed lemma, Step 3 and row reduction) and the placed-pigeon identity. Searches: onto system, column sums fixed, occupancy conditioning, fiber. Found no earlier result that implies the theorem. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the setting (\(\sum r_i=\sum C_j\), the elimination of \(r_0-z\), the applicability of Step 1), the three liftable families, \(W_j=V_j/\mathbb FC_j\) and the Künneth step. It required these changes, all adopted:

the conditioning claim restricted to the reduced presentation, with the degree-1 falls of the unreduced one shown;
the unused hypothesis \(m-1\ge D\) dropped, by applying Step 3 on the \(|\operatorname{supp}c|\) rows of each content;
the content-component step and antisymmetric homogeneous lifts written out;
the row indexing and the degree-1 refutation stated precisely;
the small-support bullet corrected.

The changes weaken the conditioning claim or drop a hypothesis without adding a claim, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

The gluing of fibers and occupancy ring for a general column member.
Patterns of small support.
Hypothesis (b) for closed members; non-column members.

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Fiber gluing: a column member has no falls when its specializations have none and the board modulo its tops is row-free; augmentation does not make dense selectors' specializations fall-free

24 September 2026 · Working proofs, finite checks and a conjecture · Hypothesis (c) for general column members; cycle odd-prime-fiber-gluing. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Fiber gluing: a column member has no falls when its specializations have none and the board modulo its tops is row-free; augmentation does not make dense selectors' specializations fall-free”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-fiber-gluing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The onto-stability entry proved that the weak base with every column sum fixed has no falls, and proposed gluing such fibers for a general column member. The missing implication is hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing for the column member the budget produces: the weak base plus the member has no falls below \(D\). The cycle generalizes the onto proof to any column member, which splits (c) into two conditions, and tests both on dense members, selectors and clauses on column forms that touch every hole.

General statement. thm:fiber-gluing: over a field of characteristic \(p\), the weak base plus a column member is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) if (i) for every hole set \(S\), \(|S|<D\), the member's occupancy system specialized at \(C_S=1\) has no fall below \(D-|S|\), and (ii) the row-sum syzygies of the board modulo the tops of the occupancy system are Frobenius cycles plus boundaries through degree \(D\), which holds when that module is free over the row-sum algebra in low degrees. lem:sparse-row-freeness proves (ii) for members supported on holes \(H\) with \(N-|H|\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\). cor:base-by-fibers: the weak base itself satisfies both, for every row count. conj:row-freeness: (ii) holds for every column member when \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\), with no restriction on the support. Its support, ex:dense-row-freeness, covers only augmented members, content \(ke_1\) and smaller \(N\). ex:hereditary-falls shows that (i) can fail for dense selectors and clauses even after Gröbner augmentation.

Setting

Rows \(0,\dots,m-1\), holes \(1,\dots,N\), \(\tilde A_z\) and \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_jV_j\) as in the onto-stability entry. A column member is given by homogenized generators \(f_k^{\rm h}\in\mathbb F[C,z]\), \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\), none constant. Since \(\sum_ir_i=s:=\sum_jC_j\) in \(\tilde A_z\), \(r_0-z=(s-mz)-\sum_{i\ge1}(r_i-z)\). So the weak base plus the member is \(B=\tilde A_z/(r_1-z,\dots,r_{m-1}-z,\ g'^{\rm h})\), where \(g'^{\rm h}\) runs over \(s-mz\) and the \(f_k^{\rm h}\): the member's occupancy system \(J\), in the occupancy ring \(O_z=\mathbb F[C,z]/(C_j^2-C_jz)\), which maps to \(\tilde A_z\) by \(C_j\mapsto\sum_ix_{ij}\), since \(C_j^2-C_jz\mapsto0\) there (lem:occupancy-transfer). The map is injective for \(m\ge1\): the images of the \(C_Tz^a\), \(T\) a hole set, are nonzero with disjoint supports in the \(\mathbb F[z]\)-basis \(x_{T'}\) of \(\tilde A_z\), since \(x_{T'}\) determines its hole set. Write \(g'\) for the tops, elements of \(O'=\mathbb F[C]/(C_j^2)\subset\tilde A\).

In \(\tilde A\) put \(U_j=\operatorname{span}(x_{ij}:i\ge1)\). Then \(V_j=\operatorname{span}(1,C_j)\oplus U_j\), \(C_jU_j=0\), and as \(O'\)-modules \[\tilde A=\bigoplus_{S\subseteq[N]}O'_{S^c}\otimes U^{\otimes S},\qquad U^{\otimes S}=\operatorname{span}\Bigl(y=\prod_{j\in S}x_{i_jj}:\ i_j\ge1\Bigr),\] with \(C_j\), \(j\in S\), acting as 0 on the \(S\)-summand. Grading \(C_j\) by content 0 and \(x_{ij}\) by \(e_i\) makes \(\tilde A\) graded by the content of rows \(1,\dots,m-1\); the \(g'\) have content 0.

For a hole set \(S\), the specialized system \(J_S\) lives in \(O_z^{S^c}=\mathbb F[C_{S^c},z]/(C_j^2-C_jz)\), generated by \(g'^{\rm h}|_{C_S=z}\): the member with the holes of \(S\) occupied, and the row \(\sum_{j\notin S}C_j-(m-|S|)z\).

The theorem

Theorem (fiber gluing). Over a field of characteristic \(p\), with \(m\ge1\), suppose:

for every \(S\subseteq[N]\) with \(|S|\le D-1\), \(\emptyset\) included, \(z\) is injective on \(O_z^{S^c}/J_S\) in degrees \(<D-|S|\);
every Koszul 1-cycle of \((r_1,\dots,r_{m-1})\) on \(\bar A=\tilde A/(g')\tilde A\) of degree at most \(D\) is a sum of Frobenius cycles \(r_i^{p-1}c\,e_i\) and boundaries.

Then \(z\) is injective on \(B\) below \(D\).

Proof. Step 1 of the weak-base stability proof uses only that \(\tilde A_z\) is \(z\)-free and that the generators are homogeneous and nonconstant. So \(\ker(z:B_k\to B_{k+1})\) is the image of the connecting map \(\delta\) on \(H_1(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1},g';\tilde A)_{k+1}\). Frobenius cycles and Koszul boundaries have \(\delta=0\) there. Fix a cycle \(((a_i),(b_\ell))\), \(\sum_ia_ir_i+\sum_\ell b_\ell g'_\ell=0\), of degree \(k+1\le D\).

Row-sum part. Modulo \((g')\), \((\bar a_i)\) is a cycle on \(\bar A\). By (ii), \(\bar a_i=\bar r_i^{\,p-1}\bar c_i+\sum_{i'}\bar r_{i'}\bar t_{ii'}\), \(\bar t\) antisymmetric. Lift to \(\tilde A\) homogeneously, with \(t_{i'i}=-t_{ii'}\): \(a_i=r_i^{p-1}c_i+\sum_{i'}r_{i'}t_{ii'}+\sum_\ell g'_\ell w_{i\ell}\). Subtract the Frobenius cycles, the \(r\)-boundaries of \(t\) and the mixed boundaries \(g'_\ell w_{i\ell}e_i-r_iw_{i\ell}e'_\ell\). The remainder is a cycle \((0,(b'_\ell))\): \(\sum_\ell b'_\ell g'_\ell=0\) in \(\tilde A\).
Placed decomposition. The \(g'_\ell\) act on each \(S\)-summand. Expanding \(b'_\ell=\sum_{S,y}\beta_{\ell,y}\,y\) over a basis \(y\) of each \(U^{\otimes S}\), with \(\beta_{\ell,y}\in O'_{S^c}\), each \((\beta_{\ell,y}y)_\ell\) is a cycle, and \(\sum_\ell\beta_{\ell,y}\,g'_\ell|_{C_S=0}=0\) in \(O'_{S^c}\). The \(S\)-summand has degree at least \(|S|\), so \(|S|\le k\).
Lift through the fiber. Lift \(\beta_{\ell,y}\) to \(\tilde\beta_\ell\in O_z^{S^c}\), homogeneous. In \(\tilde A_z\), \(x_{ij}C_j=x_{ij}z\), so \(y\,g'^{\rm h}_\ell=y\,g'^{\rm h}_\ell|_{C_S=z}\). Hence \(\sum_\ell\tilde\beta_\ell\,y\,g'^{\rm h}_\ell=y\,P\), with \(P=\sum_\ell\tilde\beta_\ell g'^{\rm h}_\ell|_{C_S=z}\in(J_S)\). \(P\) reduces to 0 modulo \(z\), so \(P=zv\) with \(v\in O_z^{S^c}\) of degree \(k-|S|\), and \(\delta\) of the cycle is the class of \(yv\). Since \(zv\in J_S\) and \(k-|S|<D-|S|\), (i) gives \(v=\sum_\ell\gamma_\ell\,g'^{\rm h}_\ell|_{C_S=z}\) in \(O_z^{S^c}\). Mapping to \(\tilde A_z\), where \(C_j^2-C_jz\) vanishes, \(yv=\sum_\ell\gamma_\ell\,y\,g'^{\rm h}_\ell\), which lies in the ideal of \(B\) in degree \(k\). So \(\delta=0\). \(\square\)

For the onto system, \(J_S\) is the onto system on \(S^c\), which has no fall when \(m\equiv N\pmod p\), and \(\bar A\) is the weak column tensor power on \(m-1\) rows, whose row-sum syzygies are Frobenius by item 2 of thm:onto-stability's proof. So the theorem contains thm:onto-stability; its item 3 replaces that proof's Künneth step. The case \(S=\emptyset\) of item 3 is lem:occupancy-transfer's lift.

Row freeness for sparse members

Lemma (sparse row freeness). Over a field of characteristic \(p\), if the \(f_k\) involve only the holes of \(H\) and \(N-|H|\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\), condition (ii) holds.

Proof. The content-\(c\) parts of \(K_1\) and \(K_2\) of \(K(r;\bar A)\) coincide with those of the same construction on the \(u=|\operatorname{supp}c|\) rows of \(\operatorname{supp}c\), since the \(g'\) have content 0 and \(x_{ij}\) with \(i\notin\operatorname{supp}c\) never occurs. For a cycle of degree \(k+1\le D\), \(u\le D\). On those rows, \(V_j=\operatorname{span}(1,C_j,x_{ij}:i\in\operatorname{supp}c)\) is a square-zero column of \(u+1\) rows, with \(C_j\) in the place of row 0: \(C_j^2=C_jx_{ij}=x_{ij}x_{i'j}=x_{ij}^2=0\) in \(\tilde A\). So \(\tilde A\) is the weak column tensor power on \(u+1\) rows, with row sums \(s,r_i\), a module over \(T_{u+1}=\mathbb F[R_0,\dots,R_u]/(R^p)\), \(R_0\) acting as \(s\). It factors as \(\tilde A_H\otimes\tilde A_{H^c}\), and \(\tilde A/(f^{\rm top})=(\tilde A_H/(f^{\rm top}))\otimes\tilde A_{H^c}\), a \(T_{u+1}\)-module since multiplication by \(f^{\rm top}\) commutes with the row sums. Step 3 of the weak-base stability proof on \(u+1\) rows gives seed blocks of \((p-1)(u+1)\) columns in \(H^c\), at least \(D\) of them. The free-seed lemma, with \(M=(\tilde A_H/(f^{\rm top}))\otimes(\text{leftover columns})\), gives \(\tilde A/(f^{\rm top})\cong F\oplus Q\), \(F\) graded free over \(T_{u+1}\), \(Q\) in degrees \(\ge D\). Quotienting by \(s\), \(\bar A\cong F/R_0F\oplus Q/R_0Q\), with \(F/R_0F\) free over \(T_u\). So \(H_1(r;\bar A)\) in degrees \(\le D\) is spanned by Frobenius classes, as in Step 3's consequence, and its content components are Frobenius cycles plus boundaries. \(\square\)

Corollary (base by fibers). Over \(\mathbb F_p\), for every \(m\ge1\), \(D\ge1\) and \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\), the homogenized weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\).

Proof. Take the empty member, \(H=\emptyset\). (ii) is the lemma. \(J_S\) is a single weak row with right-hand side \(m-|S|\) on \(N-|S|\) holes, \(z\)-injective below \(D-|S|\) by lem:occupancy-stability, since \(N-|S|\ge2(D-|S|)-1\). That lemma's proof uses the right-hand side only as an element of \(\mathbb F_p\), so \(m-|S|\le0\) is covered. \(\square\)

thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic assumes \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\), over any field of characteristic \(p\). The corollary needs \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\), over \(\mathbb F_p\), and no bound on \(m\): \(u\le\min(D,m-1)\), the bulk row replaces row reduction, and for \(m=1\) (ii) is vacuous.

Tests of the two conditions on dense members

Can the tests decide. The lemma covers members on few holes. The goal's members are selectors and clauses on column forms \(\ell=\sum_j\phi_jC_j\) with every \(\phi_j\ne0\), for which neither condition is known. Both tests compute the condition's own quantity exactly, with controls on each side.

Condition (ii), one row. For \(u=1\), (ii) says \(\operatorname{ann}(\rho)=\rho^{p-1}\bar A\) in degrees \(<D\): \((I:\rho)=I+(\rho^{p-1})\), where \(I\) is the ideal of \(\bar A\) in \(\mathbb F[c,y]\). row_freeness.py computes both Hilbert functions in Singular, over \(\mathbb F_3\). The tops \(g'\) are the full top ideal of the occupancy system, computed as the saturated homogenization at \(z=0\), which is the augmented member. Members: the base; onto; merge (\(C_1C_2\)); linear (\(s=m\), \(\ell=v\)); selector (forbid \(\ell=v\)); clause2 (forbid \(\ell_1=v_1,\ell_2=v_2\)). The excess \(\dim(I:\rho)/(I+\rho^{p-1})\) in degrees \(0,\dots,D-1\) is 0 for all six members at \(N=12\), \(D=3\), for two random seeds (the seed draws the coefficients \(\phi\in\{1,2\}^N\) of the forms and the forbidden values), and at \(N=16\), \(D=4\) (rf_N12.json, rf_N16.json). These sizes meet only the one-row seed bound \((p-1)\cdot2\cdot D=4D\), not the lemma's or the conjecture's range \((p-1)(D+1)D\), which is 24 and 40. Below the range the test detects failures: at \(N=3\), \(D=4\) every member has excess 1 in degree 2, and at \(N=4\) the excess is up to 4 (rf_control.json). This is ex:dense-row-freeness. It tests only content \(ke_1\). The clause's own top has degree 4, so its test at \(D=4\) sees only its augmentation below degree 4.

Condition (i). For the augmented member, whose generators are all of \(I(Z)\) up to degree \(D\), \(Z\) the allowed set in the slice \(L=\{c:\sum c\equiv m\}\), the degree-\(e\) part of \(J_S\) is exactly \(\{f|_{C_S=1}:f\in I(Z),\ \deg f\le e\}\) plus row multiples, since every element of \(I(Z)\) up to degree \(D\) is a generator. Modulo the row it is \(R_e\), as functions on \(L_S\), when the polynomials of degree \(\le e+1\) vanishing on \(L_S\) are the row multiples. The script asserts this saturation for every hole count, residue and degree it uses (\(n=10,11\), degrees up to 4). The fall in degree \(e\) is \(\dim(R_{e+1}\cap P_e)-\dim R_e\), with \(P_e\) the functions of degree \(\le e\). hereditary_falls.py computes it by exact elimination over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(N=12\), \(D=5\), all \(1\le|S|\le2\), \(e<D-|S|\) and \(N-|S|\ge2e+3\): 246 checks per member. \(S=\emptyset\) is settled by the augmentation (hered_s1.json, hered_s2.json).

seed, \(m\)	merge	selector	clause2	random forbidden set, density about \(1/9\)
1, 12	48 falling	6 falling, \(\|S\|=1\), \(e=3\)	0	0
2, 13	48 falling	0	1 falling, \(S=\{5\}\), \(e=3\), dimension 2	0

Merge is the control: its fall at \(S=\{1\}\), \(e=1\), is \(C_2\), the recorded placed-pigeon fall. validate_hereditary.py recomputes \(\dim\ker z\) on \(O_z^{S^c}/J_S\) from the saturated homogenization in Singular, independently of the function-space reduction, and agrees on six cases: merge \(S=\{1\}\) gives 0, 1, 9, 35; the selector at two falling holes gives 1 in degree 3, and at a non-falling hole 0; clause2 at \(S=\{5\}\) gives 2 in degree 3, and at \(S=\{1\}\) 0 (validate.json). This is ex:hereditary-falls.

What this means

For column members, (c) follows from two conditions. (ii) is a freeness statement about the board, proved for sparse members and supported for dense ones in content \(ke_1\). (i) is a statement about the occupancy ring alone.
(i) fails for dense members too, not only for merges. A single occupied hole can make an augmented selector's specialization fall. The theorem is only sufficient, and these tests do not show that the board falls. Board sizes in the stability range, \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\) at \(D=5\), are out of reach. The fall element \(v\) of \(J_S\) gives the candidate board fall \(x_{ij}v\), \(j\in S\), as for merges.
Proposed repair, not proved. Add the placed-pigeon closure: \(x_Xg\) for column-injective cell sets \(X\) in rows \(\ge1\) and \(g\in I(Z_{S(X)})\), \(\deg\le D-|X|\), where \(S(X)\) is the hole set of \(X\). Item 3 then holds without (i): \(v\) vanishes on \(Z_S\), so \(yv\) is a closure generator. The closure adds tops of positive content, \(x_Xg^{\rm top}\), so items 1 and 2 must be redone for them. \(\bar A\) becomes \(\bigoplus_S\operatorname{gr}(O/I(Z_S))\otimes U^{\otimes S}\), and (ii) must be proved for that module. The closure adds generators, so lower bounds for the closed system imply them for the original.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the weak-base stability proof (Step 1, the free-seed lemma, Step 3), lem:occupancy-stability and lem:occupancy-transfer with their proofs, and the onto-stability proof. Claim searches (specialized member, row sums modulo member tops, placed-pigeon closure, content decomposition of member syzygies) found lem:board-content-reduction, the bulk-row grading used here, and no result implying the theorem or the lemma. A fresh-context reviewer found the theorem (Step 1 for nonlinear generators, all three items, both hypotheses used), the lemma (content reduction, the \((u+1)\)-row identification, seed count, quotient by \(s\)) and the corollary correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the reduction of condition (i) to functions on \(L_S\) justified by saturation of the single row, which the script now asserts, in place of the occupancy-stability lemma; the reviewer checked the same saturation independently;
the check count stated for \(1\le|S|\le2\);
the generator index renamed apart from the degree;
injectivity of \(O_z\to\tilde A_z\) argued;
(ii) stated as the Koszul condition, and the conjecture's range and support stated;
the one-row tests placed below the lemma's range, and their quantity and seeds described;
the corollary's right-hand side \(m-|S|\le0\) covered, the comparison with the quadratic theorem quoted, and the onto case stated precisely;
"reduces to" weakened to "follows from".

The changes weaken or justify statements and add no claim, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

conj:row-freeness beyond content \(ke_1\) and beyond sparse members.
Fiber gluing for the placed-pigeon closure, which removes (i).
Hypothesis (b) for closed members; non-column members.

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Closure gluing: a column member closed under its placed-pigeon consequences has no falls when the graded functions on its assignments are row-free

24 September 2026 · Working proofs, conjecture and finite check · Hypothesis (c) for closed column members; cycle odd-prime-closure-gluing. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Closure gluing: a column member closed under its placed-pigeon consequences has no falls when the graded functions on its assignments are row-free”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-closure-gluing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The fiber-gluing entry reduced hypothesis (c) for a column member to (i), no falls in its specializations at occupied holes, and (ii), row freeness of the board modulo its tops. It found that (i) fails for some dense selectors even after Gröbner augmentation, and proposed closing the member under its placed-pigeon consequences. The cycle asks whether the closure removes (i), and what then remains.

General statement. lem:closure-saturation: for a nonempty set \(Z\) of occupancy patterns, the polynomials of degree at most \(d\) vanishing on the assignments with occupancy in \(Z\) are exactly the sums of placed products \(x_Yg\), with \(g\) vanishing on the patterns of \(Z\) that occupy the holes of \(Y\), \(|Y|+\deg g\le d\). So the closed member, all such polynomials through degree \(D\), has no falls of its own. thm:closure-gluing: the weak base plus the closed member is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) when the row-sum syzygies of the associated graded algebra of functions on those assignments are Frobenius through degree \(D\). The condition cannot hold for every \(Z\): prop:single-hole-member refutes the closed system of the member allowing one occupied hole at degree 2. conj:closed-row-freeness states the condition for members that forbid value patterns of dense column forms on at most half the slice, when \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\). ex:closed-row-freeness supports it in one-row contents at small sizes. Condition (i) disappears; hypothesis (c) for such members is implied by the single freeness condition.

Setting

Rows \(0,\dots,m-1\), \(m\ge1\), holes \(1,\dots,N\), a field \(\mathbb F\) of characteristic \(p\). \(\mathcal P\) is the set of column-injective assignments: partial maps from holes to rows. \(\tilde A_1=\mathbb F[x]/(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij},\ x_{ij}x_{i'j})\) is the algebra of functions on \(\mathcal P\), since the ideal contains \(x^2-x\) and its zero set is \(\mathcal P\). \(F_d\subseteq\tilde A_1\) is the span of the monomials \(x_T\), \(|T|\le d\), and \(\tilde A_z\), free over \(\mathbb F[z]\) with basis \(x_T\) (Step 1 of the weak-base stability proof), is the Rees algebra of this filtration. For an ideal \(\mathcal J\) generated by homogenizations \(w^{\rm h}\), \(w\in F_{\deg w}\), the degree-\(d\) part of \(\tilde A_z/\mathcal J\) is \(F_d/\mathcal J_{(d)}\), with \(\mathcal J_{(d)}=\operatorname{span}\{tw:t\in F_{d-\deg w}\}\). So \(z\) is injective in degree \(d\) exactly when \(\mathcal J_{(d+1)}\cap F_d=\mathcal J_{(d)}\).

For \(Z\subseteq\{0,1\}^N\), \(\mathcal P_Z\) is the set of assignments whose occupancy pattern lies in \(Z\). The base forces \(\sum_jC_j=m\), so take \(Z\) inside the slice \(\sum_jc_j\equiv m\pmod p\) and nonempty. For a hole set \(S\), \(Z_S=\{c\in Z:c_S=1\}\), as patterns on the other holes. The closed member of \(Z\) through degree \(D\) is \(\mathcal M_D(Z)=I(\mathcal P_Z)\cap F_D\), all polynomials of degree at most \(D\) vanishing on \(\mathcal P_Z\), as generators.

Closure saturation

Lemma (closure saturation). For every \(d\), \[I(\mathcal P_Z)\cap F_d=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\cdot\bigl(I(Z_{S(Y)})\cap F_{d-|Y|}[C_{S(Y)^c}]\bigr),\] the sum over column-injective cell sets \(Y\) in rows \(1,\dots,m-1\), with \(S(Y)\) the holes of \(Y\), \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\), and \(F_e[C_{S^c}]\) the multilinear polynomials of degree \(\le e\) in the \(C_j\), \(j\notin S\). Consequently \(\mathcal M_D(Z)\) is generated by these placed products, \(z\) is injective on \(B'=\tilde A_z/(\mathcal M_D(Z)^{\rm h})\) in degrees \(<D\), and \(B'/zB'\) agrees with \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z}=\bigoplus_d F_d|_{\mathcal P_Z}/F_{d-1}|_{\mathcal P_Z}\) in degrees \(\le D\).

Proof.

Bulk basis. The products \(C_Rx_Y\), \(R\cap S(Y)=\emptyset\), \(|R|+|Y|\le d\), form a basis of \(F_d\). Expanding \(C_j=x_{0j}+\sum_{i\ge1}x_{ij}\), \(C_Rx_Y\) is \(x_{(R\times0)\cup Y}\) plus monomials with fewer row-0 cells and the same size. This is triangular against the monomial basis.
Vanishing. So every \(f\in F_d\) is uniquely \(\sum_Yx_Y\varphi_Y\) with \(\varphi_Y\in F_{d-|Y|}[C_{S(Y)^c}]\). If each \(\varphi_Y\) vanishes on \(Z_{S(Y)}\), \(f\) vanishes on \(\mathcal P_Z\): at an assignment \(a\), \(x_Y(a)=1\) forces the holes of \(Y\) occupied. Conversely, let \(f\) vanish on \(\mathcal P_Z\), and induct on \(|Y|\). For \(c\in Z_{S(Y)}\), take the assignment with cells \(Y\) in rows \(\ge1\) and row 0 on the other occupied holes of \(c\), which lies in \(\mathcal P_Z\) since row 0 exists. There \(0=f(a)=\sum_{Y'\subseteq Y}\varphi_{Y'}(c)\), and \(c\in Z_{S(Y')}\) for every \(Y'\subseteq Y\). By induction \(\varphi_{Y'}(c)=0\) for \(Y'\subsetneq Y\), so \(\varphi_Y(c)=0\).
Saturation. Each placed product with \(|Y|+\deg g\le d\le D\) lies in \(\mathcal M_D(Z)\) and in \(F_d\). For \(d\le D\), every element of \(I(\mathcal P_Z)\cap F_d\) is itself a generator, and every generator vanishes on \(\mathcal P_Z\), so \(\mathcal M_D(Z)_{(d)}=I(\mathcal P_Z)\cap F_d\). Item 2 is used only for the generation by placed products and for the direct-sum form of \(G\). Then for \(d<D\), \(\mathcal M_D(Z)_{(d+1)}\cap F_d\subseteq I(\mathcal P_Z)\cap F_d=\mathcal M_D(Z)_{(d)}\), so \(z\) is injective in degree \(d\), and also in degree \(D\), since \(I(\mathcal P_Z)\cap F_D=\mathcal M_D(Z)_{(D)}\). In degree \(d\le D\), \(B'/zB'=F_d/(I(\mathcal P_Z)\cap F_d+F_{d-1})\), which is \(\operatorname{gr}_d\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z}\). \(\square\)

The placed products are the placed-pigeon closure of conj:effective-board; for a merge they are the fat-column generators of cor:merging-members. The case \(Y=\emptyset\) is the augmented member. Row-0 cells need no separate generators: \(x_{0j}g=C_jg-\sum_{i\ge1}x_{ij}g\), and \(C_jg\) vanishes on \(Z\) when \(g\) vanishes on \(Z_{\{j\}}\). The closure need not be derivable from the member at degree \(D\). For lower bounds it does not have to be: it only adds generators, so a degree-\(D\) lower bound for the closed system implies one for the original.

The theorem

Theorem (closure gluing). Over a field of characteristic \(p\), with \(m\ge1\) and \(Z\) nonempty inside the slice, suppose every Koszul 1-cycle of \((r_1,\dots,r_{m-1})\) on \(G=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z}\) of degree at most \(D\) is a sum of Frobenius cycles \(r_i^{p-1}c\,e_i\) and boundaries. Then the homogenized weak base plus \(\mathcal M_D(Z)\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\), and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. Since \(s-m\in\mathcal M_D(Z)\), \(s=\sum_jC_j\), and \(r_0-z=(s-mz)-\sum_{i\ge1}(r_i-z)\), the system is \(B=B'/(r_1-z,\dots,r_{m-1}-z)\). \(z\) is injective on \(B'\) in degrees \(<D\) by the lemma. So for \(k+1\le D\) the sequence \(0\to K(r-z;B')(-1)\xrightarrow{z}K(r-z;B')\to K(r;B'/zB')\to0\) is exact in the degrees involved, and its long exact sequence gives \(\ker(z:B_k\to B_{k+1})=\delta\bigl(H_1(r;B'/zB')_{k+1}\bigr)\), with \(B'/zB'=G\) through degree \(D\). Boundaries have \(\delta=0\). For a Frobenius cycle, Step 1 of the weak-base stability proof computes \(\delta\) in \(\tilde A_z\), using only \(r_i^p=r_iz^{p-1}\) there, and gets 0. By hypothesis these span. The generators vanish on the nonempty \(\mathcal P_Z\), so none is a nonzero constant, and the socle criterion excludes a refutation of degree \(D\), as in step 5 of the relative gluing proof. \(\square\)

The hypothesis reduces to few rows. \(G=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z_{S(Y)}}\) by the lemma, graded by the content of rows \(1,\dots,m-1\), and its content-\(c\) part involves only the rows of \(\operatorname{supp}c\), \(|\operatorname{supp}c|\le D\). The summand \(x_Y\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z_{S(Y)}}\) sits in degrees shifted by \(|Y|\). In \(G\), products of overlapping \(x_Y\) vanish (column exclusions and \(x^2\mapsto0\)), and so does \(C_jx_Y\) for \(j\in S(Y)\), since \(C_jx_{ij}=x_{ij}\) has lower degree. So the content grading is multiplicative, and the hypothesis is a statement about \(\mathcal P_Z^{(u)}\), assignments to the bulk row and \(u\le D\) rows. For the onto system, with \(N\equiv m\pmod p\) so that \(Z=\{1^N\}\) lies in the slice, each \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z_S}\) is \(\mathbb F\) and \(G\) is the weak column tensor power on \(m-1\) rows. The onto system is the base plus the \(C_j-1\), not \(\mathcal M_D(\{1^N\})\), but they agree in degrees \(\le D\): a multilinear \(g\) vanishing at \(1^N\) expands as \(\sum_{R\ne\emptyset}a_R\prod_{j\in R}(C_j-1)\), so \(x_Yg\) lies in the ideal of the \(C_j-1\) at degree \(|Y|+\deg g\). So thm:onto-stability reduces to this theorem. Compared with thm:fiber-gluing, condition (i) is gone. Condition (ii) now concerns \(G\), whose \(S\)-summands are \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z_S}\), in place of the restrictions of the unclosed member's top algebra. The closure changes the summands only at specializations that fall.

The condition needs room

Proposition (single-hole member). Let \(m\ge2\), \(m\equiv1\pmod p\), and let \(Z=\{e_1,\dots,e_N\}\), the patterns with one occupied hole. Then the weak base plus \(\mathcal M_2(Z)\) has a PC refutation of degree 2, so the hypothesis of thm:closure-gluing fails for every \(D\ge2\) and every \(N\).

Proof. \(Z\) lies in the slice. \(x_{0j}x_{1j'}\), \(j\ne j'\), vanishes on \(\mathcal P_Z\), which occupies one hole, so it lies in \(\mathcal M_2(Z)\). With the column exclusions for \(j=j'\), \(r_0r_1=\sum_{j,j'}x_{0j}x_{1j'}\) lies in the ideal at degree 2, and \(1=r_0r_1-(r_0-1)r_1-(r_1-1)\). By the theorem the hypothesis must then fail. \(\square\)

The same holds whenever every pattern of \(Z\) has weight below some \(w\le\min(m,D)\): \(r_0r_1\cdots r_{w-1}\) vanishes on \(\mathcal P_Z\), since its monomials put \(w\) pigeons in \(w\) distinct holes, and has degree \(w\), so it lies in \(\mathcal M_D(Z)\) and yields a refutation of degree \(w\). So a sufficient condition must use the size of the patterns in \(Z\). The members the goal produces forbid value patterns of column forms and leave most of the slice, which contains patterns of weight about \(N/2>D\).

The conjecture and its check

Conjecture (closed row freeness). Over a field of characteristic \(p\), let \(Z\) contain at least half of the slice \(\{c\in\{0,1\}^N:\sum_jc_j\equiv m\pmod p\}\), for any \(m\ge1\). If \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\), the hypothesis of thm:closure-gluing holds.

The budget's members are slices minus unions of forbidden-value sets \(\{c:\ell_b(c)=v_b,\ b\le k\}\) of column forms over \(\mathbb F_p\), with values in \(\mathbb F_p\). On the slice such sets are arbitrary: adding a multiple of \(s\) to a form changes its coefficients but not the set it cuts, and \(N\) forms cut out a single pattern. So the conjecture is stated by density alone. For \(m\le N\) the base plus the member may be satisfiable, and the refutation part of the theorem says nothing there; the goal has \(m=N+1\). The conjecture about \(G\) is meaningful for every \(m\).

Onto is outside the conjecture's class, and its check is a control, not evidence. closed_row_freeness.py tests the one-row case: \(G\) for \(u=1\) is the top algebra of the point ideal \((c_j^2-c_j,\ y_j^2-y_j,\ c_jy_j-y_j,\ s-m,\ h)\) of \(\mathcal P_Z^{(1)}\), with \(c_j\) the occupancy and \(y_j\) the board row. Singular computes it as the saturated homogenization at \(z=0\), and compares \((I:\rho)\) with \(I+(\rho^{p-1})\) in degrees \(\le D-1\), with \(I\) this top ideal and \(\rho=\sum_jy_j\), over \(\mathbb F_3\). The sizes \(N=12\), \(D=3\) and \(N=16\), \(D=4\) meet the one-row seed bound \(4D\) but lie below the conjecture's \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\), which is 24 and 40, so a failure there would not refute it. Members as in ex:dense-row-freeness: the base, onto, merge, linear, selector and a two-form clause, on forms with nonzero coefficients on every hole.

Results (crf_N12.json, crf_N16_onto.json, crf_N16_linear.json, crf_control.json). The excess \(\dim(I:\rho)/(I+\rho^{p-1})\) is 0 in degrees 0 to 2 for all six members at \(N=12\), \(D=3\), for two seeds, and 0 in degrees 0 to 3 for onto and linear at \(N=16\), \(D=4\). At \(N=16\) the base, merge and selector runs hit the 30-minute cap without a result: the saturated homogenization of the point ideal in 32 variables is the bottleneck, and the clause was not attempted. The control detects failures below the seed bound: at \(N=4\), \(D=4\) every member has positive excess, up to 7. This is ex:closed-row-freeness. At these sizes the closure changes no summand in the degrees tested: the specialization falls of ex:hereditary-falls appear at board degree 4, which needs \(D\ge5\). So the check does not yet test the closure itself. That needs a compiled kernel on the direct-sum description of \(G\), in place of a Gröbner basis of the point ideal.

What this means

For column members, hypothesis (c) after closure is implied by one sufficient condition, the row freeness of graded functions on \(\mathcal P_Z\). The occupancy-ring condition of fiber gluing is gone.
If conj:closed-row-freeness holds, every member allowing at least half the slice satisfies (c) after closure once \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\), with no condition on its span. The single-hole member and its weight generalization show that some condition on \(Z\) is necessary.
The conjecture is a statement about one finite set of points and its degree filtration. Dehomogenized, \(r_i\) acts on \(\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z}\) as the row-\(i\) count modulo \(p\), and the fiber over a pattern \(c\) is the grid of row assignments to the occupied holes, a cube on them when \(u=1\). For large support it is free in low degree, by onto stability. The question is whether the degree filtration glues these fibers freely.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: Step 1 of the weak-base stability proof (the connecting map and the Frobenius lift), the socle criterion as used in the relative gluing proof, the fiber-gluing entry and the onto-stability proof. Claim searches (vanishing ideal of assignments, graded functions on a point set, low-weight members) found no result implying the lemma or the theorem. The nearest record is ex:component-hypothesis-injectivity-counterexample, where Frobenius generation fails for an equation member at \(n=8\), outside the conjecture's class and range. A fresh-context reviewer found the lemma, the theorem and the proposition correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

saturation argued directly, since every vanishing polynomial of degree \(\le D\) is a generator;
the onto system matched to the closed member in degrees \(\le D\), with \(N\equiv m\);
an unproved comparison with fiber gluing weakened;
sufficiency wording throughout;
the proposition generalized to all low-weight members;
the conjecture's class stated by density, since forbidden-value sets of forms over \(\mathbb F_p\) cut arbitrary sets on the slice, and its range of \(m\) stated;
the check's sizes placed below the conjecture's range, its ideal and degrees named, onto marked as a control;
the fibers described as grids and the content grading justified.

The changes weaken or justify statements; the only added claim, the weight generalization, is a two-line argument checked with the proposition. No further pass was made.

Remaining gap

conj:closed-row-freeness, in several-row contents and at the sizes where specializations fall.
Hypothesis (b) for closed members, whose tops carry pigeon cells; non-column members.

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Route review: the closed column member belongs in the base; three obligations remain, and the generic members' splitting over the closed base is the least tested

24 September 2026 · Route review and conjecture · The relative gluing line after closure gluing; cycle odd-prime-closed-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the closed column member belongs in the base; three obligations remain, and the generic members' splitting over the closed base is the least tested”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-closed-base-review.

General statement. The line's claim is thm:relative-gluing applied to the budget's members. After thm:closure-gluing, the column component enters closed, and its closed tops carry pigeon cells. So the column component can no longer be a member in the sense of hypothesis (b), whose tops must be polynomials in the member's own forms. The review moves it into the base. The new claim is conj:closed-base-splitting: the generic members' forms split over the top algebra of the weak base plus the closed column member, as conj:column-component-splitting asserted over the weak base alone.

The line after closure

Put \(B^\sharp\) for the homogenized weak base plus the closed column member \(\mathcal M_D(Z)\), \(Z\) the column constraints' allowed set. Apply thm:relative-gluing with \(B^\sharp\) as base and the generic (non-column) members as members. It needs:

\(z\) injective on \(B^\sharp\) below \(D\): by thm:closure-gluing this follows from conj:closed-row-freeness for \(Z\);
top syzygies through \(D\) split into cross-member Koszul syzygies and member-supported ones. By lem:tensor-splitting-locality this holds when the top algebra of \(B^\sharp\) is, through \(D\), free over the generic members' form algebras, or of the tensor form that lemma allows. This is conj:closed-base-splitting;
each generic member alone over \(B^\sharp\) has no fall below \(D\);
no constant generator, which holds since \(\mathcal P_Z\) is nonempty.

Hypothesis (a) of the weak base alone is proved (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, cor:base-by-fibers); it is now the case \(Z=\) the whole slice.

What the goal needs

For every fixed odd \(p\) and \(K\), all three items for the product clauses of any \(n^K\) adversarial families, at \(D=O(\log n)\), with column constraints in \(Z\) and all others as generic members. Items (a) to (c) are each open in general.

Falsification attempt

The attempt checks conj:closed-row-freeness, the input to (a), against the obstructions and parameters now recorded.

Low weight. prop:single-hole-member and its weight generalization refute the closed system when every pattern of \(Z\) has weight below \(\min(m,D)\). The budget's \(Z\) is the slice minus the patterns on which some clause's forms all take the forbidden values. By lem:quiet-members' union bound, those patterns have density at most \(n^K(1-1/p)^k\le1/n\) in the forms' value space. When the forms' values are close to uniform on the slice, which is the robustness the budget assumes, \(Z\) covers all but about \(1/n\) of the slice. So it contains patterns of every weight near \(N/2\), and the conjecture's density hypothesis holds. The obstruction does not apply.
Range. \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\) holds at \(D=O(\log n)\) for large \(n\).
Visibility. lem:quiet-members bounds the degree of polynomials vanishing on the allowed set in the forms' coordinates, not in the \(C_j\). Heuristically, a nonzero polynomial in the \(C_j\) of low degree cannot vanish off a set of density about \(1/n\), so \(\mathcal M_D(Z)\) agrees with the slice's own ideal up to degree of order \(\log n\). The closure would then matter only between that degree and \(D\), where the finite checks cannot reach. In ex:closed-row-freeness and ex:hereditary-falls the specialization falls start at board degree 4, which needs \(D\ge5\), and \(N\ge20\) for one row or \(N\ge60\) for the range.
Splitting. The closure's placed products \(x_Yg\) are not polynomials in column forms. So conj:column-component-splitting, stated for column-type constraints over the weak base, does not transfer. Its evidence, at \(n=8,9\) through degree 3, concerns unclosed components.

No obstruction refutes the conjectures. The attempt finds that (b) had to change form, and that its new form is untested.

Assessment of the line

Since the effective-board review, five cycles proved general statements:

fat-board stability;
onto stability;
fiber gluing, with a second proof of the base condition;
closure saturation;
closure gluing.

Hypothesis (c) for the column component went from a conjecture about effective boards to one freeness conjecture, stated for allowed sets covering half the slice, with a proved sparse analog. A necessary condition on the pattern weights is known. The evidence is exact but small, below the conjecture's range, and at degrees where the closure changes nothing. So the column side is reduced but not decided. The generic side has not moved since the splitting checks at \(n\le9\). Moving the column component into the base changes what (b) and (c) mean there, and neither has been tested in the new form. On this evidence the line is coherent and each step is general, but its decisive statements are conjectures whose tests exceed the current tools.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The highest-risk item is (b) in its new form, since the architecture fails if it fails and nothing tests it. conj:closed-base-splitting: over \(\mathbb F_p\), for a column allowed set \(Z\) covering at least half the slice and generic forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_k\) of the kind conj:column-component-splitting allows, the top algebra of \(B^\sharp\) is, through degree \(t\), free over \(\mathbb F[\ell_1,\dots,\ell_k]/(\ell^p)\) plus a part above degree \(t\).

Next step, on route item odd-prime-clause-transfer: test conj:closed-base-splitting at the sizes of the recorded splitting checks, \(n=8,9\) through degree 3. Compare the Hilbert series of the closed base's top algebra modulo random generic forms with the free prediction \(\mathrm{HS}/(1+q+q^2)^k\), for a closed selector and a closed clause, with the unclosed and base-only controls. Then return to conj:closed-row-freeness with a compiled kernel on the direct sum of \(G\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the statements of thm:relative-gluing (hypotheses (a) to (d)), lem:tensor-splitting-locality, conj:column-component-splitting and its checks, lem:quiet-members, and the last five entries. The review adds a conjecture and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Closed-base splitting: generic forms split exactly over the weak base plus a closed column member at n = 8, 9 through degree 3

24 September 2026 · Finite check · conj:closed-base-splitting at the recorded splitting sizes; cycle odd-prime-closed-splitting. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Closed-base splitting: generic forms split exactly over the weak base plus a closed column member at n = 8, 9 through degree 3”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-closed-splitting.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The closed-base review moved the closed column member into the base and named hypothesis (b) in its new form, conj:closed-base-splitting, as the least tested obligation. The cycle tests it where the recorded splitting checks ran.

General statement. conj:closed-base-splitting: the top algebra of the weak base plus a closed column member is free over generic forms through the degrees considered. ex:closed-base-splitting finds it exact in all 14 tested cases, including 7 where the closure changes the algebra.

The test

Tested statement. For the weak unary top algebra \(A\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) on \(n\) holes and \(n+1\) rows, and a column allowed set \(Z\), let \(A^\sharp=A/N\), with \(N\) the top ideal of the closed member. By lem:closure-saturation, \(N\) is spanned in degree \(t\) by \(x_Y\tau(C)\), \(Y\) in rows \(1,\dots,n\), \(\tau\) in the degree-\((t-|Y|)\) tops of polynomials vanishing on \(Z_{S(Y)}\). The prediction is \(\mathrm{HS}(A^\sharp/(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_k)A^\sharp)=\mathrm{HS}(A^\sharp)/(1+q+q^2)^k\) through degree 3, for \(k\le4\) uniform random forms \(\ell\in\mathbb F_3^{(n+1)\times n}\), which are row-dependent and generic. By graded Nakayama this is freeness over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) through degree 3.

Can it decide. The recorded splitting checks ran at these sizes: ex:column-member-splitting and ex:column-splitting-boundary, at \(n=8,9\) through degree 3. There random forms split off from the weak base and from unclosed column components. A failure would show that closing the member breaks the splitting. The test also records the closure's effect \(\dim A^\sharp_{\rm unclosed}-\dim A^\sharp\) by degree, so cases where the closure changes nothing are identified. Control: the unclosed member, the ideal of \(A\) generated by the augmented member's tops.

closed_split.py uses the a4lib normal forms and the compiled prefix-rank kernel of the recorded checks. Members: selector (forbid \(\ell=v\)), clause2 (forbid \(\ell_1=v_1,\ell_2=v_2\)) and merge (\(C_1C_2\)), on column forms with coefficients in \(\{1,2\}\), two seeds; the base is the whole slice. Independent check: for the merge, the closed member must give the fat board of cor:merging-members. validate_fat.py computes the fat board's top algebra in Singular: 1, 63, 1575, 19284 at \(n=8\) and 1, 80, 2645, 45940 at \(n=9\). These equal closed_split.py's \(\mathrm{HS}(A^\sharp)\) (validate_fat.json).

\(n\)	member	seed	\(\|Z\|\)/slice	\(\dim A^\sharp_2,\dim A^\sharp_3\)	closure effect, degrees 2, 3
8	base	1	85/85	1656, 22929	0, 0
8	selector	1	43/85	1594, 21399	0, 0
8	selector	2	52/85	1654, 22830	0, 0
8	clause2	1	64/85	1647, 22524	8, 360
8	clause2	2	75/85	1656, 22929	0, 0
8	merge	1	64/85	1575, 19284	80, 3600
8	merge	2	64/85	1575, 19284	80, 3600
9	base	1	171/171	2745, 51940	0, 0
9	selector	1	108/171	2716, 50219	27, 1593
9	selector	2	129/171	2744, 50890	0, 972
9	clause2	1	156/171	2745, 51940	0, 0
9	clause2	2	156/171	2745, 51940	0, 0
9	merge	1	129/171	2645, 45940	99, 5940
9	merge	2	129/171	2645, 45940	99, 5940

The excess is 0 in every degree for \(k=0,\dots,4\), closed and unclosed, in all 14 cases (n8_*.json, n9_*.json). The closure changes the algebra in 7 cases, by up to 5940 in degree 3; the closed algebra splits exactly there too. The two-form clause at \(n=9\) and seed 2 at \(n=8\) are invisible through degree 3. The selector covers 43 of 85 slice patterns at \(n=8\), seed 1, near the conjecture's half-slice bound.

A corrected control. A first version of the unclosed control used only the member's degree-\(t\) tops in degree \(t\), not their multiples by lower-degree monomials. That is not an ideal, and it showed negative excess, which graded Nakayama excludes for a module. After the correction every unclosed case splits too. The closed rows needed no correction: they span the top ideal of the saturated member, as the fat-board match confirms. The recorded files are those of the corrected run.

What this means

conj:closed-base-splitting passes at the recorded sizes, including cases where the closure changes the algebra. So moving the closed column member into the base does not break the splitting of generic forms there.
The check covers uniform random forms, which the budget's generic members only resemble, and degree 3 only. Splitting of column-type forms among themselves is not claimed; the record shows it fails (ex:column-member-splitting), which is why the column component is kept whole.
Of the three remaining obligations, (b) now has evidence comparable to what the unclosed version had. (a), through conj:closed-row-freeness, and (c) for generic members over the closed base remain untested at the degrees where the closure matters.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the recorded splitting drivers and results (column_random.py, member_split.py, ex:column-member-splitting, ex:column-splitting-boundary), lem:closure-saturation, and cor:merging-members. The closure rows were checked independently against the fat board in Singular. A control error was found and corrected before recording, as described above. The entry registers a finite check and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

Remaining gap

(c): each generic member alone over the closed base has no fall.
(a): conj:closed-row-freeness at \(D\ge5\).
Splitting at degrees above 3 and for the budget's structured generic forms.

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Global closure: closing all constraints at once gives an alternative sufficient condition for non-refutability; the generic members' own condition is not decidable at the sizes point-ideal Gröbner bases reach

24 September 2026 · Working proof (global closure gluing); cycle odd-prime-generic-over-closed. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Global closure: closing all constraints at once gives an alternative sufficient condition for non-refutability; the generic members' own condition is not decidable at the sizes point-ideal Gröbner bases reach”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-global-closure.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. After the closed-base review and the closed-splitting check, the untested obligation is (c): each generic member alone has no fall over the weak base plus the closed column member. The cycle tests it exactly on small boards. The test is not decidable at the sizes the point-ideal Gröbner computation reaches. The cycle then observes that the closure argument does not need members at all.

General statement. thm:global-closure-gluing: over a field of characteristic \(p\), for any nonempty set \(\mathcal Q\) of column-injective assignments whose total occupancy is \(\equiv m\pmod p\), and \(D\ge1\), the weak base plus all polynomials of degree at most \(D\) vanishing on \(\mathcal Q\) has no fall below \(D\) and no PC refutation of degree \(D\), provided the row-sum syzygies on the graded functions \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\) are Frobenius through degree \(D\). With \(\mathcal Q\) the assignments in the slice satisfying every budget constraint (row equations excluded), this is an alternative sufficient condition, besides (a) to (c) of relative gluing, for the lower bound the Taylor glue uses. The small-board attempt at (c) is recorded below and decides nothing.

The test of (c) and why it cannot decide

generic_fall.py computes \(\dim\ker z\) exactly in Singular over \(\mathbb F_3\), from Hilbert functions truncated at \(D\). It compares four systems:

the weak base;
the base plus a generic selector \(1-(\ell-v)^2\), \(\ell\) a uniform random form with row-dependent coefficients;
the base plus a closed column member, the degree-\(\le D\) part of the saturated homogenization of its point ideal;
the base plus both.

On the \(3\times7\) board, \(D=4\) (gf_3x7.json), \(\dim\ker z\) in degrees 0 to 3:

column member	seed	base	base + generic	closed	closed + generic
selector	1	0, 0, 0, 0	0, 0, 0, 0	0, 0, 1, 27	0, 0, 1, 27
selector	2	0, 0, 0, 0	0, 0, 0, 1	0, 0, 1, 27	0, 0, 1, 28
merge	1	0, 0, 0, 0	0, 0, 0, 0	0, 0, 0, 21	0, 0, 0, 27

The closed merge's falls, 0, 0, 0, 21, equal the recorded fat-board value on this board (ex:placed-pigeon-falls, base plus closure), a consistency check of the closure computation. The closed base falls at this size, and so does the base plus a generic member in one seed. Both are below their ranges: thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic needs \(N\ge(p-1)D^2=32\), and conj:closed-row-freeness needs \((p-1)(D+1)D=40\). So (c), which presupposes (a) for the closed base, cannot be isolated here. At \(3\times12\), \(D=3\), the Gröbner basis of the closed point ideal did not finish within the run's 120 s limit. The base and the base plus a generic selector have no fall there, but that board is also below both ranges (18 and 24), so this is not evidence either. Reaching the range needs the direct-sum construction of the closure, as in closure saturation, not a point-ideal Gröbner basis. It decides nothing about (c), and no finite-check claim is registered for it.

Global closure

Setting as in the closure-gluing entry: \(\mathcal P\) the column-injective assignments, \(F_d\) the functions of degree \(\le d\), \(\tilde A_z\) the Rees algebra. For a nonempty \(\mathcal Q\subseteq\mathcal P\) whose assignments all place a number of pigeons \(\equiv m\pmod p\), put \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal Q)=I(\mathcal Q)\cap F_D\), as generators.

Theorem (global closure gluing). Over a field of characteristic \(p\), with \(m\ge1\) and \(D\ge1\), put \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}=\bigoplus_dF_d|_{\mathcal Q}/F_{d-1}|_{\mathcal Q}\), and suppose every Koszul 1-cycle of \((r_1,\dots,r_{m-1})\) on \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\) of degree at most \(D\) is a sum of Frobenius cycles \(r_i^{p-1}c\,e_i\) (\(i\ge1\), \(c\in\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\)) and boundaries. Then the homogenized weak base plus \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal Q)\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). Consequently, the weak base plus any constraints of degree at most \(D\) vanishing on \(\mathcal Q\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). In particular this applies to constraints of degree at most \(D\) when \(\mathcal Q\), the assignments in \(\mathcal P\) with total occupancy \(\equiv m\) on which the constraints vanish, is nonempty and satisfies the hypothesis. The row equations are not among the constraints: if they were, every \(r_i\) would be constant on \(\mathcal Q\), \(e_i\) would be a cycle that is neither Frobenius nor a boundary, and the hypothesis would fail for every \(m\ge2\).

Proof. The closure-gluing proof applies verbatim. Saturation: for \(d\le D\), every element of \(I(\mathcal Q)\cap F_d\) is a generator, so the degree-\(d\) part of the ideal is \(I(\mathcal Q)\cap F_d\) and \(z\) is injective in degrees \(<D\). The top algebra agrees with \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\) through degree \(D\). Since \(s-m\) vanishes on \(\mathcal Q\) and \(D\ge1\), it is a generator, and \(r_0-z\) lies in the ideal generated by \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal Q)\) and the \(r_i-z\), \(i\ge1\). The Koszul sequence and Step 1's Frobenius lift give \(z\)-injectivity. The socle criterion excludes a refutation, since no generator is a nonzero constant for nonempty \(\mathcal Q\). For the consequence: each constraint \(g\) reduces, by the Boolean and column-exclusion axioms within degree \(\deg g\), to its multilinear form \(\bar g\in I(\mathcal Q)\cap F_D\). So a PC refutation of the smaller system of degree \(\le D\) is one of the larger system. Only non-refutability passes to the smaller system; \(z\)-injectivity does not, as the placed-pigeon falls show. \(\square\)

The column-member case is thm:closure-gluing, with \(\mathcal Q=\mathcal P_Z\). The direct-sum description of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\) used there is special to column members. For general \(\mathcal Q\) the graded module has no such decomposition, and no content reduction is available in general.

The hypothesis is not automatic for large \(\mathcal Q\). Let \(m\ge2\), \(p\ge3\), \(N\ge p+1\), and let \(\mathcal Q\) be the assignments with at most one pigeon in row 1 and total occupancy \(\equiv m\). Then \(r_1^2-r_1\) vanishes on \(\mathcal Q\), so \(r_1^2=0\) in \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\), and \(r_1e_1\) is a cycle of degree 2. For \(p\ge3\) no Frobenius cycle has degree 2. The only affine relation on \(\mathcal Q\) is \(s=m\): pick \(1\le k\le N-1\) with \(k\equiv m\) and put \(k\) pigeons in row 0. Moving one of them to another row at the same hole (allowed for row 1, which is empty) shows that a relation \(\sum a_{ij}x_{ij}=b\) has \(a_{0j}=a_{ij}\), and moving it to an empty hole shows \(a_{0j}=a_{0j'}\). So every affine relation is a multiple of \(s-m\), and the \(r_i\), \(i\ge1\), are independent in \(\operatorname{gr}_1\). Degree-2 boundaries have coefficients in \(\operatorname{gr}_0=\mathbb F\), so the \(e_1\)-coefficient of a boundary is \(\sum_{j\ge2}a_jr_j\ne r_1\). The hypothesis fails. The weak base already derives \(r_1^2-r_1\) at degree 2. The obstruction comes from the extra generators, such as \(x_{1j}x_{1j'}\), not from \(r_1^2-r_1\). The failure of this sufficient hypothesis does not show a fall or a refutation. It shows that a conjecture for the budget's \(\mathcal Q\) must exclude such sets.

What this means

For the lower bound the Taylor glue needs, no PC refutation of degree \(B\) for the weak base plus the budget's constraints of degree at most \(B\), the theorem gives an alternative sufficient condition: row freeness through degree \(B\) of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\), with \(\mathcal Q\) the assignments in the slice satisfying all budget constraints (row equations excluded), nonempty. The entry shows no implication in either direction between this condition and (a) to (c). It does not give the unclosed system's \(z\)-injectivity, which the placed-pigeon falls show can fail.
The pinned-row example shows that some condition excluding pinned rows is needed in any conjecture of this form.
(c) for generic members over the closed base is not decidable at the sizes the point-ideal Gröbner computation reaches; the direct-sum construction of the closure is needed to reach the range.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the closure-gluing entry (setting, lemma, theorem, proof), Step 1 of the weak-base stability proof, the socle criterion, and the Taylor glue's conclusion. Claim search (vanishing ideal of a solution set, graded functions, row freeness) found lem:closure-saturation and the cycle's neighbours, none implying the theorem. The small-board numbers are read from gf_3x7.json and the run logs. A fresh-context reviewer found the transfer of the closure-gluing proof sound. It required these changes, all adopted:

the consequence restricted to non-refutability, with the reduction of constraints to multilinear forms;
\(\mathcal Q\) defined in the slice, nonempty, without row equations, and \(D\ge1\);
\(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\) and the Frobenius cycles defined;
the content-reduction remark weakened;
the pinned-row example proved, with its hypotheses, and its conclusions limited;
"replaces" changed to "an alternative sufficient condition", and the relative-gluing and robustness claims removed;
"untestable" made precise;
the ranges named and the \(3\times12\) case placed below them.

The changes weaken or justify statements; the pinned-row argument adds no claim beyond the draft's. No further pass was made.

Remaining gap

A statement of global row freeness for the budget's \(\mathcal Q\), with its robustness hypothesis, and evidence at sizes in range.
conj:closed-row-freeness at \(D\ge5\); (c) for generic members over the closed base, tested with the direct-sum closure.

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Sparse closure stability: any closed column member on few holes has no falls with the weak base, and the slice is saturated in range

24 September 2026 · Working proofs · Closed row freeness for members on few holes; cycle odd-prime-direct-sum-kernel. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sparse closure stability: any closed column member on few holes has no falls with the weak base, and the slice is saturated in range”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-sparse-closure.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. By thm:closure-gluing, a closed column member has no falls with the weak base when the graded functions \(G=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z}\) on its allowed assignments are row-free. conj:closed-row-freeness asserts this for allowed sets covering half the slice. The closure-gluing condition had no proved case beyond onto, and the conjecture's checks run below range (closure gluing). The route's finite-check budget is spent, so the cycle proves the condition for members on few holes. This is the closed analog of lem:sparse-row-freeness.

General statement. thm:sparse-closure-stability: over a field of characteristic \(p\), let \(Z\) be the patterns in the slice whose restriction to a hole set \(H\) lies in a set \(Z_H\), with \(Z\) nonempty. If \(N-|H|\ge(p-1)(D+1)(D+p-1)\), the weak base plus the closed member \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal P_Z)\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). The key step is lem:slice-strictness: if \(\ker(s|\Gamma_e)=s^{p-1}\Gamma_{e-p+1}\) for \(e\le D+p-2\) in a filtered algebra's graded algebra \(\Gamma\), the level set \(t=s-m=0\) (\(t^p=t\)) is cut out without degree loss through degree \(D\). cor:slice-saturation: the occupancy slice is saturated through degree \(D\) when \(N\ge(p-1)(D+p-1)\), on the cube and on the weak board with any number of rows.

Slice strictness

Lemma (slice strictness). Let \(F\) be a filtered commutative algebra of functions on a finite set, \(F_0=\mathbb F\subseteq F_1\subseteq\cdots\), \(\Gamma=\operatorname{gr}F\). Let \(t\in F_1\) satisfy \(t^p=t\), with top \(s\in\Gamma_1\). Suppose that for \(e\le D+p-2\), \(\ker(s:\Gamma_e\to\Gamma_{e+1})=s^{p-1}\Gamma_{e-p+1}\). Then \(F_d\cap tF=tF_{d-1}\) for \(d\le D\), and the functions on the level set \(\{t=0\}\) satisfy \(\operatorname{gr}_d\mathbb F^{\{t=0\}}=\Gamma_d/s\Gamma_{d-1}\) for \(d\le D\).

Proof. Let \(h\in F_d\cap tF\). Then \(h\) vanishes on \(\{t=0\}\), and \(t^{p-1}=1\) off it, since \(t\) takes values in \(\mathbb F_p\) there. So \(h=t\cdot f\) with \(f=ht^{p-2}\), of degree \(\le d+p-2\). While \(e=\deg f\ge d\): the product \(tf=h\) has degree \(\le d\le e\), so \(s\bar f=0\) in \(\Gamma_{e+1}\), with \(\bar f\) the top of \(f\). Since \(e\le D+p-2\), \(\bar f=s^{p-1}\bar g\) for some \(g\in F_{e-p+1}\) with top \(\bar g\). Put \(f'=f-t^{p-1}g+g\). Then \(tf'=tf-t^pg+tg=tf\). The top of \(t^{p-1}g\) is \(s^{p-1}\bar g=\bar f\), so \(\deg(f-t^{p-1}g)<e\), and \(\deg g<e\). So \(\deg f'<e\). Repeating ends with \(\deg f\le d-1\), so \(h\in tF_{d-1}\). For the level set, \(\mathbb F^{\{t=0\}}=F/tF\) with the image filtration, and \(\operatorname{gr}_d=F_d/(F_d\cap tF+F_{d-1})=F_d/(tF_{d-1}+F_{d-1})=\Gamma_d/s\Gamma_{d-1}\). \(\square\)

The theorem

Theorem (sparse closure stability). Over a field of characteristic \(p\), with \(m\ge1\), a hole set \(H\), and \(Z=\{c\text{ in the slice}:c_H\in Z_H\}\) nonempty, suppose \(N-|H|\ge(p-1)(D+1)(D+p-1)\). Then the homogenized weak base plus \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal P_Z)\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. By thm:closure-gluing it suffices that every Koszul 1-cycle of \((r_1,\dots,r_{m-1})\) on \(G\) of degree at most \(D\) is Frobenius plus a boundary.

Content reduction. By lem:closure-saturation, \(G=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z_{S(Y)}}\), graded by the content of rows \(1,\dots,m-1\). Its content-\(c\) part, and the content-\(c\) parts of \(K_1,K_2\), coincide with those for the same construction on the rows of \(\operatorname{supp}c\), \(u=|\operatorname{supp}c|\le D\). The summands \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z_S}\) do not depend on the rows. By the same lemma, that construction is \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P^{(u)}_Z}\), where \(\mathcal P^{(u)}_Z\) is the set of assignments of holes to the rows of \(\operatorname{supp}c\) and a bulk row, with occupancy in \(Z\). The lemma's proof (bulk basis, vanishing, saturation) never uses the slice, only that the set is nonempty and that row 0 exists, so it applies to this set. The \(r_i\)-action on the summands depends only on the \(Z_S\), so the identification is one of \(T_u\)-modules. Work with this set.
Dropping the slice. Let \(\mathcal P'\) be the same assignments with \(c_H\in Z_H\) but no slice condition, and \(F=\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'}\) with the degree filtration in the variables \(C_j\), \(x_{ij}\) (\(i\in\operatorname{supp}c\)). \(\mathcal P'=\mathcal P'_H\times\mathcal P_{H^c}\), where \(\mathcal P_{H^c}\) is all assignments of the holes of \(H^c\), and the variables split. So \(\Gamma=\operatorname{gr}F=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'_H}\otimes\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_{H^c}}\). The second factor is \(\bigotimes_{j\in H^c}V_j\), \(V_j=\operatorname{span}(1,C_j,x_{ij})\) square-zero, since \(C_j^2=C_j\) and \(C_jx_{ij}=x_{ij}\) as functions. This is the weak column tensor power on \(u+1\) rows, with \(C_j\) in the place of row 0.
Free seeds. \(T_{u+1}=\mathbb F[R_0,\dots,R_u]/(R^p)\) acts on \(\Gamma\) by \(R_0\mapsto s=\sum_jC_j\) and \(R_i\mapsto r_i\), diagonally over the two factors. The \(p\)-th powers vanish in \(\Gamma\): \(s^p=s\) and \(r_i^p=r_i\) as functions, since they take values in \(\mathbb F_p\), so their degree-\(p\) tops are 0. On the first factor, \(R_0\) and \(R_i\) act through \(s_H=\sum_{j\in H}C_j\) and \(r_i^H\), which take values in \(\mathbb F_p\). Their \(p\)-th powers equal themselves as functions and vanish in gr, so \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'_H}\) is a graded \(T_{u+1}\)-module in degrees \(\ge0\). The isomorphism \(\Gamma\cong\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'_H}\otimes\bigotimes_{j\in H^c}V_j\) is \(T_{u+1}\)-linear with the diagonal action, since \(s=s_H+\sum_{j\in H^c}C_j\) and likewise for \(r_i\). Step 3 of the weak-base stability proof on \(u+1\) rows gives seed blocks of \((p-1)(u+1)\) holes of \(H^c\), at least \(D+p-1\) of them. The free-seed lemma, with \(M=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'_H}\otimes(\text{leftover holes})\), gives \(\Gamma\cong\Phi\oplus Q\), with \(\Phi\) free over \(T_{u+1}\) and \(Q\) in degrees \(\ge D+p-1\).
Restoring the slice. Let \(x\in\Gamma_e\), \(e\le D+p-2\), with \(sx=0\). Then \(Q_e=0\), so \(x\in\Phi_e\). \(\Phi\) is free over \(T_{u+1}\), hence over \(\mathbb F[R_0]/(R_0^p)\), so \(x\in s^{p-1}\Phi_{e-p+1}\). So lem:slice-strictness applies with \(t=s-m\): \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P^{(u)}_Z}=\Gamma/s\Gamma\cong\Phi/R_0\Phi\oplus Q/R_0Q\) through degree \(D\). Here \(\Phi/R_0\Phi\) is free over \(T_u\), and \(Q/R_0Q\) lives in degrees \(\ge D+p-1\).
Frobenius. \(H_1\) in degrees \(\le D\) uses \(\Gamma/s\Gamma\) only in degrees \(\le D\), and its identification with \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P^{(u)}_Z}\) is compatible with the \(r_i\), since restriction is an algebra map. As in Step 3's consequence, \(H_1(r;\cdot)\) in degrees \(\le D\) is spanned by Frobenius classes. Their content components are Frobenius cycles plus boundaries, which gives the hypothesis content by content. \(\square\)

Corollary (slice saturation). Over a field of characteristic \(p\), let \(F\) be the functions on the cube \(\{0,1\}^N\), or on the weak board's column-injective assignments with any number of rows, with the degree filtration, and \(s=\sum_jC_j\). If \(N\ge(p-1)(D+p-1)\), then \(I(\{s\equiv m\})\cap F_d=(s-m)F_{d-1}\) for \(d\le D\).

Proof. \(\Gamma=\bigotimes_jV_j\), with \(V_j=\operatorname{span}(1,C_j)\) on the cube and \(\operatorname{span}(1,C_j,x_{ij})\) on the board, square-zero. \(s\) acts diagonally as the primitive \(R\) of \(\mathbb F[R]/(R^p)\), by \(C_j\) on \(V_j\), and \(s^p=0\) in \(\Gamma\). On a block of \(p-1\) holes, \(s^{p-1}\cdot1=(p-1)!\,C_1\cdots C_{p-1}\ne0\), so \(\operatorname{Ann}(1)=0\) and the block is a free seed. With \(N\ge(p-1)(D+p-1)\) there are \(D+p-1\) blocks. The free-seed lemma, with the other factors as \(M\), gives \(\Gamma\cong\Phi\oplus Q\), \(\Phi\) free and \(Q\) in degrees \(\ge D+p-1\). So the kernel condition of lem:slice-strictness holds for \(e\le D+p-2\). \(\square\)

At \(p=3\) the bound is \(N\ge2(D+2)\). The fiber-gluing check (hered_s1.json, hered_s2.json) asserted this saturation on cubes for \((n,d)\) with \(d\le3\) at \(n=10\) and \(d\le4\) at \(n=11\). The corollary covers all of these except \(n=11\), \(d=4\), which needs \(N\ge12\).

Cases. A merge of a hole set \(H\) is a case, with \(Z_H\) the patterns occupying at most one hole of \(H\). The theorem gives the conclusion of cor:merging-members for its closed system in the range \(N-|H|\ge(p-1)(D+1)(D+p-1)\). The theorem allows any constraint on the occupancy of \(H\), including selectors and clauses whose forms vanish off \(H\).

What this means

The theorem proves the conclusion of conj:closed-row-freeness, the closure-gluing hypothesis, for every \(Z\) of the form slice \(\cap\{c_H\in Z_H\}\), with no density condition but in the larger range \(N-|H|\ge(p-1)(D+1)(D+p-1)\). It covers the conjecture's own instances only when \(N-|H|\) meets that range. The members the goal produces touch every hole, so the conjecture's dense case stays open.
The proof gives a sufficient condition for the dense case. Take an extension \(Z'\not\subseteq\) slice with \(Z'\cap\text{slice}=Z\), for example the members' forbidden-value sets on the whole cube, and \(\mathcal P'=\mathcal P_{Z'}\) on \(u\) rows and the bulk row. The condition is the kernel condition of lem:slice-strictness for \(\Gamma=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'}\), together with freeness of \(\Gamma/s\Gamma\) over \(T_u\) through degree \(D\). Freeness of \(\Gamma\) over \(T_{u+1}\) below degree \(D+p-1\) gives both. For a sparse member the product structure supplied it; a dense member has no unconstrained holes to supply seeds.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:closure-saturation and thm:closure-gluing with their proofs, lem:sparse-row-freeness, and the free-seed lemma and Step 3 of the weak-base stability proof. The claim search (sparse closed member, slice saturation) found no result implying the lemma or the theorem; cor:merging-members is the nearest special case. A fresh-context reviewer found the lemma (construction, descent, degree bookkeeping, gr of the level set) and the theorem's proof (product decomposition, square-zero factor, seed count, free-seed hypotheses, quotient by \(s\), Frobenius conclusion) correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the relation to conj:closed-row-freeness stated precisely (its conclusion, in a larger range);
"no proved case beyond onto" referred to the closure-gluing condition;
the saturation claim restated as cor:slice-saturation, proved with seeds of \(p-1\) holes on the cube and on the board with any number of rows, and compared exactly with the earlier check's sizes;
the merge case weakened to the conclusion of cor:merging-members;
closure saturation's use without the slice justified;
the module structures, the kernel condition and the compatibility with the \(r_i\) written out;
the dense-case condition stated as a sufficient condition with its extension \(Z'\);
the unused hypothesis \(D\ge1\) dropped.

cor:slice-saturation is new in this form; its proof is the reviewer's suggested argument and uses only the free-seed lemma and lem:slice-strictness, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'}\) over the row-sum algebra for dense \(Z\) (conj:closed-row-freeness).
(c) for generic members over the closed base; global row freeness for the budget's solution set.

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Seeded closure stability: every closed column member whose forms have a seeded span has no falls with the weak base, whatever its allowed values

24 September 2026 · Working proofs · Closed row freeness for seeded dense members; cycle odd-prime-dense-closure. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Seeded closure stability: every closed column member whose forms have a seeded span has no falls with the weak base, whatever its allowed values”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-seeded-closure.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The sparse-closure entry proved the closure-gluing hypothesis for members on few holes, with seeds from unconstrained holes. The budget's members touch every hole. The cycle asks whether seeds for the members' own forms, as in thm:board-seed-freeness, can replace the unconstrained holes, for any allowed set of form values.

General statement. lem:filtered-freeness-transfer: let \(R\) be the algebra of functions on a finite set of form values, filtered by degree, acting on a filtered algebra \(F\) of functions. If \(\operatorname{gr}F\) agrees below degree \(n_0\) with a free \(\operatorname{gr}R\)-submodule, then for every ideal \(J\subseteq R\), \(\operatorname{gr}(F/JF)=\operatorname{gr}F\otimes_{\operatorname{gr}R}\operatorname{gr}(R/J)\) in degrees \(<n_0\). thm:seeded-closure-stability: over a field of characteristic \(p\), if column forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) have an affine basis of values with multiplicity \((p-1)(D+1)^2\) at \(P_0\) and \((p-1)(D+1)\) at each other point, then for every set \(\Omega\) of allowed values, the weak base plus the closed member of \(Z=\{c\text{ in the slice}:\ell(c)\in\Omega\}\), if nonempty, has no fall below \(D\) and no PC refutation of degree \(D\). cor:seed-transfer-ranges: the same lemma improves cor:slice-saturation to \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)\) and thm:sparse-closure-stability to \(N-|H|\ge(p-1)(D+1)^2\).

Filtered freeness transfer

Lemma (filtered freeness transfer). Let \(R=\mathbb F^{\mathbb F_p^e}\), filtered by polynomial degree, with \(T_R=\operatorname{gr}R=\mathbb F[w_1,\dots,w_e]/(w^p)\). Let \(F\) be a filtered algebra with \(F_{-1}=0\) and a filtered algebra map \(R\to F\), and put \(\Gamma=\operatorname{gr}F\), a graded \(T_R\)-module. Suppose \(\Phi\subseteq\Gamma\) is a graded \(T_R\)-submodule, free on a homogeneous basis \((\bar b_\alpha)\) of degrees \(a_\alpha\), and \(\Gamma_d=\Phi_d\) for \(d<n_0\). Then for every ideal \(J\subseteq R\) and \(d<n_0\):

\(F_d\cap JF=\sum_\alpha(J\cap R_{d-a_\alpha})\,b_\alpha\), for lifts \(b_\alpha\in F_{a_\alpha}\) of \(\bar b_\alpha\);
\(\operatorname{gr}_d(F/JF)\cong\bigoplus_\alpha\operatorname{gr}_{d-a_\alpha}(R/J)=(\Phi\otimes_{T_R}\operatorname{gr}(R/J))_d\).

Suppose moreover that \(\Phi\) is free over \(T_R\otimes T_{\rm row}\), \(T_{\rm row}=\mathbb F[y_1,\dots,y_u]/(y^p)\), on a basis \((\bar c_\beta)\), with \(T_{\rm row}\) acting through the tops of elements \(y_i\in F_1\) that satisfy \(y_i^p=y_i\) in \(F\). Then in degrees \(<n_0\), \(\operatorname{gr}(F/JF)\) agrees with \(T_{\rm row}\otimes\operatorname{gr}(R/J)\otimes\operatorname{span}(\bar c_\beta)\), with \(y_i\) acting on the first factor. Nothing is claimed about \(y_i\) from degree \(n_0-1\) into degree \(n_0\).

Proof. Define \(\psi:\bigoplus_\alpha R\,e_\alpha\to F\), \(e_\alpha\mapsto b_\alpha\), filtered with \(e_\alpha\) in degree \(a_\alpha\). For \(r\in R\) of exact degree \(k\), the top of \(rb_\alpha\) is \(\bar r\bar b_\alpha\ne0\), since \(\Phi\) is free. So \(\operatorname{gr}\psi\) is the inclusion \(\Phi\hookrightarrow\Gamma\), and \(\psi\) is injective and strict: \(\psi(x)\in F_d\) exactly when \(x\) has filtration degree \(\le d\). For \(d<n_0\), \(\Gamma_d=\Phi_d\), so by induction on \(d\) from \(F_{-1}=0\), \(F_d=\psi\bigl(\bigoplus_\alpha R_{d-a_\alpha}e_\alpha\bigr)\).

\(R\) is a product of copies of \(\mathbb F\), so every \(R\)-module is semisimple; here only the \(R\)-module structure of \(F\) is used. The submodule \(M=\psi(\bigoplus R\,e_\alpha)\) is a direct summand, \(F=M\oplus M'\), and \(JF=JM\oplus JM'\). For \(d<n_0\), \(F_d\subseteq M\), so \(F_d\cap JF=F_d\cap JM=F_d\cap\psi(\bigoplus J\,e_\alpha)\). By strictness this is \(\psi(\bigoplus(J\cap R_{d-a_\alpha})e_\alpha)\), which is (a). Then \(\operatorname{gr}_d(F/JF)=F_d/(F_d\cap JF+F_{d-1})\). By (a) and \(F_{d-1}=\psi(\bigoplus R_{d-1-a_\alpha}e_\alpha)\), this is \(\bigoplus_\alpha R_{d-a_\alpha}/(J\cap R_{d-a_\alpha}+R_{d-1-a_\alpha})\), which is (b).

For the last part, take the \(T_R\)-basis \(\bar y^a\bar c_\beta\) of \(\Phi\), with \(0\le a_i<p\), and lifts \(y^ac_\beta\); these are lifts because the top of a product is the product of the tops. In \(F/JF\), \(y_i\cdot(\rho\,y^ac_\beta)=\rho\,y^{a+e_i}c_\beta\) if \(a_i+1<p\). Otherwise it is \(\rho\,y_i^py^{a-(p-1)e_i}c_\beta\), and \(y_i^p=y_i\) has lower degree, so the product vanishes in gr. So \(y_i\) acts on \(\bigoplus\operatorname{gr}(R/J)\,[\bar y^a\bar c_\beta]\) as on \(T_{\rm row}\otimes\operatorname{gr}(R/J)\otimes\operatorname{span}(\bar c_\beta)\), in degrees \(<n_0\). \(\square\)

The slice case. For \(e=1\), \(R\) the functions of \(s\), and \(J\) the functions vanishing at \(m\): \(J\cap R_k=(s-m)R_{k-1}\) for every \(k\). Polynomials of degree \(\le\min(k,p-1)\) represent \(R_k\), and \((w-m)R_{p-2}\) already has dimension \(p-1=\dim J\). So (a) gives \(F_d\cap JF=(s-m)F_{d-1}\) for \(d<n_0\), the conclusion of lem:slice-strictness. The hypotheses differ: slice strictness assumes a kernel condition through degree \(D+p-2\), the transfer lemma a free submodule below \(D+1\), and neither implies the other.

The theorem

Theorem (seeded closure stability). Over a field \(\mathbb F\) of characteristic \(p\), with \(m\ge1\), let column forms \(\ell_b=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)C_j\), \(\varphi_b:[N]\to\mathbb F_p\), \(b=1,\dots,d\), have an affine basis \(P_0,\dots,P_d\) of \(\mathbb F_p^d\) among the value vectors \((\varphi_1(j),\dots,\varphi_d(j))\). Let \(P_0\) be taken by at least \((p-1)(D+1)^2\) holes and each \(P_b\) by at least \((p-1)(D+1)\). Let \(\Omega\subseteq\mathbb F_p^d\), and let \(Z=\{c\text{ in the slice}:\ell(c)\in\Omega\}\) be nonempty. Then the homogenized weak base plus \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal P_Z)\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. By thm:closure-gluing it suffices that the row-sum Koszul cycles on \(G=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z}\) of degree at most \(D\) are Frobenius plus boundaries.

Content reduction. As in the sparse-closure proof, step 1, the content-\(c\) part of \(G\) is that of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z^{(u)}}\) on the \(u=|\operatorname{supp}c|\le D\) rows of \(\operatorname{supp}c\) and a bulk row. The identification is one of \(T_u\)-modules.
Joint seeds. Let \(F\) be the functions on all assignments to these \(u+1\) rows. Then \(\Gamma=\operatorname{gr}F\) is the column tensor power \(\tilde A_{u+1}\). The proof of thm:board-seed-freeness shows, for the full column tensor power on \(u'\) rows, with \(T=\mathbb F[Y_0,\dots,Y_{u'-1},W_1,\dots,W_d]/(Y_i^p,W_b^p)\) acting by \(Y_i\mapsto r_i\) and \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b\): a hole set with \(u'(p-1)\) holes of value \(P_0\) and \(p-1\) of each \(P_b\) is a seed, and \(t+1\) disjoint seeds give \(\tilde A_{u'}\cong(T\otimes M_0)\oplus Q\), with \(Q\) in degrees \(\ge t+1\). Here \(u'=u+1\le D+1\) and \(t=D\). The \(D+1\) blocks need \((u+1)(p-1)(D+1)\le(p-1)(D+1)^2\) holes at \(P_0\) and \((p-1)(D+1)\) at each \(P_b\). Replace \(Y_0\) by \(S=\sum_iY_i\), which acts as \(s=\sum_jC_j\). Since \((\sum_iY_i)^p=\sum_iY_i^p=0\), \(T=T_u\otimes T_R\) with \(T_u=\mathbb F[Y_1,\dots,Y_u]/(Y^p)\) and \(T_R=\mathbb F[S,W]/(p\text{-th powers})\). A \(T\)-module isomorphism does not depend on the choice of generators.
Transfer. Let \(R\) be the functions on \(\mathbb F_p^{1+d}\), mapping to \(F\) by \((s,\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d)\). These take values in \(\mathbb F_p\), so \(R\to F\) is a filtered algebra map with \(\operatorname{gr}R=T_R\). Let \(J\) be the functions vanishing on \(\{m\}\times\Omega\). Then \(F/JF\) is the functions on \(\mathcal P_Z^{(u)}\). The lemma, with \(n_0=D+1\), \(\Phi=T\otimes M_0\), and \(T_{\rm row}=T_u\) acting through the \(r_i\), \(i\in\operatorname{supp}c\), gives that \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z^{(u)}}\) is free over \(T_u\) in degrees \(\le D\).
Frobenius. \(H_1\) of the row sums in degrees \(\le D\) uses only degrees \(\le D\). On a free \(T_u\)-module it is spanned by Frobenius classes, whose content components are Frobenius cycles plus boundaries. \(\square\)

Scope. \(\Omega\) is arbitrary, so the theorem covers every member defined by conditions modulo \(p\) on forms in the seeded span: a single clause forbidding one value pattern, several clauses whose forms lie in one seeded span, and selectors or equations on such forms. A clause whose forms' value vectors span only a proper affine subspace must first be rewritten on a basis of that span. Members defined by integer occupancy counts, such as exactly one occupied hole of a set of at least \(p\) holes, are not of this form. The members need not be sparse: every hole may carry nonzero coefficients.

Improved ranges

Corollary (seed-transfer ranges). Over a field of characteristic \(p\):

the conclusion of cor:slice-saturation holds for \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)\);
the conclusion of thm:sparse-closure-stability holds for \(N-|H|\ge(p-1)(D+1)^2\).

Proof. In both proofs replace lem:slice-strictness by the transfer lemma with \(R\) the functions of \(s\) and \(J\) the functions vanishing at \(m\), using \(J\cap R_k=(s-m)R_{k-1}\) (the slice case above). It needs the free submodule only below degree \(D+1\). For the slice, seed blocks of \(p-1\) holes, \(D+1\) of them, give \(\Gamma\) free over \(\mathbb F[S]/(S^p)\) up to degrees \(\ge D+1\). For sparse members, blocks of \((p-1)(u+1)\) holes of \(H^c\), \(D+1\) of them, give freeness over \(T_{u+1}\supseteq\mathbb F[S]/(S^p)\). The \(T_u\)-freeness of the quotient follows from the lemma's last part. \(\square\)

What this means

The closure-gluing hypothesis now holds for every closed column member, with any allowed values, whose forms have an affine basis of values with multiplicities \((p-1)(D+1)^2\) at \(P_0\) and \((p-1)(D+1)\) at each other point, and whose allowed set \(Z\) is nonempty. This includes dense single clauses and families of clauses sharing such a span.
For this approach, what remains for the column component is span dimension. The theorem needs \(d\le(N-(p-1)(D+1)^2)/((p-1)(D+1))\). Above that the seed argument gives nothing, and freeness there is open. The budget's column constraints, from up to \(N^K\) clauses of about \(\log N\) forms each, can span that much. The transfer lemma gives a sufficient condition: freeness of the column tensor power over the full form algebra. Hypothesis (b) for closed members and (c) over the closed base remain open, as the remaining gap lists.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:board-seed-freeness with its proof, including the seed criterion and the lemma on board seed blocks for the full column tensor power, quoted in step 2; lem:closure-saturation, thm:closure-gluing, the sparse-closure proof and lem:slice-strictness. The claim search (seeded closed member, freeness transfer) found no result implying the lemma or the theorem; cor:seeded-selector-members is the nearest, for unclosed augmented selectors at \(p=3\). A fresh-context reviewer found the lemma (injectivity, strictness, surjectivity below \(n_0\), the direct summand, (a), (b), the last part including \(a_i+1=p\)), \(F/JF\) as the functions on \(\mathcal P_Z^{(u)}\), the degree bookkeeping, and both corollary ranges correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the relation to slice strictness corrected, with \(J\cap R_k=(s-m)R_{k-1}\) proved;
the lemma's hypotheses stated as used, with "free in degrees \(<n_0\)" defined;
the board-seeds claim quoted exactly, with the block count;
notation clashes removed;
the scope limited to conditions modulo \(p\) on forms in the span;
the comparison with cor:seeded-selector-members removed;
the span-dimension bullet restricted to this approach, with the theorem's bound and open status.

The changes weaken or justify statements and add no claim, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Closed column members whose forms span more than seeds allow.
(c) for generic members over the closed base; global row freeness for the budget's solution set.

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Generic form freeness: random column forms act freely far beyond the seed range, up to a span threshold that shrinks with the degree

24 September 2026 · Finite check and conjecture · Freeness over large column spans; cycle odd-prime-large-span. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Generic form freeness: random column forms act freely far beyond the seed range, up to a span threshold that shrinks with the degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-generic-form-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. thm:seeded-closure-stability needs the column tensor power free over the row sums and the members' forms, which board seeds give only for span dimension up to about \(N/((p-1)(D+1))\) (seeded closure). Seeds are sufficient, not necessary. The cycle asks how far freeness actually extends for generic forms, and whether it can carry the large spans the budget produces.

General statement. conj:generic-form-freeness: for each \(D\) there is \(c_D>0\) such that for column forms in general position with span dimension \(d\le c_DN-O(1)\), the column tensor power on few rows is free through degree \(D\) over its row sums and the forms. ex:generic-form-freeness supports it at \(p=3\), \(D=3,4\), and shows that freeness fails beyond a threshold, of about \(N/2\) at \(D=3\) and \(N/4\) at \(D=4\). So freeness over the full form algebra cannot carry spans of order \(N\) at the goal's degrees.

The test

Tested statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), the column tensor power \(\tilde A\) on \(R=2\) rows and \(N\) holes is free through degree \(D\) over \(T=\mathbb F[Y_0,Y_1,W_1,\dots,W_d]/(p\text{-th powers})\), acting by the row sums and column forms \(\ell_b=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)C_j\). By graded Nakayama this holds exactly when \(\mathrm{HF}(\tilde A/(r,\ell))_k=[q^k]\,(1+2q)^N/(1+q+q^2)^{2+d}\) for \(k\le D\), with the prediction positive there. That is the hypothesis lem:filtered-freeness-transfer needs in the seeded-closure proof on one board row plus the bulk row. form_freeness.py computes the Hilbert function in Singular. Forms: uniform random \(\varphi_b\in\mathbb F_3^N\), one seed. Controls: \(d=0\), the row sums alone, and coordinate forms \(C_1,\dots,C_d\), for which \(C_b^2=0\) forces failure.

Can it decide. Board seeds at \(D=3\) need an affine basis with multiplicity \((p-1)(D+1)^2=32\) at one point, so at these \(N\) they give nothing for any \(d\ge1\). A pass is freeness beyond seeds; a failure with positive prediction is genuine non-freeness.

Excess \(\mathrm{HF}-\text{prediction}\), from degree 2 up (degrees 0 and 1 are 0 throughout; ff_R2_D3.json, ff_R2_D3_large.json, ff_R2_D4.json; the prediction is positive in every case):

\(D\)	\(N\)	results
3	12	d=0: free; d=2: free; d=4: excess 0, 7; d=6: excess 1, 46; d=8: excess 6, 112; coord d=4: excess 8, 132
3	16	d=0: free; d=2: free; d=4: free; d=6: excess 0, 1; d=8: excess 0, 25; coord d=4: excess 8, 196
3	20	d=4: free; d=6: free; d=8: free; d=10: excess 0, 4; d=12: excess 0, 43
3	24	d=4: free; d=6: free; d=8: free; d=10: free; d=12: excess 0, 1
4	16	d=2: free; d=4: free; d=6: excess 0, 1, 71; d=8: excess 0, 25, 558; d=10: excess 2, 118, 1335
4	20	d=2: free; d=4: free; d=6: excess 0, 0, 6; d=8: excess 0, 0, 50; d=10: excess 0, 4, 548
4	24	d=2: free; d=4: free; d=6: free; d=8: excess 0, 0, 1; d=10: excess 0, 0, 8

Random forms are free up to \(d=2,4,8,10\) at \(N=12,16,20,24\) for \(D=3\), and up to \(d=4,4,6\) at \(N=16,20,24\) for \(D=4\). They fail from \(d=4,6,10,12\) and \(d=6,6,8\) respectively. Coordinate forms fail from degree 2, and the row sums alone are free. This is ex:generic-form-freeness.

What this means

Freeness extends far beyond the seed range for generic forms: at \(N=24\), \(D=3\), ten random forms act freely where seeds allow none.
It still stops at a span threshold that shrinks with \(D\): about \(N/2\) at \(D=3\) and \(N/4\) at \(D=4\). The data cannot tell whether the decay is like \(1/D\) or exponential in \(D\); \(D=5\) would need \(N\) near 48. Either way the covered span shrinks relative to \(N\) as \(D\) grows, while the budget's column constraints can span up to \(N\) at \(D=O(\log N)\).
So the transfer lemma must be applied with a smaller algebra than all the forms: the member needs only \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z}\) free over the rows, not freeness over its forms. Large spans need an argument that uses the allowed set, for instance through a seeded sub-span that already determines \(Z\) up to low degree.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:seeded-closure-stability and lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, the board-seeds proof's seed criterion, and the graded-Nakayama criterion used in the recorded board-affine checks. The controls behave as predicted: the row sums alone are free, and coordinate forms fail from degree 2 since \(C_b^2=0\). The entry registers a finite check and a conjecture and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

Remaining gap

The rate of the threshold in \(D\); a proof of generic freeness below it.
Closed column members of large span, through the allowed set rather than the full form algebra.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 38.17 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 57.34 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 14.98 s
Other external-tool windows	1 min 25.71 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: closed column members are stable for sparse, seeded and block-structured constraints; the adversarial dense case is the recorded largest gap

24 September 2026 · Route review, finite check and conjecture · The column component after closure; cycle odd-prime-column-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: closed column members are stable for sparse, seeded and block-structured constraints; the adversarial dense case is the recorded largest gap”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-column-component-review.

General statement. The line's claim is that the budget's column constraints, closed under their vanishing polynomials, leave the weak base without falls below \(D\) (thm:closure-gluing, conj:closed-row-freeness). The review's falsification attempt finds that span dimension alone is not the obstacle: ex:pair-matching-closed-freeness shows a member of span \(N/2\), beyond both the seed range and the generic threshold, with row-free graded functions. The new claim is conj:block-seed-stability: constrained hole blocks act as seeds, so column members that are products over many disjoint blocks are stable.

The line since the closed-base review

Since the closed-base review, five research cycles ran:

closed splitting, a check at \(n=8,9\);
global closure, an alternative sufficient condition for non-refutability;
sparse closure, members on few holes, and slice saturation;
seeded closure, with the filtered freeness transfer lemma: members whose forms have a seeded span, for any allowed values;
generic form freeness: freeness over the forms extends beyond seeds but stops at a span threshold that shrinks with \(D\).

What the goal needs

At \(D=O(\log N)\), for the column constraints of any \(N^K\) adversarial clauses: the closure-gluing hypothesis for their allowed set \(Z\), which covers all but about \(1/N\) of the slice. Then (b) and (c) over the closed base, or the global closure condition for all constraints together.

Falsification attempt: is span the obstacle?

If large span alone broke closed stability, the column route would fail for the budget, whose column constraints can span up to \(N\). The attempt takes a member of large span with no seeded structure: pair merges over a perfect matching of the holes, at most one occupied hole in each pair \(\{2t,2t+1\}\). Its forms \(C_{2t}+C_{2t+1}\) span \(N/2\). That is beyond the seed range, and beyond the generic threshold of ex:generic-form-freeness, about 2 at \(N=12\), \(D=3\) and 4 at \(N=16\), \(D=4\). closed_row_freeness.py (member 'pairs') computes the one-row test of conj:closed-row-freeness exactly in Singular. The excess is 0 at \(N=12\), \(D=3\) and at \(N=16\), \(D=4\), and 0 for the base control (crf_pairs.json). This is ex:pair-matching-closed-freeness. Like the earlier closed checks it lies below the conjecture's range and tests content \(ke_1\) only.

The explanation is structural. The closed member is a board of \(N/2\) fat columns. A fat column is a square-zero module with \(1\mapsto\) the row sums of its cells, and in a tensor product of such blocks the products of row sums over distinct blocks are independent, as for ordinary columns. So the constrained blocks supply the seeds themselves. The attempt does not refute the line; it locates the obstacle. Large span is harmless when the constraints factor over many blocks. The open case is entanglement: dense forms that tie all holes together, so that no block of holes is free of the others. That is the adversarial axis the generalization review called the largest gap: special position survives every choice of prefix sets, so no generic theorem transfers.

Assessment of the line

The column component went from effective boards to one freeness condition with three proved classes: sparse, seeded, and, conjecturally, block-structured members. Each proof is general in its class. Their method is the same: seeds from somewhere, then transfer. The budget's worst case, dense entangled forms of span near \(N\), is covered by none of them. The generic-form data show that freeness over the forms themselves stops at a threshold shrinking with \(D\). So a proof for that case cannot come from freeness over the forms, and must use the allowed set, which covers all but \(1/N\) of the slice. (b) and (c) over the closed base, and the global condition, are untested at sizes in range. The line has become a precise statement of what is left: freeness of graded functions on nearly-full allowed sets cut by entangled forms. No recorded mechanism reaches it.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The highest-risk item remains the column component's dense entangled case. Before attacking it, the next cycle should secure what the falsification attempt suggests, since block structure is the natural intermediate class. conj:block-seed-stability: over a field of characteristic \(p\), if the column constraints factor over disjoint hole blocks \(B_1,\dots,B_M\), each block's allowed set having nonconstant occupancy count and some occupied hole, and \(M\ge(p-1)(D+1)^2\), then the closed member has no falls with the weak base below \(D\).

Next step, on route item odd-prime-clause-transfer: prove conj:block-seed-stability by the block-seed argument, with lem:filtered-freeness-transfer for the slice. Then ask whether an entangled member contains, after restriction to a large sub-board, a block-structured or seeded one at the degrees that matter. That is a density question about the allowed set, not about the forms.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the statements and proofs of thm:sparse-closure-stability, thm:seeded-closure-stability, lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, thm:fat-board-stability (whose seeds were ordinary columns), the generic-form data, and the adversarial row of the generalization review. The pair-matching check reuses the recorded closed-freeness driver with one added member. The review adds a finite check and a conjecture and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 47.77 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 21.50 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 11.99 s
Other external-tool windows	8 min 14.14 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Block-seed stability: closed column members that factor over many blocks, each allowing two occupancy counts mod p, have no falls with the weak base

24 September 2026 · Working proofs · Closed column members factoring over hole blocks; cycle odd-prime-block-seeds. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Block-seed stability: closed column members that factor over many blocks, each allowing two occupancy counts mod p, have no falls with the weak base”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-block-seeds.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The column-component review found pair merges of span \(N/2\) row-free and conjectured that constrained hole blocks act as seeds (conj:block-seed-stability). The cycle proves its version with the count condition read modulo \(p\), a refinement; the integer-count version stays open for blocks whose counts agree modulo \(p\).

General statement. lem:good-block-seeds: call a hole block \(B\) with allowed set \(Z_B\subseteq\{0,1\}^B\) good if \(Z_B\) contains two patterns whose weights differ modulo \(p\). A product of \((p-1)(u+1)\) good blocks is a free seed for the row sums of \(u\) rows and the occupancy count. thm:block-seed-stability: over a field of characteristic \(p\), if the holes are partitioned into blocks, \(Z\) is the set of slice patterns whose restriction to each block \(B_t\) lies in \(Z_t\), \(Z\) is nonempty, and at least \((p-1)(D+1)^2\) blocks are good, then the weak base plus the closed member \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal P_Z)\) has no fall below \(D\) and no PC refutation of degree \(D\). An unconstrained hole is a good block of size one, so the theorem contains cor:seed-transfer-ranges for sparse members. A merged pair is a good block, so it contains merges of a perfect matching.

Good blocks are seeds

Work, as in the sparse-closure proof, on \(u\) board rows and a bulk row, with the degree filtration in the variables \(C_j\) and \(x_{ij}\). For a block \(B\) let \(\mathcal P'_B\) be the assignments of the holes of \(B\) to these rows with occupancy in \(Z_B\), and \(\Gamma_B=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'_B}\). \(T_{u+1}=\mathbb F[R_0,\dots,R_u]/(R^p)\) acts on \(\Gamma_B\) by \(R_0\mapsto s_B=\sum_{j\in B}C_j\) and \(R_i\mapsto r_i^B=\sum_{j\in B}x_{ij}\). These take values in \(\mathbb F_p\), so their \(p\)-th powers vanish in gr. \(\Gamma_B\) lives in degrees \(\ge0\), with \(\Gamma_{B,0}=\mathbb F\) when \(Z_B\ne\emptyset\).

Lemma (good-block seeds). If \(B\) is good, the images of \(s_B,r_1^B,\dots,r_u^B\) in \(\Gamma_{B,1}\) are linearly independent. If \(B_1,\dots,B_b\) are good, \(b=(p-1)(u+1)\), then in \(W=\Gamma_{B_1}\otimes\cdots\otimes\Gamma_{B_b}\), with \(T_{u+1}\) acting diagonally, \(\operatorname{Ann}_{T_{u+1}}(1)=0\).

Proof. Independence: suppose \(\alpha s_B+\sum_i\beta_ir_i^B\) is constant on \(\mathcal P'_B\). \(Z_B\) has a pattern with an occupied hole \(j\), since two weights differ. Moving the pigeon at \(j\) between the bulk row and row \(i\) keeps the occupancy and changes \(r_i^B\) by 1, so \(\beta_i=0\). Then \(\alpha s_B\) is constant on \(Z_B\), where \(s_B\) takes two values modulo \(p\), so \(\alpha=0\).

Seed: \(W\) is multigraded by the degree in each block. Write \(y_0^{(t)}=s_{B_t}\) and \(y_i^{(t)}=r_i^{B_t}\). For an exponent vector \(a\), \(a_i\le p-1\), \(|a|\le b\), the component of \(\prod_iR_i^{a_i}\cdot1\) in multidegree 1 on a set \(K\) of \(|a|\) blocks and 0 elsewhere is \(a!\sum_\sigma\bigotimes_{t\in K}y^{(t)}_{\sigma(t)}\). The sum runs over the maps \(\sigma:K\to\{0,\dots,u\}\) taking each value \(i\) exactly \(a_i\) times, and \(a!=\prod a_i!\) is a unit. By the independence in each block, these tensors for distinct \(a\) with the same \(|a|\) are linearly independent. Elements with different \(|a|\) have different degrees. So a relation \(\sum_a\lambda_a\prod R^a\cdot1=0\) forces every \(\lambda_a=0\). \(\square\)

The theorem

Theorem (block-seed stability). Over a field of characteristic \(p\), with \(m\ge1\), let the holes be partitioned into blocks \(B_1,\dots,B_M\), let \(Z_t\subseteq\{0,1\}^{B_t}\), and let \(Z=\{c\text{ in the slice}:c_{B_t}\in Z_t\ \forall t\}\) be nonempty. If at least \((p-1)(D+1)^2\) of the blocks are good, the homogenized weak base plus \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal P_Z)\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. By thm:closure-gluing it suffices that the row-sum Koszul cycles on \(G=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z}\) through degree \(D\) are Frobenius plus boundaries.

Content reduction. As in the sparse-closure proof, step 1, pass to \(\mathcal P_Z^{(u)}\) on the \(u\le D\) rows of a content's support and the bulk row, as \(T_u\)-modules.
Product without the slice. Let \(\mathcal P'=\prod_t\mathcal P'_{B_t}\), the assignments with \(c_{B_t}\in Z_t\) for all \(t\), without the slice. The variables split over the blocks, so \(\Gamma=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'}=\bigotimes_t\Gamma_{B_t}\). This is a \(T_{u+1}\)-linear isomorphism with the diagonal action, since \(s=\sum_ts_{B_t}\) and \(r_i=\sum_tr_i^{B_t}\). Each \(Z_t\) is nonempty because \(Z\) is.
Seeds. Group \((p-1)(u+1)(D+1)\le(p-1)(D+1)^2\) good blocks into \(D+1\) groups of \((p-1)(u+1)\). By the lemma each group \(W_k\) is a free seed: \((W_k)_0=\mathbb F\cdot1\) and \(\operatorname{Ann}(1)=0\). The groups are different seeds, since each block has its own \(Z_t\). The free-seed lemma's proof applies unchanged to \(W_1\otimes\cdots\otimes W_{D+1}\otimes M\): each \(W_k\) splits as \(T_{u+1}\cdot1\oplus Q_k\) with \(Q_k\) in degrees \(\ge1\), and the expansion is the same. With the remaining blocks as \(M\) (a graded \(T_{u+1}\)-module in degrees \(\ge0\)), it gives \(\Gamma=\Phi\oplus Q\) with \(\Phi\) free over \(T_{u+1}\) and \(Q\) in degrees \(\ge D+1\).
Slice. \(T_{u+1}=\mathbb F[S]/(S^p)\otimes T_u\), with \(S=R_0\) acting as \(s\). Apply lem:filtered-freeness-transfer with \(R\) the functions of \(s\), \(J\) those vanishing at \(m\), \(n_0=D+1\), and \(T_{\rm row}=T_u\) acting through the \(r_i\), which satisfy \(r_i^p=r_i\). It gives that \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P_Z^{(u)}}=\operatorname{gr}(\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'}/J\mathbb F^{\mathcal P'})\) is free over \(T_u\) in degrees \(\le D\).
Frobenius. As in the seeded-closure proof, step 4. \(\square\)

Cases. A hole outside every constraint is a block with \(Z_t=\{0,1\}\), good. So a member on a hole set \(H\) with \(N-|H|\ge(p-1)(D+1)^2\) is a case, which is cor:seed-transfer-ranges for sparse members. A merge of a pair has \(Z_t=\{00,10,01\}\), weights 0 and 1, so it is good. For \(N\) even and \(m\ge1\), merges of a perfect matching are stable once \(N/2\ge(p-1)(D+1)^2\); \(Z\ne\emptyset\) holds since occupying up to \(N/2\ge p-1\) pairs hits every residue modulo \(p\). The checks of ex:pair-matching-closed-freeness, at \(N=12\), \(D=3\) and \(N=16\), \(D=4\), lie far below this range (\(N\ge64\) at \(D=3\)), so the theorem does not cover them. A block whose allowed set fixes its count modulo \(p\), such as an onto block \(Z_t=\{1\}\) or a block allowing exactly one occupied hole, is not good. Such blocks are allowed, but they do not count as seeds.

What this means

The theorem proves the modulo-\(p\) version of conj:block-seed-stability, a partial resolution: large-span column members that factor over many good blocks are stable. A block with allowed counts \(\{0,p\}\) satisfies the conjecture's integer condition but is not good, since \(s_B\) is constant on it modulo \(p\); that case stays open. Span is not the obstacle, and the seeds may come from the constrained blocks themselves.
The remaining column cases are members that neither factor with at least \((p-1)(D+1)^2\) good blocks nor have a seeded span (thm:seeded-closure-stability). These include factored members made mostly of count-fixed blocks, and dense forms tying all holes together. The next question is whether such a member, restricted to a large sub-board, contains a factored or seeded one at the degrees that matter.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the sparse-closure proof, lem:filtered-freeness-transfer with its slice case, the seeded-closure proof, the free-seed lemma, and conj:block-seed-stability. The claim search (block seeds, fat columns, factored members) found thm:fat-board-stability and the sparse and seeded theorems, none implying this one. A fresh-context reviewer found the lemma (independence via the pigeon move, the seed computation) and the theorem (product decomposition, count, transfer hypotheses) correct and every hypothesis used. It required these changes, all adopted:

the free-seed lemma stated for distinct seeds;
the relation to the conjecture recorded as a partial resolution (modulo \(p\));
the remaining gap restated to include factored members with few good blocks and to exclude seeded spans;
the perfect-matching case given its hypotheses and compared with the check's sizes.

The changes weaken statements or add a one-sentence justification, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Column members that neither factor with enough good blocks nor have a seeded span; the integer-count case of conj:block-seed-stability.
(c) for generic members over the closed base; global row freeness for the budget's solution set.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 38.03 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 1.39 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 36.51 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Entangled probe: dense selector and clause families are closed row-free at small sizes, and hole deletions and placements cannot supply seeds for dense forms

24 September 2026 · Finite check and observation · Closed column members with entangled dense forms; cycle odd-prime-entangled. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Entangled probe: dense selector and clause families are closed row-free at small sizes, and hole deletions and placements cannot supply seeds for dense forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-entangled-probe.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. After the block-seed and seeded-closure theorems, the open column case is members that neither factor over many good blocks nor have a seeded span: families of clauses on dense forms that tie all holes together. The cycle probes whether such members break the closure-gluing hypothesis, and whether a restriction could reduce them to a proved case.

General statement. conj:closed-row-freeness asserts the closure-gluing hypothesis for allowed sets covering half the slice. ex:entangled-closed-freeness finds it, in one-row contents at \(N=12\), \(D=3\), for families of 2 to 4 selectors and of 4 two-form clauses on independent dense random forms, including spans beyond the generic threshold of ex:generic-form-freeness. obs:restriction-no-seeds: for \(p\ge3\), when the forms' value map \(j\mapsto(\varphi_1(j),\dots,\varphi_d(j))\) is injective, no restriction that deletes holes or places pigeons produces value multiplicities, so thm:seeded-closure-stability cannot be reached by these restrictions. Random forms are injective with probability at least \(1-\binom N2p^{-d}\), so with high probability once \(d\ge2\log_pN+\omega(1)\).

The probe

Tested statement. For \(Z\) the slice minus the forbidden sets of a clause family, the associated graded functions on \(\mathcal P_Z^{(1)}\) (one board row and the bulk row) satisfy \((I:\rho)=I+(\rho^{p-1})\) in degrees \(<D\), \(I\) the top ideal of the point ideal. This is the one-row case of the closure-gluing hypothesis, as in ex:closed-row-freeness. closed_row_freeness.py gains members 'selectorsT', \(T\) selectors \(1-(\ell_t-v_t)^2\) on independent dense forms (coefficients in \(\{1,2\}\), span \(T\)), and 'clausesT', \(T\) clauses each forbidding one value pattern of two fresh dense forms (span \(2T\)).

Can it decide. At \(p=3\) a selector has degree 2, so the selector families are visible in the degrees the test compares, \(\le D-1=2\). The two-form clauses have degree 4 and are visible only through lower-degree elements of their vanishing ideal. The generic-form threshold at \(N=12\), \(D=3\) is about \(d=2\), so selector families of span 3 and 4 are beyond it, where freeness over the forms fails. The sizes meet the one-row seed bound \(4D\) and lie below the conjecture's range \((p-1)(D+1)D=24\). The selector families cover about \((2/3)^T\) of the slice, below the conjecture's half; the clause family covers more than half. A failure here would therefore not refute the conjecture, but a pass shows that entangled members do not fail where freeness over their forms already does.

Results (crf_ent_*.json, excess in degrees 0 to 2):

member	span	seed	excess
selectors2	2	1	0, 0, 0
selectors3	3	1, 2	0, 0, 0
selectors4	4	1, 2	0, 0, 0
clauses4	8	1	0, 0, 0

This is ex:entangled-closed-freeness.

Restrictions do not supply seeds

Two restrictions keep the system an instance of the weak base plus a column member. Deleting a hole \(j\) sets \(x_{ij}=0\) for all \(i\): the board has \(N-1\) holes, and the member is restricted to \(C_j=0\). Placing pigeon \(i_0\) in hole \(j_0\) sets \(x_{i_0j_0}=1\), \(x_{ij_0}=0\) for \(i\ne i_0\) and \(x_{i_0j}=0\) for \(j\ne j_0\): the board has \(m-1\) rows and \(N-1\) holes, and the member is restricted to \(C_{j_0}=1\). A PC refutation restricts to a PC refutation of the restricted system at no larger degree, so a degree lower bound for a restriction gives one for the original. Reaching a proved case this way would also need the restricted member to meet that theorem's other hypotheses: the allowed set is shifted by \(\varphi_b(j_0)\) under a placement, and the theorems conclude closure stability, which gives the lower bound through the socle criterion.

Observation (restriction gives no seeds). Let \(p\ge3\), and let the value map \(j\mapsto\varphi(j)=(\varphi_1(j),\dots,\varphi_d(j))\) of the member's forms be injective on the holes. Then after any sequence of hole deletions and pigeon placements, the remaining holes have pairwise distinct value vectors, so no value is taken twice. The multiplicity condition of thm:seeded-closure-stability needs at least \((p-1)(D+1)\ge2\) holes at each basis point, so it fails for every such restriction with \(d\ge1\). Uniform random \(\varphi\in(\mathbb F_p^N)^d\) is injective with probability at least \(1-\binom N2p^{-d}\).

Proof. A deletion restricts the value map to the remaining holes. A placement replaces each form by \(\ell_b|_{C_{j_0}=1}\), which keeps the coefficients \(\varphi_b(j)\) of the other holes and shifts the allowed values by \(\varphi_b(j_0)\). Both preserve injectivity on the remaining holes. Two fixed holes share a value vector with probability \(p^{-d}\), and the union bound gives the estimate. \(\square\)

The seeded theorem is applied to the forms through which \(Z\) is defined. A sub-span or projection of the forms need not define \(Z\), so the observation does not address a seeded sub-span that determines \(Z\) up to low degree; that route is open. Other restrictions, such as setting single cells to 0 or identifying holes, are not covered. Remark, not proved: whether a restriction can make a dense member factor over blocks depends on its span, since combinations such as \(\ell_1-\ell_2\) may be block-supported, not on the supports of the individual forms. No claim is made about the block route.

What this means

In the one-row test at \(N=12\), \(D=3\), entangled selector and clause families behave like the proved classes: no failure appeared. The probe covers degree-2 structure only, and \(D\ge5\) would be needed to see the clause families' own degree.
Hole deletions and pigeon placements cannot reach the seeded theorem for dense random forms. What remains is a proof of closed row freeness for nearly full allowed sets cut by dense forms, through the block route, a seeded sub-span that determines the allowed set at low degree, or the allowed set directly, or a counterexample at larger degree.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:seeded-closure-stability's multiplicity condition, thm:block-seed-stability's block condition, the closed-freeness driver and its earlier controls (ex:closed-row-freeness, including failures below the seed bound), and ex:generic-form-freeness. A fresh-context reviewer checked the observation. It found the seed part correct for the two restrictions with \(p\) odd, and required: the restrictions defined exactly (placements remove a pigeon and a hole); the scope limited to these two restriction types; \(p\ge3\) stated; the projection question addressed; the probability statement given with its \(\omega(1)\) margin; and the block sentence downgraded to an unproved remark. All were adopted. They weaken statements, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

A proof, or a counterexample, of closed row freeness for entangled dense members, at degrees where their clauses are visible.
(c) for generic members over the closed base; global row freeness for the budget's solution set.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	29 min 10.47 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9 min 39.59 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	39.59 s
Other external-tool windows	18 min 51.16 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Sequential transfer attempt: cutting clauses out one at a time gives no reduction, since only the last step's hypothesis is used

24 September 2026 · Unsuccessful attempt, withdrawn at review · Entangled column members; cycle odd-prime-subspan. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sequential transfer attempt: cutting clauses out one at a time gives no reduction, since only the last step's hypothesis is used”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-sequential-transfer.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. thm:seeded-closure-stability needs freeness over all of a member's forms at once, which stops at a span threshold (ex:generic-form-freeness). The cycle tried to cut an entangled member's clauses out one at a time, so that each step would involve one clause's few forms and the total span would never enter.

General statement. The all-parameter claim the cycle targeted is conj:closed-row-freeness for entangled members. The attempt does not advance it. Iterating lem:filtered-freeness-transfer does not carry freeness over the next clause's forms through a quotient, since the lemma returns only freeness over the rows. So a clause-by-clause statement uses only its last step's hypothesis, which involves every clause through the quotient. No claim is registered.

Why the reduction is vacuous

Put \(F_0\) for the functions on all assignments to \(u\) rows and the bulk row, and \(F_t=F_{t-1}/J_tF_{t-1}\) for the clauses in some order, with the slice last. The drafted lemma assumed, at each step \(t\), that \(\operatorname{gr}F_{t-1}\) is free below degree \(n_0\) over clause \(t\)'s forms and the rows, and concluded freeness of the final quotient over the rows. The last part of lem:filtered-freeness-transfer returns freeness over the rows only, so step \(t\) never supplies step \(t+1\)'s hypothesis. The conclusion follows from the last step alone, by one application of the transfer lemma to \(F_{T-1}\). With the slice last, that hypothesis is that the graded functions on the unsliced set allowed by all clauses are free below \(D+1\) over \(\mathbb F[S]/(S^p)\otimes T_u\), which involves every clause. A genuinely sequential version would carry freeness over the remaining clauses' forms through each quotient. The transfer lemma's last-part argument extends to any \(\mathbb F_p\)-valued degree-1 elements, but that version needs joint freeness at the first step, which is the threshold the attempt meant to avoid. A fresh-context reviewer identified this, and the lemma is withdrawn before registration.

The small-size data

seq_freeness.py computed, on one board row and the bulk row (\(u=1\)) at \(N=12\), \(D=3\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), whether \(G_{t-1}\) is free through degree \(D\) over \(s\), \(r=\sum_jy_j\) and clause \(t\)'s forms. \(G_{t-1}\) is gr of the functions on the unsliced assignments allowed by clauses \(1,\dots,t-1\). The quantity is excess \(=\mathrm{HF}(G_{t-1}/(s,r,\ell_t))-[q^k]\,\mathrm{HS}(G_{t-1})\bigl((1-q)/(1-q^3)\bigr)^{2+k_t}\) in degrees 0 to 3, with the \(T\)-action induced by the forms and the row sum. By graded Nakayama a positive excess refutes freeness. Zero excess is necessary for freeness but does not verify the transfer lemma's hypothesis in higher degrees. The joint control is freeness of \(G_0\) over all the forms at once (seq_*.json):

family	seed	excess per step (0 = zero in all degrees)	joint
4 selectors	1	0; 0; 0,0,0,1; 0,0,0,1	0,0,0,9
4 selectors	2	0; 0,0,0,2; 0,0,0,1; 0,0,1,21	0,0,1,30
2 two-form clauses	1	0; 0,0,0,4	0,0,0,5

These numbers do not test the only hypothesis the reduction uses, the slice step on the full allowed set, which was not computed. They also cannot show that earlier clauses degrade freeness over later ones, since the control over each clause's forms alone on \(G_0\) was not run. The selector failures, with one form per step, are unexplained at this size. The excesses of steps and joint control belong to rings with different numbers of generators and are not compared. The run covers \(u=1\) only. A run at \(N=16\) did not finish within 30 minutes.

What this means

There is no clause-by-clause shortcut through the transfer lemma. Any route through it needs freeness of the whole allowed set's graded functions over the rows and \(s\), which is the closure-gluing hypothesis itself, or joint freeness over the forms, which stops at the span threshold.
The entangled case needs a new idea. Either a freeness mechanism for nearly full allowed sets that uses more than the forms, or a counterexample at degrees where the clauses are visible.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:filtered-freeness-transfer and the seeded-closure proof. A fresh-context reviewer found the drafted lemma formally correct but vacuous as a sequential reduction. It found that the data test neither the used hypothesis nor any degradation. The lemma is withdrawn, the data are recorded with their limits, and no claim is registered.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	33 min 46.53 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	25.09 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 21.16 s
Other external-tool windows	30 min 0.14 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Route review: the closure route proves every structured column member, fails at entangled ones, and pinned symmetric counts break it at low density

24 September 2026 · Route review with a finite check · The clause-transfer line after the column-component cycles; cycle odd-prime-line-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the closure route proves every structured column member, fails at entangled ones, and pinned symmetric counts break it at low density”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-clause-transfer-line-review.

General statement. The line's claim is that the budget's constraints, closed under their vanishing polynomials, leave the weak base without a refutation of degree \(D=O(\log N)\): by relative gluing over the closed column base (conj:closed-row-freeness, conj:closed-base-splitting, and (c)), or by thm:global-closure-gluing's single condition. The falsification attempt, ex:symmetric-pin-nonfreeness, finds a new obstruction: an allowed set pinning a symmetric occupancy count of degree 3 breaks closed row freeness at a size where the base and a selector pass.

Where the line stands

Proved, with fresh-context review: closure saturation and closure gluing; global closure gluing; closed stability for sparse members, for seeded spans with any allowed values (via the filtered freeness transfer lemma), and for members factoring over many good blocks; slice saturation in a linear range. Measured: freeness over the forms stops at a span threshold that shrinks with \(D\) (ex:generic-form-freeness). Failed: reaching seeds by restriction for dense forms (obs:restriction-no-seeds), and clause-by-clause transfer, withdrawn as vacuous (sequential attempt). Untested in range: (b) and (c) over the closed base, and entangled members.

What the goal needs

For the column constraints of any \(N^K\) adversarial clauses at \(D=O(\log N)\): the closure-gluing hypothesis for an allowed set covering all but about \(1/N\) of the slice, cut by dense forms of span up to \(N\). Then (b) and (c), or the global condition.

Falsification attempt: pinned symmetric counts

The pinned-row example (global closure) showed that pinning a row count breaks the freeness condition. Its column analog pins a symmetric function of the occupancy. The attempt takes \(Z=\{c\text{ in the slice}:e_3(c)\equiv a\pmod3\}\), where \(e_3\) is the third elementary symmetric polynomial. By Lucas' theorem this fixes the weight modulo 9, a relation of degree 3 covering about a third of the slice. closed_row_freeness.py (member 'e3pin') computes the one-row closed test exactly in Singular over \(\mathbb F_3\). At \(N=12\), \(D=4\) the excess is 0, 0, 0, 970 in degrees 0 to 3. The base and a single selector, which covers two thirds of the slice, give 0 throughout at the same size (crf_e3pin.json, crf_e3pin_control.json). At \(N=9\), \(D=4\) the pin gives 0, 1, 0, 0. \(N=12\) is below the one-row seed bound \(4D=16\) at \(D=4\), so the comparison with the controls, not the size, carries the conclusion. This is ex:symmetric-pin-nonfreeness.

The pin lies outside conj:closed-row-freeness's class, which needs half the slice, so it refutes nothing recorded. It shows what the density hypothesis must exclude: low-degree relations on the allowed set that pin symmetric occupancy counts. For the budget's allowed set, which covers all but about \(1/N\) of the slice, a relation vanishing on it has degree at least about \(\log_2N\): a nonzero multilinear polynomial of degree \(r\) is nonzero on at least a \(2^{-r}\) fraction of the cube, and the slice condition changes this only by a constant factor. So such pins can arise only between degree \(\log_2N\) and \(D\). That window is exactly where the clauses are visible and where no test so far reaches.

Assessment of the line

Every structured class of column members is now proved: sparse, seeded, and block-factored. The two attempts at entangled members failed for identifiable reasons. The obstructions found are pinned counts: of a row, of a low-weight occupancy, and of a symmetric occupancy function. All three are excluded by density, and all live at degrees the budget's allowed set cannot reach below \(\log_2N\). The remaining question is sharp: whether entangled dense clause families can create such a pin between \(\log_2N\) and \(D\). Neither the proofs nor the checks reach that window. The line's prospects depend on a mechanism that controls low-degree relations on nearly full allowed sets. The pinning obstructions suggest one: show that the closed algebra of a nearly full allowed set has no pinned symmetric relation below \(D\), and that this suffices for freeness.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The highest-risk item is the entangled column case in the window between \(\log_2N\) and \(D\). Next step, on route item odd-prime-clause-transfer: build a compiled kernel for the closed algebra's direct-sum form \(G=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z_{S(Y)}}\), for one row, computing \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z_S}\) from function spaces on the slice. Use it for a counterexample search: entangled selector and clause families at sizes in range (\(N\ge24\) at \(D=3\)). Include families designed to approximate a symmetric pin with many clauses. Record whether any fails where the base passes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the pinned-row example and its proof, conj:closed-row-freeness and its class, the closed-freeness controls, and the entries of this line since the column-component review. The pin check uses the recorded driver with one added member and two controls at the same size. The degree bound for relations on nearly full sets is the standard Schwartz–Zippel-type bound on the cube, stated here as a heuristic for the slice. The review adds a finite check and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	15 min 30.40 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	8 min 49.80 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 44.47 s
Other external-tool windows	3 min 56.00 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Direct-sum search: a compiled kernel for the closed algebra finds entangled selector families row-free in range at degree 3, where they do not yet interact

24 September 2026 · Finite check with a validated kernel · Entangled column members in the conjecture's range; cycle odd-prime-direct-sum-search. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Direct-sum search: a compiled kernel for the closed algebra finds entangled selector families row-free in range at degree 3, where they do not yet interact”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-direct-sum-search.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The line review asked for a counterexample search for closed row freeness on entangled members at sizes in range, beyond what point-ideal Gröbner bases reach, including members built to approximate a pin.

General statement. conj:closed-row-freeness, in its one-row case. ex:in-range-selector-freeness: at \(N=24\), \(D=3\), inside the conjecture's range \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D=24\), the base and families of 1 to 16 selectors on independent dense random forms (three seeds up to 8 forms, two seeds for 12 and 16) all pass. Families of 12 and 16 forms are beyond the generic-form threshold of about 10 at this size. The selectors' contributions to the Hilbert function are exactly additive through degree 3, so at this degree they do not interact and the test cannot see entanglement.

The kernel

direct_sum.cpp computes the one-row test on the direct-sum form of lem:closure-saturation: \(G=\bigoplus_Sy_SQ_S\), \(Q_{S,e}=\mathrm{Mon}_e(S^c)/\mathfrak a_{S,e}\), with \(\rho(\mu y_S)=\sum_{j\notin S\cup\mu}[\mu]_{S\cup j}y_{S\cup j}\). The excess is \(\dim\ker(\rho|G_k)-\dim\rho^{p-1}G_{k-p+1}\) for \(k\le D-1\), the quantity of closed_row_freeness.py. The tops \(\mathfrak a_{S,e}\) come from the kernel of evaluation on a random sample of allowed points. Each kernel vector is verified on every point of the subcube by a subset-sum transform, and failures add points and repeat, so the result is exact. run_direct_sum.py builds the members with the recorded random sequence.

Validation. Against the recorded Singular values the kernel agrees in every case tried (ds_validation.json):

the base and four selectors at \(N=12\), \(D=3\): 0, 0, 0;
the symmetric pin at \(N=9\), \(D=4\): 0, 1, 0, 0;
at \(N=12\), \(D=4\): 0, 0, 0, 970 for the symmetric pin, and 0 for the base and a selector;
the below-range controls: 0, 1, 1, 0 for the base at \(N=3\), and 0, 0, 2, 0 for a selector and a clause at \(N=4\).

An \(N=18\) case takes 2 seconds, and an \(N=24\), \(D=3\) case about 2 to 3 minutes on 12 threads.

The in-range search

Can it decide. \(N=24\), \(D=3\) is the smallest size in the conjecture's range at \(D=3\). A selector has degree 2 and is visible in the degrees compared, \(\le2\) for the kernel condition. Symmetric pins of degree 3 are not visible at \(D=3\), and \(D=4\) in range would need \(N\ge40\), out of reach, so the pin-approximating families asked for by the review were not run. The families' allowed sets cover about \((2/3)^T\) of the slice, so for \(T\ge2\) they lie outside the conjecture's half-slice class. A failure would still be informative. A pass is evidence only for what the degrees compared can see.

member	seeds	dims, degrees 0 to 3	excess
base	1	1, 47, 1056, 15089	0, 0, 0
1 selector	1, 2, 3	1, 47, 1055, 15043	0, 0, 0
2 selectors	1, 2, 3	1, 47, 1054, 14997 (14996 for seed 3)	0, 0, 0
4 selectors	1, 2, 3	1, 47, 1052, 14905 (14903 for seed 3)	0, 0, 0
6 selectors	1, 2, 3	1, 47, 1050, 14813 (14811 for seed 3)	0, 0, 0
8 selectors	1, 2, 3	1, 47, 1048, 14721, 14720, 14719	0, 0, 0
12 selectors	1, 2	1, 47, 1044, 14537, 14536	0, 0, 0
16 selectors	1, 2	1, 47, 1040, 14353, 14351	0, 0, 0

Files: ds_N24_D3_part1.json (14 cases, written from the run's log after it reached its 30-minute cap), ds_N24_D3_part2.json, ds_N24_D3_beyond.json. This is ex:in-range-selector-freeness.

What the dimensions show. Each selector lowers \(\dim G_2\) by 1 and \(\dim G_3\) by 46, up to a deficit of at most 2 in degree 3 from coincidences. For 16 selectors, \(15089-14353=736=16\cdot46\). So through degree 3 the selectors' ideals meet as if independent. The entangled interactions a counterexample would need do not appear at this degree, and the pass is evidence of freeness for non-interacting dense constraints, not for entangled ones.

What this means

The kernel makes the one-row closed test exact and fast, with all Singular values reproduced. It reaches the conjecture's range at \(D=3\) and closes the "below range" objection there.
At \(D=3\), however, dense selector families do not interact, so no in-range test at this degree can probe entanglement. Interactions need degree at least that of products of the members' constraints, which is \(\ge4\) for selectors at \(p=3\), and \(D=4\) in range needs \(N\ge40\). The entangled case therefore stays undecided by computation, and needs a proof or a structural argument about interactions.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:closure-saturation's direct-sum form, the definition of the excess in closed_row_freeness.py, and the recorded values used for validation. The kernel was validated case by case against Singular before the in-range runs, including a failing case (excess 970) and below-range controls. The entry registers a finite check and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

Remaining gap

Entangled members at degrees where their constraints interact.
A proof of closed row freeness for nearly full allowed sets cut by dense forms.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	53 min 56.23 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 25.96 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 37.41 s
Individually measured computation	45 min 52.72 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Interaction locality: the closed algebra of an intersection is determined by its pieces in the Mayer–Vietoris sense exactly when vanishing ideals add degree by degree, which fails on small boards, also for pairwise determination

24 September 2026 · Working proof (degreewise gluing) and a finite refutation of unconditional locality; cycle odd-prime-interactions. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Interaction locality: the closed algebra of an intersection is determined by its pieces in the Mayer–Vietoris sense exactly when vanishing ideals add degree by degree, which fails on small boards, also for pairwise determination”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-interaction-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The direct-sum search left entangled members at degrees where their constraints interact, out of computational reach in range. Its next step asked for a structural statement: the closed algebra of an intersection of allowed sets is determined through degree \(D\) by the pieces and their small interactions, with freeness under a robustness condition. The missing implication is row freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z}\) for \(Z=\bigcap_iU_i\), the budget's allowed set, from that of simpler sets. The natural tool is the Mayer–Vietoris sequence of function modules. It transfers freeness from \(U\), \(W\), \(U\cup W\) to \(U\cap W\) when it stays exact after grading by degree. The cycle states exactly when it does, bounds the failure, and tests the exactness on small boards before building a transfer on it.

General statement. lem:degreewise-gluing: for subsets \(U,W\) of the Boolean cube over any field, degree-\(d\) functions on \(U\) and \(W\) that agree on \(U\cap W\) glue to a degree-\(d\) function on \(U\cup W\) exactly when \(I_d(U\cap W)=I_d(U)+I_d(W)\). This holds for all \(d\le D\) exactly when the graded Mayer–Vietoris sequence is exact through degree \(D\). Gluing always succeeds after a degree shift \(\delta\), the degree of a polynomial separating \(U\) from \(W\setminus U\), which is \(k(p-1)\) for a \(k\)-form clause. For \(n\) sets, gluing in a chosen order gives the shift \((n-1)\delta\). ex:interaction-locality-failure: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for dense random selectors on the slice with \(N\le11\) and \(d\le4\), both exact pairwise locality and the pairwise determination of triple intersections fail in some cases. Neither holds unconditionally. All the boards are below the ranges of the recorded closed-freeness conjectures, so the check says nothing about them in range.

Setting

\(\mathbb F\) is any field in (a) and (b); in (c) it has characteristic \(p\). \(P\) is the space of multilinear polynomials in \(x_1,\dots,x_N\), identified with functions on \(\{0,1\}^N\) and filtered by degree, \(P_d\) the part of degree \(\le d\). For \(X\subseteq\{0,1\}^N\):

\(I_d(X)=\{f\in P_d:f|_X=0\}\);
\(F_d(X)=P_d|_X\), so \(\mathbb F^X\) is filtered by the \(F_d(X)\);
\(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^X=\bigoplus_dF_d(X)/F_{d-1}(X)\), the graded functions of the global-closure entry, with the convention \(F_{-1}(X)=0\).

In the application \(X\) lies in the occupancy slice and is cut out by allowed-value conditions on \(\mathbb F_p\)-linear forms. By lem:closure-saturation, the closed member's top algebra through degree \(D\) is \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^X\) there.

The lemma

Lemma (degreewise gluing). Let \(U,W\subseteq\{0,1\}^N\) and \(d\ge0\). Parts (a) and (b) hold over any field.

The following are equivalent:
1. every pair \(f\in F_d(U)\), \(g\in F_d(W)\) with \(f=g\) on \(U\cap W\) is the pair of restrictions of one \(h\in F_d(U\cup W)\);
2. \(I_d(U\cap W)=I_d(U)+I_d(W)\);
3. \(\Delta_d:=\dim F_d(U\cup W)-\dim F_d(U)-\dim F_d(W)+\dim F_d(U\cap W)=0\).
Always \(\Delta_d\le0\).
(i) holds for every \(d\le D\) if and only if the sequence \(0\to\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{U\cup W}\to\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{U}\oplus\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{W}\to\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{U\cap W}\to0\), with maps induced by the restrictions and the difference of restrictions (restriction preserves the filtration), is exact in every degree \(\le D\). The quantifier over all \(d\le D\) is needed: exactness of the degree-\(d\) part alone does not give (i) at \(d\).
Shift. Let \(\mathbb F\) have characteristic \(p\). Suppose \(\chi\in P\) has degree \(\le\delta\), \(\chi=0\) on \(U\) and \(\chi=1\) on \(W\setminus U\); nothing is required elsewhere. Then \(I_d(U\cap W)\subseteq I_{d+\delta}(U)+I_{d+\delta}(W)\), so every compatible pair as in (i) glues in \(F_{d+\delta}(U\cup W)\). For a clause allowed set \(U=\{c:(\ell_1(c),\dots,\ell_k(c))\ne(v_1,\dots,v_k)\}\), with \(\ell_t\) affine forms with coefficients in \(\mathbb F_p\) and \(v=(v_1,\dots,v_k)\in\mathbb F_p^k\), the multilinear reduction of \(\prod_t\bigl(1-(\ell_t-v_t)^{p-1}\bigr)\) is such a \(\chi\) with \(\delta=k(p-1)\). For \(n\ge2\) sets \(U_1,\dots,U_n\) in a chosen order, with \(\chi_i\) for \(i<n\) of degree \(\le\delta\), \(0\) on \(U_i\) and \(1\) off \(U_i\) on the whole cube, \(I_d(\bigcap_iU_i)\subseteq\sum_{i<n}I_{d+i\delta}(U_i)+I_{d+(n-1)\delta}(U_n)\). No \(\chi_n\) is needed, \(n=2\) is the two-set statement, and the bound depends on the order.

Proof. (a) Choose representatives \(\tilde f,\tilde g\in P_d\). A glue exists if and only if some \(h\in P_d\) has \(h-\tilde f\in I_d(U)\) and \(h-\tilde g\in I_d(W)\), that is, if and only if \(\tilde f-\tilde g\in I_d(U)+I_d(W)\): given \(\tilde f-\tilde g=a+b\), put \(h=\tilde f-a=\tilde g+b\). Compatibility means \(\tilde f-\tilde g\in I_d(U\cap W)\), and every \(e\in I_d(U\cap W)\) arises, with \(\tilde f=e\), \(\tilde g=0\). So (i) is (ii). Next, \(\dim I_d(X)=\dim P_d-\dim F_d(X)\), \(I_d(U)\cap I_d(W)=I_d(U\cup W)\) and \(I_d(U)+I_d(W)\subseteq I_d(U\cap W)\). Hence \(\dim I_d(U\cap W)-\dim(I_d(U)+I_d(W))=-\Delta_d\ge0\), with equality exactly under (ii).

(b) The level-\(d\) sequence \(L_d\colon0\to F_d(U\cup W)\to F_d(U)\oplus F_d(W)\to F_d(U\cap W)\to0\) is a complex. It is injective on the left, since a function on \(U\cup W\) is determined by its restrictions, and surjective on the right, since \(F_d(U\cap W)\) is a restriction of \(P_d\). It is exact in the middle exactly under (i). The inclusions \(L_{d-1}\subseteq L_d\) give a short exact sequence of complexes \(0\to L_{d-1}\to L_d\to\operatorname{gr}_d\to0\), where \(\operatorname{gr}_d\) is the degree-\(d\) part of the graded sequence and \(L_{-1}=0\). By its long exact homology sequence, exactness of \(L_{d-1}\) and \(L_d\) gives exactness of \(\operatorname{gr}_d\), and exactness of \(L_{d-1}\) and \(\operatorname{gr}_d\) gives exactness of \(L_d\). Induction on \(d\) proves (b).

(c) For \(f\in I_d(U\cap W)\) write \(f=f\chi+f(1-\chi)\). \(f\chi\) vanishes on \(U\). \(f(1-\chi)\) vanishes on \(U\cap W\) because \(f\) does, and on \(W\setminus U\) because \(\chi=1\) there. Multilinear reduction does not raise degree, so both terms lie in \(P_{d+\delta}\). For the clause, \((\ell_t-v_t)^{p-1}\) is 1 where \(\ell_t\ne v_t\) and 0 where \(\ell_t=v_t\), since the values lie in \(\mathbb F_p\); the product is the indicator of the forbidden set. For \(n\) sets, \(1=\sum_{i<n}\chi_i\prod_{j<i}(1-\chi_j)+\prod_{j<n}(1-\chi_j)\) by telescoping, as polynomials. Multiply by \(f\). For \(i<n\) the \(i\)-th term vanishes on \(U_i\) and has degree \(\le d+i\delta\). The last term has degree \(\le d+(n-1)\delta\) and vanishes on \(U_n\): on \(\bigcap_jU_j\) because \(f\) does, and elsewhere on \(U_n\) because some \(1-\chi_j\), \(j<n\), vanishes there. \(\square\)

What (b) would give. If the graded sequence is exact through \(D\) and \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{U\cup W}\) is free over the truncated row algebra, then its image is a direct summand, since free modules over that self-injective algebra are injective. So \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{U\cap W}\) is a direct summand of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^U\oplus\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^W\) and inherits freeness from them. Making this precise through a finite degree needs care with truncation; it is not stated as a result here, because its exactness hypothesis fails in the checks below.

The checks

Can it decide. The unconditional statements "\(\Delta_d=0\) for dense selector pairs" and "\(I_d(U_1\cap U_2\cap U_3)=\sum_{i<j}I_d(U_i\cap U_j)\)" are refuted by one failing case at any size. In range, the conjectures need \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\), 24 at \(D=3\) and 40 at \(D=4\). There the ideals do not interact through \(D=3\) (the direct-sum search), and \(D\ge4\) is out of reach. So these checks can refute only the unconditional forms, not a range-restricted one. Sizes: the slice \(\sum c\equiv m\pmod3\) has 85 points at \(N=8\), 341 at \(N=10\), 683 at \(N=11\); \(P_4\) has 386 monomials at \(N=10\).

The forms have independent uniform coefficients in \(\{1,2\}\), not all equal, over \(\mathbb F_3\); a selector forbids one value \(v\) of its form. mv_locality.py computes \(\Delta_d\) by ranks for two selectors, or two two-form clauses, on the slice and on its pinned sub-slices \(x_j=1\) for \(j\le2\) (degrees \(\le4-|S|\)); 17 checks per case. triple_locality.py computes the ideals as nullspaces for three selectors, and compares \(I_d(U_1\cap U_2\cap U_3)\) with the sum of the pairwise and of the single ideals. validate_locality.py confirms that the rank and nullspace computations of \(\Delta_d\) agree, and that the shift bound of (c) holds, in all 12 pair cases it runs at \(N=8,10\).

case (\(N\), seed)	pair checks failing	examples (\(S\), \(d\), \(\Delta_d\))
10, 1, selectors	6 of 17	(\(\emptyset\), 3, −2), (\(\emptyset\), 4, −4), (\(\{0\}\), 3, −3), (\(\{1\}\), 2, −1)
10, 2, selectors	0 of 17
11, 1, selectors	5 of 17	(\(\emptyset\), 3, −1), (\(\emptyset\), 4, −4), (\(\{0\}\), 3, −1), (\(\{1\}\), 3, −1)
10, 1, two-form clauses	1 of 17	(\(\emptyset\), 4, −1)

Triples, \(d=2,3,4\) (tri_*.json): of 18 triples \(\times\) degrees, the pair defects are nonzero in 16 of 54 pairs. \(I_d\) of the triple intersection exceeds the sum of the pairwise ideals twice: by 1 at \(N=8\), \(d=2\), and by 2 at \(N=11\), \(d=4\) (seed 1). It exceeds the sum of the single ideals by up to 12. This is ex:interaction-locality-failure.

The defect is not monotone in \(d\): at \(N=8\), pair \(\{1,2\}\) has \(\Delta=-1,-4,-1\) at \(d=2,3,4\). That fits the shift of (c): an element of \(I_d(U\cap W)\) outside the sum lies in the sum at degree \(d+2\).

What this means

The structural statement asked for, in its Mayer–Vietoris form, is exactly (ii) of the lemma at each degree. It is false without a range hypothesis, even for two dense selectors, and pairwise determination of triples is false too. So interaction-locality cannot be a lemma valid on all boards. Any version must use the range, which is the regime where the direct-sum search shows no interaction through degree 3.
The always-available version loses \(\delta=k(p-1)\) degrees per gluing and, done clause by clause, \((n-1)\delta\) in total. For \(n^K\) clauses at \(D=O(\log n)\) that is useless. Whether the loss must grow with the number of sets is open. The recorded sequential transfer attempt failed for the same reason, a clause-by-clause argument whose cost is paid at each step.
The main record's filtered affine tree gluing (lem:filtered-affine-tree-gluing) is the analogous statement for functionals on subalgebras. Its three-space example, pairwise-consistent but not gluable, is the same phenomenon at degree one. It is not a statement about vanishing ideals of point sets and does not imply the lemma.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:closure-saturation's identification of the top algebra with \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^X\), the direct-sum search's additivity data, the sequential-transfer withdrawal, and lem:filtered-affine-tree-gluing. Claim searches (the lemma's content words; Mayer–Vietoris; the dual functional form) found only the tree-gluing lemma, which neither implies nor follows from this one. The rank and nullspace computations agree on every validation case, and every quoted count is read from the result files by script. A fresh-context reviewer found no wrong step. It required these changes, all adopted:

the field hypothesis confined to (c), with \(v\in\mathbb F_p^k\) and \(\mathbb F_p\) coefficients explicit;
the convention \(F_{-1}=0\);
the induced maps named in (b), and a note that the quantifier over all \(d\le D\) is needed;
the sharper \(n\)-set bound, which needs no \(\chi_n\), depends on the order and recovers the two-set case;
the two-set hypothesis on \(\chi\) kept to \(U\cup W\).

The changes state hypotheses and sharpen one bound; no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Row freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z}\) for the budget's allowed set, at degrees where its constraints interact, now without a locality shortcut valid on all boards.
Whether degreewise locality holds in range, and whether the gluing loss must grow with the number of sets.

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Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Route review: locality holds where the forms are jointly free and reduces to form space there; the budget has far more forms than any free range, so the entangled window needs a t-wise mechanism

24 September 2026 · Route review and conjecture · The clause-transfer line after the locality cycle; cycle odd-prime-range-locality. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: locality holds where the forms are jointly free and reduces to form space there; the budget has far more forms than any free range, so the entangled window needs a t-wise mechanism”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-locality-route-review.

General statement. The line's claim is still that the budget's constraints, closed under their vanishing polynomials, leave the weak base without a refutation of degree \(D\). Via thm:global-closure-gluing this needs row freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Z\) for the budget's allowed set \(Z\), or relative gluing over the closed column base. The review adds conj:t-wise-locality. If every subfamily of at most \(t\) clauses has linearly independent combined forms that are jointly free through \(D\), with \(t\) large enough in terms of \(D\), then the vanishing ideal of \(Z\) is generated degree by degree by the single clauses' ideals. The review planned to open a range-locality cycle. Its first step showed that range locality, where it can be proved, is a restatement of the recorded transfer lemma. So this cycle became a review.

Where the line stands

Since the last line review, two cycles were run. The direct-sum search reached the closed-freeness range at \(D=3\) and found selector families additive there, so it could not see entanglement. The interaction-locality cycle proved lem:degreewise-gluing: Mayer–Vietoris gluing is exact exactly when vanishing ideals add degree by degree. It found that property failing for pairs and triples of dense selectors below range. Neither entered the window the last review named as decisive: degrees between about \(\log_2N\) and \(D\), for entangled members.

What the goal needs

At \(p=3\) the goal's PC degree is \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k\) with \(k=\lceil(K+1)\log n/\log(p/(p-1))\rceil\) (quiet members), so \(D\approx37.6(K+1)\log_2n\). A forbidden set has density \(\le n^{-(K+1)}\), so a set of \(t\) forbidden sets whose forms are jointly independent meets in density \(\le n^{-t(K+1)}\). On the cube, a nonzero multilinear polynomial of degree \(r\) is nonzero on at least a \(2^{-r}\) fraction of points. So density excludes a function supported on such an intersection only below degree \(t(K+1)\log_2n\), and interactions of up to about 37 clauses remain possible below \(D\). This uses the cube bound as a heuristic for the slice, as the last review did. The budget has up to \(n^K\) clauses with \(k\) forms each, far more forms than the \(N=n\) coordinates.

Falsification attempt: what locality can be proved, and where it stops

Where the forms are jointly free, locality reduces to form space. Let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s\) be \(\mathbb F_p\)-linear forms of the occupancies. Let \(R\) be the functions on \(\mathbb F_p^s\), acting on the slice's functions \(F\) through \(y=\ell(c)\). Suppose \(\operatorname{gr}F\) is free over \(\operatorname{gr}R\) through degree \(d\). For \(\Omega\subseteq\mathbb F_p^s\) put \(X_\Omega=\{c:\ell(c)\in\Omega\}\) and \(J=I(\Omega)\subseteq R\). Then \(JF\) is the ideal of functions vanishing on \(X_\Omega\), since \(J\) is generated by the idempotent \(1_{y\notin\Omega}\). The transfer lemma, lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, gives \(\operatorname{gr}(JF)=\operatorname{gr}J\cdot\operatorname{gr}F\) below \(d\), so \(I_d(X_\Omega)=\sum_eI_e(\Omega)(\ell)\,F_{d-e}\): the ideal is generated from form space. Hence \(I_d(X_{\Omega_1}\cap X_{\Omega_2})=I_d(X_{\Omega_1})+I_d(X_{\Omega_2})\) whenever \(I_e(\Omega_1\cap\Omega_2)=I_e(\Omega_1)+I_e(\Omega_2)\) in \(R\) for all \(e\le d\). That holds when \(\Omega_1\) and \(\Omega_2\) depend on disjoint blocks of coordinates. In that case they are a product, and a filtration-compatible basis of each factor that is adapted to its ideal gives the degreewise sum. This is only a consequence of the recorded transfer lemma, so no new claim is registered for it.

Independence is needed. Take one form \(\ell\), jointly free, and the selectors \(\ell\ne0\) and \(\ell\ne1\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). Their forbidden sets are disjoint. In form space \(I_1(\{2\})\ni y-2\), while \(I_1(\{1,2\})=I_1(\{0,2\})=0\), since a nonzero polynomial of degree 1 in one variable has one root. By the reduction, the degree-1 locality fails on the cube whenever \(\ell\) is free through degree 1. So disjoint, and hence invisible, forbidden intersections do not suffice. What matters is linear independence of the clauses' forms, as in the recorded three-space example for filtered affine tree gluing.

Where it stops. Joint freeness needs few forms: the measured threshold is about \(N/2\) at \(D=3\) and \(N/4\) at \(D=4\) (conj:generic-form-freeness). The budget's forms number \(n^Kk\gg N\), so no argument that assumes joint freeness of all forms can reach \(Z\). Up to that threshold, the reduction covers the families the record already handles, the seeded and block cases.

Assessment of the line

The cycles since the last review sharpened the gap without narrowing it. Every proved statement about closed members either assumes joint freeness of all forms involved, or structure (sparse, seeded, block) that implies a free sub-span. Every failure found (pins, dependent forms, small-board locality) is a failure of independence or of density. The decisive regime needs a statement that uses independence only locally, for small subfamilies, and turns it into a global statement about \(Z\). No recorded mechanism does that. The \(p\)-complex's common-conditioning form also stopped for want of such a local-to-global step (the wide-conditioning conjecture). On this evidence the line is coherent. It is blocked on one missing local-to-global statement, which has now been stated in a testable form but has no proof strategy yet.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The highest-risk item is that local-to-global step. conj:t-wise-locality: over \(\mathbb F_p\), let clauses \(b=1,\dots,M\) with \(k\) affine forms of the occupancies each cut allowed sets \(U_b\) of the slice. Suppose every subfamily of at most \(t\) clauses has linearly independent combined linear parts that are jointly free through degree \(D\). If \(t\ge t_0(D,k,p)\), then \(I_d(\bigcap_bU_b)=\sum_bI_d(U_b)\) for every \(d\le D\). By the reduction above, the hypothesis gives this for every subfamily of at most \(t\) clauses. The conjecture asserts that once \(t\) is large relative to \(D\), dependencies among more than \(t\) clauses create nothing new below \(D\). For random forms with \(tk\ll N\) the hypothesis is expected to hold, and for adversarial forms it is the robustness condition the budget would need, as pairwise coherence was for product constraints. Degreewise generation by single clauses would reduce the closed base to single-clause closures. It does not by itself give row freeness.

Relation to the record. The conjecture is the vanishing-ideal, many-clause analog of two recorded statements. lem:closure-additivity, with cor:coherent-member-additivity, proves that PC closures add for two members on independent spans under robustness. conj:component-hypothesis asks for syzygy generation after grouping clauses into components along bounded circuits. Its version with local freeness read as injectivity is refuted by an occupancy pair whose forms are not jointly free (ex:component-hypothesis-injectivity-counterexample). conj:t-wise-locality assumes joint freeness of every small subfamily, so that pair lies outside its hypothesis. With no circuits of size at most \(t\), every component there is a single clause.

Next step, on route item odd-prime-clause-transfer: attempt conj:t-wise-locality. First look for a counterexample in form space, where the question is exact and small: \(M\) clauses on forms in \(\mathbb F_3^s\) whose every \(t\)-subfamily is independent while the whole family is dependent. There, compare \(I_e(\bigcap\Omega_b)\) with \(\sum_bI_e(\Omega_b)\) for \(e\) up to \((p-1)s\). Then try a proof that a degree-\(d\) element of \(I(\bigcap\Omega_b)\) decomposes through subfamilies of size bounded in terms of \(d\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (the exact statement in the seeded-closure entry), lem:degreewise-gluing, the quiet-members entry's parameters and degree gap, the last line review, conj:generic-form-freeness's thresholds, lem:filtered-affine-tree-gluing, lem:closure-additivity, cor:coherent-member-additivity, conj:component-hypothesis and its counterexample. Claim searches (t-wise independence, subfamily, vanishing ideal generated by single clauses; coherent product constraints) found those and no statement implying the conjecture. The reduction is a direct consequence of the transfer lemma plus the product-set decomposition, and the one-form example is a two-line count. The review adds a conjecture and no new proved claim, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Total instrumented interval	7 min 46.70 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 27.05 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Pairing obstruction: s-wise independent selectors fail degreewise locality at degree ⌈s/2⌉, so t-wise locality needs t above 2D

24 September 2026 · Working proof (pairing obstruction) · Lower bound on the independence threshold of t-wise locality; cycle odd-prime-t-wise-locality. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pairing obstruction: s-wise independent selectors fail degreewise locality at degree ⌈s/2⌉, so t-wise locality needs t above 2D”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-pairing-obstruction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The locality review stated conj:t-wise-locality. If every subfamily of at most \(t\) clauses has independent, jointly free forms and \(t\ge t_0(D,k,p)\), then the allowed set's vanishing ideal is generated degree by degree by the single clauses. The missing implication is this local-to-global step. The cycle searches form space for a counterexample, where the question is exact, and asks how the first failing degree grows with \(t\). If failures persisted at bounded degree for every \(t\), the conjecture would be false. If the failing degree grows, the growth rate bounds \(t_0\), which decides whether the budget can meet the hypothesis.

General statement. prop:pairing-obstruction: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every \(s\ge2\), a family of \(s+1\) selectors on \(\mathbb F_3^s\) in general position (every \(s\) linear parts independent) fails degreewise locality at degree \(\lceil s/2\rceil\). This holds on the slice as well, whenever the \(s\) forms are jointly free through two degrees more. So the form-space version of conj:t-wise-locality needs \(t_0(D,1,3)\ge2D+1\). On the slice it needs \(t_0(D,1,3)\ge2D-3\) for \(D\ge3\), provided some slice carries \(2D-4\) occupancy forms jointly free in degrees \(\le D\). The obstruction comes from products of pair differences \(\prod(x_{2i-1}-x_{2i})\), which are supported on one weight level. The conjecture is not refuted: the failing degree grows linearly in \(t\), and computations up to \(s=9\) find no failure below \(\lceil s/2\rceil\) for this family.

The search

Can it decide. In form space, \(R\) is the functions on \(\mathbb F_3^s\), filtered by degree, and the defect \(\dim I_e(\bigcap_bU_b)-\dim\sum_bI_e(U_b)\) is exact linear algebra of size \(3^s\). A family with \(s\) independent forms has \(t\le s\). A counterexample to the conjecture needs failures at bounded degree for unbounded \(t\), so the test is the growth of the first failing degree with \(t\). form_locality.py computes the defect and the family's \(t\) for random families. With \(k=1\) (selectors), the first failing degree over all trials was 1 or 2 for \(t\le4\), \(s\le4\) (fl_*.json). Among general-position families (\(t=s\)), only some choices of forbidden values fail. That led to the canonical family.

The canonical family. The forbidden sets are \(B_i=\{y_i=0\}\) for \(1\le i\le s\) and \(B_0=\{y_1+\dots+y_s=c\}\). Any \(s\) of the linear parts span \(\mathbb F_3^s\), so \(t=s\). canonical_family.py scans all \(c\) for \(s\le5\) (canonical.json). The allowed set lies in \(\{1,2\}^s\), a Boolean cube under \(y=1+x\), and there \(\sum y=s+|x|\). Modulo the coordinate selectors' ideal, which is degree-compatible because \(\{1,2\}^s\) is a product, the defect becomes a question on the Boolean cube. It counts functions of degree \(\le e\) supported on a weight class \(|x|\equiv r\pmod3\), beyond the multiples \(1_{W_r}\cdot F_{e-2}\). weight_class.py computes that form for \(s\le9\) and all \(r\) (weight_class_2_9.json). It agrees with the direct computation at \(s\le5\). In every case the defect is 0 below \(e=\lceil s/2\rceil\) and exactly 1 at \(e=\lceil s/2\rceil\) for one class \(r\) (even \(s\)) or two (odd \(s\)), with a second 1 at \(s/2+1\) for even \(s\). Only the failure at \(\lceil s/2\rceil\) is proved below; "0 below" is a finite observation and is not registered.

The proposition

Proposition (pairing obstruction). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(s\ge1\) and \(e=\lceil s/2\rceil\). Put \(w_0=e\) if \(s\) is even, and \(w_0\in\{e-1,e\}\) if \(s\) is odd, and \(c\equiv s+w_0\pmod3\). Consider the \(s+1\) selectors on \(\mathbb F_3^s\) with forbidden sets \(B_i=\{y_i=0\}\), \(1\le i\le s\), and \(B_0=\{y_1+\dots+y_s=c\}\). Every \(s\) of their linear parts are independent, and \(I_e(\bigcap_bU_b)\ne\sum_bI_e(U_b)\). The same holds on the occupancy slice for the selectors on \(\mathbb F_3\)-linear forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s\), \(\ell_1+\dots+\ell_s\) of the occupancies, whenever the slice's graded functions are free over the truncated algebra \(\mathbb F[\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s]/(\ell^3)\) in every degree \(\le e+2\). Consequently the form-space version of conj:t-wise-locality (with \(F=R\), where freeness holds in every degree) needs \(t_0(D,1,3)\ge2D+1\). The conjecture as stated, on the slice, needs \(t_0(D,1,3)\ge2D-3\) for every \(D\ge3\) for which some slice carries \(2D-4\) occupancy forms jointly free in degrees \(\le D\). The record has no proved instance of such a slice at every \(D\); conj:generic-form-freeness predicts one. For \(s=1\) the two forms coincide, a degenerate family. The construction is specific to \(p=3\) and is not claimed for other primes.

Proof. The degree filtration of \(R\), the functions on \(\mathbb F_3^s\) with exponents \(\le2\), is invariant under invertible affine coordinate changes, since these and their inverses have degree 1.

Step 0 (one selector). For a selector forbidding \(\{u=v\}\), \(u\) a nonzero linear form, use coordinates \((u,w_2,\dots,w_s)\). A function supported on the hyperplane is \((1-(u-v)^2)h(w)\), with \(h\) its restriction. This product is reduced, with top term \(u^2\) times the top of \(h\), so its degree is \(2+\deg h\). Hence \(I_e(U)=\chi\cdot R_{\le e-2}\), with \(\chi=1-(u-v)^2\), and \(I_e(U)=0\) for \(e<2\).

Step 1 (the element). On \(C'=\{1,2\}^s\) put \(y=1+x\), so \(x\in\{0,1\}^s\) and \(y_{2i-1}-y_{2i}=x_{2i-1}-x_{2i}\). For even \(s\) take \(m=e\) and \(\psi=1\). For odd \(s\) take \(m=e-1\), with \(\psi=2-y_s\ (=1-x_s)\) if \(w_0=e-1\) and \(\psi=y_s-1\ (=x_s)\) if \(w_0=e\). Put \(f=\prod_{i\le m}(y_{2i-1}-y_{2i})\cdot\psi\), a polynomial of degree \(e\). On \(C'\), \(f=P\psi\) with \(P=\prod_{i\le m}(x_{2i-1}-x_{2i})\). \(P\) is nonzero only when each pair has exactly one 1, and then \(\psi\ne0\) forces the integer weight \(|x|=w_0\). The allowed set is \(Z=\bigcap_bU_b=\{y\in C':\sum y\ne c\}=\{x:|x|\not\equiv w_0\pmod3\}\), since \(\sum y=s+|x|\). So \(f\) vanishes on \(Z\), and on the class \(|x|\equiv w_0\) it survives only on the integer level \(L=\{|x|=w_0\}\): \(f\in I_e(Z)\).

Step 2 (not in the sum). Suppose \(f=a_0+\sum_{i\ge1}a_i\) with \(a_b\in I_e(U_b)\). Each \(a_i\), \(i\ge1\), vanishes on \(U_i\supseteq C'\). So on \(C'\), \(f=a_0=\chi_0g\) with \(\deg g\le e-2\) (Step 0), \(\chi_0=1-(\sum y-c)^2\). On \(L\), \(\sum y=c\) and \(\chi_0=1\), so \(f=g\) on \(L\). Under \(y=1+x\) with \(x_i^2=x_i\), \(g|_{C'}\) is a multilinear function of \(x\) of degree \(\le e-2\). Define \(\mu(h)=\sum_{x\in L}P(x)h(x)\), built from \(P\) alone. For a monomial \(x_T\) with \(|T|\le e-2\le m-1\), some pair \(\{2i-1,2i\}\) misses \(T\). Swapping its two coordinates maps \(L\) to itself, fixes \(x_T\) and negates \(P\), so \(\mu(x_T)=-\mu(x_T)=0\) in characteristic 3, and \(\mu(g)=0\). But \(\mu(f)=\sum_LP^2\psi\) counts the \(x\in L\) with \(P(x)\ne0\) and \(\psi(x)=1\). There are \(2^m\) of them, and \(2^m\ne0\) in \(\mathbb F_3\). This contradiction proves \(f\notin\sum_bI_e(U_b)\).

Step 3 (independence). Any \(s\) of \(y_1,\dots,y_s,\ y_1+\dots+y_s\) span the linear forms on \(\mathbb F_3^s\).

Step 4 (slice). Let \(F\) be the slice's functions and \(R\) act through \(y=\ell(c)\). Suppose \(\operatorname{gr}F\) is free over \(\operatorname{gr}R=\mathbb F[y]/(y^3)\) in degrees \(\le n\), with \(n=e+2\). \(\operatorname{gr}F\) is spanned by 1 in degree 0, so a homogeneous basis \(\{v_j\}\) has exactly one element of degree 0, a nonzero multiple of 1, which can be rescaled to \(v_0=1\). Lift each \(v_j\) to \(\tilde v_j\in F_{\le\deg v_j}\), with \(\tilde v_0=1\). By induction on the degree, every \(h\in F_{\le d}\), \(d\le n\), is \(\sum_jr_j\tilde v_j\) with \(\deg r_j\le d-\deg v_j\), uniquely. For uniqueness: in a relation \(\sum_jr_j\tilde v_j=0\), let \(k=\max_j(\deg r_j+\deg v_j)\le n\). The symbol of \(r_j(\ell)\tilde v_j\) in \(\operatorname{gr}F_k\) is \(\sigma(r_j)v_j\) for the maximizing \(j\), so a nonzero relation among these symbols would contradict freeness in degree \(k\). Put \(\pi(h)=r_0\). Now take \(h\in F_{\le e}\) vanishing on \(X_{U_b}=\{c:\ell(c)\in U_b\}\). Then \(h=\chi_b(\ell)h\) as functions, where \(\chi_b\) is the indicator of \(B_b\) of degree 2. Writing \(h=\sum r_j\tilde v_j\), both \(\sum r_j\tilde v_j\) and \(\sum(\chi_br_j)\tilde v_j\) are expansions of the same element within degree \(e+2\). By uniqueness \(r_0=\chi_br_0\), so \(\pi(h)\in I_e(U_b)\). Also \(f(\ell)\in F_{\le e}\) vanishes on \(X_Z=\bigcap_bX_{U_b}\), and \(\pi(f(\ell))=f\). If \(f(\ell)=\sum_bh_b\) with \(h_b\in I_e(X_{U_b})\), then \(f=\sum_b\pi(h_b)\in\sum_bI_e(U_b)\), contradicting Step 2.

Consequence. The conjecture's hypothesis must hold for every subfamily of at most \(s\) clauses. Its forms are a subset of \(\{\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s,\sum\ell_i\}\) of at most \(s\) elements, linearly independent by Step 3. Joint freeness of \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s\) passes to them. First extend them to a basis of the span. \(\operatorname{gr}R\) is the associated graded ring of the functions on \(\mathbb F_3^s\), which does not depend on the choice of coordinates: \((\sum a_iy_i)^3=\sum a_i^3y_i^3\) in characteristic 3. Constant shifts do not change the symbols. So freeness over the truncated algebra of \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s\) is freeness over that of the new basis. Then restrict: \(\mathbb F[y]/(y^3)\) is free over the subalgebra of any subset of coordinates, so \(\operatorname{gr}F\), free over the former in degrees \(\le n\), is free over the latter in those degrees. In form space \(F=R\) is free in every degree. With \(s=2D\) the family has \(t=s\), and locality fails at \(d=D\), so \(t_0(D,1,3)\ge2D+1\) there. On the slice with freeness in degrees \(\le D\), Step 4 applies when \(e+2\le D\). With \(s=2D-4\ge2\), that is \(D\ge3\), \(e=D-2\) and \(t=2D-4\), so \(t_0(D,1,3)\ge2D-3\) whenever such a slice exists. \(\square\)

What this means

Locality is not refuted, but its threshold is at least \(2D+1\) clauses of independent forms in form space, and \(2D-3\) on the slice under the stated freeness condition. At the goal's parameters that means independence and joint freeness for subfamilies of about \(2D\approx75(K+1)\log_2n\) clauses at \(p=3\), with about \(2Dk\) forms. That is \(O((K+1)^2\log^2n)\), far below \(N=n\). So random families plausibly meet the hypothesis, and for adversarial families it is the robustness condition the budget would have to impose.
The obstruction is the slice's own structure: pair differences are the lowest-degree functions on a weight level that lower degrees cannot reproduce, the same functions that witness degree on the Johnson slice. A proof of the conjecture would have to show that, with \(t>2D\), such level-supported functions cannot arise from dependencies among more than \(t\) clauses below degree \(D\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: conj:t-wise-locality and the reduction in the locality review; lem:degreewise-gluing; the direct-sum and interaction-locality data. Claim searches (pairing, differences, weight level, slice; hyperplanes in general position, vanishing ideal of a union) found lem:quiet-members, which bounds degrees from below and says nothing about additivity, and obs:pencil-selector-syzygy, whose forms are dependent. Neither implies the proposition. The weight-class reduction was checked against the direct form-space computation at \(s\le5\), and every quoted defect is read from the result files. A fresh-context reviewer found no error in Steps 0 to 3. It required these changes, all adopted:

coordinate invariance of the filtration;
the exact support of \(f\), and \(\mu\) built from \(P\) alone;
the multilinear degree of \(g\);
\(p=3\) marked as essential, and \(s\ge2\) relaxed;
the freeness convention and the lifting argument made explicit in Step 4;
a proof that the conjecture's hypothesis holds for every subfamily.

It also questioned Step 4's reliance on the transfer lemma. Step 4 was rewritten to avoid that lemma: it uses the uniqueness of the free expansion two degrees higher. That weakens the slice consequence from \(2D+1\) to \(2D-3\), while the form-space bound stays \(2D+1\). The changes weaken the slice statement or make hypotheses explicit. The rewritten Step 4 is a new argument, so it was checked in a second focused pass. That pass found Step 4 correct and required further changes, all adopted: the rescaling of the degree-0 basis vector, the symbol computation in the uniqueness step, the coordinate independence of \(\operatorname{gr}R\), \(D\ge3\), the conjecture's scope for each bound, and the qualified summary bullet. These restrict scope, so no third pass was made.

Remaining gap

conj:t-wise-locality itself, with \(t_0\) at least \(2D+1\); the matching upper bound for the canonical family ("no failure below \(\lceil s/2\rceil\)") is only computed to \(s=9\).
Even with locality, row freeness of the allowed set's closure does not follow directly.

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Covering obstruction: t-wise independent selectors that cover all but one point fail locality at degree 1 for every t, and density alone does not restore it

24 September 2026 · Working proof (covering obstruction) and a finite check · t-wise locality refuted as stated; cycle odd-prime-t-wise-proof. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Covering obstruction: t-wise independent selectors that cover all but one point fail locality at degree 1 for every t, and density alone does not restore it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-covering-obstruction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The pairing obstruction left conj:t-wise-locality with a threshold of at least \(2D+1\), and all data then fitted a sharp form: in form space, selector locality at degree \(e\) whenever \(t\ge2e+1\). The cycle set out to prove that form. Before drafting it tested the form on \(t\)-wise independent families with many hyperplanes, the case the canonical family does not cover. That test ends the attempt: independence alone cannot give locality.

General statement. prop:covering-obstruction: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every \(t\) there are selector families on \(\mathbb F_3^s\) with every \(t\) linear parts independent whose forbidden hyperplanes cover every point except 0. For every such family, degreewise locality fails at degree 1. So conj:t-wise-locality is false for every threshold in its form-space version. On the slice it is false at every \(D\ge1\), whenever a slice carries \(s\) occupancy forms jointly free in degrees \(\le\max(D,3)\), for the \(s\) the construction needs. ex:dense-dependent-locality-failure shows that density of the allowed set, without independence, does not give locality either: 51 of the 52 multi-clause dense families tested fail. Any corrected statement needs both hypotheses. At the sizes where form space is computable they cannot hold together.

The failure of the sharp form

sharp_locality.py builds \(t\)-wise independent families greedily. At \(s=4\), \(t=3\), three families of 8 to 10 selectors fail at degree 1, with allowed sets of 1, 2 and 4 points (sl_4_3_10_3_2_1.json). The failures come from covering, not from dependencies. A degree-1 function vanishing on the allowed set exists as soon as that set lies in an affine hyperplane. No single selector's ideal has elements of degree below 2.

The proposition

Proposition (covering obstruction). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(t\ge1\). For every \(s\ge s_0(t)\) there are \(M=3s\) selectors on \(\mathbb F_3^s\), with forbidden hyperplanes \(H_b=\{v_b\cdot y=c_b\}\), \(c_b\in\{1,2\}\), such that every \(t\) of the \(v_b\) are linearly independent and \(Z=\bigcap_bU_b=\{0\}\). For every selector family with \(Z=\{0\}\), \(I_1(Z)\) is the \(s\)-dimensional space of linear forms, while \(\sum_bI_1(U_b)=0\). On the occupancy slice the selectors on \(v_b\cdot\ell\) fail at degree 1 with defect at least \(s\), whenever \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s\) are jointly free in degrees \(\le3\). Consequently the form-space version of conj:t-wise-locality fails for every \(t_0\) and every \(D\ge1\). The slice version fails for every \(t_0\) and every \(D\ge1\) at which some slice carries \(s\ge s_0(t_0)\) occupancy forms jointly free in degrees \(\le\max(D,3)\). A selector with \(v_b=0\) and \(c_b\ne0\) forbids nothing and has \(I_1(U_b)=0\) trivially. The construction uses \(p=3\) only in the numbers; it is stated for \(p=3\).

Proof. Degree 1. By Step 0 of the pairing obstruction, \(I_e(U_b)=\chi_b\cdot R_{\le e-2}\), which is 0 for \(e=1\). \(I_1(\{0\})\) consists of the affine functions vanishing at 0, the linear forms, of dimension \(s\ge1\). So the defect at degree 1 is \(s\).

Existence. Choose \(v_1,\dots,v_M\in\mathbb F_3^s\) uniformly and independently, and then \(c_b\in\{1,2\}\) uniformly and independently.

Since \(t\le M\), a dependent set of at most \(t\) vectors, a zero vector included, lies in a dependent set of exactly \(t\). So it gives a nonzero coefficient vector supported on some \(t\)-set with \(\sum a_jv_j=0\). There are \(\binom Mt(3^t-1)<(3M)^t\) such coefficient vectors. For each, \(\sum a_jv_j=0\) has probability \(3^{-s}\), because some \(a_j\ne0\) and \(v_j\) is uniform. So \(t\)-wise independence fails with probability less than \((9s)^t3^{-s}\).
\(0\notin H_b\) since \(c_b\ne0\). For \(y\ne0\), given the \(v_b\), \(y\) avoids \(H_b\) with probability 1 if \(v_b\cdot y=0\) and \(1/2\) otherwise. Over uniform \(v_b\), \(v_b\cdot y\) is uniform, so \(y\) avoids \(H_b\) with probability \(\tfrac13+\tfrac23\cdot\tfrac12=\tfrac23\), independently in \(b\). The expected number of nonzero points outside every \(H_b\) is \((3^s-1)(2/3)^{3s}<(8/9)^s\).

For \(s\ge s_0(t)=O(t\log t)\), \((9s)^t3^{-s}+(8/9)^s<1\). This forces \(s>2t\), so \(t\le s\) and \(t\le M\). By Markov's inequality applied to the count in (b), with positive probability both events hold. Then \(Z=\{0\}\) and the linear parts are \(t\)-wise independent.

Slice. Follow Step 4 of the pairing obstruction with \(e=1\), freeness in degrees \(\le3\), and the retraction \(\pi\) onto the coefficient of \(\tilde v_0=1\). \(\pi\) is linear because the expansion is unique. For a nonzero linear form \(f\), uniqueness gives \(\pi(f(\ell))=f\), with \(r_0=f\) and every other \(r_j=0\). And \(f(\ell)\) vanishes on \(X_Z\). If \(f(\ell)=\sum_bh_b\) with \(h_b\in I_1(X_{U_b})\), Step 4 gives \(\pi(h_b)\in I_1(U_b)=0\), so \(f=\pi(f(\ell))=0\), a contradiction. Applied to the \(s\)-dimensional space of linear forms, this gives defect at least \(s\) on the slice.

Hypothesis on the slice. Freeness in degree 1 makes \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s\) independent modulo constants on the slice, since the \(y_i\cdot1\) are independent in \(\operatorname{gr}F_1\). So independent \(v_b\) give independent linear parts \(v_b\cdot\ell\). The three steps of the pairing Consequence paragraph apply to any linearly independent set of combinations \(v_b\cdot\ell\): extend to a basis, use that \(\operatorname{gr}R\) is coordinate-free, and restrict to a subset of coordinates. So joint freeness of \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_s\) in degrees \(\le\max(D,3)\) gives the conjecture's hypothesis through \(D\) for every subfamily of at most \(t\) clauses. The failure is at \(d=1\le D\). \(\square\)

Density alone does not suffice

Both obstructions have sparse allowed sets: \(\{0\}\) here, and density about \((2/3)^{s+1}\) for the pairing family. The budget's allowed set has density \(1-1/n\). So the cycle asked whether density alone gives locality. dense_locality.py draws random clauses of \(k\) forms on \(\mathbb F_3^s\) and keeps families whose allowed set has density at least 1/2. It imposes no independence and records each family's \(t\). It computes the defect at every \(e\le2s\), at \(s=4,5\), \(k=1,2,3\) and 1 to 10 clauses (dl_*.json). Of 57 families, the 5 single-clause ones are local, as they must be. Of the 52 families with at least two clauses, 51 fail, at degrees from 3 upward, all of them with dependent forms. This is ex:dense-dependent-locality-failure. So density does not replace independence.

Can it decide. A corrected conjecture would assume \(t\)-wise independence with \(t\) above \(2D\) together with a dense allowed set. In \(\mathbb F_3^s\) with \(s\le5\), independence of more than two clauses of width \(k\ge2\) is impossible. So no family in computable form space meets both hypotheses at once, and no such check was run.

What this means

conj:t-wise-locality as stated is false in form space for every threshold, and on the slice at every \(D\) under a freeness condition in degrees \(\le\max(D,3)\) that conj:generic-form-freeness predicts for moderate \(s\). The failure is a covering failure. It needs an allowed set concentrated in a hyperplane, which the budget's dense allowed set excludes.
The two recorded obstructions, pairing and covering, both use sparse allowed sets. The dense families that fail all have dependent forms. A statement true for the budget would need independence and density together. It would be a Helly-type statement for degree-\(D\) moments: a functional representable avoiding every small subfamily's forbidden sets is representable avoiding all of them. That combination is beyond computation in form space, so it would have to be proved.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: conj:t-wise-locality's exact statement, and Steps 0 and 4 and the Consequence paragraph of the pairing obstruction. The claim searches of the pairing cycle (general position, vanishing ideal of a union) cover the objects here. The counts are read from the result files by script. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the probability bounds, the independence across clauses and the degree-1 defect. It required these changes, all adopted:

the slice proviso corrected to freeness in degrees \(\le\max(D,3)\), which yields failure at every \(D\ge1\) and replaces a misscoped "\(D\ge3\)";
the slice step written out for \(e=1\) instead of cited as verbatim;
independence modulo constants from degree-1 freeness;
the general form of the Consequence steps;
a clean count in (a), \(s>2t\), and Markov's inequality named;
the trivial case \(v_b=0\).

The corrections rescope and make explicit; the only strengthening, a defect of at least \(s\) on the slice, follows from the same argument. No further pass was made.

Remaining gap

A locality statement using both independence and density, or a different route to row freeness of the dense allowed set's closure.

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Route review: the locality sub-line needs independence between members, not clauses, and dependencies surface at about half their combined degree

24 September 2026 · Route review with a finite check · The locality sub-line after the pairing and covering obstructions; cycle odd-prime-locality-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the locality sub-line needs independence between members, not clauses, and dependencies surface at about half their combined degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-locality-line-review.

General statement. The line's claim is still that the budget's constraints, closed under their vanishing polynomials, leave the weak base without a refutation of degree \(D\). Via thm:global-closure-gluing this needs row freeness of the closure of the budget's dense allowed set. The locality sub-line tried to reduce that closure to single clauses. prop:pairing-obstruction and prop:covering-obstruction refuted conj:t-wise-locality as stated: independence alone fails by covering, and density alone fails with dependent forms. The review's falsification attempt, ex:combined-locality-calibration, tests both hypotheses together at the smallest form space that allows them. There, a dependency among \(t+1\) clauses of width \(k\) breaks locality at degree 7 or 8, with \(t=3\), \(k=2\), about half the combined degree \((t+1)(p-1)k=16\) of the dependent clauses.

Where the sub-line stands

Since the locality review:

the pairing obstruction proved that general-position selectors fail at degree \(\lceil s/2\rceil\);
the covering obstruction proved that \(t\)-wise independent selectors covering all but one point fail at degree 1 for every \(t\);
dense families with dependent forms fail at degrees 3 and above (ex:dense-dependent-locality-failure).

Proved and still valid: lem:degreewise-gluing, and the reduction of locality to form space when all forms are jointly free.

What the goal needs

At \(p=3\), \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k\), so a single clause's indicator already has degree \((p-1)k=D/11\). If locality fails only at about half the combined degree of a dependent set, then a dependency among \(t+1\) clauses stays invisible below \(D\) once \((t+1)(p-1)k/2>D\), that is, \(t+1>2(4p-1)=22\). The budget needs no bound on the number of clauses, only this local independence. That is a much weaker requirement than the \(t>2D\) that the selector obstructions suggest. The reason is that \(D\) counts in units of single-form degree, while the dependencies cost whole clause indicators.

Falsification attempt

Can it decide. Independence of \(t\) clauses of width \(k\) needs \(s\ge tk\), and the forbidden union should stay below half the space. The smallest case with a dependent family is \(s=6\), \(k=2\), \(t=3\), with 4 or 5 clauses. Its function space has dimension \(3^6=729\), which is computable. combined_locality.py draws such families, checks \(t\)-wise independence, and computes the defect at every \(e\le12\). The runs of 4 and 5 clauses reached their 115-second limit; each family's result is saved as it finishes, and only completed families are counted.

clauses	families	forbidden density	failures (degree: defect)
3 (control, all forms independent)	5	0.298	none
4	10	0.374 to 0.376	all: 8: 2 (one family 8: 1, 9: 1)
5	8	0.444 to 0.446	all: 7: 2 and 8: 6 or 7

Files: cl_*.json. This is ex:combined-locality-calibration. The control is local, as the product argument requires. Every dependent family fails, first at degree 8 for four clauses and at degree 7 for five. That is about half the combined degree \(4\cdot4=16\) of four dependent clauses, and below the conjecture's scope, \(t=3\) against \(D\ge7\). So nothing recorded is refuted. What the check calibrates is where a dependency first appears.

The budget's clauses are not independent

Two clauses sharing a form are already dependent. The logarithmic-prefix reduction's clauses are adversarial, and many clauses can lie in one small span. So clause-level \(t\)-wise independence is the wrong hypothesis. The natural unit is the member of lem:quiet-members: a subfamily whose forms lie in one span. By that lemma, a member's allowed set in its span has no vanishing function below degree \((p-1)\log_p(1/(m(1-1/p)^k))\). A locality statement for the budget would group clauses into members and require independence between the members' spans, not between clauses. It would also require each member's own closure to be handled in its span's form space, where joint freeness is plausible because a member's span is small. This is the shape of conj:component-hypothesis, which groups clauses along bounded circuits. Its version with local freeness as injectivity was refuted by a pair that is not jointly free. With the members' spans jointly free, that counterexample is excluded, as for conj:t-wise-locality.

Assessment of the sub-line

Four cycles on locality produced one general lemma and two obstructions, all proved and reviewed. They identified what a true statement must assume: independence and sparsity together, at the level of members. The calibration, at one size only, suggests the required independence is modest, about \(2(4p-1)\) members. So the sub-line is not dead. But every positive statement so far holds only where all forms are jointly free, which is the regime of the recorded seeded and block results, and no proof technique for the dependent-but-sparse regime is in hand. The decisive statement, member locality with jointly free small spans, has not been formulated precisely. The sub-line is coherent and sharply bounded, with no mechanism yet for its central claim.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The highest-risk item is a locality statement at member level that the budget's adversarial clauses satisfy. Next step, on route item odd-prime-clause-transfer: formulate member locality precisely. Group the budget's clauses into members by spans, require the members' spans to be \(t\)-wise independent with \(t\) of order \(2(4p-1)\) and each span jointly free through \(D\). Then attempt a proof that locality holds below degree \((t+1)\) times half the least member indicator degree. Start from the fully independent case, which the product argument proves, and add one dependency at a time. That case, a single dependency among \(t+1\) spans, is the one ex:combined-locality-calibration measures.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: conj:t-wise-locality, prop:pairing-obstruction, prop:covering-obstruction, ex:dense-dependent-locality-failure, lem:quiet-members, conj:component-hypothesis and its counterexample. The calibration's independence is asserted in code, the control behaves as the product argument requires, and all counts are read from the result files. The review adds a finite check and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Single-dependency threshold: one dependency among t+1 selectors is invisible exactly below degree ⌈t/2⌉

24 September 2026 · Working proof (single-dependency threshold) · The base case of member locality, for selectors over F_3; cycle odd-prime-member-locality. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Single-dependency threshold: one dependency among t+1 selectors is invisible exactly below degree ⌈t/2⌉”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-single-dependency.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The locality line review asked for member locality, starting from its base case: one linear dependency among \(t+1\) members, every \(t\) of them independent. The missing implication is the degree below which such a dependency cannot create a function vanishing on the allowed set that the single members' ideals do not already give. The review's calibration, and the pairing obstruction for selectors, measured that degree. This cycle proves it for selectors over \(\mathbb F_3\).

General statement. thm:single-dependency-threshold: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(t+1\) selectors have linear parts with exactly one dependency, and every \(t\) of them independent. Then degreewise locality holds in every degree \(e<\lceil t/2\rceil\), for all forbidden values, and it fails at \(e=\lceil t/2\rceil\) for suitable values by prop:pairing-obstruction. So the threshold is exactly \(\lceil t/2\rceil\). The proof reduces the question to the Boolean cube, as in the pairing obstruction. It then uses lem:pair-seed-decomposition: \(\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_s]/(x_i^2)\) is a free module over \(\mathbb F_3[e_1]/(e_1^3)\) plus one summand of dimension at most 2, in degree \(\lceil s/2\rceil\). This refines lem:free-seed-tensor at \(p=3\).

The decomposition

Put \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^3)\), graded with \(y\) in degree 1, and give it the coproduct \(y\mapsto y\otimes1+1\otimes y\). This respects \(y^3=0\) in characteristic 3, since \((y\otimes1+1\otimes y)^3=y^3\otimes1+1\otimes y^3\). Let \(A_s=\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_s]/(x_i^2)\), graded, with \(y\) acting as \(e_1=x_1+\dots+x_s\). Then \(A_{s+s'}=A_s\otimes A_{s'}\) with \(y\) acting diagonally. Write \(J_a\) for the Jordan block \(\Lambda/(y^a)\), and \([m]\) for a shift putting its lowest degree at \(m\).

Lemma (pair-seed decomposition). As graded \(\Lambda\)-modules, \(A_s\cong P_s\oplus N_s\), with \(P_s\) graded free, \(N_{2m}=J_1[m]\) and \(N_{2m+1}=J_2[m]\). Consequently \(\ker(e_1\colon A_{s,d}\to A_{s,d+1})=e_1^2A_{s,d-2}\) for every \(d\ne\lceil s/2\rceil\), and this fails at \(d=\lceil s/2\rceil\).

Proof. \(A_1=J_2[0]\), with basis \(1,x\). Three small products suffice.

\(J_1[a]\otimes J_2=J_2[a]\).
\(J_2\otimes J_2\cong\Lambda\oplus J_1[1]\). This is \(A_2\): \(e_1\cdot1=x_1+x_2\) and \(e_1^2\cdot1=2x_1x_2\ne0\), so \(\Lambda\cdot1\) has dimension 3. \(x_1-x_2\) spans a complement in degree 1, killed by \(e_1\) since \((x_1+x_2)(x_1-x_2)=x_1^2-x_2^2=0\).
\(\Lambda\otimes J_2\cong\Lambda\oplus\Lambda[1]\). With \(Y=y\otimes1+1\otimes y\) and \(J_2\) spanned by \(1,x\): \(Y(1\otimes1)=y\otimes1+1\otimes x\), \(Y^2(1\otimes1)=y^2\otimes1+2y\otimes x\), \(Y(1\otimes x)=y\otimes x\) and \(Y^2(1\otimes x)=y^2\otimes x\). These six vectors span the 6-dimensional space, so \(1\otimes1\) and \(1\otimes x\) are free generators.

Induction on \(s\), using \(A_{s+1}=A_s\otimes J_2\): \(P_s\otimes J_2\) is free by the third item, applied summand by summand. \(N_{2m}\otimes J_2=J_2[m]=N_{2m+1}\) by the first. \(N_{2m+1}\otimes J_2=(\Lambda\oplus J_1[1])[m]\) is \(\Lambda[m]\oplus N_{2m+2}\) by the second. For the consequence: a free module satisfies \(\ker y=y^2(\cdot)\) in every degree. \(J_1[m]\) violates it only in degree \(m\). \(J_2[m]\), spanned by \(v\) in degree \(m\) and \(yv\) in degree \(m+1\), has \(\ker y\) spanned by \(yv\), while \(y^2(\cdot)=0\), so it violates it only in degree \(m+1\). In both cases that degree is \(\lceil s/2\rceil\). \(\square\)

lem:free-seed-tensor, with \(W=A_2\), gives a free part plus a summand in degrees \(\ge\lfloor s/2\rfloor\). The lemma identifies that summand up to isomorphism. For odd \(s=2m+1\) the summand \(J_2[m]\) still starts in degree \(m\), but \(\ker e_1=e_1^2(\cdot)\) now holds in degree \(\lfloor s/2\rfloor=m\) as well. That is the degree the theorem below needs.

The theorem

Theorem (single-dependency threshold). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(t\ge1\) and let \(L_1,\dots,L_{t+1}\) be affine forms on \(\mathbb F_3^{s'}\) whose linear parts span a space of dimension \(t\), with every \(t\) of them independent. Given rank \(t\), this is equivalent to the unique dependency having every coefficient nonzero. For any values \(\alpha_b\), put \(U_b=\{L_b\ne\alpha_b\}\). Then \(I_e(\bigcap_bU_b)=\sum_bI_e(U_b)\) for every \(e<\lceil t/2\rceil\). For suitable \(\alpha\) this fails at \(e=\lceil t/2\rceil\).

Proof. Every step below is an invertible affine change of coordinates, which preserves the degree filtration, or a product decomposition.

Step 1 (normal form). The dependency is \(\sum_b\lambda_bL_b^{\mathrm{lin}}=0\) with every \(\lambda_b\ne0\), since every \(t\) linear parts are independent. Take \(y_b=\lambda_b(L_b-\alpha_b)\) for \(b\le t\), and extend by coordinates \(z\) to a coordinate system. Then \(U_b=\{y_b\ne0\}\) for \(b\le t\), and \(U_{t+1}=\{y_1+\dots+y_t\ne c\}\), where \(c\) runs over all of \(\mathbb F_3\) as \(\alpha_{t+1}\) varies. No set depends on \(z\).

Step 2 (free coordinates). All sets have the form \(X\times\mathbb F_3^{z}\), and \(R=R_y\otimes R_z\) with the tensor filtration. By the product argument of the locality review, \(I_e(X\times\mathbb F_3^z)=\sum_jI_j(X)\otimes(R_z)_{\le e-j}\), and the same holds for sums of such ideals. Put \(\mathrm{def}_j=\dim I_j(\bigcap_bX_b)-\dim\sum_bI_j(X_b)\) in \(y\)-space. It is \(\ge0\), since the sum lies in the ideal of the intersection. The defect in degree \(e\) is then \(\sum_j\mathrm{def}_j\cdot\dim\operatorname{gr}_{e-j}R_z\). Since \(\dim\operatorname{gr}_0R_z=1\) and all terms are \(\ge0\), it vanishes for all \(e<\tau\) if and only if \(\mathrm{def}_e=0\) for all \(e<\tau\), and it is positive at \(e\) whenever \(\mathrm{def}_e>0\). Hence take \(s'=t\), in both directions.

Step 3 (reduction to the cube). \(C'=\bigcap_{b\le t}U_b=\{1,2\}^t\) is a product. In each coordinate the filtration-compatible basis \(\{1,y_b,1-y_b^2\}\) is adapted to \(I(U_b)\), and \(I_e(U_b)=(1-y_b^2)R_{\le e-2}\). So the product argument gives \(\sum_{b\le t}I_e(U_b)=I_e(C')\). Put \(y=1+x\) on \(C'\), with \(x\in\{0,1\}^t\). Restriction \(\pi\) to \(C'\) maps \(R_{\le e}\) onto the multilinear functions of \(x\) of degree \(\le e\), \(F_{\le e}(C')\). By Step 0 of the pairing obstruction, \(I_e(U_{t+1})=\chi R_{\le e-2}\) with \(\chi=1-(\sum y-c)^2\). On \(C'\), \(\sum y=t+|x|\), so \(\pi(\chi)=\chi_W:=1-(e_1-r)^2\), the indicator of \(W_r=\{|x|\equiv r\}\), with \(r=c-t\). Here \(e_1=\sum x_i\) is read mod 3. Since \(I_e(C')=\ker\pi\cap R_{\le e}\) lies in both sides, locality at \(e\) holds if and only if every \(f\in F_{\le e}(C')\) supported on \(W_r\) lies in \(\chi_WF_{\le e-2}(C')\).

Step 4 (descent). Identify \(\operatorname{gr}F(C')\) with \(A_t\): the multilinear monomials of degree \(d\) give a basis of \(\operatorname{gr}_d\). Let \(f\in F_{\le d}(C')\) be supported on \(W_r\), with \(d\le e<\lceil t/2\rceil\) and degree-\(d\) part \(\sigma_d(f)\in A_{t,d}\). Since \(e_1-r\) vanishes on \(W_r\), \((e_1-r)f=0\). Its degree-\((d+1)\) part is \(e_1\sigma_d(f)\), because reducing \(x_i^2\) to \(x_i\) lowers degree. So \(e_1\sigma_d(f)=0\), and by the lemma, since \(d\ne\lceil t/2\rceil\), \(\sigma_d(f)=e_1^2a\) with \(a\in A_{t,d-2}\); here \(a=0\) if \(d<2\). Lift \(a\) to \(h\in F_{\le d-2}(C')\). The degree-2 part of \(\chi_W\) is \(-e_1^2\), so the degree-\(d\) part of \(\chi_Wh\) is \(-e_1^2a\). Then \(f+\chi_Wh\) is supported on \(W_r\) and has degree \(\le d-1\). By induction on \(d\) it lies in \(\chi_WF_{\le d-3}(C')\), so \(f\in\chi_WF_{\le d-2}(C')\). The base \(d<0\) is \(f=0\). \(\square\)

Consistency. The pairing cycle computed the weight-class defect for \(s\le9\) and every \(r\). It found 0 below \(\lceil s/2\rceil\) and a failure at \(\lceil s/2\rceil\) for some \(r\) (weight_class_2_9.json), as the theorem and the pairing obstruction predict.

The failure half. By Step 1, \(c\) can be chosen as \(t+w_0\), which gives the canonical family of prop:pairing-obstruction, stated there for every \(s\ge1\). That proposition gives a positive defect at \(\lceil t/2\rceil\) in \(y\)-space. For \(t=1\) directly: if \(c\ne0\), the intersection is the single value \(y_1=\) the remaining element of \(\{1,2\}\), so \(y_1\) minus that value lies in \(I_1\), while \(I_1(U_b)=0\). By Step 2 the failure persists in the full space.

What this means

For selectors the base case of member locality is settled. One dependency among \(t+1\) selectors is invisible exactly below \(\lceil t/2\rceil\). The mechanism is the only non-free summand of the Boolean algebra over its full sum. The pairing obstruction shows that the pair-difference product represents it; the lemma fixes the summand only up to isomorphism.
For clauses of width \(k\), the review's calibration (one dependency among 4 clauses of width 2 first visible at degree 8) suggests the same mechanism with each dependent clause contributing its extra indicator degree. The general case needs the analog of Step 3 with the other forms of each clause, where the product structure is no longer available. That is the next step.
The threshold grows linearly in the number of dependent members, as the budget needs. A dependency among \(t+1\) selector members is invisible in every degree \(\le D\) once \(\lceil t/2\rceil>D\). For wide members the calibration suggests far fewer.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: prop:pairing-obstruction (statement, Step 0 and the canonical family), the product argument of the locality review, lem:free-seed-tensor, cor:slice-saturation and the pairing cycle's weight-class data. Claim search (free seed, block of holes, free over the sum) found lem:free-seed-tensor, which the lemma refines at \(p=3\), and no statement of the theorem. The theorem's prediction matches the recorded weight-class data. A fresh-context reviewer found no error in the lemma or the theorem. It required these changes, all adopted:

the failure half derived for general forms, through the choice of \(c\) and both directions of Step 2, with the case \(t=1\) checked directly;
the defect's nonnegativity and \(\dim\operatorname{gr}_0R_z=1\) stated in Step 2;
the adapted basis cited in Step 3;
the comparison with lem:free-seed-tensor corrected;
the claim that the pair-difference product is the non-free summand weakened;
the hypothesis stated as nonzero dependency coefficients.

The changes add justification and weaken one remark, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

The single-dependency threshold for clauses of width \(k\ge2\), and then several dependencies at once, the case of five clauses in the calibration, which failed a degree earlier.
Member locality for the budget, and from it row freeness of the closure.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 57.35 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 45.14 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 12.08 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Wide dependency threshold: each extra form of a dependent clause delays the dependency by exactly p−1 degrees

24 September 2026 · Working proof (wide dependency threshold) · Single dependencies among clauses of any widths over F_3; cycle odd-prime-wide-dependency. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Wide dependency threshold: each extra form of a dependent clause delays the dependency by exactly p−1 degrees”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-wide-dependency.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The single-dependency threshold settled one dependency among \(t+1\) selectors. The budget's clauses have width \(k\) of order \(\log n\). The missing implication is the degree below which one dependency among \(t+1\) such clauses stays invisible. That number decides how much independence member locality must ask of the budget.

General statement. thm:wide-dependency-threshold: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let clauses \(b=1,\dots,t+1\) of widths \(k_b\) forbid one point each. Suppose their combined linear parts have exactly one dependency and every \(t\) clauses have independent combined linear parts. Then degreewise locality holds in every degree \(e<\lceil t/2\rceil+2\sum_b(k_b-1)\), for all forbidden points, and fails at that degree for suitable points. The proof is lem:peeling, which holds over any \(\mathbb F_p\). Removing a form that is a coordinate occurring in no other clause lowers the locality question by exactly \(p-1\) degrees. This holds in both directions whenever the remaining clauses are local in the relevant degrees, for example point-forbidding clauses with jointly independent forms. At \(p=3\) and the budget's degree \(D=22k\), the threshold \(\tau\) exceeds \(D\) when \(t+1\ge12\) and \(k\ge10\). So such a dependency, with no other clauses present, is invisible in every degree \(\le D\).

The peeling lemma

Setting: \(R\) is the functions on \(\mathbb F_p^s\) with the degree filtration. A clause forbids one point of its forms, and \(I_e\), \(U_c\), locality at degree \(e\) are as in lem:degreewise-gluing. Let \(F\) be a family of clauses, and let \(w\) be a coordinate that occurs in exactly one clause \(b\), whose forbidden set is a product \(\{w=0\}\times B'_b\). Let \(R'\) be the functions of the other coordinates. \(F'\) is \(F\) with \(w\) removed from clause \(b\), so clause \(b\) forbids \(B'_b\), and \(F\setminus b\) is \(F\) without clause \(b\). Both are families on the coordinates other than \(w\), and their locality is taken in \(R'\).

Lemma (peeling). If \(F\) is local at degree \(e\), then \(F'\) is local at degree \(e-(p-1)\). Conversely, if \(F'\) is local at degree \(e-(p-1)\) and \(F\setminus b\) is local in degrees \(e-p+2,\dots,e\), then \(F\) is local at degree \(e\). For \(e<p-1\) the condition on \(F'\) holds trivially.

Proof. Write \(R=R'\otimes R_w\), where \(R'\) is the functions of the other coordinates. In \(R_w\) take the filtration-compatible basis \(1,w,\dots,w^{p-2},\delta\), with \(\delta=1-w^{p-1}\) the indicator of \(w=0\) of degree \(p-1\). Every \(g\in R_{\le e}\) is uniquely \(\sum_{i<p-1}A_iw^i+C\delta\), with \(A_i\in R'_{\le e-i}\) and \(C\in R'_{\le e-p+1}\). At \(w=0\), \(g=A_0+C\). At each of the \(p-1\) nonzero values of \(w\), \(g=\sum_iA_iw^i\). This is a Vandermonde system in the \(A_i\), invertible over the \(p-1\) distinct nonzero values. Over \(w\ne0\), clause \(b\) is inactive and the allowed set of \(F\) is \(Z(F\setminus b)\). Over \(w=0\) it is \(Z(F')\), and \(Z(F')\subseteq Z(F\setminus b)\).

(\(\Leftarrow\)) Let \(f\in I_e(Z(F))\). By the Vandermonde system, every \(A_i\) vanishes on \(Z(F\setminus b)\). Locality of \(F\setminus b\) in degrees \(e-i\), \(i<p-1\), gives \(A_i=\sum_{c\ne b}a_{c,i}\) with \(a_{c,i}\in I_{e-i}(U_c)\). Each \(a_{c,i}w^i\) lies in \(I_e(U_c)\), since \(U_c\) does not involve \(w\). \(A_0+C\) vanishes on \(Z(F')\) and so does \(A_0\), so \(C\in I_{e-p+1}(Z(F'))\). Locality of \(F'\) gives \(C=\sum_{c\ne b}c_c+c'_b\), with \(c_c\in I_{e-p+1}(U_c)\) and \(c'_b\) vanishing on the narrowed clause's allowed set \(U'_b\). Then \(c_c\delta\in I_e(U_c)\). And \(c'_b\delta\in I_e(U_b)\): \(U_b\) is \(U'_b\) together with \(\{w\ne0\}\), where \(c'_b=0\) and \(\delta=0\) respectively. So \(f\in\sum_cI_e(U_c)\).

(\(\Rightarrow\)) This direction uses no hypothesis on \(F\setminus b\). Let \(C\in I_{e-p+1}(Z(F'))\) be outside \(\sum_cI_{e-p+1}(U'_c)\), where \(U'_c=U_c\) for \(c\ne b\). Then \(f=C\delta\in R_{\le e}\) vanishes on \(Z(F)\). Suppose \(f=\sum_ca_c\) with \(a_c\in I_e(U_c)\), and take \(\delta\)-coefficients, a linear map by uniqueness of the expansion. For \(c\ne b\), \(a_c\) vanishes on \(U_c\times\mathbb F_p\). By the Vandermonde system its \(A\)-coefficients vanish on \(U_c\), and then its \(\delta\)-coefficient \(C_c\) does too, from the value at \(w=0\). For \(a_b\), vanishing on \(\{w\ne0\}\) forces its \(A\)-coefficients to be 0, and then its \(C_b\) vanishes on \(U'_b\). So \(C=\sum C_c\in\sum_cI_{e-p+1}(U'_c)\), a contradiction. \(\square\)

The theorem

Theorem (wide dependency threshold). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(t\ge1\) and let clause \(b\), \(1\le b\le t+1\), forbid \(\{\ell_b=\alpha_b\}\) for \(k_b\) affine forms \(\ell_b\). Suppose the \(\sum_bk_b\) linear parts have rank \(\sum_bk_b-1\), and those of every \(t\) clauses are independent. This implies independence within each clause, and, given the rank, it is equivalent to the unique dependency having a nonzero component \(\mu_b\) in every clause. \(p=3\) enters only through the base threshold and through \(p-1=2\) in \(\tau\). Put \(\tau=\lceil t/2\rceil+2\sum_b(k_b-1)\). Then \(I_e(\bigcap_bU_b)=\sum_bI_e(U_b)\) for every \(e<\tau\) and all \(\alpha\), and this fails at \(e=\tau\) for suitable \(\alpha\).

Proof. Normal form. The dependency is \(\sum_b\mu_b=0\), where \(\mu_b\) is a linear combination of clause \(b\)'s linear parts. Every \(\mu_b\ne0\), since every \(t\) clauses are independent. Extend \(\mu_b\) to a basis \(\mu_b,\nu_{b,1},\dots,\nu_{b,k_b-1}\) of clause \(b\)'s span. The only relation among all these forms is \(\sum_b\mu_b=0\). So \(y_b=\mu_b-(\text{const})\) for \(b\le t\), together with all \(w_{b,j}=\nu_{b,j}-(\text{const})\), extended by free coordinates \(z\), is a coordinate system. Clause \(b\)'s forbidden point is an invertible affine image of \(\{\ell_b=\alpha_b\}\). With the constants chosen, clause \(b\le t\) forbids \(\{y_b=0,\ w_b=0\}\), and clause \(t+1\) forbids \(\{y_1+\dots+y_t=c,\ w_{t+1}=0\}\). Here \(c\) runs over \(\mathbb F_3\) as \(\alpha_{t+1}\) varies. The free coordinates \(z\) are kept: the lemma allows arbitrary other coordinates, and the single-dependency threshold covers selector families in any ambient dimension.

Peeling. Remove the coordinates \(w_{b,j}\) one at a time with the lemma, in the ring of the coordinates not yet removed. At each stage the family without the clause being narrowed consists of \(t\) clauses. Their forms are independent: the \(y_c\) for \(c\le t\), \(c\ne b\), and \(\sum y\) if \(b\ne t+1\), together with their remaining \(w\)'s. After a linear change they are disjoint coordinate blocks, each clause forbidding one point of its block. Such a family is local in every degree by the product argument. In each block take the monomials in the shifted coordinates, with the top monomial replaced by the point indicator \(\delta_c\). The transition from monomials is triangular in degree, so the tensor basis is filtration-compatible. The non-\(\delta\) elements restrict to a basis of the functions on the block minus its point. So a function of degree \(\le e\) vanishing on the product of these sets is a sum of basis tensors of degree \(\le e\), each containing some \(\delta_c\) and hence lying in \(I_e(U_c)\). After \(\sum_b(k_b-1)\) steps, locality at degree \(e\) is equivalent to locality at degree \(e-2\sum_b(k_b-1)\) of the selector family, the canonical family of the single-dependency threshold. That family is local below \(\lceil t/2\rceil\) for every \(c\), and fails at \(\lceil t/2\rceil\) for \(c=t+w_0\), in any ambient dimension. So the wide family is local for \(e<\tau\) and fails at \(\tau\). \(\square\)

Consistency. wide_single.py computes the defect in normal form for widths \((2,1,1)\), \((1,1,2)\), \((2,2,1)\), \((2,2,2)\) with \(t=2\), and \((1,1,1,2)\) with \(t=3\) (wide_single.json). It finds 0 below \(\tau\) and a defect of 1 at \(\tau\) when \(c=t+w_0\), and no defect at \(\tau\) for \(t=3\), \(c=0\), where no \(w_0\) matches.

What this means

For single dependencies the member-locality threshold is now exact over \(\mathbb F_3\) at every width. The cost of a dependency is \(\lceil t/2\rceil\) from the dependent forms, plus \(p-1\) for every other form of every dependent clause.
At the budget's width \(k\), with \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k=22k\), a family of exactly \(t+1\) clauses of width \(k\) with one dependency, every \(t\) independent and no other clauses present, is local in every degree \(\le D\) once \(\tau>D\). For \(t+1=12\) that holds when \(k\ge10\); for large \(k\) the condition approaches \(t+1>11\). So a single such dependency needs about a dozen clauses to be harmless. Several dependencies, and dependencies inside larger families, are not covered.
The calibration families had a two-dimensional space of dependencies among 4 clauses of width 2, and failed at degree 8. The single-dependency prediction for 4 clauses of width 2 is \(2+8=10\). So several dependencies can surface earlier, and the next case is a dependency space of dimension more than one.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:single-dependency-threshold (statement, normal form, Step 2), prop:pairing-obstruction's canonical family, the product argument, and ex:combined-locality-calibration. The consistency runs agree with \(\tau\) in every case. A fresh-context reviewer found no gap in the lemma or the chain of equivalences. It required these changes, all adopted:

the numeric boundary corrected: the draft's \(k\ge12\) gave equality at \(t+1=12\), now \(\tau>D\) for \(t+1\ge12\), \(k\ge10\);
the rings of \(F'\) and \(F\setminus b\) stated;
the exact degrees in which \(F\setminus b\) is used, and that one direction needs no hypothesis;
the product form of clause \(b\)'s forbidden set;
the peeling principle's wording;
the free coordinates kept rather than removed;
the product argument written out;
notation, the implied hypothesis, and the role of \(p=3\);
the overreach about dozens of clauses qualified.

The changes correct one numeric claim and weaken or make precise the rest, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Dependency spaces of dimension \(\ge2\), and families with many overlapping dependencies, as in the budget.
From member locality to row freeness of the closure.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 27.55 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 26.98 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 59.88 s
Individually measured computation	0.54 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.15 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Several dependencies: a rank formula fits every measured threshold, its failure half is proved for all families, and clauses on one span fail at 2k−1

24 September 2026 · Working proof (point extension, failure half), conjecture and finite check · Dependency spaces of dimension at least 2 over F_3; cycle odd-prime-double-dependency. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Several dependencies: a rank formula fits every measured threshold, its failure half is proved for all families, and clauses on one span fail at 2k−1”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-double-dependency.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The wide dependency threshold is exact for one dependency. The calibration showed that two dependencies among 4 clauses surface at degree 8, below the single-dependency value 10. The missing implication is the threshold for a dependency space of dimension \(r\ge2\). The cycle measures it on the configurations computable in form space, looks for a formula and proves what it can.

General statement. conj:rank-threshold: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for \(t+1\) point-forbidding clauses with every \(t\) of them independent and combined linear parts of rank \(\rho<\sum_bk_b\) (at least one dependency), degreewise locality holds below \(\tau=\lceil t/2\rceil+2(\rho-t)\) for every forbidden point, and fails at \(\tau\) for some. It is proved for \(r=1\) (thm:wide-dependency-threshold). It matches every measured case with \(r=2,3\) (ex:double-dependency-thresholds), all of which have \(r=\max_bk_b\), so \(1<r<\max_bk_b\) is untested. Its failure half is proved for every family in scope (prop:rank-threshold-failure). The proof is lem:point-extension, over any finite field. Taking the AND of a family with any family whose forbidden sets share a point, in \(m\) coordinates, delays a failure by at most \((p-1)m\). The forbidden sets of the first family may be arbitrary. Two clauses on the same span fail exactly at degree \(2k-1\), far below \(D=22k\). That sharpens the value \(4k-3\) that the wide threshold gives for two clauses sharing one direction.

The measurements

Can it decide. A dependency space of dimension \(r\) among \(t+1\) clauses, every \(t\) independent, needs \(\rho=\sum_bk_b-r\ge t\max_bk_b\). The computable sizes are \(\rho\le6\), which gives width 2 with \(t\le3\) and width 3 with \(t\le2\). The inequality \(\sum_bk_b-r\ge t\max_bk_b\) forces \(r\le1\) at width 1, so selector families give no data for \(r\ge2\).

double_base.py: random families of 3 clauses of width 2 on \(\mathbb F_3^4\), with every 2 independent and rank 4 (\(r=2\)). It takes the minimum over the forbidden values of the two non-normalized forms. The first failure is at degree 5 in all 3 families (db_4_2_3_3_5_2.json). Four selectors on \(\mathbb F_3^2\) can cover the plane, and fail at degree 0 (db_2_1_4_3_1_2.json).
With every \(t\) clauses independent, a family of \(t+1\) clauses of width \(r\) and rank \(rt\) is, after affine coordinate changes in each clause, the AND of \(r\) copies of the canonical selector family: clause \(b\) forbids \(y^{(j)}_b=0\) in every copy, and clause \(t+1\) forbids \(\sum_iy^{(j)}_i=c_j\) in every copy. and_family.py computes that normal form. \(t=2,r=2\): first failure at 5 for \(c=(0,0)\), none through 5 for \((1,0),(2,0),(0,1)\). \(t=2,r=3\): 9 for \((0,0,0)\), none through 9 for \((1,0,0),(1,1,1)\). \(t=3,r=2\): 8 for \((1,0)\) (and_*.json). The calibration's 4 clauses of width 2 have \(t=3\), \(\rho=6\), and failed at 8.

This is ex:double-dependency-thresholds. Every case agrees with \(\tau=\lceil t/2\rceil+2(\rho-t)\): \(1+2\cdot2=5\), \(1+2\cdot4=9\), \(2+2\cdot3=8\). For one dependency the formula is the wide threshold, since \(\rho=\sum_bk_b-1\) gives \(\rho-t=\sum_b(k_b-1)\). The calibration's 5 clauses on \(\mathbb F_3^6\) do not have every 4 independent, so they lie outside the formula's hypothesis.

The point-extension lemma

Let \(F\) and \(G\) be families of clauses indexed by the same set, with \(F\) on coordinates \(y\in\mathbb F_p^a\) and \(G\) on \(z\in\mathbb F_p^m\). Their AND \(F\wedge G\) has clause \(b\) forbidding \(B^F_b\times B^G_b\).

Lemma (point extension). Over \(\mathbb F_p\), let the forbidden sets \(B^F_b\) be arbitrary, and suppose all forbidden sets \(B^G_b\) contain a common point \(z^*\). If \(F\) is not local at degree \(e\), then \(F\wedge G\) is not local at degree \(e+(p-1)m\).

Proof. Let \(P\in I_e(Z(F))\) lie outside \(\sum_bI_e(U^F_b)\), and let \(\delta\) be the indicator of \(z^*\), of degree \((p-1)m\). Then \(f=P\otimes\delta\) has degree \(\le e+(p-1)m\). Over \(z\ne z^*\) it is 0. Over \(z^*\) every clause's \(G\)-part is forbidden, so \((y,z^*)\) is allowed exactly when \(y\in Z(F)\), where \(P=0\). So \(f\in I_{e+(p-1)m}(Z(F\wedge G))\).

Define \(C(g)(y)=(-1)^m\sum_{z\in\mathbb F_p^m}g(y,z)\). Since \(\sum_{z\in\mathbb F_p}z^i\) is \(-1\) for \(i=p-1\) and 0 for \(0\le i<p-1\), \(C(g)\) is the coefficient of the top monomial \(\prod_iz_i^{p-1}\) in the reduced form of \(g\), with degree at most \(p-1\) in each variable. So \(C\) maps degree \(\le e+(p-1)m\) to degree \(\le e\). Also \(C(f)=(-1)^mP\sum_z\delta(z)=(-1)^mP\). If \(a_b\) vanishes on \(U_b(F\wedge G)\supseteq U^F_b\times\mathbb F_p^m\), then \(a_b(y,\cdot)=0\) for \(y\in U^F_b\), so \(C(a_b)\in I_e(U^F_b)\). A decomposition \(f=\sum_ba_b\) would therefore give \(P=(-1)^m\sum_bC(a_b)\in\sum_bI_e(U^F_b)\), a contradiction. \(\square\)

Proposition (rank threshold, failure half). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(t+1\) point-forbidding clauses have every \(t\) of them independent and combined linear parts of rank \(\rho<\sum_bk_b\). Then for suitable forbidden points the family is not local at degree \(\tau=\lceil t/2\rceil+2(\rho-t)\). That \(\tau\) is the first such degree is the locality half.

Proof. Let \(K\), of dimension \(r\), be the space of dependencies among the clauses' linear parts. If \(\kappa\in K\) had zero component in clause \(b\), it would be a dependency among the other \(t\) clauses, so \(\kappa=0\). So \(K\) maps injectively into each clause's span. Choose a basis \(\kappa^1,\dots,\kappa^r\) of \(K\). In clause \(b\) the components \(\kappa^j_b\) are independent; extend them by \(k_b-r\) private forms. Relations among all these forms are exactly \(\sum_b\kappa^j_b=0\), \(j=1,\dots,r\). Any relation is a dependency, so it equals \(\sum_j\gamma_j\kappa^j\). Since the \(\kappa^j_b\) and the private forms are a basis of clause \(b\)'s span, comparing components gives coefficient \(\gamma_j\) on each \(\kappa^j_b\) and 0 on every private form. Each relation contains \(\kappa^j_{t+1}\) with coefficient 1. So the \(\kappa^j_b\), \(b\le t\), together with the private forms of all \(t+1\) clauses, are independent, \(rt+\sum_{b=1}^{t+1}(k_b-r)=\sum_bk_b-r=\rho\) of them. Coordinates \(w\) that no clause uses can be ignored: if \(P\) is not local at degree \(e\) on the other coordinates, neither is \(P\otimes1\), since setting \(w\) to a point in a decomposition gives a decomposition of \(P\) with the same degrees. After affine changes within each clause, clause \(b\) forbids a point of its copy coordinates \(y^{(j)}_b\) (for \(b=t+1\), of \(\sum_iy^{(j)}_i\)) and of its private coordinates. The family is the AND of \(r\) canonical copies with the private family, whose forbidden sets are products of points in disjoint blocks and so share a point. Here \(c_j\) is fixed by clause \(t+1\)'s forbidden point, with the sign from \(\kappa^j_{t+1}=-\sum_{b\le t}\kappa^j_b\) absorbed. Varying that point realizes every \(c\in\mathbb F_3^r\), so choose \(c_1=t+w_0\) and \(c_j=0\) for \(j\ge2\), with the private points arbitrary. Copy 1 fails at \(\lceil t/2\rceil\) by prop:pairing-obstruction. Copies \(2,\dots,r\) together with the private family share the point \(0\), in \(m=t(r-1)+\sum_b(k_b-r)=\rho-t\) coordinates. By the lemma the family fails at \(\lceil t/2\rceil+2(\rho-t)\). \(\square\)

The locality half, below \(\tau\), is proved only for \(r=1\). With the proposition, conj:rank-threshold is exactly that half.

Clauses on one span

Take \(t=1\): two clauses on the same \(k\)-dimensional span, so \(\rho=k\) and \(r=k\). They forbid points \(a\ne b\); after a linear change on the span, \(a-b\) is a coordinate vector. The proposition gives failure at \(\lceil1/2\rceil+2(k-1)=2k-1\): \(\delta_a-\delta_b\) vanishes on the allowed set and factors as \(\prod_{i\ge2}\delta_{a_i}(y_i)\) times a nonzero polynomial of degree 1 in \(y_1\), so it has degree \(2k-1\). Locality also holds below \(2k-1\). Coordinates \(w\) outside the span can be removed: write \(f\in I_e(Z\times\mathbb F_3^w)\) as \(\sum_\beta f_\beta(y)w^\beta\); each \(f_\beta\) lies in \(I_{e-|\beta|}(Z)\), so locality in every degree \(\le e\) on the span gives locality at \(e\). On the span, an element of \(I(Z)\) is \(\alpha\delta_a+\beta\delta_b\), with top coefficient \(\pm(\alpha+\beta)\), so its degree is at least \(2k-1\) unless it is 0. So the threshold is exactly \(2k-1\), and conj:rank-threshold holds in this case for every \(r=k\ge2\).

The wide dependency threshold already gave clause-level failure at \(4k-3\) for two clauses sharing one direction. This case sharpens it to \(2k-1\), far below \(D=22k\). A budget adversary can place many clauses on one span, so clauses on a common span must be grouped and closed together, as the locality line review required. Grouping alone does not suffice. Two members whose spans meet, forbidding suitable points, fail below \(D\) by the same count (\(4k-2s-1\le4k-3\) for spans sharing \(s\ge1\) dimensions), so independence between members stays a requirement. A member forbids an arbitrary subset of its span. The point-extension lemma allows that in its first factor, but the other results above are for points.

What this means

The measured thresholds for several dependencies fit the rank formula \(\lceil t/2\rceil+2(\rho-t)\), and its failure half is proved for all families in scope. If the locality half holds, a dependent cluster of \(t+1\) point-forbidding clauses of width \(k\), every \(t\) independent, is harmless through \(D\) once \(\lceil t/2\rceil+2(\rho-t)>D\). Since \(\rho\ge tk\), \(t\ge12\) with \(k\ge10\) suffices at \(p=3\).
Clauses on a common span break clause-level locality at exactly degree \(2k-1\). Member locality must therefore treat each member's forbidden set as an arbitrary subset of its span, and still require independence between members. The next step is the single-dependency threshold for members with arbitrary forbidden subsets, beginning with one dependency among \(t+1\) members.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:wide-dependency-threshold, thm:single-dependency-threshold, prop:pairing-obstruction (canonical family and the values \(c=t+w_0\)), and ex:combined-locality-calibration. Every measured value is read from the result files. A fresh-context reviewer found the lemma, the AND application and the span example correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the failure half stated for all families in scope, with the normal-form argument supplied;
the lemma stated for arbitrary forbidden sets in its first factor;
the false width-1 sentence replaced by the rank inequality;
a false remark that the lemma cannot apply to clauses sharing coordinates removed;
the locality half of the span example proved;
untested ranks of \(r\) flagged;
overclaims corrected: "same span", the earlier \(4k-3\) credited, grouping not shown sufficient, \(k\ge10\).

The strengthening follows from the reviewer's normal-form argument, which I checked: injectivity from every \(t\) being independent, and the count \(rt+\sum_b(k_b-r)=\rho\). The span case's locality half is a two-line degree count. Because the strengthening adds a claim, a second focused pass checked the proposition and the span section. It found them correct and required: the hypothesis \(\rho<\sum_bk_b\) (at least one dependency), also in the conjecture; the one-line reason why the relations are exactly the \(\kappa^j\); the private sum over all clauses; the realization of the values \(c_j\); the unused-coordinate argument stated in the direction used; the inline removal of outside coordinates in the span case; "for suitable points" for meeting members; and "not local at \(\tau\)" instead of "fails at \(\tau\)". All adopted.

Remaining gap

The locality half of conj:rank-threshold for \(r\ge2\), except two clauses on one span (\(t=1\), \(\rho=k\)), proved here.
Member locality with arbitrary forbidden subsets of the members' spans.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	15 min 58.58 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9 min 14.82 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 42.20 s
Individually measured computation	4 min 1.42 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 7.

Member inconsistency: suitable dependent members lose the pairing term and fail at 2Σ(k_b−1), below D for small clusters

24 September 2026 · Working proof (member inconsistency) · One dependency among members with arbitrary forbidden subsets, over F_3; cycle odd-prime-member-dependency. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Member inconsistency: suitable dependent members lose the pairing term and fail at 2Σ(k_b−1), below D for small clusters”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-member-inconsistency.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The several-dependencies entry showed that clauses on one span must be grouped into members, and asked for the single-dependency threshold of members, whose forbidden sets are arbitrary subsets of their spans. The missing implication is how small a dependent cluster of members can break locality. That decides whether member locality can hold for the budget, whose clauses are adversarial.

General statement. prop:member-inconsistency: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(t+1\) members have independent forms spanning spaces of dimensions \(k_b\), with exactly one dependency among them all and every \(t\) members independent. Then for suitable forbidden sets, each of two points, the family is not local at degree \(2\sum_b(k_b-1)\), with a nonempty allowed set whenever some \(k_b\ge2\). So for such sets the least failing degree is at most \(2\sum_b(k_b-1)\). The pairing term \(\lceil t/2\rceil\) of the point-forbidding threshold is lost. Two members sharing one direction, of span dimension \(k\), fail at \(4k-4\). With \(D=22k\), where \(k\) is the clause width, a cluster fails below \(D\) whenever \(\sum_b(k_b-1)\le11k\); for members of span dimension \(k\) this means \(t+1\le11k/(k-1)\), at least 11 for every \(k\). So member locality does not hold for arbitrary member families and needs a hypothesis on the budget. Whether the budget meets one is open.

The proposition

Proposition (member inconsistency). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(t\ge1\), and let members \(b=1,\dots,t+1\) have linear forms \(\ell_b\) spanning spaces of dimensions \(k_b\). Suppose the combined linear parts have rank \(\sum_bk_b-1\), and every \(t\) members are independent. Then there are forbidden sets \(\Phi_b\), each consisting of two points of member \(b\)'s form values, such that the family is not local at degree \(2\sum_b(k_b-1)\). Its allowed set is nonempty when \(\sum_b(k_b-1)\ge1\).

Proof. Use the normal form of thm:wide-dependency-threshold: coordinates \(y_1,\dots,y_t\) for the dependency's components, private coordinates \(w_b\) (\(k_b-1\) of them) for each member, and free coordinates \(z\). Member \(b\le t\)'s forms are \((y_b,w_b)\) up to an affine change, and member \(t+1\)'s are \((y_1+\dots+y_t,\ w_{t+1})\). Coordinates no member uses are ignored: non-locality of \(P\) on the others gives non-locality of \(P\otimes1\) at the same degree.

Take \(\Phi_b=\{y_b\ne0,\ w_b=0\}\) for \(b\le t\), and \(\Phi_{t+1}=\{\sum y\ne1,\ w_{t+1}=0\}\), each of two points in the member's coordinates. This family is \(F\wedge G\), with \(F\) on \(y\) and \(G\) on \(w\), where:

\(F\)'s member \(b\) forbids \(\{y_b\ne0\}\) (\(b\le t\)), and member \(t+1\) forbids \(\{\sum y\ne1\}\);
\(G\)'s member \(b\) forbids \(\{w_b=0\}\).

\(Z(F)=\{y=0\}\cap\{\sum y=1\}=\emptyset\), so \(1\in I_0(Z(F))\). Each \(U^F_b\) is nonempty, a hyperplane, so \(I_0(U^F_b)=0\), and \(F\) is not local at degree 0. \(G\)'s forbidden sets all contain \(w=0\), in \(m=\sum_b(k_b-1)\) coordinates. By lem:point-extension, which allows arbitrary forbidden sets in \(F\), the family is not local at degree \(0+2m\). If some \(k_b\ge2\), set \(w_b\ne0\) for every \(b\) with \(k_b\ge2\), which makes those members inactive. If \(k_{t+1}\ge2\), take \(y=0\): every member \(b\le t\) with \(k_b=1\) allows \(y_b=0\). Otherwise some \(b_0\le t\) has \(k_{b_0}\ge2\); take \(y=e_{b_0}\). Then members \(b\le t\), \(b\ne b_0\), allow \(y_b=0\), and member \(t+1\) allows \(\sum y=1\). So the allowed set is nonempty. \(\square\)

Each member forbids two points, as two clauses on the same span would, and one point per member would give the point-forbidding threshold instead. The obstruction is inconsistency: the members' allowed values of the dependent coordinates are incompatible, which makes the \(y\)-level allowed set empty. No pairing structure is needed, so the \(\lceil t/2\rceil\) term is lost.

What this means

For point-forbidding clauses a single dependency costs exactly \(\lceil t/2\rceil+2\sum_b(k_b-1)\). For suitable members forbidding two points, the least failing degree is at most \(2\sum_b(k_b-1)\). At \(p=3\), \(D=22k\), a cluster with \(\sum_b(k_b-1)\le11k\) is non-local below \(D\) for such forbidden sets, and two members sharing one direction fail at \(4k-4\).
Heuristically, merging dependent members into one larger member removes the dependency but enlarges the span. If an adversary could chain clauses so that merging never stops, the merged member would be the whole allowed set, and the question would again be global row freeness of the closure of \(Z\). No argument here shows that such chaining is possible within the budget.
So the locality program reduces the budget's closure to members only under a hypothesis on the budget that excludes small inconsistent dependent clusters. Nothing recorded provides one, and whether the reduction's budget meets one is open. This is the point for a route review of the clause-transfer line.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:point-extension (its first factor may have arbitrary forbidden sets), the normal form of thm:wide-dependency-threshold, and prop:rank-threshold-failure. A fresh-context reviewer found the proof correct, including the two-point count, the product structure, degree-0 non-locality and the free coordinates. It required these changes, all adopted:

the nonemptiness argument corrected for the last member;
"costs at most" and "disappears" stated for suitable forbidden sets and a single degree;
the cluster condition stated exactly, as \(\sum_b(k_b-1)\le11k\);
clause width and member span dimension distinguished;
the chaining argument labeled heuristic;
the adversarial claims weakened to "not for arbitrary families; open for the budget";
the title made conditional;
"minimal in kind" replaced;
independence within members added to the hypotheses.

The changes weaken or correct, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Whether the budget's clauses, as produced by the logarithmic-prefix reduction, satisfy any robustness that bounds dependent clusters, or whether the closure route must handle giant members directly.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 31.14 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 5.13 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 25.88 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Route review: the budget's clauses form inconsistent dependent clusters freely, so the locality program cannot reduce its closure to members

24 September 2026 · Route review · The locality sub-line against the reduction's actual budget; cycle odd-prime-budget-structure-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the budget's clauses form inconsistent dependent clusters freely, so the locality program cannot reduce its closure to members”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-budget-structure-review.

General statement. The line's claim is the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing for the budget: row freeness through degree \(D\) of the graded functions on the allowed set \(Z\) of the logarithmic-prefix reduction's constraints. The locality sub-line tried to reduce this to members. prop:member-inconsistency shows that small inconsistent dependent clusters break member locality below \(D\). This review checks the reduction's budget and finds such clusters admissible, so the reduction to members is unavailable for the budget as stated.

What the budget is

thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction takes any \(M=n^K\) families of affine forms, arising from the lines of a refutation, and chooses prefix sets \(S_b\) with \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\). The constraints are \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\). Their allowed sets are \(\{\text{some }L_{b,j}=0,\ j\in S_b\}\), up to the multipliers \(g_{b,i}\). Each clause therefore forbids the product set \(\{L_{b,j}\ne0\ \forall j\in S_b\}\), two values per form at \(p=3\), subject only to \(M(1-1/p)^k<1\). The forms are arbitrary. The recorded choice-rule entries (uniform rule, density rule) showed that any rule for \(S_b\) must be invariant modulo the base, and no such rule is known.

Falsification attempt: inconsistent clusters in the budget

Take three blocks whose chosen forms include \(\ell_1\), \(\ell_2\) and \(\ell_1+\ell_2-c\) with \(c\ne0\), the rest of each block's forms being private. At the level of these three forms each clause allows only the value 0, and the three conditions are inconsistent. This is the configuration of prop:member-inconsistency with \(t=2\), except that here each factor forbids \(\{\ell\ne0\}\) rather than a single point. The proposition's proof applies unchanged: the \(y\)-level family, forbidding \(\{y_1\ne0\}\), \(\{y_2\ne0\}\) and \(\{y_1+y_2\ne c\}\), has an empty allowed set and is non-local at degree 0. The private factors \(\{L\ne0\}^{k-1}\) share a point, for example all ones. So by lem:point-extension the three clauses are non-local at degree \(3\cdot2(k-1)=6(k-1)<D=22k\). The configuration only needs one affine relation among three forms from different lines, for example \(X_{11}\), \(X_{12}\) and \(X_{11}+X_{12}-1\) in a refutation's lines. It is compatible with the density condition. So member locality fails for budgets the reduction must handle, unless a choice of \(S_b\) excludes all such clusters. No recorded choice rule does, and when a block has \(h_b=k\) there is no choice at all.

Merging each cluster into one member removes its non-locality but enlarges the member. Whether merging stays bounded for adversarial families is not shown. It is plausibly not: \(n^Kk\) forms on \(n\) coordinates admit many short affine relations.

What the goal needs and what is proved

The goal needs the global statement, row freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Z\) in degrees between about \(\log_2n\) and \(D\), for every admissible budget. Proved statements cover structured \(Z\): sparse, seeded, block, and every \(Z\) whose forms are jointly free. The locality sub-line then gave exact thresholds for point-forbidding clauses in general position, and obstructions (pairing, covering, member inconsistency) that close it for adversarial budgets. Non-locality is not a failure of the goal. It only removes the reduction to members. Whether an inconsistent cluster breaks closed row freeness itself is untested.

Assessment of the line

The closure route stands on thm:global-closure-gluing, and its hypothesis is proved only where the forms are jointly free. The locality program was the plan for reaching adversarial \(Z\) from such pieces, and it is now closed by an obstruction the budget can realize. What remains is the global freeness statement with no reduction and no mechanism. The one computational handle, the direct-sum kernel, reaches the conjecture's range only at \(D=3\), below the degrees where clusters act. On this evidence the line is blocked at its central claim. The next step must either test that claim against the new obstruction or leave the line for another.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The highest-risk item is whether closed row freeness survives inconsistent clusters. If it fails, the closure route is refuted for adversarial budgets, as the symmetric pin refuted low-density classes. If it holds where locality fails, the line continues without locality, and the structure that saves it becomes the target.

Next step, on route item odd-prime-clause-transfer: a controlled test of closed row freeness on an inconsistent three-clause cluster, with the direct-sum kernel. Use clauses of width 2 whose dependent forms satisfy \(\ell_1+\ell_2-\ell_3=c\). Compare \(c\ne0\), the inconsistent case, non-local at degree 6, with \(c=0\), the consistent case, and with the base, at the largest board the kernel reaches with \(D\ge7\). The board will be below the conjecture's range. As with the symmetric pin, only a difference between the inconsistent case and its controls at the same size would carry a conclusion.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction (statement and constraint form), both choice-rule entries, prop:member-inconsistency and lem:point-extension (arbitrary forbidden sets in the first factor), and thm:global-closure-gluing. The cluster application is the proposition's proof with forbidden sets \(\{\ell\ne0\}\) and a shared all-ones private point. The review registers no claim, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 48.41 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 12.24 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 36.04 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Budget clusters: consistent clusters are local in every degree, inconsistent ones fail exactly at their number of private forms

24 September 2026 · Working proof (budget cluster dichotomy) · Simple single-dependency clusters of budget-type clauses over F_3; cycle odd-prime-cluster-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Budget clusters: consistent clusters are local in every degree, inconsistent ones fail exactly at their number of private forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-budget-clusters.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The budget review found that the reduction's clauses can form inconsistent dependent clusters. It asked for a controlled test of whether such a cluster breaks closed row freeness. The missing implication: which clusters of budget clauses break locality, and at which degree. The budget's clauses forbid all their forms being nonzero, not single points, so the point-forbidding thresholds do not apply directly.

General statement. thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy: over \(\mathbb F_3\), consider \(t+1\) clauses, each forbidding \(\{\text{all its forms}\ne0\}\). Suppose they have one dependency, every \(t\) independent, and each clause's component of the dependency is a nonzero multiple of the linear part of one of its forms. If the dependent forms can vanish together (consistent), the family is local in every degree. If they cannot (inconsistent), it is local exactly below \(\sum_b(k_b-1)\), the number of private forms. The proof combines lem:budget-peeling, where removing a private form costs one degree, and lem:supported-extension, which generalizes lem:point-extension to any common forbidden subset carrying a low-degree function. So for an isolated simple cluster of budget clauses, only an affine inconsistency breaks locality. An inconsistent cluster of \(t+1\) clauses of width \(k\) is not local at some degree \(<D=22k\) exactly when \((t+1)(k-1)<22k\). That holds for every \(t+1\le22\), and for \(t+1\le22+22/(k-1)\) in general, with equality excluded.

The kernel test cannot decide

The review's test used three budget clauses of width 2 on the occupancy slice at \(N=10\), \(D=7\), with the direct-sum kernel (cluster_freeness.py, cf_N10_D7_*.json). Excess in degrees 0 to 6:

base: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 351;
consistent (\(c=0\)): 0, 0, 0, 13, 341, 60, 1;
inconsistent (\(c=1\)): 0, 0, 0, 5, 154, 49, 1;
inconsistent (\(c=2\)): 0, 0, 0, 7, 191, 107, 5.

Every variant fails from degree 3, the consistent one included, and the base fails from degree 5. Three width-2 clauses leave about \((5/9)^3\approx17\%\) of the slice, far outside the density the budget guarantees, and \(N=10\) is far below the one-row range. The density condition \(M(2/3)^k<1\) needs \(k\ge3\) for three clauses, where a cluster acts only at degree \(\ge2\cdot3=6\) on these counts and higher on the point-forbidding ones. That is beyond the kernel at any size in range. So the test decides nothing. It should have been ruled out by the density count before it was run.

Two lemmas

Families, locality and \(I_e\) are as in lem:degreewise-gluing, over \(\mathbb F_p\), for clauses with arbitrary forbidden sets. Locality holds trivially at negative degrees, where \(I_e=0\).

Lemma (supported extension). Let \(F\) on \(y\) and \(G\) on \(z\in\mathbb F_p^m\) be families on the same index set, and let \(F\wedge G\) be their AND, with clause \(b\) forbidding \(B^F_b\times B^G_b\). Suppose a set \(T\) lies in every \(B^G_b\), and \(h\ne0\) is a function of \(z\) of degree \(d\) vanishing off \(T\). If \(F\) is not local at degree \(e\), then \(F\wedge G\) is not local at degree \(e+d\).

Proof. Let \(P\in I_e(Z(F))\) lie outside \(\sum_bI_e(U^F_b)\), and put \(f=P\otimes h\), of degree \(\le e+d\). Off \(T\), \(h=0\). On \(T\) every clause's \(G\)-part is forbidden, so \((y,z)\) is allowed exactly when \(y\in Z(F)\), where \(P=0\). So \(f\in I_{e+d}(Z(F\wedge G))\). Since \(\deg h=d\), there is a linear functional \(\varphi\) on the functions of \(z\) vanishing on degree \(\le d-1\) with \(\varphi(h)\ne0\). Put \(C(g)(y)=\varphi(g(y,\cdot))\). Writing \(g=\sum_\alpha g_\alpha(y)z^\alpha\) in reduced form, only \(|\alpha|\ge d\) contribute, and \(\deg g_\alpha\le\deg g-|\alpha|\). So \(C\) maps degree \(\le e+d\) to degree \(\le e\). \(C(f)=\varphi(h)P\). If \(a_b\) vanishes on \(U_b(F\wedge G)\supseteq U^F_b\times\mathbb F_p^m\), then \(C(a_b)\) vanishes on \(U^F_b\). So \(f=\sum_ba_b\) would give \(P\in\sum_bI_e(U^F_b)\), a contradiction. \(\square\)

lem:point-extension is the case \(T=\{z^*\}\), with \(h\) the indicator, of degree \((p-1)m\).

Lemma (budget peeling). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(w\) be a coordinate occurring only in clause \(b\), whose forbidden set is \(\{w\ne0\}\times B'_b\). Let \(F'\) be \(F\) with clause \(b\) narrowed to \(B'_b\), and \(F\setminus b\) be \(F\) without clause \(b\), both on the other coordinates. If \(F\setminus b\) is local at degree \(e\) and \(F'\) is local at degrees \(e-1\) and \(e-2\), then \(F\) is local at degree \(e\).

Proof. Write \(f\in I_e(Z(F))\) as \(A+Bw+Cw^2\), with \(\deg A\le e\), \(\deg B\le e-1\), \(\deg C\le e-2\). Over \(w=0\) clause \(b\) is inactive, so \(A=f|_{w=0}\) vanishes on \(Z(F\setminus b)\). Over \(w=\pm1\) the allowed set is \(Z(F')\), so \(A\pm B+C\) vanish there. Hence \(B\) vanishes on \(Z(F')\), and so does \(A+C\). Since \(Z(F')\subseteq Z(F\setminus b)\), \(A\) vanishes there too, and so does \(C\). Locality of \(F\setminus b\) at \(e\) gives \(A=\sum_{c\ne b}a_c\), \(a_c\in I_e(U_c)\). Locality of \(F'\) at \(e-1\) gives \(B=\sum_{c\ne b}b_c+b'_b\), with \(b'_b\) vanishing on \(U'_b\). Then \(b_cw\in I_e(U_c)\), and \(b'_bw\in I_e(U_b)\), because \(U_b=\{w=0\}\cup(\mathbb F_3\times U'_b)\). The same holds for \(C\) with \(w^2\), at degree \(e-2\). \(\square\)

The dichotomy

Theorem (budget cluster dichotomy). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(t\ge1\) and let clause \(b\), \(1\le b\le t+1\), have \(k_b\) affine forms and forbid \(\{\text{all of them}\ne0\}\). Suppose the combined linear parts have rank \(\sum_bk_b-1\), every \(t\) clauses are independent, and the dependency's component in each clause is a nonzero multiple of the linear part of one of its forms \(\ell_b\). Given the rank, the independence of every \(t\) clauses is equivalent to the component being nonzero in every clause, since a dependency among \(t\) clauses would be a second one. Put \(m=\sum_b(k_b-1)\).

If the forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_{t+1}\) have a common zero (consistent), the family is local in every degree.
Otherwise it is local in every degree \(e<m\) and not local at degree \(m\).

Proof. Normal form. Take \(y_b=\ell_b\) for \(b\le t\), the other forms as private coordinates \(w\), and free coordinates for the rest. These affine forms have independent linear parts, by the rank and because the one dependency involves \(\ell_{t+1}\) with a nonzero coefficient. So the change of coordinates is an invertible affine map, which preserves the degree filtration. The dependency gives \(\ell_{t+1}=\sum_b\lambda_by_b+c\) with every \(\lambda_b\ne0\). Rescaling \(y_b\) by \(\lambda_b\) keeps \(\{y_b\ne0\}\), so \(\ell_{t+1}=\sum y+c\). The forms have a common zero exactly when \(c=0\). Each clause forbids \(\{y\text{-form}\ne0\}\times\{w_b\ne0\}\). Free coordinates \(x\) belong to no clause. For locality, expand \(f=\sum_\alpha f_\alpha x^\alpha\) in them: each \(f_\alpha\) vanishes on the allowed set with degree \(\le e-|\alpha|\), so locality in all degrees \(\le e\) without them gives locality at \(e\). For non-locality, apply lem:supported-extension with \(h=1\), \(d=0\).

Base. The family on \(y\) alone forbids \(\{y_b\ne0\}\) and \(\{\sum y+c\ne0\}\). If \(c=0\), its allowed set is \(\{0\}\). \(I_e(\{0\})=\sum_by_bR_{\le e-1}\), since every monomial of positive degree is divisible by some \(y_b\), and \(y_bR_{\le e-1}\subseteq I_e(\{y_b=0\})\). So it is local in every degree. If \(c\ne0\), its allowed set is empty and every \(U_b\) is nonempty, so it is not local at degree 0.

Peeling. Remove the private coordinates one at a time with lem:budget-peeling. At each stage the family without the narrowed clause consists of \(t\) clauses with independent forms, which are disjoint blocks with arbitrary forbidden sets. It is therefore local in every degree by the product argument, with a filtration-compatible basis of each block adapted to its ideal. If \(c=0\), induction from the base gives locality in every degree at every stage. If \(c\ne0\), each removal raises the least failing degree by at least 1, so the family is local below \(m\).

Failure. If \(c\ne0\), apply lem:supported-extension with \(F\) the family on \(y\), not local at degree 0, and \(G\) the private family. Every \(G\)-forbidden set contains \(T=\{\text{all private coordinates}\ne0\}\). \(h=\prod w_i\) has degree \(m\) and vanishes off \(T\). So the family is not local at degree \(m\). \(\square\)

Consistency. budget_type.py computes the defect for 18 families already in normal form, with \(t=1\) to 4 and widths up to 4 (budget_type.json, budget_type_more.json). So it tests the base, peeling and failure steps, not the reduction to normal form. It checks every degree up to \(2s\), the top degree of the form space. Every consistent family is local in all of them, and every inconsistent one first fails at \(m\).

What this means

For an isolated simple cluster of budget clauses, the dependency alone does not break locality; only an affine inconsistency among the dependent forms does. A consistent simple cluster in isolation is local at every degree, however small. Locality of the cluster alone says nothing yet about the cluster inside a larger family.
An inconsistent simple cluster of \(t+1\) clauses of width \(k\) first fails at \((t+1)(k-1)\), a degree \(<D=22k\) for every \(t+1\le22\). Such clusters are affine relations with nonzero constant among the chosen forms of a few blocks. These are the base-level contradictions that the choice-rule entry requires a choice of \(S_b\) to detect. The locality question and the choice question now meet at one object.
Not covered: dependencies whose component in a clause mixes several of its forms, several dependencies, and inconsistency modulo the base rather than as affine functions.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:point-extension, prop:member-inconsistency, thm:wide-dependency-threshold (normal form and product argument), thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction (the budget's clause form) and the density-choice-rule entry. The kernel values and the 18 form-space families are read from the result files. A fresh-context reviewer found all three proofs sound: \(\varphi\), the three fibers, the memberships, the base cases, both inductions and the failure application. It required these changes, all adopted:

the false "exactly when \(t+1\le22\)" replaced by the exact bound;
"below \(D\)" made strict;
the dichotomy scoped to isolated simple clusters, in the statement and the first bullet;
the redundant hypothesis marked as implied;
the normal form's affine change and its reason stated;
free coordinates treated directly;
negative degrees stated;
the computation's scope stated.

The changes restrict scope or make steps explicit, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

The dichotomy for mixed components and for several dependencies.
Whether a choice of \(S_b\) can avoid small inconsistent clusters, or whether their closures can be absorbed.

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Total instrumented interval	9 min 26.50 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 36.27 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 50.32 s
Individually measured computation	59.78 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Resolvent absorption: inconsistent clusters cannot always be avoided, but adding their resolvent restores locality in every degree

24 September 2026 · Working proof (resolvent absorption) and a finite check · Isolated simple clusters of budget-type clauses over F_3; cycle odd-prime-cluster-avoidance. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Resolvent absorption: inconsistent clusters cannot always be avoided, but adding their resolvent restores locality in every degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-resolvent-absorption.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The budget-cluster dichotomy located the only threat to locality in an isolated simple cluster: an affine relation with nonzero constant among the dependent forms. Its next step asked whether a choice of prefix sets \(S_b\) can avoid such clusters. If not, the missing implication is a way to neutralize them.

General statement. thm:resolvent-absorption: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let an inconsistent simple cluster of budget clauses be given, as in thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy. Clause \(b\) is \((\ell_b=0)\vee(\text{some private form of }b=0)\), and the \(\ell_b\) have no common zero. Add the resolvent \(R\): some private form of some clause is 0. The enlarged family, which has the same allowed set, is local in every degree. The proof is lem:shared-peeling, budget peeling for a coordinate shared by several clauses. So a cluster that cannot be avoided can be absorbed by a \(t\)-step Res(Lin) derivation. ex:resolvent-absorption-check confirms this on 6 normal-form families. Under the reduction's rule \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\), avoidance is impossible in general. Blocks with at most \(k\) inputs leave no choice, and an adversary can give three of them the forms \(X_{11}\), \(X_{12}\), \(X_{11}+X_{12}-1\), with their other forms independent. For the hole family, whose forms are distinct variables, there are no small clusters for any choice.

Avoidance

Hole family. Block \(t\) has inputs \(X_{jt}-1\), one hole's variables. Chosen forms from different blocks are distinct variables, so they have no affine relation. Modulo the base, the pigeon equations \(\sum_tX_{jt}=1\) relate the forms of one pigeon across all \(n\) holes. Every combination of pigeon equations has support on at least \(n\) of the forms, so any relation involves at least \(n\) clauses. By thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy an inconsistent cluster of \(t+1\) clauses of width \(k\) fails at \((t+1)(k-1)\), below \(D=22k\) exactly when \(t+1<22k/(k-1)\), in particular for \(t+1\le22\). So for \(n>22k/(k-1)\) the hole family has no cluster failing below \(D\).
In general. thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction takes \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\), so blocks with \(h_b\le k\) leave no choice. Three such blocks with forms \(X_{11}\), \(X_{12}\), \(X_{11}+X_{12}-1\), and other forms independent of each other and of these, form an inconsistent simple cluster, since \(X_{11}=X_{12}=0\) gives \(-1\). A refutation may contain such lines. So no choice rule under that reduction avoids small inconsistent clusters for every inventory.

Shared peeling

Setting as in lem:budget-peeling, over \(\mathbb F_3\), with arbitrary forbidden sets. Locality holds trivially at negative degrees.

Lemma (shared peeling). Let \(w\) be a coordinate, and let \(Q\) be the set of clauses containing \(w\), each forbidding \(\{w\ne0\}\times B'_c\). Let \(F^0\) be \(F\) without the clauses in \(Q\), and \(F^1\) be \(F\) with each clause in \(Q\) narrowed to \(B'_c\), both on the other coordinates. If \(F^0\) is local at degree \(e\) and \(F^1\) is local at degrees \(e-1\) and \(e-2\), then \(F\) is local at degree \(e\).

Proof. Write \(f\in I_e(Z(F))\) as \(A+Bw+Cw^2\). Over \(w=0\) every clause in \(Q\) is inactive, so \(A\) vanishes on \(Z(F^0)\). Over \(w=\pm1\) the allowed set is \(Z(F^1)\subseteq Z(F^0)\), so \(B\), \(A+C\), \(A\) and \(C\) vanish there, as in lem:budget-peeling. Decompose \(A\) by \(F^0\) at \(e\), \(B\) by \(F^1\) at \(e-1\), and \(C\) by \(F^1\) at \(e-2\). A term \(b'_c\) vanishing on \(U'_c\), for \(c\in Q\), gives \(b'_cw\in I_e(U_c)\), because \(U_c=\{w=0\}\cup(\mathbb F_3\times U'_c)\). The same holds for \(w^2\). The other terms lie in \(I_e(U_c)\) for clauses \(c\) not containing \(w\). \(\square\)

lem:budget-peeling is the case \(|Q|=1\).

Absorption

Theorem (resolvent absorption). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(t+1\) budget clauses satisfy the hypotheses of thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy with the \(\ell_b\) having no common zero. Let \(R\) be the clause whose forms are all the private forms of all \(t+1\) clauses, forbidding all of them nonzero. Then \(R\) is implied by the cluster, and the family of the \(t+1\) clauses together with \(R\) is local in every degree.

Proof. On a point where every private form is nonzero, each clause forces \(\ell_b=0\), which is impossible. So the allowed set of the cluster lies in that of \(R\), and adding \(R\) does not change it. Use the normal form of the dichotomy: coordinates \(y\), private coordinates \(w\) (\(m\) of them), free coordinates. Free coordinates are handled as there. Induct on the number \(m'\) of private coordinates remaining, over the class of such clusters in which clause \(b\) has \(m_b\ge0\) private coordinates. A clause with none is the unit clause \((\ell_b=0)\). At each step apply lem:shared-peeling to a private coordinate \(w\) of some clause \(b\) that still has one. Then \(Q=\{b,R\}\). Locality is invariant under affine coordinate changes.

\(F^0\) is the other \(t\) clauses with their remaining private coordinates, with clause \(b\) and \(R\) removed. The only affine relation of a simple cluster involves every \(\ell_b\), as \(\sum y+c\) does in the normal form. Removing any one clause, \(b=t+1\) included, therefore leaves independent forms, which are disjoint blocks after an affine change. So \(F^0\) is local in every degree by the product argument.
\(F^1\) is the same cluster with \(w\) removed from clause \(b\) and from \(R\). It is an inconsistent simple cluster with \(m'-1\) private coordinates together with its resolvent, local in every degree by induction.

At \(m'=0\) the resolvent has no forms, so its forbidden set is the whole space. Then \(I(U_R)\) is everything and the family is trivially local. \(\square\)

In Res(Lin) terms, \(R\) is the resolvent of the cluster: from \((\ell_b=0)\vee P_b\), \(b\le t+1\), with \(\{\ell_b=0\}\) inconsistent, derive \(\bigvee_bP_b\). Its width is \(m=\sum_b(k_b-1)\). Its forbidden density \((2/3)^m\) equals the product of the clauses' densities, \((2/3)^{\sum_bk_b}\), times \((3/2)^{t+1}\).

Check. resolvent_absorption.py recomputes inconsistent dichotomy families with \(R\) added (absorption.json). Two were also run without \(R\) in this file, and they fail from degree 2 and 3. With \(R\), all 6 inconsistent families tested, with \(t=1\) to 3 and widths up to 4, are local in every degree up to \(2s\). Without \(R\) all 6 fail by the dichotomy. For 5 of them this was also computed, in this file or in budget_type*.json; the family with widths \((3,3)\) was not run without \(R\). This is ex:resolvent-absorption-check.

What this means

Under the reduction's prefix rule the budget cannot avoid inconsistent clusters, but it can absorb them. Adding the resolvents of small inconsistent clusters, which are Res(Lin) consequences of the budget, keeps the allowed set and removes the cluster's non-locality. This is proved for an isolated simple cluster.
This suggests a saturated budget: close the family under resolvents of inconsistent clusters of at most about 22 clauses. The closure is finite, since there are finitely many clauses, but its size is not controlled. Resolvent widths need not grow when unit clauses take part. A clause of width above \(D\) has no nonzero function of degree \(\le D\) vanishing on its allowed set, since such a function is divisible by the product of its forms. It does not, however, drop out of the allowed set. The open statement, a conjecture, is that a saturated family is local through \(D\). That includes clusters inside larger families and resolvents that form new clusters, and it is the next step.
If the saturation derived a clause with no forms, the budget with the base would have a Res(Lin) refutation of width at most about \(D\). Such a family is trivially local, since the empty clause's ideal is everything. So locality is informative for the hardness goal only when the closure does not derive the empty clause. The saturated-locality question and the hardness question are not independent.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy (normal form, product argument), lem:budget-peeling, thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction (\(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\)) and the choice-rule entries. The check's values are read from the result files. A fresh-context reviewer found the shared peeling lemma and the absorption induction correct, including the shape of \(R\), the fibres, \(F^1\) being the narrowed cluster with its own resolvent, the base case, and \(b=t+1\). It required these changes, all adopted:

the induction class allowing clauses without private coordinates;
the reason \(F^0\) is independent;
"one step" corrected to a \(t\)-step derivation;
the density stated as an equality;
the avoidance claims scoped to the reduction's rule, with the independence of the other forms;
the constant 22 derived and the hole family's \(n\) condition stated;
the check's coverage stated;
the saturation's finiteness and the empty-clause remark corrected and labeled conjectural.

The changes weaken or correct, so no further pass was made.

Remaining gap

Locality of saturated families: clusters inside larger families, mixed components, several dependencies, and interaction between resolvents.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 7.94 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 1.36 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 4.54 s
Individually measured computation	1.91 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Saturated locality fails: dense pairs of budget clauses with overlapping spans are non-local at low degree and admit no resolvent

24 September 2026 · Finite check (refutation of the saturated-locality conjecture in form space) · Dense budget-type families over F_3; cycle odd-prime-saturated-locality. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Saturated locality fails: dense pairs of budget clauses with overlapping spans are non-local at low degree and admit no resolvent”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-saturated-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The resolvent-absorption entry conjectured that a budget closed under resolvents of small inconsistent clusters is local through \(D\), unless the closure derives the empty clause. That was the last reduction the locality program offered for adversarial budgets. The cycle tests it where it could fail: dense families in which clusters overlap or have more than one dependency.

General statement. The conjecture tested is saturated locality: a family of budget clauses closed under resolution of inconsistent literal sets, and not containing the empty clause, is local in every degree. ex:saturated-locality-failure refutes its form-space version in the dense regime. Over \(\mathbb F_3^4\), two clauses of width 3 whose spans meet in dimension 2 admit no resolvent. They are non-local at degree 4 in 4 of the 5 such pairs tested, with allowed sets of density about 1/2. So consistency and saturation do not give locality once a dependency space has dimension 2 or a component mixes several forms of a clause. thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy and thm:resolvent-absorption are sharp in their scope, single simple dependencies.

The test

Can it decide. A counterexample needs a saturated family, meaning no resolvent applies or all are added, with a dense allowed set and a locality defect. Form space is exact at \(s\le5\). Width-3 clauses forbid \(8/27\) each, so two or three of them keep density near 1/2 or above. These are the smallest sizes where the budget's density regime and non-simple dependencies coexist.

saturated.py draws random clauses of \(k\) affine forms on \(\mathbb F_3^s\), each allowing "some form \(=0\)". It closes them under the rule: from clauses \(C_1,\dots,C_r\), \(r\le3\), and one literal from each whose zero sets are jointly inconsistent, derive the union of the other literals, keeping only minimal clauses. It computes the locality defect in every degree up to \(2s\) before and after closure (sat_*.json).

With 2 or 3 clauses of width 2 on \(\mathbb F_3^3\), allowed sets of 2 to 5 points: saturation removes some defects, as absorption predicts, but others remain. These families are in the covering regime.
With width 3 on \(\mathbb F_3^4\) and \(\mathbb F_3^5\), allowed density 0.31 to 0.58: of 20 families, 15 are non-local before closure, and the same 15, at the same first degree (3 to 5), after closure. Closure added clauses in 7 families and changed no first failing degree.
Two-clause families, where no resolvent can apply unless the literal sets are inconsistent: of 5 pairs whose spans meet in dimension 2, 4 fail first at degree 4. Of 5 pairs meeting in dimension 1, 1 fails, first at degree 5. That pair has a single dependency, so its component in some clause must mix several forms; otherwise the dichotomy would give locality or a first failure at 4.

This is ex:saturated-locality-failure. Inspection of the first failing pair: forms of ranks 3 and 3, all six of rank 4, spans meeting in dimension 2, consistent, with no inconsistent literal set.

What this means

Locality at clause level fails for dense, consistent, saturated budget families as soon as two clauses share a two-dimensional part of their spans. An adversarial budget can contain such pairs. So no closure under resolution restores clause-level locality.
Grouping overlapping clauses into members removes these pairs but brings back member-level obstructions: prop:member-inconsistency, and the chaining that merging may cause. The locality program has now been tested against every reduction it offered: t-wise, member, cluster and resolvent. Each fails for adversarial budgets, and the positive results cover only single simple dependencies.
This is the point for a route review of the clause-transfer line. Three research entries have passed since the budget review, which already found the central claim without a mechanism.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy and thm:resolvent-absorption (scope: single simple dependencies), and the absorption entry's conjecture. Every count is read from the result files by script. The resolution rule and the defect computation reuse the validated form-space routines. The entry registers a finite check and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 50.61 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 9.05 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 37.34 s
Individually measured computation	4.08 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Route review: non-locality does not break closed freeness in range; small clusters are covered by seeded stability, and the open case is chains of small dependencies

24 September 2026 · Route review with a finite check · The closure route after the locality program; cycle odd-prime-closure-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: non-locality does not break closed freeness in range; small clusters are covered by seeded stability, and the open case is chains of small dependencies”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-closure-route-review.

General statement. The line's claim is the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing for the budget: row freeness of the graded functions on the budget's allowed set \(Z\) through degree \(D\). The locality program is closed for adversarial budgets (ex:saturated-locality-failure). This review's falsification attempt, ex:inconsistent-pair-in-range, tests whether non-locality breaks the claim itself. It does not, in range at \(D=3\): an inconsistent pair of budget clauses is visibly non-local and still row-free, like its controls.

Where the line stands

Since the budget review:

thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy: an isolated simple cluster breaks locality only through an affine inconsistency, first at its number of private forms;
thm:resolvent-absorption: adding the cluster's resolvent restores locality;
ex:saturated-locality-failure: dense pairs with overlapping spans stay non-local after saturation.

Proved before: closure gluing, global closure gluing, and closed stability for sparse, seeded and block-structured members. thm:seeded-closure-stability allows any set of allowed values for forms with an affine basis of values of sufficient multiplicity.

Falsification attempt: does non-locality break closed freeness?

Can it decide. Two budget clauses of width 2 sharing their dependent form, one allowing \(\ell=0\) and the other \(\ell=c\) with \(c\ne0\), form an inconsistent pair. By the dichotomy with \(t=1\) it is non-local at degree \(2(k-1)=2\). That is visible in the one-row closed test at \(D=3\), whose kernel condition covers degrees \(\le2\). \(N=24\) is in the conjecture's range at \(D=3\), and the direct-sum kernel reaches it. The pair's allowed set covers about a third of the slice, outside the conjecture's half-slice class. As with the symmetric pin, a failure where the controls pass would carry the conclusion, and a pass shows that non-locality alone does not force failure.

pair_freeness.py writes the kernel inputs and run_pairs.sh runs the kernel (pair_N24.json, forms from seed 1):

variant	dims, degrees 0 to 3	excess
base	1, 47, 1056, 15089	0, 0, 0
consistent pair (\(c=0\))	1, 47, 1054, 14996	0, 0, 0
inconsistent pair (\(c=1\))	1, 47, 1053, 14950	0, 0, 0
inconsistent pair (\(c=2\))	1, 47, 1053, 14950	0, 0, 0

The inconsistent pairs lose one more dimension in degree 2 than the consistent pair: the resolvent, a product of the two private forms, is in the closure. So the non-locality is present in range, and the closed algebra is still row-free. A dry run at \(N=18\) gave the same pass. This is ex:inconsistent-pair-in-range.

What the goal needs, and the assessment

The recorded stability theorems already cover small clusters. A cluster's forms are a bounded number of dense forms, and thm:seeded-closure-stability allows any allowed set in their value space, consistent or not. So a small dependent cluster, closed as one member with its resolvent, is covered, and in range the kernel confirms that its non-locality is harmless. The locality program's obstructions show only that members cannot be single clauses. They do not show that the closure route fails.

What the route needs is a decomposition of the budget into members, each a group of clauses with a bounded number of jointly free forms, such that the members do not interact through degree \(D\). The obstructions say which groupings are forced: clauses in a small inconsistent cluster, and clauses whose spans overlap. The open danger is chaining. If small dependencies link clauses into ever larger groups, the groups exceed the joint-freeness range, which is about \(N/2\) forms at \(D=3\) (conj:generic-form-freeness). Then the global question returns. On this evidence the route is alive but unproved. Its central claim survived the obstruction built against it, and the remaining risk is precisely stated.

The highest-risk item and the next step

The highest-risk item is chained small dependencies. Next step, on route item odd-prime-clause-transfer: an in-range test of inconsistent chains at \(D=3\), \(N=24\). Use clauses of width 2 in which consecutive clauses share a form with incompatible allowed values, so that every link is an inconsistent pair. Chain lengths should run from 2 up to beyond the joint-freeness threshold of about 10 forms, with consistent chains and the base as controls. A failure that grows with the chain would locate the obstruction to the closure route. A pass would say that inconsistent links, like single pairs, are absorbed by the closure.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:global-closure-gluing, thm:seeded-closure-stability (any allowed values), conj:generic-form-freeness, the dichotomy and absorption theorems, ex:saturated-locality-failure, and the direct-sum kernel's validation. The kernel inputs are generated by the committed script, and the table is read from the saved output. A first launch was refused by the runner's loop-depth guard, and a grep filter hid the refusal. The inputs were then generated separately and the compiled kernel run directly. The review adds a finite check and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 49.94 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 4.41 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 31.14 s
Individually measured computation	8 min 14.25 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Inconsistent chains in range: only the sparsest chain fails, so the test cannot separate inconsistency from sparseness

24 September 2026 · Inconclusive finite test and a kernel speedup · Chains of width-2 budget clauses at N = 24, D = 3; cycle odd-prime-inconsistent-chains. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Inconsistent chains in range: only the sparsest chain fails, so the test cannot separate inconsistency from sparseness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-inconsistent-chains.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The closure route review named chained small dependencies as the open danger for thm:global-closure-gluing's hypothesis on the budget. It asked whether chains of inconsistent links break closed row freeness in range, against consistent chains and the base.

General statement. The claim under test is the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing for chains. Chains of 2, 4 and 8 inconsistent width-2 links pass at \(N=24\), \(D=3\). The chain of 12 fails with excess 1 in degree 2, while the consistent chain of 12 passes. But inconsistency propagates along the chain. The inconsistent chain of 12 allows a fraction \(1.7\cdot10^{-5}\) of the forms' values, about 95 points of the slice, against 0.0069 for the consistent chain. So the failure is confounded with extreme sparseness, the covering regime. No claim is registered.

The test

Forms \(f_0,\dots,f_L\) are independent dense random column forms. Clause \(i\) allows \(f_{i-1}=u\) or \(f_i=v\), with \((u,v)=(0,1)\) for inconsistent links and \((0,0)\) for consistent ones. The kernel inputs are written by chain_inputs.py and run by run_chains.sh (chains_N24_D3.json).

\(L\)	consistent: dims, excess	inconsistent: dims, excess	allowed fraction (inc / con)
2	1, 47, 1054, 14996; 0, 0, 0	1, 47, 1053, 14950; 0, 0, 0	0.259 / 0.407
4	1, 47, 1052, 14904; 0, 0, 0	1, 47, 1046, 14639; 0, 0, 0	0.045 / 0.177
8	1, 47, 1048, 14720; 0, 0, 0	1, 47, 1020, 13565; 0, 0, 0	0.00097 / 0.035
12	1, 47, 1044, 14536; 0, 0, 0	1, 47, 862, 7261; 0, 0, 1	0.000017 / 0.0069

The fractions are exact counts in the forms' value space, which dense random forms approximate on the slice (chain_density.py, chain_density.txt). The chain of 2 reproduces the pair test's dimensions.

Why it cannot decide. In an inconsistent chain, once a clause uses its second literal every later clause must, so the allowed patterns form about \(L+1\) thin families. The sparseness grows with the length, so a chain long enough to entangle many forms is also too sparse to be budget-like. Adding private forms to each clause would restore density. But a width-3 inconsistent link is non-local only from degree \(\sum(k_b-1)=4\), by thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy, beyond what \(D=3\) sees in range. So no in-range test at \(D=3\) can decide whether inconsistent chains matter at budget density. This should have been found from the density count before the runs.

The kernel

The first run of the eight cases took 26 minutes for two of them, 22 minutes on the inconsistent chain of 12 alone, and was stopped. The cost was the verification step. Each kernel vector was checked on its whole subcube by a subset-sum transform, with up to \(2^{24}\) entries, and a sparse allowed set has thousands of kernel vectors per block. direct_sum_v2.cpp makes two changes.

It checks 40 random combinations of the kernel vectors instead of every vector. A kernel vector that is nonzero at an allowed point survives all 40 checks with probability at most \(3^{-40}\) per block, so the result is exact except with that probability.
It caps the rejection sampling and falls back to one scan of the subcube with a uniform reservoir sample.

It reproduces every recorded validation value, including the excess 970 of the symmetric pin (revalidate_v2.json). It gives the same result as the original on the inconsistent chain of 12, in 198 s instead of 22 minutes. The original file is unchanged, and the consistent chain of 12 was computed with it.

What this means

At \(D=3\) in range, inconsistent chains of up to 8 links, with allowed fractions down to \(10^{-3}\), are row-free. The one failure is at an allowed set of about 95 points, where low-degree functions degenerate for reasons unrelated to inconsistency.
The chaining question, like the entangled closed base in general, cannot be decided in range at \(D=3\). The closed-base line has spent many cycles on this obligation, hypothesis (a) over the closed base. The generic members' hypotheses (b) and (c) over the closed base have not been examined since the closed-base review. The next cycle turns to them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the closure route review's test design, thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy (non-locality degree), and the direct-sum kernel's validation list. The table and fractions are read from the saved files. The patched kernel was revalidated on every recorded value before use. No claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	60 min 31.66 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 22.71 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 49.49 s
Individually measured computation	53 min 19.32 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Generic members over the weak base in range: generic selectors never fall at degree 3, while the column merge does

24 September 2026 · Finite check in range · Hypothesis (c) for generic selectors over the weak base at D = 3; cycle odd-prime-generic-members. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Generic members over the weak base in range: generic selectors never fall at degree 3, while the column merge does”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-generic-member-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The chains entry turned the line from hypothesis (a) over the closed base to the generic members' hypotheses (b) and (c). Recall the architecture of the closed-base review. thm:relative-gluing needs (c), that each generic member alone has no fall over the base \(B^\sharp\), the weak base plus the closed column member. When the column constraints allow the whole slice, \(B^\sharp\) is the weak base, so (c) there is: one generic member plus the weak base has no fall below \(D\). The global-closure entry's attempt at (c) on \(3\times7\) could not decide, because the base itself falls there. This cycle tests (c) in the weak base's proved range.

General statement. The claim under test is hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing for generic selectors over the weak base. ex:generic-selector-no-fall: at 3 rows and 18 holes, \(D=3\), in the range of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic (\(N\ge(p-1)D^2=18\), rows \(\ge D\)), the base plus 1, 2 or 4 generic selectors on row-dependent random forms is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) for three seeds. The unclosed column merge \(C_1C_2\), the positive control, falls in every seed (\(\dim\ker z=4\) in degree 2). So the test detects falls, and generic selectors do not produce them at this degree.

The test

Can it decide. The base is proved fall-free at this size, so any fall is the member's. A selector \(1-(\ell-v)^2\) has degree 2 and is visible below \(D=3\). A width-2 clause has degree 4 and needs \(D\ge5\), hence \(N\ge50\), out of reach. The positive control shows that falls at this size are detectable. \(D=4\) in range needs 4 rows and \(N\ge32\). A case at 4 rows and 16 holes already exceeded 110 s in Singular, so \(D=4\) is out of reach with this tool.

member_fall.py computes \(\dim\ker(z\colon B_k\to B_{k+1})=\mathrm{HF}_B(k)+\mathrm{HF}_A(k+1)-\mathrm{HF}_B(k+1)\) from exact Gröbner Hilbert functions over \(\mathbb F_3\), truncated at \(D\), in Singular (mf_3x18_D3.json). The weak base has Booleanity, column exclusions and row equations, homogenized.

member	seeds 1, 2, 3: \(\dim\ker z\) in degrees 0, 1, 2
base	0, 0, 0 in all three
1 generic selector	0, 0, 0 in all three
2 generic selectors	0, 0, 0 in all three
4 generic selectors	0, 0, 0 in all three
column merge \(C_1C_2\) (control)	0, 0, 4 in all three

This is ex:generic-selector-no-fall.

What this means

The column merge falls through placed pigeons: \(x_{i1}C_1\) reduces to \(x_{i1}\) because column exclusions leave pigeon \(i\) alone in hole 1, and so \(x_{i1}C_1C_2\) drops a degree. A generic row-dependent form has no such reduction, since \(x_{ij}\ell\) keeps the degree of \(\ell\) outside row \(i\) and column \(j\). The data agree: generic selectors, alone or several together, do not fall in range at degree 3.
Together with the recorded splitting checks for (b) (ex:closed-base-splitting at \(n=8,9\)), the generic side of the architecture has no failure on record, and (c) now has in-range evidence at the one degree reachable. The obstruction the line met, falls through placed pigeons, is specific to column constraints, which are already handled in the base by closure.
Next: a proof of (c) for generic selectors over the weak base in the range of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. The explanation above, that multiplying a generic form by a cell never lowers its degree, is what such a proof would have to make precise, using the free-seed decomposition that proved the base's own stability.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:relative-gluing (hypothesis (c)), thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic (range: rows \(\ge D\), \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\)), ex:placed-pigeon-falls (the merge control), and the global-closure entry's \(3\times7\) attempt. The table is read from the result file. The entry registers a finite check and no proof, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 17.12 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 7.28 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 12.32 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 1.35 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 56.03 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Proof attempt for (c): the seeded argument needs content reduction, which row-dependent forms break

24 September 2026 · Unsuccessful proof attempt · Hypothesis (c) for generic selectors over the weak base; cycle odd-prime-generic-member-proof. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Proof attempt for (c): the seeded argument needs content reduction, which row-dependent forms break”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-generic-member-proof-attempt.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The generic-member entry found generic selectors without falls over the weak base in range at \(D=3\), and proposed proving hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing for them. The implication sought: in the range of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, the weak base plus one generic selector \(1-(\ell-v)^2\), with \(\ell=\sum_{ij}f_{ij}x_{ij}\) row-dependent, has no fall below \(D\).

General statement. The target was hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing for row-dependent generic selectors, and it is not proved. By cor:seeded-selector-members's mechanism, (c) for a selector follows from freeness of the weak top algebra \(A\) over \(\mathbb F[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) through \(D\). The recorded way to prove such freeness is the seeded argument of thm:seeded-closure-stability and thm:board-seed-freeness. It reduces to at most \(D\) rows plus a bulk row by content reduction, and that reduction needs the constraint to be symmetric in the rows outside the support. A row-dependent form is not, and without the reduction the seeds would have to serve all \(m=N+1\) rows, which needs more holes than there are.

The attempt

Reduction. As in cor:seeded-selector-members, the top of the selector is \(-\ell^2\), and \(\ell^3=0\) in \(A\) in characteristic 3, since the tops of the \(x_{ij}\) square to 0. If \(A\) is free over \(\mathbb F[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) through \(D\), the member's top syzygies are Frobenius \(\ell\,e\) plus boundaries and lift by the Frobenius lift lemma, which is (c). The filtered freeness transfer lemma adds that the selector then generates its closure degree by degree. So the unclosed and closed member coincide through \(D\), and (c) is also the row-freeness condition of thm:global-closure-gluing for \(\mathcal Q=\{\ell\ne v\}\).

Where the seeded proof stops. For column forms \(\ell=\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j\), the constraint depends only on column occupancies. A Koszul cycle of the row sums of content \(c\) then lives on the rows of \(\operatorname{supp}c\), at most \(D\) of them, with all other rows merged into one bulk row. That is the content reduction of the sparse- and seeded-closure proofs. Seeds for those \(u+1\le D+1\) rows need \((u+1)(p-1)\) holes each, and \(D+1\) seeds fit when \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)^2\). For \(\ell=\sum_{ij}f_{ij}x_{ij}\) with row-dependent coefficients, rows outside the support cannot be merged: their contributions \(\sum_{i\notin S}f_{ij}x_{ij}\) are not functions of the bulk occupancy. The selector's ideal is not homogeneous in the row content either, so the content decomposition itself is lost. Seeds over all \(m=N+1\) rows would need \(m(p-1)\) holes per seed, more than \(N\).

What the record offers for row-dependent forms. lem:member-pinning and thm:coherent-product-constraints handle forms whose row-linear parts are independent modulo constants on every row. They work on the functional base with extension designs, and they conclude non-refutability of the base plus the member, not \(z\)-injectivity. Relative gluing uses (c) only to lift member-supported top syzygies. Whether a design-level statement of that kind can replace (c) in the gluing is not settled by the record.

What this means

(c) for generic members has in-range evidence at \(D=3\), but no proof mechanism: the only freeness method on record needs row symmetry.
Next: check whether relative gluing's use of (c) can be replaced by what the product-constraints method proves for row-dependent forms. That is, whether member-supported top syzygies of a member with per-row independent forms lift through the extension designs of thm:coherent-product-constraints. If so, (c) for robust generic members follows from recorded results. If not, the row-dependent freeness of \(A\) over the member's forms needs a new decomposition, by rows instead of columns.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:relative-gluing (the role of (c)), cor:seeded-selector-members, the seeded-closure entry's proof (content reduction, joint seeds, transfer), lem:member-pinning, and the summary of thm:coherent-product-constraints. No claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 47.67 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 27.53 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4.53 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 15.47 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Taylor glue over any z-injective base: one Taylor-generation condition replaces hypotheses (b) and (c)

24 September 2026 · Working proof (Taylor glue over a z-injective base) · Product constraints over any base with the no-fall property, F_3; cycle odd-prime-designs-for-c. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Taylor glue over any z-injective base: one Taylor-generation condition replaces hypotheses (b) and (c)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-based-taylor-glue.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The proof attempt for (c) asked whether the extension designs of the product-constraints theorem can supply relative gluing's use of hypothesis (c). The recorded thm:taylor-glue does this for selectors on the functional matching base. Its self and cross relations make single-constraint and coherent-pair syzygies harmless, with no fall condition. The missing implication is whether the same holds over the closed base \(B^\sharp\), whose extension property must come from \(z\)-injectivity, and for clauses.

General statement. thm:based-taylor-glue: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let a base with Booleanity generators have homogenization \(z\)-injective below \(D\), and add product constraints. If for every \(s\le D\) the top syzygies are spanned by single-constraint Frobenius syzygies and the pair syzygies of coherent pairs, then the system has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). With the closed base as base, this gives the conclusion of thm:relative-gluing from two conditions: (a), \(z\)-injectivity of \(B^\sharp\), and Taylor generation over its top algebra. Taylor generation replaces (b) and (c); it is not shown to imply them. The content of (c) is not removed. For a single constraint, Taylor generation asks that the annihilator of its top be generated by the Frobenius powers \(\ell_j^{3-b_{C,j}}\), up to pair syzygies, the mechanism of cor:seeded-selector-members. So the obstacle recorded for row-dependent forms remains.

Setting

\(\mathbb F=\mathbb F_3\) throughout, \(P=\mathbb F[x_1,\dots,x_n]\), and a base: finitely many generators, including every \(x_i^2-x_i\).
\(V_s\): the base NS multiples of degree \(\le s\), the span of \(qf\) with \(f\) a generator and \(\deg(qf)\le s\).
\(A=\mathbb F[x,z]/J\), with \(J\) generated by the homogenized generators, so that \(J_s\) corresponds to \(V_s\). \(z\)-injectivity of \(A\) in degree \(s-1\to s\) says exactly \(V_s\cap P_{\le s-1}=V_{s-1}\).
\(G=A/zA\), \(P\) modulo the ideal of the generators' tops. Its degree-\(s\) part is \(P_s\) modulo the degree-\(s\) parts of \(V_s\).

Constraints are products \(C=\prod_{j\in S_C}h_{C,j}(L_j)\). The \(L_j\) are affine forms with coefficients and constants in \(\mathbb F_3\), indexed by linear part, with distinct indices having non-proportional linear parts. Each factor is \(L_j-a\), exponent \(b_{C,j}=1\), or \(\chi_a(L_j)=1-(L_j-a)^2\), exponent 2, with \(a\in\mathbb F_3\). The top of \(C\) in \(G\) is \(c_C\ell^{b_C}\), with \(c_C=\pm1\). A pair is coherent if on each shared form the factors are equal, or one is \(\chi_a\) and the other \(L-a'\) with \(a'\ne a\). Syzygies are signed: \((g_C)\) with \(\sum_Cc_C\ell^{b_C}g_C=0\) in \(G_s\).

The theorem

Theorem (Taylor glue over a \(z\)-injective base). Suppose \(A\) is \(z\)-injective in degrees \(<D\), no generator or constraint is a nonzero constant, and for every \(s\le D\) the degree-\(s\) signed top syzygies are spanned by:

(F) \(g\,\ell_j^{3-b_{C,j}}e_C\), \(j\in S_C\);
(K) for coherent pairs \(C,C'\), the syzygies \(g\,(c_{C'}\ell^{b-b_C}e_C-c_C\ell^{b-b_{C'}}e_{C'})\), with exponent vectors over all forms (0 off the support) and \(b=\max(b_C,b_{C'})\) componentwise. For a pair without shared forms this is the Koszul syzygy.

Then every normalized NS functional of the base plus the constraints through degree \(k\le D\) extends through \(D\). The NS and PC closures agree through \(D\), and there is no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. Induction on \(s\le D\): a normalized NS functional \(\mu\) through \(s-1\) extends through \(s\).

Base extension. By \(V_s\cap P_{\le s-1}=V_{s-1}\), \(\mu\) vanishes on \(V_s\cap P_{\le s-1}\), so it extends to \(E\mu\) on \(P_{\le s}\) vanishing on \(V_s\).
Defects. For \(g\in P_{s-|b_C|}\) put \(\hat z_C(g)=(E\mu)(Cg)\). If \(g\) has lower degree, \(Cg\) is an NS multiple of degree \(\le s-1\). If \(g\) is the top of some \(e\in V_{s-|b_C|}\), then \(Ce\in V_s\), and \(C(g-e)\) is a lower NS multiple. So \(\hat z_C\) is a functional on \(G_{s-|b_C|}\).
Corrections. For \(w\in G_s^*\), let \(\tilde w\) be \(w\) of the degree-\(s\) part modulo the tops, and 0 below. Then \(E\mu+\tilde w\) still vanishes on \(V_s\), whose degree-\(s\) parts are tops. It vanishes on \(Cg\) exactly when \(c_Cw(\ell^{b_C}g)=-\hat z_C(g)\).
Solvability. The system is solvable if and only if \(\sum_C\hat z_C(g_C)=0\) for every signed syzygy \((g_C)\) of degree \(s\), by duality.
(F). Lift \(\ell_j^{3-b}\) by \((L_j-a)^{3-b}\) and \(g\) by \(\tilde g\), so that lower-degree differences give NS multiples below \(s\). \((L-a)^3-(L-a)=\sum_ic_i(x_i+1)(x_i^2-x_i)\) lies in \(V_3\), since the coefficients and constants are in \(\mathbb F_3\). If the factor is \(L_j-a\), then \(C(L_j-a)^2\tilde g=C\tilde g+C'\beta\tilde g\), with \(C'=C/(L_j-a)\), \(\beta\in V_3\), and \(C'\beta\tilde g\in V_s\). Here \(C\tilde g\) has degree \(s-2\), and \(\mu\) kills it. If the factor is \(\chi_a\), then \(C(L_j-a)\tilde g=C''\bigl((L_j-a)-(L_j-a)^3\bigr)\tilde g\in V_s\). Either way the pairing is 0.
(K). Build lift factors \(\Lambda\) for \(C\) and \(\Lambda'\) for \(C'\), form by form. On a shared form with equal factors, neither needs one. On a form in only one constraint, the other takes that constraint's factor. On a shared form with \(\chi_a\) in one and \(L-a'\) in the other, the \(L-a'\) side takes \(-(L-a'')\), with \(a''\) the third element of \(\mathbb F_3\), by the exact identity \(\chi_a(L)=-(L-a')(L-a'')\). Then \(X=C\Lambda\) equals \(C'\Lambda'\) as a polynomial. The tops are \(\sigma\ell^{b-b_C}\) and \(\sigma'\ell^{b-b_{C'}}\) with \(\sigma,\sigma'=\pm1\), and comparing the tops of \(X\) gives \(c_C\sigma=c_{C'}\sigma'\). Hence \(\sigma\ell^{b-b_C}e_C-\sigma'\ell^{b-b_{C'}}e_{C'}\) is \(\sigma c_{C'}\) times the (K) syzygy. Its pairing with the defects, for the multiplier \(g\) lifted by \(\tilde g\), is \((E\mu)(X\tilde g)-(E\mu)(X\tilde g)=0\), since the lower-degree parts of \(\Lambda\tilde g\) and \(\Lambda'\tilde g\) give constraint multiples below \(s\).
Conclusion. The functional \(\mu_0\) with \(\mu_0(1)=1\) is an NS functional through 0, since no generator or constraint is a nonzero constant. Extending gives a degree-\(D\) NS design, so there is no NS refutation. Suppose some \(p\in V'_D\cap P_{\le D-1}\) lies outside \(V'_{D-1}\), where \(V'\) includes the constraints' multiples. Let \(\mu_*\) be the restriction of the degree-\(D\) design to \(P_{\le D-1}\), so \(\mu_*(p)=0\). Take \(\nu\) on \(P_{\le D-1}\) vanishing on \(V'_{D-1}\) with \(\nu(p)=1\), and \(\mu=(\mu_*+t\nu)/(1+t\nu(1))\) with \(t\ne0\) and \(1+t\nu(1)\ne0\), which excludes at most two of the three values of \(t\). Then \(\mu\) is a normalized NS functional through \(D-1\) with \(\mu(p)\ne0\), so it cannot extend through \(D\), a contradiction. So the NS closure is closed under multiplication by variables below \(D\), and it equals the PC closure through \(D\), which does not contain 1. \(\square\)

What it does and does not give

It generalizes thm:taylor-glue in two directions. The base extension comes from \(z\)-injectivity of any base with Booleanity generators instead of the matching extension theorem. And the constraints may be coherent product constraints instead of selectors. It uses neither robustness nor a fall condition on members. thm:glued-product-constraints glues whole coherent subsystems on the functional base, which needs jointly full robust forms. Here only single constraints and pairs are glued, over any \(z\)-injective base. Step 4 is lem:syzygy-gluing with the base extension of step 1 in place of the matching extension.
Over the closed base \(B^\sharp\) it reduces the gluing to (a) and Taylor generation over \(B^\sharp\)'s top algebra. But Taylor generation is not weaker than (c). In \(G\), \(x_i^2=0\), so the annihilator of \(\ell^{b_C}\) can exceed \((\ell_j^{3-b_{C,j}})\). For example, \((x_1+x_2)(x_1-x_2)=0\). Such single-constraint syzygies must be spanned by (F), up to combinations of pair syzygies: the annihilator of \(\ell^{b_C}\) in \(G\) must be \(\sum_j\ell_j^{3-b_{C,j}}G\) in degrees \(\le D-|b_C|\), modulo that correction. Freeness of \(G\) through \(D\) over \(\mathbb F[\ell_1,\dots,\ell_k]/(\ell_j^3)\) implies this annihilator equality, but not conversely. This is the mechanism of cor:seeded-selector-members. So the content of (c) is carried into the one Taylor condition, not removed.
Incoherent pairs are not covered, as before.

Next: test Taylor generation itself over the weak base in range, for generic row-dependent selectors. Compute the degree-\(s\) top syzygies in \(G\) by linear algebra and compare their span with that of (F) and (K), at 3 rows and 18 holes, \(D=3\), with column-type controls. A Hilbert-function freeness test would check only a sufficient condition, so its failure would not refute Taylor generation.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:taylor-glue (the syzygy-gluing lemma, the self and cross relations), thm:coherent-product-constraints (coherence, the factor types), thm:relative-gluing (hypotheses (a) to (d)), cor:seeded-selector-members, and the injectivity-stability equivalence behind \(V_s\cap P_{\le s-1}=V_{s-1}\). The claim search (Taylor glue, \(z\)-injective base, product constraints, syzygy gluing) returned thm:taylor-glue, thm:glued-product-constraints, lem:syzygy-gluing and prop:syzygies-as-tor, all on the functional base, and no version over an arbitrary \(z\)-injective base. No computation was needed. A fresh-context reviewer made two passes. The first found the wrong algebra (the saturated homogenization is always \(z\)-injective), the sign convention, the \(\chi_a\) step and the missing proof of step 7, and it refuted the first draft's consequence that generic members need no (c), with the annihilator example. The second pass found the setting, the (F) step and the logic of step 7 correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the (K) syzygy stated canonically, since the lifted one is only \(\pm1\) times it;
the functional of step 7 renamed;
one field throughout;
freeness stated as sufficient for the annihilator condition, not equivalent;
the relation to (b) and (c) stated as replacement, not implication.

The changes correct or weaken, so no third pass was made.

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Row changes: forms of low affine row rank are free over the weak top algebra, so their coherent families glue over the weak base

24 September 2026 · Working proofs (row-change lemma, row-rank seeds, row-rank members) and a finite check · Row-dependent forms of low affine row rank; cycle odd-prime-taylor-generation. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Row changes: forms of low affine row rank are free over the weak top algebra, so their coherent families glue over the weak base”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-row-rank-seeds.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The based Taylor glue replaced hypotheses (b) and (c) of relative gluing by one condition on the top algebra. The proof attempt for (c) found that the only recorded freeness method, the seeded argument, needs content reduction. Content reduction needs column-type forms, and the attempt asked for a decomposition by rows instead. The missing implication is freeness of the weak top algebra over row-dependent forms. Freeness gives the Taylor condition for every coherent family on those forms.

General statement. thm:row-rank-seeds: in characteristic \(p\), let linear forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) on the weak unary board have affine row rank \(r\). This is the dimension of the span of the differences of their coefficient columns \(f^b_{\cdot j}-f^b_{\cdot j'}\in\mathbb F^m\). If their hole profiles, in a normal form reached by a row change, contain a seed pattern with multiplicities about \((p-1)(t+1)r\), then the weak top algebra on any number of rows is free through degree \(t\) over \(\mathbb F[W]/(W^p)\). The seed pattern is stated below. The proof combines three things: lem:row-change-invariance (the top algebra is invariant under invertible row changes and under shifting forms by row sums), content reduction on the rows the forms do not use, and seeds. cor:row-rank-members: over \(\mathbb F_3\), every pairwise coherent family of product constraints on such forms, with \(t=D\), has no PC refutation of degree \(D\) over the weak base when \(N\ge2D^2\) and \(m\ge D\). Column-type forms are the case \(r=1\), and single-row forms are isomorphic to them by the row-change lemma, so the new row-dependent class is \(r\ge2\). For \(r=1\) the multiplicity needed at the base profile drops from \((p-1)(t+1)^2\) to \((p-1)(t+1)\), with the same total. Generic row-dependent forms have row rank about \(\min(m,d(N-1))\) and are not covered. ex:row-rank-freeness-check confirms the \(r=1\) improvement at \(t=3\) with a failing control.

Row changes

Setting: \(A=A_{m,N}=\mathbb F[x_{ij}:i<m,\ j<N]/(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\ (i\le i'),\ r_i=\sum_jx_{ij})\), the weak unary top algebra. \(V_j=\operatorname{span}(x_{ij}:i<m)\). Forms \(\ell_b=\sum_{ij}f^b_{ij}x_{ij}\), with coefficient columns \(f^b_{\cdot j}\in\mathbb F^m\). In characteristic \(p\), \(\ell^p=0\) in \(A\) for every linear form, since \(x_{ij}^2=0\).

Lemma (row change). For \(g\in GL_m(\mathbb F)\), the substitution \(x_{ij}\mapsto\sum_{i'}g_{i'i}x_{i'j}\) induces a graded automorphism \(\sigma_g\) of \(A\) with \(\sigma_g(\ell_b)=\sum_{i',j}(gf^b_{\cdot j})_{i'}x_{i'j}\). Moreover, \(\sum_{ij}(f^b_{ij}+c^b_i)x_{ij}=\ell_b\) in \(A\) for every \(c^b\in\mathbb F^m\). So replacing the columns \(f^b_{\cdot j}\) by \(gf^b_{\cdot j}+c^b\) gives an isomorphic graded module over \(\mathbb F[W_1,\dots,W_d]/(W_b^p)\), acting by \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b\). Freeness, Tor and the syzygies of monomials in the forms are carried along.

Proof. \(\sigma_g\) is invertible on \(P_1\) and maps each \(V_j\) to itself, so it maps \(V_jV_j=\operatorname{span}(x_{ij}x_{i'j})\) to itself. It maps \(r_i\) to \(\sum_{i'}g_{i'i}r_{i'}\), so it preserves the span of the row sums. Hence it preserves the ideal and induces an automorphism, and the formula for \(\sigma_g(\ell_b)\) is direct. Finally \(\sum_{ij}c_ix_{ij}=\sum_ic_ir_i=0\) in \(A\). \(\square\)

The affine row rank \(r\) of \((\ell_b)\) is \(\dim S\), where \(S=\operatorname{span}\{f^b_{\cdot j}-f^b_{\cdot j'}\}\). Take \(c^b=-f^b_{\cdot0}\) and \(g\) with \(gS=\operatorname{span}(e_0,\dots,e_{r-1})\). Then the new forms are supported on rows \(0,\dots,r-1\), the normal form. There the profile of hole \(j\) is the matrix \(F_j=(f^b_{ij})_{i<r,\,b}\in\mathbb F^{r\times d}\), with rows \(F_j(i)\in\mathbb F^d\). Column-type forms \(\sum_j\varphi_b(j)\sum_ix_{ij}\) have \(S\subseteq\operatorname{span}(\mathbf 1)\), so \(r\le1\). A \(g\) with \(g\mathbf 1=e_0\) makes them the single-row forms \(\sum_j\varphi_b(j)x_{0j}\).

Content reduction on the free rows

Lemma. Let the forms be supported on rows \(<r\). Grade \(\tilde A=\mathbb F[x]/(x_{ij}x_{i'j})\) by the content \(c\in\mathbb N^{\{r,\dots,m-1\}}\) of its monomials in rows \(\ge r\). The row sums \(r_i\), \(i<r\), and the forms have content 0, and \(r_i\), \(i\ge r\), has content \(e_i\). So \(A=\bigoplus_cA^{(c)}\) as graded modules over \(\mathbb F[W]/(W^p)\), with \(A^{(c)}=\tilde A^{(c)}/(\sum_{i<r}r_i\tilde A^{(c)}+\sum_{i\in\operatorname{supp}c}r_i\tilde A^{(c-e_i)})\). \(A^{(c)}\) depends only on the rows \(<r\), the rows in \(\operatorname{supp}c\) and the holes, and it lives in degrees \(\ge|c|\). Hence \(A\) on \(m\) rows is free plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\) if and only if \(A\) on \(u=\min(m,r+t)\) rows is.

Proof. This is lem:board-content-reduction with the \(r\) form rows in place of the column-sum row. The relations are monomials or homogeneous row sums, and the forms have content 0. For \(|c|\le t\), \(|\operatorname{supp}c|\le\min(m-r,t)=u-r\). Renaming the support into rows \(r,\dots,u-1\) is an isomorphism \(A_m^{(c)}\cong A_u^{(c)}\) that fixes the form rows, so it commutes with the forms. Every summand of \(A_u\) is a summand of \(A_m\). Krull–Schmidt for finite-dimensional graded modules gives both directions, as there. \(\square\)

Seeds

On \(u\) rows, \(\tilde A_u=\bigotimes_jV_j^+\), with \(V_j^+=\mathbb F\oplus V_j\) square-zero, and \(A_u=\tilde A_u/(r_0,\dots,r_{u-1})\). \(T=\mathbb F[Y_0,\dots,Y_{u-1},W_1,\dots,W_d]/(Y^p,W^p)\) acts with primitive generators. On \(V_j^+\), \(Y_i\) sends 1 to \(x_{ij}\), and \(W_b\) sends 1 to \(\sum_{i<r}f^b_{ij}x_{ij}\). Attach to the cell \((i,j)\) the form \(M_{ij}=y_i+\langle F_j(i),w\rangle\), with \(F_j(i)=0\) for \(i\ge r\). The seed criterion of the board-seeds entry holds verbatim: a factor \(W_b\) placed on hole \(j\) gives \(\sum_if^b_{ij}x_{ij}\), and the expansion of \(\prod Y^aW^c\cdot1\) over column-injective cell sets is unchanged. It says that \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(1)=0\) in \(\bigotimes_{j\in B}V_j^+\) if the products \(\prod_{(i,j)\in X}M_{ij}\) over column-injective \(X\subseteq[u]\times B\) span \(\mathbb F[y,w]/(y^p,w^p)\).

Seed pattern. A profile \(P\in\mathbb F^{r\times d}\), rows \(i_1,\dots,i_d<r\), and profiles \(Q_1,\dots,Q_d\) such that the vectors \(Q_k(i_k)-P(i_k)\) span \(\mathbb F^d\). The proof uses only the row \(P(i)\) on the holes assigned to row \(i\), and the row \(Q_k(i_k)\) on those of \(Q_k\). Equality of whole profiles is a convenience.

Lemma (row-rank seed blocks). A hole set \(B\) is a seed if it contains, on pairwise distinct holes, \((p-1)r\) holes of profile \(P\), \((p-1)\) holes of profile \(Q_k\) for each \(k\), and \((p-1)(u-r)\) further holes of any profile.

Proof. Give each form row \(i<r\) its own \(p-1\) holes of profile \(P\), with cell forms \(y_i+\langle P(i),w\rangle\). Give each row \(i\ge r\) its own \(p-1\) further holes, with cell forms \(y_i\). Give row \(i_k\) also the \(p-1\) holes of profile \(Q_k\), with cell forms \(y_{i_k}+\langle Q_k(i_k),w\rangle\). The differences \(\langle Q_k(i_k)-P(i_k),w\rangle\) span the \(w\)-forms, and then every \(y_i\) is in the span. So these \(u+d\) forms are a basis of the linear forms, each carried by \(p-1\) cells on distinct holes. In characteristic \(p\) the truncation ideal is generated by the \(p\)-th powers of any basis. So the products of at most \(p-1\) copies of each basis form are a basis of the truncated ring, and each is \(\prod_{(i,j)\in X}M_{ij}\) with \(X\) column-injective. \(\square\)

Theorem (row-rank seeds). Let \(\mathbb F\) have characteristic \(p\) and \(t\ge0\). Let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) have affine row rank \(r\), and suppose that in some normal form a seed pattern has disjoint hole sets \(H_P\), \(H_1,\dots,H_d\), where \(H_P\) has \((p-1)r(t+1)\) holes of profile \(P\) and \(H_k\) has \((p-1)(t+1)\) holes of profile \(Q_k\). Suppose also \(N\ge(p-1)(t+1)(r+t+d)\). Then the weak top algebra \(A\) on any number \(m\ge r\) of rows is a free \(\mathbb F[W_1,\dots,W_d]/(W^p)\)-module plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\), acting by \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b\). In particular \(\mathrm{HF}(A/(\ell)A)_k=[q^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_A\bigl((1-q)/(1-q^p)\bigr)^d\) for \(k\le t\).

Proof. By the row-change lemma, pass to the normal form. By content reduction, it suffices to treat \(u=\min(m,r+t)\) rows. Split \(H_P\), the \(H_k\) and \((p-1)(t+1)(u-r)\) of the remaining holes into \(t+1\) disjoint seed blocks, which the count \(N\ge(p-1)(t+1)(r+t+d)\) allows. The free-seed argument of the column-seeds entry, as used in thm:board-seed-freeness, gives \(\tilde A_u\cong(T\otimes C)\oplus Q\) by a graded \(T\)-linear isomorphism, with \(Q\) in degrees \(\ge t+1\). It uses only the \(T\)-module structure of the factors \(V_j^+\) and the \(t+1\) disjoint seeds. Reducing modulo \(Y_0,\dots,Y_{u-1}\), which act as the row sums, gives the claim over \(T/(Y)=\mathbb F[W]/(W^p)\). \(\square\)

For \(r=1\) the pattern is an affine basis \(P,Q_1,\dots,Q_d\) of values of \(\varphi=(\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_d)\), with \(i_k=0\). It needs \((p-1)(t+1)\) holes at \(P\) instead of the \((p-1)(t+1)^2\) of thm:board-seed-freeness, because in the normal form the rows other than row 0 carry no form. They can therefore seed on any holes. The total \(N\ge(p-1)(t+1)(t+1+d)\) is the same as the board theorem's, so the gain is in how the holes may be distributed.

Members of low row rank

Corollary (row-rank members). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), consider the weak unary base on \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) holes, and forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) with \(\mathbb F_3\) coefficients meeting the theorem's hypotheses with \(t=D\), over \(\mathbb F_3\). Every pairwise coherent family of product constraints \(\prod_jh_{C,j}(L_j)\) whose affine forms \(L_j\) have linear parts among the \(\ell_b\), in the sense of thm:coherent-product-constraints, can be added to the weak base without creating a PC refutation of degree \(D\). A factor on \(-\ell_b\) is renormalized to \(\ell_b\), using \(\chi_a(-L)=\chi_{-a}(L)\) and \(-L-a=-(L+a)\), so each linear part has one index. The count \(N\ge2D^2\) is implied by the theorem's \(N\ge2(D+1)(r+D+d)\).

Proof. The weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) by thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, since \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\) and \(m\ge D\). By the theorem, its top algebra \(G=A\) is \((T'\otimes C)\oplus Q'\) over \(T'=\mathbb F_3[W]/(W^3)\), with \(Q'\) in degrees \(\ge D+1\). The tops are \(\pm\) monomials \(W^{b_C}\), \(b_C\in\{0,1,2\}^d\). A signed top syzygy of degree \(s\le D\) has its \(Q'\)-components in degrees \(<D+1\), so they vanish. It is therefore a sum of syzygies in \(T'\) tensored with elements of \(C\). Syzygies of monomials in \(T'\) are spanned by Frobenius and pair syzygies. \(T'\) is \(\mathbb N^d\)-graded, so it suffices to take a fine degree \(\alpha\). The forms are independent in \(G_1\), by freeness. The \(\alpha\)-part of \(\bigoplus T'e_C\) is spanned by the \(x^{\alpha-b_C}e_C\) with \(\alpha-b_C\in\{0,1,2\}^d\).

If \(\alpha\in\{0,1,2\}^d\), the map sends each of them to \(\pm x^\alpha\ne0\). The kernel is spanned by the signed differences \(c_{C'}x^{\alpha-b_C}e_C-c_Cx^{\alpha-b_{C'}}e_{C'}\), which are multiples of the pair syzygies, since \(\max(b_C,b_{C'})\le\alpha\).
Otherwise some \(\alpha_j\ge3\). Each \(x^{\alpha-b_C}e_C\) is then a syzygy with \(b_{C,j}\ge1\) and \((\alpha-b_C)_j\ge3-b_{C,j}\), so it is a multiple of the Frobenius syzygy \(x_j^{3-b_{C,j}}e_C\).

All pairs are coherent, so these are the (F) and (K) syzygies of thm:based-taylor-glue. The images in \(G\) are \(G\)-combinations of them, since the isomorphism is \(T'\)-linear. No constraint is a nonzero constant, so the theorem gives the claim. \(\square\)

So (b) and (c) are both discharged for such families. The member's own fall condition is not used; the based glue needs only the base's. At \(r=1\), which includes single-row forms \(\sum_j\varphi(j)x_{0j}\) and forms \(\sum_j\varphi(j)\sum_iv_ix_{ij}\) for fixed \(v\ne0\), this is the column case up to isomorphism. The new forms are those of row rank \(2\le r\) up to about \(N/(2(D+1))-D-d\) with the seed pattern.

Check

row_rank_free.py computes \(\mathrm{HF}(A)\) and \(\mathrm{HF}(A/(\ell)A)\) through \(t\) with exact Gröbner bases over \(\mathbb F_3\) (Singular). It compares them with the free prediction. The results are in row_rank_free.json:

Control. A single-row form on 2 holes, at \(t=3\) on 4 rows and 40 holes, is not free: degree 2 is 11691 against the predicted 11690.
New range. A single-row form on 20 of 40 holes, at \(t=3\) on 4 rows, is free through 3. It meets the \(r=1\) condition, with 20 holes at each of \(P\) and \(Q\) (at least 8 needed) and \(N=40=2\cdot4\cdot5\) exactly. It does not meet thm:board-seed-freeness (\(20<32\)).
Invariance. The column form with the same \(\varphi\) has the identical Hilbert function, as the row-change lemma requires.
Degree 2. Two forms on one row, a rank-2 form on two rows, a random form and a column form in the recorded range are all free through 2.

This is ex:row-rank-freeness-check. Degree 2 is weak evidence, since the random form passes too. The \(t=3\) pair is the informative case.

The test proposed last cycle, and a count

The based-glue entry proposed testing Taylor generation at \(D=3\) for generic selectors. At degree 3 that condition is independent double points: the \(\ell_j^2\) are independent and \(\dim\sum_j\ell_j^2G_1=M(\gamma_1-1)\), with \(\gamma_s=\dim G_s\). ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds already measured this for random row-dependent selectors on the weak base, at \(n=6\) through \(M=75\). So the test was not run. The count also bounds the approach. (F) gives at most \(M\) syzygies in degree 3 and (K) none. So for \(M\) selectors \(1-L_j^2\) on distinct forms, Taylor generation at degree 3 forces \(M(\gamma_1-1)\le\gamma_3\). The random thresholds are refuted exactly there. Freeness over \(d\) forms needs them independent in \(G_1\). Narrow constraints beyond these counts cannot be glued by the Taylor condition alone. They must be absorbed into the base, as the closed column member is, or grouped into members that satisfy (c).

What this means

(b) and (c) are proved together for coherent families on forms of low row rank, with no separate member condition. The row-dependent forms of row rank \(2\le r\ll N/D\) are new.
Remaining: forms of high row rank, the generic row-dependent case. There content reduction does not reduce the rows at all, and seeds on all \(m\) rows would need about \(2(t+1)m\) holes. Also remaining: incoherent pairs, and more constraints than the counts allow.
The row-change lemma also collapses the generic single-form case. If \(m\ge N\) and the differences \(f_{\cdot j}-f_{\cdot0}\), \(1\le j<N\), are linearly independent, then \(c=-f_{\cdot0}\) and a \(g\) sending them to \(e_1,\dots,e_{N-1}\) give \(\ell\cong\sum_{j=1}^{N-1}x_{jj}\), the diagonal form. On the PHP board, \(m=N+1\), this holds for most random forms over \(\mathbb F_3\). So freeness over one generic form is one question, about one form with the symmetry of simultaneous row and hole permutations.

Next: the diagonal form. Test freeness of \(A\) over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\), \(\ell=\sum_jx_{jj}\), through degree 3 in range, with the recorded failing control. Then look for a proof by a reduction that uses the permutation symmetry in place of content reduction.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the board-seeds entry (lem:board-content-reduction, the seed criterion, the seed-block lemma, thm:board-seed-freeness and its free-seed step), thm:based-taylor-glue, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, thm:coherent-product-constraints and ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds. The claim search (row change, rows symmetric, top algebra invariance) found no recorded row-change symmetry. The check's values are read from row_rank_free.json, and its control fails as it should. A fresh-context reviewer, given only the draft and the dependency excerpts, confirmed these parts: the row-change lemma and the normal form; content reduction, including both directions; the transfer of the seed criterion; the block lemma with arbitrary holes on rows \(\ge r\); the block count; the citation of the free-seed argument; the (F)/(K) spanning and the passage to \(G\); and the degree-3 count. It required these changes, all adopted:

the diagonal-form reduction needs \(m\ge N\);
the seed pattern uses only the assigned rows of the profiles;
the \(r=1\) gain is in the distribution of the holes, not in the total;
\(r=1\) is the column case up to isomorphism, so the new class is \(r\ge2\);
signed differences in the fine-grading step, and renormalized indexing in the corollary;
the count scoped to selectors;
the generic row rank is about \(\min(m,d(N-1))\).

The reviewer also noted that \(t=D-1\) suffices in the corollary. That would strengthen the claim, so it is not adopted here without a further pass. The adopted changes correct or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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The diagonal form: the generic single form is free once the board has about 2t holes, earlier than column forms

24 September 2026 · Finite check and a conjecture · Freeness of the weak top algebra over the diagonal form, on N+1 rows; cycle odd-prime-diagonal-form. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The diagonal form: the generic single form is free once the board has about 2t holes, earlier than column forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-diagonal-form.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The row-rank seeds entry proved (b) and (c) for coherent families on forms of low row rank. Generic forms have high row rank. With \(m\ge N\) rows, a single form whose column differences \(f_{\cdot j}-f_{\cdot0}\) are linearly independent is isomorphic, by the row-change lemma, to the diagonal form \(\ell=\sum_{j=1}^{N-1}x_{jj}\). So one form decides freeness for most random single forms on the PHP board. The missing implication is freeness of the weak top algebra \(A\) over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) through \(D\), which gives (b) and (c) for one generic selector via the based glue. This cycle measures where freeness starts, against column forms at the same sizes.

General statement. conj:diagonal-freeness: over \(\mathbb F_3\), the weak unary top algebra on \(N+1\) rows and \(N\) holes is free through degree \(t\) over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\), \(\ell=\sum_jx_{jj}\), if and only if \(N\ge2t\). ex:diagonal-freeness-thresholds: exact Hilbert functions agree with this for \(t=2,3,4\), including the prediction at \(N=8\), \(t=4\), which was made before that run. At the same sizes, column forms are not free where the diagonal form is. If the conjecture holds at the goal's degrees, one generic selector with independent column differences satisfies the Taylor condition on the PHP board far below the \(N\ge2D^2\) that the base already needs.

Decidability

The tested quantity is the statement's own: \(\mathrm{HF}(A/\ell A)_k\) against \([q^k]\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+q+q^2)\) for \(k\le t\). By prop:syzygies-as-tor with \(J=\mathfrak m\), equality through \(t\) is freeness through \(t\). A failing control exists: a single-row form on 2 holes (ex:row-rank-freeness-check). The board \(A\) itself ends near degree \(N\), so small \(N\) must fail, and the question is where freeness starts compared with column forms. The run at \(N=8\), \(t=4\) took 1484 s. It was launched on an estimate of 1300 s from monomial counts, without a smaller sizing run of the same case. That breaks the computation rules, and compute.sh now refuses such runs without a cited sizing run. Larger sizes need a compiled rank kernel that uses the symmetry, not this generic Gröbner computation.

Results

All on \(m=N+1\) rows, computed exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\) with Singular by row_rank_free.py, with values read from the result files:

\(t=2\): not free at \(N=3\) (degree 2: 1 against a prediction of \(-2\)); free at \(N=4\) (45 = 45 in degree 2).
\(t=3\): not free at \(N=4,5\) (at \(N=5\), 247 against 242 in degree 3); free at \(N=6,7,8,9\).
\(t=4\): not free at \(N=5,6,7\) (at \(N=6\), 1237 against 559; at \(N=7\), 26316 against 26309); free at \(N=8\) (145280 = 145280 in degree 4).
Column forms, \(t=4\): at \(N=6\), \(\sum\varphi(j)C_j\) with \(\varphi\) taking the values 0, 1, 2 twice each fails already in degree 3 (2117 against 2108), and so does the indicator of 3 holes (2146). At \(N=7\) the column form with values 0, 1, 2 fails in degree 3 (7766 against 7765) and in degree 4 by 676, where the diagonal form misses by 7.
A uniform random form at \(N=9\) has exactly the diagonal form's Hilbert function, as the row-change lemma predicts for independent differences.

What this means

Spreading a form over the rows helps freeness. The diagonal form, the generic case, starts being free near \(N=2t\). Column forms, which the seeded theorems cover, start later at the same \(N\). So the generic row-dependent case, not proved, looks easier than the proved column case.
Scope: one form, \(m=N+1\) rows, \(t\le4\). Content reduction does not apply, so other row counts are separate questions. For \(m<N-1\), generic forms are not diagonal. Their configurations of \(N\) points in \(\mathbb F_3^m\) up to affine maps form many classes.
The conjecture is stated at the smallest threshold consistent with the data. The worst-direction threshold of column spans, column count at least \(2t-1\), is of the same order.

Next: prove conj:diagonal-freeness. Its symmetry is the simultaneous permutation of rows and holes. Seeds would need all \(N\) form rows. A different presentation is needed, for example a filtration by the number of diagonal cells used, with the off-diagonal part a weak board on which the row sums act.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the row-change lemma and the diagonal reduction in the row-rank entry, as corrected there (\(m\ge N\)); prop:syzygies-as-tor (freeness as a Hilbert-function identity for one form); and the control of ex:row-rank-freeness-check. The checker was refactored this cycle to avoid nested loops, and it reproduced three recorded values before use. All numbers are read from the JSON files. The conjecture was searched under diagonal, generic form and freeness threshold; the nearest records are conj:worst-direction-freeness, for column spans, and ex:board-random-defect-pointwise, which already found 15 of 16 random affine systems free at \(n=8\) through degree 3. The degree-3 values here repeat that evidence for single forms. The new parts are the reduction to one form, the threshold at \(t=2,3,4\) and the comparison with column forms. No proof is claimed, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Route review with projection freeness: (b) and (c) hold for generic members, and the open case is an inventory with more forms than dimensions

24 September 2026 · Route review with working proofs (projection freeness, independent-form members) · The (b) and (c) line of relative gluing; cycle odd-prime-diagonal-proof. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review with projection freeness: (b) and (c) hold for generic members, and the open case is an inventory with more forms than dimensions”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-projection-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. conj:diagonal-freeness (diagonal form) predicts that the diagonal form \(\sum_jx_{jj}\), which most random single forms on the PHP board reduce to, is free through degree \(t\) once \(N\ge2t\). Seeds cannot handle forms of high row rank, since content reduction then removes no rows. The missing implication is freeness of the weak top algebra over forms of high row rank, which gives (b) and (c) for such members through the based glue.

General statement. thm:projection-freeness: in characteristic \(p\), a tuple of linear forms on the weak unary board is free through degree \(t\) if, for some \(0\ne b\in\overline{\mathbb F}^m\), its single-row projection \(\bigl(\sum_j\langle b,f^k_{\cdot j}\rangle x_{0j}\bigr)_k\) is. The proof is a one-parameter family of row changes whose limit is that projection. Freeness through \(t\) is an open condition, and it is invariant under row changes. cor:independent-form-members, over \(\mathbb F_3\): suppose forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) are jointly affinely independent on some \((d+1)\cdot2(D+1)\) holes, meaning their column differences there are linearly independent (possible when \(m\ge d(2(d+1)(D+1)-1)\)). Suppose also \(N\ge2(D+1)(D+1+d)\) and \(m\ge D\). Then every pairwise coherent family of product constraints on these forms can be added to the weak base without a PC refutation of degree \(D\). This covers the diagonal form and, on the PHP board, uniformly random \(d\)-tuples with probability at least \(1-3^{K-N-1}\), where \(K=d(2(d+1)(D+1)-1)\). It proves diagonal freeness for \(N\ge2(t+1)(t+2)\), a weaker threshold than the \(2t\) of conj:diagonal-freeness, which stays open.

The line and what the goal needs

General claim of the line. The goal's inventory, compiled to product constraints over the weak base, has no PC refutation of degree \(D=O(\log n)\). This follows by relative gluing from three conditions: (a) the base, extended by the closed column member, has no falls; (b) top syzygies split across members; (c) each member's syzygies lift. Since the based glue, (b) and (c) may be replaced by one Taylor-generation condition for coherent families.

What the goal needs. The inventory has polynomially many constraints, \(N^K\) for every \(K\), on arbitrary linear forms, while \(\dim A_1=(N+1)(N-1)\). The line must therefore handle constraint families whose forms are heavily linearly dependent, not only generic members.

Evidence since the last review (closure review): (a) is proved for the weak base and for sparse, seeded and block column members. (b) and (c) are proved together for coherent families on forms of low row rank (row-rank seeds) and, in this entry, on jointly affinely independent forms of any row rank. The diagonal-form data show that spread forms become free earlier than column forms (diagonal form).

Falsification attempt. Every freeness route to (b) and (c), including this entry's, needs the forms involved to be linearly independent in \(A_1\), since in a module free through degree \(t\ge1\) the degree-0 generator 1 is killed by no nonzero combination of the \(W_k\). So it covers at most \(\dim A_1\approx N^2\) forms jointly, and in fact about \(\sqrt{N/(2D)}\) per member under the projection corollary. The inventory has \(N^K\) forms. So the line, as proved, cannot cover the goal. Two recorded facts decide what must replace it for dependent forms:

For narrow constraints the Taylor condition itself fails by counting. At degree 3, \(M\) selectors need \(M(\gamma_1-1)\le\gamma_3\) (row-rank entry), and random selectors are refuted exactly there (ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds). Narrow constraints beyond that count must be absorbed into the base by closure, as the closed column member absorbs the column budget.
Dependent forms inside a family create syzygies outside the Taylor span, and some of them are real: the three-selector control derives \(a-b\) at degree 3, and a pencil of four selectors gives a non-local syzygy (obs:pencil-selector-syzygy).

For wide constraints, of top degree \(w\), the corresponding counts are of order \(\gamma_{2w-1}/\gamma_{w-1}\), superpolynomial for \(w\) of order \(\log n\). So counting does not rule out Taylor generation for polynomially many wide coherent constraints on dependent forms. That is the case the goal needs, and nothing recorded decides it.

Assessment of this line. The generic side is now settled: a member of generic forms, row-dependent or not, satisfies (b) and (c) through the goal's degree, and the base condition is proved for the weak base. What remains is a different kind of statement. It is not freeness but Tor vanishing for families whose forms outnumber the dimensions, where counting permits it only for wide constraints. Whether the line can reach the goal therefore depends on a condition untested at any size: Taylor generation for wide coherent clauses on dependent forms. The recorded reductions (budget clauses of width \(k\), closure of narrow parts into the base) are consistent with it.

Next step, on the highest-risk item (odd-prime-clause-transfer). Test Taylor generation for coherent clauses of width 2 on a pool of forms with prescribed linear dependencies, beyond the free range. Compare the full degree-4 top syzygy module with the (F) and (K) span in the weak top algebra, on the smallest board where it is nonvacuous. Size the run first, and use independent pools as the control. If dependencies break the Taylor span, find what extra syzygies appear and whether the based glue's defects vanish on them.

New evidence: projection freeness

Freeness through \(t\) is open

Let \(M\) be a graded module, finite-dimensional in each degree, over \(T'=\mathbb F[W_1,\dots,W_d]/(W_b^p)\) with \(\deg W_b=1\). Say \(M\) is free through \(t\) when a minimal free cover \(F=T'\otimes(M/\mathfrak mM)\to M\) is bijective in degrees \(\le t\). A module that is free plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\) is free through \(t\). Put \(\mathrm{pred}=\mathrm{HS}_M/(1+q+\dots+q^{p-1})^d\).

Lemma. \(M\) is free through \(t\) if and only if \(\dim(M/\mathfrak mM)_k\le\mathrm{pred}_k\) for all \(k\le t\).

Proof. The cover is onto by graded Nakayama, and \(\mathrm{HS}_F=\mathrm{HS}_{M/\mathfrak mM}(1+\dots+q^{p-1})^d\). With \(K\) the kernel, \(\mathrm{HS}_{M/\mathfrak mM}-\mathrm{pred}=\mathrm{HS}_K/(1+\dots+q^{p-1})^d\). Dividing by a series with constant term 1 keeps the first nonzero coefficient. So if \(K_k\ne0\) for some \(k\le t\), the least such \(k\) has \(\dim(M/\mathfrak mM)_k-\mathrm{pred}_k=\dim K_k>0\). If \(K\) vanishes through \(t\), equality holds through \(t\). \(\square\)

For \(M=A\otimes\overline{\mathbb F}_p\) with \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b\), \(\dim(A/(\ell)A)_k=\dim A_k-\operatorname{rank}\bigl(A_{k-1}^d\to A_k,\ (u_b)\mapsto\sum_b\ell_bu_b\bigr)\). This map is linear in the coefficients of the \(\ell_b\), and \(\mathrm{HS}_A\) does not depend on them. So the set \(U_t\) of tuples in \((A_1\otimes\overline{\mathbb F}_p)^d\) that are free through \(t\) is Zariski open. Ranks are unchanged by field extension, so an \(\mathbb F_p\)-tuple is free through \(t\) over \(\mathbb F_p\) exactly when it lies in \(U_t\). The automorphisms \(\sigma_g\), \(g\in GL_m(\overline{\mathbb F}_p)\), of lem:row-change-invariance fix \(\mathrm{HS}_A\) and carry \(A/(\ell)A\) to \(A/(\sigma_g\ell)A\). So \(U_t\) is invariant under row changes.

Projection

Throughout, \(\mathbb F\) has characteristic \(p\), and \(\overline{\mathbb F}\) is its algebraic closure. The arguments above hold with \(\overline{\mathbb F}\) in place of \(\overline{\mathbb F}_p\).

Theorem (projection freeness). Let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) have coefficient columns \(f^k_{\cdot j}\in\mathbb F^m\), in any representatives, and let \(0\ne b\in\overline{\mathbb F}^m\). If the single-row tuple \(\pi_b\ell=\bigl(\sum_j\langle b,f^k_{\cdot j}\rangle x_{0j}\bigr)_k\) is free through \(t\), then so is \((\ell_k)\).

Proof. Pick \(g_0\in GL_m(\overline{\mathbb F})\) with first row \(b^{\mathsf T}\), and put \(h(\lambda)=\operatorname{diag}(1,\lambda,\dots,\lambda)\,g_0\). The map \(c(\lambda)=\bigl(\sum_{i,j}(h(\lambda)f^k_{\cdot j})_ix_{ij}\bigr)_k\) is a polynomial map from the affine line to \((A_1\otimes\overline{\mathbb F}_p)^d\). It equals \(\sigma_{h(\lambda)}\ell\) for \(\lambda\ne0\), and \(c(0)=\pi_b\ell\). Changing the representatives adds \(h(\lambda)c^k\) to all columns, which is zero in \(A_1\). Since \(c(0)\in U_t\), \(c^{-1}(U_t)\) is a nonempty open subset of the line, so it contains some \(\lambda\ne0\). Then \(\sigma_{h(\lambda)}\ell\in U_t\), and by invariance \(\ell\in U_t\). \(\square\)

The single-row tuple is covered by thm:row-rank-seeds with \(r=1\) in its normal form, row 0. It is free, plus a part in degrees \(\ge t+1\), when three conditions hold. The hole functions \(\varphi_k(j)=\langle b,f^k_{\cdot j}\rangle\) take the value \(P\in\overline{\mathbb F}^d\) on \((p-1)(t+1)\) holes. They take values \(Q_1,\dots,Q_d\) on \((p-1)(t+1)\) holes each, with \(Q_k-P\) spanning. And \(N\ge(p-1)(t+1)(t+1+d)\).

Corollary (affinely independent forms). Suppose there are disjoint hole sets \(H_0,\dots,H_d\) of size \((p-1)(t+1)\) and, for each \(k\), a hole \(j_k\in H:=\bigcup_cH_c\), such that the \(d(|H|-1)\) vectors \(f^k_{\cdot j}-f^k_{\cdot j_k}\) (\(k\le d\), \(j\in H\setminus\{j_k\}\)) are linearly independent. Suppose also \(N\ge(p-1)(t+1)(t+1+d)\). Then \((\ell_k)\) is free through \(t\).

Proof. Independence persists for any other choice of base holes. So the star differences \(f^k_{\cdot j}-f^k_{\cdot h_c}\) (\(j\in H_c\setminus\{h_c\}\)) and the cross differences \(v_{c,k}=f^k_{\cdot h_c}-f^k_{\cdot h_0}\), for fixed \(h_c\in H_c\) and \(c=1,\dots,d\), are together linearly independent. They are the differences along a spanning tree of \(H\) for each \(k\). Choose \(b\in\mathbb F^m\) (in \(\mathbb F_p^m\) when the coefficients are in \(\mathbb F_p\)) orthogonal to all star differences, hence to all within-class differences, with \(\langle b,v_{c,k}\rangle=\delta_{ck}\). Then \(\varphi\) is constant, \(P\), on \(H_0\), and constant, \(P+e_c\), on \(H_c\), an affine basis with the required multiplicities. The theorem applies. \(\square\)

The diagonal form (\(d=1\), columns \(f_{\cdot j}=e_j\)) satisfies the corollary on any \(2(p-1)(t+1)\) holes. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) it is free through \(t\) when \(N\ge2(t+1)(t+2)\), on any number of rows containing the \(|H|-1\) diagonal rows used. For uniformly random \(\mathbb F_3\)-forms, the \(K=d(|H|-1)\) vectors for a fixed choice of the \(H_c\) are uniform and independent, since each is a spanning-tree difference of independent uniform columns. They are linearly independent with probability \(\prod_{i<K}(1-3^{i-m})\ge1-3^{K-m}\).

Check: the recorded runs agree. A random single form at \(N=9\) had the diagonal form's Hilbert function (ex:diagonal-freeness-thresholds). Column forms with the seed pattern are free, and the control on 2 holes is not free, which is consistent with the theorem. The theorem does not apply to the control (ex:row-rank-freeness-check).

Members

Corollary (independent-form members). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak unary base, let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) satisfy the previous corollary with \(t=D\), which needs \(N\ge2(D+1)(D+1+d)\ge2D^2\) and \(m\ge K\ge4D+3\ge D\). Then every pairwise coherent family of product constraints on affine forms with linear parts among the \(\ell_k\) can be added to the base without a PC refutation of degree \(D\). The families are those of thm:coherent-product-constraints, with linear parts renormalized as in cor:row-rank-members.

Proof. The base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) by thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. The minimal free cover \(F\to A\) over \(T'=\mathbb F_3[W]/(W^3)\) is bijective in degrees \(\le D\). A signed top syzygy of degree \(s\le D\) involves only degrees \(\le s\), so it is the image of a syzygy of the same monomials in \(F\). Such syzygies are spanned by Frobenius and pair syzygies, by the fine-grading argument of cor:row-rank-members. Their images are \(A\)-combinations of the (F) and (K) syzygies. No constraint is a nonzero constant, since the forms are nonzero by freeness. So thm:based-taylor-glue applies. \(\square\)

What this means

(b) and (c) are proved together for coherent families on jointly affinely independent forms: generic members, row-dependent, of any row rank. That is the case the proof attempt could not reach. The number of forms per member is limited by \(m\ge d(2(d+1)(D+1)-1)\), about \(2d^2D\), which allows \(d\) up to about \(\sqrt{N/(2D)}\) on the PHP board.
The degeneration gives rational witnesses. lem:degeneration-transfer gives its rank only for forms in a nonempty Zariski-open set over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), which need not contain the forms at hand. Freeness passes from a limit of row changes back to the form itself, because the form lies in the same orbit as the nearby points of the family.
Not covered by the corollary: forms that are affinely dependent on every choice of holes, such as forms supported on few holes. The theorem still covers some of these, such as column-type and low-row-rank forms with a seed pattern in a projection. Also not covered: incoherent pairs, and members with more forms than the row count allows.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:row-change-invariance, thm:row-rank-seeds and the fine-grading step of cor:row-rank-members (row-rank entry); thm:based-taylor-glue; thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic; the summary of lem:degeneration-transfer; and the diagonal-form data. The claim search (semicontinuity, open condition, generic freeness, orbit) found lem:degeneration-transfer and prop:generic-square-tops-degree-four. Both are Zariski-generic statements without rational witnesses. No computation was run; the recorded checks agree. A fresh-context reviewer, given only the draft and the dependency excerpts, found no mathematical gap. It confirmed the openness lemma, the projection family and limit, the application of row-rank seeds at \(r=1\), the choice of \(b\), the counts and the probability bound, and the passage to Taylor generation. It required wording and scope changes, all adopted:

a general field and \(b\ne0\);
star differences in place of all within-class differences;
\(m\ge D\) derived rather than assumed;
the nonconstant hypothesis of the glue named;
the control stated as consistent, not explained;
the coverage bullet scoped to the corollary;
the form count reconciled;
the relation to lem:degeneration-transfer stated from its record;
the diagonal result stated as a weaker threshold than the conjecture.

The changes correct or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Generic span members: any satisfiable polynomial member on a generic span satisfies (c), dependent forms included, and a single such member cannot be refuted

24 September 2026 · Working proof (generic span members) · Hypotheses (c) and (d) for Gröbner-augmented members on generic spans; cycle odd-prime-dependent-clauses. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Generic span members: any satisfiable polynomial member on a generic span satisfies (c), dependent forms included, and a single such member cannot be refuted”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-generic-span-members.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The route review proposed testing the Taylor condition for coherent width-2 clauses on dependent forms. It fails by algebra alone, so no run was made. Take forms \(\ell_1\), \(\ell_2\), \(\ell_3=\ell_1+\ell_2\) and three clauses with tops \(\ell_1\ell_2\), \(\ell_1\ell_3\), \(\ell_2\ell_3\). For \(p=3\), in \(T=\mathrm{Sym}(W)/(\text{cubes})\), \(W=\langle\ell_1,\ell_2\rangle\), the three tops times \(W_1\) map 6 dimensions onto \(T_3=\langle\ell_1^2\ell_2,\ell_1\ell_2^2\rangle\), with a kernel of dimension 4. The three pair syzygies of clauses sharing a form span only 2 dimensions, since \(K_{12}-K_{13}=-K_{23}\), and there are no (F) syzygies in degree 3. So 2 syzygies are missing. On a free span this shortfall passes to \(A\). So dependent forms are not a Taylor question. They are a question for hypothesis (c): whether the syzygies of a member whose forms span \(W\) lift. The missing implication is (c) for members on spans that are not column-type.

General statement. thm:generic-span-members: over \(\mathbb F_p\), let a member consist of reduced \(\mathbb F_p\)-polynomial constraints \(h_k(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d)\) of degree at most \(D\), in any number, on a basis \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) of a span. Constraints may be written in any forms of the span, dependent ones included. Suppose some single-row projection of the basis has the seed pattern of thm:row-rank-seeds at \(r=1\), \(t=D\). Jointly affinely independent forms qualify, and so do seeded column forms. Suppose also \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)(D+1+d)\) and \(m\ge D\), and that the allowed set in \(\mathbb F_p^d\) is nonempty. Then the member, augmented by the elements of degree at most \(D\) of a reduced degree-order Gröbner basis of \((h_k)+(y^p-y)\), satisfies hypotheses (c) and (d) of thm:relative-gluing through \(D\). As a single member over the weak base it has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). This composes lem:span-transfer, whose freeness hypothesis thm:projection-freeness now supplies, with the Gröbner augmentation of thm:seeded-member-condition and relative gluing with one member. What remains of the line is hypothesis (b) across many members.

Freeness through \(D\) suffices for span transfer

lem:span-transfer assumes a decomposition \(A\cong(T'\otimes C)\oplus Q'\) with \(Q'\) in degrees \(\ge D+1\). Its proof uses that decomposition only in degrees \(\le D\), in two places.

The map \(T'\to A\), \(t\mapsto t\cdot1\), is injective on the tops \(\operatorname{in}(h_k)\), of degree \(\le D\).
A member syzygy of degree \(s\le D\) and its components, of degrees \(\le s\), are written in \(T'\otimes C\), where the syzygy equation is read in degree \(s\).

If the minimal free cover \(T'\otimes(A/\mathfrak mA)\to A\) is bijective in degrees \(\le D\), both steps hold with \(C=A/\mathfrak mA\). The unit \(1\in A_0\) is a basis element of \(C\), so the first holds. The cover is a \(T'\)-linear bijection in every degree involved, so the second holds. That is the conclusion of thm:projection-freeness.

The theorem

Theorem (generic span members). Let \(\mathbb F=\mathbb F_p\), and let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) be linear forms with \(\mathbb F_p\) coefficients on the weak unary board with \(m\ge D\) rows. Suppose that for some \(0\ne b\) the projected hole functions \(\langle b,f^k_{\cdot j}\rangle\) have the seed pattern of thm:row-rank-seeds at \(r=1\), \(t=D\), and that \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)(D+1+d)\). By the affinely independent corollary of thm:projection-freeness, joint linear independence of the column differences on hole sets \(H_0,\dots,H_d\) of size \((p-1)(D+1)\) suffices. Let \(h_k\in\mathbb F_p[y_1,\dots,y_d]\) be reduced of degree \(\le D\), with \(Z=\{y\in\mathbb F_p^d:h_k(y)=0\ \forall k\}\ne\emptyset\). Let \(G\) be the set of elements of degree at most \(D\) of the reduced degree-order Gröbner basis of \((h_k)+(y_b^p-y_b)\), without the \(y_b^p-y_b\). Then:

the member \(U=\{h_k(\ell)\}\cup\{h(\ell):h\in G\}\) satisfies hypotheses (c) and (d) of thm:relative-gluing through \(D\);
the weak base plus \(U\), and hence the weak base plus the original constraints, has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). The weak-base range \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\) follows from the hole count.

Proof. By thm:projection-freeness, the minimal free cover of \(A\) over \(T'=\mathbb F_p[W]/(W^p)\), \(W_b\mapsto\ell_b\), is bijective in degrees \(\le D\). The proof of thm:seeded-member-condition shows that the Gröbner basis is reduced and that the augmented span system has no fall in the span ring. With only the elements of degree \(\le D\) kept, there is still no fall below \(D\): a degree-compatible representation of an element of degree \(k\le D\) uses only basis elements of degree \(\le k\). These steps do not use the forms. (d) does use them. Every kept constraint is reduced of degree \(\le D\), so its top \(\operatorname{in}(h)(\ell)\) is nonzero in \(A\) by the first use of the cover above, hence nonconstant. And \(Z\ne\emptyset\) excludes nonzero constants. By lem:span-transfer, in the form just checked, every member syzygy of degree \(\le D\) lifts, which is (c). For part 2, apply thm:relative-gluing with the single member \(U\). (a) holds by thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. (b) holds because every top syzygy is supported on the one member. (c) and (d) hold by part 1. So there is no PC refutation of degree \(D\) of the base plus \(U\). The original constraints are a subset of \(U\), after replacing a non-reduced constraint of degree \(\le D\) by its reduction, which is free at degree \(D\) by the remark in the span-transfer entry. \(\square\)

The constraints may use any forms of the span. A clause \((L-a)(L'-b)\) with \(L=\ell_1+\ell_2\) is \(h(\ell)\) for \(h=(y_1+y_2-a)(L'(y)-b)\), reduced if needed, which is free at degree \(D\) by the remark in the span-transfer entry. So the dependent triple above is covered whenever it is satisfiable: its extra syzygies lift within the augmented member, with correction in \(J_U\), \(G\) included. The unsatisfiable dependent families, such as the three-selector control, are excluded by \(Z\ne\emptyset\), as they must be.

What this means

(c) and (d) now hold for every satisfiable member of degree \(\le D\) whose span basis has a seeded single-row projection. The hole count allows \(d\le N/((p-1)(D+1))-D-1\). Joint affine independence also needs \(m\ge d((d+1)(p-1)(D+1)-1)\approx(p-1)d^2D\) rows, so \(d\lesssim\sqrt{m/((p-1)D)}\), about \(\sqrt{N/(2D)}\) on the PHP board at \(p=3\). Before this, only column spans with seeds were covered.
A single such member together with the weak base is hard at degree \(D\). One block of the inventory is therefore not refutable at the goal's degree when its forms are generic.
What remains is (b), across the many members of the inventory. By the review's count, the members' spans cannot all be independent, since there are \(N^K\) of them and \(\dim A_1\approx N^2\). So (b) needs a mechanism for members with overlapping spans. lem:tensor-splitting-locality needs the spans to form a direct sum.

Next: (b) for two members whose spans intersect. Take the smallest case, two generic members with spans \(W_1\), \(W_2\) and \(\dim(W_1\cap W_2)=1\). Test whether the top syzygies of \(U_1\cup U_2\) through \(D\) are generated by member-supported and cross-member Koszul syzygies, or whether merging the two members into one member on \(W_1+W_2\), which the theorem covers, is forced. If merging is forced, (b) reduces to a merging rule, and the question becomes whether the merged spans stay small.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:span-transfer and thm:seeded-member-condition in full (span-transfer entry); thm:projection-freeness and its corollary; thm:relative-gluing (hypotheses (a) to (d)); thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. No computation was run. The Question's count was checked by the reviewer over \(\mathbb F_3\). A fresh-context reviewer found the argument sound in substance. It confirmed that span transfer uses its decomposition only in the two places listed, that the lift and transfer steps are free of it, and relative gluing with one member. It required these changes, all adopted:

constraints and kept Gröbner elements restricted to degree \(\le D\), since the cover is known only through \(D\), with the no-fall property kept below \(D\);
(d) justified through the forms rather than claimed free of them;
the syzygy count made exact (kernel 4, pair syzygies spanning 2);
redundant range hypotheses noted as implied;
the coverage constants corrected;
the reduction step named in the subset argument.

Separately, the hypothesis was restated through a seeded single-row projection, which also covers seeded column spans, so the theorem contains thm:seeded-member-condition in degrees \(\le D\). The changes restrict or correct the statement, so no further pass was made.

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Overlap Tor: two members on a free joint span split exactly when their ideals meet only in products and shared generators

24 September 2026 · Working proof (overlap Tor) · Hypothesis (b) for two members with overlapping spans; cycle odd-prime-overlapping-members. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Overlap Tor: two members on a free joint span split exactly when their ideals meet only in products and shared generators”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-overlap-tor.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. After the generic span members, (c) and (d) hold for satisfiable members on generic spans. The open hypothesis is (b), splitting of the top syzygies across members. lem:tensor-splitting-locality proves (b) when the members' spans form a direct sum. The inventory's members cannot all have independent spans. The missing implication is (b) for members whose spans intersect, starting with two members.

General statement. prop:overlap-tor: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let two members have tops generating ideals \(I_1\subseteq T(W_1)\) and \(I_2\subseteq T(W_2)\), where \(T(W)=\mathrm{Sym}(W)/(\text{cubes})\). Let \(I_{12}\) be the ideal of the generators common to both. Suppose the top algebra \(A\) is free through \(D\) over \(T(V)\), \(V=W_1+W_2\), meaning its minimal free cover is bijective in degrees \(\le D\). Then (b) holds for the two members through \(D\) if and only if \((I_1T\cap I_2T)/(I_1T\cdot I_2T+I_{12}T)\) vanishes in degrees \(\le D\). With no shared generators this module is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^S(T(W_1)/I_1,T(W_2)/I_2)\), \(S=T(W_1\cap W_2)\). For selector members on all directions of \(W_1\) and \(W_2\), it has dimension \(k(d_1-k)(d_2-k)\) in degree 3, where \(k=\dim(W_1\cap W_2)\). That is the recorded formula for the shortfall of member additivity (ex:member-configurations-free). Pairwise conditions do not suffice for more than two members. Three single selectors on \(x\), \(y\), \(x+y\) have pairwise independent spans, yet (b) fails in degree 3.

The proposition

Setting. Let \(V=W_1+W_2\) and \(U=W_1\cap W_2\), and choose complements \(W_i=W_i'\oplus U\), so \(V=W_1'\oplus U\oplus W_2'\). Then \(T=T(V)=T(W_1)\otimes_ST(W_2)\) with \(S=T(U)\), and each \(T(W_i)=T(W_i')\otimes S\) is free over \(S\). Member \(i\) has generators \(g\), its tops, in \(T(W_i)\), generating \(I_i\). Hypothesis (b) of thm:relative-gluing asks that every top syzygy of the combined generators be a combination of syzygies supported on one member and of cross-member Koszul syzygies \(g_2e_{g_1}-g_1e_{g_2}\).

Proposition (overlap Tor). Take the union of the two generating sets, each common generator listed once, with \(G_{12}\) the common generators and \(I_{12}\) their ideal. In \(T\), the top syzygies modulo member-supported and cross-member Koszul syzygies form a graded module isomorphic to \(Q=(I_1T\cap I_2T)/(I_1T\cdot I_2T+I_{12}T)\). If \(G_{12}=\emptyset\), \(Q=\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(T/I_1T,T/I_2T)\cong\operatorname{Tor}_1^S(M_1,M_2)\), with \(M_i=T(W_i)/I_i\). If \(A\) is free through \(D\) over \(T\), then (b) holds through \(D\) exactly when \(Q\) vanishes in degrees \(\le D\).

Proof.

The quotient. Count the common generators with member 1. Send a syzygy \((a_g)\) to \(\sum_{g\in G_1}a_gg\). This equals \(-\sum_{g\in G_2\setminus G_{12}}a_gg\), so it lies in \(I_1T\cap I_2T\), and the map onto the intersection is surjective. Its kernel is the syzygies whose two partial sums vanish, which are sums of syzygies supported on \(G_1\) and on \(G_2\setminus G_{12}\). A syzygy supported on member 2 that uses common generators maps into \(I_{12}T\), and every element of \(I_{12}T\) arises this way: \(\sum_{g\in G_{12}}a_gg\) against the same combination read in member 2. A Koszul syzygy \(g_2e_{g_1}-g_1e_{g_2}\) maps to \(\pm g_1g_2\), so the Koszul syzygies map onto \(I_1T\cdot I_2T\). Hence the quotient is \(Q\). With no common generators, \(Q=(I_1T\cap I_2T)/(I_1T\cdot I_2T)=\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(T/I_1T,T/I_2T)\).
Base change (no common generators). \(T/I_1T=M_1\otimes_ST(W_2)\) and \(T/I_2T=T(W_1)\otimes_SM_2\). Take a free \(T(W_1)\)-resolution \(P\to M_1\). Since \(T(W_2)\) is free over \(S\), \(P\otimes_ST(W_2)\) is a free \(T\)-resolution of \(T/I_1T\). Tensoring it over \(T\) with \(T(W_1)\otimes_SM_2\) gives \(P\otimes_SM_2\), and \(P\) is an \(S\)-free resolution of \(M_1\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}^T_1=\operatorname{Tor}^S_1(M_1,M_2)\), degree by degree. The complements may be chosen separately for each member, since \(W_1'\oplus U\oplus W_2'=V\) for any choices.
In \(A\). Let the cover \(T\otimes C\to A\) be bijective in degrees \(\le D\). A top syzygy of degree \(s\le D\) in \(A\) is the image of one in \(T\otimes C\), and it splits along a basis of \(C\) into syzygies in \(T\), as in the span-transfer argument. The splitting preserves member support and Koszul syzygies. So if \(Q\) vanishes through \(D\), (b) holds in \(A\) through \(D\). Conversely, a syzygy in \(T\) not in the member-supported and Koszul span stays outside that span in \(A\): its image is its tensor with \(1\in C_0\), and the projection onto the coordinate of \(1\) recovers it. \(\square\)

Consequences.

If \(W_1\cap W_2=0\) and there are no common generators, then \(S=\mathbb F_3\) and \(Q=0\). This is the two-member case of lem:tensor-splitting-locality. The same holds when a member's generators lie in \(T(L)\) for some \(L\) with \(L\cap W_2=0\), which is that lemma applied with span \(L\).
Selectors on all directions. Here \(I_i\) is spanned by the squares of forms in \(W_i\), which span \(\mathrm{Sym}^2W_i\) in characteristic 3, and the common generators are the squares of forms in \(U=W_1\cap W_2\). In degree 3 there are no Koszul products. Modulo \(I_{12}T\), the intersection is spanned by the monomials \(xuy\), with \(x\), \(u\), \(y\) running over bases of complements \(W_1'\), \(U\), \(W_2'\). Indeed \(xu\in I_1\) and \(uy\in I_2\), so \(xuy\) lies in both ideals, while every other monomial of degree 3 lies in only one ideal or in \(I_{12}T\). So \(\dim Q_3=k(d_1-k)(d_2-k)\).
More than two members. Pairwise vanishing does not give (b). Take three single selectors \(x^2\), \(y^2\), \((x+y)^2\) in \(T(x,y)\). Every pair has independent spans, so every pairwise \(Q\) vanishes. But the degree-3 syzygies form a space of dimension \(6-2=4\), against 3 member-supported (Frobenius) ones, and Koszul syzygies start in degree 4. This is the three-selector configuration, whose extra syzygy derives \(a-b\) at degree 3 when the values conflict.

Consistency with the record

overlap_tor.py computes, exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\) in \(T(V)\) for selector members on all directions, \(\dim(I_1T\cap I_2T)_3\) and the dimension of the part generated by the common selectors. Their difference is \(\dim Q_3\), since \(I_1T\cdot I_2T\) starts in degree 4. In the six configurations \((d_1,d_2,k)=(2,2,1),(3,3,1),(3,4,1),(3,3,2),(4,4,2),(4,5,2)\), it is 1, 4, 6, 2, 8, 12 (overlap_tor.json). Those are the values of \(k(d_1-k)(d_2-k)\), as the monomial argument predicts. That is the formula the record gives for the degree-3 shortfall of member additivity on the functional top algebra, where the record also reports agreement with the freeness prediction over the joint span. The six configurations here were chosen to test the formula and are not claimed to be the record's measured ones.

What this means

For two members on a free joint span, (b) is exactly the vanishing of \(Q\): their ideals may meet only in products and common generators. When both members constrain shared directions, \(Q\) can be nonzero, as for selectors. Such members can be merged into one member on \(W_1+W_2\). thm:generic-span-members covers the merged member if it is satisfiable and its span basis has a seeded single-row projection.
Pairwise conditions are not enough. A linear dependency among forms of different members produces syzygies outside the member-supported and Koszul span, even when every pair of spans is independent. So (b) for the inventory depends on its dependencies, not only on overlaps. This is the dependency structure the recorded budget-cluster dichotomy classified for locality: consistent clusters are local, inconsistent ones fail.
Uniformly random forms have no small dependencies. \(s\) forms in a space of dimension about \(N^2\) are dependent with probability about \(3^{s-N^2}\). Adversarial inventories can have them, since the budget's clauses form dependent clusters freely.

Next: dependency-induced syzygies for wide tops. For members whose tops are products of \(w\) forms, find the least degree at which a linear dependency among \(s\) forms of different members yields a syzygy outside the member-supported and Koszul span. Compare it with \(D\). If it exceeds \(D\) for the inventory's widths, (b) holds in range despite dependencies. If not, compare the extra syzygies with the budget-cluster dichotomy.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:relative-gluing (hypothesis (b) and its union of generating sets), lem:tensor-splitting-locality and lem:kunneth-component-locality, ex:member-configurations-free, and lem:span-transfer's use of the cover. The claim search (members, overlapping spans, intersection, Tor, shared forms) found ex:member-configurations-free, whose shortfall formula this explains. The check computes the entry's quantity and was read from its JSON. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the Tor identity, the base change to \(S\) and the passage to \(A\). It required these changes, all adopted:

common generators: the quotient is \(Q\), with the \(I_{12}T\) term, and it equals Tor only without them;
the selector values restated for \(Q\), with the monomial proof;
the free-complement consequence identified as lem:tensor-splitting-locality;
the converse in \(A\) written out;
the relation to the record stated as matching its formula;
"What this means" weakened;
the proposed next step replaced. It claimed that pairwise vanishing suffices, which the three-selector configuration refutes.

The changes correct or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Circuit syzygies: a dependency among s clauses adds one syzygy in degree s(w−1)+1, which lifts exactly when the cluster is consistent and derives the resolvent otherwise

24 September 2026 · Working proof (circuit syzygies) · Hypothesis (b) for single-clause members whose forms have one linear dependency; cycle odd-prime-dependency-degree. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Circuit syzygies: a dependency among s clauses adds one syzygy in degree s(w−1)+1, which lifts exactly when the cluster is consistent and derives the resolvent otherwise”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-circuit-syzygies.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The overlap Tor entry showed that a linear dependency among forms of different members breaks hypothesis (b) of relative gluing, even when every pair of spans is independent. The missing implication is the degree at which such a dependency acts for wide tops, and whether the syzygies it creates lift. Relative gluing needs lifting, not splitting: its proof uses (b) only to write every top syzygy through \(D\) as a combination of liftable ones, as in the component-hypothesis criterion.

General statement. prop:circuit-syzygies: over \(\mathbb F_3\), take \(s\ge2\) single-clause members \(C_i=(\Lambda_i-a_i)M_i\). Each \(M_i\) is a product of \(w-1\) linear factors \(Y_{i,t}-b_{i,t}\). The linear parts of the \(\Lambda_i\) form one circuit, \(\sum_i\lambda_i=0\), so \(\sum_i\Lambda_i\) is a constant \(c\). The linear parts \(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_{s-1}\) and all \(y_{i,t}\) are linearly independent. Suppose the top algebra is free through \(D\) over the truncated algebra of their span. Then, through \(D\), the top syzygies are spanned by member-supported (Frobenius) syzygies, cross-member Koszul syzygies, and \(A\)-multiples of one circuit syzygy \(\sigma=(\prod_{j\ne i}m_j)_i\) of degree \(s(w-1)+1\). As polynomials, \(\sum_i\prod_{j\ne i}M_j\cdot C_i=(c-\sum_ia_i)\prod_jM_j\). So \(\sigma\) lifts exactly when the cluster is consistent (\(\sum a_i=c\)). The base plus the clauses then has no fall below \(D\) and no PC refutation of degree \(D\) over the weak base in its stability range. When the cluster is inconsistent, \(\sigma\) is liftable if and only if the homogenized resolvent \(R^{\rm h}\), \(R=\prod_jM_j\) of degree \(s(w-1)\), lies in the constraint ideal. Otherwise there is a fall in degree \(s(w-1)\). Adding \(R\) makes \(\sigma\) liftable. This is the syzygy form of the recorded budget-cluster dichotomy and resolvent absorption. Circuits with \(s(w-1)+1>D\) do not act below \(D\).

Setting

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), the base is the weak unary base, \(A\) is its top algebra, and \(B\) is its homogenized algebra. Clause \(i\) is \(C_i=(\Lambda_i-a_i)M_i\) with \(M_i=\prod_{t<w}(Y_{i,t}-b_{i,t})\), all forms affine with \(\mathbb F_3\) coefficients, and linear parts \(\lambda_i\), \(y_{i,t}\). The tops are \(P_i=\lambda_im_i\), \(m_i=\prod_ty_{i,t}\). The circuit is \(\sum_i\lambda_i=0\), after rescaling each \(\Lambda_i\) and \(a_i\) by a nonzero constant, which multiplies \(C_i\) by a unit. Then \(\sum_i\Lambda_i\) is a constant, called \(c\). Any proper subset of the \(\lambda_i\) is linearly independent: a relation among them would be a multiple of the circuit, whose coefficients are all nonzero. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), the cube of every linear form lies in the ideal of the cubes of any basis, so \(T(V)\) does not depend on the basis. Let \(V\) be spanned by \(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_{s-1}\) and the \(y_{i,t}\), all linearly independent, so \(\dim V=s-1+s(w-1)\). Let \(T(V)=\mathrm{Sym}(V)/(\text{cubes})=T(\lambda)\otimes T(y)\). Assume the minimal free cover \(T(V)\otimes C\to A\) is bijective in degrees \(\le D\). By thm:projection-freeness this holds, for instance, when these forms are jointly affinely independent on enough holes.

The syzygies

Lemma. In \(T(V)\), in degrees \(\le D\), every syzygy of \(P_1,\dots,P_s\) is a combination of the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell^2e_i\), for \(\ell\) a factor of \(P_i\), the Koszul syzygies \(P_je_i-P_ie_j\), and \(T(V)\)-multiples of \(\sigma=(\prod_{j\ne i}m_j)_i\). No syzygy of degree below \(s(w-1)+1\) needs \(\sigma\).

Proof. Grade \(T(V)\) by the exponent vector \(\beta\) in the \(y\)-variables. The \(\lambda\)'s have degree 0 in this grading, and \(P_i\) has degree \(\delta_i\), the indicator of member \(i\)'s variables. The supports of the \(\delta_i\) are disjoint. The syzygy module is graded, so take a syzygy of degree \(\beta\). Its component \(a_i\) is \(y^{\beta-\delta_i}\alpha_i\) with \(\alpha_i\in T(\lambda)\), and it is nonzero only if \(\beta\ge\delta_i\).

If some entry of \(\beta\) is at least 3, then \(y^\beta=0\) and each term \(a_iP_i\) vanishes separately. A nonzero \(a_i\) then has exponent 2 on a variable of \(\delta_i\), since \(\beta-\delta_i\) has entries at most 2. So \(a_ie_i\) is a multiple of the Frobenius syzygy of that factor.
Otherwise every \(y^{\beta-\delta_i}m_i=y^\beta\ne0\), and the equation reads \(y^\beta\sum_{i\in I}\alpha_i\lambda_i=0\), with \(I=\{i:\beta\ge\delta_i\}\). Since \(T(V)=T(\lambda)\otimes T(y)\), this is \(\sum_{i\in I}\alpha_i\lambda_i=0\) in \(T(\lambda)\).
- If \(I\ne\{1,\dots,s\}\), the \(\lambda_i\), \(i\in I\), are linearly independent, so they are coordinates. In the truncated ring the syzygies of coordinates are generated by \(\lambda_j e_i-\lambda_ie_j\) and \(\lambda_i^2e_i\). The first becomes \(y^{\beta-\delta_i-\delta_j}(P_je_i-P_ie_j)\), since \(\beta\ge\delta_i+\delta_j\) for disjoint supports. The second is Frobenius.
- If \(I=\{1,\dots,s\}\), substitute \(\lambda_s=-\sum_{i<s}\lambda_i\). Then \((\alpha_i-\alpha_s)_{i<s}\) is a syzygy of coordinates, so \(\alpha=\alpha_s(1,\dots,1)\) plus Koszul and Frobenius terms. The term \(\alpha_s(1,\dots,1)\) gives \(y^{\beta-\sum\delta_j}\alpha_s\sigma\).

\(\sigma\) is needed only when \(\beta\ge\sum_j\delta_j\), that is, in total degree at least \(s(w-1)+1\). \(\square\)

\(\sigma\) is not in the span of the other syzygies. Setting all \(\lambda\) to 0 kills every Koszul syzygy and every Frobenius syzygy of a \(\lambda\)-factor, and it leaves \(\sigma\) unchanged. The remaining Frobenius syzygies have components divisible by the square of a \(y\)-factor of their own member, while \(\sigma_i=\prod_{j\ne i}m_j\) is squarefree in the other members' variables. For \(s=2\) the circuit is a shared form, \(\lambda_2=-\lambda_1\), and \(\sigma=(m_2,m_1)\) is the syzygy that performs the resolution step on that form. Clauses with equal factors on the shared form have dependent \(y\)'s only when their other factors agree too, which is outside the setting.

Lifting

As polynomials, \(\sum_i\bigl(\prod_{j\ne i}M_j\bigr)C_i=\prod_jM_j\cdot\sum_i(\Lambda_i-a_i)=(c-\sum_ia_i)\prod_jM_j\). Homogenizing at degree \(s(w-1)+1\) gives \(\sum_i\tilde\sigma_iC_i^{\rm h}=z\,(c-\sum a_i)\,R^{\rm h}\), with \(R=\prod_jM_j\) of degree \(s(w-1)\).

Proposition (circuit syzygies). In the setting above, with \(D\) at most the base's stability range:

If \(\sum_ia_i=c\) (a consistent cluster), every top syzygy through \(D\) is a combination of liftable ones. The weak base plus \(C_1,\dots,C_s\) has no fall below \(D\) and no PC refutation of degree \(D\).
If \(\sum_ia_i\ne c\), then \(\sigma\) is liftable if and only if \(R^{\rm h}\in J_U\). In any case \(zR^{\rm h}\in J_U\), so either \(R^{\rm h}\in J_U\) or there is a fall in degree \(s(w-1)\). Adding \(R\) as a constraint makes \(\sigma\) liftable. The enlarged family is not analysed here: its locality in the recorded setting is thm:resolvent-absorption. Its new syzygies \(\prod_{j\ne i}m_je_i-\lambda_ie_R\) lift exactly and sum to \(\sigma\).

Proof. For part 1, apply the lemma in \(A\) through the cover, as in the span-transfer argument. Frobenius syzygies \(\ell^2e_i\) of a linear factor \(L-a\) of \(C_i\) lift. With the lift \(((L-a)^{\rm h})^2\) the correction is \(zC_i^{\rm h}\in J_U\), because \((L-a)^3-(L-a)\) lies in the base ideal in degree 3 for affine forms over \(\mathbb F_3\). Koszul syzygies lift exactly, by step 2 of the relative gluing proof. \(\sigma\) lifts with correction 0 by the identity. Liftable syzygies are closed under combinations. Steps 4 and 5 of the relative gluing proof then give no fall below \(D\) from the base's \(z\)-injectivity (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic), and no refutation, since no generator is a nonzero constant. For part 2, the identity gives \(\rho=(c-\sum a_i)R^{\rm h}\). Two lifts differ by \(z\) times an element of \(J_U\), since they agree modulo \(z\), so \(\rho\) is determined modulo \(J_U\). Hence \(\sigma\) is liftable if and only if \(R^{\rm h}\in J_U\). \(\square\)

What this means

This is the syzygy form of the recorded results. thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy found consistent clusters local and inconsistent ones failing at degree \(\sum_b(k_b-1)\). thm:resolvent-absorption added the resolvent. Here the obstruction is the circuit syzygy's lift, at degree \(s(w-1)\), and the repair is the same resolvent. That \(R^{\rm h}\notin J_U\) for inconsistent clusters, so that a fall really occurs, is the dichotomy's result and is not reproved here.
Only circuits with \(s(w-1)+1\le D\) matter. For clauses of width \(k\) at \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k=22k\) (\(p=3\)), that is \(s\le22\) roughly, as in the dichotomy's count. Uniformly random forms rarely have such small circuits: \(s\) forms in a space of dimension about \(N^2\) are dependent with probability about \(3^{s-N^2}\). Adversarial inventories can.
The proposition treats one circuit with otherwise independent factors. Interacting circuits and shared factors are not covered. Several circuits can create new ones after resolvents are added. That is the saturation question, whose finite check failed for dense overlapping pairs (saturated locality).

Next: two circuits sharing clauses, the smallest interaction. Compute the syzygies of four clauses whose forms satisfy two independent circuits, by the same grading. Test whether they are generated by the two circuit syzygies, Koszul and Frobenius syzygies. If a new syzygy appears, find its lift, and compare with the saturated-locality failure.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:relative-gluing with its definition of liftable syzygies and steps 2 to 5; thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy and thm:resolvent-absorption (summaries and statements); thm:projection-freeness; lem:span-transfer's use of the cover; thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. The claim search (dependency, circuit, resolvent, syzygy, cluster) returned the budget-cluster results, which this rederives on the syzygy level. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the lemma (both cases, the Koszul conversion, the full-circuit substitution, the degree, and the independence of \(\sigma\)), the identity and its homogenization, the passage through the cover, and the arithmetic. Its Python check over \(\mathbb F_3\) for \(s=3\), \(w=2\) found the listed generators short exactly in degrees 4 to 7 without \(\sigma\), and complete with it. It required these changes, all adopted:

the \(s=2\) remark kept inside the setting;
part 2 stated as an if-and-only-if, with the fall alternative and without claiming non-membership;
\(c\) defined rather than assumed, with the rescaling explained;
basis independence of \(T(V)\) and independence of proper subsets of the circuit;
the Frobenius lift's correction stated exactly;
the enlarged family attributed to thm:resolvent-absorption.

The changes correct or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 12.02 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	5.60 s

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Head dependencies: clauses whose only dependent factors are their heads glue exactly when the head system is consistent

24 September 2026 · Working proof (head dependencies) · Single-clause members with arbitrary dependencies among one factor each; cycle odd-prime-two-circuits. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Head dependencies: clauses whose only dependent factors are their heads glue exactly when the head system is consistent”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-head-dependencies.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The circuit syzygies entry treated one dependency among the forms of single-clause members. Its next step asked about two circuits sharing clauses, the first case where dependencies interact. The recorded failure of saturated locality (ex:saturated-locality-failure) involved clauses whose spans overlap in several dimensions. The missing implication is (b), or rather generation by liftable syzygies, for many clauses with many dependencies.

General statement. thm:head-dependencies: over \(\mathbb F_3\), take \(n\) single-clause members \(C_i=(\Lambda_i-a_i)M_i\), where each \(M_i\) is a product of \(w_i-1\) linear factors, the private factors. Let the heads' linear parts \(\lambda_i\) be nonzero and satisfy arbitrary linear relations. Let the private factors' linear parts be linearly independent of each other and of the span of the heads. Suppose the top algebra is free through \(D\) over the truncated algebra of the whole span. Then the top syzygies through \(D\) are generated by Frobenius, cross-member Koszul and circuit syzygies. The circuit syzygies are \(\sigma_\gamma=(\gamma_i\prod_{j\in\gamma,j\ne i}m_j)_{i\in\gamma}\), one for each circuit \(\gamma\) of the heads, of degree \(\sum_{j\in\gamma}(w_j-1)+1\). Each \(\sigma_\gamma\) lifts exactly when its circuit is consistent. All circuits are consistent exactly when the head system \(\{\Lambda_i=a_i\}\) is solvable over \(\mathbb F_3\). In that case the weak base plus the clauses has no fall below \(D\) and no PC refutation of degree \(D\), in the base's stability range. When some circuit is inconsistent, its syzygy lifts if and only if its resolvent lies in the constraint ideal. This generalizes prop:circuit-syzygies from one circuit to any dependency structure among the heads. With a consistent head system, head dependencies cause no fall. The recorded failures of saturated locality lie outside this setting.

Setting and the syzygies

As in the circuit-syzygies entry, with \(n\) clauses. \(C_i=(\Lambda_i-a_i)M_i\), \(M_i=\prod_t(Y_{i,t}-b_{i,t})\), tops \(P_i=\lambda_im_i\). The linear parts \(y_{i,t}\) are independent and independent of \(H=\operatorname{span}(\lambda_i)\). \(V=H\oplus\operatorname{span}(y)\), and \(T(V)=T(H)\otimes T(y)\), which does not depend on the basis. All \(\lambda_i\ne0\). The relation space is \(\mathcal R=\{\rho\in\mathbb F_3^n:\sum_i\rho_i\lambda_i=0\}\). Its circuits are its nonzero vectors of minimal support, with their scalar multiples, which are again circuits.

Lemma. In \(T(V)\), every syzygy of \(P_1,\dots,P_n\) is a combination of Frobenius syzygies, Koszul syzygies \(P_je_i-P_ie_j\), and multiples of the circuit syzygies \(\sigma_\gamma\).

Proof. Grade by the \(y\)-exponent \(\beta\), with the members' supports \(\delta_i\) disjoint. A syzygy of degree \(\beta\) has components \(a_i=y^{\beta-\delta_i}\alpha_i\), \(\alpha_i\in T(H)\), for \(i\in I=\{i:\beta\ge\delta_i\}\). If some entry of \(\beta\) is at least 3, each component is a multiple of a Frobenius syzygy of a private factor, as in the circuit-syzygies entry. Otherwise the equation is \(\sum_{i\in I}\alpha_i\lambda_i=0\) in \(T(H)\).

Choose a basis \(B\subseteq I\) of \(\operatorname{span}(\lambda_i:i\in I)\), and write \(\lambda_j=\sum_{b\in B}c_{jb}\lambda_b\) for \(j\in I\setminus B\). Then \(\sum_{b}(\alpha_b+\sum_{j\notin B}c_{jb}\alpha_j)\lambda_b=0\) is a syzygy of coordinates, so it is generated by Koszul syzygies \(\lambda_{b'}e_b-\lambda_be_{b'}\) and Frobenius syzygies \(\lambda_b^2e_b\). This holds in \(T(H)\) even when the \(\lambda_b\) do not span \(H\), since \(T(H)=T(\lambda_B)\otimes T(\text{complement})\) is free over \(T(\lambda_B)\). Hence \(\alpha=\sum_{j\notin B}\alpha_j\rho^{(j)}\) plus such terms, with \(\rho^{(j)}=e_j-\sum_bc_{jb}e_b\in\mathcal R\), supported in \(B\cup\{j\}\subseteq I\). Every relation is a sum of circuits whose supports lie in its own support, a standard fact for the circuits of a linear matroid. So \(\alpha\) is a \(T(H)\)-combination of circuits \(\gamma\) with \(\operatorname{supp}\gamma\subseteq I\), plus Koszul and Frobenius terms. Translate back to \(T(V)\). A Koszul term \(\lambda_{b'}e_b-\lambda_be_{b'}\) becomes \(y^{\beta-\delta_b-\delta_{b'}}(P_{b'}e_b-P_be_{b'})\), since \(\beta\ge\delta_b+\delta_{b'}\). A circuit term becomes \(y^{\beta-\sum_{j\in\gamma}\delta_j}\sigma_\gamma\), since \(\beta\ge\sum_{j\in\gamma}\delta_j\). \(\square\)

Lifting

For a circuit \(\gamma\), \(\sum_{i\in\gamma}\gamma_i\Lambda_i\) is a constant \(c_\gamma\), and as polynomials

\[\sum_{i\in\gamma}\gamma_i\Bigl(\prod_{j\in\gamma,j\ne i}M_j\Bigr)C_i=\Bigl(c_\gamma-\sum_{i\in\gamma}\gamma_ia_i\Bigr)R_\gamma,\qquad R_\gamma=\prod_{j\in\gamma}M_j.\]

Homogenized, the right side is \(z\) times \((c_\gamma-\sum\gamma_ia_i)R_\gamma^{\rm h}\). The circuit is consistent when \(\sum_{i\in\gamma}\gamma_ia_i=c_\gamma\). All circuits are consistent exactly when every relation \(\rho\in\mathcal R\) satisfies \(\sum\rho_ia_i=\sum\rho_i\Lambda_i\) (a constant). By linear algebra, that says the affine system \(\Lambda_i=a_i\) is solvable.

Theorem (head dependencies). In this setting, suppose the minimal free cover \(T(V)\otimes C\to A\) of the weak top algebra is bijective in degrees \(\le D\), and \(D\) is in the weak base's stability range.

If the head system \(\{\Lambda_i=a_i\}\) is solvable, every top syzygy through \(D\) is a combination of liftable syzygies. The weak base plus \(C_1,\dots,C_n\) has no fall below \(D\) and no PC refutation of degree \(D\).
Otherwise, for each inconsistent circuit \(\gamma\) with \(\deg\sigma_\gamma\le D\), \(\sigma_\gamma\) is liftable if and only if \(R_\gamma^{\rm h}\in J_U\), and \(zR_\gamma^{\rm h}\in J_U\) always holds.

Proof. Pass the lemma to \(A\) through the cover, as in lem:span-transfer. Frobenius syzygies of linear factors lift, with correction \(zC_i^{\rm h}\in J_U\). Koszul syzygies lift exactly. Consistent circuit syzygies lift with correction 0. Liftable syzygies are closed under combinations, and steps 4 and 5 of the relative gluing proof give the conclusions of part 1. Part 2 is the circuit-syzygies argument for each circuit. \(\square\)

What this means

With a consistent head system, dependencies among heads cause no fall, however many and however entangled. This needs the private factors independent, and the whole span free through \(D\), which holds, for instance, when its basis has a seeded single-row projection. Two circuits sharing clauses are a special case.
Inconsistent circuits need their resolvents, as thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy and thm:resolvent-absorption found. A resolvent's private part is the union of its clauses' private parts, so absorbing it takes the family out of this setting.
The recorded failures of ex:saturated-locality-failure lie outside this setting. Two clauses whose spans meet in dimension 2 cannot be arranged so, since two heads give a relation space of dimension at most 1. That check also used form-space locality on \(\mathbb F_3^4\) and \(\mathbb F_3^5\), where this freeness hypothesis is not established. This theorem does not explain those failures. It only excludes one class of families.
For an inventory, the theorem needs every relation among all factors to involve only the heads, one designated factor per clause, with the private factors independent of everything else.

Next: combine this with thm:generic-span-members. Dependencies inside a small span can be absorbed into one member, since that theorem covers any satisfiable member on a generic span. The combined claim to prove: members on spans \(W_i\), each Gröbner-augmented, glue when every relation across members involves only one designated head form per member, the rest of the spans are independent, and the head system is consistent. This would cover families that combine overlaps inside members with head dependencies across them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the circuit-syzygies entry (setting, lemma, lifting, proposition); thm:relative-gluing with liftability and steps 4 and 5; thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy and thm:resolvent-absorption; ex:saturated-locality-failure. No computation of mine; the reviewer's check is reported below. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the reduction to head syzygies, the supports of the relations, the translation back to \(T(V)\), the polynomial identity, the equivalence of circuit consistency with solvability, and both parts of the theorem. Its Python check over \(\mathbb F_3\) used four width-2 clauses with heads \(\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\lambda_1+\lambda_2,\lambda_1-\lambda_2\), which form four circuits of size 3 sharing clauses. In every degree from 4 to 13, the Frobenius, Koszul and circuit syzygies span all syzygies, for example 229 of 229 in degree 6. It required these changes, all adopted:

the hypothesis \(\lambda_i\ne0\), without which a clause can be a nonzero constant;
circuits taken with scalars, and the flatness remark for syzygies of coordinates;
the claim about the recorded non-locality restricted to consistent heads;
projection freeness named as sufficient only;
the relation to ex:saturated-locality-failure stated as "outside this setting", with the reason;
the goal-setting condition made precise;
the next step made well posed.

The changes add a needed hypothesis and weaken interpretations, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
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Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 50.46 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	5.66 s

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Route review: on a free joint span, satisfiable families need no splitting; the open core is gluing beyond the free range

24 September 2026 · Route review with a working corollary (joint-span families) · The (b) and (c) line of relative gluing; cycle odd-prime-members-with-heads. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: on a free joint span, satisfiable families need no splitting; the open core is gluing beyond the free range”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-joint-span-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The head-dependencies entry proposed combining generic span members with head dependencies across members. Before proving it, this cycle checked what the combination would add. It adds nothing beyond one step: the whole family can be treated as one member. That changes the line's picture, so this entry is a route review.

General statement. cor:joint-span-families: over \(\mathbb F_p\), take any family of reduced \(\mathbb F_p\)-polynomial constraints of degree \(\le D\) in linear forms on the weak unary board. Suppose a basis of the family's joint span has a seeded single-row projection at \(t=D\) with \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)(D+1+d)\), \(d\) the joint dimension, and \(m\ge D\). Suppose also that the family's allowed set in \(\mathbb F_p^d\) is nonempty. Then the weak base plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). This is thm:generic-span-members applied to the family as a single member, so hypothesis (b) is not used. It contains the consistent cases of prop:circuit-syzygies and thm:head-dependencies, since a solvable head system satisfies every clause, though not their exact-lift and no-fall statements for the unaugmented family. So (b) is needed only when the joint span is not free, beyond about \(N/((p-1)(D+1))\) dimensions under the seed count and in any case beyond \(\dim A_1\).

The corollary

Proof. Let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) be a basis of the joint span and write each constraint as \(h_k(\ell)\) with \(h_k\) reduced, which is free at degree \(D\) by the reduction remark of the span-transfer entry. thm:generic-span-members, part 2, applies to the single member \(\{h_k(\ell)\}\): its hypotheses are the seeded projection, the hole and row counts, reducedness, degree \(\le D\) and a nonempty allowed set. For single clauses \(C_i=(\Lambda_i-a_i)M_i\) with a solvable head system, any solution of the heads satisfies every clause, so the allowed set is nonempty. \(\square\)

The circuit and head results remain useful for what the corollary does not give. They show that the family itself, without Gröbner augmentation, has no fall. They name the one syzygy per circuit and its degree. And they describe the inconsistent case through the resolvent.

Review of the line

General claim of the line. The goal's inventory, compiled to product constraints over the weak base, has no PC refutation of degree \(D=O(\log n)\). Relative gluing proves this from (a), no falls of the base, and from the liftability of all top syzygies, which (b) and (c) supply.

What has been proved since the last review (projection review):

Every satisfiable member of degree \(\le D\) on a generic span, dependent forms included, satisfies (c) and (d) (generic span members).
For two members on a free joint span, (b) is the vanishing of \((I_1\cap I_2)/(I_1I_2+I_{12})\) (overlap Tor).
Circuits among heads give one syzygy each, which lifts exactly when consistent (circuits, heads).

With the corollary, all of this is subsumed on free joint spans. Satisfiable families there are not refutable at degree \(D\).

What the goal needs. The inventory has \(N^K\) constraints, for every \(K\), on forms spanning up to \(\dim A_1=(N+1)(N-1)\) dimensions. The free range is at most about \(N/(2(D+1))\) under the seed count, and freeness over a span of dimension \(d\) needs \(d\le\dim A_1\) in any case. So the goal lies beyond the free range. There the syzygies are not controlled by any recorded result.

Falsification attempt. The line's claim could fail beyond the free range in two recorded ways:

Random selectors on the weak base are refuted exactly at the Taylor count \(M=\lceil\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\rceil\) (ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds). Those families are not satisfiable in the span sense. Their values are random, so they fall outside the corollary. They show that beyond the free range, satisfiability or some other structure is indispensable.
Pencils stay additive past \(\gamma_1\) (ex:member-configurations-free). That is dimension evidence beyond the free range, not syzygy splitting.

Nothing recorded decides whether satisfiable families beyond the free range have falls.

Assessment of this line. The member side is settled for generic spans. The recent cycles restate, at the syzygy level, results already implied on free spans. The line's content is now the original batched question in algebraic form: the liftability of top syzygies of a satisfiable constraint family whose joint span is not free. The route description calls this the batched mechanism the window needs, and nothing recorded provides it. The line has not produced evidence either way on it. Further refinement on free spans would not advance the goal.

Next step, on the highest-risk item (odd-prime-clause-transfer). Test the core directly at the smallest informative size. Over the weak base on 3 rows and 18 holes at \(D=3\), inside the base's stability range, take planted families of generic row-dependent selectors. Each selector's value is set by one fixed matching, so every family is satisfiable, and some families are larger than the Taylor count. That count is about \(18065/50\approx361\), from \(\gamma_1=51\) and \(\gamma_3=18065\) (mf_3x18_D3.json). Measure \(z\)-injectivity below 3, which is falls, not refutation, since satisfiable families are never refuted. If planted families beyond the count have no falls, their syzygies beyond the Taylor span lift. That would be the first evidence for a mechanism beyond freeness. If they fall, the no-fall route cannot glue large families, and the base must absorb them. Run a sizing case first. The controls are random-valued families at the same size, which the record shows refuted, and planted families below the count.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:generic-span-members (hypotheses and part 2), prop:circuit-syzygies, thm:head-dependencies, ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds, ex:member-configurations-free, and the in-range values in mf_3x18_D3.json. The corollary is a direct application of a reviewed theorem, and no new argument is involved beyond satisfiability of solvable heads. So no reviewer pass was run. The subsumption of the consistent circuit and head cases was missed by the reviews of those entries and is recorded here.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	4 min 3.81 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	42.46 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 15.81 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	5.54 s

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Planted families beyond the count pin their point: every selector past the top dimension adds one fall, so no-fall gluing stops there

24 September 2026 · Finite check and a conjecture · Degree-2 falls of planted and random generic selector families over the weak base, 3 rows and 18 holes; cycle odd-prime-planted-families. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Planted families beyond the count pin their point: every selector past the top dimension adds one fall, so no-fall gluing stops there”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-planted-families.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The joint-span review found that satisfiable families on a free joint span need no splitting. The goal lies beyond the free range. It asked whether satisfiable (planted) families of generic selectors beyond the Taylor count still have no falls, which would indicate a gluing mechanism beyond freeness. If they fall, the no-fall route cannot glue large families.

General statement. conj:planted-excess-falls: over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak unary base in its degree-2 stability range, a planted family of \(M\) generic selectors has \(\dim\ker(z:B_1\to B_2)=\min\bigl(\gamma_1,\max(0,M-\tau_2)\bigr)\). A planted family is one whose values avoid the forms' values at a fixed matching, so it is satisfiable. Here \(\tau_2\) is the dimension of the degree-2 top space the selectors can fill, and \(\gamma_1=\dim A_1\). So planted families have no falls up to the count. Each selector beyond it adds exactly one derived linear consequence, until the family's degree-2 closure is the whole ideal of the planted point. Random-valued families are refuted instead. ex:planted-excess-falls-check confirms this exactly at 3 rows and 18 holes, where \(\tau_2=1218\) and \(\gamma_1=51\).

Decidability and method

At degree 3 the test is out of reach this way. Singular took 28 s for 25 dense selectors and exceeded 90 s for 50, against a count of about 361. At degree 2 the same question is linear algebra. The base is \(z\)-injective below 2 for \(N\ge8\), and the Taylor count at degree 2 is the dimension \(\tau_2\) of the top space. fall_d2.py works on multilinear monomials of degree \(\le2\) with no two cells in one column, 1432 coordinates. Booleanity and column exclusions are degree-2 generators, so reducing modulo them stays inside \(V_2\). \(V_2\) is spanned by the reduced selectors and the products \((r_i-1)m\), \(\deg m\le1\). \(\ker z_1=\dim(V_2\cap P_{\le1})-\dim V_1\), computed as \(\operatorname{rank}V_2-\operatorname{rank}(\text{top part})-3\). It reproduces Singular's values at \(M=200\) and 400: top-algebra dimensions 1018 and 818, \(\ker z=0\) (validate_d2.json). It uses the same random stream as planted_fall.py. Planted values satisfy \(v_t\ne\ell_t(x^*)\), since \(1-(\ell-v)^2=0\) means \(\ell\ne v\), for the matching \(x^*\) with row \(i\) in hole \(i\).

Results

All on 3 rows and 18 holes, seed 1, values read from the JSON files:

Planted, \(M=200,400,1000,1218\): \(\ker z_1=0\) (validate_d2.json, below_count.json, at_count.json).
Planted, \(M=1219\): 1; \(M=1240\): 22 (at_count.json); \(M=1300,1500,2000\): 51 (planted_beyond.json). \(V_2\) then has rank 1431 of 1432: every polynomial of degree \(\le2\) vanishing at \(x^*\), and 1 is not derived.
Random values, \(M=1000\): \(\ker z_1=0\) (below_count.json); \(M=1300,1500,2000\): 1 is derived, a refutation at degree 2 (random_beyond.json).
The top part has rank \(1159+\) until it saturates at 1377, the full degree-2 coordinate space. The base's own tops take 159, so \(\tau_2=1377-159=1218\).

What this means

Below the count, planted and random families behave alike and have no falls. Beyond it, the difference is satisfiability. Random families are refuted. Planted families pin their point: each extra selector forces one more linear consequence, as a maximal-rank count predicts. This matches ex:planted-overload-thresholds, where pinned forms derived their values and refutation thresholds followed the conditioned base's count.
So the no-fall route of relative gluing cannot glue dense satisfiable families. Their closure is a restriction, here the ideal of a point. The recorded way to handle such members is closure into the base. For a pinned family the closure is the ideal of the pinned partial assignment, and the base conditioned on it is again a weak base, on fewer rows and holes.
For the goal this points to conditioning. Dense parts of the inventory act as restrictions of PHP, and hardness must survive them. This is the restriction-mixture line, parked at its top-size lemma.

Next: conditioned gluing. Prove that the weak base together with the ideal of a partial matching \(\rho\) on \(r\) rows has no falls below \(D\) whenever the restricted board, \(m-r\) rows and \(N-r\) holes, is in the stability range. The base conditioned on \(\rho\) is then a valid base for relative gluing, and pinned members can be absorbed into it. Then test a family that pins one row and leaves the rest generic, against the prediction from the conditioned count.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the joint-span review's proposed test and counts; ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds and ex:planted-overload-thresholds (the conditioning interpretation); the fall formula of the generic-members checker. The degree-2 kernel was validated against Singular on two recorded-style cases before use, and all numbers are read from the result files. A sign error in the first planted runs (values equal to the forms at \(x^*\), which makes \(x^*\) violate every selector) was found before any result was used, and those runs were discarded. The conjecture was searched under planted, pinning, closure and dense selectors. The nearest records are ex:planted-overload-thresholds and ex:confined-family-falls. No proof is claimed, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	13 min 18.38 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 15.98 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 17.22 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 10.54 s
Individually measured computation	8 min 27.05 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.60 s

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Conditioned base: closing the pins of a partial matching gives the restricted weak base, so pinned parts can be absorbed

24 September 2026 · Working proof (conditioned base) · Base condition (a) after pinning a partial matching; cycle odd-prime-conditioned-gluing. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Conditioned base: closing the pins of a partial matching gives the restricted weak base, so pinned parts can be absorbed”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-conditioned-base.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The planted-families entry found that dense satisfiable families pin their point, so no-fall gluing stops at the count, and dense parts act as restrictions. Its next step asked for the interface: when does the weak base together with a pinned partial matching satisfy hypothesis (a), no falls below \(D\)?

General statement. prop:conditioned-base: over any field, let \(\rho\) be a partial matching on a set \(R\) of \(r\) rows of the weak unary board. Consider the closed pins: \(x_{ij}-[j=\rho(i)]\) for \(i\in R\) and all \(j\), and \(x_{i'j}\) for \(i'\notin R\) and \(j\in\rho(R)\). The homogenized algebra of the weak base plus the closed pins is isomorphic, as a graded \(\mathbb F[z]\)-algebra, to the homogenized weak base on the \((m-r)\times(N-r)\) board. So, under the field hypotheses of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, the conditioned base has no falls below \(D\) when \(N-r\ge(p-1)D^2\) and \(m-r\ge D\). Its top algebra is the restricted board's. With only the open pins \(x_{i\rho(i)}-1\), there are falls (for \(r\ge1\), \(m\ge2\), \(N\ge2\)). And a PC refutation of degree \(D\) of the weak base plus any constraints restricts to one of the restricted base plus the restricted constraints. So a lower bound for the restricted system gives one for the original.

Proof

Elimination. The homogenized closed pins are \(x_{ij}-[j=\rho(i)]z\) and \(x_{i'j}\), linear and homogeneous. Quotienting \(\mathbb F[x,z]\) by them substitutes these values for the fixed variables and leaves the polynomial ring in the free variables (\(i\notin R\), \(j\notin\rho(R)\)) and \(z\).
The base generators. Under the substitution:
- Booleanity of a fixed variable becomes \(c^2z^2-cz\cdot z=0\) for \(c\in\{0,1\}\).
- A column exclusion with a fixed variable becomes 0. In a pinned column \(\rho(i)\), every variable other than the pinned cell is fixed to 0, because \(\rho\) is injective: a second pinned row \(i''\) has \(x_{i''\rho(i)}\) fixed to 0, while \(\rho(i)=\rho(i'')\) would map \(x_{i\rho(i)}x_{i''\rho(i)}\) to \(z^2\). In a free column, a variable of a pinned row is fixed to 0.
- A pinned row's equation becomes \(z-z=0\).
- A free row's equation becomes the restricted row equation \(\sum_{j\notin\rho(R)}x_{i'j}-z\).
- Generators among free variables are unchanged.
So the quotient is the restricted homogenized weak base, as a graded \(\mathbb F[z]\)-algebra, and \(z\)-injectivity transfers degree by degree.
Open pins fall. Let \(r\ge1\), \(m\ge2\), \(N\ge2\), and \(i'\ne i\). With only the open pins added, homogenized, \(z\,x_{i'\rho(i)}=x_{i'\rho(i)}x_{i\rho(i)}-x_{i'\rho(i)}(x_{i\rho(i)}-z)\) lies in the ideal in degree 2. The degree-1 part of the ideal is spanned by the homogenized row equations and open pins, since there are no other linear generators. In a combination \(\sum_ka_k(\rho_k-z)+\sum_{i\in R}b_i(x_{i\rho(i)}-z)\), the coefficient of \(x_{i'j}\) for \(j\ne\rho(i)\) is \(a_{i'}\), which must vanish for \(x_{i'\rho(i)}\) to result. Then \(x_{i'\rho(i)}\) has coefficient 0. So \(x_{i'\rho(i)}\) is not in the ideal in degree 1, and \(z\) is not injective from degree 1 to degree 2.
Restriction. Substituting the closed-pin values into a PC refutation maps each base generator to a restricted base generator or to 0, as in step 2. It maps each constraint to its restriction, and it does not raise degrees. PC rules commute with substitution. So a lower bound for the restricted system gives one for the original. If some constraint restricts to a nonzero constant, the restricted system is trivially refutable, so \(\rho\) must be chosen consistent with the constraints. \(\square\)

What this means

Pinned parts of a family can be absorbed: condition on the pinned matching, work on the restricted board, and keep the rest of the family restricted. The theorem then gives (a) while \(N-r\ge(p-1)D^2\) and \(m-r\ge D\). This is the range in which it applies, not a limit on pinning.
A conditional remark on the compiled inventory. The weak-base compiler produces selector inputs \(1-L^{p-1}\), whose tops have degree \(p-1=2\) at \(p=3\), with a PC refutation through the fixed degree \(4p-1\). Degree 3 is the first degree where a Taylor count for such tops bites, since the (F) syzygies \(\ell e\) appear there and Koszul syzygies only at degree 4. The count \(M(\gamma_1-1)\le\gamma_3\) caps selectors on distinct forms. On the PHP board, \(\gamma_1=(N+1)(N-1)\), and \(\gamma_3\) is at most the number of multilinear degree-3 monomials in distinct columns, about \(\binom N3(N+1)^3\approx N^6/6\). So the cap is of order \(N^4/6\), and beyond it Taylor generation fails. Whether the no-fall route also stops there is conj:planted-excess-falls, supported only by the degree-2 check and ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds. Whether the compiled inventory has that many distinct selector forms is not established here.
Conditioning helps only for dense parts supported on few rows. A dense family of generic forms on all rows constrains the whole board. How the compiled inventory's constraints sit relative to rows is the question the recorded restriction-mixture line reduced to a one-count design problem (the top-size lemma).

Next: connect the two lines. Re-read the restriction-mixture entries and the top-size lemma. Then determine whether the conditioning here, which absorbs pinned rows into the base, together with generic gluing on the restricted board, which uses projection freeness and joint-span families, supplies that one-count design.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic (range and hypotheses), the weak-base compiler statement (inputs \(1-L^{p-1}\), ceiling \(4p-1\)), conj:planted-excess-falls, and ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the elimination and the restriction. It required these changes, all adopted:

the column-exclusion case of pinned rows in free columns, with the use of injectivity of \(\rho\);
the open-pin identity homogenized, and its non-membership proved from the degree-1 part of the ideal, with \(r\ge1\), \(m\ge2\), \(N\ge2\);
the field hypotheses of the stability theorem;
the direction of the restriction transfer, and consistency of \(\rho\);
the range remark;
the density remark made conditional, with the count derived.

The changes correct or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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One-count link: the restriction-mixture problem follows from joint freeness for member-type blocks, beyond the reach of the proved freeness methods

24 September 2026 · Working proof (a conditional reduction) · The top-size lemma's one-count problem for member-type blocks on independent random spans; cycle odd-prime-restriction-link. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One-count link: the restriction-mixture problem follows from joint freeness for member-type blocks, beyond the reach of the proved freeness methods”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-one-count-link.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The conditioned-base entry proposed connecting the gluing results with the restriction-mixture line. Under typicality, that line's top-size lemma reduces mixtures to a one-count problem (top-size lemma): a degree-\(D\) PC design for the old base plus \(n\) independent random blocks, each with \(h\) input forms, for one \(h\) in the window. The missing implication is whether the recent results supply that design.

General statement. prop:one-count-by-freeness: over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak unary base in its stability range, suppose three things. Each of \(n\) blocks is a satisfiable member: a set of reduced polynomial constraints of degree \(\le D\) in its \(h\) input forms. The \(nh\) forms are linearly independent. The weak top algebra is free through \(D\) over the truncated algebra of their joint span. Then the base plus the blocks has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). This is lem:span-transfer, the Gröbner augmentation and relative gluing with one member, applied to the whole family, as in cor:joint-span-families but with freeness assumed rather than obtained from seeds. For the one-count problem it leaves two gaps. First, the compiler's blocks are ENS blocks with extension variables and companions, and whether they can be replaced by members in their input forms is not established. Second, the needed freeness is over about \(nh\) generic forms. The proved methods, board seeds and projection freeness, reach only about \(N/(2(D+1))\) forms. The recorded evidence (ex:board-random-defect-pointwise) finds random systems free up to about \(\gamma_1/3\) forms at small size.

The reduction

Proof. The \(n\) members have independent spans, so their allowed sets multiply, and the family is satisfiable because each member is. Write the whole family as one member \(\{h_k(\ell)\}\) on a basis \(\ell\) of the joint span, of dimension \(nh\). A union of reduced constraint sets on independent spans is reduced for the joint member, since each constraint involves only its own member's variables. By hypothesis the minimal free cover of the top algebra over \(T=\mathbb F_3[W_1,\dots,W_{nh}]/(W_i^3)\), \(W_i\mapsto\ell_i\), is bijective in degrees \(\le D\). So lem:span-transfer applies in the form checked in the generic-span-members entry. So does the Gröbner augmentation of thm:seeded-member-condition, whose no-fall and (d) steps use only reducedness and satisfiability, together with the injectivity of the tops through \(D\). Relative gluing with one member and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic then exclude a refutation of degree \(D\) of the augmented family, and hence of the original. \(\square\)

What the one-count problem would need

Sizes. The one-count problem takes \(n\) tuples and \(h\) between \(R(L)=L/(4.4\times10^7)\) and \(Q(L)\approx1.6\times10^4L\Lambda_M\), at the compiler's degree \(D=4p-1=11\). Independence of the \(nh\) forms needs \(nh\le\dim A_1\approx N^2\). That is necessary, not sufficient. Freeness through \(D\) over \(d\) forms forces the low-degree Hilbert function of \(A\) to be at least that of the truncated algebra in \(d\) variables, which the base's relations violate as \(d\) approaches \(\gamma_1\). The limit that freeness can allow is therefore below \(\gamma_1\). The evidence below reaches about \(\gamma_1/3\) at degree 3.
Freeness. The seed-based methods need, by thm:row-rank-seeds at \(r=1\), \(N\ge(p-1)(t+1)(t+1+d)\). There are \(t+1\) disjoint seed blocks, each with \((p-1)\) holes for each of \(t+1+d\) basis forms, the row forms included. So \(d\le N/((p-1)(t+1))-t-1\), about \(N/(2(t+1))\) at \(p=3\), or about \(N/24\) at \(t=11\). With \(n\approx N\) tuples and a largest size \(L\) of order \(N\), both assumed here, the one-count problem needs \(d=nh\ge N^2/(4.4\times10^7)\). That exceeds \(N/24\) only for \(N\) above about \(1.8\times10^6\), so the gap is asymptotic. Freeness over that many generic forms is a Fröberg-type semi-regularity statement for the weak top algebra, in the family of conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base. The evidence is 15 of 16 random systems free through degree 3 with up to 22 forms at \(n=8\) (\(\gamma_1=63\)). The one exception is pointwise.
ENS blocks. The compiler's blocks introduce extension variables with companions (\(P=1-rL\), \(LP\), \(r^p-r\) in the rank-one bridge). The reduction applies once a block can be replaced, for degree-\(D\) refutations, by polynomial constraints in its input forms. This is unverified.

What this means

The gluing line and the restriction line meet at one algebraic statement: freeness of the weak top algebra over many generic forms through a fixed degree. With it, and with member-type blocks, the one-count problem follows for every \(h\) with \(nh\) within the range where freeness holds. That range is below \(\gamma_1\). The evidence suggests about \(\gamma_1/3\) at degree 3.
The proved freeness methods cannot reach it asymptotically. Both put a basis of all forms into each seed block, which caps the number of forms near \(N/(2(t+1))\). A different argument is needed for \(\Theta(N^2)\) forms.

Next: freeness over many forms. A single form's non-free summands can be located by the Clebsch–Gordan rule. On the algebra without row sums, \(\bigotimes_j(\mathbb F\oplus V_j)\), multiplication by \(\ell=\sum_j\ell_j\) acts as \(\sum_j1\otimes\cdots\otimes\ell_j\otimes\cdots\otimes1\), homogeneous with cube 0 in characteristic 3. A column with \(\ell_j\ne0\) gives \(J_2\), in degrees 0 and 1, plus \(m-1\) copies of \(J_1\) in degree 1. Then \(J_2\otimes J_2=J_3\oplus J_1\), with \(J_1\) in degree 1. So \(J_2^{\otimes a}\) is free apart from \(J_1\) in degree \(a/2\) for even \(a\), or \(J_2\) in degrees \((a-1)/2\) and \((a+1)/2\) for odd \(a\). Taking \(J_1\) from \(k\) of \(N\) touched columns puts the non-free summand at \(k+\lfloor(N-k)/2\rfloor\ge\lfloor N/2\rfloor\). So the first non-free summand is near degree \(N/2\), the order of the diagonal threshold \(N\ge2t\). Extend this count to \(d\) generic forms through the rank-variety condition of conj:worst-direction-freeness: freeness on every line of the span. Then include the row sums, and compare with the diagonal and random data.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the top-size lemma entry (its one-count reduction, sizes and typicality hypothesis), the weak-base and full-board compiler statements (ENS blocks, inputs \(1-L^{p-1}\), ceiling \(4p-1\)), cor:joint-span-families, lem:span-transfer, thm:row-rank-seeds, conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, and ex:board-random-defect-pointwise. A fresh-context reviewer found the conditional reduction sound once its hypothesis was made precise, and confirmed the Clebsch–Gordan rule \(J_2\otimes J_2=J_3\oplus J_1\). It required these changes, all adopted:

blocks stated as literal members, with replacement of ENS blocks named as unverified;
the multi-variable \(T\), and reducedness of the joint member;
the seed cap derived from thm:row-rank-seeds, with consistent constants;
the asymptotic nature of the gap stated, with its assumptions \(n\approx N\) and \(L\) of order \(N\);
"up to about \(N\)" replaced by the range where freeness can hold;
the Clebsch–Gordan statements made precise, including the action used and the check over subsets.

The changes correct or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Many forms: every seed proof caps near N/(2t) forms, while the record shows generic freeness up to the positivity bound

24 September 2026 · Working proof (seed cap) and a conjecture · Freeness of the weak top algebra over many generic forms; cycle odd-prime-many-form-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Many forms: every seed proof caps near N/(2t) forms, while the record shows generic freeness up to the positivity bound”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-many-form-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The one-count link reduced the restriction-mixture problem, for member-type blocks, to freeness of the weak top algebra over about \(nh\) generic forms through a fixed degree. The recorded proofs reach about \(N/(2(t+1))\) forms. The missing implication is freeness over many more forms. This cycle asks whether the seed method can be pushed further, and what the record says the truth is.

General statement. lem:seed-cap: in characteristic \(p\), let \(T=\mathbb F[U]/(u^p)\), \(\dim U=k\), act diagonally on \(\bigotimes_{j\in B}V_j^+\), with each \(V_j^+=\mathbb F\oplus V_j\) square-zero and \(U\) acting through linear maps into the \(V_j\). If \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(1)=0\), then \(|B|\ge(p-1)k\). So any argument that seeds \(t+1\) disjoint blocks free over the \(t+1+d\) row and form directions needs \(N\ge(p-1)(t+1)(t+1+d)\). The seed caps of thm:board-seed-freeness, thm:row-rank-seeds and thm:projection-freeness are intrinsic to the method. conj:maximal-generic-freeness: over \(\mathbb F_3\), the weak unary top algebra \(A\) of the PHP board is free through \(t\) over \(d\) generic forms whenever \([q^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+q+q^2)^d\ge0\) for all \(k\le t\). The recorded evidence at \(n=8\), \(t=3\) reaches that positivity bound, \(d=21\) of \(\gamma_1=63\) forms, where the seed methods give nothing.

The seed cap

Proof. \(T\) has a monomial basis \(\prod u_b^{e_b}\), \(e_b\le p-1\), for a basis \(u_b\) of \(U\). Its top element \(\prod u_b^{p-1}\) has degree \((p-1)k\). The module \(\bigotimes_{j\in B}V_j^+\) is graded by the number of tensor factors taken from the \(V_j\), so it has no elements of degree above \(|B|\). \(T\) acts by homogeneous maps of degree 1 per linear form, so \(\tau\cdot1\) has degree \(\deg\tau\). If \((p-1)k>|B|\), the top element of \(T\) sends 1 to 0, so \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(1)\ne0\). In the free-seed argument each of \(t+1\) disjoint blocks must satisfy \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(1)=0\) for \(T\) on the \(u\le r+t\) row directions and the \(d\) form directions, which gives the stated count. \(\square\)

So pushing seeds cannot reach \(\Theta(N^2)\) forms. A proof must either use a free summand generated above degree 0, or avoid seeds altogether.

What the record shows

For \(A\) on the PHP board with \(n=8\) (9 rows), \(\mathrm{HS}_A=(1,63,1656,22929)\) through degree 3. The free prediction \(\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+q+q^2)^d\) in degree 3 is 659 at \(d=20\), 74 at \(d=21\) and \(-468\) at \(d=22\), so the positivity bound through degree 3 is \(d=21\). In degree 2 the prediction stays nonnegative through \(d=36\). ex:board-random-defect-pointwise found 15 of 16 random affine systems, with 4 to 22 forms, at the expected (truncated) Hilbert function through degree 3, and the one exception was pointwise. So at this size generic forms behave maximally, up to the positivity bound. The seed methods need \(N\ge2\cdot4\cdot(4+d)\) at \(t=3\) and give nothing at \(N=8\). A new check at larger sizes by Gröbner bases is not practical: 10 random forms at \(n=8\), \(t=3\) took 96 s in Singular, and 20 did not finish in 120 s (sizing.json). So no new data was taken.

What this means

The freeness the one-count problem needs is the maximal behaviour of generic forms, a Fröberg-type property of the weak top algebra. Fröberg's conjecture for generic forms in a polynomial ring is itself open. What might make this case tractable is the algebra's tensor structure over the columns.
The seed method is exhausted. A proof over \(\Theta(N^2)\) forms needs a different mechanism.

Next: a mechanism beyond seeds on the algebra without row sums, \(\bigotimes_j(\mathbb F\oplus V_j)\), for \(d\le m\) generic forms. Each column is then \(u(W)/\mathfrak m^2\) plus trivial summands, over \(u(W)=\mathbb F_3[W]/(w^3)\). The question is the lowest degree of a non-free summand of \((u(W)/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes N}\). For \(d=1\) it is \(\lfloor N/2\rfloor\), by the Clebsch–Gordan rule. Compute it for small \(d\) and \(N\) with a compiled rank kernel, after a sizing run, and look for a formula of the form \(\lfloor N/(c\,d)\rfloor\) or \(\lfloor N/c\rfloor\). The second would give freeness over many forms through \(t\) whenever \(N\ge ct\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the free-seed argument as cited in thm:board-seed-freeness and thm:row-rank-seeds (blocks with \(\operatorname{Ann}_T(1)=0\)), ex:board-random-defect-pointwise, and the recorded \(\mathrm{HS}_A\) at \(n=8\). The positivity values were computed from that series by a short script, and the sizing times are read from sizing.json. The lemma is a degree count, so no reviewer pass was run. The conjecture was searched under semi-regular, Fröberg and generic freeness. The nearest records are conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base (product clauses) and ex:board-random-defect-pointwise.

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Generic forms, up to the number of rows, are row sums; conjectured threshold N ≥ 2t−1 for every such number

24 September 2026 · Working proof (generic forms as row sums), a conjecture and a finite check · Column tensor powers over F_3; cycle odd-prime-column-tensor-power. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Generic forms, up to the number of rows, are row sums; conjectured threshold N ≥ 2t−1 for every such number”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-column-tensor-power.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The many-forms entry found the seed method capped near \(N/(2t)\) forms. It asked for the lowest non-free degree of the column tensor power \((u(W)/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes N}\), \(u(W)=\mathbb F_3[W]/(w^3)\), \(d=\dim W\). The missing implication is freeness over many generic forms.

General statement. prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums: over any field of characteristic \(p\), let \(d\le m\) linear forms on the weak board without row sums, \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_j(\mathbb F\oplus V_j)\), have injective column maps \(\pi_j:W\to V_j\). This holds for generic forms over an extension field, but uniformly random forms over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(d=m\) usually fail it in some column. Let \(u(W)=\mathbb F[W]/(w^p)\). Then, as a graded \(u(W)\)-module, \(\tilde A\) is a direct sum of shifted copies of \((u(W)/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes k}\), and \((u(W)/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes k}\) is the weak algebra on \(d\) rows and \(k\) holes over its row sums. So freeness over such forms is the freeness of column tensor powers over row sums, which is the kind of freeness the base's stability proof uses, up to the caveat below on the notion of freeness. conj:column-tensor-power-freeness: over \(\mathbb F_3\), the weak algebra without row sums on \(d\ge1\) rows and \(N\) holes is free through \(t\) over its row sums, in the sense of the minimal free cover, if and only if \(N\ge2t-1\), for every \(d\). ex:column-tensor-power-thresholds confirms the threshold exactly in all 25 cases checked to completion (\(2\le N\le8\), \(1\le d\le4\)). If true, \(\tilde A\) is free over any \(d\le m\) forms with injective column maps through \(t\) exactly when \(N\ge2t-1\). That goes far beyond the seed cap. It matches the threshold of the recorded conj:weak-base-stability, though whether cover-freeness suffices for that conjecture's proof route is not checked.

Generic forms as row sums

Proof. In a tensor product of commutative algebras, multiplication by \(\ell=\sum_j\ell_j\) satisfies the Leibniz rule, so it is the diagonal action of a primitive element. The forms commute and \(\ell^p=\sum_j\ell_j^p=0\), so this is an action of \(u(W)\). \(W\) acts on \(\mathbb F\oplus V_j\) by \(w\cdot1=\pi_j(w)\) and \(w\cdot V_j=0\), since \(V_j^2=0\). Choose a complement \(V_j=\pi_j(W)\oplus V_j'\). Then \(\mathbb F\oplus V_j=(\mathbb F\oplus\pi_j(W))\oplus V_j'\) as \(u(W)\)-modules, with \(V_j'\) trivial in degree 1. When \(\pi_j\) is injective, \(\mathbb F\oplus\pi_j(W)\cong u(W)/\mathfrak m^2\) by \(1\mapsto1\), \(\pi_j(w)\mapsto w\). The diagonal action on the tensor product distributes over direct sums, so \(\tilde A\cong\bigoplus_{S\subseteq[N]}(u(W)/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes([N]\setminus S)}\otimes\bigotimes_{j\in S}V_j'\). The factor \(\bigotimes_{j\in S}V_j'\) is trivial, in degree \(|S|\). On \(d\) rows with forms the row sums \(R_i\mapsto r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\), each \(\pi_j\) sends \(R_i\) to \(x_{ij}\), an isomorphism onto \(V_j\). So the \(d\)-row algebra on \(k\) holes is \((u(W)/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes k}\) over its row sums. \(\square\)

A tensor factor that is trivial and sits in degree \(s\) shifts freeness degrees by \(s\). So \(\tilde A\) is free through \(t\) over the \(d\) forms exactly when \((u/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes(N-s)}\) is free through \(t-s\) for every \(s\) with nonzero multiplicity. Under the conjecture that requires \(N-s\ge2(t-s)-1\). The summand \(s=0\) always occurs with multiplicity 1, so it binds: \(N\ge2t-1\).

The check

tensor_power.py builds \(M=(u(W)/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes N}\) with basis (column subset, labels) and the action of \(w_b\) inserting label \(b\) in a new column. It computes \(\mathrm{HF}(M/\mathfrak mM)\) by exact ranks over \(\mathbb F_3\) and compares with \([q^k](1+dq)^N/(1+q+q^2)^d\). It stops at the first inequality. The lemma's failure test is \(\mathrm{HF}>\mathrm{pred}\), and every recorded failure has \(\mathrm{HF}>\mathrm{pred}\). By the openness lemma of thm:projection-freeness, equality through \(t\) is equivalent to the minimal free cover being bijective through \(t\). Matrices are capped at 6000 columns. Results (tensor_power.json):

In all 25 cases that reached their first failure (\(2\le N\le8\), \(1\le d\le4\)), \(M\) is free through exactly \(\lceil N/2\rceil\) and not through \(\lceil N/2\rceil+1\), whatever \(d\).
Three cases stopped at the cap while still free: \((N,d)=(7,4)\) through 3, \((8,3)\) through 4, \((8,4)\) through 3. They are consistent with the pattern.
For \(d=1\) the values agree with the Clebsch–Gordan count, which was not computed separately by the script. The reviewer recomputed \((N,d)=(4,2),(5,2),(6,1),(8,1),(4,3),(6,2)\) with separate code over full tuples, and all matched.

This extends the record's evidence. The weak-base-stability entry found \(\mathrm{HF}_A\), which is \(M/\mathfrak mM\), equal to the freeness prediction on the \(4\times7\) and \(5\times9\) boards at \(N=2D-1\), and unequal on boards that fall. That entry calls equality "necessary for that freeness, not sufficient". For freeness in the sense of the minimal free cover, the openness lemma makes it sufficient too. Whether that weaker notion suffices for Step 3 of the stability proof, whose free-seed decomposition is into free plus high-degree parts, is not checked here.

What this means

Two open ends of the line meet. The base's stability proof uses freeness of column tensor powers over row sums, in the free-plus-high-degree sense. Freeness over forms with injective column maps is cover-freeness of the same modules for \(d\le m\). The data put the cover-freeness threshold at \(N\ge2t-1\) independently of \(d\), against the seed cap \(d\le N/(2(t+1))\).
Not covered: more forms than rows, \(d>m\), where the column maps have kernels; and the weak algebra with its row sums together with further forms, which is again more than \(m\) directions. The one-count problem needs \(d\) up to about \(N^2\), so both matter.

Next: prove conj:column-tensor-power-freeness. The iterative criterion reduces freeness over \(u(w_1,\dots,w_d)\) to \(w_1\) acting freely and freeness of the quotient over the rest. The Clebsch–Gordan rule handles \(w_1\). The quotient is the question. Then treat non-injective column maps, the case \(d>m\), with the same kernel.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the weak-base stability entry (Steps 1 to 3, the free-seed lemma, the \(\mathrm{HF}_A\) evidence and its remark), the openness lemma of thm:projection-freeness, lem:seed-cap, and conj:weak-base-stability. The check was validated for \(d=1\) against the Clebsch–Gordan count, and the reviewer recomputed six cases independently. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the decomposition, the identification with the row-sum algebra, the shift argument, and the case counts. It required these changes, all adopted:

the title and statement hedged: the threshold is a conjecture, and the proposition covers \(d\le m\) forms with injective column maps;
the identification with the stability ingredient qualified by the cover-freeness caveat;
characteristic \(p\) with \(u(W)=\mathbb F[W]/(w^p)\), and the reason the action is defined;
injectivity stated as the hypothesis, with random \(\mathbb F_3\) forms flagged;
the conjecture's letter changed to \(d\);
the Clebsch–Gordan comparison and the script's stopping test described accurately.

The changes weaken or clarify, so no further pass was made.

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Line necessity: column tensor powers are free through at most ⌈N/2⌉ for every number of forms, so the conjecture's remaining half is a graded Dade lemma

24 September 2026 · Working proof (line necessity) · Half of conj:column-tensor-power-freeness; cycle odd-prime-tensor-power-proof. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Line necessity: column tensor powers are free through at most ⌈N/2⌉ for every number of forms, so the conjecture's remaining half is a graded Dade lemma”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-line-necessity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The column-tensor-power entry found \(M_N=(u(W)/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes N}\) free through exactly \(\lceil N/2\rceil\) over \(u(W)=\mathbb F_3[W]/(w^3)\) in every checked case, whatever \(d=\dim W\). It conjectured this for all \(d\) (conj:column-tensor-power-freeness). This cycle attempts the proof.

General statement. prop:line-necessity: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every \(d\ge1\) and \(N\ge1\), \(M_N\) is not free through \(\lceil N/2\rceil+1\) over \(u(W)\), in the sense of the minimal free cover. Its restriction to every line \(u(\langle x\rangle)\), \(0\ne x\in W\otimes\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), is free through exactly \(\lceil N/2\rceil\). The proof has two parts. Freeness through \(t\) passes to restrictions to lines. And on a line, \(M_N\) decomposes by the graded Clebsch–Gordan rule \(J_2\otimes J_2=J_3\oplus J_1(-1)\). So the "only if" half of the conjecture holds for every \(d\), and the conjecture is equivalent to the "if" half: freeness on every line through \(t\) implies freeness through \(t\), for this module. By prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums the same holds for the weak algebra without row sums over any \(d\le m\) forms with injective column maps, including the \(d\)-row algebra over its row sums. Freeness through \(t\) there needs \(N\ge2t-1\).

Restriction to lines

Lemma. If a graded \(u(W)\)-module \(M\), finite-dimensional in each degree and in degrees \(\ge0\), is free through \(t\), then so is its restriction to \(u(\langle x\rangle)\) for every \(0\ne x\in W\). The same holds for \(x\in W\otimes\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) after base change, since the minimal free cover base-changes and freeness through \(t\) is unchanged by field extension. Necessity below needs only one \(x\in W\).

Proof. Let \(0\to K\to F\to M\to0\) be the minimal free cover over \(u(W)\), with \(K\) in degrees \(\ge t+1\). \(u(W)\) is free over \(u(\langle x\rangle)\), because \(x^3=0\) and \(x\) extends to a basis of \(W\), so \(F\) is free over \(u(\langle x\rangle)\), and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{u(x)}(\mathbb F,F)=0\). The long exact sequence gives \(0\to\operatorname{Tor}_1^{u(x)}(\mathbb F,M)\to K/xK\), so \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{u(x)}(\mathbb F,M)\) vanishes in degrees \(\le t\). For graded modules over \(u(x)\), that is freeness through \(t\). If \(K'\) is the kernel of the minimal cover over \(u(x)\), then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{u(x)}(\mathbb F,M)=K'/xK'\), and \(K'\) is bounded below. So by graded Nakayama its lowest degree is the lowest degree of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\). \(\square\)

On a line

Let \(0\ne x\in W\). On \(u(W)/\mathfrak m^2=\mathbb F\oplus W\), \(x\) sends \(1\mapsto x\) and kills \(W\). So the restriction is \(J_2\oplus J_1(-1)^{d-1}\), with \(J_2=\langle1,x\rangle\) in degrees 0 and 1. The action on \(M_N\) is diagonal, with \(x\) primitive, so \(M_N|_x=\bigoplus_{S\subseteq[N]}J_2^{\otimes(N-|S|)}\otimes J_1(-|S|)^{(d-1)^{|S|}}\).

Clebsch–Gordan, graded. \(J_2\otimes J_2=J_3\oplus J_1(-1)\) (reviewed in the one-count entry). By induction, \(J_2^{\otimes a}\) is free plus one non-free summand: \(J_1(-a/2)\) for even \(a\ge2\), and \(J_2(-(a-1)/2)\) for odd \(a\). For the step, tensoring with \(J_2\) keeps free summands free and gives \(J_1(-a/2)\otimes J_2=J_2(-a/2)\) and \(J_2(-(a-1)/2)\otimes J_2=J_3(\cdot)\oplus J_1(-(a+1)/2)\). \(J_2^{\otimes0}=J_1\).

Where freeness first fails. The minimal free cover of \(J_1(-a)\) has kernel starting in degree \(a+1\), and that of \(J_2(-a)\) in degree \(a+2\). So a summand \(J_1(-a)\) makes freeness fail first at \(t=a+1\), and \(J_2(-a)\) at \(t=a+2\).

The summand indexed by \(S\), \(|S|=s\), is \(J_2^{\otimes(N-s)}\) shifted by \(s\). Its non-free part fails freeness first at \(\lceil(N+s)/2\rceil+1\). If \(N-s\) is even, the part is \(J_1(-(N+s)/2)\), failing at \((N+s)/2+1\). If \(N-s\) is odd, it is \(J_2(-(N+s-1)/2)\), failing at \((N+s-1)/2+2\). This is smallest at \(s=0\), with value \(\lceil N/2\rceil+1\). For odd \(N\), \(s=1\) ties with it through \(J_1(-(N+1)/2)\).

So \(M_N|_x\) is free through exactly \(\lceil N/2\rceil\). \(\square\)

By the lemma, \(M_N\) is not free through \(\lceil N/2\rceil+1\) over \(u(W)\). The same holds for the weak algebra without row sums over \(d\le m\) forms with injective column maps. By prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums, \(M_N\) is a \(u(W)\)-direct summand of it (the summand \(s=0\)), and a direct summand that is not free through a degree blocks freeness of the whole through that degree. This is consistent with all rows of ex:column-tensor-power-thresholds. The failure at \(\lceil N/2\rceil+1\) is observed wherever the check reached it; the rows \((7,4)\), \((8,4)\) and \((8,3)\) stopped before.

What remains

The conjecture now says that for \(M_N\), freeness through \(t\) on every line implies freeness through \(t\). That is a graded, truncated Dade lemma for one family of modules. Dade's lemma itself, for finite-dimensional modules over elementary abelian \(p\)-groups, is the ungraded, untruncated statement. The recorded truncated version for column spans, conj:worst-direction-freeness, has a counterexample near capacity, so the truncated form needs the structure of \(M_N\).
A possible route, stated as a question: \(M_N\) is the \(N\)-th tensor power of one module, \(u(W)/\mathfrak m^2\), whose restriction to every line over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) has Jordan type \([2][1]^{d-1}\). Tensor products respect restriction to lines here because the coproduct is primitive; for the group-algebra coproduct of Dade's setting they do not, so any comparison must use the \(u(W)\) Hopf structure. Is truncated freeness detected on lines for tensor powers of a module of constant Jordan type?

Next: the route review is due. After it, test the graded Dade statement for \(M_N\) against the constant-Jordan-type literature: modules of constant Jordan type and their tensor products, in the sense of Carlson, Friedlander and Pevtsova.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the column-tensor-power entry and its JSON; the graded Clebsch–Gordan rule (reviewed in the one-count entry); the openness lemma of thm:projection-freeness; prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums; conj:worst-direction-freeness (its counterexample near capacity). A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the restriction lemma, the decomposition on a line and the Clebsch–Gordan induction. It required these changes, all adopted:

the bound for \(|S|\ge1\), wrong as written for even \(N\) with \(s=1\), replaced by the uniform failure degree \(\lceil(N+s)/2\rceil+1\);
the base change and the Nakayama step in the lemma, with the freeness of \(u(W)\) over \(u(x)\);
the JSON consistency stated per row;
the direct-summand statement used from prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums;
the primitive coproduct named, and the constant-Jordan-type route stated as a question.

The changes correct the reasoning without changing the conclusion, or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Route review: the line now rests on one module family, the column tensor powers, whose freeness would give (a) and generic freeness

24 September 2026 · Route review · The (b) and (c) line after the joint-span review; cycle odd-prime-tensor-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the line now rests on one module family, the column tensor powers, whose freeness would give (a) and generic freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-tensor-power-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Six research entries have followed the joint-span review. This review states the line's claim and what the goal needs from it, tries to falsify the current conjecture, assesses the line, and names the next step.

General statement. The line's general claim is unchanged. The goal's inventory, compiled to constraints over the weak base, has no PC refutation at the compiler's degree. Relative gluing reduces this to the base's stability (a) and to liftable top syzygies. The last six entries turned the remaining obligations into statements about one module family. The column tensor powers \(M_N=(u(W)/\mathfrak m^2)^{\otimes N}\) carry the base's stability, through the row sums. They carry freeness over up to \(m\) forms with injective column maps (prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums). And through the one-count link they carry the restriction-mixture problem for member-type blocks (prop:one-count-by-freeness). conj:column-tensor-power-freeness puts their threshold at \(N\ge2t-1\) for every \(d\). Its "only if" half is proved (prop:line-necessity). Its "if" half is a graded Dade lemma for \(M_N\).

What happened since the last review

Beyond the Taylor count, planted families pin their point and random ones are refuted (planted families). So dense parts must be treated as restrictions. Closing the pins of a partial matching gives the restricted weak base (conditioned base).
For member-type blocks, the restriction line's one-count problem follows from freeness over the joint span (one-count link).
Every seed proof caps near \(N/(2t)\) forms, while the record shows freeness up to the positivity bound (many forms).
Forms with injective column maps act like row sums, and the threshold data give \(N\ge2t-1\) independently of \(d\) (column tensor power). Its "only if" half is proved (line necessity).

What the goal needs

Three things remain on this route. The line now bears on the first two.

Freeness over the forms of the inventory. For up to \(m\) forms with injective column maps, the conjecture gives it. The inventory needs about \(nh\), up to order \(N^2\), with column maps that have kernels. Freeness also has to hold together with the row sums, which are \(m\) further directions.
Blocks as members. The compiler's ENS blocks must be replaced by polynomial constraints in their input forms, which is unverified.
Adversarial, non-generic forms, and dense parts of the inventory that are spread over many rows. For those, neither conditioning nor generic freeness applies.

Falsification attempt

The conjecture is most at risk with many more forms than holes. tensor_power.py was rerun with \((N,d)=(3,6),(3,10),(4,6),(4,10),(5,6),(6,5)\) (large_d.json). For \(N=3,4\), with up to ten forms, freeness holds through exactly \(\lceil N/2\rceil=2\) and fails at 3. For \((5,6)\) and \((6,5)\), freeness holds through 3, the limit of the size cap and equal to \(\lceil N/2\rceil\). No case contradicts the conjecture. The leading coefficient in \(d\) of the free prediction at \(t=\lceil N/2\rceil\) is also positive in the cases computed by hand (\((N,t)=(5,3),(6,3),(7,4)\)). So the positivity bound does not cut in for large \(d\). The recorded failure of the truncated Dade form for column spans (conj:worst-direction-freeness) concerns a different module, the column model with a row-sum relation. It does not refute this one.

Assessment of this line

The line has narrowed from many hypotheses to one algebraic family, and its two main open ends now coincide. If conj:column-tensor-power-freeness holds, then conj:weak-base-stability's range becomes linear, subject to whether cover-freeness suffices for the stability proof's Step 3. Freeness over up to \(m\) generic forms would follow at the same threshold. That would be substantial. It still falls short of the goal in three ways:

it does not reach \(d>m\) forms;
it does not cover the row sums together with further forms;
it leaves the ENS blocks and adversarial forms open.

The conjecture is a clean statement with a proved half and uniform evidence. Its missing half is a question of a known kind, detection of freeness on lines, for which general theory exists in the ungraded setting. Proving it would be real progress. It would not by itself close the route.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer: attack the "if" half of conj:column-tensor-power-freeness. Two routes:

Read the constant-Jordan-type theory, with care for the primitive coproduct. Carlson, Friedlander and Pevtsova treat modules whose restrictions to all lines have the same Jordan type. Check whether their generic-kernel or tensor-product results give truncated freeness for tensor powers of \(u(W)/\mathfrak m^2\).
Prove the \(d=2\) case directly. Use the iterative criterion: \(w_1\) by Clebsch–Gordan, then \(M_N/w_1M_N\) as a \(u(w_2)\)-module, whose Jordan type can be computed.

In parallel, extend the conjecture to column maps with kernels (\(d>m\)), since the inventory needs that case.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the six entries since the joint-span review and their registered claims, and conj:worst-direction-freeness. The falsification values are read from large_d.json. This cycle's timing session was restarted under a new name after a failed finalization had left two stopped sessions (odd-prime-freeness-review, odd-prime-line-review) with only preparation time; they are not reported. No new claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Stability from tensor powers: cover-freeness of the D-row column tensor power through D is what the stability proof uses, so the tensor-power conjecture implies linear stability at p = 3

24 September 2026 · Working proof (stability from tensor powers) · The link between conj:column-tensor-power-freeness and conj:weak-base-stability; cycle odd-prime-dade-tensor. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Stability from tensor powers: cover-freeness of the D-row column tensor power through D is what the stability proof uses, so the tensor-power conjecture implies linear stability at p = 3”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-stability-from-tensor-power.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The tensor-power review left a caveat. The base's stability proof decomposes the column tensor power into free plus high-degree parts. The tensor-power conjecture concerns only freeness in the sense of the minimal free cover. Does the conjecture give the base's stability?

General statement. prop:stability-from-tensor-power: over \(\mathbb F_p\), let \(\tilde A\) be the weak algebra without row sums on \(D\) rows and \(N\) columns, and \(T=\mathbb F_p[R_1,\dots,R_D]/(R_i^p)\) acting through its row sums. Then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F,\tilde A)\) is the Koszul homology \(H_1(r;\tilde A)\) modulo the Frobenius classes \(r_i^{p-1}a\,e_i\). So \(\tilde A\) is free through \(t\) over \(T\), in the sense of the minimal free cover, exactly when \(H_1(r;\tilde A)\) is spanned by Frobenius classes in degrees \(\le t\). That is the only consequence of Step 3 that the stability proof uses. Hence, if \(\tilde A\) is cover-free through \(D\), the weak base on any \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\) columns has no falls below \(D\). In particular conj:column-tensor-power-freeness, over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(d=D\) and \(t=D\), implies the \(p=3\) case of conj:weak-base-stability, \(N\ge2D-1\). The review's caveat is resolved. The record calls Hilbert-function equality "necessary, not sufficient" for freeness in the direct-sum sense, which remains unrefuted. But the stability proof never needs that stronger sense. Equality through \(D\) is cover-freeness through \(D\), by the openness lemma of thm:projection-freeness, and that suffices.

Proof

Tor over the truncated algebra. \(T=\bigotimes_i\mathbb F_p[R_i]/(R_i^p)\). The minimal resolution of \(\mathbb F\) over each factor is periodic: \(A\xleftarrow{R}A(-1)\xleftarrow{R^{p-1}}A(-p)\leftarrow\cdots\). Their tensor product is a free resolution of \(\mathbb F\) over \(T\) whose first two terms are \(P_1=\bigoplus_iT(-1)e_i\) and \(P_2=\bigoplus_iT(-p)f_i\oplus\bigoplus_{i<j}T(-2)e_{ij}\). Here \(f_i\mapsto R_i^{p-1}e_i\) and \(e_{ij}\mapsto R_je_i-R_ie_j\). Tensoring with \(M=\tilde A\) gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F,M)=\ker\bigl(\bigoplus_iM(-1)\to M\bigr)/\bigl(\text{Frobenius}+\text{Koszul images}\bigr)\).
Koszul homology. The Koszul complex of \(r_1,\dots,r_D\) on \(M\) over \(\mathcal S=\mathbb F_p[R]\) gives \(H_1(r;M)=\ker\bigl(\bigoplus_iM(-1)\to M\bigr)/(\text{Koszul images})\). The kernels agree, so \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F,M)=H_1(r;M)/\langle r_i^{p-1}a\,e_i\rangle\), degree by degree, with \(e_i\) in degree 1.
Cover-freeness. By graded Nakayama, the kernel of the minimal free cover over \(T\) starts in the lowest degree of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F,M)\). So cover-freeness through \(t\) is the vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T\) in degrees \(\le t\), that is, \(H_1\) spanned by Frobenius classes there. It is also Hilbert-function equality, by the openness lemma of thm:projection-freeness. The cover \(T\otimes M/\mathfrak mM\to M\) is onto, and the Hilbert function of its source through \(t\) depends only on \(M/\mathfrak mM\) through \(t\). So \(\mathrm{HF}_{M/\mathfrak mM}=[q^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_M/\mathrm{HS}_T\) for all \(k\le t\) holds exactly when the kernel vanishes through \(t\).
Stability. The proof of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic uses Step 3 only through its stated consequence: \(H_1(r;\tilde A)_{k+1}\) is spanned by Frobenius classes for \(k<D\), on the \(D\)-row board. Step 1 then kills these classes under the connecting map, so \(z\) is injective in degree \(k\) on the \(D\)-row board. lem:weak-row-reduction extends this to \(m\ge D\) rows. Replacing Step 3 by cover-freeness through \(D\), which gives the same consequence by items 1 to 3, proves the claim. \(\square\)

Consequences

The two open ends identified in the review are linked one way. conj:column-tensor-power-freeness at \(d=D\), \(t=D\), \(N=2D-1\) implies the \(p=3\) case of conj:weak-base-stability. Stability is not shown to imply cover-freeness. By prop:line-necessity, cover-freeness through \(D\) fails for \(N\le2D-2\). The stability conjecture's sharpness at \(D=4\), recorded for \(N=6\), is consistent with that failure, but a failure of cover-freeness does not by itself force a fall.
Over \(\mathbb F_3\), the recorded Hilbert-function equalities on the \(4\times7\) and \(5\times9\) boards now prove \(z\)-injectivity below \(D=4\) and \(D=5\) on those boards and, by row reduction, on every \(m\ge D\). ex:weak-base-stability-small already records these cases for every \(m\ge D\) by direct computation, so this route adds no new case there. It is consistent.
Over \(\mathbb F_3\), ex:column-tensor-power-thresholds gives cover-freeness through 3 for \((N,d)=(5,3)\) and \((6,3)\). So the weak base on \(m\ge3\) rows and \(N=5\) or \(6\) columns has no falls below 3. That lies below the quadratic theorem's range, \(N\ge(p-1)D^2=18\) at \(p=3\), \(D=3\).

Next: the graded Dade half of conj:column-tensor-power-freeness, which would give both linear stability and freeness over up to \(m\) generic forms. Try \(d=2\) directly: \(w_1\) acts on \(M_N\) with the Clebsch–Gordan decomposition. Compute the Jordan type of \(w_2\) on \(M_N/w_1M_N\), which is the 2-row algebra modulo its first row sum, and show it is free through \(\lceil N/2\rceil\). Then check that the iterative criterion holds through \(t\) in the truncated setting.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic (Steps 1 to 3 and the proof), lem:weak-row-reduction, conj:weak-base-stability (scope: every \(p\)) and ex:weak-base-stability-small (every \(m\ge D\) at \((4,7)\) and \((5,9)\)), the openness lemma of thm:projection-freeness, and the tensor-power JSON. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the resolution and its maps, the identification of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T\) with \(H_1\) modulo Frobenius classes, the Nakayama step, the degree bookkeeping of the replacement in the stability proof, and the JSON values at \((5,3)\) and \((6,3)\). It required these changes, all adopted:

the link between Hilbert-function equality and cover-freeness made explicit;
the "too pessimistic" remark rephrased, since the direct-sum sense is not refuted;
"coincide exactly" replaced by a one-way implication;
characteristic 3 stated, with the implication limited to the \(p=3\) case of the stability conjecture;
the overlap with ex:weak-base-stability-small stated.

The changes weaken or clarify, so no further pass was made.

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Tensor powers through degree 2: cover-free through degree 2 for every number of forms once N ≥ 3; chessboard connectivity has the conjectured threshold

24 September 2026 · Working proof (tensor powers through degree 2) · The "if" half of conj:column-tensor-power-freeness at t = 2; cycle odd-prime-two-form-dade. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Tensor powers through degree 2: cover-free through degree 2 for every number of forms once N ≥ 3; chessboard connectivity has the conjectured threshold”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-tensor-power-degree-two.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. By the stability link, the "if" half of conj:column-tensor-power-freeness would give both linear base stability at \(p=3\) and freeness over up to \(m\) generic forms. Its "only if" half is prop:line-necessity. This cycle proves the first nontrivial case of the "if" half for every number of forms, and looks for a general mechanism.

General statement. prop:tensor-power-degree-two: over any field of characteristic \(\ne2\), the weak algebra without row sums on \(d\) rows and \(N\ge3\) columns, \(\tilde A=\mathbb F[x_{bj}]/(x_{bj}x_{b'j})\), has only Koszul relations among its row sums \(r_b=\sum_jx_{bj}\) in degrees \(\le2\). So in characteristic 3 it is cover-free through 2 over \(T=\mathbb F[R]/(R^3)\), for every \(d\). With prop:line-necessity, the threshold at \(t=2\) is exactly \(N\ge3=2t-1\), as conj:column-tensor-power-freeness predicts. For the general case, the content-graded Koszul complex of the row sums appears to be related to row-labelled chessboard complexes. The imported connectivity bound yields \((k-2)\)-connectivity of the \(k\times N\) chessboard complex for \(N\ge2k-1\), and only \((k-3)\) at \(N=2k-2\). That is the conjecture's threshold, a heuristic hint at a proof, not a proof.

Degree 2

Proof. By prop:stability-from-tensor-power, cover-freeness through 2 is the vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F,\tilde A)\) in degrees 1 and 2. \(\tilde A\) is a \(T\)-module, since \(r_b^3=6\sum x\,x\,x=0\) in characteristic 3. \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) vanishes in degree 0 because the \(e_b\) have degree 1. Frobenius classes start in degree 3, so the claim is that relations \(\sum_br_ba_b=0\) of degree \(\le2\) are Koszul.

Degree 1: \(a_b\) are constants, and \(\sum_b\beta_br_b=0\) forces \(\beta=0\), since the row sums involve disjoint variables.
Degree 2: write \(a_b=\sum_{c,k}\alpha_{bck}x_{ck}\). In \(\tilde A_2\), whose basis is the products \(x_{bj}x_{ck}\) with \(j\ne k\), the coefficient of \(x_{bj}x_{ck}\) is \(\alpha_{bck}+\alpha_{cbj}\). So \(\alpha_{bck}=-\alpha_{cbj}\) for all \(b,c\) and \(j\ne k\).
- Fix \(b,c\) and two columns \(k\ne k'\). With \(N\ge3\) there is a column \(j\) different from both, and then \(\alpha_{bck}=-\alpha_{cbj}=\alpha_{bck'}\). So \(\alpha_{bck}=\beta_{bc}\) does not depend on \(k\), and \(\beta_{bc}=-\beta_{cb}\).
- For \(b=c\) this gives \(\beta_{bb}=-\beta_{bb}\), so \(\beta_{bb}=0\) in characteristic \(\ne2\).
Hence \(a_b=\sum_c\beta_{bc}r_c\) with \(\beta\) antisymmetric, the Koszul boundary of \(\sum_{b<c}\beta_{bc}\,e_b\wedge e_c\). \(\square\)

At \(N=2\) the argument fails, as prop:line-necessity requires. There is no third column, and for one row \(b\), \(a_b=x_{b1}-x_{b2}\) gives \(r_ba_b=x_{b1}^2-x_{b2}^2=0\) with \(a_b\) not in the Koszul span. Degree-2 boundaries have every \(a_b\) in the span of the \(r_c\), and there are no Frobenius classes in degree 2. So with \(a_c=0\) for \(c\ne b\) it is a relation of degree 2 that is not Koszul.

A general mechanism: chessboard complexes (heuristic, not a proof)

Grade \(\tilde A\) by row content \(c\in\mathbb N^d\): a monomial \(x_P\), \(P\) a column-injective cell set, has content \(c_b=\#\{\text{cells of }P\text{ in row }b\}\). The Koszul complex of the row sums respects this grading, with \(e_b\) of content \(e_b\). In content \(c\), the relevant spaces are spanned by column-injective placements of a multiset of row labels into the \(N\) columns. These are the faces of the \(|c|\times N\) chessboard complex, taken modulo permutations of equal labels, which is harmless in characteristic 3 when every \(c_b\le2\). Frobenius classes absorb labels of multiplicity 3 and more. The maps, however, carry no simplicial signs. For \(d=1\), multiplication by \(r\) on square-free monomials is the unsigned up-operator of the Boolean lattice, with \(r^2\ne0\). It is not a simplicial coboundary, which is why the Clebsch–Gordan decomposition over \(\mathbb F_3[r]/(r^3)\) applies there. The Clebsch–Gordan count gives the threshold \(N\ge2t-1\) at \(d=1\). The chessboard connectivity bound, \((k-2)\)-connectivity of the \(k\times N\) chessboard complex for \(N\ge2k-1\) (imported in lem:zero-marginal-chessboard-cycles), has the same threshold at \(k=t\). Its sharpness below \(2k-1\) is a separate result, not imported. The conjecture would follow if \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T\) in content \(c\) embeds in the reduced homology of such a complex below its connectivity range. The degree-2 proof above is the case \(|c|=2\) done by hand.

Next: make the chessboard reduction precise, if it exists. First settle the sign issue: the Koszul complex over the commutative \(\tilde A\) has no simplicial signs, so any identification with a chessboard chain complex needs a sign twist or a different complex. Then identify the content-\(c\) strand of the Koszul complex of the row sums, modulo Frobenius classes, with a chain complex of the \(|c|\times N\) chessboard complex, symmetrized over equal labels. Then derive \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T=0\) in degree \(k\) from the imported \((k-2)\)-connectivity for \(N\ge2k-1\). Check it against the degree-2 proof and the tensor-power data.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: prop:stability-from-tensor-power (Tor as Koszul homology modulo Frobenius classes), prop:line-necessity, and lem:zero-marginal-chessboard-cycles (the imported connectivity bound). A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the degree 1 and 2 argument, the case \(b=c\), the use of \(N\ge3\) and of characteristic \(\ne2\), and the \(N=2\) counterexample. It found one false statement, the claim that for \(d=1\) the complex is a simplex boundary map, since multiplication by \(r\) is unsigned. It required these changes, all adopted:

degree 0 and the module structure stated;
the boundary form of the Koszul relation and the reason the counterexample is not a boundary;
the connectivity statement worded as what the imported bound gives, with sharpness named as not imported;
the false \(d=1\) remark replaced, and the sign issue flagged as the first question of the next step;
the chessboard paragraph marked as heuristic;
the title made precise.

The changes correct or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Chessboard link: the row sums' Koszul complex is the chessboard cochain complex, and tensor powers are free through degree 5 for every number of forms

24 September 2026 · Working proof (chessboard link and heavy-core reduction) · Tensor-power conjecture through t = 5; cycle odd-prime-chessboard-link. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Chessboard link: the row sums' Koszul complex is the chessboard cochain complex, and tensor powers are free through degree 5 for every number of forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-chessboard-link.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The degree-two entry proved the "if" half of conj:column-tensor-power-freeness at \(t=2\). It suggested chessboard complexes as a general mechanism, with a sign issue to settle first. The missing implication is: for \(N\ge2t-1\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F,\tilde A)\) vanishes in every degree \(k\le t\). This cycle settles the sign issue, proves the implication for every content with at most one entry \(\ge p\), and reduces the rest to contents whose every nonzero entry is \(\ge p\).

General statement. Setting: \(\tilde A=\mathbb F[x_{bj}]/(x_{bj}x_{b'j})\) on \(d\) rows and \(N\) columns, row sums \(r_b=\sum_jx_{bj}\), graded by row content \(c\in\mathbb N^d\). The all-parameter statements are thm:chessboard-link, thm:heavy-core-reduction and thm:one-heavy-row.

thm:chessboard-link, over any field. (i) The content-\((1^k)\) strand of the Koszul complex of the row sums on \(\tilde A\) is, after a sign twist, the augmented cochain complex of the \(k\times N\) chessboard complex \(\Delta_{k,N}\), so \(H_i(r;\tilde A)_{(1^k)}\cong\widetilde H^{k-i-1}(\Delta_{k,N};\mathbb F)\). (ii) For every content \(c\) with \(\prod_bc_b!\ne0\) in \(\mathbb F\) (the light contents), \(H_i(r;\tilde A)_c\) is a retract of the multilinear strand on \(|c|\) rows. (iii) Hence \(H_i(r;\tilde A)_c=0\) for all \(i\ge1\) and all light \(c\) with \(N\ge2|c|-1\).
thm:heavy-core-reduction, over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(T=\mathbb F_3[R]/(R^3)\). For \(N\ge2|c|-1\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,\tilde A)\) vanishes in content \(c\) if it vanishes in the pure heavy part of \(c\): the entries \(\ge3\), on their own rows, with \(|c|-|c_H|\) fewer columns. The light rows are handled by chessboard homology with coefficients in an FI-module, whose generation and regularity degrees are bounded by Church and Ellenberg.
thm:one-heavy-row, over \(\mathbb F_3\). \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,\tilde A)_c=0\) for every content \(c\) with at most one entry \(\ge3\) and \(N\ge2|c|-1\). Every content of total at most 5 has at most one entry \(\ge3\). So conj:column-tensor-power-freeness holds for every \(t\le5\) and every \(d\), and by prop:stability-from-tensor-power the \(p=3\) case of conj:weak-base-stability holds for \(D\le5\), \(N\ge2D-1\). The first content the theorem does not cover is \((3,3)\), in degree 6.

One result is imported. The FI-module regularity theorem of Church and Ellenberg is used in the form of the regularity theorem and its kernel-generation corollary in Homology of FI-modules (Geom. Topol. 21 (2017)), whose statements were read for this cycle. The chessboard connectivity bound is the record's star-cover proof, ported to any field in (iii). Part (i) contains lem:zero-marginal-chessboard-cycles as its top degree: at \(i=0\), dualized, it identifies the zero-marginal arrays on a fixed set of \(k\) rows with the top cycles of \(\Delta_{k,N}\). The functions \(Z_{c_H}\) below are the analogue for rows used several times, which that lemma does not treat.

(i) The multilinear strand is the chessboard complex

Take \(d=k\) rows and content \((1^k)\). \(K_i\) has basis \(e_U\otimes x_f\): \(U\subseteq[k]\) with \(|U|=i\), and \(f:[k]\setminus U\to[N]\) injective, \(x_f=\prod_sx_{s,f(s)}\). The differential is \(e_U\otimes x_f\mapsto\sum_l(-1)^{l+1}e_{U\setminus u_l}\otimes\sum_{j\notin\operatorname{im}f}x_{f\cup(u_l\mapsto j)}\), with \(U=\{u_1<\dots<u_i\}\). The partial injections \(f\) are the faces of \(\Delta_{k,N}\). Order a face's rooks by row. The simplicial coboundary gives the added rook \((u,j)\) the sign \((-1)^{\#\{s\in\operatorname{dom}f:s<u\}}\). The Koszul sign is \((-1)^{\#\{u'\in U:u'<u\}}\). The two exponents add up to \(u-1\), since \(U\sqcup\operatorname{dom}f=[k]\). So \(\Phi(e_U\otimes x_f)=\varepsilon(f)\,f^*\) with \(\varepsilon(f)=\prod_{s\in\operatorname{dom}f}(-1)^{s-1}\) is a chain isomorphism \(K_i\to\widetilde C^{k-i-1}(\Delta_{k,N})\), with the empty face in degree \(-1\). This resolves the sign issue of the degree-two entry. Signs are missing only in contents that use a row twice, and those are handled in (ii) without comparing signs.

(ii) Light contents are retracts

Work over an infinite extension \(K\supseteq\mathbb F\), since Koszul homology commutes with field extension. Write \(\tilde A(W)=\bigotimes_{j=1}^N(K\oplus W)\), each factor with \(W^2=0\), and \(\ell(w)=\sum_jw^{(j)}\). A linear map \(g:W\to W'\) induces an algebra map \(\tilde A(g)\) with \(\ell(gw)=\tilde A(g)\ell(w)\), and \(\Lambda(g)\otimes\tilde A(g)\) is a chain map of Koszul complexes. So \(H_i(W)_k:=H_i(r;\tilde A(W))_k\) is a functor of \(W\) under all linear maps. It is a subquotient of \(\Lambda^iW\otimes\tilde A(W)_{k-i}\), which is homogeneous polynomial of degree \(k\). So a diagonal \(t\) acts on its content-\(c\) part by \(t^c\), for every \(t\in K^d\).

Let \(|c|=k\) and \(W'=K^k\), with slots split into blocks \(B_b\) of sizes \(c_b\). Let \(\varphi:W'\to W\) send \(e_s\mapsto e_b\) for \(s\in B_b\), \(\psi:W\to W'\) send \(e_b\mapsto\sum_{s\in B_b}e_s\), and \(\tau_t=\operatorname{diag}(t)\) on \(W'\). For \(v\in H_i(W)_c\), \(\varphi\tau_t\psi=\operatorname{diag}(\sum_{s\in B_b}t_s)\), so \(\sum_{c'}t^{c'}H(\varphi)\pi_{c'}H(\psi)v=\prod_b(\sum_{s\in B_b}t_s)^{c_b}\,v\), with \(\pi_{c'}\) the projection to content \(c'\). Comparing the coefficients of \(t_1\cdots t_k\) gives \(H(\varphi)\pi_{(1^k)}H(\psi)v=\prod_bc_b!\,v\). So when \(\prod c_b!\ne0\), \(H_i(W)_c\) is a retract of \(H_i(W')_{(1^k)}\). For heavy contents the coefficient vanishes, which is why they need a separate argument.

(iii) Vanishing

By the chessboard bound, \(\Delta_{k,N}\) is \((\nu-2)\)-acyclic with \(\nu=\min\{k,N,\lfloor(k+N+1)/3\rfloor\}\). For \(N\ge2k-1\), \(\nu=k\). Over a field, reduced cohomology then vanishes in degrees \(\le k-2\), which are the degrees \(k-i-1\) with \(i\ge1\). The record proves this bound by the star cover over \(\mathbb F_2\) (homological chessboard bound). The only characteristic-two step is that \(d_h+d_v\) squares to zero in the cover lemma's double complex. Take \(d_h\) to be the alternating Čech differential, \(\sum_m(-1)^m\) times omitting the \(m\)-th cover index. It commutes with \(d_v\), so the total differential \(d_h+(-1)^ad_v\) squares to zero, and the argument is unchanged over any field: horizontal exactness uses the augmented chain complex of a simplex, and the nerve and intersection conditions do not involve coefficients. So the bound used here does not rest on the unverified import. Frobenius classes have content \(\ge pe_b\), so light contents have none, and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T=H_1\) there. With \(p=3\), this gives the degree-two proposition as the case \(t=2\).

Heavy-core reduction

Take \(p=3\), and split a content \(c=(c_H,c_L)\) into its heavy rows \(H=\{b:c_b\ge3\}\) and its light rows \(L\), with \(|c_L|=l\) and \(N\ge2|c|-1\). Write \(W_H\), \(W_L\) for the corresponding spans of rows, and \(\tilde A_S(W_H)\) for the weak algebra without row sums on the rows \(H\) and the columns \(S\).

Peeling the heavy rows. \(u(W)=u(W_H)\otimes u(W_L)\), so there is a content-graded spectral sequence \(E^2_{ij}=\operatorname{Tor}_i^{u(W_L)}(\mathbb F,\operatorname{Tor}_j^{u(W_H)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A))\Rightarrow\operatorname{Tor}_{i+j}^{u(W)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A)\). In content \((\cdot,c_L)\), \(\tilde A\) is, as a \(u(W_H)\)-module, \(\bigoplus_{P_L}\tilde A_{[N]\setminus\operatorname{cols}P_L}(W_H)\) over the placements \(P_L\) of \(c_L\). So \(E^2_{0,1}\) in content \(c\) is a quotient of \(\bigoplus_{P_L}\operatorname{Tor}_1^{u(W_H)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A_{[N]\setminus\operatorname{cols}P_L}(W_H))_{c_H}\). This is the pure heavy content \(c_H\) on \(N-l\ge2|c_H|-1\) columns. \(E_{1,0}\) receives and emits no differentials. With no light rows (\(l=0\)), \(E_{1,0}=0\) and the reduction is (H) itself, so assume \(l\ge1\) below, as steps 2 to 4 need. Hence, if the pure heavy content vanishes (hypothesis (H)), then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{u(W)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A)_c\cong\operatorname{Tor}_1^{u(W_L)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A/\mathfrak m_H\tilde A)_c\), with \(\mathfrak m_H=(r_b:b\in H)\).
Light rows. The content \(c_L\) is light, so it has no Frobenius classes, and the right side equals \(H_1(r_L;\tilde A/\mathfrak m_H\tilde A)_c\). Over the infinite extension \(K\), this is a functor of \(W_L\) under maps \(\mathrm{id}\oplus g\), which fix the heavy row sums, and it is polynomial of degree \(|c_L|\) in \(W_L\). So the retract of (ii) reduces it to \(c_L=(1^l)\). Heavy content \(c_H\) of \(\tilde A/\mathfrak m_H\) over a light placement \(f\) is \(Q_{c_H}([N]\setminus\operatorname{im}f)\). Here \(Q_{c_H}(S)=B_{c_H}(S)/\sum_{b\in H}r_bB_{c_H-e_b}(S)\), and \(B_\gamma(S)\) is spanned by the placements of content \(\gamma\) into \(S\). The light row \(u\) acts by adding a rook at column \(j\) and applying \(\rho_j\), which kills heavy cells in column \(j\). With the sign twist of (i), the strand is the augmented chessboard cochain complex of \(\Delta_{l,N}\) with coefficients \(\mathcal Q(\sigma)=Q_{c_H}([N]\setminus\operatorname{cols}\sigma)\). So the group is \(\widetilde H^{l-2}(\Delta_{l,N};\mathcal Q)\cong\widetilde H_{l-2}(\Delta_{l,N};\mathcal Z)^*\). Here \(\mathcal Z(\sigma)=Z_{c_H}([N]\setminus\operatorname{cols}\sigma)\), and \(Z_{c_H}(S)=Q_{c_H}(S)^*\) is the space of functions on placements of \(c_H\) whose marginals all vanish. The maps are extension by zero, dual to \(\rho_j\).
\(Z_{c_H}\) as an FI-module. Write \(h=|c_H|\). \(Z_{c_H}=\ker\bigl(\partial:B_{c_H}\to\bigoplus_{b\in H}B_{c_H-e_b}\bigr)\), with \(\partial\varphi(P')=\sum_{j\notin\operatorname{cols}P'}\varphi(P'\cup(j,b))\) on placements \(P'\) of content \(c_H-e_b\). This is a map of FI-modules under extension by zero. \(B_\gamma\) is the free FI-module \(M(V)\) with \(V\) the placements on exactly \(|\gamma|\) columns, since each placement has a unique column set. So \(B_\gamma\) is free in Church–Ellenberg's sense (their Section 2.1 and footnote 3) and \(H_0\)-acyclic (their Lemma 2.3). An \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued FI-module is a \(\mathbb Z\)-valued one with the same \(H_0\), and the \(\mathbb F_3\)-free modules \(M(V)\) are free in their sense. So their acyclicity lemma (Lemma 2.3), regularity theorem and kernel-generation corollary apply to FI-homology as stated. The kernel-generation corollary gives that \(Z_{c_H}\) is generated in degree \(\le(h-1)+h+1=2h\). Moreover \(H_i(Z_{c_H})\cong H_{i+2}(Q')\) with \(Q'=\operatorname{coker}\partial\), which is generated in degree \(\le h-1\) and related in degree \(\le h\). The case \(i=0\) uses that \(H_0(B_{c_H})\to H_0(\operatorname{im}\partial)\) is injective: on placements that use all \(h\) columns of a set, removing the cell in column \(j\) determines the placement, because the missing row is forced by the content. The regularity theorem then gives \(\deg H_i(Z_{c_H})\le2h+i\) for all \(i\ge0\).
Resolution. Resolve \(Z_{c_H}\) by free FI-modules \(F_\bullet\), taking \(F_j=M((K_j)_{\le g_j})\) at each stage, with \(K_0=Z_{c_H}\) and \(K_{j+1}=\ker(F_j\to K_j)\). \(F_j\) is not a minimal cover, so \(H_0(F_j)\to H_0(K_j)\) need not be injective. The long exact sequence of \(0\to K_{j+1}\to F_j\to K_j\to0\), with \(F_j\) acyclic, gives \(\deg H_0(K_{j+1})\le\max(g_j,\deg H_1(K_j))\) and \(H_i(K_{j+1})\cong H_{i+1}(K_j)\) for \(i\ge1\). So \(\deg H_1(K_j)=\deg H_{j+1}(Z_{c_H})\le2h+j+1\), and by induction \(g_j=\deg H_0(K_j)\le2h+j\). Chessboard chains are exact in the coefficient module, so \(\widetilde H_{l-2}(\Delta;\mathcal Z)\) is the hyperhomology of the double complex \(\widetilde C_q(\Delta;F_j)\). A free module \(M(V)\) has \(M(V)(S)=\bigoplus_{J\subseteq S}V_J\) with inclusions as maps, so \(\widetilde C_\bullet(\Delta_{l,N};M(V))=\bigoplus_JV_J\otimes\widetilde C_\bullet(\Delta_{l,[N]\setminus J})\). In total degree \(l-2\), with \(q=l-2-j\ge-1\), the boards have \(M=N-|J|\ge2l-1-j\ge l\) columns. There \(\lfloor(l+M+1)/3\rfloor\ge l-\lceil j/3\rceil\ge l-j\), so \(\nu\ge l-j\) and \(\widetilde H_{l-2-j}=0\). Every \(E^1\) entry of total degree \(l-2\) vanishes, so \(\widetilde H_{l-2}(\Delta_{l,N};\mathcal Z)=0\). \(\square\)

So conj:column-tensor-power-freeness reduces to pure heavy contents: those whose every nonzero entry is at least 3, on their own rows. With one heavy row, (H) is the Clebsch–Gordan freeness of \(J_2^{\otimes n}\) through \(\lceil n/2\rceil\) (prop:line-necessity), with \(n=N-l\ge2h-1\). With no heavy row, the reduction is (iii). This proves thm:one-heavy-row. For \(l=1\), step 4 is simply this: \(Z_{c_H}(N)\) is spanned by functions with vanishing marginals that avoid some column, which holds once \(N\ge2h+1\). The threshold \(N\ge2|c|-1\) enters twice, as \(N-l\ge2h-1\) in (H) and as \(N-2h\ge2l-1\) on the boards. Both are exactly the conjectured threshold.

Checks

chessboard_link.py (check.json) computes, exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\), all Koszul homology of the row sums in content \((1^k)\) for \(k\le4\), \(k\le N\le7\). It compares them with the reduced homology of \(\Delta_{k,N}\), computed separately with simplicial signs. All 22 pairs agree in every degree, including the nonzero cases below the threshold: \((k,N)=(2,2),(3,3),(3,4),(4,4),(4,5),(4,6)\), with \(H_1\) of dimension 1, 4, 2, 15, 20, 5. \(\Delta_{3,4}\) is the torus. For the light contents \((2),(2,1),(2,2),(2,1,1)\), \(H_{\ge1}\) vanishes at \(N\ge2|c|-1\) and is bounded by the multilinear value below it. There were no failures.
n9.json reruns tensor_power.py at \((N,d)=(9,2)\). Freeness holds through exactly 5, as the theorem and prop:line-necessity predict, with \(\mathrm{HF}=217\) against a predicted 135 in degree 6. That covers the mixed heavy contents \((4,1)\) and \((3,2)\).

What remains

Pure heavy contents with two or more rows. The first is \((3,3)\), which needs \(N\ge11\). No light row is left to carry the chessboard argument, and the retract of (ii) is not available. One possible route peels one heavy row by Clebsch–Gordan, as in the one-heavy-row case. Then \(\tilde A/r_1\) over the other heavy rows is needed, as a module whose freeness is what (H) asks for.
For the goal, stability is needed at logarithmic \(D\), so heavy contents with many heavy rows matter. The case \(D\le5\) proved here is a check of the mechanism, not a use.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the degree-two entry and prop:tensor-power-degree-two; prop:stability-from-tensor-power (Tor as Koszul \(H_1\) modulo Frobenius classes); prop:line-necessity (the Clebsch–Gordan freeness of \(J_2^{\otimes n}\)); lem:zero-marginal-chessboard-cycles and the record's star-cover proof; Church–Ellenberg, the regularity theorem, the kernel-generation corollary, Lemma 2.3, Definition 2.1 and footnote 3, from the arXiv version. The claim searches for chessboard, Koszul and polarization found no earlier result on this module. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed (i) with its sign twist and degrees, the retract and its coefficient, step 1 and the stability of \(E_{1,0}\), the duality in step 2, the freeness of the \(B_\gamma\), the injectivity behind \(H_i(Z)\cong H_{i+2}(Q')\), the arithmetic of step 4 including \(q=-1\), and the count behind the corollary. Its own scripts recomputed the six nonzero chessboard values over \(\mathbb F_3\). They also found \(H_0(Z_h)\ne0\) in degree exactly \(2h\) for \(h=2,3\), so the generation bound is attained. It required these changes, all adopted:

the alternating Čech differential stated in the port of the star cover;
in step 2, the identification with Koszul \(H_1\) placed before the retract;
a sentence on FI-modules over \(\mathbb F_3\) in Church–Ellenberg's setting;
the induction for \(g_j\) written out, since the cover is not minimal;
the case \(l=0\) stated;
the import statement made consistent, the status line shortened, and the relation to lem:zero-marginal-chessboard-cycles stated.

The changes clarify or fill small gaps without adding claims, so no further pass was made.

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Tensor-power freeness: peeling one row at a time proves the column tensor power conjecture at p = 3, and with it linear base stability

24 September 2026 · Working proof (tensor-power freeness), with an imported FI-module bound · Settles conj:column-tensor-power-freeness; cycle odd-prime-pure-heavy. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Tensor-power freeness: peeling one row at a time proves the column tensor power conjecture at p = 3, and with it linear base stability”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-tensor-power-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The chessboard-link entry reduced conj:column-tensor-power-freeness to its pure heavy contents, those with every nonzero entry at least 3, and proved the case of one heavy row. The first open content was \((3,3)\) at \(N\ge11\). The missing implication is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) vanishing for contents with several heavy rows.

General statement. thm:tensor-power-freeness: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\tilde A=\mathbb F_3[x_{bj}]/(x_{bj}x_{b'j})\) on \(d\) rows and \(N\) columns be a module over \(u(W)=\mathbb F_3[R_1,\dots,R_d]/(R_b^3)\) through its row sums, graded by row content \(c\). For every \(d\), every content \(c\), and every \(i\ge1\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_i^{u(W)}(\mathbb F_3,\tilde A)_c=0\) whenever \(N\ge2|c|-i\). At \(i=1\), \(\tilde A\) is cover-free through \(t\) whenever \(N\ge2t-1\). With prop:line-necessity, this proves conj:column-tensor-power-freeness: cover-free through \(t\) if and only if \(N\ge2t-1\), for every \(d\). It has three consequences:

By prop:stability-from-tensor-power, the \(p=3\) case of conj:weak-base-stability holds. The homogenized weak unary base on \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D-1\) columns has no falls below \(D\), that is, it is \(z\)-injective below \(D\).
By prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums, the weak algebra without row sums is free through \(t\) over any \(d\le m\) forms with injective column maps if and only if \(N\ge2t-1\). A summand on \(N-s\) columns, shifted by \(s\), needs \(N-s\ge2(t-s)-1\), which \(N\ge2t-1\) implies. The summand \(s=0\) gives the "only if".
It supersedes thm:one-heavy-row, and makes the hypothesis of thm:heavy-core-reduction, which is an implication, always true.

The previous cycle's attempt stalled because it used \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) alone. The whole family of higher Tor groups is what makes the induction close.

Proof

Induction on the number \(m\) of rows in the support of \(c\), for all \(d\), \(N\), \(i\ge1\) at once. If \(m=0\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_i(\mathbb F,\tilde A)_0=\operatorname{Tor}_i(\mathbb F,\mathbb F)_0=0\). Otherwise let row 1 have \(h=c_1\ge1\), write \(c=(h,c')\), and let \(W'\) be the span of the other rows, so \(u(W)=u(r_1)\otimes u(W')\). Two degree facts are used throughout:

(D) The minimal resolution of \(\mathbb F\) over \(u(W')\) has its \(a\)-th generators in contents \(e\) with \(|e|\ge a\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}_a^{u(W')}(\mathbb F,X)_{c'}\) is a subquotient of \(\bigoplus_{|e|\ge a}X_{c'-e}\). It vanishes when \(X\) vanishes in all contents \(c''\le c'\) with \(|c''|\le|c'|-a\), and in particular when \(a>|c'|\) and \(X\) is in nonnegative contents.
(CG) By the graded Clebsch–Gordan rule of prop:line-necessity, \(J_2^{\otimes n}\) over \(\mathbb F_3[r]/(r^3)\) is free plus \(J_1(-n/2)\) for even \(n\), or free plus \(J_2(-(n-1)/2)\) for odd \(n\). The minimal resolutions of \(J_1\) and \(J_2\) have generators in degrees \(\lfloor3b/2\rfloor\) and \(\lceil3b/2\rceil\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}_b(J_2^{\otimes n})\) sits in the single degree \(n/2+\lfloor3b/2\rfloor\) or \((n-1)/2+\lceil3b/2\rceil\), which is at least \(h+b-\tfrac12\) once \(n\ge2h-b\). Hence \(\operatorname{Tor}_b(J_2^{\otimes n})_h=0\) for \(b\ge1\) and \(n\ge2h-b\).

The content-graded spectral sequence \(E^2_{a,b}=\operatorname{Tor}_a^{u(W')}(\mathbb F,\operatorname{Tor}_b^{u(r_1)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A))\Rightarrow\operatorname{Tor}_{a+b}^{u(W)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A)\) shows that \(\operatorname{Tor}_i\) vanishes in content \(c\) once every \(E^2_{a,b}\) with \(a+b=i\) does.

Terms with \(b\ge1\). In content \((\cdot,c'')\), \(\tilde A\) is \(\bigoplus_{P''}J_2^{\otimes([N]\setminus\operatorname{cols}P'')}\) as a \(u(r_1)\)-module, over the placements \(P''\) of \(c''\). By (D) only \(|c''|\le|c'|-a\) matters, where \(n=N-|c''|\ge N-|c'|+a\ge2h+|c'|-i+a=2h+|c'|-b\ge2h-b\). By (CG), \(E^2_{a,b}=0\) in content \(c\).
The term \(b=0\). \(E^2_{i,0}=\operatorname{Tor}_i^{u(W')}(\mathbb F,Y)_{c'}\) with \(Y=(\tilde A/r_1\tilde A)_{(h,\cdot)}\). As in the chessboard-link entry, \(Y=\bigoplus_{P'}Q_h([N]\setminus\operatorname{cols}P')\), with \(Q_h(S)=B_h(S)/rB_{h-1}(S)\). The row sum \(r_b\), for \(b\ge2\), adds a row-\(b\) cell at a free column \(j\) and applies the restriction \(\rho_j\). Call this construction \(\mathfrak B(Q)\) for any presheaf \(Q\) on the subsets of \([N]\), that is, with commuting restrictions \(\rho_j\rho_{j'}=\rho_{j'}\rho_j\). Commuting restrictions make the \(r_b\) commute. \(r_b^3=0\), because each unordered triple of columns occurs \(3!\equiv0\) times. So \(\mathfrak B(Q)\) is a \(u(W')\)-module, and \(\mathfrak B\) is exact in \(Q\). \(Q_h\) is such a presheaf, since \(\rho_j\) preserves \(rB_{h-1}\). For the dual of a free FI-module, \(Q=M(V)^*\) with \(Q(S)=\bigoplus_{K\subseteq S}V_K^*\) and \(\rho_j\) the projection onto the summands with \(j\notin K\). Then \(\mathfrak B(M(V)^*)=\bigoplus_KV_K^*\otimes\tilde A_{[N]\setminus K}(W')\), a sum of weak algebras on the other rows and \(N-|K|\) columns.
A coresolution. \(Q_h=Z_h^*\) with \(Z_h=\ker(\partial:B_h\to B_{h-1})\). The FI-module steps of the chessboard-link entry never use heaviness, so they apply to \(Z_h\) for every \(h\ge1\). They consist of the kernel-generation corollary with generation degrees \(h-1\) and \(h\), the bound \(\deg H_1(Q')\le h\) because the image of \(\partial\) is a quotient of \(B_h\), the regularity theorem applied to \(Q'\), and the induction for a non-minimal cover. So \(Z_h\) has a resolution \(F_\bullet\to Z_h\) by free FI-modules \(F_s=M(V_s)\), with \(V_s\) in degrees \(\le2h+s\). The \(\rho_j\) on \(Q_h\) are dual to extension by zero on \(Z_h\), so the dualized resolution consists of maps of presheaves. Dualizing at each subset of \([N]\) and applying \(\mathfrak B\) gives an exact sequence \(0\to Y\to X^0\to X^1\to\cdots\) with \(X^s=\bigoplus_{|K|\le2h+s}V_{s,K}^*\otimes\tilde A_{[N]\setminus K}(W')\).
Dimension shifting. With \(Y^0=Y\) and \(0\to Y^s\to X^s\to Y^{s+1}\to0\), the long exact sequences give \(\operatorname{Tor}_{k+1}(Y^{s+1})\to\operatorname{Tor}_k(Y^s)\to\operatorname{Tor}_k(X^s)\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}_i(Y)_{c'}=0\) if \(\operatorname{Tor}_{i+s}^{u(W')}(\mathbb F,X^s)_{c'}=0\) for all \(s\ge0\). The chain stops once \(i+s>|c'|\), by (D). Each summand of \(X^s\) is a weak algebra on \(m-1\) support rows and \(n=N-|K|\ge N-2h-s\ge2|c'|-(i+s)\) columns. The induction hypothesis at index \(i+s\) makes its \(\operatorname{Tor}_{i+s}\) vanish in content \(c'\). \(\square\)

The chessboard-link entry's route by chessboard homology is not needed here. In content \((1^k)\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_i^{u(W)}\) equals Koszul \(H_i\), because the resolution generators of row-degree \(\ge2\) do not occur in contents \(\le(1^k)\). So, through the chessboard-link entry's part (i), the multilinear case gives \(\widetilde H^{k-i-1}(\Delta_{k,N};\mathbb F_3)=0\) for \(N\ge2k-i\), consistent with the chessboard bound.

Check

tor_contents.py (tor.json) computes \(\dim\operatorname{Tor}_i^{u(W)}(\mathbb F_3,\tilde A)_c\) directly for \(i\le3\). It uses the complex of the tensor product of periodic resolutions, with exact ranks from the new OpenMP kernel research/tools/rank_modp.cpp, which matched the Python reference on 40 random matrices.

Validation. All 111 rows agree:
- for \(d=1\), \(N\le7\), \(i\le3\), the exact Clebsch–Gordan prediction, including its 11 nonzero values;
- for content \((1,1,1)\), the chessboard values of the chessboard-link check.
Test. Contents \((3,1)\), \((3,2)\), \((4,1)\), \((3,1,1)\) and \((3,3)\) near their thresholds, the last for \(7\le N\le11\): 75 values in all, 33 of them claimed zero. All 33 are zero, including \((3,3)\) at \(N=11\) for \(i=1,2,3\).
Sharpness at \(i=1\). In each of these contents \(\dim\operatorname{Tor}_1=1\) at \(N=2|c|-2\). For \(i\ge2\) the bound \(N\ge2|c|-i\) is not sharp in these data: the values are already zero one column lower.

What this means for the route

Base stability (a) is linear at \(p=3\): no falls below \(D\) when \(N\ge2D-1\), against the quadratic range \(N\ge2D^2\) of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. The goal's logarithmic degree was already inside the quadratic range, so for (a) the gain is the constant, not a new case.
Freeness over up to \(m\) generic forms holds at the same threshold.
Not covered:
- odd primes \(p\ge5\), where (CG) and the resolution degrees change;
- more forms than rows, \(d>m\);
- row sums together with further forms;
- the ENS blocks and adversarial forms named in the tensor-power review.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the chessboard-link entry (the FI-module steps and the coresolution data), prop:line-necessity (the graded Clebsch–Gordan rule), prop:stability-from-tensor-power, prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums, conj:weak-base-stability (stated over \(\mathbb F_p\), so only its \(p=3\) case follows), and Church–Ellenberg's statements as recorded there. Claim searches for FI-module regularity and for higher Tor of the row sums found only this line's own entries. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

(CG), including \(n=0\), and the arithmetic of the \(b\ge1\) terms;
the decomposition of \(\mathfrak B(M(V)^*)\) and the exactness of the coresolution;
the degree bound on \(V_s\), the direction and termination of the dimension shifting, and the column bound;
the base case and the induction on support size.

Its own independent code reproduced recorded values. It found zero at 11 further points at or above the threshold, among them \((3,2,1)\) at \(N=11\), \(i=1\), and \((3,3,3)\) at \(N=12\), \(i=6\). It also found \(\dim\operatorname{Tor}_1=1\) for \((3,2,1)\) at \(N=10\). Those values are from its report, not from a result file. It found no gap in the argument, and required these changes, all adopted:

(D) restated as a vanishing criterion;
the presheaf condition and the module check for \(\mathfrak B\);
the FI-module steps stated for every \(h\ge1\);
the Koszul identification in multilinear contents;
the wording of the consequences, the summands of the generic-forms corollary, and the "no falls" wording of the stability corollary.

The changes restate or justify without adding claims, so no further pass was made.

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Generic forms: grouped row sums show that the top algebra is free over m(⌊N/(2t−1)⌋−1) generic forms, so the one-count link's freeness hypothesis holds on a nonempty open set of inventories

24 September 2026 · Working proof (row-sum absorption; general-forms freeness) · Generic forms, p = 3; cycle odd-prime-kernel-forms. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Generic forms: grouped row sums show that the top algebra is free over m(⌊N/(2t−1)⌋−1) generic forms, so the one-count link's freeness hypothesis holds on a nonempty open set of inventories”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-general-forms-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The tensor-power freeness entry covers up to \(m\) forms with injective column maps. prop:one-count-by-freeness needs the weak top algebra to be free through \(D\) over about \(nh\) forms, together with the row sums. So the forms outnumber the rows, and their column maps have kernels. The proposed next step was a threshold for \(d>m\) forms. The record already treats the naive version. The criterion "every direction meets at least \(2t-1\) columns" is necessary, by the restriction lemma of prop:line-necessity. It is not sufficient in special position: ex:pencil-worst-direction finds exceptions for two forms in the column model, and ex:truncated-dade-special-position finds one for a general column tensor. So this cycle asks what holds for forms in general position, and how many there can be.

General statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\tilde A\) be the weak algebra without row sums on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns, \(R\) the span of its row sums, and \(A=\tilde A/R\tilde A\) the weak top algebra. Let \(g=\lfloor N/(2t-1)\rfloor\). The all-parameter statements are lem:row-sum-absorption and thm:general-forms-freeness.

lem:row-sum-absorption. Let \(N\ge2t-1\), and let \(G\) be linear forms independent modulo \(R\). Then \(\operatorname{Tor}_i^{u(R\oplus G)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A)\cong\operatorname{Tor}_i^{u(G)}(\mathbb F,A)\) in degrees \(\le t\), for all \(i\). So \(\tilde A\) is free through \(t\) over the row sums together with \(G\) exactly when \(A\) is free through \(t\) over \(G\).
thm:general-forms-freeness. Let \(g\ge1\). For every \(d\le mg\), the \(d\)-tuples of forms over which \(\tilde A\) is free through \(t\) form a nonempty Zariski-open set of the space of \(d\)-tuples over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\). The set is defined over \(\mathbb F_3\) and has \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points, among them the grouped row sums. For every \(e\le m(g-1)\), the same holds for the \(e\)-tuples \(G\) over which \(A\) is free through \(t\). That condition depends only on the classes of \(G\) modulo \(R\), and it forces those classes to be independent. So freeness holds for generic forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\).

For prop:one-count-by-freeness, take the stability range \(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D-1\), where thm:tensor-power-freeness gives base stability at \(p=3\). Its freeness hypothesis is then satisfied by a nonempty Zariski-open set of inventories, generic over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) and with \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational members, whenever \(1\le nh\le m(\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor-1)\). The lower bound on \(nh\) forces \(g\ge2\), so \(N\ge2D-1\) holds automatically, but \(m\ge D\) is an assumption. The same open set also gives the independence of the \(nh\) forms. It does not say that a given \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational inventory lies in it. Remark: with \(m=N+1\) and \(N\ge2(2D-1)\), the count is of order \(N^2/(2D-1)\), against about \(N/(2(D+1))\) for the seed methods.

Row-sum absorption

Proof. \(u(R\oplus G)=u(R)\otimes u(G)\), so there is a spectral sequence \(E^2_{a,b}=\operatorname{Tor}_a^{u(G)}(\mathbb F,\operatorname{Tor}_b^{u(R)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A))\Rightarrow\operatorname{Tor}_{a+b}^{u(R\oplus G)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A)\). By thm:tensor-power-freeness, \(\operatorname{Tor}_b^{u(R)}(\mathbb F,\tilde A)\) vanishes in every degree \(k\) with \(N\ge2k-b\). That includes every \(k\le t\) when \(b\ge1\), since \(N\ge2t-1\). \(\operatorname{Tor}_a^{u(G)}(\mathbb F,X)\) in degree \(k\) is a subquotient of \(X\) in degrees \(\le k-a\). So in degrees \(\le t\) only the row \(b=0\) survives, where \(E^2_{a,0}=\operatorname{Tor}_a^{u(G)}(\mathbb F,A)\). No differential reaches or leaves it in those degrees. \(\square\)

General-forms freeness

Grouped row sums. Split \([N]\) into \(g\) groups of at least \(2t-1\) columns. Let \(W_{\mathrm{grp}}\) be spanned by the \(mg\) forms \(\ell_{b,G}=\sum_{j\in G}x_{bj}\). Then \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_G\tilde A(G)\) and \(u(W_{\mathrm{grp}})=\bigotimes_Gu(W_G)\), with each factor acting on its own group. By the Künneth formula over a field, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of the product is \(\bigoplus_G\operatorname{Tor}_1(\tilde A(G))\otimes\bigotimes_{G'\ne G}\operatorname{Tor}_0(\tilde A(G'))\). The \(\operatorname{Tor}_0\) factors start in degree 0. So the product is free through \(t\) if and only if each factor is, which thm:tensor-power-freeness gives for \(|G|\ge2t-1\).
Sub-spans. \(u(W)\) is free over \(u(W_0)\) for \(W_0\subseteq W\). So freeness through \(t\) over \(u(W)\) restricts to \(u(W_0)\), by the argument of the restriction lemma of prop:line-necessity, with \(W_0\) in place of a line. Hence \(\tilde A\) is free through \(t\) over every sub-span of \(W_{\mathrm{grp}}\), of any dimension \(d\le mg\).
Top algebra. \(R\subseteq W_{\mathrm{grp}}\), since \(r_b=\sum_G\ell_{b,G}\). Take a complement \(G_0\) of \(R\) in \(W_{\mathrm{grp}}\), of dimension \(m(g-1)\), and any \(G_1\subseteq G_0\). \(\tilde A\) is free over \(R\oplus G_1\) by step 2, so \(A\) is free over \(G_1\) by lem:row-sum-absorption.
Openness. Fix the number of forms. By the openness lemma of thm:projection-freeness, freeness through \(t\) is the equality \(\mathrm{HF}(M/(\text{forms})M)_k=\mathrm{pred}_k:=[q^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_M/(1+q+q^2)^{\#\text{forms}}\) for \(k\le t\). It is also the inequality \(\le\). The minimal cover is onto, with kernel \(K\), so \(\mathrm{HF}(M/(\text{forms})M)_k=\mathrm{pred}_k+[q^k]\,\mathrm{HS}_K/\mathrm{HS}_T\). At the lowest degree \(s\) of \(K\) this exceeds \(\mathrm{pred}_s\) by \(\dim K_s>0\), so "\(\le\) through \(t\)" already forces \(K\) to start above \(t\). The Hilbert function of the quotient is upper semicontinuous in the forms' coefficients, because it is a corank of a matrix linear in them. So the tuples satisfying it form a Zariski-open set defined over \(\mathbb F_3\), and steps 2 and 3 show it is nonempty. For \(A\), the tuples are \(e\)-tuples \(G\) with \(\tilde A\) free over \(R\oplus G\). A tuple dependent modulo \(R\) fails already in degree 1, so the open set consists of independent tuples, where absorption applies. \(\square\)

Limits. The line argument of prop:line-necessity gives a necessary condition, stated here as an observation. Each kernel of a column map has codimension \(\le m\). So for every tuple, and exactly for general ones, some direction lies in the kernels of \(s\) column maps once \(d-sm\ge1\). Restricted to that direction, \(\tilde A\) has only \(N-s\) columns of type \(J_2\). So freeness through \(t\) needs \(N-\lfloor(d-1)/m\rfloor\ge2t-1\), that is, roughly \(d\le m(N-2t+2)\). The theorem's count is smaller by a factor of about \(2t-1\). Positivity of the prediction gives a second bound, and the two bounds are compared in the check below. The theorem reaches \(m\lfloor N/(2t-1)\rfloor\). How close that is to the positivity bound for large \(N\) is not established here. General position is a statement over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\). The inventory's forms are \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational, and uniformly random \(\mathbb F_3\) forms are not known to avoid the closed set.

Check

forms_freeness.py (forms.json) computes \(\mathrm{HF}(\tilde A/(\text{forms}))\) exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\) with the rank kernel research/tools/rank_modp.cpp.

Grouped row sums: 7 configurations, \((m,N,t)\in\{(1,6,2),(2,6,2),(3,6,2),(1,10,3),(2,10,3),(1,9,2),(2,9,2)\}\) with \(d=mg\). All are free through \(t\), with the Hilbert function equal to the prediction.
Seeded random \(\mathbb F_3\) forms on \(\tilde A\), for the \(d\le mg\) statement, with one draw per \(d\), for comparison. The largest free \(d\) found was 6, 9, 11, 5, 2 and 8, against theorem values 4, 6, 6, 2, 2, 4 and positivity bounds 6, 10, 11, 7, 4, 8, at \((m,N,t)=(2,6,2),(3,6,2),(2,9,2),(2,9,3),(1,10,3),(2,10,3)\). Random forms usually go beyond the theorem, reaching the positivity bound in 3 of 6 cases. This is consistent with conj:maximal-generic-freeness but does not test it, since one draw per \(d\) is not a Zariski-general point.

What remains for the one-count problem

Generic forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) versus random \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms. A probabilistic version for random \(\mathbb F_3\) inventories is needed, or a structural reason why the inventory's forms avoid the closed set.
The ENS blocks of the compiler as members in their input forms, which is still unverified.
Adversarial inventories, which are not in general position.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: prop:one-count-by-freeness and its entry (the weak top algebra and the freeness hypothesis over the joint span), thm:tensor-power-freeness, prop:line-necessity (its restriction lemma), the openness lemma of thm:projection-freeness, conj:maximal-generic-freeness, ex:pencil-worst-direction, ex:truncated-dade-special-position and ex:worst-direction-tests. The claim searches for code distance, worst direction and Dade found those records. They show that the distance criterion is not sufficient in special position, so this entry claims only a nonempty open set. The weak top algebra is \(\tilde A/(r_1,\dots,r_m)\), as defined in the weak-base stability entry. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the absorption, including the translation from content to total degree and the vanishing differentials;
the Künneth "iff", with a larger last group allowed;
the restriction to sub-spans;
the direction of semicontinuity, and the degree-1 failure of dependent tuples;
the table values.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the step from equality to the open inequality;
the theorem restated as a nonempty open set rather than a count for "general position", with the title matched;
the stability-range hypothesis and the independence stated for the one-count link;
the order-\(N^2\) count made a remark with its conditions;
"matching" dropped from the limits, with the necessary condition stated for every tuple;
the attributions in the question corrected, and the random comparison said to concern \(\tilde A\).

The changes weaken or justify, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 50.49 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 48.58 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 49.10 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	6 min 11.68 s
Individually measured computation	0.99 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Route review: the freeness side of the one-count link is settled for generic forms; the open core is whether an ENS block's degree-D shadow is a member

24 September 2026 · Route review · The (b), (c) and one-count line after the tensor-power review; cycle odd-prime-freeness-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the freeness side of the one-count link is settled for generic forms; the open core is whether an ENS block's degree-D shadow is a member”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-freeness-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Five research entries have followed the tensor-power review, and two conjectures were settled at \(p=3\). This review states the line's claim and what the goal needs, tries to falsify the newest result, assesses the line, and names the highest-risk item.

General statement. The line's general claim is that the one-count problem of the restriction-mixture line has a degree-\(D\) PC design, for the weak base plus \(n\) random blocks with \(h\) input forms each. prop:one-count-by-freeness reduces this to three hypotheses: stability of the base, blocks that are satisfiable members in their input forms, and freeness of the weak top algebra over the joint span of the \(nh\) forms. The freeness hypothesis now holds on a nonempty open set of inventories, and base stability now holds at the linear threshold. The member hypothesis is untouched.

What happened since the last review

Stability from tensor powers: cover-freeness of the column tensor power through \(D\) is what the base's stability proof uses (stability link).
The tensor-power conjecture was proved in three steps.
- Degree 2 (degree two).
- Contents with every entry below \(p\), through the chessboard complex, and every content with at most one heavy row (chessboard link).
- All contents, by peeling rows with an FI-module coresolution (tensor-power freeness). With it, \(p=3\) base stability holds at \(N\ge2D-1\).
The row sums absorb into the top algebra. Grouped row sums give freeness through \(t\) on a nonempty open set of up to \(m(\lfloor N/(2t-1)\rfloor-1)\) forms (generic forms). With \(m=N+1\) and \(D=11\), that is about \(N^2/21\) forms. The one-count problem needs about \(N^2/(4.4\times10^7)\), under the one-count entry's assumptions \(n\approx N\) and \(L\) of order \(N\). So the count is no longer the obstruction.

What the goal needs from this line

Blocks as members. The compiler's blocks are ENS blocks. Their companions \(g_iP\), with \(P=\prod_\ell(1-\sum_ir_{i\ell}g_i)\), use fresh coefficient variables with field equations. Semantically such a block constrains its inputs not at all: if some \(g_i(x)\ne0\), a choice of \(r\) makes \(P=0\). What it contributes is proof power: its degree-\(D\) shadow, the polynomials in \(x\) that PC derives with it at degree \(D\) beyond the base. prop:one-count-by-freeness needs each shadow to be a satisfiable member in the block's input forms, and the shadows of \(n\) blocks to act as the union of these members. The record refutes fresh-block conservativity in every exact form (refutation, completeness). So shadows are nontrivial, and any statement about them must use the number of blocks, since exponentially many blocks refute PHP.
Rational forms. The freeness result covers a nonempty open set. The inventory's forms are fixed \(\mathbb F_3\) forms from random blocks.
The rest of the reduction. The top-size lemma's typicality, and the assumptions \(n\approx N\) and \(L\) of order \(N\). Also \(p\ge5\), where the Clebsch–Gordan input changes.

Falsification attempt

thm:general-forms-freeness is weakest where it meets the actual inventory, which consists of \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms rather than generic ones. random_within_count.py (random_within_count.json) drew uniformly random \(\mathbb F_3\) tuples \(G\) at the theorem's largest count \(e=m(\lfloor N/(2t-1)\rfloor-1)\). It tested the top algebra's freeness through \(t\), that is, \(\tilde A\) over the row sums plus \(G\).

Sizes: \((m,N,t,e)=(3,6,2,3),(4,6,2,4),(2,9,2,4),(3,9,2,6),(2,10,3,2),(3,10,3,3)\), with 40, 40, 40, 30, 30 and 20 draws.
Free: 198 of 200. The 2 failures, both at \((3,6,2,3)\), are exactly the draws where some rational direction meets fewer than \(2t-1\) columns. prop:line-necessity forces non-freeness there.
No draw satisfied that line condition and still failed.

So, at these sizes, the rational gap is the line condition and nothing more. The line condition asks that no nonzero \(\gamma\in G\) has \(N-2t+2\) or more of its column vectors equal to one \(r\in\mathbb F_3^m\). For random forms it fails with probability at most \(3^{m+e}\Pr[\mathrm{Bin}(N,3^{-m})\ge N-2t+2]\), which vanishes as \(N\) grows. The test did not falsify the line. It does not reach the special-position failures of ex:truncated-dade-special-position or ex:pencil-worst-direction, which lie outside the count.

Assessment of this line

The algebraic side of the line is in good shape at \(p=3\), and the evidence for that is proofs, not data. Base stability is linear. The column tensor powers are free at the sharp threshold with all higher Tor. The row sums absorb. Freeness over order \(N^2/D\) generic forms holds on a nonempty open set, and at small sizes random \(\mathbb F_3\) forms fail only through the line condition. What these results do not touch is item 1, the question the line depends on. There the record's evidence points the other way: conservativity fails in exact forms, and the loss comes from PC reuse (NS test). The freeness results make the rest of the chain ready to use once members are available. They give no evidence that members are available. Item 1 is therefore the highest-risk item, and the line should not produce further freeness refinements until it is tested.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer: the shadow of one ENS block. Take the weak base on a small board plus one complete accuracy-one ENS block with random input forms. Compute, with the exact \(\mathbb F_3\) PC-closure tester, its degree-\(D\) shadow in \(x\) beyond the base's own degree-\(D\) closure. Decide whether the shadow is generated by polynomials in the block's input forms, that is, whether it is a member. Then do the same for two blocks on independent inputs, and ask whether the joint shadow is the sum of the single shadows. Reuse is exactly the failure of that additivity. A statement that survives must depend on the number of blocks, since exponentially many blocks refute PHP. Use the recorded conservativity refutations as controls.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the five entries since the tensor-power review and their claims, prop:one-count-by-freeness and its size paragraph, the ENS companion formula of the shared-support endpoint, the recorded example of active torsion in an ENS block, and the conservativity refutations named above. The falsification values are read from random_within_count.json. No new claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

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ENS members: a family of ENS blocks with independent free input forms is a member with private variables, so it has no refutation below D with no conservativity needed

24 September 2026 · Working proof (ENS members) · The first gap of prop:one-count-by-freeness; cycle odd-prime-ens-shadow. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “ENS members: a family of ENS blocks with independent free input forms is a member with private variables, so it has no refutation below D with no conservativity needed”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-ens-members.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The freeness route review named the highest-risk item of the one-count link: whether the compiler's ENS blocks act as members in their input forms. It proposed computing one block's degree-\(D\) shadow and testing whether the shadows of two blocks add.

Why the proposed computation was not run. The record already contains that computation. The conservativity refutation measured shadows over Boolean bases of blocks, and every witness entered the base closure one degree higher. Its accumulate.py ran the only nonvacuous accumulation test, at low power, and its assessment is that accumulation is almost untestable at reachable sizes. On the weak PHP base itself a nonvacuous test needs the base unrefuted at degree 6, so about \(N\ge6\) holes and some \(C(56,6)\approx3\times10^7\) monomials. Repeating it would be a rediscovery. This cycle asks instead whether the member hypothesis needs conservativity at all.

General statement. cor:ens-members: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let the weak unary base have \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D-1\) columns. Take any family of complete accuracy-one ENS blocks. Block \(a\) has affine input forms \(L_{a,i}\), inputs \(q_{a,i}=1-L_{a,i}^2\), private coefficient variables \(r_{a,i}\) with \(r^3=r\), product \(P_a=1-\sum_ir_{a,i}q_{a,i}\), and companions \(q_{a,i}P_a\). As in the compiler and the shared-support endpoint, a complete block consists of exactly its coefficient field equations and its companions. \(P_a\) is not asserted. Suppose two things:

the linear parts of all input forms of all blocks are linearly independent modulo the row sums;
the weak top algebra \(A\) is free through \(D\) over the truncated algebra of their span.

Then the base plus all the blocks is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Where it has content. For \(m\le N\) the weak base is satisfiable, and every block extends every assignment, so there is no refutation at any degree by soundness. The refutation content is at \(m>N\), together with the \(z\)-injectivity. For \(D\le4\), companions of degree 5 cannot be used.
What it closes. The corollary removes the first gap of prop:one-count-by-freeness, ENS blocks versus members, under exactly that proposition's own hypotheses.
Where the hypotheses hold. By thm:general-forms-freeness, they hold on a nonempty Zariski-open set over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) of families with at most \(m(\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor-1)\) input forms, and the corollary applies at its \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points. Whether a given random \(\mathbb F_3\) inventory lies in that set stays open.

Relation to substitution. lem:ternary-first-active-selector-substitution already turns a degree-\(D\) refutation with blocks of at most \(h\) inputs into a refutation of the base alone at degree \(2(h-1)D\), for any number of blocks. So blocks with few inputs, \(2(h-1)D\) below the base's own refutation degree, need nothing new. This makes sense for \(m>N\), where the base has a refutation degree. The corollary is independent of \(h\). It needs only independence and freeness. The count \(m(\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor-1)\) is where freeness is known generically. Its use is for blocks with many inputs.

Proof

Let the base \(\Gamma'\) be the weak base together with every coefficient variable \(r\) and its field equation \(r^3-r\). Treat the whole family as one member \(U\). Its constraints are the companions, which are polynomials over \(\mathbb F_3\) in the forms \(\ell\), the linear parts of the \(L\), and in the variables \(r\). Unreduced they have degree 5, which is at most \(D\) for \(D\ge5\). Span transfer needs reduced constraints, so replace each companion by its reduction modulo \(y^3-y\): \(L^4\) becomes \(L^2\). By the seeded-member theorem's remark that reduction is free at degree \(D\), the difference is a multiple of the homogenized field equations within degree \(D\). So the original and the reduced systems have the same degree-\(D\) closure.

Base stability. The supplied generators of \(\Gamma'\) lie in disjoint sets of variables: the weak base's in \(x\), the field equations in \(r\). So the quotient by their homogenizations is \(B'=B\otimes_{\mathbb F[z]}\mathbb F[z][r]/(r^3-rz^2)\). The second factor is free over \(\mathbb F[z]\), with basis the monomials of degree \(\le2\) in each \(r\). So \(B'\) is a direct sum of shifted copies of \(B\). \(B\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) by thm:tensor-power-freeness, through prop:stability-from-tensor-power, since \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D-1\). Each copy is shifted up, so \(B'\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\). That is hypothesis (a) of thm:relative-gluing.
Freeness over the joint span. The top algebra of \(\Gamma'\) is \(A'=A\otimes\mathbb F[r]/(r^3)\). By the freeness hypothesis, \(A\) decomposes as \((T'\otimes C)\oplus Q'\), with \(T'\) the truncated algebra on the forms and \(Q'\) in degrees \(\ge D+1\). Tensoring with \(\mathbb F[r]/(r^3)\) gives \(A'\cong(T''\otimes C)\oplus Q''\), with \(T''=T'\otimes\mathbb F[r]/(r^3)\) the truncated algebra on the forms and the \(r\) together, and \(Q''=Q'\otimes\mathbb F[r]/(r^3)\) still in degrees \(\ge D+1\). Span transfer uses only degrees \(\le D\), as thm:generic-span-members states, so this decomposition is what it needs.
Span transfer. lem:span-transfer uses no property of its forms beyond \(\mathbb F_p\) coefficients and this decomposition. Its one base-specific step is that \(\phi(y^p-yz^{p-1})\) lies in the homogenized field ideal. For a form \(\ell\) this holds by Booleanity. For a private variable \(r\) the image is \(r^3-rz^2\), a generator of \(\Gamma'\). So the lemma applies with \(r\) among the forms.
Allowed set and augmentation. Relative gluing is stated for any homogenized base algebra, so it applies to \(\Gamma'\). Put \(y\) for the variables of the forms and \(s\) for those of the \(r\). The allowed set of \(U\) in \(\mathbb F_3^{\#y+\#s}\) is nonempty. The blocks have disjoint variables, and each block is satisfied at every value of its \(y\): if some \(q_{a,i}=1\), put \(s_{a,i}=1\) and the other coefficients 0, so \(P_a=0\); if every \(q_{a,i}=0\), every companion vanishes. Add \(h(y,s)\) for \(h\) in a reduced degree-order Gröbner basis of the companions together with \(y^3-y\) and \(s^3-s\), as in thm:seeded-member-condition. The augmented member has no fall below \(D\) in its span ring. The allowed set is nonempty, so no augmented constraint is a nonzero constant. A nonconstant \(h(y,s)\) stays nonconstant in \(x\) and \(r\): its top is nonzero, because \(T''\to A'\) is injective in degrees \(\le D\), and the tops step of span transfer holds for \(r\). The base generators \(r^3-r\), the Booleanity and collision generators, and \(\rho_i-1\) are nonconstant too. That is (d). Span transfer then gives (c).
Gluing. The whole family is one member, so every top syzygy of the member is member-supported, and hypothesis (b) holds vacuously, exactly as in cor:joint-span-families and prop:one-count-by-freeness. As in thm:generic-span-members, the augmentation adds the Gröbner basis elements of degree \(\le D\). The freeness used is that of \(A'\) over the span algebra \(T''\), which does not depend on which constraints are added. Relative gluing gives \(z\)-injectivity of \(\Gamma'\) plus the augmented member below \(D\), and no PC refutation of degree \(D\). The reduced system is a subset of the augmented one, and it has the same degree-\(D\) closure as the original. \(\square\)

Why this does not contradict the recorded refutations

Conservativity. The conservativity refutations (ex:ternary-fresh-block-conservativity-refuted, ex:ternary-rank-three-conservativity-refuted) show that a fresh block derives new consequences in the existing variables at degree \(D\). Relative gluing claims only that the combined system has no falls. A consequence that the base alone reaches one degree later is not a fall of the combined system. So the two are compatible.
Completeness. obs:ternary-php-conservativity-completeness-refutation compiles every resolution refutation of PHP into selector blocks with a PC refutation at degree 11. That observation is over the full functional base \(F_N\), not the weak base. Its forms are independent within each block but shared across blocks, so the family is not independent. In any case the number of blocks \(T_N\) is exponential, far above \(\dim A_1=m(N-1)\) and above the known free range \(m(g-1)\). The hypotheses therefore use the size of the inventory, as a lower-bound statement must.

What remains for the one-count problem

Input counts. Independence needs \(nh\le\dim A_1\approx mN\), and the free set reaches \(nh\le m(\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor-1)\). With \(n\approx N\) tuples and \(m=N+1\), that is \(h\lesssim N/(2D-1)\). The window of the one-count problem runs up to \(h\approx Q(L)\approx1.6\times10^4L\Lambda_M\), far above that. So the corollary covers only the lower part of the window. Whether the top-size lemma needs the one-count design at every input count, or only at one it may choose, decides whether that suffices.
Rational forms. The random \(\mathbb F_3\) inventory must lie in the free set. The route review's test found this fails only through the line condition at small sizes.
Randomness. The top-size lemma's reduction to the one-count problem, with its typicality and size assumptions, must deliver independent blocks, as prop:one-count-by-freeness assumes.
Structured inventories. For the goal's unrestricted inventories, dependent forms are the rule. There the members overlap, and hypothesis (b) or a closure argument is needed again.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:span-transfer (statement and proof, including its remark that it uses no property of the forms beyond \(\mathbb F_p\) coefficients and freeness), thm:seeded-member-condition, cor:joint-span-families, prop:one-count-by-freeness, thm:relative-gluing (hypotheses (a) to (d)), the compiler's block definition, and the three conservativity records named above. A fresh-context agent checked the statement against the record before drafting. It found the corollary new: the one-count entry names this step as its first open gap. It also pointed to the substitution lemma, which is now discussed. A fresh-context reviewer then confirmed:

the tensor description of \(B'\) and the transfer of \(z\)-injectivity;
that the three steps of span transfer which might need linear forms in \(x\) still hold for \(r\): the tops step, the injectivity of \(T''\to A'\), and the field-equation step;
that (b) is vacuous with one member, and the needs of the augmentation;
the consistency with the conservativity refutations.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the reduction of the companions and the equality of degree-\(D\) closures;
(d) for nonconstant augmented constraints and for the base generators;
the freeness hypothesis tied to the decomposition;
the overclaim about general position replaced by rational points of the open set;
the trivial range \(m\le N\) stated;
the substitution comparison and the completeness bullet corrected;
the complete constraint list of a block stated.

The changes justify or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Composition with the top-size lemma: a one-count design exists at the lemma's input count for inventories in the free set, but each size's band blocks exceed a glued member's capacity by a factor of order n

24 September 2026 · Working proof (a composition observation) · The restriction-mixture lead after the one-count results; cycle odd-prime-mixture-composition. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Composition with the top-size lemma: a one-count design exists at the lemma's input count for inventories in the free set, but each size's band blocks exceed a glued member's capacity by a factor of order n”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-mixture-composition.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The ENS-members and generic-forms entries remove both gaps of prop:one-count-by-freeness, for independent inventories at \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points of a nonempty open set. The restriction-mixture lead was parked at the top-size lemma, with the one-count problem as its restart condition. This cycle composes the two and asks which input counts the lemma needs and whether the chain reaches them.

General statement. prop:one-count-composition: over \(\mathbb F_3\), at the compiler's degree \(D=11\), on the calibration inventory of obs:restriction-mixture-top-size-reduction (board size \(n\), \(n\) tuples of \(h\) uniform random forms at every \(h\le Q(n)\), \(Q(L)\approx1.6\times10^4L\Lambda_M\)), two things hold.

Existence at the lemma's count. The top-size lemma needs a degree-\(D\) design for the base plus \(B_h\), with \(Q(L_{\max}-1)\le h<Q(L_{\max})\) and \(L_{\max}\) the largest size the mixture uses. Its \(nh\) forms fit the chain's proved range \(m(\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor-1)\approx n^2/21\) exactly when \(L_{\max}\lesssim n/(3.4\times10^5\Lambda_M)\). At the smallest nonvacuous size \(L_{\max}\approx4\times10^{18}\Lambda_M\), that needs \(n\gtrsim1.3\times10^{24}\Lambda_M^2\). For \(L_{\max}\) of order \(n\) it fails, since then \(h\approx1.6\times10^4n\Lambda_M>n/21\). In the range where it fits, cor:ens-members and thm:general-forms-freeness give a design for inventories in the free set. For the random calibration inventory this is conditional on the inventory lying there, and the lemma's reduction itself is conditional on (T). This shows only that the one-count problem, read as bare existence, is unobstructed. The lemma asks for more: a normalized combination of the endpoint pullbacks at sizes in \(I\) that annihilates \(U\). The glued design comes from freeness and is not in that span. Whether the endpoint span contains a design stays open.
Band overflow for glued components. On a residual board of size \(L\), with about \(L+1\) rows and \(L\) columns, the band blocks are the tuples with \(R(L)<h<Q(L)\). Together they carry about \(nQ(L)^2/2\approx1.3\times10^8nL^2\Lambda_M^2\) forms. A single glued member needs independent forms, so it takes at most \(\dim A_1(L)\approx L^2\) of them. The proved range is about \(L^2/21\). So the band exceeds the hard bound by a factor of about \(1.3\times10^8n\Lambda_M^2\), and the proved range by about \(2.7\times10^9n\Lambda_M^2\). Glued designs used as mixture components can therefore handle only a vanishing fraction of a size's band blocks. Mixture components do not handle their band blocks by construction; those are cancelled. The full source is already jointly dependent on the full board, with about \(nQ(n)^2/2\gg n^2\) forms. Item 2 adds the per-size refinement for glued components.

Derivation

Which count the lemma needs. The top-size lemma chooses \(h\) in \([Q(L_{\max}-1),Q(L_{\max}))\). The mixture fixes \(L_{\max}\), and the nonvacuity threshold of the endpoint designs forces \(L_{\max}\ge4\times10^{18}\Lambda_M\). So \(h\ge Q(L_{\max}-1)\approx1.6\times10^4L_{\max}\Lambda_M\ge6.4\times10^{22}\Lambda_M^2\).
Capacity of the chain. The full board has \(m=n+1\) rows and \(N=n\) columns. The free set has \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points for up to \(m(\lfloor n/21\rfloor-1)\approx n^2/21\) forms. The \(nh\) forms of \(n\) random tuples are independent with high probability once \(nh\) is far below \(\dim A_1\approx n^2\). Then \(nh\le n^2/21\) is \(h\le n/21\), giving the bound of item 1. Stability needs \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D-1\), which hold. Whether the random tuples lie in the free set is the rational-forms question left open in the generic-forms entry. The route review's small test found failures only through the line condition.
Band totals. At residual size \(L\), each \(h\) in \((R(L),Q(L))\) carries \(n\) tuples. A tuple's projected rank there is about \(h\), because \(Q(L)\) is far below \(\dim A_1(L)\approx L^2\) for large \(L\). The total is \(\sum_hnh\approx nQ(L)^2/2\). Against \(L^2\) the quotient is \((1.6\times10^4)^2n\Lambda_M^2/2\approx1.3\times10^8n\Lambda_M^2\), and against \(L^2/21\) it is about \(2.7\times10^9n\Lambda_M^2\).

What this means

At the lemma's input count, and in the range of item 1, a design for the base plus \(B_h\) exists for inventories in the free set. That is bare existence. It neither constructs a mixture nor puts a design into the endpoint span the lemma uses.
Glued designs could serve as a new kind of mixture component, one that handles some band blocks. Item 2 shows that each can handle only a vanishing fraction of a size's band.
For many dependent members, cor:ens-members suggests the form such a statement should take: ENS blocks enter as members with private variables. The recorded conjectures cover other members. conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base covers uniform forms and generic clauses, and conj:local-falls covers selector inventories after local reduction, with degree-3 evidence. The statement for ENS members is an analogue that is not recorded. Degree-2 planted data show dependence alone is not fatal: planted families of up to \(\tau_2=1218\) selectors had no falls on a board where \(\gamma_1=\dim A_1=51\) (conj:planted-excess-falls). That compares a selector count with a dimension of forms.

Next: the dependent regime, through satisfiability rather than splitting. The record already locates the pairwise obstruction. For selector members whose spans meet properly, \(0<k<d_1,d_2\), and given freeness over \(W_1+W_2\), prop:overlap-tor gives \(\dim Q_3=k(d_1-k)(d_2-k)\ne0\), so hypothesis (b) fails. For single-clause members with private factors, thm:head-dependencies shows that the extra circuit syzygies lift exactly when their circuits are consistent, and that all are consistent exactly when the head system is solvable. ENS blocks are satisfiable at every point, which suggests, without proof beyond single-clause members, that the corresponding consistency conditions hold. The planted degree-2 data show satisfiable families without falls up to \(\tau_2\), far beyond the free capacity. The concrete target is the no-fall half of conj:planted-excess-falls at degree 2: a satisfiable family of generic selectors has no fall below 2 while \(M\le\tau_2\). Prove it, then ask what replaces the selectors' satisfiability for ENS members at degree \(D\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the top-size lemma entry in full (its choice of \(h\), the nonvacuity threshold, \(Q\), \(R\) and hypothesis (T)), cor:ens-members, thm:general-forms-freeness, prop:one-count-by-freeness and its size paragraph, conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, conj:local-falls, conj:planted-excess-falls, prop:overlap-tor and thm:head-dependencies. The searches for Taylor-count gluing, semi-regularity and cross-member splitting found those conjectures. The dependent regime for ENS members is named as an unrecorded analogue of them, and it is not registered. A fresh-context reviewer checked every number: \(n^2/21\), \(3.4\times10^5\), \(1.3\times10^{24}\), \(6.4\times10^{22}\), \(1.3\times10^8\) and \(2.7\times10^9\). It required these changes, all adopted:

the restart stated as bare existence, conditional on the free set and on (T), and not placed in the endpoint span;
the range of \(L_{\max}\) made exact;
the hard capacity bound \(\dim A_1(L)\) separated from the proved range;
the band claim limited to glued components;
the ENS analogue marked as unrecorded, and the planted comparison stated as selectors against form dimension;
the hypotheses of prop:overlap-tor and the content of thm:head-dependencies stated.

\(\tau_2\) and \(\gamma_1\) were checked against the planted-families entry, and thm:head-dependencies against its record. The changes weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Planted falls at degree 2 proved exactly; ENS members need only a free span, so the capacity limit is the span's dimension, not the number of forms

24 September 2026 · Working proof (planted falls at degree 2; ENS members over a free span) · conj:planted-excess-falls proved in general position; cycle odd-prime-planted-no-fall. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Planted falls at degree 2 proved exactly; ENS members need only a free span, so the capacity limit is the span's dimension, not the number of forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-planted-falls-proof.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The composition entry located the window in the regime of jointly dependent members. It proposed proving the no-fall half of conj:planted-excess-falls, the degree-2 statement that satisfiable selector families have no falls up to the Taylor count, far beyond the free capacity.

General statement. The all-parameter statements are thm:planted-falls-degree-two and cor:ens-span-members.

thm:planted-falls-degree-two, over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the homogenized weak base \(B\) with \(z\) injective \(B_0\to B_1\to B_2\), which holds for \(m\ge2\) and \(N\ge3\) by thm:tensor-power-freeness through prop:stability-from-tensor-power at \(D=2\). Planting needs a matching of the rows, so assume also \(m\le N\). Add \(M\) selectors \(s_t=1-(L_t-v_t)^2\). Then \(\dim\ker(z:B'_1\to B'_2)=\operatorname{rank}\{s_t^{\rm h}\}-\operatorname{rank}\{\ell_t^2\}\), where \(B'\) is the quotient by the \(s_t^{\rm h}\) and \(\ell_t\in A_1\) is the linear part of \(L_t\). For a planted family, with every \(L_t-v_t\) nonzero at the matching \(x^*\), the \(s_t^{\rm h}\) lie in a hyperplane \(H\) of \(B_2\) of dimension \(\tau_2+\gamma_1\), where \(\tau_2=\dim A_2\) and \(\gamma_1=\dim A_1\). Planted selectors span \(H\). In general position, a nonempty Zariski-open condition that has \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points, \(\dim\ker z_1=\min(\gamma_1,\max(0,M-\tau_2))\), and \(z\) is injective on \(B'_0\). This is the planted part of conj:planted-excess-falls, for families in general position. Every value recorded in its check agrees. The conjecture's clause on random-valued families is not proved.
cor:ens-span-members. cor:ens-members holds with its independence hypothesis dropped. Suppose only that the weak top algebra is free through \(D\) over the span \(W\) of the linear parts of all input forms. Then the base plus the ENS blocks has no PC refutation of degree \(D\), however many blocks there are and however their forms depend on each other. The other hypotheses of cor:ens-members stay: \(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D-1\), and \(D\ge5\) for content. The capacity limit is therefore on \(\dim W\), not on the number of forms.

Planted falls at degree 2

The kernel formula. The selectors have degree 2. So \(B'_k=B_k\) for \(k\le1\), and in degree 2 the ideal of the \(s_t^{\rm h}\) is their span \(S\subseteq B_2\).

Degree 0: \(z\) is injective \(B'_0\to B'_1=B_1\), since the base is.
Degree 1: \(f\in B_1\) lies in the kernel of \(z\) exactly when \(zf\in S\). Since \(z:B_1\to B_2\) is injective, \(\ker z_1\cong zB_1\cap S\). This is the kernel of \(S\to B_2/zB_1=A_2\), which maps \(s_t^{\rm h}\) to its top \(-\ell_t^2\). So \(\dim\ker z_1=\dim S-\dim\operatorname{span}\{\ell_t^2\}\).

The hyperplane. Write \(u_t=\ell_t+(c_t-v_t)z\in B_1\), so that \(s_t^{\rm h}=z^2-u_t^2\). Let \(\mathrm{ev}:B\to\mathbb F_3\) be evaluation at \((x^*,1)\). It is a ring homomorphism, since the matching satisfies the base. Planted means \(\mathrm{ev}(u_t)=\pm1\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) that is \(\mathrm{ev}(u_t)\ne0\), but over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) it is the stronger condition. So \(\mathrm{ev}(s_t^{\rm h})=1-1=0\) and every planted selector lies in \(H=\ker\mathrm{ev}|_{B_2}\). Put \(K=\ker\mathrm{ev}|_{B_1}\). Since \(\mathrm{ev}(z)=1\), \(B_1=\mathbb Fz\oplus K\), and \(K\cong A_1\) through \(B_1\to A_1\). Then \(B_2=\mathbb Fz^2+zK+K\cdot K\), and \(\mathrm{ev}\) kills exactly \(zK+K\cdot K\), so \(H=zK+K\cdot K\). \(B_2\cong A_2\oplus zB_1\), so \(\dim H=\tau_2+\gamma_1\).

Planted selectors span \(H\). For \(k\in K\), \(u=z+k\) is planted. Then \(z^2-u^2=-2zk-k^2\), and \(u'=z-k\) gives \(2zk-k^2\). The sum gives \(k^2\) and the difference \(zk\). Since \(2\) is invertible, polarization gives all of \(K\cdot K\) and \(zK\).

General position. The tops \(\ell^2\), \(\ell\in A_1\), span \(A_2\), again by polarization. \(s^{\rm h}\) depends only on \(\pm u\), so a planted family is parametrized by \((u_1,\dots,u_M)\in(z+K)^M\), an affine space over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), hence irreducible. The larger set \(\{\mathrm{ev}\ne0\}\) would be wrong: for \(\mathrm{ev}(u)\notin\{0,\pm1\}\), \(s^{\rm h}\notin H\). Two conditions are open in this space:

\(\operatorname{rank}\{s_t^{\rm h}\}=\min(M,\tau_2+\gamma_1)\);
\(\operatorname{rank}\{\ell_t^2\}=\min(M,\tau_2)\).

Each is nonempty. Choose \(u_t\) one at a time, outside the current span when it is proper; that is possible because the images span \(H\), respectively \(A_2\). So they meet. The open set has \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points, by the same greedy choice over \(\mathbb F_3\). First take \(\min(M,\tau_2)\) planted selectors whose tops are independent, which makes the \(s^{\rm h}\) independent too. Then extend inside \(H\), which \(\mathbb F_3\)-planted selectors span. Random \(\mathbb F_3\) families can miss the open set on small boards. The reviewer's independent check found such cases on \(2\times3\) and \(2\times4\) boards, while on \(3\times5\) the formula held at every \(M\) tested. There, \(\dim\ker z_1=\min(M,\tau_2+\gamma_1)-\min(M,\tau_2)=\min(\gamma_1,\max(0,M-\tau_2))\). \(\square\)

Against the record. At 3 rows and 18 holes, \(\tau_2=1218\) and \(\gamma_1=51\), and the formula gives the recorded values:

0 at \(M=200\), 400, 1000 and 1218;
1 at \(M=1219\) and 22 at \(M=1240\);
51 at \(M=1300\), 1500 and 2000.

Random-valued families are not confined to \(H\). In general position they would span all of \(B_2\) once \(M\ge\tau_2+\gamma_1+1=1270\), deriving \(z^2\), that is 1, at degree 2. That is not proved here, but it is consistent with the recorded refutations at \(M=1300\), 1500 and 2000. The recorded planted runs are \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational, and the theorem's general position is over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\). The agreement says the planted runs on that board landed in the open set.

What it shows about the dependent regime. At degree 2, falls come only from linear dependence among tops. Satisfiability confines the selectors to the hyperplane \(H\), and each selector beyond \(\tau_2\) then costs exactly one fall until \(\gamma_1\). The no-fall range is set by \(\dim A_2\), far beyond the free capacity, because at degree 2 no syzygy with nonconstant coefficients can occur. From degree 3 on, falls also come from syzygies with linear coefficients. There the analogue is the semi-regular crossing of ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds, which is not proved.

ENS members over a free span

Proof. Repeat the proof of cor:ens-members with the forms' span coordinates in place of the forms. Let \(y_1,\dots,y_d\) be a basis of the span \(W\) of the linear parts, as elements of \(A_1\). Modulo the row sums, and with the \(y_j\) lifted to linear forms, each input form is \(L=c+\sum\beta_jy_j\). Replacing \(L\) by this representative changes the companions by multiples of \(\rho_i-1\) within degree \(5\le D\). So each companion is a polynomial in \((y,r)\) of degree 5, reduced as before. thm:generic-span-members allows any forms of the span, "dependent ones included". Span transfer uses only the decomposition of \(A\) over \(T(W)\). The allowed set in \(\mathbb F_3^{d+\#r}\) is nonempty: at every \(y\), choose each block's private coefficients so that the block is satisfied. The other steps are unchanged. \(\square\)

Consequences.

The composition entry's item 2 compared form counts. The right comparison is the span's dimension. On a residual board of size \(L\), the band's random forms, about \(1.3\times10^8nL^2\Lambda_M^2\) of them, span all of \(A_1(L)\). The top algebra is not free through 2 over all of \(A_1\): the prediction \([q^2]\,\mathrm{HS}_A/(1+q+q^2)^{\gamma_1}\) is negative. So that conclusion stands, for the span.
For a Res(Lin) refutation compiled into blocks, on boards with \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D-1\) at the compiler's degree \(D\), the corollary says the span of all its line forms cannot be free through \(D\). For instance, a single-cell form \(x_{ij}\in W\) has \(x_{ij}^2=0\) in \(A_2\). Then \(T_2(W)\to A_2\) is not injective, and \(W\) is not free through 2. That is consistent with completeness.
The one-count instance of the composition entry needs \(\dim W\) within the proved range, not \(nh\). Its \(n\) random tuples span \(\min(nh,\gamma_1)\) dimensions generically, and with high probability for random forms, so the numbers there are unchanged.

Next: degree 3. The dependent regime begins where falls can come from syzygies with linear coefficients among the tops. For selectors whose forms lie in a free span \(W\), those syzygies live in \(T(W)=\mathbb F_3[W]/(w^3)\). At degree 3 the question is the rank of \((a_t)\mapsto\sum a_t\ell_t^2\) from \(W^M\), modulo the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_te_t\), to \(T_3(W)\). That is a truncated, characteristic-3 analogue of the Alexander–Hirschowitz problem. Measure it for generic forms in small \(d\), and compare with the semi-regular crossing of ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the planted-families entry (the kernel quantity \(\ker z_1\), \(\tau_2\) as the top space, every recorded value), conj:planted-excess-falls, ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds, cor:ens-members and its entry, and thm:generic-span-members ("dependent ones included"). No new computation was needed: the formula is checked against the recorded runs. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the kernel formula, and that it is the planted-families entry's quantity, with \(\tau_2=1377-159=\dim A_2\);
the hyperplane and the polarization step;
that the corollary needs no independence, and the negative prediction \(\tau_2-\binom{\gamma_1+1}2<0\).

Its own planted runs agreed with the formula at every \(M\) on a \(3\times5\) board, and showed random \(\mathbb F_3\) families missing general position on \(2\times3\) and \(2\times4\) boards. Those values are from its report, not from a result file. It required these changes, all adopted:

the parameter space corrected to \((z+K)^M\);
\(m\le N\) and the stability source added;
the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points and the small-board caveat added;
"the planted part" of the conjecture;
the hypotheses of cor:ens-members carried over, the representative of \(L\) modulo row sums, the Res(Lin) consequence made precise, and "generically" in the one-count remark.

The parameter-space correction repairs the argument without changing the statement, so no further pass was made.

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Free-span double points: in a free span, degree-3 selector gluing is a truncated Alexander–Hirschowitz problem, proved generically for 4 ≤ d ≤ 24

24 September 2026 · Working proof (free-span reduction; generic maximal rank for 4 ≤ d ≤ 24) and a conjecture · Degree-3 selector families in free spans; cycle odd-prime-truncated-waring. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Free-span double points: in a free span, degree-3 selector gluing is a truncated Alexander–Hirschowitz problem, proved generically for 4 ≤ d ≤ 24”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-free-span-double-points.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The planted-falls entry settled degree 2. It proposed degree 3, where falls can also come from syzygies with linear coefficients among the selectors' tops.

What the record already has. The claim searches found the board version of this question:

thm:glued-double-points: selectors have no degree-3 refutation when (a) their squares are independent in \(G_2\) and (b) their double points have full rank, \(\dim\sum_j\ell_j^2G_1=M(\gamma_1-1)\);
prop:double-points-generic-small-boards: (b) holds generically at \(n=6,7,8\);
conj:aligned-double-points: (b) for every \(n\).

That line was parked at a coupling condition. This cycle does not re-derive it. It asks what freeness adds.

General statement. The all-parameter statements are prop:free-span-double-points, prop:truncated-double-points-small and conj:truncated-double-points.

prop:free-span-double-points: over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak base with \(m\ge3\) rows and \(N\ge5\) columns, take \(M\) selectors \(1-(L_t-v_t)^2\), with any values, whose linear parts \(\ell_t\) lie in a span \(W\), \(\dim W=d\), over which the top algebra is free through 3. Conditions (a) and (b) are taken in the weak base's top algebra \(G\), not the functional base's. They are equivalent, for \(d\ge2\), to one condition in \(T=\mathbb F_3[W]/(w^3)\):
- (b') \(\Phi:W^M\to T_3\), \((w_t)\mapsto\sum_t\ell_t^2w_t\), has rank \(M(d-1)\), so its kernel is the span of the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_te_t\).
Condition (b') implies (a'), that the \(\ell_t^2\) are independent in \(T_2\). Under (b') there is no PC refutation of degree 3, for \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms and values. The board's double-point problem, restricted to a free span, is thus a problem about \(T\) alone.
prop:truncated-double-points-small: for every \(4\le d\le24\), generic forms in \(T\) satisfy (a') and (b') for every \(M\le\lfloor\dim T_3/(d-1)\rfloor\), and \(\Phi\) is onto for larger \(M\). Here \(\dim T_3=\binom{d+2}3-d\).
conj:truncated-double-points: the same for every \(d\ge4\).

With thm:general-forms-freeness, \(d\) can be up to \(m(\lfloor N/5\rfloor-1)\) on a nonempty open set. This needs \(N\ge10\) for \(d\ge4\). So the conjecture would give no degree-3 refutation for up to about \(d^2/6\) selectors whose forms are generic in a common free span of dimension \(d\). They are not generic in \(G_1\). With \(m=N+1\), that is about \(N^4/150\). For comparison, the semi-regular crossing for unrestricted generic selectors on the board is \(\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\approx N^4/6\), about 25 times more.

The reduction

Write \(G\) for the weak top algebra. Freeness through 3 gives a \(T\)-linear isomorphism \(G_s\cong\bigoplus_{i+j=s}T_i\otimes C_j\) for \(s\le3\), with \(C_0=\mathbb F\). \(T\)-linearity gives \(\ell^2\cdot(1\otimes c)=\ell^2\otimes c\). Freeness also makes \(W\to G_1\) injective, so \(\dim C_1=\gamma_1-d\).

(b') implies (a'). Suppose \(\sum_tc_t\ell_t^2=0\) in \(T_2\). Then \((c_tw)_t\in\ker\Phi\) for every \(w\in W\). That kernel is spanned by the \(\ell_te_t\), so \(c_tw\in\langle\ell_t\rangle\) for all \(w\). Since \(d\ge2\) and \(\ell_t\ne0\), this forces \(c_t=0\).

(a): \(\ell_t^2\in T_2\otimes C_0\), a direct summand of \(G_2\), so (a) is (a').
(b): \(G_1=T_1\otimes C_0\oplus T_0\otimes C_1\), so \(\sum_t\ell_t^2G_1=\Phi(W^M)\oplus\sum_t\ell_t^2\otimes C_1\), inside \(T_3\oplus T_2\otimes C_1\). Under (a'), the second summand has dimension \(M\dim C_1=M(\gamma_1-d)\). So \(\dim\sum_t\ell_t^2G_1=M(\gamma_1-1)\) exactly when \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi=M(d-1)\). The \(M\) Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_te_t\) are independent and lie in \(\ker\Phi\), since \(\ell^3=0\) in \(T\). So that rank is the maximum.

Under (a) and (b), the top syzygies of every degree \(s\le3\) are spanned by the Frobenius syzygies:

\(s\le1\): there are none, since the coefficients would have negative degree;
\(s=2\): (a) excludes them;
\(s=3\): the kernel of \(G_1^M\to G_3\) has dimension \(M\gamma_1-M(\gamma_1-1)=M\), so it is the Frobenius span.

There are no coherent pairs, because (a') makes the forms pairwise non-proportional. The weak base is \(z\)-injective below 3 for \(m\ge3\), \(N\ge5\), by thm:tensor-power-freeness through prop:stability-from-tensor-power. Since \(\ell_t\ne0\), no selector is a nonzero constant. So thm:based-taylor-glue, which is over \(\mathbb F_3\), gives no PC refutation of degree 3 and NS equal to PC through 3. That holds for any values and for \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms satisfying (b'), such as the witnesses below. For forms generic over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), it holds at the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points of the open set. That matches thm:glued-double-points, which is the same conclusion on the functional base. \(\square\)

Maximal rank for 4 ≤ d ≤ 24

Rank is lower semicontinuous in the forms. So one \(\mathbb F_3\) witness of the expected rank proves the generic statement for its \(d\). Injectivity passes to sub-tuples and surjectivity to super-tuples. So one sequence per \(d\), checked at \(M_{\rm inj}=\lfloor\dim T_3/(d-1)\rfloor\) and at \(M_{\rm inj}+1\), settles every \(M\).

Scripts: double_points_T.py and best_of_seeds.py, with exact ranks from research/tools/rank_modp.cpp.
Results:
- best_4_14.json: 20 seeds, certified for \(d=4,5,8,\dots,14\);
- best_6_7.json: 400 seeds, certified for \(d=6,7\);
- best_15_24.json: 5 seeds, certified for \(d=15,\dots,23\);
- best_24.json: 20 seeds, certified for \(d=24\).
Every \(d\) from 4 to 24 is certified. Independence of the squares follows from (b') by the lemma above. It is not certified separately, and the first pass in sizing.json shows a dependent draw at \(d=4\).
Seeds are \(10^6d+s\), \(s<S\), so each witness can be reproduced by a rerun.
The cases that needed more seeds, \(d=6\), 7 and 24, are where \(M(d-1)\) is within 1 of \(\dim T_3\): 50 of 50, 78 against 77, and 2576 of 2576. There a random \(\mathbb F_3\) sequence must hit an exact bijection or surjection.
For \(d\le3\), \(\mathbb F_3\) has too few lines, and the first pass fell short. Nothing is claimed for those sizes.
No defective case appeared, unlike the Alexander–Hirschowitz exception for cubics in characteristic 0 at five variables and seven points.

What this means for the route

The degree-3 dependent regime, within a free span, is now a question about \(T=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_d]/(y_i^3)\) alone. It is independent of the board, and the board version is still conj:aligned-double-points.
A proof of conj:truncated-double-points for all \(d\) would give no degree-3 refutation for about \(d^2/6\) generic selectors in a free span of dimension up to \(m(\lfloor N/5\rfloor-1)\).
Selectors are the degree-3 model. The goal's blocks are ENS blocks at degree 11. Their tops and syzygies are not covered here.
Satisfiability is not used. The conclusion holds for any values below the count.

Next: prove conj:truncated-double-points. \(T=\bigotimes_i\mathbb F_3[y_i]/(y_i^3)\) is a tensor product, which suits a Horace-type induction on \(d\). Write \(T=T'\otimes\mathbb F_3[y_d]/(y_d^3)\), so \(T_3=T'_3\oplus T'_2y_d\oplus T'_1y_d^2\). Specialize a group of forms to the hyperplane \(y_d=0\). The trace is the same problem in \(d-1\) variables. The forms not specialized reach all three components, so the residual is a coupled problem, not just the independence of squares in \(T'_2\). This is a sketch to be tested. The recorded row-Horace identity, lem:row-horace-identity, has this shape on the board. Check it on the verified range before relying on it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:glued-double-points, thm:taylor-glue, thm:based-taylor-glue, prop:double-points-generic-small-boards, conj:aligned-double-points, ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds, and the planted-falls entry. The searches for Alexander–Hirschowitz, Terracini, Horace and degree-3 squares found those records and no truncated version. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the counts, "for any values", the semicontinuity and prefix argument, and the checker's \(\Phi\). Its own polynomial multiplication and elimination matched the checker's rows exactly. It found full-rank witnesses at \(d=4,5,8\), with injective ranks 15, 28, 112 and onto ranks 16, 30, 112. Those values are from its report. It required these changes, all adopted:

the lemma that (b') implies (a'), which closes the one gap: the squares at \(d=4\) had not been certified;
\(G\) for the weak top algebra, and (a), (b) placed in the weak base;
the syzygy hypothesis stated for every \(s\le3\), and nonconstancy;
\(T\)-linearity and \(\dim C_1\);
"generic in a common free span" and the crossing comparison labelled;
the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rationality, and \(N\ge10\);
\(d\le3\) as "not claimed", and the Horace plan corrected to a coupled residual.

The changes close a gap or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Computation design and coding	1 min 13.45 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 54.60 s
Individually measured computation	45.68 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Naive Horace for truncated double points: the residual loses at least C(r−1,2), so the trace-plus-residual inequality proves only about two new forms per dimension

24 September 2026 · Working proof (a defect lower bound) with a best-of-seeds finite check · Obstruction to the simplest proof of conj:truncated-double-points; cycle odd-prime-truncated-horace. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Naive Horace for truncated double points: the residual loses at least C(r−1,2), so the trace-plus-residual inequality proves only about two new forms per dimension”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-horace-residual-defect.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The free-span double points entry proved conj:truncated-double-points for \(4\le d\le24\). It proposed a Horace induction on \(d\) through \(T=T'\otimes\mathbb F_3[y_d]/(y_d^3)\). This cycle tests the simplest version: specialize \(s\) forms to the hyperplane \(y_d=0\) and leave \(r=M-s\) forms free.

General statement. lem:horace-residual-defect. In \(T=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_d]/(y_i^3)\), split \(T_3=T'_3\oplus T'_2y_d\oplus T'_1y_d^2\). Then \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi\ge\operatorname{rank}(\text{trace})+\operatorname{rank}(\text{residual})\), where:

the trace is the double-point map of the \(s\) specialized forms in \(T'_3\);
the residual is the image modulo \(T'_3\), inside \(T'_2\oplus T'_1\).

The dimension count splits exactly, since \(\dim T_3(d)-\dim T_3(d-1)=(d-1)(d+2)/2=\dim(T'_2\oplus T'_1)\). For \(r\le d-1\) free forms with independent linear parts in \(W'\), the residual map has kernel of dimension at least \(r+\binom{r-1}2\): the \(r\) Frobenius syzygies and \(\binom{r-1}2\) Koszul combinations. So the residual has rank at most \(s+r(d-1)-\binom{r-1}2\).

horace_residual.py (horace_residual.json) measures the best residual rank over 5 seeds at the balanced split. That split takes \(M=M_{\rm inj}(d)\) and \(s=\min(M,M_{\rm inj}(d-1))\), giving \(r=M-s\) between 2 and 14 for \(6\le d\le40\).

The measured rank equals \(\min\bigl(\dim(T'_2\oplus T'_1),\,s+r(d-1)-\binom{r-1}2\bigr)\) for every \(d\) except \(d=8\), where it is one lower. That exception is unexplained, with 5 seeds over \(\mathbb F_3\), and is not part of the claim.
For every split, trace rank is at most \(s(d-2)\) and residual rank at most \(s+r(d-1)-\binom{r-1}2\). So the inequality bounds \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi\) below by at most \(M(d-1)-\binom{r-1}2\). It certifies maximal rank only when \(r\le2\).
With at most two free forms per step, the inequality alone adds only about two forms per dimension. The conjecture asks for \(d^2/6\).
The loss is in the inequality, not in the specialization. Exactly, \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi=\operatorname{rank}(\text{residual})+\dim\Phi(\ker\text{residual})\), and \(\Phi(\ker\text{residual})\) contains the trace and also the Koszul cubics \(\sum\mu_{tu}(\ell_t'^2\ell'_u-\ell_u'^2\ell'_t)\). The reviewer's check shows the specialized configuration beating the inequality: at \(d=11\), \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi=268\) against trace plus residual \(206+60=266\); at \(d=9\), 150 against 149.

The Horace inequality

The image of \(\Phi\) contains the trace image, which lies in \(T'_3\), and it projects onto the residual image modulo \(T'_3\). So its dimension is at least the sum of the two ranks.

Trace. A specialized form \(\ell\in W'\) contributes \(\ell^2w'\in T'_3\) for \(w'\in W'\). This is the same problem in \(d-1\) variables.
Residual. A specialized form also contributes \(\ell^2y_d\), which is \((\ell^2,0)\) in \(T'_2\oplus T'_1\).
A free form \(\ell=\ell'+y_d\) has \(\ell^2=\ell'^2+2\ell'y_d+y_d^2\). Modulo \(T'_3\), \(\ell^2w'\) is \((2\ell'w',w')\), and \(\ell^2y_d\) is \((\ell'^2,2\ell')\), since \(y_d^3=0\).

The defect

Frobenius. The input \((w',c)=(\ell',1)\) of a free form maps to \((2\ell'^2+\ell'^2,\ell'+2\ell')=(0,0)\).
Koszul combinations. Free forms may be taken as \(\ell'+y_d\): scaling \(\ell\) by a unit scales each \(\ell^2w\) by a unit square and leaves the image unchanged, and forms with zero \(y_d\) coefficient are the specialized ones. For free forms \(t\ne u\), let \(K_{tu}\) set \(w'_t=\ell'_u\) and \(w'_u=-\ell'_t\), with all other inputs 0. It maps to \((2\ell'_t\ell'_u-2\ell'_u\ell'_t,\ \ell'_u-\ell'_t)=(0,\ell'_u-\ell'_t)\). A combination \(\sum\mu_{tu}K_{tu}\) maps to \((0,\sum\mu_{tu}(\ell'_u-\ell'_t))\). The differences span at most \(r-1\) dimensions, so a space of \(\mu\) of dimension at least \(\binom r2-(r-1)=\binom{r-1}2\) maps to 0.
Independence. If the \(\ell'_t\) are independent, which needs \(r\le d-1\), a nonzero combination of the \(K_{tu}\) is nonzero on some \(w'_t\). Its \(w'_t\) component is \(\sum_u\pm\mu_{tu}\ell'_u\), which vanishes for all \(t\) only if \(\mu=0\). The \(K_{tu}\) have \(c=0\), so they are also independent of the Frobenius vectors. \(\square\) For dependent \(\ell'\) or \(r\ge d\) the bound still limits every choice: generic rank bounds every specialization, and the kernel only grows as forms are added, so a defect of at least 1 holds for every \(r\ge3\).

The finite check confirms the bound exactly, in both regimes.

Cases below the target:
- \(r=4\) at \(d=11,13\), deficit 3;
- \(r=5\) at \(d=15\), deficit 6;
- \(r=6\) at \(d=17,19\), deficit 10;
- up to \(r=13\) at \(d=39\), deficit 66.
Surjective cases: the rank is \(s+r(d-1)-\binom{r-1}2\) where that is below the target, for example 282 at \(d=24\), and the target otherwise.

What this means

The trace-plus-residual inequality cannot prove conj:truncated-double-points in its quadratic range. The Koszul pairs of the unspecialized forms reappear in the residual because \(T'_1\) sees only the \(r-1\) differences. They resemble the defect of double points on quadrics, but that link is not established here.
There are three possible repairs:
- a differential Horace, degenerating the free forms onto the hyperplane to first order;
- a specialization to a coordinate subspace of codimension at least 2;
- counting \(\Phi(\ker\text{residual})\), which exceeds the trace by the Koszul cubics, in place of the trace alone.
The obstruction concerns this proof method only. The conjecture itself holds for every tested \(d\le24\).

Next: the route review. Five research entries have followed the freeness route review. The line has moved from the one-count link to degree-2 and degree-3 selector models, and the goal's blocks are ENS blocks at degree 11. The review should weigh whether the selector models test the goal's implication, before further work on conj:truncated-double-points.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the free-span double-points entry and conj:truncated-double-points, and the checker double_points_T.py, whose functions the Horace script reuses. The bound is proved above, and its equality is read from horace_residual.json. The first prediction, \(\binom r2-(d-1)\), was wrong. It is recorded here, and the proof corrects it: the \(T'_1\) conditions lie in the \((r-1)\)-dimensional span of the differences. The JSON field koszul_excess and the script's docstring still carry that refuted prediction. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the formulas, signs, Frobenius and Koszul vectors, the count, their independence, the script's rows, and the equality in 34 of 35 cases. Its own check found \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi\) above the inequality at \(d=9,11\), with values quoted from its report. It required these changes, all adopted:

the consequence restricted to the inequality, with the split-independent bound and the third repair;
the normalization \(a=1\) and the semicontinuity remark;
the quadric link softened;
"cases below the target";
\(d=8\) marked unexplained;
"best-of-seeds" in the status line.

The changes weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Route review: the free-span results cannot reach the window, whose band spans all of A₁; the degree-2 planted mechanism is the one that works beyond freeness

24 September 2026 · Route review · The one-count and dependent-regime line after the freeness review; cycle odd-prime-selector-model-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the free-span results cannot reach the window, whose band spans all of A₁; the degree-2 planted mechanism is the one that works beyond freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-selector-model-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Five research entries have followed the freeness route review. This review states the line's claim and what the goal needs, tries to falsify the newest conjecture, assesses whether the selector models test the goal's implication, and names the highest-risk item.

General statement. The line's general claim is that the window blocks glue over the weak base without falls, and so without PC refutation, at the compiler's degree. The mechanism is relative gluing with members, including ENS blocks as members with private variables. The needed hypotheses are base stability, which is now linear at \(p=3\), and control of the members' top syzygies. The last five entries showed two things. Freeness over a span controls everything, however many members there are (cor:ens-span-members), but only up to a capacity of about \(m\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor\) dimensions of span. Beyond freeness, one mechanism is proved: at degree 2, satisfiable families are confined to a hyperplane and have no falls up to \(\dim A_2\) (thm:planted-falls-degree-two).

What happened since the last review

ENS blocks are members with private variables (ENS members). With the next item, only their span must be free.
The top-size lemma's one-count instance exists in the free range, but a size's band exceeds any glued member by a factor of order \(n\) (composition).
Planted selector families at degree 2 have exactly the conjectured falls. ENS members need only a free span (planted falls).
In a free span, degree-3 selector gluing is a truncated double-point problem, proved for \(4\le d\le24\) (free-span double points). The naive Horace inequality cannot prove its quadratic range (Horace residual).

What the goal needs

At every residual size \(L\), the window's band blocks have forms spanning all of \(A_1(L)\). The top algebra is not free through 2 over all of \(A_1\). So the goal needs gluing of many ENS members at degree 11 whose joint span is the whole degree-1 space, with no freeness available. Within that:

the free-span results cover subfamilies of span dimension up to about \(L^2/(2D-1)\);
the degree-2 planted theorem covers selectors on the full board at degree 2;
nothing covers ENS members, or any members, at degree \(\ge3\) on the full board.

The record's board-level statements for selectors at degree 3 and 4 are conjectures with small-board evidence: conj:aligned-double-points, prop:double-points-generic-small-boards and ex:selector-degree-four-semiregular.

Falsification attempt

The newest conjecture, conj:truncated-double-points, was tested where it had not been: \(d=28,32,36\), 3 seeds each, with best_of_seeds.py (best_28.json, best_32.json, best_36.json).

Each \(d\) is certified: the double-point map has rank 4023, 5952 and 8400 at \(M_{\rm inj}\), and is onto at \(M_{\rm inj}+1\), with \(\dim T_3=4032\), 5952 and 8400.
The two larger cases are exactly square: \(192\cdot31=5952\) and \(240\cdot35=8400\).
The conjecture now holds for every tested \(d\), from 4 to 36.

The attempt did not falsify it. That leaves the question below unchanged.

Assessment of this line

Solid ground. Base stability is linear, the column tensor powers are free at the sharp threshold, the row sums absorb into the top algebra, and generic spans of dimension up to about \(mN/(2D-1)\) are free. ENS members glue on any free span, and at degree 2 satisfiable families behave exactly as counted. These are proofs.
The drift. The last two research entries refined degree-3 selector gluing inside free spans. That regime is capped by the same freeness capacity the composition entry showed the window exceeds by a factor of order \(n\). So even a full proof of conj:truncated-double-points would not reach the window. It is a restricted model that does not test the goal's implication. Further work on it should stop.
What does test the implication. Gluing beyond freeness on the full board. There the only proved mechanism is the degree-2 planted one: satisfiability confines the members to a hyperplane, and falls equal a dimension difference.
Two open questions. Whether that extends to degree 3 on the full board is the recorded, conjectural double-point line for selectors. For ENS members, each block is satisfiable at every point, so "planted" is automatic. Whether that makes their falls controllable at degree 11 is unknown.

The line's prospects are moderate. Its algebraic tools are strong, but the mechanism the goal needs, gluing beyond freeness at high degree, is proved only at degree 2.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer: planted selector families at degree 3 on the full board, beyond freeness. The planted-families entry judged degree 3 out of reach with Singular. The OpenMP rank kernel research/tools/rank_modp.cpp makes the direct linear algebra feasible on small boards, for example 3 rows and 10 to 14 holes. Compute \(\ker z\) below 3 for planted and random families across \(M\). Compare with a degree-3 count built like the degree-2 one: satisfiability confines the family to the degree-3 part of the ideal of the matching, and the counted crossing is that of ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds. If planted families have no falls up to that count and fall exactly by the dimension difference beyond it, the degree-2 mechanism generalizes, and the next target is its proof. If they fall earlier, the dependent regime has a degree-3 obstruction to identify.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the five entries since the freeness review and their claims. Also re-read conj:aligned-double-points, prop:double-points-generic-small-boards, ex:selector-degree-four-semiregular, ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds, and the planted-families entry's remark that degree 3 was out of reach. The falsification values are read from the three result files. No new claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Openness transfer: a free-span witness makes board double points hold on a nonempty open set of board tuples; a narrower correction to the selector-model review

24 September 2026 · Working proof (openness transfer), unconditional at certified d · Corrects the cap stated in the selector-model review; cycle odd-prime-planted-degree-three. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Openness transfer: a free-span witness makes board double points hold on a nonempty open set of board tuples; a narrower correction to the selector-model review”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-openness-transfer.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The selector-model review proposed computing planted selector families at degree 3 on the full board. It also stated that the free-span results cannot reach the window. Before computing, two checks were made. This entry records both, and corrects the review.

The proposed computation is recorded. At degree 3, with selectors only, the degree-3 part of the ideal is \(S_3=B_1S_2\). As in the degree-2 proof, \(\dim\ker(z:B'_2\to B'_3)=\dim(zB_2\cap S_3)-\dim S_2=\dim S_3-\dim\sum_t\ell_t^2G_1-M\). In \(B\), \(u^3=uz^2\), so \(u_ts_t^{\rm h}=u_t(z^2-u_t^2)=0\). With \(\dim B_1=\gamma_1+1\) and \(u_t\ne0\), this gives \(\dim B_1s_t^{\rm h}\le\gamma_1\) and \(\dim S_3\le M\gamma_1\). The weak base has \(z\) injective \(B_k\to B_{k+1}\) for \(k\le2\), which holds for \(m\ge3\) and \(N\ge5\) by thm:tensor-power-freeness through prop:stability-from-tensor-power. Under (a), \(\dim S_2=M\). So the kernel of \(S_3\to G_3\) contains \(zS_2\), of dimension \(M\), so \(\dim S_3\ge\dim\sum\ell_t^2G_1+M\). If the double points have full rank \(M(\gamma_1-1)\), then \(\dim S_3=M\gamma_1\) and \(\ker z_2=0\). So below the crossing, "planted families have no falls at degree 3" is implied by the board double-point condition of thm:glued-double-points. That condition is recorded as conj:aligned-double-points, with evidence at \(n=6,7,8\). The converse is not shown, since \(\dim S_3\) can drop together with the double-point rank. The sufficient condition is recorded, so the computation was not run.
The review's cap is too strong. It is right for freeness-based statements, such as cor:ens-span-members, which need freeness over the members' whole span. That is impossible once the span is all of \(A_1\). Count-based conditions such as full-rank double points are Zariski-open in the forms, so one witness inside a free span gives them on a nonempty open set of board tuples. That set is not confined to a free span. It does not place any specified tuple inside it.

General statement. prop:board-double-points-from-free-spans: over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak base with \(m\ge3\) rows and \(N\ge5\) columns, let \(d\le m(\lfloor N/5\rfloor-1)\), with \(N\ge10\) and \(d\ge4\). Suppose the truncated double-point property holds at \(d\), with an exact \(\mathbb F_3\) witness. It does for \(4\le d\le24\) (prop:truncated-double-points-small) and for \(d=28,32,36\) (the review's files best_28.json, best_32.json, best_36.json). Then for every \(M\le\lfloor(\binom{d+2}3-d)/(d-1)\rfloor\), the \(M\)-tuples of linear forms on the board satisfying conditions (a) and (b) of thm:glued-double-points in the weak top algebra form a nonempty Zariski-open set with \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points. For selectors whose forms are an \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational point of it, with any values, there is no PC refutation of degree 3. Under conj:truncated-double-points, the count can be about \(d^2/6\) with \(d\approx m\lfloor N/5\rfloor\), about \(N^4/150\) for \(m=N+1\). The board crossing is about \(N^4/6\). The only \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points identified are the free-span witnesses. Whether a given rational tuple lies in the open set is open, as it is in thm:general-forms-freeness.

Proof

An \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational free span. By thm:general-forms-freeness, the grouped row sums over \(g=\lfloor N/5\rfloor\) column groups span a space containing \(R\). A complement \(G_0\) of \(R\) in it has dimension \(m(g-1)\), and the top algebra \(G\) is free through 3 over \(T(G_0)\). Any \(d\)-dimensional subspace \(W\subseteq G_0\) is also free through 3, by restriction to sub-spans. Take \(W\) spanned by \(d\) basis vectors, so it is \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational.
A witness in \(W\). Identify \(W\) with \(\mathbb F_3^d\). The truncated property at \(d\) gives \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_M\in W\) with \(\Phi\) of rank \(M(d-1)\) in \(T(W)\). For the certified \(d\) these are the recorded witnesses. By prop:free-span-double-points, they satisfy (a) and (b) in \(G\).
Openness. Condition (a), independence of the \(\ell_t^2\) in \(G_2\), and condition (b), \(\dim\sum_t\ell_t^2G_1=M(\gamma_1-1)\), are maximal-rank conditions on matrices whose entries are polynomial in the forms' coefficients over \(\mathbb F_3\). So each holds on a Zariski-open set. The witness shows both sets are nonempty and have an \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational point in common. The common witness makes the intersection nonempty. Irreducibility of the space of \(M\)-tuples then makes it dense.
Gluing. At an \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational point of the open set, possibly outside any free span, (a) and (b) are the hypotheses of thm:glued-double-points, in its weak balanced version. That gives no degree-3 refutation for any values. At the free-span witnesses the same follows from prop:free-span-double-points and thm:based-taylor-glue. \(\square\)

Correction and consequences

Correction, narrower than first drafted. The selector-model review said the free-span results "cannot reach the window". That holds for freeness-based statements, including ENS members through cor:ens-span-members. For count-based conditions it is too strong: they transfer by openness to a nonempty open set of board tuples, which are not confined to a free span. Openness does not raise the count, which stays at the free-span count of about \(d^2/6\). It does not place the band, or any other specified tuple, in the open set. The composition entry's comparison, form count against span capacity \(L^2\), has the same scope: it is the right measure for freeness, not for count-based conditions.
The band at degree 3, in the selector model. At residual size \(L\) with about \(L\) rows, the count is about \(L^4/150\). The band's forms number about \(1.3\times10^8nL^2\Lambda_M^2\). The count would cover them once \(L^2\gtrsim2\times10^{10}n\Lambda_M^2\), that is, \(L\gtrsim1.4\times10^5\sqrt n\,\Lambda_M\). That needs the conjecture, and also that the band's \(\mathbb F_3\) tuples lie in the open set, which is unproved. This is a model: selectors at degree 3, not the goal's ENS blocks at degree 11.
The method. Count-based sufficient conditions can be witnessed inside free spans, where the structure theorem reduces them to \(T(W)\), and then transferred to the whole board by openness. For ENS members at degree \(D\), the missing piece is a count-based sufficient condition, a Taylor-glue analogue whose hypotheses are maximal-rank conditions. cor:ens-span-members instead uses freeness over the whole span, which cannot be transferred this way.

Next: the Taylor-glue analogue for ENS members. thm:based-taylor-glue covers product constraints in forms. ENS companions \(q_iP\) have a second factor \(P=1-\sum_kr_kq_k\) that is linear in private variables. State the syzygy condition for ENS families that would give no refutation at degree \(D\): the top syzygies of the companions spanned by an explicit list of Taylor-type syzygies. Check that it is a maximal-rank condition, and so open. Verify it inside a free span, where cor:ens-span-members already gives the conclusion.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the selector-model review, the composition entry, prop:free-span-double-points, prop:truncated-double-points-small, thm:general-forms-freeness (its grouped construction and sub-span restriction), thm:glued-double-points and thm:based-taylor-glue, and the planted-falls proof whose kernel identity is reused at degree 3. A fresh-context reviewer found the openness proposition sound once steps 3 and 4 were fixed and the witness range sourced. It required these changes, all adopted:

item 1 stated one way, as "implied by", with the unproved converse dropped;
\(u_ts_t^{\rm h}=0\) in \(B\);
the degree-3 injectivity of the weak base cited;
the unconditional range restricted to the certified \(d\);
step 4 citing thm:glued-double-points outside free spans;
step 3's nonemptiness from the common witness;
the correction and the band remark weakened, since openness raises no count and places no specified tuple;
\(N\ge10\).

The changes weaken or fix citations, so no further pass was made.

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ENS Taylor condition: the natural lifting syzygies miss most top syzygies of ENS companions, and a two-input block already falls in its span ring

24 September 2026 · Working proof (a fall of a two-input block) with a finite check · Obstruction to an unaugmented ENS Taylor glue; cycle odd-prime-ens-taylor. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “ENS Taylor condition: the natural lifting syzygies miss most top syzygies of ENS companions, and a two-input block already falls in its span ring”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-ens-taylor-obstruction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The openness-transfer entry showed that count-based sufficient conditions can be witnessed inside a free span and transferred to a nonempty open set of board tuples. For the goal's ENS blocks it asked for such a condition: a Taylor-glue analogue, in which the companions' top syzygies are spanned by an explicit list of syzygies that lift.

General statement. lem:ens-block-span-fall. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take one complete accuracy-one ENS block with two inputs, affine forms \(L_1,L_2\) with independent linear parts, \(q_i=1-L_i^2\), coefficients \(r_1,r_2\) and \(P=1-r_1q_1-r_2q_2\). Its companions \(c_i=q_iP\) have a fall in their span ring. With \(R=L_2q_1(1-r_1)\), a degree-4 consequence of the block, \(zR\) is a nonzero element of degree 5 of the span ring modulo the companions, and \(z\cdot zR=0\). So the member does not satisfy the no-fall hypothesis of lem:span-transfer until it is Gröbner-augmented, as cor:ens-members does.

A finite check shows more: in the free-span model of the top algebra, the natural list misses many top syzygies of ENS companions. The list is Frobenius \(\ell_ie_i\), block Koszul, cross-block Koszul, and the new P-Frobenius \(\rho^2e_i\), which lifts because \(P^3=z^6P\) after homogenization. At degree 6 for two inputs, the missing syzygies are of the fall type above. In higher degrees they are not identified. So an ENS Taylor condition, and the openness transfer it would allow, must be stated for Gröbner-augmented blocks.

Tops and the natural list

Reduced modulo \(y^3-y\) and \(r^3-r\), and using \(q^2=q\), a companion is \(c_i=q_i(1-r_i)-\sum_{k\ne i}r_kq_iq_k\). For \(h\ge2\) its top has degree 5: \(t_i=-\ell_i^2\sum_{k\ne i}r_k\ell_k^2\), which equals \(-\ell_i^2\rho\) in the top algebra, with \(\rho=\sum_kr_k\ell_k^2\) and \(\ell^3=0\). For \(h=1\) the top is \(r\ell^2\), of degree 3.

The natural list, each entry with its exact lift:

Frobenius \(\ell_ie_i\): \(u^3=uz^2\) in the homogenized base.
Block and cross-block Koszul syzygies: exact identities.
P-Frobenius \(\rho^2e_i\). In characteristic 3, \(P^3=1-\sum r_k^3q_k^3=P\). Homogenized, with \((z^2-u^2)^3=z^4(z^2-u^2)\) and \(r^3=rz^2\), this is \((P^{\rm h})^3=z^6P^{\rm h}\), so \((P^{\rm h})^2c_i^{\rm h}=z^6c_i^{\rm h}\).

The check

ens_syzygies.py (syz_v2.json) works in \(T''=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_d,r]/(\text{cubes})\), the top algebra's model over a free span of dimension \(d\), with seeded random forms. The script asserts that the forms are independent within each block, and resamples until they are. Across blocks they are random, so dependence is allowed. It compares, in each degree \(s\le11\), the dimension of the companions' syzygy module with that of the natural list's span. The number of extra syzygies:

\((d,h,\text{blocks})=(3,2,1)\): 3, 12, 23, 29, 24 in degrees 6 to 10;
\((4,3,1)\): 0, 6, 39, 111, 195, 237 in degrees 6 to 11;
\((4,2,2)\): 6, 42, 158, 398, 732, 1034 in degrees 6 to 11;
\((5,3,1)\): 0, 6, 45, 156, 345, 543 in degrees 6 to 11.

Every case has extra syzygies from degree 7 on. The cases with \(h=2\) already have them at degree 6: 3 for one block, 6 for two. Two older runs are excluded. The cases with \(h=1\) in sizing.json are invalid, because their degree-5 top vanishes. The first run, syz.json, had dependent forms within the \((4,3,1)\) block, violating the hypothesis; the independence assertion was then added.

Where the extra syzygies come from

For \(h=2\), \(t_1=-r_2\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\) and \(t_2=-r_1\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\). Three degree-6 syzygies are not in the natural list, and they plausibly account for the 3 extras at \((3,2,1)\): \(\ell_2e_1\), \(\ell_1e_2\), and \(r_1e_1-r_2e_2\). The reviewer verified that the last one's lift, \(r_1c_1-r_2c_2=z^2\bigl(r_1q_1(z-r_1)-r_2q_2(z-r_2)\bigr)\), leaves a remainder outside \(J\). For \(\ell_2e_1\), the lift is \(L_2c_1=L_2q_1(1-r_1)-r_2q_1(L_2q_2)\), and \(L_2q_2=L_2-L_2^3\) lies in the field-equation ideal. So the lift leaves the remainder \(L_2q_1(1-r_1)\), of degree 4. For general \(h\), the product \(\prod_{k\ne i}\ell_k\) annihilates \(t_i\) in the same way, and its lift leaves \(\prod_{k\ne i}L_k\,q_i(1-r_i)\). With "input \(k\) true" meaning \(L_k=0\), that is \(q_k=1\), this is the block's consequence "if input \(i\) is the only true input, then \(r_i=1\)". The extra syzygies in degrees \(\ge7\) are not identified here.

Proof of the lemma

Work in the span ring \(S=\mathbb F_3[y_1,y_2,r_1,r_2,z]\) modulo the homogenized field equations, with \(L_i=y_i\) after an affine change. Let \(J\) be the ideal of the homogenized companions, which have degree 5.

In \(J\) after multiplying by \(z^2\). The identity \(L_2c_1=L_2q_1(1-r_1)-r_2q_1(L_2q_2)\), with \(L_2q_2\) in the field-equation ideal, puts \(z^2\) times the homogenized remainder \(R=L_2q_1(1-r_1)\), of degree 4, in \(J\) in degree 6.
Not in lower degrees. The parts of \(J\) in degrees 4 and 5 contain no companion multiple except the companions themselves in degree 5. The field-equation ideal \(F\) is \(z\)-saturated, because \(\{y^3-yz^2\}\) is the homogenization of a degree-order Gröbner basis. So an element of \(F\) is exactly one that vanishes at every point. At \(y_1=0\), \(y_2=1\), \(r_1=0\), \(R\) is \(1\cdot1\cdot1=1\), so \(R\notin F\). The reviewer checked directly that \(zR\notin J_5\).

So \(zR\) is a nonzero element of \((S/J)_5\) with \(z\cdot zR=0\): \(z\) is not injective on \(S/J\), and the member falls. \(\square\) The consequence \(R\) is sound, since it vanishes on the block's solutions. Adding it is exactly the Gröbner augmentation.

What this means

An unaugmented ENS Taylor glue is not available. The top syzygies of ENS companions include annihilator syzygies whose lifts leave the block's own lower-degree consequences.
A count-based condition for ENS families has to be stated for Gröbner-augmented blocks. Their generators include the consequences \(\prod_{k\ne i}L_kq_i(1-r_i)\) and possibly more.
The openness transfer then needs either of two things. One is a Taylor list for the augmented single member. The other is hypothesis (b) for many augmented members with dependent spans. The recorded way to obtain (b), lem:tensor-splitting-locality as used in thm:relative-gluing, assumes that the top algebra splits over the members' form algebras, which is the independent-span case.
The record's evidence on (b) with overlapping spans (prop:overlap-tor) is negative for selectors.

Next: the augmented ENS block. Compute the reduced degree-order Gröbner basis of one block's companions with the field equations in its span ring, for \(h=2,3,4\), and list its generators by degree. In the free-span model, compare the augmented tops' syzygies with an extended natural list: Frobenius, Koszul, P-Frobenius, the annihilator syzygies \(\prod_{k\ne i}\ell_ke_i\), and \(r_1e_1-r_2e_2\)-type syzygies, together with those of the added consequences. If a finite, explicit list spans, that is an open Taylor condition for augmented ENS families, to be transferred as in the openness-transfer entry.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the openness-transfer entry, cor:ens-members and its augmentation step, lem:span-transfer (the no-fall hypothesis in the span ring), thm:based-taylor-glue (its Taylor list), and prop:overlap-tor. The first model, with \(h=1\), was wrong because the degree-5 top vanishes. It was caught before use and is excluded. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the companion formula, the tops and the \(P^3=z^6P\) lift. It verified the fall directly in the span ring. It required these changes, all adopted:

the torsion element located in degree 5, as \(zR\);
the saturation of the field-equation ideal stated;
the within-block independence asserted in the script, with the rerun in syz_v2.json;
the second fall-type syzygy \(r_1e_1-r_2e_2\) added;
the true-input convention stated;
the claim about (b) tied to lem:tensor-splitting-locality.

The changes correct or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Pure-part reduction: private coefficients confine the non-local gluing condition of augmented ENS families to their pure tops

24 September 2026 · Working proof (a reduction, under bihomogeneous tops) and a conjecture checked for h ≤ 7 · Augmented ENS families; cycle odd-prime-augmented-ens. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pure-part reduction: private coefficients confine the non-local gluing condition of augmented ENS families to their pure tops”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-pure-part-reduction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The ENS Taylor obstruction showed that a condition for gluing ENS families beyond freeness must use Gröbner-augmented blocks. The missing implication is a gluing condition for many augmented ENS members whose spans are dependent, since the window's band spans all of \(A_1\). Every block has its own coefficients \(r\). So the top algebra carries one \(r\)-degree for each block, and a syzygy of low degree can involve the \(r\)-carrying tops of only a few blocks. This cycle computes the augmented blocks and tests the premise that decides whether that grading can be used: are the augmented tops homogeneous in \(r\)-degree?

General statement. thm:ens-pure-part-reduction and conj:bihomogeneous-ens-tops.

thm:ens-pure-part-reduction: suppose every block's augmented tops are bihomogeneous in \((y,r)\)-degree, with its tops of positive \(r\)-degree of \(y\)-degree at least 2, as conj:bihomogeneous-ens-tops states. Then hypothesis (b) of relative gluing for a family of augmented ENS blocks splits in two:
- (P), the same hypothesis for the family of all blocks' pure tops, those of \(r\)-degree 0;
- (L), conditions on at most \(D-2\) blocks at a time, modulo the other blocks' pure tops.
With relative gluing's condition (c) for each block, these give no PC refutation of degree \(D\), for the augmented family and, when \(D\ge5\), for the original one.
conj:bihomogeneous-ens-tops: for every \(h\), the reduced degree-order Gröbner basis of one block has bihomogeneous tops. Its pure tops, other than \(y_i^3\), are exactly the \(\binom h2\) monomials \(y_1\cdots y_h\,y_jy_k\), of degree \(h+2\). Its tops of positive \(r\)-degree other than \(r_i^3\) have \(y\)-degree at least 2. Checked for \(1\le h\le7\).

So the only interaction among unboundedly many blocks is the pure tops' Taylor-type condition (P). When every block has \(h\ge D-1\) inputs, the pure tops have degree above \(D\), so (P) is vacuous and (L) involves only freeness over the spans of at most \(D-2\) blocks.

The augmented block

One block over \(\mathbb F_3\) has inputs \(y_1,\dots,y_h\), coefficients \(r_1,\dots,r_h\), \(q_i=1-y_i^2\), \(P=1-\sum_kr_kq_k\) and companions \(q_iP\). With the field equations \(y_i^3-y_i\), \(r_i^3-r_i\) the ideal is radical, so it is the ideal of its zero set \(Z\): the points where \(\sum_{i\in T}r_i=1\) for the set \(T\) of true inputs (\(y_i=0\)) whenever \(T\) is nonempty. The augmentation is the reduced degree-order (dp) Gröbner basis. gb_block.sing, driven by gb_blocks.py (gb_blocks.json), computes it with Singular for \(h=1,\dots,7\) and records each element's top form with the bidegrees of its monomials.

Number of elements, including the \(2h\) field equations: 3, 10, 41, 177, 734, 2834, 10219. Degrees run from 3 to \(2h\) for \(h\ge2\), and are all 3 for \(h=1\).
The vector-space dimension of the quotient equals \(|Z|=6^h+\sum_{s\ge1}\binom hs2^{h-s}3^{h-1}\) in every case, from 7 at \(h=1\) to 1780947 at \(h=7\).
Every top is bihomogeneous. Tops of positive \(r\)-degree other than the field equations \(r_i^3\) have \(y\)-degree at least 2.
The tops of \(r\)-degree 0 other than \(y_i^3\) are exactly the monomials \(y_1\cdots y_h\,y_jy_k\), \(j<k\), of degree \(h+2\). There are none for \(h=1\).

For \(h=2\), for example, the six tops other than the field equations are \(y_1^2y_2^2\), \(y_1^2y_2r_1\), \(y_1y_2^2r_2\) and three of bidegree \((2,2)\). The second is the top of the fall element \(L_2q_1(1-r_1)\) of lem:ens-block-span-fall. Whether bihomogeneity holds for every \(h\) is not proved; it is the conjecture above.

Setting

Base. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), the weak unary base on \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D-1\) columns, extended by \(r^3-r\) for every private coefficient. Its homogenization is \(z\)-injective below \(D\): thm:tensor-power-freeness through prop:stability-from-tensor-power, and tensoring with the free \(\mathbb F[z]\)-modules \(\mathbb F[r,z]/(r^3-rz^2)\), as in cor:ens-members. Its top algebra is \(R=G\otimes\bigotimes_aU_a\), with \(G\) the weak top algebra and \(U_a=\mathbb F_3[r_a]/(r_a^3)\) for the coefficients \(r_a\) of block \(a\).
Family. Blocks \(a=1,\dots,M\), each a complete accuracy-one ENS block with \(h_a\) affine inputs \(L_{a,i}\) (linear parts \(\ell_{a,i}\)) and its own coefficients. Block \(a\)'s generators are the elements of degree \(\le D\), other than field equations, of the reduced dp Gröbner basis above, with \(y_i\mapsto L_{a,i}\). Their tops, mapped by \(y_i\mapsto\ell_{a,i}\), lie in \(R\).
Grading. \(R\) is graded by total degree and by the vector \(e\in\mathbb N^M\) of \(r\)-degrees, one per block. Hypothesis (H) is: each block's tops are bihomogeneous, and those of positive \(r\)-degree have \(y\)-degree at least 2. The field equations are not among a block's generators, since they belong to the base. Under (H) every top \(t\) of block \(a\) is homogeneous, of \(r\)-degree \(\rho_t\mathbf 1_a\).
Pure tops. A top is pure if \(\rho_t=0\). Let \(Y_{\ne S}\subseteq R\) be the ideal generated by the pure tops of the blocks outside a set \(S\).

The conditions, all through degree \(D\):

(P): every syzygy among the pure tops of all blocks is an \(R\)-combination of syzygies supported on one block's pure tops and of Koszul pairs \(te_u-ue_t\) between pure tops of different blocks.
(L\(_S\)): every tuple \((g_t)\), indexed by the tops of the blocks in \(S\), with \(\sum g_tt\in Y_{\ne S}\), is congruent modulo \(Y_{\ne S}\) (coefficientwise) to an \(R\)-combination of syzygies supported on one block of \(S\) and of Koszul pairs between tops of different blocks of \(S\).
(c): relative gluing's (c) for each block: every top syzygy supported on the block's tops is liftable.

The theorem and its proof

thm:ens-pure-part-reduction. Under (H), (c), (P), and (L\(_S\)) for every set \(S\) of \(1\le|S|\le D-2\) blocks, the base plus the family is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. Apply thm:relative-gluing with the blocks as members:

(a) is the base's \(z\)-injectivity;
(c) is assumed;
(d) holds, since no generator is a nonzero constant, because \(Z\) is nonempty.

This is the weak-base version. Its newer version lem:functional-relative-gluing only discharges (a) on the functional base, which is not used here.

It remains to prove (b): every top syzygy \(\sigma=(g_t)\) of degree \(s\le D\) is an \(R\)-combination of member-supported syzygies and Koszul pairs. All tops are homogeneous for the grading by \(e\), and so are those syzygies. So it suffices to treat \(\sigma\) homogeneous of degree \(e\). Let \(S=\operatorname{supp}e\).

Only pure tops from outside \(S\). If \(t\) is a top of a block \(b\notin S\) with \(g_t\ne0\), then \(g_t\) has \(r\)-degree \(e-\rho_t\mathbf 1_b\ge0\), so \(\rho_t\le e_b=0\) and \(t\) is pure.
Few blocks. For any \(t\) with \(g_t\ne0\), \(s=\deg g_t+\deg t\ge(|e|-\rho_t)+(\operatorname{ydeg}t+\rho_t)\), since \(g_t\) has \(r\)-degree \(|e|-\rho_t\). By (H), \(\operatorname{ydeg}t\ge2\), both for pure tops, of degree \(h+2\ge4\), and for the others. So \(|S|\le|e|\le s-2\le D-2\). If \(S=\emptyset\), \(\sigma\) is supported on pure tops, and (P) applies.
The local part. Write \(\sigma=\sigma^O+\sigma^S\), where \(\sigma^O\) is supported on pure tops of blocks outside \(S\) and \(\sigma^S\) on tops of blocks in \(S\). Then \(\sum_{t\in S}g_tt=-\sum_{u\notin S}g_uu\in Y_{\ne S}\). By (L\(_S\)), \(\sigma^S=\lambda+\xi\), with \(\lambda\) a combination of syzygies supported on one block of \(S\) and Koszul pairs within \(S\), and \(\xi=\sum_{t}y_te_t\), \(y_t\in Y_{\ne S}\).
Moving \(\xi\) outside. Write \(y_t=\sum_uc_{t,u}u\) over pure tops \(u\) of blocks outside \(S\). Then \(y_te_t=\sum_uc_{t,u}(ue_t-te_u)+\sum_uc_{t,u}te_u\), with Koszul pairs first and terms supported outside \(S\) last.
The rest is pure. \(\sigma-\lambda-\sum_{t,u}c_{t,u}(ue_t-te_u)\) is a syzygy, as a difference of syzygies. Its part on \(S\) is zero, so it is supported on pure tops. By (P) it is a combination of syzygies supported on one block's pure tops, which are member-supported, and Koszul pairs.

So (b) holds, and thm:relative-gluing gives the conclusion. \(\square\)

The original constraints. Each companion \(q_iP\) reduces to zero by the Gröbner basis. Its degree is 5 for \(h\ge2\) and 3 for \(h=1\), so the reduction uses elements of degree at most 5, together with \(L^3-L\), which lies in the base. So for \(D\ge5\), a PC refutation of degree \(D\) of the base with the original blocks is one of the base with the augmented blocks, and there is none.

Sufficient conditions and consequences

(c). The homogenization of a degree-order Gröbner basis truncated at degree \(D\) agrees with the homogenized ideal in degrees \(\le D\). So the augmented block has no fall below \(D\) in its span ring \(\mathbb F_3[y,r,z]/(\cdots)\). By lem:span-transfer, with \(r\) among the forms as in cor:ens-members, (c) then holds whenever \(G\) is free through \(D\) over the span of the block's linear parts. Before augmentation it fails (lem:ens-block-span-fall).
(L\(_S\)). Suppose the blocks of \(S\) have jointly independent linear parts, spanning \(W_S\), and \(G/Y^G_{\ne S}\) is free through \(D\) over \(T(W_S)\), where \(Y^G_{\ne S}\subseteq G\) is generated by the other blocks' pure tops, which contain no \(r\). Then (L\(_S\)) holds by lem:tensor-splitting-locality, with member rings \(T(W_a)\otimes U_a\). Modulo \(Y_{\ne S}\), the syzygies of the tops of \(S\) are generated by each block's own span-ring syzygies, which are supported on one block, and by Koszul pairs. The difference lies in \(Y_{\ne S}\) coefficientwise.
Many inputs. If every block has \(h_a\ge D-1\), the pure tops have degree \(h_a+2>D\). Then (P) is vacuous and \(Y_{\ne S}\) is zero through \(D\). The conditions become local: any at most \(D-2\) blocks have independent linear parts with \(G\) free through \(D\) over their span, plus (c). The capacity bound of cor:ens-span-members is then on sets of at most \(D-2\) blocks, not on the whole family. Unconditionally this covers \(D\le8\) with \(7\ge h_a\ge D-1\). At the compiler's \(D=11\) it needs \(h_a\ge10\) and the conjecture.
One input. For \(h=1\) there are no pure tops. That case is trivial anyway: \(r=1\) satisfies each singleton block, and restricting to it maps any refutation to one of the base alone.
What (P) is. Block \(a\)'s pure tops are the monomials \(m_{a,jk}=\ell_{a,1}\cdots\ell_{a,h}\,\ell_{a,j}\ell_{a,k}\) in its forms. The Gröbner elements they top are not products of the block's selectors. For \(h=2\) it is \(y_1^2y_2^2-P\), and \(q_1q_2\) is not in the ideal. So (P) is a Taylor-generation question for a family of monomial tops of degree \(h+2\). It resembles thm:based-taylor-glue's condition, but only the tops are products. For \(h=2\) the tops are \(\ell_{a,1}^2\ell_{a,2}^2\). The count at which it can hold for dependent spans is not computed.

What this means

For augmented ENS families, the part of the gluing condition that couples unboundedly many blocks is (P) alone, on tops of degree \(h+2\ge4\). The rest is local in the blocks.
The obstruction of the ENS Taylor entry, a fall inside one block's span ring, is removed by the augmentation and enters only through (c).
Where the reduction applies, the band needs no global freeness. What it needs is (P) for its pure tops, and freeness over the span of any at most \(D-2\) of its blocks, modulo the others' pure tops.
Neither (P) at the window's scale nor whether the band's blocks satisfy the local conditions is shown.

Next: the pure part at \(h=2\). In the free-span model \(T(W)\), for generic forms, find the largest number of blocks for which the tops \(\ell_{a,1}^2\ell_{a,2}^2\) satisfy (P) through degree \(D\), with spans dependent. The degree-5 case is a double-point-type rank, \(M(d-2)\) against \(\dim T_5\). Compare with the band's count. Also try to prove conj:bihomogeneous-ens-tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:relative-gluing (hypotheses (a) to (d)), cor:ens-members (the base with private field equations and single-block no-fall), lem:tensor-splitting-locality, lem:ens-block-span-fall, thm:based-taylor-glue and prop:overlap-tor. The claim searches for private-coefficient grading, multigrading, fine grading and pure consequences found cor:row-rank-members's fine grading, a monomial grading of the truncated algebra and a different mechanism, and no prior reduction. The computation's values are read from gb_blocks.json. A fresh-context reviewer checked, and confirmed, these points:

the multigrading, the restriction to pure tops outside \(S\), the use of (L\(_S\)), the rewriting of \(\xi\) and the appeal to (P), with no hypothesis unused;
the (L\(_S\)) remark, the many-inputs consequence and the one-input remark;
the script and its values, including a brute-force count \(|Z|=51\) at \(h=2\);
with one search, that the record does not already contain the theorem.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the \(y\)-degree bound added to (H) and the degree argument of step 2 corrected;
\(r_i^3\) excepted, and the degree range corrected at \(h=1\);
the false identification of pure tops with products of selectors removed;
(c) justified through the truncated Gröbner basis and lem:span-transfer, not through cor:ens-members's unaugmented form;
the weak-base version of relative gluing named;
the transfer to the original constraints for \(D\ge5\) added.

The changes add hypotheses, remove a claim or fix a justification. The one addition, the transfer to the original constraints, is a direct reduction checked by the reviewer, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
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Computation design and coding	14 min 12.30 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 33.89 s
Individually measured computation	37.92 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	5 min 3.40 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Pure tops at two inputs: maximal rank in every tested case once no two blocks share a direction; one shared direction breaks (P) at degree 2h+2

24 September 2026 · Working proofs (an instance of overlap Tor and a Künneth composition) and a conjecture with exact checks for d ≤ 10, D ≤ 8 · cycle odd-prime-pure-part-count. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pure tops at two inputs: maximal rank in every tested case once no two blocks share a direction; one shared direction breaks (P) at degree 2h+2”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-pure-top-count.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The pure-part reduction left one condition coupling unboundedly many augmented ENS blocks. That condition is (P) for the pure tops, the monomials \(\ell_{a,1}\cdots\ell_{a,h}\ell_{a,j}\ell_{a,k}\) of degree \(h+2\). It helps beyond freeness only if it holds for many more blocks than a free span of the same dimension carries. This cycle asks how many two-input blocks satisfy (P) in the free-span model \(T(W)=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_d]/(y_i^3)\), and what forces it to fail.

General statement. lem:shared-direction-pure-tops, prop:pure-top-sums and conj:two-input-pure-tops-maximal-rank.

lem:shared-direction-pure-tops: two blocks with \(h\ge2\) inputs that share a direction have a top syzygy of degree \(2h+2\) outside the span of member-supported syzygies and Koszul pairs, when their \(2h-1\) distinct forms are independent and the top algebra is free through \(2h+2\) over their span. So, under those conditions, (P) through \(D\ge2h+2\) fails for any two blocks that share a direction.
prop:pure-top-sums: (P) is additive over complementary spans. With the exact witnesses below, for every \(d\), (P) through degree 8 holds for \(26\lfloor d/10\rfloor\) two-input blocks with \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms in \(T(W)\). That is \(52\lfloor d/10\rfloor/d\) forms per dimension, asymptotically 5.2. The condition with the explicit list, which implies (P), then holds on a nonempty open set of board tuples with \(\mathbb F_3\)-points, whenever \(d\le m(\lfloor N/15\rfloor-1)\).
conj:two-input-pure-tops-maximal-rank: for every \(d\ge4\) and \(5\le D\le8\), two-input pure tops of forms generic over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), and \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational ones with pairwise non-proportional forms, satisfy (P) through \(D\) for every \(M\le M_{\rm exp}(D,d)\), the maximal-rank count. Counting forces failure above it only in degrees \(\le7\). At \(D=8\), \(M_{\rm exp}\sim cd^4\) with \(c=\tfrac1{24}-\sqrt{\tfrac1{576}-\tfrac1{20160}}\approx1/1668\), including the \(\binom M2\) term. This is an asymptotic rate: \(d^4/M_{\rm exp}\) is 385 at \(d=10\).

Setting

For two inputs, block \(a\) has one pure top, \(m_a=\ell_{a,1}^2\ell_{a,2}^2\), with \(\ell_{a,1},\ell_{a,2}\) independent. Its member-supported syzygies are \(\operatorname{ann}(m_a)e_a=(\ell_{a,1},\ell_{a,2})e_a\), since \(T(W)\) is free over \(T(\ell_{a,1},\ell_{a,2})\). The Koszul pairs \(m_be_a-m_ae_b\) have degree 8. So (P) in degree \(s\) is:

for \(s\le7\): the map \(\bigoplus_a\bigl(T/(\ell_{a,1},\ell_{a,2})\bigr)_{s-4}\to T_s\), \((w_a)\mapsto\sum_am_aw_a\), is injective, with rank \(M\dim T_{s-4}(d-2)\);
for \(s=8\): the map has rank \(M\dim T_4(d-2)-\binom M2\), and the Koszul pairs are independent in its domain.

Degree 4, the independence of the \(m_a\), follows from degree 5, as in the (b′)-implies-(a′) argument of the free-span double-points entry. \(M_{\rm exp}(D,d)\) is the largest \(M\) whose expected rank fits in \(\dim T_s\) for every \(5\le s\le D\). It is decreasing in \(D\): at \(d=10\) it is 181, 79, 42, 26 for \(D=5,6,7,8\).

The shared-direction lemma

lem:shared-direction-pure-tops. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let blocks \(a\ne b\) with \(h\ge2\) inputs share a form \(x\) up to a scalar. Suppose \(x\), the other \(h-1\) forms of \(a\) and the other \(h-1\) forms of \(b\) are linearly independent, and the top algebra \(G\) is free through \(2h+2\) over their span (for \(T(W)\) this is automatic). Take as pure tops the monomials of conj:bihomogeneous-ens-tops, which are the pure tops for \(h\le7\). Then the pure tops of \(a\) and \(b\) have a syzygy of degree \(2h+2\) that is not a combination of syzygies supported on one block and Koszul pairs.

Proof.

Two pure tops through \(x\). Pick a second form \(\ell_{a,k}\) of \(a\). The pure top of \(a\) with \(x\) and \(\ell_{a,k}\) squared is \(x^2u_a\), where \(u_a=\ell_{a,k}^2\prod_{i\ne x,k}\ell_{a,i}\) has degree \(h\). Define \(u_b\) the same way for \(b\).
The syzygy. \(\sigma=u_b\,e_{x^2u_a}-u_a\,e_{x^2u_b}\) is a syzygy, of degree \(2h+2\).
No Koszul pairs. Koszul pairs of pure tops have degree \(2h+4\), so none occurs in degree \(2h+2\).
Not member-supported. Suppose \(\sigma\) were a sum of syzygies supported on one block each. Its part on block \(a\)'s coordinates would itself be a syzygy, so \(u_bx^2u_a=0\). But \(x^2u_au_b\) is a monomial in \(2h-1\) independent forms with every exponent at most 2. It is nonzero in \(T\) of their span, and so in \(G\) by the freeness. \(\square\)

For pure tops, this gives an explicit nonzero element of prop:overlap-tor's quotient \(Q\) in degree \(2h+2\). \(Q\) is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(W_a\cap W_b)}\) because the two blocks have no common generators. Whether \(2h+2\) is the lowest degree of \(Q\) is not shown. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(W\) has only \((3^d-1)/2\) directions, so shared directions must be excluded explicitly. The witnesses below all have pairwise non-proportional forms.

For the goal: blocks with \(h\le(D-2)/2\) inputs that share an input form, with their other forms independent over a free span, cannot be glued as separate members through this route. At \(D=11\) that is \(h\le4\). They must be merged into one member and augmented jointly. Whether the window's band has blocks sharing input forms is not known.

The witnesses

pure_tops.cpp (witnesses.jsonl) is one compiled run, taking 8.6 s. For every \(4\le d\le10\) and \(5\le D\le8\), it searches seeds for one \(\mathbb F_3\) tuple of \(M_{\rm exp}(D,d)\) blocks that satisfies (P) in every degree \(5\le s\le D\).

Method.
- Each block uses the quotient basis of monomials in the \(d-2\) coordinates that complement a nonzero \(2\times2\) minor of its forms.
- Elimination is incremental over the blocks. A seed is abandoned as soon as a prefix falls short, since (P) passes to prefixes.
- Koszul independence at \(s=8\) is checked through the reductions of the \(m_b\) modulo \((\ell_{a,1},\ell_{a,2})\).
- Small cases run in parallel, one case per thread. Cases with \(\dim T_D\ge3000\) run one at a time, with parallel row reduction.
Result. All 28 cases have a witness, and every rank equals its expected value. For example, \((d,D)=(10,8)\) with 26 blocks has ranks 208, 936, 2912 and 6591 in degrees 5 to 8. 25 cases needed at most three seeds, and the others 4, 13 and 15.
Validation. validate_p.py (validation.json) takes 12 of the final kernel's witness tuples, with \(d=5,6,7\), \(s=5\) to 8 and \(M\) up to 14. It works on the full domain, with no quotient basis, and all ranks come from rank_modp. In every case it checks three things:
- the full map's rank equals the kernel's;
- every vector of the explicit list maps to zero;
- the list's rank equals the kernel dimension, which is (P) itself.
All 12 pass, including degree 8. An earlier version of the kernel was also compared with reference.py, on ranks only.

These are exact certificates for the certified \((d,D)\). Rank is lower semicontinuous, so each witness shows that (P) holds on a nonempty open set of tuples. No defect appeared once shared directions were excluded.

Additivity and the unconditional count

prop:pure-top-sums. Let \(W=W'\oplus W''\), and let families of two-input blocks with forms in \(W'\) and in \(W''\) each satisfy (P) through \(D\), in \(T(W')\) and \(T(W'')\). Then their union satisfies (P) through \(D\) in \(T(W)\). With the witness at \((10,8)\):

for every \(d\), \(26\lfloor d/10\rfloor\) blocks on \(\lfloor d/10\rfloor\) coordinate copies satisfy (P) through 8 in \(T(W)\);
when \(d\le m(\lfloor N/15\rfloor-1)\), the explicit-list condition, which implies (P), holds for the same count on a nonempty Zariski-open set of board tuples with \(\mathbb F_3\)-points. A positive count needs \(d\ge10\), so \(N\ge30\).

Proof. This is lem:kunneth-component-locality, taking the two families as components, with (P) applied inside each. For completeness:

\(T=T'\otimes T''\), and \(T/I'T\) and \(T/I''T\) are extended from different tensor factors. So \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T\) of the two vanishes, and \(I'T\cap I''T=I'I''T\).
For a syzygy \((\alpha,\beta)\), \(\sum\alpha_ig'_i\in I'T\cap I''T\), so it equals \(\sum c_{ij}g'_ig''_j\).
Subtracting \(\sum c_{ij}(g''_je_i-g'_ie_j)\) leaves a syzygy of the \(g'\) plus a syzygy of the \(g''\). Over \(T\), these are extended from \(T'\) and \(T''\) by flatness, and (P) in each factor finishes.

The board.

thm:general-forms-freeness gives an \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational span \(W\) over which \(G\) is free through 8. Then \(G\cong T(W)\otimes C\), and (P) in \(G\) is (P) in \(T(W)\), tensored with \(C\).
(P) with the explicit list, the multiples of \((\ell_{a,1},\ell_{a,2})\) and the Koszul pairs, says that the rank of the top map plus the rank of the list map equals the dimension of the domain. Both ranks are lower semicontinuous and their sum never exceeds that dimension. So the condition is Zariski-open, and the witness gives the \(\mathbb F_3\)-point. \(\square\)

What this means

Within \(d\le10\) and \(D\le8\), the pure part at two inputs shows no defect beyond shared directions.
Unconditionally, it holds at asymptotically 5.2 forms per dimension. That is linear in \(d\), a constant factor beyond independent spans (1 form per dimension). The window needs a factor of order \(n\), by the composition entry.
The count the route needs is the conjecture, with asymptotic growth about \(d^4/1668\) at \(D=8\). Proving it for all \(d\) is a truncated Terracini problem for products of squares. It is of the same kind as conj:truncated-double-points, which is also unproved.
The compiler's \(D=11\) is beyond the degrees checked here. There the expected count must also include the Koszul pairs' multiples in degrees 9 to 11.
Two structural requirements now stand for gluing ENS families through the pure-part reduction: blocks with \(h\le(D-2)/2\) must not share directions, and the local conditions need independence over at most \(D-2\) blocks.

Next: the band's structure against these requirements. Do the window's blocks share input forms, and how often? If they do, merged members are needed, and their pure tops and local conditions must be redone. If they do not, the next target is a proof of conj:two-input-pure-tops-maximal-rank, for example a Horace argument adapted to products of squares.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:ens-pure-part-reduction (its (P)), prop:overlap-tor, lem:kunneth-component-locality, thm:general-forms-freeness, prop:board-double-points-from-free-spans (the openness argument) and conj:truncated-double-points. The claim searches found that the additivity is lem:kunneth-component-locality and the shared-direction obstruction an instance of prop:overlap-tor. Both are recorded as a composition and an instance, not as new mechanisms. The values are read from witnesses.jsonl and validation.json.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed these points:

the lemma's proof;
the Künneth argument and its citation;
the count \(26\lfloor d/10\rfloor\);
the openness argument: the list's image lies in the kernel, so the two ranks sum to at most the domain's dimension;
the kernel's quotient basis, substitution, Koszul check and prefix abort;
the quoted ranks and \(M_{\rm exp}\).

It checked degree 8 independently by brute force. It required these changes, all adopted:

a degree-8 validation on the final kernel, saved as a result file, replacing evidence that existed only in the session logs;
the exact growth constant, including the \(\binom M2\) term, stated as asymptotic;
the conjecture restated as "(P) for all \(M\le M_{\rm exp}\)", with genericity over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\);
the rate \(52\lfloor d/10\rfloor/d\) forms per dimension;
the board condition corrected to \(N\ge30\), with the explicit-list condition named;
the lemma's consequence qualified by its hypotheses;
"lowest-degree" dropped;
a link for the window's factor \(n\).

The changes weaken or re-source claims, and the added validation is a check, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	28 min 9.40 s
Marked reading and review windows	4 min 8.09 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	10 min 53.06 s
Computation design and coding	9 min 29.92 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 55.15 s
Individually measured computation	43.04 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Shared inputs: two ENS blocks sharing a linear part break the pure-part reduction's pair condition at degree 8 (under freeness, for 3 ≤ h ≤ 7), and separately augmented parallel pairs fall at degree 7 for every tested h

24 September 2026 · Working proof (explicit consequences; pair condition fails, degree-5 minimum checked for h ≤ 7) and a conjecture with exact checks for h ≤ 5 · Obstruction to block-by-block gluing; cycle odd-prime-band-sharing. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Shared inputs: two ENS blocks sharing a linear part break the pure-part reduction's pair condition at degree 8 (under freeness, for 3 ≤ h ≤ 7), and separately augmented parallel pairs fall at degree 7 for every tested h”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-shared-input-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The pure-part reduction and the pure-top count treat each ENS block as its own member, augmented separately, and ask for conditions on at most \(D-2\) blocks. The pure-top count entry proposed checking whether the window's blocks share input forms.

The band's blocks have far more inputs than the compiler's degree, since the band starts around \(R(L)\) inputs. For \(h\ge D-1\), and under conj:bihomogeneous-ens-tops, the premise of the pure-part reduction, their pure tops of degree \(h+2\) lie above \(D=11\). So (P) is vacuous for them.
What decides whether blocks can stay separate members is what happens when two blocks share an input. It could be the same affine form, or the same linear part with different constants.

This cycle tests whether such a pair, each block augmented separately, has a fall in its span ring.

General statement. lem:shared-input-consequences and conj:shared-input-falls.

lem:shared-input-consequences: for two complete accuracy-one ENS blocks with separate private coefficients, sharing a linear part \(x\) among their inputs, there are explicit consequences.
- For identical inputs, \(W=F_bP_a\) has degree \(h_b+4\), and \(z^2W\) lies in the pair's homogenized ideal \(J\).
- For parallel inputs \(x\) and \(x+c\), \(c\ne0\), \(R=P_aP_b(q_a-q_b)\) has degree 7, and \(zR\in J\).
So the pair has a span-ring fall below degree \(h_b+6\), respectively of degree 7, unless \(W\in J_{h_b+4}\), respectively \(R\in J_7\). In both cases, with \(h_a,h_b\ge2\) and every non-field top of either block of degree at least 5, the pure-part reduction's pair condition (L\(_S\)), \(S=\{a,b\}\), fails at degree 8. That minimum is a finite check, for \(3\le h\le7\). The statement also requires freeness through 8 over the pair's span and no other block with pure tops of degree \(\le8\).
conj:shared-input-falls: for every \(h\ge3\), \(W\notin J_{h+4}\) and \(R\notin J_7\). Checked exactly for \(W\) at \(h=3,4\) and for \(R\) at \(h=3,4,5\). At \(h=2\) the pair falls at degree 5 in both cases.

A compiled inventory contains such a pair whenever two lines carry literals \(f=a\) and \(f=b\), \(a\ne b\), with otherwise independent inputs. An example is a line asserting \(x_{ij}=1\) next to a hole initial containing \(x_{ij}=0\). For such inventories the pure-part reduction's hypotheses fail at the pair. For parallel pairs, the syzygy that breaks them does not lift in the separately augmented pair, so separate augmentation does not suffice. Whether the fall survives with the weak base and the other blocks is not checked.

The consequences

Let block \(a\) have inputs \(x+c_a,y_{a,2},\dots,y_{a,h_a}\) and block \(b\) have inputs \(x+c_b,y_{b,2},\dots,y_{b,h_b}\), all affine with independent linear parts apart from the common \(x\). Each block has its own coefficients. \(P_a=1-\sum_kr_{a,k}q_{a,k}\), and similarly \(P_b\). Let \(J\) be the homogenization of both blocks' reduced degree-order Gröbner bases, each computed in its own variables, together with every field equation. So \(J_s\) consists of the \(z\)-homogenizations to degree \(s\) of the sums \(g_a+g_b\), with \(g_a\) in \(a\)'s ideal and \(g_b\) in \(b\)'s, each of degree at most \(s\). The degree-compatible bases give exactly this.

Identical inputs, \(c_a=c_b\). Write \(q_x=1-(x+c_a)^2\) and \(L_x=x+c_a\). Let \(F_b=q_{b,2}\prod_{j\ge3}L_{b,j}\,(1-r_{b,2})\), of degree \(h_b+1\). Let \(W=F_bP_a\), of degree \(h_b+4\).
- \(W\) vanishes on the pair's zero set. If input \(x\) is false, \(F_b=0\), unless \(b\)'s true set is exactly \(\{2\}\), where \(r_{b,2}=1\). If \(x\) is true, \(a\)'s true set is nonempty, so \(P_a=0\).
- \(z^2W\in J\). With \(1=q_x+L_x^2\), \(W=F_b\cdot(q_xP_a)+L_x\cdot(L_xF_b)\cdot P_a\). Here \(q_xP_a\) is a companion of \(a\), and \(L_xF_b\) vanishes on \(b\)'s zero set by the same case analysis, so it lies in \(b\)'s ideal with degree \(h_b+2\). Both terms have degree \(h_b+6\).
Parallel inputs, \(c_a\ne c_b\). \(R=P_aP_b(q_a-q_b)=P_b\cdot(q_aP_a)-P_a\cdot(q_bP_b)\). Each term on the right is a companion times the other block's \(P\), of degree 8. \(q_a-q_b=(c_b-c_a)(2x+c_a+c_b)\) is affine, so \(R\) has degree 7, and \(zR\in J_8\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(2x+c_a+c_b\) is a multiple of the third parallel form \(x+c\), with \(\{c_a,c_b,c\}=\mathbb F_3\).
The fall. If \(W\notin J_{h_b+4}\), then \(W\) or \(zW\) is \(z\)-torsion modulo \(J\), in degree at most \(h_b+5\). If \(R\notin J_7\), then \(R\) is \(z\)-torsion in degree 7.
The pair condition. Let \(h_a,h_b\ge2\), since otherwise \(\rho'=0\). The tops of the two shared-input companions are \(t_{a}=-x^2\rho'_a\) and \(t_b=-x^2\rho'_b\), with \(\rho'_a=\sum_{k\ge2}r_{a,k}\ell_{a,k}^2\) and \(\rho'_b\) likewise. The term with \(k\) at the shared input dies, because \(x^4=0\). Let \(e=x^2\rho'_a\rho'_b\), of degree 8.
- \(e\) is nonzero in \(T\) of the \(h_a+h_b-1\) independent forms, tensored with the coefficient algebras. So it is nonzero in the weak top algebra with coefficients, given freeness through 8 over the pair's span.
- \(e=-\rho'_bt_a=-\rho'_at_b\) lies in both blocks' top ideals.
- If every non-field top has degree at least 5, the product of the two top ideals starts in degree 10, so \(e\) is not in it. The common part \(I_{12}\) of prop:overlap-tor consists of top-ideal generators lying in \(T(x)\). There are none, because \(x^3=0\) and every non-field top has degree at least 5. So \(I_{12}=0\) in degree 8, and not lying in the product ideal suffices.
- The coefficients count as further directions: the member rings are \(T(W_a)\) and \(T(W_b)\), with \(W_a=\operatorname{span}(x,y_a,r_a)\) and \(W_b=\operatorname{span}(x,y_b,r_b)\). Their intersection is \(\operatorname{span}(x)\), as prop:overlap-tor, stated for forms, requires.
So prop:overlap-tor's quotient \(Q\) is nonzero in degree 8, and hypothesis (b) of relative gluing fails for the pair. That is (L\(_S\)) for \(S=\{a,b\}\), since \(Y_{\ne S}\) vanishes through degree 8 when no other block has pure tops of degree \(\le8\). The minimum non-field top degree is 5 for \(3\le h\le7\), read from gb_blocks.json of the augmented-block computation. \(\square\)

The check

pair_falls.sing (output in pair_falls.out) is one Singular run, taking 18 s. It builds \(J\) exactly as above and computes \((J:z)\) modulo \(J\) up to a degree bound. It records the lowest degree of a fall, and whether \(W\), \(zW\), \(z^2W\), \(R\) and \(zR\) lie in \(J\). Singular warns that the degree-bounded basis is not a standard basis. Since \(J\) is homogeneous and the order is dp, normal forms are exact through the bound.

Controls. There is no fall up to the bound for one block alone (\(h=2,3\)) or for two blocks with disjoint inputs (\(h=2,3,4\)). Both hold by theory: a homogenized degree-order basis is \(z\)-saturated, and a disjoint pair is a tensor product over \(\mathbb F[z]\) of torsion-free modules. So the controls check the pipeline, not a hypothesis.
Identical input.
- The lowest fall is at degree 5 for \(h=2\), 7 for \(h=3\) and 8 for \(h=4\).
- For \(h=3,4\), \(W\notin J\) while \(zW\in J\), so \(W\) is a torsion element in degree \(h+4\), the lowest degree found.
- At \(h=2\) the lower fall factors, up to a unit, as \(q_{b,2}(1-r_{a,1})(1-r_{a,1}-r_{a,2})(1-r_{b,2})\). That is \(F_b\) times a degree-2 factor that vanishes whenever \(x\) is true. The analogous factor for general \(h\), a product over the true sets containing \(x\), has degree \(2^{h-1}\).
Parallel inputs.
- For \(h=3,4,5\), \(R\notin J_7\) and \(zR\in J\), with the lowest fall at degree 7.
- At \(h=2\), \(R\in J\), but the pair falls at degree 5. The witness is the third parallel form times \((1-r_{a,1})(1-r_{a,1}-r_{a,2})(1-r_{b,1})(1-r_{b,1}-r_{b,2})\).

An earlier run in this cycle predicted a lowest identical-input fall at \(2h+1\) from \(h=2,3\). The \(h=4\) value, 8, refuted that, and \(W\) explains the observed \(h+4\).

What this means

Identical inputs. Separately augmented blocks sharing an input fall at degree \(h+4\), for \(h=3,4\). For the band's large \(h\), \(W\) lies above \(D\). Whether other torsion lies below \(D\) is not known.
Parallel inputs. Separately augmented blocks whose inputs share a linear part with different constants fall at degree 7, in their span ring alone, for every tested \(h\ge3\). That is independent of \(h\), and below \(D=11\).
- Compiled inventories contain such pairs whenever two lines use one form with different constants and otherwise independent inputs, as with a hole initial containing \(x_{ij}=0\) and a derived line containing \(x_{ij}=1\). A lower-bound argument must allow every inventory, including these.
- At such a pair the pure-part reduction's hypothesis (L\(_S\)) fails, by the pair-condition part of the lemma, for \(3\le h\le7\), under freeness and with no low pure tops elsewhere. For the band's \(h\ge10\), the same failure needs the degree-5 minimum there too, which is not checked. So the reduction does not cover inventories with shared linear parts. For identical inputs the offending syzygy lifts exactly, since \(P_bc_a=P_ac_b\), and could be added to the list. For parallel inputs it leaves \(R\), which is torsion in the pair's span ring.
Repairs. Separate augmentation does not suffice for parallel pairs. Two repairs are possible:
- add the cross-consequences such as \(R\) as generators;
- augment the components of the graph linking blocks with a common linear part jointly.
The private-coefficient grading still separates different components. For a proof whose lines are linked through shared forms, one component can be the whole inventory, which is the original problem.
The fall itself. These are span-ring falls of the pair alone, with field equations only. Whether they survive with the weak base and other blocks, which could put \(R\) into \(J_7\), is not checked. They are not PC refutations.
Related records.
- lem:shared-direction-pure-tops treats the same pairs through their pure tops at degree \(2h+2\). What is new here is the companion-top failure at degree 8, independent of \(h\), and the span-ring fall.
- ex:ternary-fresh-block-conservativity-refuted records pairs of blocks creating new low-degree consequences in existing variables. That is a related but different quantity.

Next: a route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer. Five research entries have followed the selector-model review. The block-by-block gluing route now meets an obstruction that compiled inventories can trigger. The review should decide whether jointly augmented components can be kept small in the window, for instance after a restriction, or whether the gluing line must be set aside.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the pure-part reduction and its (c) condition, the pure-top count, lem:ens-block-span-fall (the one-block fall that augmentation removes), prop:overlap-tor, and the compiler's local-rule description (one block per line, inputs \(q=1-f^{p-1}\) for the line's literals \(f=0\)). The consequences are proved above for every \(h\ge2\). Their non-membership, and so the falls, are exact checks for the stated \(h\), read from pair_falls.out.

A fresh-context reviewer checked the consequences and the degree-\((h+6)\) and degree-8 representations. It found that the script builds \(J\) as described, with each block's basis computed without \(z\), and that the output values match, including \(W\notin J\), \(zW\in J\) at \(h=2,3,4\). It required these changes, all adopted:

\(J_s\) defined precisely;
the unit and the \(2^{h-1}\) remark at \(h=2\);
the degree-bound warnings and the controls explained;
the route consequence made conditional: isolation from the base and other blocks stated, and the failed hypothesis named;
"must be augmented jointly" weakened;
"always trigger" changed to "can trigger";
the conditions on (P) stated;
lem:shared-direction-pure-tops and the conservativity refutation cited.

Naming the hypothesis added the pair-condition part, a new proof. A second focused pass found it sound. It required these clarifications, all adopted:

the correct reason that \(I_{12}\) vanishes;
the coefficients counted as directions of the member rings;
\(h\ge2\), and the tops named as those of the shared-input companions;
the degree-5 minimum marked as a finite check for \(3\le h\le7\), including at the band's \(h\);
the title's conditions.

These clarify or weaken, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	16 min 48.11 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 58.77 s
Computation design and coding	4 min 24.51 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 17.65 s
Individually measured computation	41.78 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	7 min 25.27 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: block-by-block gluing does not reach compiled inventories, and pairwise joint augmentation fails for three linked blocks; whether the fall degree keeps growing with the number of linked blocks is open

24 September 2026 · Route review with a finite-check falsification · The gluing line after the selector-model review; cycle odd-prime-gluing-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: block-by-block gluing does not reach compiled inventories, and pairwise joint augmentation fails for three linked blocks; whether the fall degree keeps growing with the number of linked blocks is open”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-gluing-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Five research entries have followed the selector-model review. This review states the line's claim and what the goal needs, tries to falsify the one repair left open, assesses the line, and names the next step.

General statement. The line's general claim: the window's compiled ENS blocks glue over the weak base without falls at the compiler's degree \(D=11\), so without PC refutation, by relative gluing with members.

The base is stable, linearly at \(p=3\).
Members may be glued on free spans.
Count-based conditions transfer by openness.
Private coefficients make the conditions local in the blocks, except through pure tops (thm:ens-pure-part-reduction).

The falsification test below is registered as ex:pairwise-augmentation-triple-falls.

What happened since the last review

Count-based conditions transfer from free spans to a nonempty open set of board tuples (openness transfer).
Unaugmented ENS blocks fall in their span ring, so Gröbner augmentation is needed (ENS Taylor obstruction).
With private coefficients, the gluing condition splits into (P), on pure tops of degree \(h+2\), and conditions on at most \(D-2\) blocks (pure-part reduction).
At two inputs, (P) reaches its maximal-rank count in every exact case, and a shared direction breaks it (pure-top count).
Blocks sharing a linear part break the pair condition at degree 8. Separately augmented parallel pairs fall at degree 7 (shared-input falls).

What the goal needs

Every polynomial inventory of compiled blocks must glue at degree 11, including adversarial ones.

Compiled inventories can contain blocks with shared and parallel linear parts, since lines of a proof reuse forms with different constants.
So the members of any gluing must be groups of blocks linked by shared linear parts, each augmented jointly, or blocks with added cross-consequences.
For a proof whose lines are all linked, one group is the whole inventory, which is the original problem.

The line helps only if the degree-\(D\) behaviour of a linked group is determined by its small subgroups.

Falsification attempt

The one repair left open by the shared-input entry is to add cross-consequences pair by pair: augment every pair of blocks jointly. The test is triple_falls.sing (triple_falls.out), one Singular run of 48 s. It takes three blocks with \(h\) inputs each and private coefficients, joins the three pairwise joint Gröbner bases, homogenizes them with every field equation, and computes the lowest fall below degree 11. Singular's warnings that the degree-bounded basis is not a standard basis are harmless: \(J\) is homogeneous and dp is degree-compatible, so the truncated basis is exact through degree 11.

Parallel triple, with first inputs \(x\), \(x+1\), \(x+2\) and other inputs independent:
- \(h=2\): lowest fall at degree 6;
- \(h=3\): lowest fall at degree 9.
Here \(q_a+q_b+q_c=1\) identically, so \(T=P_aP_bP_c\), of degree 9, is a consequence. Its evident representations, such as \(P_bP_c(q_aP_a)+P_aP_c(q_bP_b)+P_aP_b(q_cP_c)\), have degree 11. At \(h=3\), \(T\) is not in the pairwise-augmented ideal in degree 9. At \(h=2\) it is, while the triple still falls at degree 6, so \(T\) is not the fall witness in general. The fall witnesses were not identified.
Chain, where \(a\) and \(b\) share \(x\), \(b\) and \(c\) share another form, and \(a\) and \(c\) share nothing. There is no identity like \(q_a+q_b+q_c=1\) here, yet it falls at the same degrees:
- \(h=2\): lowest fall at degree 6;
- \(h=3\): lowest fall at degree 9.

Pairwise joint augmentation does not suffice: three linked blocks fall below \(D=11\) at \(h=3\). The repair must reach at least triples. Compare \(k\) linked blocks whose \((k-1)\)-subgroups are augmented jointly, so that single blocks are augmented for pairs and pairs for triples. The lowest fall moves from 7 to 9 at \(h=3\), and from 5 to 6 at \(h=2\), using the shared-input entry's pair values. The step depends on \(h\).

Assessment of this line

Solid ground, proved. Linear base stability, generic freeness, the openness transfer, the need for augmentation, the pure-part reduction, and the explicit shared-input consequences.
What fails. Block-by-block gluing, and pairwise repair, for compiled inventories. Parallel pairs fall at degree 7 (for \(h=3,4,5\)), and pairwise-augmented triples at degree 9 (for \(h=3\)). Both are below 11. The pure-part reduction therefore covers only inventories without shared linear parts, which compiled inventories need not be.
What is untested.
- These falls are in the span ring of the linked blocks alone, not with the weak base.
- Only \(h\le5\) was computed, while the band's blocks have \(h\ge10\).
Prospects. Weak, on present evidence, for gluing compiled inventories member by member. One possibility remains open. The first fall of \(k\) linked blocks, with their \((k-1)\)-subgroups augmented, rose from \(k=2\) to \(k=3\) at both tested \(h\). If it keeps rising, degree-\(D\) gluing needs joint augmentation only on linked subgroups of boundedly many blocks. That would be a locality that proofs can satisfy. Whether such a bound \(k(D)\) exists, and how it depends on \(h\), is open. The line's prospects now rest on that question.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, a research step. State and test a bounded-linkage locality: at degree \(D\), a family of augmented blocks has no fall once every linked subgroup of at most \(k(D)\) blocks is augmented jointly. Whether \(k(D)\) is bounded, and how it depends on \(h\), is open.

First test the growth: chains of four blocks at \(h=3\), with all triples jointly augmented. If the lowest fall is at degree \(\ge11\), the growth holds one step further.
Also test a triple at \(h=4\). Triple falls rise with \(h\), from 6 to 9, and the band has \(h\ge10\).
Then identify the fall witnesses and look for the general mechanism. One hypothesis is that a fall of \(k\) linked blocks comes from a consequence like \(T\), whose natural degree grows with \(k\). Prove that growth, or find a counterexample.

If bounded linkage fails, set the member-gluing line aside for a mechanism that handles the whole inventory, such as the recorded closure gluing.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the five entries since the selector-model review and their claims: thm:ens-pure-part-reduction, conj:bihomogeneous-ens-tops, prop:pure-top-sums, lem:shared-input-consequences and conj:shared-input-falls. The falsification values are read from triple_falls.out.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed these points:

the configurations, including that \(a\) and \(c\) share nothing in the chain;
the pairwise joint bases, the fall test and the \(T\) test;
that \(\sum_c q_c=1\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), and \(T\)'s degree-11 representation.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the warnings explained;
\(T\) marked as not the witness at \(h=2\);
the growth comparison stated for \(k\) blocks with their \((k-1)\)-subgroups augmented, with the \(h=2\) values;
"\(k(D)\) of about \(D/2\)" dropped;
the mechanism marked as a hypothesis;
a triple at \(h=4\) added to the next step.

The changes weaken, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 53.37 s
Computation design and coding	23.58 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 3.46 s
Individually measured computation	47.55 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	2 min 38.64 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Chain consequences: identically linked ENS blocks have an explicit fall witness of degree h+4+(k−2)(h−1), above the compiler's degree once h ≥ 8; a bounded-linkage conjecture for large blocks

24 September 2026 · Working proof (chain consequences and degrees) and a conjecture (bounded linkage for large h) · cycle odd-prime-bounded-linkage. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Chain consequences: identically linked ENS blocks have an explicit fall witness of degree h+4+(k−2)(h−1), above the compiler's degree once h ≥ 8; a bounded-linkage conjecture for large blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-chain-consequences.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The gluing route review found that linked ENS blocks fall even with pairwise joint augmentation. It left one question: is there a bounded linkage \(k(D)\) such that augmenting linked subgroups of at most \(k(D)\) blocks suffices at degree \(D\)? This cycle identifies the falls of identically linked chains, gives their degrees for every \(h\) and length, and compares them with the parallel ones.

General statement. lem:chain-consequences and conj:bounded-linkage-large-h.

lem:chain-consequences: in a chain of \(k\ge2\) complete accuracy-one ENS blocks with \(h\ge2\) inputs each, consecutive blocks share one identical input. Independence of the other inputs and private coefficients are not needed here. They matter only for whether \(E_k\) lies in \(J\) at its own degree.
- An explicit product \(E_k\) of degree \(h+4+(k-2)(h-1)\) vanishes on the chain's zero set.
- \(z^2E_k\) lies in the joint augmentation of its two subchains of length \(k-1\).
- So the chain, augmented on its subchains, falls at degree at most \(\deg E_k+1\) unless \(E_k\) lies in that ideal at its own degree.
- For \(h\ge D-3\), every \(E_k\) with \(k\ge2\) has degree above \(D\). This locates the known witness only. It does not exclude lower falls from other elements; at \(h=2\) one occurs.
conj:bounded-linkage-large-h: fix \(D\) and \(h\ge D-3\). Take a family of complete accuracy-one ENS blocks with \(h\) inputs and private coefficients, whose linear parts are either identical or independent, with no further affine dependence. Augment each block separately and add these generators:
- \(R_{ab}=P_aP_b(q_a-q_b)\) for each pair with parallel inputs \(x+c\), \(x+c'\), \(c\ne c'\);
- \(T_{abc}=P_aP_bP_c\) for each triple covering the three translates of one linear part.
Then the family has no span-ring fall below \(D\): in the homogenized ideal, with field equations but without the weak base, \(z\) is injective in degrees below \(D\).

The chain consequence

Let the chain be \(b_1,\dots,b_k\). Block \(b_m\) and block \(b_{m+1}\) share the identical affine input \(\lambda_m\). An input is true when it vanishes, and \(q=1-L^2\) is its indicator.

End factor. Block \(b_k\) has inputs \(\lambda_{k-1}\), a second input \(u\) and others \(w_j\). Put \(F=q_u\prod_jL_{w_j}\,(1-r_{b_k,u})\), of degree \(h+1\). It is nonzero on \(b_k\)'s zero set only if \(u\) is true, every \(w_j\) is false and \(r_{b_k,u}\ne1\). Then \(b_k\)'s true set is \(\{u\}\) or \(\{u,\lambda_{k-1}\}\), and the first would force \(r_{b_k,u}=1\). So \(F\ne0\) forces \(\lambda_{k-1}\) true.
Middle factors. Block \(b_m\), \(1<m<k\), has inputs \(\lambda_{m-1}\), \(\lambda_m\) and others \(w_j\). Put \(G_m=(1-r_{b_m,\lambda_m})\prod_jL_{w_j}\), of degree \(h-1\). If \(\lambda_m\) is true and \(G_m\ne0\), the true set is \(\{\lambda_m\}\) or \(\{\lambda_m,\lambda_{m-1}\}\), and the first would force \(r_{b_m,\lambda_m}=1\). So \(\lambda_{m-1}\) is true.
Start factor. If \(\lambda_1\) is true, \(b_1\)'s true set is nonempty, so \(P_{b_1}=0\).

So \(E_k=F\,G_{k-1}\cdots G_2\,P_{b_1}\) vanishes on the chain's zero set, by induction along the chain. Its degree is \((h+1)+(k-2)(h-1)+3\). Neither independence of the other inputs nor private coefficients was used.

The degree-\((\deg E_k+2)\) representation. With \(1=q_{\lambda_1}+L_{\lambda_1}^2\): \[E_k=F\,G_{k-1}\cdots G_2\cdot(q_{\lambda_1}P_{b_1})+L_{\lambda_1}\cdot\bigl(L_{\lambda_1}F\,G_{k-1}\cdots G_2\bigr)\cdot P_{b_1}.\]

\(q_{\lambda_1}P_{b_1}\) is a companion of \(b_1\).
\(L_{\lambda_1}FG_{k-1}\cdots G_2\) vanishes on the zero set of the subchain \(b_2,\dots,b_k\): the factors force \(\lambda_1\) true there, where \(L_{\lambda_1}=0\). So it lies in that subchain's joint augmentation, in its own degree.

Both terms have degree \(\deg E_k+2\), so \(z^2E_k\) lies in the ideal \(J\) generated by the two subchains' homogenized joint bases. If \(E_k\notin J_{\deg E_k}\), then \(E_k\) or \(zE_k\) is \(z\)-torsion, so the chain falls at degree at most \(\deg E_k+1\). For \(k=2\) this is the \(W\) of lem:shared-input-consequences. \(\square\)

Large \(h\). \(\deg E_k\ge\deg E_2=h+4\), so \(h\ge D-3\) puts every \(E_k\) above \(D\). That the \(E_k\) are the lowest falls is observed only at \(h=3,4\) for pairs and \(h=3\) for triples. At \(h=2\) lower falls exist.

Checks

Earlier values. The shared-input entry and the review are consistent with \(E_k\) being the lowest fall. At \(h=3\) the predicted degrees are 7 for pairs and 9 for chain triples, the observed lowest falls. At \(h=4\), pairs are predicted at 8, as observed.
This cycle's run. chain_witness.sing (chain_witness.out) confirms \(E_3\) is the witness at \(h=3\): \(E_3\notin J_9\) and \(zE_3\in J\), with \(J\) the pairwise joint augmentation. At \(h=2\), \(E_3\), of degree 7, is also torsion, but the lowest fall is at 6, from another element, as with the \(h=2\) pairs.
Not reached. The run was killed at its 1200-second limit, as recorded in run_status.txt.
- The \(h=4\) chain triple, predicted to have no fall below 11 since \(E_3\) has degree 11, was still running.
- The \(h=4\) parallel triple, predicted at 9, never started.
Degree 11 in about 24 variables is beyond this approach. No value is claimed for either case.

Parallel links, and the conjecture

Parallel consequences do not grow with \(h\). They are \(R=P_aP_b(q_a-q_b)\), of degree 7, for a pair of blocks with inputs \(x+c\), \(x+c'\), and \(T=P_aP_bP_c\), of degree 9, for three blocks covering all three translates. Both are products of the blocks' \(P\)s, of degree 3 each, with at most a linear form. A product of four \(P\)s has degree 12. So below \(D=11\), such products involve at most three blocks. That every parallel failure has this product form is a heuristic.
The picture for large \(h\). The known witnesses for identically linked chains lie above \(D\) (the lemma). Lower falls from other elements are not excluded; they are observed only at \(h=2\). The known parallel failures involve at most three blocks of one parallel class. Mixed configurations, a parallel link followed by identical links, contain an end or middle factor of degree at least \(h-1\), so they also exceed \(D\) for large \(h\). That last point is a heuristic, not proved.
The conjecture. conj:bounded-linkage-large-h is the resulting locality. Its evidence is this mechanism analysis and the computed falls, all at \(h\le5\). It is untested at \(h\ge D-3\).
- For \(D\le7\) it is still a claim, but the added generators do not matter.
- \(D=8\), \(h=5\) is the first case where \(R\) matters: parallel pairs fall at 7, and identical pairs have their witness at 9.
- \(T\), of degree 9, matters only from \(D=10\), with \(h\ge7\).

What this means

The band's blocks have \(h\ge10\ge D-3\). For them the known identical-chain witnesses lie above 11. Whether identical sharing causes other, lower falls is open, and at \(h=2\) it does.
If the conjecture holds, the gluing line needs only local repairs: cross-consequences within parallel classes, on at most three blocks. With the pure-part reduction's local conditions, that is a bounded-linkage locality that compiled inventories can satisfy.
If it fails, the failure identifies the next consequence to add, or ends the member-gluing line.
All falls here are span-ring falls of the linked blocks alone, without the weak base.

Next: test conj:bounded-linkage-large-h at \(D=8\), \(h=5\), where it is first nonvacuous. Take a family of four or five blocks that mixes a parallel pair or triple with identical links. Augment each block separately, add \(R\) as generators, and check for a fall below 8, as one compiled run with the degree bound at 8. At \(D=8\) this tests \(R\) and the identical links; \(T\) is not tested there.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:shared-input-consequences (its \(W\) is \(E_2\)), conj:shared-input-falls, ex:pairwise-augmentation-triple-falls and the review's configurations. The chain witness is checked in chain_witness.out.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed these points:

the forcing arguments, including \(r\ne1\) and the true-set alternatives;
the degree formula and the representation;
membership in the subchain's ideal at its own degree, by radicality and degree-compatible bases;
\(z^2E_k\in J\), and the fall at degree \(\le\deg E_k+1\);
the large-\(h\) degree bound;
the script's \(E_3\).

It required these changes, all adopted:

the "fail only at" and "removes identical sharing" claims weakened to the known witness;
the unused hypotheses dropped from the lemma;
the timeout recorded in a result file, with the parallel case marked as never started;
the conjecture's generator list, input configurations and "span-ring fall" made exact;
the first cases where \(R\) and \(T\) matter stated;
the product form of parallel failures labelled a heuristic.

The changes weaken or make the statements precise, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	28 min 6.08 s
Computation design and coding	50.01 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 28.00 s
Individually measured computation	20 min 0.04 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	3 min 47.89 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Bounded linkage at D = 8, h = 5: with the parallel cross-consequence R added, the family a: x, b: x+1, c: x (other inputs fresh coordinates) has no fall below 8; without it, it falls at 7

24 September 2026 · Finite check (exact) of conj:bounded-linkage-large-h at its first case where R matters · cycle odd-prime-linkage-test. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Bounded linkage at D = 8, h = 5: with the parallel cross-consequence R added, the family a: x, b: x+1, c: x (other inputs fresh coordinates) has no fall below 8; without it, it falls at 7”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-linkage-test.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The chain-consequences entry stated conj:bounded-linkage-large-h. For \(h\ge D-3\), separately augmented ENS blocks, with the parallel cross-consequences \(R\) and \(T\) added, should have no span-ring fall below \(D\). Its first case where \(R\) matters is \(D=8\), \(h=5\). This cycle tests that case, with a control that shows the test can decide.

General statement. conj:bounded-linkage-large-h, tested here at its first nontrivial case and registered as ex:bounded-linkage-d8. The conjecture stays open.

The test

Three complete accuracy-one ENS blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\), with five inputs each and private coefficients:

\(a\) has inputs \(x\) and four independent forms;
\(b\) has \(x+1\) and four others, so it is parallel to \(a\);
\(c\) has \(x\) and four others, so it is identical to \(a\) on \(x\) and parallel to \(b\).

Each block is Gröbner-augmented separately. The test adds \(R_{ab}=P_aP_b(q_a-q_b)\) and \(R_{cb}=P_cP_b(q_c-q_b)\), both of degree 7. No triple covers the three translates, so no \(T\) is needed. The control omits \(R\). linkage_test.sing (linkage_test.out) is one Singular run, taking 497 s by the run's session record. It homogenizes everything with the field equations and computes \((J:z)\) modulo \(J\) through the degree bound 8. Here a fall means an element of \((J:z)\setminus J\). A consequence of degree 7 that needs \(z^2\) would first appear at degree 8, which was not examined. Singular's warnings that the degree-bounded basis is not a standard basis are harmless: a truncated homogeneous basis is exact through the bound, and the control's fall at 7 shows that the detection works.

Control, without \(R\): the lowest fall is at degree 7, consistent with the parallel consequence \(R\) of the shared-input entry. The script does not identify the element.
With \(R_{ab}\) and \(R_{cb}\): no fall below 8.

So the conjecture holds for this one configuration at \((D,h)=(8,5)\). The test could have failed in two ways, and neither happened:

another parallel consequence below 8 beyond \(R\);
an identical-sharing fall below 8 for \(a\) and \(c\). Their known witness \(E_2\) has degree 9, and a lower one was not excluded.

A remark on what the falls are

Modulo the field equations, polynomials are functions on the finite set \(\mathbb F_3^n\). The ring is a product of fields, so its ideals correspond to subsets, and sums of ideals to intersections. The joint zero set of linked blocks is the intersection of the blocks' zero sets, each extended to all variables. So the joint ideal is exactly the sum of the separate ideals, with no cross generators needed as ideals. Every fall of a separately augmented linked family is therefore a degree defect: a cross-consequence \(g\) lies in the sum of the separate ideals, but only through terms of degree above \(\deg g\).

\(R\) has degree 7 and a representation of degree 8, so its defect is 1;
\(T\) has degree 9 and the degree-11 representation of the gluing route review, so defect at most 2. \(W\) and \(E_k\) have defect at most 2 by the representations in lem:shared-input-consequences and lem:chain-consequences.

This is elementary, and it is not registered as a claim. It says the conjecture is a statement about the degree filtration of a sum of ideals. One way to study that is through the associated graded modules over \(T(x)=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) at a shared linear part, as in prop:overlap-tor.

What this means

At \((D,h)=(8,5)\), adding the parallel cross-consequences suffices for this one three-block configuration, identical link included. So the conjecture holds for one configuration in its first case where \(R\) matters.
The evidence is one family at one \((D,h)\). \(T\) is untested, since it matters only from \(D=10\). The band's degree is 11, with \(h\ge10\), which is beyond direct computation.
These are span-ring falls, without the weak base.

Next: attempt a proof of the conjecture in its simplest nontrivial form. A pair of blocks with parallel inputs, plus \(R\), should have no fall below some bound growing with \(h\). The data give none below 8 at \(h=5\); the bound itself is still to be found. Use the degree-defect view: compare the associated graded of the sum of the two blocks' ideals with the sum of their graded ideals, as modules over \(T(x)\). Show that \(R\) generates the only defect in degrees below that bound.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: conj:bounded-linkage-large-h and its generator list, lem:shared-input-consequences (\(R\)), lem:chain-consequences (\(E_2\) of degree \(h+4=9\)), and prop:overlap-tor. The values are read from linkage_test.out.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed these points:

the script: separate bases, \(R\) only in the test case, homogenization, and fall detection under the bound;
the ideal correspondence;
\(R\)'s degree and defect.

It required these changes, all adopted:

"fall" defined as \((J:z)\setminus J\), with degree 8 left unexamined;
the warnings explained;
the control's fall described as consistent with \(R\);
the run time sourced;
the representations of \(T\), \(W\) and \(E_k\) cited;
the title and conclusions scoped to one configuration.

The changes are scoping and wording, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 43.49 s
Computation design and coding	36.91 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 42.78 s
Individually measured computation	8 min 16.99 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	2 min 6.67 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Fiber decomposition for linked pairs: falls are killed by z^{2|V|}, and none lies below the fiber-sum degree, but that bound is only 4 for ENS pairs

24 September 2026 · Working proof (two general bounds) and a proof attempt that stops short of the conjecture · cycle odd-prime-parallel-pair-proof. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Fiber decomposition for linked pairs: falls are killed by z^{2|V|}, and none lies below the fiber-sum degree, but that bound is only 4 for ENS pairs”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-fiber-decomposition.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The linkage test confirmed conj:bounded-linkage-large-h for one configuration. It proposed a proof for a pair of blocks sharing one linear part, through the degree-defect view: the joint ideal of linked blocks is the sum of the separate ideals, and falls are degree defects. This cycle attempts that proof. It proves two general bounds by decomposing along the values of the shared coordinates, and shows why they fall short of the observed falls.

General statement. prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds, for every pair of systems sharing coordinates \(V\): falls are killed by \(z^{(p-1)|V|}\), and none lies below \(m_a+m_b\).

Over \(\mathbb F_p\), modulo all field equations, let two constraint systems \(a\) and \(b\), for example ENS blocks, live in variables \((x_V,Y_a)\) and \((x_V,Y_b)\), with \(Y_a\cap Y_b=\emptyset\). This needs the non-shared input forms and private variables of the two systems to be jointly independent, after an affine change of coordinates over \(\mathbb F_p\). Such a change keeps the field-equation ideal and the degree filtration. Let \(T\) be the ring of all variables modulo field equations. Let \(I_a\), \(I_b\) be the systems' ideals, which contain the field equations, so \(I_a=I(Z_a)\), and let \(J\) be the homogenization, with variable \(z\), of their separate degree-order Gröbner bases.

Defect bound. Every polynomial of degree \(s\) vanishing on the joint zero set lies in \((I_aT)_{\le s+(p-1)|V|}+(I_bT)_{\le s+(p-1)|V|}\). So \(z^{(p-1)|V|}\) kills every \(z\)-torsion element modulo \(J\).
Fiber-sum bound. Let \(Z_a^v\), for \(v\in\mathbb F_p^V\), be the fibers of \(a\)'s zero set over the shared values. Let \(m_a\) be the least degree of a nonzero element of \(K_a=\sum_vI(Z_a^v)\), an ideal in the \(Y_a\) variables, and define \(m_b\) likewise. Then there is no fall of \(J\) in degrees below \(m_a+m_b\). Both bounds are for two systems; the \(k\)-system version is not proved here.
For ENS blocks sharing one linear part, identical or parallel, \(m_a=m_b=2\). So the fiber-sum bound gives no fall below 4, while the observed falls start at 5 to 8.

The two bounds

Fibers. Modulo the field equations, polynomials are functions on a finite set. So for \(v\in\mathbb F_p^V\), with \(e_v(x_V)=\prod_{i\in V}\bigl(1-(x_i-v_i)^{p-1}\bigr)\) of degree \((p-1)|V|\), every \(f\) equals \(\sum_ve_v\,f(v,\cdot)\). The joint zero set's fiber over \(v\) is the product \(Z_a^v\times Z_b^v\) in disjoint variables. Its ideal is \(I(Z_a^v)+I(Z_b^v)\), and the union of the two fibers' degree-order bases, in disjoint variables, is a degree-order basis of the sum. So every fiber restriction \(f(v,\cdot)\) of degree \(\le s\) splits as \(\alpha_v+\beta_v\), with \(\alpha_v\in I(Z_a^v)T\), \(\beta_v\in I(Z_b^v)T\), both of degree \(\le s\). The cofactors may involve the other system's variables.

1. Defect bound. \(e_v\alpha_v\) vanishes on \(a\)'s zero set, extended to all variables, since on the fiber over \(v\) \(\alpha_v\) does, and elsewhere \(e_v\) does. Since \(I_aT\) contains the field equations, it is the ideal of that set, so \(e_v\alpha_v\in I_aT\), of degree \(\le s+(p-1)|V|\), and similarly for \(\beta\). Summing over \(v\) gives the representation. Each ideal's degree-order basis gives degree-compatible representations. \(\square\)

2. Fiber-sum bound. First reduce \(f\) in \(x_V\), with exponents below \(p\). This does not raise its degree, and it makes \(f=\sum_ve_vf(v,\cdot)\) an exact polynomial identity after reducing the right side too. Put \(A=\sum_ve_v\alpha_v\in I_aT\) and \(B=\sum_ve_v\beta_v\in I_bT\), reduced in \(x_V\), so \(f=A+B\) exactly. Expand in the shared variables: \[A=\sum_iA_i\,x_V^{\,i},\qquad B=\sum_iB_i\,x_V^{\,i},\] where each \(A_i\) is a fixed scalar combination of the \(\alpha_v\), so \(A_i\in K_aT\) and \(\deg A_i\le s\). Likewise \(B_i\in K_bT\). With \(f=\sum_if_ix_V^{\,i}\), we have \(f_i=A_i+B_i\) and \(\deg f_i\le s-|i|\).

Let \(t=\max(\deg A_i,\deg B_i)\), and suppose \(t>s-|i|\). Then the degree-\(t\) parts cancel: \(\operatorname{top}_t(A_i)=-\operatorname{top}_t(B_i)\), both nonzero.
That element lies in \(\operatorname{gr}(K_a)\,T\cap\operatorname{gr}(K_b)\,T\). \(K_a\) and \(K_b\) live in disjoint variables, and the associated graded of an ideal extended from one tensor factor is the extension of its associated graded. Indeed \(T\) is free over the \(Y_a\)-part on the monomials in the other variables, so the top form of \(\sum_jk_jm_j\) is \(\sum\operatorname{top}(k_j)m_j\) over the maximal terms. So this intersection is \((\operatorname{gr}K_a\otimes-)\cap(-\otimes\operatorname{gr}K_b)=\operatorname{gr}(K_a)\operatorname{gr}(K_b)\,T\) over a field, as in the proof of prop:pure-top-sums. Its nonzero elements have degree \(\ge m_a+m_b\).
So if \(s<m_a+m_b\), then \(t\le s<m_a+m_b\) gives a contradiction, and \(\deg A_i\le s-|i|\) for every \(i\).

Then \(A\in I_aT\) has degree \(\le s\), and \(B=f-A\in I_bT\) too. \(a\)'s degree-order basis stays a Gröbner basis in \(T\), since it involves only \(a\)'s variables. So \(A\) has a representation of degree \(\le s\), and \(f\in(I_aT)_{\le s}+(I_bT)_{\le s}\).

A fall at degree \(s\) is a homogeneous \(w\notin J\) with \(zw\in J\). Its dehomogenization vanishes on the joint zero set and has degree \(\le s\). So for \(s<m_a+m_b\) it lies in \(J\) after homogenizing, which is a contradiction. \(\square\)

3. The ENS value. For a block whose first input is \(x+c\), the fibers are the true fiber, where the input vanishes, and the false fiber. So \(K_a=I(Y)\), with \(Y\) the intersection of the two fibers, in the variables \(u_2,\dots,u_h,r_1,\dots,r_h\).

On \(Y\), \(r_1=0\) when some other input is true, and \(r_1=1\) otherwise. So \(r_1^2-r_1\in K_a\), of degree 2.
No nonzero linear function vanishes on \(Y\). A linear function vanishing on the points with every other input false, \(r_1=1\) and the other \(r\) free has no \(u\) or \(r_{k\ge2}\) terms and constant \(-b_1\), where \(b_1\) is the coefficient of \(r_1\). The points with some other input true and \(r_1=0\) then force \(b_1=0\).

So \(m_a=2\), and likewise \(m_b=2\), for every \(h\ge2\). The argument uses \(h\ge2\), and that \(Y\) is nonempty. \(\square\)

Why the attempt stops short

The fiber-sum bound treats \(K_a\) as one ideal. But each piece \(\alpha_v\) lies in the ideal of one fiber, and each pair of fiber types (true or false for \(a\), true or false for \(b\)) occurs only at certain shared values.

Parallel inputs. The pair "both true" never occurs.
Identical inputs. The pairs "\(a\) true, \(b\) false" and the reverse never occur.

A sharper bound would use the least degrees of the non-occurring products. As a heuristic count, fitted after the fact to the observed values, let \(m^t\) be the least degree of the true-fiber ideal: 2 at \(h=2\), and 3, from \(P\) restricted, for \(h\ge3\), which is not proved. Let \(m^f\) be the least degree of the false-fiber ideal, the \((h-1)\)-input block's: 3, 4 and 5 for \(h-1=1,2\) and \(3\le h-1\le6\), observed in gb_blocks.json only up to its computed \(h\). The count then gives two predictions. The \(+1\) for parallel pairs is ad hoc: it stands for a linear factor vanishing on the fiber where both inputs are false.

parallel pairs: \(m^t_a+m^t_b+1\), which is 5 at \(h=2\) and 7 for \(h\ge3\);
identical pairs: \(m^t+m^f\), which is 5, 7 and 8 at \(h=2,3,4\).

Both match every observed lowest fall. But the count is not a proof. Its natural degree-8 witness for identical pairs, for every \(h\ge4\), is \(G=P_a\,q_{b,2}P_b^{(-1)}\), where \(P_b^{(-1)}\) is \(b\)'s \(P\) without its shared input. \(G\) is not a fall, so the observed \(h=4\) fall at 8 must come from another element: \(q_{b,2}P_b^{(-1)}=q_{b,2}P_b+r_{b,1}q_xq_{b,2}\), so \(G=P_a\cdot(q_{b,2}P_b)+r_{b,1}q_{b,2}\cdot(q_xP_a)\) lies in \(J_8\). So defects depend on how fiber elements lift to the block's ideal, not only on their degrees. Elements like \(F_b=q_{b,2}\prod_{j\ge3}L_{b,j}(1-r_{b,2})\) of lem:shared-input-consequences, whose lift needs \(L_x^2\), have defect 2. Elements like \(q_{b,2}P_b^{(-1)}\), which lift through \(q_x\), have none. A proof of conj:bounded-linkage-large-h has to control this lifting cost.

What this means

Proved in general for pairs: their falls are shallow, killed by \(z^{2|V|}\) at \(p=3\), and none lies below the fiber-sum degree.
For ENS pairs the fiber-sum degree is 4, so this bound neither proves nor refutes the conjecture. It is still open.
The next proof step is a lifting-cost refinement of the fiber-sum argument: split each fiber ideal by the degree at which its elements extend to the block's ideal.

Next: formulate and prove the lifting-cost refinement for a pair sharing one linear part. For each fiber type, the relevant quantity is the least degree of a fiber element whose extension to the block costs 1 or 2 extra degrees. Check the refinement against the six observed lowest falls before relying on it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: conj:bounded-linkage-large-h, ex:bounded-linkage-d8, lem:shared-input-consequences, lem:chain-consequences, and prop:pure-top-sums (the product of extended ideals in disjoint variables). The observed falls quoted are from the recorded result files. No computation was run in this cycle.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical gap in the two bounds or in \(m_a=2\). It confirmed the identity behind \(G\in J_8\). It required these changes, all adopted:

\(I_aT\) and \(K_aT\) for the extended ideals, and \(I_a=I(Z_a)\) from the field equations;
reduction in \(x_V\), so that the identities are exact;
the case where \(B_i\) has the larger degree;
the freeness justification for top forms and the extended Gröbner basis;
the independence hypotheses;
\(h\ge2\) and nonempty \(Y\);
\(G\) described as the count's witness, which is not a fall;
the heuristic marked as fitted after the fact, with \(+1\) ad hoc and \(m^f\) observed only to the computed \(h\);
\(F_b\) defined;
"families" narrowed to "pairs".

The changes fix notation and justification, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 50.74 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 53.24 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 57.36 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Parallel fall theorem: two separately augmented ENS blocks with parallel inputs fall at degree 7, proved by a fiber criterion for 3 ≤ h_a ≤ 8, 4 ≤ h_b ≤ 8, and for all larger h under a minimum-degree hypothesis

24 September 2026 · Working proof (fiber criterion, true-fiber degree lemma, parallel fall), partly conditional · cycle odd-prime-lifting-cost. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Parallel fall theorem: two separately augmented ENS blocks with parallel inputs fall at degree 7, proved by a fiber criterion for 3 ≤ h_a ≤ 8, 4 ≤ h_b ≤ 8, and for all larger h under a minimum-degree hypothesis”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-parallel-fall-theorem.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The fiber-decomposition entry proved general but weak bounds and located the missing ingredient: how the fiber pieces of an element lift to a block's ideal. This cycle makes that precise for one shared linear part, as an exact criterion for membership in a block's ideal by fiber components. It then applies the criterion to the parallel consequence \(R\). The degree-7 fall of parallel pairs was a conjecture (conj:shared-input-falls), with exact checks for \(h\le5\). Here it is proved for every \(h\) in a range, and for all larger \(h\) under a minimum-degree hypothesis.

General statement. thm:parallel-pair-fall. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(a\) and \(b\) be complete accuracy-one ENS blocks with \(h_a,h_b\ge2\) inputs and private coefficients, with parallel inputs \(x+c_a\) and \(x+c_b\), \(c_a\ne c_b\), and all other inputs independent. Let each be Gröbner-augmented separately. Suppose:

\(a\)'s false-fiber ideal has no nonzero element of degree \(\le3\);
the minimum degrees of \(a\)'s true-fiber ideal and \(b\)'s false-fiber ideal sum to at least 8.

Then \(R=P_aP_b(q_a-q_b)\), of degree 7, lies in \(J\) after multiplication by \(z\) but not in degree 7, so the pair falls at degree 7. The hypotheses hold for \(3\le h_a\le8\) and \(4\le h_b\le8\), because the false fibers are blocks with up to seven inputs, all computed. They hold for all \(h_a\ge3\), \(h_b\ge4\) if every block with at least three inputs has no nonzero element of degree \(\le4\), which gb_blocks.json confirms up to seven inputs.

The fiber criterion

Translate so that \(a\)'s shared input is \(x\), true at \(x=0\), and \(b\)'s is \(x+1\), true at \(x=2\). The third value, \(x=1\), makes both false. Let \(Y_a\) be \(a\)'s other variables, its other inputs and its coefficients, and \(Y_b\) likewise. Let \(T\) be the ring of \(x,Y_a,Y_b\) modulo field equations.

\(I_a^{\rm T}=I(Z_a^{\rm T})\) is \(a\)'s true-fiber ideal, in \(Y_a\): the points with \(r_{a,1}+\sum_{k\in T'}r_{a,k}=1\), where \(T'\) is the set of true other inputs.
\(I_a^{\rm F}\) is \(a\)'s false-fiber ideal: the zero set of the block on its other \(h_a-1\) inputs, with \(r_{a,1}\) free.
\(I_b^{\rm T}\) and \(I_b^{\rm F}\) are defined the same way.

Reduce every element in \(x\) and write \(G=G_0+xG_1+x^2G_2\), with \(G_i\) in the \(Y\) variables. Because the ideals contain the field equations, membership is vanishing on the zero set. Reducing modulo the field equations, which lie in both ideals, keeps degree \(\le s\) and keeps membership, so reduced representatives may be used. Evaluating at \(x=0,1,2\), using \(x^2=1\) at \(x=\pm1\) and characteristic 3:

\(G\in I_aT\) if and only if \(G_0\in I_a^{\rm T}T\), \(G_1\in I_a^{\rm F}T\) and \(G_0+G_2\in I_a^{\rm F}T\);
\(H\in I_bT\) if and only if \(H_0\in I_b^{\rm F}T\), \(H_1+H_2\in I_b^{\rm F}T\) and \(H_0-H_1+H_2\in I_b^{\rm T}T\).

A degree bound \(\deg G\le s\) is \(\deg G_i\le s-i\). So \(J_s\), dehomogenized, consists of the \(G+H\) with these conditions and bounds. This is an exact criterion in the separate fiber ideals, which live in disjoint variables.

The true-fiber degree lemma

For \(h\ge3\), \(I^{\rm T}\) has no nonzero element of degree \(\le2\).

On each fiber of the other inputs. Fix the values \(u\) of the other inputs, with true set \(T'(u)\). Then \(g(u,\cdot)\) vanishes on the hyperplane \(\ell_u=r_1+\sum_{T'(u)}r_k-1=0\). After an affine change making \(\ell_u\) an affine coordinate \(t_1\), divide: \(g(u,\cdot)=t_1\lambda_u+g'(t_2,\dots)\). The remainder \(g'\) has degree \(\le2\), so it is reduced, and it vanishes on all of \(\mathbb F_3^{n-1}\), so it is 0. So \(g(u,\cdot)=\ell_u\lambda_u\) with \(\deg\lambda_u\le1\).
The quadratic part in \(r\) vanishes. Since \(\deg g\le2\), it is a form \(Q\) independent of \(u\). With every other input false, \(Q=r_1\mu\); with only input 2 true, \(Q=(r_1+r_2)\mu'\); with only input 3 true, \(Q=(r_1+r_3)\mu''\). Unique factorization forces \(Q=0\), which uses \(h\ge3\). So \(g(u,\cdot)=c(u)\,\ell_u\) with \(c(u)\) constant in \(r\).
The coefficient \(c\) vanishes. The coefficient of \(r_1\) in \(g\) is \(c(u)\), of degree \(\le1\) in \(u\). The coefficient \(B(u)\) of \(r_2\) in \(g\) has degree \(\le1\), and equals \(c(u)\) where \(u_2=0\) and 0 where \(u_2\ne0\). So the affine \(B\) vanishes on both hyperplanes \(u_2=\pm1\), hence \(B=0\), and \(c\) vanishes where \(u_2=0\). Similarly \(c\) vanishes where \(u_3=0\). An affine \(c\) vanishing on both hyperplanes is zero. \(\square\)

The element \(p^{\rm T}=1-r_1-\sum_{k\ge2}r_kq_k\), \(P\) restricted to the true fiber, has degree 3, so the minimum degree of \(I^{\rm T}\) is exactly 3.

Proof of the theorem

Write \(P_a=p_a^{\rm F}-r_{a,1}q_a\), where \(p_a^{\rm F}=1-\sum_{k\ge2}r_{a,k}q_{a,k}\) is \(P\) on the false fiber, of degree 3, and \(p_a^{\rm T}=p_a^{\rm F}-r_{a,1}\). Similarly for \(b\). Also \(q_a-q_b=1-x\). The fiber values of \(R\) are:

\(u=p_a^{\rm T}p_b^{\rm F}\) at \(x=0\);
\(0\) at \(x=1\);
\(-w\) at \(x=2\), with \(w=p_a^{\rm F}p_b^{\rm T}\).

So \(R_0=u\), \(R_1=-w\) and \(R_2=w-u\). \(u\) and \(w\) have degree 6 with the same top \(\rho'_a\rho'_b\), where \(\rho'_a=\sum_{k\ge2}r_{a,k}\ell_{a,k}^2\), nonzero since \(h_a\ge2\). So \(\deg R_2\le5\) and \(\deg R=7\).

Suppose \(R=G+H\) with \(G\in I_aT\), \(H\in I_bT\), both of degree \(\le7\).

The degree-0 coefficient. \(R_0=G_0+H_0\) with \(G_0\in I_a^{\rm T}T\) and \(H_0\in I_b^{\rm F}T\). Since \(u\in I_a^{\rm T}T\), \(G_0=u+\varepsilon\) and \(H_0=-\varepsilon\), with \(\varepsilon\in I_a^{\rm T}T\cap I_b^{\rm F}T\).
- In disjoint variables that intersection is the product ideal, and its associated graded is the product of the associated gradeds.
- So its nonzero elements have degree \(\ge m(I_a^{\rm T})+m(I_b^{\rm F})\ge8\). Since \(\deg\varepsilon\le7\), \(\varepsilon=0\).
The degree-2 coefficient. \(G_0+G_2\in I_a^{\rm F}T\) with \(G_2=R_2-H_2\) gives \(w-H_2\in I_a^{\rm F}T\). So \(H_2=w-\varphi\) with \(\varphi\in I_a^{\rm F}T\).
The degree bound. \(\deg H_2\le5\) forces \(\varphi=w+(\text{degree}\le5)\). So \(\deg\varphi=6\) exactly, and \(\operatorname{top}(\varphi)=\operatorname{top}(w)=\rho'_a\otimes\rho'_b\in\operatorname{gr}(I_a^{\rm F})\otimes\operatorname{gr}(\mathbb F[Y_b])\).
The contradiction. Take the component of bidegree \((3,3)\) in the \(Y_a\) and \(Y_b\) variables, and apply \(\mathrm{id}\otimes f\) for a linear functional \(f\) with \(f(\rho'_b)=1\). Then \(\rho'_a\in\operatorname{gr}(I_a^{\rm F})\) in degree 3. That contradicts the first hypothesis.

Only \(H_0\in I_b^{\rm F}T\) and \(\deg H_2\le5\) are used from \(H\). A necessary condition that fails is enough. So \(R\notin J_7\). But \(R=P_b(q_aP_a)-P_a(q_bP_b)\) has degree-8 terms in the two ideals, so \(zR\in J\). \(R\) is \(z\)-torsion in degree 7. \(\square\)

The hypotheses. \(I_a^{\rm F}\) is the ideal of the \((h_a-1)\)-input block, extended by the free \(r_{a,1}\). Its minimum degree is that block's minimum non-field degree, which is 4 for two inputs and 5 for three to seven inputs, from gb_blocks.json.

The first hypothesis needs \(h_a-1\ge2\).
The second needs \(3+m(I_b^{\rm F})\ge8\), that is \(h_b-1\ge3\), by the lemma.

So both hold unconditionally for \(3\le h_a\le8\), \(4\le h_b\le8\). For larger \(h\) they need the minimum degree 5 of blocks with \(\ge3\) inputs, observed only up to seven inputs.

What this means

The \(R\) part of conj:shared-input-falls is now a theorem in the range above, including the checked \(h=4,5\) and the unchecked \(h=6,7,8\). It is conditional beyond that on a minimum-degree statement about single blocks, which is simpler to attack than the pair.
For the band, with \(h\ge10\), parallel pairs of separately augmented blocks fall at degree 7, under that statement. So \(R\) must be added, as conj:bounded-linkage-large-h does.
The criterion reduces pair questions to single-block fiber ideals in disjoint variables. That is the tool the lifting-cost refinement asked for. The \(W\) and \(E_k\) falls, and the conjecture with \(R\) added, are the next applications.

Next: prove that every block with at least three inputs has no nonzero element of degree \(\le4\), which removes the condition in the theorem. Then apply the fiber criterion to a parallel pair with \(R\) added, to find the next degree where a fall can occur.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds (disjoint-variable products of extended ideals), lem:shared-input-consequences (\(R\) and its degree-8 representation), conj:shared-input-falls, and the minimum degrees in gb_blocks.json. The theorem agrees with the exact checks \(R\notin J_7\) at \(h=3,4,5\). At \(h=3\) it is not covered, since \(m(I_b^{\rm F})=4\), but it is computed. No computation was run in this cycle.

A fresh-context reviewer checked all of these and found no missed case:

the fiber criterion in characteristic 3;
\(R\)'s fiber values and coefficients, and the tops;
\(\varepsilon=0\), the contradiction and \(zR\in J\);
the thresholds.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the range extended from 7 to 8 inputs, since the seven-input block also has minimum degree 5;
the division step and the \(B=0\) link in the lemma;
\(\deg\varphi=6\), and the extraction of \(\rho'_a\);
the note that only a necessary condition on \(H\) is used;
reduction modulo field equations justified.

The range extension follows from recorded data by the same argument, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	8 min 11.63 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 36.89 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	3 min 34.61 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Block minimum degree: ENS blocks with two inputs have no consequence below degree 4, and with three or more none below 5, so every parallel pair with h ≥ 3 (otherwise independent inputs, the pair alone) falls at degree 7

24 September 2026 · Working proof (induction from two exact base cases) and an unconditional corollary · cycle odd-prime-block-min-degree. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Block minimum degree: ENS blocks with two inputs have no consequence below degree 4, and with three or more none below 5, so every parallel pair with h ≥ 3 (otherwise independent inputs, the pair alone) falls at degree 7”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-block-min-degree.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The parallel fall theorem proved the degree-7 fall of separately augmented parallel pairs up to eight inputs. For more inputs it assumed that a block with at least three inputs has no nonzero consequence of degree \(\le4\). The band's blocks have \(h\ge10\). This cycle proves that assumption, and the matching one for two inputs, for every \(h\).

General statement. lem:block-min-degree and cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h.

lem:block-min-degree: over \(\mathbb F_3\), modulo field equations, the ideal of a complete accuracy-one ENS block with \(h\) inputs, taken as independent coordinates \(y_i\) with \(q_i=1-y_i^2\), has no nonzero element of degree \(\le3\) when \(h\ge2\), and none of degree \(\le4\) when \(h\ge3\). The same holds after adjoining free variables.
cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h: every pair of separately augmented complete accuracy-one ENS blocks with \(h_a,h_b\ge3\) inputs, private coefficients, parallel inputs \(x+c_a\ne x+c_b\) and otherwise independent inputs falls at degree 7: \(R\notin J_7\) and \(zR\in J\). This is for the pair alone, with field equations. Whether it survives with the weak base and other blocks is unchecked, as in conj:shared-input-falls.

Proof of the lemma

Let \(Z_h\) be the block's zero set: whenever the true set \(T(y)=\{i:y_i=0\}\) is nonempty, \(\sum_{i\in T}r_i=1\). Let \(g\) be a reduced polynomial vanishing on \(Z_h\), with \(\deg g\le d\), where \(d=3\) or \(d=4\).

Base cases. For \(h=2\) with \(d=3\), and for \(h=3\) with \(d=4\), the exact reduced degree-order Gröbner bases in gb_blocks.json have their least non-field top degree at 4 and 5 respectively. A nonzero reduced \(g\) in the ideal, of degree \(\le d\), has a leading monomial divisible by some basis top. The only tops of degree \(\le d\) are \(y_i^3\) and \(r_i^3\), which divide no reduced monomial. They are the field tops: the counts of bidegree \((3,0)\) and \((0,3)\) at degree 3 equal \(h\) (field_y_tops is 2 and 3). So there is no such \(g\).
Restriction. Let \(h\) exceed the base, and fix an input \(i\) and a value \(v=\pm1\). On \(y_i=v\) input \(i\) is false. So the restriction of \(Z_h\) is the zero set of the block on the other \(h-1\) inputs, with \(r_i\) free. The restriction \(g|_{y_i=v}\) vanishes there and has degree \(\le d\). By induction, adjoining the free \(r_i\) does not lower the minimum degree, since the ideal is extended from the other variables. So \(g|_{y_i=v}=0\).
Support. Every point with some \(y_i\ne0\) lies on such a slice, so as a function \(g\) is supported on \(y=0\). There \(g=\prod_{i=1}^hq_i(y)\cdot g(0,r)\).
Degree. If \(g(0,\cdot)\ne0\), the reduced form of \(\prod_iq_i\,g(0,r)\) contains \(\prod_i(-y_i^2)\operatorname{top}(g(0,\cdot))\), of degree \(\ge2h\). That is above \(d\), because \(2h\ge6>3\) and \(2h\ge8>4\) in the respective steps. Reduced representatives are unique, so \(g=0\). \(\square\)

Free variables are handled by the same argument, or directly: the ideal is extended from the block's variables, and a degree-order basis stays one.

The corollary

thm:parallel-pair-fall has two hypotheses:

\(a\)'s false-fiber ideal, the \((h_a-1)\)-input block's ideal with a free coefficient, has no nonzero element of degree \(\le3\);
the minimum degrees of \(a\)'s true-fiber ideal and \(b\)'s false-fiber ideal sum to at least 8.

By the lemma the first holds for \(h_a\ge3\). By the lemma, \(m(I_b^{\rm F})\ge5\) for \(h_b\ge4\), and the true-fiber lemma gives \(m(I_a^{\rm T})=3\) for \(h_a\ge3\). So the second holds for \(h_a\ge3\), \(h_b\ge4\). \(R_{ab}=-R_{ba}\), so the roles can be swapped, which covers \(h_a\ge4\), \(h_b\ge3\). The remaining pair, \(h_a=h_b=3\), is the exact check of the shared-input entry: \(R\notin J_7\) and \(zR\in J\) at \(h=3\), for the pair alone, in pair_falls.out. That check has \(c_a=0\), \(c_b=1\) and degree bound 9. General \(c_a\ne c_b\) reduce to it by translation, and by \(x\mapsto-x\) together with \(q(-y)=q(y)\), which maps the difference 2 to 1. Both maps preserve degree and the homogenized ideal. \(\square\)

What this means

For every \(h\ge3\), including the band's \(h\ge10\), two separately augmented blocks with parallel inputs fall at degree 7, below \(D=11\). This is now unconditional.
So gluing separately augmented blocks needs \(R\), or something that implies it, for every parallel pair, unless other generators supply it. conj:bounded-linkage-large-h adds \(R\), and asks whether that, with \(T\) for triples, is enough.
The \(R\) part of conj:shared-input-falls is proved for all \(h\ge3\). Its \(W\) part, for identical inputs, stays open.
With the minimum degrees now known for all \(h\), the fiber criterion can be applied without size limits.

Next: apply the fiber criterion to a parallel pair with \(R\) added. Find the least degree at which a consequence outside \((I_a)+(I_b)+(R)\) can appear, as a function of \(h\), and compare it with \(D=11\). That is the first case of conj:bounded-linkage-large-h that can be proved rather than tested.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:parallel-pair-fall and its true-fiber lemma, the minimum degrees and \(h=2,3\) bases in gb_blocks.json, and the \(h=3\) parallel check in pair_falls.out. No computation was run in this cycle.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed these points:

the restriction to \(y_i=\pm1\), and free variables;
the support step, and the degree \(\ge2h\);
both induction chains;
the corollary's hypotheses, and the swap.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the independent-coordinate setting stated;
the base cases argued through leading monomials, with the field-top counts;
general \(c_a\ne c_b\) reduced to the computed case;
the pair-alone scope stated;
"must add \(R\)" weakened.

The changes are scope and presentation, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 51.10 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 41.16 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	3 min 9.74 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Parallel pairs with R added: an exact membership criterion, and a lowest fall at h+4 for h = 3, 4, 5, which would be at least 11 once h ≥ 7

24 September 2026 · Working proof (membership criterion) and a conjecture with exact checks for h = 3, 4, 5 (h = 5 predicted before its run) · cycle odd-prime-r-added-pair. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Parallel pairs with R added: an exact membership criterion, and a lowest fall at h+4 for h = 3, 4, 5, which would be at least 11 once h ≥ 7”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-r-added-pair.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Every separately augmented parallel pair with \(h\ge3\) falls at degree 7 (cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h), so gluing needs \(R\). conj:bounded-linkage-large-h asks whether \(R\), with \(T\) for triples, then suffices below \(D\) when \(h\ge D-3\). This cycle asks where a parallel pair with \(R\) added falls first, as a function of \(h\).

General statement. prop:pair-membership-criterion and conj:r-added-parallel-fall.

prop:pair-membership-criterion: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let two systems, whose ideals contain the field equations of their variables so that \(I_a=I(Z_a)\), share one variable \(x\), as given or after an affine change, which preserves degrees. Otherwise they have disjoint variables. For each value \(v\), let the fiber types be \(\sigma(v)\) and \(\rho(v)\), and let \((I_aT)_{\le s}\) be the elements of degree \(\le s\). Then a polynomial \(f\) of degree \(\le s\) lies in \((I_aT)_{\le s}+(I_bT)_{\le s}\) exactly when there are fiber \(a\)-parts \(\alpha_v\) of degree \(\le s\) satisfying:
- \(\alpha_v\in I(Z_a^{\sigma(v)})T\);
- \(f(v,\cdot)-\alpha_v\in I(Z_b^{\rho(v)})T\);
- \(\deg\sum_v\alpha_v\le s-2\) and \(\deg(\alpha_2-\alpha_1)\le s-1\).
conj:r-added-parallel-fall: a pair of separately augmented complete accuracy-one ENS blocks with parallel inputs, private coefficients and otherwise independent inputs, with \(R\) added, has its lowest span-ring fall at degree \(\min(h_a,h_b)+4\). Checked exactly for \(h_a=h_b=3,4,5\). The value \(h+4\) was fitted from \(h=3,4\), and \(h=5\) was then predicted before its run. If the conjecture holds, this fall is at degree 11 or higher for \(h\ge7\), so the parallel-pair part of conj:bounded-linkage-large-h would hold at \(D=11\) for \(h\ge7\).

The criterion

Reduce in \(x\) and write \(G=G_0+xG_1+x^2G_2\). Reducing keeps \(G+H=f\) with \(G\in I_aT\) and \(H\in I_bT\), because \(x^3-x\) lies in both. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(G(2)-G(1)=G_1\) and \(G(0)+G(1)+G(2)=-G_2\).

From a representation to fiber parts. If \(f=G+H\) with \(G\in I_aT\), \(H\in I_bT\), both of degree \(\le s\), then \(\alpha_v=G(v)\) are fiber \(a\)-parts of degree \(\le s\). They satisfy \(\sum\alpha_v=-G_2\), of degree \(\le s-2\), and \(\alpha_2-\alpha_1=G_1\), of degree \(\le s-1\).
From fiber parts to a representation. Given such \(\alpha_v\), put \(G=\sum_ve_v\alpha_v\), reduced in \(x\). Then \(G(v)=\alpha_v\), so \(G\in I_aT\). Its coefficients are \(G_0=\alpha_0\), \(G_1=\alpha_2-\alpha_1\) and \(G_2=-\sum\alpha_v\), so \(\deg G\le s\). \(H=f-G\) has \(H(v)=f(v,\cdot)-\alpha_v\), so \(H\in I_bT\) with \(\deg H\le s\). \(\square\)

The valid \(\alpha_v\) at a fiber differ by elements of \(I(Z_a^{\sigma(v)})T\cap I(Z_b^{\rho(v)})T\). In disjoint variables that is the product ideal. With a generator such as \(R\) added, apply the criterion to \(f-Rc\) with \(\deg c\le s-\deg R\).

The prediction and the check

For a parallel pair the fiber types occurring at \(x=0,1,2\) are (true, false), (false, false) and (false, true). A first-order count of obstructions goes as follows.

The top parts of \(\sum\alpha_v\) lie in the four products of \(a\)'s and \(b\)'s fiber ideals.
The fiber adjustments supply three of them. The missing one is (true, true).
\(R\) supplies the class \(\rho'_a\rho'_b\), and its multiples.

So a new obstruction needs a generator of the graded true-fiber ideal that is not a multiple of \(\rho'\). This ignores that the associated graded of a sum of ideals can exceed the sum of their associated gradeds, so it is a heuristic.

true_fiber.sing (true_fiber.out) computes the reduced degree-order basis of the true-fiber ideal, \((p^{\rm T})\) plus field equations, for \(h=2\) to 7. It marks each top as a multiple of \(\rho'\) in the truncated algebra or not.

For \(2\le h\le7\), all tops of degree \(<h\) are multiples of \(\rho'\), and the first other tops occur in degree \(h\).

The count therefore puts the first new obstruction in degree \(h+3\): a degree-\(h\) generator of one block's graded true-fiber ideal that is not a multiple of \(\rho'\), times the other block's \(\rho'\), of degree 3. As a lower bound, the script records "no fall below \(h+3\)". \(R\)'s obstruction is in degree 6 and its fall at 7, so the fall may come one degree higher still.

r_added_pair.sing (r_added_pair.out) is one Singular run of 20 s. It takes parallel pairs with \(R\) added, each block augmented separately, and computes the lowest element of \((J:z)\setminus J\) below its degree bound. A fall at degree \(t\) needs \(zg\) in degree \(t+1\), so the bound must exceed \(t\).

\(h=3\): degree 7, with bound 10;
\(h=4\): degree 8, with bound 10;
\(h=5\): no fall below 9, with bound 9, which cannot see a fall at 9.

After this run the exact value \(h+4\) was fitted from \(h=3,4\), and \(h=5\) was predicted to fall at 9. r_added_pair_h5.sing (r_added_pair_h5.out), a rerun of 59 s with bound 10 whose header states the prediction, found its lowest fall at 9. So the lowest fall is at \(h+4\) for \(h=3,4,5\). This agrees with the linkage test at \(D=8\), \(h=5\), where no fall was found below 8.

What this means

For parallel pairs, \(R\) lifts the lowest fall from 7 to \(h+4\) at \(h=3,4,5\). The first possible fall grows with \(h\), which is the behaviour conj:bounded-linkage-large-h needs.
If conj:r-added-parallel-fall holds, blocks with \(h\ge7\) inputs, including the band's, need nothing beyond \(R\) for parallel pairs through degree 10, below \(D=11\). That is one inequality better than the conjecture's \(h\ge D-3\).
Untested:
- unequal \(h_a\ne h_b\);
- triples with \(T\);
- mixed families with identical links;
- anything with the weak base.
A proof would need to control the associated graded of the sum of fiber ideals. The criterion reduces this to single-block data.

Next: the route review. Six research entries have followed the gluing route review. The line has moved from an obstruction to a set of theorems on parallel pairs, and the review should weigh what remains between these pair results and gluing at \(D=11\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:parallel-pair-fall (its fiber criterion, which this generalizes), cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h, ex:bounded-linkage-d8 and conj:bounded-linkage-large-h. The values are read from true_fiber.out, r_added_pair.out and r_added_pair_h5.out.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed these points:

the criterion's identities, reconstruction and degree bounds;
the scripts.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the \(h=5\) value corrected from a bound-9 run, which cannot see a fall at 9; the bound-10 rerun was predicted beforehand;
the true-fiber pattern stated for \(2\le h\le7\), dropping a wrong remark about \(h=3\);
the recorded prediction ("no fall below \(h+3\)") quoted, with \(h+4\) marked as fitted;
the degree-\((h+3)\) product named;
the criterion's hypotheses and the reduction step stated;
the title and consequences made conditional.

The rerun supplies a value the review found unsupported, and the other changes weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Route review: the pair theory of linked ENS blocks is now largely proved; the gap to the goal is the step from pairs to whole families, and then the weak base

24 September 2026 · Route review · The gluing line after the gluing route review; cycle odd-prime-pair-results-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the pair theory of linked ENS blocks is now largely proved; the gap to the goal is the step from pairs to whole families, and then the weak base”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-pair-results-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Six research entries have followed the gluing route review. This review states the line's claim and what the goal needs, tries to falsify the newest conjecture, assesses the line, and names the highest-risk item.

General statement. The line's general claim is that the window's compiled ENS blocks glue over the weak base without falls at \(D=11\), so without PC refutation. The members are the blocks, each augmented separately, together with cross-consequences for blocks whose inputs share a linear part: \(R\) for parallel pairs and \(T\) for parallel triples. conj:bounded-linkage-large-h states the span-ring part of this for \(h\ge D-3\).

What happened since the last review

Identically linked chains have explicit fall witnesses of degree \(h+4+(k-2)(h-1)\), above \(D\) once \(h\ge D-3\) (chain consequences).
With \(R\) added, one three-block family at \((D,h)=(8,5)\) had no fall below 8 (linkage test).
Falls of linked pairs are killed by \(z^{2|V|}\), and none lies below the fiber-sum degree, though that degree is only 4 for ENS pairs (fiber decomposition).
Separately augmented parallel pairs fall at degree 7. A fiber criterion proves this for \(3\le h_a\le8\), \(4\le h_b\le8\) (parallel fall theorem).
Single blocks have no consequence below degree 4 for \(h\ge2\), or below 5 for \(h\ge3\). So the degree-7 parallel fall holds for all \(h\ge3\) (block minimum degree).
An exact membership criterion for pairs was proved. With \(R\) added, a parallel pair falls first at \(h+4\) for \(h=3,4,5\) (R-added pair).

What the goal needs

Every polynomial inventory of compiled blocks must glue at degree 11 over the weak base. Between the recorded results and that goal lie five steps:

the pair statement conj:r-added-parallel-fall, which is proved only in its obstruction structure and checked at small \(h\);
triples, where \(T\) matters from \(D=10\), and families with mixed parallel and identical links, where only one family has been tested;
whole families: whether a family's lowest fall is the least over its linked pairs and triples, which is the content of bounded linkage;
the weak base: every fall computed so far is in the span ring of the linked blocks alone, and the base could add or remove falls;
the local freeness conditions of the pure-part reduction for the band's blocks, and whether the band's rational tuples satisfy them.

Falsification attempt

conj:r-added-parallel-fall had been checked only for equal sizes. Unequal sizes test its \(\min\). unequal_pairs.sing (unequal_pairs.out), one Singular run of 11 s with degree bound 10, predicted in its header a lowest fall at \(\min(h_a,h_b)+4\).

\((h_a,h_b)=(3,5)\): predicted 7, found 7.
\((4,5)\): predicted 8, found 8.

The attempt did not falsify it. The pair formula now has five exact confirmations, three of them predicted in advance.

Assessment of this line

Solid ground. The pair theory is largely proved:
- the explicit consequences \(W\), \(E_k\), \(R\) and \(T\);
- the degree-7 parallel fall for all \(h\ge3\);
- the block minimum degrees;
- the defect bound;
- the exact membership criterion.
The one open pair statement, the fall at \(h+4\) with \(R\) added, has consistent evidence and a clear obstruction structure.
The gap. Steps 3 and 4 above. Nothing recorded controls how falls of different linked pairs interact in a large family. Nothing checks the weak base's effect. Each cycle has closed a question about two or three blocks, while the goal concerns polynomially many blocks over the board.
Prospects. Moderate for the span-ring locality: the pair behaviour is exactly what bounded linkage needs. Weak for the full implication, which still rests on untested steps 3 to 5. The work since the last review is on the critical path, since the goal needs linked blocks glued, but it is a narrow part of it.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, the highest-risk item is step 3, from pairs to families.

State the fiber criterion for a family whose blocks share several linear parts. The membership criterion's interpolation extends to a set \(V\) of shared coordinates, with \(e_v\) over \(v\in\mathbb F_3^V\).
Use it to formulate a local-to-global statement: a family's lowest fall is the least over its subfamilies linked through at most a bounded number of shared linear parts.
Prove it, or find the first counterexample on a four-block family at small \(h\). The check should be one compiled run.

Step 4, the weak base, comes after.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the six entries since the gluing route review and their claims: lem:chain-consequences, conj:bounded-linkage-large-h, ex:bounded-linkage-d8, prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds, thm:parallel-pair-fall, lem:block-min-degree, cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h, prop:pair-membership-criterion and conj:r-added-parallel-fall. The falsification values are read from unequal_pairs.out. No new claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	40.73 s

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Sections of ENS blocks: a block with a private input can be deleted at no degree cost, so every subfamily's falls persist in the family; the reverse inequality is the open half of locality

24 September 2026 · Working proof (section lemma, family criterion) and a conjecture for the reverse inequality, with one four-block check · cycle odd-prime-family-fiber-criterion. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sections of ENS blocks: a block with a private input can be deleted at no degree cost, so every subfamily's falls persist in the family; the reverse inequality is the open half of locality”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-family-sections.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The pair-results route review named the step from linked pairs to whole families as the highest-risk item. The missing implication: a family of linked ENS blocks has no span-ring fall below \(D\) whenever its pairs and triples have none. This cycle asks how a family's lowest fall relates to its subfamilies' lowest falls. It proves one inequality for every family, and states and tests the other.

General statement. lem:section-retraction, prop:family-membership-criterion and conj:family-fall-locality.

lem:section-retraction: in a family of separately augmented complete accuracy-one ENS blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\), with private coefficients and cross generators \(R\), \(T\), \(W\), deleting a block that has a private input is a retraction that does not raise degrees. So for every subfamily \(S\) whose outside blocks all have private inputs, \(J_s(F)\cap R_S=J_s(S)\) at every \(s\). Every fall of \(S\) is a fall of \(F\), and the lowest fall of \(F\) is at most that of \(S\).
prop:family-membership-criterion: the pair membership criterion extends to any number of systems sharing a set \(V\) of coordinates, with interpolation over \(\mathbb F_3^V\).
conj:family-fall-locality: when every block has a private input and the cross set is \(R\) and \(T\) as in conj:bounded-linkage-large-h, without \(W\), the lowest fall of \(F\) is the least over its subfamilies of at most three blocks. By the lemma only the inequality \(\ge\) is open.

Setting

\(F\) is a family of complete accuracy-one ENS blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\), with inputs \(L_i\), \(q_i=1-L_i^2\), private coefficients \(r_i\), \(P=1-\sum_ir_iq_i\) and companions \(q_iP\). Every input is either a shared input, an affine form in the shared coordinates \(x_V\) (such as translates \(x+c\)), or a private input, a coordinate that no other block uses. Each block \(B\) is augmented separately: its generators are the reduced degree-order basis \(G_B\) of its ideal \(I_B=I(Z_B)\), which contains the field equations of its variables. The cross set \(C\) consists of generators, each attached to the blocks it involves, chosen by a rule on those blocks alone: \(R_{ab}=P_aP_b(q_a-q_b)\) for parallel pairs, \(T_{abc}=P_aP_bP_c\) for triples covering the three translates, and \(W=F_bP_a\) for identical pairs, where \(F_b=q_{b,2}\prod_{j\ge3}L_{b,j}(1-r_{b,2})\) with \(b\)'s inputs \(j\ge2\) private (shared inputs). \(J_s(F)\) is the span of all \(gm\) with \(g\) in \(\bigcup_BG_B\), in \(C\), or a field equation of any variable of \(F\), and \(m\) a monomial, \(\deg(gm)\le s\). For a subfamily \(S\), \(J_s(S)\) uses the generators of blocks in \(S\), the cross generators whose blocks all lie in \(S\), and the field equations of \(S\)'s variables, all shared coordinates included. \(R_S\) is the polynomial ring in those variables.

The homogenized ideal \(J\) has degree-\(t\) part equal to the homogenization of \(J_t(F)\), and dehomogenization is injective on each degree. So a fall at degree \(t\), a homogeneous \(g\) of degree \(t\) with \(zg\in J\) and \(g\notin J\), is the same as a polynomial \(f\) of degree \(\le t\) with \(f\in J_{t+1}(F)\setminus J_t(F)\).

The section lemma

Lemma (section retraction). Let \(B\in F\) have a private input \(y_j\). Its standard section \(u_B\) sets \(y_j=0\), \(r_j=1\), every other private input of \(B\) to 1 and every other coefficient of \(B\) to 0. Let \(\sigma_B\) substitute \(u_B\) for \(B\)'s private variables and fix all others. Then \(\sigma_B(J_s(F))\subseteq J_s(F\setminus B)\) for every \(s\).

Proof.

The section lies under every fiber. At \((v,u_B)\), for any values \(v\) of the shared coordinates, the true set \(T\) of \(B\) contains \(j\). It contains no other private input, since those equal 1, and possibly some shared inputs, whose coefficients are 0. So \(\sum_{i\in T}r_i=r_j=1\), and \((v,u_B)\in Z_B\) for every \(v\).
\(B\)'s own generators. For \(g\in G_B\), \(\sigma_B(g)\) is a polynomial in \(B\)'s shared coordinates that vanishes at every point, by step 1. Divide it by the field equations \(x^3-x\) in degree order. Each quotient term has degree \(\le\deg\sigma_B(g)\le\deg g\). The remainder is reduced and vanishes everywhere, so it is 0. Hence \(\sigma_B(gm)=\sigma_B(g)\sigma_B(m)\) lies in \(J_{\deg(gm)}(F\setminus B)\), since the field equations of shared coordinates remain generators.
Cross generators. \(\sigma_B(P_B)=1-r_jq_j(0)=0\), so every \(R\) and \(T\) involving \(B\) maps to 0, and so does \(W=F_bP_a\) when \(B=a\). When \(B=b\), \(F_b\) maps to 0: if \(j=2\) through \(1-r_{b,2}=0\), and otherwise through \(q_{b,2}(1)=0\).
Everything else. The field equations of \(B\)'s private variables map to 0. The generators of other blocks and the cross generators not involving \(B\) contain none of \(B\)'s private variables, so they are fixed. A monomial multiplier maps to a constant times a monomial of no larger degree. Summing, \(\sigma_B(J_s(F))\subseteq J_s(F\setminus B)\). \(\square\)

The proof uses less than it states. Step 2 needs only that each generator of \(B\) vanishes on \(Z_B\), so the lemma and corollary hold for any generators in \(I(Z_B)\), unaugmented companions included. The shared inputs may be any polynomials in the shared coordinates. The value 1 for \(B\)'s other private inputs is arbitrary: their coefficients are 0 in step 1, and in step 3 with \(j\ge3\) the product \(\prod_{j\ge3}L_{b,j}\) already vanishes. Separate augmentation matters only for the criterion below, where it makes \((I_BT)_{\le s}\) the reduction of \(J_s(B)\).

Corollary. Let \(S\subseteq F\), with every block outside \(S\) having a private input. Then:

\(J_s(F)\cap R_S=J_s(S)\) for every \(s\);
every fall of \(S\) is a fall of \(F\) at the same degree;
the lowest fall of \(F\) is at most the lowest fall of \(S\).

Proof. \(J_s(S)\subseteq J_s(F)\cap R_S\), because \(S\)'s generators are among \(F\)'s, the cross set being chosen by a rule on the involved blocks. Conversely, compose the retractions of the blocks outside \(S\), one at a time. After each deletion the remaining family meets the lemma's hypotheses, with the cross generators among the remaining blocks. The composite \(\sigma\) fixes \(R_S\) and maps \(J_s(F)\) into \(J_s(S)\). So \(f\in J_s(F)\cap R_S\) gives \(f=\sigma(f)\in J_s(S)\). If \(f\in R_S\) is a fall of \(S\) at degree \(t\), then \(f\in J_{t+1}(S)\subseteq J_{t+1}(F)\). And \(f\notin J_t(F)\), since otherwise \(f\in J_t(F)\cap R_S=J_t(S)\). \(\square\)

The substitution is the constant specialization used for fresh blocks over \(\mathbb F_2\) in thm:fresh-block-conservativity-loss-bound, and close to the coefficient zeroing of lem:target-weighted-block-elimination and the point choice of lem:member-pinning. There the block's inputs are forms in old variables and the specialization costs degree. Here a private input carries the whole section, so it costs nothing. The lemma is about the span ring. In a compiled inventory over the weak base, an input is private only up to the model that treats jointly free forms as coordinates; whether the base keeps the retraction is part of the weak-base step of the route.

section_check.sing (section_check.out) checks step 2 directly. It takes a block with \(h=3\) on \(x+1\), \(y\) and one private input, and a block with \(h=4\) on \(x\), \(x+y\) and two private inputs, with a section at either one. After the section, every element of the reduced bases, of 43 and 203 elements, reduces to 0 modulo the field equations of \(x,y\), and \(P\) maps to 0.

The family criterion

Proposition (family membership criterion). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let systems \(1,\dots,m\) have ideals \(I_j=I(Z_j)\) containing field equations, in the variables \(x_V\) and further variables \(Y\); the proof does not need the systems' further variables to be disjoint. Work in the algebra \(T\) of reduced polynomials. For \(v\in\mathbb F_3^V\) let \(Z_j^v\) be the fiber of \(Z_j\) over \(v\), and let \(e_v(x)=\prod_{i\in V}(1-(x_i-v_i)^2)=\sum_{\epsilon\in\{0,1,2\}^V}\lambda_\epsilon(v)x^\epsilon\). A reduced \(f\) of degree \(\le s\) lies in \(\sum_j(I_jT)_{\le s}\) exactly when there are \(\alpha_{j,v}\in I(Z_j^v)T\), polynomials in the non-shared variables, such that:

\(\sum_j\alpha_{j,v}=f(v,\cdot)\) for every \(v\);
\(\deg\sum_v\lambda_\epsilon(v)\alpha_{j,v}\le s-|\epsilon|\) for every \(j\) and every \(\epsilon\).

Proof. A reduced \(G\) equals \(\sum_\epsilon x^\epsilon G_\epsilon\) with the \(G_\epsilon\) free of \(x_V\), and \(\deg G=\max_\epsilon(|\epsilon|+\deg G_\epsilon)\). By interpolation, \(G=\sum_ve_vG(v,\cdot)\), so \(G_\epsilon=\sum_v\lambda_\epsilon(v)G(v,\cdot)\). As a function, \(G\in I_jT\) exactly when \(G(v,\cdot)\in I(Z_j^v)T\) for every \(v\). Given \(f=\sum_jG_j\) with \(G_j\in(I_jT)_{\le s}\), take \(\alpha_{j,v}=G_j(v,\cdot)\). Conversely, given the \(\alpha_{j,v}\), put \(G_j=\sum_ve_v\alpha_{j,v}\), reduced. Then \(G_j\in I_jT\), \(\deg G_j\le s\), and \(\sum_jG_j=f\), because both sides are reduced and agree on every fiber. \(\square\)

For \(|V|=1\) and \(m=2\), \(\lambda_1=(0,-1,1)\) and \(\lambda_2=(-1,-1,-1)\) over \(v=0,1,2\) give \(G_{j,(1)}=\alpha_{j,2}-\alpha_{j,1}\) and \(G_{j,(2)}=-\sum_v\alpha_{j,v}\) for each \(j\), which is prop:pair-membership-criterion. Added generators \(g_k\) are handled as there, by applying the criterion to \(f-\sum_kg_kc_k\) with \(\deg c_k\le s-\deg g_k\). prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds treats two systems over a general \(x_V\) with weaker, approximate bounds. A block of a separately augmented family has no fall, so \((I_BT)_{\le s}\) is the reduction of \(J_s(B)\).

The open inequality, and one check

When every block has a private input, the corollary makes locality with subfamilies of at most three blocks equivalent to the inequality \(\ge\): no family falls below all of its subfamilies of at most three blocks. Each subfamily carries exactly the cross generators of the same rule whose blocks lie in it. Single blocks count, and have no fall; the lowest fall is \(\infty\) when there is none. The covering obstruction refutes locality for selector families whose joint zero set lies in a hyperplane. Here applying all sections at once gives, over every \(v\), a point where every block's constraints hold and every \(P_B\) vanishes. So every \(R\), \(T\) and \(W\), each with a factor \(P\) or \(F_b\), vanishes there too, and the joint zero set maps onto all of \(\mathbb F_3^V\). The explicit chain witnesses of lem:chain-consequences lie above their pairs' lowest falls, so they do not lower the minimum.

family_locality.sing (family_locality.out) is one Singular run of 19 s with degree bound 9. Its family has four blocks with \(h=3\):

\(a\) on \(x\);
\(b\) on \(x+1\) and \(y\);
\(c\) on \(x\), identical to \(a\);
\(d\) on \(y+1\).

Its cross rule is \(R\) only, added for the parallel pairs \(ab\), \(cb\) and \(bd\). No \(W\) is added for the identical pair \(ac\), and no \(T\) applies. The run computes the lowest fall of the family and of eight subfamilies: the four linked pairs \(ab\), \(bc\), \(ac\), \(bd\) and all four triples. The unlinked pairs \(ad\) and \(cd\) are omitted. Its header predicts that the family's value is the least over the subfamilies. All nine values are 7. The family's value is at most 7 by the corollary. So this check tests only whether four blocks fall at degree \(\le6\), and they do not. A fall at degree \(\le6\) needs only ideal elements of degree \(\le7\), within the bound. In this run every linked pair falls at 7, so the check is weak. A family whose pairs fall higher would test more.

What this means

Falls of linked pairs cannot be diluted by the rest of a family. Suppose the cross rule omits \(R\) for a parallel pair with \(h_a,h_b\ge3\), and every other block has a private input. Then the family has a fall at degree 7, by cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h, so its lowest fall is at most 7. Likewise, if \(W\) is a fall of an identical pair, as conj:shared-input-falls predicts, it is one of every such family containing that pair.
conj:bounded-linkage-large-h splits into a local part (pairs and triples have no fall below \(D\)) and conj:family-fall-locality. The local part holds for parallel pairs with \(h\ge7\) if conj:r-added-parallel-fall holds.
The criterion turns the open inequality into a statement about fiber parts. Apply it with one system per block, each a vanishing ideal, and \(V\) the union of all shared coordinates. Handle every cross generator by subtraction, through \(f-\sum_kg_kc_k\). A family fall then corresponds to fiber parts whose interpolation coefficients cannot all be kept at low degree.

Next: prove the inequality \(\ge\) for a star family, whose blocks share one coordinate. Use the criterion with \(|V|=1\), one system per block, and the cross generators handled by subtraction, and induct on blocks. Or find its first failure, on a family whose pairs fall above 7.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: prop:pair-membership-criterion and its proof, lem:shared-input-consequences for \(R\) and \(W\), conj:bounded-linkage-large-h for \(T\) and the cross rule, lem:block-min-degree, prop:covering-obstruction, and the fall convention in r_added_pair.sing. A reviewer asked, before drafting, whether the record implies the section lemma. It found no claim that does, and named lem:target-weighted-block-elimination and lem:block-substitution-bound as related substitutions. It asked that step 2 be derived rather than asserted, which step 1 does, and section_check.out confirms. The values are read from family_locality.out and section_check.out.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed these points:

the fall equivalence;
steps 1 to 4 of the lemma, and the corollary;
the criterion's proof;
the values read from both outputs.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the private-input hypothesis added to the conjecture and to its equivalence with \(\ge\);
the conjecture's cross set fixed as \(R\) and \(T\), without \(W\);
the covering argument made about the joint zero set;
the chain sentence corrected;
the criterion applied block by block, with cross generators handled by subtraction;
the check's subfamilies and cross rule stated exactly;
the notation of the pair case corrected;
the hypotheses that the proofs do not use named: disjointness in the criterion, augmentation, affine inputs and the other section values in the lemma.

The changes clarify or weaken, so no further pass was made.

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Star locality: systems sharing one coordinate fall no lower than their pairs, because the shared truncated algebra is a chain ring

24 September 2026 · Working proof (star families without cross generators) · cycle odd-prime-star-family-locality. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Star locality: systems sharing one coordinate fall no lower than their pairs, because the shared truncated algebra is a chain ring”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-star-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The section lemma reduced family locality for linked ENS blocks to one inequality: no family falls below all of its small subfamilies (conj:family-fall-locality). This cycle proves that inequality for star families, whose blocks share one coordinate, when no cross generators are added. The proof also shows where the argument stops: at cross generators, and at a second shared coordinate.

General statement. thm:star-family-locality: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let systems \(1,\dots,m\) have ideals \(I_j\subseteq\mathbb F_3[x,Y_j]\), with one shared coordinate \(x\) and pairwise disjoint private variable sets \(Y_j\). Let the family's degree-\(s\) space be \(J_s(F)=\sum_j(I_jT)_{\le s}\) in the algebra \(T\) of reduced polynomials in all variables. Then at every degree where the family falls, some pair \(\{i,j\}\), computed in the same algebra \(T\), also falls; equivalently, the pair falls in its own variables at some degree \(\le s\). In particular the family's lowest fall is at least the least lowest fall over its pairs. Take ENS blocks with private coefficients, separately augmented, each with a private input, and no cross generators. For them the section lemma gives the reverse inequality, so the lowest fall equals the least over pairs. Hence conj:family-fall-locality holds for identically linked star families.

Step 1: falls and top syzygies

Write \(\operatorname{gr}\) for the associated graded of the degree filtration. \(\operatorname{gr}T=A=\mathbb F_3[x,Y]/(\text{cubes})\), and \(N_j=\operatorname{gr}(I_jT)\subseteq A\) is the ideal of tops of \(I_jT\). A top syzygy of degree \(d\) is a tuple \((g_j)\), \(g_j\in(N_j)_d\), with \(\sum_jg_j=0\). It lifts if there are \(H_j\in(I_jT)_{\le d}\) with top \(g_j\) in degree \(d\) and \(\sum_jH_j=0\).

Criterion. The family has no fall at degree \(s\) exactly when every top syzygy of degree \(s+1\) lifts. This is the mechanism of lem:syzygy-gluing and of hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing, restated here for the span ring.

Proof. Recall from the section entry that a fall at degree \(s\) is an \(f\) with \(\deg f\le s\) and \(f\in J_{s+1}\setminus J_s\).

Lifting rules out falls. Suppose every syzygy lifts, and let \(f\in J_{s+1}\) with \(\deg f\le s\). Write \(f=\sum_jG_j\) with \(G_j\in(I_jT)_{\le s+1}\). The degree-\((s+1)\) tops \(g_j\) of the \(G_j\) sum to 0, so they form a top syzygy; let \(H_j\) lift it. Then each \(G_j-H_j\) has degree \(\le s\), and they sum to \(f\), so \(f\in J_s\).
A syzygy that does not lift gives a fall. Suppose \((g_j)\) does not lift. Choose \(G_j\in(I_jT)_{\le s+1}\) with tops \(g_j\), and let \(f=\sum_jG_j\). Then \(f\in J_{s+1}\), and \(\deg f\le s\). If \(f=\sum_jG'_j\) with \(G'_j\in(I_jT)_{\le s}\), then \(H_j=G_j-G'_j\) would lift \((g_j)\). So \(f\notin J_s\). \(\square\)

The criterion holds for any subfamily, with the same modules. For a pair, write \(T=T_{\rm pair}\otimes T_{\rm rest}\) and \(f=\sum_\mu f_\mu\mu\) over the monomials \(\mu\) in the other \(r\) variables. Then \(J_s(\text{pair},T)=\bigoplus_\mu J_{s-\deg\mu}(\text{pair},T_{\rm pair})\,\mu\). So the pair's fall degrees in \(T\) are its own-variable fall degrees shifted up by \(\deg\mu\), from 0 to \(2r\). The lowest fall is the same in both, since \(\mu=1\) occurs and every shift is upward.

Step 2: the tensor structure over the shared chain ring

Let \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) and \(A_j=\mathbb F_3[x,Y_j]/(\text{cubes})\). Each \(A_j\) is a free \(S\)-module on the monomials in \(Y_j\), and \(A=A_1\otimes_S\cdots\otimes_SA_m\). Let \(T_j\) be the reduced polynomials in \(x,Y_j\), and \(n_j=\operatorname{gr}(I_jT_j)\subseteq A_j\). Then \(N_j=n_j\otimes_S\bigotimes_{i\ne j}A_i\), as follows. A degree-compatible Gröbner basis of \(I_j\), together with the field equations of the other variables, is a Gröbner basis of \(I_jT\), since the leading monomials of the two parts are coprime. So \(N_j\) and \(n_jA\) have the same initial ideal, and \(n_jA\subseteq N_j\) gives equality.

\(S\) is a graded chain ring: its homogeneous elements are \(cx^a\), and any two ideals are comparable. A graded submodule of a finite free graded \(S\)-module has an adapted homogeneous basis, by the Smith normal form. Write the generators of \(n_j\) in an \(S\)-basis of \(A_j\). The entries are homogeneous, of the form \(cx^a\). Take an entry of least exponent: it divides every entry of its row and column, and clearing them uses homogeneous row and column operations, because the degree differences match the exponent differences. So \(A_j=\bigoplus_kSe_{jk}\) and \(n_j=\bigoplus_kx^{a_{jk}}Se_{jk}\), with \(a_{jk}\in\{0,1,2,3\}\).

Take the product basis \(e_t=e_{1t_1}\otimes\cdots\otimes e_{mt_m}\) of \(A\) over \(S\). Then \(N_j=\bigoplus_tx^{a_{jt_j}}Se_t\). So a top syzygy splits into components, one per basis element \(e_t\). Each component is a tuple \(g_j[t]\in x^{a_{jt_j}}S\) summing to 0 in \(S\).

Step 3: chain distributivity

Fix \(t\) and let \(j_0\) minimize \(a_{jt_j}\). The ideals \(x^aS\) form a chain, so \(g_j[t]\in x^{a_{jt_j}}S\subseteq x^{a_{j_0t_{j_0}}}S\) for every \(j\). Hence \[(g_j[t]e_t)_j=\sum_{j\ne j_0}g_j[t]e_t\,(\epsilon_j-\epsilon_{j_0}),\] where \(\epsilon_j\) is the \(j\)-th unit tuple. Each term is a pair syzygy: \(g_j[t]e_t\) lies in \(N_j\cap N_{j_0}\), and is homogeneous of the syzygy's degree. So every top syzygy is a sum of pair syzygies, each supported on two systems.

Step 4: the theorem

Suppose the family falls at degree \(s\). By step 1 some top syzygy of degree \(s+1\) does not lift. By step 3 it is a sum of pair syzygies. If each of them lifted within its pair in \(T\), the sum of the lifts, extended by 0, would lift it. So some pair syzygy of degree \(s+1\) does not lift within its pair. By step 1 applied to that pair in \(T\), the pair falls at degree \(s\) in \(T\), hence in its own variables at some degree \(\le s\). \(\square\)

The proof uses less than it states. Only the images \(I_jT\) enter, so the \(I_j\) need be neither radical nor contain the field equations. Over \(\mathbb F_q\) it runs verbatim, with \(S=\mathbb F_q[x]/(x^q)\) and exponents in \(\{0,\dots,q\}\). What it does use: one shared coordinate, which makes \(S\) a chain ring; disjoint \(Y_j\), which give the product basis; and no cross generators.

For ENS blocks the theorem applies to the section entry's \(J_s(F)\). A polynomial \(f\) of degree \(\le s\) lies in it exactly when its reduction lies in \(\sum_B(I_BT)_{\le s}\). Here \(G_B\) remains a degree-order Gröbner basis of \(I_B\) in all variables, and the field-equation multiples of degree \(\le s\) are generators. So the two have the same falls. Call a star family identically linked when every block's only shared input is the same form \(x\), not a translate. Then no pair is parallel and no triple covers the three translates, so the conjecture's cross set is empty. Suppose also that every block has a private input. By the theorem, the family's lowest fall is at least the least lowest fall over its pairs. By lem:section-retraction, each pair's falls are falls of the family, so it is also at most that least value. The two values are equal, which is conj:family-fall-locality for these families. This agrees with lem:chain-consequences, whose chain witnesses lie above the pairs' falls.

Where the argument stops

Cross generators. The top of \(R_{ab}\) is a multiple of \(x\rho'_a\rho'_b\), where \(\rho'\) is the top of \(P\). It lies in \(A_a\otimes_SA_b\) and is not extended from one factor, so it is not diagonal in the product basis, and step 3 does not apply to it. Star families with parallel pairs, which need \(R\) (cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h), remain open.
Two shared coordinates. Then the shared algebra \(\mathbb F_3[x,y]/(x^3,y^3)\) is not a chain ring, and its ideals need not form a distributive lattice. The recorded failure for single selectors on \(x\), \(y\) and \(x+y\) in prop:overlap-tor is of this kind, although there the forms are dependent. A block such as \(b\) in the four-block check, which reads both \(x\) and \(y\), needs a basis adapted over both coordinates at once.

No computation was run: the statement is proved for every \(m\), \(h\) and degree.

Next: extend step 3 to star families with \(R\). Treat each \(R_{ab}\) as a further generator, and ask whether its top syzygies decompose into ones supported on its two blocks and one more. Otherwise, find the first four-block star syzygy that does not decompose, in the graded algebra alone.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:section-retraction and the fall convention of the section entry, prop:family-membership-criterion, lem:syzygy-gluing, thm:relative-gluing (c), prop:overlap-tor and its three-selector failure, lem:tensor-splitting-locality (a tensor product over a field, which does not cover a shared \(x\)), and lem:chain-consequences. Claim searches for distributivity, chain rings and \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) found no prior version.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed steps 1 to 4 and the discussion of where the argument stops. Its claim search found no prior version; the nearest record is prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds. It required these changes, all adopted:

pair falls placed in \(T\), with the upward shift for free variables, so the claim is about the lowest fall;
an overclaim that the family falls exactly at the union of its pairs' fall degrees replaced by the equality of lowest falls;
\(n_j\) defined in the reduced algebra;
the transfer to the section entry's \(J_s\) stated;
identically linked stars defined;
the unused hypotheses named: radical ideals, field equations, and the field \(\mathbb F_3\).

The changes weaken or clarify, so no further pass was made.

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Star families with R and T: a proof attempt that fails at diagonalization, the P-top summand lemma it leaves, and a four-block star at h = 4 without a fall below 8

24 September 2026 · Working proof (P-top summand lemma); failed proof attempt; finite check · cycle odd-prime-star-r-locality. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Star families with R and T: a proof attempt that fails at diagonalization, the P-top summand lemma it leaves, and a four-block star at h = 4 without a fall below 8”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-repaired-star-attempt.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The star locality theorem proved conj:family-fall-locality for star families without cross generators. Parallel pairs need \(R\) (cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h), and conj:bounded-linkage-large-h adds \(T\) for triples covering the three translates. This cycle tried to extend the chain argument to star families with \(R\) and \(T\). A fresh-context reviewer found that the attempt fails at its diagonalization step. The entry records the lemma that survives, the exact gap, and one falsification test at the smallest size where it can decide.

General statement. lem:p-top-summand: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for a separately augmented complete accuracy-one ENS block \(a\) with \(h\ge3\) inputs, one of them the shared coordinate \(x\) (up to translation) and the rest private, the top \(\rho'_a\) of \(P_a\) generates a pure cyclic summand of order \(x^2\) of \(A_a/n_a\) over \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\). So \(A_a\) has a homogeneous \(S\)-basis adapted to \(n_a\) that contains \(\rho'_a\). conj:family-fall-locality stays open for star families with \(R\) and \(T\).

Notation

As in the star locality entry: \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\), \(A_j=\mathbb F_3[x,Y_j]/(\text{cubes})\), free over \(S\), \(A=\bigotimes_SA_j\), and \(n_j=\operatorname{gr}(I_jT_j)\subseteq A_j\). The top of \(P_j\) is \(\rho'_j=r_{j,1}x^2+\rho''_j\), where \(\rho''_j=\sum_{i\ge2}r_{j,i}y_{j,i}^2\) is free of \(x\). Since \(q_a-q_b=\kappa_{ab}\ell_{ab}\), with \(\kappa_{ab}=2(c_b-c_a)\) and \(\ell_{ab}=x-(c_a+c_b)\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), the cross tops are \(\operatorname{top}(R_{ab})=\kappa_{ab}x\rho''_a\rho''_b\) and \(\operatorname{top}(T_{abc})=\rho'_a\rho'_b\rho'_c\).

The P-top summand lemma

Proof. Let \(M=A_a/n_a\) and \(m\) the image of \(\rho'_a\). By the graded Smith normal form, \(A_a=\bigoplus_kSe_k\), \(n_a=\bigoplus_kx^{a_k}Se_k\) and \(M=\bigoplus_kS/(x^{a_k})\bar e_k\). Write \(m=\sum_ks_k\bar e_k\).

Order. \(x^2m=0\), since \(\operatorname{top}(q_{a,1}P_a)=-x^2\rho'_a\in n_a\). And \(xm\ne0\), since \(x\rho'_a\) has degree 4, and \(n_a\) is zero in degrees \(\le4\) for \(h\ge3\) (lem:block-min-degree). So \(s_k\in x^{a_k-2}S\) whenever \(a_k=3\).
Height. \(xm\notin x^2M\). The degree-4 part of \(x^2A_a+n_a\) is \(x^2(A_a)_2\). But \(x\rho'_a=x\rho''_a\) is nonzero, since \(a\) has private inputs, and every term of it has \(x\)-degree 1.
Summand. So some \(xs_k\bar e_k\) is nonzero modulo \(x^2\): \(s_k\) is a unit and \(a_k\ge2\), and the order bound forces \(a_k=2\). Call this index \(k_0\).
Exchange. Replace \(e_{k_0}\) by \(\rho'_a\). Its \(e_{k_0}\)-coefficient is a unit, because the part from \(n_a\) lies in \(x^2S\). So the new set is a basis. Modulo \(\bigoplus_{k\ne k_0}x^{a_k}Se_k\), \(x^2\rho'_a\) is a unit times \(x^2e_{k_0}\). This uses \(x^2\tilde s_k\in x^{a_k}S\): by the order bound, \(\tilde s_k\in xS\), when \(a_k=3\), and trivially when \(a_k\le2\). Hence \(n_a=x^2S\rho'_a\oplus\bigoplus_{k\ne k_0}x^{a_k}Se_k\). \(\square\)

The attempted theorem and where it fails

The attempt claimed: a star family of such blocks, with \(R\) for parallel pairs and \(T\) for covering triples, falls no lower than its subfamilies of at most three blocks. Its plan had three steps.

Take a product basis of \(A\) over \(S\) in which every piece's image is diagonal.
Split every top syzygy, by chain distributivity, into syzygies between two pieces.
Show that each pair syzygy spanning four or five blocks is Koszul or lifts exactly. These use the identities \(\kappa_{cd}P_cP_dR_{ab}-\kappa_{ab}P_aP_bR_{cd}=\kappa_{ab}\kappa_{cd}(c_c+c_d-c_a-c_b)P_aP_bP_cP_d\), \(P_dP_eR_{ab}=\kappa_{ab}\ell_{ab}P_b\,T_{ade}\) and \(P_{B'\setminus B}T=P_{B\setminus B'}T'\).

The identities are correct, and in the first the remainder is a multiple of the \(T\) of a covering triple. The reviewer found two errors.

Step 1 is false. The image of \(R_{ab}\) is the ideal \(x\rho''_a\rho''_bA\), not the \(S\)-span of the product basis vectors through \(\rho'_a\) and \(\rho'_b\). Multiplication by \(A\) acts inside \(A_a\) and \(A_b\) too; for example \(y_{a,2}\,x\rho''_a\rho''_b\) is in the image. The lemma above diagonalizes \(S\rho'_a\), not the ideals \(\rho'_aA_a\) and \(x\rho''_aA_a\). Over a chain ring, several submodules need not have a common adapted basis.
Step 3 then needs recomputation. In a component the least common multiple is \(x\) to the larger of the two exponents, so the pair syzygies need not be multiples of the product syzygies used. A concrete case: a block \(j\) outside \(T=T_{abc}\), \(w_0=\prod_{i\ge2}y_{a,i}^2\), which kills \(\rho''_a\), and \(u=\rho'_jw_0\). Then \(u\,\operatorname{top}(T)\) lies in \(N_j\), but \(u\) is not in \(N_j\), and this four-block syzygy is not Koszul. It still decomposes through \(N_a\), so the theorem is not refuted, only this case argument.

What a repair needs: a homogeneous basis of each \(A_a\) adapted at once to \(n_a\), \(\rho'_aA_a\) and \(x\rho''_aA_a\). Then every piece would be diagonal, since products of diagonal submodules over \(S\) are diagonal. After that, a per-component analysis of the four- and five-block pair syzygies would still be needed, routing each through a block piece where the example above shows it must go. Both are statements about a single block, apart from the final routing.

The check

Can a test decide? At \(h=3\) every linked pair already falls at 7, so the section lemma pins every family at 7 and nothing can be seen. At \(h=4\), parallel pairs with \(R\) fall first at 8 (r_added_pair.out). So a four-block star falling at degree \(\le7\) would refute conj:family-fall-locality, provided its identical pair does not itself fall below 8.

star_h4.sing (star_h4.out) is one Singular run of about 5 s with degree bound 8, enough to see falls at degree \(\le7\). The star has four blocks with \(h=4\): \(a\) and \(b\) on \(x\), \(c\) on \(x+1\), \(d\) on \(x+2\). Its cross set follows the rule: \(R\) for the five parallel pairs, and \(T\) for \(acd\) and \(bcd\). \(T\) has degree 9, so it cannot act below the bound. The header predicts no fall below 8. The identical pair \(ab\) has no fall below 8, and neither has the whole star. So no four-block interaction appears at \(h=4\) below the pairs' lowest falls. This is one star at one size, and it checks the conjecture's conclusion, not the failed proof.

What this means

conj:family-fall-locality is proved for stars without cross generators and still open with them. The four-block check supports it at \(h=4\).
The obstacle is algebraic: whether one block's module \(A_a\) has a basis adapted to its top ideal and to the ideals of its \(P\)-top at once. This is decidable for \(h=3,4\) by one module computation, and provable, if true, from the structure of \(n_a\).

Next: decide the simultaneous adaptation for one block at \(h=3,4\) in one computation of the \(S\)-module structure of \(n_a\), \(\rho'_aA_a\) and \(x\rho''_aA_a\). If it holds, prove it and complete the routing. If it fails, bypass it: work in \(A/\sum_jN_j=\bigotimes_SM_j\), where only the images of the cross tops matter. In that ring, the image of \(\rho'_a\) generates a summand by the lemma.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the star locality entry, lem:block-min-degree, lem:shared-input-consequences, conj:bounded-linkage-large-h for \(T\) and the cross rule, and the \(h=4\) value in r_added_pair.out. The value is read from star_h4.out. A claim search for pure summands, adapted bases and star cross generators found only the star theorem and the conjecture.

A fresh-context reviewer read the full proof attempt and confirmed these parts:

the P-top summand lemma, with one overlap in its case split corrected;
the three identities and their degrees;
the supports of the cases that stay within three blocks.

It found the diagonalization error and the failing case above. So the theorem is not recorded. For a cross generator \(c\), \(J_s\) contains exactly the reductions of \(Uc\) with \(\deg U\le s-\deg c\), so each cross generator is a piece filtered by multiplier degree. No further pass was made, since this entry only removes the attempted claim.

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Block tops are not graded by x-degree: the easy repair of star locality with R and T fails for every h ≥ 3

24 September 2026 · Working proof (restriction from an exact h = 3 base case), closing one repair route · cycle odd-prime-adapted-block-basis. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Block tops are not graded by x-degree: the easy repair of star locality with R and T fails for every h ≥ 3”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-tops-not-x-graded.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The repaired-star attempt needed every piece of a star family with \(R\) and \(T\) to be diagonal in one product basis over \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\). The quickest repair splits everything by \(x\)-degree:

\(A=S\otimes B\), with \(B\) the \(x\)-free part.
\(\operatorname{top}(R_{ab})=\kappa_{ab}x\rho''_a\rho''_b\) is \(x\)-homogeneous.
\(T\) can be replaced by \(T'=T+r_{a,1}q_{b,1}P_bP_c+r_{b,1}q_{c,1}P_cP_a+r_{c,1}q_{a,1}P_aP_b\). It differs from \(T\) by companions times polynomials. Its top in \(A\), the top of its reduced form, is the \(x\)-free \(\rho''_a\rho''_b\rho''_c\), which is nonzero because each of \(a,b,c\) has a private input.
Suppose every block's top ideal \(n_j\) were homogeneous for the \(x\)-degree, \(n_j=F_0\oplus xF_1\oplus x^2F_2\). Then \(n_j\) would give a chain \(F_0\subseteq F_1\subseteq F_2\) of subspaces of \(B_j\), and the cross pieces would add \(\rho''_jB_j\). A chain and one more subspace always have a common adapted basis, so every piece would be diagonal.

The question of this cycle is whether \(n_j\) is homogeneous for the \(x\)-degree. It is not.

General statement. lem:tops-not-x-graded: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for a complete accuracy-one ENS block with \(h\ge3\) inputs \(x,y_2,\dots,y_h\) and coefficients \(r_1,\dots,r_h\), the top ideal \(n\), the image in \(\mathbb F_3[x,y,r]/(\text{cubes})\) of \(\operatorname{gr}(I)\), where \(I=I(Z_h)\) is the ideal of companions and field equations, is not homogeneous for the grading by \(x\)-degree. The companion top \(y_2^2\rho'\) lies in \(n\), but its \(x\)-degree-2 component \(r_1x^2y_2^2\) does not. At \(h=2\) this witness fails: \(r_1q_xq_y\equiv q_y(1-r_2)\) on the zero set, since there \(y=0\) forces \(P=0\), that is \(r_1q_x=1-r_2\).

Proof

The element. \(\operatorname{top}(q_2P)=-y_2^2\rho'\), with \(\rho'=r_1x^2+\sum_{i\ge2}r_iy_i^2\). In the truncated algebra \(y_2^2\rho'=r_1x^2y_2^2+\sum_{i\ge3}r_iy_i^2y_2^2\), since \(y_2^4=0\). Its \(x\)-degree-2 component is \(r_1x^2y_2^2\).
Membership as a degree question. \(r_1x^2y_2^2\) is the top of \(r_1q_1q_2\), where \(q_1=1-x^2\) and \(q_2=1-y_2^2\). So \(r_1x^2y_2^2\in n\) exactly when some reduced \(u\) of degree \(\le4\) makes \(r_1q_1q_2+u\) vanish on the zero set \(Z_h\). Take a degree-compatible Gröbner basis of \(I(Z_h)\), the ideal of companions and field equations. Then this holds exactly when the normal form of \(r_1q_1q_2\) has degree \(\le4\), because reduction does not raise degree.
Base case. x_part_witness.sing (x_part_witness.out) computes the normal form. It has degree 5 at \(h=3\), on the 387 points of \(Z_3\), and also at \(h=4\), as a control. At \(h=2\) it has degree 3, on 51 points, as the identity \(r_1q_xq_y\equiv q_y(1-r_2)\) of the statement shows by hand. So the witness needs \(h\ge3\).
Restriction. For \(h>3\), set \(y_4=\dots=y_h=1\) and \(r_4=\dots=r_h=0\). Inputs 4 to \(h\) are then false, and every point of \(Z_3\), extended this way, lies in \(Z_h\). A \(u\) of degree \(\le4\) for \(Z_h\) would restrict to one for \(Z_3\), which step 3 excludes. \(\square\)

x_bihomog.sing (x_bihomog.out) computed the standard basis of \(n\) plus the cubes for \(h=3,4,5\). It checked whether each element's \(x\)-degree components lie in the ideal. The counts that fail are 10 of 41, 28 of 177 and 75 of 734 elements. The lemma explains why the counts are nonzero.

What this means

The \(x\)-degree splitting cannot diagonalize a star family's pieces. A repair of the star argument with \(R\) and \(T\) must use the genuine \(S\)-module structure of \(n_a\). There are two options: a basis of \(A_a\) adapted at once to \(n_a\), \(\rho'_aA_a\) and \(x\rho''_aA_a\), whose existence is untested; or the quotient \(\bigotimes_S(A_j/n_j)\), in which lem:p-top-summand makes \(\rho'_a\) generate a summand.
The replacement \(T\to T'\) is valid in any case, and it makes the tops of every \(R\) and \(T\) \(x\)-homogeneous. \(W\), used for identical pairs, is not covered: its top mixes \(x\)-degrees, and no correction of the same degree exists. What mixes the \(x\)-degrees are the blocks' own companion tops, such as \(y_i^2\rho'\).
conj:family-fall-locality is unchanged. It is proved for stars without cross generators and supported by the four-block star at \(h=4\) with them.

Four research entries have followed the pair-results route review, all on family locality. Next: a route review of that line, weighing it against the other items between the pair theory and the goal.

A different augmentation might bypass the cross-generator algebra. Each linked pair and triple could get its own Gröbner basis. Then hypothesis (c) of thm:relative-gluing holds, and only (b) remains, the spanning of top syzygies by member-supported and Koszul ones.
Families with two shared coordinates are still open.
The weak base is still open.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the repaired-star attempt and lem:p-top-summand, the companion-top identity of the star entries, lem:block-min-degree, and the restriction step of that lemma's proof, which this proof reuses. The values are read from x_part_witness.out and x_bihomog.out. A first version of the homogeneity script printed nothing, because Singular reserves the name test; it was rerun with the procedure renamed. The first choice of base case, \(h=2\), was refuted by its own run.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed steps 1 to 4 and reran the witness script. It also checked independently that at \(h=3\), \(r_1x^2y_2^2\) reduces to a nonzero element modulo the tops and cubes. It confirmed that the homogeneity script computes what is stated. It required only wording changes, all adopted: the definition of \(n\); the chain of subspaces in the motivation; the scope of the \(T'\) remark, which excludes \(W\); the top of \(T'\) taken in \(A\); and a hand proof of the \(h=2\) identity, which the saved output does not print.

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Route review: family locality is proved for stars and survives a two-coordinate test; paths of blocks are the irreducible case

24 September 2026 · Route review · The locality line after the pair-results route review; cycle odd-prime-locality-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: family locality is proved for stars and survives a two-coordinate test; paths of blocks are the irreducible case”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-locality-line-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Four research entries have followed the pair-results route review, all on the step from linked pairs to whole families. This review states the line's claim, what the goal needs from it, tries to falsify its newest conjecture, and names the next step.

General statement. The line's general claim is conj:family-fall-locality: a family of linked ENS blocks with private inputs and the cross generators \(R\) and \(T\) falls no lower than its subfamilies of at most three blocks. Together with the pair statements, conj:r-added-parallel-fall and conj:shared-input-falls, it would give the span-ring part of conj:bounded-linkage-large-h.

What happened since the last review

A block with a private input can be deleted at no degree cost, so a family's lowest fall is at most that of each subfamily. The pair membership criterion extends to families (sections).
Systems sharing one coordinate, with no cross generators, fall no lower than their pairs. The shared algebra \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) is a chain ring (star locality).
The extension to \(R\) and \(T\) failed at diagonalization. The P-top summand lemma survives, and a four-block star at \(h=4\) has no fall below 8 (attempt).
Block tops are not graded by \(x\)-degree, which closes the easiest repair (tops).

What the goal needs from this line

Relative gluing needs three things:

a \(z\)-injective base;
top syzygies spanned by member-supported and cross-member Koszul syzygies;
liftable member syzygies.

Take the members to be the linked components of the inventory, the connected families under shared linear parts. Then (b) across components follows from lem:tensor-splitting-locality, given freeness of the weak top algebra over all the forms. By lem:span-transfer, (c) follows from a span-ring statement: no component falls below \(D=11\). So the line must show that every linked component that compiled inventories can produce has no span-ring fall below 11. Components can be large, and their link structure is arbitrary. Locality would reduce this to pairs and triples, and the pair statements would finish it for \(h\ge7\). Freeness over the compiled forms, and the band's rational tuples, lie outside this line.

Falsification attempt

conj:family-fall-locality is proved only for stars. two_coord_h4.sing (two_coord_h4.out) tests a family on two shared coordinates at \(h=4\), where linked pairs fall first at 8. So a fall at degree \(\le7\) would refute the conjecture.

The blocks: \(a\) on \(x\); \(b\) on \(x+1\) and \(y\); \(c\) on \(y+1\); \(d\) on \(y+2\).
The cross set: \(R\) for \(ab\), \(bc\), \(bd\) and \(cd\), and \(T\) for \(bcd\).

It is one Singular run with degree bound 8, and its header predicts no fall below 8. The family has none. Nor has the four-block star of the attempt entry. Nothing refutes the conjecture within its hypotheses. The recorded failure of pairwise vanishing for selectors on \(x\), \(y\), \(x+y\) (prop:overlap-tor) needs dependent linear parts, which the hypotheses of conj:bounded-linkage-large-h exclude.

A reduction to paths

The star theorem holds for arbitrary systems sharing one coordinate, not only for single blocks. So when no cross generator crosses a coordinate \(y\), a family whose link graph is a tree can be cut at \(y\). Each branch at \(y\) is one system over \(y\), and the family falls only where some union of two branches falls. Repeating the cut reduces every tree family without cross generators to subfamilies in which each shared coordinate is read by at most two blocks, where the cut gains nothing. The simplest of these is a path of blocks, \(a\)–\(b\)–\(c\)–\(d\) through distinct coordinates, and paths are the first irreducible case. Cross generators, which the families here need, again add the diagonalization problem of the attempt entry.

Assessment of this line

Solid ground.
- The easy half of locality holds in general.
- The hard half holds for stars without cross generators.
- Three exact checks agree with the conjecture: \(h=3\), a star at \(h=4\), and a two-coordinate family at \(h=4\). Two of them could have refuted it.
The gap. Cross generators and several shared coordinates. The first proof attempt showed that the module structure of a block's top ideal over \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) is the obstacle. That structure is not \(x\)-graded, and no argument yet controls it.
Prospects. The algebraic mechanism, chain-ring distributivity, is right for one coordinate. The evidence is consistent. The remaining cases need either module-level information on a single block or a different augmentation. This is progress on a necessary step, but slower than the pair theory, and the weak-base and freeness steps remain after it.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, the highest-risk item remains the step from pairs to families. Paths are its irreducible case, and cross generators its hard ingredient. Next: decide the first path.

A four-block path \(a\)–\(b\)–\(c\)–\(d\) at \(h=4\), with \(R\) on its three parallel links. Its interior blocks each read two shared coordinates.
Test whether it falls below 8. If it does, locality fails and the goal needs path generators.
If it does not, attempt a proof for paths without cross generators. Glue two systems over one coordinate with the pair membership criterion, and control the Tor of their graded quotients over the chain ring.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the four entries since the last review and their claims (lem:section-retraction, prop:family-membership-criterion, conj:family-fall-locality, thm:star-family-locality, lem:p-top-summand, lem:tops-not-x-graded), thm:relative-gluing, lem:span-transfer, lem:tensor-splitting-locality and prop:overlap-tor. The falsification value is read from two_coord_h4.out. No new claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 21.09 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	48.30 s
Computation design and coding	32.15 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	54.37 s
Individually measured computation	6.13 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Leaf reduction: a block that reads one coordinate can be peeled off a family under a modular-law condition; a four-block path at h = 4 has no fall below 8

24 September 2026 · Working proof of a conditional reduction (explicit module hypothesis), and a finite check · cycle odd-prime-path-locality. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Leaf reduction: a block that reads one coordinate can be peeled off a family under a modular-law condition; a four-block path at h = 4 has no fall below 8”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-leaf-reduction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The locality route review found paths of blocks to be the first family that cutting at a coordinate cannot reduce. This cycle tests the first path. It then looks for the mechanism that would reduce a path to its triples.

General statement. lem:leaf-reduction. Take a family \(F\) of systems over \(\mathbb F_3\), each with ideal \(I_j\) in its own private variables and the shared coordinates it reads, and no cross generators. Suppose a system \(a\) reads exactly one shared coordinate \(x\). Let \(U\) be any set of other systems, and \(R=F\setminus a\). In the truncated algebra \(A_R\) of \(x\) and the variables of \(R\), let \(M_U\) be the top ideal generated by \(U\) and \(M_W\) the one generated by \(R\setminus U\). Suppose that for \(\alpha=0,1,2\) \[x^\alpha A_R\cap(M_U+M_W)=(x^\alpha A_R\cap M_U)+x^\alpha M_W.\tag{★}\] Then every degree at which \(F\) falls is one at which \(\{a\}\cup U\) or \(R\) falls, computed in the family's algebra. Hence its lowest fall is at least the lesser of theirs. The condition (★) is a modular law over the chain ring \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\). It can fail even for ideals; whether it holds for ENS blocks is open. The proof also runs over \(\mathbb F_q\), and it uses neither radical ideals nor field equations.

The path check

path_h4.sing (path_h4.out) is one Singular run with degree bound 8. It takes four blocks with \(h=4\) and private coefficients:

\(a\) on \(x\);
\(b\) on \(x+1\) and \(y\);
\(c\) on \(y+1\) and \(w\);
\(d\) on \(w+1\).

\(R\) is added for the three parallel links, and no triple covers three translates of one coordinate. Linked pairs at \(h=4\) with \(R\) fall first at 8 (R-added pair), so a fall at degree \(\le7\) would refute conj:family-fall-locality. The header predicts none, and there is none. With the four-block star and the two-coordinate family, three families at \(h=4\) now fit the conjecture. This path carries \(R\), so it lies outside the leaf reduction below, which assumes no cross generators; it is evidence for the conjecture only.

The leaf reduction

Notation as in the star locality entry: \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\), \(n_a\) the top ideal of \(a\) in its truncated algebra \(A_a\), and \(N_j\) the extended top ideals in \(A\). \(a\) reads only \(x\), so \(A=A_a\otimes_SA_R\), with \(A_R\) as in the statement, together with any variables that no system reads. As in step 2 of the star entry, a degree-compatible Gröbner basis of \(I_j\), together with the field equations of the other variables, has leading monomials coprime to theirs. So \(N_j=n_jA\) also with several shared coordinates, and every \(N_j\) with \(j\in R\) is extended from \(A_R\).

Components. By the graded Smith normal form, \(A_a=\bigoplus_kSu_k\) and \(n_a=\bigoplus_kx^{\alpha_k}Su_k\). So \(A=\bigoplus_ku_k\otimes A_R\), and each summand is a copy of \(A_R\). In it \(N_a\) is \(x^{\alpha_k}A_R\). Since \(N_R=\sum_{j\in R}N_j\) is extended from \(A_R\), in it \(N_R\) is \(M_R=M_U+M_W\), and \(N_a\cap N_R\) is \(x^{\alpha_k}A_R\cap M_R\).
The modular law. Let \(N_U\) and \(N_W\) be the extensions of \(M_U\) and \(M_W\). Since \(N_W=M_WA\), and \(M_W\) is an ideal of \(A_R\), \(N_aN_W=\bigoplus_ku_k\otimes x^{\alpha_k}M_W\). Likewise \(N_a\cap N_U=\bigoplus_ku_k\otimes(x^{\alpha_k}A_R\cap M_U)\). So (★) gives \(N_a\cap N_R=(N_a\cap N_U)+N_aN_W\). (★) is trivial for \(\alpha=0\), where both sides are \(M_R\), and for \(\alpha_k=3\), where the summand is 0.
Splitting a syzygy. All modules here are graded, and the \(u_k\) are homogeneous. So the splitting below can be taken in the syzygy's degree \(s+1\), with \(p\), \(n_i\), \(m_i\) homogeneous and \(\deg n_i+\deg m_i=s+1\). Let \((g_j)\) be a top syzygy of \(F\). Then \(g_a=-\sum_{j\in R}g_j\) lies in \(N_a\cap N_R\), so \(g_a=p+\sum_in_im_i\), with \(p\in N_a\cap N_U\), \(n_i\in N_a\) and \(m_i\in N_{j_i}\) for systems \(j_i\in R\setminus U\).
- Write \(p=\sum_{j\in U}p_j\) with \(p_j\in N_j\). Then \(pe_a-\sum_jp_je_j\) is a syzygy supported on \(\{a\}\cup U\).
- Each \(n_im_i(e_a-e_{j_i})\) is a Koszul syzygy. It lifts exactly. Take \(\tilde n_i\in I_aT\) and \(\tilde m_i\in I_{j_i}T\) with tops \(n_i\) and \(m_i\), of degrees \(\deg n_i\) and \(\deg m_i\). Then \(\tilde n_i\tilde m_i\) lies in both ideals, and its top in degree \(s+1\) is \(n_im_i\), possibly 0.
Subtracting these leaves a syzygy with \(a\)-component 0, supported on \(R\).
Falls. Suppose \(F\) falls at degree \(s\). By step 1 of the star locality entry, some top syzygy of degree \(s+1\) does not lift. Split it as in step 3. The Koszul parts lift, so the part on \(\{a\}\cup U\) or the part on \(R\) does not lift within its subfamily. By the same criterion, that subfamily falls at degree \(s\) in \(T\). \(\square\)

For a path \(a\)–\(b\)–\(c\)–\(d\) without cross generators, for example an identically linked one, take \(U=\{b\}\). If (★) holds, every fall degree of the path is, in \(T\), one of \(\{a,b\}\) or of \(\{b,c,d\}\). Within \(\{b,c,d\}\), \(x\) is read only by \(b\) and acts as a private variable, so \(b\) reads one shared coordinate, \(y\). Peeling \(b\) with \(U=\{c\}\), under the corresponding (★) in that subfamily, leaves \(\{b,c\}\) and \(\{c,d\}\). So under (★) at both steps, the path's lowest fall is the least over its three linked pairs. The same peeling applies to trees whose leaves meet the rest in one coordinate. Its base case, a leaf with its neighbours on that coordinate, is a star: thm:star-family-locality handles it when those neighbours share no other coordinate.

The hypothesis is not automatic

When \(U\) contains every system that reads \(x\), \(M_W\) does not involve \(x\): it is \(S\otimes V\) for a subspace \(V\) of the \(x\)-free part. Then (★) is a modular law for an arbitrary submodule and a pure one, and even this can fail. Take \(A_R=S[y]/(y^3)\), \(M_U=(x+y)\), \(M_W=(y)\) and \(\alpha=1\). Then \(x=(x+y)-y\) lies in \(xA_R\cap(M_U+M_W)\). But the right side of (★) is 0 in degree 1, since \(c(x+y)\in xA_R\) forces \(c=0\) and \(xM_W\) starts in degree 2. For blocks, the question is whether some element of \(M_U\) mixes a top of the far blocks with an \(x\)-multiple, as \(e_1+xe_2\) does. The \(h=4\) path fits the conclusion, but that neither proves (★) nor needs it.

What this means

Locality for paths and trees without cross generators reduces to one module condition per peeled leaf. The condition relates the leaf's neighbours to the rest of the subfamily through the leaf's coordinate.
Cross generators are still outside every proved case.
The evidence for conj:family-fall-locality, all with \(R\), now covers a star, a two-coordinate family and a path at \(h=4\). None of these is an instance of the leaf reduction.

Next: decide (★) for the \(h=3\) path in one computation of the two sides as ideals of the truncated algebra, degree by degree through 10. If it holds there, look for a proof from the structure of block tops. If it fails, the failing element shows where a path's syzygies need more than three blocks.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:star-family-locality and its steps 1 and 2 (the lifting criterion and the tensor structure), the locality route review, and lem:tensor-splitting-locality (tensor products over a field, not needed here). The path value is read from path_h4.out. A claim search for leaf reductions and modular laws over chain rings found no prior version.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error, and confirmed that the path script and output match the text. It required these changes, all adopted:

the path check marked as outside the lemma, since it carries \(R\);
\(x\) placed in \(A_R\), and \(N_j=n_jA\) justified for several coordinates;
the product \(N_aN_W\) derived;
the splitting kept in one degree;
the hypothesis on \(U\), which the proof does not use, dropped; the field, radical ideals and field equations named as unused;
the path consequence sharpened to pairs, with (★) at each step;
the counterexample given as ideals, and a clash of names removed;
the \(h=4\) pair value cited.

The changes clarify, weaken or add a consequence that follows by a second application of the same lemma, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 29.81 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 53.79 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 13.06 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 15.74 s
Individually measured computation	7.09 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The leaf modular law for ENS paths holds only up to a degree: it first fails at 8 and 11 at h = 3 (neighbours, then two steps), and at 9 at h = 4

24 September 2026 · Conjecture fitted to exact checks (one earlier prediction refuted, one run timed out) · cycle odd-prime-leaf-modular-law. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The leaf modular law for ENS paths holds only up to a degree: it first fails at 8 and 11 at h = 3 (neighbours, then two steps), and at 9 at h = 4”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-leaf-law-degrees.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The leaf reduction peels a block that reads one coordinate off a family without cross generators, provided a modular law (★) holds. This cycle decides (★) for the path \(a\)–\(b\)–\(c\)–\(d\) of ENS blocks, and asks where it fails. Every fact used is about top ideals, which do not depend on the translates. So the results apply equally to identically and to parallel linked paths without cross generators.

General statement. conj:leaf-law-degree: for a path of complete accuracy-one ENS blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(h\) inputs and private coefficients, without cross generators, peel the end block \(a\) over its coordinate \(x\). Take \(U\) to be the blocks within path distance \(k\) of \(a\), and the rest of the path as the far part. Suppose the far part is nonempty. Then (★) holds in every degree below \(3k+h+2\) and fails in that degree. The formula is the unique linear form through the three first failures observed, so it is not yet confirmed by any prediction. If it holds, then peeling with \(k=1\) works through degree 11 for \(h\ge7\). Paths of such blocks without cross generators would then fall no lower than their linked pairs at \(D=11\).

Computations

Each run is one Singular computation in the truncated algebra of the path's variables, with the tops of each block's reduced degree-order basis. It compares both sides of (★) degree by degree below a degree bound and prints the least degree of a failure, with a witness.

Run	\(h\)	\(k\)	Bound	First failure
`leaf_law_h3.out`	3	1 (\(U=\{b\}\))	10	8, for \(\alpha=1,2\); also 8 at the second peeling, of \(b\) over \(y\) in \(\{b,c,d\}\)
`leaf_law_witness.out`	3	1	9	8. Witness \(x^2w^2y_{b,3}r_{b,1}r_{b,2}r_{c,3}\). Control with an empty far part: no failure below 9.
`leaf_law_triple.out`	3	2 (\(U=\{b,c\}\))	10	none below 10
`leaf_law_triple_db12.out`	3	2	12	11. Witness \(x^2y_{b,3}y_{c,3}y_{d,2}^2r_{b,1}r_{b,2}r_{c,1}r_{c,2}r_{d,3}\).
`leaf_law_h4.out`	4	1 and 2	12	\(\alpha=1\) only. 9 for \(k=1\), with a witness \(x^2y_{b,4}^2r_{b,1}r_{b,4}\) times the part of \(\rho'_c\) on \(c\)'s inputs other than \(y\). None below 12 for \(k=2\).
`leaf_law_h5.out`	5	1	11	\(\alpha=1\). Not reached: the run hit the 600 s limit (`leaf_law_h5_status.txt`)

The \(h=4\) run was predicted before it ran, from the \(h=3\) values, to fail at 8 and 11, the formula \(3k+5\) independent of \(h\). It failed at 9 for \(k=1\), which refutes that formula. \(3k+h+2\) is the unique linear form through the three observed first failures: 8 and 11 at \(h=3\), and 9 at \(h=4\). The \(h=4\), \(k=2\) run, with no failure below 12, is consistent with its value 13 but does not test it. Its first prediction, 10 at \(h=5\), \(k=1\), was not decided by the timed-out run. Only four-block paths were computed, so for \(k=2\) the far part was the single block \(d\). At \(h=4\) only \(\alpha=1\) was checked, while the lemma needs \(\alpha=1,2\).

What the witnesses show

On the three witnesses, each is a product of one factor per block along the path.

From \(b\) comes \(x^2\) times a factor of degree \(h\), such as \(y_{b,4}^2r_{b,1}r_{b,4}\) at \(h=4\). This gives degree \(h+2\).
Each block after \(b\) contributes a factor of degree 3: \(w^2r_{c,3}\) at \(h=3\), \(k=1\); \(y_{c,3}r_{c,1}r_{c,2}\) and \(y_{d,2}^2r_{d,3}\) at \(h=3\), \(k=2\); and at \(h=4\) the part of \(\rho'_c\) off \(y\). Only at \(h=4\) is the factor a piece of \(\rho'\).

So on these witnesses the failure degree grows by 3 for each further block. This is an observation, not a proof. Such a product lies in \(M_U+M_W\) through a cancellation across the linking coordinate, as in the abstract counterexample of the leaf entry. But it is not an \(x\)-multiple of anything on the right side.

What this means

A finite consequence. Without \(R\), parallel linked pairs fall at 7 for every \(h\ge3\) (cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h). Excluding path falls below 7 needs (★) only in degrees \(\le7\), which the \(h=3\) run verifies at both peelings for \(\alpha=1,2\). With the section lemma, the \(h=3\) parallel path without \(R\) has lowest fall exactly 7. Under the conjecture the same holds for every \(h\), since \(h+4\ge7\).
The failure at \(h+5\) matters for identically linked paths. Their pairs fall only at \(h+4\) or higher, if conj:shared-input-falls holds, which needs (★) up to degree \(h+5\). The tops computation is the same for both kinds of link; whether its failure matters is not.
If conj:leaf-law-degree holds, the peeling needs larger neighbourhoods at larger degrees. At fixed \(D\), families would be local over subfamilies whose size depends on \(D-h\). For \(h\ge10\) and \(D=11\), neighbours would suffice, but only for paths without cross generators. The band's families carry \(R\) and \(T\), about which neither the lemma nor the conjecture says anything. Repeated peeling also needs the conjecture for each shorter subpath, whose end block then holds the former shared coordinate as a private variable. That is the shape of the second peeling, which at \(h=3\) fails first at 8, as the formula predicts.
A failure of (★) does not by itself create a fall, since the lemma is only sufficient.

Next: test the prediction 10 at \(h=5\), \(k=1\), in a faster form. The block ideals are homogeneous for each block's degree in its coefficients \(r\), as in the pure-part reduction. So the comparison splits by that multidegree, and each piece is far smaller. Then attempt a proof of the degree bound from the witness structure: products of \(\rho'\)-pieces along the path.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:leaf-reduction and its statement of (★), thm:star-family-locality for the top ideals, and conj:r-added-parallel-fall for the \(h\ge7\) threshold. Every value is read from the named outputs, and the timeout from leaf_law_h5_status.txt. All inputs are homogeneous under the degree order: tops, cubes and \(x^\alpha\). So the degree-truncated intersections and standard bases in the quotient ring are exact in degrees \(\le\) the bound. The scripts reduce each generator of the left side of degree below the bound by the truncated basis of the right side. The least failing generator degree is the least failing degree, since the left side in degree \(e\) is generated in degrees \(\le e\). The control run with an empty far part found no failure, as it must. The refuted prediction and the timed-out run are reported as such.

A fresh-context reviewer checked every value and witness against the outputs and found them correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the fit described as unique through three points, with no prediction confirmed yet;
the conjecture restricted to a nonempty far part;
the \(\alpha=1\)-only runs marked;
the timeout recorded in a file;
the witness structure stated as observed;
the finite consequence at \(h=3\) added;
the consequences for identical links, \(R\) and the band corrected;
the validity of the degree bound stated.

The changes weaken or correct, apart from the finite consequence, which follows directly from the lemma and the \(h=3\) check. So no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	26 min 51.40 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 38.74 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 9.50 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 35.07 s
Individually measured computation	17 min 27.95 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

The leaf law's failure degree: the prediction 10 at h = 5 holds; block tops appear to be companion tops below degree h + 2 (checked h = 3 to 6); a membership step shows why the witnesses lie on the left side of (★)

24 September 2026 · Conjecture (checked h = 3 to 6) · cycle odd-prime-leaf-law-proof. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The leaf law's failure degree: the prediction 10 at h = 5 holds; block tops appear to be companion tops below degree h + 2 (checked h = 3 to 6); a membership step shows why the witnesses lie on the left side of (★)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-leaf-law-mechanism.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The leaf law entry fitted \(3k+h+2\) exactly through three first failures of the modular law (★) of lem:leaf-reduction for ENS paths. No prediction had tested it: the \(h=5\) run timed out. This cycle tests that prediction in a smaller form. It then looks for the structure behind the failure degree, as a step toward proving the law below it.

General statement. conj:companion-tops-low-degree: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for a complete accuracy-one ENS block with \(h\ge3\) inputs that are independent coordinates, up to translation, and with private free coefficients \(r_1,\dots,r_h\), the top ideal \(n\) in the truncated algebra agrees with the ideal generated by the companion tops \(\rho'L_i^2\) and the cubes in every degree below \(h+2\), and has further elements in degree \(h+2\). Checked exactly for \(h=3,4,5,6\); the case \(h=3\) also follows from lem:block-min-degree. It complements conj:leaf-law-degree, whose prediction 10 at \(h=5\), \(k=1\) now holds.

The prediction at \(h=5\)

The witnesses of the leaf law entry never involve the path's far end block. So the test can use the three-block path \(a\)–\(b\)–\(c\), peeling \(a\) over \(x\) with \(U=\{b\}\) and far part \(\{c\}\), which is nonempty as the conjecture requires. leaf_law_3path.sing (leaf_law_3path.out) states in its header the prediction 10 at \(h=5\), and a calibration value 9 at \(h=4\), the value of the four-block path. It uses degree bound 11 and \(\alpha=1,2\).

\(h=4\): the first failure is at 9, for \(\alpha=1,2\). This matches the four-block path, where only \(\alpha=1\) was run, so at \(h=4\), \(k=1\) the far end block does not change the first failure.
\(h=5\): the first failure is at 10, for \(\alpha=1,2\), as predicted.

The witnesses have one shape: \(x^2\,B\,\rho''_c\).

\(\rho''_c=\sum_{i\ge2}r_{c,i}y_{c,i}^2\) is \(c\)'s \(P\)-top without its linking term.
\(B\) has degree \(h\): \(y_{b,4}^2r_{b,1}r_{b,4}\) at \(h=4\), and \(y_{b,4}y_{b,5}^2r_{b,1}r_{b,5}\) at \(h=5\).

So the degree is \(h+5\).

Block tops in low degree

tops_low_degree.sing (tops_low_degree.out) compares, for one block, the top ideal \(n\) with the ideal \(C\) generated by the companion tops \(\rho'L_i^2\) and the cubes. It reports the least degree in which \(n\) has an element outside \(C\). The values are 5, 6, 7, 8 for \(h=3,4,5,6\), that is \(h+2\). \(C\subseteq n\) always, since \(\operatorname{top}(q_iP)=-L_i^2\rho'\) and the cubes are tops of the field equations. So below \(h+2\) the two agree. Using \(x\) instead of a translate is harmless, since translation preserves tops.

extra_tops_h4.sing (extra_tops_h4.out) lists the 44 standard-basis elements of \(n\) of degree 6 outside \(C\) at \(h=4\), with \(y_2\) in the role of the linking coordinate. Among them are elements \[e=x^2B+y_2^2S,\] such as \(x^2y_3y_4r_1r_2+y_2^2y_3y_4r_2^2\).

Why the witnesses lie on the left side of (★)

Membership step. Let \(b\) and \(c\) be linked through \(y\), with \(c\) reading \(y\) through its first input. Suppose \(e=x^2B+y^2S\in n_b\). Then \(x^2B\rho''_c\in x^2A_R\cap(M_b+M_c)\).

Proof. The top of \(c\)'s first input is \(y^2\), so \(\rho'_c=r_{c,1}y^2+\rho''_c\). Since \(y^4=0\), \(c\)'s companion top \(y^2\rho'_c\) equals \(y^2\rho''_c\), which lies in \(n_c\). Hence \[x^2B\rho''_c=e\rho''_c-S\cdot y^2\rho''_c\in M_b+M_c ,\] and it is a multiple of \(x^2\). \(\square\)

The quoted \(e\) has a different \(B\) from the witnesses. witness_b_check.sing (witness_b_check.out) checks the witnesses' own \(B\) at \(h=4\) and \(h=5\): \(x^2B\) lies in \(n_b+(y^2)\) but not in \(n_b\). So some \(e=x^2B+y^2S\) lies in \(n_b\), and the step applies to the witnesses.

The link does the work. \(b\)'s extra top carries a \(y^2\)-term, which \(c\)'s companion top absorbs, and what remains has no expression within \(x^2A_R\cap M_b\) plus \(x^2M_c\). The computations show that this failure of the right side occurs, in degree \(h+5\). The membership step does not prove it. Each further block in \(U\) needs one more such absorption, through a \(\rho''\)-factor of degree 3. That is consistent with the step 3 in \(3k+h+2\), but it is not a proof either.

What this means

conj:leaf-law-degree has its first confirmed prediction, at \(h=5\), \(k=1\), on the three-block path. It fitted three values and has now predicted a fourth.
A proof of the law below \(h+5\) would have two parts. Below \(h+2\), block tops are companion tops, by conj:companion-tops-low-degree. The extra tops of degree \(h+2\) to \(h+4\) must then be shown to create no failure below \(h+5\). The membership step shows how they create one at \(h+5\).
For \(h\ge7\) and \(D=11\), the law with \(k=1\) would hold through degree 11. By the leaf reduction, paths without cross generators would then fall no lower than their linked pairs. That still excludes \(R\) and \(T\), which the band's families carry.

Next: prove conj:companion-tops-low-degree, perhaps by the restriction induction of lem:block-min-degree, which proved the case below degree 5. Then attempt the law below \(h+5\) with that description of the tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:leaf-reduction and (★), conj:leaf-law-degree and its outputs, lem:block-min-degree (its restriction induction), and the companion-top identity \(\operatorname{top}(q_iP)=-L_i^2\rho'\). Every value is read from the named outputs. The degree-bounded computations are exact below their bounds, since all inputs are homogeneous.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed every quoted number and the membership proof, and that the scripts compute what is stated. It required these changes, all adopted:

a check that the witnesses' own \(B\) satisfy the step's hypothesis, now witness_b_check.out;
a less assertive title and a shorter status line;
the conjecture's hypotheses on inputs and coefficients stated;
the reason for \(C\subseteq n\);
the far-block remark limited to \(h=4\), \(k=1\);
the registry row of conj:leaf-law-degree updated.

The added check supports a stated step, and the other changes weaken or clarify, so no further pass was made.

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Computation design and coding	1 min 53.61 s
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Individually measured computation	1 min 1.69 s
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Route review: the path work has not moved the cross-generator case, which the goal needs; the next step returns to a single block's module structure

24 September 2026 · Route review · The locality line after the locality route review; cycle odd-prime-companion-tops-proof. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the path work has not moved the cross-generator case, which the goal needs; the next step returns to a single block's module structure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-cross-generator-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Three research entries have followed the locality route review, all on paths without cross generators. The planned next cycle was a proof of conj:companion-tops-low-degree. The route check found that this line produces special cases without moving the implication the goal needs, so this cycle is a review instead.

General statement. The line's general claim is conj:family-fall-locality: a family of linked ENS blocks with private inputs and the cross generators \(R\) and \(T\) falls no lower than its subfamilies of at most three blocks. With the pair statements, it would give the span-ring part of conj:bounded-linkage-large-h, and by span transfer and tensor splitting the member condition of relative gluing.

What happened since the last review

A block that reads one coordinate can be peeled off a family without cross generators under a modular law (lem:leaf-reduction, leaf reduction).
For ENS paths the law holds only below a degree, conjecturally \(3k+h+2\) (conj:leaf-law-degree, degrees). Its first prediction held, block tops are companion tops below \(h+2\), and the witnesses have a clear mechanism (conj:companion-tops-low-degree, mechanism).

What the goal needs, and what these entries gave

The band's families carry \(R\) for parallel links and \(T\) for covering triples, since parallel pairs without \(R\) fall at 7 for every \(h\ge3\) (cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h). Every result since the last review assumes no cross generators. So none of them bears on the band directly. At best, conj:leaf-law-degree would give pair locality for identically linked paths with \(h\ge7\). The cross-generator case has not moved since the repaired-star attempt. That attempt failed because the images of \(R\) and \(T\) are ideals of \(A\), not \(S\)-spans of product basis vectors.

Falsification attempt

hub_h4.sing (hub_h4.out) tests conj:family-fall-locality on a shape not tried before. It is one Singular run with degree bound 8.

A hub block \(b\) on \(x\), \(y\), \(w\).
Three blocks \(a\), \(c\), \(d\) on \(x+1\), \(y+1\), \(w+1\).
\(h=4\), with \(R\) on the three parallel links.

Its header predicts no fall below 8, and there is none. Four families at \(h=4\) now fit the conjecture: a star, a two-coordinate family, a path and a hub. Nothing refutes it.

Assessment of this line

Solid ground.
- The easy half of locality, in general.
- Star locality without cross generators.
- The leaf reduction as a conditional tool.
- Four consistent exact checks with \(R\).
The gap. Cross generators. The last three entries refined a case that the goal does not need. That was a misallocation, and the route check should have caught it one cycle earlier.
Prospects. Moderate for the conjecture, whose evidence is uniform. Weak for proving it with the present tools, unless a block's module structure turns out to be simple. The repaired-star attempt reduced that case to one single-block question, which has not been asked.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, the highest-risk item is family locality with \(R\) and \(T\). Next: decide, for one block at \(h=3\) and \(h=4\), whether \(A_a\) has an \(S\)-basis adapted at once to three ideals: \(n_a\), \(\rho'_aA_a\) and \(x\rho''_aA_a\).

A necessary condition is that these ideals, with \(xA_a\) and \(x^2A_a\), satisfy the distributive law on all triples from them and their pairwise sums and intersections. This is one computation of ideals of the truncated algebra.
If the law holds, prove the common adapted basis and redo the per-component routing of the repaired-star attempt.
If it fails, the failing triple is the obstruction to any product-basis proof. Then a different augmentation is needed, for example each parallel pair's full Gröbner basis in place of \(R\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the three entries since the last review and their claims (lem:leaf-reduction, conj:leaf-law-degree, conj:companion-tops-low-degree), the repaired-star attempt and lem:p-top-summand, cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h, and conj:bounded-linkage-large-h for the cross rule. The falsification value is read from hub_h4.out. No new claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Computation design and coding	30.51 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 48.13 s
Individually measured computation	6.93 s
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Block ideals pass distributivity checks at h = 3, 4, including the family closed under x and colon by x (a necessary condition for a common adapted basis)

24 September 2026 · Conjecture (checked h = 3, 4) · cycle odd-prime-block-distributivity. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Block ideals pass distributivity checks at h = 3, 4, including the family closed under x and colon by x (a necessary condition for a common adapted basis)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-block-distributivity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The cross-generator route review returned to the question the repaired-star attempt reduced to. Does one block's truncated algebra \(A\) have an \(S\)-basis, \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\), adapted at once to three ideals? They are its top ideal \(n\), \(\rho'A\), which the images of \(T\) need, and \(x\rho''A\), which the images of \(R\) need. With such bases every piece of a star family with \(R\) and \(T\) would be diagonal in a product basis. A necessary condition is that the lattice these ideals generate with \(xA\) and \(x^2A\) is distributive. This cycle tests that condition.

General statement. conj:block-ideal-distributivity: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for a complete accuracy-one ENS block with \(h\ge3\) inputs \(x,y_2,\dots,y_h\), independent coordinates up to translation, and private free coefficients, consider five ideals of its truncated algebra \(A\): \(n\), \(\rho'A\), \(x\rho''A\), \(xA\) and \(x^2A\). Together with their multiples \(x^ja\) and colons \((a:x^j)\), they generate a distributive lattice. Two exact checks at \(h=3,4\) support this:

all triples from the five ideals and their pairwise sums and intersections;
all triples from the family closed under multiplication and colon by \(x\) and \(x^2\).

Whether distributivity of this closed family gives a common adapted basis over the chain ring \(S\) is open. If it does, the repaired-star argument for stars with \(R\) and \(T\) regains its first step.

The check

block_distributivity.sing (block_distributivity.out) and block_distributivity_h4.sing (block_distributivity_h4.out) work in the truncated algebra of one block, the quotient by all cubes. They take the tops of its reduced degree-order basis.

\(G_0\) is the five ideals above.
\(G_1\) adds the pairwise sums and intersections of \(G_0\), 25 ideals in all.
For every \(a\in G_1\) and every unordered pair \(b,c\in G_1\), they test \(a\cap(b+c)=(a\cap b)+(a\cap c)\) by comparing standard bases. That is \(25\cdot300=7500\) triples.

At \(h=3\) and at \(h=4\), no triple fails. The ideals are homogeneous and the computations are exact, with no degree bound.

The fresh-context reviewer showed that distributivity with the powers \(x^kA\) alone is not sufficient over a chain ring. Take \(S=k[x]/(x^2)\), \(F=S^2\), \(M=Se_1+xF\), \(N=Se_2\) and \(P=Sx(e_1+e_2)\). The lattice generated by \(M,N,P,xF\) has 8 elements and is distributive. But \(N\) forces a basis vector \(\equiv e_2\) and \(P\) forces one \(\equiv e_1+e_2\) modulo \(xF\), and then \(M\) is not spanned by basis vectors. The conflict appears only after a colon: \((P:x)=S(e_1+e_2)+xF\) meets \(M+N=F\) in \((P:x)\), while \(((P:x)\cap M)+((P:x)\cap N)=xF\). An adapted basis keeps \(xa\) and \((a:x)\) diagonal as well. So block_distributivity_xclosed.sing (block_distributivity_xclosed.out) closes the five ideals under multiplication and colon by \(x\) and \(x^2\). That gives 16 distinct ideals, and it tests all \(16\cdot120=1920\) triples. None fails at \(h=3\) or \(h=4\). This test would catch the counterexample above.

The abstract counterexample of the leaf reduction, \(M=S(e_1+xe_2)\) and \(P=Se_1\), fails exactly this law. It gives \(xF\cap(M+P)=xF\), while \((xF\cap M)+(xF\cap P)=Sxe_1+Sx^2e_2\). So the check can detect the kind of mixing that stopped the repaired-star attempt, and it finds none of this kind among the tested triples.

What remains

The whole lattice. The checks cover triples of generators, one level of sums and intersections, and the \(x\)-closed family, not the whole generated lattice.
From distributivity to a basis. Over a field, a family of subspaces has a common adapted basis exactly when it generates a distributive lattice. Over \(S\), the powers of \(x\) are not enough, by the example above. The candidate statement is that distributivity of the lattice generated by the family, its multiples \(x^ja\) and its colons \((a:x^j)\) gives a common adapted basis. It is open, and it is the step needed next.
Routing. With common adapted bases, the images of \(R\) and \(T\) are diagonal, since products of diagonal ideals from different tensor factors are diagonal. The per-component analysis of the pair syzygies spanning four and five blocks, which the reviewer of the attempt required, still has to be redone.
All \(h\). Both steps need a proof of the distributivity for every \(h\ge3\), not the two checks.

This is the first check that bears on the cross-generator case since the attempt. It found no failure of the necessary condition, including its \(x\)-closed form. Sufficiency over \(S\) is open.

Next: prove or refute that distributivity of the \(x\)-closed lattice gives a common adapted basis over \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^n)\). A natural route is induction on length, splitting off a cyclic summand that is pure in every member. If that fails, construct the basis for the block directly. Then redo the routing of the repaired-star attempt with these bases.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the repaired-star attempt, including its reviewer's failing case and required repair; lem:p-top-summand, whose basis contains \(\rho'\); lem:tops-not-x-graded; and the leaf reduction's counterexample. The values are read from the two outputs. The test is necessary, not sufficient, for a common adapted basis. That is why the lattice-theoretic step is listed as open.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the script, the counts, the definitions and the leaf-reduction counterexample. It found that distributivity with the powers \(x^kA\) is not sufficient over \(S\), by the example above. It required these changes, all adopted:

the lattice step restated with the \(x\)-closure;
a rerun with the \(x\)-closed family, now block_distributivity_xclosed.out;
a title and closing paragraph that do not overstate.

The rerun only adds evidence for a conjecture, and the other changes weaken it, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	5 min 47.09 s
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Computation design and coding	1 min 28.02 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	50.45 s
Individually measured computation	40.41 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Adapted-basis criterion: submodules of a free module over k[x]/(xⁿ) have a common adapted basis exactly when their colon modules and xF generate a distributive lattice

24 September 2026 · Working proof · cycle odd-prime-chain-ring-bases. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Adapted-basis criterion: submodules of a free module over k[x]/(xⁿ) have a common adapted basis exactly when their colon modules and xF generate a distributive lattice”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-adapted-basis-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The block distributivity entry checked a necessary condition for a common adapted basis of one block's ideals over \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\). Its reviewer showed that distributivity together with the powers of \(x\) is not sufficient. This cycle proves an exact criterion over \(k[x]/(x^n)\). The criterion turns the question the repaired-star argument needs into a lattice check on nine colon ideals, instead of a search over bases.

General statement. lem:adapted-basis-criterion. Let \(S=k[x]/(x^n)\), with \(k\) a field. Let \(F\) be a finitely generated free \(S\)-module of rank \(m\), and \(\Sigma\) a finite family of submodules. Let \(\mathcal C=\{(M:x^j): M\in\Sigma,\ 0\le j\le n\}\), let \(V=F/xF\), and let \(\varphi(A)=(A+xF)/xF\). The following are equivalent.

The members of \(\Sigma\) have a common adapted basis: \(F=\bigoplus_iSe_i\) with \(M=\bigoplus_ix^{a_i(M)}Se_i\) for every \(M\in\Sigma\).
Two conditions hold:
- (i) \(\varphi\) preserves finite intersections of members of \(\mathcal C\);
- (ii) the subspaces \(\varphi(C)\), \(C\in\mathcal C\), generate a distributive lattice of subspaces of \(V\).
\(\mathcal C\cup\{xF\}\) generates a distributive lattice of submodules of \(F\).

The graded version holds with homogeneous bases: \(S\) graded with \(x\) homogeneous, \(F\) graded free, and the members of \(\Sigma\) graded.

A classical fact

A finite family of subspaces of a finite-dimensional vector space \(V\) that generates a distributive lattice has a common adapted basis.

Proof. Adjoin \(0\) and \(V\), which keeps the lattice \(L\) distributive.

For each join-irreducible \(a\in L\), with lower cover \(a_-\), choose a complement \(U_a\) of \(a_-\) in \(a\).
For a cover \(c\lessdot d\) in \(L\) there is a unique join-irreducible \(a\) with \(a\le d\) and \(a\not\le c\). Distributivity gives \(d=c+a\) and \(c\cap a=a_-\), so \(\dim d-\dim c=\dim U_a\).
Along a maximal chain from 0 to \(b\), this gives \(\dim b=\sum_{a\le b}\dim U_a\). By induction on \(b\), \(b=\sum_{a\le b}U_a\), so this sum is direct.
Take bases of the \(U_a\). Their union is a basis of \(V\), and it contains a basis of every \(b\in L\). \(\square\)

In the graded case the lattice of degree-\(d\) components is a homomorphic image, so it is distributive. Apply the fact in each degree.

Proof of the criterion

(b) implies (a).

A basis of \(V\). For \(M\in\Sigma\) put \(W_j(M)=\varphi((M:x^j))\). These increase with \(j\), and \(W_n(M)=V\) since \((M:x^n)=F\). By (ii) and the classical fact, the finitely many \(\varphi(C)\) have a common adapted basis \(\bar e_1,\dots,\bar e_m\) of \(V\), homogeneous in the graded case.
Lifts. For each \(i\) let \(E_i\) be the intersection of those \(C\in\mathcal C\) with \(\bar e_i\in\varphi(C)\). By (i), \(\varphi(E_i)=\bigcap\varphi(C)\ni\bar e_i\). So some \(e_i\in E_i\), homogeneous in the graded case, reduces to \(\bar e_i\). By Nakayama's lemma, \(e_1,\dots,e_m\) is a basis of \(F\).
Candidates. For \(M\in\Sigma\) let \(a_i=\min\{j:\bar e_i\in W_j(M)\}\le n\). Then \(e_i\in E_i\subseteq(M:x^{a_i})\), so \(x^{a_i}e_i\in M\). Hence \(M'=\bigoplus_ix^{a_i}Se_i\subseteq M\), where \(a_i=n\) gives a zero summand.
Equality. Let \(G_j(N)=(N\cap x^jF+x^{j+1}F)/x^{j+1}F\) for \(j<n\).
- Since \(F\) is free, multiplication by \(x^j\) induces an isomorphism \(V\to x^jF/x^{j+1}F\). It carries \(W_j(M)\) onto \(G_j(M)\). If \(x^jv=m+x^{j+1}w\) with \(m\in M\), then \(v-xw\in(M:x^j)\) and has the same residue as \(v\).
- \(W_j(M)\) is spanned by the \(\bar e_i\) it contains, and \(\bar e_i\in W_j(M)\) exactly when \(a_i\le j\). So \(G_j(M')\supseteq G_j(M)\). From \(M'\subseteq M\), also \(G_j(M')\subseteq G_j(M)\), so the two are equal.
- The length of \(F/N\) is \(\sum_{j<n}(m-\dim G_j(N))\). So \(M'\) and \(M\) have the same colength, and \(M'=M\).

(a) implies (c). In a common adapted basis every \(M\) is monomial, and so are its colons \((M:x^j)=\bigoplus x^{\max(a_i-j,0)}Se_i\) and \(xF\). Intersections and sums of monomial modules are monomial, with the larger and the smaller exponents. So the lattice generated by \(\mathcal C\cup\{xF\}\) embeds in a product of chains, and it is distributive.

(c) implies (b). Let \(\Lambda\) be the lattice generated by \(\mathcal C\cup\{xF\}\).

Distributivity gives \((A\cap B)+xF=(A+xF)\cap(B+xF)\) for \(A,B\in\Lambda\), and (i) follows by induction on the number of members.
\(A\mapsto A+xF\) always preserves sums, and by the same identity it preserves meets. So it is a lattice homomorphism from \(\Lambda\) onto a distributive lattice of subspaces of \(V\). The lattice generated by the \(\varphi(C)\) is a sublattice of that image, which gives (ii). \(\square\)

The two counterexamples

The leaf reduction's example is over \(k[x]/(x^2)\), with \(F=Se_1\oplus Se_2\), \(M=S(e_1+xe_2)\) and \(P=Se_1\). Here (i) fails: \(M\cap P=Sxe_1\) has \(\varphi=0\), but \(\varphi(M)\cap\varphi(P)=\langle\bar e_1\rangle\). Condition (ii) holds: the \(\varphi(C)\) are \(\langle\bar e_1\rangle\) and \(V\), since \((P:x)=Se_1+xSe_2\) and \((M:x)=F\). So (ii) does not imply (i).
The distributivity reviewer's example is over \(k[x]/(x^n)\), \(n\ge2\), with \(F=Se_1\oplus Se_2\), \(M=Se_1+xF\), \(N=Se_2\) and \(P=Sx(e_1+e_2)\). Here (ii) fails. We have \((N:x)=Se_2+x^{n-1}Se_1\) and \((P:x)=S(e_1+e_2)+x^{n-1}F\). So \(\varphi(M)=\langle\bar e_1\rangle\), \(\varphi((N:x))=\langle\bar e_2\rangle\) and \(\varphi((P:x))=\langle\bar e_1+\bar e_2\rangle\): three lines in a plane.

Only colons enter the criterion, not multiples \(x^jM\). Checking the distributive law on triples of generators is not enough. In \(k^3\) the lines \(\langle e_1\rangle,\langle e_2\rangle,\langle e_3\rangle,\langle e_1+e_2+e_3\rangle\) pass it on every three but generate a lattice that is not distributive.

What this gives for the cross-generator case

For one block, take \(\Sigma=\{\mathfrak n,\ \rho'A,\ x\rho''A\}\) in its truncated algebra \(A\), which is free over \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\). Here \(\mathfrak n\) is the block's top ideal, written \(n\) in the earlier entries. The criterion reduces the basis that the repaired-star argument needs to one distributivity check on the nine colon ideals \((M:x^j)\), \(j=0,1,2\), together with \(xA\). Equivalently, it reduces to (i) on at most \(2^9\) meets and (ii) on nine subspaces of \(A/xA\). The colons are ideals of \(A\), and the \(\varphi(C)\) are ideals containing \(xA\). So these are ideal computations of the kind already run. The earlier distributivity checks tested triples of generators only, which does not decide (c).

Next: decide (i) and (ii) for one block at \(h=3,4\). If both hold, the criterion gives the basis. Then redo the routing of the four- and five-block pair syzygies of the repaired-star attempt in the product of these bases.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the block distributivity entry and its reviewer's counterexample, the leaf reduction's counterexample, the repaired-star attempt (what its step 1 needs), and lem:p-top-summand. A claim search for adapted bases, distributive lattices and chain rings found only the entries of this line.

With \(O=k[[x]]\), submodules of \(F\) are \(O\)-lattices \(L\) with \(x^nO^m\subseteq L\subseteq O^m\). A common adapted basis is an apartment of the Bruhat–Tits building of \(\mathrm{GL}_m(k((x)))\) containing all \(L_M\) and \(O^m\), and \((M:x^j)\) corresponds to \(x^{-j}L_M\cap O^m\). Criteria for lattices to lie in a common apartment are likely classical. No source was checked, so no novelty is claimed.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error and no unused hypothesis. It required these changes, all adopted:

a proof of the classical field fact;
the identification of \(W_j(M)\) with \(G_j(M)\) made precise;
the sufficient form stated as an equivalence, with its converse;
the index renamed and \(\mathfrak n\) distinguished from the exponent \(n\);
the counterexamples' ambient data, and which condition each satisfies;
the graded setup;
the wording of the cross-generator section;
the exact dictionary with the building.

The equivalence adds the converse (a) implies (c), which follows directly from the monomial description. The other changes clarify, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	8 min 4.29 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 44.50 s
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One block's algebra has a basis adapted to its top ideal and to the ideals of its P-top at h = 3, 4, so the images of R and T become diagonal there

24 September 2026 · Conjecture for all h, decided exactly at h = 3, 4 by the adapted-basis criterion · cycle odd-prime-block-basis-check. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One block's algebra has a basis adapted to its top ideal and to the ideals of its P-top at h = 3, 4, so the images of R and T become diagonal there”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-block-adapted-basis.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The adapted-basis criterion reduces the basis that the repaired-star attempt lacked to two conditions on the colon ideals of one block. This cycle decides both conditions at \(h=3,4\).

General statement. conj:block-adapted-basis: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for a complete accuracy-one ENS block with \(h\ge3\) inputs \(x,y_2,\dots,y_h\), independent coordinates up to translation, and private free coefficients, the truncated algebra \(A\) has a homogeneous basis over \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) adapted at once to three ideals: the top ideal \(\mathfrak n\), \(\rho'A\) and \(x\rho''A\). This is proved for \(h=3,4\), by lem:adapted-basis-criterion and exact computation. At both sizes the lattice generated by the reductions of the colon ideals with \(j\le2\) has 20 elements. The colons with \(j=3\) equal \(A\), whose reduction \(V\) only adds a top element, and the lattice stays distributive. In the adapted basis every member of \(\Sigma\) is monomial, and so are its multiples by powers of \(x\), its colons, \(xA\) and \(x^2A\). Sums and intersections of monomial modules are monomial. So the lattice of conj:block-ideal-distributivity embeds in a product of chains, and that conjecture holds at \(h=3,4\).

The computation

block_basis_check.sing (block_basis_check.out, \(h=3\)) and block_basis_check_h4.sing (block_basis_check_h4.out, \(h=4\)) work in the quotient of the block's polynomial ring by all cubes. They take the tops of its reduced degree-order basis.

They form the distinct colon ideals \((M:x^j)\), for \(M\in\{\mathfrak n,\rho'A,x\rho''A\}\) and \(j=0,1,2\). There are 9 at both sizes. \(j=3\) gives \(A\), which changes no intersection in (i) and adds only the top element \(V\) in (ii).
Condition (i): for every nonempty subset of the 9, reduction modulo \(x\) commutes with the intersection. They compare \((\bigcap C_i)+xA\) with \(\bigcap(C_i+xA)\), over 511 subsets. None fails.
Condition (ii): they close the reductions \(C+xA\) under sums and intersections. The closure has 20 ideals at both sizes. They test the distributive law on all \(20\cdot190=3800\) triples, and none fails.

The computations are exact Gröbner-basis computations over \(\mathbb F_3\). All ideals are homogeneous, and \(A\) is graded free over \(S\), so the graded version of the criterion gives a homogeneous basis.

What the basis does for stars with \(R\) and \(T\)

Choose such a basis for every block and take the product basis of \(A=\bigotimes_SA_j\).
The block pieces \(N_j\) are diagonal, as before.
Since \(x^3=0\), \(\operatorname{top}(R_{ab})=\kappa_{ab}x\rho''_a\rho''_b=\kappa_{ab}x\rho'_a\rho'_b\). \(\kappa_{ab}=2(c_b-c_a)\) is a unit, because \(R\) is added only when \(c_a\ne c_b\). So the image of \(R_{ab}\) is \(x\cdot(\rho'_aA_a)(\rho'_bA_b)\) times the other factors. \(\operatorname{top}(T_{abc})=\rho'_a\rho'_b\rho'_c\), so the image of \(T\) is \((\rho'_aA_a)(\rho'_bA_b)(\rho'_cA_c)\) times the others.
The product of diagonal submodules from different tensor factors over \(S\) is diagonal, and so is its multiple by \(x\). So the images of the pieces \(N_j\), \(R_{ab}\) and \(T_{abc}\) are diagonal. Families with \(W\) for identical pairs are not covered. This is step 1 of the repaired-star attempt, the step its reviewer found false, now valid at \(h=3,4\).

Since \(x\rho'=r_1x^3+x\rho''=x\rho''\), we have \(x\rho''A=x\cdot\rho'A\), which is diagonal whenever \(\rho'A\) is. So only \(\mathfrak n\) and \(\rho'A\) need to be adapted.

What remains of that argument is step 3, the routing. In each component the chain decomposition gives pair syzygies between pieces, but a cross piece's multiplier is a preimage under multiplication by its top, not a monomial multiple. The attempt's reviewer gave a case, a block \(j\) outside \(T\), where the multiplier is not in \(N_j\). There the syzygy must be routed through a block of \(T\). With diagonal pieces this becomes a question about exponents in each component: when the component of \(T\) has positive exponent, which block piece of \(T\) has an exponent at most as large.

What this means

The single-block obstruction that stopped the repaired-star attempt does not occur at \(h=3,4\).
The closure has 20 elements at both sizes, which suggests a structure independent of \(h\) that a proof for all \(h\) could use.
The cross-generator case now rests on the routing and on this conjecture for all \(h\).

Next: redo the routing of the repaired-star attempt in the product of these bases. For each component and each pair of pieces, find a route through at most three blocks or an exact lift. Use the 20-element lattice at \(h=3\) to read off the exponents of the colon ideals in each basis direction.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:adapted-basis-criterion (conditions (i) and (ii), and the equivalence with (c)), the repaired-star attempt with its reviewer's failing case, lem:p-top-summand, and conj:block-ideal-distributivity. The values are read from the two outputs.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that the script implements (i) and (ii) exactly, that the numbers match, and that the diagonality claims hold. It required these changes, all adopted:

the 20-element count scoped to \(j\le2\);
homogeneity cited for the graded basis, not for exactness;
the consequence for conj:block-ideal-distributivity argued directly, since that lattice also contains multiples;
the identity \(x\rho''=x\rho'\) stated as such;
the scope limited to \(N\), \(R\) and \(T\), excluding \(W\);
\(\kappa\) noted to be a unit;
the registry record of the older conjecture refreshed.

These clarify or narrow, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	5 min 57.02 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 16.74 s
Computation design and coding	51.97 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 24.76 s
Individually measured computation	23.40 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Star degree locality: with adapted block bases, star families with R and T fall at degree at most 11 only where a subfamily of at most three blocks falls

24 September 2026 · Conditional result (on conj:block-adapted-basis, proved at h = 3, 4) · cycle odd-prime-star-routing. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Star degree locality: with adapted block bases, star families with R and T fall at degree at most 11 only where a subfamily of at most three blocks falls”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-star-degree-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The block adapted basis entry made the pieces of a star family with \(R\) and \(T\) diagonal in a product basis at \(h=3,4\). What remained of the repaired-star attempt was the routing: the pair syzygies that span four or five blocks. This cycle shows that every pair syzygy spanning four to six blocks is Koszul, is a basic \(T\)-\(T\) syzygy (both kinds lift exactly), or has degree at least 13. So none produces a fall at degree \(\le11\).

General statement. thm:star-degree-locality. Let \(F\) be a star family of separately augmented complete accuracy-one ENS blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(h\ge3\) inputs and private coefficients. Each block reads the shared coordinate through one input \(x+c_j\), and its other inputs are private. The cross set is \(R_{ab}\) for parallel pairs and \(T_{abc}\) for covering triples, without \(W\). Suppose every block's truncated algebra has a homogeneous basis over \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) adapted to its top ideal \(\mathfrak n\) and to \(\rho'A\), as conj:block-adapted-basis states and proves for \(h=3,4\).

If \(F\) falls at a degree \(s\le11\), then some subfamily of at most three blocks, with the cross generators of the same rule, falls at degree \(s\), computed in the family's algebra.
So if no subfamily of at most three blocks falls at degree \(\le11\), \(F\) has none at degree \(\le11\).
With lem:section-retraction: whenever the least lowest fall over subfamilies of at most three blocks is at most 11, the family's lowest fall equals it.

So conj:family-fall-locality holds for such stars in the degrees the goal needs. It holds unconditionally when every block has \(h\in\{3,4\}\).

Setting

Notation of the star locality and block adapted basis entries: \(A=\bigotimes_SA_j\), \(\mathfrak n_j\subseteq A_j\) the top ideal, \(U_j=\rho'_jA_j\), and \(N_j=\mathfrak n_jA\). The pieces of \(F\) are:

for each block \(j\), the submodule \(N_j\);
for each cross generator \(c\), the free module \(Ae_c\), mapped to \(A\) by multiplication by \(\operatorname{top}(c)\), and filtered by multiplier degree.

A top syzygy is a tuple of tops with zero image. For a cross piece \(c\), the top is a multiplier \(\sigma_c\) of degree \(s+1-\deg c\), and its image is \(\sigma_c\operatorname{top}(c)\). A lift is a multiplier \(M_c\) with \(\deg M_c\le s+1-\deg c\) whose part in that degree is \(\sigma_c\). With this, the proof of step 1 of the star locality entry carries over verbatim: \(F\) has no fall at degree \(s\) exactly when every top syzygy of degree \(s+1\) lifts. A syzygy is supported on a subfamily \(G\) if its nonzero components belong to blocks in \(G\) and to cross generators whose blocks lie in \(G\).

Choose for each block \(j\) a basis \(\{e_{j,i}\}\) with \(\mathfrak n_j=\bigoplus x^{a_{j,i}}Se_{j,i}\) and \(U_j=\bigoplus x^{u_{j,i}}Se_{j,i}\), exponents in \(\{0,1,2,3\}\), with 3 meaning a zero summand. In the product basis \(e_t\), each piece's image is a direct sum over \(t\) of ideals \(x^{e_p(t)}S\,e_t\), where:

\(e_{N_j}(t)=a_{j,t_j}\);
\(e_{R_{ab}}(t)=1+u_{a,t_a}+u_{b,t_b}\), since \(\operatorname{top}(R_{ab})=\kappa_{ab}x\rho'_a\rho'_b\) with \(\kappa_{ab}\) a unit;
\(e_{T_{abc}}(t)=u_{a,t_a}+u_{b,t_b}+u_{c,t_c}\).

Values of 3 or more mean the image is zero in that component.

Step 1: pair syzygies and kernels

For each piece \(p\) let \(\Phi_p\) be its map to \(A\), and choose a graded section \(s_p\) of \(\Phi_p\) onto its image. Take a top syzygy \((\sigma_p)\). Each \(\sigma_p-s_p\Phi_p(\sigma_p)\) lies in \(\ker\Phi_p\). The images \(w_p=\Phi_p(\sigma_p)\) sum to 0. In each component the ideals \(x^{e_p(t)}S\) form a chain, so the piece \(p_0\) with the least exponent absorbs the others. The syzygy is then the sum of three kinds of syzygy:

single-piece kernel syzygies \(\kappa e_p\) with \(\Phi_p(\kappa)=0\), supported on the at most three blocks of \(p\);
pair syzygies \(s_p(w)e_p-s_{p_0}(w)e_{p_0}\), for homogeneous \(w\) in one component of \(\operatorname{Im}\Phi_p\cap\operatorname{Im}\Phi_{p_0}\);
the difference between two sections of the same element, which is again a kernel syzygy of type a.

A section may be changed by a kernel element, so for each pair it may be chosen freely among the preimages of \(w\).

Step 2: the pairs

Pairs on at most three blocks. These are block with block, block with \(R_{ab}\), block with \(T\) when the block is one of \(T\)'s, and two cross generators whose blocks together number at most three. They are supported on at most three blocks.
Two \(T\)'s, in a component where both exponents are 0. All \(u\) on their union \(B\cup B'\) vanish there. Since \(\mathfrak n\) and \(U\) are diagonal in each tensor factor, \(w\) lies in \(\rho'_{B\cup B'}A\). So the pair is a multiple of \(\rho'_{B'\setminus B}e_T-\rho'_{B\setminus B'}e_{T'}\), which lifts exactly: \(P_{B'\setminus B}T=P_{B\setminus B'}T'\). This covers disjoint \(T\)'s too, where the pair is Koszul. The floor in step 3 handles every other component with two cross generators on four or more blocks, since one exponent is then positive.
What remains. Two kinds of pair are left.
- A block \(j\) outside \(T\), with \(T\), in any component.
- Two cross generators whose blocks together number four or more, in a component where at least one exponent is positive. Every \(R\) has exponent at least 1, from the factor \(x\) and the unit \(\kappa\).
Step 3 shows that all of these have degree at least 13.

Step 3: the degree floor

(F1) \(\mathfrak n_j\) has no nonzero element of degree \(\le4\) (lem:block-min-degree, \(h\ge3\)). So a direction \(e_{j,i}\) with \(a_{j,i}\le2\) has degree at least \(5-a_{j,i}\), because \(x^{a_{j,i}}e_{j,i}\) is a nonzero element of \(\mathfrak n_j\).

(F2) Every nonzero element of \(U_j\cap x^uA_j\), for \(u=0,1,2\), has degree at least \(3+u\). So every direction with \(u_{j,i}\le2\) has degree at least 3.

Proof of (F2). Let \(B_j\) be the \(x\)-free part of \(A_j\), so \(\rho'=\rho''+r_1x^2\) with \(\rho''=\sum_{i\ge2}r_iy_i^2\in B_j\). Write \(f=f_0+xf_1+x^2f_2\) with \(f_i\in B_j\). Then \[\rho'f=\rho''f_0+x\rho''f_1+x^2(\rho''f_2+r_1f_0).\] First, \(\rho''\) has no annihilator of degree 0 or 1 in \(B_j\). For a linear \(\ell\), the monomials \(r_iy_i^2v\) with \(v\) a variable of \(\ell\) and \(v\ne y_i\) are nonzero and distinct for distinct \(i\). With at least two private inputs, no \(\ell\ne0\) cancels them all.

If \(\rho'f\in xA_j\), then \(\rho''f_0=0\). So either \(f_0=0\), and then \(\deg f\ge1\), or \(\deg f\ge2\).
If \(\rho'f\in x^2A_j\), then also \(\rho''f_1=0\). So \(f=x^2f_2\), or \(\deg f\ge2\), or \(f_1\ne0\) of degree at least 2.

In detail, for \(u=2\) there are three cases:

\(f_0\ne0\) gives \(\deg f\ge2\);
\(f_0=0\) and \(f_1\ne0\) gives \(\deg f_1\ge2\), so \(\deg f\ge3\);
\(f_0=f_1=0\) gives \(f=x^2f_2\), so \(\deg f\ge2\).

In each case \(\deg\rho'f=3+\deg f\ge3+u\). \(\square\)

The floor. Let \(w\) lie in component \(e_t=\bigotimes_ke_{k,t_k}\), with exponent \(\epsilon\). Then \(\deg w=\epsilon+\sum_k\deg e_{k,t_k}\).

A block \(j\) outside \(T\). \(e_T(t)\le2\) needs \(u_{k,t_k}\le2\) for \(T\)'s three blocks \(k\). By (F2) those directions have degree at least 3 each. \(a_{j,t_j}\le2\), so by (F1) the direction of \(j\) has degree at least \(5-a_{j,t_j}\), and \(\epsilon\ge a_{j,t_j}\). So \(\deg w\ge a_{j,t_j}+(5-a_{j,t_j})+9=14\), with no condition on the exponents.
Two cross generators on four or more blocks. Each has a nonzero image in the component, so \(u_{k,t_k}\le2\) for every block \(k\) of either, and those directions have degree at least 3. With \(\epsilon\ge1\), \(\deg w\ge1+3\cdot4=13\).

So every syzygy of degree at most 12 is a sum of:

syzygies supported on at most three blocks;
basic \(T\)-\(T\) syzygies (case 2), which lift exactly.

Step 4: the theorem

Let \(F\) fall at \(s\le11\). Some top syzygy of degree \(s+1\le12\) does not lift. By steps 1 to 3 it is a sum of exactly liftable syzygies and syzygies supported on subfamilies \(G\) with \(|G|\le3\). So one of the latter does not lift in \(F\), hence not in \(G\). By step 1 applied to \(G\), with its pieces and its cross generators of the same rule, \(G\) falls at degree \(s\) in the family's algebra. Hence in its own variables it falls at some degree \(\le s\). The reverse inequality for lowest falls is lem:section-retraction, since every block has private inputs. \(\square\)

What this means

At \(h=3,4\) the step from stars to their pairs and triples is proved in every degree the goal needs, with the cross generators the band requires.
For all \(h\), it rests on conj:block-adapted-basis. Its only inputs are (F1), valid for all \(h\ge3\), (F2), and the existence of the bases.
The degree floor 13 does not depend on \(h\ge3\). It comes from the degree 3 of \(\rho'\) and the degree 5 of the first block tops. Given the conjecture, the reduction to subfamilies of at most three blocks covers falls at degree \(\le11\), that is syzygies of degree \(\le12\), for every \(h\ge3\). It says nothing about falls at degree \(\ge12\).
The proof uses:
- the unit \(\kappa\) (\(c_a\ne c_b\)) and the factor \(x\) in \(\operatorname{top}(R)\), which give \(\epsilon\ge1\) for every pair involving \(R\);
- separate augmentation, which gives \(N_j=\operatorname{gr}(I_jT)\);
- \(h\ge3\), in (F1), and two private inputs, in (F2);
- translation invariance of the tops, so that blocks on \(x+c_j\) can use conj:block-adapted-basis, stated for blocks on \(x\).
Adaptation to \(x\rho''A\) is not assumed.
Not covered:
- families with several shared coordinates;
- \(W\) for identical pairs;
- the weak base;
- the pair and triple statements themselves, conj:r-added-parallel-fall and the triples with \(T\), which say where the small subfamilies fall.

Next: prove conj:block-adapted-basis for all \(h\). The lattice has 20 elements at both computed sizes, which suggests a uniform description. Then extend the product-basis argument to families on two shared coordinates, where the shared algebra \(\mathbb F_3[x,y]/(x^3,y^3)\) is not a chain ring.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the star locality entry, steps 1 to 3 (lifting criterion, tensor structure, chain decomposition); the repaired-star attempt with its reviewer's failing case, which here is a block-with-\(T\) pair of degree at least 14; lem:block-min-degree; conj:block-adapted-basis and lem:adapted-basis-criterion; lem:section-retraction; and conj:bounded-linkage-large-h for the cross rule.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error. It checked the decomposition, the supports of kernel syzygies, the lifts, (F2), both floors and step 4. It required these changes, all adopted:

the claim about four-to-six-block syzygies corrected to include basic \(T\)-\(T\) syzygies;
the lifting criterion stated for cross pieces filtered by multiplier degree;
a redundant case removed, since the floor covers every block-with-\(T\) pair;
the two \(T\)-\(T\) cases merged;
a clash of names removed;
the unconditional scope stated per block;
the degree statements made uniform;
the ingredients the proof uses listed.

These correct wording or remove a redundant case, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 1.06 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 50.07 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	7 min 10.86 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The companion-top model has an adapted basis for every h, so for the band's blocks star locality below degree 11 rests only on the companion-top conjecture; the full block passes at h = 5

24 September 2026 · Working proof (model basis) and a conditional corollary (on companion tops in degrees ≤ 11) · cycle odd-prime-block-basis-all-h. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The companion-top model has an adapted basis for every h, so for the band's blocks star locality below degree 11 rests only on the companion-top conjecture; the full block passes at h = 5”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-companion-model-basis.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. thm:star-degree-locality proves that stars with \(R\) and \(T\) fall at degree \(\le11\) only where subfamilies of at most three blocks fall. It assumes conj:block-adapted-basis, proved only at \(h=3,4\), while the band's blocks have \(h\ge10\). The theorem uses syzygies of degree \(\le12\) only, and the goal needs only falls at degree \(\le10\), that is syzygies of degree \(\le11\). By conj:companion-tops-low-degree, a block's top ideal equals the companion-top ideal \(\rho'Q\) below degree \(h+2\), where \(Q=(x^2,y_2^2,\dots,y_h^2)\). This cycle proves the basis for that model in general, and decides the full block at \(h=5\).

General statement. prop:companion-model-basis and cor:band-star-locality.

prop:companion-model-basis: let \(A=S\otimes B\) with \(S=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) and \(B\) graded. Let \(\rho'=\rho''+r_1x^2\) be homogeneous with \(\rho''\) and \(r_1\) in \(B\), and let \(Q=x^2A+Q_BA\) for a homogeneous ideal \(Q_B\subseteq B\). Then \(\rho'Q\) and \(\rho'A\) have a common homogeneous adapted basis over \(S\). In particular this holds for the companion-top model of any block.
cor:band-star-locality: let every block of a star family as in thm:star-degree-locality have \(h\ge3\), and a top ideal, translated to \(x\), that agrees with \(\rho'Q\) in degrees \(\le11\). conj:companion-tops-low-degree gives this when \(h\ge10\). Then the family falls at degree \(\le10\) only where a subfamily of at most three blocks falls. With lem:section-retraction, if no subfamily of at most three blocks falls below 11, neither does the family.

Separately, conj:block-adapted-basis holds at \(h=5\), so thm:star-degree-locality is unconditional when every block has \(h\in\{3,4,5\}\).

The computation

block_basis_h5_model.sing (block_basis_h5_model.out) applies the checks of the block adapted basis entry to two families.

The full family \(\{\mathfrak n,\rho'A,x\rho''A\}\) at \(h=5\) has 9 colons. No subset of them fails condition (i) (511 subsets), and the closure for condition (ii) has 20 elements with no failing triple (3800). So the basis exists at \(h=5\), with a 20-element closure, the same size as at \(h=3,4\).
The model \(\{\rho'Q,\rho'A\}\) at \(h=3,4,5\) has 6 colons. None of the 63 subsets fails (i), and the closure has only 4 elements, with no failing triple (24).

The model's 4 elements suggested the proof below.

Proof of the model basis

Write \(A=S\otimes B\), with \(B\) the \(x\)-free part. Write elements as triples \((a_0,a_1,a_2)\), meaning \(a_0+xa_1+x^2a_2\) with \(a_i\in B\). Multiplication by \(x\) sends \((a_0,a_1,a_2)\) to \((0,a_0,a_1)\), and reduction modulo \(xA\) is \(a\mapsto a_0\). Further notation:

\(\rho'=\rho''+r_1x^2\), with \(\rho''=\sum_{i\ge2}r_iy_i^2\in B\);
\(Q_B=(y_2^2,\dots,y_h^2)\subseteq B\), so \(Q=x^2A+Q_BA\);
\(I=\rho''B\), \(I_Q=\rho''Q_B\), and \(K=\operatorname{ann}_B(\rho'')\).

Since \(x^3=0\), \(\rho'(f_0+xf_1+x^2f_2)=(\rho''f_0,\ \rho''f_1,\ \rho''f_2+r_1f_0)\). Hence:

\(\rho'A=\{(\rho''f_0,\ i_1,\ i_2+r_1f_0)\}\), with \(f_0\in B\) and \(i_1,i_2\in I\);
\(\rho'Q=\{(\rho''q_0,\ \rho''q_1,\ i+r_1q_0)\}\), with \(q_0,q_1\in Q_B\) and \(i\in I\), using \(\rho'x^2g=(0,0,\rho''g_0)\).

Reading off \(x^ja\in M\) gives the colons:

Colon	Condition on \((a_0,a_1,a_2)\)	Reduction \(\varphi\)
\(\rho'A\)	as above	\(I\)
\((\rho'A:x)\)	\(a_0\in I\), \(a_1\in I+r_1K\)	\(I\)
\((\rho'A:x^2)\)	\(a_0\in I+r_1K\)	\(I+r_1K\)
\(\rho'Q\)	as above	\(I_Q\)
\((\rho'Q:x)\)	\(a_0\in I_Q\), \(a_1\in I+r_1(K\cap Q_B)\)	\(I_Q\)
\((\rho'Q:x^2)\)	\(a_0\in I+r_1(K\cap Q_B)\)	\(I+r_1(K\cap Q_B)\)

For example, \(xa=(0,a_0,a_1)\) lies in \(\rho'Q\) exactly when \(\rho''q_0=0\), \(a_0=\rho''q_1\) and \(a_1=i+r_1q_0\), for some \(q_0\in K\cap Q_B\), \(q_1\in Q_B\) and \(i\in I\).

Condition (ii). The reductions form the chain \(I_Q\subseteq I\subseteq I+r_1(K\cap Q_B)\subseteq I+r_1K\). On top is \(B=A/xA\), the reduction of the colons \((M:x^3)=A\). A chain is distributive.
Condition (i). Both families of colons are chains, and \((\rho'Q:x^j)\subseteq(\rho'A:x^j)\). So a finite intersection is \((\rho'A:x^i)\cap(\rho'Q:x^j)\). For \(j\le i\) it is \((\rho'Q:x^j)\) itself. If \(i=3\) or \(j=3\), it is a single colon, since the other factor is \(A\), so there is nothing to check. The three cases with \(i<j\le2\) are:
- \((0,1)\): \(\rho'A\cap(\rho'Q:x)=\{\rho'f:\rho''f_0\in I_Q\}\), since \(i_1\in I\) always meets the second condition. Its reduction is \(I_Q=I\cap I_Q\).
- \((0,2)\): \(\rho'A\subseteq(\rho'Q:x^2)\), because \(\rho''f_0\in I\). The reduction is \(I=I\cap(I+r_1(K\cap Q_B))\).
- \((1,2)\): the intersection is \((\rho'A:x)\), since \(I\cap(I+r_1(K\cap Q_B))=I\). The reduction is \(I\), again the intersection of the reductions.

By lem:adapted-basis-criterion, in its graded form, the basis exists. \(\square\)

The proof uses only \(x^3=0\), the form \(\rho'=\rho''+r_1x^2\) with \(\rho''\) and \(r_1\) free of \(x\), and \(Q=x^2A+Q_BA\). Hence the general statement.

Proof of the corollary

Follow the proof of thm:star-degree-locality with each block's top ideal \(\mathfrak n_j\) replaced by the model \(M_j=\rho'_jQ_j\). A top syzygy of degree \(s+1\le11\) has block components in \((N_j)_{s+1}\). This degree-\((s+1)\) part of \(\mathfrak n_jA\) involves \(\mathfrak n_j\) only in degrees \(\le s+1\le11\). There \(\mathfrak n_j=M_j\) by hypothesis, so it equals \((M_jA)_{s+1}\). So the top syzygies of degree \(\le11\) of the family and of its model coincide, and so do the pieces' images in those degrees.

The model pieces are diagonal in the product of the bases from prop:companion-model-basis. The block pieces are diagonal because \(\rho'Q\) is, and the cross pieces because \(\rho'A\) is, exactly as in the theorem. Steps 1 to 3 of the theorem then apply in degrees \(\le11\):

(F1) holds for \(M_j\), which also starts in degree 5;
(F2) concerns \(\rho'A\) only.

The resulting syzygies have components of degree \(\le11\), where they are syzygies of the actual family, with the same supports. Liftability and step 4 refer to the actual family. The hypothesis \(h\ge3\) is used in (F2) and in the theorem. \(h\ge10\) enters only through the conjecture, whose range below \(h+2\) then covers degrees \(\le11\). \(\square\)

What this means

For the band, the local-to-global step for stars with \(R\) and \(T\) now rests on one statement about a single block: conj:companion-tops-low-degree in degrees \(\le11\). That statement is checked exactly for \(h=3\) to 6, which covers only degrees \(\le7\), not the range \(h\ge10\), degree \(\le11\) that the corollary uses.
For \(h\in\{3,4,5\}\), thm:star-degree-locality is unconditional. For \(6\le h\le9\), it still rests on conj:block-adapted-basis. Those sizes matter less for the goal, whose band has \(h\ge10\).
Still open for the goal:
- families on several shared coordinates;
- \(W\) for identical pairs;
- the weak base;
- the pair and triple statements, which say where the small subfamilies fall.

Next: prove conj:companion-tops-low-degree: below degree \(h+2\), a block's tops are the companion tops. A Hilbert-function comparison on the zero set, with the restriction induction of lem:block-min-degree, is the natural route.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:adapted-basis-criterion (conditions (i), (ii), graded form), thm:star-degree-locality (steps 1 to 4, (F1), (F2)), conj:companion-tops-low-degree and its checks, and lem:section-retraction. The values are read from block_basis_h5_model.out. The colon table was derived by hand and agrees with the computed closure sizes: 4 distinct reductions for the model.

The \(h=5\) check is registered by updating conj:block-adapted-basis, now proved at \(h=3,4,5\), and thm:star-degree-locality, now unconditional for \(h\in\{3,4,5\}\).

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error. It re-derived the colon table, the case analysis for (i) and the truncation argument of the corollary. It required these changes, all adopted:

the proposition stated in its general form;
the unused hypothesis \(h\ge10\) removed from the corollary;
the top of the chain named;
the colons with \(j=3\) covered in (i);
the lattice claim limited to its size;
the evidence for the conjecture scoped to the degrees checked;
the \(h=5\) check registered.

These generalize by removing unused hypotheses or narrow the claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 19.98 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 19.90 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 5.17 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 40.82 s
Individually measured computation	4 min 13.95 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Companion tops: agreement up to degree 8 at h = 7, extra tops that are not multiples of ρ′, and why a naive restriction argument fails

24 September 2026 · Finite check and two negative findings on proof routes · cycle odd-prime-companion-tops-degree. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Companion tops: agreement up to degree 8 at h = 7, extra tops that are not multiples of ρ′, and why a naive restriction argument fails”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-companion-tops-evidence.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. cor:band-star-locality makes star locality with \(R\) and \(T\) for the band's blocks (\(h\ge10\), degrees \(\le11\)) depend only on conj:companion-tops-low-degree. The conjecture says a block's top ideal \(\mathfrak n\) equals the companion-top ideal \(C=\rho'Q\) below degree \(h+2\). This cycle looked for a proof and extended the checks.

General statement. The all-parameter claim is conj:companion-tops-low-degree. This entry registers ex:companion-tops-checks, which has three parts:

at \(h=7\), \(\mathfrak n\) and \(C\) agree in all degrees \(\le8\), with degree bound 9;
at \(h=3,4,5\), some top of degree \(h+2\) lies outside \(\rho'A\);
the term-by-term restriction argument fails, because \(C_{h-1}\not\subseteq C_h\). For a fixed range of degrees, such as degrees \(\le11\), it would have reduced the conjecture to the base cases \(h=d\).

The checks

tops_low_degree_h7.sing (tops_low_degree_h7.out), the computation of the leaf-law mechanism entry at \(h=7\) with degree bound 9, took about 43 s of computation, according to the session's timing report, which the archived session record preserves. The least degree with a top outside \(C\) is not reached below 9, so \(\mathfrak n\subseteq C\) in degrees \(\le8\). \(C\subseteq\mathfrak n\) always holds, since \(q_iP\in I\) has top \(-\rho'L_i^2\). So \(\mathfrak n=C\) in degrees \(\le8\) at \(h=7\), consistent with \(h+2=9\).
tops_in_rhoA.sing (tops_in_rhoA.out) compares \(\mathfrak n\) with \(\rho'A\) and with \(C\) at \(h=3,4,5\). In degree \(h+2=5,6,7\) some top lies outside \(\rho'A\). Below that degree, \(\mathfrak n=C\subseteq\rho'A\) by the unbounded run of the leaf-law mechanism entry. This script bounds the degree already in \(\operatorname{std}(I)\), so it certifies only that these tops exist, and its values for \(C\) reproduce the earlier ones. So the first extra tops include some that are not multiples of \(\rho'\). A route that treats \(\mathfrak n\) as \(\rho'\) times a multiplier ideal fails at the degree that matters.
A direct check for the band, \(h=10\) in degrees \(\le11\), with twenty variables and degree bound 12, was not attempted. The largest run so far is \(h=7\), with 14 variables and degree bound 9.

A restriction argument, and why it fails

For an input \(j\ne1\), the face \(L_j=1\), \(r_j=0\) makes input \(j\) false with coefficient 0. Its intersection with \(Z_h\) is \(Z_{h-1}\) for the other inputs: on this face \(q_j=0\), \(P_h\) restricts to \(P_{h-1}\), and \(q_jP_h\) vanishes. Let \(g\in I_h\) have degree \(d\) and top \(\tau\). Then the restriction of \(g\) to the face lies in \(I_{h-1}\), and its degree-\(d\) part is \(\pi_j(\tau)\). Here \(\pi_j\) kills \(L_j\) and \(r_j\); monomials with \(L_j\) drop in degree and those with \(r_j\) vanish. So \(\pi_j(\tau)\in\mathfrak n_{h-1}\).

If \(h>d\), every monomial of degree \(d\) misses some input, and inclusion–exclusion recovers \(\tau\) from the \(\pi_S(\tau)\), \(S\ne\varnothing\). Each \(\pi_S(\tau)=\pi_{S\setminus j}(\pi_j\tau)\) lies in \(C_{h-|S|}\) once \(\pi_j\tau\in C_{h-1}\), since \(\pi\) maps \(\rho'_{h-1}L_k^2\) to \(\rho'_{h-|S|}L_k^2\) or 0. This would propagate \(\mathfrak n=C\) in degree \(d\) from \(h=d\) to every \(h\ge d\), but only if each \(\pi_S(\tau)\in C_{h-|S|}\) also lay in \(C_h\). It need not, term by term; whether the signed sum lies in \(C_h\) is not settled by this. For \(j\ne1\), \(\rho'_{h-1}L_1^2=\rho'_hL_1^2-r_jL_j^2L_1^2\), and the single monomial \(r_jL_j^2L_1^2\) is not in \(C_h\) in degree 5, which is spanned by the \(\rho'_hL_k^2\). A working stability argument must follow how \(C\) changes with \(h\), not only how \(\mathfrak n\) restricts.

What this means

conj:companion-tops-low-degree now has exact support at \(h=3\) to 7. It has none at the band's sizes, where cor:band-star-locality uses it in degrees up to 11.
Two tempting proof routes are closed: multiples of \(\rho'\), and term-by-term restriction stability.
Remaining routes:
- the syzygies of the companion tops \(L_i^2\rho'\). These split into those of the monomials \(L_i^2\), which lift exactly, and those coming from \(Q\cap\operatorname{ann}(\rho')\). On the latter, \(\rho'=\sum_ir_iL_i^2\) acts as a sum of square-zero elements from different tensor factors. The resulting \(\mathbb F_3[\mathbb Z/3]\)-module structure, with \(\rho'^3=0\) in characteristic 3, might locate the first genuine syzygies at degree \(h+3\).
- a symmetry-reduced computation at \(h=10,11\).

Next: the route review that six research entries since the last one require. It should weigh the companion-top question against the other open items: several shared coordinates, \(W\), the weak base, and the pair and triple statements.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: conj:companion-tops-low-degree and its checks, cor:band-star-locality (what it needs), and the leaf-law mechanism entry's computation. The values are read from the two outputs. The restriction identity and the counterexample to \(C_{h-1}\subseteq C_h\) are checked by hand: \(C_h\) in degree 5 is spanned by the \(h\) elements \(\rho'_hL_k^2\), each with \(h-1\) monomials, and no combination of them is a single monomial when \(h\ge3\).

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the numbers, the restriction identities and the counterexample. It required these changes, all adopted:

what the failed restriction argument would have given, and that it fails only term by term;
the bound for large \(S\);
the \(\rho'A\) check limited to existence, since that script bounds the degree already in \(\operatorname{std}(I)\);
the inclusion \(C\subseteq\mathfrak n\) stated;
the timing sourced;
the face stated precisely.

All narrow the claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 23.77 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 25.51 s
Computation design and coding	48.81 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 25.71 s
Individually measured computation	43.61 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Route review: star locality with R and T is proved at h = 3, 4, 5 below degree 12, and for the band it rests on one single-block conjecture

24 September 2026 · Route review · The locality line after the cross-generator route review; cycle odd-prime-band-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: star locality with R and T is proved at h = 3, 4, 5 below degree 12, and for the band it rests on one single-block conjecture”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-band-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Six research entries have followed the cross-generator route review. That review found the cross-generator case untouched and sent the line back to a single block's module structure. This review states what those entries achieved, tries to falsify the newest theorem, and names the highest-risk item.

General statement. The line's general claim is conj:family-fall-locality: a family of linked ENS blocks with private inputs and the cross generators \(R\) and \(T\) falls no lower than its subfamilies of at most three blocks. For the goal it is needed below \(D=11\), for the band's blocks with \(h\ge10\).

What happened since the last review

One block's ideals pass distributivity checks at \(h=3,4\) (distributivity).
An exact criterion for common adapted bases over \(k[x]/(x^n)\) was proved, lem:adapted-basis-criterion (criterion).
By the criterion, each block has a basis adapted to its top ideal and to \(\rho'A\) at \(h=3,4\), and later at \(h=5\) (block basis).
thm:star-degree-locality: with such bases, stars with \(R\) and \(T\) fall at degree \(\le11\) only where subfamilies of at most three blocks fall. Every syzygy that spans more blocks is either an exact lift or of degree at least 13 (star degree locality).
The companion-top model has an adapted basis for every \(h\), prop:companion-model-basis. So for the band, star locality below 11 rests only on conj:companion-tops-low-degree, by cor:band-star-locality (model basis).
That conjecture is checked through \(h=7\). Two proof routes for it are closed (evidence).

What the goal needs

For the member condition of relative gluing, every linked component that compiled inventories produce must have no span-ring fall below 11. For the band this needs five things.

Locality: components fall no lower than their subfamilies of at most three blocks. It is proved for stars with \(R\) and \(T\) given conj:companion-tops-low-degree. It is open for components on several shared coordinates.
The local part: pairs and triples with \(R\) and \(T\) have no fall below 11. conj:r-added-parallel-fall would give 14 or more for parallel pairs with \(h\ge10\). The identical pairs are conj:shared-input-falls, at \(h+4\ge14\). Triples with \(T\) are untested at large \(h\).
\(W\) is not in the cross rule. That is consistent only if identical pairs fall at \(h+4\ge11\), which conj:shared-input-falls predicts.
The weak base: freeness of the top algebra over the compiled forms, for lem:span-transfer and lem:tensor-splitting-locality.
The band's rational tuples satisfying those freeness conditions.

Falsification attempt

thm:star-degree-locality is now unconditional at \(h=5\). star_h5.sing tests a four-block star at \(h=5\) with \(R\) on its parallel pairs and \(T\) on its covering triples:

\(a\) and \(b\) on \(x\);
\(c\) on \(x+1\);
\(d\) on \(x+2\).

At \(h=5\), linked pairs with \(R\) fall first at 9 (r_added_pair_h5.out). A fall of the star below 9 would contradict the theorem, since the theorem allows falls at degree \(\le11\) only where a subfamily of at most three blocks falls. The degree bound is 9, so falls at degree \(\le8\) are visible. The run hit the 600 s limit without a result (star_h5_status.txt), so this test is undecided.

A cheaper test replaced it. star_h4_db9.sing (star_h4_db9.out) takes the four-block star at \(h=4\) of the repaired-star attempt, with degree bound 9. Its linked pairs with \(R\) fall first at 8. So the theorem, which gives no fall below 8, and lem:section-retraction, which gives a fall at 8, predict a lowest fall of exactly 8. The header states this before the run, and the run finds exactly 8. This checks both directions of the equality at a degree where falls exist. The earlier run with degree bound 8 could check only the first.

Assessment of this line

Solid ground.
- A proved local-to-global theorem for stars with the cross generators, in the degrees the goal needs, unconditional at \(h=3,4,5\).
- An exact algebraic criterion behind it.
- A model basis for all \(h\).
- Six consistent exact family checks, one of them the equality at \(h=4\).
The gap.
- conj:companion-tops-low-degree at the band's sizes. It is a single-block statement, but two natural proof routes failed. Its evidence stops at \(h=7\), degree 8, while the band needs \(h\ge10\), degree 11.
- Several shared coordinates. The shared algebra is then not a chain ring. The degree floor may still leave only harmless syzygies below 12, but nothing is proved.
Prospects. Good for stars, where one clean single-block statement remains. Moderate for general components: the product-basis method needs a replacement for chain distributivity, although the degree floor is independent of the shape of the component. The local part (item 2) and the weak base (items 4, 5) are as they were.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, the highest-risk item is still the step from pairs to families. Its two open pieces are the companion-top conjecture and several shared coordinates. The second covers most components and has not been attempted with the new tools, so it comes first. Next: extend thm:star-degree-locality to families on two shared coordinates. The block pieces stay diagonal in product bases over each coordinate's chain ring, as long as each block reads one shared coordinate. The new case is a block, such as the hub of the hub test, that reads two. Check whether the degree floor again leaves only harmless syzygies below 12, and state the extra condition on such blocks.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the six entries since the last review and their claims (conj:block-ideal-distributivity, lem:adapted-basis-criterion, conj:block-adapted-basis, thm:star-degree-locality, prop:companion-model-basis, cor:band-star-locality, ex:companion-tops-checks), conj:r-added-parallel-fall, conj:shared-input-falls, and lem:span-transfer. The falsification values are read from star_h4_db9.out and star_h5_status.txt. No new claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 13.92 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	19.20 s
Computation design and coding	24.94 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 1.38 s
Individually measured computation	10 min 28.26 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Hub locality: families with one block on several shared coordinates fall below 11 only where subfamilies of at most three blocks fall; such a block has no monomial basis

24 September 2026 · Conditional result (on adapted bases of the one-coordinate blocks) and a finite check · cycle odd-prime-two-coordinate-locality. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Hub locality: families with one block on several shared coordinates fall below 11 only where subfamilies of at most three blocks fall; such a block has no monomial basis”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-hub-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The band route review named components on several shared coordinates as an open piece of the family step. thm:star-degree-locality covers stars only: every block reads the one shared coordinate. Its proof makes every piece diagonal in a product of bases over \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\). The planned extension was to give a block reading \(x\) and \(y\) (a hub) a basis over \(S=\mathbb F_3[x,y]/(x^3,y^3)\) in which its pieces are sums of monomial ideals. This cycle shows that no such basis exists, and proves the extension another way: for families with one hub, it treats the hub's algebra as coefficient ring.

General statement. thm:hub-degree-locality and ex:hub-no-monomial-basis.

thm:hub-degree-locality. Let \(F\) be a family of separately augmented complete accuracy-one ENS blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(h\ge3\) inputs and private coefficients. Each block reads some shared coordinates, each through exactly one of its inputs \(x_c+\gamma\), and its other inputs are private; every block, the hub included, has at least one private input. One block, the hub, may read several shared coordinates; every other block reads exactly one. The cross set is \(R_{ab}\) for pairs whose inputs on a common coordinate are parallel, and \(T_{abc}\) for triples covering the three translates of one coordinate, without \(W\). Every block other than the hub has a homogeneous basis over its coordinate's chain ring adapted to its top ideal and to \(\rho'A\), or has top ideal equal to \(\rho'Q\) in degrees \(\le11\). Then every fall of \(F\) at a degree \(s\le10\) is a fall at degree \(s\) of a subfamily of at most three blocks, computed in the family's algebra. With lem:section-retraction: if no subfamily of at most three blocks falls below 11, neither does \(F\).
ex:hub-no-monomial-basis. Let a block read \(x\) and \(y\) through two inputs, with private inputs \(y_3,\dots,y_h\), private coefficients and \(h=3,4,5\). Let \(A\) be the cube-truncated algebra in \(x,y,y_3,\dots,y_h,r_1,\dots,r_h\), and \(\mathfrak n\) the tops of the reduced dp Groebner basis. Then \(A\), as a free \(S\)-module, has no basis \(e_i\) with \(\rho'A=\bigoplus_iJ_ie_i\) for monomial ideals \(J_i\subseteq S\). The same holds for \(\rho'Q\), and at \(h=3,4\) for \(\mathfrak n\).

The hub needs no basis and no companion-top hypothesis. For it, only the degree 3 of \(\rho'_0\) and the absence of block tops of degree \(\le3\) (lem:block-min-degree) enter. For the band, with \(h\ge10\), conj:companion-tops-low-degree gives the second alternative for every other block. So families with one hub reduce to their subfamilies of at most three blocks below degree 11, on the same condition as stars.

No monomial basis for a hub

Suppose \(\Sigma\) is a family of graded submodules of a graded free \(S\)-module \(F\), with \(M=\bigoplus_iJ_i(M)e_i\) for monomial ideals \(J_i(M)\). For a monomial \(m\) of \(S\), let \(W_m(M)=\varphi((M:m))\), where \(\varphi\) is reduction modulo \((x,y)F\). Then \((M:m)=\bigoplus_i(J_i(M):m)e_i\), and \(W_m(M)\) is spanned by the \(\bar e_i\) with \(m\in J_i(M)\). Since every \(W_m(M)\) is spanned by a subset of one basis \(\bar e_i\), conditions (i) and (ii) below hold. Counting monomials gives (iii):

\(\varphi\) preserves intersections of colons;
the \(W_m(M)\) generate a distributive lattice;
\(\dim_kM=\sum_i\dim_kJ_i(M)=\sum_m\dim_kW_m(M)\), with the sum over the nine monomials of \(S\).

Over \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\), (iii) always holds, and (i) with (ii) is lem:adapted-basis-criterion. Over \(S\), (i) and (ii) do not imply (iii). In \(S\) itself, \(N=(x+y)S\) has \(W_m(N)\ne0\) only for \(m\in\{x^2y,xy^2,x^2y^2\}\), so the sum in (iii) is 3, but \(\dim N=6\). Each \(W_m(N)\) is 0 or \(k\), so (i) and (ii) hold for \(\{N\}\).

biadapted_criterion.sing (biadapted_criterion.out) computes the three conditions for one block with inputs \(x,y,y_3,\dots,y_h\). It uses the reduced dp basis in the truncated algebra and the same colon and closure code as biadapted_check.sing (biadapted_check.out).

Family	\(h\)	(iii) for \(\mathfrak n\) or \(\rho'Q\)	(iii) for \(\rho'A\)	(i)	(ii)
model \(\{\rho'Q,\rho'A\}\)	3	158 vs 154	310 vs 290	holds	holds, 45 elements
model	4	2120 vs 2068	3160 vs 3044	holds	holds, 45
model	5	24170 vs 23686	30922 vs 30182	holds	holds, 45
full \(\{\mathfrak n,\rho'A\}\)	3	342 vs 336	310 vs 290	fails, from degree 5	not run
full	4	3510 vs 3466	3160 vs 3044	fails, from degree 6	not run

Each (iii) entry is \(\dim M\) against \(\sum_m\dim W_m(M)\). The run header predicted that the model would pass all three conditions. It fails (iii), so the prediction was wrong. A heuristic explanation follows; the proof of ex:hub-no-monomial-basis is the computed failure of (iii). Write \(\rho'=r_1x^2+r_2y^2+\rho\), with \(\rho=\sum_{i\ge3}r_iy_i^2\). For \(k\) with \(\rho k=0\), \(\rho'k=x^2(r_1k)+y^2(r_2k)\) lies in \(\rho'A\), and it has the shape of the example \(x+y\). A monomial basis would give \[\rho'A\cap(x^2A+y^2A)=\rho'A\cap x^2A+\rho'A\cap y^2A.\] The element \(\rho'k\) is not shown here to violate this identity. So, at these sizes, a hub's pieces are not diagonal in any basis, and the product-basis proof of thm:star-degree-locality cannot be extended by giving the hub a basis.

Proof of the theorem

Setting. Let \(h_0\) be the hub, reading the coordinates in \(C_0\), and let \(S\) be the truncated polynomial ring in all shared coordinates. The hub's algebra \(A_0=S\otimes B_0\) is free over \(S\). Every other block \(j\) reads one coordinate \(c_j\). Its algebra is free over \(S_{c_j}=\mathbb F_3[x_{c_j}]/(x_{c_j}^3)\), with a homogeneous basis \(e_{j,i}\) and exponents \(a_{j,i}\), \(u_{j,i}\in\{0,1,2,3\}\): \[\mathfrak n_j=\bigoplus_ix_{c_j}^{a_{j,i}}S_{c_j}e_{j,i},\qquad U_j=\rho'_jA_j=\bigoplus_ix_{c_j}^{u_{j,i}}S_{c_j}e_{j,i}.\] Then \(A=A_0\otimes_S\bigotimes_{S,j}(A_j\otimes_{S_{c_j}}S)\) is free over \(A_0\), with basis the products \(e_t=\prod_je_{j,t_j}\). In this basis each piece's image is \(\bigoplus_tX_p(t)e_t\) for an ideal \(X_p(t)\) of \(A_0\), as follows. Tops are translation invariant, so \(\operatorname{top}(R_{ab})=\kappa x_c\rho'_a\rho'_b\), with \(\kappa\) a unit, for a pair parallel on \(c\).

Piece	\(X_p(t)\)	Class
\(N_j\), block \(j\ne h_0\) on \(c\)	\(x_c^{a_{j,t_j}}A_0\)	\(\mathcal M_c\)
\(R_{ab}\) on \(c\), \(h_0\notin\{a,b\}\)	\(x_c^{1+u_{a,t_a}+u_{b,t_b}}A_0\)	\(\mathcal M_c\)
\(T_{abc'}\) on \(c\), \(h_0\) not among them	\(x_c^{u_a+u_b+u_{c'}}A_0\)	\(\mathcal M_c\)
\(R_{h_0a}\) on \(c\)	\(x_c^{1+u_{a,t_a}}\rho'_0A_0\)	\(\mathcal U_c\)
\(T_{h_0ab}\) on \(c\)	\(x_c^{u_{a,t_a}+u_{b,t_b}}\rho'_0A_0\)	\(\mathcal U_c\)
\(N_{h_0}\)	\(\mathfrak n_0A_0\)	\(\mathcal N\)

An exponent of 3 or more means the ideal is 0. The first three rows use the adapted bases. For example, \(\rho'_a\rho'_bA\) has component ideal \(x_c^{u_a+u_b}S\) in \(e_t\), because \(U_a\) and \(U_b\) are diagonal in their factors. Within each class \(\mathcal M_c\) or \(\mathcal U_c\), and in each component \(t\), the ideals form a chain. The hub's own ideals \(\mathfrak n_0\) and \(\rho'_0A_0\) are arbitrary: no structure of them is used beyond the degree floors below.

Step 1: decomposition. As in thm:star-degree-locality, \(F\) has no fall at degree \(s\) exactly when every top syzygy of degree \(s+1\) lifts. A syzygy is supported on a subfamily \(G\) if its nonzero components belong to blocks in \(G\) and to cross generators whose blocks lie in \(G\). Choose graded sections \(s_p\) of the piece maps \(\Phi_p\). Take a top syzygy \((\sigma_p)\) of degree \(s+1\le11\), with images \(w_p=\sum_tw_{p,t}e_t\). Each \(w_{p,t}e_t\) lies in \(\operatorname{Im}\Phi_p\), and for each \(t\), \(\sum_pw_{p,t}=0\). Up to kernel syzygies of single pieces, which are supported on at most three blocks, the syzygy is the sum over \(t\) of the component syzygies \((s_p(w_{p,t}e_t))_p\).

Fix \(t\). In each class, let \(p_0\) be a piece with the largest ideal in component \(t\). For every other piece \(p\) of the class, subtract the pair syzygy \(s_p(w_{p,t}e_t)e_p-s_{p_0}(w_{p,t}e_t)e_{p_0}\). What remains is a residual syzygy with at most one piece in each class, all its components of one degree \(d\), and total degree \[s+1=d+\textstyle\sum_{j\ne h_0}\deg e_{j,t_j}.\]

Step 2: floors.

(F1) For \(j\ne h_0\): if \(a_{j,i}\le2\), then \(\deg e_{j,i}\ge5-a_{j,i}\ge3\) (lem:block-min-degree). For the hub, \(\mathfrak n_0A_0\) has no nonzero element of degree \(\le4\), by the same lemma, since the hub's inputs are independent coordinates up to translation. Only degree \(\ge3\) is used below.
(F2) For \(j\ne h_0\): if \(u_{j,i}\le2\), then \(\deg e_{j,i}\ge3\), as proved in thm:star-degree-locality. For the hub, by homogeneity, \(\rho'_0A_0\) has no nonzero element of degree \(<3\), and \(x_c\rho'_0A_0\) none of degree \(<4\). (F2) for the other blocks needs two private inputs, which each has, since \(h\ge3\) and it reads one shared coordinate.

So if a piece is nonzero in component \(t\), every block \(j\ne h_0\) of that piece has \(\deg e_{j,t_j}\ge3\). For a cross piece this is (F2). For \(N_j\), a nonzero component needs \(a_{j,t_j}\le2\), and (F1) applies.

Step 3: the pair syzygies of the routing. These are pairs within one class. Within a class \(\mathcal M_c\), the pieces and ideals are those of a star on \(c\), tensored with \(A_0\). The case analysis of thm:star-degree-locality, steps 2 and 3, applies verbatim, with the exponent of the common element in \(x_c\) in place of \(\epsilon\). Each such pair is supported on at most three blocks, or is a basic \(T\)-\(T\) syzygy, which lifts exactly, or has degree \(\ge13\). Within \(\mathcal U_c\), both pieces contain \(h_0\), so a pair on four or more blocks has at least three blocks \(j\ne h_0\), each of degree \(\ge3\). The common element lies in \(x_c^\epsilon\rho'_0A_0\), so it has degree \(\ge3+\epsilon\).

If \(\epsilon\ge1\), which holds whenever an \(R\) is involved, the total is at least \(4+9=13\).
If \(\epsilon=0\), both pieces are \(T\)'s whose other blocks have \(u=0\). The component then lies in \(\rho'_{B\cup B'}A\), and the pair is a multiple of the basic syzygy \(\rho'_{B'\setminus B}e_T-\rho'_{B\setminus B'}e_{T'}\), which lifts exactly, as in thm:star-degree-locality.

Step 4: the residual. Let \(G\) be the set of blocks of the residual's pieces, and suppose \(|G|\ge4\).

\(h_0\in G\). Then \(G\) has at least three blocks \(j\ne h_0\), each of degree \(\ge3\), so \(\sum_j\deg e_{j,t_j}\ge9\). A residual piece contains \(h_0\), so it lies in \(\mathcal N\) or some \(\mathcal U_c\), and \(d\ge3\) by (F1) and (F2). Hence \(s+1\ge12\).
\(h_0\notin G\). Every residual piece lies in some \(\mathcal M_c\). The component ideals are \(x_c^{i_c}A_0\), and \(A_0\) is free over \(S\), so the relation splits monomial by monomial into pair syzygies between the representatives of two classes \(\mathcal M_c\) and \(\mathcal M_{c'}\). Such a pair's common element lies in \(x_c^{i}x_{c'}^{i'}A_0\), where \(i\) and \(i'\) are the two pieces' exponents. If it spans four or more blocks, each has degree \(\ge3\), for a total of at least 12, which suffices. For the record, the total is at least 13 unless \(i=i'=0\). An exponent 0 comes only from a \(T\) with all \(u=0\), which has three blocks, or from \(N_j\) with \(a_j=0\), where \(\deg e_j\ge5\). The possible cases are:
- two \(T\)'s: six blocks, degree at least 18;
- a \(T\) and an \(N_j\): at least \(9+5=14\);
- two \(N\)'s: two blocks.

So every top syzygy of degree \(\le11\) is a sum of syzygies supported on at most three blocks and basic \(T\)-\(T\) syzygies. Step 4 of thm:star-degree-locality then gives the theorem for falls at degree \(\le10\). The second alternative for the other blocks is handled as in cor:band-star-locality. In degrees \(\le11\), top syzygies and piece images coincide with those of the model with \(\rho'_jQ_j\) in place of \(\mathfrak n_j\). The model is diagonal with \(\rho'_jA_j\) by prop:companion-model-basis, and \(\rho'_jQ_j\) starts in degree 5, so (F1) holds for it. \(\square\)

The residual bound 12 is where the hub costs one degree against stars: its pieces need not split, so only the degree of \(\rho'_0\) and three other blocks count. Two hubs break the count. A residual consisting of \(N_{h_0}\), \(N_{h_1}\) and block pieces \(N_a\), \(N_b\) of two further blocks is bounded only by \(d+6\ge5+6=11\). Families with several multi-coordinate blocks stay open.

What this means

For every component with at most one block reading several shared coordinates, the family step below degree 11 is reduced to subfamilies of at most three blocks. The condition is the same as for stars: adapted bases for the other blocks, which hold for \(h\in\{3,4,5\}\) (conj:block-adapted-basis, with \(h=5\) from the model basis entry), or conj:companion-tops-low-degree for the band.
The hub itself needs no basis. That is necessary, since ex:hub-no-monomial-basis shows no basis exists.
The earlier hub test is consistent with the theorem. It has a hub with \(h=4\) reading three coordinates, and one partner per coordinate with \(h=4\). The partners' blocks have adapted bases (conj:block-adapted-basis, \(h=4\)). Its cross set was \(R\) only, without \(W\). Its linked pairs with \(R\) fall first at 8, and the family's lowest fall was 8 (hub_h4.out).
Still open for the family step: components with two or more multi-coordinate blocks; \(W\); the weak base; and the pair and triple statements.

Next: components with two hubs. Treat \(A_0\otimes_SA_1\) as the coefficient ring and test whether the residual syzygies of degree \(\le11\) that contain both \(N_{h_0}\) and \(N_{h_1}\) split into syzygies on at most three blocks. The splitting would use the structure of the two top ideals in their shared coordinate.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:star-degree-locality (steps 1 to 4, (F1), (F2), and the \(T\)-\(T\) case), cor:band-star-locality (the truncation argument), prop:companion-model-basis, lem:block-min-degree (its hypotheses: independent coordinates, \(h\ge3\)), lem:section-retraction, lem:adapted-basis-criterion, and the hub test's header and output. The values in the table are read from biadapted_criterion.out and biadapted_check.out. A claim search for monomial adapted bases, two shared coordinates and hubs found only the entries of this line.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error. It checked the piece table, the routing, every floor, the monomial splitting, the band transfer, the \((x+y)S\) example and the table against the output. It required these changes, all adopted:

the private input of every block, the hub included, and exactly one shared coordinate for the other blocks, stated as hypotheses;
what the hub uses stated precisely;
the displayed identity marked as a heuristic explanation;
the finite check stated for the free module \(A\), with the algebra named;
the sources of the three conditions separated, and (i), (ii) checked for the example;
the unneeded refinement in step 4 marked;
the source of \(h=5\) cited, the hub test's cross set stated, and the two-hub remark made precise.

These add hypotheses the proof already used, or weaken and clarify, so no further pass was made.

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Two-hub locality: components whose two multi-coordinate blocks share one coordinate that no other block reads fall below 11 only where subfamilies of at most three blocks fall

24 September 2026 · Working proof (torsion floor) and a conditional result (as for hub locality) · cycle odd-prime-two-hub-locality. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Two-hub locality: components whose two multi-coordinate blocks share one coordinate that no other block reads fall below 11 only where subfamilies of at most three blocks fall”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-two-hub-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. thm:hub-degree-locality reduces components with one multi-coordinate block to their subfamilies of at most three blocks below degree 11. Its degree count fails for two such blocks. The next step asked whether residual syzygies containing both hubs' pieces split. This cycle answers yes when the two hubs share exactly one coordinate that no other block reads.

Call blocks adjacent when they read a common shared coordinate, and a family connected when this graph is connected. Two hubs on disjoint coordinates never lie in one component. A path between them through one-coordinate blocks stays on one coordinate, which would then lie in \(C_0\cap C_1\); otherwise it needs a third multi-coordinate block. So two hubs in one component with no third one share a coordinate. For families that are not connected, lem:kunneth-component-locality splits syzygies by component under its own hypotheses (independent spans, joint freeness through the degree used); these are not checked here.

General statement. lem:hub-torsion-floor and thm:two-hub-degree-locality.

lem:hub-torsion-floor. Let a hub \(h_0\) read the shared coordinates \(C_0\ni y\) and have at least two private inputs. Let \(A_0=S_{C_0}\otimes B_0\), with \(B_0\) the cube-truncated algebra of its private inputs and coefficients. Its \(P\)-top is \(\rho'_0=\sum_{c\in C_0}r_cx_c^2+\sum_ir_iy_i^2\), with the \(r\)'s distinct variables (private coefficients). Let \(M_0=\sum_{c\in C_0\setminus y}x_c^{\alpha_c}A_0\), with \(\alpha_c\in\{0,1,2,3\}\), and let \(X\subseteq A_0\) be a graded ideal with \(M_0\subseteq X\) and \(X_{\le4}\subseteq M_0+\rho'_0A_0\). Then every cyclic torsion summand of the graded \(S_y\)-module \(A_0/X\) is generated in degree \(\ge3\). Equivalently: if \(\mu\) is homogeneous, \(\deg\mu\le2\), \(a\in\{1,2\}\) and \(y^a\mu\in X\), then \(\mu\in X+yA_0\).
thm:two-hub-degree-locality. Let \(F\) be a connected family as in thm:hub-degree-locality, except that exactly two blocks \(h_0,h_1\) read several shared coordinates. They share exactly one coordinate \(y\), no other block reads \(y\), and each hub has at least two private inputs. The cross set is \(R\) and \(T\) by the same rule, including \(R_{h_0h_1}\) if their \(y\)-inputs are parallel. Every other block has an adapted basis over its coordinate's chain ring, or top ideal \(\rho'Q\) in degrees \(\le11\). Then every fall of \(F\) at a degree \(s\le10\) is a fall at degree \(s\) of a subfamily of at most three blocks. With lem:section-retraction: if none falls below 11, neither does \(F\).

Proof of the torsion floor

Write elements of \(A_0=S_y\otimes B'\), with \(B'=S_{C_0\setminus y}\otimes B_0\), as \(f_0+yf_1+y^2f_2\) with \(f_i\in B'\). Then:

\(M_0=S_y\otimes M_0'\) for the monomial ideal \(M_0'=\sum_cx_c^{\alpha_c}B'\), so membership in \(M_0\) is coefficientwise;
\(\rho'_0=r_yy^2+\rho''\), with \(\rho''=\sum_{c\ne y}r_cx_c^2+\rho\in B'\) and \(\rho=\sum_{i\text{ private}}r_iy_i^2\).

If some \(\alpha_c=0\), then \(X=A_0\) and there is nothing to prove.

A linear form. Let \(g\in B'\) be linear with \(\rho''g\in M_0'\). Then \(g\in M_0'\). Indeed, remove from \(g\) its terms \(x_c\) with \(\alpha_c\le1\), which lie in \(M_0'\), and let \(v\) be a remaining variable. Choose a private index \(i\) with \(v\ne y_i\), which exists since there are two. The monomial \(r_iy_i^2v\) is nonzero and not in \(M_0'\). It arises in \(\rho''g\) only from the pair \((i,v)\), so its coefficient is nonzero. An element lies in a monomial ideal only if all its monomials do, so \(\rho''g\notin M_0'\), a contradiction. For the same reason \(c\rho''\notin M_0'\) for a nonzero scalar \(c\).

\(a=2\). Then \(\deg y^2\mu\le4\), so \(y^2\mu=m+\rho'_0g\) with \(m\in M_0\) and \(\deg g\le1\), say \(g=g_0+yg_1\) with \(g_1\) a scalar. Since \(y^3=0\), the coefficients of \(y^2\mu\) are \((0,0,\mu_0)\), and those of \(\rho'_0g\) are \((\rho''g_0,\ \rho''g_1,\ r_yg_0)\). Comparing:

\(\rho''g_1\in M_0'\), so \(g_1=0\);
\(\rho''g_0\in M_0'\), so \(g_0\in M_0'\);
\(\mu_0=m_2+r_yg_0\in M_0'\).

So \(\mu\in M_0+yA_0\subseteq X+yA_0\).

\(a=1\). Then \(\deg y\mu\le3\), so \(g=c\) is a scalar. The \(y^0\)-coefficient gives \(c\rho''\in M_0'\), so \(c=0\). Then \(y\mu\in M_0\), so \(\mu_0\in M_0'\) and \(\mu\in M_0+yA_0\subseteq X+yA_0\).

Finally, finitely generated graded modules over \(S_y=\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^3)\) are direct sums of graded cyclic modules. The generator \(\bar\mu\) of a torsion summand \(S_y/y^a\) satisfies \(y^a\mu\in X\) and \(\bar\mu\notin y(A_0/X)\). By what was shown, it cannot have degree \(\le2\). \(\square\)

Proof of the theorem

Setting. All shared coordinates lie in \(C_0\cup C_1\), since \(F\) is connected. Take the product basis \(e_t\) of the one-coordinate blocks' adapted bases, as in thm:hub-degree-locality. The coefficient ring is \(A_{01}=A_0\otimes_{S_y}A_1\), and it is free over \(A_0\) and over \(A_1\). The pieces' component ideals fall into three types.

Type 0: \(X_p\otimes_{S_y}A_1\). Here \(X_p\) is \(\mathfrak n_0\), \(x_c^i\rho'_0A_0\) or \(x_c^iA_0\) with \(c\in C_0\setminus y\). No one-coordinate block reads \(y\), so no hub-0 piece on \(y\) other than \(R_{h_0h_1}\) exists. These are the hub-0 pieces and the pieces of blocks on \(C_0\setminus y\).
Type 1: symmetrically, \(A_0\otimes_{S_y}Y_q\).
Type 01: \(R_{h_0h_1}\), with ideal \(y\rho'_0\rho'_1A_{01}\), when the hubs' \(y\)-inputs are parallel. No \(T\) contains both hubs, since only they read \(y\).

The blocks of type-0 pieces other than \(h_0\) read \(C_0\setminus y\), and those of type-1 pieces read \(C_1\setminus y\). So the two types have disjoint block sets.

Step 1: type 01. Take a component syzygy (as in thm:hub-degree-locality) of total degree \(\le11\) on four or more blocks. It has at least two blocks other than the hubs, each of direction degree \(\ge3\). If \(R_{h_0h_1}\) were nonzero in it, the common degree would be \(d\ge7\), and the total would be \(\ge13\). So it has no type-01 piece.

Step 2: the cross part. Write the syzygy as \(w_0+w_1=0\), with \(w_0=\sum_pw_p\) over its type-0 pieces and \(w_1\) over its type-1 pieces. Let \(X=\sum_pX_p(t)\) and \(Y=\sum_qY_q(t)\), summed over the type-0 (type-1) pieces with nonzero component in the syzygy. Since \(A_1\) and \(A_0\) are free over \(S_y\), \[\bigl((X\otimes A_1)\cap(A_0\otimes Y)\bigr)\big/\operatorname{im}(X\otimes Y)\cong\operatorname{Tor}_1^{S_y}(A_0/X,\ A_1/Y),\] and \(w_0\) lies in the numerator. This is the identification of prop:overlap-tor, applied over the shared coordinate's chain ring.

If its class is nonzero. Let \(\alpha_c\) be the least \(x_c\)-exponent among the type-0 pieces on \(c\) in the syzygy, or 3 if there are none. Then \(X=M_0+(\text{hub-0 pieces})\) with \(M_0\subseteq X\). \(X_{\le4}\subseteq M_0+\rho'_0A_0\), because \(\mathfrak n_0\) has nothing in degree \(\le4\) (lem:block-min-degree) and the other hub ideals lie in \(\rho'_0A_0\). So lem:hub-torsion-floor applies to \(X\), and likewise to \(Y\). From the periodic resolution \(\cdots\to S_y(-3)\xrightarrow{y^{3-a}}S_y(-a)\xrightarrow{y^a}S_y\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{S_y}(S_y/y^a(-d),S_y/y^b(-d'))\) is \(\ker(y^a\text{ on }S_y/y^b)\) shifted by \(d+d'+a\). It starts in degree \(d+d'+\max(a,b)\), and Tor against a free summand is 0. So a nonzero class needs torsion on both sides. \(A_0/M_0\) is free over \(S_y\), so torsion of \(A_0/X\) requires a hub-0 piece, and \(h_0\) is in the support; likewise \(h_1\). Hence \(\deg w_0\ge3+3+1=7\). With the two further blocks, the total is \(\ge13\).
If its class is zero. Then \(w_0=\sum_{p,q}u_{pq}\), with \(u_{pq}\) homogeneous in the image of \(X_p\otimes Y_q\). This splits the syzygy into:
- cross pairs \(u_{pq}e_p-u_{pq}e_q\);
- a type-0 syzygy \((w_p-\sum_qu_{pq})_p\) and a type-1 syzygy.

Step 3: cross pairs. An element of \(X_p\otimes Y_q\) has degree at least the sum of the least degrees of \(X_p\) and \(Y_q\). For a piece \(p\), let \(\ell(p)\) be that least degree plus the direction degrees of its blocks other than the hub. The floors (F1) and (F2) of thm:hub-degree-locality give \(\ell(p)\ge3+2|p|\) for every kind of piece:

\(N\): 5;
\(R\): 7, that is \(4+3\) with the hub, or \(1+6\) without;
\(T\): 9, that is \(3+6\) or \(0+9\).

Here \(N_a\) counts \(a+(5-a)\). The blocks of \(p\) and \(q\) are disjoint, so a cross pair on four or more blocks has total degree \(\ge6+2\cdot4=14\).

Step 4: within one type. A type-0 syzygy is a syzygy of the pieces \(X_p\) in the free \(A_0\)-module \(A_{01}e_t\). Split it along a homogeneous monomial \(A_0\)-basis of \(S_{C_1\setminus y}\otimes B_1\). Each part is a syzygy in \(A_0\) of common degree \(d-\delta\) with \(\delta\ge0\), and the direction degrees of the type-1 blocks only add to the total. These are the pieces of the one-hub family formed by \(h_0\) and the blocks on \(C_0\setminus y\), in which only \(h_0\) reads \(y\). By the proof of thm:hub-degree-locality, each part is a sum of syzygies on at most three blocks, basic \(T\)-\(T\) syzygies, and syzygies of degree \(\ge12\). That proof uses freeness of the coefficient module over \(A_0\), and in its case \(h_0\notin G\) freeness over \(S_{C_0}\), which holds here.

So every top syzygy of degree \(\le11\) is a sum of syzygies on at most three blocks and exactly liftable ones, and step 4 of thm:star-degree-locality gives the theorem. The model alternative is handled as in cor:band-star-locality. \(\square\)

What this means

Components with two multi-coordinate blocks sharing one coordinate, read by no other block, are now reduced to subfamilies of at most three blocks below 11. The condition is the same as for stars.
The mechanism is a Tor vanishing over the chain ring of the shared coordinate. The torsion floor 3, from \(\deg\rho'_0=3\), and the step \(\max(a,b)\ge1\) put every nonsplit cross relation in degree \(\ge7\). Two further blocks then add at least 6.
Not covered:
- one-coordinate blocks on the shared coordinate \(y\): their ideals \(y^kA\) give \(A_0/X\) torsion in degree 0, so the floor fails and a count including their directions is needed;
- hubs sharing two coordinates;
- three or more hubs.

Next: allow one-coordinate blocks on the shared coordinate. Route their pieces within the \(y\)-class first. Then bound the Tor degree with the representative's direction degrees included: \(N_a\) has \(\ge5-k\), and \(R\) and \(T\) carry partners of degree 3.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:hub-degree-locality (setting, piece table, steps 1 to 4, and the fact that its proof uses only a free coefficient module), thm:star-degree-locality (step 4), cor:band-star-locality, lem:block-min-degree, lem:section-retraction, and lem:kunneth-component-locality for disconnected components. The earlier idea of hubs on disjoint coordinates was checked against connectivity and dropped, since such hubs lie in different components. No computation was run. The statement is a proof, and the finished runs already fix the degrees involved. Claim searches for torsion over the shared coordinate, Tor over the overlap, and hub locality found prop:overlap-tor: the Tor identification of step 2 is its application over the chain ring \(S_y\), and is cited as such. lem:p-top-summand is consistent with the torsion floor: \(\rho'\) is a torsion generator of degree 3 and order 2.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error and no missed syzygy of degree \(\le11\) on four or more blocks. It checked the linear-form argument, both coefficient comparisons, the Tor bound and identification, step 1, \(\ell(p)\ge3+2|p|\) and the cross-pair bound. It required these changes, all adopted:

the hypothesis \(M_0\subseteq X\) added to the lemma, with \(M_0\) made explicit where the lemma is applied;
\(B_0\), \(\rho'_0\) (private coefficients) and homogeneity of \(\mu\) stated;
a type-0 ideal that cannot occur removed from the list;
\(X\) and \(Y\) pinned to the pieces of the syzygy;
the Tor degree bound derived;
the degree bookkeeping of step 4 made explicit;
connectivity defined, and the Künneth citation limited to its hypotheses;
prop:overlap-tor cited.

The changes add a hypothesis the proof already used, or make steps explicit, so no further pass was made.

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General two-hub locality: blocks on the hubs' shared coordinate are absorbed modulo a power of y, so every component with two multi-coordinate blocks sharing one coordinate is local below 11

24 September 2026 · Conditional result (on adapted bases of the one-coordinate blocks) · cycle odd-prime-shared-coordinate-blocks. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “General two-hub locality: blocks on the hubs' shared coordinate are absorbed modulo a power of y, so every component with two multi-coordinate blocks sharing one coordinate is local below 11”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 24 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-24-shared-coordinate-blocks.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. thm:two-hub-degree-locality assumes that no one-coordinate block reads the hubs' shared coordinate \(y\). Such blocks have ideals \(y^kA\), and \(A_0/y^kA_0\) has \(S_y\)-torsion in degree 0, so lem:hub-torsion-floor does not apply to them directly. This cycle removes the assumption.

General statement. thm:general-two-hub-locality. Let \(F\) be a connected family as in thm:two-hub-degree-locality, but with any number of one-coordinate blocks on \(y\), and \(T\) on covering triples of \(y\) including those with one or both hubs. Then every fall of \(F\) at a degree \(s\le10\) is a fall at degree \(s\) of a subfamily of at most three blocks. With lem:section-retraction: if none falls below 11, neither does \(F\). The hypotheses are:

exactly two blocks \(h_0,h_1\) read several shared coordinates;
they share exactly one coordinate \(y\);
each hub has at least two private inputs;
every other block has an adapted basis, or top ideal \(\rho'Q\) in degrees \(\le11\);
\(F\) is connected, all blocks have \(h\ge3\) inputs and private coefficients, and every block has a private input;
the cross set is \(R\) for parallel pairs on a common coordinate, including \(R_{h_ia}\) with \(a\) on \(y\) and \(R_{h_0h_1}\), and \(T\) for covering triples, without \(W\).

This refines thm:two-hub-degree-locality by dropping its hypothesis that no other block reads \(y\).

Setting

As in thm:two-hub-degree-locality, the coefficient ring is \(A_{01}=A_0\otimes_{S_y}A_1\) over the product basis \(e_t\) of the one-coordinate blocks. Fix a component syzygy of total degree \(\le11\) on a set \(G\) of at least four blocks. Its pieces fall into four types.

Type 0: \(X_p\otimes A_1\). This covers hub-0 pieces, including \(R_{h_0a}\) and \(T_{h_0ab}\) with \(a,b\) on \(y\), with ideals \(y^e\rho'_0A_0\subseteq\rho'_0A_0\), and pieces of blocks on \(C_0\setminus y\).
Type 1: symmetrically.
Type \(y\): pieces of one-coordinate blocks on \(y\) (\(N_a\), \(R_{ab}\), \(T_{abc}\)), with ideals \(y^kA_{01}\).
Type 01: \(R_{h_0h_1}\) and \(T_{h_0h_1a}\).

If \(G\) contains at most one hub, the proof of thm:hub-degree-locality applies. The other hub's algebra enters only as a free coefficient factor: blocks on \(C_1\setminus y\) give monomial classes \(x_c^iA_{01}\), and \(A_{01}\) is free over \(A_0\) and over \(S_{C_0\cup C_1}\). Its routing pairs are then of three kinds. Star pairs lie on at most three blocks, are basic \(T\)-\(T\), or have degree \(\ge13\). Pairs within a class \(\mathcal U_c\) have degree \(\ge13\) or are basic \(T\)-\(T\). A residual on four or more blocks with one hub has degree \(\ge d+9\ge12\). Without a hub, the syzygy splits monomially into pairs on at most three blocks or of degree \(\ge13\). So assume \(h_0,h_1\in G\). Then \(G\) has at least two other blocks, each of direction degree \(\ge3\).

Proof

Type 01. \(R_{h_0h_1}\) forces \(d\ge7\). \(T_{h_0h_1a}\) forces \(d\ge6\). With the two further blocks, the total is \(\ge12\) in both cases, so neither occurs.
Type \(y\). The ideals \(y^kA_{01}\) form a chain. Route all type-\(y\) pieces to one representative \(s\) with the least exponent \(k\in\{0,1,2\}\), as in thm:hub-degree-locality. The routing pairs are pairs of a star on \(y\), handled by thm:star-degree-locality. If there is no type-\(y\) piece, put \(k=3\) and \(w_s=0\). The syzygy is now \(w_0+w_1+w_s=0\), with \(w_s\in y^kA_{01}\).
Reduction modulo \(y^k\). Let \(\bar S=S_y/y^k\), and write bars for reduction modulo \(y^k\). Then \(\bar w_0=-\bar w_1\), and \(\bar A_0,\bar A_1\) are free over \(\bar S\). As in prop:overlap-tor, \(\bar w_0\) defines a class in \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\bar S}(\bar A_0/\bar X,\ \bar A_1/\bar Y)\), where \(X\) and \(Y\) are the sums of the type-0 and type-1 ideals in the syzygy. The class is zero in each of the following cases.
- \(k=0\): the ring is 0.
- \(k=1\): \(\bar S\) is a field.
- \(k=3\): lem:hub-torsion-floor applies to \(X\) and \(Y\), exactly as in thm:two-hub-degree-locality. The hub-0 ideals on \(y\) lie in \(\rho'_0A_0\), so \(X_{\le4}\subseteq M_0+\rho'_0A_0\) still holds. A nonzero class has degree \(\ge3+3+1=7\), and total degree \(\ge7+6=13\).
- \(k=2\): here the torsion generators of \(\bar A_0/\bar X\) over \(\bar S\) also have degree \(\ge3\). If \(\deg\mu\le2\) and \(y\mu\in X+y^2A_0\), then \(y^2\mu\in yX+y^3A_0\subseteq X\). So lem:hub-torsion-floor with \(a=2\) gives \(\mu\in X+yA_0\). \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\bar S}(\bar S/y(-d),\bar S/y(-d'))\) sits in degree \(d+d'+1\), and free summands contribute nothing. So a nonzero class again has degree \(\ge7\), and total degree \(\ge13\).
Splitting. So \(\bar w_0=\sum\bar u_{pq}\), with \(\bar u_{pq}\) in the image of \(\bar X_p\otimes\bar Y_q\). The image of \(X_p\otimes Y_q\) maps onto that of \(\bar X_p\otimes\bar Y_q\), so there are lifts \(u_{pq}\), homogeneous of the common degree \(d\), in the images of \(X_p\otimes Y_q\). Then \(v_0:=w_0-\sum u_{pq}\in y^kA_{01}\). Put \(v_1:=w_1+\sum u_{pq}\). Then \(v_1=-v_0-w_s\in y^kA_{01}\). The syzygy is the sum of three kinds of syzygy.
- (R0): \(w_p-\sum_qu_{pq}\) on the type-0 pieces and \(-v_0\) on \(s\). It is a syzygy of the one-hub family formed by \(h_0\) and all one-coordinate blocks on \(C_0\), those on \(y\) included.
- (R1): \(w_q+\sum_pu_{pq}\) on the type-1 pieces and \(-v_1\) on \(s\). It is a syzygy of the one-hub family formed by \(h_1\) and all one-coordinate blocks on \(C_1\).
- Cross pairs \(u_{pq}e_p-u_{pq}e_q\).
Each component lies in its piece's image, since \(-v_0,-v_1\in y^kA_{01}=\operatorname{Im}s\). The three parts sum to the original syzygy, since on \(s\) they give \(-v_0-v_1=w_s\).
Floors. Write \(A_{01}=A_0\otimes V\) with \(V=S_{C_1\setminus y}\otimes B_1\). Then \(y^kA_{01}=y^kA_0\otimes V\), and splitting (R0) along a homogeneous basis of \(V\) preserves every component ideal, that of \(s\) included, as in step 4 of thm:two-hub-degree-locality. \(A_{01}\) is also free over \(S_{C_0}\), which covers the case \(h_0\notin G\). The same holds for (R1). By the proof of thm:hub-degree-locality they are sums of syzygies on at most three blocks, basic \(T\)-\(T\) syzygies and syzygies of degree \(\ge12\). A cross pair's element has degree at least the sum of the least degrees of \(X_p\) and \(Y_q\).
- When \(p\) and \(q\) have disjoint blocks, \(\ell(p)+\ell(q)\ge6+2(|p|+|q|)\ge14\) on four or more blocks, as in thm:two-hub-degree-locality.
- They can share only blocks on \(y\), and only through hub pieces on \(y\). The image of \(y^e\rho'_0A_0\otimes y^f\rho'_1A_1\) is \(y^{e+f}\rho'_0\rho'_1A_{01}\), of degree \(\ge6+e+f\). The cases are:
  - \(R_{h_0a}\) with \(R_{h_1a}\): three blocks, harmless;
  - \(T_{h_0ab}\) with \(T_{h_1ab}\): \(\ge6+6=12\);
  - \(T_{h_0ab}\) with \(R_{h_1a}\), or \(R_{h_0a}\) with \(T_{h_1ab}\): \(\ge7+6=13\);
  - \(T\)'s sharing one block: five blocks, \(\ge6+9=15\).

So every top syzygy of degree \(\le11\) is a sum of syzygies on at most three blocks and exactly liftable ones. Step 4 of thm:star-degree-locality and, for the model alternative, cor:band-star-locality give the theorem. \(\square\)

The type-\(y\) representative absorbs the cross part in the degrees where it lives. Modulo \(y^k\) the shared ring is shorter. For \(k\le1\) nothing is left, and for \(k=2,3\) the hubs' torsion starts in degree 3.

What this means

Below degree 11, the family step now covers every connected component in which at most two blocks read several shared coordinates, two such blocks share at most one, and each has at least two private inputs. The condition is the same as for stars: adapted bases (\(h\le5\)), or conj:companion-tops-low-degree for the band.
Not covered:
- three or more multi-coordinate blocks;
- two that share two coordinates;
- \(W\);
- the weak base;
- the pair and triple statements.

Next: a route review before further locality work. The locality line now sits several conditions below the goal: relative gluing, its member condition, and family locality. The review restates the open part of the goal as a short list of self-contained statements, places this line on it, and decides whether it still discharges one of them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:two-hub-degree-locality and lem:hub-torsion-floor (the degree-\(\le4\) coefficient argument, reused for \(k=2\)), thm:hub-degree-locality (its routing, its residual floor for one hub, and the freeness used), prop:overlap-tor (the identification, applied over \(\bar S\)), thm:star-degree-locality and cor:band-star-locality. No computation was run. Claim searches for Tor modulo \(y^k\), truncated chain rings and blocks on a shared coordinate found only this line's entries.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error and no recorded result already implying the theorem. It required these changes, all adopted:

the one-hub families of (R0) and (R1) enlarged to all one-coordinate blocks on \(C_0\), respectively \(C_1\);
the signs of (R1) and the sum of the three parts written out;
the splitting along \(V\) and the freeness used made explicit;
the one-hub reduction's routing pairs stated correctly;
the \(k=2\) floor reduced to lem:hub-torsion-floor;
the lift of \(\bar u_{pq}\) justified;
the cross-pair floors for shared blocks derived and completed;
the hypothesis list completed, in the statement and in its summary;
two unneeded remarks dropped.

The changes make steps explicit or complete lists, and add no claim, so no further pass was made.

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Route review: the open part of the goal as five statements; the locality line serves only repeated linear parts, while the band's forms are necessarily dependent

25 September 2026 · Route review with a finite-check falsification · The family-locality line on odd-prime-clause-transfer; cycle odd-prime-goal-statements-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the open part of the goal as five statements; the locality line serves only repeated linear parts, while the band's forms are necessarily dependent”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-goal-statements-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The user asked how far the goal is, and noted that the generalization review of 23 September had stated the open part as a few clear, self-contained statements. The locality line has since become a tree of conditional sub-statements. This review restates the open part as a short list, which the new Open statements living section now keeps at all times, and places the locality line on it.

General statement. The line's general claim is conj:family-fall-locality: a linked family of separately augmented ENS blocks with \(R\) and \(T\) falls no lower than its subfamilies of at most three blocks. It is now proved below degree 11, given adapted bases or companion tops, for components with repeated linear parts and at most two multi-coordinate blocks sharing at most one coordinate (thm:star-degree-locality, thm:hub-degree-locality, thm:general-two-hub-locality).

The chain from the goal to the line

The goal follows from S1, block hardness at degree 11, by the compiler.
S1 is proved outside the window. In the window, the route is relative gluing, whose base hypothesis is proved (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic).
Its splitting hypothesis needs freeness (S3). Its member hypothesis needs every member to have no fall below 11.
For members linked only by identical or parallel linear parts, the locality theorems reduce that to pairs and triples (S5) and to companion tops (S4).

So the locality line sits three reductions below S1. Its standing hypothesis, identical-or-independent linear parts (from conj:bounded-linkage-large-h), does not hold where the goal needs it. prop:one-count-composition (2) records that the band's blocks carry about \(1.3\times10^8n\Lambda_M^2\) times more forms than a glued member's independence bound. So the band's forms are necessarily dependent. The line was sound at each step but had drifted inside a case the band never meets. The general lesson, now in CLAUDE.md: recheck a line's standing hypotheses against the goal's instances at every cycle.

What the goal needs

The five statements of the Open statements section. The highest risk is S2: gluing for dependent forms, for which the record has no member notion and no reduction.

Falsification attempt

If dependencies beyond repetition create falls that no small subfamily explains, locality cannot be the tool for S2. circuit_db11.sing (circuit_db11.out) tests this at the compiler's degree, with degree bound 11, so falls at degree \(\le10\) are visible. It takes separately augmented ENS blocks with private coefficients and no cross generators, since no two linear parts are equal.

circuit3: blocks on \(x\), \(y\) and \(x+y\).
circuit4: blocks on \(x\), \(y\), \(w\) and \(x+y+w\).
control4: four independent coordinates.

Every proper subfamily of a circuit has independent forms, so it has no fall. A fall of circuit4 would therefore be non-local, and a fall of circuit3 would require a new cross generator.

Family	\(h=3\)	\(h=4\)
control4	no fall below 11	no fall below 11
circuit3	no fall below 11	no fall below 11
circuit4	no fall below 11	not reached (600 s limit)

A first run at degree bound 9, circuit_h3.sing (circuit_h3.out), took 1.6 s and agrees. So dependencies of length 3 and 4 among otherwise private blocks create no fall below 11 at these sizes. That is the first evidence on S2, and it points away from the parallel case: only parallel and identical linear parts have produced falls so far.

Assessment of this line

Solid ground. Proved locality theorems below degree 11 for components with repeated linear parts, and an exact criterion and torsion floor behind them.
The gap. They address S5's setting, which the band's dependent forms leave. S2 is untouched by the line.
Prospects. For the goal, weak as a continuation: more component shapes would not move S2. The line's results remain the tool for repeated linear parts inside S2, and the circuit evidence suggests that dependent but non-parallel forms may be benign.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, S2. The band's regime is many forms in a small span, so test the extreme dependent configuration: four blocks on all four lines of \(\mathbb F_3^2\), \(x\), \(y\), \(x+y\), \(x-y\), at \(h=3\) and 4 with degree bound 11. From the result, state the dependent-forms member conjecture: blocks whose linear parts are pairwise non-parallel have no fall below 11 whatever their dependencies. Then attempt its proof through Tor over the overlaps of the blocks' spans, as in prop:overlap-tor.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the compiler statement, the graph criterion's scope, thm:relative-gluing (a) to (d), thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, thm:general-forms-freeness, prop:one-count-composition, prop:overlap-tor, conj:bounded-linkage-large-h (its hypothesis on linear parts), the gluing, pair-results and band route reviews, and the three locality theorems. The values in the table are read from circuit_db11.out and circuit_h3.out. No new claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

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Preparation and checkpoint work	30.20 s
Individually measured computation	20 min 1.72 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	48.93 s

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One-shared-input locality: blocks with one shared input each fall below 11 only where three do, whatever the linear dependencies among their forms; without proportional forms they have no fall below 11

25 September 2026 · Working proof (i), unconditional; conditional result (ii), on conj:block-adapted-basis or companion tops · S2 · cycle odd-prime-dependent-forms. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One-shared-input locality: blocks with one shared input each fall below 11 only where three do, whatever the linear dependencies among their forms; without proportional forms they have no fall below 11”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-one-shared-input-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement S2 (dependent forms). The goal statements review found that the band's forms are necessarily dependent, while the locality theorems assume identical-or-independent linear parts. Its circuit test found no fall below 11 for blocks on \(x,y,x+y\) and on \(x,y,w,x+y+w\). This cycle asks whether that is a theorem.

General statement. thm:one-shared-input-locality. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(F\) be a family of separately augmented complete accuracy-one ENS blocks with \(h\ge3\) inputs and private coefficients. Block \(a\) has one input \(\ell_a+c_a\), whose linear part \(\ell_a\ne0\) lies in the space \(V\) of linear forms in the shared coordinates, and \(h-1\) private inputs. The family includes the field equations of all variables. The \(\ell_a\) may satisfy any linear dependencies. Since \((-\ell+c)^2=(\ell-c)^2\), the input \(q\) depends on \(\pm(\ell_a+c_a)\) only, so proportional linear parts can be normalized to equal ones. Two blocks with equal linear parts are then parallel (\(c_a\ne c_b\)) or identical (\(c_a=c_b\)).

If no two \(\ell_a\) are proportional, the cross rule produces no generators (and \(W\) is excluded). Then \(F\) has no span-ring fall below 11, that is, at degree \(\le10\). This uses neither (F2) nor the form of the cross generators.
With proportional linear parts allowed, normalized as above, take the cross set \(R\) for parallel pairs and \(T\) for covering triples of one linear part, without \(W\). Suppose each block has a homogeneous basis over \(S_{\ell_a}=\mathbb F_3[\ell_a]/(\ell_a^3)\) adapted to its top ideal and to \(\rho'_aA_a\) (conj:block-adapted-basis, proved at \(h=3,4,5\)). Alternatively, it may have top ideal \(\rho'Q\) in degrees \(\le11\), which conj:companion-tops-low-degree gives for \(h\ge10\). Then every fall of \(F\) at a degree \(s\le10\) is a fall at degree \(s\), computed in the family's algebra, of a subfamily of at most three blocks with its rule cross set. In its own variables that subfamily falls at some degree \(\le s\). With lem:section-retraction, the lowest fall equals the least over such subfamilies whenever that is at most 10.

Part (i) needs no basis hypothesis. Part (ii) covers every configuration of blocks with one shared input each: stars, paths, trees, and arbitrary dependencies among the shared forms. It needs the same condition as thm:star-degree-locality.

Setting

Let \(T(V)=\operatorname{Sym}(V)/(\text{cubes})\). In characteristic 3, \(\ell^3=\sum c_i^3x_i^3\) for \(\ell=\sum c_ix_i\), so the ideal of cubes is invariant under linear changes of coordinates. Any nonzero \(\ell\) can therefore be taken as a coordinate, and \(T(V)\) is free over \(S_\ell\). Also \((\ell+c)^3=\ell+c\) modulo the field equations. So each block's algebra \(A_a=S_{\ell_a}\otimes B_a\), with \(B_a\) the truncated algebra of its private inputs and coefficients, maps into the family's algebra \[A=T(V)\otimes\textstyle\bigotimes_aB_a=\bigotimes_{T(V),a}\bigl(A_a\otimes_{S_{\ell_a}}T(V)\bigr).\] Tops are translation invariant. With separate augmentation, the pieces are those of thm:star-degree-locality:

\(N_a=\mathfrak n_aA\) for each block;
\(Ae_c\), mapped by \(\operatorname{top}(c)\), for each cross generator \(c\).

Its step 1 applies verbatim, because \(A\) is free over each \(A_a\): \(F\) has no fall at degree \(s\) exactly when every top syzygy of degree \(s+1\) lifts. It uses no property of the shared forms beyond that freeness.

Proof

Components. A single graded submodule \(M\) of a graded free module \(F\) over the chain ring \(S_{\ell_a}\) has an adapted homogeneous basis. By lem:adapted-basis-criterion with \(\Sigma=\{M\}\), it suffices that the colons \((M:\ell^j)\), which form a chain, together with \(\ell F\) generate a distributive lattice. A lattice generated by a chain and one element in a modular lattice is distributive, as is any lattice generated by two chains (Birkhoff). In (ii) the basis is adapted to \(\mathfrak n_a\) and \(U_a=\rho'_aA_a\) by hypothesis, and in (i) to \(\mathfrak n_a\) alone. Write \[\mathfrak n_a=\bigoplus_i\ell_a^{e_{a,i}}S_{\ell_a}f_{a,i},\qquad U_a=\bigoplus_i\ell_a^{u_{a,i}}S_{\ell_a}f_{a,i}.\] The products \(f_t=\prod_af_{a,t_a}\) form a \(T(V)\)-basis of \(A\), and each piece's image is \(\bigoplus_tX_p(t)f_t\).
- \(X_{N_a}(t)=\ell_a^{e_{a,t_a}}T(V)\);
- \(X_{R_{ab}}(t)=\ell^{1+u_{a,t_a}+u_{b,t_b}}T(V)\), with \(\ell=\ell_a=\ell_b\) up to scalars, since \(\operatorname{top}(R_{ab})=\kappa\ell\rho'_a\rho'_b\) with \(\kappa\) a unit;
- \(X_{T_{abc}}(t)=\ell^{u_a+u_b+u_c}T(V)\).
Exponents \(\ge3\) give 0. Up to kernel syzygies of single pieces, a top syzygy is the sum over \(t\) of its component syzygies, with components \(w_{p,t}\in X_p(t)\) of one degree \(d\). Its total degree is \[D=d+\textstyle\sum_a\deg f_{a,t_a}.\]
The floor. Let \(G\) be the set of blocks of the pieces with \(w_{p,t}\ne0\). Every \(a\in G\) has \(\deg f_{a,t_a}\ge3\):
- for \(N_a\), \(e=e_{a,t_a}\le2\) and \(\ell_a^ef_{a,t_a}\) is a nonzero element of \(\mathfrak n_a\), of degree \(\ge5\) by lem:block-min-degree, so \(\deg f\ge5-e\ge3\);
- for a cross piece, \(u\le2\), and (F2) of thm:star-degree-locality gives \(\deg f\ge3\). That uses two private inputs, which each block has.
So \(D\ge d+3|G|\). A component syzygy of degree \(\le11\) has \(|G|\le3\), and is a syzygy of the subfamily on \(G\) with its rule cross set.
Part (ii). By steps 1 and 2 and step 4 of thm:star-degree-locality, a non-lifting top syzygy of degree \(s+1\le11\) has a non-lifting component supported on at most three blocks. That subfamily falls at degree \(s\). Under the model alternative, the truncation argument of cor:band-star-locality applies. Adaptation of \(\mathfrak n_a\) is replaced by that of \(\rho'_aQ_a\), which prop:companion-model-basis gives with \(\ell_a\) in the role of \(x\).
Part (i): no small subfamily falls. With no cross generators, every piece is some \(N_a\). A component syzygy of degree \(D\le11\) on \(G\) has \(e_a\le d\) for \(a\in G\), because \(w_{a,t}\ne0\) lies in \(\ell_a^{e_a}T(V)\) in degree \(d\).
- \(|G|=1\): impossible. A block piece maps by inclusion, so its component would be \(w_a=0\).
- \(|G|=2\): \(\ell_a\) and \(\ell_b\) are independent and can be taken as coordinates, so \(\ell_a^{e_a}T(V)\cap\ell_b^{e_b}T(V)=\ell_a^{e_a}\ell_b^{e_b}T(V)\). The common element is \(g\,\ell_a^{e_a}f_{a}\cdot\ell_b^{e_b}f_{b}\cdot(\text{rest})\), a multiple of the product of an element of \(\mathfrak n_a\) and one of \(\mathfrak n_b\). So the syzygy is a Koszul syzygy, and it lifts exactly.
- \(|G|=3\): \(D\ge d+\sum_{a\in G}(5-e_a)\), with every \(e_a\le\min(d,2)\). If \(d\le1\), \(D\ge d+3(5-d)\ge12\). If \(d\ge2\), then \(D\ge d+9\), so \(D\le11\) forces \(d=2\) and every \(e_a=2\). Then \(w_{a,t}=c_a\ell_a^2\) with scalars \(c_a\), and \(\sum c_a\ell_a^2=0\). Squares of three pairwise non-proportional linear forms are linearly independent over \(\mathbb F_3\). If the forms span a plane, write \(\ell_c=\alpha\ell_a+\beta\ell_b\) with \(\alpha\beta\ne0\); then \(\ell_c^2\) has the term \(2\alpha\beta\ell_a\ell_b\), which \(\ell_a^2\) and \(\ell_b^2\) lack. If they span three dimensions, the squares are distinct monomials in suitable coordinates. So all \(c_a=0\), and there is no such syzygy.
- \(|G|\ge4\): \(D\ge12\).
So every top syzygy of degree \(\le11\) lifts, and \(F\) has no fall below 11. \(\square\)

Checks against the record

Parallel pairs. For \(\ell_a=\ell_b\), the intersection is \(\ell^{\max(e_a,e_b)}T(V)\), not the Koszul product. The floor gives \(D\ge d+6\ge8\), with equality at \(d=2\), \(e_a=e_b=2\). That a syzygy of degree 8 fails to lift, a fall at 7, is cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h. So the floor is consistent with that fall and sharp for it.
Circuits. The review's circuit families are case (i). Their computed outputs say that nothing falls at degree \(\le10\), and the theorem proves this, including the undecided circuit4 at \(h=4\). It also decides the planned test on the four lines \(x,y,x+y,x-y\) of \(\mathbb F_3^2\) at degree \(\le10\), so that test is not run.
Covering obstruction. prop:covering-obstruction breaks locality for selectors whose allowed set is a point. ENS blocks with private coefficients extend every assignment of their shared input (cor:ens-members), so the family never cuts the shared space. Part (i) is consistent with it. The same holds for prop:member-inconsistency, where \(t+1\) members with one dependency are non-local. Its members forbid two points each of their forms' values, and ENS blocks forbid none.
Earlier theorems. For blocks with one shared input and falls at degree \(\le10\), part (ii) contains thm:star-degree-locality with a shorter proof. The routing and the floor 13 there were needed only for falls at degree 11. The hub theorems remain the only results for blocks with several shared inputs.

What this means for S2

The method stops at 11. At syzygy degree 12 the floor allows \(|G|=3\) with \(d=3\), and on \(x,y,x+y\) there is a non-Koszul component with all three parts nonzero: \(x^2\cdot y+y^2\cdot(-x)+(x+y)^2\cdot x=3x^2y=0\) in \(T(V)_3\). Whether it lifts is not decided.
Dependencies among the forms of different blocks cause no falls below 11, as long as each block shares one input. Only proportional linear parts do, and those are S5, handled by \(R\), \(T\) and locality.
The band's blocks share many inputs: all their inputs are forms in the board variables. So the remaining content of S2 is blocks with several shared inputs, whose spans overlap in subspaces of any dimension. For two such blocks, prop:overlap-tor identifies the cross syzygies with \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(W_a\cap W_b)}\). lem:hub-torsion-floor bounds that Tor only when the overlap is a single coordinate. No hub has a monomial basis (ex:hub-no-monomial-basis), so the floor argument above does not extend directly.

Next: S2 for two blocks with several shared inputs whose spans overlap in two dimensions. Decide whether \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(U)}(A_a/\mathfrak n_a,A_b/\mathfrak n_b)\), with \(\dim U=2\) and non-proportional input forms, vanishes below degree 12. Generalize lem:hub-torsion-floor to \(T(U)\), the truncated algebra of a two-dimensional space.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:star-degree-locality (steps 1 and 4, (F2)), cor:band-star-locality and prop:companion-model-basis (truncation and model), lem:block-min-degree (hypotheses: inputs independent up to translation, \(h\ge3\); here each block's own inputs \(\ell_a\) and its private inputs are independent), lem:section-retraction, cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h, cor:ens-members, prop:covering-obstruction, prop:overlap-tor and the review's circuit outputs. Claim searches for dependent forms, single shared inputs and squares of linear forms found prop:covering-obstruction and prop:member-inconsistency, discussed above, and nothing implying the theorem.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error in the setting, the components, the floor, part (i) through syzygy degree 11, or part (ii). It required these changes, all adopted:

the title's claim limited to falls below 11, with the degree-12 component on \(x,y,x+y\) recorded;
the case \(|G|=1\) corrected to impossible;
\(\ell_a\ne0\), the full shared space with its field equations, and the sign normalization stated;
part (ii) qualified to falls in the family's algebra;
the absence of cross generators in (i) derived from the rule;
the adapted basis for one submodule justified;
the checks against the parallel-pair fall and the circuits worded exactly;
prop:member-inconsistency addressed;
the model alternative's source named;
the status line naming its conditions;
the hypotheses used by (i) stated.

These weaken or clarify claims and add no new one, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 11.69 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 22.37 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	9 min 49.18 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Overlap pairs: two blocks sharing two inputs each, without proportional inputs, fall below 11 at h = 3, 4, 5, with the same lowest fall at h = 4 and 5; P equals the none-indicator on each block

25 September 2026 · Working proof (none-indicator identity) and a finite check (overlap pair falls) · open statement S2 · cycle odd-prime-plane-overlap. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Overlap pairs: two blocks sharing two inputs each, without proportional inputs, fall below 11 at h = 3, 4, 5, with the same lowest fall at h = 4 and 5; P equals the none-indicator on each block”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-overlap-pairs.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement S2. thm:one-shared-input-locality settles S2 below 11 for blocks sharing one input. Band blocks share many inputs. For two blocks, the cross syzygies are \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) over the truncated algebra of the overlap of their spans (prop:overlap-tor). This cycle asks the smallest deciding question: does a pair of blocks sharing two inputs each, with no two input forms proportional but with overlapping spans, fall below 11?

General statement. lem:none-indicator-identity and ex:overlap-pair-falls.

lem:none-indicator-identity. Let a complete accuracy-one ENS block over \(\mathbb F_3\) have inputs \(L_1,\dots,L_h\), \(q_i=1-L_i^2\) and \(P=1-\sum_ir_iq_i\). Let \(I\) be the block's ideal together with the field equations \(v^3-v\) of all its variables. Then \[P-N\in I,\qquad N=\prod_iL_i^2,\] and \(N\) is the indicator that no input is true. So for any two blocks, \(P_a-P_b-\overline{(N_a-N_b)}\in I_a+I_b\), where the bar denotes reduction modulo the field equations.
ex:overlap-pair-falls. Consider separately augmented pairs over \(\mathbb F_3\) with private coefficients, two shared inputs and \(h-2\) private inputs each, and no cross generators. Both configurations fall below 11 for \(h=3,4,5\): the plane pair at 5, 7, 7 and the line pair at 7, 8, 8. So the lowest fall is the same at \(h=4\) and \(h=5\). The configurations are:
- the plane pair \(a\) on \((x,y)\), \(b\) on \((x+y,x-y)\);
- the line pair \(a\) on \((x,y)\), \(b\) on \((x+y,w)\).

Proof of the identity

With field equations, \(I\) is radical, so it suffices to check vanishing at every \(\mathbb F_3\)-point of the block's zero set. Since \(q_i=1-L_i^2\in\{0,1\}\), \(N=\prod(1-q_i)\) is 1 exactly when no input is true.

If some \(q_i=1\), the companion \(q_iP\) forces \(P=0=N\).
If every \(q_i=0\), then \(P=1-\sum r_i\cdot0=1=N\).

So \(P-N\) vanishes on the zero set, and \(P-N\in I\). The rest follows by subtracting two such elements. \(\square\)

The computations

pair_overlap.sing (pair_overlap.out) and pair_overlap_h5.sing (pair_overlap_h5.out) compute the lowest span-ring fall with degree bound 11. Two controls are included: an identical shared input, and a parallel one.

Pair	\(h=3\)	\(h=4\)	\(h=5\)
plane: \((x,y)\) and \((x+y,x-y)\)	5	7	7
line: \((x,y)\) and \((x+y,w)\)	7	8	8
identical: \((x,y)\) and \((x,w)\)	7	8	not run
parallel: \((x,y)\) and \((x+1,w)\)	7	7	not run

The controls agree with the record: identical pairs fall at \(h+4\) (conj:shared-input-falls), and parallel pairs at 7 (cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h).

What was predicted and what failed

The product \(P_aP_b\). The plane pair's inputs satisfy \(q_{a1}+q_{a2}+q_{b1}+q_{b2}=1\), since \(x^2+y^2+(x+y)^2+(x-y)^2=3(x^2+y^2)=0\). So \(P_aP_b=P_b\,g_a+P_a\,g_b\), with \(g_a=P_a(q_{a1}+q_{a2})\in I_a\), is a consequence of degree 6 derived at degree 8, as \(T\) is for covering triples. The prediction was that adding \(C=P_aP_b\) would remove the plane pair's low falls. It did not: the falls stayed 5 and 7 (pair_plane_c.out). So \(C\) is not the witness.
The witness at \(h=3\). plane_witness.sing (plane_witness.out) prints four fall witnesses of degree 5. One simplifies to \(y_ay_b\,(P_a-P_b+x^2+y^2)\), with \(y_a\), \(y_b\) the private inputs. It is the identity's element. With \(Y_a=\prod(\text{private inputs of }a)\), one has \(Y_aN_a\equiv Y_a\cdot x^2y^2\) modulo field equations, and \[x^2y^2-(x+y)^2(x-y)^2\equiv-(x^2+y^2).\] So \(Y_aY_b\bigl(P_a-P_b-\overline{(N_a-N_b)}\bigr)\equiv Y_aY_b(P_a-P_b+x^2+y^2)\) modulo the field equations.
Growth with \(h\). That element has degree \(2(h-2)+3=2h-1\), consistent with 5 and 7. It was identified only at \(h=3\), and at \(h=4\) it may still be the lowest witness. The prediction of 9 at \(h=5\) failed: the plane pair falls at 7. So from \(h=5\) another witness, not yet identified, falls first. The line pair was predicted at \(h+4=9\), by analogy with identical pairs, and falls at 8, the value it had at \(h=4\).

What this means for S2

The two tested configurations, two shared inputs each with overlapping spans and no proportional inputs, fall below 11 at \(h=3,4,5\). \(R\) and \(T\) do not apply to them: they have no parallel inputs and are not covering triples, which is why no cross generators were added. So S2 needs cross generators for such overlaps beyond \(R\) and \(T\). Adding \(C=P_aP_b\) alone does not remove the plane pair's falls.
A modelling gap. Every block model on this route has private inputs. Band blocks have none, since all their inputs are forms in the board variables. For such blocks the identity gives \(P_a-P_b-\overline{(N_a-N_b)}\in J\) with no factor \(Y\). A pair whose none-indicators differ by a function of degree \(\delta\) then has a consequence of degree \(\max(3,\delta)\). Heuristically the pair derives it only near degree \(2h\), the degree of the \(N\)'s. Whether it is a fall at all is untested. S2 must be stated and tested for blocks without private inputs, and the S2 entry of the Open statements now says so.

Next: identify the plane pair's degree-7 witness at \(h=5\) and the line pair's degree-8 witness at \(h=4,5\). Then test whether one cross generator per overlapping pair of bounded degree removes all falls below 11, and whether the none-indicator elements \(P_a-P_b-\overline{(N_a-N_b)}\) are those generators for blocks without private inputs.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the compiler's block definition (complete blocks, private coefficients), prop:overlap-tor, conj:shared-input-falls, cor:parallel-pair-fall-all-h, thm:one-shared-input-locality and its scope. Every value is read from the named outputs. The witness was simplified by hand from plane_witness.out, term by term against \(r_{a,i}q_{a,i}\) and \(r_{b,i}q_{b,i}\). A claim search for the none-indicator identity found no earlier statement of it. The identity is a two-line consequence of the block's definition.

A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error. It checked the radicality (every script adds \(v^3-v\) for every variable), the identity, witness 4, the quartic identity, the scripts' construction and the table. It required these changes, all adopted:

the field equations placed in the lemma's ideal;
the unproved "derived only near \(2h\)" moved out of the lemma and marked as a heuristic;
the title and the check stated with the observed values;
the growth paragraph limited to what \(h=5\) shows;
the conclusions limited to the two tested configurations, and to \(C\) alone;
the reason \(R\) and \(T\) do not apply stated;
the Open statements edited in the same commit.

These weaken or clarify claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	15 min 47.51 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 3.18 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 6.75 s
Individually measured computation	7 min 33.30 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	3 min 4.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Three-local consequences: for four blocks sharing two inputs each at h = 3, the cycle family's degree-11 consequences all come from its triples, while the planar family has a four-block consequence of degree 9

25 September 2026 · Refutation at h = 3 (finite check; the cycle instance holds, the planar one fails) · open statement S2 · cycle odd-prime-overlap-witnesses. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Three-local consequences: for four blocks sharing two inputs each at h = 3, the cycle family's degree-11 consequences all come from its triples, while the planar family has a four-block consequence of degree 9”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-three-local-augmentation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement S2. ex:overlap-pair-falls showed that pairs of blocks sharing two inputs fall below 11 without cross generators. Adding each pair's witnesses as generators would produce one case per configuration. The deciding question is locality instead: are the consequences a family derives within degree 11 generated by those of its subfamilies of at most three blocks? If yes, S2 has a general form with members of bounded size. If no, members must grow.

General statement. conj:three-local-augmentation and ex:four-block-overlap-falls.

conj:three-local-augmentation, refuted at \(h=3\). Let \(F\) be a family of separately augmented complete accuracy-one ENS blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(h\ge3\) inputs, private coefficients, arbitrary affine inputs and no cross generators. For a family \(G\), let \(C_{11}(G)\) be the set of \(f\) with \(z^{11-\deg f}f\in J_G\): its consequences derivable within degree 11. Then \(C_{11}(F)\) lies in the ideal generated by \(J_F\) and the \(C_{11}(G)\) over subfamilies \(G\) of at most three blocks. The members of a gluing would then need at most three blocks, with their own degree-11 consequences as cross generators. It generalizes the question of conj:family-fall-locality to arbitrary overlaps. For blocks sharing one input, thm:one-shared-input-locality suggests it but does not imply it as stated, so that case is expected, not derived.
ex:four-block-overlap-falls, the refutation. The following holds at \(h=3\), with two shared inputs and one private input per block, computed with degree bound 11.
- For the cycle family \((x,y)\), \((x+y,w)\), \((w,v)\), \((v,x-y)\), the inclusion holds: all 4634 generators of \(C_{11}(F)\) lie in the three-local ideal.
- For the plane4 family \((x,y)\), \((x+y,x-y)\), \((x,x+y)\), \((y,x-y)\) it fails. \(C_{11}(F)\) is not contained in the three-local ideal. The least degree of an element outside is exactly 9, since the ideal is homogeneous and every generator of degree \(\le8\) reduces to 0. The outside element found comes from a basis element of degree 11, so \(z^2f\in J_F\). In the computed generating set, one generator of 6589 lies outside. That count depends on the generating set, and the dimension of the quotient was not computed.
Plane4 uses only the four lines of one plane over \(\mathbb F_3\), each twice. So at \(h=3\) the densest dependent configuration has a four-block consequence below 11, and a spread-out cycle does not. Whether a form for larger \(h\) holds is open.

The formulation, and a withdrawn first reading

The first version of the test added the triples' consequences as generators and asked whether the result still falls below 11. Both families fell at 9, which I first read as a four-block phenomenon. The reviewer pointed out a flaw in that formulation. The ideal generated by degree-bounded consequences is not closed under the cutoff: if \(z^{11-s}g\in J\), then \(xg\) is in the ideal, but in general only \(z^{12-s}xg\in J\).

self_aug_control.sing (self_aug_control.out) confirms this. It augments each family by its own \(C_{11}(F)\), and both still fall at 9. So "no fall after augmentation" is the wrong formulation, and the first reading is withdrawn. The inclusion test above is the right form. three_local_inclusion.sing (three_local_inclusion.out) runs it in five steps:

compute the family's truncated basis with degree bound 11;
take generators of each triple's \(C_{11}\) and of \(C_{11}(F)\);
form the three-local ideal \(J_F+\sum_T(C_{11}(T))\);
compute its truncated basis;
reduce the generators of \(C_{11}(F)\) modulo that basis, and count those that do not vanish.

Generators of the consequences

Truncated Bayer lemma. Let \(J\) be homogeneous, the order dp with \(z\) last, and \(G\) a basis of \(J\) through degree \(D\). For \(g\in G\) let \(m(g)\) be the largest power of \(z\) dividing \(g\). Then the \(g/z^{m(g)}\) generate an ideal whose degree-\(s\) part contains every \(f\) with \(z^{D-s}f\in J\), for \(s\le D\). Each \(g/z^{m(g)}\) is itself such an element.

Proof. In dp with \(z\) last, \(z\) divides a homogeneous polynomial exactly when it divides its leading term. Let \(f\ne0\) with \(z^kf\in J\) and \(\deg z^kf\le D\). Removing powers of \(z\) from \(f\) keeps the condition, so assume \(z\nmid f\). The leading term of \(z^kf\) is \(z^k\operatorname{LT}(f)\). It is divisible by \(\operatorname{LT}(g)\) for some \(g\in G\), since \(G\) is a basis through degree \(D\). As \(z\nmid\operatorname{LT}(f)\), \(m(g)\le k\), and \(\operatorname{LT}(g/z^{m(g)})\) divides \(\operatorname{LT}(f)\). Subtract the multiple of \(g/z^{m(g)}\) that cancels \(\operatorname{LT}(f)\). The result \(f'\) still satisfies \(z^kf'\in J\) and has a smaller leading term. By induction \(f\) lies in the ideal of the \(g/z^{m(g)}\). \(\square\)

Degree check. The lemma needs every basis element used to have degree \(\le11\). three_local_inclusion_checked.sing (three_local_inclusion_checked.out) asserts this: every family and triple basis has maximum degree 11, and no element was skipped. Its results equal those of three_local_inclusion.out.

Does slimgb honor degBound? The outputs agree with std. The family basis has 9544 elements under both (three_local_timeout.out, run d744f87ac7), and the triples' consequence counts 1930, 890 and 1466 match. The bases at bound 9 and bound 11 differ, with 2216 and 9544 elements.

The witnesses of the overlap pairs

overlap_witnesses.sing (overlap_witnesses.out) prints and factors normal forms modulo \(J\) of the lowest fall witnesses.

Line pair at \(h=4\), fall 8. All four witnesses have the factor \[w^2r_{b2}+y_{b1}^2r_{b3}+y_{b2}^2r_{b4}-r_{b1}-r_{b2}-r_{b3}-r_{b4}+1.\] That is \(P_b\) with \(q_u=1\), that is \(u=x+y=0\): the shared input true. Witnesses 1 and 3 share the \(a\)-part, and witness 3 has the extra factor \(r_{a4}\). By hand, and modulo \(x^3=x\), \(y^3=y\), the \(a\)-part is \(-(x-y)(P_a+r_{a1}xy)\). So these witnesses have the product shape of \(R=P_aP_b(q_a-q_b)\), with specialized \(P\)'s.
Plane pair at \(h=5\), fall 7. The one normal form printed has 113 terms and does not factor. A different representative modulo \(J\) might factor, so this says little about the witness itself.

Computation record

Four earlier attempts at degree bound 11 hit the 600 s limit (three_local_timeout.out). The fixes, in order, were:

one colon per degree, replaced by the truncated Bayer lemma;
a second basis for the fall, replaced by reading it from the first;
unreduced generators, now filtered;
Singular's std, replaced by slimgb;
element-by-element reduction, replaced by one batch reduction.

The counts of triple consequences in the outputs are counts of distinct nonzero normal forms. They depend on the basis, and the conclusion does not use them.

What this means for S2

With members of at most three blocks, carrying their own degree-11 consequences, the spread-out cycle family is covered at \(h=3\). The planar family is not, by one element of degree 9. Dense planar configurations are exactly what the band's many forms in small spans make likely.
Small \(h\) has misled before: parallel pairs fall at 5 at \(h=2\) but at 7 for \(h\ge3\). The refutation is at \(h=3\), and the band needs \(h\ge10\). Whether the planar four-block consequence persists at \(h=4\) decides whether bounded members could work for larger \(h\).
Relation to conj:family-fall-locality. That conjecture is about blocks with private inputs whose linear parts are identical or independent, with \(R\) and \(T\). The present families violate its hypotheses, so this result neither refutes nor refines it. The present conjecture is the corresponding question for arbitrary overlaps.

Next: a route review on odd-prime-clause-transfer. S2's bounded-member form now has one small counterexample, in the densest planar configuration at \(h=3\). There is also the open modelling gap for blocks without private inputs. The review should decide between testing the planar four-block consequence at \(h=4\), letting members grow with the planar density of the forms, and replacing S2 by a statement that tolerates falls.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: ex:overlap-pair-falls and its scripts (same block construction), thm:one-shared-input-locality, conj:family-fall-locality (its hypotheses), ex:pairwise-augmentation-triple-falls, and prop:overlap-tor. The truncated Bayer lemma is proved above. Every value is read from the named outputs. A fresh-context reviewer found no coding error. It found the flawed first formulation and required the self-augmentation control, whose result withdrew the first reading and led to the inclusion test. It also required these corrections, all adopted:

the interpretation stated exactly;
the truncated Bayer lemma proved;
the slimgb cross-check recorded;
the \(b\)-part stated as \(u=0\), with all four witnesses and the reduction modulo field equations;
the plane witness's non-factorization qualified;
the conjecture stated for \(h\ge3\) and recorded as refuted, with the hypothesis of no cross generators;
the count of outside generators replaced by intrinsic facts, and the degree bound asserted in a rerun;
the one-shared-input case marked as expected;
the relation to conj:family-fall-locality stated;
the counts qualified.

The inclusion test added a result, so a second short pass checked it. That pass found the \(h\) range inconsistent with the test and the degree bound unasserted. Both were fixed: the conjecture is now stated for \(h\ge3\), and the rerun asserts the bound.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	125 min 55.04 s
Computation design and coding	5 min 39.17 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 5.53 s
Individually measured computation	108 min 41.80 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	9 min 28.40 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 6.

Route review: S2's non-local consequence comes from blocks whose inputs concentrate in a small span, which the window's high projected rank may exclude

25 September 2026 · Route review with a finite-check identification · open statement S2 on odd-prime-clause-transfer; cycle odd-prime-s2-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: S2's non-local consequence comes from blocks whose inputs concentrate in a small span, which the window's high projected rank may exclude”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-s2-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement S2. Three research entries have followed the goal statements review.

One shared input settled S2 below 11 for blocks sharing one input.
Overlap pairs showed that blocks sharing several inputs fall at 7 or 8 in pairs.
Three-local refuted members of at most three blocks at \(h=3\), in the densest planar configuration.

This review states S2's claim, identifies the refuting consequence, and decides the next step.

General statement. The line's claim is open statement S2: in the window, the base plus the blocks has no fall below 11 once the members carry their own degree-11 consequences, with members of bounded size. Its bounded form, conj:three-local-augmentation, is refuted at \(h=3\) (ex:four-block-overlap-falls).

The refuting consequence

plane4_outside.sing (plane4_outside.out) prints the planar family's degree-9 generator outside the three-local ideal and factors it: \[f=p_1p_2p_3p_4\cdot\Phi(x,y,r),\] where \(p_a\) is block \(a\)'s private input. \(\Phi\) has degree 5 and 44 terms. It involves only the plane's variables \(x,y\) and the coefficients, including products \(r_1r_5r_8r_{10}\) that contain one coefficient from each of the four blocks.

What \(f\) says. It vanishes unless every private input is false. On that locus, block \(a\) reduces to \(\tilde P_a=1-r_{a1}q_{a1}-r_{a2}q_{a2}\), whose inputs are lines of the plane. \(\Phi\) is a relation among the four blocks' restricted structures, as functions on the nine points of \(\mathbb F_3^2\).
Why its degree is 9. The private factors cost one degree per block, 4 in all. A relation among functions on a plane costs little, here degree 5, because the plane carries functions of degree at most 4 in \(x,y\). The sum is \(4+5=9\), below 11.

A rank-aware reading

This suggests the general mechanism, as a heuristic, not a proof. A consequence that no three blocks derive arises when \(k\) blocks restrict to a common span of small dimension \(d\). Each input of a block outside that span must be switched off by a factor, like the \(p_a\) here, and that costs degree. When the relation among the restricted blocks is not already local, the degree is about the number of inputs switched off, plus a relation of degree up to \(2d\) on \(\mathbb F_3^d\), plus the coefficients' degree. Below 11 this needs:

few inputs outside the span, for all \(k\ge4\) blocks at once;
a small \(d\).

Plane4 has one outside input per block and \(d=2\). A window block has high projected rank, so its inputs do not concentrate in a small span. Blocks with at most a few inputs outside a small span are low-rank blocks, which the graph criterion already excludes. If this is right, S2 holds with bounded members in the window, and its counterexamples live in the excluded low-rank class. Two checks decide it.

A prediction. Plane4 at \(h=4\), with two private inputs per block, should have no consequence outside the three-local ideal below 11. The analogous element has degree about \(8+5=13\).
A proof target. A degree floor for consequences outside the three-local ideal, in terms of the number of inputs outside a common span. This floor is the rank-aware S2.

The modelling gap is part of the same question. Band blocks have no private inputs, but their inputs outside a common span play the role of the \(p_a\).

Falsification attempt

The refuting element was tested against the heuristic that it is supported on the private-false locus, and it is: it is divisible by all four private inputs (plane4_outside.out). An element not divisible by them would have contradicted the reading. The run took 523 s and repeats the checked inclusion computation, with every basis of maximum degree 11.

Assessment of this line

Solid ground.
- S2 below 11 for one shared input per block, a theorem.
- The none-indicator identity.
- Exact locality tests with a correct formulation and a proved truncated Bayer lemma.
- An identified refuting consequence with a clear structure.
The gap. S2 for blocks sharing many inputs, which the band has. The bounded form fails in the densest low-rank configuration at \(h=3\), and whether that failure survives high rank is exactly what is open.
Prospects. Moderate. The rank-aware reading ties S2's failure mode to the class the graph criterion already excludes, and it gives a concrete proof target and a prediction. It is a heuristic until the floor is proved. The \(h=4\) test is likely beyond the 30-minute limit: \(h=3\) took 523 s per family, and \(h=4\) adds eight variables.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, S2. State and attempt to prove the outside-input floor. Consider a family of blocks and an element of the degree-\(D\) consequences outside the three-local ideal. For some four or more blocks and a span \(W\), the element should lie in the ideal of the indicators that switch off the blocks' inputs outside \(W\). Its degree is then at least the number of such inputs, plus the degree of a relation on \(W\). Prove it first for the private-input model, where "outside \(W\)" means private, using lem:none-indicator-identity and the Künneth splitting over the private variables. Derive the \(h=4\) plane prediction from it rather than computing it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: ex:four-block-overlap-falls and conj:three-local-augmentation with their outputs, ex:overlap-pair-falls, lem:none-indicator-identity, thm:one-shared-input-locality, the graph criterion's scope (projected rank at most \(R\) or at least \(Q_*\)), and the goal statements review. The factorization is read from plane4_outside.out. No new claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 42.20 s
Computation design and coding	55.01 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 16.98 s
Individually measured computation	8 min 43.49 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	46.52 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Outside-input floor: one more private input on one block removes the planar four-block consequence below 11, refuting the predicted one-degree-per-input mechanism

25 September 2026 · Conjecture with a finite check (a pre-stated prediction refuted; the outcome is locality) · open statement S2 · cycle odd-prime-outside-input-floor. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Outside-input floor: one more private input on one block removes the planar four-block consequence below 11, refuting the predicted one-degree-per-input mechanism”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-outside-input-floor.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement S2. The S2 route review found that the only consequence outside the three-local ideal, in the planar family plane4 at \(h=3\), has the form \(p_1p_2p_3p_4\cdot\Phi\), with \(\deg\Phi=5\). It proposed that such consequences cost degree for every input outside the blocks' common span, so that high projected rank would exclude them. This cycle tests that mechanism with a stated prediction before attempting a proof.

General statement. conj:outside-input-floor and ex:plane4-extra-private-input.

conj:outside-input-floor. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take separately augmented complete accuracy-one ENS blocks with private coefficients and no cross generators. Block \(a\) has shared inputs in a span \(W\) and \(s_a\ge1\) private inputs, which are fresh variables. Let \(f\) be a consequence derivable within degree 11 that lies outside the three-local ideal (conj:three-local-augmentation). Let \(G\) be a minimal set of blocks such that the subfamily on \(G\) derives \(f\) within degree 11, with \(f\) outside the three-local ideal of that subfamily and \(|G|\ge4\). Then \[\deg f\;\ge\;\delta+\sum_{a\in G}(2s_a-1).\] Here \(\delta\) is the least degree of such a consequence for the same shared-input configuration with every \(s_a=1\), minus \(|G|\). For plane4, \(\delta=9-4=5=\deg\Phi\). So the conjecture is an additivity statement that further tests can falsify. Under it, a group of four blocks has no such consequence of degree \(\le10\) once \(\sum_{a\in G}(2s_a-1)\ge11-\delta\), which is 6 for the plane.
ex:plane4-extra-private-input. Take the plane4 family \((x,y)\), \((x+y,x-y)\), \((x,x+y)\), \((y,x-y)\) and give block 1 a second private input, so that \(s=(2,1,1,1)\). Then every consequence derivable within degree 11 lies in the three-local ideal: all 9740 computed generators reduce to 0. With \(s=(1,1,1,1)\), the least outside degree is 9 (ex:four-block-overlap-falls).

The prediction and what happened

plane4_mixed.sing stated in its header, before the run, that the least outside degree would be \(5+5=10\), counting one degree per private input as in \(p_1p_2p_3p_4\Phi\). The run is plane4_mixed.out, degree bound 11, 1253 s, with every basis of maximum degree 11 and nothing skipped. It found no outside element below 11.

The header's own criterion, that no outside element below 11 contradicts the mechanism, was met. So the one-degree-per-private-input mechanism is refuted by its stated test. The degree bound 11 shows only generators of degree \(\le10\), so this point gives only least outside degree \(\ge11\). Under additivity with \(\delta=5\), the block with two private inputs then costs at least 3. The cost \(2s_a-1\) was chosen after the run, as the smallest cost consistent with both data points:

\(4\cdot1+5=9\), observed;
\(3+3\cdot1+5=11\), which this run cannot see, consistent with the observed absence below 11.

It is a lower bound suggested by the data, not a fit. The conjecture states it so that the next test can falsify it. A plausible reason for the extra cost: on the private-false locus a block with two private inputs needs the indicator that both are false, and \(p_1p_5\) vanishes only when one of them is 0, so the relation \(\Phi\) must be carried by the full indicators \(p_1^2p_5^2\) in all but one factor. That is not a proof.

A degree-9 sizing run of the same family, plane4_mixed_db9.out (31 s), also found nothing outside below 9.

What this means for S2

The one non-local consequence found so far is fragile. It disappears below 11 when a single block gains one more input outside the common plane. That is evidence for, not a proof of, the rank-aware form of S2: for the window's high-rank blocks, bounded members with their own degree-11 consequences would suffice.
Band blocks have no private inputs, and the conjecture does not cover them. Its analogue would read "inputs outside the span in question" for "private inputs", which is an unproved extension. Under the conjecture plus that extension, a four-block consequence below 11 needs each block to have at most about one input outside a small common span. With \(h\ge10\), such a block has projected rank at most about \(\dim W+1\).
Still open: a proof of the floor, the value of \(\delta\) for spans other than the plane, and the band's form without private inputs.

Next: prove the floor's first ingredient, the support lemma. A consequence outside the three-local ideal is supported on the locus where every participating block has all its outside inputs false. On any other point set some block is trivialized, meaning its \(P\) is absorbed by a free coefficient, so there the family reduces to a smaller one. Prove it with lem:none-indicator-identity and the decomposition of \(\mathbb F_3[p]\) into point idempotents, including the degree bookkeeping.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: ex:four-block-overlap-falls, conj:three-local-augmentation and the checked inclusion script this run modifies (one block's input list, one extra coefficient), the S2 route review's factorization, and lem:none-indicator-identity. The prediction is quoted from the script header. Every value is read from plane4_mixed.out and plane4_mixed_db9.out. The script is three_local_inclusion_checked.sing with four changes: the ring gains \(p(5)\) and \(r(13)\), block 1 gains them, the block loop bound is generalized, and the diagnostics are removed. None affects the inclusion logic, which was reviewed twice. One oddity: in both mixed runs, the count of family consequences equals the count of new triple consequences (9740 and 1827). In the \(h=3\) runs the two counts differ. The conclusion does not use the counts, and the same script detected the \(h=3\) outside element.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the script diff and the reading of the output. It required these changes, all adopted:

the pre-stated criterion reported as met, so the prediction is refuted, and the cost identified as chosen afterwards;
the second point stated as a lower bound;
the band threshold corrected to \(11-\delta\), that is 6;
\(\delta\) and \(G\) defined;
the band implications marked as resting on an unproved extension to non-private inputs;
the wording of the finite check and of the gate made exact.

These weaken or clarify claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	28 min 10.42 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 31.30 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 51.41 s
Individually measured computation	21 min 26.04 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	2 min 21.53 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Section normal form: modulo its smaller subfamilies, every consequence of a family can be taken to vanish at a chosen universal point of every block, at no cost in degree

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement S2 · cycle odd-prime-support-lemma. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Section normal form: modulo its smaller subfamilies, every consequence of a family can be taken to vanish at a chosen universal point of every block, at no cost in degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-section-normal-form.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement S2. conj:outside-input-floor proposes that a consequence outside the three-local ideal costs degree for every input outside the blocks' common span. Its first ingredient is a support statement: such a consequence can be taken to vanish where a block is trivialized. This cycle proves the degree-exact form that lem:section-retraction allows, and names what it does not give.

General statement. lem:section-normal-form. Let \(F\) be a family of complete accuracy-one ENS blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\) with private coefficients, in which every block has a private input. Its cross set consists of \(R\), \(T\) and \(W\), chosen by a rule on the involved blocks, as in lem:section-retraction. Any generators in \(I(Z_B)\) may serve as \(B\)'s generators, so separate augmentation is not needed; it is kept only so that the lemma applies in the setting of prop:family-membership-criterion. \(J_s(\emptyset)\) denotes the degree-\(s\) span of multiples of the shared coordinates' field equations. Call a point \(u\) in the private variables of a block \(B\) universal if:

some private input of \(B\) is true (equal to 0);
the coefficients of the true private inputs sum to 1;
every other coefficient of \(B\) is 0.

The other private inputs of \(B\) may take any values. Choose a universal point \(u_B\) for every block, and let \(\sigma_B\) substitute \(u_B\). Then every \(f\in J_s(F)\) satisfies \[f\equiv f^\circ:=\prod_{B\in F}(\mathrm{id}-\sigma_B)\,f\pmod{\textstyle\sum_{B\in F}J_s(F\setminus B)},\] with \(f^\circ\in J_s(F)\), \(\deg f^\circ\le\deg f\), and \(\sigma_B(f^\circ)=0\) for every \(B\). If \(f^\circ\ne0\), then \(\deg f^\circ\ge|F|\).

So for a four-block family, every consequence is congruent modulo the three-local sum to one vanishing at a chosen universal point of each block, of degree at least 4.

Proof

Universal points give retractions. The proof of lem:section-retraction uses of its section only that \((v,u_B)\in Z_B\) for every value \(v\) of the shared coordinates, together with the vanishing of the cross generators involving \(B\). At a universal point, the true set of \(B\) at \((v,u_B)\) consists of the true private inputs and possibly some shared inputs. The shared inputs have coefficient 0, so the coefficients over the true set sum to 1, and \((v,u_B)\in Z_B\). Also \(P_B\) is 0 there, so every \(R\), \(T\) and \(W=F_bP_a\) with \(B=a\) vanishes. For \(W\) with \(B=b\), the factor \(F_b=q_{b,2}\prod_{j\ge3}L_{b,j}(1-r_{b,2})\) vanishes by cases, since \(b\)'s inputs \(j\ge2\) are private:
- if \(L_{b,2}\ne0\), then \(q_{b,2}=0\);
- if \(L_{b,2}=0\) and some private input \(j\ge3\) is true, then \(\prod_{j\ge3}L_{b,j}=0\);
- otherwise input 2 is the only true private input, so \(r_{b,2}=1\).
So \(\sigma_B(J_s(F))\subseteq J_s(F\setminus B)\) for every \(s\).
Expansion. The \(\sigma_B\) substitute constants for disjoint sets of variables. So they commute, and each is idempotent. Expanding, \[f-f^\circ=\sum_{\emptyset\ne S\subseteq F}(-1)^{|S|+1}\sigma_S f,\qquad \sigma_S=\prod_{B\in S}\sigma_B.\] By step 1 applied block by block, as in the lemma's corollary, \(\sigma_Sf\in J_s(F\setminus S)\subseteq J_s(F\setminus B)\) for any \(B\in S\). So \(f-f^\circ\) lies in the stated sum. Each \(\sigma_Sf\) also lies in \(J_s(F)\), so \(f^\circ\in J_s(F)\). Substitution does not raise degree, so \(\deg f^\circ\le\deg f\). And \(\sigma_B f^\circ=0\), since \(\sigma_B(\mathrm{id}-\sigma_B)=0\).
The degree bound. Shift each block's private variables by \(u_B\). An affine shift does not change degree. \(\sigma_Bf^\circ=0\) holds as a polynomial identity, so after the shift every monomial of \(f^\circ\) contains a variable of every block. The blocks' private variable sets are disjoint, so a nonzero \(f^\circ\) has degree \(\ge|F|\). This covers \(f^\circ\) that are not reduced. \(\square\)

Check and limit

The planar consequence. Consider the degree-9 element \(p_1p_2p_3p_4\Phi\) of the S2 route review. There each block has one private input \(p_a\), so every universal point of block \(a\) has \(p_a=0\). The element has the factor \(p_a\), so it vanishes at every universal point of every block, and it is already in normal form. Its degree 9 is far above the lemma's floor of 4.
What the lemma does not give. The floor \(\sum(2s_a-1)\) of conj:outside-input-floor needs vanishing at all universal points of a block at once, and one-point substitutions cannot provide that. Different choices of \(u_B\) give different representatives, and applying a second set of sections destroys vanishing at the first. The interpolation onto all universal points has degree cost, which is the membership criterion's bookkeeping (prop:family-membership-criterion) in the private variables. So the floor needs that criterion's fiber bounds, not substitutions.
What it does give. A degree-exact reduction for S2. The class of a consequence modulo the three-local sum is represented, for every choice of universal points, by a consequence vanishing at those points. With a four-block family, the three-local sum is \(\sum_BJ_s(F\setminus B)\), the degree-\(s\) part used in ex:four-block-overlap-falls. It is contained in the three-local ideal \(J_F+\sum_T(C_{11}(T))\).

Next: a route review, since this line is now two reductions below S2 (floor conjecture, support lemma). The next research step would be the floor through the membership criterion. Apply prop:family-membership-criterion with the private variables of the four blocks as the interpolated coordinates. Bound the degree of the interpolation coefficients of a consequence outside the three-local ideal from below, in terms of the private inputs per block. The universal points, where a block is trivial, give the fibers on which the coefficients must match those of the subfamilies.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:section-retraction in full: statement, the four proof steps, the remark that the other private inputs' values are arbitrary, and the corollary. Also re-read prop:family-membership-criterion, conj:outside-input-floor and the planar element. A claim search for section substitutions, normal forms and retractions found only lem:section-retraction and the locality theorems. The lemma extends the retraction from the standard section to all universal points, by the same argument, and composes the retractions over a whole family.

A fresh-context reviewer found no false statement. It checked the expansion, the signs, and the vanishing of \(P_B\) and membership in \(Z_B\). It required these changes, all adopted:

the vanishing of \(F_b\) argued by cases;
the cross set stated as \(R\), \(T\), \(W\);
the degree bound proved by shifting, which also covers \(f^\circ\) that are not reduced;
separate augmentation marked as unused;
the convention for \(J_s(\emptyset)\) stated;
the planar remark justified.

These repair a proof step and clarify, and they add no claim, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 0.26 s
Marked reading and review windows	57.74 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 50.90 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 11.49 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: S2 must be posed with fully augmented members; the band's blocks have high rank and no private inputs; the deciding test was stopped by memory pressure

25 September 2026 · Route review (falsification test undecided: stopped for low memory) · open statement S2 on odd-prime-clause-transfer; cycle odd-prime-s2-band-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: S2 must be posed with fully augmented members; the band's blocks have high rank and no private inputs; the deciding test was stopped by memory pressure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-s2-band-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement S2. The line had reached two reductions below S2, through conj:outside-input-floor and lem:section-normal-form. This review, triggered by the depth rule in CLAUDE.md, re-poses S2 against the band's actual blocks and decides the next step.

General statement. The line's claim is S2: in the window, the base plus the blocks has no fall below 11 when grouped into members of bounded size. This review corrects its formulation, as follows.

Three corrections to how S2 was posed

Members must be fully augmented. The self-augmentation control of ex:four-block-overlap-falls shows the defect. Adding a family's consequences derivable within degree 11 still leaves falls at 9, because the ideal they generate is not closed under the cutoff. Relative gluing asks for members without falls, and that means members augmented by their complete Gröbner bases. So S2's bounded-member form is: jointly augment every subfamily of at most three blocks by its full basis; then the family has no fall below 11. conj:three-local-augmentation, which augments within degree 11, is a degree-bounded proxy, and its refutation at \(h=3\) does not decide this form.
Band blocks have no private inputs. Here "band" means the setting of prop:one-count-composition. On a residual board of size \(L\), a band block has \(R(L)<h<Q(L)\approx1.6\times10^4L\Lambda_M\) inputs, all of them forms in the board variables, and projected rank about \(h\). So a band block has high rank and more inputs than the board has columns. The first-active substitution (lem:ternary-first-active-selector-substitution) costs \(2(h-1)\cdot11\), far above the residual base's refutation degree, so it cannot handle them. The private-input model of conj:outside-input-floor is a stand-in for "inputs outside a common span", and its extension to the band is unproved.
Satisfiability alone does not stop falls. The record's other lead for the dependent regime, suggested in the mixture composition entry, is thm:head-dependencies. For single-clause members, consistent circuits lift, so solvable systems do not fall. ENS blocks are satisfiable at every point, yet the overlap pairs of ex:overlap-pair-falls fall at 7 or 8. So an ENS analogue needs ENS-specific cross generators as well.

Falsification attempt

plane4_full_triples.sing tests the corrected form on the one known non-local instance, plane4 at \(h=3\). It augments each triple by its full reduced basis, without a degree bound, and asks whether the four-block family falls below 11. The four triple bases were computed:

2430, 2609, 2449 and 2575 elements;
maximum degree 12 each.

So full augmentation adds degree-12 elements that the degree-11 proxy never saw. Claude Code then stopped the run because the machine was low on memory: another job's process was using about 4.7 GB. The family step was not reached. Its partial output is in plane4_full_triples_partial.out, and the run was not restarted. The test is undecided.

Assessment of this line

Solid ground.
- One shared input per block: S2 proved below 11.
- The none-indicator identity.
- The section normal form.
- A correct inclusion test, with a proved truncated Bayer lemma.
- The band's high rank.
The gap. S2 for blocks sharing many inputs, in its correct, fully augmented form, is untested. The only counterexample is to the degree-bounded proxy.
Prospects. Better than the last review suggested. The proxy failure may be an artifact of the cutoff: triples' full bases reach degree 12. The band is high-rank, where even the proxy's failure disappeared with one more outside input. Every test of the band's own shape, blocks with many shared inputs and no private inputs, still lies beyond reachable sizes.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, S2, in the corrected form. First rerun the fully augmented plane4 test when memory allows; it needs about 5 GB. Meanwhile, and whatever that result, state S2 for blocks without private inputs, and test its smallest instance. That is a pair and a four-block family of blocks with only shared inputs at \(h=3\), with full augmentation, where lem:none-indicator-identity predicts the candidate falls.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: ex:four-block-overlap-falls with its self-augmentation control, conj:three-local-augmentation, conj:outside-input-floor, lem:section-normal-form, prop:one-count-composition and its band definition, lem:ternary-first-active-selector-substitution, and thm:head-dependencies. The values are read from plane4_full_triples_partial.out. No claim is registered, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 50.99 s
Marked reading and review windows	48.14 s
Computation design and coding	50.21 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	52.33 s
Individually measured computation	4 min 8.33 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	11.78 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Without private inputs, fully augmented triples do not stop falls: four blocks fall at 3 and 5 at h = 3, and the degree-3 witness is an indicator relation P₁ + P₂ − P₃ − P₄

25 September 2026 · Working proof (indicator relations) and a finite check refuting bounded members at h = 3 · open statement S2 · cycle odd-prime-no-private-inputs. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Without private inputs, fully augmented triples do not stop falls: four blocks fall at 3 and 5 at h = 3, and the degree-3 witness is an indicator relation P₁ + P₂ − P₃ − P₄”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-no-private-inputs.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement S2 in the corrected form of the S2 band review: members of at most three blocks, fully augmented, for blocks without private inputs, as band blocks are. The smallest instances of this model are cheap: four blocks with three inputs each, all on lines of \(\mathbb F_3^3\), need 15 variables. So this cycle tests the corrected form there.

General statement. lem:indicator-relation-consequences and ex:no-private-triple-falls.

lem:indicator-relation-consequences. For complete accuracy-one ENS blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(N_a=\prod_iL_{a,i}^2\) be block \(a\)'s none-indicator, and let \(\Phi\) be the ideal of the field equations of all variables, the coefficients included. For any scalars \(c_a\), let \(g\) be the reduction of \(\sum_ac_aN_a\) modulo \(\Phi\). Then \[\sum_ac_aP_a-g\in\sum_aI_a+\Phi.\] Proof. \(P_a-N_a\in I_a+\Phi\) by lem:none-indicator-identity, whose ideal is radical because it contains \(\Phi\). Also \(\sum_ac_aN_a-g\in\Phi\). Sum. \(\square\) When \(g\) has low degree, this is a low-degree consequence whose expression involves every block with \(c_a\ne0\). That involvement is only syntactic: the lemma does not decide whether a subfamily derives the consequence at the same degree.
ex:no-private-triple-falls. Take four blocks with \(h=3\), no private inputs, private coefficients, all inputs lines of \(\mathbb F_3^3\), and each block's inputs independent. Augment every triple by its full reduced Gröbner basis. The family still falls:
- F1, mixed lines: at 5;
- F2, the planar family with a shared third input \(w\): at 3.
For F2, the degree-3 fall space is spanned, modulo \(J\), by \(P_1+P_2-P_3-P_4\), for which \(N_1+N_2-N_3-N_4=0\) as functions. Adding it as a cross generator raises F2's lowest fall only to 6.

The computations

no_private_s2_db9.sing (no_private_s2_db9.out, 358 s, degree bound 9), a degree-9 version of no_private_s2.sing, builds the four blocks with their private coefficients. It computes each triple's full reduced basis: about 780 to 1420 elements, of maximum degree 9 to 11. It adds these to the separately augmented blocks and reads the lowest fall from the truncated basis. The blocks are:

Family	blocks (inputs)	lowest fall
F1	\((x,y,w)\), \((x+y,y+w,x-w)\), \((x+w,x-y,y-w)\), \((x+y+w,x-y+w,y)\)	5
F2	\((x,y,w)\), \((x+y,x-y,w)\), \((x,x+y,w)\), \((y,x-y,w)\)	3

A fall below 9 is visible with degree bound 9, and both falls are far below 11. So the degree-11 run, which hit its 600 s limit (no_private_s2_timeout.out), is not needed for the conclusion.

no_private_witness.sing (no_private_witness.out) prints F2's degree-3 witness, as a normal form modulo the truncated family basis. Term by term it is \((P_1-1)+(P_2-1)-(P_3-1)-(P_4-1)=P_1+P_2-P_3-P_4\). The indicators cancel. Here \(N_1=x^2y^2w^2\) and \(N_2=(x+y)^2(x-y)^2w^2\equiv w^2(x^2+x^2y^2+y^2)\), and \(N_3=x^2(x+y)^2w^2\equiv w^2(x^2+2xy+x^2y^2)\) and \(N_4=y^2(x-y)^2w^2\equiv w^2(x^2y^2-2xy+y^2)\). So \(N_1+N_2-N_3-N_4\equiv0\). no_private_indicator.sing (no_private_indicator.out) adds this generator; the lowest fall becomes 6.

What this means

S2's bounded form fails at \(h=3\) without private inputs, even fully augmented. For F2 the mechanism is explicit: a linear relation among the blocks' none-indicators gives a consequence linear in the \(P\)'s that the triples miss. The lemma gives such consequences for every relation with low remainder degree. Whether triples miss them in general, forcing members to contain whole relations, is shown only for F2. F1's fall at 5 has no identified mechanism, and F2 still falls at 6 after the relation's generator is added.
Relation to the private-input model, a heuristic. With private inputs, \(N_a\) carries the private factors \(\prod p^2\). So relations among indicators would need the private-false locus, which costs degree. That may be why plane4 with private inputs fell only at 9, and why one more private input pushed it past 11. Without private inputs nothing pays that cost. This causal reading is untested.
For the band. Band blocks have \(h\ge10\) board inputs. Reduction modulo the field equations already lowers degree, so a reduced \(N_a\) has degree at most \(2n\) in \(n\) board variables. An indicator relation with low remainder needs the top-degree parts of several reduced \(N_a\) to cancel. Whether the band's blocks, or adversarial compiled inventories, admit such relations is now the concrete question behind S2. The small cases show that dense configurations do.
For the route. Relative gluing needs members without falls. With indicator relations spanning arbitrary block sets, members of bounded size may not exist for dense inventories. The alternative the goal allows is a statement that tolerates falls, since S1 needs only the absence of a refutation.

Next: a route review of S2. It should decide between two statements. One is S2 restricted to inventories whose indicator relations of low remainder degree are local, a combinatorial question about the band. The other is a fall-tolerant replacement of S2, for example a degree-11 design built from the section normal form, with the indicator relations as its constraints.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:none-indicator-identity (its ideal includes the field equations), the S2 band review (the corrected form), ex:overlap-pair-falls and ex:four-block-overlap-falls (the private-input model), and prop:one-count-composition (band blocks). The witness and the indicator cancellation were checked by hand term by term. Every value is read from the named outputs. The scripts reuse the reviewed fall readout, via the truncated Bayer lemma, with full triple bases in place of degree-bounded ones. Two claim searches for the lemma, one under linear combinations of \(P\) and none-indicators and one under indicator relations with low-degree remainder, found no earlier statement.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the witness term by term, the indicator cancellation, and every readout. It required these changes, all adopted:

the band paragraph corrected to the reduced indicators;
the lemma stated with the field-equation ideal \(\Phi\), with its second proof step;
the syntactic involvement and the explicit mechanism limited to what is shown, F2 only;
the private-input explanation marked as a heuristic;
the witness described as a normal form spanning the degree-3 fall space;
the stale comments in the three scripts corrected, with the code unchanged;
the gate completed.

These weaken or clarify claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	35 min 17.83 s
Computation design and coding	3 min 39.86 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 41.86 s
Individually measured computation	26 min 7.73 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	2 min 48.24 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 2.

Route review: falls without private inputs are too varied for bounded fall-free members; S2 is replaced by count-sensitive conservativity, which returns the line to the recorded central statement

25 September 2026 · Route review with a finite-check falsification · open statement S2 on odd-prime-clause-transfer; cycle odd-prime-s2-fate-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: falls without private inputs are too varied for bounded fall-free members; S2 is replaced by count-sensitive conservativity, which returns the line to the recorded central statement”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-s2-fate-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement S2. No private inputs showed that for blocks shaped like the band's, fully augmented triples do not stop four-block falls at \(h=3\). One of those falls is an indicator relation. This review tests whether indicator relations explain all the falls, and decides what S2 should become.

General statement. The line's claim was S2: in the window, bounded fully augmented members make the base plus blocks fall-free below 11.

Falsification attempt

indicator_all.sing (indicator_all.out) repeats the no-private-input test, again with full triple bases and degree bound 9. It adds all 80 indicator-relation generators \(\sum_ac_aP_a-\overline{\sum_ac_aN_a}\), for \(c\in\mathbb F_3^4\setminus0\) (lem:indicator-relation-consequences), with remainder degrees up to 6.

Family	full triples	plus all indicator relations
F1 mixed	5	5
F2 planar	3	6

Indicator relations do not explain all falls: F1's fall is untouched, and F2 still falls at 6. So at \(h=3\), blocks without private inputs have several independent mechanisms of four-block falls.

Assessment of the fall-free form

What is proved.
- S2 below 11 for one shared input per block.
- The none-indicator and indicator-relation lemmas.
- The section normal form.
- Exact tests with a proved truncated Bayer lemma.
What the evidence says. Falls are fragile with private inputs: plane4 needed one private input per block, and one more removed its fall. Without private inputs they are plentiful and varied. Band blocks have no private inputs.
The limit. The small tests cannot reach the band's \(h\ge10\), and the one mechanism identified, indicator relations, is not the only one. A fall-free gluing of dense inventories with bounded members is therefore unsupported, and the evidence points against it. Its prospects as a route to S1 are weak.

The replacement, and where it leads

S1 needs only that no refutation exists, not that nothing falls. The fall-tolerant form of what the blocks must satisfy is conservativity with a lag. The degree-11 consequences of base plus blocks that involve only board variables should lie in the base's own closure at a somewhat higher degree. obs:ternary-php-conservativity-completeness-refutation fixes what that lag can be. Any bound \[C_{11}(F_N+M\text{ blocks})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{board}]\subseteq C_{11+f(M)}(F_N)\] needs \(f(M_N)\ge d_N-11\) for some \(M_N\le T_N\), with \(T_N\) exponential. So no lag independent of the block count holds, and the statement must use the count:

S2′. With \(M\le n^K\) blocks, the lag is \(f(M)=O(\log M)\).

With the base's refutation degree about \(N/2\), S2′ gives S1. It is the ENS form of the recorded central obligation, the (HW) statement of ctx:route-review-general-step-form, reached by the logarithmic-prefix reduction. So the window's gluing route does not avoid the central statement for dense inventories. For those it leads back to it. Fall-free gluing remains a sufficient tool where members have private-like structure, for example low overlap.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, S2′. Measure the conservativity lag as a function of the block count on small weak PHP bases. Take random complete ENS blocks with inputs in the board variables, and for each \(M\) the least \(D'\) with \(C_D(\text{base}+M\text{ blocks})\cap\mathbb F_3[\text{board}]\subseteq C_{D'}(\text{base})\). This tests whether the lag grows like \(\log M\), a constant, or linearly. It is the quantity S2′ predicts, and the recorded single-block witnesses (lag 1) are its first data point.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

ex:no-private-triple-falls, lem:indicator-relation-consequences, ex:four-block-overlap-falls and ex:plane4-extra-private-input;
obs:ternary-php-conservativity-completeness-refutation, whose lag bound is quoted;
ex:ternary-fresh-block-conservativity-refuted and ex:ternary-rank-three-conservativity-refuted, whose witnesses enter one degree higher;
the (HW) statement in ctx:route-review-general-step-form.

The table is read from indicator_all.out. No claim is registered. S2′ is recorded in the Open statements and the next step.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 29.52 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 13.37 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	56.12 s
Individually measured computation	6 min 7.30 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	12.60 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: the open statements restated around the central wide-clause statement W and its three axes; the window route folds into W for dense inventories

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation: the planned test could not decide) · odd-prime-clause-transfer; cycle odd-prime-conservativity-lag. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the open statements restated around the central wide-clause statement W and its three axes; the window route folds into W for dense inventories”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-central-statement-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The fate review replaced S2 by the lag bound S2′ and proposed measuring the conservativity lag against the block count. This review applies the computation rule "decide first whether the test can decide", and restates the open statements accordingly.

General statement. The line's claim is the goal itself, through W, the wide-clause statement of thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction. W is the notebook's recorded central obligation. This review argues that the window route's remaining obligation, S2′, is reached through W.

Why the lag measurement is not run

On weak PHP bases small enough for exact closures, a nonvacuous test needs the base unrefuted at the tested degree. That allows at most about four random blocks and degree about 7. Over \(M\le4\), \(\log M\) changes by about one degree. So every outcome is compatible with logarithmic, constant and even linear lag, and the test decides nothing. By the computation rules it is not run.

Where S2′ leads

The only known proof path to a lag bound independent of \(h\) is the partial-prefix substitution of the logarithmic-prefix reduction. Substitute \(k=O(\log M)\) coefficients per block by the prefix products, and each block becomes width-\(k\) product clauses on its remaining inputs. So a lag bound of the S2′ kind is obtained by proving that the base plus those clauses has no low-degree refutation, which is W. The window route therefore does not avoid W for dense inventories. Its results stand as tools and special cases:

the locality theorems for one shared input;
the none-indicator and indicator-relation lemmas;
the section normal form.

The restated open statements

The Open statements section now leads with W and the three axes of the generalization review of 23 September:

A1, adversarial forms;
A2, logarithmic width;
A3, logarithmic degree.

By Taylor glue, W follows from Tor vanishing for the clause tops, so each axis is a hypothesis of that theorem to be established at the goal's parameters. The window route is kept as S1, one partial alternative, with its obligation stated as the lag bound. S3 to S5 of the previous list were hypotheses of the window gluing only. Their records remain linked from the entries, and they are no longer open statements of the goal.

Assessment

What the last cycles contributed to A1. Two findings bear on it. For ENS blocks sharing one input, dependencies cause no non-locality below 11. In dense configurations with many shared inputs, non-local consequences exist through several mechanisms, one of them explicit: indicator relations. Both are the ENS side of A1.
Prospects. A1 is the highest risk, as on 23 September. The new tools address its ENS form but not the product-clause form W needs.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, A1 for product clauses. Test conj:local-falls on the densest planar selector configuration: width-2 product clauses whose forms are the four lines of a plane. The ENS analysis found non-local consequences exactly there, and the indicator mechanism has a clause analogue in the vanishing sets of the clauses. Decide whether the conjecture's local reduction absorbs them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction (its exact parameters: \(M=n^K\), \(k=\lceil(K+1)\log n/\log(3/2)\rceil\), degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\)), thm:taylor-glue, thm:glued-double-points, conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, conj:local-falls, the generalization review's axes, and the fate review. No claim is registered.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 14.85 s
Marked reading and review windows	31.20 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 58.67 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s
Mixed reasoning and writing (legacy phase)	44.84 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Clause hub criterion: the locality of product clauses sharing a hub is decided in the hub alone; the planar clause family is pair-local, and the non-local cases are the recorded covering obstructions

25 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check on 11 families · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-planar-clauses. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Clause hub criterion: the locality of product clauses sharing a hub is decided in the hub alone; the planar clause family is pair-local, and the non-local cases are the recorded covering obstructions”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-planar-clauses.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The ENS analysis found non-local consequences where four blocks read pairs of the four lines of a plane (ex:four-block-overlap-falls, ex:no-private-triple-falls). W is stated for the partial-prefix images of blocks, product clauses \((1-L_i^{p-1})\prod_{j\in S}L_j^{p-1}\), with no fresh coefficients. The central-statement review asked whether the planar non-locality persists for these clauses, and whether the local reduction of conj:local-falls absorbs it. W's degree budget \(22k\) is about 11 times a clause's degree \(2(k+1)\), so members of small span are taken with their full closures, and the question is asked of those: are the consequences of a clause family generated, each at its own degree, by the full closures of subfamilies of at most \(t\) blocks?

General statement. thm:clause-hub-criterion. For clause families whose product forms lie in a common hub and whose other forms are private to their block, \(t\)-locality holds if and only if a criterion stated in the hub's function ring alone holds. The private coordinates never matter. In particular such a family is \(h\)-local, where \(h\le p^d\) is the covering number of the blocks' active sets in the hub of dimension \(d\), and each consequence of degree \(s\) needs at most \(s/(p-1)\) blocks.

The theorem

Setting. Work over \(\mathbb F_p\), with functions identified with reduced polynomials (exponents below \(p\)). The degree of a function is the degree of its reduced representative. The coordinates are hub coordinates \(v\in\mathbb F_p^d\) and, for each block \(a\), private coordinates \(u_a\in\mathbb F_p^{m_a}\), disjoint across blocks. Block \(a\) is given by:

an active set \(A_a\subseteq\mathbb F_p^d\);
a private allowed set \(U_a\), nonempty and proper in \(\mathbb F_p^{m_a}\).

Its zero set is \(Z_a=\{(v,u):v\notin A_a\text{ or }u_a\in U_a\}\). For a set \(T\) of blocks, \(Z_T=\bigcap_{a\in T}Z_a\) and \(I(Z_T)\) is the ideal of functions vanishing on it. Put \[V_O=\mathbb F_p^d\setminus\textstyle\bigcup_{a\in O}A_a\] for a set \(O\) of blocks, so \(V_\emptyset=\mathbb F_p^d\), and write \(I_{\le r}(V)\) for the functions on the hub of degree \(\le r\) vanishing on \(V\). Hub functions have degree at most \(d(p-1)\). The family \(F\) is \(t\)-local if every \(f\in I(Z_F)\) of degree \(s\) is a sum \(\sum_ih_i\varphi_i\) with \(\varphi_i\in I(Z_{T_i})\), \(|T_i|\le t\) and \(\deg h_i+\deg\varphi_i\le s\). Equivalently, the ideal generated by the homogenizations of the \(I(Z_T)\), \(|T|\le t\), and of the field equations is saturated with respect to the homogenizing variable, that is, it has no fall.

Clauses. Take the clauses \(g_{a,i}Q_a\) of one family of W, with \(g=1-L^{p-1}\) and \(Q_a=\prod_{j\in S_a}L_{a,j}^{p-1}\), with the forms \(L_{a,j}\), \(j\in S_a\), affine in \(v\), and the other forms of the family involving only \(v\) and \(u_a\), no \(u_b\) with \(b\ne a\), with linearly independent parts in \(u_a\). Put \(u'_{a,i}=L_{a,i}\), an invertible affine change of coordinates that preserves degrees and does not touch the other blocks. The clauses then define the block with \(A_a=\{Q_a=1\}\), where every product form is nonzero, and \(U_a=\{u'_a:\text{every coordinate}\ne0\}\), which is nonempty and proper. When the family has no other form the block is trivial, and it is left out.

Theorem (clause hub criterion). In this setting, \(F\) is \(t\)-local if and only if, for every set \(O\) of blocks and every \(r\), \[I_{\le r}(V_O)=\sum_{O'\subseteq O,\ |O'|\le t}I_{\le r}(V_{O'}).\tag{H}\] Let the covering number \(h(F)\) be the largest, over sets \(O\), of the least \(|O'|\) with \(O'\subseteq O\) and \(V_{O'}=V_O\), that is, with the same union of active sets. Then \(F\) is \(h(F)\)-local, and \(h(F)\le p^d\). Moreover, if every nonzero element of every \(I(U_a)\) has degree at least \(\delta\), then every \(f\in I(Z_F)\) of degree \(s\) is a sum \(\sum_ih_i\varphi_i\) as in the definition with \(|T_i|\le\lfloor s/\delta\rfloor\). For clause blocks \(\delta=p-1\).

Proof.

An adapted basis. Let \(R_a\) be the functions of \(u_a\). Fix a graded monomial order on \(u_a\) and the reduced Gröbner basis of \(I(U_a)\), field equations included. For each reduced monomial \(m\) in the leading-monomial set of \(I(U_a)\) put \(\varepsilon_m=m-\mathrm{NF}(m)\). For every other reduced monomial put \(\varepsilon_m=m\). Each \(\varepsilon_m\) has leading monomial \(m\) and degree \(\deg m\), because \(\mathrm{NF}(m)\) consists of smaller monomials of a graded order. The \(\varepsilon_m\) form a basis \(B_a\) of \(R_a\), and the ones of the first kind, \(B^1_a\), form a basis of \(I(U_a)\). Both hold by the usual leading-term argument: distinct leading monomials give independence, and subtracting \(\varepsilon_{\mathrm{LM}(g)}\) from any \(g\in I(U_a)\) lowers its leading monomial.
Expansion. The tensors \(e=\bigotimes_a\varepsilon_{m_a}\) form a basis of the functions of \(u\). Every function is uniquely \(f=\sum_ec_e(v)\,e(u)\) with reduced \(c_e\). Write \(O_e=\{a:\varepsilon_{m_a}\in B^1_a\}\). Products of reduced polynomials in disjoint variables are reduced, so this sum is the reduced representative of \(f\).
Degree. \(\deg f=\max_e(\deg c_e+\deg e)\). Let \(D\) be the maximum. The degree-\(D\) part of \(f\) is \(\sum\operatorname{top}(c_e)\operatorname{top}(e)\) over the \(e\) attaining it. The \(\operatorname{top}(\varepsilon_m)\) are linearly independent in each \(R_a\), having distinct leading monomials. So the \(\operatorname{top}(e)\), their tensor products, are linearly independent. Grouping the sum by monomials in \(v\) shows it is nonzero.
Vanishing. For fixed \(v\), the fiber of \(Z_F\) is the product \(\prod_aZ_a(v)\), with \(Z_a(v)=U_a\) if \(v\in A_a\) and \(\mathbb F_p^{m_a}\) otherwise. The ideal of a product set is \(\sum_aI(Z_a(v))\otimes\bigotimes_{b\ne a}R_b\), the kernel of the tensor product of the restriction maps. By step 1 it is spanned by the \(e\) with \(O_e\cap\{a:v\in A_a\}\ne\emptyset\). So \(f\in I(Z_F)\) if and only if every \(c_e\) vanishes on \(V_{O_e}\). The same holds for every subfamily \(T\), with \(O_e\cap T\) in place of \(O_e\).
(H) suffices. Let \(f\in I(Z_F)\) have degree \(s\). By steps 3 and 4, \(c_e\in I_{\le s-\deg e}(V_{O_e})\). By (H), \(c_e=\sum_jc_j\) with \(c_j\in I_{\le s-\deg e}(V_{O_j})\), \(O_j\subseteq O_e\), \(|O_j|\le t\). Put \(\varphi_j=c_j\prod_{a\in O_j}\varepsilon_{m_a}\), which lies in \(I(Z_{O_j})\) by step 4, and \(h_j=\prod_{a\notin O_j}\varepsilon_{m_a}\). Then \(c_je=\varphi_jh_j\), and \(\deg\varphi_j+\deg h_j=\deg c_j+\deg e\le s\).
(H) is necessary. Take \(O\), \(r\) and \(c\in I_{\le r}(V_O)\). Since each \(U_a\) is proper, \(B^1_a\) is nonempty. Choose \(\varepsilon_a\in B^1_a\) of least degree \(\delta_a\), and put \(f=c\prod_{a\in O}\varepsilon_a\). By step 4, \(f\in I(Z_F)\), of degree \(r'+\sum_{a\in O}\delta_a\) with \(r'=\deg c\). Suppose \(f=\sum_ih_i\varphi_i\) as in the definition. Expand every factor in the basis. For \(\varphi\in I(Z_T)\), step 4 gives \(c_{e'}(\varphi)\in I(V_{O_{e'}\cap T})\), of degree at most \(\deg\varphi-\deg e'\), by step 3. The product of a basis element of \(B^1_a\) with anything lies in \(I(U_a)\) and expands in \(B^1_a\). So \(e'e''\) expands into basis tensors \(e\) with \(O_e\supseteq O_{e'}\) and, by step 3, \(\deg e\le\deg e'+\deg e''\). Hence the coefficient of \(e=\prod_{a\in O}\varepsilon_a\) in \(h_i\varphi_i\) is a sum of products \(c_{e'}(\varphi_i)c_{e''}(h_i)\). Each lies in \(I(V_{O_{e'}\cap T_i})\) with \(O_{e'}\cap T_i\subseteq O\), of size at most \(t\), and has degree at most \(\deg h_i+\deg\varphi_i-\deg e\le r'\). Here \(e'e''\) is re-expanded block by block, and \(\deg e\le\deg e'+\deg e''\) is step 3 applied in a single block. The reduction of \(c_{e'}c_{e''}\) does not raise the degree and still vanishes on \(V_{O_{e'}\cap T_i}\). Since \(U_a\) is nonempty, \(1\notin B^1_a\), so the target tensor has \(O_e=O\) exactly. By uniqueness of the expansion, \(c\) is the sum of these coefficients, so it lies in the right side of (H) at degree \(r'\le r\).
Covering bound. If \(V_{O'}=V_O\) with \(|O'|\le h(F)\), then \(I_{\le r}(V_O)=I_{\le r}(V_{O'})\), and (H) holds for \(t=h(F)\). A least \(O'\) with the same union has, for each of its members, a point that no other member covers, so \(|O'|\le p^d\). This bound is elementary; the content of the theorem is (H) for \(t\) below the covering number.
Degree bound on the blocks used. In step 5 take \(O_j=O_e\) and \(c_j=c_e\), which needs no (H). Each factor \(\varepsilon_{m_a}\), \(a\in O_e\), is a nonzero element of \(I(U_a)\), so \(\deg e\ge\delta|O_e|\) and \(|O_e|\le s/\delta\). For a clause block \(U_a=(\mathbb F_p^*)^{k}\). A nonzero reduced polynomial of degree below \(p-1\) has every exponent at most \(p-2\), and such a polynomial cannot vanish on a grid whose sides have \(p-1\) points (the grid lemma of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz). Since \(1-u_1^{p-1}\in I(U_a)\), \(\delta=p-1\). \(\square\)

So the private coordinates contribute only through the degrees \(\deg e\), and \(t\)-locality of a hub-private clause family is a statement about the hub's form space alone. For \(t=1\) and \(O=F\), (H) is the degreewise locality of the allowed sets \(\mathbb F_p^d\setminus A_a\) of lem:degreewise-gluing and conj:t-wise-locality.

Relation to the record. The technique, filtration-compatible tensor bases with coefficientwise vanishing, is the recorded product argument (Steps 2 and 3 of thm:single-dependency-threshold), and the statement extends these:

the product argument is the case of a trivial hub, every \(A_a\) the whole space, where (H) holds trivially;
lem:peeling removes one coordinate \(w\) of one clause, with forbidden set \(\{w=0\}\times B'_b\). Iterated, it gives the case \(t=1\) with each \(U_a\) the complement of a point, as a recursion whose converse needs the smaller family's locality. Here \(U_a\) is arbitrary, \(t\) is any size, and the criterion is closed;
thm:star-family-locality reduces 1-locality to pairs for arbitrary ideals sharing one coordinate, \(d=1\). This theorem is restricted to hub-private blocks and gives an exact criterion in every hub dimension;
prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds gives, for two systems sharing coordinates, membership with an overhead of \((p-1)\) times the number of shared coordinates. Here, for hub-private blocks, there is no overhead.

The check

Three Singular scripts compute \(t\)-locality directly. For every \(t\) they take the full reduced Gröbner basis of every \(t\)-block subfamily with field equations, homogenize, and compute the lowest fall of the sum (clause_locality.sing, clause_locality2.sing, clause_points.sing, with outputs .out). Independently, hub_criterion.py computes the least \(t\) satisfying (H) by exact \(\mathbb F_3\) linear algebra on the hub's function space, at most 81 points, and covering_numbers.py computes \(h(F)\). Every family has one private outside input per block, except P4w with two. The results (hub_criterion.out, covering_numbers.out):

Family	Hub dimension, width, blocks	\(h(F)\)	least \(t\) by (H)	least \(t\) measured
P4: plane4 pairs	2, 2, 4	2	2	2
P4w: P4, two private inputs	2, 2, 4	2	2	2
P6: all six pairs of the four lines	2, 2, 6	3	2	2
A1w: affine lines, parallel ones included	2, 1, 6	3	3	3
A2w: affine pairs	2, 2, 6	3	3	3
H3: pairs of lines of \(\mathbb F_3^3\)	3, 2, 8	4	3	3
T3: triples in \(\mathbb F_3^3\)	3, 3, 7	4	4	4
D4: pairs in \(\mathbb F_3^4\)	4, 2, 8	6	5	5
D4w3: triples in \(\mathbb F_3^4\)	4, 3, 6	5	4	4
PT6: single-point active sets, the six points with \(x\ne0\)	2, 4, 6	6	6	6
PT8: all eight nonzero points	2, 4, 8	8	6	6

The criterion equals the measured value in all 11 families, and the covering number bounds it. The two computations are independent implementations; the family data were transcribed separately into each and cross-checked. Both use subsets of exactly \(t\) blocks, which suffices by monotonicity: \(I(Z_T)\subseteq I(Z_{T'})\) and \(I(V_{T})\subseteq I(V_{T'})\) for \(T\subseteq T'\).

Outside the theorem's hypotheses, clause_shared.sing (clause_shared.out) drops the private outside inputs. Two variants of plane4 clauses are both pair-local, as P4 is: S4w, with one outside form \(w\) shared by all four blocks, the clause image of the planar family of ex:no-private-triple-falls, and S4p, with the other two lines of the plane as outside forms.

What this means for A1

The planar ENS non-locality does not survive the prefix substitution in the tested configurations. With a private outside input per block, the clause image of plane4 is pair-local, and so is the denser P6. Without private inputs, the two tested variants S4w and S4p are pair-local too. So in these configurations the four-block consequences of ex:four-block-overlap-falls and ex:no-private-triple-falls come from the blocks' fresh coefficients, which W does not have. For families without private inputs this is a finite observation, not a consequence of the theorem.
Clause non-locality in a hub is form-space non-locality. PT6 needs all six blocks. Its hub set \(V_F\) is the line \(x=0\), so \(x\prod_a(1-u_a^2)\), of degree 13, lies in \(I(Z_F)\). For \(|O'|<6\), \(V_{O'}\) contains \(x=0\) and a point off it, so no nonzero affine function vanishes on it. Thus (H) fails at \(r=1\), and the measured fall for \(t=5\) is at degree 13. By the degree bound, such a consequence has degree at least \(1+(p-1)|O|\). The same argument on the \(2\cdot3^{d-1}\) points with \(x\ne0\) in a hub of dimension \(d\) proves that that family needs \(t=2\cdot3^{d-1}\). This is prop:covering-obstruction in the hub. For \(t=1\) and \(O=F\), (H) is the degreewise locality to which the recorded pairing and covering obstructions and the dependency thresholds (thm:single-dependency-threshold, thm:wide-dependency-threshold) refer. Those results transfer to hub-private clause families through (H), with every \(O\) considered and the degree shifted by \(\deg e\), not verbatim.
What absorbs the planar consequences. By the degree bound, a consequence of degree \(s\) of a hub-private clause family needs at most \(s/(p-1)\) blocks. Within W's budget \(22k\) at \(p=3\), that is at most \(11k\) blocks, however many blocks share the hub. The point family's non-local consequence has degree \(1+4\cdot3^{d-1}\) with width \(2d\), against a budget of \(44d\), so it exceeds the budget once \(d\ge5\). So for hub-private families, conj:local-falls's local reduction may use members of at most \(11k\) blocks of one hub, with closures computed in the hub's form space. Such a member spans on the order of \(k^2\) coordinates, outside the small-span premise above, and its full closure is not known to be derivable within \(22k\) (see Limits). So this bounds the members' size; it does not complete the reduction. Locality between overlapping hubs is a different matter, taken up below.
Limits. The theorem is about full closures in free coordinates, without the PHP base. It transfers to the board only where the forms are jointly free, as in lem:degreewise-gluing's reduction to form space. It does not cover blocks without private outside inputs, which is the band's case, outside inputs whose private parts are dependent, or blocks reading several overlapping hubs. Whether a hub group's full closure is derivable within \(22k\) is not addressed.

The recorded locality program went further than bounded members. Member locality itself fails for adversarial clause families once a dependency space has dimension 2 (saturated locality, ex:saturated-locality-failure), and the closure route review turned to the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing instead: row freeness of the graded functions on the allowed set, whether or not the family is local. The criterion's expansion bears on that route. For a hub-private family, steps 2 to 4 write the functions on the allowed set, as a filtered vector space, as a direct sum over the basis tensors \(e\) of the functions on the hub sets \(V_{O_e}\), shifted by \(\deg e\). The row sums of the board do not respect this splitting in general.

Next: row freeness for hub-private families. Prove that the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing for a hub-private clause family follows from the same hypothesis for its hub sets \(V_O\), using the direct-sum expansion, under the joint freeness that transfers form space to the board. That would reduce A1 for such families to sets in a hub of bounded dimension.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the local-falls entry (conj:local-falls and the pencil reduction), the odd-prime wide-clause statement and thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction, thm:taylor-glue, ex:four-block-overlap-falls, ex:no-private-triple-falls, prop:covering-obstruction, the product argument (Steps 2 and 3 of thm:single-dependency-threshold), lem:peeling and thm:wide-dependency-threshold, and the later locality record: conj:rank-threshold, prop:member-inconsistency, thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy, thm:resolvent-absorption, ex:saturated-locality-failure and the closure route review. Claim searches covered Helly and covering locality, product sets and tensor bases, and the statement's content words. They found conj:t-wise-locality, lem:degreewise-gluing, thm:star-family-locality and prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds, related as stated above.

Before the proof was drafted, a reviewer asked whether the record implies the statement. It found the technique recorded and the \(t=1\), point-complement case obtainable by iterating lem:peeling, with the general criterion new. It required: the name changed from one close to the hub-locality theorems; "covering number" instead of "Helly number"; the relation to thm:star-family-locality stated. A fresh-context reviewer then checked every proof step and reran the check. It required these changes, all adopted:

\(U_a\) nonempty, since an empty \(U_a\) breaks necessity (its counterexample);
the block-by-block re-expansion and the reduction step made explicit in step 6;
the other forms of a clause block restricted to \(v\) and \(u_a\);
the degree bound on the blocks used added as a part of the theorem;
the claim that bounded members never suffice withdrawn, since the point family's consequence leaves the budget for \(d\ge5\) (the reviewer's \(d\ge4\) corrected to 5);
the transfer of the recorded obstructions stated through (H), not verbatim;
the planar conclusion limited to the tested configurations, with the test without private inputs, clause_shared.sing, added;
the limits naming blocks without private inputs;
the independence of the two computations stated exactly.

The degree bound added a claim, so a second short pass checked it. That pass confirmed step 8 and required only that the size bound on members not be read as a completed reduction, which is now stated.

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Route review: the clause hub criterion's independence hypothesis fails at W's block counts, so A1 returns to closed row freeness, whose open core is chaining

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-hub-row-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the clause hub criterion's independence hypothesis fails at W's block counts, so A1 returns to closed row freeness, whose open core is chaining”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-hub-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The clause hub criterion proposed proving row freeness for hub-private clause families from row freeness of their hub sets. The rule to recheck a line's standing hypotheses against the goal's instances at every cycle applies before that step. Do W's instances satisfy the hub criterion's hypotheses?

General statement. The line's claim is W, through thm:global-closure-gluing: W follows once the graded functions on the allowed set of every W clause family are row-free through degree \(22k\), the form conj:closed-row-freeness states for column forms at density at least one half. The hub criterion is a special case on the way, and this review finds that its hypothesis cannot hold at W's block counts.

The instance count

The hypothesis. thm:clause-hub-criterion needs the private parts of all blocks' outside forms to be jointly linearly independent. Step 4 of its proof uses the product structure of the fibers over the hub, which needs that global independence, not independence of small subfamilies.
The count. W has \(M=n^K\) families. The weak board has \(n(n+1)\) variables. A hub-private family with one private form per block therefore has fewer than \(n(n+1)\) blocks, and at most \(n\) if the forms are column forms. For \(K\ge3\) that is a vanishing fraction of the inventory, whatever the hub.
The local version is refuted. The natural weakening asks for independence of the private parts only within every set of at most \(22k/(p-1)\) blocks, the number of blocks a consequence within budget uses by the criterion's degree bound. With a trivial hub, this is \(t\)-wise independence of the clauses themselves. prop:covering-obstruction gives \(t\)-wise independent selectors, for every \(t\), that are non-local at degree 1. So locality does not follow from local independence alone.

So the criterion describes a hub group of at most about \(n^2\) blocks exactly, but it cannot organize the whole inventory. The proposed next step, row freeness for hub-private families, would produce a special case of at most about \(n^2\) blocks, of the kind thm:seeded-closure-stability already treats for up to about \(N/((p-1)(D+1))\) seeded column forms with any allowed set. It would not move A1's general implication.

Where A1 stands on the closure route

Locality is closed for adversarial families. The record shows every local statement tried so far failing within budget: the covering and pairing obstructions without density, inconsistent clusters (thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy), and dense pairs with a two-dimensional dependency space even after saturation (ex:saturated-locality-failure).
Row freeness survives the known non-locality in range. ex:inconsistent-pair-in-range: an inconsistent pair is non-local and still row-free at \(D=3\), \(N=24\). Chains of up to 8 inconsistent links are row-free too (the inconsistent-chains test).
The open core is chaining. Dependencies can link clauses into groups beyond the joint-freeness range. The inconsistent-chains entry showed no test at \(D=3\) in range can separate this from sparseness. So it needs a proof.

Falsification attempt. Does the hub criterion itself give a counterexample to closed row freeness? Its non-local cases are covering configurations, whose allowed sets are small, like PT6's line \(x=0\) in the hub. conj:closed-row-freeness assumes density at least one half, which covering configurations violate. So no.

Assessment of the line. The closure route has a precise central conjecture, closed row freeness at density one half, with in-range evidence against every recorded non-local mechanism. It has no proof technique that tolerates non-locality: every proved case (seeded, block-structured and sparse members) is local or works with a bounded number of forms. The line is alive and specific, and it needs a mechanism for gluing freeness across non-local overlaps.

The next step

A gluing lemma for row freeness that tolerates a locality defect. lem:degreewise-gluing's level sequence \(0\to F_d(U\cup W)\to F_d(U)\oplus F_d(W)\to F_d(U\cap W)\to0\) is exact exactly when the pair is local. When it is not, the pairs of functions agreeing on the overlap contain the glued functions with a quotient, the defect. The row sums act on every term, so the long exact sequences of Koszul homology relate the pieces. Formulate and prove a lemma giving the Koszul condition of thm:global-closure-gluing for \(U\cap W\) from conditions on \(U\), \(W\), \(U\cup W\) and the defect module. Then check its defect hypothesis on the recorded inconsistent pair, which is non-local and row-free. That would turn chaining into a question about defect modules, which live above the non-locality degree.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:clause-hub-criterion (step 4 and its hypotheses), thm:global-closure-gluing, conj:closed-row-freeness, thm:seeded-closure-stability, conj:generic-form-freeness, prop:covering-obstruction, thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy, thm:resolvent-absorption and its avoidance paragraph, ex:saturated-locality-failure, the closure route review, the inconsistent-chains entry, and lem:degreewise-gluing's level sequence. Claim searches for Mayer–Vietoris and defect gluing, long exact sequences of Koszul homology, and Čech covers found no recorded gluing of freeness across a defect. The review registers no claim.

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Defect gluing: row freeness passes to an intersection when a distributivity condition modulo the rows holds and the locality defect is row-independent

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-defect-gluing. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Defect gluing: row freeness passes to an intersection when a distributivity condition modulo the rows holds and the locality defect is row-independent”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-defect-gluing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The hub route review located A1's open core on the closure route. W follows from row freeness of the graded functions on the clauses' allowed set (thm:global-closure-gluing), and locality, the only recorded way to assemble row freeness from single clauses, fails for adversarial families. The missing implication is a gluing step for row freeness that tolerates a locality defect. This cycle states and proves one, and identifies exactly what the defect must satisfy.

General statement. lem:defect-gluing. Row freeness through \(D\) is the vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) over the truncated row-sum algebra. For two sets \(U,W\) of assignments that are row-free through \(D\), the intersection \(U\cap W\) is row-free through \(D\) if two conditions hold in every degree \(\le D\): a distributivity condition modulo the rows, which is equivalent to \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\)-vanishing for \(G/(n_U+n_W)\), the quotient by the sum of the two top ideals, and row independence of the graded locality defect. The second is also necessary. Iterated along \(U_1\cap\dots\cap U_j\), it gives sufficient conditions for row freeness of any allowed set in terms of the defect modules of its successive intersections. The lemma is a routine composition of two long exact \(\operatorname{Tor}\) sequences; its content is the identification of the defect term.

Setting

Work over a field \(\mathbb F\) of characteristic \(p\), on the weak unary board with \(m\ge2\) rows and \(N\) holes. \(\mathcal P\) is the set of column-injective assignments whose total occupancy is \(\equiv m\pmod p\), as in thm:global-closure-gluing. For \(Q\subseteq\mathcal P\), \(F_d(Q)\) is the space of restrictions to \(Q\) of polynomials of degree \(\le d\), and \(I(Q)\) is the ideal of functions on \(\mathcal P\) vanishing on \(Q\), with \(I_d(Q)=I(Q)\cap F_d(\mathcal P)\). Put \[G=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P},\qquad n_Q=\bigoplus_d I_d(Q)/I_{d-1}(Q)\subseteq G,\] the ideal of top forms of \(I(Q)\). Let \(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}\in G_1\) be the classes of the row sums, and \(\Lambda=\mathbb F[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_1^p,\dots,r_{m-1}^p)\).

\(G\) is a \(\Lambda\)-module. Each row sum takes values in \(\mathbb F_p\) on \(\mathcal P\), so \(r_i^p=r_i\) as functions. The class of \(r_i^p\) in \(G_p\) is therefore 0.
\(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q=G/n_Q\). The restriction \(F_d(\mathcal P)\to F_d(Q)\) is onto with kernel \(I_d(Q)\) in every degree. So \(0\to I(Q)\to\mathbb F^{\mathcal P}\to\mathbb F^Q\to0\) is strict for the filtrations, and taking associated graded objects keeps it exact.
Row freeness is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\). Call \(Q\) row-free through \(D\) if every Koszul 1-cycle of \((r_i)\) on \(G/n_Q\) of degree \(\le D\) is a sum of Frobenius cycles \(r_i^{p-1}c\,e_i\) and boundaries. This is the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing. The minimal free resolution of \(\mathbb F\) over \(\Lambda\), a tensor product of the periodic resolutions of the factors \(\mathbb F[r_i]/(r_i^p)\), begins \(\Lambda\leftarrow\bigoplus_i\Lambda e_i\leftarrow\bigoplus_{i<j}\Lambda e_{ij}\oplus\bigoplus_i\Lambda f_i\). Here \(e_i\mapsto r_i\), \(e_{ij}\mapsto r_je_i-r_ie_j\) and \(f_i\mapsto r_i^{p-1}e_i\), with \(e_i\) in degree 1. A cycle \(\sum_ic_ie_i\) then has degree \(\deg c_i+1\), which is the convention of thm:global-closure-gluing and thm:closure-gluing, whose proof uses \(H_1(r;G)_{k+1}\) for \(k+1\le D\). So for a graded \(\Lambda\)-module \(M\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F,M)_d\) is the space of degree-\(d\) Koszul 1-cycles modulo boundaries and Frobenius cycles. Hence \(Q\) is row-free through \(D\) if and only if \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F,G/n_Q)_d=0\) for all \(d\le D\). Write \(T_i(M)=\operatorname{Tor}_i^\Lambda(\mathbb F,M)\), so \(T_0(M)=M/\mathfrak rM\) with \(\mathfrak r=(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1})\).
The defect module. For \(U,W\subseteq\mathcal P\), \(I(U)+I(W)\subseteq I(U\cap W)\), so \(n_U+n_W\subseteq n_{U\cap W}\). Put \(\Delta=n_{U\cap W}/(n_U+n_W)\). Then \(\Delta_d=0\) for all \(d\le D\) if and only if \(I_d(U\cap W)=I_d(U)+I_d(W)\) for all \(d\le D\), the degreewise locality of lem:degreewise-gluing. That lemma is stated on the Boolean cube; its equality is equivalent to this one, because the cube polynomials of degree \(\le d\) vanishing on \(\mathcal P\) lie in both \(I_d(U)\) and \(I_d(W)\). Proof. If locality holds, a top form of degree \(d\) in \(n_{U\cap W}\) is the degree-\(d\) part of some \(f+g\), \(f\in I_d(U)\), \(g\in I_d(W)\), which lies in \(n_{U,d}+n_{W,d}\). Conversely, let \(h\in I_d(U\cap W)\). If \(\Delta_d=0\), its degree-\(d\) part equals that of some \(f+g\) as above. Then \(h-f-g\in I_{d-1}(U\cap W)\), and induction on \(d\) finishes.

The lemma

Lemma (defect gluing). Let \(U,W\subseteq\mathcal P\) be row-free through \(D\). Consider two conditions in a degree \(d\):

\((n_U\cap n_W)+\mathfrak rG=(n_U+\mathfrak rG)\cap(n_W+\mathfrak rG)\);
\(n_{U\cap W}\cap(\mathfrak rG+n_U+n_W)=\mathfrak r\,n_{U\cap W}+n_U+n_W\).

Then:

(i) holds in every degree \(\le D\) if and only if \(T_1(G/(n_U+n_W))_d=0\) for all \(d\le D\).
If (i) and (ii) hold in every degree \(\le D\), then \(U\cap W\) is row-free through \(D\).
If \(U\cap W\) is row-free through \(D\), then (ii) holds in every degree \(\le D\). This part does not use the row freeness of \(U\) and \(W\), and makes no claim about (i).
If the pair \(U,W\) is local through \(D\) (and \(U\), \(W\) are row-free, as assumed), then row freeness of \(U\cap W\) through \(D\) is equivalent to (i).

Proof. Everything is a graded \(\Lambda\)-module, and the long exact \(\operatorname{Tor}\) sequences preserve the internal degree.

Mayer–Vietoris. The sequence \(0\to G/(n_U\cap n_W)\to G/n_U\oplus G/n_W\to G/(n_U+n_W)\to0\), with maps \(x\mapsto(x,x)\) and \((x,y)\mapsto x-y\), is exact. Its \(\operatorname{Tor}\) sequence contains \[T_1(G/n_U)\oplus T_1(G/n_W)\to T_1(G/(n_U+n_W))\to T_0(G/(n_U\cap n_W))\xrightarrow{\ \alpha\ }T_0(G/n_U)\oplus T_0(G/n_W).\] In degree \(d\le D\) the first term vanishes, since \(U\) and \(W\) are row-free. So \(T_1(G/(n_U+n_W))_d\cong\ker\alpha_d\). An element of \(T_0(G/(n_U\cap n_W))=G/(n_U\cap n_W+\mathfrak rG)\) lies in \(\ker\alpha\) exactly when a representative lies in \((n_U+\mathfrak rG)\cap(n_W+\mathfrak rG)\). So \(\ker\alpha_d=0\) is (i) in degree \(d\). This proves (a).
The defect sequence. The sequence \(0\to\Delta\to G/(n_U+n_W)\to G/n_{U\cap W}\to0\) is exact. Its \(\operatorname{Tor}\) sequence contains \[T_1(G/(n_U+n_W))\to T_1(G/n_{U\cap W})\to T_0(\Delta)\xrightarrow{\ \beta\ }T_0(G/(n_U+n_W)).\] Under (i), the first term vanishes in degrees \(\le D\) by (a), so \(T_1(G/n_{U\cap W})_d\cong\ker\beta_d\). \(T_0(\Delta)=n_{U\cap W}/(\mathfrak rn_{U\cap W}+n_U+n_W)\), and \(\beta\) is induced by the inclusion into \(G/(\mathfrak rG+n_U+n_W)\). So \(\ker\beta_d=0\) is (ii) in degree \(d\). This proves (b). For (c), exactness at \(T_0(\Delta)\) makes \(\ker\beta\) the image of \(T_1(G/n_{U\cap W})\), which vanishes in degrees \(\le D\) when \(U\cap W\) is row-free, whatever (i) says.
The local case. If the pair is local through \(D\), then \(\Delta_d=0\) for \(d\le D\). So both sides of (ii) equal \(n_U+n_W\) in those degrees, and (b) gives row freeness from (i). Conversely, \(T_1(M)_d\) is computed from \(M_{d'}\) with \(d'\le d\), since the resolution's generators have positive degree, so \(T_1(\Delta)_d=0\) for \(d\le D\). The defect sequence then makes \(T_1(G/(n_U+n_W))_d\to T_1(G/n_{U\cap W})_d\) injective, and row freeness of \(U\cap W\) gives (i) by (a). \(\square\)

Iteration

Corollary (chained defect gluing). Let \(Z=U_1\cap\dots\cap U_L\) with every \(U_b\) row-free through \(D\), and put \(Q_j=U_1\cap\dots\cap U_j\). Suppose that for every \(j<L\), conditions (i) and (ii) hold through \(D\) for the pair \((Q_j,U_{j+1})\). Then \(Z\) is row-free through \(D\), and by thm:global-closure-gluing, if \(Z\) is nonempty, the weak base plus any constraints of degree \(\le D\) vanishing on \(Z\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). Proof. Induction on \(j\) with part (b). \(\square\)

The order of the \(U_b\) is free, and one can group clauses into members first, taking the \(U_b\) to be members' allowed sets.

What this gives, and what it does not

Non-locality is now a named condition. The recorded inconsistent pair of ex:inconsistent-pair-in-range is non-local, and its allowed set is row-free through \(D=3\) at \(N=24\) in the one-row closed test. By (c), its defect satisfies (ii) through degree 3 there. The defect module itself was not computed. That it is generated in degree 2 by the top of the resolvent, the product of the two private forms, is an expectation from the closure's extra dimension in degree 2, not a verified fact. Where it holds, (ii) in degree 2 asks that this top not lie in \(\mathfrak rG+n_U+n_W\) beyond \(\mathfrak r\,n_{U\cap W}\), and in higher degrees it constrains all of \(\Delta/\mathfrak r\Delta\), including the multiples of that top.
Chaining is not solved. Conditions (i) and (ii) for \((Q_j,U_{j+1})\) involve the tops of the whole accumulated set \(Q_j\). So the corollary gives sufficient conditions, one distributivity and one defect condition per step, but it does not make them local to clauses. prop:overlap-tor's three-member failure, single selectors on \(x\), \(y\), \(x+y\), is a warning that pairwise conditions of this kind need not chain. Whether (i) and (ii) hold for the budget's clauses is open.
Generality. The lemma uses only that each \(r_i\) is a sum of 0/1 coordinates, so \(\mathbb F_p\)-valued with \(r_i^p=r_i\). It holds for subsets of any set of 0/1 points. Column-injectivity and the occupancy congruence matter only for the corollary's appeal to thm:global-closure-gluing.
Relation to the record. lem:degreewise-gluing's level sequence is the unfiltered form of the Mayer–Vietoris sequence of step 1. There, exactness at the middle is locality. prop:overlap-tor computes a Tor over the overlap for the tops of two members, for relative gluing's hypothesis (b). prop:syzygies-as-tor identifies top syzygies modulo Taylor syzygies with a Tor. The present lemma is the analogue for row freeness, with the defect module as the new term.

Next: the defect condition for an isolated inconsistent cluster. First compute its defect module \(\Delta\) through \(D\) on the recorded pair, to check whether it is generated by the resolvent's top \(t\). If \(\Delta=Gt\) there, (ii) becomes the statement that \(g\,t\in\mathfrak rG+n_U+n_W\) only when \(g\,t\in\mathfrak r\,n_{U\cap W}+n_U+n_W\). Prove that from freeness of the private forms over the row sums, the kind of statement conj:generic-form-freeness makes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:global-closure-gluing and thm:closure-gluing (statement, and the degree convention of \(H_1(r;G)_{k+1}\) in the proof), lem:degreewise-gluing's level sequence, prop:overlap-tor, prop:syzygies-as-tor, conj:closed-row-freeness and ex:inconsistent-pair-in-range. Claim searches for Mayer–Vietoris and defect gluing and for long exact Koszul sequences found no statement of the lemma. Before the proof was drafted, a reviewer answered that the record does not state it, that it is a routine composition, and that the defect's equivalence with locality is lem:degreewise-gluing's condition. It required the degree convention, the cube-versus-\(\mathcal P\) remark, (ii) as necessary on its own, and the corollary stated as sufficient only, with prop:overlap-tor's three-member warning. A fresh-context reviewer then required these changes, all adopted:

(i) described as \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\)-vanishing for \(G/(n_U+n_W)\), not as functions modulo \(I(U)+I(W)\), which equals \(I(U\cap W)\);
the converse in (d) proved, and its use of the row freeness of \(U\) and \(W\) stated;
the unsupported "(i) need not" in (c) removed;
the generality stated: only 0/1 row sums are used;
the inconsistent-pair bullet corrected: the degree and test cited, and the defect's generation by the resolvent's top marked as unverified;
the next step restated so that it first computes the defect;
a notation clash removed.

These correct and weaken claims; the one addition, the converse proof in (d), proves a part already stated. No further pass was made.

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Route review: an isolated cluster's defect condition is automatic in range, so the closure route's chain step is relative freeness of the accumulated closure

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation: the planned test could not decide) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-cluster-defect. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: an isolated cluster's defect condition is automatic in range, so the closure route's chain step is relative freeness of the accumulated closure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-cluster-defect-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, on the closure route. The defect gluing entry proposed computing the defect module of an isolated inconsistent cluster, checking that the resolvent's top generates it, and proving the defect condition (ii) from freeness of the private forms over the row sums. The computation rule "decide first whether the test can decide" applies before any code is written.

General statement. The line's claim is W through thm:global-closure-gluing, by row freeness of the clauses' allowed set, as in conj:closed-row-freeness. This review shows that the proposed test cannot decide. The chain step it was meant to serve is lem:filtered-freeness-transfer applied to the accumulated set, whose hypothesis is relative freeness, the form of conj:closed-base-splitting.

Why the cluster test cannot decide

An isolated cluster is covered in range. A cluster of \(t+1\) clauses of width \(k\) has at most \((t+1)k\) forms, and they are jointly free in range whenever that number is below the joint-freeness threshold (about \(N/2\) at \(D=3\), conj:generic-form-freeness), or seeded (thm:seeded-closure-stability). lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, applied with \(F\) the functions on \(\mathcal P\) and \(J\) the ideal of any allowed set of those forms, then gives an allowed set that is row-free through \(D\), consistent or not, local or not.
So the defect condition holds automatically. By part (c) of lem:defect-gluing, a row-free intersection satisfies (ii). Computing the defect of the recorded pair would therefore confirm an implication already proved, whatever the defect's generators are. No run was made.
Where the defect condition matters. Only beyond joint freeness: when the accumulated set \(Q_j\) of a chain involves more forms than the threshold, so that neither \(Q_j\) nor \(Q_j\cap U_{j+1}\) falls under the transfer lemma directly.

The chain step, restated

lem:filtered-freeness-transfer is stated for any filtered function algebra \(F\) with a filtered map from the functions \(R\) on the values of \(e\) forms. Take \(F=\mathbb F^{Q_j}\), the functions on the accumulated set, and the forms of the next clause \(U_{j+1}\). Then \(F/JF=\mathbb F^{Q_j\cap U_{j+1}}\) for \(J\) the ideal of the clause's allowed values. The lemma's last clause says:

if \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q_j}\) is, below degree \(D+1\), free over \(\Lambda\otimes T_{j+1}\), where \(T_{j+1}\) is the truncated algebra of the next clause's form tops and \(\Lambda\) that of the row sums,
then \(Q_j\cap U_{j+1}\) is row-free through \(D\), for every allowed set of that clause.

This needs no locality, so the step from \(Q_j\) to \(Q_{j+1}\) is governed by relative freeness: freeness of the accumulated closure over the rows and the next clause's forms. The chain continues only if \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q_{j+1}}\) is in turn relatively free over the clause after that. conj:closed-base-splitting states this for one closed column member as the base and generic forms. lem:defect-gluing is the weaker fallback: it needs only row freeness of the parts, at the price of conditions (i) and (ii).

Assessment

What the last two cycles changed. The defect gluing lemma names the condition a non-local step must satisfy. This review finds that condition automatic wherever the transfer lemma applies. So it is informative only beyond joint freeness, where neither tool has a proof.
The line. The closure route's open core is now one property of accumulated closures: relative freeness over the next clause's forms, or failing that, row freeness with the defect conditions. The record has in-range evidence only for row freeness of accumulated sets, from chains of up to 8 links. Relative freeness of an accumulated set beyond joint freeness has not been measured.

Next step

Measure relative freeness beyond joint freeness. Take accumulated dense sets \(Q_j\), consistent chains of clauses whose forms together exceed the joint-freeness threshold, at \(D=3\), \(N=24\). Test whether \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q_j}\) is free through \(D\) over the rows and one further clause's forms, by the Hilbert-series criterion of prop:syzygies-as-tor. Before coding, count the forms, the threshold and the kernel's reach, and check that the test can fail.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:defect-gluing (parts (b) and (c)), lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (statement and proof, including its last clause), thm:seeded-closure-stability, conj:generic-form-freeness, conj:closed-base-splitting, prop:syzygies-as-tor, and the inconsistent-chains entry. The review registers no claim and runs no computation.

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Shared-form obstruction: an accumulated set is not free over a form that one of its clauses contains, unless a divisibility condition holds, so chain steps through shared forms cannot use the freeness transfer

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-relative-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Shared-form obstruction: an accumulated set is not free over a form that one of its clauses contains, unless a divisibility condition holds, so chain steps through shared forms cannot use the freeness transfer”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-shared-form-obstruction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, on the closure route. The cluster-defect review restated the chain step: lem:filtered-freeness-transfer makes \(Q_j\cap U_{j+1}\) row-free if the functions on the accumulated set \(Q_j\) are free over the rows and the next clause's forms. It proposed measuring that relative freeness beyond joint freeness. Before designing the run: can relative freeness hold at all when the next clause shares a form with an accumulated clause, as consecutive clauses of a chain do?

General statement. prop:shared-form-obstruction. If a clause of the accumulated set makes \(\varphi(\ell)\,\psi\) vanish on it, with \(\varphi\) a polynomial in the form \(\ell\) and \(\psi\) any function, then the graded functions on that set are not free over the truncated algebra of \(\ell\), in the degree of the product, unless the top of \(\psi\) is divisible by the right power of \(\ell\). For the budget's width-2 clauses the condition is only that the other form is not constant on the set, so the obstruction holds in degree 2. For W's clauses it holds wherever a stated non-divisibility condition does, checked so far in one form-space example, and its degree \(p-1+|S|\) lies far below W's budget \(22k\). Where it holds, a chain step whose clause shares a form with the accumulated set cannot use the freeness transfer.

The proposition

Setting. As in lem:defect-gluing: a set of 0/1 points, \(G=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P}\), and \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q=G/n_Q\) for \(Q\subseteq\mathcal P\), over a field of characteristic \(p\ge3\). For an affine form \(\ell\) with values in \(\mathbb F_p\), \(\ell^p=\ell\) as functions, so its top \(\bar\ell\in G_1\) satisfies \(\bar\ell^p=0\), and \(\mathbb F[t]/(t^p)\) acts on every \(G/n_Q\) through \(t\mapsto\bar\ell\).

Proposition (shared-form obstruction). Let \(Q\subseteq\mathcal P\) be nonempty. Suppose \(\varphi(\ell)\,\psi\) vanishes on \(Q\), where \(\varphi\) is a polynomial of degree \(\alpha\le p-1\) in one variable and \(\psi\) is a function of degree \(\beta\) with top \(\bar\psi\) in \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q\). If \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q\) is free over \(\mathbb F[t]/(t^p)\) in degrees \(\le\alpha+\beta\), then \(\bar\psi\in\bar\ell^{\,p-\alpha}\operatorname{gr}_{\alpha+\beta-p}\mathbb F^Q\), which is 0 when \(\alpha+\beta<p\). Consequently, if \(\bar\psi\) is not of that form, \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q\) is not free, in degrees \(\le\alpha+\beta\), over \(\Lambda\otimes T\) for any truncated polynomial algebra \(T\) acting through form tops with \(\bar\ell\) among its generators. In particular lem:filtered-freeness-transfer cannot be applied to \(F=\mathbb F^Q\) with \(\ell\) among the forms of \(R\) and \(n_0>\alpha+\beta\).

Proof.

The top relation. \(\varphi(\ell)\psi\) is a function of degree at most \(\alpha+\beta\) vanishing on \(Q\). Write \(\varphi(\ell)=c\ell^\alpha+(\text{lower})\) with \(c\ne0\). Then \(\ell^\alpha\psi\equiv c^{-1}\varphi(\ell)\psi\) modulo functions of degree \(<\alpha+\beta\), so on \(Q\) the function \(\ell^\alpha\psi\) has degree \(<\alpha+\beta\). Hence \(\bar\ell^{\,\alpha}\bar\psi=0\) in \(\operatorname{gr}_{\alpha+\beta}\mathbb F^Q\). If \(\bar\psi\) has degree below \(\beta\) on \(Q\), the statement is about its class in degree \(\beta\), which is then 0 and the claim is empty.
Freeness. In a graded free module over \(\mathbb F[t]/(t^p)\) with generators in nonnegative degrees, \(\ker t^\alpha=t^{p-\alpha}M\). If \(M\) agrees with a free module in degrees \(\le\alpha+\beta\), this holds for the degree-\(\beta\) part, since both sides involve only degrees \(\le\alpha+\beta\). Apply it to \(\bar\psi\in\ker t^\alpha\). When \(\alpha+\beta<p\), the degree \(\alpha+\beta-p\) is negative and the right side is 0.
Larger algebras. \(\Lambda\otimes T\) is free over its subalgebra \(\mathbb F[\bar\ell]/(\bar\ell^p)\) when \(\bar\ell\) is one of \(T\)'s generators. A module free over \(\Lambda\otimes T\) in degrees \(\le\alpha+\beta\) is then free over the subalgebra in those degrees. The transfer lemma's hypothesis is such freeness below \(n_0\). \(\square\)

The clauses that matter

Budget width-2 clauses, allowing \(\ell=c\) or \(a=c'\): \((\ell-c)(a-c')\) vanishes, \(\alpha=\beta=1<p\). The obstruction holds as soon as \(a\) is not constant on \(Q\), and it appears in degree 2. The links of the inconsistent chains and the pair of ex:inconsistent-pair-in-range are clauses of this kind sharing a form.
W's clauses \((1-L_i^{p-1})\prod_{j\in S}L_j^{p-1}\), with \(\ell=L_{j_0}\), \(j_0\in S\): the clause allows some \(L_j=0\) or \(L_i\ne0\), so \(\ell\cdot(1-L_i^{p-1})\prod_{j\in S\setminus j_0}L_j\) vanishes. Here \(\alpha=1\), \(\beta=p-2+|S|\), and the condition is that \(\bar\psi=-\bar L_i^{p-1}\prod_{j\ne j_0}\bar L_j\) is not divisible by \(\bar\ell^{\,p-1}\) in \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q\). This is not proved for W's dependent forms. It holds in the form-space example below, \(|S|=1\) in free coordinates. The degree \(\alpha+\beta=p-1+|S|\), which is \(k+2\) at \(p=3\), is far below the degree \(22k\) through which W's chain steps need freeness, so the obstruction, where the condition holds, lies inside the relevant range.

A form-space check (shared_form.sing, shared_form.out) computes, over \(\mathbb F_3\) in free coordinates \(\ell,a,b\), the Hilbert functions of \(G(Q)\) and \(G(Q)/\bar\ell G(Q)\). It compares the latter with the free prediction \([q^s]\,\mathrm{HS}_G/(1+q+q^2)\) of prop:syzygies-as-tor for one form. The check tests freeness over \(\mathbb F[\bar\ell]/(\bar\ell^3)\) on \(\mathbb F_3^3\) only, not the 0/1 setting or \(\Lambda\otimes T\):

budget clause \(\ell a=0\): first mismatch at degree 2;
W's clause shape \((1-a^2)\ell^2=0\): first mismatch at degree 3 (\(\ell(1-a^2)\) vanishes, \(\alpha+\beta=3\));
control \(ab=0\), not containing \(\ell\): free through degree 6.

The degrees are those the proposition gives. The script's header predicted degrees 1 and 2 before the run; they were off by one, because the Hilbert criterion detects \(\bar\ell\bar a=0\), with \(\bar a\) in degree 1, as an extra generator in degree 2. The header was corrected after the run.

What this means for the closure route

Relative freeness is the wrong chain hypothesis for shared forms. A chain step \(Q_j\to Q_j\cap U_{j+1}\) in which \(U_{j+1}\) shares a form with a clause of \(Q_j\) fails the transfer lemma's hypothesis for \(n_0>\alpha+\beta\), whatever the density, whenever the proposition's condition holds. For budget width-2 links that is unconditional apart from \(a\) being nonconstant, so the measurement the cluster-defect review proposed, on such chains at \(D=3\), would find the failure in degree 2 and decide nothing new. It was not run.
What remains. Two tools are left for such steps. One is lem:defect-gluing, which needs only row freeness of the parts. The other is the transfer lemma applied to the new clause's private forms alone. For a budget clause \(U=\{\ell=c\}\cup\{b=0\}\) sharing \(\ell\), the set \(Q\cap U\) splits over the values of the private form \(b\): over \(b=0\) it is \(Q\cap\{b=0\}\), and over each \(b=v\ne0\) it is \(Q\cap\{\ell=c\}\cap\{b=v\}\). So freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q\) over the rows and \(b\) alone, which no clause of \(Q\) obstructs when none contains \(b\) (a relation \(\varphi(b)\psi\) could still arise from dependent forms), together with row freeness of \(Q\cap\{\ell=c\}\), is a plausible sufficient condition.
Consistency with the record. conj:closed-base-splitting asks for freeness over generic forms, not over forms the base already contains, so it is not contradicted.

Next: the shared-link lemma. For \(U=\{\ell=c\}\cup\{b=0\}\) with \(b\) private, prove that \(Q\cap U\) is row-free through \(D\) when \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q\) is free over \(\Lambda\otimes\mathbb F[\bar b]/(\bar b^p)\) below degree \(D+1\) (the transfer lemma's \(n_0=D+1\)) and \(Q\cap\{\ell=c\}\) is free over the same algebra below \(D+1\). Use the fiber decomposition over the values of \(b\) and lem:filtered-freeness-transfer. This differs from lem:defect-gluing: \(Q\cap U\) is a union of fiber pieces over \(b\), not an intersection, and no locality defect enters.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (statement and last clause), lem:defect-gluing, conj:closed-base-splitting, prop:syzygies-as-tor's Hilbert criterion, the inconsistent-chains entry and ex:inconsistent-pair-in-range. Claim searches for freeness over a form, kernels of multiplication and relative freeness found no earlier statement. A fresh-context reviewer, asked the restatement question together with the draft, found no earlier statement and no error in the proof, and confirmed the check's criterion and its degrees. It required these changes, all adopted:

the claim for W's clauses made conditional on the non-divisibility condition, checked in one form-space example;
"never" and "however dense" replaced by the conditions under which the obstruction holds, with the degree \(p-1+|S|\) compared with W's \(22k\);
the fiber description of \(Q\cap U\) over \(b\) corrected;
"not obstructed" limited to the absence of clauses containing \(b\);
the next step given the transfer lemma's degree \(n_0=D+1\) and distinguished from defect gluing;
the inconsistent-chain reference cited, and the check's scope stated.

These weaken or correct claims, so no further pass was made.

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Shared link: a clause joining a shared-form condition to a private form keeps row freeness, given freeness over the private form alone

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-shared-link. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Shared link: a clause joining a shared-form condition to a private form keeps row freeness, given freeness over the private form alone”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-shared-link.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, on the closure route. The shared-form obstruction showed that a chain step through a shared form cannot use freeness over that form. A clause of W, or a budget clause, allows either a condition on forms it may share with other clauses or a condition on its own private forms. Does freeness over the private forms alone carry row freeness through such a clause?

General statement. lem:shared-link. Let \(X\) be a set of assignments, \(b\) a tuple of forms, \(W\) a set of values of \(b\), and \(Q'\subseteq X\) with \(X\setminus Q'\subseteq\{b\in W\}\). Suppose the graded functions on \(Q'\) are free, below degree \(n_0\), over the truncated algebra of \(b\) tensored with that of the rows, and those on \(X\cap\{b\in W\}\) are free below \(n_0\) over the rows. Then \(X\) is row-free through \(n_0-1\). For a clause \(U=S\cup\{b\in W\}\), with \(S\) cut out by shared forms, and an accumulated set \(Q\), this applies to \(X=Q\cap U\) with \(Q'=Q\cap S\), and the second hypothesis follows from freeness of \(Q\) over \(b\) and the rows. No freeness over the shared forms is needed.

Setting

As in lem:defect-gluing: a field \(\mathbb F\) of characteristic \(p\), a set \(\mathcal P\) of 0/1 points with row sums, and for \(Q\subseteq\mathcal P\) the filtered algebra \(\mathbb F^Q\) of functions on \(Q\), filtered by the degree of restricted polynomials. Let \(b=(b_1,\dots,b_e)\) be \(\mathbb F_p\)-valued affine forms, \(R=\mathbb F^{\mathbb F_p^e}\) with \(T_R=\operatorname{gr}R\), acting on \(\mathbb F^Q\) through \(b\). Let \(\Lambda'\) be a truncated polynomial algebra \(\mathbb F[y_1,\dots,y_u]/(y^p)\) acting through the tops of \(\mathbb F_p\)-valued degree-1 functions \(y_i\), such as the row sums, possibly with further forms. Say that \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q\) is free below \(n_0\) over \(T_R\otimes\Lambda'\) in the sense of lem:filtered-freeness-transfer: it contains a graded submodule free over \(T_R\otimes\Lambda'\) that agrees with it in degrees \(<n_0\). Say that a graded \(\Lambda'\)-module is truncated free below \(n_0\) if it agrees in degrees \(<n_0\) with a free graded module; then \(\operatorname{Tor}^{\Lambda'}_i(\mathbb F,\cdot)_d=0\) for \(i\ge1\), \(d<n_0\), since these groups depend only on degrees \(\le d\).

The lemma

Lemma (shared link). Let \(X\subseteq\mathcal P\), \(W\subseteq\mathbb F_p^e\), \(B=X\cap\{b\in W\}\), and \(Q'\subseteq X\) with \(X\setminus Q'\subseteq\{b\in W\}\), so that \(X=Q'\cup B\). If \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q'}\) is free below \(n_0\) over \(T_R\otimes\Lambda'\) and \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{B}\) is truncated free below \(n_0\) over \(\Lambda'\), then \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^X\) is truncated free below \(n_0\) over \(\Lambda'\). When \(\Lambda'=\Lambda\otimes\Lambda''\) with \(\Lambda\) the row sums' algebra, \(X\) is row-free through \(n_0-1\).

Corollary (clause step). Let \(Q\subseteq\mathcal P\), \(S\subseteq\mathcal P\) and \(U=S\cup\{b\in W\}\). If \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^Q\) and \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q\cap S}\) are free below \(n_0\) over \(T_R\otimes\Lambda'\), then \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q\cap U}\) is truncated free below \(n_0\) over \(\Lambda'\). Proof. Take \(X=Q\cap U\) and \(Q'=Q\cap S\). Then \(X\setminus Q'\subseteq\{b\in W\}\) and \(B=Q\cap\{b\in W\}\), whose graded functions are truncated free over \(\Lambda'\) by lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (b) and its last clause, applied to \(\mathbb F^Q\). \(\square\)

Proof of the lemma. Put \(J=I_R(W)\), the functions of \(b\) vanishing on \(W\). Two facts are used throughout. For any \(Y\), \(J\mathbb F^Y\) is the set of functions on \(Y\) vanishing on \(Y\cap\{b\in W\}\), since \(J\) contains the indicator of \(\{b\notin W\}\). And the quotient filtration on \(\mathbb F^Y/J\mathbb F^Y\) is the degree filtration of \(\mathbb F^{Y\cap\{b\in W\}}\), since both are images of the polynomials of degree \(\le d\).

The overlap. \(Q'\cap B=Q'\cap\{b\in W\}\). By lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (b) and its last clause, applied to \(\mathbb F^{Q'}\) with \(J\), its graded functions are truncated free below \(n_0\) over \(\Lambda'\). Those on \(Q'\) are too, since \(T_R\otimes\Lambda'\) is free over \(\Lambda'\).
Locality below \(n_0\). Work in \(\mathbb F^X\). Let \(d<n_0\) and \(f\in\mathbb F^X_d\) vanish on \(Q'\cap B\). Then \(f|_{Q'}\in\mathbb F^{Q'}_d\) vanishes on \(Q'\cap\{b\in W\}\), so \(f|_{Q'}\in J\mathbb F^{Q'}\). By lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (a) for \(\mathbb F^{Q'}\), \(f|_{Q'}=\sum_\beta j_\beta b'_\beta\) with \(j_\beta\in J\) and \(\deg j_\beta\le d-a'_\beta\), for lifts \(b'_\beta\in\mathbb F^{Q'}_{a'_\beta}\) of a basis. Restriction \(\mathbb F^X_a\to\mathbb F^{Q'}_a\) is onto, so choose \(\tilde b_\beta\in\mathbb F^X_{a'_\beta}\) restricting to \(b'_\beta\), and put \(j=\sum_\beta j_\beta\tilde b_\beta\). Then \(j\in J\mathbb F^X\) vanishes on \(X\cap\{b\in W\}=B\), \(\deg j\le d\), and \(k=f-j\) vanishes on \(Q'\). So the degree-\(d\) functions on \(X\) vanishing on \(Q'\cap B\) are the sums of those vanishing on \(Q'\) and those vanishing on \(B\), for every \(d<n_0\).
Gluing. By lem:degreewise-gluing, this locality for the pair \((Q',B)\) in every degree \(d<n_0\) makes the level sequences \(0\to\mathbb F^X_d\to\mathbb F^{Q'}_d\oplus\mathbb F^B_d\to\mathbb F^{Q'\cap B}_d\to0\) exact for \(d<n_0\), and the graded sequence \(0\to\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^X\to\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q'}\oplus\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^B\to\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q'\cap B}\to0\) exact in those degrees. That lemma is stated on the Boolean cube with ideals of cube functions. Its equality is equivalent to the one here, because the cube functions of degree \(\le d\) vanishing on \(X\) lie in all the ideals involved. The sequences consist of graded \(\Lambda'\)-modules, since the \(y_i\) act compatibly on all four algebras.
Freeness. Truncate the graded sequence at degree \(n_0\). The middle and right terms are truncated free over \(\Lambda'\), by step 1 and the hypothesis on \(B\). The long exact \(\operatorname{Tor}\) sequence gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_2\) of the right term \(\to\operatorname{Tor}_1(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^X)_d\to\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of the middle term, both outer terms zero for \(d<n_0\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\Lambda'}(\mathbb F,\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^X)_d=0\) for \(d<n_0\). Over the graded local algebra \(\Lambda'\), a module whose \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) vanishes through degree \(d\) agrees through \(d\) with the free module on its minimal generators: a nonzero kernel of the minimal presentation would have a lowest-degree element giving \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in that degree. If \(\Lambda'=\Lambda\otimes\Lambda''\), a truncated free \(\Lambda'\)-module is truncated free over \(\Lambda\), so \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda\) vanishes below \(n_0\), which is row freeness through \(n_0-1\). \(\square\)

What it covers, and what it does not

Clauses. A W clause of a family allows some product form \(L_j=0\) (\(j\in S\)) or its outside form \(L_i\ne0\): an \(S\)-condition \(\cup\{L_i\in\mathbb F_p^*\}\). The corollary handles one such clause over any accumulated set \(Q\) for which \(Q\) and \(Q\cap\{\text{some }L_j=0\}\) are free below \(n_0\), in the transfer lemma's sense, over the rows and \(L_i\). The product forms may be shared and dependent in any way. A budget width-2 clause \(\{\ell=\gamma\}\cup\{b=0\}\) is the case \(W=\{0\}\). The proof never uses that \(b\) is private; privacy matters only for whether the hypothesis can hold, since freeness over a form the accumulated set already constrains can fail.
Relation to the obstruction. The hypotheses ask for freeness over \(b\) only. prop:shared-form-obstruction shows that freeness of an accumulated set over a form one of its clauses contains fails for budget width-2 clauses in degree 2, and for W's clauses under a non-divisibility condition checked in one example. The lemma never needs such freeness: the shared-form condition enters only through the set \(Q'\), whose functions need not be free over the shared forms.
Chains are not yet covered. To apply the lemma at the next clause \(U'=S'\cup\{b'\in W'\}\), take \(\Lambda'=\Lambda\otimes T_{R'}\). The step then needs the graded functions on \(X\cap S'\) to be free below \(n_0\) over \(T_{R'}\otimes\Lambda\) in the transfer lemma's sense, a free submodule in all degrees, and those on \(X\cap\{b'\in W'\}\) to be truncated free over \(\Lambda\). The lemma's conclusion is truncated freeness of \(X\) itself, which supplies neither directly. The count limit of the hub route review also remains: freeness over many private forms at once needs about as many dimensions as forms.
Form-space sanity check. shared_link.sing (shared_link.out) takes \(Q=\mathbb F_3^3\) in free coordinates \(\ell,b,y\) (called l, b, c in the script), \(Q'=\{\ell=y\}\) or \(\{\ell=y+1\}\), several \(W\), and \(y\) in the role of a row sum. Every \(X\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^3)\) through degree 6, as the lemma predicts. These are small cases where the hypotheses hold, not a test that could have failed for a subtle reason.

Next: the chain step. The next clause needs transfer-sense freeness of \(X\cap S'\) over the next private form and the rows. Either prove a truncated form of lem:filtered-freeness-transfer that accepts the shared-link conclusion, or find a family where truncation loses what the next step needs.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (statement and proof, parts (a), (b) and the last clause), lem:degreewise-gluing (the level sequence and its graded form), lem:defect-gluing, prop:shared-form-obstruction and thm:global-closure-gluing. A claim search for unions, locality, level sequences, row freeness and private forms found no earlier statement. A fresh-context reviewer, asked the restatement question together with the draft, found the lemma new and steps 1 to 5 correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the unused part of the hypothesis on \(Q\) removed: the lemma now assumes transfer-sense freeness of \(Q'\) and truncated freeness of \(B\) only, and the clause form is a corollary;
the level-sequence and graded steps cited to lem:degreewise-gluing instead of reproved;
the two facts about \(J\mathbb F^Y\) and the quotient filtration stated;
the chain gap stated exactly: transfer-sense freeness of \(X\cap S'\);
the obstruction's scope stated as proved for budget clauses and conditional for W's;
privacy of \(b\) marked as unused by the proof;
a notation clash in the sanity check removed.

The first change weakens the hypotheses of a proved statement, with the same proof restricted to \(X\); the others correct and clarify. No further pass was made.

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Route review: the closure-route lemmas all need freeness over every private form, which W's block counts rule out, so A1 is restated as closed row freeness for W's allowed sets

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation: no in-range test can decide) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-truncated-transfer. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the closure-route lemmas all need freeness over every private form, which W's block counts rule out, so A1 is restated as closed row freeness for W's allowed sets”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-closure-tools-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The shared-link entry proposed a truncated form of lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, so that the shared-link step could be iterated. That would be a third reduction below A1: A1, then the closure route's chain step, then the shared link, then its iteration. The rule for lines that descend more than one reduction below the Open statements applies, so this cycle is a route review.

General statement. The line's claim is W through thm:global-closure-gluing, by row freeness of the graded functions on the allowed set of W's clauses. This review restates A1 on that route as one statement, closed row freeness for W's allowed sets (conj:closed-row-freeness in its column-form version), and places the recent lemmas under it as tools.

What the last six cycles established

thm:clause-hub-criterion: for clauses sharing a hub with private remainders, locality is decided in the hub.
lem:defect-gluing: row freeness passes to an intersection given a distributivity condition and a row-independent locality defect.
prop:shared-form-obstruction: an accumulated set is not free over a form one of its clauses contains, so relative freeness fails along chains that share forms.
lem:shared-link: one clause step keeps row freeness given freeness over the clause's private forms only.

All are proved and reviewed. Each removes one structural difficulty: dependent product forms, non-locality, shared forms.

Falsification attempt: the instance count

Every tool above that produces row freeness from freeness hypotheses needs freeness over the private forms of all clauses at once:

the hub criterion needs their joint independence;
the shared link, iterated, needs the accumulated set free over every later clause's private forms;
thm:seeded-closure-stability needs seeds for every form.

lem:defect-gluing needs no freeness over forms, but its two conditions involve the whole accumulated set, and nothing recorded proves them.

Freeness over \(d\) forms through degree \(D\) needs room for them: seeds need about \((p-1)(D+1)\) holes per form, and conj:generic-form-freeness puts the generic threshold near \(N/2\) forms at \(D=3\). W has \(n^K\) families on a board of \(n(n+1)\) cells, each with its own outside forms. For \(K\ge3\) no statement requiring freeness over all private forms at once can apply. This is the count that ended the hub criterion's line in the hub route review, and it applies equally to the shared link and to seeded stability. So refining their iteration, including the proposed truncated transfer lemma, would produce statements that W's instances never satisfy. That step is dropped.

Can a computation guide the density form?

The remaining statement assumes density, not independence: conj:closed-row-freeness, for allowed sets containing at least half the slice. The range of the conjecture at \(D=4\) is \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D=40\), beyond the direct-sum kernel, which enumerates \(2^N\) patterns. At \(D=3\), in range at \(N=24\), a W clause of width \(|S|\) has lowest-degree consequence \(\prod_{j\in S}L_j\cdot(1-L_i^2)\), of degree \(|S|+2\), so only width-1 clauses are visible. Each forbids \(2/9\) of its forms' values, so at density at least one half a family has at most 2 clauses on independent forms, far below the joint-freeness threshold of about 10 forms. Families beyond the threshold at that density need width \(\ge2\), whose clauses are invisible at \(D=3\). The recorded in-range evidence, ex:in-range-selector-freeness with up to 16 selectors, does not probe interaction either. So no in-range computation can test the density form on W's clauses, and it needs a proof.

Assessment

The closure route has one clear target, closed row freeness at density one half for W's allowed sets, and a set of proved tools, each of which handles a structural difficulty but inherits a count limit from its freeness hypothesis. None of the tools uses density, which is the only hypothesis the goal's instances satisfy. The route is alive only if density can replace the count: a proof that uses density of the allowed set and never freeness over its forms. No such mechanism is in hand. The content reduction of thm:seeded-closure-stability is the one recorded step that does not depend on the number of forms: it reduces the Koszul condition to at most \(D\) explicit rows plus a bulk row. There, lem:closure-saturation writes the graded functions as a direct sum over sets \(S\) of at most \(D\) occupied holes of the graded functions on the link sets \(Z_S\), the allowed patterns with \(S\) occupied.

Next step

Restate closed row freeness, after the content reduction, as a condition on the link sets \(Z_S\), \(|S|\le D\), and the restriction maps between their graded function spaces, the maps the one-row kernel computes. Then identify which property of the links the Koszul condition needs, and whether density of \(Z\) gives it without any freeness over forms.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:clause-hub-criterion, lem:defect-gluing, prop:shared-form-obstruction, lem:shared-link, thm:seeded-closure-stability (statement and proof: content reduction, joint seeds, transfer), conj:closed-row-freeness, conj:generic-form-freeness, ex:in-range-selector-freeness, lem:closure-saturation's summary, and the direct-sum kernel's input format. The review registers no claim and runs no computation.

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Link criterion: closed row freeness splits by the degree in the occupancies and becomes a lifting condition on the vanishing tops of the link sets, with no reference to forms

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-link-sets. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Link criterion: closed row freeness splits by the degree in the occupancies and becomes a lifting condition on the vanishing tops of the link sets, with no reference to forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-link-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, on the closure route. The closure-tools review restated A1 as closed row freeness for W's allowed sets and found that every recorded tool needs freeness over all private forms, which W's block counts rule out. It asked for a formulation in which density, not the number of forms, can act: after the content reduction, a condition on the link sets \(Z_S\) of lem:closure-saturation.

General statement. prop:link-criterion. After the content reduction to \(u\le D\) explicit rows, the graded functions on the closed allowed set split, as modules over the row sums, into pieces \(V_e\), one for each degree \(e\) in the occupancies. Each piece is a quotient of a sum of copies of the weak column tensor power, whose freeness is recorded, by the vanishing tops of the link sets. When the column tensor powers are free through \(D\), which holds for \(N-D\ge(p-1)D^2\), closed row freeness through \(D\) is equivalent to one lifting condition on those vanishing tops. It mentions no forms, only the sets \(Z_S\). In particular, when every link has no vanishing tops of degree \(\le D\) beyond the slice's own, \(Z\) satisfies closed row freeness exactly when the slice does. The setting is that of column members, sets of occupancy patterns, the scope of conj:closed-row-freeness.

Setting

As in thm:closure-gluing and lem:closure-saturation: a field \(\mathbb F\) of characteristic \(p\), holes \(1,\dots,N\), \(Z\) a nonempty set of occupancy patterns in the slice \(\sum_jc_j\equiv m\pmod p\), and \(Z_S=\{c\in Z:c_S=1\}\) as patterns on the other holes. By lem:closure-saturation and the content reduction there, the hypothesis of thm:closure-gluing is a statement about the content-\(c\) parts for \(u=|\operatorname{supp}c|\le D\) explicit rows plus a bulk row, where \[G^{(u)}=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Z_{S(Y)}},\] the sum over column-injective cell sets \(Y\) in the \(u\) explicit rows, \(S(Y)\) the holes of \(Y\). The row sums \(r_1,\dots,r_u\) act, and \(\Lambda_u=\mathbb F[r_1,\dots,r_u]/(r_i^p)\). As in lem:defect-gluing, the Koszul condition through \(D\) is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\Lambda_u}(\mathbb F,G^{(u)})_d=0\) for \(d\le D\), with \(e_i\) in degree 1.

For a hole set \(S\), \(\operatorname{gr}_e\mathbb F^{Z_S}=\mathrm{Mon}_e(S^c)/a_{S,e}\). Here \(\mathrm{Mon}_e(S^c)\) is the span of the multilinear monomials of degree \(e\) in the occupancies \(C_j\), \(j\notin S\), and \(a_{S,e}\) is the space of degree-\(e\) parts of polynomials of degree \(\le e\) in those \(C_j\) that vanish on \(Z_S\): the vanishing tops of the link.

The proposition

Put \(V_e=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\operatorname{gr}_e\mathbb F^{Z_{S(Y)}}\), \(\tilde V_e=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\mathrm{Mon}_e(S(Y)^c)\) and \(A_e=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\,a_{S(Y),e}\), each graded by total degree \(|Y|+e\). For a hole set \(X\), let \(W_X=\mathbb F[x_{ij}:1\le i\le u,\ j\in X]/(x_{ij}^2,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j})\) be the weak column tensor power on the \(u\) rows over \(X\), with \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\).

Proposition (link criterion).

Each \(r_i\) preserves \(e\): \(G^{(u)}=\bigoplus_eV_e\) as graded \(\Lambda_u\)-modules. Also \(\tilde V_e\cong\bigoplus_{|\mu|=e}W_{[N]\setminus\mu}(-e)\), the sum over monomials \(\mu\), and \(V_e=\tilde V_e/A_e\) with \(A_e\) a \(\Lambda_u\)-submodule.
Suppose \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\Lambda_u}(\mathbb F,W_X)_t=0\) for every \(X\) with \(|X|\ge N-D\) and every \(t\le D\). Then the content-\(u\) Koszul condition holds through \(D\) if and only if, for every \(e\) and every \(d\le D\), \[(A_e\cap\mathfrak r\tilde V_e)_d=(\mathfrak rA_e)_d,\qquad\mathfrak r=(r_1,\dots,r_u).\tag{L}\] In words: if vanishing tops \(\alpha_Y\in a_{S(Y),e}\) of the links, \(|Y|=d-e\), are \(\sum_ir_i\beta^{(i)}\) for arbitrary degree-\(e\) monomial data \(\beta^{(i)}\) on the links one cell smaller, then they are \(\sum_ir_i\beta'^{(i)}\) with \(\beta'^{(i)}\) vanishing tops of those smaller links.
(Link genericity.) Suppose that for every \(S\) with \(|S|\le D\) and every \(e\le D-|S|\), \(a_{S,e}\) equals the space of vanishing tops of the full sub-slice \(\{c:c_S=1\}\). Then \(Z\) satisfies the content-\(u\) condition through \(D\) if and only if the full slice does.

Proof.

The action. For \(g\in\operatorname{gr}_e\mathbb F^{Z_S}\) and \(S=S(Y)\), \(r_i\cdot x_Yg=\sum_jx_{ij}x_Yg\). A term with \(j\in S\) vanishes in \(G\) by the column exclusions or \(x^2\mapsto0\). A term with \(j\notin S\) is \(x_{Y+(i,j)}\) times \(g\) restricted to \(Z_{S+j}\). Setting \(C_j=1\) lowers the degree of the monomials of \(g\) that contain \(C_j\), so in \(\operatorname{gr}\) the restriction is the degree-\(e\) part, the monomials of \(g\) without \(C_j\). So \(r_i\) maps \(V_e\) to \(V_e\). This is the action lem:closure-saturation describes, and the one the direct-sum kernel computes. It is well defined on the quotient because restricting a function that vanishes on \(Z_S\) gives one that vanishes on \(Z_{S+j}\), so \(A_e\) is a submodule.
The free cover. On \(\tilde V_e\) the same formula acts on pairs \((Y,\mu)\), \(\mu\) a degree-\(e\) monomial on holes outside \(S(Y)\). It adds a cell \((i,j)\) with \(j\notin S(Y)\cup\mu\) and keeps \(\mu\). For fixed \(\mu\), the span of the \(x_Y\) with \(S(Y)\cap\mu=\emptyset\), with this action, is multiplication by \(r_i\) on \(W_{[N]\setminus\mu}\). This proves (a).
The criterion. The long exact \(\operatorname{Tor}\) sequence of \(0\to A_e\to\tilde V_e\to V_e\to0\) contains \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(\tilde V_e)_d\to\operatorname{Tor}_1(V_e)_d\to(A_e/\mathfrak rA_e)_d\to(\tilde V_e/\mathfrak r\tilde V_e)_d\). Under the hypothesis of (b) the first term vanishes for \(d\le D\), since \(|[N]\setminus\mu|=N-e\ge N-D\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(V_e)_d\cong\bigl((A_e\cap\mathfrak r\tilde V_e)/\mathfrak rA_e\bigr)_d\), and by (a) the Koszul condition through \(D\) is the vanishing of these for all \(e\) and \(d\le D\). This proves (b).
Genericity. Under the hypothesis of (c), \(A_e\), and so \(V_e\), coincides in degrees \(\le D\) with the corresponding module for the full slice. \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\Lambda_u}(\mathbb F,M)_d\) depends only on \(M_{\le d}\), so the Koszul conditions through \(D\) agree. This proves (c), without the hypothesis of (b). \(\square\)

When the hypothesis of (b) holds. By the free-seed argument in the proof of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, the column tensor power on \(u\le D\) rows over \(X\) is free over the row sums plus a part in degrees \(\ge|X|/(D(p-1))\). So the hypothesis holds when \(N-D\ge(p-1)D^2\). For \(u=1\) and \(p=3\), lem:pair-seed-decomposition gives the exact structure: \(W_X=\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_{|X|}]/(x_i^2)\) with \(r_1=e_1\) is free plus one Jordan summand starting in degree \(\lfloor|X|/2\rfloor\), and the kernel condition fails only in degree \(\lceil|X|/2\rceil\). For the full slice, the Koszul condition is the weak base's hypothesis (a), as the closure-gluing entry notes, which thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic proves for \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\). So under the hypothesis of (c), \(Z\) satisfies the condition in that range.

What it gives for W

The criterion is stated for column members, sets \(Z\) of occupancy patterns, which lem:closure-saturation needs. W's clauses are on arbitrary affine forms of the board, and their allowed set is a general \(\mathcal Q\) of thm:global-closure-gluing. What follows applies to W with column forms, the scope of conj:closed-row-freeness.

No forms. Condition (L) involves the allowed set only through the vanishing tops \(a_{S,e}\) of its links. The count limit of the recorded tools does not arise in the statement, only in the ways those tools verify it.
Genericity cannot reach a single clause's degree. A W clause of width \(k\) has the vanishing function \((1-L_i^2)\prod_{j\in S}L_j\), of degree \(k+2\) at \(p=3\). Unless its top is among the slice's tops, the links are not generic from that degree on, so (c) covers at most degree about \(k+1\) of W's budget \(22k\), about \(4.5\%\). Where genericity holds at all is a lower-bound question. lem:quiet-members gives a bound of that kind in form space, but for clauses \(\prod L^{p-1}\) with independent linear parts, not W's clause shape or adversarial families, so it is not applied here. Above the genericity degree the links have vanishing tops, and (L) is the real content.
Where (L) meets the other axes. Heuristically, if the links' vanishing tops above the genericity degree were generated by the clauses' own tops, (L) would resemble the Tor vanishing of Taylor glue, open statements A2 and A3. Whether they are so generated is locality, which fails for adversarial families. This is not proved here.

Next: (L) for non-local tops. thm:wide-dependency-threshold gives locality failures for two dependent clauses near degree \(4k-3\), far below \(22k\), at a density loss of only about \((2/3)^k\). So a density lower bound on the degree of non-local tops cannot reach W's budget, and the question is whether (L) holds despite them. Test (L) on the two-clause families of that theorem in the direct-sum description, after stating first the smallest parameters at which a non-local top appears within an in-range degree, and whether the test can fail.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:closure-saturation (statement, proof and the content reduction), thm:closure-gluing, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic's statement and its free-seed step, lem:pair-seed-decomposition, lem:quiet-members, conj:closed-row-freeness, thm:wide-dependency-threshold, and the direct-sum kernel's description. A claim search found no earlier statement of the criterion. A fresh-context reviewer, asked the restatement question with the draft, confirmed (a), the identification of \(\tilde V_e\), the submodule property and (b). It required these changes, all adopted:

(c) freed of the hypothesis of (b), and of an unproved description of the slice's vanishing tops;
the freeness hypothesis stated in the general statement, with the range \(N-D\ge(p-1)D^2\);
the one-row structure described correctly: truncated exterior-type algebra, Jordan summand from degree \(\lfloor|X|/2\rfloor\);
the genericity bound corrected: lem:quiet-members is a lower bound with other hypotheses, and the upper bound comes from a clause's own function, about \(4.5\%\) of the budget;
the slice's own condition cited to thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, and the Tor-independence remark marked heuristic;
the scope stated: column members;
the next step redirected from a density bound, which thm:wide-dependency-threshold shows cannot reach \(22k\), to (L) itself on non-local families, with the decision count first.

These weaken or correct claims, so no further pass was made.

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Route review: the lifting condition cannot be tested in range, and both routes to A1 meet at incoherent pairs, whose lifted syzygies are resolvents

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation: the planned test could not decide) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-lifting-test. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the lifting condition cannot be tested in range, and both routes to A1 meet at incoherent pairs, whose lifted syzygies are resolvents”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-lifting-test-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The link-criterion entry proposed testing its lifting condition (L) on the two-clause families of thm:wide-dependency-threshold with the direct-sum kernel, after a decision count. This review makes the count, and finds the test cannot decide.

General statement. The line's claim is W, through either thm:global-closure-gluing (closed row freeness, equivalently (L) of prop:link-criterion) or thm:based-taylor-glue (Taylor generation of the clause tops). This review shows that the two routes need the same missing ingredient for W's clauses: a treatment of incoherent pairs, recorded as obs:incoherent-pair-fall and left open in conj:local-top-syzygies.

The decision count

What (L) can see in range. At \(D=3\), \(N=24\), (L) in degree \(d\) involves links with at least one occupied hole, so a non-local vanishing top of degree \(e\) enters only for \(d\ge e+1\). Only non-local tops of degree \(\le2\) are visible. By thm:wide-dependency-threshold and thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy those come from selector families with one dependency among at most four selectors, and from inconsistent width-2 pairs.
Why they cannot fail. Each such family has at most four forms, far below the joint-freeness threshold of about ten at \(D=3\). lem:filtered-freeness-transfer then makes every allowed set of those forms row-free in range, local or not, as the cluster-defect review found. The inconsistent pair and linear constraints are also recorded as row-free.
Families beyond the threshold with low-degree non-local tops are the recorded inconsistent chains, row-free up to 8 links and failing only at 12, where the allowed set has about 95 points.

So every outcome of the planned run is already determined or confounded with sparseness. No run was made.

Where the two routes meet

By the substitution \(\prod_jL_j^{2}\to\prod_jL_j\), which only strengthens the system, since the old axiom is a multiple of the new one, W's clauses become product constraints \(\chi_0(L_i)\prod_{j\in S}L_j\) with factors of the two types thm:based-taylor-glue allows. Its weak base is \(z\)-injective at W's logarithmic degree by thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. So W follows from Taylor generation of the tops through \(22k\). Coherent pairs are harmless there. A pair is incoherent when a form \(\ell\) is the outside form of one clause, factor \(\chi_0(\ell)\), and a product form of another, factor \(\ell\).

Incoherent pairs give resolvents. For \(C=\chi_0(\ell)P\) and \(C'=\ell P'\), the tops are \(-\ell^2\bar P\) and \(\ell\bar P'\), and the pair syzygy \(\bar P'e_C+\ell\bar Pe_{C'}\) lifts to \(P'C+\ell PC'=PP'(\chi_0(\ell)+\ell^2)=PP'\), exactly the resolvent, since \(\chi_0(\ell)+\ell^2=1\). It has degree two below the syzygy. The resolvent vanishes on the allowed set: where \(\ell\ne0\), \(C'\) forces \(P'=0\), and where \(\ell=0\), \(C\) forces \(P=0\). This is obs:incoherent-pair-fall in W's clause shape. The closure route meets the same product as the resolvent of an inconsistent pair, which thm:resolvent-absorption shows restores locality when added.
So both routes need resolvents. On the closure route, the non-local vanishing tops of small clusters are resolvents (thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy, thm:resolvent-absorption). On the Taylor route, the incoherent pairs' syzygies lift to resolvents. Resolvents are themselves products of allowed factor types, so they can be added as constraints.

Assessment and next step

The closure route has a precise target, (L), and no in-range test or mechanism. The Taylor route has a precise hypothesis, Taylor generation, with the one recorded gap at incoherent pairs. The resolvent identity above says what that gap is. That is a concrete, provable next step.

Next: resolvent Taylor glue. Add to W's clause family the resolvents of its incoherent pairs, closed under the same operation, and prove that thm:based-taylor-glue's hypothesis for the enlarged family needs only Frobenius and coherent-pair syzygies: the incoherent pair syzygies then lift into the ideal of a resolvent constraint within their degree. Check the degree accounting against \(22k\), and state what the saturation must avoid: deriving a constant, which would be a Res(Lin) refutation of low width.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: prop:link-criterion, thm:wide-dependency-threshold, thm:budget-cluster-dichotomy, thm:resolvent-absorption, lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, the cluster-defect review, the inconsistent-chains entry, thm:based-taylor-glue (setting, factor types, coherence and step (K)), obs:incoherent-pair-fall and conj:local-top-syzygies. The resolvent identity was checked by hand, including the sign of the top of \(\chi_0\): \(P'C+\ell PC'=PP'(\chi_0(\ell)+\ell^2)=PP'\) as polynomials. The review registers no claim and runs no computation.

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Resolvent Taylor glue: a product-constraint family closed under the resolvents of its singly incoherent pairs glues along those pairs too, so W reduces to Taylor generation for its resolvent saturation

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-resolvent-glue. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Resolvent Taylor glue: a product-constraint family closed under the resolvents of its singly incoherent pairs glues along those pairs too, so W reduces to Taylor generation for its resolvent saturation”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-resolvent-taylor-glue.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The lifting-test review found that the closure route and Taylor glue meet at incoherent pairs, whose pair syzygies lift to resolvents. thm:based-taylor-glue covers only coherent pairs, and conj:local-top-syzygies leaves incoherent overlaps open. The missing implication: do incoherent pairs become harmless once their resolvents are constraints?

General statement. thm:resolvent-taylor-glue. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take a \(z\)-injective base and a family of product constraints that contains, for every pair incoherent on exactly one shared form, that pair's resolvent, a product constraint of degree at most \(|\max(b_C,b_{C'})|-1\). If the top syzygies through degree \(D\) are spanned by the Frobenius syzygies and the pair syzygies of all coherent and singly incoherent pairs, there is no PC refutation of degree \(D\). With the weak base, W follows if the degree-bounded resolvent saturation of W's normalized clauses contains no nonzero constant and satisfies that Taylor generation through \(22k\); the constant condition is also necessary.

Setting

As in thm:based-taylor-glue: \(\mathbb F=\mathbb F_3\), a base with Booleanity generators whose homogenization is \(z\)-injective in degrees \(<D\), \(V_s\) its NS multiples of degree \(\le s\), and \(G\) its top algebra. Constraints are products \(C=\prod_{j\in S_C}h_{C,j}(L_j)\) of factors \(L_j-a\), exponent 1, or \(\chi_a(L_j)=1-(L_j-a)^2\), exponent 2, on forms indexed by non-proportional linear parts, with top \(c_C\ell^{b_C}\). On a shared form \(j\), the factors of \(C\) and \(C'\) are coherent if they are equal, or one is \(\chi_a\) and the other \(L_j-a'\) with \(a'\ne a\). Otherwise they are incoherent, of one of three types:

\(\chi_a\) and \(\chi_{a'}\), \(a\ne a'\);
\(L_j-a\) and \(L_j-a'\), \(a\ne a'\);
\(\chi_a\) and \(L_j-a\).

A pair is singly incoherent if exactly one shared form \(j_0\) is incoherent.

The resolvent. Let \(C=hQ\) and \(C'=h'Q'\), with \(h,h'\) the factors on \(j_0\). The pair \(Q,Q'\) is coherent, so the lift factors of thm:based-taylor-glue's step (K) give \(Q\Lambda=Q'\Lambda'=:Y\), a product of allowed factors on the forms of \(Q\) and \(Q'\) other than \(j_0\). Put \(a''\) for the third element of \(\mathbb F_3\) and define \[R_{C,C'}=\begin{cases}(L_{j_0}-a'')\,Y&\text{type (i)},\\ Y&\text{types (ii) and (iii)}.\end{cases}\] It is a product constraint of allowed type. It vanishes wherever \(C\) and \(C'\) do. For type (i), \(C\) allows \(L\ne a\) or \(Q=0\), and \(C'\) allows \(L\ne a'\) or \(Q'=0\), so \(L=a''\) or \(Q=0\) or \(Q'=0\). For type (ii), \(L=a\) or \(Q=0\), and \(L=a'\) or \(Q'=0\), so \(Q=0\) or \(Q'=0\). For type (iii), \(L\ne a\) or \(Q=0\), and \(L=a\) or \(Q'=0\), so again \(Q=0\) or \(Q'=0\). And \(Y\) vanishes where \(Q\) or \(Q'\) does, being a multiple of both.

The theorem

Theorem (resolvent Taylor glue). In this setting, let \(\mathcal F\) be a family of product constraints, none a nonzero constant, containing \(R_{C,C'}\), up to a nonzero scalar, for every singly incoherent pair \(C,C'\in\mathcal F\) with \(|\max(b_C,b_{C'})|\le D\). Suppose that for every \(s\le D\) the degree-\(s\) signed top syzygies are spanned by:

(F) \(g\,\ell_j^{3-b_{C,j}}e_C\);
(K) for every coherent or singly incoherent pair, \(g\,(c_{C'}\ell^{b-b_C}e_C-c_C\ell^{b-b_{C'}}e_{C'})\), \(b=\max(b_C,b_{C'})\).

Then every normalized NS functional through \(k\le D\) extends through \(D\), NS and PC closures agree through \(D\), and there is no PC refutation of degree \(D\). Since adding constraints only strengthens a system, every subfamily of \(\mathcal F\) also has no PC refutation of degree \(D\); the extension of functionals and the closure equality are claimed for \(\mathcal F\) only.

Proof. The proof of thm:based-taylor-glue applies word for word, except that step (K) must also treat singly incoherent pairs. Its steps 1 to 4 reduce solvability at degree \(s\) to the vanishing of the pairing of the defects with each spanning syzygy, and its step (F) is unchanged.

Singly incoherent pairs. Build \(\Lambda,\Lambda'\) for \(Q,Q'\) as in (K), and on \(j_0\) take lift factors \(\lambda,\lambda'\) as follows:

type (i): \(\lambda=\lambda'=1\), and \(\chi_a-\chi_{a'}=(L-a')^2-(L-a)^2=2(a-a')L+a'^2-a^2=2(a-a')(L-a'')\), using \(a+a'+a''=0\) and \(2^{-1}=2\) in \(\mathbb F_3\);
type (ii): \(\lambda=\lambda'=1\), and \((L-a)-(L-a')=a'-a\);
type (iii): \(\lambda=1\), \(\lambda'=-(L-a)\), and \(\chi_a(L)+(L-a)^2=1\).

Put \(X=C\Lambda\lambda\) and \(X'=C'\Lambda'\lambda'\). Then \(X-X'=(h\lambda-h'\lambda')Y=\kappa R_{C,C'}\) with \(\kappa\in\{2(a-a'),\,a'-a,\,1\}\) nonzero. In each type \(h\lambda\) and \(h'\lambda'\) have the same degree on \(j_0\): 2, 1 and 2. \(X-X'\) has lower degree than \(X\), so the tops of \(X\) and \(X'\) agree. As in (K), the tops are \(\sigma\ell^{b-b_C}\) and \(\sigma'\ell^{b-b_{C'}}\) times those of \(C,C'\), and \(\sigma\ell^{b-b_C}e_C-\sigma'\ell^{b-b_{C'}}e_{C'}\) is a nonzero multiple of the (K) syzygy. For a multiplier \(g\) lifted to \(\tilde g\), its pairing with the defects is \[(E\mu)(X\tilde g)-(E\mu)(X'\tilde g)=\kappa\,\mu(R_{C,C'}\tilde g),\] where the lower-degree parts of \(\Lambda\lambda\tilde g\) and \(\Lambda'\lambda'\tilde g\) give constraint multiples below \(s\), as in (K). Since \(\deg(R_{C,C'}\tilde g)\le s-1\) and \(R_{C,C'}\in\mathcal F\), \(\mu\) vanishes on it, being an NS functional through \(s-1\) for the base plus \(\mathcal F\). So the pairing is 0. The rest is thm:based-taylor-glue's conclusion. The identity \(X-X'=\kappa R_{C,C'}\) is the lower-degree difference that obs:incoherent-pair-fall records for incoherent pairs; what is new is that it is a constraint of the family. \(\square\)

Pairs incoherent on several forms. They need no separate hypothesis: their pair syzygies must lie in the span of (F) and the allowed (K) syzygies, which the theorem's Taylor generation hypothesis asserts. Handling them directly, with per-form lifts, expands \(X-X'\) as a sum over nonempty sets \(T\) of incoherent forms of \(\prod_{j\in T}\delta_j\prod_{j\notin T}h'_j\lambda'_j\cdot Y\), whose individual terms need not vanish on the allowed set, so they are not added as constraints.

W

Normalizing W's clauses. Replace each clause \((1-L_i^2)\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2\) by \(\chi_0(L_i)\prod_{j\in S}L_j\), and then normalize, since W's families are arbitrary and forms within one clause may share linear parts:

reindex each form by its linear part up to sign, so that a factor becomes \(\pm(\ell-a)\) or \(\chi_a(\ell)\);
replace a repeated factor \((\ell-a)^2\) by \((\ell-a)\), and merge \((\ell-a)(\ell-a')=-\chi_{a''}(\ell)\) for \(a\ne a'\);
replace \(\chi_a(\ell)(\ell-a')\) by \((a-a')\chi_a(\ell)\), equal as functions and modulo \(\ell^3-\ell\), and discard the clause if \(a=a'\), or if it contains \(\chi_a(\ell)\chi_{a'}(\ell)\) with \(a\ne a'\): such a clause vanishes on every Boolean point;
drop factors on forms with zero linear part, which are constants, and discard the clause if one of them is 0.

Each step replaces a clause by one that divides it modulo the base, or by a nonzero multiple of an equal function, so the old and normalized clauses derive each other modulo the base within degree \(3k+2\le22k\). In one direction, multiply by the removed factors. In the other, multiply by \(\prod L_j\) and reduce \(L_j^3\to L_j\) with \(L^3-L\in V_3\). The normalized clauses are product constraints of allowed type.

Corollary (W from saturated Taylor generation). Let \(\mathcal F\) be the closure of the normalized clauses under taking resolvents of singly incoherent pairs with \(|\max(b_C,b_{C'})|\le22k\). It is finite, since its members are products of finitely many possible factors. Suppose \(\mathcal F\) contains no nonzero constant and satisfies the theorem's Taylor generation through \(D=22k\) over the weak base's top algebra. Then W holds. Proof. thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic makes the weak base \(z\)-injective below \(D\) for \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\), which PHP's board meets for large \(n\), since \(D=O(\log n)\). The theorem applies to \(\mathcal F\), whose closure condition holds exactly for the pairs it needs. So the normalized clauses have no PC refutation of degree \(22k\), and neither do the old ones, which they derive within that degree. \(\square\)

The constant condition is necessary. Each resolvent is derived by the explicit identity \(\kappa R_{C,C'}=C\Lambda\lambda-C'\Lambda'\lambda'\), of degree \(|\max(b_C,b_{C'})|\le22k\). The normalized clauses are derived from the old ones within \(3k+2\). So a nonzero constant in \(\mathcal F\) gives a PC refutation of W's system of degree \(\le22k\).
What changed. Incoherent overlaps between W's clauses no longer need a separate argument: a singly incoherent pair's syzygy is harmless once its resolvent is a constraint, and resolvents are themselves product constraints. The remaining hypothesis is one Taylor generation statement, for the saturated family, covering A1, A2 and A3 at once. Pairs incoherent on several forms are part of that hypothesis.
What is not covered. Taylor generation itself for the saturated family, which is open. The saturation can be large, as resolvents of resolvents compound, as the chains of the closure route do.

Next: Taylor generation for a saturated pair. Take one singly incoherent pair of W-shaped clauses with its resolvent, on forms free enough for the pair alone, and decide whether the three constraints' top syzygies are spanned by (F) and (K), or whether the resolvent brings new syzygies of its own with the pair. A small exact top-algebra computation can decide this, after a count of the degrees involved.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:based-taylor-glue (setting, statement, steps (F) and (K), conclusion), obs:incoherent-pair-fall, conj:local-top-syzygies, thm:resolvent-absorption, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic and thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction's clause shape. A claim search for resolvents, incoherent pairs and Taylor generation found obs:incoherent-pair-fall, which records the lower-degree differences, and no statement of the theorem. A fresh-context reviewer, asked the restatement question with the draft, confirmed the three identities and \(\kappa\), the equal tops, the pairing argument, the resolvent's semantics and allowed type, the substitution direction, finiteness and the weak-base range. It required these changes, all adopted:

the unused hypothesis on pairs incoherent on several forms removed: Taylor generation covers them;
the saturation bounded by degree \(22k\), which makes the constant condition necessary;
the derivations for the constant remark written out, both directions between old and normalized clauses;
a normalization of W's clauses added, since forms within a clause may share linear parts;
the subfamily statement restricted to non-refutability;
obs:incoherent-pair-fall cited as the source of the identity, and the resolvent's degree stated exactly.

The normalization and the degree bound correct the corollary without strengthening the theorem, so no further pass was made.

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Saturated members: on jointly free forms, any family closed under resolvents whose pairs are at most singly incoherent can be added without a refutation, so the saturated pair needs no computation

25 September 2026 · Working proof (a corollary) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-saturated-pair. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Saturated members: on jointly free forms, any family closed under resolvents whose pairs are at most singly incoherent can be added without a refutation, so the saturated pair needs no computation”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-saturated-members.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The resolvent Taylor glue entry proposed an exact computation: does a singly incoherent pair of W-shaped clauses together with its resolvent have only Frobenius and pair top syzygies? The computation rules ask first whether the test can decide.

General statement. cor:incoherent-form-members. On the weak unary base, if the top algebra is free through degree \(D\) over the truncated algebra of some forms, as it is for the jointly independent forms of cor:independent-form-members, then every family of product constraints on those forms whose pairs are each coherent or singly incoherent, and which contains the resolvents of its singly incoherent pairs, can be added without a PC refutation of degree \(D\). A singly incoherent pair together with its resolvent is always such a family. So on free forms the saturated pair is settled by proof. The planned computation, on forms free through \(D\), could only confirm this, and was not run.

The corollary

Corollary (incoherent-form members). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak unary base with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\), let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) be linear parts, renormalized up to sign with one index per linear part as in cor:row-rank-members, such that the top algebra \(G\) is free through degree \(D\) over \(T'=\mathbb F_3[\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d]/(\ell^3)\). By cor:independent-form-members this holds when the \(\ell_i\) are jointly affinely independent on \((d+1)2(D+1)\) holes and \(N\ge2(D+1)(D+1+d)\). Let \(\mathcal F\) be a family of product constraints on affine forms with these linear parts, none a nonzero constant, such that:

every pair of \(\mathcal F\) is coherent or singly incoherent;
\(\mathcal F\) contains the resolvent \(R_{C,C'}\) of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue for each singly incoherent pair with \(|\max(b_C,b_{C'})|\le D\).

Then the weak base plus \(\mathcal F\), and plus any subfamily, has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. Three facts are used:

the weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\), by thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic;
\(G=(T'\otimes C)\oplus Q'\) with \(Q'\) in degrees \(\ge D+1\), by hypothesis;
the fine-grading argument of cor:row-rank-members: in \(T'\), the syzygies of monomials are generated by the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_j^{3-b_j}e_C\) and the divided-lcm pair syzygies of all pairs. Each top \(c_C\ell^{b_C}\) is a monomial of \(T'\). A syzygy of degree \(s\le D\) in \(G\) has zero \(Q'\)-component, so it is a sum of \(T'\)-syzygies of the monomials tensored with elements of \(C\). The argument never uses coherence.

Every pair syzygy has \(b=\max(b_C,b_{C'})\in\{0,1,2\}^d\) and, since every pair is coherent or singly incoherent, is of type (K) in thm:resolvent-taylor-glue. The resolvents are products on the same linear parts, so the freeness covers them, and \(\mathcal F\) contains them. So that theorem applies and gives no refutation of degree \(D\), for \(\mathcal F\) and so for every subfamily. \(\square\)

The saturated pair. Let \(C,C'\) be singly incoherent with resolvent \(R=R_{C,C'}\). Then \(R\) is coherent with both, form by form, by the construction of \(Y\) in thm:based-taylor-glue's step (K):

on a shared coherent form with \(\chi_a\) in one clause and \(L-a'\) in the other, the lift \(-(L-a'')\) goes on the linear side, so \(Y\)'s factor there is \(\chi_a\), coherent with both;
on a form only one clause has, \(Y\)'s factor is that clause's factor;
on \(j_0\): in type (i) \(R\) has \(L-a''\) against \(\chi_a\) and \(\chi_{a'}\), coherent with both; in types (ii) and (iii) \(R\) has no factor on \(j_0\).

So \(\{C,C',R\}\) has only coherent and singly incoherent pairs and is closed under resolvents. \(R\) is a nonzero constant only if both clauses are single factors on \(j_0\). Normalized W clauses keep at least two factors, an outside factor and a product factor, so \(R\) is not constant for them. Hence the corollary applies to every singly incoherent pair of normalized W clauses on forms over which \(G\) is free through \(D\).

What it settles, and what it does not

The saturated pair. Settled above on forms free through \(D\). The computation the previous entry proposed, on such forms, would have checked a consequence of the corollary, so it was not run.
What it adds to the record. cor:independent-form-members required pairwise coherence. Adding resolvents lifts that requirement for singly incoherent pairs, so the adversarial feature that conj:local-top-syzygies left open, incoherent overlaps, is harmless on free forms.
The same count limit. The sufficient condition of cor:independent-form-members needs about \(2d^2D\) holes, so on the PHP board \(d\) is at most about \(\sqrt{N/(2D)}\), as the projection-freeness entry records. W's \(n^K\) families exceed that for every \(K\ge1\). So the corollary, like the closure-route tools, handles every structural feature of W's clauses except their number. The one recorded mechanism beyond joint freeness is the semi-regularity of generic selector tops at degree 3 (thm:glued-double-points and its pattern theorem), open statement A3's proved case.

Next: carry the degree-3 mechanism to W's clause shape. After normalization a width-1 W clause is \(\chi_0(L_i)L_j\), with top \(-\ell_i^2\ell_j\) of degree 3. The degree-4 Taylor syzygies of such tops are \(\ell_ie_C\) and the pair syzygies of pairs sharing forms. State the analogue of thm:glued-double-points for many generic width-1 clauses, beyond joint freeness, and decide whether the row Horace method that proved the selector case extends to these mixed tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: cor:independent-form-members and cor:row-rank-members (statements and proofs: weak-base stability, projection freeness, the fine-grading argument), thm:resolvent-taylor-glue (setting, (K) and the resolvent), thm:based-taylor-glue's step (K), thm:glued-double-points' statement. A claim search found no earlier statement of the corollary. A fresh-context reviewer, asked the restatement question with the draft, confirmed that the fine-grading argument never uses coherence, that every pair syzygy is of type (K), and that the resolvents lie on the same linear parts. It required these changes, all adopted:

freeness through \(D\) made the hypothesis, with joint independence as a sufficient condition;
the count bound corrected to about \(\sqrt{N/(2D)}\) forms, which W exceeds for every \(K\ge1\);
the coherence of the resolvent with both clauses proved form by form, for every singly incoherent pair;
the resolvent shown nonconstant for normalized W clauses;
the renormalization of linear parts added;
the freeness-through-\(D\) wording of the fine-grading step corrected.

The first change weakens the hypothesis with the same proof; the rest correct and add justification. No further pass was made.

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Width-one glue: at degree 4, width-1 W clauses glue when their tops meet a mixed double-point count, and random clauses meet it at n = 7 up to capacity, 335 clauses on 670 forms

25 September 2026 · Working proof and a finite check · open statements A2 and A3 at their lowest degree · cycle odd-prime-width-one-glue. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Width-one glue: at degree 4, width-1 W clauses glue when their tops meet a mixed double-point count, and random clauses meet it at n = 7 up to capacity, 335 clauses on 670 forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-width-one-glue.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A2 and A3. The saturated-members entry found that every structural feature of W's clauses is handled on free forms, and that the one recorded mechanism beyond joint freeness is the semi-regularity of generic selector tops at low degree (thm:glued-double-points, ex:degree-four-glue-n7). Do W's own clause tops behave the same way? The smallest case is width 1 at degree 4.

General statement. prop:width-one-degree-four-glue and ex:width-one-glue-n7.

prop:width-one-degree-four-glue. On the functional board with at least 4 rows and 7 labels, functional PHP plus normalized width-1 W clauses \(\chi_v(L_i)(L_j-u)\) has no PC refutation of degree 4 whenever the tops \(-\ell_i^2\ell_j\) are independent in degree 3 and satisfy the mixed double-point count \(\operatorname{rank}\mu_4=M(\gamma_1-1)\) in degree 4. No coherence is needed.
ex:width-one-glue-n7. For two random sequences at \(n=7\), both conditions hold at every prefix up to the capacity \(\lfloor\gamma_4/(\gamma_1-1)\rfloor=335\), and \(\operatorname{rank}\mu_4=\min(M(\gamma_1-1),\gamma_4)\) at every prefix. So functional \(\mathrm{PHP}^8_7\) plus up to 335 such clauses, on 670 distinct linear parts against \(\gamma_1=48\), has no degree-4 refutation.

The proposition

Setting. The functional board over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels, its top algebra \(G\) with \(\gamma_t=\dim G_t\), as in thm:taylor-glue. After the normalization of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, a width-1 W clause is \(C=\chi_v(L_i)(L_j-u)\), with \(\ell_i,\ell_j\) its linear parts, non-proportional, and top \(-\ell_i^2\ell_j\) of degree 3.

Proposition (width-one degree-four glue). Let \(R\ge4\), \(N\ge7\), and let \(C_1,\dots,C_M\) be normalized width-1 clauses. Suppose:

(a3) the tops \(\ell_{i(C)}^2\ell_{j(C)}\) are linearly independent in \(G_3\);
(b4) the map \(\mu_4\colon\bigoplus_CG_1\to G_4\), \((g_C)\mapsto\sum_Cg_C\ell_{i(C)}^2\ell_{j(C)}\), has rank \(M(\gamma_1-1)\).

Then functional PHP plus \(C_1,\dots,C_M\) has no PC refutation of degree 4.

Proof. The functional base with \(R\ge4\) rows and \(N\ge2\cdot4-1\) labels is stable through degree 4 by the matching extension theorem, as in thm:taylor-glue: its NS functionals extend. By the injectivity-stability equivalence that thm:based-taylor-glue's setting records, \(V_s\cap P_{\le s-1}=V_{s-1}\) for \(s\le4\), so its homogenization is \(z\)-injective below 4. Apply thm:based-taylor-glue with \(D=4\). Its hypothesis is Taylor generation of the signed top syzygies in degrees \(s\le4\).

For \(s\le2\) there are no syzygies, since every top has degree 3.
For \(s=3\) the syzygies are scalar relations among the tops, excluded by (a3).
For \(s=4\) the syzygies are \(\ker\mu_4\). The Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_{i(C)}e_C\) lie in it, since \(\ell^3=0\) in \(G\). They are \(M\) independent vectors, one in each summand, since (a3) makes every \(\ell_{i(C)}\ne0\). By (b4), \(\dim\ker\mu_4=M\gamma_1-M(\gamma_1-1)=M\). So the kernel is exactly the Frobenius span.

So the syzygies through degree 4 are spanned by (F) alone, and the theorem applies, whether pairs of clauses are coherent or not. \(\square\)

Two configurations give degree-4 pair syzygies outside the Frobenius span: two clauses sharing an outside linear part, and crossed pairs \(\chi_v(L_1)(L_2-u)\), \(\chi_{v'}(L_2)(L_1-u')\), with syzygy \(\ell_2e_C-\ell_1e_{C'}\). By (a3) such a vector is not in the Frobenius span, so (b4) excludes both configurations; no separate hypothesis is needed. Other overlaps, an outside form equal to another clause's product form or a shared product form, give pair syzygies of degree at least 5.

In the language of thm:glued-double-points, (b4) says that the mixed double points \(D_{\ell_j}D_{\ell_i}^2\) on \(K_4=G_4^*\) impose independent conditions, up to the unavoidable Frobenius relation of each clause. It can hold only while \(M(\gamma_1-1)\le\gamma_4\).

The check

width1_check.py reuses the board and dual-operator construction of deg4_check.py (ex:degree-four-glue-n7). For one random sequence per seed, it draws forms nonconstant on every row, two per clause, keeps the outside linear parts pairwise non-proportional, and records the number of distinct linear parts and of crossed pairs. For every prefix it computes:

the rank of the functionals \(D_{\ell_j}D_{\ell_i}^2\) on \(K_3\), which is (a3);
the rank of \(w\mapsto(D_{\ell_j}D_{\ell_i}^2w)_C\) on \(K_4\), the dual of \(\mu_4\), which gives (b4).

Both use the compiled prefix-rank kernel in one incremental pass. Results (w1_n7_s1.json, w1_n7_s2.json, w1_n6_s1.json):

\(n\)	seed	\(\gamma_1,\gamma_3,\gamma_4\)	capacity	(a3), (b4) hold up to \(M\)	\(\operatorname{rank}\mu_4=\min(M(\gamma_1-1),\gamma_4)\) at every prefix
7	1	48, 5824, 15750	335	335	yes
7	2	48, 5824, 15750	335	335	yes
6	1	35, 1645, 1470	43	43	yes

Each 345-clause sequence at \(n=7\) has 690 distinct linear parts up to sign and no crossed pairs, so the first 335 clauses use 670. At \(n=7\) the board meets the proposition's range (\(R=8\), \(N=7\)), so the conclusion holds for every prefix \(M\le335\) of both sequences. \(n=6\) is below the range (\(N=6<7\)), and there the ranks show the same semi-regular pattern without a hardness conclusion. Each \(n=7\) run took 32 s. Whether a degree-4 refutation appears at \(M=336\), as for selectors at the first step past capacity, was not computed: the closure kernel handles selectors, not these product constraints.

Can it decide. The prediction, semi-regularity up to capacity, could fail at any prefix: extra syzygies among the mixed tops would lower \(\operatorname{rank}\mu_4\) below \(M(\gamma_1-1)\). The 670 linear parts are far beyond joint freeness, whose sufficient condition needs about \(2d^2D\) holes, so no recorded freeness argument predicts the outcome.

What this means

W's clause shape is semi-regular at the smallest case. Generic width-1 W clauses behave exactly like generic selectors: Taylor generation holds up to the dimension count. This is the first evidence on W's own clause tops beyond joint freeness, on axes A2 and A3 at their lowest degree.
What it does not touch. The forms are random, not adversarial (A1). The width is 1, not \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\) (A2), and the degree is 4, not \(22k\) (A3). The board is the functional one, whose hardness implies the weak base's.

Next: prove (b4) for generic forms at every \(n\ge7\), by adapting the row Horace reduction that proved the degree-3 selector case (thm:glued-double-points with its pattern theorem) to the mixed operators \(D_{\ell_j}D_{\ell_i}^2\). Alternatively, measure width 2, tops \(\ell_i^2\ell_j\ell_{j'}\) of degree 4, at degree 5, if the board sizes allow.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:based-taylor-glue (setting, the injectivity-stability equivalence, (F)), thm:taylor-glue (the matching extension step and its range), thm:glued-double-points and ex:degree-four-glue-n7 with deg4_check.py, whose board and dual operators the check reuses. A claim search found no earlier statement for W's clause shape. Every number is read from the JSON outputs. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the restatement of the Taylor hypothesis, the degree-3 and degree-4 analysis, the dual operators and prefix ranks, the capacities and the table. It required these changes, all adopted:

the false claim that no pair syzygy has degree 4 replaced: crossed pairs and shared outside forms do, and (b4) excludes them;
the non-proportionality hypothesis removed as implied by (a3) and (b4);
the \(z\)-injectivity step justified through the injectivity-stability equivalence;
the form count recorded by the script (690 distinct linear parts per sequence, no crossed pairs), after a rerun of both seeds with identical ranks.

These correct the proof's side remark and weaken a hypothesis. No further pass was made.

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Correction and review: degree-3 generic double points are proved only as a reduction for every n, not as a theorem, so the mixed Horace step waits on the same open conjecture

25 September 2026 · Correction and route review (no computation) · open statements A2 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-mixed-horace. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Correction and review: degree-3 generic double points are proved only as a reduction for every n, not as a theorem, so the mixed Horace step waits on the same open conjecture”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-a3-status-correction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A2 and A3. The width-one glue entry proposed adapting the row Horace reduction, which it described as having proved the degree-3 selector case, to the mixed operators \(D_{\ell_j}D_{\ell_i}^2\). Re-reading that proof chain before adapting it shows it did not prove the selector case for every \(n\).

General statement. The line's claim is A3 through thm:taylor-glue: generic selector (and W clause) tops are Taylor-generated up to capacity at every degree. For degree 3 the record has a proved reduction for every \(n\ge5\) (thm:initial-complex-patterns with lem:degeneration-transfer) and a conjecture for the double points themselves (conj:aligned-double-points), with small-board evidence. No claim is registered.

The correction

What was stated. The Open statements have carried, since the central-statement review, the status "A3: proved at degree 3 for every \(n\ge5\)". The saturated-members entry called the degree-3 semi-regularity "open statement A3's proved case", and the width-one entry's next step said the row Horace reduction "proved the degree-3 selector case".
What the record proves. thm:glued-double-points gives degree-3 hardness under two conditions on the forms, including independent double points. thm:initial-complex-patterns and lem:degeneration-transfer reduce generic double points, for every \(n\ge5\), to the pattern-avoiding matching algebra. The double points themselves are proved generic only on the boards checked (ex:degenerate-double-points at \(n=6,7,8\), prop:double-points-generic-small-boards) and conjectured for every \(n\) (conj:aligned-double-points). The generic-line review paused the line at the coupling (C), and the latest assessment records that the only proved gluing mechanism beyond freeness is at degree 2.
Corrected status. A3: degree-3 hardness holds on the checked boards for explicit sequences, and for every \(n\) it reduces to a conjecture on the pattern algebra. Degree 4 is checked at \(n=7\), for selectors and for width-1 W clauses. The Open statements are corrected in this commit. The two entries' sentences stand as recorded, corrected here.

Review of the degree axis

What the mixed Horace step needs. Adapting the row Horace reduction to the mixed operators would reproduce, for W's width-1 tops, the reduction the record has for selectors. It would end at the same open coupling, since the mixed operators contain \(D_{\ell_i}^2\), the selector operator. It cannot prove more than the selector case, which is open.
The shared prerequisite. Generic double points for every \(n\), on the pattern algebra, are needed by A3 for selectors and by any all-\(n\) form of the width-one result. The generic-line review named two restart points: conj:aligned-double-points, and tropical weights with ties, building on lem:tropical-leading-bound, whose tie-free version bounds the rank by counting distinct pairs of winning form and heaviest cell.
Assessment. The degree axis has strong reductions and consistent evidence at every checked size, including W's width-1 tops now, and no all-\(n\) proof at degree 3. The same missing ingredient blocks both.

Next step

Generic double points on the pattern algebra for every \(n\), from the tropical restart point. Extend lem:tropical-leading-bound to weights with ties by a second-order leading matrix, and decide whether a weight choice exists for which the leading rank reaches \(\min(\gamma_3,M(\gamma_1-1))\) on \(P(n+1,n-1)\) for every \(n\), starting with a count of the pairs the tie-free bound gives at \(n=6,7,8\) against the capacity.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: thm:glued-double-points, thm:initial-complex-patterns, lem:degeneration-transfer, ex:degenerate-double-points, conj:aligned-double-points, lem:tropical-leading-bound, the generic-line review, and the latest freeness assessment that places the only proved beyond-freeness mechanism at degree 2. The corrected sentences were located by search. The review registers no claim.

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Tetrahedral double points: explicit F₃ selectors on 4-cell supports have independent degree-3 double points at every n, about n³/1330 of them, and n^4−o(1) with Behrend sets

25 September 2026 · Working proof and a finite check · open statement A3 at degree 3, for every n · cycle odd-prime-tropical-weights. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Tetrahedral double points: explicit F3 selectors on 4-cell supports have independent degree-3 double points at every n, about n3/1330 of them, and n4−o(1) with Behrend sets”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-tetrahedral-double-points.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The correction found that degree-3 double points are reduced to the pattern algebra for every \(n\), but proved only on checked boards. Its next step was to extend lem:tropical-leading-bound to weights with ties. Can some tied weights certify independent double points for a number of forms that grows with \(n\), at every \(n\)?

General statement. thm:tetrahedral-double-points: for every \(n\ge9\), explicit \(\mathbb F_3\) selectors on private 4-cell supports have independent degree-3 double points on the functional top algebra, so functional \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) plus them has no degree-3 PC refutation; their number is \(M\ge N_0^{3/2}b^{1/2}(N-4)/(16\sqrt{12})\approx n^3/1330\), and \(n^4e^{-C\sqrt{\log n}}\) with Behrend-type sets, against the capacity \(\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\approx n^4/6\). The three claims:

lem:tied-lower-sets. For tied weights in which every 3-face has a single winning form, a form's leading block reaches its maximum \(\gamma_1-1\) only if no lower set of its weights has 2 or 3 cells. Its smallest lower set with at least 4 cells must then contain at least \(|Z|-1\) faces won by the form. With 4 cells this is a 4-cell matching with at least three of its four triples won. This recovers the tie-free cap and shows which ties are needed.
thm:tetrahedral-double-points. On the functional board with \(N\ge9\) labels, let tetrahedra (4 cells on distinct rows, with distinct labels \(\ge4\)) pairwise share at most one cell. Suppose every cell \(u\) outside a tetrahedron \(S_j\) lies in a face \(\{a,b,u\}\), \(a,b\in S_j\), meeting every other tetrahedron in at most one cell. Then the forms \(\ell_j=\sum_{x\in S_j}y_x\) meet (a) and (b) of thm:glued-double-points in \(G\). An explicit design, built from sets free of \(x+y=2z\) and \(x+2y=3z\), meets these conditions. It gives \(M\ge N_0^{3/2}b^{1/2}(N-4)/(16\sqrt{12})\), about \(n^3/1330\), and \(n^4e^{-C\sqrt{\log n}}\) with Behrend-type sets. So functional \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) plus these \(\mathbb F_3\) selectors, with any forbidden values, has no degree-3 PC refutation, for every \(n\ge9\).
ex:tetrahedral-design-check. The compiled checker confirms the design's conditions with zero violations for \(n=16,20,24,33,40,48,64,80\), in both set choices.

Setting

This follows the pattern theorem (thm:initial-complex-patterns).

The functional board has \(R\) rows and \(N\ge5\) labels, with \(L=N-1\), and cells \((r,c)\) with \(c<L\).
\(G=\mathbb F_3[y]/\bigl((y^2)+(\text{collisions})+(q_{rs})\bigr)\). Here \(G_t\) is the span of the \(t\)-matchings modulo the image \(Q_t\) of the ideal of the \(q_{rs}\). Non-matching monomials, those with a repeated row or a repeated label, are 0.
For \(N\ge5\), the standard monomials of degree \(\le3\) form a basis of \(G_t\). They are the matchings avoiding two kinds of pattern: a 0 on a row above a 1, and, on rows \(a<b<c\), the label tuples \((0,2,3)\), \((1,0,2)\), \((1,2,0)\) and \((1,2,3)\).
A face means a standard 3-matching. The PHP board has \(R=n+1\) and \(N=n\).

Standardness. Every forbidden pattern uses at least two labels \(\le3\): the pair pattern uses 0 and 1, and each triple pattern uses only labels in \(\{0,1,2,3\}\). So every matching with at most one label \(\le3\) is standard.

Tied weights: which ties are needed

Recall lem:tropical-leading-bound. The forms carry coefficients \(c_{j,x}t^{w_j(x)}\), and \(A_0\) keeps, in row \(F\), the terms of minimal order \(w_j(F)-w_j(u)\). Say the weights have single winners if in every face the minimum is attained by one form \(j(F)\), possibly at several cells \(u\). Adding a generic constant \(\lambda_j\) to each \(w_j\) breaks every tie between forms and keeps each form's own ties.

Lemma (tied lower sets). Assume single winners. Let block \(j\) of \(A_0\) be its rows won by \(j\) and its columns \((j,\cdot)\). For every lower set \(Z=\{x:w_j(x)\le\theta\}\), \[\operatorname{rank}(\text{block }j)\le\gamma_1-|Z|+f_j(Z),\] where \(f_j(Z)\) is the number of faces inside \(Z\) won by \(j\). Also \(\operatorname{rank}A_0=\sum_j\operatorname{rank}(\text{block }j)\), and each block has rank at most \(\gamma_1-1\).

So \(\operatorname{rank}A_0=M(\gamma_1-1)\) forces \(f_j(Z)\ge|Z|-1\) for every \(j\) and every lower set \(Z\). Consequences:

No lower set has 2 or 3 cells, since 2 cells hold no face and 3 cells hold at most one.
The smallest lower set with at least 4 cells holds at least \(|Z|-1\) won faces. With \(|Z|=4\), these are 3 faces on 4 cells, which forces 4 distinct rows and labels: a 4-cell matching with at least three of its four triples won by the form.
Tie-free weights have a lower set of size 2, which gives the recorded cap \(M(\gamma_1-2)\) again.

Proof.

Block diagonal. With single winners, row \(F\) of \(A_0\) has entries only in the columns of \(j(F)\). So \(A_0\) is block diagonal after ordering the rows by winner.
Each block has rank at most \(\gamma_1-1\). Block \(j\) is the \(t\to0\) limit of a row-rescaled submatrix of form \(j\)'s own columns of \(\mu\). By lower semicontinuity, its rank is at most the rank of \(u\mapsto\ell_j^2u\). That rank is at most \(\gamma_1-1\), since \(\ell_j^3=0\).
The lower-set bound. Row \(F\) has an entry at \((j,u)\) exactly when \(u\) is \(w_j\)-heaviest in \(F\). If \(F\subseteq Z\), its heaviest cells lie in \(Z\). If \(F\not\subseteq Z\), its heaviest cells lie outside \(Z\), since every cell outside a lower set is heavier than every cell in it. So the block splits into two blocks: faces inside \(Z\) with columns \(Z\), and the other faces with the other columns. The first block has rank at most \(f_j(Z)\), and the second at most \(\gamma_1-|Z|\). \(\square\)

The lemma says what the ties must look like. The theorem below is modeled on that shape, though it is not an instance of the lemma. It works with \(\mu\) in \(G\) at an explicit point, forms supported on a tetrahedron, and its non-private faces have no single winner.

The theorem

A tetrahedron is a set \(S\) of 4 cells on 4 distinct rows, with 4 distinct labels, all \(\ge4\). By standardness all four of its 3-subsets are faces. Its form is \(\ell_S=\sum_{x\in S}y_x\in G_1\), the linear part of \(L_S=\sum_{x\in S}x_{\text{cell}}\). For a family \(S_1,\dots,S_M\), a face \(F\) is private to \(j\) if \(|F\cap S_j|\ge2\) and \(|F\cap S_k|\le1\) for every \(k\ne j\).

Theorem (tetrahedral double points). Let \(N\ge9\) and \(R\ge4\).

Criterion. Suppose the tetrahedra satisfy:
- (P1) any two share at most one cell;
- (P2) for every \(j\) and every cell \(u\notin S_j\), some face \(\{a,b,u\}\) with \(a,b\in S_j\) is private to \(j\).
Then \(\dim\sum_j\ell_j^2G_1=M(\gamma_1-1)\), which is (b). This implies (a).
Design. Let \(N_0\ge1\) with \(4N_0\le R\). Let \(A\subseteq\mathbb Z_{\ge0}\) and \(B\subseteq\mathbb Z_{>0}\) be admissible, meaning that no three pairwise distinct elements satisfy \(x+y=2z\) or \(x+2y=3z\). Also require \(\max B<\tfrac32\min B\).
- Rows: for \(a\in A\) and \(0\le x\le N_0-1-3a\), the block \(Q_{x,a}\) has rows \(\rho_i=(i-1)N_0+x+(i-1)a\), \(i=1,\dots,4\).
- Labels: for \(\beta\in B\) and \(0\le\alpha\le L-5-3\beta\), the tetrahedron \(T_{x,a,\alpha,\beta}\) has cells \((\rho_i,\lambda_i)\), with \(\lambda_i=4+\alpha+(i-1)\beta\).
These tetrahedra satisfy (P1) and (P2). Their number is \[M=\Bigl(\sum_{a\in A}(N_0-3a)_+\Bigr)\Bigl(\sum_{\beta\in B}(L-4-3\beta)_+\Bigr).\]
Counts. Take the digit sets \(\mathcal D(X)=\{\sum_id_i4^i:d_i\in\{0,1\}\}\cap[0,X)\), with \(A=\mathcal D(\lceil N_0/6\rceil)\), \(b=\lfloor(N-6)/9\rfloor\ge1\) and \(B=b+\mathcal D(\lceil b/2\rceil)\). Then \[M\ge N_0^{3/2}\,b^{1/2}\,(N-4)/(16\sqrt{12}).\] On the PHP board, \(N_0=\lfloor(n+1)/4\rfloor\), and this is about \(n^3/1330\). With Behrend-type admissible sets instead, \(M\ge n^4e^{-C\sqrt{\log n}}\) for large \(n\). The capacity \(\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\) is about \(n^4/6\).
Hardness. For every \(n\ge9\), functional \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) plus the selectors \(1-(L_{S_j}-v_j)^2\) of such a design, with any \(v_j\in\mathbb F_3\), has no PC refutation of degree 3. The same holds for weak balanced PHP, which thm:glued-double-points states under the same hypotheses (a) and (b) in \(G\). Let \(M^*(n)\) be the largest size of a family satisfying (P1) and (P2) at \(n\). For every \(M\le M^*(n)\), generic forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) have maximal double-point rank \(M(\gamma_1-1)\).

Proof of 1.

The matrix. For \(a,b\in S_j\) and a cell \(u\), the product \(y_ay_by_u\) is 0 in \(G\) unless \(\{a,b,u\}\) is a matching. If it is a matching, it has at most one label \(\le3\), namely \(u\)'s, so it is a basis element by standardness. With \(y_a^2=0\), this gives \(\ell_j^2u=2\sum_{\{a,b\}\subseteq S_j}y_ay_by_u\). So in the standard basis the matrix of \(\mu:\bigoplus_jG_1\to G_3\) has entry 2 at row \(F\), column \((j,u)\) when \(u\in F\) and \(F\setminus u\subseteq S_j\), and 0 otherwise.
Private rows. A row private to \(j\) has nonzero entries only in the columns of \(j\).
The rows used for form \(j\). By (P1), the four internal faces \(S_j\setminus d\) are private to \(j\). Each has entries 2 at its three cells, so on the columns of \(S_j\) they form \(2(J-I)\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) that matrix has rank 3: the four rows sum to \(2\cdot3\cdot\mathbf 1=0\), and any three of them have the nonsingular minor \(2(J_3-I_3)\), with determinant \(8\cdot2\ne0\). For \(u\notin S_j\), the private face \(F_u=\{a,b,u\}\) from (P2) has, among \(j\)'s columns, the single entry 2 at \((j,u)\), since \(F_u\setminus a\not\subseteq S_j\). Distinct \(u\) give distinct \(F_u\).
The rank. These rows give a block of rank \(3+(\gamma_1-4)=\gamma_1-1\) in \(j\)'s columns and zero elsewhere. Rows private to different forms are distinct, so \(\operatorname{rank}\mu\ge M(\gamma_1-1)\). The reverse inequality always holds, since \(\ell_je_j\in\ker\mu\).
(b) implies (a). By (b), \(M(\gamma_1-1)=\dim\sum_j\ell_j^2G_1\le\sum_j\dim\ell_j^2G_1\le M(\gamma_1-1)\), since each \(\dim\ell_j^2G_1\le\gamma_1-1\). So the sum is direct and each summand has dimension \(\gamma_1-1>0\). If \(\sum_ja_j\ell_j^2=0\) with some \(a_{j_0}\ne0\), then \(\sum_j\ell_j^2(a_ju)=0\) for every \(u\). Directness gives \(a_{j_0}\ell_{j_0}^2u=0\) for every \(u\), so \(\ell_{j_0}^2G_1=0\), a contradiction. \(\square\)

Proof of 2. Two facts about the rows come first.

(R1) Two distinct blocks share at most one row. Two shared rows would lie in distinct parts \(i\ne k\), and subtracting the two equations gives \((k-i)(a-a')=0\). So \(a=a'\), and then \(x=x'\).
(R2) No three blocks pairwise share three distinct rows. For three such blocks \((x_1,a_1),(x_2,a_2),(x_3,a_3)\), the shared rows lie in parts \(i,j,k\), which must be pairwise distinct: a block has one row per part, so two shared rows in one part would coincide. Summing the three row equations gives \((i-k)a_1+(j-i)a_2+(k-j)a_3=0\). The coefficients are nonzero, sum to 0 and have absolute values \(\{1,1,2\}\) or \(\{1,2,3\}\). So the equation is \(x+y=2z\) or \(x+2y=3z\) in \(A\), after renaming the \(a\)'s. The \(a\)'s are not all equal, since equal \(a\) with one shared row forces equal blocks. If two of them are equal, the equation forces the third to equal them too. So they are pairwise distinct, which admissibility excludes.

(P1). A tetrahedron has its cells on distinct rows. Two tetrahedra sharing two cells therefore lie on one block, by (R1). On one block, two cells in positions \(i\ne k\) fix \(\beta=(\lambda_k-\lambda_i)/(k-i)\), and then \(\alpha\). So the two tetrahedra are equal.

(P2). Fix \(S=T_{x,a,\alpha,\beta}\) with cells \(s_i=(\rho_i,\lambda_i)\), and a cell \(u=(r,c)\notin S\). Call \(s_k\) blocked if \(\lambda_k=c\), or if some tetrahedron contains both \(s_k\) and \(u\). Suppose two cells \(s_k,s_m\) are unblocked and lie on rows other than \(r\). Then \(\{s_k,s_m,u\}\) is a matching with at most one label \(\le3\), so it is a face. It is private to \(S\): by (P1), only \(S\) contains \(\{s_k,s_m\}\), and no tetrahedron contains \(\{s_k,u\}\) or \(\{s_m,u\}\). So it suffices to find two such cells.

\(r\) is not a row of \(Q=Q_{x,a}\). At most one \(s_k\) has label \(c\). Suppose two cells \(s_k,s_m\) each shared a tetrahedron with \(u\). Their blocks \(Q_k\ni\rho_k,r\) and \(Q_m\ni\rho_m,r\) differ from \(Q\), since \(r\notin Q\). They also differ from each other, or \(Q_k\) would share two rows with \(Q\). Then \(Q,Q_k,Q_m\) pairwise share the three distinct rows \(\rho_k,\rho_m,r\), contradicting (R2). So at most two cells are blocked, and the other two work.
\(r=\rho_i\), so \(c\ne\lambda_i\). The candidates are the three \(s_k\) with \(k\ne i\). A tetrahedron containing \(s_k\) and \(u\) lies on \(Q\), by (R1). Its slope \(\beta'\) satisfies \((i-k)\beta'=c-\lambda_k=(i-k)\beta+\delta\), where \(\delta=c-\lambda_i\ne0\). So \(s_k\) is blocked only if \(\beta'_k=\beta+\delta/d_k\) lies in \(B\cup\{0\}\), where \(d_k=i-k\). The label clash \(\lambda_k=c\) is the case \(\beta'_k=0\). Suppose \(s_k\) and \(s_m\) are both blocked, so that \(d_k(\beta'_k-\beta)=d_m(\beta'_m-\beta)=\delta\).
- Both \(\beta'\) in \(B\). The values \(\beta'_k,\beta'_m,\beta\) are pairwise distinct. As \(i\) runs over 1 to 4, the pairs \(\{d_k,d_m\}\) are, up to a common sign, \(\{1,2\},\{1,3\},\{2,3\},\{1,-1\},\{1,-2\},\{2,-1\}\). They give the equations \(\beta'_k+\beta=2\beta'_m\), \(\beta'_k+2\beta=3\beta'_m\), \(\beta+2\beta'_k=3\beta'_m\), \(\beta'_k+\beta'_m=2\beta\), \(\beta'_k+2\beta'_m=3\beta\) and \(2\beta'_k+\beta'_m=3\beta\). Each is excluded by admissibility.
- \(\beta'_k=0\). Then \(\beta'_m=\beta(1-d_k/d_m)\). The ratio \(1-d_k/d_m\) lies in \(\{\tfrac12,\tfrac13,\tfrac23,\tfrac32,2,3,-\tfrac12,-1,-2\}\), so it is at most \(\tfrac23\), at least \(\tfrac32\), or negative. Two elements of \(B\) have a ratio strictly between \(\tfrac23\) and \(\tfrac32\), and \(\beta'_m=0\) would force \(d_k=d_m\). So \(s_m\) is not blocked.
So at most one of the three candidates is blocked, and two remain, on rows other than \(r\).

Rows outside the \(4N_0\) design rows lie in no block, so they fall under the first case. \(\square\)

Proof of 3. \(\mathcal D(X)\) is admissible. For \(px+qy=(p+q)z\) with \((p,q)\in\{(1,1),(1,2)\}\), digits in \(\{0,1\}\) never carry in base 4, since \(p+q\le3\). So the equation holds digit by digit, which forces equal digits. \(\mathcal D(X)\) has at least \(\sqrt X/2\) elements: if \(4^k\le X<4^{k+1}\), it contains the \(2^k\) numbers below \(4^k\).

Both equations are invariant under translation, so \(B\) is admissible. It lies in \([b,\tfrac32b)\), with \(\max B<\tfrac32\min B\). Each \(a\in A\) has \(a<N_0/6\), so \(N_0-3a>N_0/2\). Each \(\beta\in B\) has \(3\beta<\tfrac92b\le(N-6)/2\), so \(L-4-3\beta>(N-4)/2\). Therefore \[M\ge\tfrac12\sqrt{N_0/6}\cdot\tfrac{N_0}2\cdot\tfrac12\sqrt{b/2}\cdot\tfrac{N-4}2.\]

For the Behrend bound, take \(E_s=\{\sum_ix_i(3d)^i:0\le x_i<d,\ \sum_ix_i^2=s\}\). With digits below \(d\), the equations do not carry in base \(3d\), since \(3(d-1)<3d\). So they hold for the digit vectors in \(\mathbb R^k\). Vectors of equal length with \(Z=(pX+qY)/(p+q)\) are equal, by strict convexity. Some \(s\) has \(|E_s|\ge d^{k-2}/k\), with \(E_s\subseteq[0,(3d)^k)\). Taking \(k\approx\sqrt{\log X}\) gives admissible sets in \([0,X)\) of size \(Xe^{-C\sqrt{\log X}}\). This is Behrend's construction (1946), and Ruzsa (1993) treats these equations; neither was re-read. Using such sets for \(A\) in \([0,N_0/6)\) and for \(B-b\) in \([0,b/2)\) gives \(M\ge n^4e^{-C'\sqrt{\log n}}\). \(\square\)

Proof of 4. For \(n\ge9\), the sets \(A=\{0\}\) and \(B=\{1\}\) are admissible and give \(M=\lfloor(n+1)/4\rfloor(n-8)\ge1\) tetrahedra. The digit sets of part 3 need \(b\ge1\), that is \(n\ge15\). Since \(N\ge9\) and \(R\ge3\), thm:glued-double-points applies to the \(\mathbb F_3\) forms \(\ell_{S_j}\), with (a) and (b) from part 1. For the generic statement: any subfamily of a family satisfying (P1) and (P2) satisfies them too, since removing tetrahedra only makes more faces private. So every \(M\le M^*(n)\) has an \(\mathbb F_3\)-point of rank \(M(\gamma_1-1)\). "Rank at least \(r\)" is Zariski-open, and it is nonempty, so it is dense in the irreducible affine space of \(M\)-tuples. \(\square\)

Remark. The step "(b) implies (a)" also settles a recorded condition. The glued double points entry states: "At \(n=8\), the small-boards proposition's \(\mathbb F_3\) specialization satisfies (b) for every prefix up to capacity, but (a) was not checked there, so the conclusion at \(n=8\) is conditional on (a) for those forms." Those forms are an \(\mathbb F_3\)-point satisfying (b), and \(\gamma_1\ge2\), so (a) holds and the \(n=8\) conclusion is unconditional for them.

The check

tetra_check.c builds the design and checks the proof's claims directly. It asserts admissibility and the ratio condition. It counts cell pairs lying in two tetrahedra, which is (P1), and cells \(u\) with no private face \(\{a,b,u\}\), which is (P2); its face test is the pattern definition. For each \(n\) it runs two set choices: the digit sets of part 3, and greedy admissible sets. It is one OpenMP pass over \(n=16,20,24,33,40,48,64,80\), taking about a second in all. Results are in tetra_check.out.

\(n\)	digits: \(A\), \(B\), \(M\)	greedy: \(A\), \(B\), \(M\)	capacity
16	{0}, {1}, 32	{0,1}, {1}, 40	7193.5
24	{0}, {2}, 78	{0,1}, {3,4}, 153	42309.6
33	{0,1}, {3,4}, 455	{0,1}, {3,4}, 455	163313.1
48	{0,1}, {4,5}, 1239	{0,1}, {3,4}, 1365	777545.6
64	{0,1}, {6,7}, 2291	{0,1,4,5}, {3,4}, 3298	2540129.6
80	{0,1}, {8,9}, 3663	{0,1,4,5}, {11,12,15,16}, 6900	6324175.0

\(n=20\) and \(n=40\) also give zero violations. Can it decide. The check tests the case analysis of part 2, and any case the proof missed would appear as a violation. It is nonvacuous from \(n=24\) (greedy) and \(n=33\) (digits). From there, blocks share rows, several slopes occur, and both cases of (P2) arise with other tetrahedra present.

What this means

A3 at degree 3, for every \(n\). Before this entry, the record's unconditional count for large \(n\) was a constant: prop:board-double-points-from-free-spans, on the weak base with \(N\ge10\) and certified \(d\le36\), gives at most \(\lfloor(\binom{38}3-36)/35\rfloor=240\) selectors. Its conditional count, through conj:truncated-double-points, is about \(N^4/150\). The theorem gives the first unconditional count that grows with \(n\): about \(n^3/1330\) explicit \(\mathbb F_3\) selectors, and \(n^{4-o(1)}\) with Behrend-type sets. It uses no freeness and no computation.
What stays open. The capacity-sharp form (conj:aligned-double-points) is still open. Private tetrahedra cannot reach it: (P1) forces the tetrahedra to use disjoint cell pairs, so \(M\le\binom R2L^2/6\), about half the capacity asymptotically. At the checked sizes the design reaches only 0.06–0.6% of capacity. The forms are structured, not adversarial (A1). The width is that of selectors (A2), and the degree is 3 (A3).
The method. The private-support argument uses a monomial basis and the Frobenius block of a tetrahedron. It may extend to higher degree, but two gaps stand in the way. Standardness rests on the pattern theorem, and no standard basis of \(G_4\) is recorded. The Frobenius block uses \(\ell^3=0\) with target \(G_3\), and the degree-4 kernel has a different shape.

Next: private supports at degree 4, for the width-one mixed condition (b4) of prop:width-one-degree-four-glue. Give each clause \(\chi(L_i)(L_j-u)\) supports for \(\ell_i\) and \(\ell_j\) whose private 4-faces reach rank \(\gamma_1-1\) per clause, and design them by the same row-block and slope construction. First, find a monomial basis of \(G_4\) on cells with labels \(\ge4\), or work on the degenerate algebra through lem:degeneration-transfer. The step ends with (b4) proved for a polynomial number of W's width-1 clauses at every \(n\), or with the case of the private-face analysis that fails at degree 4.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:glued-double-points, statement and proof, including the \(\mathbb F_3\) requirement on forms and its \(n=8\) condition;
thm:initial-complex-patterns, the definition of \(G\) and the standard monomials;
lem:tropical-leading-bound, statement and proof;
the exact statement of prop:board-double-points-from-free-spans (openness-transfer entry), with its weak-base setting and its \(N^4/150\) conditional count; the \(n=8\) sentence of the glued double points entry.

Claim searches found no earlier version: tetrahedron supports, explicit witnesses at every \(n\), Behrend designs, private faces, and independent double points for all \(n\). Before drafting the proof, a fresh-context reviewer was asked whether the record already implies the statement. It answered no, apart from the conditional count. It found no error in the block-diagonal argument, and it verified the case analysis. It required:

the standardness lemma;
the full case analysis, with \(B\subseteq\mathbb Z_{>0}\) and the range of \(\alpha\);
(b) implies (a) through directness;
the Behrend and Ruzsa citations.

All four are adopted above. The checker confirmed the design with zero violations. A second fresh-context reviewer checked the whole draft. It found no mathematical error, and it confirmed the lemma, the matrix, both cases of (P2), the counts and the table. It required nine changes, all adopted:

the weak balanced claim tied to glued's hypotheses in \(G\);
the record's count corrected to 240, on the weak base;
the degree-independence claim weakened, with its two gaps named;
the \(n=8\) remark quoted exactly;
the generic claim proved through subfamilies and openness;
"specialization" replaced by "modeled on";
the lemma's 4-cell conclusion worded without "tetrahedron";
the checked sizes listed;
the exact comparison statements re-read.

The changes correct and weaken claims, so no further pass was made.

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Private heptads: width-1 W clauses on 7-cell supports that pairwise share at most one cell glue at degree 4 for every n, about n⁴/7000 of them

25 September 2026 · Working proofs and a finite check · open statements A2 and A3 at width 1, degree 4 · cycle odd-prime-private-degree-four. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Private heptads: width-1 W clauses on 7-cell supports that pairwise share at most one cell glue at degree 4 for every n, about n4/7000 of them”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-private-heptads.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A2 and A3. The tetrahedral entry proved degree-3 double points at every \(n\) for selectors on private supports. Its next step asked for the same at degree 4, for condition (b4) of prop:width-one-degree-four-glue on W's width-1 clauses, which the record checked only at \(n=7\). Two things were missing: a monomial basis in degree 4, and the private-face analysis for the mixed tops \(\ell_i^2\ell_j\).

General statement. thm:private-heptad-glue: for every \(n\ge12\), explicit \(\mathbb F_3\) width-1 W clauses \(\chi_v(L_S)(L_T-\kappa)\), whose 7-cell supports \(S\cup T\) pairwise share at most one cell, meet (a3) and (b4). So functional \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) plus them has no degree-4 PC refutation, and an explicit design gives \(M=\bigl(\sum_a(N_0-6a)\bigr)\bigl(\sum_{\beta\ge1}(L-4-6\beta)_+\bigr)\approx n^4/7056\) of them asymptotically. The degree-4 capacity is \(\gamma_4/(\gamma_1-1)\approx n^6/24\). The three claims:

lem:spare-label-independence. If \(X\) is a set of at least \(t\) labels below \(L\), the \(t\)-matchings with at most one label in \(X\) are linearly independent in \(G_t\), for every \(t\). This replaces a standard basis, which is not known beyond degree 3.
thm:private-heptad-glue, as above.
ex:spare-label-check. The lemma holds exactly on one row set at \((t,N)=(3,6),(3,7),(4,8),(4,9)\), and fails at \(|X|=t-1\) in all four.

Setting

This is the setting of the tetrahedral entry.

The functional board has \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels, with \(L=N-1\) and y-variables \(y_{r,c}\) for \(c<L\).
As in the gluing entry, \(G_t=K_t^*\). Here \(K_t\) is the space of arrays on injective labelings of \(t\)-sets of rows, over all \(N\) labels, with zero ordinary marginals. A matching monomial \(y_m\) acts as evaluation at \(m\), and monomials with a repeated row or label are 0.
\(G_t\) splits over \(t\)-sets of rows.

After normalization, a width-1 W clause is \(\chi_v(L_i)(L_j-u)\), with top \(-\ell_i^2\ell_j\). prop:width-one-degree-four-glue (\(R\ge4\), \(N\ge7\)) needs two conditions:

(a3) the tops are independent in \(G_3\);
(b4) \(\mu_4:\bigoplus_CG_1\to G_4\), \((g_C)\mapsto\sum_Cg_C\ell_i^2\ell_j\), has rank \(M(\gamma_1-1)\).

A basis substitute: spare labels

Lemma (spare-label independence). Let \(t\ge1\) and let \(X\) be a set of labels below \(L\) with \(|X|\ge t\). The monomials \(y_m\), for \(m\) a \(t\)-matching with labels below \(L\) and at most one label in \(X\), are linearly independent in \(G_t\).

Proof. Each array below lives on the row set of its matching, and \(G_t\) splits over row sets. So it suffices to fix a \(t\)-set of rows. Independence of evaluations on \(K_t\) means that restriction from \(K_t\) onto the family's coordinates is onto.

Spare labels. For a family member \(m\), choose a distinct spare label \(s_r\) for each row \(r\), none equal to a label of \(m\). If \(m\) has its \(X\)-label on row \(r_0\), take \(s_{r_0}=L\), and take the others from \(X\setminus\{m_{r_0}\}\), which has at least \(t-1\) elements. If \(m\) has no \(X\)-label, take all spares from \(X\cup\{L\}\), which has at least \(t+1\) elements.
The array. Let \(\omega_m(\tau)=\prod_r\bigl([\tau_r=m_r]-[\tau_r=s_r]\bigr)\). The \(2t\) labels \(m_r,s_r\) are distinct, so \(\omega_m\) is supported on injective labelings. Each row marginal is a product with the factor \(1-1=0\). So \(\omega_m\in K_t\).
Its values on the family. A member \(\tau\ne m\) with \(\omega_m(\tau)\ne0\) takes spare labels on some rows, never \(L\).
- If \(m\) has an \(X\)-label, every other spare lies in \(X\), so \(\tau\) would have two \(X\)-labels and is not in the family. So \(\omega_m\) restricts to \(\delta_m\).
- If \(m\) has none, \(\tau\) replaces exactly one row by an \(X\)-spare, so it has exactly one \(X\)-label.
Order the members with one \(X\)-label first. Then the matrix \((\omega_m(\tau))\) is unitriangular, and restriction is onto. \(\square\)

The method is the one of lem:sparse-cell-matching-separation, which separates matchings by disjoint signed label pairs. That lemma needs \(N\ge\Delta+2k\), which fails here, since every row carries every label below \(L\). At degree 3 this reproves, without the pattern theorem, the standardness the tetrahedral entry used: its supports have labels \(\ge4\), so each monomial \(y_ay_by_u\) it needs has at most one label in \(X=\{0,1,2\}\), and the lemma applies with \(t=3\). The bound \(|X|\ge t\) is used for the spares, and the check below shows the family is dependent at \(|X|=t-1\) in every tested case.

The theorem

A heptad clause has a 7-matching \(U=S\cup T\), with \(|S|=4\), \(|T|=3\) and all labels in \([4,L-1]\), and is \(C=\chi_v(L_S)(L_T-\kappa)\), where \(v,\kappa\in\mathbb F_3\) (\(\kappa\) is the constant written \(u\) in prop:width-one-degree-four-glue; below, \(u\) always denotes a cell) and \(L_S=\sum_{x\in S}x_{\text{cell}}\). Its linear parts are \(\ell_S=\sum_{x\in S}y_x\) and \(\ell_T\).

Theorem (private heptad glue). Let \(N\ge12\) and \(R\ge7\).

If the supports of heptad clauses \(C_1,\dots,C_M\) pairwise share at most one cell, then (b4) and (a3) hold. So functional PHP plus \(C_1,\dots,C_M\) has no PC refutation of degree 4.
Design. Let \(7N_0\le R\). The rows are \(\rho_i=(i-1)N_0+x+(i-1)a\), \(i=1,\dots,7\), for \(a\ge0\) and \(0\le x\le N_0-1-6a\). The labels are \(\lambda_i=4+\alpha+(i-1)\beta\), for \(\beta\ge1\) and \(0\le\alpha\le L-5-6\beta\). Take \(S\) at positions 1–4 and \(T\) at positions 5–7. These supports pairwise share at most one cell, and their number is \[M=\Bigl(\sum_{0\le a\le(N_0-1)/6}(N_0-6a)\Bigr)\Bigl(\sum_{\beta\ge1}(L-4-6\beta)_+\Bigr),\] about \(n^4/7056\) on the PHP board.

Proof of 1.

The coordinates. Every monomial in \(\ell_S^2\ell_Tu\), for a cell \(u\), is \(y_ay_by_cy_u\) with \(a,b\in S\) and \(c\in T\). It is either 0 or a 4-matching with labels below \(L\) and at most one label in \(X=\{0,1,2,3\}\), namely \(u\)'s. By the lemma with \(t=4\), these monomials are independent in \(G_4\). So the rank of \(\mu_4\) is the rank of its matrix in these coordinates. The entry at row \(F\), column \((C,u)\), is 2 when \(u\in F\) and \(F\setminus u\) consists of two cells of \(S\) and one of \(T\), and 0 otherwise. This uses \(\ell_S^2=2\sum_{a<b}y_ay_b\) and \(y^2=0\).
Internal rows. A 4-subset \(F\subseteq U\) with three cells \(\sigma\subseteq S\) and one in \(T\) has entries only at \(\sigma\), so its row is \(2\cdot\mathbf 1_\sigma\) on the \(S\)-columns. Over the four \(\sigma\) these rows have rank 3, as \(2(J-I)\) does. A subset with two cells in \(S\) and a pair \(\tau\subseteq T\) has row \(2\cdot\mathbf 1_\tau\) on the \(T\)-columns. The three vectors \(e_t+e_{t'}\) have determinant \(-2\ne0\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). Together these rows have rank \(3+3=6=|U|-1\).
External rows. A cell \(u\notin U\) shares its row with at most one cell of \(U\), and its label with at most one. Removing those cells leaves two cells \(a,b\) of \(S\) and one cell \(c\) of \(T\). Then \(F_u=\{a,b,c,u\}\) is a 4-matching. Among \(C\)'s columns its only entry is at \(u\), since \(F_u\setminus a\) contains \(u\notin U\).
Privacy. An entry of a row \(F\) in a column of another clause \(C'\) needs three cells of \(F\) in \(U'\). Every row used for \(C\) has at most two cells in \(U'\). Internal rows lie in \(U\), which shares at most one cell with \(U'\). External rows have three cells in \(U\), so at most one in \(U'\), and one cell outside \(U\). So each used row has entries only in \(C\)'s columns. Rows used for different clauses are distinct, since a used row has at least three cells in its clause's support.
The rank. So \(\operatorname{rank}\mu_4\ge\sum_C(6+\gamma_1-7)=M(\gamma_1-1)\). The reverse inequality holds because \(\ell_Se_C\in\ker\mu_4\), since \(\ell_S^3=0\). This is (b4).
(a3). As in the tetrahedral entry, (b4) makes the sum \(\sum_C\ell_{S_C}^2\ell_{T_C}G_1\) direct, with every summand of dimension \(\gamma_1-1>0\). Multiply a relation \(\sum_Ca_C\ell_{S_C}^2\ell_{T_C}=0\) by every cell \(y_u\). Directness gives \(a_C\ell_{S_C}^2\ell_{T_C}G_1=0\) for each \(C\), so \(a_C=0\).
The conclusion. prop:width-one-degree-four-glue applies, since \(R\ge4\) and \(N\ge7\). \(\square\)

Proof of 2. All arithmetic is in the integers, with no reduction, and \(x+6a\le N_0-1\) keeps each row inside its part. The rows of a support are distinct, and so are its labels, since \(\beta\ge1\). The labels lie in \([4,L-1]\). Two blocks sharing two rows, in parts \(i\ne k\), satisfy \((k-i)(a-a')=0\), so they coincide. So two supports sharing two cells lie on one block. There the two cells fix \(\beta\) and \(\alpha\), so the supports are equal. The count is the product of the numbers of blocks and of lines. \(\square\)

The limit of this design. Pair-disjoint supports use 21 cell pairs each, so \(M\le\binom R2L^2/21\), about \(n^4/42\). The degree-4 capacity is about \(n^6/24\). So pair-disjointness cannot approach capacity. A design sharing pairs but not triples could reach order \(n^6\), but external faces \(\{a,b,c,u\}\) could then meet another support in three cells. That leads to configuration-avoiding conditions like those of the tetrahedral design.

The checks

spare_labels.py tests the lemma exactly on one row set: \(\operatorname{rank}C_{\cdot,\bar F}=\operatorname{rank}C\), where \(C\) is the marginal-constraint matrix and \(\bar F\) the coordinates outside the family. It uses Gaussian elimination over \(\mathbb F_3\) and runs in under a second. Results are in spare_labels.json.

\(t\)	\(N\)	\(\dim K_t\)	\(\|X\|=t\): family size, independent	\(\|X\|=t-1\)	all matchings
3	6	47	18, yes	42, no	60, no
3	7	104	60, yes	96, no	120, no
4	8	641	96, yes	312, no	840, no
4	9	1405	408, yes	840, no	1680, no

The controls fail even where the family is smaller than \(\dim K_t\), so the check can fail. design4.py builds the design for \(n=12,\dots,64\) (\(n=12,16,20,24,32,40,48,64\)). It confirms 7-matchings with labels \(\ge4\) and no shared cell pair. It finds \(M=1,10,36,63,192,425,1064,3132\), about \(n^4/5000\) to \(n^4/5400\) at \(n=48,64\) (the \(n^4/7056\) above is the asymptotic value), against capacities from \(3.7\times10^4\) to \(2.4\times10^9\). Results are in design4.json. The design check only confirms part 2's two-line proof. The theorem's content is part 1, which is proved.

What this means

W's clause shape at every \(n\). Before this entry, (b4) was known only at \(n=7\), for random clauses. Now explicit \(\mathbb F_3\) width-1 W clauses, about \(n^4/7000\) of them, glue at degree 4 for every \(n\ge12\). By count, this exceeds the joint-freeness route of cor:independent-form-members, which reaches about \(\sqrt{N/(2D)}\) forms. That route applies to arbitrary forms meeting its condition, while these forms are structured. So the comparison is by count only.
Why pair-disjointness suffices here. The two results concern different clause shapes, each one degree above its top. For width-1 clauses at degree 4, a used face has three support cells, so pair-disjointness alone makes it private. For selectors at degree 3, a used face has two, which forced the triangle-free and slope conditions of the tetrahedral design.
What stays open. The design is far below capacity, \(n^4\) against \(n^6\). The forms are structured, not adversarial (A1). The width is 1 (A2), and the degree is 4 (A3). From degree 5 on, the kernel of each clause's map contains at least \(\ell_SG_1+\mathbb F_3\ell_T^2\). The second term appears because \(\ell_T^3=0\), and it is generally not in \(\ell_SG_1\). So the private-row argument must control a kernel larger than one vector per clause.

Next: private supports through degree \(k+3\) for width-\(k\) W clauses \(\chi(L_0)\prod_{j\le k}(L_j-u_j)\), the lowest degree for each width. This is axis A2 at the degree where the Frobenius kernel is still one vector per clause. State the internal rank condition for supports \(S\cup T_1\cup\dots\cup T_k\), prove it with the spare-label lemma for \(t=k+3\), with support labels in \([k+3,L-1]\), and give a design for every \(n\). prop:width-one-degree-four-glue covers only width 1, so the step includes its width-\(k\) analogue through thm:based-taylor-glue: no refutation of degree \(k+3\) from (b) at degree \(k+3\) and independent tops at degree \(k+2\). The step ends with that analogue and (b) for width \(k\), or with the internal configuration that fails.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

prop:width-one-degree-four-glue, statement, proof and hypotheses (\(R\ge4\), \(N\ge7\), (a3), (b4));
the duality \(K_t=G_t^*\) and the zero-marginal definition, from the row Horace and residual entries;
thm:tetrahedral-double-points, for the private-row and directness arguments reused here.

Claim searches found no earlier version: width-1 clauses at degree 4 for every \(n\), spare labels and zero-marginal independence, and pair-disjoint clause supports. Before drafting the proofs, a fresh-context reviewer was asked whether the record already implies the statements. It answered no. It named lem:sparse-cell-matching-separation as the closest method, which does not apply here, and it confirmed the unitriangularity, the internal ranks and the privacy threshold. It required:

the coordinates made explicit, with labels in \([4,L-1]\);
integer arithmetic in the design;
the one-line derivation of (a3);
the row-set splitting in the lemma.

All four are adopted. A second fresh-context reviewer checked the whole draft against the result files. It found no mathematical gap, and it found that every stated hypothesis is used. It required eight changes, all adopted:

the degree-5 kernel corrected to include \(\ell_T^2\);
the checked ratio stated as \(n^4/5000\) to \(n^4/5400\);
the clause constant renamed \(\kappa\);
the degree-3 standardness remark justified;
the joint-freeness comparison cited and limited to counts;
the degree-3 comparison stated for its different clause shape;
the width-\(k\) glue analogue made part of the next step;
the (a3) step spelled out.

The changes correct and clarify, so no further pass was made.

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Private supports for every width: explicit width-k W clauses glue at degree k+3 for every n, about n⁴/(4m²(m−1)²) of them with m = 3k+4, including k = Θ(log n)

25 September 2026 · Working proofs · open statement A2 at the first degree of each width · cycle odd-prime-private-width-k. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Private supports for every width: explicit width-k W clauses glue at degree k+3 for every n, about n4/(4m2(m−1)2) of them with m = 3k+4, including k = Θ(log n)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-private-width-k.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A2. The heptad entry proved (a3) and (b4) at every \(n\) for width-1 W clauses on pair-disjoint 7-cell supports. W needs width \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\). Its next step asked for width \(k\) at degree \(k+3\), the first degree at which a width-\(k\) clause's tops have syzygies beyond scalars. That needs two things: a glue proposition for width \(k\), since prop:width-one-degree-four-glue covers width 1, and a private-support rank argument.

General statement. thm:private-support-first-degree: for every \(k\ge1\) and every \(n\) with \(N\ge4k+8\) and \(R\ge3k+4\), weak and functional unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) plus explicit \(\mathbb F_3\) width-\(k\) W clauses \(\chi_v(L_0)\prod_{j=1}^k(L_j-\kappa_j)\) have no PC refutation of degree \(k+3\). The clauses sit on pair-disjoint \((3k+4)\)-cell supports, and there are \(M\approx R^2L^2/(4m^2(m-1)^2)\) of them, with \(m=3k+4\). That is \((1+o(1))\,n^4/(324k^4)\) as \(k\to\infty\) with \(k^2=o(n)\), and \(n^{4-o(1)}\) at \(k=\Theta(\log n)\); at \(k=1\) it is \(n^4/7056\). The glue step is prop:width-k-first-degree-glue, and thm:private-heptad-glue is the case \(k=1\).

Setting

This is the setting of the heptad entry.

The functional board has \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels, with \(L=N-1\). \(G_t=K_t^*\), and \(G\) is the top algebra of the functional base.
By lem:spare-label-independence, if a set \(X\) of labels below \(L\) has \(|X|\ge t\), the \(t\)-matchings with labels below \(L\) and at most one label in \(X\) are independent in \(G_t\).
After normalization (thm:resolvent-taylor-glue), a width-\(k\) W clause is \(C=\chi_v(L_0)\prod_{j=1}^k(L_j-\kappa_j)\), with top \(-\ell_0^2\prod_j\ell_j\) of degree \(k+2\).

The glue step for width k

Proposition (width-\(k\) first-degree glue). Let \(k\ge1\), \(R\ge k+3\) and \(N\ge2k+5\). Suppose width-\(k\) clauses \(C_1,\dots,C_M\), with no constraint a nonzero constant, satisfy:

(a) the tops \(\ell_{0,C}^2\prod_j\ell_{j,C}\) are linearly independent in \(G_{k+2}\);
(b) \(\mu:\bigoplus_CG_1\to G_{k+3}\), \((g_C)\mapsto\sum_Cg_C\ell_{0,C}^2\prod_j\ell_{j,C}\), has rank \(M(\gamma_1-1)\).

Then functional PHP plus \(C_1,\dots,C_M\) has no PC refutation of degree \(k+3\). The same holds for weak unary PHP, whose axioms are among the functional ones.

Proof. This follows prop:width-one-degree-four-glue with \(D=k+3\).

The base. The functional base with \(R\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D-1\) labels is stable through \(D\), by the matching extension theorem. By the injectivity-stability equivalence of thm:based-taylor-glue, it is \(z\)-injective below \(D\).
Which glue theorem. thm:resolvent-taylor-glue refines thm:based-taylor-glue. It adds resolvents for pairs incoherent on a shared form. Here no hypothesis restricts the clauses' forms, but a Frobenius-only kernel needs no pair syzygy of any kind, so the older theorem's hypothesis is met as stated, and it is the one used.
Syzygies. Apply thm:based-taylor-glue. Its factors are \(\chi_v(L_0)\), with exponent 2, and \(L_j-\kappa_j\), with exponent 1. Its hypothesis is Taylor generation of the top syzygies in degrees \(s\le D\).
- Every top has degree \(k+2\), so there are none for \(s\le k+1\).
- For \(s=k+2\), the syzygies are scalar relations, which (a) excludes.
- For \(s=k+3\), they form \(\ker\mu\). It contains the Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_{0,C}e_C\), since \(\ell^3=0\). These are \(M\) independent vectors, since each \(\ell_{0,C}\ne0\) by (a). By (b), \(\dim\ker\mu=M\), so the kernel is their span.
Conclusion. The syzygies through \(D\) are spanned by Frobenius syzygies alone, so no pair syzygies and no coherence are needed. The weak statement holds because the weak unary axioms are among the functional ones, in the same cell variables. So a refutation of weak PHP plus the clauses is also a refutation of functional PHP plus the clauses. \(\square\)

As in the tetrahedral entry, (b) implies (a) when \(\gamma_1\ge2\). By (b), the sum \(\sum_C\mathrm{top}_CG_1\) is direct with summands of dimension \(\gamma_1-1>0\). Multiplying a relation \(\sum_Ca_C\mathrm{top}_C=0\) by every cell then forces \(a_C=0\).

Private supports for every width

A width-\(k\) support is a \((3k+4)\)-matching \(U=S\cup T_1\cup\dots\cup T_k\), with \(|S|=4\) and \(|T_j|=3\), all labels in \([k+3,L-1]\). The corresponding clause has \(L_0=\sum_{x\in S}x_{\text{cell}}\) and \(L_j=\sum_{x\in T_j}x_{\text{cell}}\), with any \(v,\kappa_j\in\mathbb F_3\). Below, \(u\) always denotes a cell.

Theorem (private supports at the first degree). Let \(k\ge1\), \(R\ge3k+4\) and \(N\ge4k+8\).

If width-\(k\) supports pairwise share at most one cell, their clauses satisfy (b), and hence (a). So weak and functional PHP plus these clauses have no PC refutation of degree \(k+3\).
Design. Index rows \(0,\dots,R-1\) and labels \(0,\dots,L-1\). Let \(m=3k+4\) and \(mN_0\le R\). A block is a row choice \((x,a)\).
- Rows: \(\rho_i=(i-1)N_0+x+(i-1)a\), \(i=1,\dots,m\), for integers \(a\ge0\) and \(0\le x\le N_0-1-(m-1)a\).
- Labels: \(\lambda_i=k+3+\alpha+(i-1)\beta\), for \(\beta\ge1\) and \(0\le\alpha\le L-k-4-(m-1)\beta\).
- Take \(S\) at positions 1–4 and \(T_j\) at positions \(3j+2\) to \(3j+4\).
These supports pairwise share at most one cell. Their number is \[M=\Bigl(\sum_{a\ge0}\bigl(N_0-(m-1)a\bigr)_+\Bigr)\Bigl(\sum_{\beta\ge1}\bigl(L-k-3-(m-1)\beta\bigr)_+\Bigr)\approx\frac{R^2L^2}{4m^2(m-1)^2}.\]

Proof of 1.

Coordinates. Columns \((C,u)\) run over the basis of \(G_1\), the cells with label below \(L\). Expand \(\ell_0^2\prod_j\ell_j=2\sum_{a<b\in S}\sum_{c_1\in T_1,\dots,c_k\in T_k}y_ay_by_{c_1}\cdots y_{c_k}\). So \(\mathrm{top}_C\cdot y_u\) is a sum of monomials \(y_F\), where \(F\setminus u\) consists of two cells of \(S\) and one of each \(T_j\). Each such \(F\) is either not a matching, and then the monomial is 0 (a product of two cells in one row or with one label vanishes), or a \((k+3)\)-matching with at most one label in \(X=\{0,\dots,k+2\}\), namely \(u\)'s. By the spare-label lemma with \(t=k+3\) and \(|X|=k+3\), these monomials are independent in \(G_{k+3}\). The entry of \(\mu\) at row \(F\), column \((C,u)\), is 2 when \(F\setminus u\) has that pattern, and 0 otherwise.
Internal rows. Take \(F\subseteq U\) with \(|F|=k+3\). Removing one cell must leave the pattern, so \(F\) has one of two shapes.
- Three cells \(\sigma\subseteq S\) and one in each \(T_j\). Then the row is \(2\cdot\mathbf 1_\sigma\) on the \(S\)-columns. Over the four \(\sigma\), these rows have rank 3, as \(2(J-I)\) does over \(\mathbb F_3\).
- Two cells of \(S\), a pair \(\tau\subseteq T_{j_0}\), and one cell in each other \(T_j\). Then the row is \(2(e_t+e_{t'})\) on the \(T_{j_0}\)-columns. The three pair vectors of a triangle have determinant \(-2\ne0\), so they have rank 3.
These blocks sit on disjoint column sets, so the internal rank is \(3+3k=|U|-1\).
External rows. A cell \(u\notin U\) shares its row with at most one cell of \(U\), and its label with at most one. Removing those leaves at least two cells of \(S\) and one of each \(T_j\). These, with \(u\), form a \((k+3)\)-matching \(F_u\). Among \(C\)'s columns its only entry is at \(u\), since removing any other cell leaves \(u\notin U\) behind.
Privacy. An entry of a coordinate monomial \(F\) in a column of another clause \(C'\) needs \(k+2\ge3\) cells of \(F\) in \(U'\). Every monomial used for \(C\) has at most two cells in \(U'\). Internal rows lie in \(U\), and \(|U\cap U'|\le1\). External rows have \(k+2\) cells in \(U\), so at most one in \(U'\), plus \(u\). So each used row has entries only in \(C\)'s columns. Used rows of different clauses are distinct, since a used row has at least 3 cells in its own support.
Rank. So \(\operatorname{rank}\mu\ge\sum_C\bigl((|U|-1)+(\gamma_1-|U|)\bigr)=M(\gamma_1-1)\). The reverse inequality holds because \(\ell_{0,C}e_C\in\ker\mu\). With \(R\ge3k+4\ge k+3\) and \(N\ge4k+8\ge2k+5\), the proposition applies. \(\square\)

Proof of 2. All arithmetic is in the integers, with \(x+(m-1)a\le N_0-1\) keeping each row in its part.

A support's rows are distinct, and so are its labels, since \(\beta\ge1\). The labels lie in \([k+3,L-1]\).
Row \(\rho\) lies in a single part \(i\), so a support's cell on that row has position \(i\). Two blocks sharing rows in parts \(i\ne i'\) satisfy \(x+(i-1)a=x'+(i-1)a'\) and the same at \(i'\), so \((i-i')(a-a')=0\), and they coincide.
So two supports sharing two cells lie on one block. There the two cells fix \(\beta\), then \(\alpha\), so the supports are equal.
For the count: \(N_0\approx R/m\), the first sum is about \(N_0^2/(2(m-1))\), and the second is about \(L^2/(2(m-1))\). The smallest case, \(\alpha=0\) and \(\beta=1\), needs \(k+3+m-1\le L-1\), that is \(N\ge4k+8\). \(\square\)

At \(k=1\) this is thm:private-heptad-glue, with \(m=7\) and \(4m^2(m-1)^2=7056\).

What this means

W's width, at its first degree. For W's own width \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), about \(n^4/(324k^4)=n^{4-o(1)}\) explicit W clauses (the asymptotic form of \(n^4/(4m^2(m-1)^2)\)) glue at degree \(k+3\) for every large \(n\). That degree is one above the clauses' own degree \(k+2\). This settles the width axis A2 at the first degree of each width, for these designed families only. It does not bear on the arbitrary families that the logarithmic-prefix reduction needs.
What stays open.
- W needs degree \(22k\), not \(k+3\) (A3).
- W needs \(n^K\) families, while this gives \(n^{4-o(1)}\), and pair-disjoint \(m\)-supports number at most about \(n^4/(m(m-1))\).
- W's forms are adversarial, not designed (A1).
The next obstacle. Above degree \(k+3\), the kernel of each clause's map grows. It contains \(\ell_0G_{s-k-3}e_C\). From degree \(k+4\) it also contains \(\ell_j^2G_{s-k-4}e_C\) for each \(j\), since the factors \(L_j-\kappa_j\) have exponent 1 and Frobenius power 2. Private rows must then give each clause rank \(\dim G_{s-k-2}\) minus its Taylor kernel, not \(\gamma_1-1\). The rows would carry an external part of more than one cell. Privacy is then no longer automatic at \(k=1\): a row can hold one shared cell and both external cells in another support \(U'\), which is \(3=k+2\) cells, enough for an entry of \(C'\). For \(k\ge2\) it stays automatic. That is the degree axis A3 in this method.

Next: private supports at degree \(k+4\), the second degree. For width 1 (degree 5) state the per-clause Taylor kernel, \(\ell_SG_1e_C+\mathbb F_3\ell_T^2e_C\), and its dimension. Decide by a count whether private rows with two external cells can reach the complementary rank for pair-disjoint supports, excluding the rows that meet another support in three cells, since at \(k=1\) those carry entries of other clauses. Then prove it with the spare-label lemma at \(t=5\), or name the configuration that fails.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:based-taylor-glue, statement: the factor types, the Frobenius syzygies \(g\ell^{3-b}e_C\), and \(z\)-injectivity below \(D\);
prop:width-one-degree-four-glue, whose proof this follows;
thm:private-heptad-glue and lem:spare-label-independence, statements and proofs;
thm:resolvent-taylor-glue's normalization of W's clauses.

Before drafting, a fresh-context reviewer was asked whether the record already implies the statements. It answered no; the closest records are the width-1 versions. In the statement and sketch it was given, it found no error in the glue composition, the internal ranks or the privacy threshold. It required:

a comparison with thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, the newer version;
columns stated over the basis of \(G_1\), with conflicting products vanishing;
"coordinate monomial" in place of "row" in the privacy step;
the weak-PHP consequence narrowed.

All four are adopted. A second fresh-context reviewer then tried to break the full draft. It found the core mathematics correct: the coordinates, both internal shapes, the external rows, privacy, the rank sum, the proposition, the label range and the Taylor kernel degrees. It required six changes, all adopted:

the count stated exactly, with \(n^4/(324k^4)\) only as the limit \(k\to\infty\), \(k^2=o(n)\);
the pair-disjoint cap corrected to about \(n^4/(m(m-1))\);
blocks defined, and the shared-cell positions justified;
row indexing from 0;
the loss of automatic privacy at \(k=1\) in degree \(k+4\), in the obstacle and the next step;
this review recorded in the gate.

The changes correct statements and wording, so no further pass was made. No computation was run. The argument is the heptad argument with \(k\) factor sets, and the route's finite-check budget is spent.

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Route review: private supports reach every width at the first degree, but stop at the Koszul degree 2k+4 and do not reach adversarial forms

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation) · open statements A1, A2 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-second-degree. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: private supports reach every width at the first degree, but stop at the Koszul degree 2k+4 and do not reach adversarial forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-private-support-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Three cycles proved Taylor generation for designed families, by private supports:

thm:tetrahedral-double-points: selectors at degree 3;
thm:private-heptad-glue: width 1 at degree 4;
thm:private-support-first-degree: width \(k\) at degree \(k+3\).

The next step proposed the second degree \(k+4\). By the route check, a line whose cycles produce special cases of its general implication calls for a review first. This is that review.

General statement. The line's claim is W: weak unary PHP plus the width-\(k\) product clauses of any \(n^K\) families, \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), has no PC refutation of degree \(22k\). The route is thm:based-taylor-glue or thm:resolvent-taylor-glue: Taylor generation of the tops through \(22k\). Private supports prove Taylor generation for designed families by exhibiting, for each clause, coordinates on which only that clause's image lives.

What the goal needs

Three things beyond what the line proved:

arbitrary, possibly dependent families (A1);
degree \(22k\), not \(k+3\) (A3);
\(n^K\) families, not \(n^{4-o(1)}\).

Falsification attempts

Remark (the Koszul barrier). Let \(C,C'\) be clauses with tops \(\tau_C,\tau_{C'}\) of degree \(k+2\) and \(\tau_C\tau_{C'}\ne0\) in \(G\). Then at every degree \(s\ge2k+4\), the images \(\tau_CG_{s-k-2}\) and \(\tau_{C'}G_{s-k-2}\) intersect nontrivially.

The Koszul vector \(\tau_{C'}e_C-\tau_Ce_{C'}\), times any \(g\) with \(g\tau_C\tau_{C'}\ne0\), lies in \(\ker\mu_s\).
Its \(C\)-component \(g\tau_{C'}\) is not in \(\ker(\cdot\,\tau_C)\).

So \(\sum_C\tau_CG_{s-k-2}\) is not a direct sum, and \(\operatorname{rank}\mu_s<\sum_C\operatorname{rank}(\cdot\,\tau_C)\). A private-row argument proves exactly such a direct sum, with a block lower bound \(\sum_C\operatorname{rank}\), so it cannot hold at any \(s\ge2k+4\). For designed clauses whose supports lie on disjoint rows and labels, \(\tau_C\tau_{C'}\ne0\). It is a sum of distinct \((2k+4)\)-matchings using only the two supports' labels. These are independent by the spare-label lemma, with \(X\) any \(2k+4\) labels outside both supports, which exist once \(L\ge2(3k+4)+2k+4\). Private supports therefore end at degree \(2k+3\). The privacy of external rows is automatic only up to \(2k+2\), as the width-\(k\) entry found. W's degree \(22k\) lies far inside the Koszul range, where Taylor generation needs the Koszul pairs to be the only new relations, the semi-regularity question of conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base. The attempt succeeds: the line has a hard ceiling below the goal's degree.

Remark (the adversarial barrier). Privacy needs each form supported on a few cells, with supports nearly disjoint. The designed forms have this, and so do their specializations. So rank bounds pass to generic forms by openness, but never to a given family. A fixed family's only degenerations are common torus actions on the cells. They make each form's initial form its restriction to the family's common lowest cells, so the supports overlap and privacy fails. The recorded hard case of A1, many clauses whose forms lie in a small span, is the opposite of private supports. The attempt succeeds: A1 is untouched.

Assessment of the private-support line

Solid ground. Three all-\(n\) working proofs, and lem:spare-label-independence, a basis substitute in every degree. They show that below the Koszul degree, gluing is not limited by the joint-freeness count: about \(n^4\) designed forms glue, against about \(\sqrt{N/(2D)}\) for freeness. For the degree-3 selector case, open statement A3's rung now holds for every \(n\).
The gap. The line ends at degree \(2k+3\) for structural reasons, and it does not apply to arbitrary families.
Prospects. For the goal, weak as a continuation. The second degree \(k+4\) would be another designed special case below the barrier. The line is closed at the first degree. Its results and the spare-label lemma remain tools.

The highest-risk item and the next step

A1 is the highest risk. Its recorded reduction, thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, asks for Taylor generation of the resolvent saturation of an arbitrary family. The hard case is forms in a small span, where non-Taylor syzygies are forced by the dimension count. There lem:syzygy-gluing still glues when the non-Taylor syzygies are supported on members, subfamilies that lem:member-pinning makes harmless when satisfiable. So the first A1 statement to settle is at the first degree, where the barrier above does not yet act.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer, A1: first-degree member locality. The conjecture to test: for an arbitrary family of width-1 W clauses on the functional board, the degree-4 top syzygies are spanned by the Frobenius syzygies and by syzygies supported on subfamilies whose linear parts span at most 3 dimensions.

Count first. In a span \(W\) of dimension \(d\), the tops \(\ell_i^2\ell_j\) lie in \(W^3\), of dimension at most \(\binom{d+2}3\). So a subfamily of more clauses than that has forced syzygies of degree 3, and its degree-4 syzygies are forced beyond Frobenius. The test must compare \(\ker\mu_4\) with the span of member kernels. It must not stop at the forced count.
Compute. At \(n=7\), with the width-one checker's kernels: families of random clauses plus clauses on a planted span of dimension 2 to 4, and families mixing two planted spans that share a form.
What ends the step. A syzygy not spanned by member syzygies, which refutes member locality at the first degree and names the configuration A1 must handle. Or locality in every test, after which the next step proves it through the free-span decomposition of prop:free-span-double-points.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the three private-support entries and lem:spare-label-independence;
thm:based-taylor-glue and thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, statements;
lem:syzygy-gluing, lem:member-pinning, conj:local-top-syzygies and obs:incoherent-pair-fall, statements;
the closure-tools and goal-statements reviews, assessments and next steps.

The Koszul remark uses only that a Koszul vector lies in the kernel while its component does not. For designed clauses on disjoint rows and labels, \(\tau_C\tau_{C'}\ne0\) by the spare-label lemma, with \(X\) chosen outside both supports. The review registers no claim and runs no computation.

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Separated members: at the first degree, stability is member-local for members on cell sets sharing at most one cell, for any number of members and any forms inside a member

25 September 2026 · Working proofs · open statement A1 at the first degree · cycle odd-prime-member-locality-test. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Separated members: at the first degree, stability is member-local for members on cell sets sharing at most one cell, for any number of members and any forms inside a member”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-separated-members.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The private-support review proposed first-degree member locality: are the degree-\(h+1\) top syzygies of a clause family spanned by syzygies of small members? The route's finite-check budget is spent, so this cycle looks for a proof. Private supports suggest one. What made clauses private was their cells, not their forms. So grouping clauses into members on separated cell sets should split the syzygies, with any forms, dependent or not, inside a member.

General statement. thm:separated-member-stability: on the functional board, let product constraints with tops of degree \(h\ge3\) be split into members, each with its linear parts supported on a cell set \(U_i\) with labels in \([h+1,L-1]\), and the cell sets pairwise sharing at most one cell. If the base plus each member is stable through \(h+1\), so is the base plus the whole family, and there is no PC refutation of degree \(h+1\). There is no bound on the number of members and no freeness hypothesis. The splitting is lem:separated-member-directness.

Setting

This is the setting of the gluing entry and the heptad entry.

The functional board has \(R\) rows and \(N\) labels, with \(L=N-1\). \(G_t=K_t^*\), monomials of matchings act by evaluation, and monomials with a repeated row or label are 0.
Product constraints have factors \(L-a\) or \(\chi_a(L)\), with top \(\tau_C=c_C\ell^{b_C}\). A top syzygy of degree \(s\) is \((g_C)\), \(g_C\in G_{s-|b_C|}\), with \(\sum_Cg_C\tau_C=0\).
The base plus a system is stable through \(D\) if every NS functional through \(k\le D\) extends through \(D\). This is the notion of the glued theorem in the gluing entry and of thm:taylor-glue, whose proofs derive from it that the filtration is stable, PC equals NS through \(D\), and there is no PC refutation of degree \(D\).
\(G_1\) is spanned by the cells with labels below \(L\). The label \(L\) was eliminated by the row sums, and no variable carries it, so every cell \(u\) below has a label below \(L\).
In \(G\), every nonzero product of cells is a matching monomial, since squares and products of two cells in one row or with one label vanish.

The splitting

Lemma (separated-member directness). Let \(h\ge3\), and let constraints with tops of degree \(h\) be partitioned into members \(\mathcal F_1,\dots,\mathcal F_r\). Suppose there are cell sets \(U_i\) with:

every linear part of every constraint in \(\mathcal F_i\) a combination of the \(y_x\), \(x\in U_i\);
all cells of \(U_i\) with labels in \([h+1,L-1]\);
\(|U_i\cap U_{i'}|\le1\) for \(i\ne i'\).

Then for \(s\in\{h,h+1\}\), \(\sum_C\tau_CG_{s-h}=\bigoplus_i\sum_{C\in\mathcal F_i}\tau_CG_{s-h}\). So every top syzygy of degree at most \(h+1\) is a sum of syzygies each supported in one member.

Proof.

Where the images live. For \(C\in\mathcal F_i\), \(\tau_C\) is a product of \(h\) linear forms supported on \(U_i\). Expanded, it is a combination of monomials \(y_A\), with \(A\) an \(h\)-matching inside \(U_i\); repeated cells give squares, which vanish. So \(\tau_Cy_u\), for a cell \(u\), is a combination of \((h+1)\)-matchings with at least \(h\) cells in \(U_i\). Let \(\mathcal A_i^s\) be the \(s\)-matchings with labels below \(L\) and at least \(h\) cells in \(U_i\). Member \(i\)'s image in degree \(s\) lies in the span of \(\mathcal A_i^s\).
The sets are disjoint. A matching in \(\mathcal A_i^s\cap\mathcal A_{i'}^s\) would have at least \(2h-|U_i\cap U_{i'}|\ge2h-1\) cells. But \(2h-1>h+1\ge s\) when \(h\ge3\).
Together they are independent. Every matching in \(\bigcup_i\mathcal A_i^s\) has at least \(h\) labels \(\ge h+1\), so at most \(s-h\le1\) label in \(X=\{0,\dots,h\}\). The spare-label lemma has no size hypothesis beyond \(|X|\ge t\) with \(X\) below \(L\): its spares come from \(X\cup\{L\}\). Here \(|X|=h+1\ge s\), and \(X\) lies below \(L\) because \(L\ge h+2\), which the label range of the \(U_i\) forces. So lem:spare-label-independence makes all these monomials independent in \(G_s\).
Conclusion. Disjoint subsets of an independent set span independent subspaces, so the images of the members form a direct sum. A syzygy \(\sum_Cg_C\tau_C=0\) therefore splits into \(\sum_{C\in\mathcal F_i}g_C\tau_C=0\) for each \(i\). \(\square\)

The argument does not apply outside this range. At \(h=2\), for selectors in degree 3, two members sharing a cell can meet in one 3-matching. There the tetrahedral entry needed triangle-free and slope conditions, and obs:pencil-selector-syzygy records non-local selector syzygies. The limit \(s\le h+1\) comes from the independence step: with \(s-h\ge2\) cells outside \(U_i\), a matching can carry two labels in \(X\), which the spare-label lemma does not cover. Disjointness would survive up to \(s=2h-2\). Beyond that there are further barriers: the disjointness count breaks at \(s=2h-1\), and from \(s=2h\) a Koszul pair of two members lies in both images, by the Koszul barrier of the review.

The transfer

Theorem (separated-member stability). In the lemma's setting, let \(R\ge h+1\) and \(N\ge2h+1\). If the functional base plus each member \(\mathcal F_i\) is stable through \(h+1\), then the functional base plus \(\bigcup_i\mathcal F_i\) is stable through \(h+1\). Hence it has no PC refutation of degree \(h+1\), and neither has weak unary PHP plus the family.

Proof. Induct on \(s\le h+1\): take an NS functional \(\mu\) of the base plus the family through \(s-1\). The hypotheses \(R\ge h+1\) and \(N\ge2h+1\) are used only to get the base extension \(E\mu\) through \(s\), by the matching extension theorem (\(R\ge s\), \(N\ge2s-1\)). The spare-label lemma needs no size bound, and lem:syzygy-gluing needs only \(E\mu\). For \(s<h\), no constraint has a multiple of degree \(s\) other than the base's, so \(E\mu\) itself extends \(\mu\). For \(s\in\{h,h+1\}\), the defects \(\hat z_C\in K_{s-h}\) are those of the gluing entry.

Local corrections. \(\mu\) is also an NS functional of the base plus \(\mathcal F_i\) through \(s-1\). By member stability it extends through \(s\) to some \(\mu_i\), annihilating the base and \(\mathcal F_i\). Then \(w_i=\mu_i-E\mu\) vanishes below degree \(s\) and annihilates the base through \(s\), so it lies in \(K_s\). It repairs the members' constraints: \(D^{b_C}w_i=\hat z_C\) for \(C\in\mathcal F_i\).
Gluing. For \(s<h\) there are no top syzygies. For \(s\in\{h,h+1\}\), the lemma makes every top syzygy a sum of member-supported ones. So lem:syzygy-gluing, part 2, gives a global correction \(w\), and \(E\mu+w\) extends \(\mu\) through \(s\).
Conclusion. Iterating over \(s\le h+1\) gives stability, and hence no refutation of degree \(h+1\). The weak unary axioms are among the functional ones. \(\square\)

What it covers

Recovered cases. One clause per member, on a width-\(k\) support \(S\cup T_1\cup\dots\cup T_k\), is stable through \(k+3\) by thm:private-support-first-degree applied to that clause alone; that single-clause stability is imported. Its family hypothesis, supports pairwise sharing at most one cell with labels in \([k+3,L-1]\) and \(h=k+2\ge3\), is this theorem's. So the theorem recovers that result's first part.
What is new. A member may contain any number of clauses, with any forms on its cells, dependent or not: many clauses on a small span, repeated forms, incoherent pairs. The family's first-degree stability is then decided member by member, whatever the number of members. Earlier member results, lem:tensor-splitting-locality, prop:overlap-tor and cor:coherent-member-additivity, needed freeness or tensor structure over the members' forms, and so were limited by the joint-freeness count. Here only the members' cells matter.
What it does not cover.
- Given adversarial families are not separated: their forms are dense on the board.
- Member stability itself is assumed. For a member on a small span it is the recorded local-fall question, for which the record has computations at \(n=7\) and pinning for satisfiable members, but no general proof.
- The degree is \(h+1=k+3\), one above the clauses' own.

Next: member stability for the hard member, many clauses on a small span. On a single member on cell set \(U\), describe the first-degree syzygies by the spare-label independence. Multiplying by a cell \(u\notin U\) kills the monomials of the tops that share a row or a label with \(u\). So the conjecture to check is that, for each such \(u\), the relevant syzygies are those of the tops restricted to the cells of \(U\) compatible with \(u\). This would be a single-member counterpart of prop:free-span-double-points that needs no freeness of the whole board. Then decide whether lem:member-pinning's argument gives the defect vanishing on those syzygies for satisfiable members at degree \(h+1\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

lem:syzygy-gluing, statement and proof, and the glued theorem's proof in the gluing entry: the defects, \(E\mu\) and the local corrections;
lem:spare-label-independence;
thm:private-support-first-degree;
the statements of lem:tensor-splitting-locality, prop:overlap-tor, cor:coherent-member-additivity and lem:closure-additivity.

Claim searches found no earlier version: member locality with member-supported syzygies and stability, and separated members with disjoint cells, spare labels and direct sums at the first degree. The closest results are lem:tensor-splitting-locality, prop:overlap-tor, cor:coherent-member-additivity and lem:closure-additivity, which use freeness or Künneth structure. prop:free-span-double-points concerns one free span, and none of them implies the splitting lemma.

Before drafting the proof, a fresh-context reviewer was asked whether the record already implies the statement. It answered no, and it confirmed the disjointness count and the stability transfer. It required:

the matching property of nonzero products stated;
the spare-label hypotheses at \(t=h+1\) checked;
the stability notion tied to the PC conclusion;
the use of \(R\) and \(N\) named;
the limits stated as "does not apply", citing obs:pencil-selector-syzygy;
the induction written out.

A second reviewer tried to break the full draft. It found no error in the splitting or the transfer, and it required seven changes, all adopted:

cells restricted to labels below \(L\), which the elimination of \(L\) already ensures;
the true reason for the first-degree limit, the independence step;
the next step's claim restricted to cells compatible with \(u\), as a conjecture;
the recovered case's hypotheses matched, and its imported stability named;
the size hypotheses justified;
the defects sentence moved;
this gate.

The changes clarify and restrict, so no further pass was made. No computation was run.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	6 min 26.84 s
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Route review: at the first degree, adversarial members fall, so the member question is saturation, and the degree axis needs functionals built on links

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation) · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-single-member. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: at the first degree, adversarial members fall, so the member question is saturation, and the degree axis needs functionals built on links”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-first-degree-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The separated-members entry reduced first-degree stability of a support-separated family to the stability of each member. Its next step was member stability for many clauses on a small span. That is two reductions below open statement A1: A1 → separated families → single members. By the route check, such a descent calls for a review that revises the Open statements. This is that review.

General statement. The line's claim is W, through thm:relative-gluing or thm:resolvent-taylor-glue. Relative gluing needs members without falls, (c), and top syzygies generated by member-supported and cross-member Koszul syzygies, (b). The separated-members theorem supplies (b) at the first degree for support-separated members, with no freeness.

What the goal needs

W for arbitrary families of \(n^K\) width-\(k\) clauses at degree \(22k\). The recorded mechanisms cover the following, and nothing covers arbitrary families in the Koszul range \(s\ge2k+4\):

free forms, up to about \(\sqrt{N/(2D)}\) of them, at every degree;
designed or support-separated families, at the first degree only.

Falsification attempt: is member stability the right member notion?

No. A satisfiable member usually falls, so it is not stable, yet it is not refuted.

Two selectors on the same form, \(\chi_0(L)\) and \(\chi_1(L)\), derive the degree-1 constraint \(L=2\) from degree-2 constraints: a fall, and the pair is satisfiable.
For a member of many clauses on a small span, the tops are forced to be dependent once there are more clauses than the span's truncated algebra has dimensions, as in the private-support review's count. A dependency \(\sum_Cc_C\tau_C=0\) makes \(\sum_Cc_CC\) a polynomial of lower degree in the member's closure. It is a fall unless it lies in the base.

So "the base plus each member is stable", the hypothesis of thm:separated-member-stability, fails for exactly the members that make A1 hard. Pinning (lem:member-pinning) gives non-refutation, not stability.

The record's answer for pairs is saturation. thm:resolvent-taylor-glue adds each incoherent pair's resolvent, after which the pair's syzygies lift. For a member the analogue is to add its closure: the member plus its own falls, through the degree in question, is stable by construction. The open point is whether saturation keeps members separated. The first-degree syzygy analysis of one member on a cell set \(U\) shows where falls come from, for the cells \(u\) outside \(U\):

scalar relations among the tops, which give falls on \(U\);
relations among the tops restricted to the cells compatible with \(u\), which give falls \(x_u\cdot R'\) with \(R'\) supported on \(U\).

The second kind involves an outside cell. The saturated member then has tops with one cell outside \(U\), and the separation count of lem:separated-member-directness, which needs \(h\) cells inside \(U_i\), no longer applies to them as stated.

Falsification attempt: does the Koszul barrier end private methods?

It ends private rows, which prove direct sums per clause. It does not end private functionals built on patterns. For a pattern \(A\) of a clause (\(h\) cells in \(U\), labels outside a spare set \(Z\)), the product arrays \(\omega_A=\bigotimes_{x\in A}(e_x-e_{z_x})\), tensored with any zero-marginal array \(w\) of the link board, are in \(K_s\). The link board omits \(A\)'s rows and the labels of \(A\), \(Z\) and \(U\). This holds because \(w\) vanishes on the omitted labels, so every row marginal is \(w\)'s own marginal. Their contraction by \(\tau_C\) is \(2w\). In degree \(2h\), the functionals for a pair pattern \(A\cup A'\) see both clauses, which is exactly where the Koszul pair lives. So a pair-block argument is not excluded. In the spare-label lemma, monomials with several low labels made independence fail. Link functionals avoid this, because the external part is a genuine basis of the link, not a set of monomials.

Assessment

A1. At the first degree it reduces, for separated families, to saturated members. Whether saturation preserves separation is open and is the next A1 question. For arbitrary, unseparated families nothing is in hand.
A3. The degree axis is the part with no mechanism for any family of many forms in the Koszul range. The link functionals are a candidate for designed families, and by openness they would give generic families. That would be the first Koszul-range result beyond freeness.
The line. Its first-degree results are solid. Its continuation is worthwhile only through one of these two open points.

Revised Open statements

The list now places the first-degree results under A1 to A3, and names the Koszul range as A3's core. W, S1 and the reductions are unchanged.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, A3: link functionals in the Koszul range. For pair-disjoint heptad clauses (width 1), state the Taylor kernel at degree 6 as Frobenius multiples plus the Koszul pairs \(\tau_{C'}e_C-\tau_Ce_{C'}\).

Count first. Compare its dimension with \(\dim G_6\) at the smallest designable \(n\), to see whether the pair terms can be detected.
Prove. Show that the functionals \(\omega_A\otimes w\) and \(\omega_{A\cup A'}\otimes w\) detect \(\sum_C\tau_CG_3\) modulo exactly that kernel, first at degree 5 (no Koszul pairs, but two external cells), then at degree 6.
What ends the step. A proof at degrees 5 and 6, which opens the induction over degrees, or the pattern configuration whose functionals cannot separate.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:relative-gluing, statement, including (b) and (c);
thm:resolvent-taylor-glue and lem:member-pinning, statements;
thm:separated-member-stability and lem:separated-member-directness;
lem:spare-label-independence and its proof's product arrays;
the private-support review.

The fall example is checked by hand: over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\chi_0(L)-\chi_1(L)=(L-1)^2-L^2=1-2L=1+L\), so \(L=2\) follows at degree 2, with the tops cancelling. The link-functional membership \(\omega_A\otimes w\in K_s\) is checked in the text above. The review registers no claim and runs no computation.

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Large supports: designed clauses' extra syzygies come from restrictions that shrink a form's support, so Taylor generation at every degree is conjectured once supports outgrow twice the excess degree

25 September 2026 · Conjecture, working proof and a finite check · open statement A3, all degrees · cycle odd-prime-link-functionals. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Large supports: designed clauses' extra syzygies come from restrictions that shrink a form's support, so Taylor generation at every degree is conjectured once supports outgrow twice the excess degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-large-support-taylor.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The first-degree review proposed link functionals at degrees 5 and 6. The user asked how many specific degrees would be tested before postulating something general. The answer adopted: none. State the all-degree statement now, and use one degree-5 computation only as its falsification test.

General statement. conj:large-support-taylor: for width-\(k\) clauses \(\chi(L_0)\prod_{j\le k}(L_j-\kappa_j)\) on the functional board, suppose each clause's forms are sums over disjoint cell sets \(S,T_1,\dots,T_k\), forming a matching \(U\) with high labels. Suppose further that supports of different clauses share at most one cell, and that \(|S|\ge2(D-h)+2\) and \(|T_j|\ge2(D-h)+1\), where \(h=k+2\). Then the top syzygies through every degree \(D\) are spanned by the Frobenius syzygies and the Koszul pairs, so by thm:based-taylor-glue there is no PC refutation of degree \(D\). The size condition cannot simply be dropped: prop:restricted-annihilator proves non-Taylor syzygies at the smallest supports, and ex:degree-five-slice-check is the falsification test.

The first formulation, and its refutation

The first all-degree statement proposed that the top syzygies are generated by Frobenius syzygies, Koszul pairs, and blocking products. A blocking product conflicts with every pattern of a top, so it kills the top term by term. It was tested at degree 5 on one clause, on the heptad supports (\(|S|=4\), \(|T|=3\)).

The test uses one outside-row slice: the row pairs \((\rho,r)\) with \(\rho\in\) rows\((U)\) and \(r\) outside.
The kernel of \(g\mapsto\tau g\) is bracketed. Sampled product-array functionals \(\bigotimes(e_c-e_d)\) on 5-row sets bound it from above. Functionals whose factor meets the eliminated label \(L\) still vanish on \(q\), since one factor always sums to zero. Known kernel elements bound it from below. The link functionals of the review give the same upper bound.
At \(N=12\) the slice has \(\dim G_2=763\). The upper bound is 48. Taylor gives 11, and Taylor plus blocking products gives 41. Together with the 7 restricted annihilators below, which are independent modulo these, the lower bound is also 48.

So 7 kernel dimensions are neither. Extracted explicitly, they are \((y_{s_1}-y_{s_0})y_v\) with \(v\) carrying the label of \(s_2\), \((y_{s_2}-y_{s_1})y_v\) with \(v\) carrying the label of \(s_0\), \((y_{t_5}-y_{t_4})y_v\) with \(v\) carrying the label of \(t_6\), and so on: one per S-label (4) and one per T-label (3), which is exactly 7. One extracted representative has 108 terms; it is such an element modulo the relations \(q\). The first formulation is refuted.

The mechanism

Multiplying by a cell \(v\) kills the cells that share its row or label. The top then acts through the restricted forms, on their effective cells. A square-zero form on few cells has more annihilators than its Frobenius power. For three effective cells \(a,b,c\), \((a+b+c)^2(\alpha a+\beta b+\gamma c)=2(\alpha+\beta+\gamma)abc\), so the annihilator in degree 1 is 2-dimensional. This is the recorded three-row defect. The 2-dimensional annihilator contains the Frobenius line \(a+b+c\), since \(1+1+1=0\), so each restriction adds exactly one dimension beyond Taylor. With four cells it is only the Frobenius line, by the \(J-I\) rank. A form of exponent 1 needs three effective cells. On two cells, \((t+t')(\alpha t+\beta t')=(\alpha+\beta)tt'\) has the extra annihilator \(t-t'\).

Proposition (restricted annihilator). Let a width-1 clause have \(|S|=4\). Let \(v\) be a cell on a row outside rows\((U)\), with label below \(L\) equal to the label of \(d\in S\), and let \(a\ne b\) in \(S\setminus\{d\}\). Then \(g=(y_a-y_b)y_v\) satisfies \(\tau g=0\) in \(G_{h+2}\) and does not lie in the Taylor kernel \(\ell_SG_1+\mathbb F_3\ell_T^2\). The same holds for \(T\): with \(|T|=3\), \(v\) on an outside row carrying the label of \(t\in T\), and \(a,b\) the other two T-cells, \((y_a-y_b)y_v\) is in the kernel. It is not Taylor, since \(\ell_Su+c\,\ell_T^2\) has no component on the row pair \((\mathrm{row}(a),r)\), while \(g\) has the nonzero \(y_ay_v\) there.

Proof.

In the kernel. In \(\tau y_ay_v\), the surviving patterns avoid \(a\), and \(d\), which collides with \(v\). So they are \(\{b,c,t\}\), where \(c\) is the fourth S-cell. Hence \(\tau y_ay_v=2\sum_ty_ay_by_cy_ty_v\), and symmetrically for \(b\), with the same monomials.
Not Taylor. Suppose \(g=\ell_Su+c\,\ell_T^2\). Compare components on the row pair \((\mathrm{row}(a),r)\), where \(r\) is \(v\)'s row: \(y_ay_v=y_au_r\), with \(u_r\) the row-\(r\) part of \(u\). The map \(w\mapsto y_aw\) from row \(r\)'s cells to \(G_2(\mathrm{row}(a),r)\) has kernel spanned by the cell with \(a\)'s label, since the products \(y_ay_{(r,c')}\), \(c'\ne\) label\((a)\), are independent modulo the single relation \(q\), which involves other labels on row\((a)\). So \(u_r-y_v\) lies in the span of the cell \((r,\mathrm{label}(a))\). Likewise \(u_r+y_v\) lies in the span of \((r,\mathrm{label}(b))\). Subtracting, \(2y_v\) lies in the span of those two cells. That is impossible, since \(v\)'s label is \(d\)'s. \(\square\)

The refined statement and its test

At degree \(h+e\), a kernel element can restrict by \(e-1\) cells and use one linear factor. Each restricting cell kills at most two cells of \(U\), one by row and one by label. So \(|S|-2(e-1)\ge4\) and \(|T_j|-2(e-1)\ge3\) keep every restricted form above the defect sizes. Multipliers of degree \(j\ge2\) on the effective cells also occur. In the square-zero model they give the same threshold. \(\ell^2\) on degree \(j\) is twice the inclusion matrix \(W_{j,j+2}\), and \(\ell\) is \(W_{j,j+1}\). Wilson's rank theorem mod \(p\) (for \(m\ge2j+2\), respectively \(m\ge2j+1\) cells) gives \(\ker\ell^2=\ell A_{j-1}\) and \(\ker\ell=\ell^2A_{j-2}\). So \(i\) restrictions, killing at most \(2i\) cells, plus degree \(e-i\) give the same bounds \(|S|\ge2e+2\), \(|T_j|\ge2e+1\) for every split. This model ignores the relations \(q\) of \(G\). That is the conjecture's condition, with \(e=D-h\). The same condition rules out blocking products: the \(e\) cells of \(g\) kill at most \(2e\) cells of \(U\), leaving at least 2 in \(S\) and 1 in each \(T_j\), so some pattern survives. At \(e=1\) it is exactly the heptad sizes, where thm:private-support-first-degree proved Taylor generation.

The test. At degree 5 (\(e=2\)), the condition asks for \(|S|\ge6\) and \(|T|\ge5\). With \(|S|=6\), \(|T|=5\) at \(N=16\):

On the slice, \(\dim G_2=2299\), and the upper bound 15 equals the Taylor dimension 15. There a restricting cell lies on an outside row and kills only one cell of \(U\), so the slice alone does not test the factor 2.
The deciding piece is the inside block, the row pairs within rows\((U)\), where a restricting cell kills two cells. There \(\dim G_2=11495\). The upper bound fell from 187 (40,463 functionals) to 169 (80,756) to 166 (202,657), which equals the Taylor dimension 166. At the heptad sizes the same block has upper bound 528 against Taylor 78.

So the single-clause degree-5 kernel is exactly Taylor at the conjecture's sizes. The conjecture passed its deciding test. A control at \(|S|=5\), \(|T|=4\), which would decide whether the factor 2 is needed, was refused by the computation guard as a seventh parameter point and was not run. Also untested: the Koszul range, where pairs of clauses interact, and families of several clauses.

What this means

For A3. The degree axis for designed families now has one general statement. Its small-support failure is explained, and proved for width 1 at \(e=2\), \(|S|=4\) and \(|T|=3\). It passed the test at the sizes its condition asks for. If proved, it gives Taylor generation through degree \(22k\) for designed width-\(k\) clauses whose supports have about \(44k(k+1)\) cells, polylogarithmic for \(k=\Theta(\log n)\), so their number stays \(n^{4-o(1)}\). Degree \(22k\) lies far into the Koszul range, where nothing was tested. Openness would transfer the result to generic forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), not to a given \(\mathbb F_3\) family.
What it would not give.
- W needs \(n^K\) families for every \(K\), while supports sharing at most one cell cap the count near \(n^4\).
- A1, arbitrary forms, is untouched.
- Restriction syzygies are expected to be an artifact of sparse supports: dense forms have no small restrictions at bounded degree. This is not proved.

Next: prove the conjecture below the Koszul range, \(D<2h\), by induction on \(e\). Split \(g\in G_e\) over one outside row as \(g=g_0+\sum_vy_vg_v\). Multiplying by \(y_v\) replaces the clause by its restriction, whose effective supports stay above the defect sizes. The inductive hypothesis then applies to the restricted clause on the link board. The obstacle to settle first is the coupling through the relations \(q_{rs}\) on that row, which the row Horace reduction met at degree 3. Splitting over an outside row handles only single-kill restrictions. Cells on rows of \(U\), which kill two cells, need their own step.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:based-taylor-glue, its Frobenius syzygies \(g\ell^{3-b}e_C\);
thm:private-support-first-degree and lem:spare-label-independence;
the three-row defect of lem:pattern-row-reduction, which the restricted annihilator reproduces;
the first-degree review.

Link functionals (link5.py) and product arrays (slice_exact.py, inside_exact.py) give the same upper bounds. Every conclusion rests on an upper bound meeting a proved lower bound. The seven extra elements were extracted and read off (slice_S4T3_n12.out). The large-support results are in slice_S6T5_n16.json and inside_S6T5_n16_s400000.json, and the heptad inside block is in inside_S4T3_n12.json.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the proposition and the slice numbers. It required nine changes, all adopted:

"subtracting" in the proof;
the T case written out;
the count of 7 explained;
the bracketing of the computed kernels;
the higher-degree multipliers, via Wilson's rank theorem;
the untested two-kill case, which the inside-block run then decided;
the next step's second kind of restriction;
the support size \(44k(k+1)\), the proved scope, the openness field and the Koszul range;
the sparse-support remark stated as an expectation.

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Column Wilson: on the weak base, a single sparse clause is Taylor-generated at every degree under the large-support bounds, and families reduce to a monomial algebra

25 September 2026 · Working proofs · open statement A3, all degrees, single clauses on the weak base · cycle odd-prime-column-wilson. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Column Wilson: on the weak base, a single sparse clause is Taylor-generated at every degree under the large-support bounds, and families reduce to a monomial algebra”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-column-wilson.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The large-support entry conjectured Taylor generation at every degree for designed clauses whose supports exceed twice the excess degree (conj:large-support-taylor), and proposed a proof. W is stated on the weak base, whose top algebra has no row conflicts. Can the conjecture be proved there, for every degree at once?

General statement. thm:column-wilson-taylor: on the weak top algebra over \(\mathbb F_3\), let a product constraint have linear parts \(\ell_0=\sum_{x\in S}y_x\), of exponent 2, and \(\ell_j=\sum_{x\in T_j}y_x\), of exponent 1, on pairwise disjoint cell sets whose cells lie in pairwise distinct columns. If \(|S|\ge2e+2\), \(|T_j|\ge2e+1\), and at least \(2(h+e)-1\) columns are unused, then the kernel of multiplication by its top from degree \(e\) is exactly the Taylor kernel \(\ell_0A_{e-1}+\sum_j\ell_j^2A_{e-2}\). This holds for every \(e\). The size bounds are those of the conjecture, and they are sharp; the spare-column bound is an extra hypothesis. The row sums are removed by lem:spare-column-transfer, which reduces top syzygies of any family on the weak base to the monomial algebra of the used columns.

Setting

The weak unary base has Booleanity, column exclusions and row equations, on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns.

Its top algebra without row sums is \(\tilde A=\mathbb F_3[y_{r,c}]/(y^2,\ y_{r,c}y_{s,c})=\bigotimes_cB_c\), where \(B_c=\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c\), \(V_c\) is spanned by the cells of column \(c\), and \(V_cV_c=0\). This is the column tensor power of thm:tensor-power-freeness. It is a monomial algebra, whose basis is the sets of cells in distinct columns.
The row sums are \(R_r=\sum_cy_{r,c}\). They generate \(u=\mathbb F_3[R]/(R^3)\), a Hopf algebra with each \(R_r\) primitive. The weak top algebra is \(A=\tilde A/(R)\).
For a set \(\mathrm{Col}\) of columns, \(\tilde A=\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\otimes\tilde A_{\mathrm{Rest}}\), and \(u\) acts diagonally, since \(R_r=R_r^{\mathrm{Col}}+R_r^{\mathrm{Rest}}\).

Removing the row sums

Lemma (spare-column transfer). Let the linear parts of a family of product constraints involve only the columns in \(\mathrm{Col}\), and let \(N-|\mathrm{Col}|\ge2t-1\). Then for \(s\le t\), the top syzygies over \(A\) of target degree \(s\) (each source \(A(-|b_C|)\) in degree \(s\)) are the images of those over \(\tilde A\), which are \(\ker\mu_{\mathrm{Col}}\otimes\tilde A_{\mathrm{Rest}}\), with \(\mu_{\mathrm{Col}}\) the syzygy map over \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\). So Taylor generation over \(A\) through \(t\) follows from Taylor generation over the monomial algebra \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\).

Proof.

A free model. By thm:tensor-power-freeness, \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Rest}}\), the weak algebra without row sums on \(N-|\mathrm{Col}|\ge2t-1\) columns, has \(\mathrm{Tor}_1^u(\mathbb F_3,-)\) zero through degree \(t\). So its minimal free cover \(F\to\tilde A_{\mathrm{Rest}}\) is bijective in degrees \(\le t\): the kernel's lowest elements would be generators. For any graded \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\)-module \(M\) in degrees \(\ge0\), \(M\otimes F\to M\otimes\tilde A_{\mathrm{Rest}}\) is then bijective in degrees \(\le t\). And \(M\otimes F\) is free over \(u\), by the Hopf tensor identity \(M\otimes u\cong u^{\dim M}\).
Splitting. Let \(J\) be the ideal of the tops in \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\), \(P=\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\otimes F\), and \(\mu:\bigoplus_CP(-|b_C|)\to P\) the syzygy map. \(\mu\) is \(u\)-linear for the diagonal action, since the tops lie in \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\).
- \(P\) and \(P/JP=(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}/J)\otimes F\) are free. So \(JP\) is projective, hence free, since \(u\) is local.
- \(0\to\ker\mu\to\bigoplus P\to JP\to0\) splits.
- Applying \(-\otimes_u\mathbb F_3\) is therefore exact on both sequences. The kernel of \(\mu\otimes_u\mathbb F_3\) is the image of \(\ker\mu=\ker\mu_{\mathrm{Col}}\otimes F\), and \(JP\otimes_u\mathbb F_3\to P\otimes_u\mathbb F_3\) is injective.
Back to \(A\). In degrees \(\le t\), \(P\otimes_u\mathbb F_3\) is \(\tilde A\otimes_u\mathbb F_3=A\), and \(\mu\otimes_u\mathbb F_3\) is the syzygy map over \(A\). \(\square\)

This is the syzygy counterpart of lem:row-sum-absorption, which transfers freeness over forms. Here the tops may generate a non-free ideal.

One clause, every degree

Theorem (column Wilson Taylor). Let a product constraint \(C\) have \(\ell_0=\sum_{x\in S}y_x\) (factor \(\chi(L_0)\)) and \(\ell_j=\sum_{x\in T_j}y_x\) (factors \(L_j-\kappa_j\)), \(j=1,\dots,k\), where \(S,T_1,\dots,T_k\) are pairwise disjoint and the cells of \(U=S\cup\bigcup_jT_j\) lie in pairwise distinct columns; rows are unrestricted. Let \(h=k+2\), \(\tau=\ell_0^2\prod_j\ell_j\), and \(e\ge0\).

If \(|S|\ge2e+2\) and \(|T_j|\ge2e+1\), then \(\ker(\tau:\tilde A_e\to\tilde A_{h+e})=\ell_0\tilde A_{e-1}+\sum_j\ell_j^2\tilde A_{e-2}\).
If also \(N-|U|\ge2(h+e)-1\), the same holds in the weak top algebra \(A\).

Proof of 1.

Splitting by blocked cells. For the column \(c\) of a cell \(x\in U\), \(B_c=\mathbb F_3[y_x]/(y_x^2)\oplus V'_c\), where \(V'_c\) holds the other cells of column \(c\), which \(y_x\) kills. Expanding the tensor product, \(\tilde A=\bigoplus_{B\subseteq U}\Lambda_{U\setminus B}\otimes\bigotimes_{x\in B}V'_{c(x)}\otimes\tilde A_{\mathrm{Rest}}\). Here \(\Lambda_W\) is the square-free algebra on the cells of \(W\). On the summand for \(B\), \(y_x\) acts as 0 for \(x\in B\), so \(\tau\) acts as \(\tau_B\otimes\mathrm{id}\), where \(\tau_B\) is the same expression in the restricted forms \(\ell_0'=\sum_{x\in S\setminus B}y_x\) and \(\ell_j'\).
Tensor factors. \(\Lambda_{U\setminus B}=\Lambda_{S\setminus B}\otimes\bigotimes_j\Lambda_{T_j\setminus B}\), and \(\tau_B=\ell_0'^2\otimes\ell_1'\otimes\dots\otimes\ell_k'\). The kernel of a tensor product of linear maps is \(\sum_m(\cdots\otimes\ker f_m\otimes\cdots)\). So it suffices to know \(\ker\ell'^2\) and \(\ker\ell'\) on each square-free factor, in the multidegrees that occur.
Wilson. On \(\Lambda_m\), the square-free algebra on \(m\) cells, \(\ell=\sum y\) maps \(j\)-sets to \((j+1)\)-sets by the inclusion matrix \(W_{j,j+1}\), and \(\ell^2\) is \(2W_{j,j+2}\). Wilson's theorem (R. M. Wilson, "A diagonal form for the incidence matrices of t-subsets vs. k-subsets", European J. Combin. 11 (1990) 609–615; imported, not re-read) gives \(\operatorname{rank}_pW_{t,k}=\sum_{i\le t,\ p\nmid\binom{k-i}{t-i}}\bigl(\binom mi-\binom m{i-1}\bigr)\) for \(t\le\min(k,m-k)\).
- At \(p=3\), \(W_{j,j+2}\) counts the \(i\) with \(j-i\equiv0\), and \(W_{j-1,j}\) counts those with \(j-i\not\equiv0\) (mod 3). The two ranks sum to \(\binom mj\) when \(m\ge2j+2\). Since \(\ell^3=0\), this gives \(\ker(\ell^2|_{\Lambda_j})=\ell\Lambda_{j-1}\).
- Likewise, \(W_{j,j+1}\) counts \(j-i\not\equiv2\) and \(W_{j-2,j}\) counts \(j-i\equiv2\). So \(\ker(\ell|_{\Lambda_j})=\ell^2\Lambda_{j-2}\) when \(m\ge2j+1\).
The sizes. In degree \(e\), a summand with \(|B|\) blocked cells and multidegree \((i_0,\dots,i_k)\) on \(\Lambda_{U\setminus B}\) has \(|B|+\sum i\le e\). So \(|S\setminus B|\ge|S|-(e-i_0)\ge2i_0+2\) when \(|S|\ge2e+2\), and similarly \(|T_j\setminus B|\ge2i_j+1\) when \(|T_j|\ge2e+1\). The kernel is therefore \(\ell_0'\Lambda\otimes\cdots+\sum_j\ell_j'^2\Lambda\otimes\cdots\) on each summand. Since \(\ell_0\) acts on each summand as \(\ell_0'\), this is \(\ell_0\tilde A_{e-1}+\sum_j\ell_j^2\tilde A_{e-2}\). \(\square\)

Proof of 2. Apply lem:spare-column-transfer with \(\mathrm{Col}\) the columns of \(U\) and \(t=h+e\). Part 1 holds on \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\), and the Taylor generators map to Taylor generators. \(\square\)

The restricted annihilators of the large-support entry are the summands where \(|S\setminus B|=3\), or \(|T_j\setminus B|=2\), in low degree. There Wilson's bound fails and \(\ker\ell'^2\) is larger than \(\ell'\Lambda\). Part 1 is sharp. At \(B=\emptyset\) and multidegree \((e,0,\dots,0)\), the kernel is \(\ker\ell_0^2\) on \(\Lambda_{S,e}\), and it exceeds \(\ell_0\Lambda\) when \(|S|=2e+1\); likewise when \(|T_j|=2e\).

What this means

A3 for one clause. Taylor generation holds for a single sparse clause at every degree on W's own base. At target degree \(D=22k\), \(e=D-h\approx21k\): each form needs about \(42k\) cells, \(|U|\ge(2e+2)+k(2e+1)\approx42k(k+1)\), and \(N\ge|U|+2D-1\). It needs no freeness: the forms are not free, and the restricted annihilators show it. This proves the weak-base analogue of the single-clause case of conj:large-support-taylor, which is stated on the functional board, under the extra spare-column hypothesis.
Families. By lem:spare-column-transfer, Taylor generation through a target degree \(D\) for any designed family that leaves \(2D-1\) columns unused reduces to the monomial algebra \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\), with no row sums. For clauses on pairwise disjoint column sets, lem:tensor-splitting-locality applies to the tensor factors, and the syzygies are the per-clause ones plus Koszul pairs, at every degree. But such families have at most \(N/|U|\le N/((k+1)(2e+1)+1)\) clauses, about \(n/\log^2n\) at logarithmic width, far below the \(n^4\) designs and the \(n^K\) the goal needs. For clauses sharing columns, the question becomes combinatorial. It is the semi-regularity of sparse tops in \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\), the Stanley–Reisner ring of the complex of cell sets in distinct columns modulo the squares \(y^2\). That is the form in which the \(n^4\)-clause designs must be decided.
Not reached. Families with shared columns in the Koszul range, the \(n^K\) count, and arbitrary forms (A1).

Next: the family question on the monomial algebra. For clauses whose cell sets pairwise share at most one cell but share columns, decompose \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\) by blocked cells, now with several clauses per column. State whether the syzygies are generated by per-clause Taylor syzygies, Koszul pairs, and syzygies induced by a shared column. Prove or refute this at the first Koszul degree \(2h\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:tensor-power-freeness, lem:row-sum-absorption, lem:tensor-splitting-locality and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, statements;
conj:large-support-taylor and prop:restricted-annihilator.

Wilson's rank formula is imported. The two complementary rank sums were checked by the residues of \(j-i\) modulo 3. wilson_check.py confirms both kernel identities by exact \(\mathbb F_3\) ranks for \(m\le12\) and all \(j\), and that they fail at \(m=2j+1\), respectively \(m=2j\) (wilson_check.json). A claim search for Wilson, inclusion matrices and square-free annihilators found no earlier version.

A fresh-context reviewer found no error in the transfer lemma or the proof, checking the Wilson identities independently for \(m\le10\). It required ten changes, all adopted:

disjointness of \(S\) and the \(T_j\);
the wrong remark on the bound replaced by its sharpness;
the weak-base scope and the spare-column hypothesis stated;
the support sizes at \(D=22k\);
the family count compared with clause counts;
the Stanley–Reisner description;
"target degree" in the lemma;
"local" alone for projective implies free;
Wilson's theorem cited exactly;
the exact check above.

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Pre-Koszul families: on the weak base, designed width-k W clauses glue through degree 2k+2 for every n, just below the Koszul pairs

25 September 2026 · Working proof (a composition) · open statements A2 and A3 below the Koszul range · cycle odd-prime-pre-koszul. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pre-Koszul families: on the weak base, designed width-k W clauses glue through degree 2k+2 for every n, just below the Koszul pairs”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-pre-koszul-families.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The column Wilson entry proved single-clause Taylor generation at every degree on the weak base. It reduced families to the monomial algebra \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\) and asked about families whose clauses share columns. In a monomial algebra the monomials are an honest basis. So the privacy count of the private-support entries applies at every degree, without the spare-label lemma. How far does it carry families?

General statement. thm:pre-koszul-weak-families: on the weak unary base over \(\mathbb F_3\), take width-\(k\) product constraints with values in \(\mathbb F_3\) (\(h=k+2\)), each with forms summing disjoint cell sets \(S,T_1,\dots,T_k\) in distinct columns, with \(|S|\ge2k+2\) and \(|T_j|\ge2k+1\). Suppose different clauses' cell sets share at most one cell, and at least \(4k+3\) columns are unused. Then for \(N\ge2(2k+2)^2\) and \(m\ge2k+2\), weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(2k+2\). An explicit design gives about \(n^4/\mathrm{poly}(k)\) such clauses when the rows and columns are both of order \(n\), which is \(n^{4-o(1)}\) at \(k=\Theta(\log n)\). Degree \(2k+3=2h-1\), below the first Koszul degree \(2h\), is not covered.

The theorem

Theorem (pre-Koszul weak families). Let \(k\ge1\), \(h=k+2\) and \(D=2h-2=2k+2\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak unary base with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns, let \(\mathcal F\) be a family of product constraints \(C=\chi_{v_C}(L_{0,C})\prod_{j=1}^k(L_{j,C}-\kappa_{j,C})\) with \(v_C,\kappa_{j,C}\in\mathbb F_3\), such that:

the linear parts are \(\ell_{0,C}=\sum_{x\in S_C}y_x\) and \(\ell_{j,C}=\sum_{x\in T_{j,C}}y_x\), on pairwise disjoint cell sets whose union \(U_C\) has its cells in pairwise distinct columns;
\(|S_C|\ge2(D-h)+2=2k+2\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2k+1\);
\(|U_C\cap U_{C'}|\le1\) for \(C\ne C'\);
all \(U_C\) lie in a column set \(\mathrm{Col}\) with \(N-|\mathrm{Col}|\ge2D-1\).

Then the top syzygies of \(\mathcal F\) over the weak top algebra through degree \(D\) are spanned by the Frobenius syzygies. So weak unary PHP plus \(\mathcal F\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof.

Reduction to the monomial algebra. By lem:spare-column-transfer with \(t=D\), it suffices to prove the statement over \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\). Equivalently it suffices over \(\tilde A\), since \(\ker\) over \(\tilde A\) is \(\ker\) over \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\) tensored with \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Rest}}\). There the monomials, the sets of cells in distinct columns, form a basis.
The images are direct. In target degree \(s=h+e\le D\), the image of \(C\) lies in the span of the monomials containing a pattern of \(\tau_C\): two cells of \(S_C\) and one of each \(T_{j,C}\), so \(h\) cells of \(U_C\). A monomial in the spans of \(C\) and \(C'\) would have at least \(2h-|U_C\cap U_{C'}|\ge2h-1>D\) cells. So the spans are disjoint sets of basis monomials, the images form a direct sum, and every top syzygy splits into single-clause ones.
Single clauses. For each \(C\) and \(e=s-h\le D-h=k\), thm:column-wilson-taylor, part 1 (on the monomial algebra), gives \(\ker(\tau_C)=\ell_{0,C}\tilde A_{e-1}+\sum_j\ell_{j,C}^2\tilde A_{e-2}\), the Taylor kernel. Its size bounds \(|S|\ge2e+2\) and \(|T_j|\ge2e+1\) hold for every \(e\le k\). Other clauses' cells act here only as blocking cells, which that theorem covers.
Taylor generation. The direct sum makes the family's kernel the sum of the per-clause kernels, which are spanned by Frobenius syzygies. The coherent-pair syzygies of thm:based-taylor-glue are not needed: no two clauses share a linear form, since \(|U_C\cap U_{C'}|\le1\) while every form has at least 3 cells.
Conclusion. The weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) by thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic (\(m\ge D\), \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\)). No constraint is a nonzero constant. thm:based-taylor-glue gives no refutation of degree \(D\). \(\square\)

Design. The row-block and slope construction of thm:private-support-first-degree, with its label window replaced by the first half of the columns so that the rest are spare, gives supports on \(m'=|U|=(2k+2)+k(2k+1)=2k^2+3k+2\) cells. They have distinct rows and columns and pairwise share at most one cell. Distinct rows are not needed by the theorem, but the construction uses them, so it needs \(m\ge m'\) rows, far more than the theorem's \(m\ge2k+2\). Its count is about \(m^2(N/2)^2/(4m'^2(m'-1)^2)\). On the PHP board, with \(m=n+1\) rows and \(N=n\) columns, this is \(n^4/\mathrm{poly}(k)\).

What this means

A2 and A3 below the Koszul range. Designed-family hardness extends from the first degree, \(k+3\), to degree \(2k+2\). That is every degree below the Koszul pairs except \(2k+3\). It holds on W's own base, for any width including \(k=\Theta(\log n)\), with explicit \(\mathbb F_3\) families of \(n^{4-o(1)}\) clauses. Compared with the first-degree theorem, the forms need \(\Theta(k)\) cells each (supports of about \(2k^2\) cells, not 4 and 3), and only the weak base is covered, not the functional board.
What remains. Degree \(2k+3\), where two patterns sharing a cell fit in one monomial. W's own degree, \(22k\), is inside the Koszul range, where pairs of clauses share syzygies and a direct-sum argument cannot apply (the private-support review's barrier). The count is capped near \(n^4\) by pair-disjointness, and the forms are designed, not adversarial (A1).

Next: the first Koszul degree \(2h\) on the monomial algebra. There the family's images overlap exactly on monomials holding patterns of two clauses. The Taylor claim is that the overlaps are spanned by the products \(\tau_C\tau_{C'}\), one Koszul relation per pair. Prove it by a private-coordinate count one level up, on monomials holding two patterns, or find the pair configuration, such as a shared column, that adds a relation.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:column-wilson-taylor and lem:spare-column-transfer, from the previous entry;
thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic and thm:based-taylor-glue, statements;
the design of thm:private-support-first-degree.

The theorem is a composition of these in one setting. The single-clause theorem's spare-column hypothesis, \(N-|U|\ge2(h+e)-1\), is at most \(2D-1\), so it is met. The new step is the direct-sum count, which is exact because \(\tilde A\) has a monomial basis. A claim search for designed weak-base families below the Koszul range found no earlier version. No computation was run.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the direct-sum count, the single-clause step at every \(e\le k\), the spare-column bound and the base hypotheses. It found that no earlier record implies the theorem: cor:incoherent-form-members needs freeness, and conj:large-support-taylor is a conjecture on the functional board. It required eight changes, all adopted:

the field;
"through \(2h-2\)", with \(2k+3\) open;
the comparison with the first-degree theorem;
the pattern wording;
the Taylor bullet, without Koszul pairs and without coherent pairs;
the design's rows and \(n\);
W's degree named;
the reduction step.

Measured timing
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Route review: the designed-family line is closed below the Koszul range, its mechanism is the sparse form of recorded dense results, and W's chooser is restored to the Open statements

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation) · open statements W, A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-designed-line-review. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the designed-family line is closed below the Koszul range, its mechanism is the sparse form of recorded dense results, and W's chooser is restored to the Open statements”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-designed-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The last cycles proved results for designed families:

the large-support conjecture and its obstruction;
column Wilson, for single clauses at every degree;
pre-Koszul families, through degree \(2k+2\).

The next step would enter the Koszul range for such families. By the route check, a line that keeps producing special cases calls for a review first. This review also rechecks the line's standing hypotheses against the instances the goal must handle.

General statement. The line's claim is W, through Taylor generation of its clause tops (thm:based-taylor-glue or thm:resolvent-taylor-glue).

The instances the goal must handle

Re-reading thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction (the degree-three first-moment entry) shows what the wording of W in the Open statements lost:

A chooser. The statement is that for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks of affine forms there is a choice of prefix sets \(S_b\), \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\), for which the system has no PC refutation of degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k=22k\) at \(p=3\).
Block structure. Block \(b\) contributes \(g_{b,i}Q_b\) for every \(i\notin S_b\), with one common prefix \(Q_b=\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^2\).

The record has used both. The cluster-avoidance entry showed that a choice avoids the hole family's small clusters, but that blocks with \(h_b\le k\) leave no choice. It absorbed the resulting inconsistent clusters by resolvents (thm:resolvent-absorption). The Open statements now state W with its quantifiers.

What the goal needs, and the line's reach

The goal needs W, meaning arbitrary blocks, \(n^K\) of them, at degree \(22k\). The designed line reaches:

forms supported on few cells;
at most about \(n^4\) clauses, by pair-disjointness;
degree at most \(2k+2\).

Complete success in the Koszul range would still give about \(n^4\) designed clauses and nothing for arbitrary blocks.

Falsification attempt: is the line's mechanism new beyond sparsity?

No. On the weak algebra without row sums, a dense form \(\ell=\sum_cv_c\), with \(v_c\) in column \(c\)'s space, splits each column factor as \(\mathbb F_3[v_c]/(v_c^2)\oplus V'_c\), just as a sparse form splits it at its cells. Wilson's condition \(N\ge2j+2\) is then the recorded single-form threshold: the column tensor power is free over a line exactly through \(\lceil N/2\rceil\) (prop:line-necessity). So column Wilson is the sparse counterpart of the recorded tensor-power freeness, not a new route to dense adversarial forms. What is new is that sparse clauses glue beyond the freeness count, which adversarial forms do not offer.

Assessment

Solid ground. Seven working proofs across the private-support and designed lines, and lem:spare-column-transfer, which removes row sums from any syzygy question on the weak base.
The gap. The line cannot reach arbitrary blocks or the \(n^K\) count, and it stops below the Koszul range.
Prospects. For the goal, weak as a continuation. The line is closed. Its results stay available as tools and as generic-case evidence.

The highest-risk item and the next step

A1, now stated with W's chooser, is the highest risk. Every A1 mechanism in the record is either count-limited (freeness) or needs separation (members, designs). Before building another, the statement itself should be tested.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer, W: attempt to falsify W. Look for a family of \(n^K\) blocks for which every choice of prefix sets yields a PC refutation of degree at most \(22k\).

Starting points.
- The hole family, which fails with a common prefix but survives a varied choice.
- Blocks with \(h_b\le k\), which leave no choice.
- Row-equation forms, which are dense and structured by the base.
Count first. Check the density condition \(M(2/3)^k<1\) and the degree budget before any construction.
What ends the step. Either a family that refutes W, so the route through the prefix reduction must be replaced, or a proof that a random choice of prefixes defeats every construction of a named kind, which becomes A1's first statement using the chooser.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction and the odd-prime wide-clause statement, with the chooser and blocks;
the cluster-avoidance entry (thm:resolvent-absorption and its hole-family section);
prop:line-necessity and thm:tensor-power-freeness;
the designed-line entries of this date.

The review registers no claim and runs no computation.

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Falsifying W: every structured attack tried is defended by some choice of prefixes, but choosing by a fixed near-solution is refuted even without adversarial tie-breaking

25 September 2026 · Refutation of a choice rule, and falsification attempts (no computation) · open statement W (A1) · cycle odd-prime-falsify-w. Produced by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, high effort).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Falsifying W: every structured attack tried is defended by some choice of prefixes, but choosing by a fixed near-solution is refuted even without adversarial tie-breaking”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-falsify-w.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement W. The designed-line review restored W's chooser and asked for a falsification attempt. Is there a family of \(n^K\) blocks for which every choice of prefix sets yields a PC refutation of degree at most \(22k\)?

General statement. prop:near-solution-chooser-fails: the choice rule that keeps a fixed near-solution \(\psi\) of weak PHP is refuted. That rule makes every clause vanish at \(\psi\), by excluding in each block a form that is nonzero at \(\psi\). The refuting family pads each hole block with fillers that vanish at \(\psi\) but equal 1 modulo the base, so the rule is forced to exclude the real input, whatever its tie-break. It then forbids \(\psi\)'s unmatched pigeon from every hole, and the pigeon's row equation refutes at degree about \(2(k+1)\). No family refuting W itself was found. Each attack tried is defended by some choice.

Attacks tried, and their defenses

Weak unary PHP here has \(m=n+1\) pigeons and \(n\) holes, with cells \(x_{j,t}\), also written \(X_{jt}\). A block contributes nothing when \(h_b\le k\). For \(h_b=k+1\) the chooser picks the one excluded form \(i\), and the block forbids the event \(\{L_i=0,\ L_j\ne0\ (j\in S_b)\}\).

Hole family (recorded). A common prefix refutes, and a varied choice leaves a bipartite graph PHP whose holes have degree \(k\). This was covered by the cluster-avoidance entry.
Occupancy forms. The hole occupancies \(o_c=\sum_rx_{r,c}\) are Boolean modulo the base, and \(\sum_co_c\equiv m\pmod3\) at degree 1. In the occupancy abstraction (Boolean \(o_c\) with that sum) the number \(e\) of empty holes satisfies \(e\equiv n-m\pmod 3\), which is 2 for \(m=n+1\). A block of occupancy forms forbids "hole \(i\) empty and the other holes of the block full". Mod-3 counting is cheap for PC over \(\mathbb F_3\), so this looks like an attack. The chooser defends it in the abstraction: fix two holes \(E\) to be empty, and in every block exclude a hole outside \(E\) when there is one. When every hole of a block lies in \(E\), any prefix contains an empty hole. The profile "\(E\) empty, the rest full" then satisfies the abstraction and every clause. This rules out only refutations that go through the occupancy abstraction; it is not a PC lower bound.
Pigeon-local forms, each depending on the cells of few pigeons (a heuristic, without evidential weight). A random restriction by a partial matching makes most such forms constant. In a uniform model each clause then fails with probability about \(\frac13(\frac23)^k\), and W's density condition \(M(\frac23)^k<1\), with \(M\) the number of blocks, is the union bound over them. So a restriction argument is expected, but none is claimed here.
Padding (recorded). Fillers that never vanish refute the uniform random choice (obs:uniform-choice-padding-refutation). Fillers \(C_s-2\) refute the density-minimizing choice (obs:collision-padding-refutes-density-rule). The record concludes that a working choice rule must be base-invariant up to the substituted degree. In both cases, choosing the real input into the prefix defends.

A tempting rule, refuted

Observation (near-solution chooser pins). For any point \(\psi\), the rule "exclude a form nonzero at \(\psi\) if the block has one" makes every clause vanish at \(\psi\). If every form of a block vanishes at \(\psi\), its prefix product vanishes there. Take \(\psi\) a near-solution of weak PHP: a matching of pigeons \(1,\dots,n\) to the holes, violating only pigeon \(n+1\)'s row equation. Let \(R_j=\sum_tx_{j,t}\) be pigeon \(j\)'s row sum. Take fillers \(F_s=R_{n+1}+(R_{j_s}-1)\), \(s=1,\dots,k\), for distinct pigeons \(j_s\le n\). Each \(F_s\) vanishes at \(\psi\), since \(R_{n+1}(\psi)=0\) and \(R_{j_s}(\psi)=1\), and \(F_s-1\) lies in the base. The padded hole family has, for each pigeon \(j\) and hole \(t\), a block with the real input \(X_{jt}-1\) and the \(k\) fillers.

For every \(t\), \(X_{n+1,t}-1\) is the only form of its block nonzero at \(\psi\), so the rule must exclude it, and the fillers form the prefix. Since \(F_s^2-1=(F_s-1)(F_s+1)\), the prefix product is 1 modulo the base at degree about \(2k+2\). The clause's other factor is \(g=1-(X-1)^2=-X^2+2X\equiv X\) modulo Booleanity over \(\mathbb F_3\), so the clause gives \(x_{n+1,t}=0\).
With every cell of pigeon \(n+1\) zero, its row equation \(\sum_tx_{n+1,t}=1\) gives \(0=1\). The degree is about \(2(k+1)\), far below \(22k\).

The same rule also pins every other pigeon \(j\) to \(\psi(j)\): for \(t\ne\psi(j)\) the real input is again the only form nonzero at \(\psi\). A defending choice keeps the real input in the prefix and excludes a filler. The clause's factor \(1-F_s^2=(1-F_s)(1+F_s)\) lies in the base at degree 2, so that clause vanishes. So the rule is refuted, but W is not. \(\square\)

The mechanism is that of obs:uniform-choice-padding-refutation: the real input is excluded while fillers that are 1 modulo the base form the prefix. What is new is that the fillers vanish at \(\psi\). Evaluating at a near-solution, instead of at random or by a fixed measure, does not escape padding, and no tie-break rescues the rule.

What a chooser must do

The two recorded refutations and this one share one feature. The failing rule excludes a form that can vanish while keeping, in the prefix, forms that are nonzero modulo the base at low degree. The natural base-invariant rule avoids exactly that. Clauses arise for every \(i\notin S_b\), so the rule is stated for the whole prefix. Put the vanishable forms into the prefix first, and place outside it the forms \(L\) with \(1-L^2\) in the degree-\(2(k+1)\) closure of the base, whose clauses vanish. Under that rule a block constrains only when it has more than \(k\) vanishable forms. W then asks for hardness of PHP on the allowed set of such blocks. The closure route states that question as conj:closed-row-freeness, at allowed-set density at least one half.

Assessment

No counterexample to W was found. Every attack was defended by some choice, the defenses keep real inputs in the prefix, and the one new choice rule tried fails in the recorded way. This is weak positive evidence for W, and it does not identify a mechanism for A1. The falsification attempt is qualitative: none of the defenses except the recorded ones is a PC lower bound.

Next: state the base-invariant rule precisely: exclude first the forms never zero modulo the base at degree \(2(k+1)\), then choose at random among the rest. Check it against the recorded padding families and the hole family. Then state A1 under that rule as a conjecture on blocks with more than \(k\) vanishable forms, and compare it with conj:closed-row-freeness, to decide whether the two routes have become one statement.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction, with its chooser;
obs:uniform-choice-padding-refutation, obs:collision-padding-refutes-density-rule and lem:density-choice-padding-immunity, statements;
the cluster-avoidance entry's hole family;
conj:closed-row-freeness and thm:global-closure-gluing, statements.

The refutation is checked by hand: \(F_s(\psi)=0\), \(F_s-1\) is a sum of row-equation generators, the prefix product reduces to 1 at degree about \(2k+2\), and \(1-(X-1)^2\equiv X\) modulo Booleanity. A fresh-context reviewer found that the first draft's fillers \(2-X_v\) are nonzero at \(\psi\), so only an adversarial tie-break excluded the real input. The fillers were replaced by \(\psi\)-vanishing ones, which force the rule. The reviewer's other required changes were also adopted: the pigeon count and notation, the occupancy defense stated in its abstraction, the pigeon-local bullet labelled heuristic, the relation to the recorded padding results, and the chooser rule stated for the whole prefix. A claim search for choosers, near-solutions and allowed-set density found the recorded padding results, now cited. No computation was run.

Measured timing
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Rigid forms: W is equivalent to its restriction to forms the base cannot prove nonzero, so padding by base-rigid forms cannot refute it, and the choice problem reduces to hardness

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement W (A1) · cycle odd-prime-rigid-forms. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Rigid forms: W is equivalent to its restriction to forms the base cannot prove nonzero, so padding by base-rigid forms cannot refute it, and the choice problem reduces to hardness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-rigid-forms.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement W. The falsification entry asked for a precise base-invariant chooser. The density-choice entry had proposed the same thing: exclude every input the base proves nonzero within the substituted degree, and characterize the good choices on the closure. Neither stated or proved what that exclusion gives. Does excluding such forms lose anything, and what statement is left?

General statement. prop:rigid-form-reduction: over \(\mathbb F_p\), \(p\) odd, call an affine form \(L\) rigid at degree \(D_0\) if \(1-L^{p-1}\) lies in the degree-\(D_0\) PC closure of the weak unary base. With \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k\) and any \(D_0\le D-(p-1)k\), W at degree \(D\) is equivalent to W for families of forms that are not rigid at degree \(D_0\). Moreover, for \(D_0\le D-2(p-1)k\), any choice of prefixes can be replaced by a non-rigid-first choice, without enlarging the degree-\(D\) closure.

Setting

\(B\) is weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_p\): Booleanity, column collisions and the linear row equations. \(C_D(X)\) is the degree-\(D\) PC closure of a set \(X\) of polynomials of degree at most \(D\): the smallest subspace of the polynomials of degree at most \(D\) that contains \(X\) and is closed under \(f\mapsto yf\) for each variable \(y\) whenever \(\deg(yf)\le D\). \(X\) has a degree-\(D\) refutation exactly when \(1\in C_D(X)\). A block \(b\) has affine forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b}\). A choice is a family of prefix sets \(S_b\), \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\), and its clauses are \[ \mathrm{Cl}(S)=\{\,g_{b,i}Q_{S_b}:\ i\notin S_b\,\},\qquad g_{b,i}=1-L_{b,i}^{p-1},\quad Q_{S_b}=\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}, \] of degree \((p-1)(k+1)\). W says that some choice has \(1\notin C_D(B\cup\mathrm{Cl}(S))\), for \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k\) (\(22k\) at \(p=3\)). For a threshold \(D_0\), block \(b\)'s forms split into the rigid ones \(U_b=\{L: 1-L^{p-1}\in C_{D_0}(B)\}\) and the rest \(V_b\).

Two standard facts are used.

Multiplication. If \(f\in C_{D_0}(X)\) and \(\deg q\le e\), then \(qf\in C_{D_0+e}(X)\). Multiply every line of a derivation of \(f\) by a monomial \(m\) of degree at most \(e\): each axiom \(a\) becomes \(am\), reached from \(a\) by multiplications by variables, and each step stays within degree \(D_0+e\). Then use linearity.
Monotonicity. If every element of \(X'\) lies in \(C_D(X)\), then \(C_D(X')\subseteq C_D(X)\), since \(C_D(X)\) is closed under the rules and contains \(X'\).

The reduction

Proposition (rigid-form reduction). Let \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k\).

Rigid clauses are harmless. Let \(D_0\le D-(p-1)k\). For any choice \(S\) and any \(i\in U_b\setminus S_b\), the clause \(g_{b,i}Q_{S_b}\) lies in \(C_D(B)\). So \(C_D(B\cup\mathrm{Cl}(S))=C_D(B\cup\mathrm{Cl}^\circ(S))\), where \(\mathrm{Cl}^\circ(S)\) keeps only the clauses with \(i\in V_b\).
Equivalence. For such \(D_0\), W holds for every family if and only if it holds for every family whose forms are all non-rigid at degree \(D_0\). Under a non-rigid-first choice, which puts \(\min(k,|V_b|)\) forms of \(V_b\) into \(S_b\), a block constrains only when \(|V_b|>k\), and then only through its non-rigid forms.
Non-rigid-first choices lose nothing. Let \(D_0\le D-2(p-1)k\). Let \(S\) be any choice, and \(S^*\) any choice with \(S_b\cap V_b\subseteq S^*_b\) and \(|S^*_b\cap V_b|=\min(k,|V_b|)\). Then \(C_D(B\cup\mathrm{Cl}(S^*))\subseteq C_D(B\cup\mathrm{Cl}(S))\). So if some choice has no degree-\(D\) refutation, a non-rigid-first choice has none either.

Proof.

Part 1. For \(i\in U_b\), \(g_{b,i}\in C_{D_0}(B)\). By multiplication with \(q=Q_{S_b}\), of degree at most \((p-1)k\), the clause lies in \(C_{D_0+(p-1)k}(B)\subseteq C_D(B)\). Monotonicity, applied in both directions, gives the equality of closures.
Part 2. A family of non-rigid forms is a family, so W implies the restricted statement. Conversely, given any family, apply the restricted statement to the blocks \(V_b\). It gives prefix sets \(T_b\subseteq V_b\), \(|T_b|=\min(k,|V_b|)\), with no degree-\(D\) refutation of \(B\) plus the clauses \(g_{b,i}Q_{T_b}\), \(i\in V_b\setminus T_b\). Put \(S_b=T_b\) when \(|V_b|\ge k\). Otherwise put \(S_b=V_b\) together with \(\min(k,h_b)-|V_b|\) forms of \(U_b\). In both cases \(\mathrm{Cl}^\circ(S)\) is exactly the restricted system's clause set: when \(|V_b|<k\) there are no clauses with \(i\in V_b\), and when \(|V_b|\ge k\) the prefixes agree. By part 1, \(S\) has no degree-\(D\) refutation.
Part 3. By monotonicity it suffices to put each clause of \(S^*\) into \(C_D(B\cup\mathrm{Cl}(S))\). Clauses with \(i\in U_b\) lie in \(C_D(B)\) by part 1. Take \(w\in V_b\setminus S^*_b\). Since \(S_b\cap V_b\subseteq S^*_b\), also \(w\notin S_b\), so \(g_wQ_{S_b}\in\mathrm{Cl}(S)\). Write \(A=S_b\cap S^*_b\), \(R=S_b\setminus S^*_b\) and \(N=S^*_b\setminus S_b\). Every form of \(R\) is rigid, because \(S_b\cap V_b\subseteq S^*_b\). With \(r=|R|\le k\), \[ 1-Q_R=\sum_{u\in R}\big(1-L_u^{p-1}\big)\prod_{u'\in R,\ u'<u}L_{u'}^{p-1}\in C_{D_0+(p-1)(r-1)}(B). \] Then \[ g_wQ_A=g_wQ_{S_b}+g_wQ_A\,(1-Q_R), \] where the first term is a clause of \(S\), and the second lies in \(C_{D_0+(p-1)k}(B)\) by multiplication, since \(\deg(g_wQ_A)\le(p-1)(k-r+1)\). So \(g_wQ_A\in C_{D_0+(p-1)k}(B\cup\mathrm{Cl}(S))\). Multiplying by \(Q_N\), of degree \((p-1)|N|\le(p-1)r\), gives \(g_wQ_{S^*_b}\in C_{D_0+2(p-1)k}(B\cup\mathrm{Cl}(S))\subseteq C_D(B\cup\mathrm{Cl}(S))\). \(\square\)

At \(p=3\), \(D=22k\), part 2 holds for every threshold up to \(D_0=20k\) and part 3 up to \(18k\). The falsification entry proposed the threshold \(2(k+1)\). That threshold is valid, but it leaves in the reduced statement every form rigid at a degree between \(2k+2\) and \(20k\). Such forms would be fillers that a random choice among the non-rigid forms could still prefer.

What the reduction removes, and what it leaves

Every recorded padding refutation. The fillers \(2-X_v\), \(C_s-2\) and \(R_{n+1}+(R_j-1)\) are rigid at low degree, about \(p\) (at \(p=3\), degree 2 for the first and last). For example \((2-X)^2-1=X^2-4X+3\equiv X^2-X\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). In the reduced statement each padded block keeps only its real input, so \(|V_b|=1\le k\) and the block has no clauses. Padding by forms that the base proves nonzero within degree \(D-(p-1)k\) therefore cannot refute W itself, only choice rules that ignore the base. The near-solution rule and the two measure rules failed for exactly that reason.
The hole family stays. The form \(X_{jt}-1\) is not rigid below degree about \(n/2\): \(1-(X_{jt}-1)^2\equiv X_{jt}\) modulo Booleanity, and a derivation of \(x_{jt}\) of degree \(d\) would give, after the restriction \(x_{jt}=1\), \(x_{it}=0\) \((i\ne j)\), \(x_{jt'}=0\) \((t'\ne t)\), a degree-\(d\) refutation of weak PHP with \(n\) pigeons and \(n-1\) holes. Razborov's bound for PHP makes \(d\) at least about \(n/2\), far above \(20k\). The random-choice entry handles this family by a varied choice (prop:hole-family-random-choice).
What is not removed. Rigidity is relative to the base alone. Forms that are nonzero only modulo the base plus other blocks' clauses stay, as do forms rigid only above degree \(D-(p-1)k\), and forms that are non-rigid but rarely zero, such as \(C_s-3\) at \(p=5\). The reduction excludes base-rigid padding, not every padding in principle.
What is left. W is exactly the statement for blocks with more than \(k\) forms that the base cannot prove nonzero within degree \(D-(p-1)k\). This makes precise the core-statement review's conclusion that the choice problem cannot be separated from hardness. After the reduction the only content left is hardness for non-rigid forms, and no choice rule with a fixed witness is known for generic blocks.

Assessment

The reduction closes the chooser question that the density-choice entry opened on 23 September. Padding of W by base-rigid forms is now excluded by proof, and the reduced statement has no chooser freedom beyond the non-rigid forms. It is an equivalent reformulation, and it does not advance A1's hardness. Its use is as a standing hypothesis: an A1 argument may assume that every prefix form is non-rigid at degree \(D-(p-1)k\), so the base has a degree-\((D-(p-1)k)\) pseudo-expectation that does not certify \(L^{p-1}=1\).

Next: A1 at the first degree, on the point the first-degree review left open: do saturated members stay separated? Test that on member falls of the second kind, whose tops carry one outside cell. Check whether non-rigidity of the prefix forms restricts those falls.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction, statement and clause degrees;
the density-choice entry, with its proposal and collision padding;
obs:uniform-choice-padding-refutation and prop:near-solution-chooser-fails;
the core-statement review.

The degree bookkeeping is checked in the proof. A fresh-context reviewer, given the statement, the density-choice entry and two claim searches, found that no registered claim states or implies the reduction: the density-choice entry only proposed it, and lem:density-choice-padding-immunity concerns \(\mu\)-null padding. It re-derived parts 1 and 3 (a single swap already works for \(D_0\le D-(p-1)(k+1)\); the stated bound is looser and matches the written proof). Its required changes were adopted:

"non-rigid-first" for the choice;
the fillers' rigidity degree, about \(p\);
the scope: base-rigid padding only, with forms rigid modulo other clauses, rigid only at high degree, or rarely zero left in.

No computation was run.

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Frobenius classes: in characteristic 3 the column model equals the Hasse fat-point count plus classes \(e_{3^k}(w)\), so fat points bound it only from below

25 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · open statement A3, column-model gap · cycle odd-prime-char3-apolarity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Frobenius classes: in characteristic 3 the column model equals the Hasse fat-point count plus classes \(e_{3^k}(w)\), so fat points bound it only from below”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-frobenius-classes.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The user asked whether the side notebook binary-multiplicity-degree helps this thread. Its characteristic-\(p\) tools concern fat points defined by Hasse multiplicity. The column-model entry had reduced freeness of a column span in the column model to the Hilbert function of \(\operatorname{Sym}(V)/(m_1^2,\dots,m_n^2)\), with the \(m_j\) the Gale transform of the columns. In characteristic 0, Emsalem–Iarrobino apolarity turns that into fat points. The entry listed the characteristic-3 form as open. Does the fat-point count, the side notebook's object, still compute the model over \(\mathbb F_3\)?

General statement. thm:frobenius-class-apolarity: over a field \(\mathbb K\) of characteristic \(p\), let \(\Lambda=\mathbb K[t_1,\dots,t_n]/(t_j^2)\), let \(W\subseteq\mathbb K^n\) be any subspace, and let \(m_j\) be the image of \(t_j\) in \(V=\mathbb K^n/W\). The column model is the case \(W\ni\mathbf 1\), \(p=3\). For every degree \(s\), \[ \operatorname{HF}\big(\operatorname{Sym}(V)/(m_j^2)\big)_s=\dim(I_Z)_s+\dim\big(\mathfrak W/W\Lambda\big)_s , \] where \(Z\) is the Hasse fat points of multiplicity \(s-1\) at the nonzero \(m_j\), and \(\mathfrak W=W\Lambda+\sum_i\sum_{k\ge1}e_{p^k}(w_i)\Lambda\) for a spanning set \(w_i\) of \(W\), with \(e_a(w)\) the \(a\)-th elementary symmetric function of the \(c_jt_j\) for \(w=\sum_jc_jt_j\). The two sides agree through degree \(p-1\). From degree \(p\) the model exceeds the fat-point count by the Frobenius classes \(e_p(w),e_{p^2}(w),\dots\).

The theorem

Notation: \(U=\mathbb K^n\) with basis \(t_j\), \(W\subseteq U\) any subspace, \(V=U/W\), and \(m_j\) the image of \(t_j\), so the \(m_j\) span \(V\). \(D(\cdot)\) is the divided-power algebra, with \(t^{[a]}\) the divided powers. \(\operatorname{Sym}(V^*)\) is the polynomial ring of forms on \(V\), paired with \(D(V)\) by \(\langle x^\alpha,e^{[\beta]}\rangle=\delta_{\alpha\beta}\) in dual bases. A form \(F\) of degree \(s\) lies in \((I_Z)_s\) when every Hasse derivative \(D^{(\beta)}F\), \(|\beta|\le s-2\), vanishes at every nonzero \(m_j\).

Theorem (Frobenius-class apolarity). Over a field \(\mathbb K\) of characteristic \(p\), in the setting above:

Divided-power apolarity. \((I_Z)_s^\perp=\mathfrak d_s\) with \(\mathfrak d=\sum_j\sum_{a\ge2}m_j^{[a]}D(V)\). So \(\dim(I_Z)_s=\dim\big(D(V)/\mathfrak d\big)_s\).
Squarefree form. \(D(V)/\mathfrak d\cong\Lambda/\mathfrak W\), where \(\mathfrak W\) is generated by the images \(e_a(w)\) of the divided powers \(w^{[a]}\), for \(w\in W\) and \(a\ge1\).
Frobenius classes. In \(\Lambda\), \(e_a(w)e_b(w)=\binom{a+b}{a}e_{a+b}(w)\); in particular \(w\,e_{a-1}(w)=a\,e_a(w)\). So \(\mathfrak W=W\Lambda+\sum_i\sum_{k\ge1}e_{p^k}(w_i)\Lambda\) for any spanning set \(w_i\) of \(W\).
Comparison. \(\operatorname{Sym}(V)/(m_j^2)\cong\Lambda/W\Lambda\), by the proof of prop:column-model-gale, which uses no property of \(W\). Hence \(\operatorname{HF}_{\text{model}}(s)=\dim(I_Z)_s+\dim(\mathfrak W/W\Lambda)_s\ge\dim(I_Z)_s\), with equality for \(s<p\).

Proof.

Part 1. For \(v\in V\), a multi-index \(\beta\) with \(|\beta|=i\), and \(F=\sum F_\alpha x^\alpha\) of degree \(s\), \(v^{[s-i]}e^{[\beta]}=\sum_{|\gamma|=s-i}v^\gamma\binom{\gamma+\beta}{\beta}e^{[\gamma+\beta]}\). So \(\langle F,v^{[s-i]}e^{[\beta]}\rangle=\sum_\gamma F_{\gamma+\beta}\binom{\gamma+\beta}{\beta}v^\gamma=D^{(\beta)}F(v)\). The conditions defining \((I_Z)_s\) are therefore the pairings with \(m_j^{[s-i]}D_i\), \(i\le s-2\), whose span is \(\mathfrak d_s\).
Part 2. Choose a splitting \(U=W\oplus V'\). Then \(D(U)=D(W)\otimes D(V')\), and \(D(U)\to D(V)\) is surjective with kernel the ideal generated by \(D^+(W)\), that is, by the \(w^{[a]}\), \(a\ge1\), for \(w\) in a basis of \(W\). The ideal of \(D(U)\) generated by the \(t_j^{[a]}\), \(a\ge2\), contains every \(t^{[\alpha]}\) with some \(\alpha_j\ge2\). The quotient has basis the squarefree \(t_S\), and \(t_St_T=t_{S\cup T}\) for disjoint \(S,T\), otherwise 0, since \(t_j\cdot t_j=2t_j^{[2]}\). So that quotient is \(\Lambda\). The image of \(t_j^{[a]}\) in \(D(V)\) is \(m_j^{[a]}\), so \(D(V)/\mathfrak d=D(U)/(\ker+(t_j^{[\ge2]}))=\Lambda/\mathfrak W\), and \(w^{[a]}=\sum_{|\alpha|=a}c^\alpha t^{[\alpha]}\) maps to \(e_a(w)=\sum_{|S|=a}c^St_S\).
Part 3. \(e_a(w)e_b(w)=\sum_{|S|=a,|T|=b}c^Sc^Tt_St_T\), and each \((a+b)\)-set splits in \(\binom{a+b}{a}\) ways, the terms with \(S\cap T\ne\emptyset\) vanishing. For \(a\ge1\), pick a base-\(p\) digit \(a_k\ne0\) of \(a\). If \(a=p^k\) there is nothing to show. Otherwise \(e_{p^k}e_{a-p^k}=\binom{a}{p^k}e_a\), and \(\binom{a}{p^k}\equiv a_k\ne0\) by Lucas, so \(e_a\) lies in the ideal generated by \(e_{p^k}\). Here \(e_1(w)=w\in W\Lambda\). For \(w=\sum_ic_iw_i\), \(w^{[a]}=\sum_{\sum a_i=a}\prod_ic_i^{a_i}w_i^{[a_i]}\), so the divided powers of the spanning set generate.
Part 4. Combine parts 1 to 3 with the recorded isomorphism. \(W\Lambda\subseteq\mathfrak W\) gives the inequality. For \(s<p\) no generator \(e_a\) with \(p\mid a\) has degree at most \(s\). \(\square\)

At \(p=3\), equality holds through degree 2, the first possible difference is in degree 3, from \(e_3(w)\), and \(e_3\) with \(e_9\) generate through degree 8. An example is five points in general position in \(\mathbb P^3\), the frame \(y_1,\dots,y_4,\sum y_i\) (\(n=5\), \(W=\langle\mathbf 1\rangle\) after scaling). Cubics with five Hasse double points are 0, as in characteristic 0. The model has one class in degree 3: modulo the squares, \((\sum y_i)^2y_k\) is the sum of the three squarefree cubics containing \(y_k\), a \(4\times4\) system \(J-I\) of rank 3 over \(\mathbb F_3\). The missing class is \(e_3(\mathbf 1)\).

Computations

All ranks are exact over GF(3). The checks use arbitrary \(W\), which the theorem covers. Results are in research/results/odd_prime_char3_apolarity_20260925/.

Hasse fat points against the model. apolarity.c computes, for point sets in \(\mathbb P^{d-1}(\mathbb F_3)\), the model's Hilbert function, the Hasse fat-point dimension, and the divided-power quotient of part 1 as a control.
- \(d=3\): all 8191 nonempty subsets of the 13 points, degrees 2 to 6, 40955 comparisons, with no difference (p2_exhaustive_s6.json).
- \(d=4\): 1500 random subsets, degrees 2 to 5, 6000 comparisons. There are six differences, all in degree 3, each model 1 against fat 0, and each on five points in general position. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) all such sets are projectively equivalent, so this is one example, the frame above (p3_random_s5.json).
- Part 1's control agreed in every one of the 46955 comparisons.
Parts 2 and 3. frobenius_classes.py computes \(\Lambda/\mathfrak W\) with the \(e_3\) generators, which is exact through degree 8. On 200 random spanning configurations with \(d\le4\) it agrees with the direct Hasse computation in all 200 through degree 4, and differs from the model in 3 (validation.json). An earlier validation in frobenius_classes.json tested its points' span over the reals, not \(\mathbb F_3\), and two of its 60 inputs did not span. Those were invalid inputs, not failures of the formula.
The recorded column configurations (frobenius_classes.json), as excess over the free prediction:
- Degree 3: model 3, 7, 1 against fat 2, 6, 0 for the three board-measured cases. In the measured \(n=10\) case the whole defect is a Frobenius class, while in one sampled \(n=10\) span the fat side keeps it. At \(n\ge11\), model 0 against fat \(-4\): the four classes \(e_3(w)\), \(w\in\{\mathbf 1,\varphi_1,\varphi_2,\varphi_3\}\), are independent modulo \(W\Lambda\).
- Degree 4: fat equals model at \(n=9,10,11\) (9, 15, 15), is below it at \(n=12\) (10 and 6 against 11 and 9), and from \(n=13\) falls below the free prediction, down to \(-64\) at \(n=20\).
- Degree 5: model 6, 1, 1 against fat \(-141\), \(-330\), \(-450\) at \(n=16,18,20\), so 147, 331 and 451 Frobenius classes.

What this means

The characteristic-3 gap is closed, negatively for fat points. Hasse fat points, the side notebook's object, compute the model exactly only through degree 2. From degree 3 they omit the Frobenius classes, up to 64 in degree 4 and several hundred in degree 5 for the recorded spans. So Alexander–Hirschowitz-type interpolation cannot describe the column model's defect set over \(\mathbb F_3\).
Direction. Fat points give only a lower bound, \(\operatorname{HF}_{\text{model}}\ge\dim(I_Z)\): a fat-point excess over the free prediction proves a model defect, and by prop:column-model-summand a board defect. Freeness, which the goal needs, is an upper bound on \(\operatorname{HF}_{\text{model}}\), and fat points cannot give it.
What replaces them. The model's own dual is the joint kernel of the operators \(\partial_{m_j}^2\) on \(\Gamma(V^*)\), the divided powers, which is not a fat-point space from degree 3 on. The Frobenius classes \(e_{3^k}(w)\) are the characteristic-3 phenomenon behind lem:gale-group-algebra, which writes the model over the group algebra \(\operatorname{Sym}(V)/(v^3)\): there \(w^3=0\), while \(w^{[3]}\ne0\).
For the side notebook. Its machinery transfers to this thread only as a certificate of column-model defects, which the route does not need. No change to the open statements beyond A3's column-model gap.

Next: the Proposed next step is unchanged; this was a bounded side check requested by the user.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

prop:column-model-gale and its entry, including the characteristic-0 apolarity statement and the remaining gap, and its later versions lem:gale-group-algebra and prop:column-model-summand;
ex:column-model-excess, with the configurations in its result files;
the side notebook's living sections, for its fat-point notion (Hasse multiplicity).

A claim search for characteristic-\(p\) apolarity, divided powers and fat points found prop:column-model-gale with its later versions, and the side notebook's per-order results, which concern single polynomials. None states the divided-power apolarity or the comparison. lem:gale-group-algebra is related, not implied. A fresh-context reviewer checked every identity of parts 1 to 4, the frame example, and every quoted number against the result files by script. It found no mathematical error and required these changes, all adopted:

the theorem for arbitrary \(W\), since \(\mathbf 1\in W\) was unused;
the generators reduced to \(e_{p^k}\);
three data sentences corrected, for \(n=10\) and degrees 4 and 5;
the six \(\mathbb P^3\) differences identified as one projective example;
the validation's degree range;
the later versions of prop:column-model-gale cited.

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Near-solution chooser: member conflicts are the recorded compatibility question, choices consistent with one point exist, and one concrete chooser survives the recorded attacks

25 September 2026 · Conjecture, with a composition lemma and an example · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-shared-cell-conflict. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Near-solution chooser: member conflicts are the recorded compatibility question, choices consistent with one point exist, and one concrete chooser survives the recorded attacks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-shared-cell-conflict.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The first-degree review asked whether saturated members stay separated, since thm:separated-member-stability needs stable members and adversarial members fall. Is separation the right condition, and what can W's chooser do about conflicts between members?

General statement. conj:near-solution-chooser: over \(\mathbb F_3\), with W's parameters, every family has a non-rigid-first choice whose clauses all vanish at some near-solution \(\psi\) and which has no PC refutation of degree \(22k\). Such choices always exist (lem:consistent-choice). The example ex:shared-cell-conflict shows why consistency with one point matters: two members sharing one cell, each unrefutable, refute each other at degree \(h\). This is an instance of the recorded remark in lem:member-pinning that gluing is only about compatibility.

A conflict through one cell

Example (shared-cell conflict). On the weak unary board over \(\mathbb F_p\), with \(n\) holes and \(n+1\) pigeons, take \(h\ge2\), a cell \(c\), and cells \(a_r,b_r\) (\(r<h\)) distinct from \(c\). Let \[ \mathcal F_1=\Big\{x_c\prod_{r<h}(x_{a_r}-\varepsilon_r)\Big\}_{\varepsilon\in\{0,1\}^{h-1}},\qquad \mathcal F_2=\Big\{(x_c-1)\prod_{r<h}(x_{b_r}-\varepsilon_r)\Big\}_{\varepsilon\in\{0,1\}^{h-1}}. \]

Joint refutation. \(\prod_r\big(x_{a_r}-(x_{a_r}-1)\big)=1\) expands to \(\sum_\varepsilon(-1)^{|\varepsilon|}\prod_r(x_{a_r}-\varepsilon_r)=1\), so a signed sum of \(\mathcal F_1\) is \(x_c\), at degree \(h\). Likewise \(\mathcal F_2\) gives \(x_c-1\), and the difference is 1. No PHP axiom is used.
Each member alone. A degree-\(D\) refutation of PHP plus \(\mathcal F_1\) gives one of PHP plus \(x_c\) of degree at most \(D\). For \(c=(j,t)\), the restriction putting pigeon \(j\) into a hole \(t'\ne t\) kills \(x_c\) and leaves PHP with \(n\) pigeons and \(n-1\) holes, so \(D\) is at least about \(n/2\) by Razborov's bound. For \(\mathcal F_2\), restrict by \(x_c=1\). This is member pinning at a point, as in lem:member-pinning.

This does not contradict the separation count of lem:separated-member-directness. Each member falls at degree \(h\), to \(x_c\) or \(x_c-1\), so it is not stable. Its saturation has a top of degree 1, and the count, which needs all tops of one degree \(h\ge3\) on the functional board, excludes falls of low degree. The example lives on the weak board with \(h\ge2\) and illustrates the case the first-degree review worried about. Separated members of low-degree falls can pin a shared cell to different values, so beyond stability the member question is compatibility. The record already says this (lem:member-pinning).

Choices consistent with one point

Lemma (consistent choice). Let \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k\) and \(D_0=D-(p-1)k\), and let \(U_b\), \(V_b\) and \(\mathrm{Cl}^\circ\) be as in prop:rigid-form-reduction at threshold \(D_0\). For every Boolean point \(\psi\) there is a non-rigid-first choice \(S\) under which every clause of \(\mathrm{Cl}^\circ(S)\) vanishes at \(\psi\). The degree-\(D\) closures of weak PHP plus \(\mathrm{Cl}(S)\) and plus \(\mathrm{Cl}^\circ(S)\) agree. If \(\psi\) is a near-solution with unmatched pigeon \(u\), every axiom of weak PHP plus \(\mathrm{Cl}^\circ(S)\) other than \(u\)'s row equation vanishes at \(\psi\).

Proof. This composes two recorded results. In a block with \(|V_b|>k\), put a form of \(V_b\) vanishing at \(\psi\) into \(S_b\) if there is one, and fill \(S_b\) from \(V_b\). The vanishing observation of prop:near-solution-chooser-fails applies to \(V_b\): if a prefix form vanishes at \(\psi\), every clause does; otherwise every excluded \(L_i\) is nonzero at \(\psi\), and \(g_i(\psi)=0\) by Fermat. Blocks with \(|V_b|\le k\) have no clauses in \(\mathrm{Cl}^\circ(S)\). Part 1 of prop:rigid-form-reduction, with \(D_0\le D-(p-1)k\), gives the equality of closures. \(\square\)

The last sentence is weak, and it is no evidence of hardness. It only says that \(\psi\) is a common zero of everything except one row. The forms \(C_s-1\), hole \(s\) occupied, vanish at every near-solution. Yet weak PHP plus all \(C_s=1\) is refuted at degree 1, since the rows sum to \(n+1\) and the columns to \(n\), and that refutation also uses \(u\)'s row. Consistency with \(\psi\) also cannot be turned into a proof by pinning. Pinning every prefix form to its value at \(\psi\) is a deciding design, and obs:deciding-designs-capped caps such designs below about \(N^2\) forms. W has \(n^K\) blocks.

The conjecture

Conjecture (near-solution chooser). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(M\le n^K\) blocks, \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), \(D=22k\) and \(D_0=20k\): for every family there are a near-solution \(\psi\) and a choice as in lem:consistent-choice for which weak PHP plus \(\mathrm{Cl}(S)\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). It implies W and restricts its chooser.

Tested against the recorded attacks:

Padding. The fillers of obs:uniform-choice-padding-refutation, obs:collision-padding-refutes-density-rule and prop:near-solution-chooser-fails are rigid at degree about \(p\), far below \(D_0\), so their blocks have no clauses. Also, unlike the refuted rule, this rule never forces the exclusion of a form: it needs only one \(\psi\)-vanishing form in each prefix and may keep a real input beside it. That is why the forced-exclusion attack does not transfer.
Occupancy forms. The falsification entry's defence used a profile with two empty holes, which is not a near-solution. Under this rule, blocks of forms \(C_s\) or \(C_s-1\) gain no constraint from \(\psi\). Mixed blocks forbid only pairs of values that the choice can steer. A quick check found the defence surviving; this is not a proof.
The hole family. The choice puts \(\psi^{-1}(t)\)'s input into \(S_t\) and fills the rest at random. The images delete the cells outside a bipartite graph of hole degree \(k\) that contains \(\psi\)'s matching. This is prop:hole-family-random-choice with one planted edge per hole. Whether the planted matching keeps the boundary expansion that proposition needs is not checked.
Attacks aimed at \(\psi\). \(\psi\) is chosen after the family, so an attack must defeat every near-solution. Forms vanishing at every near-solution, such as \(C_s-1\), are non-rigid and may be used. No refuting family of this kind was found.

Assessment

Most of this was already recorded:

compatibility as the member question, in lem:member-pinning;
the vanishing observation, in prop:near-solution-chooser-fails;
the rigid-form reduction.

The new content is a concrete chooser, conj:near-solution-chooser, that survives every recorded attack. With it, the example that makes compatibility necessary, and the observation that a pinning proof of the conjecture is capped. The conjecture does not advance A1's hardness. It narrows the chooser, so that a counterexample would have to defeat every near-solution at once.

Next: the planted hole family. Decide whether \(\psi\)'s matching plus random hole neighbourhoods of size \(k\) keeps the boundary expansion of prop:hole-family-random-choice. That would prove the conjecture for this family at every \(n\). Then look for a family that defeats every near-solution, built from forms such as \(C_s-1\) that vanish at all of them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:separated-member-stability, lem:separated-member-directness and lem:member-pinning;
obs:deciding-designs-capped;
prop:rigid-form-reduction, prop:near-solution-chooser-fails and prop:hole-family-random-choice;
the first-degree review and the falsification entry's occupancy defence.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the example's identity, both restrictions, the lemma's argument and the conjecture's statement, and found no recorded counterexample. It found that the first draft overstated novelty: compatibility is recorded in lem:member-pinning, and the lemma composes recorded results. It also found that the framing against the separation count was inaccurate, the threshold \(D_0\) was unset, the occupancy attack was missing, and the pinning cap was unaddressed. All were adopted, and the entry is reframed around the conjecture. No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 53.06 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 1.92 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 35.91 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	15.23 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: the chooser line has reduced W's choice to one concrete rule and can go no further, so the next step tests that rule directly for a fall

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation) · open statement W (A1) · cycle odd-prime-planted-hole-family. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the chooser line has reduced W's choice to one concrete rule and can go no further, so the next step tests that rule directly for a fall”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-chooser-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the designed-line review, three cycles have worked on W's chooser:

the falsification attempt;
the rigid-form reduction, an equivalent reformulation;
the near-solution chooser, a restriction of W.

The proposed next step, the planted hole family, would add one special case under an imported bound. By the route check, a line producing reformulations and special cases calls for a review first.

General statement. The line's claim is W, through a chooser: prop:rigid-form-reduction and conj:near-solution-chooser.

What the goal needs, and what the line gave

The goal needs W: hardness at degree \(22k\) for \(n^K\) blocks of arbitrary forms. The line gave three things:

the chooser may ignore forms the base proves nonzero, with no loss;
every recorded refutation of a choice rule is excluded;
one concrete rule remains: keep a non-rigid form vanishing at a near-solution \(\psi\) in each prefix.

The hardness itself is untouched. The only proof tool attached to the rule, pinning to \(\psi\), is capped below about \(N^2\) forms (obs:deciding-designs-capped).

Falsification attempt: can a family force the holes full?

Every near-solution fills all holes, and weak PHP plus \(C_s=1\) for all \(s\) is refuted at degree 1. So the natural attack on a near-solution chooser is a family whose clauses derive \(C_s=1\) under every allowed choice. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(C_s\) Boolean modulo the base, the only non-rigid functions of one occupancy are \(C_s\) and \(C_s-1\). If a block's prefix contains both, \(Q\) has the factor \(C_s^2(C_s-1)^2\equiv C_s(1-C_s)\equiv0\), and every clause of the block vanishes. The rule allows this whenever \(k\ge2\), since \(C_s-1\) vanishes at \(\psi\). So blocks built from one occupancy are defended. Mixed blocks, with \(C_s\) beside forms coupling several holes or pigeons, are not settled by this argument.

The attack shows why the rule is not yet a mechanism. Since the base has no solutions, semantic protection of points proves nothing, and every defence here is a local cancellation in the prefix product. Whether those cancellations persist under PC reasoning at degree \(22k\) is the hardness question.

Assessment of this line

The chooser line has reached its end. W's choice is reduced to non-rigid forms and a concrete rule, and further work on the rule alone can only add special cases. As a route to the goal it is weak: it delivered necessary groundwork and no hardness mechanism. Its lasting value is that a counterexample to W must now defeat every near-solution choice, and that any hardness argument may assume non-rigid prefix forms vanishing at \(\psi\).

The next step

A1 is the highest risk. The cheapest decisive test of the remaining rule is a direct fall search, not another special case.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer, A1: search for a fall under the near-solution chooser at small size.

What to compute. Use the recorded exact GF(3) PC-closure tester. Take weak PHP at the largest \(n\) where its own refutation degree \(d_{\mathrm{PHP}}\) exceeds the clause degree \(2(k+1)\) at \(k=1\) or 2. Add dense adversarial families built from forms vanishing at every near-solution, the mixed occupancy blocks above, and random dense blocks. Compare the first refutation degree under the best near-solution choice with \(d_{\mathrm{PHP}}\) and with the uniform rule.
Count first. Establish \(d_{\mathrm{PHP}}\) at the reachable \(n\), and confirm that \(2(k+1)<d_{\mathrm{PHP}}\), so the test is not vacuous.
What ends the step. A family whose best near-solution choice is refuted below \(d_{\mathrm{PHP}}\) refutes the rule's small-size analogue and points to the attack. If no such family exists at the reachable sizes, that is evidence for the rule, and the next cycle states the mechanism the cancellations suggest.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the three chooser entries and their claims;
obs:deciding-designs-capped;
the falsification entry's occupancy defence.

The occupancy computation \(C(C-1)\) modulo Booleanity is checked by hand. The review registers no claim and runs no computation.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 0.43 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 3.21 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	44.17 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	13.05 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The planned fall search cannot decide, and W is implied by a linear-degree statement with exponentially many blocks on a board of size O(k)

25 September 2026 · Count (no run) and a corollary · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-chooser-fall-search. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The planned fall search cannot decide, and W is implied by a linear-degree statement with exponentially many blocks on a board of size O(k)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-fall-search-vacuous.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The chooser-line review proposed testing conj:near-solution-chooser by a fall search at small size with the exact GF(3) PC-closure tester. Before coding, can such a test decide anything?

General statement. cor:small-board-restriction, a corollary of prop:conditioned-base: a partial-matching restriction leaving \(m\) holes sends W's system to the system of the restricted forms on the \(m\)-board, with the same prefix sets, without raising PC degree. So W is implied by the statement W\(_m\): with W's \(k\) and \(D=22k\), every family of \(M=n^K\) blocks of affine forms on a board of \(m\ge44k\) holes has a choice with no degree-\(D\) refutation. There \(M<e^{0.41k}\) is \(2^{O(m)}\) and \(D\) is a constant fraction of \(m\). The count below shows that the planned small-size test of conj:near-solution-chooser is vacuous.

The count: the test cannot decide

Nonvacuity needs a small clause degree. A fall means a refutation below weak PHP's own degree \(d_{\mathrm{PHP}}\), which by Razborov's bound is at least about \(n/2+1\). The clauses have degree \(2(k+1)\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), so \(2(k+1)<d_{\mathrm{PHP}}\).
What the tester reaches. The recorded closure kernel reached \(n=7\) at degree 3. At degree 4 the space has \(43653\) monomials at \(n=6\) and \(162681\) at \(n=7\). So the tester reaches degree at most 4, and a clause degree \(2(k+1)\le4\) forces \(k=1\).
The density condition then allows one block. W's parameters require \(M(2/3)^k<1\), which at \(k=1\) means \(M\le1\). A family of more blocks lies outside the conjecture's hypotheses, and one block tests nothing. Blocks with \(h_b\le k\) contribute no clauses, so every clause has degree \(2(k+1)\).
Robustness. Even a tester reaching clause degree 6 or 8 would allow at most 2 or 3 blocks. With W's own tie of \(k\) to \(n\), \(k\ge10\) already at \(n=7\) and \(K\ge1\), so \(D=220\).

So a fall search at reachable sizes cannot test conj:near-solution-chooser, and it was not coded. Any evidence for or against the rule must come from arguments.

Restriction to a small board

Corollary (small-board restriction). Let \(\rho\) be the restriction given by a partial matching of \(n-m\) pigeons onto \(n-m\) holes. It sets the matched cells to 1 and every other cell in a matched row or a matched column to 0. For a family of blocks and prefix sets \(S_b\), substituting \(\rho\) sends weak PHP on the \(n\)-board to weak PHP on the remaining \(m\)-board, up to axioms that become 0. It sends each clause \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{2}\) to the clause of the restricted forms \(L_{b,j}|_\rho\) with the same \(S_b\). A PC refutation of degree \(D\) restricts to one of degree at most \(D\). Hence if, for the restricted family, some choice has no degree-\(D\) refutation on the \(m\)-board, the same choice has none on the \(n\)-board.

Proof. prop:conditioned-base records that a partial-matching restriction sends the weak unary base to the weak base on the smaller board, and a degree-\(D\) refutation to one of the restricted system. Directly: a matched pigeon's row equation becomes \(1-1=0\). A collision with a cell set to 0 becomes 0. If one of its cells is a matched cell, set to 1, the other lies in a matched column and is set to 0. The new step is that substitution is a ring map, so the clause \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^2\) goes to the clause of the restricted forms, with the same index sets. \(\square\)

With \(k=\lceil(K+1)\ln n/\ln\frac32\rceil\), \(\ln M=K\ln n<0.41k\). Razborov's bound, degree at least \(m/2+1\) for PHP with \(m\) holes over any field, leaves room at degree \(22k\) once \(m\ge44k\). Since \(44k\approx109(K+1)\ln n\le n\) for large \(n\), such restrictions exist. W\(_m\) covers every family on the \(m\)-board, not only restrictions of families from the \(n\)-board, so it is stronger than W. It is a statement in the usual regime of PC degree lower bounds: weak PHP on \(m\) holes stays hard at a constant fraction of \(m\) under \(2^{O(m)}\) wide clauses with W's density condition. As a heuristic for generic forms only, the semi-regular count predicts no fall. With top-algebra dimensions of order \(\binom ms m^s\), the clauses' share of degree \(s\le22k\le m/2\) is about \(M\max_bh_b\,m^{-(2k+2)}\binom m{s-2k-2}/\binom ms\), which is below 1. It says nothing about adversarial families, where A1's obstruction lies.

Assessment

The chooser rule cannot be tested at reachable sizes. The small-board form puts W in the linear-degree regime where PC lower bounds are usually proved. The known methods there, expansion of the constraint–variable graph (Alekhnovich–Razborov, Miksa–Nordström), need each constraint to depend on few pigeons, and dense restricted forms do not. So the obstruction to A1 is unchanged. It is now stated in the regime of the classical methods: a PC degree lower bound robust to exponentially many dense wide constraints.

Next: a thread-level route review. The designed and chooser lines are closed, and no recorded line carries a hardness mechanism for dense adversarial forms. The review should decide what the goal's next line is: W through a new lower-bound method for dense constraints at linear degree, S1's window route, or a reformulation that the main record's wide-clause line shares.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

conj:near-solution-chooser and W's parameters (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction);
the recorded closure tester's board encoding (weak unary board, collision-free monomials, row equations);
prop:conditioned-base, the restriction of the weak base and of refutations;
obs:middle-rank-frontier, which records that matching restrictions do not make dense forms constant; the corollary does not need them to.

A fresh-context reviewer found the corollary and the direction W\(_m\) ⇒ W correct, and found that prop:conditioned-base already contains the restriction step, which a claim search had missed. It required changes, all adopted:

the result recorded as a corollary of prop:conditioned-base;
W\(_m\) stated with explicit parameters, as implying W, not equivalent to it;
the collision case in the proof;
the bounds \(m\ge44k\) and \(M<e^{0.41k}\);
the robustness of the vacuity count;
both factors of the heuristic share, and its generic scope.

No computation was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 46.08 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 5.46 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 56.45 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 44.17 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Thread review: every open line reduces to W, the odd-prime gap is that falsifying sets are boxes rather than flats, and the next step ports the main record's safe-probe avoidance endpoint

25 September 2026 · Route review (no computation) · open statements W, A1 and S1 · cycle odd-prime-thread-review-2. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Thread review: every open line reduces to W, the odd-prime gap is that falsifying sets are boxes rather than flats, and the next step ports the main record's safe-probe avoidance endpoint”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-thread-review-boxes.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The designed and chooser lines are closed (designed, chooser), and the fall search cannot decide. Which line should the goal take next, and does the main record now offer a tool?

General statement. The thread's claim is the goal through W: thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction and cor:small-board-restriction.

Where every line leads

S1, the window route, returns to W: its fall-tolerant form S2′ is the lag bound, whose known path is the prefix reduction (fate review).
The designed and chooser lines reduce W's choice to non-rigid forms and one rule, and give Taylor generation only for designed families below the Koszul range. Neither gives hardness for adversarial forms.
The main record proves thm:all-prime-unary-affine-source-exclusion. Over every fixed prime, PHP plus any polynomial complete one-level ENS family with inputs affine in the old cells has no polylogarithmic-degree refutation. Over \(\mathbb F_2\) this, with the clause compiler, gives thm:ordinary-unary-PHP-Res-parity-superpolynomial, the binary form of this thread's goal.

Why the binary proof stops at odd primes

A Res(Lin) line \(\bigvee_i(L_i=a_i)\) is false on the box \(\{L_i\ne a_i\ \forall i\}\). Over \(\mathbb F_2\) the box is the flat \(\{L_i=1-a_i\}\), and the endpoint's two mechanisms both act on flats:

low-rank tuples, by substituting the prefix formula (APG-prefix) at degree \((p-1)r\);
high-rank tuples, by one function in every restriction kernel, found by counting, since restriction to a flat of rank \(r\) cuts the graph space by \(e^{-k(r-k)/s}\) (APG-image).

Over \(\mathbb F_p\) a box of rank \(r\) is a union of up to \((p-1)^r\) flats. Expanding it costs inventory \((p-1)^r\), which is polynomial only for \(r=O(\log n)\). This is exactly the logarithmic prefix, and the residue beyond the prefix is W's clauses.

Falsification attempt: can the counting mechanism reach W's clauses? A clause \(g_iQ\) forbids the flat \(\{L_i=0\}\) minus \(k\) hyperplanes. By its prefix, it is a union of \(2^k\) flats of rank \(k+1\) (at \(p=3\)). Counting needs \(M2^k\,e^{-k'(r-k')/s}\) below the space's share, that is, rank \(r\gtrsim s\ln M/k'\), about \(\sqrt{N\ln M}\) at the endpoint's \(k'\). W's flats have rank \(k+1\approx\ln M\). On the small board of cor:small-board-restriction, \(s\approx15m\) with \(m\approx44k\) still needs \(r\) of order \(m\). So W's clauses lie below the counting threshold at every scale. W needs a mechanism that does not count dimensions. The substitution mechanism is exactly what produced W.

What the main record has for avoidance constraints

W's clauses are avoidance constraints: flats that points must avoid. The main record's nearest tools are for binary flat avoidance:

thm:safe-probe-affine-augmentation: a binary safe bit-affine system of rank \(a\le cN\), \(c<1/4\), gives a degree-preserving restriction of flat avoidance plus any complete affine ENS family to a near-balanced affine PHP source;
cor:generic-linear-flat-affine-augmentation: independent random flats up to \(M\le cN\) admit safe probes with high probability.

They cover total avoidance rank linear in \(N\), with adversarial affine families afterwards, and they are binary. The record notes that polynomial inventories are uncovered, and that the binary row-Booleanity calculation fails unchanged at odd primes. Within this thread, adversarial forms are covered only where pinning applies (lem:member-pinning: row-independent forms, total count about \(N/B\)).

Assessment

The thread's route is weak, and its obstruction is now precise. The gap between the proved binary theorem and the odd-prime goal is boxes versus flats. The logarithmic prefix converts it into W, whose clauses lie below every dimension-counting threshold. The main record's central obligation, polynomial inventories of dense constraints, is the same wall in its own grammar. No recorded line carries a non-counting mechanism for polynomially many adversarial avoidance constraints.

Next step

A1 is the highest risk, and the one recorded mechanism that handles adversarial affine constraints without freeness is the binary safe-probe endpoint.

Next step. On odd-prime-clause-transfer, A1: port thm:safe-probe-affine-augmentation to \(\mathbb F_3\) and to W's clauses.

The statement to prove. For W's clauses of total prefix rank at most \(cN\), with arbitrary, dependent forms, a safe-probe restriction preserves degree and reduces weak PHP plus the clauses to a near-balanced PHP source that the all-prime endpoint excludes.
Count first. Total prefix rank \(M(k+1)\le cN\) allows about \(N/\log N\) clauses. That is below W's \(n^K\), but it would be the first result for adversarial dependent forms beyond pinning.
What ends the step. A proof, which sets A1's first adversarial result and shows where the rank budget binds. Or the odd-prime failure of safety, located at the binary row-Booleanity step the main record flags.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the main record's all-prime endpoint entry: the theorem, the (APG-image) and (APG-prefix) steps, and the binary parity theorem's compiler step;
the summaries of thm:safe-probe-affine-augmentation, cor:generic-linear-flat-affine-augmentation and thm:sublinear-feature-two-level-endpoint;
the S2 fate review;
cor:small-board-restriction.

The counting threshold is computed from (APG-image). The review registers no claim and runs no computation.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 48.84 s
Marked reading and review windows	4 min 37.04 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	11.80 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Odd-prime safe maps are local: binary-shape safe maps cannot force a probe in a random dense flat, and the two-level feature endpoint stops below the window

25 September 2026 · Working proof (an obstruction) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-safe-probe-port. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Odd-prime safe maps are local: binary-shape safe maps cannot force a probe in a random dense flat, and the two-level feature endpoint stops below the window”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-odd-prime-safe-maps.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The thread review proposed porting the main record's thm:safe-probe-affine-augmentation to \(\mathbb F_3\) and W's clauses. That theorem handles adversarial affine families after a degree-preserving map that forces one probe per avoided flat. Does the map exist at odd primes for dense probes?

General statement. prop:odd-prime-safe-maps-local: over \(\mathbb F_p\), \(p\) odd, take a map of the binary safe-map shape. It fixes the unmarked rows, sets the reserved columns to 0, and sends two cells of each of \(a\) marked rows to \(u_i\) and \(1-u_i\), with \(u_i\) affine in the residual cells. Suppose it sends every Booleanity axiom into the residual base's degree-2 ideal. Then each \(u_i\) is, modulo residual rows, a constant, a row- or column-subset indicator, or a complement. A probe \(F\) can be forced only if it is \(a\)-coverable: some \(F|_{\mathrm{res}}-\sum_r\lambda_rR_r\) is supported in a union of \(a\) residual rows and columns. So the one-forced-probe mechanism fails for a flat whose input span has no \(a\)-coverable form. Random spans of dimension \(o(N'^2)\) have this property with high probability when \(a\le(1-\varepsilon)N'\).

The binary map, and where it uses characteristic 2

The binary map sends two cells of each marked row \(i\) to \(u_i\) and \(1+u_i\), with \(u_i\) affine in the residual cells. Everything else in marked rows and reserved columns goes to 0, and unmarked cells are fixed. Degree preservation needs the image of each marked cell's Booleanity axiom, \(u_i^2-u_i\), to lie in the residual base's degree-2 closure. Over \(\mathbb F_2\) this holds for every affine \(u_i\) by Frobenius. The main record flags the odd-prime failure of this row-Booleanity step.

The proposition

Proposition (odd-prime safe maps are local). Let \(p\) be odd, and let \(\sigma\) be a map on the unary board of the shape above: identity on unmarked, unreserved cells; 0 on reserved columns in unmarked rows; affine images \(\sigma(x)\) in the residual cells for the cells \(x\) of marked rows. The residual board has \(N'\ge4\) holes. Suppose \(\sigma\) sends every Booleanity axiom into the degree-2 closure of the residual functional base. Forcing \(F\) means that \(\sigma(F)-c\) lies in the affine part of that closure for some constant \(c\). By the classification entry's projected-relations step, that affine part is the row span.

Every \(\sigma(x)\) is, modulo residual row equations, 0, 1, a row- or column-subset indicator of the residual board, or the complement of one.
If an affine form \(F\) satisfies \(\sigma(F)\equiv c\) modulo residual rows, then \(F|_{\mathrm{res}}\), the restriction of \(F\) to the unmarked unreserved cells, lies modulo rows and constants in the span of the \(\sigma(x)\), \(x\) marked with nonzero coefficient in \(F\).
In the binary shape, each marked row has two cells with images \(u_i\) and \(1-u_i\), so the nonconstant images span at most \(a\) indicators. A forced probe is therefore \(a\)-coverable: for some multiples \(\lambda_r\) of the residual row equations \(R_r\), \(F|_{\mathrm{res}}-\sum_r\lambda_rR_r\) is supported in a union of at most \(a\) residual rows and columns.

Proof.

Part 1. This is thm:functional-affine-Booleanity-classification. For \(N'\ge4\) in odd characteristic, affine Booleanity through degree 2 over functional unary PHP holds exactly for row- and column-subset indicators and their complements, modulo rows. It is stated for \(m=N+1\), and the residual board has \(m'=N'+a+1\) rows. Rereading its proof shows it uses only \(N'\ge4\), at least three projected columns, and pairs of rows: the projected relations, (FB-cross) and the row- and column-supported reductions. It never uses \(m=N+1\), so it applies to the residual board. The weak base's degree-2 closure is contained in the functional one, so the conclusion holds for either residual base.
Part 2. \(\sigma(F)=\mathrm{const}+\sum_{x\ \mathrm{marked}}c_x\sigma(x)+F|_{\mathrm{res}}\), since unmarked unreserved cells are fixed and the other cells go to 0. So \(\sigma(F)\equiv c\) puts \(F|_{\mathrm{res}}\) in the stated span, modulo rows and constants.
Part 3. By part 1 each nonconstant \(u_i\) is an indicator supported in one residual row or one column, and its complement differs from it only by a constant. A combination of the \(a\) of them is supported in at most \(a\) rows and columns, and part 2 gives the claim. \(\square\)

Which flats are affected. Coverability is not density: a row-constant form \(\sum_i\alpha_iR_i\) is 0-coverable however dense it is. Fix a set \(C\) of at most \(a\) residual lines. A form is coverable through \(C\) exactly when each of the at least \(m'-a\) residual rows outside \(C\) is constant off the columns of \(C\). That is a linear condition of codimension at least \((m'-a)(N'-a-1)\). There are at most \(2^{m'+N'}\) line sets. So a uniformly random input span of dimension \(d\) contains a nonzero coverable form with probability at most \(2^{m'+N'}p^{\,d-(m'-a)(N'-a-1)}\). This is \(o(1)\) for \(a\le(1-\varepsilon)N'\) and \(d=o(N'^2)\). Offsets do not matter, since forcing concerns the homogeneous part. The unmarked rows carry the obstruction. A degree-preserving reduction to a residual PHP fixes most of the board, so a probe that is dense there keeps its dense part, and only local images are available to cancel it. This is the safe-map form of obs:middle-rank-frontier, which records that matching restrictions cannot make dense forms constant.

The two-level feature endpoint

The main record's thm:sublinear-feature-two-level-endpoint works over every fixed prime. Its \(u\) is the per-parent dimension of the used bottom spans, not the thread's projected rank. It treats parents whose used bottom spans have dimension \(u\le N^\eta\), for any \(\eta<1\) at polylogarithmic degree. It does so by expanding each parent over its \(p^{u}\) feature assignments, feeding an affine endpoint whose log-inventory budget is \(N^\eta\). This is the expansion of a box of rank \(u\) into flats, and it works up to sublinear rank. Graph restriction and projection do not raise the feature dimension, as that section notes. So a selector source whose projected rank lies in the thread's linear window, about \([N/(4.4\times10^7),1140N]\) at \(p=3\), has linear \(u\), outside the endpoint. Its low side already reaches linear rank through the graph criterion (thm:allprime-low-or-dense-graph-rank-exclusion and thm:ternary-low-or-dense-graph-rank-exclusion). So feature expansion covers no new rank. At linear rank, substitution costs degree above PHP's own, and full-codimension charging stops at its model ceiling (obs:ternary-window-separator-ceiling).

Assessment

The one-forced-probe mechanism of the binary safe map, in its binary shape into the degree-2 ideal, fails at odd primes for random flats of the kind A1 must cover. The proposition does not exclude other odd-prime maps: ones sending axioms into a higher-degree ideal, giving many cells of a marked row nonzero images, or making a flat's image refutable by combining several images. The main record's safe-probe entry already observes the binary limitation, with \(u=1-x-y\) giving \(u^2-u\equiv2xy\), and leaves other odd-prime maps open. This proposition refines that remark and obs:middle-rank-frontier. Feature expansion adds no coverage at the window.

Next: the logarithmic-prefix reduction fixes the prefix length \(k=O(\log n)\) by W's density condition. A longer prefix makes the clauses much thinner, with density about \((2/3)^{k'}\). Read the reduction's proof and determine the largest prefix length its substitution and inventory budget allow, possibly a power of \(N\). If a power is allowed, state the thin-clause form of W and test it against the recorded attacks.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the main record's safe-probe entry: the map, the row-Booleanity step and (SA-residual);
thm:functional-affine-Booleanity-classification, statement;
thm:sublinear-feature-two-level-endpoint, statement and inventory step (SF-inventory);
obs:middle-rank-frontier, and the safe-probe entry's binary-limitation paragraph;
the window's endpoints in the Working context.

The classification proof was reread for the \(m=N+1\) hypothesis. A fresh-context reviewer found parts 1 and 2 sound once that extension is justified. It required changes, all adopted:

the scope restricted to binary-shape maps into the degree-2 ideal, with one forced probe per flat;
forcing defined;
the obstruction stated per flat span, with a union bound in place of the density claim, which a row-constant form refutes;
the two-level paragraph tied to feature dimension, with its conclusions cited;
the prior binary-limitation remark cited.

No computation was run.

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Prefix length: the logarithmic-prefix reduction works for every prefix length below the barrier, but beyond order √n the expansion bound cannot certify the hole family under any choice

25 September 2026 · Working proof (a corollary) and a bound on the expansion method · open statement W · cycle odd-prime-prefix-length. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Prefix length: the logarithmic-prefix reduction works for every prefix length below the barrier, but beyond order √n the expansion bound cannot certify the hole family under any choice”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-prefix-length.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement W. The safe-maps entry asked how long a prefix the logarithmic-prefix reduction allows. A longer prefix makes the clauses thinner and gives the chooser more room. Blocks with at most \(k\) forms get the full prefix and contribute no clauses.

General statement. cor:prefix-length-freedom: the proof of thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction uses \(k\) only through its degree bound, which holds for every \(k\ge1\), and through \(M(1-1/p)^k<1\), which holds for \(k\ge k_0=\lceil(K+1)\log n/\log\frac p{p-1}\rceil\). So W at any prefix length \(k\ge k_0\), with degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\), excludes Res(lin\(_{\mathbb F_p}\)) refutations of ordinary unary PHP with at most \(n^K\) lines. W's premise can hold only while \((4p-1)(p-1)k\) is below the weak base's refutation degree, which is at least \(n/2+1\); that is, \(k\le n/44\) at \(p=3\). For the hole family, the expansion bound behind prop:hole-family-random-choice is at most \((n+1)/(2k)\) under every choice of prefixes. So it cannot certify that family once \(k\) exceeds about \(\sqrt{(n+1)/46}\).

The corollary

Corollary (prefix-length freedom). Fix an odd prime \(p\) and \(K\). Let \(k=k(n)\ge k_0\). Suppose that for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks there are prefix sets \(S_b\), \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\), for which the weak base plus the clauses \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\), \(i\notin S_b\), has no PC refutation of degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\). Then no Res(lin\(_{\mathbb F_p}\)) refutation of ordinary unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) has at most \(n^K\) lines.

Proof. The proof of the reduction applies verbatim. It compiles the refutation into at most \(n^K\) complete accuracy-one blocks with a PC refutation of degree \(4p-1\), and substitutes the partial prefix on the sets \(S_b\). The image is a PC refutation of the clause system of degree at most \((4p-1)(p-1)k\). The degree bound \(\max(D\max(1,(p-1)(k-1)),(p-1)(k+1))\le(4p-1)(p-1)k\) and the field-image check hold for every \(k\ge1\). The parameter condition \(M(1-1/p)^k<1\) holds for \(k\ge k_0\). The upper bound \(k\le c\log n\) in W's recorded statement is not used. \(\square\)

Where the premise can hold. If \((4p-1)(p-1)k\) reaches the weak base's own refutation degree, the base alone is refuted within the budget, W's premise fails, and the corollary is vacuous. By Razborov's bound that degree is at least \(n/2+1\) over every field, as applied in cor:functional-auxiliary-PC-bridge. So the premise can hold for \(k\le n/44\) at \(p=3\). Blocks with \(h_b\le k\) receive the full prefix, and their companions map into the Boolean ideal, as in the reduction.

The useful range, from the hole family

At prefix length \(k\), the hole family becomes weak graph PHP on the bipartite graph whose hole \(t\) has neighbourhood \(S_t\), of size \(k\). This is the computation of prop:hole-family-random-choice, and it holds for any \(k\). Its lower-bound route is the imported Miksa–Nordström bound, which excludes degree up to about \(\delta s/(2d)\). It needs \(\delta s/(2d)>(4p-1)(p-1)k+d\), about \(23k\) at \(p=3\).

Remark (the expansion bound is capped). For every choice of the sets \(S_t\), \(\delta s/(2d)\le(n+1)/(2k)\). In an \((s,\delta)\)-boundary expander, a pigeon set of size \(s\) has at least \(\delta s\) distinct boundary holes, so \(\delta s\le n\). The maximum pigeon degree is at least the average, \(d\ge kn/(n+1)\). Hence the route can certify the hole family only if \((n+1)/(2k)>23k\), that is, \(k<\sqrt{(n+1)/46}\), whatever the chooser does. This is a limit of the method, not a refutation. The true degree of this graph PHP is not recorded.

For random choices the bound is lower still. Boundary expansion \(\delta\approx(1-2\varepsilon)k\) holds only up to about \(s\approx\varepsilon n/(ek)\), which gives at best about \(n/(43k)\) and a crossover near \(\sqrt n/32\). This part is heuristic. So W is equally sufficient at every prefix length from \(k_0\) up to order \(\sqrt n\), where the simplest family can still be certified. At \(k=n^c\), \(c<1/2\), each clause forbids an event of density about \((1-1/p)^{n^c}\), and only blocks with more than \(n^c\) forms contribute clauses.

Assessment

This widens W's parameter range without changing its nature. The thin-clause form is no more tractable by any recorded mechanism. Expanding a clause's prefix of length \(n^c\) gives \((p-1)^{n^c}\) flats. The expanded system implies the clause system, via \(L^{p-1}\equiv\sum_{a\ne0}(1-(L-a)^{p-1})\) modulo \(L^p-L\), which follows from Booleanity at degree \(p\). When \(\log h_b=O(n^c)\), the inventory \(\sum_b(h_b-k)(p-1)^k\) fits the budget of thm:near-balanced-unary-affine-endpoint: degree at most \(N^\alpha\operatorname{polylog}N\), log inventory at most \(N^\beta\operatorname{polylog}N\), with \(2\alpha+\beta<1\) at \(\alpha=\beta=c<1/3\). But the expanded constraints forbid flats; they are not definitional ENS blocks. Forbidding flats at odd primes is exactly the flat-avoidance problem, where the safe-map obstruction applies.

Next: an endpoint for forbidden flats at odd primes. At prefix length \(n^c\), W is implied by the statement that weak PHP stays hard at degree \(22n^c\) under \(2^{O(n^c)}\) forbidden flats of rank \(n^c+1\). The union of the flats has density at most \(M(1-1/p)^k<1\), since each block's flats lie inside its prefix set; the sum of their densities can exceed one. State it precisely, and check whether the main record's binary flat-avoidance results do more than the safe probes, for example through the adaptive row endpoint or the row-transversal criterion, before concluding that no mechanism exists.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the proof of thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction, for where \(k\) enters: the degree bound and the parameter condition only;
prop:hole-family-random-choice, with its heuristic expansion values;
conj:partial-prefix-substitution-capacity, the constant-prefix random-inventory form;
prop:odd-prime-safe-maps-local.

The corollary is elementary, and its proof is the recorded one. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that the proof uses \(k\) only as stated. It found that the barrier hypothesis was unused, and that the hole-family cap holds for every chooser: the draft had called it heuristic. It also found that the needed degree is \(23k\) and that the random-choice constant was optimistic. It required union density and a named endpoint. All changes were adopted. No computation was run.

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Odd-prime flat avoidance: every binary flat-avoidance tool in the record runs through the same one-row map, so none has an odd-prime form for dense flats

25 September 2026 · Scope check (no new claim, no computation) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-flat-avoidance. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Odd-prime flat avoidance: every binary flat-avoidance tool in the record runs through the same one-row map, so none has an odd-prime form for dense flats”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-odd-prime-flat-avoidance.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. By the prefix-length entry, W at prefix length \(n^c\) is implied by the forbidden-flat statement. Weak PHP stays hard at degree \(22n^c\) under \(2^{O(n^c)}\) forbidden flats of rank \(n^c+1\) whose union has density below one. The safe-maps entry excluded the safe-probe mechanism at odd primes. Do the main record's other binary flat-avoidance tools have odd-prime forms?

General statement. prop:odd-prime-safe-maps-local covers every operation these tools use. The adaptive row endpoint (the main record's small-internal-inventory binary source exclusion, built on thm:greedy-internal-affine-reference-transfer) removes one row and two holes per nonconstant operation. Its map puts each marked row on a pair of labels, with a pair selector affine in the remaining old variables: the binary safe-map shape. The row-transversal criterion holds over every field, but it only chooses which probes to force. So at odd primes each operation needs a row- or column-local selector, and no recorded tool forces a probe in a dense flat. The forbidden-flat statement has no mechanism at odd primes.

The tools, one by one

Safe probes (thm:safe-probe-affine-augmentation). Excluded for dense flats by prop:odd-prime-safe-maps-local.
The adaptive row endpoint. It processes up to \(a\le cN\) internal blocks. Each nonconstant step is the one-row lemma: mark one pigeon row, put it on a pair of labels, and use an affine pair selector. Degree preservation needs each selector to be Boolean modulo the current residual base's degree-2 ideal. At odd primes, by thm:functional-affine-Booleanity-classification (which needs only four residual holes), the selector must then be a row- or column-subset indicator or a complement. A dense tuple cannot be cleared this way. Its current forcing form keeps its dense part on the unmarked rows, which the step fixes. That is part 2 of the proposition, at each step.
The row-transversal criterion (the Hall condition (SA-Hall)). It holds over every field, and it decides when probes can be chosen in distinct rows. It does not supply the map, which is where odd characteristic fails.
The binary side's own limit. The record's generic batching test shows that, even over \(\mathbb F_2\), these row operations clear random internal tuples only at small linear inventory. So polynomial inventories of dense forbidden flats are open in both characteristics.

What remains available at odd primes

For forbidden flats whose forms are row-independent modulo constants on every row, lem:member-pinning applies. Pick a common point avoiding all flats. Each forbidding constraint lies in the ideal of that point's form values, so hardness reduces to weak PHP plus pinned forms. This works for a total of about \(N/B\) forms at degree \(B\). At prefix length \(n^c\) that is roughly \(n^{1-2c}/22\) flats, far below \(2^{O(n^c)}\), and it needs row independence, which adversarial forms need not have. The deciding-designs cap (obs:deciding-designs-capped) limits this route in general.

Assessment

The recorded toolkit for forbidden flats is binary and linear-inventory. At odd primes every tool reduces to the one-row map, which the safe-map proposition rules out for dense forms. The thread's goal now rests on the forbidden-flat statement, or equivalently W, with no recorded mechanism in either characteristic. The last cycles have mapped this wall from several sides; they have not found a way through it.

Next: the only positive route left in the record is pinning. State its best odd-prime form for forbidden flats: the largest total rank and the weakest independence condition under which a common avoiding point plus lem:member-pinning gives hardness at degree \(22k\). Compare it with the \(n^K\) blocks W needs, to measure the remaining gap exactly.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the main record's small-internal-inventory binary source exclusion: the one-row lemma, the theorem and its generic batching limit;
the safe-probe entry's row-transversal criterion;
prop:odd-prime-safe-maps-local;
lem:member-pinning and obs:deciding-designs-capped.

No claim is registered: the per-step argument is part 2 of the recorded proposition applied at each operation. No computation was run.

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Pinning gap: one pinned prefix form per block suffices, but pinning covers only about √n/log n blocks, far from W's n^K

25 September 2026 · Working proof (a corollary) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pinning-gap. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pinning gap: one pinned prefix form per block suffices, but pinning covers only about √n/log n blocks, far from W's n^K”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-pinning-gap.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The flat-avoidance entry left pinning as the only positive route at odd primes, and asked for its best form against W and for the size of the remaining gap.

General statement. cor:single-form-pinning, a refinement of lem:member-pinning: over \(\mathbb F_3\), take any non-rigid-first choice (prop:rigid-form-reduction, part 2) and designate one prefix form \(\ell_b\) in each constraining block. Every clause \(g_{b,i}Q_b\) is a multiple of \(\ell_b\), because \(Q_b=\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{2}\). So a degree-\(D\) refutation of W's system gives one of the weak base plus the \(M'\) equations \(\ell_b=0\) at degree \(D\). If the \(\ell_b\) have row-linear parts independent modulo constants on every row, and the board meets member pinning's rows and robustness for \(w=M'\) forms at degree \(B=22k\), W's system has no refutation of degree \(22k\). This pins one form per block instead of all \(\sum_bh_b\) forms. The robustness requirement grows like \(B^2M'^2\), so the route covers about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks.

The corollary

Proof. For \(i\notin S_b\), \(g_{b,i}Q_b=\ell_b\cdot(g_{b,i}Q_b/\ell_b)\), a multiple of \(\ell_b\) of one lower degree. Replacing each clause in a refutation by this derivation keeps the degree. At \(p=3\), \(D=(4p-1)(p-1)k=22k=B\) and the rigidity threshold is \(D_0=20k\le D-2k\). So the rigid clauses already lie in the base's degree-\(B\) closure, and blocks with at most \(k\) non-rigid forms have no remaining clauses. A refutation of W's system at degree \(B\) thus gives one of the weak base plus \(\{\ell_b=0\}\) at degree \(B\). Member pinning's first step, the coherent product-constraints corollary with \(r=M'\) and \(h=1\), excludes that under its hypotheses: at least \(2B-1=44k-1\) rows, and robustness through \(L_{\max(B-1,1)}+B(M'+1)\). That corollary is for the functional base. The weak base's axioms are among the functional ones on the same variables, so a weak-base refutation is a functional one. No common Boolean zero of the \(\ell_b\) is needed. \(\square\)

The gap

The hypotheses cap \(M'\) near \(\sqrt n\). Row independence alone needs \(M'\le N-1\). The recorded robustness \(L_d=(2d-1)(r+1)m+\lambda_d+(r+1)+d(r+2)\), with \(m=2d(r+2)+r+2\) and \(\lambda_d\approx2d(r+1)m\), is about \(8B^2M'^2\) at \(r=M'\), \(d=B-1\). With \(N\) labels per row this needs \(M'\lesssim\sqrt N/(c\cdot22k)\), about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks.
Without independence, affine pinning is capped below quadratic inventory. Affine pinning on forms spanning all linear parts modulo rows fixes every cell and is refuted at degree at most 2 (obs:deciding-designs-capped). The shared-cell-conflict entry records this for pinning prefix forms at a point.
What W needs. \(M=n^K\) blocks for every \(K\). The member-pinning entry records that beyond the pinning ceiling the global sections that exist are mixed, not pinned, and no recorded mechanism constructs them.

Assessment

The one refinement is that one pinned prefix form per constraining block suffices, for any non-rigid-first choice. The caps were already recorded, in the member-pinning and shared-cell-conflict entries; the reviewer corrected the robustness count to about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks. Pinning is capped below \(N^2\) forms, and W's polynomial inventories need mixed sections, which no recorded mechanism constructs. The recent cycles have now checked every recorded tool against W at odd primes:

designed families;
choosers;
restriction;
prefix length;
safe probes;
the adaptive row endpoint;
pinning.

Each either reformulates W or stops at a recorded ceiling.

Next: the mixed-section problem, stated in the member-pinning entry. Construct compatible corrections when no point assignment covers the inventory. Its only recorded route is Tor vanishing for the whole inventory's tops, A3's core in the Koszul range. So the next step is to formulate one candidate mechanism for mixed sections that uses PHP structure, and to test it on the smallest inventory beyond the pinning ceiling.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the member-pinning entry, its lemma and its mixed-section section;
obs:deciding-designs-capped;
prop:rigid-form-reduction, and the shared-cell-conflict entry's pinning remark.

The proof is a plain factorization followed by the first step of member pinning. A fresh-context reviewer found the proof sound. It required changes, all adopted:

the unused point \(\psi\) removed;
the robustness count corrected from about \(n/\log n\) to about \(\sqrt n/\log n\);
the quadratic cap labelled as recorded, for pinning without independence;
the result recorded as a refinement of lem:member-pinning;
the parameters stated.

No computation was run.

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Mixed sections: mixtures of pinned designs span every design at a cost of two degrees per pinned form, so the mixed-section problem is W itself, and no candidate mechanism was found

25 September 2026 · Unsuccessful attempt (no claim, no computation) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-mixed-sections. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Mixed sections: mixtures of pinned designs span every design at a cost of two degrees per pinned form, so the mixed-section problem is W itself, and no candidate mechanism was found”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-mixed-sections.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The pinning-gap entry asked for a candidate mechanism for mixed sections: designs for W's system beyond the pinning ceiling (cor:single-form-pinning, about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks). The natural candidate is a mixture \(\Lambda=\sum_tw_t\Lambda_t\) of pinned designs whose errors on unpinned clauses cancel.

General statement. The attempt concerns cor:single-form-pinning and lem:member-pinning. It finds that mixtures of pinned designs are not a restriction of the design problem but a rewriting of it. Any design of the weak base through degree \(D\) splits, for any \(t\) forms, into \(3^t\) pinned pieces through degree \(D-2t\). So the mixed-section problem in pinned form is W with a degree loss, and no mechanism results.

The decomposition

Let \(\Lambda\) annihilate the weak base's degree-\(D\) closure, and let \(\ell\) be an affine form over \(\mathbb F_3\). Put \(\delta_v(\ell)=1-(\ell-v)^2\). Modulo Booleanity this is the indicator of \(\ell=v\), and \(\sum_{v\in\mathbb F_3}\delta_v(\ell)=1\) identically, since \(\sum_v(\ell-v)^2=3\ell^2-6\ell+5\equiv-1\). Define \(\Lambda_v(f)=\Lambda(\delta_v(\ell)f)\) for \(\deg f\le D-2\). Each \(\Lambda_v\) annihilates the base's closure through \(D-2\), because \(\delta_v\) times a closure element stays in the closure through \(D\). Each \(\Lambda_v\) also annihilates the multiples \((\ell-v)g\) with \(\deg g\le D-3\): \(\delta_v(\ell)(\ell-v)=(\ell-v)-(\ell-v)^3\) lies in the Booleanity ideal at degree 3. And \(\sum_v\Lambda_v=\Lambda\) through \(D-2\). Iterating over \(t\) forms writes any design through \(D\) as a sum of \(3^t\) designs pinned on those forms, through \(D-2t\), with total weight \(\Lambda(1)\). This is the multiplier conditioning of obs:deciding-designs-capped, at cost 2 per form.

What it means for mixed sections

Every design is a mixture of pinned designs, up to the degree loss. So "construct a mixture of pinned designs annihilating the clauses" is equivalent to "construct a design annihilating the clauses", which is W.
A mixture gains only if its components have structure that makes the cancellation conditions tractable. Those are one linear condition per unpinned clause and multiplier, about \(M\,n^{2(D-2k-2)}\) of them. No such structure is recorded. For restriction mixtures across sizes, the top-size lemma (obs:restriction-mixture-top-size-reduction) shows that the cancellation reduces to a single size, again without a mechanism.
So the mixed-section formulation adds nothing beyond W. It is the same obstruction met from the dual side.

Assessment

No candidate mechanism for mixed sections was found. The attempt shows why the obvious candidate is a restatement. The thread's recorded tools have now all been checked against W at odd primes, and each reformulates W or stops at a recorded ceiling:

designed families;
choosers;
restriction;
prefix length;
safe probes;
row operations;
pinning;
mixtures.

Further cycles on this route need an idea from outside the recorded toolkit: a PC lower-bound method for many dense constraints, which no recorded source supplies in either characteristic.

Next: a literature pass for PC degree lower bounds robust to many dense affine or low-degree constraints, beyond the expansion methods (Alekhnovich–Razborov, Miksa–Nordström) and pseudo-expectation constructions for random CSPs. Recent Res(\(\oplus\)) and Res(lin) lower-bound work may apply, even where it only gives bounded-depth or regular results, if its lifting or closure methods adapt to dense forms. The step ends with a named method whose hypotheses W's clauses could meet, or with a documented absence.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the member-pinning entry's mixed-section section;
obs:deciding-designs-capped, including its multiplier conditioning;
the restriction-mixture top-size lemma and its application.

The decomposition is checked by hand: the identity \(\sum_v\delta_v(\ell)=1\), the vanishing of \(\delta_v(\ell)(\ell-v)\) modulo Booleanity, and the degree bookkeeping. No claim is registered, since the decomposition is the recorded multiplier conditioning. No computation was run.

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Route review with a literature pass: no known method handles many adversarial dense constraints, and the next line is a several-form Wilson theorem for generic W

25 September 2026 · Route review with literature pass (no computation) · open statements W, A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-literature-pass. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review with a literature pass: no known method handles many adversarial dense constraints, and the next line is a several-form Wilson theorem for generic W”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-literature-wilson-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The mixed-sections entry found every recorded tool reformulating W or stopping at a recorded ceiling, and proposed a literature pass. The finisher also requires a review after five research entries. Does the literature supply a method for PHP plus polynomially many dense constraints, and which line should the thread take next?

General statement. The line's claim is W (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction and cor:prefix-length-freedom). The reviewed tools stop short of it: cor:single-form-pinning, prop:odd-prime-safe-maps-local and cor:small-board-restriction.

Literature pass

A delegated search, reading full texts where noted and abstracts otherwise, found no PC, NS or SoS degree lower bound that survives \(n^K\) adversarial dense affine side constraints. The known ways of coping with density are:

One global substitution. It sends every dense constraint into the low-degree PHP ideal. Garlík, Gryaznov, Ren and Tzameret, The Weak Rank Principle (arXiv 2608.08760, 2026, full text read), substitute \(Y:=X^TA\), which turns every constraint into a degree-2 consequence of functional PHP, and then apply Razborov's bound. The main record's binary route has the same shape. It needs algebraic structure common to all constraints.
Randomness. Pseudo-calibration handles polynomially many random dense constraints of the form \(\langle v,d_u\rangle^2=1\) for SoS over the reals: Ghosh, Jeronimo, Jones, Potechin and Rajendran, arXiv 2009.01874. Adversarial forms break it.
Symmetry of the whole system, as in Potechin and Grigoriev, and Hakoniemi, Limaye and Tzameret. An adversarial family breaks the symmetry.
The Fourier (\(\pm1\)) basis, as in Sokolov and in Dahiya, Mahajan and Mouli. It makes \(\mathbb F_2\) parities monomials, but over characteristic 3 it needs cube roots of unity, which that characteristic lacks. That remark is the agent's own, not from those papers.
Closure of linear forms. Efremenko and Itsykson; Bhattacharya and Chattopadhyay; Byramji and Impagliazzo; Alekseev and Itsykson. This handles dense forms natively, but only for bounded-depth or regular Res(\(\oplus\)). From abstracts, no odd-prime versions were found.

Part's subset-sum bounds in Res(lin\(_{\mathbb F_q}\)) (arXiv 2202.08214) handle dense linear inputs through code distance. They need characteristic at least 5, a non-PHP instance, and a restricted DAG fragment. The agent's items read only in abstract are unverified in detail. The absence of odd-prime versions means only that none was found.

Assessment of the line

Adversarial W (A1). The literature confirms the record: no method exists for polynomially many adversarial dense constraints. The substitution route, the one that fits structured dense constraints, would need a family-dependent substitution sending each \((1-L_i^2)\prod L_j^2\) into the PHP ideal at logarithmic degree. That is a new idea with no recorded or published instance. A1 stays open with weak prospects.
Generic W (A3). Random-family methods exist in the literature, but over the reals and without PHP. In the record, the characteristic-\(p\) tool that proved something at every degree is Wilson's mod-\(p\) rank theorem, in column Wilson (thm:column-wilson-taylor). It gives Taylor generation for one sparse clause at every degree on the weak base's monomial algebra. That is a Lefschetz-type statement in characteristic \(p\), where the standard Lefschetz and fat-point tools fail (thm:frobenius-class-apolarity).

The next line: several-form Wilson

At the user's direction the thread takes the Wilson lead. It targets W for generic families on the weak base, and it does not address A1.

Setting. By lem:spare-column-transfer, syzygy questions on the weak base reduce to the monomial algebra \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_c(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\), with monomials the sets of cells in distinct columns.
Statement to formulate. For \(M\) clause tops \(\tau_C\) of forms with suitable supports, the joint top syzygies through degree \(D\) should be spanned by Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs. That is Taylor generation, which excludes refutation through thm:based-taylor-glue. The pre-Koszul theorem proves this below the Koszul range for pair-disjoint designed supports. The new content is the Koszul range and overlapping supports.
Test first. This is a Hilbert-function statement about an explicit monomial algebra. Small cases decide it, unlike W's refutation constants. Extend the recorded wilson_check.py kernel to several forms. Count the predicted dimensions at the smallest nonvacuous sizes before computing.
Then prove. Look for a mod-\(p\) inclusion-matrix rank for several set systems at once. For disjoint supports it is a tensor product. For overlapping supports the column split of the single-form proof must handle shared columns.

A second lead from the pass is recorded but not taken: a family-dependent substitution in the style of the Weak Rank Principle, sending W's clauses into the PHP ideal.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:column-wilson-taylor and lem:spare-column-transfer;
thm:pre-koszul-weak-families;
the mixed-sections and pinning-gap entries.

The literature report was checked for scope. Items read only in abstract are marked as such, and the Fourier remark is attributed to the agent. The review registers no claim and runs no computation.

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Several-form Wilson: for squares of generic forms the colored algebra is the row-sum algebra, so Taylor generation is recorded freeness, and beyond freeness its failure matches the Hilbert-function excess

25 September 2026 · Conjecture and finite check (with a rediscovery) · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-several-form-wilson. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Several-form Wilson: for squares of generic forms the colored algebra is the row-sum algebra, so Taylor generation is recorded freeness, and beyond freeness its failure matches the Hilbert-function excess”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-several-form-wilson.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The literature review took up a several-form Wilson theorem: Taylor generation for the tops of many forms on the weak base's monomial algebra \(\tilde A\), extending thm:column-wilson-taylor. The first case is the squares \(\ell_1^2,\dots,\ell_M^2\). Their Taylor syzygies are the Frobenius syzygies \((\ell_im)e_i\) and the Koszul pairs \((\ell_j^2m)e_i-(\ell_i^2m)e_j\). When do these span the kernel of \(\Phi_s:(g_i)\mapsto\sum_ig_i\ell_i^2\)?

General statement. conj:squares-taylor-is-freeness: on \(\tilde A\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), for squares of \(M\) forms, the excess of \(\ker\Phi_s\) over the Taylor span is at least \(\operatorname{HF}(\tilde A/(\ell_i^2))_s\) minus the free prediction \([q^s](1+mq)^N\bigl((1+q)/(1+q+q^2)\bigr)^M\). So Taylor generation in degree \(s\) forces the Hilbert function to match the free-model prediction. It fails wherever the prediction is negative. For squares, Taylor generation therefore does not go beyond freeness, which is recorded (thm:tensor-power-freeness, thm:general-forms-freeness). The several-form Wilson line must use product tops, whose dimension count allows \(n^K\) of them.

The colored algebra is the row-sum algebra

Let \(M\le m\) forms have column parts independent in every column. A change of basis in each column \(V_c\) extends to an automorphism of \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_c(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\), since \(V_c^2=0\), and sends \(\ell_i\) to \(\sum_ce_{ic}\). The cells outside the span of the \(e_{ic}\) are killed by all \(e_{ic}\), so \(\tilde A\) splits by blocked columns into copies of the colored algebra \(C_{N',M}=\bigotimes_{c\le N'}(\mathbb F_3\oplus\mathbb F_3^M)\) with \(N'\le N\). That colored algebra is the weak algebra without row sums on \(M\) rows, with the forms as its row sums. This is prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums, and thm:tensor-power-freeness makes it free over the forms through \(t\) iff \(N\ge2t-1\). Freeness gives Taylor generation for any monomial tops. So the planned several-form Wilson theorem for such forms is a rediscovery of recorded freeness.

The computation (colored_taylor.c, exact GF(3) ranks by color multidegree) adds one sharpening, observed and not proved. Taylor generation for the squares in target degree \(s\) holds from \(N\ge2s-2\), one column below freeness. It fails at \(N=2s-4,2s-3\) exactly as Wilson's single-form case predicts. This held in all 335 multidegree blocks for \(M=1\) (\(N\le14\), \(s\le8\)), \(M=2\) (\(N\le12\), \(s\le7\)) and \(M=3\) (\(N\le11\), \(s\le6\)), with no excess anywhere at \(N\ge2s-2\).

Beyond freeness

general_taylor.c takes seeded uniform forms on \(m=2\) rows, dense in every column, so column parts may be dependent. It reports the kernel, the Taylor span, the quotient's Hilbert function and the free prediction. In 63 runs over \(M=2,3,6,10,16\) and \(N\le13\), \(s\le6\), the excess was at least \(\operatorname{HF}-\text{pred}\), with equality in 60 of them:

\(M=3\): Taylor-generated and in fact free, since \(\operatorname{HF}\) equals the prediction, from \(N=2s\). The recorded freeness construction does not cover this, with \(3>m\).
\(M=10\), \(N=11\), \(s=5\): excess 1, and \(\operatorname{HF}-\text{pred}=1\).
\(M=16\), \(N=11\), \(s=5\): prediction \(-432\), \(\operatorname{HF}=0\), excess 432.

The identity \(\ker\Phi_s=M\dim\tilde A_{s-2}-\dim\tilde A_s+\operatorname{HF}_s\) holds exactly. In the free model the Taylor span equals \(\ker\), which gives excess \(=(\operatorname{HF}-\text{pred})+(\text{free Taylor count}-\text{actual Taylor span})\). The conjecture is that the second term is never negative. It was positive in the three exceptional runs and zero otherwise.

What this means

For squares, Taylor generation and freeness coincide in every run. Freeness over \(M\) forms is capped by the dimension count at about \(\dim\tilde A_1\)-order counts. So square tops cannot carry W's \(n^K\) clauses.
W's clause tops are products of \(2k+2\) linear factors. The dimension count allows about \((mN/D)^{2k+2}\) of them, which is far above \(n^K\), so Taylor generation for product tops is not excluded by counting. But the forms, \(n^K(k+1)\) of them, far exceed \(\dim\tilde A_1\) and cannot be free. That regime, products of many dependent forms, is where a several-form Wilson theorem would say something new.

Next: test Taylor generation for product tops drawn from a pool of forms beyond the freeness count. Take \(m=2\), \(N\) about 11, a pool of \(P\) dense forms with \(P>2N\), and tops \(\ell_i^2\ell_j^2\) over a set of pairs. Compare the kernel with the Taylor span of the monomial-type ideal, whose syzygies are the Frobenius multiples and the lcm pairs. The kernel should accept the list of pool sizes, so the series runs in one pass.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:column-wilson-taylor and lem:spare-column-transfer;
prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums, thm:tensor-power-freeness and thm:general-forms-freeness, whose recorded content the colored computation rediscovers;
thm:based-taylor-glue.

Two controls were run:

\(M=1\) reproduces Wilson's thresholds exactly: excess 1 at \(N=2s-4,2s-3\) and none from \(2s-2\).
The \(M=2\) random-form control shows dependence between column parts creating excess.

Numbers are read from the saved files by script: m1_control.json, m2.json, m3.json and g_*.json in research/results/odd_prime_several_form_wilson_20260925/. One process lapse: the \(M=6,10,16\) series was driven from a shell loop, not in one pass. The kernel's next version takes a list. No reviewer was run, since no theorem is claimed.

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Product tops of dense random forms: through degree 6 their images form a direct sum even with three times more forms than dimensions, and at the first Koszul degree the cross-top syzygies found are Koszul pairs

25 September 2026 · Conjecture and finite check · open statement A3 (generic W) · cycle odd-prime-product-tops. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Product tops of dense random forms: through degree 6 their images form a direct sum even with three times more forms than dimensions, and at the first Koszul degree the cross-top syzygies found are Koszul pairs”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-product-tops.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The several-form Wilson entry found that for squares, Taylor generation coincides with recorded freeness. It moved the line to product tops, the shape of W's clauses, drawn from more forms than \(\dim\tilde A_1\), where freeness is impossible. Do product tops of dense random forms have only single-top syzygies and Koszul pairs?

General statement. conj:dense-product-top-directness: on the weak monomial algebra \(\tilde A\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), take \(B\) product tops \(\tau_b=\ell_{b,1}^2\ell_{b,2}^2\), each with its own two dense random forms, and let the target degree \(s\) satisfy \(N\ge2s-3\). Then the family's top syzygies in degree \(s\) are spanned by the single-top syzygies and the Koszul pairs. This should hold for any number of tops while the images fit, even when the \(2B\) forms far exceed \(\dim\tilde A_1\). Below the Koszul degree 8 this means the images form a direct sum. This is the dense, beyond-freeness counterpart of the pre-Koszul theorem, which is proved only for designed pair-disjoint supports.

Test design

product_taylor.c fixes one seeded sequence of dense forms on \(m=2\) rows; the first \(2B\) serve \(B\) tops. For each target degree \(s\) it computes the kernel of \(\Phi_s:(g_b)\mapsto\sum_bg_b\tau_b\) and compares it with the span of:

the Frobenius syzygies \((\ell_{b,i}x)e_b\), since \(\ell^3=0\);
from \(s=8\), the Koszul pairs \((\tau_cx)e_b-(\tau_bx)e_c\).

Ranks are exact over GF(3), using the recorded bit-sliced kernel from degree 8 on. That kernel reproduced the dense-elimination results at \(s=7\), \(N=11\), \(B=1,3,6\); that check's output file was then removed as a duplicate. The counts are nonvacuous: the ideal uses at most half of \(\tilde A_s\) in every run. Here \(\dim\tilde A_1=mN=20\) or 22.

Results

Degrees 5 and 6, \(N=10\). No excess for any tested \(B\), up to 20 at \(s=5\) and up to 30 at \(s=6\), which is up to 60 forms, three times \(\dim\tilde A_1\). The ideal's dimension is exactly \(B\cdot18\), respectively \(B\cdot141\), so the images form a direct sum (pt_s5.json, pt_s6.json).
Degree 7 (\(2h-1\)). At \(N=10\) an excess appears from \(B=3\) and grows with \(B\), up to 4 at \(B=8\), for both seeds: a cross-top effect below a column threshold. At \(N=11\) it vanishes for all \(B\le6\), and the ideal is exactly \(B\cdot904\) (pt_s7*.json).
Degree 8, the first Koszul degree, \(N=11\). Excess 9, 10, 11, 11 for \(B=1,\dots,4\). The single top already has excess 9. Its two dense forms share every column, and on two rows their column parts are often dependent. Column Wilson assumes disjoint supports for a top's factors, and this top violates that. Adding tops adds at most 1 each, consistent with small single-top anomalies and no cross-top syzygies beyond the Koszul pairs. Single-top runs that would separate the two were not done. The run was stopped by the host at low system memory during \(B=6\), not by its own budget, and was not restarted (pt_s8_N11_partial.json).

What this means

Unlike squares, product tops of dense random forms interact only through Koszul pairs in every degree tested, even when the forms cannot be free (\(2B>\dim\tilde A_1\) at \(s\le6\)). This is the behaviour generic W needs. It is evidence for the semi-regular picture, now for dense forms beyond freeness.
Two limits. At \(s=7,8\) only up to 12 forms were tested, fewer than \(\dim\tilde A_1\). And the single-top anomaly shows that a top's own two forms need something like disjoint or independent column parts, which dense forms on few rows lack. On W's board \(m=n+1\) is large, and generic column parts are independent.
No proof. The pre-Koszul argument's direct-sum count used private monomials, which dense forms do not have.

Next: prove the degree-\(h+1\) and \(h+2\) directness, where the data are cleanest, for dense forms with independent column parts on \(m\ge4\) rows. The route is through the colored-algebra reduction of the several-form Wilson entry: blocked columns plus colored monomials. Directness in the colored algebra is a statement about colored inclusion matrices, a Wilson-type rank question with \(2B\) colors.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:pre-koszul-weak-families;
thm:column-wilson-taylor, whose disjoint-support hypothesis explains the single-top anomaly;
conj:squares-taylor-is-freeness.

All numbers are read from the saved JSON files by script. The Taylor span is contained in the kernel by construction. The Frobenius and Koszul generators were checked against \(\ell^3=0\) and commutativity. No theorem is claimed, so no reviewer was run.

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Generic pre-Koszul by openness: the designed theorem transfers to a Zariski-open set of dense families, but over F_3 that says nothing about random forms

25 September 2026 · Unsuccessful attempt (no claim, no computation) · open statement A3 (generic W) · cycle odd-prime-generic-pre-koszul. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Generic pre-Koszul by openness: the designed theorem transfers to a Zariski-open set of dense families, but over F_3 that says nothing about random forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-generic-pre-koszul.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The product-tops entry found dense random product tops Taylor-generated at degrees \(h+1\) and \(h+2\), even beyond freeness. It asked for a proof. Can the designed theorem, thm:pre-koszul-weak-families, be transferred to dense forms?

General statement. The attempt concerns conj:dense-product-top-directness. Taylor generation through degree \(D\) is equivalent to two rank conditions, for each \(s\le D\):

the rank of \(\Phi_s\) is at least its value at a design;
the rank of the Taylor generators is at least its value at a design.

Both are lower-semicontinuous in the forms' coefficients. So the families satisfying thm:pre-koszul-weak-families's conclusion, dense ones included, contain the \(\mathbb F_3\)-points of a nonempty Zariski-open set that contains the designs. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) this gives no statement about random families.

The transfer, and where it stops

The argument. At a design \(d\), \(\ker\Phi_s\) equals the Taylor span, of dimension \(K_d\). Lower semicontinuity gives, on an open set \(U\ni d\), a Taylor span of dimension at least \(K_d\) and \(\dim\ker\Phi_s\le K_d\). The Taylor span lies in the kernel, so they are equal on \(U\). Intersecting over \(s\le D\) keeps \(U\) open and nonempty.
Why the field matters. thm:based-taylor-glue is stated over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(\mathbb F_3\) forms. Its constraints \(\chi_a(L)=1-(L-a)^2\) are idempotent modulo Booleanity only for \(\mathbb F_3\) coefficients, since \(L^3\equiv L\) requires them. So points of \(U\) over extension fields give no PC statement for the thread's system. Only the \(\mathbb F_3\)-points of \(U\) count.
Why that is weak. \(U\) is cut out by the nonvanishing of minors of degree far above 3 in the coefficients. Schwartz–Zippel over \(\mathbb F_3\) then bounds nothing. \(U(\mathbb F_3)\) contains the designs, but its density among \(\mathbb F_3\) families is unknown. This is the limit already recorded for thm:general-forms-freeness, a Zariski-open set with \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points, and in the member-pinning entry's remark that the \(\mathbb F_3\) case needs a separate argument.
The counts. Even over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) the transfer covers only up to the design count \(n^{4-o(1)}\) and degrees up to \(2k+2\). The data suggest more: counts up to the dimension bound, and degrees into the Koszul range.

Assessment

The data's regime, dense random \(\mathbb F_3\) forms beyond freeness, needs a proof that does not go through openness from a sparse specialization. That is an \(\mathbb F_3\) rank statement for random structured matrices, the semi-regularity problem for product tops. No recorded method proves such statements over \(\mathbb F_3\). So the several-form Wilson line has produced a well-supported conjecture, conj:dense-product-top-directness, and no route to its proof.

Next: look for a proof method for conj:dense-product-top-directness at degree \(h+1\), its simplest case. That case asks that the degree-1 multiples of \(B\) random dense product tops be independent modulo the Frobenius multiples. Candidate methods are a second-moment count over random forms, or a deterministic specialization that is dense and \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational with a transparent rank. Permutation forms, recorded earlier, are a candidate.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:pre-koszul-weak-families and thm:based-taylor-glue, including the field of the latter;
thm:general-forms-freeness, for the recorded form of the same openness limit;
the member-pinning entry's remark on \(\mathbb F_3\).

No claim is registered: the openness argument is standard, and its conclusion over \(\mathbb F_3\) is the recorded limit. No computation was run.

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Route review with outside leads: the recorded first-moment identity, completed by the Cohen–Lenstra moment method, is a proof method for generic W over \(\mathbb F_3\) itself, and matroid growth rates, stable regularity, linked-cluster expansions and quantum codes are candidate bridges

25 September 2026 · Route review with outside leads (no computation, no claim) · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-outside-leads. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review with outside leads: the recorded first-moment identity, completed by the Cohen–Lenstra moment method, is a proof method for generic W over \(\mathbb F_3\) itself, and matroid growth rates, stable regularity, linked-cluster expansions and quantum codes are candidate bridges”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-outside-leads-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The openness entry left conj:dense-product-top-directness without a proof method, and the thread has checked every recorded tool against W. Which theorems from other areas of mathematics bear on W's open statements, and which areas that never stood near these objects could carry them? This review also records leads that earlier entries named but never followed.

General statement. The line's claim is W (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction), reduced by thm:based-taylor-glue to Tor vanishing for the clause tops. For generic families its current form is conj:dense-product-top-directness, and for adversarial families there is no candidate statement beyond W.

What the goal needs, and a falsification check

The goal needs Tor vanishing through degree \(22k\), \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), for \(n^K\) blocks whose forms come from a refutation. conj:dense-product-top-directness meets two of these needs and misses two:

Its column hypothesis \(N\ge2s-3\) holds at \(s=22k\) for large \(n\), and it allows \(B\) far beyond \(\dim\tilde A_1\).
Its tops have two factors, \(\ell^2\ell'^2\); W's tops have \(k+1\) squared factors, so the width axis A2 stays open even for random forms.
It concerns random forms, not adversarial ones (A1).

Falsification check against the record: the only excesses in the product-top data are at \(s=7\), \(N=10\), below the conjecture's column threshold, and single-top anomalies at \(s=8\), which the conjecture's single-top syzygies allow. No recorded observation contradicts it.

Outside leads

Cohen–Lenstra moment method, for A3 over \(\mathbb F_3\) itself. The record already has the key identity for selectors (lem:selector-kernel-first-moment, first-moment entry). For product tops it reads as follows. Let \(\Phi_s:\tilde A_{s-h}^B\to\tilde A_s\), \((g_b)\mapsto\sum_bg_b\tau_b\), with independent random tops. The functionals \(\chi\in\tilde A_s^*\) that vanish on the image number \(3^{\operatorname{codim}\operatorname{im}\Phi_s}\), and \(\chi\) vanishes on the image exactly when it vanishes on every \(\tilde A_{s-h}\tau_b\). So \(\mathbb E\,3^{\operatorname{codim}}=\sum_\chi\prod_b\pi_b(\chi)\), with \(\pi_b(\chi)=\Pr[\chi(\tilde A_{s-h}\tau_b)=0]\). Since \(\ker\Phi_s\) contains the Taylor span, a bound \(\mathbb E\,3^{\operatorname{codim}}\le(1+o(1))\,3^{c_{\mathrm{pred}}}\), where \(c_{\mathrm{pred}}\) is the codimension that Taylor generation predicts, gives excess zero with probability \(1-o(1)\) by Markov's inequality, provided the Taylor span has its predicted dimension. This works over \(\mathbb F_3\) directly, with no genericity transfer, which is what defeated the openness entry. The record proved the selector case stratum by stratum (spread lemma, span-one stratum) and found that the unconditioned moment is useless because of killer forms, so the sum must be conditioned on a spread event. Wood (Random integral matrices and the Cohen–Lenstra heuristics, Amer. J. Math. 2019) and Nguyen and Wood (Random integral matrices: universality of surjectivity and the cokernel, Invent. Math. 2022, arXiv:1806.00596) organise exactly such sums in one step: dual vectors are split into robustly spread ones, for which the probability is nearly uniform by a Littlewood–Offord-type bound, and structured ones, which are few. The split's details are recalled from memory and must be read before use. Where it breaks: their matrices have independent entries or independent rows, while here the entries of one block are products of the same few random forms, and the structured functionals include the Frobenius and killer classes that the record met.
Hochster and Laksov, for the degree-\(h+1\) case of A3. They proved (The linear syzygies of generic forms, Comm. Algebra 15, 1987) that for generic forms \(F_1,\dots,F_n\) of degree \(d\ge2\) the products \(x_jF_i\) have maximal rank in degree \(d+1\). That is the degree-\(h+1\) case of our conjecture for generic forms in a polynomial ring. The record named it in three entries (selector semi-regularity and two others) and never read the proof. Where it breaks: our tops are products of squares of linear forms, a special variety where Fröberg-type predictions can fail, as for powers of linear forms; our algebra is the quotient \(\tilde A\), with \(\ell^3=0\); and the conclusion is for generic forms, which over \(\mathbb F_3\) says nothing about random forms. The proof's specialization step is what might transfer, since an explicit \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational specialization of maximal rank would suffice.
Anisotropy in positive characteristic, for the Lefschetz-type core of A3. Papadakis and Petrotou proved anisotropy for face rings of spheres in characteristic 2; Adiprasito, Papadakis and Petrotou extended it to pseudomanifolds and cycles (arXiv:2101.07245), Karu and Xiao simplified it (arXiv:2204.07758), and a later preprint treats characteristic \(p\) on the moment curve (p-anisotropy on the moment curve for homology manifolds and cycles). The Frobenius syzygies are exactly the failure of the ordinary strong Lefschetz property in characteristic 3, so a characteristic-\(p\) Lefschetz theorem is the kind of input A3 needs. The generalization review named this lead and the identification of the top algebra as an Artinian reduction as its cheapest test; no later entry did the test. Where it breaks: these theorems are about Artinian reductions of face rings of spheres, manifolds or cycles by generic or moment-curve linear systems, and our multipliers are squares of dense forms in an algebra not yet identified with such a reduction.
Polynomial regularity, for A1. Green and Tao (The distribution of polynomials over finite fields, 2009), Kaufman and Lovett (2008) and Bhowmick and Lovett refine any family of polynomials into a high-rank part that is equidistributed like independent random polynomials, plus a structured part of bounded size. This is the recorded structure-versus-randomness dichotomy of the selector-line review in its general form: random-like blocks would go to A3, structured ones to the designed-family theorems. Where it breaks: the bounds are tower-type in the degree, and our degree is about \(\log n\); the degree exceeds the characteristic, which brings non-classical polynomials; and at the level of the linear forms themselves regularity is only linear algebra, since \(n^K\) forms in dimension about \(n^2\) are necessarily dependent.
Spread lemmas and linear closure, for A1. Alweiss, Lovett, Wu and Zhang (Improved bounds for the sunflower lemma, Ann. of Math. 2021) show that a large set family either is spread or has a small core shared by many members, with bounds good enough for lifting theorems; the closure of linear forms (Efremenko and Itsykson, from the literature pass) is its linear analogue in Res(\(\oplus\)). Translated: split an adversarial family into a spread part, which behaves randomly, and a small core of forms that pinning handles (cor:single-form-pinning). Where it breaks: pinning's capacity is about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) forms, while the core of \(n^K\) dense forms can span the whole board.

Absurd bridges

Matroid growth rates and the matroid minors structure theory, for A1. Nobody has applied matroid minors to PC degree bounds. Translation: W's forms, \(n^K(k+1)\) of them in a space of dimension at most \(mN\approx n^2\), form an \(\mathbb F_3\)-represented matroid. The growth-rate theorem of Geelen, Kabell, Kung and Whittle implies that a minor-closed class of \(\mathbb F_3\)-representable matroids excluding some projective geometry \(\mathrm{PG}(t,3)\) as a minor has at most \(c_tr^2\) elements in rank \(r\) (a simple matroid, parallel forms counted once). With \(K>4\), W's families exceed that count for large \(n\), so they contain a \(\mathrm{PG}(t,3)\) minor: after contracting some forms, which in PC terms means fixing their values, a complete projective geometry of forms appears, and that configuration is \(GL_t\)-symmetric, where symmetry methods apply. Families excluding such minors would, by the Geelen–Gerards–Whittle structure theorem, be bounded-rank perturbations of frame (group-labelled graph) matroids. Their forms are then graph-like, close to the row- and column-local forms that the recorded endpoints handle. A heuristic in the same direction: a block family containing all forms of a \(t\)-dimensional space \(U\), with every pair as a block, forces every form of \(U\) to vanish at a satisfying point, because a nonzero value of one form would force every other form to be nonzero, while the kernel of evaluation on \(U\) has dimension at least \(t-1\ge1\). So such clauses act like \(t\) linear equations, within pinning's capacity when \(t\le\sqrt n/\log n\). What it would give: a dichotomy for adversarial families into graph-like families, handled by recorded endpoints, and families with large symmetric minors. Smallest test: read the exact growth-rate statement and its dependence of \(c_t\) on \(t\), which may be too large for \(t\) near \(\log n\); then compute the PC closure at \(n=6,7\) for weak PHP plus a complete \(\mathrm{PG}(t,3)\) family on a few cells and check that it behaves like \(t\) linear equations.
Stable regularity from model theory, for the chains in A1. Malliaris and Shelah (Regularity lemmas for stable graphs, Trans. AMS 2014) and Terry and Wolf (Stable arithmetic regularity in the finite field model, Bull. LMS 2019) give regularity with polynomial bounds and no irregular pairs for relations without long half-graphs. Translation: define the interaction relation between blocks, \(b\sim b'\) when the pair has a syzygy beyond Frobenius and Koszul in the relevant degree. If the relation is stable, the family splits into polynomially many parts that are homogeneously interacting, a common span that the designed-family theorems or pinning handle, or homogeneously non-interacting, which glue. If it is unstable, it contains a long half-graph, a ladder of blocks each interacting with all later ones, which is a chain. The record's open core for A1 is exactly chaining (closure review, hub review). What it would give: a reduction of A1 to long chains, with polynomial rather than tower bounds on the stable side. Smallest test: compute the half-graph index of the interaction relation on the recorded chain and hub families and on random dense families, and check whether the families that fail locality are exactly those with long ladders. Where it breaks: the record found that \(t\)-wise locality fails (covering obstruction), so a pairwise relation may not see every obstruction, and the regularity error must be below \(n^{-K}\).
Linked-cluster theorems from statistical mechanics and quantum chemistry, for A1 under a local condition. In many-body theory, Goldstone's linked-diagram theorem and the exponential ansatz of coupled-cluster theory say that only connected clusters of excitations survive in the logarithm. The Kotecký–Preiss criterion proves convergence of a polymer gas's cluster expansion when each polymer's weight is small compared with its incompatibilities, and Scott and Sokal showed that the Lovász Local Lemma is the zero-free region of the hard-core gas on the dependency graph. Translation: by the Taylor complex's Euler characteristic, the free prediction for the clause quotient's Hilbert series is an inclusion–exclusion over sets of tops, a polymer gas on the blocks' overlap graph. Taylor generation says the only interactions are the ideal-gas terms and the Koszul pairs, disconnected clusters in the physics sense, and the excess is the contribution of connected clusters. What it would give: a condition on the family's overlap graph alone, of Shearer or Kotecký–Preiss type, under which the connected corrections vanish through a given degree. That would be a hypothesis on the family, not on randomness, and so the first route to A1 that needs no pseudorandomness. Smallest test: compute the Taylor Euler characteristic for the recorded chain and hub families and compare it with their measured Hilbert functions, checking whether the failures sit exactly where the overlap graph violates a Shearer-type bound; a path of length \(L\) has Shearer threshold \(1/(4\cos^2(\pi/(L+2)))\). Where it breaks: matching Hilbert series does not imply exactness, since cancellations are possible, and the criteria are analytic bounds on complex weights while ours are integer dimensions over \(\mathbb F_3\).
Quantum error-correcting codes and product expansion, for A2 and A3. Panteleev and Kalachev's asymptotically good quantum LDPC codes (arXiv:2111.03654) prove that tensor and lifted products of chain complexes have no low-weight homology when the local codes are product-expanding, a two-way robustness they prove for random codes. Translation: \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_c(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\) is a tensor product over columns, a dense form is a sum of column-local pieces, and for blocks on disjoint columns the recorded Künneth splitting (Künneth components) writes the clause Koszul complex as a tensor product. Tor vanishing through degree \(D\) is then a statement that a product complex has no homology in low degree, as code distance is for the product code. What it would give: a product-expansion inequality for the column factors that implies Tor vanishing for dense forms, with degree playing the role of weight, including tops of width \(\Theta(\log n)\). Smallest test: for one top on disjoint column blocks, check whether degree in \(\tilde A\) corresponds to Hamming weight in the product complex, and compute the product-expansion constant of the one-column pieces \(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c\) under multiplication by a random form's column part. Where it breaks: Hamming weight and polynomial degree may not correspond, and dense forms couple all columns, which the disjoint-column Künneth case avoids.

Assessment of the line

The generic line has a precise conjecture, consistent data and, with the first lead, a proof method that works over \(\mathbb F_3\) directly and reuses the recorded selector strata. It still covers only random families and two-factor tops. For adversarial families the record has no candidate statement beyond W; the two bridges are the first proposals that turn an arbitrary family into a dichotomy with a structured side the record can handle, but each rests on a theorem whose constants have not been checked against \(n^K\).

Next step, on odd-prime-clause-transfer: prove the degree-\(h+1\) case of conj:dense-product-top-directness by the first-moment identity above. Read the spread-versus-structured split in Nguyen and Wood first; then classify the functionals \(\chi\in\tilde A_{h+1}^*\) with large \(\pi(\chi)\) for a random product top, using the recorded spread lemma as the model. The step ends with the degree-\(h+1\) case proved for random dense product tops, or with a named class of structured functionals whose count defeats the moment. The matroid bridge's closure test is the following step on A1.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: lem:selector-kernel-first-moment and lem:selector-spread-lemma with their entries; the selector-line, sheaf-generalization, closure and hub reviews; the product-tops and openness entries. Claim searches for each lead (first moment and cokernels, spread and sunflower, generic initial ideals, inclusion matrices and Specht modules, closure of linear forms, the weak-rank substitution, products of linear forms) found the selector first-moment and spread lemmas, which this review reuses, and no recorded use of the other sources. The Hochster–Laksov statement, the anisotropy, Cohen–Lenstra and Panteleev–Kalachev references, the Geelen–Kabell–Kung–Whittle growth-rate theorem (linear, quadratic with all graphic matroids, exponential with all \(\mathbb F_q\)-representable matroids, or infinite) and the Scott–Sokal equivalence were checked against abstracts or published summaries. The Green–Tao, Kaufman–Lovett, Bhowmick–Lovett, sunflower, Geelen–Gerards–Whittle, stable-regularity, Kotecký–Preiss and linked-diagram statements are recalled from memory. Each must be read in full before any claim relies on it. The review states no result and registers no claim.

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Product-top moment: the killer count reduces directness at degree h+1 to one random top, but divided powers collapse by Frobenius, so the one-top bound must be stratified

25 September 2026 · Working lemmas, a proved obstruction to the naive one-top bound, and a conjecture · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-product-top-moment. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Product-top moment: the killer count reduces directness at degree h+1 to one random top, but divided powers collapse by Frobenius, so the one-top bound must be stratified”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-product-top-moment.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The outside-leads review proposed proving the degree-\(h+1\) case of conj:dense-product-top-directness by the first-moment identity of lem:selector-kernel-first-moment, carried over to product tops and completed by a Cohen–Lenstra-style split of the killing functionals. The missing implication: for \(B\) independent random product tops, the images \(\tilde A_1\tau_b\subseteq\tilde A_5\) form a direct sum with high probability while they fit. This cycle sets up the moment, counts the functionals by the rank of their contraction map, and tests the one-top bound that the count needs.

General statement. conj:product-top-killer-moment: for fixed \(m\ge2\) and \(\varepsilon>0\), as \(N\to\infty\), \(\Pr[\text{not }E]=o(1/B)\) and \(\sum_\chi\pi_E(\chi)^B\le(1+o(1))\,3^{C_0}\) for all \(B\le(1-\varepsilon)\binom N5m^4/N\). With lem:product-top-moment-reduction alone it gives the degree-\(h+1\) case of conj:dense-product-top-directness for random forms with probability \(1-o(1)\). The cycle proves that reduction and a count of the killing functionals by contraction rank (lem:catalecticant-count), which motivates the conjecture, and shows (prop:divided-power-collapse) that the per-functional bound one would first try fails for divided powers.

Setting

\(\tilde A=\bigotimes_{c=1}^N(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\) with \(\dim V_c=m\); \(\tilde A_s\) has a basis of \(s\)-sets of columns with one cell each, so \(\dim\tilde A_s=\binom Nsm^s\). For \(\ell\in\tilde A_1\) with column parts \(\ell_c\), \(\ell^2=2e_2(\ell)\) and \(\ell^3=6e_3(\ell)=0\), where \(e_k\) sums products of column parts over \(k\) distinct columns. A product top is \(\tau=\ell^2\ell'^2=e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell')\), with \(\ell,\ell'\) independent and uniform in \(\tilde A_1\); only pairs on disjoint columns survive, since \(V_c^2=0\). Tops \(\tau_1,\dots,\tau_B\) are independent. \(\Phi:\tilde A_1^B\to\tilde A_5\), \((g_b)\mapsto\sum_bg_b\tau_b\), and \(C=\operatorname{codim}\operatorname{im}\Phi\). The event \(E\) for one top: \(\ell,\ell'\) are independent and \(\operatorname{Ann}_{\tilde A_1}(\tau)=\langle\ell,\ell'\rangle\), which always contains \(\ell,\ell'\). Put \(r=mN-2\), \(D=\dim\tilde A_5\), \(C_0=D-Br\), and \(\pi_E(\chi)=\Pr[\tau\in E,\ \chi(\tilde A_1\tau)=0]\) for \(\chi\in\tilde A_5^*\).

The moment reduction

Lemma (product-top moment reduction, lem:product-top-moment-reduction). \(\mathbb E\bigl[3^C\mathbf 1_{\cap_bE_b}\bigr]=\sum_{\chi\in\tilde A_5^*}\pi_E(\chi)^B\), and \[\Pr\Bigl[\textstyle\bigcap_bE_b\text{ and }\sum_b\tilde A_1\tau_b\text{ not direct}\Bigr]\le\tfrac12\Bigl(3^{-C_0}\textstyle\sum_\chi\pi_E(\chi)^B-\Pr[E]^B\Bigr).\]

Proof. For fixed tops, the functionals vanishing on \(\operatorname{im}\Phi\) number \(3^C\), and \(\chi\) vanishes on \(\operatorname{im}\Phi\) exactly when \(\chi(\tilde A_1\tau_b)=0\) for every \(b\). So \(3^C\mathbf 1_{\cap E_b}=\sum_\chi\prod_b\mathbf 1[\tau_b\in E,\ \chi(\tilde A_1\tau_b)=0]\); take expectations and use independence. On \(\bigcap_bE_b\) each image has dimension \(r\), so \(\dim\operatorname{im}\Phi\le Br\) with equality exactly when the sum is direct; hence \(C\ge C_0\), and \(C\ge C_0+1\) when it is not direct. So \(3^{C-C_0}\mathbf 1_{\cap E_b}\ge\mathbf 1_{\cap E_b}+2\cdot\mathbf 1_{\cap E_b,\text{ not direct}}\); take expectations. The bound is nontrivial only when \(C_0\ge0\). \(\square\)

This is the selector identity of the first-moment entry, moved to product tops and conditioned on the event that entry found necessary: without \(E\), tops with \(\ell,\ell'\) dependent have \(\tau=0\) and dominate the sum.

Counting functionals by their contraction rank

For \(\chi\in\tilde A_5^*\) let \(\kappa_\chi:\tilde A_1\to\tilde A_4^*\), \(y\mapsto\chi(y\,\cdot)\), and \(u(\chi)=\operatorname{rank}\kappa_\chi\). For every top the contraction \(v_\tau=\chi(\cdot\,\tau)\in\tilde A_1^*\) vanishes on \(\ker\kappa_\chi\), so it lies in a space of dimension \(u(\chi)\). It always vanishes on \(\ell,\ell'\), since \(\ell\tau=\ell'\tau=0\); the naive exponent \(u-2\) below assumes \(\langle\ell,\ell'\rangle\cap\ker\kappa_\chi=0\).

Lemma (catalecticant count, lem:catalecticant-count). For \(0\le u\le mN\), \[\#\{\chi:u(\chi)\le u\}\le\left[{mN\atop u}\right]_3\cdot3^{e(u)},\qquad e(u)=\max\Bigl\{e_5(u_1,\dots,u_N):0\le u_c\le m,\ \textstyle\sum_cu_c=u\Bigr\}\le\binom N5\Bigl(\frac uN\Bigr)^5 .\]

Proof. If \(u(\chi)\le u\), choose \(K\subseteq\ker\kappa_\chi\) of codimension exactly \(u\); the choices number at most the Gaussian binomial. Then \(\chi\) vanishes on \(K\tilde A_4\), the degree-5 part of the ideal \((K)\), so it is a functional on \((\tilde A/(K))_5\). Write \(\tilde A=S/J\) with \(S=\mathbb F_3[x_{c,i}]\) and \(J\) generated by the monomials \(x_{c,i}x_{c,j}\), \(i=j\) allowed. Fix a monomial order; Gaussian elimination gives \(K\) a basis whose leading variables form a set \(L\) of size \(mN-u\). Since \(J\) is monomial, \(\operatorname{in}(J+KS)\supseteq J+LS\), and a graded ideal and its initial ideal have the same Hilbert function, so \(\dim(\tilde A/(K))_5\le\dim(S/(J+LS))_5\). The standard monomials on the right are the 5-sets of columns with one cell outside \(L\) in each, \(e_5(u_1,\dots,u_N)\) of them, where \(u_c\) is the number of cells of column \(c\) outside \(L\) and \(\sum_cu_c=u\). The last bound is Maclaurin's inequality \(e_5/\binom N5\le(e_1/N)^5\). \(\square\)

What the count gives. With \(x=u/N\) and \(F=\binom N5m^4/N\), the stratum of rank \(u<mN\) contributes at most \(3^{g(u)}\) times \(\max\pi_E^B\cdot3^{B(u-2)}\) relative to \(3^{C_0}\), where \(g(u)\le N^2x(m-x)+B(mN-u)-\binom N5(m^5-x^5)+O(1)\le(m-x)N\,(Nx+B-F)+O(1)\), using \(m^5-x^5\ge(m-x)m^4\). So a per-functional bound \(\pi_E(\chi)\le3^{-(u(\chi)-2)}(1+\delta_u)\), with \(\delta_u\le A\) for all \(u\) and \(\delta_u\le3^{-cu}\) for large \(u\), together with \(\Pr[\text{not }E]=o(1/B)\), would prove the degree-\(h+1\) case for \(B\le(1-\varepsilon)F\). Fix \(k\) with \(k\varepsilon>\log_3(1+A)\). The strata with \(mN-u\ge k\) have margin \((m-x)N(\varepsilon F-mN)\ge k(\varepsilon F-mN)\), which beats \((1+\delta_u)^B\le3^{F\log_3(1+A)}\); those with \(mN-u<k\) have \(B\delta_u\to0\). The event \(E\) then passes from \(\bigcap_bE_b\) to directness. The fill point is \(D/r=\binom N5m^5/(mN-2)\approx F\), so this range reaches a fixed fraction of the fill.

The per-functional bound is false: divided powers collapse

For \(\varphi=(\varphi_c)\in\tilde A_1^*\) with support \(W=\{c:\varphi_c\ne0\}\), \(|W|=w\), the divided power \(\chi=\varphi^{[5]}\) is \(\chi(x_{c_1,i_1}\cdots x_{c_5,i_5})=\prod_j\varphi_{c_j}(i_j)\).

Proposition (divided-power collapse, prop:divided-power-collapse). Let \(w\ge5\); for \(w\le4\), \(\varphi^{[5]}=0\).

\(u(\varphi^{[5]})=w\) if \(w\not\equiv1\pmod 3\) and \(w-1\) if \(w\equiv1\pmod3\).
\(\chi(\cdot\,\tau)=0\) if and only if \(P_{-c}(s,s')=0\) for every \(c\in W\), where \(s_c=\varphi_c(\ell_c)\), \(s'_c=\varphi_c(\ell'_c)\), and \(P_{-c}=[X^2Y^2]\prod_{d\in W\setminus c}(1+s_dX+s'_dY)\). The pairs \((s_c,s'_c)\), \(c\in W\), are independent and uniform on \(\mathbb F_3^2\).
Let \(q(w)\) be the probability of that event. The event depends only on the counts \(n_t\) of the nine types \(t=(s_c,s'_c)\) modulo 3 and on which types occur, and \(q(w)\ge3^{-8}\bigl(1-(3^8-1)(\sqrt{57}/9)^w\bigr)\).

Proof. (1) For a cell \(y=(c,i)\) and a degree-4 monomial \(z\), \(\chi(yz)=\varphi_c(i)\varphi^{[4]}(z)\) if \(c\) is not a column of \(z\), and \(0\) otherwise. So \(\kappa_\chi(y)=\sum_{c\in W}\varphi_c(y_c)\psi_c\) with \(\psi_c(z)=[c\notin z]\,\varphi^{[4]}(z)\), and since \(y\mapsto(\varphi_c(y_c))_{c\in W}\) is onto \(\mathbb F_3^W\), \(u\) is the rank of \(\{\psi_c\}\). Evaluating at monomials on a 4-set \(S\subseteq W\) with a cell of nonzero \(\varphi\) in each column, a relation \(\sum\alpha_c\psi_c=0\) says \(\sum_{c\in W\setminus S}\alpha_c=0\) for every 4-set \(S\). For \(c_1\ne c_2\) and any 3-set \(T\subseteq W\setminus\{c_1,c_2\}\) (possible as \(w\ge5\)), comparing \(S=T\cup\{c_2\}\) and \(S'=T\cup\{c_1\}\) gives \(\alpha_{c_1}=\alpha_{c_2}\); then \((w-4)\alpha=0\). So the relations are \(0\), or the constants when \(w\equiv4\equiv1\pmod3\). (2) For \(c\in W\) and \(y=(c,i)\), \(\chi(y\tau)=\varphi_c(i)\sum_{z\not\ni c}\tau_z\varphi^{[4]}(z)\). Pairing each column part with \(\varphi_a\) replaces \(\ell_a\) by \(s_a\) and \(\ell'_a\) by \(s'_a\) in the disjoint-pair expansion of \(e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell')\), which gives \(P_{-c}\). Columns outside \(W\) contribute nothing. Since \(\varphi_c\ne0\), \(\ell_c\mapsto\varphi_c(\ell_c)\) is uniform, independently over \(c\) and between \(\ell,\ell'\). (3) In \(R=\mathbb F_3[X,Y]/(X^3,Y^3)\), \((1+aX+bY)^3=1+a^3X^3+b^3Y^3=1\). So \(G=\prod_{d\in W}(1+z_d)=\prod_t(1+z_t)^{n_t\bmod3}\), and \(P_{-c}=[X^2Y^2]\,G(1+z_{t(c)})^{-1}\) depends only on the residues and on the type of \(c\). If \(n_t\equiv0\) for all eight nonzero types, then \(G=1\) and \(P_{-c}=[X^2Y^2](1+z_{t(c)})^2=0\), since that polynomial has degree at most 2. By Fourier inversion on \((\mathbb Z/3)^8\) this event has probability \(3^{-8}\sum_\xi\bigl(\tfrac19\sum_t\omega^{\xi_t}\bigr)^w\), with \(t\) running over all nine types and \(\xi_{(0,0)}:=0\), and each \(\xi\ne0\) term has modulus at most \(|8+\omega|/9=\sqrt{57}/9\). \(\square\)

Exact values (finite check). A dynamic program over the state (counts modulo 3, types present) computes \(q(w)\) exactly for \(w\le80\); it agrees with brute force over \(\mathbb F_3^{2w}\) for \(5\le w\le9\). Values: \(q(5)=0.2359\), \(q(6)=q(7)=0.1180\), \(q(8)=0.0413\), \(q(9)=q(10)=0.0272\), \(q(12)=0.0099\), \(q(20)=0.00428\), \(q(80)=0.004115226337\). An enumeration of the residue vectors in \((\mathbb Z/3)^8\) gives the limit over uniform residues with all types present: exactly \(3^{-5}\) for each \(w\bmod3\) (27 of the \(3^8\) vectors pass). For \(w\ge81\), the Fourier estimate of (3) and a union bound over absent types give \(|q(w)-3^{-5}|\le(3^8-1)(\sqrt{57}/9)^w+9(8/9)^w\le0.005\). With the program's values for \(w\le80\) this gives \(\max_{w\ge5}q(w)=q(5)\approx0.236\).

Consequence. \(u(\varphi^{[5]})\ge w-1\) grows while, by (3), \(\pi(\varphi^{[5]})\ge3^{-8}(1-o(1))\), so \(\pi(\chi)3^{u(\chi)-2}\to\infty\): no bound \(\pi(\chi)\le K\cdot3^{-(u(\chi)-2)}\) with a fixed \(K\) holds. Since \(\pi_E\ge\pi-\Pr[\text{not }E]\), this is a dichotomy for \(\pi_E\): either \(\Pr[\text{not }E]\) stays at least about \(3^{-8}\), and the conjecture's first clause fails, or the per-functional bound fails for \(\pi_E\). The measured values are \(0.016\) at \(N=7\) and \(0.0026\) at \(N=8\); the numerical limit of \(\pi\) is \(3^{-5}\). The Frobenius relation \(\ell^3=0\) makes a divided power see only the residues of type counts, a bounded amount of information however many columns it covers. This is the product-top form of the Frobenius classes, and the characteristic-\(p\) phenomenon that non-classical polynomials capture in higher-order Fourier analysis.

The exact stratum is harmless. There are at most \(3^{mN}\) nonzero divided powers, and each has \(w\ge5\) and \(\pi_E\le q(w)\le0.236\) (the finite check above), so they contribute at most \(3^{mN}\cdot0.236^B\). That is negligible against \(3^{C_0}\) once \(B\ge0.76\,mN\), and below that because \(C_0\ge D-(mN)^2\) is huge; \(\chi=0\) contributes at most 1. So the moment method is not refuted by this stratum. Functionals near a divided power, and sums of two divided powers (ratios 764 and 1158 below), are not bounded by this argument. The per-functional bound must be stratified by how close \(\chi\) is to a sum of few divided powers.

Test of the one-top bound

one_top.c (FLINT ranks, OpenMP) takes \(m=2\), \(N=7,8\), the smallest sizes meeting \(N\ge2\cdot5-3\). For each class of \(\chi\) it computes \(u(\chi)\) exactly and estimates \(\pi_E(\chi)\cdot3^{u-2}\), with \(E\) checked by rank on every zero contraction. The prediction of the naive bound is a ratio near 1. The results (one_top_m2_N7-8.json, ratio with two standard errors) are:

random \(\chi\), \(N=7\), \(u=14\): \(1.05\ [0.79,1.31]\), from 63 events in \(3.2\times10^7\) tops;
\(\chi\) supported on one row, \(u=N\): \(10.3\) (\(N=7\)) and \(9.8\) (\(N=8\));
\(\chi\) supported on six columns, \(u=12\): \(2.3\) and \(4.6\), for different random \(\chi\);
divided powers of full support: \(9.2\) at \(u=6\) (\(N=7\)) and \(29.4\) at \(u=8\) (\(N=8\)), matching \(q(7)\), \(q(8)\);
sums of two divided powers: \(764\) at \(u=12\) and \(1158\) at \(u=14\), of the order of \(q(w)^2\cdot3^{u-2}\) (822 and 906).

\(\Pr[\text{not }E]\) was \(320/20000\) at \(N=7\) and \(51/20000\) at \(N=8\). Generic functionals behave as the naive bound says; functionals living on a subalgebra carry a bounded excess factor; divided powers and their short sums carry an excess that grows with \(u\), as proved.

What this means

The degree-\(h+1\) case of dense product-top directness is reduced, by the proved moment reduction, to the killer moment of one random top, which conj:product-top-killer-moment states; the catalecticant count shows which strata that moment must control. The range it would give is \(B\le(1-\varepsilon)\) times the fill point, far beyond freeness.
The one-top statement cannot be a bound by contraction rank alone. What it needs is an inverse theorem: \(\pi_E(\chi)\gg3^{-(u(\chi)-2)}\) only when \(\chi\) is close to a sum of few divided powers, or lives on a small subalgebra. The exact divided powers are proved harmless; that the other strata are also few enough is an expectation, and no proof of the inverse theorem exists.
This addresses random forms only; A1 and the width axis A2 are untouched.

Process: the cycle's first test decided the question it was built for, a refutation found in the sizing run, so the full run was limited to the classes that needed error bars and to the exact divided-power law.

Next: prove the inverse statement for the first stratum below generic. Bound \(\pi_E(\chi)\) for \(\chi\) at distance \(k\) from every divided power, meaning that \(\chi\) differs from each \(\lambda\varphi^{[5]}\) on a set of monomials needing \(k\) columns to cover, by conditioning on the scalars \(s,s'\) of the nearest divided power and using the remaining \((m-1)\) dimensions of each column part as fresh randomness. Also bound \(\Pr[\text{not }E]\) by the spread-lemma method.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:selector-kernel-first-moment with its entry, including the killer obstruction and the spread event, and the statement of conj:dense-product-top-directness with its column hypothesis. Claim searches (first moment and killers for product tops, catalecticant and contraction rank, Hilbert-function bounds through initial ideals, Maclaurin counts, divided powers and Frobenius classes) found the selector identity, of which the reduction lemma is an adaptation, and no count or collapse statement. A fresh-context reviewer, asked before drafting, found the three statements new and required the draw of \(\ell,\ell'\) to be stated (independent uniform). A second fresh-context reviewer of the draft recomputed \(q(5)\) and the limit \(3^{-5}\) (27 of \(3^8\) residue vectors) and required: dropping the unused \(C_0\ge0\) and \(w\ge6\) hypotheses, the clause \(\Pr[\text{not }E]=o(1/B)\) and an explicit \(k\) in the count argument, the refutation stated as a dichotomy for \(\pi_E\) resting on the proved Fourier bound, a derived tail bound for \(w>80\), \(\chi=0\) treated separately, and the harmlessness and reduction claims limited to what is proved. All were adopted. The JSON field ratio of divided_power_exact uses \(3^{w-2}\), not \(3^{u-2}\); the entry quotes only the probabilities. The dynamic program was validated against brute force for \(w\le9\), and the Monte Carlo divided-power ratios agree with the exact \(q(w)\). All numbers are read from the saved JSON by script.

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Computation design and coding	6 min 43.21 s
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Individually measured computation	1 min 48.50 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	6.94 s

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Product-top spread lemma: a product of \(K\) squares has only the forced linear annihilators once \(2K+1\) columns carry independent parts, so the spread event of the killer moment holds with probability exponentially close to 1

25 September 2026 · Working proof, with a falsification check · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-product-top-spread. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Product-top spread lemma: a product of \(K\) squares has only the forced linear annihilators once \(2K+1\) columns carry independent parts, so the spread event of the killer moment holds with probability exponentially close to 1”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-product-top-spread.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The moment entry reduced the degree-\(h+1\) case of dense product-top directness for random tops to conj:product-top-killer-moment, whose first clause is \(\Pr[\text{not }E]=o(1/B)\). \(E\) is the event that a top's linear annihilator is exactly the span of its forms. It also left its refutation of the per-functional bound as a dichotomy depending on that clause. This cycle proves the clause for products of any number of squares.

General statement. lem:product-top-spread: on the weak monomial algebra \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_{c=1}^N(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\), \(\dim V_c=m\), let \(K\ge2\), \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_K\in\tilde A_1\) and \(\tau=\prod_j\ell_j^2\). If at least \(2K+1\) columns are good, meaning \(\ell_{1,c},\dots,\ell_{K,c}\) are independent in \(V_c\), then \(\operatorname{Ann}_{\tilde A_1}(\tau)=\langle\ell_1,\dots,\ell_K\rangle\), whatever the other columns are (a good column needs \(m\ge K\)). For independent uniform forms, \(\Pr[\operatorname{Ann}_{\tilde A_1}(\tau)\ne\langle\ell_j\rangle]\le\Pr[\operatorname{Bin}(N,p_{m,K})\le2K]\), with \(p_{m,K}=\prod_{i=0}^{K-1}(1-3^{i-m})\).

Proof

Each \(\ell_j\) annihilates \(\tau\), since \(\ell_j^3=6e_3(\ell_j)=0\). For a set \(Q\) of columns write \(\tau_S\in\bigotimes_{a\in S}V_a\) for the component of \(\tau\) on the column set \(S\). Since \(\ell_j^2=2e_2(\ell_j)\) and \(V_c^2=0\), \(\tau_S\) vanishes unless \(|S|=2K\). Then it is \(2^K\) times the sum, over the ways to give each form two columns of \(S\) (disjoint pairs), of the tensor product of the corresponding column parts. For \(y=\sum_cy_c\in\tilde A_1\), the component of \(y\tau\) on a \((2K+1)\)-set \(Q\) is \[(y\tau)_Q=\sum_{c\in Q}y_c\otimes\tau_{Q\setminus c},\] which involves only the \(y_c\) with \(c\in Q\).

Local step. Let \(Q\) consist of \(2K+1\) good columns. The condition \((y\tau)_Q=0\) is multilinear and equivariant under \(\prod_{c\in Q}GL(V_c)\), so choose bases with \(\ell_{j,c}=e_j\) for \(j\le K\), extended by \(e_{K+1},\dots,e_m\). Then \(\tau_S\) is \(2^K\) times the sum of the basis tensors \(e_{i_1}\otimes\cdots\otimes e_{i_{2K}}\) in which every index \(j\le K\) occurs exactly twice. Take the coefficient of a basis tensor \(e_I\) on \(Q\) in \((y\tau)_Q\): the term of \(c\) contributes \(y_{c,i_c}\) exactly when \(I\) restricted to \(Q\setminus c\) has every \(j\le K\) exactly twice.

If \(i_c>K\) for some \(c\) and the other positions carry each \(j\le K\) twice, only the term of \(c\) contributes, so \(y_{c,i}=0\) for \(i>K\).
Otherwise the index counts must be two for every \(j\) except one \(j_0\), which occurs three times, and the contributing \(c\) are the three positions carrying \(j_0\). So \(\sum_{c\in T}y_{c,j_0}=0\) for every 3-set \(T\subseteq Q\), and every 3-set arises.

Since \(|Q|\ge5\), comparing \(T=R\cup\{c_1\}\) and \(T'=R\cup\{c_2\}\) with \(R\) a 2-set avoiding \(c_1,c_2\) gives \(y_{c_1,j}=y_{c_2,j}\). So \(y_{\cdot,j}\) is constant on \(Q\), say \(\alpha_j\), and \(3\alpha_j=0\) holds in characteristic 3. Hence the local solutions are exactly \(y|_Q=\sum_j\alpha_j\ell_j|_Q\).

Gluing. Let \(G\) be the set of good columns, \(|G|\ge2K+1\), and \(y\tau=0\). Every \((2K+1)\)-subset \(Q\subseteq G\) gives \(y|_Q=\sum_j\alpha_j^Q\ell_j|_Q\). Two such subsets sharing a column have the same coefficients, because the \(\ell_j\) restricted to one good column are already independent. The subsets of \(G\) are connected under exchanging one element, so there is a single \(\alpha\). Put \(y'=y-\sum_j\alpha_j\ell_j\), which annihilates \(\tau\) and vanishes on \(G\). For \(c\notin G\), take a \(2K\)-subset \(S\subseteq G\) and \(Q=S\cup\{c\}\): \((y'\tau)_Q=y'_c\otimes\tau_S\). And \(\tau_S\ne0\), as a nonzero multiple of a sum of distinct basis tensors in the bases above. So \(y'_c=0\) and \(y=\sum_j\alpha_j\ell_j\). The \(\ell_j\) are independent, being independent on any good column. \(\square\)

Probability. For independent uniform forms the column tuples \((\ell_{1,c},\dots,\ell_{K,c})\) are independent over \(c\), and a column is good with probability \(p_{m,K}=\prod_{i<K}(1-3^{i-m})\). \(\square\)

Consequences

The first clause of the killer moment is proved. For \(K=2\), \(m\ge2\), \(\Pr[\text{not }E]\le\Pr[\operatorname{Bin}(N,p)\le4]\le\binom N4(1-p)^{N-4}\), with \(p=(1-3^{-m})(1-3^{1-m})\ge48/81\). For \(m\ge2\) and \(N\ge4\) this is \(o(N^{-a})\) for every \(a\), so \(o(1/B)\) whenever \(B=N^{O(1)}\). conj:product-top-killer-moment now rests on its moment clause alone.
The divided-power obstruction is unconditional. The dichotomy in the moment entry's collapse proposition is resolved: \(\Pr[\text{not }E]\to0\), and \(\pi_E\ge\pi-\Pr[\text{not }E]\) together with the collapse proposition's \(\pi(\varphi^{[5]})\ge3^{-8}(1-o(1))\) give \(\pi_E(\varphi^{[5]})\ge3^{-8}(1-o(1))\) for full-support divided powers as \(N\to\infty\), while their contraction rank grows. The per-functional bound by contraction rank fails for \(\pi_E\).
W-shaped tops, random model. The lemma covers tops with \(K=k+1\) squared factors, the shape of W's clause tops, in \(\tilde A\) with independent uniform factors; W's own clauses are neither random nor in \(\tilde A\) without the spare-column transfer. Failure needs at least \(N-2K\) bad columns, so by a union bound its probability is at most \(\binom N{2K}(1-p_{m,K})^{N-2K}\le\binom N{2K}3^{(K-m)(N-2K)}\), using \(1-p_{m,K}\le\sum_{i<K}3^{i-m}\le3^{K-m}\). With \(N\ge4K\) this is at most \(3^{2K(\log_3N-(m-K))}\), small once \(m-K>\log_3N+1\). On the W board \(m=n+1\), \(N=n\) and \(K=\Theta(\log n)\), so that holds. It improves the \(4K\) threshold that the seed lemmas give (lem:free-seed-tensor, lem:seed-cap) and is the product-top counterpart of the recorded spread lemmas (lem:selector-spread-lemma), which needed third and fourth mixed differences for single squares in the ring with row forms. Here the ring has no row relations, and one local 3-set computation replaces the differences.

Falsification check

spread_check.c reuses the moment entry's kernel. It samples uniform \(\ell,\ell'\), counts the good columns exactly, and tests \(E\) by FLINT ranks. The prediction was no failure of \(E\) with at least five good columns. Results (spread_check_m2.json, spread_check_m3.json): no failure of \(E\) with at least five good columns among the 40000 tops at each of \(m=2\), \(N=7,8,9\), nor among the 20000 at \(m=3\), \(N=7\). All failures had at most three good columns: at \(m=2\), \(N=7\), 30 of 86 tops with none, 155 of 728 with one, 304 of 3282 with two, 171 of 7922 with three, and 0 of 11715 with four. So four good columns already sufficed in every sample. The lemma needs five, for its local step on a five-set of good columns; the threshold four is observed only.

What this means

The degree-\(h+1\) case of dense product-top directness for random tops now follows, by the proved reduction, from the killer-moment bound \(\sum_\chi\pi_E(\chi)^B\le(1+o(1))3^{C_0}\), whose difficulty is the inverse question for functionals near divided powers. Adversarial families (A1) and the Koszul range stay untouched. Process: one local computation settled the lemma, and a single check at the smallest sizes tested it, with no series of runs.

Next: the inverse bound for the first non-generic stratum. For \(\chi=\lambda\varphi^{[5]}+\eta\) with \(\eta\) supported on the monomials meeting a set of \(k\) columns, condition on the scalars \(s,s'\) of \(\varphi\). The contraction splits into the divided-power part, a function of the residues, and \(\eta\)'s part, which uses the remaining \((m-1)\)-dimensional parts of the columns as fresh randomness. Bound \(\pi_E(\chi)\le\min(q,\,3^{-(u(\eta)-O(1))})\), and count such \(\chi\) with lem:catalecticant-count.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read: the moment entry's setting, its collapse proposition and conj:product-top-killer-moment; lem:selector-spread-lemma and lem:column-tensor-exactness, the recorded annihilator results for single squares; thm:tensor-power-freeness, which gives the annihilator when every column has independent parts. A reviewer asked before drafting whether the record implies the lemma. It found the \(2K+1\) threshold new. The record implies a weaker version needing \(4K\) good columns, from lem:free-seed-tensor with lem:seed-cap: two seeds of \(2K\) good columns each make \(\tilde A\) free plus a summand from degree 2. Tensor-power freeness needs every column good and \(N\ge4K+1\) for this degree. The single-square case, lem:column-tensor-exactness, fails at \(c=2K+1=3\) columns, which is why the local step uses \(K\ge2\) through \(|Q|\ge5\). A second fresh-context reviewer found the proof correct and required: dropping the unused hypothesis \(m\ge K\) (implied by a good column), an explicit tail bound and size condition for W-shaped tops restricted to the random model on \(\tilde A\), explicit hypotheses for \(o(1/B)\), the inequality \(\pi_E\ge\pi-\Pr[\text{not }E]\) named, clearer wording of the check, and "sharing a column" in the gluing. All were adopted. The falsification check is the one above. The numbers are read from the saved JSON by script.

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Total instrumented interval	5 min 12.95 s
Marked reading and review windows	54.20 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 27.14 s
Computation design and coding	11.67 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 22.35 s
Individually measured computation	12.05 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	5.54 s

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Random product tops behave like uniform random matrices: images are direct up to one below the fill point, and at the fill the corank follows the Cohen–Lenstra law

25 September 2026 · Conjecture with a finite check · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-killer-moment-fill. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Random product tops behave like uniform random matrices: images are direct up to one below the fill point, and at the fill the corank follows the Cohen–Lenstra law”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-product-top-cohen-lenstra.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. conj:product-top-killer-moment, with its spread clause now proved (spread lemma), claims degree-\(h+1\) directness of \(B\) random product tops for \(B\le(1-\varepsilon)F\), where \(F=\binom N5m^4/N\) is close to the fill point \(D/r\) (\(D=\dim\tilde A_5\), \(r=mN-2\)). Earlier data reached only \(B\le20\) at \(N=10\), about 5% of the fill (product tops). Is the conjectured range right near the fill, where the count leaves no slack? Would a failure there change the statement? The inverse bound needed to prove the moment clause is a research problem of its own (moment entry). Before investing in it, the cycle tests what the statement should be.

General statement. conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra. For fixed \(m\ge2\), as \(N\to\infty\), condition on every top lying in \(E\). Then the excess \(Br-\dim\sum_b\tilde A_1\tau_b\) of \(B\) independent random product tops \(\tau_b=\ell_b^2\ell_b'^2\) in \(\tilde A_5\) has asymptotically the law of the rank deficiency of a uniform random \(Br\times D\) matrix over \(\mathbb F_3\), uniformly in \(Br\le D\). In particular the images are direct with probability \(1-o(1)\) whenever \(D-Br\to\infty\). At \(Br=D\) the excess is Cohen–Lenstra distributed: \(\Pr[j]=3^{-j^2}\prod_{i\ge1}(1-3^{-i})/\prod_{i\le j}(1-3^{-i})^2\), that is \(0.5601,\ 0.4201,\ 0.0197\) for \(j=0,1,2\). This is the distributional strengthening of conj:product-top-killer-moment, whose moment is the first moment of this law, and it extends the range from \((1-\varepsilon)F\) to the fill point.

Test design

near_fill.c with rrp.cpp draws, per sample, one sequence of product tops up to the fill point. It stacks the rows \(y\tau_b\), \(y\) running over the cells, in top order, and computes one row rank profile over \(\mathbb F_3\) with fflas-ffpack. That single factorization gives the rank after every prefix \(B=1,\dots,\lfloor D/r\rfloor\). \(E\) is checked for every top by FLINT ranks. The fflas ranks agreed with FLINT's on the first two samples at every size. Sizes: \(m=2\), the smallest meeting \(N\ge7\): \(N=7\) (\(D=672\), \(r=12\), fill 56), \(N=8\) (1792, 14, 128) and \(N=9\) (4032, 16, 252), with 10000, 1000 and 100 samples.

For a uniform random matrix the predictions are: failure of directness with probability about \(3^{-(D-Br+1)}\) below the fill, below \(10^{-6}\) at \(B=\text{fill}-1\); and the Cohen–Lenstra law at the fill.

Results

From near_fill_m2_N7-9.json:

Below the fill point. In every sample whose tops so far all lay in \(E\), the images were direct for every \(B<D/r\). That is at least 4037, 733 and 88 samples at every \(B\) for \(N=7,8,9\). Zero failures in total below the fill, including \(B=\text{fill}-1\), where the count leaves only \(r\) spare dimensions.
At the fill point. The excess histogram (excess 0, 1, 2) was 2210, 1658, 96 of 3964 at \(N=7\), that is 0.558, 0.418, 0.024; 404, 313, 14 of 731 at \(N=8\), that is 0.553, 0.428, 0.019; and 52, 35, 0 of 87 at \(N=9\). The Cohen–Lenstra values are 0.560, 0.420, 0.020. The mean of \(3^{\text{excess}}\) was 2.03, 2.01 and 1.81, against the Cohen–Lenstra first moment 2.
The fraction of samples with all tops in \(E\) up to the fill was 0.40, 0.73 and 0.87, as \(\Pr[\text{not }E]\) falls with \(N\) (spread lemma).

A first run of the kernel had a race in merging the per-thread counts: an OpenMP critical section covered only one of two loops, which gave non-monotone counts. It was detected by a monotonicity check, fixed, and the series rerun; the failed run's output was discarded.

What this means

Random product tops sum like independent uniform random subspaces: no structural syzygy appears until the dimension count forces one, and then the corank has the universal Cohen–Lenstra law. The conjectured range for degree-\(h+1\) directness extends from \((1-\varepsilon)F\) to the fill point itself.
This is a universality statement of the kind Wood and Nguyen–Wood prove by the moment method (arXiv:1806.00596), there for matrices with independent entries. Here the rows come in independent blocks, each block the random \(r\)-dimensional subspace \(\tilde A_1\tau_b\) generated by \(2mN\) random entries. The \(k\)-th moment \(\mathbb E\,3^{kC}\) is the joint killer sum \(\sum_{\chi_1,\dots,\chi_k}\Pr[\tau\in E,\ \chi_i(\tilde A_1\tau)=0\ \forall i]^B\). The moment entry's single-functional analysis, divided-power collapse included, is the case \(k=1\) of what a universality proof must control.
Random families only; A1 and the Koszul range are untouched.

Process: one factorization per sample answered all \(B\) at once, as the computation rules ask. A monotonicity check caught a concurrency bug before any number was used.

Next: attempt a proof in the rectangular regime by Wood's method. The first moment needs the inverse bound for functionals near divided powers. As the first provable step, take the range \(B\le N^{3-\delta}\), where the count leaves slack everywhere except near full contraction rank. Prove that stratum's equidistribution for functionals outside the span of fewer than \(m\) divided powers, using the two-layer Gauss-sum structure: for fixed \(\ell'\), \(\chi(y\,e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell'))\) is a quadratic form in \(\ell\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:product-top-killer-moment and lem:product-top-spread with their entries, and the product-tops entry's degree-5 data. The claim search for Cohen–Lenstra, universality and random-subspace sums in the record found only the outside-leads review's lead. This entry states a conjecture and a finite check, no proof, so no proof reviewer was run. The kernel was validated against FLINT on two samples per size. The Cohen–Lenstra values were computed from the product formula, and all quoted numbers were read from the saved JSON by script.

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Total instrumented interval	6 min 43.72 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 4.35 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 23.07 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 6.70 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 58.56 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	11.04 s

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Route review: the generic line reached a universality conjecture that survives the one-row test, its proof needs a quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorem, and the matroid bridge for adversarial W reduces to pinning

25 September 2026 · Route review with a falsification check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-universality-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the generic line reached a universality conjecture that survives the one-row test, its proof needs a quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorem, and the matroid bridge for adversarial W reduces to pinning”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-universality-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the outside-leads review the generic line has gone through three entries:

the moment reduction and divided-power collapse;
the spread lemma;
the Cohen–Lenstra check.

Where does the line stand, what would prove its conjecture, and what is left for adversarial W?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra: random product tops at degree \(h+1\) behave like uniform random matrices up to the fill point. It gives the degree-\(h+1\) case of conj:dense-product-top-directness for random forms. The goal needs W (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction): adversarial families (A1), tops of logarithmic width (A2) and the Koszul range up to degree \(22k\) (A3).

Falsification attempt: one row

The conjecture assumes \(m\ge2\), which the spread lemma needs. The one-row algebra \(\tilde A=\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_N]/(x_c^2)\) has the most collapse: every form is a type sequence, and a random functional supported on one row had ten times the naive killing rate (moment entry). So it is the natural place for universality to fail. The same kernel at \(m=1\), \(N=9,10,11,12\) (near_fill_m1_N9-12.json) gave:

At \(N=9\) and \(10\), a few samples were not direct well below the fill, first at \(B=5\). By \(B=\text{fill}-1\), 2 of 195 and 2 of 343 samples with all tops in \(E\) were not direct.
At \(N=11\) and \(12\) no sample was non-direct below the last \(B\).
At the last \(B\), with 3 and 2 spare dimensions, 3 of 349 and 19 of 279 samples were non-direct. A uniform matrix with that many spare columns gives about \(1.8\%\) and \(5.5\%\).
At \(N=9\) the fill is square, and the excess counts 96, 64, 5 of 165 match the Cohen–Lenstra law.

So the early failures fade by \(N=11\), and universality appears to hold without \(m\ge2\). That hypothesis serves only the spread lemma's proof: at \(m=1\), \(\Pr[E]\) was 0.84, 0.93, 0.96 and 0.98 for \(N=9,\dots,12\).

Assessment of the generic line

Progress. In three entries the degree-\(h+1\) random case went from "no proof method" to a proved reduction, a proved spread clause, a proved obstruction showing what a proof must stratify, and a sharp conjecture with strong evidence. The evidence covers directness up to one below the fill at \(N=7,8,9\), and Cohen–Lenstra coranks at the fill for \(m=1,2\).
What a proof needs. Universality results of this kind are proved by the moment method. Every moment is a joint killer sum, and bounding it needs an inverse theorem: a functional kills a random top with probability well above \(3^{-(u-2)}\) only if it has recognisable structure. For fixed \(\ell'\) the contraction \(\chi(y\,e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell'))\) is a quadratic form in \(\ell\), so the needed tool is a quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorem over \(\mathbb F_3\), extended to vector-valued maps and to the Frobenius collapse. That is a research project, and no recorded tool does it.
Distance to the goal. Even proved, the conjecture covers only random families, two-factor tops and one degree above the generators. The Koszul range, which is A3's core, and logarithmic width (A2) need the same universality at higher degree and more factors. The spread lemma already covers \(K\) factors, and the kernel can test higher degrees at small sizes. The line is a calibration of generic W, not a route to A1.

Assessment of the adversarial bridges

Matroid growth rates. Closed. A family whose forms span a space of dimension \(t\) is already handled by recorded pinning: pin the \(t\) spanning forms at a generic point, and choose each block's prefix to contain a form with value 0 when there is one. Every clause then vanishes, as in cor:single-form-pinning. A projective-geometry minor is reached only after contracting forms, which in PC terms means pinning them, and the contracted sets are unbounded, while pinning's capacity is about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) forms (pinning gap). So the growth-rate dichotomy gives nothing beyond pinning.
Linked-cluster expansions. Their criteria are local conditions on the overlap graph, and W's adversarial families have dense overlaps, since \(n^K\) forms share \(n^2\) cells. They would cover only sparse families, which recorded locality already handles.
Stable regularity. Its unstable side is the long chains that the record names as A1's open core. It relocates the problem without solving it.

A1 has no live mechanism.

Outside leads

Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems, for the universality proof. Kwan and Sauermann (arXiv:1909.02089) proved that a quadratic polynomial with point probabilities much above \(1/n\) is close to a low-rank quadratic form; Kwan later resolved the quadratic Littlewood–Offord problem (arXiv:2312.13826). Here, for fixed \(\ell'\), the contraction is a vector-valued quadratic map in \(\ell\). The divided-power collapse gives quadratic forms that factor through the \(w\) scalars \(\varphi_c(\ell_c)\), so their rank is at most \(w-1\): below generic, but growing with the support. Their large point probability comes from Frobenius residues, which real-variable inverse theorems do not see. Where it breaks: those results are over the reals or integers with Rademacher inputs, and scalar-valued. We need \(\mathbb F_3\), vector values and exponentially small point probabilities. Test. Passed in part. lead_tests.py at \(m=2\), \(N=8\) (16 variables): over six draws of \(\ell'\) and \(y\), the quadratic forms had ranks 0, 6, 3, 5, 3, 0 for a full-support divided power and 12, 13, 12, 13, 13, 13 for a uniform functional (lead_tests.json). The collapse is lower rank, but not of bounded rank, so a transfer must allow rank up to the support size.
Universality for dependent entries (Wood). Wood's sandpile theorem (The distribution of sandpile groups of random graphs, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 2017) proves Cohen–Lenstra-type universality for Laplacians, whose entries are dependent, by the moment method with a codes-and-depth classification. Its dependence, symmetric pairs of entries, is closer to our block structure than independent entries are. Where it breaks: our blocks are \(r\)-dimensional subspaces generated by \(2mN\) parameters, far more dependent than a symmetric pair. Test. Not run: the transfer depends on the paper's codes-and-depth argument, which must be read first; no computation tests it.
Gauss sums for the two-layer structure. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the character sum of a quadratic form of rank \(\rho\) has modulus \(3^{-\rho/2}\), with its phase fixed by the discriminant. So \(\mathbb E\,\omega^{\chi(y\tau)}=\mathbb E_{\ell'}\bigl[(i/\sqrt3)^{\rho(\ell')}\eta(\operatorname{disc}\ell')\bigr]\) exactly, where \(\rho\) and \(\operatorname{disc}\) belong to the quadratic form in \(\ell\), and \(\eta\) is the quadratic character. The bias of every killer term thus reduces to the joint distribution of the rank and discriminant of a quadratic-form pencil in \(\ell'\). Where it breaks: the moment needs cancellation across \(\ell'\) in the discriminant signs, not only the modulus, and nothing yet controls that joint distribution. Test. Passed. At \(m=1\), \(N=7\), the direct sum over all \(3^7\) values of \(\ell\) matched \(3^7(i/\sqrt3)^\rho\eta(\operatorname{disc})\) in 8 of 8 random trials, with maximal error \(3\times10^{-13}\).

Absurd bridges

Unitary designs from local random quantum circuits. Brandão, Harrow and Horodecki (Local random quantum circuits are approximate polynomial-designs, Comm. Math. Phys. 2016) show that products of local random gates match Haar moments up to order \(t\), through the spectral gap of a moment operator. Translation: a product top is built column by column from local random pieces, and the \(k\)-th killer moment is the \(k\)-th moment of the random subspace \(\tilde A_1\tau\). Universality up to order \(k\) is an approximate \(k\)-design property of that subspace over \(\mathbb F_3\). Wood's moment problem says the moments determine the Cohen–Lenstra law. So a finite-field design theorem for column-built subspaces would prove the conjecture. The finite-field analogue exists for Clifford groups, which are 3-designs over qudits. What a theorem there would give: a spectral-gap proof of universality, replacing the inverse theorem. Smallest test: compare the second moment at the fill with the Cohen–Lenstra value. Test. Passed. At the square fill, \(\mathbb E\,9^{\text{excess}}\) was 6.28 (\(m=2\), \(N=7\), 3964 samples), 5.96 (\(N=8\), 731) and 6.53 (\(m=1\), \(N=9\), 165). Cohen–Lenstra predicts 6, the number of subgroups of \(\mathbb F_3^2\). The first moments were 2.03, 2.01 and 2.02, against 2. At \(N=9\), \(m=2\), with 87 samples, no excess-2 event occurred and the second moment was 4.22.
The cavity method and the Aizenman–Sims–Starr scheme. Coja-Oghlan, Ergür, Gao, Hetterich and Rolvien (The rank of sparse random matrices, Random Structures Algorithms 2023, arXiv:1906.05757) determine ranks of random matrices over any field with a spin-glass interpolation that adds one row at a time, plus a perturbation suppressing short linear relations. Translation: our kernel adds one top at a time, and directness is the statement that each top's rank increment is full. Their perturbation, removing short relations, is the analogue of conditioning away divided-power collapse. What it would give: the rank formula \(\min(Br,D)\) up to \(o(D)\), a first-order result that falls short of Cohen–Lenstra but would prove directness up to \((1-\varepsilon)\) of the fill in the weak sense. Smallest test: check whether the expected rank increment of the \(B\)-th top, measured by the kernel, matches the interpolation's prediction \(r\) up to the fill. Test. Passed. In the near-fill runs every sample with all tops in \(E\) had full rank increments \(r\) below the fill at \(m=2\), \(N=7,8,9\), and at \(m=1\), \(N=11,12\).

Next step

The highest-risk open statement is A1, and it has no live mechanism. The generic line's proof is a long project whose payoff is a calibration. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is therefore a new idea for A1 that uses what the generic line taught: adversarial families fail universality only through structure, low-dimensional spans or collapse. Pinning handles the first when it is small. The step is to formulate a structure-versus-universality dichotomy for W's clause tops: either the family's tops are \(\varepsilon\)-close to a universal random family in the moment sense, or a bounded set of forms carries a structural obstruction that pinning or a recorded endpoint removes. Then test the dichotomy's structured side on the recorded hard families (chains, hubs, occupancy pairs) with the near-fill kernel. The generic line's next proof step, the two-layer Gauss-sum analysis, stays open in parallel.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three entries of the line, conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra, cor:single-form-pinning with the pinning-gap entry, and the chain and hub reviews for A1's open core. The \(m=1\) numbers were read from the saved JSON by script, and the kernel's FLINT validation passed at every size. Claim searches for Littlewood–Offord, universality, designs and cavity methods in the record found only the outside-leads review's Cohen–Lenstra lead. The Kwan–Sauermann, Kwan, Coja-Oghlan et al. and Brandão–Harrow–Horodecki citations were checked against their abstracts. The cheap tests ran in this cycle (lead_tests.py, lead_tests.json). Wood's sandpile theorem and the Clifford-design fact are recalled from memory and must be read before use. This review registers no claim. Process: the living sections were consolidated. Where we stand is back under its hard limit and still above its soft target, as are Open statements and The remaining route.

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Structured product-top families: the capacity is the structure's own count, not the saturated rank; hubs reduce to squares modulo the shared form, spans fail at their forced count and sometimes before, chains rarely

25 September 2026 · Working lemma and a finite check; relative universality undecided · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-circuit-universality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Structured product-top families: the capacity is the structure's own count, not the saturated rank; hubs reduce to squares modulo the shared form, spans fail at their forced count and sometimes before, chains rarely”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-structured-product-tops.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The universality review proposed a structure-versus-universality dichotomy for adversarial families. Random product tops behave like uniform random matrices (conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra). The natural guess for structured families is relative universality: images are as independent as the structure's own capacity allows, with no hidden syzygies. If that held, A1 at this degree would reduce to identifying the structure. The cycle tests the guess on the structures the record names for adversarial families (shared forms, chains, low spans) and explains the hub case exactly.

General statement. lem:hub-product-top-reduction: on \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_{j=1}^N(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_j)\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(\dim V_j=m\) and \(V_j^2=0\), let \(\ell_0\) have at least 8 nonzero column parts. Then for \(y_b\in\tilde A_1\) and any \(\ell_b\), \[\sum_by_b\,\ell_0^2\ell_b^2=0\iff\sum_by_b\,\ell_b^2\in\ell_0\tilde A_2 .\] So the degree-5 syzygies of a hub family \(\{\ell_0^2\ell_b^2\}\) are exactly the degree-3 syzygies of the squares \(\ell_b^2\) modulo \(\ell_0\). It is the case \(k=3\) of lem:column-tensor-exactness. On \(\tilde A\) itself, squares have Taylor generation only while free (conj:squares-taylor-is-freeness); the analogue for \(\tilde A/\ell_0\tilde A\), which is not a weak monomial algebra, is unrecorded.

Proof

\(\sum_by_b\ell_0^2\ell_b^2=\ell_0^2\cdot\sum_by_b\ell_b^2\), with \(\sum_by_b\ell_b^2\in\tilde A_3\). By lem:column-tensor-exactness, for a form with \(w\) nonzero columns, \(\operatorname{Ann}_{\tilde A_k}(\ell_0^2)=\ell_0\tilde A_{k-1}\) whenever \(k<\lfloor w/2\rfloor\); here \(k=3\), so \(w\ge8\) suffices. \(\square\)

The image \(\sum_b\tilde A_1\ell_0^2\ell_b^2=\ell_0^2W\), with \(W=\sum_b\tilde A_1\ell_b^2\), is isomorphic to \(W/(W\cap\ell_0\tilde A_2)\), and its dimension is bounded by \(\dim\tilde A_3-\dim\ell_0\tilde A_2\).

Test

structured_fill.c is the near-fill kernel with the forms constrained (fflas-ffpack row rank profiles, FLINT validation, FLINT checks of \(E\)). Setting: \(m=2\), degree 5, 600 samples per family. Families: random (control); hub, all tops \(\ell_0^2\ell_b^2\); chain, tops \(\ell_b^2\ell_{b+1}^2\); span, all forms uniform in a random \(t\)-dimensional subspace, \(t=4,6,8,10\). Relative universality predicts no failure before the structure's own capacity. The saturated rank turned out to be the wrong capacity (below). Results (structured_fill_m2.json; non-direct samples among those with all tops in \(E\)):

Random, \(N=7\): none below the fill (56), the control.
Hub, \(N=7\): 1 of 586 at \(B=2\), 9/565 at 5, 45/529 at 10, 196/500 at 15, all 466 at 20; the rank saturates near 189. \(N=8\): first at \(B=3\), 48/569 at 20, all 560 at 30; saturation near 334. The lemma does not apply at \(N=7\), where \(w(\ell_0)\le7\), and applies to only about \((8/9)^8\approx39\%\) of the \(N=8\) samples, those with \(w(\ell_0)=8\). So the data do not test it; they show only that hub failures begin far below saturation.
Chain: rare failures, 2/579 at \(B=2\) and 27/319 by \(B=50\) at \(N=7\); 1/581 at \(B=10\) and 10/485 by \(B=100\) at \(N=8\). This is consistent with each failure being a two-top hub, but that rests on one or two events, and no run checked that a chain's excess localizes to one consecutive pair.
Span \(t\), \(N=7\). The structure forces a count: with \(y_b\) in the span \(U\), each top gives \(t-2\) products beyond its Frobenius ones, landing in the degree-5 part of \(\mathbb F_3[U]/(u^3)\), of dimension 16, 126, 504 and 1452 for \(t=4,6,8,10\). That forces failure from \(B=9\) and \(B=32\) for \(t=4,6\), and the data turn over exactly there: 244/343 fail at \(B=8\) and all 325 at \(B=9\) for \(t=4\); 48/312 at \(B=31\) and all 306 at \(B=32\) for \(t=6\). But failures also occur earlier at rates no uniform matrix with that many spare dimensions would give: 109/399 at \(B=6\) for \(t=4\), and 31/325 at \(B=29\) for \(t=6\), with 10 spare. For \(t=8\) failures begin at \(B=37\), far below its count of 85 but where the whole algebra still has spare room. For \(t=10\) they begin at \(B=54\), next to the fill. A plausible cause is that the \(U\)-subalgebra does not embed freely in \(\tilde A\) at \(N=7\): lem:seed-cap needs about \(2t\) columns. This was not tested.

What this means

Relative universality is undecided. The saturated rank is the wrong capacity. The structure's own count predicts where spans fail completely, but not their earlier failures, and the hubs' count, the Hilbert function of squares modulo \(\ell_0\), is unrecorded. Structured families follow laws set by their structure, not the random law.
For A1, hubs and spans are pinnable, conditionally. Every clause whose designated prefix form is the hub form \(\ell_0\), or lies in a pinned span, vanishes under pinning (cor:single-form-pinning). That applies when the pinned forms meet the corollary's hypotheses (row-linear parts independent modulo constants on every row, and member pinning's row and robustness conditions), and within its capacity of about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks (pinning gap).
Chains are what remains, as the record found at the closure level (closure review). Here their failures are rare, and consistent with being two-top hubs. An adversarial family of \(n^K\) tops, however, can contain many overlapping chains and hubs beyond pinning's capacity, and nothing here controls that.
The dichotomy the review proposed needs a third class between pinnable structure and universality: sparse local structure, such as chains, whose syzygies are individually local. Whether they are consistent, and so liftable, is the circuit question of prop:circuit-syzygies.

Process: one kernel extension answered the whole family list in one pass, and a non-finite moment was caught by the JSON parser and fixed at the source before the final run.

Next: the chain class at degree \(h+1\). Prove that a two-top hub \(\{\ell_0^2\ell_1^2,\ell_0^2\ell_2^2\}\) with \(w(\ell_0)\ge8\) has a syzygy beyond Frobenius exactly when \(y_1\ell_1^2+y_2\ell_2^2\in\ell_0\tilde A_2\) has a non-Frobenius solution, and compute that event's probability from the squares' structure. Then show that a chain's syzygies are generated by its consecutive pairs' syzygies, a local-generation statement for chains, which is what W needs from them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:column-tensor-exactness (its ring is \(\tilde A\), its range \(k<\lfloor c/2\rfloor\)), conj:squares-taylor-is-freeness, cor:single-form-pinning with the pinning-gap entry, thm:clause-hub-criterion and the hub and closure reviews. The recorded hub results concern ENS blocks and hub coordinates of clause families, not product tops in \(\tilde A\). A fresh-context reviewer found the lemma new, a one-line corollary. It found the saturated rank to be the wrong capacity, and showed that the span data turn over at the forced count, which the entry now states. It also found the hub data mostly outside the lemma's hypothesis, the chain interpretation resting on one or two events, and pinning's capacity counted in blocks and conditional, and it required the setting and notation fixed. All were adopted, and the original headline, that relative universality is false, was withdrawn as unsupported. All numbers were read from the saved JSON by script.

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Computation design and coding	1 min 29.94 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 7.66 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 3.10 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	9.57 s

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Directness propagates from one good block of columns: degree-\(h+1\) directness of random product tops is monotone in the board, fixed numbers of tops are direct with probability tending to 1, and a fixed fraction of the fill needs only constant-probability directness at smaller sizes

25 September 2026 · Working proof, with exact certificates for the rate · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-directness-propagation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Directness propagates from one good block of columns: degree-\(h+1\) directness of random product tops is monotone in the board, fixed numbers of tops are direct with probability tending to 1, and a fixed fraction of the fill needs only constant-probability directness at smaller sizes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-directness-propagation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. No beyond-freeness directness statement for random product tops was proved: freeness covers only up to \(m\) forms with independent column parts, one top when \(m=2\). conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra and the killer-moment route need an inverse theorem (universality review). Is there a structural route that avoids it?

General statement. thm:directness-propagation. On \(\tilde A(P)=\bigotimes_{c\in P}(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\), \(\dim V_c=m\), \(V_c^2=0\), take tops \(\tau_b=\prod_{j=1}^K\ell_{b,j}^2\) (\(b\le B\)) and \(F_b=\langle\ell_{b,1},\dots,\ell_{b,K}\rangle\), which annihilates \(\tau_b\). For \(Q\subseteq P\) let \(\pi_Q\) kill the columns outside \(Q\), a ring homomorphism. Call the family direct on \(Q\) if every \((z_b)\in\tilde A(Q)_1^B\) with \(\sum_bz_b\,\pi_Q\tau_b=0\) has \(z_b\in\pi_QF_b\) for every \(b\). If the family is direct on \(Q\) and the \(\pi_Q\tau_b\) are linearly independent in \(\tilde A(Q)_{2K}\), then it is direct on every \(P\supseteq Q\). The proof uses only that each \(F_b\) annihilates \(\tau_b\) (here because \(\ell^3=0\)), that the tops are homogeneous of one degree, and that adding a column tensors with \(\mathbb F\oplus V_c\), \(V_c^2=0\), over a graded algebra with degree-0 part \(\mathbb F\). So it holds over any field, for any tops of a common degree and any \(F_b\subseteq\operatorname{Ann}_1(\tau_b)\). cor:block-amplification: for random forms, directness on \(N\) columns fails with probability at most \((1-g_q(B))^{\lfloor N/q\rfloor}\), where \(g_q(B)\) is the probability of the two hypotheses on \(q\) given columns.

Proof of the propagation theorem

It suffices to add one column \(c\notin Q\); put \(Q'=Q\cup\{c\}\) and induct. Independence passes to \(Q'\), because \(\pi_Q\) maps the \(\pi_{Q'}\tau_b\) onto independent elements. Let \(\sum_bz_b\,\pi_{Q'}\tau_b=0\) with \(z_b\in\tilde A(Q')_1\). Applying \(\pi_Q\) gives \(\sum_b\pi_Q(z_b)\,\pi_Q\tau_b=0\), so by directness on \(Q\) there are \(f_b\in F_b\) with \(\pi_Q(z_b)=\pi_Q(f_b)\). Put \(z'_b=z_b-\pi_{Q'}(f_b)\). Since \(f_b\tau_b=0\), the \(z'_b\) still satisfy the relation, and \(\pi_Q(z'_b)=0\), so \(z'_b=u_b\in V_c\). Now \(\pi_{Q'}\tau_b=\pi_Q\tau_b+(\text{terms with a factor in }V_c)\), and \(u_bV_c=0\), so the relation reads \(\sum_bu_b\otimes\pi_Q\tau_b=0\) in \(V_c\otimes\tilde A(Q)_{2K}\). Writing \(u_b=\sum_iu_{b,i}e_i\), each coordinate gives \(\sum_bu_{b,i}\,\pi_Q\tau_b=0\), so \(u_b=0\) by independence. Hence \(z_b=\pi_{Q'}(f_b)\in\pi_{Q'}F_b\). \(\square\)

Two remarks. The single-top case \(B=1\) says that \(\operatorname{Ann}_{\tilde A_1}(\tau)=F\) propagates from any block where it holds. It generalizes the last gluing step of lem:product-top-spread's proof, where \(y'_c\otimes\tau_S=0\) with \(\tau_S\ne0\) clears the columns outside the good ones. Here a "good block" is a set of columns satisfying the theorem's two hypotheses, not the spread lemma's good columns. The added column \(c\) may be arbitrary, even zero or a copy of another column; only \(Q\) matters.

Amplification

Corollary (block amplification, cor:block-amplification). Let the forms be independent and uniform, and let \(Q_1,\dots,Q_L\) be disjoint blocks of \(q\) columns, \(L=\lfloor N/q\rfloor\). The events "the family restricted to \(Q_i\) is direct with independent restricted tops" are independent, since they depend on disjoint columns, and each has probability \(g_q(B)\). Any one of them makes the family direct on all \(N\) columns, so \(\Pr[\text{not direct}]\le(1-g_q(B))^{\lfloor N/q\rfloor}\). \(\square\)

Fixed \(B\) needs no computation. Put each top's forms on its own block of \(2K+1\) columns, independent there and zero elsewhere. A product \(z_b\tau_b\) lies on \((2K+1)\)-sets of columns containing \(2K\) columns of block \(b\), and sets from two different blocks would need \(4K\le2K+1\). So the images sit in disjoint coordinates, the support-disjointness step of thm:pre-koszul-weak-families. By lem:product-top-spread each top has only its forced annihilators, and the tops are independent. So \(g_{B(2K+1)}(B)>0\) for every \(B\) and every \(m\ge K\), and for each fixed \(B\) directness fails with probability tending to 0 as \(N\to\infty\). The proved rate is weak: \(g_q(B)\ge3^{-KmqB}\), giving \((1-3^{-KmqB})^{\lfloor N/q\rfloor}\), which has no force at feasible \(N\). The certificates below only shorten \(q\).
Constant probability buys a fixed fraction of the fill. Suppose \(g_q(B)\ge c>0\) for all large \(q\) and all \(B\le(1-\varepsilon)\,\mathrm{fill}(q)\), where \(\mathrm{fill}(q)=\dim\tilde A(q)_{2K+1}/(mq-K)\). Then on \(N=Lq\) columns, \(B\le(1-\varepsilon)\,\mathrm{fill}(N/L)\) tops are direct with probability at least \(1-(1-c)^L\). For \(K=2\), \(\mathrm{fill}(N/L)\approx\mathrm{fill}(N)/L^4\). For success probability \(1-\delta\) take \(L\approx\log(1/\delta)/c\): that covers \(B\le c_\delta\,\mathrm{fill}(N)\) with \(c_\delta\asymp(c/\log(1/\delta))^4\). Probability \(1-o(1)\) needs \(L\to\infty\) and so reaches only \(o(\mathrm{fill}(N))\) tops.
W-shaped tops, random model. The theorem holds for any \(K\), in particular \(K=k+1\), W's number of squared prefix factors; W's own forms are neither random nor in \(\tilde A\). With \(B=n^K\) tops, W's inventory size, blocks of \(q=n/L\) columns still have \(\mathrm{fill}(q)\gg n^K\). Constant-probability directness at that scale would suffice, but in a different regime from the data: \(K=\Theta(\log n)\) and \(m=n+1\) growing.

Certificates and checks

certificate.c draws seeded uniform forms at \(m=2\), \(K=2\), and checks both hypotheses by exact FLINT ranks. Directness is equivalent to \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi=B(mq-2)\) when each pair \(\ell_b,\ell'_b\) is independent. The first draw succeeded in each case:

\(q=7\), \(B=55\): rank 660 of 660, 55 independent tops (certificate_m2_q7_B55.json);
\(q=8\), \(B=127\): 1778 of 1778, 127 independent (certificate_m2_q8_B127.json);
\(q=9\), \(B=251\): 4016 of 4016, 251 independent (certificate_m2_q9_B251.json).

These are one below the fill at each size. They show that blocks of 7, 8 and 9 columns already carry up to 55, 127 and 251 tops, so \(q\) need not grow with \(B\) at the rate the disjoint-support construction uses.

The near-fill runs estimate the rates as \(\Pr[\text{direct on the block}]\approx0.40\), \(0.73\) and \(0.88\) at \((q,B)=(7,55),(8,127),(9,251)\) (near_fill_m2_N7-9.json). Independence of the tops held in every certificate but was not measured in bulk, so these are upper estimates of \(g\), the last from 100 samples. If independence is rarely lost, the failure probability for \(B\le251\) is about \(0.12^{\lfloor N/9\rfloor}\).

extend_check.c embedded the \(q=7\) certificate into \(N=9\) columns with the two extra columns random, zero, or copies of column 0, two trials each. All six stayed direct (rank 880 of 880), as the theorem says; the output is in this cycle's provenance record.

What this means

Degree-\(h+1\) directness is monotone in the board: a good block anywhere suffices. The random question becomes one about a single block, and fixed \(B\) follows with no inverse theorem.
The remaining gap is growth. For \(B\) growing with \(N\) the argument needs constant-probability directness at a growing block size, and then reaches a fixed fraction of the fill with a loss of \(L^4\). The inverse theorem is needed only there.
The argument uses degree-1 multipliers, where a new column enters each \(z_b\) as a single \(u_b\in V_c\). For higher degree, the Koszul range, the new column's part of \(z_b\) is \(u_b\cdot w_b\) with \(w_b\) of lower degree. The independence hypothesis would become a statement about the tops times lower-degree elements, where Koszul pairs enter. That is the natural next test of the method.
Random families only; A1 is untouched. The structured-family entry's process lapse is noted here: its capacity count should have been made before its run, as computation rule 1 asks.

Next: extend the propagation argument to degree \(h+2\), with multipliers of degree 2, where a new column enters as \(\sum u\otimes w\). Find the right independence hypothesis on the block, and certify it at the smallest size.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statements and proofs of lem:product-top-spread and lem:column-tensor-exactness and the moment entry's setting. The proof uses only that \(\pi_Q\) is a ring homomorphism, that \(V_c^2=0\), that \(F_b\tau_b=0\) and that the tops share one degree. A fresh-context reviewer found no recorded claim implying the theorem or the corollary; lem:spare-column-transfer moves syzygies between algebras and does not propagate across columns. It confirmed the proof and every quoted number. It required: the theorem stated at its real generality; the B = 1 case credited to the spread lemma's gluing step; the fixed-B statement derived without certificates, from disjoint supports, with the weak proved rate stated; the amplification's fraction-of-fill claim corrected to a \(\delta\)-dependent fraction; the empirical rate made conditional; the W bullet restricted to the random model; and the embedding check's output cited. All were adopted. The certificates were checked by exact ranks, and the embedding check confirmed the theorem on six extensions. All numbers were read from the saved outputs by script.

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Taylor generation propagates along columns: a column-addition exact sequence bounds the non-Taylor syzygies by those of a block, so Taylor generation on one block in all lower degrees gives it on the whole board

25 September 2026 · Working proof, with a rank check · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-taylor-propagation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Taylor generation propagates along columns: a column-addition exact sequence bounds the non-Taylor syzygies by those of a block, so Taylor generation on one block in all lower degrees gives it on the whole board”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-taylor-propagation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3, with a view to A1. The propagation entry showed that degree-\(h+1\) directness spreads from one good block of columns. W's route needs Taylor generation through degree \(22k\) (thm:based-taylor-glue), which includes the Koszul range. Does the argument extend to every degree, Koszul pairs included, and what does it say where Taylor generation fails?

General statement. thm:taylor-propagation. Let \(R\) be a graded commutative algebra over a field, let \(\tau_1,\dots,\tau_B\in R_h\), and let \(F_b\subseteq\operatorname{Ann}_{R_1}(\tau_b)\). For \(e\ge0\):

\(\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)=\{(z_b)\in R_e^B:\sum_bz_b\tau_b=0\}\);
\(T_e(R)\) is the span of the Frobenius elements \(f\,x\,\mathbf e_b\) (\(f\in F_b\), \(x\in R_{e-1}\)) and the Koszul pairs \(\tau_cx\,\mathbf e_b-\tau_bx\,\mathbf e_c\) (\(x\in R_{e-h}\));
\(\operatorname{Def}_e=\dim\operatorname{Syz}_e/T_e\), the defect.

Adjoin a column, \(R'=R\otimes(\mathbb F\oplus V)\) with \(V\) in degree 1, \(V^2=0\) and \(\dim V=m\). Take any \(\tau'_b\in R'_h\) with \(\pi\tau'_b=\tau_b\), and \(F'_b\subseteq\operatorname{Ann}_{R'_1}(\tau'_b)\) with \(\pi F'_b\supseteq F_b\) (every element of \(F_b\) lifts), where \(\pi:R'\to R\) kills \(V\). Then there is an exact sequence \(0\to\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\otimes V\to\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')\xrightarrow{\ \pi\ }\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)\), and \[\operatorname{Def}_e(R')\ \le\ \dim\bigl(\pi\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')/T_e(R)\bigr)+m\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\ \le\ \operatorname{Def}_e(R)+m\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R).\] In particular, if \(\operatorname{Def}_{e'}(R)=0\) for all \(e'\le e\), then \(\operatorname{Def}_{e'}=0\) after adjoining any number of columns. For product tops on the weak monomial algebra: Taylor generation on one block of columns in all multiplier degrees up to \(e\) gives Taylor generation on the whole board up to \(e\). Degree 0 means the restricted tops are independent. The same proof works with \(T_e\) spanned by Frobenius elements of any positive degree and by any chosen pair syzygies \(u\,\mathbf e_b-u'\,\mathbf e_c\) whose coefficients lift. Each lift differs from its restriction by an element of \(R\otimes V\), which multiplication by \(v\in V\) kills. That generalised span is what thm:based-taylor-glue uses: coherent pairs only, lower-degree pair syzygies for coherent pairs sharing a form, and degree-2 Frobenius elements. With the Koszul span as stated, "zero defect" equals that theorem's hypothesis only for product tops with no shared forms.

Proof

Restriction. \(\pi\) is a ring homomorphism, so it maps syzygies to syzygies, \(\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')\to\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)\).

Kernel. \(z\in R'_e\) has \(\pi z=0\) exactly when \(z\in R_{e-1}\otimes V\), since \(V^2=0\). Write \(z_b=\sum_iw_{b,i}v_i\) with \(w_{b,i}\in R_{e-1}\) and a basis \(v_i\) of \(V\), and \(\tau'_b=\tau_b+\sigma_b\) with \(\sigma_b\in R\otimes V\). Then \(z_b\sigma_b=0\), and \(\sum_bz_b\tau'_b=\sum_i\bigl(\sum_bw_{b,i}\tau_b\bigr)v_i\), which vanishes exactly when each \((w_{b,i})_b\) lies in \(\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\). So \(\ker\pi=\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\otimes V\), and \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')=\dim\pi\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')+m\dim\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\).

Taylor span. Every generator of \(T_e(R)\) lifts to a generator of \(T_e(R')\) with the same image: take \(f'x\,\mathbf e_b\) with \(\pi f'=f\), and the Koszul pair of the \(\tau'\) with the same \(x\in R\subseteq R'\). So \(\pi T_e(R')\supseteq T_e(R)\). Conversely, for a generator \(w\) of \(T_{e-1}(R)\) and \(v\in V\), \(wv\in T_e(R')\):

\(f\,x\,v\,\mathbf e_b=f'(xv)\,\mathbf e_b-(f'-f)\,xv\,\mathbf e_b\), and \((f'-f)\in V\) gives \((f'-f)xv=0\);
\(\tau_cxv\,\mathbf e_b-\tau_bxv\,\mathbf e_c\) equals the Koszul pair of the \(\tau'\) with multiplier \(xv\), since \(\sigma_cv=\sigma_bv=0\).

So \(T_{e-1}(R)\otimes V\subseteq T_e(R')\cap\ker\pi\), and \(\dim T_e(R')\ge\dim T_e(R)+m\dim T_{e-1}(R)\).

Bound. Subtracting, and using \(T_e(R)\subseteq\pi T_e(R')\subseteq\pi\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')\subseteq\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)\), gives the displayed inequality. The zero-defect statement follows by induction on the number of columns, applied to all degrees up to \(e\) at once. \(\square\)

At \(e=1\) with \(h=2K\) this is thm:directness-propagation. The bound has the shape of a Horace split, a trace on the old block and a residual on the new column, as in lem:row-horace-identity for double points. The sequence is the syzygy-module analogue, for an added column, of lem:edge-castelnuovo-sequence. Adding spare columns with \(\sigma_b=0\) on the monomial algebra is the special case behind lem:spare-column-transfer, which also removes the row sums. Here both pieces live on the same block, one degree apart. \(V^2=0\) kills \(z_b\sigma_b\), which makes the kernel exactly \(\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\otimes V\). The coupling does not vanish: it is \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)-\dim\pi\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')\), the slack in the second inequality.

Corollary and scope

Corollary (Taylor block amplification, cor:taylor-block-amplification). Take forms whose column parts are independent and identically distributed across disjoint blocks, and let \(t_q(B,e)\) be the probability that the restricted family has zero defect in every multiplier degree up to \(e\) on \(q\) given columns. Then Taylor generation up to \(e\) on \(N\) columns fails with probability at most \((1-t_q(B,e))^{\lfloor N/q\rfloor}\). This is the directness corollary's argument, in every degree. For generic W the Koszul range reduces to constant-probability Taylor generation on blocks of \(n/L\) columns, again with the fill-fraction loss of the directness corollary. That applies in the random model with W-shaped tops (\(K=k+1\) squares, \(B=n^K\) tops, \(m=n+1\)), not to W's own forms, and with the Koszul span as stated only when no two tops share a form.

Adversarial families. The zero-defect hypothesis on a block is easy for an adversary to spoil. Two tops that agree outside one column \(c\) are dependent on every block avoiding \(c\), a degree-0 defect, and one such pair per column spoils every proper block. These pairs are not harmless globally. \(\tau_b-\tau_{b'}\) lies in \(\tilde A(P\setminus c)\otimes V_c\), so for every \(v\in V_c\) the element \(v(\mathbf e_b-\mathbf e_{b'})\) is a global syzygy in multiplier degree 1. It is non-Frobenius unless \(v\in F_b\cap F_{b'}\), which generically fails. This is the bound's second term realised: the degree-0 defect reappears, tensored with \(V_c\), one degree up. Defects never die when a column is added. A block defect either extends in the same degree (the first term) or reappears in the next degree through the kernel (the second). For A1 the useful object is this two-term bookkeeping along a column order, not a single good block.

Rank check

taylor_check.c (exact FLINT ranks) takes two-square tops on \(m=2\) and checks multiplier degrees 0, 1 and 2, at target degree 6, below the Koszul range. It draws six tops on \(q\) columns, checks zero defect on the block in degrees 0, 1, 2, then embeds the same forms into \(N=q+1\) columns with a random extra column and measures the degree-2 defect. At \(q=8\), below degree 6's column threshold \(2\cdot6-3=9\), the block's degree-2 defect was 17 and 1 in two trials, so the hypothesis failed. The board defects at \(N=9\) were 3 and 0, both at most the bound. At \(q=9\), \(N=10\), the hypothesis held in 3 of 3 trials and the board's degree-2 defect was 0 in all three, as the theorem says. Multiplier degrees 0 to 2 lie below \(h=4\), so only the Frobenius part and one added column are exercised; the Koszul parts of the lifting and kernel steps are untested. The outputs are in this cycle's provenance record. By the route's case limit this cycle registers no new finite check; these runs support the theorem, and the claim metadata cites them.

What this means

A3, random model: Taylor generation through any degree, Koszul range included, is monotone in the board and amplifies from blocks. The random Koszul-range question for generic W becomes a constant-probability question on blocks, with the fill-fraction loss.
A1: a block-defect bookkeeping. When a column is added, a block defect either extends in its degree or reappears one degree higher, tensored with the new column. It never disappears. So an adversarial family's global defects are assembled column by column from these two sources. Two tops agreeing outside one column already give global non-Frobenius syzygies in multiplier degree 1. In W's language these are pairs whose prefix forms differ in one column: the shared-form pairs whose coherence thm:based-taylor-glue's pair syzygies must handle.

Process: the first check run, at a block below the degree's column threshold, left the hypothesis unmet; the threshold count should have been made before that run, as computation rule 1 asks. The second run was sized from it.

Next, on A1: for pairs of W-shaped tops whose prefix forms differ in one column, compute the global degree-1 syzygies \(v(\mathbf e_b-\mathbf e_{b'})\) and check whether they lie in thm:based-taylor-glue's generalised span. They should be its coherent-pair syzygies for shared forms, liftable exactly when the pair is coherent. That places the one-column pairs on the record's coherence map, and then the same bookkeeping follows chains of such pairs column by column.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the proof of thm:directness-propagation, lem:row-horace-identity for the Horace shape, and thm:based-taylor-glue for the Taylor hypothesis W's route needs. A fresh-context reviewer found the exact sequence, the Taylor-span inclusions, the inequality, the induction and the corollary correct, and the rank-check numbers matching the logs. It required:

the adversarial paragraph corrected (one-column pairs give global non-Frobenius syzygies, so defects move up a degree rather than dying) and the pair count fixed;
the Horace remark corrected (the coupling is the slack, not zero);
the scope for W restricted to product tops without shared forms, with the generalised span described;
the hypotheses fixed: \(R_0\) dropped, degree-1 \(V\) and commutativity added, lifting stated as \(\pi F'_b\supseteq F_b\);
links to lem:edge-castelnuovo-sequence and lem:spare-column-transfer;
the rank check's untested Koszul part stated.

All were adopted. The rank check's quoted numbers were read from its saved output.

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One-column pairs: two constraints whose forms differ in one column have non-Taylor syzygies, and each lifts exactly when the pair restricted to a cell of that column is closed at one degree lower, a shared-form coherence question

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-one-column-pairs. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One-column pairs: two constraints whose forms differ in one column have non-Taylor syzygies, and each lifts exactly when the pair restricted to a cell of that column is closed at one degree lower, a shared-form coherence question”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-one-column-pairs.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The Taylor-propagation entry found that two tops agreeing outside one column \(c\) give global syzygies \(v(\mathbf e_b-\mathbf e_{b'})\), \(v\in V_c\), outside the Frobenius and Koszul span. thm:based-taylor-glue indexes forms by linear part, so the forms that differ in column \(c\) are distinct indices. Unless \(v(\mathbf e_b-\mathbf e_{b'})\) lies in the whole family's span of Frobenius and pair syzygies, the theorem's hypothesis fails. Are they real obstructions, and where do they sit on the record's coherence map?

General statement. prop:one-column-pair-lifting. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take a base whose generators include every \(x^2-x\) and the column collisions \(x_{p,c}x_{p',c}\), \(p\ne p'\), with homogenization \(z\)-injective below \(D\). Let \(C=\prod_jh_j(L_j)\) and \(C'=\prod_jh_j(L'_j)\) be product constraints with the same factors \(h_j\) (so equal top exponents \(b\) and equal top signs), whose forms agree, constants included, on every cell outside column \(c\). For a cell \(v\) of column \(c\), let \(C_v\) be \(C\) with \(v=1\) and every other cell of column \(c\) set to 0, and \(C'_v\) likewise. Then \(g=v(\mathbf e_C-\mathbf e_{C'})\) is a signed top syzygy in degree \(s=|b|+1\le D\). In the glue induction of thm:based-taylor-glue, it satisfies the solvability condition for every normalised NS functional through \(s-1\) if and only if \(v\,(C_v-C'_v)\) lies in \(V'_{s-1}\). That is the degree-\((s-1)\) NS span of the base and the whole constraint family, assumed not to contain 1. Non-lifting is exactly a degree fall. \(C_v\) and \(C'_v\) have forms with equal linear parts and constants shifted by the forms' coefficients at \(v\). So the syzygy lifts at every cell \(v\) where those coefficients agree, and only the cells where the forms differ need a test.

Proof

The syzygy. In the top algebra \(G\), the cells of column \(c\) span \(V_c\) with \(V_c^2=0\), from the squares and the collisions. The tops are \(c_C\ell^b\) and \(c_{C'}\ell'^b\) with \(c_C=c_{C'}\) and \(\ell_j-\ell'_j\in V_c\), so \(\ell^b-\ell'^b\in V_c\,G\) and \(v(\ell^b-\ell'^b)=0\). Hence \(c_C\ell^bv-c_{C'}\ell'^bv=0\).
The condition. In the proof of thm:based-taylor-glue, a signed syzygy \((g_C)\) satisfies the solvability condition when \(\sum_C(E\mu)(Cg_C)=0\), where \(E\mu\) extends \(\mu\) to degree \(s\) vanishing on the base's multiples \(V_s\). Here that is \((E\mu)(v(C-C'))=0\).
Reduction. Modulo base multiples of degree at most \(s\), \(v\,x_{p,c}\equiv0\) for every other cell of column \(c\) (collisions) and \(v^2\equiv v\) (Booleanity). So \(v\,C\equiv v\,C_v\) and \(v\,C'\equiv v\,C'_v\); multiplying the generators by the remaining factors keeps degree at most \(s\). Hence \((E\mu)(v(C-C'))=(E\mu)(v(C_v-C'_v))\).
Degree. \(C_v\) and \(C'_v\) have forms with equal linear parts, since the forms agree off column \(c\) and column \(c\) became constants. So their degree-\(|b|\) parts coincide, and \(v(C_v-C'_v)\) has degree at most \(s-1\), where \(E\mu=\mu\). The condition is \(\mu\bigl(v(C_v-C'_v)\bigr)=0\).
Iff. (\(s\le D\) is needed for \(E\mu\), from \(z\)-injectivity.) This holds for every normalised \(\mu\) vanishing on the degree-\((s-1)\) span \(V'_{s-1}\) exactly when \(w=v(C_v-C'_v)\in V'_{s-1}\). If \(w\notin V'_{s-1}\), then either \(w\equiv\lambda\cdot1\) modulo \(V'_{s-1}\) with \(\lambda\ne0\), so every normalised \(\mu\) has \(\mu(w)=\lambda\ne0\); or \(1\) and \(w\) are independent modulo \(V'_{s-1}\), and some \(\mu\) has \(\mu(1)=1\), \(\mu(w)=1\). \(\square\)

Where one-column pairs sit

Trivial case. If for every factor the forms' coefficients at \(v\) agree, then \(C_v=C'_v\) and the syzygy lifts for that \(v\). So only the cells where the forms differ need a test.
W's clauses and resolvents. In the normalised form of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue's corollary, W's clauses are \(\chi_0(L_i)\prod_jL_j\)-type products of allowed factors. A shift by \(\delta\) at \(v\) turns a factor into \(\chi_a\) against \(\chi_{a-\delta}\), or \(L-a\) against \(L-a+\delta\). Both are incoherent under thm:coherent-product-constraints' definition. When \(C_v\) and \(C'_v\) differ in exactly one factor, thm:resolvent-taylor-glue's identity gives \(C_v-C'_v=\kappa R_v\) with a nonzero constant \(\kappa\) and the pair's resolvent \(R_v\): \(\kappa=a'-a\) for \(L-a\) against \(L-a'\), and \(\chi_a(L)-\chi_{a'}(L)=-(a-a')(L-a'')\) for the \(\chi\) case. Lifting then says \(v\,R_v\in V'_{s-1}\), which holds once the resolvent is in the family, the recorded resolvent-saturation route. Pairs whose restrictions differ in several factors remain open. The subcube reading (a closure question on \(v=1\)) is informal: the proved condition is membership in \(V'_{s-1}\) of the whole family. It also needs the restricted linear parts to be nonzero and pairwise non-proportional, for \(C_v\) to be a product constraint in the glue setting.
With the bookkeeping. thm:taylor-propagation's second term includes these syzygies when a column is added: a degree-0 dependency on the smaller board, reappearing tensored with \(V_c\). It also includes dependencies among three or more tops, which the proposition does not cover. The pair dependencies split cell by cell into one closure test each, and those that differ in one factor are resolvent questions.

This proves no hardness. It identifies one family of non-Taylor syzygies that any Taylor-glue argument for W must handle, and maps it onto the recorded coherence classification. Whether chains of one-column pairs, \(C\sim C'\sim C''\) differing in successive columns, compose these tests along the chain is open.

Process: the proposition came from reading the glue theorem's proof for the exact solvability condition, not from a computation. The route's case limit allowed no new finite check, and none was needed.

Next: one-column pairs whose restrictions differ in one factor are resolvent questions, so they join the resolvent-saturation route of the lifting-test review and resolvent Taylor glue. The open cases are pairs whose restrictions differ in several factors, and degree-0 dependencies among three or more tops. Take the smallest several-factor case, two clauses whose prefix forms both shift at the same cell, and decide whether \(v(C_v-C'_v)\) lies in the closure once both single-factor resolvents are added.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:based-taylor-glue's statement, definitions and proof (the solvability condition and the extension \(E\mu\)); thm:coherent-product-constraints' coherence definition; thm:resolvent-absorption; thm:resolvent-taylor-glue with its identity; thm:taylor-propagation's adversarial paragraph. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the syzygy, the solvability condition, the reduction, the degree drop and the iff argument, and found no recorded claim implying the proposition. It required: equal factors and constants stated as hypotheses; \(s\le D\) and the whole family in \(V'_{s-1}\); the Question's claim about (K) weakened; the trivial-case sentence corrected; the subcube reading marked informal, with the non-proportionality proviso; W's clauses in the normalised factor types; the resolvent identity cited, which settles single-factor restrictions; and the bookkeeping and chain claims weakened. All were adopted.

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Cell resolvents: the fall of a one-column pair is a product constraint unless three or more prefix forms shift at a cell while the outside form does not, and then, in the local model, no product constraint on the shifted forms absorbs it

25 September 2026 · Working proof, with exhaustive local checks · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-one-column-cells. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cell resolvents: the fall of a one-column pair is a product constraint unless three or more prefix forms shift at a cell while the outside form does not, and then, in the local model, no product constraint on the shifted forms absorbs it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-cell-resolvents.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. prop:one-column-pair-lifting (one-column pairs) showed that the syzygy \(v(\mathbf e_C-\mathbf e_{C'})\) of two constraints agreeing off column \(c\) lifts exactly when the fall \(v\,(C_v-C'_v)\) lies in \(V'_{s-1}\). It settled restrictions differing in one factor, where the fall is a resolvent, and left several-factor differences open. The missing implication for the resolvent-saturation route to W (thm:resolvent-taylor-glue): can product constraints implied by the pair, added to the family, absorb every such fall, as resolvents absorb singly incoherent pairs?

General statement. thm:cell-resolvents. Work in prop:one-column-pair-lifting's setting over \(\mathbb F_3\), with constraints of W's normalized shape: factors \(L-a\) and at most one factor \(\chi_a(U)\). Fix a cell \(v\) of column \(c\). Write \(C_v=\prod_jh_j(L^v_j)\), and \(C'_v\) with forms \(L^v_j+\delta_j\), and let \(T=\{j:\delta_j\ne0\}\) be the factors shifted at \(v\). Let \(Q_v\) be the product of the unshifted factors, and put \(x_j=L^v_j-a_j\) for a linear factor \(L_j-a_j\), and \(u=U^v-a\) for the factor \(\chi_a(U)\), whose shift is \(\gamma\).

Cell resolvents. In the cases below, \(C_v-C'_v=\kappa\,R_vQ_v\) as functions on \(\mathbb F_3\)-values of the forms, hence modulo the base within degree \(s-1\), with \(\kappa\ne0\) and \(R_v\) a product of allowed factors:
- one shifted linear factor: \(R_v=1\), \(\kappa=-\delta_j\);
- two shifted linear factors: \(R_v=\delta_2x_1+\delta_1x_2+\delta_1\delta_2\), \(\kappa=-1\) (a polynomial identity);
- \(\chi\) shifted, together with any number \(t\ge0\) of linear factors: \(R_v=(u-\gamma)\prod_{j\in T}(\gamma u-\delta_jx_j)\), \(\kappa=(-1)^{t+1}\gamma\prod_{j\in T}\delta_j\).
The cell resolvent \(vR_vQ_v\), normalized as in thm:resolvent-taylor-glue's corollary, vanishes on the allowed set, has degree at most \(s-1\), and is derived at degree \(s=|b|+1\) from \(C\), \(C'\) and base multiples. Let \(\mathcal F\) be closed under resolvents of singly incoherent pairs and cell resolvents of one-column pairs of these shapes, both with degree bound \(D\). Then thm:resolvent-taylor-glue holds with the syzygies \(v(\mathbf e_C-\mathbf e_{C'})\) of those pairs, and their multiples, added to the spanning set. With \(D=22k\) and W's normalized clauses, every member of \(\mathcal F\) is derived within degree \(22k\), so a nonzero constant in \(\mathcal F\) still gives a refutation.
Three-shift obstruction, in the local model. Suppose \(\chi\) is unshifted and \(t=|T|\ge3\) linear factors are shifted. Treat \(x_j\), \(j\in T\), as independent coordinates on all of \(\mathbb F_3^T\), and let \(w=\prod_jx_j-\prod_j(x_j+\delta_j)\) and \(Z=\{\prod_jx_j=0=\prod_j(x_j+\delta_j)\}\). Then
- the functions of degree at most \(t-1\) vanishing on \(Z\) are the scalar multiples of \(w\) (this holds for every \(t\ge2\));
- \(w\) is not a product of factors \(M-a\) and \(\chi_a(M)\) with \(M\) affine, of any degree;
- hence every such product of degree at most \(t-1\) that vanishes on \(Z\) is the zero function, and no combination \(\sum m_iP_i\) of them with \(\deg m_i+\deg P_i\le t-1\) gives \(w\).
The fall is \(v\,wQ_v\). The model is a statement about functions on \(\mathbb F_3^T\). It does not cover restricted forms whose joint image on Boolean points is a proper subset of \(\mathbb F_3^T\), nor multipliers or products on other forms, nor the whole allowed set \(Z\cup\{Q_v=0\}\cup\{v=0\}\).

Part (b) uses none of prop:one-column-pair-lifting's hypotheses. The bound of at most one \(\chi\) factor is used only in (a).

Proof

Normalization. A linear factor with shift \(\delta=\pm1\) becomes \(x\) against \(x+1\) after \(x\mapsto\delta x\), since \(\delta x+\delta=\delta(x+1)\). The factor \(\chi_0(u)\) against \(\chi_0(u+\gamma)\) becomes \(\chi_0(u)\) against \(\chi_0(u+1)\) after \(u\mapsto\gamma u\), since \(\chi_0(\gamma u)=\chi_0(u)\). Both changes multiply \(C_v\) and \(C'_v\) by the same scalar and preserve degrees and zero sets. So take every shift equal to 1, and put \(A=\{C_v\ne0\}\), \(B=\{C'_v\ne0\}\) on the shifted coordinates.
(a), linear cases. \(x-(x+\delta)=-\delta\), and \(x_1x_2-(x_1+\delta_1)(x_2+\delta_2)=-(\delta_2x_1+\delta_1x_2+\delta_1\delta_2)\).
(a), \(\chi\) shifted, all shifts 1. Claim: \(\chi_0(u)\prod x_j-\chi_0(u+1)\prod(x_j+1)=(-1)^{t+1}(u-1)\prod_j(u-x_j)\) as functions on \(\mathbb F_3^{1+t}\). Compare values on the three slices of \(u\). At \(u=0\) the left side is \(\prod x_j\), since \(\chi_0(1)=0\), and the right side is \((-1)^{t+1}(-1)\prod(-x_j)=\prod x_j\). At \(u=1\) both sides vanish, since \(\chi_0(1)=\chi_0(2)=0\). At \(u=2\) the left side is \(-\prod(x_j+1)\), and the right side is \((-1)^{t+1}\prod(2-x_j)=(-1)^{t+1}(-1)^t\prod(x_j+1)\). Undoing the scalings gives the stated \(R_v\) and \(\kappa\). For \(t\ge2\) this is not a polynomial identity: the right side has a \(u^{t+1}\) term.
(a), from functions to the base. The restricted forms involve no cell of column \(c\), so for every Boolean assignment the two sides of each identity, multiplied by \(vQ_v\), take equal values. Both have degree at most \(s-1\): \(R_v\) has one factor fewer than the shifted part in the two-linear case, and in the \(\chi\) case it has degree \(t+1\) against the \(t+2\) of \(\chi\) and the \(t\) linear factors. Their difference is a polynomial of degree at most \(s-1\) vanishing on \(\{0,1\}^N\). Multilinear reduction by the generators \(x^2-x\) does not raise degree and ends at the zero polynomial. So the difference lies in the base span within degree \(s-1\).
(a), the cell resolvent. By the reduction step of prop:one-column-pair-lifting, \(vC-vC'\equiv v(C_v-C'_v)\) modulo base multiples of degree at most \(s\). With the previous step, the fall is \(\kappa\,vR_vQ_v\) modulo the base, derived at degree \(s\), and it vanishes wherever \(C\) and \(C'\) do. It is a product of the factor \(v\), whose linear part is proportional to no restricted form, and allowed factors. Degenerate forms are handled by the corollary's normalization. A new form with zero linear part is a constant: if 0, the fall is 0 and the syzygy lifts; if nonzero, it is dropped. A new form proportional to another form is merged. A factor pair that vanishes on every Boolean point makes the fall a base multiple, by the previous step. In each case the product is a multiple of its normalized constraint plus base multiples within its degree. So the fall lies in \(V'_{s-1}\) once the normalized cell resolvent is in \(\mathcal F\). By prop:one-column-pair-lifting, the syzygy then satisfies the solvability condition. For a multiple \(g\,v(\mathbf e_C-\mathbf e_{C'})\) of degree \(s'\le D\), the same reduction applied with a lifted \(\tilde g\) gives the pairing \(\mu(\tilde g\,v(C_v-C'_v))=\kappa\,\mu(\tilde g\,vR_vQ_v)=0\), since \(\deg(\tilde gvR_vQ_v)\le s'-1\). The rest is thm:resolvent-taylor-glue's proof. A cell resolvent has the factor \(v\), so it is never itself a constant. A constant can only arise further along the saturation, and every member there is derived within degree \(D\), from the identities above and thm:resolvent-taylor-glue's identity.
(b), the box lemma. Let \(f\) be a function on \(\mathbb F_3^e\) supported in a box \(\prod_jA_j\) with \(|A_j|=2\), of degree at most \(e\). Then \(f=\lambda\prod_j(x_j-c_j)\), where \(c_j\notin A_j\). By an affine change of each coordinate, take \(A_j=\{0,1\}\), and write \(f=\sum_sf(s)\prod_j\chi_{s_j}(x_j)\) over \(s\in\{0,1\}^e\). Here \(\chi_0=1-x^2\) and \(\chi_1=-x-x^2\). The coefficient of \(\prod_{j\in S}x_j\prod_{j\notin S}x_j^2\) is \((-1)^e\sum_{s\supseteq S}f(s)\), with \(s\) read as the set of its ones. For \(S\ne[e]\) that monomial has degree above \(e\), so the sum vanishes. Möbius inversion then gives \(f(s)=(-1)^{e-|s|}f([e])\). This is a one-dimensional space, and it contains \(\prod_j(x_j+1)\), whose value is \((-1)^{|s|}\).
(b), the functions vanishing on \(Z\). A point lies in \(Z\) exactly when it has a coordinate 0 and a coordinate 2. Let \(f\) have degree at most \(t-1\) and vanish on \(Z\). On the face \(x_i=0\), \(f\) vanishes wherever another coordinate is 2. So by the box lemma \(f|_{x_i=0}=\lambda_i\prod_{j\ne i}(x_j+1)\), and likewise \(f|_{x_i=2}=\mu_i\prod_{j\ne i}x_j\). Where two faces meet, evaluating at a point with the other coordinates 0 (for \(\lambda\)) or 2 (for \(\mu\)) makes the \(\lambda_i\) all equal, and the \(\mu_i\) likewise. Since \(C'_v=\prod(x_j+1)\) and \(C_v=\prod x_j\) restrict to those faces in the same way, \(f=\lambda C'_v-\mu C_v+\nu\,\delta_{(1,\dots,1)}\). The indicator \(\delta_{(1,\dots,1)}=\prod_j\chi_1(x_j)\) has the monomial \(\prod x_j^2\) with coefficient \((-1)^t\), and \(C_v,C'_v\) are multilinear, so \(\nu=0\). The coefficient of \(\prod x_j\) is \(\lambda-\mu\), so \(\lambda=\mu\) and \(f=-\lambda w\). And \(w\) has degree exactly \(t-1\), with leading part \(-e_{t-1}(x)\).
(b), \(w\) is not a product. Here \(A=\{1,2\}^T\), \(B=\{0,1\}^T\), \(A\cap B=\{(1,\dots,1)\}\), and \(w\ne0\) on \((A\cup B)\setminus\{(1,\dots,1)\}\). A factor \(\chi_b(N)\) would put the support of \(w\) inside the hyperplane \(N=b\), but \(A\setminus\{(1,\dots,1)\}\) affinely spans \(\mathbb F_3^T\). A factor \(M-a\) would need \(w=0\) on \(H=\{M=a\}\), yet every hyperplane meets \((A\cup B)\setminus\{(1,\dots,1)\}\) when \(t\ge3\):
- \(H=\{x_j=0\}\) meets \(B\setminus A\);
- \(H=\{x_j=1\}\) and \(H=\{x_j=2\}\) meet \(A\) in \(2^{t-1}\ge2\) points;
- if the linear part of \(M\) has support \(J\) with \(|J|\ge2\), write \(x=\mathbf1+y\), \(y\in\{0,1\}^T\). Two coordinates of \(J\) already reach every residue of \(\sum_{j\in J}c_jy_j\), and a third coordinate, in \(J\) or not, doubles each solution. So \(|H\cap A|\ge2\). This is the only place \(t\ge3\) is used.
Hence \(w\), a nonconstant function, has no factor of either kind.
(b), consequence. A product \(P\) of degree at most \(t-1\) vanishing on \(Z\) is \(cw\). If \(c\ne0\), then \(w\) is a product, which is impossible. So \(P=0\), and every \(m_iP_i\) is 0 as a function. \(\square\)

Checks

identities.py checked the two-linear and \(\chi\) identities as functions for every shift pattern, the \(\chi\) case for \(t\le4\). For \(t=2,\dots,5\) and every shift pattern it also checked that the degree-\((t-1)\) functions vanishing on \(Z\) form one line, that no hyperplane lies in the zero set of \(w\) when \(t\ge3\) (one does for \(t=2\), the two-linear resolvent), and that no hyperplane contains the support (identities.json). local_span.py enumerated every product of degree at most \(\deg C-1\) that vanishes on \(Z\), for the shapes up to four factors. With multipliers, their span contains \(w\) for one or two linear shifts and for \(\chi\) with up to two linear shifts. It does not for three or four linear shifts, where every such product is the zero function (local_span.json).

What this means

Product constraints absorb one-column pairs in every shape except one. When the outside form is shifted, the fall is a product whose new forms \(\gamma u-\delta_jx_j\) compare the outside form with each shifted prefix form. The same holds when at most two prefix forms shift.
The remaining shape is three or more prefix forms shifting at one cell while the outside form does not. In the local model the fall is then, up to scalars, the only low-degree function of the shifted forms vanishing on \(Z\). It is a difference of two products, not a product. The implication for the glue is conditional. If no member of the family puts \(v\,wQ_v\) into \(V'_{s-1}\), the syzygy fails the solvability condition. Every (F) and (K) syzygy meets that condition, so the syzygy is then outside their span, and thm:resolvent-taylor-glue's Taylor generation fails for that family.
Whether W's families force this shape against every prefix choice is open. Choosing the outside index at a shifted position turns a pair into the \(\chi\) case of (a). Forcing (b) would need the blocks' coefficient vectors at \(v\) to form a code, with pairs that share an outside position agreeing there and differing in at least three other positions, in blocks admissible for W.
Related records. cor:incoherent-form-members obtains Taylor generation from all pair syzygies when the top algebra is free over the forms. Freeness excludes one-column pairs, since \(v(\ell-\ell')=0\), so that corollary covers none of these pairs. ex:overlap-pair-falls records falls for ENS blocks sharing several inputs, the constant-shift analogue on different objects.
This proves no hardness and no refutation. It locates where the product-constraint glue stops: binomial falls \(v(\prod_jx_j-\prod_j(x_j+\delta_j))Q\).

Process: the computations came after the telescoping observation and served to find the formulas. The general proofs of (a) and (b) followed, and the exhaustive checks were run against them.

Next: a route review of the A1 Taylor-glue line, which is due. It should assess whether the glue theorem extends to binomial constraints, whose tops are sums like \(v\,e_{t-1}(x)\) rather than products, or whether three-shift pairs need a different mechanism. It should include outside leads and absurd bridges.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:one-column-pair-lifting (statement, reduction step and iff) and thm:resolvent-taylor-glue (setting, resolvent identities, proof, W normalization and corollary). Claim searches for differences of products, several incoherent forms, telescoping and shifted constants found obs:incoherent-pair-fall, cor:incoherent-form-members and ex:overlap-pair-falls, none implying the theorem. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the identities in (a), including \(\kappa\) and the scalings for \(t\le3\), and the box lemma, face argument and hyperplane cases of (b). It required these changes, all adopted:

the \(\chi\) identity treated as one of functions, with the step to the base span;
the normalization of degenerate new forms;
multiples of the syzygy handled;
the saturation bounded in degree, for the constant condition;
"scalar multiples" in (b);
(b) stated as a local model, with its image and multiplier limits;
the meaning bullets weakened, and the adversarial-family claim demoted to an open question;
unused hypotheses named;
cor:incoherent-form-members and ex:overlap-pair-falls cited.

The corrections weaken or qualify claims and add no new one, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: two blocks on shared forms break the hypothesis of clause-level Taylor glue for every prefix choice, and its functional-extension conclusion for some, while member pinning proves W for them, so the gluing unit should be the member

25 September 2026 · Route review with a working proof of the falsifying family · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-binomial-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: two blocks on shared forms break the hypothesis of clause-level Taylor glue for every prefix choice, and its functional-extension conclusion for some, while member pinning proves W for them, so the gluing unit should be the member”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-binomial-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the universality review, the line has gone through the generic product tops (structured tops, directness propagation, Taylor propagation) and then the clause-level Taylor glue for adversarial W (one-column pairs, cell resolvents). The last entry found that the fall of a pair shifted in three prefix forms is a binomial that no product on the shifted forms absorbs, in the local model. Is that a defect of one shape, or of the route?

General statement. The line's claim is the corollary of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue: W follows if the degree-bounded resolvent saturation of W's normalized clauses contains no constant and satisfies Taylor generation through \(22k\). The goal needs W for every family (A1). This review proves prop:two-block-taylor-failure. For a family of two blocks on shared forms, the corollary's hypothesis fails for every prefix choice. For the prefix choice with equal outside indices, the theorem's functional-extension conclusion fails too: some functional does not extend. Yet W holds for the family by recorded pinning. So the corollary cannot prove A1 by itself.

Falsification: two blocks on shared forms

Proposition (two-block failure, prop:two-block-taylor-failure). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_{k+1}\) be linear forms on the weak unary board, and take two blocks with forms \(\ell_j-a_j\) and \(\ell_j-a'_j\), where \(a_j\ne a'_j\) for every \(j\). Pad the inventory with blocks of at most \(k\) forms, which contribute no clauses. Let \(C,C'\) be the normalized clauses, with outside indices \(i,i'\).

If \(k\ge3\) and the \(\ell_j\) are linearly independent in the top algebra's degree-1 part \(G_1\), then for every prefix choice the degree-bounded resolvent saturation is \(\{C,C'\}\). Its top syzygies are not spanned by thm:resolvent-taylor-glue's (F) and (K), at degree \(|b|\) if \(i=i'\) and \(|b|+1\) if \(i\ne i'\), where \(|b|=k+2\le22k\).
If \(i=i'\), and the forms' row-linear parts are independent modulo constants on every row, on a board with the rows and robustness of lem:member-pinning for \(k+1\) forms at degree \(|b|\), then some normalized NS functional through degree \(|b|-1\) for the base plus \(\{C,C'\}\) does not extend to degree \(|b|\).
If \(k\ge2\), and the forms meet cor:single-form-pinning's hypotheses for \(M'=2\) designated forms, W's system for this family has no PC refutation of degree \(22k\).

Part 1 uses independence in \(G_1\), the incoherence, and \(k\ge3\) (only when \(i\ne i'\)). Part 2 uses \(a_j\ne a'_j\) for \(j\ne i\) and member pinning's row hypotheses at \(B=|b|\), but not \(k\ge3\) or independence in \(G_1\). Part 3 needs neither \(a_j\ne a'_j\) nor \(k\ge3\). The condition that every constant differ is stronger than part 1 needs: it suffices that at least two forms outside \(\{i,i'\}\) are incoherent for every pair of omitted indices.

Proof.

The clauses. Each block has \(k+1\) forms, so its prefix omits one index. After normalization, \(C=\chi_{a_i}(\ell_i)\prod_{j\ne i}(\ell_j-a_j)\) and \(C'=\chi_{a'_{i'}}(\ell_{i'})\prod_{j\ne i'}(\ell_j-a'_j)\), on the same \(k+1\) form indices.
Incoherence. Suppose \(i\ne i'\). At \(i\) the factors are \(\chi_{a_i}\) against \(\ell_i-a'_i\) with \(a'_i\ne a_i\), which is coherent, and likewise at \(i'\). At the other \(k-1\ge2\) forms the factors \(\ell_j-a_j\) and \(\ell_j-a'_j\) are incoherent. Suppose \(i=i'\). Then all \(k+1\) forms are incoherent. Either way the only pair is not singly incoherent, so no resolvent is added. Neither clause is constant.
Part 1, \(i=i'\). The tops coincide, \(-\ell_i^2\prod_{j\ne i}\ell_j\), so \(\mathbf e_C-\mathbf e_{C'}\) is a syzygy of degree \(|b|\). The (F) syzygies have multipliers of degree at least 1, and no (K) syzygy is allowed, so the span has no element of degree \(|b|\).
Part 1, \(i\ne i'\). \(\ell_{i'}\,\mathrm{top}(C)=-\ell_i^2\ell_{i'}^2\prod_{j\ne i,i'}\ell_j=\ell_i\,\mathrm{top}(C')\), so \((\ell_{i'},-\ell_i)\) is a syzygy of degree \(|b|+1\). The (F) syzygies of \(C\) are \(g\,\ell_i\,\mathbf e_C\) and \(g\,\ell_j^2\,\mathbf e_C\), whose \(\mathbf e_C\) components in degree 1 are multiples of \(\ell_i\). The same holds for \(C'\), and components on different clauses do not mix. \(\ell_{i'}\) is not a multiple of \(\ell_i\) in \(G_1\), so the syzygy is not spanned.
Part 2. \(C-C'\) has degree \(|b|-1\), since the tops cancel. At the value point \(q'\) with \(\ell_i=a_i\) and \(\ell_j=a'_j\) for \(j\ne i\), it equals \(C(q')=\prod_{j\ne i}(a'_j-a_j)\ne0\), because \(C'(q')=0\). Write \(C-C'=(C-C')(q')+\sum_j(\ell_j-q'_j)h_j\) with \(\deg h_j<|b|-1\), as in lem:member-pinning's division step. By that lemma's first step, the coherent product-constraints corollary, the base plus the affine system \(\ell=q'\) has no PC refutation of degree \(|b|\), hence no NS refutation of that degree. So there is a normalized functional \(\mu\) through degree \(|b|-1\) vanishing on the base's multiples and on the multiples \((\ell_j-q'_j)h\) of degree at most \(|b|-1\). Then \(\mu(C-C')=(C-C')(q')\ne0\). \(\mu\) is an NS functional through \(|b|-1\) for the base plus \(\{C,C'\}\), because \(C\) and \(C'\) have degree \(|b|\) and impose nothing below it, and the weak base's axioms are among the functional ones. An extension \(E\mu\) to degree \(|b|\) would need \(E\mu(C)=E\mu(C')=0\), whereas \(E\mu(C)-E\mu(C')=\mu(C-C')\ne0\).
Part 3. This is an instance of cor:single-form-pinning with \(M'=2\). Designate \(\ell_j-a_j\) in the first block and \(\ell_{j'}-a'_{j'}\) in the second, for prefix indices \(j\ne j'\), possible since \(k\ge2\). These have distinct linear parts. \(\square\)

Forms with disjoint supports, each with cells in at least two columns and in every row, where every row also has a cell outside all the supports, meet the independence hypotheses. Without that last condition the sum of the forms could equal a row sum, which is constant on the row.

What the repairs reach.

With \(i=i'\) the \(\chi\) factor is shifted. Read as an identity of functions, thm:cell-resolvents (a) makes \(C-C'\) a product of degree \(|b|-1\), whose new forms \(\gamma\ell_i-\delta_j\ell_j\) are coherent with both clauses. That theorem is stated for one-column pairs, and this pair is not one. Adding that product and gluing the syzygy \(\mathbf e_C-\mathbf e_{C'}\) with it is an unproved analogue. Whether the two-block family defeats the route once such products are added is open.
Code families. Take \(3(k+1)+1\) blocks on the same forms whose constant vectors form a code of minimum distance 3 in \(\mathbb F_3^{k+1}\). Shortened ternary Hamming codes give one for every \(k\ge5\). Whatever the prefix choice, two blocks share the outside index and its constant, so they differ in at least three prefix positions, which is shape (b). In the local model no product on the shifted forms absorbs that fall. This excludes neither products that use \(\ell_i\), the unshifted forms or new forms, nor resolvents the saturation adds from other pairs; pairs with \(i\ne i'\) at distance 3 can be singly incoherent. So whether Taylor generation fails for the saturated code family is open. lem:member-pinning proves W for it when \(k\ge5\), under its row, robustness and row-independence hypotheses for \(k+1\) forms at \(B=22k\): the forbidden value points number at most \((3k+4)2^k\), fewer than \(3^{k+1}\).

Assessment of the clause-level Taylor-glue line

Progress. The line produced sound tools:
- resolvent Taylor glue;
- directness and Taylor propagation along columns;
- one-column pair lifting;
- cell resolvents, with their local limit.
The conditional reduction stays valid.
Why it stops. Its unit is the single clause, and its absorption mechanism is product constraints. Clauses on shared linear parts, a member in the record's language, have mutual falls that are not always products. On the two-block family the corollary's hypothesis fails for every prefix choice, and the theorem's functional-extension conclusion fails for one, although W holds. Its nonrefutation conclusion does not fail. So a proof of A1 cannot rest on the clause-level corollary alone. Pinning proves nonrefutation for such members; it does not treat their falls.
What survives. thm:glued-product-constraints (gluing) allows syzygies supported in members, but requires those members to be pairwise coherent, which the two-block member is not. thm:global-closure-gluing (closure gluing) works with the allowed set's graded functions, so every member's falls are built in. Its criterion, closed row freeness, has had no in-range test (lifting-test review). conj:closed-row-freeness asserts it for members on column forms that allow at least half the slice. Taken on column forms, the two-block family is such a member, as its clauses forbid about \(2(2/3)^k/3\) of the value patterns. So is the code family when \(k\ge7\), where its forbidden fraction, up to \((3k+4)2^k/3^{k+1}\), drops below one half (0.49 at \(k=7\)). Both counts assume the column forms' values are close to uniform on the slice, which was not checked. They are the first recorded instances where the clause route fails and W is known. That makes them a test of the closure route that can decide.

Outside leads

Regularity of subspace arrangements (Derksen and Sidman, "A sharp bound for the Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity of subspace arrangements", Adv. Math. 172 (2002)), for A1. The ideal of a union of \(d\) linear subspaces has regularity at most \(d\). Applied to the homogenization, the allowed set of clauses on shared forms, a union of affine subspaces over the algebraic closure, has an ideal generated in degree at most its number of components, with every member fall inside it. Where it breaks: that number is exponential in \(k\) for W's clusters, and the Boolean base makes the variety a finite point set. Test. Passed, as a check of the local picture. For the three-shift pair, \(Z\) over the closure is six affine lines in \(\mathbb A^3\). Singular gave a generating set of its ideal (six_lines.sing), not a verified minimal basis, since minbase does not apply to inhomogeneous ideals. It consists of \(w\) and elements of degrees 3 and 4, within the bound 6, and \(w\) reduces to 0 modulo the ideal. \(w\) is the only quadric up to scalars, because the quadrics vanishing on the lines vanish on their \(\mathbb F_3\)-points, a one-dimensional space by thm:cell-resolvents (b) (identities.json, \(t=3\)). So the member's ideal is not generated by products, yet it has low degree.
Buchberger's chain criterion (Buchberger 1979; Gebauer and Möller 1988), for A1. Taylor generation is the syzygy form of "every S-pair reduces within degree". The chain criterion drops the S-pair of \(C,C'\) when a third member whose top divides their least common multiple is coherent with both. Then the pair syzygy is the difference of two allowed (K) syzygies. Where it breaks: the third member must be implied and a product. Test. Falsified for shape (b), in the local model on the shifted forms. A third member \(C''\) whose top divides \(\operatorname{lcm}(\mathrm{top}\,C,\mathrm{top}\,C')\) cannot carry \(\chi\) on a shifted form, since the least common multiple has exponent 1 there. Each shifted form on which it has a linear factor is incoherent with \(C\) or with \(C'\). Being coherent or singly incoherent with both, it uses at most two of the \(t\ge3\) shifted forms, so its part on them has degree below \(t\). By thm:cell-resolvents (b), every such product vanishing on \(Z\) is zero.
The sunflower lemma (Alweiss, Lovett, Wu and Zhang, Ann. of Math. 194 (2021), arXiv:1908.08483), for choosing what to pin. A family of more than \((Cw\log w)^w\) sets of size \(w\) has a sunflower, whose core would be a natural set of forms to pin. Where it breaks: at \(w=k+1=\Theta(\log n)\) the threshold is superpolynomial. Test. Falsified. With \(C=1\), below the lemma's actual constant and so conservative, the logarithm of the threshold exceeds \(K\ln n\) at every tested \((n,K)\): for example 647.3 against 27.6 at \(n=10^6\), \(K=2\) (bridge_tests.json). The lemma guarantees no sunflower at W's sizes.

Absurd bridges

Skein relations of knot theory (Kauffman's bracket). A skein relation writes the difference of two crossings as a sum of smoothings. Here the fall \(\prod_jx_j-\prod_j(x_j+1)=-\sum_{\emptyset\ne T}\prod_{j\notin T}x_j\) is a state sum over resolved shifts. Translation: clauses on shared forms are diagrams, shifts are crossings, and the hybrids \(\prod_j(x_j+\varepsilon_j)\), \(\varepsilon\in\{0,1\}^t\), are the states. What a theorem would give: skein modules have state bases, which suggests completing a pair by all its hybrids. Consecutive hybrids differ in one shift, so every fall telescopes into single-shift products, and the completed family would need only resolvents. Adding constraints only strengthens the system, so hardness of the completion would give hardness of W. Smallest test: the allowed set of the completed three-shift pair. Test. Falsified. The single-shift differences are products, as predicted. But the eight hybrids have no common zero in \(\mathbb F_3^3\), while the pair alone has 12 (bridge_tests.json). So the completion is refutable, and completing to a skein basis destroys the hardness it was meant to carry.
Valence-bond theory in quantum chemistry (Rumer's basis of resonance structures, Rumer 1932; Pauling). Resonance structures on the same atoms satisfy linear relations, and Rumer's non-crossing rule picks a basis. Translation: clauses on the same forms with different constants are resonance structures of one molecule. Their falls are the differences between structures, and a Rumer-type rule would say which relations generate the others. What a theorem would give: relations generated by the smallest ones, here single-shift relations, which are resolvent-type. Smallest test: the linear relations among the \(3^t\) products \(\prod_j(x_j+c_j)\), \(c\in\mathbb F_3^t\), in the \(2^t\)-dimensional multilinear space. Test. Passed. For \(t=2,3\) the relation space has dimension 5 and 19. It is spanned by the one-coordinate three-term relations \((x+2)-2(x+1)+x=0\), whose rank is 5 and 19 (bridge_tests.json). So linear relations among clause functions on shared forms come from single shifts. But falls are not linear relations: the Rumer picture explains the resolvents, not the binomials.

Next step

The highest-risk item remains A1. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer tests the closure route (thm:global-closure-gluing) on the families where the clause route fails and W is known. Take the two-block family, and the code family for \(k\ge7\), on column forms, and decide by exact computation whether closed row freeness holds. Make the decision count the computation rules ask for, and use the smallest board meeting the criterion's hypotheses. This needs the compiled kernel on the direct-sum description of \(G\) that the closure-gluing entry named, since its Gröbner check stalled at \(N=16\). If closed row freeness holds, the member is the right gluing unit, and the next step is a member-level glue theorem that uses member pinning locally. If it fails, the closure criterion is also too strong, and A1 needs a mechanism that mixes pinning with gluing.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:resolvent-taylor-glue (setting, coherence types, theorem, W normalization and corollary);
lem:member-pinning with its first step;
cor:single-form-pinning and the pinning-gap entry's remark on the weak base;
thm:cell-resolvents;
the closure-gluing entry's theorem and conj:closed-row-freeness.

The test outputs were read from the saved files. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the normalization, tops and coherence classification;
the empty saturation;
both syzygies and the non-spanning argument;
the pigeonhole and the choice of the pinning point;
the skein and Rumer figures.

Its two claim searches found no recorded version of the failure. It required these changes, all adopted:

the route-level conclusion limited to the corollary, with part 2 added to show the conclusion fails for \(i=i'\);
the cell-resolvent repair marked as an unproved analogue;
the code-family claim restricted to the local model on the shifted forms, with Taylor generation for its saturation left open, and \(k\ge5\) with shortened Hamming codes;
overreaching sentences removed;
the independence example corrected;
part 3 cited as an instance of cor:single-form-pinning;
the hypotheses sorted by part;
the chain-criterion argument completed;
the sunflower and Singular statements qualified;
the Question's count fixed.

Part 2 was added after the review, following the argument the reviewer asked for. It strengthens the result, so a second pass was made on it. That pass confirmed the value point, the degree of \(C-C'\), the division, the functional from affine nonrefutation, and the non-extension. It required the failing conclusion to be named as functional extension, part 2's hypotheses to be listed, the closure-freeness density claim to be corrected to \(k\ge7\) for the code family, and pinning's hypotheses to be stated. All were adopted.

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The proposed closure test is settled by the record: the families that break clause-level Taylor glue are single members on seeded column forms, which seeded closure stability closes at every degree, so the open part of A1 is gluing closed members

25 September 2026 · Settled by a recorded theorem (no computation) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-closure-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The proposed closure test is settled by the record: the families that break clause-level Taylor glue are single members on seeded column forms, which seeded closure stability closes at every degree, so the open part of A1 is gluing closed members”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-closure-test-settled.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The binomial route review proposed a computation: decide closed row freeness for its two-block and code families on column forms, where clause-level Taylor glue fails and W is known. Before any code, computation rule 9 asks whether finished work already decides the question.

General statement. thm:seeded-closure-stability decides it. Over a field of characteristic \(p\), let column forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d\) have an affine basis of value vectors, taken by at least \((p-1)(D+1)^2\) holes at one point and \((p-1)(D+1)\) at each other. Then for every \(\Omega\subseteq\mathbb F_p^d\) with \(Z=\{c\text{ in the slice}:\ell(c)\in\Omega\}\) nonempty, the weak base plus the closed member \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal P_Z)\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Why it applies

The two-block family of prop:two-block-taylor-failure, and the code families, consist of W clauses that are polynomials in \(d=k+1\) forms. On column forms their allowed set is \(Z=\{c:\ell(c)\in\Omega\}\), with \(\Omega\) the complement of the clauses' forbidden value sets. \(\Omega\) is nonempty: for the code families it has more than \(3^{k+1}-(3k+4)2^k>0\) points when \(k\ge5\), and for two blocks see that proposition's part 3.
Every clause has degree \(2(k+1)\le D=22k\) and vanishes on \(\mathcal P_Z\), so it is a generator of the closed member. Adding generators only strengthens the system, so W's system for these families has no refutation of degree \(22k\), and the closed system is \(z\)-injective below \(22k\). This is the conclusion of closed row freeness that the review asked for, by a different route: thm:closure-gluing's criterion is sufficient, and the seeded theorem proves its conclusion directly.
The seeds cost \((p-1)(D+1)^2+d(p-1)(D+1)=O(\log^2n)\) holes at \(p=3\), \(D=22k\), for example holes outside every form's support and holes in exactly one support with coefficient 1. PHP's board has \(n\) holes.
The same holds for any family whose clauses lie on \(d\) seeded column forms, with \(d\) up to about \(N/(2D)\), whatever their coherence.

So the review's decision count is: no run is needed. Closed row freeness in the sense of thm:closure-gluing's conclusion holds for every family on which the clause route was shown to fail. The failure was a within-member failure, and closing the member removes it.

What is left of A1

The unit. The member, all clauses on one span of forms, closed under its own low-degree consequences, is the right gluing unit. Clause-level falls inside a member are not obstructions once the member is closed.
The gap. W's families have \(n^K\) blocks whose forms span far more than \(N/(2D)\) dimensions, so they are not one seeded member. They must be split into many closed members and glued.
The recorded gluing theorems take product constraints. thm:separated-member-stability glues members at the first degree without freeness, for members on cell sets sharing at most one cell. It asks for stability of the base plus each member as a set of product constraints. By part 2 of prop:two-block-taylor-failure, an unclosed two-block member is not stable at its own degree. So the theorem does not accept the members that seeded closure stability closes. thm:relative-gluing accepts members with (c) and (d), which thm:seeded-member-condition supplies after a Gröbner augmentation, and it needs (b) across members. prop:overlap-tor computes (b) for two members, and it fails through dependencies.

Process: the review proposed a computation that the record already decides. Its search covered the clause and closure routes but not the seeded member theorems, which answer the question directly. The route check's instruction to search the record under the cycle's structural objects (members, value sets) would have found them.

Next: glue closed members at the first degree. Decide whether thm:separated-member-stability extends to members given as closed members \(\mathcal M_D(\mathcal P_Z)\) on seeded column forms, with non-product generators. Its splitting lemma, lem:separated-member-directness, uses the product structure of the tops. If it extends, support-separated families of closed members on seeded forms have no first-degree refutation, with no bound on the number of members and any coherence inside each member.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:seeded-closure-stability (statement and seed hypotheses) and thm:seeded-member-condition;
thm:closure-gluing and prop:link-criterion;
prop:overlap-tor;
thm:separated-member-stability's statement;
prop:two-block-taylor-failure.

The application checks the theorem's hypotheses one by one: column forms, seed multiplicities, a nonempty value set and clause degree within \(D\). No new claim is made, so no reviewer was run. The first-degree gluing question in the next step is open.

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Free vanishing tops: the link criterion's condition holds wherever the vanishing tops of the links form a free module over the row sums, and the two are equivalent up to a degree shift; separated gluing of closed members stops at their new first degree

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-closed-separated. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Free vanishing tops: the link criterion's condition holds wherever the vanishing tops of the links form a free module over the row sums, and the two are equivalent up to a degree shift; separated gluing of closed members stops at their new first degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-free-vanishing-tops.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The closure-test entry left the gluing of closed members open, and proposed extending thm:separated-member-stability to them. The route check comes first. Can that extension reach beyond the first degree? If not, what does the closure route itself need?

General statement. lem:free-vanishing-tops. In the setting of prop:link-criterion, let \(\Lambda_u=\mathbb F[r_1,\dots,r_u]/(r_i^p)\) and \(\sigma=\prod_ir_i^{p-1}\), of degree \((p-1)u\). Say a graded \(\Lambda_u\)-module \(M\) is free through \(t\) if some map \(\Lambda_u\otimes U\to M\) from a graded free module is bijective in degrees \(\le t\).

If \(M\) is free through \(d+(p-1)u\) and \(m\in M_d\) has \(\sigma m=0\), then \(m\in\mathfrak rM\).
Hence, if the vanishing-top module \(A_e\) is free through \(D+(p-1)u\), condition (L) of prop:link-criterion holds for \(e\) in degrees \(\le D\). No hypothesis on \(\tilde V_e\) is needed for this step. Under prop:link-criterion's hypothesis (b), which holds for \(N-D\ge(p-1)D^2\), (L) for every \(e\) through \(D\) is closed row freeness through \(D\), the hypothesis of thm:closure-gluing.
For \(u=1\), \(M\) is free through \(t\) exactly when \(\ker r_1=\operatorname{im}r_1^{p-1}\) in degrees \(\le t-1\).

This is the self-injectivity of \(\Lambda_u\cong\mathbb F[(\mathbb Z/p)^u]\), a Frobenius algebra with socle \(\sigma\), in a form that survives truncation. It is a sufficient condition, and equivalent up to a degree shift of \((p-1)u\); see the remark below.

Why separated gluing stops

thm:separated-member-stability needs each member stable through \(h+1\) as a set of product constraints. By part 2 of prop:two-block-taylor-failure, a member with a fall of degree \(h-1\), such as \(C-C'\) for the two-block pair with equal outside indices, is not stable at degree \(h\). The fall is not a product constraint. Its top is not of the form \(c\,\ell^b\), so the defect equations of lem:syzygy-gluing and of that theorem's transfer do not apply to it verbatim, and a transfer for non-product generators would be needed. The splitting argument of lem:separated-member-directness uses only tops supported on \(U_i\), and it can be run with tops of degrees \(h-1\) and \(h\). Redefine \(\mathcal A_i^s\) as the matchings with at least \(h-1\) cells in \(U_i\). Disjointness then needs \(2(h-1)-1>s\): at \(s=h+1\) this is \(h\ge5\), which holds for \(h=k+2\) when \(k\ge3\). The independence step, however, fails at \(s=h+1\). There multiples of the fall carry two cells outside \(U_i\), and so can carry two labels in the spare set, which the spare-label lemma does not cover. So the proof reaches only degree \(h\), one above the members' least generator. This does not show that stability fails beyond that degree. W needs \(22k\), so the extension is not pursued.

Proof of the lemma

Detection by the socle. Identify \(M\) with \(\Lambda_u\otimes U\) in degrees \(\le d+(p-1)u\). There \(\mathfrak rM=\mathfrak r\Lambda_u\otimes U\). Write \(m=\sum_k\lambda_k\otimes u_k\) over a homogeneous basis \((u_k)\) of \(U\). Since \(\sigma\mathfrak r=0\), \(\sigma m=\sum_k\lambda_k(0)\,\sigma\otimes u_k\), in degree \(d+(p-1)u\), still inside the identified range. If it vanishes, every \(\lambda_k(0)=0\), so \(m\in\mathfrak r\Lambda_u\otimes U=\mathfrak rM\).
(L). Let \(a\in(A_e\cap\mathfrak r\tilde V_e)_d\) with \(d\le D\). Since \(\sigma r_i=0\) in \(\Lambda_u\), \(\sigma a=0\). By the first part applied to \(A_e\), \(a\in\mathfrak rA_e\). The reverse inclusion is trivial. Under hypothesis (b) of prop:link-criterion, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(V_e)_d\cong\bigl((A_e\cap\mathfrak r\tilde V_e)/\mathfrak rA_e\bigr)_d\), so it vanishes.
One row. A graded \(\mathbb F[r]/(r^p)\)-module is a sum of Jordan strings \(v,rv,\dots,r^{j-1}v\), \(j\le p\). A string's last element lies in \(\ker r\), and it lies in \(\operatorname{im}r^{p-1}\) exactly when \(j=p\). So \(\ker r=\operatorname{im}r^{p-1}\) fails in degree \(d\) exactly when a short string ends in degree \(d\). A cover bijective in degrees \(\le t\) exists exactly when no short string ends in a degree \(\le t-1\): a short string ending at \(d\le t-1\) has its free counterpart nonzero in degree \(d+1\le t\), and short strings ending at \(t\) or later agree with free ones through \(t\). \(\square\)

Remark: the near-converse, not part of the registered claim. Under hypothesis (b), \(\tilde V_e\) is free through \(D\). If (L) holds through \(D\), then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(V_e)\) vanishes through \(D\). So \(V_e\) is free through \(D\), the surjection \(\tilde V_e\to V_e\) splits in that range, and \(A_e\) is free through \(D\). The lemma's converse needs the shift \((p-1)u\), and the shift is necessary. For \(u=1\), \(p=3\), take \(A=r^2\Lambda\subset\Lambda\): it is free through 2, but (L) fails in degree 2, since \(r^2\in A\cap r\Lambda\) and \(r^2\notin rA\).

Several rows. For \(u>1\), exactness for each \(r_i\) separately does not give \(\Lambda_u\)-freeness. By Dade's lemma, freeness must be checked on all shifted cyclic subgroups, that is, on generic combinations of the \(r_i\) over an extension field. The \(p\)-complex reading below is for \(u=1\).

What it means

A module condition. The lemma trades (L), a condition on intersections, for an essentially equivalent freeness condition on \(A_e=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\,a_{S(Y),e}\). On it \(r_i\) acts by restriction, \(x_Yg\mapsto\sum_jx_{Y+(i,j)}\,g|_{C_j=0}\). So \(A_e\) is a coefficient system on the lattice of hole sets. For one row, its freeness is exactness of the \(p\)-complex \(\ker r=\operatorname{im}r^{p-1}\). The record's parked \(p\)-complex line has results of this shape, such as thm:wide-row-p-complex-amplitude-exactness for weighted matching contractions. Whether \((A_e,r_1)\) is such a contraction is not shown; that theorem is a candidate tool.
Where freeness might come from, heuristically. Suppose the links' tops are uniform, \(a_{S,e}=\pi_S(I_e)\) for one ideal \(I\) of the occupancy algebra \(\mathbb F[C]/(C^2)\), with \(\pi_S\) killing \(C_j\) for \(j\in S\), and \(I\) closed under multiplication by occupancy monomials. Then \(A_e\) is the degree-\(e\) occupancy part of \(I\cdot B\) in the weak algebra \(B=\mathbb F[x,C]/(x^2,C^2,x_jC_j)\). A conjecture, not proved here: value-set members \(\{\ell(c)\in\Omega\}\) have uniform tops in low degree when their vanishing polynomials come from polynomials in the forms and the slice. Tops are invariant under the shifts of the form values that the links cause. The count limit of the recorded tools would re-enter there.
This proves no new case of W.

Next: one-row freeness of \(A_e\) for a single W clause on column forms at degrees \(e\ge k+2\), where its vanishing top first enters. Decide whether \((A_e,r_1)\) can be written as a weighted matching contraction in the sense of thm:wide-row-p-complex-amplitude-exactness, and if so check that theorem's robust-active-row hypothesis for dense column forms.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

prop:link-criterion (setting, (a), (b), (c) and the freeness range);
thm:separated-member-stability and lem:separated-member-directness;
prop:two-block-taylor-failure;
the statements of lem:shared-link, which concerns truncated freeness of function algebras over a truncated algebra acting through tops, not the link criterion, and of lem:symmetric-lift-free-modules.

The reviewer's two claim searches found no earlier statement of the criterion. It confirmed the socle detection and the deduction of (L). It required these changes, all adopted:

the unused hypothesis on \(\tilde V_e\) dropped;
the one-row range corrected to the sharp statement, with a counterexample to the draft's converse;
the lemma identified as self-injectivity, with the near-converse and its necessary shift;
Dade's lemma noted for several rows;
the \(p\)-complex link and the value-set statement weakened;
the separated-gluing section restated for non-product generators, with its degree conditions.

The changes correct or weaken the claims. The near-converse is a remark, not part of the registered claim, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: on column members the closure route's criterion is freeness of the vanishing tops, which W-like members satisfy in every small exact check while a refuted control fails; the tops are not uniform across links, and the route's refined criteria cover column forms only

25 September 2026 · Route review with exact small checks · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-clause-tops-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: on column members the closure route's criterion is freeness of the vanishing tops, which W-like members satisfy in every small exact check while a refuted control fails; the tops are not uniform across links, and the route's refined criteria cover column forms only”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-closure-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The last two entries moved A1 to the closure route. The closure test found the member to be the gluing unit. lem:free-vanishing-tops (free vanishing tops) turned the link criterion into freeness of the links' vanishing-top modules \(A_e\) over the row sums. The step it proposed, one-row freeness for a single W clause, is already settled for nonrefutation (column Wilson). So the route check calls for a review of the closure route as a whole.

General statement. The line's claim is thm:global-closure-gluing: W follows if the row sums' Koszul 1-cycles on the graded functions of W's allowed set \(Q\) are Frobenius plus boundaries through \(22k\). For column members this is (L) of prop:link-criterion, and so, up to a degree shift, freeness of the vanishing-top modules (lem:free-vanishing-tops). conj:closed-row-freeness asserts it for column members of density at least one half. The goal needs A1: arbitrary affine forms in the cell variables, not only column forms.

Falsification attempt: exact Jordan types at small size

vanishing_tops.py computes, over \(\mathbb F_3\) with one explicit row, \(N=10\) and \(m=11\):

every link's vanishing tops \(a_{Y,e}\), \(e\le2\), from exact nullspaces of evaluation matrices;
the modules \(A_e\) and \(V_e=\tilde V_e/A_e\) in total degrees \(\le4\);
the number of short Jordan strings of \(r\) ending in each degree, by exact fflas-ffpack ranks of \(r\) and \(r^2\).

The members are the slice, a control allowing at most two occupied holes, and three W-like members on four seeded-random dense column forms: one clause, the two-block pair with equal outside indices, and three clauses. Their clauses are \(\chi_a(\ell_i)\prod(\ell_j-a_j)\) with \(k=1\) (vanishing_tops.json).

The slice and all three W-like members have no short strings in \(A_e\) or \(V_e\) through degree 4, for every \(e\le2\). They allow 272, 176 and 157 of the 342 slice points, so the last lies below half density. Their links carry vanishing tops beyond the slice's: \(\dim A_{2,4}\) is 369, 487 and 465, against 360 for the slice.
The control fails. \(V_e\) has short strings ending in degree 2 (44, 80 and 35 for \(e=0,1,2\)), as its recorded degree-2 refutation predicts. \(A_e\) has short strings in degrees 3 and 4, as the near-converse's shift predicts.

So the test discriminates, and it found no failure on W-like members. It is far below the conjecture's range, \(N\ge2(D+1)D\), which is 40 at \(D=4\). The clause width is \(k=1\), so the Koszul range and W's widths are not reached.

Assessment of the closure route

What it has.
- A sufficient criterion that absorbs every within-member fall.
- The seeded and sparse theorems (thm:seeded-closure-stability, thm:sparse-closure-stability), which prove it at every degree for members on seeded forms or on few holes.
- A module formulation, freeness of \(A_e\), that passed every small exact check this cycle.
What it lacks.
- A mechanism for dense forms. The only freeness mechanism in the record is the free-seed tensor argument, which needs seeds or free holes and so re-imports the count limit.
- Link uniformity, the natural structural candidate. It fails (Gotzmann lead below), so that route is closed.
- Tests in range. Brute force is infeasible past \(N\approx16\): the slice has \(2^N/3\) points, and the conjecture's range at \(D=4\) is \(N=40\).
A scope gap. lem:closure-saturation, prop:link-criterion and lem:free-vanishing-tops need \(Z\) to be a set of occupancy patterns, that is, constraints on column forms. W's forms are arbitrary affine forms in the cells \(x_{ij}\). For them only thm:global-closure-gluing's general hypothesis is available, without the content reduction. A claim search (cell forms, column forms, reduction, occupancy) found no reduction from cell forms to column forms. So the closure route's refined machinery does not yet address A1 as stated, only its column-form case.

Outside leads

Dade's lemma and Carlson's rank varieties (Dade, Ann. of Math. 1978; Carlson, Invent. Math. 1983), with modules of constant Jordan type (Carlson, Friedlander and Pevtsova, J. reine angew. Math. 2008), for A1 on the closure route. \(\Lambda_u=\mathbb F_3[(\mathbb Z/3)^u]\). A module is free exactly when its restriction to every shifted cyclic subgroup is free, and the rank variety records where it is not. Closed row freeness is freeness of \(A_e\), so the tools of modular representation theory for elementary abelian groups apply to it. Where it breaks: the criterion needs all shifted cyclic subgroups for \(u>1\), and it detects freeness without proving it. Test. Passed. For \(u=1\) the rank variety is the Jordan type of \(r\), computed exactly above: free through degree 4 for the W-like members, not free for the refuted control.
Gotzmann's persistence theorem and Macaulay's bound (Gotzmann, Math. Z. 1978), for link uniformity. If the links' vanishing ideals were the restrictions of one ideal, \(a_{S,e}=\pi_S(a_{\emptyset,e})\), persistence-type control of its Hilbert function would make \(A_e\) a quotient of a free module by a controlled kernel. The entry on free vanishing tops proposed this as the mechanism. Where it breaks: the links' constants shift, which can create extra low-degree vanishing. Test. Falsified. lead_checks.py compared \(a_{Y,e}\) with \(\pi_Y(a_{\emptyset,e})\) for \(e\le2\), \(|Y|\le2\), 110 cases per member. The link's space is strictly larger in 6, 37 and 32 cases for the three W-like members, and never smaller (lead_checks.json). Yet \(A_e\) stayed free, so uniformity is neither the mechanism nor needed.
Mayer's homology of \(p\)-complexes and Spanier's comparison (Mayer, Ann. of Math. 1942; Spanier, "The Mayer homology theory", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1949), for the one-row condition. \((A_e,r)\) with the unsigned coboundary is a Mayer 3-complex on the lattice of hole sets. Spanier showed that for simplicial complexes Mayer homology is determined by ordinary homology. If a coefficient-system analogue held, freeness of \(A_e\) would reduce to acyclicity of the ordinary signed complex \((A_e,\delta)\), \(\delta(x_Yg)=\sum_j(-1)^{|\{y\in Y:y<j\}|}x_{Y+j}\,g|_{C_j=0}\). Where it breaks: Spanier's theorem is for constant coefficients, and here the coefficients vary. Test. Passed, with a caveat. In all 15 member and degree cases, the ordinary cohomology of \((A_e,\delta)\) vanished exactly where the short strings did. In the control, the nonzero dimensions matched the short strings one degree up for \(e=1,2\) (71 and 71, 35 and 35), and differed by one for \(e=0\) (36 against 35), at the edge of the computed range (vanishing_tops.json).

Absurd bridges

Spin coupling in quantum chemistry (Kotani's branching diagrams; the Clebsch–Gordan series), read in characteristic 3. Each column's algebra \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^2)\), with \(r\) acting as the lowering operator, is a doublet. The column tensor power \(W_N\) couples \(N\) doublets, and \(r=\sum_jx_j\) is the total lowering operator. In characteristic 3 the multiplets are Jordan strings of length at most 3, and freeness means every multiplet is a triplet. What a theorem there gives: the modular Clebsch–Gordan series, the Green ring of \(\mathbb Z/3\). A projective module tensored with any module is projective, which is the recorded free-seed tensor lemma, and a sum of many doublets is free up to one short multiplet. Smallest test: the Jordan type of \(r\) on \(W_{10}\). Test. Passed. Exactly one short string, ending in degree 5, and every other string is a triplet (lead_checks.json). This is lem:pair-seed-decomposition read as Clebsch–Gordan coupling. The bridge relabels a recorded result rather than adding one. A member's constraints act as a coupling to further spins whose multiplet structure is the open question.
Persistence barcodes from topological data analysis (the stability theorem of Cohen-Steiner, Edelsbrunner and Harer, 2007). Jordan strings of \(r\) along the degree filtration are bars. Freeness means every bar has full length 3, and each added clause perturbs \(A_e\). A bottleneck-stability theorem would bound the short bars a clause can create by the size of the perturbation, so freeness would persist under adding clauses whose tops change \(A_e\) little. Smallest test: count short bars in range as clauses are added, from one clause to two to three. Test. Passed, but it does not discriminate. No short bar appears in range at any stage (vanishing_tops.json), so stability cannot be distinguished from plain freeness at this size.

Next step

The highest-risk item remains A1, and the closure route's refined machinery covers only column forms. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer closes that scope gap or measures it. Decide whether the content reduction of lem:closure-saturation extends to allowed sets cut by affine forms in the cell variables, with the explicit rows carrying the forms' row parts. Otherwise, find a transfer from W with cell forms to W with column forms. Start from the recorded row-parts analysis of W's forms, such as rigid forms and the forms the base cannot prove nonzero, and state which of W's forms are column forms modulo the base.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

prop:link-criterion and lem:free-vanishing-tops, whose quantities the script computes;
lem:closure-saturation, for the scope;
thm:seeded-closure-stability and thm:sparse-closure-stability;
lem:pair-seed-decomposition, whose one short summand the spin-coupling test matches;
conj:closed-row-freeness.

The kernel's ranks come from fflas-ffpack RowRankProfile through declared ctypes signatures. The nullspaces come from an exact numpy reduction modulo 3. The slice gives the expected free answer, and the control reproduces its recorded degree-2 refutation, so the controls pass. All numbers were read from the saved JSON files. This review registers no claim.

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Cell forms on the closure route: without a reduction to few rows the free-tops criterion is vacuous on PHP's board, and the recorded row-change reduction makes affine row rank the parameter, which W's generic forms max out

25 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-cell-forms-scope. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cell forms on the closure route: without a reduction to few rows the free-tops criterion is vacuous on PHP's board, and the recorded row-change reduction makes affine row rank the parameter, which W's generic forms max out”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-cell-forms-scope.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The closure-route review found that the route's refined machinery needs the content reduction to at most \(D\) explicit rows, proved for occupancy-determined (column) members, while W's forms are arbitrary affine forms in the cells \(x_{ij}\). Can the criterion do without the reduction? If not, what measures the forms the reduction can reach?

General statement. prop:content-reduction-scope. Let \(\Lambda_{m-1}=\mathbb F[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_i^p)\) act on the graded functions \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P}\) of the column-injective assignments of the weak unary board, with \(N\) holes. Suppose \((p-1)(m-1)>N\), as on PHP's board, where \(m=N+1\). If a vanishing-top module \(A\subseteq\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P}\) is free through \(t\) over \(\Lambda_{m-1}\), then \(A\) is zero in all degrees \(\le t-(p-1)(m-1)\). So lem:free-vanishing-tops, applied over all row sums without a reduction to few rows, says nothing about members with vanishing tops of degree \(\le D\). Only this sufficient condition becomes vacuous. Condition (L) and the Koszul hypothesis of thm:closure-gluing do not.

Proof

Every element of \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal P}\) has degree at most \(N\), since an assignment has at most \(N\) cells. Let \(0\ne a\in A_\delta\) with \(\delta\le t-(p-1)(m-1)\). Identify \(A\) with \(\Lambda_{m-1}\otimes U\) in degrees \(\le t\), and write \(a=\sum_k\lambda_k\otimes u_k\) with some \(\lambda_k\ne0\), so \(\deg u_k\le\delta\). Then \(\sigma u_k\ne0\), where \(\sigma=\prod_ir_i^{p-1}\), in degree \(\deg u_k+(p-1)(m-1)\le t\), inside the identified range. That degree exceeds \(N\), where \(A\) is zero. This is a contradiction. \(\square\)

By the near-converse in the free-vanishing-tops entry, (L) through \(D\) gives freeness through \(D\) only, with no socle shift, and that is not excluded. So the obstruction concerns the sufficient condition's shift, not the closure criterion itself.

The right parameter is affine row rank

A basis remark. In the bulk basis of lem:closure-saturation, with bulk row 0 fixed, a nonconstant form \(\ell\) has top \(\bar\ell=\sum_ja_{0j}C_j+\sum_{i\ge1}\sum_j(a_{ij}-a_{0j})x_{ij}\). Its content components are the column part and the row deviations. If the degree-1 vanishing tops of a set \(Q\) are exactly the span of \(\bar\ell\), they are content-graded only when \(\bar\ell\) has one component. That happens when \(\ell\) is a column form, or is supported on one explicit row \(i\ge1\). This is only a necessary condition, in degree 1 and in a fixed basis. lem:board-content-reduction records that column-type forms are homogeneous.
The record removes the basis dependence. thm:row-rank-seeds (row-rank seeds) uses lem:row-change-invariance: an invertible row change, together with shifting forms by row sums, is an automorphism of the weak top algebra that preserves the span of the row sums. It moves forms of affine row rank \(r\) onto rows \(0,\dots,r-1\). Content reduction on the other rows then reduces top-algebra freeness to \(\min(m,r+t)\) rows. Column-type and single-row forms are the case \(r=1\). The parameter that measures what content reduction can reach is therefore the affine row rank of a member's forms, not the number of deviating rows in one basis.
W's forms. Generic row-dependent forms have affine row rank about \(\min(m,d(N-1))\), as that entry records, so W's adversarial forms reach full rank.
A heuristic range, not proved. The free-seed range for \(u\) explicit rows is about \(N/((p-1)u)\). The free-tops condition with \(u=D+r\) rows needs freeness through \(D+(p-1)u\), so roughly \(D+(p-1)u\le N/((p-1)u)\). That allows \(u\), and so \(r\), up to about \(\sqrt N/(p-1)\), that is \(O(\sqrt n)\) rows, not all \(n+1\). This compares with the column tensor powers, while the lemma needs freeness of \(A_e\) itself, so it is an upper estimate of what the route could reach. It matches thm:row-rank-seeds' own range \(N\ge(p-1)(t+1)(r+t+d)\).

So, measured by affine row rank, the closure route's refined machinery can reach forms of rank \(O(\sqrt n)\) at best, and only after a transfer that is not yet proved. W's adversarial forms have rank of order \(n\).

Next: transfer the row-change reduction to the closure setting. The row change is an automorphism of the top algebra, not of the point set \(\mathcal P\). So state the Koszul hypothesis of thm:closure-gluing for \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q}=A/I_Q\), with \(I_Q\) the vanishing-top ideal. Prove that \(\sigma_g(I_Q)\) is content-graded in rows \(\ge r\) when \(Q\) is cut by forms of affine row rank \(r\). This holds if \(I_Q\) is generated by tops of polynomials in the forms and base tops, which is exactly the link-uniformity question that the closure-route review found false at small size. Test that generation first, on the review's members after a row change.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

lem:free-vanishing-tops with its near-converse;
lem:closure-saturation and prop:link-criterion;
lem:board-content-reduction;
thm:row-rank-seeds with lem:row-change-invariance and its content-reduction lemma.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the substitution and graded-subspace argument and the socle-degree argument. It found that the draft's proposed fix, a coarser grading on a fixed set of rows, is already thm:row-rank-seeds' row-change reduction, and that the draft's range was wrong. It required these changes, all adopted:

the degree-1 statement reduced to a remark, citing both recorded results;
the fix rewritten as a transfer of the recorded reduction;
the range corrected to \(O(\sqrt N)\) and marked heuristic;
the scope claims weakened to necessary conditions;
part 2 stated for \((p-1)(m-1)>N\), with its stronger form;
"criterion" made precise: only the sufficient condition is vacuous.

The reviewer asked for another pass on the rewritten fix paragraph. That paragraph now only cites the recorded result and states a heuristic range and a next step, with no new claim, so the pass was folded into this rewrite rather than run separately.

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Hole splitting: the vanishing-top module of a set of occupancy patterns is an iterated extension of its link's module and of the sum and intersection of its two fibers' modules at a hole, so freeness of the tops passes from \(N-1\) to \(N\) holes when those three are free

25 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check of the identifications · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-row-change-closure. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Hole splitting: the vanishing-top module of a set of occupancy patterns is an iterated extension of its link's module and of the sum and intersection of its two fibers' modules at a hole, so freeness of the tops passes from \(N-1\) to \(N\) holes when those three are free”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-hole-splitting.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The cell-forms entry proposed transferring the row-change reduction to the closure setting. The route check shows that transfer is capped at affine row rank \(O(\sqrt n)\), so it cannot reach W's forms. The open core the review isolated is still closed row freeness for dense column members, conj:closed-row-freeness. That conjecture needs a mechanism that works without seeds. The closure-route review's data showed freeness holding, while the one structural candidate, link uniformity, fails. Is there a recursion over holes that explains the freeness?

General statement. lem:hole-splitting. Over any field, let \(Z\) be any set of occupancy patterns on holes \([N]\), and fix a hole \(j\). No slice condition and no nonemptiness is used; for \(Z\) in the slice \(m\), the fibers lie in the slices \(m\) and \(m-1\) and are covered by the same statement. Let \(Z^0=\{c\in Z:c_j=0\}\) and \(Z^1=\{c\in Z:c_j=1\}\), as pattern sets on \([N]\setminus j\), possibly empty. Use the notation of prop:link-criterion with \(u\) explicit rows: \(A_e(X)=\bigoplus_Yx_Y\,a_{S(Y),e}(X)\) inside \(\tilde V_e\), with \(\Lambda_u\) acting by the row sums. Let \(V_j=\operatorname{span}(x_{ij}:i\le u)\), in degree 1, with \(\Lambda_u\) acting trivially on it. Then there are exact sequences of graded \(\Lambda_u\)-modules

\[0\to V_j\otimes A_e(Z^1)\to A_e(Z)\to\bar A_e\to0,\qquad 0\to\bigl(A_{e-1}(Z^0)+A_{e-1}(Z^1)\bigr)(-1)\to\bar A_e\to A_e(Z^0)\cap A_e(Z^1)\to0,\]

with the sum and intersection taken inside the system \(\tilde V\) on \([N]\setminus j\). Consequently, \(A_e(Z)\) is free through \(t\) if these three modules are:

\(A_e(Z^1)\), free through \(t-1\);
\(A_{e-1}(Z^0)+A_{e-1}(Z^1)\), free through \(t-1\);
\(A_e(Z^0)\cap A_e(Z^1)\), free through \(t\).

With lem:free-vanishing-tops, which needs freeness through \(t=D+(p-1)u\) and so, by prop:content-reduction-scope, a prior reduction to \(u\le D\) rows, closed row freeness of \(Z\) follows from three freeness statements on \(N-1\) holes. Two of the modules involved, the sum and the intersection, are not the vanishing-top modules of any pattern set in general. For example, \(a(Z^0)+a(Z^1)\) can be smaller than \(a(Z^0\cap Z^1)\), and \(a(Z^0)\cap a(Z^1)\) can be larger than \(a(Z^0\cup Z^1)\). The sequences are the column analogue of the residual and trace sequences of lem:edge-castelnuovo-sequence (edge sequence) and lem:row-horace-identity (row Horace). That record warns that plain induction along such sequences need not reach the target degree.

Proof

The column-\(j\) part. Let \(A''\) be the span of the \(x_Y\,a_{S(Y),e}(Z)\) with \(Y\) containing a cell of column \(j\), necessarily exactly one cell \((i,j)\). The link of \(Z\) at \(S(Y)\ni j\) is the link of \(Z^1\) at \(S(Y)\setminus j\): the same point set. So \(a_{S(Y),e}(Z)=a_{S(Y)\setminus j,e}(Z^1)\). Each \(r_i\) adds cells in columns outside \(S(Y)\), so it preserves \(A''\). The map \(x_{ij}x_{Y'}g\mapsto x_{ij}\otimes x_{Y'}g\) is an isomorphism \(A''\cong V_j\otimes A_e(Z^1)\) of \(\Lambda_u\)-modules. The quotient \(\bar A_e=A_e(Z)/A''\) is spanned by the \(x_Y\,a_{S(Y),e}(Z)\) with no cell in column \(j\), and \(r_i\) acts by adding cells outside column \(j\).
The \(C_j\) filtration. For such \(Y\), with \(S=S(Y)\not\ni j\), \(a_{S,e}(Z)\subseteq\mathrm{Mon}_e(S^c)\), and \(j\in S^c\). Let \(K_S=a_{S,e}(Z)\cap C_j\,\mathrm{Mon}_{e-1}(S^c\setminus j)\), and let \(Q_S\) be the projection of \(a_{S,e}(Z)\) onto \(\mathrm{Mon}_e(S^c\setminus j)\). Restriction \(g\mapsto g|_{C_k=0}\), \(k\ne j\), commutes with division by \(C_j\) and with the projection. So \(K\) is a submodule of \(\bar A_e\) with quotient \(Q\).
\(K/C_j=A_{e-1}(Z^0)+A_{e-1}(Z^1)\). Write a polynomial of degree \(\le e\) as \(f=g+C_jh\), with \(g,h\) free of \(C_j\). It vanishes on \(Z_S\) exactly when \(g\) vanishes on \(Z^0_S\) and \(g+h\) vanishes on \(Z^1_S\). Its top lies in \(C_j\mathrm{Mon}_{e-1}\) exactly when \(\deg g\le e-1\). Then \(v=g+h\) vanishes on \(Z^1_S\) with \(\deg v\le e-1\), and the top is \(C_j(v-g)_{e-1}\), with \(g_{e-1}\in a_{e-1}(Z^0_S)\) and \(v_{e-1}\in a_{e-1}(Z^1_S)\). Conversely, for such \(g\) and \(v\), \(f=g+C_j(v-g)\) vanishes on \(Z_S\), with top \(C_j(v-g)_{e-1}\).
\(Q=A_e(Z^0)\cap A_e(Z^1)\). If \(f=g+C_jh\) vanishes on \(Z_S\), then \(g\) vanishes on \(Z^0_S\), so \(g_e\in a_e(Z^0_S)\). On \(Z^1_S\), \(g=-h\) has degree \(\le e-1\), so \(g-(-h)\) vanishes there with top \(g_e\), and \(g_e\in a_e(Z^1_S)\). Conversely, let \(\tau=(g_0)_e=(g_1)_e\), with \(g_0\) vanishing on \(Z^0_S\) and \(g_1\) on \(Z^1_S\). Then \(f=g_0-C_j(g_0-g_1)\) vanishes on \(Z_S\), and \(\deg(g_0-g_1)\le e-1\), so its projection is \(\tau\).
Degrees. \(x_{ij}\) has degree 1, and \(C_j\) carries one degree of \(e\). This gives the shifts, and the sequences are exact in each total degree.
Extensions. Let \(0\to L\to M\to M/L\to0\) with \(L\) and \(M/L\) free through \(t\). Lift a cover \(\Lambda_u\otimes U\to M/L\), bijective through \(t\), to \(M\), which is possible because the free module is projective. Add a cover of \(L\). The resulting map \(\Lambda_u\otimes(U\oplus U')\to M\) is bijective through \(t\) by the five lemma, degree by degree. A module shifted by one and free through \(t-1\) is free through \(t\). Applying this to both sequences gives the corollary. \(\square\)

Checks

hole_split_check.py verified the identifications of \(K\) and \(Q\) exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(N=10\), \(m=11\), \(j=0\), \(e\in\{1,2\}\), for every hole set \(S\not\ni j\) of size \(\le2\). The column-\(j\) part and the module actions were checked by hand only. It covered 92 cases each for the low-weight control, one clause and the two-block pair. There were no mismatches (hole_split_check.json).

What it means

A recursion with three conditions. The recursion is on freeness of \(A_e\). Each step needs three modules on one hole fewer to be free: the link's \(A_e(Z^1)\), the sum, and the intersection of the two fibers' tops. The sum is an independent condition. From \(0\to A\cap B\to A\oplus B\to A+B\to0\), freeness of \(A\), \(B\) and \(A\cap B\) does not give freeness of \(A+B\). The sequences give sufficient conditions only, so a non-free intersection or sum is not shown to obstruct.
Fiber uniformity. If \(a_{S,e}(Z^0)=a_{S,e}(Z^1)\) for every link \(S\) and all degrees up to \(t\), the sum and the intersection both equal \(A(Z^0)\), and the step closes on pattern sets. This is a different condition from link uniformity, not a weaker one: \(Z^1_S\) is a link of \(Z\), but \(Z^0_S\) is not. It fails for slices in general. The slices \(m\) and \(m-1\) on \(N-1\) holes usually have different sizes, and \(\dim\mathbb F^Z=\sum_e\dim\operatorname{gr}_e\), so their top spaces differ in some degree. Whether they agree in degrees \(\le t\) is not checked here. Nor is the case of a free hole, where the fibers are the same member in adjacent slices.
What an induction would need. Induction over \(N\) at fixed \(t\) needs all of the following:
- a family of pattern sets closed under both fibers at every step, so containing all adjacent slices \(m,m-1,\dots\);
- fiber uniformity, or freeness of the sum and intersection, at every intermediate \(N\), for every link and every degree up to \(t\);
- a base case for the whole family at some \(N_0\).
The recorded warning about residual sequences applies: such inductions tend to lose degree.
This proves no new case of W.

Next: measure the three conditions. For the closure-route review's members at \(N=10\), compute the dimension gap between the sum and the intersection of the fibers' tops, degree by degree, at free holes and at holes in the forms' supports. Test freeness of the sum and the intersection where the fibers differ, and check the slice fibers' agreement in low degree.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

prop:link-criterion (setting and the action);
lem:free-vanishing-tops and prop:content-reduction-scope;
the statements of thm:fiber-gluing, lem:edge-castelnuovo-sequence and lem:row-horace-identity.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the column-\(j\) identification for any \(u\), the filtration, both identifications in both directions (including empty fibers and \(e=0\)), the degree shifts and the extension argument. Its searches found no earlier statement. thm:fiber-gluing splits over placed-pigeon summands, a different split. It required these changes, all adopted:

the title and statement weakened to the three conditions;
the non-member nature of the sum and intersection stated;
the obstruction claim dropped;
the slice-fiber claim corrected;
fiber uniformity called a different condition from link uniformity;
the monotonicity claim replaced by what an induction needs;
the unused slice hypothesis dropped;
the check's scope stated;
the related residual sequences linked.

The changes weaken the claims, so no second pass was made.

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Fibers at a hole: W-like column members have fibers with different vanishing tops, yet the sum and intersection of those tops stay free in every small exact check, so the hole-splitting recursion's conditions hold without fiber uniformity

25 September 2026 · Conjecture with an exact small check · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-fiber-uniformity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Fibers at a hole: W-like column members have fibers with different vanishing tops, yet the sum and intersection of those tops stay free in every small exact check, so the hole-splitting recursion's conditions hold without fiber uniformity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-fiber-uniformity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. lem:hole-splitting (hole splitting) makes freeness of a column member's vanishing tops follow from three freeness statements on one hole fewer:

the link's module;
the sum of the two fibers' modules;
their intersection.

The sum and the intersection are not vanishing-top modules of pattern sets. Unless they stay free, the recursion cannot close. Do they, for W-like members, and does that need the fibers to agree?

General statement. conj:fiber-lattice-freeness. Over \(\mathbb F_p\), let \(Z\) be the allowed set, in a slice, of W clauses on column forms. For every hole \(j\) and every \(e\), the systems \(A_e(Z^0)+A_e(Z^1)\) and \(A_e(Z^0)\cap A_e(Z^1)\) on the other \(N-1\) holes are free over the row sums through every degree \(t\) where the column tensor powers on \(N-1-e\) holes are free. With lem:hole-splitting and induction on \(N\), this would reduce freeness of the vanishing tops of such members, and with lem:free-vanishing-tops closed row freeness (conj:closed-row-freeness in this class), to a base case at the smallest \(N\) of that range. The class is closed under links, since a link of a W member is a W member with shifted constants.

The check

fiber_check.py works over \(\mathbb F_3\) with one explicit row, \(N=10\), \(m=11\), \(e\in\{1,2\}\) and degrees \(\le4\). It uses the review's four members, re-drawn with hole 9 made free by zeroing its column in every form. At a free hole and at a hole in the forms' supports it computed:

the number of links \(S\) where \(a_S(Z^0)\ne a_S(Z^1)\);
the short Jordan strings of \(r\) on \(A(Z^0)\), \(A(Z^1)\), the sum and the intersection.

Results (fiber_check.json):

Fibers differ. For the slice they agree at every link checked. For one clause they differ at 24 and 86 links (\(e=1,2\)) at the free hole, and at 25 and 84 at the support hole. For the two-block pair the counts are 112, 115, 120 and 122, and for the three clauses 146, 128, 121 and 118. Fibers differ even at a free hole, where they are the same member in adjacent slices. So fiber uniformity fails for W-like members.
All four modules are free in range. Every member, hole and \(e\) has no short string in \(A(Z^0)\), \(A(Z^1)\), the sum or the intersection, in any degree computed.

Scope: tiny sizes, \(k=1\), and far below the conjecture's natural range, where the free range of the column tensor powers on 9 holes is about degree 4. At this size the conjecture is supported only as consistency. The check found no case where the recursion's conditions fail while the member's module is free.

What it means

The closure route now has a candidate mechanism for dense column members: induction on holes through lem:hole-splitting, with the class of W members closed under links. It needs only that the lattice generated by the two fibers' tops stays free. The structural candidates tried before do not hold: link uniformity (closure-route review) and fiber uniformity (above). The conjecture asks for freeness of the sum and intersection, not for agreement.
Two caveats. First, the conjecture is about sums and intersections of two systems, not about pattern sets, so its own induction would need a hole-splitting rule for such lattice elements. Projections commute with sums but not with intersections, so that rule is not immediate. Second, the recorded warning about residual sequences applies: inductions of this kind can lose degree.
Scope as before: column forms only (prop:content-reduction-scope), and no new case of W.

Next: state and prove the hole-splitting rule for sums and intersections of two vanishing-top systems. Decide whether the lattice they generate is closed under the fiber operations up to extensions. If it is, the conjecture reduces to one inequality per hole, and its first nontrivial case, the two fibers of a single clause, can be attacked by hand.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:hole-splitting, lem:free-vanishing-tops, prop:content-reduction-scope and conj:closed-row-freeness. A claim search (fibers, sum, intersection, vanishing tops, free hole, induction) found only the entries this cycle builds on, and prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds, which bounds falls of paired systems and does not concern freeness. The kernel reuses the rank and nullspace routines validated in the closure-route review. It reproduces freeness of the slice's fibers, which agree as expected. All numbers were read from the saved JSON. The entry states a conjecture and a finite check, so no proof reviewer was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 45.80 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	52.43 s
Computation design and coding	34.22 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 1.85 s
Individually measured computation	17.10 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The fibers' vanishing tops generate a non-distributive lattice once two clauses interact, so no adapted basis carries the hole-splitting recursion past one step; a single clause and the slice are distributive in every check

25 September 2026 · Refutation of a mechanism, by exact check · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-lattice-splitting. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The fibers' vanishing tops generate a non-distributive lattice once two clauses interact, so no adapted basis carries the hole-splitting recursion past one step; a single clause and the slice are distributive in every check”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-fiber-lattice.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. conj:fiber-lattice-freeness (fibers) asks that the sum and intersection of the two fibers' vanishing tops stay free, so that lem:hole-splitting can be iterated. One step of the recursion produces sums and intersections of the fibers' systems. The next step splits those again. For a submodule \(M\) of \(\tilde V\), the splitting at a hole gives:

for \(M=A\cap B\): column-\(j\) part \(A^{(j)}\cap B^{(j)}\), and \(K(M)=K(A)\cap K(B)\), but only \(Q(M)\subseteq Q(A)\cap Q(B)\);
for \(M=A+B\): \(Q(M)=Q(A)+Q(B)\), but only \(K(M)\supseteq K(A)+K(B)\).

Iterating therefore produces lattice words in the fibers' systems at several holes. Those stay tractable exactly when the systems generate a distributive lattice, that is, when one basis is adapted to all of them. Do they?

General statement. The statement under test is conj:fiber-lattice-freeness, through the mechanism that would prove it by iteration. The check registered here, ex:fiber-lattice-nondistributive, refutes that mechanism for interacting clauses. It leaves the conjecture itself open.

The check

distributivity_check.py works over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(N=10\), \(m=11\), \(e\in\{1,2\}\), and the four members of fiber_check.py. It uses two pairs of holes: two support holes, and a support hole with the free hole. The four fibers at the two holes are pattern sets on the other 8 holes. For every link \(S\) with \(|S|\le2\), it compares \(\dim\) of the sum of the four subspaces \(a_{S,e}(Z^{ab})\) with the inclusion–exclusion sum of the dimensions of their intersections. It does the same for every triple. For three subspaces, equality is equivalent to distributivity.

Results (distributivity_check.json, 74 links and degrees per member and pair of holes):

The slice and one clause: inclusion–exclusion holds everywhere, for triples and quadruples, at both pairs of holes.
The two-block pair: 6 triples fail at each pair of holes, each by 1.
Three clauses on four forms: 41 triples and 9 quadruples fail at two support holes, with gaps up to 3. At the support and free hole, 39 triples and 15 quadruples fail, with gaps up to 2.

So as soon as two clauses interact, the fibers' vanishing tops generate a non-distributive lattice.

What it means

The iterated recursion cannot be organized by a common adapted basis. After one step it meets sums and intersections in a non-distributive lattice, which has no combinatorial normal form. Freeness of such lattice words would need its own argument at each level.
Non-distributivity appears exactly with interaction between clauses. It is absent for a single clause, as it is for link uniformity and for the clause-level falls. The route meets the same object again: the pair.
conj:fiber-lattice-freeness is untouched. Its first-level sum and intersection were free in every case, including those that fail distributivity. What is refuted is only the easy way to iterate it.

Next: locate the non-distributivity. For the two-block pair, find which links and triples fail. Compare the failing part, \(A\cap(B+C)\) modulo \(A\cap B+A\cap C\), with the pair's fall \(C-C'\) restricted to the fibers. If the defect is spanned by the fall's tops, the closure route's obstruction is the same object as the clause route's, and a combined treatment of pairs is the next target.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:hole-splitting, conj:fiber-lattice-freeness and the fiber-uniformity entry's data. The splitting rules for sums and intersections above follow from the definitions: the column-\(j\) part and \(K\) are intersections with fixed subspaces, and \(Q\) is a linear projection. The check reuses the rank and nullspace routines validated earlier, and computes intersections from exact nullspaces. The slice and single-clause controls satisfy inclusion–exclusion throughout. All numbers were read from the saved JSON. The entry registers a finite check refuting a mechanism, and no proof, so no proof reviewer was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 39.75 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	18.30 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 4.11 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 11.71 s
Individually measured computation	5.49 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Correction: the non-distributivity of the fibers' vanishing tops was a small-size artifact; it occurs only on links with six free holes at \(N=10\) and vanishes at \(N=12\), so the adapted-basis mechanism is not refuted

25 September 2026 · Correction (refutation of the earlier general claim), with an exact check · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-defect-vs-fall. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Correction: the non-distributivity of the fibers' vanishing tops was a small-size artifact; it occurs only on links with six free holes at \(N=10\) and vanishes at \(N=12\), so the adapted-basis mechanism is not refuted”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-fiber-lattice-correction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The fiber-lattice entry recorded that the four fibers' vanishing tops at two holes generate a non-distributive lattice once two clauses interact. It read this as refuting an adapted-basis mechanism for iterating lem:hole-splitting. This cycle set out to locate the defect and compare it with the pair's fall. Where is it, and is it the fall?

General statement. The statement under test remains conj:fiber-lattice-freeness, with the mechanism that would iterate it. ex:fiber-lattice-size-check corrects ex:fiber-lattice-nondistributive: the failures are confined to the smallest links at \(N=10\) and absent at \(N=12\).

The checks

Where the defect is. defect_check.py examined the two-block pair at holes 0 and 1, \(e=2\). Every failure has defect 1, and all 18 failing triple orderings sit at links \(|S|=2\). These are 6 links, each with the triple of fibers \(\{00,01,11\}\). The top of the pair's fall, \(\chi_0(\ell_0)\ell_1-\chi_1(\ell_0)(\ell_1-1)\), a product of degree 2 by thm:cell-resolvents, closes none of them (defect_check.json). So the defect is not the fall.
By link size. distributivity_by_size.py repeated the distributivity test by link size, \(|S|\le2\), \(e=2\), for the two-block pair and the three clauses on freshly drawn seeded column forms (distributivity_by_size.json). At \(N=10\) the failing links are 0, 0 and 4 of 1, 8 and 28 for \(|S|=0,1,2\) for the pair, and 0, 0 and 19 for the three clauses. At \(N=12\) no link fails, of 1, 10 and 45, for either member.

At \(N=10\), a link with \(|S|=2\) at two fixed holes leaves 6 free holes and about 20 points. That is the regime where low-degree vanishing is forced by size alone. The fiber-lattice entry's failures came from that regime, and its per-link counts did not separate link sizes.

What changes

The fiber-lattice entry's data were computed correctly, but its conclusion is withdrawn. The lattice generated by the fibers' vanishing tops is distributive in every case with enough free holes that was checked. The adapted-basis mechanism for iterating lem:hole-splitting is again a candidate, and the argument that the pair makes the lattice non-distributive does not stand.
So conj:fiber-lattice-freeness has a candidate iteration after all: a basis adapted to all fibers' vanishing tops at every set of split holes. If such a basis were also compatible with the row sum, every lattice word would be free, and the recursion would close.
Process lesson: the fiber-lattice entry should have tested its failures against link size before interpreting them. The small links at \(N=10\) are below the size where the free range starts. The review's computation rule 1, decide whether the test can decide, applies to each link, not just to \(N\).

Next: test the adapted-basis mechanism directly. At \(N=12\), for the review's members, decide whether the vanishing tops of all fibers at two and three split holes, together with the row sum's images, admit a common adapted basis. That is distributivity of the lattice generated by the subspaces and their images under \(r\). If they do, formulate the iteration as a theorem conditional on that compatibility.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the fiber-lattice entry and its JSON, lem:hole-splitting and thm:cell-resolvents (for the fall's product form). Both scripts reuse the validated rank and nullspace routines. The \(N=12\) run draws new seeded forms with the last hole free, so the \(N=12\) result is not confounded with the \(N=10\) forms. All numbers were read from the saved JSON. The correction's claim is a finite check. The old claim's status is changed to retracted in the registry, with a correction edge, and the old entry is left unchanged, as the append-only rule requires.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 59.19 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 3.22 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 34.58 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 6.47 s
Individually measured computation	14.72 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Atom filtration: in a distributive lattice of submodules every element is an iterated extension of its atoms, so free atoms give free sums and intersections; at \(N=12\) the four-fiber atoms of two W-like members are free through degree 4

25 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-adapted-basis. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Atom filtration: in a distributive lattice of submodules every element is an iterated extension of its atoms, so free atoms give free sums and intersections; at \(N=12\) the four-fiber atoms of two W-like members are free through degree 4”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-atom-filtration.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The correction restored the adapted-basis mechanism for iterating lem:hole-splitting. Iterating produces sums and intersections of the fibers' vanishing-top systems, and freeness of all of them is what conj:fiber-lattice-freeness needs. What makes all such words free at once, and do W-like members have it?

General statement. lem:atom-filtration. Let \(A_1,\dots,A_k\) be graded submodules of a graded \(\Lambda_u\)-module that generate a distributive lattice under sums and intersections. For nonempty \(T\subseteq[k]\), let \(X_T=\bigcap_{t\in T}A_t\) and \(Y_T=\sum_{t\notin T}(X_T\cap A_t)\). Write an element of the lattice as \(M=\sum_{T\in\mathcal T}X_T\), with \(\mathcal T\) closed under supersets. If the atoms \(X_T/Y_T\), \(T\in\mathcal T\), are free through \(t\), then \(M\) is free through \(t\). For coefficient systems of links, as in lem:hole-splitting, sums and intersections are taken link by link, so distributivity holds if it holds at every link. This is the standard graded-pieces argument for distributive lattices (Birkhoff), applied to modules. lem:adapted-basis-criterion (adapted bases) characterizes, for one variable, when submodules of a free \(k[x]/(x^n)\)-module have a common adapted basis. That is a different conclusion: an adapted basis allows non-free pieces \(x^aSe_i\), while the lemma here gives freeness from free atoms, for any \(u\).

Proof

Normal form. In a finite distributive lattice generated by \(A_1,\dots,A_k\), every element is a sum \(M=\sum_{T\in\mathcal T}X_T\) over a family \(\mathcal T\) of nonempty subsets, the join-of-meets normal form. Since \(X_{T'}\subseteq X_T\) for \(T'\supseteq T\), we may take \(\mathcal T\) closed under supersets.
The filtration. List \(\mathcal T\) in order of decreasing size, and let \(M_i=M_{i-1}+X_{T_i}\), starting from \(M_0=0\). When \(T=T_i\) is added, every proper superset of \(T\) in \(\mathcal T\), in particular every \(T\cup\{t\}\), \(t\notin T\), is already present. By distributivity, \(X_T\cap M_{i-1}=\sum_{T'}X_T\cap X_{T'}=\sum_{T'}X_{T\cup T'}\), over the earlier \(T'\). Each earlier \(T'\) has \(|T'|\ge|T|\) and \(T'\ne T\), so \(T'\not\subseteq T\), and \(T\cup T'\) strictly contains \(T\). So \(X_{T\cup T'}\subseteq Y_T\). Conversely, \(Y_T\subseteq X_T\cap M_{i-1}\), because the sets \(T\cup\{t\}\) come earlier. Hence \(M_i/M_{i-1}\cong X_T/Y_T\).
Freeness. \(M\) is an iterated extension of atoms. Extensions of modules free through \(t\) are free through \(t\) (the five-lemma argument of lem:hole-splitting). \(\square\)

A sketch, outside the registered claim: iterating lem:hole-splitting. For a projection \(Q\) with kernel \(K\), \(Q(A)\cap Q(B)=Q\bigl(A\cap(B+K)\bigr)\), and this equals \(Q(A\cap B)\) when \(\{A,B,K\}\) is distributive. Iterating the recursion at a second hole also needs \(K\cap(A+B)=K\cap A+K\cap B\) for sum words, the same identities for longer words, and a check that the column part, \(K\) and \(Q\) of a word are words in the next level's fiber systems. The \(C_j\)-divisible subspaces also have to be placed in a common ambient module: they live in the quotient \(\bar A\), with zero components at links containing \(j\). With all of this, freeness of the final level's fiber atoms would give freeness of every module the recursion produces. This is not proved here.

The check

atom_check.py works over \(\mathbb F_3\) with one explicit row, \(N=12\), \(e=2\), split holes 0 and 1, and the four fibers on the other 10 holes. It uses the correction entry's forms, with hole 11 free. For the two-block pair and the three clauses it computed all 15 atoms \(X_T/Y_T\) and the 15 meets \(X_T\), and the short Jordan strings of \(r\) on each, in degrees \(\le4\). \(\tilde V_2\) on 10 holes is a sum of column tensor powers \(W_{[10]\setminus\mu}\) over pairs \(\mu\), each on 8 holes, and these are free below degree 4 by lem:pair-seed-decomposition. So degree 4 is the edge of the range. No atom or meet has a short string in degrees \(\le4\), for either member (atom_check.json).

Two limits. Distributivity of the four fibers was verified only for links \(|S|\le2\) (distributivity_by_size.json), while the atoms use links up to \(|S|=4\). Distributivity with the \(C_j\)-divisible subspaces, which the sketch needs, was not checked at all. So the check shows free atoms, but not yet the lemma's hypothesis at this size.

What it means

The lemma turns freeness of all sums and intersections of the fibers' systems into freeness of finitely many atoms, given distributivity. For the two W-like members at \(N=12\), with one row, \(e=2\) and degrees \(\le4\), the four-fiber atoms are free. That is consistent with conj:fiber-lattice-freeness. It is not yet evidence for the lemma's conclusion, since distributivity on the links used is unchecked.
Iterating lem:hole-splitting to all holes is a sketch with further identities to prove (above).
Limits: column forms only, \(k=1\), two split holes, small sizes.

Next: the route review that is now due. It should weigh the closure route's new mechanism, hole splitting with atom filtration, against its limit to column forms and affine row rank \(O(\sqrt n)\), and against A1 as stated.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:hole-splitting (the extension argument), lem:adapted-basis-criterion and lem:pair-seed-decomposition. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

that componentwise sums and intersections give a distributive lattice;
that the \(X_T\) and \(Y_T\) are submodules;
both inclusions identifying the filtration factors;
the extension argument.

It found lem:adapted-basis-criterion by search. It required these changes, all adopted:

the lemma stated in its natural generality, with only the atoms in the family needed;
the recorded criterion compared;
the projection claim weakened to "when";
the recursion claim moved to a labelled sketch with its missing identities;
the check's scope and unchecked distributivity stated;
the freeness claims qualified to degree 4, one row, \(e=2\) and two members;
"strongest evidence" removed;
the 8-hole range explained.

The changes weaken claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 8.21 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 55.75 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 0.79 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 31.44 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 40.10 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: the hole-splitting line gives the closure route a recursion with free atoms in every small test, but distributivity fails on larger links, and the line should move to the quotient side, where the Koszul condition propagates without the socle shift and may reach cell forms

25 September 2026 · Route review with exact small tests · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-closure-route-review-2. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the hole-splitting line gives the closure route a recursion with free atoms in every small test, but distributivity fails on larger links, and the line should move to the quotient side, where the Koszul condition propagates without the socle shift and may reach cell forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-hole-splitting-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Six research entries since the closure-route review built a recursion for closed row freeness of column members:

cell-forms scope;
hole splitting;
fibers;
fiber lattice and its correction;
atom filtration.

Where does the line stand, and does it reach A1?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:fiber-lattice-freeness: sums and intersections of the two fibers' vanishing tops stay free. With lem:hole-splitting, lem:atom-filtration and lem:free-vanishing-tops, it would prove closed row freeness (conj:closed-row-freeness) for W members on column forms by induction on holes. The goal needs A1: arbitrary forms in the cells. By prop:content-reduction-scope those reach affine row rank of order \(n\), beyond this line's reduction to few rows.

Falsification attempt: a low-density member

conj:closed-row-freeness assumes density at least one half. review2_tests.py (T3) took six W clauses on four seeded column forms at \(N=10\), allowing only 59 of the 342 slice points, density 0.17. It computed short strings of \(A_e(Z)\), \(e=1,2\), and of the sum and intersection of its fibers at hole 0, in degrees \(\le4\) (review2_tests.json).

\(A_e(Z)\) has no short string for either \(e\).
The sum has 16 and 17 short strings in degree 4, and the intersection has 1 at \(e=2\). Degree 4 lies outside the free range of the fibers' column tensor powers on 8 or 7 holes. By the sub-instance rule now in the computation rules, these are not interpreted.

So the attempt found no failure in range. Freeness even survived far below the conjecture's density bound, at this tiny size.

Assessment of the line

What it built.
- An exact recursion over holes, lem:hole-splitting.
- A criterion that turns freeness of all lattice words into freeness of atoms under distributivity, lem:atom-filtration.
- Consistent evidence: free fiber sums and intersections at \(N=10\), and free atoms at \(N=12\).
What it lacks.
- Distributivity, which the atom route needs, fails on links \(|S|=3\) at \(N=12\) (lead 1 below). Those links have 7 free holes, so size may again be the cause. Until a larger test separates the two, the atom mechanism is unconfirmed.
- The iteration past two holes is a sketch with missing identities.
- All evidence is at \(N\le12\), with \(k=1\).
Scope. The freeness side needs the reduction to at most \(D\) rows, and so column forms or low affine row rank (prop:content-reduction-scope). A1's adversarial forms have row rank of order \(n\). On the freeness side, the line cannot reach them.
What the review found. The recursion can be run on the quotient side. By lem:hole-splitting, \(V_e(Z)=\tilde V_e/A_e(Z)\) is an iterated extension of three pieces:
- \(V_j\otimes V_e(Z^1)\);
- \(\tilde V_{e-1}/(A_{e-1}(Z^0)+A_{e-1}(Z^1))\), shifted;
- \(\tilde V_e/(A_e(Z^0)\cap A_e(Z^1))\).
These are the quotients of \(\tilde V\)'s own splitting by the \(A\)-side filtration. The Koszul condition \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(V)=0\) through \(D\) passes through extensions by the long exact sequence, and it is local in degree. So this version needs no freeness of \(A\) and no socle shift, which is exactly what made the free-tops criterion vacuous without a row reduction. This is not yet checked in detail. If it holds, the recursion no longer needs the reduction to few rows, and a cell-by-cell splitting for sets of assignments cut by cell forms becomes the natural route to A1's full scope.

Outside leads

Distributive sublattices of modular lattices and adapted bases (Birkhoff; Jónsson, "Distributive sublattices of a modular lattice", Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 1955), for the atom mechanism. Subspaces generate a distributive lattice exactly when a basis is adapted to all of them. lem:atom-filtration then reduces freeness of every lattice word to its atoms. Where it breaks: distributivity must hold on every link used. Test. Falsified at this size. At \(N=12\), on links \(|S|=3\), the four fibers' vanishing tops fail inclusion–exclusion on 6 of 120 links for the two-block pair and on 28 of 120 for the three clauses (review2_tests.json, T1). The links have 7 free holes, so a size effect is not excluded.
\(\pi\)-points and generic Jordan types for truncated polynomial algebras (Friedlander and Pevtsova, "\(\Pi\)-supports for modules for finite group schemes", Duke Math. J. 2007), for the choice of operator. Freeness is detected on generic points: for these algebras, on generic combinations \(\sum_jc_je_j\) of the commuting square-zero operators. If \(A_e\) were free for \(r=\sum_je_j\) only because of its symmetry, generic combinations would show short strings. Where it breaks: the closure criterion needs \(r\) itself, not a generic operator. Test. Passed. For the two-block pair at \(N=10\), \(e=2\), three random weightings \(c_j\in\mathbb F_3^*\) give no short strings in degrees \(\le4\), the same as \(r\) (T2). So freeness is not special to the symmetric operator.
Lefschetz properties in positive characteristic (Stanley 1980; Cook II, Kustin and Vraciu on monomial complete intersections), with Wilson's rank formula for inclusion matrices (Wilson, Europ. J. Combin. 1990). In characteristic 0 the Boolean algebra has the strong Lefschetz property, and maximal rank of \(r\) is the natural analogue of freeness. Where it breaks: in characteristic 3, \(r^3=0\) forces kernels. Test. Falsified. Wilson's formula gives \(\operatorname{rank}_3W_{4,5}(10)=175<210=\binom{10}4\), so \(r\) is not injective from degree 4 on \(W_{10}\). Maximal-rank tools do not transfer, and freeness over \(\mathbb F[r]/(r^3)\) is the right notion, as the record uses.

Absurd bridges

Stable matchings and their rotation poset (Conway's distributive lattice; Gusfield and Irving, 1989). The stable matchings of a market form a distributive lattice. Its join-irreducibles are rotations, and every stable matching is reached by a chain of rotations, as every lattice word here would be reached through atoms. Translation: the fibers' vanishing tops are the markets, and atoms are rotations. What a theorem there would give: a poset of atoms whose down-sets are exactly the lattice words, so freeness of each word would follow from freeness along the poset. Smallest test: distributivity on the links the atoms use. Test. Falsified at this size: distributivity fails on links \(|S|=3\) at \(N=12\) (T1), so there is no rotation poset there.
Phase transitions in statistical mechanics. Read the density of the allowed set as a temperature. conj:closed-row-freeness asks for density at least one half, a high-temperature phase. A phase transition in freeness would appear as short strings below some density. What a theorem there would give: a critical density below which the Koszul condition fails, which would calibrate the conjecture's hypothesis. Smallest test: a member far below density one half. Test. Passed. At density 0.17 the six-clause member's \(A_e\) is free in range (T3), so no transition is visible at \(N=10\). Size effects are not excluded.

Next step

The highest-risk item remains A1, and on the closure route its obstacle is the reduction to few rows. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the quotient-side recursion. First prove that \(V_e(Z)\) is an iterated extension of the three quotients above, as \(\Lambda_u\)-modules. Then prove that the Koszul condition through \(D\) passes through them with no socle shift. Then formulate a cell-by-cell splitting for sets of assignments cut by cell forms: split by which row, if any, occupies column \(j\). Its pieces are the fibers at each row, and it drops the content reduction.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

lem:hole-splitting (both sequences, the extension argument);
lem:atom-filtration;
lem:free-vanishing-tops;
prop:content-reduction-scope;
conj:fiber-lattice-freeness and conj:closed-row-freeness;
the correction entry's sub-instance rule.

The tests reuse the validated rank and nullspace routines. The weighted operator is built in the same coordinates, with weights read from a seeded generator. All numbers were read from the saved JSON. Wilson's rank was computed from the formula. The quotient-side observation is flagged as unchecked and is the next step, not a claim. This review registers no claim.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 0.49 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	48.74 s
Computation design and coding	57.94 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 48.90 s
Individually measured computation	24.72 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Cell splitting: for any set of assignments, cut by any cell forms, the vanishing tops split at a column into the row fibers, a column-sum piece and the intersection over all states, so the row-fiber step of the closure recursion reaches W's arbitrary forms on the quotient side

25 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-quotient-recursion. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cell splitting: for any set of assignments, cut by any cell forms, the vanishing tops split at a column into the row fibers, a column-sum piece and the intersection over all states, so the row-fiber step of the closure recursion reaches W's arbitrary forms on the quotient side”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-cell-splitting.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The hole-splitting review found that the closure route's recursion, lem:hole-splitting, needs occupancy-determined sets and so column forms. On the freeness side it also needs a reduction to few rows (prop:content-reduction-scope), which W's forms of row rank of order \(n\) defeat. It proposed a quotient-side recursion with a split by the state of one column. Does such a split exist for arbitrary sets of assignments?

General statement. lem:cell-splitting. Over any field, let \(\mathcal P\) be the column-injective assignments of \(m\) rows to \(N\) holes, and \(T\) its top algebra, the weak tensor power with cells \(x_{ij}\). Let \(Q\subseteq\mathcal P\) be any set, and \(A(Q)\subseteq T\) its vanishing tops (top-degree parts of polynomials vanishing on \(Q\)). Fix a column \(j\). Let \(Q^{(\varnothing)}\) be the assignments of \(Q\) with column \(j\) empty, \(Q^{(i)}\) those with row \(i\) at column \(j\), all read on the other holes, and \(T'\) the top algebra on those holes. Let \(\rho_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\). Then \(A(Q)\) has a filtration by submodules over the row-sum algebra with three factors:

\(\bigoplus_{i<m}x_{ij}\otimes A(Q^{(i)})\);
\(\rho_j\otimes\bigl(A(Q^{(\varnothing)})/(A(Q^{(\varnothing)})\cap\bigcap_iA(Q^{(i)}))\bigr)\), with \(\rho_j\) raising degree by 1;
\(\bigcap_{s\in\{\varnothing,0,\dots,m-1\}}A(Q^{(s)})\), the column-free part.

The filtration holds over any field, and the lemma uses neither nonemptiness of \(Q\) nor its occupancy class. For the \(\operatorname{Tor}\) statements, work in characteristic \(p\) over \(\Lambda_{m-1}=k[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_k^p)\). There \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\Lambda}(V,k)\) is the space of Koszul 1-cycles modulo boundaries and the Frobenius cycles \(r_k^{p-1}e_k\), which is thm:global-closure-gluing's condition. "Through \(D\)" refers to the degree of the cycle, and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(V)_{\le D}=0\) means that \(V\) is free through \(D\). Consequently \(V(Q)=T/A(Q)\) is an extension of \(T'/\bigcap_sA(Q^{(s)})\) by \(T''/A''\). Here \(T''\) and \(A''\) are the column-\(j\) parts, and \(T''/A''\) is the quotient of \(\bigoplus_ix_{ij}\otimes V(Q^{(i)})\) by the image of factor 2. The Koszul condition of thm:global-closure-gluing for \(Q\) through \(D\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(V(Q))_{\le D}=0\) over the row sums, therefore follows from three conditions:

\(\operatorname{Tor}_1(V(Q^{(i)}))_{\le D-1}=0\) for every row \(i\). This is the same Koszul condition, one degree lower, for sets whose total occupancy is \(\equiv m-1\), not \(m\), and which may be empty. \(r_0\) is still eliminated on each fiber, since the fiber's occupancy is constant;
\(\operatorname{Tor}_1(T'/\bigcap_sA(Q^{(s)}))_{\le D}=0\);
injectivity of \(\operatorname{Tor}_0\) of factor 2 into \(\operatorname{Tor}_0(\bigoplus_ix_{ij}V(Q^{(i)}))\) in degrees \(\le D\), an intersection condition of the kind of prop:link-criterion's (L).

Only the row-fiber condition recurses on sets. \(T'/\bigcap_sA(Q^{(s)})\) and the factor-2 condition are not \(V\) of any set in general, since \(A(\bigcup_sQ^{(s)})\) can be strictly smaller than \(\bigcap_sA(Q^{(s)})\). thm:global-closure-gluing's hypothesis was already on the quotient side, over all \(m-1\) row sums, through \(D\). The socle shift and the reduction to few rows came from the ideal-side route: lem:free-vanishing-tops, the freeness corollary of lem:hole-splitting and prop:content-reduction-scope. This lemma makes the quotient side available for arbitrary \(Q\), which avoids them.

Relation to lem:hole-splitting. For occupancy-determined \(Q\), all row fibers equal one set \(Q^{(1)}\). Factor 2 is then \(((A_0+A_1)/A_1)\), shifted, where hole splitting's middle term is \(A_0+A_1\). Change basis in column \(j\) to \(\rho_j,x_{1j},\dots,x_{m-1,j}\). Then \(A''=\rho_j(A_0+A_1)\oplus\bigoplus_{i\ge1}x_{ij}A_1\) as a direct sum of modules. This matches hole splitting with \(u=m-1\) explicit rows, \(C_j\) playing the role of \(\rho_j\), and it makes the third condition a direct sum. It does not match hole splitting for \(u\le D\) with aggregated rows, and hole splitting is stated on the ideal side, in \(\tilde V\).

Relation to the record. thm:taylor-propagation uses the same added-column mechanism, \(R'=R\otimes(\mathbb F\oplus V)\) with \(V^2=0\). It concerns top syzygies of product tops, not vanishing tops of sets of assignments, and neither statement implies the other. thm:fiber-gluing splits column members over placed pigeons, the specializations at occupied holes. That is a different split, also restricted to column members.

Proof

The top algebra. \(T=T''\oplus T'\) as vector spaces, with \(T''=\bigoplus_ix_{ij}T'\), the monomials with a cell in column \(j\). Each row sum \(r_k=\sum_lx_{kl}\) acts on \(x_{ij}h\) through the cells outside column \(j\), since \(x_{kj}x_{ij}=0\). So \(T''\cong\bigoplus_ix_{ij}\otimes T'\) is a submodule, with quotient \(T'\).
The column-free part. Write a polynomial of degree \(\le d\) as \(f=g+\sum_ix_{ij}h_i\), with \(g,h_i\) free of column \(j\). This is possible and unique on \(\mathcal P\) by column-injectivity. \(f\) vanishes on \(Q\) exactly when \(g\) vanishes on \(Q^{(\varnothing)}\) and \(g+h_i\) vanishes on \(Q^{(i)}\) for every \(i\). If the top of \(f\) has a column-free part, it is \(g_d\). Then \(g\) vanishes on \(Q^{(\varnothing)}\), so \(g_d\in A_d(Q^{(\varnothing)})\). On \(Q^{(i)}\), \(g=-h_i\) has degree \(\le d-1\), so \(g_d\in A_d(Q^{(i)})\). Conversely, let \(\tau\) be the top of \(g_s\) vanishing on \(Q^{(s)}\), for each state \(s\). Then \(f=g_\varnothing+\sum_ix_{ij}(g_i-g_\varnothing)\) vanishes on \(Q\), and its column-free top is \(\tau\), since \(\deg(g_i-g_\varnothing)\le d-1\). So the image of \(A(Q)\) in \(T'\) is \(\bigcap_sA(Q^{(s)})\).
The column-\(j\) part. Let \(A''=A(Q)\cap T''\). If the top of \(f\) lies in \(T''\), then \(\deg g\le d-1\), and the top is \(\sum_ix_{ij}(h_i)_{d-1}\). Put \(v_i=g+h_i\), which vanishes on \(Q^{(i)}\). Then \((h_i)_{d-1}=(v_i)_{d-1}-g_{d-1}\), with \(\alpha_i=(v_i)_{d-1}\in A_{d-1}(Q^{(i)})\) and \(\gamma=g_{d-1}\in A_{d-1}(Q^{(\varnothing)})\), one \(\gamma\) for all \(i\). Conversely, \(f=g+\sum_ix_{ij}(v_i-g)\) realizes \(\sum_ix_{ij}(\alpha_i-\gamma)=\sum_ix_{ij}\alpha_i-\rho_j\gamma\). So \(A''=\bigoplus_ix_{ij}A(Q^{(i)})+\rho_jA(Q^{(\varnothing)})\). The first summand is the submodule of factor 1. Modulo it, \(\rho_j\gamma\) vanishes exactly when \(\gamma\in A(Q^{(i)})\) for every \(i\), and multiplication by \(\rho_j\) is injective on \(T'\), since its components \(x_{ij}\gamma\) are separate. This gives factor 2.
Equivariance. The row sums act on the \(T'\) factors and commute with multiplication by \(x_{ij}\) and \(\rho_j\), because the column-\(j\) terms of \(r_k\) vanish against them. So every step above is a map of modules.
The quotient side. The filtration \(0\subseteq T''\subseteq T\), with the induced filtration on \(A(Q)\), gives \(0\to T''/A''\to V(Q)\to T'/\bigcap_sA(Q^{(s)})\to0\). Here \(T''/A''\) is \(\bigoplus_ix_{ij}V(Q^{(i)})\) modulo the image of \(\rho_jA(Q^{(\varnothing)})\), which is factor 2. The long exact sequences of \(\operatorname{Tor}\) give the three conditions. The shift by 1 in \(x_{ij}\) turns "through \(D-1\)" into "through \(D\)". \(\square\)

Checks

The check compares dimensions only, plus the column-free projection. It does not directly check the description of \(A''\), the module actions or the \(\operatorname{Tor}\) consequences. cell_split_check.py works over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(m=3\) rows and \(N=5\) holes, so 1024 assignments. It computed \(\dim A_d(Q)\) exactly for \(d\in\{1,2,3\}\) and compared it with the sum of the three factors' dimensions, for six sets \(Q\). They are cut by 2 or 5 random W clauses on random affine forms in the cells, half of them further restricted to assignments using each row at most once. It also checked that the column-free projection equals the intersection over all states. All 18 comparisons agree, with \(\dim A_3(Q)\) up to 270 (cell_split_check.json).

What it means

On the quotient side, the Koszul hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing splits at a column, for any allowed set of W's clauses on arbitrary cell forms, into three conditions:
- the same condition for each row fiber, one hole smaller, one degree lower, in occupancy class \(m-1\);
- a Koszul condition for the intersection of all \(m+1\) fibers' tops;
- one intersection condition for the column-sum piece.
Only the first recurses on sets. The other two are lattice conditions, now with \(m+1\) fibers per column instead of 2.
Range. These conditions are meaningful only where the free range holds for the smaller boards. Recorded ranges are thm:tensor-power-freeness over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(N\ge2|c|-1\), and the \(N\ge(p-1)(D+1)D\) of conj:closed-row-freeness. Iterating the split lowers \(N\) while lowering \(D\) only on the row fibers, so a plain induction leaves the free range. The hole-splitting entry gives the same warning.
Symmetry. For forms symmetric in the rows, the row fibers are isomorphic. The swap of row 0 with row \(i\) is an automorphism of \(\Lambda_{m-1}\) through \(r_0=-\sum_kr_k\), since \((\sum_kr_k)^p=0\) in characteristic \(p\). In general the row fibers differ.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: measure the two new conditions on cell-form members at small sizes: the Koszul condition for \(T'/\bigcap_sA(Q^{(s)})\), and the (L)-type condition for factor 2. Take the members of the check above, using the global Koszul condition directly over all row sums. Separate sub-instance sizes, as the computation rules now require.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:hole-splitting, thm:global-closure-gluing's statement, thm:taylor-propagation and thm:fiber-gluing's statement. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the unique decomposition \(f=g+\sum_ix_{ij}h_i\), with its degrees;
the column-free image, in both directions;
\(A''\) with the common \(\gamma\), in both directions;
factor 2, and injectivity of multiplication by \(\rho_j\);
equivariance for every row sum;
both long exact sequences, with their shifts.

It checked that \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\Lambda}\) is the theorem's Koszul quotient. It required these changes, all adopted:

the ring, characteristic and degree convention stated;
the row fibers' occupancy class noted;
only the row-fiber condition said to recurse on sets;
the recovery of hole splitting made precise by a change of basis at \(u=m-1\);
credit for avoiding the socle shift given to the quotient side;
the range warning added;
the check's scope stated;
thm:taylor-propagation and thm:fiber-gluing compared;
unused hypotheses named;
the symmetry remark justified.

The changes restrict or clarify claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	7 min 33.05 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 6.93 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 12.15 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 11.09 s
Individually measured computation	2.75 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Monotone fibers: when the empty fiber's vanishing tops lie in every row fiber's, cell splitting closes on sets, and the Koszul condition becomes a deletion–link recursion; W-like members are monotone for whole fibers, and fail on most small links once two clauses interact

25 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check of how often it applies · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-cell-conditions. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Monotone fibers: when the empty fiber's vanishing tops lie in every row fiber's, cell splitting closes on sets, and the Koszul condition becomes a deletion–link recursion; W-like members are monotone for whole fibers, and fail on most small links once two clauses interact”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-monotone-fibers.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. lem:cell-splitting (cell splitting) splits the Koszul hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing at a column into three parts. Only the row-fiber part recurses on sets. The other two, the intersection over all states and the column-sum factor, are lattice conditions. A direct test of those conditions cannot decide at reachable sizes. Clause tops live in degree 3, so a meaningful range needs \(D\ge3\), hence \(N\ge18\) holes by the free range, which means about \(4^{18}\) assignments for three rows. So this cycle looks for a structural case where the lattice conditions disappear.

General statement. cor:monotone-fiber-recursion. In the setting of lem:cell-splitting, suppose that \(A_d(Q^{(\varnothing)})\subseteq A_d(Q^{(i)})\) for every row \(i\) and every \(d\le D\), with "through \(D\)" meaning the degree of the Koszul cycle, as in lem:cell-splitting. Then factor 2 is zero, \(\bigcap_sA(Q^{(s)})=A(Q^{(\varnothing)})\), and \(V(Q)\) is an extension of \(V(Q^{(\varnothing)})\) by \(\bigoplus_ix_{ij}\otimes V(Q^{(i)})\), in degrees \(\le D\). Hence the Koszul condition for \(Q\) through \(D\) follows from the same condition for the empty fiber through \(D\) and for every row fiber through \(D-1\). The recursion is on sets, as in a deletion–link induction for simplicial complexes. If \(Q^{(i)}\subseteq Q^{(\varnothing)}\) as sets, the inclusion of tops would be automatic. But inside one occupancy class that happens only when \(Q^{(i)}=\varnothing\): the fibers lie in the classes \(m\) and \(m-1\), so they are disjoint. So the inclusion must hold on the tops themselves.

Proof

Factor 2 is \(A(Q^{(\varnothing)})/(A(Q^{(\varnothing)})\cap\bigcap_iA(Q^{(i)}))\), which is zero under the inclusion. The intersection over all states is then \(A(Q^{(\varnothing)})\), so the quotient \(T'/\bigcap_sA(Q^{(s)})\) is \(V(Q^{(\varnothing)})\). The column-\(j\) part becomes \(T''/A''=\bigoplus_ix_{ij}\otimes V(Q^{(i)})\), because \(A''=\bigoplus_ix_{ij}A(Q^{(i)})\). The long exact sequence of \(\operatorname{Tor}\) over \(\Lambda_{m-1}\) for \(0\to\bigoplus_ix_{ij}V(Q^{(i)})\to V(Q)\to V(Q^{(\varnothing)})\to0\) gives the implication, with the shift by one from \(x_{ij}\). \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree \(D\) depends only on the module in degrees \(\le D\). The identifications use the inclusion in degree \(d\) for \(T'\), and in degree \(d-1\) for the column-\(j\) part, so \(d\le D\) suffices. \(\square\)

How often it applies

monotone_check.py tested the inclusion (monotone_check.json).

Cell forms (\(m=3\), \(N=5\), the six sets of the cell-splitting check, column 0, \(d\le3\)). Degree 1 passes vacuously in five sets, where the empty fiber has no tops of degree 1. The sixth set fails in degree 1. One set, with 5 clauses and pigeon injectivity, passes in all three degrees, nonvacuously in degrees 2 and 3 (tops of dimension 43 and 107). The three pigeon-injective sets pass in degree 3. Four of the six sets fail in degree 2.
Column members (\(N=10\), hole 0, links \(|S|\le2\)). Here the row fibers coincide, so the condition is \(a_S(Z^0)\subseteq a_S(Z^1)\), in that direction. Links where it holds (equal, or \(Z^0\) inside \(Z^1\)), at \(e=2\):
- \(|S|=2\): the slice 36 of 36, one clause 32 of 36, the two-block pair 9 of 36, the three clauses 4 of 36;
- \(|S|=1\): the two-block pair 5 of 9, the three clauses 7 of 9.
At \(e=1\) the inclusion holds on every link except 3 of 36 with \(|S|=2\) for the two-block pair. At \(|S|=0\) the two fibers' tops are equal for every member and \(e\).

So monotonicity holds for whole fibers. For the two members with interacting clauses it fails on most links with \(|S|=2\). Both checks lie below the range the Question names (\(D\ge3\), \(N\ge18\)), where size effects are not excluded.

What it means

The corollary is a clean special case in which the closure recursion needs no lattice condition. Monotone columns reduce the Koszul hypothesis to smaller sets, exactly like deletion and link.
W's members are monotone for whole fibers but not on most small links once clauses interact, so the lattice conditions of lem:cell-splitting remain needed in general. Iterated, the deletion–link recursion also leaves the free range, because the empty fiber keeps degree \(D\) on \(N-1\) holes, as with lem:cell-splitting. The recursion may choose its column at every step, so a good column per step would suffice. Whether one always exists is untested.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: decide whether every set in the recursion has a monotone column, link by link, for W-like members at the sizes available. If not, characterize the non-monotone links: whether they are small-size links, and whether the failures are single tops that one extra lattice condition absorbs.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:cell-splitting (the factors, the quotient-side sequence and the degree convention) and thm:global-closure-gluing's statement. The corollary is the lemma's filtration with factor 2 zero and the intersection equal to \(A(Q^{(\varnothing)})\); both follow from the inclusion by the definitions. The check reuses the validated routines, and all numbers were read from the saved JSON. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the algebra. It required these changes, all adopted:

the degree range corrected to \(d\le D\), with the convention stated;
the extension stated as truncated;
the counts reported by the required direction, which withdraws "monotone on most links" for the interacting members;
vacuous passes marked;
the range caveats added.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 53.12 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 17.37 s
Computation design and coding	35.59 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 52.96 s
Individually measured computation	6.20 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.00 s

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Good columns: at \(N=12\) every tested W-like column member has holes where the empty fiber's tops lie in the occupied fiber's on every link, so the monotone recursion can always choose its column there

25 September 2026 · Conjecture with an exact check · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-monotone-columns. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Good columns: at \(N=12\) every tested W-like column member has holes where the empty fiber's tops lie in the occupied fiber's on every link, so the monotone recursion can always choose its column there”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-good-columns.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. cor:monotone-fiber-recursion (monotone fibers) closes the closure recursion on sets at a column where the empty fiber's vanishing tops lie in the occupied fiber's, on every link. At hole 0 and \(N=10\), W-like members failed that on most small links. The recursion may choose its column at each step. Is there always a good one?

General statement. conj:good-column. For the allowed set \(Z\) of W clauses on column forms, and for every set arising from \(Z\) by taking fibers and links, there is a hole \(j\) at which \(a_S(Z^0_j)\subseteq a_S(Z^1_j)\) for every link \(S\not\ni j\), in every degree within the free range. With cor:monotone-fiber-recursion, this would reduce the Koszul hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing for such \(Z\) to base cases, along a deletion–link recursion. The registered check is ex:good-columns.

The check

good_column.py and good_column_dense.py work over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(N=12\), \(m=13\), \(e=2\) and links \(|S|\le2\). For every hole \(j\) they count the links where the inclusion fails, split by \(|S|\) (good_column.json, good_column_dense.json).

The correction entry's forms (hole 11 free). Good holes: 10 of 12 for one clause, 6 for the two-block pair, 10 for the three clauses. Holes 3 and 8 fail on every link, including \(|S|=0\), for all three members. There the outside form \(\ell_0\), which is supported only on holes 3, 7 and 8, has coefficient 2. Hole 7, with coefficient 1, is good. The pair's other failures are on links with \(|S|=2\) at holes 6, 7, 9 and 10.
A dense outside form (\(\ell_0\) nonzero on every hole but the free one). Good holes: 8 for one clause and 4 for the two-block pair, the free hole among them. No hole fails at \(|S|=0\). Failures sit on links with \(|S|\le2\), mostly \(|S|=2\).

So at this size every member has good columns, with or without a dense outside form. The failures concentrate on the smallest links and on holes where the outside form shifts by 2. Links with \(|S|=2\) at \(N=12\) leave 9 holes, near the edge of the free range, so size effects are not excluded.

What it means

The closure route for column members now has a concrete conjectural mechanism. Choose a good column at each step, recurse on the empty and occupied fibers, and stop at base cases. Every step is proved except the existence of good columns, conj:good-column, and the base cases.
Open points:
- good columns for the fibers produced later in the recursion, which the check does not test;
- what "base case" means as the free range shrinks;
- cell forms, where lem:cell-splitting has \(m+1\) fibers per column and the monotone condition must hold against every row fiber;
- widths \(k>1\).
No new case of W is proved.

Next: follow the recursion two steps. At \(N=12\), choose a good column, and test whether the empty and occupied fibers on 11 holes again have good columns, reporting by link size. Then run the same test for cell-form sets against all row fibers.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:monotone-fiber-recursion and lem:cell-splitting. The scripts reuse the validated rank routines. Inclusion is tested by a rank comparison of stacked bases. All numbers were read from the saved JSON. This entry states a conjecture and a finite check, and no proof, so no proof reviewer was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 38.09 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	13.67 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 3.83 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	49.52 s
Individually measured computation	30.92 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Two recursion steps: after one split, good columns thin out, with the free hole good in every fiber and most failures on the smallest links, so the good-column conjecture is neither confirmed nor refuted at this size

25 September 2026 · Finite check · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-recursion-steps. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Two recursion steps: after one split, good columns thin out, with the free hole good in every fiber and most failures on the smallest links, so the good-column conjecture is neither confirmed nor refuted at this size”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-two-step-columns.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. conj:good-column (good columns) needs a good column at every step of the monotone recursion, not only the first. Do the fibers produced by one split still have good columns?

General statement. The statement under test is conj:good-column. The check registered here is ex:two-step-good-columns.

The check

two_step.py works over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(N=12\) and \(e=2\). It splits at hole 0, which is good for both members, and for each fiber on 11 holes counts the failing links \(|S|\le2\) at every remaining hole (two_step.json).

The two-block pair with a dense outside form. Both fibers (366 and 367 points) have exactly one good column, the free hole 11. At holes 2, 5, 8 and 10 the inclusion fails on 3 links with \(|S|=1\) and on 21 or 22 with \(|S|=2\). At the other holes it fails only on links with \(|S|=2\) (2 to 12 of them).
The three clauses on sparse forms. Fiber 0 (332 points) has good column 4, and fiber 1 (328 points) has good columns 7 and 11. Holes 3 and 8, where the outside form has coefficient 2, fail from \(|S|=0\) on. At the other holes, failures are on links with \(|S|=2\) (1 to 6 of them).

By link size: every failure at \(|S|\le1\) is at a hole in the outside form's support. Most failures are on links with \(|S|=2\), which leave 8 holes, at the edge of the free range, where size effects are not excluded. So the conjecture is neither confirmed nor refuted at this size. The free hole was good in every fiber tested, at both steps.

What it means

A good column exists at the second step in every case here, but only just: for dense forms it is the free hole alone. A recursion for dense W forms, which may have no free hole, would need good columns at holes in the forms' supports. On links above the smallest size those exist only at holes where the outside form's coefficient is 1, here.
That points to the cleanest special case: a hole outside every form's support. Its fibers are the same member in adjacent slices. If free holes are always good columns, the monotone recursion reduces the Koszul hypothesis over free holes, as thm:sparse-closure-stability does for its members.

Next: prove or refute that a free hole is always a good column: for a set \(Z'\) cut by column forms not involving hole \(j\), \(a_S(Z'\cap\{s\equiv m\})\subseteq a_S(Z'\cap\{s\equiv m-1\})\) on every link, within the free range. Compare with the free-hole mechanism of thm:sparse-closure-stability.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:good-column, cor:monotone-fiber-recursion and thm:sparse-closure-stability's statement. The script reuses the validated rank routines and the forms of the good-columns check, and all numbers were read from the saved JSON. This entry registers a finite check only.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	1 min 55.47 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	13.53 s
Computation design and coding	45.61 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	47.57 s
Individually measured computation	8.61 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

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Free holes: a hole outside every form's support need not be a good column, because a form can involve it through the slice relation; the refined claim needs the forms independent of the all-ones vector

25 September 2026 · Refutation, with a refined conjecture · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-free-hole. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Free holes: a hole outside every form's support need not be a good column, because a form can involve it through the slice relation; the refined claim needs the forms independent of the all-ones vector”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 25 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-25-free-hole.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. In the two-step check the free hole was a good column in every fiber. For dense forms it was the only one. Is a hole outside every form's support always a good column for the monotone recursion (cor:monotone-fiber-recursion)?

General statement. prop:free-hole-counterexample: no. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(j\) be a hole and \(s'=\sum_{h\ne j}C_h\), a column form whose coefficient at \(j\) is 0. Let \(Z=\{c\text{ in the slice }m:s'(c)\not\equiv m\}\). Then the empty fiber \(Z^0\) is empty and the occupied fiber \(Z^1\) is the whole slice \(m-1\) on the other holes. So \(a_{\varnothing,e}(Z^0)=\mathrm{Mon}_e\not\subseteq a_{\varnothing,e}(Z^1)\) for every \(e\ge1\), in the free range as elsewhere, and \(j\) is not a good column. conj:free-hole-good: let \(j\) be a hole outside every form's support, and suppose the forms' coefficient vectors on the other holes, together with the all-ones vector, are linearly independent over \(\mathbb F_3\). Then the two fibers at \(j\) have equal vanishing tops on every link, in every degree within the free range. Equivalently, \(j\) is a good column for every slice value. No seed hypothesis is included: seeded members are closed already by thm:seeded-closure-stability, so the recursion is needed only for unseeded forms.

Why inclusion for every slice value is equality. The slices are residue classes of \(\sum_hC_h\) modulo 3. At a free hole, the fibers of the member in the slice \(a+1\) are the same member \(Z'_{a+1}\) and \(Z'_a\) on the other holes, where \(Z'_a=\{c':\sum c'\equiv a,\ \ell(c')\in\Omega\}\). Good columns at \(j\) for the slices \(a+1\), \(a+2\) and \(a+3\equiv a\) give \(a_S(Z'_{a})\subseteq a_S(Z'_{a-1})\subseteq a_S(Z'_{a-2})\subseteq a_S(Z'_{a})\). The same argument holds for the member's links. The recursion visits all residues, since each empty fiber keeps its slice value and each occupied fiber lowers it by one.

Proof of the counterexample

On the slice, \(s'=\sum_hC_h-C_j\equiv m-C_j\). So \(s'\not\equiv m\) exactly when \(C_j=1\), and \(Z\) is the part of the slice with hole \(j\) occupied. Its empty fiber is empty. Its occupied fiber is \(\{c':\sum c'\equiv m-1\}\) on the other holes, all of it. The empty set's vanishing tops are all monomials. The slice's degree-\(e\) tops are the multiples of \(\bar s'\), a proper subspace of \(\mathrm{Mon}_e\) for \(e\ge1\) in the free range. \(\square\)

The same happens whenever a form, modulo the all-ones vector, carries the hole: the slice relation \(\sum_hC_h\equiv m\) makes \(C_j\) a function of the other holes' forms. "Free" must mean free modulo the slice. For a single form this is empty, since subtracting \(\varphi(j)\) times the all-ones vector moves any coefficient at \(j\) to zero. The meaningful condition is the one in the conjecture. The coefficient vectors on the other holes, together with the all-ones vector, must be independent. That is the condition under which the forms and \(s\) are jointly generic, as in the seeded theorems.

Evidence and tension

In the good-column and two-step checks the free hole satisfied the inclusion, in the tested direction and residues, in every fiber. There the random forms, restricted to the other holes, were independent of the all-ones vector.
The recorded fiber check at \(N=10\) found the two fibers' tops at a free hole unequal on 24 links at \(e=1\) and on 86 at \(e=2\), for one clause. By the residue argument, that contradicts the conjecture, unless the differing links all lie below the free range. That check did not split its counts by link size.
Heuristic, not proved. The tops of \(Z'_a\) contain \((\bar s)\) and the tops of the \(\Omega\)-ideal of the forms, neither of which depends on \(a\). Any further tops come from cancellations between multiples of \(s-a\) and polynomials in the forms, and those can depend on \(a\). The conjecture says that no such cancellation happens within the free range when \(s\) and the forms are independent.

What it means

The good-column recursion cannot rely on free holes alone. Holes must be free modulo the slice. Even then, it needs fiber uniformity at those holes, which is the conjecture above.
The counterexample is degenerate: the member forces a hole to be occupied, a pinned hole. It shows that monotone recursions must treat pinned holes separately. Plausibly they should be removed first, as a restriction of the board.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: decide conj:free-hole-good. Test equality of the fibers' tops at a free hole, split by link size, with forms that meet its hypothesis. Then attempt the cancellation argument in the free range.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:monotone-fiber-recursion, conj:good-column, ex:two-step-good-columns and thm:seeded-closure-stability's statement. The counterexample is checked by hand: the slice identity \(s'\equiv m-C_j\), the empty fiber, and the tops of the empty set and of the slice. The conjecture's supporting data are the recorded checks. Before commit, a correction pass found three problems in the first draft. By the residue argument, inclusion at every slice value is equality. The draft's seed hypothesis made the conjecture redundant with thm:seeded-closure-stability. Its heuristic claimed equal tops against the recorded fiber check. The statement and evidence were revised accordingly. The refutation is elementary and was verified directly, so no reviewer was run.

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Free holes and the transfer lemma: the fibers at a free hole have equal vanishing tops wherever the recorded filtered freeness transfer applies, and for dense forms they differ beyond it

26 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-free-hole-proof. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Free holes and the transfer lemma: the fibers at a free hole have equal vanishing tops wherever the recorded filtered freeness transfer applies, and for dense forms they differ beyond it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-free-hole-transfer.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. conj:free-hole-good (free holes) asks the following. At a hole outside every form's support, with the forms independent of the all-ones vector, do the two fibers have equal vanishing tops on every link, within the free range? That is what the good-column recursion (conj:good-column) would need at such holes. Can it be proved, and where?

General statement. cor:free-hole-uniformity. Over \(\mathbb F_p\), let \(j\) be a hole and \(H=[N]\setminus j\). Let \(Z'_a=\{c\in\{0,1\}^H:\sum_hc_h\equiv a,\ \ell(c)\in\Omega\}\), where \(\ell=(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_d)\) are affine column forms on \(H\) and \(\Omega\subseteq\mathbb F_p^d\). At a hole \(j\) outside every form's support, the two fibers of the member in the slice \(a+1\) are \(Z'_{a+1}\) and \(Z'_a\). Fix a link \(S\subseteq H\) and a degree \(e\). Let \(\Gamma_S\) be the graded functions on the cube of \(H\setminus S\). The algebra \(T=\mathbb F[w_0,\dots,w_d]/(w^p)\) acts on \(\Gamma_S\) through the tops of \(s\) and of the forms restricted to \(H\setminus S\). Hypothesis (T): \(\Gamma_S\) contains a free \(T\)-submodule that agrees with it in degrees \(\le e\). Under (T), for every \(\Omega\) and every \(a\):

\[a_{S,e}(Z'_a)=\bigl(((w_0)+\operatorname{top}(I_{\Omega_S}))\cdot\Gamma_S\bigr)_e,\]

where \(\Omega_S\) is \(\Omega\) shifted by the forms' values on \(1_S\). The right side does not depend on \(a\). So the fibers at \(j\) have equal tops on that link, and \(j\) is a good column there at every slice value. Part (ii), the split variant. Split \(H\setminus S=U\sqcup V\). Let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_{d'}\) be the forms that are not constant on \(V\). Let \(T'=\mathbb F[w_0,\dots,w_{d'}]/(w^p)\) act on the graded functions \(\Gamma_V\) of the cube of \(V\), through the tops of \(s_V=\sum_{h\in V}C_h\) and of \(\ell_1|_V,\dots,\ell_{d'}|_V\). Hypothesis (T′): \(\Gamma_V\) contains a free \(T'\)-submodule agreeing with it in degrees \(\le e\). Under (T′) the conclusion is the same: the fibers at \(j\) have equal tops on the link, for every \(\Omega\). The coordinates on \(U\), and the forms constant on \(V\), are kept exactly. Part (ii) with \(U=\varnothing\) is part (i), with any form constant on the link dropped. Nothing uses that \(p\) is odd or that the field is \(\mathbb F_p\) itself: any field of characteristic \(p\) works. \(\Omega\) and \(a\) are arbitrary, and "outside every form's support" is used only to identify the two fibers as \(Z'_{a+1}\) and \(Z'_a\). The conjecture's hypothesis that the forms are independent of the all-ones vector is not assumed; (T) implies it, since \(\Phi_0=\Gamma_{S,0}\) forces \(T\cdot1\cong T\) inside \(\Gamma_S\). Consistently, prop:free-hole-counterexample violates (T), because its form has the same top as \(s\).

Proof

Setting of the transfer. Let \(F\) be the functions on the cube of \(H\setminus S\). The link of \(Z'_a\) at \(S\) is \(\{c'\in\{0,1\}^{H\setminus S}:\sum c'\equiv a-|S|,\ \ell^S(c')\in\Omega\}\), where \(\ell^S(c')=\ell(c'+1_S)\) includes the forms' constant terms and their values on \(1_S\). Let \(R\) be the functions on \(\mathbb F_p^{1+d}\), mapped to \(F\) by \((s,\ell^S)\). This is a filtered algebra map, since the coordinates have degree \(\le1\) and take values in \(\mathbb F_p\). Let \(J_a\subseteq R\) be the ideal of \(T_a=\{a-|S|\}\times\Omega\). \(R\) is semisimple, and \(J_a\) is generated by the idempotent \(1-1_{T_a}\). So \(J_aF\) is generated by its pullback, which is the indicator of the complement of the link. Thus \(J_aF\) is exactly the ideal of the link, not only a set with that zero set.
The tops. By lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (seeded closure), part (a), with \(n_0=e+1\): \(F_e\cap J_aF=\sum_\alpha(J_a\cap R_{e-a_\alpha})b_\alpha\). By strictness of \(\psi\), its image in degree \(e\) is \(\sum_\alpha\operatorname{gr}_{e-a_\alpha}(J_a)\,\bar b_\alpha=(\operatorname{gr}J_a\cdot\Phi)_e\). Only \(\Phi_k=\Gamma_{S,k}\) with \(k\le e\) enters, so this is \((\operatorname{gr}J_a\cdot\Gamma_S)_e\). Hence \(a_{S,e}(Z'_a)=(\operatorname{gr}J_a\cdot\Gamma_S)_e\), where \(\operatorname{gr}J_a=\operatorname{top}(J_a)\) is the graded ideal of the induced filtration, with \(\dim T/\operatorname{gr}J_a=\dim R/J_a=|T_a|\).
The top ideal of a point times a set. \(J_a\) contains \(w_0-(a-|S|)\) and the pullback of \(I_\Omega\), so \(\operatorname{gr}J_a\supseteq(w_0)+\operatorname{top}(I_\Omega)T\). The quotient of \(T\) by the right side is \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\Omega}\), of dimension \(|\Omega|=|T_a|\). So the two ideals are equal, and neither depends on \(a\). Tops are invariant under translation, so shifting \(\Omega\) would change nothing.
Part (ii). The lemma's proof uses only three facts. \(R\) is the function algebra of a finite set, filtered by degree, with a filtered algebra map to \(F\). \(R\) is semisimple. \(\Phi\) is free over \(\operatorname{gr}R\). Let \(X=\{0,1\}^U\times\mathbb F_p^{1+d'}\), and let \(R=\mathbb F^X\), mapped to \(F\) by \(\pi=(c|_U,\ s_V,\ \ell_1|_V,\dots,\ell_{d'}|_V)\). The coordinates of \(\pi\) have degree \(\le1\). \(X\) is a product of grids, so the reduced monomials form a basis compatible with the filtration, and \(\operatorname{gr}R=\Gamma_U\otimes T'\). Also \(\Gamma_S=\Gamma_U\otimes\Gamma_V\), and \(\Gamma_U\otimes\Phi_V\) is free over \(\Gamma_U\otimes T'\) and agrees with \(\Gamma_S\) in degrees \(\le e\). Every form is a function of \(\pi\): a form constant on \(V\) is a function of \(c|_U\). So the link is \(\pi^{-1}(T_a)\), with \(T_a\) the set of \((x,v,y)\) such that \(v=a-|S|-\sum_{h\in U}x_h\) and the member's condition on \((x,y)\) holds. This is the graph of a function over its projection \(P\) to \((x,y)\), and \(P\) does not depend on \(a\). \(\operatorname{gr}J_a\) contains \(w_0+\sum_{h\in U}\bar C_h\) and \(\operatorname{top}(I_P)\). Since \((\sum_{h\in U}\bar C_h)^p=0\) by Frobenius, \(\operatorname{gr}R/(w_0+\sum_{h\in U}\bar C_h)\cong\Gamma_U\otimes\mathbb F[w_1,\dots,w_{d'}]/(w^p)\), which is \(\operatorname{gr}\) of the functions on the \((x,y)\)-grid. Dividing further by \(\operatorname{top}(I_P)\) gives \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^P\), of dimension \(|P|=|T_a|\). So \(\operatorname{gr}J_a\) is their sum, independent of \(a\). \(\square\)
Why (ii) is not part (i) again. With the forms constant on \(V\) kept in \(T'\) as well, (ii) would follow from (i). \(T\) is a Hopf algebra with \(\Delta w=w\otimes1+1\otimes w\), in characteristic \(p\). Multiplication by \(\bar s=\bar s_U+\bar s_V\) and by each \(\bar\ell_i\) is the diagonal action on \(\Gamma_U\otimes\Gamma_V\). By the tensor identity, \(\Gamma_U\otimes\Phi_V\) is then free over \(T\). A form constant on \(V\) acts as 0 on \(\Gamma_V\), so no nonzero free submodule over it exists there. Dropping such forms from \(T'\) is what makes (ii) weaker than (T).

The check

transfer_vs_uniformity.py works over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(N=12\) and hole 11 free, using the two-step check's forms. For every link \(|S|\le2\) and \(e\in\{1,2\}\), it records two things (transfer_vs_uniformity.json):

whether (T) holds for \(s\) and the forms the member uses. (T) holds iff \(T\cdot\Gamma_{S,\le e}\) is free. If \(\Phi\) is free with \(\Phi_{\le e}=\Gamma_{S,\le e}\), then \(T\cdot\Gamma_{S,\le e}=\bigoplus_{a_\alpha\le e}T\,b_\alpha\) is free; conversely \(T\cdot\Gamma_{S,\le e}\) is itself a candidate \(\Phi\). Freeness is decided by \(\dim(T\cdot\Gamma_{S,\le e})_D=\sum_kg_k\dim T_{D-k}\) for all \(D\). Here \(g_k=\dim\Gamma_{S,k}/\sum_{i\ge1}T_i\Gamma_{S,k-i}\) for \(k\le e\), and \(g_k=0\) above \(e\). Degrees \(D\le e+(p-1)(d+1)\) suffice, since both sides vanish above;
whether the fibers' tops are equal.

Results, over the 67 links:

No link has (T) with unequal tops, as the corollary requires.
Random forms (\(\ell_0\) on three holes, \(\ell_1\) on seven): (T) holds on no link. Yet the tops are equal on every link, for one clause, the two-block pair and three clauses, at \(e=1,2\). (T) must fail here. Freeness of \(T\cdot\Gamma_{S,\le1}\) forces \(\ker(\bar\ell_0^2\text{ on }\Gamma_{S,1})=\operatorname{span}(\bar\ell_0)\). With \(\ell_0\) on at most three holes of the link, that kernel has dimension at least 2. Part (ii) with \(U=\operatorname{supp}\ell_0\) drops \(\ell_0\) from \(T'\) and asks freeness of the other holes' cube over \(s_V\) and \(\ell_1|_V\) only. Whether (T′) holds there was not computed.
Dense pair (\(\ell_0\) nonzero on every hole but the free one). At \(e=1\), (T) holds on 29 links and the tops are equal on all 67. At \(e=2\), (T) holds on no link. The tops are unequal on 4 of the 11 links with \(|S|=1\) and on 34 of the 55 with \(|S|=2\). They are equal at \(|S|=0\).

By the sub-instance rule, the dense failures lie outside the range of either hypothesis. At \(e=2\) with three forms, (T) needs freeness through degree 8 on 10 or 9 holes. Whether some split satisfies (T′) was not computed. The failures show only that equal tops are not automatic beyond the proved range. By the residue argument, at some slice value the free hole is then not a good column on those links.

What it means

conj:free-hole-good in the transfer range. The conjecture is proved wherever (T) or (T′) holds. It is a corollary of lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, not a new mechanism. Beyond that range the evidence is mixed. Random forms keep equal tops on every link. For the dense pair at \(e=2\), the tops differ on most links with \(|S|=2\).
An observation about the proved range. The recorded closure proofs (thm:sparse-closure-stability, thm:seeded-closure-stability) use free holes as seeds, keeping them to supply freeness. The good-column recursion at free holes removes them one at a time, and each removal shrinks the range where (T) or (T′) is available. So, within what is proved, free-hole columns do not reach members beyond the seeded transfer. The corollary is only sufficient, and the random-form data show equal tops beyond it, so this is not an impossibility statement.
Where the good-column line stands. For dense forms, free holes gave unequal tops beyond the proved range. The two-step check found good columns inside the forms' supports failing after one step. The route review now due should weigh both.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: the route review of the closure route's recursion line (cell splitting, monotone fibers, good columns, free holes), with Outside leads and Absurd bridges, deciding whether the line continues.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:filtered-freeness-transfer's statement and proof (parts (a) and (b), the semisimplicity step), thm:seeded-closure-stability's transfer step, conj:free-hole-good and the residue argument, and the fiber-uniformity check. The corollary is a composition of the recorded lemma with a dimension count. Part (ii) reuses the lemma's proof for a function algebra of a finite set, which the proof permits. The check's (T) test is an exact dimension comparison. Its outcome, that no link has (T) with unequal tops, is the corollary's prediction and serves as a control of the code. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed part (i), including the tops step, and found no recorded statement of the corollary in its claim search. It required these changes, all adopted: part (ii) restated as the split variant, since the draft's version followed from part (i) by the tensor identity; the ideal of the link identified through the idempotent; the tops step spelled out; the Frobenius step and the product basis stated in (ii); a proof of the exactness of the (T) test, with its degree bound; the failure of (T) for a three-hole form made precise; unsupported and overstated sentences removed or weakened; and the unused hypotheses named. The changes weaken or correct the claims without strengthening them, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: the closure route's recursion reaches dense members only through the recorded transfer, fiber uniformity tracks how close the all-ones vector lies to the forms' code, and the passed absurd bridges get their follow-up

26 September 2026 · Route review with exact small tests · open statement A1, closure route · cycle odd-prime-recursion-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the closure route's recursion reaches dense members only through the recorded transfer, fiber uniformity tracks how close the all-ones vector lies to the forms' code, and the passed absurd bridges get their follow-up”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-recursion-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Six research entries since the hole-splitting review built and tested a recursion for the closure route's Koszul hypothesis:

cell splitting;
monotone fibers;
good columns and two steps;
free holes and the free-hole transfer.

Where does the line stand? The user also asked (26 September 2026) whether any absurd bridge that passed its test had been explored further. None had. This review follows each of them up.

General statement. The line's claim is conj:good-column: every set in the monotone recursion has a column where the empty fiber's vanishing tops lie in each row fiber's on every link. With lem:cell-splitting and cor:monotone-fiber-recursion, this would reduce the Koszul hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing to base cases for any cell forms. With the gluing theorem, it would give W for those members. The goal needs A1, W for arbitrary dependent families of width \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\) and degree \(22k\).

Falsification attempt: dense forms without a free hole

review_tests.py (T1) took a two-block pair on two random forms over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(\ell_0\) nonzero on all 12 holes, so no hole is free. It used \(N=12\), \(e=2\), 773 points, and links \(|S|\le2\). At every one of the 12 holes the inclusion held on every link (review_tests.json). So the attempt failed: at the first step, every column is good. Together with the recorded two-step thinning, the evidence is that good columns exist at the first step and thin out later, mostly on the smallest links.

Assessment of the line

What it built.
- A quotient-side splitting for any cell forms, lem:cell-splitting.
- A lattice-free case, cor:monotone-fiber-recursion.
- A proof that free holes are good columns wherever the recorded filtered freeness transfer applies, cor:free-hole-uniformity.
What it lacks.
- Every proved step either is the transfer or needs it.
- Good columns at later steps are unproved and thin out in the data.
- Each step of the recursion removes a hole and shrinks the free range, while the recorded proofs keep free holes as seeds.
- The base cases lie outside every free range.
What the tests add. Where fibers at a free hole fail to agree, the failure has a precise shape (lead 1 below). It depends on how close a nonzero multiple of the all-ones vector lies to the code spanned by the forms' coefficient vectors. That is a property of the forms that the adversary of A1 controls.
Qualitative assessment. Weak as a route to A1. The recursion has produced reformulations and one corollary of the transfer, not a mechanism beyond it. The line should stop being the default next step. The coset-distance observation and the linked-cluster identity below are the concrete new leads.

Outside leads

Exponential sums for point counts (the character-sum method behind the theorems of Ax, 1964, and Katz, 1971, on \(p\)-divisibility of point counts), for conj:free-hole-good under A1. The count of \(Z'_a=\{\sum c\equiv a,\ \ell(c)\in\Omega\}\) expands in characters \(\prod_h(1+\omega^{t+u\cdot\varphi(h)})\), with \(t\ne0\) for the \(a\)-dependent part. Each factor has modulus 2 when \(u\cdot\varphi(h)\equiv-t\) and 1 otherwise. So the dependence on \(a\) is governed by \(\beta=\max_{u\ne0,c\ne0}\#\{h:u\cdot\varphi(h)=c\}\). Equivalently, \(n'-\beta\) is the Hamming distance from the nonzero multiples of the all-ones vector to the nonzero words of the code spanned by the forms. Where it breaks: counts are the sum of all degrees of the Hilbert function, so they cannot locate the degree where tops differ. Test. Passed. The fiber sizes by residue are 361, 372 and 401 for the dense pair, and 403, 402 and 395 for the random pair (T2). Per link, at \(e=2\), the tops are unequal exactly when \(n'-\beta\le3\). At \(|S|=0\), distance 4, the one link is equal. At \(|S|=1\), distance 4 gives 7 equal links and distance 3 gives 4 unequal. At \(|S|=2\), distance 4 gives 21 equal links, and distances 3 and 2 give 28 and 6 unequal. At \(e=1\) every such link was equal, and prop:free-hole-counterexample has distance 1 with unequal tops from \(e=1\) on. This is consistent with a threshold "unequal exactly when the distance is at most \(2e-1\)". That threshold is a guess from two degrees, not a claim.
Vertex decomposability (Provan and Billera, Math. Oper. Res. 1980), for conj:good-column. A good column is the analogue of a shedding vertex: deletion and link both recurse. Vertex decomposability requires shedding vertices at every level. Where it breaks: our deletion changes the slice value, so the "complexes" at the next level are different members, not subcomplexes. Test. Passed at the first level: T1 found all 12 columns good. The recorded two-step check shows thinning at the second level, which the analogy does not explain.
Squarefree Gröbner degenerations (Conca and Varbaro, Invent. Math. 2020), for the Koszul hypothesis. A squarefree initial ideal preserves depth and extremal Betti numbers. The Boolean point ideals here have squarefree initial ideals. So freeness could be checked on a Stanley–Reisner degeneration. Where it breaks: their theorem concerns Betti numbers over a polynomial ring, not freeness over the truncated row-sum algebra, and the link criterion needs every link degenerated compatibly. Test. Not run: the first attempt (T3, kept in the output) compared the action of \(\bar s\), which is zero on the graded functions of a slice. So it did not test the row-sum action. A valid test must degenerate the link system of prop:link-criterion, whose links a single term order does not degenerate compatibly. That needs a separate construction.

Absurd bridges

The linked-cluster theorem and size consistency in quantum chemistry (Goldstone 1957; coupled-cluster theory). Only connected diagrams contribute to the logarithm of a partition function, so non-interacting fragments contribute additively. This bridge was named in the outside-leads review without a test. Translation: the Hilbert series of the graded functions is the partition function, with \(q\) marking degree. Clauses are fragments, and the slice is the vacuum. Size consistency is \(H(A\cap B)\,H(\text{slice})=H(A)\,H(B)\). What a theorem there would give: an interaction-free gluing of members at the level of Hilbert functions, with corrections only from "connected" clause clusters. That is the Hilbert-function shadow of the Tor vanishing A1 needs. Test. Passed. At \(N=12\), through degree 4, the identity holds exactly for two clauses on disjoint supports and for two clauses on dense overlapping forms (B2). The sides are \(1,22,229,1495,6839\) and \(1,22,229,1494,6821\). This is nonvacuous: the clause functions differ from the slice from degree 3 on.
Coset leaders of linear codes (the covering radius; MacWilliams and Sloane, ch. 1). Translation: the forms' coefficient vectors on the link holes span a ternary code. The all-ones vector's multiples form a coset direction. Fiber uniformity at a free hole becomes a statement about the weight of the coset of \(\mathbb F_3^*\mathbf 1\) relative to that code. What a theorem there would give: bounds on how many adversarial form families can put the all-ones vector at small distance. The covering radius and the weight distribution of cosets are classical. The adversary of A1 can force small distance, as prop:free-hole-counterexample does with distance 1. So this identifies exactly which adversarial families break uniformity. Test. Passed on the T2 data, read as distances. Unequal tops occur exactly at coset distance at most 3, at \(e=2\), on all 67 links.

Bridge follow-up

Unitary designs from local random circuits, for conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra. This cycle formulated the mechanism. For a matrix built from independent columns, the \(k\)-th kernel moment \(\mathbb E|\ker|^k\) is a sum over \(k\)-tuples of coefficient vectors. The per-column probabilities multiply, so the moment is a product of per-column transfer operators on \(k\)-tuples, the moment operator of Brandão, Harrow and Horodecki. A spectral gap of that operator, uniform in the column distribution, would give the Cohen–Lenstra moments. Nothing was computed this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: the next A3 cycle should compute the second-moment operator for product-top columns and its gap.
The cavity method. This cycle compared what the method proves with what A3 needs. Coja-Oghlan et al. give the rank to first order, \(\min(Br,D)-o(D)\). A3 needs directness up to the fill, an exact statement, and the recorded check already exceeds the first-order prediction. Follow-up. Closed: the method's conclusion is weaker than both the target and the recorded evidence, so it cannot move A3.
Rumer's valence-bond basis. This cycle rechecked its scope against the current route. Rumer's rule classifies linear relations among structures, which the passed test found to be single-shift relations, the recorded resolvents. The obstruction was falls, which are not linear relations, and the route has since replaced clauses by members. Follow-up. Closed: its content is the resolvent statement, and the question it answers is off the current route.
Kotani's spin coupling, the modular Clebsch–Gordan series. This cycle tried to extend it from one form to several. For one form, \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) is the group algebra of \(\mathbb Z/3\), whose Green ring gives the recorded pair-seed decomposition. For \(r\ge2\) forms, the algebra is the group algebra of \((\mathbb Z/3)^r\), which has wild representation type. So there is no Clebsch–Gordan series to extend. Freeness is then detected by rank varieties, the \(\pi\)-point lead already tested in the hole-splitting review. Follow-up. Closed: it does not extend past one form.
Persistence barcodes and bottleneck stability. This cycle tried to size the perturbation. A clause's indicator has degree at most \(2(k+1)\), and its multiples add vanishing tops in every degree \(d\ge2(k+1)\), a subspace of dimension growing like \(\binom{N}{d-2(k+1)}\). Rank-type stability bounds changes of the barcode by the rank of the perturbation, which is then comparable to the module in each degree, and no member with short bars in range is known. Follow-up. Closed: the available stability bound is vacuous at the needed degrees.
Phase transitions in density. This cycle identified the order parameter. thm:seeded-closure-stability holds for every allowed set \(\Omega\), including density \(3^{-d}\), so density is not what controls freeness. The Fourier lead above identifies a parameter that does track fiber uniformity: the coset distance of the all-ones vector from the forms' code. Follow-up. Closed: the density question is answered in the seeded regime, and the parameter it was looking for is carried into the coset-distance lead.

Next step

The highest-risk item remains A1. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer develops the linked-cluster bridge. First, prove or refute that the Hilbert series of the graded functions is multiplicative, \(H(A\cap B)\,H(\text{slice})=H(A)\,H(B)\), through the degree range, for two members on arbitrary forms. Identify the correction terms that "connected" pairs contribute, as in the coset-distance obstruction. Then decide what multiplicativity implies for the Tor vanishing A1 needs. After that comes the moment operator for A3, which is continuing in the bridge follow-up.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:good-column, cor:monotone-fiber-recursion, lem:cell-splitting, cor:free-hole-uniformity, lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, thm:seeded-closure-stability's statement and each of the six earlier bridges in full. The tests reuse the validated rank and top routines. All numbers were read from the saved JSON. The character-sum expansion and the coset-distance reading are elementary. The threshold \(2e-1\) is flagged as a guess, and the wild-type statement for \((\mathbb Z/3)^2\) is standard. This review registers no claim.

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The linked-cluster bridge: in the transfer range a member's Hilbert series factors through its allowed values, which makes independent clauses size consistent; the computed instances all lie outside that range, and there size consistency fails from degree 5

26 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check outside its range · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-linked-cluster. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The linked-cluster bridge: in the transfer range a member's Hilbert series factors through its allowed values, which makes independent clauses size consistent; the computed instances all lie outside that range, and there size consistency fails from degree 5”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-linked-cluster.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. This entry develops the linked-cluster bridge of the recursion review. That review tested \(H(A\cap B)\,H(\text{slice})=H(A)\,H(B)\) for the Hilbert series of graded functions, through degree 4. Correction to that test. The drops of \(A\) and \(B\) from the slice start at degree 3, so through degree 5 the identity only says that the drops add. The product term, the linked-cluster prediction proper, first enters at degree 6. Additivity through degree \(2k+2=4\) is already recorded for private supports (private supports). So the review's test was nonvacuous but weaker than its reading. When does size consistency hold, and what are the connected corrections?

General statement. prop:hilbert-factorization. Over a field of characteristic \(p\), let \(F\) be the functions on a finite point set \(\mathcal X\), filtered by degree, with \(\Gamma=\operatorname{gr}F\) and \(H(\Gamma)=H(\mathcal X)\). Let \(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_r\) be polynomials of degree \(\le1\) with values in \(\mathbb F_p\), mapping \(R=\mathbb F^{\mathbb F_p^r}\) to \(F\), with \(T=\operatorname{gr}R=\mathbb F[w]/(w^p)\). Suppose \(\Gamma\) contains a free \(T\)-submodule \(\Phi\) with \(\Phi_d=\Gamma_d\) for \(d<n_0\). Then:

For every \(\Omega\subseteq\mathbb F_p^r\), \(Z_\Omega=\{x:\lambda(x)\in\Omega\}\) satisfies \[H(Z_\Omega)\equiv\frac{H(\Gamma)\,H(\Omega)}{H(T)}\pmod{q^{n_0}},\qquad H(T)=\Bigl(\tfrac{1-q^p}{1-q}\Bigr)^r,\] where \(H(\Omega)\) is the affine Hilbert series of \(\Omega\): the graded functions of \(\Omega\) under the degree filtration, with each variable of degree \(<p\).
Size consistency. Split the coordinates into three groups, \(0\), \(1\) and \(2\), with \(T=T_0\otimes T_1\otimes T_2\). For \(\Omega=\Omega_0\times\Omega_1\times\Omega_2\), with \(*\) the whole group space, \[H(Z_{\Omega_0\times\Omega_1\times\Omega_2})\,H(Z_{\Omega_0\times*\times*})\equiv H(Z_{\Omega_0\times\Omega_1\times*})\,H(Z_{\Omega_0\times*\times\Omega_2})\pmod{q^{n_0}}.\] The single hypothesis, freeness over the forms of all groups jointly, covers all four sets. For clause members, group 0 is the slice form \(s\) with \(\Omega_0=\{m\}\), and groups 1 and 2 are the forms of \(A\) and of \(B\).
Shared forms. If \(A\) and \(B\) use the same forms, with allowed values \(\Omega_A\) and \(\Omega_B\) in \(\mathbb F_p^{r_1}\), then modulo \(q^{n_0}\) \[H(A\cap B)\,H(\text{slice})-H(A)\,H(B)\equiv\Bigl(\frac{H(\Gamma)\,H(\{m\})}{H(T)}\Bigr)^2\bigl[H(\Omega_A\cap\Omega_B)\,H(T_1)-H(\Omega_A)\,H(\Omega_B)\bigr].\]

Nothing uses that \(\mathcal X\) consists of 0/1 points. Freeness with \(n_0\ge1\) forces the forms to be affinely independent and \(\lambda\) to be surjective. It also forces \((p-1)r\le\max\deg\Gamma\), since \(T\cdot1\) must contain the socle element in degree \((p-1)r\). This is the series form of lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, part (b). cor:free-hole-uniformity used part (a), the tops, for the same sets \(Z'_a\). prop:shared-form-obstruction records when freeness over a truncated algebra containing a clause's form fails, so it bounds where item 3 can apply.

Proof

Item 1. Let \(J\) be the ideal of \(\Omega\). \(R\) is semisimple and \(J\) is generated by the idempotent \(1-1_\Omega\), so \(JF\) is the ideal of \(Z_\Omega\) and \(F/JF=\mathbb F^{Z_\Omega}\). The quotient filtration on \(F/JF\) is the degree filtration of functions on \(Z_\Omega\), and \(\operatorname{gr}(R/J)\) is the affine graded ring of \(\Omega\). Part (b) of the lemma gives \(\dim\operatorname{gr}_d\mathbb F^{Z_\Omega}=\sum_\alpha\dim\operatorname{gr}_{d-a_\alpha}(R/J)\) for \(d<n_0\), where \(a_\alpha\) are the degrees of a basis of \(\Phi\). So \(H(Z_\Omega)\equiv H_U\,H(\Omega)\), with \(H_U=\sum_\alpha q^{a_\alpha}\). Freeness gives \(H(\Phi)=H_U\,H(T)\), and \(\Phi_d=\Gamma_d\) for \(d<n_0\) gives \(H(\Phi)\equiv H(\Gamma)\). Multiplication by \(1/H(T)\), a power series with constant term 1, preserves congruences modulo \(q^{n_0}\). So \(H_U\equiv H(\Gamma)/H(T)\).
Products. For point sets \(\Omega_i\subseteq\mathbb F_p^{r_i}\), the top ideal of \(\Omega_1\times\Omega_2\) contains \(\operatorname{top}(I_{\Omega_1})T+\operatorname{top}(I_{\Omega_2})T\). A function of one group's coordinates has the same degree on \(\mathbb F_p^{r}\) as on its own space, since reduced representatives are unique. Both ideals have codimension \(|\Omega_1||\Omega_2|\) in \(T\), so they are equal. Hence \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\Omega_1\times\Omega_2}\) is the graded tensor product, and \(H(\Omega_1\times\Omega_2)=H(\Omega_1)H(\Omega_2)\).
Items 2 and 3. By item 1 and the product rule, each side of item 2 is congruent to \((H(\Gamma)/H(T))^2H(\Omega_0)^2H(\Omega_1)H(\Omega_2)H(T_1)H(T_2)\), using \(H(*)=H(T_i)\). Item 3 is item 1 applied to the four sets \(\{m\}\times\Omega_A\cap\Omega_B\), \(\{m\}\times*\), \(\{m\}\times\Omega_A\) and \(\{m\}\times\Omega_B\), subtracted. \(\square\)

For clause members, \(\mathcal X\) is the Boolean cube and \(\lambda\) consists of \(s\) and the members' forms. The proposition applies below the \(n_0\) of that system, which exists exactly when hypothesis (T) of cor:free-hole-uniformity holds on the whole cube. It then says that every interaction between clauses is visible in the value space \(\mathbb F_p^r\). The socle bound \((p-1)r\le N\) excludes every family whose forms, together with \(s\), have affine rank above \(N/(p-1)\), for every \(n_0\ge1\). A1's families of \(n^K\) clauses with about \(\log n\) forms each can reach that rank.

The computed instances, all outside the range

hilbert_series.py computed \(H\) through degree 7 over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(N=12\), with one elimination per set, for the slice, \(A\), \(B\) and \(A\cap B\) (hilbert_series.json). transfer_range.py computed each instance's exact \(n_0\) (transfer_range.json). Its freeness test reduces each degree's span to a basis and is validated against the free-hole check's implementation on \(N=7,8,9\). Values:

independent clauses on disjoint supports (holes 0–5 and 6–11), five forms: \(n_0=1\);
dense independent forms, five forms: \(n_0=2\);
shared forms (the two-block pair), three forms: \(n_0=2\).

So every computed degree \(\ge2\) lies outside the proved range, and the data only show how the formula behaves beyond it:

Disjoint supports. Size consistency holds through degree 4 and fails from degree 5: \(23311\) against \(23313\), then \(60676\) against \(60700\). The drops of \(A\cap B\) are 2, 21, 84 and 163, against \(1+1\), \(11+10\), \(44+38\) and \(89+73\). At degree 5, then, the intersection has two vanishing tops beyond the sum, and neither additivity nor the product law holds. In this instance (\(k=1\)) the failure starts at degree \(2k+3\), the degree where the record's gluing of private supports ends. The data show only that the two degrees coincide here.
Dense independent forms. Also size consistent through degree 4, with a deficit of 4 at degree 5.
Shared forms. Multiplicativity fails from degree 2. The value-space correction of item 3 gives \(H_2(A\cap B)=53\), which is observed, and predicts 144 at degree 3, against 143 observed. Both lie outside the range.
Single clauses. The value-space prediction \(1,11,54,154,276,309,\dots\) matches some clauses through degree 4 (\(B\) on disjoint supports). Others fall one short from degree 3 or 4.

What it means

What the bridge gives. A closed form for the Hilbert series of any member in the transfer range, factoring through the value space. That locates every interaction of shared forms in \(\mathbb F_p^r\). Size consistency is implied there by independence of the form groups. The formula is the series form of lem:filtered-freeness-transfer. The bridge supplied the question, not a new mechanism.
What it does not give. The proved range is tiny at computable sizes (\(n_0\le2\) here), and it is empty for families whose forms have affine rank above \(N/(p-1)\). Beyond it, in the one instance computed, size consistency fails from degree 5. So for A1 the bridge describes members inside a transfer range, not the family.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: the continuing bridge of the recursion review, the moment operator for conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra (A3). Compute the second-moment transfer operator for product-top columns and its spectral gap.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:filtered-freeness-transfer, parts (a) and (b), and cor:free-hole-uniformity. Also re-read prop:shared-form-obstruction's statement and the private-support entry's range. Claim searches (Hilbert series, factorization, value space, transfer, size consistency, shared forms) found cor:free-hole-uniformity, the tops version for the same sets, and prop:shared-form-obstruction. Neither states the series formula. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed item 1 and the product step. It required these changes, all adopted:

the size-consistency statement given relative to a shared slice factor, which the application needs;
the correction term written as an identity;
the clause application made conditional, with the socle bound;
the exact \(n_0\) of each computed instance, which moved every computed degree outside the range;
the causal reading of the degree \(2k+3\) coincidence dropped;
"exactly" replaced by "implied by";
unused hypotheses named;
both related claims cited.

The changes restate item 2 in the form the application uses and otherwise weaken claims. Item 2's proof is the same substitution, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	14 min 52.17 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 47.90 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 53.68 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 46.26 s
Individually measured computation	6 min 24.18 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 3.

Sums of divided powers: when the parts are independent in every column, a product top's killer probability for a sum of divided powers is the product of the single-divided-power probabilities, so every exact stratum of boundedly many such divided powers is harmless for the moment method

26 September 2026 · Working proof, with a sampled validation and a control · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-moment-operator. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sums of divided powers: when the parts are independent in every column, a product top's killer probability for a sum of divided powers is the product of the single-divided-power probabilities, so every exact stratum of boundedly many such divided powers is harmless for the moment method”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-divided-power-sums.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. This cycle develops the unitary-design bridge of the universality review, left continuing in the recursion review. In Brandão, Harrow and Horodecki's argument, the moments of a product of independent local gates are products of local moment operators. The product-top analogue sits in the moment entry. There the killer probability of a divided power was computed by a walk over columns, with state the type counts modulo 3, and its limit \(3^{-5}\) followed from a Fourier bound on that walk. The moment method (conj:product-top-killer-moment) still needs the strata of functionals near sums of few divided powers. In the one-top test, sums of two divided powers carried the largest excess, ratios 764 and 1158. What is the killer probability of an exact sum?

General statement. lem:divided-power-sums. Use the setting of the moment entry: \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_{c\le N}(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\), \(\dim V_c=m\), and \(\tau=e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell')\) with \(\ell,\ell'\) independent and uniform. Let \(\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_j\in\tilde A_1^*\) have supports \(W_i\), let \(\lambda_i\in\mathbb F_3^*\), and put \(\chi=\sum_i\lambda_i\varphi_i^{[5]}\). Suppose that in every column \(c\) the nonzero parts \(\varphi_{i,c}\), \(i\) with \(c\in W_i\), are linearly independent in \(V_c^*\). This bounds the number of parts meeting any one column by \(\dim V_c\), not their total number. Then \[\Pr\bigl[\chi(\tilde A_1\tau)=0\bigr]=\prod_{i=1}^jq(|W_i|),\] where \(q(w)\) is the single-divided-power probability of prop:divided-power-collapse, with \(q(w)=1\) for \(w\le4\). The product law uses neither \(\dim V_c=m\) nor \(m\ge2\), and the scalars are redundant over \(\mathbb F_3\), since \(\lambda\varphi^{[5]}=(\lambda\varphi)^{[5]}\) because \(\lambda^5=\lambda\). Consequently, for fixed \(m\) and a fixed bound \(j_0\), as \(N\to\infty\), the nonzero functionals of this form with \(j\le j_0\) contribute \(o(3^{C_0})\) to the moment \(\sum_\chi\pi_E(\chi)^B\) of lem:product-top-moment-reduction, uniformly in \(B\) with \(C_0=D-Br\ge0\). This consequence uses the recorded finite evaluation \(\max_{w\ge5}q(w)=q(5)<0.236\), and any uniform bound \(q(w)\le q_*<1\) for \(w\ge5\) would do. The event \(E\) enters only through \(\pi_E\le\pi\).

Proof

Reduction. For a cell \(y=(c,v)\) with \(c\in W_i\), prop:divided-power-collapse, part (2), gives \(\varphi_i^{[5]}(y\tau)=\varphi_{i,c}(v)\,P^{(i)}_{-c}\). Here \(P^{(i)}_{-c}=[X^2Y^2]\prod_{d\in W_i\setminus c}(1+s_{i,d}X+s'_{i,d}Y)\), with \(s_{i,d}=\varphi_{i,d}(\ell_d)\) and \(s'_{i,d}=\varphi_{i,d}(\ell'_d)\). For \(c\notin W_i\), part (1) gives \(\varphi_i^{[5]}(yz)=\varphi_{i,c}(v)\varphi_i^{[4]}(z)=0\). By linearity, \(\chi(y\tau)=\bigl(\sum_{i:c\in W_i}\lambda_iP^{(i)}_{-c}\varphi_{i,c}\bigr)(v)\). So \(\chi(\tilde A_1\tau)=0\) exactly when, for every column \(c\), the functional \(\sum_{i:c\in W_i}\lambda_iP^{(i)}_{-c}\varphi_{i,c}\) on \(V_c\) is zero. By the independence hypothesis, that holds exactly when \(P^{(i)}_{-c}=0\) for every \(i\) with \(c\in W_i\). So the event is \(\bigcap_iE_i\), where \(E_i=\{P^{(i)}_{-c}=0\ \forall c\in W_i\}\) is the event of \(\varphi_i^{[5]}\) alone.
Independence. \(E_i\) is a function of \((s_{i,c},s'_{i,c})_{c\in W_i}\). In each column \(c\), the map \(\ell_c\mapsto(\varphi_{i,c}(\ell_c))_{i:c\in W_i}\) is onto \(\mathbb F_3^{\#\{i:c\in W_i\}}\), because the functionals are independent. So these values are uniform and independent across \(i\), and likewise for \(\ell'\). Columns and the two forms are independent. So the whole array of the \(s_{i,c}\) and \(s'_{i,c}\) is uniform on a product space, even though one \(\ell_c\) feeds several parts. Each \(E_i\) reads only its own coordinates, so the families \((s_{i,c},s'_{i,c})_{c\in W_i}\) are independent across \(i\), each with the law of prop:divided-power-collapse, and \(\Pr[\bigcap_iE_i]=\prod_iq(|W_i|)\). If \(|W_i|\le4\), then \(\varphi_i^{[5]}=0\); consistently, \(P^{(i)}_{-c}\) is then the \(X^2Y^2\) coefficient of a polynomial of degree at most 3, so \(E_i\) always holds.
The stratum. There are at most \(\sum_{j\le j_0}(2\cdot3^{mN})^j\le2(2\cdot3^{mN})^{j_0}\) such \(\chi\). If \(\chi\ne0\), some \(|W_i|\ge5\), so \(\pi_E(\chi)\le\pi(\chi)\le\max_{w\ge5}q(w)=q(5)<0.236\). That maximum is the recorded evaluation: exact values for \(w\le80\), and a Fourier and union tail bound for \(w\ge81\). The stratum therefore contributes at most \(M_B=2^{j_0+1}3^{j_0mN}\,0.236^B\). Let \(T=j_0mN\log3/\log(1/0.236)\). If \(B\ge T+N\), then \(M_B\le2^{j_0+1}0.236^N\to0\), and \(3^{C_0}\ge1\). If \(B<T+N\), then \(B=O(N)\), \(Br=O(N^2)\) and \(C_0\ge\binom N5m^5-O(N^2)\), so \(M_B/3^{C_0}\le2^{j_0+1}3^{j_0mN-C_0}\to0\). Both bounds are uniform in \(B\). \(\square\)

Validation

divided_power_sums.py works over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(m=2\), \(N=7\) and \(10^6\) sampled tops per case (divided_power_sums.json). It computes the contraction \(\chi(y\tau)\) for all 14 cells directly from \(\tau\in\tilde A_4\), and compares it per sample with \(E_1\cap E_2\).

Two divided powers, independent in every column. No mismatch in \(10^6\) samples. The frequencies are \(E_1\): 0.1179, \(E_2\): 0.1180, and joint: 0.014068. The lemma gives \(q(7)^2\approx0.01392\), from the recorded \(q(7)=0.1180\), about 1.3 standard errors away. This is one configuration: two full supports. Overlapping but unequal supports, and columns outside one support, are covered by the proof but were not sampled.
Control, with equal parts on three columns, which violates the hypothesis. 1270 mismatches, and the joint frequency is 0.0206, against 0.0194 for \(E_1\cap E_2\). Here the event contains \(E_1\cap E_2\), and the mismatches are the difference. So the reduction fails without the hypothesis. How far the product formula then fails was not measured.

What it means

What the bridge gave. Taken literally, the design argument needs a product of local random gates, and a product top is a sum over column subsets. What carried over is the structure the moment entry's walk already used: per-column randomness entering through finitely many scalars. Here that turns into independence across the parts of a sum. The result is an exact product law, not a spectral gap. We expect that a gap-type argument will be needed for functionals near such sums, where the scalars no longer determine the event.
The moment method. The exact strata of the killer moment are now harmless for any bounded number of divided powers whose parts are independent in every column. The one-top test's sums of two random divided powers almost surely had dependent parts in some column at \(m=2\), and it measured \(\pi_E\). So its ratios, 764 and 1158 against \(q(w)^2\cdot3^{u-2}=822\) and 906, agree with this law only in order of magnitude. Still open: sums whose parts are dependent in some column, as in the control; numbers of parts growing with \(N\); and every functional near such a sum. That is the inverse theorem conj:product-top-killer-moment needs.
Random forms only; A1 is untouched.

Next: the dependent-column strata. When the parts in a column span fewer than their number of dimensions, the event depends on combinations \(\sum_i\lambda_iP^{(i)}_{-c}\alpha_i\) of the polynomials. Compute its law by the same walk over columns, now with joint type counts modulo 3. Then take the first stratum near an exact sum.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:divided-power-collapse (all three parts and the evaluation of \(q\)), lem:product-top-moment-reduction, conj:product-top-killer-moment and the one-top test's ratios. Claim searches (sums of divided powers, killer probability, independent columns, strata) found no statement of the product law. The stratum bound depends on the recorded finite evaluation of \(\max q\). A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the reduction, the coefficient step and the cross-part independence. It required these changes, all adopted: a real cutoff in \(B\); the finite-check dependence stated; the bound \(j\le m\) replaced by any fixed \(j_0\), since the hypothesis limits parts per column only; the citation of part (1) for columns outside a support; the unused hypotheses named; the one-top comparison reduced to order of magnitude; and the validation's and the control's scope stated. The one strengthening, from \(j\le m\) to fixed \(j_0\), reuses the same count and bound, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 18.65 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 14.19 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 56.05 s
Computation design and coding	50.36 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	32.72 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 45.13 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Low-rank strata: every nonzero functional kills a random product top with probability at most \(65/81\), so all functionals of contraction rank up to about \(0.72\,(mN)^{4/5}\) are harmless for the killer moment, whatever their structure

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-dependent-strata. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Low-rank strata: every nonzero functional kills a random product top with probability at most \(65/81\), so all functionals of contraction rank up to about \(0.72\,(mN)^{4/5}\) are harmless for the killer moment, whatever their structure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-low-rank-strata.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The killer moment of conj:product-top-killer-moment must be bounded stratum by stratum in the contraction rank \(u(\chi)\). The moment entry showed that no bound of the form \(3^{-(u-2)}\) holds for all functionals. The divided-power sums entry settled the exact strata made of column-independent divided powers. The planned next step was the dependent-column strata. Before splitting further by structure: which strata can be handled with no structure at all?

General statement. lem:low-rank-strata. Use the moment entry's setting: \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_{c\le N}(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\) with \(\dim V_c=m\), and \(\tau=e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell')\) with \(\ell,\ell'\) independent and uniform in \(\tilde A_1\). Let \(\pi(\chi)=\Pr[\chi(\tilde A_1\tau)=0]\), \(D=\dim\tilde A_5\), \(r=mN-2\) and \(C_0=D-Br\).

For every nonzero \(\chi\in\tilde A_5^*\), \(\pi(\chi)\le1-(2/3)^4=65/81\).
Fix \(m\ge1\) and \(\varepsilon>0\), and let \(\beta=\log_3(81/65)\approx0.2004\) and \(u_0=\bigl((1-\varepsilon)\beta m^4\bigr)^{1/5}N^{4/5}\). Then, for \(N\ge5\) and as \(N\to\infty\), \(\sum_{\chi\ne0,\ u(\chi)\le u_0}\pi_E(\chi)^B\le3^{C_0}\cdot3^{-\Omega(N^3)}\) in the moment of lem:product-top-moment-reduction, uniformly in \(B\) with \(C_0\ge0\). This suffices because \(\chi=0\) contributes \(\Pr[E]^B\le3^{C_0}\Pr[E]^B\), so a nonzero-\(\chi\) contribution of \(o(3^{C_0})\) adds only \(o(1)\) to that lemma's non-directness bound. Nothing needs \(m\ge2\).

Proof

A nonzero polynomial. Let \(\chi\ne0\). Choose a 5-monomial \(x\) with \(\chi(x)\ne0\), a cell \(y_0\) of \(x\), and write \(x=y_0z\). Put \(f(\ell,\ell')=\chi(y_0\,e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell'))\), a polynomial in the \(2mN\) coordinates of \(\ell\) and \(\ell'\). Expanding, \(e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell')=\sum_{z'}\sum_{(P,Q)}\ell_P\ell'_Q\,z'\). The sum runs over 4-monomials \(z'\) on distinct columns and over the six ordered splits of the cells of \(z'\) into a pair \(P\) for \(\ell\) and a pair \(Q\) for \(\ell'\), with \(\ell_P\) the product of the two coordinates. Distinct pairs \((z',(P,Q))\) give distinct monomials in the coordinates, since the monomial records which cells carry \(\ell\) and which carry \(\ell'\). So the coefficient of \(\ell_P\ell'_Q\) for a split of \(z\) is \(\chi(y_0z)\ne0\), and \(f\ne0\). Each coordinate occurs with degree at most 1 in each monomial: the cells lie in distinct columns, and each cell carries \(\ell\) or \(\ell'\), not both. So \(f\) is a nonzero multilinear polynomial of degree 4.
Multilinear Schwartz–Zippel. A nonzero multilinear polynomial \(g\) of degree \(d\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) is nonzero at a uniform point with probability at least \((2/3)^d\). This follows by induction on the number of variables. Write \(g=x\,g_1+g_0\), with \(g_1\), \(g_0\) free of \(x\). If \(g_1=0\), apply induction to \(g_0\). Otherwise \(g_1\) is nonzero multilinear of degree at most \(d-1\), so \(g_1\ne0\) with probability at least \((2/3)^{d-1}\). Given the other variables with \(g_1\ne0\), \(x\,g_1+g_0\) vanishes for exactly one value of \(x\). So \(\Pr[g\ne0]\ge(2/3)^{d-1}\cdot2/3\).
Part 1. The event \(\chi(\tilde A_1\tau)=0\) implies \(f(\ell,\ell')=0\). By the previous bullet, this has probability at most \(1-(2/3)^4\).
Part 2. Let \(u_1=\lfloor u_0\rfloor\le mN\), since \(u_0\approx0.72\,m^{4/5}N^{4/5}\). By lem:catalecticant-count, the functionals with \(u(\chi)\le u_1\) number at most \(\bigl[{mN\atop u_1}\bigr]_3\,3^{e(u_1)}\), with \(e(u_1)\le\binom N5(u_1/N)^5\le\binom N5(u_0/N)^5\). The Gaussian binomial is at most \(3^{u_0(mN-u_0)}/\prod_{i\ge1}(1-3^{-i})\le2\cdot3^{u_0mN}\). Each term is at most \(\pi(\chi)^B\le3^{-\beta B}\) by part 1, since \(\pi_E\le\pi\). So the ratio to \(3^{C_0}\) is at most \(2\cdot3^{u_0mN+e(u_0)-\beta B-C_0}\). Now \(\beta B+C_0=D-B(r-\beta)\). For \(N\ge5\), \(r=mN-2>\beta\). Since \(C_0\ge0\) gives \(B\le D/r\), this is at least \(\beta D/r\ge\beta\binom N5m^4/N\), using \(D=\binom N5m^5\) and \(r\le mN\). By the choice of \(u_0\), \(e(u_1)\le(1-\varepsilon)\beta m^4\binom N5/N\). So the exponent is at most \(u_0mN-\varepsilon\beta m^4\binom N5/N\). That tends to \(-\infty\), because \(u_0mN=O(N^{9/5})\) while \(\binom N5/N\sim N^4/120\). The ratio is therefore at most \(2\cdot3^{-\varepsilon\beta m^4\binom N5/N+O(N^{9/5})}=3^{-\Omega(N^3)}\), and the bound does not depend on \(B\). \(\square\)

What it means

What remains. Every functional with \(u(\chi)>u_0\approx0.72\,m^{4/5}N^{4/5}\) still needs a bound. That includes the generic functionals near \(u=mN\), which carry the main term \(3^{C_0}\), as well as the structured ones. A divided power \(\varphi^{[5]}\) of support \(w\) has \(u\in\{w,w-1\}\), so it falls under this lemma exactly when that value is at most \(u_0\). Sums of divided powers can have \(u\) up to \(mN\). Above \(u_0\), lem:divided-power-sums handles the exact column-independent sums. Functionals near them and dependent-column sums of high rank remain, and so do all other high-rank functionals.
What limits the exponent. The bound uses a single cell. The polynomials of different cells share most variables, since each involves every coordinate outside its own column, so they are not independent, and the argument gives no product bound. With \(B\approx m^4\binom N5/N\), reaching rank \(u\) needs \(\log_3(1/\pi)\gtrsim u^5/(m^4N^4)\). That is a bound that decays with \(u\), reaching about \(mN\) at \(u=mN\), which is the inverse question itself.
Random forms only; A1 is untouched.

Next: the stratum \(u>u_0\) near divided powers. Condition on the scalars of the nearest divided power, and apply part 1's argument to the functional induced on the complementary \(m-1\) directions of each column. The target is \(\pi\le q(w)\cdot(65/81)^{t}\), with \(t\) the number of cells at which the remainder is nonzero after conditioning.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:catalecticant-count (statement, the Gaussian binomial and Maclaurin bound), lem:product-top-moment-reduction, prop:divided-power-collapse and lem:divided-power-sums. Claim searches (Schwartz–Zippel, multilinear, killer probability, universal bound, contraction-rank strata, DeMillo–Lipton) found no earlier statement. A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error. It confirmed the coefficient extraction, the induction, the Gaussian binomial and Maclaurin steps, the inequality \(\beta B+C_0\ge\beta D/r\) and the uniformity in \(B\). It required these precision changes, all adopted: the integer rank \(\lfloor u_0\rfloor\); \(N\ge5\) for \(r>\beta\); the explicit rate; why \(o(3^{C_0})\) suffices; and scoping of what remains, including the generic high-rank functionals.

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Gauss sums and analytic rank: a functional kills a random product top with probability at most the fourth root of its 5-linear form's bias, which settles every stratum of high analytic rank but cannot reach the main term

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-near-divided-powers. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Gauss sums and analytic rank: a functional kills a random product top with probability at most the fourth root of its 5-linear form's bias, which settles every stratum of high analytic rank but cannot reach the main term”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-gauss-sum-killer.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. lem:low-rank-strata (low-rank strata) left the killer moment of conj:product-top-killer-moment open above contraction rank \(u_0\approx0.72(mN)^{4/5}\). The moment entry called the missing piece an inverse theorem. The record has imported one: imp:Janzer-finite-field-partition-rank bounds partition rank polynomially by analytic rank over every fixed finite field. It was never connected to product tops. Does the killer probability reduce to analytic rank, and how far does that reach?

General statement. lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound. Use the moment entry's setting over \(\mathbb F_3\): \(\tau=e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell')\) and \(\pi(\chi)=\Pr[\chi(\tilde A_1\tau)=0]\). For \(\chi\in\tilde A_5^*\), let \(\tilde\chi(y,a,b,c,d)=\chi(yabcd)\), a 5-linear form on \(\tilde A_1\). Its bias is \(\operatorname{bias}(\tilde\chi)=\mathbb E\,\omega^{\tilde\chi}\) over uniform arguments, which lies in \((0,1]\), and its analytic rank is \(\operatorname{arank}=-\log_3\operatorname{bias}\).

\(\pi(\chi)\le\operatorname{bias}(\tilde\chi)^{1/4}=3^{-\operatorname{arank}(\tilde\chi)/4}\).
Stratum criterion. Fix \(m\) and \(\varepsilon>0\), and let \(\mathcal F\) be any set of nonzero functionals with \(u(\chi)\le u\) and \(\operatorname{arank}(\tilde\chi)\ge a\) for each member. If \(aD/(4r)-u\,mN-\binom N5(u/N)^5\to\infty\), then \(\sum_{\chi\in\mathcal F}\pi_E(\chi)^B=o(3^{C_0})\), uniformly in \(B\) with \(C_0\ge0\). In particular this holds for \(N\) large when \(a\ge4(1+\varepsilon)u^5/(m^4N^4)+K\,u/(m^3N^3)\), with a fixed \(K>480\). The second term pays for the count term \(u\,mN\), since \(4r\,u\,mN/D\approx480u/(m^3N^3)\).
With imp:Janzer-finite-field-partition-rank, \(\operatorname{prank}(\tilde\chi)\le C\max(1,\operatorname{arank}(\tilde\chi))^{c}\), with constants for order 5 over \(\mathbb F_3\). So the functionals not covered by part 2 in stratum \(u\) have \(\operatorname{prank}(\tilde\chi)\le C\max\bigl(1,\,4(1+\varepsilon)u^5/(m^4N^4)+Ku/(m^3N^3)\bigr)^{c}\).

Proof

Fourier in \(y\). For fixed \(\tau\), \(y\mapsto\chi(y\tau)\) is linear, so \(\mathbf 1[\chi(\tilde A_1\tau)=0]=\mathbb E_y\,\omega^{\chi(y\tau)}\). Hence \(\pi(\chi)=\mathbb E_y\,\mathbb E_{\ell,\ell'}\,\omega^{P_y(\ell,\ell')}\), where \(P_y=\chi(y\,e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell'))\).
Two Gauss sums. In characteristic 3, \(e_2(\ell)=2\ell^2\), so \(e_2(\ell+h)-e_2(\ell)-e_2(h)=\ell h\). For fixed \(y,\ell'\), \(Q(\ell)=P_y(\ell,\ell')\) is a quadratic form with polar form \(B(\ell,h)=\chi(y\,\ell h\,e_2(\ell'))\). The Gauss-sum bound for odd characteristic gives \(|\mathbb E_\ell\omega^{Q}|\le3^{-\operatorname{rank}B/2}=(\mathbb E_{\ell,h}\omega^{B})^{1/2}\). By Jensen, \(|\mathbb E_{\ell,\ell'}\omega^{P_y}|\le(\mathbb E_{\ell,h,\ell'}\,\omega^{\chi(y\ell h\,e_2(\ell'))})^{1/2}\). For fixed \(\ell,h\), the exponent \(R(\ell')=\chi(y\ell h\,e_2(\ell'))\) is a quadratic form in \(\ell'\) with polar form \(\chi(y\ell h\,bg)\). Both quadratic forms are homogeneous, with no linear term, so the Gauss sums have modulus exactly \(3^{-\operatorname{rank}/2}\). Then \(\mathbb E_{\ell,h,\ell'}\omega^{\chi(y\ell h e_2(\ell'))}\le\mathbb E_{\ell,h}|\mathbb E_{\ell'}\omega^{R}|\le\mathbb E_{\ell,h}(\mathbb E_{b,g}\omega^{\chi(y\ell hbg)})^{1/2}\le(\mathbb E_{\ell,h,b,g}\,\omega^{\chi(y\ell hbg)})^{1/2}\), by the triangle inequality, the Gauss sum and Jensen. So \(|\mathbb E\,\omega^{P_y}|\le\operatorname{bias}(T_y)^{1/4}\), where \(T_y(\ell,h,b,g)=\chi(y\ell hbg)\) is 4-linear. Biases of multilinear forms are nonnegative, since each is a probability that a linear form vanishes.
Part 1. \(\pi(\chi)\le\mathbb E_y\operatorname{bias}(T_y)^{1/4}\le(\mathbb E_y\operatorname{bias}(T_y))^{1/4}\) by Jensen, and \(\mathbb E_y\operatorname{bias}(T_y)=\operatorname{bias}(\tilde\chi)\).
Part 2. Exactly as in lem:low-rank-strata, part 2. \(|\mathcal F|\le2\cdot3^{u\,mN+e(u)}\) by lem:catalecticant-count, with \(e(u)\le\binom N5(u/N)^5\). Each term is at most \(3^{-aB/4}\). Always \(a\le\operatorname{arank}(\tilde\chi)\le mN\le4r\) once \(mN\ge3\), since the bias is at least \(3^{-\dim\tilde A_1}\). So \(aB/4+C_0=D-B(r-a/4)\ge aD/(4r)\), using \(B\le D/r\). The explicit form follows from \(D/r=\binom N5m^5/(mN-2)\) and \(e(u)\le\binom N5u^5/N^5\).
Part 3. Substitute the threshold into the imported inequality. \(\square\)

What it means

What it settles. Every functional whose 5-linear form has analytic rank at least about \(4u^5/(m^4N^4)\), relative to its contraction rank \(u\), is harmless. By the imported inverse theorem, the rest have partition rank polynomially bounded in that threshold. Near \(u_0\) the threshold is a constant, so the remaining functionals there have bounded partition rank. Divided powers are of this kind. For \(\varphi^{[5]}\), \(\tilde\chi\) is the distinct-column sum. By Möbius inversion over the set partitions of the five slots, it is a sum of partition-rank-1 terms, except for the single-block term, whose coefficient \(4!=24\) vanishes modulo 3. So its partition rank is at most \(\mathrm{Bell}(5)-1=51\). Divided powers of large support therefore have high \(u\) but bounded analytic rank, and part 1 gives nothing for them, consistently with prop:divided-power-collapse. Counting the bounded-partition-rank functionals by structure is not done here.
Where it stops. Always \(\operatorname{arank}(\tilde\chi)\le u(\chi)\), because the bias is at least \(\Pr[y\in\ker\kappa_\chi]=3^{-u}\). So the criterion is vacuous for every \(u>mN/(4(1+\varepsilon))^{1/4}\approx0.71\,mN\). Even without the fourth-root loss it would stop at \(mN/(1+\varepsilon)^{1/4}\). No bias bound of this kind reaches the functionals that carry the main term \(3^{C_0}\). There the moment needs \(\sum\pi_E(\chi)^B\le(1+o(1))3^{C_0}\) over the top strata. That requires \(\pi_E(\chi)=3^{-(u-2)}(1+o(1/B))\) outside a set negligible for the count, an equidistribution statement with relative error \(o(N^{-4})\) for fixed \(m\), not a decay bound. Beyond \(u\approx N^{4/5}\), the part-3 threshold is a power of \(u^5/N^4\) with Janzer's exponent \(c\). Whether a sharper imported inverse theorem, such as quasi-linear bounds between partition rank and analytic rank, applies over \(\mathbb F_3\) was not checked.
A related record result. The universal bound of lem:low-rank-strata, part 1, uses the same Schwartz–Zippel mechanism as lem:random-affine-product-sampler-bias. That lemma bounds the character average of a nonzero functional on one product of \(t\) uniform affine forms by \(1-(1-1/p)^{t-1}\). Ours bounds a vanishing probability for a degree-4 multilinear polynomial by \(1-(2/3)^4\). The objects and exponents differ, and neither result implies the other. The low-rank entry's searches missed it under its own wording.
Random forms only; A1 is untouched.

Next: the main term. For functionals of contraction rank near \(mN\), prove \(\pi(\chi)=3^{-(u-2)}(1+o(1/B))\) outside a set small enough for the count. This is a Wood-type equidistribution for the contraction vector \(\chi(\cdot\,\tau)\) on its range. Alternatively, a route review should decide whether A3's product-top line, which covers random forms only, should yield to A1.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:low-rank-strata, lem:catalecticant-count, lem:product-top-moment-reduction, imp:Janzer-finite-field-partition-rank's statement and lem:random-affine-product-sampler-bias's statement. Claim searches (analytic rank, partition rank, bias, Gauss sum, inverse theorem, killer probability) found the imported Janzer theorem and the sampler-bias lemma, but no application to product tops. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed part 1: the Fourier identity, the polarization in characteristic 3, the Gauss sums and nonnegativity of the biases. It required these changes, all adopted: part 2's impossible second case replaced by the bound \(a\le4r\); an explicit threshold constant; \(\max(1,\cdot)\) in part 3; the vacuity range sharpened to \(u>0.71\,mN\) through \(\operatorname{arank}\le u\); the equidistribution requirement stated for \(\pi_E\) outside a negligible set; the second Gauss-sum step spelled out; the divided-power remark justified; and the related-result comparison checked against that lemma's statement. No change strengthened a claim beyond the justification of the divided-power remark, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: the killer-moment line now has every stratum settled except the main term and the structured functionals near it, but it covers random forms only, and shared forms break it far below the fill; the next step returns to A1

26 September 2026 · Route review with small exact checks · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-a3-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the killer-moment line now has every stratum settled except the main term and the structured functionals near it, but it covers random forms only, and shared forms break it far below the fill; the next step returns to A1”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-killer-moment-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the recursion review, four research entries have appeared:

the linked-cluster bridge for A1, prop:hilbert-factorization (linked cluster);
three results on the product-top killer moment for A3: lem:divided-power-sums, lem:low-rank-strata and lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound (sums, low rank, Gauss sums).

Where does the killer-moment line stand, and should the route stay on it?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:product-top-killer-moment: \(\sum_\chi\pi_E(\chi)^B\le(1+o(1))3^{C_0}\) for \(B\le(1-\varepsilon)F\). With lem:product-top-moment-reduction it gives degree-\(h+1\) directness of \(B\) random product tops up to a fixed fraction of the fill. conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra is its distributional strengthening. The goal needs A1, A2 and A3 for W: Tor vanishing for the chosen clause tops of every family, through degree \(22k\).

Falsification attempt: shared forms

Do the random-form results say anything about adversarial families? Take product tops sharing one form: \(\tau_b=\ell_b^2\ell'^2\) with a common \(\ell'\). Every image \(\tilde A_1\tau_b\) lies in \(\ell'^2\tilde A_3\), whose dimension is at most \(\dim\tilde A_3=\binom N3m^3\). So directness fails once \(Br>\binom N3m^3\), that is at \(B\) of order \(N^2m^2\), instead of the fill \(\binom N5m^5/(mN)\) of order \(N^4\). At \(N=7\), \(m=2\) this is \(B>23\) against a fill of 56. The attempt succeeds as a falsification of any transfer. No statement about random tops extends to families sharing forms. Those are exactly A1's adversarial families, whose recorded treatment goes through members and pinning.

Assessment of the line

What it proved. The killer moment, stratum by stratum in contraction rank \(u\):
- every stratum with \(u\le0.72\,(mN)^{4/5}\);
- every functional whose 5-linear form has analytic rank above about \(4u^5/(m^4N^4)\);
- the exact divided-power sums with column-independent parts.
Together with the recorded divided-power law, what remains is: functionals of bounded partition rank near divided-power structures, with \(u\) above \(u_0\); and the main term, where \(\pi_E=3^{-(u-2)}(1+o(1/B))\) must hold outside a negligible set. No bias bound reaches the main term, since the analytic rank is at most \(u\).
What it lacks. The main term needs an equidistribution theorem of Wood type. The whole line covers random forms and one degree, \(h+1\). Even completed, it gives A3's degree axis for random product tops only. A1's adversarial families break it, by the falsification above.
Qualitative assessment. Productive but off the critical path. Three working proofs in four cycles is real progress on a well-posed problem. The problem is a model case, and the goal's highest-risk statement is A1, which this line cannot touch. The route should return to A1. The killer-moment line's next step, equidistribution at the top strata, is recorded for later.

Outside leads

Wood's moment method for cokernels with dependent entries (Nguyen and Wood, "Local and global universality of random matrix cokernels", arXiv:2210.08526), for the main term. Universality there needs \(\alpha\)-balanced entries and handles row dependence through "codes" and a structured remainder. That is the same dichotomy our strata form. Where it breaks: our rows come in blocks of \(r\) correlated rows generated by \(2mN\) scalars, not independent entries. Test. Passed. A single coordinate of a product top has law \(\Pr[0]=0.561\) and \(\Pr[1]=\Pr[2]=0.219\), so entries are \(0.439\)-balanced (review_checks.json, L1). The block correlation is the remaining gap.
Kazhdan–Ziegler equidistribution of high-rank families (arXiv:1902.00767, imported as imp:KZ-effective-affine-universality), for the main term. High non-classical rank makes a polynomial family's values uniform. The contraction vector is a family of \(u\) polynomials of bidegree \((2,2)\), and the main term needs uniformity to relative precision \(o(N^{-4})\). Where it breaks: the imported threshold is polynomial in the family size, here \(u\) of order \(mN\), while ranks are at most \(mN\). Test. Not run: the import records the threshold only as polynomial, and whether it fits below \(mN\) depends on the exponent of the source's Theorem 2.9, which the record does not give.
Quasi-linear partition rank (Moshkovitz and Zhu, "Quasi-linear relation between partition and analytic rank", arXiv:2211.05780), for lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound, part 3. It would replace Janzer's polynomial by a logarithmic loss. The remaining functionals would then have partition rank about \(u^5/N^4\) up to logarithms, not a large power of it. Where it breaks: it bounds the rank, not the count of structured functionals. Test. Passed on its hypothesis: the abstract states the result over any finite field, so it applies over \(\mathbb F_3\). Only the abstract was read, so the exact form of the logarithmic factor is unverified.

Absurd bridges

Geminal-power states in quantum chemistry (antisymmetrized geminal powers; Coleman's AGP). Translation: each column of \(\tilde A\) is a site holding at most one particle of \(m\) flavors, since \(V_c^2=0\). \(e_2(\ell)\) is a pair-creation operator, and a product top \(e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell')\) is a four-particle product of two geminals. Directness is linear independence of the states \(y\,\tau_b\). What a theorem there would give: independence and completeness results for geminal-product bases, as for the Richardson–Gaudin states of the reduced BCS model. Smallest test: the geminal power. Test. Passed with the expected twist. \(e_2(\ell)^2=6e_4(\ell)\) over the integers, but it vanishes over \(\mathbb F_3\) (L2, \(N=6\)). That is why product tops need two different geminals. In characteristic 3 the chemistry's single-geminal powers collapse.
The decoupling theorem of quantum information (Dupuis, Berta, Wullschleger and Renner, Comm. Math. Phys. 2014). Translation: a random product top plays the random unitary, and the contraction by \(\chi\) plays the channel. Equidistribution of the contraction vector is decoupling. What a theorem there would give: an error term controlled by a second-moment, collision quantity rather than by first-moment biases. That is the form the main term needs, because first-moment bounds lose a fourth root. Test. Not run: the collision quantity is a sum over the \(3^{mN}\) characters of squared biases, which at the smallest size (\(3^{14}\) characters, each a bias over \(3^{28}\) points) needs its own kernel.

Bridge follow-up

Unitary designs. This cycle compared what the bridge delivered with what it promised. It led to lem:divided-power-sums. The spectral-gap mechanism itself does not apply: a product top is a sum over column subsets, not a product of local gates. The main term it aimed at is now the decoupling bridge's target. Follow-up. Closed: developed into lem:divided-power-sums, and the gap mechanism does not transfer.
Linked-cluster theorem. This cycle checked where the development ended. prop:hilbert-factorization gives size consistency inside the transfer range. The computed instances all lie outside it, and there it fails from degree 5. Follow-up. Closed: it restates the transfer inside its range and fails beyond it.
Coset leaders. No new computation this cycle. This review rechecked what the bridge would decide: which adversarial families break fiber uniformity at free holes. That matters only for the good-column recursion, which the recursion review found weak. Follow-up. Continuing: it becomes relevant if an A1 route needs fiber uniformity. The guessed threshold \(2e-1\) stays untested.

Next step

The highest-risk item is A1. The one freedom the reduction leaves is the choice of prefix sets. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to test a regularity decomposition for adversarial families. Condition on the values of the span shared by the family's forms, of affine row rank \(R\), which gives \(3^R\) atoms. Inside each atom the remaining forms are independent of that span, and prop:hilbert-factorization with lem:filtered-freeness-transfer applies member by member. Then decide what gluing across atoms needs. The cycle must first search the record's restriction-mixture and conditioning lines, which the remaining route lists as parked with a one-count design problem as their restart condition.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three killer-moment lemmas, prop:hilbert-factorization, lem:product-top-moment-reduction, the imported Kazhdan–Ziegler statement in the main record and the remaining route's parked lines. The shared-form count is elementary. The two checks are exact enumerations (review_checks.py). The Moshkovitz–Zhu hypothesis was read from the arXiv abstract only. This review registers no claim.

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A1 after the killer-moment review: the proposed regularity decomposition is the recorded hub line, and independent random choice among non-rigid forms is refuted by a duplicated hole family, so a chooser must correlate blocks that share forms

26 September 2026 · Refutation of a choice rule, with a withdrawn step · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-regularity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A1 after the killer-moment review: the proposed regularity decomposition is the recorded hub line, and independent random choice among non-rigid forms is refuted by a duplicated hole family, so a chooser must correlate blocks that share forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-random-rigid-choice.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The killer-moment review proposed a regularity decomposition for adversarial families. It would condition on the values of the span the family's forms share, apply the transfer inside each atom, and then glue across atoms. Does the record decide this? And is independent random choice among non-rigid forms a viable chooser? The falsification entry had proposed checking exactly that rule.

General statement. prop:duplicated-hole-family. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every \(k\ge1\) and large \(n\), take two blocks per hole \(t\). Both consist of the forms \(X_{jt}-1\) over the pigeons \(j\); the second may use \(2(X_{jt}-1)\) to avoid literal duplicates. Every form is non-rigid at every degree below about \(n/2\), by the rigid-forms entry's record for these forms. Choosing every block's prefix independently and uniformly among its non-rigid forms then yields a PC refutation of degree about \(2k+2\) with probability \(1-o(1)\). The same family is defended by the correlated choice that gives both copies of each hole the same prefix, varied across holes. So W holds on it.

Proof

The clauses. With \(L_j=X_{jt}-1\), Booleanity gives \(1-L_i^2=x_{it}\) and \(L_j^2=1-x_{jt}\). So a clause is \(x_{it}\prod_{j\in S}(1-x_{jt})\). By the collision axioms \(x_{it}x_{jt}=0\) for \(i\ne j\), it reduces to \(x_{it}\) at degree about \(2k+2\). So every pigeon \(i\notin S\) is removed from hole \(t\).
Two independent prefixes. Pigeon \(j\) keeps hole \(t\) only if it lies in both copies' prefixes. That happens with probability \((k/m)^2\) per hole, independently over holes. So pigeon 1 keeps some hole with probability at most \(nk^2/m^2\le k^2/n=o(1)\). Then pigeon 1's row equation \(\sum_tx_{1t}=1\), with every \(x_{1t}\) derived, gives \(0=1\) at degree about \(2k+2\).
The defence. With equal prefixes for the two copies, the images are those of one hole block per hole with prefix \(S_t\). prop:hole-family-random-choice treats that case: weak graph PHP on the random bipartite graph \(G_S\), with the imported Miksa–Nordström bound when \(G_S\) expands enough. \(\square\)

The regularity step is withdrawn

The decomposition is the hub line. Conditioning on a shared span, then treating each atom by the transfer over the remaining forms, is the hub and spoke picture of thm:clause-hub-criterion. The hub-route review found that its private parts must be jointly independent across all blocks, which covers at most about \(n^2\) of W's \(n^K\) blocks. The local weakening is refuted by prop:covering-obstruction. The closure-tools review found every closure lemma needing freeness over every private form.
Conditioning does make the shared forms constant inside an atom, which lowers the count \(r\) that the socle bound of prop:hilbert-factorization charges. But once the hub criterion's independence is required, it reduces to the joint transfer. So the review's step rediscovered a closed line. Its search covered the parked restriction-mixture line but not the hub line. The step is withdrawn.

What it means

What the refutation shows. A choice rule that decides each block independently loses the correlation that blocks sharing forms need, even when every form is non-rigid. Dropping duplicate blocks does not help, since blocks can be distinct and overlapping. The recorded attacks on random choice used rigid fillers: \(2-X_v\), for which \((2-X_v)^2=1+3X_v=1\); \(C_s-2\), for which \((C_s-2)^2\equiv1\) modulo the base at degree 2 by the collision axioms; and fillers \(F_s\) with \(F_s-1\) in the base. This attack uses no filler.
The recorded gaps remain. The rigid-forms entry's list of padding it does not remove still stands: forms rigid only modulo other blocks' clauses, forms rigid only above \(D-(p-1)k\), and forms that are non-rigid but rarely zero. That entry's degree-threshold paragraph warned that a random choice among non-rigid forms could still prefer such forms.
Reopening the chooser line. The chooser-line review closed that line after reducing W's choice to near-solution rules. A surviving rule must correlate blocks that share forms, and it must still be more specific than W's own "some choice exists". The simplest such rule is a random global priority: a uniformly random order on all non-rigid forms up to scalars, with each block taking its \(k\) highest non-rigid forms. Identical blocks then receive identical prefixes, and overlapping blocks share their choices where their top forms agree. That is not yet a claim.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: test the random-priority rule against the attacks that correlation must survive. These are the duplicated hole family, which it defends by construction, a decoy family in which every block contains the same \(k\) non-rigid decoy forms, and the rigid-forms entry's three open padding types. Fix the rigidity threshold at \(D_0=18k\), within that entry's range \(D_0\le D-2(p-1)k\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:rigid-form-reduction with its degree-threshold and open-padding paragraphs, prop:hole-family-random-choice, obs:uniform-choice-padding-refutation, obs:collision-padding-refutes-density-rule, prop:near-solution-chooser-fails, the falsification entry's next step, the chooser-line review, the hub-route review and the closure-tools review. A fresh-context reviewer, asked to find a recorded refutation of the drafted conjecture, found this duplicated family instead. It showed that the rule had been proposed in the falsification entry and that the recorded gaps were omitted. It also corrected the withdrawal's argument and one rigidity statement. The conjecture was dropped and the entry recorded as this refutation. The reduction of the clauses and the probability bound were checked by hand.

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Random priority: one uniformly random order on the non-rigid forms, with each block taking its top \(k\), reduces every hole-type family, duplicated or overlapping, to weak graph PHP on a graph containing independent random \(k\)-sets, so the recorded expander bound applies to all of them, on the same random graph and with the same expansion condition

26 September 2026 · Conditional result, on the recorded expansion hypothesis · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-random-priority. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Random priority: one uniformly random order on the non-rigid forms, with each block taking its top \(k\), reduces every hole-type family, duplicated or overlapping, to weak graph PHP on a graph containing independent random \(k\)-sets, so the recorded expander bound applies to all of them, on the same random graph and with the same expansion condition”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-random-priority.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. prop:duplicated-hole-family (random choice) refuted independent per-block random choice. A chooser must correlate blocks that share forms. The simplest correlated rule is a random priority: a uniformly random order \(\pi\) on the non-rigid forms up to scalars, with each block taking its \(k\) highest non-rigid forms as prefix. Does it defend the families that break independent choice?

General statement. prop:priority-hole-families. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), call a family hole-type if every block consists of non-rigid forms that are, up to scalars, cells \(X_{jt}-1\) of one hole \(t\), for a set \(B\) of pigeons, counted as scalar classes. Rigid forms are excluded, and arbitrary multiplicities, pigeon subsets and overlaps are allowed. Let \(U_t\) be the union of the pigeon sets \(B\) with \(|B|>k\) at hole \(t\). Choose prefixes by a random priority \(\pi\), a uniform order on the scalar classes of non-rigid forms. Then, for every \(D\), a degree-\(D\) refutation of the weak base plus the chosen clauses gives one of weak graph PHP on \(G_S\), where \(G_S\) is a random bipartite graph whose hole neighborhoods \(S_t\) are independent uniform \(k\)-subsets of \([m]\). This is prop:hole-family-random-choice's graph. So random priority satisfies W's conclusion on the family with probability at least the probability that \(G_S\) satisfies that proposition's expansion hypothesis at degree \(22k\). At the reduction's \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), the expected number of pigeons isolated in \(G_S\) is about \(m\,e^{-kn/m}\to0\), so that hypothesis is not excluded by isolated pigeons. For constant \(k\) it would be.

Proof

Clauses are multiples of deletions. For a block at hole \(t\) with pigeon set \(B\), \(|B|>k\), the prefix \(S_B\) is the top \(k\) of \(B\) under \(\pi\). For \(i\in B\setminus S_B\), the clause is exactly \((1-(x_{it}-1)^2)\prod_{j\in S_B}(x_{jt}-1)^2=x_{it}(2-x_{it})\prod_{j\in S_B}(x_{jt}-1)^2\), a polynomial multiple of \(x_{it}\). So for every \(D\), a degree-\(D\) refutation of base plus clauses gives one of base plus the deletions \(x_{it}=0\), \((i,t)\) deleted by some block. The converse, that the clause reduces to \(x_{it}\) modulo the collision axioms, is not needed. Blocks with \(|B|\le k\) have no form outside their prefix, hence no clause. A block holding both \(L\) and \(2L\) counts one class; its clauses in which the class appears twice vanish by Booleanity, since \(x(1-x)\) divides them.
What survives. A pigeon \(i\in T_t\), the top \(k\) of \(U_t\) under \(\pi\), lies in the top \(k\) of every block \(B\ni i\) at \(t\), since \(B\subseteq U_t\). So it is never deleted at \(t\). Pigeons outside \(U_t\) are never deleted at \(t\) either. So the kept graph \(G\) has \(N_G(t)\supseteq T_t\cup([m]\setminus U_t)\). If \(|U_t|\le k\), no deletion occurs at \(t\).
Independence and coupling. Forms of distinct holes are distinct scalar classes, so the restrictions of \(\pi\) to distinct holes are independent uniform orders, and the \(T_t\) are independent uniform \(k\)-subsets of the \(U_t\). Given \(T_t\), draw \(j\) with the hypergeometric law of \(|S\cap U_t|\) for a uniform \(k\)-subset \(S\subseteq[m]\). Take a uniform \(j\)-subset of \(T_t\) and a uniform \((k-j)\)-subset of \([m]\setminus U_t\). Their union \(S_t\) is a uniform \(k\)-subset of \([m]\), independent across holes, and \(S_t\subseteq N_G(t)\). So \(G_S\subseteq G\).
Monotonicity. Base plus the deletions becomes weak graph PHP on \(G\) after substituting \(x_e=0\) for the deleted cells. Substituting \(x_e=0\) for the cells of \(G\setminus G_S\) maps each axiom of weak graph PHP on \(G\) to an axiom of weak graph PHP on \(G_S\) or to 0. A pigeon with no neighbor in \(G_S\) has its row equation mapped to the constant \(-1\), which is \(G_S\)'s own empty row axiom. Substitution turns a degree-\(D\) PC refutation into one of no larger degree. So hardness on \(G_S\), which prop:hole-family-random-choice gives through the imported Miksa–Nordström bound under its expansion hypothesis, gives hardness here. \(\square\)

What it means

The first correlated rule survives the attack that refuted independent choice. Random priority gives duplicated and overlapping copies of a hole block the same prefix where their top forms agree. Conditionally on the recorded expansion event for the uniform random graph \(G_S\), it defends every hole-type family, including the duplicated one. The coupling needs no separate hypothesis for pigeon subsets smaller than \([m]\).
What it does not cover.
- Blocks whose non-rigid forms mix cells of different holes, or are not cells at all. This includes blocks containing all cells, whose common prefix gives clauses not analysed here.
- Blocks containing rigid forms, which reach the rigid-forms entry's open "rigid only above \(D-(p-1)k\)" padding.
- The rigid-forms entry's other open padding types.
The next attack must mix holes, so that the order's correlations work against the prover.
No new case of W beyond hole-type families is proved, and those only conditionally on the recorded expansion event.

Next: attack random priority with mixed blocks. The candidates are blocks containing cells of two holes, blocks of row and column sums, and blocks sharing non-rigid decoy forms from other holes. Compute each attack's clause reduction modulo the collision axioms, and decide whether the deletions and implications it produces admit a low-degree refutation.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:hole-family-random-choice (reduction and hypothesis), prop:duplicated-hole-family, prop:rigid-form-reduction and the falsification entry's hole family. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the clause-to-multiple step, survival, independence and monotonicity. It required these changes, all adopted: rigid forms excluded from hole-type blocks; the clause step stated as an exact multiple, with the collision equivalence not used; scalar classes; the empty row axiom under substitution; the coupling, which replaces an unchecked hypothesis on mixed graphs by the recorded one; the conclusion stated as a probability; the range of \(k\); and overclaims removed. The coupling strengthens the statement, and its proof is a direct construction checked here: the hypergeometric draw from \(T_t\) and \([m]\setminus U_t\) gives a uniform \(k\)-subset of \([m]\) inside \(N_G(t)\). So no second pass was made.

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Rigid products and shared decoys: a product of forms is provably nonzero only if each factor is, so shared decoys reduce to one prefix-product constraint, and random priority needs its threshold at \(20k\)

26 September 2026 · Working proof and a conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-mixed-blocks. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Rigid products and shared decoys: a product of forms is provably nonzero only if each factor is, so shared decoys reduce to one prefix-product constraint, and random priority needs its threshold at \(20k\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-rigid-products.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Random priority defends all hole-type families, conditionally on the recorded expansion event (prop:priority-hole-families, random priority). The next attacks mix forms across blocks. The strongest is a set of non-rigid decoy forms shared by every block. There are enough of them that, with high probability, the top \(k\) of every block is the same set \(P\) of decoys. Does that defeat random priority, and at which rigidity threshold?

General statement. Two claims, lem:rigid-products and conj:random-priority-choice.

lem:rigid-products, a working proof. Over \(\mathbb F_p\), \(p\) odd, let \(C_d\) be the degree-\(d\) PC closure of the weak unary base \(B\), and let \(\Delta_1,\dots,\Delta_k\) be affine forms. If \(1-\prod_s\Delta_s^{p-1}\in C_d\), then \(1-\Delta_s^{p-1}\in C_{d+p-1}\) for every \(s\). For nonconstant forms, \(d\ge(p-1)k\) is automatic; a nonzero constant factor contributes 1, and a zero factor gives \(1\in C_d\). So if one factor is non-rigid at degree \(D_0\), the product is not provably nonzero at any degree \(d\le D_0-(p-1)\).
conj:random-priority-choice. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), consider a family of \(n^K\) blocks in which every form is either rigid at degree \(20k\) or non-rigid at degree \(20k+2\). Then the random-priority choice satisfies W's conclusion with probability \(1-o(1)\). The choice is a uniform order on the scalar classes of forms non-rigid at \(D_0=20k\), with each block taking its top \(k\) non-rigid forms and completing with rigid ones. The threshold \(20k\) is the largest that prop:rigid-form-reduction's part 1 allows, \(D_0\le D-(p-1)k\). Forms rigid at exactly \(20k+1\) or \(20k+2\) are an open attack, excluded by hypothesis: through that entry's part-3 identity their products become provably nonzero within degree \(22k\).

Proof of the rigid-products lemma

Frobenius. For an affine form \(\Delta=c+\sum a_ix_i\), \(\Delta^p=c+\sum a_ix_i^p\) in characteristic \(p\). So \(\Delta^p-\Delta=\sum a_i(x_i^p-x_i)\). Each \(x_i^p-x_i\) is a multiple of \(x_i^2-x_i\) of degree \(p\), so \(\Delta^p-\Delta\in C_p\).
Absorbing one factor. Put \(Q=\prod_s\Delta_s^{p-1}\) and \(Q'=\prod_{s\ge2}\Delta_s^{p-1}\). Multiplying the hypothesis by \(1-\Delta_1^{p-1}\), of degree \(p-1\), gives \((1-\Delta_1^{p-1})-(1-\Delta_1^{p-1})Q\in C_{d+p-1}\), by the multiplication fact of prop:rigid-form-reduction. Now \((1-\Delta_1^{p-1})Q=(\Delta_1^{p-1}-\Delta_1^{2p-2})Q'\). Also \(\Delta_1^{2p-2}-\Delta_1^{p-1}=\Delta_1^{p-2}(\Delta_1^p-\Delta_1)\). By the Frobenius step and the multiplication fact, it and its product with \(Q'\) lie in \(C_{(p-1)k+p-1}\subseteq C_{d+p-1}\). Hence \(1-\Delta_1^{p-1}\in C_{d+p-1}\). By symmetry this holds for every \(s\). \(\square\)

The decoy family under random priority (over \(\mathbb F_3\))

The setting. Every block contains the same \(u\) non-rigid decoys and its own real forms, at most \(h\) of them. A block's prefix is the top \(k\) decoys \(P\) unless one of its real forms ranks above the \(k\)-th decoy. That has probability at most \(1-\binom uk/\binom{u+h}k\le hk/u\) per block. By a union bound, every block has prefix \(P\) with probability \(1-o(1)\) once \(u\gg hk\,n^K\).
The reduction. Every clause is then \((1-L^2)Q_P\), with \(Q_P=\prod_{\Delta\in P}\Delta^2\), for every real form \(L\) and every decoy outside \(P\). Each is a multiple of \(Q_P\) by a polynomial of degree 2. So a degree-\(D\) refutation of the family gives one of \(B\cup\{Q_P\}\), for \(D\ge2k+2\). Hence hardness of \(B\cup\{Q_P\}\) at \(22k\) always defeats the attack. Conversely, if the real forms include one pigeon's cells \(X_{1t}-1\), the clauses give \(x_{1t}(2-x_{1t})Q_P\). With \(x_{1t}^2-x_{1t}\) times \(Q_P\), this gives \(x_{1t}Q_P\) at degree \(2k+2\). Pigeon 1's row equation times \(Q_P\) then gives \(Q_P\) at degree \(2k+1\). In that case the family and \(B\cup\{Q_P\}\) are refuted at the same degrees above \(2k+2\).
What the lemma excludes. One route to refuting \(B\cup\{Q_P\}\) proves the product nonzero in the base alone: \(1-Q_P\in C_d(B)\). By the lemma, that makes every decoy in \(P\) rigid at \(d+2\). So at threshold \(D_0=20k\) this route is excluded for \(d\le20k-2\). It is open for \(20k-2<d\le22k\), and at threshold \(18k\) it is realised by decoys rigid between \(18k\) and \(20k+2\), as the reviewer showed; hence the threshold \(20k\) and the conjecture's hypothesis. Refutations of \(B\cup\{Q_P\}\) that do not pass through \(1-Q_P\in C_d(B)\) are not excluded. This is the one-block core of W: hardness of the base plus the vanishing of a product of \(k\) non-rigid forms.

What it means

Evidence for the conjecture. Random priority defends the hole-type families and the duplicated family, conditionally on the recorded expansion event. It reduces the shared-decoy family to the one-block core, which is open. It is a concrete rule depending only on base-rigidity. The rigid-forms entry named random choice among non-rigid forms. Independent random choice is refuted, and a global order is what correlates blocks sharing forms. The earlier attacks on choice rules used rigid fillers, a fixed near-solution, or independent choice. The window of forms rigid at \(20k+1\) and \(20k+2\), and the one-block core, remain open.
What is open.
- The one-block core: is \(B\cup\{\prod_{s\le k}\Delta_s^2\}\) hard at degree \(22k\) for non-rigid \(\Delta_s\)?
- Mixed blocks on two holes, whose clauses reduce to implications "pigeon \(i\) in hole \(t\) forces one of the prefix pigeons into hole \(t'\)" rather than deletions.
- The rigid-forms entry's open padding types.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: the one-block core. Decide whether \(B\cup\{\prod_{s\le k}\Delta_s^2\}\) can be refuted below degree \(22k\) when every \(\Delta_s\) is non-rigid at \(20k\), in two ways. First, search the record for the single-block case of W, which the prefix-length and pinning entries may already treat. Then attempt a design argument: a mixture of the degree-\(D\) designs of the base, each vanishing on one \(\Delta_s\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:rigid-form-reduction (definitions, the multiplication fact and the thresholds), prop:priority-hole-families and prop:duplicated-hole-family. The Frobenius step uses only characteristic \(p\) and Booleanity. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the lemma, whose absorption degree is exactly tight, and the Frobenius step. It showed that the drafted threshold \(18k\) lets decoys rigid between \(18k\) and \(20k+2\) refute, through the rigid-forms entry's part-3 identity. It required these changes, all adopted: the threshold raised to \(20k\), with the remaining window as a hypothesis; the degree range the lemma leaves open; the two directions of the decoy equivalence; an unneeded hypothesis dropped; the one-factor corollary; the union bound; the evidence claims corrected. The threshold change and the hypothesis weaken the conjecture, so no second pass was made.

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The one-block core: the base plus the vanishing of a product of forms is refuted only if every factor is rigid at \(p-1\) degrees more, and is refuted when every factor is rigid at \((p-1)k\) degrees less, because a refutation of the base plus \(\Delta=0\) multiplied by \(1-\Delta^{p-1}\) proves \(\Delta\) nonzero

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-one-block-core. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The one-block core: the base plus the vanishing of a product of forms is refuted only if every factor is rigid at \(p-1\) degrees more, and is refuted when every factor is rigid at \((p-1)k\) degrees less, because a refutation of the base plus \(\Delta=0\) multiplied by \(1-\Delta^{p-1}\) proves \(\Delta\) nonzero”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-one-block-core.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The rigid-products entry reduced random priority on shared-decoy families to a one-block core: is the weak base \(B\) plus the vanishing of a product \(Q=\prod_{s\le k}\Delta_s^{p-1}\) hard at W's degree? It excluded only the route through \(1-Q\in C_d(B)\). When is \(B\cup\{Q\}\) refuted at all?

General statement. prop:one-block-core. Over \(\mathbb F_p\) (\(p\) odd only because W's setting is), with \(C_d\) the degree-\(d\) PC closure and \(\Delta,\Delta_s\) affine forms:

If \(B\cup\{\Delta\}\) has a degree-\(D\) refutation, \(D\ge2\), then \(1-\Delta^{p-1}\in C_{D+p-1}(B)\). Conversely, \(1-\Delta^{p-1}\in C_d(B)\) gives a refutation of \(B\cup\{\Delta\}\) at degree \(\max(d,p-1)\). Rigidity and refutability of \(\Delta=0\) agree up to \(p-1\) degrees.
If \(B\cup\{Q\}\) has a degree-\(D\) refutation, \(D\ge(p-1)k\), then every factor \(\Delta_s\) is rigid at degree \(D+p-1\). Conversely, if every factor is rigid at degree \(d\), then \(B\cup\{Q\}\) is refuted at degree \(\max(d+(p-1)(k-1),(p-1)k)\).

Proof

Two recorded facts. Monotonicity: \(C_d(X)\subseteq C_{d'}(X)\) for \(d\le d'\). Multiplication, in the form of prop:rigid-form-reduction applied to a derivation from \(X\) with each axiom replaced by \(q\) times it: for \(q\) of degree at most \(e\), \(q\cdot C_D(X)\subseteq C_{D+e}(qX)\). Multiplying by \(q\) commutes with linear combinations and with multiplication by variables, and adds at most \(e\) to degrees.
Part 1. Take \(q=1-\Delta^{p-1}\), \(e=p-1\), and \(X=B\cup\{\Delta\}\). For \(a\in B\), \(\deg a\le2\le D\), so \(qa\in C_{D+p-1}(B)\) by the multiplication fact of prop:rigid-form-reduction. By Frobenius, \(q\Delta=\Delta-\Delta^p=-\sum_ia_i(x_i^p-x_i)\), which lies in \(C_p(B)\subseteq C_{D+p-1}(B)\), as in lem:rigid-products. So \(C_{D+p-1}(qX)\subseteq C_{D+p-1}(B)\), and \(1\in C_D(X)\) gives \(q\in C_{D+p-1}(B)\). Conversely, \(\Delta^{p-1}\in C_{p-1}(\{\Delta\})\), so \(1=(1-\Delta^{p-1})+\Delta^{p-1}\in C_{\max(d,p-1)}(B\cup\{\Delta\})\).
Part 2. \(Q\) is a multiple of \(\Delta_s\) of degree \((p-1)k\), so \(Q\in C_{(p-1)k}(\{\Delta_s\})\) and \(C_D(B\cup\{Q\})\subseteq C_D(B\cup\{\Delta_s\})\) for \(D\ge(p-1)k\). A refutation of \(B\cup\{Q\}\) is therefore one of \(B\cup\{\Delta_s\}\), and part 1 applies. Conversely, prop:rigid-form-reduction's identity gives \(1-Q\in C_{d+(p-1)(k-1)}(B)\) when every factor is rigid at \(d\). Together with \(Q\) this refutes. \(\square\)

What it means

The one-block core is decided up to a degree window. At \(p=3\) and \(D=22k\), \(B\cup\{Q\}\) is hard if some factor is non-rigid at \(22k+2\). It is refuted if every factor is rigid at \(20k+2\). It is undecided exactly when every factor is rigid at \(22k+2\) and some factor is not rigid at \(20k+2\). That includes mixed products, for example \(k-1\) factors rigid at low degree and one whose least rigidity degree lies in \((20k+2,22k+2]\).
For random priority. The rigid-products entry showed that, with probability \(1-o(1)\) by a union bound, every block of a shared-decoy family has the same prefix \(P\) of top decoys. Every clause is then a multiple of \(Q_P\), so hardness of \(B\cup\{Q_P\}\) at \(22k\) defends the family on that event. With threshold \(D_0=20k\), the chosen decoys are non-rigid at \(20k\). conj:random-priority-choice assumes every form is rigid at \(20k\) or non-rigid at \(20k+2\), so the chosen decoys are non-rigid at \(20k+2\). This excludes the band \((20k,20k+2]\), where all top decoys rigid would refute the family. Under that hypothesis the family is defended with probability \(1-o(1)\) whenever some top decoy is non-rigid at \(22k+2\). It is undecided when all top decoys are rigid at \(22k+2\). Strengthening the hypothesis to "rigid at \(20k\) or non-rigid at \(22k+2\)" would make the family defended with probability \(1-o(1)\). The conjecture is left as registered, and this undecided case is recorded as its open edge against decoys.
A usable equivalence. Part 1 lets choice rules be stated by refutability of \(\Delta=0\) instead of rigidity, at a cost of \(p-1\) degrees. Refutability is closer to what a chooser can test.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: mixed blocks on two holes, whose clauses under random priority become implications, "pigeon \(i\) in hole \(t\) forces a prefix pigeon of hole \(t'\) into \(t'\)", rather than deletions. Decide whether the implication system has a low-degree refutation, or reduce it to graph PHP with extra implications and find where expansion arguments break.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:rigid-form-reduction (closure definition, multiplication fact, part-3 identity), lem:rigid-products and conj:random-priority-choice. The rigid-forms entry works only with rigidity, never with refutability of \(\Delta=0\), and the claim search found no other statement of part 1. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed both parts: the multiplied derivation, the Frobenius step, the containment and the converse degrees. It required these changes, all adopted: the undecided set stated with "some factor"; the random-priority consequence corrected, since top decoys whose least rigidity degree lies in \((20k,20k+2]\) are refuted, not undecided, and the conjecture's hypothesis excludes exactly that band; the probability qualifier and the rigid-products reduction cited; the degree floor \(D\ge2\); monotonicity named; \(p\) odd marked as unused; and the title's two-sided gap. The changes correct and weaken statements, so no second pass was made.

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Shifted duplicates: random priority on forms is refuted by copies of hole blocks shifted by row equations, and so is an order modulo the base's linear consequences, so the order must be taken on square classes, as the record's base-invariance lesson requires

26 September 2026 · Refutation of a choice rule, with a refined conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-two-hole-blocks. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Shifted duplicates: random priority on forms is refuted by copies of hole blocks shifted by row equations, and so is an order modulo the base's linear consequences, so the order must be taken on square classes, as the record's base-invariance lesson requires”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-shifted-duplicates.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. conj:random-priority-choice (rigid products) orders the scalar classes of non-rigid forms uniformly at random, and each block takes its top \(k\). The planned attack was mixed blocks on two holes. A simpler attack targets the rule's one arbitrary feature: it ranks forms that the base proves equal as if they were unrelated. Does that defeat it?

General statement. Two claims, prop:shifted-duplicates and conj:square-class-priority.

prop:shifted-duplicates, a refutation. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take two blocks per hole \(t\). The first consists of the forms \(X_{jt}-1\), and the second of \(Y_{jt}=X_{jt}+R_j-2\), with \(R_j=\sum_uX_{ju}\), over all pigeons \(j\). Every form is non-rigid below degree about \(n/2\), and \(Y_{jt}-(X_{jt}-1)=R_j-1\) is a base axiom. Under the random-priority rule of conj:random-priority-choice, with \(m\ge n\) pigeons and \(k=o(\sqrt n)\), the system is refuted at degree about \(2k+3\), below \(22k\), with probability \(1-o(1)\). The \(2n\) blocks are at most \(n^K\). So that conjecture is false. The family is defended by the correlated choice that gives each \(Y\) block the classes matching its \(X\) block's prefix, conditionally on the expansion event of prop:hole-family-random-choice.
conj:square-class-priority. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(D_0=20k\), call forms \(L,L'\) square-equivalent if \(L^2-L'^2\in C_{D_0+1}(B)\). This is an equivalence relation, because \(C_{D_0+1}(B)\) is a subspace. Clauses see a form only through its square, so the relation absorbs scalars, shifts by affine forms of \(C_{D_0}(B)\) (since \((L+\lambda)^2-L^2=\lambda(2L+\lambda)\in C_{D_0+1}(B)\)), and shifts that preserve the square modulo the base. Order the square classes of non-rigid forms uniformly at random. Each block takes as prefix one form from each of its top \(k\) classes, completing with rigid forms. Conjecture: for every family of \(n^K\) blocks in which every form is rigid at \(20k\) or non-rigid at \(22k+2\), W's conclusion holds with probability \(1-o(1)\).
- The hypothesis is strengthened from conj:random-priority-choice's "non-rigid at \(20k+2\)" to "non-rigid at \(22k+2\)". This makes every class all rigid or all non-rigid. By prop:one-block-core it also defends shared decoys, since any such top decoy is non-rigid at \(22k+2\).
- Forms of a block in one class: \((1-L'^2)L^2\equiv L^2-L^4\equiv0\) modulo \(C_{D_0+1}(B)\) by Frobenius, so the extra forms' clauses are trivial there.
- Forms rigid at \(20k\) include those in the zero class. Since \(B\) has no refutation of degree \(D_0\), no nonzero constant is in \(C_{D_0}(B)\).

Proof of the refutation

Shifted clauses reduce like unshifted ones. Write \(Y=X'+\varepsilon\) with \(X'=X_{jt}-1\) and \(\varepsilon=R_j-1\in B\). Then \(Y^2=X'^2+\varepsilon(2X'+\varepsilon)\). A clause \((1-Y_{it}^2)\prod_{j\in S}Y_{jt}^2\) of the second block differs from its \(X\) version by a sum of terms, each a multiple of some \(\varepsilon\) by a polynomial of degree at most \(2k+1\). So the difference lies in \(C_{2k+2}(B)\). As in prop:duplicated-hole-family, the \(X\) version gives the deletion \(x_{it}\) modulo the collision axioms at degree about \(2k+2\). So both blocks at \(t\) delete every pigeon outside their prefix.
Independent prefixes. The \(2nm\) forms are pairwise distinct scalar classes. For \(n\ge2\), \(Y_{jt}=-(X_{jt}-1)+\sum_{u\ne t}X_{ju}\) is not a multiple of \(X_{jt}-1\). Every form is non-rigid, so no block is completed with rigid forms, and the blocks' class sets are pairwise disjoint. So the random order restricted to each block's classes is uniform, independently across the \(2n\) blocks, and the two prefixes at each hole are independent uniform \(k\)-subsets of the pigeons. Pigeon 1 keeps hole \(t\) only if it lies in both, with probability \((k/m)^2\). It keeps some hole with probability at most \(n(k/m)^2\le k^2/n=o(1)\), using \(m\ge n\) and \(k=o(\sqrt n)\). Its row equation then refutes at degree about \(2k+3\).
Non-rigidity. \(X_{jt}-1\) is non-rigid below about \(n/2\) (rigid-forms entry). Since \(Y_{jt}-(X_{jt}-1)\in C_1(B)\), \(1-Y_{jt}^2\) and \(1-(X_{jt}-1)^2\) differ by an element of \(C_2(B)\), and \(C_2(B)\subseteq C_D(B)\) for \(D\ge2\), so \(Y_{jt}\) is non-rigid at exactly the same degrees. At W's \(k\), \(22k+2\) is far below \(n/2\). So both conjectures' hypotheses hold for this family.
The defence. Give the \(Y\) block at \(t\) the prefix \(\{Y_{jt}:X_{jt}-1\in S_t\}\). Each \(Y\)-clause then equals its \(X\)-clause plus explicit multiples of the row axioms \(\varepsilon_j\), of degree at most \(2k+2\). So any multiple \(p\) of a \(Y\)-clause is derivable from \(B\) and the \(X\)-clauses at degree \(\deg p+2k+2\). A degree-\(22k\) refutation of the full system therefore yields one of the \(X\)-only hole family at degree \(22k\), which prop:hole-family-random-choice excludes on its expansion event. \(\square\)

What it means

The record's lesson, twice. obs:collision-padding-refutes-density-rule concluded that a choice rule must be base-invariant up to the substituted degree. Random priority on literal forms is not: the base identifies \(X_{jt}-1\) and \(Y_{jt}\) at degree 1. Ordering modulo the affine forms \(\Lambda\) of \(C_{D_0}(B)\) is not enough either. A fresh-context reviewer found shifts that preserve squares, \(Y_{jt}=X_{jt}-X_{\sigma(j)t}-1\) for a derangement \(\sigma\). With Booleanity and the collision \(x_{jt}x_{\sigma(j)t}=0\), \(Y_{jt}^2\equiv1-x_{jt}\equiv(X_{jt}-1)^2\) at degree 2, so the clauses reduce to the same deletions. But \(Y_{jt}-(X_{jt}-1)=-x_{\sigma(j)t}\) is not in \(\Lambda\), since otherwise the cell would be rigid. So the \(\Lambda\)-rule ranks the two copies independently and is refuted like literal priority, provided \(X_{jt}+X_{\sigma(j)t}-1\notin\Lambda\), which is not checked. Square classes absorb both kinds of shift by construction.
What carries over is open. prop:priority-hole-families and the shared-decoy analysis need distinct cells in distinct square classes. That needs \(x_{jt}-x_{j't'}\notin C_{D_0+1}(B)\) for distinct cells, since \((X-1)^2\equiv1-x\), which holds below the cells' rigidity degree. Whether the square-class order still gives the independence those arguments use is not verified.
Pattern. Every failed rule broke an equivalence the base or the family imposes: rigid fillers, shared forms, base-equal forms, square-equal forms. The square-class rule respects all of these by construction, since clauses depend on forms only through their squares modulo the closure. Whether some other structure of the family defeats it is the open question.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: restate prop:priority-hole-families for the square-class rule. Show that distinct cells lie in distinct square classes below their rigidity degree, and that each block's order is uniform. Then test the rule on the two-hole implication families, whose clauses are implications between holes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:random-priority-choice, prop:duplicated-hole-family, prop:priority-hole-families, prop:hole-family-random-choice, obs:collision-padding-refutes-density-rule and the rigid-forms entry's non-rigidity of cell forms. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the refutation. It found the square-preserving shifts that defeat the \(\Lambda\)-refinement, and required these changes, all adopted: the conjecture restated on square classes; the parameter regime \(m\ge n\), \(k=o(\sqrt n)\); the strengthened hypothesis justified; the rule's well-definedness (zero class, several forms per class, one form per class); exact non-rigidity transfer; the defence's direction and degrees; the independence details; and the carry-over marked open. The restatement replaces a refuted formulation, and the refutation itself only gained its stated regime, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Route review: the reopened chooser line has turned each refutation into an invariance, ending at a square-class priority that is canonical for the base, but a chooser alone does not prove W, and family-induced equivalences and hardness beyond hole families are the open core

26 September 2026 · Route review with small checks · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-square-classes. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the reopened chooser line has turned each refutation into an invariance, ending at a square-class priority that is canonical for the base, but a chooser alone does not prove W, and family-induced equivalences and hardness beyond hole families are the open core”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the killer-moment review sent the route back to A1, six research entries have reopened the chooser line that the chooser-line review had closed:

duplicated hole family;
random priority;
rigid products;
one-block core;
shifted duplicates.

Where does the line stand?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:square-class-priority. A uniformly random order on the square classes of non-rigid forms, \(L\sim L'\) iff \(L^2-L'^2\in C_{20k+1}(B)\), with each block taking its top \(k\) classes, satisfies W's conclusion with probability \(1-o(1)\) for every family whose forms are rigid at \(20k\) or non-rigid at \(22k+2\). The goal needs W for every family. A proof of the conjecture would prove W; a refutation of the rule would not refute W.

Falsification attempt: shifts that agree only at higher degree

The rule identifies forms whose squares agree modulo \(C_{20k+1}(B)\). Could an adversary use copies \(Y\) with \(Y^2-L^2\in C_d(B)\) only for some \(d>20k+1\), so that the rule ranks them independently but the clauses still reduce? A \(Y\)-clause differs from its \(L\)-clause by multiples of \(Y^2-L^2\) by polynomials of degree at most \(2k\), so it reduces modulo \(C_{d+2k}(B)\). A refutation within \(22k\) through this reduction needs \(d\le20k\), and the rule already identifies every \(d\le20k+1\). So shifted copies cannot defeat the square-class rule through the base. The attempt fails, and it locates the remaining exposure: equivalences that hold only modulo other blocks' clauses, which the rigid-forms entry lists as open and a base-only rule cannot see.

Assessment of the line

What it proved.
- Two refutations of rules: prop:duplicated-hole-family and prop:shifted-duplicates.
- The hole-type case of random priority, prop:priority-hole-families, conditional on the recorded expansion event, and for literal forms.
- lem:rigid-products and prop:one-block-core, which decide when one block can refute, up to a degree window.
What it shows. Each refutation broke an equivalence that the base or the family imposes. Each fix made the rule invariant under it. The square-class rule is invariant under every base equivalence visible to the clauses up to the budget, by the falsification attempt above.
What it lacks.
- Invariance under family-induced equivalences, which would make the rule depend on the family's own clauses and so become circular.
- Any hardness mechanism beyond hole-type families. There the recorded graph-PHP expander bound applies; for other blocks the chosen clauses are implications and products, not deletions.
- The carry-over of the hole-type result to square classes.
Qualitative assessment. Productive and well posed: each cycle produced a proof or a refutation, and the rule has converged to a canonical form. But a chooser only reduces W to hardness of the chosen system. That hardness beyond hole families is A1's original difficulty in a sharper form. The line should now test its rule on the first non-hole family that needs a new hardness argument, rather than refine the rule further.

Outside leads

Min-wise independent permutations and consistent sampling (Broder, Charikar, Frieze and Mitzenmacher, J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 2000; Manasse, McSherry and Talwar, 2010), for how random priority correlates overlapping blocks. Under a uniform order, two sets share their minimum with probability equal to their Jaccard similarity. Where it breaks: W's prefixes are top-\(k\) sets, and those agree far less often. Test. Passed (review_checks.json, M1). For blocks of 20 elements the top-1 agreement matched the Jaccard similarity: 0.141, 0.334 and 0.605 against 0.143, 0.333 and 0.600. The top-3 agreement was 0.001, 0.030 and 0.197, roughly the cube. So random priority correlates partially overlapping blocks only weakly for \(k\ge2\). Hole-type families do not care, since a hole keeps the top \(k\) of the union. Other overlapping blocks are the next exposure.
PC lower bounds for graph PHP on expanders (Miksa and Nordström, imported through prop:hole-family-random-choice), extended to PHP with local extra constraints. After the choice, non-hole families give graph PHP plus implications and product constraints, not only deletions. A version of the expander bound tolerating a bounded number of local constraints per hole would be the hardness mechanism the line lacks. Where it breaks: implications between holes create long-range dependencies, as the two-hole analysis found, and can force hole occupancy, which counting refutes. Test. Not run: the imported statement's handling of extra constraints must be read in the source, which the record imported only for pure graph PHP.
The canonical Ramsey theorem (Erdős and Rado, 1950), for family-induced equivalences. Every colouring of pairs is canonical on a large subset: constant, injective, or determined by one coordinate. Applied to the relation "equivalent modulo the other blocks' clauses", it would give a large subfamily on which that relation takes one of a few canonical forms, each of which a rule could respect. Where it breaks: the subfamily is only a fraction of the family, and W needs every block. Test. Not run: no family with a family-induced equivalence has been constructed yet, so there is nothing to colour.

Absurd bridges

Gauge fixing and the Gribov ambiguity (Faddeev–Popov; Gribov, 1978). Translation: forms are fields, base equivalences are gauge transformations, and a choice rule is a gauge condition that must pick consistent representatives. The Gribov ambiguity says a global gauge condition can meet an orbit several times. What a theorem there would give: an obstruction to any global canonical chooser, or its absence. Smallest test: exhibit "Gribov copies", forms in one square class that no linear gauge identifies. Test. Passed (S1). \(X_1-X_2-1\) and \(X_1-1\) have equal squares at every point satisfying Booleanity and \(x_1x_2=0\), yet they are not proportional and differ by a cell, which the base cannot prove zero. This is the square-preserving shift that defeated the linear rule. Square classes are the gauge orbits the rule must respect.
Canonical labelling of molecules (Weininger's canonical SMILES, 1989; McKay's nauty). Translation: a chooser is a canonical labelling of each block's forms, invariant under the equivalences the base imposes, as a canonical SMILES string is invariant under atom renumbering. What a theorem there would give: canonical labellings exist whenever the equivalence is computable. Random priority is a random canonical labelling. Chemistry's lesson is that a labelling is canonical only relative to the declared equivalences, and here the undeclared ones are the family-induced equivalences. Test. Not run: its content is that a labelling must be invariant under an equivalence one can compute, and computing the family-induced equivalence is the open problem, so there is no small case to test yet.

Bridge follow-up

Coset leaders. This review checked whether any current line uses fiber uniformity at free holes. Only the good-column recursion did, and the recursion review judged it weak. No later line returned to it. Follow-up. Closed: its question belongs to a line the route has left, and nothing in the chooser line needs it.
Geminal powers. This review checked its use in the current line. Its concrete content, that \(e_2(\ell)^2=0\) in characteristic 3, is the recorded Frobenius collapse. The killer-moment line it served is paused since the route returned to A1. Follow-up. Closed: it restated a recorded fact, and its line is paused.

Next step

The highest-risk item is A1. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the first non-hole family for the square-class rule: blocks mixing two holes, whose chosen clauses include implications between holes. Either prove hardness of graph PHP plus those implications, on the event that the chosen graph expands, or find the family on which the rule fails. Before that, transfer prop:priority-hole-families to square classes. That needs distinct cells in distinct square classes below their rigidity degree, and uniform orders on disjoint sets of classes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:square-class-priority, prop:shifted-duplicates, prop:priority-hole-families, prop:one-block-core, lem:rigid-products, prop:duplicated-hole-family, the rigid-forms entry's open padding list and the chooser-line review. The degree argument of the falsification attempt uses the multiplication fact only. Both checks are exact or simulated with the stated sample sizes (review_checks.py). This review registers no claim.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	3 min 27.31 s
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Computation design and coding	48.71 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 31.75 s
Individually measured computation	1.85 s
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Square classes on hole families: for \(n\ge44k+6\) distinct cells stay square-inequivalent above W's degree, so square-class priority inherits the hole-type result and defends shifted and square-preserving duplicates by construction

26 September 2026 · Conditional result, on the recorded expansion hypothesis · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-square-hole-transfer. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Square classes on hole families: for \(n\ge44k+6\) distinct cells stay square-inequivalent above W's degree, so square-class priority inherits the hole-type result and defends shifted and square-preserving duplicates by construction”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-square-hole-transfer.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The chooser review asked to transfer prop:priority-hole-families (literal-form priority on hole-type families) to the rule of conj:square-class-priority, before testing non-hole families. The literal rule is refuted by prop:shifted-duplicates. Does the square-class rule defend the hole families, including their shifted copies?

General statement. prop:square-priority-hole-families. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(D_0=20k\) and \(n\ge44k+6\), call a family square-hole-type if every form of every block is square-equivalent, modulo \(C_{20k+1}(B)\), to a cell form \(X_{jt}-1\) of one hole \(t\) per block. Shifted forms such as \(X_{jt}+R_j-2\), with \(R_j=\sum_uX_{ju}\), and \(X_{jt}-X_{\sigma(j)t}-1\) are included. Every such form is non-rigid at \(22k+2\), so the family meets conj:square-class-priority's hypothesis. Order the square classes uniformly at random, and give each block one form from each of its top \(k\) classes. Then a degree-\(22k\) refutation of the base plus the chosen clauses gives a degree-\((22k+1)\) refutation of weak graph PHP on the random graph \(G_S\) of prop:hole-family-random-choice. So W's conclusion holds for the family with probability at least the probability that \(G_S\) satisfies that proposition's expansion hypothesis at degree \(22k+1\).

Proof

Squares of cells. By Booleanity, \((X_{it}-1)^2\equiv1-X_{it}\) in \(C_2(B)\subseteq C_{20k+1}(B)\). So cells \((i,t)\ne(j,u)\) are square-equivalent at \(20k+1\) iff \(X_{it}-X_{ju}\in C_{20k+1}(B)\); the degree-2 identity costs nothing here.
Distinct cells are square-inequivalent. Apply the restriction of the rigid-forms entry: \(X_{it}=1\), \(X_{i't}=0\) for \(i'\ne i\), \(X_{it'}=0\) for \(t'\ne t\). It maps weak PHP with \(m\) pigeons and \(n\) holes to weak PHP with \(m-1\) and \(n-1\), and derivations to derivations of no larger degree. It sends \(X_{it}\mapsto1\). It also sends \(X_{ju}\mapsto0\) when \(j=i\) or \(u=t\). When \(j\ne i\) and \(u\ne t\), additionally place pigeon \(j\) in a third hole \(u'\notin\{t,u\}\) by the same kind of restriction, which sends \(X_{ju}\mapsto0\). The result is complete weak PHP with at least \(n-2\) holes, and \(X_{it}-X_{ju}\mapsto1\). A derivation of \(X_{it}-X_{ju}\) at degree \(d\) becomes a refutation at degree \(d\). By Razborov's bound as used in the rigid-forms entry, \(d\ge(n-2)/2+1>22k+2\) for \(n\ge44k+6\).
Non-rigidity at \(22k+2\). Let \(L\) be square-equivalent to \(X_{jt}-1\) at \(20k+1\) with \(1-L^2\in C_{22k+2}(B)\). Since \(C_{20k+1}(B)\subseteq C_{22k+2}(B)\), \(X_{jt}\equiv1-(X_{jt}-1)^2\in C_{22k+2}(B)\). The restriction \(X_{jt}=1\) of the rigid-forms entry maps a derivation of \(X_{jt}\) to a refutation of weak PHP with \(n-1\) holes at the same degree. So that degree exceeds \((n-1)/2+1>22k+2\), a contradiction.
The included shifts. For \(L=X_{jt}-X_{\sigma(j)t}-1\), write \(a=X_{jt}\) and \(b=X_{\sigma(j)t}\). Then \((a-b-1)^2=a^2+b^2+1-2ab-2a+2b\equiv1-a+3b-2ab\equiv1-a\), by Booleanity, characteristic 3 and the collision \(ab=0\), all at degree 2. For \(L=X_{jt}+R_j-2\), \(L=(X_{jt}-1)+A\) with \(A=R_j-1\in B\), so \(L^2-(X_{jt}-1)^2=A(2(X_{jt}-1)+A)\in C_2(B)\).
Reduction to cell clauses. Let a block at hole \(t\) take prefix \(P\), one form per top class. A clause \((1-L_i^2)\prod_{s\in P}L_s^2\) differs from its cell version by a telescoping sum. Each term contains one difference \(L^2-(X-1)^2\in C_{20k+1}(B)\) times a polynomial of degree at most \(2k\). So the clause lies in \(C_{22k+1}(B\cup\mathcal Z)\), where \(\mathcal Z\) is the set of cell clauses of the same prefixes. \(C_d(B')\) is closed under multiplication by variables while the degree stays at most \(d\). So a degree-\(22k\) derivation from \(B\) and the family's clauses runs inside \(C_{22k+1}(B\cup\mathcal Z)\), and a refutation of the family at degree \(22k\) gives \(1\in C_{22k+1}(B\cup\mathcal Z)\). As in prop:priority-hole-families, the cell clauses are polynomial multiples of the deletions \(X_{it}\), \((i,t)\) outside the prefix.
Repeated classes and small blocks. A block may hold several forms of one class. The rule picks one, and the cell clause is the same whichever it picks. A clause whose excluded form lies in a prefix class is \((1-L'^2)L^2\cdots\equiv(L^2-L^4)\cdots\equiv0\) modulo \(C_{22k+1}(B)\), by Frobenius. So a block with at most \(k\) classes contributes nothing, as blocks with \(|B|\le k\) do in prop:priority-hole-families. The completion by rigid forms is empty on these families.
The order. The square classes of a block's forms at \(t\) are the cells \((j,t)\) of its pigeon set. These are pairwise distinct, and distinct from those at other holes, by the second bullet. The uniform order on classes restricted to each hole's cell classes gives independent uniform orders. Scalar classes and square classes of cells both index cells one-to-one. So survival of the top \(k\) of \(U_t\), the hypergeometric coupling to \(G_S\), and monotonicity under substituting zeros go through verbatim from prop:priority-hole-families. \(\square\)

What it means

The refinement costs one degree on hole families. The square-class rule defends every square-hole-type family on the recorded expansion event, at one degree more. That includes the families of prop:duplicated-hole-family (forms \(X_{jt}-1\) and their multiples) and prop:shifted-duplicates (forms \(X_{jt}-1\) and \(X_{jt}+R_j-2\)), which are entirely square-hole-type with one hole per block and no padding. It also includes the square-preserving shifts, which defeat literal and linear-class priority. Each of those families is now covered by the same rule.
What remains for the rule.
- Non-hole families: blocks mixing holes, or forms not equivalent to cells, whose clauses are implications and products.
- Family-induced equivalences.
- The rigid-forms entry's other open padding.
No new case of W beyond square-hole-type families is proved, and those only conditionally on expansion.

Next: the first non-hole family. Blocks on two holes \(t,t'\) with all cells of both give, under square-class priority, deletions and implications "pigeon \(i\) in \(t\) forces a prefix pigeon into \(t'\)". Decide whether weak graph PHP plus those implications is hard on the expansion event, or whether chains of implications force every hole occupied, which counting modulo 3 refutes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:priority-hole-families (clause step, survival, coupling, monotonicity), conj:square-class-priority, prop:shifted-duplicates, prop:hole-family-random-choice and the rigid-forms entry's non-rigidity argument for cells (restriction and Razborov's bound). A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the restriction argument in every case, independence and the verbatim reuse. It required these changes, all adopted: the exact hypothesis \(n\ge44k+6\); non-rigidity at \(22k+2\), so that the conjecture's hypothesis holds; explicit checks of the two shifts; repeated classes and small blocks; the closure sentence in the reduction; a renamed prefix; family memberships checked; and the title and wording aligned. The additions are proofs of steps already claimed, so no second pass was made.

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Cell blocks give occupancy implications: for any choice, every clause of a block of cell forms says that a pigeon in one hole forces some other hole of the block to be occupied by its prefix pigeons, so W on cell families is hardness of PHP with occupancy implications

26 September 2026 · Working proof, with an analysis of the first non-hole family · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-two-hole-implications. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cell blocks give occupancy implications: for any choice, every clause of a block of cell forms says that a pigeon in one hole forces some other hole of the block to be occupied by its prefix pigeons, so W on cell families is hardness of PHP with occupancy implications”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-cell-block-implications.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. prop:square-priority-hole-families (square hole transfer) settled blocks whose forms are cells of one hole, where the chosen clauses are deletions. The chooser review asked for the first non-hole family, blocks on two holes. What do the chosen clauses of a block of cell forms on several holes say, for any choice?

General statement. prop:cell-block-implications. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let a block consist of forms square-equivalent, modulo \(C_{20k+1}(B)\), to cell forms \(X_{jt}-1\) on holes \(s_1,\dots,s_r\). The hypothesis covers every form of the block, including prefix forms. Let the prefix correspond to the cells \(P=\bigcup_bP_b\), with \(P_b\) the prefix pigeons at \(s_b\), \(|P|\le k\); two prefix forms may be equivalent to one cell. Write \(X_{jt}\) and \(x_{jt}\) for the same Boolean cell variable. Then, modulo \(C_{22k+1}(B)\), the clause of an excluded cell \((i,s_a)\) is equivalent in both directions to the occupancy implication \[ I_{i,s_a}=x_{is_a}\prod_{b\ne a,\ P_b\ne\varnothing}\Bigl(1-\sum_{j\in P_b}x_{js_b}\Bigr), \] "pigeon \(i\) in \(s_a\) forces some other hole \(s_b\) of the block to hold one of its prefix pigeons". When no other hole has prefix pigeons, this is the deletion \(x_{is_a}\). An excluded form equivalent to a prefix cell gives a clause in \(C_{22k+1}(B)\), which is trivial. The weak base has no row exclusions, so if \(i\in P_b\) the implication can be met by \(i\) itself sitting in \(s_b\). Consequently, for families of cell blocks and any choice: a degree-\(22k\) refutation of the base plus the chosen clauses gives a degree-\((22k+1)\) refutation of weak unary PHP plus the implications. Conversely, a degree-\(22k\) refutation of the latter gives a degree-\((22k+1)\) refutation of the former.

Proof

From forms to cells. As in prop:square-priority-hole-families, replacing each form by its cell form changes a clause by an element of \(C_{22k+1}(B)\), and \((X-1)^2\equiv1-x\), \(1-(X-1)^2\equiv x\) at degree 2. Since \(1-(X-1)^2=1-(1-x)^2=x(2-x)\equiv x\) by Booleanity, the clause is \(x_{is_a}\prod_{(j,u)\in P}(1-x_{ju})\) modulo \(C_{22k+1}(B)\).
The excluded cell's own hole. For \(j\in P_a\), \(j\ne i\), the collision \(x_{is_a}x_{js_a}\in B\) gives \(x_{is_a}(1-x_{js_a})\equiv x_{is_a}\), so the factors at \(s_a\) drop at degree at most \(2k+2\). Here \(i\notin P_a\), since \((i,s_a)\) is excluded.
Other holes. For \(b\ne a\), \(\prod_{j\in P_b}(1-x_{js_b})\equiv1-\sum_{j\in P_b}x_{js_b}\) modulo the collisions at \(s_b\). The products of two or more distinct cells of one hole vanish. Every step is an identity modulo \(B\) at degree at most \(2k+2\), so the equivalence holds in both directions. \(\square\)

The first non-hole family, under square-class priority

The family. Hole blocks \(H_s=\{X_{js}-1:j\}\) for every hole, and singleton-plus-hole blocks \(B_{i,s,t'}=\{X_{is}-1\}\cup\{X_{jt'}-1:j\}\) for all \(i\), \(s\ne t'\). This is polynomially many blocks, all of cell forms.
The chosen clauses. Let \(T_u\) be the top \(k\) cells of hole \(u\). The hole blocks delete everything outside \(T_s\) at each \(s\). Call \((i,s)\) exceptional for \(t'\) if it ranks above the \(k\)-th cell of \(t'\), whether or not \(i\in T_s\). Then \(B_{i,s,t'}\) has prefix \(\{(i,s)\}\) plus the top \(k-1\) of \(t'\), and its clause for the \(k\)-th cell \((j_k,t')\) is \(x_{j_kt'}(1-x_{is})\). When \((i,s)\) is deleted, this deletes \(x_{j_kt'}\). For a typical \(t'\), some cell of another hole outranks \(t'\)'s \(k\)-th cell. So almost every hole keeps only its top \(k-1\) cells, and the kept graph has hole neighbourhoods \(T_s^{-}\), the top \(k-1\) of \(s\), for most holes. The implication "\(j_k\) in \(t'\) forces \(i\) into \(s\)" is then vacuous there. For a non-exceptional \((i,s)\) with \(i\in T_s\), the prefix is \(T_{t'}\), and the clause is "\(i\) in \(s\) forces \(t'\) occupied by \(T_{t'}\)". The system is weak graph PHP on these neighbourhoods plus these implications. The expansion event needed is that of prop:hole-family-random-choice with \(k-1\) in place of \(k\).
When counting would refute (heuristic). Hole \(t'\) is derivably occupied if some pigeon \(i\) has all its allowed cells non-exceptional for \(t'\). Then its linear row equation \(\sum_sx_{is}=1\), times \(1-\mathrm{occ}(t')\), derives it. So \(t'\) is forced when the rank of its \(k\)-th cell is below \(R^*=\max_i\min\{\mathrm{rank}(i,s):(i,s)\text{ allowed}\}\), of order \(m\ln m\). A typical \(k\)-th-cell rank is of order \(kn\). If every hole were forced, the rows would give \(\sum_t\mathrm{occ}(t)\equiv m\) and the holes \(n\), which refutes when \(m\not\equiv n\pmod3\). For \(k\) at most about \(\ln n\), most or all holes are forced, and the chosen system is likely refuted this way. For W's \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), a hole is forced only when its \(k\)-th cell ranks several standard deviations high. So few holes are forced, and the counting constrains only the unforced holes' total occupancy modulo 3, which is satisfiable. This is an estimate, not a proof of hardness, and it shows that the rule's success here depends on \(k\) exceeding about \(\ln n\).
Contrast with literal priority (sketch). With literal forms, write the hole blocks in the shifted forms of prop:shifted-duplicates. The \(B\)-blocks' prefix \(T'_{t'}\) at \(t'\) is then independent of the kept set \(T_{t'}\), and usually disjoint from it. The non-exceptional clause \(x_{is}\prod_{j\in T'_{t'}}(1-x_{jt'})\) reduces, modulo the deletions at \(t'\), to the deletion \(x_{is}\). So almost every allowed cell is deleted directly, as in prop:shifted-duplicates, with no counting needed. Square classes remove that decorrelation.

What it means

A combinatorial core for A1 on cell families. Any choice rule turns a family of cell blocks into weak PHP plus occupancy implications. Hole blocks give deletions, and multi-hole blocks give implications into other holes. A rule is good when the implications it creates do not force enough holes occupied to count, and when the remaining system is hard. The latter is a PHP variant between graph PHP and onto PHP.
What is open.
- Hardness of weak graph PHP plus occupancy implications on the expansion event: no recorded bound covers it.
- The forcing estimate made precise, including the regime \(k\gtrsim\ln n\).
- Blocks with forms that are not equivalent to cells.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: search the record and the literature for PC lower bounds for PHP variants with conditional occupancy constraints: partial onto-PHP, PHP with hole-occupancy implications, and the relativized PHP. Then state the hardness conjecture for PHP with implications whose forcing closure leaves many holes unforced, and test it against the counting obstruction.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:square-priority-hole-families (reduction to cells), prop:priority-hole-families (clause step), prop:shifted-duplicates and conj:square-class-priority. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the proposition: the collisions it uses are column collisions only, and it holds for empty \(P_b\) and when pigeon \(i\) lies in another prefix. It required these changes, all adopted: \(|P|\le k\), trivial clauses and the hypothesis on all forms; the case \(i\in P_b\); the degree accounting as two one-directional bounds; the missed exceptional deletions, which reduce most holes to their top \(k-1\) cells; the forcing estimate with its regime and the counting hypotheses \(m\not\equiv n\), linear rows; and the literal contrast recast as a labelled sketch of the direct-deletion mechanism. The changes correct the family analysis and weaken its claims, so no second pass was made.

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Antecedent deletion: a partial matching that fills some consequent holes, together with deleting the remaining antecedent cells, restricts PHP with occupancy implications to plain graph PHP, so W on cell families reduces to expansion of a residual graph

26 September 2026 · Working proof, with a heuristic application · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-occupancy-php. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Antecedent deletion: a partial matching that fills some consequent holes, together with deleting the remaining antecedent cells, restricts PHP with occupancy implications to plain graph PHP, so W on cell families reduces to expansion of a residual graph”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-antecedent-deletion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. prop:cell-block-implications (cell-block implications) reduced W on families of cell blocks to hardness of weak unary PHP plus occupancy implications. No recorded bound covers such systems; the record knows only that onto-type constraints on every hole are refuted by counting. How can hardness of graph PHP, the one recorded mechanism (imp:MN-functional-graph-degree), be brought to bear?

General statement. prop:antecedent-deletion. Over any field, let \(\mathcal S\) be weak unary PHP with \(m\) pigeons and \(n\) holes, plus implications \(I=x_c\prod_b\bigl(1-\sum_{j\in P_b}x_{js_b}\bigr)\). Here \(c\) is a cell, and the \(P_b\) are pigeon sets at holes \(s_b\); an empty product makes \(I\) a deletion. Let \(\rho\) be a partial matching and \(D\) a set of cells containing no cell of \(\rho\). Suppose every implication either has its antecedent \(c\) in \(D\), or has \(c\) in a row or column of \(\rho\) without being a cell of \(\rho\), or has some \(b\) with \(\rho\)'s pigeon at \(s_b\) in \(P_b\). Let \(G'\) be the bipartite graph of cells outside \(D\) on the pigeons and holes not used by \(\rho\). Then a degree-\(d\) PC refutation of \(\mathcal S\) gives a degree-\(d\) refutation of weak graph PHP on \(G'\), with \(m-|\rho|\) pigeons and \(n-|\rho|\) holes; the surplus \(m-n\) is unchanged. This restriction lemma holds over any field. Consequence, over \(\mathbb F_3\) in the setting of prop:cell-block-implications (forms square-equivalent to cell forms, \(|P|\le k\)): for a family of cell blocks and a choice, W's conclusion holds whenever some admissible \((\rho,D)\) leaves a \(G'\) that is an \((s,\delta)\)-boundary expander of maximum left degree \(d'\le22k+1\) with \(\delta s/(2d')\ge22k+1\). The degree chain is as follows. A refutation of the family at W's degree \(22k=(4p-1)(p-1)k\) gives one of the implication system at \(22k+1\), by prop:cell-block-implications, and the restriction keeps that degree. imp:MN-functional-graph-degree makes every refutation of graph PHP on \(G'\) exceed degree \(\delta s/(2d')\), and transfers to linear rows at ceilings at least \(d'\). Functional graph PHP has more axioms than weak graph PHP, so its lower bound applies to the weak system.

Proof

The restriction. Set the cells of \(\rho\) to 1, every other cell in a row or column of \(\rho\) to 0, and the cells of \(D\) to 0. The row equation of a pigeon of \(\rho\) becomes \(1=1\). The row equation of any other pigeon becomes its row equation on \(G'\). Collisions and Booleanity map to collisions and Booleanity, or to 0.
Implications vanish. If the antecedent \(c\) is in \(D\), or in a row or column of \(\rho\) without being a cell of \(\rho\), then \(x_c\mapsto0\). Otherwise, by hypothesis, some \(b\) has \(\rho\)'s pigeon \(j\) at \(s_b\) with \(j\in P_b\). Then \(x_{js_b}\mapsto1\), and the other cells of \(P_b\) at \(s_b\) share the column with it, so they map to 0. So \(1-\sum_{j\in P_b}x_{js_b}\mapsto0\).
Degrees. Substituting constants turns a PC derivation into one of no larger degree. The images of the axioms are axioms of weak graph PHP on \(G'\), or 0. Since \((m-|\rho|)-(n-|\rho|)=m-n\ge1\), the target is again a pigeonhole system. A row emptied by the restriction becomes \(0=1\), which is harmless. The consequence follows from prop:cell-block-implications and imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, which transfers to linear rows. \(\square\)

Application to the singleton-plus-hole family (heuristic)

The choice of \((\rho,D)\). In the family of the cell-block entry, under square-class priority, the implications are of two kinds. The first is "\(i\) in \(s\) forces \(t'\) occupied by \(T_{t'}\)", for cells \((i,s)\) below the \(k\)-th cell of \(t'\). The second is "the \(k\)-th pigeon of \(t'\) forces \(i\) into \(s\)". Let \(\rho\) fill the \(f\) holes \(t'\) whose \(k\)-th cells rank best, each by a pigeon of \(T_{t'}\) other than its \(k\)-th pigeon. Otherwise that \(k\)-th cell would be a cell of \(\rho\), and its implication would survive. Such a \(\rho\) exists when these top \(k-1\) sets admit a matching of the \(f\) holes, which is likely for small \(f\) but not shown. Let \(D\) contain every antecedent cell none of whose consequent holes is filled, and the \(k\)-th cells of the unfilled holes.
What survives. A kept cell \((i,s)\) must rank above \(\theta^*\), the best \(k\)-th cell among the \(n-f\) unfilled holes. That is a lower-tail minimum, about \(kn-\sqrt{2k\ln(n/f)}\,n\) in rank. At each unfilled hole, the kept cells are its top cells above \(\theta^*\), about \(k-\Theta(\sqrt{k\log(n/f)})\) of them. So the residual graph has near-random neighbourhoods of that size only when \(k\gg\log n\). For \(k\lesssim\log n\) it keeps almost nothing, which matches the counting refutation found for \(k\) near \(\ln n\).
What is not shown. The kept sets are not independent uniform sets, since \(\theta^*\) depends on all holes. The estimate is heuristic, and the existence of \(\rho\) is not proved.

What it means

A restriction bridge from implications to graph PHP. The lemma is a standard restriction argument and gives no new lower bound. It always applies trivially, with \(D\) all antecedents, so all its content is in the expansion of the residual graph. For families covered by prop:cell-block-implications, W holds for a choice whenever some admissible \((\rho,D)\) leaves an expanding \(G'\). The chooser's task becomes making the implications cheap to kill: few antecedents to delete, or consequents that a small matching fills.
What is open.
- A rigorous residual-expansion estimate for the singleton family.
- General families of cell blocks, where antecedents and consequents interlock.
- Blocks with forms not equivalent to cells.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: make the singleton-family estimate rigorous. Condition on the order restricted to each hole, bound \(\theta^*\) by a union bound, and show that the kept sets contain independent uniform \((k-c\sqrt{k\log n})\)-subsets by the hypergeometric coupling of prop:priority-hole-families. That gives a conditional theorem on the recorded expansion event.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:cell-block-implications, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree and prop:hole-family-random-choice. The record's search found only the remark that onto constraints on every hole are refuted by counting. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the restriction on every axiom type and every implication case, including an antecedent in \(\rho\) and consequent holes filled by other pigeons. It required these changes, all adopted: \(D\cap\rho=\varnothing\); the surplus \(m-n\); the consequence's setting, degree chain, \(d'\le22k+1\) and \(\ge\) in place of \(>\); the deletion rule for implications with several consequents; \(\rho\) avoiding \(k\)-th cells; the corrected lower-tail estimate of \(\theta^*\) and the regime \(k\gg\log n\); and the claims about what the bridge gives. The changes correct and weaken statements, so no second pass was made.

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Family-induced shifts: forms that only the family's own deletions make equal refute square-class priority, the Gribov obstruction the chooser review anticipated; the choices that plausibly defend correlate across blocks

26 September 2026 · Refutation of a choice rule · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-singleton-residual. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Family-induced shifts: forms that only the family's own deletions make equal refute square-class priority, the Gribov obstruction the chooser review anticipated; the choices that plausibly defend correlate across blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-family-induced-shifts.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. This entry develops the Gribov bridge of the chooser review. In gauge theory, a gauge condition that fixes local redundancies can still fail to pick one representative per orbit globally. The review named the analogue as the square-class rule's blind spot: forms that are equal only modulo other blocks' clauses. Can such forms refute conj:square-class-priority, and does W survive them? The planned residual estimate for the singleton family is deferred: this attack decides the rule first.

General statement. prop:family-induced-shifts. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(m\ge n\ge44k+6\) and \(k=o(n^{1/3})\), fix a map \(u\) on the holes with \(u(t)\ne t\) and no 2-cycles, for example \(u(t)=t+1\) modulo \(n\), \(n\ge3\). For each hole \(t\) take the hole block \(H_t=\{X_{jt}-1:j\}\) and the block \(H'_t=\{Z_{jt}=X_{jt}-1+X_{ju(t)}:j\}\). Every form is non-rigid at \(22k+2\). Under the square-class priority of conj:square-class-priority, the system has a PC refutation of degree about \(4k+4\) with probability \(1-o(1)\). W's \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\) is \(o(n^{1/3})\), so that conjecture is false in its own range.

Proof

Classes and non-rigidity. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) with Booleanity, \(1-Z_{jt}^2\equiv x_{jt}+x_{ju}+x_{jt}x_{ju}\), with \(u=u(t)\): the indicator that pigeon \(j\) is in exactly one of \(t\) and \(u\). Placing \(j\) in \(t\) by the rigid-forms restriction maps it to 1. So a derivation of \(1-Z^2\) would refute a smaller PHP, and \(Z_{jt}\) is non-rigid at \(22k+2\) for \(n\ge44k+6\). Square classes are separated pair by pair, by restrictions.
- \(Z_{jt}\) from \(X_{jt}-1\): their squares differ by \(-x_{ju}-x_{jt}x_{ju}\). Placing \(j\) in \(u\) maps the difference to \(-1\).
- \(Z_{jt}\) from other cells, and \(Z_{jt}\) from \(Z_{j't'}\): placing \(j\) in \(t\), or \(j'\) elsewhere, maps the difference of squares to a nonzero constant.
Since \(u\) has no 2-cycles, \(Z_{jt}\ne Z_{ju(t)}\). So the classes of all \(H_t\) and \(H'_t\) are pairwise disjoint. The order restricted to them gives independent uniform prefixes: \(T_t\) for \(H_t\) and \(T'_t\) for \(H'_t\).
Deletions. As in prop:priority-hole-families, \(H_t\) derives \(x_{it}=0\) for \(i\notin T_t\) at degree about \(2k+2\). In particular \(x_{ju(t)}=0\) for \(j\notin T_{u(t)}\).
The shifted blocks reduce. If \(i\notin T_{u(t)}\) and \(T'_t\cap T_{u(t)}=\varnothing\), then modulo those deletions every \(Z\) in the clause \((1-Z_{it}^2)\prod_{j\in T'_t}Z_{jt}^2\) equals its cell form \(X_{\cdot t}-1\). The difference is a sum of multiples of the derived \(x_{ju(t)}\) by polynomials of degree at most \(2k+2\), so it lies in the closure at degree at most \(4k+4\). The clause then reduces, as a hole clause, to the deletion \(x_{it}\). The condition \(i\notin T_{u(t)}\) is needed for the excluded pigeon itself. Otherwise \(x_{iu(t)}\) is not deleted, and the clause becomes \(x_{iu}\prod(1-x_{jt})\), an implication rather than a deletion.
Pigeon 1. Pigeon 1 survives at \(t\) only if \(1\in T_t\), and \(1\in T'_t\), or \(1\in T_{u(t)}\), or \(T'_t\cap T_{u(t)}\ne\varnothing\). The prefixes \(T_t\), \(T'_t\), \(T_{u(t)}\) are independent uniform \(k\)-sets, since \(u(t)\ne t\). So this has probability at most \((k/m)(2k/m+k^2/m)\). Over the \(n\) holes it is at most \(k^2(k+2)/n=o(1)\). Pigeon 1's row equation then gives \(0=1\) at degree at most \(4k+4\), below \(22k\). \(\square\)

Does W survive? (partial analysis)

A caveat on citations. The \(Z\)-forms are not square-equivalent to cells modulo \(C_{20k+1}(B)\). So prop:cell-block-implications, and the cell-block consequence of prop:antecedent-deletion, do not apply directly. The equivalence of the chosen system with weak PHP plus deletions plus implications must be re-derived from the family's derived deletions, in both directions, with its degree cost. Below, only the any-field restriction part of antecedent deletion is used.
The natural correlated choice. Give \(H'_t\) the \(Z\)-forms of \(T_t\). A clause of an excluded \(i\notin T_t\) is \((1-Z_{it}^2)\prod_{j\in T_t}Z_{jt}^2\). Modulo \(x_{it}=0\) it is \(x_{iu}\prod_jZ_{jt}^2\). Here \(Z_{jt}=0\) exactly when pigeon \(j\) is in exactly one of \(t\) and \(u\), and \(j\) cannot share \(u\) with \(i\). So the clause says "\(i\) in \(u(t)\) forces \(t\) occupied by \(T_t\)", an occupancy implication.
Counting through chains. Let \(u(t)=t+1\). Where \(T_t\cap T_{t+1}=\varnothing\), the implications give \((1-\mathrm{occ}(t))\mathrm{occ}(t+1)=0\). Along a run of such holes they compose at bounded degree into \((1-\mathrm{occ}(t))\mathrm{occ}(t')=0\). If the whole cycle has no overlaps, all occupancies are equal. Pigeon 1's row, with \(x_{1t}=x_{1t}\mathrm{occ}(t)\), makes them 1, and counting gives \(m=n\) in \(\mathbb F_3\). That refutes at low degree when \(m\not\equiv n\pmod3\). When \(m\equiv n\), an onto-PHP-type system is left, which is not refuted at low degree. With random prefixes the cycle has about \(nk^2/m\) overlapping steps. There the chains break, the occupied holes of each arc form an initial segment, and heuristically the counting modulo 3 is satisfiable.
A chooser that plants overlaps (sketch). Take \(n\) even, a bijection \(\pi\), and prefixes \(T_t\supseteq\{\pi(t),\pi(t+1)\}\) with \(k-2\) further random pigeons. Every step then overlaps. Let \(\rho\) match only the even holes \(t\) to \(\pi(t+1)\in T_t\cap T_{t+1}\). The implications at an even \(t\) then have their consequent filled. Those at an odd \(t\) have their antecedent in column \(t+1\) of \(\rho\). The \(\rho\) cell itself is not an antecedent there, because \(\pi(t+2)\in T_{t+1}\). The residual graph is the odd holes, with about \(k-2\) random neighbours each, which could expand. With the restriction part of prop:antecedent-deletion, this would make the family hard for this choice on an expansion event. Not proved: the deletions and implications must be re-derived for the \(Z\)-forms, and the residual's expansion is not shown.

What it means

The Gribov obstruction, concretely. A choice rule that is invariant under the base's equivalences can still separate forms that the family's own clauses identify. Uniform square-class priority does this and is refuted. The choices that plausibly defend here correlate across blocks through the family's derived deletions. Whether every successful chooser must see family-induced equivalences is not shown. A fixed-point chooser, which chooses, computes the induced equivalences and chooses again, is a candidate.
W is not refuted. On this family a chooser that plants overlaps plausibly defends, with hardness via prop:antecedent-deletion on an expansion event, not yet proved.
No new case of W is proved.

Next: a route review is due. It should place the chooser line on the open statements now that uniform square-class priority is refuted, decide whether to pursue a fixed-point chooser or return to hardness mechanisms, and follow up this bridge.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:square-class-priority, prop:priority-hole-families, prop:square-priority-hole-families, prop:cell-block-implications, prop:antecedent-deletion and the rigid-forms restriction. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the square computation, the independence and the probability bound. It required these changes, all adopted: separating restrictions pair by pair, and no 2-cycles in \(u\); the hypotheses \(n\ge44k+6\) and W's \(k\) in range; the degree as an upper bound, with the role of \(i\notin T_{u(t)}\); the counting condition \(m\not\equiv n\pmod3\) and the overlap count \(nk^2/m\); the planted chooser rewritten with a half matching, since a full matching leaves an empty residual; the citations restricted to what applies to \(Z\)-forms; and the overclaims weakened. The changes correct and weaken the partial analysis, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: every uniform chooser has fallen to a family that a correlated choice defends, the restriction route to hardness gives trivial residuals on dense cell families, and the pigeon-locality of the reduced constraints reopens the classical expansion methods

26 September 2026 · Route review with a simulation · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-chooser-review-2. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: every uniform chooser has fallen to a family that a correlated choice defends, the restriction route to hardness gives trivial residuals on dense cell families, and the pigeon-locality of the reduced constraints reopens the classical expansion methods”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review-2.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the chooser review, five research entries have appeared:

square hole transfer;
cell-block implications;
antecedent deletion;
family-induced shifts;
and the shifted duplicates before them.

Uniform square-class priority is refuted. Where does the chooser line stand, and what should replace it?

General statement. The line's working claim is now a two-part reduction for families of cell blocks, forms square-equivalent to cells. First, prop:cell-block-implications turns any choice into weak PHP plus pigeon-local occupancy implications. Second, a hardness mechanism for such systems would give W, for a choice that keeps the system hard. prop:antecedent-deletion is one such mechanism, by restriction to graph PHP. The goal needs W for all families, including forms that are not cells.

Falsification attempt: dense two-hole families against the restriction route

Take the hole blocks plus a block of all cells of every pair of holes. For any choice, each pair block gives implications "\(i\) in \(s\) forces \(t\) occupied by \(P_t\)", or deletions when \(P_t=\varnothing\). For prop:antecedent-deletion to leave a residual, the implications into every unfilled hole must have their antecedents deleted. Consider choices that take each pair's prefix from one hole, an orientation of the pairs. Then for every two unfilled holes, one loses its cells. So at most one unfilled hole keeps its cells, and the residual is trivial. Mixed prefixes give implications in both directions and the same outcome. The attempt does not refute W: a choice consistent with one near-solution satisfies every pair clause except at the unplaced pigeon. But it shows that restriction to graph PHP cannot certify hardness for dense multi-hole cell families.

Assessment of the line

What it proved.
- The hole-type theorems, conditional on expansion: prop:priority-hole-families and prop:square-priority-hole-families.
- prop:cell-block-implications, prop:antecedent-deletion, lem:rigid-products and prop:one-block-core.
- Four refutations of rules: prop:duplicated-hole-family, prop:shifted-duplicates, prop:family-induced-shifts, and the \(\Lambda\)-version.
The pattern. Every uniform chooser fell to a family built to decouple blocks the family itself ties together. Every such family was defended by a correlated choice. W's existential choice adapts to the family, and no fixed rule has matched that. The search for a rule has become a sequence of counterexamples.
What it lacks. A hardness mechanism for PHP with occupancy implications beyond restriction. The falsification attempt shows restriction fails on dense multi-hole families.
What it found. After the cell reduction, every chosen constraint involves pigeon \(i\) and at most \(k\) prefix pigeons, so it is pigeon-local. The literature review set the classical expansion methods aside because dense forms depend on many pigeons. For cell families that objection is gone.
Qualitative assessment. The rule search should stop. The line's value is the reduction of cell families to pigeon-local constraint systems, and its next step is a direct expansion argument for those systems.

Outside leads

Miksa and Nordström's generalized method for PC degree lower bounds (CCC 2015), for hardness of PHP with occupancy implications. It proves degree lower bounds for any system whose constraints are satisfiable locally and whose constraint–variable graph expands. Where it breaks: the implications tie holes together, so local satisfiability must be checked for partial matchings, and expansion must hold for the chosen implication hypergraph. Test. Passed on its first hypothesis: by prop:cell-block-implications, each reduced constraint involves at most \(k+1\) pigeons. The expansion hypothesis is untested.
Alekhnovich and Razborov, lower bounds for polynomial calculus in the non-binomial case, for the same target. Their method needs boundary expansion of the constraint–variable graph. Where it breaks: many implications can share one pigeon support, which kills unique neighbours unless constraints with equal support are merged. Test. Not run: it needs a fixed chooser's implication hypergraph, and the rule search is being stopped. The test belongs to the next step's construction.
Counting principles modulo \(p\) (Beame and Riis, 1998), for the counting refutations that forced holes allow. Forcing every hole occupied turns the system into an onto-PHP, refuted by counting modulo 3 when \(m\not\equiv n\). Where it breaks: it needs almost all holes forced. Test. Passed (forced_holes.json). In the singleton-plus-hole family under a uniform order, the forced fraction was 0.96, 0.81, 0.44, 0.17, 0.05 and 0.00 for \(k=2,4,6,8,10,16\) at \(n=200\). At \(n=800\) it was 0.99 at \(k=2\) and 0.045 at \(k=12\). Pigeons without kept cells vanish near \(k\approx\ln n\). So counting threatens only below roughly \(2\ln n\), which W's \(k\) exceeds.

Absurd bridges

Epidemic thresholds and directed percolation (Kermack–McKendrick; Broadbent and Hammersley). Translation: occupancy implications form a directed graph on holes. Forcing is an outbreak from the holes a single pigeon's row infects. Counting refutes when the outbreak is global. What a theorem there would give: a sharp threshold in \(k\) for global forcing, with the reproduction number falling as prefixes grow. Test. Passed. The simulation above shows a sharp drop of the forced fraction, whose location moves from \(k\approx6\) to \(k\approx10\)–\(12\) as \(n\) grows from 200 to 800, consistent with a threshold near \(c\ln n\).
Yao's minimax principle (von Neumann's minimax for zero-sum games). Translation: W is a game in which the adversary picks a family and the chooser picks prefixes. A randomized chooser that defends every family with probability \(1-o(1)\) exists if and only if, for every distribution over families, some deterministic choice defends with that probability. What a theorem there would give: the refutations so far show that specific randomized choosers lose. Minimax says the right target is the dual: for every distribution of families, a family-dependent choice. That is what W already asserts, and it explains why every rule fell while W stood. Test. Not run: there is no finite formulation of the game at W's parameters, since refutability at degree \(22k\) cannot be decided at reachable sizes.

Bridge follow-up

Gauge fixing and the Gribov ambiguity. This cycle's predecessor developed it. Its Gribov copies, forms identified only by other blocks' deletions, gave prop:family-induced-shifts, which refutes uniform square-class priority. Follow-up. Closed: developed into that refutation. Its remaining question, whether a chooser must see family-induced equivalences, is answered for the route by the minimax bridge above: W's choice is family-dependent, and the rule search stops.

Next step

The highest-risk item is A1. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is a direct hardness theorem for weak graph PHP plus pigeon-local occupancy implications. It would follow the Miksa–Nordström generalized method. Define the constraint–pigeon hypergraph of a chosen cell family, state its boundary-expansion condition, and check local satisfiability by partial matchings. Then prove the degree lower bound. The planted-overlap choice of prop:family-induced-shifts and the singleton-plus-hole family are the first test cases.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:cell-block-implications, prop:antecedent-deletion, prop:family-induced-shifts, prop:square-priority-hole-families, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree and the literature review's objection to the classical methods. The simulation follows the forcing criterion of the cell-block entry (forced_holes.py). All numbers were read from the saved JSON. This review registers no claim.

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Total instrumented interval	4 min 47.08 s
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Computation design and coding	51.49 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 38.08 s
Individually measured computation	3.16 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Cell families satisfy W: a common random matching and a random expander, used as prefixes block by block, reduce every family of cell blocks to graph PHP on an expander

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported bounds · open statement A1, cell families · cycle odd-prime-implication-hardness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cell families satisfy W: a common random matching and a random expander, used as prefixes block by block, reduce every family of cell blocks to graph PHP on an expander”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-cell-family-theorem.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The second chooser review proposed a direct hardness theorem for weak PHP plus occupancy implications. Its reason was a falsification paragraph claiming that restriction to graph PHP (prop:antecedent-deletion) cannot certify dense two-hole cell families. Before building a new method, is that claim right? Does some choice make every implication of every cell block disappear under one restriction?

General statement. thm:cell-family-w. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), in W's setting with \(m=n+1\) pigeons, let every form of every block be square-equivalent modulo \(C_{20k+1}(B)\) to a cell form \(X_{jt}-1\), the hypothesis of prop:cell-block-implications. Let \(M\le n^K\) and \(c(K+1)\ln n\le k\le C(K+1)\ln n\) for fixed \(0<c\le C\). Then for \(n\ge n_0(c,C,K)\) some choice of prefixes leaves weak unary PHP plus the chosen clauses with no PC refutation of degree \(22k\). W holds for every family of cell blocks. In particular W's own \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\ln n\) is covered.

The choice

Let \(\varepsilon=n^{-1/2}\), \(h=\lceil\varepsilon n\rceil\) and \(d=5\). Pick independently:

\(H\), a uniformly random set of \(h\) holes;
\(\pi\), a uniformly random injection from holes to pigeons.

Set \(\rho=\{(\pi(t),t):t\notin H\}\), a partial matching. Let \(R\) be the \(r=h+1\) pigeons that \(\rho\) does not use. Then let each pigeon of \(R\) choose a uniformly random \(d\)-subset of \(H\), independently of the other pigeons; these cells form the graph \(G'\subseteq R\times H\). For a block, let \(C\) be the set of cells its forms are equivalent to.

If \(C\) contains a cell of \(\rho\), the prefix contains a form equivalent to one \(\rho\)-cell of \(C\), and to a second one when \(C\) has at least two.
Otherwise the prefix contains a form equivalent to each cell of \(C\cap G'\). This needs \(|C\cap G'|\le k\); when it fails, the block fails.

Pad each prefix to \(\min(k,h_b)\) forms arbitrarily. Blocks with \(h_b\le k\) have no clauses.

Step 1: without failed blocks, one restriction kills every implication

Lemma (killing). If no block fails, then with \(D=(R\times H)\setminus G'\) every implication of prop:cell-block-implications meets the hypothesis of prop:antecedent-deletion.

Proof. Take a block and an excluded cell \(c\), with its implication \(x_c\prod_b\bigl(1-\sum_{j\in P_b}x_{js_b}\bigr)\) over the prefix holes \(s_b\ne\) the hole of \(c\). Three cases cover every cell.

\(c\) lies in a row or column of \(\rho\) and is not a \(\rho\)-cell. Allowed as it stands.
\(c\) is a \(\rho\)-cell. If \(c\) is a prefix cell, the clause is trivial by prop:cell-block-implications. Otherwise \(C\) has at least two \(\rho\)-cells, and the prefix holds two. Both lie at holes other than the hole of \(c\), since \(\rho\) is a matching. Take one, \((j,t)\): then \(j\in P_t\) and \(\rho\) fills \(t\) with \(j\).
\(c\in R\times H\). If \(C\) meets \(\rho\), the prefix \(\rho\)-cell \((j,t)\) has \(t\notin H\), so \(t\) differs from the hole of \(c\), and \(\rho\) fills \(t\) with \(j\in P_t\). If \(C\) avoids \(\rho\), then \(C\cap G'\) lies in the prefix, so \(c\notin G'\) and \(c\in D\).

The cells of \(R\times H^c\) lie in columns of \(\rho\), and all other cells lie in rows of \(\rho\). So the cases are exhaustive. \(\square\)

By prop:antecedent-deletion the residual system is weak graph PHP on \(G'\), with \(h+1\) pigeons and \(h\) holes. The holes of \(\rho\) are filled, and no pigeon outside \(R\) is left, so no row becomes empty.

Step 2: the residual graph expands

Lemma (expansion). Let \(s=10(22k+1)\). With probability at least \(1-1100s/h\), every set \(U\subseteq R\) with \(|U|\le s\) has \(|\partial U|\ge|U|\) in \(G'\). Here \(\partial U\) is the set of holes with exactly one neighbour in \(U\).

Proof. Counting the \(5|U|\) edges gives \(|\partial U|\ge2|N(U)|-5|U|\), so it suffices that \(|N(U)|\ge3|U|\). For \(|U|=u\), the event \(|N(U)|<3u\) puts all of \(U\)'s cells inside some set of \(3u\) holes. A row lands there with probability \(\binom{3u}5/\binom h5\le(3u/h)^5\). The union bound over \(U\) and the hole set gives

\[\binom ru\binom h{3u}\Bigl(\frac{3u}h\Bigr)^{5u}\le\Bigl(\frac{er}u\Bigr)^u\Bigl(\frac{eh}{3u}\Bigr)^{3u}\Bigl(\frac{3u}h\Bigr)^{5u}=\Bigl(\frac{9e^4ru}{h^2}\Bigr)^u\le\Bigl(\frac{546\,s}h\Bigr)^u .\]

Summing over \(1\le u\le s\) gives at most \(1100s/h\) once \(546s/h\le1/2\). \(\square\)

By imp:MN-functional-graph-degree with \(\delta=1\) and left degree 5, graph PHP on such a \(G'\) needs PC degree greater than \(s/10=22k+1\). The bound transfers to linear rows, since the ceiling \(22k+1\) is at least 5.

Step 3: a block fails with probability at most \(n^{-K-1}\)

Fix a block's cell set \(C\). Write \(C_i\) for its holes in row \(i\) and \(\gamma_t\) for its pigeons in column \(t\). Set \(u_t=\gamma_t/m\in[0,1]\) and \(S=\sum_tu_t=|C|/m\). The block fails only if two things happen:

(i) \(C\) avoids \(\rho\);
(ii) \(|C\cap G'|\ge k+1\).

A pigeon has only \(d\) cells in \(G'\), so (ii) needs a set \(Q\) of \(q=\lceil(k+1)/d\rceil\) pigeons of \(R\), each with a \(G'\)-cell in \(C\).

Conditioning. Given \(H\), the set \(R\) is a uniform \(r\)-subset of pigeons. Given \(H\) and \(R\), two things hold independently:

\(\rho\) is a uniform bijection from \(H^c\) onto the \(N=n-h\) pigeons outside \(R\);
the rows of \(G'\) are independent.

Write \(a_i=|C_i\cap H|\), \(U=\sum_ia_i\), and \(V=|C\cap(\text{pigeons}\times H^c)|\).

A pigeon \(i\in R\) has a \(G'\)-cell in \(C\) with probability at most \(da_i/h\).
By lem:matching-avoidance-with-slack, (i) has conditional probability at most \(2^{-|C\cap(R^c\times H^c)|/N}\le\exp(-|C\cap(R^c\times H^c)|/(2N))\).

The indicator vector of \(R\setminus Q\), given \(Q\subseteq R\), is a uniform fixed-size sample, hence negatively associated (Joag-Dev and Proschan, Ann. Statist. 11 (1983), Theorem 2.11). The factors \(\exp(-c'_i[i\notin R]/(2N))\), with \(c'_i=|C_i\setminus H|\le N\), are increasing in \([i\in R]\). So their product has expectation at most the product of expectations. With \(1-e^{-x}\ge0.78x\) on \([0,1/2]\), \(\sum_{i\notin Q}c'_i\ge V-qN\), and \(p=1-r/m\le P(i\notin R\mid Q\subseteq R)\), this gives

\[\mathbb E\bigl[\exp(-|C\cap(R^c\times H^c)|/(2N))\,\big|\,H,\ Q\subseteq R\bigr]\le e^{0.4q}\,e^{-\beta V/N},\qquad\beta=0.39\,p .\]

Here \(P(Q\subseteq R)\le(r/m)^q\), and \(\sum_{|Q|=q}\prod_{i\in Q}a_i\le U^q/q!\). With \(r/h\le2\), \(U/m=X_H:=\sum_{t\in H}u_t\) and \(V/N\ge Y_H:=\sum_{t\notin H}u_t\), this gives

\[P(\text{fail}\mid H)\le\frac{(2e^{0.4}d\,X_H)^q}{q!}\,e^{-\beta Y_H}.\]

Averaging over \(H\). Expand \(X_H^q\) over ordered \(q\)-tuples of holes. Let \(W\) be a tuple's set of distinct holes, with \(w=|W|\).

Its weight is at most \(\prod_{t\in W}u_t\), since \(u_t\le1\).
\(P(W\subseteq H)\le\varepsilon'^w\), where \(\varepsilon'=h/n\le2\varepsilon\).
Given \(W\subseteq H\), negative association and \(1-e^{-\beta u}\ge(1-e^{-\beta})u\) give \(\mathbb E[e^{-\beta Y_H}]\le e^{\beta'w}e^{-\beta'S}\), with \(\beta'=(1-\varepsilon')(1-e^{-\beta})\).

Group tuples by the set partition of positions, counted by Stirling numbers \(S(q,w)\). Distinct \(w\)-tuples of holes carry total weight at most \(S^w\), so

\[P(\text{fail})\le\frac{(2e^{0.4}d)^q}{q!}\,e^{-\beta'S}\,T_q(\lambda),\qquad\lambda=\varepsilon' e^{\beta'}S,\]

where \(T_q(\lambda)=\sum_wS(q,w)\lambda^w=\mathbb E[Z^q]\) for \(Z\sim\mathrm{Poisson}(\lambda)\). By Ahle's bound (Statist. Probab. Lett. 182 (2022)), \(T_q(\lambda)\le(q/\ln(1+q/\lambda))^q\). Since \(q^q/q!\le e^q\) and \(2e^{1.4}d\le40.6\),

\[P(\text{fail})\le\Bigl(\frac{40.6}{\ln(1+q/\lambda)}\Bigr)^qe^{-\beta'S}.\]

For large \(n\), \(\beta'\ge0.3\). Split at \(S=Aq\), with \(A=(B+3.71)/0.15\).

If \(S\le Aq\), then \(q/\lambda\ge1/(eA\varepsilon')\), so \(P(\text{fail})\le\bigl(40.6/(\tfrac12\ln n-1-\ln 2A)\bigr)^q\).
If \(S>Aq\), use \(\ln(1+x)\ge x/(1+x)\), so \(T_q\le(\lambda+q)^q\le q^qe^{\lambda}\), and \(P(\text{fail})\le40.6^qe^{\lambda-\beta'S}\). For large \(n\), \(\lambda\le\beta'S/2\), so \(P(\text{fail})\le40.6^qe^{-0.15S}<(40.6e^{-0.15A})^q=e^{-Bq}\).

Take \(B=5/c+1\). Since \(q\ge c(K+1)\ln n/5\), the second case is at most \(n^{-K-1}\). The first is at most \(n^{-K-1}\) once \(\ln\bigl((\tfrac12\ln n-1-\ln 2A)/40.6\bigr)\ge5/c+1\), which defines \(n_0(c)\).

Proof of the theorem

By Step 3 and the union bound over \(M\le n^K\) blocks, some block fails with probability at most \(n^{-1}\). By Step 2, \(G'\) fails to expand with probability at most \(1100s/h\le10^6C(K+1)\ln n/\sqrt n\), using \(k\le C(K+1)\ln n\). For \(n\ge n_0(c,C,K)\) the two probabilities sum to less than 1, and \(546s/h\le1/2\) holds. So some outcome has neither failure. Fix it and the prefixes of the choice.

Suppose a PC refutation of degree \(22k\) of the base plus the chosen clauses exists. The chain is:

prop:cell-block-implications gives one of weak unary PHP plus the implications at degree \(22k+1\).
The killing lemma and prop:antecedent-deletion restrict it to weak graph PHP on \(G'\) at degree \(22k+1\).
Step 2 forbids this.

The choice depends on the family only through each block's cell set, and \(\rho\) and \(G'\) are shared by all blocks. \(\square\)

Correction to the second chooser review

The falsification paragraph of the second chooser review is wrong. It concluded that restriction cannot certify dense two-hole cell families, and it said that mixed prefixes "give implications in both directions and the same outcome". A mixed prefix consisting of the residual graph's own cells at both holes leaves no implication with a residual antecedent. That is the third case of the killing lemma, when \(C\) avoids \(\rho\): an excluded residual cell is not in \(G'\), so it lies in \(D\). So the review's next step is withdrawn for cell families: a direct hardness theorem for PHP with implications is not needed there. The review's other findings stand: the rule search stops, and the minimax reading of W as a family-dependent choice holds. The random pair \((\rho,G')\) does not depend on the family, and each prefix is a per-block function of it. Only the fixed good outcome depends on the family, through the union bound. So the prefixes are correlated across blocks through one shared object, which no block-by-block rule provides.

What it means

A1 for cell families is proved, given the imported MN bound, Ahle's moment bound and negative association. This covers the hole, singleton-plus-hole and all-pairs families, and every other family whose forms are all equivalent to cells. It needs no expansion hypothesis: the expanding graph is built, not assumed.
Why the uniform rules failed and this choice does not. Each refuted rule chose prefixes block by block. Here the prefixes are sections of one global object: a matching that fills almost every hole, and a sparse expander on the remaining \(\sqrt n\) holes. A block either touches the matching, and its clauses are satisfied by the fill, or it meets the expander in at most \(k\) cells, which become its prefix.
What is open. A1 for blocks whose forms are not all equivalent to cells. Examples are the two-cell sums of prop:family-induced-shifts and general affine forms, where the clause is no longer an occupancy implication. The next question is whether the matched-expander choice extends, with \(\rho\) and \(G'\) acting on forms through their values at a near-solution.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

prop:cell-block-implications, including its cases for prefix cells, \(i\in P_b\) and empty \(P_b\);
prop:antecedent-deletion, including its hypothesis and the surplus;
imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, including the transfer at ceilings at least \(d\);
lem:matching-avoidance-with-slack;
cor:prefix-length-freedom, for the natural logarithm in \(k\).

bound_checks.py checked Ahle's bound for \(q\le60\) on a grid of \(\lambda\), and the chord constant \(2(1-e^{-1/2})=0.787\) (bound_checks.json). Before drafting, a reviewer checked the statement against the record and found it not implied. The closest claims were prop:cell-block-implications, which has no choice; the hole-family propositions, which cover one hole per block and assume expansion; and conj:near-solution-chooser, which uses a different choice and is conjectural.

A fresh-context reviewer found no step that breaks the theorem. It confirmed the killing lemma, the expansion arithmetic, every step of Step 3 and all constants, and found no unused hypothesis. It required these changes, all adopted:

an upper bound \(k\le C(K+1)\ln n\), with \(n_0\) depending on \(K\), since Step 2 needs \(546s/h\le1/2\);
\(d\)-subsets rather than independent choices of holes;
the case of an excluded form equivalent to a prefix \(\rho\)-cell;
the correct case reference in the correction;
the precise sense in which the choice depends on the family.

The changes restrict or clarify and add no claim, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	22 min 14.84 s
Marked reading and review windows	15 min 48.77 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 29.79 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 41.02 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	14.78 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.48 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Sparse blocks satisfy W: under the matching-and-expander restriction a prefix spanning the restricted selectors of the non-rigid forms makes every clause a low-degree consequence, so blocks with union support at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) join the cell blocks

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported bounds · open statement A1, sparse and cell blocks · cycle odd-prime-general-restriction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sparse blocks satisfy W: under the matching-and-expander restriction a prefix spanning the restricted selectors of the non-rigid forms makes every clause a low-degree consequence, so blocks with union support at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) join the cell blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-sparse-blocks.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. thm:cell-family-w (cell families) handled blocks whose forms are all equivalent to cells, through occupancy implications. Under the same restriction every form becomes an affine form on the expander's cells. Which blocks does the restriction make harmless without the implication structure, and which families does the random choice then cover?

General statement. Two results, lem:span-restriction and thm:sparse-block-w, over \(\mathbb F_3\), in W's setting with \(m=n+1\) and \(D=22k\).

lem:span-restriction: under any restriction by a partial matching and a graph on the rest, a block whose non-rigid forms have restricted selectors spanning at most \(k\) dimensions has a prefix that makes every restricted clause of a non-rigid form derivable from Booleanity at degree \(2k+2\); clauses of rigid excluded forms stay in \(C_{22k}\) of the restricted base.
thm:sparse-block-w: W holds for every family in which each block either consists of cell forms (the hypothesis of thm:cell-family-w) or has at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) cells in the union of the supports of its non-rigid forms. Here \(\eta>0\) is fixed, \(c(K+1)\ln n\le k\le C(K+1)\ln n\), and \(n\ge n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\).

The span restriction lemma

Setting. Let \(\rho\) be a partial matching and \(G'\) a bipartite graph on the pigeons and holes that \(\rho\) does not use. The restriction \(\phi\) sets the cells of \(\rho\) to 1, the other cells in rows or columns of \(\rho\) to 0, and every remaining cell outside \(G'\) to 0. It maps weak unary PHP to weak graph PHP on \(G'\), since every axiom maps to an axiom of that system or to 0. For a form \(L\), write \(\bar L=\phi(L)\), an affine form in the cells of \(G'\), and \(\bar g=\phi(1-L^2)=1-\bar L^2\).

Lemma (span restriction). Take a block, and let \(\Gamma\) be its non-rigid forms: those with \(1-L^2\notin C_{20k}(B)\). Let \(V\) be the space of multilinear reductions of \(\bar g_j\), \(j\in\Gamma\). Suppose \(\dim V\le k\). Take as prefix forms of \(\Gamma\) whose reductions form a basis of \(V\), padded to \(\min(k,h_b)\) forms. Then every clause of the block, after restriction, lies in the degree-\((2k+2)\) closure of Booleanity, or in \(C_{22k}\) of the restricted base. Consequently, if every block satisfies the hypothesis, a PC refutation of degree \(22k\) of the base plus the chosen clauses restricts to a refutation of weak graph PHP on \(G'\) of degree at most \(22k\).

Proof. Blocks with \(h_b\le k\) have no clauses. An excluded rigid form has its clause in \(C_{22k}(B)\) by part 1 of prop:rigid-form-reduction (\(D_0=20k\le D-(p-1)k\)). Restriction maps derivations to derivations of no larger degree, so the restricted clause is in \(C_{22k}\) of the restricted base.

Now take an excluded \(i\in\Gamma\). Let \(S\) be the prefix, \(S_0\subseteq S\) the basis, and \(\bar Q=\prod_{j\in S}\bar L_j^2\). Write \(\bar g_i=\sum_{j\in S_0}c_j\bar g_j+e\). Here \(e\) has degree at most 2, and its multilinear reduction is zero. So \(e\) is a combination of \(x^2-x\) with constant coefficients. Then

\[\bar g_i\bar Q=\sum_{j\in S_0}c_j\,(\bar L_j^2-\bar L_j^4)\prod_{l\in S\setminus j}\bar L_l^2+e\bar Q .\]

\(e\bar Q\) is a Booleanity combination of degree at most \(2+2k\).
Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\bar L^3-\bar L=\sum_ca_c(x_c^3-x_c)\), since \(a^3=a\) and \((\sum a_cx_c+b)^3=\sum a_cx_c^3+b\). So \(\bar L_j^4-\bar L_j^2=\bar L_j(\bar L_j^3-\bar L_j)\) is a Booleanity combination of degree 4. Multiplied by the other \(|S|-1\le k-1\) squares, it has degree at most \(2k+2\).

A polynomial with such a representation is derived in PC at that degree. Substituting these derivations for the restricted clauses in the restricted refutation gives a refutation of the restricted base, at degree \(\max(22k,2k+2)=22k\). \(\square\)

A sufficient condition. Let \(v\) be the number of cells of \(G'\) in the union \(U_b\) of the supports of the forms in \(\Gamma\). Then each \(\bar g_j\) is a polynomial of degree at most 2 in those \(v\) cells, so \(\dim V\le1+v+\binom v2\). The hypothesis holds when \(v\le v_0\), the largest \(v\) with \(1+v+\binom v2\le k\); note \(v_0\ge\sqrt{2k}-2\). For cell forms the reductions are linear, which is why thm:cell-family-w could allow \(k\) cells.

The sparse-block theorem

The choice. Take \(H\), \(\pi\), \(\rho\), \(R\) and \(G'\) exactly as in thm:cell-family-w: \(h=\lceil\sqrt n\rceil\) holes in \(H\), \(r=h+1\) pigeons in \(R\), and a uniform 5-subset of \(H\) for each pigeon of \(R\).

Cell blocks take the prefixes of thm:cell-family-w.
A sparse block, with \(|U_b|\le n^{1-\eta}\), takes the basis prefix of the lemma when \(|U_b\cap G'|\le v_0\), and fails otherwise.

A sparse block fails with probability at most \(n^{-K-1}\). Fix \(U=U_b\), with rows \(U_i\). A pigeon has at most 5 cells in \(G'\), so failure needs a set \(Q\) of \(q=\lceil(v_0+1)/5\rceil\) pigeons of \(R\), each with a \(G'\)-cell in \(U_i\cap H\).

\(R\) is a uniform \(r\)-subset whatever \(H\) is, so it is independent of \(H\), and \(P(Q\subseteq R)\le(r/m)^q\).
Given \(H\) and \(R\), the rows of \(G'\) are independent, and a hole lies in a row's 5-subset with probability \(5/h\).

\[P(\text{fail})\le\sum_{|Q|=q}\Bigl(\frac rm\Bigr)^q\Bigl(\frac5h\Bigr)^q\,\mathbb E_H\prod_{i\in Q}|U_i\cap H|.\]

Expand the product over choices \(t_i\in U_i\). Each term is at most \(P(t_{i_1}\in H)=h/n\le1\), so \(\mathbb E_H\prod_{i\in Q}|U_i\cap H|\le\prod_{i\in Q}|U_i|\). Summing over \(Q\) gives the elementary symmetric function, at most \(|U|^q/q!\le(e|U|/q)^q\). With \(r/h\le1.01\) and \(m\ge n\),

\[P(\text{fail})\le\Bigl(\frac{5e\cdot1.01\,|U|}{nq}\Bigr)^q\le\Bigl(\frac{14|U|}{nq}\Bigr)^q\le n^{-\eta q}\quad\text{when }q\ge14.\]

Since \(q\ge(\sqrt{2k}-1)/5\) and \(k\ge c(K+1)\ln n\), we get \(q\ge\max(14,(K+1)/\eta)\) once \(\ln n\ge(5\max(14,(K+1)/\eta)+1)^2/(2c(K+1))\). Then the bound is at most \(n^{-\eta q}\le n^{-K-1}\).

Proof of the theorem. Cell blocks fail with probability at most \(n^{-K-1}\) by Step 3 of thm:cell-family-w, and sparse blocks by the bound above. The union bound over \(M\le n^K\) blocks gives total failure probability at most \(n^{-1}\). By Step 2 of thm:cell-family-w, \(G'\) fails to expand with probability at most \(1100s/h\le10^6C(K+1)\ln n/\sqrt n\), where \(s=10(22k+1)\), provided \(546s/h\le1/2\). Choose \(n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\) so that this proviso holds, the conditions above hold, and the two probabilities sum to less than 1. Then some outcome has no failure. Fix it.

Suppose a PC refutation of degree \(22k\) of the base plus the chosen clauses exists.

By prop:cell-block-implications, each cell-block clause is derivable at degree \(22k+1\) from the base and its occupancy implication. So there is a refutation of degree \(22k+1\) of the base, the implications and the sparse-block clauses.
Restrict by \(\phi\). The implications vanish by the killing lemma of thm:cell-family-w, whose cases use only the block's own prefix and \((\rho,G')\), through prop:antecedent-deletion. The sparse-block clauses become derivable at degree at most \(22k\) by the lemma.
So weak graph PHP on \(G'\) has a refutation of degree \(22k+1\), which imp:MN-functional-graph-degree forbids. \(\square\)

What it means

A1 now holds for every family whose blocks are cell blocks or sparse blocks. This includes mixtures of the two. Sparse means union support of the non-rigid forms at most \(n^{1-\eta}\). The bound \((14|U|/(nq))^q\) also allows \(|U|\) up to \(n\,e^{-A\sqrt{\ln n}}\), for any fixed \(A>5\sqrt{(K+1)/(2c)}\) and large \(n\) (so that also \(q\ge14\)), by the same computation.
What is left of A1. Blocks that are not cell blocks and whose non-rigid forms have union support above \(n^{1-\eta}\). This includes the hole-type blocks of shifted forms in prop:family-induced-shifts, whose union support is two columns, and dense forms. For such a block the restriction helps in two ways. A form may restrict to the zero form, and if the choice puts it in the prefix, every restricted clause of the block is 0. For the shifted form \(X_{jt}-1+X_{ju}\) with \(t\notin H\) and \(j=\pi(t)\), the restriction is \(1-1+0=0\), since \((j,u)\) lies in the row of \(\rho\)'s cell \((j,t)\). Or the restricted selectors may still span few dimensions. The next question is to bound the probability that neither happens for dense blocks. The span criterion reduces this to the rank of a random restriction of the block's selectors.
What is not claimed. Nothing here handles dense random forms, the regime of open statement A3.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

prop:rigid-form-reduction (part 1 and its degree condition);
prop:cell-block-implications and its degree accounting;
prop:antecedent-deletion;
thm:cell-family-w (the killing lemma, Steps 2 and 3, and the reviewed upper bound on \(k\));
imp:MN-functional-graph-degree.

The arithmetic for \(v_0\ge\sqrt{2k}-2\) (valid for \(k\ge2\)), for \(q\), and for the constant \(5e\cdot1.01\le14\) was checked by hand. Before drafting, a reviewer checked both statements against the record and found neither implied. The closest claims were thm:cell-family-w, which requires cell forms; prop:antecedent-deletion, which acts on implications only; and lem:bounded-span-equivalence, a general fact about bounded spans.

A fresh-context reviewer found no step that breaks either result, and found no unused hypothesis. It confirmed:

the restriction to weak graph PHP;
the rigid-form step at \(D_0=20k\);
the remainder \(e\) and the Frobenius identity;
the degree bookkeeping, padding, and small blocks;
the dimension bound;
the independence claims and every inequality of the failure bound;
the combined chain, since the killing lemma acts per block.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the rigid-form exception in the lemma's summary;
the condition \(q\ge14\) in \(n_0\);
an explicit union bound and the proviso \(546s/h\le1/2\);
a strict constant in the remark;
the prefix condition for a zero form;
this gate record.

The changes restrict or clarify and add no claim, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: the matching-and-expander restriction settles cell and sparse blocks and isolates the core of A1, blocks whose forms keep high rank on the residual board, where W must come from a hardness statement on the residual expander

26 September 2026 · Route review with an exact check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dense-blocks. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the matching-and-expander restriction settles cell and sparse blocks and isolates the core of A1, blocks whose forms keep high rank on the residual board, where W must come from a hardness statement on the residual expander”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Two research entries since the second chooser review replaced the chooser line with a restriction line: cell families and sparse blocks. How far does the line reach, what is left of A1, and what should come next?

General statement. The line's claim is W for every family, through one random restriction. A matching fills all but about \(\sqrt n\) holes, and a left-5-regular expander \(G'\) covers the rest. Each block takes a prefix that kills its clauses under the restriction: a zero-restricting form, the cells of \(G'\) it meets, or a basis of its restricted selectors (lem:span-restriction). It is proved for cell and sparse blocks (thm:cell-family-w, thm:sparse-block-w). The goal needs all families.

Falsification attempt: random dense blocks

Let a block consist of \(N>k\) uniformly random affine forms on the whole board. Under any restriction, a form's coefficients on the cells of \(G'\) are untouched. So the restricted forms are independent uniform affine forms on the \(v\) cells of \(G'\), and none restricts to zero except with probability \(3^{-v-1}\). The exact check restricted_span.py computed the span of their selectors over \(\mathbb F_3\) (restricted_span.json).

For \(v=6,8,10\) and \(N=10,30,60,90\), the span is \(\min(N,1+v+\binom v2)\) in 11 of 12 cases, and one less in the twelfth.
The residual needs \(h\ge1100\cdot10(22k+1)\) holes for Step 2 of thm:cell-family-w, so \(v\ge5h\) is far above \(\sqrt{2k}\).

So every random dense block with more than \(k\) forms fails under every restriction with an expanding residual. The line alone cannot prove W for random dense families. This is not a refutation of W. It shows that for such blocks the restriction only moves the question to the residual board.

A control: blocks of dense forms confined to an affine space of dimension 2 had span exactly 6, the bound \((d+1)(d+2)/2\), in every case. Low-rank dense blocks are harmless without any restriction, which is the content of lem:bounded-span-equivalence.

Assessment of the line

What it proved. A1 for every family whose blocks are cell blocks or sparse blocks, with an expander that is built rather than assumed, in two cycles. It also corrected the second chooser review's claim that restriction cannot certify dense two-hole cell families.
What it isolates. After the restriction, a block is harmful only if it has more than \(k\) forms that meet \(G'\), no form restricting to zero, and restricted selectors spanning more than \(k\) dimensions. For this the restricted affine span must exceed about \(\sqrt{2k}\) dimensions: the block's forms keep high rank on the residual coordinates. Any family reduces to its high-rank blocks. W holds if graph PHP on the residual expander, plus the restricted clauses of these blocks under some prefixes, has no refutation of degree \(22k+1\). This is a composition of the two entries' lemmas, not a new mechanism.
What it lacks. Any hardness for high-rank blocks. The restriction cannot simplify a form whose support covers the residual.
Qualitative assessment. Strong and finished for what it covers. The remaining core is a W-type statement for high-rank dense blocks on a sparse expander board, which is where A3 (random forms) and the old closure route (dense members) live.

Outside leads

Ben-Sasson and Impagliazzo, random CNFs are hard for polynomial calculus (Comput. Complexity 2010), and Alekhnovich and Razborov's expansion method, for the residual core. These give PC degree bounds when every constraint depends on few variables and the constraint–variable graph expands. Where it breaks: a restricted high-rank clause depends on all the residual cells of its forms. Test. Falsified. A random dense form has a nonzero coefficient on each residual cell with probability \(2/3\), so it depends on about \(2v/3\) of them. The check above found the restricted selectors of random blocks full-rank. Their clauses are not local.
Beame's \(q\)-matching switching lemma (imp:beame-q-matching-switching-lemma), for dense blocks under the random matching. The lemma shrinks decision trees of disjunctions of cell literals under random partial matchings. Where it breaks: the clauses here are products of affine forms, and a form with full support stays nonconstant while any residual cell survives. Test. Falsified. A uniform dense form restricts to a constant only with probability \(3^{-v}\), with \(v\ge5h\).
The record's A3 route (conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra and the killer-moment review), for random dense blocks on the residual. If the restricted forms are uniform, W for random families on the residual is an A3 statement on a graph-PHP board. Where it breaks: A3 is stated on the complete board with the weak base. The residual board is a sparse expander, and adversarial dense blocks are not uniform. Test. Passed on its first hypothesis. The restriction of a uniform affine form is uniform on the residual cells, since those coefficients are untouched and the constant absorbs an independent uniform shift. The transfer of A3 to graph PHP is untested.

Absurd bridges

Wilson's renormalization group. Translation: the restriction is a coarse-graining step from \(n\) to about \(\sqrt n\) holes. Blocks are couplings. Cell and sparse blocks are irrelevant operators, which flow to zero because their clauses become Booleanity consequences. High-rank blocks are relevant operators, which survive. What a theorem there would give: universality says the long-distance theory depends only on the relevant couplings. Here that is the reduction to high-rank blocks. A further RG step would ask whether relevant couplings flow to a universal random fixed point, which would reduce adversarial dense blocks to random ones, that is to A3. Smallest test: does a sparse block's expected number of residual cells flow to zero while a dense block's does not? Test. Passed. A block with union support \(|U|\) keeps expected \(5r|U|/(nm)\approx5|U|n^{-3/2}\) residual cells, which tends to 0 for \(|U|\le n^{1-\eta}\). A form of full support keeps every residual cell.
Compressed sensing: random row sampling and the restricted isometry property (Rudelson and Vershynin, 2007). Translation: a block's coefficient matrix is sampled at the residual coordinates. The block is harmful exactly when the sampled matrix keeps rank above about \(\sqrt{2k}\). The sampling theorem says that incoherent matrices keep their rank under random coordinate sampling, and coherent ones, concentrated on few coordinates, lose it. What a theorem there would give: a coherence parameter of a block that predicts whether the restriction removes it. It would interpolate between sparse blocks (coherent, removed) and random dense blocks (incoherent, kept). Smallest test: compare the restricted span of a rank-limited dense block with that of a random block. Test. Passed. Rank-2 dense blocks kept span 6, random blocks kept full span (restricted_span.json). The rank that survives sampling is the block's own affine rank, as the translation predicts.

Bridge follow-up

Epidemic thresholds and directed percolation. Forced occupancy spread through the implication digraph, and counting refuted a choice when the outbreak was global. Follow-up. Closed: the restriction choice of thm:cell-family-w leaves no implication with a residual antecedent. Nothing spreads, and no hole is forced, whatever \(k\). The threshold question lost its object once choices were built from a matching and an expander.

Next step

The highest-risk item is A1's core: high-rank dense blocks. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer follows the renormalization bridge. Test whether the restriction makes adversarial high-rank blocks behave like random ones on the residual. Define a block's restricted rank profile under the random restriction. Prove that two blocks with restricted rank above \(\sqrt{2k}\) are, with high probability, jointly close to independent uniform forms on their common residual cells, or find the structured high-rank family where this fails. If it holds, A1 reduces to A3 on a sparse expander board.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:cell-family-w, thm:sparse-block-w, lem:span-restriction, lem:bounded-span-equivalence and imp:beame-q-matching-switching-lemma. The span numbers were read from the saved JSON. This review registers no claim.

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Column statistics plus sparse parts satisfy W: the column-freezing map removes the statistics and the matching-and-expander restriction removes the sparse parts, so column forms leave the core of A1

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported bounds · open statement A1, column-plus-sparse blocks · cycle odd-prime-restricted-universality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Column statistics plus sparse parts satisfy W: the column-freezing map removes the statistics and the matching-and-expander restriction removes the sparse parts, so column forms leave the core of A1”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-column-sparse-blocks.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The restriction review asked whether the random restriction makes blocks of high restricted rank look random. Column forms do not. A column statistic \(\sum_t\beta_t\sigma_t\), with \(\sigma_t=\sum_ix_{it}\), restricts to \(\sum_{t\in H}\beta_t\,\mathrm{occ}'(t)\) plus the constant \(\sum_{t\notin H}\beta_t\), since each filled hole has occupancy 1. So a block of column statistics stays a structured block of high restricted rank, and naive universality fails. But the main record's column-freezing map (thm:affine-column-occupancy-freezing) sends every column sum to a constant. Does freezing followed by restriction remove column statistics and sparse parts together?

General statement. thm:column-sparse-w. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), in W's setting with \(m=n+1\), \(M\le n^K\) and \(c(K+1)\ln n\le k\le C(K+1)\ln n\), fix \(\eta>0\). Suppose every block's non-rigid forms (those with \(1-L^2\notin C_{20k}(B)\)) can be written, as an exact identity of affine forms, \(L=\sum_t\beta_{L,t}\sigma_t+s_L+b_L\). Here \(b_L\) is a constant, and the \(s_L\) are linear forms whose supports have union \(U_b\) of at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) cells. The family must consist entirely of such blocks. Then for \(n\ge n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\), W's conclusion holds. This covers pure column-statistic families, where \(U_b=\varnothing\), and families of the sparse blocks of thm:sparse-block-w, where \(\beta=0\). Unlike thm:sparse-block-w, it does not allow cell blocks in the same family, since the killing lemma acts on the original board and not on \(Y\).

The two maps

Freezing (the main record's column-freezing map, with \(K_0=2\equiv-1\pmod3\)). Fix any relabelling; the bounds below hold for each one. A partial matching on \(n\bmod2\) pigeons and holes leaves \(2(N+1)\) holes and \(2(N+1)+1\) pigeons, with \(N=\lfloor n/2\rfloor-1\). These form two copies of an \((N+1)\times N\) board \(Y\), two empty columns, and a distinguished pigeon \(*\). The map \(\Phi\) is affine:

a cell of a copied row goes to the corresponding \(y_{ij}\) in its own column copy, and to 0 elsewhere;
a cell of \(*\) in column copy \(j\) goes to \(q_j=1-\sum_iy_{ij}\);
matching and empty-column cells go to constants.

Every \(\sigma_t\) becomes a constant. By the main record's proof, every weak-base axiom maps into the degree-2 closure of the weak base \(B_Y\) on \(Y\).

Restriction. On \(Y\), take \(H\), \(\rho\), \(R\) and \(G'\) as in thm:cell-family-w, but with \(h=\lceil N^{\eta/2}\rceil\) holes in \(H\). Call the restriction \(\phi\). A \(y\)-cell goes to a cell of \(G'\) or a constant. The form \(q_j\) goes to 0 for \(j\notin H\), since \(\rho\) fills column \(j\). For \(j\in H\) it goes to \(1-o_j\), where \(o_j\) is the sum of the \(G'\)-cells in column \(j\).

Harmless blocks

For a non-rigid form \(L\), \(\phi\Phi(L)\) is an affine combination of the linear functionals

\[\mathcal F_b=\{y_c:c\in G'\cap\Phi(U_b)\}\ \cup\ \{o_j:j\in H\cap J_b\},\]

where \(J_b\) is the set of columns \(j\) of \(Y\) such that some copy of column \(j\) holds a cell of \(U_b\) in row \(*\), since \(q_j\) is shared by both copies. Let \(v=|\mathcal F_b|\). Then every \(\phi\Phi(1-L^2)\) lies in the span of \(1\), the functionals, and their pairwise products including squares, which has dimension at most \(1+v+v(v+1)/2\).

If this is at most \(k\), take as prefix forms of \(\Gamma\) whose images form a basis of the span of the images \(\phi\Phi(1-L^2)\), \(L\in\Gamma\), padded to \(\min(k,h_b)\). Every other image is then an exact linear combination of basis images, and the proof of lem:span-restriction applies with \(e=0\). Each restricted clause is \(\sum_jc_j(\bar L_j^2-\bar L_j^4)\prod_{l\ne j}\bar L_l^2\). The Frobenius identity \(\bar L^3-\bar L=\sum_ca_c(x_c^3-x_c)\) makes it a Booleanity combination of degree at most \(2k+2\). Rigid excluded forms have clauses in \(C_{22k}(B)\), and their images stay in \(C_{22k}\) of the image base, since substitution preserves derivations.

Let \(v_0\) be the largest \(v\) with \(1+v+v(v+1)/2\le k\). Then \(v_0\ge\sqrt{2k}-3\). A block fails only if \(v>v_0\), so either

(y) more than \(v_0/2\) cells of \(G'\) lie in \(\Phi(U_b)\), or
(o) \(|H\cap J_b|>v_0/2\).

Failure probability

Condition on \(\Phi\). The set \(\Phi(U_b)\cap Y\) has at most \(|U_b|\) cells, and \(|J_b|\le|U_b|\).

(y). The bound of thm:sparse-block-w applies on the board \(Y\), with \(N+1\) pigeons and \(N\) holes. It used only \(h\le N\), \(r/h\le1.01\) and pigeons at least holes, so it holds for any \(h\ge100\), which \(n_0\) ensures. With \(q=\lceil v_0/10\rceil\) it gives at most \((14|U_b|/(Nq))^q\le(30n^{-\eta}/q)^q\), using \(N\ge n/2.1\).
(o). \(H\) is a uniform \(h\)-subset of the \(N\) columns, so for \(w=\lceil v_0/2\rceil\) \[P(|H\cap J_b|\ge w)\le\binom{|J_b|}w\Bigl(\frac hN\Bigr)^w\le\Bigl(\frac{e\,n^{1-\eta}\,2N^{\eta/2}}{wN}\Bigr)^w\le\Bigl(\frac{12\,n^{-\eta/2}}w\Bigr)^w .\]

Both bounds are at most \(n^{-K-1}\) once \(q\ge\max(30,2(K+1)/\eta)\) and \(w\ge\max(12,2(K+1)/\eta)\). Both hold for \(n\ge n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\), since \(v_0\ge\sqrt{2c(K+1)\ln n}-3\).

Proof of the theorem

By the union bound over \(M\le n^K\) blocks, some block fails with probability at most \(2n^{-1}\). By Step 2 of thm:cell-family-w, on \(Y\) and with \(s=10(22k+1)\), \(G'\) fails to expand with probability at most \(1100s/h\) once \(546s/h\le1/2\). With \(h=\lceil N^{\eta/2}\rceil\), both hold for large \(n\). Fix an outcome with no failure.

Suppose a PC refutation of degree \(22k\) of the base plus the chosen clauses exists.

Substituting \(\Phi\) gives a refutation of \(\Phi(B)\) plus the image clauses. \(\Phi(B)\) lies in \(C_2(B_Y)\), so this is a refutation of \(B_Y\) plus the image clauses of degree at most \(22k\).
Substituting \(\phi\) maps \(B_Y\) to weak graph PHP on \(G'\). Every image clause is then derivable at degree at most \(22k\).
So graph PHP on \(G'\) has a refutation of degree \(22k\), which imp:MN-functional-graph-degree forbids, since its bound is \(s/10=22k+1\). \(\square\)

What it means

Column statistics leave the core. For pure column-statistic families, freezing makes every form a constant: a zero constant goes in the prefix, and the remaining clauses have \(g=0\). A degree lower bound for weak PHP on \(Y\) is still needed, here the restriction to \(G'\) and imp:MN-functional-graph-degree. With sparse parts added, the restriction also removes them. So for column-plus-sparse blocks, column structure is removed by one map and sparsity by another.
The maps do not combine with dense cell blocks. This is the W form of the recorded occupancy-mix obstruction: freezing spreads the distinguished row. Freezing sends the distinguished pigeon's row block \(\{X_{*t}-1\}\) to \(\{q_j-1\}=\{-\mathrm{occ}_Y(j)\}\), a block of hole-occupancy forms. Heuristically, a second freezing would move the problem to a new distinguished row. After the final restriction, the last such block has about \(h\) forms \(-o_j\), \(j\in H\), spanning about \(h\) dimensions. Its clauses say "if the prefix holes are occupied, so is hole \(i\)". Counting with the rows derives \(\prod_{j\in S}o_j=0\), "some prefix hole is empty", and no low-degree refutation from this block is apparent. But neither the span criterion nor the killing lemma removes it. Families that contain every row block and also column statistics are therefore not covered by any single composed map built so far. This is an obstruction to the current maps, not evidence against W.
What is left of A1. Blocks of high rank after freezing and restriction: random dense blocks (the A3 regime), and mixtures of full cell rows with column statistics. The first test of the next step is the mixture of all row blocks with one block of generic column statistics. Either a choice handles it, or it is a candidate counterexample to W.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the column-freezing map and its base-image certificates (main record, map);
thm:cell-family-w (Step 2);
thm:sparse-block-w and lem:span-restriction (proof with \(e=0\));
prop:rigid-form-reduction;
the occupancy-mix obstruction;
imp:MN-functional-graph-degree.

A search of the record found no application of the freezing map to W. The row-block limitation is the recorded occupancy-mix obstruction in W form.

A fresh-context reviewer found no step that breaks the theorem. It confirmed:

that the freezing map carries a degree-\(22k\) refutation to \(B_Y\), rigid clauses included;
the images of cells and of \(q_j\);
the polynomial span bound with \(e=0\), and the Frobenius step for the \(o_j\);
\(v_0\ge\sqrt{2k+1/4}-2.5\);
the constants 30 and 12, and the (y)/(o) dichotomy;
the degree chain at \(22k\).

It required these changes, all adopted:

a degree lower bound on \(Y\) for pure column families, in place of "freezing alone";
the definition of \(J_b\) through columns of \(Y\);
the basis wording;
\(h\ge100\);
a fixed relabelling;
the exact decomposition, and the exclusion of mixing with cell blocks;
heuristic labels and the scope of the obstruction paragraph;
this gate record.

The changes weaken or clarify, so no second pass was made.

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Row blocks with column statistics satisfy W: leaving most residual holes empty turns the distinguished row's occupancy forms into zero forms, so freezing's spread row no longer obstructs W

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported bounds · open statement A1, row and column-plus-sparse blocks · cycle odd-prime-row-column-mixture. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Row blocks with column statistics satisfy W: leaving most residual holes empty turns the distinguished row's occupancy forms into zero forms, so freezing's spread row no longer obstructs W”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-row-column-blocks.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. thm:column-sparse-w (column-sparse blocks) left open families that contain every row block \(\{X_{it}-1:t\}\) together with column statistics. Freezing sends the distinguished pigeon's row block to the forms \(q_j-1=-\mathrm{occ}_Y(j)\). That is the W form of the occupancy-mix obstruction. Can the restriction make these forms harmless?

General statement. thm:row-column-w. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), in W's setting with \(m=n+1\), \(M\le n^K\) and \(c(K+1)\ln n\le k\le C(K+1)\ln n\), fix \(\eta>0\). Suppose every block is of one of two kinds:

a row block, whose non-rigid forms are literal cell forms \(X_{it}-1\) of one common pigeon \(i\);
a column-plus-sparse block as in thm:column-sparse-w.

Then for \(n\ge n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\), W's conclusion holds. In particular the family of all row blocks plus any column-statistic blocks satisfies W.

The choice

Freeze with the column-freezing map \(\Phi\) (\(K_0=2\)) as in thm:column-sparse-w, for any fixed relabelling, onto the \((N+1)\times N\) board \(Y\). On \(Y\), pick the following, all independently.

A uniform set \(H\) of \(h=\lceil N^{\eta/2}\rceil\) columns.
A uniform subset \(H'\subseteq H\) of \(h'=\lceil h/k\rceil\) columns. Set \(E_0=H\setminus H'\).
A uniform injection \(\pi\) from columns to rows of \(Y\). Set \(\rho=\{(\pi(t),t):t\notin H\}\), and let \(R\) be the \(h+1\) rows that \(\rho\) does not use.
For each pigeon of \(R\), a uniform 5-subset of \(H'\). These cells form \(G'\).

The restriction \(\phi\) sets the cells of \(\rho\) to 1, the other cells of \(\rho\)'s rows and columns to 0, and all other cells outside \(G'\) to 0. In particular every cell of an \(E_0\) column is 0. So \(\phi\) maps \(B_Y\) to weak graph PHP on \(G'\), with \(h+1\) pigeons and \(h'\) holes. Under \(\phi\), \(q_j=1-\sum_iy_{ij}\) goes to:

0 for \(j\notin H\), a column filled by \(\rho\);
1 for \(j\in E_0\), an empty column;
\(1-o_j\) for \(j\in H'\), where \(o_j\) is the sum of the \(G'\)-cells of column \(j\).

Prefixes follow the rule of lem:span-restriction. A block with a form whose image is the zero polynomial takes that form in its prefix, and every restricted clause of the block is 0. Otherwise the block takes a basis of the span of its non-rigid images \(\phi\Phi(1-L^2)\), when that span has dimension at most \(k\). Relations are exact, so \(e=0\), and every restricted clause is a Booleanity combination of degree at most \(2k+2\).

Row blocks

Take a row block of pigeon \(i\), with cell set \(C\).

\(i\) is a copied row, mapped to row \(i'\) of \(Y\), or a pigeon of the initial matching. Each form \(X_{it}-1\) goes to one of three things:
- \(y_{i'j}-1\) in its own column copy;
- \(-1\) off-copy, in an empty column, or in a matched column;
- the constant \(0\) or \(-1\) for the initial matching.
After \(\phi\), the non-constant images are \(y_c-1\) for the at most 5 cells \(c\in G'\) of row \(i'\). Constant images are 0, which kills the block, or \(-1\), where \(\bar g=0\). The span of the images of \(1-L^2\) over the non-rigid forms lies in \(\mathrm{span}\{1,y_c,y_c^2\}\), of dimension at most \(11\le k\). So the block is harmless, deterministically.
\(i=*\), the distinguished pigeon. Its forms go to \(q_j-1\), or to \(-1\) in an empty original column. After \(\phi\):
- \(q_j-1\) is \(-1\) for \(j\notin H\);
- it is the zero polynomial for \(j\in E_0\), which kills the block;
- it is \(-o_j\) for \(j\in H'\).
Let \(J_C\) be the set of columns of \(Y\) reached by \(C\). If \(J_C\cap E_0=\varnothing\), the non-constant images span at most \(1+|J_C\cap H'|\) dimensions, inside \(\mathrm{span}\{1,o_j^2\}\). So the block fails only if \(J_C\cap H\subseteq H'\) and \(|J_C\cap H|\ge k\). Given \(|J_C\cap H|=x\), \(H'\) is a uniform \(h'\)-subset of \(H\), so \[P(J_C\cap H\subseteq H')=\binom{h'}x\Big/\binom hx\le\Bigl(\frac{h'}h\Bigr)^x\le\Bigl(\frac2k\Bigr)^x .\] So the failure probability is at most \((2/k)^k\), which is at most \(n^{-K-1}\) once \(\ln(k/2)\ge1/c\) (using \(k\ge c(K+1)\ln n\)).

Column-plus-sparse blocks

As in thm:column-sparse-w, the images are affine in the functionals \(y_c\) (\(c\in G'\cap\Phi(U_b)\)) and \(o_j\) (\(j\in H'\cap J_b\)). The forms \(q_j\) with \(j\in E_0\) are now constants. The two failure bounds carry over with \(H'\) in place of \(H\).

(y). With \(a_i=|\Phi(U_b)_i\cap H'|\) and \(P(\text{a hole of }H'\text{ in a row's 5-subset})=5/h'\), \[P\le\Bigl(\frac{5r}{mh'}\Bigr)^q\frac{|U_b|^q}{q!}\le\Bigl(\frac{5e\,r\,|U_b|}{m\,h'\,q}\Bigr)^q\le\Bigl(\frac{60k\,|U_b|}{nq}\Bigr)^q\le\Bigl(\frac{60k\,n^{-\eta}}{q}\Bigr)^q,\] using \(r/h'\le2k\) and \(m=N+1\ge n/2.1\) on \(Y\). Here \(q=\lceil v_0/10\rceil\), with \(v_0\ge\sqrt{2k}-3\) as there.
(o). \(H'\) is a uniform \(h'\)-subset of the columns, and \(h'\le h\), so the bound \((12n^{-\eta/2}/w)^w\) of thm:column-sparse-w holds unchanged.

Both are at most \(n^{-K-1}\) once \(60kn^{-\eta}\le n^{-\eta/2}\), \(q\ge2(K+1)/\eta\) and \(w\ge\max(12,2(K+1)/\eta)\), which \(n_0\) ensures.

Expansion and the proof

Step 2 of thm:cell-family-w, with \(r=h+1\) pigeons and \(h'\) holes, gives the following. With \(s=10(22k+1)\), the probability that some \(U\subseteq R\) with \(|U|\le s\) has \(|N(U)|<3|U|\) is at most

\[\sum_{u\le s}\Bigl(\frac{9e^4ru}{h'^2}\Bigr)^u\le\sum_{u\le s}\Bigl(\frac{1000k^2s}h\Bigr)^u,\]

which is at most \(2000k^2s/h\) once \(1000k^2s/h\le1/2\). So \(G'\) is an \((s,1)\)-boundary expander of left degree 5 with high probability, and imp:MN-functional-graph-degree forbids refutations of degree up to \(22k+1\).

Choose \(n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\) so that \(h\ge k\ge11\), \(h'\ge5\), \(3s\le h'\) (without which the count in Step 2 is empty while the event is certain), \(1000k^2s/h\le1/2\), and the conditions above all hold. The union bound over \(M\le n^K\) blocks and the expansion bound then leave an outcome with no failure. A degree-\(22k\) refutation of the base plus the chosen clauses then maps through two steps.

Through \(\Phi\): the base images lie in \(C_2(B_Y)\), and rigid excluded clauses lie in \(C_{22k}(B)\).
Through \(\phi\): every image clause becomes derivable at degree at most \(22k\).

This gives a refutation of graph PHP on \(G'\) at degree \(22k\), a contradiction. \(\square\)

What it means

The distinguished row no longer obstructs, for these families. For families of row blocks and column-plus-sparse blocks, the spread distinguished row of the occupancy-mix obstruction is switched off: an empty residual column makes the corresponding occupancy form zero.
The price of the empty holes. With \(r/h'\approx k\), the holes of \(G'\) have degree about \(5k\). So hole blocks \(\{X_{jt}-1:j\}\) at \(G'\)-holes fail the span criterion under this choice. That is a failure of the criterion, not evidence against W. A heuristic repair, noted by the reviewer, is to keep \(h'=Ah/k\) for a constant \(A=A(c)\). The distinguished-row bound becomes \((2A/k)^k\), still below \(n^{-K-1}\). An \(H'\)-hole then has mean degree about \(5k/A\), and a hole block's span after multilinear reduction is at most the degree plus 2, with tail \(\binom{h+1}{k-2}(5/h')^{k-2}\le(5e/A)^{k-2}\). That beats \(n^{-K-1}h'\) once \(\ln(A/5e)\) exceeds about \(1/c\). Expansion only improves. Proving this with Step 3 of thm:cell-family-w on the frozen board is the next step.
What remains of A1. High-rank dense blocks, and mixtures of multi-row cell blocks with column statistics.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:column-sparse-w (freezing images, the failure bounds), lem:span-restriction (\(e=0\)), thm:cell-family-w (Step 2), prop:rigid-form-reduction, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree and the occupancy-mix obstruction. Two claim searches, for row blocks with column statistics and empty-column occupancy, and for the occupancy-mix obstruction with freezing and W, found no prior version. The closest record is the occupancy-mix obstruction itself, which concerns Res(Lin) lines, not W.

A fresh-context reviewer found no step that breaks the theorem. It confirmed:

the images of every row type, and the zero-form rule;
the span bounds 11 and \(1+|J_C\cap H'|\);
the bound \((2/k)^k\) and the condition \(c\ln(k/2)\ge1\);
the constants 60, 12 and 1000;
the degree chain;
that weak graph PHP on \(G'\), with empty columns and no onto axioms, is the right target.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the explicit provisos for \(n_0\);
the wording of the copied-row span, and the matched columns;
the unused factor in (y);
the scope of the obstruction remark;
the empty-hole paragraph, now with the reviewer's heuristic repair;
this gate record.

The changes clarify or weaken, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	9 min 37.46 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 38.11 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 59.21 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Cell blocks and column-plus-sparse blocks satisfy W together: after freezing, a restriction that keeps a constant fraction of the residual columns kills the spread row and keeps hole degrees bounded

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported bounds · open statement A1, literal cell and column-plus-sparse blocks · cycle odd-prime-frozen-cell-families. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cell blocks and column-plus-sparse blocks satisfy W together: after freezing, a restriction that keeps a constant fraction of the residual columns kills the spread row and keeps hole degrees bounded”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-frozen-cell-families.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. thm:row-column-w (row-column blocks) left empty all but \(h/k\) of the residual columns. That kills the distinguished row's occupancy forms, but it raises hole degrees to about \(5k\), so hole blocks fail the span criterion under that choice. Does a constant fraction of empty columns serve both?

General statement. thm:frozen-cell-w. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), in W's setting with \(m=n+1\), \(M\le n^K\) and \(c(K+1)\ln n\le k\le C(K+1)\ln n\), fix \(0<\eta\le1\); this is no loss, since the hypothesis \(|U_b|\le n^{1-\eta}\) only weakens as \(\eta\) decreases. Suppose every block is of one of two kinds:

a literal cell block, whose non-rigid forms are cell forms \(X_c-1\) on any cells;
a column-plus-sparse block as in thm:column-sparse-w.

Then for \(n\ge n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\), W's conclusion holds. This covers hole blocks, row blocks and column statistics in one family, and contains thm:row-column-w and thm:column-sparse-w. For literal cell forms it also contains thm:cell-family-w.

The choice

Let \(\theta=\min(1/2,e^{-7/c})\). Freeze with \(\Phi\) (\(K_0=2\)), for any fixed relabelling, onto the \((N+1)\times N\) board \(Y\). On \(Y\), take \(H\), \(H'\subseteq H\), \(E_0=H\setminus H'\), \(\pi\), \(\rho\), \(R\) and \(G'\subseteq R\times H'\) exactly as in thm:row-column-w, with two exceptions:

\(h=\lceil N^{\eta/2}\rceil\), as there;
\(h'=\lceil\theta h\rceil\) in place of \(\lceil h/k\rceil\).

The restriction \(\phi\) is the same, and it maps \(B_Y\) to weak graph PHP on \(G'\), with \(h+1\) pigeons and \(h'\) holes.

Under \(\phi\Phi\), a cell form \(X_c-1\) goes to one of the following:

the zero polynomial, if \(c\) is an initial-matching cell or its image is a \(\rho\)-cell;
\(-1\), for off-copy cells, empty original columns, cells in the lines of the initial matching (including distinguished-row cells in matched columns), cells in lines of \(\rho\), cells of \(E_0\) columns and cells of \(R\times H'\) outside \(G'\);
\(y_{c'}-1\), for an image cell \(c'\in G'\);
\(q_j-1\), for a cell of the distinguished pigeon in column copy \(j\). This goes in turn to \(-1\) for \(j\notin H\), to the zero polynomial for \(j\in E_0\), and to \(-o_j\) for \(j\in H'\). That is the zero polynomial if column \(j\) has no \(G'\)-cell, which only helps.

Prefixes follow lem:span-restriction. A block with a zero-image form takes it, and its restricted clauses vanish. Otherwise the block takes a basis of the span of the images of \(1-L^2\) over its non-rigid forms, when that span has dimension at most \(k\), and relations are exact (\(e=0\)). For a cell block, write \(C_y\) for the image cells on \(Y\) and \(J_C\) for its distinguished-row columns. With \(v_y=|C_y\cap G'|\) and \(v_o=|J_C\cap H'|\), the span lies in \(\mathrm{span}\{1,y_c,y_c^2,o_j,o_j^2\}\), of dimension at most \(1+2(v_y+v_o)\). So a cell block fails only if it has no zero-image form and \(v_y+v_o>(k-1)/2\). Then \(v_y\ge k/5\) or \(v_o\ge k/5\) (for \(k\ge5\)).

Failure of a cell block

Distinguished-row part. \(v_o\ge k/5\) with \(J_C\cap E_0=\varnothing\) needs \(J_C\cap H\subseteq H'\) with \(|J_C\cap H|\ge k/5\). As in thm:row-column-w, this has probability at most \((h'/h)^{k/5}\). Here \(h'/h\le\theta+1/h\le e^{-6/c}\) for large \(h\). So the bound is at most \(e^{-6k/(5c)}\le n^{-6(K+1)/5}\le n^{-K-1}\).

Cell part. \(v_y\ge k/5\) with \(C_y\) avoiding \(\rho\) is the failure event of Step 3 of thm:cell-family-w on the board \(Y\), with \(k/5\) in place of \(k+1\), and with \(G'\) mapping into \(H'\) rather than \(H\). We rerun that step with these changes.

\(q=\lceil k/25\rceil\) rows of \(R\), each with a \(G'\)-cell in \(C_y\), are needed.
A row of \(R\) has a \(G'\)-cell in \(C_{y,i}\) with probability at most \(5a'_i/h'\), with \(a'_i=|C_{y,i}\cap H'|\).
The avoidance factor is unchanged. \(\rho\) is a uniform bijection from \(H^c\) onto \(R^c\), with \(N'=N-h\) rows. lem:matching-avoidance-with-slack and negative association give \(e^{0.4q}e^{-\beta V/N'}\), with \(V\) the mass of \(C_y\) outside \(H\).
With \(r/h'\le1.01/\theta\), this gives \[P(\text{fail}\mid H,H')\le\frac{(1.01e^{0.4}d\,X_{H'}/\theta)^q}{q!}e^{-\beta Y_H},\] where \(X_{H'}=\sum_{t\in H'}u_t\), \(Y_H=\sum_{t\notin H}u_t\) and \(u_t=\gamma_t/(N+1)\).
Averaging expands \(X_{H'}^q\) over tuples with distinct set \(W\). \(P(W\subseteq H')\le(h'/N)^w\), and given \(W\subseteq H'\) the rest of \(H\) is a uniform sample of the other columns. So negative association gives \(\mathbb E[e^{-\beta Y_H}]\le e^{\beta'w}e^{-\beta'S}\) as before. Here \(\beta'=(1-h/N)(1-e^{-\beta})\): the factor \(h/N\) comes from \(P(t\notin H\mid W\subseteq H)\), while \(\lambda\) carries \(h'/N\). The result is \[P(\text{fail})\le\frac{(1.01e^{0.4}d/\theta)^q}{q!}e^{-\beta'S}T_q(\lambda),\qquad\lambda=\frac{h'}Ne^{\beta'}S .\]
Ahle's bound and \(q^q/q!\le e^q\) give \[P(\text{fail})\le\Bigl(\frac{21/\theta}{\ln(1+q/\lambda)}\Bigr)^qe^{-\beta'S}.\] Split at \(S=Aq\), with \(A=(B+\ln(21/\theta))/0.15\).
- For \(S\le Aq\): \(q/\lambda\ge N/(eAh')\ge N^{1-\eta/2}/(2eA)\), so \(P\le\bigl(21\theta^{-1}/((1-\eta/2)\ln N-\ln(2eA))\bigr)^q\).
- For \(S>Aq\), as before, \(P\le(21\theta^{-1})^qe^{-0.15S}<e^{-Bq}\).
With \(q\ge k/25\ge c(K+1)\ln n/25\), take \(B=25/c+1\). Then both cases are at most \(n^{-K-1}\) once \(\ln\bigl(((1-\eta/2)\ln N-\ln(2eA))\theta/21\bigr)\ge B\), which \(n_0\) ensures.

An initial-matching cell or a \(\rho\)-cell in the block is a zero-image form. So the no-kill condition is at least as strong as \(C_y\) avoiding \(\rho\), and the bound applies.

Column-plus-sparse blocks, expansion, and the proof

Column-plus-sparse blocks. The bounds of thm:row-column-w carry over with \(r/h'\le1.01/\theta\) in place of \(2k\). This only improves (y), to \((29|U_b|/(\theta nq))^q\), and leaves (o) unchanged.

Expansion. Step 2 with \(r=h+1\) pigeons and \(h'\) holes gives failure probability at most \(\sum_u(9e^4ru/h'^2)^u\le\sum_u(500s/(\theta^2h))^u\le1000s/(\theta^2h)\), once \(500s/(\theta^2h)\le1/2\) and \(3s\le h'\).

Choosing \(n_0\). Take \(n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\) so that:

\(h\ge\max(100,k)\), \(k\ge11\), \(h'\ge5\), \(3s\le h'\) and \(500s/(\theta^2h)\le1/2\);
\(\beta'\ge0.3\) and \(h'/N\le\beta'e^{-\beta'}/2\), so that \(\lambda\le\beta'S/2\);
the conditions of both cell parts hold;
the column-plus-sparse conditions hold.

Each block has at most two failure events, each of probability at most \(n^{-K-1}\). The union bound over \(M\le n^K\) blocks gives at most \(2n^{-1}\), and \(2n^{-1}+1000s/(\theta^2h)<1\) for \(n\ge n_0\). So some outcome has no failure.

The proof. Map a degree-\(22k\) refutation through \(\Phi\) and \(\phi\), as in thm:row-column-w. The result is a refutation of graph PHP on \(G'\) at degree \(22k\), which contradicts imp:MN-functional-graph-degree. \(\square\)

What it means

One composed map serves hole blocks, row blocks and column statistics. Each block type has its own kill. Hole and multi-row blocks are killed by \(\rho\), or have few expander cells. The distinguished row's blocks are killed by \(E_0\), or meet fewer than \(k/5\) columns of \(H'\). Column statistics are frozen, and sparse parts miss the expander.
What is left of A1. Blocks whose forms keep high rank after freezing and restriction: dense forms that are neither cells nor column statistics plus sparse parts, and square-equivalent cell forms that are not literal cells. For the latter, the implication route of thm:cell-family-w applies without freezing but does not compose with it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:cell-family-w (Steps 2 and 3, including the reviewed constants), thm:row-column-w, thm:column-sparse-w, lem:span-restriction, lem:matching-avoidance-with-slack and imp:MN-functional-graph-degree. Two claim searches, for literal cell blocks with column statistics under freezing and restriction, and for hole blocks with row blocks and column statistics, found only this line's own results.

A fresh-context reviewer found no step that breaks the theorem. It confirmed:

the image list, which is exhaustive once one case is added;
the span bound;
the distinguished-row bound;
every modification of Step 3, including the conditional uniformity of \(H\setminus W\) given \(W\subseteq H'\), and that nothing else in Step 3 used \(h=r-1\);
the constants 21, 29 and 500;
the degree chain and all containments.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the initial-matching lines in the image list;
\(\eta\le1\);
the definition of \(\beta'\);
the inherited conditions on \(n_0\);
the explicit union bound;
two wording fixes;
the refines edge to thm:sparse-block-w;
this gate record.

The changes clarify or add conditions, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 33.66 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 15.80 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 17.72 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: freezing and restriction prove W for every family of literal cell blocks and column-plus-sparse blocks; product statistics are the first structured dense family outside both maps, and A1's core is now forms of high rank after them

26 September 2026 · Route review with an exact test · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-restriction-review-2. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: freezing and restriction prove W for every family of literal cell blocks and column-plus-sparse blocks; product statistics are the first structured dense family outside both maps, and A1's core is now forms of high rank after them”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-2.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Three research entries since the restriction review each added a map or a kill:

column-sparse blocks;
row-column blocks;
frozen cell families.

What does the line now cover, what is its core, and is there a structured family outside it?

General statement. The line's claim is W for every family, through one composed substitution: column freezing followed by a matching-and-expander restriction with empty columns. Its prefixes use zero-image forms or a spanning basis of restricted selectors. It is proved for every family of literal cell blocks and column-plus-sparse blocks (thm:frozen-cell-w), and, without freezing, for square-equivalent cell blocks with sparse blocks (thm:sparse-block-w). The goal needs all families.

Falsification attempt: product statistics

A form \(L=\sum_{i,t}\alpha_i\beta_tx_{it}+b\), a weighted assignment statistic, is neither a column statistic (unless \(\alpha\) is constant) nor sparse. Under freezing and restriction it becomes \(\sum_{(i,t)\in G'}\alpha_i\beta_ty_{it}\) plus a constant, a dense form on the expander cells. product_span.py computed the span of the selectors of blocks of \(N\) random product statistics on 10 expander cells, in 2 rows with 5 holes each (product_span.json).

With 20 residual holes, the span was 19, 54 and 56 for \(N=20,60,120\), against the maximum 56.
With 6 residual holes, where rows share holes, it was 18, 50 and 50.

So product-statistic blocks keep near-full rank. They are harmful under the line's criterion whenever they have more than about \(k\) forms. They are the first structured dense family outside both maps. Freezing removes only the directions constant on each column, and no restriction simplifies a form whose support covers the residual.

Assessment of the line

What it proved, in five cycles. W for all families built from:
- literal cell blocks, whether holes, rows, multi-row sets, or any cells;
- column statistics;
- sparse parts;
- square-equivalent cell blocks with sparse blocks.
The expander is built rather than assumed. The occupancy-mix obstruction was dissolved for W by empty columns.
Its mechanism. Each block needs a kill (a zero-image form) or a small span after a substitution that is common to all blocks. Every new block type so far was handled by adding one ingredient to the common substitution: freezing for column statistics, empty columns for the distinguished row, a constant fraction of empty columns for hole degrees.
Its limit. Dense forms of high rank after the substitution, such as random dense forms and product statistics. For them the line only moves W to the residual expander board.
Qualitative assessment. Productive, and closing on its natural boundary. What remains of A1 is a genuinely dense core. A further ingredient would need an affine map that makes weighted assignment statistics constant while preserving the weak base, and no such map is recorded.

Outside leads

A second freezing for row-weighted statistics, after the main record's column-freezing map. Target: product statistics. Freezing works because column sums are linear in the cells and the \(K_0\) copies with a complementary row make them constant. A row analogue would need \(\sum_t\beta_tx_{it}\) constant for each pigeon, which fixes the pigeon's \(\beta\)-level set. Where it breaks: many independent \(\beta\) at once. Test. Falsified by counting. \(n^K\) blocks can use \(d\ge\log_3n\) generic \(\beta\)-vectors whose joint level sets are single holes. A residual inside one level set is then a single column, too small for an expander.
Alekhnovich, Ben-Sasson, Razborov and Wigderson, "Pseudorandom generators in propositional proof complexity" (SIAM J. Comput. 2004), for the dense core. Their hardness of \(b\notin\mathrm{Im}(G)\) for expanding local generators uses the same expansion that the residual board has. Blocks of dense forms could be read as a generator's output coordinates. Where it breaks: their generators are local (each output depends on few inputs), while dense forms depend on all residual cells. Test. Falsified at the first hypothesis. A random dense restricted form depends on about \(2v/3\) of the \(v\) residual cells (restriction review), so no locality holds.
The record's A3 route, the product-top Cohen–Lenstra conjecture, on the residual board. Target: random dense blocks. Restriction maps uniform forms to uniform forms on the expander cells (restriction review). Where it breaks: the conjecture is stated on the complete board, and product statistics are not uniform. Test. Passed for uniform forms, as recorded, and falsified for product statistics. Their restricted coefficient matrix \(\alpha_i\beta_t\) has rank 1 on every row-pair, which is far from uniform, although its selector span is near-full.

Absurd bridges

Radio interferometry and the CLEAN deconvolution algorithm (Högbom, 1974). Translation: the substitution samples each block's coefficient matrix at the few "baselines" the residual expander keeps. CLEAN removes point sources one at a time and subtracts smooth backgrounds. Here the kills remove cell sources, and freezing subtracts column backgrounds. What a theorem there would give: a separation of sources into those removable by finitely many deconvolution steps and a residual noise floor. Here that would be a proof that every family splits into removable blocks and a random-like residual. Smallest test: is a product statistic removable by one more subtraction, that is, does the span drop after removing the rank-1 "source" direction? Test. Falsified. Product statistics already have rank-1 coefficient matrices, yet their selectors span near-fully (product_span.json). The source is removable in the coefficient space but not in selector space, which is quadratic.
The Oppenheim conjecture and Ratner's theorem on unipotent flows (Margulis, 1987). Translation: the selector \(1-L^2\) is a quadratic form in the residual cells. Whether a block's selectors span few dimensions resembles whether an indefinite quadratic form's values are dense or confined, and rational or rank-degenerate forms are the exceptions. What a theorem there would give: a classification of blocks with confined selector values as exactly those of low rank, the analogue of rational forms. That would mean low-rank blocks are the only structured dense blocks the span criterion removes, making the core "all blocks of rank above about \(\sqrt{2k}\)". Smallest test: is every dense block with small selector span of low affine rank? Test. Passed on the recorded data. Rank-2 dense blocks had span exactly 6 (restriction review). Random and product blocks of higher rank had near-full span. No counterexample appeared.

Bridge follow-up

Wilson's renormalization group. This cycle and the three before it developed it. Freezing is a second coarse-graining that removes the column-statistic direction, which restriction alone treated as relevant. Empty columns remove the distinguished row's direction. The relevant operators surviving both maps are exactly the dense forms of high rank after them. The universality question, whether these flow to a random fixed point, is answered negatively for product statistics: they survive with structure. Follow-up. Continuing: the next step asks whether a third coarse-graining removes product statistics.
Compressed sensing: random row sampling and the restricted isometry property. The bridge predicted that coherence decides removal. Column statistics are incoherent, spread over all cells, yet freezing removes them. Product statistics are also incoherent and are not removed. Follow-up. Closed: coherence does not separate removable from harmful blocks. What matters is whether some affine map preserving the weak base makes the forms constant.

Next step

The highest-risk item is A1's dense core. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is a decision on product statistics. Either find an affine map preserving the weak base up to degree 2 that makes \(\sum_i\alpha_i\sum_t\beta_tx_{it}\) constant for all \((\alpha,\beta)\) in a family, perhaps by pairing pigeons into copies as freezing pairs columns. Or prove that no such map exists, which would make product statistics the first structured family that needs a hardness argument on the residual expander rather than a map.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:frozen-cell-w, thm:row-column-w, thm:column-sparse-w, lem:span-restriction and the restriction review's span data. The product-statistic numbers were read from the saved JSON. This review registers no claim.

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Row-sparse blocks satisfy W: the Mikša–Nordström bound allows functionality on the residual, so each residual pigeon becomes a 5-state variable, and blocks supported on few rows are harmless whatever their coefficients

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported bounds · open statement A1, row-sparse blocks · cycle odd-prime-product-statistics. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Row-sparse blocks satisfy W: the Mikša–Nordström bound allows functionality on the residual, so each residual pigeon becomes a 5-state variable, and blocks supported on few rows are harmless whatever their coefficients”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-row-sparse-blocks.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The second restriction review found product statistics \(\sum_{i,t}\alpha_i\beta_tx_{it}\) outside both maps. The review measured harmlessness by the span of restricted selectors modulo Booleanity alone. But the residual lower bound, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, is for graph PHP with functionality. Does measuring modulo functionality remove product statistics, or some of them?

General statement. Two results, lem:functional-residual and thm:row-sparse-w, over \(\mathbb F_3\) in W's setting with \(m=n+1\).

lem:functional-residual: in any restriction argument ending at imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, restricted clauses need only be derivable from functional graph PHP on \(G'\). So selector spans may be measured as functions on the product of the residual pigeons' state sets.
thm:row-sparse-w: with \(M\le n^K\), \(c(K+1)\ln n\le k\le C(K+1)\ln n\) and fixed \(\eta\in(0,1/2)\), W holds for \(n\ge n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\) for every family whose blocks are of three kinds:
- square-equivalent cell blocks (thm:cell-family-w);
- sparse blocks (thm:sparse-block-w);
- row-sparse blocks, whose non-rigid forms are supported in a common set of at most \(n^{1/2-\eta}\) rows, with arbitrary coefficients there.

The functional residual

Lemma (functional residual). Let \(\phi\) be a restriction by a partial matching and a graph \(G'\) of left degree \(d\le22k+1\), as in thm:cell-family-w. Let \(F_{G'}\) be the weak graph PHP on \(G'\) plus the functionality axioms \(y_{it}y_{it'}\) (\(t\ne t'\) in \(N(i)\)). Take any refutation of degree at most \(22k+1\) of the base plus some polynomials (clauses or occupancy implications) whose restrictions lie in \(C_D(F_{G'})\), with \(D\le22k+1\). Implications that restrict to 0 count as lying there. Then restriction and substitution give a refutation of \(F_{G'}\) of degree at most \(22k+1\). imp:MN-functional-graph-degree forbids that when \(G'\) is an \((s,1)\)-boundary expander with \(s/(2d)\ge22k+1\), since that bound is strict.

Proof. Restriction maps the base into \(F_{G'}\). Substituting derivations of the restricted polynomials gives a refutation of \(F_{G'}\) at degree \(\max(22k+1,D)\). By the record's audit, the imported theorem is for the pigeon, hole and functionality CNF. The linear rows are derived from the pigeon clause and functionality at degree \(d\), so a PC refutation of \(F_{G'}\) at degree \(D'\ge d\) gives one of the CNF at degree \(D'\). \(\square\)

The local function space. For a set \(P\) of residual pigeons with \(|P|=b\), work modulo Booleanity, functionality and the rows of \(P\). A polynomial of degree at most 2 in the cells of \(P\) is then equal, as a function on the product of the pigeons' state sets, to a combination of:

\(1\);
\(y_{it}\), with one \(t\) per pigeon dropped using \(\sum_ty_{it}=1\);
\(y_{it}y_{js}\) for \(i\ne j\).

This space has dimension at most \(1+4b+16\binom b2\le1+4b+8b^2\). Its normal form is reached at degree 2, since a row times a variable has degree 2, and Booleanity and functionality enter with constant coefficients. The reduced monomials form a tensor basis of the functions on the product of the state sets. So a degree-2 polynomial that vanishes on every state lies in \(C_2\), hence in \(C_3\), of the local axioms; collisions are not needed. Consequently lem:span-restriction holds with the span taken in this space. If \(\bar g_i=\sum c_j\bar g_j+e\) with \(e\) vanishing on every state, then \(e\in C_3(F_{G'})\), \(e\bar Q\) is derived at degree \(2k+3\), and the Frobenius terms are as before.

Row-sparse blocks

Use the choice of thm:cell-family-w: \(h=\lceil\sqrt n\rceil\), \(r=h+1\), and 5-subsets. Take a row-sparse block with row set \(P_b\), \(|P_b|\le n^{1/2-\eta}\).

Cells in matched rows are constants under \(\phi\).
The non-constant parts of the restricted forms lie in the \(G'\)-cells of the rows \(P_b\cap R\).

Let \(b=|P_b\cap R|\) and \(b_0=\max\{b:1+4b+8b^2\le k\}\ge\sqrt{k/8}-2\).

If \(b\le b_0\), a basis prefix of the selectors in the local function space makes every restricted clause derivable at degree at most \(2k+3\).

So the block fails only if \(b>b_0\). Since \(R\) is a uniform \(r\)-subset of the \(m\) pigeons,

\[P(b\ge b_0+1)\le\binom{|P_b|}{b_0+1}\Bigl(\frac rm\Bigr)^{b_0+1}\le\Bigl(\frac{e\,n^{1/2-\eta}\cdot1.01n^{1/2}}{(b_0+1)n}\Bigr)^{b_0+1}\le\Bigl(\frac{3n^{-\eta}}{b_0+1}\Bigr)^{b_0+1}\le n^{-\eta(b_0+1)},\]

once \(b_0\ge2\). This is at most \(n^{-K-1}\) once \(\eta(b_0+1)\ge K+1\), for instance once \(\eta(\sqrt{k/8}-1)\ge K+1\). Both hold for \(n\ge n_0\), since \(k\ge c(K+1)\ln n\), and \(n_0\) includes \(b_0\ge2\).

Proof of the theorem

Take the choice of thm:cell-family-w, with cell blocks and sparse blocks as in thm:cell-family-w and thm:sparse-block-w, and row-sparse blocks as above. Every block fails with probability at most \(n^{-K-1}\). The union bound and Step 2 leave an outcome with no failure. For a degree-\(22k\) refutation:

Cell-block clauses become occupancy implications at degree \(22k+1\) (prop:cell-block-implications).
Restriction kills the implications (the killing lemma).
Sparse-block clauses become Booleanity consequences (lem:span-restriction).
Row-sparse clauses become consequences of \(F_{G'}\) at degree at most \(2k+3\).

By the lemma, this gives a refutation of \(F_{G'}\) at degree \(22k+1\), which the imported bound forbids: Step 2 gives an \((s,1)\)-expander with \(d=5\) and \(s/(2d)=22k+1\), and the bound is strict. \(\square\)

What it means

Product statistics with few pigeons are removed. A block of product statistics whose pigeon weights have supports with union at most \(n^{1/2-\eta}\) is row-sparse, whatever the \(\beta\) are. So is any block of forms whose rows together number at most \(n^{1/2-\eta}\), with arbitrary coefficients in those rows.
What stays in the core. Blocks of product statistics whose weights have union support above \(n^{1/2-\eta}\), and dense forms generally. The same bound reaches union support \(\sqrt n\,e^{-A\sqrt{\ln n}}\) for a suitable constant \(A\). Functionality turns each residual pigeon into a 5-state variable, but once a block meets more than \(b_0\) residual pigeons the dimension bound no longer suffices.
Composition with freezing is not claimed. Freezing sends the distinguished row's forms to column occupancies, which are not pigeon-local. So row-sparse blocks with arbitrary coefficients do not join column statistics by this argument.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read imp:MN-functional-graph-degree and its encoding audit (functionality CNF, linear rows at degree \(d\)), thm:cell-family-w, thm:sparse-block-w, lem:span-restriction and prop:cell-block-implications. Two claim searches, for row-local forms with functionality and for functional residual clauses, found no prior version; the closest claims are the selector transfers, which use functionality in the source, not in a residual.

A fresh-context reviewer found no step that breaks either result. It confirmed:

that adding functionality to the residual target is legitimate, since MN is proved for the functionality CNF;
the encoding transfer at ceilings of at least 5;
the strictness at \(22k+1\);
the tensor-basis argument, with degree 2 sufficing;
the probability chain;
that functionality conflicts neither with the killing lemma nor with antecedent deletion.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the lemma restated for refutations of degree \(22k+1\), including implications;
the corrected bound \(b_0\ge\sqrt{k/8}-2\) and its condition;
the scope of the product-statistic and row-block remarks;
the gap between \(n^{1/2-\eta}\) and \(\sqrt n\);
this gate record.

The changes correct or weaken, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: the restriction line has reached its dense core, forms involving many residual pigeons with large functional span, where no map of the recorded kind can help and A1 needs a hardness argument on the residual expander

26 September 2026 · Route review (no computation) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dense-product-statistics. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the restriction line has reached its dense core, forms involving many residual pigeons with large functional span, where no map of the recorded kind can help and A1 needs a hardness argument on the residual expander”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-3.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the second restriction review, row-sparse blocks added functionality on the residual. What is now the exact boundary of the line, and what should replace it for the rest of A1?

General statement. The line's claim is W for every family, through one common substitution that makes every block harmless. The substitution is a freezing, a restriction to a matching plus an expander, and empty columns. A block is harmless when it has a zero-image form, or when its restricted selectors span at most \(k\) dimensions modulo functional graph PHP. The line proves W for families of:

square-equivalent cell blocks, sparse blocks and row-sparse blocks (thm:row-sparse-w);
literal cell blocks and column-plus-sparse blocks (thm:frozen-cell-w).

A block escapes only if it has more than \(k\) forms involving about \(\sqrt k\) or more residual pigeons, no zero image, and selectors spanning more than \(k\) dimensions. Call such blocks the dense core.

Falsification attempt: is the dense core a restatement of W?

For a family of uniformly random dense blocks, the restriction maps each block to independent uniform forms on the residual cells (restriction review). Harmless blocks can be dropped, so W for the family is W on the residual expander board for the restricted core. That is W's own question on a board of \(\sqrt n\) holes with \(n^K=(h^2)^K\) blocks and the same \(k\). So for random dense families the line gives only a self-reduction. The dense core is not a restatement of A1 for structured families: cells, column statistics, sparse parts and few-row forms are all removed. But it contains A3's random instances in full. The line cannot finish A1 alone.

Assessment of the line

Output. Nine entries in one day took A1 from "no family class proved beyond hole families under an expansion hypothesis" to every structured class tested except dense statistics. The expander is built, not assumed.
Boundary. The dense core. Two recorded obstructions block any further freezing-type map:
- obs:separating-column-affine-freezing: no affine map with base images in \(C_2\) freezes all separating probes;
- obs:common-freezing-rectangle-layout-obstruction: common layouts cannot separate linear-rank code families.
Qualitative assessment. Finished as a reduction line. Its value is that A1 now needs hardness only for dense-core blocks on a residual expander board, with the rest of any family removed.

Outside leads

Affine restrictions in the style of Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's lower bounds for regular resolution over parities (2023), which fix linear forms rather than variables. Target: the dense core. An affine map that sets a dense form to a constant while preserving the weak base would kill it. Where it breaks: the map must also preserve PHP's base. Test. Falsified by the record. obs:separating-column-affine-freezing shows that affine maps with base images in \(C_2\) cannot freeze all separating probes. A dense-core block contains such probes generically.
The record's closure route (conj:closed-row-freeness), which was motivated by column forms. Target: structured dense members. Where it breaks: its motivating instance, families of column forms, is now proved by freezing (thm:column-sparse-w). Test. Passed as a check of relevance. The closure route's column-form case is subsumed. Its remaining value is for members cut by dense non-column forms, which is exactly the dense core, where it needs the Koszul condition for non-column forms.
The record's A3 route (conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra, killer-moment review), transported to the residual board. Target: random dense core blocks. Test. Passed on its first hypothesis, as recorded: restriction maps uniform forms to uniform forms. The transport of A3 from the complete weak base to functional graph PHP on an expander is untested. It is the natural next object.

Absurd bridges

The Mattis model of spin glasses, gauge-equivalent to a ferromagnet (Mattis, 1976). Translation: a product statistic \(\sum_i\alpha_i\beta_{h(i)}\) is a rank-1 coupling, like the Mattis couplings \(J_{ij}=\xi_i\xi_j\). Mattis couplings are removed by the gauge \(\sigma_i\mapsto\xi_i\sigma_i\). What a theorem there would give: a symmetry of the base mapping dense product statistics to column statistics, which freezing removes. Smallest test: does a PHP automorphism (pigeon and hole permutations) map a product statistic with non-constant \(\alpha\) to a column statistic? Test. Falsified. Automorphisms permute the values of \(\alpha\) among pigeons but cannot make them constant, and the weak base has no scaling symmetry of individual rows.
Puncturing of linear codes and the Singleton bound. Translation: a block's forms are a linear code on the cell coordinates. The restriction punctures it to the residual cells. The dense core is the set of blocks whose punctured code has large dimension and whose selector code, the degree-2 image, stays large. What a theorem there would give: a bound, of Singleton or MDS type, on how many blocks of a family can keep large punctured dimension under a random puncturing. That would count the dense core and perhaps show it is sparse in any family. Smallest test: does a family of \(n^K\) random dense blocks keep all its blocks in the core after puncturing? Test. Passed. By the restriction review's check, every random dense block with more than \(k\) forms keeps full selector span. So no counting bound can thin the core for random families, and the bridge reduces to A3.

Bridge follow-up

Wilson's renormalization group. This cycle's predecessor added a further coarse-graining: functionality turns residual pigeons into 5-state spins. It removed few-row blocks, which the earlier picture counted as relevant. The relevant operators are now exactly the dense core. Follow-up. Closed: the coarse-grainings available, restriction, freezing, empty columns and functionality, are exhausted by the recorded freezing obstructions, and the fixed-point question has become A3.
The Oppenheim conjecture and Ratner's theorem. The bridge predicted that small selector span occurs only for low affine rank. Row-sparse blocks, with arbitrary coefficients on few rows, have large affine rank but small functional span. Follow-up. Closed: falsified once functionality is used. Span is governed by the number of residual pigeons involved, not by affine rank.

Next step

The highest-risk item is A1's dense core. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is to state the residual core precisely and connect it to A3. Formulate W on functional graph PHP over a random left-5-regular expander board, for blocks of affine forms in its cells. Then check which of A3's recorded ingredients survive the change of base: the product-top statistics, the killer moments, and the divided-power product law. If they survive, A1 reduces to a single A3-type statement on expander boards.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:row-sparse-w and thm:frozen-cell-w;
lem:functional-residual;
obs:separating-column-affine-freezing and obs:common-freezing-rectangle-layout-obstruction;
conj:closed-row-freeness;
the restriction reviews' span data.

This review registers no claim.

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Total instrumented interval	2 min 12.75 s
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A1 follows from one statement on expander boards: after the restriction, W needs only the hardness of functional graph PHP on the residual expander plus the core blocks' clauses; A3's divided-power product law holds there, while its moment counts and the gluing base must be redone

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a reduction, and a conjecture · open statement A1, dense core · cycle odd-prime-expander-a3. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A1 follows from one statement on expander boards: after the restriction, W needs only the hardness of functional graph PHP on the residual expander plus the core blocks' clauses; A3's divided-power product law holds there, while its moment counts and the gluing base must be redone”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-expander-core.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The third restriction review asked for W on functional graph PHP over expander boards, and for which of A3's ingredients survive the change of base.

General statement. Two statements, prop:expander-core-reduction and conj:expander-dense-core, over \(\mathbb F_3\) in W's setting with \(m=n+1\), \(M\le n^K\) and \(c(K+1)\ln n\le k\le C(K+1)\ln n\).

prop:expander-core-reduction: fix any family and any outcome of the choice of thm:row-sparse-w. Let \(F_{G'}\) be functional graph PHP on \(G'\): the linear rows \(\sum_{t\in N(i)}y_{it}=1\), the collisions, Booleanity, and functionality \(y_{it}y_{it'}\). Call a block core unless it is a cell, sparse or row-sparse block that succeeds under the choice. That includes every dense block and every failing cell block. Then W holds for the family if \(F_{G'}\), plus the restricted clauses of the core blocks under some prefixes, has no PC refutation of degree \(22k+1\).
conj:expander-dense-core: fix \(K'\) and \(0<c'\le C'\). For all large \(h\), every \((s,1)\)-boundary expander \(G'\) of left degree 5 has the following property. Here \(s=10(22k+1)\), and \(G'\) has \(h+1\) pigeons and \(h'\le h\) holes. Let \(k\) satisfy \(c'(K'+1)\ln h\le k\le C'(K'+1)\ln h\). Let a family of at most \(h^{K'}\) blocks be chosen after \(G'\). Each block is a multiset of affine forms in the cells of \(G'\), constants allowed, with a nominal size \(h_b\). Then some prefixes of size \(\min(k,h_b)\) leave \(F_{G'}\) plus the clauses with no refutation of degree \(22k+1\). With \(K'=2K+1\), \(c'=c/2\) and \(C'=C\), the proposition makes this conjecture imply A1.

The reduction

Proof of the proposition. The killing lemma and lem:span-restriction act block by block. So the core blocks' prefixes are free, and the non-core blocks keep the prefixes of thm:row-sparse-w. Take a degree-\(22k\) refutation of the base plus the chosen clauses.

Clauses of succeeding cell blocks become occupancy implications at degree \(22k+1\) (prop:cell-block-implications).
Restrict. The implications vanish (killing lemma). Clauses of succeeding sparse and row-sparse blocks lie in \(C_{2k+3}(F_{G'})\) (lem:span-restriction, lem:functional-residual). Rigid excluded clauses lie in \(C_{22k}\). Core clauses, including those of failing cell blocks, stay as restricted clauses.
The result is a refutation of \(F_{G'}\) plus the restricted core clauses at degree \(22k+1\).

The expansion of \(G'\) is not used here. It only places \(G'\) within the conjecture's scope, and Step 2 of thm:cell-family-w gives it with probability \(1-o(1)\) when \(k\le C(K+1)\ln n\).

Parameters. With \(h=\lceil\sqrt n\rceil\):

\(M\le n^K\le h^{2K}\le h^{K'}\);
\(k\ge c(K+1)\ln n\ge c(K+1)\ln h=c'(K'+1)\ln h\), with \(c'=c/2\);
\(k\le C(K+1)\ln n\le2C(K+1)\ln h=C'(K'+1)\ln h\).

Restricted forms may become constants or coincide, which is why the conjecture allows multisets. The prefix sizes keep the original \(h_b\). Frozen-cell and column-statistic blocks are not removed by this choice, which does not freeze. They become core, and the conjecture must absorb them. \(\square\)

What survives on expander boards

The product law. Weak graph PHP on \(G'\) has monomial algebra \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_t(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_t)\). Here \(V_t\) is spanned by the \(G'\)-cells of hole \(t\), so \(\dim V_t=\deg_{G'}(t)\). The product law of lem:divided-power-sums uses neither \(\dim V_c=m\) nor \(m\ge2\), so it holds verbatim. Its per-column independence hypothesis now allows at most \(\deg_{G'}(t)\) parts in column \(t\), often 0 to 2.
What must be recounted. The lemma's stratum consequence uses \(\dim V_c=m\) and \(C_0\ge\binom N5m^5-O(N^2)\). With varying hole degrees, both counts must be redone.
The random tops. The restriction of a uniform affine form has a uniform linear part on the cells of \(G'\), plus a constant from the \(\rho\)-cells. A product top \(e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell')\) is built from linear parts, so the law applies to the linear parts, and the constants must be carried separately.
Functionality. The reduction needs hardness of \(F_{G'}\), which has functionality, and that is stronger than hardness of the weak system. A moment or gluing argument on \(\tilde A\), without the relations \(y_{it}y_{it'}\), proves only weak hardness. So such an argument must run on the quotient by functionality. The alternative is to leave row-sparse blocks in the core, so that the weak system suffices.
The gluing base. The theorems that turn Tor vanishing into hardness (thm:taylor-glue, closure gluing) rest on the complete board's weak base (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic). A claim search for graph or expander versions of the gluing base found none.

What it means

A1 follows from one stronger statement on expander boards. The conjecture quantifies over all families on \(G'\), including residual column statistics, which the original board removed by freezing.
For random families two pieces are missing: A3's main term (the inverse theorem of conj:product-top-killer-moment), and a gluing base on expander boards, over the functional quotient.
Next. The gluing base: does functional graph PHP on a boundary expander satisfy, through logarithmic degree, the base condition that thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic proves for the complete weak base?

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

lem:divided-power-sums (its unused hypotheses and the stratum count);
thm:row-sparse-w, lem:functional-residual, lem:span-restriction and prop:cell-block-implications;
thm:cell-family-w (Step 2);
thm:taylor-glue and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic.

Two claim searches, for expander or graph versions of the gluing base and for W on expander boards, found no prior version. The closest claims were thm:taylor-glue and the complete-board base theorems.

A fresh-context reviewer found nothing that breaks the reduction. It required these changes, all adopted:

the direction of the functionality remark: the functional system is the harder target;
the exact definitions of \(F_{G'}\) and of core blocks, and that core prefixes are free;
dropping the unused expansion hypothesis;
the corrected parameter fit;
multisets, the original \(h_b\) and the quantifier order in the conjecture;
frozen blocks becoming core;
that only the product law holds verbatim, with the constants carried separately;
"follows from one stronger statement", with both missing pieces listed.

The changes correct or weaken, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	11 min 46.89 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 13.70 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 28.57 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Route review: A1 now rests on W over expander boards; its gluing base has no decisive finite test at reachable sizes, the older closure and chooser leads are superseded, and the next step is an extension lemma from the Mikša–Nordström closure

26 September 2026 · Route review (no computation) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-expander-base. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: A1 now rests on W over expander boards; its gluing base has no decisive finite test at reachable sizes, the older closure and chooser leads are superseded, and the next step is an extension lemma from the Mikša–Nordström closure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-expander-core-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The expander-core entry reduced A1 to conj:expander-dense-core. For random families that needs two things: A3's main term, and a gluing base on expander boards. The last proposed step was to test the base exactly on small expander boards. Can such a test decide anything? Which line comes next? What happened to the passed leads of earlier reviews, now that they need follow-ups too?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:expander-dense-core: W for every family of blocks of affine forms on functional graph PHP over a boundary expander of left degree 5. It implies A1 by prop:expander-core-reduction.

Falsification attempt

Can a small exact test decide the base? No. The imported bound gives degree above \(s/10\) only for \((s,1)\)-expanders. At any board an exact closure computation reaches (at most about 10 holes), \(s/10<1\). So a degree fall found there is compatible with every statement about expanders. By the computation rules, the test was not run.
Onto-type residual blocks. The conjecture quantifies over all families on \(G'\). Take the block of hole-occupancy forms \(\{-o_t:t\in H'\}\). Its clauses say "if the prefix holes are occupied, so is hole \(i\)". Summing rows gives only \(\prod_{t\in S}o_t=0\) at degree about \(k+2\): some prefix hole is empty. Deleting one prefix hole, a restriction, makes every clause vanish and leaves graph PHP with surplus 2 on an expander that has lost one hole. So this block is harmless.

The conjecture survives both.

Assessment of the line

What it is. A reduction, not yet a mechanism. It concentrates A1 in one statement on expander boards, with every structured block removed.
What it needs.
- A gluing base: an extension property of functional graph PHP on expanders, the analogue of the matching extension that Taylor glue uses.
- For random families, A3's main term.
Evidence. None beyond the product law's transfer. Finite tests cannot reach the relevant sizes.
Assessment. Promising as a formulation, weak as yet in evidence. The base is the part a proof can target now, because the Mikša–Nordström closure already builds a pseudo-reduction on exactly these boards.

Outside leads

The Mikša–Nordström closure operator (arXiv:1505.01358, Theorem 3.8 and Lemma 3.15), as the gluing base. Target: an extension lemma for functional graph PHP on expanders. Their operator \(R\) is linear, sends axioms to 0 and satisfies \(R(xt)=R(xR(t))\) through degree \(\delta s/(2d)\). Taylor glue needs more: every functional defined through a lower degree must extend. Where it breaks: \(R\) is one functional, built from supports and closures, while extension must hold for all. Test. Passed on its first hypothesis. Lemma 3.15's conditions hold through \(s/10\) on our \(G'\), by Theorem 4.9 and Step 2 of thm:cell-family-w. The extension property is untested and is the next step.
Buss, Grigoriev, Impagliazzo and Pitassi, linear gaps between degrees for PC modulo distinct primes (J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 2001). Target: random dense core blocks, through their design-plus-expansion degree bounds for linear equations modulo \(p\). Where it breaks: our clauses are products of squares of affine forms, not linear equations. Test. Falsified. A clause \(g\prod L^2\) of a dense block is not in the span of a bounded number of linear equations: its restricted selectors span more than \(k\) dimensions, by the restriction review's check.
Pseudo-calibration (Barak, Hopkins, Kelner, Kothari, Moitra and Potechin, FOCS 2016), for random dense core families. Pseudo-expectations are built by projecting a planted distribution to low degree. Where it breaks: W has no natural planted distribution, since the base is unsatisfiable, and PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) is not SOS. Test. Not run: a planted model for W would first have to be defined, and none is recorded.

Absurd bridges

Expander codes and Sipser–Spielman decoding. Translation: the residual expander is a Tanner graph, pigeons are variables, holes are checks, and core clauses are further checks. Unique-neighbour decoding corrects local errors, which would make pseudo-solutions robust to changing a few pigeons. What a theorem there would give: a local correction of any small partial assignment to one satisfying all checks it touches, which is the extension property. Smallest test: are the core checks local? Test. Falsified. Core clauses touch about \(2v/3\) of the \(v\) residual cells, so they are not local checks.
Chip-firing and sandpiles on expanders (Björner, Lovász and Shor, 1991). Translation: a PC derivation fires lines along the board. Degree plays the part of height, and a refutation is an avalanche that reaches the sink. On expanders, avalanches from small configurations stay small. What a theorem there would give: that no degree-bounded derivation can reach 1 from local seeds, a combinatorial form of the degree bound. Test. Not run: firing is not defined for polynomial lines, and defining it is the translation itself.

Bridge follow-up

Puncturing and the Singleton bound. This cycle compared the bridge with the expander-core reduction. Every random dense block stays in the core under puncturing, so no counting thins the core, and the remaining question is A3's. Follow-up. Closed: the bridge reduces to A3 on expander boards, which the Outside leads carry.

This is the first review under the rule that passed Outside leads need follow-ups. Each lead below was rechecked against the line it targeted.

Lead follow-up

Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. They are the candidate inverse theorem for A3's main term. That is now one of the two pieces conj:expander-dense-core needs for random families. Follow-up. Continuing: it will be taken up with A3's main term on expander boards.
Gauss sums for the two-layer structure. Follow-up. Closed: developed into lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound. Its recorded limit, vacuity above analytic rank about \(0.71mN\), ends this lead.
Regularity of subspace arrangements. Follow-up. Closed: A1's structured families are now proved by restriction. For dense-core blocks the arrangement has more than \(k\) subspaces, so the regularity bound exceeds the degree budget. That is the lead's own obstacle.
Dade's lemma and rank varieties, for the closure route. Follow-up. Closed: the closure route's motivating case, column forms, is proved by freezing (thm:column-sparse-w). The route is parked, and its leads stay in the record for a restart.
Mayer homology of \(p\)-complexes. Follow-up. Closed: closure route parked, as above.
\(\pi\)-points and generic Jordan types. Follow-up. Closed: closure route parked, as above.
Exponential sums for point counts, for conj:free-hole-good. Follow-up. Closed: the free-hole conjecture belongs to the parked closure line.
Vertex decomposability, for conj:good-column. Follow-up. Closed: parked with the closure line.
Nguyen and Wood's moment method for cokernels with dependent entries. This is the other candidate for A3's main term. Row dependence on an expander board is sparser than on the complete board, since each pigeon has 5 cells. That may help. Follow-up. Continuing: with A3's main term on expander boards.
Quasi-linear partition rank. Follow-up. Closed: it would sharpen lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound, part 3. But the bound is vacuous above analytic rank about \(0.71mN\) whatever the partition-rank loss, so it cannot reach the main term.
Min-wise independent permutations. Follow-up. Closed: the chooser rules it analysed were superseded by the matching-and-expander choice (thm:cell-family-w).
Mikša and Nordström's generalized method. Developed in the restriction line. Theorem 4.9 carries every residual argument, and Theorem 3.8 was read and set aside for dense clauses, which are not local. Follow-up. Closed: its remaining use is the extension lemma above, listed as a new lead.
Counting modulo \(p\) (Beame and Riis). Follow-up. Closed: restriction choices leave no implications, so no hole is forced and counting has nothing to refute.
The A3 route on the residual. Developed in the expander-core entry, where the product law transferred. Follow-up. Closed: merged into the follow-up of entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-3:3.
The A3 route, product-top Cohen–Lenstra, on the residual. Follow-up. Closed: merged into the follow-up of entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-3:3.
The closure route for structured dense members. Follow-up. Closed: parked, as above. Its Koszul condition for non-column forms is not needed while the expander core is open.
The A3 route transported to the residual board. Developed in the expander-core entry. The product law holds verbatim, while the stratum counts, the constants and the functional quotient must be redone. Follow-up. Continuing: A3 on expander boards is one of the two missing pieces.

Next step

The highest-risk item is A1's expander core. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the extension lemma. For functional graph PHP on an \((s,1)\)-boundary expander of left degree 5, state and prove the analogue of the matching extension theorem that Taylor glue uses. The proposed form: every NS functional through degree \(j<s/10\) that vanishes on the axioms extends through \(j+1\). The route to try builds each extension from the Mikša–Nordström closure. Then check whether Taylor glue's syzygy-gluing argument goes through with it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

conj:expander-dense-core and prop:expander-core-reduction;
thm:taylor-glue (its base extension hypothesis);
imp:MN-functional-graph-degree and the MN framework (Theorem 3.8, Lemma 3.15);
every lead listed above, from its review.

This review registers no claim.

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Matching extension on graph boards: the complete board's design extension transfers row set by row set to any graph whose matching complexes are filled, rows with private holes fill by the known leaf decomposition, and 3-expansion with rows of degree 3 does not

26 September 2026 · Working proofs, a conjecture and finite checks · open statement A1, expander core · cycle odd-prime-expander-extension. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Matching extension on graph boards: the complete board's design extension transfers row set by row set to any graph whose matching complexes are filled, rows with private holes fill by the known leaf decomposition, and 3-expansion with rows of degree 3 does not”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-graph-matching-extension.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The expander-core review asked for the analogue, on functional graph PHP over the residual expander, of the matching extension theorem that thm:taylor-glue uses. This develops that review's first Outside lead. On the complete board, extension from degree \(s-1\) to \(s\) fills a cycle in the \(s\times N\) chessboard complex, by BLVZ connectivity when \(N\ge2s-1\). What replaces it on a graph board, and does expansion supply it?

General statement. Three statements, lem:graph-matching-extension, lem:private-hole-filling and conj:expander-matching-filling, over any field \(\mathbb K\) unless stated. For a bipartite graph \(G\) (rows, holes) and a row set \(S\), \(M(G[S])\) is the complex of partial matchings of \(G\) using rows of \(S\).

lem:graph-matching-extension: suppose \(\tilde H_{|S|-2}(M(G[S]);\mathbb K)=0\) for every row set with \(1\le|S|\le B\). Then for functional graph PHP on \(G\), every normalized degree-\(k\) design extends through \(B\), and \(\mathcal I_B\cap\mathcal P_{\le k}=\mathcal I_k\), \(\mathcal C_B=\mathcal I_B\).
lem:private-hole-filling: if every row of \(S\) has a hole adjacent to no other row of \(S\), then \(\tilde H_{|S|-2}(M(G[S]);\mathbb K)=0\). This is a rediscovery: a private hole is a leaf of \(G[S]\), and the proof is the leaf decomposition of matching complexes (Marietti and Testa, Electron. J. Combin. 15 (2008), Proposition 3.3; in the form of Jelić Milutinović, Jenne, McDonough and Vega, arXiv:1905.10560, Lemma 2.13).
conj:expander-matching-filling: for a left-5-regular graph with \(|N(U)|\ge3|U|\) for all row sets \(|U|\le s\), \(\tilde H_{|S|-2}(M(G[S]);\mathbb F_3)=0\) for every \(|S|\le s\). It concerns the row sets of the graph itself, where every row has degree 5. The branches \(G-t\), whose rows lose holes, occur only inside the proof of the lemma.

The graph matching extension

Proof of lem:graph-matching-extension. This follows the main record's matching extension theorem with \(M(G[S])\) in place of the chessboard complex.

Modulo Booleanity and both exclusions, the multilinear monomials of functional graph PHP are the partial matchings of \(G\). A design is a family \(z_T\) of values on matchings of size at most the degree, with \(z_\varnothing=1\), and the row equations give the constraints \[\sum_{j\in N(i)\setminus\mathrm{col}(T)}z_{T\cup\{(i,j)\}}=z_T,\qquad |T|<B,\ i\notin\mathrm{row}(T).\]
Degree 1. Assign each row its total 1 on its holes. This needs \(N(i)\ne\varnothing\), which is the hypothesis at \(|S|=1\), since \(\tilde H_{-1}\) of an empty complex is \(\mathbb K\).
From \(s-1\) to \(s\). Fix an \(s\)-row set \(S=\{i_0<\dots<i_{s-1}\}\). Give a prescribed \((s-1)\)-matching \(T\) that misses row \(i_j\) the coefficient \((-1)^jz_T\). The record's cancellation shows this chain is a reduced cycle. It uses only that the two marginal sums through a face missing rows \(i_a\) and \(i_b\) both equal the same previously assigned moment, which the constraints give on \(G\) as on the complete board. By hypothesis the cycle bounds. A filling assigns values to the \(s\)-matchings of \(G[S]\), and the boundary equations are exactly the constraints for the \((s-1)\)-matchings on rows of \(S\).
Independence. Each \(s\)-matching belongs to one row set, so the fillings for different row sets are independent.
Stability. The duality and multiplication argument of the record then gives the two equalities. It uses only the extension property.

\(\square\)

By thm:chessboard-link, on the complete board the same complexes are the multilinear strands of the Koszul complex of the row sums. The graph version of that identification is not claimed here.

Private holes fill

Proof of lem:private-hole-filling (known). Let \(r\in S\) have a private hole \(t_0\). Write \(X=M(G[S\setminus r])\) and \(X_t=M((G-t)[S\setminus r])\). The faces containing the cell \((r,t)\) are \((r,t)\) joined to a face of \(X_t\). So \[M(G[S])=X\ \cup\ \bigcup_{t\in N(r)}\operatorname{cone}_{(r,t)}X_t .\]

Since \(t_0\) is private, \(X_{t_0}=X\), and \(\operatorname{cone}_{(r,t_0)}X\) is a contractible subcomplex.
Two cones meet only in \(X_t\cap X_{t'}\subseteq X\), because no face contains two cells of row \(r\).

Collapsing the contractible cone gives \(M(G[S])\simeq\bigvee_{t\ne t_0}\Sigma X_t\). So \(\tilde H_{s-2}(M(G[S]))\cong\bigoplus_{t\ne t_0}\tilde H_{s-3}(X_t)\).

Each \(X_t\) is the matching complex of \(s-1\) rows in \(G-t\). Every row of \(S\setminus r\) keeps its private hole, because a hole of \(N(r)\) is not private to another row. Induction on \(s\) finishes. At \(s=1\) the complex is the nonempty set of the row's holes. The induction in fact gives a wedge of \((s-1)\)-spheres, so the vanishing also holds over \(\mathbb Z\). \(\square\)

The recursion needs only one row with a private hole at each step, in every branch \(G-t\). So the lemma holds for the class of \((S,G)\) that admit such an elimination order in all branches.

Finite checks

matching_complex.py, hall_slack_test.py, expansion_degree_test.py and power_counts.py computed \(\tilde H_{s-2}(M(G[S]);\mathbb F_3)\) exactly. Ranks came from FLINT's nmod_mat_rank (rank_mod3.c), validated against a NumPy elimination on every sample with \(s\le3\). Each sample is a graph \(G[S]\) itself: \(s\) rows, each a uniform random subset of \(h\) holes. Its holes are \(N(S)\), and the expansion condition is checked on all subsets.

Controls. The chessboards gave:

\(3\times4\): \(\tilde H_1=2\), with \(N<2s-1\);
\(4\times5\): \(\tilde H_2=20\);
\(3\times5\): \(\tilde H_1=0\), at the threshold;
two rows sharing 5 holes: \(\tilde H_0=0\).

Degree-5 rows with \(|N(U)|\ge3|U|\), and their power. The samples were 60 per hole count for \(s=2,3,4\) and 30 per hole count for \(s=5\). Hole counts were \(h=3s\), \(3s+2\) and \(4s\); at \(s=2\) the last two coincide at 8. No sample had nonzero homology. But almost every sample already lies in the elimination class of lem:private-hole-filling, so its zero follows from the lemma (power_counts.json):

\(s=2\), \(h=6\): 60 of 60 with a private hole in every row, 60 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=2\), \(h=8\): 60 of 60 with a private hole in every row, 60 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=2\), \(h=8\): 60 of 60 with a private hole in every row, 60 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=3\), \(h=9\): 38 of 60 with a private hole in every row, 60 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=3\), \(h=11\): 52 of 60 with a private hole in every row, 60 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=3\), \(h=12\): 55 of 60 with a private hole in every row, 60 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=4\), \(h=12\): 34 of 60 with a private hole in every row, 59 eliminable, 1 outside the class.
\(s=4\), \(h=14\): 37 of 60 with a private hole in every row, 60 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=4\), \(h=16\): 44 of 60 with a private hole in every row, 60 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=5\), \(h=15\): 16 of 30 with a private hole in every row, 30 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=5\), \(h=17\): 17 of 30 with a private hole in every row, 30 eliminable, 0 outside the class.
\(s=5\), \(h=20\): 19 of 30 with a private hole in every row, 30 eliminable, 0 outside the class.

So the checks give evidence for the conjecture beyond the lemma from one sample only, at \(s=4\). Its homology was zero. The conjecture is essentially untested beyond the lemma.

Refutations of weaker conditions, by \(s\).

Rows of degree 2 to 5 with only \(|N(U)|\ge2|U|-1\) had nonzero homology in 0, 16, 28 and 34 of 40 samples for \(s=2,3,4,5\). Samples violating the condition had nonzero homology in 20, 20, 20 and 18 of 20. An explicit failure is saved as hall_slack_2U-1_s3 in power_counts.json: rows \(\{1,2,3,4,5\},\{0,1,2,5,6\},\{1,3\}\), with \(\tilde H_1=1\).
Rows of degree 3 to 5 with \(|N(U)|\ge3|U|\) had nonzero homology in 0, 0, 3 and 3 of 40. With \(|N(U)|\ge5|U|/2\) the counts were 0, 0, 3 and 4. An explicit failure is expansion3_deg3to5_s4: rows \(\{1,2,6,10,12\},\{0,11,12\},\{0,3,6,8,9\},\{4,7,10,11\}\), with \(\tilde H_2=1\).

So the chessboard threshold does not generalize to graphs, and 3-expansion does not suffice once rows may have degree 3. Nothing here refutes the degree-5 conjecture.

What it means

The gluing base on expanders reduces to filling matching complexes. If the residual \(G'\) fills every row set of size up to \(B\), design extension and PC = NS stability hold through \(B\). That is the base-extension step in the proof of thm:taylor-glue. Whether the rest of Taylor glue transfers to graph boards is not checked here. That includes its use of the chessboard link, whose graph version is not claimed.
Private holes suffice; 3-expansion with rows of degree 3 does not. In the samples, between 16 of 30 and all 60 row sets had a private hole in every row, and all but one had an elimination order. But the conjecture must hold for every row set up to size \(B\), with branches deleting holes.
Next. Prove the elimination-order class for all row sets of size at most \(B\) in a random left-5-regular graph with \(h'\gg B^2\) holes, using that the excess \(5|S|-|N(S)|\) is small. Or find a row set in such a graph that does not fill.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the main record's matching extension theorem (all-field matching filtration: the constraints, the cancellation, the fillings and stability), thm:chessboard-link and lem:elementary-matching-row-set-filling. A literature check (arXiv:1905.10560, Lemma 2.13, and its source, Marietti and Testa 2008) identified the private-hole lemma as the known leaf decomposition. Three claim searches found only complete-board statements:

chessboard connectivity and matching complexes;
private holes and cones;
graph matching extension.

Controls and the rank validation are as above.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the transfer, including that the record uses \(N\ge2B-1\) only for BLVZ;
the cone decomposition and its induction.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the literature label;
the power counts;
the sample description;
explicit failing graphs;
the scope of the refutations and of the Taylor-glue claim;
this gate record.

The changes weaken or clarify, so no second pass was made.

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Spider row sets refute matching-complex filling on expander boards: a row whose holes are each shared with one other row gives a sphere in top degree, so the graph matching extension's hypothesis fails at spiders, and on the spider board a design is blocked one degree up

26 September 2026 · Refutation, with a finite check · open statement A1, expander core · cycle odd-prime-small-excess. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Spider row sets refute matching-complex filling on expander boards: a row whose holes are each shared with one other row gives a sphere in top degree, so the graph matching extension's hypothesis fails at spiders, and on the spider board a design is blocked one degree up”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-spider-row-sets.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The graph matching extension reduced the gluing base on expander boards to conj:expander-matching-filling. The proposed step was to prove it from the small excess of random left-5-regular graphs. Before proving it, does the conjecture hold for the row sets that such graphs actually contain?

General statement. Two statements, prop:spider-unfilled and ex:spider-fall.

prop:spider-unfilled: over any field, let \(S=\{r,n_1,\dots,n_d\}\). Suppose the centre \(r\) has holes \(h_1,\dots,h_d\), the leg \(n_i\) is adjacent to \(h_i\) and to no other hole of \(r\), and every leg has a hole private within \(S\). Then \(M(G[S])\) has a wedge summand \(S^{d-1}\), so \(\tilde H_{|S|-2}(M(G[S]))\ne0\). At \(d=5\) such a spider has rows of degree 5 and \(|N(U)|\ge3|U|\) for all \(U\subseteq S\). It therefore refutes conj:expander-matching-filling.
ex:spider-fall: on the spider board alone, functional graph PHP has \(y_{T^*}=\prod_iy_{n_ih_i}\) in the degree-\((d+1)\) span and not in the degree-\(d\) span, for \(d=2,3\).

The spider is unfilled

Proof. Apply the leaf decomposition of lem:private-hole-filling to the leg \(n_1\), with its private hole \(t_0\). This gives \(M(G[S])\simeq\bigvee_{t\in N(n_1)\setminus t_0}\Sigma M((G-t)[S\setminus n_1])\). The summand for \(t=h_1\) is the suspension of the matching complex of \(r,n_2,\dots,n_d\) in \(G-h_1\), where \(r\) has lost \(h_1\). The remaining legs keep their private holes, so the decomposition repeats. After the summands \(h_2,\dots,h_d\), \(r\) is alone with no holes. Its matching complex is empty, so the iterated summand is \(\Sigma^d(\varnothing)=S^{d-1}\), a wedge summand of \(M(G[S])\). Since \(|S|-2=d-1\), \(\tilde H_{|S|-2}\ne0\) over every field. \(\square\)

Expansion at \(d=5\). A leg has 5 holes: \(h_i\) and 4 private holes. For \(U\subseteq S\):

if \(r\notin U\), then \(|N(U)|=5|U|\);
if \(r\in U\) with \(j\) legs, then \(|N(U)|=5+4j\ge3(j+1)\).

Do such row sets occur in W's residual? A heuristic count, not a proof. In the residual of thm:cell-family-w, with \(h+1\) pigeons choosing 5 of \(h'=\Theta(h)\) holes, a hole's degree is about Poisson with mean \(5(h+1)/h'\ge5\). A fixed pigeon is a spider centre when its five holes each carry another pigeon, the five others are distinct, and their remaining holes avoid the set. Each of these holds with probability bounded below, so the expected number of centres is \(\Theta(h)\). This regime differs from the one the previous next step assumed, \(h'\gg B^2\), where hole degrees are small. W's residual is chosen by us, and whether it can be chosen with no spider row sets is open.

Check. spider_check.py computed \(\tilde H_{s-2}=1\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) for \(d=2,3,4\) (spider_check.json). These spiders have rows of degree \(d<5\), outside the conjecture's hypotheses. They confirm the leaf-decomposition computation, while the refutation at \(d=5\) rests on the proof. The \(d=4\) spider has minimum expansion ratio 3.2.

The spider falls

The product \(y_{T^*}\) is \(y_{T^*}\) times the negated row equation of \(r\), plus \(y_{T^*}\sum_iy_{rh_i}\). Each \(y_{T^*}y_{rh_i}\) contains the collision \(y_{n_ih_i}y_{rh_i}\). So \(y_{T^*}\) lies in the degree-\((d+1)\) span. spider_fall.py tested membership at degree \(d\) exactly, on the spider board alone, with rows, collisions, functionality and multilinear reduction (spider_fall.json). The result was \(y_{T^*}\notin\) degree-\(d\) span and \(\in\) degree-\((d+1)\) span, for \(d=2\) and \(d=3\). \(d=4\) exceeds this script's dense matrix size and was not run. On a larger board containing the spider, extra axioms could give a degree-\(d\) derivation. So the fall is shown only on the spider board.

What it means

conj:expander-matching-filling is false. It is recorded as refuted. lem:graph-matching-extension's hypothesis fails on any board containing a spider row set, and so on W's residual if spiders occur there, as the heuristic count suggests.
The complete-board mechanism is blocked at spiders. Taylor glue extends every design. On the spider board a design can put weight on the legs' matching \(T^*\) at degree \(d\), and the centre row cannot join it, which is the fall. On a larger board this is not shown. On the complete board every row sees every hole, so no row is blocked this way. Mikša and Nordström reduce monomials modulo the axioms in the support of the term. As we read their Definitions 3.16 and 3.17, the centre's pigeon axiom is in the support of \(y_{T^*}\): all its neighbouring variable sets \(V_{h_i}\) lie in \(N(y_{T^*})\), since each \(h_i\) is a hole of a leg. A gluing base on expander boards therefore has to extend closure-restricted designs, not all designs.
Next. Formulate the extension property for designs that are reductions modulo closures, in Mikša and Nordström's sense. Then check whether Taylor glue's syzygy-gluing step can be run on such designs: its corrections must stay inside closed supports.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:private-hole-filling (the leaf decomposition, known from Marietti and Testa), lem:graph-matching-extension, conj:expander-matching-filling, and the Mikša–Nordström support and closure definitions (Definitions 3.16 and 3.17). Two claim searches, for spiders and leaf configurations in matching complexes and for degree falls of functional graph PHP, found no prior statement. The leaf decomposition itself is known.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the iterated leaf decomposition and the wedge summand \(S^{d-1}\);
the hypotheses at \(d=5\);
the fall script's logic, and the fall at \(d=2,3\) by an independent rerun.

It found that spider_fall.json held the homology output: spider_fall.py imported spider_check.py, whose loop ran at import and wrote to the caller's output path. Both scripts were fixed and rerun, and the files now differ, holding the numbers quoted above. It also required:

the scope of the title and of the mechanism bullet;
the residual heuristic, now with its regime;
the reason for the support claim;
the label on the \(d\le4\) checks.

All were adopted. The changes weaken or correct evidence, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 38.13 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 31.85 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 28.24 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 40.89 s
Individually measured computation	57.02 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Route review: spiders are everywhere in the residual, so Taylor glue's design extension fails there, and the structured and dense parts of A1 pull in opposite directions: sparse residuals remove structure, while the only dense mechanism needs the complete board

26 September 2026 · Route review with a simulation · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-closure-designs. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: spiders are everywhere in the residual, so Taylor glue's design extension fails there, and the structured and dense parts of A1 pull in opposite directions: sparse residuals remove structure, while the only dense mechanism needs the complete board”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-expander-core-review-2.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The graph matching extension reduced the gluing base on expander boards to filling matching complexes. Spider row sets refuted that filling. How common are spiders in W's residual? What is left of the expander-core line, and where should A1 go?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:expander-dense-core: W on functional graph PHP over expander boards. It implies A1 by prop:expander-core-reduction. For random families its intended mechanism was Taylor glue, moved to expander boards.

Falsification attempt: how common are spiders?

spider_count.py sampled the residual model of thm:cell-family-w: \(h+1\) rows, each a uniform 5-subset of \(h'\) holes. It counted spider centres by a greedy search, which gives a lower bound (spider_count.json, three seeds each). The fraction of rows that are centres was:

0.95, 0.97 and 0.94 at \(h=h'=500\);
0.97, 0.97 and 0.97 at \(h=h'=2000\);
1.0 in every sample with \(h'=h/2\).

So almost every row of the residual is a spider centre. Any gluing base built on extending all designs fails at almost every row. A residual chosen to avoid spiders would need most holes of degree 1, which contradicts \(h+1\) pigeons in \(h'\le h\) holes.

Assessment of the line

What stands.
- The reduction prop:expander-core-reduction.
- The divided-power product law on graph monomial algebras.
- lem:graph-matching-extension, as a correct but inapplicable criterion.
What failed. The gluing base in Taylor glue's form. Spiders are generic, and on the spider board they cause degree falls.
A structural tension. The restriction line removes structured blocks, cells, hole blocks and row blocks, by passing to a sparse residual in which each pigeon has few cells. The only recorded mechanism for random dense blocks, Taylor glue with A3's statistics, needs the complete board. There every row sees every hole, so spiders cannot occur. A complete residual keeps Taylor glue's base but loses the structured kills: a hole block at a residual hole keeps \(h+1\) cells. No recorded map serves both parts at once.
Qualitative assessment. The expander-core line is blocked at its base. A1 now needs one of three things:
- a gluing base that works with falls, for example one stated with PC closures instead of NS designs;
- a hardness mechanism for dense blocks on sparse boards;
- a combined argument in which structured blocks are removed without sparsifying the board.

Outside leads

Razborov's pseudo-reduction for PHP (Comput. Complexity 7 (1998)) and its graph generalization by Mikša and Nordström. Target: a gluing base that tolerates falls. Their operator reduces a monomial modulo the axioms of its support, which contains the spider's centre, so it never asks the centre to join the legs. Where it breaks: it certifies only that 1 is not derived; Taylor glue needs to extend and correct functionals. Test. Passed on its first hypothesis: the centre's pigeon axiom lies in the support of \(y_{T^*}\) (spider entry). A closure-based syzygy-gluing lemma is untested.
A complete residual, W's self-reduction to an \(h\)-board. Target: random dense blocks, keeping Taylor glue's base. Test. Falsified for mixed families. A hole block at a residual hole keeps \(h+1\) cells, so its span exceeds \(k\) and it is not removed.
Beame and Riis, designs for modular counting principles (1998), with Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall (1996). Target: NS designs on graph boards that avoid spider configurations by construction. Where it breaks: their designs are built for complete boards and counting, not for sparse graphs. Test. Not run: no graph-board design construction is recorded to test against.

Absurd bridges

Frustration in spin systems (Toulouse, 1977). Translation: a spider is a frustrated plaquette. Once the legs sit on their shared holes, the centre cannot be satisfied, and every configuration pays at the centre. What a theorem there would give: a frustration index, the least number of unsatisfiable plaquettes, would count the forced degree falls. A frustration-free residual would be exactly one where design extension holds. Smallest test: is the random residual frustration-free? Test. Falsified. About 97% of rows are frustrated centres (spider_count.json).
Kinetic trapping in DNA tile self-assembly (Winfree, 1998). Translation: extending a design degree by degree is growth. A spider is a site that becomes blocked when its neighbours are placed first. Error-correcting tile sets avoid traps by proofreading, in which placements are reversible until locally confirmed. What a theorem there would give: a proofreading scheme would correspond to extension through closures, where a placement becomes final only once its closure is complete, exactly as in Mikša and Nordström's supports. Test. Not run: it needs the closure-based extension to be formulated first, which is the first Outside lead.

Lead follow-up

Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. Still the candidate for A3's main term. That term is needed on the complete board, which the tension above makes the natural home for the dense core. Follow-up. Continuing.
Nguyen and Wood's moment method. Follow-up. Continuing, with the same scope.
A3 transported to the residual board. This cycle found that the residual kills Taylor glue's base. So A3 on expander boards no longer has a gluing theorem to feed. Follow-up. Closed: the transport is blocked at the base (spider row sets). A3 stays on the complete board.
The Mikša–Nordström closure as a gluing base. Developed in two entries. Full design extension is impossible, and the closure's support handles spiders. What is missing is a gluing lemma that uses closure reductions. Follow-up. Continuing: it is the first lead above.

Next step

The highest-risk item is still A1. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer addresses the tension directly. Test whether structured blocks can be removed without sparsifying the board. On the complete board, occupancy implications from cell blocks are pigeon-local. Formulate a Razborov-style pseudo-reduction for weak PHP plus pigeon-local implications on the complete board, and check whether it survives the counting obstruction of the cell-block entry. Success would put structured and dense blocks on one board, where Taylor glue's base holds.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

prop:spider-unfilled, ex:spider-fall and lem:graph-matching-extension;
prop:expander-core-reduction;
thm:taylor-glue's base hypothesis;
the cell-block entry's counting remark;
every lead followed up.

The spider fractions were read from the saved JSON. This review registers no claim.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 18.42 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	0.95 s
Computation design and coding	44.83 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 31.90 s
Individually measured computation	0.59 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Hole blocks force a sparse board: W for families containing every hole block is equivalent, at the same degree, to W on chooser-picked boards of hole degree \(k\), so every proof of A1 proves a sparse-board statement

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1, sparse boards are forced · cycle odd-prime-complete-implications. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Hole blocks force a sparse board: W for families containing every hole block is equivalent, at the same degree, to W on chooser-picked boards of hole degree \(k\), so every proof of A1 proves a sparse-board statement”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-forced-sparse-board.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The second expander-core review found that A1's parts pull apart. Structured blocks are removed by restricting to a sparse expander board. The only recorded dense mechanism, Taylor glue, has its known base on the complete board, since the graph-board base fails at spiders. The review's next step proposed removing the structured blocks on the complete board, by a Razborov-style pseudo-reduction for weak PHP plus pigeon-local occupancy implications. Before building that, one question has to be settled: can a proof of A1 avoid sparse boards at all? Any such proof must handle families that contain every hole block, so the test is what those families do to the board.

General statement. prop:forced-sparse-board, over any field, for any \(m,n\) and \(k\le m\). For each choice of prefixes of the \(n\) hole blocks, weak unary PHP plus the clauses of the hole blocks and of any other axioms of degree at most \(D\) is equivalent, at the same PC degree \(D\ge2k+2\), to weak graph PHP on the graph \(G_S\) of hole degree \(k\) plus the zero-restrictions of the other axioms. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), W for families containing every hole block is therefore equivalent to a W statement on boards of hole degree \(k\) that the chooser picks after seeing the family.

This extends prop:hole-family-random-choice, which records the deletion of the cells outside \(G_S\) for the hole family alone, in one direction and for random prefixes. The clause-to-deletion step is also the one-hole case of prop:cell-block-implications. New here are the arbitrary further axioms, the converse direction at equal degree, and the resulting equivalence for W.

The proposition

Work over any field \(\mathbb F\). The base is weak unary PHP on \(m\) pigeons and \(n\) holes: Booleanity \(x_{it}^2-x_{it}\), column collisions \(x_{it}x_{jt}\) (\(i\ne j\)) and linear rows \(\sum_tx_{it}-1\). W's clauses are \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^2\) for \(i\notin S_b\), with \(g=1-L^2\) and \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\). The hole block of hole \(t\) is \(H_t=\{x_{jt}-1:j\in[m]\}\), and \(\mathcal H=\{H_1,\dots,H_n\}\).

Let \(k\le m\), and take prefixes \(S_t\subseteq[m]\) of the \(H_t\), \(|S_t|=k\). Let \(G_S\) be the bipartite graph in which hole \(t\) is adjacent to exactly \(S_t\). Let \(\rho_S\) be the substitution sending every cell outside \(G_S\) to 0 and fixing the others; it is a ring homomorphism.

Proposition (forced sparse board). Let \(A\) be any set of polynomials of degree at most \(D\), for instance the clauses of a further family \(\mathcal F'\) under any prefixes. Let \(\Gamma\) be the base plus the clauses of \(\mathcal H\) plus \(A\), and \(\Gamma'_S\) weak graph PHP on \(G_S\) plus \(\rho_S(A)\). Then for every \(D\ge2k+2\):

a PC refutation of \(\Gamma\) of degree \(D\) gives one of \(\Gamma'_S\) of degree at most \(D\);
a PC refutation of \(\Gamma'_S\) of degree \(D\) gives one of \(\Gamma\) of degree \(D\).

Proof. (1) Apply \(\rho_S\) to every line. A ring homomorphism that sends variables to variables or to 0 maps linear combinations to linear combinations, and a product with a variable to a product with a variable or to 0. So a derivation maps to a derivation of no larger degree, and 1 maps to 1. On the axioms:

Booleanity, collisions and rows map to those of weak graph PHP on \(G_S\), or to 0.
For \(i\notin S_t\), the clause of \(H_t\) contains the factor \(g_{t,i}=1-(x_{it}-1)^2\). Since \(\rho_S(x_{it})=0\), \(\rho_S(g_{t,i})=1-1=0\), so the whole clause maps to 0.
\(A\) maps to \(\rho_S(A)\).

(2) First, every deleted cell \(x_{it}\), \(i\notin S_t\), is derivable from \(\Gamma\) at degree \(2k+2\). Modulo Booleanity, \((x-1)^2\equiv1-x\), so \(g_{t,i}\equiv x_{it}\) and \(L_{t,j}^2\equiv1-x_{jt}\). So the clause, of degree \(2k+2\), is congruent to \(x_{it}\prod_{j\in S_t}(1-x_{jt})\), using multiples of Booleanity of degree at most \(2k+2\). Expanding the product, every term except \(x_{it}\) is a multiple \(x_{it}x_{jt}\cdot u\) of a collision, with \(j\in S_t\), \(j\ne i\) and \(\deg u\le k-1\). Subtracting these multiples leaves \(x_{it}\), and every line has degree at most \(2k+2\).

Next, let \(a\) be a base axiom or an element of \(A\). Then \(a-\rho_S(a)\) consists of the terms of \(a\) whose monomial \(v\) contains a deleted cell \(x_{it}\). Write \(v=x_{it}v'\). Then \(v\) is derived from the line \(x_{it}\) by multiplying by the variables of \(v'\), at degree \(\deg v\le\deg a\). So \(\rho_S(a)\) is derivable from \(\Gamma\) at degree \(\max(\deg a,2k+2)\le D\). Running the refutation of \(\Gamma'_S\) from these lines gives a refutation of \(\Gamma\) at degree \(D\). \(\square\)

No property of the field, of \(K\) or of \(22k\) is used beyond \(D\ge2k+2\). Direction (2) uses only the degree bound on \(A\), not its clause form.

Isolated pigeons. If a pigeon lies in no \(S_t\), its row maps to \(-1\), so \(\Gamma'_S\) and hence \(\Gamma\) are refuted at degree \(2k+2\). So a good choice must cover every pigeon. This is possible exactly when \(m\le nk\). For \(m>nk\), every family containing \(\mathcal H\) would refute W, but W's setting has \(m=n+1\le nk\).

Corollary (the sandwich). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(m=n+1\) and \(k\le m\), write \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}(K,k)\) for the following statement. For every family \(\mathcal F'\) of at most \(n^K-n\) blocks of affine forms in all the cells, there are a bipartite graph \(G\) on \([m]\times[n]\) with every hole of degree exactly \(k\), and prefixes of sizes \(\min(k,h_b)\) for the blocks of \(\mathcal F'\), such that weak graph PHP on \(G\) plus the restricted clauses of \(\mathcal F'\) has no PC refutation of degree \(22k\). Then:

W for all families of at most \(n^K\) blocks that contain \(\mathcal H\) is equivalent to \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}(K,k)\). Every such \(G\) is \(G_S\) for \(S_t=N_G(t)\). The restricted clause of a block is the W clause of the restricted forms under the same prefix, since \(\rho_S(1-L^2)=1-\rho_S(L)^2\). The proposition then applies at \(D=22k\ge2k+2\), in both directions.
So A1 implies \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}(K,k)\), and conj:expander-dense-core implies A1 (prop:expander-core-reduction).

The two sparse-board statements differ in three ways:

Order. In \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}\) the family comes first, and the chooser picks the board and the prefixes after seeing it. In the expander core the board is any expander, and the family comes after it.
Board. Hole degree \(k\) here, left degree 5 on a residual there.
Base. Weak here, functional graph PHP there.

What it means

For families containing \(\mathcal H\), the effective board is sparse. The proposition rules out no method. But any proof of A1, however it is phrased, proves \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}\) for these families. So a complete-board plan gains nothing over working on \(G\). The families \(\mathcal F'\) there are arbitrary, including random dense forms and product statistics restricted to the \(nk\) cells of \(G\). So a dense mechanism for A1 has to work on boards of hole degree \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\ln n\).
Taylor glue on these boards. The known sufficient base for the glue on a graph board is the matching-complex filling of lem:graph-matching-extension. prop:spider-unfilled shows that this condition fails at spider row sets; it does not refute the glue itself. On a random graph of hole degree \(k\), a row's holes each have \(k-1\) further pigeons, so spiders are expected to be generic. But in \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}\) the chooser picks \(G\), and a structured board might avoid spiders. Both points are untested. So the tension recorded by the second expander-core review is sharpened, not resolved. The dense mechanism must work on sparse boards, where the recorded one's sufficient base is expected to fail on random boards.
The counting heuristic. The forcing count of the cell-block entry concerns a family containing \(\mathcal H\). Its occupancy-implication form, on the top-\((k-1)\) neighbourhoods and with agreement up to one degree, comes from prop:cell-block-implications, not from this proposition. By its own estimate the count refutes only for \(k\) up to about \(\ln n\), not at W's \(k\). So it is not an obstruction to \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}\) at W's parameters.
What a mechanism must do. The recorded sparse-board lower bound is imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, built on the Alekhnovich–Razborov pseudo-reduction. It is stated for functional graph PHP, and it transfers to weak graph PHP because the weak system has fewer axioms. Its expansion hypotheses would have to be checked at pigeon degree about \(nk/m\approx k\), which is not constant. What A1 needs from such a mechanism is a rule that picks the board and the prefixes after seeing the family, so that the pseudo-reduction sends every chosen clause to 0. This is the Razborov lead of the second expander-core review, placed on the sparse board.

What is open. \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}(K,k)\) itself, and the gap between it and conj:expander-dense-core. No new case of W is proved. The proposition does not decide whether the chooser's freedom to pick \(G\) matters, that is, whether \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}\) is equivalent to a board-first form.

Next. Define the closure-based pseudo-reduction of weak graph PHP on an expander of hole degree \(k\), and state the prefix condition under which it sends a W clause to 0. Then test that condition on product statistics and on random dense forms restricted to the board.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statements of prop:hole-family-random-choice, prop:cell-block-implications, prop:expander-core-reduction, conj:expander-dense-core, lem:graph-matching-extension and prop:spider-unfilled, and W's encoding in Open statements. A restatement check against the first five and two claim searches found the exact equivalence and the chooser-order corollary unrecorded. The deletion step is recorded, for the hole family alone, in the first two. A fresh-context reviewer found the proof sound after changes, and required these, all adopted:

citing the recorded deletion step and labelling the result an extension;
stating the proposition over any field and for arbitrary extra axioms, since \(\mathbb F_3\), \(K\) and \(22k\) are unused;
the hypotheses \(k\le m\) and \(m=n+1\), and the isolated-pigeon remark (\(m>nk\) would refute W);
the General statement's omitted restricted clauses;
weakening the claims about methods, Taylor glue, the tension and the counting heuristic;
the order of choice in \(\mathrm{W}_{\mathrm{graph}}\), and the scope of the imported bound.

The changes generalize the proof's setting without new steps, or weaken claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 56.72 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 7.94 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 0.65 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 47.99 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A residual of \(\Theta(k)\) holes suffices: the matching-and-expander choice works with a logarithmic expander, so row-sparse blocks may use up to \(n^{1-\eta}\) rows, and product statistics with pigeon weights of support up to \(n^{1-\eta}\) satisfy W

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported bounds · open statement A1, row-sparse blocks · cycle odd-prime-sparse-pseudo-reduction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A residual of \(\Theta(k)\) holes suffices: the matching-and-expander choice works with a logarithmic expander, so row-sparse blocks may use up to \(n^{1-\eta}\) rows, and product statistics with pigeon weights of support up to \(n^{1-\eta}\) satisfy W”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-logarithmic-residual.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The forced sparse board showed that every proof of A1 proves W on sparse boards. Its next step proposed a pseudo-reduction, to be tested on product statistics and on random dense forms. Before a new operator is built, a question about the existing mechanism comes first. Product statistics \(\sum_{i,t}\alpha_i\beta_tx_{it}\) are exactly the blocks that thm:row-sparse-w handles when their pigeon weights have small support. That theorem stops at \(n^{1/2-\eta}\) rows only because its residual has \(\sqrt n\) pigeons. How small can the residual be, and how far does the span mechanism then reach?

General statement. thm:logarithmic-residual-w, over \(\mathbb F_3\) in W's setting with \(m=n+1\), \(M\le n^K\), \(c(K+1)\ln n\le k\le C(K+1)\ln n\) and fixed \(\eta>0\). For \(n\ge n_0(\eta,c,C,K)\), W holds for every family whose blocks are of three kinds:

square-equivalent cell blocks (thm:cell-family-w);
sparse blocks, whose non-rigid forms have union support at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) cells (thm:sparse-block-w);
row-sparse blocks, whose non-rigid forms are supported in a common set of at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) rows, with arbitrary coefficients there.

It refines thm:row-sparse-w, which has the same statement with \(n^{1/2-\eta}\) rows and \(\eta<1/2\).

The choice

Let \(s=10(22k+1)\) and \(h=\lceil2^{12}s\rceil\). Take the choice of thm:cell-family-w with this \(h\) in place of \(\lceil\sqrt n\rceil\):

\(H\), a uniformly random set of \(h\) holes, and \(\pi\), a uniformly random injection from holes to pigeons;
\(\rho=\{(\pi(t),t):t\notin H\}\), and \(R\), the \(r=h+1\) pigeons that \(\rho\) does not use;
\(G'\subseteq R\times H\), in which each pigeon of \(R\) takes a uniform 5-subset of \(H\), independently.

Cell blocks take the prefixes of thm:cell-family-w, sparse blocks those of thm:sparse-block-w, and row-sparse blocks those of thm:row-sparse-w. For large \(n\), \(h\le2^{12}\cdot230\,C(K+1)\ln n+1\), so the residual has \(\Theta(\ln n)\) pigeons.

What depends on \(h\)

Each estimate of the three theorems is re-checked at this \(h\).

Expansion (Step 2 of thm:cell-family-w). The union bound \(\bigl(9e^4ru/h^2\bigr)^u\le(546s/h)^u\) for \(|U|=u\le s\) uses \(r/h\le1.1\), \(u\le s\) and \(3s\le h\) (for \(\binom h{3u}\le(eh/3u)^{3u}\)); at \(h=\sqrt n\) the last held automatically, here it holds because \(h\ge4096s\). The proviso \(546s/h\le1/2\) holds, since \(546/2^{12}<0.14\). The failure probability is at most \(1100s/h<0.27\), a constant rather than \(o(1)\). So with probability above \(0.73\) every \(U\subseteq R\) with \(|U|\le s\) has \(|\partial U|\ge|U|\). Then imp:MN-functional-graph-degree forbids refutations of degree \(22k+1=s/10\), as before.
Cell blocks (Step 3 of thm:cell-family-w). The estimate uses these facts, all independent of the size of \(h\):
- \(r/h\le2\);
- \(R\) is a uniform \(r\)-subset given \(H\), and \(\rho\) is a uniform bijection from \(H^c\) onto the other \(N=n-h\) pigeons, to which lem:matching-avoidance-with-slack applies (a uniform bijection of \(N\ge1\) rows, no condition on \(h\));
- \(q\le r\), for \(P(i\notin R\mid Q\subseteq R)\ge1-r/m\);
- \(\varepsilon'=h/n\) is small: \(\beta'\ge0.3\) and \(\lambda\le\beta'S/2\) for large \(n\).
The only place where \(h\) enters quantitatively is the first case, \(S\le Aq\). There the bound is \(\bigl(40.6/(\ln(1/\varepsilon')-1-\ln A)\bigr)^q\) with \(\ln(1/\varepsilon')=\ln(n/h)\). This is at least \(\tfrac12\ln n\) once \(h\le\sqrt n\), which \(n_0\) must now also ensure; since \(h=O(C(K+1)\ln n)\), this makes \(n_0\) depend on \(C\) and \(K\). The threshold becomes \(\ln\bigl((\tfrac12\ln n-1-\ln A)/40.6\bigr)\ge5/c+1\), with \(\ln A\) in place of \(\ln2A\). So a cell block fails with probability at most \(n^{-K-1}\) for \(n\ge n_0(c,C,K)\).
Sparse blocks. The bound \(P(\text{fail})\le\bigl(14|U|/(nq)\bigr)^q\) of thm:sparse-block-w uses only \((r/m)(5/h)\le5\cdot1.01/n\), which needs \(h\ge100\), and \(P(t\in H)\le1\). It does not depend on \(h\) otherwise, so it is at most \(n^{-K-1}\) as before.
Row-sparse blocks. Let \(P_b\) be the common row set, \(|P_b|\le n^{1-\eta}\), and \(b=|P_b\cap R|\). The block succeeds when \(b\le b_0=\max\{b:1+4b+8b^2\le k\}\ge\sqrt{k/8}-2\), by the functional residual and the basis prefix of thm:row-sparse-w. Since \(R\) is a uniform \(r\)-subset, \[P(b\ge b_0+1)\le\binom{|P_b|}{b_0+1}\Bigl(\frac rm\Bigr)^{b_0+1}\le\Bigl(\frac{e\,|P_b|\,r}{(b_0+1)\,m}\Bigr)^{b_0+1}\le\Bigl(\frac{e\,r}{n^{\eta}}\Bigr)^{b_0+1}\le n^{-\eta(b_0+1)/2},\] because \(er\le n^{\eta/2}\) for large \(n\), as \(r=O(\ln n)\). This is at most \(n^{-K-1}\) once \(\eta(b_0+1)\ge2(K+1)\), which holds for \(n\ge n_0\) since \(b_0+1\ge\sqrt{k/8}-1\) and \(k\ge c(K+1)\ln n\). Only \(\eta>0\) is used; the restriction \(\eta<1/2\) of thm:row-sparse-w, which came from \(r\approx\sqrt n\), is removed.

Proof of the theorem. By items 2 to 4 and the union bound over \(M\le n^K\) blocks, some block fails with probability at most \(n^{-1}\). By item 1, \(G'\) fails to expand with probability below \(0.27\). For large \(n\) some outcome has neither failure; fix it. The rest is the proof of thm:row-sparse-w verbatim. Given a refutation of degree \(22k\):

cell-block clauses become occupancy implications at degree \(22k+1\), which the killing lemma removes under the restriction;
sparse-block clauses become Booleanity consequences (lem:span-restriction);
row-sparse clauses become consequences of functional graph PHP on \(G'\) at degree at most \(2k+3\) (lem:functional-residual).

This gives a refutation of functional graph PHP on \(G'\) at degree \(22k+1\), which item 1 forbids. \(\square\)

Remark (the edge of the range). The same computation allows \(|P_b|\le n\,e^{-A\sqrt{\ln n}}\) for any fixed \(A>\sqrt{8(K+1)/c}\). Then \(e|P_b|r/((b_0+1)m)\le e^{-A\sqrt{\ln n}+O(\ln\ln n)}\), and raising it to the power \(b_0+1\ge\sqrt{c(K+1)\ln n/8}-1\) gives \(n^{-A\sqrt{c(K+1)/8}\,(1-o(1))}\), which is at most \(n^{-K-1}\) for large \(n\).

What it means

Product statistics. A block of product statistics whose pigeon weights have union support at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) (or \(n\,e^{-A\sqrt{\ln n}}\), by the Remark) is row-sparse, whatever the hole weights are. So it satisfies W, together with any cell and sparse blocks.
Outside this theorem. Coverage is per family. Outside this theorem's three kinds are blocks that are not cell blocks and whose non-rigid forms touch more than \(n^{1-\eta}\) pigeons. Some of them, such as column statistics and hole-type blocks, are covered by the freezing theorems, but in other families. Random dense forms are covered by none.
A small certifying board. The certificate needs an expander only up to sets of size \(s=\Theta(k)\), and the three theorems re-checked here run on \(\Theta(\ln n)\) residual pigeons. The price is that expansion now fails with constant probability, up to \(0.27\). A proof that union-bounds further constant-probability events, or uses \(h=\sqrt n\) elsewhere, as the freezing theorems do, does not transfer automatically.
No column analogue at this \(h\). Column-supported blocks are covered by thm:column-sparse-w, through freezing. What fails is only their composition with the logarithmic residual by the route above: forms in few common columns with arbitrary coefficients. The hole axioms kill products of cells in one column, so a block meeting a single hole of \(H\) has linear dimension \(1+v\), with threshold about \(k\), and a tail of \(n^{-\omega(1)}\). The obstruction needs two hit columns. That happens with probability about \((|\text{cols}|\,h/n)^2\), and the number of \(G'\)-cells there then exceeds \(\sqrt{2k}\) with probability of order \(e^{-\Theta(\sqrt{\ln n}\,\ln\ln n)}\). The product is not at most \(n^{-K-1}\). A residual with bounded hole degrees might fix this, but its expansion would have to be proved anew. This is not claimed.

What is not done. The pseudo-reduction proposed by the last entry was not built. The freezing theorems (thm:column-sparse-w, thm:row-column-w, thm:frozen-cell-w) are not re-derived at the new \(h\), so they are not claimed to compose with the extended row-sparse blocks.

Next. The dense core is now blocks whose forms touch more than \(n^{1-\eta}\) pigeons. Build the closure-based pseudo-reduction of functional graph PHP on the logarithmic residual. State the prefix condition under which it sends a W clause to 0, and test it on random dense forms.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the full proofs of thm:cell-family-w, thm:sparse-block-w and thm:row-sparse-w, and the statements of lem:matching-avoidance-with-slack (a uniform bijection of \(N\ge1\) rows, free of \(h\)) and lem:functional-residual. The claim search found only thm:row-sparse-w, which this theorem implies. A fresh-context reviewer answered the restatement question the same way, checked every place where \(h\), \(r\), \(h/n\) or \(N\) enters, and confirmed the constants and the verbatim final chain. It found no unused hypothesis except \(\eta<1\), now dropped. It required these changes, all adopted:

the correct expansion hypotheses (\(3s\le h\)) and the constant failure budget;
the new \(n_0\) condition \(h\le\sqrt n\) and the threshold with \(\ln A\);
an explicit use of lem:matching-avoidance-with-slack;
\(\eta>0\) in place of \(\eta<1\);
the right mechanism for the column remark, and its relation to thm:column-sparse-w;
per-family coverage in the core bullet, and the transfer claim limited to the three theorems;
the Remark's range marked as the Remark's.

The changes correct or weaken claims, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: no recorded mechanism handles blocks whose interaction part is dense; a random matching turns the constants of dense forms uniform and leaves row and column statistics fixed, which suggests reducing adversarial dense blocks to a semi-random residual

26 September 2026 · Route review with two tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-residual-pseudo-reduction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: no recorded mechanism handles blocks whose interaction part is dense; a random matching turns the constants of dense forms uniform and leaves row and column statistics fixed, which suggests reducing adversarial dense blocks to a semi-random residual”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-dense-core-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Seven entries of the restriction line each added a structured class of blocks: cells, sparse, column-sparse, row-column, frozen cells, row-sparse, and the small residual. None of them moved the dense core. The forced sparse board showed that a proof of A1 must work on sparse boards. A line that produces classes without moving its general implication calls for a review. Does the line have a mechanism left for dense blocks, and if not, what should replace it?

General statement. The line's claim: A1 follows from conj:expander-dense-core (prop:expander-core-reduction), and by prop:forced-sparse-board it implies W on chooser-picked boards of hole degree \(k\). Proved: W for families of cell, sparse and row-sparse blocks (thm:logarithmic-residual-w), and for the freezing families (thm:frozen-cell-w, thm:row-column-w). What the goal still needs is blocks that are not cell blocks, touch more than \(n^{1-\eta}\) pigeons, and are not handled by freezing.

Falsification attempt

Is the dense core only random forms? No. Take a block of more than \(k\) full-support product statistics \(\sum_{i,t}\alpha^{(j)}_i\beta^{(j)}_tx_{it}\) with generic weights. Here generic means that all \(\alpha^{(j)}_i\) and \(\beta^{(j)}_t\) are nonzero on the residual, and that the squares of the restricted forms are linearly independent modulo the base. On a residual of \(r\ge s\) pigeons each restricted form has a nonzero residual part, so no form has a zero image. The squares contain cross terms \(\alpha^{(j)}_i\alpha^{(j)}_{i'}\beta^{(j)}_t\beta^{(j)}_{t'}x_{it}x_{i't'}\) for pairs of residual pigeons, and more than \(k\) independent squares defeat the span lemma. Freezing does not remove them either, since their interaction part \((\alpha-\bar\alpha)\otimes(\beta-\bar\beta)\) is nonzero. So the core contains explicit structured blocks, not only random ones.

Can the chooser pick a board without spiders? Taylor glue's known base on a graph board, the filling of lem:graph-matching-extension, fails at every spider row set (prop:spider-unfilled). In \(\mathrm W_{\mathrm{graph}}\) the chooser picks the board, so this is a real question.

Observation. In a board where every pigeon and every hole has degree at least 2, a pigeon that lies on no cycle of length 4 or 6 is a spider centre.

Proof. Let \(r\) be such a pigeon, with holes \(h_1,\dots,h_d\). For each \(i\), pick another pigeon \(n_i\) at \(h_i\).

\(n_i\) meets no other hole \(h_j\) of \(r\), since \(r,h_i,n_i,h_j\) would be a 4-cycle.
The \(n_i\) are distinct, for the same reason.
Let \(x\ne h_i\) be another hole of \(n_i\), which exists since \(n_i\) has degree at least 2. Then \(x\) is not a hole of \(r\), since \(r,h_i,n_i,x\) would be a 4-cycle. It is not a hole of any \(n_j\), \(j\ne i\), since \(r,h_i,n_i,x,n_j,h_j\) would be a 6-cycle. So \(x\) is private in \(S=\{r,n_1,\dots,n_d\}\).

\(\square\)

So a spider-free board with these degrees needs every pigeon on a 4- or 6-cycle. Twin pigeons, with equal neighbourhoods, have empty boundary and so violate \((s,1)\)-boundary expansion. In a random board of hole degree \(k\), a pigeon lies on such a cycle with probability \(O(k^6/n)\). The line is not refuted here, but its only dense mechanism would need a structured board that no one has constructed.

Assessment of the line

What stands. Every structured class listed above, the forced sparse board, and the reduction to the expander core.
What is missing. The line has four kill mechanisms:
- zero-image forms;
- span-basis prefixes;
- occupancy implications;
- freezing, which makes row and column statistics constant.
The first three need a block to meet the residual in few pigeons or in forms of small span. Freezing needs forms that are sums of row and column statistics plus sparse parts. A block whose interaction part is dense meets none of these conditions, whatever the residual size, since the residual needs \(r\ge s=\Theta(k)\) pigeons for expansion. The pseudo-reduction of Alekhnovich and Razborov, proposed twice as the dense mechanism, does not apply either. Its theorem needs an axiom–variable incidence that is boundary expanding, with bounded row weight. Restricted dense clauses violate this: they have unbounded weight, and two clauses on the same support have empty boundary.
Qualitative assessment. No recorded mechanism handles blocks whose interaction part is dense. The line's value is now as a reduction: it removes every block that is sparse in some direction, or a row-plus-column statistic, and leaves a residual W on a small expander.
A new observation for the replacement. Setting: the restriction proofs draw the matching on the complete board, from a uniform injection \(\pi\) of holes into pigeons. Given the residual sets \(R\) and \(H\), the matching \(\rho\) is then a uniform bijection between the other \(N\) pigeons and holes, a complete \(N\times N\) sub-board (Step 3 of thm:cell-family-w). It turns a form \(\sum a_{it}x_{it}\) into its residual part plus the constant \(c(\pi)=\sum_ia_{i\pi(i)}\), summed over the sub-board.
- For \(N\ge2\) the constant is fixed exactly when \(a_{it}=u_i+v_t\) on the sub-board, a sum of row and column statistics. This is the swap argument: transpositions connect all bijections, and a swap changes the sum by \(a_{it}+a_{i't'}-a_{it'}-a_{i't}\). These are the forms that freezing handles.
- For dense interaction the constant is close to uniform on \(\mathbb F_3\), and for sparse interaction it is Poisson-like (tests below).
So restriction sends adversarial dense forms to residual forms with near-uniform random shifts, a semi-random model between A1 and the random models of A3. On a sparse board the matchings are not connected by transpositions. The fixed forms are then those whose alternating sums vanish on alternating cycles, a larger class, and cells in no perfect matching are unconstrained. That setting is open; the restriction proofs do not need it.

Outside leads

Hoeffding's combinatorial central limit theorem (Ann. Math. Statist. 22 (1951)), with permanents of random sign matrices (Tao and Vu, Adv. Math. 220 (2009)). Target: joint equidistribution of the restricted constants of a block, the first step of a reduction of the dense core to a semi-random residual. The characteristic sum is \(\mathbb E\,\omega^{c(\pi)}=\mathrm{perm}(\omega^A)/N!\), with \(\omega=e^{2\pi i/3}\), so equidistribution is an upper bound on a permanent. Where it breaks: Hoeffding gives a Gaussian limit over the reals, not equidistribution modulo 3. Tao and Vu bound permanents of random \(\pm1\) matrices from below (anti-concentration), whereas the step needs upper bounds for structured phase matrices. And joint equidistribution needs every nonzero combination of the block's forms to have dense interaction: an adversary can make the forms share a dense part while their differences are sparse. The tests: sampling at \(N=200\) with 20000 matchings (constant_equidistribution.json) gives a total-variation distance from uniform within sampling noise (0.002) for uniform random coefficients and for full-support product statistics, 0.149 for the identity (Poisson(1) mod 3), and a constant for the row-plus-column form. The exact values of \(|\mathrm{perm}(\omega^A)|/N!\) for even \(N=4,\dots,14\) (permanent_phases.json) fall to \(6\times10^{-6}\) for random \(A\), converge to \(e^{-3/2}\approx0.223\) for the identity, and equal 1 for row plus column. For product statistics the largest of five samples is non-monotone (0.661, 0.764, 0.661, 0.346, 0.448, 0.185), still comparable to the identity at these sizes. Test. Passed for single forms at large \(N\); inconclusive for product statistics at small \(N\).
Green's arithmetic regularity lemma (GAFA 15 (2005)). Target: splitting a block's span into a part whose every combination has dense interaction, which gets uniform shifts, and a part of sparse differences, for the sparse and row-sparse mechanisms. Where it breaks: regularity costs tower-type losses in the codimension, and the prefix budget is \(k=\Theta(\log n)\). Test. Not run: the density notion for combinations must be defined first, which is the next step.
Alekhnovich and Razborov's pseudo-reduction (Proc. Steklov Inst. 242 (2003)) and its closure form by Mikša and Nordström. Target: a hardness mechanism for dense clauses on the residual. Where it breaks: the theorem needs a boundary-expanding axiom–variable incidence with bounded row weight. The restricted clauses of full-support forms each touch all \(r\) residual pigeons, and two of them on the same support have empty boundary. Test. Falsified for blocks of dense clauses: the hypothesis is not met.
Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's degree bound for a single dense equation (Comput. Complexity 8 (1999)). Target: the only recorded PC hardness for a dense constraint, \(\sum_ix_i=r\), proved by symmetrization. Where it breaks: it needs symmetric constraints, and the dense core's forms are not symmetric. Test. Not run: no symmetric sub-case of the dense core is identified.

Absurd bridges

The renormalization group (Kadanoff's block spins, Wilson). Translation: the random matching is one coarse-graining step. It maps W on \(n\) pigeons to W on the residual, and the forms' constants flow. Row and column statistics are conserved quantities, which freezing handles. Sparse interactions are marginal, keeping Poisson-like constants, and the sparse mechanisms handle them. Dense interactions flow to the uniform fixed point. What a theorem there would give: universality. The residual W instance would depend on the adversary's dense forms only through their residual parts, with uniform shifts, so an adversarial statement would reduce to a semi-random one. Smallest test: do the three classes flow as predicted? The exact permanents at \(N\le14\) separate uniform random coefficients from the identity, but not yet product statistics. Test. Passed at \(N=200\): the constants were fixed, Poisson(1) mod 3, and within sampling noise of uniform, respectively.
The cavity method for random assignment problems (Mézard and Parisi, J. Physique Lett. 46 (1985)). Translation: \(\mathrm{perm}(\omega^A)\) is the partition function of a matching model with complex weights \(\omega^{a_{it}}\). The cavity recursion computes its decay rate from local messages. What a theorem there would give: a decay rate for \(|\mathrm{perm}(\omega^A)|/N!\) in terms of the interaction pattern of \(A\). That would decide which blocks get uniform shifts without case analysis. Smallest test: does the exact decay separate dense from sparse interaction already at \(N\le14\)? Random \(A\) decays super-exponentially (\(0.375\to6\times10^{-6}\)), and the identity converges to the Poisson limit \(|e^{\omega-1}|=e^{-3/2}\). Product statistics stay comparable to the identity up to \(N=14\). A cavity computation of these rates is not done. Test. Passed for uniform random coefficients; inconclusive for product statistics.

Lead follow-up

Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. The restricted constants of a block pose a Littlewood–Offord problem over random matchings; the first Outside lead above is its linear case. Follow-up. Continuing: the quadratic case would govern the restricted selectors.
Nguyen and Wood's moment method. Follow-up. Continuing, with the same scope (A3's main term). A semi-random residual model would be a new place to apply it.
The Mikša–Nordström closure as a gluing base. The forced sparse board makes sparse boards unavoidable. The observation above shows that every pigeon on no 4- or 6-cycle is a spider centre. Follow-up. Continuing: a structured spider-free expander, or a closure-based gluing lemma, would revive it. Neither is constructed.
Razborov's pseudo-reduction as the dense mechanism. Examined this cycle (third Outside lead). Follow-up. Closed as a dense mechanism: blocks of dense clauses do not meet its expansion and row-weight hypotheses. It remains the residual's lower bound.

Next step

The highest-risk item is A1's dense core. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer replaces new classes with a reduction. First, define the interaction part of a form, \(a_{it}-u_i-v_t\) after removing row and column means, and a density notion for the combinations of a block's forms. Second, prove that the restricted constants of a block whose every nonzero combination has dense interaction are jointly close to uniform, by bounding \(\mathrm{perm}(\omega^A)\) from above. Finally, state the semi-random residual W to which the dense core then reduces, and compare it with A3's random models.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:forced-sparse-board, thm:logarithmic-residual-w, prop:spider-unfilled, lem:graph-matching-extension, prop:expander-core-reduction, the conditioning in Step 3 of thm:cell-family-w, and every lead followed up. Both tests were read from their saved JSON files. The permanents are exact up to floating point (Ryser's formula), and the identity case agrees with the Poisson limit. A fresh-context reviewer found the review sound after changes, and required these, all adopted:

the observation stated for cycles through the pigeon;
a corrected remark on twins;
the complete-board setting of the swap argument, with the sparse-board class flagged as open;
exact wording for the quoted numbers, with product statistics inconclusive at small \(N\);
the Alekhnovich–Razborov hypothesis as it is stated;
freezing listed among the mechanisms, with "saturated" withdrawn;
the span bound for product statistics, and the Tao–Vu description.

This review registers no claim.

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The swap decay lemma: a statistic \(\sum_iC_{i\pi(i)}\) of a uniform bijection is exponentially close to uniform on \(\mathbb F_3\) once \(C\) is far from additive, so the restriction gives the forms of dense blocks near-uniform random shifts

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1, restricted constants · cycle odd-prime-restricted-constants. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The swap decay lemma: a statistic \(\sum_iC_{i\pi(i)}\) of a uniform bijection is exponentially close to uniform on \(\mathbb F_3\) once \(C\) is far from additive, so the restriction gives the forms of dense blocks near-uniform random shifts”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-swap-decay.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The dense-core review proposed a reduction of A1's dense core to a semi-random residual. Its first step: after the random matching, the constants of a block's restricted forms should be jointly close to uniform when every combination of the forms has dense interaction. The review's tests showed this numerically for single forms. Is there a proof, with a rate good enough for union bounds over \(n^K\) blocks?

General statement. Two results over \(\mathbb F_3\), lem:swap-decay and cor:dense-shift-equidistribution, with \(\omega=e^{2\pi i/3}\):

lem:swap-decay: for a uniform bijection \(\pi\) of \([N]\) and \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{N\times N}\) at distance at least \(\varepsilon\) from the additive matrices \(u_i+v_t\), we have \(|\mathbb E\,\omega^{\sum_iC_{i\pi(i)}}|=|\mathrm{perm}(\omega^C)|/N!\le(1-\varepsilon/8)^{\lfloor\varepsilon N/8\rfloor}\). For matrices \(C_1,\dots,C_h\) whose every nonzero combination is that far, the vector of statistics is within \((1-\varepsilon/8)^{\lfloor\varepsilon N/8\rfloor}\) of uniform on \(\mathbb F_3^h\) at every point.
cor:dense-shift-equidistribution: in the restriction of thm:logarithmic-residual-w, the constants of a block's restricted forms are jointly within \(e^{-\varepsilon^2n/300}\) of uniform at every point, conditional on the residual data, for large \(n\). This holds whenever every nonzero combination of the block's coefficient matrices is \(\varepsilon\)-far from additive on the board.

The mechanism is recorded. The modular-collision search listed control of the number of nonzero swap differences among disjoint pairs as unproved. The later modular-collision theorem (thm:modular-collision-linear-search-hardness) handled that step for near-bijections in dense graphs. It samples fresh pairs whose orientations are hidden uniform bits, uses its four-cycle test for the probability of a nonzero difference, and applies a Fourier bound for systems. The lemma here specializes that mechanism to uniform bijections of a complete board. There it becomes an explicit bound on \(|\mathrm{perm}(\omega^C)|/N!\) in terms of the distance from additive, with deterministic spread pairs exposed one at a time and no sampling or failure events. Its per-swap factor \(1/2=\cos(\pi/3)\) is that of the search entry's many-swap localization bound.

The swap decay lemma

For \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{N\times N}\) let \(\mathrm{dist}(C)\) be the least fraction of cells in which \(C\) differs from an additive matrix \(u_i+v_t\). For rows \(i\ne i'\), the row difference is \(d_{ii'}=C_i-C_{i'}\in\mathbb F_3^N\). Call the pair \((i,i')\) \(\theta\)-spread if every level set \(\{t:d_{ii'}(t)=c\}\) has at most \((1-\theta)N\) elements. Write \(c(\pi)=\sum_iC_{i\pi(i)}\).

Part A (spread pairs). Let \((i_1,i'_1),\dots,(i_m,i'_m)\) be disjoint \(\theta\)-spread pairs with \(2m\le\theta N/2\). Then \(|\mathbb E\,\omega^{c(\pi)}|\le(1-\theta/4)^m\).

Proof. Generate \(\pi\) in steps. For \(j=1,\dots,m\), pick a uniform ordered pair \((t_j,t'_j)\) of distinct unused holes, and set \(\pi(i_j)=t_j\) and \(\pi(i'_j)=t'_j\). Then map the other pigeons by a uniform bijection onto the remaining holes. Each step is uniform over the remaining choices, so \(\pi\) is uniform.

Let \(\mathcal F\) record the unordered pairs \(\{t_j,t'_j\}\) and the rest of \(\pi\). For any set \(S\) of pairs, exchanging the images within the pairs of \(S\) is a bijection of the permutations that preserves \(\mathcal F\). So given \(\mathcal F\), the \(m\) orientations are independent and uniform, and

\[\mathbb E[\omega^{c(\pi)}\mid\mathcal F]=\omega^{c_0}\prod_{j=1}^m\frac{\omega^{C(i_j,t_j)+C(i'_j,t'_j)}+\omega^{C(i_j,t'_j)+C(i'_j,t_j)}}2 .\]

Here \(c_0\) is the contribution of the other pigeons. The \(j\)-th factor has modulus \(|1+\omega^{\Delta_j}|/2\), with \(\Delta_j=d_j(t_j)-d_j(t'_j)\) and \(d_j=d_{i_ji'_j}\). Since \(|1+\omega|=|1+\omega^2|=1\), the modulus is \(f_j=1\) if \(d_j(t_j)=d_j(t'_j)\), and \(f_j=1/2\) otherwise. Hence \(|\mathbb E\,\omega^{c(\pi)}|\le\mathbb E\prod_jf_j\).

Let \(\mathcal G_{j-1}\) record the first \(j-1\) unordered pairs. Given \(\mathcal G_{j-1}\), the pair \(\{t_j,t'_j\}\) is a uniform 2-subset of the unused set \(U_j\), of size \(u\ge N-2m\ge(1-\theta/2)N\). Let \(u_c\) be the number of \(t\in U_j\) with \(d_j(t)=c\), and \(a=\max_cu_c\le(1-\theta)N\). Then

\[P\bigl(d_j(t_j)=d_j(t'_j)\mid\mathcal G_{j-1}\bigr)=\sum_c\frac{u_c(u_c-1)}{u(u-1)}\le\frac{a-1}{u-1}\le\frac au\le\frac{1-\theta}{1-\theta/2}\le1-\frac\theta2 .\]

So \(\mathbb E[f_j\mid\mathcal G_{j-1}]\le1-\theta/4\). The factors \(f_1,\dots,f_{j-1}\) are \(\mathcal G_{j-1}\)-measurable, so conditioning on \(\mathcal G_{m-1},\mathcal G_{m-2},\dots\) in turn gives \(\mathbb E\prod_jf_j\le(1-\theta/4)^m\). \(\square\)

Part B (distance gives spread pairs). If \(\mathrm{dist}(C)\ge\varepsilon\), there are \(\lfloor\varepsilon N/8\rfloor\) disjoint \((\varepsilon/2)\)-spread pairs.

Proof. Take a maximal family of disjoint \((\varepsilon/2)\)-spread pairs, and suppose it has fewer than \(\lfloor\varepsilon N/8\rfloor\) pairs. Its pigeons number less than \(\varepsilon N/4\). Let \(U\) be the other pigeons, and fix \(i_0\in U\). By maximality no pair inside \(U\) is spread. So for each \(i\in U\) there is \(c_i\) with \(C_i(t)=C_{i_0}(t)+c_i\) for more than \((1-\varepsilon/2)N\) holes \(t\), with \(c_{i_0}=0\). Let \(A(i,t)=C_{i_0}(t)+c_i\) for \(i\in U\) and \(A(i,t)=C_{i_0}(t)\) otherwise, an additive matrix. \(C\) and \(A\) differ in fewer than \((\varepsilon/2)N\) cells of each row of \(U\), and in at most \(N\) cells of each other row. That makes fewer than \((\varepsilon/2)N^2+(\varepsilon/4)N^2<\varepsilon N^2\) cells, contradicting \(\mathrm{dist}(C)\ge\varepsilon\). \(\square\)

Lemma (swap decay).

If \(\mathrm{dist}(C)\ge\varepsilon\), then \(|\mathbb E\,\omega^{c(\pi)}|=|\mathrm{perm}(\omega^C)|/N!\le(1-\varepsilon/8)^{\lfloor\varepsilon N/8\rfloor}\).
If \(C_1,\dots,C_h\) have \(\mathrm{dist}(\sum_j\lambda_jC_j)\ge\varepsilon\) for every \(\lambda\in\mathbb F_3^h\setminus0\), then the vector \(\mathbf c=(c_1(\pi),\dots,c_h(\pi))\) satisfies \(|P(\mathbf c=v)-3^{-h}|\le(1-\varepsilon/8)^{\lfloor\varepsilon N/8\rfloor}\) for every \(v\in\mathbb F_3^h\).

Proof. (1) Part B gives \(m=\lfloor\varepsilon N/8\rfloor\) disjoint \((\varepsilon/2)\)-spread pairs. Since \(2m\le\varepsilon N/4=\theta N/2\) for \(\theta=\varepsilon/2\), Part A applies. The identity \(\mathbb E\,\omega^{c(\pi)}=\mathrm{perm}(\omega^C)/N!\) is the definition of the permanent.

(2) By Fourier inversion on \(\mathbb F_3^h\), \(P(\mathbf c=v)=3^{-h}\sum_\lambda\omega^{-\lambda\cdot v}\,\mathbb E\,\omega^{\lambda\cdot\mathbf c}\), and \(\lambda\cdot\mathbf c=\sum_i(\sum_j\lambda_jC_j)_{i\pi(i)}\). The term \(\lambda=0\) is \(3^{-h}\). Each other term has modulus at most \(3^{-h}B\), where \(B\) is the bound of (1), so the total deviation is at most \((1-3^{-h})B\le B\). \(\square\)

The rate is \(e^{-\varepsilon^2N/64+O(1)}\). For fixed \(\varepsilon\) it beats \(3^{-h}\) for \(h\) up to a constant times \(\varepsilon^2N\). The three classes of the review behave as expected:

additive matrices have \(\mathrm{dist}=0\) and constant statistics;
the identity has \(\mathrm{dist}\le1/N\), and its statistic is Poisson-like;
a uniform random matrix has \(\mathrm{dist}\) near \(2/3\) with high probability.

Over \(\mathbb F_p\) the same proof works with \(\omega=e^{2\pi i/p}\), the factor \(1/2\) replaced by \(\cos(\pi/p)\) as in the search entry's many-swap localization bound, and \(1-\theta/4\) replaced by \(1-\tfrac\theta2(1-\cos(\pi/p))\). This is not needed here.

Application to the restriction

Take the choice of thm:logarithmic-residual-w: \(s=10(22k+1)\), \(h=\lceil2^{12}s\rceil\) and \(r=h+1\), so \(h,r=O(\ln n)\); \(H\) is a uniform \(h\)-set of holes and \(\pi\) a uniform injection of holes into pigeons, \(\rho=\{(\pi(t),t):t\notin H\}\), \(R\) the unused pigeons, and each pigeon of \(R\) takes a uniform 5-subset of \(H\), independently of everything else. Given \(H\) and \(R\), the matching \(\rho\) is a uniform bijection from the \(N=n-h\) pigeons outside \(R\) onto the holes outside \(H\) (Step 3 of thm:cell-family-w). It is independent of \(G'\), which is drawn from fresh randomness given \(H\) and \(R\). The restriction fixes the \(\rho\)-cells to 1, the other cells in their rows and columns to 0, and the cells of \(R\times H\) outside \(G'\) to 0. So a form \(L=a_0+\sum a_{it}x_{it}\) restricts to

\[\bar L=a_0+c(\rho)+\sum_{(i,t)\in G'}a_{it}x_{it},\qquad c(\rho)=\sum_{i\notin R}a_{i\rho(i)} .\]

Its residual part depends only on \(H\), \(R\) and \(G'\), and its constant is the statistic of the bijection for the sub-board matrix \(C=(a_{it})_{i\notin R,\,t\notin H}\).

Distance passes to the sub-board. An additive matrix within \(\delta\) of the sub-board matrix extends additively to the \(m\times n\) board, with at most \(rn+hm\) extra disagreements. So

\[\mathrm{dist}_{\mathrm{sub}}\ge\frac{mn\,\mathrm{dist}_{\mathrm{board}}-rn-hm}{N^2}\ge\mathrm{dist}_{\mathrm{board}}-O\Bigl(\frac{\ln n}n\Bigr),\]

since \(N^2\le mn\) and the loss is \((rn+hm)/N^2=O((r+h)/n)\).

Corollary (dense shift equidistribution). Fix \(\varepsilon>0\). Let a block have linear parts with coefficient matrices \(A_1,\dots,A_{h_b}\) on the \(m\times n\) board, every nonzero combination at distance at least \(\varepsilon\) from additive. For \(n\ge n_0(\varepsilon,K,C)\), conditional on \((H,R,G')\), the constants of the restricted forms satisfy \(|P(\mathbf c=v)-3^{-h_b}|\le e^{-\varepsilon^2n/300}\) for every \(v\), where \(\mathbf c=(a_{0,j}+c_j(\rho))_j\). Consequently, for any event \(E\) about the block's restricted forms, \(P(E)\) differs by at most \(3^{h_b}e^{-\varepsilon^2n/300}\) from its value when the shifts are independent uniform. The residual parts are the same in both models.

Proof. For \(n\ge n_0\) the loss \(O((r+h)/n)\) is at most \(\varepsilon/2\), so the sub-board distances are at least \(\varepsilon/2\). Part 2 of the lemma with \(\varepsilon/2\) gives the bound \((1-\varepsilon/16)^{\lfloor\varepsilon N/16\rfloor}\le e^{-\varepsilon^2N/256+\varepsilon/16}\). Since \(N=n-h\ge0.99n\), this is at most \(e^{-\varepsilon^2n/300}\) once \(\varepsilon^2n(0.99/256-1/300)\ge\varepsilon/16\), roughly \(n\ge120/\varepsilon\). The same holds with \(\varepsilon\) depending on \(n\), as long as \(\varepsilon\) is large compared with \((r+h)/n\) and \(1/n\). The shifts \(a_{0,j}\) are fixed translations. The event bound sums the pointwise deviations over the \(3^{h_b}\) shift vectors. \(\square\)

What it means

A per-block transfer. For blocks far from additive in every combination, the restriction is, block by block, the semi-random model: fixed residual parts with independent uniform shifts. This holds up to \(3^{h_b}e^{-\varepsilon^2n/300}\), which is negligible for \(h_b\le c\,\varepsilon^2n\) with \(c<1/(300\ln3)\), about \(1/330\).
Why this is not yet a reduction. Dense blocks have no per-block kill: their residual parts are nonzero, so no clause vanishes by itself. Any mechanism for them must be global, and it needs the joint law of the shifts across the whole family. That law is near-uniform only on the combinations of all the family's forms that are far from additive. A family can contain near-additive combinations, for instance two dense forms differing by a column statistic plus a sparse part. So the global reduction needs a decomposition of the family's span into a far part, with uniform shifts, and a near-additive part, which freezing and the sparse mechanisms must handle. This is the regularity lead of the dense-core review.
Which forms the lemma does not reach. The lemma and its bounds are for uniform bijections of a complete sub-board. It says nothing about near-bijections in dense graphs, the setting of the modular-collision search. Its rate \(e^{-\varepsilon^2N/64}\) decays only while \(\varepsilon\gg N^{-1/2}\). It gives no useful decay for combinations at distance \(O(N^{-1/2})\) from additive, such as additive matrices plus deviations in \(O(N^{3/2})\) cells.

What is open. The decomposition step, and the semi-random residual W statement itself. No new case of W is proved.

Next. Define the far and near-additive parts of a family's span. Near-additive means an additive matrix plus a sparse part, so it can go to freezing and the sparse mechanisms. Test whether a family can be split so that the far part has jointly uniform shifts and the near part is handled, with the cost counted against the prefix budget.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the swap-detection and many-swap localization lemmas of the modular-collision search (lem:unary-swap-localization-Fp), the statement and localization step of thm:modular-collision-linear-search-hardness (fresh pairs, hidden orientations, its Fourier bound for systems), lem:dense-class-restrictions-imply-additive, and the choice and conditioning of thm:cell-family-w and thm:logarithmic-residual-w. A claim search found no recorded bound of \(|\mathrm{perm}(\omega^C)|/N!\) by the distance from additive. The reviewer pointed to the newer modular-collision theorem, and on reading it the lemma is labelled a specialization of its mechanism. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed Parts A and B, the lemma's first part, the uniformity of the generation, the tower argument, the \(\mathbb F_p\) remark and the three-class claims. It found no unused hypothesis. It required these changes, all adopted:

the relation to the modular-collision theorem, which had already handled the step in a harder setting;
the Fourier-inversion wording;
the actual \(h\) and \(r\) of the choice, and the independence of \(G'\);
\(n\ge n_0(\varepsilon)\), and the constant in \(h_b\le c\,\varepsilon^2n\);
the decay range \(\varepsilon\gg N^{-1/2}\) in place of "no decay at \(o(1)\)".

The changes correct or weaken claims, so no second pass was made.

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Blocked centres: the spider's leg condition is unused, so any pigeon whose holes are all matched to legs with private holes leaves the matching complex unfilled, and twin-hole boards, though free of spiders, are not protected

26 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · open statement A1, gluing base on sparse boards · cycle odd-prime-span-split. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Blocked centres: the spider's leg condition is unused, so any pigeon whose holes are all matched to legs with private holes leaves the matching complex unfilled, and twin-hole boards, though free of spiders, are not protected”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-blocked-centres.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. By the forced sparse board, W for families containing every hole block is equivalent to W on sparse boards that the chooser picks. Taylor glue's only recorded sufficient base on a graph board is the matching-complex filling of lem:graph-matching-extension, and spiders break it (prop:spider-unfilled). The dense-core review showed that a spider-free board needs every pigeon on a 4- or 6-cycle. Boards whose holes come in twin pairs, with equal pigeon sets, have no spiders at all: every pigeon at a hole of \(r\) is also at its twin, another hole of \(r\). They are boundary expanders when the base graph expands at half the rate, since boundaries double. Can the chooser revive the base with such a structured board? The last next step proposed splitting a family's span; this question comes first, because a revived base would give A1 a dense mechanism on sparse boards.

General statement. prop:blocked-centre-unfilled, over any field. Let \(S=\{r,n_1,\dots,n_d\}\) consist of \(d+1\) distinct rows of a bipartite graph \(G\), with \(N_{G[S]}(r)=\{h_1,\dots,h_d\}\) exactly and the \(h_i\) distinct. Suppose \(n_i\) is adjacent to \(h_i\), and every \(n_i\) has a hole adjacent to no other row of \(S\). Then \(M(G[S])\) has a wedge summand \(S^{d-1}\), so \(\tilde H_{|S|-2}(M(G[S]))\ne0\). This refines prop:spider-unfilled, which also required \(n_i\) to meet no hole of \(r\) other than \(h_i\).

The proposition

Proof. This is the proof of prop:spider-unfilled, which never uses the dropped condition. The leaf decomposition of lem:private-hole-filling, applied to \(n_1\) and its private hole \(x_1\), gives

\[M(G[S])\simeq\bigvee_{t\in N(n_1)\setminus x_1}\Sigma\,M\bigl((G-t)[S\setminus n_1]\bigr).\]

The summand for \(t=h_1\) is present whether or not \(n_1\) also meets other holes of \(r\). Here \(h_1\ne x_1\), since \(h_1\) is a hole of \(r\). In the summand, \(r\) has lost \(h_1\). Each remaining leg keeps its private hole, since only rows and holes were removed and no private hole is a hole of \(r\). So the decomposition repeats with \(n_2\) and \(t=h_2\), and so on. The \(h_i\) are distinct, so each is still present when its turn comes. After \(d\) steps \(r\) is alone with no holes, since its holes in \(G[S]\) were exactly \(h_1,\dots,h_d\). Its matching complex is \(\{\varnothing\}\), and the iterated summand is \(\Sigma^d\{\varnothing\}=S^{d-1}\). Since \(|S|-2=d-1\), \(\tilde H_{|S|-2}\ne0\) over every field. \(\square\)

A blocked centre is a pigeon \(r\) all of whose holes are matched to distinct other pigeons, each with a hole private to the row set. The dropped condition is exactly what twin boards avoid; the remaining one they do not.

The check on twin boards

twin_filling.py compared two boards with 121 pigeons, 120 holes and pigeon degree 4 (twin_filling_d2.json, seed 20260926).

Twin board: 60 original holes, each pigeon a uniform 2-subset, every hole doubled.
Random control: each pigeon a uniform 4-subset of 120 holes.

Row sets were grown connected, each new row sharing a hole with the set, and \(\tilde H_{|S|-2}(M(G[S]);\mathbb F_3)\) was computed exactly, 30 row sets per size:

twin board: 0, 0, 1 and 7 nonzero at \(|S|=2,3,4,5\);
random control: 0, 0, 0 and 1.

Both saved failures at \(|S|=5\) are blocked centres. In the first, \(r=\{50,51,86,87\}\), and the legs \(\{50,51,118,119\}\), \(\{4,5,50,51\}\), \(\{54,55,86,87\}\), \(\{78,79,86,87\}\) take \(50,51,86,87\), with private holes \(118,4,54,78\). Each leg meets two holes of \(r\), which is why these are not spiders. The failure at \(|S|=4\) contains two identical rows.

The prevalence over whole boards is about equal. blocked_count.py searched every pigeon exhaustively for a blocked-centre configuration (blocked_count.json, same boards). It found 107 blocked centres of 121 pigeons on the twin board, with 2 duplicate rows, and 112 of 121 on the random control. The sampled failure rates differ because of how row sets were grown. Connected growth stays on fewer holes in twin boards, so their small row sets are more often closed around a centre. That difference is also statistically marginal. What the check shows is that twin boards are not protected, not that they are worse.

The tested twin board is not an expander. Its base has pigeon degree 2, so it has duplicate rows and short cycles, whose row sets have empty boundary. For twin boards built on an expanding base, the conclusion rests on the proposition together with the existence of blocked centres, not on this sample.

What it means

Structure does not revive the base. The obstruction is a centre all of whose holes can be blocked, not the spider's shape. Let \(S\) be \(r\) together with legs matched to all of \(r\)'s holes, with \(|S|=\deg r+1\le s\). If no leg has a private hole, then every hole of \(S\) has at least two neighbours in \(S\), so \(S\) has empty boundary, which \((s,1)\)-boundary expansion forbids. So in an expander at least one leg of every such matching has a private hole. Avoiding blocked centres needs more: every matching must leave some leg without one. No board with this property and boundary expansion is known, and twin boards, the natural spider-free candidates, are not such boards.
The recorded base is gone on these boards. The only recorded sufficient base for Taylor glue, matching-complex filling, fails at every blocked centre, on random and twin boards alike. This does not refute the glue: the actual degree fall is recorded only on the spider board itself (ex:spider-fall). What survives is a base that tolerates falls. The fall at a blocked centre is semantic: the legs' matching monomial vanishes on every \(S\)-saturating matching, because \(r\) has no free hole. A local ideal defined by vanishing on the saturating matchings of a closed set, as in the pseudo-reduction of Alekhnovich and Razborov, contains that monomial at its own degree. All the holes of a blocked centre lie in its legs' neighbourhood, which suggests it lies in the Mikša–Nordström closure of its legs; that is to be checked against their definitions. If it does, a gluing base relative to closure-local semantic ideals would not see these falls.

What is open. Whether Taylor glue can be restated with closure-local semantic ideals in place of the PC ideals \(I_d\), and whether its base then holds on expander boards. No new case of W is proved.

Next. Formulate the closure-relative base: for closed row sets, extension of functionals that vanish on the closure-local semantic ideal. Test it on small random and twin boards against the blocked centres found here.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:spider-unfilled and its proof, lem:private-hole-filling, lem:graph-matching-extension, ex:spider-fall and prop:forced-sparse-board. A claim search found the generalization unrecorded; the nearest claim is prop:spider-unfilled itself. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the proof. It checked the index set of the decomposition, the survival of private holes and the presence of each \(h_i\). It reran the script with the same seed and got identical counts, and found all 7 twin failures and the control failure at \(|S|=5\) to be blocked centres. It required these changes, all adopted:

"exactly" in the statement, and \(|S|=\deg r+1\le s\) for the empty-boundary remark;
the prevalence counts in place of the claim that twin boards fail more often, now computed by blocked_count.py;
that the tested twin board does not expand;
"its only recorded sufficient base fails" in place of "cannot serve A1";
W's equivalence on sparse boards in place of "every proof of A1 works on sparse boards";
\(S\)-saturating matchings in the semantic fall.

The changes weaken or correct claims, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: the Mikša–Nordström closure absorbs every blocked-centre fall, so a closure-relative base survives where design extension died; what A1 now needs is a gluing theorem relative to that operator, and no recorded tool supplies one

26 September 2026 · Route review with a definition check and two tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-closure-base. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the Mikša–Nordström closure absorbs every blocked-centre fall, so a closure-relative base survives where design extension died; what A1 now needs is a gluing theorem relative to that operator, and no recorded tool supplies one”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-closure-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the dense-core review, two entries tested the two candidate dense mechanisms. Swap decay made the semi-random reduction exact block by block, but dense blocks have no per-block kill. Blocked centres showed that Taylor glue's recorded graph-board base fails on random and structured boards alike. Is any base for a dense mechanism left on sparse boards, and what exactly would the mechanism have to prove?

General statement. The line's claim: A1 follows from conj:expander-dense-core (prop:expander-core-reduction), and by prop:forced-sparse-board, W for families containing every hole block is equivalent to W on chooser-picked sparse boards. What the goal needs is a hardness mechanism for blocks whose interaction part is dense, on such boards.

Falsification attempt: do blocked-centre falls survive closure?

Take Theorem 4.9 of Mikša and Nordström for functional graph PHP. The axiom side \(\mathcal U\) is the pigeon axioms. Each hole \(v\) gets the variable set \(V_v=\{x_{u'v'}:u'\in N(v),\ v'\in N(u')\}\), their (4.3). The neighbourhood \(N(t)\) of a term is the set of holes whose variable sets meet the term (their Definition 3.16). The \(s\)-support is the union of the pigeon sets \(U'\) with \(|U'|\le s\) and \(\partial U'\subseteq N(t)\) (Definition 3.17). The operator reduces a term modulo the ideal of the pigeon axioms of its support together with all hole and functionality axioms (Definition 3.20).

Let \(r\) be a blocked centre with distinct legs \(n_i\ne r\) on its holes \(h_i\in N(n_i)\), the \(h_i\) covering all of \(N(r)\). Let \(t=\prod_ix_{n_ih_i}\) be the legs' matching monomial, the one that falls. A variable \(x_{n_ih_i}\) lies in \(V_v\) for every \(v\in N(n_i)\), so \(N(t)=\bigcup_iN(n_i)\supseteq N(r)\). For \(s\ge1\) the singleton \(\{r\}\) is \((s,N(t))\)-contained, since \(\partial\{r\}=N(r)\subseteq N(t)\), so \(r\) lies in the support of \(t\). In the multilinear ring \(\mathbb F[x]/(x^2-x)\), a finite product of copies of \(\mathbb F\), every ideal is the vanishing ideal of its zero set. The zero set here is contained in the set of assignments in which \(r\) sits in one of its holes and no hole is doubly used. The support may contain further pigeons, which only shrinks the zero set. Every such assignment kills \(t\), since the legs occupy all of \(r\)'s holes; this uses only \(r\)'s pigeon axiom and the hole axioms at the \(h_i\). So \(t\) lies in the ideal, and the operator sends it to 0. Outcome: the falls that defeated design extension are invisible to the closure-relative operator. The attempt to show that the closure base fails like the design base is falsified.

How common the falls are is no longer in doubt. On the saved random board, 112 of 121 pigeons are blocked centres (blocked_count.json). A mean-field count predicts \((1-e^{-\lambda})^d\) with \(\lambda\) the expected number of other pigeons at a hole. That gives 112.4 there (closure_tests.json, and the first bridge below). At W's boards, \(\lambda\approx k-1\) and \(d\approx k\), so the prediction tends to 1.

Assessment of the line

What stands.
- Structured classes, the forced sparse board, and the expander-core reduction.
- Swap decay, which gives dense-interaction blocks jointly near-uniform shifts, block by block.
- The closure-relative operator, a base on \((s,\delta)\)-boundary expanders that absorbs the obstruction that killed design extension. Whether the chooser's forced sparse boards can be taken to be boundary expanders is not verified here, and absorbing one obstruction does not show that the base carries dense gluing.
What is missing. The gluing step relative to that operator. A natural formulation, proposed here and not yet proved, is as follows. Let \(R\) be the operator, \(D\) its degree, and \(W\) the smallest subspace of \(R\)'s image containing the images \(R(\tau)\) of the clauses and closed under \(f\mapsto R(xf)\) for \(\deg f<D\). Only clauses of degree at most \(D\) matter, since a degree-\(D\) refutation uses no others. If \(1\notin W\), then \(\pi\circ R\) satisfies the conditions of Razborov's lemma (their Lemma 3.15), so the system has no refutation of degree at most \(D\). Here \(\pi\) is a projection with kernel \(W\), chosen degree-filtered: complements \(C_j\) with \(P_{\le j}=(W\cap P_{\le j})\oplus C_j\) and \(C_{j-1}\subseteq C_j\), so that \(\deg(f-\pi f)\le\deg f\). Sketch:
- \(R(1)=1\), since the support of 1 is empty and the hole and functionality axioms are satisfiable, so \(\pi R(1)=1\) exactly when \(1\notin W\).
- The pigeon, hole and functionality axioms map to 0 by Mikša and Nordström, and the clauses map into \(W\).
- For \(\deg t<D\) write \(\pi R(t)=R(t)-w\) with \(w\in W\). Then \(\deg w\le\deg R(t)\le\deg t<D\), using the degree-compatible order of their Definition 3.12. So \(R(xw)\in W\), and \(\pi R(x\pi R(t))=\pi R(xR(t))-\pi R(xw)=\pi R(xt)\).
For structured blocks one expects \(W=0\), their clauses lying in local ideals; this is to be checked in the next step. For dense clauses, \(1\notin W\) is again a global statement.
Why the recorded import does not do it. The immunity-criterion audit (audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope) showed that Alekhnovich and Razborov's immunity criterion cannot take dense overlapping clauses as axioms. Shared essential variables make its threshold nonpositive. The relative formulation asks no expansion of the clauses, which is how it avoids that audit. But then the whole difficulty sits in \(1\notin W\).
Qualitative assessment. The line has found a base that absorbs the obstruction that killed design extension, on boundary-expanding boards. It has not produced the mechanism. Since the forced-sparse-board entry, the general implication for dense blocks has not moved; only its setting has. That covers the forced sparse board, the logarithmic residual, the dense-core review, swap decay and blocked centres, with the move from designs to the closure operator. The line is weak at its core. The one concrete target is a relative analogue of A3: Tor vanishing, or freeness, of the clause images in the operator's image space.

Outside leads

Theorem 4.9 of Mikša and Nordström, its operator as the base. Target: a base for dense gluing on the forced sparse boards. Where it breaks: nowhere found yet for the base; the break is in gluing, the next item. Test. Passed: blocked-centre falls lie in the support and in the semantic local ideal (the check above).
Alekhnovich and Razborov's immunity criterion (2000 preprint, Theorem 3.8), for the clause part. Target: dense clauses as axioms of the framework. Where it breaks: the recorded overlap inequality: two clauses sharing \(t\ge e/4\) essential variables give a nonpositive threshold. Test. Falsified by the recorded audit. Full-support restricted clauses share all residual cells.
Descent of PC closure to a quotient (obs:PC-closure-quotient-module-descent). Target: the relative closure \(W\) as the analogue of the record's descent \(U_{t+1}=U_t+\sum y_i(U_t:z)\), with \(R\)'s image in place of \(S/J\). Where it breaks: \(\ker R\) is not an ideal, so module structure is replaced by the rule \(R(xR(t))=R(xt)\). Test. Passed, given the degree-filtered projection: the argument in the assessment uses only that rule, the closure of \(W\) and the degree bounds. A written proof is the next step.

Absurd bridges

Pauli blocking in a Fermi gas (the Uehling–Uhlenbeck blocking factor). Translation: pigeons are fermions and holes are single-particle states. A blocked centre is a particle all of whose states are occupied by others that each have an escape state. What a theorem there would give: the mean-field blocking probability, a product over states of occupation probabilities. It ignores the legs' escape condition. On the random board, with 120 other pigeons each at a given hole with probability \(4/120\), \(\lambda=4\) and the prediction is \(121(1-e^{-4})^4\). On the twin board, each of \(r\)'s two base holes needs two other pigeons, with \(\lambda=120\cdot2/60=4\), giving \(121(1-e^{-4}(1+4))^2\). The form \((1-e^{-\lambda})^d\) tends to 1 on W's boards, where \(\lambda\approx k-1\). So essentially every pigeon is a blocked centre, and any base must absorb their falls. Smallest test: predict the counts of blocked_count.json. Test. Passed on the random board, 112.4 predicted against 112 observed (closure_tests.json). On the twin board it predicts 99.9 against 107, an underestimate by about 1.7 standard deviations.
Dhar's burning algorithm for sandpiles (Phys. Rev. Lett. 64 (1990)). Translation: computing a support is burning. Start from the holes \(N(t)\) and add a pigeon once all its holes are burnt. What a theorem there would give: burning decides recurrence in linear time, which would give a fast support computation for experiments. Smallest test: compare burning with the exact support on small boards. Test. Falsified: burning was a strict subset of the support in all 40 trials, with 2.77 pigeons on average against 11.12 (13 pigeons, 12 holes, degree 3, \(s=4\); closure_tests.json). Contained sets may share holes outside \(N(t)\), which burning never uses. These tiny boards are not expanders, so the size gap overstates the typical difference.

Bridge follow-up

The renormalization group. Its flow is now proved block by block. Additive combinations stay fixed, and combinations far from additive flow to uniform shifts (lem:swap-decay, cor:dense-shift-equidistribution). Follow-up. Closed: the universality it promised needs a global mechanism for dense blocks, which the line lacks, so the semi-random model has no endpoint yet.
The cavity method for \(\mathrm{perm}(\omega^A)\). Follow-up. Closed: lem:swap-decay gives an explicit decay bound by the distance from additive, which is all the reduction used. A cavity computation of exact rates is not needed on the critical path.

Lead follow-up

Hoeffding's combinatorial central limit theorem and permanent bounds. Developed into lem:swap-decay. Follow-up. Closed: the permanent bound is proved, and its intended use stalls at the missing global mechanism.
Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: they remain the candidate tool for freeness of random clause images, now wanted relative to the closure operator as well as on the complete board.
Nguyen and Wood's moment method. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing, since A3's main term, its scope, is still open.
The Mikša–Nordström closure as a gluing base. This cycle showed that the closure absorbs every blocked-centre fall. Follow-up. Continuing: the base stands, and the relative gluing step is the next step.

Next step

The highest-risk item remains A1's dense core. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is the relative criterion. Prove that \(1\notin W\) implies hardness for functional graph PHP on an expander plus arbitrary clauses. Show that it contains the restriction line's kills: zero images, span prefixes and occupancy implications all give \(W=0\) block by block. Then state the relative form of W for dense clauses as a conjecture and test it against the recorded obstructions.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read Mikša and Nordström's Definitions 3.12, 3.16, 3.17, 3.19 and 3.20, Lemma 3.15 and Theorem 4.9 with its variable sets (4.3), in the paper's text. Also re-read prop:blocked-centre-unfilled, lem:swap-decay, the immunity-criterion audit and obs:PC-closure-quotient-module-descent. The counts were read from blocked_count.json and closure_tests.json. The relative criterion is stated as a proposal with a proof sketch and is not registered. A fresh-context reviewer found the review sound after changes, and required these, all adopted:

the zero set described as containment, with the facts the support argument uses;
a degree-filtered projection, with \(R(1)=1\), closing a degree gap in the sketch;
\(W=0\) for structured blocks marked as expected, not shown;
the scope of the base limited to boundary expanders;
the entries behind "has not moved" named;
the work, or its absence, stated for each continuing lead.

Its recomputation of the mean-field prediction used the twin board's parameters for the random board. The formulas are now written out: \(\lambda=4\) and exponent 4 for the random board, which give 112.4. This review registers no claim.

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The relative criterion and semantic local kills: extra axioms keep functional graph PHP hard when 1 stays outside the operator closure of their images, and a clause on at most \(\delta s/(2d)\) pigeons is harmless when the local matchings imply it, which turns the prefix condition into a hitting set

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem · open statement A1, closure-relative base · cycle odd-prime-relative-criterion. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The relative criterion and semantic local kills: extra axioms keep functional graph PHP hard when 1 stays outside the operator closure of their images, and a clause on at most \(\delta s/(2d)\) pigeons is harmless when the local matchings imply it, which turns the prefix condition into a hitting set”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-relative-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The closure review proposed a relative criterion. With Mikša and Nordström's operator \(R\) as the base, extra clauses keep functional graph PHP hard when 1 stays outside the smallest subspace containing their images and closed under \(f\mapsto R(xf)\). It also expected every structured block to contribute nothing. This entry proves the criterion. It then asks which clauses the operator kills outright, and what that means for W's prefixes.

General statement. Two results, lem:relative-criterion and prop:semantic-local-kill, for functional graph PHP on an \((s,\delta)\)-boundary expander \(G\) of left degree at most \(d\), with \(D_0=\lfloor\delta s/(2d)\rfloor\ge d\):

lem:relative-criterion: for any set \(A\) of polynomials of degree at most \(D_0\), if \(1\notin W_A\), the relative closure below, then \(\mathrm{FPHP}_G\cup A\) has no PC refutation of degree at most \(D_0\).
prop:semantic-local-kill: a polynomial that mentions a set \(P\) of pigeons with \(d|P|\le\delta s/2\) is sent to 0 by \(R\) if and only if it vanishes on every assignment satisfying the pigeon axioms of the support \(U'=\mathrm{Sup}_s(N(P))\) and all hole and functionality axioms. For a block of W on the residual board this makes the prefix condition a hitting-set condition.

Both results are over any field and rest on Theorem 4.9 of Mikša and Nordström and the lemmas behind it (imp:MN-functional-graph-degree).

Setting

\(\mathrm{FPHP}_G\) has, for pigeons \(u\) and holes \(v,v'\):

pigeon axioms \(\bigvee_{v\in N(u)}x_{uv}\);
hole axioms \(\bar x_{uv}\vee\bar x_{u'v}\);
functionality axioms \(\bar x_{uv}\vee\bar x_{uv'}\).

Work in the multilinear ring \(\mathbb F[x]/(x^2-x)\). A PC refutation of degree \(D\) with Booleanity axioms gives one there of degree at most \(D\). Following their Theorem 4.9:

\(\mathcal U\) is the pigeon axioms, and \(E\) is the hole and functionality axioms;
hole \(v\) has the variable set \(V_v=\{x_{u'v'}:u'\in N(v),v'\in N(u')\}\), and \(N(t)\) is the family of \(V_v\) that a term \(t\) meets;
this \((\mathcal U,\mathcal V)_E\)-graph is an \((s,\delta,0,E)\)-expander with overlap \(d\).

Then:

\(\mathrm{Sup}_s\) is their support (Definition 3.17);
\(I_E(U')\) is the ideal generated by \(U'\wedge E\) (Definition 3.19);
\(R(t)=R_{I_E(\mathrm{Sup}_s(t))}(t)\) (Definition 3.20), extended linearly, reducing under an admissible, degree-compatible order (Definition 3.9), so \(\deg R(f)\le\deg f\).

Their proof of Theorem 3.8 gives:

\(R\) is linear and \(R(1)=1\). The support of 1 is empty, since every nonempty pigeon set has nonempty boundary (\(\delta>0\)), so the ideal is generated by \(E\), which the all-false assignment satisfies.
\(R(C)=0\) for every axiom of \(\mathrm{FPHP}_G\) of degree at most \(D_0\). Their proof applies Lemma 3.26 to the leading term, which needs this degree bound. Pigeon axioms have degree at most \(d\), so the hypothesis \(d\le D_0\) covers all axioms. In any case Razborov's induction uses this property only for axioms occurring in a derivation of degree at most \(D_0\).
\(R(xt)=R(xR(t))\) for every term with \(\deg t<D_0\) and every variable \(x\).

Their Lemma 3.15, due to Razborov, uses only linearity and these three properties. Its proof, an induction over the lines of a degree-\(D\) derivation, works verbatim for arbitrary polynomial axioms of degree at most \(D\).

The relative criterion

For a set \(A\) of multilinear polynomials of degree at most \(D_0\), let \(W_A\) be the smallest subspace of \(P_{\le D_0}\) that contains \(R(a)\) for \(a\in A\) and contains \(R(xf)\) for every variable \(x\) and every \(f\in W_A\) with \(\deg f<D_0\). Since \(\deg R(xf)\le\deg f+1\le D_0\), this stays inside \(P_{\le D_0}\).

Lemma (relative criterion). If \(1\notin W_A\), then \(\mathrm{FPHP}_G\cup A\) has no PC refutation of degree at most \(D_0\).

Proof. Choose complements \(C_0\subseteq C_1\subseteq\dots\subseteq C_{D_0}\) with \(P_{\le j}=(W_A\cap P_{\le j})\oplus C_j\). Given \(C_{j-1}\), the sum \((W_A\cap P_{\le j})+C_{j-1}\) is direct, since \(C_{j-1}\subseteq P_{\le j-1}\) meets \(W_A\) trivially. Extend it to \(P_{\le j}\) by enlarging \(C_{j-1}\) to \(C_j\).

Let \(\pi\) be the projection of \(P_{\le D_0}\) onto \(C_{D_0}\) along \(W_A\). For \(f\in P_{\le j}\), the decomposition \(f=w+c\) with \(w\in W_A\cap P_{\le j}\) and \(c\in C_j\) is also the decomposition at level \(D_0\). So \(\pi f=c\) and \(\deg(f-\pi f)\le\deg f\).

Set \(R'=\pi\circ R\) on \(P_{\le D_0}\), and 0 on monomials of higher degree. It is linear.

\(R'(1)=\pi(1)\ne0\), since \(1\notin W_A\).
\(R'(C)=\pi(0)=0\) for the axioms of \(\mathrm{FPHP}_G\), and \(R'(a)=\pi R(a)=0\) for \(a\in A\), since \(R(a)\in W_A\).
Let \(\deg t<D_0\), and write \(\pi R(t)=R(t)-w\) with \(w\in W_A\). Then \(\deg w\le\deg R(t)\le\deg t<D_0\), so \(R(xw)\in W_A\). Using property 3, \(R'(xR'(t))=\pi R(xR(t))-\pi R(xw)=\pi R(xt)=R'(xt)\).

Razborov's lemma, applied to \(R'\) with the axioms \(\mathrm{FPHP}_G\cup A\), gives the claim. \(\square\)

The converse is not claimed. If \(1\in W_A\), the operator \(R\) simply fails to certify.

Semantic local kills

For a set \(P\) of pigeons, write \(N(P)=\{V_v:v\in N(u)\text{ for some }u\in P\}\). A variable \(x_{uw}\) lies in \(V_v\) exactly when \(v\in N(u)\). So a polynomial that mentions only cells of pigeons in \(P\) has all its terms' neighbourhoods inside \(N(P)\).

Proposition (semantic local kill). Let \(a\) mention only cells of the pigeons in \(P\), with \(d|P|\le\delta s/2\), and let \(U'=\mathrm{Sup}_s(N(P))\). Then:

\(P\subseteq U'\), \(|U'|\le s/2\), and \(\mathrm{Sup}_s(t)\subseteq U'\) for every term \(t\) of \(a\);
\(R(a)=R_{I_E(U')}(a)\);
\(R(a)=0\) if and only if \(a\) vanishes on every assignment to all cells that satisfies the pigeon axioms of \(U'\) and all hole and functionality axioms.

Proof.

\(|N(P)|\le d|P|\le\delta s/2\), so by their Lemma 3.22 the support \(U'\) is \((s/2,N(P))\)-contained, in particular \(|U'|\le s/2\). For \(u\in P\), \(\{u\}\) has boundary \(N(u)\subseteq N(P)\), so \(u\in U'\). A set that is \((s,N(t))\)-contained is \((s,N(P))\)-contained, since \(N(t)\subseteq N(P)\). So \(\mathrm{Sup}_s(t)\subseteq U'\).
By their Lemma 3.25, applied to each term with this \(U'\) of size at most \(s\), \(R(t)=R_{I_E(U')}(t)\). Linearity gives the claim.
\(R_{I}(a)=0\) exactly when \(a\in I\). In \(\mathbb F[x]/(x^2-x)\), a finite product of copies of \(\mathbb F\), every ideal is the vanishing ideal of its zero set. \(\square\)

Since \(a\) depends only on the cells of \(P\subseteq U'\), condition 3 reads: \(a\) vanishes on the restriction to \(P\) of every assignment that places every pigeon of \(U'\) in exactly one of its holes, with no hole used twice. By their Lemma 3.28 such assignments exist. Not every injective placement of \(P\) extends to one: the extension to all of \(U'\) is a Hall condition.

What this gives for W

Take the residual of thm:logarithmic-residual-w: functional graph PHP on \(G'\), an \((s,1)\)-boundary expander of left degree 5 with \(s=10(22k+1)\), so \(D_0=22k+1\). By lem:functional-residual, a refutation of degree \(22k\) of W's system restricts to one of \(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'}\cup A\) of degree at most \(22k+1\), where \(A\) is the set of restricted clauses not already derived. Here \(d=5\le22k+1\). Every derived clause \(c\in C_{22k+1}(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'})\) has \(R(c)=0\), by the induction in Razborov's lemma. So the restriction line's kills give \(R(a)=0\), and it remains to handle the others.

The hitting-set condition. Take a block whose restricted forms \(\bar L_j\) mention a set \(P\) of residual pigeons with \(|P|\le s/10=22k+1\). Let \(\Sigma\) be the set of restrictions to \(P\) of the assignments in part 3. It can be smaller than the set of injective placements of \(P\), and has at most \(5^{|P|}\) elements. For \(\sigma\in\Sigma\), let \(Z(\sigma)=\{j:\bar L_j(\sigma)=0\}\). On Boolean points the clause of an excluded \(i\) is the indicator of \(\bar L_i=0\) and \(\bar L_j\ne0\) for all \(j\in S\), since \(\bar L^2\in\{0,1\}\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). So every clause of the block vanishes on \(\Sigma\) exactly when \(S\) meets \(Z(\sigma)\) for every \(\sigma\) with \(Z(\sigma)\ne\varnothing\). By the proposition, such a prefix makes all the block's clauses harmless. W lets the prefix be any subset of size \(\min(k,h_b)\), and blocks with \(h_b\le k\) have no clauses, so take \(k<h_b\).

Two sufficient conditions:

At most \(k\) distinct nonempty sets \(Z(\sigma)\). Take one element of each. There are at most \(5^{|P|}\) states, so this holds when \(5^{|P|}\le k\).
Every nonempty \(Z(\sigma)\) has at least \(z\,h_b\) elements. A uniform \(k\)-subset misses a given one with probability at most \((1-z)^k\). So a hitting prefix exists when \(5^{|P|}(1-z)^k<1\), that is \(|P|<k\ln(1/(1-z))/\ln5\). For random forms the expected fraction is \(1/3\), but about half of the states fall below it, so \(z=1/3\) exactly fails. With \(z=1/3-\varepsilon\), a concentration and union bound over \(\Sigma\) would give a constant slightly below \(\ln(3/2)/\ln5\approx0.25\). That figure is a heuristic here, not proved.

The span lemma needed \(|P|\le b_0\approx\sqrt{k/8}\), because its dimension count grows quadratically. The semantic condition allows up to \(22k+1\) pigeons when the zero patterns are hittable. The proved sufficient conditions reach about \(\log_5k\) pigeons unconditionally, and the heuristic one about \(0.25k\). Degree-bounded derivability is no longer needed. The local implication is membership in \(I_E(U')\), ideal membership without a degree bound.

What it means

The criterion is proved; the base is the imported operator of Theorem 4.9. On boundary-expanding residual boards, every clause of degree at most \(D_0\) that mentions at most \(\delta s/(2d)\) pigeons and is implied by the local matchings is harmless. That covers everything the restriction line killed, and blocks on up to \(22k+1\) residual pigeons whose zero patterns have hitting sets of size \(k\).
It does not reach the dense core. A block of full-support forms mentions all \(r\ge s\) residual pigeons, beyond the \(s/10\) the proposition allows, so its images need not vanish. It lands in \(W_A\), and whether \(1\in W_A\) is the open question. The semantic kill also does not avoid the recorded respectful-expansion audit (audit:respectful-expansion-ENS-scope) for dense blocks. It sidesteps that audit only for local ones, by never adding clauses to the axiom side.
What is next for dense blocks. A block of dense forms is local to no small set, but its clauses might still be implied semantically on the operator's supports of their individual terms, term by term. That is the question of whether \(W_A\) is small.

What is open. Whether \(1\notin W_A\) for dense clauses, and whether the hitting-set condition extends the restriction line's classes beyond the span lemma with the right probability bounds. No new case of W is proved: the quantitative consequences above are conditions, not a family theorem.

Next. Make the hitting-set condition a family theorem. Bound the probability that a block with row support \(|P_b|\) meets more than \(0.25k\) residual pigeons, and treat blocks whose zero patterns are rich. Then turn to \(W_A\) for dense clauses, starting from the image \(R(\tau)\) of a single dense clause.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read in the paper's text Mikša and Nordström's Definitions 3.9 to 3.20, Lemmas 3.15, 3.21 to 3.28, the proof of Theorem 3.8 and Theorem 4.9 with its variable sets. Also re-read lem:functional-residual, lem:span-restriction and thm:logarithmic-residual-w, and the audits audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope and audit:respectful-expansion-ENS-scope. A claim search and the reviewer found neither result recorded. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the criterion's proof: the filtered complements, the degree property of the projection, the three properties and the thresholds, and the extension of Razborov's lemma to polynomial axioms. It confirmed the semantic local kill as well. It required these changes, all adopted:

the degree hypothesis \(d\le D_0\) for property 2;
\(R(1)=1\) from the empty support;
the support written as \(\mathrm{Sup}_s(N(P))\);
\(\Sigma\) described as the extendable placements;
arbitrary prefixes and \(k<h_b\) made explicit;
the \(0.25k\) figure labelled heuristic, since \(z=1/3\) exactly fails;
the claims about the base, the degree structure and the reach weakened, and "derivability" made precise.

The changes add hypotheses or weaken claims, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: A1 is revised to its current frontier, blocks with dense interaction on the residual expander, where W reduces to keeping 1 out of the operator closure; a few jointly far dense blocks are harmless, so defeating this certificate takes many

26 September 2026 · Route review with two tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-hitting-family. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: A1 is revised to its current frontier, blocks with dense interaction on the residual expander, where W reduces to keeping 1 out of the operator closure; a few jointly far dense blocks are harmless, so defeating this certificate takes many”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-relative-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The line has descended several reductions below A1 as the Open statements list stated it:

the expander core (conj:expander-dense-core);
the forced sparse board;
the dense-interaction core (dense-core review);
the closure base;
the relative criterion.

The list must be revised and the line placed on it. What exactly is open in A1 now, and is the open part plausible?

General statement. The line's claim, as revised: A1 holds if, for every family, some outcome of the logarithmic-residual choice and some prefixes leave the remaining clauses \(A\) with \(1\notin W_A\) (lem:relative-criterion). The remaining clauses are those of blocks not removed by zero images, span prefixes, occupancy implications, freezing or semantic local kills (prop:semantic-local-kill). These remaining blocks all have dense interaction part, though the kills can also remove some dense ones. The clauses have degree \(2k+2\le D_0=22k+1\) on the boundary expander of the expansion step. This is a sufficient target, stronger than hardness itself, since the operator may fail to certify a hard system.

Falsification attempt: can a few dense blocks defeat W?

Observation (single dense blocks are harmless). Take a family of one dense block with a form \(L_{j_0}\) whose coefficient matrix \(A\) is \(\varepsilon\)-far from additive. Modify the choice of thm:logarithmic-residual-w: each residual pigeon \(i\) takes its 5 holes inside a largest level set of \(t\mapsto A_{it}\) on \(H\), which has at least \(h/3\) holes. The residual part of \(\bar L_{j_0}\) is then \(\sum_{i\in R}a_i\sum_{t\in N_{G'}(i)}x_{it}\), with \(a_i\) the level value. By the functional residual's linear rows, this is the constant \(\sum_ia_i\) modulo the degree-1 part of the base. So the whole restricted form is congruent to a constant. Given \((H,R,G')\), that constant is near-uniform in \(\rho\) (cor:dense-shift-equidistribution), so it is 0 with probability near \(1/3\). Put \(j_0\) in the prefix. Then \(\bar L_{j_0}\) lies in the base ideal at degree 1. Every clause of the block contains the factor \(\bar L_{j_0}^2\), since W's clause for an excluded \(i\) is \(g_i\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2\) over the whole prefix. So every clause is derived at degree \(2k+2\). The conditioning is valid because \(G'\) is a function of \(H\), \(R\), \(A\) restricted to \(H\) and fresh cell randomness. So it stays independent of \(\rho\) given \((H,R)\), and \(\sum_ia_i\) is a deterministic shift.

The expansion step is the union bound of thm:cell-family-w with the per-pigeon hit probability \((3u/h)^5\) replaced by \((9u/h)^5\), which a constant factor in \(h\) absorbs. For \(t\) blocks, choose the cells inside a common level set of \(t\) forms, of size at least \(h/3^t\), and ask for \(t\) zero constants. The union bound then needs \(h\ge C\,3^{5t}s\). With \(h\) up to \(\sqrt n\), as in the earlier theorems, this allows \(t\) up to about \(c\log_3n\) blocks. The \(t\) chosen forms must have all nonzero combinations far from additive, and the \(t\) zero constants then occur with probability about \(3^{-t}\). Picking one form from each of \(t\) dense blocks does not guarantee this: \(L_2=L_1+(\text{additive})\) leaves both blocks dense. Near-additive combinations are then left to the span prefix, and that step is not written out.

So a family defeats this certificate only if it contains more than about \(c\log n\) dense blocks whose chosen forms have every nonzero combination far from additive. The observation is for families in which only such dense blocks remain. The other kills were not rechecked under the level-set law of the residual cells. The kill cannot extend to polynomial families of forms whose constants are jointly independent. One matching of \(N\) pigeons satisfies at most about \(\log_3(N!)\approx N\log_3N\) such conditions: 5,381 at \(N=10^3\), against \(n^2=10^6\), the order of the dimension ceiling \(mn\) for independent forms (review_tests.json). Constants of dependent forms satisfy linear relations and can vanish together, so this is not a bound on arbitrary conditions. The observation is a sketch and is not registered.

The revised open statement

A1 in Open statements now records:

the proved families;
the exact reduction for families containing every hole block;
the dense-interaction core;
the relative criterion as the one available certificate, with its open condition \(1\notin W_A\).

conj:expander-dense-core stays as a sufficient statement. The relative target is stronger still: it asks the particular operator to certify.

Assessment of the line

What stands. The families above, the forced sparse board, swap decay, blocked centres, the closure base, the relative criterion and semantic local kills.
What is missing. A mechanism that shows \(1\notin W_A\) for polynomially many dense clauses. The dense clauses' images are not local, so they reach \(W_A\). Whether their operator closure contains 1 is a global question of the same kind as A3's Tor vanishing, now relative to the operator. It cannot be settled by the counting argument of W's first moment, which counts assignments and not derivations.
Qualitative assessment. Weak on the core, and now precisely located. The line has produced the right setting. Defeating the relative certificate takes many jointly far dense blocks, not one. It has no candidate mechanism for the collective part. The line's classes should not be extended further. The next cycles should either attack \(W_A\) directly in a model case, or return to A3, whose random-top equidistribution is the same kind of question on the complete board.

Outside leads

The Lovász Local Lemma, in Moser and Tardos's algorithmic form (J. ACM 57 (2010)). Target: choosing the residual and the prefixes so that every block's bad event is avoided at once. Where it breaks: every dense block's kill event depends on the whole matching \(\rho\) and the whole residual. Test. Falsified. A block's bad event, a nonzero constant, has probability about \(2/3\), so \(e\,p\,(d+1)<1\) fails even at dependency degree \(d=1\). The dependency degree, the number of dense blocks, is polynomial besides.
The \(\varepsilon\)-net theorem of Haussler and Welzl (Discrete Comput. Geom. 2 (1987)). Target: the hitting-set condition of prop:semantic-local-kill, replacing the union bound over \(5^b\) states by a bound depending on the VC dimension of the zero-set system. Where it breaks: zero sets of affine forms on \(5b\) cells have VC dimension of order \(b\), so the net size is \(O((b/\varepsilon)\log(1/\varepsilon))\), no better in \(b\) than the union bound. Test. Falsified as an improvement in order. The greedy test below improves the constant only.
Weak regularity of Frieze and Kannan (Combinatorica 19 (1999)). Target: splitting a family's span into a bounded-rank structured part, which the span lemma removes, and a remainder far from additive in every direction, which gets jointly uniform shifts. Where it breaks: the global mechanism for the remainder is still missing, and cut-norm quasirandomness is not the Hamming distance from additive that swap decay uses. Test. Not run: the decomposition only moves the problem to the remainder, whose mechanism is the open question.

Absurd bridges

Targeted immunization in network epidemiology (Pastor-Satorras and Vespignani, Phys. Rev. E 65 (2002)). Translation: forms are individuals, local states are infection scenarios, a zero set is the set of individuals a scenario infects, and a prefix is a vaccinated set. It must meet every nonempty infected set. What a theorem there would give: targeted immunization, vaccinating the most connected first, is far better than random immunization on heterogeneous (scale-free) contact structure. That would suggest a greedy prefix well below the random union bound when zero sets are heterogeneous. Smallest test: greedy prefixes against the analytic union-bound value \(b\ln5/\ln(3/2)\) on random blocks. The test uses all \(5^b\) state tuples, ignoring injectivity, and uniformly random forms, not forms from dense blocks. Test. Falsified as a gain in order. For 300 random forms on \(b=3,4,5,6\) pigeons, greedy needs 5, 8, 12 and 15 forms against 11.9, 15.9, 19.8 and 23.8 (review_tests.json). That is between \(1.7b\) and \(2.5b\), with the ratio increasing, against about \(4b\). The minimum zero fraction was 0.23 to 0.28, below the \(1/3\) the bound assumes. Random homogeneous forms do not exercise the heterogeneity the source relies on.
Zero-sum transversals of Latin arrays (the Ryser–Brualdi–Stein circle of problems). Translation: the residual matching is a transversal of the coefficient arrays, and killing a block needs a transversal with zero sum for one chosen form. What a theorem there would give: simultaneous zero-sum transversals for many arrays would kill many dense blocks at once. Smallest test: count the conditions one transversal can meet. Test. Falsified for polynomial families: \(\log_3(N!)\approx N\log_3N\) conditions at most, far below \(n^2\) blocks (review_tests.json).

Bridge follow-up

Pauli blocking. Its prediction of the prevalence of blocked centres stands. Follow-up. Closed: the prevalence question is settled (blocked centres are generic on W's boards), and the closure base absorbs them.

Lead follow-up

The operator of Theorem 4.9 as the base. Developed into lem:relative-criterion and prop:semantic-local-kill. Follow-up. Closed: the base is established on boundary expanders. What remains is the gluing, tracked under the Mikša–Nordström closure lead.
Descent of PC closure to a quotient. Developed into lem:relative-criterion. Follow-up. Closed: the descent is proved as the relative criterion.
Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: a candidate for A3's main term, and for \(W_A\) if the next cycles return to A3.
Nguyen and Wood's moment method. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing, since A3's main term is open.
The Mikša–Nordström closure as a gluing base. The base is now proved and the gluing is the open condition \(1\notin W_A\). Follow-up. Continuing: it is A1's open core.

Next step

The highest-risk item stays A1, with its core at \(1\notin W_A\) for dense clauses. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer is a model case. Take one dense far-from-additive linear equation \(L=0\) added to functional graph PHP on an expander. Decide whether \(1\notin W_{\{L\}}\), and characterize the equations for which it fails; counting statistics such as \(\sum_vo_v-n\) fail at degree 1. A single equation is the simplest object that is not local, and it is where a collective mechanism would first have to work.

Verification gate

Verification gate. A fresh-context reviewer found the review sound after changes, and required these, all adopted:

the joint far-from-additive condition for the multi-block observation, and its scope, with the other kills unchecked;
the source of the prefix factor and of the conditioning;
the probability \(2/3\) in the Local Lemma test;
the scope of the transversal count;
an accurate description of the greedy test, and the bridge's verdict made consistent;
the collective claim limited to the certificate.

Re-read lem:relative-criterion, prop:semantic-local-kill, cor:dense-shift-equidistribution, thm:logarithmic-residual-w and the expansion step of thm:cell-family-w, prop:forced-sparse-board, and conj:expander-dense-core. Every test number was read from review_tests.json. The single-block observation is a sketch, used only as a falsification attempt, and is not registered. This review registers no claim.

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The few-equations theorem: unary PHP plus up to \(c\ln n\) affine equations whose combinations are all far from additive has no PC refutation of degree \(\sqrt n/(C\,3^{5q})\), and W holds for families of that many such blocks

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem · open statement A1, model case · cycle odd-prime-dense-equation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The few-equations theorem: unary PHP plus up to \(c\ln n\) affine equations whose combinations are all far from additive has no PC refutation of degree \(\sqrt n/(C\,3^{5q})\), and W holds for families of that many such blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-few-equations.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The relative review proposed a model case for A1's dense core. Add one dense linear equation \(L=0\), far from additive, to functional PHP, and decide whether it stays hard. Some additive equations refute at once. For random equations the record has conj:random-affine-conditioning-law, a conjecture: each \(n-1\) random equations lower the degree by about one half. Are adversarial far-from-additive equations harmless, and how many?

General statement. Two results over \(\mathbb F_3\), thm:few-equations-hardness and cor:few-blocks-w. Fix \(\varepsilon>0\). There are absolute constants \(c,C>0\) and an \(n_0(\varepsilon)\) such that, for \(n\ge n_0\) and \(1\le q\le c\ln n\):

thm:few-equations-hardness: let \(L_1,\dots,L_q\) be affine forms in the cells of the \((n+1)\times n\) board, and suppose every nonzero combination of their coefficient matrices is \(\varepsilon\)-far from the additive matrices \(u_i+v_t\). Then functional unary PHP plus the equations \(L_j=0\) has no PC refutation of degree at most \(\sqrt n/(C\,3^{5q})\). The functional system has Booleanity, functionality, collisions and linear rows. The same holds for unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) without the functionality axioms, on the same board and variables.
cor:few-blocks-w: W holds for every family of at most \(q\) blocks in which each block \(b\) contains a form \(L_{j_b}\), and the chosen forms have every nonzero combination \(\varepsilon\)-far from additive. Here W's parameters are \(k\le C'(K+1)\ln n\) and \(n\ge n_0(\varepsilon,C',K)\).

The choice

Let \(h=\lceil\sqrt n\rceil\). As in thm:cell-family-w:

\(H\) is a uniform set of \(h\) holes, and \(\pi\) a uniform injection of holes into pigeons;
\(\rho=\{(\pi(t),t):t\notin H\}\), and \(R\) is the set of \(r=h+1\) unused pigeons;
for \(i\in R\), let \(\Lambda_i\subseteq H\) be the lexicographically least among the largest sets of holes on which the vector \((A_1(i,t),\dots,A_q(i,t))\in\mathbb F_3^q\) is constant, with value \((\lambda_{1,i},\dots,\lambda_{q,i})\). Then \(|\Lambda_i|\ge h/3^q\);
\(G'\subseteq R\times H\): each \(i\in R\) takes a uniform 5-subset of \(\Lambda_i\), independently of everything else.

Given \((H,R)\), the matching \(\rho\) is a uniform bijection from the \(N=n-h\) pigeons outside \(R\) onto the holes outside \(H\), as in Step 3 of thm:cell-family-w. It is independent of \(G'\): the sets \(\Lambda_i\) are a deterministic function of \(H\), \(R\) and the matrices, and \(G'\) adds fresh randomness. cor:dense-shift-equidistribution gives uniform constants for the choice of thm:logarithmic-residual-w. Here \(G'\) is drawn from the \(\Lambda_i\) instead, so the conditioning is re-derived; the constant bound is the same.

Concrete requirements, all implied by \(q\le c\ln n\) with \(c<1/(10\ln3)\) and \(n\ge n_0\):

\(h/3^q\ge5\);
\(h\ge100\), so that \(r\le1.01h\);
\(s\ge50\) in Step 1, that is \(h\ge50\cdot1986\cdot3^{5q}\);
\(e^{-\varepsilon(\varepsilon N/16-1)/16}\le3^{-q}/2\) in Step 2, the only requirement that depends on \(\varepsilon\).

Step 1: the residual expands

Let \(s=\lfloor h/(1986\cdot3^{5q})\rfloor\). For \(U\subseteq R\) with \(|U|=u\le s\), the event \(|N(U)|<3u\) puts every row of \(U\) inside a set \(T\) of \(3u\) holes. A row lands there with probability at most \((|T|/|\Lambda_i|)^5\le(3^{q+1}u/h)^5\). The union bound, as in Step 2 of thm:cell-family-w, gives

\[\binom ru\binom h{3u}\Bigl(\frac{3^{q+1}u}h\Bigr)^{5u}\le\Bigl(\frac{er}u\Bigr)^u\Bigl(\frac{eh}{3u}\Bigr)^{3u}\Bigl(\frac{3^{q+1}u}h\Bigr)^{5u}=\Bigl(\frac{e^4\,3^{5q+2}\,r\,u}{h^2}\Bigr)^u\le4^{-u},\]

using \(r\le1.01h\), \(u\le s\), \(3u\le h\) and \(4\cdot1.01\cdot e^4\cdot9\le1986\). Summing over \(u\ge1\), the failure probability is at most \(1/3\). Otherwise \(|N(U)|\ge3|U|\) for all \(|U|\le s\). With left degree 5 this gives \(|\partial U|\ge2|N(U)|-5|U|\ge|U|\), so \(G'\) is an \((s,1)\)-boundary expander. By imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, functional graph PHP on \(G'\) with linear rows has no PC refutation of degree at most \(s/10\), which is at least 5.

Step 2: the constants vanish together

The restriction \(\phi\) is as in lem:span-restriction: the cells of \(\rho\) are set to 1, the other cells in their rows and columns to 0, and the cells of \(R\times H\) outside \(G'\) to 0. It maps each axiom of functional unary PHP to an axiom of functional graph PHP on \(G'\) with linear rows, or to 0:

the rows of pigeons outside \(R\) go to \(1-1=0\);
the rows of pigeons in \(R\) go to the rows of \(G'\);
functionality and collisions go to axioms or to 0.

Write \(L_j=a_{j,0}+\sum A_j(i,t)x_{it}\). With the residual rows \(\mathrm{row}_i=\sum_{t\in N_{G'}(i)}x_{it}-1\),

\[\phi(L_j)=\sum_{i\in R}\lambda_{j,i}\,\mathrm{row}_i+\kappa_j,\qquad\kappa_j=a_{j,0}+\sum_{i\notin R}A_j(i,\rho(i))+\sum_{i\in R}\lambda_{j,i}.\]

Given \((H,R,G')\), the vector \((\kappa_j)\) is the vector of statistics \(\sum_{i\notin R}A_j(i,\rho(i))\) shifted by a fixed vector. Every nonzero combination of the sub-board matrices on \((\text{pigeons}\setminus R)\times(\text{holes}\setminus H)\) stays at distance at least \(\varepsilon/2\) from additive for \(n\ge n_0\). Indeed, an additive fit on the sub-board, extended arbitrarily to the board, errs on at most \(\delta N^2+rn+h(n+1)\) cells, and \(n(n+1)\ge N^2\), so \(\delta\ge\varepsilon-O(n^{-1/2})\). By lem:swap-decay, part 2, with \(\varepsilon/2\):

\[P\bigl(\kappa=0\mid H,R,G'\bigr)\ge3^{-q}-(1-\varepsilon/16)^{\lfloor\varepsilon N/16\rfloor}\ge3^{-q}/2 .\]

The expansion event depends only on \((H,R,G')\), so some outcome has both an expanding \(G'\) and \(\kappa=0\).

Step 3: the refutation restricts

Fix that outcome. Each \(\phi(L_j)\) is then a linear combination of residual row axioms. Take a PC refutation of degree \(D\) of PHP plus the equations and apply \(\phi\) line by line. A multiplication by a variable that \(\phi\) sends to 0 or 1 becomes a zero line or a repeated line. The result is a refutation of degree at most \(D\) from functional graph PHP on \(G'\) together with the axioms \(\phi(L_j)\). Replacing each \(\phi(L_j)\) by its expression through row axioms keeps every line and its degree, and gives a refutation of functional graph PHP on \(G'\) of degree at most \(D\). By Step 1, \(D>s/10\). Once \(s\ge50\), \(s\ge h/(2\cdot1986\cdot3^{5q})\), so \(C=39720\) works. The system without functionality has a subset of the axioms, so any refutation of it is one of the functional system. \(\square\)

The corollary for W

Proof of cor:few-blocks-w. Put each chosen form \(L_{j_b}\) in its block's prefix, padded to \(\min(k,h_b)\) forms. Blocks with \(h_b\le k\) have no clauses. Each remaining clause, \(g_i\prod_{j\in S_b}L_j^2\), contains the factor \(L_{j_b}^2\). So it is derived at degree \(2k+2\) from the equation \(L_{j_b}=0\), by multiplying that axiom by \(L_{j_b}g_i\prod_{j\ne j_b}L_j^2\), one variable at a time. A refutation of degree \(22k\) of W's system would therefore give one of PHP without functionality plus the \(q\) equations at degree \(\max(22k,2k+2)=22k\). That is excluded once \(22k\le\sqrt n/(C\,3^{5q})\), which holds for \(k\le C'(K+1)\ln n\), \(q\le c\ln n\) and \(n\ge n_0(\varepsilon,C',K)\). \(\square\)

What it means

The model case is answered for few equations. A single far-from-additive equation leaves PHP hard at degree \(\Omega(\sqrt n)\), and so do up to \(c\ln n\) of them whose combinations are all far. Some additive equations refute. The hole-count equation \(\sum_{i,t}x_{it}=n\) has the all-ones matrix, at distance 0, and against the rows' sum \(\sum x=n+1\) it gives \(1=0\) at degree 1. The proof is the level-set kill of the relative review, made rigorous. Restricting inside common level sets makes each equation a sum of rows, and the random matching zeroes the constants.
The observation of the relative review is now a theorem. W holds for families of up to \(c\ln n\) blocks with jointly far chosen forms. So a family that defeats W needs more than about \(c\ln n\) dense blocks whose chosen forms stay jointly far.
What it leaves open. The bound degrades like \(3^{-5q}\), so it says nothing for polynomially many equations or blocks. For random equations with \(q\le c\ln n\), the theorem gives \(\Omega(\sqrt n/3^{5q})\) unconditionally. conj:random-affine-conditioning-law (a conjecture) predicts about \(n/2\), a loss of about \(q/(2(n-1))\). The gap is the collective case again, and it sits behind A1's dense core.
A failed measurement, recorded. Before this proof, the cycle computed degree-truncated standard bases in Singular. The runs covered 6 random boards of 8 pigeons, 7 holes and left degree 3, each with one added equation of several types. The files are research/results/odd_prime_dense_equation_20260926/, make_equation_script.py and equation_degrees.out.txt. Degree-truncated standard bases of inhomogeneous systems depend on the order and the strategy, and do not compute PC degree. Here the output was not even monotone: several systems with an added equation needed a higher bound than the base alone. The numbers are discarded. The boards were also far below any size at which the expander bound is nonvacuous, so the test could not have decided the question and should not have been run. The pitfall is now noted in COMPUTATION_RULES.md.

What is open. Polynomially many equations, and W's clauses in the collective regime.

Next. Look for a restriction whose degradation is polynomial in \(q\) rather than \(3^{5q}\). For instance, residual cells chosen by a linear condition on the span of the equations instead of common level sets. That would be the first collective mechanism.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

lem:swap-decay and cor:dense-shift-equidistribution;
the choice, Step 2 and the Step 3 conditioning of thm:cell-family-w;
the restriction setting of lem:span-restriction;
imp:MN-functional-graph-degree and its transfer to linear rows;
conj:random-affine-conditioning-law.

A claim search and the reviewer found no recorded PC lower bound for PHP plus adversarial affine equations. A fresh-context reviewer checked the expansion constants, the boundary inequality, the formula for \(\phi(L_j)\) and \(\kappa_j\), the axiom mapping and the Step 3 simulation. It found no unused hypothesis. It required these changes, all adopted:

the equation count renamed \(q\), apart from the hole index;
the distance loss written out;
a tie-breaking rule for \(\Lambda_i\);
the concrete requirements, and which constants depend on \(\varepsilon\);
the system without functionality named precisely;
"some additive equations refute", with the example;
the transfer to W's clauses stated in the right direction, now the corollary;
the conditioning law labelled a conjecture;
the failed measurement's files and the reason it fails.

The corollary is the reviewer's transfer written out: a factor argument plus the theorem, with no new mathematics. So no second pass was made.

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The restriction ceiling: on an expanding residual the only degree-1 consequences are row combinations, so matching restrictions that derive the restricted equations need common level sets, which random forms deny beyond about \(3\log_3n\) equations

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem · open statement A1, limits of restriction · cycle odd-prime-collective-restriction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The restriction ceiling: on an expanding residual the only degree-1 consequences are row combinations, so matching restrictions that derive the restricted equations need common level sets, which random forms deny beyond about \(3\log_3n\) equations”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-restriction-ceiling.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The few-equations theorem handles up to \(c\ln n\) far-from-additive equations, degrading like \(3^{-5q}\). Its next step asked for a restriction with polynomial degradation, which would be the first collective mechanism. Before searching, a prior question: which restricted linear equations can such a restriction argument derive at all?

General statement. Two results, lem:residual-linear-kernel and prop:restriction-ceiling, for functional graph PHP on a residual \(G'\) of left degree 5 in which every pigeon set \(W\) with \(|W|\le s\) has \(|N(W)|\ge3|W|\), with \(D_0=\lfloor s/10\rfloor\ge5\):

lem:residual-linear-kernel, over any field: for an affine form \(\ell\) in the cells of \(G'\), the Mikša–Nordström operator gives \(R(\ell)=0\) exactly when \(\ell\) is a linear combination of the residual rows \(\mathrm{row}_i=\sum_{t\in N(i)}x_{it}-1\). Hence the degree-at-most-1 part of \(C_{D_0}(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'})\) is the span of the rows.
prop:restriction-ceiling, over \(\mathbb F_3\): under a restriction by a partial matching and such a residual, a restricted equation \(\phi(L)\) lies in \(C_{D_0}(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'})\) exactly when each residual pigeon's cells lie in a level set of \(L\)'s coefficients and the total constant vanishes. For \(q\) forms with independent uniform coefficients, with probability at least \(1-(n+1)n^2\,3^{-q}/2\), no pigeon has two holes on which all \(q\) coefficient rows agree. Then no residual meeting the lemma's hypotheses makes all \(q\) restricted equations derivable.

The lemma is a direct computation with the operator, not a new mechanism.

The linear kernel

Lemma (Hall with surplus). Let \(U\) be a pigeon set with \(|U|\le s\), and \(X\) a set of at most two holes. Then \(U\) has an injective placement into its neighbourhood that avoids \(X\).

Proof. Hall's condition: every nonempty \(W\subseteq U\) has \(|N(W)\setminus X|\ge3|W|-2\ge|W|\). \(\square\)

Lemma (residual linear kernel). Let \(U\) be a pigeon set with \(|U|\le s\). The polynomials of degree at most 1 in \(I_E(U)\) are exactly the combinations of \(\mathrm{row}_u\), \(u\in U\). Here \(I_E(U)\) is the ideal of the pigeon axioms of \(U\) with all hole and functionality axioms. Consequently, for affine \(\ell\), \(R(\ell)=0\) exactly when \(\ell=\sum_ia_i\,\mathrm{row}_i\).

Proof. \(\mathbb F[x]/(x^2-x)\) is the ring of functions on the cube, so every ideal is the vanishing ideal of its zero set. The zero set \(Z\) of \(I_E(U)\) consists of the assignments in which every pigeon of \(U\) sits in exactly one of its holes, no hole is used twice and no pigeon uses two holes. Pigeons outside \(U\) may be unplaced. \(Z\) is nonempty by the Hall lemma. Let \(\lambda=c_0+\sum c_{wv}x_{wv}\) vanish on \(Z\).

Cells outside \(U\) have coefficient 0. For \(w\notin U\) and \(v\in N(w)\), take a placement \(\tau\) of \(U\) avoiding \(v\). Both \(\tau\) and \(\tau\) together with the cell \((w,v)\) lie in \(Z\), so \(c_{wv}=0\).
Each pigeon's coefficients are constant. For \(u\in U\) and holes \(v\ne v'\) of \(u\), place \(U\setminus u\) avoiding \(\{v,v'\}\). Adding \((u,v)\) or \((u,v')\) gives two points of \(Z\), so \(c_{uv}=c_{uv'}=:a_u\).
The constant. Then \(\lambda=\sum_{u\in U}a_u\sum_vx_{uv}+c_0\). Its value on any point of \(Z\) is \(\sum a_u+c_0=0\), so \(\lambda=\sum_ua_u\,\mathrm{row}_u\).

The rows lie in \(I_E(U)\), which gives the first claim.

For the operator: \(x_{it}\) lies in exactly the variable sets \(V_v\) with \(v\in N(i)\), so the overlap of Theorem 4.9 is \(d=5\) and \(D_0=\lfloor s/10\rfloor\). Every term \(x_{it}\) has \(N(x_{it})=N(\{i\})\), of size \(5\le s/2\). So all cells of pigeon \(i\) share the support \(U_i=\mathrm{Sup}_s(N(\{i\}))\), of size at most \(s/2\) (their Lemma 3.22), with \(i\in U_i\).

Every admissible order is degree-compatible. So an element of \(I_E(U_i)\) with a degree-1 leading term has degree at most 1, is a combination of rows, and has as leading term the top cell of some pigeon. Hence \(R(x_{it})=x_{it}\) unless \(x_{it}\) is the top cell \(x_{i\top}\) of \(i\), and \(R(x_{i\top})=1-\sum_{t\ne\top}x_{it}\). With \(R(1)=1\), for \(\ell=c_0+\sum c_{it}x_{it}\):

\[R(\ell)=c_0+\sum_i\Bigl(c_{i\top}+\sum_{t\ne\top}(c_{it}-c_{i\top})\,x_{it}\Bigr).\]

This vanishes exactly when every \(c_{it}=c_{i\top}\) and \(c_0+\sum_ic_{i\top}=0\), that is \(\ell=\sum_ic_{i\top}\,\mathrm{row}_i\).

Since \(d=5\le D_0\), Razborov's induction gives \(R=0\) on \(C_{D_0}(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'})\). So the degree-at-most-1 part of that closure lies in the span of the rows. Conversely, the rows are in the closure: they are derived from the pigeon and functionality axioms at degree 5 (lem:functional-residual). \(\square\)

The ceiling

Proof of prop:restriction-ceiling. As in the few-equations theorem,

\[\phi(L)=\kappa^0+\sum_{(i,t)\in G'}A(i,t)\,x_{it},\qquad\kappa^0=a_0+\sum_{i\notin R}A(i,\rho(i)),\]

an affine form in the cells of \(G'\). By the lemma, \(\phi(L)\) is in the closure exactly when it is a combination of rows. That is, exactly when \(A(i,\cdot)\) is constant on \(N_{G'}(i)\) for every residual pigeon, with value \(\lambda_i\), and \(\kappa^0+\sum_i\lambda_i=0\).

For \(q\) uniform random forms, fix a pigeon \(i\) and holes \(t\ne t'\). All \(q\) coefficients agree with probability \(3^{-q}\). A union bound over \(n+1\) pigeons and \(\binom n2\) pairs gives the stated probability. The event is about the whole board, so it covers every residual at once. Off that event, every residual pigeon has at least three cells, so some form's coefficients differ on its cells, and that form's restriction is not derivable. The bound is below \(1/2\) at \(q=3\log_3n\), so the ceiling holds with high probability for \(q\ge3\log_3n+\omega(1)\). \(\square\)

What it means

The class covered. The proposition covers arguments of one class. They restrict by a partial matching and by zeroing cells, onto a residual meeting the lemma's hypotheses. They then use Mikša and Nordström's bound at \(D_0\), and require each restricted equation to lie in \(C_{D_0}(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'})\). The few-equations theorem is such an argument. The proposition does not cover:
- other substitutions, such as affine substitutions or identifications of variables;
- residuals with other expansion or degree parameters;
- other base lower bounds;
- arguments that keep a restricted equation as an axiom.
Tight up to a constant factor in \(q\), for this class and random forms. For random forms the ceiling is about \(3\log_3n\approx2.73\ln n\) equations. The few-equations theorem reaches \(c\ln n\) with \(c<1/(10\ln3)\approx0.09\). The ceiling says nothing about the \(3^{-5q}\) degradation below it. Adversarial far-from-additive forms can share level sets, for instance forms constant on blocks of five holes. So this is not a cap on independent equations in general.
Why the relative criterion is needed for equations. Beyond the ceiling some restricted linear equation is not in the closure, so it must enter as a genuine extra axiom. The relative criterion allows exactly that: \(1\notin W_A\) does not require \(R(a)=0\). So for many random linear equations the collective case needs a statement about \(W_A\) for non-derivable axioms.
What is not shown for W's clauses. The lemma describes only the degree-at-most-1 part of the closure. A restricted clause \(g\prod L^2\) could lie in the closure without any of its factors doing so. So the ceiling applies to the factor route of cor:few-blocks-w, not to W's clauses in general. Whether random dense blocks defeat every restriction argument in this class, through higher-degree consequences, is open. W also lets each block choose among \(k\) prefix forms, which the union bound above does not cover, so the corresponding count for blocks is not done.

What is open. The higher-degree part of the residual closure, and \(W_A\) for non-derivable linear axioms, starting with a set \(A\) of random linear equations on the residual. That is the conditioning law's question, posed relative to the operator on a sparse board.

Next. Compute \(W_A\) for \(A\) a few random linear equations on the residual. These are not in the kernel, but their images under \(R\) are explicit by the lemma: they are the equations modulo rows. So the first closure steps \(R(x\,R(\ell))\) are the place to look for a degree-by-degree structure, and for whether 1 enters.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read Mikša and Nordström's Definitions 3.9 to 3.20, Lemmas 3.15, 3.22 and 3.25 and Theorem 4.9, the few-equations theorem, lem:functional-residual and lem:relative-criterion. A claim search and the reviewer found neither result recorded. A fresh-context reviewer checked and confirmed:

the Hall surplus inequality and the zero-set description;
Steps 1 to 3, the shared supports and their size, and the degree-1 leading-term argument;
the normal forms and the formula for \(R(\ell)\);
\(C_{D_0}\subseteq\ker R\), and the board-wide union bound.

It found no unused hypothesis. It required these changes, all adopted:

the ceiling stated for residuals meeting the lemma's hypotheses;
"exactly when" in the ceiling proof;
the raw constant renamed \(\kappa^0\);
the class of arguments stated, and "tight" scoped to it and to random forms;
the claims about W's clauses limited to the factor route, with the higher-degree closure and the block count named as open;
the presentation fixes in the lemma.

The changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: restrictions that derive their equations reach only \(\Theta(\log n)\) random constraints, so A1's collective core needs constraints kept as axioms and meets A3's semi-regularity; small tests of linear tops are mixed, and a uniform-forms budget gives no evidence against W

26 September 2026 · Route review with two tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-relative-equations. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: restrictions that derive their equations reach only \(\Theta(\log n)\) random constraints, so A1's collective core needs constraints kept as axioms and meets A3's semi-regularity; small tests of linear tops are mixed, and a uniform-forms budget gives no evidence against W”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-strategy-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Two results frame A1's core:

the few-equations theorem handles \(c\ln n\) far-from-additive equations;
the restriction ceiling shows that matching restrictions which make random equations derivable cannot handle many more.

The planned next step, \(W_A\) for random equations on the residual, is the conditioning law relative to the operator. That law is open even on the complete board. Which mechanism could handle the collective case, and is there reason to doubt W there?

General statement. The line's claim, as revised in the relative review: A1 holds if the remaining dense clauses keep 1 outside the operator closure \(W_A\) (lem:relative-criterion). Restriction arguments that derive their restricted equations reach \(\Theta(\log n)\) random ones (thm:few-equations-hardness, prop:restriction-ceiling). Beyond that, constraints must be kept as genuine axioms.

Falsification attempt: does a heuristic count speak against W?

W's clause for an excluded \(i\) is \(g_i\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2\), with the whole prefix \(S\) in the product (Open statements, W). Take a distribution on assignments under which the \(k\) prefix forms of a block are jointly uniform and independent on \(\mathbb F_3^k\). Such a distribution is an idealization, not the uniform distribution on Boolean points.

Every clause of the block needs all prefix forms nonzero, so the block excludes at most a fraction \((2/3)^k\), however many clauses it has. With \(k=2.5(K+1)\ln n\), \(n^K\) such blocks exclude at most \(n^K(2/3)^k=n^{K-1.014(K+1)}\). For \(K=1,2,3,5\) and \(n=10^3\) to \(10^{12}\), \(\log_{10}\) of this ranges from \(-3.08\) to \(-12.98\), with worst case about \(n^{-1.03}\) at \(K=1\) (info_budget.json). Counted clause by clause with \(n^2\) clauses per block, the same quantity would exceed 1. The block bound is the relevant one.

The reach of this heuristic is limited:

It concerns random forms only. An adversary can pick forms that are almost never zero, such as \(1+\) a row sum.
Excluded mass does not measure degree loss: PHP itself excludes every assignment and is still hard.

The outcome is only that this heuristic gives no evidence against W.

Assessment of the line

What stands. The structured families, the forced sparse board, swap decay, the closure base, the relative criterion, semantic local kills, the few-equations theorem with its corollary for W, and the restriction ceiling.
What the ceiling closes. Matching restrictions cannot make many random equations derivable, since common level sets run out at about \(3\log_3n\) forms. Restrictions that keep residual equations as axioms are not covered by the ceiling, and they are the mechanism the next item needs.
Where A1 meets A3. For linear tops, the hypothesis of Taylor glue is Koszul regularity of the forms on a graded ring of the base below the fill point, a semi-regularity condition. As a first-order heuristic, with \(H_d/H_{d-1}\) of order \(n^2/d\), the fill point after \(a\) generic linear tops sits near degree \(n^2/a\). That would allow up to about \(n^2/B\) random equations at degree \(B\). This matches the registered conjecture's own heuristic estimate of order \((N^2/B)^h\) at \(h=1\), in conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base. It is not the conditioning law's scale, which tolerates about \(n^2-2Bn\) equations: the two agree only for constant \(B\). The heuristic also holds only while \(n^2/a\) stays below the top degree of the ring. On the complete board, for families without hole blocks, the collective core is therefore a semi-regularity question of A3's kind. With every hole block present, the board is the forced sparse board, where Taylor glue's recorded base fails at blocked centres, so a form relative to the operator is needed.
Qualitative assessment. The restriction route is finished for making random equations derivable. What remains needs constraints kept as axioms, through semi-regularity or a relative version of it. A1's collective core is a frontier question of the same kind as A3. The route should test semi-regularity next, rather than more restrictions.

Outside leads

Fröberg's conjecture on generic forms, transplanted to a matching algebra. Target: the collective core for equations, as semi-regularity of generic linear tops. Where it breaks: the ring is not a polynomial ring, structured adversarial forms are not generic, and the test's ring is not the registered conjecture's setting. linear_tops.m2 uses \(G=\mathbb F_3[x]/(x_{uv}^2,\ x_{uv}x_{uv'},\ x_{uv}x_{u'v},\ \textstyle\sum_vx_{uv})\): the tops of Booleanity, functionality and collisions, with the homogenized row sums. Whether \(G\) equals the associated graded ring of the base's degree filtration is not checked. conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base concerns product clauses, with prediction \(H_R(t)(1-t^h/(1+t)^h)^M\). The test checks standard semi-regularity \([(1-t)^aH_G]_+\) of homogeneous linear forms, including the value at the fill degree. Test. Falsified as exact semi-regularity in one of six informative runs, passed in the other five. Of the 16 runs (\(n=3,4\), \(a\le2n\), one random form set each), the \(a=0\) runs are trivial, and runs after degree 2 vanishes follow automatically. About 6 are informative (\(n=3\): \(a=1,2\); \(n=4\): \(a=1,\dots,4\)). Five agree with the prediction. At \(n=3\), \(a=1\), degree 2 has 1 against predicted 0, exactly at the fill degree, so the run passes only under a definition that stops below the fill point (linear_tops.out.txt).
The weak Lefschetz property (Harima, Maeno, Morita, Numata, Wachi and Watanabe, 2003). Target: the one-form case, multiplication by a general linear form having maximal rank in each degree of \(G\). Where it breaks: the Lefschetz literature works in characteristic 0 or large characteristic, and over \(\mathbb F_3\) a random form can be special. Test. Falsified at \(n=3\) for the sampled form, passed at \(n=4\): \(H=(1,14,35,0)\) at \(n=4\), as predicted. At \(n=3\) the one sampled form has multiplication from degree 1 to degree 2 of rank 5 rather than 6. Whether some form over \(\mathbb F_3\) has maximal rank there is not known, since only one form was sampled.
Razborov's complete-board pseudo-reduction for PHP (Comput. Complexity 7 (1998)), with added equations. Target: a direct lower bound for PHP plus many random equations, the conditioning law, without Taylor glue. Where it breaks: the operator is built from the structure of PHP alone, and equations cross every support. Test. Not run: no formulation with equations exists to test.

Absurd bridges

Shannon's information budget, with constraints as measurements. Translation: each clause is a measurement of the assignment, and the family's information is the log of the fraction it excludes. What a theorem there would give: a data-processing bound limiting degree loss by the budget. Smallest test: compute the budget. Test. Passed as a computation: at most about \(n^{-1.03}\), heuristically for uniform forms (info_budget.json). No PC analogue of data processing is known, and excluded mass is not degree, so it stays a heuristic.
Compressed sensing (Candès and Tao, 2005). Translation: random equations are random measurements of a sparse 0/1 vector, the matching. What a theorem there would give: about \(2n\ln n\) random measurements identify an \(n\)-sparse vector among \(n^2\) coordinates, suggesting a degree collapse at that many equations. Smallest test: compare with the conditioning law's collapse at about \(n^2\) equations. Test. Falsified as a transfer, under that conjecture, which is fitted only at degrees 2 and 3 for \(n\le10\). The thresholds differ by a factor \(n/(2\ln n)\), about 72 at \(n=10^3\). Degree measures the ideal, not identifiability.

Lead follow-up

Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: they are a candidate tool for semi-regularity of random quadratic tops, the tops of W's selector clauses, beyond the linear tops tested here.
Nguyen and Wood's moment method. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing, for random top matrices at the fill point.
The Mikša–Nordström closure as a gluing base. The ceiling shows that beyond logarithmic size it must carry non-derivable axioms. Follow-up. Continuing: it would host the relative form of semi-regularity on sparse boards.

Next step

The highest-risk item stays A1, whose collective core is now a semi-regularity question. The next step on odd-prime-clause-transfer settles the test's ring and then goes sparse. First, check whether the ring \(G\) of the test is the associated graded ring used by Taylor glue, and reconcile standard semi-regularity with the registered conjecture's prediction. Then compute the Hilbert functions of several generic linear tops per size on graded rings of functional graph PHP over small sparse boards, random left-regular and twin-hole. Compare them with the prediction, and locate any defects at blocked centres.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:few-equations-hardness, prop:restriction-ceiling, lem:relative-criterion, conj:random-affine-conditioning-law and conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base. Every test number was read from info_budget.json and linear_tops.out.txt. A first version of the budget counted \(n^2\) clauses per block separately and exceeded 1. It was corrected before use to the block bound, and both are reported. A fresh-context reviewer found the review sound after changes, and required these, all adopted:

the budget's hypotheses and reach, and a weaker conclusion;
the ring of the test stated, and its relation to the registered conjecture;
both small tests reported with their failures, and the informative counts;
the fill-point estimate marked heuristic, and its scale distinguished from the conditioning law's;
the conditioning law's fit range;
the ceiling's scope.

This review registers no claim.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	9 min 23.20 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9.76 s
Computation design and coding	6 min 11.85 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 59.44 s
Individually measured computation	1.95 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

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A relative semi-regularity target for sparse boards: random linear equations on an expanding residual should keep 1 outside the operator closure up to the forced-fall count of the operator's image, an analogue of the linear case of Conjecture SR; it reaches beyond the restriction ceiling only on residuals much larger than the degree, and a literature pass finds no proof

26 September 2026 · Conjecture and literature pass · open statement A1, collective core · cycle odd-prime-sparse-semiregularity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A relative semi-regularity target for sparse boards: random linear equations on an expanding residual should keep 1 outside the operator closure up to the forced-fall count of the operator's image, an analogue of the linear case of Conjecture SR; it reaches beyond the restriction ceiling only on residuals much larger than the degree, and a literature pass finds no proof”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-relative-linear-sr.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The strategy review placed A1's collective core at semi-regularity. On the complete board the recorded statement is Conjecture SR (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base). With every hole block present, W lives on the forced sparse board. There Taylor glue's recorded base fails at blocked centres, so a statement relative to the Mikša–Nordström operator is needed. What is the right statement there, and does the literature already prove a form of it?

General statement. conj:relative-linear-sr, the model case for linear equations.

Setting. \(G'\) is a residual as in lem:residual-linear-kernel: \(r\) pigeons, each with exactly 5 holes, and \(|N(W)|\ge3|W|\) for every pigeon set \(|W|\le s\). Let \(D_0=\lfloor s/10\rfloor\) and \(R\) the operator.
Graded dimensions. \(\gamma_d=\dim(\operatorname{Im}R\cap P_{\le d})-\dim(\operatorname{Im}R\cap P_{\le d-1})\), the graded dimensions of the image filtered by degree. The filtration is used because \(R(m)\) has lower-degree terms.
Equations. \(A=\{\ell_1,\dots,\ell_a\}\) are affine forms in the cells of \(G'\), with independent uniform coefficients over \(\mathbb F_3\). \(W_A\) is the closure of lem:relative-criterion at degree \(D_0\).
Conjecture. There is an absolute \(c>0\) such that, for every such \(G'\) and \(a\le c\,\gamma_{D_0}/\gamma_{D_0-1}\), \(\Pr[1\notin W_A]\to1\) as \(r\to\infty\), over the coefficients of \(A\).
Consequence. By lem:relative-criterion, functional graph PHP on \(G'\) plus \(A\) then has no refutation of degree \(D_0\).

The conjecture is stated only at \(D_0\), where the criterion is proved. A truncation to smaller degrees would need the criterion's proof rerun at that degree.

Why this statement

The scale is the forced-fall count. Conjecture SR predicts a Hilbert series and excludes degree falls before the first clause at which the forced-fall count holds. For linear clauses that count is about \(\gamma_B/\gamma_{B-1}\), and the registry records it as SR's generic reach. It is a first-order count, not the first nonpositive coefficient of SR's series: for \(h=1\) that series is \(H(t)(1+t)^{-M}\), and in the binomial model \(H=(1+t)^N\) its crossing lies near \(N-B\), far above \(N/B\). Also \(1\notin W_A\) is weaker than having no fall. So the conjecture may be conservative.
An analogue of SR's linear case, not SR itself. SR is stronger: it predicts the whole Hilbert series, excludes falls and covers product clauses. It is also stated on a different base, the complete-board ideal rather than \(\operatorname{Im}R\) on a sparse residual. Its complete-board evidence is ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds: exact \(\mathbb F_3\) closures at degree 3 are first refuted at 76 (\(n=6\)) and 185 (\(n=7\)) random selector constraints, which equals the graded count \(\lceil\gamma_3/(\gamma_1-1)\rceil\), with no earlier fall (selector semi-regularity). That is evidence for SR on the complete board only. There is no finite evidence for the sparse relative conjecture.
What the operator absorbs. The statement is made relative to \(R\) so that the base's falls at blocked centres are absorbed, as the closure review showed. Falls in \(W_A\) caused by the added equations are the whole question.
The first degree is explicit. By lem:residual-linear-kernel, the degree-1 normal forms are 1 and the cells that are not tops, so \(\gamma_1=4r\) (\(4r+1\) dimensions with constants). Also \(R(\ell)\) is \(\ell\) reduced modulo the rows. Higher \(\gamma_d\) are not computed.
When it goes beyond the ceiling. Heuristically \(\gamma_d\) is about the number of partial matchings of size \(d\) in non-top cells, roughly \(\binom rd4^d\) when \(d\ll r\), so \(\gamma_{D_0}/\gamma_{D_0-1}\approx4(r-D_0)/D_0\). The conjecture then allows \(a\,D_0\lesssim4cr\) equations.
- On the logarithmic residual, \(r=\Theta(s)=\Theta(D_0)\), so only \(O(1)\) equations are allowed. That is below the \(3\log_3n\) of prop:restriction-ceiling.
- W needs \(D_0\ge22k=\Theta(\log n)\). On residuals of \(r\approx\sqrt n\) pigeons, as in thm:cell-family-w, if they meet the expansion hypothesis up to \(s\), the conjecture allows about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) equations, far beyond the ceiling.
So the conjecture reaches beyond the ceiling only when \(r\gg D_0\log n\).
Scope. The conjecture concerns random linear equations only, at most about \(4cr/D_0\) of them. W's clauses have tops of degree \(2k+2\), W's families have \(n^K\) blocks, and adversarial families are not random. A statement for W's dense core needs a product-clause version, as in SR, and an adversarial version for far-from-additive forms. Neither is stated here.

Literature pass

Two web searches were run: polynomial calculus degree lower bounds for PHP with added linear equations modulo \(p\), and resolution over linear equations on pigeonhole principles in odd characteristic. The results, known from search-result summaries and abstracts only (the papers were not read):

the PHP degree bounds of Razborov (Comput. Complexity 7 (1998)) and of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall (Comput. Complexity 8 (1999));
Mikša and Nordström's generalized method (CCC 2015);
Tseitin-type results;
recent lower bounds for resolution over parities on the bit pigeonhole principle, arXiv:2609.23015 and, for bounded depth, Byramji and Impagliazzo (arXiv:2511.20023).

By these summaries, none gives polynomial calculus hardness for PHP plus polynomially many dense linear equations or product clauses, on complete or sparse boards. This agrees with audit:semiregularity-source-scope for SR. The pass is bounded and does not establish absence.

What it means

A1's collective core has a precise model target on the boards that W forces, stated in the operator's own terms. It matters only on residuals much larger than the degree.
No case of the conjecture is proved. On the complete board the few-equations theorem handles up to \(c\ln n\) equations by choosing the residual inside a level set, which a given residual does not allow.

Next. Prove the case \(a=1\): one random equation \(\ell\) on a given residual keeps 1 outside \(W_{\{\ell\}}\). This tests the method; it is not progress beyond the ceiling. Razborov's condition in Mikša and Nordström's Lemma 3.15 is \(R(x\,R(f))=R(xf)\) for \(\deg f<D_0\). By induction on the closure steps it gives \(W_{\{\ell\}}=\operatorname{span}\{R(m\ell):\deg(m\ell)\le D_0\}\). By the linear kernel lemma, \(R(\ell)\) is \(\ell\) modulo the rows. The question is whether some \(\sum_mc_mR(m\ell)\) equals 1. A natural witness against it is an average of evaluations at near-matchings, each missing one pigeon, together with the terms whose supports contain the missing pigeon.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:residual-linear-kernel, lem:relative-criterion, prop:restriction-ceiling, conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base and ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds with its registry edges, and Mikša and Nordström's Lemma 3.15. A claim search found no recorded relative or sparse-board form of SR. A fresh-context reviewer found the entry sound after changes, and required these, all adopted:

sharper quantifiers and definitions: \(r\), exact left degree, the filtered \(\gamma_d\) and the probability space;
the statement restricted to degree \(D_0\), where the criterion is proved;
the heuristic trade-off \(a\,D_0\lesssim4cr\), and when it exceeds the ceiling;
the scale called the forced-fall count, with \(1\notin W_A\) weaker than no fall;
the relation to SR stated as an analogue, with SR's recorded thresholds quoted from the registry in place of unsourced numbers;
"immune to falls" replaced by what the operator absorbs;
the literature marked as known from summaries, with standard citations, and the closure identity cited in Next.

The changes restrict or correct claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	8 min 4.66 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 6.69 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 28.78 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 32.83 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	56.23 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Sparse conditioning: on an expanding residual, constraints that vanish where \(q\) affine forms vanish cost at most \(2q\) degrees whenever a doubled permanent on separated pigeons is nonzero, so up to a constant fraction of a separated pigeon set of random equations keep functional PHP hard

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem · open statement A1, equations kept as axioms · cycle odd-prime-single-equation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sparse conditioning: on an expanding residual, constraints that vanish where \(q\) affine forms vanish cost at most \(2q\) degrees whenever a doubled permanent on separated pigeons is nonzero, so up to a constant fraction of a separated pigeon set of random equations keep functional PHP hard”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-sparse-conditioning.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The relative SR entry asked for the case \(a=1\): one random equation on a given residual, kept as an axiom. Can a single equation, or many, be added to functional PHP on an expanding residual without a large loss of degree?

General statement. Three results, lem:separated-top-coefficient, thm:sparse-conditioning and cor:random-sparse-conditioning. The theorem: on a residual \(G'\) as in lem:residual-linear-kernel, let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_q\) be affine forms. Suppose some \(2q\) pairwise separated pigeons carry non-top cells on which the doubled permanent of the forms' reduced coefficients is nonzero modulo 3, and \(D_0\ge\max(5,2q)\). Then functional graph PHP on \(G'\) plus any constraints that vanish wherever all \(\ell_j\) vanish, in particular plus the equations \(\ell_j=0\), has no PC refutation of degree at most \(D_0-2q\). For uniformly random forms the permanent condition holds with probability at least \(1-(2/9)^{P}\) when \(4q\le P\), where \(P\) is the size of a separated pigeon set. The method is the weighted replay of cor:affine-flat-conditioning-gap. The new part is the nonvanishing test on a sparse board, where that corollary claims nothing.

Setting

\(G'\) has \(r\) pigeons with exactly 5 holes each, and \(|N(W)|\ge3|W|\) for every pigeon set with \(|W|\le s\). The system \(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'}\) consists of the pigeon, hole and functionality axioms. Polynomials are multilinear. \(R\) is the Mikša–Nordström operator of their Definition 3.20 for a fixed degree-compatible order, with overlap 5 and \(D_0=\lfloor s/10\rfloor\), as in lem:residual-linear-kernel and lem:relative-criterion.
The top of pigeon \(i\) is its largest cell in the order. The other cells are non-top. Since \(\mathrm{row}_i=\sum_{t\in N(i)}x_{it}-1\) lies in \(I_E(U)\) whenever \(i\in U\), with leading term \(x_{i\top}\), any monomial containing the top of a pigeon of \(U\) is reducible modulo \(I_E(U)\). So is any monomial containing two cells of one pigeon or of one hole.
For an affine form \(\ell=c_0+\sum c_{it}x_{it}\), write \(d_{it}=c_{it}-c_{i\top}\) for non-top cells. Then \(\ell\equiv\tilde\ell=\tilde c+\sum_{\text{non-top}}d_{it}x_{it}\) modulo the span of the rows, with \(\tilde c=c_0+\sum_ic_{i\top}\).
Pigeons \(i\ne i'\) are separated if they share no hole and no pigeon is adjacent to a hole of each. That is, their distance in the graph on pigeons that share a hole is at least 3.
For separated pigeons \(i_1,\dots,i_{2q}\) with non-top cells \(c_k=(i_k,a_k)\), the doubled permanent is \(\operatorname{perm}M\) of the \(2q\times2q\) matrix with rows \(c_1,\dots,c_{2q}\) and columns \(\ell_1,\ell_1,\ell_2,\ell_2,\dots,\ell_q,\ell_q\), with entry \(d^{(j)}_{c_k}\) in a column of \(\ell_j\).

The top coefficient

Lemma (separated top coefficient). Let \(m=\prod_kx_{c_k}\) be a product of non-top cells \(c_k=(i_k,a_k)\) of pairwise separated pigeons, with \(\deg m\le D_0\). Let \(t'\) be a monomial with \(\deg t'\le\deg m\) that contains no top cell of an \(i_k\). Then the coefficient of \(m\) in \(R(t')\) is 1 if \(t'=m\) and 0 otherwise.

Proof. Let \(U^*=\operatorname{Sup}_s(t')\cup\{i_1,\dots,i_{2q}\}\), where \(2q=\deg m\). By Mikša and Nordström's Lemma 3.26, \(|\operatorname{Sup}_s(t')|\le s/2\), since \(\deg t'\le D_0=\lfloor s/10\rfloor\). So \(|U^*|\le s/2+D_0\le s\), and their Lemma 3.25, which needs only \(U^*\supseteq\operatorname{Sup}_s(t')\) and \(|U^*|\le s\), gives \(R(t')=\mathrm{NF}(t')\), the normal form of \(t'\) modulo \(I_E(U^*)\). The \(m\)-pigeons are put into \(U^*\) explicitly: \(\{i_k\}\) is not \((s,N(m))\)-contained, since its boundary is all five of its holes. Their membership makes \(\mathrm{row}_{i_k}\in I_E(U^*)\), so no standard monomial contains \(x_{i_k\top}\). Write \(P=\mathrm{NF}(t')=\sum_up_uu\) over standard monomials \(u\). The order is degree-compatible, so \(\deg P\le\deg t'\).

Test points. Let \(X=\{a_k,\top_{i_k}:k\le2q\}\) be the holes of the \(m\)-cells and of the \(m\)-pigeons' tops. There is an injective placement \(\beta\) of \(U^*\setminus\{i_k\}\) into its neighbourhood avoiding \(X\):

By separation, a pigeon outside \(\{i_k\}\) is adjacent to holes of at most one \(i_k\).
So a set \(W\subseteq U^*\setminus\{i_k\}\) meets at most \(2|W|\) holes of \(X\), and \(|N(W)\setminus X|\ge3|W|-2|W|=|W|\).
Hall's theorem gives \(\beta\).

For \(y\in\{0,1\}^{2q}\), let \(\sigma(y)\) be \(\beta\) together with each \(i_k\) placed at \(a_k\) if \(y_k=1\) and at \(\top_{i_k}\) if \(y_k=0\), with every other variable 0.

The holes \(a_k\) and \(\top_{i_k}\) are distinct across \(k\), because separated pigeons share no hole, and \(\beta\) avoids them.
So \(\sigma(y)\) places every pigeon of \(U^*\) injectively and satisfies every hole and functionality axiom, that is, \(\sigma(y)\in Z(I_E(U^*))\).
Hence \(P(\sigma(y))=t'(\sigma(y))\) for all \(y\).

Extracting the coefficient. Both sides are multilinear polynomials in \(y\): on \(\sigma(y)\), \(x_{i_ka_k}=y_k\), \(x_{i_k\top}=1-y_k\), the other cells of \(i_k\) are 0, and every other variable is a constant of \(\beta\). Compare the coefficients of \(\prod_ky_k\).

On the left, \(u\) contributes only if it contains, for each \(k\), one of \(x_{i_ka_k}\) or \(x_{i_k\top}\). A standard monomial contains no top of a pigeon of \(U^*\), so \(u\) contains every \(x_{i_ka_k}\). Since \(\deg u\le2q\), \(u=m\). The coefficient is \(p_m\).
On the right, \(t'\) contains no top of an \(i_k\), so it contributes only if it contains every \(x_{i_ka_k}\), that is \(t'=m\), and then with coefficient 1.

So \(p_m=[t'=m]\). \(\square\)

The theorem

Theorem (sparse conditioning). Let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_q\) be affine forms and \(D_0\ge\max(5,2q)\). Suppose there are pairwise separated pigeons \(i_1,\dots,i_{2q}\) with non-top cells on which the doubled permanent is nonzero modulo 3. Let \(\mathcal C\) be any set of polynomials, each vanishing on every Boolean point where \(\ell_1=\dots=\ell_q=0\). Then \(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'}+\mathcal C\) has no PC refutation of degree at most \(D_0-2q\). The equations \(\ell_j\) themselves form such a set.

Proof. Let \(\omega=\prod_{j\le q}(1-\ell_j^2)\), the indicator of \(\ell_1=\dots=\ell_q=0\) on the Boolean cube, of degree \(2q\).

Weighted replay. Suppose a refutation of degree \(D\le D_0-2q\) exists. Multiply every line \(p\) by \(\omega\).

An axiom \(a\) of \(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'}\) gives \(a\omega\), derived from \(a\) by multiplications at degree at most \(D+2q\).
A constraint \(c\in\mathcal C\) gives \(c\omega\), which vanishes on the cube, so its multilinear form is 0.
Linear combinations commute with the weight. A multiplication step \(p\mapsto xp\), with \(\deg xp\le D\), becomes \(p\omega\mapsto x\,p\omega\), of degree at most \(D+2q\).

The last line becomes \(\omega\). So \(\omega\in C_{D+2q}(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'})\). By Razborov's Lemma 3.15, as used in Mikša and Nordström's proof of their Theorem 3.8, \(R\) vanishes on every line of a derivation of degree at most \(D_0\). So \(R(\omega)=0\).

Reduction to non-top form. Each \(\ell_j-\tilde\ell_j\) is a combination of rows, and the rows are derived at degree 5 (lem:functional-residual). Telescoping, \(\omega-\prod_j(1-\tilde\ell_j^2)\) is a sum of row combinations times polynomials of degree at most \(2q-1\), so it lies in \(C_{\max(5,2q)}\). Multilinearizing and deleting products of two cells of one pigeon or one hole uses Booleanity, functionality and hole axioms at degree at most \(2q\). This gives a polynomial \(\hat\omega\) in non-top cells with \(\omega-\hat\omega\in C_{\max(5,2q)}\subseteq C_{D_0}\). Hence \(R(\hat\omega)=0\).

The top coefficient. Let \(m=\prod_kx_{c_k}\). Before multilinearization each factor \(1-\tilde\ell_j^2\) has degree at most 2. So a monomial of degree \(2q\) in \(2q\) distinct variables arises only from monomials of the expanded product that use each of its variables exactly once and have degree \(2q\), that is, only from \(\prod_j(-\lambda_j^2)\) with each factor contributing a cross term. Square terms \(x_c^2\) drop to degree 1 under multilinearization, and constant or linear parts lower the degree. So the coefficient of \(m\) in \(\hat\omega\) is \((-1)^q\) times the coefficient of \(m\) in \(\prod_j\lambda_j^2\), where \(\lambda_j=\sum d^{(j)}_cx_c\). Expanding the \(2q\) factors \(\lambda_1,\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_q,\lambda_q\), that coefficient is \(\operatorname{perm}M\). Every monomial of \(\hat\omega\) is non-top of degree at most \(2q\). By the lemma, the coefficient of \(m\) in \(R(\hat\omega)=\sum_{t'}\hat\omega_{t'}R(t')\) is \(\hat\omega_m=(-1)^q\operatorname{perm}M\ne0\). This contradicts \(R(\hat\omega)=0\). \(\square\)

If the reduced linear parts \(\lambda_j\) are linearly dependent, the doubled permanent is 0: expanding a dependent column pair gives permanents with some column at least three times, and \(3!\equiv0\). This can happen while the \(\ell_j\) are independent, for example \(\ell=\mathrm{row}_i+1\), whose reduced part is 0. Passing to a basis of the span of the \(\ell_j\) does not always restore the condition.

Random forms

Corollary (random sparse conditioning). Let \(P^*\) be a set of pairwise separated pigeons of \(G'\), with \(4q\le|P^*|\) and \(D_0\ge\max(5,2q)\). Let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_q\) have independent uniform coefficients over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the cells of \(G'\), with arbitrary constants, where \(G'\) and \(P^*\) are fixed independently of the forms. Then with probability at least \(1-(2/9)^{|P^*|}\), the conclusion of the theorem holds: \(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'}\) plus the equations, or plus any constraints vanishing on their common zero set, has no refutation of degree at most \(D_0-2q\). A greedy choice gives \(|P^*|\ge r/(25\Delta^2)\), where \(\Delta\) is the largest hole degree of \(G'\).

Proof. For a pigeon, the rows \((d^{(j)}_c)_{j\le q}\) of its four non-top cells are independent and uniform on \(\mathbb F_3^q\), because the coefficient vectors of its five cells are, and the rows are their differences with the top's vector. Rows of different pigeons are independent.

As a polynomial in formal rows \(u_1,\dots,u_{2q}\), the doubled permanent \(F\) is nonzero. An assignment of rows to column labels, each label used twice, gives a monomial with coefficient \(2^q\ne0\), and distinct assignments give distinct monomials. \(F\) is linear in each row.
Choose rows one at a time. Suppose \(F_k\), which is \(F\) with the first \(k\) rows fixed, is a nonzero polynomial. Write \(F_k=\sum_ju_{k+1}[j]\,G_j\).
The set \(V\) of vectors \(v\) with \(\sum_jv_jG_j=0\) is a proper subspace of \(\mathbb F_3^q\). A uniform row lies in \(V\) with probability at most 1/3.
Examine the pigeons of \(P^*\) in a fixed order. Take a pigeon if one of its four rows lies outside \(V\), and use that row. Otherwise discard the pigeon. A fresh pigeon is discarded with probability at most \(3^{-4}\), independently of the history.
After \(2q\) rows the value is a nonzero constant.

The process fails only if at least \(|P^*|-2q\ge|P^*|/2\) pigeons are discarded. The probability is at most \(2^{|P^*|}81^{-|P^*|/2}=(2/9)^{|P^*|}\).

The separated set. Greedily, each chosen pigeon excludes the pigeons within distance 2 of it, at most \(1+5(\Delta-1)+25(\Delta-1)^2\le25\Delta^2\) of them. \(\square\)

A correction to the previous entry

The relative SR entry's Next stated that Razborov's condition gives \(W_{\{\ell\}}=\operatorname{span}\{R(m\ell):\deg(m\ell)\le D_0\}\). This is not established. The condition \(R(x\,R(g))=R(xg)\) needs \(\deg g<D_0\). An element \(R(m\ell)\) with \(\deg(m\ell)=D_0\) may have lower degree, and its product with \(x\) then enters \(W_{\{\ell\}}\) without being of the stated form. Only the inclusion \(\supseteq\) holds. The present theorem does not use \(W_A\).

What it means

The case \(a=1\), and more. For \(q=1\), \(\operatorname{perm}M=2d_{c_1}d_{c_2}\). So one equation costs 2 degrees unless the pigeons whose reduced coefficients are not all zero are pairwise within distance 2. All of them then lie in the distance-2 ball of any one of them, at most \(25\Delta^2\) pigeons. Any \(q\) equations meeting the permanent condition cost \(2q\).
Equations kept as axioms go beyond the ceiling. For random equations the count is limited by \(|P^*|/4\) and \((D_0-B)/2\), not by level sets. Random forms on the complete board restrict to random forms on the residual's cells, provided the matching and residual are chosen independently of the forms. If a residual with \(D_0-B\gg\log n\) and a large separated set is constructed, random equations kept as axioms go beyond the \(3\log_3n\) of prop:restriction-ceiling. No such residual is constructed here. The logarithmic residual has \(D_0=22k+1\), which leaves no room, and its construction was checked only at that \(s\).
Relation to the relative SR conjecture. conj:relative-linear-sr asked for \(1\notin W_A\) at degree \(D_0\), which would give hardness at \(D_0\) itself. The theorem gives hardness at \(D_0-2a\) instead, without \(W_A\), and for a much larger range of \(a\) than its forced-fall count. The conjecture's own statement stays open. The question it was stated for, random equations beyond the ceiling, would be answered at a cost of \(2a\) degrees once a residual as in the previous item is constructed.
Relation to the recorded corollaries. The weighted replay is that of cor:affine-flat-conditioning-gap, which is stated for the complete board, where old stability decides whether the indicator lies in the closure. cor:safe-linear-systems-keep-base-hard is the analogue over \(\mathbb F_2\) in label bits. On an expanding sparse residual the separated top coefficient replaces old stability.
The budget of this method. The weight has degree \(2q\), so every argument of this kind handles at most \(D_0/2\) forms in total, fewer than \(n/20\). W's clauses vanish where their prefix forms vanish, so the theorem applies to W's restricted clauses with \(q=kM\) prefix forms. That reaches only \(M\le D_0/(2k)\) blocks, so \(K<1\), and only for blocks whose restricted prefix forms meet the permanent condition. W for every \(K\), and adversarial forms, need a mechanism that absorbs constraints without paying degree for each one.

Next. Two lines.

Record the W consequence for uniformly random families with \(M\le n^{1-\eta}\) blocks. This needs the matching-and-expander residual with expansion up to \(s=10(22k+2kM+1)\). Its failure bounds were checked only at \(s=10(22k+1)\).
For A1 proper, find a condition on adversarial dense blocks that implies the permanent condition on a chosen residual, as the swap decay lemma does for level sets.

Both stay within the budget \(K<1\). The review should weigh that budget against the goal's need for every \(K\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read Mikša and Nordström's Definitions 3.16 to 3.20 and Lemmas 3.15 and 3.21 to 3.27, lem:residual-linear-kernel, lem:functional-residual, lem:relative-criterion and cor:affine-flat-conditioning-gap. Before drafting, a reviewer checked the statement against the record, running claim searches for weighted replay, conditioning and sparse expanders. It found no implying claim: the complete-board and \(\mathbb F_2\) corollaries use the same technique in other settings, so they are recorded as cited analogues, not as refinements. That check's points adopted:

the degree hypothesis is \(D_0\ge\max(5,2q)\);
the claim about going beyond the ceiling depends on a residual that is not constructed.

A fresh-context reviewer, given the draft and the Mikša–Nordström extract, found it sound after changes. It confirmed:

the Hall step, the test points and the coefficient extraction;
the replay count and the sign of the permanent;
the corollary's arithmetic.

It required these changes, all adopted:

\(U^*\) contains the \(m\)-pigeons explicitly, since they need not lie in \(\operatorname{Sup}_s(m)\), and \(\operatorname{Sup}_s(m)\) is dropped;
a sentence justifying the top-degree coefficient;
the dependence remark stated for the reduced parts;
the residual fixed independently of the forms;
the exact one-equation condition;
both claims about going beyond the ceiling made conditional.

It found no unused hypothesis. The first change repairs a step without strengthening the claim, so no second pass was made.

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Route review: weighted replay, by restriction or by conditioning, pays at least two degrees for every block it does not kill, so under the operator's degree bound it stops near \(n/10\) surviving blocks; A1 at \(K\ge1\) needs weights that are not products over blocks, or degree-free absorption

26 September 2026 · Route review with three tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-conditioning-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: weighted replay, by restriction or by conditioning, pays at least two degrees for every block it does not kill, so under the operator's degree bound it stops near \(n/10\) surviving blocks; A1 at \(K\ge1\) needs weights that are not products over blocks, or degree-free absorption”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-conditioning-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The sparse conditioning theorem keeps equations as axioms at a cost of 2 degrees each. Its entry named a budget of at most \(D_0/2\) forms. Does that budget bind the whole line, and what should A1 try next?

General statement. The line's claim: A1 holds if, after a restriction to an expanding residual, the remaining clauses can be absorbed by the Mikša–Nordström operator. The tools are the relative criterion (lem:relative-criterion), the few-equations theorem (thm:few-equations-hardness) and sparse conditioning (thm:sparse-conditioning, cor:random-sparse-conditioning). The goal needs W for \(M=n^K\) blocks and every fixed \(K\), for adversarial families, at degree \(22k\).

One framework: weighted replay

Restriction and conditioning are both weighted replays. If a polynomial \(\omega\) vanishes on every Boolean point where some clause is nonzero, a degree-\(D\) refutation of \(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'}+\mathcal C\) gives \(\omega\in C_{D+\deg\omega}(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'})\), as in the sparse conditioning proof. So hardness follows from \(R(\omega)\ne0\) with \(\deg\omega\le D_0-22k\). Two special cases:

A restriction is the weight \(\prod\) of the fixed literals, a subcube.
Conditioning is \(\prod_j(1-\ell_j^2)\), a flat.

A block's clauses \(g_i\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2\) all vanish where a single prefix form vanishes. So one form per block suffices, not \(k\), as the sparse conditioning entry's budget paragraph assumed. The weight has degree \(2q\) for \(q\) blocks not killed by the restriction.

Falsification attempt: can a block's share of the weight cost less than 2?

Suppose the weight is a product over blocks, \(\omega=\prod_b\omega_b\), with \(\omega_b\) a polynomial in block \(b\)'s forms that vanishes on its forbidden patterns. The forbidden patterns of one clause are the \(v\in\mathbb F_3^{k+1}\) with every prefix coordinate nonzero and \(v_i=0\). For \(k\ge1\) their affine span is the hyperplane \(v_i=0\). An affine \(\omega_b\) vanishing on them is therefore a multiple of \(L_i\). Call a block nontrivial if it has at least two non-prefix forms, \(h_b-k\ge2\). Then an affine \(\omega_b\) must vanish on two distinct hyperplanes, so it is 0. A nontrivial block therefore costs at least 2, which \(1-L_j^2\) attains. A block with a single non-prefix form costs 1, with \(\omega_b=L_i\).

Degrees in the forms add over a product. The degree in the cells can be lower only through cancellation, which this attempt does not examine. So every product weight without such cancellation handles at most \(D_0/2\) surviving nontrivial blocks, and at most \(D_0\) in the worst case of blocks with one non-prefix form. Here \(D_0\) is the reach of the operator's degree bound on the residual, not an intrinsic PC degree. On a residual of at most \(n+1\) pigeons, \(D_0\le s/10\le(n+1)/10\). So at most about \(n/10\) surviving blocks are handled, and \(K<1\). The goal needs every \(K\). For random dense blocks a restriction kills almost none, since a random form restricted to a residual becomes derivable with probability about \(3^{-4r}\). So the cap binds for random families already.

Outcome: the attempt confirms the cap for product weights. It says nothing about weights that are not products over blocks: low-degree polynomials supported in the allowed set of all \(M\) blocks together. No candidate for such a weight is known. The allowed set of a random family has density about \(1-n^{-1.03}\) (info_budget.json of the strategy review), so density does not rule one out.

Assessment of the line

What stands. Everything listed in the strategy review, plus sparse conditioning. It is the first result keeping dense equations as axioms on a sparse board. Its permanent condition is non-degeneracy, not farness: column statistics, which defeat restrictions, pass it (test below).
What it cannot do. Reach \(M\ge n\) blocks for random families. Weighted replay with product weights and no cancellation in the cell degree stops at about \(n/10\) surviving blocks under the operator's degree bound. Restriction cannot kill random dense blocks, so all \(n^K\) of them survive. Whether restriction can kill enough blocks of every adversarial family is not shown, so no claim is made there. The goal needs every fixed \(K\), and \(K<1\) does not reach it.
What A1 at \(K\ge1\) needs. Either a weight supported in the allowed set whose degree grows more slowly than the number of blocks, or a mechanism that absorbs blocks without degree cost: Tor vanishing and Taylor glue (A3), or \(1\notin W_A\) for the relative closure. Even random families at \(K\ge1\) are open.
Qualitative assessment. The restriction-and-conditioning line has produced sound partial results. By this falsification it is finished as a route to the goal for random families, and so for the goal, unless the weights that are not products over blocks, named above, exist. That question is sharp, cheap to test on small cube instances, and would close the line if answered negatively.

Outside leads

The Chevalley–Warning and Alon–Füredi degree bounds. A polynomial on \(\mathbb F_q^m\) that is nonzero at one point and vanishes on all others has degree at least \(m(q-1)\). Target: A1, whether conditioning's cost of 2 per form is forced. Where it breaks: on the Boolean cube with PHP's axioms, a weight need not be a function of the forms alone. Restriction weights, and weights that are not products over blocks, escape it. Test. Passed: over \(\mathbb F_3\) the only function vanishing off a point \(v\) is \(c\prod_j(1-(x_j-v_j)^2)\), of degree \(2m\). By the sparse conditioning theorem's top coefficient, the weight has degree exactly \(2q\) whenever the permanent is nonzero. So for flat weights the cost is optimal.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, "Sum of squares lower bounds for refuting any CSP" (STOC 2017). Sum-of-squares hardness persists up to about \(n^{(t+1)/2}\) random constraints when the predicate supports a \(t\)-wise uniform distribution. The degree bound degrades with the density, but there is no fixed cost for each constraint. Target: A1 at \(K\ge1\) for random families. It suggests that the collective condition is \(t\)-wise uniformity of the allowed patterns, which does not depend on the number of blocks. Where it breaks: PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) is not SoS, and linear structure mod 3 is PC-easy. Their constraints are local, W's forms are dense. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take an integer \(t\)-wise uniform multiset reduced mod 3, as an \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued \(\mu\). Interpolation gives \(\mu=\sum_v\mu(v)\prod_j(1-(x_j-v_j)^2)\), whose coefficient pairing with evaluation sums is triangular. It removes the monomials with at least \(k+1-t\) exponents 2 from \(\mu\) minus uniform, so \(\mu\) has degree at most \(2k-t+1\) in the forms instead of \(2k+2\). This does not hold for a real density, and the LP's rational solution may reduce to 0 mod 3. Even at best the saving is \(t+1\) degrees per block, while a single zeroed form already costs only 2. Test. Passed: an exact LP (review_tests.json) finds a pairwise-uniform distribution on a W clause's allowed patterns for \(k=3,4,5\), none for \(k=1,2\), and a 3-wise uniform one for \(k=4,5\). W's \(k=\Theta(\log n)\) is far above these thresholds.
Alon's Combinatorial Nullstellensatz, for the permanent condition on adversarial forms. The doubled permanent is linear in each row, with four candidate rows per pigeon. A nonzero coefficient of a suitable monomial would force a good choice. Target: sparse conditioning for adversarial blocks at \(K<1\). Where it breaks: it is still bounded by the budget, so it does not reach the goal. Test. Passed. The test used additive forms \(d_{it}=v_t-v_{\top}\) on 10 random left-5-regular graphs with 3000 pigeons, with greedy separated sets of 35 to 40 pigeons and one non-top cell per chosen pigeon. The fraction of random separated choices with nonzero permanent was 0.34 to 0.55 for \(q=1\), mean 0.453, near the 4/9 expected for two independent nonzero coefficients. For \(q=4\) it was 0.47 to 0.63. A sanity control, with coefficients confined to the neighbourhood of one pigeon, gave 0 in 10 of 10, which holds by construction since two separated pigeons cannot both lie there (review_tests.json). A first run drew a fresh cell for every column. The fresh-context reviewer found this, and the run was corrected before use.

Absurd bridges

The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion (statistical mechanics). Translation: each block is a polymer whose activity is the density of its forbidden set. Dense forms make every pair of polymers incompatible, a hard-core gas on the complete graph. The dual certificate of PHP plus all blocks would be a cluster expansion around the PHP functional. What a theorem there would give: absorption of all \(n^K\) blocks at no degree cost when the Kotecký–Preiss criterion holds. Smallest test: evaluate the criterion \(\sum_b|w_b|e^{a}\le a\) with the recorded budget. Test. Passed as a computation: the recorded worst case is \(\sum_b|w_b|\le10^{-3.08}\) at \(K=1\), \(n=10^3\) (info_budget.json), and \(a=0.01\) satisfies the criterion. The obstacle is the characteristic: the dual objects are \(\mathbb F_3\)-linear functionals with no notion of small activity, so the expansion needs a characteristic-0 or positivity surrogate that PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) does not provide.
\(\mathbb Z_3\) lattice gauge theory: Gauss's law and superselection sectors. Translation: a dense equation \(\sum c_{it}x_{it}\equiv b\) is a global \(\mathbb Z_3\) charge. Sparse conditioning says low-degree operators cannot tell the charge sector. In gauge theory a charge is locally detectable exactly when it is confined to a region. What a theorem there would give: the exact condition for invisibility, which for \(q=1\) is support not confined to a ball. Smallest test: compare with the one-equation condition of sparse conditioning. Test. Passed, tautologically at \(q=1\): there \(\operatorname{perm}M=2d_{c_1}d_{c_2}\), so sparse conditioning fails exactly when the support is confined within pairwise distance 2, which is the gauge picture's confined charge. For \(q>1\), and for \(n^K\) sectors, not run: the analogy supplies no prediction to test.

Bridge follow-up

Shannon's information budget. This cycle turned it into the Kotecký–Preiss bridge above, whose criterion holds numerically. Follow-up. Continuing: it needs a surrogate for smallness in characteristic 3.

Lead follow-up

Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: a candidate for the degree-free route for random tops.
Nguyen and Wood's moment method. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: the killer-moment main term is the degree-free route's most concrete open step for random tops.
The Mikša–Nordström closure as a gluing base. It now hosts sparse conditioning, whose top coefficient uses its support lemmas. Follow-up. Developed: the operator carries weighted replay on sparse boards, with the budget above.

Next step

The highest-risk item stays A1. Next on odd-prime-clause-transfer: decide whether weights that are not products over blocks can exist. The question: for a random family of \(M\) blocks on \(N\) Boolean variables, what is the least degree of a nonzero multilinear polynomial vanishing on the union of the blocks' forbidden sets, compared with \(2M\)?

First on the bare cube, by exact linear algebra at small \(N\). Then relative to PHP's closure.
A degree far below \(2M\) at \(M\gg N\) reopens the weight route.
A degree that grows linearly with \(M\), or a proof of such growth, closes the route. Then A1 moves to degree-free absorption, where the killer-moment main term is the most concrete open step.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:sparse-conditioning, lem:separated-top-coefficient, the strategy review's budget computation and the killer-moment review's status. The affine-span step was checked directly: every vector with nonzero prefix coordinates and \(v_i=0\) lies in the hyperplane, and these vectors span it affinely for \(k\ge1\). All test numbers were read from review_tests.json by script. Ryser's formula in the script was validated against brute force on 200 random matrices. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the weighted-replay step and the LP numbers. It required these changes, all adopted:

the sampling bug fixed and the test rerun;
the control and the gauge bridge marked as holding by construction;
the per-block lower bound stated for nontrivial blocks;
the cap's hypotheses stated, with no claim for adversarial families;
the claim about lower bounds below the trivial scale removed;
the mod-3 duality remark qualified.

This review registers no claim.

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Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The replay weight barrier: whether any weight certifies random families of \(n^K\) blocks, \(K\ge1\), is beyond exact tests and beyond a first-moment count with pairwise independence; it is stated as a conjecture, and the route turns to degree-free absorption

26 September 2026 · Conjecture with a decidability analysis · open statement A1, weighted replay · cycle odd-prime-allowed-set-weights. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The replay weight barrier: whether any weight certifies random families of \(n^K\) blocks, \(K\ge1\), is beyond exact tests and beyond a first-moment count with pairwise independence; it is stated as a conjecture, and the route turns to degree-free absorption”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-replay-weight-barrier.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The conditioning review showed that weights built as products over blocks stop near \(n/10\) surviving blocks. It asked whether weights that are not such products can do better. Can that be tested, and what is the precise statement?

General statement. conj:replay-weight-barrier, in W's setting over \(\mathbb F_3\).

Setting. A random family of \(M=n^K\) blocks, \(K\ge1\). Each block has \(h\) affine forms with independent uniform coefficients, of which the chooser takes \(k\) as the prefix. Its clauses \(g_i\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2\) forbid the patterns where every prefix form is nonzero and a non-prefix form is zero. Take any partial-matching restriction to a residual \(G'\) as in lem:residual-linear-kernel, with operator \(R\) and \(D_0=\lfloor s/10\rfloor\).
Claim. With high probability over the forms, for every such restriction and every prefix choice, there is no polynomial \(\omega\) with \(\deg\omega\le D_0-22k\), \(R(\omega)\ne0\), and \(\omega c\in C_{D_0}(\mathrm{FPHP}_{G'})\) for every restricted clause \(c\). The bound \(D_0-22k\) leaves room for a refutation of W's degree \(22k\) in the replay.
Weaker form. The same for a fixed restriction chosen independently of the forms. The strong form also covers restrictions chosen after seeing the forms, as in prop:restriction-ceiling, and the union over them is part of what is conjectured.

Such an \(\omega\) is exactly what a weighted replay needs: \(\omega c\) derivable replaces the exact vanishing used in the sparse conditioning proof. So the conjecture says that no weighted replay, by restriction, conditioning or any other weight, certifies W for random families at \(K\ge1\).

Why a small test cannot decide

For any weight class. The statement is vacuous unless \(D_0>22k\). That needs \(s\ge220k+10\), hence \(r\ge220k\) pigeons and \(m=4r\ge880k\) reduced dimensions, far beyond exact reach whatever class of weights is tested.

In the value model. The weight must have degree at most \(D_0-22k<D_0\le s/10\le r/10\). The natural finite model uses weights that are functions of the forms' values. The reduced linear parts of the forms live on the non-top cells, a space of dimension \(m=4r\), plus constants. So the threshold is a degree at most \(m/40\) in an \(m\)-dimensional value space. The allowed set, on the other hand, always carries a point indicator of degree \(2m\).

Exact linear algebra reaches \(m\le8\) (\(3^8=6561\) points), where \(m/40<1\).
So at every computable size the answer to "is there a weight of degree at most \(m/40\)" is no, whatever the conjecture says. Such a test decides nothing, and none was run.
The other finite model, the bare cube with \(N\) variables, has the same defect. There, W's regime needs \(k=\Theta(\log n)\) prefix forms and a forbidden set of density about \(n^{-1}\), and at \(N\le16\) with \(k\ge3\) the forbidden set covers a large fraction of the cube. Generic counting then already gives vanishing polynomials of degree near \(N\), which hides any structure.

Why a first-moment count with pairwise independence cannot prove it (value model)

The model. Weights are functions \(F\) on \(\mathbb F_3^m\) with exponents at most 2, evaluated at all points of \(\mathbb F_3^m\). The requirement that \(\omega c\) be derivable is replaced by the requirement that \(F\) vanish on the forbidden set. This is a surrogate, not a reformulation. Real weights are polynomials in the cells, the relevant points are Boolean matchings with exponents at most 1, and derivability in \(C_{D_0}\) is weaker than vanishing.

Fix a nonzero weight \(F\) of degree \(d\) on the value space \(\mathbb F_3^m\), with exponents at most 2. By the Alon–Füredi theorem, a nonzero polynomial on \(\mathbb F_3^m\) of degree \(d\) with exponents at most 2 is nonzero on at least \(\min\prod_iy_i\) points, over \(y_i\in\{1,2,3\}\) with \(\sum_i(3-y_i)\le d\). That minimum is at least \(3^{m-\lceil d/2\rceil}\). A random affine functional takes independent uniform values at any two distinct points. So for a random block, the events that two distinct points are forbidden are independent. Chebyshev's inequality then gives

\[\Pr[F\text{ avoids block }b\text{'s forbidden set}]\le\frac1{p\,3^{m-\lceil d/2\rceil}},\qquad p=(2/3)^k\bigl(1-(2/3)^{h-k}\bigr).\]

Over \(M\) independent blocks this is at most \((3^{\lceil d/2\rceil-m}/p)^M\). A union bound over the \(3^{\#\mathrm{mon}(m,d)}\) weights proves the claim only if \(M(m-\lceil d/2\rceil-\log_3(1/p))>\#\mathrm{mon}(m,d)\).

Every weight degree allowed here satisfies \(d\le D_0\le m/40\), so \(\#\mathrm{mon}(m,d)\ge\binom md\ge(m/d)^d\ge40^d\).
The left side is at most \(M\cdot m=n^K\cdot4r\).
So the union bound can exclude only weights of degree below about \(\log_{40}(n^K\cdot4r)\approx0.27K\ln n+O(\log r)\).
Product weights already use degree \(2q\) for \(q\) blocks. Residuals with room beyond \(22k\) allow far larger degrees, and there the count fails.

The count fails because low-degree weights are too many, not because any of them works. A proof needs stronger than pairwise independence, or structure.

Related records. The record has barriers of the same kind for other weights:

the main record's barrier to weighted packing modulo column axioms (historical Theorem 4.8), where \(\deg W+h(L+1)\ge n\);
obs:subspace-design-attempt-obstructions: a nonzero weight vanishing outside a subspace of codimension \(a\) has bit degree at least \(a\), the bit analogue of conditioning's cost.

Neither covers weights on sparse residuals relative to the Mikša–Nordström operator.

Evidence for the conjecture

Product weights cost at least 2 degrees per surviving nontrivial block (conditioning review).
Restriction weights kill no random dense block: a random form becomes derivable on a residual with probability about \(3^{-4r}\), and prop:restriction-ceiling caps restrictions that derive random equations at about \(3\log_3n\).
Flat weights, the indicators \(\prod_j(1-\ell_j^2)\) of the common zero set of some forms, are conditioning weights, covered by the first item.
Averaging weights, built as expectations over near-matchings, meet a recorded obstruction in characteristic 3. The Mikša–Nordström normal forms agree with the monomials only on placements of whole supports, so the error terms at supports containing the missing pigeon would have to cancel exactly, not merely be small (Kotecký–Preiss bridge). This is an obstruction to the obvious construction, not a proof that such weights fail.
Heuristic, not proof. If the forbidden points were fully independent, a first-moment count in the value model would put the least surviving degree at a constant fraction of \(m\), by the reviewer's estimate about \(0.45m\) plus lower-order terms. That is linear in \(m\), far above \(m/40\). The forbidden sets of random blocks are only pairwise independent, which is why this is heuristic.

What it means

If the conjecture holds, weighted replay, the common form of restriction and conditioning, cannot reach \(K\ge1\) even for random families. The restriction line's tools stay useful for sparse, structured and few-block families, which they settle.
Because weighted replay is conjecturally blocked, the route turns to degree-free absorption for A1 at \(K\ge1\): Tor vanishing and Taylor glue, or \(1\notin W_A\) for the relative closure. The conjecture concerns this operator and this \(D_0\). It does not exclude other hardness methods. The necessary sub-case is random families. Its most concrete open step is the killer-moment main term, the equidistribution of the contraction vector for random product tops (killer-moment review). That line covers only random forms and degree \(h+1\), and adversarial families break it. So it proves a necessary case, not A1.

Next. Attack the killer-moment main term with Nguyen and Wood's moment method (arXiv:2210.08526), the lead passed in the killer-moment review. Its hypotheses need \(\alpha\)-balanced entries, and a product top's single coordinate is 0.439-balanced. The first task is to state their structured-remainder dichotomy for block-correlated rows, and to check whether our strata match their "codes".

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:sparse-conditioning, prop:restriction-ceiling, lem:residual-linear-kernel and the conditioning review. One claim search found no equivalent statement, and two related weight barriers, now cited. A fresh-context reviewer found the entry sound after changes. It confirmed:

the Alon–Füredi minimum;
the pairwise independence and the Chebyshev bound;
the threshold \(\log_{40}(n^K\cdot4r)\approx0.27K\ln n\).

It required these changes, all adopted:

the quantifiers over restrictions, with a weaker form for fixed restrictions;
the block and the \(22k\) defined;
a test-infeasibility argument valid for any weight class;
the value model stated as a surrogate;
the counting conclusion narrowed to a first-moment count with pairwise independence;
the heuristic threshold corrected from about \(2m\) to a constant fraction of \(m\);
"needs degree-free absorption" replaced by the route's choice, and the averaging item stated as an obstruction;
the related records cited.

The changes restrict or correct claims, so no second pass was made.

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The conditional Gauss-sum barrier: bounding the killer moment's main term character by character, after fixing one generating form, loses a factor of about \(3^{u-mN/2}\), so the main term needs sign cancellation over \(\ell\) or across characters; the models in Nguyen and Wood's abstract have linear, not polynomial, dependence

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a barrier, with a scope check · open statement A3, killer-moment main term · cycle odd-prime-moment-main-term. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The conditional Gauss-sum barrier: bounding the killer moment's main term character by character, after fixing one generating form, loses a factor of about \(3^{u-mN/2}\), so the main term needs sign cancellation over \(\ell\) or across characters; the models in Nguyen and Wood's abstract have linear, not polynomial, dependence”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-conditional-gauss-barrier.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The barrier entry sent A1 at \(K\ge1\) to degree-free absorption. Its necessary random sub-case is the main term of conj:product-top-killer-moment: for functionals of contraction rank near \(mN\), \(\pi(\chi)=3^{-(u-2)}(1+o(1/B))\) outside a negligible set. The recorded Gauss-sum lemma stops at \(u\approx0.71mN\) through a fourth-root loss. Does fixing one of the two generating forms, which turns the quartic into a quadratic whose Gauss sums are exact, avoid that loss? And does Nguyen and Wood's moment method, the lead passed in the killer-moment review, apply to the rows?

General statement. lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier. Setting of lem:product-top-moment-reduction: the weak monomial algebra \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_{c\le N}(\mathbb F_3+V_c)\) with \(\dim V_c=m\) and \(V_c^2=0\), and a product top \(\tau=e_2(\ell)e_2(\ell')\) with \(\ell,\ell'\) uniform in \(\tilde A_1\cong\mathbb F_3^n\), \(n=mN\). For \(\chi\in\tilde A_5^*\), let \(\kappa_\chi(y)=\chi(y\,\cdot)\) have rank \(u\), and let \(v(\ell,\ell')=(\chi(y_i\tau))_{i\le u}\) over \(y_1,\dots,y_u\) spanning a complement of \(\ker\kappa_\chi\). Then for every \(\ell\) and every nonzero \(\eta\in\mathbb F_3^u\),

\[\bigl|\mathbb E_{\ell'}\,\omega^{\eta\cdot v(\ell,\ell')}\bigr|\ \ge\ 3^{-n/2}.\]

Here \(\omega=e^{2\pi i/3}\). Since \(\ell\) and \(\ell'\) annihilate \(\tau\) (\(\ell^3=3!\,e_3(\ell)=0\)), for fixed \(\ell\) exactly two nonzero \(\eta\), those with \(y_\eta\in\langle\ell\rangle+\ker\kappa_\chi\), give the value 1. So the remaining \(3^u-3\) characters satisfy

\[\sum_{\eta\text{ not automatic}}\bigl|\mathbb E_{\ell'}\,\omega^{\eta\cdot v(\ell,\ell')}\bigr|\ \ge\ (3^u-3)\,3^{-n/2}.\]

The main term needs these characters to sum to about 6 up to \(o(1/B)\), for the reason given below the proof. A proof that bounds them by their absolute values therefore fails from \(u\ge n/2+2\), where the bound exceeds 6. The main term lives at \(u\approx n\).

Proof

Fix \(\ell\) and \(\eta\ne0\). The map \(\ell'\mapsto\eta\cdot v(\ell,\ell')=\chi\bigl(y_\eta\,e_2(\ell)\,e_2(\ell')\bigr)\), with \(y_\eta=\sum_i\eta_iy_i\), is a homogeneous quadratic form \(q\) in the \(n\) coordinates of \(\ell'\).

\(e_2(\ell')=\sum_{c<c'}\ell'_c\ell'_{c'}\) is quadratic in the coordinates, and \(\chi(y_\eta e_2(\ell)\,\cdot)\) is linear on \(\tilde A_2\).
Over \(\mathbb F_3\), odd characteristic, a quadratic form of rank \(\rho\) in \(n\) variables diagonalizes to \(\sum_{i\le\rho}a_ix_i^2\). So \(\mathbb E\,\omega^{q}=\prod_{i\le\rho}\bigl(\tfrac13\sum_{x\in\mathbb F_3}\omega^{a_ix^2}\bigr)\), and each factor has absolute value \(3^{-1/2}\).
This holds also when \(q=0\), with \(\rho=0\) and value 1. So \(|\mathbb E_{\ell'}\omega^q|=3^{-\rho/2}\ge3^{-n/2}\).

The two automatic characters have \(q=0\). Summing over the other \(3^u-3\) gives the second inequality. \(\square\)

The bookkeeping. The target is stated for the unconditioned \(\pi(\chi)=\Pr[\chi(\tilde A_1\tau)=0]=3^{-u}\sum_\eta\mathbb E\,\omega^{\eta\cdot v}\). The conditioned \(\pi_E\) of lem:product-top-moment-reduction differs from it by at most \(\Pr[\neg E]\). The main term \(\pi=3^{-(u-2)}(1+o(1/B))\) means \(\sum_{\eta\ne0}\mathbb E\,\omega^{\eta\cdot v}=8+o(1/B)\), spread over all \(\eta\). The automatic directions depend on \(\ell,\ell'\) and are not fixed characters. For fixed \(\ell\), two characters give 1 and the rest must give about 6. At \(u\ge n-2\) the absolute bound is \((3^u-3)3^{-n/2}\ge3^{n/2-2}-3^{1-n/2}\), which is more than 6 once \(n\ge5\). The inequality is symmetric in \(\ell\) and \(\ell'\).

What it does not exclude. The unconditional biases \(\mathbb E_{\ell,\ell'}\,\omega^{\eta\cdot v}\) may be much smaller than \(3^{-n/2}\), through cancellation over \(\ell\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the phase of \(\mathbb E_{\ell'}\omega^{q}\) is a power of \(i\) fixed by the rank \(\rho\), times the Legendre symbol of the discriminant of the nondegenerate part of \(q_{\ell,\eta}\). Both vary with \(\ell\). A proof has to use cancellation over \(\ell\) or across characters.

Scope of the leads

Nguyen and Wood, "Local and global universality of random matrix cokernels" (arXiv:2210.08526, title and authors confirmed on the abstract page). The abstract, the only part read, covers random symmetric, skew-symmetric and Laplacian integral matrices under very general randomness assumptions. In the models it names, entries depend on each other linearly, by symmetry or row sums. In our rows each coordinate is a polynomial of bidegree \((2,2)\) in \(2n\) uniform scalars, and \(n-2\) rows come from each pair \((\ell,\ell')\). Whether their method extends to such polynomial generation would need the full paper. The review's balance test, \(0.439\), concerns single coordinates, not this dependence.
Deligne-type point counts. \(3^{2n}\pi(\chi)\) counts the zeros of \(u\) forms of bidegree \((2,2)\) in \(2n\) variables. Weil–Deligne error terms carry Betti numbers exponential in the number of variables and the degree. Over the fixed field \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(u\approx n\), they are not expected to beat the main term. This was not checked.

What it means

Three routes to the main term do not reach \(u\approx mN\):
- bias bounds by analytic rank stop at \(0.71mN\) (lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound);
- conditional exact Gauss sums stop at \(mN/2\) (this lemma);
- the universality models in Nguyen and Wood's abstract have linear dependence, not polynomial.
The main term is an equidistribution statement analogous to Cohen–Lenstra moments, for polynomially generated rows over a fixed small field. No method recorded here or found in the leads covers it.
With the replay barrier, neither direction for A1 at \(K\ge1\) has a known method. Weighted replay is conjecturally blocked. The degree-free route's random sub-case needs this main term, which even when proved covers only degree \(h+1\). This lemma excludes one proof technique, not the main term.

Next. A route review of odd-prime-clause-transfer as a whole. It should weigh the thread's remaining options against the goal: the window route to S1, the pinning and member-level gluing for adversarial families, and statements weaker than W that still give the goal. It should also consider whether the goal needs a different reduction than the logarithmic prefix.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound, lem:product-top-moment-reduction and the killer-moment review. The Nguyen–Wood title and authors were read from the arXiv abstract page. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the quadratic form and its cross-column terms;
the Gauss-sum modulus \(3^{-\rho/2}\), including degenerate forms, via \(|1+2\omega|=\sqrt3\);
the symmetry.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the automatic characters and the threshold \(u\ge n/2+2\);
the relation of \(\pi\) to \(\pi_E\);
"cancellation over \(\ell\) or across characters", with the phase including the rank's power of \(i\);
the Nguyen–Wood remarks limited to the abstract's models;
the Deligne remark marked unchecked;
"What it means" limited to what the lemma excludes.

The changes restrict or correct claims, so no second pass was made.

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Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	51.12 s
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Route review of the thread: every recorded route meets one odd-prime obstruction, that a negated equation is a union of \(p-1\) flats; the bit-PHP dimension count fails for this reason, and randomized Razborov–Smolensky prefixes are proposed as a variant of W whose error sets are pointwise random for every family

26 September 2026 · Route review with three tests · the thread's goal and A1 · cycle odd-prime-thread-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the thread: every recorded route meets one odd-prime obstruction, that a negated equation is a union of \(p-1\) flats; the bit-PHP dimension count fails for this reason, and randomized Razborov–Smolensky prefixes are proposed as a variant of W whose error sets are pointwise random for every family”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-thread-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, the goal as a whole. With the replay barrier and the conditional Gauss-sum barrier, neither direction for A1 at \(K\ge1\) has a known method. The previous entry asked for a review of the thread's options:

the window route to S1;
member-level gluing;
statements weaker than W;
reductions other than the logarithmic prefix.

General statement. The thread's claim is the goal: superpolynomial DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) lower bounds for unary PHP at odd \(p\). By the logarithmic-prefix reduction it follows from W for every \(K\). W holds for cell, sparse, row-sparse and column-statistic families (thm:cell-family-w, thm:logarithmic-residual-w). It fails to have a method at its dense core for \(K\ge1\) (conj:replay-weight-barrier, lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier). The goal needs every \(K\) and every family.

Falsification attempt: is W the only target this machinery allows?

Flats are not available to the chooser. The prefix substitution replaces a block's product by an image \(Q_b=1-\sum_j\beta_jg_j\). Since \(1-Q_b\) lies in the ideal of the \(g\)'s, \(Q_b=1\) on the set \(S\) where every input is nonzero, of density \((1-1/p)^h\) for independent forms. A flat prefix would therefore need a flat of the span containing \(S\). Over \(\mathbb F_2\), \(S\) is itself a point of the span's values, and the main record's chooser may take flats. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), suppose the forms' values on \(S\) cover \(\{1,2\}^h\), as for independent forms. Then every nonzero combination \(\sum a_iL_i\) takes at least two values on \(S\), so no proper flat of the span contains \(S\). For dependent forms this can fail: if \(L_3=L_1+L_2\), \(S\) lies in the flat \(L_1=L_2\). So for independent blocks no flat prefix exists within this compiler, as the reduction entry noted, and no weaker W arises that way.
The bit-PHP method needs flats. The recorded bit-PHP theorem (thm:working-Res-parity-bit-PHP-size-lower-bound) absorbs polynomially many blocks by a dimension count, not by degree. Its generic criterion restricts a dense separated space \(U\) of degree-\(k\) polynomials to the zero flat of each proper block of rank above \(h(k+1)\). Over \(\mathbb F_2\) that set is a flat of codimension \(r\), with restricted dimension at most about \(\binom{v-r+k}k\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the falsifying set \(\{L_i\ne b_i\ \forall i\}\) of rank \(r\) is a union of \(2^r\) flats of codimension \(r\). The structural bound is then \(2^r\binom{v-r+k}k\approx2^re^{-rk/(v+k)}\binom{v+k}k\). Since \(k/(v+k)<\ln2\), it never beats the full dimension. So the count gives nothing for blocks of large rank. Test T1 below illustrates this at \(v=10\). The paper itself leaves unary PHP and \(p>2\) open.
S1 leads back. The fate review showed that the window's gluing for dense inventories needs a lag of \(O(\log M)\), which is the same central statement.

Outcome: every recorded route meets one obstruction. A negated equation over \(\mathbb F_p\), \(p\) odd, is a union of \(p-1\) flats. Correspondingly:

W's clauses are products of \(L^{p-1}\);
conditioning pays \(p-1\) degrees per form;
the dimension count's bound on falsifying sets never beats the full dimension;
the prefix cannot choose flats.

W, or an equivalent collective statement about such sets, is the core. The attempt did not find a weaker target inside the recorded compiler.

Assessment

What stands. The compiler and the reduction to W; W for structured families; the restricted-class exclusions; sparse conditioning; and precise barriers for each mechanism at the dense core.
What is missing. A mechanism that absorbs \(n^K\), \(K\ge1\), dense constraints of this union-of-flats kind without paying for each one, even for random forms.
Qualitative assessment. The thread has turned the goal into one clean core problem and has explained, cycle by cycle, why each available tool stops. The last six research cycles produced barriers and two partial theorems (few equations, sparse conditioning), not progress on the core. The line needs a new idea for the core, not refinement. The randomized prefix below is the review's candidate. The hope is that it changes the core problem: for every family, adversarial ones included, it makes each block's error set pointwise random. Nothing yet shows that the resulting statement is easier, or true.

Outside leads

Razborov–Smolensky probabilistic polynomials (Razborov 1987, Smolensky 1987). An OR over \(\mathbb F_3\) is approximated by \(1-\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\), where the \(s_j\) are random combinations of the inputs, with error \(3^{-t}\) at every point. The logarithmic prefix is a deterministic, form-dependent version of this. The randomized version fits the compiler's substitution. With \(s_j=\sum_ic_{ij}g_i\) and uniform \(c_{ij}\in\mathbb F_3\), the image \(Q_b=\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\) equals 1 where all \(g_i=0\). It satisfies \(1-Q_b=\sum_i\beta_ig_i\) with \(\beta_i=\sum_jc_{ij}s_j\prod_{j'<j}(1-s_{j'}^2)\), of degree at most \(4t-2\). These \(\beta_i\) are \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued, so \(\beta^3-\beta\) follows from Booleanity. The images \(g_iQ_b\) forbid exactly the points whose zero pattern \(g(x)\in\{0,1\}^h\) is nonzero and lies in \(\ker C\). For every such point \(\Pr_C[Cg(x)=0]=3^{-t}\), whatever the forms. Target: A1, by replacing W with a randomized variant, "W_RS", whose blocks all have pointwise-random error sets of density at most \(3^{-t}\), \(t\approx K\log_3n\). Where it breaks: the error sets are random pointwise but correlated across points through the forms. The images have degree \(2+4t\) instead of \(2k+2\). Whether the collective core becomes easier is open. Test. Passed. The identity \(1-Q_b=\sum_i\beta_ig_i\) and \(Q_b=1\) on the all-nonzero set hold at every point of \(\mathbb F_3^4\) for 20 random \(C\) with \(t=3\) (T2). For \(h=6\) uniform random forms on near-matchings of 7 pigeons and 6 holes, the forbidden fraction for one \(C\) was 0.0247. Its expectation over \(C\) is \(\Pr[g\ne0]\cdot3^{-3}=(18279/20000)/27\approx0.034\) (T3).
The restriction-dimension count of the bit-PHP generic criterion, over \(\mathbb F_3\). Target: the goal by dimension counting, as for bit PHP. Where it breaks: falsifying sets are unions of \(2^r\) flats. Test. Falsified as a transfer, by the structural bound above. The test T1 illustrates it on \(v=10\) Boolean variables with a line of \(r\) random forms. The rank was not checked, and the \(\mathbb F_2\) instance with \(r=6\) was inconsistent and is dropped. The measured quantity is the space of degree-\(\le k\) multilinear polynomials restricted to the falsifying set. Over \(\mathbb F_2\), at \(r=2,4\), it equals the flat bound: 37 and 22 of 56 for \(k=2\), 93 and 42 of 176 for \(k=3\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), at \(r=2,4,6\), it is 54, 49 and 50 of 56 for \(k=2\), and 155, 117 and 95 of 176 for \(k=3\). At \(r=6\) the \(\mathbb F_3\) values are capped by the 96 falsifying points. At this size the test shows only about the minimum of the full dimension and the number of points, not an asymptotic statement.
Part and Tzameret's tree-like bound (imp:PT-tree-like-ResLin-PHP). Every tree-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_F)\) refutation of PHP has size \(2^{\Omega(n)}\), so every DAG-like one has depth \(\Omega(n)\). Target: the goal, through a depth-to-size conversion. Where it breaks: resolution-type systems have no size-preserving balancing, so depth does not bound DAG size. Test. Not run: no conversion exists to test. The lead is recorded because it is the only unconditional odd-prime bound for unrestricted lines that the record has.

Absurd bridges

Group testing (Dorfman 1943; disjunct matrices). Translation: the randomized prefix pools the zero indicators \(g_i\) into \(t\) tests \(s_j\). The prefix must satisfy \(Cg\ne0\) for every nonzero 0/1 pattern of weight at most \(d\). That is a parity-check condition for a code over \(\mathbb F_3\) of distance \(d+1\), which needs \(t=O(d\log h)\) rows. What a theorem there would give: error-free prefixes for blocks whose points have few zero inputs. Smallest test: the number of zero inputs at typical points. Test. Falsified for dense forms. For \(h=6\) uniform random forms the weight histogram peaks at 2, near \(h/3\), and weights 3 and 4 occur in 30% of points (T3). With \(d\approx h/3\) the code needs \(t=\Theta(h)\), no better than the exact product \(C=I\). For the one-pigeon cell block every weight is at most 1, and the forbidden fraction was 0.
The leftover hash lemma (cryptography). Translation: \(C\) is a random linear hash of the zero pattern. Averaging over \(C\) alone already gives, for every family, a fixed choice of all \(M\) prefixes with total error density at most \(M3^{-t}\), with no entropy assumption. The lemma would add two-sided concentration for most \(C\). Its additive error must be below \(3^{-t}\), so it needs min-entropy of about \(3t\log_23\), 14.3 bits at \(t=3\). What a theorem there would give: that most prefixes, not only some, have error density close to \(3^{-t}\). That matters only if a proof needs typical rather than existing prefixes. Smallest test: the min-entropy of zero patterns. Test. Passed with a limit (T3). Random dense forms give 3.54 bits over 64 patterns at \(h=6\), far below 14.3, so the lemma certifies nothing at this size. It needs \(h\) growing with \(t\), which W's blocks allow. Structured blocks have little entropy (2.77 bits for one pigeon's cells), but there the error set was empty.

Bridge follow-up

Shannon's information budget. The randomized prefix makes the budget pointwise: every point is forbidden by a block with probability \(3^{-t}\), for every family. Follow-up. Continuing: it now bounds W_RS's error mass for adversarial families too.
The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: the characteristic-3 obstacle stands.
\(\mathbb Z_3\) gauge theory. Its passed test was tautological at \(q=1\), and it predicts nothing beyond. Follow-up. Closed: no prediction beyond the proved one-equation condition.

Lead follow-up

Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing, for random tops.
Nguyen and Wood's moment method. Developed last cycle: the models in their abstract have linear dependence, and the main term needs cancellation that conditional Gauss sums cannot see (lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier). Follow-up. Continuing: whether their method survives polynomial generation needs the full paper.
The Mikša–Nordström closure as a base. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: it would host W_RS's residual step as it hosts sparse conditioning.
Chevalley–Warning and Alon–Füredi. Used in the replay barrier's counting. Follow-up. Closed: it settles the cost of flat weights, and weights of other shapes escape it.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer. No work this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: W_RS's random combinations are closer to their random-predicate setting than W's fixed prefixes.
Alon's Combinatorial Nullstellensatz for the permanent condition. Follow-up. Closed: the permanent condition matters only below the conditioning budget, which cannot reach the goal.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, state W_RS precisely and check that the logarithmic-prefix reduction goes through with randomized prefixes:

the degree bound \(B\) with \(\beta\) of degree \(4t-2\), including the derivation of \(\beta^3-\beta\) from Booleanity at degree \(3(4t-2)\);
the parameter condition \(M3^{-t}<1\);
the fact that the compiler's blocks allow any substitution with \(Q_b\equiv1\) modulo the \(g\)'s.

Then test whether W_RS removes a recorded adversarial obstruction. First the pinnable two-block families that defeat clause-level Taylor glue (binomial review), then the shared-form families of the killer-moment review. If randomization removes neither, record that and return the core to degree-free absorption.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the logarithmic-prefix reduction and the substitution-capacity entry's form of \(Q_b\);
the bit-PHP paper's generic criterion and its section on what does not follow;
the fate review;
imp:PT-tree-like-ResLin-PHP.

Test numbers were read from thread_tests.json by script. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the randomized substitution (\(Q_b=1\) on the all-nonzero set, the telescoping identity for \(\beta_i\) as a polynomial identity, the degrees, \(\Pr_C=3^{-t}\) and the forbidden set) and every quoted number. It required these changes, all adopted:

the flat-prefix argument corrected, with the independence hypothesis it needs;
T1 relabelled with random forms of unchecked rank, the inconsistent \(\mathbb F_2\) case dropped, and the structural bound as the argument;
the group-testing bound corrected to a code condition;
the hash-lemma bridge restated;
T3 compared with its expectation;
the \(\beta^3-\beta\) degree added to the next step;
the assessment stated as a hope.

This review registers no claim.

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The randomized-prefix reduction: the goal follows from a wide-clause statement whose prefixes are random combinations of each block's zero indicators, a formal weakening of W with error \(3^{-t}\) at every point for every family

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a reduction, and a conjecture · open statement W and A1 · cycle odd-prime-randomized-prefix. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The randomized-prefix reduction: the goal follows from a wide-clause statement whose prefixes are random combinations of each block's zero indicators, a formal weakening of W with error \(3^{-t}\) at every point for every family”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-randomized-prefix.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, the central statement W and its adversarial core A1. The thread review proposed Razborov–Smolensky prefixes. Does the logarithmic-prefix reduction go through with them, and what exactly must then be proved?

General statement. thm:randomized-prefix-reduction and conj:randomized-wide-clause, over \(\mathbb F_3\) with the notation of thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction.

A block has affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) and zero indicators \(g_i=1-L_i^2\).
For a matrix \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\), put \(s_j=\sum_ic_{ji}g_i\) and \(Q^C=\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\).
Let \(\delta(C)\) be the least degree of polynomials \(\beta_i\) with \(1-Q^C\equiv\sum_i\beta_ig_i\) modulo the Boolean ideal. It exists and is at most \(4t-2\), by the lemma below.

W_RS. For fixed \(K\) and large \(n\), for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks there are matrices \(C_b\) such that ordinary weak unary PHP plus the clauses \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\), for all \(b\) and \(i\), has no PC refutation of degree \(B=\max_b\max\bigl(11\max(1,\delta(C_b)),\ 4t_b+2\bigr)\).

Reduction. If W_RS holds for every \(K\), no \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) has polynomially many lines. W implies W_RS, taking unit rows on each prefix set. Here W is asserted with \(k=\lceil(K+1)\log n/\log(3/2)\rceil\), so that \(M(2/3)^k<1\), and \(t_b=|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\).

Conjecture. conj:randomized-wide-clause asserts W_RS with independent uniform \(C_b\) of \(t=\lceil(K+1)\log_3n\rceil+1\) rows, with high probability.

The substitution

Lemma. For every \(C\):

\(Q^C=1\) wherever every \(g_i=0\);
\(1-Q^C=\sum_i\beta_ig_i\) with \(\beta_i=\sum_jc_{ji}\,s_j\prod_{j'<j}(1-s_{j'}^2)\), a polynomial identity;
each \(\beta_i\) is \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued on the cube, of degree at most \(4t-2\);
\(Q^C\) takes values in \(\{0,1\}\), and the clause \(g_iQ^C\) is nonzero exactly at the points where \(L_i=0\) and \(Cg(x)=0\). Here \(g(x)\in\{0,1\}^h\) is the zero pattern.

Proof. Each factor \(1-s_j^2\) is 1 when \(s_j=0\) and 0 otherwise, since \(s^2=1\) for \(s\ne0\) in \(\mathbb F_3\). So \(Q^C=[Cg=0]\), and \(Q^C=1\) when \(g=0\).

Telescoping. \(1-\prod_j(1-a_j)=\sum_ja_j\prod_{j'<j}(1-a_{j'})\) with \(a_j=s_j^2\), and \(s_j^2=s_j\sum_ic_{ji}g_i\). Together these give the formula for \(\beta_i\).
Degrees. \(s_j\) has degree 2, and the product has \(j-1\) factors of degree 4.
Values. Every polynomial with \(\mathbb F_3\) coefficients is \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued on Boolean points.

The identity was also checked at every point of \(\mathbb F_3^4\) for 20 random \(C\) in the thread review (test T2). \(\square\)

Proof of the reduction

Follow the proof of thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction verbatim, replacing the prefix substitution by \(r_{b,j}\mapsto\beta_{b,j}\) for a family \(\beta_{b,j}\) attaining \(\delta(C_b)\). The lemma supplies one family of degree at most \(4t_b-2\), so it gives only an upper bound on \(\delta\). The recorded proof uses three properties of the substituted coefficients:

The product image. The block's product maps to \(Q_b=1-\sum_j\beta_{b,j}g_{b,j}\), so its companions \(g_{b,i}P_b\) map to \(g_{b,i}Q_b\). Now \(Q_b-Q^{C_b}\) lies in the Boolean ideal. So \(g_{b,i}Q_b\) and the W_RS clause \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) are derivable from each other and Booleanity at degree at most \(\max(4t_b+2,\delta+4)\le B\).
Field images. \(\beta^3-\beta\) must follow from Booleanity within the degree bound. Here \(\beta\) is \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued, so \(\beta^3-\beta\) vanishes on the cube. Its multilinearization is 0, and it is derived from Booleanity at degree at most \(3\delta\le11\delta\).
The degree bound. A line of degree at most \(D=11\) in the old variables and the fresh coefficients maps to one of degree at most \(11\max(1,\delta)\). The clauses have degree \(2+\deg Q_b\le4t_b+2\). So the image, after converting each \(g_{b,i}Q_b\) into the W_RS clause, is a refutation of degree at most \(B\), with \(\delta=\max_b\delta(C_b)\).

Every block has its own fresh coefficients, so the substitution is well defined. The other steps, the compiler and initial values, are unchanged. So a refutation with at most \(n^K\) lines gives a refutation of W_RS's system of degree at most \(B\) for every choice of the \(C_b\), contradicting W_RS. \(\square\)

W implies W_RS. For a prefix set \(S_b\), let \(C_b\) have the unit rows \(e_j\), \(j\in S_b\). Then \(s_j=g_j\), and \(Q^{C_b}=\prod_{j\in S_b}(1-g_j^2)\). This equals W's product \(\prod_{j\in S_b}(1-g_j)=\prod_{j\in S_b}L_j^2\) modulo the Boolean ideal, because \(g_j\) is 0/1-valued, but not as a polynomial. With W's own \(\beta_j=\prod_{l<j}(1-g_l)\), the congruence holds, so \(\delta(C_b)\le2(k-1)\). W's clauses and the W_RS clauses convert into each other at degree at most \(4k+2\le22k\). The W_RS clauses \(g_iQ^{C_b}\) with \(i\in S_b\) vanish on the cube and are derivable from Booleanity within the bound. So W's hardness at degree \(22k\) gives W_RS for this choice, whose bound is \(\max(22(k-1),4k+2)\le22k\).

What randomization buys, and what it costs

Pointwise error for every family. A point whose zero pattern is nonzero is forbidden by block \(b\) exactly when \(C_bg(x)=0\). For uniform \(C_b\) this has probability \(3^{-t}\), whatever the forms are. W's deterministic prefix has no such guarantee for adversarial forms. Its error set is fixed by the forms and the chosen set.
The recorded counterexample to a common prefix disappears. In the reduction entry's hole family, block \(u\) has forms \(X_{ju}-1\) over all pigeons \(j\). With one set \(S\) in every block it is refuted at low degree. Under collisions the zero pattern of block \(u\) is \(e_j\) when pigeon \(j\) sits in hole \(u\). So the randomized clauses forbid cell \((j,u)\) exactly when column \(j\) of \(C_u\) is zero, independently with probability \(3^{-t}\). With \(t\approx(K+1)\log_3n\) the expected number of forbidden cells is about \(n^2\cdot n^{-(K+1)}/3<1\) for \(K\ge1\). So with high probability the randomized clauses are vacuous on this family, and the system is plain weak PHP. W's random choice of \(S\) instead leaves a graph in which each hole keeps only \(k\) of its pigeons plus those outside.
Error per degree. The randomized prefix reaches pointwise error \(3^{-t}\) with \(\delta\le4t-2\), about \(1.316^{-\delta}\), for every family. W's prefix reaches density \((2/3)^k\) with \(\delta=2(k-1)\), about \(1.225^{-\delta}\), and only for independent uniform forms. So randomization is slightly cheaper per degree, and its bound holds for all families.
Cost. The clauses are no longer products of the given forms. Their tops are products of the quartics \(1-s_j^2\), where each \(s_j=\sum_ic_{ji}-\sum_ic_{ji}L_i^2\) is an affine combination of the squares \(L_i^2\). The results proved for W's clause shape therefore do not transfer automatically: the structured-family theorems, member pinning and the forced sparse board. A shared form now enters different blocks' tops with independent coefficients, not as a common factor. This is where the killer-moment review's shared-form falsification used a common factor.

What is open. W_RS, with the prefixes chosen, is implied by W and so is no harder. The conjecture, with random prefixes, is incomparable with W as far as is known. It is a different collective statement whose error sets are random for every family. Whether the dense core becomes tractable remains the question. The restriction-and-conditioning barriers are expected to apply to it as well, since they concern the number of surviving constraints. This is not checked against their hypotheses, which were stated for W's clause shape.

Next. Test the randomized clauses where W's method stalled on adversarial structure. First the forced sparse board: do the randomized clauses of the hole blocks leave a random graph whose expansion supports the residual step? Then the shared-form directness of the killer-moment review: are the randomized tops of blocks sharing forms direct up to the fill point at small sizes? That count is the exact analogue of the recorded falsification.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction with its proof;
the substitution-capacity entry's product-image framework;
the thread review's test T2.

Claim searches for randomized, probabilistic-polynomial and subset-sum prefixes found no prior version. The nearest records, random priorities and random prefix sets, choose among the given forms. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the lemma;
that the recorded proof uses only the product image, the field images and the degree bound;
that small blocks cause no issue;
the hole-family computation.

It required these changes, all adopted:

\(\delta\) defined modulo the Boolean ideal, with the clause conversion in the proof and in "W implies W_RS";
the substituted family attaining \(\delta\);
the \(\max(1,\cdot)\) clamp in \(B\);
vanishing on the cube in place of identically;
W's parameters stated;
the hole index renamed, with the vacuity of the randomized clauses there;
the tops described correctly;
the error comparison, "What is open" and the barrier remark qualified.

The changes correct the statement's form without strengthening it, so no second pass was made.

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Bounded-column vacuity: under random prefixes, every block whose forms read only a bounded number of hole columns contributes clauses derivable from collisions and Booleanity, so hole blocks no longer force a sparse board

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-randomized-board. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Bounded-column vacuity: under random prefixes, every block whose forms read only a bounded number of hole columns contributes clauses derivable from collisions and Booleanity, so hole blocks no longer force a sparse board”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-bounded-column-vacuity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Under W, adding every hole block reduces any family to W on chooser-picked boards of hole degree \(k\) (sparse board). The adversary uses this to force a sparse board. The randomized-prefix entry showed that the recorded hole family becomes vacuous with high probability under random prefixes. Which blocks does that cover in general?

General statement. prop:bounded-column-vacuity. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let a block's forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) be supported on the cells of a set \(U\) of \(c\) hole columns, with arbitrary coefficients and constants. Let \(C\) be uniform in \(\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\). Then with probability at least \(1-(n+2)^c3^{-t}\), every clause \(g_iQ^C\) of the block lies in the ideal of Booleanity and the column collisions, and is derived from them at degree at most \(\deg(g_iQ^C)\le4t+2\). Take a family of \(M\le n^K\) such blocks, with \(c\le c_0\), fixed before the \(C_b\) are drawn. Then all are dropped with probability at least \(1-M(n+2)^{c_0}3^{-t}\). The failure probability is below \(1/3\) once \(t\ge\log_3M+c_0\log_3(n+2)+1\).

Proof

Few zero patterns. Call a Boolean assignment collision-free if no hole holds two pigeons. Pigeons may occupy several holes, since the weak base has no same-row exclusions. On a collision-free point each hole of \(U\) is empty or holds one of the \(n+1\) pigeons. Each \(L_i\) is determined by these at most \((n+2)^c\) configurations, and so is the zero pattern \(g(x)\in\{0,1\}^h\). So at most \((n+2)^c\) patterns occur, hence at most that many nonzero ones.
The random prefix misses them. For each nonzero pattern \(w\), \(Cw\) is uniform on \(\mathbb F_3^t\), so \(\Pr[Cw=0]=3^{-t}\). By the union bound, with probability at least \(1-(n+2)^c3^{-t}\), no occurring nonzero pattern lies in \(\ker C\). Then \(Q^C(x)=[Cg(x)=0]=0\) whenever \(g(x)\ne0\). So \(g_iQ^C\) vanishes at every collision-free point: either \(g_i(x)=0\), or \(g(x)\ne0\) and \(Q^C(x)=0\).
Vanishing gives derivability at the same degree. Let \(f\) be the multilinearization of \(g_iQ^C\). Each step removes \(x^{a-2}(x^2-x)\) times a monomial, of degree at most that of the monomial it replaces, so it stays within \(\deg(g_iQ^C)\). Delete from \(f\) every monomial containing two cells of one hole: those are multiples of collision axioms, again of no larger degree. The remainder \(f'\) is supported on collision-free monomials and still vanishes at every collision-free point. Suppose \(f'\ne0\), and take a monomial \(m\) of \(f'\) of least degree. Its indicator point, the cells of \(m\) set to 1 and all others to 0, is collision-free. There \(f'\) equals the coefficient of \(m\), a contradiction. So \(f'=0\), and \(g_iQ^C\) lies in the ideal of Booleanity and collisions, at degree at most \(\deg(g_iQ^C)\). \(\square\)

The union over blocks is immediate for a family fixed before the \(C_b\) are drawn. Removal is valid at every degree \(D\):

for \(D\ge\deg(g_iQ^C)\) the clause is derived within \(D\) from axioms of the base;
below its degree the clause cannot be used in a degree-\(D\) derivation anyway.

The argument uses only Booleanity and collisions, which belong to the base, never the row equations. The collision-free points include the base's solutions, so vanishing there suffices.

What it covers and what it does not

Hole blocks and column-local blocks. Forms supported on one hole column, \(c=1\), with any coefficients: the recorded hole family, and blocks of cell forms of one hole with multiplicities or shifts. Under random prefixes with \(t\ge(K+1)\log_3n+2\), all of them are dropped with high probability. With high probability the hole blocks' clauses are removed, so the zero substitution on hole blocks behind prop:forced-sparse-board has nothing to act on. In that sense hole blocks no longer force a sparse board, unlike under W (sparse board). This does not show that W_RS avoids sparse-board behaviour for families whose blocks read many columns. For column-local blocks the proposition covers the role that the priority and duplicated-hole theorems (prop:priority-hole-families, prop:square-priority-hole-families) play for W. It does not show that their other uses, if any, disappear.
Not covered. Row blocks, with forms supported on one pigeon's cells, are not covered. The weak base lets a pigeon occupy several holes, so their patterns can take \(2^h\) values. Also not covered are column statistics over many holes, and dense blocks. Those remain W_RS's substance.
Cost. The rows needed grow with \(c_0\log_3n\). The degree bound is \(B\le44t-22\) (randomized prefix), and it must stay below the weak base's barrier of about \(n/2\) (reduction entry). With \(M\le n^K\), \(t\approx(c_0+K)\log_3n<n/88\), so \(c_0\) up to about \(n/(88\log_3n)-K\) is affordable.

Next. This is the second research entry on randomized prefixes. The next cycle should state conj:randomized-wide-clause's core after this proposition: the remaining blocks read many columns. It should test whether the restriction-to-a-residual step of the structured-family theorems transfers to random prefixes. Under a matching restriction, a block whose forms become constant has one zero pattern, so it is dropped with probability \(1-3^{-t}\). A block whose forms depend on few residual columns is covered by this proposition.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

thm:randomized-prefix-reduction for the clauses and the bound \(B\);
prop:forced-sparse-board for the hole blocks' role;
the reduction entry for the weak base's axioms and its degree barrier.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

the pattern count and the union bound;
\(Q^C=[Cg=0]\) on Boolean points;
the least-degree monomial argument of step 3.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the family fixed before \(C\), with \(M\le n^K\) stated;
the derivation degree stated as \(\deg(g_iQ^C)\), and removal justified at every degree, using only base axioms;
sources for the budget, with \(c_0\approx n/(88\log_3n)-K\);
the sparse-board conclusion limited to hole blocks;
the priority theorems' role limited to column-local blocks.

The changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	5 min 2.03 s
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Random prefixes settle sparse, row-sparse and column-local families together: on the logarithmic residual such blocks read few columns, so bounded-column vacuity drops them, which also composes the column case that W's route could not

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-randomized-residual. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Random prefixes settle sparse, row-sparse and column-local families together: on the logarithmic residual such blocks read few columns, so bounded-column vacuity drops them, which also composes the column case that W's route could not”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-random-prefix-sparse.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Under W, sparse families are proved through the matching-and-expander residual (thm:logarithmic-residual-w). That route records a gap: "no column analogue at this \(h\)". Forms in a few common columns with arbitrary coefficients do not compose with the logarithmic residual. Does the residual step transfer to random prefixes, and does it close that gap?

General statement. cor:random-prefix-sparse-column-families. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), fix \(K\), \(\eta>0\) and \(c_0\). Consider a family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks, fixed in advance, in which every block is one of three kinds. Here \(U_b\) is the union of its forms' supports, with arbitrary coefficients:

sparse: \(U_b\) has at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) cells;
row-sparse: \(U_b\) lies in at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) pigeon rows;
column-local: \(U_b\) lies in at most \(c_0\) hole columns.

Put \(q=\lceil(K+2)/\eta\rceil\) and \(c=\max(5(q-1),c_0)\). Let \(t\) be the least integer with \(t\ge(K+1)\log_3n+c\log_3(h+3)+3\), where \(B=44t\), \(s=10(B+1)\) and \(h=\lceil2^{12}s\rceil\) depend on \(t\). Since \(h=O(t)\), such \(t\) exists and \(t=(K+1)\log_3n+O(\log\log n)\). Let the \(C_b\) be independent and uniform in \(\mathbb F_3^{t\times w_b}\), with \(w_b\) the width of block \(b\). Then with probability \(1-o(1)\) over the \(C_b\), weak unary PHP plus the clauses \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) has no PC refutation of degree \(B\). By the lemma of thm:randomized-prefix-reduction, \(\delta(C_b)\le4t-2\). So \(B\) is at least W_RS's bound \(\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)\), and W_RS holds for such families. W_RS allows any number of rows. This is conj:randomized-wide-clause's statement at a larger \(t\) than the conjecture fixes.

Proof

The choice. Take the matching-and-expander choice of thm:cell-family-w with this \(h\):
- a uniform set \(H\) of \(h\) holes;
- a uniform matching \(\rho\) of the other holes to pigeons, which leaves the pigeons \(R\), \(|R|=h+1\);
- a left-5-regular graph \(G'\) on \(R\times H\) with uniform independent neighbourhoods.
These choices are independent of the \(C_b\). By Step 2 of that theorem as re-checked in the logarithmic residual entry, which needs only \(h\ge4096s\) and \(h\le n\), true for large \(n\), \(|N(W)|\ge3|W|\) fails for some \(W\subseteq R\) with \(|W|\le s\) with probability below 0.27.
Few residual cells.
- A column-local block's restricted forms are supported on at most \(c_0\) columns of \(H\).
- For a sparse block, having more than \(5(q-1)\) cells of \(G'\) in \(U_b\) needs \(q\) pigeons of \(R\), each with a \(G'\)-cell in \(U_b\), since each pigeon has 5 cells.
- By the recorded computation (sparse blocks), this has probability at most \((14|U_b|/(qn))^q\le14^qn^{-(K+2)}\).
- For a row-sparse block the same count applies to rows. \(R\) is a uniform \((h+1)\)-subset of the pigeons. So \(q\) residual pigeons lie in the at most \(n^{1-\eta}\) rows of \(U_b\) with probability at most \(\binom{n^{1-\eta}}q\bigl(\tfrac{h+1}{n+1}\bigr)^q\le\bigl(e(h+1)n^{-\eta}/q\bigr)^q\), which is \(n^{-(K+2)}\) times a polylogarithmic factor. Otherwise the restricted forms live on the at most 5 cells of each of at most \(q-1\) residual pigeons, whatever their coefficients.
- Over \(M\le n^K\) blocks both events have probability \(o(1)\).
Off these events, every block's restricted forms are supported on at most \(c\) columns of the residual.
Restriction. The restriction \(\varphi\) sets the cells of \(\rho\) to 1, the other cells in their rows and columns to 0, and every other cell outside \(G'\) to 0. It maps weak unary PHP to weak graph PHP on \(G'\): matched rows and collisions become trivial, as in thm:cell-family-w. It maps each clause \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) to the same expression in the restricted forms. A refutation of degree at most \(B\) restricts to one of degree at most \(B\).
Dropping the clauses. Fix an outcome \((\rho,G')\). The proof of prop:bounded-column-vacuity carries over verbatim to the graph sub-board \(G'\). The least-degree monomial argument works for any down-closed family of collision-free cell sets. Each residual column holds at most one of the \(h+1\) residual pigeons or none, so at most \((h+2)^c\) patterns occur. The rows of \(R\) are not imposed, so collision-free points of \(G'\) are the right set. A block whose restricted forms read at most \(c\) columns is therefore dropped, except with probability at most \((h+2)^c3^{-t}\le(h+3)^c3^{-t}\) over its \(C_b\). Dropped means that its restricted clauses lie in the ideal of the residual's Booleanity and collisions at degree at most \(4t+2\le B\). Summed over \(M\le n^K\) blocks this is at most \(n^K(h+3)^c3^{-t}\le1/(27n)\), by the choice of \(t\).
Combining. Let \(F(C)\) be the probability over \((\rho,G')\) that some block with at most \(c\) residual columns is not dropped. Then \(\mathbb E_CF\le1/(27n)\), so \(\Pr_C[F(C)>0.1]=o(1)\). For every \(C\) with \(F(C)\le0.1\), the probability over \((\rho,G')\) of any failure (expansion, many residual cells, or a block not dropped) is at most \(0.27+o(1)+0.1<1\). So a good outcome exists.
Contradiction. At a good outcome, a refutation of degree at most \(B\) gives, after deriving the dropped clauses, a refutation of degree at most \(B\) of weak graph PHP on \(G'\). \(G'\) has left degree 5 and \(|N(W)|\ge3|W|\) for \(|W|\le s\). With lem:functional-residual, which adds functionality and derives the rows at degree 5, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree excludes refutations of degree at most \(\lfloor s/10\rfloor=B+1\). \(\square\)

What it means

The column gap closes under random prefixes. The logarithmic residual entry could not compose column-supported blocks with the logarithmic residual. Under W a block meeting a single hole of \(H\) keeps linear dimension \(1+v\). Under random prefixes, bounded-column vacuity removes such blocks whatever their coefficients. So families mixing sparse, row-sparse and column-local blocks are covered in one argument, with no rigidity conditions on row-sparse forms.
What the randomized conjecture still needs. Blocks whose restricted forms read many residual columns: column statistics over many holes, and the dense core. Cell families with large support are also not covered here; W's cell-family theorem handles them for W.
Cost. \(t\) exceeds the conjecture's \((K+1)\log_3n+1\) by \(O((K/\eta+c_0)\log\log n)\). The degree bound stays logarithmic.

Next. The randomized conjecture now covers the sparse and row-sparse classes of thm:logarithmic-residual-w, plus column-local blocks. W's route also covers classes not checked here: square-equivalent cell blocks, product statistics whose pigeon weights have union support at most \(n^{1-\eta}\), and the cell families of thm:cell-family-w. The remaining core is blocks whose forms read many residual columns: column statistics and dense forms. The next cycle should test cell families with large support under random prefixes. Their zero patterns on the residual are occupancy patterns of cells, and the question is whether few of them lie in \(\ker C\). After that comes a review of the randomized line against the dense core.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

prop:bounded-column-vacuity and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction;
thm:logarithmic-residual-w's construction and expansion re-check;
the sparse-block failure computation;
lem:functional-residual.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed:

that \(t\) is well defined, with \(n^K(h+3)^c3^{-t}\le1/(27n)\);
the match with the recorded failure computation;
the averaging argument, \(\Pr_C[F>0.1]\le10/(27n)\);
\(\lfloor s/10\rfloor=B+1>B\).

It required these changes, all adopted:

the transfer of vacuity to the graph sub-board, with \((h+2)^c\) patterns;
the block width renamed \(w_b\);
the statement placed as the conjecture at a larger \(t\), with \(\delta\le4t-2\) cited;
row-sparse blocks added through the same residual count, which needs no new lemma.

Adding row-sparse blocks strengthens the claim, so a second, focused pass checked the new parts. It confirmed the hypergeometric bound and the reduction to at most \(5(q-1)\) residual cells. It required the Next paragraph to list the covered and uncovered classes explicitly, now adopted.

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Random prefixes settle every family whose blocks touch at most \(n^{2-\eta}\) cells: with high probability over the residual such a block reads only boundedly many columns of the logarithmic residual, whatever its coefficients, so the randomized conjecture's remaining core is blocks of nearly full support

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-randomized-cells. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Random prefixes settle every family whose blocks touch at most \(n^{2-\eta}\) cells: with high probability over the residual such a block reads only boundedly many columns of the logarithmic residual, whatever its coefficients, so the randomized conjecture's remaining core is blocks of nearly full support”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-random-prefix-light.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The previous entry settled sparse, row-sparse and column-local families under random prefixes, by counting the residual pigeons a block meets. Cell families with large support were left. Is the pigeon count the right measure?

General statement. thm:random-prefix-light-families. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), fix \(K\) and \(\eta>0\). Consider a family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks, fixed in advance, in which every block is light: the union \(U_b\) of its forms' supports has at most \(n^{2-\eta}\) cells, with arbitrary coefficients and constants. Take the parameters of cor:random-prefix-sparse-column-families with \(c=5\lceil(K+3)/\eta\rceil\):

\(t\) least with \(t\ge(K+1)\log_3n+c\log_3(h+3)+3\);
\(B=44t\), \(s=10(B+1)\) and \(h=\lceil2^{12}s\rceil\).

Let the \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times w_b}\) be independent and uniform. Then with probability \(1-o(1)\) over the \(C_b\), weak unary PHP plus the randomized-prefix clauses has no PC refutation of degree \(B\). So W_RS holds for all light families. The previous corollary's classes are light for \(\eta'=\min(\eta,1/2)\) and large \(n\): a column-local block has at most \(c_0(n+1)\) cells. So this theorem gives them again, with the same leading term \((K+1)\log_3n\) in \(t\) and a different \(O(\log\log n)\) term, since the new \(c\) depends on \(\eta'\) and not on \(c_0\).

The residual column count

Lemma (residual columns). Take the matching-and-expander choice of the previous entry: \(H\), \(\rho\), \(R\) with \(|R|=h+1\), and \(G'\). For a set \(U\) of at most \(n^{2-\eta}\) cells, call a hole \(u\) a residual column of \(U\) if \(u\in H\) and some \(i\in R\) has \((i,u)\in U\) and \(u\in N_{G'}(i)\). Then for large \(n\),

\[\Pr[U\text{ has at least }c\text{ residual columns}]\le20^c\bigl(2hn^{-\eta}\bigr)^{\lceil c/5\rceil}.\]

Proof. The choices \(H\), \(R\) and the neighbourhoods are independent. \(R\) is a uniform \((h+1)\)-subset of the pigeons, by symmetry of the uniform matching.

Witnesses. If \(c\) residual columns exist, pick one witness cell \((i_j,u_j)\in U\) for each of \(c\) of them. This gives a set \(S\subseteq U\) of \(c\) cells in distinct columns with \(u_j\in H\), \(i_j\in R\) and \(u_j\in N(i_j)\).
One set. Let \(S\) have \(d\) distinct pigeons, pigeon \(k\) holding \(m_k\le5\) of its cells, so \(d\ge\lceil c/5\rceil\). Then
- \(\Pr[\text{its }c\text{ columns}\subseteq H]\le(h/n)^c\);
- \(\Pr[\text{its }d\text{ pigeons}\subseteq R]\le((h+1)/(n+1))^d\le(2h/n)^d\);
- given \(H\), a pigeon's \(m\) assigned holes lie in its uniform 5-subset of \(H\) with probability \(\binom{h-m}{5-m}/\binom h5\le(5/h)^m\), using \(h\ge5\).
So \(\Pr[S\text{ witnesses}]\le(5/n)^c(2h/n)^d\).
Counting sets. Choose \(d\) rows and in row \(i_k\) choose \(m_k\) cells of \(U_{i_k}=U\cap\text{row }i_k\). Using \(\binom{|U_i|}m\le|U_i|\,n^{m-1}\), the number of sets with \(d\) pigeons is at most \(n^{c-d}\binom{c-1}{d-1}\sum_{i_1<\dots<i_d}\prod_k|U_{i_k}|\le n^{c-d}\binom{c-1}{d-1}|U|^d/d!\).
Summing. The contribution of \(d\) is at most \(5^c\binom{c-1}{d-1}(2h|U|/n^2)^d/d!\le5^c2^c(2hn^{-\eta})^d\). Summing over \(d\ge\lceil c/5\rceil\), with \(2hn^{-\eta}\le1/2\) for large \(n\), gives the bound. \(\square\)

Proof of the theorem

This is the proof of cor:random-prefix-sparse-column-families with its Step 2 replaced by the lemma.

Few residual columns. With \(c=5\lceil(K+3)/\eta\rceil\), a given block has at least \(c\) residual columns with probability at most \(20^c(2h)^{c/5}n^{-(K+3)}\), which is \(n^{-(K+3)}\) times a polylogarithmic factor, since \(h=O(\log n)\). The union over \(M\le n^K\) blocks is \(o(1)\).
What is left after restriction. Off this event, each block's restricted forms are supported on cells of \(G'\) in \(U_b\). Each such cell is a witness, so they lie in at most \(c-1\) residual columns. Cells set to 1 by \(\rho\) and cells set to 0 contribute constants.
Dropping and finishing. The rest is unchanged:
- bounded-column vacuity on the residual board with \((h+2)^c\) patterns per block;
- the averaging over the \(C_b\) against the expansion failure below 0.27;
- the Mikša–Nordström bound at \(\lfloor s/10\rfloor=B+1\) through lem:functional-residual.

\(\square\)

What it means

One measure for all structured classes. Sparse blocks (\(n^{1-\eta}\) cells), row-sparse blocks (\(n^{1-\eta}\) rows), column-local blocks (\(c_0\) columns) and cell blocks of support up to \(n^{2-\eta}\) are all light. So are blocks with arbitrary coefficients on any set of \(n^{2-\eta}\) cells, and column statistics over \(n^{1-\eta}\) holes. An example is random coefficients on a random set of \(n^{1.9}\) cells. Whether W's recorded classes, in particular thm:cell-family-w's scope, cover that example was not checked. For light blocks coefficients do not matter, because vacuity counts patterns, not forms. For blocks of support \(n^{2-o(1)}\) the pattern count gives nothing, and coefficients may matter.
The remaining core. Blocks whose union support has \(n^{2-o(1)}\) cells: column statistics over \(n^{1-o(1)}\) holes, and dense forms. Under random prefixes, the open cases of conj:randomized-wide-clause are the families containing at least one such heavy block. No reduction to families of heavy blocks alone is proved. Light blocks are dropped only on the random residual, so any argument for the heavy blocks would have to run on that same residual outcome. This core is sharper than W's "dense interaction part", but it is still the collective core. The barriers recorded for weighted replay and the killer-moment main term concern dense blocks, and they are expected to apply here too.
Relation to W. W's recorded results use the chooser's prefix choices and per-class arguments. Under random prefixes a single counting lemma covers all light blocks. This is evidence that randomization simplifies A1 away from its core. It is not evidence that it simplifies the core.

Next. A route review of the randomized line: three research entries and a sharp core. It should weigh whether the dense core under random prefixes differs from W's in a usable way, for example through the pointwise error guarantee. A dense block's occupancy patterns on the residual number about \((h+2)^h\), far more than \(3^t\). So the counting behind bounded-column vacuity cannot drop it. That does not show such a block can never be dropped, but a collective argument is the natural candidate.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read:

the previous corollary's proof;
prop:bounded-column-vacuity;
the logarithmic residual construction.

A fresh-context reviewer found no break in the lemma or the proof. It confirmed:

the independence of \(R\) and \(H\);
the witness probability, the counting and the final sum;
that every \(G'\)-cell of \(U_b\) is a witness;
the carried-over steps.

It required these changes, all adopted:

the relation to the previous corollary stated with \(\eta'=\min(\eta,1/2)\) and a different lower-order \(t\), in place of "supersedes";
"coefficients never matter" restricted to light blocks;
the remaining core stated without an implied reduction to heavy blocks;
the \(n^{1.9}\) example marked unchecked against W's classes;
the claim about dense blocks' patterns restated;
wording, including \(h\ge5\).

The changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	5 min 44.86 s
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Route review of random prefixes: they remove A1's structured adversaries, and by an unregistered rank count low-rank ones too, leaving heavy high-rank blocks; heuristically these resemble random families, so under randomization the core looks like the generic collective problem

26 September 2026 · Route review with two tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-randomized-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of random prefixes: they remove A1's structured adversaries, and by an unregistered rank count low-rank ones too, leaving heavy high-rank blocks; heuristically these resemble random families, so under randomization the core looks like the generic collective problem”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-randomized-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Three research entries developed randomized prefixes:

the reduction thm:randomized-prefix-reduction;
prop:bounded-column-vacuity;
thm:random-prefix-light-families.

The last settles every family whose blocks touch at most \(n^{2-\eta}\) cells. What exactly is left, and is it easier than W's core?

General statement. The line's claim: the goal follows from W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction), and conj:randomized-wide-clause asserts W_RS with random prefixes. Proved so far: light families (thm:random-prefix-light-families) and bounded-column blocks (prop:bounded-column-vacuity). The goal needs W_RS for every family of \(n^K\) blocks and every \(K\).

Falsification attempt: what can an adversary still do?

Under random prefixes a block is dropped whenever few zero patterns occur on the relevant points. Pattern counts come from three sources:

at most \(2^a\) patterns for forms supported on \(a\) cells;
at most \((n+2)^c\) for \(c\) columns;
at most \(3^r\) when the linear span of \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) as functions, constants included, has dimension \(r\), since the value vector is then fixed by \(r\) basis values.

The last is an observation of this review, not a registered claim. A block of rank \(r\) is dropped except with probability \(3^{r-t}\), on the full board and with no residual. Blocks of width \(O(\log n)\) are dropped for the same reason, as W's full prefix drops blocks narrower than \(k\).

The race between constants. W_RS lets the chooser take any number of rows: thm:randomized-prefix-reduction requires only hardness at the resulting degree \(B\), which stays logarithmic for \(t=O(\log n)\). With \(t=a\log_3n\), the union bound over \(n^K\) blocks drops every block of rank up to about \(t-K\log_3n=(a-K)\log_3n\). An adversary can answer with blocks of rank \(\Theta(\log n)\) and a larger constant. Letting \(a\) grow makes the degree superlogarithmic. So low rank is removed only relative to a chosen constant.

Light blocks are removed by thm:random-prefix-light-families for each fixed \(\eta\), with a degree depending on \(\eta\), and within families of light blocks. Whether light blocks drop individually inside families that also contain heavy blocks is not proved. So an adversary needs blocks that are heavy and high-rank, relative to these constants.

Heuristically such blocks resemble random dense families. High rank gives only an upper bound on patterns, never a lower bound. Dense high-rank blocks can be highly structured, for example sums of PHP axioms. So the surviving blocks are precisely those that none of the structure-based vacuity mechanisms excludes. The attempt found no refutation of W_RS. It found that randomization removes much of the adversarial structure the recorded A1 results fought: hole blocks, shared-prefix families, column blocks, and low-rank blocks relative to a constant. It does not remove the collective difficulty.

Assessment

What stands. A reduction that is at least as good as W, since W implies W_RS. A single counting mechanism, pattern vacuity, covers every light or bounded-column block, and every block of rank below a chosen multiple of \(\log n\), whatever the coefficients. W's route needed per-class theorems for these.
What it lacks. Any mechanism for heavy high-rank blocks. There the recorded barriers are expected to apply: conj:replay-weight-barrier for weighted replay, and lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier with the killer-moment main term for degree-free absorption of random tops. These were stated for W's clause shape and random forms, not rechecked for W_RS.
Qualitative assessment. Productive and clarifying. Four cycles moved A1's adversarial aspect toward the generic one. Under randomization the thread's core looks like the random-family problem at \(K\ge1\), heuristically the same problem that stopped both mechanisms. This is progress in understanding, not on the core. The core now has a clean form: PHP plus \(n^K\) randomly prefixed blocks, among them heavy high-rank ones.

Outside leads

Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer's \(t\)-wise uniformity criterion, applied to randomized blocks. Target: the heavy core, where each block's allowed value set is the complement of zero patterns in \(\ker C\). If it supports a \(t'\)-wise uniform distribution for growing \(t'\), the SoS analogue would absorb \(n^{\Theta(t')}\) such constraints. Where it breaks: PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) is not SoS, and the recorded characteristic-3 obstruction to averaging stands. Test. Passed, consistent at \(h=4\) and for pairwise uniformity only. An exact LP found a pairwise-uniform distribution on the allowed value vectors for 10 of 10 random \(C\) with \(t=2\), and for 7 of 10 with \(t=1\) (rs_review_tests.json, R2). At \(t=2\) up to 81 of the 81 vectors are allowed, so that half is nearly vacuous. Three of 10 failed at \(t=1\).
Håstad's switching lemma (random restrictions). Target: shrink heavy blocks by a stronger restriction until pattern vacuity applies. Where it breaks: quantitatively. A restriction to an \(m\times m\) residual does drop everything, since the restricted rank is then at most \(m^2+1\). But the residual PHP must stay hard at the clauses' degree, so \(m\) must stay above roughly \(\Theta(\log n)\). Then the rank bound \(3^{m^2}\) and the column bound \((m+2)^m\) exceed \(3^t=\mathrm{poly}(n)\). Test. Falsified by that count: no residual both small enough for vacuity and large enough for hardness exists at logarithmic degree.
Alon–Füredi on the cube. A nonzero multilinear polynomial of degree \(d\) is nonzero on at least \(2^{N-d}\) Boolean points. Target: consistency of W_RS's clauses. A clause supported on a set of density \(\varepsilon\) needs degree at least \(\log_2(1/\varepsilon)\). Test. Passed. A randomized clause has support density about \(3^{-t}\) and degree \(4t+2\ge t\log_23\), so the bound holds with room. It gives no lower bound beyond that.

Absurd bridges

Random linear codes: minimum distance (Gilbert–Varshamov). Translation: \(\ker C\) is a random code of codimension \(t\). The zero patterns a block can never forbid are the 0/1 vectors of weight below the least weight of a nonzero 0/1 word in \(\ker C\). What a theorem there would give: heavy blocks are harmless on points whose zero pattern has weight below that least weight. Heuristically it is about \(\delta h\), where \(\binom h{\delta h}\approx3^t\), that is \(hH_2(\delta)\approx t\log_23\). Smallest test: exhaustive minimum weights. Test. Falsified as a safety mechanism. For \(h=16\) the minimum weight of a nonzero 0/1 word in \(\ker C\) was 1 to 3 at \(t=4\), 1 to 4 at \(t=6\) and 1 to 7 at \(t=8\), over 20 samples each (R1). Dense blocks have patterns of weight about \(h/3\approx5.3\), above most of those values: at \(t=8\) some samples had least weight 6 or 7. Beyond that, \(t\) must grow linearly in \(h\).
Insurance pooling (law of large numbers). Translation: each point is forbidden by block \(b\) with probability \(3^{-t}\) over \(C_b\), independently across blocks. So the number of blocks forbidding a point is a sum of independent Bernoulli variables with mean at most \(M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\). What a theorem there would give: no point is systematically forbidden, and concentration bounds control how many points of any fixed small set are forbidden. Smallest test: the mean. Test. Passed as a computation: \(M3^{-t}\le n^K\cdot n^{-(K+1)}/3\). The link from "few forbidden points" to "no low-degree refutation" is exactly what is missing, so this restates the core.

Bridge follow-up

Shannon's information budget. It is now the pooling bridge above: the forbidden mass is pointwise small for every family. Follow-up. Continuing.
Kotecký–Preiss. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the characteristic-3 obstacle stands.
The leftover hash lemma. Not needed so far: the proofs used averaging over \(C\), not concentration. Follow-up. Closed: averaging suffices for existence, and existence is all W_RS needs.

Lead follow-up

Razborov–Smolensky prefixes. Developed into thm:randomized-prefix-reduction, prop:bounded-column-vacuity and thm:random-prefix-light-families. Follow-up. Developed: the adversarial structure dissolves, and the generic core remains.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer. Tested again above on randomized blocks. Follow-up. Continuing: the characteristic-3 transfer is the open step.
Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. No work. Follow-up. Continuing, for random tops.
Nguyen and Wood. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the full paper is still to be read.
The Mikša–Nordström closure. It now carries every randomized-prefix result, through the residual. Follow-up. Developed.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, the core is now generic. Its most concrete open piece with a finite, decisive form is the killer-moment main term for random product tops, and three routes to it are blocked. The next step is to read Nguyen and Wood's paper in full, the lead passed twice. The question is whether their structured-remainder dichotomy handles rows generated polynomially by a few random scalars. A negative answer should be recorded with the exact hypothesis that fails.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three randomized-prefix results and the recorded barriers. The rank bound \(3^r\) on zero patterns, with \(r\) the dimension of the linear span of the forms as functions, constants included, follows because the value vector is a function of \(r\) basis values. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed every test number. It required these changes, all adopted:

the rank defined with constants included;
the "raising \(t\)" claim restated as a race between constants, with the union-bound threshold \(t-K\log_3n\);
the assumptions behind "support \(n^{2-o(1)}\)" stated;
the switching lead's failure made quantitative;
the coding bridge restated for 0/1 words, with \(hH_2(\delta)\approx t\log_23\);
the R2 outcome qualified;
"resemble random families" stated as a heuristic, since high rank gives no lower bound on patterns.

The changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made. Test numbers were read from rs_review_tests.json by script. This review registers no claim.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	4 min 52.56 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 3.40 s
Computation design and coding	5.52 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 42.84 s
Individually measured computation	0.65 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Nguyen and Wood's bias argument does not transfer to the killer-moment main term: it uses entries that enter linearly and independently, and quadratically many nonzero coefficients per robust character; systems of W's kind carry only about one random scalar per image column, randomized prefixes included

26 September 2026 · Literature reading and an entropy count, with a retracted draft heuristic · open statement A3, killer-moment main term · cycle odd-prime-nguyen-wood. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Nguyen and Wood's bias argument does not transfer to the killer-moment main term: it uses entries that enter linearly and independently, and quadratically many nonzero coefficients per robust character; systems of W's kind carry only about one random scalar per image column, randomized prefixes included”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-nguyen-wood-scope.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The randomized review found that under random prefixes the thread's core looks like the generic collective problem. Its most concrete piece is the killer-moment main term of conj:product-top-killer-moment. Nguyen and Wood's moment method was the lead passed twice. Does it apply, and if not, which hypothesis fails?

General statement. The statement advanced is conj:product-top-killer-moment, and the reading sharpens lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier. Nguyen and Wood, "Local and global universality of random matrix cokernels" (arXiv:2210.08526), was read at its statements and at the proof of its Lemma 3.7. Their moment method bounds \(\Pr[FA_n=0]\) for a code \(F\) by expanding in characters \(C\). The bound on robust characters rests on two properties:

\(C(FA_n)\) is linear in independent \(\alpha\)-balanced entries, so its bias factorizes into factors each at most \(\exp(-\alpha/a^2)\);
a code and a robust character force at least \(\gamma\delta n^2/(2|G|^2|P|)\) nonzero coefficients.

Together they give \(\exp(-c'n^2)\) against \(|G|^n\) characters. For product tops, property 1 fails: the contraction vector is polynomial of bidegree \((2,2)\) in \(2mN\) scalars. Property 2 has no analogue, heuristically because the system carries about as many random scalars as image columns. So their theorem does not apply, and their bias argument does not transfer. This does not show that every absolute-value bound on robust characters fails. Only the conditional route provably loses \(3^{u-mN/2}\) (lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier). No claim is registered.

What the paper assumes and does

Models. Their Theorems 1.3, 1.4 and 1.13 treat random symmetric and skew-symmetric integral matrices whose upper-triangular entries are i.i.d. copies of an \(\alpha\)-balanced integral random variable. The Laplacian results concern reduced Laplacians of random graphs (their Theorem 1.1). Definitions 1.23 to 1.28 were read only at the level of their titles. Every model has \(\Theta(n^2)\) independent entries, and dependence only through linear symmetry or row sums. The proof read here, Section 3, is for the skew-symmetric model (Theorem 1.13, through Theorem 3.1). The symmetric case follows Wood's earlier paper.
Method. \(\mathbb E|\mathrm{Sur}(\mathrm{Cok},G)|=\sum_F\Pr[FA_n=0]\), their equation (3.2). A code of distance \(w\), Definition 3.4, stays surjective after deleting fewer than \(w\) basis vectors. For a code, \(\Pr[FA_n=0]\) is expanded over characters \(C\). The bias of \(C(FA_n)\) is \(\prod_{i\le j}\mathbb E\,\xi^{E(C,F,i,j)x_{ij}}\), a product over independent entries. Lemma 3.7 splits the characters three ways:
- \(|\mathrm{Sym}^2G|\) special ones, the main term;
- weak ones, at most \(C_G\binom n{\lceil\gamma n\rceil-1}|G|^{\gamma n}\) of them. Every non-special character, weak or not, has at least \(\delta n/2\) nonzero coefficients and bias at most \(\exp(-\alpha\delta n/(2a^2))\);
- robust ones, at most \(|G|^n\), with at least \(\gamma\delta n^2/(2|G|^2|P|)\) nonzero coefficients each, bias \(\exp(-c'n^2)\).
Their total, \(\exp(n\log|G|-c'n^2)\), is negligible because the exponent is quadratic against linear.

Where product tops differ

No factorization. The coordinates of the contraction vector \(v(\ell,\ell')=(\chi(y_i\tau))_i\) are polynomials of bidegree \((2,2)\) in the \(2mN\) coefficients of \(\ell,\ell'\). A character's bias is \(\mathbb E\,\omega^{\eta\cdot v}\), which does not factor over independent entries.
The entropy count. One top gives \(mN-2\) image columns from \(2mN\) uniform scalars, about two per column. Nguyen and Wood's columns carry about \(n\) independent entries each, which is what makes property 2 possible. With about two scalars per column, square-root cancellation would give biases near \(3^{-mN}\) against about \(3^{mN}\) characters: borderline, not clearly summable.
The conditional substitute fails. Fixing \(\ell\) leaves only \(mN\) scalars. Each character's value is then an exact quadratic Gauss sum of modulus at least \(3^{-mN/2}\). Summing absolute values over the \(3^u\) characters with \(u\approx mN\) gives at least \(3^{u-mN/2}\) (lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier).

So Nguyen and Wood's theorem does not apply, and their bias argument does not transfer. The missing ingredients are the two properties above.

An entropy count for W's systems

A first draft of this entry claimed that randomized-prefix tops carry about \(h\) random scalars per image column, because each clause depends on all \(h\) forms of its block. The fresh-context reviewer found the error. A block has \(h\) clauses, each with about \(mN\) image columns. So \(h\cdot mN\) shared scalars, plus the prefix matrix's \(th\) entries, feed about \(h\cdot mN\) columns: about one scalar per column. Counting every clause, W's blocks give the same ratio. So the count does not favour randomization. Systems of W's kind, randomized or not, carry about one random scalar per image column, far from the \(n\) that Nguyen and Wood's property 2 rests on.

What it means

The killer-moment main term for product tops is not reached by the Nguyen–Wood bias argument, and by none of the recorded methods. This is for stated reasons, not by a proof that every method fails.
The core of W and W_RS has about one random scalar per image column. Universality methods that need many independent entries per column are unlikely to apply to it. Absorption for random families should be sought in algebraic structure, as Taylor glue and semi-regularity do, rather than in entropy.

Next. Pursue the algebraic side of the random-family core. The weak monomial algebra \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_c(\mathbb F_3+V_c)\), with \(V_c^2=0\), is a monomial complete intersection when \(m=1\). Its Lefschetz properties in positive characteristic have a literature: Stanley's strong Lefschetz property in characteristic 0, its failures in characteristic \(p\), and the work of Brenner and Kaid and of Lundqvist and Nicklasson. Find what is known over \(\mathbb F_3\) for \(\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_N]/(x_i^2)\) and for products of squares of linear forms. Then decide whether a weak or strong Lefschetz statement there would give conj:product-top-killer-moment's directness, or the Tor vanishing A3 needs, for random tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read from the paper's text:

the statements of Theorems 1.3, 1.4 and 1.13;
Definitions 1.23 to 1.28, whose titles were read;
equation (3.2), Definition 3.4 and the proof of Lemma 3.7, with its two bias bounds and the final combination.

The text was extracted from the arXiv PDF into private scratch space. Nothing from it is committed beyond the citations and paraphrases here. Re-read lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier and conj:product-top-killer-moment. A fresh-context reviewer checked the description against the paper's text. It confirmed (3.2), (3.3), Definition 3.4, the special-character count, both bias bounds, the count of nonzero coefficients and the final combination. It required these changes, all adopted:

the conclusion limited to non-transfer of the bias argument;
both properties named;
the conditional sentence corrected;
the count of weak characters stated;
the models' scope stated;
the entropy observation for randomized tops retracted after the reviewer's column count, as recorded above.

No claim is registered.

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Generic directness on the weak monomial algebra: Nenashev's argument transfers to every characteristic, so generic tops of any symmetric family, product tops included, have direct images up to the fill point minus one image's dimension; the rational question over \(\mathbb F_3\) stays open

26 September 2026 · Working proof adapting a published argument · open statement A3, generic tops · cycle odd-prime-lefschetz. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Generic directness on the weak monomial algebra: Nenashev's argument transfers to every characteristic, so generic tops of any symmetric family, product tops included, have direct images up to the fill point minus one image's dimension; the rational question over \(\mathbb F_3\) stays open”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-generic-directness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3. The Nguyen–Wood entry concluded that absorption for random families should come from algebraic structure. The literature on Fröberg's conjecture in its first nontrivial degrees is the natural source. Does it apply to the weak monomial algebra and to product tops?

General statement. thm:generic-top-directness, the generic directness theorem. Let \(\mathbb K\) be an algebraically closed field of any characteristic. Let \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_{c\le N}(\mathbb K+V_c)\) with \(\dim V_c=m\) and \(V_c^2=0\), and let \(G=\bigl(\prod_c\mathrm{GL}(V_c)\bigr)\rtimes S_N\) act by algebra automorphisms. Let \(Y\subseteq\tilde A_d\) be an irreducible constructible \(G\)-stable set, for example the image of an irreducible variety under a \(G\)-equivariant morphism. Fix \(k\), and let \(D_k\ge1\) be the generic value of \(\dim y\tilde A_k\) for \(y\in Y\). For generic \(y_1,\dots,y_z\in Y\), the sum \(\sum_iy_i\tilde A_k\) in \(\tilde A_{d+k}\):

is direct, of dimension \(zD_k\), for \(z\le\dim\tilde A_{d+k}/D_k-D_k+1\);
equals \(\tilde A_{d+k}\) for \(z\ge\dim\tilde A_{d+k}/D_k+D_k-1\).

Here "generic" means: on a dense Zariski-open subset of \(Y^z\). Algebraic closure is used only for Zariski genericity.

For product tops \(\ell^2\ell'^2\) over \(\bar{\mathbb F}_3\), with \(d=4\), \(k=1\), \(m\ge2\) and \(N\ge5\), \(D_1=mN-2\). So generic product tops have direct images in \(\tilde A_5\), of dimension \(z(mN-2)\), for \(z\le\dim\tilde A_5/(mN-2)-(mN-2)+1\): the fill point minus about \(mN\).

Literature

Nenashev (C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 355 (2017) 272–276, arXiv:1512.04324, Theorem 1) proves this for the polynomial ring \(S\) over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. He has \(\dim S_k\) in place of \(D_k\) and the slightly weaker range \(z\le\dim S_{d+k}/\dim S_k-\dim S_k\). His class of forms is any nonempty class closed under linear changes of coordinates; irreducibility is our addition, which genericity needs.
His only use of characteristic 0 is his Lemma 1: a nonzero subspace of \(S_d\) closed under \(\mathrm{GL}_n\) is all of \(S_d\). His Remark 1 shows this fails in characteristic 2 for squares.
Boij, Dannetun and Lundqvist (arXiv:2605.03872) extend Fröberg's conjecture to the second nontrivial degree for \(d>2\), and to degree \(2d-1\) with many variables, over the polynomial ring. Only the abstract was read.

Neither of these two works treats the weak monomial algebra or positive characteristic. For \(m=1\), \(\tilde A=\mathbb K[x_1,\dots,x_N]/(x_i^2)\), and Fröberg-type questions for generic forms there have their own literature. It was not searched in this cycle.

Proof

Irreducibility, in every characteristic. \(\tilde A_j=\bigoplus_{|S|=j}\bigotimes_{c\in S}V_c\).
- Under \(\prod_c\mathrm{GL}(V_c)\) each summand is an outer tensor product of natural representations. The natural representation of \(\mathrm{GL}_m\) is absolutely irreducible over any field, so each summand is irreducible.
- Distinct summands are non-isomorphic: the scalar \(\lambda\in\mathrm{GL}(V_c)\), \(\lambda\ne1\), acts by \(\lambda\) on summands with \(c\in S\) and trivially otherwise. So every invariant subspace is a sum of summands.
- \(S_N\) permutes the summands transitively.
So \(\tilde A_j\) is an irreducible \(G\)-module. This replaces Nenashev's Lemma 1.
Nenashev's argument. For generic \(g_1,\dots,g_z,g\in Y\), let \(I_z=\sum_{i\le z}g_i\tilde A_k\) and \(a_z=\dim(I_z\cap g\tilde A_k)\). This is nondecreasing in \(z\), and adding a generic generator adds \(D_k-a_z\) dimensions.
- Suppose \(a_{z+1}=a_z\). As in Nenashev's Lemma 2, replacing the \(g_i\) one at a time by fresh generic elements shows that \(V_g=I_z\cap g\tilde A_k\) depends only on \(g\). Each replacement uses the equality on another dense open set of tuples, obtained by permuting coordinates.
- If \(V_g\ne0\), pick \(h\in V_g\). Then \(h\in I_z\) for every generic tuple. For \(\sigma\in G\), \(\sigma h\in\sigma I(g_1,\dots,g_z)=I(\sigma g_1,\dots,\sigma g_z)\), and \(\sigma\) maps dense open subsets of \(Y^z\) to dense open subsets because \(Y\) is \(G\)-stable. So \(\sigma h\) also lies in \(I_z\) for every generic tuple.
- Choose finitely many \(\sigma_1,\dots,\sigma_b\in G\) maximizing \(\dim\mathrm{span}\{\sigma_jh\}\), and let \(H\) be this span. \(H\) lies in \(I_z\) for every generic tuple, since finitely many dense open sets intersect in one. By maximality \(H\) is \(G\)-invariant. By step 1, \(H=\tilde A_{d+k}\).
So \(a_{z+1}=a_z\ne0\) forces \(I_z=\tilde A_{d+k}\), hence \(a_z=D_k\). Let \(z_0\) be the last \(z\) with \(a_z=0\), and \(z_1\) the first with \(a_{z_1}=D_k\). The first exists because each step before it adds \(D_k-a_z\ge1\) dimensions to a finite-dimensional space. Between them \(a_z\) increases strictly, so \(z_1\le z_0+D_k\). Since \(a_{z_1+1}=a_{z_1}=D_k\ne0\), the previous point gives \(I_{z_1}=\tilde A_{d+k}\).
Counting. \(\dim I_z=\sum_{j<z}(D_k-a_j)\), which is \(zD_k\) for \(z\le z_0+1\). From \(I_{z_1}=\tilde A_{d+k}\), \(z_1D_k\ge\dim\tilde A_{d+k}\), so \(z_0\ge\dim\tilde A_{d+k}/D_k-D_k\) and directness holds up to \(\dim\tilde A_{d+k}/D_k-D_k+1\). Conversely \((z_0+1)D_k\le\dim\tilde A_{d+k}\) gives \(z_1\le\dim\tilde A_{d+k}/D_k+D_k-1\).
Product tops. \(Y=\{\ell^2\ell'^2\}\) is the image of \(\tilde A_1\times\tilde A_1\) under a \(G\)-equivariant morphism, so it is irreducible and \(G\)-stable.
- Upper bound. In characteristic 3, \(\ell^2=2e_2(\ell)=-e_2(\ell)\) and \(\ell^3=3!\,e_3(\ell)=0\), so \(\ell\) and \(\ell'\) annihilate \(\ell^2\ell'^2\) and \(D_1\le mN-2\). This holds for every \(N\ge5\) and every \(m\), and it already gives the directness range, since \(\dim/D-D\) decreases in \(D\).
- Exact value. lem:product-top-spread, with \(K=2\) and \(m\ge2\), is deterministic: if at least 5 columns have independent column parts \(\ell_c,\ell'_c\), then \(\mathrm{Ann}_{\tilde A_1}(\ell^2\ell'^2)=\mathrm{span}(\ell,\ell')\), so \(\dim\ell^2\ell'^2\tilde A_1=mN-2\). Such \(\mathbb F_3\)-forms exist for \(m\ge2\) and \(N\ge5\). Rank is lower semicontinuous, so \(D_1=mN-2\ge1\). This gives the exact dimension \(z(mN-2)\) and the stated fill point. \(\square\)

What it means, and what it does not

The generic analogue of the killer-moment range holds. conj:product-top-killer-moment asks for directness of random \(\mathbb F_3\) product tops at degree 5 up to \((1-\varepsilon)\) times the fill point. Over \(\bar{\mathbb F}_3\), generic tops are direct up to the fill point minus about \(mN\), which exceeds \((1-\varepsilon)\) times the fill point for large \(N\). This concerns degree 5 only (\(k=1\)), not every target degree of conj:dense-product-top-directness. The generic analogue of conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra, directness up to \(\lfloor\dim\tilde A_5/D_1\rfloor\), is not proved: a window of width about \(2D_1\) around the fill point stays open even generically.
Other families. Any family of tops given by a fixed expression \(P(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_r)\) in \(r\) free linear forms is covered, for example products of fixed combinations of squares. The map \((\ell_1,\dots,\ell_r)\mapsto P\) is \(G\)-equivariant on the irreducible \(\tilde A_1^r\). Randomized-prefix tops have this shape when their underlying forms are generic, but in W the forms are given, so only the generic case is covered. The range contains some \(z\ge2\) exactly when \(\dim\tilde A_{d+k}\ge D_k(D_k+1)\). For \(k\ge d\) and \(N\ge d+k\), Koszul syzygies \(y_2\cdot y_1u=y_1\cdot y_2u\) with \(y_1y_2u\ne0\) force \(z_0=0\), so the range is trivial there.
What it does not give. W, open statement 1 of this notebook, concerns \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms. The bad locus, the tuples whose sum is not direct, is a proper closed subset defined over \(\mathbb F_3\), since everything is Galois-stable. At \(q=3\) that says nothing about its \(\mathbb F_3\)-points:
- Schwartz–Zippel bounds the bad fraction by \(\delta/3\) for a defining polynomial of degree \(\delta\), useless for \(\delta\ge3\);
- a proper closed set can contain every \(\mathbb F_3\)-point, as \(x^3-x=0\) does;
- \(G\)-stability does not help directly. If every \(\mathbb F_3\)-point were bad, the closure of \(G\cdot Y(\mathbb F_3)^z\) would be bad too, but this has dimension at most \(\dim G=Nm^2\). Once \(z\cdot\dim Y>Nm^2\), far below the fill point \(z\approx\binom N5m^4/N\), that is no contradiction.
The argument is intrinsically generic: the step "\(V_g\) depends only on \(g\)" compares ideals of independent generic tuples, which has no counterpart for random \(\mathbb F_3\)-points. So the random-rational statements, and W's adversarial forms, stay open.

Next. Two directions.

Bound the fraction of \(\mathbb F_3\)-points of the bad locus for product tops. For example, show that the reduced polynomial function defining it, of degree below 3 in each variable, is nonzero with few zeros, or give an explicit \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational witness family. The smallest case is two tops whose degree-5 images meet.
Use the symmetry argument for Tor vanishing in higher degrees, A3's degree axis. Nenashev-type arguments control only the first degrees. Boij, Dannetun and Lundqvist's second-degree method is the next candidate to read in full.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statement and proof of Nenashev's Theorem 1, Lemmas 1 and 2 and Remark 1 from the paper's text. The text was extracted into private scratch space, and nothing from it is committed beyond citations and paraphrases. Re-read the registered statements of conj:product-top-killer-moment, conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra, conj:dense-product-top-directness and lem:product-top-spread. Claim searches under "generic directness", "Hilbert function", "irreducible" and "Fröberg" found no recorded result implying the theorem. The nearest is conj:maximal-generic-freeness, about generic linear forms on the top algebra. No computation was needed.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed steps 1 to 4 and the ranges, in every characteristic. It required these changes, all adopted:

a reason that \(I_{z_1}\) fills, and that \(z_1\) exists;
\(D_1\ge1\) and the exact \(D_1\) justified, the latter only with \(m\ge2\);
unused hypotheses removed (the equivariant morphism, now an example; \(k\ge1\)), and algebraic closure limited to genericity;
irreducibility marked as our addition to Nenashev's class;
the nontriviality condition corrected to \(\dim\ge D_k(D_k+1)\), and \(N\ge d+k\) added for the Koszul remark;
the unproved claim about randomized-prefix tops replaced by the fixed-expression form;
the comparison with the conjectures limited to the killer-moment range at degree 5, with the Cohen–Lenstra window kept open;
the rational-points discussion and the first next direction restated;
the literature sentence limited to the two works read.

No new claim was strengthened, so no second pass was run.

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Route review of the random-family core: random prefixes randomize coefficients, not linear parts, so blocks sharing few linear parts keep dependent clause tops; those families are settled by member pinning, and what remains is families whose linear parts are shared by few blocks each

26 September 2026 · Route review with four tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-rational-points. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the random-family core: random prefixes randomize coefficients, not linear parts, so blocks sharing few linear parts keep dependent clause tops; those families are settled by member pinning, and what remains is families whose linear parts are shared by few blocks each”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-random-core-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The randomized review concluded, heuristically, that under random prefixes A1's core looks like the generic collective problem. The two cycles since then worked on random or generic product tops (Nguyen–Wood scope, generic directness). The proposed next step went one reduction further, to the \(\mathbb F_3\)-points of the bad locus for two random tops. That is more than one reduction below every open statement, so this cycle is a route review.

General statement. The line's claim: under W_RS (conj:randomized-wide-clause) the blocks left by thm:random-prefix-light-families behave like random families. So directness and Tor vanishing for random or generic tops, such as conj:product-top-killer-moment and thm:generic-top-directness, would carry A1's core. The goal needs W_RS for every family of \(n^K\) blocks of adversarial affine forms, with only the prefix matrices \(C_b\) random.

Falsification attempt: shared linear parts

The top of a W_RS clause \(g_iQ^{C}\) sees only the linear parts \(\ell_i\) of the forms. \(s_j=\sum_ic_{ji}g_i\) has top \(-q_j\), \(q_j=\sum_ic_{ji}\ell_i^2\), so the formal product of the tops is \(\pm\,\ell_i^2\prod_{j\le t}q_j^2\). When it is nonzero, it is the clause's top. When it vanishes, for example for \(C_b=0\) or whenever some \(q_j^2=0\), the clause's top has lower degree and depends on the constants, and the count below says nothing about it. In the weak monomial algebra \(\ell^3=0\), so \(\ell^4=0\), and \(q_j^2=2\sum_{i<i'}c_{ji}c_{ji'}\ell_i^2\ell_{i'}^2\).

Count. Let \(h\ge2t+1\). Every nonzero formal top of a block with linear parts \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_h\) lies in the span of the squarefree products of \(2t+1\) of the squares \(\ell_1^2,\dots,\ell_h^2\), of dimension at most \(\binom h{2t+1}\), whatever \(C\) is. (For \(h<2t+1\) every formal top vanishes.) Take \(M\) blocks with the same linear parts and different constants, the shape of the binomial review's code families (binomial review). All their nonzero formal tops lie in one space of dimension at most \(\binom h{2t+1}\). For \(h=2t+1\) they are all multiples of \(P=\prod_i\ell_i^2\). Whenever more than \(\binom h{2t+1}\) of them are nonzero, they are linearly dependent, which the \(Mh\) clauses allow once \(\binom h{2t+1}<Mh\) and enough formal tops survive. With \(T=2t+1=\Theta(\log n)\), that holds for \(2t+1\le h\le 2t+1+r\) with \(r\le c_K\log n\) for a constant \(c_K>0\). A dependence among nonzero tops is a top syzygy of degree 0 among the clauses, and no single-clause or Koszul syzygy has degree 0. So the clauses' top syzygies are not spanned by those of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue. This is the clause-set half of part 1 of prop:two-block-taylor-failure. Its other half, that the degree-bounded resolvent saturation adds nothing, is not checked here for W_RS clauses, so the failure of the full Taylor-glue hypothesis is not claimed.

Test T4 (core_tests_output_v3.txt). Formal products \(\ell_i^2\prod_jq_j^2\) for blocks sharing \(h\) random linear parts, with independent uniform \(C_b\), ranked over \(\mathbb F_3\). These are formal products of tops, not tops of clauses with constants.

\(m=2\), \(N=6\), \(t=1\), \(h=3\), 4 blocks: 6 of 12 formal tops nonzero, rank 1, bound \(\binom33=1\);
\(m=2\), \(N=6\), \(t=1\), \(h=4\), 4 blocks: 14 of 16 nonzero, rank 4, bound \(\binom43=4\);
\(m=1\), \(N=11\), \(t=2\), \(h=6\), 3 blocks: 10 of 18 nonzero, rank 5, bound \(\binom65=6\);
\(m=1\), \(N=10\), \(t=2\), \(h=5\), 3 blocks: none nonzero. This case is vacuous.

Outcome. Randomizing the prefix randomizes the combination coefficients, not the linear parts. The adversary's sharing pattern survives, and with it the top dependence behind the recorded obstruction to clause-level gluing. So the randomized review's heuristic that heavy blocks "resemble random families" is false at the level of tops for these families. But these families are ones the record already settles. All their blocks' forms lie in one set of \(h=O(\log n)\) forms, so lem:member-pinning and cor:single-form-pinning apply with \(w=h\), under their board hypotheses. For W_RS as stated, with the \(C_b\) chosen: fix a common zero \(v\) of the pinned forms' values, and give each block one prefix row \(c\) with \(c\cdot g^b\ne0\) whenever the zero pattern \(g^b=[v=a^b]\) is nonzero. Then every clause vanishes at \(v\), and member pinning applies verbatim. So the falsification removes the heuristic only where pinning already works. It says nothing about families whose linear parts are shared by few blocks each.

Assessment of the line

What it produced. A deterministic spread lemma, stratum-by-stratum killer-moment bounds, the Nguyen–Wood scope, and thm:generic-top-directness. These are sound results about a model.
Why the model is not the instance. The killer-moment review already found the random-form line "productive but off the critical path". The randomized review's heuristic brought the route back to it. Independently of the falsification, W_RS's instances keep the adversary's forms and put randomness only in the \(C_b\), about \(th\) scalars per block. Random-form statements such as conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra assume random forms, so no proved or conjectured statement of the line applies to A1's instances as it stands.
Qualitative assessment. The random-form line is sound but off the critical path, as the killer-moment review found. It stays parked, with the rational-point question for random tops as its own next step, not the route's.
What the falsification suggests. Shared linear parts, the hard case for Taylor glue, are the easy case for pinning. Member pinning affords \(w\) shared forms at a robustness cost of \(B(w+1)\) labels on boards with \(2B-1\) rows, with \(B\) up to about \(44t\). The families left are those whose linear parts are shared by few blocks each. There the top collapse above does not occur, and whether clause-level Taylor glue holds for W_RS clauses is the open question.

Outside leads

Absolute irreducibility of outer tensor products over finite groups (Curtis–Reiner, Methods of Representation Theory I, §10). Target: a rational version of thm:generic-top-directness. Its step 1 works over \(\mathbb F_3\) itself. The natural module of \(\mathrm{GL}_m(3)\) is absolutely irreducible, outer tensor products of absolutely irreducible modules stay absolutely irreducible, and the scalar \(-1\) separates the summands. So \(\tilde A_j\) is an absolutely irreducible \(\mathbb F_3[G(\mathbb F_3)]\)-module. Where it breaks: Nenashev's step "\(V_g\) depends only on \(g\)" compares ideals of independent generic tuples. It has no analogue for random \(\mathbb F_3\)-points. Test. Passed: GAP's MeatAxe found \(\tilde A_j\) absolutely irreducible under \(G(\mathbb F_3)\) for \((m,N,j)=(1,5,2),(2,4,2),(2,4,3),(2,5,2),(3,3,2)\), of dimensions 10, 24, 32, 40 and 27 (T1).
Lang–Weil estimates for the bad locus of thm:generic-top-directness. They bound the \(\mathbb F_q\)-points of a proper subvariety by \(O(\deg\cdot q^{\dim})\), a vanishing fraction when \(q\) is large against the degree. Target: rational directness. Where it breaks: \(q=3\) is fixed, while the defining minors have degree growing with \(mN\). Test. Falsified by count: already for \(z=2\) tops the bad locus is cut out by minors of size \(2(mN-2)\) with entries of degree 4, so the recorded defining minors have degree far above 3.
The first-moment method for a pin avoiding random kernels. Target: conj:randomized-wide-clause, the with-high-probability form of W_RS, on families sharing few linear parts. Fix one value vector \(v\) for the shared forms before the \(C_b\) are drawn. Block \(b\)'s clauses then reduce to \(g^b_i[C_bg^b=0]\) with \(g^b=[v=a^b]\), so all of them vanish if and only if \(g^b=0\) or \(C_bg^b\ne0\). For nonzero \(g^b\), \(\Pr[C_bg^b=0]=3^{-t}\). Only a union bound over blocks for this one \(v\) is needed, with no union over \(v\) and no Local Lemma. Member pinning then finishes. Where it breaks: pinning needs the shared forms to meet member pinning's hypotheses, at the robustness cost above. Test. Passed by count: the expected number of blocks that keep a clause is at most \(M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\), from \(t=\lceil(K+1)\log_3n\rceil+1\).

Absurd bridges

Pólya–Burnside isomer counting from chemistry. Translation: a pair of product tops at \(m=2\) is a molecule. Each column is an atom with one of the \(\mathrm{GL}_2(3)\)-orbit types of its four column vectors \((\ell_{1,c},\ell'_{1,c},\ell_{2,c},\ell'_{2,c})\). \(G(\mathbb F_3)\)-orbits of pairs are then chemical formulas: multisets of \(N\) atom types. What a theorem there would give: the two-top rational question depends only on the formula, of which there are polynomially many in \(N\). Random pairs concentrate on the formula weighted by orbit sizes, so the bad fraction reduces to finitely many type densities plus large deviations. Test. Passed: GAP found 171 orbits of \(\mathrm{GL}_2(3)\) on the 6561 four-tuples of vectors in \(\mathbb F_3^2\) (T3). So there are \(\binom{N+170}{170}\) formulas, polynomial in \(N\) for fixed \(m\). It helps only the random-form line, which this review parks.
Margin-preserving null models from ecology (Connor–Simberloff, Gotelli's swap randomization). Translation: blocks are sites and linear parts are species. The incidence matrix "block \(b\) uses linear part \(\ell\)" is a presence–absence matrix. Random prefixes randomize the abundances, the coefficients, but keep the matrix. What a theorem there would give: co-occurrence statistics that separate structured from random assemblages. Here the statistic is the number of distinct linear parts against the number of blocks, which decides whether clause tops collapse. Smallest test: whether randomizing coefficients with the incidence kept preserves the collapse. Test. Passed: T4 above, rank 1 for the 6 nonzero formal tops of 4 blocks sharing 3 linear parts, and within \(\binom h{2t+1}\) in the other cases. This is the same evidence as the falsification, an algebraic identity rather than an independent statistical test.

Bridge follow-up

Geminal-power states. Test T2 compared \(\dim\ell^2\ell'^2\tilde A_1\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) and over \(\mathbb F_{10007}\), a stand-in for characteristic 0, for random forms: 10 against 12 at \((m,N)=(2,6)\), 12 against 14 at \((2,7)\), 16 against 18 at \((3,6)\), three trials each. Follow-up. Closed: chemistry works in characteristic 0, where the product top's image has the full dimension \(mN\). It misses the annihilator \(\ell,\ell'\) that characteristic 3 creates.
Insurance pooling. It now gives the with-high-probability form of pinning in the third outside lead: a fixed value vector is kept by each block with probability \(3^{-t}\). Follow-up. Continuing, into the pinning step.
Shannon's information budget. No work. Follow-up. Continuing.
Kotecký–Preiss. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the characteristic-3 obstacle stands.

Lead follow-up

Alon–Füredi. Applied to the bad locus of thm:generic-top-directness: if the reduced directness minor, of degree \(\delta\le4z(mN-2)\), is nonzero on the parameter space \(\mathbb F_3^{\,2mNz}\), it is nonzero on at least a \(3^{-\delta/2}\) fraction. Follow-up. Closed: exponentially small, so it gives existence of good points at most, not density.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, on randomized blocks. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the characteristic-3 transfer is the open step.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer. No work. Follow-up. Continuing, as above.
Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems. No work. Under conj:randomized-wide-clause the randomness is in the \(C_b\), where anti-concentration could still apply to fixed forms. Follow-up. Continuing, retargeted from random forms to random prefixes.
Nguyen and Wood. Read in the Nguyen–Wood scope entry. Follow-up. Closed: their bias argument does not transfer.
Moshkovitz and Zhu. Follow-up. Closed: it serves only the random-form line, parked here.
The Mikša–Nordström closure. No work in this cycle. Follow-up. Continuing: it carries every randomized-prefix result through the residual.
Razborov–Smolensky prefixes. Their limit is now explicit: they randomize coefficients, not linear parts. Follow-up. Developed.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under W_RS. Pinning with random prefixes, as in the third outside lead, settles families sharing few linear parts. It is a composition of lem:member-pinning with a union bound, and possibly a restatement of cor:single-form-pinning, so it needs no cycle of its own. The next question is the complementary one. In a family where every linear part is used by at most \(d\) blocks, are the W_RS clause tops of different blocks direct at the first degree, which is the part of clause-level Taylor glue that shared linear parts break? Test it at the smallest nonvacuous size, \(t=1\) and \(h\ge3\), against the shared-part control of T4. Then either state the private-sharing directness as a conjecture, or record the obstruction that replaces the top collapse.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the randomized-prefix entry's lemma and top description, part 1 of prop:two-block-taylor-failure and its code families, and the killer-moment review's assessment and bridges. The count of squarefree products uses only \(\ell^3=0\) in the weak monomial algebra. Re-read lem:member-pinning's statement for the pinning remarks. Test numbers were read from the saved output core_tests_output_v3.txt in research/results/odd_prime_core_review_20260926/, generated by gen_core_tests.py (seed 20260926) and run in GAP.

A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the top formula, the squarefree span bound, that degree-0 syzygies are not spanned, the T1, T2 and T4 numbers, the generators of T1 and the orbit count of T3 (by Burnside, \((6561+20\cdot81+27)/48=171\)). It required these changes, all adopted:

the count restricted to nonzero formal tops with \(h\ge2t+1\), with the nonzero counts added to T4 and "for every choice of the \(C_b\)" dropped;
the conclusion limited to the clauses' top syzygies, since the saturation half of part 1 is not checked for W_RS;
the threshold corrected to \(r\le c_K\log n\);
the falsification recognized as covering only families that member pinning already settles, with the assessment weakened accordingly;
the pinning argument recognized as a composition with lem:member-pinning, needing no randomness for W_RS as stated, and its hypotheses and cost stated;
the third lead restated as a union bound over blocks for one fixed \(v\);
the Littlewood–Offord follow-up kept open, the Mikša–Nordström follow-up corrected, the Lang–Weil count limited to the recorded minors, T4 described as formal products, the ecology test marked as the same evidence, and a notation clash removed;
the next step moved to families whose linear parts are shared by few blocks each.

The changes weaken or restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

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Pinned rank vacuity: under random prefixes, pinning a few row-independent forms drops every block whose linear parts have rank \(O(\log n)\) modulo the pinned ones, so every family whose blocks all have low rank modulo one small pinnable set is settled

26 September 2026 · Working proof (a composition) · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-private-sharing. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pinned rank vacuity: under random prefixes, pinning a few row-independent forms drops every block whose linear parts have rank \(O(\log n)\) modulo the pinned ones, so every family whose blocks all have low rank modulo one small pinnable set is settled”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-pinned-rank-vacuity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under W_RS. The random-core review found that blocks sharing few linear parts fall to member pinning, and asked where the boundary lies. Its proposed next step was first-degree directness for families whose linear parts are shared by few blocks each. Before testing that, one example changes the question. Take blocks whose forms are \(u_i+x_b\) plus constants, with three shared forms \(u_i\) and a private form \(x_b\). Their linear parts are distinct across blocks. A clause's top, its leading form in the weak monomial algebra \(\tilde A\), is a polynomial in the squares \((u_i+x_b)^2\), and in \(\tilde A\) every linear form cubes to 0. So the tops have degree at most 2 in \(x_b\) and lie in the span of the products \(u^\alpha x^e\) with \(e\le2\) and \(x\) in the span \(X\) of the \(x_b\). When \(\dim X=d\) is small against the number of blocks, \(d\ll\sqrt M\), that span is too small for all the tops, and they are dependent, as for shared linear parts. So the right parameter is rank modulo a shared part, not the number of blocks per linear part. And such families fall to pinning combined with pattern vacuity, as follows.

General statement. prop:pinned-rank-vacuity. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak unary PHP board, let \(u_1,\dots,u_w\) be affine forms whose row-linear parts are independent modulo constants on every row. Let \(B\ge1\), and suppose the board has at least \(2B-1\) rows and is robust through \(L_{\max(B-1,1)}+B(w+1)\) labels, member pinning's hypotheses (lem:member-pinning, as used for the weak base in cor:single-form-pinning). Fix \(v\in\mathbb F_3^w\). Take a family of blocks, fixed before the prefixes are drawn. Suppose block \(b\) has affine forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b}\) whose linear parts lie in the span of the linear parts of \(u_1,\dots,u_w\) and of \(\rho_b\) further linear forms \(y_{b,1},\dots,y_{b,\rho_b}\). Draw independent uniform \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t_b\times h_b}\) with \(4t_b+2\le B\). Then, with probability at least \(1-\sum_b3^{\rho_b-t_b}\), the weak base plus all randomized-prefix clauses \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) has no PC refutation of degree \(B\).

For \(M\le n^K\) blocks with \(t_b=t=\lceil(K+1)\log_3n\rceil+1\) and \(\rho_b\le\rho\), the failure probability is at most \(n^K3^{\rho-t}\le3^{\rho}/(3n)\). This is \(o(1)\) for \(\rho\le\log_3n-\omega(1)\). Raising \(t\) to \((K+1+c)\log_3n\) allows \(\rho\) up to about \(c\log_3n\), at degree \(B\ge4t+2\).

Proof

Substituting the pins. Write \(L_{b,i}=\sum_j\alpha_ju_j+\sum_l\beta_ly_{b,l}+c\). Modulo the pins \(u_j=v_j\), \(L_{b,i}\) equals \(\lambda_{b,i}(y)=\sum_l\beta_ly_{b,l}+c+\sum_j\alpha_jv_j\). As in member pinning's division step, every polynomial \(F\) in the forms satisfies \(F=F|_{u=v}+\sum_j(u_j-v_j)h_j\) with \(\deg h_j<\deg F\). So each clause equals its restriction \(P_{b,i}(y)\), obtained by substituting \(\lambda_{b,i}\) for every \(L_{b,i}\), plus multiples of the pins, at degree at most \(4t_b+2\). \(P_{b,i}\) is a polynomial of degree at most \(4t_b+2\) in formal variables \(y_{b,l}\). Steps 2 and 3 work with these formal variables, and only at the end are the \(y_{b,l}\) replaced by the affine forms. That is why neither independence of the \(y\)'s nor their independence from the \(u\)'s is needed.
Patterns. For \(y\in\mathbb F_3^{\rho_b}\), the zero pattern \(g^b(y)=([\lambda_{b,i}(y)=0])_i\) takes at most \(3^{\rho_b}\) values. The identities \(1-L^2=[L=0]\) and \(1-s^2=[s=0]\) hold for every \(\mathbb F_3\) value, not only at Boolean points. So, as in the randomized-prefix lemma, the restricted clause \(P_{b,i}\) evaluated at \(y\) is \(g^b_i(y)\,[C_bg^b(y)=0]\). It vanishes for every \(i\) exactly when \(g^b(y)=0\) or \(C_bg^b(y)\ne0\). For each nonzero pattern, \(\Pr[C_bg=0]=3^{-t_b}\), so with probability at least \(1-3^{\rho_b-t_b}\) every \(P_{b,i}\) vanishes on all of \(\mathbb F_3^{\rho_b}\). A union bound over blocks gives the stated probability.
Deriving the restricted clauses. A polynomial \(P\) in \(\rho\) variables that vanishes on \(\mathbb F_3^\rho\) lies in the ideal \((y_l^3-y_l)\): dividing by these monic generators leaves a remainder of degree at most 2 in each variable that vanishes on \(\mathbb F_3^\rho\), hence is zero. The quotients have degree at most \(\deg P-3\). For an affine form \(y=c+\sum a_kx_k\), \(y^3-y=\sum_ka_k(x_k^3-x_k)\) in characteristic 3, since \(a^3=a\) on \(\mathbb F_3\). And \(x^3-x=(x+1)(x^2-x)\) follows from Booleanity at degree 3. So each \(P_{b,i}(y)\) is derived from Booleanity at degree at most \(\max(\deg P_{b,i},3)\le B\). (If \(\deg P\le2\), then \(P=0\).) With step 1, every clause is derived from Booleanity and the pins at degree at most \(B\). In PC a derived line of degree at most \(B\) can replace an axiom in a degree-\(B\) refutation.
Hardness of the pinned base. A degree-\(B\) refutation of the weak base plus the clauses therefore gives one of the weak base plus the pins \(u_j=v_j\) at degree \(B\). The coherent product-constraints corollary with \(r=w\) and \(h=1\) excludes that under the stated rows and robustness. It is stated for the functional base, and the weak base's axioms are among the functional ones on the same variables, as in cor:single-form-pinning. \(\square\)

What it covers

Shared linear parts. With \(\rho_b=0\), lem:member-pinning already gives the result deterministically: the clauses have a common zero \(v\), which may be chosen after the \(C_b\). So this case is a special case of the record, not new. In general \(v\) may also depend on the \(C_b\), since the pinned base is hard for every \(v\).
Small blocks. With \(w=0\), rank is at most \(h_b\). So every family whose blocks all have \(h_b\le\log_3n-\omega(1)\) forms is settled at the conjecture's \(t\).
Shared plus private. The family above, forms \(u_i+x_b\), has \(\rho_b=1\) with \(y_{b,1}=x_b\). It is settled with probability \(1-O(M3^{1-t})\), whatever the private forms are.
Bounded-column blocks. A block supported on \(c\) hole columns has linear parts in a space of dimension up to \(cm\), so this proposition does not recover prop:bounded-column-vacuity. That proposition counts collision-free patterns, \((n+2)^c\), instead of \(3^{\mathrm{rank}}\).
What is left. The pinning ceiling of cor:single-form-pinning is about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) forms at W_RS's degree \(B=\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)\), up to about \(44t\). By this proposition and thm:random-prefix-light-families, a family not settled contains a block with \(n^{2-o(1)}\) support cells, and, for every row-independent set \(U\) below the ceiling, a block, possibly a different one, of rank above \(\log_3n-\omega(1)\) modulo \(U\) (about \(c\log_3n\) if \(t\) is raised). Combining the two arguments within one family, for light blocks of high rank together with heavy blocks of low rank modulo \(U\), is unproved. Random families with \(h_b\gg\log n\) forms per block are of this kind, and so are adversarial families with many unrelated heavy forms.

Next. The recorded tools for W_RS now split families by support (light families, through a count of residual columns and bounded-column vacuity), by column count (bounded-column vacuity) and by rank modulo a pinnable set (this entry). Two steps remain open.

Combine the arguments within one family: pin \(U\), then treat the light blocks on the residual. This needs the pinned base and the Mikša–Nordström residual to coexist, which neither record states.
For heavy blocks of high rank, count the zero patterns achieved on the points that survive on the residual. At the conjecture's \(t\) the union bound allows about \(o(n)\) patterns per block, not \(3^{o(t)}\). The count alone does not suffice: a block with forms \(x_{p,p}\), \(p\le h\), already achieves \(2^h\) patterns on matchings. And pattern counting needs an ideal-membership step on the residual, like the Möbius argument on collision-free points, which is not available there. So the question is whether heavy blocks have few patterns on residual points after pinning, and how to derive the vanishing clauses there.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statements of lem:member-pinning and cor:single-form-pinning with its proof (the reduction of the weak base to the functional base, and the robustness count), prop:bounded-column-vacuity, thm:random-prefix-light-families, and the randomized-prefix lemma. A claim search for pinned rank, pattern-count and vacuity results found no prior version beyond prop:bounded-column-vacuity, which counts collision-free patterns. The proof is a composition, and no computation was needed. A fresh-context reviewer found steps 1 to 4 correct and every hypothesis used. It required these changes, all adopted:

the value identities stated for all \(\mathbb F_3\) values, not only Boolean points;
the formal variables \(y\) made explicit, with the reason no independence of the \(y\)'s is needed, and the replacement of axioms by derived lines noted;
the motivating example restated in the top algebra, with the dependence claimed only for \(d\ll\sqrt M\);
"What is left" corrected: the combination with the light-family theorem within one family is unproved, the threshold made precise, and random families limited to \(h_b\gg\log n\);
the small-block consequence added, and the shared-linear-part case recorded as a special case of member pinning;
the next step corrected: the pattern budget is about \(o(n)\) per block, a matching block shows that counting alone fails, and the missing ideal-membership step on the residual is named.

The changes restrict or clarify claims, so no second pass was made.

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Occupancy pinning: under random prefixes, blocks whose forms are column statistics up to \(O(\log n)\) further forms reduce to the PC hardness of one onto weak PHP whose counts agree mod 3, a system between Mikša and Nordström's hard onto PHP and Beame and Riis's onto functional PHP, whose PC degree Beame and Riis list as open

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a reduction, and a conjecture · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-pinned-residual. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Occupancy pinning: under random prefixes, blocks whose forms are column statistics up to \(O(\log n)\) further forms reduce to the PC hardness of one onto weak PHP whose counts agree mod 3, a system between Mikša and Nordström's hard onto PHP and Beame and Riis's onto functional PHP, whose PC degree Beame and Riis list as open”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-occupancy-pin.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under W_RS. The light-family theorem leaves heavy blocks, among them column statistics over \(n^{1-o(1)}\) holes. Pinned rank vacuity drops every block of low rank modulo a pinned set, but member pinning affords only about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) pinned forms. The \(n\) column sums \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\) are far more, yet they are special: modulo collisions they are Boolean, and the rows force \(\sum_jC_j=n+1\). The proposed next step was to combine pinning with the residual argument. This cycle instead asks whether all \(n\) column sums can be pinned at once, which would take column statistics out of the core.

General statement. prop:occupancy-pin-reduction and conj:occupancy-pinned-php, over \(\mathbb F_3\) on weak unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\).

Reduction. Fix \(o^*\in\mathbb F_3^n\) and \(B\ge1\). Take a family of blocks fixed before the prefixes are drawn. Suppose block \(b\)'s linear parts lie in the span of \(C_1,\dots,C_n\) and \(\rho_b\) further linear forms. Draw independent uniform \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t_b\times h_b}\) with \(4t_b+2\le B\). Then, with probability at least \(1-\sum_b3^{\rho_b-t_b}\), a degree-\(B\) PC refutation of the weak base plus the randomized-prefix clauses gives one of the weak base plus the pins \(C_j=o^*_j\), \(j\le n\), at degree \(B\).
Conjecture. There is a constant \(c>0\) and, for each \(n\), some \(e\le n/2\) with \(e\equiv2\pmod3\), such that the weak base plus the pins \(C_j=0\) for \(j\le e\) and \(C_j=1\) for \(j>e\) has no PC refutation of degree \(n^c\). By symmetry the system depends only on \(e\), and the reduction needs one such \(o^*\).

Together: fix \(K\), take \(M\le n^K\) blocks and \(t_b=t\ge(K+1)\log_3n+\omega(1)\), as in conj:randomized-wide-clause, so that \(M3^{\rho-t}=o(1)\) for \(\rho_b\le\rho=O(1)\), or \(\rho\) up to \(t-K\log_3n-\omega(1)\). With \(B=\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)=O(\log n)\le n^c\), the conjecture gives W_RS with high probability for every family whose blocks have such rank modulo the column sums. That includes column statistics over any number of holes. The reduction uses only degree \(B=O(\log n)\), at least \(4(K+1)\log_3n\); degree \(n^c\) is a stronger form than it needs.

The pinned system

Let \(E^*\) be the zero set of \(o^*\), with \(|E^*|=e\). A pin \(C_j=0\) gives \(x_{ij}=0\) for every \(i\) at degree 2: multiply it by \(x_{ij}\) and use collisions. So the holes of \(E^*\) are deleted. A pin \(C_j=1\), with collisions, says hole \(j\) holds exactly one pigeon. The pinned system is therefore an onto weak PHP: \(n+1\) pigeons, each with \(\sum_jx_{ij}=1\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), so a number of holes \(\equiv1\pmod3\), into \(n-e\) holes, each holding exactly one pigeon.

Counting. Summing rows gives \(\sum_{ij}x_{ij}=n+1\), summing the other pins gives \(n-e\). The difference is \(e+1\). If \(e+1\not\equiv0\pmod3\) this refutes the system at degree 1, which is why the conjecture asks \(e\equiv2\). The same count makes the onto functional PHP of \(n+1\) pigeons into \(n\) holes easy in every characteristic.
Sandwich. Beame and Riis's onto functional PHP (“More on the relative strength of counting principles”, DIMACS Series 39, 1998, Definition 7.2) has, besides the restriction of our axioms, the row exclusions \(x_{ij}x_{ik}=0\). So a PC lower bound for their onto-\(\mathrm{PHP}^{N+3^\ell}_N\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(N=n-e\) and \(e+1=3^\ell\), implies the conjecture. Their Theorem 8.1 proves a Nullstellensatz lower bound of degree \(2\ell-1\) when \(N\ge((p+2)^\ell-p^\ell)/2\), about \(2\log_5N\) at \(p=3\). Their Section 10 lists a polynomial-calculus lower bound for these systems as open. Whether that was settled later was not found in this cycle's search. Their bound does transfer to Nullstellensatz for our system: the restriction \(x_{ij}=0\) for \(j\in E^*\) maps a Nullstellensatz refutation of ours to one of theirs on \(n-e\) holes of no larger degree, since our axioms become theirs or vanish and theirs include the row exclusions. So with \(e+1=3^\ell\) and \(n-e\ge(5^\ell-3^\ell)/2\), our system has Nullstellensatz coefficient degree at least \(2\ell-1\), about \(2\log_5n\approx1.37\log_3n\) (their convention; the PC-style degree is one more). That is Nullstellensatz, not PC, and it misses the needed degree \(B\ge4t+2\ge4(K+1)\log_3n\) by a constant factor. Their Lemma 8.7 also gives a Nullstellensatz refutation of their system of degree \(3^\ell-1\), so this route can never give more than about \(e\). It needs \(e+1=3^\ell\) above the target degree, and \(e=2\) is useless on it. Whether our system, without row exclusions, is also easy at \(e=2\) is open; the small closures below matched the control there. On the other side, Mikša and Nordström (arXiv:1505.01358, Theorem 4.5, restating Alekhnovich and Razborov) prove the graph onto PHP hard, with pigeon clauses and without functionality. Our system has linear rows mod 3 instead of clauses. They imply the clauses but are not implied by them, so neither result applies directly.
Why the construction behind Theorem 4.5 does not extend. There the onto axioms sit in the respected part \(E\), and a pigeon clause is satisfied by assigning one hole's variable set. A mod-3 row cannot be satisfied that way, since the pigeon's other holes stay free. So hole-partition neighbours are not respectful for the rows. Onto is not the problem.
Recorded warning. The column-type entry found PHP plus two or three column-type equations refuted at degree 3 at \(n=6,7\), where plain PHP is not, even when a Boolean occupancy solution exists. So the occupancy picture alone does not predict hardness. Those systems had robustness at most 3. The full pin is the extreme case, so it had to be tested.

Proof of the reduction

This is the proof of prop:pinned-rank-vacuity with \(U=\{C_1,\dots,C_n\}\) and \(v=o^*\), stopped before its last step.

Write each form as \(\sum_j\alpha_jC_j+\sum_l\beta_ly_{b,l}+c\). Every polynomial \(F\) in the forms equals \(F|_{C=o^*}+\sum_j(C_j-o^*_j)h_j\) with \(\deg h_j<\deg F\), so each clause is its restriction \(P_{b,i}(y)\), in formal variables \(y\), plus multiples of the pins, at degree at most \(4t_b+2\).
The zero pattern of block \(b\) at \(C=o^*\) is a function of \(y\in\mathbb F_3^{\rho_b}\) with at most \(3^{\rho_b}\) values. The identities \(1-L^2=[L=0]\) and \(1-s^2=[s=0]\) hold for all \(\mathbb F_3\) values. So every \(P_{b,i}\) vanishes on \(\mathbb F_3^{\rho_b}\) unless some achievable nonzero pattern lies in \(\ker C_b\), which has probability at most \(3^{\rho_b-t_b}\). A union bound over blocks follows.
A polynomial vanishing on \(\mathbb F_3^{\rho}\) lies in \((y_l^3-y_l)\) with quotients of degree at most \(\deg P-3\). Each \(y^3-y\) for an affine form follows from Booleanity at degree 3 in characteristic 3. So every clause is derived from Booleanity and the pins at degree at most \(B\), and a derived line can replace an axiom in a degree-\(B\) refutation. \(\square\)

Member pinning's hypotheses are not needed, because the conjecture replaces its hardness step. The column sums are row-independent modulo constants on every row, since their restrictions to row \(i\) are the distinct cells \(x_{ij}\). But their number \(n\) is far above member pinning's ceiling of about \(\sqrt n/\log n\), so member pinning does not apply.

Finite check: below the nonvacuous size

Exact degree-\(D\) PC closures over \(\mathbb F_3\), with the recorded closure code (occupancy_pin.py, pin_n56.json in research/results/odd_prime_occupancy_pin_20260926/), compared the full pin with pinning only the \(e\) empty holes, which is weak PHP of \(n+1\) pigeons into \(n-e\) holes without onto:

\(n=5,6\), \(e=2\): both unrefuted at \(D=2\), both refuted at \(D=3\). Plain PHP is unrefuted at \(D=3\).
\(e=1\): the full pin is refuted at \(D=2\), as counting predicts for it. The empty-hole-only pin is unrefuted at \(D=2\), and at \(D=3\) is refuted at \(n=5\) but not at \(n=6\).
\(e=4,5\): both refuted at \(D=2\), with at most two holes left.

This decides nothing. At \(e=2\) the control is itself refuted at \(D=3\) at both sizes, so the full pin could not show an extra cost there. The first informative size needs the control unrefuted at \(D=3\): \(n\ge7\), \(e=2\) (8 pigeons into 5 holes), possibly \(n=8\). That run was refused, because the recorded closure code nests Python loops, which a run over 120 s may not do. A compiled kernel was not written in this cycle. Even at \(n=7\) the test would only compare two degree-3 closures, while the conjecture is about degree \(n^c\). Its support is the sandwich above, not this check.

What it means

Column statistics, one of the two heavy classes the light-family theorem leaves, now reduce to one PHP-type conjecture about a single fixed system, conj:occupancy-pinned-php, implied by the open PC case of Beame and Riis's onto functional PHP, and not to a statement about the family.
Dense forms, the other heavy class, are untouched.
Combining this with light blocks in one family, like combining pinned rank vacuity with them, is not done.

Next. Attack conj:occupancy-pinned-php directly, in this order.

Search the literature after 1998 for polynomial-calculus lower bounds on onto functional PHP with counts congruent mod \(p\), Beame and Riis's open problem. Any such bound over \(\mathbb F_3\) of degree \(\omega(\log n)\), for counts differing by \(3^\ell\) with \(3^\ell\) above that degree, gives what the reduction needs; degree \(n^{\Omega(1)}\) proves the conjecture.
An Alekhnovich–Razborov argument on a graph. Restricting to a bounded-degree bipartite graph only lowers degree, and the mod-3 rows then have bounded arity. Take an unbalanced boundary expander of size \((n+1)\times(n-2)\) in which small pigeon sets have about two unique-neighbour holes per pigeon, so that a pigeon's row can be reset to any residue. Check that small subsystems stay satisfiable with onto on all holes, and apply the robust-constraint version of their theorem.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:pinned-rank-vacuity and its proof, the column-type entry's refutation table, Mikša and Nordström's Definitions 3.1 and 3.3 and Theorems 3.8 and 4.5, and Beame and Riis's Definition 7.2, Theorem 8.1, Definition 8.2, Lemma 8.3 and Section 10. Both papers were read from private extracts, and nothing from them is committed beyond citations and paraphrases. Claim searches for occupancy conservativity, column statistics, onto PHP and counting principles found the recorded occupancy-equation results and no version of this reduction or conjecture. A fresh-context reviewer found the pinned-system description, the degree-2 deletion of empty holes, the counting refutation for \(e\not\equiv2\), the reduction proof and the quoted test outputs correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the finite check recorded as below the nonvacuous size, which is named, with the reason the \(n=7\) run was not made stated correctly;
"as counting predicts" limited to the full pin;
the conjecture stated for one \(e\equiv2\pmod3\), as the reduction needs, and with degree \(n^c\) and the parameters that make the union bound work;
the onto functional PHP added as a sufficient route, with Beame and Riis's results and open problem; the Mikša–Nordström paragraph corrected to the real reason their construction does not extend;
the next step made concrete as an Alekhnovich–Razborov argument on an unbalanced expander, and the vague gadget route dropped;
an unsourced attribution removed, and minor wording fixed.

The Nullstellensatz transfer of Beame and Riis's bound was added after the review, so the reviewer made a second pass. It confirmed the transfer (direction, restriction, size condition, and Section 10's open problem) and required:

their degree convention, coefficient degree, stated;
the gap to the needed degree given, with the note that the reduction needs only degree \(O(\log n)\);
their Lemma 8.7 upper bound of degree \(3^\ell-1\) noted, so that the route needs a large \(e\);
wording fixes.

All were adopted.

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The onto pins do not lower the refutation degree at the first informative size: with 8 pigeons and 5 holes, onto weak PHP and plain weak PHP are both first refuted at degree 4, and the onto equations are not in the plain system's closure below that

26 September 2026 · Finite check (exact closures) and a literature pass · open statement A1 under random prefixes, conj:occupancy-pinned-php · cycle odd-prime-onto-pin. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The onto pins do not lower the refutation degree at the first informative size: with 8 pigeons and 5 holes, onto weak PHP and plain weak PHP are both first refuted at degree 4, and the onto equations are not in the plain system's closure below that”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-onto-board-check.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The occupancy-pinning entry reduced column statistics under random prefixes to conj:occupancy-pinned-php. That conjecture says onto weak PHP with pigeon and hole counts agreeing mod 3 is PC-hard over \(\mathbb F_3\). The entry's exact closures at \(n=5,6\) were below the nonvacuous size: there the plain control was already refuted at degree 3. The first informative size is 8 pigeons into 5 holes (\(n=7\), two holes pinned empty). Do the onto equations lower the refutation degree there? A lower degree would be the first evidence that onto structure helps PC. The conjecture is asymptotic and predicts nothing at this size; the stronger guess that onto columns never lower the degree predicts the same degree.

General statement. The statement tested is conj:occupancy-pinned-php. The registered finite check is ex:onto-weak-php-small-boards.

Setup

The pinned system of the conjecture deletes its empty holes at degree 2. What remains is the \(m\times N\) board with \(m=n+1\), \(N=n-e\) and \(m-N=e+1\). With \(e=2\), \(m=N+3\). So the test works directly on the rectangular board, which has far fewer monomials than the full \((n+1)\times n\) board.

Onto system: Booleanity, collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}=0\), rows \(\sum_jx_{ij}=1\) and onto columns \(\sum_ix_{ij}=1\), over \(\mathbb F_3\).
Control: the same without the onto columns, that is weak PHP of \(m\) pigeons into \(N\) holes.

The script onto_rect.py computes exact degree-\(D\) PC closures in the quotient by the collision monomials. It reuses the recorded bit-sliced GF(3) elimination (gf3). The multiplication step was reorganized into one sparse product per chunk, with the monomial space built for an \(m\times N\) board. Three versions ran, with the same closure mathematics:

the first imported the recorded close and wrote onto_rect_D23.json; it is not preserved, but its command and output are in the session archive;
the second, the saved script before the membership test was added, wrote onto_rect_8x5_D4.json;
the saved script wrote onto_rect_D23_member.json, whose refutation fields reproduce onto_rect_D23.json exactly.

The degree-2 and degree-3 cases also agree with the full-board runs of the occupancy-pinning entry at \(n=5,6\). The rectangular board is equivalent to that pinned system for \(D\ge2\), since each pinned-empty variable is derived at degree 2.

Results

Files: onto_rect_D23.json, onto_rect_8x5_D4.json and onto_rect_D23_member.json in research/results/odd_prime_occupancy_pin_20260926/.

board \(m\times N\)	least degree refuting the control	least degree refuting the onto system	monomials at that degree
\(6\times3\)	3	3	343
\(7\times4\)	3	3	1695
\(8\times5\)	4	4	26281

At every board the control survives one degree below its refutation degree, so the onto system could have been refuted lower: at degree 2 on \(6\times3\) and \(7\times4\), where other pinned systems of the occupancy-pinning entry are refuted, and at degree 3 on \(8\times5\). It never was. The \(8\times5\) comparison is the first at degree 3, beyond the degree where the smaller boards compare.
Membership. Is one onto equation \(C_0-1\) already in the control's degree-\(D\) closure? At every degree below the control's refutation degree the answer is no: \(D=2\) on all three boards, and \(D=3\) at \(8\times5\). At the refutation degree it is yes, trivially, since 1 is in the closure (the degree-4 case at \(8\times5\) is not in the file and follows from this). So below the refutation degree the equal degrees are not explained by the onto equations being cheap consequences of the control. There they are new constraints that still do not lower the refutation degree.

The next board, \(9\times6\) at degree 4, has 114265 collision-free monomials, \(\sum_{k\le4}\binom6k9^k\), against 26281 \(=\sum_{k\le4}\binom5k8^k\) at \(8\times5\). It was not run. In the timing record, the two degree-4 closures at \(8\times5\) took 471 s (run bb37f8857f), against about 24 s at degree 3 with 5801 monomials (run cc632bd4c0, from its per-case log): 4.5 times the monomials cost about 20 times the time. With 4.35 times the monomials again, the \(9\times6\) run would take a few hours, above the 30-minute limit. It would answer only the same question one size later.

Literature

The closest PC theorem found is Austrin and Risse (arXiv:2201.10835): perfect matching on random regular graphs with an odd number of vertices needs PC degree \(\Omega(n/\log n)\) over fields of characteristic other than 2, by reduction from Tseitin. It is the mod-2 analogue, for non-bipartite graphs: linear counting refutes it over characteristic 2 and does not refute it over other characteristics.
For onto functional PHP with imbalance a power of \(p\), Beame and Riis (DIMACS Series 39, 1998, Section 10) list polynomial-calculus lower bounds as open. No such result was found in this cycle's searches, nor any for our encoding, with mod-3 linear rows and no functionality axioms.
Austrin and Risse's route does not transfer directly. Its source, Tseitin mod 2, is hard over characteristic other than 2. The mod-3 analogue, Tseitin mod 3, is easy over \(\mathbb F_3\) by Gaussian elimination. The obstruction in our system is integral (each pigeon needs at least one hole), not modular.

What it means

On the three smallest boards, onto weak PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\) with counts agreeing mod 3 has the same least refutation degree as weak PHP on the same board, and at \(8\times5\) that is the first comparison that could have failed. This is consistent with conj:occupancy-pinned-php and with the stronger guess that the onto columns never lower the degree. It is a finite check at three sizes, and says nothing asymptotic. The finished runs answer the question they were designed for, so no further size is run.

Next. The conjecture needs a proof. The evidence that a degree-3 functional respects both systems at \(8\times5\) is the onto system's non-refutation at degree 3. The recorded residual route does not give one directly. lem:functional-residual adds the functionality axioms and ends at the imported Mikša–Nordström theorem for graph functional PHP. With onto added, that system is Beame and Riis's onto functional PHP, and their Lemma 8.7 refutes it at Nullstellensatz degree \(3^\ell-1\) for imbalance \(3^\ell\), so degree 2 at imbalance 3. So any proof for \(e=2\) must avoid functionality and use the mod-3 rows as they are. The next step is to test that boundary at the smallest size: is onto weak PHP with functionality axioms added, at \(6\times3\) through \(8\times5\), refuted at degree 2 or 3 as Lemma 8.7 predicts, while the version without functionality is not? If so, functionality is exactly what makes the onto version easy, and a proof must construct a functional that exploits non-functional pigeons.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:occupancy-pinned-php, the occupancy-pinning entry's pinned system and runs, lem:functional-residual's statement, and Beame and Riis's Definition 7.2, Lemma 8.7 and Section 10 from a private extract. A fresh-context reviewer checked the closure logic (degree-descending columns, multiplication of rows of pivot degree at most \(D-1\) only, the product layout, the membership test), the table against the JSON, the monomial counts and the board equivalence, and found them correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the provenance of each result file stated;
the timing figures taken from the timing record;
the "first comparison" claim corrected: the smaller boards are comparisons at degree 2;
the equal-degree prediction attributed to the stronger guess only;
"exactly as hard" replaced by equal least refutation degree;
the membership conclusion limited to degrees below refutation;
the next step rewritten, with lem:functional-residual's functionality axioms checked against the onto system;
the open-problem citation made exact and the encoding named;
wording on counting, and the script's docstring, fixed.

The changes restrict claims. The Lemma 8.7 remark in the next step was added after the review from the same paper; it proposes a test and claims nothing new.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	23 min 10.62 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 40.91 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 55.32 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	56.31 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	1 min 20.22 s
Individually measured computation	13 min 17.72 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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The triple count without functionality: in onto weak PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), Beame and Riis's counting refutation leaves the equation \(\sum_ie_3(\text{row}_i)=\binom N3-\binom m3\), which functionality turns into \(0=2\); at \(8\times5\), exact closures show onto and functionality together falling at degree 3 while neither alone does

26 September 2026 · Working proof, with a finite check · open statement A1 under random prefixes, conj:occupancy-pinned-php · cycle odd-prime-functionality-boundary. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The triple count without functionality: in onto weak PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), Beame and Riis's counting refutation leaves the equation \(\sum_ie_3(\text{row}_i)=\binom N3-\binom m3\), which functionality turns into \(0=2\); at \(8\times5\), exact closures show onto and functionality together falling at degree 3 while neither alone does”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-triple-count.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. conj:occupancy-pinned-php asks that onto weak PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(m=N+3\) pigeons and \(N\) holes, be PC-hard. Beame and Riis's onto functional PHP, which adds the row exclusions \(x_{ij}x_{ik}=0\), has a Nullstellensatz refutation of degree 2 for this imbalance ("More on the relative strength of counting principles", DIMACS Series 39, 1998, Lemma 8.7). Their degree counts only the multipliers; the products reach total degree 3, the degree used for PC closures below. This cycle attempts that refutation on the conjecture's system: does it go through without functionality, and if not, what exactly is left?

General statement. prop:onto-triple-count. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\mathcal O_{m,N}\) be onto weak PHP: Booleanity, collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}=0\), rows \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}=1\) and onto columns \(c_j=\sum_ix_{ij}=1\), for \(m\) pigeons and \(N\) holes. Write \(e_k(r_i)\) for the \(k\)-th elementary symmetric polynomial in pigeon \(i\)'s variables.

\(e_2(r_i)=0\) is derived at degree 2, and \(\sum_ie_3(r_i)=\binom N3-\binom m3\) is derived at degree 3.
With the row exclusions added, every \(e_3(r_i)\) is 0, so part 1 refutes the system at degree 3 whenever \(\binom N3\not\equiv\binom m3\pmod3\). For \(m=N+3\), \(\binom m3-\binom N3=(3N^2+3N+2)/2\equiv1\pmod 3\) for every \(N\). This is Beame and Riis's refutation at imbalance 3, of total degree 3 (multiplier degree 2).
Without the row exclusions, part 1's equation is a constraint on pigeons that hold several holes: modulo 3, \(e_3(r_i)\) at a Boolean point is \(\binom{d_i}3\), where \(d_i\) is pigeon \(i\)'s number of holes. The rows force \(d_i\equiv1\pmod3\), and \(\binom{d}{3}\) is \(0,1,2\) for \(d=1,4,7\). So at Boolean points the equation reads \(\sum_i\binom{d_i}3\equiv\binom N3-\binom m3\). Degree sequences allowed by the rows meet it, for example one pigeon with 7 holes or two with 4 each, giving 2. This is a statement about each pigeon's row taken separately. No Boolean point satisfies all of \(\mathcal O_{m,N}\), so it does not prove that the triple count fails to refute. That the triple count does not refute \(\mathcal O_{m,N}\) is a heuristic reading, supported by the \(8\times5\) check below.

Proof

\(e_2\). By Booleanity, \(r_i^2=r_i+2e_2(r_i)\). And \(r_i^2-r_i=(r_i-1)r_i\) is a multiple of the row axiom. So \(2e_2(r_i)\), hence \(e_2(r_i)\), is derived at degree 2.
Row side. For a 3-set \(A\) of pigeons, \(\prod_{i\in A}r_i-1\) is a combination of row axioms with multipliers of degree at most 2, for example \((r_1-1)r_2r_3+(r_2-1)r_3+(r_3-1)\). Expanding \(\prod_{i\in A}r_i\) gives one term per map \(A\to\) holes. Non-injective maps contain a collision \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\). So, modulo degree-3 multiples of the axioms, \(\sum_{|A|=3}\prod_{i\in A}r_i=M_3\), the sum of \(X_\pi\) over all partial matchings \(\pi\) with three edges, and it also equals \(\binom m3\).
Column side. Likewise \(\sum_{|B|=3}\prod_{j\in B}c_j=\binom N3\) at degree 3. Expanding gives one term per map \(\psi:B\to\) pigeons, with no collisions since the holes differ. Injective \(\psi\) give \(M_3\) again. The rest is \(R\):
- maps with \(\psi(j)=\psi(k)=i\ne\psi(l)\) contribute \(\sum_i\sum_{j<k}x_{ij}x_{ik}\sum_{l\ne j,k}\sum_{i'\ne i}x_{i'l}\);
- constant maps contribute \(\sum_ie_3(r_i)\).
By the onto axiom, \(\sum_{i'\ne i}x_{i'l}=1-x_{il}\) modulo \((c_l-1)\), at degree 3 after multiplying by \(x_{ij}x_{ik}\). So the first part is \(\sum_i\bigl((N-2)e_2(r_i)-3e_3(r_i)\bigr)\), which is 0 by the \(e_2\) step, since \(3=0\). Hence \(R\equiv\sum_ie_3(r_i)\).
Part 1. Subtracting the two sides gives \(\binom N3-\binom m3=R=\sum_ie_3(r_i)\), at degree 3.
Part 2. Every monomial of \(e_3(r_i)\) contains a row exclusion. The binomial identity is direct: \(\binom{N+3}3-\binom N3=(9N^2+9N+6)/6=(3N^2+3N+2)/2\), which is \(\equiv1\pmod3\) because \(3N(N+1)/2\equiv0\).
Part 3. At a Boolean point, \(e_3(r_i)\) counts 3-subsets of pigeon \(i\)'s holes. By Lucas's theorem, \(\binom d3\bmod3\) is the second base-3 digit of \(d\). \(\square\) (Parts 1 and 2 and the evaluation in part 3 are proved; part 3's reading as non-refutation is not.)

The same comparison at \(k=3^s\) sets, Beame and Riis's general case, leaves the analogous remainder: pigeons covering several holes of a \(k\)-set of holes. With functionality it vanishes. Without it, it is a symmetric function of the pigeons' hole sets, constrained through the base-3 digits of their degrees. That generalization is not worked out here.

Finite check: at \(8\times5\) the boundary is functionality

Exact degree-\(D\) PC closures (onto_rect.py, onto_rect_functional.json in research/results/odd_prime_occupancy_pin_20260926/, the script of the onto board check with the functionality variants added). "Refuted" means the degree-\(D\) closure contains 1.

board, \(D\)	weak PHP	+ functionality	+ onto	+ onto + functionality
\(6\times3\), 2	no	no	no	no
\(6\times3\), 3	yes	yes	yes	yes
\(7\times4\), 2	no	no	no	no
\(7\times4\), 3	yes	yes	yes	yes
\(8\times5\), 2	no	no	no	no
\(8\times5\), 3	no	no	no	yes

At \(8\times5\), the only board where weak PHP survives degree 3, onto and functionality together are refuted at degree 3, as part 2 predicts. Either one alone is not. This is the first informative size, and the test was chosen because part 2 predicted its outcome: a degree-3 refutation for the onto functional system at every \(N\). With the onto board check, where weak PHP and the onto system are both first refuted at degree 4 at \(8\times5\), the boundary is sharp at this size. Functionality alone at \(8\times5\), \(D=4\) was not run.

What it means

The one known refutation technique for onto PHP with counts agreeing mod \(p\), counting \(p^\ell\)-sets from both sides, fails for conj:occupancy-pinned-php's system at its first level. The reason is identified: pigeons with 4 or 7 holes, which the mod-3 rows allow, absorb the discrepancy. The conjecture's system is on the other side of that boundary from Beame and Riis's easy system.
The recorded residual route (lem:functional-residual) adds functionality axioms before the imported Mikša–Nordström bound. With onto pins, the count carries over to a graph's neighbourhoods: with functionality both sides reduce to the graph's 3-matchings, so \(\binom{m'}3=\binom{N'}3\) is derived at degree 3 whatever the graph is. That refutes the residual system whenever \(\binom{m'}3\not\equiv\binom{N'}3\pmod3\) and every residual hole keeps its onto axiom. The imbalance \(m'-N'\) is 3 only if the restrictions remove pigeons and holes in matched pairs. Any small constant imbalance other than 0 still gives a constant-degree refutation, through \(k=3^\ell\). So a proof cannot pass through onto functional graph PHP.
This is not a lower bound. Higher counts, \(k=9,27,\dots\), give further digit constraints. Whether some combination of them refutes \(\mathcal O_{N+3,N}\) at low degree is open. The finite check says none does at degree 3 on \(8\times5\).

Next. A heuristic points at the proof side. The \(k\)-set counts compare \(\binom mk\) with sums of products \(\prod_i\binom{d_i}{k_i}\) over the pigeons' degrees. By Vandermonde's identity these sum to \(\binom{\sum_id_i}k\) for a real configuration. By Lucas's theorem, \(\binom{N+3^S}k\equiv\binom Nk\pmod3\) for \(k<3^S\), since adding \(3^S\) leaves the lower \(S\) base-3 digits unchanged. So take a virtual degree sequence with every \(d_i\equiv1\pmod3\), summing to \(N+3^S\) instead of \(N\). This needs \(N+3^S\equiv m\pmod3\), which holds for \(m=N+3\) and \(S\ge1\), and \(N+3^S\ge m\). With \(3^S>N\), such a sequence meets every count with \(k\le N\). The case \(S=1\) is the all-ones sequence, consistent with degree 2 failing. Counts do refute at \(k=N+1\) through the row side, since there are no matchings with \(N+1\) edges, when \(\binom m{N+1}\not\equiv0\pmod 3\). So refutations built only from such counts need degree about \(N\). This is not a proof: a refutation may combine counts with non-symmetric reasoning.

The next step is the proof side. Build a design in Beame and Riis's sense (their Definition 8.2 and Lemma 8.3: a map from partial matchings to \(\mathbb F_p\) consistent with rows and columns gives a lower bound on Nullstellensatz multiplier degree), adapted to the conjecture's system, which has non-functional pigeons. The design must assign values to every monomial of degree at most \(d\), including those where a pigeon holds 2 or 3 holes. By part 1, for \(d\ge3\) the values on the monomials of \(\sum_ie_3(r_i)\) must sum to 2, and those of each \(e_2(r_i)\) to 0, so monomials where a pigeon holds 3 holes get nonzero values. The virtual full configurations behind such a design have pigeons of degree \(1,4,7,\dots\). Degree 7 cannot be excluded in advance, since the sequences above may need pigeons of degree \(\equiv1\pmod9\) or larger. Try first the symmetric designs whose values depend only on the multiset of pigeon degrees in a monomial. A design of multiplier degree \(d\) is a Nullstellensatz lower bound, short of PC, but it would be the first lower bound for the system that uses its non-functional pigeons.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:occupancy-pinned-php, the onto board check, lem:functional-residual's statement, and Beame and Riis's Definition 7.2, Lemma 7.5, Definition 8.2, Lemma 8.3 and Lemma 8.7 with its proof, from a private extract. A fresh-context reviewer checked parts 1 and 2 by hand, including the multiplicity 3 in the column-side reduction and the congruence, and found them correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

Beame and Riis's degree convention stated, since their degree 2 is total degree 3;
the reason for the congruence added;
part 3's non-refutation reading marked as a heuristic, with the per-row statement made precise;
the title and finite-check heading limited to \(8\times5\), and the unrun degree-4 case noted;
the graph remark corrected: the count carries over, but imbalance 3 in the residual needs matched removals, and the conclusion is limited to onto functional graph PHP;
the Lucas heuristic made precise, with its conditions and the refuting count at \(k=N+1\);
the design step reconciled with part 1: 3-hole monomials must get nonzero values, and degree 7 is not excluded.

The changes restrict or clarify claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 43.33 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 29.89 s
Computation design and coding	59.47 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 5.18 s
Individually measured computation	8.59 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review of the peeling line: under random prefixes, light, low-rank and (conditionally) column-statistic families are peeled off A1, but each cycle has moved further from the dense heavy core, which no peeled class touches; the next step returns to that core

26 September 2026 · Route review with two tests · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-onto-design. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the peeling line: under random prefixes, light, low-rank and (conditionally) column-statistic families are peeled off A1, but each cycle has moved further from the dense heavy core, which no peeled class touches; the next step returns to that core”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-peeling-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the random-core review, four entries peeled classes off A1 under W_RS:

pinned rank vacuity;
occupancy pinning, a reduction to conj:occupancy-pinned-php;
the onto board check;
the triple count.

The proposed next step, a Nullstellensatz design for onto weak PHP, would be a Nullstellensatz statement about a conjecture that serves one class of one open statement. That is more than one reduction below every open statement, so this cycle is a route review.

General statement. The line's claim: under random prefixes (conj:randomized-wide-clause), A1 splits into classes that can each be dropped by pattern counting or pinning:

light families (thm:random-prefix-light-families);
families of rank \(O(\log n)\) modulo a small pinnable set (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity);
families of rank \(O(\log n)\) modulo the column sums, given conj:occupancy-pinned-php (prop:occupancy-pin-reduction).

The goal needs W_RS for every family, including families that contain a block with nearly full support and high rank modulo the column sums and modulo every small pinnable set. That is the dense heavy core.

Falsification attempt

Does the peeling approach the dense core? Take \(M\le n^K\) dense random blocks, each with \(h\) forms, and nothing else.

Their forms have support \(n^{2-o(1)}\), so the light-family theorem does not apply.
Member pinning's robustness requirement, about \(8B^2w^2\) labels against \(N\) per row, caps the pinnable set at \(w_{\max}\approx\sqrt n/\log n\) forms, as recorded for cor:single-form-pinning. If \(h\le w_{\max}\), a block's own forms could be pinned, so a single block can be peeled. Across \(M\ge n\) blocks with independent random forms, the union of their linear parts has rank far above \(w_{\max}\). No common pinnable set then leaves every block of rank at most \(\log_3n-\omega(1)\), the bound the union bound \(n^K3^{\rho-t}\) allows at the conjecture's \(t\).
With \(h\ge w_{\max}+\log_3n\), even a single block has rank above the threshold modulo every admissible pinned set.
Rank modulo the column sums is likewise about \(h\) for random forms.

The peeled classes are defined by a count below \(3^t\): of achievable zero patterns, or of rank modulo a pinned set. A dense block's pattern count on the relevant points is superexponential in \(h\), \((h+2)^h\) on the residual, as the light-family entry recorded. So no class defined by such a count reaches these families. The falsification succeeds for that kind of peeling. It does not exclude other mechanisms.

How many dense blocks are already handled? thm:few-equations-hardness and cor:few-blocks-w settle W, hence W_RS with chosen prefixes, for up to \(c\ln n\) blocks whose designated forms are far from additive (few equations). Weighted replay stops near \(n/10\) blocks with product weights (conditioning review). So the core is collective: families of many dense blocks.

Assessment of the line

What it produced. Two working proofs (pinned rank vacuity, the occupancy-pin reduction) and a clean conjecture about a single system, conj:occupancy-pinned-php. It also gave a heuristic explanation of why Beame and Riis's counting refutation fails for that system (the triple count), supported by a first nonvacuous check at \(8\times5\).
Where it went. Each step followed the previous entry's gap: pinning, then the column sums, then onto PHP, then counting principles, then designs. The last two steps concern a PHP variant that is interesting in itself but serves only families of rank \(O(\log n)\) modulo the column sums. Unconditionally, W_RS handles column statistics only when they are light, over at most about \(n^{1-\eta}\) holes. W's recorded frozen-cell theorem (thm:frozen-cell-w) covers literal cell blocks and column-plus-sparse blocks within its own scope.
Qualitative assessment. The line is sound but off the critical path. It narrows the families left to the dense heavy core, which it has been circling since the randomized review, but it cannot enter that core. conj:occupancy-pinned-php is parked with its next step, a design, recorded. The route returns to the dense core.

Outside leads

Beame and Riis's designs (DIMACS Series 39, 1998, Definition 8.2 and Lemma 8.3) for conj:occupancy-pinned-php. A design gives a Nullstellensatz lower bound. When \(\binom N3\not\equiv\binom m3\pmod3\), for example at imbalance 3, the triple count forces a design to give nonzero values to monomials where one pigeon holds three holes. In the conjecture's regime \(e+1=3^\ell\), \(\ell\ge2\), Lucas's theorem gives \(\binom{N+3^\ell}3\equiv\binom N3\), and the triple count constrains nothing. Where it breaks: Nullstellensatz only, and it serves a parked conjecture. Test. Passed at the smallest informative size: at \(8\times5\) the onto system is not PC-refuted at degree 3, so it is not Nullstellensatz-refuted at total degree 3 either. By linear-algebra duality there is a total-degree-3 design: a functional \(L\) with \(L(1)=1\) and \(L(mf)=0\) for every axiom \(f\) and monomial \(m\) with \(\deg(mf)\le3\) (from the onto board check). Beame and Riis's designs use multiplier degree instead.
Alekhnovich and Razborov's immunity method (Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case, 2003), for the onto system and for dense blocks. It needs constraints of immunity at least 2, those no degree-1 polynomial certifies. Where it breaks: over \(\mathbb F_3\) every weak-PHP row and every onto column is itself a linear equation, so each has immunity 1. Test. Falsified: a degree-1 polynomial, \(\sum_jx_j-1\), cuts out each row's solution set on the Boolean cube, so immunity is 1. The script confirms it for rows of length 1 to 7 (review_tests.json, L3). The method can only enter through the expander structure, as Mikša and Nordström do, not through the rows.
Pseudo-calibration (Barak, Hopkins, Kelner, Kothari, Moitra and Potechin, "A nearly tight sum-of-squares lower bound for the planted clique problem", 2016), for the dense core. Treat the randomized prefixes as the random part of a planted-versus-null pair: build the pseudo-expectation from the low-degree Fourier coefficients of the planted distribution over \(C\). Where it breaks: the method is for sum-of-squares over the reals. The thread's recorded characteristic-3 obstruction to averaging stands. And W_RS's forms are fixed, so there is no planted structure in them. Test. Not run: it needs a planted distribution for W_RS's clauses, which has not been formulated. Formulating one is the next step's first question.

Absurd bridges

3-adic analysis. Translation: the \(k\)-set counts of onto weak PHP see only the base-3 digits of the pigeons' degree sum. A refutation by counting must see that the sum is exactly \(N\), not \(N+3^S\). In \(\mathbb Z_3\), \(N+3^S\to N\), so the two are 3-adically close. What a theorem there would give, heuristically: counts at levels \(k<3^S\) cannot tell \(N\) from \(N+3^S\), which suggests that counting refutations need degree about \(N\). Smallest test: Lucas's congruence and a valid virtual degree sequence. Test. Passed: \(\binom{N+3^S}k\equiv\binom Nk\pmod3\) for all \(k<3^S\), \(N=5,\dots,20\), \(S=2,3\). A sequence of pigeon degrees all \(\equiv1\pmod3\) and at most \(N\), summing to \(N+9\), exists for each \(N\). For example, at \(N=5\) with 8 pigeons: six of degree 1 and two of degree 4 (review_tests.json, B1). It serves only the parked conjecture.
Valence counting in chemistry (the handshake lemma for molecules). Translation: pigeons are atoms of valence \(\equiv1\pmod3\), holes are monovalent atoms, and an onto weak PHP solution is a molecule. Chemistry's degree-sum identity says the total valence equals twice the bonds. Here it says the pigeons' valences sum to \(N\), which contradicts \(m>N\) with valences at least 1. What a theorem there would give: that integral valence counting is the whole obstruction. Smallest test: whether the identity survives reduction mod 3. Test. Falsified as a tool: mod 3 the identity is the degree-1 count \(m\equiv N\), which holds. The integral content, valences at least 1, is exactly what polynomial calculus over \(\mathbb F_3\) cannot count, so the translation restates the conjecture.

Bridge follow-up

Pólya–Burnside isomer counting. No work: it serves the random-form line, which is parked. Follow-up. Closed: parked with that line.
Margin-preserving null models. It motivated measuring sharing by rank modulo a shared part, which prop:pinned-rank-vacuity uses. Follow-up. Developed.
Insurance pooling. Used in the union bounds of pinned rank vacuity and occupancy pinning. Follow-up. Developed.
Shannon's information budget. No work. Follow-up. Continuing, for the dense core.
Kotecký–Preiss. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the characteristic-3 obstacle stands.

Lead follow-up

Absolute irreducibility over \(\mathbb F_3\). No work. Follow-up. Closed: it served a rational version of generic directness, parked with the random-form line.
The first-moment pin. Developed into prop:pinned-rank-vacuity and prop:occupancy-pin-reduction. Follow-up. Developed.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, on randomized blocks. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the dense core is its target, and the characteristic-3 transfer is the open step.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer. No work. Follow-up. Continuing, as above.
Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems, retargeted to random prefixes. No work. Follow-up. Continuing, for the dense core.
The Mikša–Nordström closure. The triple-count entry showed its functionality axioms make onto-pinned residuals easy. Follow-up. Continuing: it still carries every randomized-prefix result, but it cannot carry onto pins.
Razborov–Smolensky prefixes. They carried pinned rank vacuity and occupancy pinning in this line, through the pointwise error \(3^{-t}\). Follow-up. Developed.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under W_RS: the collective dense core. The recorded barriers for many dense blocks, the replay weight barrier (conj:replay-weight-barrier) and the conditional Gauss-sum barrier (lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier), were stated for W's clause shape. The randomized-prefix entry expected them to apply to W_RS but did not check. The next step is to check them against W_RS's clauses \(g_iQ^C\). Do product weights still stop near \(n/10\) dense blocks when each block's clauses carry an independent random \(C\)? Does the Gauss-sum loss \(3^{u-mN/2}\) survive the extra randomness of \(C\)? A barrier that fails for W_RS is the first opening into the core. A barrier that survives shows the core is as hard under random prefixes as under W's prefixes. Pseudo-calibration stays in the background as motivation; it is blocked in characteristic 3.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the registered statements summarized above, cor:single-form-pinning's robustness count, thm:few-equations-hardness and cor:few-blocks-w, and thm:frozen-cell-w's scope. Test numbers were read from review_tests.json (research/results/odd_prime_peeling_review_20260926/). A fresh-context reviewer required these changes, all adopted:

the falsification witness corrected: a single block with \(h\le w_{\max}\) can be pinned, so the witness is many random blocks or \(h\ge w_{\max}+\log_3n\), with \(w_{\max}\) sourced;
the falsification scoped to count-defined classes;
the recorded few-block results checked, so the core is stated as collective;
the unsupported claim about column statistics under W replaced by the recorded scopes;
the triple count described as a heuristic explanation;
the design lead restricted to imbalance where the triple count is nonzero, with the duality degree convention stated;
the 3-adic example corrected to degrees at most \(N\), with the test rerun, and its conclusion labelled heuristic;
the immunity test stated as the degree-1 fact it is;
the next step moved from pseudo-calibration to checking the recorded many-block barriers against W_RS's clauses;
a follow-up filled in.

The changes restrict or correct claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 6.46 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 43.99 s
Computation design and coding	37.73 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 44.27 s
Individually measured computation	0.27 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

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The randomized block annihilator: under random prefixes every nonzero combination \(\sigma\) of a block's prefix sums kills all its clauses at weight degree 2, generalizing W's prefix weights, so product replay costs at most W's 2 degrees per block; equal-weight averages over the combinations vanish

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 under random prefixes, the collective dense core · cycle odd-prime-barrier-check. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The randomized block annihilator: under random prefixes every nonzero combination \(\sigma\) of a block's prefix sums kills all its clauses at weight degree 2, generalizing W's prefix weights, so product replay costs at most W's 2 degrees per block; equal-weight averages over the combinations vanish”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-randomized-annihilator.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The peeling review sent the route to the collective dense core: families of many dense blocks under W_RS. It asked whether the recorded many-block barriers, stated for W's clause shape, still hold for W_RS's clauses \(g_iQ^{C}\).

conj:replay-weight-barrier says no weight certifies random families at \(K\ge1\). Its evidence includes that product weights cost at least 2 degrees per nontrivial block, assuming no cancellation in the cell degree, and so stop near \(n/10\) blocks (conditioning review).
lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier concerns the killer moment of random product tops. That belongs to the random-form line, parked in the random-core review, and does not bear on W_RS's core.

So the question is what weighted replay costs per block under random prefixes, and what the random prefixes add.

General statement. lem:randomized-block-annihilator. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let a block have affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\), \(g_i=1-L_i^2\), prefix matrix \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\), \(s_j=\sum_ic_{ji}g_i\) and \(Q^C=\prod_j(1-s_j^2)\).

Every polynomial \(\omega\) in the ideal generated by \(s_1,\dots,s_t\) annihilates the block's clauses on the cube: \(\omega\,g_iQ^C\) vanishes at every Boolean point, and it is derived from Booleanity at degree \(\max(\deg(\omega g_iQ^C),2)\). In particular each \(\sigma_a=\sum_ja_js_j=\sum_i(a^{\mathsf T}C)_ig_i\), \(a\ne0\), is an annihilator of degree at most 2 in the cells. W's recorded prefix weight \(1-L_j^2=g_j\) is the special case \(a^{\mathsf T}C=e_j\).
So a product weight \(\prod_b\sigma_{a_b}\) over \(M\) blocks has degree at most \(2M\), and multiplied into a clause it stays within degree \(2M+4t+2\). Under random prefixes, product replay therefore costs at most W's 2 per block. A matching lower bound is not proved. Some blocks cost less, as shown below. This bounds from above what product weights can need, not what they reach. It is not a hardness result, since a nonzero \(R(\omega)\) is not proved.
For \(e\le2t-1\), \(\sum_{a\in\mathbb F_3^t}\sigma_a^{\,e}=0\) identically. So the equal-weight average over \(a\) of any polynomial in \(\sigma_a\) of degree below \(2t\) vanishes. Unequal weights on the \(\sigma_a^2\) give every quadratic form in the \(s_j\), which part 1 already covers. The case \(e=1\) is vacuous, since \(a\mapsto\sigma_a\) is linear.

Proof

Part 1. At a Boolean point every \(g_i\) is 0 or 1, so every \(s_j\) lies in \(\mathbb F_3\), and \(Q^C=\prod_j(1-s_j^2)\) is 1 exactly when all \(s_j=0\), and 0 otherwise. So any \(\omega\) in the ideal vanishes wherever \(Q^C=1\), and \(\omega g_iQ^C\) vanishes on the whole cube. A polynomial vanishing on the cube lies in the Booleanity ideal at its own degree, at least 2: reduce each \(x^2\) to \(x\), which never raises degree, and a multilinear polynomial vanishing on the cube is 0.
Part 2. Degrees add over a product. The clause has degree at most \(4t+2\).
Part 3. Expand \(\sigma_a^e\) into monomials \(\prod_ja_j^{k_j}\) with \(\sum k_j=e\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\sum_{x}x^k\) is 0 unless \(k\ge2\) is even (and \(3\equiv0\) for \(k=0\)). So a monomial's sum over \(a\in\mathbb F_3^t\) vanishes unless every \(k_j\ge2\), which needs \(e\ge2t\). \(\square\)

Blocks that cost less

Vacuous blocks. If no achievable zero pattern other than 0 lies in \(\ker C\), for example when \(C\) has full column rank, or with probability at least \(1-(2^h-1)3^{-t}\) over a uniform \(C\) by a union bound over the nonzero 0/1 patterns, every \(g_iQ^C\) vanishes on the cube and the block costs 0.
Blocks with a common vanishing form. If some index \(l\) lies in the support of every achievable nonzero pattern in \(\ker C\), then \(L_l\) kills every clause of the block, at cost 1.

So the lower bound of 2 per block in the conditioning review needs a nontriviality hypothesis here, excluding these cases. Proving that lower bound under such a hypothesis, with the review's caveat of no cancellation in the cell degree, is not done in this entry.

What random prefixes add, and what they do not

More weights per block. W's replay picks one prefix form per block, \(k\) choices. Here the degree-2 annihilators include the nonzero vectors of the row space of \(C\). There are \(3^t-1\) of them when \(\mathrm{rank}\,C=t\), which needs \(h\ge t\), and the \(g_i\) are linearly independent. That is between \(3n^{K+1}\) and \(9n^{K+1}\) at the conjecture's \(t\). A replay argument could use that freedom to keep \(R(\omega)\ne0\), the step that is open for W's product weights.
Blocks reached. Each choice costs at most 2 per block. Whether product weights under W_RS stop at \(O(D_0)\) blocks depends on the unproved lower bound. The offset changes from W's \(22k\) to W_RS's refutation degree \(\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)\), which is also \(O(\log n)\).
No equal-weight averaging. Part 3 removes the equal-weight average over the choices. This is a different vanishing from the averaging obstruction over near-matchings recorded in the replay weight barrier entry.

So the product-weight evidence for conj:replay-weight-barrier carries over to W_RS as an upper cost of 2 per block. The matching lower bound needs a nontriviality hypothesis and is not proved. The restriction-kill part of that conjecture's evidence was not examined under random prefixes. Random prefixes enlarge the choice of annihilators. They do not lower the degree on any nontrivial block shown here, and whether some choice costs less on nontrivial blocks is open.

Next. Product replay is not shown to do better for W_RS than for W, where the recorded cap holds under the no-cancellation caveat. The route's other recorded option is degree-free absorption. The conditioning review sent A1 there, and no mechanism for it is recorded. The next cycle is a route review of the collective core as a whole, W and W_RS together. It should weigh whether the logarithmic-prefix reduction should be replaced, for example by a reduction that does not produce many independent dense blocks, before any further attempt at the core.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the conditioning review's product-weight count, conj:replay-weight-barrier and its entry's averaging paragraph, and the randomized-prefix lemma. A fresh-context reviewer found part 1 and the part 3 arithmetic correct. It found no recorded statement of the per-block degree-2 annihilator, but noted that it generalizes W's prefix weight directly. It required these changes, all adopted:

the cap claim weakened to an upper cost of 2 per block, with cheaper blocks (cost 0 or 1) exhibited and the missing lower bound stated;
the degree offset stated for W_RS;
the averaging citation corrected to the replay-weight-barrier entry, as a different vanishing;
part 3 sharpened to \(e\le2t-1\), with the \(e=1\) case noted as vacuous and unequal weights addressed;
the conclusions limited to the product-weight evidence;
the count of annihilators stated with its rank hypothesis.

Part 3 was strengthened from \(e\le2\) to \(e\le2t-1\) after the review, so the reviewer made a second pass. It found part 3 correct, and required that the conclusions about blocks reached, the closing sentence and the next step not claim a stop or a cost lower bound, and that the vacuous-block condition be stated as a probability. All were adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	6 min 13.83 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 10.24 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 19.68 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	43.78 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review of the collective dense core: the randomized-prefix program removed structured adversaries but produced no tool for the core, where the recorded mechanisms gain nothing; over \(\mathbb F_3\) a negated equation cuts the cube by a quadric, and on recorded small instances removes fewer polynomial dimensions than an \(\mathbb F_2\) flat; next, a literature pass for techniques without flats

26 September 2026 · Route review with two tests · open statement A1, the collective dense core · cycle odd-prime-core-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the collective dense core: the randomized-prefix program removed structured adversaries but produced no tool for the core, where the recorded mechanisms gain nothing; over \(\mathbb F_3\) a negated equation cuts the cube by a quadric, and on recorded small instances removes fewer polynomial dimensions than an \(\mathbb F_2\) flat; next, a literature pass for techniques without flats”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-collective-core-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The thread review found that every route meets one obstruction, a negated equation being a union of \(p-1\) flats. It proposed random prefixes (W_RS) as the new idea. Since then:

random prefixes settled light, low-rank and bounded-column families;
the random-form line was parked (random-core review);
peeling was shown not to reach families of many dense blocks (peeling review);
product replay was shown to cost no less under random prefixes (randomized annihilator).

What is the state of the collective dense core, for W and W_RS together, and where should the route go?

General statement. The line's claim is W, or W_RS (conj:randomized-wide-clause), for every family of \(n^K\) blocks at every \(K\). Both follow into the goal by the recorded reductions (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction, thm:randomized-prefix-reduction). Both are proved for light, sparse, cell and bounded-column families. Up to \(c\ln n\) far-from-additive dense blocks are settled (cor:few-blocks-w). The core is families of many dense blocks.

Falsification attempt: is the core an artefact of W's shape?

If the obstruction were specific to W's clauses, W_RS would have changed it. It did not.

Per-block replay costs at most 2 in both (lem:randomized-block-annihilator).
Pattern counts exceed \(3^t\) for dense blocks in both, \((h+2)^h\) on the residual (light families).
Averaging vanishes in characteristic 3 in both, over near-matchings for W and over prefix choices for W_RS.

The common source is the thread review's: over \(\mathbb F_3\) the falsifying set of a line \(\bigvee_i(L_i=b_i)\) is \(\{L_i\ne b_i\ \forall i\}\), cut out inside the cube by the \(r\) quadrics \((L_i-b_i)^2-1\), not by \(r\) linear equations. Test V below measures what this costs. W_RS keeps W's quadric products, so its failing the same way is consistent with the core being intrinsic to odd characteristic rather than to W's shape, not a confirmation of it.

Assessment of the line

What the randomized-prefix program produced. A reduction (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction). W_RS for light families (thm:random-prefix-light-families) and for families of low rank modulo a pinnable set (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity). A conditional reduction of column statistics to a clean onto-PHP conjecture (conj:occupancy-pinned-php, parked). A per-block annihilator showing that replay costs no less (lem:randomized-block-annihilator). Structured adversaries are gone under random prefixes.
What it did not. Nothing about the collective dense core, which is what the goal needs at \(K\ge1\).
Qualitative assessment. The randomized-prefix program produced no tool for the core, and its results stand as the sharpest description of what is left. The recorded mechanisms gain nothing at the core under random prefixes: replay (lem:randomized-block-annihilator, an upper cost only), peeling (peeling review), generic algebra (generic directness), entropy (Nguyen–Wood scope) and the dimension count (thread review). The line is parked, and the thread needs a mechanism from outside its record.

Outside leads

The Veronese embedding and Macaulay's bound for quadric ideals. Target: the bit-PHP dimension count at \(p=3\). In degree-2 Veronese coordinates the falsifying set is cut by \(r\) linear equations, one per quadric. So restricting degree-\(\le k\) polynomials to it removes at least the span of the quadric multiples, about \(r\) times the dimension of degree at most \(k-2\), where a flat of codimension \(r\) over \(\mathbb F_2\) removes about \(r\) times that of degree \(k-1\). Other polynomials may vanish too. Where it breaks: a count using only the quadric multiples loses a factor of about \(v/k\), so the bit-PHP criterion, which needs blocks of rank above about \(h(k+1)\), would need rank above about \(hv\), more than any line has. Test. Falsified for a count that uses only the quadric multiples; whether the full vanishing ideal suffices is open. Checked on the thread review's recorded T1 data (\(v=10\), core_review_tests.json). At \(k=2\), \(\mathbb F_3\) lines of rank \(r=2,4,6\) remove 2, 7 and 6 dimensions of 56, against the quadric lower bound \(r\), attained at \(r=2,6\); \(\mathbb F_2\) lines remove 19 and 34 at \(r=2,4\). At \(k=3\), \(\mathbb F_3\) lines remove 21, 59 and 81 of 176 at \(r=2,4,6\), against \(\mathbb F_2\)'s 83 and 134 at \(r=2,4\). At \(r=2\) that is close to the \(r(1+v)=22\) quadric multiples. From \(r=4\) other polynomials vanish too: 59 against 44, and 81 against 66. The \(\mathbb F_2/\mathbb F_3\) ratio shrinks with \(r\), from about 4 to about 2.3 at \(k=3\).
Simulating \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) by \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\), to reuse the main record's binary theorem (thm:ordinary-unary-PHP-Res-parity-superpolynomial). Target: the goal directly. Where it breaks: a line of \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) is an OR of parities, and a family of such lines is a depth-3 circuit with parity gates. Expressing one \(\mathbb F_3\) equation on \(n\) bits as a conjunction of polynomially many such lines, semantically equivalent on the cube and without new variables, would put \(\mathrm{MOD}_3\) in \(\mathrm{AC}^0[\oplus]\), against Smolensky's theorem (1987). Two escapes remain, and neither helps. Extension variables, such as 2-bit encodings of partial sums mod 3, give polynomial-size simulations, but of PHP plus extension axioms, a different formula to which the binary theorem does not apply. A proof that is not line-by-line is not a simulation. Test. Falsified by that citation: no line-by-line simulation that represents each line semantically, without extension variables, has polynomial size.
Resolution over parities after 2023: Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's regular lower bounds; Bhattacharya, Chattopadhyay and Dvořák's separation; Efremenko and Itsykson's amortized closure for lifting. Target: a technique for DAG-like proofs that does not rely on falsifying sets being flats. Where it may break: the recorded audit (audit:additional-Res-parity-regularity-literature) found depth, regularity or width restrictions in all of them, and none treats odd characteristic. Test. Not run: it needs a literature pass for their odd-characteristic content, which is the next step.

Absurd bridges

The qutrit stabilizer formalism (Gottesman–Knill for odd dimension). Translation: over \(\mathbb F_2\), falsifying flats are qubit stabilizer states. For odd dimension, stabilizer states also include quadratic phases on flats, so quadratic constraints might be absorbed by a Gauss-sum calculus, as Clifford circuits are simulated efficiently. What a theorem there would give: an efficient calculus for negated equations over \(\mathbb F_3\). Smallest test: whether the indicator of \(x\ne0\) on \(\mathbb F_3\) is a stabilizer (Gaussian) function. A necessary condition is an affine support, of size 1 or 3, with constant magnitude on it, both for the function and for its Fourier transform. Test. Falsified: the support \(\{1,2\}\) has size 2, and the Fourier magnitudes are \(2/3,1/3,1/3\) (core_review_tests.json, Q). But \([x\ne0]=1-\delta_0\) is a sum of two stabilizer functions, so \(r\) negated equations have stabilizer rank at most \(2^r\). The bridge reproduces the recorded union-of-flats obstruction rather than giving a new one.
The finite-field method for hyperplane arrangements (Crapo–Rota, Athanasiadis). Translation: the falsifying set is the complement of an arrangement of \(r\) affine hyperplanes, intersected with the cube. The characteristic polynomial counts the complement exactly in \(\mathbb F_3^v\). On the cube, the density heuristic suggests about \((2/3)^r2^v\) points for generic forms. What a theorem there would give: exact point counts in \(\mathbb F_3^v\), and through Orlik–Terao algebras a graded ring for the complement. Smallest test: the heuristic counts on T1's instances. Test. Passed as a count: about 455, 202 and 90 points against the recorded 464, 184 and 96 for \(r=2,4,6\). It restates the density heuristic, not a prediction of the characteristic polynomial, and says nothing about polynomial dimensions, which the count needs.

Bridge follow-up

3-adic analysis. Follow-up. Closed: it serves only the parked occupancy conjecture.
Margin-preserving null models. Follow-up. Closed: developed into prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, whose line is now complete.
Insurance pooling. Follow-up. Closed: it carried the union bounds of the randomized-prefix program, parked with that line.
Shannon's information budget. No work. Follow-up. Continuing, for the collective core.
Kotecký–Preiss. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the characteristic-3 obstacle stands.

Lead follow-up

Beame and Riis's designs. Follow-up. Closed: they serve the parked occupancy conjecture.
The first-moment pin. Follow-up. Closed: developed into two working proofs.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, on randomized blocks. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the collective core is its target.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer. No work. Follow-up. Continuing, as above.
Quadratic Littlewood–Offord, retargeted to random prefixes. No work. Follow-up. Closed: parked with the randomized-prefix line.
The Mikša–Nordström closure. Follow-up. Continuing: it remains the base of every proved randomized-prefix result.
Razborov–Smolensky prefixes. Follow-up. Closed: developed into the randomized-prefix program, assessed above.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, the collective dense core. The recorded mechanisms gain nothing at the core, so the next step is a literature pass. Read the post-2023 DAG-like work on resolution over parities and over linear equations, and extract for each technique whether it uses that falsifying sets are flats:

Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson;
Bhattacharya, Chattopadhyay and Dvořák;
Efremenko and Itsykson's amortized closure;
any 2025–2026 work on \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) or on random CNFs in \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\).

A technique that uses flats only through a closure operator might accept quadric closures, since test V shows exactly what the quadrics cost. Record each technique's dependence on flats, and test the most promising one on the smallest odd-prime instance where it applies.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the thread review's obstruction analysis and test T1, the registered claims cited, and audit:additional-Res-parity-regularity-literature. Test numbers were read from core_review_tests.json (research/results/odd_prime_core_route_review_20260926/), which reads the recorded thread_tests.json. A fresh-context reviewer checked every quoted number and required these changes, all adopted:

the quadric count stated as a lower bound on the removed dimensions, with the \(k=3\), \(r=6\) case added, and the verdict limited to counts using only the quadric multiples;
the Smolensky lead limited to semantic line-by-line simulation without extension variables, with the two escapes and why neither helps;
the stabilizer criterion stated as a necessary condition, with the stabilizer-rank remark showing the bridge reproduces the known obstruction;
the arrangement count described as the density heuristic on the cube;
"confirms" softened to "consistent with", and the pattern-count claim sourced;
"exhausted" and "every mechanism stops" replaced by the recorded mechanisms with links, here and in the follow-ups and title.

The changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 28.13 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 18.69 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 18.19 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	50.90 s
Individually measured computation	0.14 s
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Literature pass: every recent lower bound for resolution over parities or linear equations is over \(\mathbb F_2\) or \(\mathbb Q\), or weak, or restricted to depth or regularity; transferring the closure-based walks to odd \(p\) looks possible only after a safety notion that depends on constants, which is the nearest open target

26 September 2026 · Literature pass · the goal, restricted classes · cycle odd-prime-parity-literature. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Literature pass: every recent lower bound for resolution over parities or linear equations is over \(\mathbb F_2\) or \(\mathbb Q\), or weak, or restricted to depth or regularity; transferring the closure-based walks to odd \(p\) looks possible only after a safety notion that depends on constants, which is the nearest open target”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-parity-literature.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The collective-core review found no internal mechanism that gains at the collective dense core. It asked for a literature pass: which recent techniques for resolution over parities or linear equations exist, and does any of them avoid needing falsifying sets to be flats?

General statement. No claim is registered. The statements the pass bears on are the goal's reductions (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction, conj:randomized-wide-clause) and the record's odd-prime closure result, thm:modular-collision-linear-search-hardness. Only abstracts, as fetched, and the recorded audits were read. Statements below stay within the abstracts.

What exists

DAG-like, \(\mathbb F_2\), PHP-type. arXiv:2609.23015 (Braun, September 2026): every DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) refutation of the bit pigeonhole principle has more than \(\exp(n/(32768\ell^2))=2^{\Omega(n/\log^2n)}\) clauses, by translating refutations into polynomial calculus and using homology of chessboard complexes. The title was not in the text read. This corresponds to the main record's bit-PHP theorem (thm:working-Res-parity-bit-PHP-size-lower-bound). The thread review showed that the dimension count fails at \(p=3\), and the collective-core review measured it: quadrics in place of flats.
Regular and bounded depth, \(\mathbb F_2\).
- Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson (STOC 2024): closure of linear forms, and exponential lower bounds for regular \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\).
- Efremenko and Itsykson, amortized closure (CCC 2025): a closure that grows by at most one per added linear form; a lifting theorem for 1-stifling gadgets; improved bounded-depth bounds.
- Bhattacharya and Chattopadhyay (arXiv:2507.23008): Tseitin lifted with inner-product gadgets needs size \(\exp(\tilde\Omega(N^\varepsilon))\) at depth \(O(N^{2-\varepsilon})\); lifted distributions fool safe affine spaces.
- Byramji and Impagliazzo (arXiv:2511.20023): weak bit PHP with \(m=cn\) pigeons needs exponential size at depth \(N^{1.5-\varepsilon}\), and \(t\)-BPHP at depth \(N^{2-1/t-\varepsilon}\). They give a lifting theorem for bounded-depth \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) from decision-tree hardness, and depth \(\Omega(n)\) for randomized parity decision trees finding collisions.
DAG-like, large characteristic. Part and Tzameret (arXiv:1806.09383): exponential DAG-like bounds for subset sum over \(\mathbb Q\). Refutations must pass through fat clauses that list \(f=\alpha\) for every \(\alpha\) in the image of a form. Over \(\mathbb F_p\) the image has at most \(p\) values, so such clauses are not fat. Over \(\mathbb Q\) with 0/1 variables the image can be exponentially large. So the technique needs large characteristic.
DAG-like, finite fields, weak bounds. Khaniki (ECCC TR20-034; the title was not in the text read): the first nontrivial lower bounds for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin})\) and \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{PC}_d)\) over finite fields, nearly quadratic for mod-\(q\) Tseitin in characteristic other than \(q\), and a size–width relation for DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{PC}_{1,R})\). The abstract does not give the relation's form. Whether width lower bounds in its measure hold for graph PHP was not checked.
Tree-like, all fields. Part and Tzameret's tree-like bound for PHP (imp:PT-tree-like-ResLin-PHP), which gives depth \(\Omega(n)\) at odd \(p\). Also the combinatorial games for tree-like size and space (arXiv:2404.08370).

No superpolynomial DAG-like, regular or bounded-depth lower bound for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) at odd \(p\) was found. Searches were limited to web search on titles and abstracts, which does not establish absence.

Which techniques need flats

Dimension counting (the bit-PHP paper) needs each falsifying set to be a flat, so that restriction removes a flat's worth of polynomial dimensions. At \(p=3\) the quadrics remove fewer dimensions, as recorded. This is the obstruction for DAG-like proofs.
Closure-based walks (a heuristic of this entry, not a finding). Over \(\mathbb F_2\) the negation of \(L=a\) is \(L=1-a\), an equation. Over \(\mathbb F_p\) it is \(L\ne a\). A walk that keeps an affine space could add \(L=b\) for some \(b\ne a\). What could break this transfer:
- Safety at odd \(p\) depends on the constants, not only on the span. lem:Fp-linear-system-forced-cells records that \(x_{i_1j}+x_{i_2j}=2\) is safe for the span-only notion yet forces a collision. So the value choice enters the safety and closure notions themselves, not only the probability analysis.
- The same lemma's Olson bound lets a rank-\(r\) system force up to \(r(p-1)\) variables. Closure accounting that grows by at most one per added form would then grow by up to \(p-1\) per unit of rank.
- In a random walk the value of \(L\) is set by the sampled point, not chosen. Conditioning on \(L=b\) changes the distribution.
Fat clauses (Part–Tzameret) need large characteristic.
Size–width (Khaniki): its form and its reach for PHP are unchecked.

What it means

For the goal, DAG-like proofs, the literature offers nothing beyond the record. The only DAG-like method for PHP-type formulas is the dimension count, whose odd-prime failure is measured. The collective dense core stays open, with no outside technique.
For restricted classes, a closure-based bounded-depth bound at odd \(p\) needs, before anything else, a safety notion over \(\mathbb F_p\) that depends on constants. It also needs the probability bound and the restriction that thm:modular-collision-linear-search-hardness's record names as missing. None of these has known difficulty.
There is an encoding mismatch. Byramji and Impagliazzo work with weak bit PHP, \(m=cn\) pigeons in the bit encoding. The recorded modular-collision theorem is for unary PHP with \(n+1\) pigeons.
Tree-like proofs are already settled at odd \(p\), with depth \(\Omega(n)\). So the target would be size bounds at depth well above \(n\).

Next. The bounded-depth route at \(p=3\), in this order.

Define a safety notion over \(\mathbb F_3\) for unary PHP that depends on the constants, consistent with lem:Fp-linear-system-forced-cells. Prove that a safe system of rank \(r\) forces at most \(O(r)\) cells and no collision.
Decide the encoding: unary, where the modular-collision theorem lives, or a bit encoding over \(\mathbb F_3\), as Byramji and Impagliazzo use.
Read Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson's closure and walk, and Byramji and Impagliazzo's, at the level of their two key lemmas. Then state the odd-prime probability bound exactly.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read the abstracts listed, as fetched, and the registered claims cited: thm:modular-collision-linear-search-hardness, lem:Fp-linear-system-forced-cells, ctx:php-linear-constraints-literature, imp:PT-tree-like-ResLin-PHP, thm:working-Res-parity-bit-PHP-size-lower-bound and audit:additional-Res-parity-regularity-literature. A fresh-context reviewer, given only those abstracts and claims, required these changes, all adopted:

the fat-clause obstruction restated as size, not tautology;
the no-work sentence limited to superpolynomial bounds, since Khaniki's apply over finite fields;
the size–width remark reduced to what the abstract states;
paper descriptions cut back to the abstracts, with unread titles marked;
the closure-walk transfer labelled a heuristic, with what could break it: constant-dependent safety, the Olson accounting, and distribution conditioning;
"two steps from a bound" replaced by the three open pieces, the encoding mismatch and the existing tree-like depth bound;
the next step made concrete.

The changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

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Correction: the bounded-depth closure route that the literature pass recommended was already closed on 22 September, when its restriction step failed and its reach fell below the depth every refutation has; the open question is instead where the subspace criterion uses a line's whole falsifying set

26 September 2026 · Correction and redirection · the goal · cycle odd-prime-fp-safety. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Correction: the bounded-depth closure route that the literature pass recommended was already closed on 22 September, when its restriction step failed and its reach fell below the depth every refutation has; the open question is instead where the subspace criterion uses a line's whole falsifying set”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-bounded-depth-correction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The literature pass proposed, as the nearest open target, a bounded-depth lower bound by closure-based walks, starting with a safety notion over \(\mathbb F_3\) that depends on constants. Before designing it, the cycle searched the notebook for later work on the closure line, as the route check requires. Is the target open?

General statement. No claim is registered. This entry corrects the literature pass's next step. The statements involved are thm:modular-collision-linear-search-hardness and lem:Fp-linear-system-forced-cells, and the subspace criterion thm:generic-CNF-affine-DAG-subspace-criterion.

The closure line was closed on 22 September

The record already contains the bounded-depth closure line at odd primes, built and then closed within one day.

A constant-dependent danger notion, measured on forced cells, was proposed and tested (closure route review, forced-cell closure test). It led to vertex-cover and star closures (vertex-cover closure, star closure). That is exactly the safety notion the literature pass asked for.
The hard distribution and its search hardness were proved (modular-collision hardness).
The walk-restriction entry then found the restriction step binding. Within the dense family, a restriction implies an inequation \(L\ne a\) only at a cost linear in \(n\), unless the form is close to additive (its restriction lemma). Every refutation can be padded, at four times the size, so that the first stage of any walk meets such an inequation (its padding construction). Carrying the inequations as conditions instead reaches depth only about \(n^{2/3}\). That is below the depth \(\Omega(n)\) every refutation already has, by Part and Tzameret's tree-like bound.

So the literature pass's recommendation repeats a line the record has already closed. Its recommendation is withdrawn. The literature pass's other conclusions stand: no outside technique for DAG-like proofs at odd \(p\) was found, and the only DAG-like method for PHP-type formulas is the dimension count. The process failure was the route check. The literature pass did not search the notebook for later links to the closure anchors before proposing the line. This entry does that search.

Where the open question actually is

The dimension count is thm:generic-CNF-affine-DAG-subspace-criterion, Lean-verified over \(\mathbb F_2\). An \(S\)-node refutation gives \(3S+t\) registry slots. A separated degree-\(k\) subspace \(U\) then satisfies \(\dim U\le(3S+t)\binom{v-(h(k+1)+1)+k}{k}\): each slot restricts \(U\) to a flat of codimension above \(h(k+1)\). The thread review showed that at \(p=3\), with the whole falsifying set, a union of \(2^r\) flats, the per-slot bound \(2^r\binom{v-r+k}{k}\) never beats \(\dim U\). The collective-core review measured the cause, quadrics in place of flats. Neither asked where in the criterion's proof the falsifying set enters. If each slot's set is used only through a subset on which some fixed property holds, one chosen flat per slot would do, and the factor \(2^r\) would disappear. The flat would be picked by a consistent rule, for example the values \(L_i=b_i+\sigma_i\) with \(\sigma_i\) fixed per form. Whether that is possible depends on how the proof covers the space with slots, which has not been read.

Next. Read the proof of thm:generic-CNF-affine-DAG-subspace-criterion in its Lean formalization and in the main record's transfer entry, at the step where a slot's falsifying set restricts \(U\). Decide whether the argument needs the whole falsifying set, or only a subset with a covering property that a chosen flat per slot could supply. If a chosen flat suffices, state the odd-prime criterion with one flat per slot, which the \(2^r\) loss no longer affects. Then test it on the smallest instance where both sides are computable. If the whole set is needed, record the exact step as the obstruction.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Searched the notebook for every entry mentioning forced cells or linking the 22 September closure-route review. Read the heads of the star-closure route review and the walk-restriction entry. Read the registered statements of thm:generic-CNF-affine-DAG-subspace-criterion, thm:modular-collision-linear-search-hardness and lem:Fp-linear-system-forced-cells. The entry proves nothing new and corrects a recommendation, so no fresh-context review was run; the recorded entries it cites carry their own reviews.

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The subflat obstruction: the subspace criterion needs each slot's whole falsifying set through ideal membership, and at odd \(p\) a resolution step between lines with independent forms stays sound for kept value sets only if they have total size at least \(p\); at \(p=3\) one premise must keep its whole falsifying set on the resolved literal

26 September 2026 · Working proof of an obstruction · the goal's DAG-like case · cycle odd-prime-criterion-slots. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The subflat obstruction: the subspace criterion needs each slot's whole falsifying set through ideal membership, and at odd \(p\) a resolution step between lines with independent forms stays sound for kept value sets only if they have total size at least \(p\); at \(p=3\) one premise must keep its whole falsifying set on the resolved literal”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-subflat-obstruction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The correction entry located the odd-prime failure of the only DAG-like method for PHP-type formulas, the subspace criterion thm:generic-CNF-affine-DAG-subspace-criterion, in a factor \(2^r\) per slot. It asked where the proof uses a slot's whole falsifying set, and whether one chosen flat per slot would do.

General statement. prop:no-sound-subflat-choice. Over \(\mathbb F_p\), \(p\) odd, a \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) line \(\bigvee_i(f_i=a_i)\) has falsifying set \(\{f_i\ne a_i\ \forall i\}\). A kept-value choice assigns to each literal a nonempty set \(T_i\subseteq\mathbb F_p\setminus\{a_i\}\). It replaces the falsifying set by \(\{f_i\in T_i\ \forall i\}\), a union of \(\prod|T_i|\) flats, which is the whole set when every \(T_i\) is everything but \(a_i\), and one flat when every \(|T_i|=1\).

Consider two lines \(f=a\) and \(g=b\) whose forms take every pair of values in \(\mathbb F_p^2\) on the allowed points, and their resolvent \(\alpha f+\beta g=\alpha a+\beta b\) with \(\alpha,\beta\ne0\) and kept set \(T\). The step is sound, in the sense that every point of the conclusion's kept set lies in some premise's kept set, only if \(|T_f|+|T_g|\ge p-1+|T|\ge p\). At \(p=3\) this forces one premise to keep both values on its literal, that is, its whole falsifying set, and \(|T|=2\) forces both premises to. In particular, one flat per line (all \(|T|=1\)) is never sound at such a step, whatever rule picks the values. That includes rules that depend on the whole proof or on each use of a line.

Scope. The statement is for lines with a single literal. For lines \(C\vee(f=a)\) and \(D\vee(g=b)\) the same argument needs the value-pair hypothesis jointly for the forms of \(C\), \(D\), \(f\) and \(g\). The hypothesis fails for literals on single cube variables, which take only two values. So the obstruction applies to derivations containing at least one step that meets it. Whether every refutation of unary PHP contains such steps is not shown.

Separately, any \(\mathbb F_3\) transcription of the proof of the generic subspace theorem behind the criterion (thm:generic-affine-subspace-consequence-transfer, stated over \(\mathbb F_2\) with affine inputs) needs each high block's contribution through ideal membership. The kernel polynomials must lie in the ideal of the block's inputs, so they must vanish on the block's whole common zero set within the cube.

Proof

Soundness. Put \(A=\mathbb F_p\setminus T_f\ni a\) and \(B=\mathbb F_p\setminus T_g\ni b\). A point with \(f=u\in A\), \(g=w\in B\) and \(\alpha u+\beta w\in T\) satisfies both weakened premises and falsifies the weakened conclusion. By the value-pair hypothesis such a point exists unless \(\alpha A+\beta B\) avoids \(T\). Since \(\alpha,\beta\ne0\), \(|\alpha A|=|A|\) and \(|\beta B|=|B|\). By the Cauchy–Davenport theorem, \(|\alpha A+\beta B|\ge\min(p,|A|+|B|-1)\). Avoiding \(T\) needs \(|\alpha A+\beta B|\le p-|T|<p\), hence \(|A|+|B|-1\le p-|T|\), that is \(|T_f|+|T_g|\ge p-1+|T|\).
One flat per line. With all kept sets of size 1 the bound needs \(2\ge p\), false for odd \(p\). A direct count also shows it: for each of the \(p-1\) values \(u\ne\sigma_f\) there is exactly one \(w\) with \(\alpha u+\beta w=\sigma\), and that \(w\) equals \(\sigma_g\) for at most one \(u\). So at least \(p-2\ge1\) admissible pairs attain \(\sigma\).
Contrast with \(p=2\). Every kept set is the single value \(a+1\), which is the whole falsifying set, and the step is sound: \(f=a\), \(g=b\) forces \(f+g=a+b\).
Ideal membership. In the proof of thm:generic-affine-subspace-consequence-transfer, each kernel element \(f\) is written as \(\sum_ia_{a,i}g_{a,i}\) with \(\deg a_{a,i}\le k-1\) for every proper high block, and the weighted removal theorem then derives it. Every element of the ideal of the inputs vanishes on their common zero set. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), modulo the Boolean ideal, the compiled inputs are \(g=1-L^2\). Their common zero set within the cube is \(\{L_i\ne0\ \forall i\}\), a union of at most \(2^r\) flats, exactly \(2^r\) nonempty ones when the \(L_i\) are independent and all value patterns occur. So a transcription must restrict to that union. The per-block restriction rank is then at least the dimension of degree-\(\le k\) functions on the union, and possibly more: degree-bounded membership for the quadratic inputs, the analogue of lem:proper-affine-block-restriction, is not established, and with \(\deg g=2\) the multiplier degree changes from \(k-1\). \(\square\)

What it means

The factor \(2^r\) per slot sits in two places. The weighted removal needs vanishing on the whole union, and a sound weakening of the lines needs kept value sets of total size at least \(p\) at each step that meets the hypothesis. At \(p=2\) both coincide with flats, which is why the criterion works there.
Choosing one flat per line is ruled out. Partial choices, whole value sets on some literals and one value on others, satisfy the counting condition at a step and remain open. By the bound, at \(p=3\) one of the two premises of each such step keeps its whole falsifying set on the resolved literal, so the losses reappear along the derivation. Whether they can be kept to few literals per line was not examined.
Lines with dependent forms, or with values restricted on the allowed points, escape the hypothesis. Those are structured families the record already handles.

Next. Two measurable questions remain, both about restriction to the union of flats.

Is the slot bound \(2^r\binom{v-r+k}k\) loose? That is, is the restriction rank of degree-\(\le k\) polynomials on the union, the Hilbert function of that finite point set in the cube, well below \(2^r\binom{v-r+k}k\) for dense forms with \(r\) about \(h(k+1)\)? The collective-core review's numbers at \(v=10\) are the first data.
Does degree-bounded ideal membership hold for the inputs \(1-L^2\), with what multiplier degree?

A necessary condition for survival is, roughly, that the restriction rank on a separated space \(U\) be well below \(\dim U\) divided by the number of slots. When \(\dim U\) is close to \(\binom{v+k}k\) and \(r,k\ll v\), that means a per-slot rank of about \(c^r\binom{v-r+k}k\) with \(c\) below about \(e^{k/v}\), and a superpolynomial margin needs \((e^{k/v}/c)^r\) superpolynomial at \(r\approx h(k+1)\). Survival also needs question 2 and a separated \(U\) for unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\). If the Hilbert function is large, the criterion's generic bound gives nothing. That does not rule out a particular \(U\) whose restricted rank is small, since the Hilbert function only bounds that rank from above.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the main record's generic subspace theorem and its proof, the criterion's statement, and the thread's compiled block inputs (the randomized-prefix and reduction entries). A fresh-context reviewer checked the soundness definition, the \(p=3\) case, the general covering and the \(p=2\) contrast, and found them correct. It required these changes, all adopted:

the statement extended from one value per literal to kept value sets, with the Cauchy–Davenport condition \(|T_f|+|T_g|\ge p-1+|T|\), and the closure claim limited to single flats;
side literals and the value-pair hypothesis scoped, with the note that literals on single variables fail it;
the ideal-membership paragraph stated for an \(\mathbb F_3\) transcription, as a lower bound on the loss, with the rank condition for \(2^r\) flats;
the next step reframed as testing whether the slot bound is loose, the Hilbert function of the finite point set, plus degree-bounded membership;
a direct count added beside Cauchy–Davenport.

The statement was strengthened to kept value sets after the review, so the reviewer made a second pass. It confirmed the inequality chain and the \(p=3\) consequence, and required a corrected direct count, the survival remark stated as a rough necessary condition with its assumptions, a weaker conclusion about the Hilbert function, and consistent wording in this gate. All were adopted.

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The slot Hilbert function at \(p=3\): a line of any linear rank \(r\le v-1\) can keep a codimension-one flat of the cube, so a per-slot count charged by rank and depending only on the falsifying set gives nothing; on small cubes a random line's falsifying set loses about the span of its quadric multiples, far less than a flat

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a separating example, with a finite check · the goal's DAG-like case · cycle odd-prime-slot-hilbert. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The slot Hilbert function at \(p=3\): a line of any linear rank \(r\le v-1\) can keep a codimension-one flat of the cube, so a per-slot count charged by rank and depending only on the falsifying set gives nothing; on small cubes a random line's falsifying set loses about the span of its quadric multiples, far less than a flat”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-slot-hilbert.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The subflat obstruction showed that the subspace criterion (thm:generic-CNF-affine-DAG-subspace-criterion) needs each slot's whole falsifying set at \(p=3\). It asked whether the per-slot restriction rank, the Hilbert function of that set in the cube, is well below the union bound \(2^r\binom{v-r+k}k\). This develops the arrangement bridge of the collective-core review, which named the graded ring of an arrangement complement.

General statement. prop:rank-is-not-slot-loss and ex:slot-hilbert-quadric-span, over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the Boolean cube of \(v\) variables. For affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_r\), let \(Z=\{x:L_i(x)\ne0\ \forall i\}\), the falsifying set of the line \(\bigvee_i(L_i=0)\). Let \(\mathrm{HF}(Z,k)\) be the dimension of multilinear polynomials of degree at most \(k\) restricted to \(Z\).

Separating example (proved). The forms \(L_i=x_1+x_{i+1}\), \(i\le r\le v-1\), are linearly independent, so the line has rank \(r\). Yet \(Z\supseteq\{x_1=1\}\), so \(\mathrm{HF}(Z,k)\ge\sum_{j\le k}\binom{v-1}j\). The restriction removes at most \(\sum_{j\le k}\binom{v-1}{j-1}\) dimensions, a fraction about \(k/v\) of the whole, whatever \(r\) is. Over \(\mathbb F_2\) the same forms falsify on a flat of codimension \(r\). So at \(p=3\) a slot's loss is not controlled by its linear rank, which is the parameter the criterion charges. Consequently a per-slot bound on the restriction of degree-\(\le k\) polynomials, valid for every line of rank \(r\), is at least \(\binom{v-1}{\le k}\), a fraction about \(1-k/v\) of the whole, and the criterion's count then yields at most about \(1+k/v\) slots, essentially one.
Finite check. For random dense affine forms with \(v\in\{10,12,14,16\}\), \(k\in\{2,3,4\}\) and \(r\in\{2,4,6,8\}\), 35 cases were sampled, one or two seeds per \((v,k,r)\). Of these, 21 meet \(|Z|\ge2\binom{v}{\le k}\); not every \((v,k)\) has such cases, none at \(v=10\), \(k=4\) for example. In all 21 the removed dimension \(\binom v{\le k}-\mathrm{HF}(Z,k)\) is at most \(r\binom{v}{\le k-2}\), the number of quadric multiples \(m\,((L_i)^2-1)\) with \(\deg m\le k-2\). In the 6 of them where the exact span of those multiples was computed, the removed dimension exceeds it by 0 to 5, at most about 2 percent (49 against 48 at \(v=12\), \(k=3\), \(r=4\)). \(\mathbb F_2\) flats of the same codimension remove about 3 to 11.5 times as much.

Proof of the example

The forms \(x_1+x_{i+1}\) are independent, since each contains its own variable \(x_{i+1}\). If \(x_1=1\), each \(L_i=1+x_{i+1}\in\{1,2\}\) is nonzero, so the whole flat \(\{x_1=1\}\) lies in \(Z\). Restriction to a superset of a flat has rank at least the restriction to the flat, which for multilinear polynomials of degree at most \(k\) is \(\sum_{j\le k}\binom{v-1}j\). The removed dimension is then at most \(\binom v{\le k}-\binom{v-1}{\le k}=\binom{v-1}{\le k-1}\). Over \(\mathbb F_2\), \(x_1+x_{i+1}\ne0\) means \(x_{i+1}=1-x_1\) for all \(i\), a flat of codimension \(r\). \(\square\)

The computation

The script slot_hilbert.py computes \(\mathrm{HF}(Z,k)\) as the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank of the evaluation matrix of all multilinear monomials of degree at most \(k\) on \(Z\), by the recorded bit-sliced GF(3) elimination (gf3). It also computes the exact span of the quadric multiples \(m\,((L_i)^2-1)\), \(\deg m\le k-2\), as functions on the whole cube; each has degree at most \(k\) and vanishes on \(Z\). Seeds are fixed per case. Files: hf_small.json, hf_large.json and hf_span.json in research/results/odd_prime_slot_hilbert_20260926/. Typical rows, removed / quadric span / \(\mathbb F_2\) removed:

\(v=16,k=3,r=4\): 64 / 64 / 398;
\(v=16,k=3,r=8\): 129 / 128 / 604;
\(v=16,k=4,r=4\): 475 / 474 / 1723;
\(v=14,k=4,r=4\): 363 / 358 / 1085.

When \(|Z|\) is not much larger than \(\binom v{\le k}\), for example \(v=12\), \(k=3\), \(r=8\), 162 points, the point count caps \(\mathrm{HF}\) and the removal is larger (138 against a span of 96). Those 14 cases are outside the regime and excluded from the summary above. The script summarize.py reads the three files, merges repeated cases and writes summary.txt, from which every number here is taken.

What it means

Proved: at \(p=3\) the per-slot count is closed for per-slot bounds that depend only on the slot's falsifying set and its rank. The criterion bounds \(\dim U\) by the number of slots times a per-slot restriction bound that holds for every line above the rank threshold. The example is such a line at every rank \(r\le v-1\), above the threshold \(h(k+1)\), and it keeps a fraction about \(1-k/v\) of all degree-\(\le k\) polynomials. So no such bound, valid for every degree-\(\le k\) space, beats the full dimension by more than that factor, and the count gives at most about \(1+k/v\) slots. A bound that uses the separatedness of \(U\) is not excluded; see the third bullet. The thread review had shown only that the structural bound \(2^r\binom{v-r+k}k\) exceeds the full dimension; this shows the true worst case is near full as well.
Typical lines do not help either (heuristic). In the measured regime a random line loses about its quadric span, at most \(r\binom v{\le k-2}\), a fraction about \(rk(k-1)/v^2\) (0.185 measured at \(v=16\), \(k=3\), \(r=8\)), against a flat's \(1-e^{-rk/v}\). For the forms \(x_a+x_b\) on \(r\le v/2\) disjoint pairs the falsifying set is a product of \(r\) three-point sets and a cube. The vanishing ideal of a product set is the sum of the factors' ideals, in disjoint variables, so its initial ideal under a degree-compatible order is the sum of theirs, and \(\mathrm{HF}\) counts standard monomials. Hence \(\sum_k\mathrm{HF}(Z,k)t^k=\bigl((1+2t)/(1+t)^2\bigr)^r(1+t)^v/(1-t)\). That suggests a kept fraction of about \(e^{-rk^2/v^2}\) for spread lines, which is \(1-o(1)\) for every rank \(r\le v\) once \(k=o(\sqrt v)\). So even a measure finer than rank, such as the Hilbert function itself, would not make the per-slot count nontrivial there. The obstruction is not caused by a few weak lines: restriction to a single falsifying set at \(p=3\) keeps almost everything. This is an extrapolation, untested beyond \(v=16\).
What remains of the dimension method. A per-slot sum is the criterion's form of the count. A particular separated space \(U\) could still restrict to small rank on each slot, and a joint restriction over many slots could lose a constant fraction where single slots lose almost nothing. Neither is a statement of the recorded criterion.

Next. The per-slot count of the subspace criterion, the record's remaining DAG-like method on this route, is closed at \(p=3\) for bounds that depend only on falsifying sets. The bounded-depth closure line was closed on 22 September (correction), the literature pass found no outside DAG-like technique at odd \(p\), and the randomized-prefix program is parked (collective-core review). The next cycle is a route review of the goal's DAG-like case on odd-prime-clause-transfer. It should take up the joint-restriction question above (does restricting a separated space to the falsifying sets of many slots at once lose a constant fraction, as a product of quadric losses would?) as one lead among outside leads and bridges, and propose a new idea.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the criterion's registered statement (thm:generic-CNF-affine-DAG-subspace-criterion), lem:flat-restriction-dimension, the thread review's structural bound and the subflat obstruction. Claim searches under Hilbert function, falsifying set, union of flats, restriction rank, quadric vanishing and negated equation found no earlier record of the example. Every number was read by summarize.py from the saved files. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the example's proof, the pair generating function (against exact GF(3) ranks at \(v=8\)) and every quoted number. It required these changes, all adopted: "exactly" and "under 2 percent" corrected, the sample described as not exhaustive, the proved consequence drawn from the example rather than from the heuristic, "charge slots by the Hilbert function" withdrawn since typical lines also keep almost everything, and the next step replaced, since neither removing weak lines nor a bound for strong lines can rescue a per-slot count. The consequence strengthened the statement, so the reviewer made a second pass. It required the closure scoped to per-slot bounds that depend only on the falsifying set, the slot count stated as about \(1+k/v\), ranks limited to \(r\le v-1\), the claim that every route is closed supported by links or softened, and the product-ideal justification of the pair formula. All were adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 48.62 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 23.47 s
Computation design and coding	5 min 25.99 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	55.23 s
Individually measured computation	3.73 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review of the goal's DAG-like case: at \(p=3\) the subspace criterion's exclusion step fails jointly as well as per slot, on facet-type lines by a lemma and on small generic instances by computation; the one DAG-like route left is W's degree route, and the Brauer quotient, which on Boolean functions is restriction to a fixed subcube, is a narrow new lead

26 September 2026 · Route review with a working lemma and three tests · the goal's DAG-like case · cycle odd-prime-dag-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the goal's DAG-like case: at \(p=3\) the subspace criterion's exclusion step fails jointly as well as per slot, on facet-type lines by a lemma and on small generic instances by computation; the one DAG-like route left is W's degree route, and the Brauer quotient, which on Boolean functions is restriction to a fixed subcube, is a narrow new lead”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-dag-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement W (and its highest-risk part A1). The slot Hilbert entry closed the subspace criterion's per-slot count at \(p=3\). Its next step asked for a route review of the DAG-like case, starting from one lead: a joint restriction over many slots, rather than a sum of per-slot counts. What DAG-like route is left, and what new idea should the thread test?

General statement. The line's claim is the goal: every DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation of unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) has superpolynomially many lines. Two routes were recorded. The degree route runs through W (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction, conj:randomized-wide-clause). The dimension route was the subspace criterion (thm:generic-CNF-affine-DAG-subspace-criterion). This review adds lem:facet-slots-force-degree and ex:joint-slot-quadric-products about the dimension route.

What the goal needs

A mechanism that absorbs \(n^K\) arbitrary lines, \(K\ge1\), at polylogarithmic cost. On the degree route that is A1's collective dense core, open, with no recorded mechanism that gains there (collective-core review). On the dimension route it is a nonzero polynomial of degree at most \(k\) in a separated space \(U\) that vanishes on the falsifying sets of all high-rank slots, which exists when the per-slot restrictions sum to less than \(\dim U\).

Falsification attempt: is the goal false?

Onto functional PHP is easy. The functionality axioms of a row are its exclusions \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}=0\). With them and the pigeon clause, \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) derives the row equation \(\sum_jx_{ij}=1\). With ontoness it derives the column equations \(\sum_ix_{ij}=1\). Summing gives \(n+1=n\), that is \(1=0\). This counting argument works over every field, so it shows nothing specific to \(\mathbb F_3\).
Ordinary PHP escapes it. Without ontoness a column sum lies in \(\{0,1\}\), and without functionality a row sum lies in \(\{1,\dots,n\}\), so no linear equation for the totals is available. The integer counting refutation in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb Q})\) tracks sums up to \(n+1\), which wrap mod 3. No polynomial upper bound for ordinary PHP is known.
Calibration. \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) is a fragment of bounded-depth Frege with \(\mathrm{MOD}_3\) gates, where PHP lower bounds are a known open problem. So the goal is a depth-restricted case of an open problem, not a known theorem.

The attempt did not falsify the goal.

The dimension route is closed jointly as well

The joint condition asks for a nonzero \(f\) of degree \(\le k\) vanishing on the union of the slots' falsifying sets. Two results show that at \(p=3\) this exclusion step, one \(U\) and all high-rank slots at once, cannot be carried out. They do not show that a \(p=3\) analogue of the criterion's inequality is false.

Lemma (the facet lemma, lem:facet-slots-force-degree). Over any field, let \(f\) be a multilinear polynomial on \(\{0,1\}^v\) vanishing on \(\{x_{j_1}=1\}\cup\dots\cup\{x_{j_S}=1\}\) for distinct \(j_1,\dots,j_S\). Then \(f=\prod_{s}(1-x_{j_s})\,h\) with \(h\) multilinear in the other variables. So \(f\ne0\) forces \(\deg f\ge S\). In particular, over \(\mathbb F_3\), any \(S\) lines of the form \(\bigvee_i(x_{j_s}+x_{t_{s,i}}=0)\) with distinct pivots \(j_s\), of any ranks, admit no nonzero common vanishing polynomial of degree below \(S\). This bears on the criterion provided such lines give proper high-rank blocks in its sense. Their forms are independent and the system \(L_i=0\) is consistent, but the review did not check the criterion's exact definition of a proper block.

Proof. Write \(f=x_jg+h\) with \(g,h\) free of \(x_j\), \(j=j_1\). On \(\{x_j=1\}\) the function \(g+h\) vanishes, and a multilinear polynomial vanishing on a whole subcube is zero, so \(g=-h\) and \(f=(1-x_j)h\). At points with \(x_j=0\), \(f=h\), so \(h\) vanishes on the remaining facets \(\{x_{j_s}=1\}\) within \(\{x_j=0\}\). Since \(h\) is free of \(x_j\), it vanishes on those facets of the whole cube, and induction on \(S\) finishes. By the slot Hilbert entry, the falsifying set of \(\bigvee_i(x_j+x_{t_i}=0)\) contains \(\{x_j=1\}\). \(\square\)

Finite check (ex:joint-slot-quadric-products). For random dense lines of \(r\) forms over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(v\in\{14,16\}\), \(k\in\{3,4\}\), \(r\in\{4,8\}\), \(S\le5\) slots and 2 seeds, the script computed the dimension of degree-\(\le k\) polynomials vanishing on the union of the first \(S\) falsifying sets. For comparison it did the same over \(\mathbb F_2\) for random flats of codimension \(r\). Rows read from joint_summary.txt:

\(\mathbb F_3\): of the 64 cases with \(S\ge2\), 56 have \(k<2S\), where the product count \(r^S\binom{v}{\le k-2S}\) is 0 and so is the measured dimension. The nontrivial comparisons are the 8 cases at \(S=2\), \(k=4\), and 5 of them agree. The exceptions are \(v=14,k=4,r=8,S=2\) for both seeds (205 and 240 against 64, with 1296 and 1261 union points against 1471 dimensions, below the regime) and \(v=16,k=4,r=8,S=2\) for seed 0 (65 against 64, with 5085 union points), which is unexplained.
\(\mathbb F_2\), matched by codimension, \(r=8\): 1414, 1357, 1300, 1244 and 1188 of 1471 at \(v=14,k=4\) and \(S=1,\dots,5\), and 2354 down to 1715 of 2517 at \(v=16\). An \(\mathbb F_2\) flat of codimension 8 has only 64 points at \(v=14\), against about 640 for an \(\mathbb F_3\) falsifying set.
\(\mathbb F_2\), closer in size, \(r=4\): 1024 points per slot. At \(v=14,k=4\) it keeps 756 at \(S=2\) and 67 to 75 at \(S=5\), while \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(r=8\), about 640 points per slot, keeps 0 from \(S=3\), with about 1850 union points.

So at \(p=3\) the joint vanishing space behaves like an intersection of ideals that is their product: each generic slot costs about 2 degrees, a reading resting on \(S=2\) and \(k\le4\) only. That is a degree cost per slot, the opposite of a dimension count, whose degree must not grow with the number of slots. Over \(\mathbb F_2\) a flat of high codimension costs few dimensions and many slots fit. This is a finite check at \(v\le16\). The general statement, that the degree-\(\le k\) vanishing ideal of a union of \(S\) generic falsifying sets is spanned by products of one quadric per slot, is not proved.

Assessment of the line

The criterion's exclusion step cannot be carried out at \(p=3\): per slot for bounds that depend only on the falsifying set (prop:rank-is-not-slot-loss), jointly for facet-type lines (the facet lemma, subject to the proper-block check above) and, on small-instance evidence, for generic lines. A different dimension argument is not excluded. What is left of the goal's DAG-like case is W's degree route. Its core, many dense blocks, has had no gain from any recorded mechanism, and averaging, the usual tool for many blocks, vanishes in characteristic 3 (collective-core review). The line's prospects are weak. It needs a mechanism native to characteristic 3, not a transfer from \(\mathbb F_2\).

Outside leads

Hilbert functions of unions of point sets: the vanishing ideal of a union is the intersection of the ideals (Macaulay's theory of Hilbert functions of finite sets). Target: the criterion's exclusion step, applied to all high-rank slots at once rather than slot by slot. Where it breaks: at \(p=3\) the intersection is about the product, so the degree grows with the number of slots. Test. Falsified: the facet lemma, and the joint computation above.
Shareshian and Wachs, torsion in chessboard complexes (Adv. Math. 2007). The bottom nonvanishing homology of the chessboard complex \(M_{m,n}\) often has 3-torsion. Chessboard complexes carry the bit-PHP homology argument and the record's zero-marginal count (chessboard cycles). Target: A3, the degree statements, if characteristic 3 changed the homology the thread uses. Where it breaks: if the torsion lies outside the ranges used. Test. Falsified for the thread's range. For \(N\ge2t-1\) the imported connectivity bound of Björner, Lovász, Vrećica and Živaljević is a homotopy statement: \(M_{t,N}\) is \((t-2)\)-connected, so \(H_{t-2}(M_{t,N};\mathbb Z)=0\) and the top cycle spaces, hence the zero-marginal counts, agree over every field, for every \(t\). GAP/HAP computed integral homology of 11 boards up to \(6\times7\) (chessboard_homology.txt) and found the torsion elsewhere: \(H_2(M_{5,5})=\mathbb Z/3\), \(H_3(M_{6,6})=(\mathbb Z/3)^{10}\oplus\mathbb Z^{25}\), and \(H_3(M_{6,7})=\mathbb Z/3\) on the PHP-shaped board with 7 pigeons and 6 holes, where rational and \(\mathbb F_2\) homology of that degree vanish since \(H_2(M_{6,7})=0\). So the torsion is a characteristic-3 phenomenon of PHP-shaped boards, in homology no argument of the thread uses.
Krajíček's randomized feasible interpolation (J. Math. Logic 2018, arXiv:1611.08680). It was motivated by lower bounds for \(\mathrm{R}(\mathrm{LIN}/\mathbb F_2)\), the Raz–Tzameret name for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_2})\). A short semantic refutation of a disjointness statement of monotone sets gives a small randomized protocol, hence a small monotone circuit with a local oracle. Target: the goal. Where it breaks: by the abstract, the method does not yet give length-of-proof lower bounds, since lower bounds for such protocols or circuits are open. It also applies to split formulas, and PHP is not of that form. Test. Not run: the missing piece is a circuit lower bound, not a computation, and the paper's body was not read.

Absurd bridges

Cryptanalysis of learning with errors: the Arora–Ge linearization. Translation: a sample of LWE over \(\mathbb F_3\) with binary secret and noise in \(\{1,2\}\) is exactly a constraint \(L(x)\ne0\), and Arora and Ge encode it by the quadric \(L^2-1=0\). A slot's falsifying set is then the solution set of an Arora–Ge system of \(r\) samples. What a theorem there would give: the algebraic cryptanalysis literature (Bardet, Faugère and Salvy's semi-regular series; Albrecht, Cid, Faugère, Fitzpatrick and Perret on Arora–Ge) predicts Hilbert functions and solving degrees of such systems. It would give the slot Hilbert function in closed form, and solving degrees of unsatisfiable systems, which are closely related to PC refutation degrees. Smallest test: compare the Boolean semi-regular prediction \((1+t)^v/(1+t^2)^r\), cumulated to degree \(k\), with the measured Hilbert functions of the 21 regime cases (arora_ge_series.txt). Test. Falsified as an exact prediction. The measured value is at least the semi-regular one in all 21 cases. Equality at \(k=2\), 10 cases, is automatic, since the only degree-2 vanishing elements are the generators. At \(k\ge3\) it is above in 10 of 11 cases, by up to 63 at \(v=16,k=4,r=4\) (2042 against 1979). So squares of linear forms carry more syzygies than generic Boolean quadrics, and the crypto estimates do not apply unchanged. The pair-product series of the slot Hilbert entry bounds the measured values from above in all 21 cases.
Modular representation theory: the Brauer quotient (Brauer; Broué's \(p\)-permutation modules). Translation: for a \(p\)-group \(P\) acting on a module \(M\) in characteristic \(p\), \(\mathrm{Br}_P(M)=M^P/\sum_{Q<P}\mathrm{Tr}_Q^P(M^Q)\). On the ring of functions on the Boolean cube with \(P\) permuting the variables, it is restriction to the \(P\)-fixed subcube, the substitution \(x_e\mapsto y_{O(e)}\): at a fixed point an orbit sum \(\mathrm{Tr}(m)\) evaluates to \(3m=0\), and a fixed monomial evaluates to a product of the \(y_O\). A monomial's image has degree equal to the number of orbits it touches, about a third of its degree when it touches only free orbits of size 3. What a theorem there would give: restricting an invariant element of the degree-\(d\) PC-derivable space \(V_d\) to the fixed subcube gives a polynomial of degree about the number of orbits, not \(d\). The open question is whether that restriction is derivable in the fixed-point instance at that degree. A degree-\(d\) refutation cannot be symmetrized in characteristic 3, so the map must act on \(V_d^P\), which contains 1 once \(d\) reaches the refutation degree. Smallest test: the product formula \(\mathrm{Br}\bigl(\prod_{e\in O}(1-x_e)\bigr)=1-y_O\) for a free orbit of size 3. Test. Passed, but it is a definitional check that cannot fail: \(e_1=\mathrm{Tr}(x_e)\) and \(e_2=\mathrm{Tr}(x_ex_{e'})\) are traces from the trivial subgroup, \(e_3=y_O\) is fixed, and \(\prod(1-x_e)=1-e_1+e_2-e_3\). The bridge's real content is narrow. For plain PHP the fixed-point instance is again a PHP on orbits, of size about \(n/3\), whose PC degree is known. Pigeons are the free pigeon orbits and the fixed pigeons, holes likewise, and a free pigeon orbit has 3 mutually exclusive shifts into each free hole orbit and none into a fixed hole. Under the thread's encoding, with linear row equations, the restricted axioms have degree 1, and a transfer from degree \(d\) to about \(d/3\) on PHP alone would only be consistent with Razborov's degree bound, not improve it. Under clause axioms a pigeon clause touches one orbit per hole and does not shrink, so the target degree must include the restricted axiom degree.

Bridge follow-up

The finite-field method for hyperplane arrangements. Developed in the slot Hilbert entry, which measured the graded ring of the arrangement complement in the cube. Follow-up. Closed: the complement keeps almost all dimensions, which closes the per-slot count, and this review closes the joint count.
Shannon's information budget. No work. Follow-up. Continuing, for the collective core.
Kotecký–Preiss. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the characteristic-3 obstacle stands.

Lead follow-up

Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, on randomized blocks. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: the collective core is its target.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer. No work. Follow-up. Continuing, as above.
The Mikša–Nordström closure. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: it remains the base of the proved randomized-prefix results.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, the collective core. The one A1 use of the Brauer bridge is this. For a group \(G\) of board symmetries of constant size, such as \(\mathbb Z/3\), W (in its deterministic form, not W_RS) for a family follows from W for the family's orbit closure. The closure is again a family of blocks of affine forms, with at most \(|G|\) times as many blocks, and prefixes chosen for it restrict to the original blocks, whose axioms are a subset. So A1 may assume a \(G\)-invariant family, and then \(V_d\) is \(G\)-stable. Define the fixed-point instance as the restriction of every axiom to the fixed subcube, \(x_e\mapsto y_{O(e)}\). The open question is whether \(\mathrm{Br}_P(V_d^P)\) lies in that instance's derivable space at the orbit degree plus the restricted axiom degrees. It turns on degree cancellation when non-invariant summands are restricted. First do the degree count, as the computation rules require: under the thread's encoding (Booleanity, column collisions, linear row equations), write the fixed-point instance of \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) under \(\mathbb Z/3\) with its fixed pigeons and holes, with the restricted degrees of the axioms and of a block's clauses. Find the smallest \(n\) at which the orbit instance is a nontrivial PHP and the containment is not already decided by those degrees. At \(n=5\) it is degenerate, 2 pigeon orbits into 1 hole orbit, and \(n=8\) gives 3 into 2. If no such \(n\) is within the exact closure tester's reach, or the count shows the transfer cannot beat plain restriction, close the bridge.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the criterion's statement and proof sketch in the main record, the slot Hilbert entry, the collective-core review's leads, bridges and follow-ups, and the chessboard-cycle claim. Claim searches under Hilbert function, falsifying set, union of flats, quadric vanishing and chessboard found no earlier record of the facet lemma or the joint computation. Every number was read by script from joint_summary.txt, chessboard_homology.txt and arora_ge_series.txt. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the facet lemma, the \(\mathbb F_2\) numbers, the universal-coefficient step and the trace algebra. It required: the exceptions named correctly, one of them unexplained; the agreement count restated as 5 of 8 nontrivial cases; a size-matched \(\mathbb F_2\) comparison; the onto-functional argument described as working over every field; the chessboard lead marked Falsified for the thread's range, by the connectivity bound; the Brauer quotient identified as restriction to the fixed subcube and its test as definitional; "closed" limited to the exclusion step, with a caveat on proper blocks; and a next step tied to A1 with fixed sizes. All were adopted. The next step then added the orbit-closure reduction, so the reviewer made a second pass. It required the encoding fixed and a degree count before any test, since axiom degrees can decide the containment in advance; the orbit-closure hypotheses (constant group size, the deterministic W); the fixed-point instance defined as the restriction of every axiom; and the degenerate size \(n=5\) replaced. All were adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	22 min 51.35 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 53.44 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	11 min 9.70 s
Computation design and coding	3 min 29.96 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	41.88 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	2 min 48.66 s
Individually measured computation	47.58 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

The Brauer degree count: under a \(\mathbb Z/3\) action free on pigeons, with two fixed holes, the fixed-point instance of \(\mathrm{PHP}^{3a}_{3a-1}\) is again a PHP on \(a\) pigeon orbits, and the invariant family of orbit equalities shows that no Brauer transfer divides the refutation degree by the orbit size, even with additive slack

26 September 2026 · Working proof of an obstruction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-brauer-count. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Brauer degree count: under a \(\mathbb Z/3\) action free on pigeons, with two fixed holes, the fixed-point instance of \(\mathrm{PHP}^{3a}_{3a-1}\) is again a PHP on \(a\) pigeon orbits, and the invariant family of orbit equalities shows that no Brauer transfer divides the refutation degree by the orbit size, even with additive slack”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-brauer-count.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The DAG review passed a bridge from modular representation theory. For a 3-group \(P\) permuting the variables, the Brauer quotient on Boolean functions is restriction to the \(P\)-fixed subcube, and on size-3 orbits it sends a \(P\)-invariant polynomial of degree \(d\) to one of degree about \(d/3\). Its next step asked for the degree count first: under the thread's encoding, what is the fixed-point instance, and can the transfer "invariant derivable elements at degree \(d\) restrict to derivable elements at about \(d/3\)" hold?

General statement. prop:no-brauer-degree-transfer. The encoding is the thread's weak base over \(\mathbb F_3\): Booleanity, column collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) and linear row equations \(\sum_jx_{ij}-1\). For a set \(A\) of axioms, \(V_d(A)\) is its degree-\(d\) PC-derivable space. Let \(P=\mathbb Z/3\) act on pigeons and holes by permutations and hence on the variables, and let \(A^\flat\) be the fixed-point instance: every axiom restricted to the fixed subcube by \(x_e\mapsto y_{O(e)}\).

The fixed-point instance. Let \(n+1=3a+b\) and \(n=3c+e\), with \(b\) fixed pigeons and \(e\) fixed holes, \(b,e\le2\). After setting the cross variables below to 0, the fixed-point instance of weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) splits into two parts. One is a weak PHP of \(a\) pigeon orbits into \(c\) hole orbits, with each pigeon-orbit, hole-orbit pair split into 3 mutually exclusive shift variables. The other is a weak PHP of the \(b\) fixed pigeons into the \(e\) fixed holes. Since \(3(a-c)+(b-e)=1\), exactly one part is contradictory, and the orbit part is when \((b,e)=(0,2)\), \(n=3a-1\), \(c=a-1\).
No degree transfer (prop:no-brauer-degree-transfer). Take \(n=3a-1\) with the action of item 1 at \((b,e)=(0,2)\). Take the invariant set \(E=\{x_e-x_{\sigma e}\}\) of orbit equalities and \(A=\mathrm{PHP}\cup E\). For every constant \(c_0\), once \(a>3c_0+3\), the containment \(\mathrm{Br}_P\bigl(V_d(A)^P\bigr)\subseteq V_{\lfloor d/3\rfloor+c_0}(A^\flat)\) fails at \(d\) equal to the refutation degree of \(A\).

Proofs

Fixed-point instance. A variable \(x_{ij}\) has orbit size 3 unless \(i\) and \(j\) are both fixed. For a free pigeon orbit \(O\) and a free hole orbit \(O'\), the 9 pairs form 3 orbits, the shifts \(s\), with variables \(y_{O,O',s}\). For a free \(O\) and a fixed hole \(h\) there is one orbit \(y_{O,h}\), and similarly \(y_{p,O'}\) for a fixed pigeon. Pairs of fixed pigeons and holes keep their variables \(x_{ph}\). The row equation of a pigeon \(i\in O\) restricts to \(\sum_{O',s}y_{O,O',s}+\sum_hy_{O,h}-1\), since for each shift \(s\) exactly one hole \(j\in O'\) has \((i,j)\) in orbit \(s\). The row of a fixed pigeon \(p\) restricts to \(\sum_hx_{ph}-1\), since the three holes of a free orbit contribute \(3y_{p,O'}=0\). The collision of two pigeons of \(O\) in a fixed hole \(h\) restricts to \(y_{O,h}^2=y_{O,h}\), so \(y_{O,h}=0\). Collisions in a free hole give \(y_{O,O',s}y_{O,O',s'}\) for \(s\ne s'\), and \(y_{O_1,O',s_1}y_{O_2,O',s_2}\) for distinct orbits. The remaining collisions are those of the fixed part, There are also cross collisions \(x_{ph}y_{O,h}\), \(y_{p,O'}y_{O,O',s}\) and \(y_{p,O'}y_{p',O'}\). Setting \(y_{O,h}=0\) is derivable at degree 2. The variables \(y_{p,O'}\) appear only in collisions, so setting them to 0 is a restriction that preserves satisfiability, not a derivation. In the case used below, \((b,e)=(0,2)\), there are no fixed pigeons, and \(A^\flat\) is exactly the orbit part \(J\). Grouping \(z_{O,O'}=\sum_sy_{O,O',s}\), which is Boolean because the shifts exclude each other, the orbit part is weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^a_c\) with split variables. The fixed part is weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^b_e\). From \(3(a-c)+(b-e)=1\) and \(b,e\in\{0,1,2\}\), either \(a=c\) and \(b=e+1\), or \(a=c+1\) and \((b,e)=(0,2)\).
No degree transfer. Let \(d_A\) and \(d^\flat\) be the refutation degrees of \(A\) and of \(A^\flat\), the orbit part \(J\), since \(E\) restricts to 0.
- \(d_A\le\max(d^\flat,2)\). Pick a representative variable \(x_{r(O)}\) in each orbit. Substituting \(y_O\mapsto x_{r(O)}\) maps a degree-\(d^\flat\) refutation of \(J\) to one from the axioms \(A'\), each PHP axiom with every variable replaced by its representative, at the same degree. This is because, for each single pigeon \(i\in O\), distinct holes lie in distinct variable orbits, so the row equation's image is exactly the representative form. Each \(A'\)-axiom is derivable from the PHP axiom and \(E\) at degree at most 2: for example \(x_ex_f-x_{r(e)}x_{r(f)}=(x_e-x_{r(e)})x_f+x_{r(e)}(x_f-x_{r(f)})\), and \(x_e-x_{r(e)}\) is a sum of at most two generators of \(E\).
- \(d^\flat\le d_A\). Restricting a refutation of \(A\) to the fixed subcube, \(x_e\mapsto y_{O(e)}\), is a ring map that does not raise degree and sends \(E\) to 0. So, with the previous item, \(d^\flat=d_A\) whenever \(d_A\ge2\).
- \(d^\flat\ge(a-1)/2+1\). Setting \(y_{O,O',s}=0\) for \(s\ne0\) and \(y_{O,h}=0\) restricts \(J\) to weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^a_{a-1}\) on \(m=a-1\) holes: the rows become \(\sum_{O'}y_{O,O',0}-1\), the collisions between different pigeon orbits remain, and the within-orbit shift collisions become 0. Restriction does not raise refutation degree. The imported functional \(\mathrm{PHP}^{m+1}_m\) of thm:compact-bit-PHP-PC-degree has the same Booleanity, collisions and linear rows \(\sum_jx_{ij}-1\), plus the functionality axioms, and Razborov's bound \(m/2+1\) holds over every field, \(\mathbb F_3\) included. Weak PHP has a subset of its axioms, so its degree is at least as large.
- Now \(1\in V_{d_A}(A)^P\) and \(\mathrm{Br}_P(1)=1\). The containment would give \(1\in V_{\lfloor d_A/3\rfloor+c_0}(A^\flat)\), so \(d^\flat\le d_A/3+c_0\le\max(d^\flat,2)/3+c_0\). Then \(d^\flat\le\max(3c_0/2,\ 2)\), against \(d^\flat\ge(a-1)/2+1>3c_0/2+2\) once \(a>3c_0+3\). \(\square\)

What it means

The Brauer quotient lowers the degree of invariant polynomials, but not of derivations. \(E\) makes the whole instance live on the fixed subcube at no degree cost, so the fixed-point instance is exactly as hard as the original, \(d^\flat=d_A\), not a third as hard. The argument shows more than the proposition states: any transfer \(\mathrm{Br}_P(V_d^P)\subseteq V_{f(d)}(A^\flat)\) valid for all invariant axiom sets needs \(f(d_A)\ge d_A\) on this family for large \(a\).
The bridge is refuted for arbitrary invariant axiom sets and untested on W families. W's axioms are prefix clauses \(g_i\prod_jL_j^2\) with prefixes chosen by the prover, and \(E\) is not such a family. The open question is whether W's clauses can force orbit equalities. A block of copies of \(x_e-x_{\sigma e}\) yields only clauses that vanish identically, which points against it, but that was not worked out. Using the bridge on W would also need invariant prefix choices, and a \(\sigma\)-stable block may admit no \(\sigma\)-stable prefix set of size \(k\). No mechanism for either is in view, so the thread moves on.

Next. The thread's recorded routes to the collective core are closed and the last bridge is closed. Take up the continuing lead of Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, named in three reviews and never worked: their sum-of-squares lower bounds for random constraint satisfaction problems handle many dense random constraints at once. Read their pseudo-expectation construction at the level of its key lemma, and decide whether an analogue for PC over \(\mathbb F_3\), a pseudo-ideal in place of a pseudo-expectation, could absorb \(n^K\) random dense blocks of W. The dense random blocks are the collective core under W_RS, and the random-core review parked them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read W's statement, the thread's weak-base encoding, the imported Razborov bound as recorded for thm:compact-bit-PHP-PC-degree, and the DAG review's bridge. A claim search under orbit, fixed point, invariant family and degree transfer found no earlier record. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the fixed-point computation, the case analysis and the no-transfer inequality, and checked by script at \(a=3\) that each row's holes lie in distinct variable orbits. It required: the action described as free on pigeons only; the orbit-closure lemma dropped, as plain monotonicity unused by the result and with a misstated dependence of \(k\) on \(K\); the cross collisions between fixed and orbit parts stated, with \(A^\flat=J\) in the case used; the reverse inequality \(d^\flat\le d_A\) added; the encoding of the Razborov import checked against the restricted instance; the counterfactual about iterating cut; and the bridge described as refuted for arbitrary invariant axiom sets and untested on W families. All were adopted. The changes remove or weaken claims, apart from \(d^\flat\le d_A\), which the reviewer supplied with its proof, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 38.20 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 11.95 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 26.11 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The sum-of-squares lead for the collective core: Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer's absorption needs sparse constraints, and W's dense blocks become sparse only in form variables, where PC uses every linear relation among the forms at degree 1; the recorded PC pseudo-ideal constructions do not cover dense blocks, so the lead is closed

26 September 2026 · Assessment closing a lead · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-sos-lead. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The sum-of-squares lead for the collective core: Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer's absorption needs sparse constraints, and W's dense blocks become sparse only in form variables, where PC uses every linear relation among the forms at degree 1; the recorded PC pseudo-ideal constructions do not cover dense blocks, so the lead is closed”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-sos-lead.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, the collective core: many dense blocks, under W or under random prefixes (W_RS). The Brauer count closed the last bridge and sent the thread to the lead of Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer. Three reviews named it (conditioning, randomized, collective core), and none worked it. Could a polynomial-calculus analogue over \(\mathbb F_3\) of their sum-of-squares absorption, a pseudo-ideal in place of a pseudo-expectation, absorb \(n^K\) dense blocks?

General statement. No claim is registered. The statements involved are W and W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction), and the scope audit of Alekhnovich and Razborov's criterion (audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope).

What the lead offers

Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer (STOC 2017) show that sum of squares cannot refute random instances of a constraint satisfaction problem with about \(n^{(t+1)/2}\) constraints when the predicate supports a \(t\)-wise uniform distribution. The degree degrades with the density but pays no fixed cost per constraint. Their construction needs the constraint hypergraph to expand: each constraint touches a constant number of variables, and small sets of constraints have many unique neighbours. The two recorded tests found \(t\)-wise uniform distributions on W's allowed patterns for \(k\ge3\), and pairwise-uniform ones on randomized blocks (conditioning review, randomized review). The open step recorded both times was the transfer to characteristic 3.

Where the transfer fails

In the cube variables the blocks are not sparse. The collective core consists of dense blocks, whose forms have supports of nearly all \(N=n(n+1)\) cells, since the light-family theorem settles every family whose blocks have at most \(n^{2-\eta}\) support cells. So every two constraints share almost all variables, and the constraint hypergraph has no unique neighbours. The expansion hypothesis fails outright.
In form variables they are sparse, but linear relations are free. Introduce a variable \(u_{b,i}\) for each form \(L_{b,i}\). A block's clauses \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\), with \(g=1-u^2\), then involve only that block's \(h_b\) variables, and blocks with independent forms share none. But \(n^K\) blocks carry far more than \(N\) forms, so the forms satisfy many linear relations over \(\mathbb F_3\). PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) derives each such relation at degree 1, whatever its length. The sum-of-squares argument has no analogue of this: its hard instances are the ones whose linear structure over the field does not refute them, as for random 3-XOR over \(\mathbb F_2\), which Gaussian elimination solves. So the form-variable picture is a sparse CSP with a dense system of free linear relations, which the lead's expansion argument does not cover.
The recorded PC pseudo-ideals do not reach dense blocks. The PC counterpart of a pseudo-expectation is Alekhnovich and Razborov's pseudo-ideal operator, built from expansion. Its direct import was audited and gives no positive bound for raw high-rank affine companions (audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope). Mikša and Nordström's closure operator, the pseudo-ideal for functional PHP on expanders, is the base of the thread's proved randomized-prefix results. It reaches light and bounded-column families, not the dense core (peeling review).
Positivity. Sum of squares uses positivity of a real pseudo-expectation, and the absorption is a statement about approximate uniformity with small errors. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) there is no notion of small, the obstacle the conditioning review recorded for its Kotecký–Preiss bridge. The recorded best case of a \(t\)-wise uniform \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued measure saves \(t+1\) degrees per block, while zeroing a single form costs only 2 (conditioning review).

The lead is closed. Each of its hypotheses fails on the collective core: sparsity, the absence of useful linear structure over the field, and positivity. What survives is a reformulation. In the variables \(g_{b,i}=1-L_{b,i}^2\), which take values in \(\{0,1\}\), the prefix condition \(Q^{C}=[Cg=0]\) is a system of \(\mathbb F_3\)-linear equations in Boolean unknowns. So W_RS's clauses are \(\mathbb F_3\)-linear constraints on Boolean vectors, coupled to PHP through \(g=1-L^2\).

Next. The Boolean-linear reformulation is the one new handle. PC over \(\mathbb F_p\) on \(\mathbb F_p\)-linear systems in Boolean variables is a studied setting, which includes the modular counting principles. Search the record and the literature for PC-over-\(\mathbb F_p\) degree lower bounds for random \(\mathbb F_p\)-linear systems in Boolean variables, the same-characteristic case. Decide whether such a bound, if it exists, could apply to the \(g\)-system of the collective core, where each block's \(g\)-vector is tied to the cube by \(g=1-L^2\) and the rows of \(C_b\) are random.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the lead's three recorded statements and tests, the light-family and peeling results it relies on, the statement of thm:randomized-prefix-reduction, and audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope. The entry proves nothing new: it closes a lead from recorded tests and audits, plus the observation that PC derives linear relations among forms at degree 1. So no fresh-context review was run, as for the correction entry. The Kothari–Mori–O'Donnell–Witmer statements are taken from the recorded reviews, not from a new reading of the paper.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 0.87 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 24.53 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	54.14 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	42.05 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The Boolean-linear handle: W_RS's clauses make each block's zero-indicator vector avoid a subspace, which is not a linear system; the only same-characteristic method for dense linear inputs on the Boolean cube, Part's robustness bound for vector subset sum, covers a weak regular fragment that splits on variables; the handle gives no tool for the collective core

26 September 2026 · Assessment and small correction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-boolean-linear. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Boolean-linear handle: W_RS's clauses make each block's zero-indicator vector avoid a subspace, which is not a linear system; the only same-characteristic method for dense linear inputs on the Boolean cube, Part's robustness bound for vector subset sum, covers a weak regular fragment that splits on variables; the handle gives no tool for the collective core”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-boolean-linear.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The sum-of-squares entry closed its lead and kept one handle: in the zero indicators \(g=1-L^2\in\{0,1\}\), W_RS's prefix condition \(Q^C=[Cg=0]\) is an \(\mathbb F_3\)-linear system in Boolean unknowns. Does PC over \(\mathbb F_p\) on such systems, in the same characteristic, have degree or size lower bounds that could reach the collective core?

General statement. No claim is registered. The statement involved is W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction).

Correction: the clauses avoid a subspace

The sum-of-squares entry wrote that "W_RS's clauses are \(\mathbb F_3\)-linear constraints on Boolean vectors". That is imprecise. The clauses \(g_iQ^C=0\) for all \(i\) say: if \(Cg=0\) then every \(g_i=0\). So a block's clauses require its Boolean vector \(g\) to avoid \(\ker C\setminus\{0\}\), that is, \(g=0\) or \(Cg\ne0\). This is the complement of a linear system, a disjunction of inequations, like a line of \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) in the \(g\) variables. It is not itself a linear system. The condition \(Cg=0\) is linear, as that entry said, but the clauses forbid its nonzero Boolean solutions.

What the literature offers

Linear systems in Boolean unknowns. Part (arXiv:2202.08214) proves lower bounds for vector subset sum, \(\mathbb F_q\)-linear systems \(Ax=b\) with no 0-1 solution, when \(A\) generates an error-correcting code with a robustness property: every small partial assignment that makes a derived subsystem 0-1 unsatisfiable must meet a subsystem of high rank on its support. The DAG-like bound, \(2^{\Omega(r)}\) for \((s,r)\)-robust instances, is for a fragment that splits only on single variables, with each variable at most once on every path. The paper calls it presumably weaker than regular \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{lin}_{\mathbb F_q})\). It ties its restriction \(\operatorname{char}\mathbb F_q\ge5\) to cited coNP-completeness results for the language; whether its arguments use the restriction otherwise was not checked. Code distance is how it handles dense linear inputs. The record's literature review already listed this paper as requiring characteristic at least 5.
PC with extension variables over \(\mathbb F_p\). Impagliazzo, Mouli and Pitassi (CCC 2023), and Dahiya, Mahajan and Mouli (SAT 2024), bound the arity of extension variables, by \(O(\log n)\) and \(N^{1-\varepsilon}\). Dense forms exceed both, as the novelty check recorded.
Alekhnovich and Razborov's immunity. A linear equation has immunity 1, since the equation itself is a degree-1 member of its ideal, so the expansion criterion gives nothing for linear constraints. This is the same reason random XOR over the field is easy.

Assessment

None of these reaches the collective core. Part's method is the only one built for dense linear inputs on the Boolean cube in odd characteristic. It proves bounds for a fragment far below DAG-like \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin})\), for linear systems rather than PHP, and the core's \(g\)-constraints are subspace avoidances coupled to PHP through \(g=1-L^2\), not linear systems. The handle is closed.

With it, every recorded route and lead to A1's collective core is closed or parked: the dimension route (DAG review), the Brauer bridge (Brauer count), the sum-of-squares lead (sum-of-squares lead), and the randomized-prefix program (collective-core review).

Next. A route review of the whole thread. It should revise the Open statements against what is closed, look for a new idea for the collective core, and weigh intermediate targets the literature leaves open at odd \(p\), such as regular \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) for PHP.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read the abstract, introduction, Definitions 1 and 6, Remarks 6 and 8, and the fragment's definition in Part's paper, and the record's novelty check and literature review on Impagliazzo–Mouli–Pitassi and Dahiya–Mahajan–Mouli. Checked the correction against the statement of thm:randomized-prefix-reduction. The entry proves nothing new: it closes a handle and corrects a description. So no fresh-context review was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 3.70 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	23.11 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	49.75 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	1 min 50.69 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review after the closures: every recorded route to A1's collective core is closed; the review tests a 3-integrality lead, in which rational dual functionals with 3-integral values reduce to \(\mathbb F_3\) ones, finds 3-torsion in weak PHP's degree-3 lattices from 5 pigeons on, and sends the next cycle to decide whether integral functionals exist despite it

26 September 2026 · Route review with three tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-closed-routes-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the closures: every recorded route to A1's collective core is closed; the review tests a 3-integrality lead, in which rational dual functionals with 3-integral values reduce to \(\mathbb F_3\) ones, finds 3-torsion in weak PHP's degree-3 lattices from 5 pigeons on, and sends the next cycle to decide whether integral functionals exist despite it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-closed-routes-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the collective-core review, four cycles closed what remained: the dimension route (slot Hilbert, DAG review), the Brauer bridge (Brauer count), the sum-of-squares lead (sum-of-squares lead) and the Boolean-linear handle (Boolean-linear). What is the thread's state, and what new idea should it test?

General statement. The line's claim is the goal, through W (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction) or its randomized form W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction). Its open core is A1 for families of many dense blocks.

What the goal needs

A mechanism that makes PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degree \(22k=\Theta(\log n)\) unable to use \(n^K\) dense blocks jointly, at no fixed degree cost per block. Every recorded mechanism either pays per block (replay, conditioning, the annihilator), needs sparsity (light families, sum of squares), needs averaging (which vanishes in characteristic 3), or needs flats (the dimension count).

Falsification attempt: is the goal false?

Calibration. \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) is a fragment of bounded-depth Frege with \(\mathrm{MOD}_3\) gates, where PHP lower bounds are a known open problem, so no known upper bound or lower bound settles the goal. Results on bounded-depth Frege with modular counting axioms (Beame and Riis; Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall) separate counting principles, but counting as axioms is weaker than counting in the lines, and their exact statements were not re-read in this cycle.
Small cases. The lattice test below also records which fields refute weak PHP at small NS degree. \(\mathrm{PHP}^5_4\) has an NS refutation of degree 3 over \(\mathbb F_3\) but not over \(\mathbb F_2,\mathbb F_5,\dots,\mathbb F_{37}\). \(\mathrm{PHP}^4_3\) has one of degree 3 over \(\mathbb F_2\) and \(\mathbb F_3\) only. These are small-\(n\) counting effects. Razborov's bound \(n/2+1\) holds over every field, so from 5 holes on no field refutes at degree 3, and at 4 holes the \(\mathbb F_3\) refutation meets the bound exactly. The bound does not rule out \(\mathbb F_3\) having lower degree than other fields at larger \(n\). No evidence for polynomial-size refutations was found.

Assessment of the line

The thread has proved PHP hard for many restricted classes of refutations at every odd prime (Where we stand), and has reduced the unrestricted case to W. But A1's collective core has resisted every mechanism the thread has found or imported, and the last four cycles closed the remaining ones. The goal is a depth-restricted case of PHP for bounded-depth Frege with \(\mathrm{MOD}_3\) gates, a known open problem, and the analogous wide-clause obligation at \(p=2\) is also open in the main record. The line's prospects are weak. What it lacks is a notion of smallness in characteristic 3. The recorded bridges that would absorb many blocks, Kotecký–Preiss and sum of squares, are characteristic-0 statements, and the transfer to \(\mathbb F_3\) is where each one stopped. The Open statements stay as they are: W, A1–A3 and S1 are still the open conjuncts, and no line has descended below them.

Outside leads

Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson, regular \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) (STOC 2024), as an intermediate target. Target: regular \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) for PHP, which no known result covers at odd \(p\). Where it breaks: the walk-restriction entry showed that at odd \(p\) a walk's restriction implies a far inequation only at linear cost (its restriction lemma), and that padding forces every walk to meet one in its first stage (its padding construction). Test. Falsified for path-resolution regularity notions. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the negation of a line is a conjunction of inequations, so there is no canonical regular \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\). Take the notion "no form in the span of the forms resolved earlier on a path is resolved again". The padding adds a disjunct \(L=c\) to every line of two copies and resolves on \(L\) once at the end. So every path of the padded proof is a path of the original followed by one resolution on \(L\). The padded proof is regular in this sense when the original is and \(L\) is independent of the forms resolved on every path. In PHP every variable occurs, so "independent" cannot mean "on fresh variables". Whether the obstruction's quadrant form can always be chosen independent of a given regular proof's resolved forms was not checked; if not, a nearby dense form with the same distance from additivity would have to be found. The first-stage obstruction therefore holds for regular proofs too, and the carrying alternative's reach stays below the \(\Omega(n)\) depth every refutation has.
Hensel lifting: 3-integral rational certificates. Target: A1, by giving characteristic-0 tools a way into \(\mathbb F_3\). The lemma and the test below are for Nullstellensatz degree only; a PC analogue is open, since the \(\mathbb F_3\) PC span is not the reduction of a lattice (combinations that vanish mod 3 get multiplied further). Let \(L_d\subseteq\mathbb Z^N\) be the lattice spanned by the multilinear degree-\(\le d\) multiples of the weak-base axioms, and \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)=(L_d\otimes\mathbb Q)\cap\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\). A rational functional \(\ell\) vanishing on \(L_d\), with \(\ell(1)=1\) and values in \(\mathbb Z_{(3)}\) on integer vectors, reduces mod 3 to an \(\mathbb F_3\) dual functional at NS degree \(d\), since every element of the \(\mathbb F_3\)-span of the multiples lifts to \(L_d\). Such an \(\ell\) exists exactly when the constant monomial's unit vector \(e_1\) is not in \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\). When \(\mathbb Z^N/L_d\) has no 3-torsion, \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)=L_d\otimes\mathbb Z_{(3)}\), and \(\mathbb F_3\)-hardness at NS degree \(d\) is then exactly hardness with a 3-integral rational certificate. Positive, small, characteristic-0 constructions such as cluster expansions could be used if kept 3-integral. Where it breaks: 3-torsion, and the 3-adic denominators of such constructions. Test. Falsified for the torsion-free shortcut. The script computed ranks of \(L_d\) over \(\mathbb F_p\) for \(p\in\{2,3,5,7,11,13,37\}\) for weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\): \(n=2\) at \(d=2,3\); \(n=3\) at \(d=2,3,4\); \(n=4,5\) at \(d=2,3\) (torsion_summary.txt). The rational rank is estimated as the maximum over these primes, a lower bound that is exact unless every listed prime divides the torsion; the reviewer rechecked it modulo 23, 29 and 31 and found the same values. Up to 4 pigeons there is no 3-torsion. With 5 pigeons at \(d=3\) the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank is 1294 against 1295. That one dimension coincides with the \(\mathbb F_3\)-only refutation: there \(\mathbb F_3\) refutes and \(\mathbb Q\) does not, so no 3-integral certificate can exist, a concrete case where torsion matters. With 6 pigeons at \(d=3\) the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank is 3870 against 3876, and the instance is unrefuted over every field by Razborov's bound. So the question the shortcut skips is live there: does \(e_1\notin\mathrm{Sat}(L_3)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\) hold despite the torsion? 2-torsion appears from 4 pigeons on at \(d=2\) (60 against 64) and from 5 pigeons on at \(d=3\), and it is larger: 3726 against 3876 at \(d=3\) with 6 pigeons.
Beame and Riis, and Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall, on counting axioms. Target: the goal's calibration, and a possible source of \(\mathbb F_3\) designs for PHP. Their separations rest on Nullstellensatz degree lower bounds proved with designs; the exact principles and fields were not re-read in this cycle. Where it breaks: \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) is not bounded-depth Frege with counting axioms, and the designs are for fixed axiom sets, not for adversarial families of blocks. Test. Not run: it is a calibration, with no computation that would decide it. Its designs were already used by the parked occupancy line (peeling review).

Absurd bridges

The abelian sandpile model (Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld; Dhar). Translation: the torsion of \(\mathbb Z^N/L_d\) is a "critical group" of PHP, as the sandpile group of a graph is the torsion of the cokernel of its Laplacian. The board of PHP is \(K_{n+1,n}\), whose sandpile group is known. What a theorem there would give: a closed form for the torsion of PHP's lattices, hence for where 3-integral certificates can fail. Smallest test: compare the 3-parts. Test. Falsified. PARI's Smith forms (sandpile_output.txt) give the sandpile group of \(K_{m+1,m}\) as \(\mathbb Z_{m(m+1)}^{m-1}\oplus\mathbb Z_m\): 3-rank 0 for 5 pigeons and 4 for 6 pigeons, against the lattice's 1 and 6 at \(d=3\). The degree-3 lattice is not the board's Laplacian, and since its torsion depends on \(d\), no fixed graph's Laplacian could match it.
Qutrit CSS codes from chain complexes (Kitaev; Bravyi and Hastings). Translation: a chain complex over \(\mathbb F_3\) defines a qutrit quantum code whose logical qutrits are its \(\mathbb F_3\)-homology. The chessboard complex \(M_{6,7}\) of the PHP board with 7 pigeons and 6 holes has \(H_3=\mathbb Z/3\) (DAG review). So its qutrit code has a logical qutrit that no rational or binary code of the same complex has. What a theorem there would give: code distance, the least support of a nontrivial cycle, bounded by systolic or expansion arguments. That is the kind of "no small certificate" statement a degree bound is. Smallest test: the number of logical qutrits in degree 3 from the recorded homology, which is \(\dim H_3(M_{6,7};\mathbb F_3)=1\) by universal coefficients, since \(H_2(M_{6,7})=0\). Test. Passed (consistency check only): the arithmetic could not fail. The chessboard complex models functional PHP. The complex of weak-base survivors, at most one pigeon per hole and no row condition, is a join of discrete sets and has no torsion. The distance of that logical qutrit was not computed; minimum-weight cycles are a hard search at that size, and no argument ties the code distance to a PC degree.

Bridge follow-up

The Brauer quotient. Developed in the Brauer count. Follow-up. Closed: an invariant family of orbit equalities keeps the fixed-point instance as hard as the original, so no degree transfer exists for arbitrary invariant axiom sets.
Shannon's information budget. Follow-up. Closed: it was turned into the Kotecký–Preiss bridge, which carries its question.
Kotecký–Preiss. The Hensel lead above supplies a candidate smallness surrogate: build the dual functional in characteristic 0, where the cluster expansion converges, and keep it 3-integral. Follow-up. Continuing: the shortcut through torsion-free lattices fails from 5 pigeons on, and 3-integrality of a cluster expansion is untested.

Lead follow-up

Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, on randomized blocks. Developed in the sum-of-squares lead. Follow-up. Closed: sparsity, useful linear structure and positivity all fail on dense blocks.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer. Follow-up. Closed, as above.
The Mikša–Nordström closure. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: it remains the base of the proved randomized-prefix results.

A note on the record: the DAG review said Krajíček's paper body was not read. The novelty check of 22 September had read its section 4 in full; the DAG review's remark refers only to its own cycle.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Decide the Hensel lead's live question at the smallest informative size: weak PHP with 6 pigeons at NS degree 3, unrefuted over every field by Razborov's bound, with 6 dimensions of 3-torsion. Compute \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_3)\) modulo 3. Take a basis of the whole left kernel of the generator matrix \(G\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), lift it to integers \(\tilde y\), and add the vectors \(\tilde yG/3\) to the span. One step captures only the \(\mathbb Z/3\) factors, so check that the new \(\mathbb F_3\)-span reaches the rational rank 3876, and iterate for \(\mathbb Z/9\) factors if it does not. Then test whether \(e_1\) lies in the span. If it does not, a 3-integral rational certificate exists despite the torsion, and the lead continues to a characteristic-0 construction for PHP plus one dense block. If it does, record the failure and restrict the lead: one failing instance shows that 3-integral certificates do not capture NS hardness over \(\mathbb F_3\) in general, not that they fail for the instances A1 needs.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the walk-restriction entry's padding construction and restriction lemma, the Brauer, sum-of-squares and Boolean-linear entries, and the open follow-up items of the earlier reviews. Every number was read by script from torsion_summary.txt and sandpile_output.txt. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the Hensel lemma and its converse without torsion, the universal-coefficient step, the sandpile verdict and every number, rechecked the rational ranks at three more primes, and checked that products the script drops, which collapse in degree under multilinearization, change no rank where they occur. It required: the regularity notion and "new form" made precise, with the verdict limited to path-resolution notions; the Hensel lemma scoped to NS degree, with the exact criterion \(e_1\notin\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\); the rational rank described as an estimate; the case range and the 2-torsion statement corrected; the coincidence of the 5-pigeon torsion with the \(\mathbb F_3\)-only refutation added; the Razborov remark made precise; the saturation procedure made well defined and iterated; the closing clause of the next step restricted; and the qutrit test labelled a consistency check, with the note that the weak base's complex has no torsion. All were adopted. The exact criterion is the reviewer's restatement of the lemma, and the other changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

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Total instrumented interval	16 min 34.48 s
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Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9 min 4.08 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 49.41 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 30.52 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 51.56 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

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The Hensel saturation test: assuming its rational rank is 3876, as modular ranks at eight primes agree, weak PHP with 6 pigeons at Nullstellensatz degree 3 has a rational dual functional with 3-integral values despite 6 dimensions of 3-torsion in its lattice

26 September 2026 · Conditional finite check and conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-hensel-saturation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Hensel saturation test: assuming its rational rank is 3876, as modular ranks at eight primes agree, weak PHP with 6 pigeons at Nullstellensatz degree 3 has a rational dual functional with 3-integral values despite 6 dimensions of 3-torsion in its lattice”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-hensel-saturation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The closed-routes review opened a 3-integrality lead at Nullstellensatz degree. A rational dual functional that vanishes on the lattice \(L_d\) of degree-\(\le d\) axiom multiples, with \(\ell(1)=1\) and 3-integral values, reduces mod 3 to an \(\mathbb F_3\) dual functional. It exists exactly when \(e_1\notin\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\), where \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)=(L_d\otimes\mathbb Q)\cap\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\) and \(e_1\) is the constant monomial. The review found 3-torsion in \(\mathbb Z^N/L_3\) from 5 pigeons on, so \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_3)\ne L_3\otimes\mathbb Z_{(3)}\). Does an integral certificate exist anyway at 6 pigeons and degree 3, the first size that is unrefuted over every field and has 3-torsion?

General statement. conj:three-integral-php-certificates: for weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) (rows \(\sum_jx_{ij}-1\), collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\), multilinear), at every degree \(d\) where \(\mathbb F_3\) has no NS refutation, \(e_1\notin\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\): NS hardness over \(\mathbb F_3\) is certified by a 3-integral rational functional. The range \(d<n/2+1\), below Razborov's bound, is a sufficient subrange. The conditional finite check ex:hensel-saturation-small gives one nontrivial instance, 6 pigeons at \(d=3\). The other cases run have no 3-torsion, so there the conclusion already follows from \(\mathbb F_3\)-hardness. No known result was found that implies the conjecture: the obvious symmetric design has coefficients \(c_k=(n-k)!/n!\), which are not 3-integral for \(n\ge3\), so Razborov's construction is not evidently integral.

The computation

The script hensel_saturation.py computes \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)\) modulo 3 by iterated lifting. It starts from the integer generator matrix \(S_0=G\). A basis of the left kernel of \(S_t\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) is computed by FLINT's nmod_mat_nullspace and lifted to integer vectors \(\tilde y\). Then \(S_{t+1}\) is \(S_t\) together with the rows \(\tilde yS_t/3\), which are integral and are kept exactly. This continues until the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank reaches the rational rank. Every added row lies in \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)\), and a saturated lattice reduces mod 3 to a space of dimension its rank. So once the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank equals the rational rank, the \(\mathbb F_3\)-span of \(S_t\) is \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)\bmod3\), and \(e_1\) is tested against it. The rational rank is estimated as the largest rank modulo 5, 7, 11, 13 and 37 (php_lattice_torsion.json of the closed-routes review), and checked modulo three word-size primes (\(10^9+7\), 998244353 and \(2^{61}-1\)) by FLINT's nmod_mat_rank (hensel_saturation.json). All eight agree in every case. Modular ranks are only lower bounds, so the positive conclusions assume the rational rank equals that common value. If it were larger, the iteration would stop early and "\(e_1\) not in the span" would prove nothing. No exact rational certificate was computed. As a further check, the lattice with the lifted rows added still has rank equal to the estimate modulo \(10^9+7\), so the added rows lie in \(L_d\otimes\mathbb Q\).

4 pigeons, \(d=2\): rank 64 over \(\mathbb F_3\) and \(\mathbb Q\); \(e_1\) not in the span; an integral certificate exists, as it must without 3-torsion.
5 pigeons, \(d=2\): rank 135; no 3-torsion; an integral certificate exists.
5 pigeons, \(d=3\): \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank 1294, one lifting step reaches 1295, and \(e_1\) lies in the saturation. There \(\mathbb F_3\) refutes at degree 3, so no certificate can exist, as the review noted. This is the control.
6 pigeons, \(d=2\): rank 246; no 3-torsion; an integral certificate exists.
6 pigeons, \(d=3\): \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank 3870, one lifting step reaches the rational rank 3876, and \(e_1\) is not in the saturation. So, assuming the rational rank is 3876, an integral certificate exists despite 6 dimensions of 3-torsion.

The control confirms only that the lifting raises the rank from 1294 to 1295. It does not test the \(e_1\) check, since there \(e_1\) already lies in the \(\mathbb F_3\)-span of \(L_3\) before any lifting.

What it means

At the first informative size, and subject to the rank assumption, 3-torsion in PHP's lattice does not obstruct 3-integral certificates: \(e_1\notin\mathrm{Sat}(L_3)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\).
A sharper route to the conjecture: if \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)\bmod3\) lies inside the degree-\(d\) PC-derivable space over \(\mathbb F_3\), the conjecture follows from Razborov's lower bound over \(\mathbb F_3\). Whether the 6 torsion directions at 6 pigeons and \(d=3\) are PC-derivable at degree 3 is a direct test.
The lemma and the test are for NS degree, while W is a PC statement. So even a positive answer for PHP plus blocks would not advance A1 directly; it would show that the characteristic-0 route is not blocked at NS degree.

Next. Test the sharper route first. At 6 pigeons and \(d=3\), compute the degree-3 PC-derivable space over \(\mathbb F_3\) with the recorded closure tester, and decide whether the 6 lifted torsion directions lie in it. If they do, look for the structural reason, which could prove the conjecture from Razborov's bound. If they do not, the conjecture needs its own argument. Then add one dense constraint \(L^2-1\), with a stated integer lift of \(L\), since the saturation depends on the lift. Report the 3-torsion first: the outcome decides something only if the new lattice has 3-torsion and is unrefuted over \(\mathbb F_3\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the closed-routes review's lemma, criterion and torsion data. A claim search under integral certificate, torsion, lattice and Nullstellensatz found no earlier record. A fresh-context reviewer checked the code and every number, and confirmed that the lifting computes the saturation modulo 3 once the rank reaches the rational rank. It required: the added rows kept exact (the first draft reduced them mod 9, harmless with one step but wrong for a third), done and rerun with identical results; the positive results stated as conditional on the rational rank; the control described as testing only the rank step; the evidence limited to one nontrivial instance, with the others torsion-free; the modular ranks cited from the file that holds them; the conjecture's natural range stated, with \(d<n/2+1\) as a subrange, and the Razborov remark corrected, since the obvious design is not 3-integral; the sharper PC-containment test added; and the next step given a stated lift, a torsion report and the NS-versus-PC scope. All were adopted. The changes weaken or scope claims, so no second pass was made. The positive results remain conditional on the rational rank.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 24.16 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 34.11 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 29.54 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	56.54 s
Individually measured computation	2 min 23.78 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.19 s

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The torsion directions are not PC consequences: at 6 pigeons and degree 3 the \(\mathbb F_3\) PC closure of weak PHP equals its Nullstellensatz span, and the 6 directions that 3-saturation adds lie outside it, so the integrality conjecture does not reduce to Razborov's bound there

26 September 2026 · Finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-torsion-pc. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The torsion directions are not PC consequences: at 6 pigeons and degree 3 the \(\mathbb F_3\) PC closure of weak PHP equals its Nullstellensatz span, and the 6 directions that 3-saturation adds lie outside it, so the integrality conjecture does not reduce to Razborov's bound there”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-torsion-pc.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The Hensel saturation entry found, conditionally on a rational rank, that weak PHP with 6 pigeons at Nullstellensatz degree 3 has a 3-integral rational dual functional despite 6 dimensions of 3-torsion. Its reviewer proposed a sharper route to conj:three-integral-php-certificates. If the 3-saturation \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)\bmod3\) lies inside the degree-\(d\) PC closure \(C_d\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), then Razborov's bound, \(e_1\notin C_d\) for \(d<n/2+1\), gives \(e_1\notin\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\). Do the torsion directions lie in \(C_3\)?

General statement. conj:three-integral-php-certificates, tested here through the containment \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)\bmod3\subseteq C_d\), which would imply it. The finite check ex:torsion-outside-pc-closure refutes the containment at the first informative size.

The computation

The script torsion_pc.py builds the integer generator matrix \(G\) of \(L_3\) for weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^6_5\), with rows \(\sum_jx_{ij}-1\) and collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\), multilinear. It lifts a basis of the left kernel of \(G\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) (FLINT) and forms the integral rows \(\tilde yG/3\), one lifting step, which reached the rational rank in the saturation entry. Then it computes \(C_3\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) by the recorded closure method, \(V\leftarrow V+y\cdot(V\cap R_{\le2})\) for every variable \(y\) until stable, with the multiplication maps stacked into one sparse matrix. It compares ranks. The closure code was validated against the recorded conservativity.closure on four small cases, with equal dimensions: 64, 135, 42 and 299 (validate_closure.json). Output: torsion_pc.json.

6 pigeons, \(d=3\): \(\dim C_3=3870\), the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank of \(L_3\), so at this degree PC over \(\mathbb F_3\) derives nothing beyond the Nullstellensatz span. \(C_3\) together with \(L_3\) still has rank 3870. With the lifted rows added the rank is 3876, and \(1\notin C_3\). So all 6 saturation directions lie outside \(C_3\).
5 pigeons, \(d=3\), control: \(C_3\) is the whole space (\(1\in C_3\)), as the \(\mathbb F_3\) refutation at degree 3 requires.

What it means

The sharper route fails at the first informative size: \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_3)\bmod3\not\subseteq C_3\). A 3-integral certificate there must vanish on 6 directions that are not PC consequences over \(\mathbb F_3\). So integral certificates are strictly more constrained than \(\mathbb F_3\) ones, and the conjecture needs its own argument; Razborov's bound over \(\mathbb F_3\) does not give it.
At this size the saturation entry found that such a certificate exists anyway, conditionally on the rational rank 3876. So the extra constraints are satisfiable here, but no reason is known.
The torsion directions are integral combinations of axiom multiples divided by 3. They are consequences of the axioms over \(\mathbb Z_{(3)}\)-coefficients that reduction mod 3 cannot see as derivations. That is the 3-adic phenomenon the lead depends on.

Next. Test the lead where it matters for A1: PHP plus one dense constraint. For weak PHP with 6 pigeons at Nullstellensatz degree 3, add the axiom \(L^2-1\), which says \(L\ne0\), for a random dense form \(L\) with coefficients lifted to \(\{0,1,2\}\). Over a few seeds, report first whether the instance is unrefuted over \(\mathbb F_3\) and whether its lattice has 3-torsion, then whether \(e_1\) lies in its 3-saturation modulo 3. Integral certificates that survive a dense constraint would keep the characteristic-0 route open at NS degree. Failing ones, on unrefuted instances, would close it at the blocks.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the saturation entry's criterion and lifting, and the recorded closure method. The new closure code was validated against the recorded one. The containment test is a rank comparison over \(\mathbb F_3\) and does not depend on the rational rank. It shows that the lifted rows, which lie in \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_3)\) whatever the rational rank is, are not all in \(C_3\). A fresh-context reviewer is not run for a finite check that refutes a proposed containment by a single rank comparison and validated code. The computation adds no mathematical claim beyond that comparison.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 36.44 s
Marked reading and review windows	33.55 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	22.89 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 59.63 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	41.02 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 59.21 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 2.

Integral certificates at degree 2: every Nullstellensatz dual functional of weak PHP restricts to one supported on matchings, the known design characterization; at degree 2 the design system is totally unimodular, so weak PHP with \(n\ge3\) holes has an integer-valued certificate with values in \(\{0,\pm1\}\), and the integrality conjecture holds at degree at most 2

26 September 2026 · Working proof of an easy observation, with a restated lemma · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dense-integral. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Integral certificates at degree 2: every Nullstellensatz dual functional of weak PHP restricts to one supported on matchings, the known design characterization; at degree 2 the design system is totally unimodular, so weak PHP with \(n\ge3\) holes has an integer-valued certificate with values in \(\{0,\pm1\}\), and the integrality conjecture holds at degree at most 2”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-integral-degree-two.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The 3-integrality lead's base statement is conj:three-integral-php-certificates. For weak PHP, at every Nullstellensatz degree \(d\) where \(\mathbb F_3\) does not refute, a rational dual functional with 3-integral values should exist. It holds at 6 pigeons and degree 3 conditionally on a rational rank (Hensel saturation), but not through Razborov's bound (torsion and PC). Can it be proved at small degree for all \(n\), and what structure governs it?

General statement. lem:matching-extension-certificates and prop:integral-degree-two-certificate, for weak unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\): rows \(\sum_jx_{ij}-1\), collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\), multilinear polynomials, with dual functionals \(\ell\) on degree-\(\le d\) polynomials that vanish on every degree-\(\le d\) multiple of an axiom and have \(\ell(1)=1\).

The matching-extension lemma (lem:matching-extension-certificates), a restatement for weak PHP of the design characterization of Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall, and of Beame and Riis, which the record uses for functional PHP (thm:chessboard-quadratic-design-extension, prop:matching-moment-homology-extension, obs:design-free-column-search). Over any coefficient ring, a dual functional of degree \(d\) restricted to partial matchings, with value 0 elsewhere, is again a dual functional. A functional supported on matchings is a dual functional if and only if \(\ell(\emptyset)=1\) and, for every matching \(M\) with \(|M|\le d-1\) and every pigeon \(i\) outside the rows of \(M\), \(\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(M)}\ell(M+(i,j))=\ell(M)\). So a certificate with integer, or \(p\)-integral, values exists exactly when this layered system has such a solution. Matching designs for weak PHP are the same objects as for functional PHP, since the functionality axioms vanish on matchings.
Degree 2 (prop:integral-degree-two-certificate). For every \(n\ge3\) there is a matching-supported certificate at \(d=2\) with values in \(\{0,1,-1\}\). Put \(\ell(x_{ij})=[j=0]\). For pigeons \(i<i'\) put \(\ell(x_{i0}x_{i'2})=\ell(x_{i1}x_{i'0})=1\) and \(\ell(x_{i1}x_{i'2})=-1\), and give every other degree-2 monomial the value 0. For \(n\ge3\) it is integer-valued, so it is \(p\)-integral for every prime \(p\). For \(n=2\), 3 pigeons, the pair equations force \(\ell(x_{i0})=\ell(x_{i1})=1/2\), so no integer certificate exists, but the half-integral one with \(\ell(x_{ij})=1/2\), \(\ell(x_{i0}x_{i'1})=1/2\) for \(i\ne i'\) and 0 elsewhere is a certificate: it is 3-integral, not 2-integral, and \(\mathbb F_2\) refutes there. At \(d\le1\), \(\ell(x_{ij})=[j=0]\) works for every \(n\), and for \(n=1\) every field refutes at degree 2. So conj:three-integral-php-certificates holds at every \(d\le2\).

Proofs

Matching extension. Restriction: every monomial of degree \(\le d\) with a column collision is itself a collision multiple, so any dual functional vanishes on it. In the row equations below, each term is then either a matching or a non-matching that the equation shows is irrelevant; so zeroing a dual functional off matchings keeps every equation. Characterization: the multiples to kill are \(x_S(\sum_jx_{ij}-1)\) with \(|S|\le d-1\), and \(x_Sx_{ij}x_{i'j}\) with \(|S|\le d-2\). A collision multiple is a monomial containing two cells in one column, not a matching, so \(\ell\) vanishes on it. For a row multiple, \(x_Sx_{ij}\) is reduced multilinearly. If \(S\) is not a matching, every monomial \(x_Sx_{ij}\) and \(x_S\) is not a matching and the value is 0. If \(S=M\) is a matching and pigeon \(i\) is in a row of \(M\), at hole \(j_0\), then \(x_Mx_{ij_0}=x_M\) and every other \(x_Mx_{ij}\) has two cells in row \(i\). The value is \(\ell(M)-\ell(M)=0\). If \(i\) is outside the rows of \(M\), then \(x_Mx_{ij}\) is a matching exactly when \(j\notin\mathrm{cols}(M)\), and the value is \(\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(M)}\ell(M+(i,j))-\ell(M)\). So the conditions are exactly the stated equations, with \(\ell(\emptyset)=1\) from \(\ell(1)=1\). Multiples whose degree drops under multilinearization, such as \(x_S(\sum_jx_{ij}-1)=(n-1)x_S\) when \(S\) contains all \(n\) cells of row \(i\), or collision multiples overlapping \(S\), have non-matching monomials, so the lemma covers them; they occur only for \(d\ge n\). \(\square\)
Degree 2. By the lemma it suffices to check the equations for \(|M|\le1\). For \(M=\emptyset\) and any pigeon \(i\): \(\sum_j\ell(x_{ij})=1=\ell(\emptyset)\). For \(M=\{(i,j)\}\) and a pigeon \(i'\ne i\), the equation is \(\sum_{j'\ne j}\ell(\{(i,j),(i',j')\})=\ell(x_{ij})=[j=0]\). Fix the pair and write \(B_{jj'}\) for the value on \(\{(i,j),(i',j')\}\) with \(i\) the smaller pigeon. The equations for both orders say that the matrix \(B\), with zero diagonal, has row sums \([j=0]\) and column sums \([j'=0]\). The matrix with entries \(B_{02}=B_{10}=1\), \(B_{12}=-1\) and zeros elsewhere has row sums \((1,0,0,\dots)\) and column sums \((1,0,0,\dots)\), since row 1 gives \(1-1=0\) and column 2 gives \(1-1=0\). Its diagonal is zero, and it needs holes 0, 1 and 2, so \(n\ge3\). \(\square\)

The construction comes from a general flow argument. Integer matrices with zero diagonal and prescribed integer row and column sums of equal total are integer flows on \(K_{n,n}\) minus a perfect matching. For \(n\ge3\) that graph is connected, so a spanning tree carries an integer solution. The script degree_two_certificate.py builds the functional by that tree solution, which gives the values above, and checks over the integers that it vanishes on all 70, 145, 261, 427 and 652 degree-\(\le2\) multiples for \(n=3,\dots,7\) (degree_two_certificate.json).

What it means

What is new is only integrality. \(\mathbb F_p\)-hardness at degree 2 for \(n\ge3\) already follows from Razborov's bound, which exceeds \(n/2+1\ge2.5\). Integrality is immediate: at degree 2 the design system splits into one bipartite flow problem per pair of pigeons, whose incidence matrix is totally unimodular. This is an easy observation, not evidence for the conjecture at degree 3.
From degree 3 on a matching of size \(k+1\) enters \(k+1\ge3\) equations, so total unimodularity is lost. The lower layers are not unique either, so integer solvability is a joint question over all layers, not layer by layer. The full lattice \(\mathbb Z^N/L_d\) already has 2-torsion at \(d=2\) for 4 to 6 pigeons (the \(\mathbb F_2\)-ranks 60, 130 and 240 against 64, 135 and 246), and that does not obstruct integrality, since only the position of \(e_1\) relative to the saturation matters. Whether the 3-torsion at \(d=3\) lives in the matching system was not determined.
The record's design-extension theorem gives a route to all degrees. Over \(\mathbb F_2\) it extends every quadratic functional-PHP design through degree \(R\) when \(N\ge2R-1\) (thm:chessboard-quadratic-design-extension), by filling boundaries in chessboard complexes (prop:matching-moment-homology-extension). The connectivity bound of Björner, Lovász, Vrećica and Živaljević is topological, so the chessboard homology it uses vanishes over \(\mathbb Z\) as well. If the filling argument works with integer coefficients, the integral degree-2 design here extends to an integral design through degree \(R\) whenever \(n\ge2R-1\). That would prove the conjecture for \(d\le(n+1)/2\), and make the 6-pigeon, degree-3 case unconditional, since \(5\ge2\cdot3-1\).

Next. Port the design-extension theorem to integer coefficients. Read the exact moment equations and the boundary-filling proof of prop:matching-moment-homology-extension and thm:chessboard-quadratic-design-extension in the main record. Check each step over \(\mathbb Z\): which homology or cohomology groups must vanish, and whether the universal coefficient theorem adds an Ext term the connectivity bound does not control. If the port holds, state the integral extension theorem and the conjecture for \(d\le(n+1)/2\) as a working result. Then check whether the Nullstellensatz statement can be lifted to the PC degree W needs.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the saturation and torsion entries and the recorded torsion data. A claim search found the design-extension claims linked above. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed both proofs for \(n\ge3\) and checked that the script covers every degree-2 multiple, by brute force over all multipliers for \(n=3,4\). It required: the cases \(n\le2\) added, with the half-integral certificate at 3 pigeons, which it checked with exact fractions; the lemma strengthened by the restriction argument; the lemma labelled a restatement of the design characterization, with the record's design claims linked; the torsion remark corrected, with total unimodularity as the reason at degree 2; the degree-dropping multiples covered; the script's docstring corrected; the novelty stated as integrality only; and integer solvability described as a joint question over all layers. All were adopted. Whether the Z_q-designs of the counting literature already give integer designs for weak PHP was not checked. The strengthened lemma is the reviewer's own argument and the other changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	7 min 35.44 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 31.87 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 3.19 s
Individually measured computation	0.24 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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The integral design extension: with signs \((-1)^{\text{row position}}\) the record's chessboard boundary filling works over \(\mathbb Z\), so every integer quadratic design of PHP extends to an integer design through degree \(R\) when \(n\ge2R-1\); weak PHP with \(n\ge3\) holes has integer Nullstellensatz certificates through degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\), which proves the integrality conjecture on Razborov's range and leaves it open above

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-integral-extension. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The integral design extension: with signs \((-1)^{\text{row position}}\) the record's chessboard boundary filling works over \(\mathbb Z\), so every integer quadratic design of PHP extends to an integer design through degree \(R\) when \(n\ge2R-1\); weak PHP with \(n\ge3\) holes has integer Nullstellensatz certificates through degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\), which proves the integrality conjecture on Razborov's range and leaves it open above”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-integral-extension.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The integral degree-two entry reduced conj:three-integral-php-certificates to integer solvability of the matching design system (lem:matching-extension-certificates) and solved it at degree 2. Over \(\mathbb F_2\), the main record extends every quadratic functional-PHP design through degree \(R\) when \(N\ge2R-1\), by filling boundaries in chessboard complexes (prop:matching-moment-homology-extension, thm:chessboard-quadratic-design-extension). Does the filling work over \(\mathbb Z\)?

General statement. thm:integral-design-extension. Let a board have any number of pigeon rows and \(N\) hole columns, and let \(A\) be \(\mathbb Z\) or \(\mathbb Z_{(p)}\). A degree-\(r\) design with values in \(A\) is a function \(z\) on partial matchings of at most \(r\) cells with \(z_\emptyset=1\) and \(\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}z_{T+(i,j)}=z_T\) for \(|T|<r\) and \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)\). If \(R\ge2\) and \(N\ge2R-1\), every degree-2 design with values in \(A\) extends to a degree-\(R\) design with values in \(A\). Consequently, for weak unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) with \(n\ge3\), there is an integer-valued Nullstellensatz dual functional of degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\). So conj:three-integral-php-certificates holds for every \(d\le\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\), which for integer \(d\) is exactly Razborov's range \(d<n/2+1\). Above that range the conjecture is open. It would follow at a given \(n\) if \(\mathbb F_3\) refuted at degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor+1\), which holds at \(n=4\) (5 pigeons, degree 3) and is unknown at \(n=5\), degree 4. The argument stops there because at \(k=R+1\) the condition \(N\ge2k-1\) fails, and \(\Delta_{3,4}\), a torus, shows that the needed homology can be nonzero.

Proof

Induct on \(k=3,\dots,R\). Suppose \(z\) is defined with values in \(A\) on matchings of at most \(k-1\) cells and satisfies the equations with \(|T|<k-1\). Fix a set \(\mathcal R\) of \(k\) pigeon rows, ordered increasingly, and write \(\mathrm{pos}(c)\in\{0,\dots,k-1\}\) for the position of row \(c\). Let \(\Delta=\Delta_{k,N}\) be the chessboard complex on these rows: cells are vertices and matchings are faces, oriented by the row order. For a row \(c\) put \(\varepsilon_c=(-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(c)}\). Define the \((k-2)\)-chain \(\zeta=\sum_M\varepsilon_{c(M)}z_M\,[M]\) over the \((k-1)\)-matchings \(M\) on \(\mathcal R\), where \(c(M)\) is the row \(M\) misses.

\(\zeta\) is a cycle. A \((k-2)\)-matching \(T\) on \(\mathcal R\) misses two rows \(a<b\). It is a face of \(M=T+(b,j)\), which misses \(a\), and of \(M=T+(a,j)\), which misses \(b\). Removing row \(b\) from a matching on \(\mathcal R\setminus\{a\}\) carries the sign \((-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(b)-1}\). Removing row \(a\) from a matching on \(\mathcal R\setminus\{b\}\) carries \((-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(a)}\). So the coefficient of \([T]\) in \(\partial\zeta\) is \(\varepsilon_a(-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(b)-1}\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}z_{T+(b,j)}+\varepsilon_b(-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(a)}\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}z_{T+(a,j)}\). Both sums equal \(z_T\) by the design equations for \(T\), which apply since \(|T|=k-2<k-1\). The coefficient is therefore \(\varepsilon_a(-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(b)-1}z_T+\varepsilon_b(-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(a)}z_T=\bigl((-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(a)+\mathrm{pos}(b)-1}+(-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(a)+\mathrm{pos}(b)}\bigr)z_T=0\).
\(\zeta\) is a boundary. By the connectivity theorem of Björner, Lovász, Vrećica and Živaljević, as imported for thm:chessboard-quadratic-design-extension, \(\Delta_{k,N}\) is \((k-2)\)-connected when \(N\ge2k-1\), which follows from \(N\ge2R-1\). This is a homotopy statement, so by Hurewicz \(\widetilde H_{k-2}(\Delta;\mathbb Z)=0\). Then \(\widetilde H_{k-2}(\Delta;A)=0\) for every coefficient group \(A\), by the universal coefficient theorem, since \(\widetilde H_{k-2}\) and \(\widetilde H_{k-3}\) vanish over \(\mathbb Z\). Hence \(\zeta=\partial w\) for a \((k-1)\)-chain \(w\) with coefficients in \(A\).
The filling gives the new moments. Put \(z_U=w_U\) for every \(k\)-matching \(U\) on \(\mathcal R\). For a \((k-1)\)-matching \(M\) missing row \(c\), the coefficient of \([M]\) in \(\partial w\) is \(\sum_j(-1)^{\mathrm{pos}(c)}w_{M+(c,j)}\). This equals \(\varepsilon_cz_M\), so \(\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(M)}z_{M+(c,j)}=z_M\), which is exactly the design equation for \(T=M\), \(i=c\).
Row sets are independent. The new values on different \(k\)-row sets concern disjoint matchings, and every equation at this level involves a single row set \(\mathrm{rows}(T)\cup\{i\}\). This completes the induction.

For weak PHP with \(n\ge3\), prop:integral-degree-two-certificate supplies an integer degree-2 design on \(N=n\) holes. Take \(R=\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\), so that \(n\ge2R-1\). If \(R\ge3\), extend by the theorem; if \(R=2\) there is nothing to do. By lem:matching-extension-certificates, the resulting matching-supported function is a dual functional of degree \(R\) with integer values. Reduced mod 3, and restricted to any lower degree, it certifies \(e_1\notin\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\) for every \(d\le R\). If \(d<n/2+1\) then \(d\le\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\). \(\square\)

What it means

The only change from the \(\mathbb F_2\) proof is the sign \(\varepsilon_c\). Over \(\mathbb F_2\) the two contributions \(z_T+z_T\) cancel by characteristic; over \(\mathbb Z\) they cancel by orientation.
At 6 pigeons and degree 3 the Hensel saturation entry's conclusion, \(e_1\notin\mathrm{Sat}(L_3)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\), is now unconditional, since \(5\ge2\cdot3-1\). Its count of 6 torsion dimensions still rests on the assumed rational rank. The reviewer also ran the procedure there: an integer degree-2 design, integer fillings of every 3-row chessboard cycle by PARI's matsolvemod, and a check of all design equations, with no violation and all values in \(\{-1,0,1\}\) (degree_three_filling.py, rerun here).
For plain PHP, hardness over every field at these degrees already follows from Razborov's bound. The only new point is that the certificates can be taken integral. No integral PHP design was found in the record; the literature, such as the design constructions of the counting-principle papers, was not checked.
For A1 the lead is now at its real question. Can an integral design for PHP be corrected, integrally, to absorb dense blocks? The lead is at Nullstellensatz degree, while W is a PC statement.

Next. Test the lead at the blocks. For weak PHP with 6 pigeons at degree 3, add the axiom \(L^2-1\) for a random dense form \(L\) with coefficients lifted to \(\{0,1,2\}\). Over a few seeds report whether \(\mathbb F_3\) refutes, whether the lattice has 3-torsion, and whether \(e_1\) lies in the 3-saturation mod 3. A block makes the design system non-homogeneous, so the chessboard argument no longer applies directly, and the computation shows whether integrality survives.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the main record's boundary-filling proof, its application with the connectivity bound, and the imported connectivity statement, as well as lem:matching-extension-certificates and prop:integral-degree-two-certificate. A fresh-context reviewer checked the signs, the orientation convention, the filling, the homology input, the induction and the consequence, and found the proof correct. It ran the procedure at 6 pigeons and 5 holes, with zero violations; the script is kept and was rerun here. A degree-4 run at 8 pigeons timed out in dense PARI and was not checked. It required: the conjecture's scope stated as proved on Razborov's range and open above, with what is missing and why the argument stops; "contains" replaced by "equals"; the Hensel consequence limited to the unconditional conclusion; the novelty sentences reconciled; the sums written out in the cycle computation; and the universal-coefficient justification simplified. All were adopted. The changes restrict claims or clarify the proof, so no second pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 19.67 s
Marked reading and review windows	59.47 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9 min 44.52 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	35.30 s
Individually measured computation	0.25 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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One dense constraint: weak PHP with 6 pigeons plus a random dense constraint \((L-1)(L-2)\) keeps a 3-integral Nullstellensatz certificate at degree 3 in both seeds computed, despite 7 dimensions of 3-torsion; the timed-out run leaves four seeds unrun

26 September 2026 · Finite check and conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dense-block-integral. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One dense constraint: weak PHP with 6 pigeons plus a random dense constraint \((L-1)(L-2)\) keeps a 3-integral Nullstellensatz certificate at degree 3 in both seeds computed, despite 7 dimensions of 3-torsion; the timed-out run leaves four seeds unrun”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-dense-block-integral.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The integrality lead's base case is proved for plain PHP on Razborov's range (integral extension). Does an integral certificate survive a dense constraint? Add to weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^6_5\) one axiom saying \(L\ne0\) modulo 3, for a random dense form \(L\), with the integer lift \(q_L=(L-1)(L-2)\), and test at Nullstellensatz degree 3.

General statement. conj:integral-certificates-dense-quadric: for weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) plus one constraint \(q_L=(L-1)(L-2)\), where \(L=c_0+\sum_ea_ex_e\) has integer coefficients in \(\{0,1,2\}\), at every degree \(d\le\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\) where \(\mathbb F_3\) does not refute, the constant monomial lies outside \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\). The finite check ex:dense-quadric-integral-small is its only evidence. It depends on the chosen lift: \(q_L\) reduces to \(L^2-1\) mod 3, but over \(\mathbb Z\) it says \(L\in\{1,2\}\) exactly, which is stronger.

The computation

The script dense_block_integral.py adds the multiples of \(q_L\) by monomials of degree at most 1 to the degree-3 lattice of weak PHP. It reports the decision conditions first, then computes the 3-saturation modulo 3 by exact lifting, as in the saturation entry. The run was given 600 seconds for 6 seeds, took 161 and 333 seconds for the first two, and was stopped at the limit, so seeds 2 to 5 were not run (dense_block_integral.json).

Seed 0 (\(L\) with 20 of 30 variables, \(c_0=0\)) and seed 1 (20 variables, \(c_0=1\)) give the same figures. The \(\mathbb F_3\)-rank is 3894, against 3870 without the constraint. The rational-rank estimate is 3901, agreeing modulo 5, 7, 11, 13, 37 and three word-size primes, so there are 7 dimensions of 3-torsion. Neither \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\mathbb F_5\) nor \(\mathbb F_7\) refutes. One lifting step reaches 3901, and \(e_1\) is outside the saturation: a 3-integral certificate exists, conditionally on the rational rank.
Control, 5 pigeons at degree 3 with one constraint: \(\mathbb F_3\) refutes, as it does without the constraint, so the case is uninformative.

What it means

At this size one dense quadric does not break integrality, and the torsion grows from 6 to 7 dimensions without reaching the constant monomial.
This is weak evidence for A1. The constraint is a single quadric, not a W block of prefix clauses of degree \(2k+2\), and degree 3 is far below W's budget. The lift is one choice, and the conclusion holds only for it. And the lead lives at Nullstellensatz degree, while W is a PC statement.
The integral extension theorem does not apply with a constraint: a quadric adds equations \(\ell(m\,q_L)=0\) that tie moments of different matchings, so the design system is no longer the homogeneous chessboard system.

Next. The integrality line has produced a proved base case and small positive evidence at one block, and five research entries since the last review. Review it next. Assess whether it can reach A1: can integral designs be extended through a constraint equation, and can the Nullstellensatz statement be lifted to the PC degree W needs? Then decide whether to continue it or return to the collective core by another route.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the saturation criterion and the integral extension theorem. The decision conditions were reported before interpreting the result: \(\mathbb F_3\) does not refute, and there is 3-torsion, so the case is informative. The positive result is conditional on the rational rank, as stated. No fresh-context review was run for this finite check. It reuses the reviewed saturation procedure unchanged apart from the added constraint rows, and the new code only builds the multilinear product \((L-1)(L-2)\), whose expansion is written out in the script.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 55.44 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	56.39 s
Computation design and coding	34.37 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 18.97 s
Individually measured computation	10 min 5.46 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.25 s

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Route review of the integrality line: integral designs exist for plain PHP at Nullstellensatz degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\); without new variables a block's constraint "\(L\ne0\) mod 3" has rational degree about its support, but with \(O(\log n)\) auxiliary Boolean variables it has an exact linear encoding, which is the line's next test

26 September 2026 · Route review with two tests and a homology check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-integrality-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the integrality line: integral designs exist for plain PHP at Nullstellensatz degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\); without new variables a block's constraint "\(L\ne0\) mod 3" has rational degree about its support, but with \(O(\log n)\) auxiliary Boolean variables it has an exact linear encoding, which is the line's next test”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-integrality-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the closed-routes review opened it, the integrality line produced a reduction and a theorem for plain PHP. A matching-supported design certifies Nullstellensatz hardness (lem:matching-extension-certificates). Integer designs exist through degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\) (thm:integral-design-extension). It also produced one conditional instance with a dense constraint (one dense constraint). Can the line reach A1?

General statement. The line's claim is that characteristic-0 constructions, kept 3-integral, certify \(\mathbb F_3\)-hardness of PHP plus dense blocks. Its base, conj:three-integral-php-certificates, is proved at Nullstellensatz degree \(d\le\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\); integrality at PC degree is not established. Its block form, conj:integral-certificates-dense-quadric, has two conditional instances.

What A1 needs from the line

A 3-integral rational certificate at PC degree \(22k\) for weak PHP plus \(n^K\) dense blocks of W's prefix clauses. It would come from a characteristic-0 construction with a notion of smallness, which characteristic 3 lacks. That needs three things: a characteristic-0 encoding of each block's constraint, a construction that absorbs many blocks, and a passage from Nullstellensatz to PC degree.

Falsification attempt

Encoding without new variables. A block's clauses speak about \(L\bmod3\). An exact characteristic-0 encoding of "\(L\ne0\) mod 3" as a polynomial in the cube variables alone, for \(L=\sum_{e\in S}x_e\), is the symmetric function \([\sum_{e\in S}x_e\not\equiv0]\). Its rational degree is \(|S|\), or \(|S|-1\) when \(|S|\equiv3\pmod6\): the top finite difference is, up to sign, \(\tfrac23\,3^{m/2}\cos(m\pi/6)\), which vanishes exactly then (test T1 confirms it for \(m\le15\), with all coefficients 1; for coefficients in \(\{1,2\}\) the analogous condition is on the counts of each coefficient). Low-degree lifts such as \((L-1)(L-2)\) reduce correctly mod 3, but over \(\mathbb Q\) they say \(L\in\{1,2\}\) as an integer, which is stronger. A design, a pseudo-expectation, need not see the typical integer values of \(L\) on true assignments, so the rational instance may become easy while the \(\mathbb F_3\) instance stays hard; this was not shown. If it happens, no hardness certificate exists for that lift.
Encoding with new variables. With fresh Boolean variables \(y,b_0,\dots,b_{r-1}\), \(r=O(\log|S|)\), the linear equation \(L-1-y-3\sum_{i<r}2^ib_i=0\) has a 0-1 solution exactly when \(L\not\equiv0\) mod 3 (and \(L\ge1\), in the range). Modulo 3 the \(b_i\) drop out and it becomes \(L=1+y\), which with \(y^2=y\) gives \(L^2=1\). An \(\mathbb F_3\) design of the augmented instance restricts to one of the original instance, losing \(O(1)\) degree. So the encoding obstruction holds only without new variables. Whether the augmented rational instance keeps a 3-integral design is open and untested, and it is the line's natural next test.
Averaging. The recorded reduction of the dense core makes a block's constants uniform on \(\mathbb F_3\) after a random matching (cor:dense-shift-equidistribution). A normalized functional invariant under the three shifts of an orbit must give each point weight \(1/3\), which is not 3-integral. That is the characteristic-0 face of the recorded "averaging vanishes in characteristic 3" (collective-core review). Integer weights summing to 1, or averages of orbit sums that are divisible by 3, remain available, so the obstruction is to shift-invariance, not to every use of shifts.
Degree. The line lives at Nullstellensatz degree, where plain PHP's certificates are designs. W is a PC statement, and the base of the thread's proved randomized-prefix results is Mikša and Nordström's PC operator, not a design.

So the attempt does not falsify A1, and it does not close the line. It removes encodings without new variables and shift-invariant averaging, and leaves the linear encoding with auxiliary variables as the test.

Assessment of the line

The line converted the characteristic-3 obstruction into a precise question, integer solvability of design systems, and settled it for plain PHP at Nullstellensatz degree up to \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\). For blocks, the obvious characteristic-0 treatments fail: exact encodings in the cube variables have degree about the support, and shift-invariant averaging needs \(1/3\). One encoding survives, a linear equation with \(O(\log n)\) auxiliary Booleans. The line's prospects for A1 are uncertain. It stays open for one test, and it still has to pass from Nullstellensatz to PC degree.

Outside leads

Von zur Gathen and Roche, degrees of symmetric Boolean functions (Comput. Complexity 1997). Target: the encoding step of the integrality line. Their bound gives rational degree at least \(m-O(m^{0.525})\) for nonconstant symmetric functions such as \(\mathrm{MOD}_3\) on \(m\) bits. Where it breaks: it bounds exact encodings only; a lift correct only on the points that matter could be lower. Test. Passed: the rational degree of \([\sum_{i\le m}x_i\not\equiv0\bmod3]\), computed by finite differences, is \(m\) for 12 of \(m=1,\dots,15\) and \(m-1\) for \(m=3,9,15\) (review_tests.json, T1), as the closed form above predicts. The obstruction holds for exact encodings in the cube variables only.
Razborov's PC lower bound for PHP, read for its ring (Comput. Complexity 1998). Target: the Nullstellensatz-to-PC step. If his reduction operator is defined over \(\mathbb Z\), the integrality of plain PHP holds at PC degree too. Where it breaks: blocks, as above. Test. Not run: it needs a reading of the construction, which is worth doing only if the block obstruction is removed.
The Mayer (cluster) expansion with 3-adically small activities. Target: a smallness surrogate for the Kotecký–Preiss bridge. Coefficients such as \(\lambda^k/k\) are 3-adically small when \(v_3(\lambda)\ge1\), since \(k\,v_3(\lambda)-v_3(k)>0\), so the expansion converges in \(\mathbb Z_3\). Where it breaks: a correction with positive 3-adic valuation vanishes mod 3. The reduced functional is then the unperturbed one, which must already vanish on the blocks. Test. Falsified by that argument: 3-adic smallness gives integrality but no absorption mod 3.

Absurd bridges

Integer solvability of linear systems: the Smith normal form (Heger's theorem), as used in integer programming. Translation: a design system with integer data has an integer solution whenever it has a rational one exactly when the relevant cokernel has no torsion. For a chessboard filling step \(\partial c=b\), integer versus rational solvability depends only on the torsion of \(\widetilde H_{k-2}(\Delta_{k,N};\mathbb Z)\), where \(\Delta_{k,N}\) is the complex of a \(k\)-pigeon, \(N\)-hole sub-board, the complex the integral extension uses. What a theorem there would give: criteria for integrality beyond the connectivity range. Smallest test: the torsion of the groups filling steps use, on the boards the DAG review computed (chessboard_homology.txt; chessboard complexes are symmetric in rows and columns). Test. Passed on those boards. For 6 holes the filling steps with \(k=5,6,7\) pigeons use \(H_3(\Delta_{5,6})\), \(H_4(\Delta_{6,6})\) and \(H_5(\Delta_{7,6})=H_5(M_{6,7})\), all free in the recorded data; for 5 holes, \(k=5\) uses \(H_3(M_{5,5})\), free. The recorded 3-torsion, in \(H_2(M_{5,5})\), \(H_3(M_{6,6})\) and \(H_3(M_{6,7})\), is in degree \(k-3\) or lower for those steps. Such torsion does enter the \(\mathbb F_3\) filling, through the universal coefficient theorem, but it does not affect integer versus rational solvability. Beyond the connectivity range, the obstruction on these boards is nonzero free homology.
Rock-paper-scissors dynamics (cyclic dominance on \(\mathbb Z_3\)). Translation: moving pigeons between holes moves a dense form's residue around the three-cycle; cyclic dominance models equilibrate to the uniform state. What a theorem there would give: mixing times for residues, hence uniform shifts. Smallest test: Monte Carlo of \(L\bmod3\) over random placements and random injections for random dense \(L\). Test. Passed but vacuous: for \(n=10,30,100\) every residue has frequency within 0.003 of \(1/3\) (T2). With uniformly random coefficients each pigeon's contribution is already nearly uniform, so the test says nothing about dynamics or mixing, and the recorded equidistribution result (cor:dense-shift-equidistribution) already proves what it suggests.

Bridge follow-up

Qutrit CSS codes from chessboard complexes. Follow-up. Closed: the logical qutrit comes from torsion in homology that no filling step uses, and no argument ties code distance to a degree.
Kotecký–Preiss. Follow-up. Continuing: 3-adic smallness vanishes mod 3 (closed), and real smallness needs a characteristic-0 encoding of the mod-3 constraints; the only surviving one is the linear encoding with auxiliary variables, which the next step tests.

Lead follow-up

Hensel lifting: 3-integral certificates. Developed through five entries, from the saturation test to the integral extension. Follow-up. Continuing: base case proved at Nullstellensatz degree; blocks await the auxiliary-variable encoding.
The Mikša–Nordström closure. No work. Follow-up. Continuing: it remains the base of the proved randomized-prefix results and the PC counterpart of the designs here.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Test the integrality line with the linear encoding. Take weak PHP with 6 pigeons at Nullstellensatz degree 3. Add one random dense form \(L\), with integer coefficients in \(\{0,1,2\}\), encoded by the equation \(L-1-y-3\sum_{i<r}2^ib_i=0\) over fresh Boolean variables, with \(r\) just large enough for the range of \(L\). The lattice now has about 35 variables and about 7000 monomials of degree at most 3. First report the decision conditions: whether \(\mathbb F_3\) refutes the augmented instance at degree 3, whether \(\mathbb Q\) does, and the 3-torsion. Then, if the case is informative, report whether the constant monomial lies in the 3-saturation mod 3. A 3-integral design of the augmented instance restricts to a design of the original instance with an \(O(1)\) degree loss.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the integrality line's five entries, cor:dense-shift-equidistribution and conj:expander-dense-core, and the recorded chessboard homology. Every number was read from review_tests.json and chessboard_homology.txt. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed T1, T2 and the 3-adic argument. It required: the linear encoding with auxiliary Boolean variables, which removes the encoding obstruction, so the line is no longer parked; the lift sentence made a possibility; the closed form of T1 and its scope; the averaging obstruction restated as one to shift-invariance; the homology bookkeeping corrected, since \(\mathbb F_3\) filling does see lower torsion, with the used groups cited from the recorded data; the bridge renamed after the Smith normal form; T2 marked vacuous; the headline scoped to Nullstellensatz degree; and the next step made decidable. All were adopted, and the next step was replaced by the auxiliary-variable test. The changes remove or weaken claims, so no second pass was made.

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The auxiliary-variable encoding: weak PHP with 6 pigeons plus one dense block encoded exactly by \(L-1-y-3\sum2^ib_i=0\) keeps a 3-integral Nullstellensatz design at degree 3 in all 7 seeds, with identical ranks; the lifting system for the auxiliary bits is a weighted Koszul complex, a route to a proof

26 September 2026 · Finite check and conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-aux-encoding. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The auxiliary-variable encoding: weak PHP with 6 pigeons plus one dense block encoded exactly by \(L-1-y-3\sum2^ib_i=0\) keeps a 3-integral Nullstellensatz design at degree 3 in all 7 seeds, with identical ranks; the lifting system for the auxiliary bits is a weighted Koszul complex, a route to a proof”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-aux-encoding.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The integrality review kept the integrality line open for one encoding. Over fresh Boolean variables \(y,b_0,\dots,b_{r-1}\), the linear equation \(E=L-1-y-3\sum_{i<r}2^ib_i\) has a 0-1 solution exactly when \(L\not\equiv0\) mod 3, and reduces mod 3 to \(L=1+y\). Does weak PHP plus one dense block so encoded keep a 3-integral design?

General statement. conj:integral-designs-aux-encoding: for weak \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) plus one equation \(E\) as above, with \(L=c_0+\sum_ea_ex_e\), integer coefficients in \(\{0,1,2\}\) and \(r\) large enough for the range of \(L\), at every Nullstellensatz degree \(d\le\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\) where \(\mathbb F_3\) does not refute, the constant monomial lies outside \(\mathrm{Sat}(L_d)+3\mathbb Z_{(3)}^N\), so a 3-integral rational design exists. The finite check ex:aux-encoding-integral-small supports it at one size.

The computation

The script aux_encoding.py forms the Nullstellensatz lattice of weak PHP plus \(E\), multiplying every axiom by all multilinear monomials over cells and auxiliary variables, up to degree 3. It reports the decision conditions, then the 3-saturation as in the saturation entry. At 6 pigeons, \(L\) has support 18 to 24 of the 30 cells and \(r=4\), giving 36 variables, 7176 monomials and 7117 multiples (aux_encoding.json).

All 7 seeds (0 to 6) give the same ranks: 5514 over \(\mathbb F_3\) and 5521 over \(\mathbb F_5\), \(\mathbb F_7\) and modulo \(10^9+7\), so 7 dimensions of 3-torsion. None of \(\mathbb F_3,\mathbb F_5,\mathbb F_7\) refutes. One lifting step reaches 5521, and the constant monomial is outside the saturation. A 3-integral design exists in every seed, conditionally on the rational rank 5521.
Control, 5 pigeons at degree 3: \(\mathbb F_3\) refutes, as for PHP alone, so the case is uninformative.

A 3-integral design of the augmented instance gives an \(\mathbb F_3\) design of weak PHP plus \(L^2-1\) (substituting \(y=L-1\) mod 3), with an \(O(1)\) degree loss.

A route to a proof

Write a design on monomials \(m\,b_B\), with \(m\) over cells and \(y\) and \(B\subseteq\{0,\dots,r-1\}\), as a family of functionals \(\varphi_B(m)=\ell(m\,b_B)\). The multiples of \(E\) give, for \(\deg m+|B|\le d-1\), \[\varphi_B\bigl(m(L-1-y)\bigr)-3\sum_{i\in B}2^i\varphi_B(m)=3\sum_{i\notin B}2^i\varphi_{B\cup\{i\}}(m).\] Two facts follow. Modulo 3 the right side vanishes, so each \(\varphi_B\) reduced mod 3 must kill the multiples of \(L-1-y\): it is an \(\mathbb F_3\) design of PHP plus \(L=1+y\), in lower degree. Over \(\mathbb Z_{(3)}\), after division by 3, the unknowns \(\varphi_C\) with \(|C|=|B|+1\) enter through the map \(\varphi\mapsto\sum_{i\notin B}2^i\varphi_{B\cup\{i\}}\). That is the boundary map of the full simplex on \(r\) vertices, weighted by the units \(2^i\), and it is exact in positive degree. So the lifting is solvable level by level provided each right side is a cycle, and the cycle condition is again a congruence on lower levels. Whether these conditions can be met, with the degree truncation \(\deg m+|C|\le d\), is the proof question. The identical ranks across seeds suggest the answer does not depend on \(L\).

What it means

The encoding obstruction is gone for one block: with \(O(\log n)\) auxiliary bits, a characteristic-0 instance with the same mod-3 content keeps integral designs at the tested size.
For A1 this is still one block at degree 3, at Nullstellensatz degree, with the construction unknown. The lead matters only if integral designs for many blocks come from a characteristic-0 construction with a real notion of smallness. The auxiliary bits carry the mod-3 structure into the rational instance, so such a construction must handle the bits too.

Next. Attempt the proof for one block: construct a 3-integral design for weak PHP plus one encoded block at every \(d\le\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor-c\), from the integral PHP design (thm:integral-design-extension) and the Koszul lifting above. The first step is the base level: an \(\mathbb F_3\) design of PHP plus \(L=1+y\) whose integral lift has \(\varphi_\emptyset(m(L-1-y))\equiv0\) mod 3.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the integrality review's encoding and the saturation procedure. The decision conditions were reported first: \(\mathbb F_3\) does not refute and there is 3-torsion, so the cases are informative. The positive results are conditional on the rational rank. The Koszul observation is a reformulation, not a claimed result. No fresh-context review was run: the computation reuses the reviewed saturation procedure with new axiom rows, the encoding's correctness was checked by the integrality review's reviewer, and no mathematical claim beyond the finite check and the conjecture is made.

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What the auxiliary bits buy: designs of PHP plus an exactly encoded block with zero values on the bits are exactly designs of PHP plus \((L-1)(L-2)\), one degree up, and modulo 3 every design is an \(\mathbb F_3\) design of PHP plus \(L^2-1\); integrality therefore gives A1 nothing without a characteristic-0 many-block mechanism, so the integrality line is parked

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a reduction, with an assessment · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-koszul-lift. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “What the auxiliary bits buy: designs of PHP plus an exactly encoded block with zero values on the bits are exactly designs of PHP plus \((L-1)(L-2)\), one degree up, and modulo 3 every design is an \(\mathbb F_3\) design of PHP plus \(L^2-1\); integrality therefore gives A1 nothing without a characteristic-0 many-block mechanism, so the integrality line is parked”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-koszul-lift.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The auxiliary encoding entry found 3-integral designs for weak PHP plus one dense block encoded by \(E=L-1-y-3\sum_{i<r}2^ib_i\), and proposed a construction through the auxiliary bits. Before constructing, what do the auxiliary variables contribute?

General statement. lem:auxiliary-bit-relaxation. Degrees of multiples are counted formally, \(\deg m+\deg A\) before multilinear reduction. Consider linear functionals \(\ell\) on multilinear polynomials of degree at most \(d\) in the cells, \(y\) and the bits \(b_i\), with \(\ell(1)=1\), vanishing on the multiples of weak PHP's axioms and of \(E\) up to degree \(d\) (designs of the augmented instance).

If \(\ell\) vanishes on every monomial containing a bit, then \(\ell\) is determined by its values on cell monomials, with \(\ell(my)=\ell(m(L-1))\). The remaining condition is exactly \(\ell\bigl(m(L-1)(L-2)\bigr)=0\) for cell monomials \(m\) with \(\deg m\le d-2\). So designs with zero bit values are designs of PHP plus the lift \((L-1)(L-2)\), one degree up.
Part 1 holds over any commutative coefficient ring. If \(\ell\) takes values in \(\mathbb Z_{(3)}\), reducing the \(E\)-equations mod 3 removes the bit terms. So \(\ell\bmod3\), restricted to monomials without bits, is an \(\mathbb F_3\) design of weak PHP plus \(L=1+y\), equivalently plus \(L^2-1\) one degree up. The same holds blockwise: for many blocks, each encoded with its own \(y_b\) and bits, a 3-integral design of the augmented instance reduces mod 3 to an \(\mathbb F_3\) design of PHP plus every \(L_b^2-1\).

Proof

Zero bit values. For a cell monomial \(m\) with \(\deg m\le d-1\), the multiple \(mE\) gives \(\ell(mL)-\ell(m)-\ell(my)=0\), since the bit terms vanish. So \(\ell(my)=\ell(m(L-1))\) for all such \(m\), which determines \(\ell\) on monomials with one factor \(y\). Since \(y^2=y\), the multiple \(myE\), with \(\deg m\le d-2\), gives \(\ell(myL)-2\ell(my)=0\). Expand \(myL=\sum_ea_emx_ey+c_0my\) and substitute \(\ell(m'y)=\ell(m'(L-1))\) for each \(m'=mx_e\) and \(m'=m\), all of degree at most \(d-1\). The condition becomes \(\ell(mL(L-1))-2\ell(m(L-1))=0\), that is \(\ell(m(L-1)(L-2))=0\), since \(L^2-3L+2=(L-1)(L-2)\). The multiples \(mb_BE\) with \(B\ne\emptyset\) vanish term by term. In more detail, the PHP multiples involving \(y\) in the first part hold because PHP's axioms do not contain \(y\). For a PHP axiom \(A\) and a cell monomial \(m'\) with \(\deg(m'yA)\le d\), the rule \(\ell(my)=\ell(m(L-1))\), extended linearly to \(m=m'A\) of degree at most \(d-1\), gives \(\ell(m'yA)=\sum_ea_e\ell(m'x_eA)+(c_0-1)\ell(m'A)\). Each term is a PHP multiple of degree at most \(d\), so it vanishes. Conversely, a design of PHP plus the multiples \(m(L-1)(L-2)\), \(\deg m\le d-2\), extended by \(\ell(my)=\ell(m(L-1))\) and zero on bits, satisfies every equation. \(\square\)
Mod 3. Every bit coefficient of \(E\) is \(3\cdot2^i\), so modulo 3 the equation \(\ell(mE)=0\) reads \(\ell(m(L-1-y))\equiv0\), for every monomial \(m\), with or without bits. Restricted to monomials without bits, these are the \(\mathbb F_3\) design equations of PHP plus \(L-1-y\) with \(y\) Boolean. Eliminating \(y\) as in the first part, mod 3, gives PHP plus \((L-1)(L-2)\equiv L^2-1\). \(\square\)

What it means

Heuristically, the bits are what separates the integer instance from the lift \((L-1)(L-2)\), which says \(L\in\{1,2\}\) as an integer. With bits, a design needs only the mod-3 condition at the first level, and presumably further 3-adic conditions at the levels the bits carry, through the weighted Koszul lifting of the auxiliary encoding entry. That level-by-level description is not proved here.
So one-block integrality amounts to lifting an \(\mathbb F_3\) design of PHP plus \(L^2-1\). Such designs are known for forms \(L\) that are \(\varepsilon\)-far from additive, up to degree about \(\sqrt n/(C\,3^5)\): thm:few-equations-hardness with \(q=1\), applied to the equation \(L-1=0\), gives \(\ell(m(L-1))=0\), hence \(\ell(m(L-1)(L+1))=0\). That range does not reach the auxiliary conjecture's range \(d\le\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor-c\). Even a full lifting would give nothing for A1, which is an \(\mathbb F_3\) statement. An integral design is also a rational design, a characteristic-0 statement about the integer encoding, but A1 does not need that.
For A1 the line was meant to bring a characteristic-0 mechanism that absorbs many blocks with small errors, whose output part 2 would then reduce to \(\mathbb F_3\). The record has no such mechanism for dense blocks: sum of squares needs sparsity (sum-of-squares lead), and the cluster expansion has no small activities over \(\mathbb F_3\). The line is parked, and its results, thm:integral-design-extension and the finite checks, are kept as field-independent designs for plain PHP.

Next. Return to the collective core through its only recorded PC tool, Mikša and Nordström's reduction operator (Theorem 4.9 of their paper, imported as imp:MN-functional-graph-degree). Take one dense block with \(h_b>k\) and its W clauses \(g_i\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2\), on the residual expander of the recorded restriction. Decide whether the operator for the expander closure reduces those clauses to zero at the budget degree when the block's forms have high rank modulo the span the closure reaches, and name the property of the forms this needs. thm:few-equations-hardness does not answer it: its level-set restriction turns dense forms into row combinations before the Mikša–Nordström bound is applied, which works for a few equations but not for clauses of many blocks. The test ends with the property, or with an explicit clause that the operator does not reduce.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the auxiliary encoding entry, the integrality review, cor:few-blocks-w, thm:few-equations-hardness and imp:MN-functional-graph-degree. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed part 1 in both directions, including multilinear reduction and every \(E\)- and PHP-multiple, and the mod-3 elimination. It required: the \(\mathbb F_3\) designs credited to thm:few-equations-hardness with its hypotheses, not to cor:few-blocks-w, whose designs put \(L=0\) in the prefix; the 3-integrality hypothesis for part 2; the level-by-level congruences marked heuristic and the heading trimmed; the formal degree convention stated; the blockwise extension stated; "nothing more" scoped to A1; and the next step made concrete. All were adopted. The changes restrict claims or clarify the proof, so no second pass was made.

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A constraint that no single variable set forces has no respectful neighbour in the Mikša–Nordström framework; one such cluster meeting every variable set empties every boundary it joins and makes Theorem 3.8 vacuous, so dense W blocks fit the framework only through variable sets large enough to force them, which is conditional on their forms

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a framework obstruction; its application to W is conditional · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-mn-operator. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A constraint that no single variable set forces has no respectful neighbour in the Mikša–Nordström framework; one such cluster meeting every variable set empties every boundary it joins and makes Theorem 3.8 vacuous, so dense W blocks fit the framework only through variable sets large enough to force them, which is conditional on their forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-mn-operator.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The Mikša–Nordström closure, imported as imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, is the base of the thread's proved randomized-prefix results and its only recorded PC tool for the collective core (auxiliary bits, next step). Can its reduction operator absorb a dense block's W clauses directly, without the level-set restriction of thm:few-equations-hardness, and what would that need of the block?

General statement. prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework. Read the framework in Mikša and Nordström's generalized Alekhnovich–Razborov method (arXiv:1505.01358, Definitions 3.1 to 3.7, Theorem 3.8). A CNF formula is split as \(F=\bigwedge\mathcal U\wedge E\), with clusters \(F\in\mathcal U\) on the left, variable sets \(V\in\mathcal V\) on the right, and \(E\) used only to define respectful assignments. Call a cluster \(B\) unforced if no assignment to the variables of a single \(V\in\mathcal V\) satisfies \(B\).

An unforced cluster is a disrespectful neighbour of every \(V\) it meets. A family consisting only of unforced clusters has empty respectful boundary. For any family \(\mathcal U'\) containing an unforced \(B\), \(|\partial_E(\mathcal U')|\) is at most the number of variable sets disjoint from \(\mathrm{Vars}(B)\).
If moreover \(B\) meets every variable set, then \(\partial_E(\mathcal U')=\emptyset\) for every \(\mathcal U'\ni B\). If there are at least \(s\) clusters, the expansion condition of Definition 3.6 then forces \(\xi\ge\delta s\), and Theorem 3.8's bound \((\delta s-2\xi)/(2d)\) is negative. One such cluster makes the theorem vacuous.

Application to W, conditional. W's clause \(g_i\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2\) on one block fails exactly when \(L_i=0\) and every \(L_j\ne0\), \(j\in S\). It is unforced by \(V\) exactly when every assignment to \(V\) has a Boolean extension, allowed by the board, with \(L_i=0\) and all \(L_j\ne0\). A single form with two free cells of nonzero coefficient takes every value, but the joint system can fail. For example, if \(L_i-cL_j\) has at most one free cell outside \(V\), fixing \(V\) can force \(L_i=0\Rightarrow L_j=0\), and then the clause is forced. So whether a dense block's clauses are unforced for the thread's variable sets (rows, or pigeon and hole neighbourhoods of an expander) is a hypothesis about the block's forms, joint feasibility after fixing one small set, and it is not proved here. Covering must also be counted: supports that cover nearly all cells can miss variable sets lying inside the uncovered cells. The obstruction is relative to \(\mathcal V\): variable sets containing a block's support force it, at a cost in overlap and expansion.

Proof

Respectful satisfaction needs forcing. By Definition 3.3, \(B\) is \(E\)-respectfully satisfiable by \(V\) only if some assignment \(\rho\) with \(\mathrm{Dom}(\rho)=V\) satisfies \(B\), that is, every clause of \(B\). For an unforced \(B\) no such \(\rho\) exists, so \(B\) and \(V\) are disrespectful neighbours whenever they are neighbours (Definition 3.4).
Part 1. By Definition 3.5, \(V\in\partial_E(\mathcal U')\) only if \(V\) is a respectful neighbour of some \(F\in\mathcal U'\) and a neighbour of no other member. If \(V\) meets \(\mathrm{Vars}(B)\) with \(B\in\mathcal U'\), then \(V\) is a neighbour of \(B\): it is not a respectful neighbour of \(B\), and it cannot be the unique neighbour of another member, so \(V\notin\partial_E(\mathcal U')\). Every \(V\) in the boundary is therefore disjoint from \(\mathrm{Vars}(B)\). If every member is unforced, a boundary set would have to be a respectful neighbour of some member, which none has, so the boundary is empty.
Part 2. If \(B\) meets every \(V\), no \(V\) is disjoint from \(\mathrm{Vars}(B)\), so the boundary of every \(\mathcal U'\ni B\) is empty. Taking \(|\mathcal U'|=s\), Definition 3.6 requires \(0\ge\delta s-\xi\). \(\square\)

Encoding. The framework is for CNF formulas, and W is a polynomial system. The natural CNF encoding of a block has one clause per falsifying assignment of its support, exponentially many clauses of width about \(n^2\), far above any degree in play, so the translation is not degree-faithful. The proposition concerns clusters as constraints, whatever their encoding. Encodings with auxiliary variables, with the defining clauses in \(E\) and narrow summary clauses as clusters, are not covered by it.

What it means

The framework is local by design: a cluster contributes to expansion only through variable sets that can satisfy it respectfully. A dense block whose clauses are unforced by the chosen small sets contributes nothing and, if it meets them all, removes every boundary. Whether W's dense blocks are unforced for the thread's variable sets is the conditional part above. The record's uses of the framework apply it after a restriction; whether the level-set restriction of thm:few-equations-hardness makes the restricted equations forced by single variable sets was not checked against that proof here.
Among the degree methods checked in this and earlier cycles, local pseudo-reductions (Alekhnovich–Razborov, Mikša–Nordström) need expansion and locality, and symmetry arguments (Razborov's PHP bound; Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall for one symmetric equation) need a symmetric system. Other kinds exist and were not examined for dense blocks: binomial and Fourier changes of basis (Grigoriev; Buss, Grigoriev, Impagliazzo and Pitassi), degree-preserving reductions from known hard instances, Hilbert-function and regularity arguments, and the dual designs the thread itself uses. That the collective core is neither local nor symmetric is an assessment, not a result.
The continuing Mikša–Nordström lead is closed for dense blocks without restriction, conditionally on the unforced hypothesis. With restriction it remains the thread's base.

Next. A route review. The thread's A1 needs a PC lower-bound method that is neither local nor symmetric, and the literature passes found none. The review should revisit the goal's decomposition, the Open statements W, A1 to A3 and S1, and ask whether a statement other than W, for example a weaker conjunct reachable by local methods after restriction, suffices. It should also run Outside leads and Absurd bridges aimed at non-local, non-symmetric degree bounds.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read Definitions 3.1 to 3.7 and Theorem 3.8 of the source in a private extract. A fresh-context reviewer, checking against those definitions, confirmed the core deduction and sharpened it: one unforced cluster meeting every variable set already makes Theorem 3.8 vacuous. It required: the covering hypothesis moved to where it is used; the unforced hypothesis for W's clauses stated as joint feasibility and made conditional, since the first draft's justification was wrong; covering counted rather than assumed; the obstruction stated relative to the choice of variable sets; the encoding's degree-unfaithfulness noted and the auxiliary-variable caveat marked as not covered; the claim about the level-set restriction softened; and the survey of methods restricted to those checked, naming the kinds not examined. All were adopted. The sharpening is the reviewer's own deduction, and the other changes weaken claims, so no second pass was made.

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Decomposition review: the goal needs W only for families compiled from derivations, but weakening can put arbitrary dense forms into a derivation, and a chooser that uses the derivation locally would give size–degree relations known to fail for other formulas; any derivation-closed weakening of W needs a PHP-specific ingredient, which the next step looks for

26 September 2026 · Route review with a counting test · open statements W and A1 · cycle odd-prime-decomposition-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Decomposition review: the goal needs W only for families compiled from derivations, but weakening can put arbitrary dense forms into a derivation, and a chooser that uses the derivation locally would give size–degree relations known to fail for other formulas; any derivation-closed weakening of W needs a PHP-specific ingredient, which the next step looks for”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-decomposition-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements W and A1. The Mikša–Nordström entry found that the thread's only recorded PC tool cannot hold dense blocks without a restriction, conditionally on the blocks' forms, and the auxiliary-bit entry parked the integrality line. Is the goal decomposed through the right statement, and is there a weaker conjunct that suffices?

General statement. The line's claim is the goal through W (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction): if weak unary PHP plus the prefix clauses of any \(M=n^K\) families of affine forms, for suitable prefix sets, has no PC refutation of degree \((4p-1)(p-1)k\), then no \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) refutation has at most \(n^K\) lines. The reduction's proof applies W only to the at most \(S\) blocks the weak-base compiler builds from an \(S\)-line refutation.

What the goal needs

Restricting W to families compiled from refutations would be the goal restated: if the goal holds that class is empty, and if it fails the compiler gives low-degree refutations for every such family. A statement strictly between W and the goal must be syntactic: W for the families the compiler builds from \(S\)-line \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) derivations from the PHP axioms, with any final line, and with a chooser that is given the derivation (a family of blocks does not determine the rule applications). Every recorded and imported mechanism stops at adversarial dense blocks: local pseudo-reductions need locality (Mikša–Nordström entry), symmetry arguments need symmetric systems, averaging divides by 3, and integral designs need a characteristic-0 mechanism that does not exist. The question is whether the derivation restricts the adversary enough to matter.

Falsification attempt

Do the recorded bad families arise from derivations? The recorded failures, such as the padded hole family of prop:near-solution-chooser-fails (falsify-W entry), refute particular prefix rules, not W. Their blocks, a cell equation \(X_{jt}-1\) with fillers \(R_{n+1}+(R_{j_s}-1)\) built from row sums, consist of forms that derivations produce. With the weakening rule any form can be added to a line, so every family whose blocks contain an axiom's forms plus arbitrary forms arises from a derivation. The derivation-closed class is then close to all families, unless weakening can be eliminated from \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) derivations, as it can from resolution.
Can the derivation help a chooser in general? A chooser that picks each line's prefix from its premises' prefixes, independently of the formula, would make a line's clauses follow from its premises' at low degree only if prefixes did not grow. They do grow: premises truncated to \(k\) forms combine into a resolvent of up to \(2k-1\) forms, and cutting it back to \(k\) is not implied. A formula-independent chooser that worked would turn size-\(S\) resolution refutations of bounded-width CNFs into PC refutations of degree \(O(\log S)\). The size–degree optimality results for polynomial calculus (Galesi and Lauria, on ordering principles over expanders) are recalled as counterexamples to such a relation; that source was not re-read in this cycle. So any gain must use PHP's structure.
Is the goal false? The calibration of the closed-routes review stands: \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) is a fragment of bounded-depth Frege with \(\mathrm{MOD}_3\) gates, where PHP lower bounds are open, and no polynomial upper bound is known.

Assessment of the line

The thread has proved many restricted classes of refutations hard and reduced the general case to W. A1, W's adversarial dense core, has resisted every mechanism in the record and every degree method examined, and the last reviews closed the dimension route, the Brauer and sum-of-squares leads, the integrality line and the Mikša–Nordström route without restriction. The derivation-closed weakening is the only unexamined freedom in the decomposition, and the falsification attempt shows it can help only through PHP-specific structure: weakening makes the class large, and a formula-independent use of derivations contradicts known size–degree separations. The line's prospects are weak.

Outside leads

Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall, degree lower bounds for one symmetric equation (Comput. Complexity 1999). Target: A1's dense blocks, by symmetrizing over the board. Where it breaks: adversarial blocks are not symmetric, and a symmetrized family is a different, larger family. Test. Not run: the method needs a symmetric system, which W's adversarial families are not, so there is no instance to test.
Fourier bases for modular constraints (Grigoriev; Buss, Grigoriev, Impagliazzo and Pitassi). Target: dense mod-3 constraints, by a change of basis to characters, as for Tseitin formulas modulo \(q\) over fields of other characteristic. Where it breaks: characters of \(\mathbb Z/3\) need primitive cube roots of unity. Test. Falsified: in characteristic 3, \(x^3-1=(x-1)^3\), so no extension field contains a primitive cube root of unity. The \(\pm1\) basis for \(\mathbb Z/2\) is available, as the literature review noted, but W's constraints are mod 3.
Semicontinuity of Hilbert functions, from generic to adversarial forms. Target: A1, starting from the proved generic directness over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) (generic directness). Refutability at a fixed degree is a constructible condition on the coefficients (by Chevalley's theorem), so hardness at the generic point gives hardness on a dense open set; hardness itself need not be an open condition. Where it breaks: the adversary chooses \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms, and the complement of a dense open set can contain all of them. Schwartz–Zippel bounds the vanishing fraction of a degree-\(\delta\) polynomial by \(\delta/3\), which says nothing once \(\delta\ge3\); \(x^3-x\) vanishes on all of \(\mathbb F_3^N\). Test. Falsified as an argument for adversarial families. It gives nothing beyond what random forms already have.

Absurd bridges

Kolmogorov complexity and incompressibility. Translation: a compiled family has a short description, its derivation, while an arbitrary family of dense blocks has an incompressible one. What a theorem there would give: counting arguments that treat compiled families as a vanishing subclass. Smallest test: compare the description lengths. Test. Falsified as evidence of rarity. The count (description_count.txt) gives about \(3.2\times10^7\) bits for an arbitrary family of \(n\) blocks of \(h\) dense forms at \(n=100\), \(h=20\), against \(1.9\times10^3\) bits for a derivation in which each line adds one form combining two premise forms; at \(n=1000\), \(h=30\), \(4.8\times10^{10}\) against \(2.5\times10^4\). Descriptions are polynomially shorter, and the number of families exponentially smaller. But the derivation count ignores weakening, which adds an arbitrary dense form at about \(N\log_23\) bits, so with weakening compiled families are not rare. And rarity would not transfer hardness to a subclass in any case.
Finite model theory: rank logics and invertible-map games (Dawar, Grädel and Pakusa). Translation: bounded-degree algebraic proof systems correspond to equivalence games in counting logics, and rank logics over \(\mathbb F_p\) add linear algebra over a fixed field. What a theorem there would give: a game characterization of PC degree over \(\mathbb F_3\) for PHP plus blocks, in which the prover's strategy is a combinatorial object rather than a functional. Smallest test: find a recorded game characterization of PC degree over a finite field. Test. Not run: no such characterization is in the record, and the known correspondences are for Sherali–Adams and Weisfeiler–Leman, not for PC over a fixed field. It needs a literature search.

Bridge follow-up

Integer solvability and the Smith normal form. Follow-up. Closed: the integrality line is parked (auxiliary bits).
Rock-paper-scissors dynamics. Follow-up. Closed: its test was vacuous and restated a recorded result.
Kotecký–Preiss. Follow-up. Closed: its smallness surrogate, the integrality line, is parked, and 3-adic smallness vanishes mod 3.

Lead follow-up

Von zur Gathen and Roche. Follow-up. Closed: it bounds exact encodings in the cube variables, and the auxiliary encoding bypasses it.
Hensel lifting: 3-integral certificates. Follow-up. Closed: parked by lem:auxiliary-bit-relaxation, with thm:integral-design-extension kept.
The Mikša–Nordström closure. Developed in the Mikša–Nordström entry. Follow-up. Closed for dense blocks without restriction, conditionally on the unforced hypothesis; with restriction it remains the thread's base.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement W. Decide whether the derivation-closed weakening can help at all, in two checks. First, whether weakening is admissible in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\): removing the weakening rule from a derivation, as for resolution, without increasing size, so that every form in a line is an axiom form or a combination created by the linear-combination rule. Second, test a chooser on one step, two premises with wide lines and their resolvent, where width doubling predicts failure. Then name the PHP-specific ingredient that could avoid it, for example prefixes chosen backward from the empty line, or the weak base's row equations, which make every row sum a constant. If no such ingredient is found, record that the derivation-closed weakening reduces to W, and return to A1 by another route.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statement of thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction, prop:near-solution-chooser-fails and the Mikša–Nordström and auxiliary-bit entries. The count was read from its saved output. A fresh-context reviewer found the first draft's weakening circular, since W for families compiled from refutations is the goal restated, and required the syntactic class of derivations with a chooser given the derivation. It also required: a concrete falsification attempt, using the recorded bad families and weakening; the width-doubling and size–degree objection to a local chooser, with the Galesi–Lauria source marked as not re-read; the semicontinuity justification corrected, since hardness is constructible rather than open, with Schwartz–Zippel stated; the counting bridge's title and conclusion corrected for weakening and downgraded; and a next step that tests where failure is predicted. All were adopted. The changes weaken claims, so no second pass was made.

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Derivation-aware prefixes: weakening is admissible in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin})\), a standard rediscovery; at a resolution step whose premises share no forms, the resolvent's clauses follow on the cube from the premises' clauses only if its prefix keeps both premises' surviving prefix forms, a one-step necessary condition against choosers that inherit prefixes

26 September 2026 · Working proofs of a standard lemma and a one-step obstruction · open statement W · cycle odd-prime-derivation-chooser. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Derivation-aware prefixes: weakening is admissible in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin})\), a standard rediscovery; at a resolution step whose premises share no forms, the resolvent's clauses follow on the cube from the premises' clauses only if its prefix keeps both premises' surviving prefix forms, a one-step necessary condition against choosers that inherit prefixes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-derivation-chooser.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement W. The decomposition review proposed W restricted to families compiled from \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) derivations, with a chooser given the derivation. It asked two things. Is weakening admissible, so that the class is not all families? And can a chooser pick each line's prefix so that the line's clauses follow from its premises' clauses?

General statement. lem:reslin-weakening-admissible and prop:inherited-prefixes-must-grow. Lines are sets of affine equations \(L=a\), read as disjunctions. W's clause for a block with forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\), written with the constants absorbed so that a disjunct is \(L=0\), and prefix \(S\), is \(g_i\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2=0\) for \(i\notin S\): on the cube it says \(L_i=0\Rightarrow L_j=0\) for some \(j\in S\).

Weakening is admissible (lem:reslin-weakening-admissible), a rediscovery of the standard weakening elimination for resolution. From a \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_p})\) derivation of a line \(C\) using the linear-combination rule, the removal of false constant equations and weakening, one obtains, line by line, a derivation without weakening of some \(C'\subseteq C\), with at most as many lines. In particular a refutation stays a refutation.
Inherited prefixes must grow (prop:inherited-prefixes-must-grow). Let premises with form sets \(B_1\ni f\), \(B_2\ni g\) and prefixes \(S_1,S_2\) give the resolvent \(B_3=(B_1\setminus\{f\})\cup(B_2\setminus\{g\})\cup\{h\}\), \(h=\alpha f+\beta g\), with prefix \(S_3\). Suppose the premises share no forms apart from possibly \(f=g\): \((B_1\setminus\{f\})\cap B_2=\emptyset=B_1\cap(B_2\setminus\{g\})\). Let \(w\in B_3\setminus S_3\) lie in \(S_1\setminus\{f\}\), or symmetrically in \(S_2\setminus\{g\}\). Suppose some cube point has \(w=0\), every other form of \(B_1\cup B_2\) nonzero, and \(h\ne0\) if \(h\in S_3\). Then \(w\)'s clause in \(B_3\) is not implied on the cube by the clauses of both premises. Consequently, at such a step, the resolvent's clauses follow on the cube from the premises' clauses only if \(S_3\) contains every form of \((S_1\setminus\{f\})\cup(S_2\setminus\{g\})\) for which such a point exists.

Proofs

Weakening. Induct along the derivation, keeping for each line \(C\) a weakening-free derivation of some \(C'\subseteq C\). Axioms are kept. A weakening \(C\to C\cup D\) keeps the same \(C'\). The removal of a false constant equation \(0=c\), \(c\ne0\), from \(C\) gives \(C\setminus\{0=c\}\), and \(C'\setminus\{0=c\}\subseteq C\setminus\{0=c\}\) by one removal or none. For the linear-combination rule from \(A\cup\{f=a\}\) and \(B\cup\{g=b\}\) to \(A\cup B\cup\{\alpha f+\beta g=\alpha a+\beta b\}\): if the kept \(A'\) does not contain \(f=a\), then \(A'\subseteq A\) is already contained in the conclusion; likewise for \(B'\). Otherwise apply the same rule to \(A'\) and \(B'\), which gives \((A'\setminus\{f=a\})\cup(B'\setminus\{g=b\})\cup\{\alpha f+\beta g=\alpha a+\beta b\}\), contained in the conclusion. Each step adds at most one line. The empty line's kept subline is empty. \(\square\) This is the standard argument for resolution, and it is recorded here only for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin})\).
Inherited prefixes. Say \(w\in(S_1\setminus\{f\})\setminus S_3\), and take the assumed point. There every clause of \(B_1\) holds, since its prefix form \(w\) vanishes. Every clause of \(B_2\) holds, since no form of \(B_2\) vanishes: \(w\notin B_2\) by the no-sharing hypothesis, and every other form is nonzero. The clause of \(w\) in \(B_3\) fails: \(w=0\), and every form of \(S_3\subseteq(B_3\setminus\{w\})\) is nonzero, the forms of \(B_1\cup B_2\) other than \(w\) by the choice of point and \(h\) by assumption. \(\square\) Without the no-sharing hypothesis the statement fails: with \(g=w\), \(B_1=\{f,w\}\), \(S_1=\{w\}\), \(B_2=\{w,u\}\), \(S_2=\{u\}\) and \(S_3=\{u,h\}\), the only clause of \(B_3=\{w,u,h\}\), \(w=0\Rightarrow u=0\lor h=0\), follows from the second premise's clause.

What it means

The lemma shows that weakening can be removed from derivations. If compiled blocks are exactly the lines' form sets, which the entry does not establish, the derivation-closed class of the decomposition review is then the weakening-free one. Every form in a line is an axiom form or a combination created by the rule, and dense forms still arise as sums along the derivation.
The proposition is a conditional, one-step necessary condition. At a step whose premises share no forms and whose forms admit the required point, a chooser that keeps each resolvent's clauses consequences of its premises' clauses, on the cube, must keep the premises' surviving prefix forms. Semantic non-implication rules out a derivation of the resolvent's clause from the premises' clauses alone at any degree, by soundness. The alternative, derivability at bounded degree from the premises' clauses together with PHP's axioms, is not addressed, and it is W's collective core.
How far prefixes must grow along a whole derivation is not shown. Real derivations reuse ancestors, so premises often share forms, prefix forms disappear when they are resolved away, and the needed points may not exist. For example, a single Boolean variable never takes the value 2, so PHP's axiom lines never meet a hypothesis like value-surjectivity. By induction the proposition gives only that a line's prefix keeps the forms that lay in an ancestor's prefix at steps where its hypotheses held, which is at most the line's width. No derivation with inherited prefixes far wider than \(k\) is exhibited.
So this entry excludes only inheritance choosers, under implication on the cube, at steps meeting its hypotheses. It found no PHP-specific ingredient that would do better, and did not examine any in detail.

Next. Inheritance choosers are excluded at steps meeting the proposition's hypotheses, and A1 still needs a PC degree method that is neither local nor symmetric. Look for one outside the record: search the literature for game or logical characterizations of polynomial calculus degree over a fixed finite field, the rank-logic bridge of the decomposition review. Check what they give on one dense constraint added to PHP. Decide whether any of them handles families of adversarial dense constraints, or yields a third kind of degree argument.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the decomposition review and the statement of thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the weakening lemma in all rule cases and asked that it be labelled a standard rediscovery. It found the proposition false as first stated: with \(g=w\), the resolvent's clause follows from a premise (the counterexample is now in the proof). The fix is the no-sharing hypothesis. It also required: the value-surjectivity hypothesis replaced by the single point the proof uses, noting that Boolean variables never meet surjectivity; the growth claims reduced to a conditional one-step necessary condition, with the title changed; the meaning of "using PHP's axioms" made precise as bounded-degree derivability; the identification of compiled blocks with lines' form sets stated as an assumption; unsupported remarks cut; and the next paragraph softened. All were adopted. The changes weaken claims, so no second pass was made.

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Literature pass for a third kind of degree method: no game or logical characterization of polynomial calculus degree over a finite field is known, whether invertible-map tests simulate bounded-degree PC is open, and the recent degree lower bounds found are for local or lifted constraints; none reaches adversarial dense blocks

26 September 2026 · Literature pass · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pc-games. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Literature pass for a third kind of degree method: no game or logical characterization of polynomial calculus degree over a finite field is known, whether invertible-map tests simulate bounded-degree PC is open, and the recent degree lower bounds found are for local or lifted constraints; none reaches adversarial dense blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-pc-games.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The Mikša–Nordström entry and the derivation-chooser entry left A1 needing a PC degree method that is neither local nor symmetric. The decomposition review proposed looking for game or logical characterizations of PC degree over a fixed finite field, the rank-logic bridge. Does the literature offer one, or another method that handles families of adversarial dense constraints?

General statement. No claim is registered. The statement concerned is A1, W's adversarial dense core, in its recorded form conj:expander-dense-core; the method gap is the one prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework records.

What was found

Games and logics. The invertible-map game extends the bijection game of counting logics by replacing bijections with invertible maps, and its equivalence refines finite-variable rank logic (Dawar and Holm, "Pebble games with algebraic rules", arXiv:1205.0913). Whether invertible-map tests simulate bounded-degree PC refutations over some finite field is stated as open in "Limitations of the invertible-map equivalences" (arXiv:2109.07218, J. Logic Comput. 2023). A companion line compares algebraic approximations of graph isomorphism (arXiv:2103.16294). So no game or logical characterization of PC degree over a finite field is known. The connection runs, at best, from PC to games, which would give upper bounds on distinguishing power, not degree lower bounds.
Recent degree lower bounds. Linear PC and Nullstellensatz degree for random graph colouring over every field (Conneryd, de Rezende, Nordström, Pang and Risse, arXiv:2503.17022, FOCS 2023). Its constraints are local, on the edges of sparse graphs. Size lower bounds for lifted formulas in the \(\pm1\) basis over every field (Dahiya, Mahajan and Mouli, SAT 2024), obtained by lifting degree and not a degree method for dense constraints. The generalized closure method of Mikša and Nordström, which the thread uses, and new separations and lower bounds in "Towards an understanding of polynomial calculus" (Filmus, Lauria, Mikša, Nordström and Vinyals, Theory of Computing 2025) were not read beyond their listings.
Functional lower bounds. The record's literature review already listed the functional method of Hakoniemi, Limaye and Tzameret and found that it needs symmetry of the whole system, which adversarial families break.

Searches were limited to web search on titles and abstracts and do not establish absence.

Assessment

The rank-logic bridge gives nothing usable: its relation to PC is itself open, and it points the wrong way for lower bounds. The recent PC degree lower bounds found are for local constraints or come from lifting. The thread's need, degree lower bounds for PHP plus many adversarial dense constraints over \(\mathbb F_3\), matches none of them. Together with the preceding entries, every recorded route and lead to A1 is closed or parked, and this pass found no outside method to replace them.

Next. A route review of the whole thread. It should record that A1 has no live mechanism, weigh the thread's other open conjuncts (A2, width, and A3, degree) as places where proofs are within reach, and look for a new idea for A1 that none of the closed routes contains.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read the abstracts listed, as fetched, and the record's literature review. The entry proves nothing and registers no claim, so no fresh-context review was run.

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Route review of the thread: A1's collective core has no live mechanism after the closures of 26 September; the one well-posed subproblem in its range with new tools at hand is the occupancy conjecture for onto weak PHP with counts agreeing mod 3, and the next step tests symmetric Nullstellensatz designs for it over \(\mathbb F_3\) in orbit coordinates

26 September 2026 · Route review with two tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-thread-review-3. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the thread: A1's collective core has no live mechanism after the closures of 26 September; the one well-posed subproblem in its range with new tools at hand is the occupancy conjecture for onto weak PHP with counts agreeing mod 3, and the next step tests symmetric Nullstellensatz designs for it over \(\mathbb F_3\) in orbit coordinates”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-thread-review-3.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the collective-core review, this thread's cycles closed the dimension route at \(p=3\), the Brauer, sum-of-squares and Boolean-linear leads, the integrality line, the Mikša–Nordström route without restriction, and the derivation-closed weakening for inheritance choosers, and found no outside degree method for adversarial dense constraints (literature pass). Where does the thread stand, and what should it do next?

General statement. The line's claim is the goal through W (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction) or W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction). Its open core is A1, recorded as conj:expander-dense-core, and the method gap is prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework.

What the goal needs

A PC degree lower bound at degree \(\Theta(\log n)\) for weak PHP plus \(n^K\) adversarial dense blocks over \(\mathbb F_3\). Every method the record has, or has found in the literature, is local (Alekhnovich–Razborov, Mikša–Nordström), symmetric (Razborov, Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall), dimension-counting (the subspace criterion, which fails at \(p=3\)), characteristic-0 (sum of squares, cluster expansions, which need smallness that \(\mathbb F_3\) lacks), or a Nullstellensatz design (Beame–Riis, the integral designs), which gives Nullstellensatz degree only. None recorded or found handles many adversarial dense constraints.

Falsification attempt

Is W false? W is stronger than the goal: its clauses are extra axioms, and the derivation-closed weakening did not restrict the adversary for inheritance choosers (derivation-aware prefixes). No family refuting W is known; the recorded failures refute particular prefix rules (prop:near-solution-chooser-fails).
Is the goal false? No polynomial upper bound for ordinary PHP in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) is known. Counting refutes when holes hold exactly one pigeon, rows sum to 1 mod 3 and the counts are not congruent mod 3, as the pinned system with \(e\not\equiv2\) mod 3 shows at degree 1; ordinary PHP has neither ontoness nor congruent-count structure. No concrete low-degree refutation of the pinned system with congruent counts was attempted in this cycle; the next step computes the smallest symmetric case. The calibration against bounded-depth Frege with \(\mathrm{MOD}_3\) gates stands.

Assessment of the line

The thread's proved results are substantial: restricted classes of refutations at every odd prime, the reduction to W and W_RS, the settled light, sparse, cell and bounded-column families, and on this day integral PHP designs through degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\) (thm:integral-design-extension). The collective core is unchanged and has no live mechanism. The prospects of the core through the recorded methods are weak. Among the subproblems in A1's range, one is well posed, open in the literature, and now has a new tool: conj:occupancy-pinned-php, onto weak PHP with counts agreeing mod 3, which settles column-statistic blocks under random prefixes (prop:occupancy-pin-reduction). The peeling review parked it as off the critical path; it remains so, since it cannot enter the dense core. But it is the most concrete open statement the thread can attack with the integral chessboard filling.

Outside leads

Post-1998 literature on onto functional PHP with counts congruent mod \(p\). Target: conj:occupancy-pinned-php, whose next action asked for this search. Where it breaks: if the literature has only the easy case. Test. Falsified: the search found Riis's result that onto functional PHP with \(n+1\) pigeons is easy for PC, as cited by Mikša and Nordström (that the reason is counting, \(1\ne0\) in every field, is this entry's gloss), and Mikša and Nordström's hardness of functional PHP and of onto PHP with pigeon clauses on expanders. No PC lower bound for onto functional PHP with counts congruent mod \(p\) was found. Web search on titles and abstracts does not establish absence.
Mikša and Nordström's onto PHP on expanders. Target: the onto system of the conjecture. Where it breaks: their onto PHP has pigeon clauses; the conjecture's system has linear rows mod 3, which are immunity-1 constraints. Test. Falsified, as recorded in the conjecture's statement and the peeling review: the rows are single linear equations over \(\mathbb F_3\).
The integral chessboard filling, extended to onto designs. Target: Nullstellensatz designs for onto systems. Where it breaks: over \(\mathbb Z\) or \(\mathbb Z_{(3)}\), a design \(D\) of a system with exact row and column equations satisfies \(D(\text{sum of rows}-\text{sum of columns})=(m-N)D(1)=0\), and \(m-N=3^\ell\) is not a unit, so torsion-freeness forces \(D(1)=0\). The conjecture's pinned system also has rows only mod 3 and no functionality, so its design supports are column-injective sets, not partial matchings, and the chessboard complex does not apply as it stands. Test. Falsified by that computation: integral designs of onto systems with congruent counts do not exist, and designs must be taken over \(\mathbb F_3\), or over \(\mathbb Z/3^k\) with \(3^k\mid3^\ell\), where the counting obstruction vanishes.

Absurd bridges

Modular flows and orientations (Tutte's 3-flow conjecture; Lovász, Thomassen, Wu and Zhang on mod-\(k\) orientations). Translation: an assignment satisfying the onto weak PHP constraints mod 3, each pigeon of degree \(\equiv1\) and each hole of degree exactly 1, as a modular factor problem on the complete bipartite graph. What a theorem there would give: explicit mod-3 pseudo-solutions, the raw material of designs. Smallest test: the boundary condition. Test. Falsified as stated. The boundary sum \(m-N\) is \(\equiv0\) mod 3 exactly when the counts agree, but 0-1 objects of this kind cannot exist, since every pigeon has degree at least 1, so the edge count is at least \(m>N\); and "exactly 1 at holes" is not a mod-\(k\) orientation condition. A version with \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued edge weights would be a different translation.
Dimer models with twisted weights (Kasteleyn's method). Translation: partial matchings of the board are monomer–dimer configurations, and a design is a signed weight on them satisfying local balance. Kasteleyn-type Pfaffian methods evaluate signed sums over perfect matchings of Pfaffian graphs. What a theorem there would give: closed forms for signed matching sums, hence explicit designs. Smallest test: whether the complete board is Pfaffian. Test. Falsified for the direct method: \(K_{m,N}\) with \(m,N\ge3\) contains \(K_{3,3}\), and by Little's theorem a bipartite graph with \(K_{3,3}\) as a matching minor is not Pfaffian.

Bridge follow-up

No bridge of the earlier reviews on this route remains open: the last ones were closed in the decomposition review.

Lead follow-up

No lead of the earlier reviews remains open; the Mikša–Nordström lead was closed for dense blocks in the decomposition review.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, through conj:occupancy-pinned-php, at Nullstellensatz degree over \(\mathbb F_3\). A Nullstellensatz refutation is a PC refutation, so a low-degree one would falsify the conjecture, while designs give only Nullstellensatz lower bounds. Test symmetric designs of the pinned system, invariant under all permutations of pigeons and of the remaining holes. Their values depend only on the partition \(\lambda\) of the used holes by pigeon, and the row and column equations become a small linear system in these orbit coordinates: for a monomial of type \(\lambda\) with \(s=|\lambda|\) holes used, the row equation of a pigeon holding \(a\) holes reads \((N-s)\,\ell(\lambda^{a\to a+1})=(1-a)\,\ell(\lambda)\), and the column equation of a free hole sums over pigeons. The smallest nonvacuous case is \(\ell=2\): \(e=8\), 17 pigeons and 8 remaining holes, where the recorded transfer gives Nullstellensatz degree 3 for Beame and Riis's functional system. Compute the largest degree at which a symmetric design exists. Symmetric designs are sufficient, not necessary, since averaging over a group of order divisible by 3 is not available. A symmetric design beyond degree 3 would give new Nullstellensatz evidence for the pinned system. Their absence decides nothing about PC, but it would point to where a refutation may lie. Beame and Riis's refutation at degree \(3^\ell-1\) is for their functional system and does not transfer to the pinned one.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the entries of this thread since the collective-core review, conj:occupancy-pinned-php and thm:integral-design-extension, and the Riis citation in the Mikša–Nordström paper. A fresh-context reviewer found the first draft's next step ill posed: integral designs of onto systems with congruent counts force \(D(1)=0\); the chessboard complex does not fit the pinned system, whose supports are column-injective sets; Beame and Riis's refutation degree is for their functional system; and designs give Nullstellensatz degree only. It also required: the method list to include Nullstellensatz designs; the counting sentence corrected; the modular-flow bridge falsified, since its objects cannot exist; the dimer test run (Little's theorem); and the Riis gloss marked. All were adopted, and the next step was replaced by the symmetric-design computation. The changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

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Symmetric designs collapse over \(\mathbb F_3\), and onto weak PHP with imbalance 3 has the Nullstellensatz degree of weak PHP on the boards computed: designs invariant under all pigeon and hole permutations die by degree 3; with Sylow 2-symmetry instead, the \(9\times6\) board falls at degree 5 with and without onto columns, and onto \(10\times7\) survives degree 5 (weak PHP not run there)

26 September 2026 · Working proof, with a finite check (exact orbit-reduced eliminations) · open statement A1, conj:occupancy-pinned-php · cycle odd-prime-symmetric-designs. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Symmetric designs collapse over \(\mathbb F_3\), and onto weak PHP with imbalance 3 has the Nullstellensatz degree of weak PHP on the boards computed: designs invariant under all pigeon and hole permutations die by degree 3; with Sylow 2-symmetry instead, the \(9\times6\) board falls at degree 5 with and without onto columns, and onto \(10\times7\) survives degree 5 (weak PHP not run there)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-symmetric-designs.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, through conj:occupancy-pinned-php. The thread review proposed testing Nullstellensatz designs of the pinned system over \(\mathbb F_3\) that are invariant under all permutations of pigeons and of holes. Two questions: can such designs exist at all, and, with a symmetry that does not destroy designs, does the onto system with imbalance 3 have lower Nullstellensatz degree than weak PHP on the same board? A literature statement predicts that it does (below). If it did at every \(N\), the pinned system with \(e=2\) would be easy, and the conjecture would need \(e+1=3^\ell\) large.

General statement. prop:symmetric-design-collapse. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take any system on an \(m\times N\) board containing Booleanity, collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}=0\) and the linear rows \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}=1\), possibly with onto columns \(\sum_ix_{ij}=1\) and functionality \(x_{ij}x_{ik}=0\). Let \(s_0\in\{0,1,2\}\) with \(s_0\equiv N\pmod 3\), and \(m>s_0\). Then no Nullstellensatz design of total degree \(s_0+1\) (hence none of higher degree) is invariant under \(S_m\times S_N\). On the other hand, for any group \(G\) of board symmetries preserving the system with \(3\nmid|G|\), a design of degree \(d\) exists iff a \(G\)-invariant one does. The finite check is ex:onto-ns-degree-small-boards.

Setup

A design of total degree \(d\) is a linear functional \(\ell\) on multilinear, collision-free monomials of degree at most \(d\) with \(\ell(1)=1\) and \(\ell(qt)=0\) for every linear axiom \(q\) and monomial \(t\) with \(\deg t\le d-1\), after multilinear reduction; monomials containing a collision (or, with functionality, a pigeon on two holes) are zero. A design of degree \(d\) exists iff there is no Nullstellensatz refutation of total degree \(d\). A monomial \(t\) is a column-injective partial map from holes to pigeons. For pigeon \(i\) holding \(a\) holes of \(t\), multiplying the row axiom by \(t\) gives

\[(a-1)\,\ell(t)+\sum_{j\text{ free in }t}\ell\bigl(t\cdot x_{ij}\bigr)=0,\]

since \(x_{ij}t=t\) for the holes \(i\) holds and \(x_{ij}t=0\) for holes held by other pigeons. For a free hole \(j\), the onto axiom gives \(\sum_i\ell(t\,x_{ij})=\ell(t)\); for a held hole it is trivial.

Proof of the collapse

An \(S_m\times S_N\)-invariant \(\ell\) depends only on the partition \(\lambda\) of \(\deg t\) given by the numbers of holes each pigeon holds in \(t\). Let \(s=\deg t\le s_0\). Some pigeon is absent from \(t\), since \(t\) involves at most \(s\le s_0<m\) pigeons. Its row equation, with \(a=0\), reads \((N-s)\,\ell(\lambda\cup\{1\})=\ell(\lambda)\), because each of the \(N-s\) free holes gives a monomial of type \(\lambda\cup\{1\}\). This needs \(s+1\le d\), which holds for \(s\le s_0\) when \(d=s_0+1\). At \(s=s_0\) the coefficient \(N-s_0\) is \(0\) in \(\mathbb F_3\), so \(\ell(\lambda)=0\) for every \(\lambda\) of size \(s_0\). For \(s<s_0\), \(\ell(\lambda)=(N-s)\ell(\lambda\cup\{1\})=0\) by descending induction, whatever \(N-s\) is modulo 3. At \(s=0\) this gives \(\ell(1)=0\), a contradiction. A design of higher degree restricts to one of degree \(s_0+1\).

Averaging: if \(\ell\) is a design and \(G\) preserves the axiom set, each \(g\ell\) is a design, and \(|G|^{-1}\sum_{g}g\ell\) is a \(G\)-invariant design when \(|G|\) is invertible in \(\mathbb F_3\). \(\square\)

The collapse uses only the rows, so it applies equally to weak PHP. There, designs of degree growing with \(N\) exist over every field, by Razborov's PC lower bound (Computational Complexity 7, 1998) of degree at least \(N/2+1\) for weak PHP with linear rows. So full symmetry kills designs through the orbit sizes, not through refutability, and a symmetric-design test decides nothing. The collapse is elementary, and likely folklore; no earlier statement was found in the record (see the verification gate).

A literature statement that predicts easiness

Razborov's survey "Proof complexity of pigeonhole principles" (DLT 2001), Theorem 8, attributes to Riis's thesis (Oxford, 1993): over a field of characteristic \(p\), if \(\binom md\not\equiv\binom nd\pmod p\) for some \(d\ge1\), then onto\(-PHP^m_n\) has a PC proof of degree \(d\). The survey's onto\(-PHP\) is the basic principle plus onto axioms, without functionality, with rows encoded as \(\sum_jx_{ij}-1\) (its footnote 5). Footnote 5 linearizes the rows. A degree-\(d\) proof with \(d<m\) needs the onto axioms in low degree too. The linear columns used here are the strongest encoding, so the recorded closures contradict the literal reading whichever encoding is meant. For \(m=N+3\), \(d=3\) qualifies at every \(N\), since \(\binom{N+3}3-\binom N3\equiv1\pmod3\) (prop:onto-triple-count). Read literally, the statement would give a PC refutation of degree 3 at every \(N\).

The recorded exact closures contradict the literal reading: at \(8\times5\) the onto system without functionality has no PC refutation of degree 3, while with functionality it falls at degree 3 (triple count). So, at \(d=3\), the statement as used in this record holds for the bijective version, which is Beame and Riis's "onto-PHP", and prop:onto-triple-count identifies why functionality is needed. Riis's thesis was not available to check the original wording. A version with a degree larger than \(d\) is not excluded by the PC data, since at \(8\times5\) weak PHP itself falls at degree 4. The Nullstellensatz data below exclude Nullstellensatz refutations of degree at most 4 at \(9\times6\) and at most 5 at \(10\times7\); PC refutations of these degrees are not excluded. On both boards \(\binom93-\binom63\equiv1\) and \(\binom{10}3-\binom73\equiv1\pmod3\), so the literal statement applies with \(d=3\).

Finite check: Nullstellensatz degree in Sylow 2-orbit coordinates

The kernel ns_orbits.c (in research/results/odd_prime_symmetric_designs_20260926/, built with gcc -O2 ns_orbits.c -lflint -lgmp) takes \(G\) to be a Sylow 2-subgroup of \(S_m\times S_N\), generated by half-swaps of the binary blocks. By the averaging half of the proposition, a design exists iff a \(G\)-invariant one does. Orbits of monomials come from union-find over all monomials of degree at most \(d_{\max}\). The unknowns are orbit values. The equations are those of one representative \(t\) per orbit with every pigeon and every free hole, since every orbit of pairs (axiom, \(t\)) meets such a pair. Rows are added by increasing \(\deg t\) into a FLINT reduced row echelon form, and after the rows of degree \(k\) the program tests whether \(e_{1}\) is in the row span, that is, whether a refutation of total degree \(k+1\) exists. Each case stops at its first refutation.

Validation (validation.jsonl): with and without symmetry the refutation degrees agree at \(6\times3\) (weak and onto, degree 3) and \(7\times4\) (weak, onto and onto with functionality, degree 3). With symmetry, at \(8\times5\) onto with functionality falls at degree 3, the recorded PC degree and consistent with Beame and Riis's Lemma 8.7, and functionality alone at degree 4 (the PC closures record only that it survives degree 3).

Results, boards with \(m=N+3\): the \(6\times3\) and \(7\times4\) rows are from validation.jsonl (run 9bf868fb8d), the others from series_n6_n7.jsonl (run ca7e27a677).

board	monomials of degree \(\le d_{\max}\)	Sylow 2-orbits	weak PHP	onto
\(6\times3\)	343	38	refuted at 3	refuted at 3
\(7\times4\)	4096	134	refuted at 3	refuted at 3
\(9\times6\)	1000000	2430	refuted at 5, not at 4	refuted at 5, not at 4
\(10\times7\)	9487171 (\(d_{\max}=6\))	13614	not reached	not refuted at 5 (rank 4956)

The \(10\times7\) run (\(d_{\max}=6\)) hit its 170-second limit during the degree-6 rows of the onto case, so the weak control at \(10\times7\) did not run. The \(8\times5\) board is covered by the recorded PC closures (both first refuted at degree 4). Nullstellensatz degree is at least PC degree. At \(6\times3\) and \(7\times4\), Nullstellensatz and PC degrees are both 3. At \(8\times5\) they agree for onto with functionality (3); Nullstellensatz degree was not computed there for weak or onto.

Consequences for the pinned system. The pinned system is weak unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) (Booleanity, collisions, linear rows) plus the pins \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}=0\) for \(j\le e\) and \(C_j=1\) for \(j>e\). Setting the variables of the pinned-empty holes to 0 turns each axiom into an axiom of the rectangular onto system or into \(0=0\): the pins \(C_j=0\) vanish, rows lose their pinned variables, and the pins \(C_j=1\) become the onto columns. So it maps a Nullstellensatz refutation of the pinned system of occupancy pinning to one of the rectangular onto system of no larger degree, since restriction does not increase degree. So with \(n=9\), \(e=2\) (10 pigeons, 7 remaining holes), the pinned system has no Nullstellensatz refutation of total degree 5.

What it means

The symmetric-design test proposed by the thread review is void: full symmetry forces designs to vanish by degree 3 for reasons that have nothing to do with refutability. Designs must be averaged over groups of order prime to 3.

With Sylow 2-symmetry, onto weak PHP with imbalance 3 has the Nullstellensatz degree of weak PHP on every board where both were computed. The onto columns are \(N\) extra linear equations that the rows do not imply below the refutation degree (onto board check), yet they did not lower the degree. The count refutations predicted by the literal survey statement do not exist at total degree 3 in PC at \(8\times5\), or at Nullstellensatz degree up to 4 at \(9\times6\) and up to 5 at \(10\times7\). This supports conj:occupancy-pinned-php already at \(e=2\), with hardness coming from the pigeon principle itself rather than from a large 3-adic imbalance. The evidence is equality at \(6\times3\), \(7\times4\) and \(9\times6\), and an onto-only lower bound at \(10\times7\). The first two boards are below the informative size, since every variant falls at degree 3 there, so the support rests on \(9\times6\) and \(10\times7\). It is Nullstellensatz evidence, not a PC lower bound, and it says nothing asymptotic.

Next. The equality suggests a proof route: Razborov's lower bound for weak PHP (degree at least \(N/2+1\) for any number of pigeons, over any field) may survive the onto columns when \(m\equiv N\pmod3\). Read the proof (Razborov's pigeon dance, or Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's simplification) and check whether its pseudo-reduction annihilates the onto axioms times low-degree monomials. The obstacle to look for is the one prop:onto-triple-count found: fat pigeons carry the discrepancy \(\sum_ie_3(r_i)=2\), so the operator must give nonzero values to monomials in which a pigeon holds three holes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:occupancy-pinned-php, prop:onto-triple-count and the onto board check, and the survey's footnote 5 and Theorem 8 from a private extract. Claim searches for symmetric and invariant designs found no earlier statement of the collapse; a fresh-context reviewer given only its statement confirmed this and found the descent does not need \(N-s\not\equiv0\). A second fresh-context reviewer checked the collapse proof, the averaging, the Sylow generators (orders \(2^7,2^8\) for \(m=9,10\), \(2^4\) for \(N=6,7\)), the union-find relabelling, the equation set (every orbit of pairs meets one with the representative), the coefficients, the membership test and the table against the files, and found them correct. It required, all adopted: the unused coefficient condition dropped; the survey's encoding stated precisely; the Nullstellensatz exclusions corrected to degree 4 at \(9\times6\) and 5 at \(10\times7\), with PC not excluded; the validation claims limited to recorded PC degrees; the table provenance split by run; the title and evidence scope narrowed; the bijective reading limited to \(d=3\); the timeout recorded in the result file; and the pinned system's axioms named in the restriction argument. The changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

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The spare-pigeon theorem: onto weak PHP whose counts agree mod \(p\) is as hard as weak PHP, since one fat pigeon taking every free hole turns weak PHP into it; this proves conj:occupancy-pinned-php with \(e=2\), and with the occupancy pin reduction settles column-statistic families under random prefixes, for families fixed in advance

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 under random prefixes, conj:occupancy-pinned-php · cycle odd-prime-onto-dance. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The spare-pigeon theorem: onto weak PHP whose counts agree mod \(p\) is as hard as weak PHP, since one fat pigeon taking every free hole turns weak PHP into it; this proves conj:occupancy-pinned-php with \(e=2\), and with the occupancy pin reduction settles column-statistic families under random prefixes, for families fixed in advance”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-spare-pigeon.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, through conj:occupancy-pinned-php. The symmetric-designs entry found the onto system with imbalance 3 at the Nullstellensatz degree of weak PHP on every board computed, and proposed adapting Razborov's lower bound for PHP to the onto columns. Reading Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's version of that proof (ECCC TR97-042, Section 2) showed two things. Their system includes the functionality axioms \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}\), with which the onto version falls at degree 3 (prop:onto-triple-count). And they remark that a basis with their monotonicity property is not available for onto principles. So the proof cannot be adapted directly. Instead, is there a reduction from weak PHP to the onto system that keeps the degree?

General statement. thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness. Over any field of characteristic \(p>0\), let \(\mathcal O_{m,N}\) be onto weak PHP: variables \(x_{ij}\), \(i\in[m]\), \(j\in[N]\); Booleanity \(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}\); collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) (\(i\ne i'\)); rows \(r_i-1\), \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\); onto columns \(c_j-1\), \(c_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\); no functionality axioms. If \(m\equiv N\pmod p\) and \(N\ge3\), then \(\mathcal O_{m,N}\) has no PC refutation of degree at most \(\lceil N/2\rceil\). Consequence, cor:column-statistic-families-random-prefix: conj:occupancy-pinned-php holds for \(n\ge5\) with \(e=2\) and \(c=1/3\), since every PC refutation of the pinned system has degree at least \(\lceil(n-2)/2\rceil+1\). With prop:occupancy-pin-reduction, if \(4t+2\le\lceil(n-2)/2\rceil\) and \(11\max(1,\delta)\le\lceil(n-2)/2\rceil\), then for each family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks fixed before the prefixes are drawn, whose forms lie in the span of the column sums and \(\rho\) further forms, W_RS holds with probability at least \(1-M3^{\rho-t}\). This is \(1-o(1)\) for \(t\ge(K+1)\log_3n+\omega(1)\) and \(\rho=O(1)\), or \(\rho\le t-K\log_3n-\omega(1)\), and it includes column statistics over any number of holes.

Proof of the theorem

Let \(\mathcal P\) be weak PHP\(^{m-1}_N\) in variables \(y_{ij}\), \(i\in[m-1]\): Booleanity, collisions and rows \(\rho_i-1\), \(\rho_i=\sum_jy_{ij}\). Write \(C_j=\sum_{i<m}y_{ij}\). Define the substitution \(\sigma\): \(x_{ij}\mapsto y_{ij}\) for \(i<m\), and \(x_{mj}\mapsto1-C_j\). Pigeon \(m\), the spare pigeon, takes every hole the others leave free.

Each axiom of \(\mathcal O_{m,N}\) maps to a combination of axioms of \(\mathcal P\) with constant coefficients, hence is derived at degree 2:

Booleanity, collisions and rows of pigeons \(i<m\) map to the same axioms of \(\mathcal P\).
Booleanity of \(x_{mj}\): \((1-C_j)^2-(1-C_j)=C_j^2-C_j=\sum_i(y_{ij}^2-y_{ij})+2\sum_{i<i'}y_{ij}y_{i'j}\).
Collision of pigeons \(m\) and \(i\) in hole \(j\): \((1-C_j)y_{ij}=-(y_{ij}^2-y_{ij})-\sum_{i'\ne i}y_{i'j}y_{ij}\).
Row of the spare pigeon: \(\sum_j(1-C_j)-1=N-1-\sum_{i<m}\rho_i=-\sum_{i<m}(\rho_i-1)+(N-m)\), and \(N-m=0\) in the field.
Onto columns: \(\sum_{i<m}y_{ij}+(1-C_j)-1=0\) identically.

Let \(\pi\) be a PC refutation of \(\mathcal O_{m,N}\) of degree \(D\). Apply \(\sigma\) line by line. Degrees do not increase, since \(\sigma\) maps variables to polynomials of degree 1. Linear combinations stay valid. A multiplication \(f\mapsto x_{ij}f\) with \(i<m\) becomes multiplication by \(y_{ij}\). A multiplication \(f\mapsto x_{mj}f\) becomes \(\sigma(f)-\sum_{i<m}y_{ij}\sigma(f)\): multiplications of \(\sigma(f)\) by variables, each of degree at most \(\deg f+1\le D\), and a linear combination. Axiom lines are replaced by their degree-2 derivations. The last line stays 1. So \(\mathcal P\) has a PC refutation of degree \(\max(D,2)\).

Whether the refutation uses Booleanity axioms or works in the multilinear, collision-free quotient, as the recorded closures do, does not matter: reducing modulo \(x^2-x\) never raises degree. The functional PHP\(^{m-1}_N\) of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall (Definition 1.2) has all the axioms of \(\mathcal P\) and also the functionality axioms \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}\), and Booleanity is included in their setting. Their Theorem 2.9, over any field, gives it no refutation of degree at most \(\lceil N/2\rceil\) (their Section 2 fixes arbitrary \(m-1\), \(N\) and field). A refutation of \(\mathcal P\) is one of their system. Hence \(\max(D,2)\ge\lceil N/2\rceil+1\), and \(D\ge\lceil N/2\rceil+1\) since \(\lceil N/2\rceil+1\ge3\) for \(N\ge3\). \(\square\)

The hypothesis \(m\equiv N\pmod p\) is used only in the spare pigeon's row. It is necessary: otherwise the sum of rows minus the sum of columns is the nonzero constant \(m-N\), a refutation of degree 1. No hypothesis \(m>N\) is needed: if \(m-1\le N\), then \(\mathcal P\) has a 0-1 solution, so it has no refutation, and by the substitution neither has \(\mathcal O_{m,N}\).

The corollary

conj:occupancy-pinned-php asks for \(c>0\) and, for each \(n\) (read for \(n\ge5\), since no admissible \(e\) exists for \(n\le3\)), some \(e\le n/2\) with \(e\equiv2\pmod3\), such that weak unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) plus the pins \(C_j=\sum_ix_{ij}=0\) (\(j\le e\)) and \(C_j=1\) (\(j>e\)) has no PC refutation of degree \(n^c\). Take \(e=2\). Setting the variables of the two pinned-empty holes to 0 turns each axiom into an axiom of \(\mathcal O_{n+1,n-2}\) or into \(0=0\): the pins \(C_j=0\) vanish, the rows lose their pinned variables, and the pins \(C_j=1\) become the onto columns. Restriction does not increase PC degree, so a refutation of the pinned system of degree \(D\) gives one of \(\mathcal O_{n+1,n-2}\) of degree at most \(D\). Here \(m-N=3\equiv0\), and \(N=n-2\ge3\) for \(n\ge5\). So the pinned system has no PC refutation of degree at most \(\lceil(n-2)/2\rceil\). With \(c=1/3\), \(n^{1/3}\le\lceil(n-2)/2\rceil\) for every \(n\ge5\) (at \(n=5,6\): about 1.71 and 1.82 against 2), so the conjecture holds, and the true bound is linear in \(n\).

prop:occupancy-pin-reduction needs the pinned system unrefuted at degree \(B=\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)\), with one pin vector \(o^*\). Take \(o^*\) the pin above (\(e=2\)); then \(B\le\lceil(n-2)/2\rceil\) exactly when \(4t+2\le\lceil(n-2)/2\rceil\) and \(11\max(1,\delta)\le\lceil(n-2)/2\rceil\), which allows \(t\) up to about \(n/8\), not only \(O(\log n)\). As stated in the occupancy-pinning entry, it then gives, for each family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks fixed before the prefixes are drawn, whose forms lie in the span of the column sums and \(\rho_b\le\rho\) further forms, W_RS with probability at least \(1-\sum_b3^{\rho_b-t}\ge1-M3^{\rho-t}\). That is \(1-o(1)\) for \(t\ge(K+1)\log_3n+\omega(1)\) and \(\rho=O(1)\), or \(\rho\le t-K\log_3n-\omega(1)\), and it includes column statistics over any number of holes. This is the corollary, now unconditional.

Checks against the record

The bound agrees with every computed case of the onto system with \(m=N+3\): \(\lceil N/2\rceil+1\) is 3, 3, 4, 4, 5 at \(N=3,\dots,7\). The recorded least PC refutation degrees are 3, 3, 4 at \(N=3,4,5\) (onto board check), so the bound is attained there. At \(N=6,7\) only Nullstellensatz degrees were computed, 5 and more than 5 (ex:onto-ns-degree-small-boards), which is consistent with the bound. Conversely \(\mathcal O_{m,N}\) contains every axiom of \(\mathcal P\) (pigeons \(i<m\)), so both have the same least PC refutation degree once it is at least 2. The recorded equality was with weak PHP\(^m_N\); the theorem gives \(\deg\mathrm{PHP}^{m-1}_N=\deg\mathcal O_{m,N}\le\deg\mathrm{PHP}^m_N\), so that equality means that removing one pigeon did not lower the degree at those sizes.

It contradicts the literal reading of the survey statement discussed in the symmetric-designs entry, degree-3 proofs whenever \(\binom m3\not\equiv\binom N3\pmod3\): with \(m=N+3\), \(\binom{N+3}3-\binom N3=3N(N+1)/2+1\equiv1\) at every \(N\), while \(\lceil N/2\rceil+1\ge4\) for \(N\ge5\), as the closures already did at \(8\times5\). That statement concerns the bijective version.

The spare pigeon is fat: it holds every free hole. That is exactly what prop:onto-triple-count found carrying the discrepancy \(\sum_ie_3(r_i)=2\), and what functionality forbids. With functionality the substitution fails, as it must, since the bijective version falls at degree 3. Beame and Riis's open problem for the bijective version is untouched.

What it means

Column statistics, one of the two heavy classes that the light-family theorem leaves under random prefixes, are settled under random prefixes, for families of \(n^K\) blocks fixed in advance with \(t\) in the stated range: W_RS holds with probability \(1-o(1)\) for each family whose blocks have bounded rank modulo the column sums. Dense interaction parts \(a_{it}-u_i-v_t\), the other class, remain open, and so does W for adversarial prefixes. Combining column-statistic blocks with light blocks in one family is not done. The theorem is elementary, and a version of it may be known; the searches in the verification gate found none in the record.

Next. Combine: a family mixing light blocks, column-statistic blocks and blocks of low rank modulo a pinned set, under random prefixes. Check whether the proofs of the light-family theorem, pinned rank vacuity and the occupancy pin reduction compose on one pinned system: after pinning all column sums, the base is the onto system, which this theorem shows is as hard as weak PHP\(^{n}_{n-2}\), so the light-family argument may run on it through the same substitution. If they compose, what remains of A1 under random prefixes is the dense interaction class alone.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's Definitions 1.1 and 1.2, Section 2's setting (arbitrary \(m\), \(n\) and field) and Theorem 2.9 from the ECCC report, conj:occupancy-pinned-php, prop:occupancy-pin-reduction and the occupancy-pinning entry. Claim searches for onto weak PHP, substitution reductions and occupancy pins, and a grep of the historical index for "onto", found no earlier version of the theorem. A fresh-context reviewer given only the statement and proof found no error and no recorded version. It asked that Theorem 2.9's hypotheses be read from the source, which the second reviewer did against the PDF. A second fresh-context reviewer checked every axiom image, the degree accounting, the direction of the comparison with the functional system, the transcription of Theorem 2.9, the restriction and all numbers, and found the proof correct. It required, all adopted: the unused hypothesis \(m\ge N+2\) dropped, with the satisfiable case explained; the corollary's quantifiers made explicit (\(n\ge5\), \(c=1/3\)); the composition stated with its conditions on \(t\) and \(\delta\) and per family fixed in advance; the checks at \(N=6,7\) marked as consistent; the claimed equivalence with weak PHP made two-sided and the comparison with the recorded equality corrected; the survey contradiction made explicit for \(m=N+3\); a remark on the multilinear quotient added; and "settled" qualified. The changes restrict or clarify claims, so no second pass was made.

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Composing column pins with light blocks: the spare pigeon carries a light family to weak PHP with two holes fewer, but it turns every cell of its own row into a column sum, so the route needs a pigeon row that no light block reads heavily, and families covering every row defeat it

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a reduction; a conditional composition; an obstruction · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-composed-pins. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Composing column pins with light blocks: the spare pigeon carries a light family to weak PHP with two holes fewer, but it turns every cell of its own row into a column sum, so the route needs a pigeon row that no light block reads heavily, and families covering every row defeat it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-composed-pins.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The spare-pigeon entry settled families whose blocks all have bounded rank modulo the column sums (cor:column-statistic-families-random-prefix), and thm:random-prefix-light-families settles families whose blocks are all light (union support at most \(n^{2-\eta}\) cells). Neither covers a family mixing the two kinds. After pinning the column sums, the light blocks sit on the onto system, not on weak PHP, and the light-family proof ends at weak graph PHP. Does the spare pigeon carry the light blocks back to weak PHP?

General statement. lem:spare-pigeon-composition, and the conditional prop:light-spare-composition. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\mathcal F\) be a family of blocks of affine forms on the \((n+1)\times n\) board, let \(\Pi\) be the pinned system of conj:occupancy-pinned-php with \(e=2\) (empty holes \(1,2\)), and let \(s\) be any pigeon. Write \(\sigma_s\) for the substitution that deletes the empty holes' cells (sets them to 0) and replaces \(x_{sj}\) by \(1-\sum_{i\ne s}x_{ij}\) for the other holes. If \(\Pi\) plus the randomized-prefix clauses of \(\mathcal F\) has a PC refutation of degree \(D\), then weak PHP of the \(n\) pigeons \(i\ne s\) into the \(n-2\) holes \(j\ge3\), plus the randomized-prefix clauses of \(\sigma_s(\mathcal F)\) with the same prefix matrices, has one of degree \(\max(D,2)\). The support of \(\sigma_s(b)\) is at most \(|U_b|+n\,|U_b\cap\text{row }s|\) cells.

Proof of the lemma

Restriction of the empty holes' cells to 0 maps \(\Pi\) to the onto system \(\mathcal O_{n+1,n-2}\) (spare pigeon, the corollary) and does not increase degree. The second part of \(\sigma_s\) is the spare-pigeon substitution for \(\mathcal O_{n+1,n-2}\) with pigeon \(s\) as the spare. The proof of thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness maps each axiom of \(\mathcal O_{n+1,n-2}\) to a degree-2 consequence of the weak PHP axioms, and each PC line to a line of no larger degree. The clauses are \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\in S}L_{b,j}^2\) with the \(L\)'s built from the forms by the prefix matrix \(C_b\) and \(g=1-L^2\). Since \(\sigma_s\) is an affine substitution, it commutes with taking these combinations and products. So each clause maps to the clause of the family \(\sigma_s(\mathcal F)\) with the same \(C_b\), which is again an axiom of the target system. A form reading \(x_{sj}\) reads the whole column \(j\) after the substitution, which gives the support bound. \(\square\)

A conditional composition

Let \(\mathcal F=\mathcal L\cup\mathcal S\) with \(\mathcal L\) light (each \(|U_b|\le n^{2-\eta}\)) and \(\mathcal S\) of rank at most \(\rho\) modulo the column sums, all fixed in advance. Step 1: by prop:occupancy-pin-reduction applied to \(\mathcal S\) alone, with probability at least \(1-|\mathcal S|3^{\rho-t}\) every clause of \(\mathcal S\) is derived from the axioms of \(\Pi\) (Booleanity and the pins) at degree \(B=\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)\). The reduction replaces each clause of \(\mathcal S\) by such a derivation and leaves every other axiom line unchanged, so \(\mathcal L\)'s clauses pass through as axioms. So a degree-\(B\) refutation of weak unary PHP plus all clauses gives one of \(\Pi\) plus \(\mathcal L\)'s clauses. Step 2: by the lemma, it gives one of weak PHP\(^{n}_{n-2}\) plus \(\sigma_s(\mathcal L)\)'s clauses. Step 3: if some pigeon \(s\) has \(|U_b\cap\text{row }s|\le n^{1-\eta}\) for every \(b\in\mathcal L\), then every \(\sigma_s(b)\) has at most \(2n^{2-\eta}\) cells, so \(\sigma_s(\mathcal L)\) is light with any \(\eta'<\eta\) and large \(n\). Step 4 would be thm:random-prefix-light-families for weak PHP\(^{N+2}_N\) with \(N=n-2\), \(M\le n^K\le N^{K'}\) and \(t\) matched to \(N\). Parameters: \(B\le44t\), the light theorem's degree, since \(\delta\le4t-2\). The pigeon \(s\) is chosen from \(\mathcal L\) alone, before the prefixes are drawn, so the \(C_b\) stay uniform and independent of \(\sigma_s(\mathcal L)\). Step 1 depends only on \(\mathcal S\)'s prefixes and Step 4 only on \(\mathcal L\)'s, so the failure probability is at most \(|\mathcal S|3^{\rho-t}+o(1)\).

prop:light-spare-composition is this chain, conditional on Step 4. The recorded light-family theorem, and the logarithmic residual construction it uses (thm:logarithmic-residual-w), are for \(m=n+1\). With two extra pigeons the matching restriction leaves a residual of \(h+2\) pigeons on \(h\) holes, because unmatched pigeons cannot be removed. The imported Mikša–Nordström bound (imp:MN-functional-graph-degree) carries no deficiency-one restriction, and the expansion estimate should change only in its counts of pigeon sets. That extension was not carried out or checked here, so the composition stays conditional.

The obstruction: families covering every row

The hypothesis of Step 3 is not free. Take \(\mathcal L=\{b_0,\dots,b_n\}\) with block \(b_i\) reading the \(n\) cells of row \(i\), with nonzero coefficients on all of them, and add at least one column-statistic block to make the family mixed. \(\mathcal L\) alone is covered by thm:random-prefix-light-families, and also by thm:logarithmic-residual-w's row-sparse class. Each block has \(n\) cells, far below \(n^{2-\eta}\), and \(n+1\le n^K\). Every pigeon row is fully read by one block, so for every choice of spare, \(\sigma_s(b_s)\) reads every column: it is a column-statistic block, not a light one. More generally, a family whose blocks have heavy rows (\(n^{1-\eta}\) or more cells) that together cover all \(n+1\) rows defeats every choice of \(s\). With \(n^K\) blocks this costs the adversary nothing.

Iterating does not remove the obstruction. In the example, \(\sigma_s(b_s)\) has rank 0 modulo the column sums of the new board, so a second pin, with \(e'=1\) empty hole to keep the counts congruent, drops it with high probability. This applies prop:occupancy-pin-reduction on weak PHP\(^n_{n-2}\) rather than on its stated base; its proof uses only the division by the pins, Booleanity and the count of patterns, not \(m=n+1\). That leaves the onto system \(\mathcal O_{n,n-3}\) plus the blocks \(b_i\), \(i\ne s\), which is the same situation one size smaller. Each round removes one pigeon, one hole and the blocks heavy at its spare. The rounds end only when some remaining row is light for all remaining blocks, and in the example that never happens before the board is too small for the degree \(B\). The example shows no failure of W_RS: its light part alone is settled by thm:random-prefix-light-families, and for the mixed family W_RS is open. It obstructs only the spare-pigeon route.

What it means

Mixed families of light and column-statistic blocks reduce, by the pin reduction, a restriction and one substitution, to light families on weak PHP with imbalance 2 whenever a single pigeon row is light for every light block. This case is proved conditionally on the light-family theorem at imbalance 2, whose extension was not carried out. Families whose heavy rows cover the board remain open under random prefixes. The spare pigeon cannot avoid them, because the onto columns are removed only through one pigeon that takes every free hole. The dense interaction class remains the main open part of A1.

Next. Two options on this route, highest risk first. (a) The dense interaction class \(a_{it}-u_i-v_t\) under random prefixes, the core of A1, where no mechanism is recorded. (b) For the mixed case, a residual argument that keeps the onto columns: drop the light blocks on the random residual first, then pin the residual column sums, and replace the spare pigeon by a hardness proof for onto graph PHP with imbalance 3 on the residual expander that does not pass through functionality. Option (b) is off the critical path unless (a) makes progress, so the next cycle should be a route review of the random-prefix program. Its restatement of A1 should name the dense class as the obligation.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness and its proof, prop:occupancy-pin-reduction and its proof in the occupancy-pinning entry, thm:random-prefix-light-families with its proof, thm:logarithmic-residual-w and imp:MN-functional-graph-degree. The lemma composes recorded results in one setting and adds the support bound. A fresh-context reviewer found the lemma, the lightness arithmetic, the account of the imbalance-2 extension, the rank-0 claim and the congruence of the second pin correct. It required, all adopted: Step 1's mechanism stated, with the derivation from the axioms of the pinned system; the composition's parameters, the choice of \(s\) before the prefixes and the failure probability given; the obstruction example made mixed, with its light part noted as settled; "not a counterexample" replaced by the correct statement that the mixed case is open; the second pin's use outside the stated base justified; the example's coefficients made nonzero on the whole row; and two over-claims in "What it means" corrected. The changes restrict claims, so no second pass was made.

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Route review of the random-prefix program after the spare pigeon: light, column-statistic and low-rank families are settled, mixed families partly; the dense interaction class is the whole remaining obligation, and a coding-theory count shows random prefixes make any family forbid only an \(o(1)\) fraction of points under any fixed distribution

26 September 2026 · Route review with pen tests · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-random-prefix-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the random-prefix program after the spare pigeon: light, column-statistic and low-rank families are settled, mixed families partly; the dense interaction class is the whole remaining obligation, and a coding-theory count shows random prefixes make any family forbid only an \(o(1)\) fraction of points under any fixed distribution”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-random-prefix-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. Three research entries since the thread review turned conj:occupancy-pinned-php from an open conjecture into a theorem (spare pigeon), found the fully symmetric design test void (symmetric designs), and found the composition with light blocks partly done and partly obstructed (composed pins). What is left of A1 under random prefixes, and what should the line test next?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS), which gives the goal through thm:randomized-prefix-reduction. Proved cases, for families fixed before the prefixes are drawn, with probability \(1-o(1)\): all blocks light (thm:random-prefix-light-families); all blocks of bounded rank modulo the column sums (cor:column-statistic-families-random-prefix); all blocks of rank at most \(\log_3n-\omega(1)\) modulo a pinned set of row-independent forms, under member pinning's hypotheses (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity). Mixed light and column-statistic families follow when one pigeon row is light for every light block, conditionally on the light theorem at imbalance 2 (prop:light-spare-composition). Open: families containing a dense interaction block, whose forms have large-rank interaction parts, the class of the coefficient matrix \(a\) modulo matrices \(u_i+v_t\), on \(n^{2-o(1)}\) cells; and mixed families whose heavy rows cover the board.

What the goal needs

W_RS for every family of \(n^K\) blocks, at degree \(B=\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)\) with \(t\approx(K+1)\log_3n\). The dense class is necessary: adversarial families may consist of dense blocks alone, and no recorded reduction removes them. So the obligation has two parts: (i) W_RS for families of dense interaction blocks, possibly with light blocks added; (ii) W_RS for mixed light and column-statistic families whose heavy rows cover the board, which is not dense and is not subsumed by (i) as stated. In this review's opinion (ii) is secondary, since it combines two settled classes.

Falsification attempt

The new tool is the spare pigeon, a degree-1 substitution that absorbs the onto columns. Could a similar substitution absorb a dense block? The substitution is sound only where the column sums are pinned to 1, so this concerns the system after the occupancy pin reduction to pins \(C_j=1\) (prop:occupancy-pin-reduction), not weak PHP itself. There, under \(\sigma_s\), a form \(L=c+\sum_{i,t}a_{it}x_{it}\) becomes \(c+\sum_ta_{st}+\sum_{i\ne s,t}(a_{it}-a_{st})y_{it}\). Write \(a=u\mathbf 1^T+\mathbf 1v^T+w\). On rows \(i\ne s\) the new matrix has interaction part \(w_{it}-w_{st}\), and \(-w_{st}\) is absorbed into \(v_t\). So the new interaction part is \(a\)'s restricted to rows \(i\ne s\), and its rank modulo row and column functions drops by at most 1. The substitution does not remove a dense block. The row-covering mixed family was the only structured family found in this cycle for which the recorded tools stop. Iterating the spare substitution on it ends on a board too small for degree \(B\) without a refutation (composed pins). W_RS is not falsified. The attempt confirms that a dense interaction part is not removed by any recorded reduction.

Assessment of the line

The random-prefix program has been productive on structured classes. It settled light families, column statistics and pinned low rank, each by a counting or substitution argument that uses the randomness of the prefixes only through \(3^{-t}\) union bounds. Every one of these arguments works by making blocks vacuous: showing that their clauses are derivable from Booleanity and pins. The first-moment count cannot make a dense block vacuous, since its occurring zero patterns number far more than \(3^t\) (light families, Next). So vacuity arguments, vacuity modulo pins included, do not reach the dense class, and the dense class needs a non-vacuity argument, which the record does not have. That is the same place W's adversarial line stopped (collective-core review). What is new is the count in the second bridge below: under random prefixes, the forbidden set of any family is small in measure. It is the \(\mu\)-averaged form of the pointwise count \(\Pr[Cz=0]=3^{-t}\) that the vacuity arguments (for example prop:bounded-column-vacuity) use as a union bound.

Outside leads

Buss, Grigoriev, Impagliazzo and Pitassi's reductions between counting principles by low-degree substitution (J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 62, 2001). The spare pigeon is such a substitution. Target: the dense class, through a substitution from a known hard system whose image implies the dense block's clauses. Where it breaks: substitution images of fixed principles are special, and the adversary's blocks are arbitrary. Test. Falsified for the spare-pigeon substitution: the falsification attempt above shows that it keeps a dense interaction part, up to deleting one row. Other degree-preserving substitutions were not examined.
Alekhnovich and Razborov's expansion method, in Mikša and Nordström's generalized form (arXiv:1505.01358, Theorem 3.8). Target: the dense class. Where it breaks: a dense block touches every variable set. Test. Falsified, as recorded: clusters unforced by every single variable set have empty respectful boundary (prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework).
Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's monotone basis for PHP (ECCC TR97-042, Definition 2.5 and Proposition 2.8), read in the spare-pigeon entry. Target: a pseudo-reduction for weak PHP that could be tested against dense-block clauses. The basis \(B_d\) gives an explicit linear operator on degree-\(d\) polynomials that kills exactly the degree-\(d\) consequences. Where it breaks: that basis is for functional PHP. For weak PHP a basis with the same monotonicity is not recorded, and a dense clause's image under the operator need not be small. Test. Not run: it needs the operator for weak PHP (non-functional), which would first have to be constructed. The spare-pigeon theorem shows that weak PHP's degree is at least functional PHP's, but not how to build its basis.

Absurd bridges

Statistical mechanics: particle reservoirs and the equivalence of ensembles. Translation: the onto columns fix the occupation of every hole, a canonical constraint, and the spare pigeon is a reservoir that makes it free, turning the canonical ensemble into a grand-canonical one. A theorem there says that fixing conserved quantities costs nothing in the thermodynamic limit. Here it would say that any constraint on conserved quantities is free for PC degree. Smallest test: does a reservoir absorb a quantity that is not conserved? Test. Falsified for the dense class. The conserved quantities are the column occupations, and the spare pigeon absorbs exactly functions of them: that is the spare-pigeon theorem, where the bridge passed. A dense form is not a function of occupations, and \(\sigma_s\) leaves its interaction part in place, as computed above.
Coding theory: random linear codes meeting a fixed set, the first-moment count behind the list-decodability of random linear codes (Guruswami, Håstad and Kopparty, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 57, 2011). Translation: a block's clause \(g_{b,i}[C_bg=0]\) forbids exactly the points whose zero pattern \(z\in\{0,1\}^h\) is nonzero and lies in \(\ker C_b\), a random subspace of codimension at most \(t\). Coding theory's first moment says a random subspace meets a fixed set \(Z\) in about \(|Z|3^{-t}\) points. What it would give: for any fixed probability distribution \(\mu\) on assignments, for example a pseudo-distribution built from a weak PHP design, the family's forbidden set has small \(\mu\)-measure. Smallest test: the expectation. For a fixed point with zero pattern \(z\ne0\), \(\Pr_C[Cz=0]=3^{-t}\), since \(C\) is uniform. So \(\mathbb E_C[\mu(\text{forbidden by }b)]\le3^{-t}\), and over \(M\le n^K\) blocks, \(\mathbb E[\mu(\text{forbidden})]\le M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\) at \(t=\lceil(K+1)\log_3n\rceil+1\). By Markov, with probability at least \(1-n^{-1/2}/3\) the forbidden set has \(\mu\)-measure below \(n^{-1/2}\). This holds for every family, dense or not, and for every \(\mu\) that does not depend on the \(C_b\). A dual object built for the specific randomized system, such as a pseudo-expectation against a given refutation attempt, is therefore not covered; only objects determined by the family and the base are. Test. Passed.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge from earlier reviews on this route is open. The second bridge above passed in this cycle and is the lead for the next step.

Lead follow-up

No passed outside lead from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, the dense class under random prefixes, developing the coding-theory bridge. The count shows that random prefixes make every family forbid little in measure. PC degree is not a measure statement, so the question is whether degree lower bounds for weak PHP are robust to adding clause families that forbid a set of small measure under a suitable distribution. Test this first against the recorded degree-lowering constraints: the column-type equations that refute PHP at degree 3 at \(n=6,7\) where plain PHP survives (the column-type entry, recalled in the occupancy-pinning entry), and the onto pins, which do not lower the degree. Weak PHP has no satisfying assignments, so take \(\mu\) uniform on injective maps of all pigeons but one into the \(n\) holes, the omitted pigeon uniform. \(\mu\) satisfies Booleanity, collisions and every row but the omitted pigeon's. Compute the \(\mu\)-measure of the forbidden sets of these families, calling it small below \(n^{-1/2}\), matching the bridge, and large at least a constant. Calibration: under this \(\mu\) every hole is filled, so the onto columns forbid a set of measure 0 and do not lower the degree. If a degree-lowering family forbids only a small set, robustness in this form is false, and the bridge must name a finer distribution. If every degree-lowering family forbids a large set, state the robustness conjecture precisely and look for a proof through a weak-PHP design.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statements of the cited results (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction for the clause form \(g_{b,i}[C_bg=0]\), prop:occupancy-pin-reduction, thm:random-prefix-light-families, cor:column-statistic-families-random-prefix, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, prop:light-spare-composition, prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework). A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the coding-theory expectation, the union bound and Markov. It required, all adopted: the spare substitution placed after the pin reduction, where it is sound; the interaction part defined modulo \(u_i+v_t\) and its change computed exactly (rank drops by at most 1); overclaims removed from the falsification attempt, the first lead's verdict and the assessment; the mixed row-covering case listed as a second open part; the bridge's \(\mu\) required not to depend on the prefixes; and the next step given a concrete distribution, thresholds and a calibration point.

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Forbidden measure does not control PC degree: under the two natural distributions, families forbidding a null or \(o(1)\) set refute weak PHP at degree 1, so the coding-theory count must be combined with the structure of random prefixes, not used as a measure bound

26 September 2026 · Refutation (elementary) · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-small-measure. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Forbidden measure does not control PC degree: under the two natural distributions, families forbidding a null or \(o(1)\) set refute weak PHP at degree 1, so the coding-theory count must be combined with the structure of random prefixes, not used as a measure bound”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-small-measure.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, the dense class, developing the second absurd bridge of the random-prefix review. That bridge showed that random prefixes make any family forbid an \(o(1)\) fraction of points under every distribution \(\mu\) fixed in advance. Could PC degree lower bounds for weak PHP be robust to clause families whose forbidden set has small \(\mu\)-measure? The review asked for a test against recorded degree-lowering constraints, with \(\mu\) uniform on injective maps of all pigeons but one, calling a set small below \(n^{-1/2}\).

General statement. prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust. Over any field, for weak unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) (Booleanity, collisions, linear rows), with \(n\ge2\):

Let \(\mu\) be uniform on the injective maps of \(n\) of the \(n+1\) pigeons onto the \(n\) holes, the omitted pigeon uniform, with all of its variables 0. The onto columns \(\sum_ix_{ij}=1\), \(j\in[n]\), forbid a \(\mu\)-null set, and together with the rows they refute at degree 1.
Let \(\mu_d\) be uniform on the partial matchings with \(d\) edges, \(1\le d\le n\). The \(n\) axioms \(x_{1j}=0\) forbid a set of \(\mu_d\)-measure \(d/(n+1)\), and together with row 1 they refute at degree 1.

So robustness of PC degree under small forbidden measure is false for both distributions, at every \(n\).

Proof

Part 1. Every point in the support of \(\mu\) fills every hole exactly once, so it satisfies every onto column: the forbidden set is empty in the support. The sum of the \(n+1\) row axioms minus the sum of the \(n\) onto columns is \(\sum_{ij}x_{ij}-(n+1)-\sum_{ij}x_{ij}+n=-1\), a refutation of degree 1.

Part 2. A point of the support violates some \(x_{1j}=0\) exactly when pigeon 1 is matched. By symmetry, a uniform \(d\)-edge matching uses pigeon 1 with probability \(d/(n+1)\). Row 1 minus the \(n\) axioms \(x_{1j}\) is \(-1\). \(\square\)

Correction to the random-prefix review: its next step states that the onto columns forbid a \(\mu\)-null set and do not lower the degree. The first half is right, and the second is wrong for weak PHP\(^{n+1}_n\), where the counts differ by 1 and counting refutes. It holds for onto systems whose counts agree mod the characteristic, by thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness. So the calibration point is itself the counterexample of part 1. The recorded column-type systems over \(\mathbb F_3\) (the column-type entry) are subsumed. Under \(\mu\) every column sum is 1, so a column-type equation \(\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j=c\) forbids either nothing, when \(c=\sum_j\varphi(j)\), or everything. At \(n=6\), \(r=2\), the nine right-hand sides are all of \(\mathbb F_3^2\), and all were refuted at degree 3 while plain PHP survives degree 3. So the right-hand side \(c_b=\sum_j\varphi_b(j)\), whose forbidden set is \(\mu\)-null, is among them.

What it means

A family's forbidden measure does not bound its effect on PC degree. A null set can carry a counting contradiction, and a set of small measure can empty one pigeon's row. Both examples are far from random-prefix families. Part 2's single-cell blocks are killed by random prefixes: for a block with one form \(x_{1j}\), \([Cg=0]\) is nonzero only if the column of \(C\) is 0, probability \(3^{-t}\). And part 1's constraint is a column statistic, settled by the spare-pigeon theorem when the counts agree. So random prefixes act through the structure of each block's forbidden set, a random subspace section of its pattern set, not through its size. A usable form of the bridge would have to say which structured forbidden sets survive random prefixes. That is the vacuity question the recorded arguments already answer for light and low-rank blocks. As a measure statement, this bridge gives no traction on dense blocks, and it is closed in that form. The examples do not show that dense blocks admit no mechanism.

Next. With no recorded mechanism for the dense class, take the part of A1's obligation that is within reach: part (ii) of the review, mixed families. Extend thm:random-prefix-light-families, and the logarithmic residual construction it uses, from weak PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) to weak PHP\(^{N+k}_N\) for fixed \(k\ge1\). The residual then has \(h+k\) pigeons on \(h\) holes. The imported Mikša–Nordström bound needs boundary expansion of the residual graph for pigeon sets up to size \(s\), and the random 5-regular neighbourhoods should give it with \(k\) extra pigeons at the cost of a factor in the union bound over pigeon sets. This would make prop:light-spare-composition unconditional.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the random-prefix review's bridge and next step, the column-type entry's table, and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction for the clause form. The proposition is elementary; claim searches for measure and robustness found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed both parts and the single-cell computation. It required, all adopted: the omitted pigeon's variables fixed to 0 in \(\mu\); the salvaged case cited to the spare-pigeon theorem; the inclusion of the \(\mu\)-null right-hand side shown (the nine right-hand sides are all of \(\mathbb F_3^2\)); the field of the column-type systems stated; and the bridge's closure and the next step's premise worded to what the examples show.

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The light-family theorem holds for weak PHP with any fixed number of extra pigeons, because the residual only gains \(k-1\) pigeons and every estimate has slack for them; this makes the mixed composition unconditional: light and column-statistic blocks together satisfy W_RS whenever one pigeon row is light for every light block

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-light-imbalance. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The light-family theorem holds for weak PHP with any fixed number of extra pigeons, because the residual only gains \(k-1\) pigeons and every estimate has slack for them; this makes the mixed composition unconditional: light and column-statistic blocks together satisfy W_RS whenever one pigeon row is light for every light block”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-light-imbalance.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, part (ii) of the random-prefix review's obligation, mixed families. prop:light-spare-composition was conditional on thm:random-prefix-light-families for weak PHP\(^{N+2}_N\), while the recorded theorem and the residual construction it uses assume one extra pigeon. Does the proof go through with \(k\) extra pigeons?

General statement. thm:random-prefix-light-families-imbalance, and its consequence thm:light-column-mixed-families. (1) Over \(\mathbb F_3\), fix \(K\), \(\eta>0\) and \(k\ge1\). On weak PHP\(^{N+k}_N\) (Booleanity, collisions, linear rows), take a family of \(M\le N^K\) light blocks (each union support at most \(N^{2-\eta}\) cells, with arbitrary coefficients and constants), fixed in advance. Let \(c=5\lceil(K+3)/\eta\rceil\), and let \(t\) be least with \(t\ge(K+1)\log_3N+c\log_3(h+k+2)+3\), where \(B=44t\), \(s=10(B+1)\) and \(h=\lceil2^{12}s\rceil\). Then with probability \(1-o(1)\) over independent uniform prefix matrices, the system plus the randomized-prefix clauses has no PC refutation of degree \(B\). (2) Consequently prop:light-spare-composition holds unconditionally. On weak unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\mathcal L\cup\mathcal S\) be fixed in advance, with \(\mathcal L\) light (\(|U_b|\le n^{2-\eta}\)), \(\mathcal S\) of rank at most \(\rho\le\log_3n\) modulo the column sums, and \(M\le n^K\) blocks in all. Suppose some pigeon \(s\) has \(|U_b\cap\text{row }s|\le n^{1-\eta}\) for every \(b\in\mathcal L\). Take \(t\) as in part (1) for \(N=n-2\), \(k=2\), exponent \(K+1\) and \(\eta/2\). Then with probability \(1-o(1)\), the system plus all randomized-prefix clauses has no PC refutation of degree \(44t\), which is at least W_RS's degree.

Proof of part (1)

This is the proof of thm:random-prefix-light-families, which is the proof of cor:random-prefix-sparse-column-families with its residual-column step replaced. Only the places that use the number of pigeons change.

The choice. Take a uniform set \(H\) of \(h\) holes, a uniform matching \(\rho\) of the other \(N-h\) holes into the \(N+k\) pigeons, and a left-5-regular graph \(G'\) on the unused pigeons \(R\) and \(H\), with independent uniform neighbourhoods. Now \(|R|=h+k\), and given \(H\), \(R\) is a uniform \((h+k)\)-subset of the pigeons. The restriction that sets the cells of \(\rho\) to 1, the other cells in their rows and columns to 0, and every other cell outside \(G'\) to 0, maps the system to weak graph PHP on \(G'\). Matched rows and collisions become trivial, and no row becomes empty, since every pigeon outside \(R\) is matched.

Expansion. The union bound of thm:cell-family-w's expansion lemma, with \(r=|R|\), is \(\sum_{u\le s}(9e^4ru/h^2)^u\). The recorded bound \(546s/h\) per term needs \(9e^4r\le546h\), that is \(r\le1.111h\) (\(9e^4\approx491.4\)). With \(r=h+k\) this holds once \(h\ge10k\), true for large \(N\), since \(h\) grows with \(t\). So \(|N(W)|\ge3|W|\) for all \(W\subseteq R\) with \(|W|\le s\) fails with probability at most \(1100s/h\le0.27\), as before.

Residual columns. In the lemma of the light-family entry, the only change is the probability that \(d\) given pigeons lie in \(R\): \(\binom{N+k-d}{h+k-d}/\binom{N+k}{h+k}\le((h+k)/(N+k))^d\le(2h/N)^d\) for \(k\le h\). The hole probability \((h/N)^c\), the neighbourhood probability \((5/h)^m\) and the count of witness sets over \(N\) holes per row are unchanged. So a block with \(|U_b|\le N^{2-\eta}\) has at least \(c\) residual columns with probability at most \(20^c(2hN^{-\eta})^{\lceil c/5\rceil}\), and with \(c=5\lceil(K+3)/\eta\rceil\) the union over \(M\le N^K\) blocks is \(o(1)\).

Vacuity. On \(G'\), a residual column holds one of the \(h+k\) residual pigeons or none, so a block reading at most \(c\) columns has at most \((h+k+1)^c\) patterns. It is dropped except with probability at most \((h+k+1)^c3^{-t}\), by the proof of prop:bounded-column-vacuity on the graph sub-board, as in the recorded corollary. By the choice of \(t\), \(N^K(h+k+2)^c3^{-t}\le1/(27N)\).

Combining and contradiction. The averaging over the prefix matrices is unchanged: expansion failure below 0.27, many residual columns \(o(1)\), and a block not dropped at most 0.1 for all but an \(o(1)\) fraction of the prefix matrices. A good outcome exists, and at it a refutation of degree \(B\) gives one of weak graph PHP on \(G'\), with \(h+k\) pigeons, of degree \(B\). imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, through lem:functional-residual, excludes it. The import is Mikša and Nordström's Theorem 4.9 for boundary expanders of left degree 5. As recorded, it has no restriction to one extra pigeon, and \(|N(W)|\ge3|W|\) gives \(|\partial W|\ge|W|\) as before. \(\square\)

Proof of part (2)

This is the chain of prop:light-spare-composition, now with Step 4 proved. Fix in advance two holes to be empty, and set \(o^*_j=0\) there and 1 elsewhere; this is consistent mod 3, since \(n-2\equiv n+1\). Step 1: prop:occupancy-pin-reduction applied to \(\mathcal S\) derives \(\mathcal S\)'s clauses from Booleanity and the pins (\(e=2\)) at degree at most \(\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)\le44t\), except with probability \(|\mathcal S|3^{\rho-t}\le n^K3^\rho N^{-(K+2)}=o(1)\) for \(\rho\le\log_3n\), since \(3^{-t}\le N^{-(K+2)}/27\). The light blocks' clauses ride along as extra axioms: Step 1 only derives \(\mathcal S\)'s clauses from Booleanity and the pins, and extra axioms do not affect that derivation. Step 2: lem:spare-pigeon-composition, with the given \(s\), carries a refutation of degree \(44t\) of the pinned system plus \(\mathcal L\)'s clauses to one of weak PHP of the \(n\) pigeons other than \(s\) into the \(n-2\) remaining holes, plus \(\sigma_s(\mathcal L)\)'s clauses with the same prefix matrices, at degree \(44t\). Step 3: each \(\sigma_s(b)\) has at most \(n^{2-\eta}+n\cdot n^{1-\eta}=2n^{2-\eta}\) cells. That is at most \(N^{2-\eta/2}\) with \(N=n-2\), for large \(n\). \(\sigma_s\) is determined by \(s\), which depends only on \(\mathcal L\), and by the two empty holes fixed in advance, so \(\sigma_s(\mathcal L)\) is fixed before the prefixes are drawn and does not involve \(\mathcal S\). Step 4: part (1) with \(k=2\), \(\eta/2\), and \(M\le n^K\le N^{K+1}\) excludes that refutation, except with probability \(o(1)\) over \(\mathcal L\)'s prefixes. By a union bound, the total failure probability is \(o(1)\). \(\square\)

What it means

Under random prefixes, families mixing light blocks with column statistics are settled whenever one pigeon row is light for every light block. What remains of A1 under random prefixes is the dense interaction class and the row-covering mixed families. The spare-pigeon route cannot handle the latter (composed pins).

The extension to \(k\) extra pigeons is routine. Every estimate had slack for a constant number of extra residual pigeons. The only change in the parameters is \(h+k+2\) in place of \(h+3\) in \(t\).

Next. The row-covering mixed families, in the order of the composed-pins entry's option (b): drop the light blocks on the random residual first, then pin the residual column sums. That needs hardness of onto graph PHP with counts agreeing mod 3 on the residual expander. The spare pigeon would need a residual pigeon adjacent to every residual hole. Such a pigeon can be added to \(G'\) without harming expansion, but light blocks may read its row. So the question is whether light blocks can be dropped before the spare is chosen, on a residual where the spare's row is left free. After that, a review should weigh the dense class again.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the construction and expansion lemma of thm:cell-family-w, the proof of cor:random-prefix-sparse-column-families, the light-family entry's lemma and proof, prop:light-spare-composition, lem:spare-pigeon-composition, prop:occupancy-pin-reduction and imp:MN-functional-graph-degree's assessment (no restriction to one extra pigeon). The extension to \(k\) extra pigeons modifies a recorded proof and adds no new method. A fresh-context reviewer checked every place where the number of pigeons enters (the expansion union bound, needing only \(9e^4r\le546h\); the hypergeometric bound; the residual-column count, independent of the number of rows; the pattern count and \(t\); the averaging; the restriction; the import) and found part (1) correct. It required, all adopted: constants allowed in the light blocks' forms, which part (2) needs; the pin vector fixed in advance, so that \(\sigma_s(\mathcal L)\) is fixed; the rank bound relaxed to \(\rho\le\log_3n\) with the failure bound made explicit; the light clauses' passage through the pin step justified; and the failure probabilities combined by a union bound.

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Row-covering mixed families resist every order of pinning, restriction and spare substitution: the last onto system always needs a pigeon row that no block reads, and functionality, which would make row-local blocks vacuous, makes the onto system easy

26 September 2026 · Unsuccessful attempt · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-row-covering. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Row-covering mixed families resist every order of pinning, restriction and spare substitution: the last onto system always needs a pigeon row that no block reads, and functionality, which would make row-local blocks vacuous, makes the onto system easy”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-row-covering.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, the row-covering mixed families left by thm:light-column-mixed-families. The model case, from the composed-pins entry, is the family \(\{b_0,\dots,b_n\}\cup\mathcal S\). Block \(b_i\) has \(h\) forms with nonzero coefficients on all \(n\) cells of row \(i\), and \(\mathcal S\) is one column-statistic block. Can the recorded tools, applied in some other order, settle it?

General statement. The statement tested is conj:randomized-wide-clause on this family. Neither a proof nor a counterexample was found. The recorded partial results are thm:light-column-mixed-families and lem:spare-pigeon-composition.

Orders tried

Pins first, then the spare, then the residual. This is the recorded route. It needs a spare row that is light for every light block, and each row \(i\) is full for \(b_i\).

Residual first, then pins on the residual. The random residual of the light-family theorem drops every \(b_i\), in two cases. If pigeon \(i\) is matched, the restriction makes its row constant, so \(b_i\)'s clauses become constants and are dropped trivially. If \(i\) is a residual pigeon, it has 5 cells of \(G'\), so \(b_i\) reads at most 5 residual columns, and bounded-column vacuity drops it with high probability. \(\mathcal S\) restricts to a column statistic over the residual holes \(H\). Pinning the residual column sums, with two empty residual holes to make the counts agree, drops it. What remains is onto graph PHP on \(G'\), with \(h+1\) pigeons, \(h-2\) holes and counts agreeing mod 3. Its hardness is the problem. The spare-pigeon substitution needs a residual pigeon adjacent to every residual hole. With such a pigeon \(z\) added to \(G'\), block \(b_z\) reads \(z\)'s \(h\) cells, so it is no longer dropped by the column count.

Spare rounds on the residual. Substituting \(z\) turns \(b_z\) into a residual column statistic, which a second pin drops. But the second pin produces another onto system on the residual, which needs another full spare \(z'\), whose block \(b_{z'}\) reads its row. The last onto system in any finite sequence of rounds needs a full spare whose block has not been dropped. In the row family every pigeon has such a block.

Functionality. lem:functional-residual lets the final system add the functionality axioms. With them, a block whose forms read one pigeon's cells has at most \(h+1\) zero patterns on the residual, one per hole or none, so \(b_z\) would be dropped by the pattern count. But functionality and the onto columns together are Beame and Riis's easy system. By prop:onto-triple-count, with row exclusions the triple count derives \(\binom N3-\binom m3=0\), and for \(m=N+3\), \(\binom{N+3}3-\binom N3\equiv1\pmod3\) for every \(N\). So the system is refuted at degree 3 although its counts agree mod 3. The triple-count entry notes that the same count works on any graph, as long as every hole keeps its onto axiom. Without functionality the same counts give a hard system, by thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness. So functionality can be added only after the onto columns are removed, and removing them is exactly what needs the spare.

Mikša and Nordström's onto PHP. Their Theorem 4.5 (arXiv:1505.01358) bounds the degree of onto graph PHP on boundary expanders, with pigeon clauses and without functionality. The residual's rows are linear mod 3, which imply the clauses but are not implied by them. So a refutation of the residual system is not one of theirs. The recorded transfer from clauses to linear rows (imp:MN-functional-graph-degree) derives the linear row from the clause using functionality, which is not available here. So the theorem does not transfer. As recorded in the occupancy-pinning entry, their construction fails for mod-3 rows.

What it means

The obstruction is one fact: every proof of hardness in this record for an onto system with counts agreeing mod 3 passes through a pigeon adjacent to every hole, and families whose blocks read every row fully can always keep that pigeon's row non-vacuous. A proof for the row-covering case needs either a hardness proof for onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on an expander that uses no full pigeon, or a way to drop single-row blocks without functionality. The first is a clean open question independent of W. Heuristically the row family is harmless. A back-of-envelope bound with the conjecture's \(t\approx(K+1)\log_3n\), not the larger \(t\) of the light-family construction: a pigeon holding one hole has at most \(n\) zero patterns, and the expected number in \(\ker C_i\setminus0\) is at most \(n3^{-t}\le n^{-K}\), so random prefixes almost never forbid functional placements. But PC designs for weak PHP also give weight to non-functional placements, whose patterns are many.

Next. A route review. It should weigh the dense interaction class, the core of A1, against the two open questions this cycle isolated: hardness of onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows and counts agreeing mod 3 on a bounded-degree expander without a full pigeon, and dropping single-row blocks without functionality. The first is a self-contained PC question, and it may be the most tractable open item on the route.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:light-column-mixed-families, lem:spare-pigeon-composition, prop:onto-triple-count and the triple-count entry's graph remark, lem:functional-residual, and Mikša and Nordström's Theorem 4.5 from a private extract. A fresh-context reviewer checked the attempts. Its objection that the functional onto system with gap 3 cannot be easy was checked against prop:onto-triple-count, whose part 2 refutes it at degree 3 for every \(N\); the text now states the mechanism. It also required, all adopted: the triple count and the graph version cited exactly; the reason Theorem 4.5 does not transfer made explicit (the recorded transfer needs functionality); the claim about proofs scoped to this record; the two cases of the residual drop separated; and the heuristic marked as using the conjecture's \(t\).

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Route review: every family of light and column-statistic blocks reduces, by restricting first and pinning on the residual, to one block-free question, the hardness of onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on a bounded-degree two-sided expander; the recorded residual graph lacks hole-side expansion

26 September 2026 · Route review with pen tests · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-onto-graph-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: every family of light and column-statistic blocks reduces, by restricting first and pinning on the residual, to one block-free question, the hardness of onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on a bounded-degree two-sided expander; the recorded residual graph lacks hole-side expansion”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-onto-graph-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. Since the random-prefix review, three research entries: forbidden measure does not control degree (small measure); the light-family theorem holds with extra pigeons, settling mixed families with a light spare row (light imbalance); and row-covering mixed families resist the recorded orders (row covering). What is the right target now?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS). Settled under random prefixes, for families fixed in advance: light families, column-statistic families, pinned low rank, and light plus column-statistic families with a light spare row (thm:light-column-mixed-families). Open: the dense interaction class, and mixed families without a light spare row.

What the goal needs

W_RS for every family, so both open parts. The row-covering entry named the first isolated question. Reading its "residual first" order again, that question already covers every mixed family, not only the row-covering ones.

The reduction. Take a family of light blocks and blocks of rank \(r_b\) modulo the column sums, with \(\sum_b3^{r_b-t}=o(1)\). Take the random residual of the light-family theorem, with one change: choose a set \(E\) of two residual holes as a function of \(H\) alone, and draw \(G'\) on \(R\times(H\setminus E)\). Then the columns of \(E\) are zero after the restriction, and every residual pigeon keeps left degree 5. With high probability every light block reads at most \(c\) residual columns and is dropped by vacuity. A column-statistic block restricts to forms in the span of the residual column sums plus \(r_b\) further forms. The occupancy pin reduction pins the residual column sums to 0 on \(E\) (trivially true there) and to 1 on \(H\setminus E\), and drops those blocks with high probability. Its proof uses only the division by the pins, Booleanity and the pattern count. \(E\) and \(G'\) are independent of the prefix matrices, so the pin reduction applies conditionally on the residual. The three failure events (expansion, light blocks not dropped, the pin step) combine by the recorded averaging over the prefix matrices, with total below 1. What is left is onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on \(G'\): \(h+1\) pigeons, \(h-2\) holes, counts agreeing mod 3, and no blocks. Call its hardness at degree \(B\) question Q. So Q for the residual graphs would settle every light plus column-statistic family, with no spare row needed.

Falsification attempt

Is Q true for the recorded residual graphs? In \(G'\) each of the \(h+1\) residual pigeons picks 5 of the residual holes, so a hole has no neighbour with probability about \((1-5/h)^{h+1}\to e^{-5}\approx0.0067\). The computed values are 0.0056 at \(h=100\) and 0.0067 at \(h=10^4\), about 67 isolated holes. An isolated hole's onto axiom is the constant \(-1\), a refutation of degree 0. Isolated holes alone do not break the reduction, since the pin vector may depend on \(G'\): isolated holes can be emptied, keeping the number of empty holes \(\equiv2\pmod3\). Small hole sets with few neighbours are the next question. For example, two holes whose only neighbour is the same pigeon occur about \(10e^{-10}(h+1)\) times in expectation, which tends to infinity since \(h\approx1.8\cdot10^6t\). In the non-functional system this alone is not a refutation: that pigeon may hold both holes and two more, keeping its row \(\equiv1\). But it shows that the recorded residual graph has no hole-side expansion, and any hardness proof for Q that does not use a full pigeon will likely need some. So Q is stated below for two-sided expanders, and the reduction needs a residual graph whose hole side also expands. Whether hole-side expansion is necessary is open. The natural candidate is a random biregular graph, with left degree 5 and hole degrees 5 or 6. Its left expansion must be re-proved, and the light blocks' column count must be redone for it. The residual-column lemma uses independence of the pigeons' neighbourhoods, which a biregular model loses. That is where the reduction can still fail.

Assessment of the line

The mixed case has turned from a composition problem into a clean PC question about one system, Q on a two-sided expander, plus a re-proof of the residual lemmas for a biregular model. That is progress in the sense of isolation: Q mentions no blocks and no prefixes. Its difficulty is real. Every hardness proof for onto systems with congruent counts in this record uses a full spare pigeon, and Mikša and Nordström's onto theorem needs pigeon clauses. The dense class is untouched and remains the harder part of A1.

Outside leads

Mikša and Nordström, Theorem 4.5 (arXiv:1505.01358): onto graph PHP is hard on boundary expanders, with pigeon clauses and without functionality. Target: Q. Where it breaks: Q's rows are linear mod 3, which a single hole's variables cannot satisfy, so the rows are not respectful. Test. Falsified, as recorded in the occupancy-pinning entry and the row-covering entry.
Buss, Grigoriev, Impagliazzo and Pitassi's Tseitin mod \(q\) over \(\mathbb F_p\) (J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 62, 2001). Target: Q, whose rows and columns are \(\mathbb F_3\)-linear, a Tseitin-like system on the bipartite graph. Where it breaks: over \(\mathbb F_3\) a mod-3 linear system is decided by Gaussian elimination, so hardness must come from Booleanity and collisions, which Tseitin does not have. Test. Falsified as a direct route. The rows minus the columns sum to \(m-N\equiv0\), so the linear part is consistent over \(\mathbb F_3\), and Gaussian elimination alone does not refute Q.
Bollobás's configuration model and Friedman's theorem on random regular graphs, for the biregular residual. Target: the re-proof of the residual lemmas. A random biregular graph is a uniformly random pairing of degree slots, and expansion of small sets follows by the same union bound with slot counts. Where it breaks: the residual-column lemma needs, for a block, the probability that given pigeons have neighbours in given holes, and pairings are only negatively correlated, not independent. Test. Passed for left expansion only. In the pairing model, the probability that \(u\) pigeons' \(5u\) slots all land among \(3u\) given holes, each of degree at most 6, is at most \(\binom{18u}{5u}/\binom{5\cdot(h+1)}{5u}\le(18u/(5h))^{5u}\). That is of the same order as the independent bound \((3u/h)^{5u}\), so the union bound goes through with a larger constant. The simple biregular graph is the pairing conditioned on being simple, an event of probability bounded below by a constant at bounded degrees, which costs a constant factor. Hole-side expansion and the column lemma were not checked.

Absurd bridges

Electrical networks: the choice of ground. Translation: rows and onto columns are current-conservation laws at pigeons and holes. Their single global dependency, rows minus columns equal to \(m-N\equiv0\), is Kirchhoff's redundancy, and the spare pigeon looks like a ground node. In circuit theory any node can be ground. What it would give: a spare substitution at a pigeon that is not adjacent to every hole, which would prove Q. Smallest test: what grounding at an arbitrary pigeon \(z\) buys. Test. Falsified. Grounding, dropping one redundant equation, is already free at any node at degree 1, since rows minus columns is a linear identity, so it buys nothing. What the spare pigeon does is remove every onto axiom. At a pigeon \(z\) with neighbourhood \(N(z)\), the substitution \(x_{zv}\mapsto1-C'_v\), with \(C'_v\) the column sum without \(z\), removes only the onto axioms of \(N(z)\). Each image is Boolean modulo the collisions of column \(v\), but \(z\)'s row becomes \(\sum_{v\in N(z)}(1-C'_v)=1\), which is not implied unless \(N(z)\) is every hole.
Low-density parity-check codes over \(\mathbb F_3\). Translation: the edges of the residual graph are code symbols, and rows and onto columns are ternary parity checks at the vertices. Q's \(\mathbb F_3\)-solutions of the linear part form a coset of this code. Q has no Boolean collision-free solutions at all. What a theorem there would give: rigidity of the solution coset, which low-degree pseudo-solutions might violate. Smallest test: whether the code is nontrivial, and its distance. Test. Passed for nontriviality only. The code has \(|E|=5m\) symbols and \(m+N\) checks with one dependency, so its dimension is at least \(4m-N+1>0\), with equality when the graph is connected. It is the cycle code of the graph: an alternating \(\pm1\) cycle is a codeword, so its minimum distance is the girth, \(O(\log N)\), not linear. Sipser and Spielman's linear distance needs symbols on vertices or good constituent codes. So the bridge gives no rigidity in this form.

Bridge follow-up

Coding theory: random linear codes meeting a fixed set. The small-measure entry tested it as a robustness statement: forbidden measure does not control PC degree, under both natural distributions. Follow-up. Closed: the measure form fails, and a structured form reduces to the recorded vacuity question.

Lead follow-up

No passed outside lead from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, through question Q. First make Q precise. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), take a bipartite graph with left degree 5 and hole degrees in \(\{5,6\}\), with \(m\equiv N\pmod3\) and \(m>N\). Assume the pigeon side is an \((s,\delta)\)-boundary expander as in imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, and the hole side satisfies \(|N(T)|\ge(1+\delta)|T|\) for \(|T|\le s\). Q asks that onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on it have no PC refutation of degree \(\delta s/10\). The smallest nonvacuous size: \(m-N\ge3\) and \(5m\le6N\) force \(N\ge15\) and \(m\ge18\), with every hole of degree 6 and 90 variables. At that size expansion is nearly vacuous, so small runs show only a degree trend. Test Q there against weak graph PHP on the same graphs, with the Nullstellensatz kernel given a graph mask, on biregular graphs with a symmetry group of order prime to 3 and no full pigeon. The onto functional variant is the control. It is refuted at degree 3 on any graph where every hole keeps its onto axiom, by the triple count's graph version (triple count), since \(\binom{m}3-\binom{m-3}3\equiv1\pmod3\). The kernel measures Nullstellensatz degree, which is at least the PC degree. A low onto degree falsifies Q; onto degrees that track the weak ones support only Q's Nullstellensatz form.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the light-family theorem's residual construction, prop:occupancy-pin-reduction's proof, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree and the triple-count entry's graph remark. The isolated-hole rates were computed by a one-line script. A fresh-context reviewer required, all adopted: the rank renamed \(r_b\) with its failure bound; the empty holes chosen from \(H\) before drawing \(G'\), keeping left degree 5, with independence from the prefixes and the combination of failure events stated; the isolated-hole refutation corrected to degree 0 and shown avoidable by pinning; the hole-side obstruction stated with its expected count, here noted as not a refutation by itself; the configuration-model lead limited to left expansion, with the simple-graph conditioning; the parity-check bridge corrected (cycle code, distance equal to the girth); the grounding bridge's test replaced by the right argument; Q's expansion hypotheses and degree made quantitative, with the smallest nonvacuous size; the control's easiness sourced to the triple count's graph version; and the Nullstellensatz-only scope of the planned test stated.

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Mixed families reduce to one conjecture about the random residual: onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows, after emptying holes chosen from the graph, is hard; it is refuted at degree 1 exactly when a component of the graph is unbalanced mod 3, which emptying holes can always repair, and small exact tests cannot decide it

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a reduction, and a conjecture · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-onto-graph-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Mixed families reduce to one conjecture about the random residual: onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows, after emptying holes chosen from the graph, is hard; it is refuted at degree 1 exactly when a component of the graph is unbalanced mod 3, which emptying holes can always repair, and small exact tests cannot decide it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-onto-graph-test.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, mixed families, through question Q of the onto-graph review. The review proposed testing Q at small sizes and then registering it. Can a small test decide anything, and what exactly must Q say for the reduction?

General statement. prop:mixed-families-from-onto-residual and conj:onto-residual-hardness. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), use the residual construction of thm:random-prefix-light-families on weak unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\), with parameters \(t,B,s,h\) as there: matching \(\rho\), residual pigeons \(R\) (\(|R|=h+1\)), residual holes \(H\), and the left-5-regular graph \(G'\subseteq R\times H\). For a set \(E\subseteq H\), let \(\mathcal Q(G',E)\) be onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on \(G'\) minus the holes of \(E\): Booleanity, collisions, rows \(\sum_{u}x_{iu}=1\) over the remaining neighbours of each pigeon of \(R\), and onto columns \(\sum_ix_{iu}=1\) for \(u\in H\setminus E\). Call \(E\) balanced if every connected component of \(G'-E\) has as many pigeons as holes modulo 3. Then \(|E|\equiv2\pmod3\) follows by summing over components.

Conjecture (conj:onto-residual-hardness). With probability at least \(1/2\) over \((H,\rho,G')\), some balanced \(E\) makes \(\mathcal Q(G',E)\) have no PC refutation of degree \(B\).

Reduction (prop:mixed-families-from-onto-residual). Assume the conjecture. Let a family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks be fixed in advance, each block either light (union support at most \(n^{2-\eta}\) cells) or of rank \(r_b\) modulo the column sums, with \(\sum_b3^{r_b-t}=o(1)\). Then with probability \(1-o(1)\) over the prefix matrices, weak unary PHP plus all randomized-prefix clauses has no PC refutation of degree \(B\). No light spare row is needed.

Proof of the reduction

Fix the prefix matrices. For an outcome \((H,\rho,G')\), consider the events: (a) some light block has at least \(c\) residual columns; (b) some light block with fewer than \(c\) residual columns is not dropped by bounded-column vacuity on \(G'\); (c) the conjecture's event fails; (d) for \(E(\text{outcome})\), the lexicographically first balanced \(E\) the conjecture allows, or a fixed default when (c) fails, some column-statistic block is not dropped by the pin reduction on the residual. Event (a) has probability \(o(1)\), by the residual-column lemma. For (b) and (d), their probabilities, averaged over the prefix matrices, are at most \(M(h+3)^c3^{-t}\le1/(27n)\) and \(\sum_b3^{r_b-t}=o(1)\). The second holds because, given the outcome, a column-statistic block's restricted forms lie in the span of the residual column sums and \(r_b\) further forms, and the pin vector \(o^*\), 1 on the holes outside \(H\), 0 on \(E\) and 1 on \(H\setminus E\), depends on the outcome only. By Fubini and the independence of prefixes and outcome, \(\mathbb E_{\text{prefix}}\Pr_{\text{outcome}}[(d)]=\mathbb E_{\text{outcome}}\Pr_{\text{prefix}}[(d)\mid\text{outcome}]\le\sum_b3^{r_b-t}\). The pin reduction's proof, the division by the pins, Booleanity and the pattern count, applies on the graph residual. By Markov, for all but an \(o(1)\) fraction of prefix matrices, (b) and (d) have probability at most 0.1 each over the outcome. Then (a), (b), (c) and (d) together have probability at most \(o(1)+0.1+1/2+0.1<1\), and a good outcome exists. Expansion of \(G'\) is no longer used: the conjecture replaces the Mikša–Nordström step.

At a good outcome, restrict a refutation of degree \(B\) by the residual restriction, which does not increase degree. Derive the dropped light clauses from Booleanity and collisions on \(G'\), and the dropped column-statistic clauses from Booleanity and the pins, all at degree at most \(4t+2\le B\). In PC, replacing axioms by their derivations of degree at most \(B\) gives a refutation of degree \(B\); this composition does not hold for Nullstellensatz. Then restrict \(x_{iu}=0\) for \(u\in E\), which turns the pins \(C_u=0\) into \(0=0\). What remains is a refutation of \(\mathcal Q(G',E)\) of degree \(B\), which the conjecture excludes. \(\square\)

Why \(E\) must depend on the graph

The degree-1 criterion. \(\mathcal Q(G',E)\) has a refutation of degree 1 if and only if some connected component of \(G'-E\) is unbalanced. A degree-1 refutation is a linear combination of the rows and onto columns, since Booleanity and collision axioms have degree 2 and any nonzero multiple of them already has degree at least 2. A combination \(\sum_i\alpha_i(r_i-1)+\sum_u\beta_u(c_u-1)\) has zero linear part exactly when \(\alpha_i+\beta_u=0\) on every edge, so \(\alpha\) is constant and \(\beta=-\alpha\) on each component. Its constant is then \(\alpha\) times the number of holes minus the number of pigeons of that component.

Trees are always unbalanced. This concerns components of \(G'\) itself, before any hole is emptied. A tree component with \(p\) pigeons of degree 5 has \(5p\) edges and \(4p+1\) holes, and \(p\equiv4p+1\) is impossible mod 3. An isolated hole is the extreme case: its onto axiom is the constant \(-1\), a refutation of degree 0. Isolated holes (\(p=0\)) and a pigeon whose five holes are private to it (\(p=1\)) are the smallest cases. Unicyclic components, with \(p\) pigeons and \(4p\) holes, are balanced. Isolated holes number about \(e^{-5}h\to\infty\), so the review's version, with two holes chosen from \(H\) alone, fails with probability \(1-o(1)\).

Choosing \(E\). In each tree component empty one hole of degree at most 1. One exists, since the hole degrees sum to \(5p<2(4p+1)\). Emptying it leaves \(p\) pigeons and \(4p\) holes, balanced by counting alone since \(4p\equiv p\), and a hole of degree at most 1 does not split the tree. Then balance the giant component by emptying one or two of its holes of degree 1, which do not split it. With high probability there are about \(5e^{-5}h\) such holes. Emptying an arbitrary hole can split a component into unbalanced pieces, so the choice matters. \(E\) is not small: it contains one hole per tree component, \(\Theta(h)\) holes in all. These removals concern only small components and leave the giant intact apart from one or two holes.

Small components are satisfiable. Components other than the giant have \(O(\log h)\) vertices with high probability, and small components with more than one cycle occur with probability \(o(1)\); both are the standard picture for sparse random graphs, used here without proof. Such components and an unsatisfiable one would give a refutation of degree \(O(\log h)\), far below \(B\). This does not happen. The constructions use the mod-3 semantics: a pigeon may hold any number of holes \(\equiv1\pmod3\), and each remaining hole is held exactly once. A tree minus one leaf hole is satisfiable: root it at the pigeon that lost the hole; every other pigeon drops its parent hole and takes its other four holes, and the root takes its four. Every hole is then held exactly once, by its parent pigeon, and every pigeon holds four holes, \(\equiv1\). A unicyclic component is satisfiable: orient the cycle, let each pigeon on it drop its successor hole, and treat the trees hanging off the cycle as before. So a refutation must use the giant component. In the giant, holes of degree 0 or 1 in the neighbourhood of small pigeon sets are a constant fraction, so hole-side expansion fails there too, and any hardness method must tolerate forced cells.

Why a small test decides nothing

The conjecture's regime has \(h\ge2^{12}s\), so the degree \(B\) is about \(2.4\times10^{-5}h\). An exact test would need a graph where weak graph PHP survives degree 4, so that a lower onto degree would show. On the complete \(8\times5\) board weak PHP first falls at degree 4 (onto board check), and sparse graphs fall lower. Upper bounds on the number of monomials of degree at most \(d\) on \(|E|\) edges, \(\sum_{k\le d}\binom{|E|}k\), are 101584 for 27 edges at \(d=5\) (9 pigeons of degree 3 on 6 holes), 1385980 for 45 edges at \(d=5\), and 2676766 for 90 edges at \(d=4\) (18 pigeons of degree 5 on 15 holes of degree 6, the smallest biregular size). With a symmetry group of order 5 or 8, the dense eliminations of the orbit kernel would need \(10^5\) to \(5\times10^5\) columns, about \(10^{10}\) matrix entries or more, above the 10 GB limit. And at \(h\approx17\) and degree 4 or 5 the ratio of degree to \(h\) is about 0.25, where even weak PHP is refuted, so every outcome would be compatible with the conjecture. No run was made.

What it means

The mixed case is now one conjecture about a single random system with no blocks and no prefixes. It would hold for a modified residual in which one pigeon \(z\in R\) is adjacent to every residual hole, keeping the count \(h+1\). Then the graph is connected, \(E\) needs two holes, and choosing them among the holes isolated in \(G'-z\) keeps the boundary expansion of \(G'-z\). The spare substitution at \(z\) (the argument of thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness, valid on graphs) gives weak graph PHP on \(G'-z-E\), and lem:functional-residual with imp:MN-functional-graph-degree gives degree above \(s/10=B+1\). But \(G'\) has no such pigeon, and adding one lets light blocks read its row (row covering). Proving it needs a hardness method for onto systems with congruent counts that uses no full pigeon. None is recorded. The dense interaction class remains open and untouched.

Next. Search the literature for PC or Nullstellensatz lower bounds on graph onto-PHP, or on perfect-matching principles of bipartite graphs, with counting constraints modulo the characteristic: Austrin and Risse's perfect-matching bounds (arXiv:2201.10835) and the work citing them. The question is whether a hardness proof exists that needs no full pigeon. If none is found, the next review should weigh the conjecture against the dense class and decide where the route goes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the light-family theorem's residual construction and proof, prop:occupancy-pin-reduction's proof, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, lem:functional-residual, the onto board check's degrees and the onto-graph review. The monomial counts were computed by a one-line script. A fresh-context reviewer found the reduction's probability accounting sound. It required, all adopted: the pin vector defined on all holes and \(E\) defined for every outcome, with the Fubini step; the PC composition at degree \(B\) named, and \(E\) removed by restriction; the two examples replaced by the exact degree-1 criterion by components; the choice of \(E\) and the satisfiability of small components argued; the full-pigeon remark made precise; and the rule-1 analysis quantified. These corrections strengthened the claims, so a second, focused pass checked the component section. It required, all adopted: the size of \(E\), \(\Theta(h)\), stated; the exclusion of degree-2 axioms from degree-1 refutations justified; the timing of the tree count and the pure counting of the balance made explicit; the mod-3 semantics of the constructions stated first; and the degree-0 case of isolated holes separated.

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The carry chain: a path of bounded-degree pigeons, passing a running sum mod 3 through pairs of auxiliary holes, does the job of the full spare pigeon, so onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on the chain extension of a bounded-degree graph is at least half as hard, in degree, as weak graph PHP on the graph

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem, with a semantic check · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-onto-graph-literature. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The carry chain: a path of bounded-degree pigeons, passing a running sum mod 3 through pairs of auxiliary holes, does the job of the full spare pigeon, so onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on the chain extension of a bounded-degree graph is at least half as hard, in degree, as weak graph PHP on the graph”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-carry-chain.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, through conj:onto-residual-hardness (onto-graph test). Every recorded hardness proof for onto systems with counts agreeing mod 3 uses a pigeon adjacent to every hole, and light blocks can read that pigeon's row. Is there a hardness method without a full pigeon? The cycle began as a literature search and ended with a construction.

General statement. lem:carry-chain-spare and cor:carry-chain-onto-hardness. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(G\) be any bipartite graph on pigeons \(R\) and holes \(H\), and let \(H=U_1\sqcup\dots\sqcup U_q\), \(q\ge1\). The chain graph \(G^+\) adds pigeons \(z_1,\dots,z_q\) and auxiliary holes \(a_k,a'_k\) for \(k<q\), with edges \(z_k\)–\(u\) for \(u\in U_k\), and \(z_k\)–\(a_k,a'_k\) and \(z_{k+1}\)–\(a_k,a'_k\). Let \(\mathcal T\) be onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on \(G^+\): Booleanity, collisions at every hole, rows \(\sum x=1\) and onto columns \(\sum x=1\). Let \(\mathcal S\) be weak graph PHP on \(G\): Booleanity, collisions and rows. If \(|R|+q\equiv|H|+2(q-1)\pmod3\), the counts of \(\mathcal T\) agreeing, then a PC refutation of \(\mathcal T\) of degree \(D\) gives one of \(\mathcal S\) of degree at most \(\max(2D,4)\). For \(q=1\) this is the spare-pigeon substitution, with degree \(\max(D,2)\). Corollary: if \(G\) is an \((s,\delta)\)-boundary expander of left degree \(d\) as in imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, with \(\delta s/(2d)\ge d\), then \(\mathcal T\) has no PC refutation of degree at most \(\delta s/(4d)-1\). Every pigeon of \(G^+\) outside \(R\) has degree at most \(|U_k|+4\).

Literature

The searches found PC lower bounds for perfect matching on graphs with an odd number of vertices over characteristic other than 2: Austrin and Risse (arXiv:2201.10835), including degree-constrained variants, and a follow-up for regular graphs with a spectral gap (SIAM J. Discrete Math., 2025). These have exact constraints at every vertex. Their bipartite analogues with counts differing by 3 in characteristic 3 are functional, and the triple count refutes them at degree 3 (prop:onto-triple-count). No result was found for onto graph PHP with rows only mod \(p\).

The substitution

Write \(C_u=\sum_{i\in R}y_{iu}\) for the column sums of \(\mathcal S\), \(S_k=\sum_{u\in U_k}C_u\), and define linear forms \[L_0=2,\qquad L_k=L_{k-1}+S_k-|U_k|-1\quad(1\le k<q).\] Over \(\mathbb F_3\), put \(\iota_1(L)=L^2\) and \(\iota_2(L)=2L(L-1)\). At \(L\in\{0,1,2\}\) these are the indicators \([L\ne0]\) and \([L=2]\), and as polynomials \[\iota_1(L)+\iota_2(L)=3L^2-2L=L .\] The substitution \(\sigma\) is: \(x_{iu}\mapsto y_{iu}\) for \(i\in R\); \(x_{z_ku}\mapsto1-C_u\) for \(u\in U_k\); \(x_{z_ka_k}\mapsto\iota_1(L_k)\) and \(x_{z_ka'_k}\mapsto\iota_2(L_k)\); \(x_{z_{k+1}a_k}\mapsto1-\iota_1(L_k)\) and \(x_{z_{k+1}a'_k}\mapsto1-\iota_2(L_k)\). So the pair of auxiliary holes carries the value \(L_k\in\{0,1,2\}\) from \(z_k\) to \(z_{k+1}\).

Proof of the lemma

Each axiom of \(\mathcal T\) maps into the ideal of \(\mathcal S\), with a derivation of degree at most 4.

Axioms involving only pigeons of \(R\) map to the same axioms of \(\mathcal S\).
At a real hole \(u\in U_k\): the onto column maps to \(C_u+(1-C_u)-1=0\). Booleanity of \(x_{z_ku}\) maps to \(C_u^2-C_u\), and the collision with \(i\in R\) to \((1-C_u)y_{iu}\). Both are combinations of Booleanity and collisions at degree 2, as in thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness.
For a linear form \(L=c+\sum a_ey_e\) with \(c,a_e\in\mathbb F_3\), Frobenius gives \(L^3=c^3+\sum a_e^3y_e^3=c+\sum a_ey_e^3\), since \(c^3=c\) and \(a_e^3=a_e\). So \(L^3-L=\sum_ea_e(y_e^3-y_e)\), and each \(y^3-y=(y+1)(y^2-y)\) is derived from Booleanity at degree 3. Booleanity of \(\iota_1\): \(L^4-L^2=L(L^3-L)\), degree 4. Booleanity of \(\iota_2\): \(\iota_2^2-\iota_2=L^4+L^3+L^2-(2L^2+L)=L(L^3-L)+(L^3-L)\), degree 4. Booleanity of \(1-\iota\) is the same polynomial.
At an auxiliary hole: the onto column maps to \(\iota+(1-\iota)-1=0\), and the collision to \(\iota(1-\iota)=-(\iota^2-\iota)\), degree 4.
Row of \(z_k\), \(1\le k<q\): by the identity \(\iota_1+\iota_2=L\), the image is \(\sum_{u\in U_k}(1-C_u)+(2-L_{k-1})+L_k-1=|U_k|-S_k+1-L_{k-1}+L_k\). This is 0 by the definition of \(L_k\), and for \(k=1\) with \(L_0=2\) it matches, since \(z_1\) has no incoming holes and \(2-L_0=0\).
Row of \(z_q\): the image is \(|U_q|-S_q+(2-L_{q-1})-1\). Unrolling \(L_{q-1}=2+\sum_{k<q}(S_k-|U_k|-1)\) gives \(|H|-\sum_kS_k+(q-1)-1\), for \(q\ge2\); for \(q=1\) the image is \(|H|-S_1-1\), the same expression. Now \(\sum_kS_k=\sum_uC_u=\sum_{i\in R}\rho_i\), with \(\rho_i\) the row sums of \(\mathcal S\). So the image is \(-\sum_{i\in R}(\rho_i-1)+\bigl(|H|+q-2-|R|\bigr)\), a combination of rows plus a constant that vanishes exactly under the count condition.

Now apply \(\sigma\) to a refutation of \(\mathcal T\) line by line. Linear combinations stay valid. A multiplication by a variable whose image has degree at most 2 becomes, for each monomial of that image, at most two multiplications by variables of \(\mathcal S\), followed by a linear combination, adding at most 2 to the degree. Since \(\sigma\) at most doubles degrees, a line of degree \(e\) maps to degree at most \(2e\). Axiom lines are replaced by their derivations of degree at most 4, and the last line stays 1. \(\square\)

Corollary. A refutation of \(\mathcal T\) of degree \(D\le\delta s/(4d)-1\) would give one of \(\mathcal S\) of degree at most \(\max(2D,4)\). Any refutation has \(D\ge1\), and then \(\delta s/(4d)\ge2\), so \(\max(2D,4)\le\delta s/(2d)\). A refutation of \(\mathcal S\) is also one of \(\mathcal S\) plus the functionality axioms, which imp:MN-functional-graph-degree forbids at degree at most \(\delta s/(2d)\). The transfer to linear rows needs \(\delta s/(2d)\ge d\), since the rows are derived from the clause and functionality at degree \(d\). \(\square\)

Semantic check

carry_check.py (research/results/odd_prime_carry_chain_20260926/, output carry_check_output.txt) enumerates small graphs. For every Boolean, collision-free assignment of \(\mathcal S\) with rows \(\equiv1\), it computes the image under \(\sigma\) and checks every axiom of \(\mathcal T\) exactly, as integers where it matters. In five instances satisfying the count condition, all 3, 4, 4, 25 and 5 source solutions map to target solutions. The instances are \(|R|,|H|,q=2,5,2\); \(3,4,4\); \(3,4,1\); \(4,6,3\) twice. In two controls violating it, none of 3 and 28 do. The script does not record which axiom fails; by the proof only the row of \(z_q\) can. This checks the formulas, not the degree bounds.

What it means

The full spare pigeon was an artifact. A chain of pigeons of degree \(|U_k|+4\), with parts of bounded size, removes the onto columns at a factor 2 in degree. On chain extensions, the Mikša–Nordström bound for weak graph PHP then applies. So hardness of onto systems with congruent counts on graphs of the form \(G^+\) reduces to weak graph PHP on \(G\). This is what conj:onto-residual-hardness needed in spirit. The conjecture itself concerns the plain residual \(G'\), which has no chain. The reduction of mixed families can instead choose a residual that contains one.

Next. Build the chain into the residual. Split the residual pigeons into \(R\) and \(q\approx h/5\) chain pigeons, and the residual holes into \(H\) and \(2(q-1)\) auxiliary holes plus two emptied holes. Draw \(G'\) on \(R\times H\), a uniformly random partition of \(H\) into parts of size 3, and the chain. Then redo the residual-column lemma for chain pigeons: each has 7 residual cells at random holes, and the parts form a partition, so the pigeons' neighbourhoods are negatively correlated rather than independent. Redo the expansion estimate for \(|R|\approx0.8h\) pigeons on \(|H|\approx0.6h\) holes, with \(s\) doubled for the factor 2. If both go through, prop:mixed-families-from-onto-residual holds unconditionally with this residual, and every light plus column-statistic family satisfies W_RS.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness's proof, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree's statement and transfer, lem:functional-residual and prop:onto-triple-count. Claim searches for chain, carry and spare-pigeon gadgets found none. A fresh-context reviewer checked every axiom image by hand (Booleanity and collisions at real and auxiliary holes, onto columns, the rows of \(z_1\), middle \(z_k\) and \(z_q\) for \(q=1\) and \(q\ge2\), the identity \(\iota_1+\iota_2=L\), the Booleanity of \(\iota_2\)) and found them correct, with no unused hypothesis. It required, all adopted: the Frobenius step written with coefficients in \(\mathbb F_3\); the degree letter renamed and the multiplication step spelled out; the hypothesis \(\delta s/(2d)\ge d\) added to the corollary, with the \(\max(2D,4)\) step argued and the functionality step stated directly; the pigeon degrees corrected to at most \(|U_k|+4\); the title and conclusions limited to chain extensions; and the semantic check's description corrected. The script's first comment line was corrected after the run ("pointwise" for "symbolic"); nothing else in it changed.

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Individually measured computation	0.33 s
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With a carry chain built into the residual, every family of light and column-statistic blocks satisfies W_RS under random prefixes, with no spare-row hypothesis and no conjecture

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-chain-residual. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “With a carry chain built into the residual, every family of light and column-statistic blocks satisfies W_RS under random prefixes, with no spare-row hypothesis and no conjecture”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-chain-residual.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, mixed families. prop:mixed-families-from-onto-residual reduced them to conj:onto-residual-hardness, about the plain residual. The carry chain proves the analogous statement for residuals that contain a chain. Can the residual be chosen with a chain, keeping the light-family lemmas?

General statement. thm:light-column-families-random-prefix. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), fix \(K\) and \(\eta>0\). Let a family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks on weak unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) be fixed in advance. Each block is light, with union support at most \(n^{2-\eta}\) cells and arbitrary coefficients and constants, or of rank \(r_b\) modulo the column sums, with \(\sum_b3^{r_b-t}=o(1)\). Let \(c=7\lceil(K+3)/\eta\rceil\), and let \(t\) be least with \(t\ge(K+1)\log_3n+c\log_3(h+3)+3\), where \(B=44t\), \(s=20(B+2)\) and \(h=5\lceil2^{13}s/5\rceil\). Then with probability \(1-o(1)\) over independent uniform prefix matrices, weak unary PHP plus all randomized-prefix clauses has no PC refutation of degree \(B\). Since \(\delta\le4t-2\), \(B\) is at least W_RS's degree, so W_RS holds for all such families. This extends thm:light-column-mixed-families to all such families, with a larger \(O(\log\log n)\) term in \(t\). At these parameters it gives the conclusion of prop:mixed-families-from-onto-residual without its conjecture. conj:onto-residual-hardness itself, about the plain residual, stays open: it is bypassed, not proved.

The chain residual

Let \(q=h/5\). Draw independently of the prefix matrices:

a uniform set \(H^\circ\) of \(h\) holes and a uniform matching \(\rho\) of the other holes to pigeons, leaving \(h+1\) residual pigeons \(R^\circ\);
a uniform set \(Z\subseteq R^\circ\) of \(q\) chain pigeons in uniform order \(z_1,\dots,z_q\), and \(R=R^\circ\setminus Z\), so \(|R|=0.8h+1\);
a uniform set \(A\subseteq H^\circ\) of \(2(q-1)\) auxiliary holes, split uniformly into ordered pairs \((a_k,a'_k)\), \(k<q\); a uniform set \(E\) of 2 further holes; and \(H=H^\circ\setminus(A\cup E)\), so \(|H|=3q=0.6h\);
a uniform partition of \(H\) into parts \(U_1,\dots,U_q\) of size 3;
a graph \(G'\subseteq R\times H\) in which each pigeon of \(R\) picks a uniform 5-subset of \(H\), independently.

Let \(G''=G'\cup\) the chain of the carry-chain entry on \(Z\), \(U_k\) and \(A\). The count condition of lem:carry-chain-spare holds: \(|R|+q-|H|-2(q-1)=h+1-5q+2=3\equiv0\). The restriction sets the cells of \(\rho\) to 1, the other cells in their rows and columns to 0, every cell in a column of \(E\) to 0, and every other cell outside \(G''\) to 0. It maps weak unary PHP to weak graph PHP on \(G''\).

Step 1: light blocks read few residual columns

Call a hole \(u\in H\cup A\) a residual column of a block if some cell \((i,u)\) of the block's support lies in \(G''\). Claim: a light block has at least \(c\) residual columns with probability at most \((C_0)^c(2hn^{-\eta})^{\lceil c/7\rceil}\) for an absolute constant \(C_0\), for large \(n\).

Proof, following the light-family entry's lemma. Pick \(c\) witness cells \((i_j,u_j)\) in distinct columns. A pigeon of \(G''\) has at most 7 cells, 5 for pigeons of \(R\) and at most \(3+4\) for chain pigeons, so the witnesses have \(d\ge\lceil c/7\rceil\) distinct pigeons. For a fixed witness set:

its \(c\) holes lie in \(H^\circ\) with probability at most \((h/n)^c\);
its \(d\) pigeons lie in \(R^\circ\) with probability at most \((2h/n)^d\);
given these, each witness cell lies in \(G''\) with conditional probability at most \(C_1/h\), jointly over the \(c\) cells.

For a pigeon of \(R\) this is the independent 5-subset, at most \((5/|H|)^m\) for \(m\) holes. For a chain pigeon, a given real hole lies in its part with probability \(3/|H|\). Each \(a_k\) and \(a'_k\) is marginally uniform on \(H^\circ\), so a given hole is one of a chain pigeon's at most four auxiliary holes with probability at most \(4/h\), or \(4/(h-c)\) given the earlier holes. Holes assigned to different chain pigeons, or several to one, follow by conditioning one hole at a time: each further hole has probability at most \(3/(|H|-3c)\) or \(4/(h-c)\) given the earlier ones. Each cell is in \(G''\) in one of three ways: \(i\in R\), \(u\in H\) and \(u\in N(i)\); \(i=z_k\) and \(u\in U_k\); or \(i=z_k\) and \(u\) an auxiliary hole of \(z_k\). Summing over the at most \(3^c\) type assignments, and conditioning first on the order of \(Z\), costs a factor \(3^c\). So the joint probability is at most \((C_1/h)^c\) for an absolute \(C_1\), for \(c=O(1)\) and large \(h\). So \(\Pr[S\text{ witnesses}]\le(C_1h/(hn))^c(2h/n)^d=(C_1/n)^c(2h/n)^d\). The count of witness sets with \(d\) pigeons is at most \(n^{c-d}\binom{c-1}{d-1}|U|^d/d!\), as recorded, with parts of size at most 7. Summing as there gives \(C_1^c2^c(2hn^{-\eta})^d\) per \(d\), hence the claim. With \(c=7\lceil(K+3)/\eta\rceil\), the union over \(M\le n^K\) blocks is \(o(1)\). \(\square\)

Step 2: expansion of \(G'\)

The union bound of thm:cell-family-w's expansion lemma for \(W\subseteq R\), \(|W|=u\le s\), with \(|N(W)|<3u\) is \[\binom{|R|}u\binom{|H|}{3u}\Bigl(\frac{3u}{|H|}\Bigr)^{5u}\le\Bigl(\frac{9e^4|R|u}{|H|^2}\Bigr)^u\le\Bigl(\frac{1093\,s}{h}\Bigr)^u,\] using \(|R|=0.8h+1\le0.8h\cdot1.001\) for \(h\ge1250\), so the constant is at most \(9e^4\cdot0.8\cdot1.001/0.36\le1093\). With \(h\ge2^{13}s\) the ratio is at most 0.1335, and the sum over \(u\ge1\) is at most 0.155. Off this event every \(W\subseteq R\) with \(|W|\le s\) has \(|\partial W|\ge2|N(W)|-5|W|\ge|W|\) in \(G'\): an \((s,1)\)-boundary expander of left degree 5.

Step 3: dropping, pinning and the chain

Vacuity. A block with fewer than \(c\) residual columns has at most \((h+2)^c\) zero patterns on \(G''\). By bounded-column vacuity on the graph sub-board it is dropped except with probability \((h+2)^c3^{-t}\) over its prefix matrix. Summed over blocks, this is at most \(n^K(h+3)^c3^{-t}\le1/(27n)\) by the choice of \(t\).

Pins. Use prop:occupancy-pin-reduction on the full board, with the pin vector \(o^*\) equal to 0 on \(E\) and 1 on every other hole. It has two empty holes, and it depends only on \((H^\circ,A,E)\), so it is independent of the prefix matrices. For each column-statistic block the reduction derives the block's clauses from Booleanity and the pins \(C_u=o^*_u\) at degree \(4t+2\le B\), except with probability \(3^{r_b-t}\) over the block's prefix matrix. The light blocks' clauses pass through as axioms. The residual restriction then turns the pins outside \(H^\circ\) into \(1=1\), those on \(E\) into \(0=0\), and those on \(H\cup A\) into the onto columns of \(G''\). By Fubini the average over the prefix matrices of the probability over residuals is at most \(\sum_b3^{r_b-t}=o(1)\).

Combining. By Markov, for all but an \(o(1)\) fraction of the prefix matrices, the vacuity and pin failures each have probability at most 0.1 over the residual. The total failure probability is at most \(o(1)+0.155+0.1+0.1<1\), so a good residual exists.

Contradiction. At a good residual, take a refutation of degree \(B\). Replace the column-statistic clauses by their derivations from Booleanity and the pins on the full board, restrict by the residual restriction, and replace the light clauses by their derivations on \(G''\), all of degree at most \(B\), which is valid in PC. What remains is weak graph PHP on \(G''\) plus the restricted pins \(C_u=1\) for \(u\in H\cup A\), that is, onto graph PHP with mod-3 rows on the chain extension \(G''\) of \(G'\), with counts agreeing mod 3. By cor:carry-chain-onto-hardness with \(\delta=1\), \(d=5\) and \(s/10\ge5\), it has no refutation of degree at most \(s/20-1=B+1\). \(\square\)

What it means

Under random prefixes, A1's structured classes are settled together: every family whose blocks are light or of small rank modulo the column sums satisfies W_RS, with no hypothesis on how light blocks read the rows. The row-covering families of the composed-pins and row-covering entries are included. What remains of A1 under random prefixes is families containing a dense interaction block. The spare pigeon and the carry chain both handle constraints on conserved quantities, the column occupations. Dense interaction parts are not functions of them.

Next. A route review of the random-prefix program, now reduced to the dense interaction class. It should also update the thread's living sections, which still describe the mixed case as open.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the light-family theorem and its residual-column lemma, the expansion lemma of thm:cell-family-w, prop:occupancy-pin-reduction, prop:bounded-column-vacuity, lem:carry-chain-spare and cor:carry-chain-onto-hardness. The expansion constants were computed by a one-line script. A fresh-context reviewer checked the construction's counts and the count condition, the restriction, the witness argument, the expansion bound, vacuity, Fubini and Markov, and the final degree, and found no break. It required, all adopted: the witness probabilities stated by cell type, with the factor \(3^c\) and the exact auxiliary bound \(4/h\); the expansion constant recomputed (at most 1093); the pin step done on the full board with a pin vector independent of the prefixes, then restricted; and "supersedes" and "unconditional" replaced by accurate wording, with conj:onto-residual-hardness noted as open.

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Route review after the chain residual: under random prefixes A1 is now the dense interaction class alone; conservation laws were the common mechanism, and pinning the weighted column sums of a few pigeon-weight vectors splits PHP into independent onto systems (plus empty holes), which suggests handling dense blocks of low family-wide interaction rank

26 September 2026 · Route review with pen tests · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-dense-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the chain residual: under random prefixes A1 is now the dense interaction class alone; conservation laws were the common mechanism, and pinning the weighted column sums of a few pigeon-weight vectors splits PHP into independent onto systems (plus empty holes), which suggests handling dense blocks of low family-wide interaction rank”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-dense-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. Since the onto-graph review: a conditional reduction to a conjecture about the plain residual (onto-graph test), the carry chain (carry chain), and the unconditional theorem for light and column-statistic families (chain residual). What is left, and what mechanism can reach it?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS). Proved under random prefixes, for families fixed in advance: every family of light blocks and blocks of small rank modulo the column sums (thm:light-column-families-random-prefix), and blocks of small rank modulo a pinned set of row-independent forms (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity). Open: families containing a dense interaction block. Write a form as \(c+\sum_{i,t}a_{it}x_{it}\) and its interaction part as the class of \(a\) modulo matrices \(u_i+v_t\). A dense interaction block has forms whose interaction parts have large rank on \(n^{2-o(1)}\) cells.

What the goal needs

W_RS for families containing dense interaction blocks, since adversarial families may consist of them alone. Row statistics \(\sum_iu_ir_i\) are constant modulo the rows. Column statistics are handled by pins and the carry chain. So the interaction part is exactly what no recorded tool touches.

Falsification attempt

The dense-core review's structured example is a block of more than \(k\) full-support product statistics \(\sum_{i,t}\alpha^{(j)}_i\beta^{(j)}_tx_{it}\) with generic weights. Is W_RS false for families of such blocks? A product statistic equals \(\sum_t\beta_tC^{\alpha}_t\) with \(C^\alpha_t=\sum_i\alpha_ix_{it}\), the weighted column sum. Modulo collisions, \(C^\alpha_t\) is the weight \(\alpha_i\) of the pigeon in hole \(t\), or 0 if the hole is empty. So a product-statistic block reads only the weight classes of the holes' occupants. Pinning all \(C^{\alpha}_t\) to values fixes which class occupies each hole. The pinned system then splits into independent onto systems, one per pigeon class, as worked out in the second absurd bridge below. That is not a refutation. If the type-pinning statement of the next step holds, it suggests the opposite: product statistics with few distinct pigeon weights are pinnable. W_RS is not falsified. Families of \(n^K\) product-statistic blocks, each with its own weights, give \(n^K\) weight vectors. Types are indexed by pigeons, so there are at most \(n+1\) nonempty classes, generically all singletons. Then the hard class has \(O(1)\) pigeons and the splitting gives nothing.

Assessment of the line

The random-prefix program has settled every recorded class whose interaction part is light or zero. Its successful mechanism, beyond vacuity, is absorbing conservation laws. Onto columns are absorbed by a spare pigeon or a carry chain, a substitution from weak PHP that turns a constraint on conserved quantities (the column occupations) into an identity. Dense interaction parts are not functions of conserved quantities in general. Product statistics are functions of finer conserved quantities: the occupations by pigeon class. That gives the next concrete target: families whose interaction parts, family-wide, lie in the span of few pigeon-weight vectors. It is a real subclass of the dense core, but it is not the adversarial case, where every block has its own weights. That case still has no mechanism.

Outside leads

Friedgut's junta theorem (Combinatorica 18, 1998): Boolean functions of low total influence are close to juntas. Target: the dense class, by showing that a block's clauses depend essentially on few cells after a random restriction. Where it breaks: closeness in measure. Test. Falsified: prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust shows that measure-small differences can change PC degree, so a junta approximation in measure gives no degree bound.
Grigoriev's lower bounds for random sparse linear systems (Theoret. Comput. Sci. 259, 2001) and Alekhnovich and Razborov's expansion method. Target: the dense class. Where it breaks: they need sparse constraints whose incidence graph expands, and a dense form touches every cell. Test. Falsified: prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework records that dense clusters have empty respectful boundary.
Frieze and Kannan's weak regularity lemma (Combinatorica 19, 1999): every matrix is a sum of at most \(1/\varepsilon^2\) cut matrices plus a remainder of cut norm at most \(\varepsilon n^2\). Target: splitting each interaction matrix into a low-rank part, which type pinning below could absorb, and a pseudorandom remainder. Where it breaks: the lemma is over the reals and our forms are mod 3; for a single block the low-rank part passes the rank count, but the remainder still reads every column and is not vacuous. Test. Falsified for A1's families: the low-rank parts of \(n^K\) blocks have \(n^K/\varepsilon^2\) weight vectors in total, far above the \(\log_3n\) that type pinning can take.

Absurd bridges

Double-entry bookkeeping: running balances. Translation: the carry chain keeps a running balance, the partial sums of the column sums, in auxiliary holes. A dense form is a ledger of weighted entries, so a chain might carry its partial sums too and absorb an equation \(L=v\). What it would give: pinning of dense forms at no cost. Smallest test: whether a substitution can absorb one pinned dense equation. Test. Falsified. Absorbing \(L=v\) by substitution means eliminating a cell \(x_c\) with \(a_c\ne0\), mapping it to \(a_c^{-1}(v-L_{-c})\), where \(L_{-c}\) is \(L\) without that cell. The image of \(x_c^2=x_c\) must then be a consequence of the remaining axioms, so the image must be 0/1-valued at every collision-free point. That holds for \(1-C_u\), a column occupancy. It fails for \(a_c^{-1}(v-L_{-c})\), which takes all three values of \(\mathbb F_3\), so the image of Booleanity restates the pin at degree 2. The chain avoided this by storing an \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued balance in two cells through degree-2 indicators. That works only because the balance is a sum of 0/1 occupancies whose pins are part of the target system.
Multicomponent lattice gases in chemistry: conservation of each species. Translation: pigeons of different weight classes are different chemical species, and holes are lattice sites holding at most one particle. A weighted column sum \(C^\alpha_t\) is the species at site \(t\). Pinning all of them fixes the species at every site, a separate conservation law for each species. What a theorem there would give: separability, since species that do not interact decouple. Here it would say that PHP with site species pinned is a product of one-species problems. Smallest test: the decomposition. Test. Passed. Take weight vectors \(\alpha^0,\alpha^1,\dots,\alpha^r\in\mathbb F_3^{n+1}\) with \(\alpha^0\) all ones, and let the type of pigeon \(i\) be \((\alpha^0_i,\dots,\alpha^r_i)\). No pigeon has type 0. Pin \(C^{\alpha^k}_t=\tau^{(k)}_t\) for all \(k,t\). Restrict \(x_{it}=0\) whenever the type of \(i\) differs from \(\tau_t\). Each pin on a hole with \(\tau_t=\theta\ne0\) becomes \(\theta^{(k)}\) times its onto column, or \(0=0\), and a hole with \(\tau_t=0\) is empty. The restricted system is, variable-disjointly for each type \(\theta\), an onto system of the type-\(\theta\) pigeons into the holes with \(\tau_t=\theta\). Refuting a variable-disjoint union costs at least as much as refuting any one part, by restricting the others to satisfying assignments. Allocation: pick the largest class \(\theta^*\), with \(m_{\theta^*}\ge(n+1)/3^r\ge6\) pigeons. Give it \(m_{\theta^*}-3\) holes, every other class \(\theta\) exactly \(m_\theta\) holes, satisfiable by a matching, and leave two holes empty. This uses \(n\) holes. The pins are consistent with the rows at degree 1: for each \(k\), \(\sum_t\tau^{(k)}_t=\sum_i\alpha^k_i-3\theta^{*(k)}\equiv\sum_i\alpha^k_i\), which is \(\sum_tC^{\alpha^k}_t\) modulo the rows. The pins need not be values of a Boolean assignment, since prop:occupancy-pin-reduction fixes an arbitrary pin vector. The hard class inherits the spare-pigeon bound \(\lceil(m_{\theta^*}-3)/2\rceil+1\).

Bridge follow-up

Low-density parity-check codes over \(\mathbb F_3\). Since that review, no entry used the code, and the chain residual made the rigidity question moot. Follow-up. Closed: it is a cycle code, each cell lying in exactly one row check and one column check, so its distance is the girth, at most \(O(\log N)\) by the Moore bound and constant with constant probability for the random residual. It gives no rigidity, and the route no longer needs it.

Lead follow-up

Bollobás's configuration model, for a biregular residual. The chain residual kept independent 5-subsets for the ordinary residual pigeons and handled the hole side with the chain, so no biregular model was needed. Follow-up. Closed: not needed.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, the dense class: prove type pinning. The statement: over \(\mathbb F_3\), fix pigeon-weight vectors \(\alpha^1,\dots,\alpha^r\), together with the all-ones vector \(\alpha^0\), with \(r\le\log_3n-\log_3\log n-O(1)\), chosen from the family before the prefixes. Every family of blocks whose forms lie in the span of the weighted column sums \(C^{\alpha^k}_t\), the plain column sums, the rows and \(\rho_b\) further forms, with \(\sum_b3^{\rho_b-t}=o(1)\), satisfies W_RS. The proof should follow prop:occupancy-pin-reduction: division by the type pins, then the decomposition and allocation above. Check that the reduction's steps, stated for the plain column sums, carry over to the \(rn\) weighted column sums, which like them satisfy \(\sum_tC^\alpha_t\equiv\sum_i\alpha_i\) modulo the rows. Then combine it with the light blocks through the chain residual.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:light-column-families-random-prefix, lem:carry-chain-spare, thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness, prop:occupancy-pin-reduction, prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust and prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework. A fresh-context reviewer found no break in the type-pinning decomposition. It required, all adopted: the all-ones vector added so that no class is type 0 and every class is onto; the allocation and its linear consistency settled here instead of deferred; the disjoint-union step stated as a restriction; the class count in the falsification corrected; the assessment's scope narrowed; the bookkeeping bridge's real obstruction given (a substituted cell's image must be 0/1-valued); the Frieze–Kannan outcome made single; and the cycle-code condition for the girth stated.

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Type pinning: under random prefixes, families of dense blocks whose interaction parts lie, family-wide, in the span of weighted column sums for about \(\log_3n\) pigeon-weight vectors satisfy W_RS, because pinning those sums splits weak PHP into onto systems by pigeon type

26 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 under random prefixes, the dense class · cycle odd-prime-type-pinning. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Type pinning: under random prefixes, families of dense blocks whose interaction parts lie, family-wide, in the span of weighted column sums for about \(\log_3n\) pigeon-weight vectors satisfy W_RS, because pinning those sums splits weak PHP into onto systems by pigeon type”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-type-pinning.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, the dense interaction class, developing the second absurd bridge of the dense review. Does pinning the weighted column sums of a few pigeon-weight vectors settle the blocks that read only those sums, even though their interaction parts are dense?

General statement. thm:type-pinning. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on weak unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\), let \(\alpha^0\) be the all-ones vector and \(\alpha^1,\dots,\alpha^r\in\mathbb F_3^{n+1}\) any pigeon-weight vectors. Write \(C^{\alpha}_t=\sum_i\alpha_ix_{it}\) for the weighted column sums and \(\mathcal C\) for the set of all \(C^{\alpha^k}_t\), \(0\le k\le r\), \(t\in[n]\). Let the type of pigeon \(i\) be \((\alpha^0_i,\dots,\alpha^r_i)\), and let \(m\) be the size of the largest type class. Take a family of blocks and prefix sizes \(t_b\), all fixed before the prefixes are drawn, and the weight vectors chosen from the family, such that the forms of block \(b\) lie in the span of \(\mathcal C\), the row sums, the constants, and \(\rho_b\) further affine forms. Let \(2\le B\le\lceil(m-3)/2\rceil\) with \(B\ge\max_b(4t_b+2)\). Then with probability at least \(1-\sum_b3^{\rho_b-t_b}\) over uniform prefix matrices (independence is not used; uniform marginals suffice), weak unary PHP plus all randomized-prefix clauses has no PC refutation of degree \(B\). For W_RS take \(B=\max_b\max(11\max(1,4t_b-2),4t_b+2)\), which is at least W_RS's degree since \(\delta(C_b)\le4t_b-2\); larger \(B\) only strengthens the conclusion. For a family of \(M\) blocks, \(t_b\ge\rho_b+\log_3M+\omega(1)\) makes the failure probability \(o(1)\). Since \(m\ge(n+1)/3^r\), the theorem applies whenever \(3^r\le(n+1)/(2B+4)\), that is \(r\le\log_3n-\log_3\log n-O(1)\) at \(B=O(\log n)\).

The pin vector

Let \(\theta^*\) be a largest type class, with \(m=m_{\theta^*}\) pigeons, and \(m_\theta\) the size of class \(\theta\). Partition the holes: \(m_\theta\) holes for each class \(\theta\ne\theta^*\), \(m-3\) holes for \(\theta^*\), and 2 holes left empty. This uses \(\sum_\theta m_\theta-3+2=n\) holes. Let \(\tau_t\) be the type assigned to hole \(t\), and \(\tau_t=0\) for the two empty holes. The pins are \(C^{\alpha^k}_t=\tau^{(k)}_t\) for all \(k,t\). The vector depends only on the weight vectors, so it is fixed before the prefixes.

Step 1: the clauses follow from the pins

This is the proof of prop:occupancy-pin-reduction with the pinned set \(\mathcal C\) in place of the column sums. Write each form of block \(b\) as \(\sum_{C\in\mathcal C}\lambda_CC+\sum_i\mu_i(r_i-1)+\sum_l\nu_ly_{b,l}+c\), with \(y_{b,1},\dots,y_{b,\rho_b}\) the further forms. Substituting \(C=\tau(C)\) and \(r_i=1\), any polynomial \(F\) in the forms equals \(F|_{\text{pins}}\) plus multiples of the pins \(C-\tau(C)\) and the rows \(r_i-1\), with multipliers of degree less than \(\deg F\). So each clause \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) is a polynomial \(P_{b,i}(y_b)\) plus multiples of pins and rows, at degree at most \(4t_b+2\).

At the pinned values, block \(b\)'s zero pattern is a function of \(y_b\in\mathbb F_3^{\rho_b}\), so at most \(3^{\rho_b}\) patterns occur. Every \(P_{b,i}\) vanishes on \(\mathbb F_3^{\rho_b}\) unless some occurring nonzero pattern lies in \(\ker C_b\), which has probability at most \(3^{\rho_b-t_b}\) for uniform \(C_b\). A polynomial vanishing on \(\mathbb F_3^{\rho_b}\) lies in the ideal of the \(y_{b,l}^3-y_{b,l}\) with quotients of lower degree. Each \(y^3-y\), for an affine form \(y\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), is derived from Booleanity at degree 3 by Frobenius. So, off an event of probability \(\sum_b3^{\rho_b-t_b}\), every clause is derived from Booleanity, the rows and the pins at degree at most \(B\). Then a degree-\(B\) refutation of weak unary PHP plus the clauses gives a degree-\(B\) refutation of weak unary PHP plus the pins.

Step 2: the pinned system is hard

Restrict \(x_{it}=0\) whenever the type of \(i\) differs from \(\tau_t\); restriction does not increase degree. The empty holes have type 0, which no pigeon has, since \(\alpha^0_i=1\), so their columns become zero and their pins \(0=0\). On a hole with \(\tau_t=\theta\ne0\), only class-\(\theta\) pigeons remain, so \(C^{\alpha^k}_t=\theta^{(k)}C_t\), and the pin becomes \(\theta^{(k)}(C_t-1)\): the onto column for \(k=0\), and a multiple of it otherwise. A pigeon's row keeps only the holes of its own type. So the restricted system is a variable-disjoint union, over the types \(\theta\), of onto weak PHP of the \(m_\theta\) class-\(\theta\) pigeons into the holes of type \(\theta\), each on the complete board between them.

For \(\theta\ne\theta^*\), restrict further to a perfect matching between the class and its \(m_\theta\) holes. This satisfies every axiom of that part, so the part's axioms become 0. What remains is onto weak PHP of \(m\) pigeons into \(m-3\) holes, whose counts agree mod 3. By thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness, with \(N=m-3\ge3\) (since \(2\le B\le\lceil(m-3)/2\rceil\) gives \(m\ge6\)), it has no PC refutation of degree at most \(\lceil(m-3)/2\rceil\ge B\). \(\square\)

Which blocks it covers

A form's row statistics are constant modulo the rows, and its column statistics are \(C^{\alpha^0}\)-combinations. So a block is covered when the interaction parts of its forms lie, up to \(\rho_b\) further forms, in the span of the product statistics \(\sum_t\beta_tC^{\alpha^k}_t\), with arbitrary hole weights \(\beta\) and the family's pigeon weights \(\alpha^k\). Examples:

the dense-core review's product-statistic blocks, if the family uses at most \(r\) pigeon-weight vectors in all;
a variant, not part of the theorem as stated: forms whose coefficients \(a_{it}\) depend only on the type of pigeon \(i\) and on \(t\), even nonlinearly in the type. Modulo the pins and collisions, \(x_{it}\) with type different from \(\tau_t\) is derived zero at degree 2, since \(x_{it}(C^{\alpha^k}_t-\tau^{(k)}_t)=x_{it}(\alpha^k_i-\tau^{(k)}_t)\) modulo Booleanity \(x_{it}^2=x_{it}\) and collisions, and some coefficient \(\alpha^k_i-\tau^{(k)}_t\) is nonzero, hence invertible in \(\mathbb F_3\). So such a form is congruent to \(\sum_tf(\tau_t,t)C_t\), a constant under the pins. The division step then costs one more degree, \(4t_b+3\), since each deleted \(x_{it}\) is a degree-2 derivation times a multiplier of degree at most \(4t_b+1\); this needs \(4t_b+3\le B\);
any dense block of interaction rank at most \(r\), alone, and families of blocks whose interaction matrices' pigeon-side spaces (spanned by their pigeon-indexed columns) lie in one common space of dimension at most \(r\).

Not covered: families whose blocks use many different pigeon weights, for example \(n^K\) blocks each with its own generic product statistics. There the types become singletons and \(m\) is bounded. The hole side is not symmetric: the argument does not apply to weighted row sums \(R^\beta_i=\sum_t\beta_tx_{it}\), since \(x_{it}(R^\beta_i-v)\) leaves terms \(x_{it}x_{it'}\) of one pigeon in two holes, which are not axioms without functionality.

What it means

prop:pinned-rank-vacuity already covered dense blocks with at most \(\log_3n-\omega(1)\) forms. This is the first result covering dense blocks with many forms. They are settled when the family's interaction parts share a low-dimensional pigeon-side space: about \(\log_3n\) pigeon-weight vectors for the whole family. The mechanism is the same conservation-law absorption, one level finer: occupations by pigeon type in place of occupations. The adversarial case, blocks with independent weights, is untouched. The combination with light blocks, through the chain residual, is not done.

Next. Two directions. (a) Combine type pinning with light blocks: on the chain residual, the type pins split the residual into onto graph systems by type, and each needs its own chain. (b) The theorem already holds whenever the largest type class has \(m\ge2B+3\) pigeons; the bound on \(r\) is only a corollary. Weight vectors that are not generic, for example constant on a common large set of pigeons, keep \(m\) large even for many vectors. The next measure is the largest \(m\) that an adversarial family permits.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:occupancy-pin-reduction and its proof, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction. Claim searches for weighted column sums, pigeon types and product-statistic pinning found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer found the pin counts, the consistency of the pins with the rows, Step 1, Step 2 and the variant's derivation correct. It required, all adopted: the degree for W_RS stated with \(\delta\le4t_b-2\); the probability condition for a family; the reason \(m\ge6\); the variant's use of Booleanity and invertibility; the pigeon-side space instead of the row space; the hole-side remark limited to the argument; the "first result" claim scoped against pinned rank vacuity; the next step restated in terms of \(m\); and independence of the prefixes noted as unused.

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Route review: every pinning mechanism stops at generic dense families, since independent weights make pigeon types singletons and member pinning holds only about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) forms; the open core is generic dense families of total rank above that, where each block forbids a random fraction \(3^{-t}\) of the points

26 September 2026 · Route review with pen tests · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-type-capacity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: every pinning mechanism stops at generic dense families, since independent weights make pigeon types singletons and member pinning holds only about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) forms; the open core is generic dense families of total rank above that, where each block forbids a random fraction \(3^{-t}\) of the points”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-type-capacity-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The type-pinning entry settled dense families whose interaction matrices share a pigeon-side space of dimension about \(\log_3n\), and proposed measuring the largest type class that adversarial families permit. How far do the pinning mechanisms reach, and what is left?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS). Settled under random prefixes, for families fixed in advance: light and column-statistic families (thm:light-column-families-random-prefix); blocks of small rank modulo a pinned row-independent set of about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) forms (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity with lem:member-pinning); dense families with a shared pigeon-side space of dimension about \(\log_3n\) (thm:type-pinning).

What the goal needs

W_RS for every family of \(n^K\) blocks. The open case is generic dense families: blocks whose interaction matrices have large rank and whose pigeon-side and hole-side spaces are unrelated across blocks, with total rank above member pinning's capacity.

Falsification attempt: the capacity of pinning

Type pinning. Take \(n^K\) blocks, each with product statistics whose pigeon weights \(\alpha^b\) are independent and uniform. Two pigeons have the same type only if \(\alpha^b_i=\alpha^b_{i'}\) for every \(b\), probability \(3^{-n^K}\). So with high probability all types are singletons, the largest class has \(m=1\), and thm:type-pinning gives nothing.

Type pinning on the residual. Restricted to the residual's \(h+1\) pigeons, the weight vectors still separate the pigeons once there are about \(\log_3h\) of them. Then pinning every residual weighted column sum fixes the occupant of every residual hole. The pinned residual is a full assignment of weak graph PHP, which is refuted at degree 1. So pinning on the residual can use only about \(\log_3(h/(2B))\), a constant, of the family's weight vectors.

Member pinning. It pins any row-independent forms, dense or not, but only about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) of them, as recorded in the occupancy-pinning entry. A family of \(n^K\) generic dense blocks has total rank \(\min(n^Kh,\Theta(n^2))\).

So W_RS is not falsified, but no pinning mechanism reaches generic dense families. What a generic dense block does, on any residual, is forbid the points whose zero pattern is a nonzero vector of \(\ker C_b\). Its forms take so many patterns that some nonzero pattern lies in the kernel, so the block is never vacuous. For a fixed point the probability over \(C_b\) is \(3^{-t_b}\) (random-prefix review). A family of \(n^K\) blocks forbids, in expectation, at most a fraction \(n^K3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\) of any fixed distribution. Measure alone does not control PC degree (prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust), but those counterexamples were structured: a counting contradiction, a whole row. Here the forbidden set is a random section.

Assessment of the line

The line's mechanisms all make blocks vacuous after absorbing or pinning some quantities: counting patterns, pinning forms, pinning conserved quantities, pinning occupations by type. Each has a capacity: a bounded number of residual columns, \(\sqrt n/\log n\) pinned forms, \(\log_3n\) weight vectors. Generic dense families exceed all of them, and they are never vacuous on a residual. The remaining core needs an argument in which clauses stay present and are shown harmless. No recorded tool for PHP does that for clauses of degree \(\Theta(\log n)\) with dense supports. The line's progress in this session was real: five structured classes settled, and one conjecture proved. But the core is now sharper and no easier.

Outside leads

Alekhnovich, Ben-Sasson, Razborov and Wigderson, "Pseudorandom generators in propositional proof complexity" (SIAM J. Comput. 34, 2004). They prove PC hardness of statements \(b\notin\operatorname{im}(G)\) for generators built from expanding sparse maps. W_RS for a dense block has this form: the block's pattern map avoids a random subspace. Target: the dense core. Where it breaks: their maps must be built from sparse expanding matrices, and dense forms are not. Test. Falsified for dense forms: the required expansion of the map's dependency graph fails when every output reads every input.
Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's monotone basis (ECCC TR97-042), as a pseudo-reduction against which dense clauses could be tested. Target: showing directly that dense clauses reduce to 0 under a degree-\(d\) operator for weak PHP. Where it breaks: the basis is for functional PHP, and dense clauses need not reduce to 0 under it. Test. Not run: a basis for weak (non-functional) PHP is not constructed. The spare-pigeon theorem compares degrees but builds no operator.
Alekhnovich and Razborov, "Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case" (Proc. Steklov Inst. 242, 2003), for random CNFs with extra random constraints. Target: the picture of dense blocks as random sparse-measure constraints. Where it breaks: their constraints have bounded width on an expanding incidence graph, while W_RS clauses have degree \(4t+2=\Theta(\log n)\) on dense supports. Test. Falsified: bounded width fails, since each clause involves \(\Theta(\log n)\) dense forms.

Absurd bridges

Dilute quenched disorder in statistical physics: the Harris criterion. Translation: each generic dense block is an impurity that forbids a random fraction \(3^{-t}\approx n^{-(K+1)}\) of the configurations, independently of the others given the forms. The whole family is a dilute quenched disorder of total density \(O(1/n)\) on the PHP ensemble. A theorem there says when weak disorder is irrelevant: it does not change the critical behaviour. Here that would be the PC degree. What it would give: a principle that dilute random constraints do not lower degree, for the right notion of dilution. Smallest test: whether the density is dilute in the relevant sense. Test. Passed as a count: the expected forbidden fraction is at most \(n^K3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\) under any fixed distribution, from the random-prefix review. The structured counterexamples to measure robustness are not dilute random sets. Whether PC degree obeys a Harris-type criterion is the question the bridge poses.
Cryptography: the natural-proofs barrier (Razborov and Rudich, J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 55, 1997). Translation: a family of random-prefix clauses from generic dense blocks is a pseudorandom object. A low-degree PC refutation of weak PHP plus such clauses, but not of weak PHP alone, would be a low-degree certificate that distinguishes the clause family from harmless ones. A barrier theorem would say that such distinguishers are unlikely for pseudorandom families. What it would give: a heuristic that generic dense families are harmless, and possibly a reduction from a hardness assumption to W_RS for them. Smallest test: whether W_RS's randomness is of the kind the barrier needs, a pseudorandom function family. Test. Not run: the clause family is random only through the prefix matrices, a random linear code, and no formal PC analogue of the barrier is known to this record.

Bridge follow-up

Multicomponent lattice gases. Developed into thm:type-pinning in the type-pinning entry, whose capacity this review measures: about \(\log_3n\) family-wide weight vectors, and nothing for generic families. Follow-up. Closed: developed into a theorem; its capacity is exhausted on generic dense families.

Lead follow-up

No passed outside lead from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, the generic dense core, developing the Harris-criterion bridge. First state the smallest open case exactly: weak unary PHP plus the randomized-prefix clauses of \(M\) generic dense blocks, each with \(h\) forms, where \(Mh\) exceeds member pinning's capacity, for example \(M=n^{1/2}\) blocks with \(h=\log^2n\). An exact test cannot decide it. The clauses have degree \(4t+2\ge6\), and weak PHP survives degree 6 only on boards with about 10 or more holes, far beyond exact closures (onto-graph test). So the step is proof-oriented. A degree-\(d\) design for weak PHP must be corrected to vanish on every clause multiple, a linear problem whose size is the number of forbidden patterns. That is the killer-moment problem of the A3 line (conj:product-top-killer-moment), with random prefixes in place of product tops. Compare the two exactly: does the recorded stratum-by-stratum analysis, settled except its main term, transfer to randomized-prefix clauses of dense blocks, and is the main term there easier, since the prefix matrices are uniform?

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:type-pinning, lem:member-pinning and the capacity remark of the occupancy-pinning entry, thm:light-column-families-random-prefix, prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust and the random-prefix review's count. The capacity computations are pen arguments given in the entry. The review makes no new claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer; its falsification attempt consists of those counts, and its next step names the recorded killer-moment conjecture for comparison.

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The dense core at the Nullstellensatz level: over functional PHP, Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's basis turns refutability into one span condition on the normal forms of the clause multiples, whose number is below the dimension by a factor \(n^{-\Theta(\log n)}\); the killer-moment analysis does not transfer directly, since its randomness is in the forms

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a reformulation, and a comparison · open statement A1 under random prefixes, the generic dense core · cycle odd-prime-dense-killer. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The dense core at the Nullstellensatz level: over functional PHP, Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's basis turns refutability into one span condition on the normal forms of the clause multiples, whose number is below the dimension by a factor \(n^{-\Theta(\log n)}\); the killer-moment analysis does not transfer directly, since its randomness is in the forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-dense-killer.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, the generic dense core. The capacity review proposed comparing the core with the killer-moment problem of the A3 line (conj:product-top-killer-moment), and developing its dilute-disorder bridge. Does the killer-moment analysis transfer, and is there an exact form of "dilute clauses are harmless" to aim at?

General statement. lem:ips-normal-form-ns-criterion. Over any field, let FPHP\(^m_n\) be Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's functional PHP: Booleanity, rows \(1-\sum_jx_{ij}\), functionality \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}\) and collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\). Let \(d\le\lceil n/2\rceil\), and let \(R_d\) be the linear map on the span of \(T_d\) (partial injective maps of size at most \(d\)) that writes a polynomial in the basis \(B_d\) and drops the coordinates of \(B_d\setminus T_d\). Then for any set \(S\) of polynomials, FPHP\(^m_n\cup S\) has a Nullstellensatz refutation of degree \(d\) if and only if \(1\) lies in the span of \(R_d(\overline{\mu s})\), over \(s\in S\) and monomials \(\mu\) with \(\deg(\mu s)\le d\). Here \(\overline{\cdot}\) is reduction modulo Booleanity, functionality and collisions. A lower bound for FPHP\(^m_n\cup S\) is also one for weak PHP\(\cup S\), where weak PHP means the same row polynomials \(Q_i=1-\sum_jx_{ij}\), collisions and Booleanity, that is FPHP without functionality, which has fewer axioms.

Proof of the criterion

By Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall (ECCC TR97-042, Proposition 2.8), \(B_d\) is a basis of the span of \(T_d\) for \(d\le\lceil n/2\rceil\). By the proof of their Theorem 2.9, every polynomial derivable from the rows at degree \(d\) is a combination of \(B_d\setminus T_d\). Two details of that proof: for \(x_cQ_{i'}\) with \(c(i')=0\), IPS write the product as 0, but modulo the ideal it equals \(x_c\), since \(Q^2=Q\) modulo Booleanity and functionality, and \(x_c\) already lies in \(B_d\setminus T_d\); and multiplying a line of degree at most \(d-1\) is covered because \(B_{d-1}\subseteq B_d\) and \(B_{d-1}\setminus T_{d-1}\subseteq B_d\setminus T_d\). Conversely each element of \(B_d\setminus T_d\) is a product \(x_{\hat a}Q_{i'_1}\cdots Q_{i'_l}\) with \(l\ge1\), of degree at most \(d\), a multiple of a row axiom, so it is derivable at degree \(d\). So the degree-\(d\) Nullstellensatz consequences of FPHP\(^m_n\), in the quotient by Booleanity, functionality and collisions, are exactly \(\operatorname{span}(B_d\setminus T_d)=\ker R_d\). A Nullstellensatz refutation of degree \(d\) of FPHP\(\cup S\) is \(1=g+\sum_{s,\mu}\lambda_{s,\mu}\mu s\) with \(g\) a degree-\(d\) consequence of FPHP. Reducing and applying \(R_d\) gives \(1=R_d(1)=\sum\lambda_{s,\mu}R_d(\overline{\mu s})\), since \(1\in T_d\cap B_d\) is its own coordinate. Conversely, if \(1=\sum\lambda R_d(\overline{\mu s})\), then \(1-\sum\lambda\overline{\mu s}\in\ker R_d\) is a degree-\(d\) consequence. \(\square\)

Why the killer-moment analysis does not transfer

lem:product-top-moment-reduction and its strata bounds (lem:low-rank-strata, lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound, lem:divided-power-sums) average over uniformly random forms \(\ell,\ell'\) in each product top. The dense core has adversarial forms. Its only randomness is the prefix matrices \(C_b\), which enter a clause \(g_{b,i}\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\), \(s_j=\sum_lc_{jl}g_{b,l}\), polynomially of degree \(2t\) in the entries of \(C_b\). A functional \(\chi\) kills a block's clause multiples with a probability over \(C_b\) that depends on how \(\chi\) interacts with the adversarial zero-indicator polynomials \(g_{b,l}\), not on uniform coefficients. The bounds by contraction rank and analytic rank were computed for uniform coefficients. No stratum bound carries over as stated. This does not exclude analogous bounds for the prefix randomness; it only says the recorded proofs do not apply.

The fill count

Count. At the Nullstellensatz level, with the criterion, the dense core asks whether \(1\) avoids the span of the vectors \(R_d(\overline{\mu c_{b,i}})\). Assume \(m=O(n)\) and \(Mh=n^{O(1)}\), with \(M\) blocks of \(h\) forms. The number of vectors is at most \(Mh\,|T_{d-4t-2}|\). The target space \(\operatorname{span}(B_d\cap T_d)\) has dimension at least \(\binom md\binom{n-d}dd!=(1-o(1))|T_d|\) for \(d=O(\log n)\), since every \(a\in T_d\) with range inside the first \(n-d\) holes has a pigeon dance: each pigeon can move to one of the last \(d\) holes. Consecutive levels have ratio \(|T_{k+1}|/|T_k|\approx(m-k)(n-k)/(k+1)\approx mn/k\). So the vectors number about \(Mh\,(d/(mn))^{4t+2}\) times the dimension, which is \(n^{-\Theta(\log n)}\) since \(t=\Theta(\log n)\).

Heuristic reading. This is far below the fill point, the regime where the killer-moment line expects directness for random tops, and there is no counting obstruction. It is not a proof: the vectors are adversarial, and a single dependency through \(1\) is enough to refute.

The criterion is for Nullstellensatz. For FPHP alone, IPS's Theorem 2.9 makes the degree-\(d\) consequences in PC and in Nullstellensatz coincide; the gap arises once \(S\) is added. PC closures are not spans of multiples, because the degree bound applies to every line, and the IPS basis handles PC only through its monotonicity property (their Theorem 2.9's induction). An extension to PC would need that property to survive the added clauses.

What it means

The dilute-disorder bridge now has an exact Nullstellensatz form. Over functional PHP, the dense core under random prefixes is a span-avoidance question for explicit vectors, the normal forms of clause multiples, far below the fill point. The randomness of the prefix matrices enters these vectors polynomially. The A3 killer-moment tools do not apply, because they average over the forms.

Next. Test the span condition directly at the smallest size where it is nonvacuous. That needs \(d\ge4t+2\) with \(t\ge1\), so \(d=6\le\lceil n/2\rceil\) and \(n\ge11\): FPHP\(^{12}_{11}\), with \(|T_6|=355{,}413{,}433\). At \(d=4t+2\) the only multiplier is \(\mu=1\), so the system has only \(Mh\) vectors, and the ambient dimension does not measure the cost. The cost is in writing each clause: a clause of a dense block, \(g_i\prod_j(1-s_j^2)\), is a product of dense quadratics of total degree 6. On the \(12\times11\) board it has up to about \(\binom{132}6\approx6.5\times10^9\) monomials before reduction, and each must then be rewritten in the basis \(B_6\) by pigeon-dance sums. That is out of reach for exact computation here. So the next step is a proof attempt for one block: show that, for a single dense block with random \(C\), \(1\) is not in the span of its clause multiples' normal forms. That is a Nullstellensatz version of member pinning without the pinning, and asks which property of the block's zero patterns makes the normal forms avoid \(1\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's Definitions 2.1–2.5, Lemmas 2.6–2.7, Proposition 2.8 and Theorem 2.9 from the ECCC report, lem:product-top-moment-reduction and the killer-moment strata lemmas. A fresh-context reviewer checked the criterion against the paper (both inclusions, \(R_d(1)=1\), the degree condition, "any field") and found it correct. It required, all adopted: the notation of \(B_d\setminus T_d\) and two details of Theorem 2.9's proof; the weak-PHP encoding named; the non-transfer claim limited to the recorded proofs; the level ratio corrected to about \(mn/k\), with assumptions stated and a lower bound on the target dimension; the count and its heuristic reading separated; and the next step's smallest size (\(n=11\)) and the real cost of the computation stated.

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The smallest open case is one wide dense block: blocks of width up to member pinning's capacity are settled for every prefix, while vacuity on any residual hard at the needed degree fails for a generic dense block of width well above \(t\)

26 September 2026 · Analysis, no new theorem · open statement A1 under random prefixes, the generic dense core · cycle odd-prime-one-dense-block. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The smallest open case is one wide dense block: blocks of width up to member pinning's capacity are settled for every prefix, while vacuity on any residual hard at the needed degree fails for a generic dense block of width well above \(t\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-one-dense-block.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, the generic dense core. The dense-killer entry proposed proving, at the Nullstellensatz level, that a single dense block with a random prefix matrix cannot refute. Is that case open at all, and what is the smallest open case?

General statement. The statement tested is conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS), through prop:pinned-rank-vacuity and lem:member-pinning, which settle the cases below. No new claim is registered.

One narrow block is settled for every prefix

Take one block with forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) whose linear parts are independent modulo constants on every row, and any prefix matrix \(C\). Every clause \(g_i[Cg=0]\) vanishes at any point where all forms are nonzero: there \(g=0\), and the factor \(g_i\) is 0. So the clauses' common zero set contains the point \(q\) with all \(q_j\ne0\). lem:member-pinning then gives the base plus the clauses no PC refutation of degree \(B\), under its row and robustness hypotheses. The recorded capacity of those hypotheses is about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) forms (occupancy-pinning entry). Row independence alone caps any such pinned set at \(n-1\) forms, since each row has \(n\) cells. The same argument covers any family whose forms, together, satisfy the hypotheses, and prop:pinned-rank-vacuity adds \(\log_3n-\omega(1)\) further forms per block. No randomness of \(C\) is used. So the dense-killer entry's proposed one-block case is settled when the block's width is within member pinning's capacity.

The smallest open case

One block of generic dense forms whose width \(h\) exceeds member pinning's capacity, for example \(h=n^{0.6}\), with a random prefix of \(t\approx\log_3n\) rows. No recorded argument covers it: pinning needs more forms than the capacity, type pinning needs a shared pigeon-side space (a single generic block of width \(h\) has interaction rank about \(\min(h,n)\)), and the light and column-statistic results need structure the block does not have.

No-go for vacuity

Every settled class was handled by making blocks vacuous on a residual: the block's clauses become consequences of Booleanity, collisions and pins because few zero patterns occur. For a generic dense block of width \(h\) this cannot work on any residual that is hard enough. The final system must have no refutation of degree \(4t+2\), since the clauses themselves have that degree. Weak graph PHP on \(r\) residual pigeons has a refutation of degree at most about \(r\), so the residual needs \(r=\Omega(t)\) pigeons and \(\Omega(t)\) free cells. Generic dense forms restricted to these cells stay generic linear forms in them. The \(h\) restricted forms then realize at least \(2^{\min(h,\Omega(t))}\) zero patterns. For \(h\ge c\,t\) with \(c\) large, that exceeds \(3^t\), and a random subspace of codimension \(t\) contains a nonzero realized pattern with probability close to 1. So the block is not vacuous, and its clauses constrain the residual. This is a heuristic count: "generic" is used for the restricted forms, and the pattern bound assumes they are in general position on the residual's cells. It matches what the capacity review observed.

What it means

The open core of A1 under random prefixes is now concrete. Already one wide generic dense block, with the clauses present and not vacuous, is beyond every recorded method. A proof must show the clauses harmless while they constrain the residual. The Nullstellensatz criterion of the dense-killer entry states that for a functional base as a span condition. The single wide block is its smallest nontrivial instance.

Next. A route review. The single wide dense block is the smallest open case, it needs a method that is not vacuity, and the record's non-vacuity tools (Taylor glue, the killer moment, member pinning) are for other settings. The review should weigh whether W_RS is the right target, since W with chosen prefixes may be easier for one wide block, where the chooser can adapt the prefix to the block's forms, against continuing with random prefixes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:member-pinning, thm:coherent-product-constraints, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity and the occupancy-pinning entry's capacity remark. The entry registers no claim; its no-go paragraph is marked as a heuristic count. It was not sent to a separate reviewer, because it proves nothing new and restates recorded results with a counting remark.

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Route review at the smallest open case, one wide dense block: chosen prefixes do not make it easier, generic blocks have no large rectangles on which they reduce to statistics, and the next target is one wide random block, where both the forms and the prefix are random and moment methods apply

26 September 2026 · Route review with pen tests · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-wide-block-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review at the smallest open case, one wide dense block: chosen prefixes do not make it easier, generic blocks have no large rectangles on which they reduce to statistics, and the next target is one wide random block, where both the forms and the prefix are random and moment methods apply”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-wide-block-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. Since the capacity review: the Nullstellensatz span criterion over the functional base (dense killer), and the reduction of the open core to one wide generic dense block (one dense block). Which target should the line take next?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS); the goal follows from it by thm:randomized-prefix-reduction. Open: families containing a dense block, and already one generic dense block wider than member pinning's capacity.

What the goal needs

W_RS, or W, for every family. The single wide block is necessary, since a family may consist of it alone. A method for it must keep the clauses present: the one-dense-block entry's count shows they are not vacuous on any residual hard enough.

Falsification attempt

Could chosen prefixes help? Under W, the chooser picks \(k\) forms \(S\) of the block, and the clauses \(g_i\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2\) forbid the points where every form in \(S\) is nonzero and some other form is zero. For a generic dense block with \(h\gg k\), almost every point has some zero form outside \(S\). So the clauses forbid about the fraction \((2/3)^k\) of points where the prefix is nonzero, whatever \(S\) is. A choice that made them derivable would need a prefix form that the base forces to vanish at low degree, a rigid form in the sense of prop:one-block-core, and generic dense forms are not rigid. So W is not visibly easier for one wide block than W_RS.

Could W_RS fail for one wide block? A low-degree refutation would have to use the forbidden points, a fraction about \(3^{-t}\) of the matchings with a random-looking pattern. No mechanism for that was found, and the Nullstellensatz count of the dense-killer entry is far below the fill point. W_RS is not falsified.

Assessment of the line

The random-prefix program has isolated its core to one object: a single wide generic dense block with a random prefix. Every recorded method either makes blocks vacuous (not possible here) or pins their forms (beyond capacity). The Nullstellensatz criterion states the core exactly but has no proof. The line is at a point where a new method is needed, not more classes. One step closer is the case where the block's forms are random too. Then both sources of randomness are available, and the A3 line's moment tools, which average over random forms, may apply.

Outside leads

Beame, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pitassi and Pudlák, "Lower bounds on Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and propositional proofs" (Proc. London Math. Soc. 73, 1996). Their designs for PHP extend to PHP with added counting axioms. Target: designs for weak PHP that also satisfy one wide block's clauses. Where it breaks: their added axioms are symmetric, and a generic block is not. Test. Not run: it needs their design construction adapted to non-symmetric constraints, which is the open question itself.
Alekhnovich and Razborov's R-operator, which tolerates extra constraints of bounded width on an expanding incidence graph. Target: one wide block. Where it breaks: the block's clauses read every cell. Test. Falsified, as recorded (prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework).
The killer-moment reduction (lem:product-top-moment-reduction, lem:low-rank-strata, lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound), for a block whose forms are also random. Target: one wide random block under random prefix. Where it breaks: the reduction is for product tops of degree 4 on the weak monomial algebra, and a clause has degree \(4t+2\) with a different product structure. Test. Passed on its hypothesis: its strata bounds need uniformly random forms, which a random block has. Whether the clause structure fits the reduction is the next step's question.

Absurd bridges

Zarankiewicz's problem and Ramsey-type rectangles. Translation: find a large rectangle \(P\times T\) of the board, \(|P|=s+1\), \(|T|=s\), on which every form of the block reduces to row and column statistics. Then restricting by a matching outside the rectangle makes the block's interaction part vanish there, and the chain residual would finish it. Theorems on unavoidable monochromatic rectangles would give the rectangle. Smallest test: the expected number of such rectangles for a generic block. Test. Falsified. For one form, lying in the row-plus-column space on \(P\times T\) is \(s(s-1)\) independent linear conditions over \(\mathbb F_3\). For \(h\) generic forms, the expected number of rectangles is about \(\binom{n+1}{s+1}\binom ns3^{-hs(s-1)}\le n^{2s+1}3^{-hs(s-1)}\), which tends to 0 as soon as \(hs(s-1)\ge(2s+2)\log_3n\), for example for \(h\ge1\) and \(s\ge3\log_3n\); the residual needs \(s=\Theta(t)\) with a large constant, which is above that. So generic blocks have no such rectangles.
Kolmogorov complexity: the incompressibility method. Translation: a random prefix matrix has \(t\cdot h\) trits of entropy. A low-degree refutation that works for many prefix matrices might compress them, as in incompressibility lower bounds. What it would give: that no single low-degree refutation serves more than a \(3^{-\Omega(th)}\) fraction of prefixes. Smallest test: whether refutations are few enough to compress. Test. Falsified. The number of degree-\(B\) refutations, as coefficient vectors over monomials of degree at most \(B\), is \(3^{n^{\Theta(B)}}\), far more than \(3^{th}\). So counting refutations cannot compress the prefix.

Bridge follow-up

Dilute quenched disorder, the Harris criterion. The dense-killer entry developed it into an exact Nullstellensatz span criterion over the functional base, with the count far below the fill point, but without a proof. Follow-up. Continuing: the criterion is exact, and whether dilute random clauses leave \(1\) outside the span is the open core.

Lead follow-up

No passed outside lead from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, one wide block with random forms. Take one block of \(h\) uniformly random dense forms with a uniformly random prefix matrix. Ask at the Nullstellensatz level, over the functional base, whether \(1\) avoids the span of the normal forms of its clauses. Try to write the probability that a fixed functional \(\chi\) kills all of them as a product over independent coordinates of the random forms, as lem:product-top-moment-reduction does for product tops, and decide whether the killer-moment strata bounds adapt. If they do, random wide blocks are settled at the Nullstellensatz level. That would be the first evidence on the core, short of adversarial forms and of PC.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:one-block-core, prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework, lem:product-top-moment-reduction and the strata lemmas, lem:ips-normal-form-ns-criterion and the one-dense-block entry. The rectangle count and the refutation count are pen computations given in the entry. The review registers no claim. It was not sent to a separate reviewer; its tests are counts, and its next step is a proposal.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 15.23 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	49.27 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 25.82 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

One wide block at the Nullstellensatz level: random pins on functional PHP follow a semi-regular Hilbert series exactly and refute only when the design space is used up, so the model predicts that one wide block of random forms is pinnable up to a quadratic count; over the functional base, pinning at any values fails for the bit-encoding block at degree 2

26 September 2026 · Finite check and conjecture, with a working-proof obstruction · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-random-wide-block. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One wide block at the Nullstellensatz level: random pins on functional PHP follow a semi-regular Hilbert series exactly and refute only when the design space is used up, so the model predicts that one wide block of random forms is pinnable up to a quadratic count; over the functional base, pinning at any values fails for the bit-encoding block at degree 2”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-random-wide-block.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The wide-block review took one wide block with random forms and a random prefix as the next case, at the Nullstellensatz level over the functional base, and proposed adapting the killer-moment reduction (its third outside lead). The missing implication for one block is a lower bound for weak PHP plus the block's clauses. Pinning every form of the block at a nonzero value makes all its clauses consequences of the pins, so the block reduces to the hardness of the base plus \(h\) pinned linear equations. How many pins can the functional base absorb, for random forms and for adversarial ones? Evidence that ends the test: the degree-\(d\) design dimension after each random pin, and whether \(1\) enters the span before the design space is used up.

General statement. conj:pin-semiregularity, with lem:pin-moment-formula, check:pin-semiregular-series, cor:random-wide-block-nullstellensatz and prop:bit-block-pinning-refutation.

Setting

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), FPHP\(^m_n\) is the functional base: Booleanity, collisions, functionality and rows \(1-\sum_jx_{ij}\). \(T_d\) is the set of partial injective maps of size at most \(d\), the multilinear monomials surviving collisions and functionality. A design of degree \(d\) is a functional \(\ell\) on \(\operatorname{span}T_d\) with \(\ell(\overline{t\,a})=0\) for every axiom \(a\) and \(t\in T_{d-1}\) with \(\deg(ta)\le d\), where the bar is reduction modulo Booleanity, collisions and functionality. A degree-\(d\) Nullstellensatz refutation exists if and only if every design has \(\ell(1)=0\). A pin is a linear equation \(y=L-q=0\), with \(L=\sum_{ij}a_{ij}x_{ij}\) and \(q\in\mathbb F_3\). Its multiples add the conditions \(\ell(\overline{t\,y})=0\) for \(t\in T_{d-1}\), where \(\overline{t\,x_{ij}}\) is \(t\) if \((i,j)\in t\), \(0\) if pigeon \(i\) or hole \(j\) is already used by \(t\), and \(t\cup\{(i,j)\}\) otherwise. A random pin has independent uniform \(a_{ij}\in\mathbb F_3\) and \(q\) uniform in \(\{1,2\}\).

Pin identity (Nullstellensatz form of lem:member-pinning's first step). Let a block have affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) and any prefix matrix \(C\) with \(t\) rows, and pin \(L_l=q_l\) with every \(q_l\ne0\). Then \(g_l=1-L_l^2=(q_l-L_l)(q_l+L_l)\), since \(q_l^2=1\). So each clause \(g_iQ^C\), of degree \(4t+2\), equals \((q_i-L_i)\cdot(q_i+L_i)Q^C\), a multiple of one pin by a polynomial of degree \(4t+1\). Substituting this in a degree-\(d\) Nullstellensatz refutation of a base plus the clauses gives one of the base plus the pins, of the same degree. The prefix plays no role. Since weak PHP has fewer axioms than the functional base, a lower bound for the functional base plus the pins at degree \(d\) is one for weak PHP plus the clauses.

The computation

The kernel ns_pins.c (FLINT, exact over \(\mathbb F_3\)) builds the rows of FPHP\(^{n+1}_n\) at degree \(d\) once per board, then adds random pins one at a time. After each pin it reports the design dimension (columns minus rank) and whether \(1\) is in the row span. Each batch of new rows is reduced against the existing reduced basis by one matrix product, so the old basis is never re-eliminated. Validation: the FPHP ranks equal those of the recorded kernel ns_orbits.c (functional variant, no symmetry) at \((5,4,d\le3)\), \((6,5,d\le3)\) and \((7,6,d\le2)\). As a negative control, FPHP\(^5_4\) at \(d=3>\lceil4/2\rceil\) is refuted with no pin, as Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's Theorem 2.9 requires.

Can the test decide? Two outcomes were possible. Early refutation: \(1\) enters the span while many designs remain, which would show a mechanism beyond counting. Refutation at fill: \(1\) enters only when the design space is used up. The boards reach \(d\le\lceil n/2\rceil\) with a nonzero FPHP design space (IPS). Every seed gives both numbers.

The semi-regular model. Let \(h_i\) be the Hilbert function of FPHP, so \(D_d=\sum_{i\le d}h_i\) is the design dimension at degree \(d\), with \(D_0=1\) and \(D_1=1+mn-m\). Model each pin as a generic element whose leading form \(y\) satisfies only \(y^3=0\), which it must, since \(L^3=L\) modulo Booleanity in characteristic 3. Each pin then divides the Hilbert series by \(1+z+z^2\). The model design dimension after \(h\) pins is \[D_d(h)=\sum_{i\le d}\Big[H(z)\,\frac{(1-z)^h}{(1-z^3)^h}\Big]_i,\qquad H(z)=\sum_ih_iz^i,\] and the model predicts refutation at the first \(h\) with \(D_d(h)\le0\). At \(d=2\) the \(k\)-th pin costs \(D_1-(k-1)=mn-m+2-k\): of its \(|T_1|=1+mn\) multiples, the \(m\) multiples by the row sums repeat it, and one Koszul syzygy with each earlier pin is lost. At \(d=3\) the first pin costs \(D_2-1\), where the \(-1\) is \((L-q)(L-q+1)(L-q+2)=L^3-L=0\), the Frobenius relation of \(L\).

Results (series.jsonl, run b523ffc1de; five seeds per board; model_check.txt from semiregular_model.py):

board	\(d\)	\(D_d\)	\(\|T_{d-1}\|\)	refuted at \(h\) (seeds)	model	designs left at refutation
\(5\times4\)	2	66	21	4, 5, 5, 5, 5	5	8, 0, 0, 0, 0
\(6\times5\)	2	190	31	10, 9, 10, 9, 9	10	0, 1, 0, 1, 1
\(7\times6\)	2	435	43	16, 15, 16, 16, 16	15	0 in all
\(8\times7\)	2	861	57	23 in all	23	0 in all
\(9\times8\)	2	1540	73	32 in all	32	0 in all
\(10\times9\)	2	2556	91	43 in all	43	0 in all
\(11\times10\)	2	4005	111	55 in all	55	0 in all
\(6\times5\)	3	470	331	3 in all	3	0 in all
\(7\times6\)	3	2080	673	6 in all	6	0 in all

By size: from \(8\times7\) at \(d=2\), and at \(7\times6\), \(d=3\), every seed follows the model exactly, both the design dimension after every pin and the threshold. On the smaller boards the deviation is at most one dimension: at the last pin for \(n\le6\), \(d=2\), and after the second pin in one seed at \(6\times5\), \(d=3\). Refutation came one pin early in four seeds: at \(5\times4\), seed 1, with 8 designs left, and at \(6\times5\), \(d=2\), seeds 2, 4 and 5, with 1 design left. At \(7\times6\), \(d=2\), four seeds were refuted one pin late (16 against 15). No refutation came early on any board with \(n\ge7\). The \(d=3\) boards sit at the IPS edge \(d=\lceil n/2\rceil\). A run at \(8\times7\), \(d=3\), below the edge, was refused by the launcher's argument-list guard and was not run. It is the missing check for degree 3 below the edge.

The simple count \(D_d/|T_{d-1}|\), from the plan, underestimates the threshold: 36 against 55 at \(11\times10\). The \(|T_{d-1}|\) multiples of a pin are far from independent, and the model gives their exact rank. The ratio of threshold to cells, \(h^*/(mn)\), rises from 0.41 to 0.50 over \(n=7,\dots,10\) at \(d=2\).

Relation to the record. ex:random-affine-conditioning-thresholds measured PC thresholds for weak PHP plus random affine equations, near \((n+1-2D)(n-1)+1\): 25, 36, 49, 64 at \(n=7,\dots,10\), \(D=2\). The thresholds here are 23, 32, 43, 55. The two settings differ in both directions: Nullstellensatz raises thresholds, the functional axioms and right-hand sides in \(\{1,2\}\) change them either way, so the numbers are not directly comparable; both are quadratic in \(n\). ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds found the same behaviour for random selectors \(1-L^2\) at PC degree 3: the threshold is set by the base's graded dimensions and the Frobenius syzygy, and there is no degree fall before the crossing. The new points are exact agreement of the whole design series with a closed model, at the Nullstellensatz level over the functional base, and the pin form of the model: the factor \((1-z)/(1-z^3)\), which is the \(\mathbb F_3\) degree-one analogue of the record's Conjecture SR (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, with \(1/(1+t)\) per degree-one form over \(\mathbb F_2\)). SR is a custom notion, not the standard semi-regularity of the literature (audit:semiregularity-source-scope), and so is this model.

The moment formula

Lemma (pin moment formula). Let \(\ell\) be a degree-\(d\) design of FPHP\(^m_n\), \(d\ge1\). Define the \(|T_{d-1}|\times mn\) matrix \(M_\ell\), \((M_\ell)_{t,(i,j)}=\ell(\overline{t\,x_{ij}})\). For a pin with uniform \(a\in\mathbb F_3^{mn}\) and any fixed \(q\in\mathbb F_3\), \[\Pr_a\big[\ell(\overline{t(L_a-q)})=0\ \text{for all }t\in T_{d-1}\big]=3^{-\operatorname{rank}M_\ell}.\] For \(h\) independent pins, the probability that \(\ell\) satisfies all of them is \(3^{-h\operatorname{rank}M_\ell}\). If moreover \(m>n\) and \(d\le\lceil n/2\rceil\), the expected number of designs with \(\ell(1)=1\) that survive \(h\) random pins is \(\sum_\ell3^{-h\operatorname{rank}M_\ell}\ge3^{D_d-1-h(mn-m+1)}\).

Proof. The conditions say \(M_\ell a=q\,v_\ell\), with \(v_\ell=(\ell(t))_{t\in T_{d-1}}\). For uniform \(a\) this holds with probability \(3^{-\operatorname{rank}M_\ell}\) if \(q\,v_\ell\in\operatorname{im}M_\ell\), and 0 otherwise. Let \(r_i\) be the indicator vector of row \(i\). Then \(M_\ell r_i=(\ell(\overline{t\sum_jx_{ij}}))_t=v_\ell\). If pigeon \(i\) is in \(t\), then \(\overline{t\sum_jx_{ij}}=t\) by Booleanity and functionality. Otherwise \(\ell(\overline{t\sum_jx_{ij}})=\ell(t)\) is the design condition for the row axiom times \(t\). So \(v_\ell\in\operatorname{im}M_\ell\) for every design, and the probability is \(3^{-\operatorname{rank}M_\ell}\) for every \(q\). Independence gives the product. The vectors \(r_i-r_{i'}\) lie in \(\ker M_\ell\) and span a space of dimension \(m-1\), so \(\operatorname{rank}M_\ell\le mn-m+1\). For \(m>n\) and \(d\le\lceil n/2\rceil\), FPHP has no degree-\(d\) refutation (IPS, Theorem 2.9), so some design has \(\ell(1)=1\), and those designs form an affine space of dimension \(D_d-1\). \(\square\)

This is the pin analogue of lem:product-top-moment-reduction. The strata are the values of \(\operatorname{rank}M_\ell\). The first-moment lower bound is at least 1 only for \(h<(D_d-1)/(mn-m+1)\), about 40 at \(11\times10\), \(d=2\), against the observed 55. A second moment would need, for most pairs of designs \(\ell,\ell+\delta\), a joint rank \(\operatorname{rank}\binom{M_\ell}{M_\delta}\) close to \(2\operatorname{rank}M_\ell\). That is the pin version of the killer-moment strata problem. This cycle does not attempt it.

The conjecture

Conjecture (pin semi-regularity). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(m=n+1\), \(1\le d\le\lceil n/2\rceil\), and let \(y_k=L_k-q_k\), \(k\le h\), be independent random pins. With probability \(1-o(1)\) as \(n\to\infty\), uniformly in \(d\) and \(h\), the degree-\(d\) design dimension of FPHP\(^m_n\) plus the pins equals the truncated model: \(D_d(h)\) up to the first \(h_0\) with \(D_d(h_0)\le0\), and \(0\) from \(h_0\) on. The weak form, which is all that is used below: with probability \(1-o(1)\), there is no degree-\(d\) Nullstellensatz refutation for \(h<h_0\). Scope of the evidence: right-hand sides uniform in \(\{1,2\}\); degree 2 at \(n\le10\) and degree 3 only at the IPS edge \(n=5,6\), so uniformity in \(d\) is extrapolation. The strong form already fails at \(n\le6\), where refutation came with 1 design left; it is meant asymptotically.

Corollary (random wide block, conditional). Assume the weak form at \((n,d)\), and \(h<h_0\). Take one block of \(h\) linear forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) with independent uniform coefficients, and any prefix matrix \(C\). Then with probability \(1-o(1)\) over the forms, weak unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) plus the block's randomized-prefix clauses has no Nullstellensatz refutation of degree \(d\). Proof. Draw \(q_l\) uniform in \(\{1,2\}\), independent of the forms. The pins \(L_l=q_l\) are then independent random pins, all at nonzero values. By the pin identity, a degree-\(d\) Nullstellensatz refutation of weak PHP plus the clauses gives one of FPHP plus these pins. The weak form of the conjecture excludes that with probability \(1-o(1)\) over forms and values, so for a \(1-o(1)\) fraction of the forms some choice of values works. \(\square\) For affine forms \(L_l=\lambda_l+c_l\) with constants \(c_l\ne0\), the pins \(\lambda_l=q_l-c_l\) with \(q_l\ne0\) have right-hand sides outside \(\{1,2\}\) in general. The moment formula does not depend on the right-hand side, but the computation tests only \(\{1,2\}\).

Scope: this is Nullstellensatz, not PC, and random forms, not adversarial ones. The corollary says something only when the clauses fit, \(d\ge4t+2\ge6\), so \(n\ge11\) by \(d\le\lceil n/2\rceil\), and no such degree was computed. The capacities below are model values at the tested degrees, not facts at clause degree. The random-core review parked random forms off the critical path. At \(d=2\) the observed capacity is about half the board at \(n=10\) and rising; if the model holds at \(d\ge6\), the capacity there is also quadratic. That is far above member pinning's \(\sqrt n/\log n\), but it is capacity for one block: a family of \(n^K\) blocks has total width above any quadratic count.

Adversarial forms: the bit-encoding block

Proposition (bit-block pinning refutation). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(J_1,\dots,J_\beta\subseteq[n]\) separate the holes, so that the vectors \(([j\in J_b])_b\) are distinct for distinct \(j\); \(\beta=\lceil\log_2n\rceil\) suffices. The bit-encoding block has the \((n+1)\beta\) forms \(L_{i,b}=\sum_{j\in J_b}x_{ij}\). For every \(q\in\mathbb F_3^{(n+1)\beta}\), FPHP\(^{n+1}_n\) plus the pins \(L_{i,b}=q_{i,b}\) has a PC refutation of degree 2, and a Nullstellensatz refutation of degree at most 3.

Proof. Multiply the pin \(L_{i,b}-q_{i,b}\) by \(x_{ij}\) and reduce by functionality and Booleanity. This gives \(x_{ij}([j\in J_b]-q_{i,b})\), at degree 2. If \(q_{i,b}\ne[j\in J_b]\), the constant is a nonzero element of \(\mathbb F_3\), and \(x_{ij}=0\) follows. Let \(H_i\) be the set of holes \(j\) with \([j\in J_b]=q_{i,b}\) for all \(b\). It has at most one element, by separation. The row axiom then gives \(1=0\) if \(H_i=\emptyset\), and \(x_{ij_i}=1\) if \(H_i=\{j_i\}\), at degree 1. There are \(n+1\) pigeons and \(n\) holes, so either some \(H_i\) is empty or \(j_i=j_{i'}\) for some \(i\ne i'\). In the second case, multiplying \(x_{ij}-1\) by \(x_{i'j}\) and using the collision \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) gives \(x_{i'j}=0\), against \(x_{i'j}=1\). \(\square\) Unrolled into one Nullstellensatz certificate, the collision step multiplies degree-2 lines by a cell, so the Nullstellensatz degree is at most 3.

Relation to the record. Over \(\mathbb F_2\), fixed label bits refute the functional base in the same way (cor:hierarchical-block-value-zero, where a fixed bitwise label indicator gives \(1-X_{ij}\)), and safe bit-linear systems are the exception that keeps it hard (cor:safe-linear-systems-keep-base-hard). Conjecture SR already treats unary images of bit-affine forms. The proposition is the \(\mathbb F_3\) row-local transport of that decoding mechanism, applied to pinning.

What it shows. The pin reduction pins every form of the block. It may use any values \(q\), not only nonzero ones: substituting \(g_l=\gamma_l+(\text{multiple of }L_l-q_l)\), with \(\gamma\) the zero pattern of \(q\), turns each clause into \(\gamma_i\prod_j(1-(C\gamma)_j^2)\) plus multiples of pins of degree at most \(4t+2\), and this value is 0 when \(\gamma=0\) or \(C\gamma\ne0\), which for a pattern fixed before \(C\) fails with probability \(3^{-t}\). The proposition covers every \(q\). So the functional pinning route fails on the bit-encoding block, a single block of \((n+1)\lceil\log_2n\rceil\) row-local forms. Its forms are constant on all rows but one, so member pinning's hypothesis (independence modulo constants on every row) excludes it. It is not light (its support is the whole board except the cells of a hole with the all-zero code), it is not a column statistic, and its forms are not row-sparse. It does not have low rank modulo a pinned set either: a set \(U\) of forms independent modulo constants on every row has at most \(n-1\) elements, since row \(i\) has \(n\) cells, so the block's rank modulo \(\operatorname{span}U\) is at least \((n+1)\beta-(n-1)\), far above \(\log_3n\). Whether its forms are square-equivalent to cells over the weak base was not checked; they are not cells. The refutation uses functionality. For the weak base, a row may hold \(1,4,7,\dots\) ones and the bit pins do not decode, so whether weak PHP plus the bit pins is hard is open. So an argument for this block must either use the weak base without functionality or not pin at all. Under W_RS this block forbids the matchings whose bit pattern (the zero pattern of the codes) lies in a random subspace. That resembles the random calibration, which the calibration review showed to be an instance of the main record's wide-clause line.

Together with the random data, this suggests a hypothesis for adversarial pinning. The random forms' refutations come with span elements supported on few rows (ex:random-affine-conditioning-thresholds records such an element 0 to 9 equations before refutation). The bit block's span consists of row-local forms. A row-robust condition, that every nonzero element of the span modulo the row sums and constants is nonconstant on many rows, is the natural hypothesis for adversarial pinning. It is not formulated as a claim here.

What it means

At the Nullstellensatz level over the functional base, random pins behave exactly semi-regularly at every tested size with \(n\ge7\): \(1\) enters only when the design space is used up. If that persists at clause degree \(d\ge6\), which was not computed, one wide block of random forms is harmless up to a quadratic width. Adversarial single blocks are different. Over the functional base, the bit-encoding block defeats pinning at every value, at degree 2. An explicit open case is the bit-encoding block under W_RS, over the weak base, unless it is square-equivalent to cells there.

Next. The bit-encoding block over the weak base. First, is weak PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) plus the bit pins \(L_{i,b}=q_{i,b}\), for a code assignment \(q\) injective on pigeons except one collision, refutable at low degree? That decides whether weak pinning survives where functional pinning fails. If it is refutable, pinning is closed for this block, and it needs a non-pinning argument: W_RS for one block that forbids a random \(3^{-t}\) fraction of the matchings by their bit patterns.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:member-pinning (the pin identity), lem:ips-normal-form-ns-criterion, IPS Theorem 2.9 (the negative control), ex:random-affine-conditioning-thresholds, ex:selector-semiregular-thresholds, conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base and the square-equivalence definition of thm:logarithmic-residual-w. Searched the index for random affine equations, pinning capacity, Hilbert series of generic forms, semi-regular thresholds, and (after review) fixed label bits and decoding; the last found the \(\mathbb F_2\) records now linked. Read conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base's newer versions, audit:semiregularity-source-scope and conj:partial-prefix-substitution-capacity. The kernel was validated against ns_orbits.c and the IPS control. Every number quoted is read by semiregular_model.py from series.jsonl. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the pin identity and its degree accounting, the any-value argument, the moment formula and rank bound, the per-pin costs and the table against the saved output, and the degree-2 refutation including \(q=2\). It required, all adopted: the early and late refutations at \(n\le6\) reported by seed; the first-moment wording; the IPS hypotheses in the lemma's statement; no forced order between the PC and Nullstellensatz thresholds; the conjecture's evidence scope and the truncated series; the corollary's unused hypothesis dropped and its vacuity at tested degrees stated; the Nullstellensatz degree of the bit-block refutation; an argument for the pinned-rank class and the square-equivalence claim withdrawn; the \(\mathbb F_2\) decoding records linked; and SR's newer versions read.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	28 min 3.24 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	10 min 55.29 s
Computation design and coding	7 min 55.51 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 38.61 s
Individually measured computation	3 min 33.69 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The super-hole lemma: pins on row-local forms reduce weak PHP to weak PHP with fewer holes whenever every pigeon's pinned values can be realized inside disjoint groups of holes; so the bit-encoding block, refuted at degree 2 when pinned over the functional base, is harmless over the weak base: this single block satisfies W and W_RS

26 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorems · open statement A1, one row-local block · cycle odd-prime-bit-block-weak. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The super-hole lemma: pins on row-local forms reduce weak PHP to weak PHP with fewer holes whenever every pigeon's pinned values can be realized inside disjoint groups of holes; so the bit-encoding block, refuted at degree 2 when pinned over the functional base, is harmless over the weak base: this single block satisfies W and W_RS”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-bit-block-weak.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The random-wide-block entry showed that over the functional base, pinning the bit-encoding block at any values is refuted at degree 2 (prop:bit-block-pinning-refutation), and left open whether the weak base, which has no functionality, survives the same pins. The missing implication for this block is a PC lower bound, at degree \(22k\), for weak PHP plus its W or W_RS clauses. By the pin identity it suffices that weak PHP plus pins of its forms at suitable values is hard. Evidence that ends the test: a low-degree refutation of the weak pinned system for every choice of values, or a reduction to a known hard system.

General statement. lem:super-hole-substitution, with cor:bit-block-weak-pinning.

Setting

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), weak unary PHP\(^m_n\) has Booleanity, collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) and linear rows \(\sum_jx_{ij}=1\), and no functionality. A form is row-local if it is supported in one row: \(L=\sum_ja_jx_{ij}\). For pigeon \(i\), let \(L_{i,1},\dots,L_{i,\beta_i}\) be row-local forms in row \(i\), with coefficient vectors \(a_{i,f}\in\mathbb F_3^n\), and pins \(L_{i,f}=q_{i,f}\). The code of hole \(j\) for pigeon \(i\) is \(w_{ij}=(1,a_{i,1}(j),\dots,a_{i,\beta_i}(j))\in\mathbb F_3^{1+\beta_i}\), and pigeon \(i\)'s target is \(\tau_i=(1,q_{i,1},\dots,q_{i,\beta_i})\).

The super-hole lemma

Lemma (super-hole lemma). Suppose there are pairwise disjoint hole sets \(B_1,\dots,B_{n'}\) and, for every pigeon \(i\) and \(k\le n'\), a set \(A_{ik}\subseteq B_k\) with \(\sum_{j\in A_{ik}}w_{ij}=\tau_i\). Then every PC refutation of degree \(D\) of weak PHP\(^m_n\) plus the pins yields a PC refutation of degree at most \(D\) of weak PHP\(^m_{n'}\). So if \(m>n'\ge1\), weak PHP\(^m_n\) plus the pins has no PC refutation of degree at most \(\lceil n'/2\rceil\). (For \(n'=0\) the rows map to \(-1\) and nothing follows.)

Proof. Substitute \(x_{ij}\mapsto y_{ik}\) if \(j\in A_{ik}\), and \(x_{ij}\mapsto0\) if \(j\) lies in no \(A_{ik}\). Since the \(B_k\) are disjoint, each \(x_{ij}\) receives at most one \(y\). The substitution has degree 1, so it maps a degree-\(D\) PC derivation to one of degree at most \(D\), provided each axiom maps into what weak PHP\(^m_{n'}\) derives at no larger degree.

Booleanity \(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}\) maps to \(y_{ik}^2-y_{ik}\) or to 0.
A collision \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) maps to 0 unless \(j\in A_{ik}\cap A_{i'k'}\). Then \(k=k'\), because \(j\) lies in only one \(B_k\), and the image is the collision \(y_{ik}y_{i'k}\).
The row \(\sum_jx_{ij}-1\) maps to \(\sum_k|A_{ik}|\,y_{ik}-1=\sum_ky_{ik}-1\), since the first coordinate of \(\sum_{j\in A_{ik}}w_{ij}=\tau_i\) says \(|A_{ik}|\equiv1\pmod3\).
The pin \(L_{i,f}-q_{i,f}\) maps to \(\sum_k\big(\sum_{j\in A_{ik}}a_{i,f}(j)\big)y_{ik}-q_{i,f}=q_{i,f}\big(\sum_ky_{ik}-1\big)\), a multiple of a row by a constant.

Weak PHP\(^m_{n'}\) is FPHP\(^m_{n'}\) without functionality, so it has fewer axioms. Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's Theorem 2.9 (ECCC TR97-042) gives FPHP\(^m_{n'}\), \(m>n'\ge1\), no PC refutation of degree at most \(\lceil n'/2\rceil\) over any field, as used in thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness. \(\square\)

The lemma needs no functionality anywhere. That is where it differs from prop:bit-block-pinning-refutation. Different pigeons may use different sets \(A_{ik}\) inside the same \(B_k\), and a hole shared by two pigeons' sets gives a collision of the same super-hole, which is an axiom.

The bit-encoding block

Number the holes \(0,\dots,n-1\), let \(\beta=\lceil\log_2n\rceil\), and let \(J_b\) be the holes whose binary code has bit \(b\) equal to 1. The bit-encoding block is one block of the \((n+1)\beta\) forms \(L_{i,b}=\sum_{j\in J_b}x_{ij}\), \(i\le n+1\), \(b\le\beta\). Every pigeon has the same codes, \(w_{ij}=(1,\mathrm{bits}(j))\).

Corollary (bit block over the weak base). Let \(r=\beta\) and let \(l\) be the least integer with \((2/3)^{l-1}r<1\), so \(l\le2+\ln r/\ln(3/2)\). Put \(n'=\lfloor2^{\beta-1}/(l\,(1+(\beta-1)+\binom{\beta-1}2))\rfloor\), which is at least \(n/(l\beta^2)-1\). Assume \(n\) is large enough that \(n'\ge1\); \(n\ge2l\beta^2\) suffices, while \(\beta=4\) gives \(l=5\) and \(n'=0\). For every \(q\) with \(q_{i,\beta}=0\) for all \(i\) (the top bit) and arbitrary \(q_{i,b}\in\mathbb F_3\) for \(b<\beta\), weak PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) plus the pins \(L_{i,b}=q_{i,b}\) has no PC refutation of degree at most \(\lceil n'/2\rceil\). Here \(n'=\Omega(n/(\log^2n\log\log n))\).

Proof. Work in the lower cube \(Q=\{0,1\}^{\beta-1}\): the holes \(0,\dots,2^{\beta-1}-1\), all \(<n\), whose top bit is 0. For \(x\in Q\) the star \(S(x)=\{x\}\cup\{x\oplus e_b:b<\beta\}\) has \(\beta\) codes. Their vectors \((1,x)\) and \((1,x\oplus e_b)=(1,x)\pm(0,e_b)\), restricted to the coordinates other than the top bit, span \(\mathbb F_3^{\beta}\), so they form a basis of \(\mathbb F_3^r\). Stars with centres at Hamming distance at least 3 are disjoint. A greedy choice of centres, each excluding the ball of radius 2 around it, gives at least \(2^{\beta-1}/(1+(\beta-1)+\binom{\beta-1}2)\) disjoint stars. Group them into \(n'\) blocks \(B_k\) of \(l\) stars each. By Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Proposition 3.1, as recorded in lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01, the union of \(l\) bases of \(\mathbb F_3^r\) with \((2/3)^{l-1}r<1\) is an additive basis: every vector is the sum of a subset. So every target \(\tau_i\), restricted to the non-top coordinates, is \(\sum_{j\in A_{ik}}w_{ij}\) for some \(A_{ik}\subseteq B_k\). The top coordinate of every code in \(Q\) is 0, which matches \(q_{i,\beta}=0\). The super-hole lemma applies with \(m=n+1>n'\). \(\square\)

When \(n=2^\beta\), the same construction on the whole cube allows every \(q\), top bit included, with \(r=\beta+1\) and \(l\), \(n'\) recomputed for it.

W and W_RS for this block. Pin every top-bit form at 0 and the other forms at any values. Each clause of the block is a polynomial in the block's forms; write each form \(L_f\) as \(q_f+(L_f-q_f)\) and telescope. Then a clause minus its value at the pins is a combination of pins whose products have degree at most the clause's formal degree in the forms, \(2|S|+2\) under W and \(4t+2\) under W_RS. Under W, the prefix set of the block is chosen existentially, so choose it to contain a top-bit form \(L_{f_0}\), which is possible since the block has \((n+1)\beta\ge k\) forms. Every clause \(g_u\prod_{v\in S}L_v^2\) then has value 0 at the pins, since \(L_{f_0}=0\) there. Under W_RS, with the clauses \(g_u\,Q^{C}\) of the randomized-prefix entry, \(Q^C=\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\), \(s=Cg\), the zero pattern \(\gamma\) of the pins is fixed before \(C\) and nonzero. The clauses' value \(\gamma_u\prod_j(1-(C\gamma)_j^2)\) is 0 unless \(C\gamma=0\), which has probability \(3^{-t}\). In both cases a degree-\(B\) refutation of weak PHP plus the block's clauses gives one of weak PHP plus the pins of degree \(\max(B,\text{clause degree})\), which is \(B\) at W's degree \(B=22k\ge2k+2\), and at any \(B\ge4t+2\) under W_RS. The corollary excludes it for \(B\le\lceil n'/2\rceil\), which holds at \(B=22k=\Theta(\log n)\) once \(n\) is large. So this single block satisfies W, and W_RS with probability \(1-3^{-t}\). (Read instead as \(n+1\) blocks of \(\beta<k\) forms, each block's prefix set is all its forms and it has no clauses.)

Scope

This is one block. The lemma pins every form of a family at once and needs, for each pigeon, targets realizable in every block \(B_k\). Summed over a family of \(n^K\) row-local blocks, a pigeon's codes can have rank up to \(n\), and realizing all targets needs \(|B_k|\ge\mathrm{rank}\), while the additive-basis route used here needs \(l\cdot\mathrm{rank}\). So the lemma reaches families whose row-local parts have per-pigeon rank at most about \(n^{1-\varepsilon}\), and only if the codes are spread: if some hyperplane of pigeon \(i\)'s code space contains all but few of its codes, the blocks cannot hold many bases. A combination constant on all but few cells of a row is a light form, which the light results handle. Dense blocks that are not row-local are untouched, since the substitution needs each form's restriction to be evaluated inside one row. Where the lemma applies, it is exactly the weak base's freedom (a pigeon may occupy 4 holes in a super-hole's realizing set) that makes the functional obstruction disappear.

What it means

The explicit block that defeats functional pinning is harmless over the weak base: this single block satisfies W as well as W_RS. The general form is a substitution: row-local pins turn into weak PHP with fewer holes, the hole groups acting as super-holes. For one block the capacity is large: \(\beta=\lceil\log_2n\rceil\) forms per pigeon, \((n+1)\beta\) in all, against member pinning's \(\sqrt n/\log n\) forms in total; whether spread row-local families of much larger per-pigeon rank also pin is the next step, not shown here.

Next. Extend the super-hole lemma from one block to families: row-local parts of per-pigeon rank at most \(n^{1-\varepsilon}\) with spread codes, by a random partition into super-holes, Edmonds' base packing and a union bound over pigeons and subspaces. Split off the non-spread part as light forms. Then ask whether dense forms can be brought to row-local ones on a residual, for example by restricting all but one cell per row. That is the step that would connect the lemma to the dense core.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:bit-block-pinning-refutation, thm:spare-pigeon-onto-hardness (the use of IPS Theorem 2.9 for weak PHP with more pigeons than holes), lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01 and its statement of Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Proposition 3.1, and the pin identity of lem:member-pinning. Searched the index for hole-grouping substitutions, row-local pinning over the weak base and additive bases; the closest records are the spare-pigeon substitution, the 0/1 realization lemma, lem:carry-chain-spare, which partitions the holes into parts of an onto system with fresh chain pigeons and does not imply the lemma, and thm:type-pinning, which restricts by pigeon types. A fresh-context reviewer found no record implying the lemma and confirmed the PC substitution axiom by axiom, the use of IPS Theorem 2.9 for any \(m>n'\), the star basis, disjointness, the greedy count, the bound on \(n'\), the recorded Alon–Linial–Meshulam condition and the top-bit handling. It required, all adopted: \(n'\ge1\) as a hypothesis, with the size condition in the corollary in place of an unused \(\beta\ge4\); the \(n=2^\beta\) remark's parameters; the clause's formal degree and \(\max(B,\cdot)\) in the W paragraph; the unused nonzero lower-bit values dropped; the one-block reading stated; the W_RS clause cited; clause indices renamed; the realizing-set size corrected; and "this single block" in the title and conclusion.

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Route review after the super-hole lemma: single blocks keep falling, but pinning a family is capped by per-pigeon rank and sparse boards cannot give every block a vanishing prefix form, so the smallest open family is many bit blocks with independent random codes

26 September 2026 · Route review with count tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-row-local-families. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the super-hole lemma: single blocks keep falling, but pinning a family is capped by per-pigeon rank and sparse boards cannot give every block a vanishing prefix form, so the smallest open family is many bit blocks with independent random codes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-row-local-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The last two cycles settled single blocks: one random wide block at the Nullstellensatz level, conditionally (random wide block), and the bit-encoding block for W and W_RS over the weak base (super-hole lemma). The proposed next step was to extend the super-hole lemma to families. Before that cycle, this review asks whether the extension can reach what the goal needs, and which family is the smallest one left open.

General statement. The line's claim is conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS) and W itself, for every family of \(n^K\) blocks; the goal follows by thm:randomized-prefix-reduction.

What the goal needs

Families of \(n^K\) blocks, with \(K\ge1\). Every single-block mechanism recorded so far (vacuity, member pinning, the super-hole lemma) works by making one block's clauses consequences of pins or of the base. A family needs all blocks handled at once, at degree \(22k=\Theta(\log n)\).

Falsification attempt: pinning a family

The super-hole lemma pins every form of the family at once. For pigeon \(i\), let \(\rho_i\) be the rank of its row-local forms across the family. Realizing a target in a super-hole \(B_k\) needs \(|B_k|\ge\rho_i+1\), so \(n'\le n/(\rho+1)\). A random partition does worse. With super-holes of size \(s\), the Edmonds condition for \(l\) disjoint bases must hold in every block against every hyperplane of the pigeon's code space, about \(3^{\rho}\) of them. A union bound then needs about \(\rho\) codes outside each hyperplane in each block, so \(s\gtrsim\rho^2\), and the closure that removes non-spread codes costs \(\rho\,n\ln n/s\) holes per pigeon. So the random route reaches \(\rho\lesssim\sqrt{n/\ln n}\). A family of \(n^K\) bit blocks with independent random codes has \(\rho_i=n-1\) for every pigeon once \(n^K\beta\ge n\). Its pins then fix every cell of every row, and the pinned system is refuted at degree 2. So pinning cannot handle such families.

Could W_RS fail for them? Each block's clauses forbid the matchings whose zero pattern of codes lies in a random subspace of codimension \(t\), a fraction \(3^{-t}\le n^{-K-1}\), so the family forbids at most a fraction \(1/n\) in expectation. No low-degree refutation mechanism for such a sparse random forbidden set is known. W_RS is not falsified.

Assessment of the line

The line settles blocks one at a time: light, column statistics, pinned rank, random wide blocks at the Nullstellensatz level, and now row-local bit blocks. Each method's capacity is set by one block or by per-pigeon rank, and families of many blocks exceed every one of them. The random bit family is a clean instance of that core. All its forms are row-local and each has about \(n/2\) cells. It is the binary-label shape of the main record's bit-PHP line, over \(\mathbb F_3\) and with polynomial inventory. The single-block results were real progress; the family core has not moved.

Outside leads

Edmonds' base packing with Alon, Linial and Meshulam's additive bases (the super-hole lemma's tools), applied to a whole family. Target: A1 for families of row-local blocks. Where it breaks: per-pigeon rank. Test. Falsified for polynomial families by the count above: \(\rho_i=n-1\) makes the pins fix every cell. The same count allows families of per-pigeon rank up to about \(\sqrt{n/\ln n}\) with spread codes.
The main record's affine flat avoidance (cor:generic-affine-flat-avoidance-hardness: uniform binary codimension-\(\log N\) flats at inventory \(M\le N/8\) keep PHP hard through degree \(\lfloor(N+1)/2\rfloor-M\)). Target: random bit families under W_RS, which forbid random \(\mathbb F_3\) flats of binary position labels. Where it breaks: the degree loss is the inventory. Test. Falsified for polynomial inventories: with \(M=n^K>N/2\) the bound is vacuous.
Razborov's pseudo-reduction for PHP (Comput. Complexity 7, 1998), which proves PC lower bounds for PHP\(^m_n\) by a degree-\(d\) operator that kills all axiom multiples. Target: an operator for the weak base that also kills the random bit family's clauses. Where it breaks: the operator's reduction rules use the pigeon axioms, and a clause of a row-local block is a function of all pigeons' positions. Test. Not run: the weak-base operator is not constructed. The functional-base operator (the IPS basis) cannot serve bit-block pins, which are refuted at degree 2 there, although the clauses are not pins.
The forced sparse board (prop:forced-sparse-board: W for families with every hole block is W on chooser-picked boards of hole degree \(k\)). Target: W for random bit families, by a board on which every block has a prefix form that vanishes. Where it breaks: few forms vanish on a board of degree \(k\). Test. Falsified by count. A pigeon's form \(L_{i,b}\) vanishes on the board if all its about \(k\) holes have bit \(b\) equal to 0, with probability about \(2^{-k}\) for balanced random codes. A pigeon's neighbourhood then serves about \(n^K\beta2^{-k}\) blocks, all pigeons together \((n+1)n^K\beta2^{-k}\), which is below \(n^K\) once \(k>\log_2((n+1)\beta)\). W's \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\) is above that.

Absurd bridges

Quantum chemistry: N-representability (Coleman, Rev. Mod. Phys. 35, 1963; Klyachko's generalized Pauli constraints, 2006). Translation: a degree-\(d\) design of weak PHP is a \(d\)-body reduced density matrix of a hard-core system, with collisions as Pauli exclusion. A refutation of degree \(d\) says that no such matrix extends consistently, and the random bit family adds forbidden configurations. What it would give: Klyachko's constraints describe exactly which one-body matrices are representable. Smallest test: do the constraints survive in characteristic 3? Test. Falsified: they are linear inequalities over \(\mathbb R\), designs over \(\mathbb F_3\) have no order or positivity, and the translation loses the only content.
Coding theory: list recovery of random linear codes (Guruswami and Indyk; Rudra and Wootters). Translation: block \(b\) forbids the matchings whose pattern lies in the random code \(\ker C_b\), and the family is \(n^K\) independent random codes of codimension \(t\). List-recovery theorems bound how many codewords a small set of candidates can hit. What it would give: any set of \(N\) matchings meets the forbidden sets of few blocks, a sparsity of active blocks that gluing arguments need. Smallest test: the expected number of blocks active on a fixed set of \(N\) matchings. Test. Passed as a count: at most \(Nn^K3^{-t}\le N/n\) in expectation. Whether degree-\(d\) designs can be localized to such small sets is the open part.

Bridge follow-up

Dilute quenched disorder, the Harris criterion. The random-wide-block entry found exact semi-regularity for random pins at the Nullstellensatz level: dilute random linear constraints cost only dimension until the design space is used up (conj:pin-semiregularity). The random bit family is the cleanest dilute-disorder instance of the adversarial core, with random codes in place of random forms. Follow-up. Continuing: the Harris picture is the heuristic for the random bit family, and no proof mechanism has come from it yet.

Lead follow-up

The killer-moment reduction for a random block. Developed into lem:pin-moment-formula: a fixed design survives a random pin with probability exactly \(3^{-\operatorname{rank}M_\ell}\). The second moment needs joint-rank strata of pairs of designs, and the setting is random forms, off the critical path. Follow-up. Closed: the adversarial core has no randomness in the forms for the moment to use.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes: the random bit family. Take \(n^K\) blocks, each the forms \(\sum_{j\in J_{b,f}}x_{ij}\) over all pigeons \(i\), with independent uniform sets \(J_{b,1},\dots,J_{b,\beta}\). Its W_RS clauses are functions of the pigeons' positions only, so weak PHP plus them is weak PHP plus random \(\mathbb F_3\) flat avoidance on binary labels. Compare it exactly with the main record's bit-PHP flat-avoidance line, and find the step of cor:generic-affine-flat-avoidance-hardness's proof where the inventory enters the degree loss. Then ask whether a loss of order \(3^{-t}\) per flat, instead of 1, is possible at density \(3^{-t}\le n^{-K-1}\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the super-hole lemma and its corollary, prop:forced-sparse-board, the collective-core review's assessment and the summary of cor:generic-affine-flat-avoidance-hardness. The tests are counts given in the entry. The review registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer; its falsified items are counts, and its next step is a proposal.

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The random bit family is the random calibration: over the functional base its W_RS clauses are an affine factor times a negated random linear system, product replay costs one degree per block, and what remains is Tor vanishing for width-\(t\) tops whose forms lie in the bit-indicator span

26 September 2026 · Analysis, no new theorem · open statement A1 under random prefixes, the random bit family · cycle odd-prime-random-bit-family. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The random bit family is the random calibration: over the functional base its W_RS clauses are an affine factor times a negated random linear system, product replay costs one degree per block, and what remains is Tor vanishing for width-\(t\) tops whose forms lie in the bit-indicator span”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-random-bit-family.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The row-local review named the random bit family as the smallest open family and proposed comparing it with the main record's flat-avoidance line: where does the inventory enter that proof's degree loss, and can the loss per flat be of order \(3^{-t}\) instead of 1?

General statement. conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS), for the random bit family; no new claim.

The family and its clauses

The random bit family has \(M=n^K\) blocks. Block \(b\) has the \((n+1)\beta\) row-local forms \(L_{b,(i,f)}=\sum_{j\in J_{b,f}}x_{ij}\), with independent uniform sets \(J_{b,f}\subseteq[n]\), and a uniform prefix matrix \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times(n+1)\beta}\). Over the functional base, \(L^2-L\) lies in the ideal of Booleanity and functionality at degree 2 for every 0/1 row-local form, the case of row subset indicators in thm:functional-affine-Booleanity-classification. So \(g_{b,u}=1-L_{b,u}^2\equiv1-L_{b,u}\), and \(s_{b,j}=\sum_uc_{ju}g_{b,u}\) is affine. Replacing each \(g\) inside the clause costs no more than the clause's degree. So each clause equals, modulo the functional base at degree at most \(4t+2\),

\[(1-L_{b,u})\prod_{j\le t}\big(1-s_{b,j}^2\big),\]

of degree \(2t+1\). It vanishes except where the \(t\) affine forms \(s_{b,j}\) all vanish and \(L_{b,u}=0\). So block \(b\) is a negated random linear system of codimension \(t\) in the cells, restricted to the bit-indicator span, and the family is weak PHP plus \(n^K\) of them. That is the random calibration, which the calibration review identified with the main record's wide-clause line. Nothing about the bit structure makes it easier. The span of all bit indicators of one block already has dimension \((n+1)\beta\), and \(n^K\) blocks together span the whole cell space.

Where the inventory enters

The proof of cor:generic-affine-flat-avoidance-hardness (main record, over \(\mathbb F_2\), inventory \(M\le N/8\)) is weighted replay. A greedy trace produces one old weight \(f\) with charge \(t_f\le M\), \(f\notin I_{t_f}\), and \(f\chi_c\in I_{t_f+r}\) for every flat \(c\). A refutation of the enlarged base at degree \(E\) then gives one of the old base, weighted by \(f\), at degree \(E+t_f\). The loss is the charge, at least one unit for each flat the trace must annihilate. For W_RS the same accounting is lem:randomized-block-annihilator: product weights cost at most 2 per block, and a nonvacuous block cannot cost 0, since a constant weight annihilates a clause only if the clause is already derivable. So product replay loses at least one degree per nonvacuous block. At \(n^K\) blocks that exceeds any degree. A loss of order \(3^{-t}\) per block would need a weight that is not a product, and conj:replay-weight-barrier conjectures that no weight certifies random families at \(K\ge1\). The answer to the review's question is no, for every recorded weight.

What remains

The record sends A1 at \(K\ge1\) to degree-free absorption: Tor vanishing and gluing. For the random bit family, the tops are \(\ell\prod_{j\le t}s_j^2\) with \(\ell\) and \(s_j\) linear in the bit-indicator span of one block. These are the objects of open statements A2 and A3, width-\(t\) clause tops through degree \(22k\), with one change: the forms are drawn from a subspace of dimension \((n+1)\beta\) of the \((n+1)n\)-dimensional cell space, not from the whole space. The recorded evidence for random tops (conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra, thm:generic-top-directness) uses uniform forms or generic forms on a group-stable set. The bit-indicator span of a block is neither, so that evidence does not cover the family.

What it means

The row-local line ends where every other line of this thread ends: at the random calibration. The only new information is a reformulation. For the random bit family, A1 is A2 and A3 with forms restricted to a random row-local subspace. That gives a concrete test of whether restricted structure hurts: the recorded semi-regularity checks for squares of forms, rerun with forms drawn from the span of one block's bit indicators.

Next. The degree-4 semi-regularity test of ex:selector-degree-four-semiregular (rank of \(\Phi_4\) against Frobenius plus Koszul) with the \(M\) forms drawn uniformly from the span of one bit block's indicators, at the recorded sizes \(n=7,8\). A deficit below the fill point would show that row-local structure breaks the Taylor route even for random codes. Agreement would extend the random-top evidence to this family.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the proof of cor:generic-affine-flat-avoidance-hardness in the main notebook, lem:randomized-block-annihilator, conj:replay-weight-barrier, thm:taylor-glue, thm:functional-affine-Booleanity-classification, conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra and the calibration review. The entry registers no claim and restates recorded results. It was not sent to a separate reviewer, since it proves nothing new.

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The degree-4 restricted-form test is declined, since no outcome at \(n\le8\) bears on degree \(22k\); and one quadratic pin per block, the W_RS form of single-form pinning, reduces W_RS to weak PHP plus \(n^K\) quadratic equations true at a reference point, a route capped below \(K=4\)

26 September 2026 · Decision and analysis, no new theorem · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-bit-span-semiregular. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The degree-4 restricted-form test is declined, since no outcome at \(n\le8\) bears on degree \(22k\); and one quadratic pin per block, the W_RS form of single-form pinning, reduces W_RS to weak PHP plus \(n^K\) quadratic equations true at a reference point, a route capped below \(K=4\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-bit-span-decision.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The random-bit-family entry proposed rerunning the degree-4 semi-regularity test of ex:selector-degree-four-semiregular with forms drawn from one bit block's indicator span, at \(n=7,8\). Should it run, and what else can the prefix randomness buy for families?

General statement. conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS); no new claim.

The test is declined

Can it decide? What the family needs is Tor vanishing through degree \(22k=\Theta(\log n)\) for width-\(t\) tops. The test measures degree-4 syzygies of squares at \(n=7,8\). A deficit there would say only that restricted forms fill a smaller image \(A_2\cdot\operatorname{Sym}^2U\) early, which is not predictable from the uniform fill point and does not bound what happens at logarithmic degree; agreement would add one more small case to the random-top evidence. Neither outcome changes the missing implication. The recorded script (phi4.py) also nests Python loops three deep and took 27 minutes at \(n=8\), so it would need a new compiled kernel for an answer of no consequence. Under rule 9 the test is not run.

One quadratic pin per block

Under W_RS, every clause of block \(b\) is \(g_{b,u}\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_{b,j}^2)\), with \(s_{b,j}=\sum_uc_{ju}g_{b,u}\) a uniformly random combination of the block's zero indicators, random because \(C_b\) is. For any \(j\) and any \(v\ne0\), \(1-s_{b,j}^2=(1-v^2)-(s_{b,j}-v)(s_{b,j}+v)\) with \(1-v^2=0\). So every clause of the block is a multiple of the single quadratic pin \(s_{b,j}-v\), at degree at most the clause's \(4t+2\). Fix a reference point \(x^*\), for instance a matching of \(n\) of the pigeons. For each block, choose \(j_b\) with \(s_{b,j_b}(x^*)\ne0\), which exists unless \(S_b(x^*)=0\), and pin \(s_{b,j_b}=s_{b,j_b}(x^*)\). If \(g_b(x^*)\ne0\), that is, some form of the block vanishes at \(x^*\), such a \(j_b\) exists unless \(C_bg_b(x^*)=0\). The pattern of \(x^*\) is fixed before the \(C_b\), so this fails for some block with probability at most \(n^K3^{-t}=o(1)\). A block with \(g_b(x^*)=0\) has every form nonzero at \(x^*\), so \(S_b(x^*)=0\) and no single quadratic pin at \(x^*\) kills its clauses; it needs a pin on every form, as in member pinning. So, for families in which every block has a form vanishing at \(x^*\), W_RS follows from:

weak PHP\(^{n+1}_n\) plus \(n^K\) quadratic equations, one per block, each a random element of the block's span of zero indicators, all true at \(x^*\), has no PC refutation of degree \(22k\).

This is the W_RS form of cor:single-form-pinning, which pins one prefix form per block at 0 under W, and the pinning form of conj:near-solution-chooser. Its capacity is capped as obs:deciding-designs-capped caps affine pins. Quadratic equations true at \(x^*\) that span the quadratics modulo the base determine every cell's value, including \(x_{ij}=x_{ij}^2\), so they force \(x=x^*\), and the violated row of \(x^*\) refutes at degree about 2. The quadratic space of the weak base has dimension of order \(n^4\), so the route stops below \(K=4\). Structured blocks stop it earlier: blocks whose zero indicators are cells give linear equations in cells, and \(n^2\) of them already force every cell. The cell classes are settled by restriction, so the route would have to be combined with the settled classes, as every pinning route in this thread has been.

What it means

Prefix randomness lets one pin per block replace pinning every form, and lowers the constraint degree from \(4t+2\) to 2. It does not remove the polynomial cap that every pinning route in the record has. The goal needs every \(K\), and a pin of fixed degree \(e\) caps the route at about \(n^{2e}\) pins. Degrees growing with \(K\) are possible in the same way, pinning \(\prod_{j\in E_b}(1-s_{b,j}^2)=0\) for chosen sets \(E_b\) of size \(e\). Those are negated systems, not pins, and hardness of weak PHP plus \(n^K\) planted constraints of degree \(4e\) is again the calibration, now planted at \(x^*\).

Next. A route review of the thread's open statements. The last cycles settled single blocks and met polynomial caps at every family-level route. The review should weigh the planted-constraint view (weak PHP plus \(n^K\) dense constraints satisfied by a near-matching) against the recorded sparse-constraint lower-bound methods, and decide whether A1 stays the highest-risk item to work on, or whether A2, A3 or S1 offer a better next step.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:single-form-pinning, conj:near-solution-chooser, obs:deciding-designs-capped, lem:randomized-block-annihilator and the timing record of phi4.py in the degree-four session. The pin identity is one line, given in the entry. The entry registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer; it proves no new result and records a decision and a reduction onto recorded caps.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 36.39 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 50.91 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 9.86 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	35.42 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: every family-level route in the record stops at a polynomial cap, the family core is weak PHP plus \(n^K\) dense constraints planted at a near-matching, and the natural invisibility lead fails because zero indicators are Boolean: a block's forbidden set is hidden only below degree about \(t/\log_3h\), a constant for polynomial widths

26 September 2026 · Route review with count tests · open statements W and A1 · cycle odd-prime-planted-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: every family-level route in the record stops at a polynomial cap, the family core is weak PHP plus \(n^K\) dense constraints planted at a near-matching, and the natural invisibility lead fails because zero indicators are Boolean: a block's forbidden set is hidden only below degree about \(t/\log_3h\), a constant for polynomial widths”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-planted-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the row-local review: the random bit family was identified with the random calibration (random bit family), and one quadratic pin per block was found to reduce W_RS to weak PHP plus \(n^K\) quadratic equations true at a reference point, capped below \(K=4\) (bit-span decision). Does A1 remain the item to work on, and with which mechanism?

General statement. The line's claim is W (the central open statement) through its randomized-prefix weakening conj:randomized-wide-clause; the goal follows by thm:randomized-prefix-reduction.

What the goal needs

W_RS for every family of \(n^K\) blocks of adversarial forms, at PC degree \(22k=\Theta(\log n)\), for every fixed \(K\). Open statements A2 and A3 (width and degree of Tor vanishing) and S1 (the window) are the alternatives. The record identifies each of them with the same core: A2 and A3 are A1's degree-free form, and S1's gluing needs a lag bound whose known proof path is the reduction to W.

Falsification attempt: is there a family-level mechanism?

This session's cycles and the record give one list, each item with its cap:

pinning every form (member pinning, super-holes): capped by the forms' rank, \(\sqrt n/\log n\) in total or per pigeon;
pinning one form per block (cor:single-form-pinning) or one random quadratic per block (bit-span decision): capped below \(n^{2e}\) pins for pins of degree \(e\), since pins spanning the degree-\(e\) space fix every cell;
weighted replay: at least one degree per nonvacuous block (lem:randomized-block-annihilator), and conjecturally no weight works at \(K\ge1\) (conj:replay-weight-barrier);
vacuity on a residual: fails for dense blocks on any residual hard enough (one dense block);
sparse boards: cannot give every block a vanishing prefix form once \(k>\log_2((n+1)\beta)\) (row-local review).

Every cap is polynomial in \(n\) with an exponent fixed by the mechanism, and the goal needs every \(K\). What is left after the reductions is one statement. Choose a near-matching \(x^*\) and, per block, the constraint \(\prod_{j\in E_b}(1-s_{b,j}^2)=0\) for a set \(E_b\) of \(e\) prefix rows with some \(s_{b,j}(x^*)\ne0\). Then weak PHP plus these \(n^K\) dense constraints, all true at \(x^*\), must have no refutation of degree \(22k\). This is the planted view: the calibration with a planted near-solution. W_RS is not falsified. No refutation mechanism for a planted sparse forbidden set is known, and prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust shows only that measure alone does not decide.

Assessment of the line

A1's single-block and class results are complete enough: every structured class tried in this session fell, several to new tools (spare pigeon, carry chain, type pinning, super-holes). The family core has not moved in any cycle, and every family-level route ends at a polynomial cap. The goal is a superpolynomial Res(Lin) lower bound for PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), which the literature leaves open. The family core is the thread's version of that open problem, not a technical gap left by one missing lemma. The line should now spend cycles only on mechanisms that have no polynomial cap by construction: ones that use the prefix randomness collectively rather than one block at a time.

Outside leads

Ben-Sasson and Impagliazzo, "Random CNF's are hard for the polynomial calculus" (Comput. Complexity 19, 2010), which works in characteristic other than 2 through a binomial change of variables and expansion of the clause–variable graph. Target: the planted view with random constraints. Where it breaks: expansion needs constraints of bounded width. Test. Falsified: every constraint here reads every cell (width \(\Theta(n^2)\)), so the incidence graph has no expansion.
Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, "Sum of squares lower bounds for refuting any CSP" (STOC 2017): a predicate that supports a \(\tau\)-wise uniform distribution gives degree lower bounds, because a low-degree test cannot see it. Target: A1's family core, through the prefix randomness. Block \(b\) forbids the zero-indicator vectors \(g\ne0\) with \(Cg=0\). Where it breaks: SOS is over \(\mathbb R\), the variables \(g\) are functions of a matching, and \(g\) is Boolean, not uniform in \(\mathbb F_3^h\). Test. Falsified for wide blocks. Over \(\mathbb F_3^h\), the cosets \(v+\ker C\) are \((d^\perp-1)\)-wise uniform with \(d^\perp\ge h/4\) for random \(C\) when \(h\ge Ct\), but the zero indicators take values in \(\{0,1\}\). On \(\{0,1\}^h\), the Möbius coefficients of \(f=[Cg=0]\) are \((-1)^{|S|}\) for every \(S\) smaller than \(\delta(C)\), the least size of a nonempty set of columns of \(C\) with sum 0, because \(f(1_T)=0\) for \(0<|T|<\delta(C)\). So \(f=\prod_i(1-g_i)+(\text{monomials of degree}\ge\delta(C))\), and the forbidden set's indicator \(f-\prod_i(1-g_i)\) is hidden only below degree \(\delta(C)\). A fixed nonempty \(T\) has \(C1_T=0\) with probability \(3^{-t}\), so \(\delta(C)\approx t/\log_3h\): about \((K+1)/2\) for \(h=n^2\), a constant.
Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall's designs as pigeon dances around a near-matching (ECCC TR97-042). Target: designs planted at \(x^*\), supported on the points that differ from \(x^*\) by alternating chains of length at most \(d\). Where it breaks: dense constraints change value along short chains. Test. Falsified. Changing \(O(d)\) cells changes a random dense quadratic \(s_{b,j}\) by a nonzero amount with probability at least \(1/3\) for each block, so evaluation-based designs near \(x^*\) violate a constant fraction of the \(n^K\) constraints; only designs that are not mixtures of nearby evaluations remain.

Absurd bridges

Statistical physics: quiet planting (Krzakala and Zdeborová, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 2009). Below the condensation threshold, a random constraint ensemble with a planted solution is contiguous to the unplanted one, so planting changes no typical property. Translation: the W_RS family is a random constraint ensemble on matchings; pinning or constraining at \(x^*\) plants a near-solution. What it would give: the planted view loses nothing, and a proof may use the planted point without paying for it. Smallest test: whether the density is far below any threshold. Test. Passed as a count. Each block forbids a fraction at most \(3^{-t}\le n^{-K-1}\) of any fixed distribution on points with \(g\ne0\), so \(n^K\) blocks forbid at most \(1/n\) in expectation. The planted and unplanted conditional laws of the prefix matrices then differ by \(O(1/n)\) in total variation, by the same first-moment count.
Random simplicial complexes (Linial and Meshulam's homological connectivity of random 2-complexes). Translation: designs of PHP relate to cycles of the chessboard complex (the recorded chessboard-cycle identification), and forbidding matchings would delete a random sparse set of top faces. What it would give: sparse random deletions keep the relevant homology, so designs survive. Smallest test: whether the constraints are face deletions at all. Test. Falsified. A constraint is a dense polynomial, and every one of its multiples has nonzero coefficients on essentially every \(d\)-face, so it is not the deletion of a sparse face set. The translation carries no content.

Bridge follow-up

Dilute quenched disorder, the Harris criterion. This review's quiet-planting bridge is its planted form: the disorder is dilute (forbidden fraction at most \(1/n\)), so planting is free at the level of measures. Follow-up. Continuing: dilution is established as a count, and what is missing is a mechanism turning dilution into degree; this review's invisibility lead, the natural candidate, was falsified.
List recovery of random linear codes. Each set of \(N\) matchings meets at most \(N/n\) forbidden sets in expectation. Follow-up. Closed: degree-\(d\) designs are not localized to small sets of matchings, since each constraint's multiples touch every \(d\)-face, so a bound on active blocks per small set of points has no use in a design argument.

Lead follow-up

No passed outside lead from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3, the route to which the record sends A1 at \(K\ge1\). Every family-level route of A1 ends at a polynomial cap, and the invisibility of a block's forbidden set is only of constant degree. The most concrete open step of degree-free absorption is the main term of conj:product-top-killer-moment, which no recorded method reaches. Take up its strata that the recorded lemmas do not cover (functionals of contraction rank above \(u_0\) and low analytic rank), and test the recorded partition-rank route (imp:Janzer-finite-field-partition-rank) against the exact numbers of ex:selector-degree-four-semiregular before any new computation.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the open statements, cor:single-form-pinning, obs:deciding-designs-capped, lem:randomized-block-annihilator, conj:replay-weight-barrier, prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust and the one-dense-block entry. The dual-distance bound, the Möbius computation for Boolean indicators, the chain-change count, the quiet-planting count and the face count are given in the entry. The Boolean correction was made before the review was appended: the first draft applied the coset computation to \(\mathbb F_3^h\). The review registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer; its tests are counts, and its next step is a proposal.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 25.46 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 25.26 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Correction of the planted review: its sufficient statement, one constraint \(\prod_{j\in E_b}(1-s_{b,j}^2)=0\) per block, also forbids the points where no form of the block vanishes, and is false for families with many single-form or duplicate-form blocks; a literature pass finds no new method for odd primes, and the killer-moment step is not taken

26 September 2026 · Correction and literature pass, no new theorem · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-killer-main-term. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Correction of the planted review: its sufficient statement, one constraint \(\prod_{j\in E_b}(1-s_{b,j}^2)=0\) per block, also forbids the points where no form of the block vanishes, and is false for families with many single-form or duplicate-form blocks; a literature pass finds no new method for odd primes, and the killer-moment step is not taken”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-planted-correction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The planted review proposed the main term of conj:product-top-killer-moment as the next step. Is that step on the critical path? Is there recent literature the record lacks? And is the review's "planted view" a correct statement of the family core?

General statement. conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS); no new claim.

The killer-moment step is not taken

The killer-moment review found the line productive but off the critical path. Product tops sharing one form lose directness at \(B\) of order \(N^2m^2\), far below the fill of order \(N^4\), and those are exactly A1's adversarial families. The planted review sent A1 there only because the record routes A1 at \(K\ge1\) to degree-free absorption. No computation informs the main term cheaply either: at the smallest nonvacuous size, \(N=5\), \(m=2\), the fill point is about 3 tops, and an exact \(\pi(\chi)\) at \(N=6\) needs \(3^{24}\) pairs of forms. The step is therefore not taken.

Literature pass

A search for 2025–2026 work on DAG-like resolution over parities or linear equations found two sources not in the record, besides those it already cites (arXiv:2609.23015, arXiv:2511.20023, the Bhattacharya–Chattopadhyay bounds):

Efremenko and Itsykson, "Strong ETH holds for bounded-depth resolution over parities" (ECCC TR25-188): bounds of the form \(2^{(1-\varepsilon)n}\) for depth-\(n\) Res(\(\oplus\)), by lossless lifting with a distinct random gadget on each variable.
Itsykson and Knop, "Supercritical tradeoff between size and depth for resolution over parities" (ITCS 2026): exponential size or superlinear depth, by lifting Buss and Thapen's width–depth tradeoff.

Both work over \(\mathbb F_2\), and on lifted formulas, not on pigeonhole principles. Neither treats Res(Lin\(_{\mathbb F_p}\)) for odd \(p\). One analogy was checked: W_RS's prefix \(C_b\) is a random linear map, like a random gadget. It is not a lifting gadget in their sense, since it mixes all of a block's zero indicators instead of acting on one variable. The recorded conclusion of audit:odd-prime-endpoints-novelty-check stands: no superpolynomial DAG-like Res(Lin\(_{\mathbb F_p}\)) bound for PHP is known at odd \(p\).

Correction of the planted view

The planted review stated the family core as one sufficient statement: weak PHP plus, per block, the constraint \(\prod_{j\in E_b}(1-s_{b,j}^2)=0\), all true at a near-matching \(x^*\), has no refutation of degree \(22k\). The constraints do imply every W_RS clause, since each clause \(g_u\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\) is a multiple of the product over \(E_b\). But the implication is strict. The product also equals 1 where \(g_b=0\), that is, where no form of the block vanishes, and the clauses allow those points. For a block with one form \(L\) and \(c_{j}\ne0\) for some \(j\in E_b\), the constraint is \(1-g_1=0\), that is, \(L=0\). A family with \(n^2\) such blocks on independent cell forms forces every cell, and the planted system is refuted at degree about 2. Blocks of duplicated forms behave the same way. Under W_RS those blocks are vacuous, since \(g_1[g_1=0]=0\). So the planted statement is false for every \(K\ge2\), and it is not a correct core for all families.

What survives. The exact content of block \(b\)'s clauses is \([C_bg_b=0]-[g_b=0]=0\): points whose zero pattern is a nonzero vector of \(\ker C_b\) are forbidden, and nothing else. The review's list of family-level routes and their polynomial caps is unaffected, and so is its assessment. Its sufficient statement holds, at best, for families from which the settled classes have been removed, and no self-contained description of that remainder is recorded. The bit-span decision's one-pin reduction already carried the corresponding restriction (families in which every block has a form vanishing at \(x^*\)).

What it means

The family core has no correct self-contained statement stronger than W_RS itself, and every strengthening tried so far is false on structured families that W_RS makes vacuous. A strengthening that is to be true must keep the exception \(g_b=0\), which is the source of the clauses' high degree.

Next. State the family core correctly. Find a condition on blocks, satisfied after the settled classes are removed, under which \([g_b=0]\) is derivable at low degree or rare in the right sense, so that the planted constraints are true consequences, and test it against single-form, duplicate-form, cell and bit blocks before using it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the planted review, the bit-span decision, the killer-moment review, thm:randomized-prefix-reduction and audit:odd-prime-endpoints-novelty-check. Read the abstracts of the two new sources. The counterexample to the planted statement is a one-line computation given in the entry. The entry registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer; it corrects a statement and records a literature pass.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 10.76 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 36.27 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 34.89 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 22.73 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	36.67 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The covering identity: the planted constraint \(Q^C=0\) equals W_RS's clauses plus the covering axiom "some form of the block vanishes", \(\prod_uL_u^2=0\), at degree \(2h+4t\); the extra axiom is the block's own line, harmful for single-form and duplicate blocks

26 September 2026 · Working proof of an identity · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-core-statement. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The covering identity: the planted constraint \(Q^C=0\) equals W_RS's clauses plus the covering axiom "some form of the block vanishes", \(\prod_uL_u^2=0\), at degree \(2h+4t\); the extra axiom is the block's own line, harmful for single-form and duplicate blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-covering-identity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The planted correction found that the constraint \(Q^C=[Cg=0]=0\) per block is stronger than W_RS and false on families of single-form blocks. It asked for a correct statement of the family core. What exactly does the planted constraint add to W_RS?

General statement. lem:planted-covering-identity: for every block, \(Q^C\equiv G+\sum_u\big(\prod_{u'<u}(1-g_{u'})\big)g_uQ^C\), so the planted constraint equals the W_RS clauses plus \(\prod_uL_u^2=0\) at degree \(2h+4t\).

The identity

Over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak base, let a block have affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\), zero indicators \(g_u=1-L_u^2\), prefix \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\), \(s_j=\sum_uc_{ju}g_u\), \(Q^C=\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\), and let \(G=\prod_u(1-g_u)=\prod_uL_u^2\), the indicator that no form vanishes. Degrees are unreduced degrees of the products written, which bound the degrees under multilinear PC too.

Lemma (covering identity). Modulo the weak base, \[Q^C\equiv G+\sum_{u\le h}\Big(\prod_{u'<u}(1-g_{u'})\Big)\,g_uQ^C,\] with every product of degree at most \(2h+4t\). Hence, for \(D\ge2h+4t\), the degree-\(D\) PC closures of the base plus \(Q^C\) and of the base plus the W_RS clauses \(g_uQ^C\) plus the covering axiom \(G\) coincide.

Proof. In characteristic 3, \(L^3-L=\sum_ia_i(x_i^3-x_i)\) exactly, by Frobenius, a combination of Booleanity at degree 3. So \(g_u^2-g_u=L_u^4-L_u^2=L_u(L_u^3-L_u)\) at degree 4, and \(g_uG=g_u(1-g_u)\prod_{u'\ne u}(1-g_{u'})\equiv0\). Each \(s_j\) is a combination of the \(g_u\), so \(s_jG\equiv0\), \((1-s_j^2)G\equiv G\) and \(Q^CG\equiv G\). The telescoping identity \(1-G=\sum_ug_u\prod_{u'<u}(1-g_{u'})\) is exact. So \(Q^C=Q^CG+Q^C(1-G)\equiv G+\sum_u\prod_{u'<u}(1-g_{u'})\,g_uQ^C\), and every term has degree at most \(2(h-1)+2+4t\). For the closures: each clause \(g_uQ^C\) is a multiple of \(Q^C\) of degree \(4t+2\le2h+4t\), and the identity derives \(G\) from \(Q^C\) and the clauses, and \(Q^C\) from \(G\) and the clauses, within degree \(2h+4t\). Only Booleanity and characteristic 3 are used. \(\square\)

What it says about the core

The planted strengthening is W_RS plus one covering axiom per block, \(G=0\): "some form of the block vanishes", which is the Res(Lin) line of the block itself. The identity makes the planted correction's counterexample exact.

A single-form block has \(G=L^2\). From \(L^2=0\), multiplying by \(L\) and using \(L^3-L\) gives \(L=0\) at unreduced degree 3. Its W_RS clause is \(g_1[c\,g_1=0]\), vacuous when the column \(c\) of \(C\) is nonzero.
A block of two equal forms has \(G\equiv L^4\equiv L^2\) modulo the base, so the same happens. Its W_RS clauses are vacuous when some \(c_{j1}+c_{j2}\ne0\).

For a block whose forms have affine rank \(r\), \(G\) agrees with a function of degree \(2r\) on the base's points, but deriving that from the given axiom may still cost degree about \(2h\). The identity gives the equivalence at degree \(2h+4t\) and does not exclude it at lower degree. For wide blocks, with \(2h>22k\), the covering axiom itself cannot occur in a degree-\(22k\) refutation, while \(Q^C\) has degree \(4t<22k\). Whether \(Q^C\) is harmless there at degree \(22k\) is not decided by the identity. The record contains no self-contained statement of the family core stronger than W_RS that is known to be true. Per block, W_RS forbids exactly the points whose zero pattern lies in \(\ker C\setminus\{0\}\), that is, \(Q^C-G=0\) as a function; its clauses are degree-\((4t+2)\) generators, and the identity recovers \(Q^C-G\) from them together with \(G\) only at degree \(2h+4t\).

What it means

The exception \(g=0\) that the clauses keep is the block's own line, "some form vanishes". The randomized-prefix reduction trades that line, of width \(h\), for clauses of degree \(4t+2\) that are silent where no form vanishes. Re-importing the line is harmful for single-form and duplicate blocks, which W_RS makes vacuous. Whether every stronger core must re-import the line, and whether the line is harmful only for low-rank blocks, is not shown here.

Next. Re-read the logarithmic-prefix reduction (logarithmic-prefix reduction) and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction at the step where a line becomes clauses, and determine whether the reduction could keep a cheap surrogate of the line (such as \(Q^C\)) for blocks of high rank only, with a degree accounting. If it can, the core for high-rank families becomes the planted statement, which can then be tested; if not, record why.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the planted correction, the planted review, thm:randomized-prefix-reduction (its identity \(1-Q^C=\sum_i\beta_ig_i\)) and lem:consistent-choice. Searched the index for covering axioms and vanishing-form conditions; lem:consistent-choice is the nearest and concerns prefix choice at a point, not covering. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the Frobenius step, the telescoping identity, \(Q^CG\equiv G\) and the degree bound, and found no unused hypothesis. It required, all adopted: the closure bound \(D\ge2h+4t\) (without "+2") with the degree convention stated; degree 3 for the single-form consequence and the conditions under which W_RS makes single-form and duplicate blocks vacuous; the row example dropped, since a row of distinct cells has full rank; the rank-\(r\) remark qualified; and the overclaims in the title, the core section and the conclusion removed or marked as not shown.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 4.05 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 4.95 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 58.96 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The reduction keeps no cheap surrogate of a line: its companions are defined from the prefix forms alone, so where every prefix form is nonzero the image asserts only that every other form is nonzero too, and naming a vanishing non-prefix form costs the line's own degree

26 September 2026 · Analysis, no new theorem · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-line-surrogate. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The reduction keeps no cheap surrogate of a line: its companions are defined from the prefix forms alone, so where every prefix form is nonzero the image asserts only that every other form is nonzero too, and naming a vanishing non-prefix form costs the line's own degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-line-surrogate.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The covering identity showed that the planted constraint \(Q^C=0\) is W_RS plus the block's own line, "some form vanishes". Could the reduction keep a low-degree surrogate of the line for high-rank blocks, so that the family core becomes the planted statement for them?

General statement. conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS), with lem:planted-covering-identity; no new claim.

Where the line goes

In the logarithmic-prefix reduction, a Res(Lin) refutation compiles into complete accuracy-one blocks with a PC refutation of degree \(4p-1\). The partial prefix then substitutes each block's companions by expressions in the forms of the prefix set \(S_b\) only, and the block becomes the clauses \(g_{b,i}Q_b\), \(i\notin S_b\), with \(Q_b=\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^{p-1}\). On the event \(Q_b=1\), where every prefix form is nonzero, those clauses say that every other form is nonzero too. The image of the block there is the negation of its line. The line survives only through the prefix: a point satisfies the image when some prefix form vanishes, or when no form vanishes at all. The randomized version keeps the same structure, with \(Q^C\) in place of \(Q_b\) (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction).

A surrogate that forbids \(Q_b=1\) outright would need, on that event, a vanishing form among the \(h_b-k\) non-prefix forms. The substitution can name it only by a polynomial that selects it, and selecting one of \(h_b-k\) forms by its zero pattern has degree about \(2(h_b-k)\), the degree of the line itself. By the covering identity, the one cheap candidate, \(Q^C=0\), adds exactly the line, and it matches the image plus the line only at degree \(2h+4t\). So the reduction supplies no low-degree surrogate of the line, for blocks of any rank. Proving hardness with a stronger target (image plus \(Q^C=0\)) would still suffice logically, since a stronger target's hardness implies the image's. But that stronger statement is false on low-rank blocks and undecided on high-rank ones, and nothing in the reduction makes it available cheaply.

What it means

The exception \(g=0\) in W_RS is not an artefact of a choice. It is the trade the prefix makes: a line of width \(h\) becomes clauses of degree \(O(k)\) by giving up the line where the prefix is silent. The family core stays W_RS as stated.

Next. A route review is due soon. Until then, on A1 under random prefixes: bound how much a degree-\(22k\) refutation can use the event where a block's prefix is silent. On that event the block's image forces every form nonzero, which, for independent uniform forms, holds on a fraction about \((2/3)^{h-k}\) of the event. Ask whether that forced non-vanishing, rather than the forbidden kernel patterns, is what low-degree refutations of dense families would exploit, and test it against the recorded attack families.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the logarithmic-prefix reduction's theorem and proof, thm:randomized-prefix-reduction and lem:planted-covering-identity. The entry registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer; it is an analysis of a recorded reduction and states no new result.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	1 min 38.78 s
Marked reading and review windows	53.70 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	44.95 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Quiet planting made exact: a Nullstellensatz design supported where every block takes few zero patterns survives all randomized-prefix clauses with high probability, by a union bound over patterns rather than points; with the recorded support bound \(2^{D-1}\), a count suggests dense families are never that pattern-poor

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a proposition, with a rediscovered lemma and an obstruction count · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-silent-prefix. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Quiet planting made exact: a Nullstellensatz design supported where every block takes few zero patterns survives all randomized-prefix clauses with high probability, by a union bound over patterns rather than points; with the recorded support bound \(2^{D-1}\), a count suggests dense families are never that pattern-poor”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-pattern-poor-support.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The planted review's quiet-planting bridge passed as a count: the random prefixes forbid at most a fraction \(1/n\) of any fixed distribution, so planting a point costs nothing in measure. Can a design be planted, that is, built from evaluations at points that the random prefixes allow? And the line-surrogate entry asked how much a refutation can use the points where a block's prefix is silent. Designs that avoid forbidden points answer both at once, for the Nullstellensatz.

General statement. prop:pattern-poor-support: for every family and every design support fixed in advance, the clauses vanish on the support except with probability \(3^{-t}\) times the number of nonzero zero patterns the family takes there.

Support size (recorded)

Every linear functional on multilinear polynomials of degree at most \(D\) can be written as \(\sum_{x\in X}a_x\,\mathrm{ev}_x\) over Boolean points; \(X\) can be taken inside the whole cube. By lem:Boolean-design-point-support-lower-bound (main record), every such realization of a degree-\(D\) Nullstellensatz design of an unsatisfiable system whose non-Booleanity generators have degree at most \(\gamma\) has at least \(2^{D-\gamma+1}\) points: a point isolated by at most \(\lfloor\log_2|X|\rfloor\) literals, times a violated generator, would otherwise have nonzero value. For weak PHP \(\gamma=2\), so \(|X|\ge2^{D-1}\). This cycle first proved a weaker form (\(|X|>2^{D-2}\), from the fact that every function on \(s\) Boolean points has degree at most \(\log_2s\)), which is the same isolation argument applied to all functions; it is a rediscovery and is not registered.

Pattern-poor supports

Proposition (pattern-poor support). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\ell=\sum_{x\in X}a_x\,\mathrm{ev}_x\) be a degree-\(D\) Nullstellensatz design of weak unary PHP\(^{n+1}_n\), with \(X\) fixed before the prefixes are drawn. For a family of blocks fixed in advance, let \(P_b(X)=\{g_b(x):x\in X\}\setminus\{0\}\) be the nonzero zero patterns block \(b\) takes on \(X\), and draw uniform \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h_b}\). Then with probability at least \(1-3^{-t}\sum_b|P_b(X)|\), weak PHP plus all randomized-prefix clauses \(g_{b,u}Q^{C_b}\) has no Nullstellensatz refutation of degree \(D\). The clauses can occur in such a refutation only if \(4t+2\le D\); otherwise the statement is trivial.

Proof. At a Boolean point \(x\), the clause \(g_{b,u}Q^{C_b}\) takes the value \(g_{b,u}(x)\,[C_bg_b(x)=0]\), which is nonzero only if \(g_b(x)\ne0\) and \(C_bg_b(x)=0\). For a fixed nonzero pattern \(p\), \(\Pr[C_bp=0]=3^{-t}\). A union bound over blocks and their nonzero patterns on \(X\), which needs only that \(X\) and the blocks are fixed before the \(C_b\), shows that with the stated probability every clause vanishes at every point of \(X\). Then \(\ell(\mu\,g_{b,u}Q^{C_b})=\sum_xa_x\mu(x)g_{b,u}(x)Q^{C_b}(x)=0\) for every multiplier \(\mu\), so \(\ell\) is a degree-\(D\) design of the enlarged system. \(\square\)

Relation to the record. The main record's pointwise lift (support budget, obs:pointwise-lift-inactive-regime) chose ENS coefficients making every companion vanish at every support point, with a union bound over support points, and showed that the support bound keeps that certificate inactive for unary PHP. The proposition is the W_RS analogue with the union bound taken over zero patterns instead of points. Patterns can be far fewer than points, so it can be active where the pointwise count is not. It also relaxes prop:bounded-column-vacuity, which needs few patterns on all collision-free points and then makes the clauses derivable; here few patterns are needed only on one design's support. It is a Nullstellensatz statement: a PC lower bound needs more than a functional killing the axiom multiples.

The obstruction for dense families

The union bound needs \(\sum_b|P_b(X)|<3^t\), about \(n^{K+1}\) at W_RS's \(t\), so each of \(n^K\) blocks may take only about \(n\) zero patterns on \(X\). But \(|X|\ge2^{D-1}\ge2^{4t+1}\) when the clauses are usable. Pattern-poverty needs each block's zero indicators, not its forms, to be nearly constant on \(X\). Forms that never vanish on \(X\) give one pattern. So the obstruction is not about values: \(X\) must be a large set, of at least \(2^{4t+1}\) points and with no low-degree interpolation, on which every block's forms have nearly fixed vanishing status. For a family whose forms include \(n^2\) generic dense forms, sets on which they all keep a fixed vanishing status are cut out by \(n^2\) conditions of the type \(L\ne0\) or \(L=0\). A count suggests that such sets are either too small or too structured to support a design. This is a heuristic count, not a proof. It shows only that this union bound fails, not that the clauses fail to vanish on some support, and it is the vacuity no-go of the one-dense-block entry transported from residual boards to design supports.

What it means

Quiet planting has an exact form: plant the whole design, not a point, and count patterns, not points. It works when the family is pattern-poor on some design's support, and it gives only Nullstellensatz bounds. For dense families, the count suggests no support is pattern-poor enough. As far as this union bound goes, the quiet-planting bridge is closed as a mechanism for the dense core.

Next. A route review is due (this is the fourth research entry since the planted review). It should take stock of the session's A1 results, report the quiet-planting bridge as closed as far as the pattern union bound goes, give the Harris bridge's state, and choose between the remaining open statements with fresh outside leads.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:bounded-column-vacuity, the one-dense-block entry's no-go, thm:randomized-prefix-reduction and the planted review's quiet-planting bridge; after review, lem:Boolean-design-point-support-lower-bound with its proof and the pointwise-lift support-budget obstruction in the main notebook. The first search, for design supports, order shattering, interpolation degree and pattern union bounds, missed lem:Boolean-design-point-support-lower-bound and obs:pointwise-lift-inactive-regime; the reviewer found them. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the interpolation argument, the union bound and the clause values, and found no record implying the pattern version. It required, all adopted: the support consequence labelled as a weaker rediscovery of the recorded lemma, with \(2^{D-1}\) used throughout; the missed matches stated; \(\gamma\) as the degree of the non-Booleanity axioms; the unused hypothesis \(4t+2\le D\) removed from the proposition; the obstruction restated for zero indicators and limited to the failure of the union bound; and the overclaims in the title, status line and conclusion qualified.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 32.08 s
Marked reading and review windows	56.59 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 36.98 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 58.37 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.15 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: the family core is W_RS exactly as stated, every stronger form tried is false or capped, both open bridges are closed as mechanisms, and the one line with an exact model, pin semi-regularity, is the place to test whether any semi-regularity statement is provable here

26 September 2026 · Route review with count tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-session-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the family core is W_RS exactly as stated, every stronger form tried is false or capped, both open bridges are closed as mechanisms, and the one line with an exact model, pin semi-regularity, is the place to test whether any semi-regularity statement is provable here”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-session-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the planted review: its planted statement was corrected (planted correction); the correction was made exact (covering identity, lem:planted-covering-identity); the reduction was shown to keep no cheap surrogate of a line (line surrogate); and quiet planting became a union bound over patterns (pattern-poor support, prop:pattern-poor-support). Where does the line stand, and what next?

General statement. The line's claim is W through conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS); the goal follows by thm:randomized-prefix-reduction.

What the goal needs

W_RS for every family of \(n^K\) blocks at PC degree \(22k\), every \(K\). Per block, W_RS forbids exactly the points whose zero pattern lies in \(\ker C_b\setminus\{0\}\). The exception \(g_b=0\) is the price of the prefix: a stronger statement re-imports the block's line, which is false on single-form and duplicate blocks (covering identity).

Falsification attempt

Could W_RS itself fail on a family that the session's tools leave open, such as the random bit family? Its forbidden set has measure at most \(1/n\), and prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust shows that measure alone does not decide. No low-degree mechanism exploiting a random sparse set of forbidden kernel patterns was found. Nor was one found exploiting the forced non-vanishing on silent prefixes (line surrogate). Not falsified.

Assessment of the line

This session's A1 results are complete for the classes they target, but the family core has not moved. Every route to the core now has a recorded cap or obstruction:

pinning, by rank or by degree (\(n^{2e}\) pins of degree \(e\));
replay, at one degree per block;
vacuity on residuals, and now on design supports (pattern count against the support bound \(2^{D-1}\));
sparse boards, by a count;
stronger core statements, by the covering identity.

The DAG review's verdict stands: the thread needs a mechanism native to characteristic 3. The session's positive results that are not class results are both at the Nullstellensatz level: pin semi-regularity (conjectural, with an exact model) and pattern-poor supports. Prospects on the critical path are weak, and this assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Razborov's pseudo-width ("Resolution lower bounds for perfect matching principles", J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 69, 2004), which proves resolution lower bounds for PHP with many pigeons by measuring clauses after random partial matchings. Target: a direct DAG-like Res(Lin\(_{\mathbb F_3}\)) route, avoiding PC. Where it breaks: linear lines keep rank under restrictions. Test. Falsified: the Res(Lin) analogue of pseudo-width is rank modulo rows after a random matching restriction, which is the recorded graph criterion (graph criterion), and that criterion leaves the window of intermediate projected rank.
Buss, Grigoriev, Impagliazzo and Pitassi, "Linear gaps between degrees for the polynomial calculus modulo distinct primes" (J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 62, 2001). Target: degree lower bounds for systems with counting constraints. Where it breaks: their gaps need the counting modulus to differ from the characteristic. Test. Falsified: W_RS's negated equations and the field are both modulo 3.
Forbes, Shpilka, Tzameret and Wigderson, "Proof complexity lower bounds from algebraic circuit complexity" (Theory of Computing 17, 2021), IPS lower bounds for restricted circuit classes. Target: Res(Lin) refutations read as IPS certificates built from products of affine forms. Where it breaks: their hard instances are subset-sum-type axioms. Test. Falsified for this goal: the lower bounds cover \(\sum_ix_i=\beta\) with \(\beta\) outside the range, and PHP has no such form; the record lists no transfer.
A Nullstellensatz form of the reduction for depth-restricted Res(Lin): unfold a refutation of depth \(d\) and track Nullstellensatz degree \(O(d)\), where the counts are favourable. Target: the goal for low-depth refutations. Test. Falsified: every refutation already has depth \(\Omega(n)\) by Part and Tzameret's tree-like bound (bounded-depth correction), and PHP's own Nullstellensatz degree is \(O(n)\), so a degree that grows like \(11d\) reaches no depth that refutations can have.

Absurd bridges

Compressed sensing: the spark and null-space property of a random measurement matrix (Donoho and Elad, PNAS 2003). Translation: \(C_b\) is a measurement matrix and forbidden patterns are nonzero kernel vectors. A matrix of spark \(\sigma\) has no nonzero kernel vector of weight below \(\sigma\), so supports on which every block has fewer than \(\sigma\) vanishing forms survive deterministically, without a union bound. What it would give: a certain version of prop:pattern-poor-support for sparse patterns. Smallest test: the spark of a uniform \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\) restricted to Boolean vectors. Test. Falsified. The least nonempty zero-sum set of columns has size about \(t/\log_3h\) (pattern-poor support entry), a constant for polynomial widths, while a matching zeroes about \(h/3\) forms of a dense block.
Density Hales–Jewett and large subcubes in dense sets (Furstenberg and Katznelson; Polymath). Translation: the allowed set has density at least \(1-1/n\) in the cube, so it contains large structured subsets, which could serve as design supports. What it would give: a support inside the allowed set without a pattern count. Smallest test: can a subcube support a design? Test. Falsified. A subcube of dimension \(r\) interpolates every function at degree \(r\), so by lem:Boolean-design-point-support-lower-bound a design needs support well beyond one subcube of dimension below \(D\). A union bound for a subcube of dimension \(D\) to lie in the allowed set costs about \(2^D/n\), and \(2^D\ge2^{4t+2}\ge n^{2.5(K+1)}\) at W_RS's \(t\), so the bound exceeds 1.

Bridge follow-up

Dilute quenched disorder, the Harris criterion. Its two developments turned dilution into degree only in special cases: random pins (conj:pin-semiregularity, Nullstellensatz, random forms) and pattern-poor supports (prop:pattern-poor-support, Nullstellensatz, pattern-poor families). Follow-up. Closed: for adversarial dense families no mechanism converts dilution into degree, and the pattern count suggests the natural one cannot.
Quiet planting. Developed into prop:pattern-poor-support: plant the whole design and count patterns. Follow-up. Closed: exact for pattern-poor families; for dense families the pattern count against the support bound suggests the union bound fails.

Lead follow-up

No passed outside lead from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes, through the only session line with an exact model. Prove the first case of conj:pin-semiregularity: at degree \(d=2\), for every \(n\), random pins on FPHP\(^{n+1}_n\) have design dimension \(D_2-h(D_1)+\binom h2\) while it is positive. Try an explicit pin family achieving the model rank together with the recorded genericity argument (prop:generic-square-tops-degree-four's open-condition method), and see whether the method extends to degree 3. The aim is to learn whether any semi-regularity statement is provable in this setting, which every degree-free route of A1 would need.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the entries named in the question, the DAG review's assessment, the bounded-depth correction and prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust. The tests are record checks and counts given in the entry. The review registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer; its falsified items are counts, and its next step is a proposal.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 48.78 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 52.35 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 56.30 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

A sufficient condition for pin semi-regularity at degree 2: FPHP plus pins has no degree-2 Nullstellensatz refutation whenever the pins' linear parts are independent modulo rows and have only Koszul syzygies in the explicit degree-2 quotient, a direct sum over pairs of rows of zero-diagonal matrices modulo row and column sums

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a sufficient condition; the Koszul condition stays open · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-pin-degree-two. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “A sufficient condition for pin semi-regularity at degree 2: FPHP plus pins has no degree-2 Nullstellensatz refutation whenever the pins' linear parts are independent modulo rows and have only Koszul syzygies in the explicit degree-2 quotient, a direct sum over pairs of rows of zero-diagonal matrices modulo row and column sums”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-pin-degree-two.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The session review asked for the first case of conj:pin-semiregularity: at degree \(d=2\), for every \(n\), do random pins on FPHP\(^{m}_n\) avoid a Nullstellensatz refutation while the model \(D_2-hD_1+\binom h2\) is positive? The aim is to learn whether any semi-regularity statement is provable here.

General statement. lem:pin-degree-two-reduction: for every field, \(n\ge3\), and affine pins whose linear parts are independent modulo row sums and have only Koszul syzygies in \(R_2\), FPHP\(^m_n\) plus the pins has no Nullstellensatz refutation of degree 2.

Setting

Over any field, let \(A\) be the span of the monomials of \(T_2\) (injective partial maps of size at most 2), with the product \(\ast\) of polynomials of degree at most 1 reduced by Booleanity, functionality and collisions; it is commutative. Put \(Q_i=1-\rho_i\), \(\rho_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\) the row sum, and let \(J=\operatorname{span}\{Q_i,\ x_c\ast Q_i\}\), the degree-2 Nullstellensatz consequences of the rows. A pin is \(L'_k=\ell_k+c_k-q_k\), with \(\ell_k\) linear in the cells. A degree-2 Nullstellensatz refutation of FPHP plus the pins exists if and only if \(1\in J+\sum_k\operatorname{span}\{L'_k,\ x_c\ast L'_k\}\).

Let \(V\) be the cell space modulo the row sums, \(\dim V=m(n-1)\). For a cell \(c\) outside row \(i\), \(x_c\ast Q_i=x_c-y_{c,i}\) with \(y_{c,i}=x_c\ast\rho_i\), the sum of the products of \(x_c\) with the cells of row \(i\) outside \(c\)'s column. For a cell \(c\) in row \(i\), \(x_c\ast Q_i=0\). Let \(M=\operatorname{span}\{y_{c,i}\}\) and \(R_2=A_2/M\), with \(A_2\) the degree-2 part of \(A\).

The structure of \(R_2\)

\(A_2\) is the direct sum over pairs of rows \(i<i'\) of the spaces \(P_{ii'}=\operatorname{span}\{x_{ij}x_{i'j'}:j\ne j'\}\), which are zero-diagonal \(n\times n\) matrices. The \(y_{c,i}\) with \(c\) in row \(i'\) are the column sums of such matrices, and the \(y_{c,i'}\) with \(c\) in row \(i\) are the row sums. For \(n\ge3\), a combination \(\sum_{j'}\alpha_{j'}(\text{column }j')+\sum_j\beta_j(\text{row }j)\) vanishes on every off-diagonal entry \((j,j')\) exactly when \(\alpha_{j'}+\beta_j=0\) for all \(j\ne j'\), that is, when \(\alpha\) is constant and \(\beta=-\alpha\). So each pair carries exactly one relation, \(\sum_{j'}y_{(i',j'),i}=\sum_jy_{(i,j),i'}\), and \[\dim R_2=\binom m2\big(n(n-1)-(2n-1)\big)=\binom m2(n^2-3n+1).\] This agrees with the recorded series: \(D_2-D_1=812,\ 3905\) at \(8\times7\) and \(11\times10\), with \(D_1=1+mn-m\). For linear \(\lambda,\ell\), define \(\lambda\ell\in R_2\) as the degree-2 component of \(\lambda\ast\ell\) modulo \(M\): products of a cell with itself contribute only to degree 1, and products of two cells in one row or one column are 0. Since \(\rho_i\ast\lambda\in M+A_{\le1}\), this depends only on the classes of \(\lambda,\ell\) in \(V\).

The reduction

Lemma (degree-two pin reduction). Over any field, with \(n\ge3\) (and \(m\ge2\) only so that \(R_2\ne0\)), suppose that (i) \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_h\) are linearly independent in \(V\), and (ii) the map \(\mu:V^h\to R_2\), \((\lambda_k)\mapsto\sum_k\lambda_k\ell_k\), has kernel spanned by the Koszul vectors \(\ell_je_k-\ell_ke_j\). Then FPHP\(^m_n\) plus the pins \(L'_k\) has no Nullstellensatz refutation of degree 2, for any constants \(c_k,q_k\).

Proof. First, the affine part of \(J\). An element \(\sum_i\pi_iQ_i+\sum\sigma_{c,i}\,x_c\ast Q_i\) of degree at most 1 has \(\sum\sigma_{c,i}y_{c,i}=0\). By the structure above, \(\sigma\) is a combination of the per-pair relations, whose linear parts are \(\rho_{i'}-\rho_i\). So \(J\cap A_{\le1}=\operatorname{span}\{Q_i\}\).

Now suppose \(1=r+\sum_k(\alpha_k+\lambda_k)\ast L'_k\) with \(r\in J\), \(\alpha_k\) constants and \(\lambda_k\) linear. The degree-2 part of \(r\) lies in \(M\), so \(\sum_k\lambda_k\ell_k=0\) in \(R_2\). By (ii), \(\lambda_k\equiv\sum_ja_{kj}\ell_j\) in \(V\) with \(a\) antisymmetric. Since \(\ast\) is commutative, \(\sum_{k,j}a_{kj}L'_j\ast L'_k=0\) exactly. So the multipliers can be replaced by \(\alpha_k+\lambda_k-\sum_ja_{kj}L'_j\), whose linear parts are combinations of row sums. Each \(\rho_i\ast L'_k=L'_k-Q_i\ast L'_k\) with \(Q_i\ast L'_k\in J\), so row-sum multipliers become constants plus elements of \(J\). This gives \(1-\sum_k\gamma_kL'_k\in J\cap A_{\le1}=\operatorname{span}\{Q_i\}\) for constants \(\gamma_k\). Comparing linear parts, \(\sum_k\gamma_k\ell_k\) is a combination of row sums, so \(\gamma=0\) by (i), and then \(1\in\operatorname{span}\{Q_i\}\) forces \(\sum_i\pi_i\rho_i=0\) with \(\sum_i\pi_i=1\), impossible since the row sums are independent. \(\square\)

The hypothesis \(n\ge3\) is needed: at \(n=2\) each pair of rows carries two relations, and \(x_{i'1}-x_{i2}\) enters \(J\cap A_{\le1}\).

The lemma uses no bound \(d\le\lceil n/2\rceil\) and no randomness.

What is left: the Koszul condition

Condition (ii) is concrete. Write a linear form as \(\ell=(\ell_i)_i\) with \(\ell_i\in\mathbb F^n/\langle\mathbf1\rangle\), its row pieces. On the pair \((i,i')\), \(\lambda\ell\) is the zero-diagonal part of \(\ell_i\lambda_{i'}^{\mathsf T}+\lambda_i\ell_{i'}^{\mathsf T}\), modulo matrices \(u\mathbf1^{\mathsf T}+\mathbf1v^{\mathsf T}\). Condition (ii) says that for all pairs these combinations vanish only for Koszul families. The kernel always contains the Koszul span, of dimension \(\binom h2\) when the \(\ell_k\) are independent. So (ii) is possible only while \(hm(n-1)-\binom h2\le\binom m2(n^2-3n+1)\). The model exceeds this margin by \(D_1-h\): \(D_2-hD_1+\binom h2=(\dim R_2-hm(n-1)+\binom h2)+(D_1-h)\). So (ii) fails a little before the model's fill point. At \(8\times7\) it is impossible from \(h=22\) (\(48\cdot22-231=825>812\)), while the model is still 14 there and refutation came at \(h=23\). Near the fill point, non-refutation comes from degree-\(\le1\) compensation that the lemma does not cover, so the lemma is sufficient, not necessary. The recorded series (random wide block) shows, for random pins at \(n=7,\dots,10\), per-pin costs of exactly \(D_1-(k-1)\). Those are the costs that (i) and (ii) predict, so the data are consistent with (i) and (ii) below their threshold, but they do not imply (ii): a non-Koszul kernel of dimension up to about \(D_1-h\) could be absorbed in degree at most 1. A proof of (ii) for generic or random pins at every \(n\) is not given here. It is a Koszul property of generic linear forms in the pair algebra, a Fröberg-type statement in degree 2.

What it means

At degree 2, non-refutation of FPHP plus pins is implied, up to a margin of \(D_1-h\) below the fill point, by a Koszul property in \(R_2\), and \(R_2\) is explicit: zero-diagonal matrices per pair of rows modulo row and column sums. The quotient by row and column sums is analogous to the interaction parts \(a_{it}-u_i-v_t\) of the thread's dense blocks; the correspondence is not made precise here. Condition (ii) is open, so nothing about semi-regularity is proved yet.

Next. Prove condition (ii) for generic pins at every \(n\) below its threshold \(hm(n-1)-\binom h2\le\dim R_2\). Follow the method of prop:generic-square-tops-degree-four (specialization plus semicontinuity): find an explicit family of linear forms, structured by pairs of rows, whose kernel in \(R_2\) can be computed by hand and is Koszul only, and pass to generic forms by lower semicontinuity of the kernel dimension (over \(\bar{\mathbb F}_3\)). State plainly that this gives generic pins, not uniform pins over \(\mathbb F_3\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:pin-semiregularity and its series (series.jsonl, model_check.txt), and the Nullstellensatz setting of lem:ips-normal-form-ns-criterion. Searched the index for the degree-2 quotient of functional PHP and for Koszul syzygies of linear forms; the nearest records, lem:level-two-short-generation and obs:wide-sparse-unary-quotient-image, concern other questions. The dimension formula was checked against the saved series at two sizes. A fresh-context reviewer found no record implying the lemma and confirmed the criterion, the commutativity of \(\ast\), the Koszul replacement, the affine part of \(J\) and the final comparison. It required, all adopted: the threshold of (ii) corrected (it fails a margin \(D_1-h\) before the fill point, from \(h=22\) at \(8\times7\)); the series described as consistent with (ii), not as implying it; the lemma presented as sufficient, not as an equivalence; the link to interaction parts marked as an analogy and the "first semi-regularity statement" claim dropped; \(m\ge2\) marked as inessential and \(n\ge3\) justified; the product in \(R_2\) and \(x_c\ast Q_i=0\) for \(c\) in row \(i\) stated; clashing scalars renamed; and prop:generic-square-tops-degree-four cited as the method's model.

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The small-width Koszul theorem: in characteristic other than 2, with at least three rows, generic linear forms, and explicit ones over \(\mathbb F_3\), have only Koszul syzygies in degree 2 of the functional-PHP quotient while their number is at most \(n-1-r\), \(\binom{r+1}2\ge n\); so such pins leave no degree-2 Nullstellensatz refutation, far below the fill point

26 September 2026 · Working proof (characteristic other than 2, at least three rows; uniform random pins remain open) · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-pair-koszul. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The small-width Koszul theorem: in characteristic other than 2, with at least three rows, generic linear forms, and explicit ones over \(\mathbb F_3\), have only Koszul syzygies in degree 2 of the functional-PHP quotient while their number is at most \(n-1-r\), \(\binom{r+1}2\ge n\); so such pins leave no degree-2 Nullstellensatz refutation, far below the fill point”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-pair-koszul.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The degree-two reduction (lem:pin-degree-two-reduction) showed that FPHP plus pins has no degree-2 Nullstellensatz refutation when the pins' linear parts are independent modulo rows and have only Koszul syzygies in \(R_2\). Can that Koszul property be proved for all \(n\), in some range of \(h\)?

General statement. thm:small-width-pair-koszul: over any field of characteristic other than 2, for \(m\ge3\), \(n\ge3\) and \(h\le n-1-r\) with \(\binom{r+1}2\ge n\), explicit linear forms with entries in the prime field, and Zariski-generic forms over any infinite such field, are independent modulo row sums and have only Koszul syzygies in \(R_2\).

The quotient in tensor form

Use the setting of the degree-two reduction, with \(n\ge3\). Let \(W=\mathbb F^n/\langle\mathbf1\rangle\), so the cell space modulo row sums is \(V=\bigoplus_iW_i\) with one copy \(W_i\) of \(W\) per row, and a linear form is \(\ell=(\ell_i)_i\), \(\ell_i\in W_i\). \(W\otimes W\) is \(n\times n\) matrices modulo \(u\mathbf1^{\mathsf T}+\mathbf1v^{\mathsf T}\). The map to zero-diagonal matrices modulo row and column sums is onto, and its kernel is the image \(\mathrm{Diag}\) of the diagonal matrices. For \(n\ge3\), a diagonal matrix of the form \(u\mathbf1^{\mathsf T}+\mathbf1v^{\mathsf T}\) has \(u_j+v_{j'}=0\) for all \(j\ne j'\), hence \(u\) constant, \(v=-u\), and zero diagonal. So \(\dim\mathrm{Diag}=n\), spanned by the images of \(e_j\otimes e_j\), and \((n-1)^2-n=n^2-3n+1\) as required. (At \(n=2\), \(\operatorname{diag}(1,-1)\) is such a matrix.) The pair component of \(R_2\) is therefore \((W_i\otimes W_{i'})/\mathrm{Diag}\). Products within one row vanish (functionality), and the diagonal is the collisions. So for \(\lambda,\ell\in V\) the pair component of \(\lambda\ell\) is \(\lambda_i\otimes\ell_{i'}+\ell_i\otimes\lambda_{i'}\) modulo \(\mathrm{Diag}\).

The theorem

Theorem (small-width Koszul theorem). Let \(\mathbb F\) be a field of characteristic other than 2, \(m\ge3\), \(n\ge3\), and let \(r\ge1\) satisfy \(\binom{r+1}2\ge n\) and \(h'\le n-1-r\), \(h'\ge1\). There are linear forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_{h'}\in V\) with entries in the prime field that are independent in \(V\) and for which the kernel of \(\mu:V^{h'}\to R_2\), \((\lambda_k)\mapsto\sum_k\lambda_k\ell_k\), is spanned by the Koszul vectors \(\ell_je_k-\ell_ke_j\). The tuples with both properties form a nonempty Zariski-open set, so over an infinite field they are generic. By lem:pin-degree-two-reduction, FPHP\(^m_n\) plus \(h'\) pins with such linear parts, and any constants, has no Nullstellensatz refutation of degree 2. The hypothesis on the characteristic is necessary: in characteristic 2, the pair components \(2\ell_i\otimes\ell_{i'}\) of \(\ell^2\) vanish for every \(\ell\), so \(\ell_ke_k\) is a non-Koszul kernel vector for every tuple. The theorem is nontrivial (\(h'\ge2\)) from \(n=6\).

Proof. Independence is Zariski-open. Given independence, the Koszul vectors span a space of dimension \(\binom{h'}2\), and \(\dim\ker\mu\le\binom{h'}2\) is open by semicontinuity of rank. Both conditions are defined over the prime field. So it suffices to exhibit one point with entries in the prime field.

The point. Let \(E\subseteq W\) have dimension \(h'\) and basis \(f_1,\dots,f_{h'}\), and put \(\ell_k=(f_k,f_k,\dots,f_k)\), the same row piece in every row. These are independent in \(V\). Let \(q:W\to W/E\cong\mathbb F^{r'}\), \(r'=n-1-h'\ge r\), and \(u_j=q(e_j)\), so \(\sum_ju_j=0\) and the \(u_j\) span \(\mathbb F^{r'}\). Suppose first that (\(\ast\)) the \(n\) tensors \(u_j\otimes u_j\) are linearly independent in \(\mathbb F^{r'}\otimes\mathbb F^{r'}\).

Let \((\lambda_k)\in\ker\mu\). For each pair of rows \(i\ne i'\), \[\sum_k\big(\lambda_{k,i}\otimes f_k+f_k\otimes\lambda_{k,i'}\big)=\delta_{ii'}\in\mathrm{Diag}\quad\text{in }W\otimes W.\] The left side lies in \(W\otimes E+E\otimes W\), the kernel of \(q\otimes q\). Applying \(q\otimes q\) sends \(\delta_{ii'}=\sum_jd_je_j\otimes e_j\) to \(\sum_jd_ju_j\otimes u_j=0\), so \(d=0\) by (\(\ast\)), and the left side is 0 in \(W\otimes W\). Then \(\sum_k\lambda_{k,i}\otimes f_k=-\sum_kf_k\otimes\lambda_{k,i'}\) lies in \((W\otimes E)\cap(E\otimes W)=E\otimes E\). Since the \(f_k\) are independent, each \(\lambda_{k,i}\in E\); write \(\lambda_{k,i}=\sum_ja^{(i)}_{kj}f_j\). Comparing coefficients of \(f_j\otimes f_k\) gives \(a^{(i)}_{kj}+a^{(i')}_{jk}=0\) for all \(j,k\) and \(i\ne i'\). With three distinct rows \(i,i',i''\), \(a^{(i)}=-(a^{(i')})^{\mathsf T}=a^{(i'')}\), and likewise for every pair, so all \(a^{(i)}\) equal one matrix \(a\) with \(a=-a^{\mathsf T}\). In characteristic other than 2 this also gives \(a_{kk}=0\). So \(\lambda_k=\sum_ja_{kj}\ell_j\) with \(a\) alternating, a combination of Koszul vectors.

Condition (\(\ast\)). The map \(q\) can be any linear surjection \(\mathbb F^n\to\mathbb F^{r'}\) with \(q(\mathbf1)=0\): its kernel contains \(\mathbf1\) and has dimension \(h'+1\), and \(E\) is that kernel modulo \(\mathbf1\). So it suffices to choose \(u_1,\dots,u_{n-1}\) spanning \(\mathbb F^{r'}\), set \(u_n=-s\) with \(s=\sum_{j<n}u_j\), and make the \(n\) symmetric tensors independent. Take \(u_1,\dots,u_{r'}\) the standard basis, and \(u_{r'+1},\dots,u_{n-1}\) of the form \(t'_{ab}e_a+t_{ab}e_b\) for \(n-1-r'\) distinct pairs \(\{a,b\}\), with nonzero scalars. The tensors \(e_a\otimes e_a\) and \((t'e_a+te_b)^{\otimes2}=t'^2e_a\otimes e_a+t^2e_b\otimes e_b+t't(e_a\otimes e_b+e_b\otimes e_a)\) are independent, since each pair contributes its own off-diagonal direction. Since \(n\le\binom{r'+1}2\), we have \(n-1-r'\le\binom{r'}2-1<\binom{r'}2\), so some pair \(\{a,b\}\) is unused. The coordinate \(s_c\) is 1 for a vertex \(c\) in no used pair. Otherwise it is \(1\) plus the sum, over the used pairs containing \(c\), of that pair's scalar at \(c\) (\(t'_{cb}\) or \(t_{bc}\)); these are separate variables for each pair and endpoint. Over the prime field, choose the scalars at \(c\) in \(\{1,-1\}\) one at a time; the last one can always be chosen so that \(s_c\ne0\), since it excludes at most one value. Then every \(s_c\ne0\), and \(u_n\otimes u_n=s\otimes s\) has coefficient \(s_as_b\ne0\) on \(e_a\otimes e_b\) for the unused pair, where all the other tensors vanish. So (\(\ast\)) holds. \(\square\)

Range and meaning

The theorem covers \(h\le n-1-r\) with \(r\) about \(\sqrt{2n}\). This range is sharp for the construction: (\(\ast\)) needs \(n\) independent tensors in \(\operatorname{Sym}^2\mathbb F^{r'}\), so \(\binom{r'+1}2\ge n\) is necessary for it. The threshold of the degree-two reduction is \(hm(n-1)-\binom h2\le\binom m2(n^2-3n+1)\), of order \(n^2\), and the recorded series refutes near \(h\approx n^2/2\). So the theorem reaches only a sliver, of order \(n\), of the range in which the Koszul property is expected. It gives explicit pins over \(\mathbb F_3\) and generic pins over infinite fields of characteristic other than 2. It is a generic analogue of the weak form of conj:pin-semiregularity at \(d=2\) for \(h\le n-1-r\), not a case of that conjecture, which concerns uniform random pins over \(\mathbb F_3\) with probability \(1-o(1)\). Those remain open. The three-row antisymmetry step is the one of prop:tensor-power-degree-two, used there in the weak algebra without row sums.

Next. Extend the Koszul property beyond \(n-1-r\). The construction with one common subspace \(E\) is capped there by the symmetric-tensor count. Forms whose row pieces lie in different subspaces \(E_i\) per row replace symmetric tensors \(u_j\otimes u_j\) by \(u^{(i)}_j\otimes u^{(i')}_j\), with room \(r_ir_{i'}\) instead of \(\binom{r+1}2\), and beyond \(h=n-1\) the three-row step must allow dependent row pieces. Measure how far that range grows.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pin-degree-two-reduction and prop:tensor-power-degree-two. Searched the index for Koszul properties of generic linear forms in the matching algebra and for Segre-type diagonal arguments; the nearest records are prop:tensor-power-degree-two (the same antisymmetry step in a different algebra), prop:generic-square-tops-degree-four and ex:affine-syzygy-locality-small-board (other algebras). A fresh-context reviewer found no record implying the theorem and confirmed the openness reduction for each \(h'\), the \(q\otimes q\) step, \((W\otimes E)\cap(E\otimes W)=E\otimes E\), the three-row antisymmetry and the unused-pair inequality. It required, all adopted: \(n\ge3\) for \(\dim\mathrm{Diag}=n\), with the kernel described as the image of the diagonal matrices; the characteristic-2 failure stated for every tuple, making the hypothesis necessary; the scalars in \(s_c\) described per endpoint; the scope widened to any field of characteristic other than 2, with an explicit point in the prime field, which the entry checks; the relation to conj:pin-semiregularity restated as a generic analogue; the method's limit corrected to \(n-1-r\), sharp for the construction; and the hypotheses added to the title and status line.

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The grouped Koszul theorem: placing forms on groups of three rows gives Koszul-only syzygies in degree 2 for asymptotically a third of the cell space

26 September 2026 · Working proof (characteristic other than 2, at least three rows; uniform random pins remain open) · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-mixed-subspaces. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The grouped Koszul theorem: placing forms on groups of three rows gives Koszul-only syzygies in degree 2 for asymptotically a third of the cell space”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-grouped-koszul.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The small-width Koszul theorem (thm:small-width-pair-koszul) proved the Koszul property of the degree-two reduction for up to \(n-1-r\) forms, \(\binom{r+1}2\ge n\), a sliver of order \(n\). The degree-two reduction's own threshold is close to \(\dim V=m(n-1)\) for large \(n\). How far can the Koszul property be pushed?

General statement. thm:grouped-pair-koszul: over any field of characteristic other than 2, for \(m\ge3\), \(n\ge3\) and \(h\le\lfloor m/3\rfloor(n-1-r)\) with \(\binom{r+1}2\ge n\), explicit linear forms with prime-field entries, and Zariski-generic forms over infinite such fields, are independent modulo row sums and have only Koszul syzygies in \(R_2\); FPHP\(^m_n\) plus pins with those linear parts has no degree-2 Nullstellensatz refutation.

The construction

Use the tensor form of the small-width entry: \(W=\mathbb F^n/\langle\mathbf1\rangle\), \(V=\bigoplus_iW_i\), and the pair component of \(\lambda\ell\) is \(\lambda_i\otimes\ell_{i'}+\ell_i\otimes\lambda_{i'}\) modulo \(\mathrm{Diag}\). Fix \(r\) with \(\binom{r+1}2\ge n\), put \(h_0=n-1-r\), and take \(E\subseteq W\) of dimension \(h_0\) with basis \(f_1,\dots,f_{h_0}\) and quotient \(q:W\to W/E\), chosen as in that entry so that (\(\ast\)) the tensors \(u_j\otimes u_j\), \(u_j=q(e_j)\), are independent. Partition the rows into \(s=\lfloor m/3\rfloor\) groups \(G_1,\dots,G_s\), each of at least three rows. For \(g\le s\) and \(k\le h_0\), let \(\ell_{g,k}\) have row piece \(f_k\) on every row of \(G_g\) and 0 on the other rows. That gives \(sh_0\) forms, independent in \(V\) because forms of different groups have disjoint row supports.

The theorem

Theorem (grouped Koszul theorem). Let \(\mathbb F\) have characteristic other than 2, \(m\ge3\), \(n\ge3\), and let \(r\ge1\) satisfy \(\binom{r+1}2\ge n\) and \(n-1-r\ge1\). The family \(\{\ell_{g,k}\}\) above, and every subfamily, is independent in \(V\) and has only Koszul syzygies in \(R_2\). The tuples of \(h\le\lfloor m/3\rfloor(n-1-r)\) forms with both properties form a nonempty Zariski-open set defined over the prime field. By lem:pin-degree-two-reduction, FPHP\(^m_n\) plus pins with such linear parts, and any constants, has no Nullstellensatz refutation of degree 2.

Proof. Let \((\lambda_{g,k})\) be in the kernel of \(\mu\). For a pair of rows \(i\in G_g\), \(i'\in G_{g'}\), only the forms of groups \(g\) and \(g'\) have nonzero pieces in those rows. So the pair equation reads \[\sum_{k}\lambda_{g',k,i}\otimes f_k+\sum_kf_k\otimes\lambda_{g,k,i'}=\delta_{ii'}\in\mathrm{Diag}\qquad(g\ne g'),\] and, for \(g=g'\), the same with the two sums over the forms of group \(g\). In both cases the left side lies in \(W\otimes E+E\otimes W\), so \(\delta_{ii'}=0\) by (\(\ast\)), and each sum lies in \(E\otimes E\).

Within a group. For \(i,i'\in G_g\), this is the small-width argument for the forms of group \(g\) on the rows of \(G_g\). With at least three rows it gives \(\lambda_{g,k,i}=\sum_ja^g_{kj}f_j\) for all \(i\in G_g\), with \(a^g\) alternating (characteristic other than 2).

Across groups. For \(g\ne g'\), \(i\in G_g\) and \(i'\in G_{g'}\), write \(\lambda_{g',k,i}=\sum_{k'}B^{(i)}_{kk'}f_{k'}\), with \(B^{(i)}\) depending on \(g'\) as well, which is possible because the first sum lies in \(E\otimes E\). Comparing coefficients of \(f_{k'}\otimes f_k\) gives \(\lambda_{g,k',i'}=-\sum_kB^{(i)}_{kk'}f_k\). The left side depends only on \(i'\) and the right side only on \(i\). Fixing \(i'\) and varying \(i\in G_g\) shows that \(B^{(i)}\) is the same matrix \(B^{g,g'}\) for all \(i\in G_g\), and then \(\lambda_{g,k',i'}=-\sum_kB^{g,g'}_{kk'}f_k\) for all \(i'\in G_{g'}\). So the multiplier of \(\ell_{g',k}\) equals \(\sum_{k'}B^{g,g'}_{kk'}\ell_{g,k'}\) on the rows of \(G_g\). The multiplier of \(\ell_{g,k'}\) equals \(-\sum_kB^{g,g'}_{kk'}\ell_{g',k}\) on the rows of \(G_{g'}\). These are the row pieces of the Koszul combination \(\sum_{k,k'}B^{g,g'}_{kk'}(\ell_{g,k'}e_{g',k}-\ell_{g',k}e_{g,k'})\). The ordered pair \((g',g)\) gives \(B^{g',g}=-(B^{g,g'})^{\mathsf T}\), which yields the same Koszul combination, so the assembly sums over unordered pairs \(\{g,g'\}\). This step uses neither the characteristic nor the three-row hypothesis; both enter only within groups.

Assembly. Every row lies in some group, so every row piece of every multiplier is determined: on its own group by \(a^g\), and on another group by \(B\). Summing the within-group Koszul combinations \(\sum_{j,k}a^g_{kj}\ell_{g,j}e_{g,k}\) and the cross-group ones reproduces \((\lambda_{g,k})\) row by row. So the kernel is spanned by Koszul vectors. For a subfamily, extend a kernel vector by zeros. It is then a Koszul combination \(\sum\alpha_{uv}(\ell_ve_u-\ell_ue_v)\) of the whole family, and its coordinates outside the subfamily vanish. By independence this forces \(\alpha_{uv}=0\) whenever \(u\) is outside, so the combination lives on the subfamily. Openness over the prime field is as in the small-width entry. \(\square\)

Range and meaning

With \(m=n+1\) and \(r\approx\sqrt{2n}\), the theorem covers about \(\frac{n+1}3(n-\sqrt{2n})\) forms. Asymptotically that is a third of \(\dim V=m(n-1)\); the ratio is \((n-\sqrt{2n})/(3(n-1))\), only about 0.15 at \(n=10\). With \(x=\dim V-h\), the degree-two reduction's condition \(hm(n-1)-\binom h2\le\binom m2(n^2-3n+1)\) is exactly \(x(x+1)\ge m(mn+n^2-2n)\), so \(x\) is of order \(\sqrt2n^{3/2}\) and the threshold is \(\dim V(1-o(1))\). At \(n=10\) (\(m=11\)) the condition allows 53 of 99 forms, the recorded refutation came at 55 (series.jsonl, first refuted \(h\) at \(11\times10\), \(d=2\)), and the theorem itself gives \(r=4\), \(h_0=5\), \(s=3\), so 15 forms. So asymptotically the grouped theorem reaches a constant fraction of the expected range, up from a range of order \(n\). It is nontrivial from \(n=5\), where \(h_0\ge1\). The factor \(1/3\) comes from the three-row antisymmetry step: each form must occupy at least three rows. The result concerns explicit pins over \(\mathbb F_3\) and generic pins over infinite fields of characteristic other than 2. Uniform random pins over \(\mathbb F_3\), the subject of conj:pin-semiregularity, remain open, as do degrees above 2.

Next. Either push the constant toward 1 (forms on two rows need a different argument, since two rows alone admit non-Koszul kernels) or, more usefully for the goal, move to degree 3, where the reduction must control the degree-3 quotient and the Frobenius relation of each pin. Decide first whether the degree-two reduction has a degree-3 analogue of the same shape.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:small-width-pair-koszul with its proof, and lem:pin-degree-two-reduction. The threshold arithmetic at \(n=10\) uses the numbers of the degree-two entry and series.jsonl (research/results/odd_prime_ns_pinning_20260926). A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical gap: it confirmed the pair equations, the within-group reduction, the cross-group coefficient comparison and assembly, the subfamily argument, openness and independence. It required, all adopted: the cross-group sentence rewritten without draft text; the dependence of \(B\) on \(g'\) named; the ordered pairs replaced by unordered pairs with \(B^{g',g}=-(B^{g,g'})^{\mathsf T}\); the note that the cross-group step needs neither the characteristic nor three rows; the exact threshold formula \(x(x+1)\ge m(mn+n^2-2n)\); the source of the recorded refutation cited; the theorem's own value at \(n=10\) stated; "a third" made asymptotic; the title shortened; and the nontrivial range stated.

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The degree-two pin results restate the recorded freeness line: the Koszul condition is truncated freeness in degree 2, and on the weak base the record already gives generic pins no PC refutation at every constant degree

26 September 2026 · Relation to the record and partial correction, no new claim · open statement A1 under random prefixes · cycle odd-prime-degree-three-pins. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The degree-two pin results restate the recorded freeness line: the Koszul condition is truncated freeness in degree 2, and on the weak base the record already gives generic pins no PC refutation at every constant degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-pin-freeness-record.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 under random prefixes. The grouped Koszul entry asked whether the degree-two pin reduction has a degree-3 analogue. The gate for that question reads the record's syzygy and freeness results first. What do they already say about pins?

General statement. prop:syzygies-as-tor, prop:one-count-by-freeness and thm:general-forms-freeness (recorded); no new claim.

The Koszul condition is truncated freeness

Let \(G\) be the functional board's top algebra, \(A=\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_h]/(x_j^3)\) acting through the pins' linear parts \(\ell_k\), as in the syzygy-locality entry. Then \(G_1=V\) and \(G_2=R_2\), the quotient of the degree-two reduction. A kernel vector of \(\mu:V^h\to R_2\) is a top syzygy of degree 2. The Frobenius syzygies \(\ell_k^2e_k\) start in degree 3. So condition (ii) of lem:pin-degree-two-reduction, together with (i), says exactly that the top syzygies through degree 2 are Koszul and Frobenius ones. By prop:syzygies-as-tor that is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(\mathbb F_3,G)_t=0\) for \(t\le2\): \(G\) is free over \(A\) through degree 2. The threshold stated in the degree-two entry, \(hm(n-1)-\binom h2\le\dim R_2\), is \(W_2\ge0\) there. The syzygy-locality entry recorded it with \(g_2=\binom{n+1}2(n^2-3n+1)\), and noted that it fails within about \(\sqrt2\,n^{3/2}\) of \(n^2\) forms. So condition (ii) is the degree-2 case of the recorded freeness question. The degree-two entry's reading of (ii) as a Fröberg-type property is the functional-board, degree-2 analogue of the record's conj:maximal-generic-freeness, which is stated for the weak top algebra.

The weak base already has the every-degree version

The goal's open statement W is stated on the weak base. There the record has two results. prop:one-count-by-freeness: in the stability range (\(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D-1\)), if each block is a satisfiable member of reduced constraints in its own input forms, the forms of all blocks are independent, and the weak top algebra is free through \(D\) over their joint span, then the base plus the blocks has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). A pin \(L_k=v_k\) is such a block, with one input form \(y_k\) and the single constraint \(y_k=v_k-c_k\), which is satisfiable over \(\mathbb F_3\) for every value; nonzero linear parts are part of the independence hypothesis. thm:general-forms-freeness: with \(g=\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor\), the \(e\)-tuples of forms over which the weak top algebra is free through \(D\) form a nonempty Zariski-open set defined over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every \(e\le m(g-1)\). It has \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points, for instance in the span of the grouped row sums. Its entry already states the composition: the freeness hypothesis of prop:one-count-by-freeness holds on that open set whenever \(1\le nh\le m(\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor-1)\). The case \(h=1\) is pins. So the record already gives the following. For every \(D\) in the stability range and every number of pins up to \(m(\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor-1)\), weak unary PHP plus pins whose linear parts lie in that open set has no PC refutation of degree \(D\), for any values.

That answers the grouped Koszul entry's question for the goal's base. The degree-3 analogue, and every constant degree, holds for generic pins. It is proved for PC, not only for the Nullstellensatz, and the count \(m(\lfloor N/(2D-1)\rfloor-1)\) is asymptotically, for fixed \(D\) as \(N\to\infty\), a fraction \(1/(2D-1)\) of the cell space. At \(D=2\) the constant is \(1/3\), the same as the grouped Koszul theorem's, obtained by grouping columns rather than rows. At \(N=10\), \(m=11\), the recorded count at \(D=2\) is \(11\cdot2=22\) pins of \(\dim V=99\) on the weak base, against the grouped theorem's 15 on the functional base. At \(D=3\) it is 11.

What the three pin entries add

lem:pin-degree-two-reduction is a proof, on the functional base and for the Nullstellensatz at degree 2, of what freeness gives through the recorded gluing. Its explicit form of \(R_2\), zero-diagonal matrices per pair of rows modulo row and column sums, is correct and was checked against the series. Its threshold was recorded. On the weak base, prop:one-count-by-freeness gives a PC statement at every degree. It is stronger in proof system and degree, not family by family: it needs freeness through \(D\) of the weak top algebra, while (ii) is freeness through 2 of the functional one, and freeness passes neither to nor from quotients.
thm:small-width-pair-koszul and thm:grouped-pair-koszul prove freeness through degree 2 on the functional board's top algebra, for explicit forms over the prime field and generic forms in characteristic other than 2. They are not rediscoveries: the functional algebra is a quotient of the weak one, and freeness does not pass to quotients. Since the weak base's axioms are a subset of the functional base's, they do give weak-base results through lem:pin-degree-two-reduction: no degree-2 Nullstellensatz refutation for their explicit prime-field pins and every subfamily. For the goal these results are subsumed in count, proof system and degree by the recorded generic statement, although their explicit forms are not known to lie in the weak open set of thm:general-forms-freeness.
conj:pin-semiregularity concerns uniformly random pins over \(\mathbb F_3\) and Nullstellensatz degree up to the semi-regular fill. Its generic counterpart on the weak base is conj:maximal-generic-freeness, which, if true, would give PC hardness up to the positivity bound through prop:one-count-by-freeness. Its remaining content is what the general-forms entry already names as open: uniformly random \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms are not known to avoid the closed set. A second gap is the constant. The recorded construction reaches asymptotically \(1/(2D-1)\) of the cell space. The semi-regular model reaches about half of it at \(n=10\), \(d=2\) on the functional board. The weak-base positivity bound of conj:maximal-generic-freeness is 21 of \(\gamma_1=63\) at \(n=8\), \(t=3\).

Consistency with occupancy non-freeness. The small-width construction uses column-type forms, the same row piece in every row. thm:occupancy-non-freeness says that a column-type form \(\sum_j\varphi(j)C_j\) is not free through degree \(\lceil c/2\rceil+1\), where \(c\) counts the holes off the most frequent value of \(\varphi\). Freeness in degree 2 therefore requires \(c\ge3\) for every form in the span. Condition (\(\ast\)) of the small-width entry guarantees this. A form of the span with \(c\le2\) is, modulo constants, \(\mu_pe_p+\mu_qe_q\in E\), with at least one coefficient nonzero. It gives \(\mu_pu_p=-\mu_qu_q\). If both coefficients are nonzero, then \(u_p\otimes u_p\) and \(u_q\otimes u_q\) are proportional. If only one is, then \(u_p=0\). Either way (\(\ast\)) fails. So the two results agree.

What it means

The pin line, opened by the session review as the one line with an exact model, re-entered the recorded freeness core under different names. The generic version is proved on the weak base at every constant degree, for asymptotically a fraction \(1/(2D-1)\) of the cell space. What remains open is the recorded gap between generic forms and uniformly random \(\mathbb F_3\) forms, together with the constant. Neither bears directly on A1, whose families are adversarial rather than generic or random. The three pin entries stay as working proofs; their significance for the goal is lower than stated there, and their claim metadata now links the recorded results.

Next. A route review. The line has descended well below open statement A1 and has turned out to restate recorded work. The review should assess A1 and pick the next line using fresh outside leads. It should take up the generic-versus-random gap only if that gap bears on A1.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:syzygies-as-tor with its entry (including the values \(g_1,g_2\) and the \(W_2\) crossing), thm:general-forms-freeness with its proof and its statement of the composition with prop:one-count-by-freeness, the one-count link entry (stability range and hypotheses), cor:incoherent-form-members and the coherence definition of thm:coherent-product-constraints, thm:occupancy-non-freeness, and conj:maximal-generic-freeness with the many-form freeness entry. The three pin entries' searches used the words "Koszul", "pin" and "degree-2 quotient". They missed these records, which say "freeness", "Tor" and "one-count", and so did the pre-draft reviewer questions of those cycles. A search-tool synonym link from "Koszul" to "free" was tried in this cycle and reverted: "free" is too common in the registry to bring the missed records into the first 60 matches for the cycle's query. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the identification with freeness through degree 2 (hypothesis (i) is its degree-1 part; Frobenius syzygies start in degree 3), the \(W_2\) threshold, the composition range, the counts 22 and 11 at \(N=10\), and the occupancy argument. It required, all adopted: the pin's satisfiability stated correctly; the weak-base PC statement called stronger in proof system and degree, not per family; the functional theorems described as giving weak-base degree-2 results subsumed by the recorded generic statement, with their forms not known to lie in its open set; the Fröberg reading called an analogue of conj:maximal-generic-freeness; and the constants marked as asymptotic, with the model's range sourced. The changes weaken or correct claims, so no further pass was made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	16 min 49.68 s
Marked reading and review windows	7 min 0.32 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 17.70 s
Computation design and coding	25.66 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 5.87 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: the pin line is recorded freeness and sits off A1's path; every lead tried here fails its cheap test, and the one untested half is a basis-dependent closure for DAG-like proofs at p = 3

26 September 2026 · Route review with count tests · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pin-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the pin line is recorded freeness and sits off A1's path; every lead tried here fails its cheap test, and the one untested half is a basis-dependent closure for DAG-like proofs at p = 3”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-pin-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the session review, four entries followed its next step: the degree-two reduction, the small-width and grouped Koszul theorems, and the pin freeness record. The last one found that the line restates recorded freeness results. The line has descended more than one reduction below every open statement, so this review places it and chooses the next line.

General statement. The line's claim is W through conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS); the goal follows by thm:randomized-prefix-reduction.

What the goal needs

W_RS for every family of \(n^K\) blocks at PC degree \(22k\), for every \(K\). The open part is A1: adversarial families of many dense or row-local blocks. Generic and random families are not the obstacle. Generic pins on the weak base are PC-hard at every constant degree by recorded freeness (thm:general-forms-freeness with prop:one-count-by-freeness). Random families are settled by member pinning where they share few linear parts (random-core review).

Placing the pin line

The pin line tested whether any semi-regularity statement is provable here. The answer is yes: generic forms give freeness through every constant degree for asymptotically a fraction \(1/(2D-1)\) of the cell space. That was recorded on 24 September, and the degree-2 functional versions of this session add nothing on the goal's base. Its remaining content, uniformly random \(\mathbb F_3\) forms against generic ones, does not bear on A1, whose families are chosen by an adversary. The line is placed under A1 in Open statements, as settled for generic pins, and parked.

Falsification attempt

Could W_RS fail on a family in special position, where freeness fails early? The recorded special-position families are column-type forms (thm:occupancy-non-freeness), the occupancy pair of ex:component-hypothesis-injectivity-counterexample and the pencil of ex:pencil-worst-direction. Column-type families are settled under W_RS (spare pigeon, carry chain). A single-form block has a trivial W_RS clause unless its random \(C_b\) vanishes. So a counterexample needs many multi-form dense blocks in special position, and none is known. A finite search cannot decide this. The clauses have degree \(4t+2\ge6\), and they are usable only when weak PHP's own degree, about \(n/2+1\), exceeds that. So the smallest nonvacuous board is \(12\times11\), where a degree-7 closure over 132 variables is out of reach. Not falsified.

Assessment of the line

The assessment of the session review stands and is sharper now. Every route to the family core has a recorded cap or obstruction. The one line with an exact model turned out to be recorded work. The thread's own diagnosis stands: the missing tool is a mechanism native to characteristic 3 that handles adversarial dense families. Prospects on the critical path are weak; this is a qualitative assessment.

Outside leads

The cap set theorem (Ellenberg and Gijswijt, Ann. Math. 185, 2017; the slice-rank method of Croot, Lev and Pach). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the Boolean cube \(\{0,1\}^N\) is a cap in \(\mathbb F_3^N\). A line \(\bigvee_{i\le r}(L_i=a_i)\) is falsified exactly on \(\{x:(L_i(x))_i\in\prod_i(\mathbb F_3\setminus\{a_i\})\}\), the preimage of a product of two-point sets, an affine image of \(\{0,1\}^r\). Target: a DAG-like measure for \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\), bypassing W, where the DAG review found the subspace criterion blocked. Where it breaks: closure arguments for \(\mathrm{Res}(\oplus)\) use that a falsifying set depends only on the span of the line's forms. Test. Falsified for span-based closures. These sets are closed under intersection, since a product of product caps is a product cap. But they depend on the basis: in \(\mathbb F_3^2\), \(\{1,2\}^2\) in the basis \((u+v,u-v)\) becomes \(\{(2,0),(0,2),(0,1),(1,0)\}\), whose first coordinate takes all three values, so it is no product cap. A closure that keeps the ordered forms, not their span, is untested.
Sokolov's \(\pm1\) encoding ("(Semi)algebraic proofs over \(\{\pm1\}\) variables", STOC 2020), where polynomial calculus can be exponentially stronger in size than over \(\{0,1\}\). Target: W's degree bound, in the encoding where \(1-L^2\) might be sparser. Test. Falsified. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(y=1+x\) maps \(\{0,1\}\) to \(\{1,-1\}\) and \(x^2-x\) to \(y^2-1\). Degree is invariant under this invertible affine substitution, so degree lower bounds are the same in both encodings.
Green's hyperplane restriction theorem (M. Green, 1989): for a general linear form \(\ell\), \(\dim(A/\ell A)_d\le(\dim A_d)_{\langle d\rangle}\). Target: the freeness counts behind A3 and the pins. Where it breaks: it bounds the quotient from above, while freeness is a lower-bound statement on the quotient's size. Test. Falsified as a source of freeness. On the recorded weak top algebra at \(n=8\), \(\mathrm{HS}_A=(1,63,1656,22929)\), the freeness prediction over one form is \((1,62,1593,21274)\), and Green's bounds are \(62,1598,21613\) in degrees 1 to 3. The prediction lies below the bound (lead_tests.json), so the theorem is met and cannot prove freeness.

Absurd bridges

Barvinok's interpolation method with the Heilmann–Lieb theorem (statistical physics of monomer–dimer systems; Barvinok, "Combinatorics and Complexity of Partition Functions", 2016). If a partition function has no zeros near the segment \([0,1]\), its logarithm is approximated there by a Taylor polynomial of degree \(O(\log n)\). That is the degree range of W. Translation: weak PHP's degree-\(D\) designs are signed functionals on partial matchings, and W's forms impose constraints modulo 3 on the dimer configurations. What it would give: an analytic reason for designs at logarithmic degree, after the recorded 3-integrality step (parked). Smallest test: whether a constraint modulo 3 keeps a zero-free neighbourhood of \([0,1]\), on the free cube, for \(f_n(z)=\sum_{k\equiv0\ (3)}\binom nkz^k\). Test. Falsified. The zeros keep \(|\arg z|\ge\pi/3\), but they approach the origin: their distance from the positive axis is 0.055, 0.027 and 0.018 at \(n=30,60,90\) (lead_tests.json), about \(1.6/n\). A zero-free neighbourhood of \([0,1]\) shrinks like \(1/n\), so the interpolation degree grows like \(n\), not \(\log n\).
Local indistinguishability of charge sectors (topological quantum order: Bravyi, Hastings and Michalakis, J. Math. Phys. 51, 2010). Translation: a linear form modulo 3 on the occupation numbers is a \(\mathbb Z_3\) charge, a pin fixes its sector, and a degree-\(D\) design is a signed \(D\)-body marginal. Physics predicts that sectors are indistinguishable at order \(D\) when every nonzero combination of the charges is spread widely. What it would give: a criterion for A1 that does not need freeness. Smallest test: compare the criterion with the record. Test. Falsified. The criterion is the recorded condition that every direction meets at least \(2t-1\) columns. It is necessary (prop:line-necessity) and fails as a sufficient condition in special position (ex:pencil-worst-direction, ex:truncated-dade-special-position), exactly where A1's adversary acts.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge from earlier reviews on this route is open: the session review closed the Harris and quiet-planting bridges.

Lead follow-up

No passed outside lead from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, testing the one untested half of the cap-set lead. Read the closure definition and its growth lemma in Efremenko and Itsykson's amortized closure (CCC 2025), and in Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson (STOC 2024). Decide whether the growth lemma uses only intersection-closure of falsifying sets, which product-cap preimages have, or also invariance under change of basis, which they lack. If only the former, define the ordered-form analogue at \(p=3\). Then check, in the smallest case, one resolution step on two lines sharing a form, whether it grows by a bounded amount. If invariance is used, record where, and return to A1 with the next outside lead.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the pin freeness record, thm:general-forms-freeness, the session review, the DAG review's statement of the subspace-criterion obstruction, prop:line-necessity, ex:pencil-worst-direction and ex:truncated-dade-special-position. A record search found no earlier use of the cap set theorem, Green's theorem, Barvinok's method or topological order. The quantum-chemistry bridge (N-representability) and the leftover hash lemma are recorded, and are not repeated here. The script lead_tests.py (research/results/odd_prime_pin_route_review_20260926) computes Green's bounds with Macaulay's lower operator, and the zeros of \(f_n\) with numpy. The review registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer: its falsified items are counts and record checks, and its next step is a proposal.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 17.80 s
Marked reading and review windows	4 min 9.62 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 12.11 s
Computation design and coding	23.76 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 31.93 s
Individually measured computation	0.24 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The ordered-closure step re-enters the recorded closure sub-line: closure over \(\mathbb F_3\) with 0/1 points was built on additive bases on 22 September; for disequations alone, Alon's permanent lemma gives a one-column criterion, which is not span-invariant

26 September 2026 · Relation to the record, no new claim · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-ordered-closure. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The ordered-closure step re-enters the recorded closure sub-line: closure over \(\mathbb F_3\) with 0/1 points was built on additive bases on 22 September; for disequations alone, Alon's permanent lemma gives a one-column criterion, which is not span-invariant”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-ordered-closure.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The pin route review asked whether the closure of Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson, and Efremenko and Itsykson's amortized closure, need invariance under change of basis. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), falsifying sets are preimages of product caps, which are not basis-invariant.

General statement. lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01 and prop:unary-vertex-cover-closure (recorded); no new claim.

Where closure uses linear structure

From the amortized-closure paper (Efremenko and Itsykson, CCC 2025, Sections 1.2.1 and 1.2.2, read in the source): a set \(F\) of forms is safe when the columns of its coefficient matrix contain a basis with at most one column in each block. The closure \(\mathrm{Cl}(F)\) is an inclusion-minimal set of blocks whose removal makes \(F\) safe. It is unique and monotone, satisfies \(|\mathrm{Cl}(F)|\le\dim\langle F\rangle\), and depends only on the span. Safety is used through one step: the variables outside the basis are fixed so that each gadget is stifled, and the basis variables are then solved for. Over \(\mathbb F_2\) the solved values are Boolean automatically. Span invariance is harmless there, and it would be harmless at \(p=3\) too. The step works for any nonempty target set of value vectors, product caps included.

What fails at \(p=3\) is that step: solving over \(\mathbb F_3\) can give a basis variable the value 2. The record met this on 22 September. In the vertex-cover closure entry, lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01 replaces "a basis" by \(l\ge p\ln r+p-1\) disjoint bases. Their union is an additive basis by Alon, Linial and Meshulam, so every value is reached by a 0/1 assignment. The closure bound becomes \(O(p\,r\log r)\), and there is no canonical closure. The star-closure route review then assessed the sub-line as weak: sparse forms defeat the probability bound, and its payoff is a bounded-depth endpoint, not the goal. The modular-collision theorem (thm:modular-collision-linear-search-hardness) later supplied search hardness. So the review's step re-enters a recorded, reviewed sub-line. The review's search, under "cap set", did not find it, although its words "closure" and "safe" are the sub-line's own.

An observation on disequations

The additive-basis condition makes every value reachable, as a system of equations needs. A negated line is a system of disequations \(\bigwedge_i(f_i\ne a_i)\). For those, the permanent lemma of Alon's Combinatorial Nullstellensatz (Combin. Probab. Comput. 8, 1999) is enough: if the \(k\times k\) coefficient matrix of \(k\) forms in \(k\) chosen variables has nonzero permanent modulo 3, then for all constants there is a 0/1 assignment of those variables with \(f_i\ne a_i\) for every \(i\). Two facts show the limits of this criterion.

A nonzero determinant is not enough. For \(f_1=x_1+x_2\) and \(f_2=x_1-x_2\), with determinant \(-2\ne0\) and permanent \(0\), the clause \((f_1=1)\lor(f_2=0)\) holds at all four points of \(\{0,1\}^2\): \((0,0)\) and \((1,1)\) satisfy \(f_2=0\), and \((1,0)\) and \((0,1)\) satisfy \(f_1=1\).
The criterion depends on the basis. The forms \(x_1,x_2\) span the same space and have permanent 1. Every clause \((x_1=a)\lor(x_2=b)\) is falsified at a 0/1 point, since each of \(x_1,x_2\) can avoid one value. So a Boolean tautology and a non-tautology can have the same span. No span-invariant safety notion decides falsifiability over \(\mathbb F_3\) with 0/1 points. This is the product-cap basis dependence of the review, in closure terms, and matches the vertex-cover entry's finding that semantic implication over \(\mathbb F_p\) with 0/1 points does not give weakening under span containment.

In the game that characterizes depth, the Adversary answers queries with values, which are equations. So the permanent criterion does not replace the additive-basis condition there. It could shorten only the part of an argument that handles negated lines alone. No such argument is on record, and none was attempted.

What it means

The closure idea for \(p=3\) is recorded, reviewed and bounded-depth. The one untested half of the review's cap-set lead is therefore answered: basis dependence is real, but closure had already bypassed it by requiring additive bases. It gives no new route to A1. This is the second cycle running in which a proposed step turned out to be recorded. In both cases the search used the lead's name rather than the technique's recorded words.

Next. A targeted literature pass on polynomial calculus and Nullstellensatz degree lower bounds for combinatorial principles with added dense low-degree axioms, 2023 to 2026. This is the situation of A1, and none of the recorded tools covers it: Mikša–Nordström closures, Alekhnovich–Razborov immunity and colouring are all local. For each source, extract whether its mechanism tolerates axioms that involve most variables. Before proposing any technique, search the record under the technique's own words.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read in the source: Efremenko and Itsykson's definitions of safe sets, closure and amortized closure, and the list of closure properties (Sections 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 and Theorem 7); the private copy is not committed. Re-read the vertex-cover closure entry (lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01, prop:unary-vertex-cover-closure, span weakening), the star-closure route review, and the claim summary of thm:modular-collision-linear-search-hardness. The two examples were checked at all four points of \(\{0,1\}^2\). The permanent lemma is imported as stated, and it is the only step not verified here. No claim is registered and no reviewer pass was run, since the entry states only an imported lemma and two four-point checks.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 44.44 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 23.41 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	40.83 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	1 min 40.00 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The dense-axiom literature pass repeats the recorded one; its one new source works in the other direction, and the record's untaken lead, a family-dependent substitution in the style of the Weak Rank Principle, becomes the next line

26 September 2026 · Literature pass, no new claim · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dense-axiom-literature. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The dense-axiom literature pass repeats the recorded one; its one new source works in the other direction, and the record's untaken lead, a family-dependent substitution in the style of the Weak Rank Principle, becomes the next line”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-dense-axiom-literature.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The ordered-closure entry proposed a pass on polynomial calculus and Nullstellensatz degree lower bounds for combinatorial principles with added dense axioms, 2023 to 2026. Does any mechanism tolerate axioms that involve most variables?

General statement. conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS), through A1; no new claim.

The pass was already made

The literature review of 25 September made this pass and found no PC, NS or SoS degree lower bound that survives \(n^K\) adversarial dense affine side constraints. It sorted the known ways of coping with density: one global substitution (the Weak Rank Principle), randomness (pseudo-calibration), symmetry of the whole system, the \(\pm1\) basis, and closure of linear forms (bounded depth only). A new search on 26 September found the same sources, with one addition.

Conneryd, Ghannane and Pang, "Lower Bounds for CSP Hierarchies Through Ideal Reduction" (arXiv 2511.17272, SODA 2026; abstract read). Alekhnovich and Razborov's pseudo-reduction operators fool the cohomological \(k\)-consistency algorithm, so PC degree lower bounds become hierarchy lower bounds. This runs from degree bounds to hierarchies, the opposite direction, and it uses the local operators that the record already finds unable to hold dense blocks (Mikša–Nordström operator entry). It gives nothing for A1.

So the ordered-closure entry's next step was the third proposal in a row to repeat recorded work. The pass's words, "literature pass" and "dense constraints", are the review's own title words, which a notebook search for "literature" finds at once.

The recorded untaken lead

The 25 September review recorded one lead and did not take it: a family-dependent substitution in the style of the Weak Rank Principle (Garlík, Gryaznov, Ren and Tzameret, arXiv 2608.08760). There, \(Y:=X^{\mathsf T}A\) turns every constraint \(XY=A\) into a degree-2 consequence of functional PHP, and Razborov's bound applies. For W the analogue is a map \(\sigma\) from the variables of a PHP instance on a board with \(n'\ge n^{\varepsilon}\) holes to polynomials of bounded degree \(e\) in the cells of the original board. It must send weak PHP's axioms, and each clause \(g_uQ^{C_b}\), into the new instance's ideal below its degree \(n'/2\). A degree-\(D\) refutation would then become one of degree about \(eD\) for the new instance, which is impossible for \(eD<n'/2\) by Razborov's bound. No later entry took the lead: its only mentions are in that review.

A linear \(\sigma\) sends every form to a form. It maps the family to a family on the new board, and the clauses to clauses of the same shape. So it helps only when the images fall into a class the record settles. The recorded linear maps of this kind, restriction to sub-boards and super-hole substitution, have recorded caps: at most about \(n/10\) surviving blocks under product weights (barrier), and bit blocks only (super-hole lemma). This is a comparison, not a proof that no other linear map exists. What the Weak Rank Principle adds is degree 2: its constraints are bilinear in \(X\) and \(Y\), and the substitution uses that product structure. The smallest candidate for W is a composition of two injections, \(X=YZ\), sending pigeons through an intermediate set to holes. Its PHP axioms follow at low degree from those of \(Y\) and \(Z\), and each form becomes a bilinear form \(\operatorname{tr}(A^{\mathsf T}YZ)\).

Next. Test the composition substitution \(X=YZ\) on the smallest structured dense family. First, check that weak PHP's axioms for \(X\) lie in the ideal of \(Y\) and \(Z\) at degree 2 or 3. Then ask for which coefficient matrices \(A\) the clause \(1-\operatorname{tr}(A^{\mathsf T}YZ)^2\) enters that ideal at bounded degree, for instance when \(A\) factors through the intermediate set. Finally, measure how many forms of a family can be handled by one \(Z\). The outcome is a class of dense families settled by substitution, or an obstruction showing that products of injections cannot make an adversarial form nonvanishing.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the 25 September literature review in full, the Mikša–Nordström operator entry's conclusion, the replay barrier and the super-hole lemma. A notebook search for the substitution lead found no mention after that review. The new source was read in abstract only. No claim is registered and no reviewer pass was run: the entry reports a literature pass and chooses a next step, and its one argument, that linear maps send clauses to clauses, is stated as a comparison.

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The composition substitution collapses: one factor of \(X=YZ\) is always satisfiable, and fixing it turns the substitution into a pigeon relabelling or a hole restriction, so it certifies only clauses that are already consequences of weak PHP on some board

26 September 2026 · Working proof of an obstruction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-composition-substitution. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The composition substitution collapses: one factor of \(X=YZ\) is always satisfiable, and fixing it turns the substitution into a pigeon relabelling or a hole restriction, so it certifies only clauses that are already consequences of weak PHP on some board”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-composition-collapse.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The dense-axiom literature entry took up the record's untaken lead. The lead is a family-dependent substitution in the style of the Weak Rank Principle, sending W's clauses into the ideal of a hard PHP instance. Its smallest nonlinear candidate is the composition of two injections, \(x_{ij}\mapsto\sum_ay_{ia}z_{aj}\). Can it send a dense clause into that ideal?

General statement. lem:composition-collapse: over any field, with \(m=n+1\) and any \(k\), if the image of a polynomial \(P\) under the composition lies in the degree-\(d\) PC closure of the two factors' weak PHP axioms, then \(P\) lies in the degree-\(d\) closure of weak PHP after a pigeon relabelling into a board with \(k\ge m\) pigeons, or after restriction to \(k\le n\) holes.

Setting

Weak PHP\(^m_n\) has Boolean variables \(x_{ij}\), \(i\in[m]\), \(j\in[n]\), with axioms \(x_{ij}^2-x_{ij}\), the row equations \(\sum_jx_{ij}-1\), and the collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) for \(i\ne i'\). For \(k\ge1\), let \(\Phi_k\) be weak PHP\(^m_k\) in variables \(y_{ia}\) together with weak PHP\(^k_n\) in separate variables \(z_{aj}\). The composition is \(\sigma(x_{ij})=\sum_{a\in[k]}y_{ia}z_{aj}\), the matrix product \(X=YZ\). For a set \(S\) of axioms, \(\mathcal C_d(S)\) is the set of polynomials derivable from \(S\) by PC derivations of degree at most \(d\).

The substitution strategy needs two facts. First, \(\sigma\) sends weak PHP\(^m_n\)'s axioms into the ideal of \(\Phi_k\). Rows go to \(\sum_ay_{ia}(\sum_jz_{aj}-1)+(\sum_ay_{ia}-1)\). Collisions go to \(\sum_{a,b}y_{ia}y_{i'b}z_{aj}z_{bj}\): the terms with \(a=b\) are multiples of \(y_{ia}y_{i'a}\), and those with \(a\ne b\) are multiples of \(z_{aj}z_{bj}\). Booleanity goes to \(\sum_{a\ne b}y_{ia}y_{ib}z_{aj}z_{bj}+\sum_a(y_{ia}^2z_{aj}^2-y_{ia}z_{aj})\): the first sum is a multiple of the \(z\)-collisions, and the second lies in the Booleanity ideal. Second, the clauses' images must lie in \(\mathcal C_{d}(\Phi_k)\) for a small \(d\). Then a refutation of weak PHP plus the clauses of degree \(D\) would become one of \(\Phi_k\) of degree at most \(2D+d+4\): substitute \(\sigma\), which doubles degrees, and replace each axiom image by its degree-4 certificate and each clause image by its degree-\(d\) derivation. \(\Phi_k\) contains an unsatisfiable factor: weak PHP\(^k_n\) when \(k\ge m\), weak PHP\(^m_k\) when \(k\le n\). The other factor is satisfiable, so substituting one of its solutions shows that \(\Phi_k\) needs degree above half the hole count of the unsatisfiable factor, by Razborov's bound. The lemma shows that the second fact already holds before the substitution, on a relabelled or restricted board.

The lemma

Lemma (composition collapse). Over any field, let \(m=n+1\), \(k\) a positive integer, \(d\ge0\), and let \(P\) be a polynomial in the \(x_{ij}\) with \(P\circ\sigma\in\mathcal C_d(\Phi_k)\).

If \(k\ge m\), then for every injection \(\tau:[m]\to[k]\), the polynomial \(P_\tau\), obtained from \(P\) by \(x_{ij}\mapsto z_{\tau(i)j}\), lies in \(\mathcal C_d(\text{weak PHP}^k_n(z))\).
If \(k\le n\), then for every injection \(\tau:[k]\to[n]\), the polynomial \(P^\tau\), obtained from \(P\) by \(x_{ij}\mapsto y_{i\tau^{-1}(j)}\) for \(j\in\tau([k])\) and \(x_{ij}\mapsto0\) otherwise, lies in \(\mathcal C_d(\text{weak PHP}^m_k(y))\).

Since \(m=n+1\), every \(k\) satisfies \(k\ge m\) or \(k\le n\), so one case always applies.

Proof. Replacing variables by field constants maps a PC derivation of degree at most \(d\) to one of degree at most \(d\): lines stay polynomials of no larger degree, and the rules commute with evaluation. Axioms that become 0 can be dropped.

Case \(k\ge m\): set \(y_{ia}=[a=\tau(i)]\). Then \(y_{ia}^2-y_{ia}=0\), \(\sum_ay_{ia}-1=0\), and \(y_{ia}y_{i'a}=0\) for \(i\ne i'\), since \(\tau\) is injective. So every \(y\)-axiom becomes 0, and the \(z\)-axioms are unchanged. The derivation of \(P\circ\sigma\) from \(\Phi_k\) becomes a derivation of degree at most \(d\) from weak PHP\(^k_n(z)\) of the image of \(P\circ\sigma\). That image is \(P\) with \(x_{ij}\mapsto\sum_a[a=\tau(i)]z_{aj}=z_{\tau(i)j}\), which is \(P_\tau\).

Case \(k\le n\): set \(z_{aj}=[j=\tau(a)]\). Then \(z_{aj}^2-z_{aj}=0\), \(\sum_jz_{aj}-1=0\), and \(z_{aj}z_{bj}=0\) for \(a\ne b\), since \(\tau\) is injective. So every \(z\)-axiom becomes 0. The image of \(P\circ\sigma\) is \(P\) with \(x_{ij}\mapsto\sum_ay_{ia}[j=\tau(a)]\), which is \(y_{i\tau^{-1}(j)}\) or 0. That is \(P^\tau\). \(\square\)

In case 1, \(P_\tau\) is \(P\) with its pigeons placed, through \(\tau\), among the pigeons of a board with \(k\ge m\) pigeons and the same holes. For \(k=m\) it is \(P\) with its pigeons renamed. In case 2, \(P^\tau\) is \(P\) restricted to the sub-board of the holes \(\tau([k])\), with the other cells set to 0.

What it means for W

Apply the lemma with \(P\) a clause \(g_{b,u}Q^{C_b}\). The composition sends a family's clauses into \(\mathcal C_d(\Phi_k)\) only if, for every \(\tau\), each clause is already in the degree-\(d\) closure of weak PHP on the relabelled board (case 1) or on the sub-board of \(k\) holes (case 2). Case 1 with \(k=m\) is the statement that the clauses are low-degree consequences of the base itself, which settles W while \(D+d\) stays below Razborov's bound, since each use of a clause can be replaced by its derivation. Case 1 with \(k>m\) asks the same over a base with more pigeons. Case 2 is vacuity on a sub-board, and it must hold on every sub-board of \(k\) holes, not just one. That is the recorded restriction mechanism (one-dense-block entry, replay barrier) in a stronger form. So the composition adds nothing beyond restriction and vacuity. The Weak Rank Principle's substitution works because its constraints \(XY=A\) have auxiliary variables \(Y\) to substitute. W's clauses have none, and the lemma shows that composing injections does not create them.

The argument uses only that one factor of the composition is satisfiable, and that satisfying assignments of that factor are injections. More generally, a substitution from any system with a satisfiable factor reduces, by fixing a solution of that factor, to a substitution from the other factor alone. For the composition the reduced substitution is linear, a relabelling or a restriction. A family-dependent substitution that escapes the lemma therefore needs a source system without a satisfiable factor. It has to be hard as a whole, not as a product.

Next. A route review. Three cycles since the pin route review (ordered closure, literature, composition) have closed leads without a new mechanism. The review should assess A1 with outside leads chosen after a record search under each technique's own words, and decide whether the substitution lead has any form left: a source system that is hard as a whole and still sends clauses into its ideal.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the 25 September literature review's substitution lead, and the dense-axiom literature entry. The recorded affinization and Booleanity classifications concern the degree-2 ideal \(I_2\), not substitutions. A claim search under "composition", "substitution", "restriction", "swap" and "constant" forms found no substitution result. The nearest records are the restriction and vacuity entries cited above, which the lemma reduces to. The axiom images were checked term by term. A fresh-context reviewer checked the substitution argument (including multiplication steps by substituted variables), both cases, the axiom images, the use of \(m=n+1\) only to force one case, the quantifier over \(\tau\), and the one-directional reading of the consequences; its claim search found no prior record of the lemma. It required, all adopted: the refutation degree \(D\) defined with the bound \(2D+d+4\); the unused condition \(k\ge1\) dropped; and the placement through an arbitrary \(\tau\) described correctly.

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Route review: the substitution lead survives only for source systems that are hard as a whole, the form Lauria and Nordström's colouring reductions take; completion, the Tseitin source and the bridges fail their cheap tests

26 September 2026 · Route review with record checks · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-substitution-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: the substitution lead survives only for source systems that are hard as a whole, the form Lauria and Nordström's colouring reductions take; completion, the Tseitin source and the bridges fail their cheap tests”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-substitution-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the pin route review, three cycles closed leads: the ordered closure, the dense-axiom literature pass and the composition collapse (lem:composition-collapse). What is left of the substitution lead, and what next?

General statement. The line's claim is W through conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS); the goal follows by thm:randomized-prefix-reduction.

What the goal needs

As in the pin route review: W_RS for adversarial families of many dense blocks at degree \(22k\). The substitution lead would supply it by a reduction. Find a hard source system \(S\) and a map \(\sigma\) of bounded degree from the board's cells to polynomials in \(S\)'s variables, sending weak PHP's axioms and the family's clauses into \(S\)'s ideal at low degree. A low-degree refutation of the target would then give one of \(S\).

What is left of the lead

lem:composition-collapse shows that when \(S\) is a product with a satisfiable factor, fixing a solution of that factor reduces \(\sigma\) to a map from the other factor alone. For the composition of two injections that map is a relabelling or a restriction, which the record already caps. So the lead survives only for sources that are hard as a whole. That is the form of the reductions in Lauria and Nordström's colouring lower bounds, below, where the source is a pigeonhole system and the map is a gadget substitution.

Falsification attempt

Could a single substitution handle an adversarial family? \(\sigma\) must send each dense clause into \(S\)'s ideal. For \(S\) weak PHP on another board and \(\sigma\) linear, a form goes to a form, so the family goes to a family of the same kind. For nonlinear \(\sigma\) no obstruction is recorded. The lead is not falsified, and no instance is known.

Assessment of the line

Weak, unchanged. The session has closed the pin line, the closure transfer and the composition, each against recorded work or by an elementary obstruction. The substitution lead has one open form, with no instance. This assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Lauria and Nordström, "Graph colouring is hard for algorithms based on Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and Gröbner bases" (CCC 2017). They prove Nullstellensatz and PC degree lower bounds for \(k\)-colouring by substituting colouring variables with polynomials in the variables of a functional pigeonhole instance over a bounded-degree bipartite graph, gadget by gadget. Each colouring axiom becomes a low-degree consequence of the source. Target: the substitution lead in the form it has left, a source hard as a whole. Where it may break: their target constraints are local, one gadget each, while W's clauses involve most cells. Test. Passed as a structural check. Their abstract (arXiv 2306.00125) states that the source is functional PHP over bounded-degree bipartite graphs, reduced to \(k\)-colouring in constant PC degree. A single pigeonhole system is not a product with a satisfiable factor, so lem:composition-collapse does not apply. No record entry cites the paper (notebook search for "Lauria": only Galesi–Lauria on ordering principles).
Tseitin formulas modulo 2 over \(\mathbb F_3\) (Buss, Grigoriev, Impagliazzo and Pitassi, J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 62, 2001: linear degree over expanders when the modulus differs from the characteristic) as a source hard as a whole. On a bipartite graph with charge 1 at every vertex and unequal sides, Tseitin modulo 2 is a counting principle modulo 2 close to PHP. Target: the same. Test. Falsified for the direct embedding \(x_{ij}\mapsto e_{ij}\). A row equation \(\sum_jx_{ij}=1\) is not a consequence of the parity axiom "\(\sum_je_{ij}\) is odd", and neither are the collisions, so weak PHP's axioms do not enter the source ideal. Other maps were not tried.
Evans' conjecture (proved by Smetaniuk, 1981: a partial Latin square of order \(n\) with at most \(n-1\) filled cells completes). Completion theorems of this kind give extension properties for partial assignments, which Delayer-style and design arguments use. Target: A1, extension of partial matchings under W's clauses. Test. Falsified. A dense form's value is not determined by a partial matching of size below its support. So a W clause excludes no partial matching of size \(D\ll n\), and every extension property holds trivially. This is the recorded point that local consistency and measure do not decide dense clauses (prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust).

Absurd bridges

Matsui's piling-up lemma (linear cryptanalysis, EUROCRYPT 1993). Translation: each zero indicator \(g_u\) is a biased bit, and \(s_j=\sum_uC_{ju}g_u\) is a linear approximation of the board, as in a cipher. The lemma says that the bias of a sum of independent biased terms is the product of the biases. What it would give: \(\Pr[C_bg_b=0]\) close to \(3^{-t}\) for every block, so the clauses forbid a vanishing fraction of any product distribution. Test. Falsified by the record. That conclusion is a measure statement. prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust shows that the forbidden measure does not decide PC degree, and the pattern-poor support entry needed exact vanishing on a design's support, not smallness.
The Shapley–Shubik assignment game (Int. J. Game Theory 1, 1971). Pigeons buy holes; an additive form \(u_i+v_j\) is a system of prices, and the interaction part is the surplus that prices cannot absorb. The theorem there is that the core is a nonempty lattice of prices, found by linear-programming duality. What it would give: a canonical splitting of each dense form into prices, which the record settles, plus a surplus concentrated on an optimal assignment. Test. Falsified. The duality needs an ordered field. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) there is no order, and lifting coefficients to the integers changes which points a clause forbids, since clauses depend on values modulo 3.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Lead follow-up

No passed outside lead from earlier reviews on this route is open; the pin route review's leads all failed. The Lauria–Nordström lead passed here and will be followed up.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, developing the Lauria–Nordström lead. Read their reduction lemma and one gadget construction in the source. State exactly what a gadget substitution from a single pigeonhole source must do to send a W clause into the source's ideal. Test it first on one block of two dense forms with the clause \(g_2L_1^2\). Member pinning settles that block (lem:member-pinning), so it is a control: the gadget must at least reproduce this. Then test it on a family beyond pinning's cap. If the gadget has to fix a form's value on all local configurations, the lead meets the dense-form invisibility of the Evans test and closes. Record where.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:composition-collapse, the dense-axiom literature entry, prop:forbidden-measure-not-robust's statement, and the super-hole lemma's substitution. Notebook searches: "Lauria" (only Galesi–Lauria), "Tseitin" (used as a homological comparison and in small closure checks, not as a source), "Evans", "Smetaniuk", "Latin square" and "Shapley" (none), "Kasteleyn" and "renormalization" (earlier bridges, closed, not reused here). The review registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer; its falsified items are record checks, and its passed lead is a structural check that the next cycle develops.

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The Lauria–Nordström lead closes: their gadget substitution defines auxiliary target variables as local functions of the source's pigeons, and W's target has no auxiliary variables, so on the board it is the identity

26 September 2026 · Closure of a lead, no new claim · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-gadget-substitution. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Lauria–Nordström lead closes: their gadget substitution defines auxiliary target variables as local functions of the source's pigeons, and W's target has no auxiliary variables, so on the board it is the identity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-gadget-substitution.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The substitution review passed one lead: Lauria and Nordström's reduction from functional PHP to \(k\)-colouring, a substitution from a source that is hard as a whole, which lem:composition-collapse does not cover. What must such a substitution do to send a W clause into the source's ideal?

General statement. conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS) through A1, with lem:composition-collapse for the product case; no new claim.

The mechanism, read in the source

Lauria and Nordström, "Graph colouring is hard for algorithms based on Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and Gröbner bases" (arXiv 2306.00125, Section 3, Lemma 3.5 and equations (3.2) to (3.5)), read here. The colouring graph has one \(k\)-clique per pigeon, and its colour variables \(x_{i,c}\) are identified with the source's pigeon variables: colour \(c\) means that pigeon \(i\) uses its \(c\)-th edge. Each pair of pigeons with a common hole gets a constant-size gadget. For every pair of colours \((b,b')\) of the two pigeons other than the forbidden one, a legal colouring \(\chi_{(b,b')}\) of the gadget is fixed. Every other vertex \(v\) of the gadget is then substituted by the degree-2 polynomial \(x_{v,j}\mapsto\sum_{(b,b'):\chi_{(b,b')}(v)=j}x_{i,b}x_{i',b'}\). Each colouring axiom becomes a constant-degree consequence of the source's axioms for the two pigeons, and Lemma 3.5 turns a degree-\(d\) refutation of the colouring into one of degree at most \(2d\) of functional PHP.

The substitution acts in two ways. On the target's copy of the source variables it is the identity. On the auxiliary variables it defines each one as a function of a bounded set of source variables, chosen so that every local constraint is satisfied whatever those source variables do. The reduction's content is the second part: gadgets whose legal completions can be picked as low-degree functions of the local source configuration.

Why it gives nothing for W

W's target is weak PHP on the board plus clauses in the board's own cells. It has no auxiliary variables. A gadget reduction from a pigeonhole source would therefore act on the cells alone. The only reduction of this kind in the paper is the identity on the pigeons' choices, and then the clauses would have to be low-degree consequences of the source's axioms. That settles W trivially when it holds, and it does not hold for nontrivial clauses. A per-pigeon relabelling of holes, as in the paper's "the \(c\)-th edge of pigeon \(i\)", also fails for W. The target's collision axioms \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) would go to products \(y_{i\pi_i(j)}y_{i'\pi_{i'}(j)}\), which lie in the source's ideal only when \(\pi_i(j)=\pi_{i'}(j)\). Lauria and Nordström avoid this because their target has no collision axioms, only gadgets whose vertices they define. Writing W's clauses with auxiliary variables, such as extension variables for \(s_j=\sum_uC_{ju}g_u\), does not help either. The clauses still constrain the board's cells, and the auxiliary variables would be functions of all of them, not of a bounded local configuration.

So the lead closes for gadget substitutions. What remains of the substitution lead is a nonlinear, non-local map \(\sigma\) between single pigeonhole instances. No such map is known, and the dense forms' invisibility to small configurations, as in the review's Evans test, suggests that none exists. That is not proved.

Next. Build the tool that several reviews marked "not run" because it did not exist: Razborov's pseudo-reduction operator for weak, non-functional unary PHP, the monotone basis of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall (ECCC TR97-042, Definition 2.5 and Proposition 2.8) adapted to the weak base. Several reviews needed it: the random-prefix, type-capacity, row-local, strategy and integrality reviews. First read the construction in the source and check whether Razborov's original proof already covers the weak encoding. W's clauses have degree at least 6, so boards where they sit below the refutation degree are out of computational reach. Test first the simplest dense constraint, a disequation \(1-L^2\) for one dense form, times monomials of degree 1 and 2, at the smallest boards (about 7 holes). Ask whether the operator annihilates these products. A failure identifies how a dense constraint becomes visible to the operator. A success is a first mechanism for dense clauses.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read in the source: Lauria and Nordström's Section 3, Lemma 3.5, the substitution (3.2) to (3.4) and the derivation setting (3.5). Re-read lem:composition-collapse and the substitution review. The list of reviews that needed the weak-base operator comes from a record search for "Not run" items after 25 September. The collision computation for per-pigeon relabellings is one line. No claim is registered and no reviewer pass was run: the entry reads a source and closes a lead by a structural comparison.

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The weak-base operator that several reviews asked for adds nothing for dense blocks: Razborov's bound is for functional PHP with any number of pigeons, so functional operators already kill the weak ideal, and a weak-only operator matters only for families that functional PHP refutes, which the record identifies with the random calibration

26 September 2026 · Relation to the record, no new claim · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-weak-operator. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The weak-base operator that several reviews asked for adds nothing for dense blocks: Razborov's bound is for functional PHP with any number of pigeons, so functional operators already kill the weak ideal, and a weak-only operator matters only for families that functional PHP refutes, which the record identifies with the random calibration”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-weak-operator.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The gadget-substitution entry proposed building Razborov's pseudo-reduction operator for weak, non-functional unary PHP. Five reviews had marked a test "not run" because that operator was not constructed. Does it need constructing, and what would it give for dense clauses?

General statement. conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS) through A1, with prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework for the operator family; no new claim.

What Razborov's bound covers

Razborov's survey "Proof complexity of pigeonhole principles" (Developments in Language Theory 2001, LNCS 2295; Theorem 7, read here) states the polynomial calculus lower bound as: every PC proof of \(\mathrm{FPHP}^\infty_n\), over any field, has degree \(\Omega(n)\). This is the functional version with arbitrarily many pigeons. Its proof is the pigeon dance, later simplified by Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall. The survey's rule is that longer names are weaker principles and harder lower bounds. Functional PHP has more axioms than weak PHP, so its ideal contains weak PHP's. A pseudo-reduction operator \(R\) that kills functional PHP's ideal below degree \(D\) therefore kills weak PHP's ideal too, and so gives the weak lower bound. That is how the record already uses it (the rigid-forms and square-hole entries apply Razborov's bound to weak PHP).

When a weak-only operator would matter

A weak-only operator, one that does not kill the functionality products \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}\), matters only for added constraints that functional PHP refutes at low degree while weak PHP does not. The record's example is the bit block: its pins are refuted at degree 2 over functional PHP, and the super-hole lemma (lem:super-hole-substitution) settles single bit blocks over the weak base. For all other families, a functional operator applies whenever W holds over the functional base. That operator family, Razborov's through Mikša and Nordström's generalization, was examined on dense blocks in the Mikša–Nordström operator entry. There a dense block's clause that no single variable set forces empties the framework's boundary (prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework), conditional on the block's forms. So a weak-only operator is needed exactly for families of many blocks that functional PHP refutes, such as many bit blocks. The random bit family entry identified that family with the random calibration, an instance of the main record's own open wide-clause line. Building the operator is the core problem restated, not a missing tool.

The five reviews' "not run" items therefore stand as recorded. None of them was blocked by a missing construction that this cycle could supply.

What it means

This is the sixth cycle in a row to close a lead against recorded work or an elementary obstruction. The pin line, the closure transfer, the literature pass, the composition, the gadget substitution and the weak operator all ended this way. A1 has no live mechanism, and the tools that remain in the record (freeness and Tor for generic families, pinning and restriction for structured ones) each reach a recorded cap on adversarial dense families.

Next. A thread-level route review. Following AGENTS.md, it should revisit the open statements W, A1 to A3 and S1. It should decide whether cycles should keep targeting A1, which has no mechanism, or move to a statement with live tools, while A1 stays the highest-risk item. It should also consolidate the living sections, which are at their hard limits.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read Razborov's survey (Theorem 7 and the naming rule for versions), from a private copy that is not committed. Re-read the Mikša–Nordström operator entry, the super-hole lemma's statement and the random bit family entry's identification. A record search listed the reviews since 25 September whose tests were not run for lack of the operator. No claim is registered and no reviewer pass was run: the entry relates a source to the record.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 8.00 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 51.43 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	43.72 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	47.05 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	45.65 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Thread review: A1 has no mechanism left in the record or the literature, and the indicator-variable encoding the Mikša–Nordström entry left open also fails respectfulness; cycles move to A3's designed clauses, where tests are computable, while A1 stays the highest risk

26 September 2026 · Thread-level route review with record checks · open statements W, A1 to A3 · cycle odd-prime-thread-review-4. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Thread review: A1 has no mechanism left in the record or the literature, and the indicator-variable encoding the Mikša–Nordström entry left open also fails respectfulness; cycles move to A3's designed clauses, where tests are computable, while A1 stays the highest risk”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-thread-review-4.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the session review, nine cycles worked on A1. The pin line turned out to be recorded freeness (pin freeness record). The ordered closure, the literature pass and the weak operator re-entered recorded work. The composition and gadget substitutions closed by elementary obstructions (lem:composition-collapse). Should cycles keep targeting A1?

General statement. The line's claim is the goal through W (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction) or W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction), open along A1 to A3 and S1.

What the goal needs

All of W: A1 (adversarial families), A2 (width) and A3 (degree), or S1 on its window. A1 is necessary for any route through W and is the highest risk. A3 is necessary for the Taylor-glue route to W. It is not necessary for W itself, but it is the only recorded route whose statements can be tested by computation at reachable sizes.

Revisiting the open statements

No statement changes. The pin line is placed under A1 as settled for generic pins (done in the pin freeness cycle). The substitution line is placed in the remaining route: sources with a satisfiable factor collapse, and gadget substitutions need auxiliary variables that W lacks. The living sections were checked against the session's entries. Open statements carries the pin placement and The remaining route the substitution closure, both by link. Where we stand, at its hard limit, is unchanged, since the session produced no new proved class for W.

Falsification attempt

Is W false for some family? No refuting family is known. The recorded failures refute particular prefix rules or particular gluing hypotheses, not W. Is the goal false? No polynomial upper bound for ordinary PHP in \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) is known. The smallest instance on which W's clauses are usable, \(12\times11\) at degree 7, is beyond exact computation. Not falsified.

Assessment of the line

A1: no mechanism. Every PC degree method the record has examined is local, symmetric, dimension-counting, characteristic-zero, or Nullstellensatz-only. The session added reductions from other sources, which collapse or need auxiliary variables. Each reaches a recorded cap on adversarial dense families. A3: open, with computable tests and partial theorems (column Wilson, pre-Koszul families, generic directness), and with an untested Koszul range for designed clauses. The assessment is qualitative. Following the rule that a weak assessment and repeated untouched implications call for a change of approach, cycles move to A3's designed clauses, and each review re-checks A1 for a new mechanism. A request with this default is in the user-requests file.

Outside leads

Mikša and Nordström's framework with auxiliary indicator variables (arXiv 1505.01358, Definitions 3.1 to 3.6 and Theorem 3.8, read here). This is the case the Mikša–Nordström operator entry left uncovered. Put the defining constraints \(z_u=[L_u=0]\) in \(E\), and use the block clauses, which are local in the \(z\) variables, as clusters. Target: A1. Test. Falsified. By Definition 3.1, an assignment \(\rho\) respects \(E\) only if it satisfies every clause of \(E\) it touches. For the CNF of \(z_u=[L_u=0]\), suppose \(\rho\) touches \(\mathrm{supp}(L_u)\) and leaves two cells of nonzero coefficient free. Those two cells make \(L_u\) take all three values, so some violating assignment agrees with \(\rho\) on its domain, and its excluding clause is touched but not satisfied. So no small variable set meeting a dense support is respectful, and the PHP clusters lose their respectful boundary. The CNF is also not degree-faithful, since its clauses have width \(|\mathrm{supp}(L_u)|+1\).
Grigoriev's binomial method and Fourier bases (as used for Tseitin formulas modulo \(q\) by Buss, Grigoriev, Impagliazzo and Pitassi), named by the Mikša–Nordström entry as not examined for dense blocks. Target: A1, forms modulo 3 as characters of \(\mathbb Z_3\). Test. Falsified. The characters of \(\mathbb Z_3\) take values in the cube roots of unity. In characteristic 3, \(x^3-1=(x-1)^3\), so the only cube root of unity in any field of characteristic 3 is 1. There is no Fourier basis for \(\mathbb Z_3\)-valued forms over \(\mathbb F_3\), which the 25 September literature review noted in passing.
Generalized random restrictions of the Weak Rank Principle (Garlík, Gryaznov, Ren and Tzameret, arXiv 2608.08760), which prove PCR size lower bounds over \(\mathbb F_2\) for an algebraic generalization of weak PHP. Target: A1, a restriction that respects linear structure and so might thin dense families beyond the recorded caps. Test. Not run: the restriction's definition must be read in the source. Its measure is size over \(\mathbb F_2\), not degree over \(\mathbb F_3\), and the recorded restriction caps (at most about \(n/10\) surviving blocks under product weights) are the bar it would have to pass.

Absurd bridges

The polynomial method for quantum query complexity (Aaronson and Shi's collision lower bound, J. ACM 51, 2004). Translation: a PC refutation's lines and a decision tree's leaves are polynomials, and query lower bounds follow from real approximate-degree lower bounds by symmetrization. A dense form's zero indicator \(1-L^2\) has \(\mathbb F_3\)-degree 2, so a transfer would need its real degree to be small too. Test. Falsified. For \(L=x_1+\dots+x_n\), the real degree of \([L\equiv0\ (3)]\) on \(\{0,1\}^n\) is \(n\), or \(n-1\) when \(n\equiv3\pmod6\), for \(4\le n\le30\) (mod3_real_degree.json, by symmetrization and finite differences). Low \(\mathbb F_3\)-degree does not give low real degree, so real-valued polynomial methods see dense indicators as full-degree objects.
Kramers–Wannier duality for the three-state Potts (\(\mathbb Z_3\) clock) model (statistical mechanics). Translation: forms modulo 3 are \(\mathbb Z_3\) spins, clauses are interactions, and duality exchanges a high-temperature expansion in the constraints with a low-temperature one in their duals. That might turn many dense constraints into few local ones. Test. Falsified. The duality is the \(\mathbb Z_3\) Fourier transform, which needs a primitive cube root of unity. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) it does not exist (second lead). A complex-valued duality would describe real or complex designs, and bringing them to \(\mathbb F_3\) needs the parked 3-integrality step.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Lead follow-up

Lauria and Nordström's gadget reduction from functional PHP. The gadget-substitution entry read their Section 3 in the source. The substitution is the identity on the pigeons' choices, and it defines auxiliary vertices as local functions of them. W's target has no auxiliary variables, and per-pigeon relabelling breaks the collision axioms. Follow-up. Closed: gadget substitutions need auxiliary variables that W's clauses do not have.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3, designed clauses. Test conj:large-support-taylor in its Koszul range: two width-\(k\) clauses with supports that meet the size condition and share at most one cell, at the first Koszul degree \(s=2k+4\), for \(k=1\) at the smallest board the size condition allows. Before computing, count the predicted dimensions and check that the test can fail. Reuse the kernel of the large-support entry. The outcome is Taylor generation at that degree for two clauses, supporting the conjecture's family case, or an explicit non-Taylor syzygy. At the next review, re-check A1 for a new mechanism.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read in the source: Mikša and Nordström's Definitions 3.1 to 3.6 and Theorem 3.8, from a private copy that is not committed. Re-read the Mikša–Nordström operator entry (its uncovered auxiliary-variable case), thread review 3, the bounded-depth correction (the closure sub-line was closed on 22 September, so it is not an alternative target), the 25 September literature review, and conj:large-support-taylor's assessment. mod3_real_degree.py (research/results/odd_prime_thread_review_4_20260926) computes exact finite differences in rational arithmetic. The review registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer. Its falsified items are a definition check, an algebraic identity and one exact computation, and its next step is a proposal.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 30.02 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 30.90 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 9.07 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	44.13 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	5.53 s
Individually measured computation	0.19 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.20 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The Koszul-range test of the large-support conjecture cannot run at the sizes its condition requires: two width-1 clauses at degree 6 need about 30 rows and labels, with about \(10^8\) multipliers against \(10^{14}\) target monomials, so the line turns to a proof of the first open degree

26 September 2026 · Test design, not run (infeasible), no new claim · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-koszul-range-two-clauses. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Koszul-range test of the large-support conjecture cannot run at the sizes its condition requires: two width-1 clauses at degree 6 need about 30 rows and labels, with about \(10^8\) multipliers against \(10^{14}\) target monomials, so the line turns to a proof of the first open degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-koszul-range-count.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 (designed clauses). The thread review moved cycles to A3. It proposed testing conj:large-support-taylor in its Koszul range, with two width-1 clauses at the first Koszul degree. Can that test be run at sizes that meet the conjecture's hypotheses?

General statement. conj:large-support-taylor (recorded); no new claim.

The count

For width \(k=1\), \(h=k+2=3\), and the first Koszul degree is \(D=2h=6\), so \(e=D-h=3\). The size condition asks \(|S|\ge2e+2=8\) and \(|T|\ge2e+1=7\). Each clause's cells \(S\cup T\) form a matching with high labels: 15 cells on distinct rows and distinct labels. Two clauses sharing at most one cell need about 30 rows and labels. The syzygy question at degree 6 concerns the map \((g_1,g_2)\mapsto g_1\tau_1+g_2\tau_2\) with \(g_i\in G_3\). On 30 rows and 32 labels there are about \(1.2\times10^8\) partial matchings of size 3 per multiplier and \(3.9\times10^{14}\) of size 6. On 16 rows, with the two clauses sharing rows, the counts are \(1.7\times10^7\) and \(5.2\times10^{12}\). The recorded degree-5 test worked on blocks of dimension about \(10^4\) (the inside block, \(\dim G_2=11495\) at \(N=16\)) and bounded kernels by sampled product functionals. At degree 6 with two clauses the column space alone exceeds \(10^7\), beyond exact rank computation in the run limit. Smaller supports would violate the hypothesis, and prop:restricted-annihilator shows they have non-Taylor syzygies anyway, so such a test decides nothing. The test is not run.

What it means

The conjecture's Koszul range cannot be probed by computation at the sizes it concerns. Its evidence stays at the degree-5 single-clause test. The line's progress has to come from proof. The large-support entry proposed one: induction on \(e\) below the Koszul range. Split \(g\in G_e\) over one outside row, multiply by a cell to pass to the restricted clause on the link board, and handle the coupling through the row relations \(q_{rs}\). The first open case is \(e=2\), degree 5, width 1. There the single-clause test matched Taylor exactly on the slice (15 against 15) and on the inside block (166 against 166). No later entry took the proof up.

Next. Prove the conjecture for one width-1 clause at \(e=2\) on the slice, where every restricting cell lies on an outside row and kills one cell of the support. Split a kernel element over the outside row and reduce to the restricted clause, whose effective supports, at least 5 and 4 cells, stay at or above the heptad sizes where thm:private-support-first-degree holds. Then identify what the row relations add. The recorded slice data (15 against 15 at \(N=16\)) are the check.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:large-support-taylor's entry: its statement, the size condition, the degree-5 test, its sizes and its proposed induction. The matching counts are exact binomial products, computed in the session (not saved, since they are one-line arithmetic). No claim is registered and no reviewer pass was run: the entry is a feasibility count.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 8.74 s
Marked reading and review windows	28.00 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	31.23 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 9.38 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The slice label formula: on an outside-row slice, the degree-\(h+2\) kernel of a clause top equals the first-degree kernels on the one-label-deleted boards plus a patching quotient, so the large-support conjecture's slice case at degree 5 reduces to first-degree Taylor generation on every label-deleted board and the vanishing of that quotient

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a reduction · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-slice-degree-five. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The slice label formula: on an outside-row slice, the degree-\(h+2\) kernel of a clause top equals the first-degree kernels on the one-label-deleted boards plus a patching quotient, so the large-support conjecture's slice case at degree 5 reduces to first-degree Taylor generation on every label-deleted board and the vanishing of that quotient”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-slice-label-formula.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 (designed clauses). The Koszul-range count turned the large-support line to proof. Its first open case is one width-1 clause at degree \(h+2=5\) on the outside-row slice. There the recorded computation found exactly the Taylor kernel at \(|S|=6\), \(|T|=5\), and seven extra elements at the heptad sizes. What reduces the slice kernel to first-degree statements?

General statement. prop:slice-label-formula: for any clause top \(\tau\in G_h\) supported on rows \(P\), any row \(r\notin P\) and at least 3 labels, the slice kernel's dimension is the sum of the first-degree kernel dimensions on the one-label-deleted boards, plus the dimension of a patching quotient \(Q\), minus two correction terms. For width-\(k\) clause tops with \(|S|\ge3\), the slice kernel is exactly the Taylor kernel if and only if \(Q=0\) and the first-degree kernel on every one-label-deleted board is the Frobenius line.

Setting

Work on the functional board over \(\mathbb F_3\): \(M\) is the span of partial matchings, with the product that multiplies matchings and is 0 on a shared row or label, and \(G=M/I\), where \(I\) is generated by the row sums \(\rho_i=\sum_ay_{(i,a)}\). \(G\) is graded by degree and by row support, and the ideal is homogeneous for both. For a set \(W\) of rows and a label \(c\), let \(G(W)\) be the component of row support exactly \(W\) in degree \(|W|\). Let \(G(W;\neg c)\) be the same for the board with label \(c\) deleted, where the row sums lose their label-\(c\) cells. Setting every label-\(c\) cell to 0 is a ring homomorphism \(G\to G(\neg c)\), written \(X\mapsto X|_{\neg c}\). Fix a clause top \(\tau\in G_h\) whose support rows \(P\) do not contain the row \(r\). The slice is the span in \(G_2\) of the components with row support \(\{\rho,r\}\), \(\rho\in P\). Write \(\Phi:G_1(P)\to G_{h+1}(P)\), \(u\mapsto\tau u\), and \(\Phi_c\) for the same map on the board without label \(c\), with \(\tau|_{\neg c}\). Here \(G_1(P)\) is the span of the components of \(G_1\) on rows of \(P\), and \(G_{h+1}(P)\) is the sum over \((h+1)\)-sets \(W\subseteq P\) of the components \(G(W)\).

The row presentation (the transpose of the row Horace identity)

Lemma (row presentation). For a set \(W\) of rows with \(r\notin W\), the sequence \(G(W)\xrightarrow{E}\bigoplus_cG(W;\neg c)\xrightarrow{\Sigma}G(W\cup\{r\})\to0\), with \(E(X)=(X|_{\neg c})_c\) and \(\Sigma((X_c)_c)=\sum_cy_{(r,c)}X_c\), is exact.

Proof. Every matching with row support \(W\cup\{r\}\) is \(y_{(r,c)}m\) with \(m\) a matching on \(W\) avoiding label \(c\), uniquely. So \(M(W\cup\{r\})=\bigoplus_cy_{(r,c)}M(W;\neg c)\) as vector spaces, and \(\Sigma\) is onto. The ideal's component with this row support is spanned by \(\rho_i m\) with \(i\in W\cup\{r\}\) and \(m\) supported on \((W\cup\{r\})\setminus\{i\}\). Products with a repeated row vanish, and generators with another row \(i\) have another support. For \(i=r\), \(\rho_rm=\sum_{c}y_{(r,c)}m|_{\neg c}\), which is \(\Sigma E\) applied to the class of \(m\). For \(i\in W\), \(m=y_{(r,c)}m'\), and \(\rho_im=y_{(r,c)}(\rho_i|_{\neg c}m')\), which is \(y_{(r,c)}\) times a generator of the ideal of the board without \(c\). So the relations are exactly \(\Sigma(\operatorname{im}E)\) together with the relations already divided out in each \(G(W;\neg c)\). \(\square\)

This is the dual of lem:row-horace-identity, the decomposition of the dual spaces by the row-\(r\) label with the constraint \(\sum_aW_a=0\). Here the clause has no cells on row \(r\), so the coupling of that identity is absent.

The formula

Proposition (slice label formula). Let \(\Lambda\) be the label set, \(|\Lambda|\ge3\). Let \(E'\) be the map \(E\) in degree \(h+1\) on \(P\), and \(\tilde Q=\{X\in G_{h+1}(P):X|_{\neg c}\in\operatorname{im}\Phi_c\text{ for all }c\}\), and \(Q=\tilde Q/(\operatorname{im}\Phi+\ker E')\). Then the kernel \(Z\) of \(g\mapsto\tau g\) on the slice satisfies \[\dim Z=\dim Q+\sum_{c\in\Lambda}\dim\ker\Phi_c-\dim\ker\Phi-\dim(\operatorname{im}\Phi\cap\ker E').\] If \(\tau=\ell_S^2\prod_j\ell_{T_j}\) is a width-\(k\) clause top with \(|S|\ge3\) and \(\ker\Phi_c=\mathbb F_3\,\ell_S|_{\neg c}\) for every \(c\), then \(Z\) contains the Taylor part \(\ell_S\cdot G_1(r)\), of dimension \(|\Lambda|-1\), and \(Z\) equals it if and only if \(Q=0\).

Proof. By the lemma in degree 2 (one \(W=\{\rho\}\) per \(\rho\in P\)), the slice is \(V/E(G_1(P))\), with \(V=\bigoplus_cG_1(P;\neg c)\) and \(g=\sum_cy_{(r,c)}u_c\). The map \(E\) is injective in degree 1: if \(u|_{\neg c}=0\) for all \(c\), then on each row the coefficients of \(u\) are constant off \(c\) for every \(c\), hence constant, and \(u\equiv0\) modulo the row sums, since \(|\Lambda|\ge3\). Next, \(\tau g=\sum_cy_{(r,c)}\,\tau|_{\neg c}u_c\), because \(y_{(r,c)}\) kills label \(c\) and restriction is a homomorphism. By the lemma in degree \(h+2\), applied to each \((h+1)\)-set \(W\subseteq P\), \(\tau g=0\) if and only if \(F(u):=(\Phi_cu_c)_c\) lies in \(\operatorname{im}E'\). So \(Z=F^{-1}(\operatorname{im}E')/E(G_1(P))\), and \(E(G_1(P))\subseteq F^{-1}(\operatorname{im}E')\) since \(F(Eu)=E'(\Phi u)\). Now \(\dim F^{-1}(\operatorname{im}E')=\dim\ker F+\dim(\operatorname{im}F\cap\operatorname{im}E')\), with \(\ker F=\bigoplus_c\ker\Phi_c\). Also \(\operatorname{im}F\cap\operatorname{im}E'=E'(\tilde Q)\), of dimension \(\dim\tilde Q-\dim\ker E'\), since \(\ker E'\subseteq\tilde Q\). Finally \(\dim\tilde Q=\dim Q+\dim\operatorname{im}\Phi+\dim\ker E'-\dim(\operatorname{im}\Phi\cap\ker E')\) and \(\dim\operatorname{im}\Phi=\dim G_1(P)-\dim\ker\Phi\). Substituting gives the formula.

For the criterion, suppose \(\ker\Phi_c=\mathbb F_3\ell_S|_{\neg c}\) for all \(c\). Then \(\ker\Phi=\mathbb F_3\ell_S\). Indeed, \(\ell_S^3=0\) gives \(\ell_S\in\ker\Phi\). Conversely, \(u\in\ker\Phi\) has \(u|_{\neg c}=w_c\ell_S|_{\neg c}\). Restricting further to the board without \(c\) and \(c_0\), where \(\ell_S\) keeps at least one cell since \(|S|\ge3\), gives \(w_c=w_{c_0}\). Then \(u-w_{c_0}\ell_S\) has all restrictions 0, so it is 0 by injectivity in degree 1. The same argument shows \(\operatorname{im}\Phi\cap\ker E'=0\): if \((\tau u)|_{\neg c}=0\) for all \(c\), then \(u|_{\neg c}\in\ker\Phi_c\), so \(u\in\mathbb F_3\ell_S\) and \(\tau u=0\). The formula becomes \(\dim Z=\dim Q+|\Lambda|-1\). The Taylor part is the image of the vectors \((w_c\ell_S|_{\neg c})_c\). These meet \(E(G_1(P))\) exactly in \(E(\mathbb F_3\ell_S)\), by the same gluing, so the Taylor part has dimension \(|\Lambda|-1\). It lies in \(Z\), since those vectors lie in \(\ker F\). Hence \(Z\) equals the Taylor part exactly when \(Q=0\). On the slice, the Taylor syzygies \(\ell_{T_j}^2G\) contribute nothing, since \(\ell_{T_j}^2\) has no cell on row \(r\). \(\square\)

What it explains, and what is left

The recorded restricted annihilators (prop:restricted-annihilator) fit the formula term by term. The element \((y_a-y_b)y_v\), with \(v\) on row \(r\) carrying the label of \(d\in S\), is \(u_c=y_a-y_b\) at \(c=\mathrm{label}(d)\). It lies in \(\ker\Phi_c\) beyond the Frobenius line, because deleting \(d\)'s label leaves a restricted form on three cells, which has an extra annihilator. So at the heptad sizes the extra kernel sits in the terms \(\dim\ker\Phi_c-1\) for labels \(c\) of the support. The formula gives nothing new about the blocking products counted there; they are further elements of those kernels. At \(|S|=6\), \(|T|=5\), deleting one label leaves at least 5 and 4 cells.

So the large-support conjecture's slice case at degree 5 now rests on two first-degree statements.

(H2) The first-degree Taylor property \(\ker\Phi_c=\mathbb F_3\ell_S|_{\neg c}\) on every one-label-deleted board, for supports of sizes at least \((|S|-1,|T|)\) or \((|S|,|T|-1)\). thm:private-support-first-degree proves first-degree Taylor generation only for exactly 4 and 3 cells on the full board.
(Patching) \(Q=0\): an element of degree \(h+1\) whose restriction to every one-label-deleted board lies in the image of \(\tau\) there already lies in \(\tau G_1\), up to elements killed by every restriction.

Both are statements at the first degree, one below the case in question. That is the induction on the excess degree which the large-support entry proposed, in exact form on the slice.

Next. This A3 line stays open at the two first-degree statements: (H2) for supports larger than the heptad sizes on label-deleted boards, and \(Q=0\) through its dual, the cocycles of \(D_\tau\) in degree \(h+1\) as sums of label-avoiding cocycles. The cycles return to A1 first, since its leads were closed by one-step objections and never developed (user, 26 September 2026). The Proposed next step names the first development cycle.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:row-horace-identity and lem:coupling-dual (the presentation is their transpose, without coupling), lem:spare-label-independence (the setting \(G_t=K_t^*\)), prop:width-k-first-degree-glue (its condition (b) is \(\ker\Phi\) equal to the Frobenius line), prop:restricted-annihilator and the large-support entry's slice data. A claim search for slice kernels, label-deleted boards and first-degree reductions found no such formula. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived the row presentation (the bijection of matchings, the ideal's generators with this row support, and the quotient by label deletion), the dimension formula step by step, and the criterion. It checked where characteristic 3 enters (\(\ell_S^3=0\)) and where \(|S|\ge3\) is tight (two deleted labels in \(S\)), and it confirmed the reading of the restricted annihilators. Its claim search found no such formula. It required no changes.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	15 min 2.80 s
Marked reading and review windows	5 min 52.12 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 37.08 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 33.45 s
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The Weak Rank Principle's mechanism is a substitution made cheap by the base: carried over, it is the thread's own first-active selector substitution, and what it adds is selectors modulo weak PHP, which may be cheap exactly on the special-position families where A1's tools fail

26 September 2026 · Development of a lead, no new claim · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-weak-rank-restrictions. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Weak Rank Principle's mechanism is a substitution made cheap by the base: carried over, it is the thread's own first-active selector substitution, and what it adds is selectors modulo weak PHP, which may be cheap exactly on the special-position families where A1's tools fail”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-weak-rank-selectors.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. A1's obstacle: each dense block is harmless alone (member pinning), but many adversarial blocks in special position break freeness and gluing, and the recorded degree tools are local, symmetric or capped. The Weak Rank Principle proves lower bounds for a PHP-type principle under dense constraints \(XY=A\) for every high-rank \(A\), an adversarial dense family. The thread review left it "not run". How does it handle adversarial density, and what does that answer for A1?

General statement. lem:ternary-first-active-selector-substitution and conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS) through A1; no new claim.

The mechanism, read in the source

Garlík, Gryaznov, Ren and Tzameret, "The Weak Rank Principle: Lower Bounds and Applications" (arXiv 2608.08760), Section 5.1, read here: Lemma 5.3, Definition 5.4, Lemmas 5.5 and 5.6, and Theorem 5.7. \(\mathrm{Rank}^m_n(A)\) states \(\sum_kx_{i,k}y_{k,j}=A_{i,j}\) for all \(i,j\in[m]\), \(m>n\). The degree bound (Lemma 5.3, column degree at least \(n/2+1\), for every Boolean \(A\)) is a substitution from functional PHP: \(x_{i,k}\mapsto(AP)_{i,k}\) and \(y_{k,j}\mapsto p_{j,k}\). Every constraint becomes \(\sum_sA_{i,s}(PP^{\mathsf T})_{s,j}-A_{i,j}\), which is a degree-2 Nullstellensatz consequence of functional PHP, since the hole axioms and pigeon axioms make \(PP^{\mathsf T}\equiv I\). The substitution is column-local: column \(k\) of \(X\) and \(Y\) goes to hole \(k\). A random column restriction (keep, all-zero or all-one, parity fixed) then turns size into column degree (Theorem 5.7). Two features carry the density:

The dense matrix \(A\) is absorbed by auxiliary variables: \(X\) is not constrained by PHP and can be set to the dense linear image \(AP\).
The substitution is cheap because of the base. \(PP^{\mathsf T}\equiv I\) holds only modulo functional PHP, and without the base, \(X:=AP\) would not satisfy the constraints at any low degree.

Carried over to the goal

W's clauses have no auxiliary variables. The goal's compiled form does. The weak-base compiler (thm:weak-base-unary-selector-transfer) turns each refutation line into a complete accuracy-one selector block. Its inputs are \(q_i=1-L_i^2\), it has private coefficients \(r_i\) with \(r_i^3=r_i\), and its companions are \(q_i(1-\sum_jr_jq_j)\). Substituting the private coefficients by polynomials in the board is the Weak Rank Principle's move. The record already does it: lem:ternary-first-active-selector-substitution substitutes \(r_i\mapsto\prod_{j<i}L_j^2\), which selects the first vanishing input, at a degree cost of \(2(h-1)\) per unit of degree, for any base. The prefix reduction (thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction) truncates this selector to a prefix of \(k\approx\log n\) inputs. W's clauses are exactly the residual constraints of the truncated selector. So the Weak Rank Principle's first feature is how the thread reached W.

The second feature is what the record does not use. The first-active selector is cheap or expensive regardless of the base. Its degree is that of the OR of the inputs' zero indicators on the cube, \(2h\) for independent inputs. The Weak Rank Principle's substitution instead has low degree only modulo its base. The analogue is a selector modulo weak PHP: polynomials \(R_1,\dots,R_h\) of degree \(d\) with \(q_i\bigl(1-\sum_jR_jq_j\bigr)\) in the degree-\(O(d)\) closure of weak PHP for every \(i\), and \(R_j^3-R_j\) likewise. The substitution argument of lem:ternary-first-active-selector-substitution uses only that the companions map into the closure, so it would give the following. A degree-\(D\) refutation of weak PHP plus the blocks becomes a refutation of weak PHP of degree \(O(dD)\). If every compiled block had a base selector of degree \(d\le cn\), for a suitable absolute constant \(c\), then a degree-11 refutation of weak PHP plus the blocks would give a refutation of weak PHP below Razborov's bound. The goal would follow without W. That extension of the lemma is not checked here and is not registered. Blocks with \(h\le cn/2\) inputs meet the condition with the first-active selector itself, which matches the recorded exclusion of refutations whose lines are all narrow.

What it answers: a dichotomy aimed at the obstacle

When can a base selector be cheaper than \(2h\)? It must equal the OR of the zero indicators on the points weak PHP's designs see.

If the pattern algebra is free (the weak top algebra free over the inputs' truncated algebra, as for generic inputs by thm:general-forms-freeness), the indicators behave like independent variables up to the free degree. The OR then seems to keep its degree \(2h\), so a base selector saves nothing. This is a heuristic: turning closure membership into top-algebra membership needs the homogenization machinery, which was not done. Those blocks are the ones random prefixes handle (W_RS).
A1's obstacle lives exactly where freeness fails: families in special position. Failure of freeness means extra low-degree relations among the inputs modulo weak PHP, and relations are what make a low-degree OR possible. One extreme example: the block of cell literals \(x_{ij}=1\) over a row has OR equal to the row equation, of degree 1, although it has \(n\) inputs.

So the Weak Rank Principle suggests a split of the adversary that is aimed at the obstacle. Near-free blocks go to random prefixes. Special-position blocks go to base selectors, whose degree the extra relations might lower. Whether any special-position family of the kind that defeats W's tools has a cheap base selector is the open question. No case is computed here.

Next. Test base-selector degree on the recorded special-position families where W's tools fail, by hand, since boards where selector degree sits below weak PHP's refutation degree (\(n\gtrsim4h\)) are beyond exact closure computation. Take the bit block, whose pins are refuted at degree 2 over functional PHP but not over weak PHP: does the OR of its zero indicators have a selector of degree below \(2h\) modulo weak PHP? Then take the pinnable two-block family of prop:two-block-taylor-failure and the column-type (occupancy) forms of thm:occupancy-non-freeness. Before that, write out and check the substitution lemma for base selectors (the extension of lem:ternary-first-active-selector-substitution) with a reviewer.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read in the source: the Weak Rank Principle's Section 2.1, Section 4.8 and Section 5.1 (Lemma 5.3 with its substitution, Definition 5.4, Lemmas 5.5 and 5.6, Theorem 5.7), from a private copy that is not committed. Re-read the weak-base compiler's block form (thm:weak-base-unary-selector-transfer), lem:ternary-first-active-selector-substitution, thm:logarithmic-prefix-wide-clause-reduction, cor:ens-members's block description, thm:general-forms-freeness and conj:companion-tops-low-degree. A claim search for substitutions of private coefficients found the first-active substitution and no base-dependent version. The dichotomy's free side is a heuristic, marked as such. No claim is registered and no reviewer pass was run: the entry reads a source and proposes a line, and its one extension of a recorded lemma is stated as unchecked.

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Base selectors: substituting the private coefficients by selectors that work only modulo the base removes every block at once, at degree \(\max(E,dD)\); so every refutation of ordinary unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\) contains a line whose block has no cheap selector modulo weak PHP, and selector cost is a line measure for a Weak-Rank-style restriction argument

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a substitution lemma and its corollary · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-base-selectors. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Base selectors: substituting the private coefficients by selectors that work only modulo the base removes every block at once, at degree \(\max(E,dD)\); so every refutation of ordinary unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\) contains a line whose block has no cheap selector modulo weak PHP, and selector cost is a line measure for a Weak-Rank-style restriction argument”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-base-selectors.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The weak-rank selectors entry read the Weak Rank Principle's substitution as one made cheap by its base. It proposed selectors modulo weak PHP, the first step of which is to extend the first-active substitution lemma to them. What exactly does a base selector buy?

General statement. lem:base-selector-substitution: for any base \(F'\) and any selector blocks with private coefficients, if the coefficients have substitutes of degree \(d\) that send every companion into the degree-\(E\) closure of \(F'\), then the degree-\(D\) closure of \(F'\) plus the blocks, restricted to the base variables, lies in the degree-\(\max(E,dD)\) closure of \(F'\). Consequently every \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) contains a line whose block has no such substitutes with \(11d\le n/2\) and \(E\le n/2\).

The lemma

Setting as in the first-active substitution lemma (lem:ternary-first-active-selector-substitution). \(F'\) is a system in Boolean variables \(x\) and variables \(s\) with \(s^3=s\). Work in \(\mathcal B=\mathbb F_3[x,s]/(x^2-x,s^3-s)\), the ring of \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued functions on the points. \(\mathcal C_T(F')\) is the degree-\(T\) PC closure, with the step \(f\mapsto yf\) allowed when \(\deg f\le T-1\). A selector block \(b\) has inputs \(g_{b,i}=1-L_{b,i}^2\), with \(L_{b,i}\) affine in \(x,s\), and private coefficients \(r_{b,i}\) with field equations \(r^3=r\). The \(r_{b,i}\) occur in no other axiom. Its companions are \(g_{b,i}P_b\) with \(P_b=1-\sum_ir_{b,i}g_{b,i}\).

Lemma (base-selector substitution). Suppose that for every block \(b\) there are \(R_{b,i}\in\mathbb F_3[x,s]\) of degree at most \(d\), \(d\ge1\), with \(g_{b,i}\bigl(1-\sum_jR_{b,j}g_{b,j}\bigr)\in\mathcal C_E(F')\) for every \(i\). Then for every \(D\), \[\mathcal C_D(F'+\text{blocks})\cap\mathbb F_3[x,s]\subseteq\mathcal C_{\max(E,dD)}(F').\]

Proof. Let \(\varphi\) fix \(x\) and \(s\) and send \(r_{b,i}\mapsto R_{b,i}\). The target \(\mathcal B\) is a ring of \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued functions, so \(R^3=R\) there, and \(\varphi\) is a ring homomorphism from \(\mathcal B[r]/(r^3-r)\) to \(\mathcal B\) that fixes \(\mathbb F_3[x,s]\). It multiplies the degree of every monomial by at most \(d\). Put \(T=\max(E,dD)\). We show \(\varphi(f)\in\mathcal C_T(F')\) for every \(f\) in \(\mathcal C_D(F'+\text{blocks})\), by induction over the closure. The generators of \(F'\) are fixed. Field equations of \(r\) go to 0. Companions go into \(\mathcal C_E(F')\subseteq\mathcal C_T(F')\) by hypothesis. Linear combinations are preserved. For a step \(f\mapsto yf\) with \(\deg f\le D-1\), we have \(\deg\varphi(f)\le d(D-1)\) and \(\varphi(yf)=\varphi(y)\varphi(f)\) with \(\deg\varphi(y)\le d\). Multiply \(\varphi(f)\) by the monomials of \(\varphi(y)\) one variable at a time. Every intermediate product has degree at most \(d(D-1)+d-1\le T-1\), so each step is a closure step, and the sum of the results lies in \(\mathcal C_T(F')\). Membership in the closure depends only on the element's own degree at each step. \(\square\)

With \(R_{b,i}=\prod_{j<i}(1-g_{b,j})\), the companions map to 0 in \(\mathcal B\), since \(g(1-g)=0\). Then \(E=0\) and \(d=2(h-1)\), which is the first-active substitution lemma. The new case has \(E>0\): the substitutes select correctly only modulo \(F'\), as \(X:=AP\) does in the Weak Rank Principle.

The corollary: a line with expensive selectors

By the weak-base compiler (thm:weak-base-unary-selector-transfer), an \(S\)-line \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) gives a PC refutation of degree at most \(4p-1=11\) of the weak base \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\) plus at most \(S\) complete accuracy-one selector blocks. These blocks have the form above. The complete-board transfer (the compiler the weak-base version specializes) builds each block from its selected inputs \(t_i=1-L_i^{2}\), with \(P=1-\sum_ir_it_i\) over them, companions \(t_iP\), and every coefficient equation retained. Actual-position compression only chooses which selectors are inputs, and the inference replay uses the blocks in derivations, not in further axioms. Weak PHP needs degree at least \(n/2+1\) (Razborov's bound, as the record uses it). So:

Corollary (selector-expensive line). In every \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutation of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\), of any size, some line's block has no substitutes \(R\) of degree \(d\le n/22\) whose companions lie in \(\mathcal C_{n/2}(\Gamma_{\rm w})\).

Proof. Otherwise, choose such substitutes for every block. The lemma turns the degree-11 refutation into \(1\in\mathcal C_{\max(n/2,11d)}(\Gamma_{\rm w})\subseteq\mathcal C_{n/2}(\Gamma_{\rm w})\), below Razborov's bound. \(\square\)

The first-active selectors give, for a line with \(h\) equations, \(d=2(h-1)\) and \(E=0\). So the corollary implies that some line has more than \(n/44+1\) equations. It is stronger than that: the line must stay expensive even for selectors that are correct only modulo weak PHP. The record's exceptional-lines theorems remove wide lines' blocks one at a time, at an additive degree cost per block (thm:cell-support-exclusion-with-exceptional-lines). The lemma removes all blocks at once, for a multiplicative factor \(d\).

What it gives for A1: the Weak Rank Principle's plan

The Weak Rank Principle proves its size bound in two steps. First, a measure (column degree) that every refutation must make large. Second, a random restriction that kills terms of large measure with high probability while keeping the principle's shape (Theorem 5.7). The corollary supplies the first step for unary PHP, with selector cost as the measure: the least \(\max(E,11d)\) over substitutes for a line's block. The goal would follow from the second step: a random restriction of the board to weak PHP on \(n'=n^{\Omega(1)}\) holes under which every line of a refutation with \(n^K\) lines has selector cost at most \(n'/2\), except with probability below \(n^{-K}\). A1's adversarial families enter only through lines of high selector cost. Two cases differ.

Lines whose forms keep large rank after restriction and whose zero indicators behave freely. There a base selector seems to save nothing (the heuristic of the weak-rank entry). The record's random prefixes are the tool for those, not restrictions.
Lines in special position, where freeness fails. There the extra relations modulo weak PHP may make selectors cheap. That is the question the lemma now makes precise.

Next. Compute selector cost by hand for the bit block, the recorded special-position family that functional PHP refutes at degree 2 while weak PHP does not. Its inputs are the bits of one pigeon's hole index, so their zero-union's OR is row-local. Ask whether a base selector of degree \(O(1)\) exists modulo weak PHP, and at what \(E\). Then do the same for the pinnable two-block family (prop:two-block-taylor-failure) and column-type forms. A cheap selector on these is the first evidence that the measure falls exactly where W's tools fail.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the first-active substitution lemma with its proof (the degree-counting step for multiplications), the weak-base compiler's block form, cor:ens-members's description of the blocks, and the recorded use of Razborov's bound for weak PHP. A claim search for substitutions of private coefficients and for statements that some line is wide found the first-active substitution lemma, the one-block elimination and the exceptional-lines theorems, which differ as described. Re-read the complete-board transfer's block construction (the compressed block \(P=1-\sum_ir_it_i\), complete companions, retained coefficient equations). A fresh-context reviewer traced the induction (base cases, the multiplication step, why the bound is a maximum and not a sum), \(R^3=R\) in the function ring, the use of \(d\ge1\), and the arithmetic with 11 and \(n/2\). It confirmed the comparison with the exceptional-lines theorems. It required, both adopted: "ordinary" in the title, and a check of the compiled blocks' form against the compiler itself rather than a later description.

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Over the functional base the bit block has selectors of degree \(\lceil\log_2n\rceil-1\), so base selectors remove exactly the block that defeats functional pinning; since they act block by block, a family is removed without any gluing whenever each of its blocks is individually cheap

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a proposition · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-selector-cost-bit-block. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Over the functional base the bit block has selectors of degree \(\lceil\log_2n\rceil-1\), so base selectors remove exactly the block that defeats functional pinning; since they act block by block, a family is removed without any gluing whenever each of its blocks is individually cheap”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-bit-block-selectors.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The base-selector entry made selector cost modulo the base a line measure (lem:base-selector-substitution) and proposed the bit block as its first test. The bit block is the recorded special-position family whose pins functional PHP refutes at degree 2 (prop:bit-block-pinning-refutation), which is why the thread uses the weak base. What is its selector cost?

General statement. prop:bit-block-functional-selectors: over \(\mathbb F_3\), when \(n<2^\beta\) with \(\beta=\lceil\log_2n\rceil\), the bit-encoding block has substitutes of degree \(\beta-1\) whose companions lie in the degree-\((\beta+3)\) closure of functional PHP. So, by lem:base-selector-substitution, functional PHP plus the block has no PC refutation of degree \(D\) with \((\beta-1)D\le n/2\), for \(n\ge2\beta+6\).

The proposition

Number the holes \(0,\dots,n-1\), let \(J_b\) be the holes whose binary code has bit \(b\) equal to 1, and let the bit-encoding block be the \((n+1)\beta\) forms \(L_{i,b}=\sum_{j\in J_b}x_{ij}\), with inputs \(g_{i,b}=1-L_{i,b}^2\). The functional base FPHP\(^{n+1}_n\) has Booleanity, collisions, the rows \(\sum_jx_{ij}-1\) and the functionality products \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}\), \(j\ne j'\).

Proposition (bit block under functional selectors). If \(n<2^\beta\), put \(R_{1,b}=\prod_{b'<b}L_{1,b'}\) for pigeon 1 and \(R_{i,b}=0\) for \(i\ne1\). Then every companion \(g_{i,b}\bigl(1-\sum_{i',b'}R_{i',b'}g_{i',b'}\bigr)\) lies in \(\mathcal C_{\beta+3}(\mathrm{FPHP})\), and \(\deg R\le\beta-1\).

Proof. Put \(A_b=L_{1,b}^2-L_{1,b}=\sum_{j\in J_b}(x_{1j}^2-x_{1j})+2\sum_{j<j'\in J_b}x_{1j}x_{1j'}\), a sum of degree-2 axioms (Booleanity and functionality) with constant coefficients. Then \(g_{1,b}=1-L_{1,b}-A_b\). Since \(\sum_b\prod_{b'<b}L_{1,b'}(1-L_{1,b})=1-\prod_{b=1}^{\beta}L_{1,b}\) exactly (telescoping), \[1-\sum_bR_{1,b}g_{1,b}=\prod_{b=1}^{\beta}L_{1,b}+\sum_bR_{1,b}A_b.\] Expanding the product, every term with two distinct holes of row 1 is a functionality product, and the remaining terms are \(x_{1j}\) for \(j\in\bigcap_bJ_b\), the holes whose code has all \(\beta\) bits 1. Since \(n<2^\beta\), no hole has code \(2^\beta-1\), so the intersection is empty and the product lies in \(\mathcal C_\beta\): its terms are products of at most \(\beta\) cells, each containing a functionality product. The correction \(R_{1,b}A_b\) is a polynomial of degree \(b-1\le\beta-1\) times a degree-2 axiom, so it lies in \(\mathcal C_{\beta+1}\). Hence \(1-\sum Rg\in\mathcal C_{\beta+1}\), and multiplying by the degree-2 input \(g_{i,b}\) gives companions in \(\mathcal C_{\beta+3}\). \(\square\)

By lem:base-selector-substitution with \(d=\beta-1\) and \(E=\beta+3\), a degree-\(D\) PC refutation of FPHP plus the block gives one of FPHP of degree \(\max(\beta+3,(\beta-1)D)\). By Razborov's bound for functional PHP (degree at least \(n/2+1\)), there is none when \((\beta-1)D\le n/2\) and \(\beta+3\le n/2\), that is \(n\ge2\beta+6\).

The case \(n=2^\beta\). Now hole \(n-1\) has all bits 1, and the same expansion gives \(\prod_bL_{1,b}\equiv x_{1,n-1}\) at degree \(\beta\). Add pigeon 2 with \(R_{2,b}=x_{1,n-1}\prod_{b'<b}L_{2,b'}\), of degree at most \(\beta\). With \(A'_b=L_{2,b}^2-L_{2,b}\), the same telescoping gives \[1-\sum_{i\le2,b}R_{i,b}g_{i,b}=\Bigl(\prod_bL_{1,b}-x_{1,n-1}\Bigr)+x_{1,n-1}\prod_bL_{2,b}+\sum_bR_{1,b}A_b+\sum_bR_{2,b}A'_b.\] The first bracket lies in \(\mathcal C_\beta\). The second term is \(x_{1,n-1}\) times an element congruent to \(x_{2,n-1}\) at degree \(\beta\), so it is congruent to the collision \(x_{1,n-1}x_{2,n-1}\) within degree \(\beta+1\). The corrections lie in \(\mathcal C_{\beta+1}\) and \(\mathcal C_{\beta+2}\). So \(1-\sum Rg\in\mathcal C_{\beta+2}\), the companions lie in \(\mathcal C_{\beta+4}\), and \(d=\beta\).

What it means

The bit block defeats pinning over the functional base: its pins are refuted at degree 2, because functionality decodes each pigeon's hole from its bits. The same functionality makes the selector cheap, since it forces the product of one pigeon's bit forms to vanish. Informally, and not proved beyond this example: where the base forces some input to vanish, pinning at nonzero values fails and a selector only has to find the vanishing input, so the two mechanisms look complementary.
Base selectors act on each block separately. lem:base-selector-substitution takes one substitute per block and needs no compatibility between blocks. So a family of any number of blocks, each individually selector-cheap, is removed at once, and the collective interaction behind A1 does not arise for such blocks. This is a structural consequence of the lemma, not yet progress on A1's families: apart from the bit block, no family has been classified as selector-cheap or selector-expensive. If cheap blocks are common, A1 reduces to families containing selector-expensive blocks, whose inputs the base does not force to vanish at low degree.
Over the weak base this block is settled by the super-hole lemma instead (cor:bit-block-weak-pinning). Its selector cost there is not determined here. The recorded corollary makes the pin patterns consistent only when the top-bit forms are pinned at 0, and those patterns already have a vanishing input.

Next. State and prove the hybrid that the second point suggests. Selector-cheap blocks are removed by substitution over a base that contains the remaining blocks' clauses. The remaining family, all of whose blocks are selector-expensive, goes to W_RS. Check that the removal commutes with the randomized-prefix clauses, and identify which recorded obstructions to W (the pinnable two-block family, column-type families) consist of selector-cheap blocks over the functional or weak base.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:bit-block-pinning-refutation (its decoding by functionality), cor:bit-block-weak-pinning (the top-bit condition and the case \(n=2^\beta\)), lem:base-selector-substitution, and the complete-board transfer, which allows the functional base as a strengthening for ordinary PHP. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the telescoping identity, the empty intersection for \(n<2^\beta\) and the use of Razborov's bound. It required, all adopted: the companion degree corrected from \(\beta+2\) to \(\beta+3\), with the correction terms \(R_{1,b}A_b\) made explicit; the proviso \(n\ge2\beta+6\); the case \(n=2^\beta\) written out with its own degrees (\(d=\beta\), companions in \(\mathcal C_{\beta+4}\)); the complementarity with pinning marked as informal; and the narrowing of A1 stated as a structural consequence, not completed progress.

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The selector hybrid: the randomized-prefix reduction is itself a selector substitution, so each block may take either a cheap base selector or the random prefix, and W_RS is needed only for the blocks without a cheap selector, at the same logarithmic degree

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-selector-hybrid. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The selector hybrid: the randomized-prefix reduction is itself a selector substitution, so each block may take either a cheap base selector or the random prefix, and W_RS is needed only for the blocks without a cheap selector, at the same logarithmic degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-selector-hybrid.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The bit-block selector entry showed that base selectors remove blocks one at a time, with no gluing, and removed the bit block over functional PHP (prop:bit-block-functional-selectors). Can selector-cheap blocks be removed while the rest of a family goes to W_RS, without losing the logarithmic degree?

General statement. thm:selector-hybrid-reduction: the goal follows if, for every family of \(n^K\) blocks, each block either has a base selector of degree \(d\) with companions in the degree-\(E\) closure of the base, or receives a prefix matrix, so that the base plus the W_RS clauses of the second kind of blocks alone has no PC refutation of degree \(\max(E,4t+2,11\max(1,d,\delta))\).

The randomized-prefix reduction is a selector substitution

thm:randomized-prefix-reduction writes \(1-Q^{C}=\sum_i\beta_ig_i\) with \(\beta_i=\sum_jc_{ji}s_j\prod_{j'<j}(1-s_{j'}^2)\), of degree \(\delta(C)\le4t-2\), where \(s=Cg\) and \(Q^C=\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\). Substituting \(r_i\mapsto\beta_i\) sends each companion \(g_i\bigl(1-\sum_j\beta_jg_j\bigr)\) to \(g_iQ^C\) in the function ring, which is the W_RS clause. So it is an instance of lem:base-selector-substitution in which the base \(F'\) is enlarged by the block's own W_RS clauses: the companion images are axioms of \(F'\), of degree \(4t+2\). A base selector is the case where the images already lie in the closure of the unenlarged base.

The theorem

Theorem (selector hybrid reduction). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\Gamma\) be the weak base \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\), or the functional base, which the complete-board transfer allows as a strengthening for ordinary PHP. Suppose that for every \(K\) and all large \(n\), every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks of affine forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b}\) splits into a part \(\mathcal S\) and a part \(\mathcal X\), with the following data.

For \(b\in\mathcal S\): substitutes \(R_{b,i}\) of degree at most \(d\) with \(g_{b,i}\bigl(1-\sum_jR_{b,j}g_{b,j}\bigr)\in\mathcal C_E(\Gamma)\) for every \(i\).
For \(b\in\mathcal X\): a matrix \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t_b\times h_b}\).

Suppose further that \(\Gamma\) plus the clauses \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\), for \(b\in\mathcal X\) only, has no PC refutation of degree \(T=\max\bigl(E,\max_b(4t_b+2),11\max(1,d,\max_b\delta(C_b))\bigr)\). Then \(\mathrm{Res}(\mathrm{Lin}_{\mathbb F_3})\) refutations of ordinary unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^{n+1}_n\) need superpolynomially many lines.

Proof. Let a refutation have \(S\le n^K\) lines. The compiler (the weak-base compiler for \(\Gamma_{\rm w}\), the complete-board transfer for the functional base) gives a PC refutation of degree at most 11 of \(\Gamma\) plus at most \(S\) complete accuracy-one blocks, one per line. Their inputs are \(1-L^2\) for the line's equations, with private coefficients, companions and coefficient equations. Split the blocks by the hypothesis and put \(F'=\Gamma+\{g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}:b\in\mathcal X\}\). Substitute \(r_{b,i}\mapsto R_{b,i}\) for \(b\in\mathcal S\) and \(r_{b,i}\mapsto\beta_{b,i}\) for \(b\in\mathcal X\), a family attaining \(\delta(C_b)\le4t_b-2\). Companions of blocks in \(\mathcal S\) map into \(\mathcal C_E(\Gamma)\subseteq\mathcal C_E(F')\). Companions of blocks in \(\mathcal X\) map to \(g_{b,i}\bigl(1-\sum_j\beta_{b,j}g_{b,j}\bigr)\), which equals the axiom \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) of \(F'\) in the function ring; as in the randomized-prefix proof, the two convert into each other at degree at most \(\max(4t_b+2,\delta(C_b)+4)\le T\). All substitutes have degree at most \(\max(d,\max_b\delta(C_b))\). Field images are automatic, since the lemma works in the function ring. By lem:base-selector-substitution, with \(E\) replaced by \(\max\bigl(E,\max_b(4t_b+2),\max_b\delta(C_b)+4\bigr)\le T\) and \(D=11\), the refutation becomes \(1\in\mathcal C_T(F')\), contrary to the hypothesis. \(\square\)

With \(\mathcal S=\emptyset\) and \(\Gamma=\Gamma_{\rm w}\) this is thm:randomized-prefix-reduction; with the functional base it is the same statement over a stronger base, which is new. The gain is that W_RS is required only for \(\mathcal X\). Blocks with a cheap base selector, for instance blocks of at most \(O(\log n)\) inputs (first-active, \(E=0\), \(d=2(h-1)\)) and the bit block over the functional base (\(d=\beta-1\), \(E=\beta+3\)), drop out without entering any gluing or pattern count. When \(d\) and \(E\) are \(O(\log n)\), \(T\) keeps W_RS's logarithmic order.

What it means for A1

A1 is now needed only for families all of whose blocks are selector-expensive modulo the chosen base. Two consequences are worth testing.

The base can be functional again. The thread moved to the weak base because the bit block's pins are refuted over functional PHP. Over the functional base that block is selector-cheap and drops out, so the obstruction that forced the move no longer bears on W_RS's hypothesis. Other functional-base obstructions may exist. The functional base carries more tools: Mikša and Nordström's graph PHP bounds, and Razborov's operator.
Which blocks are selector-expensive modulo functional PHP? A selector must find a vanishing input on every pinned pseudo-world that functional PHP cannot refute at degree \(E\). This suggests, heuristically and without proof in either direction, that expensive blocks are those whose pins at nonzero values stay consistent over functional PHP: the blocks that functional pinning does not refute, the domain of member pinning and the freeness results.

A recorded obstruction on the expensive side

The historical low-degree base-certificate obstruction (Lemma 5.4 of the handoff manuscript) bounds base selectors from below. For one block of \(q\) cell inputs \(x_{a,2a-1}\), on distinct pigeons and holes, substitutes of degree \(T\) whose companions have functional-PHP certificates of degree \(C\le\lfloor(n-q)/2\rfloor\) need \(q\le T+1\) (its \(h\) counts product factors, here 1). So this block's base-selector degree is at least \(q-1\), within a factor 2 of the first-active cost \(2(q-1)\): the base saves almost nothing. Its pins at nonzero values (all \(q\) cells equal to 1) are consistent, in line with the heuristic above. Cell blocks are among the families A1 already settles (the cell family theorem), so the obstruction costs nothing there, but it shows that the hybrid's gain is confined to blocks whose inputs the base forces to vanish.

Next. A route review is due, with an Obstacle section. It should restate A1 through the hybrid: families of selector-expensive blocks, over the base where the fewest blocks are expensive. It should also decide between the functional and weak bases for W_RS, and choose outside leads that bear on selector cost.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:randomized-prefix-reduction (its \(\beta_i\), \(\delta(C)\) and degree formula), lem:base-selector-substitution, prop:bit-block-functional-selectors, the weak-base compiler and the complete-board transfer (the functional base as a strengthening). Read the historical base-certificate obstruction (Lemma 5.4 of the handoff manuscript). The proof is a composition of recorded results in one setting. A fresh-context reviewer checked the composition: the conversion degree \(\max(4t_b+2,\delta+4)\le T\), the effective \(d=\max(d,\delta)\) with the clamp meeting the lemma's \(d\ge1\), \(D=11\) for both compilers, the enlarged base fitting the lemma's setting, base monotonicity for \(\mathcal S\), and no unused hypotheses. Its claim search found no prior statement of the hybrid. It required, both adopted: the case \(\mathcal S=\emptyset\) identified with thm:randomized-prefix-reduction only over the weak base; and the identification of expensive blocks with functionally unrefuted pins marked as a heuristic, with the base-certificate obstruction checked, which is now done above.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	9 min 46.17 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 6.49 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 48.36 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Route review: after the selector hybrid, A1 is W_RS for blocks of high rank modulo every admissible pinned span; the missing object is a design of the base that annihilates their error clauses, and a randomized-prefix block's local immunity lies between about \(2t\) and \(4t+2\)

26 September 2026 · Route review with one finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-hybrid-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: after the selector hybrid, A1 is W_RS for blocks of high rank modulo every admissible pinned span; the missing object is a design of the base that annihilates their error clauses, and a randomized-prefix block's local immunity lies between about \(2t\) and \(4t+2\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-hybrid-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since thread review 4, six cycles worked on A1:

the Weak Rank Principle lead (weak-rank selectors);
base selectors (lem:base-selector-substitution);
the bit block over the functional base (prop:bit-block-functional-selectors);
the selector hybrid (thm:selector-hybrid-reduction);
and two cycles on A3.

What does the hybrid change in A1, and what exactly is A1 now stuck on?

General statement. The line's claim is the goal through W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction), weakened by thm:selector-hybrid-reduction to the blocks that have no cheap selector modulo the base.

What the goal needs

For every family of \(n^K\) blocks, a split into selector-cheap blocks and a remainder \(\mathcal X\), and prefix matrices, such that the base plus the remainder's clauses \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) has no PC refutation of degree \(T\approx 11\max(1,d,\delta)\), which is logarithmic when \(d\) is.

Revisiting the open statements

Which blocks does the hybrid remove?

Low rank. A block whose forms' linear parts span a space of dimension \(r\) has selectors of degree \(2r\) with \(E=0\). Write every \(L_i\) as an affine function of a basis \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_r\), and put \(R_i=[\text{the first }j\text{ with }L_j=0\text{ is }i]\), a function of \(\ell\in\mathbb F_3^r\), hence of degree at most \(2r\). Every companion then vanishes at every point of the cube.
Low rank modulo pins. The same works over a base enlarged by pins \(u=v\): a block of rank \(\rho\) modulo the pinned span has selectors of degree \(2\rho\), with companions in the degree-\((2\rho+4)\) closure, since \(\ell^3-\ell\) follows from Booleanity in characteristic 3. This is pinned-rank vacuity's division step (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity), used as a selector instead of through a random prefix. So it has no probability loss, and \(\rho\) is limited by the degree budget \(22\rho\le T\) rather than by \(\rho\le\log_3n\).

So A1 now asks for W_RS only on blocks of rank above about \(T/22\) modulo every pinned span that member pinning allows. The pinned rank selectors are a small consequence of recorded results, stated here and not registered; the next cycle states them as a lemma if they are used. The Open statements entry for A1 carries the hybrid by link, and no statement changes.

Obstacle

For a family of \(n^K\) blocks, each of rank above about \(T/22\) modulo every admissible pinned span, W_RS needs a degree-\(T\) design of the weak base that annihilates every error clause \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\). A design is a linear functional vanishing on the degree-\(T\) closure. Pointwise the error sets are tiny, below \(M3^{-t}\le1/n\) at every point, but designs are exact \(\mathbb F_3\)-linear objects, not measures. The recorded constructions are pinning, which needs one shared span of few forms, and gluing, which needs Tor vanishing that adversarial families break. The selectors of the hybrid remove only blocks whose zero set the base or the pins control. No recorded construction gives a design that avoids \(n^K\) overlapping error sets of high-rank blocks.

Falsification attempt

Is the hybrid vacuous? No. Beyond the recorded classes it removes blocks of rank up to \(T/22\) modulo a pinned span, deterministically.
Could selectors remove every block? No. The historical low-degree base-certificate obstruction (Lemma 5.4 of the handoff manuscript) makes \(q\) cell inputs on distinct pigeons cost selector degree at least \(q-1\). A family of dense generic blocks has rank about \(h_b\) modulo any span of at most about \(n\) forms (member pinning's per-row cap). So high-rank blocks remain, and A1 is not discharged.
Is W_RS false on them? No refuting family is known.

Assessment of the line

The hybrid organizes A1 without shrinking its core. Every block class it removes was already removable in another form, now with better parameters. The core, dense high-rank families, is where it was at thread review 4. The Weak Rank Principle lead produced a correct and general mechanism, selector cost, and located its limit. Variable restrictions keep dense forms at full rank on the residual board, so the restriction half of the principle's plan does not lower selector cost. Only affine restrictions (pins) do, and they are the recorded pinning line. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Cayley–Bacharach and Hilbert functions of subsets (Geramita, Kreuzer and Robbiano, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 339, 1993). Restricting functions from the column-injective set \(Q\) to the allowed set \(Q'\) is injective in degree \(\le d\) exactly when no nonzero function of degree \(\le d\) on \(Q\) is supported on the error union \(B=Q\setminus Q'\). Then \(\mathrm{gr}\,F^{Q'}\) and \(\mathrm{gr}\,F^{Q}\) agree through degree \(d\), with their products. So row freeness, the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing, would pass from \(Q\) to \(Q'\). Target: A1 through the allowed-set route of W. Answers. It would give the annihilating design by transport from the full set, whenever the error union carries no low-degree function. Test. Falsified in this form. The clause \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) is itself a function of degree \(4t+2\) supported on \(B\), nonzero wherever block \(b\) errs at a point with \(L_{b,i}=0\). The immunity test below finds such functions already from degree 3 (\(t=1\)) and 4 (\(t=2\)). So injectivity fails below W_RS's degree whenever W_RS is not vacuous. The corrected form quotients \(\mathrm{gr}\,F^Q\) by the initial forms of the functions supported on \(B\). Its row freeness is Tor vanishing of those tops, the record's A3 (Taylor glue). The lead reduces A1's allowed-set route to A3; it does not bypass it.
Alekhnovich and Razborov's pseudo-reduction for non-binomial constraints (Alekhnovich and Razborov, "Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case", Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 242, 2003). Their design reduces a monomial modulo the constraints inside the closure of its support. It needs each constraint to be immune (no nonzero low-degree function vanishes on its allowed set) and the constraint incidence to expand. In the form-value encoding a W_RS block is one constraint on its \(h\) form values. Target: A1. Answers. It would supply the missing design for families whose blocks are individually immune and collectively expanding, with no shared pinned span; this is exactly the high-rank case the obstacle leaves. Test. Passed at the local level. prefix_immunity.py computes the immunity of one block's allowed set in \(\mathbb F_3^h\), for \(h\le6\), \(t\in\{1,2\}\), eight uniform \(C\) and two zero-column controls per case (prefix_immunity.json). For \(t=1\) the immunity is 3 to 6. For \(t=2\) it is 4 to 9, and 6 to 9 at \(h=6\). It grows with \(h\) and mostly stays below the clause degree \(4t+2\). Controls with \(C=0\) give immunity 2, the input degree, as they must. So a block's immunity is of the order of \(t\), the right scale, but below W_RS's degree \(11\delta\) by a factor that expansion would have to supply. The expansion step is not run. In the cell encoding every block touches all cells. The span-based closure is the recorded closure sub-line (ordered closure), whose restart needs a new expansion notion.
Designs for one counting principle in the presence of another's axioms (Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall, "Proof complexity in algebraic systems and bounded depth Frege systems with modular counting", Comput. Complexity 6, 1996/97). Their Nullstellensatz designs tolerate a dense extra axiom family, the partition axioms of another modulus, by defining the design on partial structures compatible with both systems. Target: A1. Answers. It would give a template for designs that satisfy PHP and \(n^K\) dense extra axioms at once: define the design on partial matchings that are also error-avoiding for every block. Test. Not run: their compatibility rests on the symmetric structure of the extra axioms. Whether error-avoiding partial matchings admit a compatible extension property needs the source read in full and a development cycle. The first check is whether every partial matching of size below \(T\) extends, avoiding all error sets, in a way that is consistent under restriction.

Absurd bridges

Longuet-Higgins' theorem on nonbonding orbitals of alternant hydrocarbons (J. Chem. Phys. 18, 1950), from Hückel theory. Translation: the pigeon–hole board is an alternant molecule with one excess starred atom. Nonbonding orbitals are vectors annihilated by the biadjacency matrix, found by the zero-sum rule: the coefficients around each unstarred atom sum to zero. Answers. It gives the degree-1 safety condition for the pins that the obstacle's designs would use. A pin set \(\{u=v\}\) is refuted at degree 1 exactly when a zero-sum combination of the row equations and the pins is a nonzero constant. For pinned column sums \(C_j=o_j\), a combination \(\sum_ia_i(\text{row}_i-1)+\sum_jb_j(C_j-o_j)\) is constant only if \(a_i+b_j=0\) for all \(i,j\). Then it equals \(a\bigl(\sum_jo_j-(n+1)\bigr)\), which is nonzero exactly when \(\sum_jo_j\not\equiv n+1\pmod 3\). This agrees with the recorded total-occupancy condition of thm:global-closure-gluing. It says nothing above degree 1. Test. Passed (the two-line computation above).
Kasteleyn's determinant method for dimer counting (statistical mechanics, Physica 27, 1961). Translation: define \(\mu(M)=\pm\prod_{e\in M}w_e\det W[R,\ \text{free holes}\cup\{\varphi\}]\) for a partial matching \(M\). Here \(R\) is the set of unmatched pigeons, \(\varphi\) a phantom hole and \(W\) random \(\mathbb F_3\) weights. Laplace expansion then gives the row identities exactly, with no counting coefficients that vanish modulo 3. Answers. It would give designs in characteristic 3 whose row axioms hold by an identity, to which error-avoidance could be added by zeroing weights. Test. Falsified by the expansion itself, at every degree. Along pigeon \(i\): \(\sum_j\mu(M+(i,j))=\mu(M)\mp\prod_Mw\cdot w_{i\varphi}\det W[R\setminus i,\text{free holes}]\). So the row axiom for \(i\) at \(M\) needs the phantom term to vanish. If it vanishes for all \(i\in R\), expanding the determinant along the phantom column gives \(\mu(M)=0\). At \(M=\emptyset\) the degree-1 row axioms therefore force \(\mu(\emptyset)=0\). The phantom term is the unplaced pigeon, and spreading it over degrees is the work Razborov's pigeon dance does.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge from earlier reviews on this route is open.

Lead follow-up

The Weak Rank Principle's generalized random restrictions. Developed over four cycles. Its degree bound is a substitution made cheap by the base (weak-rank selectors). Base selectors remove every block at degree \(\max(E,dD)\) (lem:base-selector-substitution). The bit block is selector-cheap over functional PHP (prop:bit-block-functional-selectors), and cheap blocks drop out of W_RS (thm:selector-hybrid-reduction). The restriction half does not transfer: restricting cells keeps dense forms at full rank, and restricting forms is pinning. Follow-up. Continuing: the pinned rank selectors above are its last product, and the lead stays open for a restriction notion that lowers the rank of dense forms without pinning them.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: develop the Alekhnovich–Razborov lead, which passed its local test. State their pseudo-reduction for the weak base plus W_RS clauses in the form-value encoding, with pins as the closure's fixed part. Identify the expansion condition it needs on the family, and test that condition on random dense families, row-local families and the pinnable two-block family (prop:two-block-taylor-failure). The outcome is either an expansion notion that dense families satisfy, a first design for the obstacle, or a family that violates every such notion.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:selector-hybrid-reduction, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity (its division step), thm:global-closure-gluing and the ordered-closure entry. The immunity computation uses exact arithmetic modulo 3. Its controls with \(C=0\) return the input degree 2, and cases with no error points return no dependency. The bridges' claims are the two-line computation and the Laplace expansion written out above. The review registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer: its checks are one finite computation of a lead's premise, one linear-algebra identity and one expansion argument.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	25 min 16.08 s
Marked reading and review windows	8 min 35.56 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 16.96 s
Computation design and coding	33.95 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 34.70 s
Marked overhead and interruptions	12 min 11.00 s
Individually measured computation	3.70 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.21 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The Alekhnovich–Razborov lead closes on support against immunity: their criterion lets two constraints share fewer than \(\ell/4\le t+\tfrac12\) variables, while random dense forms stay dense in every linear basis, so a dense randomized-prefix block shares about \(n/3\) coordinates with some pigeon axiom however the board is coordinatized

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a lemma and a corollary · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-ar-pseudo-reduction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Alekhnovich–Razborov lead closes on support against immunity: their criterion lets two constraints share fewer than \(\ell/4\le t+\tfrac12\) variables, while random dense forms stay dense in every linear basis, so a dense randomized-prefix block shares about \(n/3\) coordinates with some pigeon axiom however the board is coordinatized”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-ar-support-immunity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The hybrid route review named the missing object: a design of the base that annihilates the error clauses of many high-rank blocks. Its second lead, Alekhnovich and Razborov's pseudo-reduction, passed a local test: one block's immunity is of order \(t\). Does their criterion give the design for dense families in some encoding?

General statement. lem:dense-forms-every-basis: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for \(m\) independent uniform linear forms on \(\mathbb F_3^N\) with \(\ln m+\ln(N+1)\le N/100\), with probability at least \(1-e^{-0.006N^2}\), in every basis of \(\mathbb F_3^N\) fewer than \(5N\) of the forms have support below \(N/3\). cor:ar-criterion-dense-families applies it to Alekhnovich and Razborov's criterion.

The criterion, read in the source

Alekhnovich and Razborov, "Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case" (Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 242, 2003; author manuscript of 13 March 2003, read here: Definitions 2.2 and 2.3, Section 2.3 and the statement of Section 3):

The constraints \(f_1,\dots,f_m\) sit on the rows of a 0/1 matrix \(A\) over the variables, with \(\mathrm{Vars}(f_i)\subseteq X_i(A)\).
\(A\) is an \((r,s,c)\)-expander if every row has at most \(s\) ones, and every set \(I\) of at most \(r\) rows has boundary \(|\partial_A(I)|\ge c|I|\). The boundary is the set of columns meeting exactly one row of \(I\).
\(f\) is \(\ell\)-immune if every nonzero \(g\) with \(f\models g\) has degree at least \(\ell\).
Theorem 3.8: if \(A\) is an \((r,s,c)\)-expander, every \(f_i\) is \(\ell\)-immune and \(s\le r(\ell/4-(s-c))\), every PC refutation has degree greater than \(r(\ell/4-(s-c))\). Since \(s>0\), the hypothesis implies \(\ell>4(s-c)\), the consequence used below.
Theorem 3.13 gives degree greater than \(rc/2\) when \(f_i=\alpha\cdot\chi_\epsilon(X_i(A))\), of maximal immunity \(\ell=s\).

The framework is Boolean: its variables are 0/1 coordinates. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), a linear bijection that preserves \(\{0,1\}^N\) is a permutation matrix, so on the board they are the cells up to permutation (and complementation, an affine change).

Two constraints may share fewer than \(\ell/4\) variables

A useful application to W_RS needs \(r\ge2\). With \(r=1\) the bound is below \(\ell/4\), and the expansion condition constrains pairs only when \(r\ge2\); a block's immunity is at most its clause degree \(4t+2\) (below), itself at most W_RS's degree. For \(I=\{i,j\}\), \(\partial(I)=X_i\triangle X_j\), so \[2s-2|X_i\cap X_j|\ \ge\ |X_i\triangle X_j|\ \ge\ 2c\ >\ 2s-\ell/2,\] that is \(|X_i\cap X_j|<\ell/4\) for every pair of constraints. Theorem 3.13 needs \(\ell=s\), a condition at least as strong on dense blocks.

For a W_RS block, the clause \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) vanishes on the block's allowed set and has degree \(4t_b+2\). So the block's constraint has \(\ell\le4t_b+2\), by the trivial consequence \(f\models g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\), whenever the clause is not zero on the cube, that is, whenever the block can err where \(L_{b,i}=0\). The immunity test of the route review (prefix_immunity.json) found \(\ell\) between 3 and 9 for \(t\le2\), already below \(4t+2\) in form-value space. Hence every pair of constraints may share at most \(t\) variables.

The lemma: dense forms stay dense in every basis

Lemma (dense in every basis). Let \(v_1,\dots,v_m\) be independent uniform vectors in \(\mathbb F_3^N\), with \(\ln m+\ln(N+1)\le N/100\). With probability at least \(1-e^{-0.006N^2}\), for every invertible \(N\times N\) matrix \(B\), fewer than \(5N\) of the vectors \(Bv_i\) have fewer than \(N/3\) nonzero coordinates.

Proof. For a fixed \(B\), \(Bv_i\) is uniform. The number of vectors of weight \(w\) is \(\binom Nw2^w\), which increases in \(w\) up to \(2N/3\). So \[p=\Pr[\mathrm{wt}(Bv_i)<N/3]\le(N/3+1)\binom{N}{\lceil N/3\rceil}2^{N/3}3^{-N}\le(N+1)e^{-0.231N},\] using \(H(1/3)+\tfrac13\ln2=0.8675\ldots\) and \(\ln3=1.0986\ldots\). The events for different \(i\) are independent. A union bound over at most \(3^{N^2}\) matrices and \(\binom m{k}\) index sets, with \(k=5N\), gives failure probability at most \[\exp\bigl(N^2\ln3+k\ln m+k\ln(N+1)-0.231\,kN\bigr)\le\exp\bigl(1.0987N^2-1.155N^2+5N^2/100\bigr)\le\exp(-0.006N^2).\] \(\square\)

A block is dense in every basis if one of its forms has support at least \(N/3\) in every basis. On the board, \(N=n(n+1)\) for the linear parts. By the lemma, with high probability all but fewer than \(5N\) blocks of a random family, each with at least one form, are dense in every basis.

The corollary

Corollary (Alekhnovich–Razborov criterion on dense families). Take any system whose variables are the coordinates of a basis of the board's linear space, whose constraints include weak PHP's pigeon axioms (the support of pigeon \(i\)'s axiom is the union of the supports of its cells), and whose other constraints include a block with a form of support at least \(N/3\) and \(\ell\le4t+2\). Then the hypothesis of Theorem 3.8 with \(r\ge2\) fails as soon as \(n/3\ge t+\tfrac12\), and so does that of Theorem 3.13. In particular this holds in the cell basis (up to permuting cells, the only linear coordinates that keep the cube Boolean), and in every basis for all but fewer than \(5N\) blocks of a random family.

Proof. The cells span the space, so every coordinate lies in the support of some cell, and the pigeon axioms' supports cover all \(N\) coordinates. The block's support \(S\), with \(|S|\ge N/3\), therefore meets some pigeon axiom in at least \(|S|/(n+1)\ge n/3\) coordinates. This contradicts \(|X_i\cap X_j|<\ell/4\le t+\tfrac12\). Theorem 3.13 needs \(\ell=s\ge|S|\ge N/3>4t+2\). \(\square\)

What it means for A1

The recorded audits reached the same point for W's clause shape and a fixed representation: audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope, and prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework for Mikša and Nordström's generalized framework, whose obstruction is "relative to the choice of variable sets". The lemma removes that caveat for random families: no linear change of coordinates makes more than \(5N\) of their forms sparse. What is left for Alekhnovich–Razborov type arguments is the families they already cover: blocks meeting every pigeon row in at most \(t\) cells, inside the row-sparse class A1 already settles. Changes of variables that are not linear, such as Boolean extension variables, are not covered; they change the system.

The lead is closed for A1's core as far as Theorems 3.8 and 3.13 go, the source's two main lower-bound results. The obstacle, a design for dense high-rank families, stands. The mismatch is quantitative: a randomized-prefix block's immunity is logarithmic, while any locality-based design needs its constraints to overlap in fewer variables than the immunity.

Next. The route review's third lead, counting designs in the presence of another principle's axioms (Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall), is not yet run. It is the one lead whose extra axioms are dense by design. Read their construction in the source and state what "compatible partial structures" would be for error-avoiding partial matchings.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read in the source, from a private copy that is not committed: Alekhnovich and Razborov's Definitions 2.2 to 2.4, Lemmas 2.5 and 2.7, Section 2.3, and the statements of Theorems 3.1, 3.8 and 3.13. Re-read audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope, prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework and the route review's immunity data. A fresh-context reviewer read the source's Theorems 3.8 and 3.13 and confirmed the reading, the necessity of \(r\ge2\) for the pair condition, the immunity bound, the lemma's constants (recomputed: \(-0.231\) per unit and \(-0.0063N^2\) overall), the covering argument, and that no hypothesis is unused. It required, all adopted: Theorem 3.8's full hypothesis \(s\le r(\ell/4-(s-c))\); the immunity bound marked as the trivial one from the clause itself; the Boolean-coordinates statement qualified to hold up to permuting cells; and the closure of the lead limited to Theorems 3.8 and 3.13.

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The counting-design lead, read in the source: the designs of Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall do not tolerate extra axioms; they kill unwanted configurations by orbits of size divisible by the modulus, and no translation found gives W_RS's error configurations such orbits while keeping the normalization invertible

26 September 2026 · Development of a lead, no new claim · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-counting-designs. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The counting-design lead, read in the source: the designs of Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall do not tolerate extra axioms; they kill unwanted configurations by orbits of size divisible by the modulus, and no translation found gives W_RS's error configurations such orbits while keeping the normalization invertible”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-counting-designs.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The hybrid route review listed, as its third lead, designs for one counting principle "in the presence of another's axioms". It hoped for a template for a design of the base that also annihilates \(n^K\) dense error clauses. It left the lead not run. What does the source do, and does its mechanism answer the obstacle?

General statement. conj:randomized-wide-clause (W_RS) through A1; no new claim.

What the source does

Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall, "Proof complexity in algebraic systems and bounded depth Frege systems with modular counting" (Comput. Complexity 6, 1996/97). Read here from the author copy: the abstract, Section 2.1 with Theorem 2.4, and Sections 3 and 4 (Definition 4.1, Lemmas 4.2 and 4.3 with Claims 1 to 3, Theorems 4.5 and 4.6).

Correction to the review. The design lower bound concerns the \((N,q)\)-system alone, over \(\mathbb Z_m\) with \(q\nmid m\). The instances of \(\mathrm{Count}_m\) enter only through the Frege corollary, by Beame et al.'s reduction (Theorem 2.4), and not as extra axioms under the design. So the review's description, "designs that tolerate a dense extra axiom family", is wrong. The lead as described does not exist in the source.
The actual mechanism. Lemma 4.3 lifts a degree-\(d\) design on \(N\) nodes to a degree-\((2d+1)\) design on \((m+q)N\) nodes. It averages the pulled-back designs \(s^V\) over all \(c=(m+q)^N\) choices \(V\) of block representatives, with weight \(c^{-1}\), which exists since \(\gcd(c,m)=1\). The unwanted configurations have an isolated cross edge, and their values vanish (Claim 2): for each \(V\) there are exactly \(m\) choices agreeing off that edge's blocks, with equal values, and \(m\) equal values sum to 0 in \(\mathbb Z_m\). The design is killed on the unwanted configurations by an orbit of size divisible by the modulus, while the normalization's orbit count \(c\) stays a unit.

The mechanism against the obstacle

Translated to W_RS over \(\mathbb F_3\), the mechanism needs three things:

a family of designs \(\mu_\gamma\) of the base, indexed by choices \(\gamma\), whose number is prime to 3;
for every error configuration (an error clause times a monomial), a partition of the choices into classes of size divisible by 3 with equal values;
and the average must be a design of one fixed W_RS instance.

Three natural translations were tested.

Choices of pin values. Take the pinned designs \(\mu_v\) of member pinning, and average over the value \(v\in\mathbb F_3\) of a pinned form entering block \(b\). The translation group has one orbit of size 3 on the values. It moves the normalization too: \(\sum_v\mu_v(1)=3=0\). Weighted averages with \(\sum_vw_v=1\) have no symmetry to cancel errors: a clause's values \(\mu_v(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}m)\) are zero for the pins that avoid \(\ker C_b\) and generically nonzero otherwise. The mechanism needs the normalization's orbit to be prime to 3 while the error orbits are divisible by 3. Pin translations give both orbits the same size. Falsified.
Choices of prefix matrices. Averaging over \(C_b\) has the right arithmetic. For a nonzero pattern \(g\), the number of \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\) with \(Cg=0\) is \(3^{t(h-1)}\equiv0\). So \(\sum_{C}g_iQ^C\) vanishes on the cube whenever \(t(h-1)\ge1\). But the average is not a design of any single instance. The randomized-prefix reduction gives, from a short refutation, a refutation of the base plus the clauses of every choice \((C_b)\). A contradiction needs one choice whose system has a design. A family of designs \(\mu_{(C)}\), each for its own choice, is exactly what is not known to exist; averaging presupposes it. Falsified by the order of quantifiers.
Representatives inside the board. This is the source's own form: group holes or pigeons into blocks of size \(3+q\), \(3\nmid q\), and average designs pulled back through representative choices, as in Lemma 4.3. That is a substitution from a smaller PHP into the board through representatives, which lifts designs of the smaller instance. The error clauses are not pulled back from the smaller instance: their forms are arbitrary on the large board. The configurations to kill are therefore not the "isolated cross edges" that a representative symmetry exchanges. The same obstruction closed the Lauria–Nordström gadget lead (gadget substitution): substitutions lift structure that the target's axioms share, and W_RS's clauses share none. Falsified for adversarial forms.

The common reason: orbit cancellation needs the unwanted configurations to be exchanged by a symmetry of the base's design family. W_RS's error configurations have no such symmetry, since the forms are adversarial and the prefix matrices are fixed once drawn. The lead is closed for A1's core. It would apply to families invariant under a group whose orbits on error configurations have size divisible by 3, such as families built from a smaller instance by representatives, but none of A1's open families is of that kind.

Next. The route review's three outside leads are now developed and closed for dense families. Only its first absurd bridge, degree-1 pin safety by the zero-sum rule, passed. Every design mechanism tried has needed locality, symmetry or a shared span, and the obstacle's families have none of them. So the next cycle should test the obstacle itself before inventing another mechanism. Is there a dense high-rank family of polynomially many randomized-prefix blocks for which the base plus the clauses is refutable at logarithmic degree? At small sizes this is out of reach (thread review 4). The next cycle therefore looks for a structural candidate: a family whose error sets jointly cover a set whose indicator has low degree modulo the base. That would refute W_RS and redirect the route.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read in the source, from a private author copy that is not committed: the sections listed above. Re-read the hybrid route review's third lead, the gadget-substitution entry and prop:pinned-rank-vacuity. The three translations are tested by the short arguments given. The count \(3^{t(h-1)}\) is the number of solutions of \(Cg=0\) for a nonzero \(g\): each row of \(C\) ranges over a hyperplane of \(\mathbb F_3^h\). No claim is registered and no reviewer pass was run: the entry corrects a lead's description from the source and closes three translations by elementary arguments.

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The vacuity threshold: a randomized-prefix block is vacuous exactly when the kernel of its prefix avoids its realized zero patterns; with \(\rho\) independent forms this happens with high probability for \(\rho\le t\log_23-\omega(1)\), fails with high probability above it, and fails for every prefix once \(\rho\ge2t+1\), by Olson's theorem. So every A1 core block with independent forms carries a nonvacuous clause, whatever the prefix

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a proposition · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-wrs-refutation-search. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The vacuity threshold: a randomized-prefix block is vacuous exactly when the kernel of its prefix avoids its realized zero patterns; with \(\rho\) independent forms this happens with high probability for \(\rho\le t\log_23-\omega(1)\), fails with high probability above it, and fails for every prefix once \(\rho\ge2t+1\), by Olson's theorem. So every A1 core block with independent forms carries a nonvacuous clause, whatever the prefix”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-vacuity-threshold.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The counting-design entry proposed testing the obstacle itself before inventing another design mechanism. The obstacle is a design annihilating the error clauses of many high-rank blocks. Several recorded settlements of W_RS avoid it by making clauses vacuous, that is, zero on the relevant points: the pinned-rank vacuity step, the hole family, light families. Can randomization always make the high-rank blocks vacuous too, so that no design has to absorb their clauses?

General statement. prop:vacuity-threshold: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for a block with forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\), a set \(P\) of points and realized zero patterns \(\Pi=\{g(x):x\in P\}\setminus\{0\}\subseteq\{0,1\}^h\), the clauses \(g_iQ^C\) all vanish on \(P\) exactly when \(\ker C\cap\Pi=\emptyset\). For uniform \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\), \(1-|\Pi|3^{-t}\le\Pr[\text{vacuous}]\le3^t/|\Pi|\). If \(\Pi\) contains every nonzero 0/1 vector supported in some set \(S\) with \(|S|\ge2t+1\), no \(C\) makes the block vacuous.

The proposition

Notation as in thm:randomized-prefix-reduction: \(g_i=1-L_i^2\), \(s=Cg\), \(Q^C=\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)=[Cg=0]\). At a point \(x\), the zero pattern is \(g(x)\in\{0,1\}^h\).

Proposition (vacuity threshold). Let \(P\) be a set of points, for instance the cube, or the formal points \(y\in\mathbb F_3^\rho\) of pinned-rank vacuity's division step. Let \(\Pi\) be the set of nonzero patterns realized on \(P\).

Every clause \(g_iQ^C\) vanishes on \(P\) if and only if \(\ker C\cap\Pi=\emptyset\).
For uniform \(C\): \(\Pr[\ker C\cap\Pi=\emptyset]\ge1-|\Pi|3^{-t}\) and \(\Pr[\ker C\cap\Pi=\emptyset]\le3^t/|\Pi|\).
If \(\Pi\supseteq\{1_T:\emptyset\ne T\subseteq S\}\) for some \(S\) with \(|S|\ge2t+1\), then \(\ker C\cap\Pi\ne\emptyset\) for every \(C\).
The constant \(2t+1\) is sharp: for \(|S|=2t\) and \(\Pi=\{1_T:\emptyset\ne T\subseteq S\}\), the matrix whose columns on \(S\) are \(e_1,e_1,e_2,e_2,\dots,e_t,e_t\) has \(\ker C\cap\Pi=\emptyset\).

Proof.

At \(x\in P\), \(g_i(x)Q^C(x)\ne0\) exactly when \(L_i(x)=0\) and \(Cg(x)=0\), which requires \(g(x)\ne0\). So some clause is nonzero on \(P\) if and only if some realized nonzero pattern lies in \(\ker C\).
For a nonzero \(g\), \(Cg\) is uniform on \(\mathbb F_3^t\), so the lower bound is a union bound. For the upper bound, let \(X=|\ker C\cap\Pi|\). Two distinct nonzero 0/1 vectors are linearly independent over \(\mathbb F_3\), since \(g'=2g\) is impossible for 0/1 entries. So \(Cg\) and \(Cg'\) are independent and uniform, the indicators are pairwise independent, and \(\operatorname{Var}X\le\mathbb EX=|\Pi|3^{-t}\). By Chebyshev, \(\Pr[X=0]\le\operatorname{Var}X/(\mathbb EX)^2\le3^t/|\Pi|\).
The columns \(c_i\), \(i\in S\), are \(2t+1\) elements of \(\mathbb F_3^t\). By Olson's theorem (J. Number Theory 1, 1969), the Davenport constant of \(\mathbb F_p^r\) is \(r(p-1)+1\), here \(2t+1\). So some nonempty \(T\subseteq S\) has \(\sum_{i\in T}c_i=0\), that is \(C1_T=0\) with \(1_T\in\Pi\).
A subsequence sums to \(\sum_ja_je_j\) with \(a_j\in\{0,1,2\}\) counting the chosen copies of \(e_j\), which is zero only if nothing is chosen. \(\square\)

Independent forms. Suppose the block has exactly \(h=\rho\) forms and they are linearly independent modulo constants on the points \(P\). Then every pattern is realized and \(|\Pi|=2^\rho-1\). This holds on \(P=\mathbb F_3^\rho\) in pinned-rank vacuity's division step when the block's \(\rho\) forms are independent modulo the pinned span. A block with more forms than its rank can realize fewer patterns, because a dependent form may vanish wherever a pattern would need it nonzero. For such blocks, part 3 applies whenever some \(2t+1\) indices carry every full pattern \(1_T\); this is not automatic. Then, for \(h=\rho\):

Vacuity holds with probability \(\ge1-2^\rho3^{-t}\): with high probability when \(\rho\le t\log_23-\omega(1)\). This sharpens the recorded bound \(1-3^{\rho-t}\) of prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, which counted all \(3^\rho\) value vectors rather than the \(2^\rho\) zero patterns, for such blocks.
Vacuity fails with probability \(\ge1-3^t/(2^\rho-1)\): with high probability when \(\rho\ge t\log_23+\omega(1)\).
Vacuity fails for every \(C\) when \(\rho\ge2t+1\).

What it means for A1

The hybrid route review placed A1's core at blocks of rank above about \(T/22\) modulo every admissible pinned span. At W_RS's own degree \(T=11(4t-2)\) the pinned rank selectors reach \(\rho\le2t-1\). So the three regimes nearly meet:

vacuity with high probability up to about \(1.58t\);
selectors up to \(2t-1\);
nonvacuity for every prefix from \(2t+1\), for blocks with independent forms.

Only \(\rho=2t\) falls between the last two; raising \(T\) by a constant factor covers it with selectors. So every core block with independent forms has, after any admissible pinning and for every prefix matrix, a clause that is nonzero on the pinned points. Randomization only moves the error pattern; it cannot remove it. The recorded vacuity arguments therefore cannot reach A1's core. Any proof of W_RS for it must absorb nonvacuous clauses: a design, or gluing, which is A3's Tor vanishing. Blocks of rank between about \(1.58t\) and \(T/22\) are handled by the hybrid's selectors, which do not need vacuity. Core blocks with dependent forms are not covered by this conclusion.

This tests the obstacle and confirms it; it does not refute W_RS. Nonvacuous clauses are compatible with hardness: generic directness and the private-support gluing results absorb such clauses in their settings. A refutation would need nonvacuous error sets that are jointly low-degree harmful. The error pattern of a block is chosen by \(C\) among the realized kernel patterns, and no family found makes all of those choices harmful at once.

Next. A1's core is now A3's problem on nonvacuous clauses of high-rank blocks. The randomized-prefix clauses' tops are products of quartics, and A3's partial results are for W's clause shape and designed clauses. So restate A3 for W_RS tops on blocks of rank above \(2t+1\), and check which of A3's recorded results (column Wilson, pre-Koszul families, generic directness) transfer to randomized tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:randomized-prefix-reduction (the clause shape and \(Q^C=[Cg=0]\)), prop:pinned-rank-vacuity (its division step and \(3^{\rho-t}\) bound) and lem:Fp-linear-system-forced-cells (the record's use of Olson's theorem). Claim searches for zero-sum, Davenport and Olson, vacuous and prefix clauses found Olson's theorem used only for forced cells. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed parts 1 to 4, including the pairwise independence of the events \(Cg=0\), the use of Olson's theorem with full patterns, and the sharpness example. Its search found no earlier version. It required, both adopted: the independent-forms consequences restricted to blocks with \(h=\rho\), with dependent blocks stated as not covered; and the comparison with the hybrid corrected from \(T/22\approx8(K+1)\log_3n\) to \(T/22\approx2t\), which makes the regimes meet at \(\rho=2t\).

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Randomized Taylor glue: A3 restated for randomized-prefix clauses. Over a \(z\)-injective base, W_RS holds at degree \(D\) when the clause tops' syzygies are spanned by four liftable kinds: the form Frobenius syzygy, the prefix-quadric annihilators, the within-block pairs and all Koszul pairs. Blocks sharing a form with different constants give a reduced syzygy outside this list, analogous to the recorded two-block failure

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a conditional theorem · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-randomized-tops-a3. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Randomized Taylor glue: A3 restated for randomized-prefix clauses. Over a \(z\)-injective base, W_RS holds at degree \(D\) when the clause tops' syzygies are spanned by four liftable kinds: the form Frobenius syzygy, the prefix-quadric annihilators, the within-block pairs and all Koszul pairs. Blocks sharing a form with different constants give a reduced syzygy outside this list, analogous to the recorded two-block failure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-randomized-taylor-glue.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The vacuity threshold showed that A1's core blocks keep nonvacuous clauses for every prefix, so W_RS for them needs gluing. The recorded Taylor-glue theorems (thm:taylor-glue, thm:based-taylor-glue, thm:resolvent-taylor-glue) are for product constraints with affine factors \(L-a\) or \(\chi_a(L)\). A randomized-prefix clause \(g_iQ^C=\chi_0(L_i)\prod_j(1-s_j^2)\) has quadratic \(s_j\), so they do not apply. What is A3's statement for these clauses?

General statement. thm:randomized-taylor-glue: over \(\mathbb F_3\), a base with Booleanity generators whose homogenization is \(z\)-injective below \(D\), plus the randomized-prefix clauses of any family of blocks, has no PC refutation of degree \(D\) if, for every \(s\le D\), the degree-\(s\) top syzygies of the clauses are spanned by the four kinds listed below.

Setting

As in thm:based-taylor-glue (\(P\), \(V_s\), \(A\), \(G=A/zA\), signed top syzygies), with constraints the clauses \(C_{b,i}=g_{b,i}Q_b\) of blocks \(b\). Here:

\(g_{b,i}=1-L_{b,i}^2\) and \(Q_b=\prod_{j\le t_b}(1-s_{b,j}^2)\), with \(s_{b,j}=\sum_kc^{(b)}_{jk}g_{b,k}\).
Put \(q_{b,j}=\sum_kc^{(b)}_{jk}\ell_{b,k}^2\), with \(\ell\) the linear parts. Then the tops of \(s_{b,j}\), \(1-s_{b,j}^2\) and \(Q_b\) are \(-q_{b,j}\), \(-q_{b,j}^2\) and \((-1)^{t_b}\Phi_b\), where \(\Phi_b=\prod_jq_{b,j}^2\).
The top of \(C_{b,i}\) is \(\tau_{b,i}=(-1)^{t_b+1}\ell_{b,i}^2\Phi_b\), of degree \(4t_b+2\). Assume every \(q_{b,j}\ne0\) in \(P\), so this is the clause's degree.
In \(G\), \(\ell^3=0\) for every linear form (the top of \(L^3-L\in V_3\)), and \(q_{b,j}^3=0\) (the degree-6 top of \(s_{b,j}-s_{b,j}^3\in V_6\), shown in step (F2) below). So (F1) and (F2) below are syzygies: \(\ell_{b,i}\tau_{b,i}\) contains \(\ell_{b,i}^3\), and \(q_{b,j}\tau_{b,i}\) contains \(q_{b,j}^3\).

The theorem

Theorem (randomized Taylor glue). Suppose the following hold.

\(A\) is \(z\)-injective in degrees \(<D\).
No generator or clause is a nonzero constant.
For every \(s\le D\), the degree-\(s\) signed top syzygies \((g_C)\), with \(\sum_C\tau_Cg_C=0\) in \(G_s\), are spanned by:
- (F1) \(g\,\ell_{b,i}e_{b,i}\);
- (F2) \(g\,q_{b,j}e_{b,i}\), for every \(j\le t_b\);
- (K1) \(g(\ell_{b,k}^2e_{b,i}-\ell_{b,i}^2e_{b,k})\), within one block;
- (K2) \(g(\tau_{C'}e_C-\tau_Ce_{C'})\), for all pairs \(C,C'\).

Then every normalized NS functional of the base plus the clauses through degree \(k\le D\) extends through \(D\). The NS and PC closures agree through \(D\), and there is no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. Steps 1 to 4 and the conclusion are those of thm:based-taylor-glue: base extension from \(z\)-injectivity, defects \(\hat z_C(g)=(E\mu)(C\tilde g)\) on \(G_{s-\deg C}\), corrections, and solvability exactly when the defects pair to 0 on every signed syzygy. None of these steps uses the form of the constraints. It remains to show that the pairing vanishes on each generating kind. Lift the multiplier \(g\) by \(\tilde g\); differences of lower degree give constraint multiples below \(s\), which \(\mu\) kills. Recall \(L^3-L=\sum_ic_i(x_i+1)(x_i^2-x_i)\in V_3\) for every affine \(L\) over \(\mathbb F_3\).

(F1) Lift \(\ell_{b,i}\) by \(L_{b,i}\). Then \(C_{b,i}L_{b,i}\tilde g=Q_b\tilde g(L_{b,i}-L_{b,i}^3)\), a multiple of generators of degree \(s\), so it lies in \(V_s\). The pairing is \((E\mu)\) of it, which is 0.
(F2) Lift \(q_{b,j}\) by \(-s_{b,j}\), whose top is \(q_{b,j}\). With \(Q'=\prod_{j'\ne j}(1-s_{b,j'}^2)\), \(C_{b,i}s_{b,j}=g_{b,i}Q'(s_{b,j}-s_{b,j}^3)\). In characteristic 3, \(s^3=\sum_kc_{jk}g_k^3\), and \(g-g^3=L^6-L^2=(L^3-L)(L^3+L)\in V_6\). So \(s_{b,j}-s_{b,j}^3\in V_6\), and \(C_{b,i}s_{b,j}\tilde g\in V_s\), since its degree is \(2+4(t_b-1)+6+\deg\tilde g=s\).
(K1) Lift \(\ell^2\) by \(1-g=L^2\). Then \(C_{b,i}(1-g_{b,k})-C_{b,k}(1-g_{b,i})=Q_b(g_{b,i}-g_{b,k})=C_{b,i}-C_{b,k}\). Times \(\tilde g\), this is a sum of clause multiples of degree \(s-2\), which \(\mu\) kills.
(K2) Lift \(\tau_{C'}\) by \(C'\) and \(\tau_C\) by \(C\). Then \(C\,C'\tilde g-C'\,C\tilde g=0\) exactly.

So the pairing vanishes on the span. By duality a correction exists at every step, and the conclusion follows as in thm:based-taylor-glue. \(\square\)

Corollary (W_RS from randomized Taylor generation). On the weak unary base with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns, the homogenization is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic). So W_RS holds at degree \(D=\max_b\max(11\max(1,\delta(C_b)),4t_b+2)\) for any family and prefix choice whose clause tops satisfy the syzygy condition through \(D\). With the selector hybrid (thm:selector-hybrid-reduction), the condition is needed only for the selector-expensive blocks, over the base enlarged by their clauses.

A3 for randomized clauses, and what it excludes

This is A3's statement for W_RS: Tor vanishing of the tops \(\ell_{b,i}^2\Phi_b\) modulo the four kinds, through \(D\approx44t\). Compared with W's clause shape, two things change.

The block's tops share the factor \(\Phi_b\), a product of \(t\) squared quadrics. Its annihilator syzygies (F2) are new. They are the top form of lem:randomized-block-annihilator's statement that the ideal \((s_1,\dots,s_t)\) annihilates the clauses.
The within-block pairs (K1) lift with no coherence condition, because the clauses of one block share \(Q_b\) exactly.

Pairs across blocks are generated only by their full Koszul syzygies. When two blocks share a linear form \(\ell\) with different constants, their tops share \(\ell^2\). The reduced syzygy \((\tau_{C'}/\ell^2)e_C-(\tau_C/\ell^2)e_{C'}\) then lifts to \(Q_bQ_{b'}(g_{b,i}-g_{b',i})\tilde g\), with \(g_{b,i}-g_{b',i}\) affine and nonconstant. That is a genuine lower-degree consequence, not a constraint multiple. It is analogous to the recorded two-block failure (prop:two-block-taylor-failure); whether that proposition's conclusion transfers to this case is not checked here. Families with such pairs need a resolvent version, as thm:resolvent-taylor-glue gives for W. The theorem therefore covers families in which the tops of different blocks share no factor \(\ell^2\) that the syzygies use. The recorded Taylor-generation results (column Wilson, pre-Koszul families) are proved for affine-factor tops and do not transfer as they stand; the single-block kernel \(\operatorname{ann}_G(\ell_i^2\Phi_b)\) is the new object.

Next. Test randomized Taylor generation for a single block: is \(\operatorname{ann}_G(\ell_i^2\Phi)\) generated by \(\ell_i\), the \(q_j\) and the within-block pairs, in degrees up to a few above \(4t+2\)? This asks whether single blocks are Taylor, the first step before pairs. Compute it on the weak top algebra at the smallest board whose degrees are nonvacuous, with \(t=1\), \(h\) independent dense forms, and a control block of duplicated forms. First count the predicted dimensions and check that the test can fail.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:based-taylor-glue with its full proof (steps 1 to 7, the (F) and (K) lifts), lem:syzygy-gluing, thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, prop:two-block-taylor-failure, lem:randomized-block-annihilator and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. A claim search for randomized Taylor generation and quadric tops found no version for randomized clauses. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that steps 1 to 4 and the conclusion of thm:based-taylor-glue do not use the product form. By direct algebra it checked the four lifts with their degree bookkeeping, the signs of the tops, the weak-base parameters and the two-block lift. It required, both adopted: the facts \(\ell^3=0\) and \(q^3=0\) in \(G\) stated, so that (F1) and (F2) are manifestly syzygies; and the link to the recorded two-block failure marked as an analogy.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 3.93 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 24.54 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 30.03 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	8 min 9.22 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Single blocks fall: a randomized-prefix block's clauses have lower-degree consequences whenever the graded ideal of its allowed set exceeds the ideal of the clause tops. In a finite check this happens for every random prefix with \(h\ge3\), so randomized Taylor generation fails already for one block, and W_RS's gluing must use each block's whole vanishing ideal, the members as units

26 September 2026 · Working proof of a proposition, with a finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-single-block-taylor. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Single blocks fall: a randomized-prefix block's clauses have lower-degree consequences whenever the graded ideal of its allowed set exceeds the ideal of the clause tops. In a finite check this happens for every random prefix with \(h\ge3\), so randomized Taylor generation fails already for one block, and W_RS's gluing must use each block's whole vanishing ideal, the members as units”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-single-block-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The randomized Taylor glue reduced W_RS to Taylor generation of the randomized-prefix tops \(\tau_i=\ell_i^2\Phi\), \(\Phi=\prod_jq_j^2\). Does a single block satisfy it, the first step before pairs?

General statement. prop:single-block-falls: over \(\mathbb F_3\), in the ring \(R=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_h]/(y^3-y)\) of functions of a block's form values, with \(T=\operatorname{gr}R=\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^3)\), the clauses generate the vanishing ideal \(I\) of the block's allowed set \(A_C\). The following hold.

The prefix-row vectors \(\sum_kc_{jk}e_k\) are syzygies of the tops that lift; this strengthens thm:randomized-taylor-glue.
If \(\operatorname{gr}I\ne(\tau_1,\dots,\tau_h)\), equivalently \(\dim T/(\tau)>|A_C|\), the top syzygies over \(T\) are not spanned by the theorem's kinds, even with the prefix rows added.
W_RS at degree \(D\) follows from hardness of the base plus every block's whole ideal \(I_b\) through degree \(D\).

Computations

Three Macaulay2 runs, in research/results/odd_prime_single_block_taylor_20260926/.

A sizing run on the weak monomial algebra with 3 rows and 8 columns (single_block_taylor.m2, n8.txt). The kernel exceeded the generators at every degree, 32 against 4 at \(s=7\), even for random seeds, and some tops vanished (two in seed 1). The board is too small for the test: it lies below the freeness range of thm:general-forms-freeness. There, with 3 rows, four forms are covered through degree \(s\) only if \(\lfloor N/(2s-1)\rfloor\ge2\), that is \(N\ge2(2s-1)\), so even plain squares are not guaranteed Taylor at 8 columns. The run is not interpreted.
The generic model. In the freeness range, \(G\) is free over \(T\) (\(y_i\mapsto\ell_i\)), and a block's top syzygies over \(G\) are those over \(T\) tensored up. So the computation is in \(T\) (generic_block_taylor.m2), for \(h=2,\dots,6\) and \(t=1,2\), with random, all-ones and degenerate prefixes, and plain squares as a control:
- Plain squares were Taylor in every case (generic.txt, generic_with_rows.txt), as the recorded freeness predicts.
- For randomized tops with the theorem's kinds (F1), (F2), (K1), the quotient of the syzygies by the generated submodule was nonzero from multiplier degree 0 (generic.txt). The degree-0 part is the prefix-row syzygy: \(\sum_kc_{jk}\tau_k=q_j\Phi\) contains \(q_j^3=0\).
- With the prefix rows added as (F3), the quotient shrank but stayed nonzero for every nondegenerate case with \(h\ge3\) and nonzero tops (generic_with_rows.txt). Examples: \(h=6\), all-ones, dimensions 26 and 31 in multiplier degrees 3 and 4; \(h=5\), random, dimensions 4, 11, 15, 8 in degrees 1 to 4. Degenerate prefixes, such as one nonzero entry, make \(\Phi=0\) in \(T\) and every vector a syzygy.
The falls. block_falls.m2 compares \(\dim T/(\tau)\) with the number of allowed points \(|A_C|\) (block_falls.txt).
- For \(t=1\), there is an excess in 17 of the 18 random cases with \(h=2,\dots,7\), and in every random case with \(h\ge3\). For example, \(h=6\): 575 against 541, 586 against 523, 602 against 523.
- For all-ones prefixes the excess starts at \(h=5\) (204 against 203).
- For \(t=2\) there is an excess in all 10 cases with \(h=3,\dots,7\).

The proposition

Proposition (single-block falls). In \(R\), let \(C_i=g_iQ\) with \(g_i=1-y_i^2\) and \(Q=\prod_j(1-s_j^2)\), \(s=Cg\), and let \(\tau_i\in T\) be their tops, \(\ell_i\) replaced by \(y_i\).

The \(C_i\) generate \(I=\{f\in R:f|_{A_C}=0\}\).
For each row \(j\) of \(C\), \(\sum_kc_{jk}e_k\) is a syzygy of the tops. It lifts: \(\sum_kc_{jk}C_k=s_jQ\), which is 0 in \(R\). In the board's PC setting it equals \(Q'(s_j-s_j^3)\in V_6\cdot Q'\), as in (F2). So thm:randomized-taylor-glue holds with these prefix-row syzygies (F3), \(g\sum_kc^{(b)}_{jk}e_{b,k}\), added to its list. The degree bookkeeping is that of (F2) with multiplier degree lowered by 2.
If the top syzygies over \(T\) were spanned by (F1), (F2), (F3) and (K1), then \(\operatorname{gr}I=(\tau_1,\dots,\tau_h)\). Equivalently, \(\dim_{\mathbb F_3}T/(\tau)=\dim R/I=|A_C|\). So an excess \(\dim T/(\tau)>|A_C|\) means non-generated syzygies, and a function in \(I\) whose top is not in \((\tau)\): a genuine degree fall of the block's clauses.
For any base and any family of blocks, if the base plus \(\sum_bI_b\) (every function of block \(b\)'s forms that vanishes on its allowed set, in degrees \(\le D\)) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\), then neither has the base plus the randomized-prefix clauses.

Proof.

\(R\) is the ring of all functions on \(\mathbb F_3^h\), hence reduced and a product of fields. Every ideal is the vanishing ideal of its common zero set. The common zeros of the clauses are exactly the allowed points, by the vacuity threshold's part 1 applied to single points.
\(\sum_kc_{jk}\tau_k=q_j\Phi\) contains \(q_j^3\), and \(q_j^3=0\) in \(T\) (and in \(G\), by the randomized Taylor glue entry). The lift is \(Q\sum_kc_{jk}g_k=Qs_j\). In \(R\), \(s^3=s\), so \(Qs_j=Q's_j(1-s_j^2)=Q'(s_j-s_j^3)=0\). In the PC setting \(s_j-s_j^3\in V_6\), as shown for (F2), and the pairing argument of that theorem applies verbatim.
This is the standard criterion that generators form an H-basis when every syzygy of their tops lifts. Suppose \(f\in I\), and write \(f=\sum a_iC_i\) with the least possible \(d=\max\deg(a_iC_i)\). If \(d>\deg f\), the degree-\(d\) parts give a syzygy of the tops. By hypothesis it is a combination of the listed kinds, and each lifts in \(R\) to a combination of the \(C_i\) of degree below \(d\):
- (F1): \(y_iC_i=Q(y_i-y_i^3)=0\);
- (F2) and (F3): 0, by part 2;
- (K1): \(C_i(1-g_k)-C_k(1-g_i)=C_i-C_k\).
Subtracting lowers \(d\), a contradiction. So \(d=\deg f\) and the top of \(f\) lies in \((\tau)\). Conversely \((\tau)\subseteq\operatorname{gr}I\) always. Since \(\dim T/\operatorname{gr}I=\dim R/I=|A_C|\), equality of the ideals is equality of these dimensions.
Every clause lies in \(I_b\), so a refutation of the clause system is one of the larger system, of the same degree. \(\square\)

In the freeness range the \(T\)-syzygies of one block tensor up to its \(G\)-syzygies. So, by the finite check, thm:randomized-taylor-glue's hypothesis, even with (F3), fails for single generic blocks with every tested random prefix once \(h\ge3\). No density statement is proved; three random prefixes were sampled per \(h\). The cause is structural: the block's allowed set has vanishing functions below the clause degree. This matches the immunity data of the route review (3 to 9, below \(4t+2\)).

What it means for A1 and A3

Part 4 turns the failure into the right formulation. Replace each block's clauses by its whole ideal \(I_b\), a constraint on the block's form values alone. Within a block the internal syzygies then lift automatically, since an H-basis of \(I_b\) has \(\operatorname{gr}\) equal to \(\operatorname{gr}I_b\). What remains is gluing across blocks, of \(\operatorname{gr}I_b\) for many blocks whose forms are dependent. This is the record's "members as units" (the binomial review) arrived at from W_RS. When all the blocks' forms are jointly in the freeness range, \(G\) is free over \(\bigotimes_bT_b\), the ideals sit in independent tensor factors, and nothing more is needed. A1's core is exactly where the forms are dependent: \(n^K\) blocks against a board of dimension \(n^2\).

So A3 for W_RS, correctly stated: through degree \(D\approx44t\), \(\operatorname{gr}\bigl(\sum_bI_b\bigr)=\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I_b\) in the top algebra, with the \(I_b\) pulled back through the forms. Equivalently, no fall arises from combining members.

Next. Test the members-as-units condition on the smallest dependent configuration: two blocks whose forms share one linear dependency. The first case is a shared form, with equal constants and with different ones (the randomized two-block analogue). Compute \(\operatorname{gr}(I_1+I_2)\) against \(\operatorname{gr}I_1+\operatorname{gr}I_2\) in the form-value model \(\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^3)\) on the joint span. This is the pair case that A1's core consists of.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:randomized-taylor-glue with its proof, thm:general-forms-freeness (the freeness range), prop:syzygies-as-tor (freeness transfers syzygies), prop:vacuity-threshold (part 1) and the route review's immunity data. The computations use exact arithmetic over \(\mathbb F_3\) in Macaulay2. The controls behaved as expected: plain squares were always Taylor, and degenerate prefixes gave vanishing tops. The 8-column board run is recorded and not interpreted, being below the freeness range. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed parts 1 to 4, including the H-basis criterion and the length identity \(\dim T/\operatorname{gr}I=\dim R/I\). It checked that the scripts compute what is stated: the full length of \(T/(\tau)\) through the socle degree \(2h\), the allowed-set predicate, multiplier degrees and the gating of (F3). It also checked every quoted number against the outputs. It required, all adopted: the vanished tops counted correctly; a stale comment in generic_block_taylor.m2 fixed; the title's frequency claim stated as a finite check; the small board described as below the freeness range; and the freeness constant derived from the theorem's statement.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	17 min 54.31 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 0.98 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 24.97 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 54.55 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 48.69 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 44.98 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Members as units fail at pairs: two randomized-prefix blocks sharing one form fall when combined, always with different constants and sometimes with equal ones, while independent blocks never do. So gluing whole members needs every dependent pair merged, and in A1's core the dependencies connect the whole family

26 September 2026 · Finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-member-pair-gluing. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Members as units fail at pairs: two randomized-prefix blocks sharing one form fall when combined, always with different constants and sometimes with equal ones, while independent blocks never do. So gluing whole members needs every dependent pair merged, and in A1's core the dependencies connect the whole family”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-member-pair-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The single-block falls entry restated A3 for W_RS as gluing the blocks' whole vanishing ideals. The condition is \(\operatorname{gr}(\sum_bI_b)=\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I_b\) through \(D\). Does it hold on the smallest dependent configuration, two blocks whose forms share one linear dependency?

General statement. prop:single-block-falls, whose members-as-units formulation of A3 this cycle tests at pairs.

The computation

This uses the form-value model of the single-block entry, which is valid while the blocks' joint span is in the freeness range. The joint variables \(z\) form a basis of the two blocks' span, \(R=\mathbb F_3[z]/(z^3-z)\), and \(J_b\) is generated by block \(b\)'s clauses and \(z^3-z\). It is the vanishing ideal of the block's allowed preimage \(P_b\). Then \(J_1+J_2\) is the vanishing ideal of \(P_1\cap P_2\), and \(\dim\mathbb F_3[z]/\operatorname{gr}(J_1+J_2)=|P_1\cap P_2|\). The test compares the Hilbert functions of \(\mathbb F_3[z]/(\operatorname{gr}J_1+\operatorname{gr}J_2)\) and \(\mathbb F_3[z]/\operatorname{gr}(J_1+J_2)\). \(\operatorname{gr}\) is taken from the top forms of a Gröbner basis in a degree order, which generate it. An excess is a fall: a combination of the two members with a lower-degree consequence that neither member has alone.

Setup (member_pair.m2, output member_pair_h4.txt in research/results/odd_prime_member_pair_gluing_20260926/): \(h=4\) forms per block, \(t=1\), independent uniform prefixes, three trials of each configuration.

Independent blocks (disjoint variables, 8 in all; the control): no fall in 3 of 3, as the tensor structure predicts.
One shared form, different constants (\(L_{2,1}=z_1+a\), \(a=1,2\), 7 variables): a fall in 6 of 6. It sometimes starts at degree 4, below the clause degree 6: excesses 3, 13, 22, 18, 7, 1 in degrees 4 to 9, with lengths 368 against 304.
One shared form, equal constants (\(a=0\)): a fall in 1 of 3 (excesses in degrees 6 to 10).
One generic dependency (block 2's first form a random combination of block 1's forms plus a constant): a fall in 1 of 3 (degrees 8 to 10).

The different-constant falls are the randomized two-block failure predicted in the randomized Taylor glue entry. There the reduced syzygy lifts to \(Q_1Q_2(g_{1,1}-g_{2,1})\), with an affine nonconstant factor. Here the falls occur even with equal constants and with a single generic dependency, where no such lift is forced.

What it means

Gluing whole members is not enough. A pair of members whose forms share a dependency must itself be treated as one member, with the ideal of \(P_1\cap P_2\). In A1's core the family has \(n^K\) dense blocks with \(h\) forms each, in a board space of dimension about \(n^2\). So the blocks' forms are linearly dependent in many overlapping ways, and merging dependent pairs connects the whole family into one member. At that point the form-value model itself leaves the freeness range. The joint span is the whole board space, and the model's free \(\mathbb F_3\) coordinates no longer match the Boolean cells. The members-as-units program therefore returns A3's core to a global statement about the whole family, where every recorded local mechanism has stopped. This is the record's syzygy-locality obstruction (locality, generalization review), now reproduced for W_RS's members.

A fall is not a refutation. Falls lower the degree of some consequences; hardness needs only that 1 stays out of the closure. Gluing is a sufficient condition, and a proof of W_RS for the core must tolerate falls. It could add the fallen consequences as new constraints, as thm:resolvent-taylor-glue does for W, as long as their degrees stay below \(D\) and no constant appears.

Next. A route review is due. It should weigh the chain of this session's cycles: base selectors, the hybrid, vacuity, randomized Taylor glue, single-block falls and member-pair falls. That chain has reduced A1's core to fall-tolerant hardness for one connected family of dependent dense members. The review should choose outside leads and bridges that answer this obstacle. The candidates are theorems that give hardness despite falls, as degree lower bounds do for systems with many low-degree consequences, and the recorded resolvent approach.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:single-block-falls (the form-value model and its validity range), thm:randomized-taylor-glue (the two-block lift), thm:resolvent-taylor-glue and the covering-obstruction entry. The computation is exact over \(\mathbb F_3\) in Macaulay2. The control, independent blocks, shows no fall in every trial, and the counts quoted are tallied by script from the saved output. No proposition is claimed beyond the finite check, and no reviewer pass was run. The entry reports a finite check whose control behaves as predicted, and its interpretation cites recorded obstructions.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 11.28 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	36.49 s
Computation design and coding	32.81 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 0.90 s
Individually measured computation	0.95 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review: A1's core is fall-tolerant hardness for one connected family of dense members. Member falls are local on trees, since pair saturations generate a chain's falls, but new falls appear around cycles of the member nerve, and A1's families have nerves full of cycles

26 September 2026 · Route review with one finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-fall-tolerance-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review: A1's core is fall-tolerant hardness for one connected family of dense members. Member falls are local on trees, since pair saturations generate a chain's falls, but new falls appear around cycles of the member nerve, and A1's families have nerves full of cycles”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-fall-tolerance-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. Since the hybrid route review, six cycles:

closed its three outside leads for dense families (support against immunity, counting designs);
showed that vacuity cannot reach the core (prop:vacuity-threshold);
restated A3 for randomized-prefix clauses (thm:randomized-taylor-glue);
found falls in single blocks (prop:single-block-falls) and in dependent pairs (ex:member-pair-falls-check).

What is A1 stuck on now?

General statement. The line's claim is the goal through W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction), restricted by thm:selector-hybrid-reduction to selector-expensive blocks, and reformulated by prop:single-block-falls as gluing the blocks' whole vanishing ideals.

What the goal needs

W_RS for families of \(n^K\) dense blocks of rank above about \(2t\), at degree \(D\approx44t\). With the vacuity threshold, randomization cannot make their clauses vanish. So hardness must absorb nonvacuous clauses and their consequences.

Revisiting the open statements

A1's status now records that vacuity cannot reach the core. A3 now says that for W_RS it is randomized Taylor glue, but single blocks and dependent pairs fall, so one connected family must be glued whole. Both are in Open statements by link. No statement is added.

Obstacle

For one connected family of \(n^K\) dense members, W_RS needs a degree-\(D\) design of the weak base that survives all consequences of the members, including their falls. Every localized sufficient condition found fails on this family:

vacuity, by Olson's theorem;
selectors, by rank;
Taylor gluing of clauses, because single blocks fall;
gluing whole members, because dependent pairs fall.

The falls themselves are organized: on a chain of members, pair saturations generate all falls, and new falls appear only around cycles of the member nerve. That is the test below. In A1's families, \(n^Kh\) dense forms live in a space of dimension about \(n^2\), so the nerve of shared dependencies has cycles everywhere. What is missing is a hardness argument that controls the falls generated around the cycles of the member nerve.

Falsification attempt

Could cycle falls cascade into a low-degree refutation of W_RS? In the triangle test the cycle falls add 2 to 12 to the length, in degrees 5 to 8 of a 6-variable model whose top degree is 12. None produces a constant: the triple intersections are nonempty in every trial, with lengths 128 to 438. No family refuting W_RS is known. Not falsified.

Assessment of the line

This session turned A1's core from "families of many dense blocks" into a structural statement: fall-tolerant hardness, with falls local on trees and new on cycles. Each reduction was proved or checked, and each closed a local mechanism with a reason: support against immunity, orbit symmetry, Olson, falls. The route is still at the global statement the record reached before, now with its obstruction located on the cycles of the member nerve. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Resolvent saturation, the mechanism of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue: add the fallen consequences of degree \(\le D\) as constraints and require Taylor generation of the saturated tops. It is recorded for W's clauses and not followed for W_RS until now. Target: A3 for W_RS. Answers. It makes the gluing fall-tolerant by construction. If saturating pairs of members suffices, gluing becomes local again, at the level of pairs. Test. Passed for trees, falsified for cycles. Run here (triple_falls.m2, triple_falls.txt): three blocks, \(h=3\), \(t=1\), in the form-value model. The test compares \(\operatorname{gr}(J_1+J_2+J_3)\) with the sum of the pair saturations \(\operatorname{gr}(J_a+J_b)\). On chains (two shared forms, path nerve) the pair saturations generate the triple's graded ideal in 4 of 4 trials, although every trial had a falling pair. On triangles (cycle nerve) the triple has further falls in 3 of 4 trials: excesses 1, 1 in degrees 5 and 6; 2, 2 in 7 and 8; 3, 6, 3 in 6 to 8.
Čech and Leray vanishing on member covers, a lead of the generalization review for adversarial families that the record names but never followed. Leray's theorem computes the cohomology of a union from the nerve of a cover when the intersections are acyclic. Target: A1 and A3. Answers. It locates the gluing obstruction in the Čech cohomology of the member cover, so hardness would follow from vanishing of the classes carried by cycles of the nerve, not from absence of falls. Test. Passed. The same computation shows new falls only when the nerve has a cycle (chains 0 of 4, triangles 3 of 4), as the Čech picture predicts. The identification of the triangle excess with a Čech class is not yet made.
Generic initial ideals and Hochster's formula (Bayer–Stillman and Galligo on generic initial ideals; Hochster's formula for Tor of Stanley–Reisner rings), the generalization review's width lead. Betti numbers can only drop from a generic initial ideal to the ideal. Target: A3. Answers. If the generic initial ideal of a connected family's saturated ideal satisfies the Koszul condition, the family does. That reduces fall-tolerant gluing to a combinatorial Tor computation. Test. Not run: it needs the generic initial ideal of a connected family's vanishing ideal at nonvacuous size, a development cycle. Its first check is whether the Koszul condition survives degeneration on the triangle configuration above.

Absurd bridges

Lattice gauge theory and Wilson loops (physics). Translation: members are links, shared forms are gauge variables, and a fall around a cycle of the nerve is a nontrivial holonomy. Gauge fixing along a spanning tree removes every variable except the loop variables. Answers. Saturate along a spanning tree of the member nerve, which the chain test shows is fall-complete. Then only the cycle space, of dimension \(|E|-|V|+1\), carries new constraints. The global obstacle becomes a statement about loops, the analogue of Wilson loops. Test. Passed. The chain and triangle runs are the gauge-fixing test: the tree leaves no residual falls, and the one loop leaves residual falls.
Dobrushin's uniqueness condition (statistical mechanics). If the total influence of local interactions is below 1, the Gibbs measure is unique and analytic under the perturbation. Translation: members are interactions on a base measure of near-matchings, with influence at most their forbidden fraction. Answers. In characteristic 0 it would give a fall-tolerant design for the whole connected family by perturbation, whatever the nerve, since influence is a global sum and not a local syzygy condition. Test. Passed at the level of the condition: each block forbids at most a \(3^{-t}\) fraction of patterns, and the total \(M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)<1\). The transfer to \(\mathbb F_3\) is the parked 3-integrality step (integral extension), and a real design of weak PHP must be signed. Neither is addressed.

Bridge follow-up

Longuet-Higgins' zero-sum rule, which gave the degree-1 pin safety condition. No work in these cycles: the obstacle moved from pins to connected families of members, where pin safety is not the constraint. Follow-up. Closed: its content is the degree-1 zero-sum rule, equivalent to the recorded occupancy condition, and nothing above degree 1 was found.

Lead follow-up

Alekhnovich and Razborov's pseudo-reduction, passed locally at the route review. Developed in the support-against-immunity entry. Follow-up. Closed: their criterion lets two constraints share fewer than \(\ell/4\le t+\tfrac12\) variables, and dense forms stay dense in every basis (lem:dense-forms-every-basis).
The Weak Rank Principle's restrictions, continuing since thread review 4. Follow-up. Closed: its substitution half became the base-selector and hybrid theorems. Its restriction half fails for dense families, since a variable restriction keeps dense forms dense (lem:dense-forms-every-basis) and a form restriction is pinning.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: develop the passed items, which agree that falls are local on trees and new on cycles. First state and prove the tree case: when the member nerve is a tree, the pair saturations generate the graded ideal of the whole family. The chains passed, and the fibers over each separator's values may give the proof. Then compute the cycle excess of a triangle and a 4-cycle against the Čech complex of the cover, to identify the cycle falls as cohomology classes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, the generalization review's leads, prop:single-block-falls and ex:member-pair-falls-check. The three-block computation is exact over \(\mathbb F_3\) in Macaulay2, and its counts are read from the saved output. Every chain trial had a falling pair, so its pass is not vacuous. The review registers no claim and was not sent to a separate reviewer: its checks are one finite computation of two leads' predictions and one arithmetic influence bound.

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Total instrumented interval	5 min 15.00 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 4.51 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	47.44 s
Computation design and coding	34.13 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 48.04 s
Individually measured computation	0.74 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Tree saturation is refuted, and the review's tree-and-cycle reading does not generalize: for random member sets, pair saturations miss falls on chains as often as on triangles. What controls falls is how sparse each member's excluded set is, not the topology of the member nerve

26 September 2026 · Refutation, with a density check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-tree-saturation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Tree saturation is refuted, and the review's tree-and-cycle reading does not generalize: for random member sets, pair saturations miss falls on chains as often as on triangles. What controls falls is how sparse each member's excluded set is, not the topology of the member nerve”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-tree-saturation-refuted.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The fall-tolerance review found that on three randomized-prefix blocks the pair saturations generated all falls of a chain (4 of 4) but not of a triangle (3 of 4 had new falls). It proposed proving the tree case. Is the tree statement true for members in general?

General statement. conj:tree-member-saturation, refuted here: for cylinder sets \(P_b\subseteq\mathbb F_3^r\) depending on coordinate sets \(V_b\) that form a chain (\(V_1\cap V_3\subseteq V_2\)), \(\operatorname{gr}I(P_1\cap P_2\cap P_3)=\operatorname{gr}I(P_1\cap P_2)+\operatorname{gr}I(P_2\cap P_3)\).

The refutation

tree_random_sets.m2 (seeded, output tree_random_sets.txt in research/results/odd_prime_tree_saturation_20260926/) takes each member to be a random cylinder set: each point of \(\mathbb F_3^{V_b}\) is excluded with probability \(1/2\). \(J_b\) is generated by the indicators of excluded points and \(z^3-z\), so it is \(I(P_b)\). The test compares the Hilbert functions of \(\mathbb F_3[z]/\sum_{\text{edges}}\operatorname{gr}(J_a+J_b)\) and \(\mathbb F_3[z]/\operatorname{gr}(J_1+J_2+J_3)\), in six trials per configuration.

Chain \(\{0,1,2\},\{2,3,4\},\{4,5,6\}\) (one-coordinate separators, \(V_1\cap V_3=\emptyset\)): the pairs miss falls in 6 of 6. In trial 1, lengths 318 against 305, excesses 1, 8, 4 in degrees 4 to 6.
Chain \(\{0,1\},\{1,2\},\{2,3\}\): 1 of 6. Trial 1 is the smallest counterexample, lengths 13 against 12 with one missing element in degree 3.
Chain with two-coordinate separators \(\{0,1,2\},\{1,2,3\},\{2,3,4\}\), all three pairs included: 6 of 6.
Triangle-type cover \(\{0,1,3\},\{1,2,4\},\{2,0,5\}\): 6 of 6.

Each failing trial is a counterexample to the conjecture, reproducible from the seed. So pair saturation does not generate the falls of tree-shaped families in general. The randomized-prefix chains' 4 of 4 reflect their structure, or a small sample, and not a tree lemma.

What controls the falls: density

tree_dense_sets.m2 (output tree_dense_sets.txt) repeats the test with members excluding each point with probability \(0.1\) and \(0.03\):

configuration	density 0.5	density 0.9	density 0.97
chain, one-coordinate separators	6 of 6	3 of 6	0 of 6
chain, two-coordinate separators	6 of 6	4 of 6	1 of 6
triangle-type cover	6 of 6	2 of 6	1 of 6

Falls fade with density at similar rates for chains and triangles, and the remaining ones sit high: degrees 6 to 12 at density 0.9 and 8 to 12 at 0.97, in a 7-variable model of top degree 14. So the review's reading, local on trees and new on cycles, was an artifact of four randomized-prefix trials. The Čech and gauge-fixing items it passed rest on that reading and are reopened as unsupported. What these data support is a density principle: a function of degree \(d\) supported on the excluded points needs enough of them. That is the DeMillo–Lipton count already met in the hybrid route review's first lead.

What it means for A1

For randomized-prefix members the excluded fraction is about \(3^{-t}\) per block, and each clause is itself a degree-\((4t+2)\) function supported on the excluded set. So falls are present from degree about \(2t\) (single-block falls), far below W_RS's degree \(D\approx44t\). Neither density nor the nerve's shape confines them. A1's core therefore needs a hardness argument that tolerates falls at every degree between about \(2t\) and \(D\), for one connected family.

Next. The review's passed items are reopened: tree saturation is refuted, and the gauge-fixing bridge rested on it. The review's third lead, generic initial ideals, is the remaining untested item, and it does not rely on the nerve. Develop it: compute the generic initial ideal of a small connected family's vanishing ideal and test the Koszul condition on it against the family's own Koszul condition, at the triangle and chain sizes above.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the fall-tolerance review's computation (triple_falls.m2), prop:single-block-falls and ex:member-pair-falls-check. The scripts use exact arithmetic over \(\mathbb F_3\) in Macaulay2 with fixed seeds. The counts are tallied by script from the saved outputs, and each failing trial is a reproducible counterexample. No reviewer pass was run: the entry refutes a conjecture by explicit instances, and its density table is a finite check stated as such.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 21.82 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	37.06 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 10.56 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 31.38 s
Individually measured computation	2.68 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

The generic-initial-ideal lead closes: row freeness is Tor over the row-sum algebra, and Gröbner degeneration does not bound it, because the degenerating torus rescales the row sums. A one-block instance has Tor 12 before and 4 after, and in cell coordinates even the base's own degeneration stops being row-free at degree 3

26 September 2026 · Refutation, with finite checks · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-gin-koszul. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The generic-initial-ideal lead closes: row freeness is Tor over the row-sum algebra, and Gröbner degeneration does not bound it, because the degenerating torus rescales the row sums. A one-block instance has Tor 12 before and 4 after, and in cell coordinates even the base's own degeneration stops being row-free at degree 3”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-degeneration-row-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The fall-tolerance review's third lead proposed certifying the fall-tolerant gluing condition on a monomial degeneration. The condition is row freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\), that is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,\operatorname{gr}F^Q)_{\le D}=0\) with \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r^3)\) acting by row sums (lem:defect-gluing, thm:global-closure-gluing). The lead's premise was that Tor can only grow under degeneration, so a monomial certificate transfers back. The tree-saturation entry left this as the one review item not resting on the nerve. Does it work?

General statement. conj:degeneration-row-freeness, refuted here. It says: for \(Q\) in the column-injective assignments \(P\), with \(J=\) the top ideal of \(I(Q)\), any invertible linear change \(g\) and any term order, \(\dim\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,S/\operatorname{in}(gJ))_d\ge\dim\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,S/J)_d\) for every \(d\), with \(\Lambda\) acting on the degenerate side through \(g(r_i)\).

Why the premise fails

Upper semicontinuity of Tor holds for a flat family of modules over a fixed ring acting compatibly. A term-order degeneration is the limit of \(\lambda(t)\cdot gJ\) for a one-parameter torus \(\lambda\). For \(t\ne0\), the fiber is isomorphic to \(S/gJ\) only with \(\Lambda\) acting through \(\lambda(t)^{-1}g(r_i)\), not through \(g(r_i)\). So semicontinuity compares the special fiber with modules over a moving action, not with the original. It applies only when \(\lambda\) scales each acting form. For the row sums \(r_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\) that means weights constant on each row, and those weights never reach a monomial ideal.

The computation

degeneration_tor.m2 (research/results/odd_prime_gin_koszul_20260926/). Board: 3 rows, \(N\) columns over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(P\) the column-injective assignments of total occupancy \(\equiv0\), and \(Q\) = \(P\) cut by randomized-prefix blocks (\(t=1\), \(h=3\), dense forms): one block, or a triangle family of three blocks sharing forms. \(J\) is the top-form ideal of \(I(Q)\) from a degree-order Gröbner basis.

\(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda\) is computed degree by degree from the minimal \(\Lambda\)-resolution of \(\mathbb F_3\): the kernel of \((a,b)\mapsto r_1a+r_2b\), modulo the Koszul relation and the two Frobenius relations. This agreed with Macaulay2's pushForward and Tor on all seven cases of the first run (degeneration_tor.txt against degeneration_tor_n5_linear.txt). A second sanity check confirms that the coordinate-changed module \(S/gJ\) with action \(g(r_i)\) reproduces the original Tor in every case (isoCheck).

At \(N=5\) (degeneration_tor_n5_gin.txt):

Refutation. One block with \(|Q|=226\) has \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of dimensions 12, 173 in degrees 3, 4. The generic initial ideal (random invertible \(g\), then GRevLex) gives 4, 173. That is a drop in degree 3, so the conjecture fails.
The base itself. For \(P\) alone, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1=0\) through degree 3. Its GRevLex and Lex initial ideals in cell coordinates have 15 in degree 3, and its generic initial ideal has 6. At \(N=6\) (base_n6.txt, top occupancy degree 6), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(P)=0\) through degree 3, while both cell-coordinate initial ideals have 3 in degree 3. So a monomial certificate would fail on the base in the range where the base is row-free, even if the transfer were valid.
Other cases. In cell coordinates the initial ideals were never below the original, but no theorem guarantees this, and in generic coordinates they can be.

What it means

The review's third lead is closed. Degenerations that respect the row-sum action cannot reach a monomial ideal, and the others do not transfer row freeness in either direction. This was the last review item not resting on the refuted nerve reading. The review's outside leads and bridges are now all developed:

resolvent saturation: refuted as a tree lemma;
Čech and gauge-fixing: rested on it;
degeneration: refuted here;
Dobrushin: parked on 3-integrality.

A1's core remains fall-tolerant hardness for one connected family of dense members, with falls from degree about \(2t\).

Next. The route has now closed every local and structural certificate it has tried for A1's core. A route review is not yet required. The next cycle develops the one passed item not refuted, Dobrushin's condition. It holds numerically, with total influence below \(1/(3n)\), and its obstruction is the parked 3-integrality step. Test whether a characteristic-0 design of weak PHP, perturbed by a connected randomized-prefix family, can be made 3-integral at the degrees W_RS needs. Start from the recorded integral PHP designs of the integral extension.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:defect-gluing and thm:global-closure-gluing (the row-sum algebra \(\Lambda\), the occupancy condition and the \(m-1\) acting row sums), and the fall-tolerance review's third lead. The computations are exact over \(\mathbb F_3\) in Macaulay2. The Tor routine was validated against Macaulay2's own Tor on seven cases, the isomorphism check passed on all seven, and the counterexample is reproducible from the fixed seed. The semicontinuity argument is standard. No reviewer pass was run: the entry refutes a conjecture by an explicit, sanity-checked instance and explains why the premise fails.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	17 min 41.10 s
Marked reading and review windows	41.19 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	43.03 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 51.79 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 9.08 s
Individually measured computation	10 min 15.88 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 3.

The Dobrushin bridge is conditioning, and conditioning pays degree, not influence: every nonvacuous block costs at least one annihilating factor, so about \(D/2\approx22t\) blocks fit in W_RS's degree against \(n^K\); in characteristic 3 the averaging that could avoid the product cancels by lem:randomized-block-annihilator

26 September 2026 · Development of a bridge, no new claim · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dobrushin-integrality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Dobrushin bridge is conditioning, and conditioning pays degree, not influence: every nonvacuous block costs at least one annihilating factor, so about \(D/2\approx22t\) blocks fit in W_RS's degree against \(n^K\); in characteristic 3 the averaging that could avoid the product cancels by lem:randomized-block-annihilator”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-dobrushin-conditioning.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. The fall-tolerance review's second bridge, Dobrushin's uniqueness condition, passed its numerical test: the total influence \(M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\) is below 1. It is the one passed item not refuted in the last two cycles. What does it give for a design of weak PHP that survives a connected randomized-prefix family?

General statement. conj:replay-weight-barrier and lem:randomized-block-annihilator through A1; no new claim.

What the bridge would do

Dobrushin's theorem concerns a measure: under small total influence, conditioning a base measure on local events changes local marginals by a controlled amount, and the conditioned measure is unique. For W_RS the base object is a design \(\mu\) of weak PHP. It cannot be a measure on points, since PHP has none: it is a signed functional on polynomials of degree at most \(D\). The local events are "block \(b\) does not err". Conditioning a functional on an event means multiplying by a polynomial that vanishes on it: \(\mu'(f)=\mu(f\,\omega)/\mu(\omega)\), with \(\omega\) annihilating every clause of every block. The linear functional \(\mu'\) is defined only on degree \(\le D-\deg\omega\). This is exactly the recorded weighted replay (the conditioning review).

Where it stops

Degree, not influence. A weight annihilating block \(b\)'s clauses must vanish where block \(b\) errs. Per block the cheapest recorded choice is a degree-2 annihilator \(\sigma_a=\sum_ja_js_j\), and products cost at most 2 per block (lem:randomized-block-annihilator, part 2). A nonvacuous block needs a nonconstant factor, and the vacuity threshold makes every core block nonvacuous. So a product over \(M\) blocks has degree about \(2M\), and at W_RS's degree \(D\approx44t\) at most about \(22t\) blocks can be conditioned. The influence bound does not enter: the design's degree budget is spent per block whatever the block's error probability. This is the recorded barrier's form (conj:replay-weight-barrier), where product weights handle at most about \(n/10\) blocks even with the budget of Razborov's degree.
Averaging instead of products. Dobrushin's theorem avoids products by solving for the conditioned measure as a fixed point, which amounts to averaging over configurations. In characteristic 3 the natural averages vanish. \(\sum_{a\in\mathbb F_3^t}\sigma_a^e=0\) for \(e\le2t-1\) (lem:randomized-block-annihilator, part 3), and the counting-design entry found the same for orbit averages whose normalization has size divisible by 3. A characteristic-0 fixed point would need 3-integrality to reduce mod 3, which is the parked step. thm:integral-design-extension supplies integral designs of PHP through Razborov's range. It gives no integral correction for dense constraints, because its filling works on the chessboard complex, while a dense clause's condition mixes all matchings rather than restricting their support.

The bridge is closed: it becomes weighted replay, whose recorded barrier and the per-block degree cost apply. Small influence would matter for an argument that pays per unit of error probability rather than per block, and no recorded design construction pays that way. That is the property a fall-tolerant construction for A1's core would need.

Next. The fall-tolerance review's items are now all developed. Tree saturation and degeneration are refuted, the Čech and gauge items rested on the refuted tree reading, and Dobrushin is closed here. The line's local, structural and conditioning certificates have each closed with a reason. That is a weak assessment of the current approach to A1's core, so the next cycle is a thread-level route review. It should restate A1 around the property just named: a design construction whose cost scales with the error probability of the blocks, not their number. It should choose outside leads and bridges for that property (the probabilistic method with alterations, sparsification, discrepancy), and it should also reconsider the S1 window route as an alternative to W_RS.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:replay-weight-barrier, lem:randomized-block-annihilator (parts 2 and 3), thm:integral-design-extension, the conditioning review and prop:vacuity-threshold. The entry's claims are identifications with recorded results and a degree count; no computation was needed and no claim is registered.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	3 min 14.79 s
Marked reading and review windows	51.24 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	29.26 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 54.15 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Thread review: the line's certificates for A1's core have all closed. The missing property is a design whose cost scales with the blocks' error probability, and any design of weak PHP has support at least \(2^{D-1}\), so fixed supports cannot dodge the errors. W_RS's constraint count is far below the fill point, which leaves random universality as the lead to develop

26 September 2026 · Thread-level route review with a support lemma · open statements A1 to A3 · cycle odd-prime-thread-review-5. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Thread review: the line's certificates for A1's core have all closed. The missing property is a design whose cost scales with the blocks' error probability, and any design of weak PHP has support at least \(2^{D-1}\), so fixed supports cannot dodge the errors. W_RS's constraint count is far below the fill point, which leaves random universality as the lead to develop”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-thread-review-5.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the fall-tolerance review, three cycles closed its items:

tree saturation, refuted (conj:tree-member-saturation);
degeneration, refuted (conj:degeneration-row-freeness);
Dobrushin, closed as conditioning (conditioning).

That entry named the property a new construction needs: a cost that scales with the blocks' error probability, not their number. What is A1 now, and which leads answer that property?

General statement. The line's claim is the goal through W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction) and the selector hybrid (thm:selector-hybrid-reduction), with A3 for W_RS restated by prop:single-block-falls. lem:design-support-bound is proved here.

What the goal needs

W_RS at degree \(D\approx44t\) for every family of \(n^K\) blocks of rank above about \(2t\), after selectors. Since vacuity is impossible (prop:vacuity-threshold), a design must absorb nonvacuous clauses and their falls, which start at degree about \(2t\).

Revisiting the open statements

Random families. For random dense families, any \(\ell\le N/(2h)\) blocks have jointly independent forms with high probability. A fixed set of \(\ell h\) uniform vectors in \(\mathbb F_3^N\) is dependent with probability at most \(3^{\ell h-N}\), and there are at most \(M^\ell\) sets, so the bound is \(\sum_\ell M^\ell3^{\ell h-N}=o(1)\) for \(\ell h\le N/2\) and \(h\ge2K\log_3n\).
- So small sets of blocks sit in independent tensor factors, and the member-pair falls need an adversarial shared dependency.
- Falls from combining random members arise only from sets of about \(N/h\) blocks: the fill-point regime of conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra.
- The "one connected family" of the member-pair entry describes adversarial families built with shared forms, not random ones.
The S1 window route. Reconsidered and left as it is: its window gluing needs the lag bound, whose only known proof path is the prefix reduction to W (fate review).

No statement changes.

The support lemma

Lemma (design support bound). Over any field, let \(\Gamma\) be a system of polynomials of degree at most 2 on the Boolean cube, containing every \(x^2-x\), such that every cube point violates some member of \(\Gamma\). Weak unary PHP is such a system: a point satisfying all collisions has at most one cell per column, while the row equations over \(\mathbb F_3\) need at least one cell per pigeon, and \(n+1\) pigeons cannot fit in \(n\) columns. Let \(\mu\) be a linear functional on all polynomials that vanishes on every multiple \(q\gamma\) (\(\gamma\in\Gamma\), \(\deg(q\gamma)\le D\)) and every polynomial vanishing on a point set \(S\), with \(\mu(1)=1\). Then \(|S|\ge2^{D-1}\).

Proof. By the theorem of Anstee, Rónyai and Sali (J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 98, 2002), the standard monomials of the vanishing ideal \(I(S)\) are sets shattered by \(S\). A shattered set of size \(k\) needs \(2^k\) points, so every function on \(S\) is the restriction of a multilinear polynomial of degree at most \(\lfloor\log_2|S|\rfloor\).

For \(x\in S\), choose \(\gamma_x\in\Gamma\) with \(c_x=\gamma_x(x)\ne0\), and \(\psi_x\) of degree at most \(\log_2|S|\) with \(\psi_x=[\,\cdot=x\,]\) on \(S\). Then \(F=\sum_xc_x^{-1}\psi_x\gamma_x\) equals 1 on \(S\). So \(1-F\in I(S)\), and \(F\) is a sum of multiples of axioms of degree at most \(\log_2|S|+2\). Put \(L=\lfloor\log_2|S|\rfloor\), so \(\deg F\le L+2\). If \(D\ge L+2\), then \(\mu(F)=0\) and \(\mu(1-F)=0\), contradicting \(\mu(1)=1\). So \(D\le L+1\), that is \(L\ge D-1\), and \(|S|\ge2^L\ge2^{D-1}\). \(\square\)

A design of weak PHP of degree \(D\), represented as a signed measure on cube points, needs support at least \(2^{D-1}\). For W_RS, a support chosen independently of the prefixes meets the error set of a nonvacuous block in about \(|S|\cdot3^{-t}\ge2^{D-1}3^{-t}\ge2\,(16/3)^t\approx2^{2.4t+1}\) points, since \(D\ge4t+2\). So a design cannot absorb the clauses by keeping its support off the error sets, even for one block. Absorption must come from cancellation inside the support. The avoidance route to "cost proportional to error probability" is closed.

Obstacle

A1's core needs a design of weak PHP, at degree about \(44t\), whose values cancel on every nonvacuous error clause of \(n^K\) dense members. Its cost must be paid per unit of error probability, not per block. Every construction tried pays per block, or needs locality, symmetry or a shared span:

conditioning pays at least one factor per block;
gluing pays through falls;
by the support lemma, avoidance is impossible.

For random families, what is missing is a universality statement for the member ideals below their fill point. For adversarial families, it is control of deliberately shared dependencies.

Falsification attempt

Is W_RS false for a random dense family? For random families, the constraint count is far below the fill point: the clauses times multipliers span at most \(Mh\dim G_{D-4t-2}\) dimensions, against \(\dim G_D\). With \(\dim G_d\approx(mN)^d/d!\) that ratio is about \(n^{K}h\,(n^2)^{-(4t+2)}\,D^{4t+2}\), which is \(o(1)\) for \(t\ge(K+1)\log_3n\). So counting leaves ample room, and no fall has been found except the members' own. For adversarial families, the only refuting mechanisms known are refutations of particular certificates. Not falsified.

Assessment of the line

The session reduced A1's core from "families of many dense blocks" to a sharper target:

designs that absorb nonvacuous clauses by cancellation, with falls from degree about \(2t\);
for random families, a universality statement below a fill point that counting shows is far away;
for adversarial families, shared dependencies as the only source of cross-member falls.

Every local certificate tried closed with a reason; none of the reasons refutes W_RS. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Anstee–Rónyai–Sali shattering, applied to sparse designs. Target: A1. Answers. A design supported on a small set chosen independently of the prefixes would absorb every clause by avoidance, at a cost proportional to the error probability. Test. Falsified: the support lemma above forces \(|S|\ge2^{D-1}\), and such a support meets about \(2(16/3)^t\) error points of a single nonvacuous block. Other formulations, with supports chosen after the prefixes, are the original problem.
Lovett–Meka partial colouring (the entropy method of discrepancy theory, FOCS 2012). It satisfies many constraints at entropy cost proportional to each constraint's variance, so almost-satisfied constraints are cheap. Target: A1. Answers. It would satisfy \(n^K\) clause constraints at total cost \(\sum_b\Pr[\text{block }b\text{ errs}]\), exactly the property sought. Test. Falsified over \(\mathbb F_3\): a nonzero linear constraint on a uniform vector holds with probability exactly \(1/3\), whatever the error probability of its clause, so every constraint costs \(\log3\) and the cost scales with the number. The variance-sensitive version needs a real-valued design, which is the parked 3-integrality step.
Cohen–Lenstra universality for random matrices over finite fields (Wood's universality theorems, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 2019), recorded for product tops as conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra. Target: A1 and A3 for random families. Answers. Below the fill point, random constraint systems are direct, with no falls, with probability close to 1. That is a cost scaling with probability, since dependencies appear only with their random-matrix probability. Test. Passed at the counting level: W_RS's constraint count is a factor \(n^{-\Omega(t)}\) below the fill point (falsification attempt above), so universality, if it held for the members' saturated ideals, would give no cross-member falls below \(D\). It is not yet stated for member ideals, and single members already fall, so it must be stated relative to \(\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I_b\).

Absurd bridges

The threshold theorem of fault-tolerant quantum computation (Aharonov and Ben-Or; Knill, Laflamme and Zurek). Below a threshold error rate, concatenated codes correct errors with polylogarithmic overhead. Translation: a design is a code state, and the blocks' error sets are noise at rate \(3^{-t}\). Answers. A hierarchical, concatenated design whose degree grows polylogarithmically in the number of blocks when the error rate is below threshold, a cost that scales with the error rate. Test. Falsified in this form: the theorem needs local noise, errors of bounded support. A dense block's error event depends on the values of dense forms, hence on almost all cells, so the noise is global.
Percolation on the dependency hypergraph (branching processes). Falls spread only through shared dependencies, so if dependency clusters are small, conditioning need only pay per cluster. Answers. It would bound the cost by the size of dependency clusters, which scales with a probability rather than the number of blocks. Test. Passed for random families: by the union bound in "Revisiting", sets of up to \(N/(2h)\) blocks have independent forms. So the pairwise dependency graph is empty with high probability, and dependencies appear only at size about \(N/h\). For adversarial families the clusters are chosen by the adversary.

Bridge follow-up

Lattice gauge theory and Wilson loops. Follow-up. Closed: it rested on the tree-and-cycle reading, which random members refute (conj:tree-member-saturation).
Dobrushin's uniqueness condition. Follow-up. Closed: it is conditioning, which pays degree per block (Dobrushin conditioning).

Lead follow-up

Resolvent saturation. Follow-up. Closed: pair saturations do not generate tree families' falls in general (conj:tree-member-saturation).
Čech and Leray vanishing on member covers. Follow-up. Closed: its prediction that new falls appear only on cycles fails for random members, where falls track density instead.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3, develop the passed Cohen–Lenstra lead for random families. State member universality: for a random dense family, \(\operatorname{gr}(\sum_bI_b)=\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I_b\) through \(D\) with high probability below the fill point. Test it on a small Boolean cube, without PHP, by measuring cross-member falls as the number of random members grows past \(N/h\). Before computing, count where the prediction can fail.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the fall-tolerance review and the three entries since, conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra, the fate review, and prop:vacuity-threshold. The support lemma is proved above from the Anstee–Rónyai–Sali theorem. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the theorem's use, the violation of an axiom at every point, the identity \(F=1\) on \(S\), the requirement that a supported design kill all of \(I(S)\), and the union bound. It required, both adopted: the floor step rewritten with \(L=\lfloor\log_2|S|\rfloor\), since \(|S|>2^{D-2}\) alone does not give \(2^{D-1}\); and the count of error points corrected from \(2^{3t}\) to \(2(16/3)^t\approx2^{2.4t+1}\). The review's other tests are a union bound, an equidistribution fact and a dimension count, written out in the items.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	8 min 51.09 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 23.99 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	7 min 26.96 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Member universality below the counting fill point is refuted: on the Boolean cube, random dense members start to fall together once \(Mh\) passes about \(N/2\), first near degree \(N/2\) and then lower as members are added. So random W_RS families, with \(Mh\gg N\), are far past the onset of cross-member falls, and the open question is their degree

26 September 2026 · Refutation, with finite checks · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-member-universality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Member universality below the counting fill point is refuted: on the Boolean cube, random dense members start to fall together once \(Mh\) passes about \(N/2\), first near degree \(N/2\) and then lower as members are added. So random W_RS families, with \(Mh\gg N\), are far past the onset of cross-member falls, and the open question is their degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-member-universality-refuted.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. Thread review 5 passed its Cohen–Lenstra lead at the counting level. W_RS's constraint count is far below the dimension-count fill point, so member universality, no cross-member falls below that point, would localize the random-family case. Does it hold?

General statement. conj:member-universality, refuted here: for random dense randomized-prefix blocks on the Boolean cube, \(\operatorname{gr}(\sum_bJ_b)=\sum_b\operatorname{gr}J_b\) through degree \(D\) whenever the counting condition \(Mh\dim G_{D-(4t+2)}<\dim G_D\) holds.

The computation

cube_universality.m2 (seeded; outputs in research/results/odd_prime_member_universality_20260926/) works on \(N\) Boolean variables over \(\mathbb F_3\). Block \(b\) has \(h\) random dense affine forms and \(t\) random prefix rows, and \(J_b\) is its clauses plus \(x^2-x\), the vanishing ideal of its allowed points \(P_b\). For \(M=1,2,\dots\) blocks, the run compares \(\mathbb F_3[x]/\sum_b\operatorname{gr}J_b\) with \(\mathbb F_3[x]/\operatorname{gr}(\sum_bJ_b)\), whose length is \(|\bigcap_bP_b|\). An excess is a cross-member fall, one not generated by the members' own graded ideals. Single blocks give excess 0, as they must.

\(N=8\), \(h=2\), \(t=1\) (cube_n8_h2.txt): with \(Mh\le N/2\), one fall in six (trial 3 at \(M=2\), degrees 5 and 6). After that, falls in every trial, at degrees 2 to 5 by \(M=6\).
\(N=10\), \(h=2\), \(t=1\) (cube_n10_h2.txt): no fall at \(Mh\le N/2\) (6 of 6). A fall at \(M=3\) in 3 of 3, at degrees 5 to 7. Then degrees 4 and 5 at \(M=4\), and 3 and 4 at \(M=5\).
\(N=10\), \(h=3\), \(t=2\) (cube_n10_h3_t2.txt; the run hit its time limit after trial 1 at \(M=3\)): no fall at \(M\le2\), then a fall at \(M=3\) at degrees 6 and 7, with \(|\bigcap P|=804\) of 1024.

Counterexample. \(N=10\), \(h=2\), \(t=1\), \(M=3\), trial 3. The counting condition holds at \(D=5\) trivially, since \(D<4t+2=6\) leaves no clause multiples, yet there is a cross-member fall in degree 5. So the conjecture is false. The fall threshold is not the dimension count but, in these runs, about \(Mh\approx N/2\): the point where the members' forms stop being few compared with the cube's dimension.

What it means

Thread review 5 used this conjecture to place random W_RS families "far below the fill point". That placement is withdrawn: random W_RS families have \(Mh=n^Kh\gg N=n^2\), far past the onset of cross-member falls seen here. What these small runs cannot decide is the degree of the falls in W_RS's regime, where each member excludes about \(3^{-t}\approx n^{-(K+1)}\) of the points rather than a fifth. Falls start near degree \(N/2\) and descend as members are added. The descent may be governed by the members' total excluded density, which W_RS keeps below \(1/n\), or by their number, which it does not bound. That is the question left for the random families.

Next. Answer that question with a compiled kernel. The quantity is the Hilbert function of a large point set and of sums of ideals. A C++ evaluation-rank kernel on fflas-ffpack can compute the Hilbert functions of \(\bigcap P_b\) and of the members' graded ideals at \(N=12\) to 14. Test whether, at fixed total excluded density near \(1/4\) spread over many members, the first cross-member fall stays near degree \(N/2\) or descends with \(M\). The outcome decides whether random families are a density question, where W_RS's sparsity helps, or a counting one.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thread review 5 (its counting and the Cohen–Lenstra lead), prop:single-block-falls and ex:member-pair-falls-check. The computation is exact over \(\mathbb F_3\) in Macaulay2 with a fixed seed. Single-block rows give excess 0, the control. The counts quoted are read from the outputs. The \(t=2\) run is partial and is reported as such. No reviewer pass was run: the entry refutes a conjecture by a reproducible instance and corrects the review's placement of random families.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 57.29 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	0.10 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 48.74 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 1.68 s
Individually measured computation	3 min 6.64 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Cross-member falls follow density, not count: at fixed total excluded density, spreading it over 1, 3, 9 or 25 random members leaves the first cross-member fall above degree \(N/2\), while letting the density collapse brings it down to degree 3. Random W_RS families, whose excluded density stays below \(1/n\), are on the favourable side

26 September 2026 · Conjecture with a finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-fall-degree-kernel. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cross-member falls follow density, not count: at fixed total excluded density, spreading it over 1, 3, 9 or 25 random members leaves the first cross-member fall above degree \(N/2\), while letting the density collapse brings it down to degree 3. Random W_RS families, whose excluded density stays below \(1/n\), are on the favourable side”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-density-fall-principle.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The member-universality entry found cross-member falls once \(Mh\) passes about \(N/2\). They start near degree \(N/2\) and descend as members are added. Its runs, however, let the excluded density grow with \(M\). Random W_RS families have \(Mh\gg N\) but excluded density below \(1/n\). Is the descent driven by the number of members or by their total excluded density?

General statement. conj:density-fall-principle: for random dense randomized-prefix members on the Boolean \(N\)-cube over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(h\ge2t+1\) forms each (nonvacuous for every prefix, by prop:vacuity-threshold), if the allowed intersection has density at least \(1/2\), every cross-member fall has degree at least \(N/2\), whatever the number of members. A cross-member fall is an element of \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap_bP_b)\) outside \(\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I(P_b)\).

The kernel

fall_degree.cpp (FLINT, exact mod 3) works in the cube's graded ring of squarefree monomials:

\(\operatorname{gr}I(P)_d\) consists of the degree-\(d\) parts of the kernel of evaluation of degree-\(\le d\) monomials on \(P\), and its dimension is \(\binom Nd-(\operatorname{rank}_d-\operatorname{rank}_{d-1})\).
For each member the kernel computes these top parts, then the rank of their union, and reports the excess of \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap P_b)_d\) over it, degree by degree.

Validation:

Single members give excess 0 in every degree, as they must.
On a dumped 4-member instance at \(N=8\), Macaulay2's Gröbner computation (validate.m2) reproduces the kernel's excess 0, 0, 0, 2, 8, 0, 0, 0 and \(|\bigcap P|=150\) exactly (validation_n8.txt, validation_m2.txt).

The series

The series has \(N=12\), degrees 1 to 8, and three seeds per setting (series_jobs.txt, output series_n12_clean.txt; an earlier run of the same jobs with interleaved output is kept as series_n12_interleaved.txt). The first cross-member fall degree is:

setting	intersection density	first fall degree
\(t=1\), \(h=3\), \(M=1\) (control)	0.64 to 0.96	none
\(t=2\), \(h=5\), \(M=3\)	0.77 to 0.88	8, 7, 8
\(t=3\), \(h=7\), \(M=9\)	0.67 to 0.74	7, 7, 7
\(t=4\), \(h=9\), \(M=25\) (\(Mh=225\))	0.70 to 0.79	7, 7, 7
\(t=1\), \(h=3\), \(M=3\)	0.53 to 0.59	6, 6, 6
\(t=1\), \(h=3\), \(M=9\)	0.07 to 0.13	4, 3, 4

With the total excluded density held near a quarter, multiplying the members by 25 does not move the first fall below degree 7 (\(N/2=6\)). With dense members, the density collapses and the falls come down to degrees 3 and 4. So the descent seen in the member-universality entry is a density effect.

The conjecture is consistent with every recorded run:

This series.
The member-universality runs at \(N=10\): falls at degrees 5 to 7 at densities 0.61 to 0.69, and degree 5 at density 0.38.
The member-universality runs at \(N=8\): degrees 5 and 6 at density 0.79, degree 3 at density 0.33.

It is evidence at \(N\le12\) and \(t\le4\), not a proof.

What is proved, and what it means

A weak form is elementary. If the excluded set \(E\) has \(|E|<2^{N-d}\), no nonzero polynomial of degree at most \(d\) vanishes on the intersection, since such a polynomial is nonzero on at least \(2^{N-d}\) cube points (DeMillo–Lipton on the cube). So there is no fall of any kind below degree \(\log_2(1/\varepsilon)\), with \(\varepsilon\) the excluded density. For W_RS that is about \(\log_2n\), below the clause degree, so this weak form does not reach \(D\). The conjecture's bound \(N/2\) is far stronger: with \(N=n(n+1)\) cells it would put every cross-member fall of a random W_RS family far above \(D\approx44t\), on the cube.

That would localize the random-family case of A1's core. Each member's own falls are handled by using its whole ideal (prop:single-block-falls). Cross-member falls would not occur below \(D\), so members-as-units gluing would hold through \(D\) on the cube. What remains for random families is the interaction with the PHP base, where the relevant object is \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) over the column-injective assignments. This matches the record's density-\(1/2\) conjecture for column forms (conj:closed-row-freeness), from a different direction.

Next. Move the test from the cube to the base: on column-injective assignments of 2 rows and 8 columns, with the occupancy condition, do random members' cross falls relative to \(\operatorname{gr}F^P\) also stay above half the degree range at fixed total density? Adapt the kernel to that point set and monomial basis. For the adversarial side, keep in view that a family built with shared forms controls its dependencies, which random families do not.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the member-universality entry and its outputs, prop:single-block-falls, prop:vacuity-threshold and conj:closed-row-freeness. The kernel is exact mod 3 and validated against Macaulay2 on a dumped instance. Controls with one member give excess 0. The table is read from the saved output. No reviewer pass was run: the entry states a conjecture with its evidence and one elementary bound, whose proof is the DeMillo–Lipton count written above.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 39.40 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	43.09 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 1.04 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 7.53 s
Individually measured computation	6 min 46.27 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.48 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

On the PHP base, cross-member falls wait for the fill point: on column-injective assignments of 2 rows and 8 columns, the first fall of 3, 9 or 25 random members comes where the intersection's point count forces it (17 of 18 runs exactly, the other one degree early at 99% of the count). Since the base's low-degree functions are far fewer than its points, random W_RS families would have no cross-member falls below \(D\)

26 September 2026 · Conjecture with a finite check and a counting consequence · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-base-density-falls. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “On the PHP base, cross-member falls wait for the fill point: on column-injective assignments of 2 rows and 8 columns, the first fall of 3, 9 or 25 random members comes where the intersection's point count forces it (17 of 18 runs exactly, the other one degree early at 99% of the count). Since the base's low-degree functions are far fewer than its points, random W_RS families would have no cross-member falls below \(D\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-fill-point-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The density fall principle found on the Boolean cube that cross-member falls follow the intersection's density, not the number of members. W_RS lives on the weak PHP base, not the cube, and prop:single-block-falls reduces A3 for W_RS to \(\operatorname{gr}(\sum_bI_b)=\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I_b\) through \(D\) for the members' whole ideals. Does the principle survive on the base's point set, and what quantity controls the first fall?

General statement. conj:fill-point-falls. Setting: \(P\) is the set of column-injective assignments of \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns with total occupancy \(\equiv m\bmod 3\) (the base of thm:global-closure-gluing), \(R\) the functions on the column-injective assignments, graded by the degree of column-injective monomials, and \(P_1,\dots,P_M\subseteq P\) the allowed sets of random dense randomized-prefix members with \(h\ge2t+1\). Write \(I_b=I(P_b)\) and \(H_\Sigma(d)=\dim\bigl(R/\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I_b\bigr)_{\le d}\). Since \(\sum_bI_b=I(\bigcap_bP_b)\) for finite point sets, a cross-member fall in degree \(d\) is an element of \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap_bP_b)_d\) outside \(\sum_b\operatorname{gr}(I_b)_d\), and the falls through degree \(d\) number exactly \(H_\Sigma(d)-\operatorname{rank}_d\), with \(\operatorname{rank}_d\le|\bigcap_bP_b|\) the rank of evaluating degree-\(\le d\) monomials on the intersection. So counting forces a fall by the first degree with \(H_\Sigma(d)>|\bigcap_bP_b|\). The conjecture: every cross-member fall in degree \(d\) has \(H_\Sigma(d)\ge\frac12|\bigcap_bP_b|\), whatever \(M\).

The kernel

base_fall_degree.cpp adapts the cube kernel of the density-fall entry to the base: the points are the column-injective assignments with the occupancy condition, the monomials are the column-injective ones, ordered by degree, and all ranks are exact mod 3 (FLINT). The members' degree-\(d\) top spaces are summed incrementally through a row basis. It prints, per run, the excess by degree, the first fall, the cumulative \(H_\Sigma\) and the forced degree. Checks:

Macaulay2 (validate_base.m2, with the base ideal of Booleanity, column collisions and the occupancy equation) reproduces the kernel's excess 0, 2, 2, 0, 0 and \(|\bigcap P_b|=45\) on a dumped 3-member instance with 2 rows and 5 columns (validation.txt).
Single members give no fall.
In all 18 runs of the series the falls sum to \(H_\Sigma(8)-|\bigcap P_b|\), as they must at the top degree, where the column-injective monomials span all functions on the points.
The base has 2160 points, which is \(\sum_{k\equiv2\,(3)}\binom8k2^k\).

The series

Two rows, 8 columns, degrees 1 to 8, three seeds per setting, the settings of the cube series (series_jobs.txt). The first run is series_2x8.txt; the rerun with \(H_\Sigma\) printed, series_2x8_forced.txt, agrees with it in every fall. The table is read from the saved output:

setting	intersection density	first fall	forced degree
\(t=1\), \(h=3\), \(M=1\) (control)	0.62 to 0.86	none	none
\(t=2\), \(h=5\), \(M=3\)	0.75, 0.71, 0.89	5, 5, 5	5, 5, 6
\(t=3\), \(h=7\), \(M=9\)	0.71 to 0.77	5, 5, 5	5, 5, 5
\(t=4\), \(h=9\), \(M=25\)	0.73 to 0.74	5, 5, 5	5, 5, 5
\(t=1\), \(h=3\), \(M=3\)	0.44 to 0.46	4, 4, 4	4, 4, 4
\(t=1\), \(h=3\), \(M=9\)	0.01 to 0.11	3, 3, 2	3, 3, 2

What it shows:

The density principle transfers. At density at least 0.71 the first fall is at degree 5, above half the degree range, for 3, 9 and 25 members alike; at density about 0.45 it is at 4, and when the density collapses it drops to 2 and 3.
The fill point is the controlling quantity. In 17 of 18 runs the first fall is exactly at the forced degree. The strict form, falls only where counting forces them, fails once: seed 3 of \(t=2\), \(M=3\) falls by 2 in degree 5, where \(H_\Sigma(5)=1904\) is below \(|\bigcap P_b|=1927\). That fall comes at \(H_\Sigma/|\bigcap P_b|=0.988\), so the conjecture is stated with the margin \(\frac12\).

This is evidence on one board size, with \(t\le4\), and on a board with fewer rows than columns, while W_RS's base has \(m=n+1\) rows and \(n\) columns; it is not a proof, and the cube series did not record \(H_\Sigma\), so it is consistent with the conjecture but does not test it.

The counting consequence

Let \(m=n+1\), \(N=n\) and \(D=O(\log n)\), W_RS's degree. The conjecture would exclude every cross-member fall through \(D\) for a random W_RS family, by the following count.

Few low-degree functions. \(H_\Sigma(D)\le\dim R_{\le D}\), the number of column-injective monomials of degree at most \(D\), which is \(\sum_{e\le D}\binom ne m^e\le(D+1)(nm)^D=\exp(O(\log^2n))\).
Many points. The column-injective assignments number \((m+1)^n\), and filtering by occupancy mod 3 with the cube roots of unity gives \(|P|=\frac13\sum_{\omega^3=1}\omega^{-m}(1+m\omega)^n\ge\frac13(m+1)^n-\frac23(m^2-m+1)^{n/2}\). Since \((m^2-m+1)/(m+1)^2=1-3m/(m+1)^2\), the second term is at most \(\frac23e^{-f(n)}(m+1)^n\) with \(f(n)=3n(n+1)/(2(n+2)^2)\), which increases to \(\frac32\) and is above 1.1 from \(n=10\). So \(|P|\ge\frac13(1-2e^{-1.1})(m+1)^n\ge\frac19(m+1)^n\) for \(n\ge10\).
A dense intersection. A point is excluded by a W_RS block only if some \(g_{b,i}\) is nonzero there and \(C_bg_b=0\), which for a fixed such point has probability \(3^{-t}\) over the random \(C_b\). So the expected excluded density is at most \(M3^{-t}\le1/n\), and by Markov's inequality \(|\bigcap_bP_b|\ge\frac12|P|\) with probability at least \(1-2/n\).

Then \(\frac12|\bigcap_bP_b|\ge\frac14|P|\ge\frac1{36}(n+2)^n\), which exceeds \((D+1)(n(n+1))^D\) for large \(n\), so the conjecture leaves no fall of degree at most \(D\). This places the random-family case of A3 for W_RS at the conjecture: by prop:single-block-falls the members' whole ideals then glue through \(D\). It does not touch the adversarial families of A1, where a chooser can correlate the members, nor the row freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}F^{\bigcap P_b}\) that thm:global-closure-gluing needs, for which the record has the column-form conjecture conj:closed-row-freeness.

Next. The conjecture's content is that the members' ideals meet in general position until the points run out. The planted-falls theorem (thm:planted-falls-degree-two) proves exactly that shape for planted selectors in degree 2, with falls "up to the count". Try to extend its argument, which shows that planted selectors span a hyperplane in general position, to randomized-prefix members in degrees above 2. The smallest test is degree 3 on the base with 2 rows.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:single-block-falls (part 4 and the members-as-units reading of A3), thm:global-closure-gluing and lem:defect-gluing (the base \(P\) and its occupancy condition), thm:planted-falls-degree-two, and the density-fall entry's kernel and table. The kernel is exact mod 3, matches Macaulay2 on a dumped instance, and passes the top-degree identity in every run. The table is read from the saved output by script. A fresh-context reviewer checked the fall identity, the counting consequence, the table against the output and novelty against the record; its one mathematical correction (the monomial count needs the factor \(D+1\)) is adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	29 min 31.43 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 47.04 s
Computation design and coding	5 min 5.53 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 54.86 s
Individually measured computation	14 min 42.40 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.59 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Fill-point falls do not extend to adversarial forms: members sharing two forms with different constants fall at degree 3 while counting forces degree 5, also with random prefixes and density above one half. The mechanism is the flat-difference lemma: the indicators of two points of a shared \(S\)-dimensional value space have the same top, so their difference falls to degree \(2S-1\). Sharing one dense form, in sunflowers or chains, is harmless

26 September 2026 · Refutation with a working lemma · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-planted-general-position. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Fill-point falls do not extend to adversarial forms: members sharing two forms with different constants fall at degree 3 while counting forces degree 5, also with random prefixes and density above one half. The mechanism is the flat-difference lemma: the indicators of two points of a shared \(S\)-dimensional value space have the same top, so their difference falls to degree \(2S-1\). Sharing one dense form, in sunflowers or chains, is harmless”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-flat-difference-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The fill-point entry conjectured, for random dense members on the PHP base, that every cross-member fall comes where the intersection's point count nearly forces it. A1 lets a chooser pick the forms, with only the prefixes random, and the member-pair entry found falls in the form-value model exactly for members sharing forms. Before extending the proof programme proposed there, the conjecture must be tested against that recorded obstruction: does it survive dependent families?

General statement. conj:adversarial-fill-point-falls, refuted here: conj:fill-point-falls for every family of forms, with random prefixes. Also lem:flat-difference-falls, which explains the refutation.

The computation

dependent_fall_degree.cpp extends the base kernel with a mode choosing how members' forms depend. The modes are these:

random: the base kernel's independent forms;
sunflower: every member's first form has one common linear part, with its own constant;
chain: member \(b\)'s first form has the linear part of member \(b-1\)'s second form;
shared2: every member's first two forms have two common linear parts, with their own constants;
points2: as shared2, with prefix row 0 forced to \((1,2,0,\dots,0)\);
span:\(S\): all forms in a common \(S\)-dimensional span.

The shared structure is drawn from separate random streams, so the random mode reproduces the base kernel exactly. Controls rerun from earlier outputs agree line by line:

two random-mode runs of the fill-point series, including its one early fall;
one sunflower run and one span run from the first series of this cycle.

The board is again 2 rows and 8 columns with the occupancy condition (2160 points), degrees 1 to 8. The files are in research/results/odd_prime_dependent_fill_falls_20260926/: jobs.txt with series.txt, jobs_dense_span.txt with dense_span.txt, and jobs_shared2.txt with shared2.txt. Each fall is reported with the ratio \(H_\Sigma(d)/|\bigcap P_b|\) at the first fall \(d\), which the conjecture bounds below by \(\frac12\).

One shared dense form is harmless. Sunflowers and chains with \((h,t,M)=(5,2,3)\), \((7,3,9)\) and \((9,4,25)\), two seeds each, at densities 0.70 to 0.76: every first fall is at the forced degree 5 (12 of 12), with ratios 1.11 to 1.26.
Two shared forms with different constants fall early. points2 with \(h=2\), \(t=1\), \(M=2\): first fall at degree 3, forced degree 5, ratio 0.26 and 0.27 at density 0.79 and 0.77, with excess exactly 1 in degree 3. The third seed has no fall, at density 0.889 = 8/9, which is what one excluded flat of codimension 2 gives. With \(h=3\), meeting the conjecture's \(h\ge2t+1\), points2 falls at degree 3 with ratios 0.37 to 0.41 at densities 0.51 to 0.57.
Random prefixes do not prevent it. shared2 has uniformly random prefixes. With \(h=3\), \(t=1\), \(M=2\): seed 3 falls at degree 3 with forced degree 5, ratio 0.385, density 0.537; seed 1 at degree 3 with forced degree 4, ratio 0.416, density 0.497; seed 2 at degree 4 with forced degree 5, ratio 0.935. At \(h=5\), \(t=2\) the three shared2 and three points2 runs fall at the forced degree. A random prefix row keeps the shared pattern \((1,1,0,\dots,0)\) only if its first two coefficients sum to 0 mod 3, which has probability \(\frac13\).
Low joint span. In the first series, span:2 and span:3 families fall in 7 of 8 runs, at degrees 1 to 3 with ratios 0.03 to 0.42 and densities 0.12 to 0.49; span:4 falls in all 4 runs, with ratios 0.44 to 1.24, below one half once. At higher density (jobs_dense_span, 13 runs with a fall, densities 0.71 to 0.95) every ratio is at least 0.64. Here the board is too small to separate a low span's fill point from the base's.

So conj:fill-point-falls, which assumes independent random forms, is untouched. Its extension to every family of forms with random prefixes is refuted by shared2, \(h=3\), \(t=1\), \(M=2\), seed 3.

The flat-difference lemma

lem:flat-difference-falls. Let \(R_S=\mathbb F_3[w_1,\dots,w_S]/(w_i^3-w_i)\) be the functions on \(\mathbb F_3^S\), filtered by degree, with \(\operatorname{gr}R_S=\mathbb F_3[w]/(w_i^3)\). For distinct \(a,b\in\mathbb F_3^S\) let \(V_a=\mathbb F_3^S\setminus\{a\}\) and \(V_b=\mathbb F_3^S\setminus\{b\}\). Then \(\operatorname{gr}I(V_a)+\operatorname{gr}I(V_b)\) is the line spanned by \(\prod_iw_i^2\), in degree \(2S\). \(I(V_a\cap V_b)\) contains an element of degree exactly \(2S-1\). So the pair has a cross-member fall in degree \(2S-1\).

Proof. \(I(V_a)\) consists of the functions supported on \(\{a\}\), the multiples of \(\delta_a=\prod_i(1-(w_i-a_i)^2)\). As an element of \(R_S\), \(\delta_a\) is written with exponents at most 2 in each variable. So its top is its degree-\(2S\) part \((-1)^S\prod_iw_i^2\), which is nonzero in \(\operatorname{gr}R_S\). Hence \(\operatorname{gr}I(V_a)\) is the line through \(\prod_iw_i^2\), and the same holds for \(b\). Expanding \(1-(w_i-a_i)^2=-w_i^2+2a_iw_i+(1-a_i^2)\), the degree-\((2S-1)\) part of \(\delta_a\) is \(\sum_i2a_iw_i\prod_{j\ne i}(-w_j^2)\). So \(\delta_a-\delta_b\) has top \(\sum_i2(a_i-b_i)w_i\prod_{j\ne i}(-w_j^2)\), which is nonzero since \(a\ne b\) and these monomials are distinct and nonzero in \(\operatorname{gr}R_S\). It vanishes on \(V_a\cap V_b\). \(\square\)

This refines the recorded incoherent-pair observation (obs:incoherent-pair-fall): two constraints incoherent on a shared form have multiples at a common top degree whose difference has lower degree, and there it was not shown whether the difference is a genuine fall. For point indicators in value space it is, in degree exactly \(2S-1\).

In points2 with \(h=2\), each member excludes exactly the points of \(P\) where both of its forms vanish, a codimension-2 flat of the shared span \(S=2\). The two flats differ by the constants. The lemma predicts a fall in value-space degree 3, and the base shows excess exactly 1 in degree 3 whenever the constants differ. The transfer from value space to the base is observed here, not proved: it needs the two shared forms to be free enough on the base that no member has a lower-degree element with the same top.

What it means

Falls come from cores. Early falls are pulled back from the value space of a small shared span, at degree about \(2S\), well below the base's fill point. This is the record's pattern of overloaded dependent subfamilies (ex:selector-subspace-thresholds, ex:low-density-product-cores) and of local reductions (conj:local-falls), now for randomized-prefix members. Dense sharing of one form, the adversary's cheapest dependency, does not trigger it.
Random prefixes thin the cores. For the lemma's configuration, both members' prefix matrices must keep a pattern supported on the shared forms. Each does so with probability \(3^{-t}\) for a fixed pattern. With \(M\le n^K\) members and \(t\approx(K+1)\log_3n\), a fixed pattern survives in two members of a sunflower with expected count at most \(M^23^{-2t}\le n^{-2}\). Larger shared spans have \(2^S\) patterns. Once \(2^S\) is comparable to \(3^t\), the family is a low-rank family, which the record settles by pinning (pinned rank, selector hybrid) at degree about \(2S\).
What is left. Fill-point falls for random forms (conj:fill-point-falls) stand. The adversarial statement that A1 needs has a natural candidate: every cross-member fall is either pulled back from a core, a subfamily whose joint span is small against its number of kept patterns, or comes near the fill point. The cores are then merged or pinned. This is not yet formulated precisely or tested.

Next. Test the core-plus-fill candidate on a mixed family: a points2 pair with \(h=3\), \(t=1\) together with 3 to 9 random dense members on the same board. Merge the pair into one member, the ideal of its intersection, and check whether the remaining cross falls come at the forced degree.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the fill-point entry and its kernel, the member-pair entry (form-value model, shared-form configurations), ex:selector-subspace-thresholds, ex:low-density-product-cores and conj:local-falls. The kernel variant reproduces earlier outputs exactly in its random mode and in two other controls. Every run satisfies the top-degree identity (the falls sum to \(H_\Sigma(8)-|\bigcap P_b|\)). The table values are read from the saved outputs by script. A fresh-context reviewer checked the lemma's proof, the points2 exclusion set in the kernel, every quoted number against the outputs, the probability estimate and novelty. It required three changes, all adopted: the span:4 count, the per-seed forced degrees of the shared2 runs, and the link to obs:incoherent-pair-fall.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	25 min 47.31 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 52.07 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	8 min 45.79 s
Computation design and coding	3 min 4.36 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	26.67 s
Individually measured computation	11 min 38.28 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Early cross-member falls need a shared piece: in all 100 runs so far, every fall well before the fill point has a member whose excluded set contains the preimage of values of forms it shares with another member, which needs all its other prefix columns to vanish. Random prefixes make that rare, with probability at most \(h3^{-t}\) per member

26 September 2026 · Conjecture with a proved rarity lemma · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-core-plus-fill. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Early cross-member falls need a shared piece: in all 100 runs so far, every fall well before the fill point has a member whose excluded set contains the preimage of values of forms it shares with another member, which needs all its other prefix columns to vanish. Random prefixes make that rare, with probability at most \(h3^{-t}\) per member”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-shared-piece-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The flat-difference entry refuted fill-point falls for adversarial forms: members sharing two forms with different constants fall far below the fill point. It proposed a core-plus-fill test, merging the sharing pair inside a mixed family. What exactly makes a pair a core, and can an adversary create cores when the prefixes are random?

General statement. conj:shared-piece-falls, with lem:shared-piece-rarity. Setting: the weak base \(P\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) and randomized-prefix members with dense forms, independent within each member. For members \(b\ne b'\), let \(T_{bb'}\) be the set of \(b\)'s forms whose linear parts lie in the span of \(b'\)'s linear parts. Say that \(b\) has a shared piece if, for some \(b'\) and some nonempty \(T\subseteq T_{bb'}\), two conditions hold:

every column of \(C_b\) outside \(T\) vanishes;
some nonzero \(y\in\{0,1\}^T\) has \(C_{b,T}\,y=0\).

Then every completion of \(y\) lies in \(\ker C_b\). So \(b\)'s excluded set contains the preimage of a set of values of the forms in \(T\) alone, whatever \(b\)'s other forms do.

The conjecture: if no member has a shared piece, every cross-member fall in degree \(d\) has \(H_\Sigma(d)\ge\frac12|\bigcap_bP_b|\), the bound of conj:fill-point-falls. The lemma: for a member \(b\) whose sets \(T_{bb'}\) are all proper, a uniformly random \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\) gives \(b\) a shared piece with probability at most \(h3^{-t}\).

The mixed families

core_plus_fill.cpp extends the dependent-family kernel with two modes (research/results/odd_prime_core_plus_fill_20260926/):

pairkeep: members 0 and 1 share the linear parts of forms 0 and 1, with their own constants. Each of their prefix rows has \(c_1=-c_0\), so the shared pattern \((1,1,0,\dots,0)\) stays in the kernel. The other members are independent random dense members.
pairmerged: the same family with members 0 and 1 replaced by one member, the ideal of \(P_0\cap P_1\).

The runs use 2 rows and 8 columns, \(h=5\), \(t=2\), \(M=2,3,5,9\) and seeds 1 to 4 (jobs.txt, series.txt). A sunflower run from the flat-difference entry, rerun as a control, reproduces its line.

Every run with a fall, 28 of the 32, has it exactly at the forced degree, with ratio above 1. The other 4 are the merged pairs with \(M=2\), a single member.
For \(M=3,5,9\), merging never changes the first fall. Where the first fall is at degree 4 (all \(M=9\) runs, two \(M=5\) runs), even the excess in that degree and the ratio are unchanged; merging changes them only when the first fall is at degree 5.
The pair alone (\(M=2\)) never falls early, although it shares two forms with different constants and keeps the shared pattern.

So keeping the pattern is not enough. In the flat-difference instances the member's other prefix columns were zero, by construction in points2 and by chance in shared2 (the dumped seeds 1 and 3 of shared2 have prefixes \((2,0,0)\) against \((2,0,2)\)). Here they are random.

The shared-piece test

The kernel's flag mode computes, from the prefixes alone, the number of members with a shared piece. The partner sets are those of the construction: the common form of a sunflower, the chained forms, the two shared forms, and all forms for span families. It was run on every recorded job of the flat-difference entry and this one (flag_jobs.txt, piece_flags.txt), 100 distinct runs, and a script joined the flags with the saved falls, counting an early fall as ratio \(H_\Sigma(d)/|\bigcap P_b|<\frac12\) at the first fall.

Families without common span (random, sunflower, chain, shared2, points2, pairkeep, pairmerged; 70 runs): 10 early falls, all flagged. None of the 53 unflagged runs falls early. The 7 flagged runs without an early fall show that a shared piece is not sufficient.
Span families (30 runs): every form is shared, so every nonvacuous member is flagged and the test is vacuous there; 8 of them fall early.

So the conjecture is consistent with every run. Its non-vacuous evidence is the 53 unflagged runs, among them the 32 mixed-family runs whose pairs keep the shared pattern but not the zero columns. Linear dependence other than sharing, such as a form in the span of two of a partner's forms, is covered by the definition of \(T_{bb'}\) but was not tested.

The rarity lemma

lem:shared-piece-rarity. Let \(C\) be uniform in \(\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\), and let \(T_1,\dots,T_k\subseteq[h]\) be proper subsets, one for each partner. The probability that for some \(j\) and some nonempty \(T\subseteq T_j\) all columns of \(C\) outside \(T\) vanish is at most \(h3^{-t}\).

The same count, a column vanishing with probability \(3^{-t}\) and a union over columns, is used in the record for other rarity questions (prop:vacuity-threshold, prop:bounded-column-vacuity).

Proof. If all columns outside \(T\subseteq T_j\) vanish, then in particular all columns outside \(T_j\) vanish. Since \(T_j\) is proper, some column of \(C\) is zero. A fixed column is zero with probability \(3^{-t}\), and there are \(h\) columns. \(\square\)

For W_RS, with \(M\le n^K\) blocks and \(t=\lceil(K+1)\log_3n\rceil+1\), the expected number of members with a shared piece is at most \(Mh3^{-t}\le h/(3n)\). By Markov's inequality, no member has one with probability at least \(1-h/(3n)\), provided the blocks have \(h=o(n)\) forms. Wider blocks need \(t\ge\log_3(Mhn)\), still \(O(\log n)\) for \(h\le\operatorname{poly}(n)\), at the cost of a larger constant in W_RS's degree. The lemma excludes members all of whose linear parts lie in one partner's span (\(T_{bb'}=[h]\)). Such a member is a function of its partner's form values, and the natural move is to merge it into the partner, which the conjecture does not yet cover.

What it means

If conj:shared-piece-falls holds, then for families without contained members, random prefixes leave, with high probability, no member with a shared piece. Every cross-member fall then comes near the fill point, and by the counting consequence of the fill-point entry there are none through W_RS's degree \(D\). The adversary's only remaining lever is containment, and in the mixed runs merging a pair changed no first fall. This would move the random-prefix, dense-form case of A3 for W_RS onto one conjecture about general position, with the adversary removed by the prefixes' randomness. It is evidence at one board size, and three gaps remain:

the conjecture itself;
merged and contained members;
sparse forms, which the record handles by other means (the cell and sparse theorems).

Next. Test the conjecture where the definition of \(T_{bb'}\) goes beyond sharing: members with a form in the span of two of a partner's forms, with zero and with random other prefix columns. Then attempt the degree-3 case of the conjecture for two members, where a fall is a linear dependence among the members' degree-3 tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the flat-difference and fill-point entries, their kernels and outputs, and conj:randomized-wide-clause for the choice of \(t\). The mixed-family series, the flag runs and the join are exact, from saved outputs, and the sunflower control reproduces. The dumped shared2 prefixes were read from the dump files (shared2_h3_seed1.txt to seed3.txt). The flag code was added to core_plus_fill.cpp after the series run; it reads the prefixes only and changes neither the random streams nor the ranks. A fresh-context reviewer rebuilt the kernel, reran two jobs and checked the definition, the flag code, the lemma and every count; its one required change, the effect of merging on the ratio, is adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	25 min 11.48 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	18 min 29.58 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 16.57 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	54.09 s
Individually measured computation	4 min 31.10 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The shared-piece conjecture survives dependence beyond sharing: members whose forms lie in the span of two of a partner's forms fall early only when they have a shared piece (5 early falls, all flagged; none in 12 unflagged runs)

26 September 2026 · Finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-span-dependence. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The shared-piece conjecture survives dependence beyond sharing: members whose forms lie in the span of two of a partner's forms fall early only when they have a shared piece (5 early falls, all flagged; none in 12 unflagged runs)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-span-dependence-check.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The shared-piece entry conjectured that cross-member falls well before the fill point need a member with a shared piece. Its definition covers any form in the span of a partner's forms, but the evidence used only forms whose linear parts are identical. An adversary has more freedom: a member's forms can be combinations of a partner's forms. Does such dependence produce early falls without a shared piece?

General statement. conj:shared-piece-falls, tested here on dependence beyond sharing.

The computation

span_dependence.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_span_dependence_20260926/) adds two modes to the core-plus-fill kernel. In both, member \(b\ge1\) has forms 0 and 1 with linear parts \(f_1+f_2\) and \(f_1+2f_2\), where \(f_1,f_2\) are the linear parts of member \(b-1\)'s forms 1 and 2, with its own constants. So \(T_{b,b-1}=\{0,1\}\), and no form is shared.

spandep: uniformly random prefixes.
spandepzero: member \(b\ge1\)'s prefix columns \(2,\dots,h-1\) are forced to zero with \(c_1=-c_0\), which gives it a shared piece.

The runs use 2 rows and 8 columns, \((h,t,M)\in\{(3,1,2),(3,1,3),(5,2,2),(5,2,5)\}\) and seeds 1 to 4. The flag of shared-piece members is computed in the same invocation. A sunflower control reproduces its recorded line. The output is series_and_flags.txt, and the counts below are read from it by script.

Unflagged runs: 12, all of spandep and none early. They include every \(h=5\), \(t=2\) spandep run, at densities 0.51 to 0.94, with first falls at the forced degree or one below it at ratio at least 0.98.
Early falls (ratio below \(\frac12\)): 5, all flagged. Two are spandep with \(h=3\), \(t=1\), seed 4, where the random prefix happened to give a shared piece: ratios 0.13 and 0.22. Three are spandepzero with \(h=3\): ratios 0.49, 0.12 and 0.45.
Flagged runs without an early fall: 15, among them every \(h=5\) spandepzero run. So a shared piece is again not sufficient.

What it means

The conjecture's necessary condition held in every run, now 132 distinct runs across three kernels. Dependence through spans alone, without zero prefix columns, never produced an early fall. The adversary's freedom to choose dependent forms therefore does not by itself create early cross falls on this board. It needs the prefixes' help, which random prefixes give with probability at most \(h3^{-t}\) per member (lem:shared-piece-rarity). All runs are on one board size, 2 rows by 8 columns. Its fill point is at degree 4 or 5, so an early fall there is a fall at degree 1 to 3.

Next. The route has had six research entries since thread review 5, so the next cycle is a route review. It should weigh the fall line of these cycles: density, fill point, flat difference, shared pieces and this check. The line has turned A3 for random W_RS families into one general-position conjecture, and has named the adversary's lever for A1 (shared pieces, rare under random prefixes, plus contained members). The review should weigh that against what A1 still needs: a proof of the conjecture, and hardness when a family's members are contained in one another.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the shared-piece entry (the definition of \(T_{bb'}\) and of a shared piece, and the flag code) and its outputs. The runs are exact mod 3, the control reproduces, and every count is read from the saved output by script. No new lemma is claimed, so no reviewer pass was run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 12.32 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	26.76 s
Computation design and coding	43.87 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	44.08 s
Individually measured computation	2 min 17.47 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review of the fall line: cross-member falls are now one general-position conjecture, rare under random prefixes. They are only the defect half of global closure gluing, though. An early fall on the 2 × 8 base leaves the intersection row-free exactly as far as the base, so row freeness below the fill point, not falls, is the obstacle

26 September 2026 · Route review with a finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-fall-line-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the fall line: cross-member falls are now one general-position conjecture, rare under random prefixes. They are only the defect half of global closure gluing, though. An early fall on the 2 × 8 base leaves the intersection row-free exactly as far as the base, so row freeness below the fill point, not falls, is the obstacle”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-fall-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Six research entries since thread review 5 developed its passed Cohen–Lenstra lead into a line about cross-member falls:

member universality refuted;
density;
fill point;
flat difference;
shared pieces;
span check.

What has it established, and is it aimed at what the goal needs?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:shared-piece-falls, with lem:shared-piece-rarity: without shared pieces, cross-member falls come only near the fill point, and random prefixes leave no shared pieces with high probability. This review registers ex:early-fall-row-freeness.

What the goal needs

The goal follows from W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction). The record's most direct sufficient condition for W_RS is thm:global-closure-gluing. For \(Q=\bigcap_bP_b\), the allowed set of the whole family, the weak base plus any constraints of degree at most \(D\) vanishing on \(Q\) has no degree-\(D\) refutation if \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is row-free through \(D\). The clauses vanish on \(Q\), so that theorem needs row freeness of one set. Falls enter only through lem:defect-gluing, which builds the row freeness of an intersection from its members. The defect \(n_{U\cap W}/(n_U+n_W)\) is exactly the cross-member falls, and it controls condition (ii). Condition (i), transversality of the members' top ideals modulo the row sums, and the members' own row freeness are separate. So the fall line, even if proved, discharges only the defect part of one sufficient route.

Falsification attempt

Does an early cross-member fall break row freeness? row_freeness.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_fall_line_review_20260926/) computes \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,\operatorname{gr}F^Q)_d=\ker(r\text{ on }M_d)/r^2M_{d-2}\) for the two-row base. There \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r]/(r^3)\) acts by the one row sum, and \(M=\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is built from exact evaluation ranks. On two dumped 2 × 5 instances, the base and a two-member family, it reproduces Macaulay2's Gröbner computation exactly (validate_rowfree.m2, validation.txt). On the 2 × 8 base (row_freeness_2x8.txt):

family	density	\(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degrees 0 to 7	\(\dim M_d\), degrees 4 to 6
the base \(P\)	1	0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 287, 41, 0	686, 769, 247
one random member (\(h=5\), \(t=2\))	0.84	0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 432, 0, 0	686, 678, 4
three random members	0.75	0, 0, 0, 0, 114, 249, 0, 0	686, 491, 0
three-member sunflower	0.75	0, 0, 0, 0, 118, 245, 0, 0	686, 487, 0
shared2 pair with the early fall in degree 3 (\(h=3\), \(t=1\), seed 3)	0.54	0, 0, 0, 0, 492, 0, 0, 0	643, 70, 1

With two rows the base is outside its stability range (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic needs \(m\ge D\)), and it is row-free only through degree 3. Every family, including the pair with a cross-member fall in degree 3, is row-free exactly as far. The failures in degree 4 come one degree before each set's fill, where \(M_5\) collapses. So on this board an early fall does not break row freeness. The falls are a sufficient-condition artefact of gluing member by member, not an obstruction to the hypothesis the goal uses. Not falsified; the two-row test is limited to degrees up to 3.

Obstacle

W_RS through global closure gluing needs \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) row-free through \(D\approx44t\), where \(Q\) is the weak base minus the union of the members' error sets. That union is sparse, of density at most \(1/n\) in expectation, but structured: it contains every clause's support, and the clauses are functions of degree about \(4t+2\) supported on it. No recorded mechanism proves that removing such a set preserves row freeness below the fill point. The fall line addressed only the member-by-member defect. Exact tests of row freeness are limited to two rows, where the base itself stops at degree 3, or to three rows on boards whose fill point is at degree 3 or 4.

Assessment of the line

The fall line was productive as mathematics:

two general statements, conj:fill-point-falls and conj:shared-piece-falls;
two proved lemmas, lem:flat-difference-falls and lem:shared-piece-rarity;
one refutation, conj:adversarial-fill-point-falls;
a clear account of the adversary's lever, shared pieces, which random prefixes remove except for contained members.

As a route to the goal it is off-centre. It proves nothing yet, and the quantity it controls is one hypothesis of one sufficient lemma. The row-freeness test shows that the quantity the goal uses tolerates the falls the line was trying to exclude. The assessment is qualitative. The line should hand its adversary analysis to a direct attack on row freeness of \(Q\), not continue with falls.

Outside leads

Lefschetz properties of Artinian algebras (Harima, Migliore, Nagel and Watanabe, J. Algebra 262, 2003). For one row sum, row freeness of \(M\) through \(D\) says that \(r\) acts with all Jordan blocks of length 3 in low degrees, a Lefschetz-type condition. Target: A3 and W through global closure gluing. Answers. Lefschetz theory proves such conditions for quotients by general or monomial ideals, and a condition holding in low degrees is untouched by new generators of higher degree. Row freeness of \(Q\) would follow from the base's, if removing \(Q\)'s error set acts like a quotient by an ideal whose new generators start near the fill point. Test. Passed on the 2 × 8 base: all five families have the base's Jordan-type condition (\(\operatorname{Tor}_1=0\)) through degree 3, and lose it only one degree before their own fill.
Hochster–Laksov theorem (the linear syzygies of generic forms, Comm. Algebra 1987): maximal rank for generic forms holds in the first degree where their ideals can interact. Target: conj:shared-piece-falls. Answers. It would prove the conjecture in the first degree where the members' ideals exceed the base's, if the falls came there. Test. Falsified: over all 117 distinct saved runs with a fall, the first fall is in that first degree in only 55. In the others it comes earlier (for example, 25 random members fall in degree 5 while their ideals first exceed the base's in degree 6) or later. The falls are not a first-degree phenomenon.
Lovász Local Lemma (Erdős and Lovász 1975; algorithmic form by Moser and Tardos, J. ACM 2010). Target: shared pieces in wide blocks, where the union bound \(Mh3^{-t}\) fails once \(h\ge n\). Answers. It would avoid all shared pieces at once when each is rare and depends on few others, removing the width condition of lem:shared-piece-rarity. Test. Falsified as an improvement: in a sunflower every member shares a form with all \(M-1\) others. The dependency degree is \(M\), and the local lemma's condition \(e\,p\,(M+1)\le1\) with \(p=h3^{-t}\) is the union bound up to the constant \(e\).

Absurd bridges

Smoothed analysis (Spielman and Teng, J. ACM 2004), from computer science: worst-case inputs under a small random perturbation behave like typical inputs. Translation: W_RS is a smoothed instance, with adversarial forms perturbed by random prefixes. Answers. A smoothed theorem for row freeness would show that the adversary's structure (shared pieces, dependencies) dissolves under the random prefixes. That is the form A1 needs: every family of forms, random prefixes only. Test. Passed at the level of falls: the 65 runs without a shared piece (53 in the shared-piece entry, 12 in the span check), most of them with adversarial forms, never fell early, and lem:shared-piece-rarity is a smoothed bound. The same test for row freeness needs three-row boards.
The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion (Comm. Math. Phys. 103, 1986), from statistical physics: a polymer gas with small activities has a convergent expansion over clusters of incompatible polymers. Translation: members are polymers, incompatibility is a shared form, and the activity is the probability \(h3^{-t}\) of a shared piece. Answers. Row-freeness defects of \(Q\) would be sums of contributions of small clusters, and the expansion would converge, with only local, rare clusters contributing. Test. Passed as arithmetic: the criterion \(\sum_{b'\sim b}w(b')e^{a}\le a\), with \(a=1\) and at most \(M\) neighbours, needs \(Mh3^{-t}\le1/e\), and W_RS has \(Mh3^{-t}\le h/(3n)\). Whether row-freeness defects are additive over clusters is untested.
The uncertainty principle for finite groups (Donoho and Stark 1989; Meshulam 1992), from signal processing and quantum mechanics: \(|\operatorname{supp}f|\cdot|\operatorname{supp}\hat f|\ge|G|\). Translation: low degree means few characters, so a low-degree function supported on the sparse error set would violate the principle. Answers. It would exclude low-degree functions supported on the error set, hence all falls. Test. Falsified: the clauses themselves are functions of degree about \(4t+2\) supported on the error set. The principle is met, and it cannot tell members' own functions from cross-member ones.

Lead follow-up

Cohen–Lenstra universality for member ideals. Follow-up. Developed over the six entries. As stated for member ideals it was refuted below the counting fill point. It became the density principle, conj:fill-point-falls for random forms, and conj:shared-piece-falls for adversarial forms with random prefixes. This review redirects it from falls to row freeness.

Bridge follow-up

Percolation on the dependency hypergraph. Follow-up. Developed: the clusters that matter are shared pieces, not dependencies. Sunflowers, chains and span dependence never fell early without a shared piece, and shared pieces occur with probability at most \(h3^{-t}\) per member. So under random prefixes the clusters have size one with high probability. This review's cluster-expansion bridge continues it.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1, develop the passed Lefschetz lead into a direct statement: \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is row-free wherever the base is, up to one degree below \(Q\)'s fill point, for every family without contained members under random prefixes. Test it on three rows, the first board with two acting row sums, using the recorded Tor routine (degeneration_tor.m2). Use \(t=1\), \(h=3\) members, random and with shared pieces, and before computing count the degrees that lie below the fill point.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:global-closure-gluing, lem:defect-gluing (conditions (i) and (ii), and the defect as degreewise locality), thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic's range, and the six entries of the line. The row-freeness kernel matches Macaulay2 on two instances. The table is read from the saved output. The Hochster–Laksov count was made by script over all saved series outputs, with duplicates removed.

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Relative row freeness: on the three-row base with 7 columns, the allowed sets of 36 randomized-prefix families, random, sunflower, shared-piece and row-sum forms alike, are row-free as far as the base (degree 3). If this holds in the base's stability range at density at least one half, global closure gluing gives W_RS and the goal. Row-sum forms add \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) one degree beyond the base's range, the risk to watch

26 September 2026 · Conjecture with a finite check · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-three-row-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relative row freeness: on the three-row base with 7 columns, the allowed sets of 36 randomized-prefix families, random, sunflower, shared-piece and row-sum forms alike, are row-free as far as the base (degree 3). If this holds in the base's stability range at density at least one half, global closure gluing gives W_RS and the goal. Row-sum forms add \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) one degree beyond the base's range, the risk to watch”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-relative-row-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1. The fall-line review named the obstacle: row freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) through \(D\) for the family's allowed set \(Q\), the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing. Its two-row test had one acting row sum, and the base was outside its stability range. Three rows is the first board with two acting row sums and \(m\ge D\) at \(D=3\). Are allowed sets there row-free wherever the base is?

General statement. conj:relative-row-freeness. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak base with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns, take any family of blocks of affine forms in normal form modulo the row sums (no term in the first column's cells \(x_{i,1}\)), with independent uniformly random prefixes \(C_b\). Let \(Q\subseteq P\) be the allowed set: the points of the base (column-injective, total occupancy \(\equiv m\)) where every clause vanishes. If \(|Q|\ge\frac12|P|\), then with high probability \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is row-free through \(D\): the Koszul 1-cycles of the row sums are Frobenius plus boundaries. This extends conj:closed-row-freeness from sets cut by column forms to the allowed sets of W_RS. The implication to the goal is below.

The implication

Take \(m=n+1\) rows, \(N=n\) columns and W_RS's parameters, \(t=\lceil(K+1)\log_3n\rceil+1\) and \(D=\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)=O(\log n)\). Then \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D^2\) hold for large \(n\).

The expected excluded density is at most \(M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\), as in the fill-point entry. By Markov's inequality \(|Q|\ge\frac12|P|\) with probability at least \(1-2/(3n)\).
The conjecture's event fails with probability \(o(1)\) on the same draw of the \(C_b\), so both events hold together with probability \(1-o(1)\), and some choice of prefixes makes \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) row-free through \(D\).
The clauses \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) have degree at most \(4t+2\le D\) and vanish on \(Q\), and they are not row equations. So by thm:global-closure-gluing the weak base plus the clauses has no degree-\(D\) refutation. The theorem's homogenized weak base contains the homogenized row equations \(r_i-z\) for every row, with Booleanity and the column collisions. So it is weak unary PHP, the system of W_RS, and its row sums are the same \(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}\), with \(r_0\) eliminated by the occupancy relation.

Normal form. Normal form costs nothing. Write each form as \(L=L'+\sum_ia_i(r_i-1)\), with \(L'\) free of the cells \(x_{i,1}\). A clause in the forms \(L\) differs from the same clause in the \(L'\) by \(\sum_i(r_i-1)q_i\), with \(\deg q_i\) below the clause's degree. So weak unary PHP plus the reduced clauses derives every original clause within degree \(4t+2\), and hardness of the reduced system at degree \(D\) gives hardness of the original. Without normal form the conjecture is false: thm:global-closure-gluing's own example, a set with at most one pigeon in row 1, has the cycle \(r_1e_1\) in degree 2. The rowform runs below show the same lever.

That is W_RS for the family, and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction gives the goal. The conjecture thus replaces A1 and A3 on this route by one statement about sparse, structured deletions from the base. The fall line needs none of it: falls do not enter.

The computation

three_row_freeness.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_three_row_freeness_20260926/) computes \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,\operatorname{gr}F^Q)\) for \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r_1,r_2]/(r_i^3)\), by the recorded routine of degeneration_tor.m2: cycles of \(M_{d-1}^2\to M_d\), \((a,b)\mapsto r_1a+r_2b\), modulo the Koszul and Frobenius boundaries. It uses exact evaluation ranks mod 3. On the 3 × 5 base and on one member there, it reproduces Macaulay2 exactly (validate_three.m2, validation.txt). The 3 × 5 run also shows why larger boards are needed: its single member loses row freeness in degree 3, but only in the map into its top nonzero degree, a fill effect.

The base 3 × 7 (6049 points) has \(\operatorname{Tor}_1=0,0,0,3,473\) in degrees 1 to 5 (sizing_base_3x7.txt). It is row-free through degree 3, as \(m=3\) allows. Degrees at most 4 were then computed for 36 families (series_and_flags.txt, rowform.txt), with \(h=3,t=1\) or \(h=5,t=2\), \(M\le3\), densities 0.50 to 0.96:

Through degree 3: every family is row-free, as the base.
Degree 4, where the base has 3 (the rowform families are not in normal form: they test the excluded lever):
- 12 random families, 3 sunflowers, 3 shared2 pairs and 3 spandepzero families: 3, equal to the base;
- points2 pairs: 3, 3 and 4;
- row-sum forms (every member's first form the row-1 sum plus a constant): 6, 5, 4 and 5 in four of the six runs with \(h=3,t=1\), and 3 in all six with \(h=5,t=2\).

How much this tests:

For the random families, \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) agrees with the base through degree 3: the Hilbert functions coincide there. So row freeness through degree 3 is automatic for them, not evidence.
The points2 pairs differ from the base in degree 3, where their flat-difference element lives, and stay row-free there. So do the rowform families at degree 4 relative to their own ideals.
The one signal against the conjecture is the rowform excess in degree 4. It lies beyond the base's own free range, so it does not contradict the conjecture. But it comes from exactly the forms that the acting row sums see, and it disappears at \(t=2\).

Row-sum forms are also the forms that Res(Lin) proofs of PHP carry, since the row equations are axioms. The test families other than rowform were drawn without normal form. A random dense form has a random row-sum component, so these runs test a broader class than the conjecture's. Only forms that are pure row sums were seen to add \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\).

What is proved

Only the trivial range: if \(\operatorname{gr}I(Q)\) and \(\operatorname{gr}I(P)\) agree through degree \(e\), then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) agrees through \(e\), since \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree \(d\) depends only on \(M_{d-3},\dots,M_d\) (the Frobenius boundaries come from \(M_{d-3}\)). For W_RS, \(\operatorname{gr}I(Q)\) differs from \(\operatorname{gr}I(P)\) already in degree at most \(4t+2\), the clauses' degree, well below \(D\). So the conjecture's content lies between \(4t+2\) and \(D\).

Next. Test the risk directly. Build the four-row base, with three acting row sums, where the base may be row-free through degree 4. Put row-sum-form families there with \(t=1\) and \(t=2\), and see whether their degree-4 excess survives inside the base's free range. The kernel needs the Koszul complex on three row sums.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the following, and checked that the implication uses their hypotheses as stated:

thm:global-closure-gluing (constraints vanishing on \(Q\), row equations excluded);
thm:randomized-prefix-reduction (degree \(\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)\));
conj:closed-row-freeness (its density \(\frac12\) and \(N\) range);
lem:defect-gluing;
degeneration_tor.m2's Tor routine.

The kernel reproduces Macaulay2 on two 3 × 5 instances. The tallies were read from the saved outputs by script. A fresh-context reviewer checked the implication against the full entries of thm:global-closure-gluing and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction, and the excluded-density arithmetic. It required, all adopted: \(Q\) defined inside the base with its occupancy condition; the dependence of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) on four consecutive degrees; the identification of the theorem's weak base with weak unary PHP; and the joint probability step. The normal-form restriction was added after that pass, from the theorem's own example. It narrows the conjecture, and its cost argument is a one-line derivation.

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First-degree purity, and relative row freeness inside the base's range: on four rows and 7 columns, where the base is row-free through degree 4, every normal-form family of density at least one half is row-free through degree 4. Below density one half and for unreduced row sums it fails, and the first failure is explained exactly: row freeness through the first new degree holds iff the new tops survive modulo the row sums

26 September 2026 · Working lemma with a finite check · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-four-row-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “First-degree purity, and relative row freeness inside the base's range: on four rows and 7 columns, where the base is row-free through degree 4, every normal-form family of density at least one half is row-free through degree 4. Below density one half and for unreduced row sums it fails, and the first failure is explained exactly: row freeness through the first new degree holds iff the new tops survive modulo the row sums”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-first-degree-purity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1. The relative row freeness entry conjectured that W_RS allowed sets of density at least one half, with forms in normal form modulo the row sums, are row-free wherever the base is. Its test reached only degree 3, which is automatic for random families. Does the conjecture hold at a degree inside the base's free range where the allowed set differs from the base? And what decides the first failure?

General statement. conj:relative-row-freeness, tested here, and lem:first-degree-purity, proved here.

First-degree purity

lem:first-degree-purity. Setting of lem:defect-gluing over \(\mathbb F_3\): \(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P\), \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_i^3)\) acting by the row sums, \(\mathfrak m=(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1})\), and \(A=G/\mathfrak mG\). For \(Q\subseteq P\) let \(n=n_Q\) be the top ideal of \(I(Q)\) in \(G\), so that \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q=G/n\). Grade \(\operatorname{Tor}\) by internal degree, with the generators \(e_i\) in degree 1. Suppose \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,G)_d=0\) for \(d\le D\).

For \(d\le D\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,G/n)_d\cong(n\cap\mathfrak mG)_d/(\mathfrak mn)_d\).
Let \(e\le D\) be the least degree with \(n_e\ne0\). Then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_d=0\) for \(d<e\), and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_e\cong\ker(n_e\to A_e)\). So \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is row-free through \(e\) iff the new tops in degree \(e\) stay linearly independent modulo the row sums.

Proof. \(0\to n\to G\to G/n\to0\) is an exact sequence of graded \(\Lambda\)-modules, since \(n\) is an ideal of \(G\), hence a \(\Lambda\)-submodule. The long exact sequence of \(\operatorname{Tor}^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,-)\) preserves internal degree:

\[\operatorname{Tor}_1(G)_d\to\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_d\to(n/\mathfrak mn)_d\to(G/\mathfrak mG)_d.\]

The first term vanishes for \(d\le D\), and the last map is induced by inclusion. So \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_d\) is the kernel, \((n\cap\mathfrak mG)_d/(\mathfrak mn)_d\), which proves 1. For 2: \((\mathfrak mn)_d\) is spanned by \(r_in_{d-1}\), so it vanishes for \(d\le e\). Also \(n_d=0\) for \(d<e\). \(\square\)

Part 1 is the standard purity reformulation behind lem:defect-gluing. Part 2 is the usable form: the first new degree needs only a rank computation in \(A\), the weak top algebra modulo row sums, which the record studies directly (conj:maximal-generic-freeness, the product-top checks). It explains the row-sum lever exactly. If \(Q\) avoids \(\{r_1=c\}\), then \((r_1-c)^2-1\) vanishes on \(Q\), its top \(r_1^2\) is new in degree 2, and it lies in \(\mathfrak mG\). Here \(r_1^2\ne0\) in \(G_2\) whenever \(G\) is row-free through degree 2: then \(G\) agrees with a free \(\Lambda\)-module through degree 2, and \(1\notin\mathfrak mG\) is a minimal generator, so \(r_1^2\cdot1\ne0\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_2\ne0\), which is thm:global-closure-gluing's example. Normal form removes such tops, and a normal-form \(\ell\) with \(\ell^2\ne0\) in \(A_2\) gives a new top that survives.

The four-row test

row_freeness_m.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_four_row_freeness_20260926/) generalizes the Tor kernel to \(m-1\) acting row sums. For each boundary it uses the Koszul pairs \(r_jc\,e_i-r_ic\,e_j\) and the Frobenius terms \(r_i^2c\,e_i\). It reproduces the three-row kernel's outputs on 3 × 5 and 3 × 7 (checks_and_base_4x6.txt), and adds the reduction to normal form (suffix +nf): \(L\mapsto L-\sum_ra_{r,1}(r_r-1)\). On 3 × 7, reduction removes the row-sum excess: the rowform family with \(M=3\) has \(\operatorname{Tor}_1=6\) in degree 4 unreduced and 3, the base's value, reduced (nf_check_3x7.txt).

The 4 × 6 base has its top nonzero degree at 4 and is not row-free there (\(\operatorname{Tor}_1=107\)), so it cannot test degree 4. The 4 × 7 base (25,372 points) is row-free through degree 4 (sizing_base_4x7.txt). On it, 12 families with \(M\le3\) were computed through degree 4, all below their own fill point (series.txt):

Density at least one half, normal form: row-free through degree 4 in 4 of 4, as the base. The runs are a random family with \(h=5\), \(t=2\), density 0.66; two points2 pairs at densities 0.56 and 0.50; and a shared2 pair at 0.76. The points2 pairs have a new top in degree 3 (Hilbert function 1904 against the base's 1905), so for them degree 4 is a real test.
Density below one half, normal form: all 6 fail in degree 4 (\(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) from 1 to 2009), with the lower degrees free. Four of them have Hilbert function 305 against 308 in degree 2: three new tops \(\ell_j^2\), the flats \(\{L_j=0\}\) of a member whose prefix vanishes on all its forms. They survive modulo the row sums (degree 2 is free, as part 2 predicts), but the sets are too thin. The other two are a random family with no new top below degree 4, and the reduced row-sum family at density 0.44, with \(\operatorname{Tor}_1=1\).
Unreduced row sums: both fail already in degree 2 (\(\operatorname{Tor}_1=0,1,24\) in degrees 1 to 3), the new top \(r_1^2\) of part 2.

So the conjecture holds in all 4 runs inside its hypotheses. Both hypotheses are needed: density (6 failures below one half, all in normal form) and normal form (the row-sum failures). For W_RS, the thin sets come from prefix columns that vanish, which lem:shared-piece-rarity makes rare, and the expected excluded density is below \(1/(3n)\). The evidence is still small: 4 in-hypothesis runs, at \(t\le2\), one board.

Next. The launcher now refuses further case runs in this cycle's session, rightly. Use part 2 to attack the conjecture in its first new degree. For a W_RS family, the first new tops are the clause tops \(\pm\ell_i^2\Phi\) and the members' own first falls. Part 2 says row freeness there is their independence in \(A\), the weak top algebra modulo row sums. That is a statement of the recorded product-top type (conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra, generic directness), which may be provable for normal-form forms with random prefixes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:defect-gluing and thm:global-closure-gluing (its row-sum example), and the previous entry's kernel and data. The general kernel reproduces the three-row outputs. Hilbert functions and Tor values are read from the saved outputs. The zero-prefix reading of the 305 cases is inferred from the Hilbert function, three new degree-2 tops in a family with \(h=3\), and was not verified by a separate flag: that run was refused by the launcher's case limit. A source change made for it was reverted, and the kernel's hash matches its manifest. A fresh-context reviewer checked the lemma and every quoted number against the outputs. It required, adopted: the 4 × 6 base described by its failure of row freeness in degree 4, not by filling; and the argument that \(r_1^2\ne0\) in \(G_2\) in the row-sum example.

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Pullback row freeness: an allowed set pulled back from the values of some forms is row-free wherever the base is jointly free over the forms and the row sums, provided the basis lifts stay independent on every fiber of the value map. For single members this recovers the record's capacity range. For a W_RS family it is the fiber condition that fails, so relative row freeness needs an argument that does not localize to fibers

26 September 2026 · Working lemma, proof attempt · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-top-independence. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pullback row freeness: an allowed set pulled back from the values of some forms is row-free wherever the base is jointly free over the forms and the row sums, provided the basis lifts stay independent on every fiber of the value map. For single members this recovers the record's capacity range. For a W_RS family it is the fiber condition that fails, so relative row freeness needs an argument that does not localize to fibers”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-pullback-row-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1. First-degree purity reduced relative row freeness (conj:relative-row-freeness) in its first new degree to the independence of the new tops modulo the row sums. The natural first attempt at a proof is to show that the allowed set's top ideal is generated by the pulled-back value ideal. Its quotient then inherits freeness from the base. When does that work, and where does it stop?

General statement. lem:pullback-row-freeness: for any affine forms and any \(V\subseteq\mathbb F_3^d\), joint freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}F^P\) over the forms and the row sums through \(D\), with fiber independence, makes the pulled-back allowed set \(v^{-1}(V)\) row-free through \(D\), the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing.

The lemma

Setting. Over \(\mathbb F_3\):

\(P\) is the weak base, \(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P\), and \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_i^3)\) acts by the row sums.
\(L_1,\dots,L_d\) are affine forms with linear parts \(\ell_j\in G_1\), and \(v=(L_1,\dots,L_d):P\to\mathbb F_3^d\) is their value map.
\(T=\mathbb F_3[w_1,\dots,w_d]/(w_j^3)\) acts on \(G\) by \(w_j\mapsto\ell_j\). This is well defined: \(L_j^3=L_j\) as functions, so \(\ell_j^3=0\) in \(G_3\).
For \(V\subseteq\mathbb F_3^d\), \(Q=v^{-1}(V)\), and \(n_V\subseteq T\) is the top ideal of the vanishing ideal of \(V\) in the functions on \(\mathbb F_3^d\).

Hypotheses.

Joint freeness (JF). Through degree \(D\), \(G\cong T\otimes\Lambda\otimes B\) as graded \(T\otimes\Lambda\)-modules, for some graded vector space \(B\). Here \(T\otimes\Lambda\) acts on the first two factors only, and \(B\) carries no action.
Fiber independence (FI). Let \(\{c_\beta\}\) be a homogeneous basis of \(\Lambda\otimes B\), viewed in \(G\), and choose functions \(\tilde c_\beta\) on \(P\) of degree \(\deg c_\beta\) with top \(c_\beta\). For every \(y\in V\) and \(d\le D\), the restrictions of \(\{\tilde c_\beta:\deg c_\beta\le d\}\) to the fiber \(P_y=v^{-1}(y)\) are linearly independent. FI forces every fiber \(P_y\), \(y\in V\), to be nonempty.

Conclusion. Through degree \(D\), the top ideal of \(I(Q)\) is \(n_V\otimes\Lambda\otimes B\), and \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\cong(T/n_V)\otimes\Lambda\otimes B\). In particular \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is free over \(\Lambda\), that is, row-free through \(D\).

Proof. By JF the elements \(w^\alpha c_\beta\) (each \(\alpha_j\in\{0,1,2\}\)) form a homogeneous basis of \(G\) in degrees \(\le D\). Hence the functions \(L^\alpha\tilde c_\beta\) with \(\deg\alpha+\deg c_\beta\le d\) form a basis of the functions of degree \(\le d\) on \(P\), for \(d\le D\): a filtered space whose associated graded has a given basis has the lifts of that basis as a basis compatible with the filtration.

Let \(f\) have degree \(\le d\le D\) and vanish on \(Q\). Write \(f=\sum_\beta\varphi_\beta(L)\,\tilde c_\beta\), with \(\varphi_\beta\) a reduced polynomial on \(\mathbb F_3^d\) of degree \(\le d-\deg c_\beta\). For \(y\in V\), restricting to \(P_y\) gives \(\sum_\beta\varphi_\beta(y)\,\tilde c_\beta|_{P_y}=0\). By FI every \(\varphi_\beta(y)=0\), so each \(\varphi_\beta\) vanishes on \(V\).

The degree-\(d\) part of \(f\) in \(G\) is \(\sum_\beta[\varphi_\beta]_{d-\deg c_\beta}(\ell)\,c_\beta\). Here \([\varphi]_k\) means the top of \(\varphi\) if \(\varphi\) has degree exactly \(k\), and 0 otherwise. A nonzero \([\varphi_\beta]\) is the top of an element of \(I(V)\), so it lies in \(n_V\). By JF, \(T\to G\) is injective through \(D\), being the restriction of the isomorphism to \(T\otimes1\otimes1\), so this top is the image of \(\sum_\beta[\varphi_\beta]\otimes c_\beta\in n_V\otimes\Lambda\otimes B\). Hence the top ideal of \(I(Q)\) is contained in \(n_V\otimes\Lambda\otimes B\) through \(D\).

Conversely, every \(\varphi(L)\,\tilde c_\beta\) with \(\varphi\in I(V)\) vanishes on \(Q\), and its top is \([\varphi]_{\rm top}\otimes c_\beta\), so the two ideals agree. The quotient \((T/n_V)\otimes\Lambda\otimes B\) is a free \(\Lambda\)-module, since the \(\Lambda\)-action is on the middle factor. \(\square\)

What it gives, and where it stops

Nothing is needed of \(V\). The lemma holds for any \(V\), with no density or normal-form condition. The row-sum example of thm:global-closure-gluing is excluded by JF itself. If some \(\ell_j\) lies in the span of the row sums, then \(w_j\) minus a combination of the \(r_i\) is a nonzero element of \((T\otimes\Lambda)_1\) acting as zero on \(1\in G_0\), so \(T\otimes\Lambda\) cannot act freely.
Normal form and density enter through JF and FI. JF asks that the forms' linear parts stay independent of the row sums and free, which is the capacity condition of the record: cor:ens-members and prop:one-count-by-freeness assume freeness over the forms' span, and thm:generic-span-members supplies it for spans of dimension \(d\) with \(N\ge2(D+1)(D+1+d)\). FI asks the fibers \(P_y\), weak bases cut by \(d\) affine equations, to separate the complement's functions of degree \(\le D\). For \(d\) far below \(N\) the fibers are large sub-bases, and FI is a stability statement of the recorded kind.
A W_RS family beyond capacity. The joint value map of all \(n^K\) members has \(d\) of order \(n^K h\), far beyond \(\dim G_1\approx n^2\). JF fails, and the fibers \(P_y\) are tiny or empty, so FI fails. Applied member by member, the lemma gives each member's own \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_b}\) row-free through \(D\), under JF and FI for its \(h\) forms. The intersection then needs condition (i) of lem:defect-gluing and the absence of defect: the local-to-global step that the fall line addressed only for the defect.

So the proof of conj:relative-row-freeness cannot go through fibers of the family's value map. It needs a statement that sees the family only through its members, each of which the lemma controls, together with a transversality of the members modulo the row sums. In the language of first-degree purity, that transversality in the first new degree is the independence in \(A=G/\mathfrak mG\) of the members' pulled-back first tops \((n_{V_b})_e\otimes1\). For Zariski-generic forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) this is of the kind thm:generic-top-directness proves. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), with forms chosen by an adversary, it is open.

Next. State and attack the transversality directly for two members: when are \((n_{V_1})_e\otimes1\) and \((n_{V_2})_e\otimes1\) independent in \(A_e\)? Use lem:first-degree-purity's criterion, with the members in the lemma's range. The shared-piece mechanism suggests that independence can fail only when the two members' first tops share a factor from common forms. The flat-difference lemma is the extreme case, with identical tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:defect-gluing, lem:first-degree-purity, thm:global-closure-gluing's row-sum example, cor:ens-members, prop:one-count-by-freeness, thm:generic-span-members, lem:span-transfer (for contrast: it transfers syzygies for relative gluing, while this lemma identifies the top ideal) and thm:generic-top-directness. No computation this cycle; the launcher's case limit and the finisher's finite-check limit both asked for a proof. A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error, confirmed the quoted range of thm:generic-span-members and found no prior statement. It required clarifications, all adopted: the meaning of \([\varphi]_k\); the reason \(T\to G\) is injective; that \(B\) carries no action; and that FI forces nonempty fibers. It also suggested two small justifications, both adopted: \(\ell_j^3=0\), and why a linear part in the row sums' span breaks JF.

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Sub-family row freeness: every sub-family of randomized-prefix members whose forms together are jointly free with the row sums, with fiber independence, has a row-free allowed set, whatever its dependencies, shared pieces, falls or density. Early falls therefore cannot break row freeness inside capacity. Relative row freeness is a statement about families beyond capacity only, and the recorded local-to-global obstructions are all thin

26 September 2026 · Working corollary, proof attempt on transversality · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-member-transversality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sub-family row freeness: every sub-family of randomized-prefix members whose forms together are jointly free with the row sums, with fiber independence, has a row-free allowed set, whatever its dependencies, shared pieces, falls or density. Early falls therefore cannot break row freeness inside capacity. Relative row freeness is a statement about families beyond capacity only, and the recorded local-to-global obstructions are all thin”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-subfamily-row-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1. Pullback row freeness left member transversality modulo the row sums as the step between single members and a W_RS family (conj:relative-row-freeness). What do the pullback lemma and the record already settle about transversality, and what is left?

General statement. cor:subfamily-row-freeness. Take any randomized-prefix members \(b\in S\) with forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b}\), and let \(d_S\) be the dimension of the span of all their linear parts. If \(\operatorname{gr}F^P\) is jointly free through \(D\) over the truncated algebra of that span together with the row sums, and fiber independence holds for the joint value map at every point of \(\bigcap_bV_b\), then \(\bigcap_{b\in S}P_b\) is row-free through \(D\). By thm:generic-span-members the freeness is available when \(N\ge2(D+1)(D+1+d_S)\) and a basis of the span has the seeded single-row projection.

The corollary

Proof. Choose linear forms \(L_1,\dots,L_d\), \(d=d_S\), forming a basis of the span of all members' linear parts, and let \(v\) be their value map. Every member's form is \(\sum_ja_jL_j+c\), an affine function of \(v\). Its allowed set is \(\{x:\text{all its clauses vanish}\}\), and the clauses are functions of its forms. So \(P_b=v^{-1}(V_b)\) for some \(V_b\subseteq\mathbb F_3^d\), and \(\bigcap_bP_b=v^{-1}(\bigcap_bV_b)\). lem:pullback-row-freeness, applied with \(V=\bigcap_bV_b\), gives row freeness through \(D\). \(\square\)

What it settles

Falls and shared pieces do not matter inside capacity. The lemma needs nothing of \(V\). So a sub-family with cross-member falls (member-pair falls, flat difference, shared pieces) is row-free through \(D\) once its forms are within capacity and fiber-independent. That explains the fall-line review's observation, where a pair with an early fall stayed row-free, without any fall analysis.
Density does not matter inside capacity either. The four-row failures below density one half had \(h\le3\) forms per member on 7 columns. Joint freeness through degree 4 over even 3 forms and 3 row sums needs \(N\ge80\) by the range above, so those runs were far outside the recorded sufficient range for joint freeness. The corollary predicts that a thin sub-family inside capacity with fiber independence is row-free. So conj:relative-row-freeness's density hypothesis concerns only families beyond capacity, where it replaces the missing joint freeness.
The recorded local-to-global obstructions are thin. prop:covering-obstruction has allowed set a single point \(\{0\}\) of the value space \(\mathbb F_3^s\), a fraction \(3^{-s}\) of it. prop:pairing-obstruction's \(s+1\) selectors each forbid a hyperplane value, and the allowed set is at most \((2/3)^s\le4/9\) of the value space for \(s\ge2\). Both are refutations of degreewise locality (falls), not of row freeness. Both are excluded by a density hypothesis whenever the forms' values are nearly equidistributed on \(P\). That equidistribution is not proved here, so this is a remark, not a lemma.

What is left, and the smoothed bridge

A W_RS family is beyond capacity: its joint span has dimension of order \(n^K\), against \(N=n\). By the corollary, every sub-family within that range is row-free, given fiber independence, which is not proved here. The conjecture asks the whole to be. That is a local-to-global statement for row freeness, where the record's local-to-global obstructions concern falls and are thin.

The fall-line review's smoothed-analysis bridge suggests the shape of a proof. The adversary fixes the forms; the random prefixes choose, member by member, which value sets \(V_b\) are removed. A smoothed statement would say that for any forms, random \(V_b\) of this kind make the family's non-row-free part, \(\ker(n\otimes\mathbb F_3\to G\otimes\mathbb F_3)\) by lem:first-degree-purity, vanish with high probability. The mechanism would be the one of lem:shared-piece-rarity: a dependency needs a coincidence among the random prefixes, whose probability is a power of \(3^{-t}\). What is missing is the analogue of the shared piece for row freeness: which configurations of prefixes can put a new top of the family into \(\mathfrak mG\)?

Next. Characterize the first new tops of one randomized-prefix member exactly, as a function of its prefix. The functions on \(\mathbb F_3^h\) supported on the excluded set decompose over the kernel patterns \(\pi\in\ker C\cap\{0,1\}^h\) as \(\bigoplus_\pi\bigotimes_{i\in\pi}\langle1-y_i^2\rangle\otimes\bigotimes_{i\notin\pi}\langle y_i,y_i^2\rangle\). Their tops are the monomials \(\prod_{i\in\pi}y_i^2\prod_{i\notin\pi}y_i^{a_i}\), with cancellations only among patterns inside a common set of squared coordinates. Then ask which prefix coincidences across members can make these tops dependent modulo the row sums.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pullback-row-freeness (its hypotheses JF and FI, and that it needs nothing of \(V\)), thm:generic-span-members (its range and seed hypothesis), prop:covering-obstruction and prop:pairing-obstruction (their allowed sets), and the four-row entry's parameters. The corollary is a one-step application of the lemma. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the pullback argument, the capacity figure and the obstruction densities. It required one change, adopted: the fiber-independence qualifier restored where the density remark had dropped it. The capacity figure \(N\ge80\) is the lemma's quoted range at \(D=4\), \(d=3\), a sufficient condition only; the four-row failures are therefore not claimed to be forced by capacity.

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Boolean top reduction: a randomized-prefix member's top ideal in value space is a direct sum over exponent-one sets \(O\), of \(y^O\) times the doubled top space of Boolean functions supported on the kernel patterns. Its first new degree lies between \(2t\log_23\approx3.17t\) (DeMillo–Lipton) and the clause degree \(4t+2\). Going lower needs more kernel patterns than a uniform prefix gives

26 September 2026 · Working lemma · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-member-first-tops. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Boolean top reduction: a randomized-prefix member's top ideal in value space is a direct sum over exponent-one sets \(O\), of \(y^O\) times the doubled top space of Boolean functions supported on the kernel patterns. Its first new degree lies between \(2t\log_23\approx3.17t\) (DeMillo–Lipton) and the clause degree \(4t+2\). Going lower needs more kernel patterns than a uniform prefix gives”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 26 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-26-boolean-top-reduction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1. First-degree purity and sub-family row freeness reduced relative row freeness to transversality of members' new tops modulo the row sums. To study which prefix coincidences break it, the tops of one member must be known exactly. What is a randomized-prefix member's top ideal, as a function of its prefix?

General statement. lem:boolean-top-reduction, for every \(h\), \(t\) and prefix \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\).

The lemma

Setting.

\(R_h=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_h]/(y_i^3-y_i)\) is the ring of functions on \(\mathbb F_3^h\) (the member's form values), filtered by degree, with \(\operatorname{gr}R_h=\mathbb F_3[y]/(y_i^3)\).
\(g_i=1-y_i^2=[y_i=0]\). The member's excluded set is \(E_C=\{y:g(y)\ne0,\ Cg(y)=0\}\). Its allowed set \(V_C\) is the complement, and its top ideal is \(n_C=\operatorname{gr}I(V_C)\).
\(K=\{\pi\in\{0,1\}^h\setminus\{0\}:C\pi=0\}\), the kernel patterns; a point \(y\) lies in \(E_C\) iff its zero set \(\pi(y)\) lies in \(K\).
For \(O\subseteq[h]\), with \(R=[h]\setminus O\), put \(A_O=\{z\in\{0,1\}^R:\{i\in R:z_i=0\}\in K\}\). Let \(\tau(A_O)\) be the graded top space of the Boolean functions over \(\mathbb F_3\) on \(\{0,1\}^R\) supported on \(A_O\), in multilinear degree.

Statement. As graded spaces,

\[n_C=\bigoplus_{O\subseteq[h]}y^O\cdot\tau(A_O)(y_R^2),\]

where \(y^O=\prod_{i\in O}y_i\) and \(\tau(A_O)(y_R^2)\) substitutes \(z_i=y_i^2\). The summand for \(O\) and Boolean degree \(k\) sits in degree \(|O|+2k\). In particular:

The first new degree of the member is \(e_C=\min_O\bigl(|O|+2\,\mathrm{mindeg}(A_O)\bigr)\), where \(\mathrm{mindeg}(A)\) is the least degree of a nonzero Boolean function supported on \(A\), with \(\mathrm{mindeg}(\emptyset)=\infty\).
(DeMillo–Lipton) \(e_C\ge\min_O\bigl(|O|+2(|R|-\log_2|A_O|)\bigr)\).
\(e_C\le4t+2\) whenever some clause is nonzero: the clause \(g_iQ^C\) lies in the summand \(O=\emptyset\) with Boolean degree at most \(2t+1\).

Proof. The monomials \(y^\mu\), \(\mu\in\{0,1,2\}^h\), form a basis of \(R_h\). Writing \(O=\{i:\mu_i=1\}\) and \(z_i=y_i^2\) on the rest gives \(R_h=\bigoplus_Oy^O\cdot M_O\), where \(M_O\) is the multilinear polynomials in \(z_R\). An element \(y^O\varphi(z_R)\) with \(\varphi\) of multilinear degree \(k\) has degree \(|O|+2k\). Its top is \(y^O\) times the top of \(\varphi\) at \(z=y^2\). Different \(O\) give disjoint sets of monomials, so the degree of a sum is the maximum over its \(O\)-components, and the tops add componentwise.

Support: let \(f=\sum_Oy^O\varphi_O(z_R)\), and fix a zero set \(\pi\). On the cell \(\{y:\pi(y)=\pi\}\), \(y^O=0\) unless \(O\cap\pi=\emptyset\). For \(O\subseteq[h]\setminus\pi\) the functions \(\prod_{i\in O}y_i\) are the distinct characters of \((\mathbb F_3^\times)^{[h]\setminus\pi}\cong(\mathbb Z/2)^{[h]\setminus\pi}\), hence linearly independent there. On the cell, \(z_R\) is the constant point with zeros exactly at \(\pi\), since \(\pi\subseteq R\). So \(f\) vanishes on the cell iff \(\varphi_O\) vanishes at that point for every \(O\) disjoint from \(\pi\). Hence \(f\) vanishes off \(E_C\) iff every \(\varphi_O\) vanishes at the points of \(\{0,1\}^R\) whose zero set is not in \(K\), that is, iff \(\varphi_O\) is supported on \(A_O\). So \(I(V_C)=\bigoplus_Oy^O\cdot\{\varphi\text{ supported on }A_O\}\) as filtered spaces, and taking tops componentwise gives the statement.

Item 1 follows. Item 2 is the DeMillo–Lipton bound on the Boolean cube over any field: a nonzero multilinear polynomial of degree \(k\) on \(\{0,1\}^R\) is nonzero at no fewer than \(2^{|R|-k}\) points, so its support fits in \(A_O\) only if \(2^{|R|-k}\le|A_O|\). For item 3: the pattern of \(z\) is \(\pi=1-z\), and \(g_i=1-y_i^2=1-z_i\). So the clause \(g_iQ^C=g_i\prod_j(1-(c_j\cdot g)^2)\) is \(\varphi(y^2)\) for the Boolean function \(\varphi(z)=(1-z_i)\,[C(1-z)=0]\), of multilinear degree at most \(2t+1\). It is supported on the \(z\) whose pattern lies in \(\ker C\) and has \(\pi_i=1\), a subset of \(A_\emptyset\). So a nonzero clause gives a nonzero element of the \(O=\emptyset\) summand of degree at most \(2(2t+1)\). \(\square\)

What it gives

Size of the first new degree. For uniform \(C\), the expected number of kernel patterns inside \(R\) is \((2^{|R|}-1)3^{-t}\), so \(|A_O|\approx2^{|R|}3^{-t}\) with high probability when \(2^{|R|}\gg3^t\). For those \(O\), item 2 gives at least \(2t\log_23-o(t)\approx3.17t\). For \(O\) with \(2^{|R|}\) not much larger than \(3^t\), this estimate is not licensed. Those \(O\) have \(|O|\ge h-O(t)\), so their term \(|O|+2\,\mathrm{mindeg}(A_O)\) is at least about \(h-O(t)\), which exceeds \(3.17t\) once \(h\) is a large multiple of \(t\). Sets \(A_O\) that are empty contribute nothing. So a member's first new tops lie between about \(3.17t\) and \(4t+2\), far below W_RS's \(D\approx44t\). The members' own falls are the part of \(n_C\) below the clause degree.
What lowers it. By item 2, a first new degree below \(|O|+2k\) needs \(|A_O|\ge2^{|R|-k}\): more kernel patterns among the subsets of \(R\) than a uniform prefix gives. One way is a pattern subcube in \(K\), which exists exactly when the columns of \(C\) outside a set \(S\) vanish and \(C_S\sigma=0\) for some pattern \(\sigma\) on \(S\). That is the zero-column event of lem:shared-piece-rarity, now without any partner, of probability at most \(h3^{-t}\). Whether other prefix degeneracies can enlarge \(A_O\) enough is not settled here.
The tops themselves. In the \(O\) component, the tops are \(\prod_{i\in O}y_i\) times polynomials in the \(y_i^2\), \(i\notin O\). Pulled back to the board, they are \(\prod_{i\in O}\ell_i\) times the Boolean top of \(A_O\) evaluated at the \(\ell_i^2\). Transversality modulo the row sums across members is therefore a statement about such products of the members' linear forms, with the Boolean factor chosen by the random prefix.

Next. Transversality needs the tops' dependence across members modulo \(\mathfrak m\). A route review is due after one more research entry. That entry should test the natural statement: tops from members without zero-column events are independent in \(A=G/\mathfrak mG\) below the fill point. The review should then weigh the global-closure route against A1's adversary, with leads aimed at independence of products of linear forms modulo the row sums.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:single-block-falls (the value ring and the clauses), lem:shared-piece-rarity, lem:first-degree-purity and cor:subfamily-row-freeness. The lemma is exact and self-contained; its only imported fact is the DeMillo–Lipton bound on the Boolean cube. A fresh-context reviewer verified the decomposition, the support argument, the DeMillo–Lipton step and the clause computation. It required, all adopted: the claim that low first degree needs a zero-column event downgraded to one sufficient mechanism, left open (a correction also made independently before the report); the estimate restricted to the \(O\) where it is licensed; the unexplained hypothesis \(h\ge2t+1\) replaced by the condition \(2^{|R|}\gg3^t\); and \(\mathrm{mindeg}(\emptyset)=\infty\).

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Truncated row sums: a row sum minus one cell is in normal form, yet the products of such forms lie in the row-sum ideal. So normal form with respect to one column does not remove the row-sum lever, and relative row freeness should assume forms dense modulo the row sums. On 3 × 7 such members add \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree 4, outside the base's range; the decisive 4 × 7 test was stopped by system memory pressure

27 September 2026 · Working lemma; conjecture hypothesis questioned · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-top-transversality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Truncated row sums: a row sum minus one cell is in normal form, yet the products of such forms lie in the row-sum ideal. So normal form with respect to one column does not remove the row-sum lever, and relative row freeness should assume forms dense modulo the row sums. On 3 × 7 such members add \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree 4, outside the base's range; the decisive 4 × 7 test was stopped by system memory pressure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-truncated-row-sums.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1. conj:relative-row-freeness assumes forms in normal form modulo the row sums: no term in the column-0 cells. Boolean top reduction shows a member's new tops are products of its linear forms. Can an adversary choose normal-form forms whose products fall into the row-sum ideal \(\mathfrak mG\), so that new tops break first-degree purity?

General statement. lem:truncated-row-sums: for every number of rows and columns and every column \(c\), the truncated row sums \(\rho_i=r_i-x_{ic}\) satisfy \(\rho_i\rho_k\in\mathfrak mG\) for all rows \(i,k\). So any new top divisible by such a product breaks first-degree purity, whatever the form's normal form.

The lemma

lem:truncated-row-sums. On the weak base over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P\) and \(\mathfrak m\) the ideal generated by the row sums, fix a column \(c\) and put \(\rho_i=r_i-x_{ic}\), the row sum of row \(i\) without its cell in column \(c\). Then \(\rho_i\rho_k\in\mathfrak mG\) for all rows \(i,k\), including \(i=k\).

Proof. In \(G\), \(x_{ic}^2=0\) (Booleanity) and \(x_{ic}x_{kc}=0\) for \(i\ne k\) (column collision). Expanding,

\[r_i\rho_k+r_k\rho_i-r_ir_k=x_{ic}\rho_k+\rho_i\rho_k+x_{kc}\rho_i+\rho_k\rho_i-x_{ic}x_{kc}-x_{ic}\rho_k-\rho_ix_{kc}-\rho_i\rho_k=\rho_i\rho_k-x_{ic}x_{kc}=\rho_i\rho_k.\]

For \(i=k\) the same line reads \(2r_i\rho_i-r_i^2=\rho_i^2-x_{ic}^2=\rho_i^2\). Every \(r_i\) lies in \(\mathfrak m\): the acting sums \(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}\) by definition, and \(r_0=-\sum_{i\ge1}r_i\) in \(G\), since the occupancy relation gives \(\sum_ir_i=0\) there. \(\square\)

What it means for the conjecture

Normal form is not invariant. Here column \(c=0\) is the first column, whose cells the conjecture writes \(x_{i,1}\). So \(\rho_i\) for \(c=0\) is in the conjecture's normal form. Yet it is one cell away from a row sum, and reducing instead with respect to another column \(c'\) turns it into \(1-x_{i0}\), a single cell: \(\rho_i-(r_i-1)=1-x_{i0}\). The honest hypothesis is an invariant one: the linear parts should be dense modulo the span of the row sums, every representative having many cells. Forms sparse modulo the row sums are the record's cell and sparse families, which it handles by other means (the cell and sparse theorems, reducing to expander graph PHP).
The lever. Any new top divisible by some \(\rho_i\rho_k\) lies in \(\mathfrak mG\). In the first new degree \(e\), \(\mathfrak mn_{e-1}=0\), so by lem:first-degree-purity such a top makes \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_e\ne0\). A member whose forms lie in \(\operatorname{span}\{\rho_1,\rho_2\}\) (plus constants), with an allowed value set \(V\subseteq\mathbb F_3^2\) of 4 or 5 points, has a quadratic in the values vanishing on \(V\), and no linear one, since lines have 3 points. At 5 points it removes about 4/9 of the base. Its pulled-back top lies in \(\mathfrak mG\) by the lemma. So the member breaks row freeness in degree 2 if that top is nonzero in \(G_2\), which needs \(\mathbb F_3[\rho_1,\rho_2]/(\rho_i^3)\to G\) injective in degree 2 on the relevant quadratic. That injectivity is not proved here, and joint freeness in the sense of lem:pullback-row-freeness cannot supply it, since the lemma shows \(\rho\)-forms violate joint freeness with the row sums. This is a low-span member, which random prefixes leave vacuous with high probability: its value space has at most 9 points, each excluded with probability \(3^{-t}\); that is an asymptotic remark, not about the small \(t\) computed below. With dense private forms beside a \(\rho\)-form, the Boolean top reduction shows tops divisible by \(z_\rho=\rho^2\), namely those from patterns vanishing at the \(\rho\)-form. Whether they occur in the first new degree, or later where \(\mathfrak mn\) may absorb them, is exactly the open question.

The computation

truncated_row_sum.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_truncated_row_sum_20260927/) adds a mode to the Tor kernel in which every member's form 0 is \(\rho\) of row 0, plus a constant, already in normal form. On 3 × 7 (series_3x7.txt), in degrees up to 4:

8 families (one or two members) with density at least one half and \(t=1\): row-free through degree 3, with \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree 4 of 4 in five runs and 3 in three. The base has 3, and normal-form random families on the same board had 3 (the relative-row-freeness entry).
Three members with \(t=2\), \(h=5\): 3 in degree 4, equal to the base.
One thin member (density 0.31): \(\operatorname{Tor}_1=0,1,17,323\), failing already in degree 2.

The degree-4 excess lies outside the 3 × 7 base's own free range (through degree 3), so it is a signal, not a counterexample. The decisive test, the same members on 4 × 7 where the base is row-free through degree 4 (jobs_4x7.txt), was started and then stopped by the harness because the whole system was low on memory. It is not restarted without the user; the request is in the git-ignored requests file.

Next. A route review is now due; it should weigh the global-closure route with this lemma. The conjecture should be restated with forms dense modulo the row sums, and the pending 4 × 7 test decides whether that restriction is necessary at \(t\le2\). The review's leads should target the question left open above: do \(\rho\)-divisible tops appear in a member's first new degree under random prefixes?

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:relative-row-freeness (its normal form), lem:first-degree-purity, lem:boolean-top-reduction and thm:global-closure-gluing's row-sum example. The lemma is a two-line identity in \(G\). A fresh-context reviewer re-derived both identities, the occupancy step and the reduction to \(1-x_{i0}\), and checked the counts against the output. It required, adopted: the degree-2 conclusion stated as conditional on the quadratic top being nonzero in \(G_2\), with the vacuous line condition dropped; and the column indexing aligned with the conjecture's. The 3 × 7 values are read from the saved output, with the base line as control. No new conjecture is registered: the dense-modulo-rows restatement is proposed for the review, pending the 4 × 7 test.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 19.39 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 53.64 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 1.79 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 30.67 s
Individually measured computation	53.15 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Route review of the global-closure route: the goal reduces, through one proved composition, to row freeness of W_RS allowed sets. Inside joint capacity that is proved (given fiber independence) and tolerates falls, shared pieces and thinness. Beyond capacity it is a local-to-global statement with no mechanism, and truncated row sums force its hypothesis to be density modulo the row sums

27 September 2026 · Route review with a restated conjecture · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-fall-closure-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the global-closure route: the goal reduces, through one proved composition, to row freeness of W_RS allowed sets. Inside joint capacity that is proved (given fiber independence) and tolerates falls, shared pieces and thinness. Beyond capacity it is a local-to-global statement with no mechanism, and truncated row sums force its hypothesis to be density modulo the row sums”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-closure-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the fall-line review moved the line from falls to row freeness, six research entries followed:

relative row freeness;
first-degree purity;
pullback row freeness;
sub-family row freeness;
Boolean top reduction;
truncated row sums.

Where does the route stand, and what should its conjecture say?

General statement. The line's claim is conj:relative-row-freeness, restated here as conj:dense-relative-row-freeness, with forms dense modulo the row sums in place of normal form. With thm:global-closure-gluing and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction it gives the goal, by the composition checked in the relative-row-freeness entry.

What the goal needs

For every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks and independent random prefixes, \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) must be row-free through \(D\approx44t\) with high probability, where \(Q\) is the allowed set, of density at least \(1-1/(3n)\) in expectation. Families that are sparse modulo the row sums must be handled separately. The record's cell, sparse and frozen-cell theorems and the selector hybrid cover such blocks under W or W_RS, but combining them with a dense remainder in one family is not recorded.

What is proved and what is open

Proved.
- First-degree purity: the first new degree is decided by independence modulo the row sums.
- Pullback row freeness, and its corollary: any sub-family within joint capacity with fiber independence is row-free, whatever its falls, shared pieces or density.
- The exact top ideal of one member: the Boolean top reduction, first new degree between about \(3.17t\) and \(4t+2\).
- Truncated row sums: normal form with respect to one column misses \(\rho_i\rho_k\in\mathfrak mG\).
Open.
- Row freeness beyond joint capacity, where the family's value map has no useful fibers.
- Fiber independence, even inside capacity.
- Combining sparse-modulo-rows blocks with dense ones.

Falsification attempt

Three attempts on the conjecture's class were made:

Falls and shared pieces. Refuted as obstructions inside capacity by the corollary, and harmless in every computed case beyond it.
Thin sets. All the recorded local-to-global obstructions (covering, pairing) and the four-row failures are thin, and the density hypothesis excludes them.
Row-sum forms. Pure row sums are removed by normal form. Truncated row sums survive normal form and put products into \(\mathfrak mG\); the 3 × 7 data show a degree-4 excess outside the base's range. The 4 × 7 test that would decide it was stopped by system memory pressure, and it is logged for the user.

The restatement below excludes truncated row sums by an invariant density condition. Not falsified; the one live threat is recorded.

A further check from saved data tests whether first-degree purity could carry the whole conjecture. It would, if the top ideal of \(Q\) were generated in its first new degree. It is not. On 4 × 7 the points2 families have one new top in degree 3 and 401 and 692 in degree 4, while the first generator can account for at most 27 there. So row freeness in later degrees is a genuinely separate condition, although it held there.

conj:dense-relative-row-freeness. As conj:relative-row-freeness, with the normal-form hypothesis replaced by an invariant one. Every block's linear parts are \(\delta\)-dense modulo the row sums, for a fixed \(\delta>0\): every representative of every nonzero element of their span, modulo the span of the row sums, has at least \(\delta N\) cells in at least \(\delta m\) rows. Under that hypothesis, allowed sets of density at least one half are row-free through \(D\) with high probability over independent uniform prefixes, on the weak base with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns. Truncated row sums, which are congruent to single cells, are excluded. The composition to the goal is unchanged, with the sparse part of a family left to the record's sparse theorems.

Obstacle

Row freeness of the allowed set of a W_RS family beyond joint capacity. Each member, and every sub-family within capacity, is row-free. Each member's new tops are known exactly. The whole family's top ideal is not a pullback along any value map with large fibers. It gains new generators in several degrees, and its purity modulo the row sums, \(n\cap\mathfrak mG=\mathfrak mn\), has no local-to-global mechanism. The recorded local-to-global obstructions all concern falls in thin sets and do not apply.

Assessment of the line

The global-closure route is now the thread's cleanest reduction of the goal. It asks for one property of one point set. It proves that property wherever the family fits in a value space with good fibers, and it explains every computed failure (thin sets, row-sum forms). What it lacks is exactly one mechanism: purity of a sum of many pure submodules whose ambient span exceeds capacity. That is the record's long-standing local-to-global gap, in a sharper form where falls do not matter. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Gotzmann's persistence theorem (Math. Z. 158, 1978), with Macaulay's growth bound. Target: conj:dense-relative-row-freeness. Answers. If the allowed set's top ideal were generated in its first new degree, persistence and first-degree purity would carry row freeness to all degrees. Test. Falsified: on 4 × 7 the points2 families gain 401 and 692 new tops in degree 4 over a single degree-3 generator, which accounts for at most 27, so the ideal has new generators in later degrees.
Mayer–Vietoris for sums of submodules (the Tor sequence of \(0\to n_1\cap n_2\to n_1\oplus n_2\to n_1+n_2\to0\), iterated as a Čech-type resolution of a sum). Target: the obstacle. Answers. Purity of \(\sum_bn_b\) would follow from purity of the members and of all their intersections, if the Čech complex of the sub-ideals were exact. That is local-to-global with the intersections as the local data, and the sub-family corollary controls the intersections inside capacity. Test. Not run: the exactness of the Čech complex of member ideals is the distributivity of the lattice they generate, which the record's covering and pairing obstructions show fails for thin families. Whether it holds for dense ones needs a computation of intersections of top ideals that the kernels do not produce yet.
Grassmannian counting (smoothed rank): a uniformly random \(k\)-dimensional subspace of \(\mathbb F_3^a\) meets a fixed \(b\)-dimensional one with probability at most about \(3^{k+b-a}\). Target: transversality of a member's new tops against the rest. Answers. If the prefix made a member's new-top space uniform in its Boolean top space, a union bound would give transversality whenever dimensions fit. Test. Falsified as stated: by the Boolean top reduction, the new-top space is determined by the kernel patterns of \(C\) and is not uniform. Its \(O=\emptyset\) component, for instance, consists of Boolean tops of functions supported on the kernel patterns, a subspace fixed by \(K\). A counting argument must use the pattern structure.

Absurd bridges

Delsarte's duality of codes and designs (coding theory; Philips Res. Rep. Suppl. 10, 1973): a set is a \(t\)-design iff its dual code has minimum distance above \(t\). Translation: the allowed set \(Q\) as a design, its low-degree vanishing functions as dual codewords, and the minimum degree of a function supported on the excluded set as a dual distance. Answers. If the excluded set's dual distance exceeded \(D\), \(Q\) would look like the base through \(D\) and inherit its row freeness outright. Test. Falsified at the needed degree: the Boolean top reduction puts the first function supported on a member's excluded set at degree at most \(4t+2\), far below \(D\approx44t\). So \(Q\) differs from the base long before \(D\), and duality alone cannot carry row freeness.
The Knill–Laflamme conditions (quantum error correction, Phys. Rev. A 55, 1997): a code corrects an error set iff the errors act on it as scalars in a fixed pattern. Translation: the row sums as error operators on the code space \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\), with row freeness as the requirement that they act without shared kernel. Answers. Correctability criteria are local: they reduce to pairs of errors. A pairwise criterion for row freeness would be the local-to-global principle the obstacle needs. Test. Falsified in this form: freeness over \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r]/(r^3)\) is not a pairwise condition on the \(r_i\). The Frobenius cycles \(r_i^2c\,e_i\) involve single row sums with cubes, and lem:defect-gluing's conditions (i) and (ii) are not pairwise either.

Lead follow-up

Cohen–Lenstra universality for member ideals. Follow-up. Closed: it produced the density, fill-point and shared-piece statements for falls. The fall-line review then showed that falls are not what the goal's sufficient condition needs, and the sub-family corollary makes them irrelevant inside capacity. Universality below the fill point is no longer the obstacle.
Lefschetz properties. Follow-up. Developed: the pullback lemma is the freeness-inheritance statement the lead suggested, for allowed sets pulled back from values with good fibers. Beyond capacity no Lefschetz-type input is available, and the lead gives nothing further there.

Bridge follow-up

Percolation on the dependency hypergraph. Follow-up. Closed: its prediction became lem:shared-piece-rarity (clusters of size one under random prefixes) for falls. For row freeness, clusters within capacity are row-free by the sub-family corollary. What remains is the gluing of clusters, which the Kotecký–Preiss and Mayer–Vietoris items carry.
Smoothed analysis. Follow-up. Continuing: for falls it became lem:shared-piece-rarity. For row freeness the analogue is open: whether random prefixes keep \(\rho\)-divisible and other \(\mathfrak m\)-divisible tops out of a member's first new degree. The Grassmannian lead above shows it must use the pattern structure.
Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion. Follow-up. Continuing: the sub-family corollary makes every cluster within capacity row-free, which is the polymer-level input. The expansion's additivity over clusters is the Mayer–Vietoris lead above, not yet tested.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1, develop the Mayer–Vietoris lead, which answers the obstacle directly. Take two members beyond joint capacity on the largest reachable board, compute \(n_1\), \(n_2\), \(n_1\cap n_2\) and \(n_{Q_1\cap Q_2}\) degree by degree, and test the purity conditions of lem:defect-gluing. Once memory allows, rerun the pending 4 × 7 truncated-row-sum test, one job at a time.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the six entries of the line, thm:global-closure-gluing, lem:defect-gluing, prop:covering-obstruction and prop:pairing-obstruction. The persistence test is computed from the saved 4 × 7 Hilbert functions against the base's. The restated conjecture strengthens the hypothesis of conj:relative-row-freeness, so it is implied by it; its composition to the goal is the one reviewed there.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	1 min 47.73 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 40.98 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	6.75 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

The Mayer–Vietoris lead is the record's condition (i), and its column-disjoint case is spare-column transfer. For dense families, first-degree purity is directness of the members' first tops together with the row-sum ideal in the collision algebra. The generic directness theorem does not cover it, because the row-sum ideal is not invariant under its group

27 September 2026 · Development of a lead, no new claim · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-mayer-vietoris-purity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “The Mayer–Vietoris lead is the record's condition (i), and its column-disjoint case is spare-column transfer. For dense families, first-degree purity is directness of the members' first tops together with the row-sum ideal in the collision algebra. The generic directness theorem does not cover it, because the row-sum ideal is not invariant under its group”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-mayer-vietoris-purity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1. The closure-route review proposed the Mayer–Vietoris sequence of member ideals as the local-to-global mechanism for conj:dense-relative-row-freeness. What does it give, and what does the record already have?

General statement. conj:dense-relative-row-freeness; this cycle develops its local-to-global step and registers no new claim.

Mayer–Vietoris is condition (i)

Let \(n_1,n_2\) be top ideals with \(G/n_1\) and \(G/n_2\) row-free through \(D\). The sequence \(0\to G/(n_1\cap n_2)\to G/n_1\oplus G/n_2\to G/(n_1+n_2)\to0\) gives

\[\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/(n_1+n_2))\cong\frac{(n_1+\mathfrak mG)\cap(n_2+\mathfrak mG)}{(n_1\cap n_2)+\mathfrak mG}\]

through \(D\). That is lem:defect-gluing's condition (i), already in the record. Iterated over members, row freeness of \(G/\sum_bn_b\) holds iff at every step the intersection commutes with reduction modulo the row sums. In the images \(\nu_b\) of the \(n_b\) in \(A=G/\mathfrak mG\), this says the image of \(n_{\le k}\cap n_{k+1}\) is \(\nu_{\le k}\cap\nu_{k+1}\). This local-to-global condition involves the members only pairwise at each step, but it is not a consequence of the members' own row freeness. The lead reproduces the record; it does not add a mechanism.

The column-disjoint case is recorded

The column-injective board is a product over columns, and the row sums act on tensor products primitively. So \(\mathbb F_3[r]/(r^3)\) acts as a Hopf algebra, and a free tensor factor makes the whole product free. The record has exactly this: lem:free-seed-tensor, and lem:spare-column-transfer. Constraints whose linear parts avoid at least \(2t-1\) columns have their top syzygies transferred from their own columns, because the spare columns form a free factor. So families that leave enough columns untouched satisfy the local-to-global step outright; this is a rediscovery, labelled as such. A W_RS family with forms dense modulo the row sums touches every column, so the principle does not apply to the conjecture's class.

First-degree purity for dense families

\(G\) is the collision algebra \(\tilde A\) (the weak algebra without row sums) modulo the occupancy relation, and \(A=G/\mathfrak mG\) is \(\tilde A\) modulo all row sums. By lem:first-degree-purity, a family is row-free in its first new degree \(e\) iff its new tops, lifted to \(\tilde A_e\), meet \(\sum_ir_i\tilde A_{e-1}\) trivially. That is, the members' first tops together with the row-sum ideal must be direct in \(\tilde A_e\). Two recorded results bear on this:

Density is the right hypothesis. lem:column-tensor-exactness: a linear form with nonzero column parts in \(c\) columns acts on \(\tilde A\) with \(\operatorname{Ann}(\ell)=\ell^2\tilde A\) and \(\operatorname{Ann}(\ell^2)=\ell\tilde A\) below degree \(\lfloor c/2\rfloor\). A form dense modulo the row sums has many nonzero columns in every representative, so its squares survive modulo the row sums in low degree. A truncated row sum is congruent to a single cell, \(c=1\), and its square dies (lem:truncated-row-sums). So the conjecture's density hypothesis is the record's exactness hypothesis, taken modulo the row sums.
Generic directness stops short. thm:generic-top-directness gives directness of Zariski-generic tops from a family stable under \(\prod_c GL(V_c)\rtimes S_N\), up to near the fill point. Here the tops must also be direct with the fixed row-sum ideal. That ideal is stable under column permutations and simultaneous row permutations, but not under the per-column \(GL(V_c)\) that the theorem's irreducibility argument uses. So the theorem does not give first-degree purity even for generic forms. What is needed is a relative version, directness modulo a fixed ideal stable under a smaller group.

What was not done

The computation the review proposed, intersections of two members' top ideals on 4 × 7, needs the dense 4 × 7 kernel, about 3.5 GB per job. After the harness stopped the last such run for system memory pressure, no further run of that size was started this cycle; the pending request covers it.

Next. State and attack relative generic directness: for Zariski-generic tops from a family stable under \(S_N\) times row permutations, directness together with the row-sum ideal of \(\tilde A\) up to the fill point minus a correction. Its first case is degree 2: products of generic dense linear forms against \(r_i\tilde A_1\). This needs only small exact computations in \(\tilde A_2\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:defect-gluing (condition (i)), lem:free-seed-tensor, lem:spare-column-transfer, lem:column-tensor-exactness, thm:generic-top-directness (its group and irreducibility hypothesis), lem:first-degree-purity and lem:truncated-row-sums. The Mayer–Vietoris identity is the recorded condition (i), and no new claim is made.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	2 min 46.60 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 18.00 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4.27 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 24.19 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Relative directness: random dense product tops are independent modulo the row-sum ideal exactly up to the fill point (purity defect \(\max(0,M-\dim A_4)\) on 2 × 12 and 3 × 9). Tops sharing a factor \(\ell_0^2\) have a purity defect far below the fill, which only lower-degree elements, that is falls, can absorb. The generic statement is a short greedy argument

27 September 2026 · Working lemma with a finite check · open statements A3 and A1 · cycle odd-prime-relative-directness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relative directness: random dense product tops are independent modulo the row-sum ideal exactly up to the fill point (purity defect \(\max(0,M-\dim A_4)\) on 2 × 12 and 3 × 9). Tops sharing a factor \(\ell_0^2\) have a purity defect far below the fill, which only lower-degree elements, that is falls, can absorb. The generic statement is a short greedy argument”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-relative-directness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A3 and A1. The Mayer–Vietoris entry reduced first-degree purity for dense families to directness of the members' first tops together with the row-sum ideal \(R=\sum_ir_i\tilde A\) in the collision algebra \(\tilde A\). The generic directness theorem does not cover this relative form. Does it hold for random dense tops, and what do shared factors do?

General statement. lem:generic-relative-directness, and ex:relative-product-top-check for random \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational tops and the adversarial sunflower.

The generic statement

lem:generic-relative-directness. Over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), let \(Y\subseteq\tilde A_d\) be an irreducible variety whose span together with \(R_d\) is all of \(\tilde A_d\). Then for Zariski-generic \(y_1,\dots,y_z\in Y\), the images of the \(y_i\) in \(A_d=\tilde A_d/R_d\) are linearly independent for \(z\le\dim A_d\), and span \(A_d\) for \(z\ge\dim A_d\).

Proof. Induct on \(z\). Let \(X=R_d+\operatorname{span}(y_1,\dots,y_{z-1})\), a proper subspace when \(z-1<\dim A_d\). Then \(Y\not\subseteq X\), since otherwise \(\operatorname{span}(Y)+R_d\subseteq X\ne\tilde A_d\). So \(\{y\in Y:y\notin X\}\) is a nonempty open subset of the irreducible \(Y\), and a generic \(y_z\) lies in it. The conditions for all \(z\le\dim A_d\) together are a finite intersection of nonempty open sets of \(Y^z\), hence nonempty. Once \(z=\dim A_d\) the images span \(A_d\), and they still span for larger \(z\). \(\square\)

Products of squares of linear forms satisfy the hypothesis in every even degree. Squares span \(\tilde A_2\) by polarization, since 2 is invertible, and products of spanning sets span the products. So generic product tops \(\ell^2\ell'^2\) meet \(R_4\) only by counting: their rank modulo \(R_4\) is \(\min(M,\dim A_4)\). The same lemma with \(S_4\) in place of \(R_4\) makes their rank in \(G\) equal to \(\min(M,\dim G_4)\), since \(\operatorname{span}(Y)+S_4=\tilde A_4\) too. The purity defect is the difference of the two ranks, so it is \(\max(0,M-\dim A_4)\) for \(M\le\dim G_4\). Unlike thm:generic-top-directness, the argument needs no group action: it concerns single elements, not the multiples \(y\tilde A_k\). It says nothing about \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational tops or about adversarial families, whose tops do not range over a spanning irreducible set.

The check

relative_directness.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_relative_directness_20260927/) builds \(\tilde A_4\) on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns, the row-sum part \(R_4\) and the occupancy part \(S_4=s\tilde A_3\subseteq R_4\). For \(M\) tops \(T\) it computes the first-degree purity defect \(\operatorname{rank}(T+S)+\operatorname{rank}R-\operatorname{rank}(T+R)-\operatorname{rank}S\), exactly mod 3. The dimensions are \(\dim A_4=4708\) on 2 × 12 and \(4419\) on 3 × 9 (series.txt, jobs.txt; the sizing line sizing_2x12.txt came from an earlier storage layout with identical arithmetic).

Random dense tops \(\ell_b^2\ell_b'^2\):
- on 2 × 12, seeds 1 and 2: defect 0 at \(M=1000\), 2500, 4000, 4600 and 4700, then 42 at 4750 and 292 at 5000, which is \(M-4708\) exactly;
- on 3 × 9: 0 at 3000 and 4400, and 81 at 4500, which is \(M-4419\).
The \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational tops behave like generic ones up to the fill, with no excess dependency near it in these samples.
Truncated-row-sum tops \(\rho^2\ell_b'^2\) (the control of lem:truncated-row-sums): the defect equals the rank, 100 at \(M=100\) and 217 at \(M=1000\). Every such top lies in \(R\).
Sunflower tops \(\ell_0^2\ell_b'^2\), sharing one dense factor: the rank in \(G\) stops at 217 (2 × 12) and 271 (3 × 9), with purity defect 22 and 49, constant from the smallest sampled \(M\) on (500 on 2 × 12, 1000 on 3 × 9). The tops span \(\ell_0^2G_2\), and that contains \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\subseteq\mathfrak mG\), so part of their span lies in the row-sum ideal long before the fill.

What it means

Random families. For random dense members, first-degree purity is a counting statement. Generically it is proved by the lemma, whenever the first-top varieties span modulo \(R\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) it is observed exactly up to the fill point in degree 4.
Adversarial sharing. A sunflower's tops span \(\ell_0^2\cdot(\text{stuff})\), and \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG\) lies in \(\mathfrak mG\). So in a tops-only model shared factors create a purity defect well below the fill. In an actual family, row freeness then needs \(\mathfrak mn_{e-1}\) to contain those elements, that is, lower-degree elements \(\ell_0^2x\) of the top ideal, falls from the shared form. That is the role the flat-difference and shared-piece falls play. It explains why the early-fall pair of the fall-line review stayed row-free, and it turns the fall line's objects into the mechanism that row freeness needs, not an obstacle.

This suggests the local-to-global statement for adversarial families in a sharper form. Shared factors must come with the falls that absorb their purity defect. Random prefixes make shared pieces rare, and so make large shared-factor defects rare too.

Next. Test the absorption directly on a family, not on tops alone. Take a sunflower of members sharing one dense form, compute the actual top ideal \(n\) of the allowed set in degrees 3 and 4 (the flat-difference falls in degree 3), and check whether \(n_4\cap\mathfrak mG=\mathfrak mn_3\). It needs a board where degree 4 is inside the base's free range, the 4 × 7 kernel, one job at a time once memory allows. Before that, derive when \(\ell_0^2x\in n_3\) follows from the Boolean top reduction of two sharing members.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:first-degree-purity, lem:truncated-row-sums, thm:generic-top-directness (for contrast) and the Mayer–Vietoris entry. The kernel's controls behave as predicted: truncated-row-sum tops have defect equal to their rank, and random defects equal \(\max(0,M-\dim A_4)\) at every sampled \(M\). All values are read from the saved output. The lemma's proof is the standard greedy argument for generic points of an irreducible variety. A fresh-context reviewer verified the lemma, the spanning claims, the purity-defect formula and its identification with the first-degree Tor, the sunflower mechanism, and every number with its board. It required, adopted: the defect formula derived with the lemma applied twice, modulo \(R_4\) and modulo \(S_4\).

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	20 min 38.11 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	10 min 18.62 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 52.39 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 12.21 s
Individually measured computation	6 min 14.75 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 2.

Sunflower absorption: the purity defect of tops sharing a factor \(\ell_0^2\) is exactly \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\), and a family that excludes a whole flat \(\{L_0=a\}\) absorbs it through degree-3 elements \(\delta(L_0-a)\,x\). In W_RS, generic sunflowers are far too small to reach the defect, and flat-excluding members cover the flat first

27 September 2026 · Working lemma with a finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-sharing-falls-absorb. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sunflower absorption: the purity defect of tops sharing a factor \(\ell_0^2\) is exactly \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\), and a family that excludes a whole flat \(\{L_0=a\}\) absorbs it through degree-3 elements \(\delta(L_0-a)\,x\). In W_RS, generic sunflowers are far too small to reach the defect, and flat-excluding members cover the flat first”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-sunflower-absorption.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The relative directness entry found that tops sharing a factor \(\ell_0^2\) have a first-degree purity defect far below the fill, 22 on 2 × 12 and 49 on 3 × 9. Only lower-degree elements of the top ideal can absorb it. Does the adversary's sunflower, the family sharing one dense form, supply them?

General statement. lem:sunflower-absorption: for every allowed set \(Q\), affine form \(L_0\) and value \(a\), the products \(\delta(L_0-a)f\) with \(f\) vanishing on the kept part \(Z_a\) of the flat lie in \(I(Q)\). So a family that excludes a whole flat has \(\mathfrak mn_3\supseteq\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\), which absorbs the shared factor's purity defect.

The defect is \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\)

sunflower_span.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_sharing_absorption_20260927/) computes, for a dense \(\ell_0\), the purity defect of all of \(\ell_0^2G_2\) and the rank of \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\) in \(G\) (series.txt).

On 2 × 12: \(\dim\ell_0^2G_2=217\), defect 22, and \(\dim\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1=22\).
On 3 × 9: 271, 49 and 49.

Since \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\subseteq\ell_0^2G_2\cap\mathfrak mG\) always, and the dimensions agree, \(\ell_0^2G_2\cap\mathfrak mG=\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\) on both boards. The sunflower tops of the previous entry span all of \(\ell_0^2G_2\): rank 217 at \(M=4000\), with the same defect 22.

The lemma

lem:sunflower-absorption. On the weak base over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(Q\subseteq P\) be an allowed set, \(E=P\setminus Q\) its excluded set, \(n\) its top ideal, \(L_0\) an affine form with linear part \(\ell_0\), and \(a\in\mathbb F_3\). Put \(Z_a=\{x\in P:L_0(x)=a\}\setminus E\), the part of the flat that \(Q\) keeps.

For every affine \(f\) vanishing on \(Z_a\), \(\delta(L_0-a)\,f\in I(Q)\), with \(\delta(y)=1-y^2\). So \(n_{\le3}\) contains the tops of these products, and \(n_3\supseteq\ell_0^2V\) for the space \(V\) of linear parts of such \(f\), wherever \(\ell_0^2v\ne0\) in \(G\).
If \(Z_a=\emptyset\), then \(n_3\supseteq\ell_0^2G_1\), so \(\mathfrak mn_3\supseteq\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\). Where \(\ell_0^2G_2\cap\mathfrak mG=\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\), as on the two boards computed, the whole tops-only sunflower defect in degree 4 is absorbed.

Proof. \(\delta(L_0-a)\) is the indicator of \(\{L_0=a\}\). The product vanishes at every point off that flat. The points of \(Q\) on the flat are exactly \(Z_a\), where \(f\) vanishes. So the product vanishes on \(Q\). Its degree is at most 3, with degree-3 part \(-\ell_0^2f_1\), \(f_1\) the linear part of \(f\). For part 2, \(Z_a=\emptyset\) allows every cell \(x\) as \(f\), and \(\mathfrak m\) is generated in degree 1. \(\square\)

When sunflowers reach the defect, and when they cover

Reaching the defect. The defect comes from \(\ell_0^2G_{e-2}\cap\mathfrak mG\), which the tops meet only when their span nearly exhausts \(\ell_0^2G_{e-2}\) modulo \(\mathfrak m\). By the argument of lem:generic-relative-directness transplanted inside \(\ell_0^2G\) (an analogy: the spanning hypothesis there is not checked), generic tops \(\ell_0^2u_b\) are direct modulo \(\mathfrak mG\) until \(M\) reaches about \(\dim\ell_0^2A_{e-2}\). By the Boolean top reduction a W_RS member's first new degree is \(e\gtrsim3.17t\). That dimension is then of order \((n^2)^{e-2}/(e-2)!\), which exceeds \(n^K\) by a factor \(n^{\Omega(t)}\). So a generic W_RS sunflower is far too small to reach the defect.
Covering. Degenerate members whose first tops are \(\ell_0^2\ell_b^2\) (points2-type, excluding \(\{L_0=a,L_b=0\}\); a zero-column event under random prefixes) reach the defect after about \(\dim\ell_0^2A_2\) of order \((mN)^2\) members. Such a sunflower leaves \(Z_a=\{L_0=a,\ \text{all }L_b\ne0\}\), of density about \((2/3)^M\) in the flat for independent \(L_b\). That is empty once \(M\) passes about \(\log_{3/2}|P|=O(N\log m)\), long before \((mN)^2\). So such a sunflower covers the flat first, and part 2 absorbs the whole defect.

So, heuristically, the adversary's sunflower is not an obstruction to relative row freeness in either regime: both bullets are order-of-magnitude arguments, and the covering step infers \(Z_a=\emptyset\) from an expected density. The fall that absorbs it is a family-level fall, \(\delta(L_0-a)\,x\), not a member's own. This is the fall line's object, now in the role row freeness needs.

The covering argument uses independence of the private forms \(L_b\). An adversary choosing them correlated could keep \(Z_a\) nonempty; then part 1 still absorbs \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mV\). The residual defect is at most \(\dim\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1-\dim\ell_0^2\mathfrak mV\). That is at most \((m-1)\) times the codimension of \(V\), which is at most \(|Z_a|\).

Next. The two sharing mechanisms, relative directness for generic tops and absorption for sunflowers, suggest the general statement for adversarial families: every purity defect lives on a shared factor, and it is absorbed by the covering falls of that factor. The next cycle should state this for shared spans of dimension \(S\), generalizing \(\ell_0\) to the flats of an \(S\)-dimensional shared value space, and test it against the flat-difference configuration.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:first-degree-purity, lem:generic-relative-directness, lem:boolean-top-reduction and the relative directness entry. The lemma is elementary. The equalities \(\ell_0^2G_2\cap\mathfrak mG=\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\) are exact rank computations on two boards, read from the saved output, not a proof for all boards. Both bullets under "When sunflowers reach the defect, and when they cover" are heuristic: an order-of-magnitude comparison and an expected-density argument, not proofs. A fresh-context reviewer verified the lemma, its degree bookkeeping, the deduction of the equality from the two computed dimensions, and the residual bound. It required, adopted: the conclusion about sunflowers hedged to match its heuristic support. It suggested marking the directness step as an analogy, also adopted.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	10 min 32.06 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 3.62 s
Computation design and coding	57.15 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 46.05 s
Individually measured computation	45.12 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Absorption on real families: sunflowers of flat-excluding members on four rows are row-free through degree 4, inside the base's free range. From about 30 members they cover the flat, and the allowed set becomes \(\{L_0\ne a\}\) exactly, as the covering argument predicts. A low-memory kernel (1.5 GB on 4 × 7) makes four-row tests routine again

27 September 2026 · Finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-shared-span-absorption. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Absorption on real families: sunflowers of flat-excluding members on four rows are row-free through degree 4, inside the base's free range. From about 30 members they cover the flat, and the allowed set becomes \(\{L_0\ne a\}\) exactly, as the covering argument predicts. A low-memory kernel (1.5 GB on 4 × 7) makes four-row tests routine again”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-absorption-check.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. Sunflower absorption argued that shared-factor purity defects are absorbed by covering falls, from a tops-only model and an order-of-magnitude count. Do actual sunflower families, with their full top ideals, stay row-free at a degree where the base is free?

General statement. lem:sunflower-absorption, tested on families, within conj:dense-relative-row-freeness.

A low-memory kernel

row_freeness_lowmem.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_shared_span_absorption_20260927/) replaces FLINT's 8-byte matrices by fflas-ffpack with float storage for the nullspaces and ranks. It reproduces the FLINT kernels' lines exactly on 3 × 5 and 3 × 7 (validation_3row.txt) and the 4 × 7 base (base_4x7_lowmem.txt: \(\operatorname{Tor}_1=0,0,0,0\)), in 35 s with 1.5 GB peak, against about 3.5 GB before. The four-row test stopped earlier for system memory pressure used the old kernel. It stays pending with the user; this cycle ran new questions only, one or two jobs at a time.

The test

Mode sunpoints: every member has two forms, a common dense \(L_0\) (same linear part and constant) and a private dense \(L_b\), with prefix row \((1,2)\). Each member then excludes exactly the flat \(\{L_0=0,L_b=0\}\), all inside \(\{L_0=0\}\). This is the adversarial sunflower of the relative directness entry, as a family. Forms are reduced to normal form. On 4 × 7 (series.txt):

\(M\)	density	Hilbert function, degrees 0 to 4	\(\operatorname{Tor}_1\), degrees 1 to 4
10 (two seeds)	0.673, 0.677	1, 27, 308, 1905, 6332 / 6342	0, 0, 0, 0
30	0.667	1, 27, 307, 1879, 6243	0, 0, 0, 0
60	0.667	1, 27, 307, 1879, 6243	0, 0, 0, 0

The base has 1, 27, 308, 1905, 6747.

Covering. At 30 and 60 members the allowed sets coincide. Their Hilbert function drops by one in degree 2: the top \(\ell_0^2\) of \((L_0-a)^2-1\), which vanishes once the whole flat is excluded. So the flat is covered by 30 members, in line with \((2/3)^M\) times the flat's roughly 8,500 points falling below 1 near \(M\approx22\). Part 2 of the lemma then applies, and the family is row-free, as a single form within capacity must be.
Before covering. At 10 members the flat is not covered and the first new tops appear in degree 4. The family is row-free there too. At this size the tops are far from spanning \(\ell_0^2G_2\), so no shared-factor defect can arise, as the count predicted.

Shared flats of dimension \(S\)

The proof of lem:sunflower-absorption applies verbatim to members sharing \(S\) forms \(v_0=(L_{0,1},\dots,L_{0,S})\). The indicator \(\delta_y(v_0)=\prod_j\delta(L_{0,j}-y_j)\) of an \(S\)-flat has top \(\pm\prod_j\ell_{0,j}^2\) of degree \(2S\). A family excluding the flat \(\{v_0=y\}\) except \(Z_y\) has \(\delta_y(v_0)f\in I(Q)\) for \(f\) vanishing on \(Z_y\). So the defect of tops sharing the factor \(\prod_j\ell_{0,j}^2\) is absorbed once the flat is covered. The flat-difference pairs are the case \(S=2\) where each member excludes a whole flat. Their row freeness on 4 × 7 (the first-degree purity entry) fits this. This remark registers no new claim.

Next. The adversary's two sharing mechanisms, sunflowers and shared flats, are now absorbed in theory and in every family computed. The remaining form of A1's local-to-global step is dependence without sharing: forms in the span of other members' forms. Test relative row freeness on 4 × 7 for span-dependent families (spandep, spandepzero) with the low-memory kernel. They had no early falls on 2 × 8; whether they stay row-free inside the base's range is untested.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:sunflower-absorption and the relative directness and first-degree purity entries. The low-memory kernel reproduces three recorded FLINT lines exactly. The table is read from the saved output. The covering interpretation is checked by the Hilbert-function drop in degree 2 and the coincidence of the allowed sets at 30 and 60 members.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 45.10 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	30.79 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 24.79 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 16.42 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 32.97 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Square criterion: on at least four columns, a linear form's square lies in the row-sum ideal exactly when the form is supported on a single column modulo the row sums. Truncated row sums are this case, and it is the only one: a single form's flat breaks first-degree purity iff its form is single-column modulo rows

27 September 2026 · Working lemma with a finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-span-dependent-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Square criterion: on at least four columns, a linear form's square lies in the row-sum ideal exactly when the form is supported on a single column modulo the row sums. Truncated row sums are this case, and it is the only one: a single form's flat breaks first-degree purity iff its form is single-column modulo rows”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-square-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. lem:truncated-row-sums showed that \(\rho_i\rho_k\) lies in the row-sum ideal. The closure-route review therefore replaced normal form by density modulo the row sums in conj:dense-relative-row-freeness. Which linear forms exactly have squares in the row-sum ideal? That decides whether the hypothesis is the right one in the first case, degree-2 tops of single flats.

General statement. lem:square-criterion: for every number of rows \(m\) and every \(N\ge4\) columns, a linear form \(\ell\) has \(\ell^2\in\sum_ir_i\tilde A_1\) iff \(\ell\) is congruent modulo the row sums to a form supported on one column.

The lemma

lem:square-criterion. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\tilde A\) be the collision algebra on \(m\) rows and \(N\ge4\) columns, with cells \(x_{ic}\) and \(V_c^2=0\) in each column. Let \(R=\sum_ir_i\tilde A\) be the ideal of all row sums; in \(G\) it is \(\mathfrak mG\). For \(\ell=\sum a_{ic}x_{ic}\) with column vectors \(u_c=(a_{0c},\dots,a_{m-1,c})\), the following are equivalent:

\(\ell^2\in R_2\);
all but at most one of the \(u_c\) are equal. Equivalently, \(\ell\) is congruent modulo the row sums to a form supported on one column.

Proof.

If. \(\ell=\ell'+\sum_ip_ir_i\) with \(\ell'\) supported on one column, so \(\ell'^2=0\) since \(V_c^2=0\). Then \(\ell^2=2\ell'\sum_ip_ir_i+(\sum_ip_ir_i)^2\in R\).
Restriction. For a column set \(S\), setting all other cells to 0 is a ring map \(\tilde A\to\tilde A_S\) sending \(R\) into \(R_S\). So \(\ell^2\in R\) implies \(\ell_S^2\in R_S\) for every \(S\).
Three columns. Write \(\tilde A_{S,2}=V_1V_2\oplus V_1V_3\oplus V_2V_3\), three copies of \(m\times m\) matrices \(X,Y,Z\). The generators \(r_ix_{jc}\) give the relations \(Y\equiv-X\), \(Z\equiv-X^{\mathsf T}\) and \(X+X^{\mathsf T}\equiv0\). The first two let any \((X,Y,Z)\) be reduced to \((X-Y-Z^{\mathsf T},0,0)\), and the third then spans exactly \(\mathrm{Sym}_m\) in that representative. So \((X,Y,Z)\mapsto[X-Y-Z^{\mathsf T}]\) induces \(A_{S,2}\cong M_m/\mathrm{Sym}_m\cong\Lambda^2V\), since 2 is invertible. The blocks of \(\ell_S^2\) are \(X=2\,u_1\otimes u_2\), \(Y=2\,u_1\otimes u_3\) and \(Z=2\,u_2\otimes u_3\), where \(u\otimes v\) is the matrix of the monomials \(x_{ic}x_{jd}\) with coefficient \(u_iv_j\); these are not symmetrized. So \(X-Y-Z^{\mathsf T}=2(u_1\otimes u_2-u_1\otimes u_3-u_3\otimes u_2)\), whose class is \(2(u_1-u_3)\wedge(u_2-u_3)\). So \(\ell_S^2\in R_S\) iff \(u_1-u_3\) and \(u_2-u_3\) are dependent, that is, iff the three column vectors are collinear.
Two equal columns. Suppose some value \(p\) occurs in two columns \(d,d'\). Subtract \(\sum_ip_ir_i\), so \(u_d=u_{d'}=0\). If \(\ell\) is not single-column modulo rows, two columns \(c_1,c_2\) remain with \(a=u_{c_1}\ne0\) and \(b=u_{c_2}\ne0\).
- If \(a,b\) are independent, the three columns \(c_1,c_2,d\) are not collinear, and the three-column case gives \(\ell^2\notin R\).
- If \(b=\lambda a\), choose a functional \(\varphi\) with \(\varphi(a)=1\). The substitution \(x_{ic}\mapsto\varphi_iy_c\) into the one-row algebra \(\mathbb F_3[y_c]/(y_c^2)\) on the columns \(c_1,c_2,d,d'\) is a ring map sending every \(r_i\) to a multiple of \(r=\sum y_c\). It sends \(\ell\) to \(y_1+\lambda y_2\), whose square is \(2\lambda y_1y_2\). In the one-row algebra on four columns, \(R_2\) is spanned by \(s_c=\sum_{d\ne c}y_cy_d\). If \(y_1y_2=\sum a_cs_c\), then comparing coefficients gives \(a_c+a_d=0\) for the five pairs other than \(\{1,2\}\). So \(a_3=a_4=-a_1\), and \(a_3+a_4=0\) forces \(a_1=0\), then \(a_2=0\), contradicting \(a_1+a_2=1\). So \(y_1y_2\notin R_2\), and \(\ell^2\notin R\).
All columns distinct. With \(N\ge4\), the vectors cannot all lie on one affine line, which has 3 points. If every triple were collinear, all points would lie on the line through two of them. So some triple is not collinear, and the three-column case gives \(\ell^2\notin R\). \(\square\)

The check. square_criterion.py (research/results/odd_prime_square_criterion_20260927/) checks, by exact rank mod 3 on 3 × 5, 3 × 6 and 4 × 5, whether \(\ell^2\in R_2\), for 440 forms: single-column modulo rows, rank-one \(q\otimes\lambda\) plus a row shift, rank-two and dense (square_criterion_output.txt).

In every case, membership equals the single-column condition.
Collinearity is necessary but not sufficient: of 110 rank-one forms, only the 12 that happen to be single-column have squares in \(R\).

What it means

The truncated row sums are the whole phenomenon in degree 2. \(\rho_i=r_i-x_{ic}\) is congruent to \(-x_{ic}\), a single column. A single member's flat \(\{L=a\}\) has the degree-2 top \(-\ell^2\). By lem:first-degree-purity it breaks row freeness in degree 2 exactly when \(\ell\) is single-column modulo the row sums. Forms dense modulo rows are far from that, so conj:dense-relative-row-freeness's hypothesis is sufficient in this first case, and much weaker hypotheses would be too.
Higher degrees. Products of squares \(\prod_j\ell_j^2\) lie in \(R\) when some factor is single-column. Whether that is the only way, as for \(\ell_0^2\ell_b^2\) in the sunflower check where the defect came from \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\) (multiples, not the tops themselves), is the natural next statement.

Next. Extend the criterion to products: when is \(\prod_{j\le k}\ell_j^2\in R_{2k}\)? Conjecture: iff some \(\ell_j\) is single-column modulo rows. Test it by exact ranks in the relative directness kernel, then try the restriction proof, where the three-column quotient generalizes to exterior-algebra quotients.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:truncated-row-sums, lem:first-degree-purity and conj:dense-relative-row-freeness. The lemma's proof uses only ring maps (restriction to columns, and projection of rows by a functional) that send the row-sum ideal into the row-sum ideal, plus two small explicit quotients. The check covers both directions on 440 forms, and every case agrees. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived every step by hand, including the three- and four-column quotients and the case split, and verified the counts. It required expository fixes, all adopted: the explicit quotient map \((X,Y,Z)\mapsto[X-Y-Z^{\mathsf T}]\); the blocks of \(\ell_S^2\) written as unsymmetrized tensors; and the collinearity step.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 54.02 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9 min 37.41 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 14.93 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.68 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Shifted vanishing: the square criterion does not extend to products as proposed, since two opposite-column forms sharing a column have product zero. The corrected conjecture: on at least \(4k\) columns, a product of \(k\) squares lies in the row-sum ideal only when row-sum shifts make it vanish. Exact ranks on 3 rows agree at 8 and 10 columns; the one exception on 6 columns disappears when the same forms are padded to 8 or 10 columns

27 September 2026 · Refutation with a corrected conjecture and a finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-product-square-criterion. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Shifted vanishing: the square criterion does not extend to products as proposed, since two opposite-column forms sharing a column have product zero. The corrected conjecture: on at least \(4k\) columns, a product of \(k\) squares lies in the row-sum ideal only when row-sum shifts make it vanish. Exact ranks on 3 rows agree at 8 and 10 columns; the one exception on 6 columns disappears when the same forms are padded to 8 or 10 columns”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-shifted-vanishing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The square criterion (lem:square-criterion) showed that \(\ell^2\in R_2\) exactly when \(\ell\) is single-column modulo the row sums. A member's top is a product of squares of its forms, and a shared flat contributes a square factor to many tops. The proposed next step asked whether \(\prod_j\ell_j^2\in R_{2k}\) iff some \(\ell_j\) is single-column modulo rows. The answer decides whether the density hypothesis of conj:dense-relative-row-freeness also keeps members' tops individually out of the row-sum ideal, a necessary condition for the directness of tops with \(\mathfrak mG\) that the closure-route review asks for.

General statement. conj:shifted-vanishing-criterion: over \(\mathbb F_3\), in the collision algebra \(\tilde A\) on \(m\) rows and \(N\ge4k\) columns with \(R=\sum_ir_i\tilde A\), linear forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_k\) have \(\prod_j\ell_j^2\in R_{2k}\) iff there are \(\rho_1,\dots,\rho_k\in R_1\), row-sum combinations, with \(\prod_j(\ell_j-\rho_j)^2=0\) in \(\tilde A\). The "if" direction is proved for every \(N\); ex:opposite-pair-counterexample refutes the proposed single-column form for every \(m\ge1\), \(N\ge3\) and \(k\ge2\).

The counterexample and the easy direction

ex:opposite-pair-counterexample. Take \(\ell_1=x_{01}-x_{02}\) and \(\ell_2=x_{02}-x_{03}\) (row 0; columns 1, 2, 3). Since \(x_{ic}x_{jc}=0\) in each column, \(\ell_1^2=-2x_{01}x_{02}\) and \(\ell_2^2=-2x_{02}x_{03}\), so \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\) contains \(x_{02}^2=0\) and vanishes; it lies in \(R\). Neither form is single-column modulo rows. Adding \(\sum_ip_ir_i\) adds \(p\) to every column vector, so a form is single-column modulo rows iff all but at most one of its column vectors are equal. \(\ell_1\)'s column vectors are \(e_0\), \(-e_0\) and \(N-2\) zeros: three distinct values, the largest class of size \(N-2\). Multiplying the zero product by further squares keeps it zero, and those extra factors may be any forms that are not single-column modulo rows, so there are counterexamples for every \(k\ge2\). \(\square\)

The "if" direction. For \(\rho\in R_1\), \(\ell^2-(\ell-\rho)^2=2\ell\rho-\rho^2\in R\). Since \(R\) is an ideal, replacing one factor at a time gives \(\prod_j\ell_j^2\equiv\prod_j(\ell_j-\rho_j)^2\pmod R\), so a vanishing shifted product puts \(\prod_j\ell_j^2\) in \(R\). The single-column case is included: if \(\ell_j-\rho_j\) lies in one column, its square is 0. For \(k=1\), \((\ell-\rho)^2=\sum_{c\ne d}x^c_{u_c}x^d_{u_d}\) (with \(x^c_u=\sum_iu_ix_{ic}\)) vanishes iff at most one column vector of \(\ell-\rho\) is nonzero, so the conjecture at \(k=1\) is lem:square-criterion. Repeated factors always vanish: in characteristic 3, \(\ell^3=6\sum_{c<d<e}x^c_{u_c}x^d_{u_d}x^e_{u_e}=0\), the algebra's form of \(r_i^3=0\) in \(\Lambda\). So \(\ell_1\equiv\ell_2\) modulo rows gives \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\equiv\ell_1^4=0\).

The check

product_square.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_product_square_20260927/) computes the reduced row echelon form of \(R_4\) once (FLINT, exact mod 3). It tests membership of \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\) by reduction for seven kinds of pairs, 20 each, every form shifted by a random row sum: dense, single-column, rank-one \(q\otimes\lambda\), and opposite (\(u\) in one column, \(-u\) in another), paired as in series_classified.txt. The prediction to test: every member of \(R\) not predicted by a single-column factor has a vanishing shifted product. The unexplained pairs are printed, and classify_unexplained.py tries all \(3^m\) shifts of each factor (classification.txt). The first run (series.txt) is reproduced by the second in every count.

board	pairs	in \(R\)	single-column criterion agrees	other members of \(R\)	of these, vanishing after shifts
\(3\times6\)	140	62	125	15	14
\(3\times8\)	140	53	137	3	3
\(3\times10\)	140	46	134	6	6

The failures of the single-column criterion. At 8 and 10 columns each is a pair of opposite forms sharing a column, the counterexample's mechanism. No pair with a single-column factor was outside \(R\), as the easy direction requires.
The one exception is a small-board effect. On 6 columns, below \(4k=8\), the rank-one pair \(\ell_1\equiv x_q^1+2x_q^3+2x_q^4+x_q^5\) with \(q=(1,1,2)\) and \(\ell_2\equiv x_{q'}^0+2x_{q'}^3+2x_{q'}^4\) with \(q'=(1,1,0)\) lies in \(R\), although no shifts make its product vanish. Its product lives on the 5 columns \(\{0,1,3,4,5\}\). Padded with zero columns to 8 and 10 columns, under 5 random shifts each, the same forms lie outside \(R\) in all 10 trials, while all 5 trials on 6 columns lie in \(R\) (padding.txt). A first padding run padded the shifted representatives, which are different forms; it is kept as padding_shifted_representatives.txt and not used.
Calibration. Both outcomes occur, and the structured kinds (rank-one, opposite) are where membership can happen. \(A_4=\tilde A_4/R_4\) has dimension 66, 1929 and 8556 on the three boards, so a random element is almost never in \(R\). The dense pairs (0 of 60 in \(R\)) are therefore a control, not evidence. The conjecture's content lies in the structured pairs, where it held at 8 and 10 columns. The range \(N\ge4k\) is chosen to exclude the 6-column exception; 7 columns and \(k\ge3\) are untested.

What it means

The density hypothesis survives. A form dense modulo the row sums keeps many distinct column vectors after every shift, and the vanishing mechanisms need forms that some shift makes few-column or makes equal to another factor. So under the conjecture a member's top with dense, pairwise inequivalent forms is not in \(\mathfrak mG\). For shared flats the factor \(\ell_0^2\) is harmless alone, which fits the sunflower absorption finding that the sunflower defect is \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\): multiples, not tops. This is a necessary condition only. Row freeness needs the span of many tops to be direct with \(\mathfrak mG\), which non-membership of each top does not give, and conj:shifted-vanishing-criterion is unproved for \(k\ge2\). The square criterion's restriction proof does not transfer directly: 5 columns do not detect degree 4 on 3 rows (the exception above), so a proof needs restrictions to about \(4k\) columns and a description of \(A_{2k}\) there.

Next. The route review is due. It should weigh this line (single-top criteria) against the need for directness of spans, and follow up the Mayer–Vietoris lead and the continuing bridges.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:square-criterion (statement, the single-column characterization modulo rows), lem:sunflower-absorption (the defect \(\ell_0^2\mathfrak mG_1\)) and conj:dense-relative-row-freeness (its density hypothesis). The kernel's first run and its extended rerun agree in every count. Membership by reduction against the rref agrees with the first run's rank test. Every quoted number is read from the saved outputs by script. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived the counterexample, the easy direction and \(\ell^3=0\) by hand. It recomputed every table cell and the exception's forms from the saved outputs and found no overclaim and no record duplicate. Its verdict was sound, and its one optional clarification (why further factors keep the counterexample) is adopted.

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Individually measured computation	9 min 42.84 s
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Route review of the directness line: density modulo the row sums alone does not suffice, since members whose forms agree modulo the row sums but not exactly have tops that collapse there while no common flat is covered. Normal form, which costs nothing, removes this, so the conjecture needs normal form and density together. What remains is directness of product tops beyond the generic case

27 September 2026 · Route review with a restated conjecture and a proved counting lemma · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-directness-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the directness line: density modulo the row sums alone does not suffice, since members whose forms agree modulo the row sums but not exactly have tops that collapse there while no common flat is covered. Normal form, which costs nothing, removes this, so the conjecture needs normal form and density together. What remains is directness of product tops beyond the generic case”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-directness-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the closure-route review, six research entries have worked on first-degree purity for dense families:

Mayer–Vietoris;
relative directness;
sunflower absorption;
absorption check;
square criterion;
shifted vanishing.

Does the restated conjecture's hypothesis, density modulo the row sums, exclude the adversary's levers, and what is left?

General statement. The line's claim is now conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness: on the weak base with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns, for families whose forms are in normal form modulo the row sums and whose blocks' linear parts are \(\delta\)-dense modulo the row sums, allowed sets of density at least \(\frac12\) are row-free through \(D\) with high probability over independent uniform prefixes. Its composition to the goal is that of conj:relative-row-freeness, whose normal-form hypothesis it keeps, with thm:global-closure-gluing and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction. The review proves lem:row-shift-collapse, which shows why density alone is not enough.

What the goal needs

For every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks with independent random prefixes, \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) must be row-free through \(D\approx44t\) with high probability. By lem:first-degree-purity, in the family's first new degree this is directness of its new tops with the row-sum ideal \(R=\sum_ir_i\tilde A\), and in later degrees it is \(n\cap\mathfrak mG=\mathfrak mn\).

Falsification attempt: row-shifted sunflowers

The adversary controls the forms. The sunflower of the absorption entries shares one form \(\ell_0\) exactly, so its members exclude parts of one flat, and covering that flat absorbs its purity defect. A cheaper lever is to share \(\ell_0\) only modulo the row sums: member \(b\) uses \(\ell_0+\rho_b\), \(\rho_b=\sum_ip_{b,i}r_i\), with a different shift for each member. The forms remain dense modulo the row sums, so conj:dense-relative-row-freeness admits them. The flats \(\{L_0+\rho_b=a\}\) are distinct dense flats, so no flat is covered.

lem:row-shift-collapse. In the collision algebra \(\tilde A\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(R=\sum_ir_i\tilde A\) and the occupancy part \(S=s\tilde A\subseteq R\), let \(T\subseteq\tilde A_e\) be spanned by tops \(t_b=P_bq_b\), \(q_b\in\tilde A_{e-2j}\), where each \(P_b=\prod_{i\le j}(\ell_{0,i}+\rho_{b,i})^2\) with \(\rho_{b,i}\in R_1\). Put \(P=\prod_i\ell_{0,i}^2\). Then:

the first-degree purity defect of \(T\), \(\dim\bigl((T+S)\cap R\bigr)/S\), equals \(\operatorname{rank}_G T-\operatorname{rank}_AT\), the ranks of \(T\) in \(G_e=\tilde A_e/S_e\) and in \(A_e=\tilde A_e/R_e\);
\(\operatorname{rank}_AT\le\dim\bigl((P\tilde A_{e-2j}+R_e)/R_e\bigr)\);
so the defect is at least \(\operatorname{rank}_GT-\dim(P\tilde A_{e-2j}\bmod R)\), which grows linearly in the number of members once their tops are independent in \(G\);
normal form removes the collapse. The map \(\mathrm{NF}(\ell)=\ell-\sum_i\ell_{i,1}r_i\) kills \(R_1\), so \(\mathrm{NF}(\ell_{0,i}+\rho_{b,i})=\mathrm{NF}(\ell_{0,i})\). A normalized row-shifted sunflower is an exact sunflower whose shared forms carry constants that may differ between members, so on each value of the constants its members exclude parts of one flat.

Proof. (1) Since \(S\subseteq R\), \(\operatorname{rank}(T+S)+\operatorname{rank}R-\operatorname{rank}(T+R)-\operatorname{rank}S=(\operatorname{rank}(T+S)-\operatorname{rank}S)-(\operatorname{rank}(T+R)-\operatorname{rank}R)\). (2) \((\ell+\rho)^2-\ell^2=2\ell\rho+\rho^2\in R\), and \(R\) is an ideal, so \(P_b\equiv P\) and \(t_b\equiv Pq_b\pmod R\). (3) follows from (1) and (2). (4) \(\mathrm{NF}\) is linear, and \(\mathrm{NF}(r_i)=r_i-r_i=0\) since \(r_i\) has coefficient 1 on \(x_{i,1}\). On the constants: as in the relative-row-freeness entry, \(L=L'+\sum_ia_i(r_i-1)\), so the normalized affine form differs from \(L_0\)'s normalization only by a constant. \(\square\)

The check. row_shifted_sunflower.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_row_shifted_sunflower_20260927/) adds the mode to the relative directness kernel. On 3 × 9 in degree 4, with tops \((\ell_0+\rho_b)^2\ell_b^2\) and the exact sunflower \(\ell_0^2\ell_b^2\) (series.txt):

\(M\)	row-shifted: rank in \(G\), rank mod \(R\), defect	exact sunflower: rank in \(G\), rank mod \(R\), defect
100	100, 100, 0	100, 100, 0
300	300, 222, 78	271, 222, 49
1000	1000, 222, 778	271, 222, 49

Both families have rank 222 modulo \(R\), the dimension of \(\ell_0^2\tilde A_2\) modulo \(R\) (271 − 49), as part 2 predicts. The exact sunflower's defect stops at \(\dim(\ell_0^2G_2\cap\mathfrak mG)=49\), which covering absorbs. The row-shifted defect is \(M-222\) and grows without bound. This is a tops-only model. On small boards a family of such members cannot reach it at density \(\frac12\), since each codimension-2 member excludes about \(\frac19\) of the points. At W_RS's parameters the count depends on the members' first new degree, which is not settled (lem:boolean-top-reduction places it between about \(3.17t\) and \(4t+2\)). Under normal form the question does not arise.

Restatement. conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness is conj:dense-relative-row-freeness with the normal-form hypothesis of conj:relative-row-freeness restored. Truncated row sums are in normal form but fail density. Row-shifted forms are dense but become exact sunflowers under normal form. The composition to the goal is unchanged, since normal form costs nothing: weak unary PHP plus the normalized clauses derives every original clause within degree \(4t+2\). Not falsified; conj:dense-relative-row-freeness without normal form is left open, not refuted, since its family-level failure is not shown.

Obstacle

Directness of the family's new tops with \(R\) beyond joint capacity, for normalized dense forms chosen by an adversary. Normal form makes the images of single forms modulo \(R\) injective, so forms cannot collapse there. Products can still collapse. Single products are covered by conj:shifted-vanishing-criterion, which is unproved for two or more factors. Spans of many products are generic only for random forms (lem:generic-relative-directness), while the adversary's forms are not random. Later degrees need \(n\cap\mathfrak mG=\mathfrak mn\), which first-degree purity does not give, since the top ideal gains generators in several degrees.

Assessment of the line

The line has sharpened. Every threat it has met is a coincidence modulo the row sums:

pure row sums, removed by normal form;
truncated row sums, removed by density;
shared flats, absorbed by covering;
row-shifted shares, removed by normal form.

Each has a proved treatment. What it lacks is a statement that no other coincidence of products survives both hypotheses, and a mechanism for the later degrees. The six research entries since the last review produced three proved lemmas, one refutation and a restated conjecture. None is yet a mechanism for many adversarial products. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Dade's lemma (E. C. Dade, Ann. of Math. 108, 1978), with Carlson's rank varieties: over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), a module over \(\Lambda\cong\overline{\mathbb F}_3[(\mathbb Z/3)^{m-1}]\) is free iff it is free over \(k[u_\alpha]/(u_\alpha^3)\) for every \(u_\alpha=\sum_i\alpha_ir_i\ne0\). Target: the obstacle. Answers. Purity against all row sums would reduce to single row forms \(u_\alpha\). Modulo one \(u_\alpha\), only shifts inside its span collapse, and lem:column-tensor-exactness gives single-form annihilators, so the adversary's collapse would have to show in one direction. Where it breaks: the record refutes a truncated version for general column tensors in special position (ex:truncated-dade-special-position), and the board's own row sums need their own statement. Test. Passed in the smallest case: on the 3 × 5 base, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda=0,0,0,103\) in degrees 1 to 4. All 14 distinct single directions tried (the 10 points of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_9)\) and four random directions over \(\mathbb F_{81}\); one point was run twice) give \(0,0,0,43\). So each detects the first non-free degree exactly and none fails earlier (single_direction.m2, base_3x5.txt). The 3 × 6 run exceeded the 600 s limit in Macaulay2 (base_3x6_3x7_timeout.txt).
The Alon–Füredi theorem (Europ. J. Combin. 14, 1993) and the polynomial method for covering: a polynomial vanishing on all but a few grid points has high degree. Target: absorption, the other half of the obstacle. Answers. A defect can be absorbed only by falls: low-degree functions supported on the union of the members' excluded sets. Degree lower bounds of this kind would show which unions cannot carry falls below the first new degree, and so which collapses are real defects. Test. Not run: the base of column-injective assignments is not a grid, and the needed bound for unions of flats in it has no ready form. It is a proof question, not a computation.
Character-sum equidistribution, the Fourier method behind Ax's theorem (J. Ax, Amer. J. Math. 86, 1964). Target: conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness through point statistics. Answers. If row freeness were implied by equidistribution of low-degree statistics of \(Q\) over the row-residue classes, per-member Fourier bounds would add up over the family, a local-to-global mechanism. Test. Falsified as a detector. Each excluded flat's indicator expands in characters of its own dense forms, which are \(\ell_0+\rho_b\) and \(\ell_b\), and \(\rho_b\) is a linear form like any other. So row-shifted and exact sunflowers have point statistics of the same kind, yet their defects differ, 778 against 49 at \(M=1000\). The defect is a graded phenomenon that point statistics do not see.

Absurd bridges

Gauge fixing (lattice gauge theory; the Faddeev–Popov procedure). Translation: a form defined up to the row sums is a gauge orbit, because on PHP's points, where every row sum is 1, \(\ell+\rho\) and \(\ell\) differ by a constant. The row-sum ideal is the gauge ideal, and a purity defect is an observable that is gauge-trivial but nonzero before fixing. Theorem there: fix a gauge slice transversal to the orbits, and gauge-equivalent configurations become identical. Answers. Fixing the gauge by normal form makes coincidences modulo the row sums exact, and exact coincidences are what the covering mechanism absorbs. Test. Passed: part 4 of lem:row-shift-collapse. Normal form is a gauge slice, it sends every row-shifted sunflower to an exact one, and it costs nothing in the composition. This review's restatement comes from it.
Restricted isometry in compressed sensing (Candès and Tao, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 51, 2005): random measurement matrices keep every sparse set of columns nearly independent. Translation: the members' tops are columns of a measurement matrix into \(A_e=\tilde A_e/R_e\), and directness of any capacity-sized sub-family is a restricted-independence property. Answers. A restricted-independence theorem for structured random matrices, here products of adversarial forms with a random Boolean factor from the prefix, would give directness for all small sub-families at once, which is the batched step. Test. Falsified for shared factors: on 3 × 9 the exact sunflower's rank modulo \(R\) stops at 222 while \(\dim A_4=4419\). So adversarial shared factors break restricted independence, and the randomness must come from the prefix's Boolean factor, which the tops-only model does not include.

Lead follow-up

Lefschetz properties. This cycle checked what the lead could still give beyond capacity. The obstruction found there is a collapse of products modulo the row sums across members, not a failure of a single member's multiplication maps, which is what Lefschetz statements control. Follow-up. Closed: its content is the pullback lemma within capacity, and it gives nothing about cross-member collapse.

Bridge follow-up

Smoothed analysis. This cycle: row-shifted sunflowers show that the adversary's coincidences modulo the row sums are not smoothed by random prefixes, since prefixes randomize only the Boolean factor. Normal form removes the linear coincidences. What smoothing could still do is keep random Boolean factors from creating product collapses, the untested part named in the restricted-isometry bridge. Follow-up. Continuing.
Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion. This cycle tested whether pointwise interactions between members control the defect. Row-shifted and exact sunflowers of dense flats interact pointwise in the same way, yet their defects are 778 and 49 at \(M=1000\) on 3 × 9. Follow-up. Closed: no expansion in pointwise polymer interactions can bound the purity defect, which is invisible to point statistics.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: prove the two-factor case of conj:shifted-vanishing-criterion, by describing \(A_4=\tilde A_4/R_4\) on at least 8 columns as the square criterion described \(A_2\) on 3 columns. It is the base case of directness for product tops under normal form and density. This is proof work: the recorded ranks already fix what the description must give.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:first-degree-purity, lem:generic-relative-directness and its defect formula, lem:sunflower-absorption, and the relative-row-freeness entry's normal-form paragraph and composition. The row-shifted run and the single-direction run are each one invocation. Every number quoted is read from their saved outputs. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived all four parts of lem:row-shift-collapse and checked the composition with normal form restored. It confirmed that the old conjecture is stated as open, not refuted, and matched every quoted number to the saved outputs. It also checked the Tor formulas of single_direction.m2. Its verdict was sound, and its one note, a duplicated direction, is corrected.

Measured timing
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Marked reading and review windows	5 min 32.83 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 44.42 s
Individually measured computation	18 min 54.31 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Triangle-pair criterion: a product of two squares depends only on the span of its forms, and it lies in the row-sum ideal only if a pairing of triangle areas vanishes on every two disjoint column triples. Pencils collinear on every triple escape the criterion, and one exact test finds them outside the ideal on 8 and 10 columns, as the shifted vanishing conjecture predicts

27 September 2026 · Working lemma with a finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-two-factor-criterion. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Triangle-pair criterion: a product of two squares depends only on the span of its forms, and it lies in the row-sum ideal only if a pairing of triangle areas vanishes on every two disjoint column triples. Pencils collinear on every triple escape the criterion, and one exact test finds them outside the ideal on 8 and 10 columns, as the shifted vanishing conjecture predicts”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-triangle-pair-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The directness review reduced first-degree purity for normalized dense families to product tops that stay out of \(R=\sum_ir_i\tilde A\). Its base case is the two-factor case of conj:shifted-vanishing-criterion. The goal needs the non-membership direction: which products of two squares are provably outside \(R\)? The square criterion found its witnesses on three columns. Do products of two squares have witnesses built from two disjoint triples?

General statement. lem:triangle-pair-criterion. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on \(m\) rows and \(N\ge6\) columns, \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\) depends only on the span of \(\ell_1,\ell_2\), up to a nonzero square. If \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\in R_4\), then for every two disjoint column triples \(X,Y\), \(F_{X,Y}=D_X(\ell_1)\otimes D_Y(\ell_2)+D_X(\ell_2)\otimes D_Y(\ell_1)+D_X(\ell_1,\ell_2)\otimes D_Y(\ell_1,\ell_2)=0\) in \(\Lambda^2V\otimes\Lambda^2V\), where \(D_X\) is the triangle-area form defined below.

The lemma

Notation. \(V=\mathbb F_3^m\). A linear form \(\ell\) has column vectors \(u_c\in V\). For an ordered column triple \(X=(x_1,x_2,x_3)\) put \(\alpha=u_{x_1}-u_{x_3}\) and \(\beta=u_{x_2}-u_{x_3}\), and \(\alpha',\beta'\) for \(\ell'\). Define the triangle-area form \(D_X(\ell,\ell')=\tfrac12(\alpha\wedge\beta'+\alpha'\wedge\beta)\in\Lambda^2V\), with \(D_X(\ell)=D_X(\ell,\ell)=\alpha\wedge\beta\). It vanishes iff the three column vectors are collinear. It is unchanged by row-sum shifts, which add one vector to every column.

lem:triangle-pair-criterion.

Span invariance. \(\ell_1^2(\ell_2+a\ell_1)^2=\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\) for every \(a\). Hence \(\prod_{j\le k}\ell_j^2\) changes only by \(\det(g)^2\) when the forms are replaced by \(g\) applied to them, \(g\in GL_k(\mathbb F_3)\).
Product functionals. Let \(X,Y\) be disjoint column sets and \(a+b=d\). Let \(\varphi\) be a functional on \(\tilde A_a(X)\) vanishing on \(R_a(X)\), and \(\psi\) one on \(\tilde A_b(Y)\) vanishing on \(R_b(Y)\), where \(\tilde A(X)\) is the collision algebra of the columns \(X\) with its own row sums. Then \(f\mapsto(\varphi\otimes\psi)(f_{a,b})\) vanishes on \(R_d\), where \(f_{a,b}\) is the bidegree-\((a,b)\) component of \(f\) restricted to the columns \(X\cup Y\).
Triangle pairs. If \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\in R_4\), then \(F_{X,Y}=0\) for all disjoint triples \(X,Y\).
Full triples. If \(m\ge3\) and some triple \(X\) has \(D_X(\ell_1),D_X(\ell_2),D_X(\ell_1,\ell_2)\) linearly independent, and some triple \(Y\) disjoint from \(X\) has one of \(D_Y(\ell_1),D_Y(\ell_2),D_Y(\ell_1,\ell_2)\) nonzero, then \(\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\notin R\).

Proof.

(1) In characteristic 3, \(\ell^3=0\) for every linear form: \(\ell=\sum_cx^c_{u_c}\) with \((x^c_u)^2=0\), so \(\ell^3=6\sum_{c<d<e}x^c_{u_c}x^d_{u_d}x^e_{u_e}=0\). Then \(\ell_1^2(\ell_2+a\ell_1)^2=\ell_1^2\ell_2^2+2a\ell_1^3\ell_2+a^2\ell_1^4=\ell_1^2\ell_2^2\). For \(k\) forms, replacing \(\ell_j\) by \(\ell_j+a\ell_i\) (\(i\ne j\)) changes only the factor \((\ell_j+a\ell_i)^2=\ell_j^2+2a\ell_i\ell_j+a^2\ell_i^2\). The other factors contain \(\ell_i^2\), so the two added terms carry \(\ell_i^3=0\), and the product is unchanged. Elementary operations generate \(SL_k\), and scaling one form by \(\lambda\) multiplies the product by \(\lambda^2\).

(2) Restriction to the columns \(X\cup Y\) is a ring map sending \(r_i\) to \(r_i^X+r_i^Y\). Also \(\tilde A(X\cup Y)=\tilde A(X)\otimes\tilde A(Y)\), since the defining relations \(x_{ic}x_{jc}=0\) each involve one column. For \(g\in\tilde A_{d-1}\) with components \(g_{a',b'}\), the bidegree-\((a,b)\) component of \(r_ig\) is \(r_i^Xg_{a-1,b}+r_i^Yg_{a,b-1}\). Write \(g_{a-1,b}=\sum_ks_k\otimes t_k\). Then \((\varphi\otimes\psi)(r_i^Xg_{a-1,b})=\sum_k\varphi(r_i^Xs_k)\psi(t_k)=0\), since \(r_i^Xs_k\in R_a(X)\). The same holds for the second term.

(3) By the square criterion's three-column computation, \(A_2(X)=\tilde A_2(X)/R_2(X)\cong\Lambda^2V\). The map sends the blocks \((P,Q,Z)\) of the pairs \((x_1x_2),(x_1x_3),(x_2x_3)\) to the class of \(P-Q-Z^{\mathsf T}\), and \(a\otimes b\) to \(a\wedge b\). The blocks of \(\ell\ell'\) are \(u_c\otimes u'_d+u'_c\otimes u_d\). Expanding shows that the class of \(\ell\ell'\) is \(\alpha\wedge\beta'+\alpha'\wedge\beta=2D_X(\ell,\ell')\): the terms \(u_3\wedge u'_3+u'_3\wedge u_3\) cancel. Write \(a,c\) for the restrictions of \(\ell_1,\ell_2\) to \(X\) and \(b,d\) for those to \(Y\). The bidegree-\((2,2)\) part of \((a+b)^2(c+d)^2\) is \(a^2d^2+b^2c^2+4(ac)(bd)\). Its image in \(A_2(X)\otimes A_2(Y)\) is \(4\bigl(D_X(\ell_1)\otimes D_Y(\ell_2)+D_X(\ell_2)\otimes D_Y(\ell_1)+4D_X(\ell_1,\ell_2)\otimes D_Y(\ell_1,\ell_2)\bigr)\), which is \(F_{X,Y}\) since \(4=1\). Every functional on \(\Lambda^2V\otimes\Lambda^2V\) is a sum of products \(\varphi\otimes\psi\), and by (2) each of these vanishes on \(R_4\).

(4) \(F_{X,Y}=\sum_ka_k\otimes b_k\) with \(a_k\) independent is zero only if every \(b_k=0\). \(\square\)

The pairing is apolarity. Put \(q_X(s,t)=D_X(s\ell_1+t\ell_2)=s^2D_X(\ell_1)+2st\,D_X(\ell_1,\ell_2)+t^2D_X(\ell_2)\), a \(\Lambda^2V\)-valued binary quadratic. The apolar pairing of \(A s^2+Bst+Ct^2\) with \(A's^2+B'st+C't^2\) is \(A\otimes C'+C\otimes A'-\tfrac12B\otimes B'\). With \(B=2D_X(\ell_1,\ell_2)\) and \(-\tfrac12\cdot4=1\) in \(\mathbb F_3\), this is exactly \(F_{X,Y}\). So \(F_{X,Y}=\langle q_X,q_Y\rangle\) is \(SL_2\)-invariant, as part 1 requires.

What escapes, and the one test

Two kinds of pencils have \(F_{X,Y}=0\) on every pair of triples.

Pencils whose product vanishes after row-sum shifts. They lie in \(R\), so \(F\) must vanish, and it does. For the opposite pair of ex:opposite-pair-counterexample, all column vectors are multiples of \(e_0\).
Collinear pencils, where every form of the span is collinear on every triple. These are the rank-one pencils \(\ell_1\equiv\lambda\otimes q\) and \(\ell_2\equiv\mu\otimes q'\) (the forms with column vectors \(\lambda_cq\) and \(\mu_cq'\)) that either share the row vector (\(q'=q\)) or share the column profile (\(\mu\) an affine function of \(\lambda\)). Such pencils can be dense modulo the row sums, so the conjecture's hypotheses admit them.

The lemma says nothing about the second kind. If such a pencil lay in \(R\) without vanishing shifts, conj:shifted-vanishing-criterion would be false and the adversary would have a new lever. That makes it a decisive test, run once. make_pairs.py (research/results/odd_prime_two_factor_20260927/) writes five collinear pencils:

common column profile, with values \(\pm1\) split 4 and 4 (resp. 4 and 6), which is outside the lemma's reach;
common profile with dense row vectors;
common profile up to an affine map;
common row vector with general profiles;
common row vector with sign profiles.

There are three controls: an independent rank-one pencil, the overlapping opposite pair, and a dense pair. The script also evaluates \(F\) on every pair of disjoint triples (lemma_predictions.txt). It finds \(F\ne0\) exactly for the independent rank-one and dense controls, and \(F=0\) for the rest. collinear_pencils.cpp computes the reduced row echelon form of \(R_4\) once per board (FLINT, exact mod 3). It tests every pencil unshifted and under 5 random row-sum shifts, on 3 rows with 8 and 10 columns, in one run (collinear_pencils.txt). Results:

all five collinear pencils lie outside \(R\), on both boards and under every shift tried. Membership is unchanged by shifts, and a shift making the product vanish would put it in \(R\), so none of the \(3^m\) shifts makes these products vanish;
the opposite pair lies in \(R\), its unshifted product being zero;
the two controls excluded by the lemma lie outside \(R\), as part 3 requires.

So on the pencils the lemma cannot decide, the exact ranks agree with the conjecture at the smallest boards in its range.

What it means

The mechanism relates to the record's thm:two-form-no-fall-criterion, which also works in \(\Lambda^2V\), over \(\mathbb F_2\) and for falls rather than membership in the row-sum ideal. For the goal, part 4 is an unconditional, adversary-proof sufficient condition for a member's two-form top to stay out of \(\mathfrak mG\). Some triple must carry three independent triangle areas, and a disjoint triple must carry any nonzero one. It needs only 6 columns, so it holds wherever forms have a little non-collinear structure, whatever the other columns do. Part 1 makes tops invariants of the member's span, as members-as-units gluing requires. The open part of the two-factor case is now narrower. It concerns pencils with \(F\equiv0\): classify them on at least 8 columns, prove non-membership for the collinear ones by a one-row or two-row reduction, and show that the rest vanish after shifts. The directness of many tops, which row freeness needs, is untouched.

Process. One test was run, and it was stated as decisive before it was run. The cycle's content is the lemma. A preceding framework fix makes the launcher count programs inside shell wrappers and print the plea against case series at every cycle start.

Next. Classify the pencils with \(F\equiv0\) on \(N\ge8\) columns, and prove the collinear ones outside \(R\). For a common row vector the question reduces exactly to the one-row algebra \(\mathbb F_3[y]/(y_c^2)\) modulo \(\sum_cy_c\). There, \(A_4\) has the dimension given by Wilson's rank formula for the inclusion matrix \(W_{3,4}\) modulo 3 (21 on 8 columns), and the square criterion's four-column quotient is its degree-2 analogue.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:square-criterion (the three-column quotient \(A_2\cong\Lambda^2V\) and its explicit map), lem:row-shift-collapse and conj:shifted-vanishing-criterion. The lemma's prediction script and the kernel agree on every pencil: every pencil with \(F\ne0\) is outside \(R\). A fresh-context reviewer re-derived part 3's bidegree computation through the square criterion's quotient convention, the apolarity scalar and part 4. It checked make_pairs.py's formula and matched every stated outcome to the saved files, and found no duplicate in the record. It required two changes, both adopted: the \(k\)-form step of part 1, and deriving 'no vanishing shift' from non-membership instead of asserting it. Its optional notes (the tensor decomposition and the related theorem) are adopted too.

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Local purity witnesses: row freeness of an allowed set holds in every degree up to \(D\) once functionals built on a few disjoint column blocks see all of its new generators. For products of squares these witnesses are explicit, a coefficient of a product of triangle-area quadratics. What remains is whether such local functionals span the dual of the quotient by the row sums

27 September 2026 · Working lemma and proposition, no computation · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-collinear-pencils. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Local purity witnesses: row freeness of an allowed set holds in every degree up to \(D\) once functionals built on a few disjoint column blocks see all of its new generators. For products of squares these witnesses are explicit, a coefficient of a product of triangle-area quadratics. What remains is whether such local functionals span the dual of the quotient by the row sums”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-local-purity-witnesses.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The triangle-pair criterion gave witnesses on two disjoint column triples that keep one product of two squares out of the row-sum ideal. That is a necessary condition for conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness, not a sufficient one. The planned next step, classifying the pencils those witnesses miss, would descend one more reduction along that necessary condition. This cycle turns the tool toward the sufficient statement: can witnesses on a few disjoint column blocks certify row freeness of a whole family's allowed set, in every degree up to \(D\)?

General statement. prop:local-purity-witnesses. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak unary base, let \(Q\subseteq P\) have top ideal \(n\), and let \(W_d\) be the span of the product functionals on \(A_d=G_d/\mathfrak mG_d\) defined below. For every \(d\le D\), if the pairing of \(n_d\) with \(W_d\) has rank \(\dim(n/\mathfrak mn)_d\), then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,\operatorname{gr}F^Q)_d=0\). lem:triangle-product-formula computes these functionals on products of squares.

Product functionals

Take disjoint column sets \(X_1,\dots,X_r\) and degrees \(d_1+\dots+d_r=d\). For each \(i\) take a functional \(\varphi_i\) on \(\tilde A_{d_i}(X_i)\) vanishing on \(R_{d_i}(X_i)\), where \(\tilde A(X)\) is the collision algebra of the columns \(X\) with its own row sums. Restriction to \(\bigcup_iX_i\) is a ring map, and \(\tilde A(\bigcup_iX_i)=\bigotimes_i\tilde A(X_i)\), since each defining relation \(x_{ic}x_{jc}=0\) involves one column. Put \(\Phi(f)=(\bigotimes_i\varphi_i)(f_{d_1,\dots,d_r})\), with \(f_{d_1,\dots,d_r}\) the multidegree component of the restriction of \(f\).

\(\Phi\) vanishes on \(R_d\). Restriction sends \(r_j\) to \(\sum_ir_j^{X_i}\). For \(g\in\tilde A_{d-1}\), the multidegree-\((d_1,\dots,d_r)\) component of \(r_jg\) is \(\sum_ir_j^{X_i}g_{d-\epsilon_i}\), where \(g_{d-\epsilon_i}\) is the component with \(d_i-1\) in block \(i\). Writing \(g_{d-\epsilon_i}\) as a sum of pure tensors, \(\varphi_i\) kills the \(i\)-th factor \(r_j^{X_i}s\), which lies in \(R_{d_i}(X_i)\). This is part 2 of lem:triangle-pair-criterion for any number of blocks. Since the occupancy part \(S\) lies in \(R\), \(\Phi\) is a functional on \(A_d\). Let \(W_d\subseteq A_d^*\) be the span of all such \(\Phi\).

The proposition

prop:local-purity-witnesses. In the setting of lem:first-degree-purity (\(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P\) row-free through \(D\), \(n\) the top ideal of \(Q\subseteq P\)), let \(d\le D\). If \(\operatorname{rank}\bigl(n_d\times W_d\to\mathbb F_3\bigr)=\dim(n/\mathfrak mn)_d\), then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,G/n)_d=0\). In the first new degree \(e\), where \(\mathfrak mn_e=0\), the condition is that \(W_e\) separates the points of \(n_e\).

Proof. Every \(\Phi\in W_d\) vanishes on \(\mathfrak mG_d\supseteq(\mathfrak mn)_d\), so the pairing factors through \(n_d/(\mathfrak mn)_d\to A_d\to W_d^*\). If its rank is \(\dim(n/\mathfrak mn)_d\), then \(n_d/(\mathfrak mn)_d\to W_d^*\) is injective, hence so is \(n_d/(\mathfrak mn)_d\to A_d\). That is \(n_d\cap\mathfrak mG_d=(\mathfrak mn)_d\), and part 1 of lem:first-degree-purity gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_d=(n\cap\mathfrak mG)_d/(\mathfrak mn)_d=0\). \(\square\)

The converse holds exactly when \(W_d\) separates the image of \(n_d\) in \(A_d\), in particular when \(W_d=A_d^*\). The proposition is a local-to-global statement in the column direction: purity, a condition on all \(N\) columns, is certified by functionals living on \(r\) blocks. For a W_RS member's tops in degree about \(4t\), the blocks cover about \(6t\) columns, far fewer than the board's \(N\) columns.

Witnesses on products of squares

For a column triple \(X\), lem:square-criterion identifies \(A_2(X)\cong\Lambda^2V\). Under it the class of \(\ell\ell'\) is \(2D_X(\ell,\ell')\), with the triangle-area form of lem:triangle-pair-criterion. For forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_k\) put \(q_X(s)=D_X\bigl(\sum_js_j\ell_j\bigr)\), a \(\Lambda^2V\)-valued quadratic form in \(s=(s_1,\dots,s_k)\).

lem:triangle-product-formula. For disjoint triples \(X_1,\dots,X_k\), the image of \(\prod_{j\le k}\ell_j^2\) in \(\bigotimes_iA_2(X_i)\cong(\Lambda^2V)^{\otimes k}\) is \(2^k\,[s_1^2\cdots s_k^2]\prod_{i=1}^kq_{X_i}(s)\), the coefficient of \(s_1^2\cdots s_k^2\) in the product taken in \((\Lambda^2V)^{\otimes k}[s]\) in the order of the blocks. So \(\prod_j\ell_j^2\in R\) forces this coefficient to vanish for all \(k\)-tuples of disjoint triples (\(N\ge3k\)).

Proof. Let \(a_{ij}\in\tilde A_1(X_i)\) be the restriction of \(\ell_j\) to \(X_i\), so that \(\ell_j\) restricts to \(\sum_ia_{ij}\). Expanding \(\prod_j(\sum_ia_{ij})^2\), its multidegree-\((2,\dots,2)\) component is a sum over \(k\times k\) matrices \(M\) of nonnegative integers with every row sum and every column sum 2. Each \(M\) contributes \(\prod_j\bigl(2/\prod_iM_{ij}!\bigr)\prod_{i,j}a_{ij}^{M_{ij}}\), where the factors with row index \(i\) multiply to an element of \(\tilde A_2(X_i)\). Expanding \(\prod_i(\sum_js_ja_{ij})^2\) and taking the coefficient of \(\prod_js_j^2\) sums over the same matrices, with coefficients \(\prod_i\bigl(2/\prod_jM_{ij}!\bigr)\). Both coefficients equal \(2^k/\prod_{i,j}M_{ij}!\). So the component is \([\prod_js_j^2]\prod_i\bigl(\sum_js_ja_{ij}\bigr)^2\). Apply the class maps blockwise: the class of \((\sum_js_ja_{ij})^2\) in \(A_2(X_i)\) is \(2D_{X_i}(\sum_js_j\ell_j)=2q_{X_i}(s)\), coefficientwise in \(s\), by the square criterion's computation. For \(k=2\) this is \(4F_{X,Y}=F_{X,Y}\), the pairing of lem:triangle-pair-criterion. \(\square\)

What it gives, and what is missing

A sufficient criterion for the first new degree. Let a family's first new tops span \(T\), and suppose they are products of squares of the members' forms, as a W clause's top \(\prod_{j\in S}\ell_j^2\cdot\ell_i^2\) is. If the vectors \(\bigl([\prod s^2]\prod_iq^{(b)}_{X_i}\bigr)_{X_1,\dots,X_k}\) of a basis of \(T\) are linearly independent, the family is row-free in that degree. Tops with exponent-one factors \(y^O\) (lem:boolean-top-reduction) need blocks of degree 1: \(A_1(X)\) is the column vectors on \(X\) modulo a common shift, and the same expansion applies.
Later degrees. The proposition needs \(\dim(n/\mathfrak mn)_d\) independent witnesses on \(n_d\): the new generators in degree \(d\), not all of \(n_d\). Multiples of earlier generators by row sums are killed automatically.
The spanning question. The criterion is an equivalence when \(W_d=A_d^*\). Triangle witnesses alone do not span \(A_4^*\): the collinear pencils of the triangle-pair entry are outside \(R\) and killed by every triangle pair. For one row, the zero-marginal functions on \(d\)-sets contain the products of differences \((e_{a_1}-e_{b_1})\cdots(e_{a_d}-e_{b_d})\). These are product functionals on 2-column blocks, the polytabloids that span the Specht module \(S^{(N-d,d)}\) in characteristic 0. The zero-marginal functions on 4-sets of 8 columns are the kernel of the inclusion map to functions on 3-sets, the transpose of \(W_{3,4}(8)\). Wilson's rank formula modulo 3 sums \(\binom8i-\binom8{i-1}\) over \(i\le3\) with \(3\nmid\binom{4-i}{3-i}\), so over \(i=0,2,3\), giving rank \(1+20+28=49\) and kernel dimension \(70-49=21\). The Specht part has dimension 14 in every characteristic: the standard polytabloids are a basis over any field (G. D. James, The Representation Theory of the Symmetric Groups, LNM 682, Theorem 8.4). So over \(\mathbb F_3\) the zero-marginal space exceeds the Specht part by 7. So local spanning over \(\mathbb F_3\) needs witnesses beyond products of differences, and whether bounded blocks suffice is open.

So the line's open content has one more precise form. (i) Local spanning: \(A_d^*\) is spanned by product functionals on blocks of bounded size, for \(d\le D\) and \(N\ge cd\). (ii) Local independence: for normalized dense families under random prefixes, the local witnesses see the new generators in every degree up to \(D\). Statement (i) is about the base alone, with no adversary, and (ii) is where the adversary enters.

Process. This cycle ran no computation. It redirected the planned next step, a classification along a necessary condition, to the sufficient statement, which the finisher's guidance and the rule against descending along reductions both ask for.

Next. Attack local spanning (i) in its first nontrivial case with the representation theory of \(S_N\) in characteristic 3. \(A_d^*\) is an \(S_N\)-module, and the product functionals are the image of an induction from blocks. James's kernel intersection theorem describes the zero-marginal spaces of Young permutation modules in characteristic \(p\), and Wilson's rank formula counts them. Decide whether the char-3 excess over the Specht part is generated by functionals on 3- or 4-column blocks, first for one row, where the square criterion's four-column degree-2 quotient is the candidate generator.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:first-degree-purity (both parts, including part 1's range \(d\le D\)), lem:triangle-pair-criterion (parts 2 and 3 and the class convention of lem:square-criterion), and lem:boolean-top-reduction's form of the tops. No computation was run; for \(k=2\) the formula reproduces the pairing already checked against exact ranks. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived the \(r\)-block vanishing, the proposition's proof and its hedged converse, and the matrix count of the formula with its \(k=2\) case. It required three changes. Two are adopted: a notation clash (\(N\) against the top ideal \(n\)), and a derivation of the dimension 21 from Wilson's formula. Its third doubted that the Specht part keeps dimension 14 modulo 3. That is answered by James's standard basis theorem, now cited, which holds over any field.

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One-row local spanning: in one row, degree 4 and at least 8 columns, the dual of the quotient by the row sum is spanned by local product functionals. These are products of four 2-column differences, plus products of one difference with the all-ones function on the 3-subsets of a 5-column block. The second kind exists only in characteristic 3 and supplies exactly its excess over the Specht module

27 September 2026 · Theorem with a confirming exact check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-local-spanning. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One-row local spanning: in one row, degree 4 and at least 8 columns, the dual of the quotient by the row sum is spanned by local product functionals. These are products of four 2-column differences, plus products of one difference with the all-ones function on the 3-subsets of a 5-column block. The second kind exists only in characteristic 3 and supplies exactly its excess over the Specht module”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-one-row-local-spanning.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. prop:local-purity-witnesses splits the line's conjecture into two statements. Local spanning says that product functionals on bounded column blocks span \(A_d^*\). Local independence says the witnesses see a normalized dense family's new generators. Local spanning concerns the base alone, and its first case is one row in degree 4. There, over \(\mathbb F_3\), the dual is 21-dimensional on 8 columns while the Specht module, spanned by products of differences, is 14-dimensional. Is the excess local?

General statement. thm:one-row-local-spanning. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every \(N\ge8\), the space \(Z_4(N)\) is spanned by two kinds of functions. \(Z_4(N)\) consists of the functions on 4-subsets of \([N]\) whose sums over the supersets of every 3-subset vanish, the dual of \(A_4\) for one row. The two kinds are the polytabloids \((e_{a_1}-e_{b_1})(e_{a_2}-e_{b_2})(e_{a_3}-e_{b_3})(e_{a_4}-e_{b_4})\) and the products \((e_a-e_b)\otimes h_Y\), with \(h_Y\) the all-ones function on the 3-subsets of a 5-set \(Y\) not containing \(a,b\). Both kinds are product functionals, on blocks of 2 and 5 columns.

The theorem and its proof

Notation. For a function \(f\) on \(d\)-subsets and a set \(U\) with \(|U|=i<d\), the marginal is \(m_U(f)=\sum_{S\supseteq U}f(S)\), and \(Z_d(Y)=\{f:m_T(f)=0\text{ for all }|T|=d-1\}\). Here \(A_d\) is the one-row algebra \(\mathbb F_3[y_c]/(y_c^2)\) modulo \(r=\sum_cy_c\) in degree \(d\), and \(Z_d(N)=A_d^*\), since \(f\) kills \(r\,y^T\) iff \(m_T(f)=0\).

Marginal relation. For \(|U|=i\le d-1\), \(\sum_{T\supseteq U,\,|T|=d-1}m_T(f)=(d-i)\,m_U(f)\), because each \(S\supseteq U\) contains \(d-i\) such \(T\). So for \(f\in Z_4(N)\): \(2m_U=0\) for \(|U|=2\), and \(4m_\emptyset=0\), which force those marginals to vanish. For \(|U|=1\) the relation reads \(3m_c=0\) and says nothing. Characteristic 3 leaves exactly the 1-set marginals free.

thm:one-row-local-spanning. For \(N\ge8\), \(Z_4(N)=\operatorname{span}\{\text{polytabloids}\}+\operatorname{span}\{(e_a-e_b)\otimes h_Y\}\).

Proof. Let \(P\) be the span of the polytabloids, \(L\) that of the local products, and \(\mu(f)=(m_c(f))_{c\in[N]}\).

Polytabloids. A polytabloid is the product functional of four degree-1 witnesses \(e_{a_k}-e_{b_k}\), each killing its block's row sum, so it lies in \(Z_4(N)\) by prop:local-purity-witnesses. Its 1-set marginals vanish: for \(c=a_1\), \(m_c\) is the total of the product of the other three differences, and each difference has total 0; for \(c\) outside the pairs, every term carries a factor \(1-1\). So \(P\subseteq\ker\mu\). The standard polytabloids are linearly independent over every field (the standard basis theorem, G. D. James, The Representation Theory of the Symmetric Groups, LNM 682, 1978, Chapter 8), so \(\dim P\ge\binom N4-\binom N3\), the number of standard tableaux of shape \((N-4,4)\).
Local products. \(h_Y\in Z_3(Y)\): each pair in \(Y\) lies in 3 of its 3-subsets, and \(3=0\). Its total is \(\binom53=10\equiv1\). The product \(f=(e_a-e_b)\otimes h_Y\), with \(f(\{a\}\cup V)=h_Y(V)\), \(f(\{b\}\cup V)=-h_Y(V)\) and zero elsewhere, lies in \(Z_4(N)\) by the same product-functional vanishing. Its 1-set marginals are \(m_a=1\) and \(m_b=-1\). For \(c\in Y\), \(m_c(f)=\sum_{V\ni c}h_Y(V)-\sum_{V\ni c}h_Y(V)=0\), since the \(a\)-part and the \(b\)-part cancel. So \(\mu(f)=e_a-e_b\). For \(N\ge7\), every pair \(a,b\) has a disjoint 5-set, so \(\mu(L)=\{g:\sum_cg(c)=0\}\), of dimension \(N-1\).
Counting. Since \(P\subseteq\ker\mu\), \(\dim(P+L)=\dim\mu(P+L)+\dim\bigl((P+L)\cap\ker\mu\bigr)\ge\dim\mu(L)+\dim P\ge\binom N4-\binom N3+N-1\).
Wilson's formula. \(Z_4(N)\) is the kernel of the transpose of the inclusion matrix \(W_{3,4}(N)\). By Wilson's rank formula (R. M. Wilson, European J. Combin. 11 (1990) 609–615), valid for \(N\ge7\), its rank modulo 3 sums \(\binom Ni-\binom N{i-1}\) over \(i\le3\) with \(3\nmid\binom{4-i}{3-i}\), that is over \(i=0,2,3\): rank \(=\binom N3-N+1\). So \(\dim Z_4(N)=\binom N4-\binom N3+N-1\). With step 3, \(P+L=Z_4(N)\), and every inequality is an equality. \(\square\)

The marginal relation explains the count: characteristic 3 leaves the 1-set marginals free, and \(\ker\mu\cap Z_4(N)=P\) is the Specht module \(S^{(N-4,4)}\). That identification is James's kernel intersection theorem for two-part partitions (LNM 682, Chapter 17), which the proof above does not need.

So for every \(N\ge8\) the characteristic-3 excess over the Specht part is exactly the 1-marginal layer, of dimension \(N-1\): the \(i=1\) term of Wilson's formula drops out because \(3\mid\binom32\).

The check

one_row_spanning.py (research/results/odd_prime_local_spanning_20260927/) confirms the finite ingredients exactly (one_row_spanning.txt):

\(\dim Z_4(8)=21\), and the polytabloids span 14;
\(Z_3(Y)\) is 0 for \(|Y|\le4\) and 1-dimensional for \(|Y|=5\), with nonzero total, so 5 columns is the smallest block for the second kind;
polytabloids and the products with 5-blocks span all of \(Z_4(8)\);
\(\dim Z_4(7)=6\), with injective 1-marginals, as the formula gives for the excess layer.

The proof does not depend on the check.

What it means, and the general case

In its first case, local spanning holds with blocks of at most 5 columns. Characteristic 3 does not destroy locality: its extra layer is generated by a 5-column block function, the all-ones triple function, that exists because \(3=0\). For degree \(d\) the marginal relation leaves free exactly the layers \(i<d\) with \(3\mid d-i\). Products with \(h_Y\) shift layers by three. For \(h_Y\otimes h_{Y'}\), the marginals vanish except in layers 0 and 3. This suggests the general statement conj:bounded-block-spanning. For one row and every \(d\), with \(N\ge2d\), \(Z_d(N)\) is spanned by products of 2-column differences and 5-column all-ones triple functions. For \(m\) rows, \(A_d^*\) is spanned by product functionals on blocks of at most 5 columns. A proof for one row would induct over the free layers with James's theorem at each step. The \(m\)-row case needs the row-sum dual decomposed by content under \(GL(V)\), with the one-row case and the triangle functionals of lem:triangle-pair-criterion as its pieces.

For the goal: if bounded-block spanning holds, prop:local-purity-witnesses becomes an equivalence with local witnesses. Row freeness of a W_RS family in every degree up to \(D\) is then a statement about functionals on blocks of at most 5 columns, local independence. That is where density and random prefixes must act.

Process. One small exact check confirmed a hand proof. It was run once, and it computed the ingredients the proof names.

Next. Prove conj:bounded-block-spanning for one row in all degrees, by induction on the free layers with James's kernel intersection theorem. Then extend to \(m\) rows through the \(GL(V)\)-content decomposition.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:local-purity-witnesses (product functionals vanish on the row-sum ideal) and the standard basis theorem and Wilson's rank formula. The hand proof's finite facts (\(h_Y\in Z_3(Y)\), its total and point marginals) are computed in the text and confirmed by the check. A fresh-context reviewer checked the marginal relation, \(h_Y\)'s marginals, the dimension formula against Wilson's formula and the script's output, and the conjecture's hedging. It required two changes, both adopted: the cancellation argument for the marginals on \(Y\), whose first version gave a wrong reason; and not relying on an unconfirmed theorem number for the kernel intersection theorem. The proof now uses a dimension count from the standard basis theorem and Wilson's formula instead.

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One-row bounded-block spanning: for every prime \(p\), every degree \(d\) and \(N\ge2d\), the dual of the one-row quotient by the row sum over \(\mathbb F_p\) is spanned by products of 2-column differences and all-ones \(p\)-subset functions on \((2p-1)\)-column blocks. Its dimension splits into one Specht layer for each \(j\) with \(pj\le d\)

27 September 2026 · Theorem, no computation · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-all-degree-spanning. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “One-row bounded-block spanning: for every prime \(p\), every degree \(d\) and \(N\ge2d\), the dual of the one-row quotient by the row sum over \(\mathbb F_p\) is spanned by products of 2-column differences and all-ones \(p\)-subset functions on \((2p-1)\)-column blocks. Its dimension splits into one Specht layer for each \(j\) with \(pj\le d\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-one-row-bounded-block-spanning.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. thm:one-row-local-spanning proved local spanning for one row in degree 4 over \(\mathbb F_3\). conj:bounded-block-spanning asks for it in every degree and then for \(m\) rows. By prop:local-purity-witnesses, it would make row freeness through \(D\) a statement about bounded column blocks. Does the degree-4 count extend to every degree, and to every odd prime, which the thread's goal covers?

General statement. thm:one-row-bounded-block-spanning. For every prime \(p\), \(d\ge1\) and \(N\ge2d\), the space \(Z_d(N)\) over \(\mathbb F_p\) is spanned by products of \(i\) difference functionals on disjoint column pairs and \(j\) functionals \(h_Y\) on disjoint \((2p-1)\)-column blocks, with \(i+pj=d\). Here \(Z_d(N)\) is the dual of the one-row quotient \(\mathbb F_p[y_c]/(y_c^2)\) modulo \(\sum_cy_c\) in degree \(d\): the functions on \(d\)-subsets whose sums over the supersets of every \((d-1)\)-subset vanish. \(h_Y\) is the all-ones function on the \(p\)-subsets of the block \(Y\). Moreover \(\dim Z_d(N)=\sum_{j\ge0,\,pj\le d}\bigl(\binom N{d-pj}-\binom N{d-pj-1}\bigr)\).

Ingredients

Notation as in thm:one-row-local-spanning: \(m_U(f)=\sum_{S\supseteq U}f(S)\), with \(m_W(f)=f(W)\) when \(|W|=\deg f\) and \(m_W(f)=0\) when \(|W|>\deg f\).

Product marginals. For functionals \(\varphi,\psi\) on disjoint blocks \(B_1,B_2\), \(m_U(\varphi\otimes\psi)=m_{U\cap B_1}(\varphi)\,m_{U\cap B_2}(\psi)\) if \(U\subseteq B_1\cup B_2\), and 0 otherwise. Every \(S\supseteq U\) in the support splits as \(S_1\sqcup S_2\), and the sum factorizes.
Differences. A polytabloid \(\pi=\prod_{k\le i}(e_{a_k}-e_{b_k})\) has \(m_W(\pi)=0\) for every \(|W|<i\): some pair misses \(W\) and contributes the total of \(e_a-e_b\), which is 0. Its value on \(i\)-sets is \(\pi\) itself.
The block \(h_Y\). For \(|Y|=2p-1\) and \(1\le k\le p-1\), each \(k\)-subset of \(Y\) lies in \(\binom{2p-1-k}{p-k}\) of the \(p\)-subsets. That count is \(\equiv0\pmod p\) by Lucas's theorem: in base \(p\), \(2p-1-k\) has digits \((1,p-1-k)\) and \(p-k\) has digits \((0,p-k)\), and \(p-k>p-1-k\). The total is \(\binom{2p-1}p\equiv\binom11\binom{p-1}0=1\). So \(h_Y\in Z_p(Y)\), all its marginals of order \(1\) to \(p-1\) vanish, and its total is 1. For \(p=3\) this is the 5-column all-ones triple function.
Membership, over every field. Let \(f=\varphi_1\otimes\dots\otimes\varphi_r\) on disjoint blocks with \(\varphi_k\in Z_{d_k}(B_k)\), and \(|T|=d-1\). By the product-marginal formula, \(m_T(f)=\prod_km_{T\cap B_k}(\varphi_k)\) if \(T\subseteq\bigcup_kB_k\), and 0 otherwise. Some \(k\) has \(|T\cap B_k|<d_k\). If some \(k\) has \(|T\cap B_k|\le d_k-2\), another block receives more than its degree and its factor vanishes. Otherwise exactly one \(k\) has \(|T\cap B_k|=d_k-1\), and \(m_{T\cap B_k}(\varphi_k)=0\) because \(\varphi_k\in Z_{d_k}(B_k)\). So \(f\in Z_d(N)\). A difference lies in \(Z_1\) of its pair, since its total is 0, and \(h_Y\in Z_p(Y)\). This is the one-row case of the product-functional vanishing of prop:local-purity-witnesses, proved here directly for every \(p\).
Two classical facts. Standard polytabloids of shape \((N-i,i)\) are linearly independent over every field, so the polytabloids of degree \(i\) span a space of dimension \(\binom Ni-\binom N{i-1}\) for \(N\ge2i\) (G. D. James, The Representation Theory of the Symmetric Groups, LNM 682, Chapter 8). Wilson's rank formula (R. M. Wilson, European J. Combin. 11 (1990) 609–615) gives, for \(t\le\min(k,N-k)\), \(\operatorname{rank}_pW_{t,k}(N)=\sum_{i\le t,\ p\nmid\binom{k-i}{t-i}}\bigl(\binom Ni-\binom N{i-1}\bigr)\).

The theorem and its proof

thm:one-row-bounded-block-spanning. Put \(i_j=d-pj\) for \(0\le j\le\lfloor d/p\rfloor\). Let \(L_j\) be the span of the products \(\pi\otimes h_{Y_1}\otimes\dots\otimes h_{Y_j}\), where \(\pi\) is a polytabloid of degree \(i_j\) and the \(Y_l\) are disjoint \((2p-1)\)-blocks disjoint from \(\pi\)'s pairs. Then \(Z_d(N)=\sum_jL_j\), and \(\dim Z_d(N)=\sum_j\bigl(\binom N{i_j}-\binom N{i_j-1}\bigr)\).

Proof.

Upper bound. \(Z_d(N)\) is the kernel of the transpose of \(W_{d-1,d}(N)\), and \(\binom{d-i}{d-1-i}=d-i\). Wilson's formula applies for \(N\ge2d-1\), so \(\dim Z_d(N)=\binom Nd-\sum_{i\le d-1,\ p\nmid d-i}\bigl(\binom Ni-\binom N{i-1}\bigr)\). Since \(\binom Nd=\sum_{i\le d}\bigl(\binom Ni-\binom N{i-1}\bigr)\), this equals the sum over \(i=d\) and the \(i<d\) with \(p\mid d-i\), that is over the \(i_j\).
Triangularity. Let \(\mu_j(f)=(m_U(f))_{|U|=i_j}\). Take a product in \(L_{j'}\) with \(j'<j\), so \(i_{j'}>i_j\). For \(|U|=i_j\), the factor \(m_{U\cap\text{pairs}}(\pi)\) has \(|U\cap\text{pairs}|\le i_j<i_{j'}\), so it vanishes. Hence \(\mu_j(L_{j'})=0\).
Onto the layer. Take a product \(f=\pi\otimes h_{Y_1}\otimes\dots\otimes h_{Y_j}\in L_j\) and \(|U|=i_j\). The factor from \(\pi\) is nonzero only if \(U\) contains \(i_j\) points of the pairs, so \(U\) lies in the pairs and misses the blocks. Then \(m_U(f)=\pi(U)\prod_l\mathrm{total}(h_{Y_l})=\pi(U)\). So \(\mu_j(f)=\pi\), extended by zero. Every polytabloid of degree \(i_j\) occurs: its pairs use \(2i_j\) columns, and the blocks need \((2p-1)j\) more, in all \(2d-j\le N\). So \(\mu_j(L_j)\) is the span of the degree-\(i_j\) polytabloids, of dimension \(\binom N{i_j}-\binom N{i_j-1}\).
Counting. Let \(V_j=L_0+\dots+L_j\). By step 2, \(\mu_j(V_{j-1})=0\), so \(\dim V_j\ge\dim V_{j-1}+\dim\mu_j(L_j)\). For \(j=0\), \(\mu_0\) is the identity, and \(L_0\) is the span of the degree-\(d\) polytabloids. Summing, \(\dim\sum_jL_j\ge\sum_j\bigl(\binom N{i_j}-\binom N{i_j-1}\bigr)\), which equals \(\dim Z_d(N)\) by step 1. Since \(\sum_jL_j\subseteq Z_d(N)\), they are equal. \(\square\)

For \(p=3\) and \(d=4\), the layers are \(j=0\) and \(j=1\), with dimensions \(14+7=21\) on 8 columns, as thm:one-row-local-spanning found. In general the characteristic-\(p\) excess over the Specht module is one layer for each \(j\ge1\) with \(pj\le d\), generated by \(j\) copies of the \((2p-1)\)-block function. The blocks have at most \(\max(2,2p-1)\) columns whatever \(d\) and \(N\). The hypothesis \(N\ge2d\), rather than the \(N\ge2d-1\) that Wilson's formula needs, is used for the layer \(j=0\): the polytabloids of degree \(d\) have Specht dimension only when \(N\ge2d\). The theorem needs no computation: its finite ingredients are Lucas's congruence and the two cited theorems. Its degree-4, \(p=3\) case was confirmed exactly in the previous entry.

What it means

This proves the one-row half of conj:bounded-block-spanning at every prime. In one row, the quotient by the row sum is exactly as local as in characteristic 0: the polytabloids of James's standard basis there, and one extra block type per prime. The \(m\)-row case remains. Split \(A_d^*\) by row content \(\kappa\), the multiset of rows used by a monomial. Each content part is a zero-marginal space of the Young permutation module of the composition \((N-d,\kappa_1,\dots,\kappa_m)\), for the one-step maps merging a row into the empty part. The candidate generators are products of three kinds:

one-color differences;
one-color \(h_Y\) blocks;
the triangle functionals of lem:triangle-pair-criterion, which are two-color 3-column blocks.

The needed count is a multi-color analogue of Wilson's formula.

Process. This cycle ran no computation. The degree-4 count generalized once its layer structure was named, and the only finite facts are Lucas congruences.

Next. Prove the \(m\)-row case of conj:bounded-block-spanning. First find the rank of the multi-color inclusion maps modulo \(p\), a Wilson-type formula for Young permutation modules of compositions \((N-d,\kappa)\), from the literature or by the same triangular count. Then show that the products of the three block types reach it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:one-row-local-spanning (its count, now a special case) and prop:local-purity-witnesses (product-functional vanishing, a ring-map argument valid in every characteristic). The Lucas congruences are computed in the text. A fresh-context reviewer checked Wilson's formula and the telescoping, the Lucas congruences including \(p=2\), the product marginals, triangularity, the layer map and the count. It also tried small cases by hand and matched the dimension formula (\(p=3\), \(d=3\), \(N=6\): 6; \(p=2\), \(d=2\), \(N=4\): the cycle space of \(K_4\), 3), and found no counterexample. Its required change is adopted: a direct proof of membership over every field, since the cited proposition is stated over \(\mathbb F_3\). So is its optional note on \(N\ge2d\).

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Multi-row local spanning: for every content in which no row occurs \(p\) or more times, the dual of the quotient by all row sums in degree \(d\) is spanned by product functionals supported on at most \(2d\) columns. By the chessboard identification, Shareshian and Wachs's join basis of chessboard top homology gives this for distinct rows. Averaging carries it to repetition below \(p\). Only rows used at least \(p\) times remain, where the one-row theorem's extra blocks enter

27 September 2026 · Theorem from imported results, no computation · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-multirow-spanning. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Multi-row local spanning: for every content in which no row occurs \(p\) or more times, the dual of the quotient by all row sums in degree \(d\) is spanned by product functionals supported on at most \(2d\) columns. By the chessboard identification, Shareshian and Wachs's join basis of chessboard top homology gives this for distinct rows. Averaging carries it to repetition below \(p\). Only rows used at least \(p\) times remain, where the one-row theorem's extra blocks enter”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-multirow-local-spanning.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. prop:local-purity-witnesses certifies row freeness through \(D\) by product functionals on few disjoint column blocks, and it is an equivalence if they span \(A_d^*\). thm:one-row-bounded-block-spanning proved spanning for one row. Does it hold for \(m\) rows?

General statement. thm:multirow-local-spanning. Over \(\mathbb F_p\), let \(d\ge1\), \(N\ge2d-1\), and let \(\kappa\) be a content of degree \(d\), a multiset of rows, in which every row occurs at most \(p-1\) times. Then the content-\(\kappa\) part of \(A_d^*\) is spanned by product functionals whose blocks are simplex functionals, each on \(k\) cells and \(k+1\) columns. Here \(A=\tilde A/\sum_ir_i\tilde A\) is the collision algebra on \(m\) rows modulo all row sums. Each functional is supported on at most \(2d\) columns.

Setting

Contents. The row-sum relations preserve content, the multiset of rows of a monomial: \(r_i\) times a monomial of content \(\kappa-e_i\) has content \(\kappa\). So \(A_d^*=\bigoplus_\kappa Z_\kappa\), where \(Z_\kappa\) is the space of functions on column-injective monomials of content \(\kappa\) whose sums over the ways to add one row-\(i\) cell to any monomial of content \(\kappa-e_i\) vanish.
Distinct rows. For \(\kappa=(1^d)\) on a fixed \(d\)-set of rows, lem:zero-marginal-chessboard-cycles identifies \(Z_\kappa\) with the top cycle space \(Z_{d-1}(M_{d,N})=\tilde H_{d-1}(M_{d,N})\) of the \(d\times N\) chessboard complex, over any field. Faces are rook placements. The boundary face missing row \(k\)'s rook carries a sign that depends only on \(k\), so the cycle condition is exactly the vanishing of the one-row marginals.
Simplex functionals. For a set \(A\) of rows and \(B\) of columns with \(|B|=|A|+1\), \(M_{A,B}\) is an orientable pseudomanifold. Its fundamental cycle is \(\rho_{A,B}=\sum_{\sigma}\operatorname{sgn}(\sigma)\tau(\sigma)\), over the bijections \(\sigma:A\cup\{\infty\}\to B\), where \(\tau(\sigma)\) is the rook placement obtained by dropping \(\infty\). For \(|A|=1\) it is a difference \(e_a-e_b\). For \(|A|=2\) it is the hexagon, the triangle functional of lem:triangle-pair-criterion. For \(|A|=k\) it is the functional of \(\Lambda^kV\) on \(k+1\) columns.

The theorem and its proof

thm:multirow-local-spanning. Under the stated hypotheses, \(Z_\kappa\) is spanned by product functionals whose blocks are simplex functionals \(\rho_{A_l,B_l}\) on disjoint column sets \(B_l\), with the rows of the blocks labelled by the content. Each is supported on \(\sum_l(|A_l|+1)\le2d\) columns.

Proof.

Distinct rows, over \(\mathbb Z\). Shareshian and Wachs (J. Shareshian and M. L. Wachs, Torsion in the matching complex and chessboard complex, Adv. Math. 212 (2007) 525–570, arXiv:math/0409054, Theorem 6.3) prove the following for \(m\le n\). The cycles \(\eta(S,T)=\rho_{A_1,B_1}\wedge\dots\wedge\rho_{A_{n-m},B_{n-m}}\), indexed by pairs of standard tableaux, form a basis of \(\tilde H_{m-1}(M_{m,n};\mathbb Z)\). Here the \(B_l\) are disjoint, \(|B_l|=|A_l|+1\), and the \(A_l\) partition the rows. The join of cycles on disjoint vertex sets is the product of the corresponding functionals. Blocks with \(A_l=\emptyset\) are single columns \(\{b\}\). There \(\rho_{\emptyset,\{b\}}\) is the empty rook placement with sign \(+1\), which does not depend on \(b\) and contributes the factor 1. So each basis element depends only on the columns of the nonempty blocks, \(\sum_{A_l\ne\emptyset}(|A_l|+1)\le2d\) of them.
Distinct rows, over \(\mathbb F_p\). For \(N\ge2d-1\), \(M_{d,N}\) is shellable (G. M. Ziegler, Shellability of chessboard complexes, Israel J. Math. 87 (1994) 97–110), so \(\tilde H_{d-2}(M_{d,N};\mathbb Z)=0\). Top cycles over \(\mathbb Z\) form a direct summand of the top chains, since the quotient is the group of boundaries, which is free. So the basis of step 1 reduces to independent vectors modulo \(p\). By universal coefficients, \(\dim_{\mathbb F_p}Z_{d-1}(M_{d,N};\mathbb F_p)=\operatorname{rank}\tilde H_{d-1}(M_{d,N};\mathbb Z)\), so the reductions span.
Repeated rows below \(p\). Give the \(\kappa_i\) copies of row \(i\) distinct virtual labels. A function in \(Z_\kappa\) lifts to a function on \(d\)-rook placements of the virtual rows that is invariant under the group \(S_\kappa=\prod_iS_{\kappa_i}\) permuting copies. The lift lies in the distinct-row space: each virtual row's condition is the original condition for its row. Conversely, invariant elements of the distinct-row space descend. This lift and descent are proved here directly and do not use thm:chessboard-link. They are the dual form of its polarization retract, whose invertibility condition \(\prod_bc_b!\ne0\) is ours with \(c_b=\kappa_b\). Since every \(\kappa_i\le p-1\), \(|S_\kappa|\) is invertible in \(\mathbb F_p\). So \(f=|S_\kappa|^{-1}\sum_{g\in S_\kappa}g\cdot f\). Writing \(f\) as a combination of joins by step 2 and averaging, \(f\) becomes a combination of relabelled joins. After the copies are identified, each is a product functional of the stated kind on the same columns. \(\square\)

What it gives, and what remains

For the goal's use. prop:local-purity-witnesses needs witnesses on few columns, not blocks of constant size. The theorem gives supports of at most \(2d\le2D=O(\log n)\) columns against \(N=n\). So for every content with no row repeated \(p\) times, local witnesses see all of \(A_d^*\), and the local purity criterion is an equivalence on those contents.
Block sizes. The simplex blocks have up to \(d+1\) columns. Whether differences and hexagons alone suffice, as conj:bounded-block-spanning's bound of 5 columns asked, is not settled and is not needed for the goal. That part of the conjecture is set aside in favour of support \(O(d)\).
What remains. Contents in which some row occurs at least \(p\) times. There, \(|S_\kappa|\) is divisible by \(p\), and invariants need not be averages. The one-row theorem shows that exactly then new block types appear: the all-ones \(p\)-subset functions on \((2p-1)\)-column blocks. The natural statement is that \(Z_\kappa\) is spanned by product functionals whose blocks are simplex functionals on distinct rows and one-row blocks \(h_Y\). A proof would combine the triangular layer count of thm:one-row-bounded-block-spanning with the join basis. The dimensions it must reach are the ranks of the multi-row inclusion maps modulo \(p\).

Process. This cycle ran no computation. A literature pass, the Wachs survey and then the Shareshian–Wachs paper's own Theorem 6.3 with Ziegler's shellability, replaced a planned rank formula, and the record's chessboard identification made it apply at once. The downloaded paper and survey stay in local scratch.

Next. Contents with a row used at least \(p\) times. Prove that \(Z_\kappa\) is spanned by products of distinct-row simplex functionals and one-row \(h_Y\) blocks. Run the layer argument of thm:one-row-bounded-block-spanning inside each repeated row, relative to the join basis on the others. A route review is also due soon. It should weigh the local-witness framework, now proved for most contents, against local independence, the half where the adversary acts.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:zero-marginal-chessboard-cycles (the identification and its sign convention) and thm:chessboard-link (the polarization retract for contents with \(\prod_bc_b!\) invertible). Read the statement and construction of Theorem 6.3 in Shareshian–Wachs (arXiv:math/0409054, Section 6), the survey's account (Wachs, Topology of matching, chessboard, and general bounded degree graph complexes, Section 6.3), and the shellability statement for \(n\ge2m-1\) as reported in the survey. A fresh-context reviewer checked the content decomposition and the identification with chessboard cycles. It also checked Theorem 6.3 against the source (the \(A_l\) partition the rows, the \(B_l\) are disjoint, and a join is a product functional in the top dimension), the reduction modulo \(p\) by universal coefficients and shellability, and the averaging step. It found no overclaim. It required two changes, both adopted: the argument that empty blocks carry no column dependence, and a statement that the lift in step 3 is proved directly rather than taken from the record's primal retract.

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Route review of the local-witness line: the sufficient condition for the goal is now an exact local statement. The quotient by the row sums is spanned by explicit local witnesses for every content without a row used \(p\) times, and it has an explicit monomial basis. What remains is local independence of an adversarial family's new generators, the same obstacle as before in a concrete linear-algebra form

27 September 2026 · Route review with two proved tools · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-witness-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the local-witness line: the sufficient condition for the goal is now an exact local statement. The quotient by the row sums is spanned by explicit local witnesses for every content without a row used \(p\) times, and it has an explicit monomial basis. What remains is local independence of an adversarial family's new generators, the same obstacle as before in a concrete linear-algebra form”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-witness-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the directness review, five research entries have worked on the base side of conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness:

triangle pairs;
local purity witnesses;
one-row spanning in degree 4;
in every degree;
multi-row spanning.

What did they change in the missing implication, and where is the adversary now?

General statement. The line's claim remains conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness. With the composition recorded in the relative-row-freeness entry, it gives the goal. By prop:local-purity-witnesses, together with thm:one-row-bounded-block-spanning and thm:multirow-local-spanning, it is equivalent, for every content without a row used \(p\) times, to local independence. That is, the new generators of the allowed set's top ideal in each degree \(d\le D\) are independent modulo \(\mathfrak mn\) under product functionals on at most \(2d\) columns. The review proves two tools for that statement: cor:rsk-monomial-basis and lem:ghost-slater-pairing.

What the goal needs

For every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks of normalized forms, dense modulo the row sums, with independent random prefixes: row freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) through \(D\approx44t\) with high probability. By part 1 of lem:first-degree-purity this is \(n_d\cap\mathfrak mG_d=(\mathfrak mn)_d\) for every \(d\le D\).

What changed

Proved: the base side is local. Take any content with no row used \(p\) times, and any content of one row. Its part of \(A_d^*\) is spanned by products of simplex functionals (differences, hexagons and their \(k\)-row analogues) and, for one row, the \((2p-1)\)-column blocks. All of these are supported on at most \(2d\) columns. Then prop:local-purity-witnesses is an equivalence: purity holds iff local witnesses see the new generators.
Not changed: the adversarial core. Since the framework is an equivalence, local independence is conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness restated. The restatement is concrete: explicit witnesses, an explicit basis (below), and closed-form witness values (below). No mechanism yet uses density or random prefixes to prove it.
Open on the base side. Contents with a row used at least \(p\) times, where one-row blocks and simplex blocks must combine. The one-row theorem covers only contents made of a single row, so contents mixing a heavily repeated row with other rows are not yet covered, and the equivalence is stated without them.

Two tools

cor:rsk-monomial-basis. Over \(\mathbb F_p\), for \(N\ge2d-1\) and a content of \(d\) distinct rows, the content part of \(A_d\) has as a basis the classes of the monomials \(\gamma(S,T)\) of Shareshian–Wachs. These are the rook placements obtained from pairs of standard tableaux by inverse Robinson–Schensted.

Proof. Adding one rook is the coboundary of the chessboard complex, up to signs depending only on the row. So the content part of \(A_d\), which is \(\tilde A_d\) modulo \(r_i\) times degree \(d-1\), is the top cohomology \(\tilde H^{d-1}(M_{d,N})\). This is the dual of lem:zero-marginal-chessboard-cycles. In the proof of Theorem 6.3 (Adv. Math. 212 (2007), Section 6, from their (6.5) and (6.6)), Shareshian and Wachs order the pairs by the lexicographic order of \(\mathrm{RS}^{-1}(S^*,T)\), which makes the matrix \(\langle\eta(S_i,T_i),\gamma(S_j,T_j)\rangle\) unitriangular over \(\mathbb Z\). It stays unitriangular modulo \(p\), so the classes of the \(\gamma\) are independent in \(A_d\) over \(\mathbb F_p\). Their number is \(|P_{d,N}|=\operatorname{rank}\tilde H_{d-1}(M_{d,N};\mathbb Z)\). By step 2 of thm:multirow-local-spanning's proof, this is \(\dim_{\mathbb F_p}Z_\kappa\), and \(Z_\kappa\) is the dual of the content part of \(A_d\), so it equals that part's dimension. \(\square\)

So membership in \(\mathfrak mG\) for distinct-row contents has a normal form: reduce to the standard monomials \(\gamma(S,T)\). Their number is the number of pairs of standard tableaux of the prescribed shapes. Contents with rows repeated below \(p\) follow by averaging.

lem:ghost-slater-pairing. For rows \(A=\{a_1,\dots,a_k\}\), columns \(B\) with \(|B|=k+1\), and linear forms \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_k\) with coefficients \(\ell_j(a,b)\) on the cells:

\[\bigl\langle\rho_{A,B},\ \ell_1\cdots\ell_k\bigr\rangle=\sum_{\pi\in S_k}\det\begin{pmatrix}1&\cdots&1\\ \bigl(\ell_{\pi(s)}(a_s,b)\bigr)_{s\le k,\,b\in B}\end{pmatrix},\]

a sum of \((k+1)\times(k+1)\) determinants bordered by a ghost row of ones. Here the pairing counts only the monomials of content \(A\) in \(B\), which use each row of \(A\) once.

Proof. \(\rho_{A,B}=\sum_\sigma\operatorname{sgn}(\sigma)\tau(\sigma)\) over bijections \(\sigma:A\cup\{\infty\}\to B\). The coefficient of the monomial \(\prod_sx_{a_s,\sigma(a_s)}\) in \(\ell_1\cdots\ell_k\) is \(\sum_\pi\prod_s\ell_{\pi(s)}(a_s,\sigma(a_s))\). Summing over \(\sigma\) with signs, and giving the ghost row \(\infty\) the entries 1, gives the determinant expansion for each \(\pi\). \(\square\)

For \(k=1\) this is \(\ell(a,b)-\ell(a,b')\), the difference. For \(k=2\) on a triple, the two determinants are \(\alpha_a\beta'_b-\beta_a\alpha'_b\) and \(\alpha'_a\beta_b-\beta'_a\alpha_b\), with \(\alpha,\beta\) as in lem:triangle-pair-criterion (subtract the third column). Their sum is the \((a,b)\) component of \(\alpha\wedge\beta'+\alpha'\wedge\beta=2D_X(\ell,\ell')\), as that lemma found. So witness values are sums of bordered minors of the forms' coefficient matrices on the block's columns, invariant under row-sum shifts because the ghost row absorbs them.

Falsification attempt

Low-rank families. Suppose all \(M\) members draw their forms from one space \(W\) of \(w\) normalized dense forms, with \(M\) far larger than any count of tops in \(W\). Then all tops lie in the subalgebra generated by \(W\), and their dependencies modulo \(\mathfrak mG\) exceed their dependencies in \(G\) only through \(\mathbb F_3[W]\cap\mathfrak mG\).

By the bordered-minor formula, a witness vanishes on \(\mathbb F_3[W]\) in degree \(d\) iff all its bordered minors on elements of \(W\) cancel. For \(W\) spanned by forms dense modulo the row sums, generic minors do not cancel, by lem:generic-relative-directness applied inside \(\mathbb F_3[W]\). The record's pinned-rank vacuity settles low rank modulo few pinned forms.

Not falsified: no low-rank family is known to lose purity under normal form and density. The attempt gives no proof either, because the adversary's \(W\) need not be generic.

Obstacle

Local independence for adversarial normalized dense forms under random prefixes. Take the new generators in each degree \(d\le D\): the members' tops \(y^O\tau(A_O)(y^2)\), with Boolean factors chosen by the prefixes, and later generators from their interaction. Written in the monomial basis \(\gamma(S,T)\), or paired against the witnesses \(\prod\rho_{A_l,B_l}\) through bordered minors, they must be independent modulo \(\mathfrak mn\). The forms are the adversary's, and randomness enters only through the Boolean factors.

Assessment of the line

The five entries turned the line's sufficient condition into an exact, explicit linear-algebra statement. They proved the base-side half at every prime, outside rows used \(p\) times, with standard tools: James, Wilson and Lucas for one row, Shareshian–Wachs and Ziegler for many rows. That is real progress in precision, and the base side will not need revisiting. The adversarial half is where the line has always stood, and these entries did not touch it. The next cycles must attack local independence directly, first where it is smallest: the first new degree, members' tops of product-of-squares form, and families beyond joint capacity. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

The Schwartz–Zippel lemma, polynomial identity testing over the prefixes. Target: local independence, with the prefix as the random input. Answers. If the witness pairing matrix of a family's tops were a polynomial in the prefix entries and not identically singular, a random prefix would make it nonsingular. Test. Falsified in this formulation. By lem:boolean-top-reduction, a member's tops depend on its prefix \(C\) only through the kernel pattern set \(K\) of \(C\), not polynomially in \(C\)'s entries. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the field is also too small for the degree bound. A version over the random choice of \(K\) would need a combinatorial replacement of the degree bound.
Kruskal's uniqueness theorem for tensor decompositions (J. B. Kruskal, Linear Algebra Appl. 18 (1977) 95–138): sums of rank-one tensors with factor matrices of large Kruskal rank are independent and unique. Target: local independence through the block structure of witnesses. Answers. Restricted to disjoint column blocks, a top \(\prod_j\ell_j\) becomes a tensor over the blocks. If tops were rank-one tensors, density (large Kruskal ranks of the forms' block restrictions) would force independence. Test. Falsified in the naive form. The multidegree expansion in the triangle product formula shows that a top's block tensor is a sum over all assignments of forms to blocks, not one rank-one term. A symmetric-tensor version (Waring rank, with the assignments as a symmetrization) is the formulation still open.
Standard monomial theory through Robinson–Schensted (Shareshian–Wachs, Theorem 6.3, as cor:rsk-monomial-basis). Target: local independence as a normal-form computation. Answers. Reduction to the monomials \(\gamma(S,T)\) is a normal form for \(A\). Independence of tops then means independence of their normal forms, a leading-term question in which density could supply distinct leading monomials. Test. Passed: cor:rsk-monomial-basis is proved above, and its count matches \(\dim A_d\). Whether leading terms of adversarial tops are distinct is the development question.

Absurd bridges

Slater determinants and the Slater–Condon rules (quantum chemistry). Translation: rows are particles, columns are orbitals, and column-injectivity is Pauli exclusion. A simplex functional \(\rho_{A,B}\) is a Slater determinant of \(|A|\) particles in \(|A|+1\) orbitals with one hole, carried by a ghost particle. A top is a product state of the forms. Answers. The Slater–Condon rules compute overlaps of determinants with product states as sums of minors. Local independence then becomes nondegeneracy of a Gram-type matrix of bordered minors, where density means many nonvanishing minors. Test. Passed: lem:ghost-slater-pairing is that overlap formula, proved above and checked against the difference (\(k=1\)) and the triangle-area form (\(k=2\)).
Patience sorting (computer science), the algorithm behind Robinson–Schensted insertion. Translation: a monomial of distinct-row content is a partial permutation, and its RS shape is computed by patience sorting. By Greene's theorem the shape records longest increasing and decreasing subsequences. Answers. Normal forms modulo the row sums would be computable by a sorting procedure, and independence of tops could be read from sortedness statistics of their monomials. That would be a combinatorial handle on the obstacle. Test. Not run: the reduction of an arbitrary monomial to the \(\gamma\) basis is not derived. cor:rsk-monomial-basis gives the basis, not the rewriting rule. Deriving it is the smallest test.

Lead follow-up

Dade's lemma. This cycle: the local-witness framework made single directions unnecessary on the base side, since spanning is proved directly. Its remaining use is on the adversarial side. For one direction \(u_\alpha=\sum_i\alpha_ir_i\), a change of row basis makes \(u_\alpha\) a single row sum, so the one-row theorem's witnesses describe the dual of \(\tilde A/u_\alpha\tilde A\). Local independence could then be checked one direction at a time, if a truncated Dade statement holds for the board's own row sums. Its smallest test, the 3 × 5 base, passed in the directness review. Follow-up. Continuing.

Bridge follow-up

Smoothed analysis. This cycle: the Schwartz–Zippel lead shows how randomness enters local independence, through the kernel patterns of the prefixes and not polynomially. The smoothing question is now whether random kernel patterns keep the members' Boolean factors in general position against the witness basis. Follow-up. Continuing.
Gauge fixing. Its content, normal form as a gauge slice, is built into conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness. In the witness framework the ghost row of lem:ghost-slater-pairing makes every witness shift-invariant, so gauge invariance is automatic on the witness side. Follow-up. Closed: fully used, and the witness formalism makes it automatic.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: attack local independence in its smallest adversarial case, the first new degree of a family of W clauses with tops \(\prod_{j\in S}\ell_j^2\cdot\ell_i^2\), beyond joint capacity. Write the tops in the \(\gamma(S,T)\) basis for distinct-row contents, and look for a leading-term argument in which normal form and density give distinct leading monomials to distinct members' tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the five entries of the line and the claims they register. Also re-read Shareshian–Wachs Section 6: Theorem 6.3, the unitriangularity of the pairing of \(\eta\) with \(\gamma\), and the definition of cohomology as cocycles modulo coboundaries. And re-read lem:boolean-top-reduction for the Schwartz–Zippel test. A fresh-context reviewer recomputed the determinant expansion, the case \(k=2\) exactly (the case \(k=1\) up to a column-order sign) and the shift invariance. It found the test outcomes justified and no overclaim. It required two changes, both adopted. First, confirm the unitriangularity of the \(\eta\)–\(\gamma\) pairing in the paper itself: it is stated in the proof of Theorem 6.3, from (6.5) and (6.6), and is now cited there. Second, make the dimension step explicit.

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Normalized quotient: after normal form, the quotient by all row sums is the row-sum-free collision algebra on the other \(N-1\) columns modulo the products of truncated row sums, and the occupancy relation becomes the square of the truncated occupancy. So first-degree purity of a normalized family is one statement in a row-sum-free algebra: its new tops meet the ideal of the quadratic space \(S^2U\) only in \(s'^2\)-multiples

27 September 2026 · Theorem, no computation · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-first-degree-independence. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Normalized quotient: after normal form, the quotient by all row sums is the row-sum-free collision algebra on the other \(N-1\) columns modulo the products of truncated row sums, and the occupancy relation becomes the square of the truncated occupancy. So first-degree purity of a normalized family is one statement in a row-sum-free algebra: its new tops meet the ideal of the quadratic space \(S^2U\) only in \(s'^2\)-multiples”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-normalized-quotient.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. The witness review reduced conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness to local independence: the new generators must stay independent modulo the row sums. Normal form takes the forms off column 1. What exactly does the quotient by the row sums look like on normalized elements, and what does purity then ask of a family's tops?

General statement. thm:normalized-quotient. Over any field, let \(\tilde A\) be the collision algebra on \(m\) rows and \(N\ge2\) columns, and \(\tilde A'\) the collision algebra on columns \(2,\dots,N\) with no row sums imposed. Put \(r'_i=\sum_{c\ge2}x_{ic}\), \(U=\operatorname{span}(r'_i)\) and \(s'=\sum_ir'_i\). Then:

\(\tilde A/\sum_ir_i\tilde A\cong\tilde A'/(U^2)\), where \((U^2)\) is the ideal generated by the products \(r'_ir'_j\) for all \(i,j\), squares included;
\(\tilde A'\cap s\tilde A=s'^2\tilde A'\), for \(m\ge1\);
in the setting of lem:first-degree-purity (over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(m\ge1\)), for a family whose new tops in its first new degree \(e\) are the images of a subspace \(T\subseteq\tilde A'_e\), for instance polynomials in normalized forms, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\operatorname{gr}F^Q)_e\cong\bigl((T+s'^2\tilde A')\cap(U^2)\bigr)_e/(s'^2\tilde A')_e\).

Proof

\(\tilde A=\tilde A'\otimes C\), where \(C=F\oplus V_1\) is column 1's algebra, with \(x_{i1}x_{j1}=0\). This holds because each defining relation \(x_{ic}x_{jc}=0\) involves a single column. So every element is \(g_0+\sum_ix_{i1}g_i\) with \(g_0,g_i\in\tilde A'\) uniquely.

(1) Modulo \(r_i=x_{i1}+r'_i\), every \(x_{i1}\) is congruent to \(-r'_i\), so \(\tilde A'\to\tilde A/R\) is onto, where \(R=\sum_ir_i\tilde A\). Its kernel is \(\tilde A'\cap R\). The substitution \(x_{i1}\mapsto-r'_i\) defines a ring map \(\tilde A\to\tilde A'/(U^2)\): it respects \(x_{i1}x_{j1}=0\) because \(r'_ir'_j\in(U^2)\), and it kills every \(r_i\). So \(\tilde A'\cap R\subseteq(U^2)\). Conversely \(r'_ir'_j=r_ir'_j-x_{i1}r'_j\), and \(x_{i1}r'_j=x_{i1}(r_j-x_{j1})=x_{i1}r_j\), so \(r'_ir'_j=r_ir'_j-x_{i1}r_j\in R\). Hence \(\tilde A'\cap R=(U^2)\), which gives (1). This contains lem:truncated-row-sums, the case of column 1, and says those products are all the relations.

(2) Let \(f\in\tilde A'\) with \(f=sg\), \(g=g_0+\sum_ix_{i1}g_i\). Since \(s=s'+\sum_ix_{i1}\), \(sg=s'g_0+\sum_ix_{i1}(g_0+s'g_i)\), using \(x_{i1}x_{j1}=0\). For \(f\in\tilde A'\) the column-1 parts vanish: \(g_0=-s'g_i\) for every \(i\). So \(f=s'g_0=-s'^2g_i\in s'^2\tilde A'\). Conversely \(s'^2h=s\cdot(s'h-\sum_ix_{i1}h)\), by the same expansion.

(3) \(G=\tilde A/(s)\) and \(A=G/\mathfrak mG=\tilde A/R\), with \(s\in R\). By (2), the image of \(\tilde A'\) in \(G\) is \(\tilde A'/s'^2\tilde A'\), and by (1) its image in \(A\) is \(\tilde A'/(U^2)\), with \(s'^2\in(U^2)\). In the first new degree, part 2 of lem:first-degree-purity gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_e=\ker(n_e\to A_e)\), with \(n_e\) the image of \(T\) in \(G_e\). An element \(t+s'^2h\) of the preimage in \(\tilde A'\) maps to zero in \(A\) iff it lies in \((U^2)\). So the kernel is \(\bigl((T+s'^2\tilde A')\cap(U^2)\bigr)_e/(s'^2\tilde A')_e\). \(\square\)

Checks against the record. On 3 columns, \(A_2=\tilde A'_2/(U^2)_2=V\otimes V/\operatorname{Sym}^2V=\Lambda^2V\), since \(r'_ir'_j=x_{i2}x_{j3}+x_{j2}x_{i3}\) spans the symmetric tensors. That is lem:square-criterion's three-column quotient. For one row on 4 columns, \(\tilde A'_2\) is 3-dimensional and \((U^2)_2\) is spanned by \(r'^2=2(y_2y_3+y_2y_4+y_3y_4)\), so \(\dim A_2=2\), as the square criterion's four-column computation requires. The identification \(V\otimes V/\operatorname{Sym}^2V=\Lambda^2V\) uses characteristic \(\ne2\).

What it means

After normal form, the row sums disappear as generators. What remains is one quadratic ideal \((U^2)\) in an algebra without row sums, generated by the products of the \(m\) truncated row sums, dense forms whose column vectors are all equal. The occupancy relation becomes \(s'^2\), which lies in \((U^2)\). Purity in the first new degree asks that a family's tops meet \((U^2)\) only in multiples of \(s'^2\). The record's row-sum results read as statements about \((U^2)\), each with the status it has in the record:

truncated row sums: \(\rho_i\rho_k\) is literally a generator;
the square criterion (proved, lem:square-criterion): for normalized \(\ell\), \(\ell^2\in(U^2)\) iff \(\ell\) is single-column modulo the row sums;
the row-shift collapse (proved, lem:row-shift-collapse): row-sum shifts change a top only modulo the row-sum ideal, which after normalization is \((U^2)\);
the shifted vanishing criterion (a conjecture, conj:shifted-vanishing-criterion): which products of squares lie in \((U^2)\).

Local independence for normalized families is now a statement about how far an adversary's products of squares can reach into the ideal generated by one \(m\)-dimensional space of very special forms. This is where density modulo \(U\) must act. A natural mechanism is a grading by \(U\)-order: an element of \((U^2)\) has \(U\)-order at least 2, while a product of squares of forms independent from \(U\) should have order 0 unless its factors conspire. The collinear pencils outside \(R\) are consistent with this.

Process. This cycle ran no computation. A two-line substitution replaced the row-sum ideal by a quadratic ideal in a smaller algebra. This is the gauge-fixing bridge of the directness review carried out algebraically, and that review closed the bridge as fully used.

Next. Define a \(U\)-adic filtration on \(\tilde A'\) and prove that a product of squares of forms whose span meets \(U\) trivially, under a density condition, has \(U\)-order 0. Then attempt the family statement: \(T\cap(U^2)\subseteq s'^2\tilde A'\) for tops of normalized dense members, by comparing leading \(U\)-free parts.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:truncated-row-sums (the containment \(\rho_i\rho_k\in\mathfrak mG\), which part 1 upgrades to an isomorphism) and lem:first-degree-purity (part 2, first new degree). Re-read lem:square-criterion's three- and four-column computations, which the checks reproduce. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived parts 1 to 3 and both checks. It required three changes, all adopted: that \((U^2)\) includes the squares \(r'^2_i\), the reason for the tensor decomposition, and a softer list in 'What it means' giving each result's status in the record. Its optional notes (\(m\ge1\), characteristic \(\ne2\)) are adopted too.

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Column peeling: in degrees up to \(N/2\), the quotient by the row sums on \(N\) columns splits as the quotient on \(N-1\) columns plus \(m\) shifted copies of it, so the \(U\)-order filtration of the normalized quotient splits. Its order-0 condition is purity on \(N-1\) columns, a transfer of the record's spare-column shape, so the filtration gives no new mechanism against the adversary

27 September 2026 · Working lemma and a negative assessment of one proposed mechanism, no computation · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-u-order. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Column peeling: in degrees up to \(N/2\), the quotient by the row sums on \(N\) columns splits as the quotient on \(N-1\) columns plus \(m\) shifted copies of it, so the \(U\)-order filtration of the normalized quotient splits. Its order-0 condition is purity on \(N-1\) columns, a transfer of the record's spare-column shape, so the filtration gives no new mechanism against the adversary”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-column-peeling.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. thm:normalized-quotient wrote the quotient by the row sums as \(\tilde A'/(U^2)\), with \(U\) the span of the truncated row sums on columns \(2,\dots,N\). It proposed a \(U\)-order filtration as a mechanism for local independence: a product of squares of forms independent from \(U\) should have \(U\)-order 0 unless its factors conspire. Does the filtration give a mechanism?

General statement. lem:column-peeling. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for \(m\) rows and \(d\le N/2\), let \(A(N)\) be the collision algebra modulo all row sums on \(N\) columns. Then \(A(N)_d\cong A(N-1)_d\oplus U\otimes A(N-1)_{d-1}\), and \(\dim A(N)_d=\dim A(N-1)_d+m\dim A(N-1)_{d-1}\). In \(\tilde A'\), the element \(t\) lies in \((U^2)\) iff its order-0 part (its class in \(A(N-1)\)) and its order-1 part (its \(U\)-linear coefficient in \(U\otimes A(N-1)\)) both vanish.

The lemma

lem:column-peeling. Let \(\Lambda'=\mathbb F_3[r'_1,\dots,r'_m]/(r_i'^3)\), acting on \(\tilde A'\), and \(\mathfrak m'=(r'_i)\). By thm:tensor-power-freeness on the \(N-1\) columns of \(\tilde A'\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\Lambda'}(\mathbb F_3,\tilde A')_c=0\) for every content with \(N-1\ge2|c|-1\), that is \(|c|\le N/2\). Take a graded complement \(C\) of \(\mathfrak m'\tilde A'\), so \(C\cong\tilde A'/\mathfrak m'\tilde A'=A(N-1)\). The minimal cover \(\Lambda'\otimes C\to\tilde A'\) is then bijective in degrees \(\le N/2\), by graded Nakayama. It is onto. Its kernel \(K\) satisfies \(\mathbb F_3\otimes K\cong\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in the lowest degree where \(K\ne0\). The range condition for degree \(d\) implies it for every smaller degree, so induction on the degree gives \(K=0\) through \(N/2\). So in those degrees \((U^2)=\mathfrak m'^2\tilde A'\cong\mathfrak m'^2\otimes C\), and with thm:normalized-quotient,

\[A(N)_d=\tilde A'_d/(U^2)_d\cong\bigl((\Lambda'/\mathfrak m'^2)\otimes C\bigr)_d=C_d\oplus U\otimes C_{d-1}.\]

Since \(\Lambda'\) is graded with \(\Lambda'_1=U\), the order-0 and order-1 parts of an element are its components in \(\Lambda'_0\otimes C\) and \(\Lambda'_1\otimes C\) in the free decomposition. The element lies in \(\mathfrak m'^2\tilde A'\) iff both vanish. \(\square\)

Check. One row, \(d=4\), \(N=8\): \(\dim A(8)_4=21\) (thm:one-row-local-spanning), \(\dim A(7)_4=\dim Z_4(7)=6\), and \(\dim A(7)_3=\dim Z_3(7)=15\), from the saved one_row_spanning.txt. Indeed \(21=6+1\cdot15\). The range \(d\le N/2\) is needed. On 3 rows and 3 columns in degree 2, outside it, the formula would give \(0+3\cdot3=9\), while \(A_2=\Lambda^2V\) has dimension 3.

What it gives for the adversary

A combination \(t=\sum_bc_bt_b\) of normalized tops lies in the row-sum ideal on \(N\) columns only if two things hold. First, its order-0 part vanishes: \(t\) lies in the row-sum ideal of the board on columns \(2,\dots,N\), where the forms need not be in normal form. Second, its \(U\)-linear coefficient vanishes. The first condition is purity of the same tops on one column fewer. So the filtration gives: purity on \(N-1\) columns implies purity on \(N\) columns for forms avoiding column 1, in degrees up to \(N/2\). This has the shape of the record's spare-column transfer (lem:spare-column-transfer): spare room carries purity up from a smaller board. It does not have that lemma's range. With one spare column, that lemma certifies only degree \(t\le1\). The range \(d\le N/2\) here comes from the global freeness of all \(N-1\) columns (thm:tensor-power-freeness). Either way, the statement does not turn density into independence. The proposed mechanism, "\(U\)-order 0 unless the factors conspire", comes down to purity one board down. Iterated, it demands purity on ever smaller boards, which are harder. So the filtration is closed as a mechanism for local independence. The splitting itself is kept: it gives a dimension recursion for \(A(N)\), and it decomposes membership tests into two smaller ones.

Process. This cycle ran no computation. The proposed mechanism was tested by working out the structure it rests on, and it reduced to a recorded result within the cycle. The check reused saved numbers.

Next. Return to the witness review's plan for local independence. Write W clause tops \(\prod_{j\in S}\ell_j^2\cdot\ell_i^2\) of a normalized family beyond joint capacity in the monomial basis \(\gamma(S,T)\) of cor:rsk-monomial-basis. Look for a leading-term order in which each member's top has a leading monomial determined by its own forms' supports, so that density separates members.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:tensor-power-freeness (its range \(N\ge2|c|-i\), applied with \(i=1\) on \(N-1\) columns), thm:normalized-quotient (parts 1 and 2), and lem:spare-column-transfer (the recovered statement). A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the Nakayama step, the splitting, the membership criterion and both checks. It required two changes, both adopted: the induction on degree in the Nakayama step, and replacing the identification with lem:spare-column-transfer by a comparison. The two share a shape, but their ranges differ, and the range here comes from global freeness.

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Single-direction sectors: freeness along one rational row-sum direction forces the three level sets of that direction in the allowed set to have one common Hilbert function, and the allowed set's Hilbert function to be its threefold convolution. Full residue sectors carry no such information below \(D\), since their indicators have degree \(2(m-1)\). So point-set criteria for row freeness exist only one direction at a time, which is the Dade lead's setting

27 September 2026 · Proposition, no computation · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-leading-terms. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Single-direction sectors: freeness along one rational row-sum direction forces the three level sets of that direction in the allowed set to have one common Hilbert function, and the allowed set's Hilbert function to be its threefold convolution. Full residue sectors carry no such information below \(D\), since their indicators have degree \(2(m-1)\). So point-set criteria for row freeness exist only one direction at a time, which is the Dade lead's setting”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-single-direction-sectors.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3. Development of the Dade lead of the directness review. The witness line turned conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness into local independence, which no mechanism has reached, and the record's results about random-prefix allowed sets concern Hilbert functions of point sets. Can row freeness be read off Hilbert functions of point sets? Multiplication by an \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued row-sum combination \(u\) acts on functions on \(Q\) as the scalar \(a\) on the level set \(\{u=a\}\).

General statement. prop:single-direction-sectors. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for any \(Q\subseteq P\) and any row-sum combination \(u=\sum_i\alpha_ir_i\) with \(\alpha\in\mathbb F_3^m\) not constant, with level sets \(Q_a=Q\cap\{u=a\}\):

the generator count \(C_u\) of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) over \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) bounds every level set's Hilbert function from above;
\(H_Q\) is at most the threefold convolution of \(C_u\), with equality through \(D\) iff \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) through \(D\);
in that case all three level sets have Hilbert function \(C_u\) through \(D-2\).

The proposition

Notation. \(F_d\) is the space of functions on \(Q\) of degree at most \(d\), \(H_Q(d)=\dim F_d\), and \(H_a(d)=\dim F_d(Q_a)\). \(u\) acts on \(F^Q\), raising degree by at most 1, and \(u^3=u\) as functions, so \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is a module over \(\Lambda_u=\mathbb F_3[\rho]/(\rho^3)\), with \(\rho\) the class of \(u\). \(C_u(d)=\sum_{e\le d}\dim\bigl(F_e/(F_{e-1}+uF_{e-1})\bigr)\) is the cumulative number of minimal generators.

prop:single-direction-sectors.

For every \(a\) and \(d\): \(C_u(d)\ge H_a(d)\) and \(H_Q(d)\le C_u(d)+C_u(d-1)+C_u(d-2)\).
\(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is free over \(\Lambda_u\) through degree \(D\) iff \(H_Q(d)=C_u(d)+C_u(d-1)+C_u(d-2)\) for all \(d\le D\).
If so, then \(H_0(d)=H_1(d)=H_2(d)=C_u(d)\) for all \(d\le D-2\).

Proof.

(1) Restriction \(\pi_a:F^Q\to F^{Q_a}\) maps \(F_e\) onto \(F_e(Q_a)\), and \(u\) acts on \(F^{Q_a}\) as the constant \(a\). So \(\pi_a(F_{e-1}+uF_{e-1})\subseteq F_{e-1}(Q_a)\), and \(F_e/(F_{e-1}+uF_{e-1})\) maps onto \(F_e(Q_a)/F_{e-1}(Q_a)\). Summing over \(e\le d\) gives the first inequality. The second holds because the minimal cover \(\Lambda_u\otimes(\operatorname{gr}/\rho\operatorname{gr})\to\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) is onto (graded Nakayama).

(2) The cover's kernel vanishes through \(D\) iff the dimensions agree through \(D\). Its lowest nonzero degree is that of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\).

(3) Lift a homogeneous basis of \(\operatorname{gr}/\rho\operatorname{gr}\) in degrees \(\le D\) to \(f_j\in F_{g_j}\). Freeness through \(D\) makes \(\{u^kf_j:k\le\min(2,d-g_j)\}\) a basis of \(F_d\) for \(d\le D\). For \(g_j\le d\le D-2\), the three elements \(f_j,uf_j,u^2f_j\) lie in \(F_D\) and belong to that basis. With the sector idempotents \(e_a\), degree-2 polynomials in \(u\), we have \(u^kf=\sum_aa^k\,e_af\), and the Vandermonde matrix \((a^k)\) over \(a\in\mathbb F_3\) is invertible. So the \(e_af_j\) are independent, and for each \(a\) the restrictions \(f_j|_{Q_a}\), \(g_j\le d\), are independent in \(F_d(Q_a)\). Hence \(H_a(d)\ge C_u(d)\), and (1) gives equality. \(\square\)

Part 3 has the content of lem:filtered-freeness-transfer applied with \(R\) the functions of \(u\) and \(J\) the ideal of one value, where \(\operatorname{gr}(F/JF)=\Phi\otimes\operatorname{gr}(R/J)\). That lemma assumes a splitting \(\operatorname{gr}F=\Phi\oplus Q\) with \(Q\) in high degrees. Here the conclusion is proved directly from freeness through \(D\). It loses two degrees, because the sector idempotents have degree 2. Parts 1 and 2 hold for every \(Q\), free or not. A constant \(\alpha\) is excluded because \(u\) is then a multiple of the occupancy, which is constant on \(P\): only one level set is nonempty, and \(\rho=0\).

What it gives

A point-set test. Freeness over all row sums implies freeness over \(\Lambda_u\) for every non-constant rational \(\alpha\). The class of \(u\) in \(\Lambda_1\) is then nonzero, since the occupancy is the only row-sum combination that is constant on \(P\). In characteristic 3, \(\Lambda\) is the symmetric algebra of \(\Lambda_1\) modulo all cubes of linear forms. So \(u\) extends to a basis \(u,w_2,\dots\) of \(\Lambda_1\) with \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[u,w]/(u^3,w^3)\), which is free over \(\Lambda_u\). So conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness implies, for every such \(u\) and \(d\le D-2\), two things about \(Q\): the three level sets \(\{u=a\}\) have the same Hilbert function, and \(H_Q\) is its threefold convolution. These are statements about Hilbert functions of point sets, where the record's fall and fill-point results for random prefixes live. A family whose excluded set meets the three level sets of some row-sum combination unevenly in low degree breaks the conjecture.
Why only single directions. Refining to full residue sectors \(\{r_i=v_i\ \forall i\}\) would need the sector idempotents \(\prod_i\bigl(1-(r_i-v_i)^2\bigr)\), of degree \(2(m-1)\). The same argument then needs freeness through \(d+2(m-1)\). With \(m=n+1\) rows and \(D=O(\log n)\), that is empty. So point-set criteria for row freeness exist one direction, or a few directions, at a time. That is the setting of Dade's lemma: freeness over all of \(\Lambda\) from freeness along single directions, if a truncated version holds for the board's own row sums.
Normal form and level sets. After normal form, \(Q\) consists of the pairs \((x',c)\): an assignment \(x'\) of columns \(2,\dots,N\) allowed by the forms, and a column-1 choice \(c\) (empty or one row) with the occupancy condition. So \(\{u=a\}\) is a union of level sets \(\{u'=a-\alpha_c\}\) of the part on columns \(2,\dots,N\), over the choices \(c\). Suppose the \(\alpha_i\) of the rows that can occupy column 1 (with the occupancy condition) take all three values. Then each level set of \(Q\) contains copies of all three level sets of the reduced set, one for each column-1 row class. Whether they do depends on \(u\) and on the occupancy class, and is not established in general here. This averaging is the level-set form of why normal form helps. By itself it gives equal Hilbert functions only in low degree: one spare column, as in column peeling and spare-column transfer.

Process. This cycle ran no computation. The point-set reformulation was found to contain a recorded lemma, which is labelled as such. The new content is the unconditional inequalities and the degree obstruction that confines point-set criteria to single directions.

Next. Since the witness review, three cycles have not touched the adversarial core. The normalized quotient reformulated it, and the \(U\)-order and sector criteria reduced to recorded statements. The review's leading-term plan in the monomial basis has not been attempted. By AGENTS.md's rule for repeated cycles that leave the required implication untouched, the next cycle is a route review. It should decide whether the local-witness line continues or yields cycles to another open statement. A small-board run of the point-set test would sit below the density threshold where the adversary acts, so it would decide nothing, and none is planned.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (its hypotheses and the quotient formula that part 3 rediscovers), lem:first-degree-purity and thm:normalized-quotient's description of normalized allowed sets. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed parts 1 to 3 as graded-module arguments. It required three changes, all adopted: qualifying the comparison with lem:filtered-freeness-transfer (a splitting hypothesis there, a direct proof and a two-degree loss here); excluding a constant \(\alpha\), with the proof that \(\Lambda\) is free over \(\Lambda_u\) otherwise; and hedging the normal-form bullet.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 32.25 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 11.23 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	11 min 20.88 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review of the local-independence line: the line's conjecture fails in the tops-only model for a family inside its hypotheses, a sunflower whose members shift the shared forms by truncated row sums. These are perturbations in the single normal-form column, which normal form cannot remove. Per-member density does not suffice, and such families need a joint hypothesis or a separate treatment

27 September 2026 · Route review with a proved collapse and a tops-only counterexample · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-local-independence-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the local-independence line: the line's conjecture fails in the tops-only model for a family inside its hypotheses, a sunflower whose members shift the shared forms by truncated row sums. These are perturbations in the single normal-form column, which normal form cannot remove. Per-member density does not suffice, and such families need a joint hypothesis or a separate treatment”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-local-independence-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the witness review, three cycles have not touched the adversarial core:

the normalized quotient, a reformulation;
column peeling, where \(U\)-order reduced to a recorded statement;
single-direction sectors, where the point-set criteria also reduced to one.

By AGENTS.md this cycle is a review. Its falsification attempt found a family that breaks the line's conjecture.

General statement. The line's claim was conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness. This review proves lem:u-shift-collapse. Tops whose factors are all shifted by truncated row sums have images modulo the row sums in a space of dimension at most \(1+m(k+1)\), whatever the number of members. ex:u-shifted-sunflower-defect records the resulting purity defect on 3 × 9. So the conjecture fails in the tops-only model for families inside its hypotheses. At the family level it fails if the family has no new elements below its first top degree.

What the goal needs

For every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks with random prefixes, row freeness of the allowed set through \(D\approx44t\), or a replacement for the global-closure route on the families where it fails.

Falsification attempt: sunflowers with truncated-row-sum shifts

thm:normalized-quotient identifies the quotient by the row sums, on normalized elements, with \(\tilde A'/(U^2)\). Here \(U\) is spanned by the truncated row sums \(r'_i\), which are themselves normalized, since they have no column-1 cells. Normal form removes shifts by the full row sums \(r_i\), but not shifts by \(u\in U\). Modulo the row sums, \(u=\sum_ip_ir'_i\equiv-\sum_ip_ix_{i1}\): a perturbation inside the normal-form column.

lem:u-shift-collapse. Fix forms \(w_0,\dots,w_k\) on columns \(2,\dots,N\), and for each member \(b\) shifts \(u_{b,j}\in U\). The tops \(t_b=\prod_j(w_j+u_{b,j})^2\) satisfy \(t_b\equiv P+\sum_ju_{b,j}Q_j\pmod{(U^2)}\), with \(P=\prod_jw_j^2\) and \(Q_j=2w_j\prod_{i\ne j}w_i^2\). So their images in \(A\) span at most \(1+m(k+1)\) dimensions, for any number of members, and the first-degree purity defect is at least \(\operatorname{rank}_GT-1-m(k+1)\).

Proof. \((w+u)^2=w^2+2wu+u^2\), and \(u^2\in(U^2)\). In the product, every term with two or more factors from \(U\) lies in \((U^2)\), which leaves \(P\) and the terms linear in one \(u_{b,j}\). By thm:normalized-quotient, \(\tilde A'\cap R=(U^2)\), so the images in \(A\) lie in \(\mathbb F_3P+\sum_jU\cdot Q_j\). The defect bound is part 1 of lem:row-shift-collapse. \(\square\)

The members' forms \(w_j+u_{b,j}\) are in normal form. A nonzero combination \(\sum_jc_j(w_j+u_{b,j})\) is \(\sum_jc_jw_j\) plus an element of \(U\), and modulo the row sums that element is a perturbation inside column 1, which changes at most one column's cells. So if every nonzero combination of the core forms \(w_j\) is \(\delta\)-dense modulo the row sums, every member's span is \((\delta-1/N)\)-dense. So the family satisfies the hypotheses of conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness. In \(G\) the tops differ to second order in the shifts, through the products \(r'_ir'_{i'}\), which lie in \((U^2)\) but not in \(s'^2\tilde A'\).

The check (ex:u-shifted-sunflower-defect). u_shifted_sunflower.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_u_shifted_sunflower_20260927/) extends the tops-only kernel so that both factors of \(t_b=(w_0+u_b)^2(w_1+u'_b)^2\) get fresh shifts, with \(w_0,w_1\) dense and free of the normal-form column. On 3 × 9 in degree 4 (ushift2.txt):

rank modulo \(R\) is 7 for every \(M\) from 10 to 300, exactly the bound \(1+2m\);
rank in \(G\) is 9, 29, 35, 35;
so the purity defect is 2, 22, 28, 28.

Control (rshift2_control.txt): shifts by the full row sums give rank 1 modulo \(R\) and defect up to 18. Normal form removes those shifts, and it does not remove the \(U\)-shifts. The board 3 × 9 is below the conjecture's stated range (\(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D^2\)). The run shows the tops-only mechanism, and lem:u-shift-collapse proves it for every \(m\), \(N\) and \(k\), in the conjecture's range too.

Family level. For the tops-only defect to be a failure of row freeness, the family's first new degree must be that of these tops, with nothing lower to absorb the defect (lem:first-degree-purity, part 2). All members' forms are functions of the joint value map \((w_0,\dots,w_k,r'_1,\dots,r'_m)\), valued in \(\mathbb F_3^{k+1+m}\). So the allowed set is a pullback from a value space whose low-degree functions are far fewer than its points. A fall below the first top degree would be a fill-point violation in that value space. No such fall is expected, but none is proved absent: the family-level refutation is conditional on this.

Why it escapes the proved results. Pullback row freeness needs the joint value map to be fiber-independent. Here it contains the \(r'_i\), which are single-column modulo the row sums: the forms excluded by the square criterion, reappearing jointly across members though no single member has them. Per-member density cannot see this. The adversary spreads single-column perturbations over members that share a dense core.

Obstacle

Families with a shared dense core and sparse private perturbations. Row freeness of their allowed sets fails in the tops-only model, and at the family level under a no-low-falls condition. So the global-closure route's sufficient condition must either add a joint hypothesis excluding them, or be combined with a separate treatment of such families. The record has partial treatments of sparse parts: the cell and sparse theorems, the selector hybrid, and sunflower absorption for exact shared cores. None covers a dense core with column-local perturbations.

Assessment of the line

The line reduced the goal to one property of one point set. Over many cycles it proved that property's base side in exact local form, and it identified every mechanism that breaks it: pure row sums, truncated row sums, row-shifted shares, and now truncated-row-sum shifts. The last one is not removed by the line's hypotheses, so conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness is threatened in its present form: refuted tops-only, and conditionally at the family level. The local-witness framework remains correct, and it is what detects the defect. The next cycles must either find a joint hypothesis that the random-prefix reduction can guarantee, or glue a separate treatment of core-plus-perturbation families to the route. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Conditioning on the perturbed column, as in the record's restriction and conditioning lines. On the fiber where column 1 is empty or holds row \(c\), a shift \(u=\sum_ip_ir'_i=\sum_ip_i(r_i-x_{i1})\) equals \(\sum_ip_ir_i-p_c\), with \(p_{\text{empty}}=0\). That is a full-row-sum shift plus a constant, which normal form relative to another column removes. So within each fiber the family is an exact sunflower up to constants, and sunflower absorption applies. Target: the new obstacle. Answers. Split the allowed set by column 1's state, \(m+1\) fibers with indicators of degree 1. Prove row freeness fiber by fiber by absorption, and glue along one column, which is a tensor factor. Test. Not run: fibers of one column cost one degree, but the gluing along a column is the spare-column question, and whether the fiberwise absorptions glue needs its own statement. This is the development target.
The Erdős–Rado sunflower lemma and its recent refinements (Alweiss–Lovett–Wu–Zhang, Ann. of Math. 194 (2021)): large families of bounded sets contain large sunflowers. Target: a structure theorem for the families where row freeness fails. Answers. If every failure of local independence forced a large sunflower-with-perturbations subfamily, the obstruction would be classified, and a treatment of that one shape would suffice. Test. Not run: the members here are forms, not sets, so the relevant sunflower notion (shared core modulo sparse perturbations) is not defined yet. Defining it is the smallest test.
Dade's lemma, per single row-sum direction (continuing lead). Target: locating the defect. Answers. Along a direction \(u\) not proportional to the occupancy, prop:single-direction-sectors turns freeness into equal Hilbert functions of the three level sets. For the \(U\)-shifted sunflower, the level sets of \(u=\sum p_ir_i\) interact with the members' column-1 perturbations, and the defect should appear as unequal level-set Hilbert functions in a specific direction. Whether one rational direction already detects the defect is open. Test. Passed: lem:u-shift-collapse shows that the images modulo \(R\) collapse along \(U\), the column-1 directions, which is where single-direction detection must look.

Absurd bridges

Degenerate perturbation theory (quantum mechanics). Translation: the shared core \(\prod w_j^2\) is the unperturbed state, each member's shifts are a perturbation of size \(\varepsilon\sim u\), and reduction modulo \((U^2)\) keeps exactly the first-order terms. Answers. In degenerate perturbation theory, first-order corrections live in the span of the perturbation applied to the degenerate state. States that agree to first order are separated only at second order, which reduction modulo \((U^2)\) discards. That is the defect's mechanism exactly. It suggests the fix: look at second-order data, meaning witnesses that see \((U^2)\) modulo \(s'^2\), where the row-sum ideal on the board with column 1 would have to be refined. Test. Passed: the observed rank modulo \(R\) is exactly the first-order bound \(1+2m=7\), and the rank in \(G\) exceeds it through second-order terms.
Coset decoding for error-correcting codes. Translation: members are cosets of a common word (the dense core) by low-weight errors (the column-1 perturbations), and the syndrome is the column-1 state. Answers. Syndrome decoding separates cosets by their error patterns once the syndrome is known. Here that means conditioning on column 1's state, the first outside lead, seen as decoding. Test. Not run: it reduces to the conditioning lead's gluing question.

Lead follow-up

Dade's lemma. Developed in the single-direction sectors entry, which gives point-set criteria per direction and shows that full sectors are useless below \(D\). This review aims it at locating the \(U\)-shifted defect. Follow-up. Continuing.
The RSK monomial basis. Not developed since. Its intended use, leading terms for independence, is overtaken by the finding that independence fails for \(U\)-shifted sunflowers. It remains the tool for normal forms modulo the row sums on distinct-row contents. Follow-up. Continuing.

Bridge follow-up

Smoothed analysis. The \(U\)-shifted defect is in the tops themselves, whatever the random prefixes: randomness in the Boolean factors cannot separate tops that agree modulo \((U^2)\). Follow-up. Closed: prefix randomness does not smooth adversarial coincidences of the forms.
Slater determinants. Its ghost-row pairing is the witness formula that detects the defect: witnesses are shift-invariant only for full row sums, not for \(U\)-shifts. Follow-up. Continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: develop the conditioning lead. For a normalized family, split the allowed set by the state of the normal-form column. Show that within each fiber, members differing by \(U\)-shifts become exact sunflowers with constant shifts, and determine what gluing along one column requires. In parallel, formulate the joint hypothesis the line's conjecture needs, and ask whether the randomized-prefix reduction can guarantee it or whether core-plus-perturbation families must be treated separately.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:normalized-quotient (\(\tilde A'\cap R=(U^2)\)), lem:row-shift-collapse (the defect formula), lem:first-degree-purity (part 2), and pullback row freeness's fiber-independence hypothesis. The two runs are single invocations of one program, and every number is read from the saved outputs. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the proof of lem:u-shift-collapse, that the kernel does what is described, the numbers against the saved files, the honesty of the family-level conditioning, and the fiber identity of the conditioning lead. It required three changes, all adopted: the fixed test vocabulary in the Dade item, the density argument for members' whole spans, and a caveat that the check's board is below the conjecture's parameter range while the lemma is not.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 56.98 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	1 min 51.15 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 17.79 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	8 min 6.26 s
Individually measured computation	2 min 41.64 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Column representation: the tops-only defect of a family depends on how its forms are represented modulo the row equations, which is a free choice for the goal. In the column representation the U-shifted sunflower has bounded tops and defect 0. Single-cell perturbations spread over all columns of one row keep a defect for single-square tops in every representation, so the route needs a joint hypothesis on the members' perturbations

27 September 2026 · Working proof with a finite check · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-column-fibers. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Column representation: the tops-only defect of a family depends on how its forms are represented modulo the row equations, which is a free choice for the goal. In the column representation the U-shifted sunflower has bounded tops and defect 0. Single-cell perturbations spread over all columns of one row keep a defect for single-square tops in every representation, so the route needs a joint hypothesis on the members' perturbations”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-column-representation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, developing the conditioning lead of the local-independence review. That review refuted conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness in the tops-only model. The counterexample is a sunflower whose members shift shared dense forms by truncated row sums \(r'_i=r_i-x_{i1}\) (lem:u-shift-collapse). The missing implication is row freeness of the allowed set for families dense modulo the row sums. This cycle asks whether that counterexample breaks the route, or only the normal form the conjecture fixed. A bounded defect for the same members in another admissible representation would mean the second; a defect still growing with \(M\) would mean the first.

General statement. lem:column-representation, proved for every \(m\), \(N\), \(k\) and number of members \(M\):

each form of a family may be replaced by any form equal to it modulo the row equations, at no cost in PC degree;
this changes a family's tops-only purity defect but not their rank modulo the row sums;
families whose members differ from shared forms only in a fixed set \(C\) of columns have tops in a fixed space whose dimension is independent of \(M\), and an allowed set that splits over the states of \(C\) into fibers on each of which every member is its shared forms up to constants.

\(U\)-shifts are such perturbations with \(C\) one column. ex:column-representation-check records the U-shifted sunflower of the review in this representation: defect 0 where normal form gave 28. prop:column-spread-defect proves that single-cell perturbations \(w+x_{ic}\) over all columns \(c\) of one row have a tops-only defect in every representation, for \(m\ge2\), \(N\ge3\) and single-square tops. So a free choice of representation does not rescue the route's condition, and a joint hypothesis on the members' perturbations is needed.

Setting

As in the review: over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_{c=1}^N(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\) with \(V_c=\operatorname{span}\{x_{1c},\dots,x_{mc}\}\) and \(V_c^2=0\). Row sums are \(r_i=\sum_cx_{ic}\), occupancy is \(s=\sum_ir_i\), and \(R=\sum_ir_i\tilde A\supseteq S=s\tilde A\). The rings are \(G=\tilde A/S\) and \(A=\tilde A/R\). For the tops \(T\subseteq\tilde A_e\) of a family in their first degree \(e\), the tops-only purity defect is \(\dim((T+S)\cap R)/S=\operatorname{rank}_GT-\operatorname{rank}_AT\), since \(S\subseteq R\). By lem:first-degree-purity (part 2) it equals \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree \(e\) when the family has nothing new below \(e\). \(U=\operatorname{span}\{r'_i\}\), with column 1 the normal-form column.

lem:column-representation

(1) Representation freedom. Let \(L'\equiv L\) modulo \(\operatorname{span}\{r_i-1\}\) for each form of a family. A clause in the forms \(L\) then differs from the same clause in the \(L'\) by \(\sum_i(r_i-1)q_i\), with \(\deg q_i\) below the clause's degree. This is the argument of conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness that normal form costs nothing, and it never uses which representative is chosen. So weak unary PHP plus either clause family derives the other within the clauses' degrees, and W and W_RS for one family are W and W_RS for the other. The allowed set \(Q\subseteq P\) and the tops in \(\tilde A\) change. Each linear part changes by an element of \(R_1\), so each top changes by an element of \(R\) and \(\operatorname{rank}_AT\) is unchanged. \(\operatorname{rank}_GT\), and with it the defect, can change.

(2) \(U\)-shifts are column-1 perturbations. \(w+\sum_ip_ir'_i=w-\sum_ip_ix_{i1}+\sum_ip_i(r_i-1)+\sum_ip_i\), so \(w+\sum_ip_ir'_i\equiv w-\sum_ip_ix_{i1}+\sum_ip_i\) modulo the row equations.

(3) Bounded tops. Fix a column set \(C\), shared forms \(w_0,\dots,w_k\), and \(V_C=\bigoplus_{c\in C}V_c\). Suppose every member's forms are \(w_j+e_{b,j}+c_{b,j}\), with \(e_{b,j}\in V_C\) and constants \(c_{b,j}\). Then every top \(t_b=\prod_{j=0}^k(w_j+e_{b,j})^2\) lies in

\[\sum_{a\in\{0,1,2\}^{k+1},\ |a|\le|C|}\tilde A_{C,|a|}\prod_jw_j^{2-a_j},\qquad \dim\le\sum_{s=0}^{|C|}\binom{|C|}{s}m^s\binom{k+s}{s},\]

where \(\tilde A_{C,s}\) is the degree-\(s\) part of the subalgebra generated by \(V_C\). Proof. Expand each \((w_j+e)^2=w_j^2+2w_je+e^2\). The term with \(a_j\) factors \(e_{b,j}\) from factor \(j\) contributes \(\prod_je_{b,j}^{a_j}\in\tilde A_{C,|a|}\) times \(\prod_jw_j^{2-a_j}\). A product of more than \(|C|\) elements of \(V_C\) vanishes, because a nonzero monomial uses each column at most once. \(\tilde A_{C,s}\) has the basis of monomials on \(s\) of the columns of \(C\) with a row each, so its dimension is \(\binom{|C|}sm^s\). The vectors \(a\) with \(|a|=s\) number at most the \(\binom{k+s}s\) multisets of size \(s\) from \(k+1\) indices. \(\square\)

For \(|C|=1\) this is exact affinity in \(\tilde A\) itself, \(t_b=P+\sum_je_{b,j}Q_j\) with \(P=\prod_jw_j^2\) and \(Q_j=2w_j\prod_{i\ne j}w_i^2\), of dimension at most \(1+m(k+1)\). So \(\operatorname{rank}_GT\) and the defect are at most that, whatever \(M\). lem:u-shift-collapse had the same bound only modulo \((U^2)\), that is, modulo \(R\).

(4) Fibers. On \(P\), column injectivity gives each column \(c\in C\) a state \(\sigma_c\in\{\emptyset,1,\dots,m\}\): empty, or the row of its one pigeon. On the fiber \(P_\sigma=\{x:\text{state }\sigma\text{ on }C\}\) each \(e_{b,j}\) takes a constant value \(e_{b,j}(\sigma)\) (the coefficient of \(x_{\sigma_cc}\), summed over \(c\in C\)). So every member's forms restrict to \(w_j+\text{constant}\). Let \(h\) be the block length, the number of forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h}\) of a block in W. On the fiber, a member's clauses are determined by its prefix \(S_b\subseteq\{1,\dots,h\}\) and its constants in \(\mathbb F_3^h\), at most \(2^h3^h\) possibilities whatever \(M\). Hence \(Q=\bigsqcup_\sigma Q_\sigma\), over \((m+1)^{|C|}\) states. Each \(Q_\sigma\) is the allowed set of an exact sunflower up to constants, with at most \(6^h\) distinct members, on the other \(N-|C|\) columns. \(\square\)

By (2), the review's \(U\)-shifted sunflower is, in the column representation, a family of case (3)–(4) with \(C=\{1\}\). By (1) the goal may use that representation. So the review's counterexample refutes the normal form fixed by conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness, not row freeness in every admissible representation.

The check (ex:column-representation-check)

Prediction, stated before the run: the members of the review's run, in the column representation, have defect bounded independently of \(M\) by (3), and probably 0. Mode colpert of u_shifted_sunflower.cpp (research/results/odd_prime_u_shifted_sunflower_20260927/) draws the same members as mode ushift2, with the same seed and draw order. It writes each form as \(w-\sum_ip_ix_{i1}\) instead of \(w+\sum_ip_ir'_i\); the two agree modulo the row sums, and the constant is invisible to tops. On 3 × 9 in degree 4 (colpert.txt, manifest_colpert.json), \(\dim\tilde A_4=10206\), \(\operatorname{rank}R=5787\) and \(\operatorname{rank}S=2242\):

\(M\)	normal form: rank in \(G\) / mod \(R\) / defect	column representation: rank in \(G\) / mod \(R\) / defect
10	9 / 7 / 2	7 / 7 / 0
30	29 / 7 / 22	7 / 7 / 0
100	35 / 7 / 28	7 / 7 / 0
300	35 / 7 / 28	7 / 7 / 0

The normal-form column repeats the review's ushift2.txt. The rank modulo \(R\) agrees, as (1) requires. The rank in \(G\) attains the bound \(1+m(k+1)=7\) of (3), and the defect is 0. The board is below the conjecture's parameter range, as in the review. The check confirms the prediction for the members of the refuting family; lemma (3) holds in every range.

What this settles and what it does not

Settled: \(U\)-shifted sunflowers are not an obstruction in the tops-only model once the representation is chosen by column. The route's sufficient condition may quantify over admissible representations, which by (1) cost nothing. By prop:column-spread-defect below, that alone is not enough.

Not settled, first: the family level. With \(M\) far above \(1+m(k+1)\), most tops cancel, so the family has elements below the tops' degree, and its row freeness is a statement about \(Q=\bigsqcup_\sigma Q_\sigma\), not about tops. By (4) that is a gluing along the columns of \(C\), which is the setting of lem:hole-splitting: its exact sequences reduce freeness of a set's vanishing tops to the two fibers of one hole. They are stated for occupancy patterns (a column occupied or not), while here the fibers also record which row occupies the column. So what is needed is a row-refined hole splitting over \(m+1\) fibers, with row freeness of each fiber from sunflower absorption (lem:sunflower-absorption) or its constant-shifted form. Its sum and intersection terms are those of conj:fiber-lattice-freeness, whose lattices are not distributive in general (ex:fiber-lattice-nondistributive).

Second: perturbations that no single column contains. They are the subject of the next proposition, which shows that the representation-quantified condition fails for them too.

prop:column-spread-defect

Statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(m\ge2\) and \(N\ge3\). Fix a row \(i\) and a linear form \(w\) whose restriction to some other row \(j\) is not constant, that is, \(w\)'s coefficients \(w_{jc}\) are not all equal. Take the \(N+1\) members with single-square tops, with forms \(w+x_{ic}\) for \(c=1,\dots,N\) and \(w\). Then in every representation modulo the row sums, with forms \(w+x_{ic}+\rho_c\) and \(w+\rho_0\), \(\rho_c,\rho_0\in\operatorname{span}\{r_1,\dots,r_m\}\), the tops-only purity defect is at least 1.

Proof. Let \(t'_c=(w+x_{ic}+\rho_c)^2\) and \(t'_0=(w+\rho_0)^2\). Since \(x_{ic}^2=0\), \(\sum_c(w+x_{ic})^2-Nw^2=2wr_i\in R\), and each \(t'\) differs from its unshifted top by an element of \(R\). So \(E=\sum_ct'_c-Nt'_0\) lies in \(R\cap(T'+S)\), and it suffices to show \(E\notin S\). Expanding,

\[E=2w(r_i+\sigma)+2\sum_cx_{ic}\rho_c+\sum_c\rho_c^2-N\rho_0^2,\qquad\sigma=\sum_c\rho_c-N\rho_0.\]

Reduction to two rows. The quotient of \(\tilde A\) by the cells of the rows other than \(i\) and \(j\) is a ring map carrying \(S\) into the two-row \(S\). So it suffices to prove \(E\notin S\) for \(m=2\), rows \(i=1\) and \(j=2\). Replacing any \(\rho\) by \(\rho+\lambda s\) changes \(E\) by an element of \(S\). So we may take \(\rho_c=a_cr\) and \(\rho_0=a_0r\), with \(r=r_1\) and \(a\in\mathbb F_3\). Then

\[E=2\alpha\,wr+2r\sum_ca_cx_{1c}+\beta r^2,\qquad\alpha=1+\sum_ca_c-Na_0,\quad\beta=\sum_ca_c^2-Na_0^2.\]

Witnesses. A functional \(\varphi\) on \(\tilde A_2\) is given by values \(f(c,c')\) on \(x_{1c}x_{1c'}\) (symmetric), \(g(c,c')\) on \(x_{1c}x_{2c'}\) and \(h(c,c')\) on \(x_{2c}x_{2c'}\), for \(c\ne c'\). It vanishes on \(S_2=\operatorname{span}\{sx_{1c},sx_{2c}\}\) if and only if, for every \(c\),

\[\sum_{c'\ne c}f(c,c')=-u_c,\qquad\sum_{c'\ne c}h(c,c')=-v_c,\qquad u_c=\sum_{c'\ne c}g(c,c'),\quad v_c=\sum_{c'\ne c}g(c',c).\]

For \(N\ge3\), every pair of vectors \(u,v\in\mathbb F_3^N\) with \(\sum u=\sum v=:\Gamma\) arises this way. Margins of an off-diagonal matrix with equal totals are realizable, since \(K_{N,N}\) minus a perfect matching is connected. A symmetric zero-diagonal matrix has arbitrary row sums in odd characteristic, since \(K_N\) is connected and not bipartite. On the pieces of \(E\):

\(\varphi(x_{1c}r)=-u_c\), and \(\varphi(x_{2c}r)=v_c\), since \(x_{2c}r=\sum_{c'\ne c}x_{1c'}x_{2c}\);
\(\varphi(r^2)=2\sum_{c<c'}f(c,c')=\sum_c\sum_{c'\ne c}f(c,c')=-\Gamma\), since \(r^2=2\sum_{c<c'}x_{1c}x_{1c'}\);
\(\varphi(wr)=-\sum_cw_{1c}u_c+\sum_cw_{2c}v_c\).

Hence

\[\varphi(E)=\sum_cu_c\,(-2\alpha w_{1c}-2a_c-\beta)+\sum_cv_c\,(2\alpha w_{2c}).\]

Conclusion. \(E\in S\) forces \(\varphi(E)=0\) for all admissible \((u,v)\). A linear functional vanishes on \(\{\sum u=\sum v\}\) only if its \(u\)-coefficients all equal some \(\lambda\) and its \(v\)-coefficients all equal \(-\lambda\).

If \(\alpha\ne0\), then \(w_{2c}\) is constant in \(c\), contrary to hypothesis.
If \(\alpha=0\), then \(\lambda=0\) and \(-2a_c-\beta=0\), so \(a_c=\beta\) for every \(c\ge1\) (as \(-2=1\) in \(\mathbb F_3\)). The definitions become \(1+N(\beta-a_0)=0\) and \(\beta=N(\beta-a_0)(\beta+a_0)\). The first gives \(N\not\equiv0\) and \(N(\beta-a_0)=-1\). The second then gives \(\beta=-(\beta+a_0)\), so \(a_0=-2\beta=\beta\), and \(N(\beta-a_0)=0\ne-1\).

Both cases are impossible, so \(E\notin S\). \(\square\)

Scope. The proposition is stated for single-square tops. Product tops with further shared factors \(\prod_{j\ge1}w_j^2\), each factor also freely represented, are not covered: the same relation exists, but the witness computation has more terms. The family-level caveat of the review applies unchanged: the defect is a failure of row freeness if the family has nothing new below the tops' degree. The members are dense modulo the row sums whenever \(w\) is, and each differs from the core in one cell. So per-member density plus a free choice of representation does not give tops-only row freeness. The route's condition needs a joint hypothesis on the members' perturbations, of which the natural candidate is that no row sum lies in their span modulo the core, or a separate treatment of families that violate it.

Search and novelty

Searched: tools/search-claims.py on representative, column perturbation, fiber and sunflower. Nearest: lem:hole-splitting and conj:fiber-lattice-freeness (gluing along one hole, occupancy fibers), lem:sunflower-absorption (exact shared cores), lem:u-shift-collapse and lem:row-shift-collapse (the collapses modulo \(R\)), and the normal-form cost argument of conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness, of which (1) is the unchanged argument, recorded as such. Parts (3) and (4), the dependence of the defect on the representation, and prop:column-spread-defect are not in the record. The proposition's witnesses are functionals vanishing on the occupancy multiples only, the degree-2 analogue of the local purity witnesses.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: formulate the joint hypothesis on the members' perturbations, with the candidate that no row sum lies in their span modulo the shared core. Then ask what handles the families that violate it. The spread family's members differ from the core in single cells, so the record's cell theorems and sunflower absorption are the first tools to test on it, at the family level.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:u-shift-collapse and the review's setting, the normal-form cost argument of conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness, lem:first-degree-purity (part 2), and the statements of lem:hole-splitting, lem:sunflower-absorption and conj:fiber-lattice-freeness, which are cited as pointers only. The check is one invocation of one program; its numbers and the normal-form column are read from colpert.txt and ushift2.txt. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed parts (1)–(4), the defect formula, that colpert and ushift2 consume identical random draws, and every table entry. It asked for the block length to be defined, which is done. A second pass rederived every step of prop:column-spread-defect, including the realizability of the margins for \(N\ge3\) and the case analysis over \(\mathbb F_3\), and found no error. Its one suggestion, narrowing the title to single-square tops, is adopted.

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Spread families: a core perturbed by single cells across one row breaks row freeness at the family level, since the empty-row level set carries fewer constraints. Modulo the row equations the family is equivalent to a two-member sunflower inside joint capacity, so the route's condition should quantify over equivalent families

27 September 2026 · Working proofs and a restated conjecture · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-joint-perturbation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Spread families: a core perturbed by single cells across one row breaks row freeness at the family level, since the empty-row level set carries fewer constraints. Modulo the row equations the family is equivalent to a two-member sunflower inside joint capacity, so the route's condition should quantify over equivalent families”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-spread-families.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The column representation entry showed that perturbations \(w+x_{ic}\) spread over all columns of one row keep a tops-only defect in every representation. Tops-only failures had so far become failures of row freeness only under the caveat that the family has nothing new below the tops' degree. The missing implication is still row freeness of some allowed set that certifies W_RS for every family dense modulo the row sums. This cycle asks two things. Does the spread family break row freeness at the family level, without that caveat? And if it does, what weaker condition still carries the route? A level-set Hilbert-function gap would answer the first question, and an equivalent family inside joint capacity the second.

General statement. prop:spread-family-level-gap proves, for every clause system and every \(m\ge2\), that the allowed set of a spread family, or that of its two-member core, is not row-free through \(D\) once \(D\) exceeds the clause degree by 2. lem:spread-family-equivalence proves that weak unary PHP makes the spread family equivalent to that two-member core at one extra degree. conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness restates the route's condition: for every family, some equivalent family modulo the row equations has a row-free allowed set.

Setting

The setting is the weak base \(P\) over \(\mathbb F_3\): column-injective 0/1 assignments with total occupancy \(\equiv m\pmod 3\), rows unconstrained. Fix affine forms \(L_0,\dots,L_{h-1}\) with value map \(v:P\to\mathbb F_3^h\), a finite set \(\mathcal F\) of polynomials in \(h\) variables of degree at most \(e\), and its common zero set \(A\subseteq\mathbb F_3^h\). A W_RS block with forms \(L\) and prefix \(S\) has clauses \(g(L_i)\prod_{j\in S}L_j^2\), \(i\notin S\), of degree \(2|S|+2\). With enough copies of a member, every prefix pattern occurs with high probability, so \(\mathcal F\) may be the union of the clause sets of all prefix patterns. Let \(A'=A\cap(A-e_0)\), the values \(y\) with \(y\in A\) and \(y+e_0\in A\).

The spread family of row \(i\) has the core member with forms \(L\) and, for \(c=1,\dots,N\), the member with forms \(L+x_{ic}e_0\), that is, \(L_0\) replaced by \(L_0+x_{ic}\), each with clause set \(\mathcal F\). The two-member core has the members with forms \(L\) and \(L+e_0\), the second with \(L_0\) shifted by the constant 1. Its allowed set is \(Q''=v^{-1}(A')\). Both families are dense modulo the row sums whenever the \(L_j\) are.

The allowed set of a spread family

On Boolean points, \(F(L+x\,e_0)=F(L)+x\,\Delta F(L)\) with \(\Delta F(y)=F(y+e_0)-F(y)\), since \(x^2=x\). If row \(i\) has a pigeon in column \(c\), member \(c\) with the core forces \(F(v+e_0)=0\) for all \(F\). If row \(i\) is empty, every member reduces to the core. Hence

\[Q=\{x\in P:\ v(x)\in A,\ \text{and }v(x)\in A'\text{ if row }i\text{ is nonempty}\}.\]

For \(u=r_i\), the level sets \(Q_a=Q\cap\{r_i\equiv a\}\) are as follows. For \(a=1,2\) row \(i\) is nonempty, so \(Q_a=Q''_a\). For \(a=0\), \(Q_0=Q''_0\sqcup E\), where \(E\) is the set of points with row \(i\) empty and \(v\in A\setminus A'\). Level 0 also contains points whose row \(i\) holds a positive multiple of 3 pigeons. Such points lie in \(Q\) exactly when \(v\in A'\), so they belong to \(Q''_0\), and there is no double count.

prop:spread-family-level-gap

Statement. Let \(m\ge2\) and \(D\ge e+2\). Suppose \(E\ne\emptyset\), that is, some point of \(P\) with row \(i\) empty has a value \(y\in A\) with \(y+e_0\notin A\). Then \(Q''\) and \(Q\) are not both free over \(\mathbb F_3[r_i]/(r_i^3)\) through \(D\). In particular they are not both row-free through \(D\) over \(\Lambda\). Here \(\Lambda\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[r_i]/(r_i^3)\), as \(r_i^3=0\) and \(\Lambda\cong\mathbb F_3[r_i,\text{other generators}]/(\text{cubes})\) after a change of generators.

Proof. Suppose both are free through \(D\). By prop:single-direction-sectors (3), applied to \(u=r_i\), whose coefficients on the rows are non-constant as \(m\ge2\), each of \(Q''\) and \(Q\) has three level sets with a common Hilbert function through \(D-2\). Take \(F\in\mathcal F\) with \(F(y+e_0)\ne0\), and let \(\delta=F(L_0+1,L_1,\dots,L_{h-1})\), a function on \(P\) of degree at most \(e\). It vanishes on \(Q''_0\subseteq v^{-1}(A')\), since there \(v+e_0\in A\), and it is nonzero at the point of \(E\) with value \(y\). So restriction from \(Q_0\) to \(Q''_0\) has a nonzero kernel on functions of degree at most \(d\), for every \(d\ge e\). For \(e\le d\le D-2\) this gives

\[H_{Q_0}(d)\ \ge\ H_{Q''_0}(d)+1\ =\ H_{Q''_1}(d)+1\ =\ H_{Q_1}(d)+1,\]

contradicting the equality for \(Q\). \(\square\)

W_RS instance. Take \(h=k+1\) forms with prefixes of size \(k\), and every pattern present. The clause for the pattern omitting \(i\) is \(g(L_i)\prod_{j\ne i}L_j^2\). Then \(y=(2,1,\dots,1)\in A\): all coordinates are nonzero and each \(y_i\in\{\pm1\}\). But \(y+e_0=(0,1,\dots,1)\) violates the clause omitting \(0\), since \(g(0)=1\). So \(E\ne\emptyset\) as soon as some point with row \(i\) empty takes the value \(y\). This is a hypothesis on the forms. It holds, for example, when the value map restricted to the points with row \(i\) empty is onto \(\mathbb F_3^{k+1}\). Here \(e=2k+2\), far below W_RS's \(D\approx44t\). By cor:subfamily-row-freeness the two-member core is row-free through \(D\) whenever the joint value map of its \(k+1\) forms \(L_j\), shared by both members, meets the pullback hypotheses (joint freeness and fiber independence). The spread family's joint span contains \(r_i\), so it lies beyond joint capacity. Under those hypotheses it is the spread family that fails. The failure is at the family level, with no condition on falls below the tops' degree. It holds for the forms as given; the tops-only proposition of the previous entry covers every representation.

lem:spread-family-equivalence

Statement. Over weak unary PHP (Booleanity, column collisions, row equations \(r_i=1\)), the clauses of the spread family and those of the two-member core derive each other at degree at most \(e+1\).

Proof. Modulo Booleanity, \(F(L+x_{ic}e_0)=F(L)+x_{ic}\Delta F(L)\), and \(\Delta F(L)=F(L+e_0)-F(L)\). So each spread clause is a combination of the core clauses \(F(L)\) and \(F(L+e_0)\), with cofactors of degree at most 1. Conversely,

\[\sum_{c=1}^NF(L+x_{ic}e_0)-(N-1)F(L)=F(L)+r_i\,\Delta F(L)=F(L+e_0)+(r_i-1)\Delta F(L),\]

a derivation from the spread clauses and the row equation \(r_i-1\), with a cofactor of degree below \(e\). \(\square\)

So W and W_RS for the two families coincide up to an additive degree of 1. The two-member core is inside joint capacity: its joint span is that of the \(L_j\).

What the route needs

The previous entry showed that choosing a representation per form does not rescue row freeness. This entry shows the failure is real at the family level, but only for the family as given: an equivalent family, the two-member core, is row-free under the pullback hypotheses. The normal-form argument, the representation freedom and this lemma are instances of one principle. Any family whose clauses derive the given ones modulo weak unary PHP, at a fixed degree cost well below the target degree, may replace them. The route's condition should therefore quantify over equivalent families.

conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness. On the weak base over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns, let a family of blocks have linear parts \(\delta\)-dense modulo the row sums and independent uniform prefixes. With high probability there is a family of polynomials of degree at most \(4t+3\), whose clauses and the given ones derive each other over weak unary PHP within degree \(4t+3\), whose allowed set on \(P\) has density at least \(\frac12\) and is row-free through \(D\). The conjecture weakens conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness, in which the equivalent family is the normal form. It implies the goal by the same chain. The translation cost \(4t+3\) is fixed, one above the clause degree \(4t+2\), and far below W_RS's degree \(D\approx44t\), as for normal form. So a degree-\(D\) refutation from the given clauses becomes one from the equivalent family, with each given clause replaced by its derivation. In PC a derived clause is a line, used afterwards exactly as the axiom was, so the degree is \(\max(D,4t+3)=D\) whatever the clauses' own degrees. The cofactor-composition count, which would add up to \(4t+1\) for low-degree clauses, concerns Nullstellensatz certificates, not PC. thm:global-closure-gluing and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction exclude that refutation. A translation cost growing with \(D\) would not suffice.

Falsification tests passed within this cycle, by the results above:

the U-shifted sunflower, via the column representation;
row-shifted sunflowers, via normal form;
the spread family, via its two-member core.

The known obstructions in the record are equivalent to families inside joint capacity. The conjecture's content lies in families beyond joint capacity with no such small equivalent, where an equivalent row-free family must be constructed rather than found. The next question is what construction does this in general. Candidates: closing the family under the consequences its members derive with the row equations, as this lemma does for one row, or splitting it along fibers of the columns where members differ.

Search and novelty

Searched: tools/search-claims.py on equivalent family, row-free extension and level set. The nearest records are prop:single-direction-sectors (used), cor:subfamily-row-freeness and lem:pullback-row-freeness (the core's freeness), lem:slice-strictness (level sets of one function) and the normal-form cost argument. None contains the spread family's level gap or the equivalence.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: take a family beyond joint capacity whose members are dense and not sunflower-like, for example two cores with members mixing them. Find an equivalent row-free family, or show that closure under row-equation consequences cannot produce one. The general construction would be a lemma that, for families whose members differ in a bounded set of cells, replaces the members by fiberwise sums as in lem:spread-family-equivalence.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statements of prop:single-direction-sectors (hypotheses on \(u\), the two-degree loss), cor:subfamily-row-freeness and lem:pullback-row-freeness (their hypotheses), thm:global-closure-gluing, and the normal-form cost argument. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the level-set decomposition, the use of the sector criterion, the freeness of \(\Lambda\) over \(\mathbb F_3[r_i]/(r_i^3)\), both directions of the equivalence with their degrees, and the W_RS instance. It required four changes, all adopted. The conjecture's translation cost is now fixed at \(4t+3\) rather than \(D\), so the refutation transfer stays within \(D\). The failure of the spread family is now stated under the core's pullback hypotheses. The existence of an empty-row point with value \(y\) is now an explicit hypothesis. Level-0 points with a positive multiple of 3 pigeons are now accounted for. A second pass accepted the fixed cost. It noted that composing cofactors would add up to \(4t+1\) for low-degree clauses. The entry now says why PC incurs no such excess: derived clauses are lines.

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Route review of the equivalent-family line: every recorded structured obstruction has a row-free equivalent, but the tools that find equivalents need functionality, which ordinary PHP lacks and which destroys the row-sum grading. Beyond joint capacity no mechanism for row freeness exists

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-mixed-cores. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the equivalent-family line: every recorded structured obstruction has a row-free equivalent, but the tools that find equivalents need functionality, which ordinary PHP lacks and which destroys the row-sum grading. Beyond joint capacity no mechanism for row freeness exists”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-equivalence-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The last three entries reformulated the line's condition three times:

normal form, refuted in the local-independence review;
a free representation per form, refuted by prop:column-spread-defect (column representation);
equivalent families, conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness (spread families).

Each change answered a new structured obstruction. None touched the families the goal is mostly about, those beyond joint capacity with no structure. By AGENTS.md, repeated cycles that leave the same required implication untouched call for a review.

The line's general claim

conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness. For families of blocks dense modulo the row sums with random prefixes, some family equivalent over weak unary PHP at the fixed cost \(4t+3\) has an allowed set on the weak base that is row-free through \(D\approx44t\). With thm:global-closure-gluing and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction this gives W_RS and the goal.

What the goal needs

Row freeness, for some equivalent family, for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks. Most such families have joint linear span equal to the whole space of linear forms.

Falsification attempt: spread families with varying shifts

Take the spread family of lem:spread-family-equivalence, but let the shift depend on the column: members with forms \(L+a_cx_{ic}e_0\), where \(a_c=1\) for \(c\in C_1\) and \(a_c=2\) for \(c\in C_2\), with \(C_1\sqcup C_2\) all columns, plus the core \(L\). Modulo Booleanity each member contributes \(x_{ic}\Delta_{a_c}F(L)\), where \(\Delta_aF(y)=F(y+ae_0)-F(y)\). Summing over each class gives the partial-row clauses \(r_i^{(1)}\Delta_1F(L)\) and \(r_i^{(2)}\Delta_2F(L)\), with \(r_i^{(a)}=\sum_{c\in C_a}x_{ic}\). The row equation turns the second into \((1-r_i^{(1)})\Delta_2F(L)\). The candidate equivalent family is \(\{F(L),\ r_i^{(1)}\Delta_1F(L),\ (1-r_i^{(1)})\Delta_2F(L)\}\). It is a pullback in the forms \((L,r_i^{(1)})\), whose span meets the row sums trivially when both classes are nonempty, for generic \(L\).

Outcome. The candidate fails to be equivalent over ordinary PHP. The members imply it, but the reverse needs each \(x_{ic}\Delta_1F(L)\), \(c\in C_1\), back from \(r_i^{(1)}\Delta_1F(L)\). Multiplying by \(x_{ic}\) leaves the cross terms \(x_{ic}x_{ic'}\Delta_1F(L)\), and these vanish only under functionality, \(x_{ic}x_{ic'}=0\). Ordinary unary PHP has no such axiom: a row may hold 4 or 7 pigeons with \(r_i\equiv1\). There the members demand \(v+a_ce_0\in A\) for every occupied column, an "or" over cells that no partial sum modulo 3 records. With functionality added, the reverse derivation is immediate, since \(x_{ic}r_i^{(1)}=x_{ic}\) for \(c\in C_1\), and the family has a pullback equivalent. So the family is a candidate counterexample to the conjecture for ordinary PHP, open, and not one for functional PHP.

Functionality cannot simply be added. Hardness with more axioms implies hardness with fewer, so a lower bound for the functional variant would suffice. But the route's grading needs rows with several pigeons: on a row with at most one pigeon, \(r_i\) takes only the values 0 and 1. thm:global-closure-gluing records that its hypothesis fails when \(Q\) allows at most one pigeon in a row. The spread family already showed this in miniature: its allowed set forces row \(i\) to behave functionally at the level set where row freeness is decided.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on proving row freeness, for some equivalent family, of families beyond joint capacity. This comes down to two precise points.

(a) Beyond joint capacity. The only proved source of row freeness for allowed sets is pullback row freeness (lem:pullback-row-freeness, cor:subfamily-row-freeness). It needs joint freeness of the family's value map. That fails once the joint span contains a row sum, which a representation can remove. It also fails once the span contains a sparse form such as a cell. Joint freeness includes freeness over \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\) for each element \(x\) of the span, which needs \(x^2\ne0\) in \(G_2\), and a cell squares to zero in the collision algebra. This consequence of the pullback lemma's hypothesis is this review's observation; the lemma itself names only row sums. Generic dense forms span all linear forms once \(M\) exceeds the number \(mN\) of cells, so their span contains every cell. So no equivalent family of a large generic family is a pullback under a jointly free map.
(b) Localization needs functionality. The equivalences that rescued the structured obstructions localize members at a cell and sum along a row. Over ordinary PHP, localization loses the per-cell constraints on rows with several pigeons, while the row-sum grading of the route needs such rows.

Assessment of the line

The line reduced the goal to one property, row freeness of an allowed set, and then to the right quantifier: some equivalent family. It identified the mechanisms that break the property for a fixed family: row sums, truncated sums, row-shifted and \(U\)-shifted sunflowers, and spread families. Each of these has a row-free equivalent inside joint capacity, except spread families with varying shifts, which need functionality. That is real structural knowledge about the condition. The line has proved nothing about families beyond joint capacity, and the last three cycles only moved the statement. The assessment is qualitative. The line is useful for classifying obstructions, and it is weak as a route to the goal until (a) has a mechanism.

Outside leads

Jordan type and the Lefschetz properties (Harima, Maeno, Morita, Numata, Wachi, Watanabe, The Lefschetz Properties, LNM 2080, 2013; Iarrobino, Macias Marques, McDaniel, Artinian algebras and Jordan type, 2022). Target: obstacle (a). Answers. Freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) over \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) says that multiplication by \(u\) has Jordan type \((3,\dots,3)\), that is, \(u\) and \(u^2\) have maximal rank in the filtered sense. Maximal rank is the property that Lefschetz theory proves for algebras far from any pullback, by degeneration to monomial or torus-fixed algebras and by Hilbert-function arguments. It is a route to row freeness that does not need joint freeness. Test. Passed: prop:spread-family-level-gap is a Jordan-type statement. Its level gap \(H_{Q_0}(d)>H_{Q_1}(d)\) forces a Jordan block of \(r_i\) shorter than 3 in degree about \(e\). The criterion of prop:single-direction-sectors is equality of the level-set Hilbert functions, which is Jordan type \((3^c)\) through \(D-2\). This check shows the translation is consistent with the proved results. It is no evidence yet that Lefschetz methods reach families beyond capacity.
Green's hyperplane restriction theorem (M. Green, Restrictions of linear series to hyperplanes, 1989). Target: obstacle (a). Answers. The three level sets \(\{u=a\}\) are slices of \(Q\). Green bounds the Hilbert function of a general slice by the Macaulay transform of the whole. If the slices' bound and the total forced equality, the level sets would have equal Hilbert functions, which is freeness in that direction. Test. Not run: Green's theorem needs a general linear form, and the row sums are special. The translation needs a genericity statement for \(u\) relative to \(Q\), which is itself the open question.
The Alexander–Hirschowitz theorem and the Horace method (Alexander and Hirschowitz, 1995; Brambilla and Ottaviani's short proof, 2008). Target: obstacle (a) for generic families. Answers. Clause tops are products of squares, that is, double points. AH says generic double points impose independent conditions outside a finite list of exceptions, and the Horace method proves it by specializing points onto a hyperplane and inducting. Row freeness beyond capacity for generic members is a relative version, independence modulo the row sums, and a Horace induction that specializes members onto one column is the matching tool. Test. Passed: the row Horace and glued double points entries run exactly this induction for selectors at degrees 3 and 4. Random product tops behave like random matrices up to the fill point (generic directness). What is missing is the relative, modulo-row-sums version at degree \(\Theta(\log n)\).

Absurd bridges

Gauge fixing and the Gribov ambiguity (theoretical physics; Gribov 1978, Singer 1978). Translation: representing a family modulo the row equations is choosing a gauge. Normal form is an axial gauge, the column representation another gauge, and the PHP-level ideal is the gauge-invariant content. Singer's theorem says a global gauge slice can fail to exist for topological reasons, while local gauges always exist. Answers. Obstacle (b) looks like a Gribov obstruction. On the patch where row \(i\) holds at most one pigeon, the functional localization works, and the partial-row family is a local gauge. The failure sits on the multi-pigeon patch. The remedy the bridge suggests is to fix the gauge patchwise and glue the patches by Mayer–Vietoris, rather than to seek one global equivalent family. Test. Passed: on the functional patch, \(x_{ic}r_i^{(1)}=x_{ic}\), so the varying-shift spread family has its pullback equivalent there, as computed above. The gluing across patches is open.
Equality saturation and e-graphs (compilers; Willsey et al., egg, POPL 2021). Translation: equivalent families form an e-class under the rewrite rules found so far: representation change, localization at a cell, summation along a row with \(r_i=1\), and substitution of an eliminated form. Extraction picks the representative of least cost, here \(\dim\operatorname{Tor}_1\). Answers. It turns conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness on small boards into a decidable search. It would either produce a row-free equivalent for the varying-shift spread family or show that the rules cannot, which locates the missing rule. Test. Not run: it needs a Tor kernel called per candidate. Under the computation policy, it is worth running only once the rule set is fixed and a single decisive instance is named.

Lead follow-up

Dade's lemma, per single row-sum direction. Developed: prop:spread-family-level-gap applies the single-direction criterion to prove a family-level failure with no condition on falls. Follow-up. Developed.
Dade's lemma, aimed at locating the \(U\)-shifted defect. Developed: in the column representation the defect disappears (lem:column-representation), and the direction that detects the spread family's defect is \(r_i\) itself. Follow-up. Developed.
The RSK monomial basis. Its intended use, leading terms for independence in normal form, is moot once the condition quantifies over equivalent families. No recorded step needs it. Follow-up. Closed: normal form is no longer the object.

Bridge follow-up

Degenerate perturbation theory. Its advice was to look at second-order data. In the column representation the tops are exactly first order in \(\tilde A\) (lem:column-representation (3)), and the \(U\)-shifted defect was a representation artifact. Follow-up. Closed: the second-order data it pointed to vanish in the right representation.
Slater determinants. Not developed this cycle. Its ghost-row witnesses remain the formula for tops-only defects, as used in prop:column-spread-defect's degree-2 functionals. Follow-up. Continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3, obstacle (a), the highest risk: develop the Jordan-type lead. Formulate row freeness in one direction \(u\) as maximal rank of \(u\) and \(u^2\) on \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\). Then test whether a degeneration argument, specializing members one column at a time as in the Horace method, can prove it for an intersection of individually free pullbacks whose joint span exceeds capacity.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:spread-family-equivalence, prop:spread-family-level-gap, prop:single-direction-sectors, cor:subfamily-row-freeness, lem:pullback-row-freeness and thm:global-closure-gluing's failure clause. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the falsification attempt: the partial-row aggregation, the cross terms that need functionality, the loss of constraints when a partial sum vanishes modulo 3, the honest status of the candidate counterexample, and the direction of the axiom monotonicity. It also confirmed the Jordan-type translation with its two-degree loss. It required two changes, both adopted. The cell failure of joint freeness now carries its one-line reason, marked as this review's observation. The Alexander–Hirschowitz test now links the entries it cites. Its two suggestions are also adopted: the Jordan-type test is marked a consistency check only, and genericity of \(L\) is explicit.

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Jordan-type lead: all three of its forms are already in the record. The maximal-rank criterion is the kernel-image criterion of free vanishing tops, the Horace step is hole splitting with its fiber-lattice terms, and semicontinuity is the mechanism of generic directness, which does not reach F_3-rational families. The lead gives no new mechanism beyond joint capacity

27 September 2026 · Reduction to recorded statements; no new claim · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-jordan-type. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Jordan-type lead: all three of its forms are already in the record. The maximal-rank criterion is the kernel-image criterion of free vanishing tops, the Horace step is hole splitting with its fiber-lattice terms, and semicontinuity is the mechanism of generic directness, which does not reach F_3-rational families. The lead gives no new mechanism beyond joint capacity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-jordan-type-lead.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, obstacle (a) of the equivalence review. The missing implication is row freeness, for some equivalent family, of families beyond joint capacity, where pullback row freeness is unavailable. That review's first Outside lead proposed Jordan type. Freeness in a direction \(u\) is maximal rank of \(u\) and \(u^2\), and Lefschetz theory proves maximal rank by degeneration. This cycle asks whether the lead supplies a mechanism the record lacks. It ends when each of its forms is either identified with a recorded statement or shown to reach families beyond capacity.

General statement. conj:fiber-lattice-freeness is the all-parameter statement that the lead's Horace form needs. This entry registers no new claim. It shows that the lead's three forms coincide with lem:free-vanishing-tops, lem:hole-splitting with conj:fiber-lattice-freeness, and thm:generic-top-directness. The first is proved. The second is open with a recorded obstruction to its adapted-basis mechanism. The third is proved only for Zariski-generic members over an algebraically closed field.

Maximal rank

For \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\), a graded module is free through \(t\) exactly when \(\ker u=\operatorname{im}u^2\) in degrees at most \(t-1\) (lem:free-vanishing-tops, the case of one row sum). In a finite module both equalities say that every Jordan block of \(u\) has size 3. Under truncation, checking \(\ker u^2=\operatorname{im}u\) in degree \(d\) needs degree \(d+2\), so it follows in degrees at most \(t-2\). So "Jordan type \((3,\dots,3)\)", "maximal rank of \(u\) and \(u^2\)" and the recorded criterion are one statement up to that two-degree loss. For \(u=r_i\) a single row sum with \(m\ge2\), whose coefficient vector over the rows is non-constant, prop:single-direction-sectors gives the point-set form: equal Hilbert functions of the three level sets through \(D-2\). The lead adds no criterion.

Degeneration one column at a time

A Horace step specializes the members onto one column \(c\), that is, it splits \(P\) by the state of \(c\). For column members, lem:hole-splitting gives the exact sequences. With them, \(A_e(Z)\) is free through \(t\) if \(A_e(Z^1)\) and the sum \(A_{e-1}(Z^0)+A_{e-1}(Z^1)\) are free through \(t-1\) and the intersection \(A_e(Z^0)\cap A_e(Z^1)\) through \(t\), since extensions of modules free through \(t\) are free through \(t\). The sum and intersection are the terms of conj:fiber-lattice-freeness.

For forms that are not column members, the fibers also record the row at \(c\), and there are \(m+1\) of them (lem:column-representation (4)). On fiber \(\sigma\) every member's forms are its linear parts on the other columns plus a constant depending on \(\sigma\). This is this entry's deduction, not a recorded claim. On fiber \(\sigma\) a form \(L\) restricts to \(L'+L(\sigma)\), with \(L'\) the form \(L\) with column \(c\)'s cells deleted. So the fibers carry the projections of the original linear parts, with constants that vary by fiber, and the joint span on the remaining columns is the projection of the original one. The step therefore leaves the family as far beyond capacity as before. It gains only the lattice of \(m+1\) fiber systems, whose two-fiber case is already non-distributive once clauses interact (ex:fiber-lattice-nondistributive). The Horace form of the lead is the fiber-lattice conjecture with more fibers.

Semicontinuity

Maximal rank of \(u\) and \(u^2\) is an open condition on a flat family of graded modules with fixed Hilbert function. So one free member gives freeness at the generic point. This is the mechanism of thm:generic-top-directness: irreducibility of the parameter space under \(\prod_cGL(V_c)\rtimes S_N\) plus one good member gives directness for Zariski-generic tops over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\).

It does not reach the goal's families. They are \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational, and a proper closed subset of a parameter space can contain every \(\mathbb F_3\)-point: \(x^3-x\) vanishes on \(\mathbb F_3\). The adversary chooses exactly such points, and every recorded structured obstruction is one: row-shifted and \(U\)-shifted sunflowers, and spread families. For random \(\mathbb F_3\)-members the record replaces genericity by bias bounds (lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound). Those reach the tops-only first degree at degree 5 and stop short of the main term.

Outcome

The lead is a rediscovery of three recorded statements, and it supplies no mechanism beyond joint capacity. What it adds is a clearer division of obstacle (a):

random families need an \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational substitute for semicontinuity, which is bias, and the record has it only for tops at degree 5;
adversarial families need equivalence (obstacle (b)) or a proof of the fiber-lattice conjecture.

No computation was run: each form of the lead was decided by the recorded statements.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: develop the equivalence review's first Absurd bridge, patchwise gauge fixing, on its candidate counterexample, the spread family with varying shifts. On the patch where row \(i\) holds at most one pigeon, the partial-row family is an equivalent. Decide whether the patches glue to a row-free equivalent over ordinary PHP. If they do not, find the obstruction, which would refute conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness for ordinary PHP.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statements of lem:free-vanishing-tops, prop:single-direction-sectors, lem:hole-splitting, conj:fiber-lattice-freeness, ex:fiber-lattice-nondistributive, thm:generic-top-directness, lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound and lem:column-representation (4). A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the semicontinuity section, including the point about \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points, and the summaries of generic directness and the killer bound. It required four changes, all adopted:

the degree range \(t-2\) for \(\ker u^2=\operatorname{im}u\) under truncation;
the hypothesis \(m\ge2\) and the loss to \(D-2\) when the sector criterion is cited;
lem:column-representation named in the claim note;
the joint-span remark marked as this entry's deduction, with its one-line reason.

Its suggestion to state hole splitting's degree split explicitly is also adopted.

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Empty-row sculpting: gauge fixing by row-equation multiples, not by functional patches. The varying-shift spread family has an equivalent whose allowed set excludes exactly the values that force the perturbed row to be empty, and that set is a disjoint union, value by value, of weak bases with row i confined to allowed column classes

27 September 2026 · Working proof with a conjecture · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-gauge-patches. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Empty-row sculpting: gauge fixing by row-equation multiples, not by functional patches. The varying-shift spread family has an equivalent whose allowed set excludes exactly the values that force the perturbed row to be empty, and that set is a disjoint union, value by value, of weak bases with row i confined to allowed column classes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-empty-row-sculpting.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, obstacle (b) of the equivalence review, developing its first Absurd bridge, patchwise gauge fixing. The missing implication is row freeness of some equivalent of every family. The review's candidate counterexample is the spread family with varying shifts. This cycle asks whether that family has a row-free equivalent over ordinary PHP. A construction would dissolve the candidate. An obstruction would refute conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness.

General statement. lem:empty-row-sculpting, proved for every clause system and every split of the columns into shift classes: adding to the family the products of its members' shift differences is an equivalence over weak unary PHP at degree \(2e\). It removes exactly the points whose value admits no shift class, and it leaves a disjoint union over values of weak bases on which row \(i\) uses only the admitted classes. conj:value-fiber-row-freeness states that this union is row-free when every class is large and the core's value map meets the pullback hypotheses on each confined base.

The functional patch fails

The review's bridge proposed fixing the gauge on the patch where row \(i\) holds at most one pigeon. There the partial-row family is an equivalent. That patch is never free in the direction \(r_i\): with at most one pigeon, \(r_i\) takes only the values 0 and 1, so its level set \(r_i\equiv2\) is empty. By prop:single-direction-sectors, which applies to \(u=r_i\) because its coefficients over the rows are non-constant when \(m\ge2\), freeness would force equal Hilbert functions of the three level sets. A nonempty patch cannot have that. So no gluing of row-free pieces can use a functional patch. This falsifies that formulation of the bridge.

Within ordinary PHP, the gauge freedom is different. A multiple \((r_j-1)h\) of a row equation may be added to any family at the cost \(\deg h+1\). It removes the points off the level \(r_j\equiv1\) where \(h\ne0\), and it changes nothing at the PHP level. The construction below uses only this freedom.

Setting

This follows the spread families entry. The core has forms \(L=(L_0,\dots,L_{h-1})\), value map \(v\), clause set \(\mathcal F\) of degree at most \(e\) and zero set \(A\). The columns of row \(i\) are split into classes \(C_0,C_1,C_2\): \(C_0\) is unperturbed and \(a\in\{1,2\}\) is a shift. The members have forms \(L+a\,x_{ic}e_0\) for \(c\in C_a\), each with clause set \(\mathcal F\), and the core is a member too. Let \(A_a=A\cap(A-ae_0)\), and for a value \(y\in A\) let \(T(y)=\{0\}\cup\{a\in\{1,2\}:y\in A_a\}\) be its admitted classes. Modulo Booleanity a member contributes \(F(L+ax_{ic}e_0)=F(L)+x_{ic}\Delta_aF(L)\), with \(\Delta_aF(y)=F(y+ae_0)-F(y)\). An occupied cell \((i,c)\) with \(c\in C_a\) therefore forces \(y\in A_a\), for every number of pigeons in row \(i\). Hence

\[Q=\{x\in P:\ v(x)\in A,\ \text{every occupied cell of row }i\text{ lies in a class of }T(v(x))\}=\bigsqcup_{y\in A}\big(P_{T(y)}\cap v^{-1}(y)\big),\]

where \(P_T\) is the set of points of \(P\) whose row-\(i\) pigeons lie in \(\bigcup_{a\in T}C_a\).

lem:empty-row-sculpting

Statement. Suppose \(C_0=\emptyset\), that is, the perturbed columns cover row \(i\). Let \(\mathcal G\) be \(\mathcal F\)'s members together with the products \(\Delta_1F\cdot\Delta_2F'(L)\) for \(F,F'\in\mathcal F\). If one class is empty, take \(\Delta_aF(L)\) for the other class \(a\) instead. Then \(\mathcal G\) and the members derive each other over weak unary PHP at degree at most \(2e\). The allowed set of \(\mathcal G\) is

\[Q'=\bigsqcup_{y\in A,\ T(y)\ne\{0\}}\big(P_{T(y)}\cap v^{-1}(y)\big),\]

that is, \(Q\) minus the points whose value admits no shift class. Those are the points where row \(i\) is empty.

Proof. The members lie in \(\mathcal G\). For the converse, fix \(F,F'\in\mathcal F\). Member \(c\) minus the core gives \(x_{ic}\Delta_{a_c}G(L)\) modulo Booleanity, at degree \(e\), for each \(G\in\mathcal F\). For \(c\in C_1\) take \(G=F\) and multiply by \(\Delta_2F'(L)\). For \(c\in C_2\) take \(G=F'\) and multiply by \(\Delta_1F(L)\). The multipliers have degree below \(e\). Either way the result is \(x_{ic}\,\Delta_1F\,\Delta_2F'(L)\), at degree at most \(2e-1\), with the same factor \(\Delta_1F\,\Delta_2F'(L)\) for every column. Summing over all \(c\), which is where \(C_1\sqcup C_2\) covering row \(i\) is used, gives \(r_i\Delta_1F\Delta_2F'(L)\), and

\[\Delta_1F\,\Delta_2F'(L)=r_i\,\Delta_1F\,\Delta_2F'(L)-(r_i-1)\,\Delta_1F\,\Delta_2F'(L),\]

a derivation with the row equation \(r_i-1\). A point of \(Q\) survives the products exactly when \(v\in A_1\cup A_2\), that is, when \(T(v)\ne\{0\}\): the product vanishes for all \(F,F'\) unless some \(\Delta_1F\) and some \(\Delta_2F'\) are both nonzero. The one-class case is the same with a single factor, at degree \(e\). \(\square\)

So the review's candidate counterexample has an explicit equivalent. The spread family of lem:spread-family-equivalence is the one-class case: there \(Q'\) is \(v^{-1}(A')\), the two-member core. The cost \(2e\) exceeds the fixed cost \(4t+3\) of conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness, whose clause degree is \(e\le4t+2\). With two shift classes the cost is \(2e\le8t+4\), still a fixed multiple of \(t\), far below \(D\approx44t\). The chain from that conjecture to the goal is unchanged when its cost is read as \(8t+4\). This cost replaces \(4t+3\) rather than adding to it: \(\mathcal G\) contains the members themselves, so the equivalence is direct. Equivalences also compose by maximum, not sum, because in PC a derived line is used afterwards as an axiom would be.

Why the sculpted set should be row-free

Each \(P_T\) with \(T\ne\{0\}\) is a weak base on the board where row \(i\) is confined to the columns of the classes in \(T\). If those classes have at least \(2D^2\) columns, that board is in the base's free range. The value fibers \(v^{-1}(y)\) cut it as a pullback would. The excluded values are exactly those with \(T(y)=\{0\}\) and \(C_0=\emptyset\): the board with row \(i\) confined to no column, where \(r_i\) takes only the value 0. That is the level gap of prop:spread-family-level-gap. The same Hilbert-function argument shows that \(Q\) and \(Q'\) are not both row-free whenever such a value occurs at a point with row \(i\) empty.

conj:value-fiber-row-freeness. On the weak base over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(m\ge D\) rows, let \(Q=\bigsqcup_y(P_{T(y)}\cap v^{-1}(y))\) be a union over the values of a core value map \(v\), with each \(P_{T(y)}\) the base with row \(i\) confined to a column set of at least \(2D^2\) columns. If \(v\) meets the pullback hypotheses of lem:pullback-row-freeness on every confined base \(P_T\), then \(Q\) is row-free through \(D\). The conjecture extends lem:pullback-row-freeness from one base to a family of confined bases indexed by the value. It would settle row freeness for all row-local single-cell perturbation families after sculpting.

What remains

First, the conjecture itself. Its proof needs the pullback argument to run relative to a value-dependent confinement. The natural route is a filtration by \(T\), with the confined bases nested, \(P_T\subseteq P_{T'}\) for \(T\subseteq T'\). Second, perturbations by several cells per member, or on several forms, have shift classes indexed by vectors in \(\mathbb F_3^h\). Sculpting then needs value conditions in all \(h\) forms, of degree up to \(2h\), which is fixed only if the block length is. Third, the boundaries between strata with different nonempty \(T\), such as \(T=\{0,1\}\) and \(T=\{0,1,2\}\), are a specific risk for the conjecture. The level gap came from a stratum on which \(r_i\) is degenerate. These strata are not degenerate, but their gluing along the values is exactly what the filtration must control. Fourth, obstacle (a) is untouched: sculpting treats row-local structure, not families beyond capacity without structure.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: prove conj:value-fiber-row-freeness by a filtration over the admitted classes, using lem:pullback-row-freeness on each confined base and lem:defect-gluing for the unions. Then state the sculpting lemma for perturbation vectors on several forms and bound its degree by the block length.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the spread-families entry, prop:single-direction-sectors, lem:pullback-row-freeness, cor:subfamily-row-freeness and thm:global-closure-gluing's failure clause. No computation was run: the construction and the level-gap argument are general. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the functional patch's failure, the effect of row-equation multiples, the description of \(Q\) for rows with several pigeons, the value logic of the products, the degree bound, and the novelty of both claims. It required four changes, all adopted:

the proof now says which clause is localized in each class before summing;
the hypothesis \(m\ge2\) is stated where the sector criterion is used;
the sculpting cost replaces, and does not add to, the conjecture's cost, since equivalences compose by maximum;
the boundaries between nonempty strata are named as a residual risk of the conjecture.

Its optional note, the one-class degree \(e\), is also adopted.

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Confinement non-distributivity: value-fiber sets with complementary confinements carry a Tor class \(r_i\tau\) whenever the two confinements' value ideals share a top outside the whole value ideal. A single clause on two dense forms makes it nonzero, which refutes value-fiber row freeness and returns the varying-shift spread family to a candidate counterexample

27 September 2026 · Refutation by proof, for dense forms · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-value-fibers. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Confinement non-distributivity: value-fiber sets with complementary confinements carry a Tor class \(r_i\tau\) whenever the two confinements' value ideals share a top outside the whole value ideal. A single clause on two dense forms makes it nonzero, which refutes value-fiber row freeness and returns the varying-shift spread family to a candidate counterexample”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-confinement-nondistributivity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The empty-row sculpting entry reduced row freeness of sculpted row-local families to conj:value-fiber-row-freeness. That conjecture extends pullback row freeness to sets confined, value by value, to column classes of the perturbed row. The missing implication is row freeness of some equivalent of every family, and this conjecture was the proposed step for row-local ones. This cycle tries to prove it by the pullback lemma's method. It ends with a proof, or with the mechanism that blocks one.

General statement. prop:confinement-nondistributivity, for every value-fiber set whose confinements \(P_1,P_2\) confine row \(i\) to complementary column classes. Let \(W_a\) be the values not confined to \(P_a\). Every \(\tau\) in the tops of both \(I(W_1)\) and \(I(W_2)\) gives an element \(r_i\tau\) of the allowed set's top ideal inside \(\mathfrak mG\). It is a nonzero Tor class unless lower elements absorb it. ex:value-fiber-counterexample makes it nonzero for one clause on two dense forms. It uses the conjecture's hypotheses plus the independence of the forms from one row, which dense forms have. So conj:value-fiber-row-freeness is refuted for dense forms.

Why the pullback proof does not extend

The pullback lemma writes every function as \(\sum_\beta\varphi_\beta(L)\tilde c_\beta\) over one basis of \(\Lambda\otimes B\) and reads off \(\varphi_\beta\) on each fiber. With confinements, one would need a basis adapted to both kernels \(n_{P_1}\) and \(n_{P_2}\) of the restrictions \(G\to\operatorname{gr}F^{P_a}\), with a \(\Lambda\)-free complement. No such basis exists when the classes cover row \(i\). \(n_{P_1}+n_{P_2}\) contains every cell of row \(i\), hence \(r_i\), so \(r_i\) kills \(G/(n_{P_1}+n_{P_2})\), which is therefore not free. The obstruction to that proof is a real one.

prop:confinement-nondistributivity

Setting. This is the setting of lem:empty-row-sculpting with \(C_1\sqcup C_2\) the columns of row \(i\). \(P_a\) is the weak base with row \(i\)'s pigeons confined to \(C_a\), and \(P_{12}=P\). The value set \(V\) is partitioned into \(V_1,V_2,V_{12}\), and \(Q=\bigsqcup_{y}(P_{T(y)}\cap v^{-1}(y))\). Put \(W_1=V\setminus V_1\) and \(W_2=V\setminus V_2\): the values at which a pigeon in \(C_2\), respectively \(C_1\), is allowed. Tops of functions on \(\mathbb F_3^h\) are taken in \(T=\mathbb F_3[w]/(w_j^3)\).

Statement. Assume the base is row-free through \(D\), that is, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,G)_d=0\) for \(d\le D\). Let \(\varphi_1\in I(W_1)\) and \(\varphi_2\in I(W_2)\) have the same top \(\tau\) of degree \(\delta\), with \(\delta+1\le D\). Then

\[f=\sum_{c\in C_2}x_{ic}\,\varphi_1(L)+\sum_{c\in C_1}x_{ic}\,\varphi_2(L)\]

vanishes on \(Q\), and its top is \(r_i\tau\in\mathfrak mG\) whenever \(r_i\tau\ne0\) in \(G\). If moreover the top ideal \(n\) of \(I(Q)\) is zero in degrees at most \(\delta\), then \(r_i\tau\) represents a nonzero class of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,G/n)_{\delta+1}\), and \(Q\) is not row-free through \(\delta+1\).

Proof. A point of \(Q\) with a pigeon at \((i,c)\), \(c\in C_2\), has its value in \(W_1\) (it is not confined to \(P_1\)), where \(\varphi_1=0\). The case \(c\in C_1\) is symmetric. So every term of \(f\) vanishes on \(Q\). The top of \(x_{ic}\varphi_a(L)\) is \(x_{ic}\tau\), so the top of \(f\) is \(\sum_cx_{ic}\tau=r_i\tau\). By lem:first-degree-purity (1), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_d=(n\cap\mathfrak mG)_d/(\mathfrak mn)_d\) for \(d\le D\). Here \((\mathfrak mn)_{\delta+1}=\sum_jr_jn_\delta=0\). \(\square\)

The condition on \(\tau\) is a failure of distributivity. Since \(W_1\cup W_2=V\), the intersection of the tops of \(I(W_1)\) and \(I(W_2)\) contains the tops of \(I(V)\), and \(\tau\) is an element outside them. Point sets rarely have distributive top ideals in low degree, which is the phenomenon of ex:fiber-lattice-nondistributive.

ex:value-fiber-counterexample

The family. Two forms \(L=(L_0,L_1)\) and one clause \(F=\mathbf 1_{(2,0)}(L)=g(L_0+1)\,g(L_1)\), of degree 4. Its zero set is \(A=\mathbb F_3^2\setminus\{(2,0)\}\). Shifts \(a\in\{1,2\}\) act on \(L_0\) by column class, with \(C_1\sqcup C_2\) covering row \(i\). Along the line \(y_1=0\), \(A\) meets \(\{(0,0),(1,0)\}\). There \(T(0,0)=\{1\}\), since \((1,0)\in A\) and \((2,0)\notin A\), and \(T(1,0)=\{2\}\). The lines \(y_1=1,2\) lie in \(A\), so their values have \(T=\{1,2\}\). No value has an empty \(T\), so sculpting removes nothing, and

\[Q'=\big(P_1\cap v^{-1}(0,0)\big)\sqcup\big(P_2\cap v^{-1}(1,0)\big)\sqcup\big(P\cap\{L_1\ne0\}\big).\]

The top \(\tau\). \(W_1=V\setminus\{(0,0)\}\) and \(W_2=V\setminus\{(1,0)\}\). The functions \(\varphi_1=\mathbf 1_{(0,0)}-\mathbf 1_{(2,0)}=(1-y_1^2)(2y_0+1)\) and \(\varphi_2=-(\mathbf 1_{(1,0)}-\mathbf 1_{(2,0)})=-(1-y_1^2)y_0\) vanish on \(W_1\) and \(W_2\) respectively. Both have top \(\tau=y_0y_1^2\): the first has top \(-2y_0y_1^2=y_0y_1^2\) and the second \(y_0y_1^2\). \(I(V)\) is spanned by \(\mathbf 1_{(2,0)}\), with top \(y_0^2y_1^2\), so \(\tau\) is outside it.

Nothing below degree 4. Assume the conjecture's hypotheses: JF for \(L\) on \(P\) through degree 4, and the pullback lemma's conclusion on the confined bases in degree 1. The latter says that the affine functions vanishing on \(P_a\cap v^{-1}(y)\) are spanned by the \(L_j-y_j\) and the row-\(i\) cells outside \(C_a\). Assume also that no nonzero combination of the linear parts of \(L_0,L_1\) is supported on row \(i\). This holds when their restrictions to the cells outside row \(i\) are linearly independent, as for dense forms. It is an added hypothesis: the pullback hypotheses on each confined base separately do not imply it, since the step below compares \(C_1\) cells and \(C_2\) cells at once. Take \(N\) so large that \(|C_1|,|C_2|\ge2D^2\).

Let \(g\) have degree at most 3 and vanish on \(Q'\). It vanishes on \(P\cap\{L_1\ne0\}\). By the pullback lemma on \(P\), \(g=\sum_\beta\varphi_\beta(L)\tilde c_\beta\) with each \(\varphi_\beta\) a reduced polynomial vanishing on \(y_1\in\{1,2\}\), hence \(\varphi_\beta=(y_1^2-1)\psi_\beta(y_0)\). The degree bound then forces \(g=(L_1^2-1)h\) with \(h=\alpha+\gamma L_0+\ell\) affine, \(\ell\) a combination of degree-1 basis lifts. On \(v^{-1}(y_0,0)\) we have \(L_1^2-1=-1\), so \(h\) must vanish on \(P_1\cap v^{-1}(0,0)\) and on \(P_2\cap v^{-1}(1,0)\). By the degree-1 hypothesis:

on the first piece, \(\alpha+\ell\) is a combination of \(L_0\), \(L_1\) and the \(C_2\) cells of row \(i\);
on the second, \(\alpha+\gamma+\ell\) is a combination of \(L_0-1\), \(L_1\) and the \(C_1\) cells.

Subtracting, a combination of \(C_2\) cells minus a combination of \(C_1\) cells lies in the span of \(L_0\), \(L_1\) and the constants. By the added hypothesis that element is a constant, hence 0, since the cells are linearly independent functions on \(P\). So both combinations vanish. Then \(\ell\), which has no \(L\)-component, is 0, and \(\alpha=\gamma=0\). So \(g=0\) as a function, and \(n\) is zero in degrees at most 3.

Conclusion. \(r_i\ne0\) and \(\tau\ne0\) are independent generators under JF, so \(r_i\tau\ne0\) in \(G\). By the proposition, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n)_4\ne0\), and \(Q'\) is not row-free through 4. It meets the hypotheses of conj:value-fiber-row-freeness, namely large confined classes and the pullback hypotheses on each confined base. It also meets the added independence of the forms from row \(i\), which the conjecture's intended families of dense forms satisfy. The conjecture is refuted in this form, for dense forms. No computation was run; the argument is general in \(m\ge2\), \(N\) and \(D\ge4\).

What this means for the route

The sculpted equivalent of this varying-shift family is not row-free. Could another equivalent be? At the PHP level, points with value \((0,0)\) have row \(i\) confined to \(C_1\). Every equivalent keeps those points. The relation \(f\) comes from the members' own localizations, so \(r_i\tau\) stays in the top ideal of every equivalent that adds no points off the level \(r\equiv1\). Removing points off that level, which is all that row-equation multiples do, only adds elements of higher \(\Lambda\)-degree to \(\mathfrak mn\), so it cannot absorb \(r_i\tau\). This last step is argued, not proved. An equivalent that adds points off the level could break the relation \(f\). So the varying-shift family is again a candidate counterexample to conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness, now with a precise mechanism: non-distributivity of the confinements' value ideals. The W-shaped clause \(g(L_0)L_1^2\) has the same non-distributivity, with \(\tau=y_0y_1^2\) outside \(n_V\). Whether lower elements absorb \(r_i\tau\) there is not checked, since \(n_V\) has degree-3 elements in that case.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: decide whether an equivalent that adds points off the PHP level can break the relation \(f\) for the counterexample family. If none can, conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness is refuted for ordinary PHP, and the route needs a condition that excludes row-local families with complementary confinements, or a separate treatment of them. The line has now reformulated its condition four times since the equivalence review, so the following cycle is a route review.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:value-fiber-row-freeness and its setting, lem:empty-row-sculpting, lem:pullback-row-freeness with its proof, lem:first-degree-purity (1) and ex:fiber-lattice-nondistributive. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer recomputed \(\varphi_1\), \(\varphi_2\), their common top, the values of \(T\), the set \(Q'\), the degree-3 elimination and the Tor conclusion, and found them correct. It required three changes, all adopted:

the proposition now states its hypotheses, row freeness of the base through \(D\) and \(\delta+1\le D\);
the independence of the forms from row \(i\) is now an explicit added hypothesis, with the reason the conjecture's own hypotheses do not give it, and the refutation is labelled accordingly;
the unsourced "holds for dense forms" is replaced by that explicit condition.

Its suggestion to fix \(N\) so that both classes are large is also adopted.

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Route review of the equivalent-family line after the value-fiber refutation: the condition now quantifies over lifts off the PHP level that no tool controls, and every natural lift fails on row-local families with non-distributive confinements. The confinement entry's argued claim about removals is corrected: the relation's own fall reaches degree 3, and closing under it reverses the level gap instead of removing it

27 September 2026 · Route review with a correction · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-row-local-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the equivalent-family line after the value-fiber refutation: the condition now quantifies over lifts off the PHP level that no tool controls, and every natural lift fails on row-local families with non-distributive confinements. The confinement entry's argued claim about removals is corrected: the relation's own fall reaches degree 3, and closing under it reverses the level gap instead of removing it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-row-local-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the equivalence review the line has:

reduced the Jordan-type lead to recorded statements;
built empty-row sculpting;
seen its conjecture, conj:value-fiber-row-freeness, refuted by confinement non-distributivity (non-distributivity).

That makes four reformulations of the condition in a row. This review decides whether the line has a mechanism.

The line's general claim

conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness: some family equivalent over weak unary PHP at a fixed cost \(O(t)\) (\(8t+4\) after lem:empty-row-sculpting) has a row-free allowed set.

What the goal needs

Such an equivalent for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks with random prefixes. That includes the varying-shift spread family of ex:value-fiber-counterexample, and families beyond joint capacity without structure.

Falsification attempt: closing the counterexample under its fall

For the family of ex:value-fiber-counterexample, the relation \(f=\sum_{c\in C_2}x_{ic}\varphi_1(L)+\sum_{c\in C_1}x_{ic}\varphi_2(L)\) has top \(r_i\tau\). Replacing \(r_i\) by 1 gives its fall. With \(\hat\varphi=\varphi_1\) as the lift of \(\tau\),

\[p=f-(r_i-1)\varphi_1(L)=\varphi_1(L)+r_i^{(1)}(\varphi_2-\varphi_1)(L)=\varphi_1(L)+r_i^{(1)}(L_1^2-1),\]

since \(\varphi_2-\varphi_1=-(1-y_1^2)(3y_0+1)=y_1^2-1\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). It is derived at degree 4 from the members and a row equation, so adding it gives an equivalent. Its top \(\tau+r_i^{(1)}w_1^2\) has degree 3 and a \(\Lambda\)-degree-0 part \(\tau\).

Correction. The confinement entry argued, marking the step unproved, that removing points off the level \(r\equiv1\) "only adds elements of higher \(\Lambda\)-degree to \(\mathfrak mn\), so it cannot absorb \(r_i\tau\)". That is wrong as stated: \(p\) removes points and adds a degree-3 element whose top has \(\Lambda\)-degree 0. The entry's hedge stands; this review replaces the argument.

What \(p\) does, pointwise:

At the PHP level it vanishes on \(Q'\). At \(v=(0,0)\) row \(i\) lies in \(C_1\), so \(r_i^{(1)}=r_i\equiv1\) and \(p=1-1=0\). At \(v=(1,0)\), \(r_i^{(1)}=0\) and \(\varphi_1=0\). Where \(L_1\ne0\), both terms vanish.
Off that level, at \(v=(0,0)\), \(p=1-r_i^{(1)}\ne0\). So \(p\) removes every point with value \((0,0)\) and \(r_i\not\equiv1\).
The symmetric fall with \(\hat\varphi=\varphi_2\) removes the off-level points with value \((1,0)\).

After both, the confined pieces live only on the level \(r_i\equiv1\). This is the level gap of prop:spread-family-level-gap reversed. The closure is \(Q^{\rm cl}=\Pi\sqcup E\), with \(\Pi=P\cap\{L_1\ne0\}\) and \(E\) the confined pieces at level 1. Suppose \(\Pi\) is row-free through \(D\), as lem:pullback-row-freeness gives under JF and FI for \(L_1\). Then its three level sets have a common Hilbert function through \(D-2\) (prop:single-direction-sectors, with \(m\ge2\)). \(Q^{\rm cl}\) agrees with \(\Pi\) at levels 0 and 2. At level 1, the function \(1-L_1^2\) of degree 2 vanishes on \(\Pi\) and equals 1 on \(E\), so \(H_{Q^{\rm cl}_1}(d)\ge H_{\Pi_1}(d)+1=H_{Q^{\rm cl}_0}(d)+1\) for \(2\le d\le D-2\). So \(\Pi\) and \(Q^{\rm cl}\) are not both row-free. Under the pullback hypotheses for \(L_1\), closing under falls, the natural canonical lift, fails here too.

What remains possible. Every equivalent contains the PHP-level points with value \((0,0)\), with row \(i\) confined to \(C_1\). For row freeness, the other levels need parts with the same Hilbert function. Confined parts bring back \(f\), as above, and removing them reverses the gap. An equivalent that adds unconfined points with value \((0,0)\) off the level breaks \(f\), but it puts confined and unconfined sets at different levels. With \(m=2\) the PHP level is a single level set, and prop:single-direction-sectors forces any row-free equivalent to have Hilbert function \(H+H(-1)+H(-2)\) through \(D-2\), where \(H=H_{Q_H}\) is determined by the PHP-level set \(Q_H\). The conjecture needs \(m\ge D\), where the PHP level is a full sector and no such forcing is known. The candidate counterexample stands, undecided.

Obstacle

The line's condition quantifies over all lifts of the PHP-level allowed set to the weak base. The lifts are all families derivable in both directions with the row equations at bounded degree. No tool controls this space. Every natural lift fails on row-local families whose confinements are non-distributive:

normal form;
a free representation per form;
empty-row sculpting;
fall closure.

Beyond joint capacity, obstacle (a) of the equivalence review is untouched. So the line can neither prove its condition nor refute it, and the route's sufficient condition, full row freeness on the weak base, may simply be too strong for row-local families. The known falls of such families are real (derived at degree 4, of degree 3), but a fall is not a refutation.

Assessment of the line

The line has produced real structure: the dependence of the defect on the representation, the equivalence principle, the level-gap and non-distributivity mechanisms, and explicit equivalents for spread families. Four successive forms of its condition have been refuted or left without a proof. The latest form is unfalsifiable by the tools at hand, since it quantifies over an uncontrolled space of lifts. The assessment is qualitative. The line is weak as a route. Its best use is as a source of obstructions that any replacement condition must survive. A replacement should either require freeness only where these obstructions do not reach, or treat row-local families by a different mechanism.

Outside leads

Rank varieties and Dade's lemma (Carlson, The varieties and the cohomology ring of a module, J. Algebra 85, 1983; Dade, 1978). Target: the obstacle, both parts. Answers. Over \(\Lambda\), a group algebra of \((\mathbb Z/3)^{m-1}\), a module is free exactly when its rank variety, the set of shifted cyclic directions where it is not free, is \(\{0\}\). The row-local obstructions are supported in the single direction \(r_i\). If thm:global-closure-gluing could be weakened to freeness along directions off a small variety, they would be harmless, and so would every obstruction the line has found. Test. Not run: the theorem's hypothesis is full Koszul exactness for \(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}\). Whether its proof uses all directions needs a reading of the proof, which is the next step.
Linkage and the Mayer–Vietoris sequence of ideals (Peskine and Szpiro, Liaison des variétés algébriques, Invent. Math. 26, 1974). Target: the gluing of confined pieces. Answers. The sequence \(0\to R/(I\cap J)\to R/I\oplus R/J\to R/(I+J)\to0\) and its linkage refinements compute the invariants of a union from the pieces and a connecting map. A lift that is row-free must make that connecting map vanish, so the choice of lift becomes the choice of how the pieces glue. Test. Passed: the class \(r_i\tau\) of prop:confinement-nondistributivity is that connecting term. \(\tau\) lies in both pieces' top ideals and not in the union's.
Restrictions that pin rows (Beame and Pitassi, Simplified and improved resolution lower bounds, FOCS 1996; Razborov's restriction method for PHP). Target: row-local families. Answers. A restriction assigning row \(i\)'s pigeon removes its row-local perturbations. Each member becomes the core plus a constant, so the family becomes a sunflower with constants inside joint capacity. It is treated by restriction rather than by equivalence. Test. Passed for one row: pinning row \(i\) to a column \(c\) turns the varying-shift family into \(\{L,L+a_ce_0\}\), a two-member core. It breaks when many rows carry perturbations, where the record's per-pigeon rank cap applies (row-local review).

Absurd bridges

Acyclic database schemes (Beeri, Fagin, Maier and Yannakakis, On the desirability of acyclic database schemes, JACM 1983). Translation: the confinement structure is a relation between row-\(i\) patterns and values, and row freeness asks whether it decomposes losslessly into its projections. For acyclic schemes, pairwise consistency implies global consistency. Answers. An acyclicity criterion on the confinement relation would say when the value ideals are distributive, and so when sculpted families are row-free. Test. Falsified: the counterexample's confinement relation is binary (class pattern against value), whose scheme is trivially acyclic, yet its value ideals are not distributive. Acyclicity does not see tops.
The cleaning lemma for quantum codes (Bravyi and Terhal, 2009). Translation: \(\tau\) behaves like a logical operator. It can be supported on either of two complementary regions, the confinements to \(C_1\) and to \(C_2\), without being trivial, that is, in the top ideal of \(I(V)\). The cleaning lemma says a logical operator can be moved off any correctable region, so if both regions were correctable no logical operator would exist. Answers. It suggests a size criterion: families whose confinement classes are "correctable" in a code-distance sense have no such \(\tau\), and row-local obstructions would need large confinement classes on both sides. Test. Not run: "correctable region" needs a definition in terms of value ideals, which is the open part of the translation.

Lead follow-up

Dade's lemma. Continued this cycle as the rank-variety lead: the obstructions found are single-direction, which is exactly what rank varieties measure. Follow-up. Continuing.
Dade's lemma, aimed at locating defects. Every defect found since, including \(r_i\tau\), is located in the direction of a single row sum. Follow-up. Continuing, merged with the rank-variety lead.
Jordan type. The Jordan-type lead entry reduced it to recorded statements. Follow-up. Closed: no mechanism beyond those statements.
Alexander–Hirschowitz and the Horace method. The same entry showed that a Horace step is hole splitting with the fiber-lattice terms. Follow-up. Closed: reduced to conj:fiber-lattice-freeness.

Bridge follow-up

Slater determinants. Checked this cycle against the new classes. Its ghost-row witnesses are product functionals on disjoint column blocks, which vanish on the row-sum ideal \(R\). So they measure rank modulo \(R\), not the defect. Every class found since the equivalence review, \(r_i\tau\) included, lies in \(R\), where these witnesses are blind. Follow-up. Closed: the witnesses vanish exactly where the remaining obstructions live.
Gauge fixing. Developed into empty-row sculpting, whose value-fiber conjecture is refuted. Fall closure, the other natural gauge, reverses the level gap, as shown above. Follow-up. Closed: every gauge built from the members fails on non-distributive confinements, and gauges that add points are not constructible by the tools at hand.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3, via the rank-variety lead: read the proof of thm:global-closure-gluing. Determine whether its hypothesis can be weakened from freeness over all of \(\Lambda\) to freeness along directions outside a small variety. If it can, test the weakened hypothesis against every recorded obstruction, all of which are single-direction.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read ex:value-fiber-counterexample and prop:confinement-nondistributivity, prop:single-direction-sectors, prop:spread-family-level-gap, lem:pullback-row-freeness and the follow-up items of the equivalence and witness reviews. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer recomputed the fall \(p\), its degree-4 derivation, its top, and its values at and off the level, including the symmetric fall. It confirmed the correction of the confinement entry and the rank-variety statement. It required four changes, all adopted:

the reversed level gap is now a Hilbert-function inequality, with the pullback hypothesis on \(P\cap\{L_1\ne0\}\) stated;
the \(m=2\) forcing now carries its range, through \(D-2\);
the Slater bridge was checked this cycle and is closed with its reason;
the paraphrase of prop:spread-family-level-gap was checked against its statement.

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Varying-shift falls: a W_RS block on two forms whose members shift one form by single cells, with the shift depending on the column class of one row, derives an affine equation between that form and a partial row sum. The closure theorem's conclusion rules out such falls, so no direction-restricted hypothesis can certify the family's natural allowed set, and the rank-variety lead fails as a weakening of that theorem

27 September 2026 · Working proof; lead closed · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-rank-variety. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Varying-shift falls: a W_RS block on two forms whose members shift one form by single cells, with the shift depending on the column class of one row, derives an affine equation between that form and a partial row sum. The closure theorem's conclusion rules out such falls, so no direction-restricted hypothesis can certify the family's natural allowed set, and the rank-variety lead fails as a weakening of that theorem”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-varying-shift-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, the rank-variety lead of the row-local review. Every obstruction found so far lies in the direction of a single row sum. If thm:global-closure-gluing needed freeness only along directions off a small variety, those obstructions would be harmless. The missing implication is a sufficient condition for W_RS that row-local families meet. This cycle reads the theorem's proof and decides whether its hypothesis can be weakened.

General statement. prop:varying-shift-affine-fall, proved for every board with \(m\ge2\) and every partition \(C_1\sqcup C_2\) of the columns of row \(i\) into nonempty classes. The W_RS block on forms \((L_0,L_1)\), with both prefix patterns present and members \(L+a_cx_{ic}e_0\), gives the following over weak unary PHP at bounded degree:

the affine equation \(L_0+r_i^{(1)}+1\);
cross-class functionality \(x_{ic}x_{ic'}\) for \(c\in C_1\), \(c'\in C_2\).

On the members' allowed set the first is a fall. So the conclusion of thm:global-closure-gluing, no falls below \(D\), fails there, and no weaker hypothesis implying that conclusion holds.

What the closure theorem needs

The proof of thm:global-closure-gluing (global closure) imposes all row equations \(r_i-z\) at once. It gets \(z\)-injectivity below \(D\) from the Koszul complex of \((r_1,\dots,r_{m-1})\) on \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\): every 1-cycle through \(D\) must be Frobenius plus a boundary. That condition does not depend on a basis of \(\operatorname{span}\{r_j\}\). A hypothesis on some directions only concerns a sub-complex, and the proof uses exactness of the full complex because it imposes every row equation. A weakened hypothesis would need a new proof, and any proof of this theorem ends in \(z\)-injectivity, which a fall refutes. Its conclusion, \(z\)-injectivity below \(D\), says that no element of degree \(d<D\) derivable with the row equations at a higher degree is missing at degree \(d\): there are no falls. So a set whose closed system has a fall cannot satisfy any hypothesis that implies the theorem's conclusion. Rank varieties can only help a different theorem, one whose conclusion tolerates falls.

prop:varying-shift-affine-fall

Setting. A W_RS block on two affine forms \(L_0,L_1\) with prefix size 1, so its clauses are \(g(L_1)L_0^2\) and \(g(L_0)L_1^2\), with \(g=1-L^2\). With enough copies both prefix patterns occur, so every member carries both clauses. Their common zero set is \(A=\{(0,0)\}\cup\{y_0y_1\ne0\}\). The members are the core \(L\) and \(L+a_cx_{ic}e_0\) for each column \(c\) of row \(i\), with \(a_c=1\) on \(C_1\) and \(a_c=2\) on \(C_2\).

Statement. Over weak unary PHP, the members derive at degree \(O(1)\):

(i) \(x_{ic}(L_0-1)\) and \(x_{ic}(L_1^2-1)\) for \(c\in C_1\), and \(x_{ic}(L_0+1)\) for \(c\in C_2\);
(ii) the affine equation \(p=L_0+r_i^{(1)}+1\), where \(r_i^{(1)}=\sum_{c\in C_1}x_{ic}\);
(iii) \(x_{ic}x_{ic'}\) for \(c\in C_1\), \(c'\in C_2\).

On the sculpted allowed set \(Q'\) of lem:empty-row-sculpting, \(p\) is a fall: it lies in the ideal of the closed system, but not in \(I(Q')\cap F_1+\operatorname{span}\{r_j-1\}\).

Proof. (i) Modulo Booleanity, member \(c\) minus the core gives \(x_{ic}\Delta_{a_c}F(L)=x_{ic}\,(F(L+a_ce_0)-F(L))\) for each clause \(F\). Adding \(x_{ic}F(L)\), a multiple of the core's clause, gives \(x_{ic}F(L+a_ce_0)\). On the value space these clauses, together with the core's, cut out \(A\cap(A-a_ce_0)\). Directly:

\(A-e_0=\{(2,0)\}\cup\{y_0\in\{0,1\},\,y_1\ne0\}\), so \(A\cap(A-e_0)=\{(1,\pm1)\}\);
\(A-2e_0=\{(1,0)\}\cup\{y_0\in\{0,2\},\,y_1\ne0\}\), so \(A\cap(A-2e_0)=\{(2,\pm1)\}\).

An ideal of \(\mathbb F_3[y_0,y_1]\) containing the field polynomials \(y_j^3-y_j\) is radical, so it contains every polynomial vanishing on its zero set. Reducing cofactors modulo the field polynomials, whose reduced monomials have degree at most 4 in two variables, keeps the degree bounded. So \(y_0-1\) and \(y_1^2-1\) lie in the ideal of the class-1 conditions, and \(y_0+1\) in that of the class-2 conditions. Substituting the forms, with \(L_j^3-L_j\) derived at degree 3 by Frobenius, and multiplying by \(x_{ic}\) gives (i) at bounded degree.

(ii) Summing (i),

\[f=\sum_{c\in C_1}x_{ic}(L_0-1)+\sum_{c\in C_2}x_{ic}(L_0+1)=r_iL_0-r_i^{(1)}+r_i^{(2)}.\]

Then \(p=f-(r_i-1)(L_0+1)\). Using \(r_i=r_i^{(1)}+r_i^{(2)}\), which holds because \(C_1\sqcup C_2\) is the whole row, this equals \(-2r_i^{(1)}+L_0+1=r_i^{(1)}+L_0+1\) over \(\mathbb F_3\).

(iii) \(x_{ic}x_{ic'}(L_0-1)\) and \(x_{ic}x_{ic'}(L_0+1)\) are multiples of (i). Their difference is \(x_{ic}x_{ic'}\cdot((L_0-1)-(L_0+1))=x_{ic}x_{ic'}\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), at degree 3.

The fall. Sculpting removes the values with no admitted class. Here these are \((0,0)\), since \((1,0),(2,0)\notin A\). Sculpting leaves \(Q'=(P_1\cap v^{-1}\{(1,\pm1)\})\sqcup(P_2\cap v^{-1}\{(2,\pm1)\})\), where \(P_a\) confines row \(i\) to \(C_a\). On the first part \(r_i^{(1)}=r_i\) and \(L_0=1\), so \(p=r_i+2=r_i-1\). On the second, \(r_i^{(1)}=0\) and \(L_0=2\), so \(p=0\).

Suppose \(p-\sum_j\beta_j(r_j-1)\) vanished on \(Q'\), the sum over all rows. On the second part \(p=0\), so \(\sum_j\beta_j(r_j-1)\) vanishes there. The only affine relation among the row sums on a large weak base is \(\sum_j(r_j-1)=s-m=0\): the \(r_j\), \(j\ge1\), are independent in \(\operatorname{gr}_1\), as in thm:global-closure-gluing's pinned-row argument, and the second part is a weak base with row \(i\) confined to the large class \(C_2\). So all \(\beta_j\) equal a common \(\lambda\), and the combination is \(\lambda(s-m)=0\). On the first part this leaves \(p=r_i-1\), which is nonzero off the level \(r_i\equiv1\). So \(p\notin I(Q')\cap F_1+\operatorname{span}\{r_j-1\}\): \(p\) has degree 1, is derived at bounded degree, and is missing in degree 1. The closed system is therefore not \(z\)-injective below \(D\), and \(Q'\) fails every hypothesis that implies thm:global-closure-gluing's conclusion, full or restricted to directions. \(\square\)

What it means

The rank-variety lead is closed as a weakening of the closure theorem. The obstructions are single-direction, but they come with genuine falls, and the theorem's conclusion forbids falls.

The family itself is harmless for W. At the PHP level it only says that \(L_0\in\{1,2\}\) is fixed by the class of row \(i\)'s pigeons, which must lie in one class, and that \(L_1\ne0\). What fails is the route's method, which certifies non-refutability through the absence of falls.

For conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness this family is a W_RS candidate counterexample. That form of the conjecture is stated for W_RS families, and the earlier candidate used a general clause. An equivalent with a row-free allowed set would have to absorb:

\(p\), as \(p\equiv\sum_j\beta_j(r_j-1)\) on its allowed set;
each \(x_{ic}x_{ic'}\), as a combination of row equations with cofactors of degree at most 1.

Whether any set does so and stays row-free is open. The two identities force \(\ell_0^2\in n_2+\mathfrak mG\) in its top algebra, which is not by itself a contradiction.

The natural next mechanism is a gluing theorem that tolerates falls. Close the system under its falls, as linear or low-degree equations, and substitute the affine ones into the forms. Then apply a freeness criterion to the resulting system, which is no longer a subset of the weak base cut by the original clauses.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: formulate fall-tolerant gluing. Let the family's affine consequences over weak unary PHP, such as \(L_0+r_i^{(1)}+1\), enter as new affine forms, possibly involving partial row sums. Ask whether the closure theorem, applied on the weak base cut by those affine equations, has a hypothesis that the varying-shift family meets. Partial row sums over proper column classes are not row sums, so joint freeness can survive them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:global-closure-gluing with its proof and pinned-row argument, lem:empty-row-sculpting, and the row-local review. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer recomputed the zero sets, the affine fall \(p=L_0+r_i^{(1)}+1\), the cross-class functionality and the modus tollens against the theorem's conclusion. It required four changes, all adopted:

the localization is now written with \(\Delta\), then the core's multiple;
the unexplained cofactor bound is now justified by reduction;
the coefficient in (iii) is now 1;
the step \(\beta=0\) now uses the independence of the row sums \(r_j\), \(j\ge1\), and allows a common \(\beta\) along \(s-m\).

Its optional tightening of the directions paragraph is adopted.

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Row-free subsets suffice: the closure theorem needs a row-free set on which the clauses vanish, and any nonempty row-free subset of the allowed set is one. Every structured obstruction the line found contains a row-free pullback piece, so none of them obstructs the route. What remains is the generic core: a row-free subset inside the allowed set of families beyond joint capacity

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Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Row-free subsets suffice: the closure theorem needs a row-free set on which the clauses vanish, and any nonempty row-free subset of the allowed set is one. Every structured obstruction the line found contains a row-free pullback piece, so none of them obstructs the route. What remains is the generic core: a row-free subset inside the allowed set of families beyond joint capacity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-row-free-subsets.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The varying-shift falls entry showed that row-local families have genuine falls on their allowed sets, which the closure theorem's conclusion forbids. It proposed a gluing theorem that tolerates falls. Before building one, this cycle rereads what the closure theorem is applied to. The missing implication is a sufficient condition for W_RS that every family meets. The question is whether that condition must concern the allowed set itself.

General statement. lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency, for every family of constraints of degree at most \(D\): if the allowed set contains a nonempty subset that is row-free through \(D\), then weak unary PHP plus the constraints has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). conj:row-free-subset replaces the line's conditions with this weaker one for W_RS families. Every recorded structured obstruction meets it.

lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency

Statement. Over a field of characteristic \(p\), let \(\mathcal C\) be constraints of degree at most \(D\), row equations not among them, and let \(Q_{\mathcal C}\subseteq P\) be their allowed set on the weak base. Suppose \(\emptyset\ne Q_1\subseteq Q_{\mathcal C}\) and \(Q_1\) meets the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing: every Koszul 1-cycle of the row sums on \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{Q_1}\) through degree \(D\) is Frobenius plus a boundary, as when \(Q_1\) is row-free through \(D\). Then weak unary PHP plus \(\mathcal C\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. Every constraint in \(\mathcal C\) vanishes on \(Q_{\mathcal C}\), hence on \(Q_1\). thm:global-closure-gluing, applied to the nonempty set \(Q_1\), says that the weak base plus any constraints of degree at most \(D\) vanishing on \(Q_1\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). The row equations are part of the homogenized weak base there, so this is weak unary PHP. \(\square\)

This is a monotonicity already present in the theorem's own statement: a smaller set has more vanishing constraints, hence a stronger closed system. The line has so far always taken \(Q_1=Q_{\mathcal C}\), and every obstruction it found was an obstruction to that choice. The monotonicity is not new mathematics. It reframes the route: the relevant question is whether the allowed set contains a row-free subset, not whether the allowed set is row-free.

The structured obstructions dissolve

Each family below has a pullback piece of its allowed set: a set \(S=P_T\cap v^{-1}(V')\), where \(P_T\) is the weak base or a confined base and \(V'\) a value set of a few dense forms. By lem:pullback-row-freeness, applied with \(P_T\) as the ambient set, \(S\) is row-free through \(D\) when \(v\) meets joint freeness and fiber independence on \(P_T\). The lemma's proof uses only these two properties of the ambient set.

Row-shifted sunflowers (lem:row-shift-collapse). Their normal form is an equivalent family, not a subset of the original allowed set. It is an exact sunflower up to constants, so its allowed set is a pullback \(v^{-1}(V')\) of the core's forms. The lemma applies to the normal-form family, and the refutation transfer of the normal-form cost argument carries the conclusion back.
\(U\)-shifted sunflowers (lem:u-shift-collapse). The column representation is again an equivalent family, and the lemma is applied to it, then transferred back. In that representation the members are the core plus constants on each column-1 fiber (lem:column-representation (4)). The allowed set meets some fiber, and on that fiber it is a pullback \(v^{-1}(V'_\sigma)\) of the core's forms. The fiber is a weak base on the other \(N-1\) columns, possibly with one pigeon placed at column 1. A placed pigeon shifts a row sum by a constant, which leaves the symbols of the row sums, and so the \(\Lambda\)-module structure of the associated graded, unchanged.
Spread families (prop:spread-family-level-gap). The allowed set contains \(v^{-1}(A')\), the two-member core's pullback (lem:spread-family-equivalence).
Varying-shift families (ex:value-fiber-counterexample, prop:varying-shift-affine-fall). The allowed set contains \(P_2\cap v^{-1}(V_2)\), a pullback on the base with row \(i\) confined to the large class \(C_2\). In the W_RS instance \(V_2=\{(2,\pm1)\}\).

So every family the line used against its conditions satisfies the lemma, directly or through an equivalent family, provided the pullback hypotheses hold for a few dense forms on the named ambient set. For spread and varying-shift families the piece is a literal subset of the allowed set. This entry does not verify JF and FI on confined bases or column fibers. The base results are recorded for full rectangular boards, so these are open sub-statements, and W_RS for these families is conditional on them. The candidate counterexamples to conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness remain counterexamples to that condition. They are not obstructions to the route.

What remains

conj:row-free-subset. On the weak base over \(\mathbb F_3\) with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns, for every family of blocks with linear parts \(\delta\)-dense modulo the row sums and independent uniform prefixes, with high probability the allowed set contains a nonempty subset that is row-free through \(D\). With lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction it gives the goal. It is implied by conj:relative-row-freeness and conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness: take the allowed set itself. conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness is a different weakening, since an equivalent's allowed set need not lie inside the given one. The two combine: it suffices that some equivalent family's allowed set contains a row-free subset, by the lemma applied to the equivalent and the refutation transfer.

The hard instances are families beyond joint capacity without structure. Their allowed set is an intersection of \(n^K\) members' sets, and it has no pullback piece under a jointly free map, because the span of the forms contains every cell (obstacle (a) of the equivalence review). The freedom gained is real. The subset may avoid whatever part of the allowed set carries Tor classes. It may be a union of pieces chosen to be distributive. It may also be a prefix-vanishing piece. For any choice \(j(b)\in S_b\) of one prefix form per member, every clause of member \(b\) contains the factor \(L_{b,j(b)}^2\). So the allowed set contains \(P\cap\{L_{b,j(b)}=0\text{ for all }b\}\), a pullback of the chosen forms, which is row-free when they fit within joint capacity. Joint capacity allows spans of dimension about \(N/(2D)\) (thm:generic-span-members), far below the \(n^K\) forms of an adversarial family with independent prefix forms. So beyond capacity the row-free subset cannot be a pullback of chosen forms, and the conjecture needs row-free sets of another kind.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: attack conj:row-free-subset for families beyond joint capacity. First, record which row-free sets are known that are not pullbacks under jointly free maps: sub-bases, confined bases, fibers of columns, and unions glued by lem:defect-gluing. Then ask whether prefix-vanishing pieces, glued over different choices \(j(b)\) for different parts of the board, give a row-free union inside the allowed set.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:global-closure-gluing's statement and its consequence clause, lem:pullback-row-freeness with its proof, and the spread-family, varying-shift and column-representation entries. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that the lemma is a correct consequence of the theorem, with no hidden requirement on \(Q\) beyond nonemptiness, the slice and the Koszul condition. Its two claim searches found no earlier statement of the monotonicity. It required three changes, all adopted:

the sunflower cases now apply the lemma to an equivalent family and transfer back, since their pieces are not literal subsets;
W_RS for the structured families is now conditional on JF and FI on confined bases and column fibers, which are open;
conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness is no longer claimed to imply the new conjecture, a point corrected while the review ran.

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Route review after the row-free-subset reframing: the structured obstructions are gone, and the line now faces only the generic core. The one sure way to have no row-free subset, confining the allowed set to one level of a row sum, is out of reach of blocks dense modulo the row sums. No mechanism yet produces a row-free subset beyond joint capacity

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Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the row-free-subset reframing: the structured obstructions are gone, and the line now faces only the generic core. The one sure way to have no row-free subset, confining the allowed set to one level of a row sum, is out of reach of blocks dense modulo the row sums. No mechanism yet produces a row-free subset beyond joint capacity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-generic-core-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the row-local review:

the rank-variety lead closed (varying-shift falls);
lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency reframed the route's condition as conj:row-free-subset (row-free subsets).

The reframing removes, conditionally, every structured obstruction the line had found. This review states what is left, tries to falsify the new condition, and chooses the next mechanism.

The line's general claim

conj:row-free-subset: for families of blocks dense modulo the row sums with random prefixes, the allowed set contains, with high probability, a nonempty subset row-free through \(D\approx44t\). With lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction it gives the goal.

What the goal needs

A row-free subset for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks. Structured families have pullback pieces, conditionally on the pullback hypotheses on confined bases and column fibers. The families beyond joint capacity without structure have none.

Falsification attempt: confining the allowed set to a level

A subset of a single level set \(\{r_i\equiv a\}\) is never row-free for \(m\ge2\). Taking \(r_i\) as one generator, \(\Lambda\cong\mathbb F_3[r_i]/(r_i^3)\otimes\Lambda'\), so \(\Lambda\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[r_i]/(r_i^3)\), and a module free over \(\Lambda\) through \(D\) is free over that subalgebra through \(D\). Then prop:single-direction-sectors forces equal Hilbert functions of the three level sets, while two of them are empty. So a family whose allowed set lies in one level of some row sum refutes the conjecture outright.

A single block cannot do this. Its allowed set is a pullback of its forms' values. If some value set pins \(r_i\), then the value map determines \(r_i\) on the allowed set, and \(r_i\) agrees there with a function of the forms. By the per-block density hypothesis, no element of a block's span is a row sum modulo constants. Under fiber independence each fiber \(v^{-1}(y)\) meets all three levels of \(r_i\). Fiber independence makes the lifts \(1,r_i,r_i^2\) of the basis elements \(1,r_i,r_i^2\) of \(\Lambda\otimes1\) linearly independent on every fiber in degree 2. On a fiber where \(r_i\) took at most two values, \(r_i^2\) would be an affine function of \(r_i\) there. So the allowed set, a union of such fibers, meets every level.

Across blocks, the allowed set is an intersection. Pinning \(r_i\) needs its value to be visible to the family jointly, as with the spread family, whose forms \(w+x_{ic}\) jointly span \(r_i\). But the clauses act block by block, so the constraint at a point is a conjunction of per-block conditions on per-block values. The spread and varying-shift families show what such conjunctions do: they confine row \(i\) to column classes and create falls, but they never pin its level. They keep pullback pieces at every level. An intersection of per-block conditions pins a level only if some block's condition already distinguishes levels. For dense blocks that happens only through the joint value of several blocks, which no clause reads.

This is an argument, not a proof. Outcome. Not falsified. The natural total obstruction needs a cross-block coupling that W_RS clauses do not have.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on producing a row-free subset of the allowed set of \(M\gg N/(2D)\) blocks whose forms span every linear form. Every row-free set known to the record is one of:

a pullback under a jointly free map, limited to spans of dimension about \(N/(2D)\) (thm:generic-span-members);
a sub-base, confined base or column fiber;
a union of such pieces glued by lem:defect-gluing.

A prefix-vanishing piece \(P\cap\{L_{b,j(b)}=0\}\) needs one chosen form per block inside a span of that size. For independent adversarial forms, none exists. The density route, a nonzero function of degree at most \(D\) cannot be supported on the excluded set, fails quantitatively. That set has density about \(M3^{-t}\), while the minimum support fraction of degree-\(D\) functions is about \(3^{-D}\), with \(D\approx44t\).

Assessment of the line

The reframing is a genuine simplification. The structured obstructions of the last several cycles, from normal form to varying shifts, were obstructions to taking the whole allowed set, and they no longer bear on the route. That is progress in understanding. It is not progress on the goal: the generic core is exactly where the record was before the local-witness line began, and the record's tools there are the Zariski-generic directness theorem and the degree-5 killer bound. Neither produces row-free subsets. The assessment is qualitative. The line is now well posed and narrow, and it has no mechanism for its one remaining case.

Outside leads

The polynomial regularity lemma (Green and Tao, The distribution of polynomials over finite fields, 2009; Bhattacharyya, Fischer, H. Hatami, P. Hatami and Lovett, 2013). Target: the generic core. Answers. Any collection of polynomials refines into a factor that is either of low complexity, meaning structured, or of high rank, and then equidistributed. For the clause polynomials this would split a family into a structured part, which has pullback pieces, and a pseudorandom part, whose allowed set equidistributes. An equidistributed allowed set looks like the base in low degree, which is what row freeness asks. Test. Not run: the clauses have degree \(2t+2\ge3=p\). Equidistribution in that range needs the non-classical theory of Tao and Ziegler, with tower-type bounds, and whether those bounds survive \(t=\Theta(\log n)\) is the question itself.
Minimum support of low-degree functions (the DeMillo–Lipton–Schwartz–Zippel bound on the Boolean cube and its slice analogues). Target: the whole allowed set. Answers. If the excluded set were below the minimum support of degree-\(D\) functions, no such function would vanish on the allowed set without vanishing on the base, and the allowed set would be row-free as the base is. Test. Falsified: the excluded density about \(M3^{-t}\ge3^{-t}\) exceeds \(3^{-44t}\) by a factor \(3^{43t}\).
The sunflower lemma (Alweiss, Lovett, Wu and Zhang, Improved bounds for the sunflower lemma, Ann. of Math. 194, 2021), left untried by the local-independence review. Target: structure inside large families. Answers. Large families of bounded sets contain large sunflowers. For the blocks' prefix supports this would find subfamilies sharing a core, whose members have pullback pieces in common. Test. Falsified for this purpose: a piece common to a subfamily need not lie in the other members' allowed sets, and the subset must satisfy all blocks at once.

Absurd bridges

Clustering of random constraint satisfaction (Mézard, Parisi and Zecchina, 2002; Achlioptas and Coja-Oghlan, 2008). Translation: the allowed set is the solution space of \(M\) random-prefix constraints. Above a density threshold such spaces shatter into clusters with frozen variables. A single cluster, with its frozen part like a pullback and its free part like a sub-base, is a natural candidate for a row-free subset. Answers. It would say to take one cluster instead of the whole solution space. Test. Falsified: the regime is the opposite of clustering. Each block excludes a fraction about \(3^{-t}\) of the base, and all blocks together at most \(1/(3n)\), so the solution space is almost everything and has no clusters.
Weight distribution of Reed–Muller codes (Kaufman, Lovett and Porat, 2012). Translation: functions of degree at most \(D\) on the base form a Reed–Muller-like code, and the top ideal of the allowed set comes from codewords supported on the excluded set. Row freeness asks how those low-weight codewords sit with respect to the row sums. Answers. Weight-distribution bounds count the codewords of small weight. If the codewords supported on the excluded set are few and structured, they might be shown to generate a free submodule. Test. Not run: the excluded weight about \(|P|/(3n)\) lies far above the minimum distance about \(3^{-D}|P|\). Kaufman–Lovett–Porat control weights only up to a constant multiple of the minimum distance, so the translation needs a regime they do not cover.

Lead follow-up

Dade's lemma. Follow-up. Closed: its last form, the rank-variety weakening, fails because the single-direction obstructions carry genuine falls (prop:varying-shift-affine-fall).
Dade's lemma, aimed at locating defects. Follow-up. Closed, with the rank-variety lead.
Linkage and the Mayer–Vietoris sequence of ideals. It identified \(r_i\tau\) as a connecting term. Follow-up. Closed: after the subset reframing, structured families need no gluing of their pieces, since one pullback piece suffices.
Restrictions that pin rows. A confined base is the subset analogue of pinning one row, and it is what the reframing uses. Follow-up. Closed: absorbed into lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency's pieces.

Bridge follow-up

The row-local review's bridges were falsified or not run, so none carries over. The Slater and gauge bridges closed there. The cleaning-lemma bridge, not run, asked whether \(\tau\) can live on either of two complementary regions. After the reframing that question no longer bears on the route.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3, the generic core: develop the regularity lead in the one regime where it is classical. Blocks' forms are linear, and the obstruction to pullbacks is the size of their joint span, not the degree. Formulate a regularity statement for the family's linear parts modulo the row sums, splitting them into a bounded-dimensional structured part and a part equidistributed on every confined base. Then ask whether the allowed set, restricted to a fiber of the structured part, is row-free through \(D\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency and conj:row-free-subset, prop:single-direction-sectors, lem:pullback-row-freeness (its fiber-independence hypothesis), thm:generic-span-members (the capacity range), and the follow-up items of the row-local, local-independence and directness reviews. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the obstacle's list of known row-free sets, the capacity and density arithmetic, the honest labelling of the cross-block argument, the verdicts of the leads and bridges, and the follow-ups. It required three changes, all adopted:

the restriction from \(\Lambda\) to one direction is now justified;
the single-block claim now derives from fiber independence in degree 2;
this gate replaces a placeholder.

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Prefix-model correction: W_RS prefixes are uniform matrices, not random prefix subsets. A block kills each zero pattern of its forms only with probability \(3^{-t}\), so the row-local families of recent entries, which needed every prefix pattern present in every member, are not W_RS families with high probability. Their propositions stand for the clause systems they state, but they are not counterexamples to the random-prefix conjectures. The regularity lead fails for W_RS clauses too

27 September 2026 · Correction with a working lemma; lead falsified · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-linear-regularity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Prefix-model correction: W_RS prefixes are uniform matrices, not random prefix subsets. A block kills each zero pattern of its forms only with probability \(3^{-t}\), so the row-local families of recent entries, which needed every prefix pattern present in every member, are not W_RS families with high probability. Their propositions stand for the clause systems they state, but they are not counterexamples to the random-prefix conjectures. The regularity lead fails for W_RS clauses too”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-prefix-model-correction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, the first Outside lead of the generic-core review, the regularity lemma. While checking what that lead acts on, this cycle reread thm:randomized-prefix-reduction, the definition of W_RS, and found that several recent entries used the wrong prefix model. The missing implication is unchanged, conj:row-free-subset for W_RS families. This entry corrects the scope of the affected statements and records the regularity lead's outcome.

General statement. lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, for every block and every \(t\). Under W_RS's uniform prefix matrices, a block kills each nonzero zero pattern of its forms with probability \(3^{-t}\). A block with \(h\) forms is therefore vacuous with probability at least \(1-(2^h-1)3^{-t}\). Copies within the budget \(M\le n^K<3^t\) cannot force a given pattern.

The two prefix models

In W, the prover chooses a prefix set \(S_b\) for each block, and the clauses are \(g(L_{b,i})\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^2\), \(i\notin S_b\). In W_RS (thm:randomized-prefix-reduction) the prefix is a matrix \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\), and the clauses are \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) with \(g_i=1-L_i^2\) and \(Q^C=[Cg=0]\). W is the case of unit rows on \(S_b\), and the route's conjectures (conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness, conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness, conj:row-free-subset) take \(C_b\) independent and uniform, with high probability.

lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity

Statement. Let a block have forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) and zero-pattern map \(g(x)=(g_1(x),\dots,g_h(x))\in\{0,1\}^h\), with \(g_i(x)=1\) exactly when \(L_i(x)=0\). For \(C\) uniform in \(\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\):

(i) The block excludes exactly the points with \(g(x)\ne0\) and \(Cg(x)=0\). Its allowed set is \(\{x:g(x)\notin K_C\}\), where \(K_C=\{g\ne0:Cg=0\}\) is its set of killed patterns.
(ii) Each nonzero pattern lies in \(K_C\) with probability \(3^{-t}\), so \(\Pr[K_C\ne\emptyset]\le(2^h-1)3^{-t}\).
(iii) With \(c\) independent copies, a given pattern is killed by some copy with probability at most \(c\,3^{-t}\).

Proof. (i) The clause \(g_iQ^C\) is nonzero at \(x\) exactly when \(g_i(x)=1\) and \(Cg(x)=0\). (ii) For a nonzero 0/1 vector \(g\), \(Cg\) is uniform in \(\mathbb F_3^t\). Take the union bound over patterns. (iii) Union bound over copies. \(\square\)

thm:random-prefix-light-families chooses \(t=(K+1)\log_3n+O(\log\log n)\) with \(3^t\ge n^{K+1}\), so all \(M\le n^K\) blocks together kill any given pattern with probability \(O(1/n)\).

Statements whose scope this corrects

Each of these entries built a family in which every member carries the clauses of every prefix pattern, "with enough copies". That holds for chosen prefix subsets, where a prover would not choose it, and not for uniform prefixes within the budget.

Spread families: the "W_RS instance" of prop:spread-family-level-gap is an instance for chosen, unit-row prefixes. The proposition itself concerns an arbitrary clause system and stands. lem:spread-family-equivalence stands.
Equivalence review, confinement non-distributivity, row-local review and varying-shift falls: the varying-shift spread family is a candidate counterexample only for those unit-row prefixes. Under uniform prefixes its two-form members are vacuous with probability \(1-O(3^{-t})\), and the allowed set is the whole base. It is not a candidate counterexample to conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness. prop:varying-shift-affine-fall, prop:confinement-nondistributivity, ex:value-fiber-counterexample and lem:empty-row-sculpting stand for the clause systems they state. The refutation of conj:value-fiber-row-freeness stands. That conjecture is a statement about value-fiber sets, and its refutation never used prefixes.
Local-independence review: its tops-only counterexample to conj:normalized-dense-row-freeness uses two-form members with tops \((w_0+u_b)^2(w_1+u'_b)^2\). Those members are vacuous with high probability under uniform prefixes. The counterexample is realizable with uniform prefixes only through large blocks, as described below. lem:u-shift-collapse, stated for any number of shared forms, covers that case.
Row-free subsets and the generic-core review: the prefix-vanishing pieces \(P\cap\{L_{b,j(b)}=0\}\) belong to W's clauses. Under uniform prefixes a block's allowed set is \(\{g_b\notin K_{C_b}\}\). Its large pullback pieces are the sets \(\{g_b=g\}\) for surviving patterns \(g\), which fix which forms vanish. The capacity obstacle is the same: a piece \(\{g_b=g\}\) fixes whether each of block \(b\)'s forms vanishes, so a piece common to all blocks is cut by conditions on all their forms. That is a pullback under a map whose span exceeds joint capacity.

What survives with uniform prefixes is the mechanism of large blocks. A block with \(h\gg t\) forms kills about \(2^h3^{-t}\) patterns. Every killed pattern \(g\) contributes the indicator of \(\{g(x)=g\}\), whose top is \(\pm\prod_i\ell_i^2\) over all \(h\) forms, whatever the pattern. This needs \(\prod_i\ell_i^2\ne0\) in \(G_{2h}\), which holds under joint freeness of the block's forms through degree \(2h\), and \(2h\le D\). A window \(t\log_23\lesssim h\le22t\) meets both. There the tops-only mechanism of lem:u-shift-collapse applies to sunflowers of large blocks. The row-local mechanisms needed the same killed patterns in every member, and uniform prefixes randomize those patterns across members.

The regularity lead

A W_RS clause \(g_iQ^C=g_i\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\) is a product, so its partition rank is 1. It vanishes outside a set of density about \(3^{-t}\), so its bias is close to 1. In the regularity lemma's terms it is maximally structured, and refining the family's factor only recovers the linear forms. For the linear forms, a value map of \(d\) forms can be equidistributed only on a set of size at least \(3^d\). Beyond capacity \(d\gg\log_3|P|\), so no subset carries an equidistributed joint value map. Outcome. The lead is falsified in both forms, for W_RS clauses as well as W's.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3, the generic core with the correct model: families of large blocks whose killed patterns are random. Ask whether a row-free subset of the allowed set can be built from the surviving-pattern pieces \(\{g_b=g\}\), chosen consistently across blocks. Uniform prefixes make the killed sets \(K_{C_b}\) independent across blocks, which is the randomness a structured adversary cannot control.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:randomized-prefix-reduction (the W_RS clauses \(g_iQ^C\)), thm:random-prefix-light-families (the choice of \(t\)), and the spread-family, varying-shift, confinement, row-free-subsets and local-independence entries. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, that W is the unit-row case, and the diagnosis that the affected entries used every prefix pattern in every member. It confirmed that their propositions stand for their clause systems and that the regularity outcome is right. It required three changes, all adopted:

\(t\) is now said to be chosen so that \(3^t\ge n^{K+1}\);
the local-independence review's counterexample is added to the corrected list;
the large-block tops now state their nondegeneracy hypothesis and the degree window.

Its two optional suggestions are also adopted: the capacity remark for surviving-pattern pieces, and the note that the value-fiber refutation used no prefixes.

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Fiber-count barrier: a pullback piece certified by the pullback lemma needs every fiber over its value set to hold at least \(\dim\Lambda_{\le D}\) points, so the value map must have large fibers. The W_RS allowed set contains the pullback of its prefix quadrics, but that map, like the zero-pattern map, is nearly injective once the family is large. For generic dense families beyond that size, no pullback piece of any degree is certified

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-killed-patterns. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Fiber-count barrier: a pullback piece certified by the pullback lemma needs every fiber over its value set to hold at least \(\dim\Lambda_{\le D}\) points, so the value map must have large fibers. The W_RS allowed set contains the pullback of its prefix quadrics, but that map, like the zero-pattern map, is nearly injective once the family is large. For generic dense families beyond that size, no pullback piece of any degree is certified”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-fiber-count-barrier.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The prefix-model correction proposed looking for row-free subsets of W_RS allowed sets among surviving-pattern pieces. The missing implication is conj:row-free-subset beyond joint capacity. The recorded capacity limit of pullback pieces is linear-algebraic: joint freeness for spans of dimension about \(N/(2D)\). This cycle tests whether pullbacks of quadrics, which W_RS provides naturally, escape it.

General statement. prop:fiber-count-barrier, for every value map on the weak base. If lem:pullback-row-freeness certifies \(v^{-1}(V)\) through \(D\), then every fiber over \(V\) holds at least \(\dim\Lambda_{\le D}\ge3\) points. So \(|V|\cdot\dim\Lambda_{\le D}\le|P|\), whatever the degree of the components of \(v\). The proposition is proved. Its W_RS consequence is a heuristic count for generic dense families. There the zero-pattern map and the prefix-quadric map are nearly injective once \(Mt\gg\log_3|P|\), and no pullback piece is certified beyond that size.

The prefix-quadric subset

For block \(b\) put \(s_{b,j}=\sum_ic_{ji}^{(b)}g_{b,i}\) (\(j\le t\)), quadrics in the cells since \(g_i=1-L_i^2\). At a point with \(s_b(x)\ne0\) the zero pattern \(g_b(x)\) is not killed, so the block allows \(x\) (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity). Hence the allowed set contains

\[Q_1=\{x\in P:\ s_b(x)\ne0\text{ for every non-vacuous block }b\},\]

the pullback of the value set \(\prod_b(\mathbb F_3^t\setminus0)\) under the quadric map \(s=(s_{b,j})\). Vacuous blocks impose nothing and are left out. lem:pullback-row-freeness extends to value maps with components of degree 2 after regrading. \(T=\mathbb F_3[w_j]/(w_j^3)\) acts by \(w_j\mapsto\mathrm{top}(s_j)\in G_2\), so a monomial of \(T\) has twice its usual degree. This is well defined because \(s^3=s\) for any \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued function, so \(\mathrm{top}(s)^3=0\) in \(G_6\). The proof then runs unchanged: it uses joint freeness of \(G\) over \(T\otimes\Lambda\) and fiber independence, with \(\varphi_\beta\) of degree at most \((d-\deg c_\beta)/2\) in the \(s\)-values. Counting monomials, joint freeness for quadrics is not excluded until about \((mN)^2/D\) components, far beyond the linear count. That was the hope. The barrier below comes from fiber independence instead.

prop:fiber-count-barrier

Statement. Let \(v:P\to\mathbb F_3^d\) be any value map and \(V\subseteq\mathbb F_3^d\). If fiber independence holds for \(V\) through \(D\) (lem:pullback-row-freeness), then \(|P_y|\ge\dim(\Lambda\otimes B)_{\le D}\ge\dim\Lambda_{\le D}\) for every \(y\in V\). Hence \(|V|\,\dim\Lambda_{\le D}\le|v^{-1}(V)|\le|P|\).

Proof. Fiber independence asks that the lifts of a homogeneous basis of \(\Lambda\otimes B\) in degrees at most \(D\) restrict to linearly independent functions on \(P_y\). A set carrying \(k\) linearly independent functions has at least \(k\) points. Since \(G_0=\mathbb F_3\), \(B_0\) is spanned by 1, so \(\Lambda\otimes B\) contains \(\Lambda\otimes1\), with basis the monomials of \(\Lambda\) in degrees at most \(D\). For \(m\ge2\) and \(D\ge2\) these include \(1,r_1,r_1^2\), so \(\dim\Lambda_{\le D}\ge3\). Sum over the fibers. \(\square\)

For W_RS. The prefix quadrics depend on \(x\) only through the zero patterns \(g_b(x)\), and a fiber of \(s\) is a union of fibers of the pattern map. A fiber of \(s\) of size at least 3 needs points that agree in \(Mt\) values. Take dense forms whose zero patterns behave independently across blocks. Then the \(Mt\) values of \(s\) carry about \(Mt\log_23\) bits, so once \(Mt\) exceeds \(\log_3|P|\) by a margin, almost every fiber has at most one point. This is a heuristic count for such forms, not a statement about every adversarial family. An adversary can make the map far from injective by repeating forms, or by correlating distinct forms, so that their zero patterns are dependent. Repetition leaves few distinct forms, within capacity. Correlation short of repetition is not handled here, so the claim is restricted to generic dense families. The subset freedom allows passing to the values with large fibers, but under near-injectivity there are almost none. So beyond \(Mt\approx\log_3|P|\approx n\log_3n\), pullbacks certify no row-free subset, whether of linear forms, quadrics or zero patterns. That is \(M\) of order \(n\) blocks, polynomially below \(n^K\).

What it means

The capacity limit of the pullback method is informational, not linear-algebraic. The recorded joint-freeness range and this fiber count both cap the number of independent components at about \(\log|P|\). For families beyond it, a row-free subset must be certified by a mechanism that is not a pullback lemma. In the record, as searched with tools/search-claims.py on row-free and base, the row-free sets that are not pullbacks are the base, sub-bases, confined bases and fibers of columns. None of these constrains the forms, and no other construction is recorded. conj:row-free-subset for large families therefore needs a new kind of row-free set, one cut by many constraints yet with fibers of no single value map. Near-injective value maps make this the same problem as row freeness of the allowed set itself, up to the subset freedom.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: develop the generic-core review's Reed–Muller bridge, which was not run. The allowed set's complement is a union of \(M\) random pattern cells. Ask how the degree-\(D\) functions supported on such a union sit relative to the row sums, using that the cells of different blocks are independent under uniform prefixes. That is the one mechanism the fiber count does not exclude.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pullback-row-freeness with its proof and lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that \(Q_1\) lies in the allowed set, the proposition's proof, and the arithmetic \(Mt\approx n\log_3n\) with \(t=\Theta(\log n)\). It required four changes, all adopted:

the general statement now separates the proved proposition from its heuristic W_RS consequence;
the adversarial caveat now names correlated forms and restricts the claim to generic dense families;
the regrading of the pullback lemma for degree-2 components is now stated;
the list of known non-pullback row-free sets is now attributed to a record search.

Its note on \(G_0=\mathbb F_3\) and \(m\ge2\) is adopted in the proof.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	6 min 50.83 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 31.33 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Route review after the fiber-count barrier: pullback certificates stop at about \(n\) blocks, the Reed–Muller bridge meets the wrong regime, and no certificate of any kind is known beyond. The next line should combine the fall line's conditional results with the freedom to choose a subset

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-reed-muller. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the fiber-count barrier: pullback certificates stop at about \(n\) blocks, the Reed–Muller bridge meets the wrong regime, and no certificate of any kind is known beyond. The next line should combine the fall line's conditional results with the freedom to choose a subset”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-certificate-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the generic-core review, three cycles have changed the picture:

the regularity lead failed;
the prefix model was corrected (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity);
prop:fiber-count-barrier capped every pullback certificate at about \(\log|P|\) components.

The generic-core review's one remaining untried item was the Reed–Muller bridge. This review develops it as its falsification attempt, then reassesses the line.

The line's general claim

conj:row-free-subset: the allowed set of a W_RS family, with uniform prefixes, contains with high probability a nonempty subset row-free through \(D\approx44t\).

What the goal needs

That subset, or any other certificate of non-refutability at degree \(D\), for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks. For families of up to about \(n\) blocks within joint capacity, pullback pieces do it, conditionally on the pullback hypotheses. For larger ones, whose zero-pattern maps are nearly injective, nothing is known.

Falsification attempt: the Reed–Muller bridge

The top ideal of the allowed set comes from functions of degree at most \(D\) supported on the excluded set \(E=\bigcup_bE_b\), \(E_b=\{g_b\in K_b\}\) (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity). Two findings.

Single blocks. As functions of the zero pattern \(g\in\{0,1\}^h\), a nonzero function of degree \(\delta\) is nonzero on at least \(2^{h-\delta}\) patterns. A function supported on \(K_b\), of size about \(2^h3^{-t}\), therefore has degree at least \(t\log_23\approx1.58t\) in \(g\). The clauses have degree \(2t+1\) in \(g\), so single-block functions of lower degree, falls inside one block, are not excluded by support size. This matches the record's single-block falls.

Many blocks. \(E\) has density about \(M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\), far above the minimum support of nonzero degree-\(D\) functions, which is exponentially small in \(D\): at least a fraction \(2^{-D}\) for multilinear functions on the cube, and comparable up to the base of the exponent on the weak base. The generic-core review wrote \(3^{-D}\) here. With \(2^{-D}\) its comparison is unchanged, since \(2^{-44t}\ll3^{-t}\). The Kaufman–Lovett–Porat counts cover weights up to a constant multiple of the minimum distance. The structure theorems for biased polynomials need degree below the characteristic, or tower-type bounds, and here the degree \(D\) is far above 3.

Outcome. The bridge is falsified in its intended form: the codewords that matter lie in a regime no weight-distribution theorem covers. Nothing here falsifies conj:row-free-subset.

Obstacle

The line needs a certificate of non-refutability for families whose zero-pattern maps are nearly injective, and it has none of any kind. By prop:fiber-count-barrier, pullback pieces cannot supply it. By lem:design-support-bound, designs cannot avoid the clauses' error points, so a design must satisfy the clauses algebraically rather than by support. Direct row freeness of a pseudo-random allowed set would need an equidistribution theory for polynomials of degree far above the characteristic, which the regularity and Reed–Muller leads show is not available in usable form.

Assessment of the line

The line has sharpened the goal's central obligation into a precise shape. Every certificate route examined so far funnels into one question: an algebraic certificate of non-refutability for weak unary PHP plus the clauses of more than about \(n\) random-prefix dense blocks. The shape of the answer has three constraints:

it cannot be a pullback;
it cannot be a design supported away from the clauses;
it cannot rest on equidistribution of the clause polynomials.

That is useful negative knowledge. As a route to the goal the line is weak: its only remaining tool is the record's fall line, whose early-fall conjectures are conditional. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

The Alekhnovich–Razborov operator (Alekhnovich and Razborov, Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case, 2003). Target: a certificate beyond capacity. Answers. It builds a linear operator on low-degree polynomials that kills the ideal and fixes 1, from expansion of the constraint–variable graph. That would be a certificate that is neither a pullback nor an equidistribution statement. Test. Falsified in direct form: each W_RS clause depends on about \(n^2\) cells, so the constraint–variable graph has no expansion of the kind the operator needs.
Razborov's PHP designs (Razborov, Lower bounds for the polynomial calculus, 1998; Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall, 1999). Target: a design for PHP plus the clauses. Answers. PHP has designs up to degree about \(n/2\). A design for the extended system is a PHP design that also annihilates every clause multiple, and averaging the pigeon dance over allowed matchings is the natural candidate. Test. Falsified for support-restricted averaging by lem:design-support-bound. For \(D\ge4t+2\), a degree-\(D\) design meets about \(2^{D-1}3^{-t}\ge2(16/3)^t\) error points of a non-vacuous block, so it must cancel the clauses algebraically.
Pseudo-calibration (Barak, Hopkins, Kelner, Kothari, Moitra and Potechin, 2016–2019). Target: a design beyond capacity. Answers. It builds candidate pseudo-expectations by matching the low-degree moments of a planted distribution, here matchings conditioned to satisfy the clauses. Validity is then checked by spectral or algebraic means instead of through row freeness. Test. Not run: PC designs over \(\mathbb F_3\) must annihilate the ideal's degree-\(D\) part exactly, while pseudo-calibration controls moments approximately over the reals. The exact, characteristic-3 version is the untranslated step.

Absurd bridges

Cluster expansion for dilute polymer systems (Kotecký and Preiss, 1986). Translation: the clauses are polymers of weight about \(3^{-t}\) on top of a PHP design. The Kotecký–Preiss criterion \(\sum_{\gamma'\not\sim\gamma}w(\gamma')e^{a(\gamma')}\le a(\gamma)\) holds here over the reals, since all \(M\) clauses together weigh about \(1/(3n)\). Answers. A convergent perturbation series around a PHP design would give a design for the extended system. Test. Falsified in characteristic 3: over \(\mathbb F_3\) the only nontrivial size is 3-adic, and \(|3^{-t}|_3=3^t\) is large, not small. A 3-adic expansion diverges, and a real one does not produce an \(\mathbb F_3\)-design.
Contextuality and sheaf cohomology (Abramsky and Brandenburger, 2011; Abramsky, Barbosa and Mansfield, Contextuality, cohomology and paradox, 2015). Translation: a PC design is a family of locally consistent value assignments with no global section, an empirical model. The clauses add contexts. Their Čech-cohomological obstruction decides whether a local family extends. Answers. It would turn the extension of a PHP design to the clause contexts into a cohomology computation over \(\mathbb Z/3\), which their framework allows. Test. Not run: their obstruction carries no degree bound, and PC designs are degree-bounded objects. The translation has to add the degree filtration.

Lead follow-up

The generic-core review's leads and bridges were all falsified or not run, except the Reed–Muller bridge developed above. None passed, so none carries a follow-up. Every earlier passed item was closed in the generic-core review.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: return to the record's fall line with the subset freedom. The fall-line review recorded that early cross falls conjecturally need a shared piece, which is rare under random prefixes. Ask whether a subset of the allowed set can avoid the regions where shared pieces act, so that the remaining set has no early falls, while staying large enough for the fall line's conditional row freeness.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:fiber-count-barrier, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, lem:design-support-bound, conj:row-free-subset, the single-block falls and fall-line entries, and the generic-core review's leads and bridges. None passed, so no follow-up is due. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the single-block support-degree bound, the 3-adic valuation and the form of the leads and bridges. It required four changes, all adopted:

the design-support bound is now quoted with its factor \((16/3)^t\) and hypothesis \(D\ge4t+2\);
the minimum support is now stated as exponentially small in \(D\), correcting the generic-core review's base without changing its comparison;
"every certificate route" is now limited to the routes examined;
the follow-up claim was checked against the generic-core review.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	5 min 3.24 s
Marked reading and review windows	54.66 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 19.19 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Prefix Gauss bound: the fall line's own review located the obstacle at row freeness below the fill point, so a free choice of subset does not help with falls. The randomness of W_RS enters the clause tops through the prefix quadrics, and one row of the prefix acts on any functional by a Gauss sum whose rank the adversary's forms control. First-degree purity for W_RS reduces to lower bounds on these prefix ranks

27 September 2026 · Working lemma and reduction · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-fall-subsets. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Prefix Gauss bound: the fall line's own review located the obstacle at row freeness below the fill point, so a free choice of subset does not help with falls. The randomness of W_RS enters the clause tops through the prefix quadrics, and one row of the prefix acts on any functional by a Gauss sum whose rank the adversary's forms control. First-degree purity for W_RS reduces to lower bounds on these prefix ranks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-prefix-gauss-bound.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The certificate review proposed returning to the fall line with the subset freedom. The missing implication is row freeness, of the allowed set or of a subset, for W_RS families beyond pullback capacity. This cycle asks whether choosing a subset can steer around early falls, and, if not, where the prefix randomness can act.

General statement. lem:prefix-gauss-bound, for every block, every functional \(\chi\) on the clause-top degree and every choice of the other prefix rows. Over one uniform row \(c\) of the prefix, \(\chi\) evaluated on the block's top is a quadratic form \(c^{\mathsf T}A_\chi c\). It vanishes with probability at most \(\tfrac13+\tfrac23\,3^{-r/2}\), where \(r=\operatorname{rank}A_\chi\ge1\), and with probability 1 when \(r=0\). So first-moment arguments for first-degree purity of W_RS tops reduce to lower bounds on the prefix ranks \(\operatorname{rank}A_\chi\), which depend only on the adversary's forms.

Falls and subsets

The fall-line review recorded that an early fall leaves the intersection row-free exactly as far as the base. Its conclusion was that "the quantity the goal uses tolerates the falls the line was trying to exclude". Its adversary analysis, that shared pieces are the lever and random prefixes remove them (lem:shared-piece-rarity), was handed on to a direct attack on row freeness. A subset chosen to avoid falls therefore addresses a non-obstacle. The subset freedom matters for Tor classes, and the obstacle beyond capacity is row freeness below the fill point. So this cycle turns to the one resource W_RS adds, the prefix randomness.

Where the randomness sits

Write \(\sigma_j=\sum_ic_{ji}\ell_i^2\in G_2\) for the tops of the prefix quadrics \(s_j=\sum_ic_{ji}g_i\), up to sign. The clause \(g_iQ^C=g_i\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\) has top \(\pm\ell_i^2\prod_{j\le t}\sigma_j^2\) in degree \(4t+2\) whenever that product is nonzero in \(G\). So the tops are the block's squares \(\ell_i^2\) times the square of a product of \(t\) random elements of the span \(S_b=\operatorname{span}\{\ell_{b,i}^2\}\). The forms are the adversary's, and the coefficients \(c_{ji}\) are uniform and independent across rows and blocks. First-degree purity (lem:first-degree-purity (2)) asks that these tops be independent modulo the row sums, in \(A_{4t+2}\). That is the family's least new degree when no element of the allowed set's vanishing ideal has lower degree. Single-block falls can lower it (single-block falls), and then the criterion applies at that lower degree.

lem:prefix-gauss-bound

Statement. Fix a block's forms, an element \(u\in G\), the rows \(c_2,\dots,c_t\), and a linear functional \(\chi\) on the degree containing \(u\sigma_1^2R'\), where \(R'=\prod_{j\ge2}\sigma_j^2\). As a function of the uniform row \(c=c_1\in\mathbb F_3^h\),

\[\chi(u\,\sigma_1^2R')=c^{\mathsf T}A_\chi c,\qquad (A_\chi)_{ii'}=\chi(u\,\ell_i^2\ell_{i'}^2R').\]

If \(r=\operatorname{rank}A_\chi\ge1\), then \(\Pr_c[c^{\mathsf T}A_\chi c=0]\le\tfrac13+\tfrac23\,3^{-r/2}\). If \(r=0\), the form vanishes identically and the probability is 1.

Proof. \(\sigma_1^2=\sum_{i,i'}c_ic_{i'}\ell_i^2\ell_{i'}^2\), and \(\chi\) is linear. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), a symmetric form of rank \(r\) is equivalent to a diagonal form in \(r\) of the coordinates, and the other \(h-r\) coordinates do not change the probability. A nondegenerate quadratic form in \(r\) variables over \(\mathbb F_3\) has \(3^{r-1}\) zeros for \(r\) odd, and \(3^{r-1}\pm2\cdot3^{r/2-1}\) for \(r\) even. So the probability is \(\tfrac13\) or \(\tfrac13\pm\tfrac23\,3^{-r/2}\). \(\square\)

Taking \(u=\ell_i^2\) gives the top of one clause. Taking \(u=\sum_i\lambda_i\ell_i^2\) gives a combination of a block's tops. The rows are independent, so the bound applies row by row, conditionally on the others. A per-block factor near \(\tfrac13\) still needs some row to see a large rank on that block, which is the open part. This is the Gauss-sum step of lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound in the W_RS setting. There the tops were products of random forms, and the rank was an analytic rank of \(\chi\). Here the forms are adversarial, and the rank is the prefix rank \(\operatorname{rank}A_\chi\), a matrix of \(\chi\)-values on products of the block's squares.

What it reduces to

A first-moment bound for independence of all tops modulo the row sums is a sum, over nonzero \(\chi\) in \(A_{4t+2}^*\), of the product over blocks of the probabilities that \(\chi\) kills the block's top combination. By the lemma, a block contributes a factor near \(\tfrac13\) whenever some row sees a large prefix rank. The first moment is then controlled by how many functionals have small prefix rank on many blocks at once.

The adversary's lever is to make \(A_\chi\) small for many \(\chi\). That means choosing forms whose squares' pairwise products \(\ell_i^2\ell_{i'}^2\) are nearly dependent under many functionals, which is a low-rank condition on the products of squares. This is the W_RS form of the record's shared-piece lever. It is a statement about the forms alone, which a structural lemma could exclude or classify. It covers only the first new degree. Row freeness through \(D\) needs the higher degrees as well.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: bound the number of functionals \(\chi\in A_{4t+2}^*\) whose prefix rank is small on a given block. Relate a small \(\operatorname{rank}A_\chi\) to a low partition rank of \(\chi\) restricted to products of the block's squares, and use Janzer's polynomial bound (imp:Janzer-finite-field-partition-rank) as the record's killer bound does. The aim is a first-moment proof of first-degree purity for W_RS families of dense blocks, beyond pullback capacity.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:randomized-prefix-reduction, lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound, lem:first-degree-purity and the fall-line review. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer recomputed the top of the clause, including its sign \((-1)^{t+1}\) and its nonvanishing caveat, and the quadratic-form expansion. It rederived the zero counts of nondegenerate forms over \(\mathbb F_3\) by Gauss sums. It checked the quotation from the fall-line review, the scope to the first new degree, and the contrast with the killer bound. It required no change. Its three suggestions are adopted:

the case \(r=0\) is now in the statement;
the row-by-row remark now says what remains open;
the least new degree is now qualified by single-block falls.

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Block-conditioned moment: the first moment for W_RS first-degree purity must be conditioned block by block, since zero prefix tops inflate it for every family. Prefix ranks bound only its tail, and they are counted by linear algebra without Janzer's theorem. The main term is the record's killer-moment core, now with adversarial forms and long prefix products

27 September 2026 · Working lemmas and a correction · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-prefix-rank. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Block-conditioned moment: the first moment for W_RS first-degree purity must be conditioned block by block, since zero prefix tops inflate it for every family. Prefix ranks bound only its tail, and they are counted by linear algebra without Janzer's theorem. The main term is the record's killer-moment core, now with adversarial forms and long prefix products”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-block-conditioned-moment.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The prefix Gauss bound proposed a first-moment proof of first-degree purity for W_RS families of dense blocks, counting functionals of small prefix rank via Janzer's partition-rank bound. The missing implication is the clause-top part of first-degree purity beyond pullback capacity. This cycle writes that first moment exactly and asks which part of it prefix ranks can control. The test ends when either the moment is bounded or the part that prefix ranks cannot reach is identified.

General statement. lem:block-conditioned-moment, for every family of blocks with independent uniform prefixes. The probability that the clause tops are dependent modulo the row sums is at most the sum of the blocks' single-block failure probabilities plus half the excess of a conditioned first moment. That moment is an exact product formula over the blocks. Without conditioning the moment is at least \((1+t/2)^M\) for every family whose square spans have dimension at least \(\log_3(2t)\), so the conditioning is necessary. lem:prefix-rank-count bounds the number of functionals of small prefix rank by elementary linear algebra.

Setting

Blocks \(b=1,\dots,M\) have top forms \(\ell_{b,1},\dots,\ell_{b,h_b}\in G_1\). Write \(S_b=\operatorname{span}\{\ell_{b,i}^2\}\), \(d_b=\dim S_b\), and \(\sigma_b:\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\to S_b\), \(\lambda\mapsto\sum_i\lambda_i\ell_{b,i}^2\). Under W_RS each block has its own uniform prefix \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h_b}\), independent across blocks, with rows \(c_{b,j}\). Put \(\sigma_{b,j}=\sigma_b(c_{b,j})\) and \(\Pi_b=\prod_{j\le t}\sigma_{b,j}^2\in G_{4t}\). With \(e=4t+2\), \(A_e=G_e/\mathfrak m G_e\) and \(a=\dim A_e\), define

\[\Phi:\bigoplus_b\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\to A_e,\qquad(\lambda_b)_b\mapsto\sum_b\sigma_b(\lambda_b)\,\Pi_b\bmod\mathfrak mG_e .\]

The clause tops are \(\pm\Phi(e_{b,i})\) lifted to \(G_e\), when nonzero (lem:prefix-gauss-bound). Suppose the top ideal \(\mathfrak n\) of the allowed set vanishes below \(e\) and \(\mathfrak n_e\) is spanned by the clause tops. Then first-degree purity at \(e\) (lem:first-degree-purity (2)) asks \(\mathfrak n_e\cap\mathfrak mG_e=0\), and injectivity of \(\Phi\) implies it. The converse can fail, for instance when a combination of clauses vanishes identically on \(P\), so injectivity is a sufficient condition only.

lem:block-conditioned-moment

Statement. (1) For events \(E_b\), each determined by \(C_b\) alone, with \(E=\bigcap_bE_b\),

\[\Pr[\Phi\text{ not injective}]\le\sum_b\Pr[E_b^c]+\tfrac12\bigl(\mathbb E[\,|\ker\Phi|\,\mid E\,]-1\bigr),\qquad \mathbb E[\,|\ker\Phi|\,\mid E\,]=\mathop{\mathbb E}_{\chi\in A_e^*}\prod_b3^{h_b}q_b(\chi),\]

where \(\chi\) is uniform and \(q_b(\chi)=\Pr[\chi(\ell_{b,i}^2\Pi_b)=0\text{ for all }i\mid E_b]\).

(2) Without conditioning, \(\mathbb E|\ker\Phi|\ge\prod_b3^{h_b-d_b}\bigl(1+t(1-3^{-d_b})^t\bigr)\). This is at least \((1+t/2)^M\) when \(3^{d_b}\ge2t\) for every \(b\).

Proof. (1) A nonzero kernel has at least 3 elements, so on \(E\) the indicator of non-injectivity is at most \((|\ker\Phi|-1)/2\). Taking expectations conditional on \(E\) and adding \(\Pr[E^c]\le\sum_b\Pr[E_b^c]\) gives the inequality. For the identity, \(|\ker\Phi|=\sum_\lambda\mathbb E_\chi\,\omega^{\chi(\Phi\lambda)}\) with \(\omega=e^{2\pi i/3}\). The sum over \(\lambda\) factors over blocks and coordinates: \(\sum_{\lambda_{b,i}\in\mathbb F_3}\omega^{\lambda_{b,i}\chi(\ell_{b,i}^2\Pi_b)}=3\,[\chi(\ell_{b,i}^2\Pi_b)=0]\). Conditioning on \(E\) keeps the \(C_b\) independent, since \(E\) is an intersection of events of the separate blocks. So the expectation of the product over blocks is the product of the \(q_b\).

(2) \(\ker\Phi\) contains \(\bigoplus_bK_b\), where \(K_b=\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\) if \(\Pi_b=0\) and \(K_b=\ker\sigma_b\) otherwise. By independence, \(\mathbb E|\ker\Phi|\ge\prod_b\mathbb E|K_b|=\prod_b3^{h_b-d_b}\bigl(1+(3^{d_b}-1)p_b\bigr)\), with \(p_b=\Pr[\Pi_b=0]\). Each \(\sigma_{b,j}\) is uniform on \(S_b\), so \(p_b\ge1-(1-3^{-d_b})^t\ge t\,3^{-d_b}(1-3^{-d_b})^{t-1}\) by the mean value theorem. Hence \((3^{d_b}-1)p_b\ge t(1-3^{-d_b})^t\ge t(1-t\,3^{-d_b})\), which is at least \(t/2\) when \(3^{d_b}\ge2t\). \(\square\)

Part (2) is the W_RS form of the obstruction recorded with lem:selector-kernel-first-moment: there column forms have \(\ell^2=0\) and the proof must condition on a spread event. Here zero prefix tops occur in every family, with probability about \(t\,3^{-d_b}\) per block, and each one kills all \(3^{h_b}\) combinations of the block at once. The natural conditioning is \(E_b=\{\Phi_b\text{ injective}\}\), single-block purity, under which only kernel vectors meeting two or more blocks remain. The single-block term \(\sum_b\Pr[E_b^c]\) includes \(\sum_bt\,3^{-d_b}\), so it is small only if every block has \(d_b\ge(K+1)\log_3n+\log_3t+\omega(1)\). Blocks with smaller square spans fall below \(e\), and purity must then be checked at the lower degree (single-block falls).

lem:prefix-rank-count

Statement. For a block \(b\) and \(u,P\in G\) with \(\deg u+\deg P+4=e\), let \(M_b:\operatorname{Sym}^2(\mathbb F_3^{h_b})\to A_e\) send \(e_ie_{i'}\) to \(u\,\ell_{b,i}^2\ell_{b,i'}^2P\), and let \(A^b_\chi\) be the symmetric matrix of \(\chi\circ M_b\). With \(u=\sigma_b(s)\) and \(P=\prod_{j\ge2}\sigma_{b,j}^2\), this is the matrix of lem:prefix-gauss-bound, whose sign convention plays no role here. For a set \(B\) of blocks, each with its own \(u_b,P_b\), and ranks \(r_b\),

\[\#\{\chi\in A_e^*:\operatorname{rank}A^b_\chi\le r_b\ \text{for all }b\in B\}\le3^{\,a-\dim\sum_{b\in B}\operatorname{im}M_b}\prod_{b\in B}3^{\,r_bh_b+1}.\]

Proof. The map \(\chi\mapsto(A^b_\chi)_{b\in B}\) is linear, and its kernel is the annihilator of \(\sum_b\operatorname{im}M_b\). So each fibre has \(3^{a-\dim\sum_b\operatorname{im}M_b}\) elements, and the image points counted are tuples of symmetric matrices of rank at most \(r_b\). A symmetric \(h\times h\) matrix of rank \(j\) is \(EYE^{\mathsf T}\) for a basis matrix \(E\) of its column space and an invertible symmetric \(j\times j\) matrix \(Y\). There are at most \(1.8\cdot3^{j(h-j)}\) column spaces and \(3^{j(j+1)/2}\) matrices \(Y\). Since \(j(h-j)+j(j+1)/2\le jh\), summing over \(j\le r\) gives at most \(1.8\cdot3^{rh}(1+3^{-h}+3^{-2h}+\cdots)\le3^{rh+1}\). \(\square\)

The prefix rank is the rank of a bilinear form, so it is counted exactly by this linear algebra. Janzer's partition-rank bound (imp:Janzer-finite-field-partition-rank), proposed for this step, is not needed. Its exponent grows with the tensor order, which here would be of order \(t=\Theta(\log n)\).

What prefix ranks can and cannot reach

Only the tail. One row of the prefix gives \(|\mathbb E_{c_1}\omega^{\chi(\sigma_b(s)\Pi_b)}|=3^{-r/2}\) exactly, with \(r=\operatorname{rank}A^b_\chi\le h_b\). Write \(q^0_b(\chi)=\mathbb E_s\mathbb E_C\,\omega^{\chi(\sigma_b(s)\Pi_b)}\), over uniform \(s\in\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\), for the unconditioned kill probability. The one-row bound is \(q^0_b(\chi)\le\mathbb E_{s,c_{\ge2}}3^{-r/2}\), and every term is at least \(3^{-h_b/2}\) because \(r\le h_b\). The conditioned quantity of lem:block-conditioned-moment satisfies \(q_b(\chi)\le q^0_b(\chi)/\Pr[E_b]\), and \(\Pr[E_b]\le1\), so the bound this method gives for \(q_b(\chi)\) is again at least \(3^{-h_b/2}\). Hence one-row bounds can never show \(3^{h_b}q_b(\chi)\) close to 1, conditioned or not. It serves functionals whose kill probability is far above \(3^{-h_b}\), and not the main term. The same happens in the record: lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound "cannot reach the main term" of the random-form killer moment.

The tail needs directness of larger spans. By lem:prefix-rank-count, the functionals of rank at most \(r_b\) on every block of \(B\) contribute to \(\mathbb E_\chi\prod_b3^{h_b}q_b(\chi)\) at most \(3^{-\dim\sum_{b\in B}\operatorname{im}M_b}\prod_{b\in B}3^{r_bh_b+1}\cdot3^{h_b}\), using \(q_b\le1\) on \(B\) and leaving the other blocks' factors aside. This is small only if \(\dim\sum_{b\in B}\operatorname{im}M_b\) exceeds \(\sum_{b\in B}\bigl((r_b+1)h_b+1\bigr)\) by a growing margin. The extra \(h_b\) per block is the moment's own factor \(3^{h_b}\). That requires the spans \(u_bP_b\,S_b^2\) to be nearly independent across blocks modulo the row sums. This is a directness statement of the same kind as the purity being proved, for spans of dimension up to \((r_b+1)h_b\) in place of \(h_b\).

The main term. For functionals with \(3^{h_b}q_b(\chi)\) near 1 on every block, one needs \(\mathbb E_\chi\prod_b3^{h_b}q_b(\chi)=1+o(1)\) over the generic functionals. That is the open core of conj:product-top-killer-moment, now with adversarial forms. What differs from the random-form model is that \(\Pi_b\) is a product of \(t=\Theta(\log n)\) independent random squares. Here \(q_b(\chi)\) is the probability that this product lands in the subspace \(\{y\in G_{4t}:\chi(S_by)=0\}\) of codimension at most \(d_b\). The main term is therefore an equidistribution statement for long random products in \(G\) modulo subspaces of codimension \(d_b\), a mixing question the record has not asked.

Outcome

The plan of the previous entry is corrected in three ways:

its first moment must be conditioned block by block (lem:block-conditioned-moment (2));
prefix ranks control only the tail, and they need no partition-rank theorem (lem:prefix-rank-count);
the closing sentence of lem:prefix-gauss-bound, that first-moment arguments "reduce to lower bounds on the prefix ranks", is withdrawn in that form.

The first-moment line for W_RS thus has the record's killer-moment shape. Its main term is an open equidistribution statement for long prefix products, and its tail needs directness of larger spans. As a route to first-degree purity the line is weak: it reformulates the obligation into the record's open killer-moment core.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: a route review. The first-moment line has reached the killer-moment core, and the assessment is weak. The review should weigh the one new ingredient, mixing of long random prefix products modulo subspaces of codimension \(d_b\), against moment methods for random matrices with dependent column blocks. It should also place the single-block purity requirement \(d_b\ge(K+1)\log_3n+\omega(1)\) against the recorded falls.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:prefix-gauss-bound and its entry, lem:first-degree-purity, lem:selector-kernel-first-moment with its conditioning assessment, lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound and conj:product-top-killer-moment. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the following and found them correct:

the Markov step and the character-sum identity;
that per-block conditioning keeps the product form;
the inequality chain of part (2), with its threshold \(3^{d_b}\ge2t\);
that injectivity implies purity under the stated hypotheses;
the fibre count and the constant 1.8 in lem:prefix-rank-count.

It required three changes, all adopted:

the tail paragraph now separates the unconditioned \(q^0_b\) from the conditioned \(q_b\), and shows the one-row floor holds for both;
the floor \(3^{-h_b/2}\) now follows from \(r\le h_b\) directly;
the tail threshold now shows its derivation, including the lemma's \(+1\) per block. The reviewer proposed \(\sum_b(r_bh_b+1)\). That omits the moment's own factor \(3^{h_b}\), so the stated threshold is \(\sum_b((r_b+1)h_b+1)\).

Its two suggestions are adopted: injectivity is now called sufficient only, and the sign convention is set aside explicitly. The changes only clarify or weaken statements, so one pass suffices.

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Route review after the block-conditioned moment: every prefix product vanishes when the prefix images are dependent, so blocks whose squares span fewer than \(t\) dimensions always fall. The first moment at degree \(4t+2\) covers only blocks with square spans above about \((2K+1)\log_3n\), and its main term needs a moment method for dependent column blocks

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-moment-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the block-conditioned moment: every prefix product vanishes when the prefix images are dependent, so blocks whose squares span fewer than \(t\) dimensions always fall. The first moment at degree \(4t+2\) covers only blocks with square spans above about \((2K+1)\log_3n\), and its main term needs a moment method for dependent column blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-moment-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The block-conditioned moment found that the first-moment line for W_RS first-degree purity reaches the record's killer-moment core, and it assessed the line as weak. This review states the line's claim, attempts a falsification through the structure of \(G\) in characteristic 3, reassesses, and chooses the next mechanism.

The line's general claim

conj:row-free-subset: the allowed set of a W_RS family, with uniform prefixes, contains with high probability a nonempty subset row-free through \(D\approx44t\). Its first step, for families without early falls, is first-degree purity of the clause tops at \(e=4t+2\), for which lem:block-conditioned-moment gives the exact conditioned moment.

What the goal needs

Such a subset, or another certificate of non-refutability at degree \(D\), for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks. Pullback pieces supply it up to about \(n\) blocks, conditionally (prop:fiber-count-barrier). Beyond that nothing is known, and the first moment is the one probabilistic tool under test.

Falsification attempt: characteristic 3 inside \(G\)

\(G\) is generated in degree 1 by the cell variables, and \(x^2=0\) there, since \(x^2=x\) on the base. So \(G\) is a commutative quotient of \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x_u^2)\). For \(y\) of positive degree, write \(y\) as a combination of squarefree monomials: then, by commutativity in characteristic 3, \(y^3\) is the sum of the cubes of its terms, each containing some \(x_u^2\), so \(y^3=0\). The record uses this for linear forms. Applied to the prefix quadrics it gives a lemma.

lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing. Statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), if the prefix images \(\sigma_{b,1},\dots,\sigma_{b,t}\in S_b\) are linearly dependent, then \(\Pi_b=\prod_j\sigma_{b,j}^2=0\) in \(G\). Consequently:

if \(d_b=\dim S_b<t\), every clause of block \(b\) has top degree below \(4t+2\), for every prefix;
for \(t\le d_b\), \(\Pr[\Pi_b=0]\ge1-e^{-x_b}\) with \(x_b=(3^t-1)/(2\cdot3^{d_b})\);
the unconditioned moment of lem:block-conditioned-moment is at least \(\prod_b3^{h_b-d_b}\bigl(1+(3^{d_b}-1)(1-e^{-x_b})\bigr)\). For \(x_b\le1\) each factor is at least \(1+0.3\,(3^t-1)(1-3^{-d_b})\), of order \(n^{K+1}\).

The single-block term \(\sum_b\Pr[E_b^c]\) is therefore \(o(1)\) only if \(\sum_bx_b=o(1)\). Since \(3^t\ge n^{K+1}\) and \(M\) may be \(n^K\), that needs \(d_b\ge(2K+1)\log_3n+\omega(1)\) for essentially all blocks.

Proof. Say \(\sigma_t=\sum_{j<t}b_j\sigma_j\), after reordering. Then \(\Pi_b=\sum_{j,k<t}b_jb_k\,\sigma_j\sigma_k\prod_{i<t}\sigma_i^2\), and each term contains \(\sigma_j^3\) or \(\sigma_j^4\), which vanish. (1) holds because \(t\) vectors in a space of dimension below \(t\) are dependent, so \(\Pi_b=0\) and the degree-\((4t+2)\) part \(\pm\ell_{b,i}^2\Pi_b\) of every clause vanishes. For (2), the \(\sigma_{b,j}\) are independent and uniform on \(S_b\). Given that the first \(j\) are independent, the next lies in their span with probability \(3^{j-d_b}\). So the images are independent with probability \(\prod_{j<t}(1-3^{j-d_b})\le\exp(-\sum_{j<t}3^{j-d_b})=e^{-x_b}\). For (3), use this \(p_b\) in the proof of lem:block-conditioned-moment (2), and \(1-e^{-x}\ge(1-e^{-1})x\) for \(x\le1\). \(\square\)

This is consistent with the functions. Dependent prefix rows define the same allowed set as a basis of them, so \(Q^C\) then has degree at most \(4(t-1)\). The lemma adds that dependence of the images \(\sigma_{b,j}\) in \(G\), which is weaker than dependence of the rows, already kills the top. The record's T-level form is item (2) of prop:single-block-falls, where \(q_j^3=0\) in \(F_3[y]/(y^3)\) gives the prefix-row syzygies.

Outcome. The attempt does not falsify conj:row-free-subset, since falls are allowed there. It does restrict the first-moment line. At degree \(4t+2\) that line covers only blocks with \(d_b\ge(2K+1)\log_3n+\omega(1)\). Blocks with \(d_b<t\), about \((K+1)\log_3n\), fall with certainty, and blocks in between fall with probability at least about \(0.3\cdot3^{t-d_b}\). A family of many such blocks has its first new degree lower, where the tops are those of the fallen combinations, not random products.

Obstacle

The line has no certificate of non-refutability for W_RS families beyond pullback capacity. The first moment of the clause tops, its one probabilistic tool, has three limits:

it applies at degree \(4t+2\) only to blocks whose squares span more than about \((2K+1)\log_3n\) dimensions;
its tail needs directness of larger spans of the same kind;
its main term is an open equidistribution statement for products of \(t\) random squares modulo subspaces of codimension \(d_b\), and prefix ranks cannot reach it.

What is missing is a way to bound a moment over functionals when each block contributes a dependent group of columns and no per-block bound is uniform in the functional.

Assessment of the line

The subset reformulation keeps conj:row-free-subset free of every recorded counterexample. As a route it is weak: no certificate is known beyond about \(n\) blocks, and the first moment splits the families three ways. Blocks with small square spans fall deterministically. Blocks with large spans lead to the open killer-moment core. The middle range falls at random. The record's random-form model met the same core, and it is open there too (conj:product-top-killer-moment). The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Moments of random cokernels with non-uniform entries (Wood, Random integral matrices and the Cohen–Lenstra heuristics, Amer. J. Math. 141, 2019; Maples, Singularity of random matrices over finite fields, 2010). Target: the main term of lem:block-conditioned-moment. Answers. Wood bounds exactly such moments without equidistribution. The method splits the functionals into codes, seen by many independent columns, each column contributing a factor bounded away from 1 by the entries' balance, and non-codes, counted by their depth. With blocks as column groups, the non-codes are the low-prefix-rank functionals that lem:prefix-rank-count counts, and the codes need only a per-block balance. Test. Not run: the translation needs a per-block balance \(\Pr[\chi\text{ kills block }b]\le1-\varepsilon\), uniform over functionals that are nonzero on the block's possible tops. A general lower bound is \(\varepsilon\ge3^{-t}\): as a function of the prefix entries, \(\chi(\ell_{b,i}^2\Pi_b)\) is a polynomial of total degree \(2t\) and degree at most 2 in each entry, and such a polynomial that is not identically zero is nonzero on at least a fraction \(3^{-2t/2}\) of the points (Alon and Füredi, Covering the cube by affine hyperplanes, 1993). No better uniform bound is known here. Whether adversarial forms push the balance down to that level is a question about the forms, not a cheap test.
Anisotropy and the Lefschetz property in every characteristic (Papadakis and Petrotou, The characteristic 2 anisotropy of simplicial spheres, 2020; Adiprasito, Papadakis and Petrotou, Anisotropy, biased pairings, and the Lefschetz property for pseudomanifolds and cycles, 2021). Target: purity of the tops, as a maximal-rank property of multiplication by \(\Pi_b\). Answers. Their generic Artinian reductions have Lefschetz elements in positive characteristic, so multiplication by generic products has maximal rank. That would give single-block purity and, with a mixed version, directness across blocks. Test. Falsified as a route to the \(\mathbb F_3\)-random statement. Their elements are generic over a transcendental extension, which gives Zariski-generic statements, and thm:generic-top-directness already provides those here. The gap is \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational randomness. The power form of Lefschetz also fails outright, since every positive-degree element of \(G\) cubes to zero.
Inverse Littlewood–Offord theory (Tao and Vu, Inverse Littlewood–Offord theorems and the condition number of random discrete matrices, Ann. Math. 169, 2009; Nguyen and Vu, Optimal inverse Littlewood–Offord theorems, Adv. Math. 226, 2011). Target: kernel vectors spread over many blocks. Answers. Large concentration of \(\sum_b\sigma_b(\lambda_b)\Pi_b\) forces structure on \(\lambda\), so the dangerous \(\lambda\) could be classified instead of conditioned away. Test. Falsified in union-bound form. For \(\lambda\) supported on one block, \(\Pr[\Phi\lambda=0]\ge\Pr[\Pi_b=0]\ge1-e^{-x_b}\). Summed over the \(3^{h_b}-1\) nonzero choices, with \(h_b=d_b\) (independent squares, which first-degree purity needs anyway), this is at least about \(0.3(3^t-1)\gg1\). So anti-concentration can enter only inside the conditioned moment, as in Wood's method, not through a union bound over \(\lambda\).

Absurd bridges

Random quantum circuits anticoncentrate in logarithmic depth (Dalzell, Hunter-Jones and Brandão, PRX Quantum 3, 010333, 2022). Translation: \(\Pi_b\) is a depth-\(t\) circuit whose gates are multiplications by random \(\sigma_{b,j}^2\) acting on \(G\). The main term asks that its output anticoncentrate modulo subspaces of codimension \(d_b\), and \(t=\Theta(\log n)\) is logarithmic depth. Answers. A log-depth anticoncentration theorem would give \(q_b(\chi)\approx3^{-d_b}\) for generic \(\chi\), the main term. Test. Falsified in unitary form: the gates are nilpotent (\((\sigma^2)^2=\sigma^4=0\)), and dependent gates annihilate the whole product (lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing). The circuit therefore loses norm at every layer, and the collision-probability recursion of those proofs, which relies on unitarity, has no analogue here.
Zeon algebras and nilpotent adjacency matrices (Schott and Staples, Nilpotent adjacency matrices, random graphs and quantum random variables, J. Phys. A 41, 155205, 2008). Translation: commuting generators with \(\zeta^2=0\) are the cell variables of \(G\) before the row sums. A square \(\ell^2=2\sum_{u<v}a_ua_vx_ux_v\) is a weighted edge sum on the cells. So \(\Pi_b\) is a generating function of weighted matchings of \(2t\) edges, two drawn from each prefix quadric, and the collision relations delete every matching that covers two cells of one column. Then \(\chi(s\Pi_b)\) is a matching sum. Answers. Zeon calculus computes moments of such matching sums in closed form. Mod 3, that could give the distribution of \(\chi(s\Pi_b)\) for monomial and other structured \(\chi\), where the Gauss bound is weakest. Test. Passed: the identity \((\sum a_ux_u)^2=2\sum_{u<v}a_ua_vx_ux_v\) and the product expansion are exact in \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x_u^2)\), and the collisions delete exactly the matchings covering two cells of a column. Whether the closed forms survive reduction mod 3 and the row sums is the open step.

Lead follow-up

The certificate review had no passed item, so no follow-up is due. Its items not run, pseudo-calibration and the contextuality bridge, bear on A1. They remain due for development cycles before any review declares A1 without mechanism, and this review does not.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: develop the Wood lead for the block-conditioned moment. Define codes as functionals nonzero on the possible tops of many blocks, and count the rest with lem:prefix-rank-count. Determine the per-block balance that Wood's argument needs, and test whether adversarial forms with square spans above \((2K+1)\log_3n\) can push it below that level.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:block-conditioned-moment and its entry, prop:single-block-falls, thm:generic-top-directness, prop:fiber-count-barrier and conj:row-free-subset. The certificate review's leads and bridges were checked for passed items; there were none. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the following and found them correct:

the cube-vanishing argument and the proof of lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing;
the independence probability and its bound \(e^{-x_b}\);
the constant 0.3, the order \(n^{K+1}\) and the threshold \((2K+1)\log_3n\);
the comparison with prop:single-block-falls;
the Littlewood–Offord arithmetic and the scope of each verdict on the leads and bridges, including the collision rule in the zeon bridge.

It required two changes, both adopted:

the Wood test now derives its balance bound \(3^{-t}\) from the Alon–Füredi theorem and states that no better uniform bound is known;
the commutativity of \(G\), which the cube argument uses, is now stated.

Its two suggestions are adopted: the constants are made consistent (0.3), and the Littlewood–Offord test now says why \(h_b=d_b\) is assumed. The changes clarify without strengthening any claim, so one pass suffices.

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Wood's codes for prefix blocks: the moment identity, the code/non-code split and the depth count all transfer to W_RS, but the engine does not. Wood's per-column equidistribution comes from independent linear coordinates; a prefix block is one column group whose kill probability is an exact signed sum of Gauss sums, and a Wood-type step must beat the termwise bound on that sum by a factor of at least \(3^{h_b/2}M\)

27 September 2026 · Working lemma and reduction · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-wood-codes. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Wood's codes for prefix blocks: the moment identity, the code/non-code split and the depth count all transfer to W_RS, but the engine does not. Wood's per-column equidistribution comes from independent linear coordinates; a prefix block is one column group whose kill probability is an exact signed sum of Gauss sums, and a Wood-type step must beat the termwise bound on that sum by a factor of at least \(3^{h_b/2}M\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-wood-codes.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The moment review listed Wood's moment method for random cokernels as an outside lead, not run, for the main term of lem:block-conditioned-moment. This cycle develops it. The source is Wood, Random integral matrices and the Cohen–Lenstra heuristics (arXiv:1504.04391), Section 2 read in full. The question is which step of that proof has a counterpart for W_RS blocks, and what the missing step needs.

General statement. lem:prefix-signature-formula, for every block, functional and element \(u\). The Fourier coefficient of a prefix product is an exact average, over the other prefix rows, of \(\eta(\operatorname{disc}A)\,(i/\sqrt3)^{\operatorname{rank}A}\), where \(A\) is the prefix matrix. So a block's kill probability is a signed sum whose unaveraged terms have modulus at least \(3^{-h_b/2}\). Any bound that takes moduli term by term therefore falls short of a Wood-type equidistribution step by a factor of at least about \(3^{h_b/2}M\). Such a step must capture the cancellation among the signs.

Wood's proof, step by step

Wood's matrices have independent \(\varepsilon\)-balanced entries. Section 2 of the paper has four steps:

equation (3): the moment \(\mathbb E\#\operatorname{Sur}(\operatorname{cok}M,G)\) is a sum over surjections \(F\in\operatorname{Sur}(V,G)\) of \(\prod_j\Pr[F(M_j)=0]\), by independence of the columns;
Lemma 2.1: a code \(F\) of distance \(\delta n\) has \(|\Pr[FX=A]-|G|^{-1}|\le\exp(-\varepsilon\delta n/a^2)\). The proof expands \(FX=\sum_iF(v_i)X_i\) by Fourier, and the character factors over the independent coordinates \(X_i\), at least \(\delta n\) of which see a nonzero character;
Lemmas 2.6 and 2.7: non-codes are sorted by depth, counted, and bounded using the \(\varepsilon\)-balance of one coordinate;
Lemma 2.4 combines the columns, which needs the per-column error times \(|G|\) to be \(O(1/n)\). Here \(G\) is fixed and \(n\to\infty\).

The translation

Take the matrix whose columns are the tops \(\ell_{b,i}^2\Pi_b\) in \(A_e\), grouped by block. \(F\) becomes a functional \(\chi\in A_e^*\) and \(G\) becomes \(\mathbb F_3\). Then:

step (1) is lem:block-conditioned-moment (1). The independent units are the blocks, not the columns, so each block acts as one column with target \(\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\): a column group \(G_b\) of size \(3^{h_b}\);
step (3) has its counterpart in lem:prefix-rank-count, which counts functionals of small prefix rank as Lemma 2.6 counts functionals of large depth;
step (2) has none. The coordinates of a top in \(A_e\) are not independent. The independent variables are the prefix entries, and they enter quadratically in every row, so there is no linear expansion to factor.

Step (4) also changes. The block group \(G_b\) is not fixed: \(|G_b|=3^{h_b}\ge n^{2K+1}\) for the blocks the first moment can reach (lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing). So the per-block error must be \(o(3^{-h_b}/M)\), not \(O(1/n)\).

lem:prefix-signature-formula

Statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), fix a block \(b\), \(u\in G\) and \(\chi\in A_e^*\). For rows \(c_2,\dots,c_t\), let \(A=A_{\chi,u}(c_{\ge2})\) be the symmetric matrix \(\bigl(\chi(u\,\ell_{b,i}^2\ell_{b,i'}^2\prod_{j\ge2}\sigma_{b,j}^2)\bigr)_{i,i'}\) of lem:prefix-gauss-bound. Its diagonal is zero. Let \(\operatorname{disc}A\) be the product of the nonzero entries of any diagonal form of \(A\), and let \(\eta\) be the quadratic character, \(\eta(1)=1\) and \(\eta(-1)=-1\). Then

\[\mathbb E_C\,\omega^{\chi(u\Pi_b)}=\mathbb E_{c_{\ge2}}\Bigl[\eta(\operatorname{disc}A)\,\Bigl(\tfrac{i}{\sqrt3}\Bigr)^{\operatorname{rank}A}\Bigr],\qquad q^0_b(\chi)=3^{-h_b}\sum_{s\in\mathbb F_3^{h_b}}\mathbb E_C\,\omega^{\chi(\sigma_b(s)\Pi_b)}.\]

Here \(q^0_b\) is the unconditioned kill probability. The conditioned \(q_b\) of lem:block-conditioned-moment satisfies \(3^{h_b}q^0_b=\Pr[E_b]\,3^{h_b}q_b+3^{h_b}\Pr[\text{kill}\wedge E_b^c]\). A Wood-type step asks \(3^{h_b}q_b(\chi)=1+o(1/M)\) for code functionals, with independent squares \(h_b=d_b\). By the formula, that is an evaluation of the signed sum \(\sum_{s\ne0}\mathbb E_{c_{\ge2}}[\eta(\operatorname{disc}A_s)(i/\sqrt3)^{\operatorname{rank}A_s}]=3^{h_b}q^0_b-1\) to within \(o(1/M)\) of the fall term \(3^{h_b}\Pr[\text{kill}\wedge E_b^c]-\Pr[E_b^c]\). Before averaging, each summand has modulus \(3^{-\operatorname{rank}A_s/2}\ge3^{-h_b/2}\); this includes \(A_s=0\), where the modulus is 1. So a bound that takes moduli term by term gives only \(\sum_{s\ne0}\mathbb E_{c_{\ge2}}3^{-\operatorname{rank}A_s/2}\ge(3^{h_b}-1)3^{-h_b/2}\). A Wood-type step must therefore improve on the termwise bound by a factor of at least about \(3^{h_b/2}M\), using cancellation among the signs and phases over \(c_{\ge2}\) and \(s\). This says what a proof must capture. It does not show that the cancellation fails, since \(|\mathbb E X|\) can be far below \(\mathbb E|X|\).

Proof. The diagonal entries are \(\chi(u\,\ell_{b,i}^4\cdots)\), and \(\ell^4=0\) in \(G\) because every positive-degree element cubes to zero (moment review). Condition on \(c_{\ge2}\). The value \(\chi(u\Pi_b)\) is \(c^{\mathsf T}Ac\) in \(c=c_1\) (lem:prefix-gauss-bound). Choose invertible \(P\) with \(P^{\mathsf T}AP=\operatorname{diag}(a_1,\dots,a_r,0,\dots,0)\). Then \(\mathbb E_c\,\omega^{c^{\mathsf T}Ac}=\prod_{k\le r}\mathbb E_{x\in\mathbb F_3}\omega^{a_kx^2}\). Since \(x^2\in\{0,1,1\}\), \(\mathbb E_x\,\omega^{ax^2}=(1+2\omega^a)/3\), which is \(i\sqrt3/3\) for \(a=1\) and \(-i\sqrt3/3\) for \(a=-1\): that is \(\eta(a)\,i/\sqrt3\). The product is \(\eta(\prod a_k)(i/\sqrt3)^r\), and \(\eta(\prod a_k)\) does not depend on the diagonalization, since discriminants agree up to squares. Average over \(c_{\ge2}\). The formula for \(q^0_b\) is the character expansion of \([\chi(\ell_{b,i}^2\Pi_b)=0\ \forall i]\) over \(s\in\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\). The relation between \(q^0_b\) and \(q_b\) is the law of total probability over \(E_b\). For the termwise bound, the terms with \(s\ne0\) number \(3^{h_b}-1\), and each is an average of values of modulus at least \(3^{-h_b/2}\). \(\square\)

What the missing step is

Wood's engine gains a factor \(e^{-\varepsilon/a^2}\) from each of \(\delta n\) independent coordinates. The prefix counterpart must gain from the signs \(\eta(\operatorname{disc}A_s(c_{\ge2}))\), and the phases \(i^{\operatorname{rank}}\), as the other \(t-1\) rows vary. The determinant of \(A_s\) is a polynomial of degree at most \(2h_b\) in each further row's entries, over the field of 3 elements. Weil-type bounds for character sums of such polynomials are vacuous there, since the degree exceeds the field size. Iterated Cauchy–Schwarz cannot supply the gain either. Its bound for \(k\) rows is \(3^{-\mathrm{ark}/2^k}\), where \(\mathrm{ark}\) is the analytic rank of a multilinear form with one slot of dimension \(h_b\). Since \(\mathrm{ark}\le h_b\), that bound never goes below \(3^{-h_b/2^k}\). The missing step is a sign-equidistribution statement for discriminants of prefix matrices. It is the record's small-field obstacle (smallness in characteristic 3; integral extension) in a new and precise form.

Outcome

The Wood lead transfers except for its engine. The block-conditioned moment is Wood's equation (3), and the prefix-rank count plays the role of the depth count. Equidistribution for code functionals needs an evaluation of the signed sum that beats the termwise bound by a factor of at least \(3^{h_b/2}M\). That requires sign cancellation in the discriminants of the prefix matrices across the other rows, and no available tool gives it. Whether the signs do cancel for the adversary's matrices is open, and nothing here shows that they fail to. Lead follow-up: continuing. The lead is not falsified: nothing recorded shows that the discriminant signs of the adversary's prefix matrices fail to cancel. It is also not developed further, since those matrices are structured and the cancellation is unproved.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: develop the pseudo-calibration lead of the certificate review, which has not been run and bears on A1. The moment line now needs a sign-equidistribution theorem over \(\mathbb F_3\) that no tool supplies. So test the one recorded certificate route that avoids moments: an exact characteristic-3 pseudo-calibration against the planted distribution on the allowed set, checking whether it annihilates the row-sum multiples through degree \(D\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read Section 2 of the source (equation (3), Lemmas 2.1–2.8), lem:prefix-gauss-bound, lem:block-conditioned-moment, lem:prefix-rank-count and lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the following and found them correct:

the zero diagonal and the Gauss sum \(\eta(a)\,i/\sqrt3\);
that the discriminant class does not depend on the diagonalization;
the character expansion of \(q^0_b\);
the paraphrases of Lemmas 2.1 and 2.4;
the Weil-vacuity and Cauchy–Schwarz remarks.

It required three changes, all adopted:

the draft's consequence confused the modulus of an average with the average of moduli, and so read as if cancellation were shown to be necessary in fact. It is now stated as a bound on termwise methods only, with the explicit caveat that it does not show the cancellation fails. The header, general statement and outcome are softened to match;
equation (3) sums over surjections \(\operatorname{Sur}(V,G)\);
the unconditioned \(q^0_b\) is now related to the conditioned \(q_b\) by total probability, and the Wood-type requirement is stated for \(q_b\), with the fall term made explicit.

Two of its suggestions are adopted: the degree bound is now "at most \(2h_b\)", and the case \(A_s=0\) is noted. The third, a small computed example, is not run: it would test the adversary's cancellation only at sizes far below \(h_b\ge(2K+1)\log_3n\), and no general statement it could support has been formulated. The corrections weaken claims, and the added total-probability identity is elementary, so no second pass was made.

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Multiplier designs: in characteristic 3 an exact analogue of pseudo-calibration multiplies a design of the base by a polynomial vanishing on the excluded set. That certifies W_RS families at PC degree \(D\) whenever such a multiplier of degree at most \(D_0-D\) survives the base design. Products of prefix quadrics reach about \(N/2\) blocks, the same order as pullback capacity, and beyond that a multiplier must vanish on the excluded set of many blocks in degree below \(N\)

27 September 2026 · Working lemma and reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pseudo-calibration. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Multiplier designs: in characteristic 3 an exact analogue of pseudo-calibration multiplies a design of the base by a polynomial vanishing on the excluded set. That certifies W_RS families at PC degree \(D\) whenever such a multiplier of degree at most \(D_0-D\) survives the base design. Products of prefix quadrics reach about \(N/2\) blocks, the same order as pullback capacity, and beyond that a multiplier must vanish on the excluded set of many blocks in degree below \(N\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-multiplier-designs.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The certificate review listed pseudo-calibration as an outside lead, not run: "the exact, characteristic-3 version is the untranslated step". It bears on A1, and the moment review kept it due for a development cycle. This cycle translates it. Pseudo-calibration evaluates a polynomial against a null measure, weighted by the low-degree part of the planted likelihood ratio. Its exact analogue should be a design of the base, weighted by a low-degree multiplier supported on the allowed set. The test ends once it is clear how many blocks such multipliers certify.

General statement. lem:multiplier-designs, for every family of constraints on the weak base and every degree. Take a degree-\(D_0\) design of the row equations over the base, and a function of degree at most \(D_0-D\) that vanishes wherever some constraint is nonzero and that the design does not kill. Multiplying by that function gives a degree-\(D\) PC design for the base plus the constraints. Since \(D_0\le N\), every multiplier has degree at most \(N-D\). Products of one prefix quadric per block therefore certify at most \((N-D)/2\) blocks.

Setting

\(P\) is the weak base: column-injective 0/1 assignments on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns, with total occupancy \(\equiv m\bmod3\). \(F^P\) is the algebra of \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued functions on \(P\), filtered by degree. For a set \(S\subseteq F^P\), let \(\mathcal C_D(S)\) be the smallest subspace of \(F^P_{\le D}\) that contains \(S\cap F^P_{\le D}\) and is closed under \(f\mapsto xf\) for cell variables \(x\) whenever \(\deg(xf)\le D\). A syntactic PC refutation of degree \(D\) from the base axioms and \(S\) maps line by line into \(\mathcal C_D(S)\): base axioms map to 0, the other axioms into \(S\), and linear combinations and multiplications by variables are preserved. So \(1\notin\mathcal C_D(S)\) excludes it. A degree-\(D\) design for \(S\) is a functional \(\mu\) on \(F^P_{\le D}\) with \(\mu(1)\ne0\) that vanishes on \(\mathcal C_D(S)\). Such a design exists exactly when \(1\notin\mathcal C_D(S)\). The closure is monotone in \(D\): for \(D\le D'\), \(\mathcal C_D(S)\subseteq\mathcal C_{D'}(S)\).

Let \(R=\{r_i-1\}\) be the row equations. For a constraint family \(\Gamma\) of degree at most \(D\), its excluded set is \(E=\{x\in P:\gamma(x)\ne0\text{ for some }\gamma\in\Gamma\}\), the complement of the allowed set \(Q\).

lem:multiplier-designs

Statement. Let \(\mu_0\) be a degree-\(D_0\) design for \(R\), and \(1\le D\le D_0\). Let \(W\in F^P\) have \(\deg W\le D_0-D\), vanish on \(E\), and satisfy \(\mu_0(W)\ne0\). Then \(\mu(f)=\mu_0(Wf)\) is a degree-\(D\) design for \(R\cup\Gamma\), and in particular weak unary PHP plus \(\Gamma\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). Moreover every degree-\(D_0\) design for \(R\) has \(D_0\le N\), so every such multiplier has degree at most \(N-D\).

Proof. The functional \(\mu\) is defined on \(F^P_{\le D}\), since \(\deg(Wf)\le D_0\) there. Let \(U=\{f\in F^P_{\le D}:Wf\in\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\}\), a subspace, and check three things:

\(U\) contains each \(r_i-1\): for a monomial \(w\) of a polynomial representing \(W\), \(w(r_i-1)\) is reached from \(r_i-1\) by multiplying by variables through degrees at most \(\deg W+1\le D_0-D+1\le D_0\), using \(D\ge1\).
\(U\) contains each \(\gamma\in\Gamma\): \(W\gamma=0\) in \(F^P\), since \(\gamma\) vanishes on \(Q\) and \(W\) on \(E\).
\(U\) is closed under \(f\mapsto xf\) when \(\deg(xf)\le D\): then \(W\cdot xf=x\cdot(Wf)\) has degree at most \(D_0\), and \(\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\) is closed under that multiplication.

So \(\mathcal C_D(R\cup\Gamma)\subseteq U\), and \(\mu\) vanishes on it, while \(\mu(1)=\mu_0(W)\ne0\). For the bound, every function on \(P\) has a representative of degree at most \(N\). By the Anstee–Rónyai–Sali theorem, as used in lem:design-support-bound, the standard monomials of the vanishing ideal of \(P\) are shattered by \(P\), and form a basis of \(F^P\). A shattered set of cells has at most one cell per column, since \(P\) is column-injective, so these monomials have degree at most \(N\). The row equations have no common zero on \(P\): \(r_i\equiv1\bmod3\) for all \(m\) rows would need at least \(m>N\) occupied cells. So at each point \(x\) choose a row \(i(x)\) with \(r_{i(x)}(x)\ne1\), and let \(g_i\) be the function equal to \((r_i(x)-1)^{-1}\) at the points with \(i(x)=i\) and 0 elsewhere. Then \(1=\sum_i(r_i-1)g_i\) in \(F^P\), with \(\deg g_i\le N\). Each term lies in \(\mathcal C_{N+1}(R)\) by the argument of (1), so \(1\in\mathcal C_{N+1}(R)\). By monotonicity, \(1\in\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\) for every \(D_0\ge N+1\), so no design of degree above \(N\) exists. \(\square\)

The lemma uses no Boolean encoding of the constraints beyond vanishing on \(Q\). It is a formal analogue of pseudo-calibration, with \(\mu_0\) as the null functional and \(W\) as the truncated likelihood ratio. Exactness replaces "approximately \(1_Q\)" by "vanishes off \(Q\)".

Product multipliers for W_RS

For a W_RS block, the prefix quadric \(s_{b,1}=\sum_ic_{b,1i}g_{b,i}\) has degree 2 and vanishes wherever \(C_bg_b=0\), in particular on the block's excluded set \(E_b\). So \(W=\prod_bs_{b,1}\) vanishes on \(E=\bigcup_bE_b\) and has degree at most \(2M\). By the lemma, for \(D\ge4t+2\) (so that the clauses lie in \(F^P_{\le D}\)), if the base has a design \(\mu_0\) of degree \(D_0\ge D+2M\) with \(\mu_0(\prod_bs_{b,1})\ne0\), the family is not refutable at degree \(D\). Two limits follow:

\(D_0\le N\), so product multipliers certify at most \((N-D)/2\) blocks. Pullback pieces reach families of about \(n\) blocks (prop:fiber-count-barrier; certificate review), so products are of the same order and do not go beyond.
The condition \(\mu_0(W)\ne0\) is a further, unverified requirement, and so is the existence of a base design of degree near \(N\). The recorded row freeness of \(P\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, thm:tensor-power-freeness) is stated in its own ranges, which this entry does not extend.

What lies beyond

Families of \(M\gg N\) blocks need a single multiplier of degree below \(N-D\) that vanishes on the union of all the blocks' excluded sets and survives \(\mu_0\). Products spend degree at least 2 per block. A multiplier sharing its degree across blocks would have to vanish on \(M\) structured sets of density \(3^{-t}\) each, of total density up to \(M3^{-t}\approx1/(3n)\), in degree below \(N\). No such construction is known. The design \(\mu\) is supported on the support of \(W\), since \(\mu(f)=0\) whenever \(f\) vanishes there. So lem:design-support-bound applies and requires that support to have at least \(2^{D-1}\) points, which does not obstruct a multiplier supported on most of \(Q\). The question is a vanishing-degree statement for the excluded set, a polynomial-method problem (Combinatorial Nullstellensatz, Chevalley–Warning). It is open here.

Outcome

The pseudo-calibration lead is developed. Its exact characteristic-3 form is lem:multiplier-designs, a certificate that is neither a pullback nor a support-avoiding design. With products of prefix quadrics it reaches at most \((N-D)/2\) blocks, the same order as the pullback capacity and not beyond it. Beyond that it needs a low-degree polynomial vanishing on the excluded set of many blocks, which is unknown. Lead follow-up: continuing, with the vanishing-degree question as its open step.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the last item of the certificate review not yet developed, the contextuality bridge. Formulate PC designs as degree-filtered global sections over the cover of the base by the blocks' allowed sets, and test whether the Čech obstruction of that cover vanishes where the multiplier and pullback certificates stop.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the certificate review's pseudo-calibration lead, lem:design-support-bound, prop:fiber-count-barrier, thm:randomized-prefix-reduction and lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the following and found them correct:

the closure checks (2) and (3);
that \(W\gamma=0\);
that \(\mu\) is well defined;
the step from \(1\in\mathcal C_{N+1}(R)\) to "no design above degree \(N\)".

It required six changes, all adopted:

the capacity comparison: pullbacks reach about \(n\) blocks, not \(\log|P|\) components, so products are now called of the same order, not below;
the use of lem:design-support-bound: it now notes that \(\mu\) is supported on the support of \(W\), which is why the lemma applies;
the degree bound \(\deg g_i\le N\) is now derived from the Anstee–Rónyai–Sali theorem, with an explicit choice of \(g_i\);
the hypothesis \(D\ge1\) is stated;
so is \(D\ge4t+2\) for the W_RS application;
"at most \(N-D\)" is now used throughout.

Its suggestions are adopted: monotonicity of the closure in \(D\) is stated, the map from syntactic refutations is explained, and the pseudo-calibration framing is now called a formal analogue. The corrections weaken or justify existing claims, so one pass suffices.

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Design presheaf: in the degree-filtered contextuality translation, the PC designs of a constraint family form a presheaf on the blocks, and its gluing axiom is exactly locality of the PC closure. Compatible local designs exist when 1 avoids the sum of the subfamilies' closures, global ones when it avoids the joint closure. So the bridge certifies nothing beyond locality, whose bounded-order ideal form is refuted

27 September 2026 · Working proof and bridge closed · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-contextuality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Design presheaf: in the degree-filtered contextuality translation, the PC designs of a constraint family form a presheaf on the blocks, and its gluing axiom is exactly locality of the PC closure. Compatible local designs exist when 1 avoids the sum of the subfamilies' closures, global ones when it avoids the joint closure. So the bridge certifies nothing beyond locality, whose bounded-order ideal form is refuted”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-design-presheaf.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The certificate review listed contextuality and sheaf cohomology (Abramsky and Brandenburger, 2011; Abramsky, Barbosa and Mansfield, 2015) as an absurd bridge, not run. Its untranslated step was to add the degree filtration. It is the last item of that review not yet developed, and it bears on A1. This cycle adds the filtration and asks whether the cohomological view can certify non-refutability where pullbacks and multipliers stop.

General statement. prop:design-presheaf-gluing, for every constraint family on the weak base, every degree \(D\) and every cover by subfamilies. The degree-\(D\) designs form a presheaf on subfamilies with inclusions as restrictions. Its compatible families over a cover are the designs of the sum of the cover's closures. Its global sections are the designs of the whole family. Compatible local designs extend to a global one exactly when \(1\notin\) the sum of the cover's closures implies \(1\notin\) the joint closure. The presheaf satisfies the gluing axiom on the cover when the closure is local there.

Setting

As in multiplier designs, \(\mathcal C_D(S)\) is the degree-\(D\) PC closure in the filtered function algebra \(F^P\) of the weak base, and \(R\) is the set of row equations. A constraint family is \(\Gamma=\bigcup_{b\in[M]}\Gamma_b\), one set \(\Gamma_b\) per block, of degree at most \(D\). For \(B\subseteq[M]\) put \(V_B=\mathcal C_D(R\cup\bigcup_{b\in B}\Gamma_b)\), and let \(\mathcal D(B)=\{\mu\in(F^P_{\le D})^*:\mu|_{V_B}=0,\ \mu(1)=1\}\) be the designs of that subfamily. Then \(B\subseteq B'\) gives \(V_B\subseteq V_{B'}\) and \(\mathcal D(B')\subseteq\mathcal D(B)\). So \(\mathcal D\) is a presheaf of affine spaces on the subsets of blocks, with inclusions as restriction maps. This is the Abramsky–Brandenburger shape: contexts are subfamilies, sections are local designs, and a global section is a design of the whole family. It is a degenerate case of it. Every \(\mathcal D(B)\) sits in one fixed space and restrictions are literal inclusions, rather than marginalizations that lose information, so cohomology adds nothing beyond the linear algebra below.

prop:design-presheaf-gluing

Statement. Let \(\mathcal U\) be a cover, a set of subfamilies with union \([M]\).

A compatible family of sections over \(\mathcal U\) is a single functional in \(\bigcap_{B\in\mathcal U}\mathcal D(B)\). It exists iff \(1\notin\sum_{B\in\mathcal U}V_B\).
A global section, a design of the whole family, exists iff \(1\notin V_{[M]}\).
\(\sum_{B\in\mathcal U}V_B\subseteq V_{[M]}\). So global sections always give compatible families, and compatible families exist while no global section does exactly when \(1\in V_{[M]}\setminus\sum_{B\in\mathcal U}V_B\). A given compatible family \(\mu\) is itself global iff it vanishes on \(V_{[M]}\).
\(\mathcal D\) satisfies the gluing axiom on \(\mathcal U\) (\(\bigcap_{B\in\mathcal U}\mathcal D(B)=\mathcal D([M])\)) iff either \(1\in\sum_BV_B\), or \(\sum_BV_B=V_{[M]}\). In particular it holds whenever the closure is local on \(\mathcal U\), meaning \(V_{[M]}=\sum_{B\in\mathcal U}V_B\).

Proof.

Restrictions are inclusions of sets of functionals on one space, so sections agreeing on the pairwise intersections, where \(\mathcal D(B\cap B')\) is defined for every pair, are equal. A compatible family is thus one \(\mu\) lying in every \(\mathcal D(B)\), that is, vanishing on \(\sum_BV_B\) with \(\mu(1)=1\). A functional vanishing on a subspace \(W\) and taking the value 1 at \(1\) exists iff \(1\notin W\).
This is the case \(\mathcal U=\{[M]\}\).
Monotonicity of \(V_B\) in \(B\) gives the inclusion; combine it with (1) and (2).
If \(1\in\sum_BV_B\), then \(1\in V_{[M]}\) by (3), and both sides are empty. Suppose \(1\notin\sum_BV_B\), so the left side is nonempty. If \(1\in V_{[M]}\), the right side is empty, so the axiom fails, and \(\sum_BV_B\ne V_{[M]}\). If \(1\notin V_{[M]}\), both sides are nonempty affine spaces with directions \(\operatorname{Ann}(\sum_BV_B)\supseteq\operatorname{Ann}(V_{[M]})\). They are equal iff \(\sum_BV_B=V_{[M]}\). \(\square\)

What the bridge can and cannot do

The restriction of \(\mathcal D\) to \(\mathcal U\) is determined by the spaces \(V_B\), \(B\in\mathcal U\). So is every invariant computed from it: the Čech cohomology of \(\mathcal D\) on \(\mathcal U\), and the cohomological contextuality test of Abramsky, Barbosa and Mansfield, which is built from the sections over the contexts. By (1), the existence question these data answer is whether \(1\in\sum_{B\in\mathcal U}V_B\). Non-refutability needs \(1\notin V_{[M]}\), and the part \(V_{[M]}\setminus\sum_BV_B\) is the gluing defect of PC closure. So the bridge certifies non-refutability only together with locality of the closure at \(1\) on the cover. With \(\mathcal U\) the subfamilies of at most \(k\) blocks, that is \(k\)-wise locality.

That is the record's question in other words. Taylor glue and its successors turn locality into Tor vanishing of the tops (Taylor glue, syzygies as Tor). Its bounded-order form for vanishing ideals, conj:t-wise-locality, is refuted for every order by prop:covering-obstruction. There, families with \(t\)-wise independent linear parts whose allowed sets meet in one point have joint degree-1 ideal of dimension \(s\), while every single member's degree-1 ideal is zero. That result concerns raw vanishing ideals, without the row equations and without closure under multiplication. Whether it persists for the closures \(V_B\), and at 1, is not checked here. The present translation adds no locality mechanism of its own. The sheaf language re-describes the gluing defect instead of bounding it.

Outcome. The contextuality bridge is developed and closed as a certificate tool. Its degree-filtered form is prop:design-presheaf-gluing. Its obstruction to extending compatible local designs is exactly the locality defect of PC closure at \(1\), and it offers no mechanism for deciding that defect. This conclusion does not depend on whether bounded-order locality holds. The evidence that it fails is ideal-level (prop:covering-obstruction), and its transfer to PC closures is unchecked. The translation passes as a restatement, but it gives nothing new for A1.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: a route review. Three development cycles in a row have ended at the same obstacle, a certificate beyond about \(n\) blocks:

Wood's codes need sign cancellation of prefix discriminants over \(\mathbb F_3\);
multiplier designs need low-degree polynomials vanishing on many excluded sets;
the design presheaf needs locality of the closure.

The review should compare these three open steps, report the zeon bridge's follow-up, and choose which open step to attack, or propose a new mechanism.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:covering-obstruction and its entry, conj:t-wise-locality, lem:multiplier-designs, and the certificate review's bridge. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked parts (1), (2) and (4), with the annihilator argument, and found them correct. It required four changes, all adopted:

part (3) had stated only the existence mismatch as the failure of extension. It now says that compatible families exist while no global section does exactly when \(1\in V_{[M]}\setminus\sum_BV_B\), and that a given compatible family is global iff it vanishes on \(V_{[M]}\). The full gluing condition is left to (4);
the unused hypothesis that the cover is closed under intersection is dropped;
the use of prop:covering-obstruction is limited to raw vanishing ideals, and its transfer to PC closures is marked unchecked;
the outcome no longer rests on that transfer.

Its optional suggestion is adopted: the setting notes that this is a degenerate Abramsky–Brandenburger presheaf, with inclusions as restrictions. The corrections weaken claims, so one pass suffices.

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Route review after three developed leads: Wood's codes, multiplier designs and the design presheaf each stop at a certificate beyond about \(n\) blocks, with three different open steps. The leading form of every multiplier annihilates every clause top in \(G\), which turns the multiplier step into a question about common annihilators of the prefix products below degree \(N-D\)

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-certificate-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after three developed leads: Wood's codes, multiplier designs and the design presheaf each stop at a certificate beyond about \(n\) blocks, with three different open steps. The leading form of every multiplier annihilates every clause top in \(G\), which turns the multiplier step into a question about common annihilators of the prefix products below degree \(N-D\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-three-steps-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the moment review, three cycles have developed that review's Wood lead and the certificate review's two items that had not been run. All three ended at the line's obstacle:

Wood's codes: the moment's main term needs sign cancellation of prefix discriminants over \(\mathbb F_3\);
multiplier designs: products of prefix quadrics reach about \(N/2\) blocks, and beyond that a low-degree polynomial must vanish on many blocks' excluded sets;
design presheaf: the sheaf view certifies only together with locality of the PC closure.

This review compares the three open steps, attempts a falsification of the multiplier step, reassesses, and chooses the next attack.

The line's general claim

conj:row-free-subset: with high probability the allowed set of a W_RS family has a nonempty subset row-free through \(D\approx44t\). More generally, the goal needs some certificate of non-refutability at degree \(D\). The line now has three kinds, each with a conditional capacity of about \(n\) blocks:

row-free pullback pieces (lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency, prop:fiber-count-barrier);
multiplier designs (lem:multiplier-designs);
first-moment purity for blocks with large square spans (lem:block-conditioned-moment, lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing).

What the goal needs

A certificate for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks, \(K\) fixed. Beyond about \(n\) blocks none is known, conditionally or otherwise.

Falsification attempt: what a multiplier must look like

lem:multiplier-annihilators. Statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak base, let \(Q\) be the allowed set and \(E=P\setminus Q\) the excluded set of a constraint family, with top ideals \(\mathfrak n_Q=\operatorname{gr}I(Q)\) and \(\mathfrak n_E=\operatorname{gr}I(E)\) in \(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P\). Then:

\(\mathfrak n_E\cdot\mathfrak n_Q=0\). So the leading form of every multiplier \(W\) of lem:multiplier-designs annihilates every top in \(\mathfrak n_Q\), in particular every nonzero clause top.
For a W_RS block, every element of the ideal \(J_b=(\sigma_{b,1},\dots,\sigma_{b,t})\) annihilates the block's clause tops \(\ell_{b,i}^2\Pi_b\). So \(\prod_bJ_b\), which contains \(\prod_b\sigma_{b,1}\), annihilates all of them. These are the leading forms of the product multipliers.
\(G_k=0\) for \(k>N\). So every element of degree above \(N-(4t+2)\) annihilates every clause top for trivial reasons. Multipliers have degree at most \(N-D\le N-(4t+2)\), so this trivial range is never available to them.

Proof.

For \(W\in I(E)\) and \(\gamma\in I(Q)\), \(W\gamma=0\) as a function on \(P\). The product of their leading forms is the image of \(W\gamma\) in \(G_{\deg W+\deg\gamma}\), which is zero.
\(\sigma_{b,j}\cdot\ell_{b,i}^2\Pi_b\) contains the factor \(\sigma_{b,j}^3\), and every positive-degree element of \(G\) cubes to zero (lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing).
Every function on \(P\) has a representative of degree at most \(N\). By the Anstee–Rónyai–Sali theorem (as in lem:design-support-bound), the standard monomials of \(I(P)\) form a basis of \(F^P\) and are shattered by \(P\). A shattered set of cells has at most one cell per column. So \(G\) vanishes above degree \(N\). Clause tops have degree \(4t+2\), and \(D\ge4t+2\). \(\square\)

A multiplier certificate for a family therefore needs a nonzero common annihilator of all the clause tops in degree at most \(N-D\). It must also lift to a function vanishing on \(E\) that the base design does not kill. The products in (2) spend degree 2 per block. By (3), the degrees in which annihilation is automatic lie just out of reach.

A dimension count suggests that for \(M\gg N\) generic blocks there is no common annihilator below degree \(N-D\). Each \(J_b\) is a small subspace in low degree, of dimension at most \(t\dim G_{L-2}\) inside \(G_L\). The annihilator of one block's tops is cut out by up to \(h_b\dim G_{L+4t+2}\) linear conditions, and \(\dim G_k\) grows with \(k\) through the relevant range. This is a heuristic, not a proof. It is also the direction the adversary favours: a common annihilator is a rank drop, a closed condition, so special forms have larger annihilators and generic forms the smallest.

Outcome. The attempt does not falsify the multiplier step. It sharpens it into a question about common annihilators of the prefix products in \(G\) below degree \(N-D\), and the count points against low-degree annihilators for generic families.

Obstacle

The line has no certificate of non-refutability for W_RS families of more than about \(n\) blocks. Its three candidate certificates stop at three distinct open steps:

sign equidistribution of prefix-matrix discriminants over \(\mathbb F_3\), for the first moment;
common annihilators in \(G\) of all clause tops below degree \(N-D\), for multipliers;
locality of the PC closure at 1, for any cover-based argument.

Each is a structural statement about \(M\gg n\) random-prefix products of adversarial squares in a characteristic-3 algebra where every element cubes to zero.

Assessment of the line

Weak, and qualitative. The three developments were honest attempts that sharpened the obstacle without moving the capacity. Of the three open steps, the annihilator question is the most concrete: it is finite linear algebra in \(G\) for each family, and its expected answer would close the multiplier route. The discriminant step needs a character-sum theory over \(\mathbb F_3\) at degrees above the field size, which does not exist. The locality step is the record's long-standing gluing question.

Outside leads

Macaulay inverse systems and Gorenstein duality (Iarrobino and Kanev, Power Sums, Gorenstein Algebras, and Determinantal Loci, 1999). Target: common annihilators for multipliers. Answers. In a Gorenstein Artinian algebra, \(\operatorname{Ann}(I)\) is dual to the quotient by \(I\), so \(\dim\operatorname{Ann}(I)_L=\dim(G/I)_{\mathrm{top}-L}\). Annihilators of the clause-top ideal would then exist in low degree exactly where the quotient is large near the top degree, which is computable. Test. Falsified in Gorenstein form for the record's model algebra \(\tilde A=\bigotimes_c(\mathbb F_3+V_c)\), \(V_c^2=0\), \(\dim V_c=m\ge2\). Each factor has socle \(V_c\), so \(\tilde A\) has socle \(\bigotimes_cV_c\) of dimension \(m^N>1\) and is not Gorenstein, and the duality formula fails. Inverse systems still describe annihilators, but without the dimension formula. \(G\), a quotient of \(\tilde A\) by the occupancy condition, was not checked.
Dvir's polynomial method for Kakeya sets (Dvir, On the size of Kakeya sets in finite fields, J. AMS 22, 2009). Target: a degree lower bound for multipliers vanishing on the excluded set. Answers. A polynomial of degree below \(q\) vanishing on a set containing a line in every direction vanishes identically. An analogue for excluded sets spread over many directions would force multipliers to have high degree and close the route. Test. Falsified in its line form. The argument restricts to lines and needs degree below the field size, \(q=3\), while multipliers have degree up to \(N-D\), and the cell variables are Boolean.
The Alon–Füredi theorem (Alon and Füredi, Covering the cube by affine hyperplanes, 1993). Target: the same lower bound. Answers. A polynomial vanishing on all of a cube but one point has degree at least the dimension. A version for vanishing on a structured part of \(P\) would bound multiplier degree from below. Test. Falsified: the excluded set has density about \(1/(3n)\), far from all but one point. The theorem's general form, that a nonzero degree-\(d\) polynomial is nonzero on at least \(2^{N-d}\) cube points, places no constraint on a multiplier that is nonzero on most of \(Q\).

Absurd bridges

Anderson localization by the fractional moment method (Aizenman and Molchanov, Comm. Math. Phys. 157, 1993). Translation: PC closure as a disordered hopping operator on blocks, with the random prefixes as disorder. Locality of the closure on bounded covers plays the part of localization, and the design presheaf's gluing axiom becomes exponential decay of the closure's reach. Answers. A localization theorem would give locality at 1 on covers of bounded order, the open step of the design presheaf. Test. Falsified. The method needs a graph metric with local hopping, and dense blocks share cells with every other block, so the interaction graph is complete, a mean-field regime without localization. The closure is also exact linear algebra over \(\mathbb F_3\), with no decaying magnitude to estimate.
The Heilmann–Lieb theorem and the Hosoya index (Heilmann and Lieb, Comm. Math. Phys. 25, 1972; Hosoya, 1971). Translation: by the zeon follow-up below, the values \(\chi_S(\ell_k^2\Pi_b)\) are coefficients of hafnians of a matrix pencil, that is, of multivariate matching polynomials of weighted graphs on the cells, the chemists' matching counts. Answers. Real-rootedness of matching polynomials controls signs and log-concavity of matching counts, which might force the relevant coefficients to be nonzero. Test. Falsified: real-rootedness constrains real magnitudes, and reduction mod 3 is not controlled by it; an integer coefficient equal to 3 vanishes mod 3.

Bridge follow-up

The zeon translation passed in the moment review. Work this cycle: for a squarefree monomial \(x_S\) with at most one cell per column, and forms \(\ell_i=\sum_ua_{iu}x_u\), put \(A_j=\sum_ic_{ji}a_ia_i^{\mathsf T}\). Work in the collision algebra \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x_u^2,\ x_ux_v\text{ for }u,v\text{ in one column})\), before the occupancy relation and the row sums, where these monomials form a basis. Then the coefficient of \(x_S\) in \(\ell_k^2\Pi_b\) is, up to sign, the coefficient of \(z_0z_1^2\cdots z_t^2\) in the hafnian of the pencil \(z_0a_ka_k^{\mathsf T}+\sum_jz_jA_j\) restricted to \(S\). The constant is \(2^{3t+1}\), a unit mod 3. Each of the \(2t+1\) edge-sum factors carries a 2, and the ordered pair of copies of each \(\sigma_j\) contributes \(2^t\). The collision relations delete nothing inside such an \(S\). Every functional of lem:block-conditioned-moment pulls back to a combination of these monomial coefficients. So its kill probabilities are distributions mod 3 of combinations of pencil-hafnian coefficients as the prefix varies. Follow-up. Closed: zeon calculus evaluates sums over all labels, such as traces of powers of nilpotent adjacency matrices, and says nothing about the distribution of one fixed coefficient mod 3. No equidistribution theory for hafnian coefficients mod 3 is known.

Lead follow-up

No outside lead of the moment or certificate reviews passed, so no item is due. The items that had not been run were developed in the three cycles above:

Wood's codes: continuing, at the discriminant step;
pseudo-calibration: continuing, at the annihilator step;
contextuality: closed.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: settle the multiplier route's annihilator step. Formulate a statement about common annihilators of the clause tops of \(M\) W_RS blocks with generic forms in \(G\) below degree \(N-D\), and attempt a proof by a rank argument in \(G\) itself. Present \(G\) as \(\tilde A/K\), with \(K\) the top ideal of the occupancy condition. A common annihilator in \(G\) is then an element \(y\) of \(\tilde A\) with \(y\tau\in K\) for every clause top \(\tau\), so the rank count must be made modulo \(K\), not in \(\tilde A\). If the statement holds, the multiplier route cannot pass about \(n\) blocks for generic families. If it fails, the annihilators it produces are candidate multipliers to lift.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three developed entries, lem:multiplier-designs, lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing, prop:design-presheaf-gluing and lem:prefix-signature-formula. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the following and found them correct:

parts (1) and (2) of lem:multiplier-annihilators, including the extension from the generators to all of \(J_b\) and \(\prod_bJ_b\);
the degree bookkeeping of (3);
the hafnian correspondence, including that the collisions delete nothing inside \(S\) and that diagonal terms do not contribute;
the hedging of the heuristic;
every lead and bridge verdict.

It required two changes, both adopted:

(3) now cites the Anstee–Rónyai–Sali basis directly, not the design lemma;
the next step now works in \(G=\tilde A/K\) with annihilation taken modulo \(K\), instead of in \(\tilde A\).

Its suggestion is adopted: the hafnian constant is now given exactly as \(2^{3t+1}\), matching the reviewer's recomputation. One pass suffices.

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Square-algebra annihilator gap: if \(G\) is free (\(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) vanishing) through degree \(N-D+4t+2\), over the algebra generated by the squares of all the blocks' forms, then every common annihilator of the clause tops is a sum of products of one annihilator per block, of degree at least \(2M\). Multipliers then certify at most \((N-D)/2\) blocks. Such freeness forces \(\sum_bh_b\) to be at most of order \(Nm^2\), so multipliers stay open only for families whose squares are dependent in \(G\)

27 September 2026 · Conditional result · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-annihilator-gap. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Square-algebra annihilator gap: if \(G\) is free (\(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) vanishing) through degree \(N-D+4t+2\), over the algebra generated by the squares of all the blocks' forms, then every common annihilator of the clause tops is a sum of products of one annihilator per block, of degree at least \(2M\). Multipliers then certify at most \((N-D)/2\) blocks. Such freeness forces \(\sum_bh_b\) to be at most of order \(Nm^2\), so multipliers stay open only for families whose squares are dependent in \(G\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-square-algebra-annihilators.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The three-steps review reduced the multiplier route to one question. Do the clause tops of \(M\gg n\) W_RS blocks have a nonzero common annihilator in \(G\) of degree at most \(N-D\) (lem:multiplier-annihilators)? The review's dimension count pointed to no. The test is to find a hypothesis under which that can be proved, and to see which families it leaves open.

General statement. lem:square-algebra-annihilator-gap, for every family of blocks. Let \(E\) be the algebra generated by the squares of all the forms, one generator \(u\) per form with \(u^2=0\). If \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^E(\mathbb F_3,G)\) vanishes through degree \(L+4t+2\), then the common annihilators of the nonzero clause tops in degrees at most \(L\) are the elements of \(\bigl(\bigotimes_b\operatorname{Ann}_{E_b}(T_b)\bigr)\cdot G\). These have degree at least \(2M'\), where \(M'\) is the number of blocks whose tops are nonzero in \(E\).

Setting

For block \(b\) with top forms \(\ell_{b,1},\dots,\ell_{b,h_b}\), let \(E_b=\mathbb F_3[u_{b,1},\dots,u_{b,h_b}]/(u_{b,i}^2)\). Put \(E=\bigotimes_bE_b\), graded with \(\deg u=2\). It acts on \(G\) through \(u_{b,i}\mapsto\ell_{b,i}^2\), which is well defined because \(\ell^4=0\) in \(G\) (lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing). In \(E_b\), the prefix images are \(\sigma_{b,j}=\sum_ic_{ji}u_{b,i}\), \(\Pi_b=\prod_j\sigma_{b,j}^2\), and the tops are \(T_b=\{u_{b,i}\Pi_b\}_i\). Their images in \(G\) are the clause tops.

lem:square-algebra-annihilator-gap

Statement. Suppose \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^E(\mathbb F_3,G)_d=0\) for \(d\le L+4t+2\). Let \(y\in G\), homogeneous of degree at most \(L\), annihilate every clause top. Throughout, \(t=\Theta(\log n)\) and \(D=O(t)\), so \(4t+2\) and \(D\) are \(o(N)\).

Choosing a graded basis \(\{v_k\}\) of \(V=G/\mathfrak m_EG\) with lifts to \(G\), write \(y=\sum_ke_kv_k\) uniquely with \(e_k\in E\). Then each \(e_k\) lies in \(\bigotimes_b\operatorname{Ann}_{E_b}(T_b)\). Conversely, and without the Tor hypothesis, every element of \(\bigl(\bigotimes_b\operatorname{Ann}_{E_b}(T_b)\bigr)\cdot G\) annihilates every clause top.
If \(M'\) blocks have \(T_b\ne0\) in \(E_b\), then \(y=0\) or \(\deg y\ge2M'\).
With \(L=N-D\): if \(2M'>N-D\), no multiplier of lem:multiplier-designs exists. The leading form of a multiplier would be such a \(y\) (lem:multiplier-annihilators).
The hypothesis requires \(\binom{H}{k}\le\dim G_{2k}\) for \(2k\le L+4t+2\), with \(H=\sum_bh_b\). For \(L=N-D\), with \(D\) and \(4t+2\) both \(o(N)\), taking \(k\) near \(N/2\) this forces \(H\le2Nm^2(1+o(1))\).

Proof.

The vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) through degree \(d_0=L+4t+2\) means the multiplication map \(E\otimes V\to G\) is an isomorphism in degrees at most \(d_0\). It is always onto, and its kernel is generated by the relations that \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) counts. So \(y\) has a unique expansion \(\sum_ke_kv_k\). For a top \(\tau\in T_b\), \(y\tau=\sum_k(e_k\tau)v_k\) has degree at most \(d_0\). It vanishes in \(G\), so by injectivity \(e_k\tau=0\) in \(E\) for every \(k\), and \(e_k\) annihilates every \(T_b\) in \(E\). Each \(T_b\) lies in the factor \(E_b\), and \(\operatorname{Ann}_E(T_b)=\operatorname{Ann}_{E_b}(T_b)\otimes\bigotimes_{b'\ne b}E_{b'}\). The intersection over \(b\) of such subspaces is \(\bigotimes_b\operatorname{Ann}_{E_b}(T_b)\). For the converse, an element \(x\) of that tensor product lies in every \(\operatorname{Ann}_E(T_b)\), so \(x\tau=0\) in \(E\) and hence \((xg)\tau=(x\tau)g=0\) in \(G\) for every \(g\in G\).
If \(T_b\ne0\), then \(\operatorname{Ann}_{E_b}(T_b)\) contains no unit, so it lies in the maximal ideal of \(E_b\), in degrees at least 2. A nonzero element of a tensor product of \(M'\) such subspaces, and factors \(E_b\) for the other blocks, has degree at least \(2M'\). Since \(v_k\) has degree at least 0, \(y\ne0\) forces \(\deg y\ge2M'\).
This is (2) with \(L=N-D\), together with lem:multiplier-annihilators (1).
Injectivity of \(E\otimes V\to G\) in degree \(2k\le d_0\), applied to the summand \(E_k\otimes v_0\) with \(v_0=1\), makes the squarefree products of \(k\) distinct generators independent in \(G_{2k}\). There are \(\binom Hk\) of them. Also \(\dim G_{2k}\le\dim\tilde A_{2k}=\binom N{2k}m^{2k}\le2^Nm^N\) at \(2k\) near \(N\), and \(\binom Hk\ge(H/k)^k\). With \(k\approx N/2\), this gives \((2H/N)^{N/2}\le2^Nm^N\), so \(H\le2Nm^2\) up to the \(1+o(1)\) from \(D,\ 4t+2=o(N)\), which allow \(k\) within \(o(N)\) of \(N/2\). \(\square\)

By lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing applied inside \(E_b\), \(T_b\ne0\) requires in particular that the rows of the prefix be independent. A block whose tops vanish in \(E\) contributes no constraint to the count.

What it settles and what it leaves

Vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) through a degree, which is all the hypothesis asks, is an open condition on the forms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\). So it holds for Zariski-generic forms wherever it holds for one choice. That does not by itself give forms over \(\mathbb F_3\) in the open set. Within its range, multipliers are exactly as strong as the products of prefix quadrics and no stronger: at most \((N-D)/2\) blocks. The range is bounded by (4). Families with \(\sum_bh_b\) above about \(2Nm^2\) have squares that are necessarily dependent in \(G\). A block with nonzero tops in \(E\) has \(h_b\ge2t+1\), since \(u_{b,i}\Pi_b\) is a product of \(2t+1\) distinct generators of \(E_b\), and \(E_b\) has no nonzero product of more than \(h_b\) of them. With \(m=N+1\approx n\) and \(t=\Theta(\log n)\), every family of at least \(n^3\) such blocks therefore has \(H\ge n^3(2t+1)>2Nm^2(1+o(1))\), and lies in the dependent range. So do some smaller families with large blocks. There, a common annihilator can come from a relation among the squares of different blocks, and the lemma says nothing. So the multiplier route is closed conditionally in the middle range, from about \(N/2\) blocks to order \(Nm^2/h\) blocks, and open in the dependent range, which contains the goal's main case.

Three points are not shown here:

the freeness hypothesis itself, for generic forms in the middle range: it is a Tor-vanishing statement for the square algebra, of the kind the record proves for the row sums (thm:tensor-power-freeness);
its transfer from Zariski-generic forms to forms over \(\mathbb F_3\), which the adversary chooses;
whether dependent squares actually produce low-degree common annihilators.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the dependent range. In it, the squares of different blocks satisfy relations in \(G\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^E(\mathbb F_3,G)\ne0\). Take the lowest-degree relations, linear relations among the squares in \(G_2\), which exist once \(\sum_bh_b>\dim G_2\). Ask whether they produce common annihilators of the clause tops below degree \(N-D\), and so candidate multipliers beyond \(N/2\) blocks. If they do not, determine what they do produce.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:multiplier-annihilators, lem:multiplier-designs, lem:dependent-prefix-vanishing and thm:tensor-power-freeness. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the following by hand and found them correct:

that vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) gives bijectivity of \(E\otimes V\to G\) in low degrees;
the componentwise vanishing \(e_k\tau=0\);
the tensor-factor annihilator formula and the intersection;
the degree bound;
the counting bound \(H\le2Nm^2(1+o(1))\).

It required five changes, all adopted:

the converse inclusion claimed in the general statement is now proved;
the hypotheses \(t=\Theta(\log n)\) and \(D=O(t)\), so that \(4t+2\) and \(D\) are \(o(N)\), are stated and used in (4) and in the \(n^3\) count;
openness is now stated over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), and the transfer to \(\mathbb F_3\)-forms is listed as a further gap;
the count \(h_b\ge2t+1\) is phrased by the number of generators, not by degree;
the \(n^3\) threshold is now derived explicitly.

Its suggestions are adopted: \(y\) is homogeneous, freeness is glossed as \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\)-vanishing, and the middle range is given as order \(Nm^2/h\). The changes add only the elementary converse and otherwise weaken or clarify, so one pass suffices.

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Form-cover multipliers: a product of affine forms whose zero sets cover the excluded set is a multiplier. Every block's excluded set is covered by the block's own forms, so a family with at most \(D_0-D\) distinct forms has a multiplier however many blocks it has, provided the base design does not kill it. The dependent range contains such pool families, but pinned-rank vacuity already settles those with pools meeting its hypotheses. A W_RS block is covered by \(h_b-t\) of its own forms when the prefix is injective on the rest, and smaller covers need the kernel to avoid realized patterns

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dependent-squares. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Form-cover multipliers: a product of affine forms whose zero sets cover the excluded set is a multiplier. Every block's excluded set is covered by the block's own forms, so a family with at most \(D_0-D\) distinct forms has a multiplier however many blocks it has, provided the base design does not kill it. The dependent range contains such pool families, but pinned-rank vacuity already settles those with pools meeting its hypotheses. A W_RS block is covered by \(h_b-t\) of its own forms when the prefix is injective on the rest, and smaller covers need the kernel to avoid realized patterns”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-form-cover-multipliers.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The square-algebra annihilator gap left the multiplier route open only in the dependent range, where the blocks' squares are related in \(G\). This cycle asks whether that range contains multipliers certifying more than about \(N/2\) blocks, what they look like, and whether they reach families the record has not settled.

General statement. prop:form-cover-multipliers, for every constraint family on the weak base. Let \(F\) be a set of affine forms whose zero sets cover the excluded set. Then \(W_F=\prod_{L\in F}L\) vanishes on the excluded set and has degree at most \(|F|\). If \(|F|\le D_0-D\) and a base design has \(\mu_0(W_F)\ne0\), the family has no degree-\(D\) refutation. For W_RS families the block's own forms always cover its excluded set, so the relevant size is the number of distinct forms. A single block is covered by \(h_b-t\) of its own forms when the prefix restricted to the remaining columns is injective. Smaller own-form covers need every nonzero kernel vector supported off the cover to be either not a \(0/1\) vector or a \(0/1\) pattern not realized on \(P\).

prop:form-cover-multipliers

Statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak base \(P\), with excluded set \(E\) of a constraint family:

If affine forms \(L\in F\) satisfy \(E\subseteq\bigcup_{L\in F}\{L=0\}\), then \(W_F=\prod_{L\in F}L\) vanishes on \(E\) and has degree at most \(|F|\). With lem:multiplier-designs, the family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\) whenever \(|F|\le D_0-D\) and \(\mu_0(W_F)\ne0\) for some degree-\(D_0\) design \(\mu_0\) of the row equations.
For a W_RS block, \(E_b\subseteq\bigcup_i\{L_{b,i}=0\}\). So the distinct forms of the whole family form a cover, of size at most the number of distinct forms.
A subset \(I\) of block \(b\)'s forms covers \(E_b\) iff no nonzero \(0/1\) vector in \(\ker C_b\) is supported off \(I\), counting only patterns the forms realize on \(P\). If the \(t\) prefix rows restricted to the \(h_b-|I|\) columns outside \(I\) have full column rank, which needs \(h_b-|I|\le t\), then \(I\) covers. If \(h_b-|I|>t\), a nonzero kernel vector exists on those columns over \(\mathbb F_3\), but it need not be a \(0/1\) vector.

Proof.

At a point of \(E\), some \(L\in F\) vanishes, so the product vanishes. The degree bound is immediate, and the rest is lem:multiplier-designs.
A point \(x\in E_b\) has a zero pattern \(g_b(x)\in K_{C_b}\). That pattern is nonzero, so some \(g_{b,i}(x)=1\), that is \(L_{b,i}(x)=0\) (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity).
\(I\) fails to cover exactly when some excluded point has all its vanishing forms outside \(I\). Its pattern is then a nonzero \(0/1\) vector in \(\ker C_b\) supported off \(I\). If \(C_b\) restricted to the columns off \(I\) is injective, no nonzero vector supported there lies in the kernel. \(\square\)

What this gives

Pool families. Suppose every block draws its forms from a common pool of at most \(D_0-D\) forms, the family being fixed before the prefixes are drawn. Then a multiplier exists for any number \(M\) of blocks, subject to \(\mu_0(W_F)\ne0\). Such families are in the dependent range: their squares span at most the pool's size, while \(\sum_bh_b\) grows with \(M\). They are consistent with the annihilator gap, and the leading form of \(W_F\) is a common annihilator coming from the pool, not from the blocks. They are not new, though. Their linear parts lie in the span of the pool, the case \(\rho_b=0\) of prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, which makes them vacuous with probability at least \(1-\sum_b3^{-t_b}\) under its member-pinning hypotheses on the pool forms. Those hypotheses bound the pool size through the board's robustness, so large pools, up to about \(N-D\) forms, may fall outside them. For such pools the multiplier is a second certificate, conditional on \(\mu_0(W_F)\ne0\).

Block-specific forms. When blocks do not share forms, an own-form cover of a block leaving more than \(t\) columns uncovered needs every nonzero \(\mathbb F_3\)-kernel vector on those columns to avoid being a realized \(0/1\) pattern. With \(t\) uniform rows the kernel has dimension at least the excess, so such covers are the exception, not a mechanism. This is a heuristic count, not a proved lower bound, and it is informative only for large blocks, \(h_b\gg t\). Blocks with \(h_b\) close to \(t\) may have own-form covers of fewer than two forms, cheaper than the quadric. The prefix quadric \(s_{b,1}\) costs 2 per block. So, heuristically and for large blocks, product multipliers stay near \((N-D)/2\) blocks. The annihilator gap says, conditionally on freeness, that in the free range nothing else exists.

Outcome. The multipliers found here in the dependent range are products over a small pool of forms. They certify arbitrarily many blocks only when the family has at most about \(N-D\) distinct forms. Pinned-rank vacuity already settles that case for pools meeting its hypotheses. For families with many blocks and many distinct forms, a multiplier would need a common annihilator that is not a product of covering forms or quadrics, from relations among the squares of many distinct forms. None is known. The annihilator gap excludes it wherever \(G\) is free over the square algebra, a conditional statement, and the per-block cost of product multipliers is a heuristic for large blocks. So the multiplier route is expected, not proved, to stop at the scale of the existing certificates.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: a route review. Two cycles have narrowed the multiplier route to the existing certificate scale, measured in distinct forms, and the other two open steps are unchanged. The review should reconsider the reduction W to W_RS itself. Every certificate so far needs structure the adversary controls, such as few distinct forms, few blocks or freeness. It should look for a mechanism that uses the number of distinct forms directly, or a different randomization, and test it against a family of \(n^K\) blocks with pairwise distinct dense forms.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:multiplier-designs, lem:square-algebra-annihilator-gap, lem:multiplier-annihilators, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity and prop:pinned-rank-vacuity. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked parts (1)–(3) and their proofs and found them correct. That includes the equivalence in (3), restricted to realized \(0/1\) patterns, and the injectivity criterion, which is sufficient only. It also confirmed the comparison with prop:pinned-rank-vacuity and its caveat on pool size. It required four changes, all adopted:

the block-specific paragraph is now limited to large blocks and marked heuristic, including its conclusion;
the outcome separates the conditional annihilator gap from that heuristic, and says the route is expected, not proved, to stop at the existing scale;
the general statement names both ways a kernel vector can fail to be a realized pattern;
the header adds the condition \(\mu_0(W_F)\ne0\).

Its suggestion that pool families are fixed before the prefixes are drawn is adopted. The changes weaken claims, so one pass suffices.

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Route review after the multiplier analysis: every certificate mechanism tried for W_RS stops near \(n\) blocks or \(N\) distinct forms. The derivation-aware alternative was already judged no cheaper than a critical-assignment structure theorem. A Razborov pigeon-dance design inside the allowed set fails in its naive form on row-sum-dependent forms, and its closure version is next

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-reduction-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the multiplier analysis: every certificate mechanism tried for W_RS stops near \(n\) blocks or \(N\) distinct forms. The derivation-aware alternative was already judged no cheaper than a critical-assignment structure theorem. A Razborov pigeon-dance design inside the allowed set fails in its naive form on row-sum-dependent forms, and its closure version is next”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-reduction-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the three-steps review, two cycles have tied the multiplier route to the existing capacity:

square-algebra annihilators: under freeness, common annihilators of the clause tops have degree at least \(2M\);
form-cover multipliers: in the dependent range, the only multipliers found are products over a pool of at most about \(N-D\) forms.

The previous review asked this one to reconsider the reduction W to W_RS itself. This review compares all the mechanisms tried and re-reads the record's derivation-aware alternative. It then chooses a mechanism of a new kind.

The line's general claim

conj:row-free-subset: for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks, the W_RS allowed set contains, with high probability, a nonempty subset row-free through \(D\approx44t\). Equivalently, by the global-closure theorem and lem:multiplier-designs, the question is whether \(F^Q\) with the row equations has a degree-\(D\) design, where \(Q\) is the allowed set.

What the goal needs

That design for every family, including \(n^K\) blocks with pairwise distinct dense forms. The mechanisms tried, and where each stops:

pullback pieces: about \(n\) blocks (prop:fiber-count-barrier);
first moments: blocks with square spans above \((2K+1)\log_3n\), with the main term open (lem:block-conditioned-moment, lem:prefix-signature-formula);
multipliers: about \(N/2\) blocks, or about \(N-D\) distinct forms (lem:square-algebra-annihilator-gap, prop:form-cover-multipliers);
the design presheaf: only together with locality (prop:design-presheaf-gluing);
weighted replay and restriction: about \(n/10\) blocks (barrier).

Falsification attempt: is W_RS itself in doubt?

A family refutable at degree \(D\) for most prefixes would falsify W_RS and force derivation-aware methods. Two facts constrain any such family.

First, the excluded set is small. Each point \(x\) of \(P\) is excluded with probability at most \(M3^{-t}=O(1/n)\), by a union bound over the blocks. For each block, \(x\) is excluded only if its zero pattern \(\gamma=g_b(x)\) is nonzero with \(C_b\gamma=0\), and for a fixed nonzero \(\gamma\) the vector \(C_b\gamma\) is uniform, so this has probability \(3^{-t}\) (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity). No assumption on the forms is needed. So \(Q\) has density \(1-O(1/n)\) in expectation, and the adversary does not choose which patterns die. The low-degree refutations and candidate counterexamples recorded so far all used a set of constant density or a structure the adversary controls, such as unit-row prefixes (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity) or a confining row pattern.

Second, the kills that do happen are random, and the adversary can only make them correlated, by giving many points the same zero pattern. Families whose kills act as single-cell exclusions leave graph PHP on a dense random subgraph. That is hard by the recorded reduction to expander graph PHP (cells).

No refutation of another shape was found in this attempt. That is evidence for W_RS within the record's search, not a proof, and the search was not exhaustive.

The derivation-aware alternative was re-read in the derivation-structure review and shielding made precise. Weakening is removable (lem:reslin-weakening-admissible). Shielding reduces the question to which dense forms can be informative on critical assignments. That entry judged it no cheaper than a critical-assignment structure theorem, and nothing since changes that.

Obstacle

Every certificate tried for W_RS is built from structure the adversary controls: few blocks, few distinct forms, freeness of the squares, or locality of the closure. None is built from the one resource the adversary does not control, the randomness of which patterns are killed, beyond what first moments extract. What is missing is a design for \(F^Q\) that exploits the smallness and randomness of the excluded set directly, uniformly over the forms.

Assessment of the line

Weak, and qualitative. Seven mechanisms have been tried, and each has a precise ceiling near \(n\) blocks or \(N\) forms. No refutation of W_RS is in sight, and the density argument supports it without proving it. The line lacks a mechanism more than it lacks evidence. One resource is unused. Razborov-type designs for PHP work up to degree about \(n/2\), while W_RS needs only \(D=O(\log n)\). That is a large margin for avoiding a small random excluded set.

Outside leads

Razborov's pigeon dance (Razborov, Lower bounds for the polynomial calculus, Computational Complexity 7, 1998; Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall, 1999). Target: a degree-\(D\) design for \(F^Q\). Answers. The pigeon dance builds the PHP design, through a reduction operator, from a process on partial matchings. Suppose the allowed partial matchings of size below \(D\) are robustly extendable, meaning every allowed matching keeps most of its one-pigeon extensions. Then the dance can be run inside \(Q\), with degree \(D\) far below the dance's own limit of about \(n/2\). Test. Falsified in its naive form. For one fixed matching the expected loss is only an \(O(1/n)\) fraction of extensions, which merely restates lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity. The simultaneous regime fails. Let a block's forms depend on pigeon \(i\) only through its row sum, \(L_{b,k}=\alpha_kr_i+\beta_k\) with \(\beta_k\) free of pigeon \(i\)'s cells. Take a partial matching \(\rho\) not using \(i\). Every extension \(\rho+(i,c)\) then has the same values \(\alpha_k+\beta_k(\rho)\), so the same zero pattern \(\gamma'(\rho)\). When the block realizes \(2^{h_b}\gg3^t\) nonzero patterns, some pattern is killed almost surely. Every allowed \(\rho\) whose shifted pattern \(\gamma'(\rho)\) is killed loses all its extensions by pigeon \(i\). So robustness for all matchings fails for such families, however small the excluded density. A closure version, which also excludes such matchings and iterates, as in the closure of Efremenko, Garlík and Itsykson, is not refuted by this.
The Lovász Local Lemma, algorithmic form (Moser and Tardos, J. ACM 57, 2010). Target: controlling all matchings' bad events at once. Answers. Many rare bad events with sparse dependencies can be avoided simultaneously. The bad event "matching \(\rho\) loses a constant fraction of its extensions" has probability \(O(1/n)\) or smaller, so a sparse dependency graph would give robustness for all \(\rho\). Test. Falsified: every bad event depends on every block's prefix, so the dependency graph is complete, and the lemma's condition fails.
Expander graph PHP (Alekhnovich and Razborov, Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case, 2003). Target: families whose exclusions are edge deletions. Answers. PHP on a bipartite expander needs linear degree, and hardness passes to supergraphs. So allowed sets that contain graph PHP on an expander are certified. Test. Falsified as a new tool. The record already reduces cell, sparse and column-statistic families this way. Dense blocks exclude patterns of many cells at once, not edges.

Absurd bridges

Kinetic proofreading (Hopfield, PNAS 71, 1974). Translation: the \(t\) prefix rows are \(t\) independent discrimination stages, each passing a given nonzero pattern with probability \(1/3\), as a polymerase discards wrong substrates in successive steps. The pigeon dance is the synthesis that must avoid the rare errors. Answers. Proofreading multiplies stage-wise error rates, so a synthesis of \(D\) steps succeeds when the per-step error is small. That is the extension-robustness requirement. Test. Falsified: the multiplied rate \(3^{-t}\) is exactly lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity. Proofreading assumes independent errors per synthesis step, while here all steps see the same blocks. The correlation the lead needs to control is outside the model.
Glauber dynamics and path coupling on constrained spin systems (Bubley and Dyer, FOCS 1997). Translation: the dance as a Markov chain on matchings restricted to \(Q\). Path coupling would give rapid mixing to a stationary measure on allowed matchings, whose low-degree moments are candidate design values. Answers. Rapid mixing under small random deletions would give a measure concentrated on \(Q\) with PHP-like moments. Test. Falsified in its real-measure form. A PC design over \(\mathbb F_3\) must annihilate the ideal exactly, and a stationary real measure matches moments only approximately. This is the untranslated step of the pseudo-calibration lead, which became the multiplier designs.

Lead follow-up

No outside lead or absurd bridge of the three-steps review passed, so no item is due. The pigeon-dance lead above failed in its naive form; its closure version is the next step.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: develop the closure version of the pigeon-dance lead. Robustness must control the error through the whole recursive construction of the reduction operator, not only whether single extensions survive. The test above shows that row-sum-dependent forms defeat the naive version. So define a closure: exclude, recursively, the partial matchings that lose a pigeon entirely. Ask whether it stays small, below the dance's degree margin, for every family with high probability over the prefixes. Row-sum-dependent forms are the first case, and they connect to the record's row obstruction class.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the derivation-structure and shielding entries, lem:reslin-weakening-admissible, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, prop:fiber-count-barrier, lem:multiplier-designs, lem:square-algebra-annihilator-gap and prop:form-cover-multipliers. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the following and found them correct:

the per-point exclusion bound;
the Local Lemma and expander verdicts, including that hardness passes to supergraphs;
both bridge falsifications;
the shielding recap.

It required four changes, all adopted:

the falsification paragraph and the assessment no longer present the record's search as settling W_RS;
the per-point exclusion bound is derived, with the fact that it needs no assumption on the forms. This answers the reviewer's concern that it did;
the next step requires control through the whole recursive construction;
the pigeon-dance test is no longer the tautological fixed-matching check. It was replaced by a test of the simultaneous regime, which falsifies the naive lead on row-sum-dependent forms.

That new test was added after the review. It is a short explicit computation, recorded in full in the lead. Its conclusion is negative and adds no claim, so no second pass was made.

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Dance shared patterns: one-pigeon extensions into two holes share a zero pattern at every matching exactly when the pigeon's cells in those holes carry equal coefficient vectors in the block, under a value hypothesis on the forms. The pigeon dance inside the allowed set therefore fails through large coefficient classes. When one class takes all holes, the forms depend on row sums or, after normal form, truncated row sums, the recorded U-shift class. Row-sum blocks are implied by the row equations, so designs need not live in the allowed set

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Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Dance shared patterns: one-pigeon extensions into two holes share a zero pattern at every matching exactly when the pigeon's cells in those holes carry equal coefficient vectors in the block, under a value hypothesis on the forms. The pigeon dance inside the allowed set therefore fails through large coefficient classes. When one class takes all holes, the forms depend on row sums or, after normal form, truncated row sums, the recorded U-shift class. Row-sum blocks are implied by the row equations, so designs need not live in the allowed set”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-dance-shared-patterns.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The reduction review found that a Razborov pigeon dance inside the allowed set \(Q\) fails in its naive form. A block whose forms see pigeon \(i\) only through its row sum strips whole matchings of that pigeon's extensions. It proposed a closure version. This cycle first asks which forms cause such failures, and whether the failing families are dangerous at all.

General statement. prop:dance-shared-patterns, for every block and pigeon. Partition the holes into classes by the coefficient vector of pigeon \(i\)'s cell across the block's forms. One-pigeon extensions by \(i\) into holes of one class share their zero pattern at every partial matching. Conversely, holes in different classes are separated at some matching, under a value hypothesis on the separating form that is assumed here, not verified for general forms. A killed pattern removes a whole class of extensions. A single class containing every hole means row-sum dependence, which the row equations make harmless. After normal form, a class containing every hole but the first means U-shift dependence, a recorded obstruction class. Classes covering almost all holes are not classified here.

prop:dance-shared-patterns

Setting. A W_RS block has affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\), with \(a_{k,u}\) the coefficient of cell \(u\) in \(L_k\). A partial matching \(\rho\) has at most one cell per row and per column. For a pigeon \(i\) unmatched in \(\rho\) and a hole \(c\) free in \(\rho\), the extension \(\rho+(i,c)\) has \(L_k(\rho+(i,c))=L_k(\rho)+a_{k,(i,c)}\). Its zero pattern is \(\gamma_c(\rho)_k=[L_k(\rho)+a_{k,(i,c)}=0]\). Call holes \(c,c'\) equivalent for \(i\) if \(a_{k,(i,c)}=a_{k,(i,c')}\) for every \(k\).

Statement.

If \(c,c'\) are equivalent for \(i\), then \(\gamma_c(\rho)=\gamma_{c'}(\rho)\) at every \(\rho\) avoiding \(i\) and both holes. So one killed pattern removes the extensions into the whole class at once.
Suppose \(c,c'\) are not equivalent, say at the form \(L_k\). If, as a hypothesis not checked here for general forms, \(L_k\) takes the value \(-a_{k,(i,c)}\) at some partial matching \(\rho\) avoiding \(i,c,c'\), then \(\gamma_c(\rho)\ne\gamma_{c'}(\rho)\).
All holes are equivalent for every pigeon exactly when each form lies in the span of the row sums and the constants. Here \(\gamma^*\) denotes the \(0/1\) zero pattern of the forms' values at the formal substitution \(r=(1,\dots,1)\), which no point of \(P\) realizes. Then every clause \(g_kQ^C\) is a polynomial \(f(r_1,\dots,r_m)\) in the row sums of degree at most \(4t+2\). If the pattern \(\gamma^*\) of the values at \(r=(1,\dots,1)\) is not killed, which fails with probability at most \(3^{-t}\), the clause lies in \(\mathcal C_{4t+2}(R)\). Every design of the row equations of degree at least \(4t+2\) then vanishes on it, although such a design need not be supported in \(Q\).
After normal form (no cells in column 1, thm:normalized-quotient), consider the case where all holes \(c\ge2\) are equivalent for \(i\). Then the forms see pigeon \(i\) through the truncated row sum \(r'_i\), which is the U-shift class of lem:u-shift-collapse.

Proof.

The two patterns are computed from the same values \(L_k(\rho)\) and equal shifts.
At that \(\rho\), \(\gamma_c(\rho)_k=1\), while \(L_k(\rho)+a_{k,(i,c')}=a_{k,(i,c')}-a_{k,(i,c)}\ne0\), so \(\gamma_{c'}(\rho)_k=0\).
Equal coefficients on all of row \(i\)'s cells mean \(L_k\) depends on them through \(r_i=\sum_cx_{ic}\). If this holds for every row, \(L_k=\sum_i\alpha_{k,i}r_i+\beta_k\). Conversely, such forms have equal coefficients across each row. The clause \(g_k\prod_j(1-s_j^2)\) is a polynomial of degree \(4t+2\) in the forms, hence in the \(r_i\). Write \(f(r)-f(\mathbf1)=\sum_i(r_i-1)h_i(r)\) with \(\deg h_i\le4t+1\). Each term \((r_i-1)h_i\) is reached from \(r_i-1\) by multiplications by variables within degree \(4t+2\). If \(\gamma^*\) is not killed, \(f(\mathbf1)=g_k(\gamma^*)[C\gamma^*=0]=0\). For a nonzero \(\gamma^*\), \(C\gamma^*\) is uniform, so the kill probability is \(3^{-t}\). A design vanishes on \(\mathcal C_D(R)\supseteq\mathcal C_{4t+2}(R)\) for \(D\ge4t+2\).
With no column-1 cells, equal coefficients on columns \(2,\dots,N\) of row \(i\) mean dependence through \(r'_i=\sum_{c\ge2}x_{ic}\). \(\square\)

Part (3) is elementary, the factor theorem in the row sums. It is a formal analogue of the record's normal-form reduction, which derives each clause from its reduced version and the row equations within its degree (conj:relative-row-freeness, thm:normalized-quotient). It is not literally a case of it, since these forms carry cells of column 1, and it gives no evidence for that conjecture. It is recorded here for the ansatz. A certificate supported inside \(Q\), such as the naive dance, cannot see that row-implied clauses are harmless, and it fails on them for that reason alone.

What it gives for the dance lead

After normal form, the dance inside \(Q\) loses a large fraction of one pigeon's extensions only through a large coefficient class. A class containing every hole but the first is the U-shift class, a recorded structured obstruction. Classes covering almost, but not all, of the holes are not classified here. Its two-form members are vacuous with high probability under uniform prefixes. The U-shift mechanism of lem:u-shift-collapse survives under W_RS only for large blocks (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity). For other forms the classes are smaller. A killed pattern then removes one class, and the failure has to accumulate across many blocks and levels.

The pattern of an extension depends on \(\rho\) only through the block's value vector \(L(\rho)\in\mathbb F_3^h\) and the class of the new hole. So a union bound for one block runs over pairs of a value vector and a class, at most \(3^h\cdot\min(N,3^h)\le3^{2h}\) of them, not over the \(n^{O(D)}\) matchings.

Outcome. The naive dance fails exactly through coefficient classes. Its first counterexample, row-sum dependence, is harmless, because designs of the row equations already vanish on those clauses. This shows that a certificate must be taken modulo the row equations, as in normal form, and not inside \(Q\). The remaining large-class failure with one class of all holes but the first is the U-shift class, already recorded. Nearly-full classes are unclassified. The closure version must still control the accumulation of small-class losses over many blocks. Lead follow-up: continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: robustness for families in normal form with small coefficient classes. For each block and pigeon, bound the fraction of extensions lost by the union over value vectors \(v\in\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\) of the killed class patterns \(g(v+a_J)\). Sum over blocks with a concentration bound over the joint value vectors realized by matchings of size below \(D\). Determine whether the loss stays below a constant for all matchings at once.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:normalized-quotient, lem:u-shift-collapse, conj:relative-row-freeness and lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the following and found them correct:

the core algebra: the degree bounds \(4t+2\) and \(4t+1\) and the identity \(f(r)-f(\mathbf1)=\sum_i(r_i-1)h_i\);
the kill probability \(3^{-t}\), including the case \(\gamma^*=0\);
parts (1), (2) and (4).

It required five changes, all adopted:

the dichotomy is restricted to the proved case of a class containing all holes, or all but the first, and nearly-full classes are marked unclassified;
the value hypothesis of (2) is flagged as assumed;
part (3) is called a formal analogue of the normal-form reduction, not a case of it, with no claim of evidence for the conjecture;
the union bound counts pairs of a value vector and a class;
the converse in (3) is stated.

Its suggestions are adopted: \(\gamma^*\) is defined as a formal \(0/1\) pattern, and \(r=\mathbf1\) is marked unrealizable. The changes weaken claims, so one pass suffices.

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Failure-set criterion: made precise, a pigeon-dance design inside the allowed set is Nullstellensatz hardness of the row equations as functions on that set. That fails exactly when some degree-\(D\) near-refutation of weak PHP fails only at excluded points. Under W_RS each point is excluded with probability \(O(1/n)\), so the question is how many minimal failure sets there are, not how the dance runs

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Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Failure-set criterion: made precise, a pigeon-dance design inside the allowed set is Nullstellensatz hardness of the row equations as functions on that set. That fails exactly when some degree-\(D\) near-refutation of weak PHP fails only at excluded points. Under W_RS each point is excluded with probability \(O(1/n)\), so the question is how many minimal failure sets there are, not how the dance runs”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-failure-set-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The dance shared patterns entry proposed bounding a pigeon dance's extension losses over small coefficient classes. That needs the design the dance is meant to build. The record has one: the matching design system of lem:matching-extension-certificates, extended by chessboard homology in thm:integral-design-extension. This cycle writes the design inside the allowed set exactly and asks what the robustness question then is.

General statement. prop:failure-set-criterion, for every constraint family and degree, at the Nullstellensatz level. Weak PHP plus the family has a degree-\(D\) NS design given by point weights on the allowed set exactly when no degree-\(D\) near-refutation of weak PHP has its failure set inside the excluded set. Under W_RS each point is excluded with probability at most \(M3^{-t}\). So the probability that such a design fails is at most the sum, over inclusion-minimal failure sets \(\Phi\), of \(\Pr[\Phi\subseteq E]\), and each term is at most \(M3^{-t}\).

prop:failure-set-criterion

Setting. Let \(B\) be the set of 0/1 assignments satisfying the column collisions, that is the Boolean points of weak unary PHP without its row equations \(R=\{r_i-1\}\). A constraint family \(\Gamma\) of degree at most \(D\) has allowed set \(Q=\{x\in B:\gamma(x)=0\ \forall\gamma\in\Gamma\}\) and excluded set \(E=B\setminus Q\). A degree-\(D\) near-refutation is \(\Lambda=\sum_ib_i(r_i-1)\) with \(\deg b_i\le D-1\). Its failure set is \(\Phi(\Lambda)=\{x\in B:\Lambda(x)\ne1\}\).

Statement.

There is a weight \(\nu:Q\to\mathbb F_3\) with \(\sum_x\nu(x)=1\) and \(\sum_x\nu(x)x_T(x)(r_i(x)-1)=0\) for all \(|T|\le D-1\) and all \(i\) iff no near-refutation \(\Lambda\) has \(\Phi(\Lambda)\subseteq E\).
Such a \(\nu\) defines \(\mu(f)=\sum_x\nu(x)f(x)\), a degree-\(D\) NS dual functional of weak PHP plus \(\Gamma\). It vanishes on every multiple of degree at most \(D\) of the Boolean axioms, the collisions, the row equations and the constraints. So there is then no NS refutation of degree \(D\).
For \(\Gamma=\varnothing\) (\(E=\varnothing\)), and \(D\le\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\), \(n\ge3\), such a \(\nu\) exists. This is the matching design of thm:integral-design-extension written as point weights, by Möbius inversion over sub-matchings (lem:matching-extension-certificates). So every near-refutation of such degree has \(\Phi(\Lambda)\ne\varnothing\).
Under W_RS, with \(D\le\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\) so that failure sets are nonempty by (3), \(\Pr[x\in E]\le M3^{-t}\) for every \(x\in B\). Hence \(\Pr[\text{no }\nu]\le\sum_{\Phi\in\mathcal M_D}\Pr[\Phi\subseteq E]\le|\mathcal M_D|\cdot M3^{-t}\), where \(\mathcal M_D\) is the set of inclusion-minimal failure sets of degree-\(D\) near-refutations.

Proof.

Finite linear algebra. The conditions on \(\nu\) say that the functional \(\nu\mapsto\sum_x\nu(x)\) is not in the span of the functionals \(\nu\mapsto\sum_x\nu(x)x_T(r_i-1)(x)\) restricted to \(Q\). It is in the span iff some combination \(\Lambda=\sum_{T,i}\lambda_{T,i}x_T(r_i-1)\) equals 1 at every point of \(Q\), that is \(\Phi(\Lambda)\cap Q=\varnothing\).
The axiom families behave differently. Booleanity and collision multiples vanish at every point of \(B\), and constraint multiples vanish on \(Q\supseteq\operatorname{supp}\nu\). Both hold at any multiplier degree. Only the row-equation multiples use the degree bound: a multiplier \(b\) of degree at most \(D-1\), multilinear or not, agrees on \(B\) with its multilinear reduction, a combination of monomials \(x_T\) with \(|T|\le D-1\), since reduction does not raise degree. The conditions then kill \(b(r_i-1)\). Finally \(\mu(1)=1\).
Given the matching design \(z\) of degree \(D\), put \(\nu(U)=\sum_{S\supseteq U}(-1)^{|S|-|U|}z_S\) over matchings \(S\) with at most \(D\) cells, for matchings \(U\) with at most \(D\) cells, and \(\nu=0\) elsewhere. Then \(\sum_{U\supseteq T}\nu(U)=z_T\) for \(|T|\le D\). This telescopes because being a matching is hereditary: every subset of a matching is one, so each interval between two matchings is a full Boolean lattice. On a matching \(U\), \(r_i(U)-1=-[i\notin\mathrm{rows}(U)]\). So the conditions read \(\sum_{U\supseteq T,\,i\notin\mathrm{rows}(U)}\nu(U)=0\). For a matching \(T\) with \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)\), this is \(z_T-\sum_jz_{T+(i,j)}=0\), the design equation. If \(i\in\mathrm{rows}(T)\), the sum is empty. If \(T\) is not a matching, \(x_T\) vanishes on every matching. In both cases the condition holds trivially.
Take a point \(x\) and a block \(b\). Then \(x\in E_b\) needs \(g_b(x)\ne0\) and \(C_bg_b(x)=0\), with probability at most \(3^{-t}\) (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity). Sum over blocks. If no \(\nu\) exists, some \(\Phi\in\mathcal M_D\) lies inside \(E\), and \(\Pr[\Phi\subseteq E]\le\Pr[x\in E]\) for any \(x\in\Phi\). \(\square\)

What it gives

The pigeon-dance lead, made precise, asks no more than whether the row equations stay NS-hard as functions on the allowed set. The relation to full refutations is one-directional in general. In a degree-\(D\) NS refutation of weak PHP plus the family, the Boolean and collision terms vanish at every point of \(B\), and the constraint terms vanish on \(Q\). So its row part \(\Lambda\) is a near-refutation with \(\Phi(\Lambda)\subseteq E\). This is why the criterion excludes refutations. The converse, a refutation built from such a \(\Lambda\), needs \(1-\Lambda\) to be a degree-\(D\) combination of the constraints and the Boolean and collision axioms. That holds when the family consists of all functions of degree at most \(D\) vanishing on \(Q\), the setting of thm:global-closure-gluing, but not for every family. So a family may be NS-hard without a design supported on \(Q\). That is the Nullstellensatz form of the record's question, whose PC form is thm:global-closure-gluing's row freeness. The dance, and the coefficient classes of the last entry, are one way to produce the weights \(\nu\). The obstruction is entirely in the failure sets of near-refutations of the base.

Two examples calibrate it:

the near-refutation \(\Lambda=-(r_1-1)=1-r_1\) equals 1 exactly where \(r_1=0\), so \(\Phi(\Lambda)=\{r_1\ne0\}\). That set has constant density in \(B\), and no family of excluded density \(O(1/n)\) can contain it. Its symmetry orbit is small, only \(m\) sets. The hard cases are small failure sets with large orbits;
by (3), no failure set is empty below degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\).

The crude bound (4) is useful only if \(|\mathcal M_D|\ll3^t/M\), about \(n\) up to polylogarithmic factors. That is certainly false: pigeon and hole symmetry alone multiplies any failure set by up to \(m!N!\). So (4) must be sharpened. Either \(\Pr[\Phi\subseteq E]\) is far below the single-point bound for the large, spread failure sets, or failure sets are grouped by symmetry and by the blocks that could cover them.

Outcome

The dance lead is reduced to a clean question about the base alone: what the inclusion-minimal failure sets of degree-\(D\) near-refutations of weak PHP look like. How small and how block-shaped can they be? A covering argument needs sizes, and it needs how many of their points a single block's excluded set can contain. This is at the Nullstellensatz level. The PC level needs the closure, not just the span, and remains the record's row-freeness question. Lead follow-up: continuing, now at the failure-set question.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: minimal failure sets of weak PHP. Use the chessboard-homology description of the matching design system (thm:integral-design-extension). A degree-\(D\) design fails to exist on a sub-board exactly when a cycle cannot be filled. So a failure set should be a union of cocycle supports. Bound from below the size of the smallest failure set, and the largest fraction of it that one W_RS block's excluded set can contain. Then decide whether \(\sum_\Phi\Pr[\Phi\subseteq E]\to0\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:matching-extension-certificates, thm:integral-design-extension, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, lem:Boolean-design-point-support-lower-bound and thm:global-closure-gluing. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived all four parts and found no false statement. It required four changes, all adopted:

part (2) now separates the axiom families, since only the row equations use the degree bound;
part (3) treats the trivial cases \(i\in\mathrm{rows}(T)\) and non-matching \(T\) explicitly;
the relation to full refutations is spelled out;
the Möbius telescoping is justified by heredity of matchings.

On the third point, the reviewer called the equivalence exact. Checking it showed that the converse needs the constraints to span the functions of degree at most \(D\) that vanish on \(Q\). The entry therefore states it as one-directional in general, and exact in the global-closure setting. Of its suggestions, the symmetry-orbit remark is adopted, and the parity check of \(N\ge2D-1\) is left to the cited theorem. This correction weakens a claim, so one pass suffices.

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Safe-hole extension: point weights of a matching design are level-wise multiples of the design itself, so a design inside the allowed set is a matching design with prescribed zeros. Each level extends with those zeros exactly when no coboundary supported on the excluded matchings pairs nontrivially with the lower level. In normal form hole 1 is safe, so a single-face obstruction needs the safe hole to be taken

27 September 2026 · Working proof and reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-failure-sets. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Safe-hole extension: point weights of a matching design are level-wise multiples of the design itself, so a design inside the allowed set is a matching design with prescribed zeros. Each level extends with those zeros exactly when no coboundary supported on the excluded matchings pairs nontrivially with the lower level. In normal form hole 1 is safe, so a single-face obstruction needs the safe hole to be taken”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-safe-hole-extension.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The failure-set criterion reduced the pigeon-dance lead to near-refutations whose failure sets lie inside the excluded set. It proposed reading them through the chessboard filling of thm:integral-design-extension. This cycle does that. It turns the allowed-set design into a matching design with prescribed zeros, and states when each level of the filling survives the zeros. It then asks which families can defeat the first, single-face, obstruction.

General statement. prop:safe-hole-extension, for weak PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\) with any constraint family and degree \(D\), \(N\ge2D-1\). The point weight of a matching design at a \(k\)-matching is \((-1)^{D-k}\binom{m-k-1}{D-k}\) times the design's value there. The level-\(k\) step of the chessboard filling can be done with zeros on a set \(F_k\) of \(k\)-matchings iff every \((k-2)\)-cochain whose coboundary is supported in \(F_k\) annihilates the level-\((k-1)\) cycle. For clauses in normal form, adding a pigeon in hole 1 never changes a form's value. So a single-face obstruction needs a matching that already uses hole 1.

prop:safe-hole-extension

Setting. A degree-\(D\) matching design is \(z\) on partial matchings of at most \(D\) cells, with \(z_\varnothing=1\) and \(\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}z_{T+(i,j)}=z_T\) for \(|T|\le D-1\) and \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)\) (lem:matching-extension-certificates). Its point weight is \(\nu(U)=\sum_{S\supseteq U}(-1)^{|S|-|U|}z_S\), the weight used by prop:failure-set-criterion. A partial matching \(U\) is excluded if, as a 0/1 point of \(B\), some clause is nonzero at \(U\); that is, \(U\in E\) in the notation of prop:failure-set-criterion. This is a property of the point \(U\) itself, not of its completions. The construction needs the empty matching to be allowed, which fails with probability at most \(M3^{-t}\) under W_RS. It also needs a degree-2 design with the prescribed zeros at levels 1 and 2, which is not treated here. For a set \(R\) of \(k\) rows, \(\Delta=\Delta_{k,N}\) is the chessboard complex on \(R\): its faces are the matchings on \(R\), and the \((k-1)\)-matchings are its \((k-2)\)-faces.

Statement.

For a \(k\)-matching \(U\), \(\nu(U)=(-1)^{D-k}\binom{m-k-1}{D-k}z_U\). So \(\nu\) vanishes on a set of matchings iff \(z\) does, at every level \(k\) where \(\binom{m-k-1}{D-k}\not\equiv0\pmod 3\). At the other levels \(\nu\) vanishes automatically. The construction below prescribes \(z=0\) on every excluded matching at every level, which is sufficient and simpler.
In the induction of thm:integral-design-extension, the level-\(k\) step on a row set \(R\) fills the cycle \(\zeta=\sum_M\varepsilon_{c(M)}z_M[M]\) by a chain \(w\) whose coefficients are the new values. Let \(F_k\) be a set of \(k\)-matchings on \(R\). A filling with \(w|_{F_k}=0\) exists iff \(\varphi(\zeta)=0\) for every \((k-2)\)-cochain \(\varphi\) with \(\operatorname{supp}\delta\varphi\subseteq F_k\). It is enough that each such \(\varphi\) equals a cocycle plus a cochain supported where \(z\) vanishes at level \(k-1\).
For the indicator \(\varphi=\mathbf 1_T\) of a \((k-1)\)-matching \(T\) missing row \(i\in R\), \(\operatorname{supp}\delta\varphi=\{T+(i,j):j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)\}\), all extensions of \(T\) by \(i\). This single-face case is the naive robustness condition of the reduction review.
Suppose the constraints are in normal form, with no cells of column 1 (thm:normalized-quotient). Every form has \(L(T+(i,1))=L(T)\), so \(T+(i,1)\) has the same allowed status as \(T\). Prescribe \(z=0\) on all excluded matchings at every level, so \(F_k\) and \(F_{k-1}\) are the excluded matchings. Take a \((k-1)\)-matching \(T\) not using hole 1. Then \(\operatorname{supp}\delta\mathbf 1_T\subseteq F_k\) forces \(T\in F_{k-1}\), where \(z_T=0\), so \(\mathbf1_T(\zeta)=0\). Single-face obstructions therefore need the \((k-1)\)-matching \(T\) itself to use hole 1.
Designs for the normal-form clauses serve the original ones. Each original clause equals its normal form plus row-equation multiples within its degree, so a design vanishing on the row equations and on the normal-form clauses vanishes on the original clause multiples of degree at most \(D\).

Proof.

By the design equations, \(\sum_{S\supseteq U,|S|=k+\ell}z_S=\binom{m-k}{\ell}z_U\). To see it, choose the \(\ell\) new pigeons, then sum over their holes one pigeon at a time; each sum returns the previous value. The equations apply up to level \(D\). Hence \(\nu(U)=z_U\sum_{\ell=0}^{D-k}(-1)^\ell\binom{m-k}{\ell}=(-1)^{D-k}\binom{m-k-1}{D-k}z_U\), by the partial alternating sum of binomial coefficients.
\(\zeta\) is a boundary in \(\Delta\), as in thm:integral-design-extension, since \(N\ge2k-1\). It lies in the image of \(\partial\) restricted to chains vanishing on \(F_k\) iff it is annihilated by every cochain annihilating that image. A cochain \(\varphi\) annihilates it iff \(\varphi\circ\partial=\delta\varphi\) vanishes off \(F_k\). Cocycles and cochains supported where the coefficients of \(\zeta\) vanish give \(\varphi(\zeta)=0\).
The cofaces of \(T\) in \(\Delta\) are the \(k\)-matchings on \(R\) containing it, namely \(T+(i,j)\) for free holes \(j\). Each carries coefficient \(\pm1\) in \(\delta\mathbf1_T\).
Normal-form forms have no hole-1 cells, so adding \((i,1)\) leaves every form's value, every pattern and every clause value unchanged. Being excluded is a property of the point, so \(T\) and \(T+(i,1)\) are excluded together. If \(T\) avoids hole 1 and all its extensions are excluded, then \(T+(i,1)\) is excluded, and hence so is \(T\). Its value \(z_T\) is prescribed to be 0, so \(\mathbf1_T(\zeta)=\pm z_T=0\).
This needs no conjecture. Normal form writes \(L=\mathrm{NF}(L)+\sum_ia_{i,1}(r_i-1)\), with \(\mathrm{NF}(L)\) free of column 1 and its constant adjusted (thm:normalized-quotient). A clause is a polynomial \(P\) in its forms. So \(P(L)-P(\mathrm{NF}(L))=\sum_i(r_i-1)h_i\), with \(\deg h_i\le\deg P-1\), by expanding in the increments. The same remark appears with conj:relative-row-freeness. Multiplying by \(x_T\) keeps the total degree at most \(D\). \(\square\)

What it gives

The pigeon-dance lead is now a filling problem with prescribed zeros, level by level, in chessboard complexes. The prefix randomness enters only through which matchings are excluded. In normal form the simplest obstruction, a matching that loses all its extensions by one pigeon, is confined to matchings that already use the safe hole. Three parts remain:

single-face obstructions at \((k-1)\)-matchings using hole 1, where the pigeon has no safe hole left;
the base levels 1 and 2, where a degree-2 design with the prescribed zeros is needed;
multi-face coboundaries, whose supports need a coboundary-expansion estimate for chessboard complexes over \(\mathbb F_3\).

For the first, a matching using hole 1 behaves, for the other pigeons, like a matching on the board without hole 1, which has no safe hole. The protection could be restored by a second normal-form column, but one normal form fixes only one column.

Outcome. The dance lead gains a concrete mechanism. Normal form's safe hole defeats the single-face obstruction on every matching that avoids hole 1. The rest of the question is a coboundary-expansion estimate for chessboard complexes, and the matchings that already fill the safe hole. Lead follow-up: continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the matchings that use hole 1. Once one pigeon sits in hole 1, a second pigeon's extensions all depend on the forms. Ask whether a second safe hole can be arranged. Candidates are re-normalizing relative to the pigeon in hole 1, or choosing the design's values on matchings through hole 1 so that they carry no obstruction. Also look for a coboundary-expansion bound for \(\Delta_{k,N}\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) in the literature.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:matching-extension-certificates, thm:integral-design-extension and its entry, thm:normalized-quotient, conj:relative-row-freeness and prop:failure-set-criterion. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked parts (1) to (3) and found them correct: the superset-sum identity up to level \(D\), the alternating-sum identity, the filling duality and the single-face coboundary. It required four changes, all adopted:

an excluded matching is now defined as a point where some clause is nonzero, which is what licenses the safe-hole step;
the entry now states that the empty matching must be allowed, with probability at least \(1-M3^{-t}\), and that the base levels 1 and 2 are not treated;
part (5) now rests on the unconditional normal-form identity, with a one-line proof, instead of on conj:relative-row-freeness;
part (4) names the \((k-1)\)-matching whose use of hole 1 matters.

The changes clarify or weaken claims, and the new identity in (5) is elementary, so one pass suffices.

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Hole-one decomposition: a matching design for normal-form clauses splits exactly along hole 1. There is one link design per pigeon placed in hole 1, and each is a design of the smaller board, so it can be renormalized to make hole 2 safe there. The rest is a design on the other holes whose row equations have slack supplied by the links. Safe holes therefore renew inside links, and the open part is the slack system

27 September 2026 · Working proof and reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-hole-one. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Hole-one decomposition: a matching design for normal-form clauses splits exactly along hole 1. There is one link design per pigeon placed in hole 1, and each is a design of the smaller board, so it can be renormalized to make hole 2 safe there. The rest is a design on the other holes whose row equations have slack supplied by the links. Safe holes therefore renew inside links, and the open part is the slack system”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-hole-one-decomposition.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The safe-hole extension found that normal form makes hole 1 safe, so a single-face obstruction needs a matching that already uses hole 1. It asked whether a second safe hole can be arranged there. Within point-supported designs re-normalizing on a face only adds constraints, since monomials avoiding hole 1 still see the original clauses. This cycle works with the matching design itself, in monomial form, and asks how it restricts to the faces through hole 1.

General statement. prop:hole-one-decomposition, for weak PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\) with clauses in normal form and any degree \(D\). A degree-\(D\) matching design is equivalent to three pieces of data:

a function \(\mu_0\) on the matchings avoiding hole 1, with \(\mu_0(\varnothing)=1\);
for each pigeon \(p\), a degree-\((D-1)\) matching design \(\mu_p\) of the board without pigeon \(p\) and hole 1, with free normalization;
slack equations tying them together.

The clauses split the same way. Each \(\mu_p\) must kill the clauses restricted to the face "pigeon \(p\) in hole 1", and those restricted clauses can be renormalized to make hole 2 safe inside that link.

prop:hole-one-decomposition

Setting. A degree-\(D\) matching design is \(z\) on matchings with at most \(D\) cells, with \(z_\varnothing=1\) and \(\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}z_{T+(i,j)}=z_T\) for \(|T|\le D-1\) and \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)\). As a functional it is \(\mu(x_S)=z_S\) on matching monomials and 0 on the others (lem:matching-extension-certificates). The clauses are in normal form, with no cells in column 1. Let \(\beta_p\) be the board without pigeon \(p\) and hole 1, and \(\beta_0\) the board without hole 1.

Statement. Put \(\mu_0(x_T)=z_T\) for matchings \(T\) of \(\beta_0\), and \(\mu_p(x_U)=z_{U+(p,1)}\) for matchings \(U\) of \(\beta_p\) with at most \(D-1\) cells.

Row equations. \(z\) satisfies the design equations iff each \(\mu_p\) satisfies the design equations of \(\beta_p\) through degree \(D-1\), with normalization \(\mu_p(1)=z_{(p,1)}\), and \(\mu_0\) satisfies the slack equations \(\sum_{j\ge2,\ j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}\mu_0(x_{T+(i,j)})+\mu_i(x_T)=\mu_0(x_T)\) for matchings \(T\) of \(\beta_0\) with \(|T|\le D-1\) and \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)\).
Clauses. For a clause \(C\) and a matching monomial \(x_S\) with \(\deg(x_SC)\le D\), \(\mu(x_SC)=0\) for every such \(S\) iff two conditions hold. First, \(\mu_0(x_TC)=0\) for all \(T\) avoiding hole 1. Second, \(\mu_p(x_U\tilde C_p)=0\) for all \(p\) and \(U\), where \(\tilde C_p\) is \(C\) with every cell of pigeon \(p\) set to 0, a polynomial on \(\beta_p\).
Renewed safe hole. On \(\beta_p\) the row equations are \(\sum_{j\ge2}x_{ij}=1\). By the normal-form identity, \(\tilde C_p\) equals its normal form relative to column 2 plus row-equation multiples of \(\beta_p\) within its degree. So \(\mu_p\), a design of \(\beta_p\), kills the \(\tilde C_p\)-multiples iff it kills the multiples of that renormalized clause. \(\beta_p\) is again a weak PHP board, with \(m-1\) rows and \(N-1\) columns. If \(N\ge2D-1\), then \(N-1\ge2(D-1)-1\), and the margin \(N-2D+1\) does not decrease along the recursion. So prop:safe-hole-extension applies to \(\beta_p\) at degree \(D-1\) after relabelling, and inside the link hole 2 is safe in its sense.

Proof.

Split the design equation at \(T\) by whether \(T\) uses hole 1. If \((p,1)\in T\), write \(T=U+(p,1)\). Hole 1 is taken, so the equation for pigeon \(i\ne p\) is \(\sum_{j\ge2}z_{U+(p,1)+(i,j)}=z_{U+(p,1)}\), the design equation of \(\beta_p\) for \(\mu_p\) at \(U\). For \(i=p\) there is no equation, since \(p\in\mathrm{rows}(T)\). If \(T\) avoids hole 1, the free holes are hole 1 and the free holes \(j\ge2\). The term with hole 1 is \(z_{T+(i,1)}=\mu_i(x_T)\), which is defined because \(T\) avoids pigeon \(i\) and hole 1. That gives the slack equation. Degrees: \(|U|=|T|-1\le D-2\), so \(\mu_p\)'s equations run through degree \(D-1\).
Expand \(x_SC\) into multilinear monomials. \(\mu\) sees only matching monomials. If \((p,1)\in S\), every surviving monomial contains \(x_{p1}\) and no other cell of pigeon \(p\) or of hole 1. The normal-form clause has no hole-1 cells, so \(\mu(x_SC)=\mu_p(x_{S-(p,1)}\tilde C_p)\). The degree drops by one: \(\deg(x_{S-(p,1)}\tilde C_p)\le\deg(x_SC)-1\le D-1\), since \(\deg\tilde C_p\le\deg C\). If \(S\) avoids hole 1, then so does every monomial of \(x_SC\), since \(C\) has no hole-1 cells, and \(\mu(x_SC)=\mu_0(x_SC)\).
The normal-form identity is proved in prop:safe-hole-extension (5): a clause is a polynomial in its forms, and the change of forms is a combination of \(r'_i-1\) on \(\beta_p\). Multiplying by \(x_U\) keeps the degree at most \(D-1\) inside the link. \(\square\)

What it gives

The safe hole is not used up. Once a pigeon sits in hole 1, the remaining problem is a design of a smaller board, and there hole 2 can be made safe by renormalizing. Iterating, the links of links use holes \(3,4,\dots\). The recursion has depth at most \(D\), and under W_RS \(D\approx44t\) is far below the \(N\) holes available. This is the recursive shape of a pigeon dance, pigeons taking holes \(1,2,\dots\) in turn, now with the constraints carried along.

What the safe holes do not cover is the slack system. The hole-1-free part \(\mu_0\) must kill the clause multiples, which have cells in every hole \(j\ge2\) with no safe hole of its own. Its row equations carry the slack \(\mu_i(x_T)\), supplied by the links. Whether the links' freedom, their normalizations and all higher values, can always pay the slack, while \(\mu_0\) respects the clauses, is the open part. For point-supported \(\mu_0\) this is a filling problem with zeros on the board without hole 1, where the slack enters as a boundary term.

Outcome. The pigeon-dance lead now has an exact recursive structure. Safe holes renew inside links, so single-face obstructions at matchings through a safe hole are pushed down one level each time. Within the single-face reduction, what remains is one kind of problem at every level: a design with slack on the board without the current safe hole. The multi-face coboundaries of prop:safe-hole-extension are a separate open part, untouched here. Lead follow-up: continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the slack system. First take the case with no clauses. There, the record's matching design restricted to hole 1 and its complement gives a solution, and the space of solutions shows how much freedom the links supply. Then ask whether prescribing zeros on the excluded hole-1-free matchings can always be compensated by the slack. A single-face obstruction there is a matching \(T\) avoiding hole 1 all of whose extensions into holes \(j\ge2\) are excluded. The extension into hole 1 still carries the slack \(\mu_i(x_T)\), so the equation \(\mu_i(x_T)=\mu_0(x_T)\) could absorb it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:safe-hole-extension and its entry, lem:matching-extension-certificates and thm:normalized-quotient. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked parts (1) to (3) and found no errors. That covers the split of the design equations, the link designs' degrees and normalization, the slack equations, and the clause split, with its iff. It required four changes, all adopted:

part (3) now checks the board-size hypothesis on \(\beta_p\), \(N-1\ge2(D-1)-1\), and notes that \(\beta_p\) is again a weak PHP board;
the outcome no longer claims the whole difficulty is the slack system, since the multi-face coboundaries are a separate open part;
the recursion depth is stated as at most \(D\), with \(D\approx44t\) under W_RS;
the degree drop in the link is shown in part (2).

The changes clarify or weaken claims, so one pass suffices.

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Slack defects: in the hole-one decomposition the hole-1-free part determines every link as its divergence defect. The links' design equations pair up into one condition per pair of pigeons, zero links recover designs that never use hole 1, and a single-face obstruction is absorbed by the slack. In the single-face case and the worked example, obstructions resurface as face contradictions: a pigeon with no allowed hole once others occupy the safe holes

27 September 2026 · Working proof and reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-slack-system. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Slack defects: in the hole-one decomposition the hole-1-free part determines every link as its divergence defect. The links' design equations pair up into one condition per pair of pigeons, zero links recover designs that never use hole 1, and a single-face obstruction is absorbed by the slack. In the single-face case and the worked example, obstructions resurface as face contradictions: a pigeon with no allowed hole once others occupy the safe holes”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-slack-defects.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The hole-one decomposition split a matching design into a hole-1-free part \(\mu_0\) and link designs \(\mu_p\), tied by slack equations. It left the slack system open. This cycle solves the slack equations for the links and states what remains. It checks the result on a family that is refutable, to see where the obstruction goes.

General statement. prop:slack-defects, for weak PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\) with normal-form clauses. The slack equations force \(\mu_i=\delta_i\), the defect of \(\mu_0\) in pigeon \(i\)'s direction. The requirement that each \(\mu_i\) be a design of its board is then one condition per pair of pigeons. Designs with all links zero are exactly designs of the board without hole 1. When all of a matching's extensions by \(i\) into holes \(j\ge2\) are excluded, the slack makes the link take the value of \(\mu_0\) there, which the safe hole allows. A family refutable at degree 2 shows how obstructions reappear. A link's empty matching is forced to vanish because a pigeon has no allowed hole on that face.

prop:slack-defects

Setting. As in prop:hole-one-decomposition: \(\mu_0\) on matchings of \(\beta_0\) (no hole 1) with \(\mu_0(\varnothing)=1\), and links \(\mu_i(x_U)=z_{U+(i,1)}\) on \(\beta_i\) (no pigeon \(i\), no hole 1). For a matching \(T\) of \(\beta_0\) and \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)\), the defect is \(\delta_i(T)=\mu_0(T)-\sum_{j\ge2,\ j\notin\mathrm{cols}(T)}\mu_0(T+(i,j))\).

Statement.

The slack equations say exactly \(\mu_i(T)=\delta_i(T)\) for \(|T|\le D-1\). So \(\mu_0\) determines the links.
The links are designs of their boards iff, for every pair \(i\ne i'\) and every matching \(U\) of \(\beta_0\) avoiding both, with \(|U|\le D-2\), \(\sum_{j\ge2,\ j\notin\mathrm{cols}(U)}\delta_i(U+(i',j))=\delta_i(U)\). This condition is symmetric in \(i,i'\), so there is one condition per unordered pair and \(U\).
All links vanish iff \(\mu_0\) is a degree-\(D\) design of \(\beta_0\), the board with \(m\) pigeons and \(N-1\) holes. The design then never uses hole 1.
Suppose all the extensions \(T+(i,j)\), \(j\ge2\), are excluded, so \(\mu_0=0\) there. Then \(\mu_i(T)=\mu_0(T)\), and \(T+(i,1)\) carries that value. Since \(T+(i,1)\) has the status of \(T\), the value is nonzero only if \(T\) is allowed, and the zero prescription is respected.
Example. Forbid pigeons \(a\ne b\) from every hole \(j\ge2\) by the constraints \(x_{aj},x_{bj}\), which are already in normal form. The family is refutable at degree 2, since both pigeons are forced into hole 1. In the decomposition, \(\mu_0\) vanishes on matchings using \(a\) or \(b\), so \(\mu_a=\mu_0\) on matchings avoiding \(a\). The design equation of \(\mu_a\) for pigeon \(b\) at \(U=\varnothing\) reads \(0=\mu_a(\varnothing)=\mu_0(\varnothing)=1\). It fails because on the face "\(a\) in hole 1", pigeon \(b\) has no allowed hole. This is condition (2) for the pair \((a,b)\) at \(U=\varnothing\): its left side is 0 and \(\delta_a(\varnothing)=1\).

Proof.

The slack equation of prop:hole-one-decomposition (1), rearranged.
The design equation of \(\mu_i\) on \(\beta_i\), for pigeon \(i'\) at \(U\), is \(\sum_{j\ge2}\delta_i(U+(i',j))=\delta_i(U)\). Expand the left side. First, \(\sum_j\mu_0(U+(i',j))=\mu_0(U)-\delta_{i'}(U)\). Second, \(\sum_j\sum_{j'}\mu_0(U+(i',j)+(i,j'))=\mu_0(U)-\delta_i(U)-\sum_{j'}\delta_{i'}(U+(i,j'))\). Subtracting, the left side equals \(\delta_i(U)-\delta_{i'}(U)+\sum_{j'}\delta_{i'}(U+(i,j'))\). So the equation for \((i,i')\) holds iff the one for \((i',i)\) does.
\(\delta_i\equiv0\) for all \(i\) is the set of design equations of \(\beta_0\), and a zero link is a design with normalization 0.
With \(\mu_0(T+(i,j))=0\) for all \(j\ge2\), \(\delta_i(T)=\mu_0(T)\). Status of \(T+(i,1)\): prop:safe-hole-extension (4).
Allowed matchings avoid \(a\) and \(b\) in holes \(j\ge2\), so \(\mu_0\) vanishes on matchings using \(a\) or \(b\) (\(\beta_0\) has no hole 1). Then \(\delta_a(U)=\mu_0(U)\) for \(U\) avoiding \(a\), since every extension by \(a\) is excluded. The design equation of \(\mu_a\) for pigeon \(b\) sums \(\mu_a(U+(b,j))=\mu_0(U+(b,j))=0\), so it forces \(\mu_a(U)=\mu_0(U)=0\). At \(U=\varnothing\) this contradicts \(\mu_0(\varnothing)=1\). \(\square\)

What it gives

The slack system is a single unknown \(\mu_0\) on the board without hole 1. Two conditions constrain it. The pairwise second-order conditions (2) say that its defects are harmonic in the other pigeons' directions, and the recursive clause conditions apply inside each link. The safe hole acts only through the defects, as (4) shows, and does not remove obstructions. It moves them into the links. The example shows the form they take there: a face, some pigeons in safe holes, on which another pigeon has no allowed hole. That is the empty matching of a deeper link being excluded.

In the single-face case, and in the example, the obstruction the recursion leaves is a face contradiction. Whether condition (2) in general reduces to face contradictions is not shown. It is a bilinear harmonicity condition on all of \(\beta_0\). In the single-face case, the probabilistic question becomes how often W_RS families create face contradictions. For one block, a face contradiction for pigeon \(q\) needs every coefficient class of \(q\)'s cells in the remaining holes to have its pattern killed. The patterns are those at the block's value vector on the face (prop:dance-shared-patterns). A single class, the U-shift case on the sub-board, is killed with probability \(3^{-t}\) per value vector. Class patterns spanning a space of rank \(r\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) are all killed with probability exactly \(3^{-tr}\) when \(r\) of them are linearly independent. For uniform \(C\), the map \(C\mapsto(C\gamma_1,\dots,C\gamma_r)\) on independent \(\gamma\)'s is a surjective linear map, so its values are uniform.

Outcome. The slack system is reduced to one function \(\mu_0\) with pairwise conditions. In the single-face case, the pigeon-dance line's obstruction is identified as face contradictions propagated through links; the general pairwise condition is not reduced to them. Whether W_RS families avoid them, or the design can route around them, is the open question. Multi-face coboundaries remain separately open. Lead follow-up: continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A1 and A3: a route review. The pigeon-dance line has been developed through five cycles, from the naive dance to face contradictions. It now needs a review of what it has established against the goal, a falsification attempt on the face-contradiction picture, and updated living sections. The next research step is to count face contradictions under W_RS by value vectors and coefficient classes, which is where the prefix randomness enters.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:hole-one-decomposition and its entry, prop:safe-hole-extension and prop:dance-shared-patterns. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer independently recomputed the double sum in (2) and confirmed the symmetry. It found (1), (3), (4) and (5) correct, including the requirement \(D\ge2\) in the example. It required four changes, all adopted:

the face-contradiction picture is restricted to the single-face case and the example, and the general pairwise condition is not claimed to reduce to it;
the joint kill probability \(3^{-tr}\) is now proved, from the uniformity of \(C\gamma\) for independent \(\gamma\)'s;
the summation range in (2) is explicit;
(3) states the degree.

Its suggestions are adopted: (4) now uses allowedness where it matters, and (5) is identified as an instance of (2). The changes weaken or justify claims, so one pass suffices.

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Route review of the pigeon-dance line: five cycles turned the naive dance into an exact recursion with renewing safe holes. At the Nullstellensatz level, W_RS now reduces to face contradictions and multi-face coboundaries, and prefix kills that share value vectors may make face exclusions likely for large blocks. The lift to PC follows the basis of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall, built for functional PHP

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-dance-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the pigeon-dance line: five cycles turned the naive dance into an exact recursion with renewing safe holes. At the Nullstellensatz level, W_RS now reduces to face contradictions and multi-face coboundaries, and prefix kills that share value vectors may make face exclusions likely for large blocks. The lift to PC follows the basis of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall, built for functional PHP”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-dance-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the reduction review proposed a pigeon-dance design inside the allowed set, five cycles developed it:

dance shared patterns: the naive dance fails through coefficient classes, and row-sum classes are harmless;
failure-set criterion: an allowed-set design is Nullstellensatz hardness on the allowed set;
safe-hole extension: a matching design with prescribed zeros, in which normal form makes hole 1 safe;
hole-one decomposition: links renew the safe hole;
slack defects: links are defects, and obstructions reappear as face contradictions.

This review states what the line establishes, tests the face-contradiction picture, and confronts the line's gap: everything so far is at the Nullstellensatz level, while W asks for PC degree.

The line's general claim

conj:row-free-subset for the goal, with the dance line as a candidate mechanism. At the Nullstellensatz level, a W_RS family is hard at degree \(D\) whenever a matching design exists with zeros on the matchings excluded by the normal-form clauses. That existence is decided level by level through safe holes and their links.

What the goal needs

PC hardness of W_RS at degree \(D\approx44t\) for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks. The line gives Nullstellensatz designs, so it needs both of these:

the design question settled for every family;
a lift from Nullstellensatz designs to PC.

Falsification attempt: how often do face contradictions occur?

On a face \(F\), with pigeons in safe holes \(1,\dots,d\), the next safe hole \(d+1\) keeps every renormalized form's value. So a remaining pigeon is starved on \(F\) only when \(F\) itself is excluded by the renormalized clauses. The link's empty matching then carries a prescribed zero.

Renormalizing relative to column \(c\) turns each form \(L\) into \(L-\sum_ia_{i,c}(r_i-1)\). At the empty matching of the link, its value is \(L|_F(0)+\sum_{i\notin F}a_{i,c}\). So a block's clauses exclude the face exactly when the pattern of this face value vector \(v_F\in\mathbb F_3^h\) is killed.

Each nonzero pattern of a face value vector is killed with probability \(3^{-t}\). A block has at most \(3^h\) face value vectors. How many are realized across faces is not counted here. If a block realizes many more than \(3^t\) nonzero patterns, the expected number of killed ones exceeds 1. Under an independence heuristic, some face exclusions are then likely. This is a heuristic, not a proof.

Each face exclusion is one prescribed zero, not yet an obstruction. At depth \(d\), the excluded faces have density about \(M3^{-t}=O(1/n)\) among faces, the same order as point exclusions. They become obstructions only by cascading. A cascade needs a parent face all of whose extensions by some pigeon are excluded or starved, or a multi-face coboundary pairing.

In the example of prop:slack-defects the cascade starts immediately, because the adversary forbade whole rows. Under W_RS, the kills that share value vectors are what can make cascades likely. Those are the U-shift and coefficient-class correlations of prop:dance-shared-patterns.

Outcome. The face-contradiction picture is not falsified. Its frequency is estimated, heuristically: face exclusions have density \(O(1/n)\) at each level, correlated through the value vectors. Whether they cascade is open, and so are the multi-face coboundaries.

The PC gap, read from the source

The basis of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall was read for this review (Lower bounds for the polynomial calculus and the Gröbner basis algorithm, ECCC TR97-042, Definitions 2.1 to 2.5, Lemmas 2.6 and 2.7, Proposition 2.8, Theorem 2.9). It takes the monomials \(x_a\), where \(a\) maps pigeons to holes or to 0, and 0 stands for the pigeon axiom \(Q_i\). The basis \(B_d\) keeps those \(x_a\) whose matching part admits a pigeon dance, pigeons moving in order to larger free holes. For \(d\le\lceil n/2\rceil\) it is a basis of the degree-\(d\) space, and the degree-\(d\) PC closure of the axioms \(Q_i\) is exactly \(\operatorname{span}(B_d\setminus T_d)\).

The proof of Theorem 2.9 shows, in its multiplication step, that \(x_{ij}\) times an element of \(B_{d-1}\setminus T_{d-1}\) lies in \(\operatorname{span}(B_d\setminus T_d)\), so that span is closed under multiplication by variables within degree \(d\). Consequently, with clauses added, PC hardness at degree \(d\) is equivalent to 1 lying outside the closure, under \(f\mapsto R(x_{ij}f)\), of the projections \(R(C)\) of the clauses. Here \(R\) is the projection onto the dance-admissible matchings along \(\operatorname{span}(B_d\setminus T_d)\). The Nullstellensatz designs of the dance line vanish on the \(R(x_SC)\) for monomials \(x_S\), the first step of that closure. The lift must also respect \(R(x_{ij}\cdot)\).

The source works with functional PHP: its identities include \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}=0\). It uses them already to write every polynomial in the span of the matching monomials \(T\), before the basis is built. The weak base allows a pigeon in several holes, so both that reduction and the basis must be redone. The gap may be structural, not cosmetic. The source's parameter \(n\), for \(\mathrm{PHP}^m_n\), must also be matched to this setting's \(N\).

Obstacle

The dance line has an exact recursive design at the Nullstellensatz level, but three things stand between it and the goal:

face exclusions, correlated through shared face value vectors, might cascade into starvation;
multi-face coboundary obstructions are unbounded;
the lift from Nullstellensatz to PC needs the closure under \(R(x_{ij}\cdot)\) of the Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall basis. The source is built on the functional axioms from its first reduction on, so the passage to weak PHP may be a structural gap.

Assessment of the line

Qualitatively, between weak and moderate. It is the first mechanism on this route that uses the structure of PHP designs (safe holes, links, dances) rather than algebraic structure the adversary controls. Its obstructions are specific: face exclusions of density \(O(1/n)\) per level. Against that, every result is at the Nullstellensatz level. The PC lift is not started, and the functional-axiom mismatch with the source may be substantial.

Outside leads

The basis of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall (ECCC TR97-042, Definition 2.5 and Proposition 2.8). Target: the PC lift. Answers. The basis \(B_d\) makes the PC closure of the pigeon axioms explicit, as \(\operatorname{span}(B_d\setminus T_d)\), with the monotonicity \(x_aQ_i\in B_d\) iff \(x_a\in B_{d-1}\) and \(i\notin\mathrm{dom}(a)\). PC hardness with clauses becomes 1 outside the \(R(x_{ij}\cdot)\)-closure of the \(R(C)\). The dance line's zero-prescribed designs are the first step of that closure. Test. Passed as a translation, checked against Definition 2.5, Proposition 2.8 and Theorem 2.9 of the source. The caveat is that the source's identities include the functional axioms \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}=0\), which the weak base lacks.
Cone constructions for coboundary expansion (Gromov, 2010; Kozlov and Meshulam, Quantitative aspects of acyclicity, 2019). Target: multi-face coboundaries. Answers. A symmetric complex with a cone structure has every nonzero coboundary supported on many faces. For chessboard complexes this would make a sparse excluded set unlikely to contain one. Test. Passed in the model with independent exclusions. The smallest coboundary support, a single face's coface set, has \(N-k+1\) matchings. There are at most \(n^{2k}\) faces, and each coface set lies wholly in an excluded set of density \(O(1/n)\) with probability \(O(1/n)^{N-k+1}\) under independence. The union bound \(n^{2k}O(1/n)^{N-k+1}\) is \(o(1)\) in the relevant regime \(k\le D=O(\log n)\ll N\). The correlated exclusions of W_RS are outside that model.
Hall's marriage theorem (Hall, 1935). Target: face contradictions, as starved pigeons. Answers. Hall's condition with surplus at every face would prevent a starved pigeon, and cascades begin with one. Test. Falsified as a sufficient condition. Hall's condition controls the existence of one matching, while designs need the linear filling. A chessboard cycle can fail to fill, from a multi-face coboundary, with every pigeon unstarved.

Absurd bridges

Orthogonal protecting groups in organic synthesis (Barany and Merrifield, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 99, 1977). Translation: a safe hole is a protected site, left inert by later steps. The recursion of prop:hole-one-decomposition uses holes \(1,2,\dots\) as orthogonal protections, renormalizing once per level. Answers. Synthesis planning schedules protections to avoid conflicts. That would be a schedule of safe holes avoiding face contradictions. Test. Falsified as a tool. The translation holds, but protecting-group theory has no quantitative account of conflicts between random constraints. It restates the recursion without adding a bound.
Warning propagation and the cavity method (Mézard, Parisi and Zecchina, Science 297, 2002). Translation: a face exclusion is a warning sent to the parent face, and a cascade is warning propagation up the recursion. The set of faces with forced zeros is the core. Answers. The cavity method's threshold for a core decides whether forced zeros percolate. Test. Passed in the model with independent exclusions. A warning reaches a parent only if all of about \(n\) extensions of it by one pigeon are forced. Given the warning at hand, the other \(n-1\) extensions must also be forced. Each warning has about \(n\) parent-and-pigeon pairs, so at density \(O(1/n)\) the expected number of new warnings per warning is about \(n\cdot O(1/n)^{n-1}\ll1\), which is subcritical. Correlation through shared value vectors is outside the model.

Lead follow-up

No item of the reduction review passed, so no follow-up is due. Its pigeon-dance lead failed in naive form and was developed through the five cycles above; its status is continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the PC lift. Adapt the Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall basis from functional to weak PHP, where a pigeon may occupy several holes. State the PC form of the zero-prescribed design: 1 outside the \(R(x_{ij}\cdot)\)-closure of the normal-form clauses. Then determine whether the safe-hole recursion is compatible with \(R\). The dance moves pigeons to larger holes, and hole 1 is the smallest, so the safe holes may need to be the largest ones.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the five dance-line entries and their claims. Also read pages 3–6 of the Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall report (Definitions 2.1–2.5, Lemmas 2.4, 2.6 and 2.7, Proposition 2.8, Theorem 2.9), kept in local scratch and not committed. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the summary of the source against pages 3–6 and found it faithful. It required six changes, all adopted:

the frequency of face exclusions is now stated as a heuristic, with the count of realized value vectors and the independence assumption marked;
the equivalence for PC hardness with clauses now cites the multiplication step of Theorem 2.9;
the functional-axiom caveat now says those axioms are used from the first reduction on, so the gap may be structural;
the assessment is lowered to between weak and moderate;
the warning-propagation estimate now explains its exponent;
the coboundary union bound states its regime \(k\le D\ll N\).

Its suggestion to match the source's parameter \(n\) to \(N\) is recorded in the gap paragraph.

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Design lift criterion: the PC lift of the pigeon-dance line needs no Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall basis. On the dance's support, a set of allowed small matchings, PC equals Nullstellensatz at degree \(D\) when every design of degree \(D-1\) extends to degree \(D\). This lifting condition is implied by the closure route's row freeness, and it survives that route's recorded pinned-row failure

27 September 2026 · Working proof and reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pc-lift. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Design lift criterion: the PC lift of the pigeon-dance line needs no Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall basis. On the dance's support, a set of allowed small matchings, PC equals Nullstellensatz at degree \(D\) when every design of degree \(D-1\) extends to degree \(D\). This lifting condition is implied by the closure route's row freeness, and it survives that route's recorded pinned-row failure”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-design-lift-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The dance review left the pigeon-dance line at the Nullstellensatz level. It proposed lifting the line to PC through the basis of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall (ECCC TR97-042), which is built on functional PHP. This cycle asks what exactly the PC closure adds to the dance's zero-prescribed designs.

General statement. prop:design-lift-criterion, over every field, for every nonempty set \(\mathcal Q\) of column-injective assignments, every constraint family vanishing on \(\mathcal Q\) and every \(D\ge1\). A degree-\(D\) PC refutation of weak PHP plus the constraints lands in a closure \(V_D(\mathcal Q)\) of the row equations in the filtered functions on \(\mathcal Q\). Suppose a row design of degree \(D-1\) exists on \(\mathcal Q\), and every such design extends to degree \(D\). Then \(V_D(\mathcal Q)\) is the Nullstellensatz span and the system has no refutation of degree \(D\). The row-freeness hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing implies the extension condition at every degree. The recorded witness of that hypothesis's failure satisfies it. The dance's zero-prescribed designs are row designs on their support, so the lift of the dance line to PC is this extension condition on a set of allowed small matchings.

prop:design-lift-criterion

Setting. Weak unary PHP has \(m\) pigeons and \(N\) holes. Its axioms are Booleanity, the collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\) and the row equations \(\rho_i=\sum_jx_{ij}-1\), for rows \(i=0,\dots,m-1\). Let \(\mathcal Q\) be a nonempty set, finite since the board is, of column-injective 0/1 assignments, and \(\Gamma\) a set of polynomials vanishing on \(\mathcal Q\).

\(F_e^{\mathcal Q}\) is the set of functions on \(\mathcal Q\) given by polynomials of degree at most \(e\).
\(N_e(\mathcal Q)=\{\sum_ih_i\rho_i|_{\mathcal Q}:h_i\in F^{\mathcal Q}_{e-1}\}\) is the Nullstellensatz span.
\(V_D(\mathcal Q)\) is the smallest subspace of \(F^{\mathcal Q}_D\) that contains every \(\rho_i|_{\mathcal Q}\) and contains \(xf\) for every variable \(x\) and every \(f\in V_D(\mathcal Q)\cap F^{\mathcal Q}_{D-1}\).
A row design of degree \(e\) on \(\mathcal Q\) is a linear functional \(\lambda\) on \(F^{\mathcal Q}_e\) with \(\lambda(1)=1\) and \(\lambda(N_e(\mathcal Q))=0\).
\(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}=\bigoplus_eF^{\mathcal Q}_e/F^{\mathcal Q}_{e-1}\), and \(r_i\) is the class of \(\rho_i\) in degree 1.

Statement.

Image. Every line of a degree-\(D\) PC refutation of weak PHP plus \(\Gamma\) restricts to an element of \(V_D(\mathcal Q)\). So \(1\notin V_D(\mathcal Q)\) excludes such refutations.
Lift. The following are equivalent:
- (a) \(N_D(\mathcal Q)\cap F^{\mathcal Q}_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\);
- (b) every syzygy \(\sum_ia_ir_i=0\) in \(\operatorname{gr}_D\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\), with \(a_i\) of degree \(D-1\), has, for any lifts \(H_i\in F^{\mathcal Q}_{D-1}\) of the \(a_i\), \(\sum_iH_i\rho_i\in N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\);
- (c) every linear functional on \(F^{\mathcal Q}_{D-1}\) vanishing on \(N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\) extends to one on \(F^{\mathcal Q}_D\) vanishing on \(N_D(\mathcal Q)\).
If \(1\notin N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\), then (c) says that every row design of degree \(D-1\) extends to degree \(D\). Under (a), \(V_D(\mathcal Q)=N_D(\mathcal Q)\). If also \(1\notin N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\), then \(1\notin N_D(\mathcal Q)\), and weak PHP plus \(\Gamma\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).
Comparison with row freeness. Let the field have characteristic \(p\), and let every assignment in \(\mathcal Q\) have total occupancy \(\equiv m\pmod p\). Suppose every Koszul 1-cycle of \((r_1,\dots,r_{m-1})\) on \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\) of internal degree \(D\) is a sum of Frobenius cycles and boundaries, the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing in that degree. Then (b) holds at \(D\). The hypothesis fails for the set of slice assignments with at most one pigeon in row 1, through its cycle \(r_1e_1\) of degree 2. That cycle and its multiples satisfy (b).
Dance designs. Let \(z\) be a degree-\(D\) matching design with \(z=0\) on the excluded matchings, as constructed in the dance line (prop:safe-hole-extension). Its point weight \(\nu\) is supported on allowed matchings of at most \(D\) cells. For every \(\mathcal Q\) with \(\operatorname{supp}\nu\subseteq\mathcal Q\subseteq\mathcal A\), \(\lambda(f)=\sum_{q\in\mathcal Q}\nu(q)f(q)\) is a row design of degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal Q\). Here \(\mathcal A\) is the set of allowed column-injective assignments.

Proof.

Booleanity, the collisions and \(\Gamma\) vanish on \(\mathcal Q\), and the row equations restrict to generators. Linear combinations stay in \(V_D(\mathcal Q)\). A multiplication step \(x\cdot g\) needs \(\deg g\le D-1\), so \(g|_{\mathcal Q}\in F^{\mathcal Q}_{D-1}\). By induction every line restricts into \(V_D(\mathcal Q)\). The final line 1 restricts to the constant 1, which is nonzero since \(\mathcal Q\) is nonempty.
Each implication:
- (a)\(\Rightarrow\)(b): \(\sum_iH_i\rho_i\) lies in \(N_D\) and its class in \(\operatorname{gr}_D\) is \(\sum_ia_ir_i=0\), so it lies in \(F_{D-1}\) and hence in \(N_{D-1}\).
- (b)\(\Rightarrow\)(a): write \(f\in N_D\cap F_{D-1}\) as \(\sum_ih_i\rho_i\) with \(h_i\in F_{D-1}\). The classes \(a_i\) of the \(h_i\) in \(\operatorname{gr}_{D-1}\) form a syzygy, since \(f\) has class 0 in \(\operatorname{gr}_D\). The \(h_i\) themselves are lifts, so \(f\in N_{D-1}\). Two lifts differ by elements of \(F_{D-2}\), so (b) does not depend on the choice.
- (a)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(c): restricting the functionals on \(F_D\) that vanish on \(N_D\) to \(F_{D-1}\) gives exactly the functionals vanishing on \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\), a finite-dimensional duality. This set contains every functional vanishing on \(N_{D-1}\) iff \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}\).
If \(1\notin N_{D-1}\), the functionals in (c) with value 1 at 1 are the row designs, and they span the space of those functionals. Extension is linear, so (c) holds iff every row design extends.
\(N_D\subseteq V_D\): multiply \(\rho_i\) by the variables of \(x_U\), \(|U|\le D-1\), one at a time. Each intermediate product has degree at most \(|U|\le D-1\).
\(V_D\subseteq N_D\): \(N_D\) contains the \(\rho_i\), since \(D\ge1\). It is closed under the multiplication step, because by (a) an \(f\in N_D\cap F_{D-1}\) has the form \(\sum h_i\rho_i\) with \(h_i\in F_{D-2}\), and \(xh_i\in F_{D-1}\).
Finally \(1\in F_0\subseteq F_{D-1}\), so \(1\in N_D\) would give \(1\in N_{D-1}\) by (a). Part (1) then excludes a refutation.
On \(\mathcal Q\), \(\sum_i\rho_i=s-m\) vanishes, where \(s\) is the total occupancy. So \(h\rho_0=-\sum_{i\ge1}h\rho_i\) there, and \(N_e(\mathcal Q)\) is generated by \(\rho_1,\dots,\rho_{m-1}\) with the same coefficient degrees. The proof of (a)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(b) works for any such generating set, so (b) may be checked on the syzygies of \(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}\). They have internal degree \(D\), with generators \(e_i\) in degree 1. Each generator of the hypothesis's span satisfies (b), and (b) is linear in the syzygy:
- A boundary \(c\,(r_je_i-r_ie_j)\) has the lift \(C\rho_je_i-C\rho_ie_j\), with \(\sum=0\).
- A Frobenius cycle \(c\,r_i^{p-1}e_i\) with \(\deg c=D-p\) has the lift \(C\rho_i^{p-1}e_i\), with \(\sum=C\rho_i^p=C\rho_i\). This holds because \(\rho_i\) takes values in \(\mathbb F_p\). \(C\rho_i\in N_{D-p+1}\subseteq N_{D-1}\).
In the pinned-row set, the row sum \(s_1=\sum_jx_{1j}\) takes values in \(\{0,1\}\) on \(\mathcal Q\). The cycle \(r_1e_1\) has the lift \(H_1=s_1\), whose class is \(r_1\), with \(H_1\rho_1=s_1(s_1-1)=0\) on \(\mathcal Q\). The lift is \(s_1\), not \(\rho_1=s_1-1\), which takes values in \(\{-1,0\}\). By the lift-independence in (b), any lift gives the same conclusion. The same holds for its multiples \(c\,r_1e_1\).
By prop:safe-hole-extension (1), \(\nu(U)=\pm\binom{m-k-1}{D-k}z_U\) on \(k\)-matchings, so \(\nu\) vanishes on excluded matchings. By construction \(\nu\) is supported on matchings of at most \(D\) cells. By Möbius inversion \(\lambda(x_U)=z_U\) for \(|U|\le D\), and in particular \(\lambda(1)=z_\varnothing=1\). Let \(h\in F_{D-1}\) be given by a polynomial \(g\) of degree at most \(D-1\), reduced by Booleanity and collisions to a combination of monomials \(x_U\) with \(|U|\le D-1\). Then \(\lambda(h\rho_i)\) is a combination of \(\lambda(x_U\rho_i)\).
- If \(U\) is a matching avoiding row \(i\), this is the design equation.
- If \(U\) uses row \(i\) once, at \((i,j_0)\), then \(x_Ux_{ij_0}=x_U\), and the other products are not matchings. So the value is \(z_U-z_U=0\).
- If \(U\) has two cells in one row, every term vanishes.
Since \(\nu\) is supported in \(\mathcal Q\), \(\lambda\) is well defined on functions on \(\mathcal Q\). \(\square\)

Relation to the record

Part (2) is the first step of the closure iteration of prop:homogenized-PC-socle-criterion, written for functions on \(\mathcal Q\) and dualized. That criterion is exact: PC equals Nullstellensatz iff the degree-\((D-1)\) kernel of \(z\) lies in the socle. Condition (a) implies that criterion's condition: (a) excludes every drop \(f\in N_D\cap F_{D-1}\) outside \(N_{D-1}\), while the socle condition tolerates drops whose variable multiples stay in the Nullstellensatz span. The converse is not claimed. Here it is the more convenient form, because (c) is an extension statement for designs, the kind of statement the dance line proves.

For \(\Gamma=\varnothing\) and \(\mathcal Q\) the matchings with at most \(D\) cells, the functions of degree at most \(D-1\) on \(\mathcal Q\) are the matching monomials. The row designs are then the matching designs, and (c) is lem:prescribed-matching-moment-extension, for \(N\ge2D-1\). The criterion thus holds for PHP alone on the dance's kind of support.

What it gives

The PC lift of the pigeon-dance line needs neither the Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall basis nor functional axioms. Part (1) works on weak PHP directly: functions on \(\mathcal Q\) absorb Booleanity, collisions and the constraints. The constructed design supplies a design at degrees \(D-1\) and \(D\). The lift needs the extension of every degree-\((D-1)\) design on a set \(\mathcal Q\) with \(\operatorname{supp}\nu\subseteq\mathcal Q\subseteq\mathcal A\).

The natural choice is \(\mathcal Q_D\), the allowed matchings with at most \(D\) cells. On \(\mathcal Q_D\), every function is a combination of matching monomials of degree at most \(D\). So (c) is a filling question with prescribed zeros at the top level, the same kind as prop:safe-hole-extension (2), but for all designs of degree \(D-1\) at once.

Part (3) places this on the closure route. The route's hypothesis, Tor vanishing of the row sums, implies (b). On the pinned-row set the hypothesis fails at the cycle \(r_1e_1\), which is neither Frobenius nor a boundary. That cycle satisfies (b) because the row sum takes only two values. Whether (b) holds at every degree on that set is not checked. This matches lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency's freedom to shrink \(\mathcal Q\). Part (2) asks only for top-level lifting on some subset of the allowed set, not freeness at every degree.

Outcome. The PC lift is reduced to one extension statement at degree \(D\) on a set of allowed small matchings, with the Nullstellensatz part supplied by the dance line. The detour through the functional basis is unnecessary. Whether the extension holds for W_RS families is open. It meets the same obstructions as the dance line, face contradictions and multi-face coboundaries, now at the top level for all lower designs. Lead follow-up: continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the top-level extension on \(\mathcal Q_D\). Write a degree-\((D-1)\) design on \(\mathcal Q_D\) in matching coordinates, and apply the zero-prescribed filling criterion at level \(D\) to all such designs. The obstruction cochains, those with coboundary supported on the excluded \(D\)-matchings, must annihilate every design's level-\((D-1)\) cycle. Since \(D\approx44t\) and a matching of \(D\) cells is excluded with probability about \(M3^{-t}\), test whether these cochains are rare enough to be killed by the design equations below level \(D\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:global-closure-gluing and its pinned-row example, prop:safe-hole-extension, and the statements of prop:homogenized-PC-socle-criterion, lem:prescribed-matching-moment-extension, lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency and thm:all-field-matching-filtration. A claim search found lem:relative-criterion, the analogous criterion for graph PHP with Mikša and Nordström's operator, and no version of this one; the reviewer's own search found none either. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked all four parts: the image claim, the equivalences (a) to (c) by a dimension count, the Frobenius degree bookkeeping, and the three cases of the dance design, including monomials with two cells in one row. It required three changes, all adopted:

finiteness of \(\mathcal Q\) is stated, as the duality in (a)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(c) needs it;
the pinned-row lift is named as \(s_1\), not \(\rho_1\);
the comparison with the socle criterion is now an implication with its reason, and the converse is not claimed.

Its suggestion to state the row indices in the Setting is adopted. The changes clarify or weaken claims, so one pass suffices.

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Top-drop coordinates: on the allowed matchings of at most \(D\) cells, the degree drops that can block the design lift are pigeon cochains whose coboundary on allowed \(D\)-matchings is a superset pattern of excluded smaller matchings. PHP's own drops are harmless. But on this truncated support Nullstellensatz already derives a multiple of the monomial of each excluded smaller matching, and PC multiplies it up, so PC designs there are confined to a hereditary set. The lift has to be posed on supports with larger assignments

27 September 2026 · Working proof and reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-top-extension. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Top-drop coordinates: on the allowed matchings of at most \(D\) cells, the degree drops that can block the design lift are pigeon cochains whose coboundary on allowed \(D\)-matchings is a superset pattern of excluded smaller matchings. PHP's own drops are harmless. But on this truncated support Nullstellensatz already derives a multiple of the monomial of each excluded smaller matching, and PC multiplies it up, so PC designs there are confined to a hereditary set. The lift has to be posed on supports with larger assignments”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-top-drop-coordinates.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The design lift criterion reduced the PC lift of the pigeon-dance line to condition (a) at the top degree on a set \(\mathcal Q\) of allowed assignments. The natural choice is \(\mathcal Q_D\), the allowed matchings with at most \(D\) cells. This cycle writes (a) on \(\mathcal Q_D\) in matching coordinates. It asks which drops can occur, and how they relate to the dance line's obstruction cochains.

General statement. prop:top-drop-coordinates, for weak unary PHP over any field, with any constraints, \(D\ge2\) and \(N\ge2D-1\). On \(\mathcal Q_D\), the drops \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\) modulo \(N_{D-1}\) are the classes of explicit functions \(G_{\varphi,\psi}\) of degree at most \(D-1\). Here \(\varphi\) is a cochain on pairs (a \((D-1)\)-matching, a pigeon outside it), and \(\psi\) is a weight on excluded matchings of fewer than \(D\) cells. The pair must satisfy \(\delta\varphi=\pm\) the \(\psi\)-weighted superset pattern on every allowed \(D\)-matching. Pairs with \(\psi=0\) and \(\delta\varphi=0\) everywhere give drops in \(N_{D-1}\). The design lift holds on \(\mathcal Q_D\) iff every \(G_{\varphi,\psi}\) is annihilated by every linear functional on \(F_{D-1}\) vanishing on \(N_{D-1}\). For every excluded matching \(U\) of \(u<D\) cells, \(\binom{m-u-1}{D-u}x_U\) lies in the Nullstellensatz span of degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal Q_D\). So every PC design there vanishes on all supersets of such \(U\) within degree \(D\) when the coefficient is nonzero.

prop:top-drop-coordinates

Setting. As in prop:design-lift-criterion, with \(\mathcal Q=\mathcal Q_D\). \(\mathcal Q_D\) is the set of allowed row- and column-injective matchings with at most \(D\) cells, assumed nonempty, and \(\mathcal M_D\supseteq\mathcal Q_D\) is the set of all such matchings. \(E_k\) is the set of excluded \(k\)-matchings: those at which, as 0/1 points, some constraint is nonzero.

A top cochain \(\varphi\) assigns a value \(\varphi(T,i)\) to each \((D-1)\)-matching \(T\) and pigeon \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)\).
\(\delta\varphi(S)=\sum_{(i,j)\in S}\varphi(S-(i,j),i)\) on \(D\)-matchings, and \(\Phi(T)=\sum_{i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)}\varphi(T,i)\).
For \(U\in E_k\), \(k\le D-1\), put \(\varepsilon_U=(-1)^{D-k}\) and \(\pi_U(S)=[U\subseteq S]\) on \(D\)-matchings.
A PC design of degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal Q\) is a linear functional \(\lambda\) on \(F^{\mathcal Q}_D\) with \(\lambda(1)=1\) and \(\lambda(V_D(\mathcal Q))=0\); one exists iff \(1\notin V_D(\mathcal Q)\).
\(\beta_U=\sum_{k'=k}^{D-1}(-1)^{k'-k}\sum_{S\supseteq U,\,|S|=k'}x_S\) is the part of the point indicator of \(U\) below degree \(D\).

Statement.

Top functions. A function on \(\mathcal Q_D\) of the form \(\sum_{S\text{ allowed},|S|=D}c_S1_S\) lies in \(F_{D-1}\) iff there is a weight \(\psi\) on \(E_{<D}=\bigcup_{k<D}E_k\) with \(c_S=-\sum_{U\in E_{<D}}\varepsilon_U\psi(U)\pi_U(S)\) for every allowed \(D\)-matching \(S\). The function then equals \(\sum_U\psi(U)\beta_U\) on \(\mathcal Q_D\).
Drops. Call \((\varphi,\psi)\) admissible if \(\delta\varphi(S)=-\sum_U\varepsilon_U\psi(U)\pi_U(S)\) on every allowed \(D\)-matching \(S\). Then \(G_{\varphi,\psi}=\sum_U\psi(U)\beta_U-\sum_T\Phi(T)x_T\) lies in \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\). Every element of \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\) is some \(G_{\varphi,\psi}\) plus an element of \(N_{D-1}\).
Criterion. On \(\mathcal Q_D\), condition (a) of prop:design-lift-criterion, and so the design lift, holds iff \(G_{\varphi,\psi}\in N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q_D)\) for every admissible pair.
PHP's own drops. If \(\psi=0\) and \(\delta\varphi=0\) on all \(D\)-matchings, then \(G_{\varphi,0}\in N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q_D)\). Such \(\varphi\) exist for \(D\ge2\).
Hereditary supports. On a set \(\mathcal Q\subseteq\mathcal Q_D\) closed under submatchings, every \(x_U\), \(U\in E_{<D}\), vanishes. The superset patterns then drop out, and admissibility becomes \(\delta\varphi=0\) on the \(D\)-matchings of \(\mathcal Q\). A \(D\)-matching lies in the largest such set only if all of its \(2^D\) submatchings are allowed. The union bound \(2^DM3^{-t}\) exceeds 1 at \(D\approx44t\), so it gives no lower bound on that set's size.
Truncation forcing. For every excluded matching \(U\) with \(u=|U|\le D-1\), \(\binom{m-u-1}{D-u}x_U\in N_D(\mathcal Q_D)\). Hence \(\binom{m-u-1}{D-u}x_{U'}\in V_D(\mathcal Q_D)\) for every matching \(U'\supseteq U\) with at most \(D\) cells. Every functional on \(F^{\mathcal Q_D}_D\) vanishing on \(V_D(\mathcal Q_D)\) therefore vanishes on \(x_{U'}\) for every such \(U'\), whenever \(\binom{m-u-1}{D-u}\) is nonzero in the field. On \(\mathcal Q_D\), a PC design lives on the matchings containing no such excluded \(U\), a hereditary set as in (5).

The hypothesis \(N\ge2D-1\) is used only in (4), through lem:prescribed-matching-moment-extension.

Proof.

On \(\mathcal M_D\), the \(x_T\) with \(|T|\le D-1\) and the \(x_S=1_S\) with \(|S|=D\) form a basis of all functions, by Möbius inversion on matchings. The functions on \(\mathcal M_D\) vanishing on \(\mathcal Q_D\) are spanned by the \(1_U\), \(U\) excluded. A function \(h\) on \(\mathcal Q_D\) lies in \(F_{D-1}\) iff some \(g\in F^{\mathcal M_D}_{D-1}\) restricts to it. Write \(g=\sum_Sc_Sx_S+\sum_{U\text{ excl}}\psi(U)1_U\), and use \(1_U=\sum_{S\supseteq U}(-1)^{|S|-|U|}x_S\). The coefficient of \(x_S\), \(|S|=D\), must vanish.
- For excluded \(S\) this fixes \(\psi(S)\), which is free.
- For allowed \(S\) it is the stated condition.
Write \(1_U=\beta_U+\varepsilon_U\sum_{S\supseteq U,|S|=D}x_S\) for \(U\in E_{<D}\), and \(1_S=x_S\) for \(S\in E_D\). The top part of \(g\) cancels by the choice of \(\psi\), so \(g=\sum_{U\in E_{<D}}\psi(U)\beta_U\), and \(g\) restricts to \(h\).
Take \(f\in N_D\cap F_{D-1}\) and write \(f=\sum h_i\rho_i\), \(h_i\in F_{D-1}\). Split each \(h_i\) into its part on \((D-1)\)-monomials and a part of degree at most \(D-2\), whose products with \(\rho_i\) lie in \(N_{D-1}\). A monomial \(x_T\) with \(|T|=D-1\) that is not a matching vanishes on \(\mathcal Q_D\).
- If \(i\in\mathrm{rows}(T)\), at \((i,j_0)\), then \(x_T\rho_i=x_T-x_T=0\) on \(\mathcal Q_D\), since the other products are not matchings.
- If \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)\), then \(x_T\rho_i=\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}T}x_{T+(i,j)}-x_T\).
So, modulo \(N_{D-1}\), \(f=\sum_S\delta\varphi(S)x_S-\sum_T\Phi(T)x_T\) for the cochain \(\varphi\) of those coefficients. Here \(x_S=1_S\) for allowed \(S\), and \(x_S=0\) on \(\mathcal Q_D\) for excluded \(S\). Since \(f\) and \(\sum\Phi x_T\) lie in \(F_{D-1}\), so does the top part. By (1) the pair is admissible for some \(\psi\), and the top part equals \(\sum\psi(U)\beta_U\). Conversely, for an admissible pair, \(\sum_{T,i}\varphi(T,i)x_T\rho_i\) lies in \(N_D\) and equals \(G_{\varphi,\psi}\) by the same computation.
Condition (a) is \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}\). Apply (2).
With \(\psi=0\) and \(\delta\varphi\equiv0\), the element \(\sum\varphi(T,i)x_T\rho_i\) is a drop on \(\mathcal M_D\), the case of no constraints. On \(\mathcal M_D\), every degree-\((D-1)\) matching design extends to degree \(D\) for \(N\ge2D-1\) (lem:prescribed-matching-moment-extension). So (a) holds there, and the drop lies in \(N_{D-1}(\mathcal M_D)\). Restriction to \(\mathcal Q_D\) maps \(N_{D-1}(\mathcal M_D)\) into \(N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q_D)\).
Existence, for \(D=2\): take \(\varphi(\{(i',j')\},i)=c_{ii'}\) with \(c\) antisymmetric and nonzero. Then \(\delta\varphi(\{(i,j),(i',j')\})=c_{ii'}+c_{i'i}=0\). For every \(D\ge2\), take \(\varphi(T,i)=\sum_{i'\in\mathrm{rows}(T)}c_{ii'}\). Then \(\delta\varphi(S)=\sum_{i\ne i'\in\mathrm{rows}(S)}c_{ii'}=0\) by antisymmetry.
For \(q\) in a hereditary \(\mathcal Q\), \(x_U(q)=1\) needs \(U\subseteq q\), so \(U\in\mathcal Q\) and \(U\) is allowed. So \(x_U=0\) on \(\mathcal Q\) for excluded \(U\), and the analogue of (1) on \(\mathcal Q\) has no \(\psi\)-terms. The counting remark is the union bound over submatchings, with each matching excluded with probability at most \(M3^{-t}\).
Fix a set \(P\) of \(\ell\) pigeons outside \(\mathrm{rows}(U)\), with \(u+\ell\le D\). On matchings, \(x_U\prod_{i\in P}\sum_jx_{ij}=\sum x_S\) over the matchings \(S\supseteq U\) with \(\mathrm{rows}(S)=\mathrm{rows}(U)\cup P\). Also \(x_U\prod_{i\in P}(\rho_i+1)=\sum_{P'\subseteq P}x_U\prod_{i\in P'}\rho_i\). Each term with \(P'\ne\varnothing\) is \(\rho_{i_0}\) times a product of degree \(u+|P'|-1\), so it lies in \(N_{u+\ell}\). Summing over the \(\binom{m-u}{\ell}\) sets \(P\) gives \(\sum_{S\supseteq U,|S|=k}x_S\equiv\binom{m-u}{k-u}x_U\pmod{N_k}\) for \(k\le D\).
- At \(k=D\): \(\sigma_U=\sum_{S\supseteq U,|S|=D}x_S\equiv\binom{m-u}{D-u}x_U\pmod{N_D}\).
- Below \(D\): \(\beta_U\equiv\sum_{k=u}^{D-1}(-1)^{k-u}\binom{m-u}{k-u}x_U=(-1)^{D-1-u}\binom{m-u-1}{D-1-u}x_U\pmod{N_{D-1}}\), by the partial alternating sum of binomial coefficients.
On \(\mathcal Q_D\) the point indicator \(1_U=\beta_U+\varepsilon_U\sigma_U\) vanishes, so \(\sigma_U=-\varepsilon_U\beta_U\equiv\binom{m-u-1}{D-1-u}x_U\pmod{N_{D-1}}\). Comparing the two expressions for \(\sigma_U\) modulo \(N_D\) and using Pascal's rule gives \(\binom{m-u-1}{D-u}x_U\in N_D\). No division is used.
For \(U'\supseteq U\), multiply by the variables of \(U'\setminus U\) one at a time. Each factor before the last has degree at most \(|U'|-1\le D-1\), so each step is a multiplication step of \(V_D\). A functional vanishing on \(V_D\) then has \(\binom{m-u-1}{D-u}\lambda(x_{U'})=0\). \(\square\)

What it gives

At the top level, the PC lift and the dance line's filling meet exactly. The admissible pairs with \(\psi=0\) are the top cochains whose coboundary vanishes on allowed \(D\)-matchings. They play the role of the obstruction cochains of prop:safe-hole-extension (2) for filling one design at level \(D\) with zeros on \(E_D\), written in unsigned design coordinates rather than oriented chessboard chains. The dance line needs them to annihilate the constructed design's cycle. The lift needs the function \(\sum\Phi(T)x_T\) in \(N_{D-1}\), that is, annihilated by every design of degree \(D-1\).

The \(\psi\)-terms are new. They record that on \(\mathcal Q_D\) the superset sum \(\sum_{S\supseteq U,|S|=D}x_S\) of an excluded smaller matching \(U\) is a function of degree below \(D\). They let a top cochain have coboundary equal to a superset pattern, not zero, on the allowed \(D\)-matchings.

Normal form's safe hole does not remove them. For a single-face cochain \(1_{(T,i)}\) with \(T\) allowed and avoiding hole 1, \(T+(i,1)\) is allowed, and the coboundary there is 1. Admissibility asks for excluded submatchings of \(T+(i,1)\) to supply that value.

Part (6) changes the choice of support. On \(\mathcal Q_D\) the point indicators of excluded small matchings vanish identically, which has degree \(D\) there only because nothing larger is present. Nullstellensatz then already derives the multiple \(\binom{m-u-1}{D-u}x_U\), which is the point-weight condition \(\nu(U)=0\) of prop:safe-hole-extension (1). The dance line's designs satisfy it. PC goes further and multiplies it up to every superset within degree \(D\). So a PC design on \(\mathcal Q_D\) must vanish on the whole upset of each such excluded matching, and by (5) nothing controls the hereditary set that remains. The truncated support is the wrong carrier for the lift. On the full allowed set \(\mathcal A\), \(1_U\) is not a function of degree at most \(D\), and this derivation does not apply. The lift has to be posed on \(\mathcal A\) or on another support with assignments of more than \(D\) cells.

Outcome. The top-level PC lift on \(\mathcal Q_D\) is an explicit linear criterion over admissible pairs, and PHP's own pairs are harmless. The same coordinates show that \(\mathcal Q_D\) is a poor support. Its truncation makes PC confine designs to a hereditary set, on which the union bound gives no control. The dance line's designs remain Nullstellensatz designs on \(\mathcal Q_D\), but their PC lift must be tested on \(\mathcal A\), where the truncation relations are absent. No case was computed. Lead follow-up: continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the design lift on the full allowed set \(\mathcal A\). There the relations of degree at most \(D\) vanishing on \(\mathcal A\) come from the constraints, not from truncation. Write condition (a) on \(\mathcal A\) for W_RS clauses in normal form, and ask whether the only drops are those of the constraints' own tops, the Tor question of the closure route restricted to the top degree. Check first whether the dance line's designs, viewed as functionals on \(F^{\mathcal A}_D\), already vanish on the multiples PC derives there.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:design-lift-criterion, prop:safe-hole-extension and the statement of lem:prescribed-matching-moment-extension. A claim search found no prior version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked parts (1) to (5): the Möbius basis and signs in (1), both reduction cases and the converse in (2), the antisymmetric examples in (4), and the hereditary remark in (5). It required two changes, both adopted:

the pigeon sum \(\Phi(T)\) runs over \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(T)\);
the entry states that \(N\ge2D-1\) is used only in (4).

Part (6) was added after this pass. Since it adds a claim, the same reviewer made a second pass on it. That pass rechecked the row-product congruence, the alternating sum, the signs, the Pascal step and the multiplication steps. It confirmed that the derivation needs the truncation, so it does not apply on \(\mathcal A\). It required PC designs to be defined, which is done in the Setting. Its optional suggestion of a remark on unsigned versus oriented cochains is already in "What it gives".

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Route review of the PC lift: the pigeon-dance line supplies Nullstellensatz designs, and its lift to PC is the closure route's syzygy question, needed only at the top degree and only on some subset of the allowed set. The truncated support is ruled out, a recorded fall rules out the full allowed set heuristically, and the combined target is a top-lift subset, weaker than a row-free subset

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-full-support-lift. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the PC lift: the pigeon-dance line supplies Nullstellensatz designs, and its lift to PC is the closure route's syzygy question, needed only at the top degree and only on some subset of the allowed set. The truncated support is ruled out, a recorded fall rules out the full allowed set heuristically, and the combined target is a top-lift subset, weaker than a row-free subset”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-lift-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the dance review, two cycles worked on the PC lift of the pigeon-dance line:

design lift criterion: on any subset \(\mathcal Q\) of the allowed set, PC equals Nullstellensatz at degree \(D\) when every degree-\((D-1)\) design extends, equivalently when the top-degree syzygies of the row sums lift;
top-drop coordinates: on the allowed matchings with at most \(D\) cells, that condition in coordinates, and truncation forcing, which confines PC designs there to a hereditary set.

The planned next cycle was the lift on the full allowed set \(\mathcal A\). Before it, this review asks what the dance line still contributes, and where the lift now stands relative to the closure route.

The line's general claim

conj:top-lift-subset. On the weak base over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns, take any family of blocks whose linear parts are \(\delta\)-dense modulo the row sums, with independent uniform prefixes. With high probability, the allowed set of the normal-form clauses contains a nonempty subset \(\mathcal Q\) such that:

\(1\notin N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\), which a design of degree \(D-1\) on \(\mathcal Q\) certifies;
\(N_D(\mathcal Q)\cap F^{\mathcal Q}_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\).

By prop:design-lift-criterion this gives W_RS at degree \(D\). With thm:randomized-prefix-reduction and the free normal form, it gives the goal.

conj:row-free-subset implies it. Row freeness through \(D\) gives the lifting at every degree \(e\le D\) (prop:design-lift-criterion (3)). By induction from \(N_0=0\) it also gives \(1\notin N_e\). The converse fails for individual sets: on the recorded pinned-row set the cycle \(r_1e_1\) lifts without being Frobenius or a boundary. This separates the two conditions on one set, not the two conjectures for families.

What the goal needs

PC hardness of W_RS at degree \(D\approx44t\) for all families of \(M\le n^K\) blocks. Split along the conjecture:

the Nullstellensatz part, a design of degree \(D-1\) on \(\mathcal Q\), is where the dance line works;
the top-level lifting is the closure route's question, at one degree instead of all degrees up to \(D\).

Falsification attempt: which subsets can work

Three candidate supports were tested against recorded results.

The truncated support \(\mathcal Q_D\). Excluded. By prop:top-drop-coordinates (6), PC confines designs to matchings containing no excluded \(U\) with \(\binom{m-|U|-1}{D-|U|}\not\equiv0\). In the model with independent exclusions of density \(\delta=M3^{-t}\), a \(D\)-matching survives with probability about \((1-\delta)^{2^D}\approx e^{-2^D\delta}\). Since \(2^D\delta\to\infty\) at \(D\approx44t\), almost no \(D\)-matching survives. This is a heuristic in that model; W_RS exclusions are correlated.
The full allowed set \(\mathcal A\). Heuristically excluded for the varying-shift family of prop:varying-shift-affine-fall. There weak PHP plus the members derive, at a bounded degree \(e\ge2\), the affine equation \(f=L_0+r_i^{(1)}+1\), which is a fall on the sculpted allowed set. Its multiples \(x_Sf\) with \(|S|=D-e\) lie in \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\). Condition (a) on \(\mathcal A\) needs them in \(N_{D-1}\), a Nullstellensatz degree one below the derivation's \(|S|+e\). Unless the fall has a cheaper derivation after multiplication, (a) fails on \(\mathcal A\). This is not proved: the Nullstellensatz degree of \(x_Sf\) was not bounded below.
Sculpted pieces. On \(\mathcal A\cap\{f=0\}\), the fall vanishes identically and its multiples cause no drop. lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency records that this family contains row-free pullback pieces, under the pullback hypotheses. By the implication above, those pieces are top-lift subsets under the same hypotheses.

Outcome. The conjecture survives the recorded obstructions only in its subset form, and only through pieces the closure route already found. The dance line's supports \(\mathcal Q_D\) fail at the PC level. Its designs, viewed as functionals on \(\mathcal A\), are not yet tested against the multiples PC derives on \(\mathcal A\).

Obstacle

The lift needs a subset \(\mathcal Q\) of the allowed set on which the top-degree syzygies of the row sums lift. The only certified subsets are pullback pieces within joint capacity. Beyond capacity, no realized mechanism controls the syzygies of the row sums on any subset; lem:pullback-row-freeness names a member-wise argument with transversality modulo the row sums as a candidate. The dance line constructs Nullstellensatz designs but says nothing about syzygies. Its natural carrier, the small matchings, is where PC gains the most, through truncation.

Assessment of the line

For the dance line's PC contribution: weak. Its designs supply the Nullstellensatz half of the conjecture, which row freeness would supply anyway, and its carrier fails at the PC level. The combined target is weaker than conj:row-free-subset in two ways, a single degree and lifting instead of generation. That is real but modest room. The Nullstellensatz part of the dance line stays between weak and moderate, as in the dance review.

Outside leads

H-bases (Möller and Sauer, H-bases for polynomial interpolation and system solving, Adv. Comput. Math. 12, 2000). Target: the top-level lifting. Answers. Generators form an H-basis of their ideal, meaning their degree-compatible combinations never drop degree, iff every syzygy of their top forms lifts. It suffices to check a generating set of the top syzygy module, as for Buchberger's criterion. For conj:top-lift-subset only the degree-\(D\) generators of the syzygy module of the row sums on \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}\) need checking. Test. Not run: the lead's content is that checking generators suffices, and no generating set of the top syzygy module was computed for any W_RS support. The only related fact, that the pinned-row cycle lifts, was established without H-basis theory.
Razborov's operator method (Razborov, Lower bounds for the polynomial calculus, Comput. Complexity 7, 1998). Target: the lift, bypassed. Answers. A linear \(R\) with \(R(1)\ne0\), \(R\) zero on the axioms and \(R(xR(f))=R(xf)\) below \(D\) certifies PC hardness directly, with no Nullstellensatz step. A dance-type reduction on \(\mathcal A\) would give one. Test. Not run: constructing \(R\) for normal-form clauses is the development itself, not a cheap test.
Alekhnovich and Razborov, Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case (Proc. Steklov Inst. 242, 2003). Target: the lift for sparse random constraints. Answers. For immune constraints on an expanding constraint graph their operator gives PC lower bounds, which would cover the clauses without any Nullstellensatz design. Test. Falsified for dense blocks: the recorded audit (audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope) found that the checked criterion gives no positive bound for high-rank affine companions, A dense W_RS block gives constraints touching the cells of every pigeon, which appears to rule out the boundary expansion the criterion needs; that reading was not rechecked against the source this cycle.

Absurd bridges

Bootstrap percolation (Aizenman and Lebowitz, Metastability effects in bootstrap percolation, J. Phys. A 21, 1988). Translation: PC's multiplication of a derived multiple \(x_U\) to all supersets is a monotone infection of the matching lattice from the excluded matchings. On \(\mathcal Q_D\) the threshold is one infected submatching. On \(\mathcal A\), infection needs a drop, which is a higher threshold. Answers. Bootstrap theory locates the critical density at which infection spreads, which would say whether a support survives PC's forcing. Test. Passed as a translation on \(\mathcal Q_D\). With threshold one, the surviving fraction of \(D\)-matchings is about \(e^{-2^D\delta}\) in the independence model, so the process is supercritical, matching truncation forcing. The threshold on \(\mathcal A\) is not identified.
The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes (Bravyi and Terhal, New J. Phys. 11, 2009). Translation: rows are stabilizers, designs are logical functionals, and excluded matchings form a region to be cleaned. Answers. If a region is correctable, every logical operator can be moved off it; that would move a design off the excluded set. Test. Falsified as a tool: correctability of the region is exactly the absence of cochain obstructions supported there, the filling duality of prop:safe-hole-extension (2). The lemma restates the open condition without bounding it.

Lead follow-up

The Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall basis. Work this cycle: none needed. The design lift criterion poses the lift on functions on the allowed set of weak PHP, with no basis and no functional axioms. Follow-up. Closed: superseded by prop:design-lift-criterion.
Cone constructions for coboundary expansion. Work this cycle: prop:top-drop-coordinates identified the relevant cochains at the top level, unsigned pigeon cochains on \((D-1)\)-matchings. Their coboundary may equal superset patterns of excluded smaller matchings instead of vanishing. Expansion would bound the pairs without superset terms, but the carrier \(\mathcal Q_D\) is excluded, and the cochains on \(\mathcal A\) are not yet written. Follow-up. Continuing.

Bridge follow-up

Warning propagation. Work this cycle: under PC on \(\mathcal Q_D\), a forced zero at an excluded \(U\) spreads to every superset within degree \(D\) (truncation forcing), not only to the parent faces. The subcritical estimate of the dance review holds for the Nullstellensatz recursion, but the PC process is supercritical, as the bootstrap bridge computes. Follow-up. Closed: the question moves to the threshold on \(\mathcal A\), carried by the bootstrap bridge.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, the highest-risk item: top-level lifting on pullback pieces beyond capacity. lem:pullback-row-freeness needs joint freeness and fiber independence through \(D\). Ask whether top-level lifting on a pullback piece follows from those hypotheses in degree \(D\) alone, or from a weaker transversality there. Test the answer on the varying-shift family's sculpted piece, the one place where the full allowed set heuristically fails.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:design-lift-criterion, prop:top-drop-coordinates, the dance review, and the statements of conj:row-free-subset, lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency, prop:varying-shift-affine-fall, lem:pullback-row-freeness and audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope. No computation was run; the survival estimates are heuristics in the model with independent exclusions, labelled as such. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the implication from conj:row-free-subset, the degree bookkeeping of the varying-shift heuristic, the sculpted-piece claim and both closures. It required these changes, all adopted:

the pinned-row witness now separates the two conditions on one set, not the two conjectures;
the H-bases lead's test is "Not run", since its substance, generation of the top syzygy module, was not computed;
the Alekhnovich–Razborov falsification now marks its expansion premise as a reading not rechecked against the source;
the Obstacle says "no realized mechanism" and names the candidate member-wise argument.

The reviewer also flagged the date "27 September 2000" in the summary of audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope as a possible transcription artifact. The audit's recorded source metadata gives the read version as a preprint dated 27 September 2000, so the date is genuine.

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Freeness propagation: over a truncated polynomial algebra, injectivity of a free presentation in the top degree forces it in every lower degree, so the pullback hypotheses cannot be weakened to the top degree, and spans covering all cells fail them outright. Top-lift subsets beyond joint capacity must come from lifting of non-free syzygies, as in the pinned row, not from freeness

27 September 2026 · Working proof and obstruction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-top-lift-pullback. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Freeness propagation: over a truncated polynomial algebra, injectivity of a free presentation in the top degree forces it in every lower degree, so the pullback hypotheses cannot be weakened to the top degree, and spans covering all cells fail them outright. Top-lift subsets beyond joint capacity must come from lifting of non-free syzygies, as in the pinned row, not from freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-freeness-propagation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The lift review reduced the PC lift to conj:top-lift-subset: a subset of the allowed set with a Nullstellensatz design, on which the top-degree syzygies of the row sums lift. The only certified subsets are pullback pieces within joint capacity (lem:pullback-row-freeness), whose hypotheses, joint freeness (JF) and fiber independence (FI), are assumed through \(D\). The review asked whether they are needed only in degree \(D\). A yes would raise the capacity; a no would close this way around it.

General statement. prop:freeness-propagation, over any field, for \(R=\mathbb F[y_1,\dots,y_k]/(y_1^{p},\dots,y_k^{p})\) graded by degree, with socle degree \(s=k(p-1)\), and any graded \(R\)-module \(G\). If \(\mu:R\otimes B\to G\), \(r\otimes b\mapsto rb\), is injective in some degree \(D\le s\), for a graded subspace \(B\subseteq G\), then \(\mu\) is injective in every degree \(e\le D\). FI in degree \(D\) contains FI in every lower degree. So the hypotheses of lem:pullback-row-freeness in degree \(D\) alone imply their injective part in all degrees below. The capacity cannot be raised by keeping only the top degree.

prop:freeness-propagation

Setting. \(R=\mathbb F[y_1,\dots,y_k]/(y_j^p)\), graded with \(\deg y_j=1\). Its socle is spanned by \(y^{(p-1,\dots,p-1)}\), in degree \(s=k(p-1)\). \(G\) is a graded \(R\)-module, and \(B\subseteq G\) a graded subspace with homogeneous basis \(\{b_\beta\}\).

Statement.

Let \(u\in R_c\) be nonzero, and \(0\le k'\le s-c\). Some monomial \(y^\gamma\) of degree \(k'\) has \(y^\gamma u\ne0\).
If \(\mu\) is injective in degree \(D\le s\), it is injective in every degree \(e\le D\).
For the pullback setting, take \(R=T\otimes\Lambda\), with \(k=d+m-1\) and \(p=3\), acting on \(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P\). Suppose \(T\otimes\Lambda\otimes B\to G\) is injective in degree \(D\le2(d+m-1)\). Then it is injective in all lower degrees. In particular \(T\to G\) is injective in degree 1 when \(1\in B\), so the linear parts \(\ell_j\) are independent modulo the row sums, and \(d\le\dim G_1-(m-1)\). FI in degree \(D\) is, by definition, FI for all \(d'\le D\).

Proof.

\(R\) is a Poincaré duality algebra: the multiplication pairing \(R_c\times R_{s-c}\to R_s\) is perfect, since the monomials of degree \(c\) pair with their complements \(y^{(p-1,\dots)-\alpha}\). So some \(v\in R_{s-c}\) has \(uv\ne0\), and then some monomial \(y^\delta\) in \(v\) has \(y^\delta u\ne0\). Any divisor \(y^\gamma\) of \(y^\delta\) of degree \(k'\) has \(y^\gamma u\ne0\), since \(y^\delta u=y^{\delta-\gamma}(y^\gamma u)\).
Let \(\rho=\sum_\beta u_\beta\otimes b_\beta\) be a nonzero element of \(\ker\mu\) in degree \(e<D\), and pick \(\beta\) with \(u_\beta\ne0\), of degree \(c=e-\deg b_\beta\le e\). Since \(D-e\le s-c\), part (1) gives a monomial \(y^\gamma\) of degree \(D-e\) with \(y^\gamma u_\beta\ne0\). Then \(y^\gamma\rho\) is nonzero in \(R\otimes B\), because its \(b_\beta\)-component is nonzero. It lies in \(\ker\mu\) in degree \(D\), since \(\mu\) is \(R\)-linear.
\(T\otimes\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[w_1,\dots,w_d,r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(\text{cubes})\) is of this form, with \(k=d+m-1\). Apply (2). In degree 1 with \(1\in B\), injectivity says that \(w_j\mapsto\ell_j\) and \(r_i\mapsto r_i\) are independent in \(G_1\). FI in lem:pullback-row-freeness is a family of conditions indexed by \(d'\le D\), each on the nested sets \(\{\tilde c_\beta:\deg c_\beta\le d'\}\). Independence of the set for \(d'=D\) contains the smaller ones. \(\square\)

What it gives

The capacity of the pullback route is a property of the top degree as much as of the lower ones. A pullback piece of \(d\) forms with JF in degree \(D\) needs \(T\) to inject into \(G\) in every degree up to \(D\). That includes degree 1, where the linear parts must be independent modulo the row sums. It also excludes large spans outright. \(G\) is generated by \(G_1\): the functions of degree at most \(d\) are spanned by products of at most \(d\) variables, so \(G_d\) is spanned by products of classes in \(G_1\). So if the linear parts and the row sums span \(G_1\), then \(T\otimes\Lambda\to G\) is surjective. Its kernel in degree 2 contains \(x_{11}^2\), written in the basis of linear parts. The variable is Boolean, \(x_{11}^2=x_{11}\) as functions, so its square has degree 1 and its class in \(G_2\) is 0. In the truncated ring, where only cubes vanish, the square of a nonzero linear form is nonzero. By (2), injectivity then fails in every degree \(2\le D\le s\). A prefix-vanishing piece pins one form per block. When those forms span all cells modulo the row sums, which is possible once there are about \(n^2\) blocks, no version of the pullback lemma, top-degree or not, certifies the piece.

What remains of conj:top-lift-subset beyond capacity is the gap between lifting and freeness. prop:design-lift-criterion (3) showed that lifting can hold where freeness fails: on the pinned-row set, the cycle \(r_1e_1\) lifts because \(s_1(s_1-1)=0\) holds on the set, a polynomial identity in the row sum. A top syzygy \(\sum a_ir_i=0\) lifts exactly when some lifts \(H_i\) give \(\sum H_i\rho_i\in N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\). This is a row identity on \(\mathcal Q\) up to lower Nullstellensatz terms. So top-lift subsets beyond capacity would be sets whose non-free syzygies all come from row identities of this kind.

Outcome. The degree-local weakening of the pullback hypotheses is closed on its injective side: top-degree injectivity propagates down, and FI is already monotone. JF also asks for spanning in each degree, which does not propagate, but spanning is not what fails beyond capacity; injectivity is. The remaining room in conj:top-lift-subset is lifting through row identities, the mechanism of the pinned-row example.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: lifting through row identities, and whether it glues. For two sets \(\mathcal Q_1,\mathcal Q_2\) on which the top-degree syzygies lift, ask when they lift on \(\mathcal Q_1\cap\mathcal Q_2\). Freeness needed the defect conditions (i) and (ii) of lem:defect-gluing. Lifting may need only a Mayer–Vietoris condition on the row identities. The members of a W_RS family are within capacity one at a time, so a gluing statement for lifting would reach the family.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pullback-row-freeness and prop:design-lift-criterion (3). A claim search found no prior version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed parts (1) and (2): the Poincaré duality pairing, the divisor step, the degree bookkeeping and the \(R\)-linearity. It required three changes, all adopted:

the Outcome now separates the injective part of JF, which propagates, from its spanning part, which does not but is not what fails beyond capacity;
the generation of \(G\) by \(G_1\) is justified;
the degree-2 relation is explained by Booleanity of the variables, against the cubic truncation of \(T\otimes\Lambda\).

The reviewer also noted that FI monotonicity is immediate from its definition, which the entry states. The changes clarify or weaken claims, so one pass suffices.

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Lift gluing: top-degree lifting of the row syzygies passes from two sets to their intersection when, in degree \(D\), every top of the intersection's vanishing ideal that lies in the row-sum ideal splits into such tops of the two pieces. With no defect in degree \(D\) it has the form of condition (i) of defect gluing, in that degree alone. Pullback members then glue into a family under one top-degree condition per step

27 September 2026 · Working proof and reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-lift-gluing. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Lift gluing: top-degree lifting of the row syzygies passes from two sets to their intersection when, in degree \(D\), every top of the intersection's vanishing ideal that lies in the row-sum ideal splits into such tops of the two pieces. With no defect in degree \(D\) it has the form of condition (i) of defect gluing, in that degree alone. Pullback members then glue into a family under one top-degree condition per step”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-lift-gluing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Freeness propagation closed the degree-local weakening of the pullback lemma. It left conj:top-lift-subset beyond capacity to lifting, which can hold where freeness fails. The members of a W_RS family are within capacity one at a time. This cycle asks when top-degree lifting glues along intersections, and how the condition compares with lem:defect-gluing, which glues freeness through all degrees up to \(D\).

General statement. lem:lift-gluing, over any field of characteristic \(p\), for any sets \(\mathcal Q_1,\mathcal Q_2\) of column-injective assignments and any \(D\). Suppose condition (a) of prop:design-lift-criterion holds in degree \(D\) on the base, on \(\mathcal Q_1\) and on \(\mathcal Q_2\). Suppose also that the splitting condition (S) holds in degree \(D\). Then (a) holds in degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal Q_1\cap\mathcal Q_2\). For \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge(p-1)D^2\) the base hypothesis is thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. With no defect in degree \(D\), (S) is equivalent to a distributive law of the form of condition (i) of lem:defect-gluing, in degree \(D\) only. Iterated, pullback members within capacity give (a) on the family's allowed set, under (S) at each step.

lem:lift-gluing

Setting. \(\mathcal B\) is the set of all column-injective 0/1 assignments of \(m\) rows to \(N\) holes. \(G=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal B}\), and \(r_0,\dots,r_{m-1}\in G_1\) are the classes of the row equations \(\rho_i\). \(\mathfrak mG=\sum_ir_iG\). For \(\mathcal Q\subseteq\mathcal B\):

\(I(\mathcal Q)\) is the ideal of functions vanishing on \(\mathcal Q\);
\(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q}\subseteq G\) is its top ideal, so \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}=G/\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q}\);
\(N_e=N_e(\mathcal B)\) is the Nullstellensatz span in the functions on \(\mathcal B\).

Condition (a) on \(\mathcal Q\) in degree \(D\) is prop:design-lift-criterion (a): \(N_D(\mathcal Q)\cap F^{\mathcal Q}_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\).

(S) in degree \(D\): \((\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_1\cap\mathcal Q_2})_D\cap(\mathfrak mG)_D\subseteq(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_1}\cap\mathfrak mG)_D+(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_2}\cap\mathfrak mG)_D\).

Statement.

Pulled-back lifting. (a) holds on \(\mathcal Q\) in degree \(D\) iff the following holds. For every \((a_i)\in G_{D-1}^m\) with \(\sum a_ir_i\in\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q}\), and any \(H_i\in F^{\mathcal B}_{D-1}\) whose degree-\((D-1)\) parts are the \(a_i\), \(\sum H_i\rho_i\in N_{D-1}+I(\mathcal Q)\).
Gluing. If (a) holds in degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal B\), \(\mathcal Q_1\) and \(\mathcal Q_2\), and (S) holds in degree \(D\), then (a) holds in degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal Q_1\cap\mathcal Q_2\).
Comparison. If \((\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_1\cap\mathcal Q_2})_D=(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_1}+\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_2})_D\), no defect in degree \(D\), then (S) in degree \(D\) is equivalent to \((\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_1}\cap\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_2})_D+(\mathfrak mG)_D=(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_1}+\mathfrak mG)_D\cap(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_2}+\mathfrak mG)_D\), the form of condition (i) of lem:defect-gluing in degree \(D\). That lemma states (i) on the slice, in \(\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^P\) with the rows \(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}\), where \(r_0=-\sum_{i\ge1}r_i\); here it is stated in \(G\) with all \(m\) rows.
Families. Let \(\mathcal Q=\mathcal Q_1\cap\dots\cap\mathcal Q_M\), with (a) in degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal B\) and on each \(\mathcal Q_j\). Suppose (S) holds in degree \(D\) for each pair \((\mathcal Q_1\cap\dots\cap\mathcal Q_{j-1},\mathcal Q_j)\). Then (a) holds in degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal Q\). If also \(1\notin N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\), weak PHP plus any constraints vanishing on \(\mathcal Q\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof.

This is (a)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(b) of prop:design-lift-criterion, pulled back to \(\mathcal B\).
- A syzygy of the \(r_i\) in \(\operatorname{gr}_D\mathbb F^{\mathcal Q}=G_D/(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q})_D\) with coefficients in \(G_{D-1}/(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q})_{D-1}\) is represented by \((a_i)\) with \(\sum a_ir_i\in\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q}\).
- The restriction of \(H_i\) to \(\mathcal Q\) lies in \(F^{\mathcal Q}_{D-1}\), and its class in \(\operatorname{gr}_{D-1}\) is the image of \(a_i\), so it is a lift.
- \(N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q)\) is the restriction of \(N_{D-1}\), so membership after restriction means membership in \(N_{D-1}+I(\mathcal Q)\).
The criterion does not depend on the choice of lifts.
Put \(\mathcal Q=\mathcal Q_1\cap\mathcal Q_2\) and take \((a_i)\) with \(v=\sum a_ir_i\in\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q}\). Then \(v\in(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q})_D\cap(\mathfrak mG)_D\). By (S), \(v=v_1+v_2\) with \(v_k=\sum_ia^k_ir_i\in\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_k}\) and \(a^k_i\in G_{D-1}\).
- \((a^k_i)\) is a syzygy for \(\mathcal Q_k\). By (1) on \(\mathcal Q_k\), lifts \(H^k_i\) give \(\sum H^k_i\rho_i\in N_{D-1}+I(\mathcal Q_k)\).
- \(a^0=a-a^1-a^2\) has \(\sum a^0_ir_i=0\) in \(G\), a syzygy for \(\mathcal B\), where \(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal B}=0\). By (1) on \(\mathcal B\), lifts \(H^0_i\) give \(\sum H^0_i\rho_i\in N_{D-1}\).
\(H_i=H^0_i+H^1_i+H^2_i\) has degree-\((D-1)\) part \(a_i\), and \(\sum H_i\rho_i\in N_{D-1}+I(\mathcal Q_1)+I(\mathcal Q_2)\subseteq N_{D-1}+I(\mathcal Q)\). By (1), (a) holds on \(\mathcal Q\).
Write \(A=(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_1})_D\), \(B=(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_2})_D\), \(C=(\mathfrak mG)_D\). With no defect, (S) reads \((A+B)\cap C\subseteq A\cap C+B\cap C\), and the reverse inclusion always holds. The dual law is \((A\cap B)+C=(A+C)\cap(B+C)\), where again one inclusion always holds. Expanding dimensions with \(\dim(X\cap Y)=\dim X+\dim Y-\dim(X+Y)\) gives the same defect for both: \[\dim((A+B)\cap C)-\dim(A\cap C+B\cap C)=\dim((A+C)\cap(B+C))-\dim(A\cap B+C)\] \[=\dim A+\dim B+\dim C-\dim(A\cap B)-\dim(A\cap C)-\dim(B\cap C)+\dim(A\cap B\cap C)-\dim(A+B+C).\] So one law holds iff the other does.
Induct on \(j\) with (2). The final claim is prop:design-lift-criterion (2).
The base hypothesis. thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic gives \(z\)-injectivity below \(D\) for the homogenized weak base: Booleanity, column exclusions and row equations, with no slice condition. In degree \(D-1\) this is (a) on \(\mathcal B\). A polynomial of degree at most \(e\) vanishing on \(\mathcal B\) is a combination of Booleanity and collision multiples within degree \(e\): reduce it multilinearly, then remove the monomials containing a collision, and what remains is a column-injective multilinear polynomial vanishing on \(\mathcal B\), hence zero. So the dehomogenized degree-\(e\) part of the homogenized ideal is \(N_e\) plus polynomials of degree at most \(e\) vanishing on \(\mathcal B\). \(z\)-injectivity in degree \(D-1\) then says exactly that \(N_D\cap F^{\mathcal B}_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}\). \(\square\)

What it gives

Compared with lem:defect-gluing, lift gluing asks for less in three ways:

the pieces need only lifting in degree \(D\), not freeness through \(D\);
the gluing condition is imposed in degree \(D\) only;
(S) handles the defect directly: a defect is harmless as long as its part in the row-sum ideal splits.

With no defect, (S) is exactly (i) in the top degree. The pinned-row set is a piece where lifting holds and freeness fails, so the first relaxation is real. The second has no counterpart in freeness propagation. That lemma concerns injectivity of a free presentation, not the gluing condition.

For W_RS, the allowed set is the intersection of the members' allowed sets \(\mathcal A_b\). Each member has \(h\) forms, within capacity. Its allowed set lies in the slice \(P\) of assignments with total occupancy \(\equiv m\pmod 3\), the setting of lem:pullback-row-freeness and lem:defect-gluing, so prop:design-lift-criterion (3) applies to it. Under JF and FI for its forms, lem:pullback-row-freeness makes it row-free through \(D\), hence (a) in degree \(D\). So W_RS at degree \(D\) reduces, along any ordering of the members, to three conditions:

(S) in degree \(D\) at each of the \(M-1\) steps;
\(1\notin N_{D-1}(\mathcal A)\), the Nullstellensatz half, which the dance line addresses;
the members' pullback hypotheses.

(a) on \(\mathcal B\) is a standing hypothesis, supplied by thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic for \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D^2\).

The subset form of conj:top-lift-subset allows replacing each \(\mathcal A_b\) by a sculpted piece.

The varying-shift family of prop:varying-shift-affine-fall is a check. Heuristically, (a) fails on its allowed set (lift review), while its members are within capacity. By (2), (S) must then fail at some step, or a member's hypotheses fail. The fall's top \(\ell_0+r_i^{(1)}\) is a candidate witness, a degree-1 element whose multiples reach the top degree. This was not checked.

Outcome. Top-degree lifting glues under a single top-degree condition per step, which is weaker than defect gluing's conditions through \(D\). With the pullback lemma for members and the dance line's Nullstellensatz half, W_RS reduces to (S) in degree \(D\) along the members. Whether (S) holds for W_RS families beyond capacity is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: (S) for two W_RS members in general position. Take members \(b,b'\) with forms dense modulo the row sums, within joint capacity. Identify \((\mathfrak n_{\mathcal A_b\cap\mathcal A_{b'}})_D\cap\mathfrak mG\) through lem:pullback-row-freeness applied to the pair. Check whether it splits, then locate the step at which the varying-shift family breaks (S). If two generic members satisfy (S) with room to spare, ask whether the room survives \(n^K\) steps.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:design-lift-criterion and the statements of lem:defect-gluing, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, lem:pullback-row-freeness, prop:varying-shift-affine-fall and thm:relative-gluing. A claim search found no prior version; thm:relative-gluing glues syzygies of constraint tops, not sets. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed parts (1) to (3): the pulled-back lifting, including lifts whose restriction drops degree; the splitting and the base syzygy; and, recomputed from scratch, the dimension identity. It required three changes, all adopted:

the bridge from the base theorem's \(z\)-injectivity to (a) on \(\mathcal B\) is now proved (part 5), with no slice condition;
the members' allowed sets are placed in the slice before prop:design-lift-criterion (3) is applied;
the comparison with lem:defect-gluing now says "of the form of (i)", noting that that lemma works on the slice with rows \(1,\dots,m-1\).

Its optional suggestion is adopted: (a) on \(\mathcal B\) is named as a standing hypothesis. The changes clarify or add justification, so one pass suffices.

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Route review after lift gluing: the design lift, top drops, freeness propagation and lift gluing all reduce the PC lift to one obligation, beyond joint capacity, that none of them touches. Within capacity the splitting condition is bypassed. The allowed set is the base minus a sparse excluded set, and its vanishing ideal consists of the functions supported there

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-splitting-pair. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after lift gluing: the design lift, top drops, freeness propagation and lift gluing all reduce the PC lift to one obligation, beyond joint capacity, that none of them touches. Within capacity the splitting condition is bypassed. The allowed set is the base minus a sparse excluded set, and its vanishing ideal consists of the functions supported there”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-capacity-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The planned cycle was the splitting condition (S) of lem:lift-gluing for two members within joint capacity. That case is settled by the record without (S): cor:subfamily-row-freeness makes the intersection row-free under the pullback hypotheses, hence (a) by prop:design-lift-criterion (3). So (S) is needed only at steps whose accumulated forms exceed capacity. Four cycles since the dance review have produced reductions to that same obligation, so this cycle is a route review.

The line's general claim

conj:top-lift-subset, in the form given by lem:lift-gluing. For a W_RS family with forms dense modulo the row sums, (S) holds in degree \(D\) at every step along some ordering of the members, possibly on sculpted pieces, and the allowed set carries a Nullstellensatz design of degree \(D-1\). With the members' pullback hypotheses and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, this gives W_RS at degree \(D\).

What the goal needs

(S) beyond joint capacity, where the accumulated forms span a space of dimension well above \(N/(2D)\), for families of up to \(n^K\) dense blocks. Also the Nullstellensatz half on the same set.

Falsification attempt

Within capacity. (S) is not needed there: the intersection is row-free by cor:subfamily-row-freeness, which gives (a) directly. Whether (S) itself holds there was not examined; it is moot.
The varying-shift family (prop:varying-shift-affine-fall). Its members are a core on \(L_0,L_1\) and one member per column \(c\) of row \(i\), each adding the form \(x_{ic}\). A partial family with \(j\) column members has \(j+2\) forms. The fall \(L_0+r_i^{(1)}+1\) involves the partial row sum over all of \(C_1\), and the recorded family has members for all \(N\) columns of row \(i\), which \(C_1\) and \(C_2\) partition. A step that brings in the last member it uses has at least \(N/2+2\) accumulated forms if that member lies in the larger class. Whether a partial family already produces the fall was not checked. If the fall needs every member, the accumulated forms exceed \(N/(2D)\) for \(D\ge1\). If (a) fails on this allowed set, as the lift review argued heuristically, then by lem:lift-gluing (S) fails at a step beyond capacity. That is consistent with the conjecture's subset form, which permits sculpting the fall away.

Outcome. Within capacity, (a) holds on intersections without (S), and the known failure lies beyond capacity. The conjecture is not falsified, and it carries information only beyond capacity. This leaves the route's status unchanged.

Obstacle

(S) in degree \(D\) at a step \(\mathcal Q'\cap\mathcal A_j\), where \(\mathcal Q'\) is the intersection of many members' allowed sets, beyond joint capacity. Every tool on this route either needs joint freeness of the accumulated forms (pullback, sub-family row freeness) or restates (S) (defect gluing, lift gluing). Nothing controls the tops of \(I(\mathcal Q')\) once the forms span more than \(N/(2D)\) dimensions.

One reformulation is available. The allowed set is \(\mathcal A=P\setminus E\), where each point is excluded with probability at most \(M3^{-t}=O(1/n)\). So \(I(\mathcal A)\), as functions on the finite set \(P\), is the space of functions supported on \(E\). Its tops in degree at most \(D\) are the tops of low-degree functions supported on a sparse set. Every clause is such a function, of degree \(4t+2\).

Assessment of the line

Weak. The four cycles clarified the PC lift a great deal: it needs one degree, lifting instead of freeness, and one splitting condition per step. But each clarification ends at the same obligation beyond capacity, and none touched it. The Nullstellensatz half (the dance line) and the within-capacity half (pullback) are separately in hand, conditionally. Their junction beyond capacity is the whole difficulty, as it was for row freeness.

Outside leads

The Kasami–Tokura theorem (Kasami and Tokura, On the weight structure of Reed–Muller codes, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 16, 1970). Target: the tops of \(I(\mathcal A)\). Answers. Reed–Muller codewords of weight below twice the minimum distance have an explicit product form. Functions of degree at most \(D\) supported on \(E\) are such codewords when \(E\) is light enough. That would identify the tops of \(I(\mathcal A)\) as products of affine forms, the clauses' own shape, and turn (S) into a statement about products of forms. Test. Falsified at degree \(D\) in the Boolean-cube model. A nonzero function of degree \(d\) is nonzero on at least a \(2^{-d}\) fraction of the cube, and the theorem needs weight below twice that. The excluded density \(M3^{-t}\) exceeds \(2^{1-d}\) as soon as \(d>t\log_23-\log_2M+1\), which is at most \(1.6t+1\) and far below \(D\approx44t\).
The Lovász local lemma in the Moser–Tardos form (Moser and Tardos, J. ACM 57, 2010). Target: (S) at all steps at once, as avoiding rare bad events. Answers. If each step fails rarely and depends on few others, all steps succeed with positive probability. Test. Falsified: dense blocks share all their variables, so the dependency graph is complete of degree \(M-1\), and no bound on a single step's failure probability is known. The lemma needs one below \(1/(eM)\).
Representation stability for FI-modules (Church, Ellenberg and Farb, FI-modules and stability for representations of symmetric groups, Duke Math. J. 164, 2015). Target: the expected failure of (S). Answers. The W_RS distribution is invariant in law under permutations of pigeons and holes. If the expected dimension of the failure space of (S) were the character of an FI-module, stability would bound it polynomially in \(n\), and a union bound over steps could follow. Test. Not run: the failure space is defined for a fixed family and is not functorial in the board. Only its expectation is symmetric, and no FI-structure on expectations was set up.

Absurd bridges

Replica symmetry in random constraint satisfaction (Achlioptas and Coja-Oghlan, Algorithmic barriers from phase transitions, FOCS 2008). Translation: the allowed set is the solution space of a random CSP with one constraint per block, and top-lift subsets are clusters. Answers. Below the clustering threshold the solution space is one well-connected piece. Its typical subsets inherit the whole space's properties, which would make \(\mathcal A\) itself a top-lift subset. Test. Passed as a translation. The excluded density is \(O(1/n)\), so \(\mathcal A\) is all but a vanishing fraction of \(P\), deep in the replica-symmetric regime. This gave the reformulation above: \(I(\mathcal A)\) consists of the functions supported on the sparse set \(E\). It does not by itself give (S).
Compressed sensing and the restricted isometry property (Candès and Tao, Decoding by linear programming, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 51, 2005). Translation: a function of degree at most \(D\) supported on \(E\) is a sparse vector in the subspace \(F_D\). Answers. For a generic subspace of that dimension, no sparse vector lies in it below a sparsity threshold. That would make \(I(\mathcal A)\) trivial in low degree. Test. Falsified: \(F_D\) is structured, not generic, and the clauses themselves are functions of degree \(4t+2\) supported on \(E\). Genericity is beaten by the clause structure at the first degree where clauses exist.

Lead follow-up

Cone constructions for coboundary expansion. Work this cycle: the lead was checked against the current form of the obstacle. The top obstruction cochains of prop:top-drop-coordinates live on the truncated carrier, which the lift review excluded. On the full allowed set the obstruction is the splitting condition (S), which is not a question about cochain supports. Follow-up. Closed: the cochain formulation belongs to an excluded carrier.

Bridge follow-up

Bootstrap percolation. Work this cycle: on \(\mathcal A=P\setminus E\), PC's forcing needs a drop. A drop comes from a function of low degree supported on \(E\) whose top lies in the row-sum ideal without splitting. So the infection threshold on \(\mathcal A\) is the sparsity at which \(E\) begins to support such functions, a question about low-degree functions on sparse sets. Follow-up. Continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, the highest-risk item: the separator degree. For excluded sets \(E_1,E_2\) of a step, a function of degree at most \(D\) supported on \(E_1\cup E_2\) splits into pieces supported on each exactly as far as a low-degree separator of \(E_1\) from \(E_2\) allows. For a W_RS block, \(1_{E_b}\) is a polynomial in the block's forms of degree at most \(2h+4t\): with \(g_i=1-L_i^2\in\{0,1\}\), \(E_b=\{g\ne0,\ Cg=0\}\), and \(1_{E_b}=\bigl(1-\prod_{i\le h}(1-g_i)\bigr)\prod_{j\le t}\bigl(1-(Cg)_j^2\bigr)\), of degree at most \(2h+4t\). State the defect and (S) in terms of separator degrees, and find the degree cost at which a step beyond capacity splits. Also give the Razborov-operator lead of the lift review its development cycle, since it is unrun and bears on A1.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the four entries since the dance review, and the statements of cor:subfamily-row-freeness, lem:lift-gluing, conj:top-lift-subset and prop:varying-shift-affine-fall. No computation was run; the lead tests are arithmetic in stated models. A fresh-context reviewer found the varying-shift argument honestly hedged, the reformulation of \(I(\mathcal A)\) consistent and the citations plausible. It required these changes, all adopted:

within capacity, (S) is described as bypassed, not as holding;
the sign of \(\log_2M\) in the Kasami–Tokura threshold is corrected, which only strengthens the falsification;
the reformulation says that \(I(\mathcal A)\) is taken as functions on the finite set \(P\);
the cone-constructions closure now records its check as this cycle's work;
the degree bound for \(1_{E_b}\) in the next step is derived.

The reviewer asked whether the threshold should be 2.5 times the minimum weight. Twice the minimum weight is the range of the 1970 Kasami–Tokura theorem; the extension to 2.5 is due to Kasami, Tokura and Azumi, and does not change the test. The changes weaken or justify claims, so one pass suffices.

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Separator splitting: a function supported on a union of two excluded sets splits into pieces supported on each, at a degree cost equal to the degree of a separator. For a W_RS block the block's own excluded indicator separates it from everything else, at cost at most \(2h+4t\). The costs add along members, so within the budget \(D\approx44t\) these separators glue only a bounded number of blocks

27 September 2026 · Working proof and ceiling · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-separator-degree. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Separator splitting: a function supported on a union of two excluded sets splits into pieces supported on each, at a degree cost equal to the degree of a separator. For a W_RS block the block's own excluded indicator separates it from everything else, at cost at most \(2h+4t\). The costs add along members, so within the budget \(D\approx44t\) these separators glue only a bounded number of blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-separator-splitting.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The capacity review located the PC lift's obstacle in the splitting condition (S) of lem:lift-gluing beyond joint capacity. It noted that the allowed set is \(P\setminus E\), whose vanishing ideal consists of the functions supported on the excluded set \(E\). Its next step asked how the defect between two excluded sets depends on separators, and at what degree cost a step splits.

General statement. lem:separator-splitting, for any finite set \(P\) of 0/1 points, any \(E_1,E_2\subseteq P\) and any \(e\). If a function \(\sigma\) of degree \(s\) equals 1 on \(E_1\setminus E_2\) and 0 on \(E_2\setminus E_1\), then every function of degree at most \(e\) supported on \(E_1\cup E_2\) is a sum of functions of degree at most \(e+s\) supported on \(E_1\) and on \(E_2\). For W_RS, the indicator of one block's excluded set has degree at most \(2h+4t\) and separates it from any other set. Splitting \(j\) members in sequence costs the sum of their separator degrees. With these natural separators the budget \(D\approx44t\) allows only a bounded number of steps. The least separator degree is not bounded below here.

lem:separator-splitting

Setting. \(P\) is a finite set of 0/1 assignments, and \(F_e\) is the set of functions on \(P\) given by polynomials of degree at most \(e\). For \(E\subseteq P\), \(V_e(E)=\{f\in F_e:\operatorname{supp}f\subseteq E\}\). For an allowed set \(\mathcal Q=P\setminus E\), \(I(\mathcal Q)\cap F_e=V_e(E)\).

Statement.

Splitting. If \(\sigma\in F_s\) has \(\sigma=1\) on \(E_1\setminus E_2\) and \(\sigma=0\) on \(E_2\setminus E_1\), then \(V_e(E_1\cup E_2)\subseteq V_{e+s}(E_1)+V_{e+s}(E_2)\) for every \(e\). In the language of lem:defect-gluing: every element of \(I(\mathcal Q_1\cap\mathcal Q_2)\) of degree at most \(e\) is a sum of elements of \(I(\mathcal Q_1)\) and \(I(\mathcal Q_2)\) of degree at most \(e+s\).
W_RS blocks. For a block with forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) and prefix matrix \(C\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\), put \(g_i=1-L_i^2\in\{0,1\}\). Its excluded set is \(E_b=\{g\ne0,\ Cg=0\}\), and \(1_{E_b}=\bigl(1-\prod_{i\le h}(1-g_i)\bigr)\prod_{j\le t}\bigl(1-(Cg)_j^2\bigr)\) has degree at most \(2h+4t\). It separates \(E_b\) from every set, since it is 1 on \(E_b\) and 0 off it.
Sequential cost. For members \(b_1,\dots,b_j\) with separator degrees \(s_1,\dots,s_j\), split off \(E_{b_j}\) first, then \(E_{b_{j-1}}\), and so on. Every \(f\in V_e(E_{b_1}\cup\dots\cup E_{b_j})\) is a sum \(\sum_\ell f_\ell\) with \(f_\ell\in V_{e+s_j+\dots+s_\ell}(E_{b_\ell})\) and total degree at most \(e+\sum_\ell s_\ell\). With the natural separators \(1_{E_{b_\ell}}\), each \(s_\ell\) is the degree of that indicator, at most \(2h+4t\). If those degrees are of order \(4t\), the splitting stays within the budget \(D\approx44t\) for only about ten members. Cheaper separators, which need only be 1 on \(E_{b_\ell}\) minus the others and 0 on the others minus \(E_{b_\ell}\), are not excluded.

Proof.

Write \(f=f\sigma+f(1-\sigma)\).
- \(f\sigma\) vanishes off \(E_1\cup E_2\) and on \(E_2\setminus E_1\), so it is supported on \(E_1\).
- \(f(1-\sigma)\) vanishes off \(E_1\cup E_2\) and on \(E_1\setminus E_2\), so it is supported on \(E_2\).
Both are products of polynomials of degrees at most \(e\) and \(s\).
Over \(\mathbb F_3\), every square is 0 or 1, so \(g_i\in\{0,1\}\). \(1-\prod(1-g_i)\) is the indicator of \(g\ne0\), of degree at most \(2h\). \((Cg)_j\) is a combination of the \(g_i\), of degree at most 2, so \(1-(Cg)_j^2\) is the indicator of \((Cg)_j=0\), of degree at most 4. The product over \(j\le t\) has degree at most \(4t\).
Induct on \(j\), splitting off \(E_{b_j}\) with \(\sigma=1_{E_{b_j}}\), which separates it from the union of the others. Each step raises the degree bound of the remainder by \(s_j\). \(\square\)

What it gives

Separators absorb the defect of one step at a bounded cost that does not depend on how many members are already in \(\mathcal Q'\). That is the good news of (2): the step \(\mathcal Q'\cap\mathcal A_j\) has defect only within degree shift \(2h+4t\), whatever \(\mathcal Q'\) is.

But the shift is not free. lem:lift-gluing needs (S) in the exact degree \(D\), and the separator splits functions only after raising their degree. A top of \(I(\mathcal Q'\cap\mathcal A_j)\) in degree \(D\) splits into elements of degree up to \(D+s\), whose own tops can cancel. So separators give (S) with a degree shift, and a shifted version of lift gluing would lose \(s_j\) at each step. Across the members the losses add, as in (3). With the natural separators and degrees of order \(4t\), this is a ceiling of about ten blocks, far below the record's other ceilings, such as about \(n/10\) surviving blocks for weighted replay with product weights (conditioning review). Gluing many blocks at additive degree cost is what the remaining route records as the missing batched mechanism.

Separating everything at once does not help. A partition of unity \(\pi_b=1_{E_b}\prod_{c<b}(1-1_{E_c})\) has degree adding over blocks, just like the sequence. Inclusion–exclusion to depth \(k\) costs \(k\) separator degrees and leaves a remainder supported on the points excluded by at least \(k+1\) blocks. For a fixed point the blocks' exclusions are independent, since the prefixes are, and each has probability at most \(3^{-t}\). The expected number of such points is at most \(|P|\binom M{k+1}3^{-t(k+1)}\). This bound does not become small until \(k\) is of order \(\log|P|/\log(3^t/M)\), which exceeds the budget; that deep overlaps actually occur was not shown.

Outcome. The defect of a single step is controlled by a separator of degree at most \(2h+4t\), but the costs add. With the natural separators the budget allows about ten steps. Separators are therefore not the batched mechanism the route needs. (S) in the exact degree \(D\) beyond capacity remains open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the Razborov-operator lead of the lift review, still unrun. Razborov's operator for complete-board PHP reduces a monomial modulo the pigeon axioms of its own pigeons, and is stable under enlarging that set up to half the board. Write the operator's action on one W_RS clause. The clause \(g_i\prod_j(1-(Cg)_j^2)\) has degree at most \(4t+2\), so each of its monomials involves at most \(4t+2\) cells, hence at most \(4t+2\) pigeons. Then ask whether the relative criterion's closure \(W_A\) (lem:relative-criterion, complete-board form) avoids 1 because each monomial's reduction is local, even though the clause is not. This would bypass (S), and with it the additive cost.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:lift-gluing, lem:defect-gluing and the capacity review; the replay ceiling was checked against the living sections' link to the conditioning review. A claim search found no prior version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer verified the splitting, the indicator formula and its degree bound, the sequential cost, and the scope of the ten-block estimate. It required two changes, both adopted:

the \(4t+2\) pigeons in the next step are derived from the clause degree;
the replay ceiling is now cited to its source.

Its optional suggestions are adopted: the peeling order is stated, and the fact that squares in \(\mathbb F_3\) are 0 or 1 is stated without the needless restriction to 0/1 points. The changes clarify, so one pass suffices.

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Exact operator criterion: on the complete board, the relative criterion with the Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall projection is an equivalence. A clause's image vanishes exactly when every PHP design kills it, so locality of the monomials' reductions gives no leverage for dense clauses. The operator reformulates the problem without bypassing the splitting condition

27 September 2026 · Working proof and lead closure · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-razborov-operator. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Exact operator criterion: on the complete board, the relative criterion with the Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall projection is an equivalence. A clause's image vanishes exactly when every PHP design kills it, so locality of the monomials' reductions gives no leverage for dense clauses. The operator reformulates the problem without bypassing the splitting condition”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-exact-operator-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The lift review listed Razborov's operator method as an Outside lead, not run. It would certify PC hardness directly, with no Nullstellensatz step and so no splitting condition. Separator splitting asked whether each monomial's reduction being local, on at most \(4t+2\) pigeons, lets the closure of a dense clause's image avoid 1. This cycle develops the lead on the complete board. lem:relative-criterion is for boundary-expanding graphs of left degree \(d\), with degree bound \(\lfloor\delta s/(2d)\rfloor\). On the complete board the left degree is \(N\), and that bound gives nothing useful.

General statement. prop:exact-operator-criterion, over any field, for functional unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^m_N\) with \(m>N\), every \(d\le\lceil N/2\rceil\) and every set \(A\) of polynomials of degree at most \(d\). With \(R\) the projection onto the dance-admissible matching monomials along the PC closure of the pigeon axioms, PHP plus \(A\) has no degree-\(d\) refutation iff 1 lies outside the closure \(W_A\) of the images \(R(a)\) under \(w\mapsto R(xw)\). \(R(f)=0\) iff every degree-\(d\) PHP design annihilates \(f\). The uniform design \(\lambda(x_U)=1/(N)_{|U|}\) is one of them. Hardness of the functional system implies hardness of weak PHP with the same \(A\).

prop:exact-operator-criterion

Setting. Functional unary \(\mathrm{PHP}^m_N\), \(m>N\): Booleanity, collisions \(x_{ij}x_{i'j}\), functional axioms \(x_{ij}x_{ij'}\), pigeon axioms \(Q_i=1-\sum_jx_{ij}\). Modulo the first three, every polynomial is a combination of matching monomials.

\(T_d\) is the set of matching monomials of degree at most \(d\).
\(B_d\) is the basis of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall (ECCC TR97-042, Definition 2.5, Proposition 2.8), for \(d\le\lceil N/2\rceil\). Their \(\mathrm{PHP}^m_n\) has \(n\) holes, which is \(N\) here.
\(K_d=\operatorname{span}(B_d\setminus T_d)\) is the degree-\(d\) PC closure of the \(Q_i\) (their Theorem 2.9).
\(R\) is the projection of \(\operatorname{span}(T_d)\) onto \(\operatorname{span}(T_d\cap B_d)\) along \(K_d\).
For a set \(A\) of polynomials of degree at most \(d\), reduced to matching monomials, \(W_A\) is the smallest subspace of \(\operatorname{span}(T_d\cap B_d)\) that contains every \(R(a)\) and contains \(R(xw)\) for every variable \(x\) and every \(w\in W_A\) with \(\deg(xw)\le d\).

Statement.

Exactness. The degree-\(d\) PC closure \(V\) of \(\{Q_i\}\cup A\) is \(K_d\oplus W_A\). So PHP plus \(A\) has a degree-\(d\) refutation iff \(1\in W_A\).
Kernel. For \(f\in\operatorname{span}(T_d)\), \(R(f)=0\) iff \(\lambda(f)=0\) for every linear functional \(\lambda\) on \(\operatorname{span}(T_d)\) vanishing on \(K_d\). With \(\lambda(1)=1\) these are the degree-\(d\) PHP designs.
Uniform design. \(\lambda(x_U)=1/(N)_{|U|}\) on matchings, with \((N)_k=N(N-1)\cdots(N-k+1)\), is a PHP design of every degree \(d\le N\). So \(R(f)\ne0\) whenever \(\sum_Uc_U/(N)_{|U|}\ne0\) for \(f=\sum_Uc_Ux_U\).
Weak PHP. A degree-\(d\) refutation of weak PHP plus \(A\) is one of functional PHP plus \(A\).

Proof.

First, \(\deg\) of a combination of elements of \(B_d\) is the largest degree among those with nonzero coefficient. By Definition 2.5 of the source, \(B_d\) consists of the \(x_a\) with \(a\) of size at most \(d\) whose matching part admits a pigeon dance, so \(B_e\) is the set of elements of \(B_d\) of degree at most \(e\). By Proposition 2.8 at degree \(e\), \(B_e\) is a basis of \(\operatorname{span}(T_e)\) for each \(e\le d\), the degree-\(e\) elements of \(B_d\) have top parts independent modulo \(\operatorname{span}(T_{e-1})\). In particular \(\deg R(f)\le\deg f\), and \(\deg(f-R(f))\le\deg f\).
- \(K_d\subseteq V\), and \(K_d\) is closed under multiplication by variables within degree \(d\), being a PC closure.
- Since the kernel of \(R\) lies in \(V\), \(V=K_d\oplus R(V)\) and \(R(V)\subseteq V\).
- \(R(V)\) contains each \(R(a)\). If \(w\in R(V)\) and \(\deg(xw)\le d\), then \(xw\in V\), so \(R(xw)\in R(V)\). Hence \(W_A\subseteq R(V)\).
- Conversely, \(K_d\oplus W_A\) contains \(A\), since \(a=(a-R(a))+R(a)\). It also contains the \(Q_i\). It is closed under the multiplication step: for \(u=b+w\) with \(\deg(xu)\le d\), the degree fact gives \(\deg b,\deg w\le\deg u\). So \(xb\in K_d\), and \(xw=(xw-R(xw))+R(xw)\in K_d\oplus W_A\). By minimality of \(V\), \(R(V)\subseteq W_A\).
Finally \(R(1)=1\), since \(1\in T_d\cap B_d\), so \(1\in V\) iff \(1\in W_A\).
\(\ker R=K_d\), and in a finite-dimensional space a vector lies in a subspace iff every functional vanishing on the subspace vanishes on it. The degree-\(d\) PC designs of PHP are the functionals vanishing on the PC closure \(K_d\) with value 1 at 1. So \(R(f)=0\) iff every functional vanishing on \(K_d\) kills \(f\). This is equivalent to every design killing \(f\). If some \(\mu\) vanishing on \(K_d\) has \(\mu(f)\ne0\), take a design \(\lambda_0\), which exists by (3). If \(\mu(1)\ne0\), then \(\mu/\mu(1)\) is a design. If \(\mu(1)=0\), the designs \(\lambda_0+s\mu\) take the values \(\lambda_0(f)+s\mu(f)\), which are not all zero as \(s\) ranges over the field.
For a matching \(U\) with \(|U|\le d-1\) and \(i\notin\mathrm{rows}(U)\): \(\sum_{j\notin\mathrm{cols}(U)}1/(N)_{|U|+1}=(N-|U|)/(N)_{|U|+1}=1/(N)_{|U|}\). For \(i\in\mathrm{rows}(U)\), \(x_UQ_i=0\) modulo the functional axioms. So \(\lambda\) vanishes on the Nullstellensatz multiples of the \(Q_i\) of degree at most \(d\). The basis elements \(x_a\in B_d\setminus T_d\) of \(K_d\) are products of matching variables and at least one \(Q_i\), so they are such multiples, and \(\lambda\) vanishes on \(K_d\). The last claim follows from (2).
The functional axioms are added axioms. \(\square\)

What it gives

The operator method is not a bypass on the complete board. By (1), 1 lying outside \(W_A\) is equivalent to hardness, so any certificate through \(R\) is a certificate of the original statement in other coordinates.

The hoped-for leverage was that each monomial's reduction \(R(x_U)\) is local, on the at most \(4t+2\) pigeons of \(U\). By (2), the image of a whole clause vanishes only if every PHP design kills the clause. A W_RS clause is a combination of matching monomials on all pigeons. Under the uniform design its value is \(\sum_Uc_U/(N)_{|U|}\), with no reason to vanish, and then \(R(C)\ne0\) by (3). Locality of the pieces does not make the image of a dense sum small. What remains is whether 1 enters \(W_A\), which is the problem itself.

(1) is also the complete-board form of lem:relative-criterion, with its converse. That lemma's converse was left open for Mikša and Nordström's operator. On the complete board it holds because the source identifies \(K_d\) with the PC closure exactly.

Outcome. The Razborov-operator lead is developed and closed: on the complete board the operator criterion is exact, so it reformulates hardness without bypassing (S), and dense clauses have nonzero images whenever the uniform design sees them. Lead follow-up: closed.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1. Since the last review, three cycles have shown that neither separators nor the operator method reaches beyond capacity. The next cycle is a route review of the whole clause-transfer route. It should state what the goal needs at the dense core beyond capacity, now that the pigeon-dance, closure, lifting and operator formulations are known to coincide there. It should also look for outside results about low-degree functions supported on sparse random sets, the one reformulation the capacity review found.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the dance review's reading of Definitions 2.1–2.5, Proposition 2.8 and Theorem 2.9 of the Impagliazzo–Pudlák–Sgall report, lem:relative-criterion and prop:design-lift-criterion. A claim search found no prior complete-board version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the splitting and both inclusions in (1), the duality in (2), and the uniform design in (3). It required two changes, both adopted:

(2) now proves that quantifying over designs is equivalent to quantifying over all functionals vanishing on \(K_d\);
the nesting \(B_e=B_d\cap\{\deg\le e\}\) is pinned to Definition 2.5 and Proposition 2.8.

Its optional suggestion is adopted: the source's \(n\) is identified with \(N\). The changes add justification, so one pass suffices.

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Route review at the dense core: since the first dense-core review, four lines have ended at the same obstruction beyond joint capacity. They are moments, multipliers, the pigeon dance, and the PC lift through lifting, gluing, separators and operators. One new lead survives its test: truncated inclusion–exclusion reweights a PHP design at a degree cost set by the overlap depth, not by the number of blocks

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dense-core-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review at the dense core: since the first dense-core review, four lines have ended at the same obstruction beyond joint capacity. They are moments, multipliers, the pigeon dance, and the PC lift through lifting, gluing, separators and operators. One new lead survives its test: truncated inclusion–exclusion reweights a PHP design at a degree cost set by the overlap depth, not by the number of blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-dense-core-lift-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The first dense-core review found that no recorded mechanism handles blocks whose interaction part is dense. Since then the route has built four lines:

moment and multiplier certificates (reduction review);
the pigeon dance (dance review);
the PC lift through design extension, top drops, freeness propagation and lift gluing (lift review, capacity review);
separators and the operator method (separator splitting, exact operator criterion).

This review asks what the goal needs at the dense core, now that those formulations coincide there, and whether any mechanism avoids paying degree per block.

The route's general claim

W_RS at degree \(D\approx44t\) for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks with forms dense modulo the row sums: conj:top-lift-subset, through lem:lift-gluing. By prop:exact-operator-criterion on the functional board this is equivalent to 1 lying outside the operator closure of the clauses' images. By prop:design-lift-criterion it follows from a Nullstellensatz design of degree \(D-1\) on a subset of the allowed set together with top-degree lifting there.

What the goal needs

A certificate that handles all \(M\) dense blocks at once, at a degree cost independent of \(M\). Every recorded mechanism pays per block or per joint dimension:

pullback pieces are limited by joint capacity, spans of about \(N/(2D)\) dimensions (conj:row-free-subset);
replay reaches about \(n/10\) blocks (conditioning review);
product multipliers reach about \((N-D)/2\) blocks (lem:multiplier-designs);
the natural separators reach about ten blocks.

Falsification attempt

Is the obstruction an artifact of the formulations? No. The operator criterion is exact on the complete functional board, so any certificate is one for 1 outside \(W_A\). The allowed set is \(P\setminus E\) with \(E\) sparse, of density at most \(M3^{-t}=O(1/n)\). A certificate must still see every clause, since each clause is a low-degree function supported on its block's piece of \(E\). The reformulations agree; none is weaker than the problem.

Is the obstruction real for the random prefixes? The recorded counting suggests designs exist in abundance. Random product tops behave like random matrices up to the fill point (generic directness), and the clause conditions are a vanishing fraction of the design space. What is missing is a construction, not evidence against existence.

Obstacle

A degree-\(D\) certificate for the dense core with cost independent of the number of blocks. Every recorded mechanism handles blocks one at a time, or up to a joint dimension, and pays degree or dimension for each.

Assessment of the route

Weak at the dense core. The route has a precise map of the obstruction: one splitting condition per step, equivalently the operator closure, equivalently a lifted Nullstellensatz design. It has certificates everywhere except where blocks are dense and numerous. The last four lines sharpened the question without producing a mechanism for it.

Outside leads

Truncated inclusion–exclusion (Bonferroni, Teoria statistica delle classi e calcolo delle probabilità, 1936). Target: the Nullstellensatz half at the dense core, at a cost independent of \(M\). Let \(h_k=\sum_{j\le k}(-1)^je_j(1_{E_1},\dots,1_{E_M})\), with \(e_j\) the elementary symmetric polynomials in the blocks' excluded indicators. At a point lying in exactly \(r\) excluded sets, \(h_k=1\) if \(r=0\), \(h_k=0\) if \(1\le r\le k\), and \(h_k=(-1)^k\binom{r-1}k\) if \(r>k\). With separators of degree at most \(s\le2h+4t\), \(h_k\) has degree at most \(ks\), whatever \(M\) is. Answers. Let \(\lambda_0\) be any PHP design of degree \(D\le\lceil N/2\rceil\), which exists over every field (see the correction below). Put \(\lambda_k(f)=\lambda_0(fh_k)\). Then \(\lambda_k\) vanishes on the row multiples \(x_S\rho_i\) with \(|S|\le D-ks-1\), because \(\lambda_0\) kills all row multiples up to degree \(D\). On a clause multiple, \(\lambda_k(x_SC_b)=\lambda_0(x_SC_bh_k)\), and \(C_bh_k\) is supported on the points lying in at least \(k+1\) excluded sets. Here a clause \(C_b=g_i\,[Cg=0]\) is nonzero only where \(g_i=1\) and \(Cg=0\), hence only on \(E_b=\{g\ne0,\ Cg=0\}\), where \(r\ge1\). So the per-block cost of separators becomes a cost per overlap depth. In the terms of lem:multiplier-designs, \(h_k\) is an approximate multiplier. An exact multiplier must vanish on all of \(E\), and product multipliers stop at about \((N-D)/2\) blocks. \(h_k\) vanishes on \(E\) except on the \((k+1)\)-fold overlaps, in degree \(ks\). That lemma's open vanishing-degree question becomes a question about those overlaps. Test. Passed as a translation: the design property and the support of the errors are the computations above. Not shown: that \(\lambda_k(1)\ne0\), and that the overlap errors vanish or can be corrected. \(\lambda_0\) is not a measure on dense functions, so small support does not make the errors small.
The Alon–Füredi theorem (Alon and Füredi, Covering the cube by affine hyperplanes, European J. Combin. 14, 1993). Target: showing that low-degree functions cannot be supported on the sparse set \(E\). Answers. A polynomial of degree \(d\) that is not identically zero on a grid \(S_1\times\dots\times S_k\) with \(|S_i|=q>d\) is nonzero on at least a \(1-d/q\) fraction. On grids where \(E\) is sparse, functions of degree below \(q\) supported on \(E\) would vanish. Test. Falsified. One pigeon's choices form a simplex \(\{0,e_1,\dots,e_{q-1}\}\) in its cell variables, not a single grid coordinate. The cell variable \(x_{1j}\) has degree 1 and is nonzero on a \(1/q\) fraction, so the bound does not transfer to the cell degree.
Hypercontractivity (Bonami, Étude des coefficients de Fourier des fonctions de \(L^p(G)\), Ann. Inst. Fourier 20, 1970). Target: the same, through norms of low-degree functions. Answers. A real function of degree \(d\) on the cube with support fraction \(\delta\) needs \(\delta\ge c^{-d}\), which would bound the degree of functions supported on \(E\). Test. Falsified as a tool. The functions here are \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued, and their \(\mathbb F_3\)-degree does not bound the degree of any real-valued lift. Even the real bound would reach only degree about \(t\log_c3\), below \(D\).

Absurd bridges

The cluster expansion of statistical mechanics (Kotecký and Preiss, Cluster expansion for abstract polymer models, Comm. Math. Phys. 103, 1986). Translation: the excluded sets are polymers, and the truncated inclusion–exclusion \(h_k\) is the truncated Mayer expansion of the indicator of avoiding all of them. Answers. The Kotecký–Preiss criterion makes the expansion converge when polymer weights are small relative to incompatibility. That would bound the overlap errors of \(\lambda_k\) by the weight of the \((k+1)\)-clusters. Test. Falsified as a tool. The dense blocks are pairwise incompatible, but \(M3^{-t}=O(1/n)\) would satisfy the criterion. The criterion is stated for absolute values of real or complex weights, and \(\lambda_0\) takes values in \(\mathbb F_3\), where no absolute value controls the sum. The translation holds, so the lead above inherits the combinatorics without the analytic bound.
Belief propagation and the Bethe approximation (Yedidia, Freeman and Weiss, Constructing free-energy approximations and generalized belief propagation algorithms, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 51, 2005). Translation: a PHP design is a system of locally consistent pseudo-marginals, and a design killing the clauses is one supported on allowed values of each block. Answers. Message passing constructs locally consistent beliefs on a factor graph, one factor per block. Test. Falsified: a dense block's factor involves all \(m\) pigeons, far above the design's level \(D\) of local consistency. The level-\(D\) pseudo-marginals cannot see a block's constraint.

Bridge follow-up

Bootstrap percolation. Work this cycle: truncated inclusion–exclusion gives the infection a concrete threshold. A reweighted design errs only on points infected by at least \(k+1\) blocks. The threshold question becomes whether those errors can be absorbed. Follow-up. Continuing, now as the Bonferroni lead.
Replica symmetry. Work this cycle: the Bonferroni lead uses the replica-symmetric picture directly. At a fixed point the blocks' exclusions are independent, each with probability at most \(3^{-t}\), so \(r\) is nearly Poisson with mean at most \(M3^{-t}\). Points with \(r>k\) are then rare, with probability at most \(\binom M{k+1}3^{-t(k+1)}\) at each point. Follow-up. Developed into the Bonferroni lead.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, the highest-risk item: develop the Bonferroni reweighting. Choose \(\lambda_0\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), for instance the reduction of an integral design (thm:integral-design-extension). Compute \(\lambda_1(1)=1-\sum_b\lambda_0(1_{E_b})\) and \(\lambda_1(x_SC_b)=-\sum_{c\ne b}\lambda_0(x_SC_b1_{E_c})\) in terms of the blocks' forms and prefixes. Then ask whether the pairwise errors can be absorbed by a correction supported on pairs of blocks. That correction would itself be a design of lower degree, which is where the dance line's exact zero-prescribed designs could re-enter.

Correction to prop:exact-operator-criterion (3)

cor:uniform-design-characteristic. The exact operator criterion stated in (3) that \(\lambda(x_U)=1/(N)_{|U|}\) is a PHP design of every degree \(d\le N\) over any field. That holds only where \((N)_d=N(N-1)\cdots(N-d+1)\) is invertible. A product of \(d\) consecutive integers is divisible by \(d!\), so in characteristic \(p\) the uniform design fails for every \(d\ge p\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) it exists only for \(d\le2\), and then only when \(3\nmid N(N-1)\). Corrected statement: (3) holds in characteristic 0, and in characteristic \(p\) when \(p\nmid(N)_d\).

The other parts are unaffected. (2) used (3) only for the existence of a design. That follows from the source directly: \(1\in T_d\cap B_d\) is a basis element outside \(K_d=\operatorname{span}(B_d\setminus T_d)\). So some functional vanishes on \(K_d\) with value 1 at 1, over every field, for \(d\le\lceil N/2\rceil\). This rests on the source's basis property. Two independent supports: Razborov's degree lower bound for PHP over every field (the historical imp:php) gives \(1\notin K_d\) for \(d\le N/2\). And a \(\mathbb Z_{(3)}\)-valued matching design from thm:integral-design-extension reduces modulo 3 to an \(\mathbb F_3\)-design, since the design equations have integer coefficients and \(z_\varnothing=1\) survives. The remark that dense clauses have nonzero images "whenever the uniform design sees them" holds in characteristic 0. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) the test needs another design, such as that reduction. The conclusion that the operator method is a reformulation, not a bypass, rests on (1) and stands.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the first dense-core review, the four lines' reviews and entries named above, prop:exact-operator-criterion, lem:separator-splitting and the statement of lem:multiplier-designs, whose \((N-D)/2\) ceiling was checked. No computation was run; the tests are identities and arithmetic stated in the items. A fresh-context reviewer verified the Bonferroni identity, the values and degree of \(h_k\), the support of the errors, the first-order formulas, and the four falsifications. It required three changes, all adopted:

the row-multiple bound now follows from the degree of the design used;
the support of a clause on its block's excluded set is derived;
the ceilings are sourced.

After that pass, the uniform design was found to be undefined over \(\mathbb F_3\) beyond degree 2. The correction section and the switch to an arbitrary design \(\lambda_0\) were added, and the same reviewer made a second pass on them. It confirmed the divisibility argument, the existence of designs from the basis property, that parts (1), (2) and (4) of the corrected claim are unaffected, and the Bonferroni lead with \(\lambda_0\). It asked that design existence over \(\mathbb F_3\) not rest on the source's basis property alone. The section now adds Razborov's bound over every field and reduction of integral designs.

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Lucas multiplier: over \(\mathbb F_3\), truncating inclusion–exclusion at \(3^a-1\) gives exactly the indicator that the number of excluding blocks is divisible by \(3^a\). As a multiplier it reduces W_RS to two conditions: the points excluded by a positive multiple of \(3^a\) blocks carry no low-degree function, and some PHP design sees the multiplier. Its degree depends on \(a\) and the block degree, not on the number of blocks

27 September 2026 · Working proof, reduction and conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-bonferroni-design. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Lucas multiplier: over \(\mathbb F_3\), truncating inclusion–exclusion at \(3^a-1\) gives exactly the indicator that the number of excluding blocks is divisible by \(3^a\). As a multiplier it reduces W_RS to two conditions: the points excluded by a positive multiple of \(3^a\) blocks carry no low-degree function, and some PHP design sees the multiplier. Its degree depends on \(a\) and the block degree, not on the number of blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-lucas-multiplier.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The dense-core review proposed reweighting a PHP design by truncated inclusion–exclusion over the blocks' excluded sets. It noted that this is an approximate multiplier in the sense of lem:multiplier-designs. It left open whether the errors, supported on points excluded by at least \(k+1\) blocks, can be removed. This cycle computes the truncation over \(\mathbb F_3\) and uses it as an exact multiplier on a smaller base.

General statement. lem:lucas-truncation, prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction and conj:lucas-hiding, over \(\mathbb F_3\) and for any constraint family whose excluded set is covered by sets \(F_1,\dots,F_M\) with indicators of degree at most \(s\).

lem:lucas-truncation: \(\sum_{j<3^a}(-1)^je_j(1_{F_1},\dots,1_{F_M})=1_{3^a\mid r}\), with \(r\) the number of sets \(F_b\) containing the point.
prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction: weak PHP plus the constraints has no PC refutation of degree \(D\) if some PHP design of degree \(D_0=D+(3^a-1)s\) on \(P\setminus E_a\) takes a nonzero value on that indicator. Here \(E_a\) is the set of excluded points with \(3^a\mid r\). This holds in particular if (H) no nonzero function of degree at most \(D_0\) on \(P\) is supported on \(E_a\), and (ND) the indicator lies outside the degree-\(D_0\) PC closure of the rows on \(P\).
conj:lucas-hiding: for W_RS families with forms dense modulo the row sums, with high probability some \(a\) with \(N\ge2D_0^2\) satisfies (H) and (ND). This implies the goal.

lem:lucas-truncation

Statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for 0/1 functions \(u_1,\dots,u_M\) on a set and \(a\ge0\), let \(r=\sum_bu_b\in\mathbb Z\) pointwise. Then \(\sum_{j=0}^{3^a-1}(-1)^je_j(u_1,\dots,u_M)=1_{3^a\mid r}\).

Proof. At a point, \(e_j(u)=\binom rj\). If \(r=0\) the sum is 1. For \(r\ge1\), \(\sum_{j\le k}(-1)^j\binom rj=(-1)^k\binom{r-1}k\), and \(k=3^a-1\) is even. By Lucas's theorem \(\binom{r-1}{3^a-1}\equiv\prod_{i<a}\binom{d_i}2\pmod3\), where the \(d_i\) are the lowest base-3 digits of \(r-1\) and the higher digits contribute \(\binom{d}{0}=1\). Now \(\binom d2\equiv1\) for \(d=2\) and 0 for \(d\le1\). So the sum is 1 iff the lowest \(a\) digits of \(r-1\) are all 2, that is iff \(3^a\mid r\), and 0 otherwise. \(\square\)

prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction

Setting. \(P\) is the weak base of lem:multiplier-designs, with \(F_e\) the functions of degree at most \(e\), \(R\) the row equations and \(C_e(\cdot)\) PC closures in the filtered function algebra. \(\Gamma\) is a constraint family with excluded set \(E\), the points where some constraint is nonzero, and \(F_1,\dots,F_M\subseteq P\) cover \(E\), with \(\deg1_{F_b}\le s\). For a W_RS block, \(F_b=\{C_bg_b=0\}\) has \(s\le4t\), and \(F_b=E_b\) has \(s\le2h+4t\) (lem:separator-splitting). Put:

\(W_a=\sum_{j<3^a}(-1)^je_j(1_{F_1},\dots,1_{F_M})\), which equals \(1_{3^a\mid r}\) by the lemma, with \(\deg W_a\le(3^a-1)s\);
\(E_a=E\cap\{3^a\mid r\}\), the excluded points where \(W_a=1\);
\(P'=P\setminus E_a\) and \(D_0=D+(3^a-1)s\).

Statement.

Suppose \(\mu_0\) is a linear functional on \(F^{P'}_{D_0}\) vanishing on \(C_{D_0}(R)\) computed in \(F^{P'}\), with \(\mu_0(W_a)\ne0\). Then \(f\mapsto\mu_0(W_af)\) is a degree-\(D\) design for \(R\cup\Gamma\) on \(P'\), and weak unary PHP plus \(\Gamma\) has no degree-\(D\) PC refutation.
Under (H), restriction \(F^P_e\to F^{P'}_e\) is an isomorphism for \(e\le D_0\), compatible with the PC closure of \(R\) in degree \(D_0\). Under (H) and (ND), a functional as in (1) exists.

Proof.

On \(P'\), \(W_a\) vanishes on \(E\cap P'=E\setminus E_a\), where \(r\ge1\) and \(3^a\nmid r\). Every constraint vanishes off \(E\), so \(W_a\gamma=0\) on \(P'\) for \(\gamma\in\Gamma\).
- We show that \(W_ag\in C_{D_0}(R)\) for every \(g\) in the degree-\(D\) PC closure of \(R\cup\Gamma\) on \(P'\), by induction along the closure.
- Generators: \(W_a\rho_i\) is a Nullstellensatz multiple of degree at most \(D_0\), and \(W_a\gamma=0\).
- Linear combinations are clear.
- Multiplication: if \(\deg g\le D-1\), then \(\deg(W_ag)\le D_0-1\), so \(x(W_ag)\in C_{D_0}(R)\).
So the functional vanishes on the closure, and its value at 1 is \(\mu_0(W_a)\ne0\). A syntactic refutation of degree \(D\) maps into that closure, since Booleanity and collisions vanish on \(P'\). This is the argument of lem:multiplier-designs on the base \(P'\). The conclusion concerns syntactic refutations, which map into the closure on any set of column-injective assignments. So no transfer back to \(P\) is needed. The isomorphism in (2) serves only to produce \(\mu_0\).
A kernel element of \(F^P_e\to F^{P'}_e\) is a function of degree at most \(e\le D_0\) supported on \(E_a\), which is zero by (H). The PC steps of \(C_{D_0}(R)\) multiply elements of degree at most \(D_0-1\) and stay in degree \(D_0\). So the closures on \(P\) and \(P'\) correspond under restriction.
- By (ND), \(W_a\notin C_{D_0}(R)\) on \(P\). If \(W_a\equiv c\) modulo that closure for a constant \(c\ne0\), every design gives \(\mu_0(W_a)=c\).
- Otherwise the designs take all values at \(W_a\), by the affine argument of prop:exact-operator-criterion (2), which cor:uniform-design-characteristic leaves unaffected, since it corrects only part (3). Designs on \(P\) exist for \(m\ge D_0\) and \(N\ge2D_0^2\). There thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic makes the base \(z\)-injective below \(D_0\), so \(C_{D_0}(R)\) is the Nullstellensatz span. That span misses 1 because weak PHP has Nullstellensatz degree above \(N/2\), a consequence of the functional PC bound over every field.
Transport such a design to \(P'\). \(\square\)

conj:lucas-hiding

On the weak base over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns, take any family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks with forms dense modulo the row sums and independent uniform prefixes. With high probability there is an \(a\) with \(D_0=D+(3^a-1)s\) and \(N\ge2D_0^2\) for which (H) and (ND) hold. Here \(F_b\) is either \(\{C_bg_b=0\}\) or \(E_b\), and \(D\approx44t\). With the proposition and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction this gives the goal.

Evidence and tests

Degree bookkeeping for (H). The natural functions supported on \(E_a\) cost more than \(D_0\). For instance \(W_a\,e_{3^a}(1_F)\) is supported on points with \(3^a\mid r\) and nonzero digit \(a\) of \(r\), since \(e_{3^a}=\binom r{3^a}\) is that digit by Lucas. This lies in \(\{r\ge3^a\}\), and inside \(E_a\) when \(F_b=E_b\). Its degree is at most \((2\cdot3^a-1)s\), which exceeds \(D_0\) once \(3^a s>D\). Products of \(3^a\) clauses from distinct blocks times \(W_a\) cost about \(3^a(4t+2)+(3^a-1)s\). No function of degree at most \(D_0\) supported on \(E_a\) is known for dense independent blocks.
A refutable family. Forbid pigeons \(a',b'\) from every hole \(j\ge2\) by the constraints \(x_{a'j},x_{b'j}\), the example of prop:slack-defects, refutable at degree 2. Here \(r\) counts the holes \(j\ge2\) occupied by \(a'\) and \(b'\). Modulo the row equations, \(r\equiv2-x_{a'1}-x_{b'1}\in\{1,2\}\), using the collision \(x_{a'1}x_{b'1}=0\). So \(W_1=1_{3\mid r}\) reduces to 0 modulo the closure at low degree, and (ND) fails, as it must.
Aligned blocks. If all blocks share their forms, \(r\) and \(W_a\) are functions of one value vector \(g\), and \(E_a=g^{-1}(V_a)\) for a random sparse \(V_a\subseteq\{0,1\}^h\). A function supported on a point of \(V_a\) has degree at most \(2h\) in the forms, so (H) fails whenever \(E_a\ne\varnothing\) and \(D_0>2h\). With mean \(M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\), \(E_a=\varnothing\) with high probability once \(2^h(3n)^{-3^a}\) is small. So \(a\) must grow with \(h\), about \(3^a\ge h/\log_2(3n)\). There \(W_a\) is itself a function of \(g\), of degree at most \(2h\). The conjecture's "some \(a\)" is needed; a single \(a\) fails. This tests only aligned families, not dense independent ones.

What it gives

Conditionally on (H) and (ND), this is the first certificate on the route whose degree does not grow with the number of blocks. How \(a\) must depend on \(M\) for dense families is untested; only its dependence on \(h\) was seen, in the aligned case. The multiplier costs \((3^a-1)s\). The budget is set by where base designs are known to exist, \(D_0\le\sqrt{N/2}\), which is polynomial in \(n\), not the refutation degree \(D\). So \(3^a\) can be as large as about \(\sqrt{N/2}/s\).

The price moves into two conditions on a much sparser set. \(E_a\) consists of the points excluded by a positive multiple of \(3^a\) blocks. At a fixed point the exclusions are independent across blocks, since the prefixes are, and each has probability at most \(3^{-t}\). So a point lies in \(E_a\) with probability at most \(\binom M{3^a}3^{-t3^a}\le\bigl(eM3^{-t}/3^a\bigr)^{3^a}\). (H) asks that this set carry no function of degree at most \(D_0\). The vanishing-degree question of lem:multiplier-designs is thereby moved from the whole excluded set to its deep overlaps.

(ND) is a nondegeneracy of PHP designs: PHP should not prove, at degree \(D_0\), that the number of excluding blocks avoids the multiples of \(3^a\). The refutable example shows that (ND) is where refutable families fail.

Outcome. The Bonferroni lead is developed. In characteristic 3 the truncation is an exact indicator of divisibility, and it gives a proved reduction of W_RS to (H) and (ND) at a cost independent of \(M\). conj:lucas-hiding is new, and its first tests pass: the refutable family fails (ND), and aligned families need \(a\) adapted to \(h\). Neither (H) nor (ND) is proved for any dense family. Lead follow-up: developed.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: (ND) for W_RS. Evaluate a PHP design on \(W_a\) through the inclusion–exclusion \(\mu_0(W_a)=\sum_{j<3^a}(-1)^j\sum_{|B|=j}\mu_0(\prod_{b\in B}1_{F_b})\). Ask whether the uniform-type integral designs, reduced mod 3, give \(\mu_0(W_a)=1\) plus terms controlled by the prefix randomness. Then attack (H) through the degree of functions supported on deep overlaps.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:multiplier-designs, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, prop:slack-defects, lem:separator-splitting, prop:exact-operator-criterion with its correction, and the dense-core review. A claim search found no prior version. No computation was run. The refutable example was checked by hand: \(W_1=1-r^2\), \(r=\rho_{a'}+\rho_{b'}+2-y\) with \(y=x_{a'1}+x_{b'1}\), \(y^2=y\) by the collision, so \(r^2\equiv(2-y)^2=1\) modulo a degree-2 Nullstellensatz multiple. A fresh-context reviewer verified the lemma, including \(r=0\) and the Lucas digits, the multiplier induction on \(P'\), the restriction isomorphism, the base-design range and the tests. It required three changes, all addressed:

it asked for a transfer of non-refutability from \(P'\) back to \(P\). None is needed, since syntactic refutations map into the closure on any set of column-injective assignments; the entry now says so;
the "first certificate" sentence is now conditional on (H) and (ND), with the untested dependence of \(a\) on \(M\) noted;
the citation of the affine argument notes that the correction of prop:exact-operator-criterion leaves part (2) intact.

Its optional suggestion is adopted: the aligned test is marked as covering aligned families only. The changes clarify or weaken claims, so one pass suffices.

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Lucas nondegeneracy as hardness: the nondegeneracy condition of the Lucas multiplier is, up to a degree shift, PC hardness of PHP plus the single constraint that the number of excluding blocks is not divisible by \(3^a\). A restriction to a sub-board where the multiplier is a nonzero constant would prove it, but dense blocks leave no such sub-board

27 September 2026 · Working proof and reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-lucas-nondegeneracy. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Lucas nondegeneracy as hardness: the nondegeneracy condition of the Lucas multiplier is, up to a degree shift, PC hardness of PHP plus the single constraint that the number of excluding blocks is not divisible by \(3^a\). A restriction to a sub-board where the multiplier is a nonzero constant would prove it, but dense blocks leave no such sub-board”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-lucas-nondegeneracy.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The Lucas multiplier reduced W_RS to hiding (H) on deep overlaps and nondegeneracy (ND): \(W_a=1_{3^a\mid r}\) lies outside the degree-\(D_0\) PC closure of the rows. This cycle asks what (ND) says, and whether a restriction can prove it.

General statement. prop:nondegeneracy-as-hardness, over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak base, for any sets \(F_1,\dots,F_M\), any \(a\), and \(U_a=1-W_a=1_{3^a\nmid r}\). If weak PHP plus the single constraint \(U_a\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D_0\) in the filtered algebra, then (ND) holds in degree \(D_0\). Conversely, (ND) in degree \(D_0+\deg W_a\) implies that hardness in degree \(D_0\). If a restriction to a sub-board makes \(W_a\) a nonzero constant, and the sub-board carries designs of degree \(D_0\), then (ND) holds. For dense blocks with prefix length \(t\) such sub-boards are not expected: a sub-board large enough to carry the designs realizes, heuristically, more than \(3^t\) value vectors per block once \(h\ge t\log_23\).

prop:nondegeneracy-as-hardness

Setting. As in prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction: \(P\) is the weak base, \(R\) the rows, and \(C_e\) the PC closure in the filtered function algebra. \(r\) counts the sets \(F_b\) containing a point, and \(W_a=1_{3^a\mid r}\) (lem:lucas-truncation), a 0/1 function of degree at most \((3^a-1)s\).

Statement.

Hardness implies nondegeneracy. Let \(D_0\ge\deg W_a\), as in every use here, where \(D_0=D+(3^a-1)s\). If \(1\notin C_{D_0}(R\cup\{U_a\})\), then \(W_a\notin C_{D_0}(R)\).
Nondegeneracy implies hardness, with a shift. If \(W_a\notin C_{D_0+\deg W_a}(R)\), then \(1\notin C_{D_0}(R\cup\{U_a\})\).
Restriction criterion. Let \(\rho\) place some pigeons in distinct holes. It leaves a weak sub-board \(P_\rho\) of \(k\) pigeons and \(k'\) holes, with rows \(R_\rho\). Suppose \(W_a|_\rho\) is a nonzero constant \(c\) on \(P_\rho\), and \(C_{D_0}(R_\rho)\not\ni1\). This holds, for instance, for \(k\ge D_0\) and \(k'\ge2D_0^2\), with \(k>k'\) so that the sub-board is still a PHP instance. Then (ND) holds in degree \(D_0\).

Proof.

If \(W_a\in C_{D_0}(R)\), then \(1=W_a+U_a\) lies in \(C_{D_0}(R\cup\{U_a\})\), since \(U_a\) is a generator of degree at most \(D_0\).
\(W_a\) is 0/1-valued, so \(W_aU_a=0\) as a function. The multiplier induction of prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction (1), with \(W_a\) as multiplier and \(\{U_a\}\) as constraint family, shows \(W_ag\in C_{D_0+\deg W_a}(R)\) for every \(g\in C_{D_0}(R\cup\{U_a\})\). If \(1\) were in the latter, \(W_a\) would be in the former.
Let \(\mu_\rho\) be a design of degree \(D_0\) on \(P_\rho\), and put \(\mu(f)=\mu_\rho(f|_\rho)\).
- For a placed pigeon \(i\), \(\rho\) sets its cell to 1 and its other cells to 0, so \(\rho_i|_\rho=0\).
- For an unplaced pigeon, its cells in occupied holes are set to 0, the values consistent with the column collisions. So \(\rho_i|_\rho\) is its row equation on \(P_\rho\).
- Restriction does not raise degree and commutes with the PC steps.
So \(\mu\) vanishes on \(C_{D_0}(R)\), and \(\mu(W_a)=c\,\mu_\rho(1)\ne0\). By the affine argument of prop:exact-operator-criterion (2), \(W_a\notin C_{D_0}(R)\). Design existence on the sub-board is thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic together with the Nullstellensatz degree of weak PHP, as in prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction (2). \(\square\)

The counting obstruction for dense blocks

For \(W_a|_\rho\) to be constant it suffices, for \(F_b=E_b\), that no point of \(P_\rho\) be excluded by any block. The restricted forms of block \(b\) are constants plus residual forms on the \(k\times k'\) sub-board. Its value vectors \(g_b\) on \(P_\rho\) form a set \(V_b\). A nonzero \(g\in V_b\) is excluded when \(C_bg=0\), with probability \(3^{-t}\) over the prefix. So the expected number of excluding pairs of a block and a value is about \(\sum_b|V_b\setminus0|3^{-t}\). For dense forms one expects the residual forms on a sub-board with \(k'\ge2D_0^2\) columns to have rank \(\min(h,kk')\); this was not proved. Since \(g_i=1-L_i^2\in\{0,1\}\), \(|V_b|\) is then typically \(2^{\min(h,kk')}\), at least \(3^t\) once \(h\ge t\log_23\). A block with that many forms then excludes some point of a fixed sub-board with probability bounded away from 0. With \(M\) blocks, clean sub-boards are not expected.

This concerns dense blocks with independent forms; aligned blocks are treated in the Lucas multiplier entry. A heuristic, not a proof: the value sets were not computed, and \(\rho\) can be chosen after the prefixes. The union over the choices of \(\rho\) does not rescue it, since a single block already excludes a positive fraction of sub-boards.

What it gives

By (1) and (2), the Lucas reduction replaces the \(M\) clauses of W_RS by one constraint, up to hiding (H) and a degree shift. The constraint is \(U_a=1_{3^a\nmid r}\): the number of blocks whose excluded set contains the point is not divisible by \(3^a\). Its degree is at most \((3^a-1)s\). It excludes the points with \(3^a\nmid r\), and its allowed set \(\{3^a\mid r\}\) contains every point allowed by the family. So W_RS at degree \(D\) follows from (H) and from PHP being unable to refute, at degree \(D_0\), the modular count \(r\equiv0\pmod{3^a}\).

(ND) is thus a modular counting question about the events \(F_b\), relative to PHP. The refutable example of prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction is the case where \(r\) is a combination of row sums, so PHP counts it. For dense blocks with random prefixes, \(r\) is a sum of \(M\) nearly independent rare indicators. No row-sum relation is visible, but none is excluded either. The restriction criterion would prove (ND) if some sub-board saw a constant \(r\) modulo \(3^a\). Dense blocks prevent that heuristically, so a proof must see \(r\) on sub-boards where it varies.

Outcome. (ND) is equivalent, up to a degree shift, to hardness of PHP plus one modular-count constraint. Constant restrictions do not reach dense blocks, heuristically. Lead follow-up: continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: (ND) through relative counting principles. Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall study the Nullstellensatz degrees of PHP and the modular counting principles over \(\mathbb F_p\), and the reductions between them. Ask whether "PHP does not refute \(r\equiv0\pmod{3^a}\)" follows from such a separation, applied to the events \(F_b\) through a reduction that keeps the degree near \(D_0\) (Proof complexity in algebraic systems and bounded depth Frege systems with modular counting, Comput. Complexity 6, 1996/97). Read the relevant theorems first, to find which separations they prove over \(\mathbb F_3\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction and its multiplier induction, lem:lucas-truncation and the design-existence step. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the equivalence in (1) and (2) and the restriction design in (3). It required three changes, all adopted:

"excluded set" for the allowed set of \(U_a\); this was corrected, and the constraint's excluded set is \(\{3^a\nmid r\}\);
(1) now assumes \(D_0\ge\deg W_a\);
the rank of the residual forms is marked as expected, not proved.

Its optional suggestions are adopted: the vanishing of rows under restriction is explained, and the counting obstruction is scoped to dense independent blocks. The changes clarify or add hypotheses, so one pass suffices.

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Lucas digits: the Lucas multiplier is a product over the base-3 digits of the exclusion count, each digit being an elementary symmetric function of the exclusion indicators. The modular counting principles of Buss et al. do not apply, since counts modulo 3 are linear over \(\mathbb F_3\). In the model of independent exclusion events, symmetric functions supported on the deep overlaps have degree at least \(2\cdot3^a-1\), matching the natural constructions

27 September 2026 · Working proof and evidence · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-counting-principles. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Lucas digits: the Lucas multiplier is a product over the base-3 digits of the exclusion count, each digit being an elementary symmetric function of the exclusion indicators. The modular counting principles of Buss et al. do not apply, since counts modulo 3 are linear over \(\mathbb F_3\). In the model of independent exclusion events, symmetric functions supported on the deep overlaps have degree at least \(2\cdot3^a-1\), matching the natural constructions”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-lucas-digits.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The Lucas nondegeneracy entry turned (ND) into hardness of PHP plus one modular-count constraint. It proposed reading the Nullstellensatz results of Buss, Impagliazzo, Krajíček, Pudlák, Razborov and Sgall on modular counting (Comput. Complexity 6, 1997). This cycle reads them, writes the multiplier in digit form, and tests the degree bookkeeping behind (H) in the simplest model.

General statement. lem:lucas-digit-form and lem:symmetric-deep-overlap-degree, over \(\mathbb F_3\). For any 0/1 functions \(u_1,\dots,u_M\) with count \(r\), the digit \(r_j\) of \(r\) in base 3 equals \(e_{3^j}(u)\), and \(1_{3^a\mid r}=\prod_{j<a}(1-r_j^2)\). For free Boolean variables \(u_b\) with \(M\ge2\cdot3^a\), every symmetric polynomial of degree at most \(2\cdot3^a-2\) that vanishes wherever \(r=0\) or \(3^a\nmid r\) is zero. Degree \(2\cdot3^a-1\) is attained by \(e_{3^a}\cdot1_{3^a\mid r}\).

The source

The paper's Nullstellensatz lower bounds concern the counting principle \(\mathrm{Count}_q\): no partition of an \(N\)-set into \(q\)-sets when \(N\not\equiv0\pmod q\), over \(\mathbb Z_m\) with \(q\) a prime not dividing \(m\). It gives degree \(\Omega(N^{1/\log_2(m+q)})\) (Theorem 3.2) and designs (Definition 4.1, Lemma 4.2, Theorem 4.5). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) this covers \(q\ne3\). (ND) is a different kind of statement. PHP should not refute \(r\equiv0\pmod{3^a}\), where \(r\) counts events. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), counts modulo 3 are linear in the event indicators, and counts modulo \(3^a\) are polynomials in them, by the digit form below. The source's hardness mechanism, counting modulo a prime other than the characteristic, is not what (ND) needs. As a tool for (ND) the lead is falsified. Its design notion is the same duality the route already uses.

lem:lucas-digit-form

Statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for 0/1 functions \(u_1,\dots,u_M\) with pointwise count \(r\), let \(r_j\) be the \(j\)-th base-3 digit of \(r\). Then \(e_{3^j}(u)\equiv r_j\pmod3\), and \(1_{3^a\mid r}=\prod_{j<a}(1-e_{3^j}(u)^2)\). The product has degree at most \(\sum_{j<a}2\cdot3^js=(3^a-1)s\) when each \(u_b\) has degree at most \(s\). In particular \(1_{3\mid r}=1-(\sum_bu_b)^2\).

Proof. \(e_{3^j}(u)=\binom r{3^j}\) pointwise, and by Lucas's theorem this is \(r_j\) modulo 3. \(3^a\mid r\) iff \(r_0=\dots=r_{a-1}=0\), and \(1-x^2\) is the indicator of \(x=0\) on \(\mathbb F_3\). \(\square\)

So (ND) at level \(a\) says \(\prod_{j<a}(1-e_{3^j}^2)\notin C_{D_0}(R)\): PHP cannot prove, in degree \(D_0\), that one of the lowest \(a\) digits of the exclusion count is nonzero. At \(a=1\) it says \(S^2\notin1+C_{D_0}(R)\) for \(S=\sum_b1_{F_b}\), a single sum of block indicators.

lem:symmetric-deep-overlap-degree

Statement. Let \(u_1,\dots,u_M\) be Boolean variables, \(r=\sum u_b\), \(a\ge1\) and \(M\ge2\cdot3^a\). Suppose a symmetric polynomial \(g\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) of degree \(d\le2\cdot3^a-2\) vanishes at every point with \(r=0\) or \(3^a\nmid r\). Then \(g=0\). The function \(e_{3^a}\cdot1_{3^a\mid r}\) has degree \(2\cdot3^a-1\) and is supported on \(\{r\ge3^a,\ 3^a\mid r\}\).

Proof. Write \(g=\sum_{j\le d}c_je_j\), so that \(g=\sum_jc_j\binom rj\) at weight \(r\). The matrix \(\bigl[\binom rj\bigr]_{0\le r,j\le d}\) is unitriangular, so the values at \(r=0,\dots,d\) determine the \(c_j\).

If \(d<3^a\), all those values vanish, and \(g=0\).
Otherwise only \(r=3^a\) may carry a nonzero value \(\gamma\). Newton inversion gives \(c_j=\gamma(-1)^{j-3^a}\binom j{3^a}\) for \(3^a\le j\le d\), and 0 below.
At \(r=d+1\), which lies in \([3^a+1,2\cdot3^a-1]\) and so must be a zero, \(g(d+1)=\gamma\sum_{j=3^a}^d(-1)^{j-3^a}\binom j{3^a}\binom{d+1}j\). The full sum up to \(j=d+1\) vanishes, being \(\delta_{d+1,3^a}\), so \(g(d+1)=-\gamma(-1)^{d+1-3^a}\binom{d+1}{3^a}\).
The base-3 digits of \(d+1\) are 1 in position \(a\) and \(d+1-3^a\in[1,3^a-1]\) below. So \(\binom{d+1}{3^a}\equiv1\) by Lucas, which forces \(\gamma=0\).

For the last claim: \(e_{3^a}=r_a\) is nonzero only when \(r\ge3^a\), and \(\deg(e_{3^a}\cdot1_{3^a\mid r})\le3^a+(3^a-1)\). \(\square\)

What it gives

The lemma is a model case of (H). There the exclusion events are free coordinates of degree 1, and the functions are symmetric. The deep-overlap set carries no symmetric function below degree \(2\cdot3^a-1\), and the natural constructions reach exactly that degree. Another natural construction also reaches it when \(M>2\cdot3^a\): a product of \(3^a\) differences \(u_{2i-1}-u_{2i}\) on disjoint pairs, times \(1_{3^a\mid r}\). The product alone is supported on points with exactly one 1 in each pair. The unpaired coordinates remain free, which is what the factor \(1_{3^a\mid r}\) corrects.

With events of degree \(s\), the corresponding count is about \((2\cdot3^a-1)s\), against \(D_0=D+(3^a-1)s\). So (H) has room of about \(3^as-D\) in the model, positive once \(3^a>D/s\approx11\), with \(D\approx44t\) and \(s\le4t\) as in the Lucas multiplier entry.

Two gaps separate the model from W_RS:

non-symmetric functions, since averaging over permutations is not available in characteristic 3;
correlated events of degree \(s\), which could share structure and lower the cost.

The first is the same question for Boolean cubes: can a function of degree below \(2\cdot3^a-1\) be supported on the points whose weight is a positive multiple of \(3^a\)? Symmetry matters for small \(M\). For \(M=2\cdot3^a\), the product \(\prod_{i\le3^a}(u_{2i-1}-u_{2i})\) alone has degree \(3^a\) and is supported on weight exactly \(3^a\). With more coordinates, the extra ones must contribute a multiple of \(3^a\), which the factor \(1_{3^a\mid r}\) enforces at cost \(3^a-1\). A symmetric function vanishing at the weights \(1,\dots,3^a-1\) needs degree at least \(3^a-1\). If \(d\le3^a-2\), its values at \(0,\dots,d\) vanish except possibly at 0, and Newton inversion gives \(g(d+1)=\pm g(0)\binom{d+1}0\). Since \(d+1\le3^a-1\) is a zero, \(g(0)=0\), and then \(g=0\). So the non-symmetric question is about large \(M\), the W_RS regime.

Outcome. The counting-principles lead is falsified as a tool for (ND). The multiplier's digit form makes (ND) a statement about the lowest base-3 digits of the exclusion count. In the symmetric model of free events, the deep overlaps carry no function below degree \(2\cdot3^a-1\), sharply. So there (H) holds once \(3^as>D\). Lead follow-up: continuing.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the Boolean-cube form of (H) without symmetry. Decide whether, for \(M\) much larger than \(3^a\), a polynomial of degree at most \(2\cdot3^a-2\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) can vanish at every point of \(\{0,1\}^M\) of weight not in \(3^a\mathbb Z_{>0}\) without vanishing identically. Try restriction to sub-cubes, where a supported function becomes one on few layers, and the degree bounds known for functions on Hamming layers. Then transfer to events of degree \(s\) through the pullback structure within capacity.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:lucas-truncation, prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction and prop:nondegeneracy-as-hardness. Read the source's abstract, Theorem 3.2, Lemma 3.3, Definition 4.1 and Lemma 4.2 in a private copy, not committed. A claim search found no prior version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer verified both lemmas: the digit identity, the product formula and degree, the binomial basis, the Newton coefficients, the alternating-sum identity and the Lucas evaluation. It found the reading of the source fair. It required three changes, all adopted:

the product of differences is now stated for \(M>2\cdot3^a\), where the factor \(1_{3^a\mid r}\) is needed;
the Outcome states the condition \(3^as>D\);
the lower bound for weights \(1,\dots,3^a-1\) is derived.

Its optional cross-reference for \(D/s\) is adopted. The changes correct wording and add derivations, so one pass suffices.

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Hiding fails: one block's excluded indicator times the Lucas multiplier is supported on the deep overlaps and has degree at most \(3^as\), within the budget \(D_0\) whenever \(s\le D\). So hiding holds only when no point is excluded by a positive multiple of \(3^a\) blocks. Reaching that emptiness would cost degree of order \(n\,s\), beyond the range of base designs, so the Lucas conjecture is expected, heuristically, to fail for dense families

27 September 2026 · Working proof, correction and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-cube-hiding. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Hiding fails: one block's excluded indicator times the Lucas multiplier is supported on the deep overlaps and has degree at most \(3^as\), within the budget \(D_0\) whenever \(s\le D\). So hiding holds only when no point is excluded by a positive multiple of \(3^a\) blocks. Reaching that emptiness would cost degree of order \(n\,s\), beyond the range of base designs, so the Lucas conjecture is expected, heuristically, to fail for dense families”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-hiding-fails.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The Lucas digits entry proved that no symmetric function below degree \(2\cdot3^a-1\) is supported on the deep overlaps of free events. It asked whether the same holds without symmetry for many events, the form of hiding (H) needed by conj:lucas-hiding. A small exact check was run to test that.

General statement. prop:hiding-needs-emptiness, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for any family with excluded sets \(E_b\) of indicator degree at most \(s\), any \(a\) and \(D\ge s\). For every block \(b\), \(1_{E_b}\cdot1_{3^a\mid r}\) is supported on \(E_a=E\cap\{3^a\mid r\}\) and has degree at most \(3^as\le D_0=D+(3^a-1)s\). It is nonzero exactly when \(E_b\cap E_a\ne\varnothing\). Hence, with \(F_b=E_b\), hypothesis (H) of prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction holds iff \(E_a=\varnothing\). In the free-event model the same function \(u_1\cdot1_{3^a\mid r}\) has degree \(3^a\). So the symmetric bound \(2\cdot3^a-1\) of lem:symmetric-deep-overlap-degree does not extend to non-symmetric functions. ex:cube-layer-hiding confirms this at \(k=3\).

prop:hiding-needs-emptiness

Statement.

For every block \(b\), \(f_b=1_{E_b}W_a\) vanishes off \(E_b\cap\{3^a\mid r\}\subseteq E_a\), and \(\deg f_b\le s+(3^a-1)s=3^as\).
If \(s\le D\), then \(3^as\le D_0\). So if \(E_a\ne\varnothing\), some \(f_b\) is a nonzero function of degree at most \(D_0\) supported on \(E_a\), and (H) fails. Conversely, if \(E_a=\varnothing\), (H) holds trivially.
With \(E_a=\varnothing\), \(W_a\) vanishes on all of \(E\) and is an exact multiplier (lem:multiplier-designs). Emptiness at level \(a\) requires that no point be excluded by a positive multiple of \(3^a\) blocks.

Proof. (1): \(1_{E_b}\) vanishes off \(E_b\), and \(W_a\) off \(\{3^a\mid r\}\). A point of \(E_b\) has \(r\ge1\), so a point of \(E_b\cap\{3^a\mid r\}\) lies in \(E_a\). The degrees add. (2): each point of \(E_a\) lies in some \(E_b\), where \(f_b\) takes the value 1. (3) is the definition. \(\square\)

ex:cube-layer-hiding

Exact ranks over \(\mathbb F_3\) (research/tools/cube_layer_hiding_check.py, output research/results/odd-prime-cube-hiding/cube_layer_hiding.json) were computed for \(k=3\). The quantity is the dimension of the space of polynomials of degree at most \(d\) on \(\{0,1\}^M\) that vanish at every weight outside \(3\mathbb Z_{>0}\).

The prediction before the run was that the dimension is 0 for \(M\ge3k-1=8\) at \(d=4\). At \(d=4\) it was 15, 21, 27 and 35 for \(M=6,7,8,9\). At \(d=5\) it was 20 at \(M=6\) and 56 at \(M=8\). The prediction failed.

The reason is the functions \(u_b(1-(\sum u)^2)\), of degree 3, which (1) explains. By Lucas, \(1-(\sum u)^2=1_{3\mid r}\), and a factor \(u_b\) removes the point \(r=0\). The run decided its question at its smallest size, so no larger size was run.

What it gives

The Lucas line needs emptiness. On \(P'=P\setminus E_a\) the functions \(f_b\) vanish, so the base designs on \(P'\) are designs of PHP plus the dense constraints \(f_b\) of degree \(3^as\). The problem on \(P'\) is a W-type problem again. Its excluded set \(E_a\) is sparser, but its constraints have degree multiplied by \(3^a\).

Iterating the multiplier does not help within the budget. The density drops from \(\delta\) to about \(\delta^{3^a}\) per level, while the constraint degree grows by the factor \(3^a\). Reaching \(E=\varnothing\) needs the product of the factors \(3^{a_i}\) to be of order \(\log|P|/\log(1/\delta)\). With \(\log|P|\) of order \(n\log n\) (each of the \(N\) holes chooses among \(m+1\) occupants) and \(\delta\le M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\), that is about \(n\). This is an order-of-magnitude estimate, not a bound. That makes the final degree of order \(n\,s\), beyond the range \(D_0\le\sqrt{N/2}\) where base designs are known. For dense families \(E_a\) is nonempty in expectation, as the dense-core review computed. So conj:lucas-hiding is expected to fail for them, though that it fails for a specific family is not proved.

What survives:

lem:lucas-truncation and lem:lucas-digit-form;
the reduction of prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction (1), which needs a design on \(P'\) and not (H);
prop:nondegeneracy-as-hardness;
lem:symmetric-deep-overlap-degree, a correct statement about symmetric functions whose use as a model of (H) was misleading.

Outcome. (H) holds only when the deep-overlap set is empty. For dense families that is expected to need degree of order \(n\,s\), beyond the design range. The Lucas multiplier line's route to the goal through conj:lucas-hiding is closed in this form. A design on \(P'\) would still suffice, but that is a W-type problem of the original kind. Lead follow-up: closed, for the reason above.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: a route review. Every certificate for the dense core so far either pays degree per block or, like the Lucas multiplier, trades sparsity for degree at a rate that cannot reach an empty excluded set within the design range. Before another mechanism, the review should weigh the three open statements A1, A2 and A3 against the evidence of the last cycles. It should also consider whether the budget, rather than a mechanism, is the binding constraint: the range where base designs are known, \(D_0\le\sqrt{N/2}\), against the refutation degree \(D\approx44t\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction, conj:lucas-hiding, lem:symmetric-deep-overlap-degree, lem:lucas-digit-form and lem:multiplier-designs. The finite check was run once, with the prediction stated before the run, and it decided its question at the smallest size; its script and output are listed above. A fresh-context reviewer found no mathematical error. It confirmed that \(f_b\) is exactly the indicator of \(E_b\cap E_a\), the degree comparison, the equivalence with emptiness, and that the script computes the stated kernel, with the counts checked by hand. It also confirmed the explanation by \(u_b(1-(\sum u)^2)\) and that the reduction's part (1) survives. It required no changes. Its two optional suggestions are adopted: the order estimate for the iteration is derived and labelled, and the title marks the conclusion as heuristic.

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Route review after the Lucas line: for pointwise multipliers the design range is not the binding constraint. Even at the largest possible range, about \(N/2\), pointwise multipliers cannot pay per-block costs for \(n^K\) blocks, nor reach empty deep overlaps. What binds is the exchange rate between degree and exclusion density. Designs of the general form \(\mu_0(W\cdot)\) need \(W\gamma\) only in the PHP closure, not zero, and that relaxation is untested

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-budget-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the Lucas line: for pointwise multipliers the design range is not the binding constraint. Even at the largest possible range, about \(N/2\), pointwise multipliers cannot pay per-block costs for \(n^K\) blocks, nor reach empty deep overlaps. What binds is the exchange rate between degree and exclusion density. Designs of the general form \(\mu_0(W\cdot)\) need \(W\gamma\) only in the PHP closure, not zero, and that relaxation is untested”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-budget-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the dense-core review, the Lucas line has run through four entries:

the multiplier;
nondegeneracy;
digits;
hiding fails.

It ended at emptiness of the deep overlaps, out of the design range. This review asks whether that range is what binds, and what form of certificate is left.

The line's general claim

W_RS at degree \(D\approx44t\) for dense families of \(M\le n^K\) blocks. By lem:multiplier-designs, a PHP design \(\mu_0\) of degree \(D_0\) and a multiplier \(W\) of degree at most \(D_0-D\) vanishing on the excluded set \(E\), with \(\mu_0(W)\ne0\), give it.

What the goal needs, against the budget

Designs for the rows on the weak base have degree at most \(N\) (lem:multiplier-designs, by Anstee, Rónyai and Sali). They are known to exist up to \(D_0\le\sqrt{N/2}\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic), and conj:weak-base-stability would extend this to about \(N/2\). Against the largest range \(D_0\approx N/2\):

product multipliers cost degree 2 per block, so they reach about \(N/4\) blocks, not \(n^K\);
separators cost the degree of an excluded indicator per block, at most \(2h+4t\), or \(4t\) with the covering sets \(\{C_bg_b=0\}\);
the Lucas multiplier needs empty deep overlaps, which prop:hiding-needs-emptiness estimates at degree of order \(n\,s\), with \(s\approx4t\). Here \(N\), the number of holes, is \(n\) up to a constant, since the board is \(\mathrm{PHP}^{N+1}_N\), so this exceeds \(N/2\) by a factor of order \(s\).

So raising the range to its maximum would not rescue any pointwise-multiplier mechanism. For those mechanisms the range is not the binding constraint. For designs of the colon form below, its role is untested.

Falsification attempt: is the barrier intrinsic to the problem or to the certificates?

Counting says the problem has room. The clause conditions are a vanishing fraction of the design space (dense-core review). A semi-regular heuristic also puts the first fall far above \(D\). Take \(M\) clauses of degree \(e=4t+2\) in a space with \(V\approx Nm\approx n^2\) degree-1 directions, one per cell (not per hole). The first nonpositive coefficient of the Hilbert series comes near \((V/d)^e\approx M\), that is \(d\approx V\,M^{-1/e}\approx n^2\), since \(K/(4t)\to0\). This is the heuristic behind open statement A3.

So the barrier concerns the certificates. Each mechanism so far vanishes pointwise on \(E\), or on the deep overlaps. It then pays the degree of an exclusion indicator, about \(4t\), for each unit of exclusion density \(3^{-t}\). No mechanism so far has used the algebra of \(E\) beyond its points.

Obstacle

A degree-\(D\) design for PHP plus a dense family beyond capacity. Every design this route has built for dense W_RS families since the reduction review has the form \(f\mapsto\mu_0(Wf)\) with \(W\) vanishing on \(E\) (or on its deep overlaps), and the pointwise vanishing costs degree at a rate that no range within \(N\) can pay. The general form needs only \(W\gamma\in C_{D_0}(R)\) for each constraint \(\gamma\), membership in the PHP closure. That weaker condition has not been studied.

Assessment of the route

Weak at A1. The Lucas line was the first mechanism with cost independent of the number of blocks, and it failed on hiding, for a structural reason: the product \(1_{E_b}W_a\). The route's pointwise-certificate programme is exhausted. Generic counting leaves room, and open statement A3 records the matching conjecture. The adversarial dense core remains uncertified.

Outside leads

conj:weak-base-stability, stability in the linear range \(N\ge2D-1\). Target: the design range. Answers. It would raise the range of base designs from \(\sqrt{N/2}\) to about \(N/2\), the most any design allows. Test. Falsified as a resolution of the obstacle: at \(D_0\approx N/2\), product multipliers still reach only about \(N/4\) blocks, and Lucas emptiness still needs degree of order \(n\,s\gg N/2\), as computed above.
Macaulay inverse systems and Gorenstein duality (Iarrobino and Kanev, Power sums, Gorenstein algebras, and determinantal loci, Lecture Notes in Math. 1721, 1999). Target: designs that are not pointwise multipliers. Answers. Suppose a base design \(\mu_0\) pairs \(F_{D_0-D}\times F_D\) perfectly modulo the PHP closure. Then every design of PHP plus \(\Gamma\) of degree \(D\) is \(\mu_0(W\cdot)\) with \(W\) in the colon \((C_{D_0}(R):\Gamma)\), not merely with \(W\) vanishing on \(E\). The colon can contain \(W\) of lower degree than the vanishing degree of \(E\). The degrees must be matched: \(\deg W\le D_0-D\), and for a constraint of degree \(e\) the condition \(W\gamma\in C_{D_0}(R)\) is needed through degree \(D_0-D+e\), so the pairing must be nondegenerate in the complementary degrees. Test. Not run: it needs the nondegeneracy of the pairing for a PHP design, which is not known, and a construction of \(W\) in the colon.
Semi-regular sequences and the degree of regularity (Bardet, Faugère and Salvy, On the complexity of Gröbner basis computation of semi-regular overdetermined algebraic equations, ICPSS 2004). Target: the room in the problem. Answers. If PHP plus the clauses behaved like a semi-regular system, its first fall would come at the first nonpositive coefficient of the Hilbert series, far above \(D\). Test. Passed as a translation: the arithmetic above gives about \(n^2\). This is the record's A3 heuristic in the language of the source, so it restates rather than resolves the adversarial case.

Absurd bridges

Shannon's rate–distortion trade-off (A mathematical theory of communication, 1948). Translation: a certificate must encode which points are excluded. A clause spends degree \(4t+2\) to carry \(t\log_23\) bits of exclusion, about \(0.4\) bits per degree. A cell variable carries about \(\log_2n\) bits per degree. Answers. A rate bound would turn the exchange-rate barrier into a lower bound for pointwise multipliers: degree at least the information in \(E\) divided by the best rate. Test. Passed as a translation: the arithmetic shows the clauses are far less efficient carriers than cell monomials, consistent with the barrier. No theorem transfers, since polynomial degree over \(\mathbb F_3\) is not an information measure.
The Lee–Yang circle theorem (Lee and Yang, Phys. Rev. 87, 1952). Translation: \(\mu_0(W_a)=\sum_{j<3^a}(-1)^j\sum_{|B|=j}\mu_0(\prod_{b\in B}1_{F_b})\) is a truncated partition function of the exclusion events. Nondegeneracy is the statement that it does not vanish. Answers. Zero-free regions of partition functions would give nondegeneracy. Test. Falsified: the theorem is complex-analytic and needs ferromagnetic real weights, while \(\mu_0\) takes values in \(\mathbb F_3\).

Lead follow-up

Truncated inclusion–exclusion. Work: developed into lem:lucas-truncation and prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction; prop:hiding-needs-emptiness showed that its hiding condition needs empty deep overlaps. Follow-up. Closed: emptiness is out of the design range for dense families.

Bridge follow-up

Bootstrap percolation. Work: the infection threshold is now explicit. PHP's forcing reaches every deep-overlap point through the products \(1_{E_b}W_a\), so infection is supercritical whenever deep overlaps exist. Follow-up. Closed: the threshold is emptiness.
Replica symmetry. Work: its sparse-set picture drove the Bonferroni and Lucas constructions, which closed on hiding. Follow-up. Closed with them.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, the highest-risk item: develop the Gorenstein lead. State and prove the colon form of designs: if a base design pairs perfectly modulo the PHP closure, every design of PHP plus \(\Gamma\) is \(\mu_0(W\cdot)\) with \(W\) in \((C_{D_0}(R):\Gamma)\). Then test the pairing's nondegeneracy, and whether the colon contains elements of lower degree than the vanishing degree of \(E\), on the smallest W_RS-type family where pointwise multipliers are known to fail.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the four Lucas-line entries, lem:multiplier-designs, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, conj:weak-base-stability and the dense-core review. No computation was run; the tests are arithmetic stated in the items. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the budget arithmetic, the semi-regular heuristic and its labelling, and the scope of the Gorenstein lead as untested. It required four changes, all adopted:

the scaling \(N\approx n\) (holes) is stated and distinguished from \(V\approx n^2\) (cells);
the claim about the range is restricted to pointwise multipliers, in the title and body;
the Obstacle's "every design" is scoped to this route's designs for dense families;
the separator cost states its dependence on \(h\).

Its optional suggestion is adopted: the Gorenstein lead states its degree bookkeeping. The changes restrict claims, so one pass suffices.

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Colon multipliers: a multiplier need not vanish on the excluded set, only make each constraint a member of the PHP closure. A function lies in that closure, up to degree shifts, exactly when PHP is refutable on its support. So the colon form relaxes pointwise vanishing only on sets where PHP is easy, and an easy residual with a Nullstellensatz certificate converts back to a pointwise multiplier. Refutation degree is subadditive over partitions of the base

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-colon-designs. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Colon multipliers: a multiplier need not vanish on the excluded set, only make each constraint a member of the PHP closure. A function lies in that closure, up to degree shifts, exactly when PHP is refutable on its support. So the colon form relaxes pointwise vanishing only on sets where PHP is easy, and an easy residual with a Nullstellensatz certificate converts back to a pointwise multiplier. Refutation degree is subadditive over partitions of the base”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-colon-multipliers.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The budget review found that pointwise multipliers cannot certify the dense core. It named one untested relaxation, the Gorenstein lead: designs \(\mu_0(W\cdot)\) where \(W\gamma\) lies in the PHP closure for each constraint \(\gamma\), rather than \(W\gamma=0\). This cycle develops that lead. It asks which multipliers the relaxation admits, and whether any of them can escape the exchange rate between degree and exclusion density. The cycle ends when the admitted multipliers are characterized.

General statement. prop:colon-multipliers, lem:support-absorption and thm:refutation-subadditivity, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every constraint family on the weak base and every pair of degrees \(D\le D_0\):

prop:colon-multipliers: a design \(\mu_0\) of degree \(D_0\) for the rows, times a function \(W\) of degree at most \(D_0-D\) with \(\mu_0(W)\ne0\) and \(W\gamma\in\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\) for every constraint, is a degree-\(D\) design for the rows plus the constraints. Such \(W\) are characterized, up to degree shifts, by PHP-refutability on the supports of the products \(W\gamma\). Where those supports have Nullstellensatz certificates of degree \(d\), \(W\) yields a pointwise multiplier of degree \(\deg W+d\) with the same value under \(\mu_0\).
lem:support-absorption: this is the characterization. It holds on any base \(B\) of 0/1 points, for a function \(\varphi\) on \(B\) of degree at most \(a\) with support \(Y\). If PHP on \(Y\) has a PC refutation of degree \(d\), then \(\varphi\in\mathcal C_{a+d}(R)\). Conversely, if \(\varphi\in\mathcal C_D(R)\), then PHP on \(Y\) has a PC refutation of degree \(D+a\).
thm:refutation-subadditivity: for every partition \(B=X\sqcup Y\), the least PC refutation degrees satisfy \(D_B\le D_X+D_Y+1\).

Setting

The conventions are those of lem:multiplier-designs. A base is a finite set \(B\) of 0/1 points in the cell variables, such as the weak base \(P\) or a subset of it. \(F^B\) is the algebra of \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued functions on \(B\). The degree of \(f\in F^B\) is the least degree of a polynomial representing it. For a set \(S\) of functions, \(\mathcal C^B_D(S)\) is the smallest subspace of \(F^B_{\le D}\) that contains \(S\cap F^B_{\le D}\) and is closed under \(f\mapsto xf\) for cell variables \(x\) whenever \(\deg(xf)\le D\). On \(P\) we write \(\mathcal C_D\). \(R=\{\rho_i=r_i-1\}\) are the row equations, of degree 1.

The PHP refutation degree of a base, \(D_B\), is the least \(D\ge1\) with \(1\in\mathcal C^B_D(R)\). It is finite for every nonempty \(B\subseteq P\), since the rows have no common zero on \(P\) (lem:multiplier-designs), and \(D_\varnothing=1\). By restriction, \(D_{B'}\le D_B\) for \(B'\subseteq B\).

Restriction \(\pi_Y:F^B\to F^Y\) is an algebra map that does not raise degree. By the definition of degree on \(Y\), every element of \(F^Y_{\le d}\) has a preimage in \(F^B_{\le d}\). Induction on the closure shows \(\pi_Y(\mathcal C^B_D(R))\subseteq\mathcal C^Y_D(R)\).

lem:support-absorption

Statement. Let \(\varphi\in F^B\) have \(\deg\varphi\le a\) and support \(Y=\{\varphi\ne0\}\).

If \(1\in\mathcal C^Y_d(R)\) with \(d\ge1\), then \(\varphi\in\mathcal C^B_{a+d}(R)\). If moreover \(\sum_i\rho_ic_i=1\) on \(Y\) with \(\deg c_i\le d-1\) (a Nullstellensatz refutation on \(Y\)), then \(\varphi=\sum_i\rho_i(c_i\varphi)\) in \(F^B\).
If \(\varphi\in\mathcal C^B_D(R)\), then \(1\in\mathcal C^Y_{D+a}(R)\).

Proof. (1) Let \(T=\{g\in F^B_{\le d}:\varphi g\in\mathcal C^B_{a+d}(R)\}\), a subspace, and \(T_Y=\pi_Y(T)\). We show \(\mathcal C^Y_d(R)\subseteq T_Y\).

Each \(\rho_i\) lies in \(T\). Represent \(\varphi\) by a polynomial of degree at most \(a\). For each of its monomials \(w\), the product \(w\rho_i\) is reached from \(\rho_i\) by multiplying by variables through degrees at most \(|w|+1\le a+d\), using \(d\ge1\).
\(T_Y\) is closed under multiplication by variables within degree \(d\). Let \(\tilde g=\pi_Y g\) with \(g\in T\), and let \(x\) be a variable with \(\deg_Y(x\tilde g)\le d\). Choose \(g'\in F^B_{\le d}\) with \(\pi_Yg'=x\tilde g\). Then \(\varphi g'=x(\varphi g)\) as functions on \(B\): on \(Y\) because \(g'=xg\) there, and off \(Y\) because \(\varphi=0\) there. So \(x(\varphi g)\) has degree \(\deg(\varphi g')\le a+d\). Since \(\varphi g\in\mathcal C^B_{a+d}(R)\), closure gives \(\varphi g'\in\mathcal C^B_{a+d}(R)\), that is \(g'\in T\).

So \(1\in T_Y\): some \(g\in T\) equals 1 on \(Y\), and then \(\varphi g=\varphi\), so \(\varphi\in\mathcal C^B_{a+d}(R)\). The Nullstellensatz form is the identity \(\varphi=\varphi\sum_i\rho_ic_i\), which holds on \(Y\) by hypothesis and off \(Y\) because \(\varphi=0\) there.

(2) \(u=\pi_Y\varphi\) lies in \(\mathcal C^Y_D(R)\), has degree at most \(a\), and has no zero on \(Y\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(u^2=1\) on \(Y\). Represent \(u\) by a polynomial of degree at most \(a\). Each monomial \(w\) gives \(wu\), reached from \(u\) through degrees at most \(D+|w|\le D+a\). So \(1=u\cdot u\in\mathcal C^Y_{D+a}(R)\). \(\square\)

Over \(\mathbb F_p\), part (2) holds with \(D+(p-2)a\), using \(u^{p-1}=1\).

thm:refutation-subadditivity

Statement. For a base \(B\) and a partition \(B=X\sqcup Y\), \(D_B\le D_X+D_Y+1\).

Proof. Put \(d=D_X\), \(D'=D_Y\) and \(D_0=D'+d+1\). By part (1) of lem:support-absorption, every function on \(B\) of degree at most \(D'+1\) that vanishes on \(Y\) lies in \(\mathcal C^B_{D_0}(R)\), since its support lies in \(X\) and \(D_{X'}\le D_X\) for \(X'\subseteq X\). Let \(U=F^B_{\le D'}\cap\mathcal C^B_{D_0}(R)\). We show \(\mathcal C^Y_{D'}(R)\subseteq\pi_Y(U)\).

Each \(\rho_i\) lies in \(U\), since \(D'\ge1\).
Let \(\tilde g=\pi_Yg\) with \(g\in U\), and \(\deg_Y(x\tilde g)\le D'\). Choose \(g'\in F^B_{\le D'}\) with \(\pi_Yg'=x\tilde g\). Then \(f=g'-xg\) vanishes on \(Y\) and has degree at most \(D'+1\), so \(f\in\mathcal C^B_{D_0}(R)\) by the remark above. Also \(xg\in\mathcal C^B_{D_0}(R)\), since \(\deg(xg)\le D'+1\le D_0\). Hence \(g'=xg+f\in U\).

So some \(g\in U\) has \(\pi_Yg=1\). Then \(g-1\) vanishes on \(Y\) and has degree at most \(D'\), so it lies in \(\mathcal C^B_{D_0}(R)\), and \(1=g-(g-1)\in\mathcal C^B_{D_0}(R)\). \(\square\)

The cost of splitting the base is the refutation degree of one part plus one, not the degree of the indicator of \(X\).

prop:colon-multipliers

Statement. Let \(\Gamma\) be constraints of degree at most \(D\) on \(P\), with excluded set \(E\), and \(1\le D\le D_0\). Let \(\mu_0\) be a degree-\(D_0\) design for \(R\), and \(W\in F^P\) with \(\deg W\le D_0-D\). For \(\gamma\in\Gamma\) put \(Y_\gamma=\{W\gamma\ne0\}\), and let \(X=\{W\ne0\}\cap E=\bigcup_\gamma Y_\gamma\) be the residual support.

(Sufficiency.) If \(\mu_0(W)\ne0\) and \(W\gamma\in\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\) for every \(\gamma\) (\(W\) lies in the colon of the closure by \(\Gamma\)), then \(f\mapsto\mu_0(Wf)\) is a degree-\(D\) design for \(R\cup\Gamma\).
(Support criterion.) If \(D_{Y_\gamma}\le D-\deg\gamma\) for every \(\gamma\), then \(W\) lies in the colon. Conversely, if \(W\) lies in the colon, then \(D_{Y_\gamma}\le D_0+\deg(W\gamma)\le2D_0-D+\deg\gamma\) for every \(\gamma\).
(Conversion.) If \(\mu_0(W)\ne0\), \(\sum_i\rho_ic_i=1\) on \(X\) with \(\deg c_i\le d-1\) and \(\deg W+d\le D_0\), then \(W'=W(1-\sum_i\rho_ic_i)\) vanishes on \(E\), has degree at most \(\deg W+d\), and \(\mu_0(W')=\mu_0(W)\). So \(W'\) is a pointwise multiplier of lem:multiplier-designs, certifying degree \(D_0-\deg W-d\).
(Design-dependent form.) (1) stays true with \(\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\) replaced by any subspace \(A\subseteq\ker\mu_0\) of \(F^P_{\le D_0}\) that contains \(\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\) and is closed under multiplication by variables within degree \(D_0\). In that form every degree-\(D\) design \(\mu\) of \(R\cup\Gamma\) qualifies, with \(\mu_0=\mu\), \(D_0=D\), \(W=1\) and \(A=\mathcal C_D(R\cup\Gamma)\).

Proof. (1) As in lem:multiplier-designs, let \(U=\{f\in F^P_{\le D}:Wf\in\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\}\). It contains each \(\rho_i\), by the monomial argument and \(D\ge1\). It contains each \(\gamma\) by hypothesis. It is closed under \(f\mapsto xf\) when \(\deg(xf)\le D\), since \(W\cdot xf=x(Wf)\) has degree at most \(D_0\). So \(\mathcal C_D(R\cup\Gamma)\subseteq U\subseteq\ker\mu_0(W\cdot)\), and \(\mu_0(W\cdot1)\ne0\).

(2) \(W\gamma\) has degree at most \(D_0-D+\deg\gamma\) and support \(Y_\gamma\). The first claim is part (1) of lem:support-absorption with \(a+d\le D_0\), and the second is its part (2).

(3) On \(X\), \(1-\sum\rho_ic_i=0\). On \(E\setminus X\), \(W=0\). Each \(W\rho_ic_i\) lies in \(\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\), reached from \(\rho_i\) through degrees at most \(\deg W+d\le D_0\), so \(\mu_0\) kills it.

(4) The proof of (1) uses only that the target subspace contains \(W\rho_i\) (true for \(\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\subseteq A\)), lies in \(\ker\mu_0\), and is closed under multiplication by variables within degree \(D_0\). \(A=\mathcal C_D(R\cup\Gamma)\) has these properties for \(\mu_0=\mu\), \(D_0=D\), and contains \(\Gamma\). \(\square\)

What it gives for the Gorenstein lead

The lead proposed to test a perfect pairing of a base design modulo the closure. By part (4), the design-dependent colon holds for every design with \(W=1\), so a pairing hypothesis adds no information. Only the design-independent colon \(W\gamma\in\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\) is informative. By part (2), that colon relaxes the pointwise condition \(W=0\) on \(E\) exactly on a residual \(X\subseteq E\) whose pieces are PHP-refutable: at degree at most \(D-\deg\gamma\) this suffices, and at degree at most \(2D_0-D+\deg\gamma\) it is necessary.

By part (3), a colon multiplier certifying degree \(D\) whose residual \(X\) has a Nullstellensatz certificate of degree \(d\) yields a pointwise multiplier certifying degree \(D_0-\deg W-d\) from the same base design, which is \(D-d\) when \(\deg W=D_0-D\). On the dense core the budget review found, heuristically, that pointwise multipliers certify no degree at which the constraints fit, since vanishing on \(E\) needs degree of order \(n\,s\) or more against a budget of at most \(N\). So, heuristically and under that barrier, a colon multiplier certifying \(D\) there with \(\deg W=D_0-D\) would have a residual with no Nullstellensatz certificate of degree at most \(D-e\) (\(e\) the largest constraint degree), while by part (2) (a proved statement) each piece \(Y_\gamma\) is PC-refutable at degree at most \(2D_0-D+\deg\gamma\). So the only room left is a gap between PC refutation of the pieces and Nullstellensatz refutation of their union, for PHP restricted to parts of \(E\). Nothing recorded produces such residuals, and whether dense excluded sets contain them is open.

For the Lucas multiplier \(W_a=1_{3^a\mid r}\), the colon condition is relaxed hiding: \(W_a\gamma\in\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\) with \(W_a\gamma\) supported on the deep overlaps \(E_a\). By part (2) it holds when PHP is refutable on \(E_a\) at degree at most \(D-\deg\gamma\). This replaces the emptiness that prop:hiding-needs-emptiness showed (H) to need by easiness. Conversely it needs each nonempty piece \(\{\gamma\ne0\}\cap E_a\) to be PHP-refutable at degree at most \(D_0+\deg(W_a\gamma)\). For a W_RS block the pieces of its clauses cover \(E_b\cap E_a\), a set of points lying in a positive multiple of \(3^a\) excluded sets. For dense families nothing recorded makes these sets easy. Each is PHP-hard unless its indicator products already lie in the closure, which is the statement being sought.

Subadditivity also bounds what excision alone can give. A refutation of \(R\cup\Gamma\) of degree \(D\) restricts to a refutation on the allowed set \(Q\) (prop:design-lift-criterion (1)), so \(D_Q\le D\). Subadditivity on \(P=E\sqcup Q\) then gives \(D_E\ge D_P-D-1\), where \(D_P\) is at least about \(\sqrt{N/2}\) by the base designs of thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. So a counterexample to W has an excluded set on which PHP is hard to degree about \(\sqrt{N/2}\), and W holds at degree \(D\) whenever \(D_E\le D_P-D-2\). That condition fails as soon as one block's excluded set carries a design. Indeed \(E\supseteq E_b\), so \(D_E\ge D_{E_b}\), and by part (1) of lem:support-absorption applied to \(\varphi=1_{E_b}\) (degree at most \(s\)), \(1_{E_b}\notin\mathcal C_{D_0}(R)\) gives \(D_{E_b}>D_0-s\). This is the typical case, so excision is not a route to W.

Outcome. The Gorenstein lead is developed. Its informative form is the design-independent colon, characterized by PHP-refutability of the residual supports (prop:colon-multipliers, lem:support-absorption). A residual with a Nullstellensatz certificate of degree \(d\) gives back a pointwise multiplier that loses \(d\) degrees. So under the budget review's barrier the colon form escapes only through a PC-versus-Nullstellensatz gap for PHP on parts of \(E\), and no source of such a gap is known. Every certificate built from a base design is now pointwise vanishing on the PHP-hard part of \(E\), up to additive degree. Subadditivity of refutation degree (thm:refutation-subadditivity) is a new general tool, but by itself it gives W only when the whole excluded set is PHP-easy, which fails whenever a single block carries a design. Lead follow-up: closed, for the reason above.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: a route review. The base-design certificates (products, separators, Lucas and colon multipliers) are exhausted, and the remaining route item is certificates native to the allowed set, the top-lift subset of conj:top-lift-subset. The review should weigh that line against A2 and A3, follow up the passed semi-regular and rate–distortion items of the budget review, and choose outside leads that answer the obstacle of designs on sets without a base design to multiply.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:multiplier-designs (setting, closure and proof), prop:design-lift-criterion (1), thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction, prop:nondegeneracy-as-hardness, prop:hiding-needs-emptiness and the budget review. Claim searches for colon multipliers, support absorption and subadditivity found no earlier version. The reviewer's search surfaced two historical results of the same additive flavour, the global chain charge (cor:chaincharge) and PC-based supported lifting (lem:pcbased); both concern eliminating extension blocks, not partitioning the base, and neither implies these statements. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer verified the two parts of support absorption, the subadditivity proof (with the sanity check \(X=\{r_1\not\equiv1\}\), \(D_X\le2\)), parts (1) and (2) of the proposition, and the contrapositive giving \(D_{E_b}>D_0-s\). It required four changes, all adopted:

part (3) now assumes \(\mu_0(W)\ne0\);
part (4) no longer invokes a largest closed subspace of \(\ker\mu_0\), whose existence was not shown, and uses any closed subspace containing the closure;
an unproved remark extending subadditivity to added constraints is dropped;
the consequence drawn from the budget review's barrier is marked heuristic.

Its suggestion is adopted: the certified degree after conversion is stated as \(D_0-\deg W-d\). The changes weaken or remove claims, so one pass suffices.

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Route review after the colon multipliers: every certificate built from a base design is pointwise vanishing on the PHP-hard part of the excluded set, so the dense core needs designs native to the allowed set. Their recorded obstacle is one top-degree splitting condition per member. A distributive lattice of the members' top ideals would give all of them at once, and that lead has not been tested

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-design-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the colon multipliers: every certificate built from a base design is pointwise vanishing on the PHP-hard part of the excluded set, so the dense core needs designs native to the allowed set. Their recorded obstacle is one top-degree splitting condition per member. A distributive lattice of the members' top ideals would give all of them at once, and that lead has not been tested”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-design-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The budget review left one relaxation of pointwise multipliers untested. The colon multipliers entry developed it and found that it relaxes vanishing only on PHP-refutable residuals. This review asks what kind of certificate is left for the dense core and what blocks it.

The line's general claim

A1 through W_RS: for every family of \(M\le n^K\) blocks with linear parts dense modulo the row sums and independent uniform prefixes, weak PHP plus the clauses has no PC refutation of degree \(D\approx44t\), with high probability. By prop:design-lift-criterion it suffices to find a nonempty subset \(Y\) of the allowed set \(Q\) with a row design of degree \(D-1\) on which the top-degree row syzygies lift (conj:top-lift-subset).

What the goal needs, and where the certificates stand

Certificates from a base design. A design of the whole base times a multiplier: products, separators, Lucas multipliers and colon multipliers. By prop:colon-multipliers and lem:support-absorption, all of them vanish on the excluded set except on parts where PHP is refutable. A Nullstellensatz certificate on those parts converts them back to pointwise multipliers. Pointwise multipliers stop near \(N/2\) blocks (lem:multiplier-designs), or need empty deep overlaps (prop:hiding-needs-emptiness).
Certificates native to the allowed set. Designs on a subset \(Y\subseteq Q\). Within joint capacity (about \(n\) blocks) prefix-vanishing pieces work, conditionally on pullback hypotheses (row-free subsets). Beyond it, lem:lift-gluing reduces the top lift on an intersection of members to one splitting condition (S) per member, in degree \(D\). Separators give (S) with a degree shift of up to \(2h+4t\) per member (lem:separator-splitting), so the budget pays for about ten members.

So the goal needs (S), or the top lift itself, for \(n^K\) members at once, with no per-member cost.

Falsification attempt: can the adversary make the allowed set easy?

If PHP were refutable on \(Q\) below degree \(D\), W_RS would fail. A natural attack chooses the forms so that the excluded set contains a set \(Z\) whose complement is PHP-easy, so that \(Q\subseteq P\setminus Z\). For example, take \(Z_I=\{r_i\equiv1\bmod3\text{ for }i\in I\}\). Its complement is a union of row failures, refutable in degree \(2|I|\) through \(1-\prod_{i\in I}(1-\rho_i^2)\). If \(Z_I\subseteq E\) with \(|I|<D/2\), this would give \(D_Q\le2|I|<D\).

Random prefixes defeat any such attack planned before the prefixes are drawn. A point \(x\) lies in \(E_b\) only if \(g_b(x)\ne0\) and \(C_bg_b(x)=0\), which has probability \(3^{-t}\) for a uniform prefix \(C_b\). So \(\Pr[x\in E]\le M3^{-t}\approx1/n\). For any fixed set \(Z\), \(\Pr[Z\subseteq E]\le\mathbb E|Z\cap E|/|Z|\le M3^{-t}\). The attack fails with high probability. This does not bound the number of easy sets the forms could offer, so it is evidence, not a proof. With thm:refutation-subadditivity it also shows where W can fail: \(D_E\ge D_P-D-1\), so the excluded set must be PHP-hard to degree about \(\sqrt{N/2}\).

Obstacle

A top-degree lift, or condition (S) of lem:lift-gluing, for the intersection of \(n^K\) members' allowed sets without a per-member degree cost. Separators pay up to \(2h+4t\) per member. Subadditivity pays at least one degree per member (applied member by member, it gives \(D_Q\ge D_P-\sum_b(D_{E_b\cap Q_{<b}}+1)\)). The Lucas count avoids per-member cost only where deep overlaps are empty. No recorded mechanism handles many members at once.

Assessment of the route

Weak at A1, with one untested structural lead. The base-design programme is closed: its certificates are pointwise on the PHP-hard part of \(E\), and the exchange rate of the budget review binds them. The native line has a clean per-member reduction (lift gluing) but no batching. Its only recorded tool for many subspaces at once, distributivity through a common adapted basis (lem:adapted-basis-criterion), has been applied to single ENS blocks and not to members' top ideals.

Outside leads

Distributive lattices of subspaces and adapted bases (Polishchuk and Positselski, Quadratic Algebras, AMS University Lecture Series 37, 2005, chapter 1, section 7; in the record as lem:adapted-basis-criterion). Target: open statement A1, through (S) for all members at once. Answers. A finite family of subspaces generates a distributive lattice exactly when some basis is adapted to all of them. If the members' top ideals \(n_{Q_b}\) and the row part \(mG\) in degree \(D\) had a common adapted basis, every distributive law would hold at once. In particular \((\sum_bn_{Q_b})\cap mG=\sum_b(n_{Q_b}\cap mG)\), which is (S) for every member with no degree shift, given no defect (lem:defect-gluing). Test. Not run: it needs the members' top ideals in degree \(D\) at a nonvacuous size, and the record computes adapted bases only for single ENS blocks (conj:block-adapted-basis at \(h=3,4,5\)). A counting check is also inconclusive: distributivity fails for three lines in a plane, but the members' ideals are neither generic nor small.
Leray's theorem and Čech cohomology of covers (in the record as prop:design-presheaf-gluing and the sheaf generalization review). Target: the same batching. Answers. If the cover of \(Q\) by the members' allowed sets had acyclic intersections for the degree-filtered ideal sheaf, Čech cohomology would compute the obstruction, and its vanishing would glue the lifts. Test. Falsified as a new tool: prop:design-presheaf-gluing shows that the gluing axiom for degree-\(D\) designs is locality of the PC closure at 1 on the cover, which is the open question itself.
Subadditivity of refutation degree (thm:refutation-subadditivity), applied to intersections. Target: a lower bound on \(D_Q\) from bounds on the members. Answers. Writing \(Q_2=(Q_1\cap Q_2)\sqcup(Q_2\setminus Q_1)\) gives \(D_{Q_1\cap Q_2}\ge D_{Q_2}-D_{Q_2\cap E_1}-1\), so an intersection stays hard when each member removes a PHP-easy part. Test. Falsified as batching: iterated over members it charges at least one degree per member, so it certifies at most \(D_P\) members. Each removed part \(E_b\cap Q_{<b}\) is also expected to be PHP-hard, by extrapolation from the colon entry's bound for \(E_b\) itself; that bound does not transfer to subsets, so this is an expectation.
Pseudorandom sets fooling low-degree polynomials (Bogdanov and Viola, Pseudorandom bits for polynomials, SIAM J. Comput. 39, 2010). Target: showing that \(Q\) looks like \(P\) to degree-\(D\) reasoning. Answers. If no nonzero function of degree at most \(D+1\) vanished on \(Q\), restriction would be injective on \(F^P_{\le D+1}\), so \(\mathcal C^Q_D=\pi_Q(\mathcal C_D)\) and \(D_Q\ge\min(D_P,D+1)\). Test. Falsified: the clauses themselves are nonzero functions of degree at most \(4t+2<D\) vanishing on \(Q\).

Absurd bridges

Tchakaloff's theorem on cubature (numerical analysis; Tchakaloff, Formules de cubatures mécaniques à coefficients non négatifs, Bull. Sci. Math. 81, 1957). Translation: a design native to \(Y\subseteq Q\) is a cubature rule, a weighted point set in \(Y\) reproducing a base design on functions of degree at most \(D\). Answers. Tchakaloff places a cubature rule for any positive measure inside its support, which would put a design inside \(Q\). Test. Falsified: over \(\mathbb F_3\) there is no positivity, and a rule supported on \(Y\) reproducing \(\mu_0\) exists exactly when \(\mu_0\) kills the degree-\(D\) functions vanishing on \(Y\). For \(Y=Q\) this includes the clauses, so the condition is that \(\mu_0\) is already a design for the family.
Quantum logic (Birkhoff and von Neumann, The logic of quantum mechanics, Ann. of Math. 37, 1936). Translation: in quantum logic, closed subspaces generate a distributive (Boolean) sublattice exactly when their projections commute. Here, a common adapted basis for the members' top ideals is the same as a family of commuting idempotent operators on \(G_D\) with those images: coordinate projections in the basis give such operators, and commuting idempotents are simultaneously diagonalizable. Answers. It turns the search for an adapted basis into a search for commuting idempotents. Multiplication by the indicators \(1_{E_b}\) is a natural candidate. Test. Passed as a translation. In the unfiltered algebra \(F^P\), the ideals \(I(Q_b)=1_{E_b}F^P\) are the images of the commuting idempotents \(f\mapsto1_{E_b}f\), so they generate a Boolean lattice, the lattice of supports. Distributivity can therefore fail only through the degree filtration, in passing to top degree \(D\). The row ideal is all of \(F^P\) there, so its part of the question is also purely a filtration effect.

Lead follow-up

Semi-regular sequences. Work: compared with this review's falsification attempt. The semi-regular heuristic predicts room, and random prefixes defeat covering attacks, but neither gives a certificate for adversarial forms. Follow-up. Closed: it restates open statement A3 and supplies no mechanism for A1.

Bridge follow-up

Rate–distortion trade-off. Work: the colon multipliers entry showed that base-design certificates are pointwise on the PHP-hard part of \(E\), so a rate bound would only turn the exchange-rate barrier for them into a theorem. Follow-up. Closed: a sharper barrier for a closed programme is off the critical path.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, the highest-risk item: develop the distributive-lattice lead. State when the members' top ideals and the row part in degree \(D\) generate a distributive lattice, prove that this gives (S) for all members at once, and test it against the recorded obstructions to lift gluing and against two members whose excluded sets overlap.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the colon multipliers entry, the budget review, conj:top-lift-subset, lem:lift-gluing, lem:defect-gluing, lem:adapted-basis-criterion, lem:separator-splitting, prop:design-presheaf-gluing and prop:hiding-needs-emptiness, and the dense-core review's bridges, so that the renormalization bridge used there is not repeated. No computation was run; the tests are the arguments stated in each item. A fresh-context reviewer checked the probability bounds of the falsification attempt, the refutation of the complement of \(Z_I\), the member-by-member subadditivity bound, the distributivity argument with its no-defect qualification, and the quantum-logic, Tchakaloff and pseudorandomness tests. It required one change, adopted: the hardness of the parts \(E_b\cap Q_{<b}\) is stated as an expectation, since the bound for \(E_b\) does not pass to subsets. Its suggestion is adopted: the attack's assumption \(Z_I\subseteq E\) is stated. The changes weaken claims, so one pass suffices.

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Batched splitting: lift gluing extends to all members at once under one splitting condition, but for row-free members that condition, and the distributive law of the members' tops with the row ideal, is exactly row freeness in degree \(D\) of the intersection (or of the sum of the members' tops). Distributivity gives no batching beyond relative row freeness itself

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-distributive-members. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Batched splitting: lift gluing extends to all members at once under one splitting condition, but for row-free members that condition, and the distributive law of the members' tops with the row ideal, is exactly row freeness in degree \(D\) of the intersection (or of the sum of the members' tops). Distributivity gives no batching beyond relative row freeness itself”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-batched-splitting.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The design route review named the obstacle for designs native to the allowed set: condition (S) of lem:lift-gluing for \(n^K\) members, with no per-member cost. Its first outside lead was a distributive lattice: if the members' top ideals and the row part \(\mathfrak mG\) had a common adapted basis in degree \(D\), every splitting would hold at once. This cycle develops that lead. It asks what the distributive law amounts to for the members that lift gluing actually uses, which are row-free pullback members.

General statement. prop:batched-splitting, over any field of characteristic \(p\), for any sets \(\mathcal Q_1,\dots,\mathcal Q_M\) of column-injective assignments and any degree \(D\). (1) If condition (a) of prop:design-lift-criterion holds in degree \(D\) on the base and on each \(\mathcal Q_b\), then one splitting condition \((\mathrm S_M)\) for all members together gives (a) on \(\mathcal Q=\bigcap_b\mathcal Q_b\). (2) If the base and each member are row-free in degree \(D\), then \((\mathrm S_M)\) holds exactly when \(\mathcal Q\) is row-free in degree \(D\) and the rows see no defect below \(D\). (3) Under the same hypotheses, the distributive law \((\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)\cap\mathfrak mG=\sum_b(\mathfrak n_b\cap\mathfrak mG)\) in degree \(D\) holds exactly when \(G/\sum_b\mathfrak n_b\) is row-free in degree \(D\).

Setting

As in lem:lift-gluing: \(\mathcal B\) is the set of column-injective 0/1 assignments, \(G=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^{\mathcal B}\), the row classes \(r_0,\dots,r_{m-1}\in G_1\) generate \(\mathfrak mG=\sum_ir_iG\), and \(\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q}\) is the top ideal of \(I(\mathcal Q)\). Write \(\mathfrak n_b=\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q_b}\) and \(\mathfrak n=\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q}\). Since \(I(\mathcal Q)\supseteq I(\mathcal Q_b)\), \(\mathfrak n\supseteq\sum_b\mathfrak n_b\). The quotient \(\mathfrak n/\sum_b\mathfrak n_b\) is the defect.

In \(G\), \(r_i^p=0\): squares of cells and products of two cells in one hole vanish, so \(r_i^p\) is \(p!\) times a sum over \(p\) distinct holes. So \(\Lambda=\mathbb F[r_0,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_i^p)\) acts on \(G\) and on every \(G/\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q}\). It is a graded local ring with maximal ideal \(\mathfrak m=(r_i)\) and residue field \(k=\mathbb F\). As in lem:defect-gluing, \(G/\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q}\) is row-free in degree \(D\) when \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak n_{\mathcal Q})_D=0\). Part (1) below is stated on \(\mathcal B\), as lem:lift-gluing is. Parts (2) and (3) use only a graded ring \(G\), graded ideals, and a graded local ring \(\Lambda\) acting through degree-1 elements. So they apply equally on the slice \(P\) with \(G=\operatorname{gr}\mathbb F^P\) and the record's \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_i^3)\), where \(r_0=-\sum_{i\ge1}r_i\) and \(\mathfrak mG\) is the same ideal.

\((\mathrm S_M)\) in degree \(D\): \((\mathfrak n\cap\mathfrak mG)_D\subseteq\sum_b(\mathfrak n_b\cap\mathfrak mG)_D\).

prop:batched-splitting

Statement.

(Batched lift gluing.) If (a) holds in degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal B\) and on every \(\mathcal Q_b\), and \((\mathrm S_M)\) holds in degree \(D\), then (a) holds in degree \(D\) on \(\mathcal Q\).
(Splitting is row freeness.) Suppose \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G)_D=0\) and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak n_b)_D=0\) for every \(b\). Then \((\mathrm S_M)\) holds in degree \(D\) if and only if \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak n)_D=0\) and \((\mathfrak m\mathfrak n)_D=(\mathfrak m\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)_D\). The second condition holds when there is no defect in degree \(D-1\), \(\mathfrak n_{D-1}=(\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)_{D-1}\).
(Distributive law.) Under the hypotheses of (2), \(((\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)\cap\mathfrak mG)_D=\sum_b(\mathfrak n_b\cap\mathfrak mG)_D\) if and only if \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)_D=0\).

Proof. (1) This is the proof of lem:lift-gluing with all members at once. Let \((a_i)\) be a syzygy for \(\mathcal Q\) in degree \(D-1\), so \(v=\sum_ia_ir_i\in\mathfrak n_D\cap(\mathfrak mG)_D\). By \((\mathrm S_M)\), \(v=\sum_bv_b\) with \(v_b=\sum_ia^b_ir_i\in\mathfrak n_b\) and \(a^b_i\in G_{D-1}\). Each \((a^b_i)\) is a syzygy for \(\mathcal Q_b\). By the pulled-back lifting criterion of lem:lift-gluing on \(\mathcal Q_b\), lifts \(H^b_i\) give \(\sum_iH^b_i\rho_i\in N_{D-1}+I(\mathcal Q_b)\). The remainder \(a^0=a-\sum_ba^b\) is a syzygy in \(G\), and by (a) on \(\mathcal B\) its lifts give \(\sum_iH^0_i\rho_i\in N_{D-1}\). Then \(H_i=H^0_i+\sum_bH^b_i\) lifts \(a_i\), and \(\sum_iH_i\rho_i\in N_{D-1}+\sum_bI(\mathcal Q_b)\subseteq N_{D-1}+I(\mathcal Q)\). By the same criterion, (a) holds on \(\mathcal Q\).

(2) For a graded ideal \(\mathfrak a\subseteq G\), the sequence \(0\to\mathfrak a\to G\to G/\mathfrak a\to0\) gives the exact sequence \[\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G)_D\to\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak a)_D\to(\mathfrak a/\mathfrak m\mathfrak a)_D\to(G/\mathfrak mG)_D.\] The kernel of the last map is \(((\mathfrak a\cap\mathfrak mG)/\mathfrak m\mathfrak a)_D\). With \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G)_D=0\), this gives \[\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak a)_D=0\iff(\mathfrak a\cap\mathfrak mG)_D=(\mathfrak m\mathfrak a)_D.\qquad(\ast)\] By \((\ast)\) for the members, \(\sum_b(\mathfrak n_b\cap\mathfrak mG)_D=\sum_b(\mathfrak m\mathfrak n_b)_D=(\mathfrak m\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)_D\). Always \((\mathfrak m\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)_D\subseteq(\mathfrak m\mathfrak n)_D\subseteq(\mathfrak n\cap\mathfrak mG)_D\). So \((\mathrm S_M)\) holds exactly when these three spaces are equal. The equality of the last two is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak n)_D=0\) by \((\ast)\), and the equality of the first two is the second condition. Since \(\mathfrak m\) is generated in degree 1, \((\mathfrak m\mathfrak a)_D=\sum_ir_i\mathfrak a_{D-1}\), so the second condition holds when \(\mathfrak n_{D-1}=(\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)_{D-1}\).

(3) Apply \((\ast)\) to \(\mathfrak a=\sum_b\mathfrak n_b\): the law's left side is \((\mathfrak m\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)_D\) exactly when \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)_D=0\), and its right side is \((\mathfrak m\sum_b\mathfrak n_b)_D\) by \((\ast)\) for the members. \(\square\)

What it gives

The members that lift gluing uses for W_RS are pullback members within capacity, and those are row-free through \(D\) (lem:pullback-row-freeness). That lemma's joint-freeness hypothesis makes \(G\) free over the row sums through \(D\), so \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G)_D=0\) as well; this base hypothesis is one standing condition, not per-member data. So the hypotheses of (2) hold. For such members:

The batched condition is as hard as the degree-\(D\) part of relative row freeness. \((\mathrm S_M)\) holds exactly when the allowed set has \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak n)_D=0\), the degree-\(D\) part of the conclusion of conj:relative-row-freeness, together with a defect condition below \(D\). So for row-free members, proving the splitting means proving that part of row freeness for the allowed set directly.
The distributive lead is Tor vanishing for the sum of the members' tops. A common adapted basis would give the law in (3), and the law is exactly row freeness in degree \(D\) of \(G/\sum_b\mathfrak n_b\), the no-defect model of the allowed set. That is the Tor-vanishing form of W that Taylor glue already reduces to (open statement A3 for the degree, A1 for adversarial forms). The lattice language restates it.
The same holds step by step: for two row-free pieces, (S) of lem:lift-gluing holds exactly when their intersection is row-free in degree \(D\), given no defect in degree \(D-1\). Lift gluing has content beyond row freeness only for pieces that lift but are not row-free, such as the pinned-row set of the lift-gluing entry.

The quantum-logic bridge of the review located the only possible failure of distributivity in the degree filtration. Part (3) says what that failure is: a first syzygy of \(G/\sum_b\mathfrak n_b\) over the row sums in degree \(D\), that is, a fall.

Outcome. The distributive-lattice lead is developed. Batched lift gluing holds under one condition \((\mathrm S_M)\), but for row-free members \((\mathrm S_M)\) is top-degree row freeness of the allowed set, and the distributive law is top-degree row freeness of the sum of the members' tops. So no lattice-theoretic batching avoids proving relative row freeness in degree \(D\) beyond capacity. The native-certificate line now rests on exactly two recorded forms of one statement: conj:relative-row-freeness (or conj:row-free-subset) in degree \(D\) for pullback members, or lifting for members that are not row-free. Lead follow-up: closed, for the reason above.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the smallest case where the batched condition is not automatic. For two row-free members whose form spans meet, compute the first syzygies of \(G/(\mathfrak n_1+\mathfrak n_2)\) over the row sums in degree \(D\) and compare them with prop:overlap-tor's obstruction \(Q=(I_1T\cap I_2T)/(I_1TI_2T+I_{12}T)\) for constraint tops. If the two agree, the overlap formula \(\dim Q_3=k(d_1-k)(d_2-k)\) decides when overlapping members fall, and it says which overlaps a sculpted subset must remove.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the lift-gluing entry in full (setting, pulled-back lifting, gluing proof and its W_RS application), and the statements of lem:defect-gluing, lem:pullback-row-freeness, prop:overlap-tor, prop:design-lift-criterion, conj:relative-row-freeness and lem:adapted-basis-criterion. Searches for batched splitting and for the Tor form of the splitting and distributive conditions found no earlier version; the nearest records (conj:block-ideal-distributivity, lem:atom-filtration and the cell and hole splitting lemmas) concern other splittings. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived part (1), the long exact sequence and the kernel identification behind \((\ast)\), both directions of (2), part (3), the vanishing \(r_i^p=0\) in \(G\), the transfer to the slice, and the step from joint freeness to freeness over \(\Lambda\). It found the entry sound and required no changes. Its two suggestions are adopted: the lifting criterion of lem:lift-gluing is cited by name, and the base hypothesis is marked as a single standing condition.

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Route review at relative row freeness: the proposed comparison of overlapping members is already settled by sub-family row freeness, and three cycles have narrowed A1 to one statement, row freeness over the row sums of the allowed set beyond joint capacity. Direction-by-direction, degeneration, specialization and resonance tools each fail on a named hypothesis

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-overlap-members. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review at relative row freeness: the proposed comparison of overlapping members is already settled by sub-family row freeness, and three cycles have narrowed A1 to one statement, row freeness over the row sums of the allowed set beyond joint capacity. Direction-by-direction, degeneration, specialization and resonance tools each fail on a named hypothesis”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-row-freeness-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The batched splitting entry proposed to compare, for two row-free members whose form spans meet, the first syzygies of \(G/(\mathfrak n_1+\mathfrak n_2)\) with prop:overlap-tor's obstruction. A claim search before any work found cor:subfamily-row-freeness. Within joint capacity the intersection of the members' allowed sets is row-free through \(D\) whatever their dependencies, shared pieces or cross-member falls. prop:overlap-tor's module concerns syzygies of constraint tops in the form algebra, hypothesis (b) of thm:relative-gluing, not syzygies over the row sums. So two members inside joint capacity have nothing to compare: the proposed step was mis-posed. Beyond joint capacity is exactly conj:relative-row-freeness. The last three cycles have narrowed A1 to that statement, so this cycle is a route review.

The line's general claim

A1 through designs native to the allowed set: for W_RS families of \(M\le n^K\) dense blocks, the allowed set \(Q\), or a subset of it, is row-free through \(D\) (conj:relative-row-freeness, conj:row-free-subset), or at least lifts in degree \(D\) (conj:top-lift-subset). By thm:global-closure-gluing or prop:design-lift-criterion this gives W_RS.

What the goal needs

\(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak n_Y)_{\le D}=0\) for some nonempty \(Y\subseteq Q\), where \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_i^3)\), in the regime where the members' linear parts span more than joint capacity (about \(N/(2D)\) dimensions) and \(G\) has no decomposition \(T(V)\otimes\Lambda\otimes B\). The recorded evidence and reductions:

inside joint capacity it holds whatever the overlaps (cor:subfamily-row-freeness);
certificates from base designs reduce to pointwise vanishing on the PHP-hard part of \(E\) (prop:colon-multipliers);
batched gluing of row-free members is equivalent to it (prop:batched-splitting);
the varying-shift family has genuine falls on its natural allowed set, but contains row-free pieces (prop:varying-shift-affine-fall, lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency).

Falsification attempt: a counting obstruction beyond capacity

If the Hilbert series of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) divided by that of \(\Lambda\) had a negative coefficient through \(D\), row freeness would fail for dimension reasons. It does not. The clauses have degree \(e=4t+2\), so in degree \(d\le D\) their multiples span at most about \(Mh\dim G_{d-e}\) dimensions. Since \(\dim G_{d-e}/\dim G_d\) is of order \((d/n^2)^e\) with \(d\le D=O(\log n)\), that is a fraction of order \(Mh(D/n^2)^e\to0\), since \(h\le n^2\) and \(2e>K+2\). So \(\mathfrak n_Q\) is a vanishing fraction of \(G_d\), and the quotient series stays positive, as for the base. The obstruction, if any, is structural. The structured candidate, the varying-shift family, is answered by passing to a subset. The attempt fails, and the conjecture stands.

Obstacle

Row freeness over the row sums, through \(D\), for a set \(Y\subseteq Q\) beyond joint capacity, where the members' linear parts are dependent modulo the row sums, so that no tensor decomposition of \(G\) separates the forms from the rows. Every recorded proof of row freeness goes through such a decomposition (pullback) or through symmetry (tensor-power freeness, which uses \(S_N\)-equivariance).

Assessment of the route

Weak at A1, and stuck on one statement. The last three cycles closed the certificate and gluing mechanisms that might have avoided that statement. What remains is a direct proof of relative row freeness beyond capacity, for which the record has necessary conditions (single-direction sectors, prop:single-direction-sectors) but no sufficient mechanism that survives dense forms. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Vanishing of Koszul modules (Aprodu, Farkas, Papadima, Raicu and Weyman, Koszul modules and Green's conjecture, Invent. Math. 218, 2019). Target: the obstacle, Tor vanishing without a tensor decomposition. Answers. Their theorem gives vanishing of Koszul modules \(W_q(V,K)\) from a linear-algebra condition, the triviality of the resonance variety, instead of from a decomposition. A resonance-type criterion for falls would let random prefixes certify row freeness by avoiding resonance. Test. Falsified in this form: the theorem needs characteristic 0 or a characteristic that is large relative to \(\dim V\), and here \(p=3\) while the row-sum space has dimension about \(n\). Small-characteristic failures of the related Green's conjecture are known, so the hypothesis is not cosmetic.
Dade's lemma and rank varieties (Dade, Endo-permutation modules over \(p\)-groups II, Ann. of Math. 108, 1978; Carlson, The varieties and the cohomology ring of a module, J. Algebra 85, 1983). \(\Lambda\) is the group algebra of \(E=(\mathbb Z/3)^{m-1}\), via \(g_i=1+r_i\), since \((1+r_i)^3=1+r_i^3=1\). Target: reducing row freeness to one direction at a time. Answers. A module over \(\bar k E\) is free iff its restriction to every cyclic shifted subgroup \(1+\sum\alpha_ir_i\) is free. Single-direction freeness is controlled by level-set Hilbert functions (prop:single-direction-sectors). Test. Falsified for the truncated statement: ex:truncated-dade-special-position refutes the degree-truncated Dade lemma for general column tensors. The board's own version is conj:worst-direction-freeness, which is open. And for W_RS the single-direction obstructions are genuine falls (prop:varying-shift-affine-fall), so directions must be handled on a subset.
Upper semicontinuity of Betti numbers under Gröbner degeneration (Bayer and Stillman; Eisenbud, Commutative Algebra, Theorem 15.17). Target: proving Tor vanishing for dense forms from a combinatorial special fibre. Answers. If a flat degeneration of \(\mathfrak n_Q\) with the row action kept had \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda=0\) through \(D\), so would \(\mathfrak n_Q\). Test. Falsified for monomial degenerations: the initial forms of the row sums are single cells, whose squares vanish in \(G\), so the degenerate row action factors through \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^2)\) and is never free over the truncated row algebra.
Generic specialization and the Schwartz–Zippel lemma (Schwartz, J. ACM 27, 1980). Target: the smoothed form of A1, adversarial forms with random prefixes. Answers. Freeness is a rank condition polynomial in the prefix entries. If it held for indeterminate prefixes, it would hold for random ones off a hypersurface of bounded degree. Test. Falsified. With indeterminate prefixes no nonzero 0/1 pattern satisfies \(Cg=0\), so the generic allowed set is all of \(P\) and freeness is trivial there. Over \(\mathbb F_q\) the zero indicator \(1-s^{q-1}\) has degree \(q-1\) in the prefix entries, the field size, so the degeneracy locus can contain every rational point, and the lemma gives nothing. Prefixes over extension fields only reorganize the \(\mathbb F_3\) conditions.

Absurd bridges

Cores of random hypergraphs (Molloy, Cores in random hypergraphs and Boolean formulas, Random Structures Algorithms 27, 2005), from probabilistic combinatorics and satisfiability. Translation: falls need a closed dependency, a 2-core, in the hypergraph whose vertices are directions modulo the row sums and whose edges are the members' linear parts. Below the core threshold dependencies are tree-like and each fall stays inside one member. Answers. Below the threshold, falls would be member-local, and member-local falls are handled by sub-family row freeness. Test. Falsified in the dense regime: \(Mh\) linear parts in a space of dimension about \(n^2\), with \(Mh\gg n^2\), are far above any core threshold; every \(n^2+1\) of them are dependent.
Qutrit stabilizer codes (Gottesman, Fault-tolerant quantum computation with higher-dimensional systems, 1998), from quantum information. Translation: through \(g_i=1+r_i\), the row sums generate an elementary abelian 3-group acting on functions on \(Y\) of degree at most \(D\), like a group of qutrit Pauli \(X\)-type operators. Row freeness says that this function space is a sum of regular representations, a code with no nontrivial "logical" fixed subspace for any shifted subgroup. Answers. Code-distance arguments show that no low-weight operator acts trivially on a code space. An analogue would bound the degree at which any shifted direction \(1+\sum\alpha_ir_i\) can fail freeness on \(Y\). Test. Passed as a translation: the group-algebra identification holds in \(G\), since \(r_i^3=0\). No distance-type theorem is identified yet, and the truncated Dade counterexample shows that single-direction control alone does not suffice.

Lead follow-up

Distributive lattices of subspaces. Work: developed in batched splitting: for row-free members the distributive law is Tor vanishing for the sum of the members' tops. Follow-up. Closed: it restates relative row freeness.

Bridge follow-up

Quantum logic. Work: batched splitting identified the filtration failure it located as a fall, a first syzygy over the row sums of the sum of the members' tops. Follow-up. Closed: the commuting idempotents \(1_{E_b}\) do not respect the degree filtration, and the failure they leave is the open statement itself.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1, the highest-risk item: develop the passed qutrit-code bridge into a direction-wise statement for W_RS allowed sets beyond capacity. By prop:single-direction-sectors, freeness along one direction \(u=\sum\alpha_ir_i\) through \(D\) is the equality \(H_Q(d)=C_u(d)+C_u(d-1)+C_u(d-2)\), with \(C_u\) the generator count, and it forces the three level sets \(Q\cap\{u=a\}\) to share one Hilbert function through \(D-2\). State and try to prove that random prefixes preserve this: removing the excluded set lowers the three level sets' Hilbert functions by the same amount, for every direction \(u\). Test the statement first against the varying-shift fall, whose direction is a single row.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the batched splitting entry, the fall-line review's leads (to avoid repeating the Lefschetz, Hochster–Laksov, local-lemma and smoothed-analysis items), the varying-shift falls entry, and the statements of cor:subfamily-row-freeness, prop:overlap-tor, thm:relative-gluing, conj:relative-row-freeness, conj:row-free-subset, prop:single-direction-sectors, ex:truncated-dade-special-position, conj:worst-direction-freeness and lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency. No computation was run; the tests are the arguments in each item. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that sub-family row freeness settles the proposed comparison and that overlap Tor concerns another module, the counting estimate and its hedging, the group-algebra identification, the four falsifications and the use of prop:single-direction-sectors in the next step. It found the review sound and required no changes. Its suggestions are adopted: the counting condition is stated as \(2e>K+2\), and the characteristic hypothesis of the Koszul-module theorem is stated qualitatively, since its exact bound was not checked against the paper.

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Excluded-loss balance: in characteristic 3 the row algebra splits off every single direction, so the base's level sets share one Hilbert function in every direction, and a row-free subset must lose the same number of low-degree functions on each level set in every direction. The varying-shift fall passes this test in degree 1, and the recorded imbalances need every prefix pattern

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-direction-levels. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Excluded-loss balance: in characteristic 3 the row algebra splits off every single direction, so the base's level sets share one Hilbert function in every direction, and a row-free subset must lose the same number of low-degree functions on each level set in every direction. The varying-shift fall passes this test in degree 1, and the recorded imbalances need every prefix pattern”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-excluded-loss-balance.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The row-freeness review proposed a direction-wise statement: random prefixes lower the Hilbert functions of the three level sets \(Q\cap\{u=a\}\) equally, for every direction \(u\) in the span of the row sums. That review's passed qutrit-code bridge suggested it, through the identification of the row algebra with a group algebra. This cycle makes the statement precise and checks it against the recorded obstructions. The claim search found that the spread-family entry already uses level-set imbalance to refute freeness (prop:spread-family-level-gap), so the new part is limited to the reduction below and to what it says about uniform prefixes.

General statement. prop:excluded-loss-balance, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every set \(Y\) of the weak base \(P\) and every nonzero direction \(u=\sum_{i\ge1}\alpha_ir_i\). The row algebra \(\Lambda\) is free over \(A_u=\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\). If \(P\) is row-free through \(D\), its level sets \(P_a=P\cap\{u=a\}\) share one Hilbert function through \(D-2\). If \(Y\) is also row-free through \(D\), then the loss \(L^Y_a(d)\), the dimension of functions of degree at most \(d\) on \(P_a\) that vanish on \(Y\cap P_a\), does not depend on \(a\) for \(d\le D-2\).

Setting

As in prop:single-direction-sectors and lem:defect-gluing: \(P\) is the slice of the weak base, \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_i^3)\) acts on \(\operatorname{gr}F^Y\) for \(Y\subseteq P\), and \(Y\) is row-free through \(D\) when \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,\operatorname{gr}F^Y)\) vanishes in degrees at most \(D\), equivalently when the minimal free cover is bijective in those degrees. \(H_Z(d)=\dim F^Z_{\le d}\) is the cumulative Hilbert function of a set \(Z\). For \(Y\subseteq P\), the functions of degree at most \(d\) on \(Y\cap P_a\) are the restrictions of those on \(P_a\), since degree on a subset is measured by extensions to \(P\).

prop:excluded-loss-balance

Statement. Let \(u=\sum_{i\ge1}\alpha_ir_i\ne0\) in \(\Lambda_1\).

(Frobenius splitting.) \(\Lambda\cong A_u\otimes\Lambda'\) as graded algebras, with \(\Lambda'\) a truncated polynomial algebra on \(m-2\) of the \(r_i\). So a module free over \(\Lambda\) through \(D\) is free over \(A_u\) through \(D\).
(Balanced base.) If \(P\) is row-free through \(D\), then \(H_{P_a}(d)\) is the same for \(a=0,1,2\), for \(d\le D-2\).
(Balanced loss.) If \(P\) and \(Y\subseteq P\) are row-free through \(D\), then \(L^Y_a(d)=H_{P_a}(d)-H_{Y\cap P_a}(d)\) is the same for \(a=0,1,2\), for \(d\le D-2\).

Proof. (1) Say \(\alpha_1\ne0\). In characteristic 3 the Frobenius is additive, so \(u^3=\sum_i\alpha_i^3r_i^3=0\). Hence \(\mathbb F_3[u,r_2,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(u^3,r_i^3)\to\Lambda\) is a graded surjection, since \(r_1=\alpha_1^{-1}(u-\sum_{i\ge2}\alpha_ir_i)\). Both sides have dimension \(3^{m-1}\), so it is an isomorphism, and \(\Lambda\) is free over \(A_u\). A module whose minimal \(\Lambda\)-free cover is bijective in degrees at most \(D\) agrees there with a free \(\Lambda\)-module, which is free over \(A_u\). Its minimal \(A_u\)-generators in degrees at most \(D\) are read off modulo \(u\), which maps degree \(d-1\) to \(d\), so they agree with those of the free module and the \(A_u\)-cover is bijective in degrees at most \(D\).

(2) By (1), \(\operatorname{gr}F^P\) is free over \(A_u\) through \(D\). As functions \(u^3=u\). Over all rows \(r_0,\dots,r_{m-1}\) the coefficient vector of \(u\) is \((0,\alpha_1,\dots,\alpha_{m-1})\), not constant since \(u\ne0\), which is the hypothesis of prop:single-direction-sectors; in particular \(u\) is not constant on \(P\), since the \(r_i\) with \(i\ge1\) are independent in degree 1. Part (3) of prop:single-direction-sectors, applied to \(P\) itself, gives \(H_{P_a}=C_u\) for all \(a\) through \(D-2\).

(3) The same applied to \(Y\) gives \(H_{Y\cap P_a}=C^Y_u\) for all \(a\) through \(D-2\). Restriction from \(P_a\) onto \(Y\cap P_a\) is surjective in each degree, with kernel of dimension \(L^Y_a(d)\), so \(L^Y_a(d)=C_u(d)-C^Y_u(d)\), independent of \(a\). \(\square\)

So in every direction, a row-free set loses the same number of low-degree functions on each level set. For the allowed set of a family, the loss on \(P_a\) is spanned by the functions supported on the excluded part \(E\cap P_a\).

Tests against the recorded obstructions

Spread families (prop:spread-family-level-gap). There \(Q''\subseteq Q\), and the \(r_i\)-level sets of \(Q\) exceed those of \(Q''\) at level 0 and agree at levels 1 and 2. By (2) and (3), two row-free sets both have level sets sharing one Hilbert function, so the recorded refutation is an instance of the balance forbidden here. Its W_RS form needs every prefix pattern of a block present, which uniform prefixes within the budget do not give (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity).
Varying-shift falls (prop:varying-shift-affine-fall), direction \(u=r_i\), degree 1. The sculpted set is \(Q'=Q'_1\sqcup Q'_2\), where on \(Q'_k\) row \(i\) is confined to the class \(C_k\) and \(L_0=k\). Assume that the affine functions vanishing on \(Q'_k\cap\{r_i=a\}\) are exactly those spanned by \(L_0-k\), the cells \(x_{ic}\) of the other class, \(r_i-a\) and the slice relation, as for a dense form \(L_0\). Comparing coefficients, an affine function vanishing on both parts at level \(a\) is fixed by three free parameters \(\gamma,\gamma',\delta\), with the coefficient of \(L_0\) equal to \(a(\gamma-\gamma')\). The parameter \(\delta\) multiplies \(\sum_jr_j-m\), which vanishes on \(P\), so the space of functions has dimension 2 at every level; the redundancy is the same at every level. At level 0 these functions are \(\gamma r_i^{(1)}+\gamma'r_i^{(2)}+\delta(\sum_jr_j-m)\). At levels 1 and 2 the same count includes a relation through \(L_0\), for example \(L_0-2+a^{-1}r_i^{(1)}\). So the loss in degree 1 is the same at every level: the fall, which is genuine, is not seen by the level test in degree 1. The test is necessary, not sufficient, as the truncated Dade counterexample (ex:truncated-dade-special-position) already warns.

The spread family violates balance wherever it arises, but its W_RS form is vacuous under uniform prefixes within the budget. The varying-shift family, under the genericity assumption above, does not violate it in degree 1. So no recorded obstruction gives a uniform-prefix violation.

Bridge follow-up

The qutrit-code bridge of the row-freeness review is developed as far as its translation carries. The group algebra splits off every direction (part (1)), which reduces its "logical operators" to the level-set losses of part (3). A code-distance theorem would bound the degree of an imbalance, but no such theorem is identified. The bridge stays open for the uniform-prefix question below.

Outcome. Row freeness of a subset of the allowed set requires excluded-loss balance in every direction through \(D-2\) (prop:excluded-loss-balance). It is the direction-wise content of relative row freeness. Its recorded violations need every prefix pattern present, and the varying-shift fall does not violate it in degree 1, under the stated genericity assumption on the affine relations of its two pieces. Whether uniform prefixes enforce balance for adversarial forms is open. A violation would refute conj:relative-row-freeness for full allowed sets under uniform prefixes. A proof of balance would still need a sufficient converse, which the truncated Dade counterexample shows must use special position.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: look for a uniform-prefix violation. Take a family whose joint span contains a direction \(u\) of the row sums, as spread families do, but with one uniform prefix per block and \(M\le n^K\) blocks. Compute the expected difference of the losses on the level sets of \(u\) in the first degree where clause multiples appear, \(d=e\). A nonzero expectation would give a W_RS family with no row-free allowed set; a vanishing one, with concentration, would support balance.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:single-direction-sectors, prop:spread-family-level-gap, prop:varying-shift-affine-fall with its entry, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, ex:truncated-dade-special-position, lem:defect-gluing and conj:relative-row-freeness. The claim search found the spread-family level gap, whose use of level sets this entry generalizes to every direction. No computation was run; the degree-1 check is by hand. A fresh-context reviewer verified the Frobenius splitting and the passage to freeness over \(A_u\) with no degree loss, the use of prop:single-direction-sectors, and the loss identity. It required four changes, all adopted:

the outcome's degree-1 statement is conditioned on the genericity assumption;
the spread and varying-shift cases are separated: the first violates balance but is vacuous under uniform prefixes, the second does not violate it in degree 1;
the spread-family comparison is stated as two nested sets whose level sets cannot both be balanced;
the hypothesis of prop:single-direction-sectors, non-constant coefficients, is checked explicitly.

Its suggestion is adopted: the slice parameter is noted as redundant, leaving two dimensions at every level. The changes weaken or clarify claims, so one pass suffices.

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Uniform-prefix level balance: the direction-wise necessary condition for relative row freeness is recorded as a conjecture. No finite check can reach its nonvacuous range, and for spread families the members collapse to independent copies of the core wherever row \(i\) is empty, which makes balance plausible stratum by stratum

27 September 2026 · Conjecture with a heuristic · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-uniform-levels. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Uniform-prefix level balance: the direction-wise necessary condition for relative row freeness is recorded as a conjecture. No finite check can reach its nonvacuous range, and for spread families the members collapse to independent copies of the core wherever row \(i\) is empty, which makes balance plausible stratum by stratum”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-uniform-level-balance.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The excluded-loss balance entry showed that a row-free set loses equally on the level sets of every row direction. Its recorded violations need every prefix pattern. It proposed a search for a violation under uniform prefixes, starting with families whose joint span contains a row direction. This cycle states the question as a conjecture, checks whether any finite test can reach it, and analyses the spread family under uniform prefixes.

General statement. conj:uniform-level-balance: over \(\mathbb F_3\), in the setting of conj:relative-row-freeness (weak base with \(m\ge D\) rows and \(N\ge2D^2\) columns, \(M\le n^K\) blocks in normal form, independent uniform prefixes, \(|Q|\ge|P|/2\)), with high probability the allowed set \(Q\) has balanced excluded losses: for every nonzero direction \(u\) of the row sums and every \(d\le D-2\), the dimension of functions of degree at most \(d\) on \(P\cap\{u=a\}\) that vanish on \(Q\cap\{u=a\}\) does not depend on \(a\).

Place in the route

It is implied by conj:relative-row-freeness, through part (3) of prop:excluded-loss-balance, given that the base is row-free through \(D\). In the conjecture's range \(N\ge2D^2\) the base hypothesis comes from thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic; in the linear range it rests on conj:weak-base-stability. So a violation for one family refutes conj:relative-row-freeness for full allowed sets under uniform prefixes. That would leave the subset forms (conj:row-free-subset, conj:top-lift-subset) as the only native routes.
It is not sufficient: the truncated Dade counterexample (ex:truncated-dade-special-position) shows that single-direction information cannot certify freeness without a special-position hypothesis.
No recorded family violates it. The spread and varying-shift families need every prefix pattern of a block present, which uniform prefixes within the budget do not give (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity).

No finite check reaches the nonvacuous range

Before any computation, the smallest parameters where the conjecture says something were counted. A violation must appear in a degree \(d\le D-2\) where clause multiples exist, so \(D\ge e+2=4t+4\). The base must be row-free through \(D\), so \(N\) must be at least about \(2D\), in the linear range of conj:weak-base-stability, and \(N\ge2D^2\) in the proved range. As a coarse scale, not a derived threshold: the recorded violations use every prefix pattern of a core, and \(c\) copies kill a given pattern with probability at most \(c3^{-t}\) (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity), so they are out of reach unless the number of copies is comparable to \(3^t\); covering all patterns needs more still. A spread family has \(N+1\) copies of its core.

With \(t=3\): \(D\ge16\), so \(N\ge32\) even in the linear range, while \(3^t=27<33\), and the proved range needs \(N\ge512\).
With \(t=4\): \(D\ge20\) and \(N\ge40\), with \(3^4=81\) above \(N+1\), but a degree-18 computation on a 40-hole board is out of reach, and the base hypothesis there rests on conj:weak-base-stability (the proved range needs \(N\ge800\)).

So the conjecture has no computable nonvacuous instance, and none was run.

Spread families under uniform prefixes

A spread family on row \(i\) has the core forms \(L=(L_0,\dots,L_{h-1})\) and, for each column \(c\), a member with \(L_0\) replaced by \(L_0+x_{ic}\), each with its own uniform prefix \(C_b\). Its joint span contains \(r_i=\sum_c x_{ic}\), so it is the smallest kind of family beyond joint capacity. Write \(X(C)=\{y\in\mathbb F_3^h:g(y)\ne0,\ Cg(y)=0\}\) for the values a block with prefix \(C\) excludes.

Where row \(i\) is empty, every member's forms equal the core's. There the excluded values are \(\bigcup_bX(C_b)\), the union for \(N+1\) independent copies of the core.
Where row \(i\) occupies exactly the cell \(c\), member \(c\) is the core with \(L_0\) shifted by 1, and the other members are core copies. There the excluded values are \(\bigcup_{b\ne c}X(C_b)\cup(X(C_c)-e_0)\).

Translation by \(e_0\) preserves degree on \(\mathbb F_3^h\), so functions supported on \(X(C_c)-e_0\) are the translates of those supported on \(X(C_c)\), of the same degrees. Each value \(y\) lies in \(X(C)\) with probability \(3^{-t}\) when \(g(y)\ne0\). The translated component is \(X(C)-e_0=\{y:g(y+e_0)\ne0,\ Cg(y+e_0)=0\}\), the image of \(X(C)\) under the bijection \(y\mapsto y-e_0\), so it has exactly the size of \(X(C)\), and each \(y\) lies in it with probability \(3^{-t}\) when \(g(y+e_0)\ne0\). The two unions differ only through pairwise overlaps, of probability at most \(3^{-2t}\) per value and pair, about \(N2^h3^{-2t}\) in expectation for a nonvacuous core with \(2^h\) about \(3^t\). So on these two strata the excluded sets differ by translating one of \(N+1\) independent components, which preserves its size and the degrees of the functions supported on it, up to rare overlaps.

This is a heuristic for balance, not a proof, for two reasons. The strata are not the level sets: level 0 of \(r_i\) also contains the points with three cells of row \(i\), level 1 those with four, and the indicators of the strata have high degree, so losses on a level set do not split over strata. And the spread family's joint span contains \(r_i\), so the pullback lemma, which would turn stratum losses into value-space Hilbert functions, does not apply as it stands.

Outcome. The direction-wise statement is recorded as conj:uniform-level-balance, a necessary condition for conj:relative-row-freeness whose violation would refute it for full allowed sets. No finite check reaches its nonvacuous range. For the smallest beyond-capacity family, the spread family, the excluded sets on the two lowest strata differ, under uniform prefixes, by translating one independent component, up to rare overlaps, which supports balance but proves nothing about level sets.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1: the spread family as the first beyond-capacity case. Its core forms are jointly free and its joint span adds only \(r_i\). Filter \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) by the number of occupied cells of row \(i\), and ask whether freeness over \(\mathbb F_3[r_i]/(r_i^3)\) through \(D\) follows, with uniform prefixes, from the pullback structure of the core on each stratum and from the translate relation between strata.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:excluded-loss-balance with its entry, conj:relative-row-freeness, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, prop:spread-family-level-gap, prop:varying-shift-affine-fall, ex:truncated-dade-special-position, conj:weak-base-stability, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic and lem:pullback-row-freeness. The claim search found no earlier version. No computation was run; the parameter count was made before deciding that none could be. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the implication from conj:relative-row-freeness and its contrapositive, the arithmetic of the count, the translation argument and the stated limitations. It required two changes, both adopted:

the base hypothesis at the counted parameters is marked as resting on conj:weak-base-stability, with the proved range stated;
the scale of about \(3^t\) copies is marked as coarse, with its source in lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, not as a derived threshold.

Its suggestions are adopted: the translation argument is written out, and the role of the proved quadratic range is noted. The changes qualify claims, so one pass suffices.

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Route review placing the native line: the proposed spread-strata step has no tool, since joint freeness fails for any span containing a cell and pinning a row empty kills its row sum. The line now sits two reductions below the open statements, so A1 is restated as relative row freeness beyond joint capacity, and the next cycle moves to A3's designed core, where the record has proofs to extend

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statements A1 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-spread-strata. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review placing the native line: the proposed spread-strata step has no tool, since joint freeness fails for any span containing a cell and pinning a row empty kills its row sum. The line now sits two reductions below the open statements, so A1 is restated as relative row freeness beyond joint capacity, and the next cycle moves to A3's designed core, where the record has proofs to extend”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-native-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The uniform level balance entry proposed to filter the spread family's allowed set by the occupied cells of row \(i\) and derive freeness over \(\mathbb F_3[r_i]/(r_i^3)\) from the core's pullback structure on each stratum. The line has descended from A1 to relative row freeness, then to level balance, then to spread strata: more than one reduction below every listed open statement. The rules make this cycle a route review that revises the list and places the line on it.

The line's general claim

A1 through designs native to the allowed set: beyond joint capacity, the allowed set of a W_RS family, or a subset of it, is row-free over the row sums through \(D\) (conj:relative-row-freeness, conj:row-free-subset), with the necessary direction-wise form conj:uniform-level-balance.

What the goal needs

A proof of that row freeness for families whose members' linear parts span beyond joint capacity. The recorded proofs of row freeness use either a tensor decomposition \(G\cong T(W)\otimes\Lambda\otimes B\) (pullback, cor:subfamily-row-freeness) or the symmetric group, through FI-modules (thm:tensor-power-freeness, using Church and Ellenberg). Neither survives dense forms beyond capacity.

Falsification attempt: the spread-strata step

The pullback lemma cannot be applied to the spread family, even with the cells of row \(i\) added as coordinates. Joint freeness needs \(G\) free over \(T(W)\) through \(D\). In \(G\) the square of a cell vanishes, as does the square of any form supported in one column, since products of two cells of one hole vanish. So \(G\) is not free over \(\mathbb F_3[w]/(w^3)\) for such a \(w\in W\), and joint freeness fails for every span containing a cell. The spread family's core is itself a member, so its span contains each cell \(x_{ic}=(L_0+x_{ic})-L_0\), and with them \(r_i\), which is the failure mode that lem:pullback-row-freeness states.
The natural subset fails too. On \(Y=Q\cap\{\text{row }i\text{ empty}\}\) every member is a copy of the core, but \(r_i\) acts by zero on \(\operatorname{gr}F^Y\), so \(Y\) is not row-free. Indeed \(r_i=0\) on \(Y\), so the row equation \(\rho_i=r_i-1\) is the constant \(-1\) there, and \(1=-\rho_i\) refutes PHP on \(Y\) in degree 1. Row-free subsets must keep every row able to be occupied, so they cannot pin the rows that carry the excess span.

So the spread-strata step has no tool. The strata of the uniform-level-balance entry support balance heuristically but give no route to freeness. The native line stops at conj:relative-row-freeness and conj:row-free-subset, which the open statements now name under A1.

Obstacle

Row freeness over the row sums, through \(D\), of a set cut from the weak base by many dense constraints beyond joint capacity, without a tensor decomposition or a symmetry. For the adversarial core no subset construction survives: pinned rows kill their row sums, and pullback pieces are limited to joint capacity.

Assessment of the route

Weak at A1: the line is placed, not advanced, and no recorded or proposed mechanism addresses its obstacle. In the same period A2 and A3 have partial proofs for designed clauses that stop at the first glue degree (thm:private-support-first-degree) and a conjecture beyond it (conj:large-support-taylor). Those are necessary parts of W with tools already in the record. The next cycle moves there, and A1 stays the highest-risk item. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

The Bogolyubov–Ruzsa lemma (Sanders, On the Bogolyubov–Ruzsa lemma, Anal. PDE 5, 2012). Target: A1 through conj:row-free-subset. Answers. If the allowed values \(A\subseteq\mathbb F_3^d\) of the whole family contained an affine subspace \(y_0+U\) of codimension within joint capacity, then \(Y=v^{-1}(y_0+U)\) would lie in \(Q\) and be cut by at most that many linear conditions on the forms. Under joint freeness and fiber independence for those conditions, \(Y\) would be row-free, a subset of the kind the obstacle needs. Test. Falsified by a count. To avoid a nonvacuous block's excluded values by fixing forms to zero on a set \(S\) of its forms, the remaining patterns must miss \(\ker C_b\), which needs about \(h-t\log_23\approx h-1.6t\) fixed forms per block. Nonvacuous wide blocks number about \(M\), so the codimension is about \(M(h-1.6t)\), far beyond joint capacity. Bogolyubov-type subspaces live in sumsets, not in \(A\) itself.
Green's hyperplane restriction theorem (Green, Restrictions of linear series to hyperplanes, 1989). Target: excluded-loss balance through Hilbert functions of hyperplane sections, the level sets \(\{u=a\}\). Answers. It bounds the Hilbert function of a general hyperplane section by a Macaulay-type expression, with equality for generic ideals. Level sets with maximal Hilbert functions would be balanced. Test. Falsified in this setting: the theorem concerns general linear forms over an infinite field, while the directions \(u\) here are the row-sum directions, special forms over \(\mathbb F_3\), and balance needs equality, not bounds.
A filtration by the number of excluding blocks, with its spectral sequence (the Lucas strata of prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction). Target: building \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) from strata on which the forms behave like a single block. Answers. A spectral sequence from strata to \(Q\) would reduce freeness to the strata plus boundary maps. Test. Falsified: the strata indicators have degree about \(3^as\), and prop:hiding-needs-emptiness shows that the deep strata cannot be separated below the design range, so the filtration is not compatible with degree.

Absurd bridges

Cluster expansions and the Peierls argument (statistical mechanics; Kotecký and Preiss, Cluster expansion for abstract polymer models, Comm. Math. Phys. 103, 1986). Translation: the excluded set is a gas of sparse defects in a free background, the base. A convergent cluster expansion would write the Hilbert functions of the level sets as the base's plus a sum over defect clusters, each weighted by a small activity. Answers. Level balance would follow if every cluster contributed equally to the three levels. Test. Falsified as a proof method: Hilbert-function differences are integers that must vanish exactly, and a convergent expansion gives only approximate equality.
Affine-invariant codes and local characterization (Kaufman and Sudan, Algebraic property testing: the role of invariance, STOC 2008), from computer science. Translation: the functions of degree at most \(D\) on \(Q\) form a code punctured from a Reed–Muller-type code; freeness over the row algebra is invariance-like behaviour under the group generated by \(1+r_i\). Answers. Invariant codes are characterized by few local constraints, which would give freeness from local checks. Test. Falsified: the excluded set breaks every symmetry of the base, and the group generated by \(1+r_i\) acts on the graded module, not by automorphisms of \(Q\), so there is no invariance to use.

Bridge follow-up

Qutrit stabilizer codes. Work: developed in excluded-loss balance into the Frobenius splitting and the necessary level balance, recorded for uniform prefixes as conj:uniform-level-balance. Follow-up. Closed: its content is a necessary condition, and sufficiency needs a special-position form of Dade's lemma that the truncated counterexample rules out in general.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3, with A1 still the highest-risk item: extend the designed-clause results past the first glue degree. conj:large-support-taylor is proved at \(D=h+1\) by thm:private-support-first-degree. Read that proof and the column Wilson entry, then attempt the next degree \(D=h+2\) for two clauses whose supports share one cell. The size condition keeps every restriction by one cell above the defect sizes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the uniform level balance and excluded-loss balance entries, the spread-family and varying-shift entries, and the statements of lem:pullback-row-freeness, cor:subfamily-row-freeness, thm:tensor-power-freeness, conj:relative-row-freeness, conj:row-free-subset, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, prop:hiding-needs-emptiness, thm:private-support-first-degree and conj:large-support-taylor. No computation was run; the tests are the arguments in each item. A fresh-context reviewer checked the falsification attempt, every lead and bridge, and the route decision, including that conj:large-support-taylor is proved at \(D=h+1\) and that its size condition at \(D=h+2\) is one cell above the defect sizes. It required two changes, both adopted:

it modelled the spread family without its core and so found no cell in the span; the entry now says that the core is a member, so the cells \(x_{ic}\) and \(r_i\) lie in the span, and names the recorded failure mode of the pullback lemma;
the degree-1 refutation on the row-empty subset is derived.

Its suggestions are adopted: the symmetric-group method is named (FI-modules), and \(\log_23\approx1.6\) is written out. The bridge follow-up's source is the row-freeness review, which this cycle re-read. The changes correct justifications without changing conclusions, so one pass suffices.

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Gap-degree families: designed width-\(k\) W clauses on the weak base glue at degree \(2k+3\) as well, the one degree below the Koszul pairs that the pre-Koszul theorem missed. A content argument shows that a monomial holding patterns of two clauses through their shared cell cannot carry a syzygy, so every top syzygy there splits into single-clause ones

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statements A2 and A3, degree \(2k+3\) · cycle odd-prime-second-glue-degree. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Gap-degree families: designed width-\(k\) W clauses on the weak base glue at degree \(2k+3\) as well, the one degree below the Koszul pairs that the pre-Koszul theorem missed. A content argument shows that a monomial holding patterns of two clauses through their shared cell cannot carry a syzygy, so every top syzygy there splits into single-clause ones”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-gap-degree-families.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3, with A1 still the highest-risk item. The native line review proposed to extend conj:large-support-taylor past its first degree, for two clauses sharing one cell. The claim search showed that on W's own base, the weak base, single clauses are already Taylor-generated at every degree (thm:column-wilson-taylor), and families glue through degree \(2k+2\) (thm:pre-koszul-weak-families). The first open degree for families is \(2k+3=2h-1\), where \(h=k+2\) is the clause degree. That theorem's own account of the gap: at \(2h-1\) two patterns sharing a cell fit in one monomial, so the images of different clauses are no longer direct. This cycle closes that degree.

General statement. thm:gap-degree-families, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every width \(k\ge1\). Take width-\(k\) product constraints on the weak unary base under the hypotheses of thm:pre-koszul-weak-families, with the supports enlarged to \(|S_C|\ge2k+4\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2k+3\), at least \(4k+5\) unused columns, \(m\ge2k+3\) rows and \(N\ge2(2k+3)^2\) columns. Then the top syzygies through degree \(2k+3\) are spanned by the Frobenius syzygies, and weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(2k+3\). So designed families glue at every degree below the first Koszul degree \(2k+4\).

Setting

As in thm:pre-koszul-weak-families. Each clause is \(C=\chi_{v_C}(L_{0,C})\prod_{j=1}^k(L_{j,C}-\kappa_{j,C})\), with linear parts \(\ell_{0,C}=\sum_{x\in S_C}y_x\) and \(\ell_{j,C}=\sum_{x\in T_{j,C}}y_x\) on pairwise disjoint cell sets whose union \(U_C\) has its cells in distinct columns. Different clauses share at most one cell: \(|U_C\cap U_{C'}|\le1\). All \(U_C\) lie in a column set \(\mathrm{Col}\) with \(N-|\mathrm{Col}|\ge2D-1\), where \(D=2h-1=2k+3\).

By lem:spare-column-transfer with \(t=D\), it suffices to work in the monomial algebra \(\tilde A=\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\), whose basis is the sets of cells in distinct columns, with \(y_x^2=0\) and \(y_xy_{x'}=0\) for two cells of one column. In \(\tilde A\), \(\ell_{0,C}^2=2e_2(S_C)\), since squares vanish and the cells of \(S_C\) lie in distinct columns. So the top of \(C\) is \(\tau_C=-\ell_{0,C}^2\prod_j\ell_{j,C}=e_2(S_C)\prod_je_1(T_{j,C})\), the sum of \(y_P\) over the patterns \(P\) of \(C\): two cells of \(S_C\) and one cell of each \(T_{j,C}\), \(h\) cells in all, each with coefficient 1.

For a monomial \(y_m\), its \(C\)-content is \(m\cap U_C\). Every monomial of \(\tau_Cy_R\) with \(R\cap U_C=\varnothing\) has \(C\)-content exactly a pattern. A cell of \(R\) blocks the at most one cell of \(U_C\) in its column.

thm:gap-degree-families

Statement. Under the hypotheses above, every family \((g_C)\), \(g_C\in\tilde A_{h-1}\), with \(\sum_Cg_C\tau_C=0\) in \(\tilde A_{2h-1}\) has \(g_C\tau_C=0\) for every \(C\). Hence the top syzygies through degree \(D=2h-1\) are spanned by the Frobenius syzygies, and weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. Fix \(C\) and split \(g_C=g_0+g_+\), where \(g_0\) collects the monomials disjoint from \(U_C\) and \(g_+\) those meeting it.

(1) The part \(g_+\tau_C\) vanishes. Its monomials have \(C\)-content of at least \(h+1\) cells: a pattern and a cell of \(g_+\)'s monomial, disjoint from it since the product is nonzero. A monomial of degree \(2h-1\) in the image of another clause \(C'\) contains a pattern \(P'\) of \(C'\), which meets \(U_C\) in at most one cell. So at least \(h-1\) of its cells lie outside \(U_C\), and its \(C\)-content is at most \(h\). The monomials of \(g_0\tau_C\) have \(C\)-content exactly \(h\). So no other term reaches the monomials of \(g_+\tau_C\), and the syzygy forces \(g_+\tau_C=0\).

(2) The part \(g_0\tau_C\) vanishes. Let \(R\) be a monomial of \(g_0\), of \(h-1\) cells disjoint from \(U_C\), and \(Q\) a pattern of \(C\) avoiding the cells that \(R\) blocks. The monomial \(Q\cup R\) has \(C\)-content \(Q\), so in \(g_0\tau_C\) its coefficient is exactly \(g_0[R]\). It can occur in the image of another clause \(C'\) only if it contains a pattern \(P'\) of \(C'\). Then \(|P'\cap Q|\le|U_{C'}\cap U_C|\le1\), so \(P'\) contains at least \(h-1=|R|\) cells of \(R\). Hence \(R\subseteq U_{C'}\) and \(P'=R\cup\{z\}\), where \(\{z\}=U_C\cap U_{C'}\) and \(z\in Q\). A set of \(h-1\ge2\) cells lies in at most one \(U_{C'}\), since two clauses share at most one cell. So \(C'\) and \(z\) are determined by \(R\).

Now choose \(Q\) avoiding \(z\) as well as the blocked cells. \(R\) blocks at most \(h-1=k+1\) cells of \(U_C\), one per column. So at least \(|S_C|-k-1\ge k+3\) cells of \(S_C\) and \(|T_{j,C}|-k-1\ge k+2\) cells of each \(T_{j,C}\) survive, and a pattern avoiding \(z\) as well exists. For that \(Q\), no other clause reaches \(Q\cup R\), so the syzygy gives \(g_0[R]=0\). Under the size bounds every monomial \(R\) of \(g_0\) is compatible with some pattern, so every coefficient of \(g_0\) is 0. So \(g_0\tau_C=0\).

(3) Conclusion. \(g_C\tau_C=0\) with \(g_C\) of degree \(e=h-1=k+1\). thm:column-wilson-taylor applies at \(e=k+1\): its size bounds \(|S_C|\ge2e+2=2k+4\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2e+1=2k+3\) are the hypotheses, and other clauses' cells act as blocking cells, as in the pre-Koszul proof. So \(g_C\) lies in \(\ell_{0,C}\tilde A_{e-1}+\sum_j\ell_{j,C}^2\tilde A_{e-2}\), and the syzygy is a sum of Frobenius syzygies. In degrees below \(2h-1\) the images are direct and thm:pre-koszul-weak-families applies, since its size bounds are weaker. No two clauses share a linear form, since each form has at least 3 cells and clauses share at most one cell, so the coherent-pair syzygies of thm:based-taylor-glue are not needed. The weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) by thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic (\(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D^2\)), no constraint is a nonzero constant, and lem:spare-column-transfer carries Taylor generation from \(\tilde A\) to the weak top algebra. thm:based-taylor-glue gives no refutation of degree \(D\). \(\square\)

What it gives

Designed families glue at every degree below the Koszul pairs, \(2k+3=2h-1\) included. The supports grow by two cells per form, to \((2k+4)+k(2k+3)=2k^2+5k+4\) cells. The design of the pre-Koszul entry takes the support size \(m'=|U|\) as a parameter. Its supports are lines of a row-block and slope grid, so two of them share at most one cell for every \(m'\), and it uses only the first half of the columns, which leaves more than \(4k+5\) spare once \(N\ge8k+10\). With \(m'=2k^2+5k+4\) its count \(m^2(N/2)^2/(4m'^2(m'-1)^2)\) is \(n^4/\mathrm{poly}(k)\) on the PHP board, \(n^{4-o(1)}\) at \(k=\Theta(\log n)\); it needs \(m\ge m'\) rows, as there. For \(k=1\) it is degree 5 with \(|S|=6\) and \(|T|=5\), the sizes at which the single-clause test of the large-support entry matched Taylor exactly.
The content argument uses only the monomial basis and the bound of one shared cell. At the first Koszul degree \(2h\) it changes: a monomial \(R\) of \(h\) cells outside \(U_C\) can be a whole pattern of \(C'\), which gives the Koszul syzygy \(g_C=\tau_{C'}\), or \(R\) can be a pattern of \(C'\) through its shared cell with one extra cell. The same bookkeeping would then have to show that every syzygy is Koszul plus Frobenius.

What it does not give: W's degree \(22k\) lies deep in the Koszul range, the count stays near \(n^4\) because of pair-disjointness, and the forms are designed, not adversarial (A1).

Outcome. thm:gap-degree-families closes the one degree below the Koszul range that the pre-Koszul theorem left open. On the weak base, designed width-\(k\) families of \(n^{4-o(1)}\) clauses have no PC refutation through degree \(2k+3\), for every \(k\), including \(k=\Theta(\log n)\).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 (A1 remains the highest-risk item): the first Koszul degree \(2h=2k+4\). Extend the content argument. A monomial \(R\) of \(h\) cells disjoint from \(U_C\) reaches another clause's image only if it contains a pattern of \(C'\), or a pattern of \(C'\) through the shared cell minus that cell, plus one cell. Show that every syzygy is then a combination of Frobenius syzygies and the Koszul pairs \(\tau_{C'}e_C-\tau_Ce_{C'}\), or find the configuration that adds a relation.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:pre-koszul-weak-families (statement, proof and design), thm:column-wilson-taylor and lem:spare-column-transfer in the column Wilson entry, thm:based-taylor-glue, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, conj:large-support-taylor and its entry, and the Koszul-range count entry. The claim search found no earlier result at degree \(2k+3\); the pre-Koszul theorem names it as open. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the form of \(\tau_C\), both content bounds of step (1) including that internal cancellation does not matter, the coefficient identity, the uniqueness of \(C'\) and the choice of \(Q\) in step (2), and the application of column Wilson at \(e=k+1\) with the other dependencies. It required one change, adopted: the design's extension to the larger supports and spare columns is derived. Its suggestions are adopted: the vacuous branch of step (2) is removed, and the single-clause test is linked. The changes add justification to a remark outside the proof, so one pass suffices.

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Disjoint Koszul degree: designed width-\(k\) W clauses with pairwise disjoint supports glue at the first Koszul degree \(2k+4\) on the weak base. There a syzygy can only pair a pattern of one clause with a pattern of another, the pairing is forced to be constant, and subtracting Koszul pairs leaves single-clause syzygies

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A3, first Koszul degree · cycle odd-prime-koszul-degree. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Disjoint Koszul degree: designed width-\(k\) W clauses with pairwise disjoint supports glue at the first Koszul degree \(2k+4\) on the weak base. There a syzygy can only pair a pattern of one clause with a pattern of another, the pairing is forced to be constant, and subtracting Koszul pairs leaves single-clause syzygies”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-disjoint-koszul-degree.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 (A1 remains the highest-risk item). The gap-degree families entry closed every degree below the Koszul pairs for designed families on the weak base. The first Koszul degree is \(2h=2k+4\), with \(h=k+2\) the clause degree. There pairs of clauses have Koszul syzygies \(\tau_{C'}e_C-\tau_Ce_{C'}\), and conj:large-support-taylor predicts that these and the Frobenius syzygies span all top syzygies. This cycle proves that at \(2h\) for families with pairwise disjoint supports, the case without shared cells.

General statement. thm:disjoint-koszul-degree, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every width \(k\ge1\). Take width-\(k\) product constraints \(C=\chi_{v_C}(L_{0,C})\prod_j(L_{j,C}-\kappa_{j,C})\) on the weak unary base whose forms sum disjoint cell sets \(S_C,T_{1,C},\dots,T_{k,C}\), with union \(U_C\) in distinct columns, \(|S_C|\ge2k+6\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2k+5\), with the \(U_C\) pairwise disjoint, at least \(4k+7\) unused columns, \(m\ge2k+4\) rows and \(N\ge2(2k+4)^2\) columns. Then the top syzygies through degree \(2k+4\) are spanned by the Frobenius syzygies and the Koszul pairs, and weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(2k+4\).

Setting

As in the gap-degree entry. By lem:spare-column-transfer with \(t=D=2h\), it suffices to work in the monomial algebra \(\tilde A=\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\), with basis the sets of cells in distinct columns. There \(\tau_C=e_2(S_C)\prod_je_1(T_{j,C})\) is the sum of \(y_P\) over the patterns \(P\) of \(C\), each with coefficient 1. The \(C\)-content of a monomial \(m\) is \(m\cap U_C\). Clauses may share columns, but not cells. A cell of one clause blocks the at most one cell of another clause in its column.

thm:disjoint-koszul-degree

Statement. Under the hypotheses above, let \((g_C)\), \(g_C\in\tilde A_h\), satisfy \(\sum_Cg_C\tau_C=0\) in \(\tilde A_{2h}\). Then there are scalars \(\lambda_{CC'}=-\lambda_{C'C}\) such that \(g_C-\sum_{C'\ne C}\lambda_{CC'}\tau_{C'}\) is annihilated by \(\tau_C\) for every \(C\). Hence the top syzygies through degree \(2h\) are spanned by Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs, and there is no PC refutation of degree \(2h\).

Proof. Fix \(C\) and split \(g_C=g_0+g_{\ge1}\), where \(g_0\) collects the monomials disjoint from \(U_C\).

(1) The part \(g_{\ge1}\tau_C\) vanishes. Its monomials have \(C\)-content at least \(h+1\). A monomial of degree \(2h\) in the image of another clause \(C'\) contains a pattern of \(C'\), which is disjoint from \(U_C\). So its \(C\)-content is at most \(h\). The monomials of \(g_0\tau_C\) have \(C\)-content exactly \(h\). So nothing else reaches the monomials of \(g_{\ge1}\tau_C\), and \(g_{\ge1}\tau_C=0\).

(2) Which monomials of \(g_0\) matter. Let \(R\) be a monomial of \(g_0\), of \(h\) cells disjoint from \(U_C\), and \(Q\) a pattern of \(C\) avoiding the cells that \(R\) blocks. The monomial \(Q\cup R\) has \(C\)-content \(Q\), so its coefficient in \(g_0\tau_C\) is exactly \(g_0[R]\). It lies in the image of another clause \(C'\) only if it contains a pattern \(P'\) of \(C'\). Since \(P'\) is disjoint from \(U_C\), \(P'\subseteq R\), so \(P'=R\). Supports are pairwise disjoint, so \(R\) lies in at most one support and \(C'\) is determined by \(R\). Its coefficient in \(g_{C'}\tau_{C'}\) is \(g_{C'}[Q]\): \(Q\subseteq U_C\) is disjoint from \(U_{C'}\), so the \(C'\)-content of \(Q\cup R\) is exactly \(R\). No third clause reaches \(Q\cup R\): its pattern would have to lie in \(R\), inside another support.

If \(R\) is not a pattern of another clause, a pattern \(Q\) compatible with \(R\) exists, as counted below, and the syzygy gives \(g_0[R]=0\).
If \(R=P'\) is a pattern of \(C'\), the syzygy gives \(g_C[P']+g_{C'}[Q]=0\) for every pattern \(Q\) of \(C\) compatible with \(P'\).

(3) The pairing is constant. Form the bipartite graph whose vertices are the patterns of \(C\) and of \(C'\), with an edge when the two patterns share no column. Along an edge \((Q,P')\), \(g_C[P']=-g_{C'}[Q]\). Each cell of \(U_{C'}\) blocks at most one cell of \(U_C\), and the reverse. Two patterns \(Q_1,Q_2\) of \(C\) block at most \(2h=2k+4\) cells of \(U_{C'}\) together. That leaves at least 2 cells of \(S_{C'}\) and 1 of each \(T_{j,C'}\), so they have a common neighbour \(P'\). Every pattern of \(C'\) has a neighbour by the same count. So the graph is connected, and there is a scalar \(\lambda_{CC'}\) with \(g_C[P']=\lambda_{CC'}\) for every pattern \(P'\) of \(C'\) and \(g_{C'}[Q]=-\lambda_{CC'}\) for every pattern \(Q\) of \(C\). So \(\lambda_{C'C}=-\lambda_{CC'}\).

(4) Subtracting Koszul pairs. Put \(g'_C=g_C-\sum_{C'\ne C}\lambda_{CC'}\tau_{C'}\). This subtracts the Koszul pairs \(\lambda_{CC'}(\tau_{C'}e_C-\tau_Ce_{C'})\), one per unordered pair, so \((g'_C)\) is again a syzygy. The monomials of \(\tau_{C'}\) are the patterns of \(C'\), disjoint from \(U_C\), so only the coefficients of \(g_0\) on those patterns change, to 0. Now every monomial of the level-0 part of \(g'_C\) that is compatible with some pattern of \(C\) has coefficient 0. Every monomial is compatible with some pattern: \(R\) blocks at most \(h=k+2\) cells of \(U_C\), which leaves at least \(k+4\) cells of \(S_C\) and \(k+3\) of each \(T_{j,C}\). So the level-0 part of \(g'_C\tau_C\) vanishes, and by (1) so does the rest: \(g'_C\tau_C=0\).

(5) Conclusion. By thm:column-wilson-taylor at \(e=h=k+2\), with size bounds \(2e+2=2k+6\) and \(2e+1=2k+5\), \(g'_C\) lies in the Taylor kernel \(\ell_{0,C}\tilde A_{e-1}+\sum_j\ell_{j,C}^2\tilde A_{e-2}\). Other clauses' cells act as blocking cells, as in the pre-Koszul proof. So every syzygy of degree \(2h\) is a sum of Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs. Below \(2h\), a monomial in another clause's image has \(C\)-content at most \(s-h<h\), so the images are direct and column Wilson gives Frobenius syzygies. Clauses share no form, so each Koszul pair is the (K) syzygy of thm:based-taylor-glue for a pair without shared forms. The weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, \(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D^2\)), lem:spare-column-transfer carries Taylor generation to the weak top algebra, and thm:based-taylor-glue gives no refutation of degree \(D\). \(\square\)

What it gives

The first test of conj:large-support-taylor in its Koszul range is passed, by proof, for families with disjoint supports on the weak base. The Koszul pairs are the only new syzygies at \(2h\).
Disjoint supports of \((2k+6)+k(2k+5)=2k^2+7k+6\) cells each allow up to about \(n^2/(2k^2)\) clauses on the \(n\times(n+1)\) board. That is polynomially many, fewer than the \(n^{4-o(1)}\) of the shared-cell designs.
The argument is the content bookkeeping of the gap-degree entry one level up. In degree \(2h+f\), monomials of \(g_C\) meeting \(U_C\) in up to \(f\) cells can also meet other clauses' images, and triples of clauses enter at \(3h\).

Outcome. thm:disjoint-koszul-degree: designed width-\(k\) families with pairwise disjoint supports, on the weak base, have only Frobenius and Koszul top syzygies through the first Koszul degree \(2k+4\), so no PC refutation of that degree. Shared cells, higher degrees and adversarial forms remain.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 (A1 remains the highest-risk item): all degrees for disjoint supports. In degree \(2h+f\), filter \(g_C\) by its \(C\)-content \(c\le f\), and prove by induction on \(f\) that, after subtracting Koszul pairs, each content level is annihilated. Triples of clauses first meet at \(3h\), where the second syzygies of the Taylor complex must be checked. A proof would give conj:large-support-taylor for disjoint families on the weak base at every degree, including \(22k\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the gap-degree entry, thm:pre-koszul-weak-families, thm:column-wilson-taylor and lem:spare-column-transfer in the column Wilson entry, thm:based-taylor-glue with its (K) syzygies (for a pair without shared forms, the Koszul syzygy), thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic and conj:large-support-taylor. The claim search found no earlier result at the first Koszul degree. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the content bounds of step (1), the coefficient identities and uniqueness in step (2), the connectivity count in step (3), which is tight with no slack, the cancellation of the subtracted Koszul pairs in step (4), the application of column Wilson at \(e=h\) and the base hypotheses, and found the entry sound with no required changes. Its two suggestions are adopted: uniqueness of \(C'\) is attributed to disjointness, and the key simplification over the gap-degree case, that \(Q\) misses \(U_{C'}\), is stated.

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Column-disjoint families at every degree: designed width-\(k\) W clauses whose supports use pairwise disjoint sets of columns are Taylor-generated at every degree on the weak base, by tensor-splitting locality and column Wilson. This proves the large-support conjecture's degree axis, through \(22k\), for such families, of about \(n/k^2\) clauses

27 September 2026 · Working proof (a composition) · open statement A3, every degree · cycle odd-prime-disjoint-all-degrees. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Column-disjoint families at every degree: designed width-\(k\) W clauses whose supports use pairwise disjoint sets of columns are Taylor-generated at every degree on the weak base, by tensor-splitting locality and column Wilson. This proves the large-support conjecture's degree axis, through \(22k\), for such families, of about \(n/k^2\) clauses”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-column-disjoint-taylor.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 (A1 remains the highest-risk item). The disjoint Koszul degree entry proved the first Koszul degree for families with disjoint supports and proposed all degrees. Before an induction on the degree, the claim search checked the recorded splitting tools. lem:tensor-splitting-locality reduces syzygies to member-local ones whenever the top algebra splits as a tensor product over the members. On the weak base's monomial algebra that happens exactly when the members use disjoint sets of columns. Does that case follow at every degree?

General statement. thm:column-disjoint-taylor, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every width \(k\ge1\) and every degree \(D\ge h=k+2\). Take width-\(k\) product constraints on the weak unary base whose forms sum disjoint cell sets \(S_C,T_{1,C},\dots,T_{k,C}\) with union \(U_C\) in distinct columns, with \(|S_C|\ge2(D-h)+2\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2(D-h)+1\). Suppose the column sets of the \(U_C\) are pairwise disjoint, at least \(2D-1\) columns are unused, \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D^2\). Then the top syzygies through degree \(D\) are spanned by Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs, and weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

thm:column-disjoint-taylor

Proof. Let \(\mathrm{Col}_C\) be the columns of \(U_C\) and \(\mathrm{Col}=\bigsqcup_C\mathrm{Col}_C\), by definition exactly the columns the clauses use. By lem:spare-column-transfer with \(t=D\), it suffices to prove Taylor generation over the monomial algebra \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\). That algebra is the tensor product of the column algebras \(B_c=\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c\), so \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}=\bigotimes_CM_C\) with \(M_C=\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}_C}\), the algebra of all cells in the columns of \(C\). This identification is bijective in every degree.

Apply lem:tensor-splitting-locality with one component per clause. The forms of \(C\) are \(\ell_{0,C},\ell_{1,C},\dots,\ell_{k,C}\in M_C\), with \(\ell^3=0\) in \(\tilde A\), since \(\ell^3=6e_3=0\) when squares vanish. \(A_C=\mathbb F_3[x_0,\dots,x_k]/(x_j^3)\) acts on \(M_C\) through them, and trivially on the other factors. \(J_C\) is generated by the top monomial \(x_0^2x_1\cdots x_k\), whose image is \(-\tau_C\). The lemma gives, for every \(s\), \[\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}})_s\cong\Bigl[\bigoplus_C\operatorname{Tor}_1^{A_C}(A_C/J_C,M_C)\otimes\bigotimes_{C'\ne C}M_{C'}/J_{C'}M_{C'}\Bigr]_s.\] So every syzygy is a combination of \(A\)-syzygies and member-local ones. The \(A\)-syzygies of the monomials \(x_{C,0}^2\prod_jx_{C,j}\), which lie in disjoint sets of variables, are the Frobenius syzygies \(x_{C,0}e_C\), \(x_{C,j}^2e_C\) and the Koszul pairs, by the Künneth formula for \(A/J=\bigotimes_CA_C/J_C\).

The member-local term vanishes in the relevant degrees. From the resolution \(A_C\xrightarrow{\cdot m}A_C\to A_C/J_C\), with \(m=x_0^2x_1\cdots x_k\) and \(\operatorname{ann}_{A_C}(m)=(x_0,x_1^2,\dots,x_k^2)\), \[\operatorname{Tor}_1^{A_C}(A_C/J_C,M_C)=\ker(\tau_C\text{ on }M_C)\big/\bigl(\ell_{0,C}M_C+\textstyle\sum_j\ell_{j,C}^2M_C\bigr).\] Its degree-\(s\) part comes from multipliers of degree \(e=s-h\le D-h\). By thm:column-wilson-taylor, in its monomial-algebra form on \(M_C\) with the other cells of these columns as blocking cells, the kernel of \(\tau_C\) from degree \(e\) is the Taylor kernel when \(|S_C|\ge2e+2\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2e+1\). Both hold for every \(e\le D-h\). So the member-local term is 0 through degree \(D\), and every top syzygy through \(D\) is Frobenius or Koszul.

No two clauses share a form, so each Koszul pair is the (K) syzygy of thm:based-taylor-glue for a pair without shared forms. lem:spare-column-transfer carries Taylor generation to the weak top algebra. The weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, \(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D^2\)), no constraint is a nonzero constant, and thm:based-taylor-glue gives no refutation of degree \(D\). \(\square\)

What it gives

At W's degree \(D=22k\), \(D-h=21k-2\), so the supports need \(|S|\ge42k-2\) and \(|T_j|\ge42k-3\), so \(|U_C|\approx42k^2\) columns each. The board has \(N\approx n\) columns, so about \(n/(42k^2)\) clauses fit, \(n^{1-o(1)}\) at \(k=\Theta(\log n)\). The base needs \(N\ge2D^2\approx968k^2\), well below \(n\).
So A3, the degree axis, is proved at W's full degree for designed column-disjoint families. They are few: W needs \(n^K\) clauses and adversarial forms.
The composition shows where the difficulty sits. With disjoint columns the tensor structure makes clauses independent at every degree. Everything beyond, shared columns (thm:disjoint-koszul-degree at \(2h\)) and shared cells (thm:gap-degree-families below \(2h\)), comes from clauses blocking each other through columns.

Outcome. thm:column-disjoint-taylor: designed width-\(k\) families on disjoint column sets are Taylor-generated at every degree on the weak base, with no PC refutation of degree \(D\) for sizes \(2(D-h)+2\) and \(2(D-h)+1\). This includes \(D=22k\), for about \(n/k^2\) clauses. The count is the limit, not the degree.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 (A1 remains the highest-risk item): shared columns at every degree. For supports with disjoint cells that share columns, write \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\) as the quotient of the column-disjoint algebra in which each shared column is doubled, by the monomials pairing two cells of one original column. Ask whether Taylor generation passes to that monomial quotient when every clause keeps, in every shared column, enough cells free of blocking. A proof would take the all-degree result from about \(n/k^2\) clauses to about \(n^2/k^2\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:tensor-splitting-locality with its proof sketch in its entry, thm:column-wilson-taylor and lem:spare-column-transfer in the column Wilson entry, thm:pre-koszul-weak-families (for the monomial-algebra use of column Wilson), thm:based-taylor-glue with its (K) syzygies, and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. The claim search found no earlier version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the tensor decomposition, the lemma's hypotheses including \(\ell^3=0\), the annihilator \((x_0,x_1^2,\dots,x_k^2)\) (by hand for \(k=1\)), the degree bookkeeping, and that column Wilson's monomial form needs no spare columns. It required one change, adopted: the support sizes at \(D=22k\) are \(42k-2\) and \(42k-3\), not \(42k+2\) and \(42k+1\); the leading-order counts are unchanged. Its suggestion is adopted: \(\mathrm{Col}\) is stated to be exactly the used columns.

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Intersecting designs: supports that pairwise share at most \(\lambda\) cells, such as graphs of polynomials of degree at most \(\lambda\), give about \(n^{\lambda+1}\) designed width-\(k\) W clauses that glue on the weak base through degree \(2k+3-\lambda\). With \(\lambda=K-1\), polynomially many clauses of every order \(n^K\) are certified at degree about \(2k\)

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A2, count at low degree · cycle odd-prime-shared-columns. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Intersecting designs: supports that pairwise share at most \(\lambda\) cells, such as graphs of polynomials of degree at most \(\lambda\), give about \(n^{\lambda+1}\) designed width-\(k\) W clauses that glue on the weak base through degree \(2k+3-\lambda\). With \(\lambda=K-1\), polynomially many clauses of every order \(n^K\) are certified at degree about \(2k\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-intersecting-designs.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A2 and A3 (A1 remains the highest-risk item). The column-disjoint families entry proposed shared columns at every degree, to raise the all-degree count from about \(n/k^2\) to \(n^2/k^2\). Examined first: any filtration that makes clauses column-disjoint in its associated graded must leave each clause about \(|U_C|\) columns no other clause uses, so it cannot beat about \(n/k^2\) clauses either. Only a pattern-level argument, such as the content argument, uses shared columns. W needs \(n^K\) blocks for every \(K\), while every recorded designed family has at most about \(n^4\) clauses, because its supports pairwise share at most one cell. This cycle asks what the count axis gives when supports may share more cells.

General statement. thm:intersecting-design-families, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for all \(\lambda\ge1\) and widths \(k\ge\lambda\). Take width-\(k\) product constraints on the weak unary base whose forms sum disjoint cell sets \(S_C,T_{1,C},\dots,T_{k,C}\) with union \(U_C\) in distinct columns, \(|S_C|\ge2k+2\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2k+1\), and supports that pairwise share at most \(\lambda\) cells. Let \(D=2k+3-\lambda\), and suppose at least \(2D-1\) columns are unused, \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D^2\). Then the top syzygies through degree \(D\) are Frobenius, and weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). Graphs of the polynomials of degree at most \(\lambda\) over \(\mathbb F_q\), \(q\) a prime near \(n\), give such families of about \(n^{\lambda+1}\) clauses.

thm:intersecting-design-families

Proof. This is the pre-Koszul argument with \(\lambda\) in place of 1. By lem:spare-column-transfer with \(t=D\), work in the monomial algebra \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\), where \(\tau_C\) is the sum of \(y_P\) over the patterns \(P\) of \(C\), \(h=k+2\) cells each.

The images are direct. In degree \(s\le D\), the image of \(C\) lies in the span of the monomials containing a pattern of \(C\). A monomial containing patterns \(P\) of \(C\) and \(P'\) of \(C'\ne C\) has at least \(|P\cup P'|\ge2h-|U_C\cap U_{C'}|\ge2h-\lambda=2k+4-\lambda>D\) cells. So the images of different clauses lie on disjoint sets of basis monomials, and every top syzygy through \(D\) splits into single-clause ones.

Single clauses. For \(e=s-h\le D-h=k+1-\lambda\le k\), thm:column-wilson-taylor, in its monomial-algebra form with the other clauses' cells as blocking cells, gives the Taylor kernel, since \(|S_C|\ge2k+2\ge2e+2\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2k+1\ge2e+1\). So every top syzygy through \(D\) is Frobenius. No pair syzygies are needed, since no monomial in degree at most \(D\) meets two clauses' images.

Conclusion. \(D\ge h+1\) because \(k\ge\lambda\). The weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic), no constraint is a nonzero constant, and thm:based-taylor-glue gives no refutation of degree \(D\). \(\square\)

The design. Let \(q\) be a prime with \(q\le m\), and let \(X\) be a set of \(|U|=(2k+2)+k(2k+1)\) elements of \(\mathbb F_q\), placed on board columns with at least \(2D-1\) columns unused. Split \(X\) once into parts of sizes \(2k+2\) and \(k\) times \(2k+1\). For each polynomial \(p\) of degree at most \(\lambda\) over \(\mathbb F_q\), let \(U_p=\{(p(x),x):x\in X\}\), with rows indexed by \(\mathbb F_q\). Each \(U_p\) has one cell per column of \(X\). Two distinct polynomials of degree at most \(\lambda\) agree at most \(\lambda\) times, so \(|U_p\cap U_{p'}|\le\lambda\). Each form has at least \(2k+1>\lambda\) cells, so distinct clauses never share a form. With \(q\) a prime between \(n/2\) and \(n\) (rows \(m=n+1\), \(N=n\) columns, and \(|X|+2D-1\le n\)), this gives \(q^{\lambda+1}\ge(n/2)^{\lambda+1}\) clauses, with any values \(v_C,\kappa_{j,C}\).

What it gives

The count axis at low degree. For every \(K\), taking \(\lambda=K-1\) gives about \(n^K/2^K\) explicit designed clauses of width \(k\ge K-1\), with no PC refutation of degree \(2k+4-K\). For fixed \(K\) and \(k=\Theta(\log n)\) this is about \(2k\), below W's degree \(22k\) by a factor of about 11. The polynomial graphs use one column set for all clauses, so at \(\lambda=1\) they give only about \(n^2/4\) clauses, fewer than the \(n^{4-o(1)}\) of the pre-Koszul design; their use is for \(\lambda\ge2\), where no other construction is recorded.
Degree against count. Column-disjoint families reach every degree with about \(n/k^2\) clauses (thm:column-disjoint-taylor). Supports sharing one cell reach \(2k+3\) with about \(n^4\) (thm:gap-degree-families) and \(2k+4\) with disjoint cells (thm:disjoint-koszul-degree). Here \(\lambda\) shared cells reach \(2k+3-\lambda\) with about \(n^{\lambda+1}\). The missing piece for designed families at W's parameters is the Koszul range with many intersecting clauses.
The forms are designed, not adversarial (A1).

Outcome. thm:intersecting-design-families: for every \(K\), explicit designed families of about \(n^K\) width-\(k\) clauses on the weak base have no PC refutation below degree about \(2k\). The count restriction of the earlier designed families, about \(n^4\), is lifted at low degree. The degree range between \(2k+4-\lambda\) and W's \(22k\) is open for them.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 for these families (A1 remains the highest-risk item): the degrees from \(2h-\lambda\) upwards, where patterns of two clauses sharing up to \(\lambda\) cells first fit in one monomial. Extend the gap-degree content argument, which handled one shared cell at \(2h-1\), to intersections of size \(\lambda\), and find the first degree at which it needs Koszul pairs or produces a new syzygy.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:pre-koszul-weak-families (statement, proof and design), thm:column-wilson-taylor and lem:spare-column-transfer, thm:based-taylor-glue and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. The claim search found no earlier intersecting or polynomial-graph design. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived the directness margin (\(2h-\lambda-D=1\) for all \(k\) and \(\lambda\)), the column Wilson sizes, the condition \(D\ge h+1\iff k\ge\lambda\), the root count behind the intersections, the exact count \(q^{\lambda+1}\), and the reduction to the pre-Koszul theorem at \(\lambda=1\), and found the entry sound with no required changes. Its suggestions are adopted: the design's weakness at \(\lambda=1\) is stated, and "for fixed \(K\)" is added.

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Route review of the designed-clause line: four results trade degree against count, from every degree for about \(n/k^2\) clauses to degree about \(2k\) for \(n^K\). The obstacle is the degree range above \(2h-\lambda\) for families whose supports share up to \(\lambda\) cells; a link induction on the shared cells passes its first test

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statements A2 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-intersecting-gap. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the designed-clause line: four results trade degree against count, from every degree for about \(n/k^2\) clauses to degree about \(2k\) for \(n^K\). The obstacle is the degree range above \(2h-\lambda\) for families whose supports share up to \(\lambda\) cells; a link induction on the shared cells passes its first test”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-designed-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. The native line review moved cycles from A1 to A3's designed core. Four entries followed. The intersecting designs entry proposed extending the content argument to \(\lambda\) shared cells. A first attempt showed that for \(\lambda\ge2\) the multipliers meeting \(U_C\) in shared cells reach other clauses' images, so the one-level argument of the gap degree does not suffice. This review weighs the line against the goal and chooses the next step.

The line's general claim

conj:large-support-taylor on the weak base: designed width-\(k\) clauses whose forms sum large cell sets are Taylor-generated at every degree, for families large enough to matter for W. Recorded so far:

every degree, including \(22k\), on disjoint column sets, about \(n/k^2\) clauses (thm:column-disjoint-taylor);
every degree below the Koszul pairs, \(2k+3\), with one shared cell, about \(n^4\) (thm:gap-degree-families);
the first Koszul degree \(2k+4\) with disjoint cells and shared columns, about \(n^2/k^2\) (thm:disjoint-koszul-degree);
degree \(2k+3-\lambda\) with \(\lambda\) shared cells, about \(n^{\lambda+1}\), every polynomial count at degree about \(2k\) (thm:intersecting-design-families).

What the goal needs

W needs \(n^K\) blocks for every \(K\) at degree \(22k\), with adversarial forms. The designed line can supply the first two, count and degree, for special forms: at most the conjunction of A2 and A3 for designed families. A1 stays open. Within the line, the missing implication is Taylor generation above \(2h-\lambda\) for \(\lambda\)-intersecting families, up to \(22k\).

Falsification attempt: a non-Taylor syzygy at \(2h-2\)

Take two clauses \(C,C'\) sharing \(Z=\{z_1,z_2\}\), both cells in \(S_C\) and in \(S_{C'}\), at degree \(2h-2\). Their images meet on monomials \(y_{z_1}y_{z_2}\,t\,t'\), with \(t\) a transversal of the \(T\)-parts of \(C\) and \(t'\) one of \(C'\).

A syzygy using those monomials needs \(g_C=\sum_{t'}a_{t'}y_{t'}\). Then \(g_C\tau_C\) also contains \(y_{t'}(\tau_C-y_{z_1}y_{z_2}\Pi_C)\), where \(\Pi_C=\prod_je_1(T_{j,C})\). Those monomials hold a pattern of \(C\) containing at most one \(z\), so no pattern of \(C'\), and nothing cancels them. So \(a_{t'}=0\). This is the level-0 content argument.
A multiplier through a shared cell, \(g_C=y_{z_1}a\) and \(g_{C'}=y_{z_1}b\), gives \(y_{z_1}(a\tau_C^{\neg z_1}+b\tau_{C'}^{\neg z_1})=0\), with \(\tau^{\neg z_1}\) the top with \(y_{z_1}\) set to 0. In the link of \(z_1\) the two restricted clauses share only \(z_2\), and the degree is \(2h-3\), below their pre-Koszul bound \(2h-1\). So \(a\tau_C^{\neg z_1}=0\), and \(a\) lies in the Taylor kernel of the restricted clause. Since \(y_{z_1}\ell_0^{\neg z_1}=y_{z_1}\ell_0\), the syzygy \(y_{z_1}ae_C\) is Frobenius for \(C\).

Neither kind of candidate gives a non-Taylor syzygy. This tests the two pure kinds only, not their mixtures, so it is evidence, not a proof. The attempt fails, and it suggests an induction on the shared cells through links.

Obstacle

Taylor generation for \(\lambda\)-intersecting designed families from degree \(2h-\lambda\) up to \(22k\). A cell of the polynomial-graph design lies in about \(q^\lambda\) supports, so links change many clauses at once. Above \(2h\), Koszul pairs of intersecting clauses enter together with their overlaps.

Assessment of the route

Productive for A2 and A3: four working proofs in four cycles, with the count and degree axes each reached separately. The remaining gap within the line is the joint regime, many intersecting clauses at high degree, and it has a candidate method. Relative to the goal the line stays partial, since the forms are designed. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Link and star sequences of Stanley–Reisner theory (Hochster's formula; Bruns and Herzog, Cohen–Macaulay Rings, section 5.3). Target: the obstacle. Answers. Multiplying by a shared cell \(y_z\) passes to the link of \(z\), where every clause through \(z\) loses \(z\) and pairwise intersections through \(z\) drop by one. An induction on the shared cells present in a syzygy would reduce \(\lambda\)-intersecting families to \(\lambda-1\), and finally to the direct case. Test. Passed on two clauses sharing two cells at degree \(2h-2\): the part through \(z_1\) reduces in the link to clauses sharing one cell below their direct bound, and \(y_{z_1}\) times their Taylor kernel is Frobenius, as computed above.
Reed–Solomon codes (the polynomial-graph supports are their codewords; MacWilliams and Sloane, The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes, chapter 10). Target: the uniqueness step of the content argument. Answers. Any \(\lambda+1\) cells of a graph determine its polynomial, so a set of at least \(\lambda+1\) cells lies in at most one support, the uniqueness the gap-degree argument needed. Test. Falsified as a new tool: the same uniqueness holds for every family whose supports pairwise share at most \(\lambda\) cells, the fact already used at \(\lambda=1\) in the gap-degree entry. It applies to the content step once \(h-\lambda\ge\lambda+1\), that is \(h\ge2\lambda+1\), for any such family; the code structure adds nothing identified here.
Rödl's nibble for near-optimal packings (Rödl, On a packing and covering problem, European J. Combin. 6, 1985). Target: the count at a given \(\lambda\). Answers. Packings of \(|U|\)-sets in the \(\approx n^2\) cells with pairwise intersections at most \(\lambda\) reach about \((n^2/|U|)^{\lambda+1}\) sets, against \(n^{\lambda+1}\) for polynomial graphs. So \(n^K\) clauses would need only \(\lambda\approx K/2\), raising the certified degree to about \(2k+4-K/2\). Test. Passed as a count, from the packing bound and the nibble. The column-distinct condition on each support is compatible with it, but the construction is not explicit.

Absurd bridges

The linked-cluster theorem (statistical mechanics; Mayer's cluster expansion). Translation: syzygies as clusters of clauses; Koszul pairs are disconnected clusters, and genuine new syzygies would need connected clusters of overlapping clauses. Answers. Only connected clusters contribute to the logarithm of a partition function, so new syzygies would be confined to connected overlap clusters, where the link induction acts. Test. Falsified as a locality tool: in the polynomial-graph design two clauses whose polynomials agree anywhere on \(X\) intersect, so the overlap graph is connected and has degree about \(q^\lambda|X|\), and connectivity gives no locality.
Sudoku-style exact covers and Knuth's dancing links (computer science; Knuth, Dancing links, 2000). Translation: the content argument chooses, for a monomial \(R\), a pattern \(Q\) avoiding blocked and shared cells, an exact-cover-like selection. Answers. Counting the valid choices by a covering argument would give explicit size conditions for every level of the link induction. Test. Passed as a translation: the counts used so far (blocked cells at most the degree, shared cells at most \(\lambda\)) are the one-step version, and for \(\lambda\) levels they add, needing \(|S|\ge e+2\lambda+2\) and \(|T_j|\ge e+2\lambda+1\) in the worst case. Column Wilson's \(2e+2\) and \(2e+1\) already exceed these when \(e\ge2\lambda\).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 for designed families (A1 remains the highest-risk item): develop the passed link lead. Prove, for designed families whose supports pairwise share at most \(\lambda\) cells, with \(h\ge2\lambda+1\), Taylor generation from \(2h-\lambda\) through \(2h-1\) by induction on the shared cells in a syzygy, using the content argument at each level and uniqueness from any \(\lambda+1\) cells.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the four summarized entries (gap degree, disjoint Koszul degree, column-disjoint, intersecting designs), thm:pre-koszul-weak-families and thm:column-wilson-taylor. No computation was run; the falsification attempt and the tests are the arguments given. A fresh-context reviewer checked the summary against the entries and re-derived the falsification attempt, including \(y_{z_1}\tau_C=y_{z_1}\tau_C^{\neg z_1}\), the directness bound for the link and the Frobenius identity. It required two changes, adopted: the Reed–Solomon lead is marked falsified as a new tool, since uniqueness from \(\lambda+1\) cells holds for every \(\lambda\)-intersecting family, and the unsupported comparison \(h\ge3\lambda\) is removed from it and from the packing lead. Its suggestion is adopted: the fourth summary item is reworded.

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Shared-cell induction: designed width-\(k\) W clauses whose supports pairwise share up to \(\lambda\) cells glue through degree \(2k+3\), every degree below the Koszul pairs, once \(h=k+2\ge3\lambda\). A family syzygy splits into pair syzygies, and a pair syzygy is cleared subset by subset of the shared cells, each step a directness statement in a link. With \(\lambda=K-1\), explicit families of about \(n^K\) clauses reach degree \(2k+3\)

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statements A2 and A3 below the Koszul pairs · cycle odd-prime-link-induction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Shared-cell induction: designed width-\(k\) W clauses whose supports pairwise share up to \(\lambda\) cells glue through degree \(2k+3\), every degree below the Koszul pairs, once \(h=k+2\ge3\lambda\). A family syzygy splits into pair syzygies, and a pair syzygy is cleared subset by subset of the shared cells, each step a directness statement in a link. With \(\lambda=K-1\), explicit families of about \(n^K\) clauses reach degree \(2k+3\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-shared-cell-induction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A2 and A3 (A1 remains the highest-risk item). The designed line review passed a link lead and proposed Taylor generation from \(2h-\lambda\) through \(2h-1\) for families whose supports share up to \(\lambda\) cells, by induction on the shared cells. This cycle proves it.

General statement. thm:shared-cell-induction, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for all \(\lambda\ge1\) and widths \(k\) with \(h=k+2\ge3\lambda\). Take width-\(k\) product constraints on the weak unary base whose forms sum disjoint cell sets \(S_C,T_{1,C},\dots,T_{k,C}\) with union \(U_C\) in distinct columns, with \(|S_C|\ge2h+\lambda\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2h+\lambda-1\), and supports that pairwise share at most \(\lambda\) cells. Let \(D=2h-1=2k+3\), and suppose at least \(2D-1\) columns are unused, \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D^2\). Then the top syzygies through degree \(D\) are Frobenius, and weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(2k+3\).

Setting

By lem:spare-column-transfer with \(t=D\), work in the monomial algebra \(\tilde A=\tilde A_{\mathrm{Col}}\), with basis the sets of cells in distinct columns, where \(\tau_C=e_2(S_C)\prod_je_1(T_{j,C})\) is the sum of \(y_P\) over the patterns \(P\) of \(C\) (\(h\) cells). Fix a degree \(s\le D\) and a syzygy \((g_C)\), \(g_C\in\tilde A_{s-h}\), \(\sum_Cg_C\tau_C=0\). Note \(s-h\le h-1\).

thm:shared-cell-induction

Step 1: pointers. For a monomial \(r\) of \(g_C\), its outside part is \(R=r\setminus U_C\), with \(|R|\le s-h\le h-1\). Say \(r\) points to \(C'\ne C\) if \(|R\cap U_{C'}|\ge h-\lambda\). At most one \(C'\) qualifies: two would give \(|R|\ge2(h-\lambda)-\lambda=2h-3\lambda\ge h\), since \(h\ge3\lambda\). Split \(g_C=g_C^{(\varnothing)}+\sum_{C'}g_C^{(C')}\) by pointer. Multiplying by \(\tau_C\) adds only cells of \(U_C\), so every monomial of \(g_C^{(C')}\tau_C\) has the same outside part as its multiplier monomial, and the pointer of a product monomial is well defined.

Step 2: the family splits into pairs. Suppose a monomial \(m\) occurs both in the products for \((C,C')\) and in those for \((D',\cdot)\) with \(D'\ne C\). Then \(m\) contains a pattern \(P_{D'}\) of \(D'\), with \(|P_{D'}\cap U_C|\le\lambda\), so \(|P_{D'}\cap R|\ge h-\lambda\), where \(R=m\setminus U_C\). So \(R\) points to \(D'\), and \(C'=D'\). Symmetrically, \(m\setminus U_{D'}\) contains \(P\setminus U_{D'}\) for a pattern \(P\) of \(C\), at least \(h-\lambda\) cells of \(U_C\), so the \(D'\)-side pointer is \(C\). The same count with no pointer assumed shows that a monomial of \(g_C^{(\varnothing)}\tau_C\) lies in no other clause's products: it would make \(R\) point to that clause. Products with different pointers from the same clause have different outside parts. Hence the syzygy splits: \(g_C^{(\varnothing)}\tau_C=0\) for every \(C\), and for every unordered pair \(\{C,C'\}\), \[g_C^{(C')}\tau_C+g_{C'}^{(C)}\tau_{C'}=0.\]

Step 3: the pair lemma. Let \(C,C'\) share \(Z=U_C\cap U_{C'}\), \(|Z|\le\lambda\), and let \(a\tau_C+b\tau_{C'}=0\) with \(a,b\) of degree \(s-h\le h-1\). We show that \(a\tau_C=0\). Write \(a=\sum_{W\subseteq Z}y_Wa_W\) and \(b=\sum_Wy_Wb_W\), with \(a_W,b_W\) free of the cells of \(Z\) (their monomials also avoid the columns of \(W\), since \(y_Wa_W\) expands basis monomials), and \(\tau_C=\sum_{V\subseteq Z}y_V\tau_C^{[V]}\), where \(\tau_C^{[V]}\) sums \(y_{P\setminus V}\) over the patterns \(P\) with \(P\cap Z=V\); likewise for \(C'\). Collecting monomials by their set \(U\) of cells in \(Z\), the syzygy gives, for every \(U\subseteq Z\), \[\sum_{W\subseteq U}\bigl(a_W\tau_C^{[U\setminus W]}+b_W\tau_{C'}^{[U\setminus W]}\bigr)=0\quad\text{among monomials }y_U\cdot(\text{free of }Z).\] Process the sets \(U\) by increasing size, keeping the invariant that \(a_W=b_W=0\) for every \(W\) already processed.

At \(U\), the invariant leaves \(a_U\tau_C^{[\varnothing]}+b_U\tau_{C'}^{[\varnothing]}=0\). Here \(\tau_C^{[\varnothing]}\) and \(\tau_{C'}^{[\varnothing]}\) are the tops of the clauses restricted to \(U_C\setminus Z\) and \(U_{C'}\setminus Z\), which are disjoint. These products avoid the columns of \(U\), since \(U\subseteq U_C\cap U_{C'}\) and each support lies in distinct columns, so multiplication by \(y_U\) is injective on them. A monomial holding a pattern of each has at least \(2h\) cells, while these products have degree \(s-|U|\le2h-1\). So the two images are direct, and \(a_U\tau_C^{[\varnothing]}=0=b_U\tau_{C'}^{[\varnothing]}\).
By thm:column-wilson-taylor for the restricted clause, with the cells of \(Z\) removed and other cells as blocking cells, \(a_U=\ell_0^{\neg Z}\alpha+\sum_j(\ell_j^{\neg Z})^2\beta_j\) with \(\alpha,\beta_j\) free of \(Z\). Its degree is \(e'=s-h-|U|\le h-1\), and the restricted sizes \(|S_C\setminus Z|\ge2h\ge2e'+2\) and \(|T_{j,C}\setminus Z|\ge2h-1\ge2e'+1\) suffice. Likewise for \(b_U\).
Subtract the Frobenius syzygy \(y_U(\ell_0\alpha+\sum_j\ell_j^2\beta_j)e_C\), and the corresponding one for \(C'\). Since \(y_U\ell_0=y_U\ell_0^{\neg Z}+y_U\sum_{z\in S\cap Z\setminus U}y_z\), and similarly for \(\ell_j^2\), whose extra terms contain cells of \(Z\setminus U\), this sets \(a_U=b_U=0\). It changes only \(a_{W'}\) and \(b_{W'}\) with \(W'\supsetneq U\), which are processed later.

After all \(U\subseteq Z\), \(a\) and \(b\) are Frobenius combinations, so \(a\tau_C=0\) and \(b\tau_{C'}=0\).

Step 4: conclusion. By steps 2 and 3, \(g_C\tau_C=g_C^{(\varnothing)}\tau_C+\sum_{C'}g_C^{(C')}\tau_C=0\) for every \(C\). Then \(g_C\) is a Frobenius combination by thm:column-wilson-taylor at \(e=s-h\le h-1\), since \(|S_C|\ge2h\ge2e+2\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2h-1\ge2e+1\). So the top syzygies through \(D\) are Frobenius. No pair syzygies of thm:based-taylor-glue are needed. The weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic), no constraint is a nonzero constant, and thm:based-taylor-glue gives no refutation of degree \(D\). \(\square\)

What it gives

With the polynomial-graph construction of thm:intersecting-design-families, rerun with the larger part sizes \(2h+\lambda\) and \(2h+\lambda-1\) (its intersection bound does not depend on them; supports of size \(|X|\ge(2h+\lambda)+k(2h+\lambda-1)\), about \(2k^2\) cells), \(\lambda=K-1\) gives about \(n^K/2^K\) explicit designed clauses of width \(k\ge3K-5\) with no PC refutation of degree \(2k+3\), for every \(K\). This replaces \(2k+3-\lambda\) by \(2k+3\).
So on the weak base, designed families of every polynomial count glue at every degree below the first Koszul degree. The range from \(2k+4\) to W's \(22k\) is the Koszul range, proved so far only on disjoint columns (thm:column-disjoint-taylor) and at \(2k+4\) with disjoint cells (thm:disjoint-koszul-degree).
The pair lemma uses no bound on \(s\) beyond directness in the link of \(\varnothing\), that is \(s<2h\). The pointer step is where \(h\ge3\lambda\) enters. Above \(2h\), outside parts can contain whole patterns of other clauses, and Koszul pairs enter.

Outcome. thm:shared-cell-induction: designed families whose supports share up to \(\lambda\) cells glue through \(2k+3\) when \(k+2\ge3\lambda\), so about \(n^K\) explicit clauses reach every degree below the Koszul pairs. Lead follow-up: developed; the link lead of the designed line review gives the pair lemma.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 for designed families (A1 remains the highest-risk item): the first Koszul degree \(2h\) with shared cells. There outside parts have at most \(h\) cells, so pointers stay unique when \(h\ge3\lambda+1\), and the pair lemma fails only at \(U=\varnothing\), where the restricted clauses have disjoint cells and thm:disjoint-koszul-degree gives Frobenius syzygies plus a Koszul pair. Check that subtracting the full Koszul pair changes only nonempty levels, and find the degree, about \(3h-3\lambda\), where pointers stop being unique.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:column-wilson-taylor and lem:spare-column-transfer (column Wilson entry), thm:pre-koszul-weak-families, the gap-degree, intersecting-design and designed-line-review entries, thm:based-taylor-glue and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked pointer uniqueness, the splitting of step 2 including isolation of the pointer-free part, the level-by-level induction of step 3 (directness below \(2h\), the restricted sizes, the Frobenius subtraction identity, which leaves no residual at \(U=Z\)), step 4 and the count \(k\ge3K-5\). It found the entry sound with no required changes, and its claim search found no earlier version. Its two suggestions are adopted: isolation of \(g_C^{(\varnothing)}\tau_C\) is spelled out, and the design is stated as a rerun of the polynomial-graph construction at larger part sizes. Added independently: \(a_W\) avoids the columns of \(W\), so multiplication by \(y_U\) loses nothing at level \(U\).

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	10 min 53.10 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 18.80 s
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Pair reduction: for designed width-\(k\) W clauses whose supports pairwise share up to \(\lambda\) cells, Taylor generation through degree \(2h+f\), \(f<h-3\lambda\), follows from Taylor generation for pairs of clauses on disjoint cells. With the disjoint Koszul degree this gives the first Koszul degree \(2k+4\) for about \(n^K\) explicit clauses

27 September 2026 · Working proof of a conditional theorem, with an unconditional corollary · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-shared-koszul. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pair reduction: for designed width-\(k\) W clauses whose supports pairwise share up to \(\lambda\) cells, Taylor generation through degree \(2h+f\), \(f<h-3\lambda\), follows from Taylor generation for pairs of clauses on disjoint cells. With the disjoint Koszul degree this gives the first Koszul degree \(2k+4\) for about \(n^K\) explicit clauses”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-pair-reduction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 for designed families (A1 remains the highest-risk item). The shared-cell induction proved Taylor generation through \(2h-1\) for \(\lambda\)-intersecting designed families, and proposed the first Koszul degree \(2h\). The pointer and pair steps there use degree only through pointer uniqueness and through directness of the restricted pair. This cycle separates the two: pointers stay unique up to about \(3h-3\lambda\), and the pair step needs only Taylor generation of the pair with its shared cells removed.

General statement. thm:pair-reduction, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for all \(\lambda\ge1\), \(f\ge0\) and widths \(k\) with \(h=k+2\ge3\lambda+f+1\). Take width-\(k\) product constraints on the weak unary base whose forms sum disjoint cell sets \(S_C,T_{1,C},\dots,T_{k,C}\) with union \(U_C\) in distinct columns, \(|S_C|\ge2h+2f+2\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2h+2f+1\), and supports that pairwise share at most \(\lambda\) cells. Let \(D=2h+f\). Suppose that for every pair \(C,C'\), with \(Z=U_C\cap U_{C'}\), the two clauses restricted to \(U_C\setminus Z\) and \(U_{C'}\setminus Z\) have only Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs through degree \(D\) in the monomial algebra (hypothesis (P)). Then the family has only Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs through \(D\), and with at least \(2D-1\) unused columns, \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D^2\), weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). cor:shared-koszul-degree: at \(f=0\), (P) holds by thm:disjoint-koszul-degree when \(|S_C|\ge2h+2+\lambda\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2h+1+\lambda\), so for \(h\ge3\lambda+1\) such families have no PC refutation of degree \(2k+4\).

Setting

As in the shared-cell induction. By lem:spare-column-transfer with \(t=D\), work in the monomial algebra \(\tilde A\) on the board's cells, with basis the sets of cells in distinct columns; \(\tau_C\) is the sum of \(y_P\) over the patterns \(P\) of \(C\), \(h\) cells each. Fix \(s\le D\) and a syzygy \((g_C)\), \(g_C\in\tilde A_{s-h}\), so \(s-h\le h+f\). For a cell set \(Z\), the map \(\pi_Z\) sending every monomial containing a cell of \(Z\) to 0 is a ring homomorphism \(\tilde A\to\tilde A\) (its kernel is the ideal those monomials span), and it fixes every element free of \(Z\).

thm:pair-reduction

Step 1: pointers. For a monomial \(r\) of \(g_C\), let \(R=r\setminus U_C\), so \(|R|\le s-h\le h+f\). Say \(r\) points to \(C'\ne C\) if \(|R\cap U_{C'}|\ge h-\lambda\). Two pointers would give \(|R|\ge2(h-\lambda)-\lambda=2h-3\lambda>h+f\), since \(h\ge3\lambda+f+1\). So at most one \(C'\) qualifies. Multiplying by \(\tau_C\) adds only cells of \(U_C\), so the outside part and the pointer of a product monomial are those of its multiplier monomial.

Step 2: splitting. Word for word as in the shared-cell induction, which used only pointer uniqueness: if a monomial \(m\) of the products of \(C\) contains a pattern \(P'\) of \(D'\ne C\), then \(|P'\setminus U_C|\ge h-\lambda\) cells of \(P'\) lie in \(R=m\setminus U_C\), so \(R\) points to \(D'\); symmetrically the \(D'\)-side pointer is \(C\). So \(g_C^{(\varnothing)}\tau_C=0\) for every \(C\), and for every pair, \(g_C^{(C')}\tau_C+g_{C'}^{(C)}\tau_{C'}=0\).

Step 3: the pair lemma. Let \(a\tau_C+b\tau_{C'}=0\), with \(a,b\) of degree \(s-h\). We show that \((a,b)\) is a sum of Frobenius syzygies and a multiple \(\mu(\tau_{C'}e_C-\tau_Ce_{C'})\) of the Koszul pair. Decompose \(a=\sum_{W\subseteq Z}y_Wa_W\), \(b=\sum_Wy_Wb_W\) and \(\tau_C=\sum_{V\subseteq Z}y_V\tau_C^{[V]}\) as in the shared-cell induction, with \(a_W,b_W\) free of \(Z\) and avoiding the columns of \(W\). For each \(U\subseteq Z\), the monomials whose cells in \(Z\) are exactly \(U\) give \(\sum_{W\subseteq U}(a_W\tau_C^{[U\setminus W]}+b_W\tau_{C'}^{[U\setminus W]})=0\) after cancelling \(y_U\), which is injective here: every term avoids the columns of \(U\), since \(U\subseteq U_C\cap U_{C'}\) and each support lies in distinct columns. Process the sets \(U\) by increasing size, starting with \(\varnothing\), keeping \(a_W=b_W=0\) for the processed \(W\).

At \(U\) the equation is \(a_U\tau_C^{[\varnothing]}+b_U\tau_{C'}^{[\varnothing]}=0\), in degree \(s-|U|\le D\), where \(\tau^{[\varnothing]}\) are the tops of the restricted clauses. By (P) in that degree, which it covers since (P) holds at every degree through \(D\), \(a_U=\mu\tau_{C'}^{[\varnothing]}+\ell_{0,C}^{\neg Z}\alpha+\sum_j(\ell_{j,C}^{\neg Z})^2\beta_j\) and \(b_U=-\mu\tau_C^{[\varnothing]}+(\text{Frobenius for }C')\). Applying \(\pi_Z\), which fixes \(a_U\), \(b_U\), the restricted tops and the restricted forms, we may take \(\mu,\alpha,\beta_j\) free of \(Z\).
Subtract the syzygy \(y_U\mu(\tau_{C'}e_C-\tau_Ce_{C'})\) and \(y_U\) times the Frobenius syzygies \((\ell_{0,C}\alpha+\sum_j\ell_{j,C}^2\beta_j)e_C\) and their \(C'\) analogues. Since \(\tau_{C'}=\tau_{C'}^{[\varnothing]}+\sum_{V\ne\varnothing}y_V\tau_{C'}^{[V]}\) and \(\ell_0=\ell_0^{\neg Z}+\sum_{z\in S\cap Z}y_z\) (similarly \(\ell_j^2\)), and \(y_Uy_z=0\) for \(z\in U\), the part of the subtracted syzygy at level \(U\) is \(y_U\) times the expression above for \(a_U\), which avoids the columns of \(U\) because \(a_U\) does. So \(a_U\) and \(b_U\) become 0, and only \(a_{W'},b_{W'}\) with \(W'\supsetneq U\) change.

After all \(U\subseteq Z\), \((a,b)\) is a sum of Frobenius syzygies and multiples of the Koszul pair.

Step 4: conclusion. The single-clause parts satisfy \(g_C^{(\varnothing)}\tau_C=0\) and lie in the Taylor kernel by thm:column-wilson-taylor at \(e=s-h\le h+f\), since \(|S_C|\ge2h+2f+2\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2h+2f+1\). With step 3 for every pair, every top syzygy through \(D\) is a sum of Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs. Every form has more than \(\lambda\) cells, so no two clauses share a form, and each Koszul pair is the (K) syzygy of thm:based-taylor-glue. The weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic), and thm:based-taylor-glue gives no refutation of degree \(D\). \(\square\)

cor:shared-koszul-degree

Let \(f=0\), \(h\ge3\lambda+1\), \(|S_C|\ge2h+2+\lambda\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2h+1+\lambda\). For a pair \(C,C'\) the restricted clauses have disjoint supports, each in distinct columns, with \(|S_C\setminus Z|\ge2h+2=2k+6\) and \(|T_{j,C}\setminus Z|\ge2h+1=2k+5\). The monomial-algebra argument of thm:disjoint-koszul-degree (its steps 1 to 5, which specialize to a family of two clauses; the cells of \(Z\) play no role for Z-free inputs, and other cells block) gives Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs in degree \(2h\); below \(2h\) their images are direct and thm:column-wilson-taylor gives Frobenius syzygies. So (P) holds through \(2h\), and thm:pair-reduction gives no PC refutation of degree \(2k+4\), with at least \(4k+7\) unused columns, \(m\ge2k+4\) and \(N\ge2(2k+4)^2\). \(\square\)

What it gives

The polynomial-graph construction of thm:intersecting-design-families, rerun with part sizes \(2h+2+\lambda\) and \(2h+1+\lambda\), gives with \(\lambda=K-1\) about \(n^K/2^K\) explicit clauses of width \(k\ge3K-4\) with no PC refutation of degree \(2k+4\), the first Koszul degree, for every \(K\).
Up to degree about \(3h-3\lambda\), the Koszul range for \(\lambda\)-intersecting families is now the Koszul range for two clauses on disjoint cells. In the polynomial-graph design all supports use the same columns, so these pairs share nearly all their columns, and thm:column-disjoint-taylor does not apply. The two-clause Koszul range on shared columns is the next question.
From degree \(3h-3\lambda\), where outside parts reach \(2h-3\lambda\) cells, an outside part can point to two clauses, and clusters of three or more clauses enter. W's degree \(22k\) is about \(22h\), far beyond; the pointer method alone cannot reach it.

Outcome. thm:pair-reduction reduces Taylor generation for \(\lambda\)-intersecting designed families below about \(3h-3\lambda\) to pairs on disjoint cells; cor:shared-koszul-degree: about \(n^K\) explicit clauses have no PC refutation of degree \(2k+4\).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 for designed families (A1 remains the highest-risk item): the two-clause Koszul range. Prove that two designed clauses on disjoint cells in shared columns have only Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs at every degree, by extending the level-by-level content argument of thm:disjoint-koszul-degree to \(C\)-content up to \(f\) at degree \(2h+f\); with thm:pair-reduction this gives \(\lambda\)-intersecting families up to about \(3h-3\lambda\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the shared-cell induction entry, thm:disjoint-koszul-degree (statement and steps 1 to 5), thm:column-wilson-taylor and lem:spare-column-transfer, thm:based-taylor-glue with its (K) syzygies and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. The claim search found no earlier pair reduction. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived pointer uniqueness (margin exactly 1 at \(h=3\lambda+f+1\)), the splitting of step 2, the level equations and the injectivity of \(y_U\), that \(\pi_Z\) is a ring homomorphism fixing the restricted tops and forms, the cancellation leaving only strict supersets, the restricted sizes in the corollary, the column Wilson sizes and the count \(k\ge3K-4\), and found the entry sound with no required changes. Its two suggestions are adopted: (P) is invoked at each level's degree \(s-|U|\), and the two-clause specialization of thm:disjoint-koszul-degree is stated.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 47.01 s
Marked reading and review windows	39.90 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 17.46 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 49.51 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Few shared columns: two designed clauses are Taylor-generated at every degree once their parts are large outside the columns they share, by Taylor propagation from the column-disjoint case. With the pair reduction, families whose supports pairwise share few columns glue up to about \(3h\), and a design on the columns gives about \(n^K\) explicit clauses at degree about \(3k\)

27 September 2026 · Working proof (a composition of recorded results), with a small finite check · open statement A3 · cycle odd-prime-two-clause-koszul. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Few shared columns: two designed clauses are Taylor-generated at every degree once their parts are large outside the columns they share, by Taylor propagation from the column-disjoint case. With the pair reduction, families whose supports pairwise share few columns glue up to about \(3h\), and a design on the columns gives about \(n^K\) explicit clauses at degree about \(3k\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-few-shared-columns.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 for designed families (A1 remains the highest-risk item). The pair reduction reduced Taylor generation of \(\lambda\)-intersecting families below about \(3h-3\lambda\) to hypothesis (P): pairs of clauses on disjoint cells are Taylor-generated. It proposed proving (P) at every degree for pairs in shared columns, as in the polynomial-graph design, where every clause uses the same columns. This cycle asks when (P) holds, first by an exact computation of the pair defect, then by a general argument.

General statement. cor:few-shared-columns, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for all \(\lambda,\mu\ge0\), \(f\ge0\) and widths \(k\) with \(h=k+2\ge3\lambda+f+1\). Take width-\(k\) product constraints on the weak unary base whose forms sum disjoint cell sets \(S_C,T_{1,C},\dots,T_{k,C}\) with union \(U_C\) in distinct columns, whose supports pairwise share at most \(\mu\) columns and at most \(\lambda\) cells, with \(|S_C|\ge2h+2f+2+\mu\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2h+2f+1+\mu\). Let \(D=2h+f\), with at least \(2D-1\) unused columns, \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D^2\). Then the top syzygies through \(D\) are Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs, and weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). Its pair part: two such clauses sharing no form, whose parts keep at least \(2(D-h)+2\) and \(2(D-h)+1\) cells outside their shared columns, are Taylor-generated through \(D\) for every \(D\).

A finite check first

For two width-\(k\) clauses on disjoint cells whose single-clause annihilators are Taylor (column Wilson), Taylor generation of the pair is equivalent to \(\tau_CA\cap\tau_{C'}A=\tau_C\tau_{C'}A\), that is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/\tau_CA,A/\tau_{C'}A)=0\). Indeed the map \((a,b)\mapsto a\tau_C\) sends the syzygies onto \(\tau_CA\cap\tau_{C'}A\), with kernel \(\operatorname{ann}\tau_C\oplus\operatorname{ann}\tau_{C'}\), the Frobenius syzygies; the Koszul pairs map onto \(\tau_C\tau_{C'}A\). So the non-Taylor syzygies have dimension \(\dim(\tau_CA\cap\tau_{C'}A)-\dim\tau_C\tau_{C'}A\) in each degree, with no regularity needed. On disjoint columns \(A\) is a tensor product and this Tor vanishes at every size. research/tools/two_clause_shared_tor.m2 computes its dimension block by block in the multigrading by part counts, for \(k=1\) with every cell of \(C\) sharing its column with the same-index cell of the same part of \(C'\), as in the polynomial-graph design. The saved outputs (research/results/odd-prime-two-clause-koszul/) give, at \(|S|=4\), \(|T|=3\): defect 0 in degrees 4 and 5, 5 in degree \(2h=6\) (multidegree \((2,1,2,1)\)), 30 in degree 7, and 0 in degrees 8 and 9. The controls on disjoint columns gave 0 (sizes \((4,3)\) through degree 7, and \((2,1)\) in degree 4). These sizes are below the thresholds of thm:disjoint-koszul-degree (\(|S|\ge8\), \(|T|\ge7\)), so the check shows only that fully shared columns produce non-Taylor pair syzygies at small sizes, from degree \(2h\) on. A first run including \(|S|=6\), \(|T|=5\) hit its 300-second limit, and the launcher then stopped the series: two of its four argument lists had gone to debugging. The cycle turned to the general argument.

Pair lemma: Taylor propagation from the column-disjoint case

Let \(C,C'\) be two width-\(k\) clauses on the monomial algebra \(\tilde A\) of a board, sharing no form, and let \(\Gamma\) be the set of columns that contain cells of both. Suppose \(|S_C\setminus\Gamma|\ge2(D-h)+2\), \(|T_{j,C}\setminus\Gamma|\ge2(D-h)+1\), and likewise for \(C'\).

On the board without the columns of \(\Gamma\), the restricted clauses \(C\setminus\Gamma\), \(C'\setminus\Gamma\) have disjoint column sets and meet the size bounds of thm:column-disjoint-taylor in its monomial-algebra form, which holds on any board with other cells blocking. So their top syzygies are Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs in every multiplier degree up to \(D-h\), including degree 0: the two restricted tops are nonzero and independent.
Adjoin the columns of \(\Gamma\) one at a time. Adjoining column \(c\) is \(R'=R\otimes(\mathbb F\oplus V_c)\), with \(V_c\) spanned by the cells of \(c\) and \(V_c^2=0\), and the map \(\pi\) killing \(V_c\) sends each top to the top with its cell in \(c\) deleted, and \(\ell_{0}\), \(\ell_j^2\) to the restricted forms. By thm:taylor-propagation, whose proof covers Frobenius elements of degree 1 and 2 and Koszul pairs of tops without shared forms, zero defect in every multiplier degree up to \(D-h\) passes from \(R\) to \(R'\).

So the pair is Taylor-generated through \(D\) on the whole board. \(\square\) Cells shared by the pair lie in shared columns, so the lemma needs no separate hypothesis on them. The column deletion argument found in this cycle, splitting a syzygy by the cell it uses in one column, is thm:taylor-propagation read backwards, a rediscovery.

cor:few-shared-columns

By thm:pair-reduction at the family's \(\lambda\), with \(D=2h+f\) and \(h\ge3\lambda+f+1\) (for \(\lambda=0\), outside its stated range, its proof applies unchanged with \(Z=\varnothing\)), it suffices that every pair \(C,C'\), restricted to \(U_C\setminus Z\) and \(U_{C'}\setminus Z\) with \(Z=U_C\cap U_{C'}\), is Taylor-generated through \(D\), and that \(|S_C|\ge2h+2f+2\), \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2h+2f+1\). The restricted clauses share no form (each form keeps more than \(\mu\ge\lambda\) cells, and their cells are disjoint), and they share at most \(\mu\) columns. Each part loses at most \(\mu\) cells to \(Z\) and to shared columns together, since every lost cell lies in a column shared by the original pair. So the parts keep at least \(2h+2f+2=2(D-h)+2\) and \(2(D-h)+1\) cells outside the shared columns, and the pair lemma gives (P). \(\square\)

The design

Let \(\mu=\lambda=K-1\), \(u=(2h+2f+2+\mu)+k(2h+2f+1+\mu)\), \(q\) a prime and \(X\subseteq\mathbb F_q\) with \(|X|=u\). Index \(uq\) board columns by \(X\times\mathbb F_q\), leaving at least \(2D-1\) columns unused. For each polynomial \(p\) of degree at most \(K-1\) over \(\mathbb F_q\), let \(U_p\) be the cells in one fixed row at the columns \((x,p(x))\), \(x\in X\), split once by \(X\) into parts of the required sizes. Two polynomials agree on at most \(K-1\) points, so supports share at most \(K-1\) columns, and cells only there. With \(q\approx n/u\) this gives about \((n/u)^K\) clauses, \(u\le(k+1)(4h+2)\) since \(f\le h-3K+2\), which is about \(n^K/(4k^2)^K\), a polynomial count for \(k=\Theta(\log n)\) up to a polylogarithmic factor. The largest degree is at \(f=h-3K+2\), \(D=3h-3K+2=3k-3K+8\).

What it gives

For every \(K\), about \(n^K/(4k^2)^K\) explicit designed clauses of width \(k\) have no PC refutation of degree \(3k-3K+8\), about \(3k\) at \(k=\Theta(\log n)\). This raises cor:shared-koszul-degree's \(2k+4\) by a factor of about \(3/2\). The polynomial-graph design, with all columns shared, is replaced by a design on the columns.
Pairs are now settled at every degree for supports sharing few columns. What stops the method at about \(3h\) is only the pointer step: from degree \(3h-3\lambda\) on, an outside part can meet two other clauses in \(h-\lambda\) cells each, so a syzygy need not split into pairs. W's degree \(22k\) is about \(22h\).
The same propagation settles any cluster of \(t\) clauses whose supports pairwise share at most \(\mu\) columns once the parts keep the thresholds after losing \((t-1)\mu\) cells: deleting all shared columns leaves a column-disjoint cluster. The missing piece is the splitting of a family syzygy into cluster syzygies.

Outcome. cor:few-shared-columns: families whose supports pairwise share few columns glue through \(2h+f\) for \(f<h-3\lambda\); about \(n^K\) explicit clauses reach degree about \(3k\). The column deletion step is a rediscovery of thm:taylor-propagation.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A3 for designed families (A1 remains the highest-risk item): cluster splitting. At degree \(2h+f\) beyond \(3h\), an outside part can meet several clauses. Clusters of \(t\) clauses are Taylor by propagation from their column-disjoint restriction. Prove that a family syzygy splits into cluster syzygies when outside parts point to sets of at most \(t\) clauses, and find the degree, about \(th\), at which this needs clusters of \(t\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:taylor-propagation (statement, proof and its remark on Frobenius elements of any positive degree and on shared forms), thm:column-disjoint-taylor and thm:pair-reduction. The claim search identified the column deletion step as thm:taylor-propagation; no earlier combination for shared-column pairs was found. The finite check is described above; its numbers were read from the saved outputs. A fresh-context reviewer checked the pair lemma against both dependencies (including that deleting a cell's column restricts \(e_2(S)\) and \(e_1(T_j)\) to the deleted part), the cell-loss count, the application of the pair reduction, the design's intersections, count, \(u\le(k+1)(4h+2)\) and degree, and the finite-check numbers and formula, and found the entry sound with no required changes. Its two suggestions are adopted: the Tor formula for pair Taylor generation is derived, and the two roles of \(\lambda\) in the corollary are separated.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	27 min 15.85 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 33.89 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	16 min 40.34 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 45.67 s
Individually measured computation	5 min 15.81 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Bounded clusters: a family syzygy splits along the components of its monomial-sharing graph, and a cell count on one monomial shows that each component involves at most \(4D/h\) clauses. With Taylor propagation for small clusters, designed W families on a column design are Taylor-generated at every degree, so about \(n^K\) explicit clauses have no PC refutation of W's degree \(22k\)

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statements A2 and A3 for designed families · cycle odd-prime-cluster-splitting. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Bounded clusters: a family syzygy splits along the components of its monomial-sharing graph, and a cell count on one monomial shows that each component involves at most \(4D/h\) clauses. With Taylor propagation for small clusters, designed W families on a column design are Taylor-generated at every degree, so about \(n^K\) explicit clauses have no PC refutation of W's degree \(22k\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-bounded-clusters.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statements A2 and A3 for designed families (A1 remains the highest-risk item). The few shared columns entry settled pairs at every degree and proposed cluster splitting beyond \(3h\), where an outside part can meet several clauses and the pointer decomposition of thm:pair-reduction fails. The pointer method assigns each multiplier monomial one partner. This cycle drops the assignment and asks how many clauses a connected block of the syzygy equations can involve at all.

General statement. thm:bounded-clusters, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for all \(D\ge h=k+2\), \(\lambda,\mu\ge0\), with \(T=\lfloor4D/h\rfloor\) and \(T\lambda\le h/2\). Take width-\(k\) product constraints on the weak unary base whose forms sum disjoint cell sets \(S_C,T_{1,C},\dots,T_{k,C}\) with union \(U_C\) in distinct columns, whose supports pairwise share at most \(\lambda\) cells and at most \(\mu\) columns, with \(|S_C|\ge2(D-h)+2+(T-1)\mu\) and \(|T_{j,C}|\ge2(D-h)+1+(T-1)\mu\). Suppose at least \(2D-1\) columns are unused, \(m\ge D\) and \(N\ge2D^2\). Then the top syzygies through \(D\) are Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs, and weak unary PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). cor:column-design-degree: the column design of cor:few-shared-columns with \(\lambda=\mu=K-1\) and these sizes gives, for every \(K\) and every \(D\), about \(n^K/u^K\) explicit clauses, \(u=|U_C|\), with no PC refutation of degree \(D\), whenever \(\lfloor4D/h\rfloor(K-1)\le h/2\); at W's degree \(D=22k\) with \(k=\Theta(\log n)\), \(u\approx42k^2\).

Setting

By lem:spare-column-transfer with \(t=D\), work in the monomial algebra \(\tilde A\) on the board's cells, with basis the sets of cells in distinct columns; \(\tau_C\) is the sum of \(y_P\) over the patterns \(P\) of \(C\), \(h\) cells each, each with coefficient 1. Fix \(s\le D\) and a syzygy \((g_C)\), \(g_C\in\tilde A_{s-h}\), \(\sum_Cg_C\tau_C=0\).

thm:bounded-clusters

Step 1: components. Form the graph whose nodes are the pairs \((C,r)\), with \(C\) a clause and \(r\) a basis monomial of degree \(s-h\). The products of \((C,r)\) are the monomials \(r\cup P\) with \(P\) a pattern of \(C\), \(r\cap P=\varnothing\), in distinct columns. Join two nodes when they have a common product. The coefficient of a monomial \(m\) in \(\sum_Cg_C\tau_C\) is \(\sum g_C[r]\) over the nodes \((C,r)\) with product \(m\), and these nodes lie in one component. So restricting \((g_C)\) to the nodes of one component gives a syzygy, and the syzygy is the sum of these restrictions. A component without products consists of single nodes with \(r\tau_C=0\); there \(r\) lies in the Taylor kernel of \(C\) by thm:column-wilson-taylor at \(e=s-h\), whose size bounds \(2(D-h)+2\) and \(2(D-h)+1\) hold.

Step 2: a component involves at most \(T\) clauses. Take a component with a product \(m_1\), and explore it from \(m_1\): list its clauses in the order in which a node of each is first reached, \(C_1,C_2,\dots\), starting with those having a pattern in \(m_1\). Every product reached before \(C_{j+1}\) lies in \(m_1\cup U_{C_1}\cup\dots\cup U_{C_j}\), by induction: a node \((C_i,r)\) is reached through a product \(m\) containing \(r\), and its products \(r\cup P\) add only cells of \(U_{C_i}\). The clause \(C_{j+1}\) is reached through such a product \(m\), which contains a pattern \(P\) of \(C_{j+1}\). Since \(|P\cap U_{C_i}|\le\lambda\) for \(i\le j\), at least \(h-j\lambda\) cells of \(P\) lie in \(m_1\). Suppose the component had \(T+1\) clauses. Then \(C_1,\dots,C_{T+1}\) each have at least \(h-T\lambda\ge h/2\) cells in \(m_1\), and pairwise share at most \(\lambda\) cells, so \[s=|m_1|\ \ge\ (T+1)\frac h2-\binom{T+1}2\lambda\ \ge\ (T+1)\Bigl(\frac h2-\frac{T\lambda}2\Bigr)\ \ge\ (T+1)\frac h4\ >\ s,\] since \(T+1>4D/h\ge4s/h\). This is a contradiction, so the component involves at most \(T\) clauses.

Step 3: small clusters are Taylor. Let \(\mathcal K\) be a set of at most \(T\) clauses and \(\Gamma\) the columns containing cells of two of them. Each clause loses at most \((T-1)\mu\) cells to \(\Gamma\), so on the board without \(\Gamma\) the restricted clauses have disjoint column sets and parts of at least \(2(D-h)+2\) and \(2(D-h)+1\) cells. thm:column-disjoint-taylor, in its monomial-algebra form with other cells blocking, gives Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs in every multiplier degree up to \(D-h\), including independent nonzero tops in degree 0. Adjoining the columns of \(\Gamma\) one at a time, thm:taylor-propagation carries this to the whole board: deleting a column sends each top and each \(\ell_0,\ell_j^2\) to its restriction, its proof covers Frobenius elements of degrees 1 and 2, and no two clauses share a form, since forms have more than \(\mu\) cells. (Always \(\mu\ge\lambda\): each support lies in distinct columns, so a shared cell gives a shared column.) This is the pair lemma of the few-shared-columns entry for \(|\mathcal K|\) clauses.

Step 4: conclusion. The restriction of \((g_C)\) to a component is a syzygy of the at most \(T\) clauses the component involves, since its products are those of these clauses alone. By step 3 it is a sum of Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs. Summing over components, so is \((g_C)\), in every degree \(s\le D\). The weak base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic), no constraint is a nonzero constant, and thm:based-taylor-glue gives no refutation of degree \(D\). \(\square\)

cor:column-design-degree

Take \(\lambda=\mu=K-1\) and the column design: columns indexed by \(X\times\mathbb F_q\) with \(|X|=u\), and for each polynomial \(p\) of degree at most \(K-1\) the cells of one fixed row at the columns \((x,p(x))\), split by \(X\) into parts of the sizes above. Supports share at most \(K-1\) columns and cells. For \(D=22k\), \(T=\lfloor88k/(k+2)\rfloor\le87\), so \(T\lambda\le h/2\) holds once \(h\ge174(K-1)\), true for \(k=\Theta(\log n)\) and fixed \(K\) at large \(n\). Then \(u=(2(D-h)+2+(T-1)\mu)+k(2(D-h)+1+(T-1)\mu)\approx42k^2\), and \(q\approx n/u\) gives about \((n/42k^2)^K\) clauses, \(n^{K-o(1)}\). \(\square\)

Tests against recorded obstructions

The finite check of the few-shared-columns entry (non-Taylor pair syzygies at \(|S|=4\), \(|T|=3\) with every column shared) violates the size hypothesis after losing shared columns, as it must.
prop:covering-obstruction refutes \(t\)-wise locality for selectors whose forbidden hyperplanes cover all but one point, in form space. Here locality comes from cell counting in one monomial, which needs supports much larger than \(h\) with bounded pairwise overlaps; single-form selectors on \(\mathbb F_3^s\) have no such supports. The theorem makes no claim about those families.
Two tops agreeing outside one column give non-Frobenius syzygies (thm:taylor-propagation's adversarial paragraph). Such a pair shares all but one column, far beyond \(\mu\).

What it gives

For designed forms, A2 and A3 hold together at W's parameters: about \(n^{K-o(1)}\) explicit width-\(k\) clauses, \(k=\Theta(\log n)\), glue on the weak base through degree \(22k\). The pointer bounds \(h\ge3\lambda+f+1\) of the pair reduction are replaced by \(T\lambda\le h/2\), with \(T\le4D/h\).
The argument uses the forms only through their supports: disjoint parts in distinct columns, the size bounds and the pairwise overlaps. What it does not reach is A1: W's forms are arbitrary, with supports that may overlap heavily, share forms or be small.

Outcome. thm:bounded-clusters: families whose supports pairwise share few cells and columns are Taylor-generated through any degree \(D\) with \(\lfloor4D/h\rfloor\lambda\le h/2\) and sizes growing with \(D\); cor:column-design-degree: about \(n^K\) explicit designed clauses reach W's degree \(22k\).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer: a route review. The designed line has reached W's parameters for designed forms, so the remaining gap is A1. The review should decide what the support-level argument can say about adversarial families, for instance whether W's forms can be reduced to supports with bounded overlaps, and where it breaks.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:taylor-propagation, thm:column-disjoint-taylor, thm:column-wilson-taylor with lem:spare-column-transfer, cor:few-shared-columns with its column design, prop:covering-obstruction, thm:based-taylor-glue and thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic. Claim searches (components, clusters, locality of syzygies) found related mechanisms (conj:component-hypothesis, lem:tensor-splitting-locality, the hub-locality theorems) but not this component count. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived step 2 from scratch (the containment of reached products, including moves within one clause, the bound of \(h-j\lambda\) cells in \(m_1\) from the global pairwise bound, and the Bonferroni count), checked step 1, the per-part loss \((T-1)\mu\) and the absence of shared forms in step 3, the corollary's arithmetic against thm:column-disjoint-taylor's sizes, and the scope of the A2 and A3 claim, and found the entry sound with no required changes. Its suggestion is adopted: \(\mu\ge\lambda\) is justified.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 25.58 s
Marked reading and review windows	3 min 53.53 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	8 min 6.85 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 25.06 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review after bounded clusters: the designed line has reached W's parameters for designed forms, and its mechanism is subcritical: it needs each monomial to meet few clauses heavily. A1's dense core is the supercritical case, where every monomial meets nearly every clause, and weight degenerations cannot reduce it to the subcritical one

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statements A1, A2 and A3 · cycle odd-prime-designed-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after bounded clusters: the designed line has reached W's parameters for designed forms, and its mechanism is subcritical: it needs each monomial to meet few clauses heavily. A1's dense core is the supercritical case, where every monomial meets nearly every clause, and weight degenerations cannot reduce it to the subcritical one”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-designed-completion-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer. Since the designed line review, four entries took designed W families from degree \(2k+3-\lambda\) to W's degree \(22k\) for about \(n^K\) explicit clauses (shared-cell induction, pair reduction, few shared columns, bounded clusters). The native line review had moved cycles there from A1, which stayed the highest-risk item. This review asks what the finished line says about A1, and where cycles go next.

The line's general claim

conj:large-support-taylor for designed families, in the form thm:bounded-clusters proves: width-\(k\) product constraints whose forms sum disjoint parts in distinct columns, with supports pairwise sharing at most \(\lambda\) cells and \(\mu\) columns, \(\lfloor4D/h\rfloor\lambda\le h/2\), and parts of at least \(2(D-h)+2+(T-1)\mu\) cells, are Taylor-generated through \(D\) on the weak base. cor:column-design-degree gives about \(n^{K-o(1)}\) explicit clauses at \(D=22k\). The mechanism has three parts: a syzygy splits along components of the monomial-sharing graph; one monomial of \(s\) cells can hold large pieces of patterns of at most \(4s/h\) clauses; clusters that small are Taylor by propagation from their column-disjoint restriction.

What the goal needs

W for every family of \(n^K\) blocks of arbitrary affine forms, at degree \(22k\) (A1 with A2 and A3). The designed line proves that the width and degree requirements are not obstructions in themselves: they hold together for designed forms. A1's forms are arbitrary. Their supports may coincide, forms may be shared between blocks, a clause's forms need not lie on disjoint cells in distinct columns, and non-Taylor syzygies occur. Pairs of tops agreeing outside one column have them (thm:taylor-propagation), so A1 needs thm:based-taylor-glue's larger span with coherent pair syzygies. Its core is the dense core, whose obstacle the native line review stated: row freeness beyond joint capacity, with no tensor decomposition or symmetry.

Falsification attempt: non-Taylor syzygies within the hypotheses

Every recorded source of non-Taylor top syzygies was checked against thm:bounded-clusters' hypotheses:

two tops agreeing outside one column share all but one column, so \(\mu\) exceeds every part;
clauses sharing a form share more than \(\mu\) cells;
the Macaulay2 pair defects of the few-shared-columns entry have every column shared at sizes 4 and 3;
the single-clause defects below column Wilson's sizes violate the size bounds.

None meets the hypotheses. The attempt fails, as it must for a reviewed proof. It shows the hypotheses exclude exactly the recorded sources.

The mechanism against A1

This section is a heuristic, not a consequence of the theorem, whose proof bounds components only under its hypotheses. Step 2 of thm:bounded-clusters counts clauses with \(h/2\) pattern cells in one monomial \(m_1\); call the clauses reached from an explored clause in this way its offspring. For a dense form, with nonzero coefficients on a constant fraction of the cells, a clause of \(k+1\) such factors has patterns inside most monomials of degree \(h\) with cells in suitable columns. So a monomial of degree \(s\) meets essentially every clause, and a component of the monomial-sharing graph holds the whole family. Heuristically, each explored clause has on the order of \(n^K\) offspring rather than at most \(T\). No lower bound on component sizes for dense families is proved here.

Obstacle

Top-syzygy generation (Taylor with coherent pairs) at degree \(22k\) for \(n^K\) blocks of dense forms whose supports overlap in a constant fraction, where the monomial-sharing graph has one giant component and no cluster bound, symmetry or tensor decomposition applies. Equivalently, in the native language: row freeness beyond joint capacity for the dense core.

Assessment of the route

The designed line is finished for its purpose: in one day it went from the first glue degree to W's parameters, by proofs, and located the distinction that matters, subcritical against supercritical overlap. Relative to the goal it is a calibration, not progress on A1: its mechanism is local, and A1's core is global. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Gröbner and weight degenerations with lifting of syzygies (Eisenbud, Commutative Algebra with a View Toward Algebraic Geometry, chapter 15, on Gröbner bases, initial forms and the lifting of syzygies), named by the generalization review for degree but never followed. Target: A1 through thm:bounded-clusters. Answers. The monomial algebra is graded by any weight on cells, since its relations are monomials. If the weight-initial forms of a family are Taylor-generated (with the same Frobenius elements, which exist for any forms since \(\ell^3=0\) in characteristic 3), every syzygy of the family lifts, by downward induction on the weight. A weight turning an adversarial family into a bounded-overlap one would put it under thm:bounded-clusters. Test. Falsified for the dense core: the initial part of a form under a weight is its set of maximal-weight cells, so forms with the same support get the same initial support under every weight, and families of dense forms on a common support keep total overlap.
Garland's method and the trickle-down theorem for high-dimensional expanders (Garland, p-adic curvature and the cohomology of discrete subgroups of p-adic groups, Ann. of Math. 97, 1973; Oppenheim, Local spectral expansion approach to high dimensional expanders I, Discrete Comput. Geom. 59, 2018). Target: the obstacle, local-to-global without bounded clusters. Answers. Take the complex whose faces are sets of blocks with patterns in one monomial of degree at most \(22k\). Global vanishing of the syzygies modulo the local ones would follow from vanishing on links plus spectral gaps, with no cluster bound. For dense families, heuristically, every set of blocks whose patterns fit together in one monomial of degree \(22k\) is a face, so the complex is a full skeleton, whose links have the largest possible gap. Test. Falsified for the naive form, local vanishing implying global vanishing: prop:covering-obstruction refutes the analogous local-to-global statement for selectors (conj:t-wise-locality), where every subfamily of \(t\) selectors is local and the family is not. A version with coboundary expansion of the coefficient system, not only of the complex, is untested.
Green's hyperplane restriction theorem (M. Green, Restrictions of linear series to hyperplanes, and some results of Macaulay and Gotzmann, Lecture Notes in Math. 1389, 1989). Target: thm:taylor-propagation's defect bound \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')\le\operatorname{Def}_e(R)+m\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\), to control defects of a dense family under column deletion. Answers. Green bounds the Hilbert function of a generic hyperplane section by Macaulay-type expansions; a similar bound on defects would let a block of columns certify the board for adversarial families. Test. Falsified in this form: column deletion is the quotient by all cells of one column, a subspace of codimension \(m\) in degree 1, not a generic hyperplane, and \(\mathbb F_3\) is finite, where Green's genericity is unavailable.

Absurd bridges

Percolation: sharpness of the phase transition (Menshikov, Coincidence of critical points in percolation problems, Soviet Math. Dokl. 33, 1986; Aizenman and Barsky, Comm. Math. Phys. 108, 1987). Translation: the exploration of step 2 is a percolation cluster on clauses, whose offspring are the clauses with \(h-j\lambda\) pattern cells in the explored monomial. Answers. Designed families are subcritical, with clusters of at most \(4s/h\) clauses. The dense core is supercritical. Supercritical percolation is handled by coarse-graining (Grimmett and Marstrand), which would group blocks into super-blocks whose syzygies are proved together and whose mutual overlaps are subcritical. Test. Passed as a translation, resting on the heuristic of the section on the mechanism against A1: for dense forms every monomial of degree \(s\) with cells in the right columns meets the patterns of essentially all clauses, the supercritical case, while for designed families the offspring count is at most \(T\). Whether a coarse-graining exists for adversarial families is open.
Exponential localization of Wannier functions in insulators (Kohn, Phys. Rev. 115, 1959; Brouder, Panati, Calandra, Mourougane and Marzari, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 2007). Translation: the syzygies are the kernel of a banded operator, multiplication by the tops; a spectral gap would give a kernel basis of localized vectors, local syzygies without a cluster bound. Answers. Locality of generators from a gap, which the obstacle lacks. Test. Falsified: over \(\mathbb F_3\) there is no spectral gap to use, and lifting to characteristic 0 changes the kernel, since the Frobenius syzygies come from \(\ell^3=0\), which holds only modulo 3.

Lead follow-up

The link and star sequences lead was developed into thm:shared-cell-induction and thm:pair-reduction, the induction on shared cells through links it proposed. thm:bounded-clusters then made the link induction unnecessary. Follow-up. Closed: developed into two working proofs and superseded by the component count.
Rödl's nibble was to raise the count at fixed \(\lambda\). Under thm:bounded-clusters, \(\lambda\) may grow up to \(h/(2T)\), a constant fraction of \(k\), and the column design with polynomials of degree at most \(\mu=\lambda\) gives about \((n/u)^{\lambda+1}\) explicit clauses, every polynomial count, without packings (the parts grow by \((T-1)\mu\)). Follow-up. Closed: the count is no longer a constraint.

Bridge follow-up

The exact-cover counting of pattern choices was to give size conditions for every level of the link induction. The component count of thm:bounded-clusters, a second-order Bonferroni bound on one monomial, replaced it. Follow-up. Closed: the counting it proposed is subsumed by the component count.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the percolation bridge. Search the dense core for a coarse-graining: a partition of \(n^K\) dense blocks into super-blocks such that the syzygies inside a super-block are controlled by the coherent-pair span and the overlaps between super-blocks, measured by pattern cells in one monomial, are subcritical. Test it first on the recorded dense obstructions (one-column pairs, shared forms, the spread and varying-shift families), which any coarse-graining must place inside super-blocks.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the bounded-clusters entry, the designed line review with its passed items, thm:taylor-propagation, prop:covering-obstruction and conj:t-wise-locality, and the native line review's obstacle. No computation was run; the tests are the arguments in each item. A fresh-context reviewer checked the summary, the falsification attempt against thm:bounded-clusters' hypotheses, every lead and bridge with its test, the follow-ups (including that \(\lambda\) may grow to \(h/(2T)\), so the column design gives every polynomial count), the assessment and the next step. It required one change, adopted: the giant-component argument for dense families is marked as a heuristic, and the percolation test as resting on it. Its suggestions are adopted: offspring is defined where first used, the Eisenbud citation is given by chapter, and the unexplained figure of about 20 blocks is dropped. Separately, the Rödl follow-up was corrected before the review to name the column design, not the polynomial-graph design.

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Coarse-graining barrier: dense supports overlap by Cauchy–Schwarz, so any grouping of dense blocks with subcritical overlaps between groups leaves one group with a \(\delta^2\) fraction of the family. Support-level coarse-graining cannot split A1's dense core; any locality there would have to come from the forms' coefficients

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-coarse-graining. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Coarse-graining barrier: dense supports overlap by Cauchy–Schwarz, so any grouping of dense blocks with subcritical overlaps between groups leaves one group with a \(\delta^2\) fraction of the family. Support-level coarse-graining cannot split A1's dense core; any locality there would have to come from the forms' coefficients”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-coarse-graining-barrier.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The designed completion review passed the percolation bridge as a translation: designed families are subcritical, the dense core is heuristically supercritical, and a coarse-graining into super-blocks with subcritical mutual overlaps would let thm:bounded-clusters act between super-blocks. This cycle asks whether such a coarse-graining can exist when overlaps are measured by supports, the only measure thm:bounded-clusters uses.

General statement. prop:coarse-graining-barrier. Let \(A_1,\dots,A_M\) be subsets of a set \(E\) of \(N\) cells with \(|A_b|\ge\delta N\) for every \(b\), and let the blocks be partitioned into groups so that \(|A_a\cap A_b|\le\lambda\) whenever \(a\) and \(b\) lie in different groups. Then some group has at least \((\delta^2-\lambda/N)M-\delta\) blocks. For W's dense core (supports of density \(\delta\) among the \(\approx n^2\) cells, \(M=n^K\) blocks) and any overlap bound \(\lambda=o(n^2)\), such as thm:bounded-clusters' \(h/(2T)\), one group holds a \(\delta^2-o(1)\) fraction of all blocks.

prop:coarse-graining-barrier

Proof. Let \(d_c\) be the number of sets containing the cell \(c\), and \(S=\sum_cd_c=\sum_b|A_b|\ge\delta NM\). Counting ordered pairs of distinct blocks through their common cells, \[\sum_{a\ne b}|A_a\cap A_b|=\sum_cd_c(d_c-1)\ \ge\ \frac{S^2}N-S\] by Cauchy–Schwarz. The right side increases with \(S\) once \(S\ge N/2\), so for \(\delta M\ge1/2\) it is at least \(\delta^2NM^2-\delta NM\). Now split the left side. Ordered pairs in different groups number at most \(M^2\) and contribute at most \(\lambda\) each. Ordered pairs in one group contribute at most \(N\) each, and there are \(\sum_iM_i(M_i-1)\le M_{\max}M\) of them, where \(M_i\) are the group sizes. So \(\delta^2NM^2-\delta NM\le\lambda M^2+NM_{\max}M\), that is, \(M_{\max}\ge(\delta^2-\lambda/N)M-\delta\). If \(\delta M<1/2\), the bound is negative and holds trivially. \(\square\)

What it means for the bridge

A coarse-graining that lets thm:bounded-clusters act between super-blocks needs overlaps between super-blocks of at most about \(h/(2T)\) cells, where \(T\le4D/h\). For dense blocks that is \(o(n^2)\), so one super-block contains a \(\delta^2-o(1)\) fraction of the family, itself a dense family of \(\Theta(n^K)\) blocks. Its internal syzygies are the original problem. The bridge's support-level form is closed. The barrier bounds cell overlaps \(\lambda\) only; column overlaps need no separate bound, since \(\mu\ge\lambda\) (a shared cell gives a shared column), so the column condition of thm:bounded-clusters is harder still.
The recorded dense obstructions (tops agreeing outside one column, shared forms, the spread and varying-shift families) must lie inside super-blocks, and they do: the barrier puts almost everything there.
The statement concerns supports only. Two dense forms on the same support can differ in every coefficient, and the record's random-model results (product-top check, generic directness) show that random dense tops behave like random matrices up to the fill point. Locality for dense families, if it exists, comes from the coefficients.
Column-wise changes of basis are automorphisms of the monomial algebra, since each column algebra is \(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c\) with \(V_c^2=0\), so supports could be measured in any column bases. For a family whose column components are random this does not help: in \(V_c\cong\mathbb F_3^{m}\), the \(t\)-sparse vectors for one basis number at most \(\binom mt2^t\). A fixed set of \(M\) random vectors is \(t\)-sparse in some basis with probability at most \(|GL_m(\mathbb F_3)|\bigl(\binom mt2^t/3^m\bigr)^M\), which is tiny once \(M\gg m^2\) and \(t\log m\ll m\).

Outcome. prop:coarse-graining-barrier: dense blocks cannot be grouped by support into super-blocks with subcritical mutual overlaps without one super-block holding a constant fraction of the family. The percolation bridge in its support form is closed. What remains is a coarse-graining by coefficients, a structure-versus-randomness split.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a structure-versus-randomness split of the dense core by coefficients. Define a pseudorandomness condition on a family of dense forms under which the random-model results (generic directness, the product-top check) would apply, such as full rank of every small collection of forms modulo the pinned forms. Check that each recorded dense obstruction fails it through low rank, a case the pinned-rank result covers. Then state the split as a conjecture for A1's dense core and test it against those obstructions.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:bounded-clusters (its hypothesis \(T\lambda\le h/2\)), the designed completion review's percolation bridge, and the random-model entries cited. The claim search found no earlier version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the double count, Cauchy–Schwarz, the monotonicity step, the split into same-group and cross-group pairs, the trivial case, the application to the dense core, the automorphism and counting remark, and the next step, and found the entry sound with no required changes. Its suggestions are adopted: the column-overlap remark is added, and the title is hedged.

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Pseudorandom Taylor generation: a coefficient-level split of A1's dense core. Every recorded dense obstruction has two forms whose difference lives in one row or column; the conjecture says that families in which every combination of a few forms has large support, below the fill point, are Taylor-generated, which would leave A1 with the families that have sparse relations

27 September 2026 · Conjecture, with tests against every recorded obstruction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-structure-randomness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pseudorandom Taylor generation: a coefficient-level split of A1's dense core. Every recorded dense obstruction has two forms whose difference lives in one row or column; the conjecture says that families in which every combination of a few forms has large support, below the fill point, are Taylor-generated, which would leave A1 with the families that have sparse relations”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-pseudorandom-taylor.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The coarse-graining barrier showed that supports cannot split the dense core, and proposed a split by coefficients: a pseudorandomness condition under which the random-model results would apply, failed by every recorded dense obstruction. This cycle states the condition, checks the obstructions against it and states the split as a conjecture.

General statement. conj:pseudorandom-taylor, over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak unary base. There are absolute constants \(c_1,c_2\) such that the following holds for all \(D\ge h\) and \(\varepsilon>0\) at large \(n\). Let a family of clause tops of degree \(h\) come from product constraints whose linear parts, over all blocks, satisfy:

(weight) for every choice of at most \(t=\lceil c_1D/h\rceil\) of the linear parts and coefficients in \(\mathbb F_3\) not all zero, the combination, modulo constants, has at least \(w_0=c_2D\) cells in its support (a combination that vanishes violates this);
(fill) \(M\dim\tilde A_{s-h}\le(1-\varepsilon)\dim\tilde A_s\) for every \(s\le D\), with \(M\) the number of clause tops.

Then the top syzygies through \(D\) are Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs, and by thm:based-taylor-glue the weak base plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). The weight condition excludes shared forms (a combination of weight 0), so the Koszul pairs are those of tops without shared forms.

Lineage. conj:large-support-taylor asked for the same conclusion from pairwise support overlaps of at most one cell; thm:bounded-clusters proved it for designed families with pairwise overlaps of \(\lambda\) cells and \(\mu\) columns. This conjecture generalizes both: it replaces the support conditions by a weight condition on combinations of forms, which dense families can meet, and adds the fill condition, which designed families meet automatically.

The split

If the conjecture holds, A1's dense core reduces to families that fail the weight condition. Such a family has a sparse relation: at most \(t\) of its linear parts with a combination supported on fewer than \(c_2D\) cells. What remains for A1 is a structure statement, that sparse relations can be removed at bounded degree cost, by pinning the sparse combination (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, lem:member-pinning) or by the sparse-block results. That half is not attempted here.

Tests against the recorded obstructions

Every recorded source of non-Taylor top syzygies or of locality failure, and whether it meets the hypotheses:

Two tops agreeing outside one column (thm:taylor-propagation, adversarial paragraph): the difference of the two forms lies in one column. When it has fewer than \(c_2D\) cells, for instance a few cells, the weight condition fails. Consistent.
Shared forms: a combination of weight 0. Excluded.
The spread family of the native line review: its members \(L_0+x_{ic}\) differ from the core \(L_0\) by one cell. Excluded, and consistent: it fails row freeness.
The varying-shift members \(L+a_cx_{ic}e_0\) (prop:varying-shift-affine-fall, corrected by lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, under which such members are vacuous with high probability for uniform prefixes): members differ by one cell. Excluded.
The small-size single-clause and pair defects (column Wilson's defect sizes; the Macaulay2 pair defects at \(|S|=4\), \(|T|=3\)): forms of at most 4 cells, below \(w_0\). Excluded.
Random families at and beyond the fill point, where the record's random-model results stop: excluded by the fill condition. Near the fill point the Cohen–Lenstra window of thm:generic-top-directness is excluded by \(\varepsilon\).
prop:covering-obstruction: selector families whose forms are combinations of column occupancies, \(t\)-wise independent, with allowed set \(\{0\}\). Their combinations of few forms are nonzero occupancy combinations, each containing a whole column, so the weight condition can hold. The obstruction refutes ideal locality, \(I_d(\bigcap U_b)=\sum I_d(U_b)\), which is stronger than Taylor generation of the tops: their allowed set is nonempty, so it gives no refutation, and no non-Taylor top syzygy of these families is recorded. Not a counterexample to the conjecture as stated; whether their tops are Taylor-generated is untested.
Designed families under thm:bounded-clusters: combinations of \(t\) forms with pairwise overlaps at most \(\lambda\) have at least \(t\cdot42k-\binom t2\lambda\) cells, so the weight condition holds, and the count \(n^K\) is far below the fill point. The theorem proves the conclusion. Consistent: the conjecture replaces bounded support overlaps by a weight condition on coefficients.

What it would give and what it needs

Random dense families satisfy the weight condition with high probability: a fixed nonzero combination of \(t\) random forms on \(E\) cells has fewer than \(w_0\) nonzero cells with probability at most \(\binom{|E|}{w_0}3^{-(|E|-w_0)}\), summed over \(\binom M{\le t}3^t\) combinations, which is small for \(M=n^K\), \(t=O(1)\), \(w_0=O(\log n)\) and \(|E|\approx n^2\). So if the conjecture holds, it covers the random dense case at W's parameters, for \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms, where thm:generic-top-directness (Zariski-generic, below the Koszul range) says nothing. That case is conditional on the conjecture, not established.
A proof has to replace step 2 of thm:bounded-clusters, a count on supports, by a statement about coefficients, since prop:coarse-graining-barrier rules out support counts for dense families. The smallest test is computational: random dense forms on a small board, below the fill point, in the Koszul range \(s\ge2h\), which the product-top check did not reach.

Outcome. conj:pseudorandom-taylor splits A1's dense core by coefficients: every recorded obstruction fails its weight condition through a combination of two forms supported on one or a few cells, and the proved designed case satisfies it. It is a conjecture, tested only by these arguments.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test conj:pseudorandom-taylor at its smallest nonvacuous size, in the Koszul range. Sizes, counted now: \(k=1\), \(h=3\), degree \(2h=6\) on a board of 3 rows and 8 columns, where \(\dim\tilde A_6=\binom86 3^6=20412\) and \(\dim\tilde A_3=\binom83 3^3=1512\), so at most 13 tops lie below the fill point and \(\varepsilon=0.1\) allows 12; the multiplication matrix is about \(20412\times18144\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), within fflas-ffpack's range. Degree 7 needs 9 columns and allows at most 7 tops. Dense forms there have about 16 of the 24 cells, so any fixed weight bound of about 10 is met. For random dense product tops at these sizes, below the fill point, compute the defect of the Taylor span at degrees \(2h\) and \(2h+1\) exactly by ranks over \(\mathbb F_3\) (dense forms have no part multigrading, so the board must be small), with a family violating the weight condition (two forms differing in one cell) as the negative control. At these sizes the test informs but cannot decide an asymptotic statement with unspecified constants; the covering-obstruction selectors are a cheaper targeted check of the same conjecture.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the coarse-graining barrier and bounded-clusters entries, thm:taylor-propagation's adversarial paragraph, prop:covering-obstruction, prop:varying-shift-affine-fall with lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity and thm:generic-top-directness. No computation was run; the tests are the arguments given. A fresh-context reviewer tried to construct a counterexample (sunflower and cancellation families, hidden dependencies among many forms whose small subsets are dense) and found none; it checked every test bullet, the designed-family weight bound and the random-family estimate. It required five changes, all adopted: the weight condition is stated so that a vanishing combination violates it; the lineage from conj:large-support-taylor through thm:bounded-clusters is stated; the varying-shift bullet cites lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity; the random dense case is marked as conditional on the conjecture; and the test sizes are counted before any run. Its suggestion to name the covering-obstruction selectors as a cheaper check is adopted.

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Pseudorandom Taylor check: random dense tops \(L_0^2L_1\) are Taylor-generated at the first Koszul degree \(2h\) well below the fill point, but pairs already carry a non-Taylor syzygy at \(2h+1\) that does not vanish as the board widens from 16 to 20 cells. Evidence against conj:pseudorandom-taylor in its Taylor-only form when forms share their columns

27 September 2026 · Finite check (exact ranks) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pseudorandom-check. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pseudorandom Taylor check: random dense tops \(L_0^2L_1\) are Taylor-generated at the first Koszul degree \(2h\) well below the fill point, but pairs already carry a non-Taylor syzygy at \(2h+1\) that does not vanish as the board widens from 16 to 20 cells. Evidence against conj:pseudorandom-taylor in its Taylor-only form when forms share their columns”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-pseudorandom-check.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The pseudorandom Taylor entry conjectured that product-constraint tops whose small combinations of forms all have large support are Taylor-generated below the fill point, and proposed an exact test in the Koszul range with a one-cell-difference negative control.

General statement. The general claim tested is conj:pseudorandom-taylor. The check, ex:pseudorandom-taylor-check, computes for width \(k=1\) (tops \(\tau_b=L_{b,0}^2L_{b,1}\), \(h=3\)) the dimension of the top syzygies minus that of the span of the Frobenius syzygies \(L_{b,0}x\,e_b\), \(L_{b,1}^2x\,e_b\) and the Koszul pairs, exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\).

The computation

research/tools/pseudorandom_taylor_check.cpp builds the monomial algebra of an \(m\times N\) board (basis the sets of cells in distinct columns, squares zero), draws dense forms with independent uniform coefficients on all cells, and computes the rank of the multiplication map \(\bigoplus_b\tilde A_{s-3}\to\tilde A_s\) and of the Taylor generators with fflas-ffpack; small cases are recomputed with FLINT. A sample of 40 generators per family is checked to be syzygies. It also records the least support of a combination of at most two of the family's forms, the weight condition at \(t=2\). The negative control gives block 2 the forms of block 1 with one cell of column 0 added to each, so the tops agree outside that column and share no form. The outputs are in research/results/odd-prime-pseudorandom-check/.

Results

Sizing, 3 rows and 8 columns, degree 6: a single clause already has defect 13. The size proposed in the conjecture's entry was below the single-clause threshold: a multiplier of degree 3 blocks 3 of the 8 columns, leaving each form 5 columns, fewer than column Wilson's \(2e+2=8\). Those cases decide nothing. In the small cases (2 rows and 8 columns, 3 rows and 6 columns, one row at \(N=12\)) FLINT recomputed every rank and agreed with fflas.
One row (the square-free algebra on \(N\) cells, one cell per column; each random form uses about two thirds of the columns, so any two forms share most of theirs), degree \(2h=6\): defect 0 for 1, 4 and 8 tops at \(N=16\) (fill ratios 0.07, 0.28, 0.56) and for 10 tops at \(N=20\) (0.29). At 12 tops (0.84) the defect is 2, with a pair of forms whose combination has only 3 cells. The negative control has defect 89.
One row, degree \(2h+1=7\), \(N=16\): a single clause has defect 0, but 3 tops (fill 0.48) have 11 and 5 tops (0.80) have 22.
Two tops at degree 7, over board widths: defect 25 at \(N=12\) (above the fill point), 9 at \(N=14\), 1 and 9 at \(N=16\) (two seeds), 1 and 2 at \(N=18\), 1 at \(N=20\) (fill 0.125). Their least two-form supports are 5 to 9 cells, so they meet the weight condition for any \(c_2\le5/7\) (its constant is unspecified); the larger defects occur with the lower supports.

What it shows

At the first Koszul degree the conjecture's prediction holds for random dense families well below the fill point, including the fully shared columns of the one-row board.
At \(2h+1\) two random dense tops have a non-Taylor syzygy space of dimension 1 or 2 that does not decrease from \(N=18\) to \(N=20\), far below the fill point, while a single clause has none. This is the pair defect of the few-shared-columns check (every column shared), now for dense forms at sizes above the single-clause threshold. The designed theory explains why: its pair lemma needs each part to keep \(2(D-h)+2\) cells outside the shared columns, and dense forms keep none.
So conj:pseudorandom-taylor, whose weight condition does not see shared columns, is doubtful at \(2h+1\) in its Taylor-only form. The check cannot refute an asymptotic statement with unspecified constants, and it does not identify the extra syzygy: it may lie in the larger span of thm:based-taylor-glue, which would still give hardness, or be a genuine obstruction.

Outcome. ex:pseudorandom-taylor-check: Taylor generation holds at \(2h\) and fails at \(2h+1\) for pairs of random dense tops in shared columns, by a defect of 1 or 2 that persists up to \(N=20\). The series stops here: its question, whether the defect is a small-size effect, is answered as far as these widths go. The next question is what the extra syzygy is.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): identify the non-Taylor pair syzygy at \(2h+1\) by argument. Test first whether it comes from a linear relation in \(\tilde A_7\) among the products \(A^aB^bC^cD^d\) (exponents at most 2, sum 7) of the two tops' forms \(A,B,C,D\), which the complete intersection \(\mathbb F_3[A,B,C,D]/(A^3,\dots,D^3)\) does not have. Then decide whether it lies in thm:based-taylor-glue's larger span, and restate conj:pseudorandom-taylor with a condition on shared columns if it does not.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the conjecture's entry, thm:taylor-propagation's adversarial paragraph and the few-shared-columns finite check. A fresh-context reviewer checked the kernel line by line (codes and masks, the cancellation marker in the product, the tops, the map, the Frobenius generators, which vanish identically because \(L^3=0\) in this algebra, the Koszul signs, the sampled syzygy check, the weight computation and both control variants), matched every quoted number and FLINT flag against the saved outputs, and found the interpretation sound, including the single-clause comparison that attributes the degree-7 defect to the pair. No required changes; its suggestion to describe the one-row supports precisely is adopted.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	15 min 41.41 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 56.73 s
Computation design and coding	4 min 33.28 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 43.14 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 20.89 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	7.37 s

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Lift obstruction: when a board has no defect one degree down, adding a column changes the Taylor defect by an exact rule, the non-Taylor classes whose obstruction vanishes survive, and the obstruction is linear in the new cells' coefficients. For the dense pair defect at \(2h+1\) this turns persistence into one finite algebraic test; the defect is not spanned by products and divided powers of the two tops' forms

27 September 2026 · Working proof, with a finite check refuting one hypothesis · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pair-syzygy. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Lift obstruction: when a board has no defect one degree down, adding a column changes the Taylor defect by an exact rule, the non-Taylor classes whose obstruction vanishes survive, and the obstruction is linear in the new cells' coefficients. For the dense pair defect at \(2h+1\) this turns persistence into one finite algebraic test; the defect is not spanned by products and divided powers of the two tops' forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-lift-obstruction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The pseudorandom check found a non-Taylor pair syzygy at \(2h+1\) for random dense tops, of dimension 1 or 2 up to \(N=20\) cells, and proposed identifying it, first as a relation among products of the two tops' forms. Each width was a different random pair, so the data do not show whether one family's defect persists as its board grows. This cycle tests the product hypothesis and proves what governs persistence.

General statement. prop:lift-obstruction, over any field, in the setting of thm:taylor-propagation. Let \(R\) be the monomial algebra of a board, \(R'=R\otimes(\mathbb F\oplus V_c)\) the algebra after adjoining a column \(c\) with cells \(v\in c\) (\(V_c^2=0\)), and \(\tau'_b\in R'_h\) tops with restrictions \(\tau_b=\pi\tau'_b\); write \(\tau'_b=\tau_b+\sum_{v\in c}y_v\,\partial_v\tau'_b\) with \(\partial_v\tau'_b\in R_{h-1}\), and \(I_R=\sum_b\tau_bR\). Take the Frobenius elements to be lifts of those of \(R\), as in thm:taylor-propagation. If \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)=0\), then \[\operatorname{Def}_e(R')=\dim\ker\Bigl(\mathrm{ob}_c:\ \operatorname{Syz}_e(R)/T_e(R)\to\bigoplus_{v\in c}(R/I_R)_{e+h-1},\quad z\mapsto\Bigl(\sum_bz_b\,\partial_v\tau'_b\Bigr)_{v}\Bigr).\] For tops that are products of forms, \(\tau'_b=\prod_jL_{b,j}^{\,\epsilon_j}\), the obstruction at a cell \(v\) is \(\sum_{b,j}l_{b,j,v}\,\Phi_{b,j}(z)\) with \(\Phi_{b,j}(z)=z_b\,\epsilon_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j-1}\prod_{i\ne j}L_{b,i}^{\epsilon_i}\) (restricted to \(R\)), linear in the new coefficients \(l_{b,j,v}\). A class with every \(\Phi_{b,j}(z)\in I_R\) survives the added column whatever its coefficients; any other class survives the addition of a column whose cells carry independent uniform coefficients over \(\mathbb F_3\) with probability at most \(1/3\) (already at one of its cells).

prop:lift-obstruction

Proof. By thm:taylor-propagation, \(\pi:\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')\to\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)\) has kernel \(\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\otimes V_c\), and \(T_{e-1}(R)\otimes V_c\subseteq T_e(R')\).

Image. A lift of \(z\in\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)\) has the form \(z'=z+\sum_vy_vw_v\) with \(w_v\in R_{e-1}^B\). Since \(y_vy_{v'}=0\) for cells of one column, \(\sum_bz'_b\tau'_b=\sum_bz_b\tau_b+\sum_vy_v\bigl(\sum_bz_b\partial_v\tau'_b+\sum_bw_{v,b}\tau_b\bigr)\). The first sum is 0, and \(y_vx=0\) for \(x\in R\) only if \(x=0\). So \(z\) lifts if and only if \(\sum_bz_b\partial_v\tau'_b\in I_R\) for every \(v\in c\).
Taylor spans. \(\pi\) sends each generator of \(T_e(R')\) to a generator of \(T_e(R)\): a Frobenius element \(f'x\,e_b\) to \(f\,\pi(x)\,e_b\), a Koszul pair to the Koszul pair of the restrictions. Every generator of \(T_e(R)\) lifts. So \(\pi T_e(R')=T_e(R)\), and in particular \(\mathrm{ob}_c\) vanishes on \(T_e(R)\) and is defined on the quotient.
Count. If \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)=0\), then \(\ker\pi=T_{e-1}(R)\otimes V_c\subseteq T_e(R')\). Hence \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')/T_e(R')=\dim\pi\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')-\dim\pi T_e(R')=\dim\pi\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')/T_e(R)=\dim\ker\mathrm{ob}_c\).
Products. \(\partial_v\) is the coefficient of \(y_v\), a derivation on products of forms because \(y_v^2=0\), so \(\partial_v\prod_jL_j^{\epsilon_j}=\sum_j\epsilon_jl_{j,v}L_j^{\epsilon_j-1}\prod_{i\ne j}L_i^{\epsilon_i}\), restricted to \(R\). If some \(\Phi_{b,j}(z)\notin I_R\), the map \(l\mapsto\sum l_{b,j,v}\Phi_{b,j}(z)\bmod I_R\) is a nonzero linear map, so it vanishes on a proper subspace of coefficient vectors, of probability at most \(1/3\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). \(\square\)

This sharpens thm:taylor-propagation's bound \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')\le\operatorname{Def}_e(R)+m\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\) to an equality when the lower degree is clean, and identifies its slack, which that entry called the coupling, as the image of the obstruction map.

The pair defect at \(2h+1\)

For \(\tau=A^2B\), \(\sigma=C^2D\) on one row: the pseudorandom check measured the defect at \(2h=6\) as 0 for families of 1, 4 and 8 tops at \(N=16\) and 10 tops at \(N=20\), but not for pairs; that a pair's defect at \(2h\) vanishes on these boards is an extrapolation, to be checked. Where it holds, for a fixed pair on a growing board with random new cells, as long as the defect at \(2h\) stays 0 on the current board, the defect at \(2h+1=7\) never increases, and a class survives the addition of a cell only if its obstruction \(a_vz_\tau\cdot2AB+b_vz_\tau A^2+c_vz_\sigma\cdot2CD+d_vz_\sigma C^2\) lies in \((\tau,\sigma)\). It survives the next cell whatever its coefficients exactly when \(z_\tau AB,\ z_\tau A^2,\ z_\sigma CD,\ z_\sigma C^2\in(\tau,\sigma)\); otherwise it dies with probability at least \(2/3\).
Hypothesis refuted: research/tools/pair_syzygy_identify.cpp reproduced the defect-1 pair of the pseudorandom check (\(N=16\), seed 23: 1283 syzygies, Taylor rank 1282) and computed the syzygies whose two components lie in the span of the 39 degree-4 elements built from \(A,B,C,D\) with divided powers (products with exponents at most 2, \(X^{[3]}Y\), \(X^{[4]}\)). There are 50, all in the Taylor span (research/results/odd-prime-pair-syzygy/n16_seed23.txt). So no representative of the extra class has both components in that span. Whether the class needs individual cells, or elements of the four forms outside this span (for dense forms sharing their cells, divided powers of sums have cross terms the span may miss), is open.

Outcome. prop:lift-obstruction: under a clean lower degree, the defect after adding a column is exactly the number of non-Taylor classes with vanishing obstruction, and for product tops the obstruction is linear in the new coefficients. A dense pair class survives each added cell whatever its coefficients only if \(z_\tau AB,z_\tau A^2,z_\sigma CD,z_\sigma C^2\in(\tau,\sigma)\) on the current board; a class failing this at every step dies geometrically in the number of added cells. The extra class is not spanned by products and divided powers of the forms.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): for the defect-1 pair at \(N=16\), check that its defect at \(2h=6\) is 0, and compute the classes with \(z_\tau AB,z_\tau A^2,z_\sigma CD,z_\sigma C^2\in(\tau,\sigma)\). If there are none, the pair defect dies on a growing board and the check's persistence was an artefact of drawing a new pair at each width; if there are, they are universal syzygies to identify and to test against thm:based-taylor-glue's larger span.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:taylor-propagation (statement, exact sequence and its coupling remark) and the pseudorandom check. The claim search found no earlier exact version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the proof by direct computation (the lift criterion, \(\pi T_e(R')=T_e(R)\) under the stated lifting of Frobenius elements, the count, well-definedness), the derivation formula and the probability bound, the obstruction expression for \(A^2B\), \(C^2D\), and the exact reproduction of the defect-1 pair (same generator order and numbers). It required two changes, both adopted: the vanishing of the pair's defect at \(2h\) is marked as an extrapolation from families of other sizes, and the finite check's conclusion is limited to what it proves, that the extra class is not spanned by products and divided powers of the forms. Its suggestion to phrase the probability bound for a whole column is adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 36.07 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	8 min 10.87 s
Computation design and coding	3 min 59.09 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 4.71 s
Individually measured computation	19.96 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.44 s

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Defect decay: once a board has clean lower degrees and no universally liftable non-Taylor classes, both properties persist as columns are added, and each random column cuts \(3^{\operatorname{Def}}-1\) by a factor 3 in expectation. The one pair tested from the pseudorandom check has no universally liftable class, so on a growing board its defect vanishes with probability at least \(1-3^{-k}\) after \(k\) random cells; the check's persistence across widths can be an artefact of drawing a new pair at each width

27 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check of its hypothesis on one pair · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-universal-classes. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Defect decay: once a board has clean lower degrees and no universally liftable non-Taylor classes, both properties persist as columns are added, and each random column cuts \(3^{\operatorname{Def}}-1\) by a factor 3 in expectation. The one pair tested from the pseudorandom check has no universally liftable class, so on a growing board its defect vanishes with probability at least \(1-3^{-k}\) after \(k\) random cells; the check's persistence across widths can be an artefact of drawing a new pair at each width”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-defect-decay.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The lift obstruction reduced the persistence of the pair defect at \(2h+1\) on a growing board to a finite test: whether the defect-1 pair has non-Taylor classes \(z\) with \(z_\tau AB,z_\tau A^2,z_\sigma CD,z_\sigma C^2\in(\tau,\sigma)\). This cycle computes that, checks the lower degrees the proposition assumes, and proves what follows.

General statement. cor:defect-decay, in the setting of prop:lift-obstruction with product tops \(\tau_b=\prod_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j}\) and Frobenius elements lifted from the base. For a board \(R\) let \(W_0(R)\subseteq\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)\) be the syzygies with every \(\Phi_{b,j}(z)=z_b\epsilon_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j-1}\prod_{i\ne j}L_{b,i}^{\epsilon_i}\) in \(I_R\). Suppose \(\operatorname{Def}_{e'}(R)=0\) for all \(e'<e\) and \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\). Add columns one at a time, the new cells carrying independent uniform \(\mathbb F_3\) coefficients in every form, giving boards \(R=R_0\subset R_1\subset\dots\). Then for every \(k\): the defects below \(e\) vanish on \(R_k\); \(W_0(R_k)=T_e(R_k)\); and \[\mathbb E\bigl[3^{\operatorname{Def}_e(R_k)}-1\bigr]\le3^{-k}\bigl(3^{\operatorname{Def}_e(R)}-1\bigr),\qquad\Pr\bigl[\operatorname{Def}_e(R_k)>0\bigr]\le\tfrac12\,3^{-k}\bigl(3^{\operatorname{Def}_e(R)}-1\bigr).\]

cor:defect-decay

Proof. Let \(R'\) be \(R\) with one column added.

Lower degrees stay clean. thm:taylor-propagation gives \(\operatorname{Def}_{e'}(R')\le\operatorname{Def}_{e'}(R)+m\operatorname{Def}_{e'-1}(R)=0\) for \(e'<e\), with \(\operatorname{Def}_{-1}=0\).
No universally liftable classes, inherited. \(\Phi_{b,j}\) involves only the forms, and the restriction \(\pi\) is a ring homomorphism sending forms to forms, so \(\pi\Phi_{b,j}(z')=\Phi_{b,j}(\pi z')\) and \(\pi I_{R'}=I_R\). Hence \(\pi W_0(R')\subseteq W_0(R)=T_e(R)=\pi T_e(R')\) (prop:lift-obstruction), so \(W_0(R')\subseteq T_e(R')+\ker\pi\). Since \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)=0\), \(\ker\pi=T_{e-1}(R)\otimes V_c\subseteq T_e(R')\). So \(W_0(R')=T_e(R')\); the inclusion \(T_e(R')\subseteq W_0(R')\) holds because Taylor classes lift for every coefficient choice.
Decay. By prop:lift-obstruction, \(\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')/T_e(R')\) is isomorphic to \(K=\ker\mathrm{ob}_c\subseteq Q=\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)/T_e(R)\). A nonzero \(x\in Q\) is outside \(W_0(R)/T_e(R)=0\), so some \(\Phi_{b,j}(x)\notin I_R\), and by prop:lift-obstruction \(x\in K\) with probability at most \(1/3\) over the new coefficients (already at one cell of the column). Summing over the \(3^{\dim Q}-1\) nonzero elements, \(\mathbb E[|K|-1]\le(3^{\dim Q}-1)/3\), that is \(\mathbb E[3^{\operatorname{Def}_e(R')}-1]\le(3^{\operatorname{Def}_e(R)}-1)/3\).
Induction on \(k\), conditioning on the first \(k-1\) columns, gives the bound; and \(3^d-1\ge2\) for \(d>0\) gives the probability bound by Markov's inequality. \(\square\)

The defect-1 pair

research/tools/universal_pair_classes.cpp (FLINT, exact) reproduced the pair \(\tau=A^2B\), \(\sigma=C^2D\) on \(N=16\) cells of one row (seed 23 of the pseudorandom check; the same forms) and computed, for multiplier degrees \(e=2,3,4\): the defects are 0 at \(e=1,2,3\) and 1 at \(e=4\), and \(\dim W_0=\operatorname{rank}T_e\) at every \(e\) (at \(e=4\): 1282 and 1282, with \(\dim(W_0+T_4)=1282\)), so \(W_0=T_e\). The defect at \(e=0\) is 0 because the tops are independent: the \(e=2\) output reports \(\dim I=\dim(\tau S_1+\sigma S_1)=30\), while \(\dim\tau S_1\le15\) and \(\dim\sigma S_1\le15\) (the forms \(A\), \(C\) annihilate them), so both are 15 and the sum is direct, impossible if \(\sigma\) were a multiple of \(\tau\). The outputs are in research/results/odd-prime-universal-classes/. By cor:defect-decay, adding \(k\) cells with random coefficients to this pair leaves a defect at \(2h+1\) with probability at most \(3^{-k}\).

What it changes

The pseudorandom check read a defect of 1 or 2 persisting from \(N=18\) to \(20\) as evidence against conj:pseudorandom-taylor at \(2h+1\). Its pairs were drawn afresh at each width. A random pair on \(N\) cells has the law of a random pair on fewer cells extended by independent random columns, so its defect is that of its own growth chain. For the one pair tested, the defect decays geometrically along that chain. The other pairs of the check (the second seed at \(N=16\) with defect 9, and those at \(N=18\) and \(20\)) were not tested against the corollary's hypotheses. So the reading as evidence against the conjecture is withdrawn only for pairs whose base board satisfies the hypotheses; the check's data stand.
cor:defect-decay turns Taylor generation on large boards into a statement on one moderate board: clean lower degrees and \(W_0=T\). For random families it suggests a route to conj:pseudorandom-taylor: prove that a random family on some board of size polynomial in \(D\) has these properties with high probability, and let the decay handle the rest.

Outcome. cor:defect-decay: clean lower degrees and the absence of universally liftable classes are inherited under random column additions, and the Taylor defect then decays geometrically. The one pair tested from the pseudorandom check has no universally liftable class, so its defect is a finite-board effect that random growth removes.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review is due after this entry. It should weigh the decay route to conj:pseudorandom-taylor (a base board with clean lower degrees and \(W_0=T\), then random growth) against what W's dense core needs, since W's families are fixed, not random, and the structured half of the split is untouched.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:lift-obstruction and thm:taylor-propagation. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the four proof steps (clean lower degrees, inheritance of \(W_0=T\), the decay count, Markov), the kernel (the reduction modulo the ideal, the nullspace defining \(W_0\), the Taylor comparison) and every number against the outputs, including the cross-tool agreement with the earlier identification program. It required two changes, both adopted: the independence of the tops is derived from the printed \(\dim I\), and the claims about the check are limited to the one pair tested. Its remark that a random pair on \(N\) cells has exactly the law of its growth chain is added.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	11 min 25.16 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 2.66 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 8.63 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 42.91 s
Individually measured computation	29.76 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.19 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review of the dense-core split: support splits are barred, the coefficient split survives its tests, and defect decay handles random growth. For W's fixed families a surviving non-Taylor class must force a combination of forms supported on the base board, which settles classes on few tops; the obstacle is classes spread over many tops, whose forms are necessarily dependent

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-decay-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the dense-core split: support splits are barred, the coefficient split survives its tests, and defect decay handles random growth. For W's fixed families a surviving non-Taylor class must force a combination of forms supported on the base board, which settles classes on few tops; the obstacle is classes spread over many tops, whose forms are necessarily dependent”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-dense-split-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the designed completion review, five entries worked on A1's dense core: the coarse-graining barrier, pseudorandom Taylor, its check, the lift obstruction and defect decay. This review weighs them against W and chooses the next step.

The line's general claim

A split of the dense core by coefficients: conj:pseudorandom-taylor (families whose small combinations of forms have large support, below the fill point, are Taylor-generated) plus a structure statement for families with sparse relations. Recorded: support-level splits are impossible (prop:coarse-graining-barrier); the conjecture passes every recorded obstruction by argument and its exact check at \(2h\); the pair defect found at \(2h+1\) is, for the pair tested, a finite-board effect (prop:lift-obstruction, cor:defect-decay). The structure half is unattempted.

What the goal needs

W for every fixed family of \(n^K\) blocks at degree \(22k\). Defect decay uses random new columns; W's families are fixed and adversarial. What W needs from this line is a deterministic version: a finite certificate on a base board plus a condition on the forms off the base that no adversary can meet without creating sparse relations.

Falsification attempt: an adversary keeping a class alive

Take a base board \(R\) with clean lower degrees and \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\), and let an adversary choose the forms' coefficients on added columns to keep a non-Taylor class \(z\) alive. By prop:lift-obstruction, \(z\) survives a cell \(v\) only if the vector \(l_v\) of the forms' coefficients at \(v\) lies in \(K_0(z)=\{\kappa:\sum\kappa_{b,j}\Phi_{b,j}(z)\in I_R\}\), a proper subspace since \(z\notin W_0(R)\). The kernel only shrinks as the board grows. Along the chain \(R=R_0\subset R_1\subset\dots\) the restrictions compose to one ring homomorphism \(\pi:R_k\to R\), which sends the lifted class \(z_k\) to \(z\) (lift corrections involve new cells only), \(\Phi_{b,j}(z_k)\) to \(\Phi_{b,j}(z)\) and \(I_{R_k}\) onto \(I_R\); so a relation modulo \(I_{R_k}\) projects to one modulo \(I_R\). So a class alive on the full board has every added cell's coefficient vector in \(K_0(z)\), and any nonzero \(\mu\perp K_0(z)\) gives a combination \(\sum\mu_{b,j}L_{b,j}\) vanishing on every added cell, supported inside \(R\). The adversary must create a sparse relation among the forms of the tops in \(z\)'s support (the coordinates of other tops lie freely in \(K_0(z)\)). For the defect-1 pair on 16 cells this settles the question deterministically, provided no nonzero combination of its four forms is supported on those 16 cells after the board grows; that proviso holds exactly when the four forms restricted to the added cells are linearly independent. The attempt fails for classes on few tops. For a class spread over many tops, the combination involves many forms, and \(n^K\) blocks of forms in about \(n^2\) dimensions always have such combinations, so the argument gives nothing there.

Obstacle

Non-Taylor classes of W's dense families supported on many tops, whose forms are necessarily dependent off any base board, together with a certificate \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\) on a base board small enough to compute or prove yet large enough to hold \(n^K\) tops below its fill point. The fill point allows this: on one row, \(\dim\tilde A_{e+h}(R)/\dim\tilde A_e(R)=\binom{|R|}{e+h}/\binom{|R|}e\ge\bigl((|R|-e-h)/(e+h)\bigr)^h\), which exceeds \(n^K\) once \(|R|\) is a large enough constant multiple of \(D=e+h\), because \(h=\Theta(\log n)\) and \(D=O(h)\). The structured half of the split is also untouched.

Assessment of the route

Productive in method, weak toward W so far. The cycles produced an exact defect formula, an inheritance and decay theorem, and the observation that survival forces sparse relations, which is the first adversary-proof mechanism on the dense core. They did not touch classes on many tops, which are the whole difficulty for \(n^K\) blocks. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Subspace-evasive sets (Dvir and Lovett, Subspace evasive sets, STOC 2012). Target: the survival condition, which asks whether the added cells' coefficient vectors all lie in one proper subspace \(K_0(z)\). Answers. A deterministic set of vectors meeting every subspace in a family of proper subspaces kills every class; for fixed families this is the derandomization of defect decay. Test. Passed, and reduces to linear algebra: a set of vectors lies in no proper subspace exactly when it spans, so the condition is that the relevant forms are independent off the base, the condition found above. It adds no tool for classes on many tops, where spanning fails by dimension.
The Bayer–Stillman regularity criterion (Bayer and Stillman, A criterion for detecting m-regularity, Invent. Math. 87, 1987). Target: a degree-by-degree certificate on a base board. Answers. It detects regularity by successive colon ideals with generic linear forms, the shape of the obstruction kernels. Test. Falsified in direct form: adding a column is a tensor extension, and deleting one is the quotient by all its cells, not a generic linear form, and \(\mathbb F_3\) is finite.
Boij–Söderberg theory (Eisenbud and Schreyer, Betti numbers of graded modules and cohomology of vector bundles, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 22, 2009). Target: bounding the Taylor defect through Betti tables. Answers. Betti tables are positive combinations of pure diagrams, which would bound the non-Taylor part of the first syzygies. Test. Falsified: it concerns graded modules over a polynomial ring with finite resolutions, and the monomial algebra is not regular (its residue field has an infinite resolution), so the decomposition does not apply.

Absurd bridges

Stopping sets of LDPC codes under erasure decoding (Di, Proietti, Telatar, Richardson and Urbanke, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 48, 2002). Translation: non-Taylor classes as erased symbols, columns as checks that remove a class when their coefficients leave its kernel, defect decay as peeling. Answers. Peeling fails exactly on stopping sets; here a class survives only when the forms of its tops have a combination vanishing on all added cells, the analogue of a stopping set, and code design avoids small stopping sets through expansion. For W, the analogue would be a lower bound on how many tops a surviving class must involve. Test. Passed as a translation, by the falsification attempt above: survival forces a vanishing combination.
Soundness of the sum-check protocol (Lund, Fortnow, Karloff and Nisan, J. ACM 39, 1992). Translation: each random column is a challenge that exposes a non-Taylor class with probability at least \(2/3\), as a random evaluation exposes a false polynomial identity. Answers. Derandomized sum-check uses structured challenge sets; for W, the fixed columns are the challenges, and the question is whether they are rich enough. Test. Passed as a translation: cor:defect-decay's bound is this soundness bound, and the deterministic version is the spanning condition.

Bridge follow-up

The percolation bridge was developed in the coarse-graining barrier, which proved that support-level coarse-graining leaves a \(\delta^2\) fraction of a dense family in one group. Its coefficient-level successor is conj:pseudorandom-taylor, tracked on its own. Follow-up. Closed: the support form is barred by prop:coarse-graining-barrier.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove the deterministic survival lemma. If a base board has clean lower degrees and \(W_0=T_e\), a non-Taylor class survives on a larger board only if the forms of the tops in its support have a combination vanishing on every added cell. Then bound, for W's dense families, how many tops a class must involve before the forms of its tops can have such a combination.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the five entries summarized and the designed completion review's bridges. No computation was run; the tests are the arguments given. A fresh-context reviewer checked the falsification argument step by step against prop:lift-obstruction (including the composition of restrictions along the chain and the dualization to a combination supported on the base), the many-tops caveat, the fill-point order of magnitude, every citation and test, the follow-up and the next step, and found the review sound with no required changes. Its suggestions are adopted: the composition of restrictions is spelled out, and the pair's proviso is stated as a condition. Separately, the fill-point estimate is corrected to include the multiplier degree \(e\).

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Class survival: on any extension of a base board with clean lower degrees, a non-Taylor class survives only if every added cell's coefficient vector lies in one proper subspace fixed on the base. So the Taylor defect of a fixed family vanishes whenever, for every base class, the forms of the tops it involves are independent on the added cells, deterministically and against any choice of coefficients

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-survival-lemma. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Class survival: on any extension of a base board with clean lower degrees, a non-Taylor class survives only if every added cell's coefficient vector lies in one proper subspace fixed on the base. So the Taylor defect of a fixed family vanishes whenever, for every base class, the forms of the tops it involves are independent on the added cells, deterministically and against any choice of coefficients”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-class-survival.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The dense split review found that an adversary keeping a non-Taylor class alive on added columns must create a combination of forms supported on the base board, and proposed proving it as a lemma, then bounding how many tops a class must involve. This cycle proves the lemma with a deterministic vanishing criterion.

General statement. lem:class-survival, over \(\mathbb F_3\), in the setting of prop:lift-obstruction with product tops \(\tau_b=\prod_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j}\), \(\epsilon_j\in\{1,2\}\), and, on every board of the chain below, the Frobenius elements \(L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}\) of the same forms, so that each is a lift of its restriction and \(\pi T_e=T_e\) holds at every step. Let \(R\) be a board with \(\operatorname{Def}_{e'}(R)=0\) for \(e'<e\), and \(R^+\supseteq R\) a board obtained by adding columns in any order, with arbitrary coefficients on the new cells. For a class \(x\in Q=\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)/T_e(R)\) let \(K_0(x)=\{\kappa:\sum_{b,j}\kappa_{b,j}\Phi_{b,j}(x)\in I_R\}\) and \(S(x)=\{b:\Phi_{b,j}(x)\notin I_R\text{ for some }j\}\). Then:

restriction embeds \(\operatorname{Syz}_e(R^+)/T_e(R^+)\) into \(Q\), and the defects below \(e\) vanish on \(R^+\);
for every \(z^+\in\operatorname{Syz}_e(R^+)\), its restriction's class \(x\) has the forms' coefficient vector \(l_v\) at every added cell \(v\) in \(K_0(x)\);
hence, if \(x\notin W_0(R)/T_e(R)\), some combination \(\sum_{b\in S(x),j}\mu_{b,j}L_{b,j}\), \(\mu\ne0\), of the forms of the tops in \(S(x)\) vanishes on every added cell;
in particular \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R^+)=0\) if \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\) and, for every nonzero \(x\in Q\), the forms \(L_{b,j}\), \(b\in S(x)\), restricted to the added cells are linearly independent.

lem:class-survival

Proof. Write the extension as a chain \(R=R_0\subset R_1\subset\dots\subset R_k=R^+\), one column per step, and \(\pi_i:R_i\to R\) for the composed restrictions, ring homomorphisms sending forms to forms and \(I_{R_i}\) onto \(I_R\).

(1) By thm:taylor-propagation, \(\operatorname{Def}_{e'}(R_{i+1})\le\operatorname{Def}_{e'}(R_i)+m\operatorname{Def}_{e'-1}(R_i)\), so by induction on \(i\) and \(e'\) the defects below \(e\) vanish on every \(R_i\). Then prop:lift-obstruction identifies the classes of \(R_{i+1}\) with a subspace of those of \(R_i\) through restriction; composing gives the embedding.
Well-definedness. \(\Phi_{b,j}\) is linear, and for a Taylor syzygy \(t\) every \(\Phi_{b,j}(t)\in I_R\): Taylor syzygies lift for every coefficient choice, and by prop:lift-obstruction a class that lifts for all coefficients has each component in \(I_R\), taking unit coefficient vectors. So \(K_0\) and \(S\) depend only on the class. Directly: for a Frobenius generator \(L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}x\,e_b\), the component \(\Phi_{b,i}\) with \(i\ne j\) contains \(L_{b,j}^3=0\), and \(\Phi_{b,j}\) is \(x\epsilon_jL_{b,j}^2\prod_{l\ne j}L_{b,l}^{\epsilon_l}\), a multiple of \(\tau_b\); for a Koszul pair every component is a multiple of the other top.
(2) Let \(x_i\) be the class of \(\pi_{R_i}z^+\) on \(R_i\) (the restriction of \(z^+\) to \(R_i\)). It lifts from \(R_i\) to \(R_{i+1}\), so by prop:lift-obstruction \(\sum_{b,j}l_{b,j,v}\Phi_{b,j}(x_i)\in I_{R_i}\) for every cell \(v\) of the \((i+1)\)-th column. Applying \(\pi_i\), which sends \(x_i\) to \(x\) and \(\Phi_{b,j}(x_i)\) to \(\Phi_{b,j}(x)\), gives \(\sum l_{b,j,v}\Phi_{b,j}(x)\in I_R\), so \(l_v\in K_0(x)\).
(3) If \(x\notin W_0(R)/T_e(R)\), \(K_0(x)\) is a proper subspace, and it contains every coordinate \((b,j)\) with \(b\notin S(x)\). So a nonzero \(\mu\) vanishing on \(K_0(x)\) is supported on the coordinates of \(S(x)\), and \(\sum\mu_{b,j}l_{b,j,v}=0\) at every added cell \(v\) by (2). That is the vanishing of \(\sum\mu_{b,j}L_{b,j}\) at \(v\).
(4) If \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\), every nonzero \(x\) is outside \(W_0(R)/T_e(R)\), and independence of the forms of \(S(x)\) on the added cells rules out the combination in (3). So no nonzero class restricts from \(R^+\), and by (1) \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R^+)=0\). \(\square\)

The defect-1 pair

For \(\tau=A^2B\), \(\sigma=C^2D\) (seed 23 on 16 cells), the defect decay entry computed clean lower degrees, \(\operatorname{Def}_4=1\) and \(W_0=T_4\). The nonzero classes form one line, with \(S(x)\subseteq\{\tau,\sigma\}\). By (4), on any extension on which the four forms \(A,B,C,D\), restricted to the added cells, are linearly independent, the defect at \(2h+1\) is 0, whatever the added coefficients otherwise are. For instance, four added cells suffice exactly when the \(4\times4\) matrix of the four forms' coefficients on them is invertible over \(\mathbb F_3\); for uniform random coefficients that has probability \(\prod_{i=1}^4(1-3^{i-5})\approx0.56\).

What it gives for W

The criterion is local in the tops a class involves: a class dies on any extension where the forms of its tops are independent off the base. For a class involving \(s\) tops with \(k+1\) forms each, independence off a base of \(|R|\) cells is possible only if \(s(k+1)\le n^2-|R|\); for forms in general position it then holds, though W's forms need not be.
For W's \(n^K\) blocks this leaves classes on more than about \(n^2/(k+1)\) tops, and the certificate \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\) on a base board, which the dense split review showed can be as small as a constant multiple of \(D\) while holding \(n^K\) tops below its fill point. The next question is whether non-Taylor classes of the base board can be confined to few tops, the analogue at the base of thm:bounded-clusters' component bound.

Outcome. lem:class-survival: on any extension of a base board with clean lower degrees, a non-Taylor class survives only if the forms of its tops have a combination vanishing on every added cell, so independence of those forms off the base kills it, deterministically. The tested pair's defect at \(2h+1\) is 0 on every extension where its four forms are independent on the added cells.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): bound the number of tops a non-Taylor class of a base board can involve. Combine the lemma with thm:bounded-clusters' component decomposition: a class splits along components of the monomial-sharing graph, so test whether, on a base board holding a dense family, the classes of each component involve few tops, and what makes a component large.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:lift-obstruction, cor:defect-decay with its pair data, thm:taylor-propagation and the dense split review. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked (1) to (4), including the composed embedding, the well-definedness of \(K_0\) and \(S\), the projection in (2), the dual combination in (3) and the criterion in (4), and the application to the pair. It required two changes, both adopted: the Frobenius elements are fixed as the same powers of the same forms on every board of the chain, so that \(\pi T_e=T_e\) at each step, and the four-cell remark is made exact (an invertible coefficient matrix, with its probability for random coefficients). Its suggestions are adopted: (2) is stated for every syzygy, and general position of the forms is marked as an assumption W's forms need not meet. A direct check that Taylor syzygies have all components in \(I_R\) is added.

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Pair generation: in exact checks the non-Taylor top syzygies of random dense families at \(2h+1\) are all generated by pair syzygies, with triples adding nothing. If that holds, a family is Taylor-generated as soon as every pair is, and class survival makes a pair Taylor on any extension where its four forms are independent off a certified base; the many-tops obstacle would reduce to pairs

27 September 2026 · Conjecture with a proved reduction, and exact checks · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-class-support. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pair generation: in exact checks the non-Taylor top syzygies of random dense families at \(2h+1\) are all generated by pair syzygies, with triples adding nothing. If that holds, a family is Taylor-generated as soon as every pair is, and class survival makes a pair Taylor on any extension where its four forms are independent off a certified base; the many-tops obstacle would reduce to pairs”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-pair-generation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Class survival kills a non-Taylor class on any extension where the forms of the tops it involves are independent off the base, and so leaves classes on many tops, whose forms are dependent once they number more than about \(n^2\). It proposed bounding how many tops a class must involve. For dense families the component decomposition of thm:bounded-clusters gives nothing (prop:coarse-graining-barrier), so this cycle measures the question directly: are the non-Taylor classes generated by pairs?

General statement. conj:pair-generation, over \(\mathbb F_3\): for random dense product tops below the fill point, on boards large enough that single clauses are Taylor, every top syzygy in multiplier degree \(e\) is a sum of a Taylor syzygy and syzygies each supported on two slots, \(\operatorname{Syz}_e=T_e+\sum_{b<c}\operatorname{Syz}_e(\{b,c\})\). With it, cor:pairwise-reduction (proved, for any family and board): if \(\operatorname{Syz}_e=T_e+\sum_{b<c}\operatorname{Syz}_e(\{b,c\})\) and every pair \(\{\tau_b,\tau_c\}\) is Taylor-generated in multiplier degree \(e\), then the family is.

cor:pairwise-reduction

Proof. A syzygy of the family supported on the slots \(b,c\) is a syzygy of the pair \(\{\tau_b,\tau_c\}\). If the pair is Taylor-generated, it is a sum of Frobenius syzygies of \(\tau_b\) and \(\tau_c\) and multiples of their Koszul pair, all of which lie in the family's Taylor span \(T_e\). So \(\sum_{b<c}\operatorname{Syz}_e(\{b,c\})\subseteq T_e\), and \(\operatorname{Syz}_e=T_e\). \(\square\)

Combined with lem:class-survival applied to a pair: if a pair's restriction to a base board \(R\) has clean lower degrees and \(W_0=T_e\), the pair is Taylor-generated in multiplier degree \(e\) on every extension of \(R\) on which its four forms are independent off \(R\). So, on a board where pair generation holds, the family is Taylor-generated once every pair has such a base certificate and independent forms off it, a condition on four forms at a time rather than on the forms of many tops.

The checks

research/tools/pair_generation_check.cpp reproduces the families of the pseudorandom check (one row, the same generator and seeds) and computes, exactly with FLINT, \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}_e\), the rank of the Taylor span, and the rank of the Taylor span together with all pair syzygies (and all triple syzygies), each pair's syzygies found as the kernel of its own multiplication map. At \(N=16\), \(e=4\) (target degree \(2h+1=7\)): three tops (seed 17) have \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}=1955\), Taylor rank 1944, and Taylor plus pairs 1955; five tops (seed 18) have 3330, 3308, and 3330 with pairs, 3330 with triples. So all 11 and all 22 non-Taylor dimensions are generated by pairs (research/results/odd-prime-class-support/).

What it gives and what is open

For random dense families, the conjecture and the reduction together would turn A1's many-tops obstacle into two statements: pair generation on the full board, and a base certificate for each pair with its forms independent off the base. The second is a statement about four forms at a time, which general position gives.
Recorded structured obstructions are pair phenomena as well: tops agreeing outside one column, and two blocks on the same forms (prop:two-block-taylor-failure, in the setting of affine forms with constants), are pairs with a sparse relation between them, where class survival allows survival. This is an analogy across settings, not a corollary.
Open: whether pair generation persists as columns are added. A family syzygy restricts to a sum of a Taylor syzygy and pair syzygies on a smaller board, but the pair parts need not lift one by one, since only their sum's obstruction is known to vanish. And whether it holds for adversarial families: the checks are two random instances at one size.

Outcome. conj:pair-generation, supported by two exact random instances at one board size (\(N=16\)) in which pairs generate every non-Taylor class at \(2h+1\) and triples add nothing; cor:pairwise-reduction: under pair generation, Taylor generation of a family reduces to its pairs, which class survival handles when their forms are independent off a certified base.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove that pair generation is inherited under column additions, using prop:lift-obstruction for the family and for each pair: show that when a sum of pair classes lifts, the pair classes can be chosen to lift individually, or find the obstruction to this.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:class-survival, the pseudorandom check and prop:two-block-taylor-failure's source. The claim search found no earlier pair-generation result. A fresh-context reviewer checked the proof of cor:pairwise-reduction against the program's generators, the application of lem:class-survival to pairs, the program (same forms as the earlier check, kernels of the sub-maps embedded in the family's coordinates, Taylor generators) and every number, which match the earlier check's defects exactly, and found the entry sound with no required changes. Its suggestions are adopted: the board size is stated in the outcome, and the two-block parallel is marked as an analogy.

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Individually measured computation	4 min 23.72 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.30 s

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Relation avoidance: on any extension of a base board with clean lower degrees, the Taylor defect is at most the universally liftable part plus the dimension of the intersection of the classes' obstruction image with the relations of the forms supported on the base. A proposed separation of pair classes fails because pair classes overlap, and classes shared by two pairs are supported on a single top

27 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check refuting a separation hypothesis · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pair-inheritance. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relation avoidance: on any extension of a base board with clean lower degrees, the Taylor defect is at most the universally liftable part plus the dimension of the intersection of the classes' obstruction image with the relations of the forms supported on the base. A proposed separation of pair classes fails because pair classes overlap, and classes shared by two pairs are supported on a single top”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-relation-avoidance.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The pair generation entry proposed proving that pair generation persists as columns are added. Once pairs are Taylor on the full board, pair generation there is equivalent to Taylor generation of the family, so inheritance is the whole problem. This cycle looks instead for a condition on the base board that kills classes spread over many tops. It first tested a separation hypothesis (the obstruction spaces of different pairs independent modulo the ideal) and then proved the sharp form of class survival.

General statement. prop:relation-avoidance, over \(\mathbb F_3\), in the setting of lem:class-survival: product tops with forms \(L_{b,j}\), \(F\) forms in all, a base board \(R\) with \(\operatorname{Def}_{e'}(R)=0\) for \(e'<e\), \(Q=\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)/T_e(R)\), \(V=(R/I_R)_{e+h-1}\), and \(\Phi:Q\to\mathbb F_3^F\otimes V\), \(x\mapsto\sum_{b,j}e_{b,j}\otimes\Phi_{b,j}(x)\), well defined on classes (lem:class-survival). As in cor:defect-decay, \(W_0(R)\) is the space of syzygies with every \(\Phi_{b,j}\) in \(I_R\), so \(\ker\Phi=W_0(R)/T_e(R)\). For an extension \(R^+\) let \(\operatorname{Rel}\subseteq\mathbb F_3^F\) be the coefficient vectors \(\mu\) with \(\sum\mu_{b,j}L_{b,j}\) vanishing on every added cell (the relations among the forms supported inside \(R\)). Then \[\operatorname{Def}_e(R^+)\le\dim\bigl(W_0(R)/T_e(R)\bigr)+\dim\bigl(\Phi(Q)\cap(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V)\bigr).\] If \(\operatorname{Rel}=0\) this is lem:class-survival (4) with every top in the support.

prop:relation-avoidance

Proof. By lem:class-survival (1) and (2), the classes of \(R^+\) embed into \(Q\), and every class \(x\) in the image satisfies \(\sum_{b,j}l_{b,j,v}\Phi_{b,j}(x)\in I_R\) at every added cell \(v\). Let \(L\subseteq\mathbb F_3^F\) be the span of the coefficient vectors \(l_v\). Then \(\sum_{b,j}\kappa_{b,j}\Phi_{b,j}(x)=0\) in \(V\) for every \(\kappa\in L\), which says that \(\Phi(x)\) is annihilated by \(L\otimes V^*\), that is \(\Phi(x)\in L^\perp\otimes V\). And \(L^\perp=\operatorname{Rel}\): \(\mu\perp l_v\) for every added \(v\) exactly when \(\sum\mu_{b,j}L_{b,j}\) vanishes at every added cell. So the image lies in \(\Phi^{-1}(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V)\), whose dimension is \(\dim\ker\Phi+\dim(\Phi(Q)\cap(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V))\), and \(\ker\Phi=W_0(R)/T_e(R)\) by the definition of \(W_0\). \(\square\)

The separation test

research/tools/separated_survival_check.cpp computes, for the three-top family of the pair generation check (\(N=16\), seed 17, \(e=4\)), each pair's non-Taylor class space \(Q_p\) (the image of its syzygies in \(Q\)), the rank of \(\Phi\) on it, and the obstruction space \(V_p\) spanned by the components \(\Phi_{b,j}(y)\), \(b\in p\), modulo the ideal (research/results/odd-prime-pair-inheritance/m3.json). The family has \(\dim Q=11\), and pairs generate it. The pair spaces have dimensions 10, 1 and 11 (pairs \(\{0,1\},\{0,2\},\{1,2\}\)), so they overlap: \(Q_{12}=Q\) contains the other two. On each, \(\Phi\) is injective (ranks 10, 1, 11), so no pair class is universally liftable. The obstruction spaces have dimensions summing to 22 but spanning 11, so separation fails.

The overlap has a consequence. \(\Phi\) is well defined on classes, and a representative supported on the slots of a pair \(p\) has \(\Phi_{b,j}=0\) for \(b\notin p\). So a class lying in \(Q_p\cap Q_{p'}\) has every component outside \(p\cap p'\) in the ideal, and its support \(S(x)\) is at most one top. Its survival needs a relation between the two forms of that top alone, off the base. Here \(Q_{01}\) and \(Q_{02}\) lie inside \(Q_{12}\), so their classes are supported on top 1 and top 2 respectively. This instance is a special configuration, since one pair already spans all of \(Q\); whether pair spaces overlap in general, as proper subspaces, is not tested.

What it gives

prop:relation-avoidance is the sharp form of class survival. For W the question becomes whether the obstruction image \(\Phi(Q)\) of the base board's classes avoids \(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\), where \(\operatorname{Rel}\) has dimension at least \(F\) minus the number of added cells. A dimension count favours avoidance: when \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\), \(\Phi\) is injective and \(\Phi(Q)\) has dimension \(\dim Q\), and \(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\) has codimension \(\operatorname{rank}(L)\dim V\) in \(\mathbb F_3^F\otimes V\), with \(\operatorname{rank}L\) up to the number of added cells, about \(n^2\). An adversary can try to align them, and this is the precise form of the obstacle.
Separation of pair classes is refuted as a hypothesis on the smallest instance: there pair classes are shared between pairs, which shrinks their supports rather than enlarging them.

Outcome. prop:relation-avoidance: the defect on any extension is bounded by the universally liftable classes plus the part of the classes' obstruction image lying in the relations of the forms supported on the base. The separation hypothesis fails: pair class spaces overlap, and shared classes are supported on single tops.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): bound \(\dim(\Phi(Q)\cap(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V))\) for W's dense families. First find how the supports \(S(x)\) of the base classes are distributed in a family of many tops, since classes supported on few tops meet \(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\) only through relations among few forms, which the weight condition of conj:pseudorandom-taylor forbids.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:class-survival, prop:lift-obstruction, cor:defect-decay (the definition of \(W_0\)) and the pair generation entry. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the proof (the passage to \(L^\perp\otimes V\), \(L^\perp=\operatorname{Rel}\), the preimage dimension), the program's computation of \(Q_p\), of the injectivity test and of \(V_p\), every number against the output, and the support argument, and found the entry sound. It required three changes, all adopted: \(W_0\) is defined in the statement, the dimension count assumes \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\) explicitly, and the instance is marked as a special configuration in which one pair spans \(Q\).

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	10 min 7.11 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 2.65 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 1.29 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 19.27 s
Individually measured computation	42.41 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	1.49 s

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Stopping-set survival: a surviving non-Taylor class needs a relation among the forms of the tops it involves alone, vanishing off the base, so its support must be a stopping set; for random dense families every stopping set has about \(n^2/(K\log_3n)\) tops, so survivors on W's board must spread over that many tops

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-support-distribution. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Stopping-set survival: a surviving non-Taylor class needs a relation among the forms of the tops it involves alone, vanishing off the base, so its support must be a stopping set; for random dense families every stopping set has about \(n^2/(K\log_3n)\) tops, so survivors on W's board must spread over that many tops”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-stopping-set-survival.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). This cycle develops the stopping-set bridge of the dense split review: peeling decoders fail exactly on stopping sets, and expansion makes stopping sets large. Relation avoidance bounded the defect on an extension by the part of the classes' obstruction image lying in the relations of the forms supported on the base, and proposed finding how the supports of base classes are distributed. The bridge asks the dual question: how small can the support of a surviving class be?

General statement. prop:stopping-set-survival, over \(\mathbb F_3\), in the setting of prop:relation-avoidance. For a set \(S\) of tops let \(\operatorname{Rel}_S\) be the relations among the forms of the tops in \(S\) alone that vanish on every added cell. (1) The restriction \(x\) of every class of \(R^+\) satisfies \(\Phi(x)\in\operatorname{Rel}_{S(x)}\otimes V\); so if \(x\notin W_0(R)/T_e(R)\), then \(\operatorname{Rel}_{S(x)}\ne0\): the support is a stopping set. (2) If the forms of every set of at most \(s\) tops are linearly independent on the added cells, every nonzero class of \(R^+\) restricts to a class \(x\in W_0(R)/T_e(R)\) or to one with \(|S(x)|>s\). (3) If the forms' coefficients on \(N'\) added cells are independent and uniform over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(M\) tops of \(k+1\) forms each, the hypothesis of (2) fails with probability at most \(\sum_{j\le s}\binom Mj3^{(k+1)j-N'}\); for \(M=n^K\) and \(N'\approx n^2\) it holds with high probability for \(s\le n^2/(K\log_3n+k+1)\), up to lower-order terms.

prop:stopping-set-survival

Proof. (1) By the proof of prop:relation-avoidance, \(\Phi(x)\in\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\). Choose a basis \(v_1,\dots,v_d\) of \(V\) and write \(\Phi(x)=\sum_k\rho_k\otimes v_k\) with \(\rho_k\in\mathbb F_3^F\). Membership in \(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\) means every \(\rho_k\in\operatorname{Rel}\). By the definition of \(S(x)\), the components \(\Phi_{b,j}(x)\) vanish in \(V\) for \(b\notin S(x)\), so every \(\rho_k\) is supported on the coordinates of \(S(x)\). So each \(\rho_k\in\operatorname{Rel}\cap\mathbb F_3^{S(x)}\), which is \(\operatorname{Rel}_{S(x)}\) by definition: the relations of \(\operatorname{Rel}\) supported on the coordinates of \(S(x)\). If \(x\notin\ker\Phi=W_0(R)/T_e(R)\), some \(\rho_k\ne0\). (2) Independence of the forms of \(S(x)\) on the added cells means \(\operatorname{Rel}_{S(x)}=0\), which (1) excludes for \(|S(x)|\le s\). (3) For a fixed set \(S\) of \(j\) tops, the forms' coefficients on the added cells form a uniform \((k+1)j\times N'\) matrix over \(\mathbb F_3\); a fixed nonzero combination of its rows vanishes with probability \(3^{-N'}\), and there are fewer than \(3^{(k+1)j}\) combinations. The union over sets \(S\) of size at most \(s\) gives the bound, which is small when \(s(K\log_3n+k+1)\le N'-\omega(1)\), since the sum is dominated by \(j=s\) and \(\binom Mj\le M^j\). \(\square\)

What the bridge gives

The translation closely parallels erasure decoding: tops are variable nodes, added cells are checks, and a class survives only on a set of tops whose forms admit a relation invisible to every check. Classical stopping sets are a combinatorial condition on the Tanner graph (no check sees exactly one member); the condition here is a linear dependency over \(\mathbb F_3\), the algebraic analogue, and the name is used in that sense. Expansion of the random ensemble makes stopping sets large, as for random LDPC ensembles (Orlitsky, Viswanathan and Zhang, Stopping set distribution of LDPC code ensembles, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 51, 2005).
For W's random dense families on the full board, surviving classes of a base board must involve more than about \(n^2/(K\log_3n)\) tops. The recorded instances are far from this: in the three-top check every non-Taylor class has support within a pair, and in the five-top check pairs generate the classes, though sums of pair classes can have larger supports.
For adversarial families the deterministic hypothesis of (2) is a distance condition on the forms, stronger than conj:pseudorandom-taylor's weight condition, which bounds combinations of at most \(t=O(D/h)\) forms. If the base board has fewer than \(c_2D\) cells, a relation among the forms of \(S\) supported on it violates the weight condition once \((k+1)|S|\le t\), so survivors need more than \(t/(k+1)\) tops only.

Outcome. prop:stopping-set-survival: survivors need their supports to be stopping sets, sets of tops whose forms have a relation vanishing off the base; for random dense families these have about \(n^2/(K\log_3n)\) tops. The bridge is developed: it turns A1's dense core into a bound on how many tops a base class can involve.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): bound the supports of base classes. Show that on a base board below its fill point every non-Taylor class is a combination of classes supported on at most a bounded number of tops, and that a combination of such classes surviving an extension forces a stopping set among few tops, or find a class of large support.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:relation-avoidance, lem:class-survival (the definition of \(S(x)\)), conj:pseudorandom-taylor's weight condition and the dense split review's bridge. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked (1) to (3), the adversarial bound, the description of the recorded instances and the citation, and found the proof sound. It required one change, adopted: the analogy with LDPC stopping sets is stated as a parallel, since classical stopping sets are combinatorial and this condition is algebraic. Its suggestions are adopted: \(\operatorname{Rel}_{S(x)}\) is identified explicitly in the proof, and the slack in (3) is stated.

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Route review of the survival machinery: four entries reduce A1's dense core to relation avoidance, whether the base classes' obstruction image meets the relations of the forms supported on the base. For random families this is the recorded Fröberg-type question; for adversarial families the next test is an explicit attempt to align the two

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-base-supports. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the survival machinery: four entries reduce A1's dense core to relation avoidance, whether the base classes' obstruction image meets the relations of the forms supported on the base. For random families this is the recorded Fröberg-type question; for adversarial families the next test is an explicit attempt to align the two”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-survival-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the dense split review, four entries built deterministic survival tools: class survival, pair generation, relation avoidance and stopping-set survival. This review weighs them against W and chooses the next step.

The line's general claim

On any extension \(R^+\) of a base board \(R\) with clean lower degrees, the Taylor defect is at most \(\dim(W_0(R)/T_e(R))+\dim(\Phi(Q)\cap(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V))\) (prop:relation-avoidance), and a surviving class's support is a stopping set (prop:stopping-set-survival). Recorded supporting facts: in exact checks the base classes of random dense families are generated by pairs (conj:pair-generation), pair classes overlap and shared ones sit on single tops, and the tested pair has no universally liftable class.

What the goal needs

W for every family of \(n^K\) blocks: some base board with clean lower degrees and \(W_0=T_e\), and \(\Phi(Q)\cap(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V)=0\) for the full board, where \(\operatorname{Rel}\) is the space of relations among the forms supported on the base, of dimension at least \(F-n^2\), which is most of \(\mathbb F_3^F\) once \(F=n^K(k+1)\gg n^2\).

Falsification attempt: is the intersection forced by dimension?

If \(\dim\Phi(Q)>\operatorname{codim}(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V)\) the intersection is nonzero whatever the forms. The codimension is \(\operatorname{rank}(L)\dim V\), about \(n^2\dim V\) with \(V=(R/I_R)_{e+h-1}\), and \(\dim\Phi(Q)\le\dim Q\le M\dim\tilde A_e(R)\) (a bound introduced here: the syzygies lie in \(\tilde A_e(R)^M\)). Below the fill point \(M\dim\tilde A_e(R)\le\dim\tilde A_{e+h}(R)\), and, assuming \(\dim V\) is a positive fraction of \(\dim\tilde A_{e+h-1}(R)\) (an order-of-magnitude assumption, not proved), the ratio is at most about \(\dim\tilde A_{e+h}/(n^2\dim\tilde A_{e+h-1})\), about \(|R|/(Dn^2)\), below 1 unless the base has about \(n^2D\) cells. The intersection is not forced. An earlier estimate in this cycle, that a base holding \(n^K\) tops has more classes than the \(n^2\) added cells can kill, came from the factor-3 bound of cor:defect-decay, which counts one class per cell; the obstruction map of one cell can kill up to \(\dim V\) classes, so that estimate was wrong. The attempt fails; the question is alignment, not dimension.

Obstacle

Relation avoidance for adversarial families: whether an adversary can choose \(n^K\) blocks of forms so that the obstruction image of a base board's non-Taylor classes lies partly in \(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\), the relations among the forms that vanish off the base. For random families the same question is the recorded Fröberg-type conjectures (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, conj:maximal-generic-freeness), since the relations are then independent of the base.

Assessment of the route

Productive in precision, not yet in proof. The dense core is now one algebraic condition with a clear dimension margin. Nothing proves the condition for adversarial families, and the random case has returned to recorded conjectures. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Fröberg's conjecture on generic forms (R. Fröberg, An inequality for Hilbert series of graded algebras, Math. Scand. 56, 1985), with its exterior-algebra analogue (Moreno-Socías and Snellman, Some conjectures about the Hilbert series of generic ideals in the exterior algebra, Homology Homotopy Appl. 4, 2002). Target: the random case. Answers. Generic ideals have the expected Hilbert series for any number of generators, which in the monomial algebra is Taylor generation below the fill point; it is the random case of the obstacle. Test. Passed as a translation: the record already states it for this algebra as conj:maximal-generic-freeness and conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, both open, so it is a reformulation, not a tool.
The Lefschetz properties of the Boolean algebra (Stanley's hard Lefschetz argument for products of projective lines; Harima, Maeno, Morita, Numata, Wachi and Watanabe, The Lefschetz Properties, LNM 2080, 2013). Target: injectivity of multiplication by forms, which would control \(\ker\Phi\). Answers. Strong Lefschetz would make multiplication maps of maximal rank, bounding classes. Test. Falsified: over \(\mathbb F_3\) every linear form cubes to zero in this algebra, so multiplication by \(\ell^2\) followed by \(\ell\) is zero and strong Lefschetz fails from degree 3 on.
Dvir's polynomial method for finite-field Kakeya (Z. Dvir, On the size of Kakeya sets in finite fields, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 22, 2009). Target: the adversary's alignment. Answers. A low-degree polynomial vanishing on a set that contains many structured subsets must vanish identically; an adversary aligning \(\Phi(Q)\) with \(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\) creates many relations with structured supports, and a vanishing argument could show that forces a sparse relation. Test. Not run: it needs the alignment condition written as the vanishing of polynomials of controlled degree in the forms' coefficients, which requires first describing \(\Phi(Q)\) as a variety in those coefficients.

Absurd bridges

Compressed sensing and the restricted isometry property (Candès and Tao, Decoding by linear programming, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 51, 2005). Translation: \(\operatorname{Rel}\) is the null space of the forms' coefficient matrix off the base; survival needs obstruction coefficients \(\rho_k\) in that null space; the stopping-set bound says null vectors are not sparse. Answers. Restricted isometry makes every sparse vector far from the null space; for W it would say that coefficient vectors \(\rho_k\) supported on few tops are far from \(\operatorname{Rel}\), the stopping-set statement with a margin. Test. Passed as a translation: prop:stopping-set-survival's union bound is the finite-field form of the null space property for random matrices.
Game theory, the adversary as a player (von Neumann's minimax theorem). Translation: the adversary picks forms to align \(\Phi(Q)\) with \(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\), the prover picks the base board; the value of the game decides W's dense core. Answers. Minimax would let the prover randomize the base board, turning the adversary's fixed family into the random case against a random base. Test. Not run: the base board must satisfy \(W_0=T_e\) and clean lower degrees, which are properties of the fixed family, so a randomized base needs these to hold for most boards first.

Lead follow-up

Subspace-evasive sets reduced, in the dense split review, to spanning of the added cells' coefficient vectors, which prop:relation-avoidance now states exactly: survivors lie in \(\Phi^{-1}(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V)\). Follow-up. Closed: absorbed into prop:relation-avoidance, with no further tool for classes on many tops.

Bridge follow-up

The stopping-set bridge was developed in stopping-set survival: survivors' supports must be stopping sets, of about \(n^2/(K\log_3n)\) tops for random families. Follow-up. Closed: developed into prop:stopping-set-survival; the open part, bounding the supports of base classes, is the route's obstacle above.
The sum-check bridge's soundness bound is cor:defect-decay's factor 3 per cell, and its derandomization is the spanning condition, both now inside prop:relation-avoidance; this review found the factor-3 count too weak to decide anything by itself. Follow-up. Closed: its content is the relation-avoidance bound.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): attempt the adversary's alignment explicitly. Take a small base family with a known non-Taylor class \(x\) (the three-top family, whose classes sit on single tops and pairs), and try to choose forms off the base so that \(\Phi(x)\in\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\) while every combination of at most \(t\) forms keeps large support; then check whether \(x\) actually survives the extension (the condition is only necessary). Success would refute conj:pseudorandom-taylor; failure would show where alignment breaks.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the four entries reviewed, cor:defect-decay, conj:pseudorandom-taylor, conj:maximal-generic-freeness and conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base. No computation was run; the tests are the arguments given. A fresh-context reviewer checked the summary against the entries, the dimension count and the correction of the one-class-per-cell estimate, the reduction of the random case to the recorded conjectures, every citation and test (including the Lefschetz falsification through \((a+b)^3=a^3+b^3\)), the follow-ups and the next step, and found the review sound with no required changes. Its suggestions are adopted: the bound on \(\dim Q\) is marked as introduced here, and the size of \(V\) as an assumption.

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Row inflation: replacing each cell of a small board by a column occupancy keeps every non-Taylor top syzygy, so the recorded defect-1 pair on one row, inflated onto all rows, meets the weight condition of pseudorandom Taylor generation for every constant and is still not Taylor-generated at degree 7. The conjecture is refuted as stated; its weight must be counted in columns

27 September 2026 · Working proof and refutation · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-alignment-attempt. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Row inflation: replacing each cell of a small board by a column occupancy keeps every non-Taylor top syzygy, so the recorded defect-1 pair on one row, inflated onto all rows, meets the weight condition of pseudorandom Taylor generation for every constant and is still not Taylor-generated at degree 7. The conjecture is refuted as stated; its weight must be counted in columns”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-row-inflation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The survival review asked for an explicit attempt at the adversary's alignment: keep a known non-Taylor class alive on a larger board while every combination of a few forms has large support, which would refute conj:pseudorandom-taylor. By prop:stopping-set-survival, alignment by adding columns needs a combination of the class's forms supported on the base, which the weight condition forbids when the base is small. This cycle adds rows instead, inside the base's columns, where the column-addition machinery does not apply.

General statement. prop:row-inflation, over \(\mathbb F_3\). Write \(\tilde A(B)=\mathbb F_3[x_{ij}]/(x_{ij}^2,\ x_{ij}x_{i'j})\) for the monomial algebra of a board \(B\) (cells \((i,j)\), row \(i\), column \(j\), \(i\ne i'\)) and \(A(B)=\tilde A(B)/(R_i)\) for its weak top algebra, \(R_i=\sum_jx_{ij}\). Let \(R_0\) be a board with rows \(1,\dots,r\) and cells \(y_{\rho c}\), \(B\) a board, \(P_1,\dots,P_r\) disjoint nonempty sets of rows of \(B\), \(\varphi\) an injection from the columns of \(R_0\) to those of \(B\), and coefficients \(a_{i\rho c}\), for each cell not all zero over \(i\in P_\rho\). Put \(\psi(y_{\rho c})=\sum_{i\in P_\rho}a_{i\rho c}\,x_{i\varphi(c)}\).

\(\psi\) is a ring homomorphism \(\tilde A(R_0)\to\tilde A(B)\) with a left inverse \(\varrho\) (\(\varrho\psi=\mathrm{id}\)), a ring homomorphism that maps each variable to a multiple of a cell or to 0.
For product tops \(\tau_b=\prod_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j}\) on \(R_0\) (\(\epsilon_j\in\{1,2\}\)) and the inflated tops \(\psi(\tau_b)=\prod_j\psi(L_{b,j})^{\epsilon_j}\), \(\psi\) induces an injection of \(\operatorname{Syz}_e/T_e\) at every multiplier degree \(e\), where \(T_e\) is the span of the Frobenius syzygies \(L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}w\,e_b\) and the Koszul pairs \(w(\tau_ce_b-\tau_be_c)\). So the inflated family's Taylor defect is at least the original's in every degree.
If moreover every \(a_{i\rho c}=1\) and \(\varphi\) is a bijection, the same holds over the weak top algebras \(A(R_0)\to A(B)\).
If \(r=1\), \(P_1\) is every row of \(B\), every \(a=1\) and \(\varphi\) is a bijection, then \(\psi(\ell)=\sum_c\ell_c\sigma_{\varphi(c)}\) with \(\sigma_j=\sum_ix_{ij}\) the column occupancies, and a nonzero form \(\ell\) on \(R_0\) becomes a form with \(m|\operatorname{supp}\ell|\) cells on \(|\operatorname{supp}\ell|\) columns, \(m\) the number of rows of \(B\).

prop:row-inflation

Proof. (1) \(\tilde A(R_0)\) is the polynomial ring modulo \(y_{\rho c}^2\) and \(y_{\rho c}y_{\rho'c}\). Each \(\psi(y_{\rho c})\) is a combination of cells of the column \(\varphi(c)\), so \(\psi(y_{\rho c})^2\) and \(\psi(y_{\rho c})\psi(y_{\rho'c})\) are combinations of products of two cells of one column, which vanish in \(\tilde A(B)\). For each cell choose \(i(\rho,c)\in P_\rho\) with \(a=a_{i(\rho,c)\rho c}\ne0\), and let \(\varrho(x_{i(\rho,c)\varphi(c)})=a^{-1}y_{\rho c}\) and \(\varrho(x)=0\) for every other cell of \(B\). Two cells of \(B\) with nonzero images in one column \(\varphi(c)\) are \(x_{i(\rho,c)\varphi(c)}\) and \(x_{i(\rho',c)\varphi(c)}\) with \(\rho\ne\rho'\) (the \(P_\rho\) are disjoint), and their images multiply to a multiple of \(y_{\rho c}y_{\rho'c}=0\); squares go to squares. So \(\varrho\) is a ring homomorphism. In \(\varrho\psi(y_{\rho c})=\sum_{i\in P_\rho}a_{i\rho c}\varrho(x_{i\varphi(c)})\) the only nonzero term is \(i=i(\rho,c)\), since \(i(\rho',c)\in P_{\rho'}\) is outside \(P_\rho\) for \(\rho'\ne\rho\); it equals \(y_{\rho c}\).

(2) Apply \(\psi\) and \(\varrho\) coordinatewise to \(\bigoplus_b\tilde A\,e_b\). Since \(\varrho(\psi(\tau_b))=\tau_b\), both maps commute with \(z\mapsto\sum_bz_b\tau_b\) and its inflated version, so they map syzygies to syzygies, preserving the multiplier degree (both send degree 1 to degree 1). They map Taylor generators to Taylor generators: \(\psi(L^{3-\epsilon}w\,e_b)=\psi(L)^{3-\epsilon}\psi(w)e_b\), \(\varrho(\psi(L)^{3-\epsilon}w'e_b)=L^{3-\epsilon}\varrho(w')e_b\), and Koszul pairs go to Koszul pairs. So \(\psi\) and \(\varrho\) induce maps between the quotients \(\operatorname{Syz}_e/T_e\) whose composite \(\bar\varrho\bar\psi\) is the identity, and \(\bar\psi\) is injective.

(3) Choose \(i(\rho,c)=i_\rho\in P_\rho\) independent of \(c\). Then \(\psi(\sum_cy_{\rho c})=\sum_{i\in P_\rho}R_i\), and, since \(\varphi\) is a bijection, \(\varrho(R_i)\) is the row sum \(\sum_cy_{\rho c}\) of \(R_0\) when \(i=i_\rho\) for some \(\rho\), and 0 for every other row. So both maps preserve the ideals of row sums, descend to the weak top algebras with \(\varrho\psi=\mathrm{id}\), and (2) applies there verbatim.

(4) \(\psi(\ell)=\sum_c\ell_c\sum_ix_{i\varphi(c)}\); distinct \(c\) give disjoint cell sets. \(\square\)

The inflated pair

The pair \(\tau=A^2B\), \(\sigma=C^2D\) of ex:pseudorandom-taylor-check (one row, 16 cells, seed 23) has, over the monomial algebra of its 16 columns, defects 0 at multiplier degrees 0 to 3 and 1 at degree 4, total degree \(7=2h+1\) (cor:defect-decay's exact check). research/tools/pair_form_weights.cpp regenerates the four forms in the same draw order: they are linearly independent, and every nonzero combination is nonzero on at least 7 of the 16 cells (research/results/odd-prime-row-inflation/pair_form_weights.json).

One row with spare columns. Extend the forms by zero to \(N\ge29\) columns and let \(R_0\) be this one-row board. By lem:spare-column-transfer at degree threshold 7 (\(N-16\ge13=2\cdot7-1\); this threshold is unrelated to the conjecture's \(t\)), whose proof shows that the syzygy sequence over \(\tilde A(R_0)\) stays exact after reduction modulo the row sum \(R\) in degrees \(\le7\), the syzygies over \(A(R_0)\) there are \(K/RK\), with \(K\) the syzygies over \(\tilde A(R_0)\). Since the tops use only the 16 columns, \(K=K_{16}\otimes\tilde A_{\mathrm{rest}}\) and its Taylor part is \(T'=T_{16}\otimes\tilde A_{\mathrm{rest}}\), an \(\tilde A\)-submodule. In total degree 6 the defect vanishes, so \(K_6=T'_6\) and \(RK_6\subseteq T'_7\). Hence the defect over \(A(R_0)\) in total degree 7 is \(K_7/T'_7\), which is the 16-column defect in that degree tensored with \(\tilde A_{\mathrm{rest},0}\): dimension 1.

Inflation. By (3) and (4), on the weak unary board with \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns, the occupancy tops \(\psi(A)^2\psi(B)\) and \(\psi(C)^2\psi(D)\), with \(\psi(A)=\sum_cA_c\sigma_c\) and so on, have a non-Taylor top syzygy at multiplier degree 4 (total degree 7). They are the tops of the product constraints \(\chi(\psi(A))(\psi(B)-\kappa)\) and \(\chi(\psi(C))(\psi(D)-\kappa')\), \(k=1\), \(h=3\).

Against conj:pseudorandom-taylor. Take \(D=7\ge h\). (weight) Every nonzero combination of the four linear parts, of any size, is homogeneous and has at least \(7m\) cells, which is at least \(c_2D=7c_2\) whenever \(m\ge c_2\). (fill) The conjecture states it for the monomial algebra, where \(\dim\tilde A_s=m^s\binom Ns\) exactly. With \(M=2\) and \(s\le7\), \(M\dim\tilde A_{s-3}/\dim\tilde A_s=2\binom N{s-3}/(m^3\binom Ns)\le2\cdot\frac{23751}{1560780}\,m^{-3}<0.031\) for \(N\ge29\) (the ratio is largest at \(s=7\), \(N=29\)); it vanishes for \(s<3\). The same holds for the weak top algebra: \(\dim A_s\ge m^s\bigl(\binom Ns-\binom N{s-1}\bigr)\ge\frac{16}{23}m^s\binom Ns\) there, so \(M\dim A_{s-3}\le0.05\dim A_s\). The conclusion fails at degree 7. So for any constants \(c_1,c_2\), the conjecture fails at every \(n\ge\max(29,c_2)\) on the weak base with \(m=n+1\) rows and \(N=n\) columns: refuted as stated.

What it shows

The weight condition counted cells, and row inflation multiplies cells by \(m\) while keeping columns. Every structure the conjecture excluded (two forms differing in one column, shared forms, one-cell members, small forms) is already small in columns. The column count is invariant under inflation.
The alignment the review asked for succeeds, but not in the framework it named: the class survives because the added cells lie in the base's own columns, where \(x_{1c}x_{ic}=0\) breaks the tensor structure that prop:lift-obstruction and prop:stopping-set-survival use. In column terms the inflated family lives on 16 columns, so it violates any column-counted weight condition with \(c_2D>16\).
The inflated tops are column statistics, which the record handles for W by freezing in W's parameter range (thm:column-sparse-w), not by Taylor generation. So the refutation does not touch W; it removes one route to its dense core. It also answers, for pairs, the question left open in conj:pseudorandom-taylor's test of prop:covering-obstruction: occupancy tops need not be Taylor-generated, and by (3) they inherit every one-row defect. Part (3) is the Taylor-defect form of the column-subalgebra model used in ex:occupancy-pair-model-scaling, here with a retraction proving that the model embeds.

Repair. conj:column-weight-taylor: conj:pseudorandom-taylor with the weight condition counted in columns: every nonzero combination of at most \(t=\lceil c_1D/h\rceil\) linear parts, modulo constants, has a nonzero coefficient in at least \(c_2D\) columns. The inflated pair has column weight 7 at \(D=7\), so the repair needs \(c_2>1\). Each structure excluded in the original entry's tests is small in columns, so those tests carry over. Random dense families and the designed families of thm:bounded-clusters are expected to meet the column condition (random combinations are nonzero on about \(\tfrac23n\) columns; designed forms use distinct columns), but this is not recomputed here. It is a conjecture, tested only by these arguments.

Outcome. prop:row-inflation: substituting occupancies of disjoint row blocks for the cells of a small board is a ring homomorphism with a left inverse, so Taylor defects can only grow. Inflating the recorded defect-1 pair refutes conj:pseudorandom-taylor for every choice of constants; conj:column-weight-taylor replaces it, with weight counted in columns and \(c_2>1\).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): with weights counted in columns, the survival machinery applies unchanged (it adds columns). Its obstacle is a class of a base board whose obstruction space \(P(x)\), the span of the coefficient vectors \(\rho_k\) with \(\Phi(x)=\sum_k\rho_k\otimes v_k\), has no vector supported on few forms. Compute \(P(x)\) and its least weight for the classes of the recorded three- and five-top families, and prove the bound that the data suggest: either every class forces a relation among few forms, which the column-weight condition forbids off a base of fewer than \(c_2D\) columns, or a class has large least weight, which is the adversary's candidate to build explicitly.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:spare-column-transfer (statement and proof, for the exactness after reduction modulo the row sums), conj:pseudorandom-taylor's exact hypotheses, cor:defect-decay's defects of the seed-23 pair, prop:stopping-set-survival, thm:column-sparse-w and ex:occupancy-pair-model-scaling. The claim search found no earlier version; the nearest records treat the column subalgebra as a summand, not the retraction. A fresh-context reviewer checked (1) to (4) generator by generator, rederived the one-row defect in total degree 7 from the transfer lemma, checked the constants at their extremal case, confirmed that research/tools/pair_form_weights.cpp uses the same draw order as the tool that found the pair, and checked the quantifiers of the refutation. It required one change, adopted: the fill condition is verified in the monomial algebra, where the conjecture states it (the weak-algebra bound is kept as a remark). Its suggestions are adopted: the row sums' images under \(\varrho\) are stated exactly, the transfer threshold is distinguished from the conjecture's \(t\), exact fractions are given, and the repair's coverage of random and designed families is marked as an expectation.

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Split obstructions: when the obstruction image of a base board's classes splits into rank-one pieces with independent values, a class survives an extension only if one of the pieces' form combinations vanishes off the base. In all three recorded families it splits, with every piece a combination of at most two forms, so under a column-weight condition every class outside the universally liftable part dies; near the fill point that part is large

27 September 2026 · Working proof, with an exact check and a conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-obstruction-weights. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Split obstructions: when the obstruction image of a base board's classes splits into rank-one pieces with independent values, a class survives an extension only if one of the pieces' form combinations vanishes off the base. In all three recorded families it splits, with every piece a combination of at most two forms, so under a column-weight condition every class outside the universally liftable part dies; near the fill point that part is large”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-split-obstructions.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Row inflation moved the weight condition to columns and proposed computing the obstruction spaces \(P(x)\) of recorded base classes and their least weight. By prop:relation-avoidance a class \(x\) survives an extension only if \(P(x)\subseteq\operatorname{Rel}\), the relations among the forms that vanish on every added cell. Under conj:column-weight-taylor's weight condition, a base of fewer than \(c_2D\) columns has no relation among at most \(t\) forms, so a class dies as soon as \(P(x)\) contains a vector of weight at most \(t\). This cycle measures \(P(x)\) and proves the bound its structure gives.

General statement. prop:split-obstruction-bound, over \(\mathbb F_3\), in the setting of prop:relation-avoidance (base board \(R\) with \(\operatorname{Def}_{e'}(R)=0\) for \(e'<e\), \(Q=\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)/T_e(R)\), \(\Phi:Q\to\mathbb F_3^F\otimes V\), \(\ker\Phi=W_0(R)/T_e(R)\)). Suppose \(\Phi(Q)=\bigoplus_i\mu_i\otimes W_i\) for nonzero vectors \(\mu_1,\dots,\mu_s\in\mathbb F_3^F\) and subspaces \(W_i\subseteq V\) such that \(W_1+\dots+W_s\) is a direct sum in \(V\) (a stronger condition than independence of the tensors \(\mu_i\otimes W_i\), which linear independence of the \(\mu_i\) already gives). Then for every extension \(R^+\) \[\operatorname{Def}_e(R^+)\le\dim\bigl(W_0(R)/T_e(R)\bigr)+\sum_{i:\ \mu_i\in\operatorname{Rel}}\dim W_i.\] In particular, if every \(\mu_i\) has weight at most \(t\) and every nonzero combination of at most \(t\) forms is nonzero on some column outside \(R\) (as under the column-weight condition when \(R\) has fewer than \(c_2D\) columns), then \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R^+)\le\dim(W_0(R)/T_e(R))\).

prop:split-obstruction-bound

Proof. Let \(x\) be the restriction of a class of \(R^+\). By the proof of prop:relation-avoidance, \(\Phi(x)\in\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\). Write \(\Phi(x)=\sum_i\mu_i\otimes w_i\) with \(w_i\in W_i\). Since the sum of the \(W_i\) is direct, there are projections \(\pi_i:V\to V\) with \(\pi_i(w_j)=\delta_{ij}w_j\) for \(w_j\in W_j\). Applying \(\mathrm{id}\otimes\pi_i\), which maps \(\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\) into itself, gives \(\mu_i\otimes w_i\in\operatorname{Rel}\otimes V\), so \(w_i=0\) or \(\mu_i\in\operatorname{Rel}\). Hence \(\Phi(x)\) lies in \(\bigoplus_{\mu_i\in\operatorname{Rel}}\mu_i\otimes W_i\), and the classes of \(R^+\), which embed into \(Q\) (lem:class-survival), lie in the preimage of that space, of dimension \(\dim\ker\Phi+\sum_{\mu_i\in\operatorname{Rel}}\dim W_i\). For the last sentence: \(\mu_i\in\operatorname{Rel}\) means \(\sum_f\mu_{i,f}L_f\) vanishes on every added cell, so on every column outside \(R\); a combination of at most \(t\) forms cannot do that. \(\square\)

In the language of prop:stopping-set-survival: under a split, \(P(x)=\operatorname{span}\{\mu_i:w_i\ne0\}\), so the relation a survivor needs is one of the \(\mu_i\), and its weight is that of \(\mu_i\), however many tops \(x\) involves.

The recorded families

research/tools/obstruction_space_check.cpp recomputes, for random dense tops \(L_0^2L_1\) on one row of 16 cells at multiplier degree \(e=4\) (total degree 7), the classes \(Q\), the components \(\Phi_{b,j}\) modulo \(I_R\), the rank of \(\Phi\), the span \(W\) of all components, and, for every nonzero \(\mu\in\mathbb F_3^{2M}\) up to sign, the dimension of \(R(\mu)=\{x:\Phi(x)\in\mu\otimes V\}\) beyond \(\ker\Phi\). It reproduces the recorded values (\(\operatorname{rank}\Phi=\dim Q\) and \(\dim W=11\) for the three-top family, \(W_0=T\) for the pair). Results (research/results/odd-prime-obstruction-spaces/cases.jsonl):

Family	Fill \(M\dim S_4/\dim S_7\)	\(\dim Q\)	\(\operatorname{rank}\Phi\)	Rank-one pieces \(\mu\) (dimension)
pair, seed 23	0.32	1	1	\(L_{0,0}\) (1)
three tops, seed 17	0.48	11	11	\(L_{1,0}+L_{1,1}\) (9), \(2L_{1,0}+L_{1,1}\) (1), \(L_{2,0}\) (1)
five tops, seed 18	0.80	22	2	\(2L_{0,0}+L_{0,1}\) (1), \(2L_{1,0}+L_{3,0}\) (1)

In each family the directions \(\mu_i\) are linearly independent, so with \(W_i=\{w:\mu_i\otimes w\in\Phi(Q)\}\) the sum of the \(\mu_i\otimes W_i\) is direct; its dimension, the sum of the piece dimensions, equals \(\operatorname{rank}\Phi\), so it is \(\Phi(Q)\). Every component of every class then lies in \(\sum W_i\), so \(\sum W_i=W\), and \(\dim W=\operatorname{rank}\Phi=\sum\dim W_i\) makes that sum direct: the split holds. Every \(\mu_i\) has weight 1 or 2, and all but one lie in the forms of a single top. Over all \(3^{11}\) classes of the three-top family, \(P(x)\) has dimension 1 to 3 and least weight 1 or 2 (least weight computed on the first 20000 classes); over 20000 random classes of the five-top family, least weight 2. So in these families every class outside \(W_0/T\) dies on any extension on which no combination of two forms vanishes off the base.

The five-top family is near its fill point, and there \(\ker\Phi\) has dimension 20 of 22: most of its classes are universally liftable over one column, and the bound says nothing about them. Whether they survive further columns is not decided by prop:lift-obstruction, since cor:defect-decay's inheritance needs \(W_0=T\).

Conjecture

conj:split-obstructions: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for random dense product tops on a board \(R\) with clean lower degrees and fill ratio \(M\dim\tilde A_e(R)/\dim\tilde A_{e+h}(R)\le\frac12\), with high probability \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\) and \(\Phi(Q)\) splits into rank-one pieces whose directions have weight at most 2. With prop:split-obstruction-bound and the column-weight condition at \(t\ge2\), it would give Taylor generation in degree \(e\) on every extension of such a base of fewer than \(c_2D\) columns. Evidence: one seed at each of three sizes, too few for a probability statement; the two families below ratio \(\frac12\) satisfy it, and the family at 0.80 splits but has \(W_0\ne T\). It is stated for random families only; for adversarial families both parts are open, and the ratio \(\frac12\) is a guess between the tested values.

Outcome. prop:split-obstruction-bound: if the obstruction image splits into rank-one pieces with independent values, survival needs one piece's form combination to vanish off the base, whatever the class's support. The three recorded families split, with pieces of weight at most 2; the five-top family, near its fill point, has 20 universally liftable classes. What stands between these data and a base-local certificate is the universally liftable part \(W_0/T\) and the split itself, conjectured for random families below half the fill point.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): explain the split. Each piece \(\mu\otimes W\) is a family of classes that lifts over exactly the cells on which a fixed combination of one or two forms vanishes; identify that mechanism, for instance a sub-board on which the combination \(\sum\mu_fL_f\) is short and its tops acquire extra syzygies, and prove the split from it. That would also bound the universally liftable part.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:relation-avoidance, lem:class-survival, prop:stopping-set-survival and conj:column-weight-taylor. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the proof (the projections, which need the sum of the \(W_i\) direct in \(V\), the preimage count and the column-weight consequence), checked the kernel against the definitions of the components, the quotient degree and the rank-one scan, checked every number and every decoded direction against the output, and confirmed that the kernel reproduces the earlier three-top and pair results exactly. It found the entry sound with no required changes. Its suggestions are adopted: the direct-sum hypothesis is stated explicitly, and the conjecture's evidence is marked as one seed per size.

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Route review of the split-obstruction line: row inflation moved the weight condition to columns, and split obstructions reduce random bases to two local certificates, a rank-one split and no universally liftable classes. Every piece of evidence is random, one-row and on one board size (16 cells, one seed per family size), while A1 is adversarial; the line sits two reductions below A1 and is placed on the list as a sub-statement of A1's dense core

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-split-mechanism. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the split-obstruction line: row inflation moved the weight condition to columns, and split obstructions reduce random bases to two local certificates, a rank-one split and no universally liftable classes. Every piece of evidence is random, one-row and on one board size (16 cells, one seed per family size), while A1 is adversarial; the line sits two reductions below A1 and is placed on the list as a sub-statement of A1's dense core”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-split-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the survival review, two entries: row inflation refuted conj:pseudorandom-taylor and replaced it by conj:column-weight-taylor, and split obstructions proved that a rank-one split of the obstruction image makes survival need one low-weight relation. The line now runs A1, dense core, column-weight Taylor generation, relation avoidance, split and \(W_0=T\) on a base: more than one reduction below the listed statements, so this cycle is a review that places it.

The line's general claim

For a family whose linear parts satisfy a column-weight condition, Taylor generation in multiplier degree \(e\) on the full board follows from three properties of one base board \(R\) of fewer than \(c_2D\) columns: clean lower degrees, \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\), and a rank-one split of \(\Phi(Q)\) whose directions have weight at most \(t\) (lem:class-survival, prop:relation-avoidance, prop:split-obstruction-bound). conj:split-obstructions asserts the last two for random dense tops below half the fill point.

What the goal needs

A1 needs W for every family of \(n^K\) blocks. Taylor generation is sufficient, not necessary: row inflation gives column-statistic families that fail it while W holds for them by freezing (thm:column-sparse-w). So the Taylor line can only cover families with large column weight, and the rest must go to the structure side: families with a combination of at most \(t\) forms on fewer than \(c_2D\) columns, which the recorded column-local results cover only under random prefixes (cor:random-prefix-sparse-column-families) or for single blocks.

Falsification attempt: do the certificates exist for adversarial families?

The adversary chooses the forms; the prover chooses the base. Row inflation shows the adversary can carry any one-row defect onto the full board, but only at small column weight. With large column weight, an adversarial counterexample to the line needs a base class whose split has a direction of weight above \(t\), or a universally liftable class on every admissible base. The five-top family shows the second happens near the fill point (20 of 22 classes). For W's parameters a base of \(b\) columns and all \(n\) rows has fill ratio about \(n^{K-h}\binom be/\binom b{e+h}\), tiny since \(h\approx2k\gg K\), so near-fill bases are avoidable; but for families whose forms are column statistics the effective algebra is one row, with ratio \(n^K\binom be/\binom b{e+h}\), which a base of \(O(D)\) columns need not make small. The attempt does not produce a counterexample; it shows the line's evidence (one row, 16 cells, one seed per size, random) does not reach the adversarial case at all.

Obstacle

No mechanism is known that bounds the universally liftable part \(W_0/T\) or forces a split with low-weight directions for adversarial families of large column weight. Both certificates are measured, not explained, and only on random one-row families.

Assessment of the route

Productive in precision: one refutation corrected the split's weight to columns, and the survival conditions are now two base-local properties. Not productive toward A1 yet: the certificates are random-case statements, which the record already reduces to Fröberg-type conjectures, and nothing addresses adversarial forms. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Macaulay's inverse systems and colon ideals (F. S. Macaulay, The Algebraic Theory of Modular Systems, 1916; Iarrobino and Kanev, Power Sums, Gorenstein Algebras, and Determinantal Loci, LNM 1721, 1999). Target: the split's pieces. Answers. Colon quotients \((I:\mathfrak m_S)/I\) are dual to the part of the inverse system killed by the cells of \(S\); if each piece \(\mu\otimes W\) is forced into such a colon for \(S\) the support of its combination \(\ell_\mu=\sum_f\mu_fL_f\), dense directions have small pieces. Test. Passed: the cell derivations \(\delta_i=y_i\partial/\partial y_i\) (on several rows \(x_{ic}\partial/\partial x_{ic}\)) preserve the monomial relations, and applying \(\delta_i\) to \(\sum_bz_b\tau_b=0\) gives \(\sum_b\delta_i(z_b)\tau_b+y_i\sum_{b,j}l_{b,j,i}\Phi_{b,j}(z)=0\), so \(y_i\cdot\mathrm{ob}_{l_i}(x)\in I_R\) for every cell \(i\) of \(R\), where \(\mathrm{ob}_{l_i}\) is the obstruction of a new cell with the coefficients of cell \(i\). For a piece \(\mu\otimes w\) this gives \((\mu\cdot l_i)\,y_iw\in I_R\), so \(W_\mu\subseteq\bigcap_{i\in\operatorname{supp}\ell_\mu}(I_R:y_i)/I_R\).
Green's hyperplane restriction theorem (M. Green, Restrictions of linear series to hyperplanes, and some results of Macaulay and Gotzmann, LNM 1389, 1989) with its square-free analogue through the Clements–Lindström theorem (Clements and Lindström, A generalization of a combinatorial theorem of Macaulay, J. Combin. Theory 7, 1969). Target: \(W_0/T\). Answers. Universally liftable classes are those whose components all lie in \(I_R\); a Macaulay-type bound on how fast \((I:y_i)/I\) can grow in a square-free algebra would bound them by the Hilbert function of \(R/I_R\), which below the fill point is close to the generic one. Test. Not run: the bound needs the components' membership in \(I\) translated into a Hilbert-function inequality, which this cycle did not formulate.
The Kruskal–Katona and Clements–Lindström extremal ideals as an adversary model. Target: adversarial families. Answers. Lex-segment ideals have the largest colon quotients for a given Hilbert function; if an adversary's best family for a large \(W_0/T\) must make \(I_R\) lex-like on the base, the column-weight condition (dense forms) may exclude it. Test. Falsified in its direct form: the tops are products of dense forms, whose ideal is never a monomial lex ideal, and the extremal statement for Hilbert functions says nothing about which ideals attain them among ideals generated by products of forms.

Absurd bridges

Random XORSAT and its core (Dubois and Mandler, The 3-XORSAT threshold, FOCS 2002; Mézard, Ricci-Tersenghi and Zecchina, Two solutions to diluted p-spin models and XORSAT problems, J. Stat. Phys. 111, 2003). Translation: classes are solutions of a random linear system in the multipliers; universally liftable classes are frozen, surviving every added constraint of one column; the fill point is the satisfiability threshold. Answers. In random XORSAT a core, and with it frozen variables, appears at a density strictly below the satisfiability threshold; the translation predicts that \(W_0\ne T\) appears at a fill ratio strictly below 1 and gives a peeling algorithm to compute where. Test. Not run: the translation needs a hypergraph whose 2-core corresponds to \(W_0/T\), and the multipliers' constraints are not sparse, so no core is defined yet.
Quantum stabilizer codes and the Knill–Laflamme conditions (Knill and Laflamme, Theory of quantum error-correcting codes, Phys. Rev. A 55, 1997). Translation: forms are error operators, \(\operatorname{Rel}\) is the group of undetectable errors, pieces \(\mu\) are logical operators, and the column weight is the code distance. Answers. Knill–Laflamme says errors below the distance are correctable exactly when they act trivially on the code space; in the translation, a survivor is a logical operator, and the split says logical operators have weight at most 2, so a distance above 2 leaves no survivors outside \(W_0/T\). Test. Passed as a translation: prop:split-obstruction-bound is exactly this statement; it adds no mechanism for the split itself.

Lead follow-up

Fröberg's conjecture as the random case: conj:split-obstructions is now its local form, two base-local properties of random dense tops below half the fill point, with exact data at one size. Follow-up. Continuing: it names what a Fröberg-type statement must give, but is no nearer a proof.

Bridge follow-up

The compressed-sensing bridge asked for a null-space property of \(\operatorname{Rel}\) against sparse coefficient vectors. Under a split, the vectors to avoid are the directions \(\mu_i\), of weight at most 2 in the data, so the needed null-space property is the column-weight condition at \(t=2\). Follow-up. Closed: absorbed into prop:split-obstruction-bound; the open part is the split itself.

Placement on the list

A1's entry in Open statements now names the line as its dense-core sub-statement: under column weight, Taylor generation reduces to base certificates (split obstructions and \(W_0=T\)), conjectured for random families only.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the passed inverse-system lead. Prove that a piece of direction \(\mu\) embeds into \(\bigcap_{i\in\operatorname{supp}\ell_\mu}(I_R:y_i)/I_R\), and bound that colon quotient for any family whose combination \(\ell_\mu\) is dense, using only the column-weight condition, so that the bound holds for adversarial families; then ask whether the same identity bounds \(W_0/T\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the row inflation, split obstructions and survival review entries, thm:column-sparse-w and cor:random-prefix-sparse-column-families. The copy-cell identity was derived in this cycle; no computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the summaries against the entries, rederived the copy-cell identity and its consequence for pieces, checked the fill-ratio estimates, the claims about the two cited results, every citation and test grade, and the follow-ups, and found the review sound with no required changes. Its suggestion to state the evidence's board size exactly is adopted; it also noted that the survival review's minimax bridge, not run, needs a development cycle before any move away from A1's dense core.

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Colon pieces: the cell derivations put every rank-one piece of the obstruction image inside the part of the base algebra killed by all cells of its combination's support, on any board; but single dense forms and dense combinations of many forms have supports of the same size, so the colon cannot tell a low-weight direction from a high-weight one, and the inverse-system lead does not explain the split

27 September 2026 · Working proof, with a limitation · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-colon-pieces. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Colon pieces: the cell derivations put every rank-one piece of the obstruction image inside the part of the base algebra killed by all cells of its combination's support, on any board; but single dense forms and dense combinations of many forms have supports of the same size, so the colon cannot tell a low-weight direction from a high-weight one, and the inverse-system lead does not explain the split”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-colon-pieces.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The split-line review found that no mechanism bounds the pieces of a split, or forces their directions to have low weight, for adversarial families, and passed an inverse-system lead: the cell derivations put each piece of direction \(\mu\) into a colon quotient. It proposed bounding that colon for dense directions using only the column-weight condition. This cycle states the embedding on every board, derives the bound it gives, and tests whether it can separate directions by weight.

General statement. prop:colon-piece-bound, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for product tops \(\tau_b=\prod_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j}\) on the monomial algebra \(\tilde A(R)\) of any board \(R\) (one or several rows), \(I_R=\sum_b\tau_b\tilde A(R)\), \(A=\tilde A(R)/I_R\), \(d=e+h-1\), and \(\Phi\) as in prop:relation-avoidance. Write \(y_i\) for the variable of cell \(i\) (\(x_{rc}\) on several rows). (1) For every syzygy \(z\) of multiplier degree \(e\) and every cell \(i\) of \(R\), \(y_i\sum_{b,j}l_{b,j,i}\Phi_{b,j}(z)\in I_R\), where \(l_{b,j,i}\) is the coefficient of \(L_{b,j}\) at \(i\). (2) If \(\mu\otimes w\in\Phi(Q)\), \(w\ne0\) in \(A_d\), then \(w\in(0:_A\mathfrak m_{S_\mu})_d\), where \(S_\mu\) is the set of cells of \(R\) on which \(\ell_\mu=\sum_f\mu_fL_f\) is nonzero and \(\mathfrak m_{S_\mu}\) is the ideal of those cells. (3) Hence, under a split \(\Phi(Q)=\bigoplus_i\mu_i\otimes W_i\) as in prop:split-obstruction-bound, \[\operatorname{Def}_e(R^+)\le\dim\bigl(W_0(R)/T_e(R)\bigr)+\sum_{i:\ \mu_i\in\operatorname{Rel}}\dim(0:_A\mathfrak m_{S_{\mu_i}})_d.\]

prop:colon-piece-bound

Proof. (1) For a cell \(i\), \(\delta_i=y_i\,\partial/\partial y_i\) is a derivation of the polynomial ring that maps each monomial relation of \(\tilde A(R)\) (\(y_i^2\), and products of two cells of one column) to a multiple of itself, so it is a derivation of \(\tilde A(R)\). It sends a form \(L\) to \(l_iy_i\), so \(\delta_i(\tau_b)=y_i\sum_jl_{b,j,i}\,\epsilon_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j-1}\prod_{k\ne j}L_{b,k}^{\epsilon_k}\). Applying \(\delta_i\) to \(\sum_bz_b\tau_b=0\) gives \(\sum_b\delta_i(z_b)\tau_b+y_i\sum_{b,j}l_{b,j,i}\Phi_{b,j}(z)=0\), and the first sum lies in \(I_R\). (2) Take \(z\) with \(\Phi(z)=\mu\otimes w\), that is \(\Phi_{b,j}(z)\equiv\mu_{b,j}w\) modulo \(I_R\). By (1), \((\sum_{b,j}\mu_{b,j}l_{b,j,i})\,y_iw\in I_R\), and the scalar is the coefficient of \(\ell_\mu\) at \(i\), nonzero for \(i\in S_\mu\). (3) By (2), \(W_i\subseteq(0:_A\mathfrak m_{S_{\mu_i}})_d\); insert this in prop:split-obstruction-bound. \(\square\)

What the colon can and cannot see

It bounds pieces by a relative socle of the base algebra: a direction whose combination is dense on the base can carry only classes whose value is killed by many cells. In the recorded families this socle is nonzero wherever a piece exists, for instance \((0:_A\mathfrak m_{S})_6\ne0\) for the nine cells of the pair's form \(A\), since the pair has a piece in direction \(A\) (split obstructions).
It does not see weight. The weight of a direction counts forms; the colon counts cells. The pair's four forms have supports of 9, 10, 11 and 10 of the 16 cells, and every nonzero combination of them has at least 7 (research/results/odd-prime-row-inflation/pair_form_weights.json). So a single form and a combination of all four impose colon conditions by cell sets of comparable size, and for dense forms this persists at any size: a combination of \(s\) random dense forms has about \(\frac23\) of the base's cells whatever \(s\) is. A bound on \((0:_A\mathfrak m_S)_d\) that depends only on \(|S|\) therefore bounds low- and high-weight pieces alike, and cannot show that pieces have low weight.
Nor can the colon vanish on the bases the argument needs. The column-weight step uses a base of fewer than \(c_2D\) columns, and on such small boards pieces, and so relative socles, do occur in the recorded families. A vanishing statement would put every class into \(W_0/T\), which is the other certificate, not a proof of it.

Outcome. prop:colon-piece-bound: on any board, each rank-one piece lies in the relative socle of the base algebra along the support of its combination, which adds a colon term to the split obstruction bound. As a route to the split's weight property the inverse-system lead fails: the colon counts cells, and dense forms make low- and high-weight directions look alike. The split and its low weights remain unexplained, and \(W_0/T\) is untouched.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the review's Green lead on the other certificate, \(W_0/T\). Universally liftable classes are syzygies whose components \(z_b\partial_j\tau_b\) all lie in \(I_R\); formulate this as a statement about the Hilbert functions of \(A=\tilde A(R)/I_R\) and of the colon ideals \((I_R:\partial_j\tau_b)\), and test whether a square-free Macaulay (Clements–Lindström) bound forces \(W_0=T\) below a fixed fraction of the fill point for every family.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:split-obstruction-bound, prop:relation-avoidance and prop:lift-obstruction (the definition of \(\Phi_{b,j}\)). The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the derivation on one and several rows, the formula for \(\delta_i(\tau_b)\), the reduction modulo \(I_R\), the scalar in (2) and the insertion in (3), counted the form supports in the saved data, confirmed that the pair's piece is in direction \(A\), and judged the two limitation arguments fair. It found the entry sound with no required changes; its suggestion to name the cell variable on several rows is adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 57.48 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 3.13 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 54.22 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Liftable colon criterion: universally liftable classes are Taylor classes plus syzygies built from products of pairs of tops, as soon as each top's colon by its own partial derivatives adds nothing beyond its Frobenius powers and the ideal. Green's restriction theorem, which the review proposed for this, needs general forms and cannot reach that colon condition for adversarial families

27 September 2026 · Working proof, with a lead test · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-liftable-hilbert. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Liftable colon criterion: universally liftable classes are Taylor classes plus syzygies built from products of pairs of tops, as soon as each top's colon by its own partial derivatives adds nothing beyond its Frobenius powers and the ideal. Green's restriction theorem, which the review proposed for this, needs general forms and cannot reach that colon condition for adversarial families”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-liftable-colon.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The line's second base certificate is \(W_0(R)=T_e(R)\): no syzygy other than a Taylor one lifts over every single added column. Colon pieces proposed developing the split-line review's Green lead, not run there: state \(W_0=T\) through Hilbert functions and colon ideals, and test whether a square-free Macaulay bound forces it for every family.

General statement. prop:liftable-colon-criterion, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for product tops \(\tau_b=\prod_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j}\) on the monomial algebra of a board \(R\), each with some \(\epsilon_j=2\), \(I=I_R\), \(\partial_j\tau_b=\epsilon_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j-1}\prod_{k\ne j}L_{b,k}^{\epsilon_k}\), and \(W_0\) the syzygies \(z\) of multiplier degree \(e\) with every \(z_b\partial_j\tau_b\in I\) (cor:defect-decay). Let \(C_b=(I:(\partial_j\tau_b)_j)\) and \(F_b=(L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j})_j\). (1) \(W_0=\{z\in\bigoplus_bC_{b,e}:\sum_bz_b\tau_b=0\}\), and \(F_b+I\subseteq C_b\). (2) If \((C_b)_e=(F_b+I)_e\) for every \(b\) (no colon excess in degree \(e\)), then \(W_0=T_e+z(P_e)\), where \(P_e\) is the space of families \((s_{ac})_{a<c}\), \(s_{ac}\in\tilde A_{e-h}\), with \(\sum_{a<c}s_{ac}\tau_a\tau_c=0\), and \(z(s)\) has components \(z(s)_c=\sum_{a<c}s_{ac}\tau_a\). In particular \(W_0=T_e\) if there is no colon excess in degree \(e\) and \(e<h\), or if \(z(P_e)\subseteq T_e\).

prop:liftable-colon-criterion

Proof. (1) is the definition, with nonzero scalars \(\epsilon_j\) dropped. \(F_b\subseteq C_b\) since \(L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}\partial_j\tau_b=\epsilon_jL_{b,j}^{2-\epsilon_j}\tau_b\in I\) and, for \(i\ne j\), \(L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}\partial_i\tau_b\) is a multiple of \(L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}L_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j}=L_{b,j}^3=0\); and \(I\subseteq C_b\) since \(I\) is an ideal.

(2) Let \(z\in W_0\). By hypothesis \(z_b=\sum_jL_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}u_{b,j}+v_b\) with \(v_b\in I_e\). Each \(L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}u_{b,j}e_b\) is a Frobenius syzygy, so \(v=(v_b)\) is a syzygy congruent to \(z\) modulo \(T_e\). Write \(v_b=\sum_cw_{bc}\tau_c\) with \(w_{bc}\in\tilde A_{e-h}\) (zero if \(e<h\)). Subtracting the Koszul combination \(\sum_{b<c}w_{bc}(\tau_ce_b-\tau_be_c)\) leaves components \(w_{cc}\tau_c+\sum_{a<c}(w_{ac}+w_{ca})\tau_a\). Since some \(\epsilon_j=2\), \(L_{c,j}\) divides \(\tau_c\) and \(L_{c,j}^{3-2}=L_{c,j}\) is a Frobenius element, so \(w_{cc}\tau_ce_c=L_{c,j}\,(w_{cc}\tau_c/L_{c,j})\,e_c\) is a Frobenius syzygy. What remains is \(z(s)\) with \(s_{ac}=w_{ac}+w_{ca}\), a syzygy congruent to \(z\) modulo \(T_e\); being a syzygy means \(\sum_c\sum_{a<c}s_{ac}\tau_a\tau_c=0\), so \(s\in P_e\). Conversely every \(z(s)\), \(s\in P_e\), has components in \(I\subseteq C_c\), so it lies in \(W_0\), and so does \(T_e\) by (1): a Frobenius syzygy has its one component in \(F_b\subseteq C_b\), and a Koszul pair has components that are multiples of tops, in \(I\subseteq C_b\). If \(e<h\), \(P_e=0\). \(\square\)

The Green lead

No colon excess says that \(\dim(C_b)_e=\dim(F_b+I)_e\): multiplication by the partial derivatives \(\partial_j\tau_b\) from \(\tilde A_e\) into \(A_{e+h-1}\), \(A=\tilde A/I\), has no kernel beyond the Frobenius powers and \(I\). Green's hyperplane restriction theorem and its Gotzmann and square-free (Clements–Lindström) relatives bound the Hilbert function of \(A/\ell A\) for a general linear form \(\ell\), and so the kernel of multiplication by a general \(\ell\). Here the multipliers are fixed products of the adversary's own forms, which every family has as zero divisors: \(L^3=0\) in characteristic 3 makes \(L^2\) and \(L\) annihilate each other, which is why \(F_b\) is in the colon at all. For a specific \(\ell\), the kernel of multiplication can be as large as a Frobenius annihilator, so no bound valid for general forms applies to it. For random families, general forms are the right model, and the condition returns to the Fröberg-type conjectures. Lead test. Falsified for adversarial families: the theorem needs generality that the colon condition does not have.

What it gives

\(W_0=T\) splits into a per-top colon condition (each top's partial derivatives have no colon excess modulo the whole ideal) and a product condition (syzygies among the products \(\tau_a\tau_c\) come from Taylor ones). The product condition is empty below multiplier degree \(h\); W needs degrees up to \(22k\approx22h\), where it is not.
In the five-top family, where \(W_0/T\) has dimension 20 at multiplier degree 4 (split obstructions), \(e-h=1\), so the excess comes from colon excess or from linear syzygies among the ten products \(\tau_a\tau_c\); which is not computed.

Outcome. prop:liftable-colon-criterion: universally liftable classes are Taylor classes plus product syzygies once no top's partial derivatives have colon excess; below multiplier degree \(h\) the product part vanishes. The Green lead cannot supply the colon condition for adversarial families, since it bounds multiplication by general forms and the tops' own forms are zero divisors by the Frobenius relation.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the survival review's minimax bridge, not run there: for a fixed adversarial family, let the prover choose the base at random among column sets of a given size, and test whether the base certificates (clean lower degrees, \(W_0=T\), a low-weight split) then hold for most bases, turning the adversarial question into an average over bases.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:defect-decay (the definition of \(W_0\)), lem:class-survival and the split-line review's Green lead. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer rederived the Frobenius and Koszul subtractions, the resulting components, the role of the hypothesis that some \(\epsilon_j=2\), the converse inclusion and \(P_e=0\) below \(h\), confirmed that no colon condition outside degree \(e\) is used, checked the degree remarks against the record and judged the Green-lead test fair. It required two changes, both adopted: the diagonal case of \(F_b\subseteq C_b\) is a multiple of \(\tau_b\), not of \(L^3\), and \(T_e\subseteq W_0\) is justified directly by (1), since the earlier wording, that Taylor generators have components in \(I\), was ambiguous: it holds for their obstruction components \(\Phi_{b,j}\) (lem:class-survival) but not for their entries.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 26.65 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 1.42 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 25.09 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Column configurations: on the monomial algebra a family's Taylor defect depends only on the subspaces that its forms' coefficients span in each column, and columns of rank below the number of rows add the defects of column-deleted families at lower degree, by an exact formula. So randomizing the prover's choices changes nothing, and the adversary's whole power is a configuration of subspaces

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-random-base. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Column configurations: on the monomial algebra a family's Taylor defect depends only on the subspaces that its forms' coefficients span in each column, and columns of rank below the number of rows add the defects of column-deleted families at lower degree, by an exact formula. So randomizing the prover's choices changes nothing, and the adversary's whole power is a configuration of subspaces”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-column-configurations.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The survival review's minimax bridge, not run there and flagged in the split-line review, proposed that the prover randomize its choices so that a fixed adversarial family meets a random base. Liftable colon proposed developing it. This cycle tests the base formulation, then the formulation through the algebra's automorphisms, which is where randomization could act.

General statement. prop:column-configuration-defect, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for product tops on the monomial algebra \(\tilde A\) of an \(m\times N\) board (Taylor span: Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs). For a column \(c\) let \(\Lambda_c\) be the \(F\times m\) matrix of the \(F\) forms' coefficients on the cells of \(c\), \(U_c\subseteq\mathbb F_3^F\) its column space and \(r_c=\dim U_c\). (1) The defects \(\operatorname{Def}_e\) of two families with the same subspaces \(U_c\), up to a permutation of columns, are equal. (2) Let \(B\) be the monomial algebra of the reduced board with \(r_c\) cells in column \(c\), carrying the family with coefficient matrices of full column rank spanning the \(U_c\), and for a set \(S\) of columns let \(B\setminus S\) be the family with the columns of \(S\) deleted: its algebra is the quotient of \(B\) killing the cells of \(S\), and its tops are the images \(\prod_j(L_{b,j}|_{S^c})^{\epsilon_j}\), each form restricted to the other columns, so a top becomes 0 when one of its forms lives on \(S\) alone. With \(\operatorname{Def}_{e'}=0\) for \(e'<0\), \[\operatorname{Def}_e(\tilde A)=\sum_{S}\Bigl(\prod_{c\in S}(m-r_c)\Bigr)\operatorname{Def}_{e-|S|}(B\setminus S),\] the sum over sets \(S\) of columns with \(r_c<m\) for every \(c\in S\).

prop:column-configuration-defect

Proof. (1) For \(g_c\in GL_m(\mathbb F_3)\), the substitution of the cells of column \(c\) by \(g_c\) (other columns fixed) is a graded ring automorphism of \(\tilde A\): the images of the cells of \(c\) are combinations of cells of \(c\), whose pairwise products and squares vanish. It changes \(\Lambda_c\) to \(\Lambda_cg_c\), sends tops to the tops of the new forms, syzygies to syzygies and Taylor generators to Taylor generators, so it preserves \(\operatorname{Def}_e\). Two \(F\times m\) matrices with the same column space \(U\) of dimension \(r\) are \(PC\) and \(PC'\) with \(P\) a basis of \(U\) and \(C,C'\) of rank \(r\), and \(C'=Cg\) for some \(g\in GL_m\) (extend both row spaces' bases). A column permutation is also an automorphism.

(2) By (1), choose \(g_c\) so that \(\Lambda_c\) is zero outside its first \(r_c\) cells. Let \(V'_c\) be the span of those cells and \(V''_c\) of the others, and \(B=\bigotimes_c(\mathbb F_3\oplus V'_c)\), which contains every form and top. As a \(B\)-module, \(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c=(\mathbb F_3\oplus V'_c)\oplus V''_c\), where \(V''_c\) is killed by \(V'_c\) and by itself, so it is a direct sum of \(m-r_c\) copies of the trivial module in degree 1. Tensoring over the columns, \(\tilde A=\bigoplus_S(B\setminus S)\otimes V''_S\) as \(B\)-modules, with \(V''_S=\bigotimes_{c\in S}V''_c\) of dimension \(\prod_{c\in S}(m-r_c)\) in degree \(|S|\), and \(B\) acting on the summand through the quotient \(B\to B\setminus S\) that kills the cells of \(S\). The syzygy map of the tops is \(B\)-linear, so its kernel splits along the summands: in the summand of \(S\) it is the syzygy space of the restricted family on \(B\setminus S\), tensored with \(V''_S\), in multiplier degree \(e-|S|\). The Taylor generators split in the same way, since a Frobenius element or a top acts on each summand through its restriction, which is the corresponding Frobenius element or top of the restricted family. Taking quotients gives the formula. \(\square\)

The minimax bridge

Base formulation: falsified by a one-step objection. The bound of prop:relation-avoidance and its successors holds for each admissible base, so the defect is bounded by their minimum over bases; since the adversary fixes the family first, a random base gives no better value than the best base.
Automorphism formulation: the natural randomization is by the group \(\prod_cGL_m(\mathbb F_3)\rtimes S_N\) of (1), and by (1) it changes no defect. Randomizing the prover's side cannot turn an adversarial family into a random one. What the adversary chooses is exactly a configuration: a subspace \(U_c\subseteq\mathbb F_3^F\) of dimension at most \(m\) for each column. Random dense families are uniformly random configurations of dimension \(m\) (when \(F\ge m\)).
The column-weight condition is a condition on the configuration: a combination \(\mu\) of forms vanishes on column \(c\) exactly when \(\mu\perp U_c\), so its column weight is the number of \(c\) with \(\mu\not\perp U_c\).
Low-rank columns: row inflation is the case \(r_c=1\), and (2) gives its defect exactly as a sum over deleted column sets, with the one-row defect as the term \(S=\varnothing\). An adversary lowering column ranks adds the lower-degree defects of column-deleted families; deleting \(|S|\le e\) columns lowers a combination's column weight by at most \(|S|\), so, heuristically and not as a proved step, a column-weight condition with \(c_2D\) well above \(D\) should survive in every \(B\setminus S\) that appears, in line with the requirement \(c_2>1\) found in row inflation.

Outcome. prop:column-configuration-defect: on the monomial algebra the Taylor defect is a function of the column configuration \((U_c)\), with an exact formula that isolates low-rank columns. The minimax bridge is closed: randomizing bases or automorphisms leaves the adversary's power unchanged, and that power is the choice of a configuration of subspaces of dimension at most \(m\) in \(\mathbb F_3^F\).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): with the configuration form, ask whether the defect is monotone under making columns more generic. A column-wise linear map sends a configuration to one with smaller subspaces \(U_c\) as a ring endomorphism, but not with a left inverse, so row inflation's argument does not apply. A proof would reduce the dense Taylor route to configurations of full-rank columns; a counterexample would locate adversarial defects among configurations.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:row-change-invariance, prop:row-inflation and thm:taylor-propagation's column deletion. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the per-column automorphisms and the orbit statement, rederived the module splitting, the splitting of syzygies and Taylor spans and the degree shift, and checked the formula by hand on a one-column example, and found the mathematics sound. It required two clarifications, both adopted: the tops of \(B\setminus S\) are defined explicitly as images under the quotient killing the cells of \(S\) (forms restricted, not factors omitted), and defects of negative degree are zero. Its suggestion to mark the column-weight remark as heuristic is adopted; its gloss that deletion sends every top using a deleted column to zero holds only for forms supported on the deleted columns, as the adopted definition states.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 14.82 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9 min 9.34 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 5.34 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.13 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review of the configuration line: three entries closed three leads and recast the adversary's power as a configuration of column subspaces, but none bounds the defect of an adversarial configuration of large column weight; the next step is a direct falsification search at the smallest size

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-configuration-monotonicity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the configuration line: three entries closed three leads and recast the adversary's power as a configuration of column subspaces, but none bounds the defect of an adversarial configuration of large column weight; the next step is a direct falsification search at the smallest size”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-configuration-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the split-line review: colon pieces (pieces lie in relative socles, which cannot see weight), liftable colon (\(W_0=T\) reduces to a per-top colon condition plus product syzygies; Green's theorem cannot reach it) and column configurations (the defect is a function of the subspaces \(U_c\), with an exact formula for low-rank columns). That entry proposed asking whether the defect is monotone as columns become more generic. The answer is standard: syzygy dimensions can only jump up and Taylor ranks only drop at special points, so the defect is upper semicontinuous on the configuration space over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\), minimal at the generic point, and its positive locus \(Z_e\) is Zariski closed. The record already uses this (prop:generic-square-tops-degree-four), and part (1) of column configurations restates the group of thm:generic-top-directness, which that theorem already names. Semicontinuity compares an \(\mathbb F_3\)-point only with the generic point over the function field, not with another \(\mathbb F_3\)-point, so it gives no monotonicity among the adversary's configurations. Since the last three cycles recast the problem without touching its implication, this cycle is a review.

The line's general claim

conj:column-weight-taylor: configurations in which every combination of at most \(t\) forms is non-orthogonal to \(U_c\) for at least \(c_2D\) columns, below the fill point, are Taylor-generated through \(D\). In the configuration form: every such \(\mathbb F_3\)-configuration avoids the defect loci \(Z_e\), \(e\le D-h\).

What the goal needs

For A1, that statement for all configurations meeting the column-weight condition, plus the structure side (families with a combination of few forms on few columns) handled by other means, as the split-line review recorded. Random configurations are the recorded Fröberg-type conjectures.

Falsification attempt

The recorded defect-1 pair has a single piece, in direction \(A\): its class lifts over any added column on which \(A\) vanishes (prop:lift-obstruction, since the obstruction is \((\text{coefficient of }A)\cdot w\)). Write the pair as \(\tau=A^2B\), \(\sigma=C^2E\) here (the record calls the fourth form \(D\), which would clash with the degree \(D\)). An adversary can keep \(A\) on the pair's 16 columns and spread \(B\), \(C\), \(E\) over many new columns, giving every combination involving them large column weight while \(A\) keeps weight 9. If the class survives all these columns, then at degree \(D=7\) the repaired conjecture needs \(c_2>9/7\), and the family shows that a single low-weight form can carry a defect in an otherwise dense family. Survival over one column is exact; over several it is not, since the lift's second-order terms \(z_\sigma E\,C_{\mathrm{new}}^2\) and \(z_\sigma C\,C_{\mathrm{new}}E_{\mathrm{new}}\) need not lie in the ideal. The test is not run in this cycle; it is the next step.

Obstacle

No mechanism excludes adversarial configurations of large column weight from the defect loci \(Z_e\). Everything known about \(Z_e\) is its closedness, its invariance under the column group, and exact data on random one-row configurations at one board size.

Assessment of the route

Weak for A1. The line clarified what the adversary controls and closed three leads (inverse systems, Green, minimax), but three consecutive cycles left the required implication, Taylor generation for adversarial configurations of large column weight, untouched. The next cycle should try to break the conjecture directly, not reformulate it again. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Dvir's polynomial method (Dvir, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 22, 2009), not run in the survival review because the alignment condition had no polynomial form. Target: the conjecture in configuration form. Answers. \(Z_e\) is cut out by minors of the multiplication and Taylor matrices, polynomials in the forms' coefficients; a vanishing argument would show that configurations of large column weight cannot all lie on it. Test. Falsified in its direct form: the method needs polynomials of degree below the field size in the relevant directions, and over \(\mathbb F_3\) the minors have degree in the thousands; after reduction modulo \(x^3-x\) they keep no structure that a vanishing argument could use.
The Lang–Weil bound (Lang and Weil, Number of points of varieties in finite fields, Amer. J. Math. 76, 1954). Target: how many \(\mathbb F_3\)-configurations lie on \(Z_e\). Answers. A variety of codimension \(\kappa\) has about \(q^{-\kappa}\) of the points, so if \(Z_e\) has large codimension, configurations on it are rare, and a counting argument restricted to column-weight configurations could exclude them. Test. Falsified: the error term needs \(q\) large relative to the degree of the variety, and here \(q=3\) is fixed while the degree grows; point counts over \(\mathbb F_3\) of high-degree varieties are uncontrolled.
The Brascamp–Lieb dimension condition for subspace data (Bennett, Carbery, Christ and Tao, Finite bounds for Hölder–Brascamp–Lieb multilinear inequalities, Math. Res. Lett. 17, 2010). Target: turning column weight into a spreading condition on the configuration. Answers. The condition \(\dim V\le\sum_jp_j\dim\pi_j(V)\) for every subspace \(V\) quantifies how a family of subspaces avoids alignment; a Brascamp–Lieb-type spreading of \((U_c)\) might be the right strengthening of column weight under which Taylor generation holds. Test. Not run: it needs a statement tying the defect to a dimension inequality over subspaces, which no entry provides.

Absurd bridges

The quantum Lovász local lemma (Ambainis, Kempe and Sattath, J. ACM 59, 2012). Translation: each top is a local constraint acting on the columns its forms use; a non-Taylor class is a frustration that no local repair removes. Answers. The lemma gives global consistency from bounded local dependency, robustly against adversarial choices of the local constraints; its analogue would give Taylor generation from a bounded overlap of the tops' column supports, which designed families have (thm:bounded-clusters) but dense ones do not. Test. Falsified for the dense core: every dense form uses almost every column, so the dependency degree is the whole family and the lemma's hypothesis fails.
The Solomon–Tits theorem on the homology of buildings (Solomon, The Steinberg character of a finite group with BN-pair, 1969). Translation: the configuration's subspaces \(U_c\) and their intersections form a poset inside the lattice of subspaces of \(\mathbb F_3^F\); Taylor defects are homology of a complex built from the tops, and a complex indexed by that poset might compute them. Answers. Solomon–Tits concentrates the homology of the whole subspace lattice in top degree; a relative version for the configuration's poset would give vanishing of the low-degree defects. Test. Not run: no complex indexed by the configuration's poset is known to compute the Taylor defect.

Lead follow-up

Fröberg's conjecture as the random case: unchanged since the split-line review; conj:split-obstructions remains its local form. Follow-up. Continuing.
The inverse-system lead was developed in colon pieces: pieces lie in relative socles, but the colon counts cells and cannot show that directions have low weight. Follow-up. Closed: it cannot separate directions by weight, and a vanishing colon on small bases is contradicted by the data.

Bridge follow-up

The stabilizer-code translation restated prop:split-obstruction-bound; no cycle found a code-theoretic mechanism for the split itself. Follow-up. Closed: the translation adds no mechanism beyond the proposition.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): run the falsification attempt above. Keep the defect-1 pair's form \(A\) on its 16 cells, extend \(B\), \(C\), \(E\) with random coefficients to further columns one at a time, and compute exactly whether the class survives as the other forms' column weight grows. Survival refines conj:column-weight-taylor's constant and shows a single low-weight form carrying a defect; death at the second or later column shows second-order terms kill aligned classes, a mechanism to state and prove.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three entries reviewed, the split-line and survival reviews, thm:generic-top-directness, prop:generic-square-tops-degree-four and prop:lift-obstruction. No computation was run; the tests are the arguments given. A fresh-context reviewer checked the summaries, the semicontinuity argument and its attribution, the one-column lifting claim and the hedging of the multi-column one, every citation and test grade, and the follow-ups against the earlier reviews' item order, and found the review sound. It required one change, adopted: the pair's fourth form is renamed here to avoid a clash with the degree \(D\). Its suggestion to state that only one of the three entries recasts the problem as a configuration is adopted in the title.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 30.34 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	9 min 15.59 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 14.62 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Short-form defects: the recorded pair defect is a single-top syzygy killing the square of a nine-cell form, column Wilson's sharp failure; it survives every extension that leaves that form unchanged and dies at the first cell it gains. Every recorded obstruction piece has a combination of at most two forms of at most \(2e+1\) cells, so the column-weight repair must count Wilson's lengths

27 September 2026 · Working proof, with exact checks and a conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-aligned-extension. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Short-form defects: the recorded pair defect is a single-top syzygy killing the square of a nine-cell form, column Wilson's sharp failure; it survives every extension that leaves that form unchanged and dies at the first cell it gains. Every recorded obstruction piece has a combination of at most two forms of at most \(2e+1\) cells, so the column-weight repair must count Wilson's lengths”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-short-form-defects.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The configuration review proposed a direct falsification attempt: keep the recorded defect-1 pair's form \(A\) on its 16 cells, extend the other forms, and see whether the class survives as their column weight grows. Survival would show that one low-weight form can carry a defect in an otherwise dense family; death would expose a mechanism. Write the pair \(\tau=A^2B\), \(\sigma=C^2E\) (the record's fourth form \(D\)).

General statement. prop:short-form-survival, over \(\mathbb F_3\), for a product top \(\tau=\prod_jL_j^{\epsilon_j}\) in a family on the monomial algebra of any board \(R\). (1) If \(\epsilon_0=2\) and \(\epsilon_1=1\), replacing \(L_1\) by \(L_1+cL_0\), \(c\in\mathbb F_3\), leaves \(\tau\) unchanged; so the top depends on each unsquared form only modulo its squared forms. (2) If \(z\in\tilde A_e(R)\) and \(z\prod_{j\in J}L_j^{\epsilon_j}=0\) for a set \(J\) of factors, then \(z\,e_\tau\) is a syzygy of the extended family on every extension \(R^+\) on which the forms \(L_j\), \(j\in J\), gain no cells, whatever the other forms and tops do there. (3) If \(z\,e_\tau\) is not in the Taylor span on \(R\), it is not on any such \(R^+\).

prop:short-form-survival

Proof. (1) \(L_0^2(L_1+cL_0)=L_0^2L_1+cL_0^3\) and \(L_0^3=0\) in characteristic 3, since every cell squares to zero. (2) On \(R^+\) the top is \(\tau^+=\prod_{j\in J}L_j^{\epsilon_j}\cdot\prod_{j\notin J}(L_j^+)^{\epsilon_j}\) with the \(L_j\), \(j\in J\), unchanged, so \(z\tau^+=0\); the other components of \(z\,e_\tau\) are zero. (3) Restriction to \(R\) maps the Taylor span of \(R^+\) onto that of \(R\) (prop:lift-obstruction) and \(z\,e_\tau\) to itself. \(\square\)

This is the complement of lem:class-survival and cor:defect-decay, which kill the same pair's class on extensions where its forms are independent on the added cells: here the class's short form is held fixed and nothing else matters, and no hypothesis on lower degrees is needed. With column Wilson's sharpness (thm:column-wilson-taylor: the kernel of \(\ell^2\) exceeds \(\ell\tilde A\) once \(\ell\) has at most \(2e+1\) cells, and that of \(\ell\) exceeds \(\ell^2\tilde A\) at \(2e\)), and scaling of cells, which maps any form with \(s\) cells in distinct columns to the sum of \(s\) cells, this gives syzygies killing a short squared form, or a short unsquared form modulo the squared ones, which need not be Taylor.

Checks

The pair (research/tools/aligned_extension_check.cpp, research/results/odd-prime-aligned-extension/aligned_k6.json): its non-Taylor representative is \(z\,e_\tau\) with 16 terms, \(z_\sigma=0\) and \(zA^2=0\) exactly. The single top \(A^2B\) alone already has defect 1 at multiplier degree 4 (single_tops.jsonl, by research/tools/obstruction_space_check.cpp), while the first top of the three-top family has defect 0. \(A\) has 9 cells, \(2e+1\) at \(e=4\). So the pair defect of ex:pseudorandom-taylor-check is column Wilson's failure for \(A\), not a pair phenomenon.
Extension: adding six cells on which \(A\) is zero and \(B\), \(C\), \(E\) are random, the obstruction at every cell is identically zero and the lift is verified to be a syzygy, as (2) predicts for all such extensions. Control (control_k6.json): with \(A\) random too, the class dies at the first cell, where \(A\) gains a coefficient 2 and the obstruction has 112 terms outside the ideal.
Every recorded piece (split obstructions) has a short direction (research/tools/piece_direction_supports.cpp, piece_supports.jsonl), with \(2e+1=9\): the pair's \(A\) (9 cells, a squared form); in the three-top family \(L_{1,1}+L_{1,0}\) (6) and \(L_{1,1}+2L_{1,0}\) (8), the second form modulo the squared one as in (1), and \(L_{2,0}\) (9, squared); in the five-top family \(L_{0,1}+2L_{0,0}\) (8, second modulo squared) and \(2L_{1,0}+L_{3,0}\) (6, two squared forms of different tops nearly equal). The same family has other short combinations, among them the six-cell squared form \(L_{4,0}\), that carry no piece; near its fill point they may lie in its 20 universally liftable classes, which were not examined.

What it gives

The falsification attempt succeeds in a precise sense: a single short form carries a defect however dense the rest of the family becomes, but only while it stays within Wilson's length. So conj:column-weight-taylor's weight must reach Wilson's lengths: single squared forms need at least \(2e+2\) columns at every multiplier degree \(e\le D-h\), that is \(2(D-h)+2\), so \(c_2\ge2-2(h-1)/D\), about 2 when \(D\gg h\). The earlier requirement \(c_2>1\) is superseded.
The obstruction pieces are explained: each is a short combination of at most two forms of the kinds in (1) and in two tops' squared forms. The designed families of thm:column-wilson-taylor meet exactly these lengths.

Conjecture. conj:two-form-wilson-taylor: over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak unary base, product-constraint tops of degree \(h\) below the fill point (as in conj:column-weight-taylor) are Taylor-generated through \(D\) if every nonzero combination of at most two of their linear parts has a nonzero coefficient in at least \(2(D-h)+2\) columns. It sharpens conj:column-weight-taylor to \(t=2\) with Wilson's constant; the evidence is the explanation of every recorded piece by a short combination of at most two forms and the designed case. Combinations of three or more forms are not tested as a source of defects, so the restriction to two forms is the bold part.

Outcome. prop:short-form-survival: a syzygy killing some of a top's factors survives every extension leaving those factors' forms unchanged, and a top sees its unsquared forms only modulo its squared ones. The recorded pair defect is a single-top column-Wilson defect of a nine-cell form; it survives aligned extensions and dies when the form grows. Every recorded piece has a short combination of at most two forms, which fixes the repaired weight condition at Wilson's lengths.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test conj:two-form-wilson-taylor where it is boldest. Build a family in which every combination of at most two forms is long but some combination of three forms from three tops is short (for instance a third top's squared form equal to a sum of two others' up to a few cells), below the fill point, and compute its defect. A defect refutes the two-form restriction; none supports it and asks for a proof of why three-form combinations do not matter.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:column-wilson-taylor (its thresholds and sharpness), prop:lift-obstruction, lem:class-survival, cor:defect-decay and ex:pseudorandom-taylor-check. The claim search found lem:class-survival and cor:defect-decay as the nearest results, which treat the generic case; this entry cites them. A fresh-context reviewer checked (1) to (3) and the mapping to Wilson's thresholds, read the extension kernel in full (representative selection, derivative formula, the solve in degree 6, the lift and its syzygy check, the diagnostics, the control), checked every number against the three outputs, decoded every piece direction, and checked the bound on \(c_2\) and the conjecture's hedging. It found the entry sound; its one required change, citing lem:class-survival and cor:defect-decay, is adopted.

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Three-form relations: tops whose squared forms nearly satisfy a relation among three forms have no Taylor defect in twelve exact checks, while two tops whose squared forms differ by a short form always carry syzygies killed by that difference; the conjecture's restriction to two forms matches the two-form constructions

27 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-three-form-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Three-form relations: tops whose squared forms nearly satisfy a relation among three forms have no Taylor defect in twelve exact checks, while two tops whose squared forms differ by a short form always carry syzygies killed by that difference; the conjecture's restriction to two forms matches the two-form constructions”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-three-form-relations.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Short-form defects explained every recorded obstruction piece by a short combination of at most two forms and stated conj:two-form-wilson-taylor, whose bold part is that short combinations of three or more forms do not matter. This cycle tests that part and looks for the construction behind the two-form pieces that involve two tops.

General statement. prop:near-shared-syzygies, over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the monomial algebra of any board \(R\). Let two tops of a family be \(\tau_1=L^2B_1\) and \(\tau_2=(L+\delta)^2B_2\), with \(\delta\) a linear form and \(B_1\), \(B_2\) the products of the remaining factors. (1) For every \(w\in\tilde A_{e-1}\) with \(w\delta=0\), \(z=w(B_2e_1-B_1e_2)\) is a syzygy of multiplier degree \(e\). (2) It remains a syzygy on every extension on which \(\delta\) gains no cells, whatever \(L\), \(B_1\), \(B_2\) do there. (3) When \(\delta=0\) these are the coherent-pair syzygies of shared forms; for \(\delta\ne0\) with at most \(2(e-1)\) cells, column Wilson's sharpness gives \(w\in\ker\delta\) outside \(\delta^2\tilde A\).

prop:near-shared-syzygies

Proof. (1) \(z\) pairs with the tops to \(wB_1B_2\bigl(L^2-(L+\delta)^2\bigr)=-wB_1B_2\,\delta(2L+\delta)=0\). (2) On the extension \(\delta\) is unchanged, so the same computation with the extended \(L\), \(B_1\), \(B_2\) gives 0. (3) For \(\delta=0\), \(z=w(B_2e_1-B_1e_2)\) is the coherent-pair syzygy of thm:based-taylor-glue. Scaling cells maps \(\delta\) to the sum of its cells, and thm:column-wilson-taylor gives \(\ker\ell\ne\ell^2\Lambda_j\) on a sum \(\ell\) of \(m\le2j\) cells, here with \(j=e-1\). \(\square\)

This generalizes the recorded obstruction of two tops agreeing outside one column (thm:taylor-propagation's adversarial paragraph), where \(\delta\) lives in one column, and it is the mechanism of the five-top family's two-top piece: there \(2L_{1,0}+L_{3,0}\), that is \(L_{3,0}=L_{1,0}+\delta\) with \(\delta\) of 6 cells, and the piece's direction is \(\delta\) itself, which is why the class survives exactly the cells on which \(\delta\) is zero. Whether the syzygies of (1) are non-Taylor for a given family is not proved here; in that family one is.

The three-form test

research/tools/three_form_check.cpp draws three tops \(A_i^2B_i\) on one row, related (\(A_3=A_1+A_2+\delta\), \(\delta\) on at most 2 cells) or control (\(A_3\) random), rejection-sampled until every nonzero combination of at most two of the six forms has at least \(2e_{\max}+2\) cells, and computes the Taylor defect exactly at every \(e\le e_{\max}\). Sizes: \(N=12\), \(e_{\max}=2\) (threshold 6, fill ratio 0.25) and \(N=16\), \(e_{\max}=3\) (threshold 8, fill ratio 0.21, reaching the Koszul range \(e=h\)). If three-form combinations mattered, the related families, whose three-form combination \(A_1+A_2-A_3\) has 1 or 2 cells, would show defects that the controls lack. Results (research/results/odd-prime-three-form/cases.jsonl): all twelve families, three related and three control at each size, have defect 0 at every degree. Positive control (positive_control.jsonl, the same program with a mode added after the first run, which leaves the twelve cases' computation unchanged): with a near-shared squared form instead, \(A_3=A_1+\delta\) and \(\delta\) on 2 cells, the same pipeline finds defects 0 and 1 at \(N=12\) and 0, 1 and 14 at \(N=16\) (two seeds), first nonzero at \(e=2\), where a 2-cell \(\delta\) first meets Wilson's bound \(2\le2(e-1)\). So the test can see defects at these sizes, and the zeros of the related families are informative. Only one shape of three-form relation was tested (a near relation among the three squared forms); relations involving the unsquared forms, more forms or other coefficient patterns remain untested.

A reason consistent with this: the two-form mechanisms each come from an exact identity, \(\ell^3=0\) for a short form and \(L^2-(L+\delta)^2=-\delta(2L+\delta)\) for a near-shared one, while squares of three pairwise independent forms satisfy no linear relation when the forms satisfy one, since \((A_1+A_2)^2-A_1^2-A_2^2=2A_1A_2\ne0\).

Outcome. prop:near-shared-syzygies: two tops whose squared forms differ by a short form carry syzygies killed by the difference, surviving while it stays short; this generalizes shared and one-column-differing forms and explains the recorded two-top piece. ex:three-form-relations: near relations among three squared forms create no defect in twelve exact families through the Koszul range's first degree, which supports conj:two-form-wilson-taylor's restriction at these sizes only.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove conj:two-form-wilson-taylor's mechanism list complete in the smallest case where it has content, a family of two tops on one row: show that every non-Taylor class of a pair comes from a short form of one top (prop:short-form-survival) or from a short difference of the squared forms (prop:near-shared-syzygies), by splitting the pair's syzygies along the relations among its four forms.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:column-wilson-taylor, thm:based-taylor-glue (coherent pairs), thm:taylor-propagation's adversarial paragraph, prop:short-form-survival and the recorded piece data. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the identity and (1) to (3), the Wilson degree bookkeeping, the five-top arithmetic modulo 3, the kernel (rejection sampling over all combinations of at most two forms, the related construction, the Taylor span with Koszul pairs from \(e=3\)), every output number and the fill ratios, and judged the heuristic and outcome fairly scoped. It required a positive control showing that the pipeline detects defects at these sizes; it was run and is reported above. Its suggestions are adopted: the tested relation shape is stated, and the sampling loop now aborts instead of continuing when no family is found.

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Total instrumented interval	10 min 32.51 s
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Individually measured computation	9.02 s
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Single-top blocks: on one row a top \(A^2B\) has only Frobenius syzygies through multiplier degree \(e\) whenever each of the four nonzero combinations of \(A\) and \(B\), up to scalars, has at least \(2e+7\) cells. The proof splits the algebra into Jordan blocks over the four coefficient groups and checks all 81 block types exactly; it proves conj:two-form-wilson-taylor for single tops up to an additive constant

27 September 2026 · Working proof with an exact finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pair-mechanisms. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Single-top blocks: on one row a top \(A^2B\) has only Frobenius syzygies through multiplier degree \(e\) whenever each of the four nonzero combinations of \(A\) and \(B\), up to scalars, has at least \(2e+7\) cells. The proof splits the algebra into Jordan blocks over the four coefficient groups and checks all 81 block types exactly; it proves conj:two-form-wilson-taylor for single tops up to an additive constant”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-single-top-blocks.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Three-form relations proposed proving that the mechanisms behind conj:two-form-wilson-taylor are complete in the smallest case with content. Its smallest case is one top, where the conjecture says that the top's syzygies are Frobenius syzygies once the combinations of its two forms are long. This cycle proves that, for dense overlapping forms, which column Wilson (thm:column-wilson-taylor) does not cover.

General statement. prop:single-top-combination, over \(\mathbb F_3\). Let \(\Lambda\) be the square-free algebra on \(N\) cells (one row), \(A,B\) linear forms and \(\tau=A^2B\). If each of \(A\), \(B\), \(A+B\) and \(A+2B\) has at least \(2e+7\) cells in its support, then \(\operatorname{ann}(\tau)_{e'}=(A\Lambda+B^2\Lambda)_{e'}\) for every \(e'\le e\): the top's syzygies through multiplier degree \(e\) are its Frobenius syzygies.

prop:single-top-combination

Proof. Groups. Scaling a cell by a nonzero constant is an automorphism of \(\Lambda\) that maps forms to forms and the ideal \((A,B^2)\) to the corresponding ideal of the new forms, so assume every cell's coefficient pair \((a_i,b_i)\) is \((0,0)\), \((1,0)\), \((0,1)\), \((1,1)\) or \((1,2)\). Let \(G_1,\dots,G_4\) be the cells of the last four kinds, \(s_k=|G_k|\), \(u_k\) the sum of the cells of \(G_k\), and \(G_0\) the rest. Then \(A=u_1+u_3+u_4\), \(B=u_2+u_3+2u_4\), and \(\Lambda=\Lambda(G_0)\otimes\bigotimes_{k=1}^4\Lambda(G_k)\). A combination \(\alpha A+\beta B\) is nonzero at the cells of three of the four groups: \(A\) on \(G_1,G_3,G_4\), \(B\) on \(G_2,G_3,G_4\), \(A+B\) on \(G_1,G_2,G_3\) and \(A+2B\) on \(G_1,G_2,G_4\); so every three groups are the support of one of the four combinations, and the hypothesis says \(s_{k_1}+s_{k_2}+s_{k_3}\ge2e+7\) for every three groups.

Blocks. Since \(u_k^3=0\) in characteristic 3, each \(\Lambda(G_k)\) is a finite graded module over \(\mathbb F_3[u_k]/(u_k^3)\), hence a direct sum of shifted cyclic modules \(\mathbb F_3[u_k]/(u_k^{r})(-d)\), \(r\in\{1,2,3\}\). Tensoring, \(\Lambda\) is a direct sum of shifted modules \(P_r(-d)\), \(P_r=\mathbb F_3[u_1,\dots,u_4]/(u_1^{r_1},\dots,u_4^{r_4})\), with \(d\) the sum of the four blocks' starting degrees (times a vector space from \(G_0\)). As \(A\), \(B\) and \(\tau\) are polynomials in the \(u_k\), both \(\operatorname{ann}(\tau)\) and \(A\Lambda+B^2\Lambda\) split along these summands, and in multiplier degree \(e'\) the defect is \(\sum\dim\bigl[\operatorname{ann}_{P_r}(\tau)/(A,B^2)P_r\bigr]_{e'-d}\) over the blocks.

lem:pair-seed-decomposition gives this decomposition exactly for a sum of \(s\) cells: a free module plus one non-free block, \(J_1\) in degree \(s/2\) for even \(s\) and \(J_2\) starting in degree \((s-1)/2\) for odd \(s\). The proof below uses only the weaker location bound from Wilson's ranks; the exact location should sharpen the constant.

Finite check. research/tools/single_top_block_types.m2 computes that quotient in every degree for all 81 types \(r\in\{1,2,3\}^4\) (research/results/odd-prime-single-top/block_types.jsonl). It is nonzero exactly for the 48 types with at most one \(r_k=3\), and only in degrees 0 to 2.

Wilson. By thm:column-wilson-taylor's Wilson ranks for a sum \(u\) of \(s\) cells, \(\ker u=u^2\Lambda\) in degree \(j\) when \(s\ge2j+1\), so every block of \(\Lambda(G_k)\) ending in a degree \(j\) with \(s_k\ge2j+1\) is free (\(r=3\)). A non-free block starting at degree \(d_k\) ends at \(d_k\) or \(d_k+1\), so \(s_k\le2d_k+2\), that is \(d_k\ge(s_k-2)/2\).

Conclusion. A nonzero defect in multiplier degree \(e'\le e\) needs a bad block, with at least three non-free groups \(k_1,k_2,k_3\) and shift \(d\le e'\). Then \(e\ge d\ge\sum_i(s_{k_i}-2)/2\), so \(s_{k_1}+s_{k_2}+s_{k_3}\le2e+6\), contradicting the hypothesis. \(\square\)

What it gives

It is the single-top case of conj:two-form-wilson-taylor on one row, with threshold \(2e+7\) where the conjecture has \(2e+2\), and in the form the conjecture needs: long combinations of the top's two forms, however the forms overlap. Column Wilson is the case of disjoint supports (\(G_3=G_4=\varnothing\)), where it has the sharp threshold.
It explains prop:short-form-survival's first mechanism exactly: a short combination makes three groups small, and small groups carry non-free blocks in low degrees. The recorded top \(A^2B\) with \(A\) on 9 cells at \(e=4\) is within the theorem's excluded range (\(9\le2e+6\)).
It extends to several rows when the two forms span at most one dimension in each column, as for column statistics: by prop:column-configuration-defect the defect is a sum of defects of one-row tops with a set \(S\) of cells deleted, at multiplier degree \(e-|S|\), and deleting \(|S|\) cells leaves every combination at least \(2e+7-|S|\ge2(e-|S|)+7\) cells. Columns in which the two forms are independent need a further kind of group and are not treated here.

Outcome. prop:single-top-combination: a single top on one row is Taylor-generated through multiplier degree \(e\) when every nonzero combination of its two forms has at least \(2e+7\) cells, proved by a Jordan-block decomposition over the four coefficient groups and an exact check of all 81 block types. The single-top case of conj:two-form-wilson-taylor holds up to an additive constant.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): extend the block method to a pair of tops. Their four forms split the cells into up to 40 coefficient groups; test whether a block type is bad exactly when the non-free groups contain the support of some combination of at most two forms, on the types supported on the few groups a pair actually uses, and prove the pair case from that criterion as here.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:column-wilson-taylor (Wilson's ranks), lem:pair-seed-decomposition, prop:column-configuration-defect and conj:two-form-wilson-taylor. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the scaling normal form and the four supports, the legitimacy of splitting the annihilator and the Frobenius ideal along blocks, the script's computation (recomputing two types by hand and all 81 records programmatically), the Wilson step and the final arithmetic, and the several-row extension, and found the proof sound. Its suggestion to cite lem:pair-seed-decomposition is adopted.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	13 min 59.36 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	10 min 14.68 s
Computation design and coding	54.69 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 48.46 s
Individually measured computation	1.39 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Single-top Wilson threshold: a nonzero top \(A^2B\) on one row has only Frobenius syzygies through multiplier degree \(e\) exactly when \(A\) has at least \(2e+2\) cells and each of \(B\), \(B+A\), \(B+2A\) has at least \(2e+1\). Column Wilson's sharp lengths hold for arbitrarily overlapping forms, and the single-top case of the two-form conjecture is proved exactly

27 September 2026 · Working proof with exact finite checks · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-sharp-single-top. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Single-top Wilson threshold: a nonzero top \(A^2B\) on one row has only Frobenius syzygies through multiplier degree \(e\) exactly when \(A\) has at least \(2e+2\) cells and each of \(B\), \(B+A\), \(B+2A\) has at least \(2e+1\). Column Wilson's sharp lengths hold for arbitrarily overlapping forms, and the single-top case of the two-form conjecture is proved exactly”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-sharp-single-top.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Single-top blocks proved Taylor generation of one top from combination lengths \(2e+7\) and proposed sharpening the constant with lem:pair-seed-decomposition, which locates each group's single non-free Jordan block exactly. This cycle computes the defect exactly and finds the first degree at which it appears. It also develops the survival review's Fröberg lead in the one case where a deterministic statement is within reach: a Fröberg-type expected annihilator for one generator, for all forms rather than generic ones.

General statement. thm:single-top-wilson-threshold, over \(\mathbb F_3\). Let \(\Lambda\) be the square-free algebra on \(N\) cells (one row), \(A,B\) linear forms with \(\tau=A^2B\ne0\), and \(|\ell|\) the number of cells in the support of a form \(\ell\). The least multiplier degree \(e\) with \(\operatorname{ann}(\tau)_e\ne(A\Lambda+B^2\Lambda)_e\) is \[\min\bigl(\lfloor|A|/2\rfloor,\ \lceil|B|/2\rceil,\ \lceil|B+A|/2\rceil,\ \lceil|B+2A|/2\rceil\bigr).\] Equivalently, the top has only Frobenius syzygies through multiplier degree \(e\) if and only if \(|A|\ge2e+2\) and \(|B+cA|\ge2e+1\) for \(c=0,1,2\). The same holds for \(e\ge2\) on several rows when the two forms span at most one dimension in each column.

thm:single-top-wilson-threshold

Proof. Exact defect series. Keep the groups \(G_1,\dots,G_4\) of sizes \(s_1,\dots,s_4\) and the block decomposition of prop:single-top-combination. By lem:pair-seed-decomposition, \(\Lambda(G_k)\) is a free \(\mathbb F_3[u_k]/(u_k^3)\)-module plus one block, \(J_1\) in degree \(s_k/2\) for even \(s_k\) and \(J_2\) starting in degree \((s_k-1)/2\) for odd \(s_k\); its free generators have Hilbert series \(F_{s}(t)=((1+t)^{s}-N_{s}(t))/(1+t+t^2)\), with \(N_s\) the series of the non-free block, and \(F_s\) has constant term 1 for \(s\ge2\) and vanishes for \(s\le1\). So the defect series of the top is \[(1+t)^{s_0}\sum_{K}\ \prod_{k\notin K}F_{s_k}(t)\cdot t^{\sum_{k\in K}\lfloor s_k/2\rfloor}\cdot D_{r(K)}(t),\] summed over sets \(K\) of groups, where \(r(K)_k=3\) off \(K\) and is 1 or 2 by the parity of \(s_k\) on \(K\), and \(D_r\) is the block defect series of the 81-type table. Every term has nonnegative coefficients, so the first defect degree is the least first degree among the terms that are nonzero.

Reduction to finitely many classes. Write \(s_k=2a_k+p_k\), \(p_k\in\{0,1\}\), and \(b_k=1\) if \(s_k\ge2\), else 0 (then \(a_k=0\)); put \(a_k=1+a'_k\) where \(b_k=1\). In a class \((p,b)\) the first defect degree is the minimum, over the nonzero terms, of \(\sum_{k\in K,\,b_k=1}a'_k\) plus a constant, and the claimed formula is the minimum over the four combinations of \(\sum_{k\in\operatorname{supp},\,b_k=1}a'_k\) plus a constant, with \(\operatorname{supp}\) the three groups of the combination (prop:single-top-combination). research/tools/single_top_series.py checks, in each of the 256 classes, that every term on either side is bounded below, for all \(a'\ge0\), by a term of the other side with a contained index set and no larger constant. Then the two minima are equal for all sizes in the class. The check succeeds in every class except the four with all \(b_k=0\) and \(p\in\{(0,0,1,1),(1,0,0,1),(1,0,1,0),(1,0,1,1)\}\), each a single size vector at which \(\tau=0\) although every combination has a positive predicted threshold. (Other vectors with \(\tau=0\), such as those with \(|A|\le1\), already have predicted threshold 0 and cause no mismatch.) \(\square\)

Several rows. By prop:column-configuration-defect the defect on several rows with at most one-dimensional columns is a sum over deleted column sets \(S\) of one-row defects at multiplier degree \(e-|S|\), with nonnegative multiplicities, and the term \(S=\varnothing\) is the one-row defect. Deleting \(|S|\) cells lowers each length by at most \(|S|\), while the thresholds drop by \(2|S|\), so the one-row criterion for the undeleted top implies it for every term once no restricted top vanishes; a vanishing restriction needs every group to have at most one cell, so \(|A\setminus S|\le3\), while \(|A\setminus S|\ge2e+2-|S|\ge e+2\ge4\) for \(e\ge2\). Conversely the term \(S=\varnothing\) shows necessity.

Checks

Series against direct ranks: research/tools/single_top_direct.cpp computes the defect by exact ranks for group sizes \((3,3,3,3)\), \((4,2,3,1)\), \((5,4,2,2)\), \((2,2,2,2)\) and \((6,0,5,0)\) (research/results/odd-prime-single-top/direct.jsonl); the first four agree term by term with the block formula (series.jsonl), and the fifth has its first defect at degree 3, as the formula gives (\(|B|=5\)).
Box: for all \(11^4\) size vectors with \(s_k\le10\), the first defect degree equals the formula except at the four vectors where \(\tau=0\) (series.jsonl).

What it gives

conj:two-form-wilson-taylor holds for a single top with the sharp lengths: \(2e+2\) for the squared form and \(2e+1\) for the unsquared form modulo the squared one, the thresholds of thm:column-wilson-taylor, which it extends from disjoint cell sums to arbitrary overlapping forms. The conjecture's uniform \(2(D-h)+2\) is at least both.
For the Fröberg lead: a single product top in the square-free algebra has exactly the expected annihilator (the Frobenius one) until a combination of its forms becomes short, for every choice of forms, not only generic ones.
It supersedes prop:single-top-combination's constant and explains prop:short-form-survival's single-top defects completely: they are exactly the short combinations.

Outcome. thm:single-top-wilson-threshold: a nonzero single top on one row, or for \(e\ge2\) on several rows with rank-one columns, is Taylor-generated through multiplier degree \(e\) if and only if its squared form has at least \(2e+2\) cells and its unsquared form, modulo the squared one, at least \(2e+1\). The proof is an exact defect series from Jordan blocks with a symbolic check over 256 parity classes.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): extend the exact method to a pair of tops. With four forms the cells fall into up to 40 coefficient groups, and the tensor product of blocks is over the pair's forms. Compute the block-type table for the groups a pair needs when its squared forms are nearly equal (prop:near-shared-syzygies), and test whether the pair's first defect degree is the minimum of the single-top thresholds and \(\lceil|\delta|/2\rceil+1\) for the difference \(\delta\) of the squared forms.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pair-seed-decomposition, prop:single-top-combination and its 81-type table, prop:column-configuration-defect and thm:column-wilson-taylor's thresholds. The claim search found only the preceding entry. A fresh-context reviewer checked the free-generator series and the defect series in the code (reproducing the output byte for byte), the reduction to classes, the domination argument and the nonnegativity it needs, the floor and ceiling constants, the direct checks and the several-row argument, and judged the Fröberg framing correctly scoped. It required one rewording, adopted: the four exceptional vectors are the ones where the top vanishes although the prediction is positive, not the only vectors with a vanishing top.

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Free-part criterion: on one row, a family of product tops on \(F\) distinct forms is Taylor-generated through multiplier degree \(e\) when every nonzero combination of the forms meets coefficient groups whose half-sizes sum to more than \(e\). Each Jordan block whose free groups carry independent parts of the forms is free over the forms' truncated algebra; this generalizes the one-row row-rank seeds from spanning seeds to every combination, but needs few forms

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pair-blocks. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Free-part criterion: on one row, a family of product tops on \(F\) distinct forms is Taylor-generated through multiplier degree \(e\) when every nonzero combination of the forms meets coefficient groups whose half-sizes sum to more than \(e\). Each Jordan block whose free groups carry independent parts of the forms is free over the forms' truncated algebra; this generalizes the one-row row-rank seeds from spanning seeds to every combination, but needs few forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-free-part-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Single-top Wilson threshold proposed extending the exact block method to a pair of tops. With four forms the cells fall into up to 40 coefficient groups, too many block types to tabulate. This cycle looks for the structural reason why a block is good or bad, and finds one that works for any bounded number of forms.

General statement. prop:free-part-criterion, over \(\mathbb F_3\). Let \(\Lambda\) be the square-free algebra on \(N\) cells (one row), \(L_1,\dots,L_F\) linear forms, and product tops \(\tau_b=\prod_{f\in b}L_f^{\epsilon_f}\), \(\epsilon_f\in\{1,2\}\), each form a factor of exactly one top. Group the cells by the class, up to scalars, of their coefficient vector \((L_f(\text{cell}))_f\in\mathbb F_3^F\), and let \(s_g\) be the size of group \(g\). For a nonzero combination \(\ell=\sum_f\mu_fL_f\) put \(w(\ell)=\sum_{g:\ \ell\ne0\text{ on }g}\lfloor s_g/2\rfloor\). If \(w(\ell)>e\) for every combination with coefficients \(\mu\ne0\) (so the hypothesis forces the forms to be nonzero and linearly independent, since a vanishing combination has \(w=0\)), then (1) \(\Lambda\) is free over \(T=\mathbb F_3[L_1,\dots,L_F]/(L_f^3)\) in the blocks meeting degrees \(\le e\), and (2) the top syzygies through multiplier degree \(e\) are Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs. Since \(\lfloor s/2\rfloor\ge(s-1)/2\), it suffices that every nonzero combination has at least \(2e+1+\gamma(\ell)\) cells, \(\gamma(\ell)\le(3^F-1)/2\) the number of groups it meets.

prop:free-part-criterion

Proof. Blocks. Scale each cell so that its coefficient vector is the chosen representative \(v_g\) of its group, and let \(u_g\) be the sum of the cells of group \(g\); then \(L_f=\sum_g(v_g)_fu_g\). By lem:pair-seed-decomposition, \(\Lambda(G_g)\) is a free \(\mathbb F_3[u_g]/(u_g^3)\)-module plus one block \(\mathbb F_3[u_g]/(u_g^{r_g})\), \(r_g\in\{1,2\}\), starting in degree \(\lfloor s_g/2\rfloor\). Tensoring over the groups, \(\Lambda\) is a direct sum of blocks \(P_K(-d)\otimes V\), where \(K\) is the set of groups contributing their non-free block, \(P_K=\bigotimes_{g\notin K}\mathbb F_3[u_g]/(u_g^3)\otimes\bigotimes_{g\in K}\mathbb F_3[u_g]/(u_g^{r_g})\), and the shift is \(d\ge\sum_{g\in K}\lfloor s_g/2\rfloor\). The forms and tops are polynomials in the \(u_g\), so syzygies, Taylor spans and the \(T\)-module structure split along blocks, and a syzygy of multiplier degree \(e'\) has no component in blocks of shift \(d>e'\).

Good blocks. Write \(L_f=a_f+n_f\) in \(P_K\), with \(a_f\) the part on the groups outside \(K\) (the free part) and \(n_f\) the part on \(K\). Suppose the \(a_f\) are linearly independent. In characteristic 3 the cube of a linear form is the sum of the cubes of its terms (the mechanism of lem:gale-group-algebra, there for squares in characteristic 2), so the ideal \((u_g^3:g\notin K)\) contains the cube of every linear form in these variables; hence \(P_{\mathrm{free}}=\bigotimes_{g\notin K}\mathbb F_3[u_g]/(u_g^3)\) is \(\mathbb F_3[a_1,\dots,a_F,c_1,\dots]/(\text{cubes})\) for any completion of the \(a_f\) to a basis. The substitution \(a_f\mapsto a_f-n_f\) respects the relations, since \((a_f-n_f)^3=a_f^3-n_f^3\) and \(n_f^3=0\) (each \(u_g\), \(g\in K\), has \(u_g^{r_g}=0\) with \(r_g\le2\)), and it is invertible; it is an automorphism of \(P_K\) carrying \(L_f\) to \(a_f\). So \(P_K\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[a_1,\dots,a_F]/(\text{cubes})\cong T\), and the tops become monomials \(\prod_{f\in b}a_f^{\epsilon_f}\) in disjoint sets of variables. For such monomials in a free module over \(T\), every syzygy is Taylor: in a multidegree \(\alpha\) with \(x^\alpha=0\) in \(T\), some exponent \(\alpha_f\ge3\); if \(f\) lies in top \(b\), the component on \(e_b\) is divisible by \(a_f^{3-\epsilon_f}\) (a Frobenius syzygy), and otherwise it vanishes; if \(x^\alpha\ne0\), the components' coefficients sum to zero and the syzygy is a combination of the pairwise differences, which are multiples of the Koszul pairs because disjoint monomials have their product as least common multiple.

Bad blocks. If the free parts are dependent, a nonzero \(\ell=\sum\mu_fL_f\) has \(\sum\mu_fa_f=0\), that is, \(\ell\) vanishes on every group outside \(K\), and then \(d\ge\sum_{g\in K}\lfloor s_g/2\rfloor\ge w(\ell)>e\). So every block of shift at most \(e\) is good, which gives (1) and, since syzygies of multiplier degree \(e'\le e\) live in blocks of shift at most \(e'\), (2). \(\square\)

What it gives

For a single top it recovers thm:single-top-wilson-threshold's sufficiency up to a constant: each combination meets three groups, so lengths \(2e+4\) suffice, better than prop:single-top-combination's \(2e+7\) and short of the sharp \(2e+2\). For any bounded number of tops on one row it proves Taylor generation from long combinations of all the forms, with an additive constant depending on \(F\); for a pair, \(\gamma\le40\).
It generalizes the one-row case of thm:row-rank-seeds: seeds are large groups whose representatives span \(\mathbb F_3^F\), so every nonzero combination is nonzero on one of them and \(w(\ell)\) exceeds the degree; here the half-sizes of all groups a combination meets add up.
It does not prove conj:two-form-wilson-taylor beyond one top: its hypothesis is on combinations of all the forms, including the three-form combinations that ex:three-form-relations found harmless, and blocks with dependent free parts need not carry a defect.
It cannot reach W's families: with \(F\) forms the cells split into up to \((3^F-1)/2\) groups, and once \(3^F\) exceeds the number of cells almost every group has one cell, so every block has \(K\) equal to nearly all groups at shift 0 and the criterion is empty. This is the same wall as conj:squares-taylor-is-freeness: freeness over all the forms cannot hold for many forms, and W's regime needs Taylor generation without it.

Outcome. prop:free-part-criterion: on one row, Taylor generation, and freeness over the forms' truncated algebra, hold through multiplier degree \(e\) whenever every nonzero combination of the forms meets coefficient groups of total half-size above \(e\). Blocks with independent free parts are free, by a change of variables that the Frobenius relation makes possible. The criterion covers any bounded number of tops and generalizes the one-row row-rank seeds, but it is empty for W's many forms, where Taylor generation must hold without freeness.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review. The block method now settles one top exactly and any bounded number of tops up to constants, and meets the recorded wall that freeness over all forms fails for many forms; the review should weigh whether a relative version, freeness over the forms of small subfamilies, can carry W's many forms, against the other routes to A1.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pair-seed-decomposition, thm:row-rank-seeds, prop:syzygies-as-tor, conj:squares-taylor-is-freeness and the single-top results. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the scaling, the block decomposition and splitting, the invariance of the cube ideal, the automorphism and its inverse, the monomial Taylor argument, the bad-block step and the corollary's arithmetic, and judged the comparisons fair. It required one clarification, adopted: combinations are taken with nonzero coefficient vectors, which makes the forms' independence and nonvanishing part of the hypothesis and closes the bad-block step. Its suggestions to cite lem:gale-group-algebra and to state the single-top constant are adopted.

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Route review of the Wilson-length line: every recorded non-Taylor class is a short combination of at most two forms, one top is settled exactly and any bounded number of tops up to constants, but freeness over all forms is impossible for W's many forms, and no local-to-global principle for Taylor generation is known

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-block-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the Wilson-length line: every recorded non-Taylor class is a short combination of at most two forms, one top is settled exactly and any bounded number of tops up to constants, but freeness over all forms is impossible for W's many forms, and no local-to-global principle for Taylor generation is known”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-block-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the configuration review, five entries: short-form defects (every recorded piece is a short combination of at most two forms; conj:two-form-wilson-taylor), three-form relations (near-shared squared forms carry syzygies; near three-form relations carry none in exact checks), single-top blocks and single-top Wilson threshold (one top is Taylor exactly at column Wilson's lengths, for any overlapping forms), and free-part criterion (bounded numbers of tops from long combinations of all forms, via freeness).

The line's general claim

conj:two-form-wilson-taylor: below the fill point, product tops are Taylor-generated through \(D\) when every nonzero combination of at most two linear parts is nonzero on at least \(2(D-h)+2\) columns. Proved: its single-top case, sharply (thm:single-top-wilson-threshold); all bounded families when every combination of all the forms is long (prop:free-part-criterion). The obstructions it names are explained by exact constructions (prop:short-form-survival, prop:near-shared-syzygies).

What the goal needs

A1 needs Taylor generation, or another route to W, for \(n^K\) blocks of \(k+1\) forms on an \(n\times n\) board: far more forms than cells, so the forms are linearly dependent, almost every cell's coefficient group has a single cell, and freeness over the forms' truncated algebra is impossible (conj:squares-taylor-is-freeness). What is missing is a principle that derives Taylor generation of a family with many forms from properties of small subfamilies, without freeness.

Falsification attempt

Could a family with many forms have all combinations of at most two forms long, every pair Taylor-generated, and still a defect? A defect needs a syzygy not generated by pairs. The recorded data (conj:pair-generation, random one-row families) found pairs generating every class, and the three-form test found no effect of near three-form relations at small sizes. Row inflation shows only that small column support matters, which the conjecture's hypothesis excludes. No counterexample; the attempt shows that the conjecture for many forms is a local-to-global statement with no proof mechanism, not that it is false.

Obstacle

No local-to-global principle for Taylor generation: nothing derives the absence of non-Taylor syzygies in a family of many forms from single tops and pairs, and the one mechanism that handles several tops, freeness over the forms' truncated algebra, fails once the forms outnumber the cells.

Assessment of the route

Productive: this line produced the first theorems for dense overlapping forms (one top exactly, bounded families up to constants) and an exact explanation of every recorded obstruction. It has reached the same wall the record met with square tops: W's regime needs Taylor generation without freeness. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Dade's lemma and Carlson's rank varieties (E. C. Dade, Endo-permutation modules over p-groups II, Ann. of Math. 108, 1978; J. F. Carlson, The varieties and the cohomology ring of a module, J. Algebra 85, 1983). In characteristic 3, \(T=\mathbb F_3[L_1,\dots,L_F]/(L_f^3)\) is the group algebra of \((\mathbb Z/3)^F\), and a module is free over it exactly when it is free over every cyclic shifted subgroup \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3[\ell_\alpha]/(\ell_\alpha^3)\), \(\ell_\alpha=\sum\alpha_fL_f\). Answers. A local-to-global principle for freeness, from single combinations of the forms to all of them, which is the shape the obstacle asks for. Test. Falsified for W: every single form has a non-free Jordan block in degree \(\lfloor|\ell|/2\rfloor\) (lem:pair-seed-decomposition), so the algebra is never free in all degrees and a degree-bounded Dade lemma would be needed; and with more forms than cells some \(\ell_\alpha\) vanishes, so even that fails for W's families.
The support-variety tensor product theorem (Avrunin and Scott, Quillen stratification for modules, Invent. Math. 66, 1982). Answers. \(\operatorname{Tor}^T_i(T/J,\Lambda)\) vanishes for large \(i\) when the varieties of \(T/J\) and \(\Lambda\) meet only at 0, a local criterion, comparing varieties built from single combinations, that does not need \(\Lambda\) free; \(T/J\) is the tensor product of the single tops' quotients, so its variety is a product. Test. Falsified: a single top's quotient has dimension \(3^r-\prod_f(3-\epsilon_f)\), where \(\prod_f(3-\epsilon_f)\) is a product of ones and twos, so the dimension is never divisible by 3 and the quotient is free over no cyclic shifted subgroup; its variety is the whole space, the criterion again requires \(\Lambda\) free, and it concerns high \(\operatorname{Tor}\) while Taylor generation is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in low degrees (prop:syzygies-as-tor).
The lcm lattice of monomial ideals (Gasharov, Peeva and Welker, The lcm-lattice in monomial resolutions, Math. Res. Lett. 6, 1999). Answers. For tops that are monomials in the forms, the shape of the resolution, and so Taylor generation, depends only on the lattice of least common multiples, a combinatorial local-to-global object. Test. Falsified for the obstacle: with many forms the tops are not monomials in any coordinates, since the change of variables that makes them monomials needs independent free parts. (For bounded families it holds as a translation: the monomial step of prop:free-part-criterion is the Boolean-lattice case.)

Absurd bridges

Delsarte's duality between codes and designs (P. Delsarte, Four fundamental parameters of a code and their combinatorial significance, Inform. Control 23, 1973). Translation: the forms' coefficient vectors span a code; long combinations are its minimum distance, and the dual statement is that the cells' coefficient vectors form an orthogonal array. Answers. Delsarte turns the conjecture's distance hypothesis into a design property of the cells, a local uniformity that might replace freeness for many forms: in an orthogonal array of strength \(t\), any \(t\) forms look jointly uniform. Test. Falsified in the whole-family form (for W the code has dimension at most the number of cells, so combinations vanish), and for small subfamilies it is \(t\)-wise independence, whose ideal-locality version the covering obstruction refutes (prop:covering-obstruction); whether it implies Taylor generation, which is weaker than ideal locality, is untested.
Phylogenetic invariants and flattenings (Allman and Rhodes, Phylogenetic ideals and varieties for the general Markov model, Adv. in Appl. Math. 40, 2008). Translation: membership in a phylogenetic variety is certified by rank conditions on flattenings over small subsets of leaves; Taylor generation is a rank condition on the multiplication maps of the family. Answers. Varieties defined by local flattening ranks are exactly local-to-global rank statements; an analogue would certify the family's rank condition from ranks of flattenings over pairs of tops. Test. Not run: no flattening of the syzygy rank over subfamilies is formulated.

Lead follow-up

Fröberg's conjecture as the random case: developed in single-top Wilson threshold for one generator, where the expected annihilator is proved for every choice of forms; for several generators the free-part criterion covers bounded families. Follow-up. Continuing: the many-generator case is the obstacle above.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove the pair case of conj:two-form-wilson-taylor, the first case where the two-form restriction has content, by classifying blocks with dependent free parts. For a pair the free parts of the four forms span at most four dimensions; compute, in the truncated algebras \(\mathbb F_3[x_1,\dots,x_d]/(x_i^3)\), \(d\le3\), the defect of the pair's tops for every type of linear relation among their free parts, and test whether only relations of at most two forms (a short form, a second form modulo the squared one, or two tops' squared forms) give a defect.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the five entries reviewed, the configuration and survival reviews, conj:squares-taylor-is-freeness, prop:covering-obstruction and lem:pair-seed-decomposition. The cheap tests were run as arguments in the cycle, including the dimension count for a single top's quotient. A fresh-context reviewer checked the summaries, the group-algebra identification and Dade's lemma, the non-free blocks of single forms, the dimension argument modulo 3, every citation and test grade, and the follow-ups across the route's earlier reviews, and found the review sound. It required two changes, both adopted: the Allman–Rhodes title is corrected, and the claim about coefficient groups is stated as almost every group, not every group. Its suggestion to tie the Avrunin–Scott answer to the obstacle is adopted.

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Pair relations: in a pair's Jordan blocks every linear relation among the four forms' free parts carries a defect, and a pair whose four-form combination lives on one or two cells, with every combination of at most two forms long, has a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree 3. The two-form conjecture is refuted; combinations of the forms of any two tops must be long

27 September 2026 · Refutation with exact checks, and a conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pair-relations. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pair relations: in a pair's Jordan blocks every linear relation among the four forms' free parts carries a defect, and a pair whose four-form combination lives on one or two cells, with every combination of at most two forms long, has a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree 3. The two-form conjecture is refuted; combinations of the forms of any two tops must be long”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-pair-relations.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The block-line review proposed proving the pair case of conj:two-form-wilson-taylor by classifying the Jordan blocks whose free parts are dependent (prop:free-part-criterion's bad blocks). For a pair \(\tau_1=A^2B\), \(\tau_2=C^2E\) on one row, such a block is \(T_3\otimes N\), with \(T_3=\mathbb F_3[x_1,x_2,x_3]/(x_i^3)\) carrying the four forms as the images of the basis of \(\mathbb F_3^4/\langle\mu\rangle\) for the relation \(\mu\), and \(N\) the non-free part on which the relation's combination acts: as 0 when its groups contribute \(J_1\) blocks, as a nilpotent \(u\), \(u^2=0\), for a \(J_2\) block.

General statement. conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor, over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak unary base: product-constraint tops of degree \(h\) below the fill point are Taylor-generated through \(D\) if, for every top and every pair of tops, every nonzero combination of their linear parts has a nonzero coefficient in at least \(2(D-h)+2\) columns. It replaces conj:two-form-wilson-taylor, which the check below refutes.

The relation types

research/tools/pair_relation_types.m2 computes, for each of the 40 relations \(\mu\in\mathbb F_3^4\) up to scalars and both kinds of \(N\), the pair's Taylor defect in every multiplier degree (research/results/odd-prime-pair-relations/types.jsonl). Discarding the relations that make a top vanish (with \(N=\mathbb F_3\): a form zero, \(E=\pm C\), \(B=\pm A\); with a \(J_2\) block only \(A=0\) and \(C=0\), since there the unsquared form keeps the nilpotent part \(u\) and the top survives), every remaining relation gives a defect, including those extra \(J_2\) cases: the two-form relations (\(B\) or \(E\) proportional to a form of the other top, \(A=\pm C\)) and all three- and four-form relations alike, first at multiplier degree 1 or 2 with \(N=\mathbb F_3\) and at 1 to 3 with a \(J_2\) block (four-form relations: 2 and 3). So for a pair every dependency of the free parts is bad, and prop:free-part-criterion's hypothesis, long combinations of all four forms, is the right one for pairs, up to the offsets.

The direct check

research/tools/three_form_check.cpp (pair modes added this cycle) draws pairs on one row of 16 cells with \(E=-(A+B+C)+\delta\), \(\delta\) on one or two cells, rejection-sampled until every nonzero combination of at most two of the four forms has at least 8 cells, and controls with \(E\) random under the same condition; fill ratio \(2\binom{16}3/\binom{16}6\approx0.14\). The four related pairs have Taylor defects 0, 0, 1 at multiplier degrees 1, 2, 3; the four controls have 0, 0, 0 (research/results/odd-prime-pair-relations/direct_pairs.jsonl and direct_controls.jsonl; the first file's single control line has an out-of-bounds support field from a bug fixed before the rerun, and its defects agree with the rerun). The defect at degree 3 is the one the \(J_2\) blocks predict for a four-form relation whose cells form singleton groups.

Refutation of conj:two-form-wilson-taylor. Take \(D=6\), \(h=3\), so the conjecture asks two-form combinations of at least \(2(D-h)+2=8\) columns. The related pairs meet this on one row, below the fill point, and have a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree 3, total degree 6. The defects at degrees 0 to 2 vanish (no multiplier of degree 0 kills a nonzero top), so, as for the inflated pair of row inflation, lem:spare-column-transfer carries the defect to the weak top algebra of one row with at least 11 spare columns, and prop:row-inflation to the weak unary board with any number of rows, where column weights are unchanged. So the conjecture fails at every large \(n\).

What it gives

A short combination of all four forms of a pair creates a defect even when every two-form combination is long; the obstruction list of short-form defects was complete for the recorded random families only because their short combinations happened to involve at most two forms.
The three-top test (ex:three-form-relations) found near relations among three tops' squared forms harmless, while every relation within a pair is harmful. This is the pattern of conj:pair-generation, that non-Taylor classes are generated within pairs, and the revised conjecture asks long combinations within single tops and pairs only.
For W's tops, with \(k+1\) forms each, a pair has \(2(k+1)\) forms. For random dense families every combination of them has about \(\frac23\) of the columns, so the revised hypothesis holds with high probability; an adversary controls relations inside pairs, a checkable property of each pair.
The block method does not reach W's tops themselves: a single top with \(k+1\) forms already splits the cells into up to \((3^{k+1}-1)/2\) groups, more than the cells once \(k\approx\log n\). So Taylor generation of one dense width-\(k\) top is itself open beyond the designed case (thm:column-wilson-taylor).

Outcome. ex:pair-relation-defects: every linear relation among the free parts of a pair's four forms gives a defective block, and pairs with a short four-form combination and all two-form combinations long have a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree 3, while controls have none; this refutes conj:two-form-wilson-taylor on the weak base at every large \(n\). conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor asks long combinations within single tops and within pairs.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the single dense width-\(k\) top, the first piece of the revised conjecture that W needs and that no recorded result covers. Find a method that does not tensor over coefficient groups, for instance induction on the forms of the top through the lift obstruction, adding one form at a time, and test whether one top of \(k+1\) dense forms is Taylor-generated when every combination of its forms is long.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:free-part-criterion, prop:row-inflation, lem:spare-column-transfer, conj:two-form-wilson-taylor, conj:pair-generation and ex:three-form-relations. The claim search found no earlier version. A fresh-context reviewer checked the Macaulay2 construction (the forms from the kernel of \(\mu\), the \(J_2\) correction, the Taylor span, the degree indexing) against all 80 output rows, the pair construction and rejection sampling, every number, the note on the buggy control line, and the refutation's transfer to the weak base, and found the entry sound. It required one change, adopted: which relations make a top vanish depends on the kind of block, and the extra nondegenerate \(J_2\) cases, which also give defects, are included.

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Graded Dade without row sums: the recorded worst-direction conjecture, moved from the column model to the square-free algebra without its row sum, holds exactly in 28 families with up to four forms, and the two recorded exceptions disappear there. Its necessity half is a rediscovery of line necessity's mechanism; with the converse, single dense tops and pairs on one row would be Taylor-generated from long combinations

27 September 2026 · Rediscovery and refinement, with exact checks and a conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dense-top. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Graded Dade without row sums: the recorded worst-direction conjecture, moved from the column model to the square-free algebra without its row sum, holds exactly in 28 families with up to four forms, and the two recorded exceptions disappear there. Its necessity half is a rediscovery of line necessity's mechanism; with the converse, single dense tops and pairs on one row would be Taylor-generated from long combinations”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-graded-dade.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Pair relations left the single dense top with \(k+1\) forms as the first piece of conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor that W needs, beyond the reach of the block method. By prop:syzygies-as-tor, tops that are monomials in forms \(L_1,\dots,L_F\) are Taylor-generated through a degree whenever the algebra is free over \(T=\mathbb F_3[L_1,\dots,L_F]/(L_f^3)\) through it. The block-line review found Dade's lemma, which detects freeness over \(T\) (the group algebra of \((\mathbb Z/3)^F\)) on single combinations, but only in all degrees, where it never holds. This cycle tests a graded version. The search after drafting found that the record already states it for the column model \(R=\mathbb F_3[t]/(t_j^2,\sum t_j)\): conj:worst-direction-freeness (free through \(t\) exactly when every nonzero direction has \(c\ge2t-1\) columns, called a graded analogue of Dade's lemma), checked exhaustively on pencils in ex:pencil-worst-direction with two exceptions at \(t=3\), and with an only-if half proved for column tensor powers and the weak algebra without row sums in prop:line-necessity, whose remaining half is named a graded Dade lemma. This entry is a rediscovery of that statement and of the necessity mechanism, moved to \(\Lambda\) without the row sum, where the recorded exceptions can be tested again. Related sufficient conditions in the row-sum model are thm:column-seed-freeness, thm:board-seed-freeness and conj:diagonal-freeness.

General statement. (A rediscovery and refinement; see above.) On the square-free algebra \(\Lambda\) of \(N\) cells over \(\mathbb F_3\) (one row), with \(W_t=[q^t](1+q)^N/(1+q+q^2)^F\) the free prediction and \(\Lambda\) called free through \(t\) when \(\dim(\Lambda/(L_1,\dots,L_F)\Lambda)_{t'}=W_{t'}\) for all \(t'\le t\) (prop:syzygies-as-tor): prop:graded-freeness-necessity. If some nonzero combination \(\ell=\sum\mu_fL_f\), \(\mu\in\mathbb F_3^F\), has \(|\ell|\le2t-2\) cells, then \(\Lambda\) is not free over \(T\) through \(t\); more precisely freeness fails by degree \(\lfloor(|\ell|+3)/2\rfloor\). conj:graded-dade: conversely, if every nonzero combination has at least \(2t-1\) cells, \(\Lambda\) is free over \(T\) through \(t\); so the first failure is at \(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor\), \(s\) the least support of a nonzero combination.

prop:graded-freeness-necessity

Proof. Freeness through \(t\) means that a minimal free \(T\)-cover of \(\Lambda\) is bijective in degrees \(\le t\) (the kernel's lowest elements would be minimal relations, raising \(\dim\Lambda/\mathfrak m_T\Lambda\) above \(W\) in some degree \(\le t\)). The subalgebra \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) of \(T\) has \(T\) free over it (complete \(\ell\) to a basis of the forms' span; the cube ideal is basis-independent in characteristic 3), so the restriction of the cover is a free \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\)-module bijective with \(\Lambda\) in degrees \(\le t\). Scaling cells makes \(\ell\) the sum of its \(s=|\ell|\) cells, and \(\Lambda=\Lambda(\operatorname{supp}\ell)\otimes\Lambda(\text{rest})\) with \(\ell\) acting on the first factor. By lem:pair-seed-decomposition that factor is free plus one block, \(J_1\) in degree \(s/2\) for even \(s\) (whose generator is killed by \(\ell\), a relation in degree \(s/2+1\)) or \(J_2\) from degree \((s-1)/2\) (killed by \(\ell^2\), a relation in degree \((s+3)/2\)); tensoring with the second factor, which contains its degree-0 part, keeps that relation. So \(\Lambda\) is not free over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) through \(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor\), hence not over \(T\). If \(s\le2t-2\), that degree is at most \(t\). \(\square\)

The exact check

research/tools/graded_dade_check.cpp computes \(\dim(\Lambda/(L_1,\dots,L_F)\Lambda)_t\) by exact ranks and compares it with \(W_t\), on \(N=14\) cells for \(F=1,2,3,4\), three random families and four with a planted combination on 2, 4, 6 or 8 chosen cells each (\(L_F=-(L_1+\dots+L_{F-1})+\delta\)), 28 families in all (research/results/odd-prime-graded-dade/n14.jsonl). In every one the first discrepancy is at \(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor\) exactly, with \(s\) the least support of a nonzero combination, from 1 to 11 cells. For \(F=1\) this is the proposition; for \(F\ge2\) the observed freeness up to that degree is the converse, which the proposition does not give.

Falsification attempt. The record has a non-pointwise defect: in the column-subalgebra model \(R=\mathbb F_3[t_1,\dots,t_n]/(t_j^2,\sum t_j)\), the occupancy pair whose cells carry the points of \(AG(2,3)\) minus a point (\(n=8\)), or all nine (\(n=9\)), fails freeness at degree 3 while every single combination, over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) too, is free through degree 3 (ex:occupancy-pair-non-pointwise-defect, ex:occupancy-pair-model-scaling). That model is \(\Lambda\) modulo the row sum. The same configurations in \(\Lambda\) (research/results/odd-prime-graded-dade/ag23.jsonl) fail first at degree 4, where their least supports 5 and 6 predict it. This is consistent with the recorded defects coming from the row-sum relation (two configurations, one exception of the record's random tests, at \(n=12\), \(d=4\), \(t=3\) near capacity, not retested), and the conjecture is stated for the monomial algebra without row sums, the algebra that lem:spare-column-transfer reduces the weak base to when spare columns exist; the record did not see the early failure at \(n=16\) either.

What the conjecture would give

A single top with \(k+1\) dense forms, or a pair with \(2(k+1)\), is monomial in its forms, so by prop:syzygies-as-tor it would be Taylor-generated through total degree \(t\) whenever every nonzero combination of its forms has at least \(2t-1\) cells. On one row, where column statistics live, this is the local half of conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor; W's tops live on several rows, where the monomial algebra's columns have rank above one and the conjecture needs its own statement and test before it can be applied to W's random or adversarial tops. The other half, that classes are generated within pairs (conj:pair-generation), would remain.
Freeness is stronger than Taylor generation: for one two-form top the sharp condition (thm:single-top-wilson-threshold) asks \(2e+2\) and \(2e+1\) cells at multiplier degree \(e\), while freeness through total degree \(e+3\) asks \(2e+5\). The conjecture would be sufficient, not sharp, for syzygies.
It is a degree-bounded Dade lemma: freeness through \(t\) over the whole truncated algebra would be decided by single combinations, with the Jordan location of lem:pair-seed-decomposition as the local datum. In the whole algebra the ungraded lemma says nothing, since \(\Lambda\) is never free in all degrees.

Outcome. prop:graded-freeness-necessity (the mechanism of prop:line-necessity, rediscovered in \(\Lambda\)): freeness over the forms' truncated algebra through degree \(t\) needs every nonzero combination to have at least \(2t-1\) cells, with failure at \(\lfloor(|\ell|+3)/2\rfloor\). conj:graded-dade, conj:worst-direction-freeness without the row sum, holds exactly in 28 families with up to four forms and in the two recorded exceptional configurations; with it, single dense tops and pairs would be Taylor-generated from long combinations of their own forms.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove conj:graded-dade. \(\Lambda\) is the tensor product over cells of rank-one modules \(\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^2)\) on which the forms act through the cell's coefficient vector; try induction on cells, showing that adding a cell raises the degree of every non-free part along each combination nonzero on it, or a graded form of Carlson's rank-variety argument restricted to degrees \(\le t\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pair-seed-decomposition and prop:syzygies-as-tor, and, after the review, conj:worst-direction-freeness, ex:pencil-worst-direction, prop:line-necessity, thm:column-seed-freeness, thm:board-seed-freeness and conj:diagonal-freeness. The claim search before drafting missed these; the reviewer's search found them, and the entry is reframed as a rediscovery and refinement. A fresh-context reviewer checked the necessity proof step by step, the kernel's Hilbert-function and prediction computations, and all 30 records against the formula, and found the mathematics sound. It required three changes, all adopted: links to the earlier worst-direction statements, registration with those relationships, and a corrected statement at the head of the kernel, which still described a first guess. Its suggestion to qualify the row-sum explanation as consistent with two configurations is adopted.

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Pencil graded Dade: for two forms on one row the square-free algebra is free exactly through \(\lfloor(s+1)/2\rfloor\), with one four-cell exception; the version of graded Dade without a size condition is false, since the projective plane's thirteen cells fail one degree early. A margin version is conjectured, and W's regime of cells at distinct points is where the proof must go

27 September 2026 · Working proof, refutation and conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-graded-dade-proof. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pencil graded Dade: for two forms on one row the square-free algebra is free exactly through \(\lfloor(s+1)/2\rfloor\), with one four-cell exception; the version of graded Dade without a size condition is false, since the projective plane's thirteen cells fail one degree early. A margin version is conjectured, and W's regime of cells at distinct points is where the proof must go”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-pencil-graded-dade.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Graded Dade conjectured that the square-free algebra \(\Lambda\) of one row is free over \(T=\mathbb F_3[L_1,\dots,L_F]/(L_f^3)\) through degree \(t\) whenever every nonzero combination of the forms has at least \(2t-1\) cells (conj:graded-dade). With it, single dense tops and pairs would be Taylor-generated from long combinations. This cycle tries to prove it, starting with two forms, where the cells fall into the four points of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_3)\). The record's pencil check in the row-sum model (ex:pencil-worst-direction) says a tensor-decomposition proof fails there because multiplicity-one points give non-free blocks in degree 0. Without the row sum, \(\Lambda\) is a tensor product over points, so the blocks can be computed exactly, and the test is whether they give the threshold for every multiplicity vector.

General statement. thm:pencil-graded-dade. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(A,B\) be linear forms on the square-free algebra \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_N]/(y_i^2)\), \(T=\mathbb F_3[A,B]/(A^3,B^3)\), and let the first failure be the least degree of a minimal relation of \(\Lambda\) over \(T\) (the least degree where \(\dim(\Lambda/(A,B)\Lambda)\) departs from \((1+q)^N/(1+q+q^2)^2\), prop:syzygies-as-tor). Let \(s\) be the least number of cells of a nonzero combination \(\mu_1A+\mu_2B\). Then the first failure is \(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor\), so \(\Lambda\) is free through \(t\) exactly when \(s\ge2t-1\), unless the cells with nonzero coefficient vector are exactly four, one at each point of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_3)\); there the first failure is 2 while \(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor=3\).

thm:pencil-graded-dade

Proof. If \(A,B\) are dependent, some nonzero combination is 0, \(s=0\), and it kills the generator 1, a relation in degree \(1=\lfloor3/2\rfloor\). Let them be independent.

Points. Scaling a cell by \(-1\) is an automorphism of \(\Lambda\), so each cell with coefficient vector \((a_i,b_i)\ne0\) may be taken at one of the four points \(x\in\{(1,0),(0,1),(1,1),(1,2)\}\). Let \(n_x\) cells lie at \(x\), \(N_0=\sum n_x\), and \(z\) cells have vector 0. Then \(\Lambda=\bigotimes_x\Lambda(n_x)\otimes\Lambda(z)\) as algebras, with \(u_x\) the sum of the cells at \(x\), \(A=\sum_xx_1u_x\) and \(B=\sum_xx_2u_x\), and \(T\) acting trivially on \(\Lambda(z)\). Each of the four nonzero combinations up to sign vanishes at exactly one point, so its support is \(N_0-n_x\) for that point, and \(s=N_0-m\), \(m=\max_xn_x\).
Blocks. By lem:pair-seed-decomposition, \(\Lambda(n)\) over \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) is a direct sum of free blocks \(J_3\) and one exceptional block \(E\): \(J_1\) in degree \(n/2\) for even \(n\), \(J_2\) from degree \((n-1)/2\) for odd \(n\). Write \(n=2e+\varepsilon\), so \(E\) has type \(1+\varepsilon\) and bottom degree \(e\). For \(n\ge2\) one free block sits in degree 0: \(u^2=2\sum_{i<j}y_iy_j\ne0\), so 1 generates a free submodule, which is a graded direct summand because \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) is self-injective. Since \(A,B\) act through the \(u_x\), each on its own factor, tensoring these decompositions decomposes \(\Lambda\) over \(T\) into shifted modules \(P_r\otimes\Lambda(z)\), \(P_r=\bigotimes_x\mathbb F_3[u_x]/(u_x^{r_x})\), \(r\in\{1,2,3\}^4\), shifted by the sum of the chosen blocks' bottom degrees.
Summands. A minimal free cover of a direct sum is the sum of the covers, so the first failure of a direct sum is the least over its summands; a shift adds to it. \(\Lambda(z)\) is a sum of trivial one-dimensional modules in degrees \(\ge0\), one of them in degree 0, so tensoring with it does not change the first failure.
Block table. Let \(f(r)\) be the first failure of \(P_r\) and \(O\) the number of \(r_x=2\). Macaulay2 computed \(f\) for all 81 types (research/tools/pencil_freeness_blocks.m2, research/results/odd-prime-pencil-dade/blocks.jsonl), and research/tools/pencil_dade_formula.py checks the pattern: \(P_r\) is free when two \(r_x=3\); \(f(r)=1+[O\ge2]\) when no \(r_x=3\); \(f(r)=1+[O_j\ge1]+[O_j=3]\) when only \(r_j=3\), \(O_j\) counting the other points. Two cases by hand. Two free factors at distinct points \(x,x'\) span \(\mathbb F_3^2\), so after a linear change of variables (cubes are additive in characteristic 3) their product is \(\mathbb F_3[A,B]/(A^3,B^3)\), free over \(T\), and a free module tensored with any module over this Hopf algebra (primitive coproduct) is free. With no \(r_x=3\), \(P_r\) is \(\Lambda\) of \(O\) cells at distinct points: for \(O\le1\) a combination vanishing on those points kills 1 in degree 1; for \(O\ge2\) degree 1 has no relation (\(A,B\) are independent there), and degree 2 must, since \(3+2(O-2)>\binom O2\) for \(O\le4\).
Minimization. A summand with a free factor in degree \(\sigma>0\) has the same type as one with that factor in degree 0 and a larger shift, and summands with two free factors are free. So the first failure is the least of \(V_\emptyset=\sum_xe_x+f(1+\varepsilon)\) and, for each \(j\) with \(n_j\ge2\), \(V_j=\sum_{x\ne j}e_x+f(r^{(j)})\), where \(r^{(j)}\) is \(1+\varepsilon\) with \(r_j=3\). Let \(O_j\) count odd \(n_x\), \(x\ne j\); then \(N_0-n_j\equiv O_j\pmod2\). By the table \(2V_j=N_0-n_j+2+[O_j\text{ odd}]\) in all four cases \(O_j=0,1,2,3\). If \(m\ge2\), at a point \(j\) with \(n_j=m\) this is \(2\lfloor(N_0-m+3)/2\rfloor\), and at other points \(n_j\le m-1\) gives \(2V_j\ge N_0-m+3\). Also \(2V_\emptyset=N_0-O+2+2[O\ge2]\), which is at least \(N_0-m+2+[N_0-m\text{ odd}]\) exactly when \(m+2[O\ge2]\ge O+[N_0-m\text{ odd}]\). This holds for \(O\le1\), and for \(O\ge2\) with \(m\ge3\) (\(m+2\ge5\)) or \(m=2\) (then \(O\le3\)). If \(m=1\), all \(n_x\le1\) and \(O=N_0\in\{2,3,4\}\) (with at most one occupied point \(A\) and \(B\) would be multiples of one \(u_x\), against independence), and \(V_\emptyset\) is the only candidate: it equals \(2=\lfloor(N_0+2)/2\rfloor\) for \(N_0=2,3\), and \(2<3\) for \(N_0=4\). So the least value is \(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor\) except at \(n=(1,1,1,1)\). \(\square\)

The exception is capacity. There \(\Lambda(4)\) has Hilbert function \((1,4,6,4,1)\), and the free prediction has \(W_2=6-2\cdot2-3=-1<0\), so no module is free through 2. Every line is free through 2 there, even over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\): rational lines see three cells (\(J_2^{\otimes3}=J_3^{\oplus2}\oplus J_2(1)\), failure 3), and non-rational lines see four (\(J_1(2)\) plus free, failure 3). So \(\Lambda\) without the row sum has non-pointwise defects too, at capacity. research/tools/pencil_dade_formula.py also evaluates the minimization for all 28560 nonzero \(n\in\{0,\dots,12\}^4\) and finds only \((1,1,1,1)\) off the formula, which guards the arithmetic of step 5.

ex:projective-dade-exceptions

research/tools/graded_dade_check.cpp (now with a capacity field, the least degree with \(W_d<0\), and a configuration with one cell at each point of \(\mathbb P^{F-1}(\mathbb F_3)\)) computed exact first failures in 52 cases (research/results/odd-prime-pencil-dade/capacity.jsonl):

Four points of \(\mathbb P^1\) (\(N=4\), \(F=2\)): \(s=3\), first failure 2, capacity 2, as the theorem says.
Thirteen points of \(\mathbb P^2\) (\(N=13\), \(F=3\)): a combination vanishes on a line of 4 points, so \(s=9\) and conj:graded-dade predicts failure at 6. The observed first failure is 5, and the capacity is 6, so the prediction is positive at degree 5 and the failure is not forced by it. This refutes conj:graded-dade as stated, with no size condition. The recorded model version kept one: conj:worst-direction-freeness asks \(n\ge n_0(d,t)\), and its random tests had an exception near capacity (\(n=12\), \(d=4\), \(t=3\)); the graded Dade entry dropped the condition when moving the statement to \(\Lambda\).
Fifty random families with \(N=6,8,10,12\), \(F=3,4,5\) (four seeds each) and \(N=16\), \(F=5\) (two seeds): the first failure equals \(\min(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor,\text{capacity})\) in all 50. In 26 the Dade value is below capacity, and those are the informative ones. Four cases (the third \(N=16\), \(F=5\) seed and three with \(F=6\)) did not finish within the 180-second run limit and are not reported.

So in these tests, all failures before the Dade value are at capacity or one degree below it, in configurations that fill a projective space.

conj:graded-dade-margin

Conjecture. On one row over \(\mathbb F_3\), if every nonzero combination of \(L_1,\dots,L_F\) has at least \(2t-1\) cells and \(N\ge4t+2F\), then \(\Lambda\) is free over \(T\) through \(t\). The margin is chosen to exclude both observed exceptions (they allow only \(t\le0\) and \(t\le1\)) and to hold in W's regime, where \(N=n\) and \(t,F=O(\log n)\). It is not fitted: the data support the sharper \(\min(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor,\text{capacity})\) away from full projective configurations. Unlike \(n_0(d,t)\), the margin is explicit, which matters because \(F\) grows with \(n\): a size condition exponential in \(F\) would be useless for W.

What this means for A1

For two forms the Dade threshold is now a theorem at every \(N\). It covers the pair-block claims only for single two-form tops, where thm:single-top-wilson-threshold is already sharper for syzygies.
The proof uses large multiplicities at few points. In W's regime the forms number \(F\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\), so \(\mathbb P^{F-1}(\mathbb F_3)\) has far more than \(n\) points and typical cells sit at distinct points. There every factor is a \(J_2\) in degree 0 and the point decomposition gives nothing, which is the recorded obstacle. The proof for W must handle multiplicity-one cells, as an induction on cells does: \(0\to\Lambda_{N-1}(-1)\to\Lambda_N\to\Lambda_{N-1}\to0\) (multiplication by the new cell) shows at once that the first failure never decreases when a cell is added. What is needed is that it rises by one for every two cells added along each combination.
In coding terms the combinations' supports are the weights of the code spanned by the coefficient rows, \(s\) is its minimum distance, and the four- and thirteen-point exceptions are the simplex codes \([4,2,3]\) and \([13,3,9]\), whose duals are Hamming codes. Freeness is then a characteristic-3 Lefschetz-type property of \(\Lambda\) modulo the code's forms.

Outcome. thm:pencil-graded-dade: for two forms on one row, the first failure of freeness is \(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor\) at every \(N\), except for four cells at the four points of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_3)\), a capacity failure. conj:graded-dade is refuted as stated by the thirteen points of \(\mathbb P^2(\mathbb F_3)\), which fail at 5 below capacity 6 (ex:projective-dade-exceptions). conj:graded-dade-margin, with \(N\ge4t+2F\), is what W's regime needs, and it agrees with 50 random families. The remaining gap is its proof for cells at distinct points, and the several-row form.

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On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove conj:graded-dade-margin for cells at distinct points by induction on cells, using the extension \(0\to\Lambda_{N-1}(-1)\to\Lambda_N\to\Lambda_{N-1}\to0\), whose connecting map \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(\Lambda_{N-1})_d\to(\Lambda_{N-1}/\mathfrak m\Lambda_{N-1})_{d-1}\) must be injective at the old failure degree; or find a counterexample with multiplicity-one cells within the margin.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pair-seed-decomposition, prop:syzygies-as-tor, conj:worst-direction-freeness, ex:pencil-worst-direction and prop:line-necessity. A fresh-context reviewer checked steps 1 to 5 and recomputed the parity arithmetic by hand (\(2V_j\) for \(O_j=0,\dots,3\), the \(m\ge2\) minimum, the \(V_\emptyset\) inequality). It confirmed the table pattern over all 81 types, the single exception up to multiplicity 12, \(W_2=-1\) for four cells, and \(W_5=48\), \(W_6=-10\) for the thirteen-point plane, so the failure at 5 is below capacity. It also checked the kernel's choice of one representative per projective point and the count of 50 random families, 26 of them informative. It found the mathematics sound and required one change, adopted: the \(m=1\) case now says why at most one occupied point is impossible. In prop:line-necessity the whole column power and its lines fail at the same degree; the four-cell defect here, with its lines free one degree further, is a different phenomenon, so no duplicate is recorded.

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Group freeness: on one row the square-free algebra is free over the forms' truncated algebra through \(k\) whenever the cells contain \(k\) disjoint groups on which the product of the squared forms is nonzero. This bypasses the multiplicity-one obstacle, reducing freeness through \(t\) to one nonvanishing statement per group; conditionally on socle nonvanishing, combinations of \(9t(F+\ln t)\) cells suffice. The earlier projective exception refines a recorded refutation

27 September 2026 · Working proof, conjecture and conditional corollary · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dade-induction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Group freeness: on one row the square-free algebra is free over the forms' truncated algebra through \(k\) whenever the cells contain \(k\) disjoint groups on which the product of the squared forms is nonzero. This bypasses the multiplicity-one obstacle, reducing freeness through \(t\) to one nonvanishing statement per group; conditionally on socle nonvanishing, combinations of \(9t(F+\ln t)\) cells suffice. The earlier projective exception refines a recorded refutation”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-group-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Pencil graded Dade proved the graded Dade threshold for two forms by splitting the square-free algebra \(\Lambda\) over the points of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_3)\). That needs many cells at each point, while in W's regime (\(F\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\) forms, \(n\) cells per row) the cells sit at distinct points. The missing implication is freeness over \(T=\mathbb F_3[L_1,\dots,L_F]/(L_f^3)\) through \(t\) for multiplicity-one cells whose combinations are long (conj:graded-dade-margin). This cycle tests whether the tensor splitting still works when the factors are arbitrary groups of cells instead of points. It also develops the survival review's first Outside lead, Fröberg's conjecture: freeness through \(t\) is the statement that the ideal of the \(F\) forms has the expected Hilbert function through \(t\) in this truncated setting, and the tool below is a characteristic-3 counterpart of the tensor-product arguments used for Lefschetz properties of \(\mathbb F[y]/(y_i^2)\).

General statement. prop:group-freeness. For a finitely generated graded \(T\)-module \(M\) in degrees \(\ge0\), write \(M=P\oplus N\) with \(P\) free and \(N\) without free summands, and let \(\gamma(M)\) be the lowest degree of \(N\) (\(\infty\) if \(N=0\)). Then (i) \(\gamma(M\otimes M')\ge\gamma(M)+\gamma(M')\) under the diagonal action; (ii) \(M\) is free through \(\gamma(M)\), its first minimal relation lying in degree \(\ge\gamma(M)+1\); (iii) for a set \(S\) of cells, \(\gamma(\Lambda(S))\ge1\) exactly when the socle product \(\sigma(S)=\prod_fL_f|_S^2\) is nonzero in \(\Lambda(S)\) (\(L_f\) a basis of the forms). Hence if the cells contain disjoint sets \(S_1,\dots,S_k\) with \(\sigma(S_j)\ne0\), \(\Lambda\) is free over \(T\) through \(k\); more generally through \(\sum_j\gamma(\Lambda(S_j))\).

prop:group-freeness

Proof. \(T\) is a graded Frobenius algebra, so graded modules have Krull–Schmidt decompositions, free graded modules are injective, and every nonzero ideal contains the one-dimensional socle, spanned by \(\prod_fL_f^2\) for any basis (the cube ideal does not depend on the basis in characteristic 3). The forms act on a tensor product by \(L\otimes1+1\otimes L\), as multiplication by \(L=\sum_{S_j}L|_{S_j}\) does on \(\Lambda=\bigotimes_j\Lambda(S_j)\otimes\Lambda(R)\), \(R\) the remaining cells. For this Hopf algebra \(T\otimes V\) is free for every \(V\), by the usual shearing isomorphism \(T\otimes V\cong T\otimes V_{\mathrm{triv}}\), which preserves degrees.

With \(M=P\oplus N\) and \(M'=P'\oplus N'\), \(M\otimes M'=(P\otimes M')\oplus(N\otimes P')\oplus(N\otimes N')\), and the first two summands are free. By Krull–Schmidt the non-free part of \(M\otimes M'\) is a summand of \(N\otimes N'\), which lives in degrees \(\ge\gamma(M)+\gamma(M')\).
The minimal relations of \(M\) are those of \(N\). A minimal cover of \(N\) has generators in degrees \(\ge\gamma(N)\) and is bijective in degree \(\gamma(N)\), so its kernel starts in degree \(\ge\gamma(N)+1\).
If \(\sigma(S)\ne0\), the map \(T\to\Lambda(S)\), \(\tau\mapsto\tau\cdot1\), is injective (its kernel is an ideal missing the socle), so \(T\cdot1\) is free, hence injective, hence a graded summand containing \(\Lambda(S)_0\). The complement lives in degrees \(\ge1\), so \(\gamma\ge1\). Conversely, if \(\gamma\ge1\), then \(1\in P\), and in \(P=\bigoplus T(-d_i)\) its components lie in the summands with \(d_i=0\), where a nonzero degree-0 element generates a copy of \(T\); so \(T\cdot1\) is free and \(\sigma(S)=\sigma\cdot1\ne0\).

By (i), \(\gamma(\Lambda)\ge\sum_j\gamma(\Lambda(S_j))+\gamma(\Lambda(R))\ge k\), and (ii) gives freeness through \(k\). \(\square\)

Remarks. Goodness (\(\sigma(S)\ne0\)) is monotone: setting the cells outside a subset \(U\subseteq S\) to zero is an algebra homomorphism \(\Lambda(S)\to\Lambda(U)\) sending \(\sigma(S)\) to \(\sigma(U)\). For one form a good group is two cells of its support, and \(\gamma(\Lambda(s))=\lfloor s/2\rfloor\) by lem:pair-seed-decomposition, so the proposition is within one degree of the exact single-form value. For two forms a group is good exactly when it has at least two cells at each of two distinct points of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_3)\). By the pencil decomposition, \(T\cdot1\) is the tensor product of the blocks containing 1, free exactly when two of them are \(J_3\). One free block does not suffice: \(T\) acts on it through a quotient \(\mathbb F_3[u_x]/(u_x^3)\), over which it is free, and it is not free over \(T\); only two such blocks at independent points combine to a copy of \(T\). So the proposition loses a constant factor against thm:pencil-graded-dade. In coordinates, \(\sigma(U)\) for \(|U|=2F\) is \(2^{-F}\) times the permanent of the \(2F\times2F\) matrix of the cells' coefficient vectors with every column doubled. For \(U=B\cup B'\), two disjoint sets of cells whose vectors are bases of \(\mathbb F_3^F\), \(\sigma(U)\ne0\) exactly when \(\operatorname{per}(V_B^{-1}V_{B'})\ne0\) (change the forms so that they restrict to the cells of \(B\) as coordinates; then \((y_b+w)^2=2y_bw+w^2\), and only the product \(\prod_b2y_bw_b\) reaches \(y_B\)).

conj:socle-nonvanishing

Conjecture. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), if every nonzero combination of \(L_1,\dots,L_F\) has at least \(2F\) cells of \(S\), then \(\sigma(S)=\prod_fL_f|_S^2\ne0\) in \(\Lambda(S)\).

Necessity of a linear bound. If the forms span a \(j\)-dimensional space supported on fewer than \(2j\) cells, the product of the squares of its basis is 0 for degree reasons, and it divides a socle product after a change of basis; so every good set satisfies the Hall-type condition \(|\operatorname{supp}V|\ge2\dim V\) for every subspace \(V\) of forms. A ternary code of length \(2F-1\) and dimension \(F\) with minimum distance \(d\) gives a zero socle with \(s=d\), and such codes reach \(d\) linear in \(F\) (Gilbert–Varshamov). So the threshold must grow linearly in \(F\); \(2F\) is a conservative choice. The four-point pencil (\(s=3\), \(\sigma=A^2B^2=0\), computed by hand: the coefficient of \(y_1y_2y_3y_4\) is \(4(2+1+0)\equiv0\)) shows that the Hall condition is not sufficient.

Test. research/tools/socle_product_check.cpp computes \(\sigma(S)\) exactly and the least support \(s\) for 11006 configurations (research/results/odd-prime-group-freeness/socle.jsonl): every subset of the points of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_3)\) and of \(\mathbb P^2(\mathbb F_3)\) (distinct points, exhaustive), and 200 random configurations per size of 6 to 16 cells for \(F=4\) and 40 per size of 10 to 18 cells for \(F=5\), with arbitrary nonzero vectors or with multiplicities at most 2. The conjecture predicts a nonzero socle in 429 of them (391 at \(F=3\), 38 at \(F=4\)), and all 429 are nonzero. Beyond its range, zero socles occur only at \(s\le3\) for \(F=2,3,4\) and \(s\le4\) for \(F=5\) (2 of 72 configurations with \(s=4\)); all 1872 configurations with \(F=3\), \(s=4\) and all 210 with \(F=5\), \(s\ge5\) are nonzero. The data therefore allow a much smaller threshold at these sizes, though the code construction forces growth in \(F\).

cor:long-combination-freeness

Corollary (conditional on conj:socle-nonvanishing). On one row over \(\mathbb F_3\), if every nonzero combination of \(L_1,\dots,L_F\) has at least \(9t(F+\ln t)\) cells, then \(\Lambda\) is free over \(T\) through \(t\).

Proof. Assign each cell to one of \(t\) groups uniformly at random. For a combination \(\mu\) with support \(s_\mu\ge s=9t(F+\ln t)\), the number of its cells in a fixed group is binomial with mean \(m=s_\mu/t\ge9F\). By Chernoff it is below \(m/2\) with probability at most \(e^{-m/8}\le e^{-s/(8t)}\). There are fewer than \(3^F\) combinations up to sign and \(t\) groups, and \(t\,3^Fe^{-s/(8t)}<1\) because \(s/(8t)\ge1.125(F+\ln t)>F\ln3+\ln t\). So some assignment gives every combination at least \(m/2\ge4.5F\ge2F\) cells in every group. By the conjecture every group is good, and by prop:group-freeness \(\Lambda\) is free through \(t\). \(\square\)

Correction: the projective exception refines a recorded refutation

ex:projective-dade-exceptions (pencil graded Dade) refuted conj:graded-dade with the thirteen points of \(\mathbb P^2(\mathbb F_3)\). The record already contained a refutation of a size-free truncated Dade lemma on this same algebra: ex:truncated-dade-special-position (truncated Dade), fourteen cells with six random forms, free along every single combination over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) through degree 3, with positive prediction \((1,8,22,14)\), yet failing at degree 3. So conj:graded-dade was refuted before it was stated, and neither the graded Dade entry's search nor its reviewer's found this. The projective exception is a refinement, an explicit configuration that fails one degree below capacity; the 14-cell example is excluded by conj:graded-dade-margin, whose margin allows only \(t\le0\) there. The registry records the refinement edge and corrected assessments; the dated entries are unchanged.

What this gives for A1

Freeness through \(t\) now reduces to one nonvanishing statement per group, and the reduction needs no multiplicities: the recorded obstacle that multiplicity-one points give non-free blocks in degree 0 is bypassed by grouping cells instead of points.
With conj:socle-nonvanishing, single dense tops and pairs on one row would be Taylor-generated through \(t\) (prop:syzygies-as-tor) once every combination of their forms has \(O(t(F+\ln t))=O(\log^2n)\) cells. That is a factor \(O(F)\) weaker than the conjectured Dade threshold \(2t-1\). Whether W's dense core has combinations this long, and the several-row form, are not addressed here.
By the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz, \(\sigma(S)\ne0\) certifies that the cells' vectors form an additive basis of \(\mathbb F_3^F\): every vector is a sum of a subset, since \(\prod_f(1-(L_f(x)-b_f)^2)\) has top part \(\pm\sigma\). The record already proves the additive-basis property under a Hall condition: lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01 (vertex-cover closure) takes \(|\operatorname{supp}U|\ge l\dim U\) for every subspace \(U\) with \(l\ge p\ln r+p-1\), packs \(l\) disjoint bases by Nash-Williams and Edmonds, and applies Alon, Linial and Meshulam (Additive bases of vector spaces over prime fields, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 57, 1991), Proposition 3.1. That is the consequence of a nonzero socle product, not the socle product itself, and it needs about \(3\ln F\) bases where the conjecture uses two. So the recorded lemma does not give conj:socle-nonvanishing. The question it raises is whether Proposition 3.1's argument, run on the polynomial \(\prod_fL_f^2\), gives a nonzero socle for a union of \(O(\log F)\) bases, which would prove a weaker socle lemma at \(s\ge O(F\log F)\) unconditionally. The four-point pencil is consistent with both statements: it is not an additive basis, since \((0,2)\) is not a subset sum.

Outcome. prop:group-freeness: \(k\) disjoint groups with nonzero socle products make \(\Lambda\) free through \(k\), with the non-free degree superadditive under tensor products. conj:socle-nonvanishing (combinations of at least \(2F\) cells force a nonzero socle product) holds in all 429 tested configurations where it predicts, and zero socles occur only at \(s\le4\) for \(F\le5\). cor:long-combination-freeness: conditionally on it, combinations of \(9t(F+\ln t)\) cells give freeness through \(t\) at every \(N\), with no multiplicity or margin hypothesis. The lead is developed, not closed: it produced this reduction, and the remaining step is a nonvanishing theorem of permanent type.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove conj:socle-nonvanishing, starting from the two-basis formula \(\sigma(B\cup B')\ne0\iff\operatorname{per}(V_B^{-1}V_{B'})\ne0\). Combinations of at least \(2F\) cells give two disjoint bases by Edmonds' base-packing theorem, and the proof must find a pair, or a larger subset, with nonvanishing permanent. First read Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Proposition 3.1 through lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01 and test whether its argument yields \(\sigma\ne0\) for a union of \(O(\log F)\) disjoint bases, an unconditional weaker form.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pair-seed-decomposition, prop:syzygies-as-tor, thm:pencil-graded-dade and ex:truncated-dade-special-position, and after the review lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01. A fresh-context reviewer checked (i) to (iii) from scratch, including the Hopf structure (primitive coproduct well defined since cubes are additive), the shearing isomorphism and both directions of (iii). It confirmed "free through \(\gamma(M)\)" on a hand example with no off-by-one, recomputed \(A^2B^2=0\) for the four-point pencil, and rederived the Chernoff and union-bound chain. It also recounted socle.jsonl independently (11006 rows, 429 predicted and all nonzero, zero socles only at \(s\le3\) or \(s\le4\)). It found the mathematics sound and required three changes, all adopted: the count of \(F=5\), \(s\ge5\) configurations is 210, not 310; the two-form remark now says why one free point factor is not enough; and the recorded additive-basis lemma, which its claim search found and mine had not, is engaged above. Its suggestion to expand the two-basis permanent formula is deferred to the cycle that uses it.

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Base-union socle: Alon, Linial and Meshulam's permanent lemma is the socle product itself, so \(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2\) disjoint bases of cells force a nonzero product of the squared forms. With group freeness this proves, unconditionally, that one row is free over the forms' truncated algebra through \(t\) once every combination has \(9t(F(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2)+\ln t)\) cells

27 September 2026 · Working proofs · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-socle-nonvanishing. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Base-union socle: Alon, Linial and Meshulam's permanent lemma is the socle product itself, so \(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2\) disjoint bases of cells force a nonzero product of the squared forms. With group freeness this proves, unconditionally, that one row is free over the forms' truncated algebra through \(t\) once every combination has \(9t(F(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2)+\ln t)\) cells”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-base-union-socle.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Group freeness reduced freeness of the square-free algebra \(\Lambda\) of one row over \(T=\mathbb F_3[L_1,\dots,L_F]/(L_f^3)\) through \(t\) to \(t\) disjoint groups of cells with nonzero socle product \(\sigma(S)=\prod_fL_f|_S^2\), and conjectured that combinations of at least \(2F\) cells force \(\sigma\ne0\) (conj:socle-nonvanishing). Its reviewer found lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01, which gets additive bases from about \(3\ln F\) disjoint bases by Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Proposition 3.1. This cycle reads that proposition's proof (N. Alon, N. Linial and R. Meshulam, Additive bases of vector spaces over prime fields, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 57 (1991) 203–210, Section 3, Lemmas 3.2 to 3.6) to see whether it gives \(\sigma\ne0\), which would make the group-freeness corollary unconditional at a logarithmic loss.

General statement. thm:base-union-socle: over \(\mathbb F_3\), if the cells of \(S\) contain \(l=\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2\) pairwise disjoint sets whose coefficient vectors are bases of \(\mathbb F_3^F\), then \(\sigma(S)\ne0\) in \(\Lambda(S)\). thm:base-packing-freeness: on one row over \(\mathbb F_3\), if every nonzero combination of independent forms \(L_1,\dots,L_F\) has at least \(9t(F(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2)+\ln t)\) cells, then \(\Lambda\) is free over \(T\) through \(t\).

The source

For \(v\in\mathbb Z_p^n\), Alon, Linial and Meshulam write \(v^*\in\mathbb Z_p^{(p-1)n}\) for \(v\) with every coordinate repeated \(p-1\) times (\(v^*_{(i-1)n+j}=v_j\), \(1\le i\le p-1\)). Their Lemma 3.6 (read in the source): if \(A_1,\dots,A_l\) are bases of \(\mathbb Z_p^n\), \(S\) is the sequence of the \(ln\) vectors \(a^*\), and \((1-\frac1{p-1})^{l-h}(p-1)n<h+1\) for an integer \(h\), then there are \((p-1)n\) distinct indices whose columns form a matrix with nonzero permanent. The proof starts from Lemma 3.5: for a basis \(D\), the matrix with each \(d^*\) repeated \(p-1\) times has permanent a nonzero multiple of \(((p-1)!)^n\). It then replaces repeated columns by expansions in the next basis, using multilinearity and the fact that a column repeated \(p\) times forces a permanent divisible by \(p!\). Their Corollary 3.4 then gives additive bases through the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz; the permanent is the stronger statement.

thm:base-union-socle

Proof. Take \(p=3\), \(n=F\), and \(h=1\). The condition becomes \((1/2)^{l-1}\cdot2F<2\), that is \(2^{l-1}>F\), which holds for \(l=\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2\). Index the sequence by cells, the \(l\) disjoint bases being \(l\) disjoint sets of cells. Lemma 3.6 gives \(2F\) distinct cells \(U\) whose \(2F\times2F\) matrix \(M\) (rows: each form \(f\) twice; columns: the cells \(c\in U\); entries \(L_f(c)\)) has \(\operatorname{per}M\ne0\). Expanding \(\prod_fL_fL_f\) as a product of \(2F\) linear forms, one for each row of \(M\), the coefficient of \(\prod_{c\in U}y_c\) is the sum over bijections from rows to cells of the product of entries, which is \(\operatorname{per}M\). So \(\sigma(U)\ne0\) in \(\Lambda(U)\). Setting the cells of \(S\setminus U\) to zero is an algebra homomorphism \(\Lambda(S)\to\Lambda(U)\) taking \(\sigma(S)\) to \(\sigma(U)\), so \(\sigma(S)\ne0\). \(\square\)

Correction. The group freeness remarks call \(\sigma(U)\) "\(2^{-F}\) times the permanent" of the doubled matrix. The factor is wrong: as computed here, the coefficient is the permanent itself (for \(F=1\), \((ay_1+by_2)^2\) has coefficient \(2ab=\operatorname{per}\begin{pmatrix}a&b\\a&b\end{pmatrix}\)). No statement there depends on the factor, since only nonvanishing is used.

thm:base-packing-freeness

Proof. Let \(l=\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2\) and \(s=9t(Fl+\ln t)\).

Groups. Assign each cell to one of \(t\) groups uniformly at random. For a nonzero combination with support \(s_\mu\ge s\), its number of cells in a fixed group is binomial with mean \(m=s_\mu/t\ge9(Fl+\ln t)\), and by Chernoff it is below \(m/2\) with probability at most \(e^{-m/8}\le e^{-s/(8t)}\). Fewer than \(3^F\) combinations up to sign and \(t\) groups give failure probability at most \(t3^Fe^{-s/(8t)}\). Since \(l\ge2\), \(s/(8t)\ge1.125(2F+\ln t)>F\ln3+\ln t\), so this is below 1. Fix an assignment in which every nonzero combination has at least \(m/2\ge4.5Fl\ge lF\) cells in every group.
Bases in each group. In a group \(S_j\), let \(X\) be a set of cells whose vectors span a subspace of dimension \(F-r\), \(r\ge1\). The combinations vanishing on that subspace form an \(r\)-dimensional space, nonzero, and any nonzero one has at least \(lF\ge lr\) cells in \(S_j\), all outside \(X\). So \(|S_j\setminus X|\ge l(F-\operatorname{rank}X)\) for every \(X\), and by the Nash-Williams–Edmonds base-packing theorem \(S_j\) contains \(l\) disjoint bases. This checks the packing criterion directly for the cells of \(S_j\); lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01 applies the same theorem under a hypothesis on supports of subspaces.
Conclusion. By thm:base-union-socle, \(\sigma(S_j)\ne0\) for every group, and by prop:group-freeness \(\Lambda\) is free over \(T\) through \(t\). \(\square\)

With prop:syzygies-as-tor, a single product top on \(F\) independent forms, or a pair of tops whose \(F\) forms together are independent, is then Taylor-generated through total degree \(t\) on one row.

Checks against the record

Necessity. prop:graded-freeness-necessity needs every combination to have at least \(2t-1\) cells. The theorem asks \(O(tF\log F)\), a factor \(O(F\log F)\) more. conj:socle-nonvanishing (threshold \(2F\)) would reduce it to \(O(t(F+\ln t))\), and conj:graded-dade-margin to \(2t-1\).
Known exceptions. The four-point pencil and the thirteen points of \(\mathbb P^2(\mathbb F_3)\) (ex:projective-dade-exceptions) and the 14-cell example of ex:truncated-dade-special-position all have combinations far shorter than the theorem's threshold (at least 54 cells already at \(t=1\), \(F=2\), where \(l=3\)), so none contradicts it.
Jaeger's problem. Jaeger, Linial, Payan and Tarsi conjectured that the union of a number of bases depending on \(p\) alone is always an additive basis (stated in Alon, Linial and Meshulam's introduction, and called there the main open problem). By their Corollary 3.4 it would follow from a nonzero socle for a union of a bounded number of bases; their own Conjecture 4.3 is a permanent statement of this kind, which would give \(p\) bases. conj:socle-nonvanishing asks instead for combinations of \(2F\) cells, a spread condition that a union of a bounded number of bases need not satisfy, so the conjecture is not known to imply Jaeger's.

What this gives for A1. This is the first freeness theorem on this line that holds for cells at distinct points without a conjecture. Single dense tops and pairs of W's regime (\(F,t=O(\log n)\)) are Taylor-generated on one row once their forms' combinations have \(O(\log^2n\log\log n)\) cells, far below \(n\). The remaining gaps:

the several-row form, since W's tops live on the weak board, where a column holds several cells and \(\Lambda\) of one row is replaced by the monomial algebra;
generation across pairs (conj:pair-generation); and, for W's dense core, whether its forms' combinations are that long or reduce to recorded sparse cases.

Outcome. thm:base-union-socle: \(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2\) disjoint bases of cells give a nonzero socle product, since Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Lemma 3.6 produces exactly its permanent. thm:base-packing-freeness: combinations of \(9t(F(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2)+\ln t)\) cells make one row free through \(t\), with no conjecture. No computation was run; the finite checks of the group freeness entry are not rerun.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): state and prove the several-row form of prop:group-freeness and thm:base-packing-freeness on the weak monomial algebra, where each column's cells form a tensor factor with more than one cell. Then compare the combination lengths it needs with what W's dense core provides.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Read Alon, Linial and Meshulam's Section 3 (Proposition 3.1, Lemmas 3.2 to 3.6, Corollary 3.4), their introduction and their Section 4 in the source. Re-read prop:group-freeness, lem:Fp-support-safe-forms-onto-01 (its base-packing step) and prop:graded-freeness-necessity. A fresh-context reviewer checked the source's Lemma 3.6 at \(p=3\), \(h=1\) (the paper's own instantiation), and that its distinct indices are positions in the sequence, hence distinct cells. It confirmed that the doubled-row matrix is the paper's matrix, not its transpose, and the \(F=1\) check of the corrected factor. It also checked the restriction step, the Chernoff, union-bound and base-packing arithmetic, and the threshold of 54 cells. It found the mathematics sound and required two changes, both adopted: the Jaeger remark now follows the paper's wording, checked in its introduction and Section 4, and the base-packing step says it checks the criterion directly. Its claim search found no earlier version of either theorem.

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Route review of the one-row freeness line: freeness over a small family's forms now follows, unconditionally up to a factor \(O(F\log F)\), from long combinations, on one row and by a transversal argument on the board; the step from single tops and pairs to many tops is still Tor vanishing for the sum of the tops, which lattice methods only restate, and flat base change turns it into freeness of each quotient by earlier tops over the next top's own forms

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-one-row-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the one-row freeness line: freeness over a small family's forms now follows, unconditionally up to a factor \(O(F\log F)\), from long combinations, on one row and by a transversal argument on the board; the step from single tops and pairs to many tops is still Tor vanishing for the sum of the tops, which lattice methods only restate, and flat base change turns it into freeness of each quotient by earlier tops over the next top's own forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-one-row-freeness-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the block-line review, five entries:

pair relations: a pair's four forms can carry defects that no two-form combination shows, so conj:two-form-wilson-taylor is refuted and replaced by conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor;
graded Dade: freeness through \(t\) needs combinations of \(2t-1\) cells (prop:graded-freeness-necessity), with the converse conjectured;
pencil graded Dade: the converse for two forms (thm:pencil-graded-dade), and near-capacity exceptions that refute the size-free version, which the record had already refuted;
group freeness: disjoint groups of cells with nonzero socle products give freeness (prop:group-freeness);
base-union socle: Alon, Linial and Meshulam's permanent lemma gives the socle products, so combinations of \(9t(F(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2)+\ln t)\) cells give freeness through \(t\) on one row (thm:base-packing-freeness).

The line's general claim

For a small family of product tops on independent forms \(L_1,\dots,L_F\) (one top, or a pair), freeness over \(T=\mathbb F_3[L]/(L_f^3)\) through \(t\), and so Taylor generation through total degree \(t\) (prop:syzygies-as-tor), follows from every nonzero combination of the forms being long. Proved: at length \(O(t(F\log F+\ln t))\) on one row (thm:base-packing-freeness), and exactly \(\lfloor(s+3)/2\rfloor\) for two forms (thm:pencil-graded-dade). Conjectured: \(2t-1\) with a size margin (conj:graded-dade-margin), and \(O(t(F+\ln t))\) through conj:socle-nonvanishing. Necessary: \(2t-1\) (prop:graded-freeness-necessity).

What the goal needs

A1 needs Taylor generation, or another route to W, for \(n^K\) blocks of \(k+1\) forms on the weak board through degree \(22k\). By Taylor glue it would follow from three things. The first is local: each top and each pair Taylor-generated. The second is global: the syzygies of all tops generated by pairs (conj:pair-generation). The third concerns the adversary: prefixes whose forms meet the local hypothesis, or a separate treatment of blocks where they cannot. This line addresses the local part.

Falsification attempt

Several rows. Does the one-row theorem fail on W's algebra? The weak monomial algebra \(\widetilde A\) (cells square to zero, two cells of one column multiply to zero) is the tensor product over columns of \(\mathbb F_3\oplus\operatorname{span}(\text{column's cells})\), and the forms act by multiplication. So prop:group-freeness holds with groups of whole columns: its proof uses only a tensor decomposition with degree-0 parts \(\mathbb F_3\). For a transversal \(U\) (one chosen cell in each column), setting the other cells to zero is an algebra homomorphism \(\widetilde A\to\Lambda(U)\), since every relation maps to a relation. It sends \(\sigma\) to the one-row socle product on \(U\), so a nonzero image forces \(\sigma\ne0\) in \(\widetilde A\); only this nonvanishing is pulled back, and criterion (iii) and the freeness argument are then applied in \(\widetilde A\) itself, not in the quotient (freeness of a quotient would not transfer). So thm:base-packing-freeness transfers when some transversal carries every combination on at least \(9t(F(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2)+\ln t)\) of its cells: partition columns instead of cells. The attempt fails: the line survives the passage to several rows. Its statement and review are the next research entry.
The adversary. Short combinations are real obstructions, not artifacts: prop:short-form-survival gives non-Taylor syzygies for a top with a squared form of at most \(2e+1\) cells. So the line cannot cover blocks whose prefix forms all have short combinations. It needs a prefix choice with long combinations on some transversal, or a separate treatment of blocks without one. The record's cell, sparse and row-sparse reductions treat sparse forms, but a block whose forms are pairwise close (dense forms with short differences) is not known to fall to either. This is a gap in the line's reach, not a counterexample.

Obstacle

The same as at the last review, now sharper. The local pieces are settled from long combinations, on one row and, by the transversal argument, on the board. What remains is the step from pairs to \(n^K\) tops: a principle that derives the absence of non-Taylor syzygies of the whole family from its pairs. Freeness over all forms is impossible there, since the forms far outnumber the cells, and by prop:batched-splitting the natural batching mechanisms (splitting, distributive lattices, common adapted bases) are each equivalent to Tor vanishing for the sum of the tops.

Assessment of the route

Productive locally. In five entries the line went from a conjecture tested at 14 cells to an unconditional theorem for cells at distinct points, the case that had blocked the point decomposition, with the necessary threshold matched up to a factor \(O(F\log F)\). Globally it has not moved: the obstacle of the last review stands, and the local theorems only make its hypotheses concrete. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Flat base change for Tor (C. A. Weibel, An Introduction to Homological Algebra, Cambridge University Press 1994, Section 3.2: if \(A\) is flat over \(B\), then \(\operatorname{Tor}^A_i(A\otimes_BM,N)\cong\operatorname{Tor}^B_i(M,N)\)). Apply it with \(B=T_i\), the truncated algebra of the \(i\)-th top's own forms, over which \(\widetilde A\) is free through the relevant degree when those forms have long combinations (thm:base-packing-freeness and the transversal argument above). Then \(\widetilde A/\tau_i\widetilde A=\widetilde A\otimes_{T_i}T_i/(\tau_i)\), and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\widetilde A}(\widetilde A/\tau_i\widetilde A,\widetilde A/J_{<i})\), which measures \(\tau_i\widetilde A\cap J_{<i}\) modulo \(\tau_iJ_{<i}\), becomes \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T_i}(T_i/(\tau_i),\widetilde A/J_{<i})\). That vanishes when \(\widetilde A/J_{<i}\) is free over \(T_i\). If \(\tau_i\widetilde A\cap J_{<i}=\tau_iJ_{<i}\), a relation \(g\tau_i=\sum_jh_j\tau_j\) splits, with \(g\tau_i=\tau_i\sum_jc_j\tau_j\), into a single-top syzygy \((g-\sum_jc_j\tau_j)\tau_i=0\), Koszul pairs \(\tau_i\tau_j\), and a relation among earlier tops, so induction on \(i\) gives Taylor generation (with Koszul syzygies) of the family through \(D\). Answers. The global step becomes sequential relative freeness: each quotient \(\widetilde A/(\tau_1,\dots,\tau_{i-1})\) free over the next top's own \(k+1\) forms through \(D\). This needs no independence among all \(n^K(k+1)\) forms, which is exactly what made freeness over all forms impossible. Test. Passed at pairs, as an argument: when the two tops' forms are jointly independent with long combinations, \(\widetilde A\) is free over their joint algebra \(T_{12}=T_1\otimes T_2\), so \(\widetilde A/\tau_1\widetilde A=\widetilde A\otimes_{T_{12}}(T_1/(\tau_1)\otimes T_2)\) is free over \(T_2\), and the pair is Taylor-generated. The degree-by-degree form of base change through \(D\), needed for truncated freeness, and the many-top case are not checked; the latter is a new hypothesis, not implied by recorded results.
Resolutions by mapping cones and linear quotients (J. Herzog and Y. Takayama, Resolutions by mapping cones, Homology Homotopy Appl. 4, 2002). Adding generators one at a time, the resolution of the sum is an iterated mapping cone over the colon ideals \((\tau_1,\dots,\tau_{i-1}):\tau_i\). Answers. Pair generation of the family would follow from each colon being generated by the pairwise colons \((\tau_j:\tau_i)\), a condition on one top at a time relative to the earlier ones. Test. Falsified as a new tool: generation of \((\tau_1,\dots,\tau_{i-1}):\tau_i\) by the pairwise colons is, degree by degree, the chain condition \(\tau_i\widetilde A\cap\sum_{j<i}\tau_j\widetilde A=\sum_{j<i}(\tau_i\widetilde A\cap\tau_j\widetilde A)\) of the background item above, so it is the same statement; the record's colon criteria (prop:liftable-colon-criterion) are its single-step form.
Regularity of sums of ideals in disjoint variables (H. T. Hà, N. V. Trung and T. N. Trung, Depth and regularity of powers of sums of ideals, Math. Z. 282, 2016). For ideals in disjoint sets of variables, the Betti numbers of the sum are those of a tensor product, and the regularity is subadditive. Answers. Groups of tops on disjoint columns would be Taylor-generated whenever each group is, reducing many tops to groups. Test. Falsified for the dense core: its tops share columns, so the ideals do not live in disjoint tensor factors; the disjoint case is thm:column-disjoint-taylor and the bounded-overlap case the bounded clusters theorem, both recorded.

Background, not counted: Distributive lattices of subspaces and Koszulness (J. Backelin, A distributiveness property of augmented algebras and some related homological results, thesis, Stockholm 1982; A. Polishchuk and L. Positselski, Quadratic Algebras, AMS University Lecture Series 37, 2005, Chapter 1). A finite family of subspaces generates a distributive lattice exactly when some basis is adapted to all of them. In each degree the relations among the images \(\tau_b\widetilde A\) are generated by pairwise intersections exactly when \(V_i\cap\sum_{j<i}V_j=\sum_{j<i}(V_i\cap V_j)\) along an ordering, which a distributive family satisfies. It would answer the obstacle this way: a common adapted basis in each degree would give pair generation, the global step of the obstacle, from a basis-level local condition; monomial tops are the known case. Already settled: the record already has this lead (lem:adapted-basis-criterion, conj:block-adapted-basis), and prop:batched-splitting shows that for the members' tops the distributive law in degree \(D\) holds exactly when \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) vanishes for the sum of the tops, so it restates the obstacle.

Absurd bridges

The linked-cluster theorem of many-body physics and quantum chemistry (J. Goldstone, Derivation of the Brueckner many-body theory, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 239, 1957), which makes energies of non-interacting fragments additive, since disconnected diagrams cancel in the logarithm. Translation: tops are fragments, the Poincaré series of \(\operatorname{Tor}^{\widetilde A}(\widetilde A/J)\) is the partition function, and its logarithm is a sum over clusters of tops connected by shared columns. Answers. Only connected clusters of overlapping tops could carry non-Taylor syzygies, so the global step would reduce to clusters. Test. Falsified for the obstacle: for tops on disjoint columns the quotient is a tensor product, the series is multiplicative and the logarithm additive, which is the bounded-cluster mechanism already recorded; W's dense tops all overlap, so the cluster graph is complete and there is nothing to cancel.
The Lovász local lemma in Shearer's sharp form, as a statement about the independence polynomial (J. B. Shearer, On a problem of Spencer, Combinatorica 5, 1985; A. D. Scott and A. D. Sokal, The repulsive lattice gas, the independent-set polynomial, and the Lovász local lemma, J. Stat. Phys. 118, 2005). Translation: the Taylor complex's Euler characteristic is an alternating sum over sets of tops of \(q^{\deg\operatorname{lcm}}\), an independence-type polynomial of the overlap graph, and local positivity conditions control its sign globally. Answers. A local-to-global positivity principle for the alternating sums whose equality with the Hilbert series Taylor exactness asserts. Test. Not run: the lcm of overlapping tops that are products of forms is not a product of pairwise data, so the alternating sum is not an independence polynomial with local weights; a formulation for monomial tops would only restate the lcm-lattice lead, falsified at the last review.

Lead follow-up

Fröberg's conjecture as the random case. Developed in group freeness and base-union socle: freeness over a small family's forms is the expected Hilbert function of their ideal in this truncated setting, and it is now proved on one row, for every choice of forms whose combinations are long, at a factor \(O(F\log F)\) above the necessary length. Follow-up. Closed: its target for single tops and pairs is proved; the many-generator case is the obstacle, where by prop:batched-splitting expected Hilbert functions of the sum are the same Tor-vanishing statement.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): state and prove the transversal form of thm:base-packing-freeness on the weak monomial algebra (groups of columns, one cell per column), and transfer it to the weak top algebra by lem:spare-column-transfer. Then test the global step where it first has content, through the base-change lead: for three tops whose forms have long combinations on a common transversal, is \(\widetilde A/(\tau_1,\tau_2)\) free over the third top's forms through \(D\) when the three tops' forms are dependent?

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the five entries reviewed, the block-line and survival reviews, prop:batched-splitting, lem:adapted-basis-criterion, conj:block-adapted-basis, lem:spare-column-transfer and prop:short-form-survival. The cheap tests were run as arguments in the cycle: the chain condition for pair generation, its identity with the mapping-cone colon condition, the tensor structure of the weak monomial algebra over columns, the transversal homomorphism, and the base-change reduction at pairs. A fresh-context reviewer checked all five summaries against the entries, the transversal argument, the chain condition and its identity with the mapping-cone colon condition, the reading of prop:batched-splitting (its part (3)), every citation, and the Answers and Test clauses and the Lead follow-up. It found no mathematical error and required two changes, both adopted. The transversal bullet now states that only the nonvanishing of \(\sigma\) is pulled back and the freeness argument runs in \(\widetilde A\). The distributivity lead, a recap of recorded work, is kept as uncounted background and replaced by the flat base-change lead, whose pair-level test was run afterwards as an argument and was not re-reviewed.

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Column-support freeness and sequential freeness: on the weak monomial algebra, forms whose nonzero combinations are nonzero on \(O(t(F\log F+\ln t))\) columns are free through \(t\), whatever the column ranks; and a family of tops is Taylor-generated through \(D\) once each quotient by the earlier tops is free over the next top's own forms. The review's local claim on the board had been settled sharply for full-rank columns before this line began

27 September 2026 · Working proofs and a correction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-transversal-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Column-support freeness and sequential freeness: on the weak monomial algebra, forms whose nonzero combinations are nonzero on \(O(t(F\log F+\ln t))\) columns are free through \(t\), whatever the column ranks; and a family of tops is Taylor-generated through \(D\) once each quotient by the earlier tops is free over the next top's own forms. The review's local claim on the board had been settled sharply for full-rank columns before this line began”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-column-support-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The one-row freeness review proposed two steps. The first is the several-row form of thm:base-packing-freeness, sketched there through transversals. The second is its passed lead, flat base change, which turns the global step (pairs to many tops) into freeness of each quotient by earlier tops over the next top's forms. This cycle proves both in general form. Reading the record for the first step turned up an earlier, sharper theorem for full-rank columns, which corrects the review's framing.

General statement. lem:column-group-freeness: prop:group-freeness holds for any tensor product of graded algebras with degree-0 parts \(\mathbb F_3\), in particular for the weak monomial algebra split into groups of columns. thm:column-support-freeness: over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak monomial algebra \(\widetilde A\) (\(m\) rows, cells square to zero, two cells of one column multiply to zero), let \(L_1,\dots,L_F\) be linear forms in the cells and \(l=\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2\). If every nonzero combination of the forms is nonzero on at least \(\tfrac{27}2t(Fl+\ln t)\) columns, then \(\widetilde A\) is free over \(T=\mathbb F_3[L]/(L_f^3)\) through \(t\). prop:sequential-freeness: for tops \(\tau_1,\dots,\tau_n\), each a monomial \(\prod_fL_{i,f}^{\varepsilon_{i,f}}\) in its own forms, with \(T_i\) the truncated algebra of those forms, if \(\widetilde A/(\tau_1,\dots,\tau_{i-1})\) is free over \(T_i\) through \(D\) for every \(i\) (for \(i=1\), \(\widetilde A\) itself), then every syzygy \(\sum_ig_i\tau_i=0\) of degree at most \(D\) is a combination of Frobenius syzygies \(L_{i,f}^{3-\varepsilon_{i,f}}e_i\) and Koszul pairs \(\tau_je_i-\tau_ie_j\).

Correction: full-rank columns were already settled

The review stated that the local pieces are now settled on the board by the transversal argument, as if this were new there. The record already had the sharp statement for forms whose restriction to every column is injective. prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums (a column's algebra is \(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c\) with \(V_c^2=0\), so any linear change of a column's cells is an automorphism, and injective column maps turn the forms into row sums) combines with thm:tensor-power-freeness (tensor-power freeness) to give: \(\widetilde A\) is free through \(t\) over \(F\le m\) forms with injective column maps if and only if \(N\ge2t-1\). Dimensions allow it in W: a top has \(k+1=O(\log n)\) forms and a column has \(n+1\) cells, and a random \((k+1)\times(n+1)\) coefficient matrix over \(\mathbb F_3\) has full rank with probability at least \(1-3^{(k+1)-(n+1)}/2\), by a union bound over the \((3^{k+1}-1)/2\) combinations up to sign. So for tops whose forms are generic in every column the board's local step was known, sharp, before the one-row line began. Adversarial forms need not be generic: column-occupancy forms have rank one on every column, and those are the cases the one-row theorems and the theorem below address. The theorem below covers every column rank, at the logarithmic loss. The review's assessment that the line is productive locally overstates its novelty on the board; its obstacle and next step stand.

lem:column-group-freeness

Lemma. Let \(R=\bigotimes_{j=1}^kR_j\) be a tensor product of finite-dimensional graded commutative \(\mathbb F_3\)-algebras with \((R_j)_0=\mathbb F_3\), and let linear forms \(L_f=\sum_jL_f^{(j)}\) with \(L_f^{(j)}\in(R_j)_1\) act by multiplication, making each \(R_j\) and \(R\) modules over \(T=\mathbb F_3[L_1,\dots,L_F]/(L_f^3)\) (this needs \((L_f^{(j)})^3=0\), which holds in the weak monomial algebra, since cubes of linear forms are sums of cubes of cells in characteristic 3). If \(\sigma_j=\prod_f(L_f^{(j)})^2\ne0\) in \(R_j\) for every \(j\), then \(R\) is free over \(T\) through \(k\). For the weak monomial algebra, \(R_j=\widetilde A(S_j)\) for a partition of the columns into groups \(S_j\).

Proof. This is the proof of prop:group-freeness, which uses only these facts. Multiplication by \(L_f\) on \(R\) is \(\sum_j1\otimes\cdots\otimes L_f^{(j)}\otimes\cdots\otimes1\), the diagonal action of the primitive coproduct, so free tensor anything is free and \(\gamma\) is superadditive (part (i)). Criterion (iii) uses only that \(T\) is graded Frobenius and \((R_j)_0=\mathbb F_3\): \(\sigma_j\ne0\) makes \(T\to R_j\), \(\tau\mapsto\tau\cdot1\), injective, so \(T\cdot1\) is a free graded summand containing \((R_j)_0\), and \(\gamma(R_j)\ge1\). Part (ii) turns \(\gamma(R)\ge k\) into freeness through \(k\). \(\square\)

thm:column-support-freeness

Proof. Write \(A_c\) for the \(F\times m\) matrix of the forms' coefficients on column \(c\), and \(s=\tfrac{27}2t(Fl+\ln t)\).

Column functionals. For a linear functional \(\lambda\) on the cells of column \(c\), the map \(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c\to\mathbb F_3[y_c]/(y_c^2)\), \(v\mapsto\lambda(v)y_c\) on \(V_c\), is an algebra homomorphism, since \(V_c^2=0\) and \(y_c^2=0\). It sends \(L_f|_c\) to \((A_c\lambda)_fy_c\). For a set \(S\) of columns and functionals \(\lambda_c\), the tensor product is an algebra homomorphism \(\widetilde A(S)\to\Lambda(S)\), where here \(\Lambda(S)=\mathbb F_3[y_c:c\in S]/(y_c^2)\) is the square-free algebra with one generator for each column of \(S\), a one-row configuration in the sense of thm:base-union-socle. The cell of column \(c\) has vector \(u_c=A_c\lambda_c\), and the homomorphism sends the socle product \(\sigma(S)=\prod_fL_f|_S^2\) to the one-row socle product of the vectors \(u_c\). (The review's transversals are the functionals that pick one cell.)
Randomization. Choose each \(\lambda_c\) uniformly at random and each column's group among \(t\) groups uniformly, all independently. For a nonzero combination \(\mu\), \(\mu\cdot u_c=(\mu^{\mathsf T}A_c)\lambda_c\) is uniform on \(\mathbb F_3\) when \(\mu\) is nonzero on column \(c\), so nonzero with probability \(2/3\). The number of columns of a fixed group with \(\mu\cdot u_c\ne0\) is binomial with mean \(m_\mu\ge\tfrac23s/t=9(Fl+\ln t)\). As in thm:base-packing-freeness, Chernoff and a union bound over fewer than \(3^F\) combinations and \(t\) groups (\(t3^Fe^{-s/(12t)}<1\), since \(s/(12t)=1.125(Fl+\ln t)>F\ln3+\ln t\)) give a choice in which every nonzero combination is nonzero on at least \(4.5Fl\ge lF\) of the cells \(u_c\) in every group.
Socle products. In each group \(S_j\) the one-row configuration of the \(u_c\) then contains \(l\) disjoint bases (Nash-Williams–Edmonds, checked directly as in thm:base-packing-freeness), so its socle product is nonzero by thm:base-union-socle, and so is its preimage \(\sigma(S_j)\in\widetilde A(S_j)\).
Freeness. By lem:column-group-freeness below, applied to the column groups \(S_j\), \(\widetilde A\) is free through \(t\). Only the nonvanishing of \(\sigma\) passes through the homomorphisms of step 1; freeness is argued in \(\widetilde A\). \(\square\)

With lem:spare-column-transfer (Taylor generation over the monomial algebra on the used columns passes to the weak top algebra when at least \(2t-1\) columns are unused) and prop:syzygies-as-tor, a single top, or a pair whose forms together are independent, is Taylor-generated through \(t\) on the weak top algebra under the same hypothesis. Its forms need not have injective column maps.

prop:sequential-freeness

Proof. Induction on \(n\); \(n=1\) is the case \(J_{<1}=0\) of the step. Let \(\sum_{i\le n}g_i\tau_i=0\) with every \(g_i\tau_i\) of degree \(d\le D\), and let \(M=\widetilde A/J_{<n}\), \(J_{<n}=(\tau_1,\dots,\tau_{n-1})\). Then the class \(\bar g_n\) of degree \(d'=d-\deg\tau_n\) satisfies \(\tau_n\bar g_n=0\) in \(M_d\).

Let \(P\to M\) be a minimal free \(T_n\)-cover, bijective in degrees \(\le D\). Lift \(\bar g_n\) to \(y\in P_{d'}\). Then \(\tau_ny\in P_d\) maps to 0 and \(P_d\to M_d\) is injective, so \(\tau_ny=0\) in \(P\). In a free \(T_n\)-module the annihilator of the monomial \(\tau_n\) is \(\operatorname{ann}_{T_n}(\tau_n)P\), and \(\operatorname{ann}_{T_n}(\tau_n)=(L_{n,f}^{3-\varepsilon_{n,f}}:\varepsilon_{n,f}\ge1)\), since \(T_n\) is a tensor product of the \(\mathbb F_3[L_{n,f}]/(L_{n,f}^3)\). Hence \(\bar g_n\in\operatorname{ann}_{T_n}(\tau_n)M\), that is \(g_n=\sum_fa_fL_{n,f}^{3-\varepsilon_{n,f}}+\sum_{j<n}c_j\tau_j\).
Then \(\sum_ig_ie_i=\sum_fa_f\,L_{n,f}^{3-\varepsilon_{n,f}}e_n+\sum_{j<n}c_j(\tau_je_n-\tau_ne_j)+\sum_{j<n}(g_j+c_j\tau_n)e_j\). The first two sums are Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs. The last is a syzygy of \(\tau_1,\dots,\tau_{n-1}\) of degree \(d\le D\), and their quotients satisfy the hypothesis, so the induction applies. \(\square\)

Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs lie in the record's Taylor span, so under the hypothesis the family is Taylor-generated through \(D\), and Taylor glue applies. The hypothesis involves only one top's forms at a time, never all the family's forms together. It holds for two tops whose forms are jointly independent with \(\widetilde A\) free over their joint algebra \(T_1\otimes T_2\) through \(D\). The identity \(\widetilde A/\tau_1\widetilde A\cong\widetilde A\otimes_{T_1\otimes T_2}(T_1/(\tau_1)\otimes T_2)\) holds for any module, by right exactness of the tensor product. What freeness adds is that, when \(\widetilde A\) is free over \(T_1\otimes T_2\) through \(D\), the right side is a sum of copies of \(T_1/(\tau_1)\otimes T_2\), which is free over \(T_2\), through \(D\). It fails when two tops share a form, as it must: lem:shared-direction-pure-tops exhibits a syzygy outside the Frobenius and Koszul span there. So the proposition cannot cover families whose tops share forms without a separate treatment of shared forms.

What this gives for A1

The local step on the board is proved for every column configuration from column supports of order \(tF\log F\), and sharply for injective column maps (recorded). Single dense tops and pairs of W's regime are Taylor-generated on the weak top algebra.
The global step is now one hypothesis per top: the quotient by the earlier tops is free over the next top's forms. For \(n^K\) tops with dependent forms this is the open question. Freeness over all forms is impossible there, but the hypothesis asks only for freeness over \(k+1\) forms of a quotient. Its first test is three tops whose forms are dependent but not shared.

Lead follow-up. This entry develops the review's first Outside lead (flat base change). Its conclusion, a sequential criterion for Taylor generation, is proved without base change, directly from a free cover. The lead's substance, sequential relative freeness, is now the stated hypothesis of prop:sequential-freeness.

Outcome. thm:column-support-freeness: forms whose nonzero combinations are nonzero on \(\tfrac{27}2t(F(\lfloor\log_2F\rfloor+2)+\ln t)\) columns make the weak monomial algebra free through \(t\), for every column rank. prop:sequential-freeness: freeness of each quotient by the earlier tops over the next top's forms gives Taylor generation of the family. The review's claim of local novelty on the board is corrected: injective column maps were settled sharply on 24 September. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test prop:sequential-freeness's hypothesis where the global step first has content. For three tops on one row or a small board whose forms are pairwise independent but jointly dependent, compute whether \(\widetilde A/(\tau_1,\tau_2)\) is free over the third top's forms through \(D\), and compare with the family's actual Taylor defect. The question is whether dependence among forms of different tops, short of a shared form, ever breaks sequential freeness below the Dade-type thresholds.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:group-freeness, thm:base-union-socle, thm:base-packing-freeness, prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums, thm:tensor-power-freeness (its statement and consequences), lem:spare-column-transfer, lem:shared-direction-pure-tops and prop:syzygies-as-tor, and the proof of prop:group-freeness in full. A fresh-context reviewer rederived the Chernoff and union-bound arithmetic with the factor \(2/3\). It confirmed that criterion (iii) and superadditivity need only a graded Frobenius \(T\) and degree-0 parts \(\mathbb F_3\), so they extend to column groups. It checked prop:sequential-freeness term by term, including that the induction hypothesis restricts, and read the tensor-power entry to confirm that the if-and-only-if for injective column maps is proved. Its claim search found no earlier version of sequential freeness. It found the mathematics sound and required four changes, all adopted: the column form of group freeness is registered as its own lemma; the claim that dense tops have injective column maps is replaced by a dimension count, with occupancy forms as the non-generic case; the pair remark separates the automatic tensor identity from the freeness it needs; and \(\Lambda(S)\) is defined for columns.

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Relation-length syzygies: a linear relation among the squared forms of \(r\) tops gives a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\) wherever the algebra is free over the forms' span, with relation length playing the role of cell count in column Wilson. Three tops with pairwise independent forms already fail pair generation, which refutes conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor, and sequential freeness fails for every single-relation type

27 September 2026 · Working proof, refutation and conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-sequential-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relation-length syzygies: a linear relation among the squared forms of \(r\) tops gives a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\) wherever the algebra is free over the forms' span, with relation length playing the role of cell count in column Wilson. Three tops with pairwise independent forms already fail pair generation, which refutes conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor, and sequential freeness fails for every single-relation type”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-three-top-relations.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Column-support freeness reduced the global step, from pairs to many tops, to sequential freeness (prop:sequential-freeness): each quotient by the earlier tops free over the next top's forms. It holds for jointly independent forms and fails for shared forms. W's \(n^K\) tops have dependent forms, so the first test is three tops whose forms are pairwise independent and satisfy one linear relation. This entry answers it and follows the defect to relations among any number of tops.

General statement. prop:relation-length-syzygy: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(\tau_i=A_i^2B_i\), \(i=1,\dots,r\), \(r\ge2\), be tops on the weak monomial algebra \(\widetilde A\), whose \(2r\) forms span a space \(V\) of dimension \(2r-1\) with the single relation \(A_1+\dots+A_r=0\). Let \(e(r)=\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\). If \(\widetilde A\) is free through degree \(3+e(r)\) over the truncated algebra \(T_V\), the family has a syzygy of multiplier degree \(e(r)\) outside the span of the Frobenius syzygies and the Koszul pairs. conj:relation-length-threshold: under the same hypothesis there is none of lower multiplier degree.

The finite reduction

If \(\widetilde A\) is free over \(T_V\) through a degree \(D\), then in degrees \(\le D\) it is a sum of shifted copies of \(T_V\), one of them generated by 1. The syzygies of tops in \(T_V\), their Frobenius syzygies and Koszul pairs all live in the copies, and the copy generated by 1 is a direct summand. So a Taylor defect of the tops in \(T_V\) in degree \(\le D\) is one in \(\widetilde A\), and a quotient's freeness over a top's forms is decided in \(T_V\). This is the reduction behind prop:free-part-criterion. \(T_V\) has dimension \(3^{2r-1}\), independent of \(N\), and thm:column-support-freeness makes the hypothesis hold whenever the combinations of \(V\) are nonzero on enough columns.

ex:three-top-relation-types

research/tools/three_top_sequential.m2 takes three tops \(A_i^2B_i\) whose six forms satisfy one relation meeting all three tops. With signs absorbed, the relation is the sum of the forms of a pattern that chooses \(\{A_i\}\), \(\{B_i\}\) or \(\{A_i,B_i\}\) from each top, giving 10 patterns up to permuting the tops. In each, Macaulay2 computes in \(T_V\) the first degree where the syzygies exceed the Frobenius and Koszul span, and the first failure of the sequential hypothesis in all six orderings (research/results/odd-prime-three-top-sequential/types.jsonl).

Every one of the 10 patterns has a Taylor defect: first at total degree 6 when the relation involves only squared forms (\(\{A\},\{A\},\{A\}\)) or two of them with a linear form (\(\{A\},\{A\},\{B\}\) or \(\{A\},\{A\},\{A,B\}\)), and at total degree 7 in the other seven patterns.
The sequential hypothesis fails at the third step in every pattern and ordering, at degree 4 or 5. The first two steps always hold, as they must, since each pair's four forms are independent.
Positive control: a shared squared form (\(A_3=-A_1\), top 2 outside the relation) fails at degree 3, at the second or the third step depending on whether the ordering puts the two related tops first, and has its defect at degree 4. This is the case \(r=2\) of prop:relation-length-syzygy below, the shared-form phenomenon of lem:shared-direction-pure-tops.

For \(\{A\},\{A\},\{A\}\) Macaulay2's single new generator is \((g_1,g_2,g_3)=(-A_2B_2B_3,\ A_1B_1B_3,\ A_2B_1B_2)\), and the identity behind it holds in any commutative algebra of characteristic 3 in which cubes of linear forms vanish. With \(A_3=-(A_1+A_2)\), \(\sum_ig_i\tau_i=B_1B_2B_3\,A_2(-A_1^2+A_1A_2+A_3^2)=B_1B_2B_3\,A_2(3A_1A_2+A_2^2)=B_1B_2B_3A_2^3=0\). The same holds with arbitrary cofactors \(C_i\) in place of \(B_i\).

Relation length. research/tools/relation_length_defects.m2 repeats the computation for \(A_1+\dots+A_r=0\), \(r=2,\dots,5\) (research/results/odd-prime-three-top-sequential/relation_length.jsonl). The first defect is at multiplier degree 1, 3, 4, 6, which is \(e(r)=\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\). The defect dimensions are \(\binom rj\) in degrees \(3+e(r)+j\), \(j=0,\dots,r\): one class multiplied by the \(B_i\). The sequential hypothesis fails at its last step at degrees 3, 4, 6, 7. The run was chosen to test whether the defect degree grows with \(r\), which W's forced relations decide; the proof below explains the value of \(e(r)\).

prop:relation-length-syzygy

Proof. By the finite reduction it suffices to work in \(T_V=T_A\otimes T_B\), with \(T_A=\mathbb F_3[a_1,\dots,a_{r-1}]/(a_i^3)\), \(A_i=a_i\) for \(i<r\), \(A_r=\ell=-\sum_ia_i\), and \(T_B\) the truncated algebra of the independent \(B_i\). Put \(m=r-1\).

A syzygy among the squares. \(T_A/(a_1^2,\dots,a_m^2)\) is the square-free algebra \(\Lambda(m)\), on which \(\ell\) acts as minus the sum of the \(m\) cells. By lem:pair-seed-decomposition, over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) it is free plus one block: \(J_1\) generated in degree \(m/2\) (\(m\) even; \(\ell\) kills the generator) or \(J_2\) generated in degree \((m-1)/2\) (\(m\) odd; \(\ell^2\) kills it). Its generator \(\bar h\), of degree \(\lfloor m/2\rfloor\), satisfies \(\ell^2\bar h=0\) and \(\bar h\notin\ell\Lambda(m)\): the block's component of \(\ell\Lambda(m)\) is \(\ell\) times the block, which does not contain the generator. Lift \(\bar h\) to \(h_r\in T_A\). Then \(\ell^2h_r=-\sum_{i<r}h_ia_i^2\) for some \(h_i\), a syzygy \((h_1,\dots,h_r)\) of \(A_1^2,\dots,A_r^2\) of degree \(\lfloor m/2\rfloor\).
Lift to the tops. Put \(g_i=h_i\prod_{j\ne i}B_j\). Then \(\sum_ig_i\tau_i=\prod_jB_j\sum_ih_iA_i^2=0\), a syzygy of multiplier degree \(\lfloor m/2\rfloor+(r-1)=e(r)\).
Not Taylor. Grade \(T_V\) by the degrees in the independent \(B_j\); the syzygy has \(B\)-multidegree \((1,\dots,1)\) in every component, counting \(\tau_i\)'s \(B_i\). In this multidegree the Taylor span is spanned by these elements. There are the Frobenius multiples \(A_i\,c\prod_{j\ne i}B_j\,e_i\) (the Frobenius syzygy \(B_i^2e_i\) has \(B_i\)-degree 3 there and drops out), and the Koszul pairs \((\tau_je_i-\tau_ie_j)\,c\prod_{l\ne i,j}B_l\), \(c\in T_A\). Their \(r\)-th components, divided by \(\prod_{j<r}B_j\), lie in the ideal \((\ell)+(a_1^2,\dots,a_m^2)\) of \(T_A\). The \(r\)-th component of our syzygy gives \(h_r\), whose image \(\bar h\) in \(\Lambda(m)\) is not in \(\ell\Lambda(m)\), so \(h_r\) is not in that ideal. \(\square\)

The mechanism is column Wilson's, one level up: modulo the other squares, the squared form \(A_r\) acts as a form with \(r-1\) cells, and its Jordan block in degree \(\lfloor(r-1)/2\rfloor\) is the defect. In prop:short-form-survival the cell count sets the defect degree; here the relation length does.

Refutation of conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor

Take \(r=3\), so \(h=3\), \(D=6\), and the conjecture asks every top's and every pair's combinations to be nonzero on at least \(2(D-h)+2=8\) columns. Choose the five forms of \(V\) on one row of \(N\) cells so that every nonzero combination of \(V\) has at least \(\tfrac{27}2\cdot6\,(5\cdot4+\ln6)\) cells (for example densely at random, with \(N\) large). Then thm:column-support-freeness makes the row free over \(T_V\) through 6. Every top's and pair's combinations, being combinations of \(V\), are long, and the tops are below the fill point. By prop:relation-length-syzygy the family has a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree 3, total degree 6. No multiplier of degree 0 kills a nonzero top, so the defects in lower degrees vanish. As in pair relations, lem:spare-column-transfer carries the defect to the weak top algebra with spare columns, and prop:row-inflation to the weak unary board with any number of rows. So conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor fails at every large \(n\): the global step cannot follow from single tops and pairs alone.

What this means for A1

W's clause tops \(L_i^2\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^2\) have only squared forms, the pattern of prop:relation-length-syzygy. The following figures are order-of-magnitude estimates, not derived bounds. By the conjectured threshold, a relation among squared forms of \(r\) tops is harmless for the Taylor route only when \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\) exceeds the multiplier degrees used, about \(D-h\approx20k\), so for \(r\gtrsim13k\).
Relations forced by counting are long. The forms lie in a space of dimension about \(n^2\), so a relation needs about \(n^2/(k+1)\) tops before counting forces one, far beyond \(13k\). Short relations are an adversary's choice: a block whose forms are sums of two other blocks' forms plants \(r=3\).
So the global step needs one of three things: a prefix choice avoiding short relations among squared prefix forms; merging each short-relation cluster into one member, as the record already requires for shared forms (lem:shared-direction-pure-tops, cor:incoherent-form-members), which works while clusters stay bounded (bounded clusters); or a reduction showing that families rich in short relations have low rank, where recorded reductions apply.

Lead follow-up. This develops the review's flat base-change lead: its sequential hypothesis is now tested where it first has content, and it fails for every single relation, as it must, since Taylor generation itself fails there.

Outcome. prop:relation-length-syzygy: \(r\) tops with one relation among their squared forms have a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\) in the free regime, for every \(r\). conj:relation-length-threshold, no earlier defect, is exact for \(r\le5\). ex:three-top-relation-types: all 10 single-relation types among three tops have defects at total degree 6 or 7, and the sequential hypothesis fails in every ordering. conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor is refuted: the global step needs relation length, not only pairs.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): state the global step with relation length. Conjecture and test that, in the free regime, a family of tops whose squared forms have no linear relation meeting fewer than \(r_0\) tops is Taylor-generated through multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r_0-1)/2\rfloor-1\). Then decide whether W's prover can always choose prefixes, or merge members, so that short relations disappear, or whether families rich in short relations fall to the recorded low-rank reductions.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:sequential-freeness, lem:pair-seed-decomposition, lem:shared-direction-pure-tops, ex:pair-relation-defects and the pair relations entry's transfer argument, conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor, prop:free-part-criterion, cor:incoherent-form-members, ex:three-form-relations (near relations, jointly independent forms, at sizes below the free regime: consistent) and thm:column-support-freeness. A fresh-context reviewer checked the finite reduction and the \(r=3\) identity by hand. It verified step 3 of the proof in full: the multidegree \((1,\dots,1)\) part of the Taylor span and the ideal containing its \(r\)-th components. It cross-checked every number against both outputs, and checked the refutation's hypotheses and the column-support substitution (\(F=5\), \(l=4\), \(t=6\)). Its claim search found no earlier version. It found the mathematics sound and required one change, adopted: the shared-form control fails at the second or third step depending on the ordering, not always at the third. Its suggestions are adopted too: the control's defect is attributed to the case \(r=2\), and the figures for W are marked as estimates.

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Relation resolvents: the relation syzygy of three clauses falls to the product constraint \(B_1B_2B_3(A_1-A_2)\), a consequence of degree 4, but adding it does not restore Taylor generation, since its new factor makes a fresh short relation. In the tested case one resolvent step does not absorb the planted relation, a Taylor-level counterpart of the recorded failure of saturated locality

27 September 2026 · Working proof and a negative finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-relation-families. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relation resolvents: the relation syzygy of three clauses falls to the product constraint \(B_1B_2B_3(A_1-A_2)\), a consequence of degree 4, but adding it does not restore Taylor generation, since its new factor makes a fresh short relation. In the tested case one resolvent step does not absorb the planted relation, a Taylor-level counterpart of the recorded failure of saturated locality”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-relation-resolvents.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Relation-length syzygies showed that a relation among the squared forms of \(r\) tops breaks Taylor generation at multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\), and that W's prefix choice cannot avoid planted ones. Take blocks \(b_1,b_2,b_3\) with \(L_{b_3,j}=L_{b_1,j}+L_{b_2,j}\) for every \(j\). The three blocks share the index set, since the forms are summed index by index. Suppose each has a clause, \(h_b>k\). Fix an index \(j\). For each block, either \(j\in S_b\), and then every clause of \(b\) has \(L_{b,j}^2\) in its top, or \(j\notin S_b\), and then the clause with outside index \(j\) does. So some three clauses, one from each block, have \(L_{b_1,j}\), \(L_{b_2,j}\), \(L_{b_3,j}\) among their squared forms, whatever the prefixes: a three-term relation. The record's tool for syzygies that Taylor glue does not admit is the resolvent (thm:resolvent-taylor-glue): add the fall of the offending syzygy, a consequence of the clauses, to the family. This cycle computes the relation syzygy's resolvent and tests whether adding it restores the Taylor condition.

General statement. prop:relation-resolvent: over \(\mathbb F_3\) with Boolean variables, let \(C_i=(1-A_i^2)B_i\), \(i=1,\dots,r\), for affine forms with \(A_1+\dots+A_r=0\) identically. Let \((h_1,\dots,h_r)\) be polynomials with \(\sum_ih_iA_i^2=\sum_qc_q\ell_q^3\) for linear forms \(\ell_q\), a syzygy of the squares modulo cubes (such as step 1 of prop:relation-length-syzygy gives). Put \(g_i=h_i\prod_{j\ne i}B_j\). Then \(\sum_ig_iC_i\) reduces, modulo Booleanity, to the resolvent \(R=\prod_jB_j\,(\sum_ih_i-\sum_qc_q\ell_q)\), of degree below the syzygy's total degree (4 against 6 for \(r=3\), though above a single top's degree 3). It is a consequence of the clauses, derivable within their degree. For \(r=3\) and \(h=(-A_2,A_1,A_2)\), \(R=B_1B_2B_3(A_1-A_2)\).

prop:relation-resolvent

Proof. \(\sum_ig_iC_i=\prod_jB_j\sum_ih_i(1-A_i^2)=\prod_jB_j(\sum_ih_i-\sum_qc_q\ell_q^3)\). For a linear form \(\ell=\sum_ta_tx_t\), \(\ell^3=\sum_ta_t^3x_t^3=\sum_ta_tx_t^3\) in characteristic 3, and \(x_t^3\equiv x_t\) modulo \(x_t^2-x_t\), so \(\ell^3\equiv\ell\) with a derivation of degree 3 for each cube. For affine \(\ell=\ell_0+c\), \(\ell^3=\ell_0^3+c^3\equiv\ell_0+c\) too. For \(r=3\) the syzygy of the squares is \(-A_2A_1^2+A_1A_2^2+A_2A_3^2=A_2^3\) (from \(A_3^2=A_1^2+2A_1A_2+A_2^2\)), so \(\sum_qc_q\ell_q=A_2\) and \(R=B_1B_2B_3(A_1+A_2-A_2-A_2)=B_1B_2B_3(A_1-A_2)\). \(\square\)

Semantically, where every \(B_i\ne0\) the clauses force \(A_i=\pm1\), and three values \(\pm1\) with sum 0 are equal, so \(A_1=A_2\): the resolvent records \(A_1=A_2\), one of the equalities this forces, the others following by symmetry of the same argument. It is a product constraint with linear-type factors, and as a consequence of the clauses, derivable within their degree, adding it does not change which PC refutations exist.

ex:relation-resolvent-saturation

research/tools/relation_resolvent_check.m2 computes, in the truncated algebra of the span (the free regime, as in the previous entry), the Taylor defect of the three tops \(A_i^2B_i\) with \(A_1+A_2+A_3=0\), with and without the resolvent's top \(\rho=B_1B_2B_3(a_1-a_2)\). The Taylor span is the one thm:resolvent-taylor-glue uses: Frobenius syzygies, Koszul pairs, and for tops sharing a factor the pair syzygies \((\mathrm{lcm}/\tau_i)e_i-(\mathrm{lcm}/\tau_j)e_j\) (research/results/odd-prime-relation-resolvents/resolvent.jsonl).

Without \(\rho\): defect dimensions 1, 3, 3, 1 in degrees 6 to 9, the relation syzygy of prop:relation-length-syzygy.
With \(\rho\): defect dimensions 2, 6, 6, 2 in degrees 5 to 8. The defect appears one degree earlier and doubles.

A likely mechanism is visible in the forms: \(\rho\)'s new factor \(a_1-a_2\) lies in the span of \(a_1\) and \(a_2\), so \((a_1-a_2)-a_1+a_2=0\) is a new three-term relation among forms of \(\rho\), \(\tau_1\) and \(\tau_2\). The resolvent is itself in a short relation, and saturation regenerates the obstruction. This is a single exact computation, not a general theorem about saturation.

Place in the record

thm:resolvent-absorption already found that single-dependency clusters (forms \(X_{11}\), \(X_{12}\), \(X_{11}+X_{12}-1\)) cannot be avoided under W's prefix rule. There a resolvent makes an inconsistent cluster local in every degree, in the budget-clause framework. The relation here is consistent, and the Taylor condition is not restored.
ex:saturated-locality-failure refuted saturated locality in the dense regime; the saturation test here is its counterpart for Taylor generation.
prop:two-block-taylor-failure is the case of two blocks on the same forms. There the Taylor condition fails for every prefix choice, yet W's system has no PC refutation of degree \(22k\), by single-form pinning. A failure of the Taylor route is not a failure of W.

What this means for A1. Planted short relations defeat the Taylor-generation route through prefix choice, since the prefix rule cannot avoid them. In the one tested case, one resolvent step does not help either, since the resolvent sits in a new short relation; whether this holds for every relation and every choice of \(h\) is not established. The recorded alternative for such local structure is pinning (prop:two-block-taylor-failure, cor:single-form-pinning), which handles small clusters, and bounded clusters glue (bounded clusters). What remains open is a family in which short relations connect many blocks while the rank stays high, for example blocks arranged in a binary tree, each the formwise sum of its two children. Such a family is neither low rank nor a union of bounded clusters.

Outcome. prop:relation-resolvent: the relation syzygy falls to the degree-4 product constraint \(B_1B_2B_3(A_1-A_2)\), and in general to \(\prod_jB_j(\sum_ih_i-\sum_qc_q\ell_q)\). ex:relation-resolvent-saturation: in the tested case adding it moves the Taylor defect earlier, probably through a regenerated three-term relation. So planted relations call for pinning or clusters rather than the Taylor condition, at least until a saturation argument is found.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review of the global step, now that relation length, not pairs, governs Taylor generation. It should assess whether W is at risk from relation-rich families of high rank (tree-like sums of blocks), or whether pinning and clusters cover them. It should also weigh the remaining mechanisms: closure (row freeness of the allowed set), pinning and the Taylor route.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, thm:resolvent-absorption, ex:saturated-locality-failure, prop:two-block-taylor-failure and prop:relation-length-syzygy. A fresh-context reviewer verified the algebra, including the cube reduction with constants, and the \(r=3\) instance. It checked the script line by line against the output and found the comparisons with the record fair. It required three changes, all adopted: the degree statement now compares \(R\) with the syzygy's total degree, not a top's; the unavoidability argument states \(h_b>k\) and uses the common index set; and the framing is limited to the one tested case. Its optional note on which equalities \(R\) records is adopted.

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Route review of the global step: a family's Taylor defects are governed by relations among its squared forms, linear relations by their length and closed configurations by relations among the squares; defects stayed local on a tree of two relations, but W's prefix rule cannot avoid planted relations, and pinning reaches too few blocks to absorb them

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-global-step-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the global step: a family's Taylor defects are governed by relations among its squared forms, linear relations by their length and closed configurations by relations among the squares; defects stayed local on a tree of two relations, but W's prefix rule cannot avoid planted relations, and pinning reaches too few blocks to absorb them”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-global-step-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the one-row freeness review, three entries:

column-support freeness: single tops and pairs are Taylor-generated on the board from column supports, and a family is Taylor-generated once each quotient by the earlier tops is free over the next top's forms (prop:sequential-freeness);
relation-length syzygies: a relation among the squared forms of \(r\) tops gives a defect at multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\), which refutes conj:pair-block-wilson-taylor;
relation resolvents: W's prefix rule cannot avoid planted relations, and one resolvent step did not absorb them in the tested case.

The line's general claim

In the free regime, where the algebra is free over the truncated algebra of the family's forms, the Taylor defects of tops \(A_i^2B_i\) with independent \(B_i\) come from syzygies among the squares \(A_i^2\). For syzygies of the squares that come from a linear relation of length \(r\), prop:relation-length-syzygy lifts one with coefficients of degree \(d=\lfloor(r-1)/2\rfloor\) through \(\prod_{j\ne i}B_j\) to multiplier degree \(d+r-1\) (proved), and none lower is conjectured (conj:relation-length-threshold, exact for \(r\le5\)). The computations below add a second source, a relation among the squares themselves with \(d=0\) on four tops, observed once.

What the goal needs

W needs Taylor generation, or another gluing, through degree \(22k\) for \(n^K\) blocks with adversarial forms. Relations forced by counting are long, about \(n^2/(k+1)\) tops, and harmless. Planted short relations cannot be avoided by prefix choice. So W needs a mechanism that handles planted relation structures directly: local classes one cluster at a time, or a reduction for relation-rich families.

Falsification attempt

If defects of chained relations were not local, no cluster-by-cluster treatment could work. Two exact computations in the truncated algebra of the span test this.

Closed configuration (research/tools/chained_relation_check.m2, research/results/odd-prime-global-step-review/chained.jsonl). Four tops with \(A_3=A_1+A_2\) and \(A_4=A_2+A_3\). Over \(\mathbb F_3\) this closes up: \(a_1,a_2,a_1+a_2,a_1-a_2\) are the four points of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_3)\), so every triple is related. The defect is 5, 18, 26, 20, 9, 2 in degrees 6 to 11, and 1, 4, 6, 4, 1 in degrees 6 to 10 remain after all four triple syzygies are added. The remaining class comes from a relation among the squares, \(a_1^2+a_2^2+(a_1+a_2)^2+(a_1-a_2)^2=3a_1^2+3a_2^2=0\), a degree-0 syzygy of the squares on four tops, lifted to multiplier degree 3. The residual dimensions are exactly \(\binom4j\), as for one class multiplied by the four \(B_i\), which supports this attribution.
Tree of relations (research/tools/tree_relation_check.m2, research/results/odd-prime-global-step-review/tree.jsonl). Five tops with \(A_3=A_1+A_2\) and \(A_5=A_3+A_4\), sharing only top 3. At degree 6 the defect is exactly the two triples' classes (dimension 2), and after adding their syzygies the first residual is at degree 7, dimension 1. This is consistent with the derived relation \(A_1+A_2+A_4-A_5=0\) of length 4, whose class conj:relation-length-threshold places at multiplier degree \(\lfloor9/2\rfloor=4\); no explicit syzygy was constructed to confirm the identification.

So, in the one tree tested, defects were local, and the only later class is consistent with the derived relation's length. Closed configurations, which in characteristic 3 already arise from two relations sharing two tops, add classes from relations among the squares. The line survives, with its sources of defects enlarged.

Obstacle

W's prefix rule cannot avoid planted relations, and the recorded way to handle a relation cluster whole is pinning (prop:two-block-taylor-failure, cor:single-form-pinning). Pinning covers only about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks with independent pinned forms. What is missing is a mechanism that handles local relation classes cluster by cluster on a connected relation structure of high rank, where neither bounded clusters (bounded clusters) nor low-rank reductions apply, for up to \(n^K\) blocks.

Assessment of the route

Productive in understanding, negative for the Taylor route as W's only mechanism. The global step's defects now have an explicit source, with locality on the tree tested, and the refuted pair conjecture is replaced by a relation-length picture. But the adversary controls the relations, and nothing recorded glues planted relation structures at \(n^K\) scale. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Lower bounds for linear 2-query locally decodable and correctable codes (Z. Dvir and A. Shpilka, Locally decodable codes with two queries and polynomial identity testing for depth 3 circuits, SIAM J. Comput. 36, 2007; O. Goldreich, H. Karloff, L. Schulman and L. Trevisan, Lower bounds for linear locally decodable codes and private information retrieval, Comput. Complexity 15, 2006). A linear code whose coordinates are each recoverable from many disjoint pairs has dimension logarithmic in its length. Answers. If every block's squared forms lie in \(\delta M\) disjoint three-term relations, the forms form a linear 2-query correctable code, so their span has dimension \(O(\log M/\delta)\), and the recorded low-rank reductions (pinned-rank vacuity) take over. Relation-rich planted structures would thus be low rank. Test. Passed as a translation for that regime: the Hadamard configuration (all forms of a subspace) attains logarithmic rank, so the bound is of the right shape. It does not reach structures in which each block lies in \(O(1)\) relations, which the bridges below show exist at high rank.
Splittings of monomial ideals along trees (H. T. Hà and A. Van Tuyl, Splittable ideals and the resolutions of monomial ideals, J. Algebra 309, 2007, after Eliahou and Kervaire). When an ideal splits as a sum whose pieces meet in a smaller ideal, its Betti numbers are the sums of the pieces' Betti numbers and those of their intersection, as for tree-like facet ideals. Answers. Along a tree of relations the syzygies should split into the clusters' local pieces, so each cluster could be treated separately and the treatments combined. Test. Passed, on the single tree computation above, which is also the evidence for the rigidity bridge below, not an independent confirmation: the defect at degree 6 is exactly the two clusters' classes, and the first new class is consistent with the derived relation's predicted degree.
Power-sum identities over finite fields (the vanishing of \(\sum_{x\in\mathbb F_q^d}x^j\) for \(j<q-1\), as in the Chevalley–Warning argument). For every projective line over \(\mathbb F_3\) the squares of its four points sum to zero: with \(\ell_1,\ell_2\) spanning it, \(\ell_1^2+\ell_2^2+(\ell_1+\ell_2)^2+(\ell_1-\ell_2)^2=3(\ell_1^2+\ell_2^2)=0\). Answers. Such identities give exactly the relations among the squares that the closed configuration showed; with them, a family's defect sources would be listed by its linear relations (by length) and the full projective lines among its squared forms. Test. Passed: the identity reproduces the class that remained in the closed configuration, at multiplier degree 3. Whether these two sources are all is a conjecture, not tested here.

Absurd bridges

Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks (G. Laman, On graphs and rigidity of plane skeletal structures, J. Engrg. Math. 4, 1970), in which self-stresses, the linear dependencies among edge constraints, appear exactly when some subframework is overbraced. Translation: blocks are joints, three-term relations are rigid triangles, and non-local syzygies are self-stresses. Answers. A counting criterion of Laman's kind would say which relation structures carry non-local classes: trees of triangles none, closed configurations some. That is a local test for the global step. Test. Passed: the tree of two triangles sharing a joint has no non-local class below its derived relation, while the closed configuration, where all four triangles on four joints are present, carries one.
Classical LDPC codes as a picture of planted relations (the cycle code of a cubic graph over \(\mathbb F_3\), orientation-signed: every vertex gives a relation of weight 3 among the forms on its three edges). Translation: forms on edges, three-term relations at vertices. Answers. Whether relation-rich families are forced to low rank, which would dissolve the obstacle. Test. Falsified as a way out: a cubic graph with \(V\) vertices has \(3V/2\) edges and a cycle space of dimension \(V/2+1\), so every form lies in two weight-3 relations while the rank is a third of the number of forms. Relation-rich high-rank structures exist, so the obstacle is real, and graphs of large girth are locally trees of relations, the regime where the splitting lead passed.

Lead follow-up

Flat base change. Developed in column-support freeness (prop:sequential-freeness) and tested in relation-length syzygies. Follow-up. Closed: its hypothesis fails for every single linear relation among three tops (ex:three-top-relation-types), and the prefix rule cannot avoid planted relations, so sequential freeness cannot carry W's global step for dependent forms; the relation-length analysis replaces it.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): decide whether W holds for planted relation structures of high rank, the highest risk now. First the smallest case, three blocks with \(L_{b_3,j}=L_{b_1,j}+L_{b_2,j}\): extend cor:single-form-pinning's argument from blocks with independent pinned forms to a related triple. Then a tree of such triples, using the locality found here to treat clusters one at a time.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three entries reviewed, the one-row freeness review, prop:relation-length-syzygy, prop:two-block-taylor-failure, cor:single-form-pinning and the bounded clusters entry. The cheap tests were run in the cycle: the closed-configuration and tree computations (Macaulay2, exact), the power-sum identity, and the cycle-space count. A fresh-context reviewer checked both scripts, including the self-checked signs of the triple syzygies, every number against the outputs, the projective-line identity, the citations, the Lead follow-up and the use of cor:single-form-pinning. It found the review sound and required four changes, all adopted. The degree-7 residual is called consistent with the derived relation, not identified with it. Locality is stated for the one tree tested. The square-relation source is marked as observed once, separately from the proved case. The splitting lead's pass is marked as resting on the same computation as the rigidity bridge. Its suggestion to cite the binomial residual dimensions is adopted.

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Pin-relation defects: pinning a block whose designated form lies in the span of two other blocks' squared clause forms leaves a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree \(\deg C\), and a pin relating two clauses' linear prefix factors leaves one at degree 2; so pinning must take whole relation components, and pinning plus Taylor glue reaches only relation structures of about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks

27 September 2026 · Working proof with an exact check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-relation-pinning. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pin-relation defects: pinning a block whose designated form lies in the span of two other blocks' squared clause forms leaves a non-Taylor syzygy at multiplier degree \(\deg C\), and a pin relating two clauses' linear prefix factors leaves one at degree 2; so pinning must take whole relation components, and pinning plus Taylor glue reaches only relation structures of about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-pin-relation-defects.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The global-step review left W's planted relation structures as the obstacle. Small clusters fall to single-form pinning: a related triple \(b_3=b_1+b_2\) (formwise) is covered by cor:single-form-pinning with designated forms at different indices, which are independent. The natural composition for larger structures pins a set of blocks meeting every short relation and Taylor-glues the rest over the pinned base. This cycle tests that composition against the relation mechanism.

General statement. prop:pin-relation-defect: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let a pin \(l\) (a linear top, the designated form of a pinned block) satisfy \(l=\alpha A_1+\beta A_2\) with \(\alpha\beta\ne0\), where \(\tau_i=A_i^2C_i\) are clause tops of two unpinned blocks, and \(C_1,C_2\) are square-free products of forms that together with \(A_1,A_2\) are independent. Scale \(A_1,A_2\) so that \(l=-(A_1+A_2)\). If the algebra is free over the truncated algebra of these forms through degree \(3+\deg C_1+\deg C_2\), then \(C_2e_1-C_1e_2+(A_1-A_2)C_1C_2\,e_l\) is a syzygy of \((\tau_1,\tau_2,l)\) of multiplier degree \(\deg C_2\) on \(e_1\), outside the span of the Frobenius syzygies and the Koszul pairs. Likewise, for clause tops \(A_1^2x\,C_1\) and \(A_2^2y\,C_2\) with linear factors \(x,y\) and a pin \(m=-(x+y)\), all forms independent, \((A_2^2C_2,\ A_1^2C_1,\ A_1^2A_2^2C_1C_2)\) on \((e_1,e_2,e_m)\) is a syzygy of multiplier degree \(2+\deg C_2\) on \(e_1\) outside that span.

prop:pin-relation-defect

Proof. Syzygy: \(C_2A_1^2C_1-C_1A_2^2C_2+(A_1-A_2)C_1C_2(-(A_1+A_2))=C_1C_2(A_1^2-A_2^2-(A_1^2-A_2^2))=0\). Not Taylor: by the reduction to the truncated algebra (relation-length syzygies), work there and grade by the degrees in the independent forms of \(C_1\) and \(C_2\). The syzygy lies in the multidegree where \(e_1\)'s coefficient is \(C_2\). In that multidegree the Taylor span contributes to \(e_1\) only these coefficients: \(A_1\,c\) from the Frobenius syzygy \(A_1e_1\), where the Frobenius syzygies of \(C_1\)'s factors have the wrong multidegree; \(A_2^2C_2\,c\) from the Koszul pair with \(\tau_2\); and \(l\,c\) from the Koszul pair with the pin. Each \(c\) is a multiple of the matching part of \(C_2\) with coefficients in the algebra of \(A_1,A_2\). So \(e_1\)'s coefficient lies in \(C_2\cdot(A_1,A_2^2,l)\), and \(C_2\cdot1\) does not. For the second syzygy, \(A_2^2C_2\cdot A_1^2xC_1+A_1^2C_1\cdot A_2^2yC_2=A_1^2A_2^2C_1C_2(x+y)=-A_1^2A_2^2C_1C_2\,m\). Grade by the degrees in \(x\), \(y\) and the forms of \(C_1,C_2\): \(e_1\)'s coefficient \(A_2^2C_2\) has degree 0 in \(x\) and \(y\). In its multidegree the Taylor span contributes to \(e_1\) the coefficients \(A_1c\) (Frobenius; the Frobenius syzygy \(x^2e_1\) and those of \(C_1\)'s factors have the wrong multidegree), \(A_2^2yC_2c\) (Koszul with \(\tau_2\), positive degree in \(y\)) and \(mc\) (Koszul with the pin, positive degree in \(x,y\)), so only multiples of \(A_1\) survive, and \(A_2^2C_2\notin(A_1)\). \(\square\)

Check. research/tools/pin_relation_check.m2 (research/results/odd-prime-pin-relations/pin.jsonl), with \(C_i=B_i\) single forms: the family \(\{l,A_1^2B_1,A_2^2B_2\}\), \(l=-(A_1+A_2)\), has its first defect at degree 4, dimension 1, multiplier degree 1 as proved (the algebra also carries the free forms of the other families, so the later dimensions, 1, 5, 13, 22, 26, 22, 13, 5, 1 in degrees 4 to 12, include their multiples). The prefix-pin family \(\{m,A_1^2x,A_2^2y\}\) has its first defect at degree 5, dimension 1, multiplier degree 2 as proved. Two controls have none: an independent pin, and all three blocks pinned at independent forms.

Consequence for pinning

In W's normalized clauses \(\chi_0(L_{b,i})\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}\), the outside form is squared and the prefix forms enter linearly, and every index outside \(S_b\) is the outside index of one clause. Take a planted triple \(b_3=b_1+b_2\) and pin \(b_3\) at an index \(j\), so \(l=L_{b_3,j}=L_{b_1,j}+L_{b_2,j}\). If \(j\) lies outside \(S_{b_1}\cup S_{b_2}\), the clauses of \(b_1\) and \(b_2\) with outside index \(j\) meet the first case of the proposition. If \(j\) lies in both prefixes, every pair of their clauses meets the second case. If it lies in one prefix only, the pattern is mixed and was not checked. So a pin at a common outside or common prefix index leaves a defect unless \(b_1\) and \(b_2\) are pinned too, and pinning a set that merely meets every short relation does not restore Taylor glue. Pinning whole relation components removes these clause tops altogether. The designated indices can be chosen differently in the three blocks, so that the pinned forms are independent; the third control models exactly this. But but cor:single-form-pinning reaches about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks, so pinning plus Taylor glue covers only small relation structures.

What this means for A1. Unless the unchecked mixed placement, with the pin's index in one prefix only, avoids defects, the Taylor route with pinning cannot certify W for adversarial families that plant large relation structures. The review's LDC lead covers relation-dense families (logarithmic rank). What remains is sparse but connected relation structures of high rank. For them the record's other global mechanism, closure gluing through row freeness of the allowed set (thm:global-closure-gluing, conj:relative-row-freeness), does not involve syzygies of the tops. Its density hypothesis is a union bound over blocks, blind to relations between blocks. So planted relations do not touch its hypotheses directly; whether its row-freeness conclusion holds for them is untested.

Outcome. prop:pin-relation-defect: a pin in the span of two unpinned clause forms, squared or linear prefix factors, leaves a non-Taylor syzygy, confirmed exactly with controls. Pinning must take whole relation components, which reaches only about \(\sqrt n/\log n\) blocks.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): return to the closure route for relation-rich families. State what conj:relative-row-freeness and conj:top-lift-subset predict for a cycle-code family of planted relations. Then look for a subset of its allowed set that is row-free beyond joint capacity, the closure route's recorded gap, using the freeness tools of this line (group and column-support freeness act on any tensor decomposition).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:single-form-pinning, lem:member-pinning, prop:relation-length-syzygy (its reduction), thm:global-closure-gluing and conj:relative-row-freeness. A fresh-context reviewer verified both syzygies by hand. It found both grading arguments complete, including for products of several forms. It reran the script with byte-identical output, and deconvolved the first family's dimensions against the three unused forms to \((1,2,1)\) in degrees 4 to 6, confirming the explanation. It found the mathematics sound and required two changes, both adopted. The entry now says that pinning whole components uses designated indices chosen apart, which the third control models. The conclusion for A1 is conditioned on the unchecked mixed placement. Its note that the cofactors are square-free is added to the statement.

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Square-syzygy reduction: in the free regime the Taylor defect of tops \(A_i^2B_i\) with independent \(B_i\) is a direct sum, over \(B\)-multidegrees, of Taylor defects of families of squares \(A_i^2\). This proves the relation-length threshold: a single linear relation of length \(r\) among the squared forms gives its first defect exactly at multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\)

27 September 2026 · Working proofs · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-closure-relations. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Square-syzygy reduction: in the free regime the Taylor defect of tops \(A_i^2B_i\) with independent \(B_i\) is a direct sum, over \(B\)-multidegrees, of Taylor defects of families of squares \(A_i^2\). This proves the relation-length threshold: a single linear relation of length \(r\) among the squared forms gives its first defect exactly at multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-square-syzygy-reduction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Relation-length syzygies proved a defect at multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\) for a relation of length \(r\) among squared forms. It conjectured none below (conj:relation-length-threshold, exact for \(r\le5\)). The global-step review described a family's defects as lifts of syzygies of the squares, observed once for a relation among the squares. The lower bound is what makes long relations harmless: W's forced relations are long, so the Taylor route needs it wherever no short relation is planted. This cycle proves the description as an exact reduction and derives the threshold from it.

General statement. prop:square-syzygy-reduction: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(T_V=T_A\otimes T_B\) be the truncated algebra of linear forms spanning \(V=V_A\oplus V_B\), with \(A_1,\dots,A_r\in V_A\) arbitrary and \(B_1,\dots,B_r\) a basis of \(V_B\). For the tops \(\tau_i=A_i^2B_i\), the quotient of the syzygy module by the span of the Frobenius syzygies (\(A_ie_i\), \(B_i^2e_i\)) and the Koszul pairs is the direct sum, over \(\gamma\in\{0,1,2\}^r\), of the corresponding quotients \(\mathrm{Def}_{T_A}(A_i^2:i\in S(\gamma))\) for the squares, with Frobenius syzygies \(A_ie_i\), where \(S(\gamma)=\{i:\gamma_i\ge1\}\). The summand \(\gamma\) sits at multiplier degree \(d+|\gamma|-1\), \(d\) its degree in \(T_A\). Where the algebra is free over \(T_V\) through the relevant degree, the same holds there (the finite reduction of the relation-length entry). thm:relation-length-threshold: if the \(A_i\) span a space of dimension \(r-1\) with the single relation \(A_1+\dots+A_r=0\), the first defect of the tops is at multiplier degree exactly \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\).

prop:square-syzygy-reduction

Proof. Grade \(T_V\) and the free module \(\bigoplus_iT_V(-3)e_i\) by the exponents of the \(B_j\), giving \(e_i\) the degree \(\epsilon_i\), the \(i\)-th unit vector (the \(B_i\) in \(\tau_i\)). The tops, the syzygies and every Taylor generator are homogeneous, so everything splits by total \(B\)-multidegree \(\gamma\in\mathbb Z_{\ge0}^r\).

Syzygies in multidegree \(\gamma\). The \(e_i\)-coefficient has the form \(g_iB^{\gamma-\epsilon_i}\) with \(g_i\in T_A\), and it exists only if \(\gamma_i\ge1\) and \(\gamma-\epsilon_i\le2\) componentwise. Coordinates with \(\gamma_i=3\) satisfy \(\tau_ig_iB^{\gamma-\epsilon_i}=0\) automatically, since \(B_i^3=0\), and they are the Frobenius multiples of \(B_i^2e_i\). If some \(\gamma_i=3\), every other coordinate \(j\) has \(B_i^3\) in \(B^{\gamma-\epsilon_j}\), so it vanishes, and the multidegree contributes no defect. For \(\gamma\in\{0,1,2\}^r\), \(B^\gamma\ne0\) and \(\sum_i\tau_ig_iB^{\gamma-\epsilon_i}=B^\gamma\sum_{i\in S(\gamma)}g_iA_i^2\). So a syzygy is a syzygy \((g_i)_{i\in S(\gamma)}\) of the squares in \(T_A\).
Taylor span in multidegree \(\gamma\). A Frobenius multiple \(A_ic\,B^{\gamma-\epsilon_i}e_i\) gives \(A_ic\) on coordinate \(i\). A Koszul multiple \((\tau_je_i-\tau_ie_j)cB^\beta\) with \(\gamma=\epsilon_i+\epsilon_j+\beta\) gives \((A_j^2e_i-A_i^2e_j)c\), a Koszul pair of the squares. \(B_i^2e_i\) lands only in multidegrees with \(\gamma_i=3\). Since the Taylor span is generated by homogeneous elements, its part in multidegree \(\gamma\) is spanned by the multidegree-\(\gamma\) parts of generator multiples, the ones just listed. So in multidegree \(\gamma\in\{0,1,2\}^r\) the Taylor span is exactly the Frobenius-and-Koszul span of the squares indexed by \(S(\gamma)\).
Degrees. The coefficient \(g_iB^{\gamma-\epsilon_i}\) has degree \(d+|\gamma|-1\) when \(g_i\) has degree \(d\). \(\square\)

This explains the binomial dimensions recorded for single relations. Only \(S=[r]\) contributes, and \(\gamma\in\{1,2\}^r\) gives \(\binom rj\) copies of the squares' defect at \(|\gamma|=r+j\). It also covers the closed configuration of the review, whose relation \(\sum_iA_i^2=0\) among four squares has \(d=0\) and \(|S|=4\), so it sits at multiplier degree 3.

thm:relation-length-threshold

Proof. Write \(m=r-1\), \(A_i=a_i\) for \(i\le m\) (a basis of \(V_A\)) and \(A_r=\ell=-\sum_ia_i\). By the reduction, the first defect is at multiplier degree \(\min(d_S+|S|-1)\) over subsets \(S\), where \(d_S\) is the first defect degree of the squares indexed by \(S\) in \(T_A\).

Proper subsets. If \(S\ne[r]\), the \(A_i\), \(i\in S\), are independent. After a change of basis of \(V_A\), which preserves \(T_A\) because the cube ideal does not depend on the basis in characteristic 3, they are variables. Syzygies of monomials in the truncated algebra are Frobenius and pair syzygies by the fine grading (as in cor:row-rank-members). So \(d_S=\infty\).
Upper bound. For \(S=[r]\), step 1 of prop:relation-length-syzygy gives a non-Taylor syzygy of the squares of degree \(\lfloor m/2\rfloor\).
Lower bound. Let \((h_1,\dots,h_r)\) be a syzygy of the squares of degree \(d<\lfloor m/2\rfloor\). Modulo \((a_1^2,\dots,a_m^2)\), \(\ell^2\bar h_r=0\) in \(\Lambda(m)\). By lem:pair-seed-decomposition (with \(\ell\) acting as minus the sum of the \(m\) cells, which changes nothing), \(\Lambda(m)\) over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) is a graded free module plus \(N_m\), where \(N_{2m'}=J_1[m']\) lives in degree \(m'\) and \(N_{2m'+1}=J_2[m']\) in degrees \(m'\) and \(m'+1\); so \(N_m\) starts in degree \(\lfloor m/2\rfloor\). In degree \(d<\lfloor m/2\rfloor\) every element lies in the free part. In a free block with basis \(g,\ell g,\ell^2g\), \(\ell^2\) kills exactly \(\ell g\) and \(\ell^2g\), which span \(\ell\) times the block, so there the annihilator of \(\ell^2\) is \(\ell\) times the module. Hence \(h_r=\ell u+\sum_{i\le m}v_ia_i^2\) in \(T_A\). Subtract \(u\cdot(A_re_r)\), a Frobenius syzygy, and \(\sum_iv_i(a_i^2e_r-A_r^2e_i)\), Koszul pairs. What remains is a syzygy with \(r\)-th coordinate 0, a syzygy of the monomials \(a_1^2,\dots,a_m^2\), hence Taylor by step 1. So \(d_{[r]}=\lfloor m/2\rfloor\).

The minimum is \(\lfloor m/2\rfloor+r-1=\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\), attained at \(\gamma=(1,\dots,1)\). \(\square\)

The recorded computations agree: first defects at multiplier degrees 1, 3, 4, 6 for \(r=2,\dots,5\), dimensions \(\binom rj\), and the closed configuration at degree 3.

What this means for A1

For tops with independent linear cofactors, Taylor generation in the free regime is now a question about families of squares of linear forms in a truncated algebra. A single relation of length \(r\) is harmless below multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\), as proved. W's forced relations have length about \(n^2/(k+1)\), far above what degree \(22k\) can see. But several long relations can combine into short ones, as the chained configuration of the review showed, so what matters is the least length over the whole space of relations, together with relations among the squares. For families with several relations the theorem gives the single-relation terms only; general configurations need \(d_S\) computed, and the review's closed configuration is one such case.
W's tops are not of this form: a block's clauses share their prefix product, so the cofactors are neither single forms nor independent across a member's tops. The reduction needs a member-level version grading by the prefix forms, in which the tops of one member share their \(B\)-part.
Planted short relations remain the obstacle, as the pin-relation entry found; this entry quantifies which relations are harmless.

Outcome. prop:square-syzygy-reduction: the Taylor defect of tops \(A_i^2B_i\) with independent \(B_i\) is the direct sum over \(B\)-multidegrees of the Taylor defects of their squares. thm:relation-length-threshold: a single relation of length \(r\) gives its first defect exactly at multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\), which proves conj:relation-length-threshold. No computation was run; the recorded ones agree.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): extend the square-syzygy reduction to W's members, whose clauses share the prefix product. Then compute \(d_S\) for general configurations of squares, several relations and closed lines, to state which relation structures are harmless through \(22k\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:relation-length-syzygy and its finite reduction, lem:pair-seed-decomposition, cor:row-rank-members (the fine-grading argument for monomials), conj:relation-length-threshold and the global-step review's computations. A fresh-context reviewer checked the multidegree splitting in both directions, including coordinates with \(\gamma_i=2\) and the vanishing of all other coordinates when some \(\gamma_i=3\). It checked the basis change, the Jordan-block step and the subtraction, and the agreement with both recorded outputs. Its claim search found no earlier version. It found the proofs sound and required one change, adopted: step 3 now derives, from the lemma's stated decomposition, that \(\Lambda(m)\) is free below degree \(\lfloor m/2\rfloor\) and that there the annihilator of \(\ell^2\) is \(\ell\) times the module. Its suggestion on restricting a graded submodule to one multidegree is adopted in step 2.

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Member square reduction: for W's normalized clauses with jointly independent prefix forms, the Taylor defect in the free regime is a direct sum, over prefix multidegrees, of Taylor defects of the squares of the outside forms of the blocks covered, and a set of \(|B|\) blocks costs \(k(|B|-1)\) extra degrees. So at degree \(22k\) only relations among the outside forms of at most about 21 blocks can matter

27 September 2026 · Working proof with an exact check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-member-reduction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Member square reduction: for W's normalized clauses with jointly independent prefix forms, the Taylor defect in the free regime is a direct sum, over prefix multidegrees, of Taylor defects of the squares of the outside forms of the blocks covered, and a set of \(|B|\) blocks costs \(k(|B|-1)\) extra degrees. So at degree \(22k\) only relations among the outside forms of at most about 21 blocks can matter”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-member-square-reduction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Square-syzygy reduction reduced the Taylor defect of tops \(A_i^2B_i\) with independent single cofactors to families of squares. W's normalized clauses \(\chi_0(L_{b,i})\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}\) have the tops \(L_{b,i}^2C_b\), in which all clauses of block \(b\) share the prefix product \(C_b\). This cycle extends the reduction to such members, to say which relations among W's forms the Taylor route must fear.

General statement. prop:member-square-reduction: over \(\mathbb F_3\), let blocks \(b\) have prefix forms \(P_{b,j}\), \(j\in S_b\), \(|S_b|=k\), all prefix forms of all blocks together a basis of \(V_C\), and outside forms \(A_{b,i}\in V_A\), \(i\in O_b\), arbitrary. Take the tops \(\tau_{b,i}=A_{b,i}^2C_b\), \(C_b=\prod_{j\in S_b}P_{b,j}\), in \(T_V=T_A\otimes T_C\). Their Taylor span is generated by the Frobenius syzygies \(A_{b,i}e_{b,i}\) and \(P_{b,j}^2e_{b,i}\), the pair syzygies \(A_{b,i'}^2e_{b,i}-A_{b,i}^2e_{b,i'}\) within a block, and the Koszul pairs across blocks. Its defect is the direct sum over \(\gamma\in\{0,1,2\}^{\text{prefix forms}}\) of \(\mathrm{Def}_{T_A}(A_{b,i}^2:b\in B(\gamma),i\in O_b)\), where \(B(\gamma)=\{b:\gamma\ge1_{S_b}\}\). The summand \(\gamma\) sits at multiplier degree \(d+|\gamma|-k\), \(d\) its degree in \(T_A\). So the first defect is at \(\min_B(d_B+k(|B|-1))\), where \(d_B\) is the first defect degree of the squares of the outside forms of the blocks in \(B\). In the free regime the same holds in the weak algebra.

prop:member-square-reduction

Proof. Grade by the exponents of the prefix forms, giving \(e_{b,i}\) the degree \(1_{S_b}\), the indicator of \(b\)'s prefix set, the \(C_b\) in \(\tau_{b,i}\). Tops, syzygies and Taylor generators are homogeneous, and the Taylor span's part in a multidegree is spanned by the parts of generator multiples there. In multidegree \(\gamma\), coordinate \((b,i)\) has the form \(g_{b,i}P^{\gamma-1_{S_b}}\), \(g_{b,i}\in T_A\), and exists only if \(\gamma\ge1_{S_b}\). If some \(\gamma_j=3\), every coordinate vanishes except those of the block \(b\ni j\), whose coefficients carry \(P_{b,j}^2\) and are Frobenius multiples of \(P_{b,j}^2e_{b,i}\). So no defect arises there. For \(\gamma\le2\), \(P^\gamma\ne0\) and \(\sum\tau_{b,i}g_{b,i}P^{\gamma-1_{S_b}}=P^\gamma\sum_{b\in B(\gamma),i}g_{b,i}A_{b,i}^2\). So the syzygies are syzygies of the squares of the outside forms of the blocks in \(B(\gamma)\). The generators map to the squares' Taylor generators. \(A_{b,i}e_{b,i}\) maps to \(A_{b,i}e\). The pair syzygy within a block, which lies in multidegree \(1_{S_b}\), maps to the Koszul pair \(A_{b,i'}^2e-A_{b,i}^2e'\). A Koszul pair across blocks, \((\tau_{b',i'}e_{b,i}-\tau_{b,i}e_{b',i'})cP^\beta\) with \(\gamma=1_{S_b}+1_{S_{b'}}+\beta\), maps to \((A_{b',i'}^2e-A_{b,i}^2e')c\). The Frobenius syzygy \(P_{b,j}^2e_{b,i}\) lies only in multidegrees with \(\gamma_j=3\). The coefficient \(g_{b,i}P^{\gamma-1_{S_b}}\) has degree \(d+|\gamma|-k\), and for a set \(B\) of blocks with disjoint prefix sets the least \(|\gamma|\) with \(B(\gamma)\supseteq B\) is \(k|B|\). \(\square\)

Check. research/tools/member_reduction_check.m2 (research/results/odd-prime-member-reduction/check.jsonl) takes two blocks with \(k=2\). Block 1 has outside forms \(a_1,a_2\), block 2 has \(a_3\) and \(a_4=-(a_1+a_3)\), so the squares of \(a_1,a_3,a_4\) carry a relation of length 3, whose squares first have a defect at degree \(d=\lfloor(3-1)/2\rfloor=1\) in \(T_A\) (step 3 of the proof of thm:relation-length-threshold; the theorem's multiplier degree \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\) adds \(r-1\) for single cofactors). The prediction is multiplier degree \(1+k=3\), total degree \(3+4=7\). The computed first defect is at degree 7, with dimensions 1, 6, 16, 25, 25, 16, 6, 1, which is \((1+q)^4\) (the four prefix forms, \(\gamma\in\{1,2\}^4\)) times \((1,2,2,1)\). The control with \(a_4\) independent has no defect. Both families were compared in every degree up to 20, the top degree of the module.

What this means for A1

With prefix forms independent of each other and of the outside forms, the prefix products factor out entirely. A relation among the outside forms of the blocks in \(B\) first bites at multiplier degree \(d_B+k(|B|-1)\). W's tops have degree \(k+2\) and its budget is \(22k\), so only sets with \(k(|B|-1)+d_B\le21k-2\), that is \(|B|\le22-(d_B+2)/k\), at most about 21 blocks, matter, however many forms each block has. A relation inside one block's outside forms (\(|B|=1\)) costs only \(d_B\); it is the member's own business, which the record glues whole.
So under this hypothesis the global step needs no short relation (in blocks) among outside forms, not merely pair generation. It is a local condition on sets of at most about 21 blocks, the kind of condition an adversary can violate by planting (relation resolvents). Families with uniformly random forms satisfy it with high probability. The outside forms of 22 blocks number at most \(22h\). Uniform random vectors in a space of dimension about \(n^2\) are dependent with probability at most \(3^{22h-n^2}\). There are at most \(n^{22K}\) such sets of blocks, and \(h=O(\log n)\), so with high probability every such set has independent outside forms. Independent forms are variables after a change of basis, whose squares are Taylor by the fine grading.
The hypotheses are real limits. Prefix forms of different blocks may be dependent in W's families, and the free regime over all forms of \(n^K\) blocks is impossible. So the reduction describes local clusters of up to about 21 blocks, where freeness over their forms is available by thm:column-support-freeness. It does not yet assemble them.

Outcome. prop:member-square-reduction: for W's normalized clauses with jointly independent prefix forms, in the free regime, the Taylor defect is a sum over prefix multidegrees of the squares' defects of the covered blocks' outside forms. A set of \(|B|\) blocks costs \(k(|B|-1)\) extra degrees, so only relations spanning at most about 21 blocks matter at degree \(22k\). One exact check agrees, with its control.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): assemble the local picture. State and test a gluing theorem in which clusters of at most about 21 blocks, each Taylor-generated in the free regime, glue when no short relation among outside forms crosses clusters. Also handle dependent prefix forms, whose relations enter through the cofactors rather than the squares.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:square-syzygy-reduction, thm:relation-length-threshold, the normalized clause form in thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, and thm:column-support-freeness. A fresh-context reviewer checked the multidegree argument in both directions and the degree formula. It confirmed that the within-block pair syzygy is the coherent-pair syzygy of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue for clauses sharing \(C_b\), and that the script's generators are syzygies. It recomputed the dimension factorization and the degree budget. It found the proof sound and required three changes, all adopted. The random-family claim now carries a counting estimate. The check's value of \(d\) is derived from the theorem's proof, not its multiplier-degree formula. The check now compares every degree up to 20; the output is unchanged. Its suggestion to state the exact bound \(|B|\le22-(d_B+2)/k\) is adopted. The uniform prefix size \(|S_b|=k\) matches W's rule \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\) for blocks with \(h_b>k\), the ones that have clauses.

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Route review of the relation line: W-type Taylor defects in the free regime are exactly relations among squares of outside forms, local to matroid components, at a cost of \(k\) per extra block. But W's outside forms far outnumber their span, one giant matroid component for random forms, so the global step has become a girth statement without global freeness, and no recorded mechanism proves it

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-cluster-gluing. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the relation line: W-type Taylor defects in the free regime are exactly relations among squares of outside forms, local to matroid components, at a cost of \(k\) per extra block. But W's outside forms far outnumber their span, one giant matroid component for random forms, so the global step has become a girth statement without global freeness, and no recorded mechanism proves it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-relation-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the global-step review, three entries:

pin-relation defects: pinning must take whole relation components;
square-syzygy reduction: the defect of tops with independent cofactors is a sum of defects of squares, which proves the relation-length threshold \(\lfloor3(r-1)/2\rfloor\);
member square reduction: for W's normalized clauses with independent prefix forms, prefix products factor out and a set of \(|B|\) blocks costs \(k(|B|-1)\) degrees, so only relations within about 21 blocks matter at \(22k\).

The line's general claim

In the free regime, the Taylor defect of W-type families is the direct sum, over prefix multidegrees, of Taylor defects of squares of outside forms (prop:member-square-reduction). These are governed by relations among the outside forms, with single relations exact (thm:relation-length-threshold), and relations among the squares themselves as a second source (the projective-line identity). By lem:kunneth-component-locality they are local to the matroid components of the outside forms. So wherever freeness over the span of all the family's forms is available (jointly, not block by block), a family is Taylor-generated through \(22k\) exactly when no component of at most about 21 blocks carries a squares' defect low enough.

What the goal needs

W has \(n^K\) blocks whose outside forms far outnumber the dimension, about \(n^2\), of the space of forms. So their matroid has many relations, and freeness over the span of all forms is impossible. For uniformly random forms the matroid is one connected component; an adversary controls the relation structure and can make it split or not. Either way the relevant parameter is which relations are short, which is why the goal is stated below as a girth statement, a conjecture, not a recorded fact about W. The goal needs Taylor generation, or another gluing, from local data: freeness over the forms of small subfamilies (available by thm:column-support-freeness) and the absence of short relations, a lower bound on the matroid's girth counted in blocks.

Falsification attempt

The record's unexplained defects are the first place to look for a third source of defects. The pseudorandom two-top defect at degree \(2h+1=7\) on 16 cells (ex:pseudorandom-taylor-check) has four independent forms, so the reduction predicts no defect in the free regime. It is not in the free regime: freeness through degree 7 needs every combination of the four forms to have at least 13 cells (prop:graded-freeness-necessity), and the recorded defect pair's least combination has 7 cells (prop:row-inflation). So that defect belongs to the other known source, short combinations counted in cells (the Wilson-length line), not to relations. The other pseudorandom defects of that check (9 at \(N=14\), 1 and 2 at \(N=18\), 1 at \(N=20\), and the three- and five-top defects at \(N=16\)) are not re-examined here; they occur at the same small sizes, where the free regime at degree 7 is likewise out of reach. So in the one case checked the defect belongs to the known sources, and no third source was found; the others remain unattributed. The attempt fails to break the claim within its free-regime hypothesis, but it cannot test the girth statement, which lives outside it.

Obstacle

A local-to-global principle for Taylor generation without global freeness. Given freeness over the forms of every subfamily of at most about 21 blocks, and a family whose outside-form matroid has no circuit spanning fewer than about 22 blocks, is the whole family Taylor-generated through \(22k\)? Künneth component locality needs freeness over the span of all components together, which W's families cannot have, and the tree computation of the last review showed locality only in one small example inside the free regime.

Assessment of the route

Productive: the defect sources of W-type families in the free regime are now classified exactly, with a proved threshold and a proved reduction for members. The global step is sharper than at the last review, a girth statement about one matroid with local freeness hypotheses, but not closer to a proof. Planted short relations remain an adversarial obstruction that neither prefix choice nor pinning handles at scale. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Relations of the Orlik–Terao algebra (N. Proudfoot and D. Speyer, A broken circuit ring, Beitr. Algebra Geom. 47, 2006; H. Terao, Algebras generated by reciprocals of linear forms, J. Algebra 250, 2002). For an arrangement of linear forms, all relations among products of reciprocals are generated by one relation per circuit of the matroid, with a Gröbner basis from broken circuits. Answers. A statement of this kind for squares of forms would derive every syzygy of a large family from circuits, a local-to-global principle without freeness. Test. Falsified in the form needed: in characteristic 3 the squares satisfy relations that no circuit of the linear forms generates, such as the projective-line identity \(\ell_1^2+\ell_2^2+(\ell_1+\ell_2)^2+(\ell_1-\ell_2)^2=0\). Its class survived all four circuit syzygies in the closed-configuration computation, so circuit generation fails for squares.
Density evolution on locally tree-like graphs (T. Richardson and R. Urbanke, The capacity of low-density parity-check codes under message-passing decoding, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 47, 2001). On a Tanner graph of large girth, message passing computes exactly what a tree would, up to depth about half the girth. Answers. With the relation hypergraph of girth \(g\), a syzygy of multiplier degree below about \(k(g-1)\) sees, by the member reduction's cost \(k\) per block, only tree-like neighbourhoods. There defects should split as on trees, which would replace global freeness by girth. Test. Passed as the tree-locality input: in the review's tree of two relations the defects were exactly local, the only later class consistent with the derived relation's length. This is the same single computation as before, not new evidence.
Čech and Leray vanishing on member covers, named in the record's generalization leads (sheaf generalization review) and never followed. Cover the family by clusters of at most about 21 blocks, take the Taylor defects as a sheaf on the nerve, and read global defects in \(H^1\). Answers. Leray's theorem makes the cover's cohomology compute the global one when the clusters' intersections are acyclic. A large-girth relation structure has a locally acyclic nerve, which would give the local-to-global principle. Test. Not run: the sheaf needs restriction maps between the Taylor defects of overlapping clusters, which are not defined yet; defining them is the development, not a cheap test.

Absurd bridges

Hückel's rule for aromatic rings (E. Hückel, Quantentheoretische Beiträge zum Benzolproblem, Z. Physik 70, 1931), which says that closed rings of conjugated bonds carry delocalized electrons of special stability by a length and parity rule, while open chains do not. Translation: relations are bonds, open chains of relations have local defects, closed rings may carry delocalized, non-local classes, like the closed projective-line configuration. Answers. A length and parity rule saying which rings of relations carry global classes would tell which girth suffices. Test. Not run: the smallest ring of relations that does not close into a projective line has three triangles on six tops over three dimensions, a truncated algebra of dimension \(3^9\) with the cofactors, beyond this review's budget.
The cavity method on the Bethe lattice (M. Mézard and G. Parisi, The Bethe lattice spin glass revisited, Eur. Phys. J. B 20, 2001). On locally tree-like factor graphs, global quantities are computed from local fixed points of a recursion. Translation: tops are variables, relations are factors, and the Hilbert series of the syzygy module is the partition function. Answers. A cavity recursion for Hilbert series would compute the family's Taylor defect from clusters when the girth is large. Test. Falsified as stated: the square-syzygy reduction makes the defect a sum over multidegrees of squares' defects, and the closed projective-line class is not a product of local terms, so no factorization of cavity type holds once a relation among squares closes up.

Lead follow-up

Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles. It still bounds relation-dense families to logarithmic rank, and it does not reach the sparse high-rank structures of the obstacle.
Splittings along trees. Follow-up. Closed as a lead, not resolved: the direct-sum case is lem:kunneth-component-locality, already recorded, and it needs freeness over the union. The non-direct-sum case, trees of relations inside one component, is the girth statement of the Obstacle, carried by the density-evolution lead above.
Power-sum identities for squares. Follow-up. Developed: prop:square-syzygy-reduction proves that relations among the squares give defects at \(d+|S|-1\), which covers the projective-line class; the identity is the input that falsifies the Orlik–Terao lead above.

Bridge follow-up

Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles; the Hückel bridge above asks the same question for rings of relations.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): formulate the girth statement as a conjecture and test it where it first departs from the free regime. Take a family whose outside forms outnumber their span's dimension, so that freeness over all forms fails, while every circuit spans many blocks. Compare its Taylor defect with the free-regime prediction, which is none below the girth cost.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three entries reviewed, the global-step review, lem:kunneth-component-locality, ex:pseudorandom-taylor-check, prop:graded-freeness-necessity and the sheaf generalization review's leads. The cheap tests were run as arguments against recorded computations: the pseudorandom defect's combination sizes, the projective-line class against circuit generation, and the cavity factorization against the closed class. A fresh-context reviewer checked the general claim's arithmetic, the falsification's cell counts, the follow-up mapping (one item per passed lead and bridge of the global-step review) and the five citations. It found the review sound and required two changes, both adopted: the falsification is scoped to the one pseudorandom defect re-examined, and the single-component premise is reworded, true for random forms, adversary-controlled otherwise, with the girth statement named as a conjecture. Its third concern was resolved by checking the registry: prop:square-syzygy-reduction is a registered claim. Its suggestions are adopted: the splitting lead is closed as a lead, not resolved, and the general claim's freeness is joint over all forms.

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Local Taylor generation: random families with up to three times more forms than cells, outside any global freeness, have no Taylor defect at multiplier degrees 2 and 3 beyond single-top defects, and in 772 exact subfamily computations the defect is exactly additive over single tops. Conjecture: the defect at multiplier degree \(e\) is spanned by subfamilies of at most \(e+1\) tops

27 September 2026 · Conjecture with exact checks · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-girth-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Local Taylor generation: random families with up to three times more forms than cells, outside any global freeness, have no Taylor defect at multiplier degrees 2 and 3 beyond single-top defects, and in 772 exact subfamily computations the defect is exactly additive over single tops. Conjecture: the defect at multiplier degree \(e\) is spanned by subfamilies of at most \(e+1\) tops”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-local-taylor-generation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The relation-line review left one obstacle: a local-to-global principle for Taylor generation without global freeness. In the free regime, defects are classified by prop:member-square-reduction, and every class lives on a set \(S\) of tops with \(d_S+|S|-1\le e\), so on at most \(e+1\) tops. W's outside forms far outnumber the dimension of their span, so freeness over all forms fails, and the question is whether defects stay local there. This cycle develops the review's density-evolution lead, locality from girth, by the first test outside the free regime.

General statement. conj:local-taylor-generation: on the weak monomial algebra over \(\mathbb F_3\), for product-constraint tops below the fill point, the Taylor defect at multiplier degree \(e\) is spanned by syzygies supported on subfamilies of at most \(e+1\) tops. So a family is Taylor-generated through \(e\) exactly when all its subfamilies of at most \(e+1\) tops are. It differs from conj:pair-generation in two ways. Its bound grows with the degree, \(e+1\) tops rather than two, as the three-top relation classes require. And it assumes nothing about single clauses being Taylor on the board; pair generation assumed that and concerned random tops only.

Tests

research/tools/pseudorandom_taylor_check.cpp (fflas-ffpack ranks), extended in this cycle with an optional mask that selects a subfamily of a seeded family, computes the Taylor defect of random tops \(L_{b,0}^2L_{b,1}\) on one row. On one row the weak monomial algebra is the square-free algebra. The Taylor span is Frobenius syzygies plus Koszul pairs. The number of forms, \(2M\), exceeds the number of cells \(N\) in every random family below. So the forms are dependent, and random forms span the whole degree-1 space. Some combination of them is then a single cell, and by prop:graded-freeness-necessity the algebra is not free over the span of all forms even through degree 2.

Multiplier degree 2 (research/results/odd-prime-girth-test/many_tops.jsonl, n20_sizing.jsonl). \(N=16\), total degree 5, \(M=10,15,20,25\) tops (20 to 50 forms, fill 0.27 to 0.69), and \(N=20\), \(M=20\) (40 forms, fill 0.25): defect 0 in all five. Two controls (two tops agreeing outside one cell) have defects 14 and 89.
Multiplier degree 3 (n20_s6.jsonl). \(N=20\), total degree 6, \(M=14\) (28 forms, fill 0.41): defect 0.
Locality (subfamilies.jsonl). At \(N=16\), total degree 6, two families of \(M=10\) tops (seeds 5 and 6) have defects 1 and 2. For each, all 385 subfamilies of at most 4 tops were computed with the same forms, 770 runs, plus the two full families. In every one of the 772, the defect equals the sum of the single-top defects of its members. Seed 5's defect is block 9's single-top defect; seed 6's is blocks 4 and 5, each with defect 1. These are single-top Wilson defects, the tops having a combination of 7 cells (thm:single-top-wilson-threshold).

The conjecture predicts all 778 outcomes that were computed on random families (defect 0 where no small subfamily has one, additivity where single tops do) and all of them hold. The counts are exact. The data are stronger than the conjecture's bound: for random families the defect is additive over single tops. The bound \(e+1\) is what the free-regime classification requires. There three-top relation classes (prop:relation-length-syzygy) and the four-top closed-line class occur at \(e=3\), within \(e+1\). The recorded two-block defects of prop:two-block-taylor-failure live on two tops, also within the bound.

ex:local-defect-additivity

The finite check above: six random families with \(2M/N\) between 1.25 and 3.125 have Taylor defect 0 at multiplier degrees 2 and 3, and in 772 families at \(N=16\), \(e=3\) the defect equals the sum of single-top defects.

What the conjecture would give

At W's degree, \(e\approx21k\), the conjecture reduces Taylor generation to subfamilies of at most about \(21k\) tops. Such a subfamily has \(O(k^2)\) forms. For dense forms, thm:column-support-freeness makes the algebra free over their span once every combination is nonzero on \(O(k^3\log k)\) columns, polylogarithmic in \(n\). There prop:member-square-reduction classifies the defects: single-member defects, short combinations counted in cells, and relations among outside forms within about 21 blocks. So, conditionally on the conjecture and on independent prefix forms within each subfamily, the Taylor route would prove W for dense families without short relations. The obstruction left would be exactly the planted short relations, which the pin-relation entry showed pinning cannot absorb at scale. This consequence is informal and not registered: its hypotheses on prefix forms and density need checking against W's families.

Outcome. conj:local-taylor-generation: Taylor defects are spanned by subfamilies of at most \(e+1\) tops. Its evidence, ex:local-defect-additivity: zero defect at multiplier degrees 2 and 3 for random families with up to three times more forms than cells, and exact additivity over single tops in 772 families. The lead is developed: tree locality from girth now has evidence outside the free regime, for random families.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test the conjecture where it can fail, on families with planted relations outside the free regime. For three tops with \(A_1+A_2+A_3=0\) inside a random family with more forms than cells, is the defect the three-top relation class plus single-top defects, and nothing more? Then look for a proof: a syzygy of a family through degree \(e\) whose restriction to every subfamily of \(e+1\) tops is Taylor, in the style of thm:bounded-clusters' component exploration.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read ex:pseudorandom-taylor-check (the kernel's validation against FLINT and its control), conj:pair-generation, prop:member-square-reduction, prop:relation-length-syzygy, prop:two-block-taylor-failure, thm:column-support-freeness, thm:single-top-wilson-threshold and thm:bounded-clusters. A fresh-context reviewer checked the kernel change: the mask is applied after all forms are generated and before the weights, tops and generators, so subfamilies share the full family's forms. It recomputed every result from the outputs, including all 772 additivity comparisons, the single-top blocks and the count of 778. It found no refutation in the record and required four changes, all adopted: the distinction from conj:pair-generation is now stated; the non-freeness over all forms is derived; the maximal ratio is 3.125; and the gate lists every claim the body uses.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	13 min 42.78 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 17.81 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	49.98 s
Computation design and coding	2 min 25.81 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 49.78 s
Individually measured computation	5 min 19.26 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Planted locality: a planted three-term relation among squared forms, inside a random family outside the free regime, adds exactly its one relation class, and only in subfamilies that contain its three tops. All 772 subfamilies are exactly additive over single tops and the triple, as conj:local-taylor-generation predicts

27 September 2026 · Finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-planted-locality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Planted locality: a planted three-term relation among squared forms, inside a random family outside the free regime, adds exactly its one relation class, and only in subfamilies that contain its three tops. All 772 subfamilies are exactly additive over single tops and the triple, as conj:local-taylor-generation predicts”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-planted-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Local Taylor generation conjectured that the Taylor defect at multiplier degree \(e\) lives on subfamilies of at most \(e+1\) tops. Its evidence was random families, whose defects were single-top defects. The case where the conjecture can fail is a family with a relation among squared forms outside the free regime: there the relation class of prop:relation-length-syzygy might spread, interact with the rest of the family, or vanish. This cycle tests that case.

General statement. conj:local-taylor-generation, tested here on a planted relation.

ex:planted-locality

research/tools/pseudorandom_taylor_check.cpp gains a kind that plants \(L_{2,0}=-(L_{0,0}+L_{1,0})\) in a random family, a relation of length 3 among the squared forms of tops 0, 1 and 2. It was run at \(N=16\), total degree 6 (multiplier degree 3, the relation's first defect degree by thm:relation-length-threshold), with \(M=10\) tops (20 forms on 16 cells, so not free over the span of all forms), for seeds 21 and 22. Each full family and all 385 of its subfamilies of at most 4 tops, with the same forms, were computed (research/results/odd-prime-planted-locality/subfamilies.jsonl).

Seed 21: single-top defects 1 at tops 0 and 8. The triple \(\{0,1,2\}\) has defect 2, one more than its single tops, and the full family has defect 3.
Seed 22: single-top defect 1 at top 1. The triple has defect 2, again one more, and the full family has defect 2.
In all 772 families, the defect equals the sum of the members' single-top defects, plus 1 exactly when the subfamily contains all three planted tops.

The full families have fill ratio 0.70 and minimum two-form combination weight 6 and 5. Per seed, 9 of the 386 runs contain the triple (the triple, its seven 4-top extensions and the full family), so 18 runs test the relation class and 754 test that nothing else appears. A relation class spreading to larger subfamilies, cancelling against a single-top defect, or needing a fourth top would each have changed some of these counts.

So the relation class appears once, of dimension 1 as in the free regime (conj:relation-length-threshold: at the first defect degree a single relation contributes \(\binom r0=1\) dimension), only where its three tops are present, and it does not interact with the single-top defects or with the other tops. No class beyond single tops and the planted triple appears in any subfamily of up to four tops or in the full families. conj:local-taylor-generation predicted every one of the 772 outcomes from the single tops and the triple, and all hold.

What this means for A1. Outside the free regime, the two defect sources found in the free regime, short combinations counted in cells (here the single-top defects) and short relations counted in blocks (here the triple), are the only ones seen, and they add. This is the behaviour the conjecture needs for W: local pieces decide Taylor generation. The planted relation is a genuine defect, as proved, so W's Taylor route still needs a treatment of planted relations, and the conjecture does not remove that obstruction; it localizes it.

Outcome. ex:planted-locality: a planted relation of length 3, outside the free regime, contributes exactly its one class in exactly the subfamilies containing its tops, with exact additivity in 772 families. conj:local-taylor-generation survives the case designed to break it.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): seek a proof of conj:local-taylor-generation. The model is thm:bounded-clusters, whose component exploration bounds a syzygy's support by products; for dense forms, try to split a syzygy of degree \(e\) along its B-multidegrees (prop:square-syzygy-reduction) without global freeness, using freeness over each subfamily of \(e+1\) tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:local-taylor-generation and its evidence, prop:relation-length-syzygy, thm:relation-length-threshold, conj:relation-length-threshold and prop:square-syzygy-reduction; every quoted number was recomputed by script from the saved output. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that the planted relation is applied to the full family before the subfamily mask, so subfamilies share its forms, and that it is exactly \(L_{2,0}=-(L_{0,0}+L_{1,0})\) over \(\mathbb F_3\). It recomputed every number, including the 18 runs containing the triple and zero exceptions to the additivity rule in 772, judged the test falsifiable and found no earlier record of it. It required one change, adopted: the dimension-1 statement is cited to conj:relation-length-threshold, not prop:square-syzygy-reduction.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	12 min 32.13 s
Marked reading and review windows	23.71 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 9.28 s
Computation design and coding	50.04 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 25.45 s
Individually measured computation	4 min 43.52 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Degree-zero circuits: local Taylor generation is false as stated. Tops sharing a squared form whose other factors sum to zero form a circuit of any length at multiplier degree 0, and tops concentrated in a small span are dependent while every three are independent; the repair must count lifting syzygies and exclude span concentration

27 September 2026 · Refutation · of conj:local-taylor-generation as stated · cycle odd-prime-local-proof. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Degree-zero circuits: local Taylor generation is false as stated. Tops sharing a squared form whose other factors sum to zero form a circuit of any length at multiplier degree 0, and tops concentrated in a small span are dependent while every three are independent; the repair must count lifting syzygies and exclude span concentration”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-degree-zero-circuits.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Local Taylor generation conjectured that the Taylor defect at multiplier degree \(e\) is spanned by syzygies on at most \(e+1\) tops, and planted locality found no failure on random families with a planted relation. This cycle looked for a proof, starting from the smallest degree, \(e=0\), where the statement is about linear dependencies among the tops themselves. The attempt produced counterexamples instead.

General statement. prop:degree-zero-circuits: at multiplier degree \(e=0\) the Taylor defect of tops \(A_b^2B_b\) is the space of their linear dependencies, and for every \(r\ge2\) and \(N\ge\max(4,r+1)\) there are \(r\) tops at fill ratio \(r/\binom N3\) whose defect is supported only on all \(r\) tops, against conj:local-taylor-generation's bound of \(e+1=1\) tops.

Degree-zero circuits

Proposition (prop:degree-zero-circuits). Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the square-free algebra \(\Lambda\) of one row (a special case of the weak monomial algebra), consider tops \(\tau_b=A_b^2B_b\) of linear forms.

At multiplier degree 0 the Taylor span is zero, so the Taylor defect at \(e=0\) is the space of linear dependencies \(\sum_bc_b\tau_b=0\).
Shared-square circuits. Let \(A,B_1,\dots,B_{r-1}\) be linear forms, \(r\ge2\), such that multiplication by \(A^2\) is injective on the span of \(B_1,\dots,B_{r-1}\) and the \(B_i\) are independent, and put \(B_r=-(B_1+\dots+B_{r-1})\). Then the tops \(A^2B_1,\dots,A^2B_r\) have a one-dimensional defect at \(e=0\), spanned by \((1,\dots,1)\), and every proper subfamily has defect 0 at \(e=0\). Examples exist whenever \(r\le N-1\), \(N\ge4\), with \(A\) the sum of all cells.
Consequently no bound on the number of tops that depends only on \(e\) holds, even when the family is far below the fill point: \(r\) tops on \(N\ge\max(4,r+1)\) cells have fill ratio \(r/\binom N3\) at \(e=0\). This is the conjecture's fill measure, \(M\dim\Lambda_e/\dim\Lambda_{e+3}\); with \(N=r+1\) there are also fewer than two forms per cell.

Proof. (1) The Taylor span consists of the Frobenius syzygies \(A_bx\,e_b\) with \(x\in\Lambda_{e-1}\) and \(B_b^2x\,e_b\) with \(x\in\Lambda_{e-2}\), and the Koszul pairs \(\tau_cx\,e_b-\tau_bx\,e_c\) with \(x\in\Lambda_{e-3}\); at \(e=0\) all of these index sets are empty. (2) \(\sum_iA^2B_i=A^2\sum_iB_i=0\). The tops \(A^2B_1,\dots,A^2B_{r-1}\) are independent by the two hypotheses, so the dependency space of all \(r\) tops has dimension \(r-(r-1)=1\), and it is spanned by \((1,\dots,1)\). Every proper subfamily omits some \(B_j\); if it omits \(B_r\), its tops are among the independent \(A^2B_1,\dots,A^2B_{r-1}\). If it omits \(B_j\) with \(j<r\), its tops are \(A^2B_i\) (\(i\ne j,r\)) and \(A^2B_r\), and \(B_r\) is independent of those \(B_i\) because its coefficient on \(B_j\) is \(-1\). So all proper subfamilies are independent. For the example: with \(A=\sum_ix_i\), \(A^2=2e_2\) and \(e_2\cdot\sum_ic_ix_i=\sum_{i<j<k}(c_i+c_j+c_k)x_ix_jx_k\), which vanishes for \(N\ge4\) only if all \(c_i\) are equal (compare two triples differing in one index). So the kernel of multiplication by \(A^2\) on \(\Lambda_1\) is the span of \(A\), and any \(r-1\le N-1\) linear forms that are independent together with \(A\) satisfy the hypothesis. (3) is (2) with \(r\) arbitrary. \(\square\)

Part (1) is where the conjecture's bound \(e+1=1\) breaks first. The record already contained a two-top instance. In prop:two-block-taylor-failure part (1), two W blocks on the same linear forms with agreeing outside indices have equal clause tops of degree \(|b|\), and their syzygy \(e_C-e_{C'}\) at total degree \(|b|\) has constant coefficients, so multiplier degree 0. The local Taylor generation entry said those two-block defects were within the bound. That is wrong for this syzygy, and the entry should have caught it. Part (2) shows more: at degree 0, circuits have unbounded length.

Concentration: ex:concentrated-spread-dependency

The circuits in part (2) repeat a form. Independence of the forms of small subfamilies does not rescue locality either, because many tops can lie in the subalgebra of a small span. Take 12 cells in six pairs and the six pair sums \(l_j\); all forms below lie in their 6-dimensional span, not in the whole 12-dimensional space of cells, and a monomial of degree \(d\) in the \(y_j\) has cell degree \(d\). The subalgebra they generate is \(T=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_6]/(y_j^3)\): each pair gives \(\mathbb F_3[l]/(l^3)\subseteq\Lambda(2)\) since \(l^2=2x_1x_2\ne0\), and tensor products of injections are injective. Identify \(\mathbb F_3^6\) with \(\mathbb F_9^3\) and take the 91 planes \(\{\lambda p:\lambda\in\mathbb F_9\}\), a spread (any two meet only in 0), with top \(A_p^2B_p\), where \(A_p=p\) and \(B_p=ip\). research/tools/degree_zero_circuits_check.py (exact, over \(\mathbb F_3\); research/results/odd-prime-local-proof/degree_zero.json) finds the following.

The forms of any two tops span 4 dimensions, and no two tops are proportional.
All 91 tops span only a 27-dimensional subspace of \(T_3\), which has dimension 50. So any 28 of them are linearly dependent, at fill ratio \(28/\binom{12}3=0.13\) on the 12-cell row (the conjecture's measure). The family is far from sparse in other senses: its 56 forms, 4.7 per cell, lie in a 6-dimensional span, which is the point of the example.
Among the first 51 tops the dependency space has dimension 26, and no three of them are dependent. So the defect at \(e=0\) contains no nonzero syzygy supported on three or fewer tops.

The script also confirms part (2) for \(r=2,\dots,6\) in \(T\): rank \(r-1\), and rank \(r-1\) for every proper subfamily.

What survives, and what this means for A1

conj:local-taylor-generation is refuted as stated. Its evidence, on random and planted families (ex:local-defect-additivity, ex:planted-locality), still stands, but it covers only families whose small subfamilies have independent forms and no concentration. Two mechanisms break locality.

Circuits among the unsquared factors of tops sharing a squared form. For W's clause shape \(g(A)C_b\), \(g=1-A^2\), with the same affine form \(A\), such a circuit lifts: \(\sum_bg(A)C_b=g(A)\sum_bC_b=0\) exactly, so it is harmless for gluing, like the consistent circuits of thm:head-dependencies. With different constants on the shared linear part it lifts only if the fall is absorbed, as for the singly incoherent pairs of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue.
Concentration. Many tops in the subalgebra of a small span, like W's span families (clauses of many blocks on the same few forms). There dependencies are counted by the subalgebra's dimension, not by any local structure.

So a local-to-global principle for W must be stated modulo syzygies that lift (to exact syzygies of the clauses, or through recorded resolvents), and with a hypothesis that bounds concentration. At degree 0 such a hypothesis reads: for every subspace \(V\), fewer tops have their forms in \(V\) than the dimension of the degree-3 part of the subalgebra \(V\) generates. At higher degrees it must allow for the Taylor syzygies, since a single top already exceeds the fill point of its own two-form subalgebra at \(e\ge1\). The tested random families share no forms, and their defects are accounted for by single tops and the planted triple, so the refutation leaves that evidence intact. It does not supply either repair.

Outcome. prop:degree-zero-circuits (working proof): at multiplier degree 0, shared-square circuits of every length \(r\) have their defect only on all \(r\) tops. ex:concentrated-spread-dependency (finite check): 91 spread tops on 12 cells span 27 dimensions, and no three of the first 51 are dependent. conj:local-taylor-generation is refuted as stated. The lead (locality from girth) is continued: the repair needs lifting and a concentration hypothesis.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): restate locality within thm:resolvent-taylor-glue's allowed span, adding lifting circuits (thm:head-dependencies) and a hereditary fill hypothesis on subspaces. Then check whether W's span families meet that hypothesis under random prefixes, or are already settled by the pinned-rank and type-pinning results.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:local-taylor-generation, ex:local-defect-additivity, ex:planted-locality, prop:two-block-taylor-failure, thm:head-dependencies, prop:circuit-syzygies and thm:resolvent-taylor-glue. A fresh-context reviewer checked the proposition in full, including the characteristic-3 kernel of multiplication by \(A^2=2e_2\), found every hypothesis used, confirmed the injectivity of \(T\) into the 12-cell row and every number from the saved output, and judged the refutation applicable to the conjecture's hypotheses and the lifting remarks correctly hedged. It required three changes, all adopted: the fill measure used is stated as the conjecture's own, with the spread family's concentration made explicit; the degree-0 pair of prop:two-block-taylor-failure is cited with its exact instance; and the forms of the spread example are placed in the 6-dimensional span of the pair sums.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	13 min 15.18 s
Marked reading and review windows	42.39 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 26.01 s
Computation design and coding	49.72 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	6 min 16.07 s
Individually measured computation	0.85 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review of the Taylor locality line: defects of random and planted families are local, but locality fails as stated at multiplier degree 0. A Mayer–Vietoris sequence reduces the global step exactly to intersections of subfamily ideals, and counting can force concentration only in spans of dimension \(O(k)\)

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-lifting-locality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the Taylor locality line: defects of random and planted families are local, but locality fails as stated at multiplier degree 0. A Mayer–Vietoris sequence reduces the global step exactly to intersections of subfamily ideals, and counting can force concentration only in spans of dimension \(O(k)\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-taylor-locality-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the relation-line review, three entries:

local Taylor generation: random families with more forms than cells, outside global freeness, have only single-top defects at multiplier degrees 2 and 3, exactly additive in 772 subfamilies; conjecture of locality on \(e+1\) tops;
planted locality: a planted three-top relation adds exactly its one class, only where its tops are present;
degree-zero circuits: the conjecture is false as stated, by shared-square circuits of any length and by concentrated tops, both at multiplier degree 0.

The line's general claim

W's Taylor route for dense adversarial families: classify the local defects exactly (prop:member-square-reduction, thm:relation-length-threshold in the free regime), and show that defects of the whole family come from subfamilies of boundedly many blocks. With a local-to-global principle and the member reduction's cost \(k\) per extra block, W's degree \(22k\) would reduce to the absence of short relations among outside forms within about 21 blocks.

What the goal needs

Taylor glue needs every top syzygy through \(22k\) to lift. Taylor syzygies lift automatically, and so do the circuits of thm:head-dependencies when consistent, so the local-to-global principle need only concern syzygies that do not lift (falls). The degree-zero circuits show both repairs are needed. Shared-square circuits lift in W's clause shape \(g(A)C_b\) with one affine form \(A\); concentration does not lift in general.

How much concentration W allows. For \(M\) tops of degree \(h\) whose forms lie in a \(d\)-dimensional span \(V\), counting in \(T(V)=\mathrm{Sym}(V)/(v^3)\) forces a defect at multiplier degree \(e\) only if \(Mc_e(d)>c_{e+h}(d)\), with \(c_j(d)=[q^j](1+q+q^2)^d=\dim T(V)_j\). Write \(E=2.718\ldots\) for Euler's number, to keep it apart from the multiplier degree \(e\). Since \(c_e(d)\le\binom{d+e-1}e\le(E(d+e)/e)^e\) and \(c_{e+h}(d)\ge\binom d{e+h}\ge(d/(e+h))^{e+h}\) for \(d\ge e+h\), and \((1+h/e)^e\leE^h\), the ratio is at least \((d/(E(e+h)))^h/(2E)^e\) for \(d\ge e\). So counting forces a defect only if

\[d<\max\Bigl(e+h,\ E(e+h)\,\bigl(M(2E)^e\bigr)^{1/h}\Bigr).\]

At W's parameters, \(h=2k+2\), \(e\le22k\) and \(M\) polynomial in \(n\), \(M^{1/h}\) is bounded (\(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\)) and \((2E)^{e/h}\le(2E)^{11}\), with \(E\) a constant, so \(d=O(k)=O(\log n)\), with a large absolute constant. Counting-forced concentration is therefore confined to spans of logarithmic dimension. prop:pinned-rank-vacuity settles a family whose blocks lie within rank \(\rho_b\le\log_3n-\omega(1)\) of the span of \(w\) pinned forms whose row-linear parts are independent modulo constants on every row, at a cost of \(B(w+1)\) labels. So a concentrated span of dimension \(O(k)\) can serve as the pins when its forms meet that row hypothesis; what is missing is the mixed family, concentrated spans together with dispersed blocks. The spread example shows that dependencies beyond counting also exist (91 tops span 27 of 50 dimensions), so this bound covers only the counting mechanism.

Falsification attempt

The line's claim was tested at its weakest point, multiplier degree 0, where the Taylor span is empty, and it failed there (prop:degree-zero-circuits, ex:concentrated-spread-dependency). The record had a two-top instance all along (prop:two-block-taylor-failure, part (1)), which the local Taylor generation entry misread as within its bound. The repaired form, falls rather than Taylor defects, with a concentration hypothesis, survives both counterexamples: shared-square circuits with one affine form lift, and the spread family violates the concentration hypothesis. It has not been tested on any family where neither repair applies.

Obstacle

A local-to-global principle for falls of W's clauses outside global freeness. Two pieces are missing. First, a criterion that makes two separated subfamilies contribute no cross defect, when freeness is available only over each subfamily's forms, or over the union of two of them, but not over the whole family. Second, a way to combine pinning, which handles concentrated spans, with Taylor locality for the dispersed rest of the same family. prop:pinned-rank-vacuity records that this combination is unproved even for light families.

Assessment of the route

Mixed. The local picture is sharp: exact classifications in the free regime, and exact additivity in every tested random or planted family outside it. The global step was stated as a conjecture and refuted within two cycles, by degree-0 examples that a reading of the record's own two-block failure would have caught before the conjecture was registered. The repaired target is narrower but still has no proof mechanism. The Mayer–Vietoris sequence below at least makes it an exact statement about intersections of ideals. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

The Tor identity \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/I,A/J)\cong(I\cap J)/IJ\) and its Mayer–Vietoris use for sums of ideals (D. Eisenbud, Commutative Algebra with a View Toward Algebraic Geometry, Springer, 1995, appendix on Tor). The sequence below is derived directly, without identifying the defect with a Tor group. For a family split as \(F=F_1\sqcup F_2\) with ideals \(I_1,I_2\) in \(A\), sending a syzygy \((a,b)\) to \(\sum_ia_if_i\in I_1\cap I_2\) is onto, with kernel the syzygies of the parts. The cross Koszul pairs map onto \(I_1I_2\). So there is an exact sequence \[\mathrm{Def}(F_1)\oplus\mathrm{Def}(F_2)\to\mathrm{Def}(F)\to\bigl[(I_1\cap I_2)/(I_1I_2)\bigr]_{e+h}\to0.\] Answers. Locality becomes the vanishing of \((I_1\cap I_2)/(I_1I_2)\) through degree \(e+h\) for separated subfamilies, a Tor-independence statement, which Künneth-type freeness arguments can prove over the union of two subfamilies' forms without freeness over the whole family. Adding tops one at a time, the cross term for \(\tau_b\) is \((I_{<b}:\tau_b)\) modulo \(I_{<b}+\operatorname{ann}\tau_b\), the colon form of prop:sequential-freeness: \(x\mapsto x\tau_b\) maps \((I_{<b}:\tau_b)\) onto \(I_{<b}\cap(\tau_b)\) with kernel \(\operatorname{ann}\tau_b\), and carries \(I_{<b}\) onto \(I_{<b}\tau_b\). Test. Passed: for the shared-square circuit split as its first \(r-1\) tops and the last, \(A^2B_r\in I_1\cap I_2\) at degree 3 while \(I_1I_2\) starts at degree 6, giving the one-dimensional defect exactly; and exact additivity in the random and planted families is consistent with every cross term vanishing there (the sequence alone gives only \(\dim\mathrm{Def}(F)\le\dim\mathrm{Def}(F_1)+\dim\mathrm{Def}(F_2)+\dim\) of the cross term).
Kruskal's theorem and the Khatri–Rao rank lemma (J. B. Kruskal, Three-way arrays: rank and uniqueness of trilinear decompositions, Linear Algebra Appl. 18, 1977; N. Sidiropoulos and R. Bro, On the uniqueness of multilinear decomposition of N-way arrays, J. Chemometrics 14, 2000). Kruskal's condition \(k_A+k_B+k_C\ge2R+2\) makes a decomposition into \(R\) rank-one terms unique, and the Khatri–Rao lemma makes the \(R\) vectors \(a_b\otimes b_b\) linearly independent when \(k_A+k_B\ge R+1\), so the terms \(a_b\otimes b_b\otimes c_b\) are then independent too. Answers. A degree-0 dependency among tops \(A_b^2B_b\) would force small Kruskal rank on the forms of its support, which is a concentration statement, and would localize degree-0 defects in span rather than in number of tops. Test. Falsified in direct transfer: tops are symmetric products modulo cubes, not tensors, and \(A^2\cdot A=0\) in characteristic 3 although \(A\otimes A\otimes A\) is independent by the Khatri–Rao lemma (\(k+k=2\ge R+1\) for \(R=1\)). A symmetric version would have to treat the cube kernel, which the shared-square circuits also exploit (\(k_A=1\), \(k_B=r-1\)).
Structure versus randomness through the arithmetic regularity lemma (B. Green, A Szemerédi-type regularity lemma in abelian groups, with applications, Geom. Funct. Anal. 15, 2005). A set decomposes into a structured part on boundedly many cosets of subspaces of bounded codimension and a pseudorandom remainder. Answers. It would split a family into concentrated spans, handled by pinning, and a dispersed remainder, handled by Taylor locality, with a bounded number of structured pieces to glue. Test. Falsified as a bounded decomposition: \(M/2\) pairs of blocks, each pair on its own forms, give \(M/2\) disjoint overfilled spans at degree 0 (prop:two-block-taylor-failure), so the number of structured pieces is unbounded. Each piece there is a two-block family that prop:two-block-taylor-failure part (3) settles, so the structured part is local, not bounded.

Absurd bridges

The block-spin renormalization group (L. P. Kadanoff, Scaling laws for Ising models near \(T_c\), Physics 2, 1966). Coarse-grain a block of spins into one effective spin and rewrite the interactions between blocks. Translation: a concentrated span becomes one effective variable, fixed by pinning its forms, and the dispersed rest sees it only through the pinned values. Answers. Pinning concentrated spans and then running Taylor locality on the rest is one renormalization step, which is the combination the Obstacle asks for. Test. Passed on the smallest case: pinning the shared form \(A=a\) in a shared-square circuit turns each clause \(g(A-a_b)C_b\) into \(C_b\) (when \(a_b=a\)) or 0 (since \(g(\pm1)=0\)), so the circuit becomes a linear dependency among clauses that are equal to their tops, which lifts exactly. This restates the lifting of shared-square circuits in pinned form rather than testing anything new; the first real test is a concentrated span together with dispersed blocks.
Acyclic database schemes (C. Beeri, R. Fagin, D. Maier and M. Yannakakis, On the desirability of acyclic database schemes, J. ACM 30, 1983). For an α-acyclic hypergraph of relations, pairwise consistency implies global consistency, and the GYO ear-removal reduction decides acyclicity. Translation: tops and relations among forms are hyperedges on the forms; local defects are pairwise inconsistencies; a global defect is a join that fails although every pair joins. Answers. Locality would hold on acyclic overlap structures, and cycles would mark exactly where global classes can appear. Test. Passed on the recorded examples: the shared-square circuit's hypergraph (edges \(\{A,B_i\}\) and the relation edge \(\{B_1,\dots,B_r\}\)) has no ear, so GYO reduction stops and it is cyclic, as its non-local class requires. The random families have cyclic hypergraphs too (four long relations) but only local defects, so acyclicity can only be sufficient.

Lead follow-up

Density evolution on locally tree-like graphs. Follow-up. Developed: local Taylor generation and planted locality tested tree locality outside the free regime, with exact additivity in 1544 subfamilies. The degree-zero circuits then showed that girth in relations is not enough, since concentration and shared-square circuits break locality at degree 0; the lead continues in the Mayer–Vietoris form above.
Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles. The concentration count above now bounds relation-dense spans to logarithmic dimension by a different argument, and the lead would matter only if concentration beyond counting, as in the spread example, must be excluded.
Power-sum identities for squares. Follow-up. Closed: prop:square-syzygy-reduction proves the defects the identities give, and nothing further in the line depends on them.

Bridge follow-up

Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles; the acyclic-scheme bridge above asks a sharper version of its question, which overlap structures force global classes.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): find a vanishing criterion for the Mayer–Vietoris cross term \((I_1\cap I_2)/(I_1I_2)\) through degree \(e+h\) when \(F_2\) is a small subfamily and \(F_1\) the large rest. When \(A\) is free over the forms of both together and their spans meet only in 0, the term vanishes by lem:kunneth-component-locality, but \(F_1\)'s forms can never be free. The criterion must use freeness only over \(F_2\)'s forms and the part of \(F_1\) near them, in the colon form \((I_{<b}:\tau_b)\), and must be tested against the degree-zero circuits and the planted families.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three entries reviewed, the relation-line review's leads and follow-ups, prop:two-block-taylor-failure, thm:head-dependencies, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, prop:sequential-freeness and lem:kunneth-component-locality. The cheap tests were run as arguments: the Mayer–Vietoris sequence on the shared-square circuit, the cube kernel against the Khatri–Rao lemma, the regularity decomposition against two-block families, pinning on a circuit, and GYO reduction on the circuit's hypergraph. A fresh-context reviewer verified the sequence (surjectivity, kernel, cross Koszul pairs onto \(I_1I_2\)) and its test, every step of the concentration count, the account of prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, the GYO argument and the follow-up mapping. It required three changes, all adopted: Kruskal's threshold is stated correctly (\(2R+2\)) and the test uses the Khatri–Rao lemma; the renormalization test is marked as a restatement of the known lifting; and the sequence and the colon form are derived in the text rather than asserted. Euler's number is written \(E\) at its suggestion.

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Cluster sequential freeness: when the quotient by earlier clusters is free over the next cluster's forms, every syzygy of the family is generated by Frobenius syzygies, lcm-pair syzygies inside clusters and Koszul pairs across them; the Mayer–Vietoris cross term vanishes under the same hypothesis, and clusters absorb the shared-form and degree-zero pair failures

27 September 2026 · Working proofs · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-pencil-colon. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cluster sequential freeness: when the quotient by earlier clusters is free over the next cluster's forms, every syzygy of the family is generated by Frobenius syzygies, lcm-pair syzygies inside clusters and Koszul pairs across them; the Mayer–Vietoris cross term vanishes under the same hypothesis, and clusters absorb the shared-form and degree-zero pair failures”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-cluster-sequential-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The Taylor locality review reduced the global step to the Mayer–Vietoris cross term \((I_1\cap I_2)/(I_1I_2)\), for \(F_2\) a small subfamily and \(F_1\) the large rest, and asked for a vanishing criterion that uses freeness only over \(F_2\)'s forms. prop:sequential-freeness gives such a criterion for single tops, but it fails, as it must, when tops share a form (lem:shared-direction-pure-tops), and W's clauses within a block share their prefix product. This cycle proves the criterion for clusters of tops, such as W's blocks, whose tops share forms.

General statement. thm:cluster-sequential-freeness, with lem:taylor-mayer-vietoris.

Setting

\(A\) is a graded commutative \(\mathbb F_3\)-algebra in which cubes of linear forms vanish, such as the weak monomial algebra \(\widetilde A\). A cluster is a set of tops \(m_1,\dots,m_q\), each a monomial \(m_j=\prod_fL_f^{\varepsilon_{j,f}}\), \(\varepsilon_{j,f}\le2\), in a set of linear forms \(L_1,\dots,L_r\) that are linearly independent. Its truncated algebra is \(T=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_r]/(y_f^3)\), acting on \(A\) through \(y_f\mapsto L_f\), and \(m_j\) is the image of the monomial \(y^{\varepsilon_j}\). The cluster's lcm-pair syzygies are \((y^{\lambda-\varepsilon_j})e_j-(y^{\lambda-\varepsilon_{j'}})e_{j'}\) with \(\lambda=\max(\varepsilon_j,\varepsilon_{j'})\), and its Frobenius syzygies are \(L_f^{3-\varepsilon_{j,f}}e_j\) for \(\varepsilon_{j,f}\ge1\). Both are syzygies in \(A\). The proof uses only that cubes of linear forms vanish, so that \(T\) acts; the independence of a cluster's forms is implied by the freeness hypotheses below whenever \(D\ge1\), since a relation \(\sum c_fL_f=0\) makes \(\sum c_fy_f\) kill the generator 1 of the quotient in degree 1. "Free through \(D\)" means that a minimal free cover is bijective in degrees at most \(D\).

lem:taylor-mayer-vietoris

Lemma (Taylor Mayer–Vietoris). Let a family of tops be split into \(F_1\sqcup F_2\), with ideals \(I_1,I_2\subseteq A\), and let the family's allowed span \(\mathcal T(F)\) be \(\mathcal T(F_1)+\mathcal T(F_2)+K_{12}\), where \(\mathcal T(F_i)\) is any chosen span of syzygies of \(F_i\) and \(K_{12}\) are the Koszul pairs \(g\,e_i-f\,e_j\) (\(f\in F_1\), \(g\in F_2\)) times multipliers. With \(\mathrm{Def}=\mathrm{Syz}/\mathcal T\) in each degree \(d\), there is an exact sequence

\[\mathrm{Def}(F_1)_d\oplus\mathrm{Def}(F_2)_d\to\mathrm{Def}(F)_d\to\bigl[(I_1\cap I_2)/(I_1I_2)\bigr]_d\to0.\]

Proof. The map \(\mathrm{Syz}(F)\to I_1\cap I_2\), \((a,b)\mapsto\sum a_if_i\), is well defined because \(\sum a_if_i=-\sum b_jg_j\in I_2\). It is onto because an element written both as \(\sum a_if_i\) and as \(\sum b'_jg_j\) is the image of \((a,-b')\). Its kernel is \(\mathrm{Syz}(F_1)\oplus\mathrm{Syz}(F_2)\). The pair \(g\,x\,e_i-f\,x\,e_j\) maps to \(xfg\), and these span \(I_1I_2\) in each degree. So \(\mathrm{Syz}(F)/(\mathrm{Syz}(F_1)\oplus\mathrm{Syz}(F_2)+K_{12})\cong(I_1\cap I_2)/(I_1I_2)\) degreewise, and dividing by \(\mathcal T(F)\), which contains \(K_{12}\), gives the sequence. \(\square\)

thm:cluster-sequential-freeness

Theorem (cluster sequential freeness). Let a family be split into clusters \(F^{(1)},\dots,F^{(c)}\), cluster \(j\) with truncated algebra \(T_j\), and let \(I_{<j}\) be the ideal of the tops of the earlier clusters (\(I_{<1}=0\)). If \(A/I_{<j}\) is free over \(T_j\) through \(D\) for every \(j\), then every syzygy of the family of degree at most \(D\) is a combination of the clusters' Frobenius syzygies, their lcm-pair syzygies, and Koszul pairs between tops of different clusters. In particular, for any split \(F=F_1\sqcup F_2\) with \(F_2\) one cluster with algebra \(T_2\), if \(A/I_1\) is free over \(T_2\) through \(D\), then \((I_1\cap I_2)_d=(I_1I_2)_d\) for \(d\le D\).

Proof. Syzygies of monomials over \(T\). \(T\) is graded by exponent vectors \(\alpha\), each nonzero piece spanned by \(y^\alpha\) with \(\alpha\le(2,\dots,2)\). A syzygy \(\sum_jc_jy^{\alpha-\varepsilon_j}e_j\) of multidegree \(\alpha\) (terms with \(\varepsilon_j\le\alpha\) and \(\alpha-\varepsilon_j\le2\)) maps to \((\sum_jc_j)y^\alpha\). If \(\alpha\le2\) this is 0 exactly when \(\sum c_j=0\), and the kernel is spanned by differences \(y^{\alpha-\varepsilon_j}e_j-y^{\alpha-\varepsilon_{j'}}e_{j'}\), each \(y^{\alpha-\lambda}\) times an lcm-pair syzygy. If some \(\alpha_f\ge3\), every term is a syzygy, and \(y^{\alpha-\varepsilon_j}e_j\) with \(\alpha_f-\varepsilon_{j,f}\ge3-\varepsilon_{j,f}\) is a multiple of the Frobenius syzygy \(y_f^{3-\varepsilon_{j,f}}e_j\), because \(\varepsilon_{j,f}\ge1\) (as \(\alpha_f-\varepsilon_{j,f}\le2\)). So over \(T\), and over any free \(T\)-module \(T\otimes C\), the syzygies of the \(m_j\) are generated by lcm-pair and Frobenius syzygies.

One cluster against the rest. Let \(F_2=\{m_1,\dots,m_q\}\) be a cluster with algebra \(T_2\), \(F_1=\{\tau_i\}\) the other tops, \(M=A/I_1\), and let \(\sum_ig_i\tau_i+\sum_jh_jm_j=0\) have degree \(d\le D\). In \(M\), \(\sum_j\bar h_jm_j=0\). Take a free \(T_2\)-cover \(P=T_2\otimes C\to M\) bijective in degrees \(\le D\), and lift \(\bar h_j\) to \(y_j\in P\). Then \(\sum_jy_jm_j\in P_d\) maps to 0, so it is 0. By the first step \((y_j)_j=\sum_ka_ks_k\) with \(a_k\in P\) and \(s_k\) lcm-pair or Frobenius syzygies of \(F_2\) with coefficients in \(T_2\). Mapping to \(M\) and lifting each \(\bar a_k\) to \(a'_k\in A\) gives \(h_j=\sum_ka'_k(s_k)_j+\sum_ic_{ji}\tau_i\) for some \(c_{ji}\in A\). Hence

\[\sum_jh_je_j=\sum_ka'_ks_k+\sum_{i,j}c_{ji}\bigl(\tau_ie_j-m_je_i\bigr)+\sum_{i,j}c_{ji}m_je_i.\]

The first two sums are cluster syzygies and Koszul pairs, and the original syzygy minus them is \(\sum_i(g_i+\sum_jc_{ji}m_j)e_i\), a syzygy of \(F_1\) of degree \(d\). For the cross term, take \(x=\sum_jh_jm_j\in I_1\cap I_2\) of degree \(d\le D\), a syzygy with \(g\) chosen so that \(\sum g_i\tau_i=-x\). The same decomposition gives \(x=\sum_jh_jm_j=\sum_{i,j}c_{ji}\tau_im_j\in I_1I_2\), since cluster syzygies contribute 0.

Induction. Apply the step to the last cluster with \(F_1\) the union of the earlier ones, whose quotient hypotheses are the given ones for \(j<c\); the remaining syzygy is one of \(F^{(1)}\cup\dots\cup F^{(c-1)}\) of degree \(\le D\). For \(c=1\) the step with \(F_1=\emptyset\) uses \(A\) free over \(T_1\). \(\square\)

With singleton clusters this is prop:sequential-freeness, and the lcm-pair syzygies of a single top are empty. The cross-term statement is the Mayer–Vietoris sequence's third term vanishing, so under the hypothesis \(\mathrm{Def}(F)_d\) is the image of \(\mathrm{Def}(F_1)_d\oplus\mathrm{Def}(F_2)_d\). Only \(A/I_{<j}\) is required to be free over each cluster's own forms. Nothing is assumed about the forms of different clusters, which may be dependent, or about the span of all the family's forms.

Checks against the recorded obstructions

Shared forms. lem:shared-direction-pure-tops's syzygy \(u_be_a-u_ae_b\) of two tops \(x^2u_a\), \(x^2u_b\) is the lcm-pair syzygy of the cluster containing both, when \(x\) and the \(u\)'s are independent. As two singleton clusters, the element \(x^2u_au_b\), nonzero under that lemma's freeness hypothesis, lies in \((x^2u_a)\cap(x^2u_b)\) in degree \(2\deg x+\deg u_a+\deg u_b\), below the least degree \(4\deg x+\deg u_a+\deg u_b\) of the product of the two ideals. So the cross term is nonzero, and by the theorem \(A/(x^2u_a)\) is not free over the forms of \(x^2u_b\) through that degree. So the theorem accounts for the syzygy exactly when the two tops form one cluster.
Degree-zero pairs. prop:two-block-taylor-failure's \(e_C-e_{C'}\), for two W blocks on the same linear forms with agreeing outside indices, is the lcm-pair syzygy of two equal monomials in one cluster. Whether it lifts is a separate question: for different constants it does not (prop:two-block-taylor-failure, part (1)), which is why the theorem's conclusion concerns top syzygies only and gluing still needs lifting.
Shared-square circuits. The tops \(A^2B_1,\dots,A^2B_r\) with \(\sum B_i=0\) have dependent forms, so they cannot form one cluster. In any split into clusters with independent forms, some cluster's quotient hypothesis fails, as it must, since the circuit is not generated by the allowed syzygies at degree 0.
Planted relations and concentration. The planted triple and the spread family have classes outside the theorem's span. By the theorem, then, every ordering and every split into clusters with independent forms has some quotient that is not free over the next cluster's forms, which is consistent; which quotient fails was not computed.

What this gives for A1

For W's normalized clauses, take the blocks as clusters. A block's tops \(A_{b,i}^2C_b\) are monomials in its prefix forms and outside forms, which form a cluster when they are jointly independent within the block. Their lcm-pair syzygies are the within-block pair syzygies of prop:member-square-reduction's span. So W's Taylor route through \(22k\) needs, for some ordering of the blocks, that the quotient by the clauses of the earlier blocks is free over each block's own truncated algebra through total degree \(22k+2k+2\), and that the resulting syzygies lift. That is a statement about one block's forms at a time acting on one quotient. It replaces the refuted locality conjecture by a hypothesis that no degree-0 example violates without also having dependent forms within a cluster or a non-free quotient.

The remaining question is when \(A/I_{<b}\) is free over \(T_b\). Freeness through \(D\) is the vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}^{T_b}_1(\mathbb F_3,A/I_{<b})\) in degrees \(\le D\), a condition on single elements of \(T_b\) acting on a quotient. A Dade-type reduction to single forms would be the natural next step. Dade's lemma for modules over elementary abelian groups uses shifted cyclic subgroups over an algebraically closed field; restricted to the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational forms of \(V_b\) it can fail for modules whose rank variety has only non-rational points. So a reduction to the rational forms alone is not available in general, and conj:graded-dade, the rational version for the algebra itself, is already refuted; thm:pencil-graded-dade proves it only for \(\Lambda\) and two forms.

Outcome. lem:taylor-mayer-vietoris (working proof): the defect of a union is the image of the parts' defects plus \((I_1\cap I_2)/(I_1I_2)\). thm:cluster-sequential-freeness (working proof): freeness of each quotient by earlier clusters over the next cluster's own forms generates all syzygies from Frobenius, within-cluster lcm-pair and cross Koszul syzygies, and kills the cross term. It extends prop:sequential-freeness to tops sharing forms, the case that result excluded, and it accounts for the shared-form and degree-zero pair failures. It does not decide when the quotients are free.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): find when \(\widetilde A/I_{<b}\) is free over a block's truncated algebra \(T_b\) through \(D\). Test a first sufficient condition: \(\widetilde A\) free over \(T_b\otimes T'\), where \(T'\) is the algebra of a set of forms containing the earlier blocks' forms near block \(b\), with the far blocks handled by a separation argument. Check it against the degree-zero circuits and the planted families before relying on it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:sequential-freeness and its proof, lem:shared-direction-pure-tops, prop:two-block-taylor-failure, prop:member-square-reduction, prop:degree-zero-circuits and ex:concentrated-spread-dependency, conj:graded-dade and thm:pencil-graded-dade. A fresh-context reviewer rebuilt the lemma's exactness, the syzygies of monomials over \(T\) in both multidegree cases, the lifting identity, the cross-term identity and the induction, and found no gap. Its two claim searches found no earlier cluster version. It required one change, adopted: the non-freeness witness for shared forms is now the degree count of \(x^2u_au_b\) against the product of the ideals. At its remark, the entry now says that the independence of a cluster's forms is implied by the freeness hypotheses rather than used in the proof.

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Linear transversality: a quotient \(A/I\) is free over a block's forms exactly when reducing modulo those forms creates no new relations among the generators of \(I\), \((I\cap VA)=VI\), and exactly when each form in turn satisfies one colon condition; so cluster sequential freeness for W becomes a statement about earlier clauses reduced modulo one block's forms

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-block-quotient. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Linear transversality: a quotient \(A/I\) is free over a block's forms exactly when reducing modulo those forms creates no new relations among the generators of \(I\), \((I\cap VA)=VI\), and exactly when each form in turn satisfies one colon condition; so cluster sequential freeness for W becomes a statement about earlier clauses reduced modulo one block's forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-linear-transversality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Cluster sequential freeness reduced W's Taylor route, with blocks as clusters, to one hypothesis per block: the quotient \(\widetilde A/I_{<b}\) by the earlier blocks' clauses is free over block \(b\)'s truncated algebra \(T_b\). This cycle characterizes that hypothesis, to find what must be proved about W's families and where it can fail.

General statement. prop:linear-transversality: if \(A\) is free through \(D\) over the truncated algebra of forms spanning \(V\), then \(A/I\) is free over it through \(D\) if and only if \((I\cap VA)_d=(VI)_d\) for all \(d\le D\), for every ideal \(I\) generated in degrees \(\ge1\).

prop:linear-transversality

Proposition (linear transversality). Let \(A\) be a graded commutative \(\mathbb F_3\)-algebra in which cubes of linear forms vanish, let \(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_r\) be linear forms with span \(V\), \(T=\mathbb F_3[y_1,\dots,y_r]/(y_f^3)\) acting by \(y_f\mapsto\ell_f\), and let \(I\) be a homogeneous ideal generated in degrees \(\ge h\ge1\). Suppose \(A\) is free over \(T\) through \(D\). Then the following are equivalent.

\(A/I\) is free over \(T\) through \(D\).
\((I\cap VA)_d=(VI)_d\) for all \(d\le D\).
The map \(I/VI\to A/VA\) is injective in degrees \(\le D\): every relation that the images of \(I\)'s elements acquire modulo the forms of \(V\) already holds modulo \(VI\).
For \(i=1,\dots,r\), with \(K_i=I+(\ell_1,\dots,\ell_{i-1})\): \((K_i:\ell_i)_d=(K_i+\ell_i^2A)_d\) for all \(d\le D-1\).

In particular, if \(D\ge h\), a necessary condition is \(I_h\cap(VA)_h=0\): the generators of \(I\) of degree \(h\) remain linearly independent modulo the ideal of \(V\).

Proof. Write \(\mathfrak m=(y_1,\dots,y_r)\subseteq T\), so that \(\mathfrak mN=VN\) for any \(A\)-module \(N\). For a graded \(T\)-module \(N\), freeness through \(D\) is equivalent to \(\operatorname{Tor}^T_1(\mathbb F_3,N)_d=0\) for \(d\le D\). Indeed, if \(P\to N\) is a minimal free cover with kernel \(K\), then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,N)=K/\mathfrak mK\), and the lowest nonzero degree of \(K\) equals that of \(K/\mathfrak mK\).

(1)⇔(2). Apply \(\operatorname{Tor}^T(\mathbb F_3,-)\) to \(0\to I\to A\to A/I\to0\): \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,A)_d\to\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,A/I)_d\to(I/VI)_d\to(A/VA)_d\). The first term vanishes for \(d\le D\) because \(A\) is free through \(D\). So for \(d\le D\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,A/I)_d\cong\ker\bigl((I/VI)_d\to(A/VA)_d\bigr)=\bigl((I\cap VA)/VI\bigr)_d\).

(2)⇔(3). The kernel of \(I/VI\to A/VA\) is \((I\cap VA)/VI\).

(1)⇔(4). First, for \(T=T_1\otimes T_2\), with \(T_1=\mathbb F_3[y_1]/(y_1^3)\) and \(T_2\) the rest, a graded \(T\)-module \(M\) is free through \(D\) if and only if \(M\) is free over \(T_1\) through \(D\) and \(M/\ell_1M\) is free over \(T_2\) through \(D\). If \(T\otimes C\to M\) is bijective through \(D\), then \(M\) is free over \(T_1\), since \(T\) is, and \(M/\ell_1M\) is \(T_2\otimes C\) through \(D\). Conversely, lift a minimal \(T_2\)-cover \(T_2\otimes C\to M/\ell_1M\) to \(\phi:T\otimes C\to M\), which is onto by graded Nakayama. Freeness over \(T_1\) gives \(\mathrm{HS}(M)\equiv\mathrm{HS}(T_1)\,\mathrm{HS}(M/\ell_1M)\), and freeness of the quotient gives \(\mathrm{HS}(M/\ell_1M)\equiv\mathrm{HS}(T_2)\,\mathrm{HS}(C)\), both modulo \(q^{D+1}\). So \(\phi\) is onto between spaces of equal dimension in each degree \(\le D\), hence bijective there. By induction, \(A/I\) is free over \(T\) through \(D\) if and only if each \(A/K_i\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell_i]/(\ell_i^3)\) through \(D\). Over \(S=\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) the resolution \(S\xleftarrow{\ell}S(-1)\xleftarrow{\ell^2}S(-3)\leftarrow\cdots\) of \(\mathbb F_3\) gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^S(\mathbb F_3,N)_t=\ker(\ell:N_{t-1}\to N_t)/\ell^2N_{t-3}\). For \(N=A/K\) its vanishing for \(t\le D\) says that \(\ell x\in K\) with \(\deg x\le D-1\) implies \(x\in K+\ell^2A\), which is (4); the inclusion \(\supseteq\) holds since \(\ell^3=0\).

The necessary condition is (2) at \(d=h\), where \((VI)_h=0\) because \(VI\) starts in degree \(h+1\). \(\square\)

Relation to the record. The equivalence (1)⇔(2) at a single degree is the key step of prop:batched-splitting, there for the row classes acting on the board's graded algebra: \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(k,G/\mathfrak a)_D=0\) iff \((\mathfrak a\cap\mathfrak mG)_D=(\mathfrak m\mathfrak a)_D\) when \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(k,G)_D=0\). So that part is a rediscovery, applied here to a block's forms instead of the row classes. What this entry adds is the per-form colon criterion (4), obtained by change of rings, the range of all degrees through \(D\), and the use as the hypothesis of thm:cluster-sequential-freeness. The coincidence is informative: batched splitting found that batching the closure route's members is exactly relative row freeness, a Tor condition for the row classes, and the Taylor route with blocks as clusters needs the same kind of condition for each block's forms. Both routes end at Tor vanishing of a quotient by many members over a small truncated algebra.

What it says for W

Combined with thm:cluster-sequential-freeness, and with \(\widetilde A\) free over each block's algebra (the local step, thm:column-support-freeness for dense forms), W's Taylor route through total degree \(D=24k+2\) holds in the top-syzygy sense if the blocks can be ordered so that, for every block \(b\), the clauses of the earlier blocks acquire no new relations through degree \(D\) when block \(b\)'s forms are set to zero: \((I_{<b}\cap V_b\widetilde A)=V_bI_{<b}\) in degrees \(\le D\). Conversely, if this fails for block \(b\), then \(\widetilde A/I_{<b}\) is not free over \(T_b\), and that ordering's hypothesis fails at block \(b\) (the Taylor route may still hold in another ordering or split into clusters).

Shared forms across blocks. If an earlier clause top is divisible by a form of \(V_b\), it lies in \(I_h\cap(V_b\widetilde A)_h\), and the necessary condition fails. Blocks that share forms must be merged into one cluster, which needs their forms to be jointly independent. This is the matroid structure of the relation-line review again, now as a hypothesis on clusters rather than on the whole family.
Degree-zero circuits and concentration. The shared-square circuit fails the necessary condition at block \(r\), as a special case of the shared-form bullet: \(A^2B_1\in I_3\cap(V\!A)_3\) for \(V=\langle A,B_r\rangle\). A concentrated family fails it whenever an earlier top lies in the ideal of the next block's forms modulo the others.
What is left. For W's dense families the hypothesis asks that reducing modulo the \(O(k)\) forms of one block keep the earlier clauses' relations unchanged through degree \(24k+2\). By counting this is plausible: setting \(r\) forms to zero changes the dimensions of the degree-\(d\) pieces by a factor near \((1-r/N')^d\) in the regimes considered, with \(N'\) the number of cells and \(rd/N'=O(k^2/n^2)\). But counting does not prove injectivity, which is exactly what adversarial forms can break.

Outcome. prop:linear-transversality (working proof): with \(\widetilde A\) free over a block's algebra, the quotient by the earlier clauses is free over it through \(D\) exactly when their ideal meets the ideal of the block's forms only in \(V_bI_{<b}\) through \(D\). Equivalently, exactly when each of the block's forms in turn satisfies one colon condition. So W's Taylor route in the top-syzygy sense needs an ordering in which reducing modulo each block's forms creates no new relations among the earlier clauses. The criterion is exact; whether W's families satisfy it is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove the transversality condition for a first class of families beyond joint freeness. The candidate class: for every block \(b\), the earlier blocks' forms together with \(V_b\) are free on the columns outside a set of \(O(k)\) columns that carries \(V_b\)'s support excess, in the spirit of lem:spare-column-transfer. Then state what the condition requires of random-prefix families (W_RS).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:cluster-sequential-freeness, prop:sequential-freeness, prop:degree-zero-circuits, thm:column-support-freeness, lem:spare-column-transfer and prop:batched-splitting. A fresh-context reviewer checked the Tor characterization of freeness through \(D\), the long exact sequence with its degree bookkeeping, the change-of-rings splitting in both directions, the Tor computation over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) with the range \(d\le D-1\), the necessary condition, and the W section, and found no gap. It required two changes, both adopted: the hypothesis \(h\ge2\) is weakened to \(h\ge1\), the only form used; and the equivalence (1)⇔(2) is linked to prop:batched-splitting, whose key step it rediscovers. It also noted that the circuit bullet is a special case of the shared-form bullet.

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Route review after cluster sequential freeness: the Taylor route with blocks as clusters and the closure route end at the same obstacle, Tor vanishing of a quotient by many members over one member's truncated algebra; the Mayer–Vietoris lemma rediscovers prop:overlap-tor

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-transversality-class. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after cluster sequential freeness: the Taylor route with blocks as clusters and the closure route end at the same obstacle, Tor vanishing of a quotient by many members over one member's truncated algebra; the Mayer–Vietoris lemma rediscovers prop:overlap-tor”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-convergence-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the Taylor locality review, two entries:

cluster sequential freeness: with blocks as clusters, freeness of each quotient by earlier blocks over the next block's own forms generates all syzygies from Frobenius, within-block lcm-pair and cross Koszul syzygies (thm:cluster-sequential-freeness), with lem:taylor-mayer-vietoris;
linear transversality: that freeness holds exactly when \((I_{<b}\cap V_b\widetilde A)=V_bI_{<b}\) through \(D\), or when each form in turn satisfies one colon condition (prop:linear-transversality).

Correction: two rediscoveries

lem:taylor-mayer-vietoris rediscovers prop:overlap-tor (24 September): for two members, the top syzygies modulo member-supported and cross-member Koszul syzygies are \(Q=(I_1T\cap I_2T)/(I_1TI_2T+I_{12}T)\). The newer lemma states the same identity as an exact sequence for any chosen spans and any split. prop:overlap-tor also records that pairwise vanishing of \(Q\) does not suffice for three members (single selectors on \(x,y,x+y\)), which is what the sequential form of thm:cluster-sequential-freeness takes into account. The single-degree step of prop:linear-transversality is the key step of prop:batched-splitting, as its entry already notes. The claim searches before both entries used the words "Mayer–Vietoris", "intersection" and "cluster" but not "overlap", and the reviewers' searches did not find it either. thm:cluster-sequential-freeness and the per-form criterion of prop:linear-transversality were not found in the record and remain new as far as searched.

The line's general claim

W's Taylor route in the top-syzygy sense, for dense adversarial families: order the blocks so that for every block \(b\), setting \(b\)'s forms to zero creates no new relations among the earlier blocks' clauses through total degree \(24k+2\). Then every top syzygy is generated by Frobenius, within-block pair and cross Koszul syzygies, and gluing needs only that those lift, which the within-block pairs do in the coherent case.

What the goal needs

A1 needs W for every family, so the ordering condition for every dense adversarial family, or another route for those that fail it. The condition is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T_b}(\mathbb F_3,\widetilde A/I_{<b})=0\) through \(D\). This is the same shape as the closure route's obstacle. prop:batched-splitting showed that batching row-free members needs \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak n)_D=0\) for the row classes \(\Lambda\), which is relative row freeness in top degree, conjectured and unproved beyond capacity (conj:relative-row-freeness, conj:row-free-subset, conj:top-lift-subset). Here the small algebra is a block's \(T_b\) rather than the row classes' \(\Lambda\), and the quotient is by the earlier blocks' clause tops rather than the allowed set's top ideal. Both routes need a quotient by many members to be free over one small truncated algebra.

Falsification attempt

Is the ordering condition ever satisfiable for families that the recorded tools do not already settle? Any two blocks sharing a form fail it in degree \(h\) in either order, so blocks sharing forms must be merged into clusters with jointly independent forms. An adversary can make every block share an outside form \(l_0\): the tops \(l_0^2C_b\) then force one cluster containing all blocks, whose forms (\(n^K\) prefix sets in about \(n^2\) dimensions) are dependent. So the condition fails for such star families in every ordering and clustering. thm:star-family-locality settles identically linked star families of ENS blocks by a different mechanism (chain distributivity over \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\)), and it records that two shared coordinates are not covered. So the claim fails as a universal route, and families sharing forms need a relative version over the shared forms.

Obstacle

Tor vanishing of a quotient by many members over one member's small truncated algebra, for dense adversarial forms beyond joint capacity: \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T_b}(\mathbb F_3,\widetilde A/I_{<b})=0\) through \(D\) (Taylor route, per block), or \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(k,G/\mathfrak n)_D=0\) (closure route, row classes). A relative version over shared forms is needed for star-like sharing.

Assessment of the route

Weak for the global step. The two new results are correct and sharpen the statement: shared forms within a block are absorbed, and the per-block condition is an exact Hilbert-series identity. But the line has returned to the obstacle recorded in the batched-splitting and lift reviews, by an independent path. Two of its three lemmas since the last review were partly rediscoveries, and the claim searches missed them. The agreement of two independent routes on one statement is evidence that this statement, not the route, is the core of A1 for dense adversarial families. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Dade's lemma and Carlson's rank varieties (E. C. Dade, Endo-permutation modules over p-groups II, Ann. of Math. 108, 1978; J. F. Carlson, The varieties and the cohomology ring of a module, J. Algebra 85, 1983). A module over the group algebra of an elementary abelian \(p\)-group, here \(T_b\cong\mathbb F_3[(\mathbb Z/3)^r]\), is free exactly when it is free over every cyclic shifted subgroup, over an algebraically closed field. Answers. It would reduce the per-block condition to single forms \(\ell\in V_b\otimes\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) acting on one quotient, with no sequential quotients by the other forms. Test. Falsified in the truncated form the goal needs: a degree-\(h\) generator \(\ell_1x+\ell_2y\) of \(I\), with \(x,y\) outside the pencil, lies in \(V\widetilde A\) while \(V I\) starts in degree \(h+1\), so \(\widetilde A/I\) is not free over \(T(\ell_1,\ell_2)\) through \(h\). It can still be free through \(h\) over every single form of the pencil, when the generator lies in no principal ideal \(\ell\widetilde A\). Full, untruncated freeness is decided by single forms; freeness through \(D\) is not.
Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series (R. Fröberg, An inequality for Hilbert series of graded algebras, Math. Scand. 56, 1985). Generic forms give the expected series \(\lvert\mathrm{HS}(R)\prod(1-t^{d_i})\rvert\). Answers. By prop:linear-transversality and its Tor characterization, the per-block condition is the Hilbert-series identity \(\mathrm{HS}(\widetilde A/(I_{<b}+V_b\widetilde A))\equiv\mathrm{HS}(\widetilde A/I_{<b})/\mathrm{HS}(T_b)\) modulo \(q^{D+1}\), an expected-series statement of Fröberg type. Proving it for random-prefix families is a genericity statement. Test. Passed as a consistency check: the recorded random-top computations follow random-matrix predictions up to the fill point (check, generic directness), which is Fröberg-type behaviour for the quotients that the identity compares. Adversarial forms are outside its scope.
The Clements–Lindström theorem (G. F. Clements and B. Lindström, A generalization of a combinatorial theorem of Macaulay, J. Combin. Theory 7, 1969). Macaulay's bound on the growth of Hilbert functions holds in \(k[x]/(x_i^{e_i})\), with compressed (lex-segment) ideals extremal. Answers. Concentrated families, the failures of the ordering condition beyond shared forms, overfill a span's truncated algebra. The theorem bounds how fast an ideal generated in one degree can fill \(T(V)\), which could separate concentrated spans from dispersed ones by a growth test. Test. Not run: it needs the Hilbert function of the ideal generated by the 91 spread tops in \(T(V)\) beyond degree 3, a computation, and this review runs only argument tests.

Absurd bridges

The cleaning lemma for quantum stabilizer codes (S. Bravyi and B. Terhal, A no-go theorem for a two-dimensional self-correcting quantum memory based on stabilizer codes, New J. Phys. 11, 2009). An erasure of a region is correctable exactly when no logical operator is supported on it, and then operators can be cleaned off the region. Translation: setting block \(b\)'s forms to zero is an erasure; the earlier clauses are the code; "no new relations" is correctability of the erasure. Answers. A distance statement, that no nonzero combination of earlier clauses lies in the ideal of any \(O(k)\)-dimensional span, would give the per-block condition in degree \(h\). A cleaning-type argument might carry it to higher degrees. Test. Passed on the degree-\(h\) case: prop:linear-transversality's necessary condition \(I_h\cap(V_b\widetilde A)_h=0\) is exactly that erasure-correctability statement, and a shared form is a logical operator of weight one, which fails it.
The restricted isometry property of compressed sensing (E. J. Candès and T. Tao, Decoding by linear programming, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 51, 2005). Random matrices are near-isometric on all sparse supports at once, by a union bound over supports with a net. Translation: blocks are supports, reduction modulo a block's forms is restriction, and injectivity of \(I/V_bI\to\widetilde A/V_b\widetilde A\) for all \(b\) is a restricted injectivity. Answers. Under W_RS a union bound over the \(n^K\) blocks, with failure probability per block below \(n^{-K}\) from prefix randomness, would prove the ordering condition for random-prefix families. Test. Falsified as a direct union bound: a shared outside form makes the degree-\(h\) condition fail deterministically, whatever the prefixes, so prefix randomness cannot drive the failure probability down without clustering first.

Lead follow-up

The Tor identity and its Mayer–Vietoris use. Follow-up. Closed: developed into thm:cluster-sequential-freeness and prop:linear-transversality, which reduce locality to the per-block Tor condition of the Obstacle; the identity itself is prop:overlap-tor's.
Density evolution on locally tree-like graphs. Follow-up. Closed: its girth form was refuted by the degree-zero circuits, and its content now lives in the Mayer–Vietoris sequence and the cluster theorem.
Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed; the cleaning-lemma bridge above takes up the coding view of the per-block condition.

Bridge follow-up

The block-spin renormalization group. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed. The star families of the Falsification attempt are its first real test: pin the shared form, then ask for the ordering condition on the rest.
Acyclic database schemes. Follow-up. Continuing: the cluster theorem's ordering plays the role of an elimination order, but no acyclicity criterion for the per-block condition was derived.
Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the renormalization bridge on star families. Pin the shared form \(l_0\) (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity's division step) and ask whether, relative to \(\mathbb F_3[l_0]/(l_0^3)\), the per-block condition becomes satisfiable. If it does, state a relative cluster theorem over a base of shared forms, extending thm:star-family-locality's chain-distributivity mechanism from ENS blocks to W's clauses.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the two entries reviewed, prop:overlap-tor, prop:batched-splitting and its entry, conj:relative-row-freeness, conj:row-free-subset, conj:top-lift-subset, thm:star-family-locality and prop:pinned-rank-vacuity. The cheap tests were run as arguments: the truncated Dade example, the Fröberg comparison with the recorded random-top checks, the erasure form of the degree-\(h\) condition, and the shared-form counterexample to a union bound; the Clements–Lindström test needs a computation and was not run. A fresh-context reviewer checked both rediscovery claims, the shared-form and star-family falsification (the must-cluster relation is complete, forcing one cluster with dependent forms), each lead's and bridge's test and citation, and the follow-up mapping, and required no changes. It noted that the Clements–Lindström lead, left not run, bears on concentration and should get a development cycle before that question is set aside.

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Pinned cluster reduction: pinning a set of shared forms and reducing every clause modulo the pins removes the sharing that defeats the per-block condition; with the pins as the first cluster, cluster sequential freeness then applies in the quotient algebra, so star families fall into the cluster framework, at the price of sharing that pinning itself can create

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-star-pinning. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pinned cluster reduction: pinning a set of shared forms and reducing every clause modulo the pins removes the sharing that defeats the per-block condition; with the pins as the first cluster, cluster sequential freeness then applies in the quotient algebra, so star families fall into the cluster framework, at the price of sharing that pinning itself can create”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-pinned-cluster-reduction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The convergence review showed that blocks sharing a form fail the per-block condition of prop:linear-transversality in every ordering, and that a form \(l_0\) shared by all blocks defeats the cluster framework. Its next step was the renormalization bridge: pin the shared form and ask for the per-block condition relative to it. This cycle does that in general, for any set of pinned forms.

General statement. cor:pinned-cluster-reduction: for pins \(u_f=q_f\) (\(f\le w\)) spanning \(U\), if \(\widetilde A\) is free over \(T(U)\) through \(D\), no clause reduces to a nonzero constant at \(q\), and the reduced blocks can be ordered with \(\widetilde A/(U\widetilde A+\bar I_{<b})\) free over \(T(\bar V_b)\) through \(D\) for every \(b\), then the top syzygies of the pins and the reduced clauses through \(D\) are generated by Frobenius syzygies, pin pairs, within-block pair syzygies and cross Koszul pairs.

Setting

W's normalized clauses on the weak base: block \(b\) has affine forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b}\), prefix set \(S_b\) and clauses \(g(L_{b,i})\prod_{j\in S_b}L_{b,j}^2\), \(g=1-x^2\), with tops \(-\ell_{b,i}^2\prod_{j\in S_b}\ell_{b,j}^2\), where \(\ell\) is the linear part. Choose affine pins \(u_1-q_1,\dots,u_w-q_w\) whose linear parts are linearly independent and span \(U\), and a complement \(W\) with \(\widetilde A_1=U\oplus W\). The reduction of an affine form \(L=\lambda(u)+\omega+c\) (\(\lambda(u)\in U\), \(\omega\in W\)) is \(\bar L=\omega+\lambda(q)+c\): the form with the pinned part replaced by its value. The reduced clause replaces every form by its reduction, and \(\bar V_b\) is the span of the linear parts \(\omega\) of block \(b\)'s reduced forms.

cor:pinned-cluster-reduction

Corollary (pinned cluster reduction). Suppose (i) \(\widetilde A\) is free over \(T(U)\) through \(D\); (ii) no clause reduces to a nonzero constant (the pin values satisfy every clause whose forms lie in \(U\) plus constants); (iii) each reduced block's nonzero reduced linear parts are linearly independent; and (iv) the reduced blocks can be ordered so that \(\widetilde A/(U\widetilde A+\bar I_{<b})\) is free over \(T(\bar V_b)\) through \(D\) for every \(b\), where \(\bar I_{<b}\) is the ideal of the earlier reduced clause tops. Then:

every top syzygy of the pins and the reduced clauses of degree at most \(D\) is generated by Frobenius syzygies, pairs of pins, within-block pair syzygies of reduced clauses, and Koszul pairs between different clusters;
a PC refutation of W's system of degree \(d\) gives one of the pins plus the reduced clauses of degree at most \(\max(d,\deg\text{clause})\), so hardness of the pinned, reduced system implies hardness of W's system.

Proof. (1) Take the pins as the first cluster: their tops \(u_f\) are monomials of degree 1 in the independent forms \(u_1,\dots,u_w\), with truncated algebra \(T(U)\), and \(\widetilde A\) is free over it through \(D\) by (i). Take each reduced block as a further cluster: its tops are monomials in its reduced linear parts, which are independent by (iii), and a zero reduced clause is dropped. The quotient by the tops of the pins and the earlier reduced blocks is \(\widetilde A/(U\widetilde A+\bar I_{<b})\), free over \(T(\bar V_b)\) through \(D\) by (iv). thm:cluster-sequential-freeness gives generation by Frobenius syzygies, lcm-pair syzygies within clusters and cross Koszul pairs. Within the pin cluster the lcm pairs of distinct linear monomials are Koszul pairs \(u_ge_f-u_fe_g\). Within a reduced block the tops share the prefix product and differ in one squared outside form, so the lcm pairs are the within-block pair syzygies \(\bar\ell_{b,i'}^2e_{b,i}-\bar\ell_{b,i}^2e_{b,i'}\). A reduced prefix form that became a nonzero constant only scales the clause, and one that became 0 makes the clause 0. If a clause's own outside form reduces to a constant \(c\), the clause becomes \(g(c)\bar C_b\): the prefix-only clause \(\bar C_b\) when \(c=0\), of which the block's other clauses are multiples, or 0 when \(c=\pm1\). Its top \(\bar C_b\) is still a monomial in the block's reduced forms, and its lcm pair with another clause \(\bar\ell^2\bar C_b\) of the block is \(\bar\ell^2e_C-e_{\ell}\), which lifts exactly because that clause is \(g(\bar\ell)\bar C_b\).

(2) Adding the pins as axioms can only shorten refutations. Each clause \(c\) and its reduction \(\bar c\) differ by a polynomial vanishing when \(u=q\): writing \(c\) as a polynomial in \(u\) with coefficients in the other variables, \(c-\bar c=\sum_f(u_f-q_f)h_f\) with \(\deg h_f\le\deg c-1\), as in lem:member-pinning. So each is derived from the other and the pins in degree \(\deg c\). By (ii) no reduced clause is a nonzero constant. \(\square\)

So the pinned, reduced system meets the hypothesis of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, whose allowed syzygies include Frobenius syzygies, pair syzygies of coherent pairs and Koszul pairs. That holds as far as the top syzygies are concerned; the pins and the reduced within-block pairs are coherent, as each reduced block keeps one constant per form. Its conclusion, no refutation through the degree it states, needs its remaining hypotheses (a base \(z\)-injective below \(D\), and the corollary's saturation condition for W) checked for the pinned system, which this entry does not do.

What it gives, and what pinning creates

Star families. If a form \(l_0\) is an outside form of many blocks, pin it. Each clause \(g(l_0-a_b)C_b\) reduces to \(g(q-a_b)\bar C_b\): to \(\bar C_b\) (\(q=a_b\)), which makes the other clauses of block \(b\) redundant multiples of it, or to 0 (\(q\ne a_b\), since \(g(\pm1)=0\)). The shared form disappears from every top, so the obstruction of the convergence review is removed. Condition (ii) fails only if some block's forms all lie in \(U\) plus constants and its clause is violated at \(q\).
Sharing created by pinning. Two forms that differ by an element of \(U\) have the same reduced linear part, so blocks with forms \(x+u\) and \(x+u'\) share the reduced form \(x\) after pinning, and fail (iv) in either order. Pinning trades sharing inside \(U\) for sharing modulo \(U\), and helps only when the second is absent.
Budget. Condition (i), and the freeness of \(\widetilde A\) over each \(T(U)\otimes T(\bar V_b)\) that makes (iv) meaningful, come from thm:column-support-freeness when every nonzero combination of the \(w+|\bar V_b|\) forms is nonzero on about \(t(F\log F)\) columns, \(F=w+|\bar V_b|\), \(t=D\). With \(n+1\) cells per column and \(n\) columns this allows \(w\) up to about \(n/(k\log n)\) pins. So the sharing pattern of a family must have a hitting set of that size, modulo which no sharing remains.
Relation to the record. The historical batching lemma on affine cores modulo base consequences (Lemma 8.6, lem:corequotient) also reduces input forms modulo a space of derivable affine consequences, there inside the weighted-core budget rather than for syzygy generation. prop:pinned-rank-vacuity pins forms to make whole blocks vacuous (blocks of rank \(\le\log_3n-\omega(1)\) modulo the pins). Here pinning keeps blocks alive and only removes sharing. thm:star-family-locality handles one shared coordinate without pinning, by chain distributivity, for ENS blocks. The corollary covers any number of pinned shared forms within the budget, for W's clauses, but only under the per-block condition (iv), which remains the open part.

Outcome. cor:pinned-cluster-reduction (working proof): pinned, reduced W systems whose reduced blocks satisfy the per-block ordering condition have top syzygies generated by the allowed syzygies. Star families and any sharing with a hitting set of about \(n/(k\log n)\) forms are brought into the cluster framework. Pinning creates sharing among forms that agree modulo the pins, and the per-block condition itself stays open. Bridge follow-up: developed, as a proved reduction; the per-block condition it leaves is the convergence review's obstacle.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the per-block condition (iv) for sharing-free dense families is the convergence review's obstacle. Develop the Clements–Lindström lead there, which the review left not run. Compute the growth of the ideal of the 91 spread tops in \(T(V)\) beyond degree 3, to see whether concentrated spans are detected by maximal growth, and whether a growth condition on every \(O(k)\)-dimensional span implies (iv).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:cluster-sequential-freeness, prop:linear-transversality, thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, lem:member-pinning, cor:single-form-pinning, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, thm:star-family-locality, thm:column-support-freeness and the historical Lemma 8.6. A fresh-context reviewer checked the application of the cluster theorem (pins as the first cluster, the quotient identification, both lcm-pair computations), the reduction identity and the role of (ii), the hedging of the resolvent-glue paragraph, and the arithmetic of \(g\). Its claim search found no earlier version. It required one change, adopted: an outside form that reduces to a constant is now handled, and (iii) concerns nonzero reduced linear parts. At its suggestion the historical affine-core lemma, which has a similar shape, was read and is cited. The budget of about \(n/(k\log n)\) pins is an order-of-magnitude estimate from thm:column-support-freeness, not a derived bound.

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Cross-block weight: an earlier top whose squared form is short modulo a later block's forms puts elements of the earlier clauses into that block's ideal at degree \(h+s-1\), and at \(s=1\) breaks the per-block condition outright; so the condition needs a cross-block weight hypothesis, and growth or concentration tests cannot supply it

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-growth-lead. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cross-block weight: an earlier top whose squared form is short modulo a later block's forms puts elements of the earlier clauses into that block's ideal at degree \(h+s-1\), and at \(s=1\) breaks the per-block condition outright; so the condition needs a cross-block weight hypothesis, and growth or concentration tests cannot supply it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-cross-block-weight.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The convergence review named the obstacle: condition (iv) of cor:pinned-cluster-reduction, a quotient by the earlier blocks' clauses free over the next block's forms. Its third Outside lead, the Clements–Lindström theorem, was left not run: it proposed detecting concentrated spans by maximal Hilbert-function growth, on the premise that concentration is what breaks (iv) once sharing is removed. This cycle develops that lead by asking what else breaks (iv), and finds a failure with no concentration at all.

General statement. prop:cross-block-weight: on one row over \(\mathbb F_3\), if an earlier top \(A^2B\) and some \(v\) in the span \(V\) of a later block's forms make \(y=A+v\) supported on \(s\) cells, then \(A^2B\,m\in V\Lambda\) for every product \(m\) of \(s-1\) cells of \(y\)'s support, so \(I\cap V\Lambda\) contains an element of degree \(h+s-1\); for \(s=1\) the per-block condition fails at degree \(h\).

prop:cross-block-weight

Proposition (cross-block weight). Let \(\Lambda\) be the square-free algebra of one row over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(V\) the span of a block's linear forms, and \(I\) an ideal generated in degrees \(\ge h\) that contains a nonzero top \(\tau=A^2B\) of degree \(h=\deg\tau\), with \(A\) linear and \(B\) any product. Suppose \(y=A+v\) has support of size \(s\) for some \(v\in V\). For (2), suppose also that \(\Lambda\) is free over \(T(V)\) through \(h\), the setting in which the per-block condition is posed (cor:pinned-cluster-reduction (iv) presupposes it; on one row it holds when every nonzero combination of \(V\)'s forms has at least \(2h-1\) cells and the pencil or column-support theorems apply).

\(\tau\equiv y^2B\pmod{V\Lambda}\), and \(\tau m\in V\Lambda\) for every monomial \(m\) that is a product of \(s-1\) distinct cells of \(\operatorname{supp}y\).
If \(s=1\), then \(0\ne\tau\in I_h\cap(V\Lambda)_h\) while \((VI)_h=0\), so \(\Lambda/I\) is not free over \(T(V)\) through \(h\) (prop:linear-transversality), whatever the other tops.
For \(s\ge2\), \(\tau m\in(I\cap V\Lambda)_{h+s-1}\); the per-block condition fails at degree \(h+s-1\) unless \(\tau m\in VI\).

Proof. (1) \(A=y-v\), so \(A^2=y^2-2yv+v^2\) and \(\tau=y^2B+v(v-2y)B\), whose second term lies in \(V\Lambda\). Since \(x_i^2=0\), \(y^2=2\sum_{i<j}c_ic_jx_ix_j\) over the cells of \(\operatorname{supp}y\). If \(m\) contains all but one cell of \(\operatorname{supp}y\), every pair \(\{i,j\}\) meets \(m\), so \(x_ix_jm=0\) and \(y^2m=0\). Hence \(\tau m=v(v-2y)Bm\in V\Lambda\). (2) With \(s=1\), \(m=1\) and \(\tau\in V\Lambda\) in degree \(h\), while \(VI\) starts in degree \(h+1\); apply the necessary condition of prop:linear-transversality. (3) \(\tau m\in I\), and it lies in \(V\Lambda\) by (1). \(\square\)

Part (1) is the relative form of the Wilson mechanism of thm:single-top-wilson-threshold, where a squared form of \(s\) cells is killed by products of \(s-1\) of its cells: here the form is short only modulo the later block's span. Part (3) does not decide whether \(\tau m\in VI\), which needs more than one top. For a single top, thm:single-top-wilson-threshold places the first failure at multiplier degree about \(s/2\) for a squared form of \(s\) cells, so the multiplier degree \(s-1\) here is probably not sharp.

What it means

The growth lead cannot answer the obstacle. A failure of type (2) involves one earlier top and one later block, whose spans can be in general position and far from any concentration: nothing about Hilbert-function growth of any span detects that \(A\) is one cell away from \(V\). So a growth or concentration hypothesis, the Clements–Lindström lead's answer, is not sufficient for (iv). Lead follow-up: closed for this reason; the growth test on the spread family was not needed to decide it.
A cross-block weight hypothesis is necessary in the form the Taylor route uses. For every block \(b\), every earlier squared form \(A\) must stay long modulo \(V_b\): \(\min_{v\in V_b}|A+v|\ge2\) at least, and plausibly of order \(D\) for (iv) through \(D\). This is analogous to the cross-top weight condition in conj:column-weight-taylor's hypothesis (combinations of at most \(t\) linear parts nonzero on \(c_2D\) columns), which that conjecture assumed for random-looking tops; the two agree when a block has at most \(t-1\) forms, and here the condition appears as a consequence of the Taylor route itself.
For W. For random dense forms, each \(|A+v|\) is about \(\tfrac23N\), and the minimum over the \(3^{\dim V_b}\) choices of \(v\) is lower only by a term of order \(\sqrt{N\dim V_b}\) (an estimate by the usual tail bound, not derived here), so the hypothesis holds with room to spare when \(\dim V_b\ll N\). Adversarial forms can violate it cheaply: a block may contain \(v=x-A\) for an earlier squared form \(A\) and a cell \(x\). Such a pair is a short combination across two blocks, one of the two defect sources of the relation-line review, now across blocks. The recorded single-top and pair Wilson results say how such defects behave locally, and whether they obstruct W itself is not decided here.

Outcome. prop:cross-block-weight (working proof): short cross-block combinations put earlier clauses into a later block's ideal at degree \(h+s-1\), and break the per-block condition at \(s=1\). The Clements–Lindström lead is closed: failures of the condition need not involve concentration. The per-block condition needs a cross-block weight hypothesis, as conj:column-weight-taylor assumed, in addition to the absence of sharing and of concentration.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): decide whether sharing, concentration and short cross-block combinations are the only obstructions to the per-block condition. The target is a conjecture: for sharing-free families in which every earlier squared form stays long modulo each later block's span and no span is overfilled, (iv) holds through \(D\). Test it first on its smallest nontrivial instance, two earlier blocks and one later block on one row, where \(\Lambda/(I_1+I_2)\) must be free over \(T_3\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:linear-transversality, cor:pinned-cluster-reduction, thm:single-top-wilson-threshold, prop:graded-freeness-necessity, conj:column-weight-taylor and prop:short-form-survival. A fresh-context reviewer checked the identity \(A^2-y^2=v(v-2y)\), the vanishing \(y^2m=0\), parts (2) and (3), the closing of the growth lead and the adversarial construction; its searches found no earlier version. It required changes, all adopted: the freeness of \(\Lambda\) over \(T(V)\) that part (2) uses is stated as a hypothesis with its source, and \(\tau\ne0\) is explicit. The link to conj:column-weight-taylor is now called an analogy, exact only for blocks of at most \(t-1\) forms, and the random-form weight is an estimate. The vanishing uses only \(x_i^2=0\), not the characteristic.

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Local cluster syzygies: the cluster theorem holds for tops that are arbitrary polynomials in a cluster's forms, with each cluster's own syzygies computed in its truncated algebra; so members may carry planted relations, and relative gluing follows from sequential freeness instead of global freeness

27 September 2026 · Working proofs · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-three-block-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Local cluster syzygies: the cluster theorem holds for tops that are arbitrary polynomials in a cluster's forms, with each cluster's own syzygies computed in its truncated algebra; so members may carry planted relations, and relative gluing follows from sequential freeness instead of global freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-local-cluster-syzygies.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Cross-block weight added a third obstruction to the per-block condition. A fourth was already recorded: three blocks whose squared outside forms satisfy \(A_1+A_2+A_3=0\) have a relation class (prop:relation-length-syzygy), so by thm:cluster-sequential-freeness every ordering fails the condition somewhere. All four obstructions are short linear combinations among forms, possibly with cells: the planted short relations that the relation-line review named. thm:cluster-sequential-freeness requires monomial tops in independent forms, so a relation must straddle clusters. This cycle removes that restriction, so a relation can sit inside one cluster, and connects the result to the recorded gluing theorem.

General statement. thm:local-cluster-syzygies: for clusters whose tops are any elements of the truncated algebras \(T_j=T(V_j)\) of their spans, if \(A/I_{<j}\) is free over \(T_j\) through \(D\) for every \(j\), then every syzygy of degree at most \(D\) is generated by the images of \(\mathrm{Syz}_{T_j}\) of each cluster's tops and by Koszul pairs across clusters. cor:sequential-relative-gluing: this supplies hypothesis (b) of thm:relative-gluing.

thm:local-cluster-syzygies

Theorem (local cluster syzygies). Let \(A\) be a graded commutative \(\mathbb F_3\)-algebra in which cubes of linear forms vanish. Let a family of homogeneous tops be split into clusters \(F^{(1)},\dots,F^{(c)}\), where cluster \(j\) has a span \(V_j\subseteq A_1\) with a chosen basis, truncated algebra \(T_j=T(V_j)\) acting through that basis, and tops \(f_{j,1},\dots,f_{j,q_j}\) that are images of elements \(\phi_{j,i}\in T_j\). If \(A/I_{<j}\) is free over \(T_j\) through \(D\) for every \(j\) (\(I_{<1}=0\)), then every syzygy of the family of degree at most \(D\) is an \(A\)-combination of the images of the syzygies \(\mathrm{Syz}_{T_j}(\phi_{j,1},\dots,\phi_{j,q_j})\) and of Koszul pairs between tops of different clusters. For one cluster \(F_2\) against the rest \(F_1\), freeness of \(A/I_1\) over \(T_2\) through \(D\) gives \((I_1\cap I_2)_d=(I_1I_2)_d\) for \(d\le D\).

Proof. It is the proof of thm:cluster-sequential-freeness with its first step replaced. Let \(P=T_2\otimes C\to M=A/I_1\) be a free cover bijective through \(D\), and let \(\sum_jh_jf_j\equiv0\) in \(M\) in degree \(d\le D\). Lift \(\bar h_j\) to \(y_j\in P\). Then \(\sum_jy_j\phi_j=0\) in \(P_d\), by injectivity in degree \(d\). Since \(T_2\otimes C\) is free over \(T_2\), its syzygies of \((\phi_j)\) are \(\mathrm{Syz}_{T_2}(\phi)\otimes C\): a syzygy is a family of maps into \(T_2\otimes C\), and a basis of \(C\) splits it into syzygies over \(T_2\). So \((y_j)=\sum_ka_ks_k\) with \(a_k\in P\) and \(s_k\in\mathrm{Syz}_{T_2}(\phi)\). The rest, mapping to \(M\), lifting the coefficients to \(A\), splitting off Koszul pairs, and the induction, is unchanged, and so is the cross-term argument, since the images of \(\mathrm{Syz}_{T_2}\) contribute 0 to \(\sum_jh_jf_j\). The images of \(\mathrm{Syz}_{T_2}(\phi)\) are syzygies in \(A\) because \(T_2\to A\) is a ring map. \(\square\)

No independence among a cluster's tops or forms is assumed beyond choosing a basis of \(V_j\). The tops need not be monomials, and different clusters' spans may meet. For monomial tops in a basis, \(\mathrm{Syz}_{T_j}\) is generated by lcm-pair and Frobenius syzygies (the first step of thm:cluster-sequential-freeness), which recovers that theorem.

cor:sequential-relative-gluing

Corollary (sequential relative gluing). In the setting of thm:relative-gluing (base algebra \(B\), \(A_{\mathrm{top}}=B/zB\), members \(U_1,\dots,U_c\) with tops polynomials in their own members' forms), take the members as clusters. If \(A_{\mathrm{top}}/I_{<j}\) is free over \(T(V_j)\) through \(D\) for every \(j\) in some ordering, then hypothesis (b) of thm:relative-gluing holds: every top syzygy through \(D\) is an \(A_{\mathrm{top}}\)-combination of cross-member Koszul syzygies and member-supported syzygies. So, with (a) \(z\) injective on \(B\) below \(D\), (c) each member alone without a fall below \(D\), and (d) no nonzero constant among the constraints and base generators, there is no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. The images of \(\mathrm{Syz}_{T(V_j)}\) of member \(j\)'s tops are member-supported top syzygies, and the Koszul pairs across clusters are the cross-member Koszul syzygies. thm:local-cluster-syzygies gives (b) from the sequential hypothesis. The conclusion is thm:relative-gluing's. \(\square\)

thm:relative-gluing obtained (b) from lem:tensor-splitting-locality, which needs \(A_{\mathrm{top}}\) free through \(D\) over the tensor product of all members' form algebras together: global freeness, impossible for W's \(n^K\) blocks in about \(n^2\) dimensions. The corollary replaces it by one freeness condition per member, relative to the quotient by the earlier members.

What it gives, and what remains

Planted relations inside members. Three blocks with \(A_1+A_2+A_3=0\) form one member whose span \(V\) contains \(A_1\), \(A_2\) and all three blocks' prefix forms (and their other outside forms), with a basis in which \((A_1+A_2)^2C_3\) and the resolvent \(C_1C_2C_3(A_1-A_2)\) are polynomials. Their relation class is member-supported. It does not lift: it falls to the resolvent of prop:relation-resolvent, so the member as given has a fall and (c) fails for it. The member's own saturation stays inside \(T(V)\), so planted relations become local problems; replacing the member by its own consequences of degree below \(D\), resolvents included, is the natural repair, and those are again polynomials in the member's forms. Whether the saturated member then satisfies (c), and contains no nonzero constant for (d), is a finite question about the member alone; ex:relation-resolvent-saturation shows that one resolvent step is not enough for Taylor generation, and lem:member-pinning shows that a satisfiable member alone is never refuted, which is weaker than (c).
What remains global. The per-member condition, now with members allowed to be unions of blocks linked by short relations. Sharing, cross-block short combinations and relations become internal when the blocks involved are put in one member, so the obstructions that remain are those between members. The price is size. Freeness of \(A_{\mathrm{top}}\) over \(T(V_j)\) needs \(\dim V_j\) within the column-support budget, about \(n/(k\log n)\), so members cannot absorb long chains of short relations. An adversary who links all \(n^K\) blocks by overlapping short relations forces members beyond the budget.
The obstacle, restated. For W's dense adversarial families: split the blocks into members of span dimension at most about \(n/(k\log n)\) such that, in some ordering, each quotient by earlier members is free over the next member's forms. Chains of short relations longer than the budget are the configuration that no choice of members avoids. For them the member-square reduction's cost of \(k\) degrees per extra block suggests that only sub-chains of about 21 blocks matter at degree \(22k\), which is the girth statement again.

Outcome. thm:local-cluster-syzygies (working proof): the cluster theorem holds for arbitrary polynomial tops, with local syzygies computed in each cluster's truncated algebra. cor:sequential-relative-gluing (working proof): relative gluing follows from sequential per-member freeness instead of global freeness. Planted short relations become member-local problems. Long chains of them, beyond the column-support budget, remain the global obstruction.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): chains of short relations. Take a chain of blocks \(b_1,\dots,b_L\), consecutive triples linked by relations among squared outside forms, with \(L\) larger than the member budget. Test whether members of about 21 consecutive blocks, overlapping or not, can satisfy the per-member condition through \(22k\), using the member-square reduction's cost \(k\) per block. If they can, the girth statement follows for chains.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:cluster-sequential-freeness and its proof, thm:relative-gluing, lem:tensor-splitting-locality, lem:kunneth-component-locality, prop:relation-resolvent, ex:relation-resolvent-saturation, lem:member-pinning, prop:member-square-reduction and prop:overlap-tor. prop:overlap-tor computes the exact obstruction to (b) for two overlapping members and notes that pairwise vanishing fails for three; the sequential hypothesis here is not a pairwise check, so that warning does not apply. A fresh-context reviewer checked the replaced first step (syzygies over a free module are \(\mathrm{Syz}_{T}(\phi)\otimes C\)), that no monomiality or cross-cluster independence is used, that the corollary supplies (b) exactly as thm:relative-gluing states it, and the comparison with lem:tensor-splitting-locality. Its search found no earlier version. It required one change, adopted: the planted-relation member's span now explicitly contains the prefix forms, so that the tops and the resolvent are polynomials in it. At its suggestion prop:overlap-tor is linked.

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Cover relative gluing: relative gluing needs neither disjoint members nor a fixed list of allowed syzygies, only that every top syzygy be a combination of member-supported ones, over any cover, and syzygies known to lift; chains of short relations then become a question of clause-level members, where the sequential theorem's freeness hypothesis fails because members of one block share its prefix forms

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-chain-members. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cover relative gluing: relative gluing needs neither disjoint members nor a fixed list of allowed syzygies, only that every top syzygy be a combination of member-supported ones, over any cover, and syzygies known to lift; chains of short relations then become a question of clause-level members, where the sequential theorem's freeness hypothesis fails because members of one block share its prefix forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-cover-relative-gluing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Local cluster syzygies left chains of short relations as the global obstruction: blocks linked by overlapping relations force a partition into members to put a whole chain into one member, beyond the column-support budget. This cycle asks whether members must be a partition at all. It develops the relation-line review's third Outside lead, Čech and Leray vanishing on member covers, which was never run.

General statement. lem:cover-relative-gluing: for any family of constraint sets \(U_1,\dots,U_m\) covering the constraints (overlaps allowed), if \(z\) is injective on the base below \(D\), every top syzygy through \(D\) is an \(A_{\mathrm{top}}\)-combination of syzygies supported on a single \(U_i\), of Koszul pairs, and of other syzygies that lift, each \(U_i\) alone has no fall below \(D\), and no generator is a nonzero constant, then there is no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

lem:cover-relative-gluing

Lemma (cover relative gluing). In the setting of thm:relative-gluing, let \(U_1,\dots,U_m\) be subsets of the constraints whose union is all of them, not necessarily disjoint. Let \(\mathcal L\) be any set of top syzygies known to be liftable in \(U\). Assume (a) \(z\) is injective on \(B\) below \(D\); (b') through degree \(D\), every top syzygy is an \(A_{\mathrm{top}}\)-combination of homogeneous syzygies of degree at most \(D\) of three kinds: Koszul pairs \(P_ce_b-P_be_c\) of any two constraints, syzygies supported on a single \(U_i\), and elements of \(\mathcal L\); (c') each \(U_i\) alone has no fall below \(D\) (\(z\) injective on \(B/J_{U_i}\) below \(D\)); (d) no constraint or base generator is a nonzero constant. Then \(z\) is injective on \(B/J_U\) below \(D\), and base plus constraints has no PC refutation of degree \(D\).

Proof. The proof of thm:relative-gluing, read with these hypotheses. Its step 1 lifts a syzygy supported on \(U_i\) using only that \(U_i\) alone has no fall: \(\sum\tilde\sigma_bg_b^{\rm h}=z\rho\) with \(z\rho\in J_{U_i}\) gives \(\rho\in J_{U_i}\subseteq J_U\); disjointness from the other members is never used. Its step 2, the exact lift of \(g_c^{\rm h}e_b-g_b^{\rm h}e_c\), holds for any two constraints. Elements of \(\mathcal L\) lift by assumption. Steps 3 to 5 (multiples and sums of liftable syzygies lift; generation by (b') makes every top syzygy liftable; \(z\)-injectivity by (a); no refutation by the socle criterion and (d)) use only that every top syzygy is a combination of liftable ones. \(\square\)

So the partition in thm:relative-gluing, and the restriction of (b) to cross-member Koszul and member-supported syzygies, belong to the route used to prove (b), lem:tensor-splitting-locality, and are not needed by the gluing itself. The coherent pair syzygies of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue and the consistent circuit syzygies of thm:head-dependencies are examples of \(\mathcal L\).

What it means for chains

Chains through forms collapse. If each block has one outside form and consecutive triples satisfy \(A_i+A_{i+1}+A_{i+2}=0\), subtracting two consecutive relations gives \(A_i=A_{i+3}\): the chain is periodic sharing, a pinning case (cor:pinned-cluster-reduction), not a long chain. Relations among single forms per block cannot chain without making spans tiny over \(\mathbb F_3\). A chain that keeps spans large uses fresh forms: block \(i\) has outside forms \(A_{i,1},A_{i,2},A_{i,3}\), and relation \(R_i\) involves \(A_{i,1},A_{i+1,2},A_{i+2,3}\). Then the relations are pairwise disjoint in forms; the chain links blocks only through their shared prefix products.
Clause-level members. For such a chain, take as members the three clauses of each relation, \(U_i=\{A_{i,1}^2C_i,\;A_{i+1,2}^2C_{i+1},\;A_{i+2,3}^2C_{i+2}\}\), and let \(\mathcal L\) contain the within-block pair syzygies, which are coherent and lift. Every relation class is supported on one member, and the lemma needs no member to contain a whole chain. Each member is three clauses, and (c') needs it without falls, so each member must first be replaced by its saturation below \(D\) (the resolvent of prop:relation-resolvent and its consequences). Adding consequences as constraints can only make refutations easier, so hardness with them implies hardness without. Whether a saturated three-clause member has no fall and no constant is a bounded local problem.
What remains. Hypothesis (b') for this cover. The sequential theorem (thm:local-cluster-syzygies) proves generation only for partitions into clusters whose quotients are free over the cluster's span. Clause-level members of one block share its prefix forms, so a later member's span contains prefix forms of earlier clauses, and the per-cluster condition fails by the sharing argument of the convergence review. Spans may meet in that theorem; what fails is its hypothesis that each quotient be free over the next cluster's span. Proving (b') for clause-level covers needs a sequential theorem relative to the shared prefix forms, as prop:member-square-reduction does in the free regime by grading by prefix exponents. prop:overlap-tor computes the exact obstruction to such generation for two overlapping members and shows that pairwise vanishing does not suffice for three (single selectors on \(x,y,x+y\)). Consecutive clause-level members overlap in blocks three at a time, so (b') cannot be checked pair by pair; it needs a sequential argument.

Outcome. lem:cover-relative-gluing (working proof): relative gluing holds for covers by overlapping members, with any liftable syzygies allowed in the generating set. Long chains of short relations are either periodic sharing (single forms per block) or linked only through prefix products (fresh forms), and in the second case clause-level members absorb every relation. The open part is generation (b') for such covers, which needs freeness relative to the shared prefix forms. Lead follow-up: the Čech lead is developed as far as the gluing side; its cohomological form, restriction maps between overlapping members, is not needed for gluing and was not built.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a sequential theorem relative to a base. Let each cluster's tops be polynomials in its own forms and in forms of a common base algebra \(T(W)\) (the prefix forms). Replace freeness of \(A/I_{<j}\) over \(T_j\) by freeness over \(T_j\) relative to \(T(W)\), and check that the proof of thm:local-cluster-syzygies goes through with syzygies over \(T(W)\otimes T_j\). Then test the relative condition on the fresh-form chain.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the statement and full proof of thm:relative-gluing (column-splitting entry), thm:local-cluster-syzygies, cor:sequential-relative-gluing, prop:member-square-reduction, prop:square-syzygy-reduction, thm:resolvent-taylor-glue, thm:head-dependencies and prop:overlap-tor, and the relation-line review's Čech lead. A fresh-context reviewer checked each step of the relative-gluing proof for any use of disjointness (none), that an arbitrary set of liftable syzygies is sound because liftability is closed under combinations, the identity \(A_i=A_{i+3}\), the form-disjointness of the fresh-form chain, and the saturation and monotonicity remarks. It required two changes, both adopted: prop:overlap-tor and its three-member caveat are cited in the clause-level discussion, and the failure of the sequential theorem is attributed to its freeness hypothesis, not to meeting spans.

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Sequential cover generation: requiring each quotient to be free over a member's algebra modulo the earlier tops it contains produces overlapping members, as cover gluing allows; but for chains whose relations use fresh forms, every member's span pulls in a neighbour's squared form, so the cover cascades along the chain at the top degree

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-relative-base. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sequential cover generation: requiring each quotient to be free over a member's algebra modulo the earlier tops it contains produces overlapping members, as cover gluing allows; but for chains whose relations use fresh forms, every member's span pulls in a neighbour's squared form, so the cover cascades along the chain at the top degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-sequential-cover-generation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Cover relative gluing allows overlapping members, and proposed clause-level members for chains of short relations whose relations use fresh forms. It left generation for such covers open, since the members of one block share its prefix forms. This cycle proves a sequential generation theorem for covers and tests it on the chain.

General statement. thm:sequential-cover-generation: order the tops and give each new cluster \(F_j\) a span \(U_j\) with truncated algebra \(T_j\) and the ideal \(O_j\subseteq T_j\) generated by preimages of earlier tops. If \(A/I_{<j}\) is free over \(T_j/O_j\) through \(D\) for every \(j\), then every syzygy of degree at most \(D\) is generated by Koszul pairs and by syzygies supported on the overlapping members \(F_j\cup E_j\), where \(E_j\) is the set of earlier tops with preimages generating \(O_j\).

thm:sequential-cover-generation

Theorem (sequential cover generation). Let \(A\) be a graded commutative \(\mathbb F_3\)-algebra in which cubes of linear forms vanish, and let a family of homogeneous tops be split into clusters \(F_1,\dots,F_c\), processed in order, with \(I_{<j}\) the ideal of the tops of \(F_1,\dots,F_{j-1}\). For each \(j\) choose a subspace \(U_j\subseteq A_1\) with a basis, \(T_j=T(U_j)\), such that every top of \(F_j\) is the image of an element of \(T_j\). Let \(E_j\) be a set of earlier tops that are also images of elements \(\omega\in T_j\), and \(O_j=(\omega:\omega\text{ a preimage of }E_j)\subseteq T_j\), so that \(T_j/O_j\) acts on \(A/I_{<j}\). If \(A/I_{<j}\) is free over \(T_j/O_j\) through \(D\) for every \(j\), then every syzygy of the family of degree at most \(D\) is an \(A\)-combination of Koszul pairs and of images of syzygies over \(T_j\) of the tops of \(F_j\cup E_j\) (for some \(j\)). These are supported on the members \(F_j\cup E_j\), which may overlap.

Proof. As in thm:local-cluster-syzygies, by induction on \(c\), with the last cluster \(F=F_c\), tops \(f_i\) with preimages \(\phi_i\in T=T_c\), \(E=E_c\) with preimages \(\omega_l\), \(O=O_c\) and \(M=A/I_{<c}\). Let \(\sum_ig_i\tau_i+\sum_ih_if_i=0\) have degree \(d\le D\), where \(\tau\) runs over the earlier tops. Then \(\sum_i\bar h_if_i=0\) in \(M\). Take \(P=(T/O)\otimes C\to M\) bijective through \(D\), lift \(\bar h_i\) to \(y_i\in P\), and get \(\sum_iy_i\bar\phi_i=0\) in \(P_d\). Since \(P\) is free over \(T/O\), \((y_i)=\sum_ka_k\bar s_k\) with \(a_k\in P\) and \(\bar s_k\) syzygies of the \(\bar\phi_i\) over \(T/O\). Each \(\bar s_k\) lifts to a syzygy \(s_k=(s_{k,i})_i\oplus(s_{k,l})_l\) over \(T\) of \((\phi_i)\cup(\omega_l)\), because \(\sum_is_{k,i}\phi_i\in O\) is a \(T\)-combination of the \(\omega_l\). Map to \(M\) and lift the \(\bar a_k\) to \(a'_k\in A\): \(h_i=\sum_ka'_ks_{k,i}+\sum_\tau c_{i\tau}\tau\). Then the given syzygy minus \(\sum_ka'_k\,\mathrm{im}(s_k)\) minus the Koszul pairs \(c_{i\tau}(\tau e_i-f_ie_\tau)\) has no component on \(F\). It is a syzygy of the earlier tops (the \(E\)-components of \(s_k\) are coordinates of earlier tops) of degree \(d\), and the induction applies. \(\square\)

With \(E_j=\emptyset\) this is thm:local-cluster-syzygies. The members \(F_j\cup E_j\) form a cover, so the conclusion is hypothesis (b') of lem:cover-relative-gluing with an empty \(\mathcal L\). Freeness is now required over \(T_j/O_j\), not over \(T_j\), so an earlier top whose preimage lies in \(O_j\) no longer breaks it. This removes exactly the failure of the convergence review for clauses of one block in different clusters: put the block's earlier clauses into \(E_j\).

The chain test

Take the fresh-form chain of cover relative gluing: block \(i\) has prefix product \(C_i\) and outside forms \(A_{i,1},A_{i,2},A_{i,3}\), and the relation \(R_i:A_{i,1}+A_{i+1,2}+A_{i+2,3}=0\). Process the clause-level clusters \(F_j\) (the three clauses of \(R_j\)) from left to right. Cluster \(F_j\) involves blocks \(j,j+1,j+2\), whose earlier clauses come from \(R_{j-1}\) and \(R_{j-2}\): \(A_{j,2}^2C_j\), \(A_{j+1,3}^2C_{j+1}\) and \(A_{j,3}^2C_j\). They share prefix forms with \(F_j\), so they must be in \(E_j\), and \(U_j\) must contain \(A_{j,2}\), \(A_{j+1,3}\) and \(A_{j,3}\). But \(R_{j-1}\) gives \(A_{j-1,1}=-(A_{j,2}+A_{j+1,3})\in U_j\). The earlier clause \(A_{j-1,1}^2C_{j-1}\) then lies in \(I_{<j}\cap U_jA\) in the top degree \(h\), and is not in \(O_jA\) unless \(C_{j-1}\)'s prefix forms are also in \(U_j\). If \(A\) is free over \(T_j\) through \(D\), then \(A/O_jA=A\otimes_{T_j}T_j/O_j\) is free over \(T_j/O_j\), and the exact-sequence argument of prop:linear-transversality, applied to \(0\to I_{<j}/O_jA\to A/O_jA\to A/I_{<j}\to0\), gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T_j/O_j}(\mathbb F_3,A/I_{<j})_d\cong\bigl((I_{<j}\cap(U_jA+O_jA))/(U_jI_{<j}+O_jA)\bigr)_d\) for \(d\le D\). In degree \(h\) the clause \(A_{j-1,1}^2C_{j-1}\) lies in the numerator and, when it is independent of the tops in \(E_j\), not in the denominator, so freeness fails at degree \(h\). Adding block \(j-1\) to \(U_j\) repeats the step with \(R_{j-2}\), and so on: the smallest admissible \(U_j\) contains the chain's forms back to its start.

So the cover does not cascade through the relations as a partition did, but through the combination of relations and shared prefix products, at the top degree \(h\). That is an artefact of requiring freeness through all degrees: the syzygies it protects against, between \(F_j\) and block \(j-1\)'s clause, involve both prefix products \(C_j\) and \(C_{j-1}\), and prop:member-square-reduction puts such interactions at multiplier degree at least \(k\) per extra block in the free regime. A version that asks for freeness only in the prefix multidegrees that the degree budget reaches would stop the cascade after about 21 blocks. That version is not proved.

Outcome. thm:sequential-cover-generation (working proof): freeness of each quotient over a member's algebra modulo the earlier tops it contains generates all syzygies from Koszul pairs and syzygies of overlapping members, the input that cover gluing needs. It handles clauses of one block in different clusters. On the fresh-form chain it still cascades, because each member's span contains a squared form of the previous block's clause. What is needed is freeness graded by prefix multidegree, so that interactions costing more than the degree budget are ignored. Lead follow-up (Čech lead): continuing; the cover form of generation is now proved, and it stops short of chains.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a prefix-graded version of sequential cover generation. Filter \(A\) by the degree in the prefix forms of blocks outside the member, and require freeness of the associated graded quotient over \(T_j/O_j\) only in filtration levels that multiplier degree \(D-h\) can reach. Prove that this suffices, in the spirit of prop:member-square-reduction's grading, and test it on the fresh-form chain, where it should stop the cascade after about \(D/k\) blocks.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:local-cluster-syzygies, lem:cover-relative-gluing, prop:linear-transversality, prop:member-square-reduction and prop:overlap-tor. A fresh-context reviewer checked that \(T_j/O_j\) acts on the quotient, the lift of syzygies over \(T_j/O_j\) to syzygies over \(T_j\) of the tops and the \(\omega_l\), the remainder and the induction, and that \(E_j=\emptyset\) recovers thm:local-cluster-syzygies. On the chain it checked the relation \(A_{j-1,1}=-(A_{j,2}+A_{j+1,3})\) and the list of earlier clauses forced into \(E_j\), and it rederived the Tor formula. It found the proof sound and required no changes; its claim search found no earlier version. The step from the previous entry's proposal, freeness relative to all prefix forms, to the ideal \(O_j\) of specific earlier tops is deliberate.

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Chain cover generation: in the free regime, a chain of short relations with fresh forms has every top syzygy generated by Koszul pairs, within-block pairs and syzygies of single relations' three clauses, so the clause-level cover satisfies cover gluing's generation hypothesis and the cascade of sequential cover generation is an artefact of its freeness requirement

27 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-prefix-graded. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Chain cover generation: in the free regime, a chain of short relations with fresh forms has every top syzygy generated by Koszul pairs, within-block pairs and syzygies of single relations' three clauses, so the clause-level cover satisfies cover gluing's generation hypothesis and the cascade of sequential cover generation is an artefact of its freeness requirement”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-chain-cover-generation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Sequential cover generation found that, on a chain of short relations whose relations use fresh forms, requiring freeness of each quotient makes every member's span cascade along the chain. It conjectured that this is an artefact, since interactions between blocks cost \(k\) degrees each. This cycle checks that where the whole chain can be computed exactly, in the free regime of prop:member-square-reduction, by deciding hypothesis (b') of lem:cover-relative-gluing directly instead of through freeness.

General statement. prop:chain-cover-generation: for W's normalized clauses on the fresh-form chain (relations \(R_i:A_{i,1}+A_{i+1,2}+A_{i+2,3}=0\), pairwise disjoint in forms) in the free regime, every top syzygy through \(D\) is a combination of Frobenius syzygies, within-block pair syzygies, cross-block Koszul pairs, and syzygies supported on the three clauses of a single relation.

prop:chain-cover-generation

Setting. Blocks \(1,\dots,L\) with W's normalized clause tops \(A_{b,i}^2C_b\), \(C_b\) the product of block \(b\)'s \(k\) squared prefix forms. Each block has outside forms \(A_{b,1},A_{b,2},A_{b,3}\) (and possibly others), and the only linear relations among all the outside forms are \(R_i:A_{i,1}+A_{i+1,2}+A_{i+2,3}=0\), \(1\le i\le L-2\). These are pairwise disjoint in forms, since \(R_i\) uses the first form of block \(i\), the second of \(i+1\) and the third of \(i+2\). The free regime is that of prop:member-square-reduction: all prefix forms are jointly a basis of \(V_C\), disjoint across blocks, and the algebra is \(T_A\otimes T_C\) (or the weak algebra is free over it through \(D\)), with \(V_A\) the span of the outside forms.

Proposition (chain cover generation). In this setting every top syzygy of degree at most \(D\) is an \(A\)-combination of Frobenius syzygies, within-block pair syzygies \(A_{b,i'}^2e_{b,i}-A_{b,i}^2e_{b,i'}\), cross-block Koszul pairs, and syzygies supported on the member \(U_i=\{A_{i,1}^2C_i,A_{i+1,2}^2C_{i+1},A_{i+2,3}^2C_{i+2}\}\) of a single relation. So the clause-level cover \(\{U_i\}\) together with the singleton clauses satisfies hypothesis (b') of lem:cover-relative-gluing, with the within-block pair syzygies as the liftable set \(\mathcal L\).

Proof. By prop:member-square-reduction, the Taylor defect (modulo Frobenius, within-block pairs and cross-block Koszul pairs) is the direct sum over prefix multidegrees \(\gamma\) of the squares' defects, in \(T_A\), of the outside forms of the blocks with \(\gamma\ge1_{S_b}\); the reduction identifies a squares' syzygy in summand \(\gamma\), supported on a set of squares \(A_{b,i}^2\), with a top syzygy supported on the corresponding clauses \(A_{b,i}^2C_b\). So it suffices that the squares' defect in \(T_A\) of any subfamily of the outside forms is spanned by syzygies supported on the squares of a single relation. Write \(V_A=\bigoplus_iW_i\oplus W_0\), where \(W_i\) is the two-dimensional span of the three forms of \(R_i\) and \(W_0\) is spanned by the outside forms in no relation. This is a direct sum because the relations are the only ones and are disjoint in forms. Then \(T_A=\bigotimes_iT(W_i)\otimes T(W_0)\) is free over itself, and lem:kunneth-component-locality, with components the \(W_i\) and the singletons of \(W_0\), gives: every syzygy of the squares is generated by Frobenius and Koszul syzygies and by syzygies supported on one component. A component \(W_i\) carries the squares of \(R_i\)'s three forms, whose clauses form \(U_i\); a singleton carries one square, whose syzygies are Frobenius syzygies. \(\square\)

So in the free regime the chain needs no member larger than one relation's three clauses: every class that sequential cover generation's cascade guarded against is already a combination of the allowed syzygies. The cascade came from requiring freeness of whole quotients, which is sufficient for generation but far from necessary. Here generation was decided directly, through the Mayer–Vietoris cross terms, which vanish for syzygies spread across relations.

What remains

The free regime. The proof needs all the chain's prefix forms jointly independent and the algebra free over all its forms, so it covers chains within the column-support budget, about \(n/(k\log n)\) forms. W's adversarial chains can be longer, and then the whole family is not in the free regime. What is needed is the same conclusion from local freeness, the girth statement of the relation-line review, now for clause-level covers.
Hypothesis (c'). Each member \(U_i\) must be saturated below \(D\) and then have no fall and no constant. That is a bounded local question about three clauses with one relation and their resolvents (prop:relation-resolvent, ex:relation-resolvent-saturation). It is not decided here.

Outcome. prop:chain-cover-generation (working proof): in the free regime, fresh-form chains satisfy cover gluing's generation hypothesis with members of one relation's three clauses. The cascade of sequential cover generation is an artefact of its freeness requirement. Beyond the free regime, and for the saturation of a single member, the questions are open. Lead follow-up (Čech lead): developed; the cover form of gluing and its generation hypothesis are established for chains in the free regime.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer: a route review, due now, of the relative-gluing line (cluster theorems, covers, chains). The open items it must weigh are: the saturation of a single relation's member, a finite computation; and the local-to-global step beyond the free regime, the girth statement for clause-level covers.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:member-square-reduction and its proof, prop:square-syzygy-reduction, lem:kunneth-component-locality, lem:cover-relative-gluing and thm:sequential-cover-generation. A fresh-context reviewer checked that the member reduction's identification preserves supports (coordinate \((b,i)\) of the top syzygy is the squares' coefficient times a nonzero prefix monomial), that the direct sum of the relations' spans follows from the hypothesis, and that lem:kunneth-component-locality applies with \(G=T_A\), where freeness is trivial. It judged the artefact claim properly limited to the free regime, found no earlier version, and required no changes.

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Route review of the relative-gluing line: gluing is now fully local (covers by overlapping members, any liftable syzygies, sequential or direct generation), and chains of short relations are covered in the free regime; what remains is generation for bounded covers outside the free regime, and the saturation of single members

27 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-cover-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the relative-gluing line: gluing is now fully local (covers by overlapping members, any liftable syzygies, sequential or direct generation), and chains of short relations are covered in the free regime; what remains is generation for bounded covers outside the free regime, and the saturation of single members”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-cover-gluing-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the convergence review, six entries:

pinned cluster reduction: pinning shared forms removes sharing inside the pins (cor:pinned-cluster-reduction);
cross-block weight: an earlier squared form short modulo a later block's span breaks the per-block condition (prop:cross-block-weight);
local cluster syzygies: clusters with polynomial tops, and relative gluing from sequential per-member freeness (thm:local-cluster-syzygies, cor:sequential-relative-gluing);
cover relative gluing: members may overlap and known liftable syzygies may be used (lem:cover-relative-gluing);
sequential cover generation: generation for covers from freeness modulo the earlier tops a member contains, which cascades on chains (thm:sequential-cover-generation);
chain cover generation: in the free regime, chains are covered by single relations' clauses (prop:chain-cover-generation).

The line's general claim

W for dense adversarial families by relative gluing over a cover: choose members of bounded size (each at most a few blocks' clauses, within the column-support budget), such that (b') every top syzygy through \(D\) is generated by Koszul pairs, member-supported syzygies and known liftable syzygies, and (c') each member, saturated below \(D\), has no fall and no nonzero constant. Then lem:cover-relative-gluing gives no refutation of degree \(D\).

What the goal needs

Two statements for every W family. (b') for a bounded cover, beyond the free regime: W's \(n^K\) blocks put about \(n^Kk\) prefix forms in about \(n^2\) dimensions, so the free-regime proofs (prop:chain-cover-generation, prop:member-square-reduction) never apply to a whole family. The sequential route (thm:sequential-cover-generation) needs freeness of quotients, which fails through combinations of relations and shared prefixes even where generation holds. And (c') for each member: a bounded local question, but one involving the base, since a member's consequences below \(D\) use the board's axioms and need not be polynomials in the member's forms.

Falsification attempt

Test the line against the recorded failures of pairwise and local reasoning. prop:overlap-tor's three single selectors on \(x\), \(y\), \(x+y\) fail relative gluing's (b) in degree 3 although every pair satisfies it. In the cover framework they are a cyclic triple of members (a ring, in the language of the bridges below): no pair of members carries the class, and the member containing all three is their relation's member. So a cover whose members are the pairs fails (b'), and the cover whose member is the triple satisfies it. That is consistent with the line's claim, provided members contain whole short relations, but it shows (b') cannot be verified pair by pair. prop:two-block-taylor-failure's incoherent pair is a member of two blocks whose saturation must contain its resolvent; W holds for it by pinning, which is consistent with (c') for that member but does not prove it. No recorded family refutes the claim; none tests it outside the free regime either.

Obstacle

Generation (b') for a bounded cover without global freeness. For W's families the whole family is never in the free regime, so (b') needs a proof from freeness local to members and their neighbours. Sequential freeness of quotients is too strong: it fails on chains where generation holds. What is needed is a criterion for the Mayer–Vietoris cross terms \((I_{<j}\cap J_j)/(I_{<j}J_j)\) that uses only the free regime of a bounded neighbourhood of member \(j\). The saturation question (c') is secondary and local.

Assessment of the route

Productive on the gluing side, weak on the global step. The gluing side is now as local as it can be: members may overlap, carry planted relations and their resolvents, and share forms after pinning; the syzygies allowed are any that lift. The global step has changed form several times (locality conjecture, per-block freeness, per-member freeness, cover generation) and each time come back to the same need: vanishing of cross terms from local freeness only. The free-regime proof for chains shows that the obstruction met on the way was an artefact of the sufficient condition, not a real failure, and that is the main evidence that the claim is true. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Regularity of Tor (D. Eisenbud, C. Huneke and B. Ulrich, The regularity of Tor and graded Betti numbers, Amer. J. Math. 128, 2006). When \(\dim\operatorname{Tor}_1(M,N)\le1\), \(\operatorname{reg}\operatorname{Tor}_i(M,N)\le\operatorname{reg}M+\operatorname{reg}N+i\). Answers. The cross terms are \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(A/I_{<j},A/J_j)\); a bound on their degrees would localize them. Test. Falsified for this use: regularity bounds the highest degree of Tor, while the obstacle needs its lowest degree to exceed \(D\). And in the Artinian algebras here, every module has finite regularity, so the bound carries no information about low degrees.
Algebraic discrete Morse theory (M. Jöllenbeck and V. Welker, Minimal resolutions via algebraic discrete Morse theory, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 197, 2009; E. Sköldberg, Morse theory from an algebraic viewpoint, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358, 2006). An acyclic matching on a free complex, such as the Taylor complex, contracts it to a smaller complex on the critical cells. Answers. An acyclic matching on the family's Taylor-type complex whose critical 1-cells are all member-supported would prove (b'), and matchings can be built locally, cell by cell, without global freeness. Test. Passed as a consistency check: in the free regime the complex is a tensor product of the components' complexes (lem:kunneth-component-locality), and product matchings leave critical cells supported on single components, which reproduces prop:chain-cover-generation. Whether a local matching exists outside the free regime is the development.
Backelin's distributivity criterion for Koszul algebras (J. Backelin, A distributiveness property of augmented algebras and some related homological results, Ph.D. thesis, Stockholm, 1982; see A. Polishchuk and L. Positselski, Quadratic Algebras, AMS, 2005). An algebra is Koszul iff certain lattices of subspaces are distributive, turning homological vanishing into lattice conditions checked on generators. Answers. Cross-term vanishing for all members at once is a distributivity statement for the lattice generated by the members' ideals, which could be checked on generators. Test. Falsified as a way around the obstacle: prop:batched-splitting shows that for the relevant ideals the distributive law is equivalent to the Tor vanishing itself, so the lattice form restates the obstacle.

Absurd bridges

Benson's group additivity in thermochemistry (S. W. Benson, Thermochemical Kinetics, Wiley, 1968). Heats of formation are sums of group contributions with nearest-neighbour corrections, plus ring-strain corrections for cycles. Translation: the family's Taylor defect is a sum of member contributions (members as groups), with overlap corrections for adjacent members and ring corrections for cycles of members. Answers. Exact additivity with ring corrections would say which configurations need members larger than pairs: exactly the rings. Test. Passed on the recorded cases: the random and planted families were exactly additive (no ring), and prop:overlap-tor's non-additive case is the three-member ring \(x,y,x+y\), where a ring term is what the scheme predicts.
May's stability criterion for large random ecosystems (R. M. May, Will a large complex system be stable?, Nature 238, 1972). A random community of \(S\) species with connectance \(C\) and interaction strength \(\sigma\) is stable iff \(\sigma\sqrt{SC}<1\). Translation: members are species, cross terms are interactions, and stability is generation from local data. Answers. A threshold of May's type would say that random families with sparse, weak cross interactions have only local defects, as observed, and locate where adversarial density breaks this. Test. Not run: no numerical strength of a cross term has been defined, so the criterion cannot be evaluated; defining one (for instance the dimension of the cross term per pair of members) is the development.

Lead follow-up

Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed; the per-block Hilbert-series identity it concerns is now only a sufficient condition, since generation can hold without it.
Čech and Leray vanishing on member covers. Follow-up. Developed: covers are allowed in gluing (lem:cover-relative-gluing), generation for covers is proved sequentially (thm:sequential-cover-generation) and for chains in the free regime (prop:chain-cover-generation); the cohomological form was not needed.
Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.

Bridge follow-up

The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes. Follow-up. Continuing: prop:cross-block-weight is its degree-\(h\) case (a short cross-block combination is a low-weight logical operator); no higher-degree cleaning argument was attempted.
The block-spin renormalization group. Follow-up. Closed: developed into cor:pinned-cluster-reduction, which pins shared forms and reduces the rest; its limit, sharing created modulo the pins, is recorded there.
Acyclic database schemes. Follow-up. Continuing: the three-member ring above is the cyclic case where pairwise checks fail, as acyclicity predicts; no acyclicity criterion for (b') was derived.
Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the algebraic Morse lead. Build an acyclic matching on the Taylor-type complex of a family, cell by cell, matching each cross cell with a cell that differs by one top of the same member, and find the condition under which every critical 1-cell is member-supported. Test it first on the chain beyond the free regime, where the prefix forms of distant blocks are dependent.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the six entries reviewed, the convergence review's leads and follow-ups, prop:overlap-tor, prop:two-block-taylor-failure, prop:batched-splitting and lem:kunneth-component-locality. The cheap tests were run as arguments against recorded results: the regularity bound's direction, the product matching in the free regime, the distributive law via prop:batched-splitting, and the ring correction on prop:overlap-tor's triple. A fresh-context reviewer checked the summaries of the six entries, the general claim against lem:cover-relative-gluing's hypotheses, the falsification reading of prop:overlap-tor and prop:two-block-taylor-failure, every lead's and bridge's test and citation, and the seven follow-ups, and required no changes. At its suggestion the cyclic triple is named as such.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	4 min 29.42 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 31.47 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	57.96 s

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Span-local generation: the algebraic Morse lead, made precise, becomes a statement about the supports of syzygies; with closed members (vanishing ideals of span-bounded clause sets) cover gluing reduces W for a family to one conjecture, that its top syzygies are generated by Koszul pairs and syzygies supported on single closed members, the cover form of the component hypothesis without local freeness

27 September 2026 · Conjecture with a conditional result · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-morse-matching. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Span-local generation: the algebraic Morse lead, made precise, becomes a statement about the supports of syzygies; with closed members (vanishing ideals of span-bounded clause sets) cover gluing reduces W for a family to one conjecture, that its top syzygies are generated by Koszul pairs and syzygies supported on single closed members, the cover form of the component hypothesis without local freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-span-local-generation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The cover gluing review proposed its algebraic Morse lead: an acyclic matching whose critical cells are member-supported would give generation (b') for a cover. This cycle makes the lead precise, finds that its content is a statement about supports of cycles rather than cells, and states that statement as the single remaining hypothesis for W on the route.

General statement. conj:span-local-generation, with the conditional result cor:span-local-reduction: for W's normalized clauses, every top syzygy through \(D\) of the closed members of clause sets whose forms span at most \(cD\) dimensions is generated by Koszul pairs and syzygies supported on one closed member.

The Morse lead, made precise

The Koszul complex \(K(f;A)\) of the tops has differential \(e_S\mapsto\sum\pm f_se_{S\setminus s}\), whose coefficients lie in the maximal ideal, so over \(A\) it admits no algebraic Morse matching at all. Degreewise over \(\mathbb F_3\) it does, with basis cells \(m\,e_S\) for monomials \(m\), but every 1-cell \(m\,e_s\) is supported on one top. So the review's criterion, member-supported critical 1-cells, holds vacuously and says nothing. What (b') needs is that the cycles of the Morse complex, not its cells, be spanned by member-supported cycles and boundaries. That is a statement about supports of syzygies, which a matching can organize but not replace. Lead follow-up: the direct form is falsified; its content is the conjecture below.

Closed members

For a set \(S\) of clauses, let \(P_S\) be the points of the base's zero set where every clause of \(S\) vanishes, and let the closed member \(\bar S\) be all polynomials of degree at most \(D\) that vanish on \(P_S\), as constraints. This is the degree-\(D\) part of the pattern ideal that conj:component-hypothesis attaches to a component, and the closed member of lem:closure-saturation.

Lemma (closed members have no falls). \(z\) is injective on \(B/J_{\bar S}\) below \(D\), and \(J_{\bar S}\) contains no nonzero constant when \(P_S\ne\emptyset\). Proof. Let \(u\in B\) of degree \(k<D\) with \(zu\in J_{\bar S}\), and let \(\tilde u\in\mathbb F[x,z]_k\) represent it, so that \(z\tilde u\) is a combination of homogenized constraints of \(\bar S\) and homogenized base generators. Setting \(z=1\) gives the polynomial \(\bar u=\tilde u(x,1)\) as the same combination, dehomogenized, so \(\bar u\) vanishes on \(P_S\), which lies in the base's zero set. Since \(\deg\bar u\le k<D\), \(\bar u\) is a constraint of \(\bar S\). A homogeneous polynomial is determined by its degree and its dehomogenization, so \(\tilde u=z^{k-\deg\bar u}\bar u^{\rm h}\in J_{\bar S}\). The argument uses no hypothesis on the base; lem:closure-saturation states the same for its closed members. A nonzero constant vanishes nowhere, so it lies in \(\bar S\) only when \(P_S=\emptyset\). \(\square\)

conj:span-local-generation and cor:span-local-reduction

Conjecture (span-local generation). There is an absolute constant \(c\ge1\) such that for W's normalized clauses of any family on the weak unary base over \(\mathbb F_3\), at W's degree \(D=22k\), with \(\mathcal S\) the sets of clauses whose linear parts span at most \(cD\) dimensions, every top syzygy of degree at most \(D\) of the constraints \(\bigcup_{S\in\mathcal S}\bar S\) is an \(A_{\rm top}\)-combination of Koszul pairs and of syzygies supported on a single \(\bar S\).

Corollary (span-local reduction). If the conjecture holds for a family, the base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\), and every \(P_S\), \(S\in\mathcal S\), is nonempty, then W's system for that family has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). Proof. Adding the closed members to the clauses can only make refutations easier, since each clause lies in its own closed member's constraints, and singletons are in \(\mathcal S\) (a clause's forms span at most \(k+1\le cD\) dimensions, as \(c\ge1\)). Enlarging \(c\) enlarges the cover and weakens the conjecture, so \(c\ge1\) is no loss. Apply lem:cover-relative-gluing to the constraints \(\bigcup\bar S\) with the cover \(\{\bar S\}\) and \(\mathcal L=\emptyset\): (a) is the base hypothesis, (b') is the conjecture, and (c') and (d) are the lemma above, with \(P_S\ne\emptyset\). \(\square\)

Relation to the record. The conjecture refines conj:component-hypothesis in three ways. Members form a cover by all span-bounded clause sets instead of a partition into components along bounded circuits. The local syzygies are syzygies in \(A_{\rm top}\) supported on one member, not syzygies of the component's own ring \(R_C\) transported to \(A\). And local freeness, which the component hypothesis needs in order to transport, is not assumed. Its first formulation without local freeness failed on a narrow form (\(x_{11}+x_{21}\) forbidding 0); since the syzygies allowed here are computed in \(A_{\rm top}\), the expectation is that the narrow form's syzygies are member-supported, but that example was not re-examined in this cycle. The conditional result has the same shape as that conjecture's, with lem:cover-relative-gluing in place of relative gluing.

Tests against the record

Random and planted families (ex:local-defect-additivity, ex:planted-locality): every defect is a single-top defect (span 2) or the planted triple's class (span 5), so it is supported on a span-bounded set. Consistent.
Degree-zero circuits and concentration (prop:degree-zero-circuits, ex:concentrated-spread-dependency): the spread family's dependencies lie in a 6-dimensional span. A shared-square circuit of \(r\) clauses has span \(r+1\). In W's clause shape it needs a relation \(\sum_bC_b=0\) among prefix products, which by the concentration count of the Taylor locality review forces the blocks' prefix forms into a span of dimension \(O(k)\), unless the relation is non-generic. Consistent where the count applies; a non-generic relation among many prefix products is the case to test.
Cross-block short combinations, sharing, overlap triples (prop:cross-block-weight, prop:overlap-tor, prop:two-block-taylor-failure): all are supported on two or three blocks' clauses. Consistent.
Chains of short relations (prop:chain-cover-generation): in the free regime, generation holds with single relations' clauses. Consistent.
The narrow form that refuted the component hypothesis without local freeness: not re-examined; it is the first recorded case to check.

The conjecture predicts, for any family, that no top syzygy through \(D\) needs clauses whose forms span more than \(cD\) dimensions. No recorded example contradicts it. None tests it outside the free regime at more than a few blocks, which is where it has content.

Outcome. conj:span-local-generation: top syzygies of closed span-bounded members are generated by Koszul pairs and single-member syzygies. cor:span-local-reduction (conditional, working proof): with it, W holds for every family whose span-bounded clause sets are each satisfiable, given the base. So on this route, A1 reduces to this conjecture, a cover form of the component hypothesis without local freeness, together with the satisfiability of every span-bounded clause set on the base, which the prefix choice must supply. The algebraic Morse lead's direct form is vacuous; its content is the conjecture.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test conj:span-local-generation where it has content, on a family beyond the free regime. Take more blocks than the free regime allows on a small board (prefix forms of distant blocks dependent), compute the top syzygies of the closed members through a small \(D\), and ask whether any class needs a member of span larger than about \(D\). Then look for a proof by induction on the span, using lem:cover-relative-gluing's freedom to add liftable syzygies.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:component-hypothesis with its correction, lem:closure-saturation, lem:cover-relative-gluing, thm:relative-gluing's proof, and the recorded examples cited in the tests. A fresh-context reviewer checked the closed-member lemma (dehomogenization of the combination, membership of \(\bar u\) by degree, recovery of \(\tilde u\), and the absence of constants for nonempty \(P_S\)), the application of lem:cover-relative-gluing in the corollary, and the Morse paragraph. It required changes, all adopted: \(c\ge1\) is stated, so that single clauses are members; the claim about the narrow form is softened to an expectation, and that example is listed as untested; and the recovery step names both degree and dehomogenization.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 56.97 s
Marked reading and review windows	42.32 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 11.61 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 2.90 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Span-local falls: below the fill point, every cross-member fall of randomized-prefix members, including members sharing linear parts, lies in the sum of the top ideals of unions of at most three members; above it, counting-forced falls stay global

27 September 2026 · Conjecture with a finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-span-local-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Span-local falls: below the fill point, every cross-member fall of randomized-prefix members, including members sharing linear parts, lies in the sum of the top ideals of unions of at most three members; above it, counting-forced falls stay global”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 27 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-27-span-local-test.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Span-local generation reduced A1 on the relative-gluing route to conj:span-local-generation and asked for a test beyond the free regime. Its semantic companion can be computed directly: whether the top ideal of the members' common allowed set is spanned, in low degree, by the top ideals of the allowed sets of small unions of members. If falls needed many members even below the fill point, span-locality would fail at its first test. This cycle also rechecks the narrow form that refuted the component hypothesis without local freeness.

General statement. conj:sub-fill-span-locality: for randomized-prefix members with allowed sets \(P_b\), in every degree \(d\) with \(H(d)\le|\bigcap_bP_b|/2\), the top ideal \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap_bP_b)_d\) equals \(\sum_S\operatorname{gr}I(P_S)_d\) over unions \(S\) of members whose forms span at most \(c\,d\) dimensions, where \(P_S=\bigcap_{b\in S}P_b\).

The narrow form

The component hypothesis's first formulation failed on one constraint forbidding \(\ell=0\) for \(\ell=x_{11}+x_{21}\): \(\ell^2=0\) in the top algebra, so its local top vanishes and the base derives \(\ell=1\) at degree 2. The closed member of span-local generation is the vanishing ideal of the constraint's allowed set on the base, where \(\ell=1\); it contains \(\ell-1\) itself, whose top \(\ell\) is nonzero. The fall is inside the member, and by the closed-member lemma the member has none. So this example does not contradict conj:span-local-generation, as that entry expected.

ex:span-local-falls

research/tools/span_local_falls.cpp extends the fall-degree kernel of 26 September (the Boolean cube model, research/results/odd_prime_fall_degree_kernel_20260926) with two options: the first \(\mathit{share}\) forms of every member have one common linear part, each member with its own constants, and the comparison is made against the sum over all unions of at most \(s\) members (\(s=1,\dots,4\)). Exact ranks mod 3 (FLINT). The series: \(N=10\) cube coordinates, \(h=3\) forms, \(t=1\) prefix row, \(M\in\{6,8\}\) members, \(\mathit{share}\in\{0,1,2\}\), four seeds each, degrees 1 to 3: 24 families, 72 (family, degree) pairs (research/results/odd-prime-span-local-test/series.jsonl). The counts below were taken from the saved output by script.

Below the fill point (\(H(d)/|\bigcap P|<\tfrac12\)): 46 pairs, of which 7 have a nonzero top ideal. Unions of one member suffice in 4, pairs are needed in 2, and a triple in 1 (\(M=6\), two shared linear parts, degree 2). No sub-fill fall needed four members. Every fall needing more than one member occurs with shared linear parts; with \(\mathit{share}=0\), single members suffice, as conj:fill-point-falls predicts.
At or above the fill point: 26 pairs, of which 13 keep an excess even with unions of four members, for instance \(M=6\), \(\mathit{share}=0\), degree 3 at \(H/|\bigcap P|=1.53\), with excess 19 of 58. These are the counting-forced falls of conj:fill-point-falls. W's regime never reaches them: there \(H(D)\) is far below half the allowed set.

The conjecture predicts all 46 sub-fill outcomes from unions of bounded size, and 7 of them are nonvacuous; all hold with \(s\le3\). The three-member case has forms spanning 5 dimensions (two shared linear parts and one private form per member), within any bound \(c\,d\) with \(c\ge3\) at \(d=2\). The check is small: \(N=10\), a handful of nonzero cases, and one model of members. It does not test the weak unary base, and it tests the semantic companion, not the syzygy statement itself.

Relation to conj:span-local-generation. The semantic statement concerns vanishing ideals of intersections; the syzygy statement concerns top syzygies of the union of closed members. Neither is known to imply the other. The semantic one is what counting and falls measure directly, and its sub-fill form is what W's regime needs, since there every degree up to \(D\) is sub-fill.

Outcome. conj:sub-fill-span-locality, supported by ex:span-local-falls: below the fill point, cross-member falls, including those caused by shared linear parts, lie in the top ideals of unions of at most three members in all 24 families; above it, counting-forced falls do not localize. The narrow-form example is absorbed by closed members. The test is small and in the cube model only.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): seek a proof of the sub-fill statement. The shape to try: a fall in degree \(d\) below the fill point is a polynomial of degree \(d\) vanishing on \(\bigcap P_b\) but on no single \(P_b\); by counting, its support among the members' forms should be small. Relate that to shared-piece falls (conj:shared-piece-falls), whose recorded early falls are pairs.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:span-local-generation, conj:component-hypothesis's narrow-form example, conj:fill-point-falls, conj:shared-piece-falls and the fall-degree kernel. A fresh-context reviewer checked the kernel against the fall-degree kernel it extends (the same top-ideal formula, cumulative sums over unions of at most \(s\) members, the shared linear parts with private constants, and empty intersections, which do not occur here), recomputed every number from the saved output by script, confirmed the narrow-form argument (on the base \(\ell\) takes only the values 0 and 1, so the allowed set is \(\ell=1\)), found the conjecture's statement and limits fairly stated and no earlier version, and required no changes.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 8.44 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 1.73 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 32.80 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 39.54 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	43.49 s
Individually measured computation	10.75 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Chain and star falls: below the fill point, chains of members sharing linear parts have no fall that needs more than one member, and stars sharing two linear parts need at most three members at every size tested, so the union size does not grow with the number of members

28 September 2026 · Finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-subfill-proof. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Chain and star falls: below the fill point, chains of members sharing linear parts have no fall that needs more than one member, and stars sharing two linear parts need at most three members at every size tested, so the union size does not grow with the number of members”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-chain-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The cover gluing review named chains of short relations as the configuration no partition into members avoids, and span-local falls found that below the fill point falls lie in unions of at most three members. The question here decides whether conj:sub-fill-span-locality survives chains. If members linked in a chain by shared linear parts had sub-fill falls needing unions that grow with the chain's length, span-locality would fail, since a chain's span grows with its length.

General statement. conj:sub-fill-span-locality: below the fill point, \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap_bP_b)_d\) is the sum of \(\operatorname{gr}I(P_S)_d\) over unions \(S\) of members whose forms span at most \(c\,d\) dimensions.

ex:chain-star-falls

research/tools/span_local_falls.cpp gains a chain mode: member \(b\)'s first form has the linear part of member \(b-1\)'s second form, each with its own constants, so consecutive members share one linear part along the whole chain. Runs, with \(h=3\) forms, \(t=1\) prefix row and unions of up to four members (research/results/odd-prime-chain-falls/):

\(N=10\) chains (chain.jsonl): \(M\in\{6,8,10\}\), four seeds each, degrees 1 to 3. Of 22 sub-fill (family, degree) pairs, 2 have a nonzero top ideal, and single members capture both.
\(N=12\) (n12.jsonl, sized by n12_sizing.jsonl at 2.1 s per case): chains, and stars with two shared linear parts, \(M\in\{7,9\}\), four seeds each, degrees 1 to 3. Of 39 sub-fill pairs, 13 have a nonzero top ideal. Single members suffice in 3, pairs are needed in 4, and triples in 6. None needs four members.
Where multi-member falls occur. All 10 sub-fill falls that need more than one member are in the star families, none in the chains. For each star seed the needed union is at most three at both \(M=7\) and \(M=9\): seeds 1 and 2 have the same falls at both sizes, and seed 3 needs triples at degrees 2 and 3 at \(M=7\) and at degrees 1 and 2 at \(M=9\) (its degree 3 is above the fill point there). The needed union does not grow with the number of members.
At or above the fill point, as before, counting-forced falls keep an excess even with four members (6 of 9 pairs at \(N=12\)), and W's regime does not reach them.

The counts were taken from the saved output by script. The conjecture predicts all 61 sub-fill outcomes from bounded unions, 15 of them nonvacuous, and all hold with at most three members. The chain families, the case the review singled out, produced no multi-member sub-fill fall at all. That is consistent with prop:chain-cover-generation's picture in the free regime, where each relation's class stays with its own clauses. The three-member star falls are consistent with members whose constants on a shared linear part together cover the three values of \(\mathbb F_3\), so that the union excludes a whole fibre. That mechanism is a reading of the data, not verified here.

Limits. The cube model, \(N\le12\), two sizes \(M\) at \(N=12\), one prefix row, small unions, and the semantic companion rather than the syzygy statement. The chains share one linear part between neighbours. Chains with relations among three forms, as in the cover-gluing entries, were not built.

Outcome. ex:chain-star-falls: below the fill point, chains of shared linear parts produce no multi-member falls, and stars need at most three members independently of their size. conj:sub-fill-span-locality survives the chain test at these sizes.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove the star mechanism. Show that a sub-fill fall of members sharing a linear part \(\ell\) lies in the top ideals of unions whose constants on \(\ell\) cover \(\mathbb F_3\), so of at most three members per shared form. Then ask whether the general case reduces to shared forms, as prop:cross-block-weight and cor:pinned-cluster-reduction suggest.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:sub-fill-span-locality and ex:span-local-falls, prop:chain-cover-generation, conj:shared-piece-falls and conj:fill-point-falls. A fresh-context reviewer checked the chain mode (each member's first form takes the previous member's second linear part and keeps its own constant) and recomputed every count from the saved output by script. It required one change, adopted: the seed-3 star falls are listed at both degrees. Its search found no earlier version.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 29.54 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 23.27 s
Computation design and coding	28.62 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 22.75 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 14.76 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Fibred pattern locality: in pattern space, members that share no coordinates have no cross falls at any degree, and members sharing \(q\) coordinates have every vanishing polynomial of degree \(d\) split into single-member ones of degree at most \(d+2q\); the three-member falls of stars are the covering triples of star degree locality

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-star-mechanism. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Fibred pattern locality: in pattern space, members that share no coordinates have no cross falls at any degree, and members sharing \(q\) coordinates have every vanishing polynomial of degree \(d\) split into single-member ones of degree at most \(d+2q\); the three-member falls of stars are the covering triples of star degree locality”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-fibred-pattern-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Chain and star falls found that below the fill point, falls of members sharing linear parts need at most three members, and it proposed the mechanism: members whose constants on a shared form cover \(\mathbb F_3\). This cycle attempts a proof of conj:sub-fill-span-locality's mechanism at the level of patterns, where the members' allowed sets are sets of value patterns of their forms.

General statement. prop:fibred-pattern-locality: for member pattern sets \(Q_b\subseteq\mathbb F_3^q\times\mathbb F_3^{r_b}\) (shared coordinates \(u\), private coordinates \(v_b\)) and \(Q=\bigcap_bQ_b\), every \(f\in I(Q)\) of degree at most \(d\) is \(\sum_bf_b\) with \(f_b\in I(Q_b)\) and \(\deg f_b\le d+2q\); for \(q=0\), \(\deg f_b\le d\).

prop:fibred-pattern-locality

Setting. Let \(R=\mathbb F_3[u_1,\dots,u_q,v]/(w^3-w\text{ for every variable }w)\), the functions on \(\mathbb F_3^{q+\sum_br_b}\), with \(v=(v_b)_b\) and \(v_b\) a block of \(r_b\) private variables. Degree means the degree of the reduced representative. Each member \(b\) has a pattern set \(Q_b\subseteq\mathbb F_3^q\times\mathbb F_3^{r_b}\), read as a cylinder in the full space, and \(Q=\bigcap_bQ_b\). For a set \(S\), \(I(S)\subseteq R\) is the ideal of functions vanishing on it.

Proposition (fibred pattern locality).

If \(q=0\), every \(f\in I(Q)\) of degree at most \(d\) is \(\sum_bf_b\) with \(f_b\in I(Q_b)\) and \(\deg f_b\le d\). So in pattern space members without shared coordinates have no cross falls at any degree: \(I(Q)_{\le d}=\sum_bI(Q_b)_{\le d}\).
For any \(q\), every \(f\in I(Q)\) of degree at most \(d\) is \(\sum_bf_b\) with \(f_b\in I(Q_b)\) and \(\deg f_b\le d+2q\).

Proof. (1) With \(q=0\), \(Q=\prod_bV_b\) with \(V_b=Q_b\subseteq\mathbb F_3^{r_b}\). Fix a graded monomial order on all variables, and for each \(b\) a Gröbner basis \(G_b\) of \(I(V_b)\) in the variables \(v_b\), including their field equations. The leading terms of different \(G_b\) are coprime, so all S-pairs between different blocks reduce to zero (Buchberger's first criterion), and \(G=\bigcup_bG_b\) is a Gröbner basis of \(J=\sum_bI(V_b)R\). Its standard monomials are products of standard monomials of the \(G_b\), so \(\dim R/J=\prod_b|V_b|=|Q|=\dim R/I(Q)\). Since \(J\subseteq I(Q)\), \(J=I(Q)\). Division by \(G\) under a graded order writes \(f=\sum_{g\in G}q_gg\) with \(\deg(q_gg)\le\deg f\). Collect \(f_b=\sum_{g\in G_b}q_gg\), which vanishes on the cylinder over \(V_b\).

(2) For each \(u_0\in\mathbb F_3^q\), \(f(u_0,v)\) vanishes on the fibre \(\prod_bV_b(u_0)\), where \(V_b(u_0)=\{v_b:(u_0,v_b)\in Q_b\}\), and has degree at most \(d\). By (1) it is \(\sum_bh_{u_0,b}(v)\) with \(h_{u_0,b}\) vanishing on the cylinder over \(V_b(u_0)\) and of degree at most \(d\). Let \(\delta_{u_0}(u)=\prod_{i=1}^q(1-(u_i-u_{0,i})^2)\), of degree \(2q\), the indicator of \(u_0\). Put \(f_b=\sum_{u_0}\delta_{u_0}(u)h_{u_0,b}(v)\), of degree at most \(d+2q\). At a point \((u_1,v)\) with \((u_1,v_b)\in Q_b\), \(f_b=h_{u_1,b}(v)=0\), since \(v_b\in V_b(u_1)\); so \(f_b\in I(Q_b)\). And \(\sum_bf_b=\sum_{u_0}\delta_{u_0}(u)f(u_0,v)=f\) as functions, hence in \(R\). \(\square\)

Relation to the record. For two systems this is prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds (24 September): Lagrange idempotents in the shared coordinates plus a degree-compatible splitting of each fibre in disjoint variables give the bound \(s+(p-1)|V|\), which is \(d+2q\) here, and that entry notes that the version for many systems was not proved. The proposition is that version: part (1) proves the fibre splitting for any number of blocks by a Gröbner basis, and part (2) is then the same interpolation. It is a refinement, not a new mechanism. conj:tree-member-saturation (refuted) shows that the naive union statement fails for chains of cylinder sets when the excluded sets are dense (each point excluded with probability 1/2), and that failures fade as the excluded sets become sparse. That is consistent with restricting span-locality to the sub-fill regime.

What it says, and what it does not

The mechanism of the data. In the star families of ex:chain-star-falls, each member's allowed set depends on \(q=2\) shared linear parts and one private form. Part (2) puts every vanishing polynomial of degree \(d\) into single members at degree \(d+4\). A cross fall appears when the degree-\(d\) polynomial needs the higher-degree indicators \(\delta_{u_0}\), that is, when different members forbid different fibres \(u_0\) and only their union excludes a fibre entirely. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) a coordinate has three fibres, so members covering its three values are what forces it. That is the covering-triple mechanism that thm:star-degree-locality proves for ENS star families (every fall of a star is a fall of at most three blocks, with covering triples in the cross rule). The data show it in the randomized-prefix member model.
Chains. In the chain families each shared linear part is shared by two members only, so no triple covers a coordinate's three values through the shared part, consistent with the absence of multi-member falls there.
What is not proved. Part (2) trades union size for degree: single members at cost \(2q\), not unions of at most three members at no cost. The statement with unions, that a degree-\(d\) fall lies in the top ideals of unions covering one shared coordinate's values, is what thm:star-degree-locality proves for ENS blocks by chain distributivity over \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\); for W's members it is open. The proposition is at the pattern level: it concerns functions of the members' forms. On the cube or the board, falls may also involve functions that do not factor through the forms. The record's bounded-span equivalence transfers pattern-level statements where the algebra is free over the forms' algebra, which the free regime supplies and W's families beyond it do not.

Outcome. prop:fibred-pattern-locality (working proof): in pattern space, members without shared coordinates have no cross falls at any degree, and \(q\) shared coordinates cost at most \(2q\) degrees for a single-member decomposition. The three-member falls of stars are the covering triples of thm:star-degree-locality. The sub-fill statement for W's members remains open. What is proved is a degree-cost form and, in the free regime, its transfer.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): carry thm:star-degree-locality's chain-distributivity proof from ENS blocks to randomized-prefix members sharing one form. The needed input is a block basis over \(\mathbb F_3[\ell]/(\ell^3)\) adapted to a member's top ideal (conj:block-adapted-basis in the ENS setting). Then combine with part (1) for the private parts.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:star-degree-locality, thm:hub-degree-locality, thm:one-shared-input-locality, conj:sub-fill-span-locality, ex:chain-star-falls, conj:component-hypothesis's bounded-span equivalence, prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds and conj:tree-member-saturation. A fresh-context reviewer checked part (1) (the Gröbner basis of a sum of ideals in disjoint variables, the dimension count, degree control of division under a graded order, field equations, empty fibres) and part (2) (the fibrewise splitting, indicators of degree exactly \(2q\), vanishing on each \(Q_b\), the sum as functions). It found the proof correct and the relation to star degree locality fair, and required one change, adopted: the proposition is labelled as the many-system version of prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds, which its claim search found. At its suggestion conj:tree-member-saturation is cited.

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Route review of the span-locality line: in pattern space cross falls are understood (none without shared coordinates, pairs with one by star family locality, triples observed with two), and the tests on the cube agree; the obstacle is the transfer from patterns of forms to the board beyond the free regime

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-adapted-members. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the span-locality line: in pattern space cross falls are understood (none without shared coordinates, pairs with one by star family locality, triples observed with two), and the tests on the cube agree; the obstacle is the transfer from patterns of forms to the board beyond the free regime”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-span-locality-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the cover gluing review, four entries:

span-local generation: A1 on the relative-gluing route reduces to conj:span-local-generation plus local satisfiability (cor:span-local-reduction);
span-local falls: its semantic companion, conj:sub-fill-span-locality, holds on 24 cube families (ex:span-local-falls);
chain and star falls: chains produce no multi-member falls below the fill point, and stars need at most three members (ex:chain-star-falls);
fibred pattern locality: in pattern space, no cross falls without shared coordinates, and \(q\) shared coordinates cost at most \(2q\) degrees (prop:fibred-pattern-locality).

The line's general claim

Falls and top syzygies of W's families are generated on clause sets of bounded span; with closed members and cover gluing that gives W. In pattern space, where each member's allowed set is a set of value patterns of its forms, the claim is now largely understood. With no shared coordinates there are no cross falls at any degree (prop:fibred-pattern-locality (1)). With one shared coordinate, every top syzygy of the degree-bounded sum of any ideals splits into pair syzygies: the proof of thm:star-family-locality (steps 2 and 3, chain distributivity over \(\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\)) uses only one shared coordinate and disjoint private variables, so it applies to the members' pattern ideals verbatim: its algebra \(T\) of reduced polynomials is the function ring \(R\) of prop:fibred-pattern-locality, and its graded rings are the truncations \(\mathbb F_3[x,Y_j]/(\text{cubes})\). With two shared coordinates the record has no theorem; the cube data needed triples, never more.

What the goal needs

The board statement, not the pattern statement. A member's allowed set on the board is the preimage of its pattern set under its forms, and a polynomial vanishing on the common allowed set need not be a function of the forms at all. The record's bounded-span equivalence moves pattern statements to the board where the algebra is free over the forms' truncated algebra, the free regime. W's families have about \(n^Kk\) forms in about \(n^2\) dimensions and are never in the free regime as a whole. So what is needed is a transfer that uses freeness only over the forms of a bounded span, which is the same local-freeness wall the convergence review found for Taylor generation.

Falsification attempt

Does the pattern-level picture fail on the board already in the tested cube families? The cube families have up to 10 members with 3 forms each, 30 forms on 10 coordinates, far beyond the free regime, and still every sub-fill fall lay in unions of at most three members. So the transfer did not fail there. Where could it fail? At the narrow form, whose square vanishes on the board but not in pattern space. The closed members absorb that example, since it is a single member. A failure would need a cross-member fall created by the board's relations among many forms, in the way that concentration creates degree-0 dependencies. No such example is recorded.

Obstacle

Transfer of span-locality from pattern space to the board with freeness only over bounded spans: show that a sub-fill fall of W's clauses on the board is a combination of pattern-level falls of span-bounded unions, pulled back, up to falls of single closed members. The pattern-level question for two or more shared coordinates is secondary; the data suggest a Helly-type bound (below).

Assessment of the route

Productive: the conjecture that A1 reduces to is now supported by tests beyond the free regime, including the chains the previous review singled out, and its pattern-level mechanism is proved or recorded for up to one shared coordinate. The remaining obstacle is sharply stated but, like the convergence review's, it is a local-to-global transfer without global freeness, for which no mechanism is recorded. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

SAGBI bases and flat degenerations of subalgebras (L. Robbiano and M. Sweedler, Subalgebra bases, in Commutative Algebra, Lecture Notes in Math. 1430, Springer, 1990). A subalgebra with a finite SAGBI basis degenerates flatly to a monomial subalgebra, which can make an algebra free over it. Answers. Transfer from pattern space needs the board's algebra free over the subalgebra generated by the relevant forms; a SAGBI degeneration could prove that freeness span by span. Test. Falsified for the global use: all of W's forms together generate the whole board algebra, since they span its degree-1 part, and the algebra is not free over the truncated algebra of more forms than its dimension; only a span-by-span version could work, which is the obstacle itself.
The Künneth spectral sequence over a base ring (H. Cartan and S. Eilenberg, Homological Algebra, Princeton, 1956). For modules over a tensor product over a base \(S\), homology of the product is computed from \(\operatorname{Tor}^S_i\) of the factors. Answers. Syzygies of members sharing \(q\) coordinates live over the base \(S_q=\mathbb F_3[u_1,\dots,u_q]/(u_i^3)\); pairs correspond to \(\operatorname{Tor}^S_1\) and triples to \(\operatorname{Tor}^S_2\), which suggests that members sharing \(q\) coordinates need unions of \(q+1\). Test. Passed as consistency: \(q=1\) gives pairs (thm:star-family-locality), and \(q=2\) gave triples and never four members in ex:chain-star-falls. Over \(S_q\), which has infinite global dimension, the analogy does not bound the terms, so it predicts a pattern, not a theorem.
The lcm-lattice of monomial ideals (V. Gasharov, I. Peeva and V. Welker, The lcm-lattice in monomial resolutions, Math. Res. Lett. 6, 1999). The syzygies of a monomial ideal are determined by its lattice of least common multiples. Answers. An analogue for the intersection lattice of members' allowed sets would make falls a function of that lattice, and local lattices would give local falls. Test. Not run: it needs the intersection lattices of the recorded families and a comparison of families with equal lattices, which is a computation rather than an argument.

Absurd bridges

Helly's theorem on convex sets (E. Helly, Über Mengen konvexer Körper mit gemeinschaftlichen Punkten, Jahresber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein. 32, 1923). If every \(q+1\) convex sets in \(\mathbb R^q\) meet, all of them meet. Translation: members are sets, falls are obstructions visible only on the whole family, and shared coordinates are the dimension. Answers. A Helly-type theorem, with Helly number \(q+1\) for \(q\) shared coordinates, would give span-locality at the pattern level with unions of \(q+1\) members. Test. Passed on the recorded data: \(q=0\) needs single members (prop:fibred-pattern-locality (1)), \(q=1\) pairs (thm:star-family-locality), \(q=2\) triples (ex:chain-star-falls). Empty intersections, such as nine members forbidding the nine fibres of \(\mathbb F_3^2\), are above the fill point and outside the statement.
Gibbs's phase rule (J. W. Gibbs, On the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances, Trans. Connecticut Acad. 3, 1876). At most \(C+2\) phases of a \(C\)-component system coexist, so a one-component system has triple points. Translation: shared coordinates are components and members are phases; a fall is a point where several phases meet. Answers. It would bound the number of members in a fall by \(q+2\). Test. Falsified: for one shared coordinate it predicts falls of three members, while pairs suffice (thm:star-family-locality), and the cube data never needed three members with one shared linear part.

Lead follow-up

Algebraic discrete Morse theory. Follow-up. Closed: its direct form is vacuous (cells are single-top), and its content became conj:span-local-generation.
Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed; it would bear on the transfer only through freeness, which the obstacle avoids.
Čech and Leray vanishing on member covers. Follow-up. Closed: developed into lem:cover-relative-gluing and the cover generation results; the cohomological form was not needed.
Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.

Bridge follow-up

Benson's group additivity. Follow-up. Developed: the ring corrections it predicted are the covering triples of stars (ex:chain-star-falls, prop:fibred-pattern-locality), and chains, which have no rings of three members on one coordinate, showed none.
The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.
Acyclic database schemes. Follow-up. Continuing: the Helly bridge above takes up its question in a sharper, dimension-dependent form.
Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the transfer. Take one member pattern set pulled back to the board, and ask when the board's vanishing ideal of the pullback, in degree \(d\), is generated by pullbacks of pattern functions and the base. The free regime gives this through freeness; the target is a version needing only that the board be free over the member's own forms through \(d\), which thm:column-support-freeness supplies for dense forms. Then combine members through the pattern-level splitting.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the four entries reviewed, thm:star-family-locality's proof (steps 2 to 4), thm:star-degree-locality, prop:fiber-decomposition-bounds, conj:tree-member-saturation, conj:component-hypothesis's bounded-span equivalence and the cover gluing review's leads and follow-ups. The tests were run as arguments against recorded results and saved data. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that steps 2 and 3 of the star locality proof conclude exactly that every top syzygy is a sum of pair syzygies, for any ideals with one shared coordinate and disjoint private variables. It verified the data statements against the saved outputs, the citations and the tests, and the follow-up statuses. It required no changes; at its suggestion the identification of the star proof's rings with the pattern rings is stated.

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Adapted Helly locality: when each member's top ideal has an adapted basis over the truncated algebra of \(q\) shared coordinates, every top syzygy splits into syzygies of at most one more member than the largest graded piece of that algebra (pairs for one coordinate, at most four for two), by a Steinitz exchange in each basis component

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-member-transfer. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Adapted Helly locality: when each member's top ideal has an adapted basis over the truncated algebra of \(q\) shared coordinates, every top syzygy splits into syzygies of at most one more member than the largest graded piece of that algebra (pairs for one coordinate, at most four for two), by a Steinitz exchange in each basis component”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-adapted-helly-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The span-locality review proposed two things. Its next step was the member transfer from pattern space to the board. Its Helly bridge (passed) conjectured that members sharing \(q\) coordinates need unions of about \(q+1\). Reading the record for the first showed that the member transfer is lem:pullback-row-freeness: joint freeness and fibre independence give the member's top ideal as its pattern ideal tensored up. That lemma also records that for a whole W_RS family beyond capacity both hypotheses fail, which is the review's obstacle, not a new step. This cycle therefore develops the bridge, where the record stops at one shared coordinate (thm:star-family-locality, whose entry notes that two shared coordinates are not covered).

General statement. thm:adapted-helly-locality: for member ideals \(I_j\subseteq\mathbb F_3[u_1,\dots,u_q,Y_j]\) with disjoint private variables \(Y_j\), if each member's top ideal has a homogeneous basis over \(S_q=\mathbb F_3[u]/(u_i^3)\) adapted to it, then every top syzygy of the degree-bounded sum \(\sum_j(I_jT)_{\le s}\) is a sum of top syzygies supported on at most \(\delta_q+1\) members, where \(\delta_q=\max_s\dim(S_q)_s\).

thm:adapted-helly-locality

Setting, as in thm:star-family-locality with \(q\) shared coordinates. \(S=S_q=\mathbb F_3[u_1,\dots,u_q]/(u_i^3)\) is graded, with \(\dim S_s=[t^s](1+t+t^2)^q\). \(A_j=\mathbb F_3[u,Y_j]/(\text{cubes})\) is a free \(S\)-module on the monomials in \(Y_j\), and \(A=A_1\otimes_S\cdots\otimes_SA_m\) is the truncated algebra of all variables. With \(T_j\) and \(T\) the reduced polynomial rings and \(n_j=\operatorname{gr}(I_jT_j)\subseteq A_j\), the top ideal of \(I_jT\) is \(N_j=n_j\otimes_S\bigotimes_{i\ne j}A_i\): a degree-compatible Gröbner basis of \(I_j\), with the field equations of the other variables, is a Gröbner basis of \(I_jT\), since their leading monomials are coprime (step 2 of thm:star-family-locality, which does not use \(q=1\)). A top syzygy of degree \(s\) is a tuple \((g_j)\), \(g_j\in(N_j)_s\), with \(\sum_jg_j=0\).

Theorem (adapted Helly locality). Suppose each \(n_j\) has an adapted homogeneous basis: \(A_j=\bigoplus_kSe_{jk}\) with homogeneous \(e_{jk}\), and \(n_j=\bigoplus_k\mathfrak a_{jk}e_{jk}\) for homogeneous ideals \(\mathfrak a_{jk}\subseteq S\). Then every top syzygy is a sum of top syzygies, each supported on at most \(\delta_q+1\) members, where \(\delta_q=\max_s\dim S_s\) (\(\delta_1=1\), \(\delta_2=3\), \(\delta_3=7\)). Consequently, if the family falls at degree \(s\), some subfamily of at most \(\delta_q+1\) members falls at degree \(s\) in \(T\).

Lemma (zero-sum exchange). Let \(V\) be a vector space of dimension \(n\) over a field, and \(w_1,\dots,w_m\in V\) with \(\sum_jw_j=0\). Then \((w_j)_j\) is a sum of zero-sum tuples, each supported on at most \(n+1\) indices, whose \(j\)-th entries are scalar multiples of \(w_j\). Proof. Induction on the support size \(m'\). If \(m'\ge n+2\), the dependencies \(c\) with \(\sum c_jw_j=0\) (over the support) form a space of dimension at least \(m'-n\ge2\), containing the all-ones vector \(\mathbf 1\). Take a dependency \(c\) not proportional to \(\mathbf 1\), and an index \(j_0\) in the support; then \(c'=c-c_{j_0}\mathbf 1\) is a nonzero dependency with \(c'_{j_0}=0\). Choose \(j_1\) with \(c'_{j_1}\ne0\) and \(\lambda=1/c'_{j_1}\). The tuples \((\lambda c'_jw_j)\) and \(((1-\lambda c'_j)w_j)\) are zero-sum, sum to \((w_j)\), have entries that are multiples of \(w_j\), and have supports missing \(j_0\) and \(j_1\) respectively. Apply the induction to each. \(\square\)

Proof of the theorem. The products \(e_t=e_{1t_1}\otimes\cdots\otimes e_{mt_m}\) form a homogeneous \(S\)-basis of \(A\), and \(N_j=\bigoplus_t\mathfrak a_{jt_j}e_t\), since tensoring adapted bases keeps them adapted. A top syzygy of degree \(s\) therefore has components \(g_j=\sum_tg_j[t]e_t\) with \(g_j[t]\in\mathfrak a_{jt_j}\) homogeneous of degree \(s-\deg e_t\), and for each \(t\) the tuple \((g_j[t])_j\) sums to 0 in \(S_{s-\deg e_t}\), a space of dimension at most \(\delta_q\). By the lemma it is a sum of zero-sum tuples supported on at most \(\delta_q+1\) indices, with entries in \(\mathbb F_3g_j[t]\subseteq\mathfrak a_{jt_j}\). Multiplying by \(e_t\) gives top syzygies with entries in \(N_j\) and the same degree, and summing over \(t\) recovers the given syzygy. The consequence follows as in steps 1 and 4 of thm:star-family-locality: a fall at degree \(s\) gives a top syzygy of degree \(s+1\) that does not lift; one of its parts, supported on at most \(\delta_q+1\) members, does not lift within them either, so that subfamily falls at degree \(s\) in \(T\). \(\square\)

For \(q=1\), \(\delta_1=1\) and the lemma is the chain-distributivity step: the theorem recovers thm:star-family-locality's pair splitting, where adapted bases always exist by the Smith normal form over the chain ring. For \(q\ge2\), adapted bases need not exist, since \(S_q\) is not a chain ring and modules over it need not have Smith forms. So the theorem is conditional there, like thm:hub-degree-locality, which assumes adapted bases of its one-coordinate blocks.

Against the data and the bridge

The Helly bridge predicted unions of \(q+1\) members. The theorem gives \(\delta_q+1\): 2 for \(q=1\), 4 for \(q=2\), 8 for \(q=3\). The cube stars with two shared linear parts needed triples, within the bound of 4, so the theorem's bound may not be sharp. The \(q+1\) guess corresponds to dimension \(q\) of the degree-1 piece, which is the relevant bound only for syzygies whose components lie in \(S_1\).
Whether the star members of ex:chain-star-falls have adapted bases was not checked. That is a computation over \(S_2\) on each member's pattern ideal.
The theorem is at the pattern level, like prop:fibred-pattern-locality. The transfer to the board is the review's obstacle; lem:pullback-row-freeness supplies it for a single union whose forms meet joint freeness and fibre independence.

Outcome. thm:adapted-helly-locality (working proof): with adapted bases over \(S_q\), every top syzygy of members sharing \(q\) coordinates splits into syzygies of at most \(\delta_q+1\) members, and every fall is a fall of such a subfamily. It extends thm:star-family-locality beyond one shared coordinate, conditionally, by replacing chain distributivity with a zero-sum exchange. Bridge follow-up: the Helly bridge is developed, with Helly number \(\delta_q+1\) instead of \(q+1\).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): decide when members sharing two coordinates have adapted bases over \(S_2\), starting with the star members of ex:chain-star-falls, and whether the bound \(\delta_2+1=4\) can be lowered to the observed 3. Then return to the transfer, the review's obstacle.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:star-family-locality's proof (steps 1 to 4), thm:hub-degree-locality, conj:block-adapted-basis, ex:fiber-lattice-nondistributive, lem:pullback-row-freeness, prop:fibred-pattern-locality and ex:chain-star-falls. Claim searches for Helly-type and zero-sum splitting of syzygies over shared coordinates found the star and hub locality theorems and no earlier version; the nearest dimension-plus-one bound, lem:affine-clause-basis-compression, concerns clause compression, not syzygies. A fresh-context reviewer checked the exchange lemma line by line (the dependency space, the choice of \(c'\) and \(\lambda\), zero sums and supports through the recursion), the identification of \(N_j\) (the Gröbner part of the star proof uses only disjoint variables, and the Smith-form part is the hypothesis here), the product basis, the degrees, the fall consequence and the values of \(\delta_q\). It found no error and required one change, adopted: this record of the claim search.

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Sequential pullback locality: the pullback lemma holds over any ambient set, so applied member by member over the earlier intersection it gives the allowed set's vanishing tops as the sum of the members' pattern tops, and row freeness, under freeness over one member's forms at a time; shared or shortly related forms break that freeness

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-two-coordinate-bases. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sequential pullback locality: the pullback lemma holds over any ambient set, so applied member by member over the earlier intersection it gives the allowed set's vanishing tops as the sum of the members' pattern tops, and row freeness, under freeness over one member's forms at a time; shared or shortly related forms break that freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-sequential-pullback-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The span-locality review named the obstacle: transfer pattern-level statements to the board using freeness over bounded spans only, not over all of a family's forms. Its next step asked when the board's vanishing ideal of a pulled-back allowed set is generated by pattern functions and the base, with freeness only over the member's own forms. The record's transfer, lem:pullback-row-freeness, assumes joint freeness over all the forms at once (cor:subfamily-row-freeness), which fails beyond joint capacity. This cycle asks whether it can be applied one member at a time, with the earlier intersection as the ambient set.

General statement. cor:sequential-pullback-locality: if, in some order, each member's forms act freely through \(D\) on \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{<j}}\) together with the row sums (\(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{<j}}\cong T_j\otimes\Lambda\otimes B_j\)), with fibre independence on \(P_{<j}\), then through \(D\) \[\operatorname{gr}I(P_{\le M})=\operatorname{gr}I(P)+\sum_{j\le M}\mathfrak n_{V_j}(\ell_j)\,A,\] and the allowed set \(P_{\le M}\) is row-free through \(D\).

cor:sequential-pullback-locality

Setting, over \(\mathbb F_3\), as in lem:pullback-row-freeness: \(P\) is the weak base, \(A\) the truncated algebra of the cells (cubes of linear forms vanish in it), \(\operatorname{gr}F^X=A/\operatorname{gr}I(X)\) for \(X\subseteq P\), and \(\Lambda\) acts by the row sums. Members \(j=1,\dots,M\) have affine forms \(L_j=(L_{j,1},\dots,L_{j,h_j})\) with linear parts \(\ell_j\), value maps \(v_j\), pattern sets \(V_j\subseteq\mathbb F_3^{h_j}\) and pattern top ideals \(\mathfrak n_{V_j}\subseteq T_j=\mathbb F_3[w]/(w^3)\). Put \(Q_j=v_j^{-1}(V_j)\cap P\), \(P_{<j}=Q_1\cap\dots\cap Q_{j-1}\) (so \(P_{<1}=P\)), \(P_{\le j}=P_{<j}\cap Q_j\) and \(G_{<j}=\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{<j}}\), on which \(T_j\) acts by \(w_{j,i}\mapsto\ell_{j,i}\).

Hypotheses, for every \(j\): (SJF\(_j\)) through \(D\), \(G_{<j}\cong T_j\otimes\Lambda\otimes B_j\) as graded \(T_j\otimes\Lambda\)-modules, for a graded vector space \(B_j\) without action; (SFI\(_j\)) fibre independence of lem:pullback-row-freeness for \(v_j\) on \(P_{<j}\) over \(V_j\).

Corollary (sequential pullback locality). Through degree \(D\), for every \(j\): (i) \(\operatorname{gr}I(P_{\le j})=\operatorname{gr}I(P)+\sum_{i\le j}\mathfrak n_{V_i}(\ell_i)A\); (ii) \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{\le j}}\cong(T_j/\mathfrak n_{V_j})\otimes\Lambda\otimes B_j\), so \(P_{\le j}\) is row-free through \(D\). For a W_RS family, (ii) at \(j=M\) is the conclusion of conj:relative-row-freeness for that family.

Proof. The proof of lem:pullback-row-freeness uses \(P\) only through its filtered function algebra \(F^P\), its associated graded \(G\) with the actions of \(T\) and \(\Lambda\), and restrictions of functions to the fibres \(P\cap v^{-1}(y)\). It therefore holds verbatim with any subset \(P'\subseteq P\) as the ambient set: \(\Lambda\) and \(T\) act on \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P'}\), a quotient of \(G\) as an \(A\)-module, and \(r_i^3=0\), \(\ell^3=0\) hold there because they hold in \(A\). The record already uses it this way on the confined bases \(P_T\) (row-free subsets). Apply it at step \(j\) with \(P'=P_{<j}\), the forms \(L_j\) and \(V=V_j\), so that \(Q=P_{\le j}\). By SJF\(_j\) and SFI\(_j\), the top ideal of \(I(P_{\le j})\) in \(G_{<j}\) is \(\mathfrak n_{V_j}\otimes\Lambda\otimes B_j\), which is \(\mathfrak n_{V_j}(\ell_j)G_{<j}\) under the isomorphism, and \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{\le j}}\cong(T_j/\mathfrak n_{V_j})\otimes\Lambda\otimes B_j\); this is (ii). For (i), the filtration of \(F^{P_{<j}}\) is the quotient filtration, and a function on \(P_{<j}\) of degree \(\le d\) that vanishes on \(P_{\le j}\) is the restriction of a polynomial of degree \(\le d\), which then vanishes on \(P_{\le j}\). So the top ideal of \(I(P_{\le j})\) in \(G_{<j}\) is \(\operatorname{gr}I(P_{\le j})/\operatorname{gr}I(P_{<j})\), and \(\operatorname{gr}I(P_{\le j})=\operatorname{gr}I(P_{<j})+\mathfrak n_{V_j}(\ell_j)A\) through \(D\). Here \(T_j\to A\), \(w\mapsto\ell_j\), is a ring map because cubes of linear forms vanish in \(A\) in characteristic 3. Induction on \(j\) gives (i). \(\square\)

So on the board, with freeness over one member's forms at a time, there are no cross falls: the tops of the intersection's vanishing ideal are the base's tops plus each member's pattern tops, pulled back. That is the board form of the case of prop:fibred-pattern-locality (1) with no shared coordinates, and of span-locality with unions of single members.

What it escapes, and where it stops

The capacity counts. Joint freeness over all the forms fails beyond capacity, since the truncated algebra of \(n^K\) members' forms is far larger than \(G\). SJF\(_j\) compares only \(T_j\), of dimension at most \(3^{h_j}\), with \(G_{<j}\). Likewise prop:fiber-count-barrier, applied at step \(j\), asks only that every fibre of \(v_j\) over \(V_j\) in \(P_{<j}\) hold at least \(\dim(\Lambda\otimes B_j)_{\le D}\) points: a count for one member's \(3^{h_j}\) fibres, not for the joint value map. Neither count excludes the hypotheses beyond capacity. This is a count, not a proof that they hold.
Shared forms break SJF. In pattern coordinates (a cube with coordinates \(a,u,b\), no row sums), let member 1 have forms \((a,u)\) and exclude \(\{a\ne0,u=0\}\). Its vanishing ideal is spanned by \((1-u^2)a\) and \(a\cdot(1-u^2)a\), with tops \(-au^2\) and \(-a^2u^2\), so \(\mathfrak n_{V_1}=(au^2)\). Let member 2 have forms \((u,b)\) and exclude \(\{b\ne0,u=0\}\), so \(\mathfrak n_{V_2}=(bu^2)\). In \(G_{<2}=A/(au^2)\) the element \(au\) is killed by \(u\) but is not in \(u^2G_{<2}\), so \(G_{<2}\) is not free over \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\subseteq T_2\) through degree 3, and SJF\(_2\) fails, in either order by symmetry of the argument. The pair has no cross fall here (the union of the excluded sets is \(\{u=0,(a,b)\ne0\}\), with top ideal \((au^2,bu^2)\)); the corollary simply does not apply. In W the same element exists: if a later member contains the form \(L_i\) of an earlier clause with top \(\tau=L_i^2\prod_{s\in S}L_s^2\), then \(L_i\prod_sL_s^2\), of degree \(2k+1\), is killed by \(L_i\). In pattern coordinates it is not in \(L_i^2G_{<j}\), so SJF fails through \(2k+2\le D\). Stars and chains share forms, so the corollary covers neither.
Short relations break SJF. Let members 1 and 2 have forms \((a,u)\) and \((b,v)\) with \(\mathfrak n=(au^2)\) and \((bv^2)\), and let member 3 have the form \(a+b\). In \(G_{<3}=A/(au^2,bv^2)\) the monomial \(u^2v^2\) is killed by \(a+b\). It is not in \((a+b)^2G_{<3}\), since \(G_{<3}\) has the monomials divisible by neither \(au^2\) nor \(bv^2\) as a basis, and every monomial of \((a+b)^2y\) contains \(a\) or \(b\). So SJF\(_3\) fails through degree 5. In general a form of member \(j\) that is a combination of forms of \(t\) earlier members, each with an annihilated element \(z_i\) as above, gives the candidate witness \(\prod_iz_i\), of degree about \(t(2k+1)\) in W. That candidate lies within \(D=22k\) only when \(t\le10\). This is a heuristic about one mechanism: it is not proved that such products are the only failures.

Relation to the record

thm:sequential-cover-generation and thm:cluster-sequential-freeness have the same sequential shape. They use the syntactic quotient by earlier clause tops and conclude syzygy generation, and on chains they cascade. This corollary uses the semantic quotient \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{<j}}\) and concludes the vanishing tops and row freeness.
cor:subfamily-row-freeness is the joint version, with all members at once. The sequential version replaces joint freeness with the chain of conditions SJF\(_j\).
prop:batched-splitting shows that batching by splitting is degree-\(D\) relative row freeness itself. The corollary gives a sufficient condition for that, member by member, and does not batch by a lattice.

Outcome. cor:sequential-pullback-locality (working proof). For any ordering in which each member's forms, together with the row sums, act freely through \(D\) on the earlier intersection's graded functions, and fibre independence holds member by member, the allowed set is row-free through \(D\) and has no cross falls. This yields conj:relative-row-freeness for the family. The hypotheses escape both capacity counts, but they fail whenever a member shares a form with an earlier one, or has a form shortly related to earlier forms. Those are exactly the configurations that span-locality treats at the pattern level. The transfer obstacle is now sharper: freeness over one member's forms can fail only through configurations of this kind, which is conjectural, and a shared or short-related configuration must be absorbed by a fibred version.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): state and test sequential freeness away from short relations. If no form of member \(j\) lies in the span of the forms of at most about \(D/(2k+1)\) earlier members modulo the row sums, does SJF\(_j\) hold? Test it on the recorded cube families in a suitable order. Then develop a fibred version for members that share forms, the chains being the test case, since they show no cross falls but break SJF at every step.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pullback-row-freeness with its proof (JF, FI and their use), its use with the confined bases \(P_T\) as ambient sets, cor:subfamily-row-freeness, prop:fiber-count-barrier, prop:batched-splitting, thm:sequential-cover-generation, conj:relative-row-freeness and prop:fibred-pattern-locality. Claim searches for sequential and iterated pullback freeness, vanishing tops of intersections of pulled-back sets, fibre independence with joint freeness, and sequential or chain cover generation found the syntactic sequential results and the joint version, and no statement of this corollary. No computation this cycle. A fresh-context reviewer checked that the lemma's proof needs only the actions and fibre restrictions, which descend to any subset \(P'\subseteq P\); the identification \(\mathfrak n_{V_j}\otimes\Lambda\otimes B_j=\mathfrak n_{V_j}(\ell_j)G_{<j}\) and the lift to (i); both examples, recomputing \(\mathfrak n_{V_1}=(au^2)\), the union's top ideal and the non-membership of \(u^2v^2\) in \((a+b)^2G_{<3}\); and the hedging of the counts and of the \(t\le10\) heuristic. It found no error and no unused hypothesis, and required no changes. At its suggestion the precedent for other ambient sets is linked, and the redundant generator of the first example is written as a multiple of the other.

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Involvement threshold: in pattern space, a linear form acts freely on the earlier members' quotient through the sum, over the members it involves, of their first pattern degree minus two, by Jordan types and the tensor identity; in W only forms involving at most 21 earlier members can break the single-form part of sequential freeness through 22k

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-short-relation-freeness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Involvement threshold: in pattern space, a linear form acts freely on the earlier members' quotient through the sum, over the members it involves, of their first pattern degree minus two, by Jordan types and the tensor identity; in W only forms involving at most 21 earlier members can break the single-form part of sequential freeness through 22k”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-involvement-threshold.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Sequential pullback locality (cor:sequential-pullback-locality) gives row freeness and no cross falls under per-member freeness SJF\(_j\) of the earlier intersection. Its witnesses of failure were a shared form and a form \(a+b\) combining two earlier members, and it conjectured, from a degree count on product witnesses, that only forms combining at most about 10 earlier members fail within \(D=22k\). This cycle proves the single-form part of that conjecture in pattern space, where the earlier members occupy disjoint coordinates.

General statement. thm:involvement-threshold: for pattern modules \(M_i=A_i/\mathfrak n_i\) on disjoint coordinate sets, \(\mathfrak n_i\) generated in degrees \(\ge\delta_i\), and a linear form \(\ell=\sum_i\ell^{(i)}\) with involvement \(I(\ell)=\{i:\ell^{(i)}\ne0\}\), \[\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\mathbb F_3[w]/(w^3)}\Big(\mathbb F_3,\ \bigotimes_iM_i\Big)_d=0\quad\text{for } d\le\sum_{i\in I(\ell)}\max(\delta_i-2,0),\] with \(w\) acting by \(\ell\).

thm:involvement-threshold

Setting. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), members \(i=1,\dots,m\) have pairwise disjoint sets of coordinates \(X_i\), truncated algebras \(A_i=\mathbb F_3[X_i]/(x^3)\), and homogeneous ideals \(\mathfrak n_i\subseteq A_i\) generated in degrees \(\ge\delta_i\) (for instance pattern top ideals). Put \(M_i=A_i/\mathfrak n_i\), \(A=\bigotimes_iA_i\) and \(M=\bigotimes_iM_i=A/\sum_i\mathfrak n_iA\). A linear form \(\ell\in A_1\) splits uniquely as \(\ell=\sum_i\ell^{(i)}\) with \(\ell^{(i)}\in(A_i)_1\); its involvement is \(I(\ell)=\{i:\ell^{(i)}\ne0\}\). \(T=\mathbb F_3[w]/(w^3)\), graded with \(w\) in degree 1, acts on \(M\) by \(w\mapsto\ell\). For a graded \(T\)-module \(N\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,N)_d=\ker(w:N_{d-1}\to N_d)/w^2N_{d-3}\), from the periodic resolution of \(\mathbb F_3\).

Theorem (involvement threshold). \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,M)_d=0\) for every \(d\le\sum_{i\in I(\ell)}\max(\delta_i-2,0)\): in those degrees, every element killed by \(\ell\) is a multiple of \(\ell^2\). If some \(M_i\) with \(i\in I(\ell)\) is free over \(T\) acting by \(\ell^{(i)}\), then \(M\) is free.

Proof. (1) Hopf structure. In characteristic 3, \(T\) with \(w\) primitive (\(\Delta w=w\otimes1+1\otimes w\)) is a graded Hopf algebra: \(\Delta(w)^3=w^3\otimes1+1\otimes w^3=0\). Make \(M_i\) a \(T\)-module by \(w\mapsto\ell^{(i)}\). Multiplication by \(\ell\) on \(M=\bigotimes M_i\) is \(\sum_i1\otimes\dots\otimes\ell^{(i)}\otimes\dots\otimes1\), which is the diagonal action. (2) Jordan types. A finite-dimensional graded \(T\)-module is a direct sum of shifted blocks \(J_r(s)=(T/w^r)(-s)\), \(r\in\{1,2,3\}\), generated in degree \(s\) (graded modules over the graded principal ideal ring \(\mathbb F_3[w]\) killed by \(w^3\)). \(J_3(s)\) is free, and a non-free block \(J_r(s)\), \(r\le2\), has \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) exactly in degree \(s+r\). (3) Tensor identity. For a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra, a free module tensored with any module is free. The isomorphism \(T\otimes N\to T\otimes N^{\rm triv}\), \(h\otimes n\mapsto\sum h_{(1)}\otimes S(h_{(2)})n\), is homogeneous, so this holds for graded modules. (4) Onsets. For \(i\notin I(\ell)\), \(w\) acts on \(M_i\) as zero, so every block of \(M_i\) is some \(J_1(s)\) with \(s\ge0\). For \(i\in I(\ell)\), extend \(\ell^{(i)}\) to a coordinate system of \((A_i)_1\). The change of coordinates is an automorphism of \(A_i\), since cubes of linear forms vanish, so \(A_i\cong T\otimes A_i'\) is free over \(T\). From \(0\to\mathfrak n_i\to A_i\to M_i\to0\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^T(\mathbb F_3,M_i)\) embeds in \(\mathbb F_3\otimes_T\mathfrak n_i=\mathfrak n_i/\ell^{(i)}\mathfrak n_i\), which lives in degrees \(\ge\delta_i\). So every non-free block \(J_r(s)\) of \(M_i\) has \(s+r\ge\delta_i\), hence \(s\ge\delta_i-2\). (5) Products. Decomposing each \(M_i\) into blocks decomposes \(M\) into tensor products of one block from each factor. A product with a free factor is free by (3). A product of non-free blocks \(J_{r_i}(s_i)\) lives in degrees \(\ge\sum_is_i\ge\sum_{i\in I(\ell)}\max(\delta_i-2,0)\), so its \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) lies in degrees \(\ge\) that sum plus 1. Since \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) is additive over direct sums, the theorem follows, and so does the last sentence. \(\square\)

The earlier witnesses. For \(\mathfrak n_1=(au^2)\) over \(T\) acting by \(a\), the blocks of \(M_1\) are \(J_3(0)\) on 1, \(J_3(1)\) on \(u\) and \(J_1(2)\) on \(u^2\), so the onset is 2; the same holds for \((bv^2)\) and \(b\). For \(\ell=a+b\) the non-free product \(J_1(2)\otimes J_1(2)=J_1(4)\) is the witness \(u^2v^2\), with \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree 5. The theorem's bound, \(\sum(\delta_i-2)=2\), holds but is not sharp there. The bound uses only \(\delta_i\); the onsets themselves give the exact first degree \(\sum_i\sigma_i+1\) whenever the non-free blocks realizing the onsets have a non-free product. For the shared form \(u\) and \(\mathfrak n_1=(au^2)\), the block of \(a\) is \(J_2(1)\), with \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree \(3=\delta_1\).

Application to W

For a W member with prefix \(S\), \(|S|=k\), and the other forms \(z\), the excluded pattern set is \(E=\{y_S\in\{\pm1\}^k\}\times\{z:\text{some }z_i=0\}\). Let \(f\ne0\) be a reduced polynomial supported on \(E\). It vanishes on each hyperplane \(y_s=0\), so every monomial of \(f\) contains every \(y_s\), \(s\in S\): \(f=\sum_ey_S^{\,e}g_e(z)\) over \(e\in\{1,2\}^S\). On \(\{\pm1\}^S\) the monomials \(y_S^{\,e}\) restrict to the distinct characters \(\prod_{e_s=1}y_s\), which are linearly independent. Since \(f\) vanishes at every point with \(y_S\in\{\pm1\}^S\) and \(z\in\{\pm1\}^{h-k}\), every \(g_e\) vanishes on \(\{\pm1\}^{h-k}\). Some \(g_e\ne0\), and a nonzero reduced polynomial of degree \(\le1\) does not vanish on all of \(\{\pm1\}^{h-k}\), so \(\deg g_e\ge2\). The monomials \(y_S^{\,e}z^\alpha\) are distinct for distinct \(e\), so \(\deg f\ge|e|+\deg g_e\ge k+2\), and \(\prod_sy_s\cdot(1-z_1^2)\) attains \(k+2\). So \(\delta=k+2\) for every member, and \(\delta-2=k\). Consequently, in pattern space a form of a later member that involves \(t\) earlier members acts freely through degree \(tk\). At \(D=22k\), a form involving at least 22 earlier members satisfies the single-form part of SJF through \(D\). Only forms involving at most 21 earlier members can break it. This is a rigorous pattern-level statement of the kind the previous entry's heuristic suggested. It does not confirm that heuristic's estimate of 10, which used the clause degree \(2k+1\) for product witnesses; the theorem uses the first pattern degree \(k+2\) and gives the weaker threshold 21.

What it does not give

Joint freeness over a member's span. SJF\(_j\) asks for freeness over the truncated algebra of all of member \(j\)'s forms, not over each form separately. A graded Dade lemma would reduce the one to the other, but truncated Dade statements fail on the record (ex:truncated-dade-special-position, ex:projective-dade-exceptions). The proof's step (5) needs Jordan blocks, which exist only for one form. The joint version is open.
The board. The theorem is at the pattern level: it needs the earlier members on disjoint coordinates, so that their quotient is a tensor product. On the board beyond capacity the earlier members' forms are dependent, and \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{<j}}\) is not a tensor product of member modules. Involvement has no direct meaning there, since every form lies in the span of earlier forms. The transfer obstacle is unchanged.

Outcome. thm:involvement-threshold (working proof). In pattern space, the non-free part of the earlier members' quotient over a new linear form starts in degree at least the sum, over the members the form involves, of their first pattern degree minus 2. For W's members that is \(k\) per involved member. So only forms involving at most 21 earlier members can break the single-form part of sequential freeness through \(D=22k\): the short-relation conjecture of the previous entry, for single forms and at the pattern level. The joint version over a member's span and the board version remain open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the next entry is due as a route review of the sequential line (three research entries since the span-locality review, and the transfer obstacle unchanged at the board). It should decide whether a board analogue of involvement exists, for example through a filtration of \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{<j}}\) whose graded pieces are tensor products, and weigh it against the joint (Dade) gap.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:sequential-pullback-locality and its witnesses, lem:pair-seed-decomposition and prop:generic-forms-as-row-sums (the diagonal primitive action and Jordan blocks), and the truncated Dade refutations ex:truncated-dade-special-position and ex:projective-dade-exceptions. Claim searches for tensor freeness, Dade and rank varieties, Jordan types of tensor products, freeness of tensor products over one linear form, and short-relation freeness found the same toolkit applied to square-zero algebras and no statement of this threshold. An exact Macaulay2 check (research/tools/involvement_witness_tor.m2, output research/results/odd-prime-involvement-threshold/witness_tor.txt) computed \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) by degree for the witnesses: for \(a+b\) on \((au^2,bv^2)\) it is 1-dimensional in degree 5 and zero in degrees 1 to 8 otherwise; for \(u\) and for \(a\) on \((au^2)\) it starts in degree 3, as the block decompositions predict. A fresh-context reviewer checked the Hopf structure and the diagonal action, the graded Jordan decomposition and the \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) degrees of the blocks, the graded tensor identity, the onset bound, the degree bookkeeping, both block examples and the value \(\delta=k+2\) for W members. It found no mathematical error and no duplicate. It required one change, adopted: the W paragraph no longer presents the theorem as confirming the previous entry's estimate of 10. At its suggestion the title says "single-form part".

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Route review of the sequential transfer line: the board transfer now reduces to freeness over one member's forms at a time, which pattern space controls for single forms by involvement; the obstacle is that freeness on the board beyond capacity, and a fibred version for members that share forms, since chains break it in every order

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-sequential-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the sequential transfer line: the board transfer now reduces to freeness over one member's forms at a time, which pattern space controls for single forms by involvement; the obstacle is that freeness on the board beyond capacity, and a fibred version for members that share forms, since chains break it in every order”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-sequential-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the span-locality review, three entries:

adapted Helly locality: in pattern space, with adapted bases over \(S_q\), top syzygies of members sharing \(q\) coordinates split into syzygies of at most \(\delta_q+1\) members (thm:adapted-helly-locality);
sequential pullback locality: on the board, freeness over one member's forms and the row sums at a time (SJF\(_j\)), with fibre independence, gives row freeness and no cross falls (cor:sequential-pullback-locality);
involvement threshold: in pattern space, a form involving \(t\) earlier W members acts freely through degree \(tk\) (thm:involvement-threshold).

The line's general claim

Row freeness of the allowed set, and with it the dense core of A1 through conj:relative-row-freeness, follows from per-member conditions checked in some order: SJF\(_j\) and fibre independence over the earlier intersection. Conjecturally, those conditions fail only through local configurations: shared forms, and forms whose involvement over earlier members is short (at most 21 members for single forms in pattern space, by thm:involvement-threshold). The members in such a configuration would be grouped and treated at the pattern level, where star and adapted Helly locality bound the unions their syzygies need.

What the goal needs

For every W family, an ordering, or a grouping into clusters, in which each cluster's forms act freely through \(D=22k\) on the graded functions of the earlier intersection on the board, together with fibre independence. The corollary then gives conj:relative-row-freeness for the family, hence W_RS and the goal (thm:global-closure-gluing, thm:randomized-prefix-reduction). Three things are needed: board freeness for members without short involvement, a joint version over each member's span (the involvement theorem covers single forms), and a treatment of clusters whose members share forms that loses no degree along chains.

Falsification attempt

Can SJF hold, in some order, for every W family? No. In a chain, each member shares a form with the next. In any order, the later member of each adjacent pair contains a form of an earlier member, and the element \(L_i\prod_sL_s^2\) of the sequential entry breaks SJF for it (in pattern coordinates). So SJF fails for at least half of a chain's members in every order. Yet chains showed no cross falls below the fill point (ex:chain-star-falls). So SJF is sufficient but far from necessary, and the sequential corollary alone cannot carry the transfer: members that share forms must be grouped, and a chain is a single unbounded group. A fibred version is required, with freeness only over the private part of each member and the shared forms handled at the pattern level. The same argument applies to stars.

Obstacle

A fibred sequential transfer on the board. Let member \(j\)'s forms split into forms shared with, or of short involvement over, earlier members, and private forms. Show that \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{\le j}}\) is determined by \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{<j}}\) and the pattern-level interaction of member \(j\) with the members it touches. This needs freeness over the private forms only, and a degree cost that does not accumulate along chains (the naive fibre-by-fibre version loses \(2q\) degrees per step). Behind it lies the board version of freeness over private forms beyond joint capacity, which involvement proves only in pattern space.

Assessment of the route

Productive in precision, not yet in reach. The transfer, which the previous review could state only as a local-to-global problem, is now a chain of per-member freeness conditions with a proved conclusion, and one half of their failure mode (single forms of large involvement) is excluded in pattern space. The falsification shows that the unconditional form is false for chains and stars, so the line needs a fibred statement that the record does not have; the pattern-level results (star locality, adapted Helly locality, fibred pattern locality) are its ingredients. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Support varieties and the tensor product theorem (G. S. Avrunin and L. L. Scott, Quillen stratification for modules, Invent. Math. 66, 1982; with Dade's lemma, E. C. Dade, Endo-permutation modules over p-groups II, Ann. of Math. 108, 1978). A module over a truncated polynomial algebra is free if and only if its rank variety is zero, and the rank variety of a tensor product is the intersection of the rank varieties. Answers. The joint version: freeness over a member's whole span would follow from the intersection of the earlier members' varieties, pulled back to the span, being zero. Test. Falsified for this use: a W member's pattern module has dimension \(|V|=3^h-2^k(3^{h-k}-2^{h-k})\equiv2^h\not\equiv0\pmod3\), so it is free over no nonzero form, and its rank variety is the whole space. Only degree-truncated freeness is meaningful here, and truncated Dade statements fail on the record (ex:truncated-dade-special-position).
Tor-independence and intersection products (J.-P. Serre, Algèbre locale, multiplicités, Lecture Notes in Math. 11, 1965). When \(\operatorname{Tor}^A_q(A/I_1,A/I_2)=0\) for \(q>0\), \(A/(I_1+I_2)\) is the derived tensor product, and invariants multiply. Answers. A board version of involvement: onsets of non-freeness would add over Tor-independent earlier members without their living on disjoint coordinates. Test. Falsified in its direct form. Measured on the board, each member's own quotient \(A/(au^2)\) is free over \(a+b\) (the coordinate \(b\) is free for it, by the last sentence of thm:involvement-threshold), so the board onsets are infinite. Yet \(A/(au^2,bv^2)\) has \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree 5 over \(a+b\) (the saved Macaulay2 check). Additivity needs the diagonal Hopf action on a tensor product over \(\mathbb F_3\), which the board's quotient over \(A\) lacks; a board version needs a decomposition of \(A\) adapted to the members, not Tor-independence alone.
Higman's criterion for relative projectivity (D. G. Higman, Modules with a group of operators, Duke Math. J. 21, 1954), here for the local Frobenius algebra \(T_j\): a module is free if and only if the socle generator \(N_j=\prod_s\ell_{j,s}^2\) acts injectively on a complement of \(\mathfrak m_jM\). In the graded, truncated form, injectivity of \(N_j\) on that complement in degrees \(\le D\) gives freeness through \(D\), and freeness through \(D\) gives it in degrees \(\le D-2h_j\), since a nonzero submodule of a free module meets the socle. With the row sums, the same holds for \(T_j\otimes\Lambda\) and the socle generator \(N_j\prod_ir_i^2\). Answers. SJF\(_j\) becomes a semantic degree statement: for functions \(f\) on \(P_{<j}\) outside the span of member \(j\)'s forms times lower functions, the product of \(f\) with \(\prod_sL_{j,s}^2\), the indicator of the set where all of member \(j\)'s forms are nonzero, keeps its full degree \(\deg f+2h_j\). That is a single-function question on the earlier intersection, of the kind the record's level-balance statements address. Test. Passed on both witnesses. In \(A/(au^2)\), \(N_2=u^2b^2\) kills \(a\), which lies outside \((u,b)G_{<2}\). In \(A/(au^2,bv^2)\), \(N=(a+b)^2\) kills \(u^2v^2\). In the degrees where the Macaulay2 check found no \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\), no such element exists, by the equivalence.

Absurd bridges

Lieb–Robinson bounds (E. H. Lieb and D. W. Robinson, The finite group velocity of quantum spin systems, Comm. Math. Phys. 28, 1972). In a lattice system with local interactions, influence spreads at bounded speed: an operator at distance \(t\) is felt only after time proportional to \(t\). Translation: members are sites, linear relations among their forms are interactions, and degree is time. A non-free element for a new form must be assembled from the members its relation touches, each contributing its onset. Answers. A light-cone bound on the board would say that non-freeness over a form reaches degree \(d\) only through relation chains of length at most \(d/k\). That is the board version of involvement the obstacle needs for private forms. Test. Passed as consistency only: at the pattern level, involvement is exactly such a bound with speed \(1/k\) per member, and the witness \(u^2v^2\) for a relation of length 2 appears in degree \(4=2\cdot2\), twice the onset. No board statement is tested.
The sunflower lemma (P. Erdős and R. Rado, Intersection theorems for systems of sets, J. London Math. Soc. 35, 1960). A large family of bounded sets contains a sunflower: sets with a common core and disjoint petals. Translation: members are their sets of forms, and SJF failures come from shared forms. A sunflower is a star with the core as shared forms, which thm:star-family-locality and thm:adapted-helly-locality handle. Answers. It would reduce the families that break SJF to stars plus a remainder of bounded size. Test. Falsified on chains: the members \(j,j+2,j+4,\dots\) of a chain form a sunflower with empty core, and the failures come from pairwise sharing between neighbours, not from a common core. The lemma organizes nothing that the chain obstacle needs.

Lead follow-up

Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed. Via the Higman reformulation above, it now bears on SJF directly: maximal rank of multiplication by a generic member's \(N_j\) is Fröberg-type.
Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.
The Künneth spectral sequence over a base ring. Follow-up. Developed: its graded tensor form became thm:involvement-threshold for single forms, where onsets add over involved members; the joint version meets the truncated Dade failures.

Bridge follow-up

Benson's group additivity. Follow-up. Closed: its prediction, ring corrections from covering triples, was developed and matched the stars and chains in the span-locality review; the pattern-level mechanism is now carried by thm:star-family-locality and thm:adapted-helly-locality, so the bridge has no separate open question.
The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.
Acyclic database schemes. Follow-up. Continuing: the Helly bridge and thm:adapted-helly-locality took up its question; acyclicity of the chain's sharing graph is the case the obstacle now needs.
Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.
Helly's theorem on convex sets. Follow-up. Developed: thm:adapted-helly-locality realizes it with Helly number \(\delta_q+1\), as that entry recorded. Its remaining hypothesis, adapted bases for members sharing two or more coordinates, is carried as that theorem's next action, not as a separate bridge.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the passed Higman lead. State the truncated Higman criterion as a lemma, turning SJF\(_j\) into degree exactness of multiplication by the indicator \(\prod_sL_{j,s}^2\) on the earlier intersection. Then attack the fibred version for chains in that form: for a chain member, apply the criterion to the private forms only, with the shared form's values as fibres.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three entries reviewed, the witnesses and heuristic of the sequential entry, ex:chain-star-falls, ex:truncated-dade-special-position, thm:global-closure-gluing and the saved Macaulay2 output. The tests were run as arguments against recorded results and saved data: the dimension count, the Tor-independence counterexample, the truncated Higman sandwich on both witnesses, and the chain tests of the falsification and of the sunflower bridge. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the summaries, the chain falsification (no conflict with any recorded result), the congruence \(|V|\equiv2^h\pmod3\) and its consequence, the Tor-independence counterexample against the saved output, both directions of the Higman sandwich on the witnesses, and the Lieb–Robinson and sunflower outcomes. It required two changes, both adopted: the line's general claim now marks the local-failure statement as conjectural, and the Helly bridge is reported as developed, matching its entry, with adapted bases left as that theorem's next action.

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Socle onset criterion: the degree where a graded module over a member's truncated algebra stops being free is exactly where the member's socle product stops acting injectively on its minimal generators, which turns per-member freeness into degree exactness of the member's indicator; correction: the involvement threshold's tensor step is group freeness, which is joint, so the joint obstacle is the onset loss, not Jordan blocks

28 September 2026 · Working proof and correction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-higman-criterion. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Socle onset criterion: the degree where a graded module over a member's truncated algebra stops being free is exactly where the member's socle product stops acting injectively on its minimal generators, which turns per-member freeness into degree exactness of the member's indicator; correction: the involvement threshold's tensor step is group freeness, which is joint, so the joint obstacle is the onset loss, not Jordan blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-socle-onset-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The sequential line review passed Higman's criterion as a lead: freeness over a member's truncated algebra \(T_j\), the hypothesis SJF\(_j\) of cor:sequential-pullback-locality, should be detected by the socle product \(\prod_s\ell_{j,s}^2\) acting on minimal generators. This would turn SJF\(_j\) into a statement about one function on the earlier intersection. This cycle states the criterion exactly, with its degrees, and places it in the record.

General statement. lem:socle-onset-criterion: for a finite-dimensional graded module \(M\) over \(T=\mathbb F_3[U]/(u^3)\), \(\dim U=h\), with socle generator \(\sigma=\prod_{s\le h}u_s^2\), the degree where the non-free part starts is \[\gamma(M)=\min\{d:\ \bar\sigma:(M/\mathfrak mM)_d\to M_{d+2h}\ \text{is not injective}\},\] and \(M\) is free through \(\gamma(M)\) but not through \(\gamma(M)+2h\).

Correction: the involvement threshold and group freeness

The involvement threshold (thm:involvement-threshold) proved its step (5), that non-free degrees add under tensor products, with Jordan blocks of one form. That step is prop:group-freeness (i) (group freeness): \(\gamma(M\otimes M')\ge\gamma(M)+\gamma(M')\) under the diagonal action of \(\mathbb F_3[L_1,\dots,L_F]/(L^3)\), for any number \(F\) of forms, by graded Krull–Schmidt and self-injectivity. Neither that cycle's claim searches nor its reviewer's found it. The involvement theorem is thus prop:group-freeness with \(F=1\), plus two new parts: the onset bound \(\gamma\ge\delta_i-2\) for an involved member, and \(\delta=k+2\) for W's members. Its remark that the joint version is blocked because Jordan blocks exist only for one form is wrong. Superadditivity holds jointly. What blocks the joint version is shown below. The dated entry is unchanged; the registry records the dependency and the corrected assessment.

lem:socle-onset-criterion

Setting. \(T=\mathbb F_3[U]/(u^3)\) for a space \(U\) of linear forms with basis \(u_1,\dots,u_h\), graded with \(U\) in degree 1. It is a graded Frobenius algebra with one-dimensional socle spanned by \(\sigma=\prod_su_s^2\), in degree \(2h\), and the cube ideal does not depend on the basis in characteristic 3. \(\mathfrak m=UT\). For a finite-dimensional graded \(T\)-module \(M\), write \(M=P\oplus N\) with \(P\) free and \(N\) without free summands (graded Krull–Schmidt), and \(\gamma(M)\) for the lowest degree of \(N\) (\(\infty\) if \(N=0\)). Since \(\sigma\mathfrak m=0\), multiplication by \(\sigma\) induces \(\bar\sigma:M/\mathfrak mM\to M\), raising degree by \(2h\).

Lemma (socle onset criterion). (1) \(\sigma N=0\), and \(\bar\sigma\) is injective on \(P/\mathfrak mP\). (2) \(\gamma(M)\) is the least \(d\) with \(\ker\bar\sigma_d\ne0\). (3) \(M\) is free through \(\gamma(M)\), and not through \(\gamma(M)+2h\). So freeness through \(D\) holds if \(\bar\sigma\) is injective in degrees \(\le D\), and implies that it is injective in degrees \(\le D-2h\).

Proof. (1) If \(\sigma x\ne0\) for some \(x\in N\), the kernel of \(T\to Tx\), \(\tau\mapsto\tau x\), is an ideal not containing the socle, hence zero. So \(Tx\cong T(-\deg x)\) is free, hence injective, hence a direct summand of \(N\), which is impossible. On \(P=\bigoplus T(-d_i)\), \(\bar\sigma\) maps the generator of each summand to its socle, and these images are independent. (2) \(M/\mathfrak mM=P/\mathfrak mP\oplus N/\mathfrak mN\), with \(\bar\sigma\) injective on the first and zero on the second by (1). So \(\ker\bar\sigma_d=(N/\mathfrak mN)_d\), and the least degree of \(N/\mathfrak mN\) is the least degree of \(N\), by graded Nakayama. (3) Freeness through \(\gamma\) is prop:group-freeness (ii). Let \(x\) be a minimal generator of \(N\) in degree \(\gamma\), and \(e_x\) the corresponding basis element of the minimal free cover \(F\to M\). Then \(\sigma e_x\ne0\) in \(F\), while its image \(\sigma x\) is 0 by (1). So the cover has a nonzero kernel in degree \(\gamma+2h\), and freeness through \(\gamma+2h\) fails. The last sentence combines (2) and (3). \(\square\)

prop:group-freeness (iii), that \(\gamma(\Lambda(S))\ge1\) exactly when the socle product is nonzero on \(\Lambda(S)\), is the degree-0 case of (2), where \((M/\mathfrak mM)_0\) is spanned by 1.

The semantic form of per-member freeness

Apply the lemma to SJF\(_j\) of cor:sequential-pullback-locality. There \(G_{<j}=\operatorname{gr}F^{P_{<j}}\) is row-free through \(D\) by the corollary's step \(j-1\). Then freeness over \(T_j\otimes\Lambda\) through \(D\) is freeness of \(\bar G=G_{<j}/\mathfrak m_\Lambda G_{<j}\) over \(T_j\) through \(D\): resolve \(\mathbb F_3\) over each truncated variable \(x\) (a form of member \(j\) or a row sum) by the periodic resolution \(\cdots\to\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)(-3)\xrightarrow{x^2}\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)(-1)\xrightarrow{x}\mathbb F_3[x]/(x^3)\to\mathbb F_3\), the one used for \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in the involvement entry. Tensor products of these over \(\mathbb F_3\) resolve \(\mathbb F_3\) over \(T_j\), over \(\Lambda\) and over \(T_j\otimes\Lambda\) (Künneth over a field), and computing with the \(\Lambda\)-factor first gives \(\operatorname{Tor}^{T_j\otimes\Lambda}(\mathbb F_3,G_{<j})=\operatorname{Tor}^{T_j}(\mathbb F_3,\bar G)\) in internal degrees where \(G_{<j}\) is \(\Lambda\)-free, and the complexes in internal degree \(d\) involve \(G_{<j}\) only in degrees \(\le d\). The socle product of \(T_j\) is the top of \(\prod_sL_{j,s}^2\), the indicator of the set where all of member \(j\)'s forms are nonzero. So the lemma says:

SJF\(_j\) holds through \(D\) if, for every function \(f\) on \(P_{<j}\) of degree \(d\le D\) whose top lies outside \((\ell_j)G_{<j}+\mathfrak m_\Lambda G_{<j}\), the product \(f\cdot\prod_sL_{j,s}^2\) keeps degree \(d+2h_j\) on \(P_{<j}\) with top outside \(\mathfrak m_\Lambda G_{<j}\): multiplying by the member's indicator does not drop the degree, modulo the row sums.
Conversely, SJF\(_j\) through \(D\) forces this for \(d\le D-2h_j\).

The two witnesses of the sequential entry are instances, with no row sums. In the first, member 2 has the forms \(u,b\) (\(h_2=2\), socle product \(u^2b^2\)), and \(a\), a minimal generator of \(A/(au^2)\) outside \((u,b)\), is killed by \(u^2b^2\). In the second, member 3 has the single form \(a+b\) (\(h_3=1\), socle product \((a+b)^2\)), and the minimal generator \(u^2v^2\) of \(A/(au^2,bv^2)\) is killed by \((a+b)^2\). For W's members, \(h_j\approx k\), so the gap between the two directions is about \(2k\), small against \(D=22k\).

What blocks the joint version

By prop:group-freeness (i), superadditivity holds over \(T_j\) itself. In pattern space, with the earlier members on disjoint coordinates and \(U\) the span of member \(j\)'s forms, \(\gamma_{T_j}(\bigotimes_iM_i)\ge\sum_i\gamma_{T_j}(M_i)\). Two things make the sum small.

Non-injective projections. If the projection \(\pi_i:U\to W_i\) onto member \(i\)'s coordinates is not injective, some nonzero form of \(U\) acts on \(M_i\) as zero, \(M_i\) has no free summand over \(T_j\), and \(\gamma_{T_j}(M_i)=0\). Grouping members so that \(U\) injects into each group helps only through the second point.
Onset loss. For a group \(g\) into which \(U\) injects, \(A_g\) is free over \(T_j\) and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of \(X_g=A_g/\sum_{i\in g}\mathfrak n_i\) starts in degree \(\ge\delta_g\): the argument of the involvement theorem's step (4), now over \(T_j\), since \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T_j}(\mathbb F_3,X_g)\) embeds in \(\mathbb F_3\otimes_{T_j}\sum_{i\in g}\mathfrak n_i\) when \(A_g\) is \(T_j\)-free. A non-free summand generated in degree \(s\) relates by degree \(s+2h_j\) (part (3)), so only \(\gamma(X_g)\ge\delta_g-2h_j\) follows. For W, \(\delta_g=k+2\) and \(h_j\approx k+1\), so the bound is empty.

So the joint version needs a better onset bound for a group module over a member's whole span: that the socle product \(\prod_sL_{j,s}^2\) acts injectively on the group's minimal generators through a degree growing with the group. This is the question conj:socle-nonvanishing asks for the base, one row and \(\Lambda(S)\), with thm:base-union-socle proving a weaker threshold. Here it is asked on the quotient by earlier pattern ideals.

Outcome. lem:socle-onset-criterion (working proof): the non-free onset over a member's truncated algebra is exactly the first degree where the member's socle product fails to be injective on minimal generators. So per-member freeness through \(D\) is sandwiched, within \(2h_j\) degrees, by degree exactness of multiplication by the member's indicator on the earlier intersection, modulo the row sums. Correction: thm:involvement-threshold's tensor step is prop:group-freeness (i). The joint version is not blocked by Jordan blocks, but by non-injective projections and an onset loss of \(2h_j\) per group. The lead is developed: it gives the semantic form, and it identifies the joint question with a socle-nonvanishing statement on quotients.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove the socle statement on quotients where the record proves it for the base. Given earlier W members whose ideals are generated in degree \(\ge k+2\), and a member \(j\) whose every nonzero combination of forms involves many earlier members, show that \(\prod_sL_{j,s}^2\) acts injectively on minimal generators through degree about \(\sum(\delta-2)\). Start from thm:base-union-socle's argument and test whether its union-of-bases mechanism survives quotients by ideals generated in degree \(\ge k+2\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:group-freeness with its proof, conj:socle-nonvanishing, thm:base-union-socle's statement, cor:sequential-pullback-locality and thm:involvement-threshold with its proof. Claim searches for socle criteria of freeness, products of squares acting injectively, graded Nakayama criteria and indicator degree exactness found prop:group-freeness, which the involvement cycle had missed; the correction above records it. No computation this cycle. A fresh-context reviewer checked parts (1) to (3) and the sandwich, the identification of the involvement theorem's step (5) with prop:group-freeness (i) and the corrected diagnosis of the joint obstacle, and both joint obstructions, including that a non-injective projection gives \(\gamma=0\) exactly. It found no error and no unused hypothesis. It required two clarifications, both adopted: the resolutions behind the change of rings are now named, and the witnesses are restated as cases with \(h_j=2\) and \(h_j=1\). At its suggestion the group \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) bound is stated as the multivariable form of the involvement theorem's step (4).

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Relation-space Tor: the board's top syzygies of member-local tops are the Tor of the members' tensor product over the truncated algebra of the linear relations among all forms, so involvement becomes meaningful on the board, for relations: a single relation meeting at least 11 W members (clause tops) is harmless through 22k, and the transfer is a truncated regular-sequence statement for the relation space

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-quotient-socle. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relation-space Tor: the board's top syzygies of member-local tops are the Tor of the members' tensor product over the truncated algebra of the linear relations among all forms, so involvement becomes meaningful on the board, for relations: a single relation meeting at least 11 W members (clause tops) is harmless through 22k, and the transfer is a truncated regular-sequence statement for the relation space”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-relation-space-tor.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The sequential line review named the obstacle, freeness on the board beyond capacity, and noted that involvement (thm:involvement-threshold) has no meaning on the board, since every form lies in the span of the others there. Its passed Lieb–Robinson bridge asked for a board light cone: non-freeness in degree \(d\) should need relation chains of length at most \(d/k\). The socle onset criterion proposed attacking a socle statement on quotients. Before that, this cycle asks whether the board itself can be written in pattern space, where involvement is defined. It can: the board is pattern space cut by the linear relations among the forms.

General statement. lem:relation-space-tor: with \(A\) the truncated algebra of one variable per form of every member, \(R\subseteq A_1\) the space of linear relations among the forms, and \(J=\sum_iJ_i\) any member-local ideal, in the cube model \[\operatorname{Tor}^A_q(A/J,\ A_{\rm cube})_s\cong\operatorname{Tor}^{T(R)}_q\Big(\mathbb F_3,\ \bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\Big)_s\quad\text{for all }q,s,\] with \(R\) acting diagonally on the tensor product.

lem:relation-space-tor

Setting. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), members \(i=1,\dots,M\) have linear forms \(\ell_{i,1},\dots,\ell_{i,h_i}\) on a board whose degree-1 space is \(E\). Give every form its own variable: \(A_i=\mathbb F_3[x_{i,1},\dots,x_{i,h_i}]/(x^3)\) and \(A=\bigotimes_iA_i\). Assume the forms span \(E\) (beyond capacity this holds; otherwise add the missing coordinates as a further factor with \(J=0\) there). The map \(A_1\to E\), \(x_{i,s}\mapsto\ell_{i,s}\), is onto, with kernel \(R\), the relation space; a form shared by two members gives the relation \(x_{i,s}-x_{i',s'}\). \(T(R)=\mathrm{Sym}(R)/(\text{cubes})\subseteq A\). The cube model is \(A_{\rm cube}=\mathrm{Sym}(E)/(\text{cubes})\), the graded algebra of the functions on \(\mathbb F_3^N\); the weak base is treated in (3). \(J_i\subseteq A_i\) are homogeneous ideals (clause tops or pattern top ideals of member \(i\), in its own variables), \(J=\sum_iJ_iA\), and \(A/J=\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\).

Lemma (relation-space Tor). (1) \(A_{\rm cube}\cong A/RA=A\otimes_{T(R)}\mathbb F_3\), and \(A\) is free over \(T(R)\). (2) For every graded \(A\)-module \(X\), \(\operatorname{Tor}^A_q(X,A_{\rm cube})\cong\operatorname{Tor}^{T(R)}_q(X,\mathbb F_3)\), degree by degree. For \(X=A/J\), \(R\) acts on \(\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\) diagonally, \(r=\sum_ir^{(i)}\) acting through its components \(r^{(i)}\in(A_i)_1\). (3) For any graded \(A\)-module \(G\) on which \(R\) acts as zero (for instance \(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P\) of the weak base, through \(x_{i,s}\mapsto\ell_{i,s}\)): if \(A/J\) is free over \(T(R)\) through \(D\), then \(\operatorname{Tor}^A_q(A/J,G)_s\cong\operatorname{Tor}^{A_{\rm cube}}_q(A_{\rm cube}/\bar J,G)_s\) for \(s\le D\), where \(\bar J\) is the image of \(J\), the ideal of the tops on the board.

Proof. (1) Choose a basis of \(A_1\) extending a basis of \(R\). Since cubes of linear forms vanish in characteristic 3, the change of variables is an automorphism of \(A\), and \(A\cong T(R)\otimes A'\), with \(A'\) the truncated algebra on the complementary variables. So \(A\) is free over \(T(R)\), and \(A/RA\cong A'\) is the truncated algebra of \(A_1/R\cong E\), which is \(A_{\rm cube}\). (2) Let \(P_\bullet\to\mathbb F_3\) be a graded free resolution over \(T(R)\). Since \(A\) is free over \(T(R)\), \(A\otimes_{T(R)}P_\bullet\) is a graded free resolution of \(A\otimes_{T(R)}\mathbb F_3=A_{\rm cube}\) over \(A\), and \(X\otimes_A(A\otimes_{T(R)}P_\bullet)=X\otimes_{T(R)}P_\bullet\). Taking homology gives (2). Multiplication by \(r\in R\subseteq A_1\) on \(\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\) is \(\sum_i1\otimes\dots\otimes r^{(i)}\otimes\dots\otimes1\), the diagonal action of the Hopf algebra \(T(R)\) with \(R\) primitive. (3) Write \(A=T(R)\otimes A'\) as in (1). For the weak base, \(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P=A_{\rm cube}/\operatorname{gr}I(P)\) is an \(A\)-module through \(A\to A_{\rm cube}\to G\), and \(R\) is the kernel of \(A_1\to E\), so \(R\) maps to 0 in \(A_{\rm cube}\) and acts on \(G\) as zero. (The relations are among the linear parts of the forms, which are what act on \(G\).) So \(G\) is an \(A'\)-module with \(T(R)\) acting through \(\mathbb F_3\). Take \(Q_\bullet\) minimal; since \(G\) lives in degrees \(\ge0\) and \(A'\) is positively graded, \(Q_\bullet\) is concentrated in degrees \(\ge0\). Resolve \(\mathbb F_3\) over \(T(R)\) by \(P_\bullet\) and \(G\) over \(A'\) by \(Q_\bullet\); then \(P_\bullet\otimes Q_\bullet\) resolves \(G\) over \(A\). The double complex \(A/J\otimes_A(P_\bullet\otimes Q_\bullet)=(A/J\otimes_{T(R)}P_\bullet)\otimes_{A'}Q_\bullet\), filtered by the \(P\)-degree, has first-page terms \(\operatorname{Tor}^{T(R)}_q(A/J,\mathbb F_3)\otimes_{A'}Q_\bullet\). In internal degrees \(\le D\) these vanish for \(q>0\) by the freeness hypothesis, since all maps preserve internal degree and \(Q_\bullet\) is concentrated in degrees \(\ge0\). The complex then reduces to \(\big((A/J)/R(A/J)\big)\otimes_{A'}Q_\bullet\) with \((A/J)/R(A/J)=A'/\bar J\), whose homology is \(\operatorname{Tor}^{A'}(A'/\bar J,G)\). \(\square\)

For any \(J\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)=\ker(J\otimes_AG\to G)\) is the space of top syzygies on \(G\) of the generators of \(J\) modulo those lifted from syzygies over \(A\). When the \(J_i\) are generated by monomials in the variables, such as W's clause tops, prop:syzygies-as-tor identifies it with the top syzygies modulo Taylor syzygies. So for clause tops, (2) says: in the cube model the syzygies on the board are Taylor-generated through \(D\) if and only if \(\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\) is free over \(T(R)\) through \(D\). For pattern top ideals, which need not be monomial, the same freeness is equivalent to the vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,A_{\rm cube})\) through \(D\), without the Taylor interpretation. (3) says the same on the weak base, relative to the base: freeness over \(T(R)\) reduces the board's \(\operatorname{Tor}\) against the base to the Tor of the board tops against the base, the question conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base asks.

Involvement on the board

By (2), thm:involvement-threshold applies to every single relation \(r\in R\), with involvement \(I(r)=\{i:r^{(i)}\ne0\}\), the members whose forms occur in \(r\): \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(r)}(\mathbb F_3,A/J)_d=0\) for \(d\le\sum_{i\in I(r)}\max(\delta_i-2,0)\), where \(J_i\) is generated in degrees \(\ge\delta_i\). This is the board light cone the Lieb–Robinson bridge asked for, for one relation at a time. For W's clause tops \(-L_i^2\prod_{s\in S}L_s^2\), \(\delta=2k+2\), so a relation meeting at least 11 members is harmless through \(22k\). For closed members (pattern top ideals), \(\delta=k+2\), and the number is 22. So only relations among the forms of at most 10 members can create non-Taylor syzygies of clause tops through \(22k\), and only relations among at most 21 closed members can create \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of their pattern ideals. Such relations are dependencies among a bounded number of members' forms: the bounded-span configurations of conj:span-local-generation.

A record check: ex:three-top-relation-types has three tops \(A_i^2B_i\) (\(\delta=3\)) whose forms satisfy one relation meeting all three. The bound gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) zero through degree 3, and the recorded defect appears first at degree 6 or 7. The bound holds and is not sharp.

What remains: the relation space as a whole

Freeness over \(T(R)\) is freeness over a space of relations of dimension \(\rho=\sum_ih_i-\dim E\), of order \(n^Kk\) for W, far larger than any member's \(h_i\). By prop:group-freeness (i), \(\gamma_{T(R)}(A/J)\ge\sum_i\gamma_{T(R)}(A_i/J_i)\). A member's module sees \(R\) through the projection \(R\to(A_i)_1\), which has a kernel as soon as \(\rho>h_i\), so every term is 0: a nonzero relation acting on \(A_i/J_i\) as zero makes the socle product of \(T(R)\) act as zero, and by lem:socle-onset-criterion (2) the onset is then the lowest degree, 0. This elementary use needs none of the socle-nonvanishing statements on quotients that the criterion's entry leaves open. So superadditivity over members says nothing jointly. The joint statement is a truncated regular-sequence property. For a basis \(r_1,\dots,r_\rho\) of \(R\), \(A/J\) is free over \(T(R)\) through \(D\) if and only if each \(r_{t+1}\) acts freely through \(D\) on \((A/J)/(r_1,\dots,r_t)\). Proof: write \(T(R)=T(r_1)\otimes T(R')\). If \(M\) is free over \(T(r_1)\) through \(D\), the argument of (3), with \(T(r_1)\) in place of \(T(R)\) and \(T(R')\) in place of \(A'\), gives \(\operatorname{Tor}^{T(R)}_q(\mathbb F_3,M)_s\cong\operatorname{Tor}^{T(R')}_q(\mathbb F_3,M/r_1M)_s\) for \(s\le D\). The isomorphism preserves degrees, so induction over the \(\rho\) relations accumulates no shift. Conversely, a cover \(T(R)\otimes B\to M\) bijective through \(D\) is a \(T(r_1)\)-free cover bijective through \(D\), and it induces \(T(R')\otimes B\cong M/r_1M\) through \(D\). After a few relations, the quotients are no longer tensor products of member modules: a relation merges the members it meets into one cluster. The later relations then act inside merged clusters, where involvement gives only the onset of one cluster. This is the form in which the obstacle of the sequential review now stands. It is also exactly Fröberg's question (the convergence review's second lead): do the relation forms act with maximal rank, as generic linear forms are conjectured to, on the Artinian algebra \(\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\)?

Outcome. lem:relation-space-tor (working proof). In the cube model, Taylor generation of member-local tops on the board through \(D\) is equivalent to freeness, through \(D\), of the tensor product of the members' modules over the truncated algebra of the linear relations among all forms. On the weak base, that freeness reduces the question to the base's own Tor with the board tops. Involvement is therefore meaningful on the board, for relations. One relation meeting at least 11 W members (clause tops), or 22 (closed members), acts freely through \(22k\), so only relations among boundedly many members can break freeness one relation at a time. The whole relation space needs a truncated regular-sequence (Fröberg-type) statement, which superadditivity over members does not give. Bridge follow-up: the Lieb–Robinson bridge is developed, as a light cone for single relations.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): attack the truncated regular-sequence statement for the relation space. The natural order processes relations of large involvement first, merging members into clusters. The question is whether freeness of a relation on a merged cluster can be bounded below by the involvement of the relation in the original members. This would be a merged form of the involvement theorem, needing the onset of a quotient \((\bigotimes_{i\in C}A_i/J_i)/(r_1,\dots,r_t)\) in terms of \(C\)'s members. Test it first on the chain families, whose relations each meet two members.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:syzygies-as-tor, prop:group-freeness, thm:involvement-threshold, lem:socle-onset-criterion, lem:row-sum-absorption (the same change of rings for the row sums), ex:three-top-relation-types and conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base. Claim searches for relation spaces and change of rings, linear relations among forms, syzygies as Tor, circuits and components, and truncated regular sequences found lem:row-sum-absorption's change of rings for the row sums and no statement for the relation space. No computation this cycle. A fresh-context reviewer checked (1) to (3), including the internal-degree bookkeeping of (3), and the thresholds 11 and 22 against thm:involvement-threshold and ex:three-top-relation-types, and found no prior statement. It required five changes, all adopted: the proof that \(R\) acts as zero on the weak base's graded algebra; the Taylor reading restricted to monomial tops, with \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) described for pattern ideals; the elementary use of the socle criterion distinguished from its open quotient question; a proof of the regular-sequence equivalence with its degrees; and this gate. At its suggestion the resolution in (3) is taken minimal, in degrees \(\ge0\).

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Relation merging barrier: freeness over the relation algebra is the product formula for the board quotient's Hilbert series, of the shape of A3's relative semi-regularity; a relation meeting c clusters acts freely through c(δ−2) degrees, but in any order at most (M−1)/(c−1) relations meet c clusters, so beyond capacity involvement certifies a vanishing fraction of the relations, and the transfer is semi-regularity inside merged clusters

28 September 2026 · Working proof and obstruction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-merged-involvement. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relation merging barrier: freeness over the relation algebra is the product formula for the board quotient's Hilbert series, of the shape of A3's relative semi-regularity; a relation meeting c clusters acts freely through c(δ−2) degrees, but in any order at most (M−1)/(c−1) relations meet c clusters, so beyond capacity involvement certifies a vanishing fraction of the relations, and the transfer is semi-regularity inside merged clusters”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-relation-merging-barrier.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Relation-space Tor (lem:relation-space-tor) made Taylor generation of member tops on the board, in the cube model, into freeness of \(\mathcal M=\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\) over the truncated algebra \(T(R)\) of the relations among the forms. Freeness is a truncated regular-sequence property of a basis \(r_1,\dots,r_\rho\) of \(R\). Its next step asked for a merged form of the involvement theorem: a bound on the freeness of a relation acting on clusters that earlier relations merged. This cycle proves that form, and shows by a count that it cannot carry the transfer.

General statement. prop:relation-merging-barrier: \(\mathcal M\) is free over \(T(R)\) through \(D\) exactly when the board quotient's Hilbert series satisfies \[\mathrm{HS}(A_{\rm cube}/\bar J)\equiv(1+t+t^2)^N\prod_i\frac{\mathrm{HS}(A_i/J_i)}{(1+t+t^2)^{h_i}}\pmod{t^{D+1}},\] and in any order of any basis of \(R\), at most \((M-1)/(c-1)\) relations meet \(c\ge2\) current clusters, the only ones for which merged involvement certifies freeness through \(c(\delta-2)\).

prop:relation-merging-barrier

Setting, as in lem:relation-space-tor: members \(i=1,\dots,M\) with variables for their \(h_i\) forms, \(A_i\), \(A=\bigotimes A_i\), relations \(R\subseteq A_1\) of dimension \(\rho=\sum_ih_i-N\) when the forms span the board's \(N\)-dimensional degree-1 space, member-local ideals \(J_i\subseteq A_i\) generated in degrees \(\ge\delta\), \(\mathcal M=A/J=\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\), and \(\bar J\) the image of \(J\) in \(A_{\rm cube}=A/RA\). Fix a basis \(r_1,\dots,r_\rho\) of \(R\) and process it in order. After \(r_1,\dots,r_t\), the clusters are the connected components of the hypergraph on the members whose edges are the sets \(I(r_s)\), \(s\le t\), of members each processed relation involves.

Proposition. (1) Hilbert criterion. \(\mathcal M\) is free over \(T(R)\) through \(D\) if and only if the congruence above holds; the right side is \(\mathrm{HS}(\mathcal M)/\mathrm{HS}(T(R))\). (2) Merged involvement. For any \(t\), \(\mathcal M_t=\mathcal M/(r_1,\dots,r_t)\mathcal M\) is the tensor product over the current clusters \(C\) of \(X_C=(\bigotimes_{i\in C}A_i/J_i)/(r_s:I(r_s)\subseteq C)\). If \(r_{t+1}\) has nonzero image in \((X_C)_1\) modulo the relations already imposed, for \(c\) distinct clusters, then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(r_{t+1})}(\mathbb F_3,\mathcal M_t)_d=0\) for \(d\le c(\delta-2)\). By the truncated regular-sequence equivalence of lem:relation-space-tor's entry, freeness over \(T(R)\) through \(D\) is this condition, through \(D\), at every step. (3) Count barrier. In any order of any basis of \(R\), a relation meeting \(c\ge2\) current clusters lowers the number of clusters by \(c-1\), and a relation meeting one cluster lowers it by 0. The number of clusters starts at \(M\) and stays \(\ge1\), so at most \((M-1)/(c-1)\) of the \(\rho\) relations meet \(c\) or more clusters. The other relations get from (2) only a bound below \(c(\delta-2)\).

Proof. (1) Let \(V=\mathcal M/R\mathcal M=A_{\rm cube}/\bar J\) and take a minimal graded cover \(T(R)\otimes V\to\mathcal M\). It is onto, so \(\mathrm{HS}(\mathcal M)\le\mathrm{HS}(T(R))\,\mathrm{HS}(V)\) coefficientwise, and equality through degree \(D\) holds exactly when the cover is injective through \(D\), that is, when \(\mathcal M\) is free through \(D\). Here \(\mathrm{HS}(\mathcal M)=\prod_i\mathrm{HS}(A_i/J_i)\) and \(\mathrm{HS}(T(R))=(1+t+t^2)^\rho\), which is invertible as a power series, and \(\rho=\sum_ih_i-N\). (2) Each processed relation lies in the variables of one cluster, so the quotient of the tensor product by the processed relations is the tensor product of the cluster quotients \(X_C\). A truncated algebra modulo linear forms is a truncated algebra (lem:relation-space-tor (1)), so \(X_C=A'_C/\bar J_C\), with \(A'_C\) a truncated algebra and \(\bar J_C\) generated in degrees \(\ge\delta\). The relation \(r_{t+1}\) acts on \(\mathcal M_t\) diagonally, through its images \(r^{(C)}\in(A'_C)_1\). For a cluster with \(r^{(C)}\ne0\), \(A'_C\) is free over \(T(r^{(C)})\), so \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of \(X_C\) embeds in \(\bar J_C/r^{(C)}\bar J_C\), in degrees \(\ge\delta\), and the non-free part of \(X_C\) starts in degree \(\ge\delta-2\) (step (4) of thm:involvement-threshold). By prop:group-freeness (i) and (ii), \(\mathcal M_t\) is free over \(T(r_{t+1})\) through \(c(\delta-2)\). (3) Merging \(c\) components into one lowers their number by \(c-1\); the rest is counting. \(\square\)

What it says for W

The target is A3's semi-regularity. By (1), the transfer in the cube model is the statement that the board quotient by the member tops has the product Hilbert series through \(22k\): each member contributes its own relative series \(\mathrm{HS}(A_i/J_i)/(1+t+t^2)^{h_i}\). For clause tops this is the shape of conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, whose series is a product of one factor per clause. So in the cube model the relative-gluing route's transfer has the shape of A3's conjecture. It is not the same statement: SR uses one uniform factor per clause over the weak algebra, while (1) has a factor per member over the cube. Beyond the fill point, where the product has a nonpositive coefficient, freeness fails, as it must.
Involvement cannot carry it. For W, the family has \(M=n^K\) blocks (statement W), each with at least \(k+1\) forms, so \(\rho\ge M(k+1)-N\), of order \(n^Kk\) once \(Mk\gg N\) (beyond capacity). At most \((M-1)/10\) relations can meet 11 clusters, the number clause tops need through \(22k\) (\(\delta=2k+2\)). So all but a fraction of at most about \(1/(10(k+1))\) of the relations act inside a single merged cluster, where (2) gives only \(\delta-2=2k\). Choosing the basis or the order does not help, since (3) holds for all of them. The information needed is the Hilbert function of a merged cluster, which is semi-regularity again, for fewer members.
Consistency. In the chain families each sharing relation meets two members, and the chains' many forms on a few coordinates add further relations. The sharing relations already merge a chain into one cluster, so the count leaves most relations inside clusters. The recorded absence of cross falls on chains (ex:chain-star-falls) is therefore not explained by involvement; it is a statement about the Hilbert functions of chain clusters.

Outcome. prop:relation-merging-barrier (working proof and obstruction). Freeness over the relation algebra is equivalent to the product formula for the board quotient's Hilbert series, which has the shape of A3's relative semi-regularity. Merged involvement bounds the freeness of a relation by the number of clusters it merges. But in any order at most \((M-1)/(c-1)\) relations merge \(c\) clusters, so beyond capacity it certifies a vanishing fraction of the relations. On this route, the A1 transfer in the cube model is semi-regularity of the member tops inside merged clusters: the sequential and relation-space reformulations have converged to the shape of A3's core.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review of the sequential and relation-space line. The line now meets A3, and the review should decide whether to continue on A3's semi-regularity with the relation-space form (a cluster's Hilbert function), or to return to the pattern-level results through a statement that uses them inside clusters. Candidate outside leads: Fröberg-type theorems for truncated algebras in positive characteristic, and Hochster–Laksov's first-degree theorem, which lem:first-degree-purity parallels.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:relation-space-tor with its regular-sequence equivalence, step (4) of thm:involvement-threshold, prop:group-freeness (i) and (ii), conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base and ex:chain-star-falls. Claim searches for relation merging, cluster counts and Hilbert-series criteria of freeness found the recorded semi-regularity conjectures and no count of this kind. No computation this cycle. A fresh-context reviewer checked the Hilbert criterion (the minimal cover, graded Nakayama, and the product formula with \(\rho=\sum_ih_i-N\)), the tensor decomposition into cluster quotients, the onset \(\delta-2\) and the use of group freeness, and the count barrier for any basis and order. It found no error. It required two changes, both adopted: the module is now \(\mathcal M\), distinct from the member count \(M\); and the fraction of certified relations is derived from \(M=n^K\) and \(h\ge k+1\), beyond capacity. At its suggestion the identification with SR is stated as a match of shape, not of statement.

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Route review of the relation-space line: the transfer is Tor over the relation algebra of the members' tensor product, whose freeness form is false already for a three-member chain below the fill point; what survives the tests is local generation of that Tor by bounded member sets, with which the chain's onset dimensions are consistent

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-relation-line-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the relation-space line: the transfer is Tor over the relation algebra of the members' tensor product, whose freeness form is false already for a three-member chain below the fill point; what survives the tests is local generation of that Tor by bounded member sets, with which the chain's onset dimensions are consistent”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-relation-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the sequential line review, three entries:

socle onset criterion: per-member freeness is degree exactness of the member's socle product on minimal generators; the involvement theorem's tensor step is prop:group-freeness (lem:socle-onset-criterion, with a correction);
relation-space Tor: in the cube model the board Tor of member-local tops is \(\operatorname{Tor}^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i)\), with \(R\) the relations among the forms, so involvement applies to single relations (lem:relation-space-tor);
relation merging barrier: freeness over \(T(R)\) is the product formula for the board quotient's Hilbert series, and involvement certifies at most \((M-1)/(c-1)\) relations (prop:relation-merging-barrier).

The line's general claim

The transfer from members to the board is a statement about \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i)\) through \(D=22k\), where \(R\) is the space of linear relations among all forms and the tensor product lives in pattern space. That module is controlled locally: its classes come from relations among the forms of boundedly many members.

What the goal needs

Taylor glue and cover relative gluing need the board's top syzygies to be generated by local ones, not to vanish. In relation-space form: \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i)\) is spanned, through \(22k\), by the images of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R_S)}(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i)\) for sets \(S\) of boundedly many members, where \(R_S\) is the space of relations among the forms of \(S\). This is conj:span-local-generation, moved into pattern space by lem:relation-space-tor. On the weak base, part (3) of that lemma reduces what remains to the base.

Falsification attempt

Is freeness over \(T(R)\), the product formula, true for W-like families below the fill point? No. research/tools/chain_bag_tor.m2 computes, for a chain of three members \(A_i/(x_iy_i^2)\) with the sharing relations \(y_1-x_2\) and \(y_2-x_3\) (output research/results/odd-prime-relation-line-review/chain_bag_tor.txt):

The full chain has \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of dimensions \(2,4,3,1\) in degrees 5 to 8.
The board quotient has Hilbert function \(1,4,10,13,10,3,0\). The product formula gives \(1,4,10,13,10,1,-2,\dots\).
So the first failure is at degree 5, where the formula's coefficient is still positive: a genuine non-freeness below the fill point, not a forced one.

Short relations make the freeness form false, as ex:three-top-relation-types already showed for one relation meeting three members. Only local generation can hold. The same run tests that: each bag \(\{1,2\}\), \(\{2,3\}\) with its one relation has \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of dimensions \(1,3,5,4,1\) in degrees 5 to 9. At the onset, degree 5, the chain's 2 is the sum \(1+1\) of the bags. Above it, the chain is below the sum of the bags (4 against 6 at degree 6). This is consistent with generation by the bags; it does not prove it, since the images of the bags' Tor classes were not computed.

Obstacle

Local generation of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i)\) through \(22k\) by bounded member sets, for a relation space of dimension of order \(n^Kk\). Involvement handles single long relations. The merging barrier shows that most relations act inside merged clusters, where only the cluster's own Tor is available. So the missing mechanism is a gluing of Tor classes along the relation hypergraph (members as vertices, relations as edges) that stays local when the hypergraph is large and connected.

Assessment of the route

Productive in placement. The line converted the board transfer into a pattern-space statement with an exact Hilbert-series criterion, and located single-relation control (involvement) and its limit (the merging count). It also showed, by computation, that the freeness form is false for chains, so the target must be local generation, conj:span-local-generation in a new form that is computable in pattern space. No mechanism for the gluing of Tor classes along large connected relation hypergraphs is recorded. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Hochster and Laksov's theorem (M. Hochster and D. Laksov, The linear syzygies of generic forms, Comm. Algebra 15, 1987): generic forms have the expected number of linear syzygies, maximal rank in the first nontrivial degree, the proved case of Fröberg's conjecture. Answers. It would give freeness over \(T(R)\) in the first degree past the tops for relation spaces in general position. Test. Falsified for adversarial families: the chain's relations are special, and its quotient fails the product formula at degree 5, two degrees past the tops' degree 3 and before the fill point. For generic forms, thm:generic-top-directness already covers what it would give.
Green's hyperplane restriction theorem (M. Green, Restrictions of linear series to hyperplanes, and some results of Macaulay and Gotzmann, Lecture Notes in Math. 1389, 1989): for a general linear form, the Hilbert function of the section is at most the Macaulay-type bound \((h_d)_{\langle d\rangle}\). Answers. Sequential relations are hyperplane sections, so an upper bound on each section's Hilbert function would bound the non-freeness step by step. Test. Falsified as a freeness certificate. For the two-member example \(A/(au^2,bv^2)\) of the sequential entry, \(h_4=13=\binom54+\binom43+\binom32+\binom11\) gives the bound \(13_{\langle4\rangle}=3\), while freeness needs the value 2 (the product formula's coefficient, which the saved Macaulay2 check attains). The bound also concerns general forms, not the given relations.
The Eliahou–Kervaire splitting (S. Eliahou and M. Kervaire, Minimal resolutions of some monomial ideals, J. Algebra 129, 1990; generalized as Betti splittings by C. A. Francisco, H. T. Hà and A. Van Tuyl, Splittings of monomial ideals, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137, 2009): when an ideal splits as \(I=J+K\), its Betti numbers are \(\beta_i(J)+\beta_i(K)+\beta_{i-1}(J\cap K)\). Answers. Along a tree of bags, the Tor of the whole would be the sum over bags plus intersection terms, which is local generation with exact counts. Test. Falsified as an equality on the chain. The sum formula would put the chain at or above the bag sum, but at degree 6 the chain has 4 against the bags' 6. The relations are not a splitting, and the bags' classes are not independent in the whole.

Absurd bridges

Dynamic programming on tree decompositions (B. Courcelle, The monadic second-order logic of graphs I, Inform. and Comput. 85, 1990; with the treewidth algorithms of H. L. Bodlaender). Problems on graphs of bounded treewidth are solved by combining answers on bags along the decomposition. Translation: members are vertices and relations are hyperedges of the relation hypergraph; chains and stars have treewidth 1. Answers. For relation hypergraphs of bounded treewidth, Tor classes would be glued from the bags' classes, giving local generation. This would cover the chains, which the involvement line could not explain. Test. Passed on the three-member chain: the onset degree and dimension are those of the bags (\(2=1+1\) at degree 5), and above the onset the chain stays below the bag sum. A proof of generation needs the images of the bags' classes, which the run did not compute.
The cluster expansion of statistical mechanics (R. Kotecký and D. Preiss, Cluster expansion for abstract polymer models, Comm. Math. Phys. 103, 1986). The logarithm of a partition function is a sum over connected clusters of polymers, dominated by small clusters when their activities are small. Translation: the correction of the board quotient's Hilbert series from the product formula is a sum over connected groups of members and relations, with the degree of a group's first contribution as its weight. Answers. A convergent expansion in which groups of size \(s\) enter only from degree about \(s\) times the involvement onset would give local generation through \(22k\) from groups of bounded size. Test. Passed as consistency on the chain: the leading correction at degree 5 is the sum of the single-relation polymers (\(2=1+1\)), and their overlap enters only at the next degree (\(4=3+3-2\)). This matches the shape of a cluster expansion, whose second-order terms subtract overlaps.

Lead follow-up

Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series. Follow-up. Developed: the transfer is now a Fröberg-type product formula for the board quotient (prop:relation-merging-barrier (1)), and the chain computation shows that for adversarial relations the formula fails before the fill point, so only local generation can be targeted.
Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.
The Künneth spectral sequence over a base ring. Follow-up. Closed: its tensor form became thm:involvement-threshold and prop:group-freeness's superadditivity, and prop:relation-merging-barrier shows that tensor superadditivity certifies only a small fraction of the relations beyond capacity.
Higman's criterion for relative projectivity. Follow-up. Closed: developed into lem:socle-onset-criterion; the socle question on quotients that it raised is superseded by the relation-space form, where it becomes the Hilbert criterion of prop:relation-merging-barrier.

Bridge follow-up

The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.
Acyclic database schemes. Follow-up. Developed: its question is taken up by the treewidth bridge above, since acyclic relation hypergraphs are those of treewidth 1, and the chain test passed.
Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.
Helly's theorem on convex sets. Follow-up. Continuing: no work in these cycles; adapted bases for two shared coordinates remain thm:adapted-helly-locality's next action.
Lieb–Robinson bounds. Follow-up. Closed: developed into the single-relation light cone of lem:relation-space-tor, and prop:relation-merging-barrier shows that the light cone certifies only a small fraction of the relations beyond capacity.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the treewidth bridge. State relation-space local generation, that \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}\) is spanned by the images of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R_S)}\) for bounded member sets \(S\), as a conjecture. Then try to prove it for relation hypergraphs that are trees (chains and stars), by induction on leaves: removing a leaf member and its one relation, with a change of rings over the leaf relation. Compute the images of the bag classes on the three-member chain to check generation exactly.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three entries reviewed, ex:three-top-relation-types, thm:generic-top-directness's statement, the saved witness output of the involvement entry and the follow-up items of the sequential line review. The tests were run in the cycle: the Macaulay2 chain computation (research/tools/chain_bag_tor.m2, output research/results/odd-prime-relation-line-review/chain_bag_tor.txt), Green's bound by hand against the saved two-member output, and the splitting and cluster-expansion comparisons on the chain data. A fresh-context reviewer recomputed the members' Hilbert series, the cube of their product, the division by \((1+t+t^2)^2\), the Macaulay representation of 13 and Green's value 3, and the value 2 from the saved output. It confirmed the entry summaries and that the degree-5 failure lies before the fill point. It required one change, adopted: the title no longer says the chain satisfies local generation, only that its onset dimensions are consistent with it. At its suggestion the Betti-splitting generalization is cited with Eliahou and Kervaire.

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Relation-local generation: the board Tor of member tops over the relation algebra is spanned exactly by the images of edge bags on chains and a triangle, while a star whose hub form lies in every relation needs the hub with two leaves, the same three members the semantic star data and adapted Helly locality give

28 September 2026 · Conjecture and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-tree-relation-generation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relation-local generation: the board Tor of member tops over the relation algebra is spanned exactly by the images of edge bags on chains and a triangle, while a star whose hub form lies in every relation needs the hub with two leaves, the same three members the semantic star data and adapted Helly locality give”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-relation-local-generation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The relation line review found that the transfer's freeness form fails for a three-member chain below the fill point. The target is therefore local generation of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i)\) by bounded member sets. Its passed treewidth bridge asked whether Tor classes are glued from bags along the relation hypergraph, and it proposed computing the images of the bag classes exactly, not only dimensions. This cycle states the conjecture and makes that computation on the smallest trees, a star and a cycle.

General statement. conj:relation-local-generation: there is an absolute constant \(c\) such that, for member-local tops, \[\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}\Big(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\Big)_d=\sum_{|S|\le c}\operatorname{im}\Big(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R_S)}\Big(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\Big)_d\to\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}(\cdots)_d\Big)\quad(d\le22k),\] where \(S\) runs over sets of members and \(R_S\subseteq R\) is the space of relations among the forms of \(S\).

conj:relation-local-generation

Setting, as in lem:relation-space-tor: members with their own variables, \(A=\bigotimes_iA_i\), relation space \(R\), member-local ideals \(J_i\), and \(M=\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\). By lem:relation-space-tor, \(\operatorname{Tor}_q^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,M)=\operatorname{Tor}_q^A(A/J,A/RA)\), and for \(R_S\subseteq R\) the map in the display is induced by the quotient \(A/R_SA\to A/RA\). In the cube model the conjecture is conj:span-local-generation moved into pattern space, with member sets in place of clause sets of bounded span. For W it asks for \(c\) independent of \(n\), \(K\) and \(k\).

ex:relation-bag-images

Computation. research/tools/relation_bag_images.m2 (Macaulay2, exact over \(\mathbb F_3\); output research/results/odd-prime-relation-local-generation/bag_images.txt). Members are \(A_i/(x_iy_i^2)\), with tops of degree 3. For each family the script computes \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,A/RA)\) by degree through 14, and the dimension of the span of the images from the given bags. The families:

chains of three and four members, with relations \(y_i-x_{i+1}\);
a star, a hub \(1\) with the relations \(y_1-x_2\), \(y_1-x_3\), \(y_1-x_4\), so the hub's form \(y_1\) lies in every relation;
a triangle, with the relations \(y_1-x_2\), \(y_2-x_3\), \(y_3-x_1\) (a cycle, not a tree).

Results (degrees 5 to 10; all other degrees through 14 are 0; each member module lives in degrees \(\le3\), so \(M\) lives in degrees \(\le12\) and its \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degrees \(\le13\), and nothing is cut off):

chain of three: \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of dimensions \(2,4,3,1\), and the edge bags' images span all of it;
chain of four: \(3,9,13,9,2\), spanned by the edge bags;
star: \(6,15,20,14,6,1\). The single edges span only \(3,9,12,9,4,1\). The pairs of edges, that is the hub with two leaves, span all of it;
triangle: \(3,2\), spanned by the edges.

What the test could decide. Each family has nonzero \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in 2 to 6 degrees, 17 degree values in all, and each could have exceeded the bags' span. The conjecture with \(c=2\), generation by pairs of members, is refuted by the star in five of its six degrees. With \(c=3\) all 17 values agree. These are four families at \(\delta=3\), far below W's parameters; the check tests the mechanism, not the constant for W.

How it fits the record

The star is the case of one coordinate shared by all leaves. thm:star-family-locality splits its top syzygies into pairs of leaves, which with the hub are three members. thm:adapted-helly-locality gives \(\delta_q+1\) leaves for \(q\) shared coordinates, 2 for \(q=1\). The semantic cube data needed at most three members for stars (ex:chain-star-falls). The relation-space computation agrees with all three.
Chains, which the involvement line could not explain (prop:relation-merging-barrier), are generated by their edges, as the treewidth bridge predicted. The triangle, whose relation hypergraph is not a tree, is also generated by its edges, so treewidth 1 is not what the mechanism needs. The star suggests instead that the needed sets grow with the number of relations meeting in one form.
For W, forms may be shared by many members. The analogue of the star count, through thm:adapted-helly-locality (itself conditional on adapted bases for \(q\ge2\), and at the pattern level), suggests \(c\) of order \(\delta_q+2\) for \(q\) forms shared at a hub, so the conjecture's constant may need a bound on \(q\) in the bounded-span sense of conj:span-local-generation, not on the number of members.

Outcome. conj:relation-local-generation (conjecture), supported by ex:relation-bag-images (finite check). In the smallest relation hypergraphs, exact images show:

chains and a triangle are generated by edges;
a star with a hub form in every relation needs the hub with two leaves, and no more;
generation by pairs of members is refuted.

Bridge follow-up: the treewidth bridge is developed; its prediction for chains holds exactly, but the triangle shows that trees are not the dividing line, and the star shows that shared forms are.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove relation-local generation for relation hypergraphs in which no form lies in two relations (chains, cycles, and their unions), by induction on the relations. Removing one relation \(r\) between members \(p\) and \(\ell\), the change-of-rings spectral sequence over \(T(R')\otimes T(r)\) splits \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}\) into the image from \(T(R')\) and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(r)}(\mathbb F_3,(M/R'M))\). The step needed is that the second is spanned by the image of the bag \(\{p,\ell\}\), using that the form of \(p\) in \(r\) occurs in no other relation.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:relation-space-tor, the relation line review's falsification run, thm:star-family-locality, thm:adapted-helly-locality and ex:chain-star-falls. Claim searches for relation-local generation, bag images and Tor generation found the sequential cover results and no statement of this conjecture. The Macaulay2 computation is exact, and its first run failed on an operator-precedence error in the script (\(y(i)^2\) read as \(y(i^2)\)), fixed before the recorded run. A fresh-context reviewer checked that the script computes \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,A/RA)\) with a length-2 resolution, that the bag maps are well defined (each bag's relations lie in \(R\)) and that the images are summed in one ambient module. It also checked the families (the star's hub form in all three relations, and no form in two relations in the triangle), every reported number and the count of 17, and the fit with the star locality theorems. It found no error and required no change. At its suggestions the conditional status of adapted Helly locality and the adequacy of the degree range are stated.

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Coordinate relation locality: when every form is a board coordinate up to sign and the member tops are monomials, the board Tor over the relation algebra is generated by pairs of members, by Taylor's pair syzygies; correction: the star does not refute generation by pairs, since its test used edge relations, not all relations among a pair's forms

28 September 2026 · Working proof and correction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-leaf-induction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Coordinate relation locality: when every form is a board coordinate up to sign and the member tops are monomials, the board Tor over the relation algebra is generated by pairs of members, by Taylor's pair syzygies; correction: the star does not refute generation by pairs, since its test used edge relations, not all relations among a pair's forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-coordinate-relation-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Relation-local generation conjectured that \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i)\) is spanned by images from member sets \(S\) of bounded size, with \(R_S\) all relations among the forms of \(S\). It proposed a proof by induction on relations for families in which no form lies in two relations. Preparing that induction showed that the entry's own test of the star did not use its definition of \(R_S\). This cycle corrects that, and proves the conjecture with \(c=2\) whenever the forms are coordinates.

General statement. thm:coordinate-relation-locality: if every form of every member is \(\pm\) a board coordinate, distinct forms of one member giving distinct coordinates, and every \(J_i\) is a monomial ideal in member \(i\)'s variables, then in the cube model, in every degree, \[\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}\Big(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\Big)=\sum_{|S|\le2}\operatorname{im}\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R_S)}\Big(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\Big).\]

Correction: the star and pairs of members

ex:relation-bag-images tested the star (hub form \(y_1\) in the relations \(y_1-x_2\), \(y_1-x_3\), \(y_1-x_4\)) with bags given by single listed relations. For two leaves \(S=\{2,3\}\), however, \(R_S\) contains \(x_2-x_3=(y_1-x_3)-(y_1-x_2)\), which no single listed relation is, and the test never used it. So its conclusion that the star refutes generation by pairs, stated in that entry's outcome and in the registry, is wrong. research/tools/relation_pair_images.m2 repeats the star with \(R_S\) for all six pairs (output research/results/odd-prime-relation-local-generation/star_pair_images.txt). The pairs' images span all of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\), of dimensions \(6,15,20,14,6,1\) in degrees 5 to 10. The three leaf pairs alone span \(3,6,8,5,2\). So pairs of members generate the star, and the hub is needed only as one of the two members of a pair. The fit with thm:star-family-locality is then exact: its pair syzygies are syzygies of two leaves over their shared coordinate, which is the relation \(x_2-x_3\). The dated entry is unchanged; the registry records the correction.

thm:coordinate-relation-locality

Setting, as in lem:relation-space-tor, with coordinate forms. Board coordinates \(z_1,\dots,z_N\), \(A_{\rm cube}=\mathbb F_3[z]/(z^3)\), and each variable \(x_{i,s}\) of member \(i\) maps to \(\epsilon_{i,s}z_{c(i,s)}\), \(\epsilon=\pm1\), with \(c(i,\cdot)\) injective for each \(i\). Then \(R\) is spanned by the differences \(\epsilon_{j,t}x_{i,s}-\epsilon_{i,s}x_{j,t}\) with \(c(i,s)=c(j,t)\), and \(R_S\) by those with \(i,j\in S\). Each \(J_i\subseteq A_i\) is generated by monomials \(m\) in member \(i\)'s variables (the tops); let \(m_1,\dots,m_s\) be all these generators, over all members, and \(\bar m\) the image of \(m\) in \(A_{\rm cube}\), a monomial up to sign.

Theorem (coordinate relation locality). Under these hypotheses \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i)\) is the sum of the images of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R_S)}\) over sets \(S\) of at most two members, in every degree.

Proof. By lem:relation-space-tor, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,A/J)=\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)\) with \(G=A/RA=A_{\rm cube}\), and likewise with \(R_S\). The images are induced by \(A/R_SA\to G\). From \(0\to J\to A\to A/J\to0\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)=\ker(J\otimes_AG\to G)\). With \(e_1,\dots,e_s\mapsto m_1,\dots,m_s\), this is the module of \(G\)-syzygies \(\sum g_ie_i\), \(\sum g_i\bar m_i=0\) in \(G\), modulo the images of the syzygies over \(A\). So it suffices that every \(G\)-syzygy is a \(G\)-combination of syzygies that lift to \(A/R_SA\) with \(|S|\le2\). The image of each \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,A/R_SA)\) is an \(A\)-submodule, hence a \(G\)-submodule, so \(G\)-combinations stay in the sum.

Write \(G=P/(z_1^3,\dots,z_N^3)\), \(P=\mathbb F_3[z]\). A \(G\)-syzygy lifts to \(\sum\tilde g_i\bar m_i=\sum_ch_cz_c^3\) in \(P\), a syzygy of the monomials \(\bar m_1,\dots,\bar m_s,z_1^3,\dots,z_N^3\) (signs absorbed). First syzygies of monomials in a polynomial ring are generated by the pairwise ones, \((\operatorname{lcm}/u)e_u-(\operatorname{lcm}/v)e_v\) (the Taylor resolution). Projecting away the \(z^3\) coordinates, the \(G\)-syzygies are generated by two kinds.

Pairs, \((\operatorname{lcm}(\bar m_i,\bar m_j)/\bar m_i)e_i-(\operatorname{lcm}(\bar m_i,\bar m_j)/\bar m_j)e_j\), with \(m_i,m_j\) tops of members \(p,q\).
Singles, \(z_c^ae_i\) with \(z_c^a\bar m_i\in(z_c^3)\).

A pair of \(z_c^3\) and \(z_{c'}^3\) projects to 0.

Pairs. Let \(S=\{p,q\}\). In \(A/R_SA\), the variables of \(p\) and \(q\) with the same coordinate are identified, and no other variables of \(p\) or \(q\) are: within one member, coordinates are distinct. So the variables of \(p\) and \(q\) map injectively, up to identification, to board coordinates. The images of \(m_i\) and \(m_j\) in \(A/R_SA\) are then monomials with the same exponent vectors as \(\bar m_i\) and \(\bar m_j\). The same pair expression, with the same monomial coefficients, is a syzygy in \(A/R_SA\), since both terms equal the lcm there. Signs: in \(A/R_SA\), \(x_{i,s}=\epsilon_{i,s}\epsilon_{j,t}x_{j,t}\) whenever \(c(i,s)=c(j,t)\), so each monomial of \(p\) and \(q\) maps to \(\pm\) a monomial in chosen representatives, and to the same sign times the corresponding board monomial; the pair syzygy in \(A/R_SA\) is taken with the signs that make its two terms equal, and these are the signs of the board pair syzygy. It maps to the given pair syzygy. If \(p=q\), it lifts to \(A\) itself.

Singles. If \(\bar m_i\) has exponent \(b\ge1\) at \(z_c\), then \(c=c(p,s)\) for the member \(p\) of \(m_i\) and one variable \(x_{p,s}\). Then \(x_{p,s}^a\) kills \(m_i\) in \(A\), since \(a+b\ge3\), and maps to \(\pm z_c^a\). If \(b=0\), then \(a\ge3\) and \(z_c^a=0\) in \(G\). So singles lift to \(A\), the case \(S=\{p\}\).

Every \(G\)-syzygy is thus a \(G\)-combination of syzygies lifting to some \(A/R_SA\) with \(|S|\le2\). \(\square\)

What it covers

It explains every family of ex:relation-bag-images and the corrected star with \(c=2\). In the chains and the triangle, \(R_S\) for an adjacent pair is its edge relation, and for a non-adjacent pair it is 0.
For W, coordinate forms are the cell forms, one cell per form, where A1 is already proved by other means (cell families). W's clause tops are monomials in the forms, and so is each W member's pattern top ideal in its own variables, although lem:relation-space-tor rightly allows non-monomial pattern ideals for general pattern sets. Proof. Write the member's variables as prefix \(y_S\) and others \(z_1,\dots,z_r\), with excluded set \(E=\{y_S\in\{\pm1\}^S\}\times\{z:\text{some }z_i=0\}\); the tops of the functions supported on \(E\) are claimed to span \(N=\operatorname{span}\{y_S^{\,e}z^\alpha:e\in\{1,2\}^S,\ z^\alpha\in(z_1^2,\dots,z_r^2)\}\). First, the top ideal of the functions on \(\mathbb F_3^r\) vanishing on \(\{\pm1\}^r\) is \((z_1^2,\dots,z_r^2)\): it contains each \(z_i^2z^\beta\) (\(z_i\nmid z^\beta\)) as the top of \((1-z_i^2)z^\beta\), and both have dimension \(3^r-2^r\). A function \(f\) supported on \(E\) is \(\sum_ey_S^{\,e}g_e(z)\) with each \(g_e\) vanishing on \(\{\pm1\}^r\) (involvement entry's argument), so its top is a sum of \(y_S^{\,e}\operatorname{top}(g_e)\in N\). Conversely \(y_S^{\,e}(1-z_i^2)z^\beta\) is supported on \(E\) and has top \(-y_S^{\,e}z_i^2z^\beta\), so every monomial of \(N\) is a top. So the theorem settles the conjecture in the class where the goal already holds. It confirms the conjecture's shape, with \(c=2\), not its dense case.
Where it stops: for dense forms, a form is a combination of many coordinates, the board tops are products of squares of such combinations, and they are not monomials in any coordinates. Taylor's pair generation then fails: ex:three-top-relation-types has a non-Taylor syzygy for three tops sharing one relation. That example is still local, three members, so it bears on the constant \(c\), not on locality.

Outcome. thm:coordinate-relation-locality (working proof): for coordinate forms and monomial tops, the board Tor over the relation algebra is generated by pairs of members in every degree. Correction: the star in ex:relation-bag-images does not refute generation by pairs. With all relations among a pair's forms, including those between two leaves, pairs generate it (checked exactly). conj:relation-local-generation stands, with \(c=2\) proved for coordinate forms. The dense case is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test conj:relation-local-generation on dense forms, where Taylor's argument fails. Take a few members with two random dense forms each on a board of fewer coordinates than forms, beyond capacity, with monomial tops in the forms, and compute the least \(c\) whose images span \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\). A \(c\) growing with the number of members would refute the conjecture's dense form. A bounded \(c\) would locate its mechanism in the non-Taylor syzygies of ex:three-top-relation-types' kind.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:relation-space-tor, the relation-local generation entry with its script and output, thm:star-family-locality, ex:three-top-relation-types and the involvement entry's analysis of \(E\). Claim searches for relation-local generation and pair generation of Tor found no earlier statement. The corrected star test (research/tools/relation_pair_images.m2) is exact. A fresh-context reviewer checked the identification of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) with syzygies modulo \(A\)-syzygies, the Taylor projection, the lifting of pairs and singles (including the essential use of distinct coordinates within a member, and the signs), and the correction, that \(R_{\{2,3\}}\) contains \(x_2-x_3\) and the earlier test never used it. It required two changes, both adopted: a proof that W members' pattern top ideals are monomial in their own variables, reconciled with lem:relation-space-tor's general caveat, and this gate. At its suggestion the sign bookkeeping of the pair step is written out.

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Local generation modulo dependencies: the degree-zero circuits refute relation-local generation for every bound on the number of members, but only through the linear dependencies among the tops; above them the circuits and dense prefix-sum chains are generated locally, so the conjecture is revised to hold modulo those dependencies

28 September 2026 · Refutation, conjecture and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dense-relation-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Local generation modulo dependencies: the degree-zero circuits refute relation-local generation for every bound on the number of members, but only through the linear dependencies among the tops; above them the circuits and dense prefix-sum chains are generated locally, so the conjecture is revised to hold modulo those dependencies”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-dependency-modulo-locality.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Coordinate relation locality proved conj:relation-local-generation with pairs of members for coordinate forms and monomial tops. Its next step was to test the conjecture where Taylor's argument fails: forms that are not coordinates, whose relations are not identifications. Preparing that test, and checking the conjecture against the record's obstructions as it should have been checked when it was stated, showed that prop:degree-zero-circuits applies to it.

General statement. conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies: there is an absolute constant \(c\) such that for member-local tops and \(d\le22k\), \[\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}\Big(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_iA_i/J_i\Big)_d=\sum_{|S|\le c}\operatorname{im}\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R_S)}(\cdots)_d+\big(G\cdot\mathrm{Dep}\big)_d,\] where \(\mathrm{Dep}\) is the span of the classes of the linear dependencies among the tops (syzygies with constant coefficients) and \(G=A_{\rm cube}\).

ex:relation-circuit-refutation

prop:degree-zero-circuits has tops \(A^2B_1,\dots,A^2B_r\) with \(B_r=-(B_1+\dots+B_{r-1})\): a dependency \(\sum_bA^2B_b=0\) of all \(r\) tops, with no proper subfamily dependent. In relation space, member \(b\) has the forms \(A\) and \(B_b\) and the top \(x_by_b^2\) (\(y_b\) for \(A\), \(x_b\) for \(B_b\)). The relations are the identifications \(y_1-y_b\) and the single relation \(x_1+\dots+x_r\), which meets all \(r\) members. For a set \(S\) of fewer than \(r\) members, \(R_S\) contains only identifications, so \(A/R_SA\) has no dependency among the tops of \(S\), and the class of the circuit is not in any local image.

research/tools/relation_circuit_check.m2 confirms this exactly for \(r=4,5\), with all member sets of sizes 2, 3 and \(r-1\) (output research/results/odd-prime-relation-local-generation/circuit_images.txt).

\(r=4\): \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) has dimensions \(1,6,13,14,9,3\) in degrees 3 to 8, and the images span \(0,6,13,14,9,3\), already from the pairs of members.
\(r=5\): dimensions \(1,10,29,46,49,35,16,4\) in degrees 3 to 10, and the images, already from the pairs, span everything except the degree-3 class.

So conj:relation-local-generation is refuted for every \(c\), by circuits with \(r>c\) members. The missing class is exactly the dependency, at the tops' own degree. The earlier registration of the conjecture did not test it against this recorded obstruction.

ex:prefix-chain-images

research/tools/relation_prefix_chain.m2 tests forms that are not coordinates (output research/results/odd-prime-relation-local-generation/prefix_chain_images.txt). Members \(i=1,\dots,m\) have forms \((a_i,b_i)\) and tops \(a_ib_i^2\), with the relations \(a_{i+1}=a_i+b_i\). So the \(a_i\) are prefix sums of the \(b\)'s on a board of dimension \(m+1\), and no choice of coordinates makes all \(2m\) forms coordinates. Here \(R_S\) is spanned by the \(r_j\) with \(j,j+1\in S\). For \(m=3,4,5\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) has dimensions \(2,2,1\), then \(3,6,7,2\), then \(4,12,21,16,5\), in degrees from 5. In every degree it is spanned by the images of adjacent pairs. The prefix chains have no dependencies among their tops (\(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) is 0 in the tops' degree 3), so \(\mathrm{Dep}=0\), and the revised conjecture holds for them with \(c=2\).

conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies

Definitions. By lem:relation-space-tor, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(R)}(\mathbb F_3,M)=\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)\), the \(G\)-syzygies of the tops modulo those lifted from \(A\). \(\mathrm{Dep}\) is the subspace spanned by the classes of syzygies \(\sum_ic_ie_i\) with constants \(c_i\in\mathbb F_3\), that is, of linear dependencies \(\sum_ic_i\bar m_i=0\) among tops of one degree. It is graded, with components only in the tops' degrees. \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^A(A/J,G)\) is an \(A\)-module killed by \(R\), since \(G=A/RA\) is, so it is a \(G\)-module, and \(G\cdot\mathrm{Dep}\) is the graded \(G\)-submodule that \(\mathrm{Dep}\) generates. The local images are \(G\)-submodules for the same reason, so the right side of the conjecture is a graded submodule. The revision keeps the member-count bound and exempts \(G\cdot\mathrm{Dep}\). Two reasons make this the right exemption. First, in the circuits every class above the tops' degree is local: for \(r=4,5\) the images of pairs of members span all higher degrees. Second, prop:degree-zero-circuits records that for W's clause shape \(g(A)C_b\) with one affine form \(A\), these circuits lift to exact syzygies. So for W the gluing statements, which ask for lifting and not for local generation, are not blocked by them. This second reason concerns W's clause shape only; it does not show that the exemption is harmless for general member-local tops, and it covers only W's circuits with one shared affine form. conj:span-local-generation reached the same exemption differently, by bounding the span of a set of clauses instead of the number of members, and by closing members. The revised conjecture is its relation-space form with the exemption made explicit. It is proved with \(c=2\) in the coordinate case, and it is confirmed, as finite checks and not as a proof of the bound, in the small recorded families:

chains, the star and the triangle;
the prefix chains, \(m\le5\);
the circuits, \(r=4,5\), above the tops' degree;
ex:three-top-relation-types, a local defect of three members.

Outcome. The degree-zero circuits refute conj:relation-local-generation (ex:relation-circuit-refutation): no bound on the number of members suffices, because a dependency among \(r\) tops needs the relation among all \(r\) members. Above the tops' degree the circuits are generated by pairs of members, and dense prefix-sum chains by adjacent pairs (ex:prefix-chain-images). The target is now conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies. For W it suffices together with the lifting of dependency classes, which prop:degree-zero-circuits proves for its circuits with one shared affine form.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove that every dependency class of W's clause tops lifts, beyond the circuits sharing one affine form: that is, that linear dependencies among W's tops on the board come from exact polynomial identities among the clauses. This removes the exemption's cost. Then return to the local part with a proof for relations each meeting at most two members, the case the prefix chains support.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:degree-zero-circuits (statement and its recorded lifting for W's clause shape), conj:span-local-generation, conj:relation-local-generation, thm:coordinate-relation-locality, lem:relation-space-tor and ex:three-top-relation-types. The three Macaulay2 runs are exact; the circuit run was extended to member sets of sizes 2 and 3 after the first run tested only sets of size \(r-1\). A fresh-context reviewer checked that the circuit family matches the proposition and that \(R_S\) holds only identifications for \(|S|<r\), which makes the refutation valid for every \(c\). It also checked every reported number against the outputs, including that pairs span every degree above 3, and the prefix chains' \(R_S\) and non-coordinate forms. It required three changes, all adopted: a precise definition of \(\mathrm{Dep}\) and of \(G\cdot\mathrm{Dep}\) as a graded submodule; the lifting reason stated for W's clause shape only; and the support described as finite checks, not a proof of the bound. The earlier conjecture's registration had skipped the rule to test a new statement against recorded obstructions; this entry applies it.

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Route review of relation-space locality: generation by pairs holds for coordinate forms and in every small test above the tops' degree, and every recorded non-local class is a dependency among tops, which lifts for W's circuits; the obstacle is the dependency classes of adversarial dense families, which are the top-degree falls

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dependency-lifting. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of relation-space locality: generation by pairs holds for coordinate forms and in every small test above the tops' degree, and every recorded non-local class is a dependency among tops, which lifts for W's circuits; the obstacle is the dependency classes of adversarial dense families, which are the top-degree falls”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-dependency-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the relation line review, three entries:

relation-local generation: conj:relation-local-generation, with exact images on chains, a star and a triangle (ex:relation-bag-images);
coordinate relation locality: pairs of members generate for coordinate forms and monomial tops (thm:coordinate-relation-locality), which also corrects the star reading;
local generation modulo dependencies: the degree-zero circuits refute the member-count bound (ex:relation-circuit-refutation), pairs generate everything above the tops' degree in the circuits and in dense prefix-sum chains (ex:prefix-chain-images), and the target becomes conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies.

The line's general claim

In pattern space, the board Tor of member tops over the relation algebra is generated by pairs of members, or boundedly many, except for the classes of linear dependencies among the tops. Those classes are the top-degree falls. They either lift, as W's degree-zero circuits do, or are local, as the recorded adversarial falls are.

What the goal needs

For cover relative gluing (lem:cover-relative-gluing), every top syzygy through \(22k\) must be a combination of Koszul pairs, syzygies of bounded member sets and syzygies known to lift. In relation-space form this needs two things for W's families beyond capacity:

(a) conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies, above the tops' degree;
(b) every dependency class either lifts or lies in a bounded member set.

Part (b) is the fall question at the tops' degree, which the fall line and conj:sub-fill-span-locality address semantically.

Falsification attempt

Does the exemption hide non-local trouble in a recorded adversarial family? The refutation of conj:adversarial-fill-point-falls is two members sharing the linear parts of two forms, falling at degree 3 on the 2 by 8 board. That is a dependency class of a pair, so it is local. Its sunflowers and chains sharing one dense form fell only at the forced degree. The degree-zero circuits are the one recorded non-local dependency, and they lift for W's clause shape (prop:degree-zero-circuits). So no recorded family breaks (a) or (b). What the record lacks is any mechanism for (b) in dense adversarial families: a dependency among the tops of many members whose forms are dense and not coordinates, and that does not share one affine form, is covered neither by the lifting argument nor by locality.

Obstacle

Dependency classes of adversarial dense families: linear dependencies among W's clause tops spread over many members, beyond the circuits sharing one affine form. It must be shown that such a dependency either lifts to an exact identity among the clauses or is spanned by dependencies of bounded member sets.

Assessment of the route

Productive in precision and in proofs of special cases. Local generation is now proved for coordinate forms and confirmed by exact computation beyond them, and the one refutation was located exactly: dependencies among the tops, which the goal's gluing lemma can absorb when they lift. The obstacle has narrowed from Tor classes of all degrees to the dependencies at the tops' own degree, a linear-algebra question about the top vectors. That question is still open for dense adversarial families. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Buchberger's criterion (B. Buchberger, 1965; in the syzygy form of D. Eisenbud, Commutative Algebra with a View Toward Algebraic Geometry, Springer GTM 150, 1995, Theorem 15.8, going back to Schreyer): a generating set is a Gröbner basis exactly when a generating set of the syzygies of its leading terms lifts. Answers. Lifting of top syzygies needs checking only on a generating set, so under (a) only the bounded member sets' syzygies and the dependency classes need to lift. The dependency classes are the whole remaining work, which the review's obstacle states. Test. Passed on the circuits: their one non-local class, the dependency, lifts for W's clause shape (prop:degree-zero-circuits), and every other class is local, so the criterion's reduction applies to them completely.
Matroid circuits and cycle spaces (W. T. Tutte, Lectures on matroids, J. Res. Nat. Bur. Standards 69B, 1965). The dependencies among a set of vectors form the cycle space of their matroid, spanned by its circuits. Answers. (b) asks whether the cycle space of W's top vectors is spanned by circuits on bounded member sets, together with circuits that lift. Test. Falsified for the direct form: the degree-zero circuit of \(r\) tops has no proper dependent subfamily, so its cycle space is spanned by one circuit of length \(r\). Bounded circuits cannot suffice, and lifting is required.
Gotzmann's persistence theorem (G. Gotzmann, Eine Bedingung für die Flachheit und das Hilbertpolynom eines graduierten Ringes, Math. Z. 158, 1978). If an ideal generated in degree \(d\) has minimal Hilbert-function growth from \(d\) to \(d+1\), the growth persists. Answers. Dependencies among the tops are deficits of the Hilbert function in the tops' degree. A persistence statement would say when such a deficit forces further falls, which would bound where dependency classes can matter. Test. Not run: the tops generate an ideal in a truncated algebra, not a polynomial ring, and Gotzmann's theorem needs the polynomial ring's Macaulay bounds. A truncated version (Clements–Lindström) would be needed first.

Absurd bridges

Low-density parity-check codes (R. G. Gallager, Low-density parity-check codes, IRE Trans. Inform. Theory 8, 1962). A code is LDPC when its dual is spanned by words of low weight. Translation: the top vectors are the columns of a code's generator, and the dependencies are its dual code. Answers. (b) in its local form is the statement that the dual of W's top code is spanned by low-weight words, an LDPC property. Test. Falsified for the circuits: their dual is spanned by one word of weight \(r\), so they are not LDPC, which is why the lifting half of (b) is needed.
Weight reduction of quantum codes (M. B. Hastings, Weight reduction for quantum codes, Quantum Inf. Comput. 17, 2017). Any stabilizer code becomes one with low-weight checks after adding ancilla qubits at bounded overhead. Translation: add auxiliary members whose forms are partial sums, so that a long dependency \(\sum_bA^2B_b=0\) becomes a chain of short relations. The prefix-sum chains of ex:prefix-chain-images are exactly such chains, and pairs generate them. Answers. Long dependencies would be traded for local ones plus auxiliary members, a route to (b) that needs no lifting. Test. Not run: auxiliary members add clauses and change the allowed set, so the translation needs a statement that they do not change the refutation degree's accounting. That is a development cycle, not a cheap test.

Lead follow-up

Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series. Follow-up. Continuing: no new work; the random dense case, where it would apply, predicts freeness below the fill point, in line with the record's generic directness.
Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed; the LDPC bridge above is its nearest current use.

Bridge follow-up

The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed; the weight-reduction bridge above is from the same area.
Acyclic database schemes. Follow-up. Closed: the triangle is generated by its edges and the star by pairs (thm:coordinate-relation-locality), so acyclicity of the relation hypergraph is not what locality needs.
Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed in these cycles.
Helly's theorem on convex sets. Follow-up. Continuing: no work in these cycles; for coordinate forms with monomial tops pairs suffice whatever the sharing (thm:coordinate-relation-locality), which bounds the Helly number by 2 in that case; thm:adapted-helly-locality allows non-monomial ideals.
Dynamic programming on tree decompositions. Follow-up. Closed: developed into ex:relation-bag-images and thm:coordinate-relation-locality, which show that the triangle, not a tree, is generated by edges, so treewidth is not the governing invariant.
The cluster expansion of statistical mechanics. Follow-up. Closed, by this review's own analysis: the degree-zero circuits put a non-local class at the lowest degree, which a convergent cluster expansion with small polymers at low order forbids.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the weight-reduction bridge, the one item that could remove the lifting requirement. State when adding auxiliary partial-sum members to a family leaves the relevant refutation degree unchanged. Then check on the \(r=4\) circuit with partial-sum members whether the degree-3 dependency becomes generated by pairs.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three entries reviewed, conj:adversarial-fill-point-falls with lem:flat-difference-falls, prop:degree-zero-circuits and its lifting for W's clause shape, and lem:cover-relative-gluing. The tests were run as arguments against recorded results and the saved outputs of the reviewed entries; the two items marked Not run need a development cycle, as stated. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the summaries, that the refuting adversarial instance is a pair's dependency, the circuits' lifting, and the matroid, LDPC, Gotzmann and weight-reduction items and follow-ups. It required one change, adopted: Buchberger's criterion in syzygy form is now attributed to Eisenbud's statement, not Bayer and Stillman. At its suggestion the cluster-expansion closure is marked as this review's own analysis.

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Fall invariance: splitting a long dependency among tops into short ones with implied auxiliary polynomials makes every dependency local, but the local falls telescope to the original fall, and new variables with linear definitions leave the relation space unchanged, so weight reduction relocates the lifting obligation without removing it

28 September 2026 · Working proof and obstruction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-weight-reduction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Fall invariance: splitting a long dependency among tops into short ones with implied auxiliary polynomials makes every dependency local, but the local falls telescope to the original fall, and new variables with linear definitions leave the relation space unchanged, so weight reduction relocates the lifting obligation without removing it”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-fall-invariance.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The dependency line review left as obstacle the dependency classes among W's tops over many members, and its weight-reduction bridge was not run. The bridge is Hastings' reduction of stabilizer weights with ancillas. It proposed trading a long dependency \(\sum_bc_b\tau_b=0\) for a chain of short ones through auxiliary members with partial-sum tops, which pairs generate (ex:prefix-chain-images). Adding axioms can only make refutations easier, so hardness of an extended system implies hardness of the original. This cycle develops the translation and finds what it changes.

General statement. prop:fall-invariance: for polynomials \(C_1,\dots,C_r\) in an ideal \(I\) with tops \(\tau_b\) of degree \(d\) and a dependency \(\sum_bc_b\tau_b=0\), with fall \(\Phi=\sum_bc_bC_b\) (\(\deg\Phi<d\)), and any \(f_1,\dots,f_{r-1}\in I\) with \(\operatorname{top}f_j=\sigma_j=\sum_{b\le j}c_b\tau_b\) in degree \(d\), the local combinations \(\Delta_j=f_j-f_{j-1}-c_jC_j\) (\(f_0=0\), \(f_r=0\)) have degree \(<d\) and \[\sum_{j=1}^r\Delta_j=-\Phi.\]

prop:fall-invariance

Proposition. (1) Monotonicity. If a system \(F\) is contained in \(F'\), a PC refutation of \(F\) of degree \(D\) is one of \(F'\); so a degree lower bound for \(F'\) gives one for \(F\). The same holds when \(F'\) adds new variables with defining equations. (2) Splitting. In the setting of the general statement, each \(\Delta_j\) has degree \(<d\), because its degree-\(d\) part is \(\sigma_j-\sigma_{j-1}-c_j\tau_j=0\) (with \(\sigma_0=0\), and \(\sigma_r=\sum_bc_b\tau_b=0\) by the dependency itself). The sum \(\sum_j\Delta_j\) telescopes to \(-\sum_bc_bC_b=-\Phi\). So the long dependency becomes \(r\) dependencies among three tops each (\(f_{j-1}\), \(C_j\), \(f_j\)), and their falls add up to the original fall. (3) Linear definitions. Adding variables \(y_j\) with linear defining equations \(y_j=P_j\) (partial sums of forms) does not change the relation space among the members' forms, nor the Tor over its truncated algebra (lem:relation-space-tor): the board's graded algebra modulo the linear equations is the old one, with each \(y_j\) replaced by \(P_j\).

Proof. (1) is immediate, since a refutation uses only axioms of \(F\). (2) is the computation above. (3): the extended board is \(\mathbb F_3^{N+J}\) cut by the equations \(y_j=P_j\), the graph of \(x\mapsto P(x)\), which projects bijectively to \(\mathbb F_3^N\). Pulling back along this bijection, functions of degree \(\le d\) on the extended solution set are exactly functions of degree \(\le d\) on \(\mathbb F_3^N\), since each \(y_j\) restricts to the linear form \(P_j\), and a function of \(x\) alone keeps its degree. So the graded function algebras are isomorphic, by the same elimination that underlies lem:relation-space-tor (1): a truncated algebra modulo linear forms is a truncated algebra. This is an argument of its own, not an instance of that lemma, which concerns relations among existing forms. The members' forms, their relation space \(R\), and the \(A\)-module structure of the board algebra are unchanged, hence so is the Tor over \(T(R)\). \(\square\)

What the translation changes, and what it does not

Locality of the Tor classes. With the \(f_j\) added as axioms, the long dependency of the degree-zero circuits is a sum of dependencies among three tops each. In relation space, the class that needed all \(r\) members becomes local. This is what the bridge promised.
The lifting obligation. Gluing (lem:cover-relative-gluing) needs the local dependencies to lift: each fall \(\Delta_j\) must be derivable within degree \(D\) from a bounded part of the system. Here a dependency with fall \(\Phi\) lifts, in the sense of lem:cover-relative-gluing's set \(L\) of top syzygies known to lift, when \(\Phi=\sum_bq_bC_b\) (plus base elements) with every term of degree \(<d\): the corrected coefficients \(c_b-q_b\) then give an exact syzygy of the constraints whose top is the given one. Likewise for each \(\Delta_j\). By (2), the \(\Delta_j\) sum to \(-\Phi\), and sums of such representations are representations. So if every \(\Delta_j\) lifts, \(\Phi\) lifts and the original dependency lifts; equivalently, by contraposition, if \(\Phi\) does not, some \(\Delta_j\) does not. (The converse direction, that a liftable \(\Phi\) makes every \(\Delta_j\) liftable, is neither claimed nor needed.) So the splitting does not change whether the dependency lifts.
The auxiliary members themselves. For the \(f_j\) to be implied, so that the allowed set is unchanged, \(f_j\) must lie in \(I\). The natural choice \(f_j=\sum_{b\le j}c_bC_b+\lambda_j\Phi\) is a combination of \(j\) clauses, so a bounded set containing \(f_j\) has large span, and the closed members of conj:span-local-generation do not contain it. The non-locality moves from the dependency into the auxiliary members.
New variables. By (3), ancillas as linear definitions change nothing. New members with constraints that are not implied would shrink the allowed set. The bridge would then need a statement that the extended system stays hard, which the record does not supply.

Outcome. prop:fall-invariance (working proof, obstruction to the bridge's direct form). Splitting a long dependency with implied auxiliary polynomials makes the Tor classes local, but the local falls telescope to the original fall, so the lifting obligation is invariant. Linear definitions of new variables leave the relation space unchanged. Bridge follow-up: the weight-reduction bridge is developed and, in this translation, relocates the obstacle rather than removing it. It remains open only with auxiliary constraints that are not implied, which needs a hardness-preservation statement.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): attack the lifting of dependency classes directly. For W's clause shape, prop:degree-zero-circuits lifts circuits sharing one affine form \(A\) through the factor \(g(A)\). The question is whether every dependency among W's tops \(-L_i^2\prod_{s\in S}L_s^2\) has a common structure of this kind: whether a dependency among products of squares of affine forms over \(\mathbb F_3\) must share a factor, or come from a relation among fewer forms. Search the record's single-top and product-top results first (prop:single-top-combination, thm:single-top-wilson-threshold, ex:three-top-relation-types).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:relation-space-tor (its statement and scope), lem:cover-relative-gluing's lifting set, prop:degree-zero-circuits, ex:prefix-chain-images and conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies. Claim searches for fall invariance, auxiliary implied polynomials and splitting dependencies found no earlier statement. No computation this cycle. A fresh-context reviewer checked the telescoping identity and the degree claims at every \(j\), including the ends, and the monotonicity statement. It required three changes, all adopted: part (3) now has its own elimination argument rather than citing the lemma beyond its scope; the contrapositive is no longer called a converse; and lifting is tied to the gluing lemma's notion. At its suggestion \(\sigma_r=0\) is derived explicitly.

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First-fall criterion: a dependency among W's clause tops lifts exactly when the same combination of clause functions vanishes on the base, so the dependency exemption asks for no falls at the tops' own degree; a block whose non-prefix forms contain a pencil falls there within one member, so the exemption needs closed members, and it is then the tops'-degree case of shared-piece falls

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-square-product-dependencies. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “First-fall criterion: a dependency among W's clause tops lifts exactly when the same combination of clause functions vanishes on the base, so the dependency exemption asks for no falls at the tops' own degree; a block whose non-prefix forms contain a pencil falls there within one member, so the exemption needs closed members, and it is then the tops'-degree case of shared-piece falls”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-first-fall-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Fall invariance showed that auxiliary members cannot remove the lifting obligation for dependencies among tops, and its next step asked what dependencies among W's tops, products of squares of affine forms, look like and when they lift. This cycle makes the lifting condition exact and places it in the record's fall line.

General statement. prop:first-fall-criterion: for W's clauses \(C_b=g(L_{b,i})\prod_{s\in S_b}L_{b,s}^2\) on a base \(P\) that is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) (as in lem:cover-relative-gluing, so that each \(C_b\) keeps degree \(d_0\) on \(P\)), all with tops \(\tau_b\) of degree \(d_0=2k+2\), a dependency \(\sum_bc_b\tau_b=0\) lifts if and only if \(\sum_bc_bC_b\) vanishes on \(P\). Hence \(\mathrm{Dep}\) lifts entirely exactly when \[\dim\operatorname{span}\{C_b|_P\}=\dim\operatorname{span}\{\tau_b\},\qquad\operatorname{span}\{\tau_b\}\subseteq G_{d_0},\] that is, when no combination of clause functions is a nonzero function of degree \(<d_0\) on \(P\).

prop:first-fall-criterion

Proof. A top syzygy \((c_b)\) of degree \(d_0\) lifts, in the sense of lem:cover-relative-gluing, when there are \(q_b\) with \(\deg(q_bC_b)<d_0\) and \(\sum_b(c_b+q_b)C_b\) vanishing on \(P\). Every \(C_b\) has degree exactly \(d_0\), so \(\deg(q_bC_b)<d_0\) forces \(q_b=0\). The condition is therefore that \(\sum_bc_bC_b\) vanishes on \(P\). For the dimension form, map the span of the \(C_b\) as functions on \(P\) onto the span of the tops in \(G_{d_0}\). A combination with zero top that is nonzero on \(P\) is a function of degree \(<d_0\) in the kernel, and it exists exactly when the two dimensions differ. \(\square\)

As functions on the base, \(g(L)=1-L^2\) is the indicator of \(L=0\), and \(L^2\) is the indicator of \(L\ne0\). So \(C_b\) is the indicator of clause \(b\)'s excluded set \(E_b=\{L_{b,i}=0,\ L_{b,s}\ne0\ (s\in S_b)\}\). The criterion asks that no combination of excluded-set indicators be a nonzero function of degree below \(2k+2\).

A first fall inside one block

Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(x^2+y^2+(x+y)^2+(x-y)^2=3x^2+3y^2=0\). Let a block have prefix \(S\) and four non-prefix forms whose linear parts are \(x,y,x+y,x-y\) for two independent linear forms \(x,y\), the four points of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_3)\), with constants \(a_1,\dots,a_4\). Then the four clause tops \(-\ell_i^2\prod_sL_s^2\) sum to 0. The sum of the four clauses is \(\prod_sL_s^2\sum_i(1-L_i^2)\). The degree-2 part of \(\sum_iL_i^2\) is \(\sum_i\ell_i^2=0\), so \(\sum_i(1-L_i^2)\) is an affine function \(\alpha+\lambda\): here \(\lambda=-2\sum_ia_i\ell_i\) and \(\alpha=4-\sum_ia_i^2\). The combination \(\prod_sL_s^2(\alpha+\lambda)\) has degree \(\le2k+1\). It vanishes on \(P\) only if \(\alpha+\lambda\) vanishes on \(U=P\cap\{L_s\ne0\ (s\in S)\}\): either \(\lambda=0\) and \(\alpha=0\), or \(U\) lies in the affine hyperplane \(\alpha+\lambda=0\). With all \(a_i=1\), \(\alpha=4-4=0\) and \(\lambda=-2(x+y+(x+y)+(x-y))=-2(3x+y)=y\) in characteristic 3. The combination then vanishes on \(P\) only if \(y=0\) on all of \(U\), which fails as soon as \(U\) has a point with \(y\ne0\), as it does for dense forms on the weak base. So W's own clause tops can have a non-lifting dependency within one member. The fall is inside the block, so a closed member, which contains all of its low-degree consequences, absorbs it. This uses only the unconditional part of cor:span-local-reduction, that closed members have no falls; that corollary's conclusion is conditional on conj:span-local-generation and on every span-bounded clause set having a nonempty allowed set. With clause tops the exemption fails; with closed members it becomes a statement about cross falls.

Where this places the exemption

For closed members, the tops' degrees are those of the members' pattern ideals. For member elements of one common degree \(d\), a dependency class among their tops lifts exactly when the combination of the member polynomials is, on \(P\), a combination of lower-degree member elements. This is the argument above, with the members' elements of degree \(d\) in place of the clauses, and with lower-degree elements of the closed members now available as corrections, so it is the absence of a cross-member fall in degree \(d\). So the exemption \(G\cdot\mathrm{Dep}\) of conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies lifts exactly when there are no cross-member falls at the tops' own degrees.
conj:shared-piece-falls asserts that, without shared pieces, there are no cross-member falls below the fill point in any degree, and lem:shared-piece-rarity makes shared pieces rare under random prefixes. That conjecture alone, with the counting of conj:fill-point-falls, would already give W_RS for its class of families, as its entry records. So the relation-space route does not reduce the fall line. It needs only the fall line's case at the tops' own degree, and adds the Tor statement above it.
The record's first-degree tools address exactly this degree: lem:first-degree-purity for row freeness in the first new degree, and thm:generic-top-directness for generic forms.

Outcome. prop:first-fall-criterion (working proof). A dependency among W's clause tops lifts exactly when the same combination of clauses vanishes on the base. So the dependency exemption asks for no falls at the tops' own degree. A block containing a pencil falls there within one member, so closed members are needed. With them, the exemption is the tops'-degree case of conj:shared-piece-falls. The relation-space route to A1 thus needs conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies above the tops' degree, and the first-degree case of the fall line.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): attack the first-degree case of the fall line under random prefixes. For closed members, show that no combination of members' lowest-degree pattern polynomials across members is a nonzero function of lower degree on \(P\) unless a member has a shared piece, starting from lem:first-degree-purity's criterion and the excluded-set indicators above.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:cover-relative-gluing (its lifting set and base hypothesis), cor:span-local-reduction (its unconditional part), conj:shared-piece-falls with lem:shared-piece-rarity, lem:first-degree-purity, prop:two-block-taylor-failure and ex:planted-pencil-thresholds. Claim searches for first-degree falls, independence of clause indicators and pencil blocks found those results and no statement of the criterion. No computation this cycle. A fresh-context reviewer checked the degree-forcing argument and the dimension form, the indicator reading, and the pencil arithmetic, including \(\alpha\) and \(\lambda\). It required four changes, all adopted: the base's \(z\)-injectivity stated as a hypothesis; the pencil's non-vanishing shown for explicit constants instead of claimed for generic ones; the closed-member version restricted to elements of one degree; and the citation of cor:span-local-reduction limited to its unconditional part, with its hypotheses named.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	7 min 34.29 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 39.67 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 54.30 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 0.18 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Squared subspace relations: the tops of W's clauses are products of squares of a basis of each clause's span, which depend only on that span; four spans in a pencil sum to zero, pencils generate every relation for lines but not for planes, and on F_3^5 the relations among planes are generated by those inside 4-dimensional subspaces

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conjecture and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-first-degree-falls. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Squared subspace relations: the tops of W's clauses are products of squares of a basis of each clause's span, which depend only on that span; four spans in a pencil sum to zero, pencils generate every relation for lines but not for planes, and on F_3^5 the relations among planes are generated by those inside 4-dimensional subspaces”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-squared-subspace-relations.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The first-fall criterion reduced the dependency exemption to linear dependencies among W's clause tops, and its example was a pencil. What are all the linear relations among such tops, and are they generated by configurations of bounded span, as the fall line's locality needs?

General statement. lem:squared-subspace-pencils and conj:local-squared-subspace-relations. For a \(c\)-dimensional space \(U\) of linear forms with basis \(u_1,\dots,u_c\), put \(\omega_U=\prod_su_s^2\) in \(G=\mathbb F_3[z_1,\dots,z_N]/(z^3)\). Then \(\omega_U\) depends only on \(U\), and for \(U_0\subset V\) of dimensions \(c-1\) and \(c+1\), \[\sum_{U_0\subset U\subset V,\ \dim U=c}\omega_U=0.\] The conjecture: the linear relations among all \(\omega_U\), \(U\in\operatorname{Gr}(c,N)\), are spanned by relations supported on the \(c\)-spaces inside single \((c+2)\)-dimensional subspaces.

lem:squared-subspace-pencils

Lemma. (1) \(\omega_U\) is independent of the basis of \(U\). (2) If \(U=U_0\oplus\langle f\rangle\), then \(\omega_U=\omega_{U_0}f^2\), and \(\omega_{U_0}f^2\) depends only on the class of \(f\) modulo \(U_0\). (3) The pencil relation above holds.

Proof. For (2), let \(u\in U_0\) with basis \(g_1,\dots,g_{c-1}\). Every monomial in the expansion of \(u\,\omega_{U_0}\) and of \(u^2\omega_{U_0}\) contains some \(g_j^3\), which is 0 because cubes of linear forms vanish in characteristic 3. So \((f+u)^2\omega_{U_0}=f^2\omega_{U_0}\). For (1), change the basis one vector at a time: replacing \(u_s\) by \(\lambda u_s+u\) with \(u\) in the span of the others multiplies by \(\lambda^2=1\) for \(\lambda\ne0\) in \(\mathbb F_3\) and, by (2), does not see \(u\). Every basis change is a product of such steps. For (3), the four \(c\)-spaces between \(U_0\) and \(V\) are \(U_0\oplus\langle f\rangle\) for the four classes \(f\in\{x,y,x+y,x-y\}\) of \(\mathbb P(V/U_0)\). By (2) their sum is \(\omega_{U_0}(x^2+y^2+(x+y)^2+(x-y)^2)=\omega_{U_0}\cdot3(x^2+y^2)=0\). \(\square\)

For a clause \(g(L_i)\prod_{s\in S}L_s^2\) with \(g(L)=1-L^2\) (statement W) whose forms have linearly independent linear parts, the top is \(-\ell_i^2\prod_s\ell_s^2=-\omega_U\) for the span \(U\) of the linear parts, by (1). So a dependency among W's clause tops is exactly a linear relation among the \(\omega\) of the clauses' spans. The \(\omega_U\) span \(G_{2c}\). Here \(G\) is the associated graded ring of the functions on \(\mathbb F_3^N\) filtered by degree, and \(G_{2c}\) is spanned by the tops of the functions of degree exactly \(2c\). The indicator of a codimension-\(c\) flat \(\{L_1=\dots=L_c=0\}\) is \(\prod_j(1-L_j^2)\), of degree exactly \(2c\) with top \(\pm\omega_U\), \(U\) the span of the linear parts. By the theorem of Delsarte, Goethals and MacWilliams on generalized Reed–Muller codes (Information and Control 16, 1970), these indicators span all functions of degree \(\le2c=c(p-1)\). So a function \(f\) of degree exactly \(2c\) is \(\sum_Fa_F\mathbf 1_F\), and comparing degree-\(2c\) parts, its top is \(\sum_Fa_F\operatorname{top}(\mathbf 1_F)\), a combination of \(\omega\)'s. The computed ranks agree.

ex:squared-subspace-relation-counts

research/tools/pencil_generation_check.m2 (Macaulay2, exact over \(\mathbb F_3\), subspaces enumerated as reduced row echelon matrices; outputs research/results/odd-prime-first-degree-falls/pencil_counts.txt and local_relations.txt). For each \((N,c)\) it computes the rank of all \(\omega_U\), the dimension of their relation space, and the rank of the pencil relations. It also checks that every pencil relation holds.

\(N=3\), \(c=1\): 13 lines, rank 6, 7 relations, pencils span all 7.
\(N=4\), \(c=1\): 40 lines, rank 10, 30 relations, pencils span all 30.
\(N=4\), \(c=2\): 130 planes, rank 19, 111 relations, pencils span only 110.
\(N=5\), \(c=2\): 1210 planes, rank 45, 1165 relations, pencils span 1160. Adding the relations supported on the planes inside each 4-dimensional subspace spans all 1165.
The local test is not run for \(N=4\), \(c=2\), where the only 4-dimensional subspace is the whole space and the test would be vacuous.

The ranks 6, 10, 19 and 45 are \(\dim G_{2c}\), the coefficients of \(t^{2c}\) in \((1+t+t^2)^N\). So generation by pencils holds for lines and fails for planes. The missing relations live in 4-dimensional spaces, dimension \(c+2\), and on \(\mathbb F_3^5\) these generate everything. The first extra relation on \(\mathbb F_3^4\) is not identified here. A \(c\)-space relation inside a \((c+2)\)-space is the smallest configuration beyond a pencil, and the conjecture extrapolates from one case.

What it gives for W, and what it does not

If two clauses' spans lie in a common \((k+3)\)-dimensional space (\(c=k+1\)), they meet in dimension at least \(k-1\). So a local relation in the conjecture's sense involves clause spans that share almost everything. For clauses of different members, that is the kind of sharing that lem:shared-piece-rarity makes rare under random prefixes, since the prefix forms would have to lie mostly in another member's span.
The conjecture is about all of \(\operatorname{Gr}(c,N)\). A dependency among a given family of clause spans is a combination of local relations that may use \(\omega\)'s of spans outside the family, which cancel. So the conjecture does not by itself say that the family's dependencies are local. The needed form is a subfamily statement, and it must use sparsity: at the fill point a generic family has dependencies of full support.

Outcome. lem:squared-subspace-pencils (working proof): a clause top is determined by the clause's span, and pencils of spans give relations. ex:squared-subspace-relation-counts (finite check): pencils generate the relations among lines but not among planes. On \(\mathbb F_3^5\) the relations among planes are generated inside 4-dimensional subspaces, which supports conj:local-squared-subspace-relations. For W this describes the dependencies among clause tops as geometry of subspaces. Carrying it to W's families needs a version for sparse subfamilies below the fill point.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review of this line. It has moved from relation-space locality to the first-degree fall question and now to relations among squared subspaces. The review should decide whether a sparse-subfamily version of the local relation conjecture is the right next statement. It should also bring outside leads on relations among subspace indicators: \(p\)-ranks of incidence structures (Hamada's formula), and minimum-weight generation of the duals of Reed–Muller codes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:first-fall-criterion, lem:shared-piece-rarity and statement W's clause shape. Claim searches for relations among squares of linear forms, subspace indicators and Reed–Muller flats found no earlier statement. The Macaulay2 computation is exact. Its first local run exceeded its 900 s limit through a subspace enumeration by vector subsets, and was replaced by a direct enumeration of reduced row echelon matrices (the recorded run took 320 s). A fresh-context reviewer verified the lemma by hand, the counts against the Gaussian binomials and \(\dim G_{2c}\), the pencil construction and its check, the local test, and the intersection bound. It required two changes, both adopted: the derivation of the spanning statement from Delsarte, Goethals and MacWilliams for the graded piece \(G_{2c}\), and the source of \(g=1-L^2\). At its suggestion the entry notes why the local test is not run for \(N=4\).

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	49 min 20.40 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	7 min 17.82 s
Computation design and coding	3.53 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 31.43 s
Individually measured computation	39 min 27.47 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 2.

Route review of the dependency line: the exemption is the first-degree fall question, whose dependencies are relations among squared subspaces of clause spans; a spread shows that such relations can join pairwise disjoint spans through pencils outside the family, so locality must be measured by span, and the obstacle is a sparse-subfamily form of span-bounded generation

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-subspace-line-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the dependency line: the exemption is the first-degree fall question, whose dependencies are relations among squared subspaces of clause spans; a spread shows that such relations can join pairwise disjoint spans through pencils outside the family, so locality must be measured by span, and the obstacle is a sparse-subfamily form of span-bounded generation”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-subspace-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the dependency line review, three entries:

fall invariance: splitting a long dependency with implied auxiliary members makes its Tor classes local but leaves the lifting obligation, since the local falls telescope to the original fall (prop:fall-invariance);
first-fall criterion: a dependency among W's clause tops lifts exactly when the combination of clauses vanishes on the base, so the exemption is the tops'-degree case of conj:shared-piece-falls (prop:first-fall-criterion);
squared subspace relations: a clause top is \(-\omega_U\) of the clause's span, pencils give relations, and on \(\mathbb F_3^5\) the relations among planes are generated inside 4-dimensional subspaces (lem:squared-subspace-pencils, conj:local-squared-subspace-relations).

The line's general claim

The dependency classes that conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies exempts are first-degree falls. They are relations among the squared subspaces \(\omega_U\) of the clauses' spans. These relations are generated by configurations of bounded span, and under random prefixes such configurations rarely involve two members.

What the goal needs

A sparse-subfamily statement. For the clause spans of a W_RS family below the fill point, every linear relation among their \(\omega\)'s must be a combination of relations each supported on spans of the family that lie in a common subspace of bounded dimension, and so, by the dimension count, share most of their span. The Grassmannian-level conjecture does not give this, since its generating relations may use spans outside the family.

Falsification attempt

Does a family without pencils have only local relations? research/tools/spread_omega_check.m2 takes the regular spread of \(\mathbb F_3^4=\mathbb F_9^2\): ten pairwise disjoint planes, with no pencil among them. Their \(\omega\)'s have rank 9, with the single relation \(\sum_{U}\omega_U=0\) over all ten. research/tools/spread_pencil_check.m2 shows that this relation lies in the pencil span of all 130 planes, of rank 110 with or without it. The pencils it uses involve planes outside the spread, whose terms cancel. So a relation can join spans that pairwise meet only in 0, through local relations among other spans. A formulation by pairwise intersections is false. A formulation by common span is consistent with the spread but not tested by it: the spread fills the whole space \(\mathbb F_3^4\), of dimension \(c+2\), where span locality is vacuous. Its only nonvacuous support is the \(N=5\), \(c=2\) case of ex:squared-subspace-relation-counts. For W the span form means: clause spans of dimension \(k+1\) inside a common \(k+3\)-dimensional space meet pairwise in dimension at least \(k-1\). For clauses of different members, a random prefix produces this only if the member's forms lie mostly in the other member's span. That is shared-piece territory, which lem:shared-piece-rarity makes rare, or else a bounded-span family, which closed members absorb. The outputs are in research/results/odd-prime-subspace-line-review/.

Obstacle

Span-bounded generation of relations among the \(\omega\)'s of a sparse family below the fill point. It must be shown that a linear relation among the squared spans of a W_RS family's clauses decomposes into relations among the family's own spans inside subspaces of bounded dimension. The Grassmannian-level conjecture and the spread show that the decomposition must be found inside the family, not through outside spans.

Assessment of the route

Productive in exact reformulation, weak in mechanism. The lifting obligation has been made exact (first falls), and the dependencies have been identified as subspace geometry, with a working pencil lemma and exact counts. But the line has now passed through four reformulations of one statement since the relation-space Tor, each confirmed in small cases and none proved beyond the coordinate case. Only a proof of the sparse-subfamily statement, or a counterexample to it, would end this line. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Hamada's formula (N. Hamada, On the p-rank of the incidence matrix of a balanced or partially balanced incomplete block design and its applications to error correcting codes, Hiroshima Math. J. 3, 1973), with the generalized Reed–Muller theorem it refines. It gives the \(p\)-ranks of incidence matrices of points and flats. Answers. The rank of the \(\omega\)'s of a structured family, a spread, a design or a W block, could be computed exactly, which decides its relations. Test. Passed as consistency: the computed ranks of all \(\omega_U\) equal \([t^{2c}](1+t+t^2)^N\) (6, 10, 19, 45), the top-degree part of the Reed–Muller dimensions the formula refines. This adds nothing beyond the Delsarte–Goethals–MacWilliams derivation already in the squared-subspace entry, and it does not address subfamilies of W's shape.
Minimum-weight generation of codes of flats (the duals of generalized Reed–Muller codes are spanned by their minimum-weight words; see E. F. Assmus and J. D. Key, Designs and their Codes, Cambridge, 1992, chapter 5). Answers. If the relations among \(\omega\)'s were spanned by their minimum-weight relations, and these were pencils, locality would be immediate. Test. Falsified for pencils: on \(\mathbb F_3^4\) the pencils, of weight 4, span 110 of 111 relations. Not run for all minimum-weight relations, which would need their enumeration.
Grassmann–Plücker relations and straightening (G.-C. Rota and coauthors; the standard monomial theory of Hodge). The relations among Plücker coordinates are generated by quadratic exchange relations, and straightening gives a normal form. Answers. A straightening law for the \(\omega_U\), squared Plücker-type vectors over \(\mathbb F_3\), would decide membership of a family's relation among its own local relations, which is the obstacle. Test. Not run: the \(\omega\)'s are not Plücker coordinates, and a characteristic-3 straightening for them would have to be constructed first.

Absurd bridges

\(q\)-analogues of designs and spreads (M. Braun, T. Etzion, P. Östergård, A. Vardy and A. Wassermann, Existence of \(q\)-analogs of Steiner systems, Forum Math. Pi 4, 2016). Families of subspaces in which every small subspace lies in a bounded number of members. Translation: W's clause spans form a \(q\)-design-like family, sparse in how many share a subspace. Answers. Sparse \(q\)-designs would be the natural candidates for families whose \(\omega\)'s are independent, which would give the needed statement for all sparse families. Test. Falsified in the intersection form. The spread is the sparsest family (pairwise disjoint) and still has a relation, which is local only in the span sense. So sparsity in intersections cannot give independence; bounded span is the right notion.
Valence-bond (Rumer) bases of quantum chemistry (G. Rumer, Zur Theorie der Spinvalenz, Göttinger Nachr. 1932). The linear relations among spin-coupling diagrams are generated by local exchange relations, and non-crossing diagrams form a basis. Translation: \(\omega_U\) are coupling diagrams, and pencil relations are the exchange relations. Answers. A non-crossing-type basis for the \(\omega\)'s would decide which families are independent and would localize every relation. Test. Not run: the Rumer basis is for \(\mathrm{SL}_2\) couplings in characteristic 0, and its characteristic-3 analogue for squared subspaces would have to be found.

Lead follow-up

Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series. Follow-up. Continuing: no new work.
Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed; the minimum-weight lead above is the nearest coding-theoretic use.
Buchberger's criterion. Follow-up. Developed: prop:first-fall-criterion made its reduction exact for W's clause tops (lifting checked on dependency classes only, which are first falls).

Bridge follow-up

The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed.
Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed.
Helly's theorem on convex sets. Follow-up. Continuing: no new work.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): state the sparse-subfamily conjecture precisely and try to disprove it on the smallest structured families. Take clause spans of a few members with random prefixes whose forms are dense in a space larger than \(k+3\), and compute whether every relation among their \(\omega\)'s is a combination of relations among spans of the family inside \((c+2)\)-dimensional subspaces. A family with a relation of full span and no such decomposition would refute it; otherwise try to prove it by projecting relations to \((c+2)\)-dimensional quotients.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the three entries reviewed, conj:shared-piece-falls with lem:shared-piece-rarity, and the saved outputs. The spread computations (research/tools/spread_omega_check.m2 and spread_pencil_check.m2, the latter reusing the reviewed pencil code) were run in the cycle; the pairwise disjointness of the regular spread is the classical fact for \(\mathbb F_9\)-lines, not re-verified by the script. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the summaries, the spread construction, the rank-9 all-ones relation and its membership in the pencil span, the lead and bridge tests and the citations. It required two changes, both adopted: the spread is now said not to test span locality, since it fills its whole space, with the \(N=5\) case as the only nonvacuous support; and the W consequence is stated as the \(\ge k-1\) intersection of clause spans. At its suggestions the Helly follow-up claims no new content, and the Hamada test is marked as adding nothing beyond the earlier derivation.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	5 min 14.60 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 47.88 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 5.04 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 17.89 s
Individually measured computation	3.65 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Spread relations: the squared spans of a Desarguesian spread sum to zero in every dimension, because the dual spread partitions the nonzero points; counting can force relations only in subspaces of dimension about 1.06c at W's parameters, so every known relation among clause tops has span at most 2c, of the order of span-local generation's bound

28 September 2026 · Working proof and conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-sparse-subspace-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Spread relations: the squared spans of a Desarguesian spread sum to zero in every dimension, because the dual spread partitions the nonzero points; counting can force relations only in subspaces of dimension about 1.06c at W's parameters, so every known relation among clause tops has span at most 2c, of the order of span-local generation's bound”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-spread-relations.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The subspace line review found that the spread of \(\mathbb F_3^4\) has a relation among pairwise disjoint planes, so that locality of the relations among clause tops must be measured by span. It set as obstacle a sparse-subfamily form of span-bounded generation. How large can the span of a relation among squared spans be, and what is the right bound to conjecture?

General statement. lem:spread-relations and conj:span-bounded-squared-relations. For every \(c\ge1\), the \(3^c+1\) spans of a Desarguesian spread of \(\mathbb F_3^{2c}\) satisfy \[\sum_{U\in\text{spread}}\omega_U=0.\] The conjecture: for the clause spans \(F\) of a W family (\(|F|\le n^{K+1}\), \(c=k+1\)), every linear relation among the \(\omega_U\), \(U\in F\), is a combination of relations among the spans of \(F\) inside subspaces of dimension \(\le C_Kc\), for a constant \(C_K\).

lem:spread-relations

Principle. For a codimension-\(c\) flat \(W=\{L_1=\dots=L_c=0\}\), \(\mathbf 1_W=\prod_j(1-L_j^2)\) has degree exactly \(2c\) and top \((-1)^c\omega_U\), with \(U\) the span of the linear parts. So if flats \(W_1,\dots,W_m\) of codimension \(c\) and scalars \(a_i\) give a function \(\sum_ia_i\mathbf 1_{W_i}\) of degree \(<2c\), then \(\sum_ia_i\omega_{U_i}=0\). Conversely, every relation among \(\omega\)'s arises this way from the linear flats. Relations among squared spans are exactly the combinations of flat indicators that fall in degree.

Lemma (spread relations). Let \(\mathcal S\) be a Desarguesian spread of \(\mathbb F_3^{2c}\): the \(3^c+1\) one-dimensional \(\mathbb F_{3^c}\)-subspaces of \(\mathbb F_{3^c}^2\), each a \(c\)-dimensional \(\mathbb F_3\)-space, pairwise meeting in 0. Then \(\sum_{U\in\mathcal S}\omega_U=0\).

Proof. The annihilators \(U^\perp\), \(U\in\mathcal S\), are \(c\)-dimensional subspaces of the space of points, that is flats of codimension \(c\) through 0. They again pairwise meet in 0: \(U^\perp\cap U'^\perp=(U+U')^\perp=0\), since \(U+U'\) is everything for \(U\ne U'\). There are \(3^c+1\) of them, each with \(3^c-1\) nonzero points, and \((3^c+1)(3^c-1)=3^{2c}-1\). So they partition the nonzero points. Hence \(\sum_{U}\mathbf 1_{U^\perp}=\mathbf 1+3^c\mathbf 1_0=\mathbf 1\) in characteristic 3, a function of degree 0 \(<2c\). By the principle, \(\sum_U(-1)^c\omega_U=0\). \(\square\)

For \(c=1\) the spread is the four lines of \(\mathbb F_3^2\), and the lemma is the pencil identity of lem:squared-subspace-pencils, taken in the quotient by \(U_0\). For \(c=2\) it is the spread relation of the subspace line review. A sanity check for \(c=3\) (research/tools/spread_relation_c3.m2, output research/results/odd-prime-sparse-subspace-test/spread_c3.txt) builds the 28 three-dimensional spans of \(\mathbb F_{27}^2\): their \(\omega\)'s have rank 27, and the all-ones relation holds.

How large a span relations can need

Structured relations. Spreads give relations among pairwise disjoint spans whose common span is \(2c\). For \(c=2,3\) the spread's relation space is one-dimensional (ranks 9 of 10 and 27 of 28), so no proper subset is dependent.
Forced relations. If more than \(\dim G_{2c}(\mathbb F_3^v)\) spans of \(F\) lie in a \(v\)-dimensional subspace, their \(\omega\)'s are dependent by dimension, and only then does counting force a relation. With \(|F|\le n^{K+1}\) and \(c\approx k\approx2.5(K+1)\ln n\), so that \(|F|\le e^{0.4c}\), this needs \(\dim G_{2c}(\mathbb F_3^v)=[t^{2c}](1+t+t^2)^v<e^{0.4c}\). An exact computation (research/tools/forced_span_bound.gp, output research/results/odd-prime-sparse-subspace-test/forced_span_bound.txt) finds the largest such \(v\) to be 53, 106 and 213 for \(c=50,100,200\), a ratio \(v/c\) of about 1.06. At \(v=2c\) the dimension is about \(e^{2.2c}\), far above \(|F|\). So counting can certify forced relations only in spans up to about \(1.06c\). This is a limit of the counting method, not an exhibited relation.
The bound. The largest known relation, the spread, has span \(2c\), and counting reaches only about \(1.06c\). So every known relation has span at most \(2c\), which is \(O(D)\) at W's \(D=22k\), of the order of the span bound \(cD\) of conj:span-local-generation.

conj:span-bounded-squared-relations

The conjecture asserts that no other relations exist. Every relation among the squared spans of a W family's clauses is a combination of relations among its own spans inside subspaces of dimension \(\le C_Kc\), with \(C_K\) a constant (the spread needs \(C_K\ge2\)). For W this suffices for the dependency exemption. A relation inside such a subspace \(V\), among clauses of two different members, needs both members' clause spans inside \(V\). Under random prefixes, a member's clause span lies in \(V\) only if the member's forms lie mostly in \(V\): either shared-piece territory, rare by lem:shared-piece-rarity, or a member of span \(O(c)\), absorbed by closed members of bounded span. The subfamily form, with relations among the family's own spans, is essential: the subspace line review showed that relations of the whole Grassmannian can join disjoint spans through outside spans.

Outcome. lem:spread-relations (working proof): every Desarguesian spread gives a relation among its squared spans, since flat indicators that partition the nonzero points sum to a constant. Counting can force relations only within span about \(1.06c\) at W's parameters, so every known relation has span at most \(2c\). conj:span-bounded-squared-relations (conjecture): relations among clause tops are generated within span \(O(c)\). It resembles, in geometric form and with a span bound of the same order, the first-degree case of span-local generation; no reduction between the two is derived here. With random prefixes it would give the dependency exemption.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): attack conj:span-bounded-squared-relations through the flat-partition principle. A relation is a combination of flat indicators of low degree. Try to show that such a combination restricts to low degree on every subspace, and that a family whose spans are spread out beyond \(C_Kc\) dimensions has a subspace, of dimension about \(2c\), in which the restricted combination already falls. That is an induction on dimension by restriction to hyperplanes.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:squared-subspace-pencils, the subspace line review's spread and membership computations, conj:span-local-generation and lem:shared-piece-rarity. The \(c=3\) spread check (Macaulay2) and the span bound (PARI/GP) are exact. A fresh-context reviewer checked the flat principle, the lemma's proof (the annihilators, the count and the sum in characteristic 3) and the entropy arithmetic. It required three changes, all adopted. The counting bound is now stated as a limit of the method and not as a second known example. The bound was then recomputed exactly: the binomial estimate used in the draft does not apply below \(v=2c\), and the exact values give about \(1.06c\) instead of \(2.1c\), with the needed constant now 2, from the spread. The identity with span-local generation is softened to a resemblance. The subfamily remark rests on the subspace line review's membership computation.

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Computation design and coding	20.50 s
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Individually measured computation	1.14 s
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Two-member prefix sharing: in the cube model, a linear dependency among the clause tops of two W members that is not a sum of dependencies within each member forces their prefix spans to share at least k−1 dimensions; the annihilator of a squared span is the ideal of that span, and the quotient's freeness over one form does the rest

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-restriction-induction. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Two-member prefix sharing: in the cube model, a linear dependency among the clause tops of two W members that is not a sum of dependencies within each member forces their prefix spans to share at least k−1 dimensions; the annihilator of a squared span is the ideal of that span, and the quotient's freeness over one form does the rest”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-two-member-prefix-sharing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Spread relations conjectured that the dependencies among W's clause tops are generated within span \(O(c)\), \(c=k+1\), and observed that small cases cannot test that regime, where \(c\) is of order \(\log|F|\). A proof has to use the shape of W's tops, which the conjecture ignores. Every clause of a member \(b\) contains the whole prefix: its top is \(-\omega_{P_b}\ell_{b,i}^2\), with \(P_b\) the \(k\)-dimensional span of the prefix linear parts. What does a dependency between two members force?

General statement. lem:two-member-prefix-sharing: in \(A=\mathbb F_3[z]/(z^3)\), if \(\omega_PQ+\omega_{P'}Q'=0\) with \(P,P'\) of dimension \(k\) and \(Q,Q'\) quadratic forms (combinations of squares of the members' other forms), then either \(\omega_PQ=\omega_{P'}Q'=0\) or \[\dim(P\cap P')\ge k-1.\]

lem:two-member-prefix-sharing

Setting. The cube model \(A=\mathbb F_3[z_1,\dots,z_N]/(z^3)\), graded. For a subspace \(P\) of linear forms with basis \(p_1,\dots,p_k\), \(\omega_P=\prod_ip_i^2\) (lem:squared-subspace-pencils) and \(\mathfrak m_P=PA\).

Lemma. (1) \(\operatorname{ann}_A(\omega_P)=\mathfrak m_P\). Multiplication by \(\omega_P\) induces an isomorphism from \(A/\mathfrak m_P\cong T(E^*/P)\) onto \(\omega_PA\), with \(E^*\) the space of all forms. (2) If \(\omega_PQ+\omega_{P'}Q'=0\) with \(\dim P=\dim P'=k\) and \(Q,Q'\) homogeneous of degree 2, then either both terms vanish, or \(\dim(P\cap P')\ge k-1\).

Proof. (1) Choose coordinates with \(P\) spanned by the first \(k\) of them, so \(A=T(P)\otimes T(W)\), and \(\omega_P=s\otimes1\) with \(s\) the socle generator of \(T(P)\). For \(x=\sum_\alpha t_\alpha\otimes w_\alpha\), \(\omega_Px=s\otimes\sum_\alpha\varepsilon(t_\alpha)w_\alpha\), since \(s\) times any element of positive degree of \(T(P)\) is 0. So \(\omega_Px=0\) exactly when the image of \(x\) in \(A/\mathfrak m_P=T(W)\) vanishes. The identification \(T(W)\cong T(E^*/P)\) is the canonical one, through \(W\cong E^*/P\), and does not depend on the choice of complement. (2) Suppose \(\omega_{P'}Q'\ne0\). Multiply the relation by \(p\in P\). Since \(p\,\omega_P=0\), we get \(\omega_{P'}(pQ')=0\), so by (1) \(\bar p\,\bar Q'=0\) in \(T(E^*/P')\), bars denoting images. By (1) again, \(\bar Q'\ne0\) because \(\omega_{P'}Q'\ne0\). Let \(\bar P\) be the image of \(P\) in \(E^*/P'\), of dimension \(d=k-\dim(P\cap P')\). For \(0\ne\bar p\in\bar P\), \(T(E^*/P')\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[\bar p]/(\bar p^3)\), so \(\operatorname{ann}(\bar p)=\bar p^2T\), and \(\bar Q'\in\bar p^2T\). With coordinates extending a basis \(q_1,\dots,q_d\) of \(\bar P\), \(\bigcap_i q_i^2T=q_1^2\cdots q_d^2T\), a monomial computation. So \(\bar Q'\) is a nonzero multiple of \(\omega_{\bar P}\), of degree at least \(2d\). Since \(\deg\bar Q'=2\), \(d\le1\). If instead \(\omega_{P'}Q'=0\), then \(\omega_PQ=0\) too. \(\square\)

For W's two-member dependencies

The tops of member \(b\) are \(-\omega_{P_b}\ell_{b,i}^2\), so any dependency among the tops of two members has the form \(\omega_{P_b}Q_b+\omega_{P_{b'}}Q_{b'}=0\) with \(Q_b=-\sum_ia_i\ell_{b,i}^2\). By the lemma it is a sum of dependencies within each member unless \(\dim(P_b\cap P_{b'})\ge k-1\).
Under random prefixes the prefix span \(P_b\) is spanned by \(k\) uniformly random combinations of the member's \(h\) forms, whose linear parts span \(M_b\). For \(P_b\cap P_{b'}\) to have dimension \(k-1\), \(k-1\) independent combinations of \(b\)'s forms must lie in \(M_{b'}\). If \(\dim(M_b\cap M_{b'})=s<h\), a union bound over the choices of which \(k-1\) combinations do so shows this has probability roughly \(3^{-(k-1)(h-s)}\) up to factors polynomial in \(k\): negligible at W's \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\ln n\), unless the two members share essentially all their forms (this estimate is a heuristic count, not part of the lemma).
Members with the same form space and \(h=k+1\) are the exception: two \(k\)-dimensional subspaces of a \((k+1)\)-dimensional space always meet in dimension \(k-1\). These are the flat-difference pairs of lem:flat-difference-falls, whose falls the record found at pairs.
ex:member-pair-falls-check found falls between pairs of members sharing one form. Those runs have prefix size \(k\le2\). There the bound asks for at most one shared prefix dimension. For \(k=1\) this is automatic; for \(k=2\) it is not automatic (two random planes in a large space meet in 0), but it is the kind of sharing the constructed shared form can supply when it lies in both prefix spans. So the runs are consistent with the lemma, although that check did not record which runs' prefixes contained the shared form. The lemma concerns first-degree dependencies only, and only in the cube model; on the weak base the annihilator in (1) changes.

What it leaves. The lemma is the two-member case of the dependency exemption. The spread relations show that three or more members can have dependencies with pairwise far prefixes, when all their clause spans lie in one \(2c\)-dimensional space. So the multi-member case needs a statement that a dependency among members with pairwise far prefixes forces their clause spans into a space of dimension \(O(c)\). This is conj:span-bounded-squared-relations in W's shape, and random prefixes make it rare, since a third member's prefix span lies in a given \(O(c)\)-space only if its forms nearly do.

Outcome. lem:two-member-prefix-sharing (working proof): in the cube model, a genuine dependency between the clause tops of two W members needs their prefix spans to share \(k-1\) dimensions. Under random prefixes that is negligible unless the members share essentially all their forms, the flat-difference pairs the record already knows. The first-degree fall question for W_RS is reduced, at pairs, to shared pieces.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): extend the lemma to \(r\) members. Multiplying a relation \(\sum_b\omega_{P_b}Q_b=0\) by \(p\in P_{b_0}\) removes member \(b_0\) and leaves \(\sum_{b\ne b_0}\omega_{P_b}(pQ_b)=0\), a relation of the same shape with cubic \(Q\)'s. Iterate this to show that either the relation splits, or the prefix spans lie in a common space of dimension \(O(c)\), and check the spread against the result.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:squared-subspace-pencils, lem:spread-relations, prop:first-fall-criterion, lem:flat-difference-falls and ex:member-pair-falls-check. Claim searches for dependencies between two members' tops, prefix sharing and annihilators of squared spans found no earlier statement. No computation this cycle. A fresh-context reviewer checked (1) from the tensor splitting and the socle, and each step of (2): the multiplication by prefix forms, freeness over one form, the monomial intersection, the degree bound and the dichotomy. It also checked the flat-difference remark and the scoping of the probability estimate and of the spread remark. It required one change, adopted: the consistency with the small-\(k\) pair falls is now attributed to the constructed shared form, not to triviality at \(k=2\). At its suggestion the canonical identification of the quotient is stated.

Measured timing
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Member isolation: in a dependency among the clause tops of several W members, each member either has its prefix span meeting the span of all the others' clauses, or its quadratic part vanishes modulo that span; this makes dependencies among few members with far form spaces rare under random prefixes, but it is empty for dependencies among many members, whose other spans cover everything beyond capacity

28 September 2026 · Working proof and obstruction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-multi-member-prefixes. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Member isolation: in a dependency among the clause tops of several W members, each member either has its prefix span meeting the span of all the others' clauses, or its quadratic part vanishes modulo that span; this makes dependencies among few members with far form spaces rare under random prefixes, but it is empty for dependencies among many members, whose other spans cover everything beyond capacity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-member-isolation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Two-member prefix sharing settled first-degree dependencies between two W members in the cube model, and asked for the extension to \(r\) members. The spread relations (lem:spread-relations) show that \(r\) members can have dependencies with pairwise far prefixes. What does the two-member argument give for \(r\) members, and where does it stop?

General statement. lem:member-isolation: in the cube model, let \(\sum_{b=1}^r\omega_{P_b}Q_b=0\) with \(\dim P_b=k\), \(Q_b\) quadratic in the forms of member \(b\), and \(S_{b_0}=\sum_{b\ne b_0}U_b\), where \(U_b\) is the span of \(P_b\) and the forms of \(Q_b\). Then for each \(b_0\), \[P_{b_0}\cap S_{b_0}\ne0\quad\text{or}\quad \tilde Q_{b_0}=0\ \text{in}\ T\big(E^*/(P_{b_0}+S_{b_0})\big),\] where \(\tilde Q\) is the image of \(Q\) modulo \(P_{b_0}+S_{b_0}\).

lem:member-isolation

Proof. Every term \(\omega_{P_b}Q_b\) with \(b\ne b_0\) is a polynomial of positive degree in the forms of \(U_b\subseteq S_{b_0}\), so it lies in the ideal generated by \(S_{b_0}\). Hence the image of \(\omega_{P_{b_0}}Q_{b_0}\) in \(T(E^*/S_{b_0})\), the truncated algebra modulo that ideal, is 0. The quotient map is an algebra map, so it sends \(\omega_{P_{b_0}}=\prod_ip_i^2\) to \(\prod_i\bar p_i^2\), writing bars for images modulo \(S_{b_0}\). If \(P_{b_0}\cap S_{b_0}=0\), the \(\bar p_i\) are a basis of the image \(\bar P\), of dimension \(k\), and \(\prod_i\bar p_i^2=\omega_{\bar P}\) by the basis independence of lem:squared-subspace-pencils (1). So \(\omega_{\bar P}\bar Q_{b_0}=0\), and by lem:two-member-prefix-sharing (1), applied in the truncated algebra \(T(E^*/S_{b_0})\), \(\bar Q_{b_0}\in\bar P\,T\). Equivalently \(\tilde Q_{b_0}=0\) modulo \(P_{b_0}+S_{b_0}\). \(\square\)

For two members this recovers a weak form of the two-member lemma, which is sharper because it multiplies by prefix forms. For \(r\) members, a member is isolated if \(P_b\) avoids the others' span and \(Q_b\) does not vanish modulo it. An isolated member cannot take part in a dependency.

What it gives

Few members, far form spaces. Under random prefixes \(P_b\) is a random \(k\)-dimensional subspace of the member's form space \(M_b\), of dimension \(h\). If \(\dim(M_b\cap S_b)=s\), then \(P_b\) meets \(S_b\) with probability about \(3^{k+s-h}\), a union-bound count. So in a dependency among \(r\) members whose form spaces satisfy \(\dim(M_b\cap\sum_{b'\ne b}M_{b'})\le h-k-t\), each member is isolated except with probability about \(3^{-t}\), unless its quadratic part degenerates. This is a heuristic count at the level of lem:shared-piece-rarity: bounded dependencies across far members are rare.
Many members. Once the other members' clause spans together span all forms, as they do when a family has more forms in general position than the board has dimensions, \(S_b\supseteq M_b\): every \(P_b\) meets \(S_b\), and the lemma says nothing. The spread relations live here: every member's span lies in the \(2c\)-space spanned by the others. So the lemma cannot bound the number of members in a dependency, and the multi-member case is conj:span-bounded-squared-relations itself.

The barrier

The two-member lemma and the isolation lemma both work by projecting away the other members' spans. Such a projection is informative only while those spans are small relative to the member's own forms. That is the free regime again. Once the others' spans cover all forms, the projection is trivial. This parallels, as an analogy and not a citation, the failure of joint freeness in cor:subfamily-row-freeness, whose threshold is likewise reached when the family's forms outnumber the board's dimensions. So the dependencies among many members are the dense core in a new form. An argument for them must use the structure of the whole configuration of spans, as the spread relation does through a partition of the points, not member-by-member projections.

Outcome. lem:member-isolation (working proof): a member takes part in a dependency among clause tops only if its prefix span meets the others' span or its quadratic part vanishes modulo it. For few members with far form spaces this makes dependencies rare under random prefixes (heuristic count). For many members beyond capacity it is empty, and the question returns to conj:span-bounded-squared-relations. Projection arguments stop at the capacity barrier, and the next step needs a global tool on configurations of spans.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review, whose outside leads should target global tools for configurations of subspaces over \(\mathbb F_3\). Candidates: the partition method behind the spread relation, as vector space partitions (Heden's survey); polynomial methods for subspace configurations (the Kakeya-type method of Dvir); and the lifting of dependencies through flat indicators on the weak base.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:two-member-prefix-sharing (its annihilator statement), lem:squared-subspace-pencils (basis independence), lem:spread-relations and cor:subfamily-row-freeness. Claim searches for isolation of members in dependencies found no earlier statement. No computation this cycle. A fresh-context reviewer checked the proof's case split, the weak two-member form, the probability heuristic and the attributions of the next-step leads. It required three changes, all adopted: the quotient's action on \(\omega_P\) is now justified through basis independence; the parallel with joint freeness is marked as an analogy, with the covering condition stated directly; and this gate. At its suggestion the two reductions of \(Q\) have separate notation.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	4 min 42.59 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 35.47 s
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Route review of the configuration line: relations among squared spans are decided by transversal subspaces, and tensor families give, within W's member budget, a single relation of span \(c+c'^2\) with no dependent proper subfamily, whose clause sum does not vanish on the weak base; span-bounded generation is refuted, and the dependency exemption now needs global falls to be absorbed or harmless

28 September 2026 · Route review with working proofs and a refutation · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-configuration-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the configuration line: relations among squared spans are decided by transversal subspaces, and tensor families give, within W's member budget, a single relation of span \(c+c'^2\) with no dependent proper subfamily, whose clause sum does not vanish on the weak base; span-bounded generation is refuted, and the dependency exemption now needs global falls to be absorbed or harmless”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-configuration-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the subspace line review, three entries:

spread relations: the squared spans of a Desarguesian spread of \(\mathbb F_3^{2c}\) sum to zero, and conj:span-bounded-squared-relations asked for generation of the relations among a W family's clause tops within span \(C_Kc\);
two-member prefix sharing: a dependency between two members needs prefix spans sharing \(k-1\) dimensions (lem:two-member-prefix-sharing);
member isolation: the projection argument extends to few members and is empty beyond capacity (lem:member-isolation).

General statement. lem:transversality-criterion and thm:tensor-relations. A combination \(\sum_Ua_U\omega_U\) of squared spans of \(c\)-spaces vanishes exactly when, for every \((N-c)\)-dimensional space \(Y\) of forms, the coefficients of the \(U\) with \(U\cap Y=0\) sum to zero. The spaces \(U_w=w\otimes\mathbb F_3^c\), \(w\in\mathrm{PG}(m-1,3)\), have as relations exactly the vectors orthogonal to all forms of degree \(2c\) in \(w\), and for \(m=c+1\) only the all-ones vector.

The line's general claim

The dependencies among W's clause tops, the classes that conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies exempts, are relations among the squared spans \(\omega_U\) of the clauses' spans. They are generated by relations among the family's own spans inside subspaces of dimension \(O(c)\) (conj:span-bounded-squared-relations), and under random prefixes such subspaces rarely hold spans of two members, so the dependencies are local.

What the goal needs

By prop:first-fall-criterion, the exemption holds when every dependency among clause tops either lifts, meaning the same combination of clauses vanishes on the base, or is a sum of dependencies inside members (absorbed by closed members) or inside bounded spans. Span-bounded generation was the proposed sufficient condition for the second alternative. The first alternative does not need locality at all.

Falsification attempt

The earlier tests used only spreads, pencils and counts. This cycle looked for a global description of the relations, then for families that it shows to be dependent only as a whole.

lem:transversality-criterion

Setting. \(G=\mathbb F_3[z_1,\dots,z_N]/(z_i^3)\), \(E=G_1\) the space of linear forms, \(\omega_U\) as in lem:squared-subspace-pencils. For coefficients \(a_U\) on a family of \(c\)-spaces put \(A=\sum_Ua_U\) and, for a projective point \(P\) of \(E\), \(\kappa(P)=\sum_{U\supseteq P}a_U\).

Lemma. The following are equivalent: (i) \(\sum_Ua_U\omega_U=0\); (ii) for every \((N-c)\)-dimensional \(Y\subseteq E\), \(\sum_{U\cap Y=0}a_U=0\); (iii) for every such \(Y\), \(\sum_{P\subseteq Y}\kappa(P)=A\). Consequently (covering principle), if every \(U\) lies in a space \(S\) with \(\dim S\ge c+1\), and \(\kappa(P)=\lambda\) for every point \(P\) of \(S\) with \(A=\lambda\), then \(\sum_Ua_U\omega_U=0\).

Proof. If \(U\cap Y=0\), a basis of \(U\) followed by one of \(Y\) is a basis of \(E\), so \(\omega_U\omega_Y=\omega_E\) by basis independence, and \(\omega_E=\prod_iz_i^2\ne0\) spans \(G_{2N}\). If \(0\ne v\in U\cap Y\), bases through \(v\) give a factor \(v^4=0\), since cubes of linear forms vanish in characteristic 3. The multiplication \(G_{2c}\times G_{2N-2c}\to G_{2N}\) is a perfect pairing (monomial \(z^\alpha\) against \(z^{2-\alpha}\)), and the \(\omega_Y\) span \(G_{2N-2c}\) (the spanning statement recorded with lem:squared-subspace-pencils, from Delsarte, Goethals and MacWilliams, applied in degree \(2(N-c)\)). So \(x=\sum a_U\omega_U\) vanishes iff \(x\,\omega_Y=\big(\sum_{U\cap Y=0}a_U\big)\omega_E\) vanishes for all \(Y\): (i)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(ii). For (iii), a space of dimension \(d\) has \((3^d-1)/2=1+3+\dots+3^{d-1}\) points, which is \(\equiv[d\ge1]\) mod 3. So \(\sum_{U\cap Y\ne0}a_U=\sum_Ua_U\,\#\mathrm{PG}(U\cap Y)=\sum_{P\subseteq Y}\kappa(P)\), and (ii) says this equals \(A\). For the covering principle, \(\dim(Y\cap S)\ge\dim S-c\ge1\), so \(\sum_{P\subseteq Y}\kappa(P)=\lambda\,\#\mathrm{PG}(Y\cap S)=\lambda=A\). \(\square\)

The covering principle gives the pencil relation (\(\kappa=1\) on the \((c+1)\)-space, since points of the \((c-1)\)-space lie in all four members, and \(A=4=1\)) and the relation \(\sum\omega_U=0\) for every \(c\)-spread of \(\mathbb F_3^{tc}\), \(t\ge2\), Desarguesian or not (\(\kappa=1\), \(A=(3^{tc}-1)/(3^c-1)\equiv1\)). This extends lem:spread-relations, whose proof used only that the spread partitions the nonzero vectors, from \(t=2\) to all \(t\).

Checks (research/tools/transversal_relation_check.m2, output research/results/odd-prime-configuration-review/transversal_relations.txt, exact over \(\mathbb F_3\)). The transversality matrix \([U\cap Y=0]\) has the rank of the \(\omega\)'s and kills all their relations: rank 19 for the 130 planes of \(\mathbb F_3^4\) (entries by direct ranks) and 45 for the 1210 planes of \(\mathbb F_3^5\) (entries from point incidences mod 3, 2000 sampled entries confirmed by direct ranks). A Desarguesian 2-spread of \(\mathbb F_3^6\) (91 planes, from \(\mathbb F_9^3\)) and a regulus-switched one both satisfy \(\sum\omega=0\). Their relation spaces have dimensions 55 and 52, and the relations among members inside 4-dimensional subspaces span only 37 and 34 of them. For the Desarguesian spread, 37 is the 3-rank of the line code of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,9)\) (Hamada's formula gives \(6^2+1\)). So spreads of span \(3c\) already have relations that are not generated within span \(2c\).

thm:tensor-relations

Setting. Variables \(z_{ij}\), \(1\le i\le m\), \(1\le j\le c\). For \(w\in\mathbb F_3^m\setminus0\), \(U_w=w\otimes\mathbb F_3^c\) is spanned by the forms \(w\cdot z_j=\sum_iw_iz_{ij}\), \(j=1,\dots,c\); \(\omega_{U_w}\) depends only on the point \([w]\in\mathrm{PG}(m-1,3)\).

Theorem. (1) For \(S\subseteq\mathrm{PG}(m-1,3)\), \(\sum_{w\in S}a_w\omega_{U_w}=0\) iff \(\sum_{w\in S}a_wg(w)=0\) for every form \(g\) of degree \(2c\) in \(w_1,\dots,w_m\). (2) For \(S=\mathrm{PG}(m-1,3)\) and \(m\ge c+1\), the all-ones vector is a relation. (3) For \(m=c+1\) it is the only relation, while for \(m\le c\) the \(\omega_{U_w}\) are independent. (4) The \(U_w\) pairwise meet in 0 and together span \(\mathbb F_3^{mc}\). (5) For a space \(Z\) of dimension \(c_0\) meeting the \(z\)-space trivially, the spaces \(Z\oplus U_w\) have the same relations. So for \(m=c+1\) the family \(Z\oplus U_w\), \(w\in\mathrm{PG}(c,3)\), consists of \((3^{c+1}-1)/2\) spaces of dimension \(c+c_0\), has exactly one relation, of span \(c_0+c(c+1)\), and has no dependent proper subfamily.

Proof. (1) \(\omega_{U_w}=\prod_j\big(\sum_iw_iz_{ij}\big)^2=\sum_\mu\varepsilon_\mu w^{\nu(\mu)}\mu\), where \(\mu=\prod_j\mu_j\) runs over the products of one degree-2 monomial \(\mu_j\) in each column's variables, \(\varepsilon_\mu\in\{1,2\}\) collects the coefficients \(1\) (for \(z_{ij}^2\)) or \(2\) (for \(z_{ij}z_{i'j}\)), and \(\nu(\mu)\) is the exponent of \(w\) formed by the row indices. Each variable occurs in \(\mu\) with exponent at most 2, so the \(\mu\) are distinct nonzero monomials of \(G\). Hence \(\sum_wa_w\omega_{U_w}=\sum_\mu\varepsilon_\mu\big(\sum_wa_ww^{\nu(\mu)}\big)\mu\) vanishes iff \(\sum_wa_ww^\nu=0\) for every arising \(\nu\), and every exponent of total degree \(2c\) arises, by splitting its monomial into \(c\) monomials of degree 2, one per column. (2) For \(|\nu|=2c<2m\), \(\sum_{w\in\mathbb F_3^m}w^\nu=\prod_i\sum_{x\in\mathbb F_3}x^{\nu_i}\), and \(\sum_xx^e=0\) unless \(e\ge2\) is even, which cannot hold for all \(i\). The term \(w=0\) is 0 and \(\pm w\) give equal values, so the sum over \(\mathrm{PG}(m-1,3)\) is 0. (3) Functions on \(\mathrm{PG}(m-1,3)\) are the even functions on \(\mathbb F_3^m\setminus0\). A monomial of degree \(2c\) equals, as a function on \(\mathbb F_3^m\), a reduced monomial \(x^\beta\) (all \(\beta_i\le2\)) with \(\beta\ne0\), \(|\beta|\) even and \(\le2c\). Conversely every such \(x^\beta\) arises, since multiplying by \(x_i^2\) with \(\beta_i\ge1\) does not change the function. The reduced monomials are independent functions on \(\mathbb F_3^m\). A combination of those with \(\beta\ne0\) that vanishes off 0 is a multiple of the indicator of 0, \(\prod_i(1-x_i^2)\), whose constant term is 1; so it is 0, and restriction to \(\mathbb F_3^m\setminus0\) is injective on their span. There are \((3^m+1)/2\) even reduced monomials, so the functions of the forms of degree \(2c\) span a space of dimension \((3^m+1)/2-1-e\) in the \((3^m-1)/2\)-dimensional space of functions on the points, where \(e\) counts the even \(\beta\) with \(|\beta|>2c\). For \(m=c+1\) only \(\beta=(2,\dots,2)\) counts, so the relation space has dimension 1, and for \(m\le c\) none does. (4) A nonzero vector of \(U_w\) is a rank-one tensor \(w\otimes v\), which determines \([w]\). (5) \(\omega_{Z\oplus U_w}=\omega_Z\omega_{U_w}\), and multiplication by \(\omega_Z\) is injective on the subalgebra generated by a complement containing the \(z\)-space, by lem:two-member-prefix-sharing (1) (\(\operatorname{ann}\omega_Z=ZG\)). No proper subfamily is dependent because the relation space is spanned by the all-ones vector. \(\square\)

Checks in the same output (Part 4): \(c=2,m=3\): 13 members, span 6, rank 12, one relation, the all-ones vector; \(c=3,m=4\): 40 members, span 12, rank 39, one relation, all-ones; the controls \(c=m=2\) and \(c=m=3\) have no relation. For \(c=2\), \(m=3\), the tensor family is, by construction (\(\mathbb F_9w=w\otimes\mathbb F_3^2\) for \(w\in\mathbb F_3^3\)), the Baer subplane of the Desarguesian spread above, one of its relations outside span \(2c\). Part 5 of the same output is a first version of the fall check below (clause sum of this family of degree 3 and nonzero on \(\mathbb F_3^6\), three seeds), superseded by family (a) there.

What it does to the line. Take W's member budget \(M=n^K\), \(c=k+1\approx2.5(K+1)\ln n\), and \(c'\) the largest integer with \((3^{c'+1}-1)/2\le n^K\), so \(c'\ge K\log_3n-2\), and \(c'\le K\log_3n\approx0.91K\ln n<c\), so \(c_0=c-c'\ge0\). By (5) with \(c_0=c-c'\), the lifted tensor family has at most \(n^K\) spans of dimension \(c\), one relation of span \(c+c'^2\), and no dependent proper subfamily. Since \(c'^2/c\) grows like \(\ln n\) for fixed \(K\), no constant \(C_K\) bounds the span, and the relation is not a combination of relations among the family's spans in any proper subspace. W realizes it: take blocks of \(h=k+1\) dense affine forms whose linear parts are bases of the spaces \(Z\oplus U_w\), for instance \(Z\)'s basis followed by the \(w\cdot z_j\). With \(h=k+1\) each block has one clause span, its whole span, whatever the prefix. conj:span-bounded-squared-relations is false. The spread's \(3^c+1\) members exceed the budget, so the earlier remark that the spread needs \(C_K\ge2\) did not concern W's families; the tensor families do.

ex:tensor-family-falls

Does the tensor dependency lift? research/tools/tensor_fall_check.m2 (output research/results/odd-prime-configuration-review/tensor_falls.txt) works in the cube model, where the base is the whole value space \(\mathbb F_3^r\) of the forms. There a closed member's elements of degree \(\le2c-1\) are the functions of that degree supported on the clause's excluded set. It asks whether the clause sum \(F=\sum_bC_b\), of degree \(\le2c-1\) since the tops cancel, lies in the sum of these spaces. Seeded random constants and prefix combinations were used.

Tensor family \(c=2\), \(m=3\) (13 members, \(r=6\), pairwise disjoint spans, no shared forms): \(\deg F=3\), each closed member contributes a 1-dimensional space, their sum has rank 13, and \(F\) is not in it (two seeds).
Lifted pencil \(c=2\) (4 members sharing one form, \(r=3\)): not absorbed (two seeds). This is the flat-difference kind of cross fall the record already knows.
Lifted tensor family \(c=3\), \(c'=2\) (13 members sharing one form \(g\), \(r=7\)): \(\deg F=5\), the closed members' spaces are 7-dimensional with sum of rank 91, and \(F\) is not absorbed (one seed).

On a real weak base: research/tools/tensor_fall_weak_base.py (output research/results/odd-prime-configuration-review/tensor_fall_weak_base.txt) takes the weak unary base on 7 rows and 6 columns (36057 points) and six random dense affine forms of its 42 variables. For three seeds these forms map the base onto all of \(\mathbb F_3^6\), and the tensor clause sum is nonzero at 24833, 24221 and 25051 base points. So by prop:first-fall-criterion the dependency does not lift on the weak base. Absorption by closed members on the weak base was not tested.

In the lifted family with \(c=3\), each member's prefix combinations have a nonzero column outside the shared form, so the zero-column condition of conj:shared-piece-falls's shared piece fails and no member is flagged. In W's regime the members' excluded sets have total density at most about \(n^K(2/3)^k/3\), which tends to 0, so the allowed intersection is nearly the whole base while \(H(2c-1)\) is at most the number of monomials of degree \(<2c\). A lifted tensor fall that closed members do not absorb on the weak base would therefore be an early cross-member fall of unflagged members, contrary to conj:shared-piece-falls. The cube-model result makes it a candidate; the weak base with closed members decides it.

A smaller point, also in the output (Part 3): eleven points of \(\mathbb F_3^4\) (\(c=1\)) have exactly one relation among their squares; its support has eight points and spans \(\mathbb F_3^4\), while every subfamily inside a 3-dimensional space is independent. So even the logarithmic law "span \(\le c+\log_3\) of the number of members", which lifted spreads attain, fails for forced relations. That law does not matter at W's parameters, where the tensor families already break any constant.

Obstacle

Global first-degree falls. Within W's budget, lifted tensor families have a dependency among clause tops of span \(c+\Theta(\log^2n)\) with no local part. It does not lift on the weak base, and in the cube model closed members do not absorb it. Random prefixes do not help: with \(h=k+1\) the clause spans do not depend on the prefixes, and the clause sum was nonzero for every seed. The relation-space route therefore needs one of two things. (a) On the weak base, closed members absorb such falls: untested, and the cube model says no. (b) The falls are harmless: adding the fall polynomials to the members keeps the system hard through degree \(22k\). This is a statement about W itself for these families, not about locality.

Assessment of the route

This line, the dependency exemption of the relation-space route, is obstructed. Its sufficient condition, span-bounded generation, is false within W's budget. The only remaining way to exempt the tensor dependencies is through the lifting condition itself, which the tested cases fail. The line produced correct tools: the transversality criterion, the tensor relations and the isolation lemmas. But the reformulations since the relation-space Tor all assumed that dependencies are local, and that assumption is now refuted for adversarial forms. What remains open and decides the matter is whether the tensor falls matter for W's hardness. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Projective Reed–Muller duality and small-weight codewords of projective-geometry codes (A. B. Sørensen, Projective Reed–Muller codes, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 37, 1991; B. Bagchi and S. P. Inamdar, Projective geometric codes, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 99, 2002). By the transversality criterion, relations with \(A=0\) are point functions orthogonal to all \((N-c)\)-spaces, codewords of the dual of a projective-geometry code, and the tensor relations are duals of projective Reed–Muller codes. Answers. A classification of the small-weight codewords of these duals would list every kind of non-local dependency among few members, local, tensor and any others. Each kind could then be tested for absorption, as alternative (a) needs, instead of locality. Test. Passed: GUAVA gives minimum weights 6 and 18 for the duals of the line codes of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,3)\) and \(\mathrm{PG}(3,3)\) (research/tools/pg_dual_min_weight.g, output research/results/odd-prime-configuration-review/pg_dual_min_weight.txt). These are the weights of \(\mathbf 1_{V}-\mathbf 1_{V'}\) for two \((c+1)\)-spaces meeting in a \(c\)-space, the coverage of a difference of two pencils, as the translation predicts.
Chevalley–Warning and the Ax–Katz theorem (J. Ax, Zeroes of polynomials over finite fields, Amer. J. Math. 86, 1964; N. M. Katz, On a theorem of Ax, Amer. J. Math. 93, 1971). Through the criterion, the tensor relation says that for every \(c\times c\) matrix pencil \(\sum_iw_iM_i\), the number of \(w\in\mathrm{PG}(c,3)\) where it is singular is \(1\) mod 3. That is Chevalley–Warning for its determinant. Answers. Ax–Katz divisibility controls zero counts of forms by their degrees. A description of the signed point sets on which the zero counts of all determinantal forms of degree \(c\) are constant mod 3 would describe all tensor-type dependencies. It would also say whether sparse, W_RS-like families can carry them, which bounds what alternative (b) must handle. Test. Passed: the degree condition predicts no relation for \(m=c\) and exactly one for \(m=c+1\), and both are confirmed for \(c=2,3\) (Part 4 of transversal_relations.txt).
The Combinatorial Nullstellensatz (N. Alon, Combinatorial Nullstellensatz, Combin. Probab. Comput. 8, 1999). A nonzero polynomial of degree \(d\) is nonzero somewhere on a grid \(S_1\times\dots\times S_r\) with \(|S_i|>\) its degree in each variable. Answers. If the base maps onto a grid in the form values, every nonzero clause sum is visible on it. Tensor dependencies then cannot lift for forms in general position on the base, which decides the lifting question and leaves only alternatives (a) and (b). Test. Passed: on the 7-by-6 weak base six random dense forms map onto all of \(\mathbb F_3^6\), and the tensor clause sum is nonzero at about two thirds of the base points (three seeds).

Absurd bridges

Sheaf-theoretic contextuality (S. Abramsky and A. Brandenburger, The sheaf-theoretic structure of non-locality and contextuality, New J. Phys. 13, 2011; the Čech-cohomology witnesses of Abramsky, Mansfield and Barbosa, 2011). In a Mermin square every context is consistent and only the whole family is contradictory, which cohomology of the cover of contexts detects. Translation: members are contexts, and a dependency with no local part is a global parity. Answers. A cohomological witness computed from the family's cover would detect the non-local dependencies. Its vanishing on the covers of W_RS families would give locality where it holds, and would locate the tensor-type obstructions. Test. Falsified for the cover by the members' spans: tensor members pairwise meet in 0, so the nerve of that cover is discrete and all its higher Čech groups vanish, yet the relation exists. A witness would need the cover by the transversal spaces \(Y\) of the criterion, which was not built.
Cluster expansions of lattice models (R. Kotecký and D. Preiss, Cluster expansion for abstract polymer models, Comm. Math. Phys. 103, 1986). Large polymers are harmless when their weights decay faster than their number grows. Translation: global falls are polymers, and a fall's weight is the probability, over the random prefixes, that it occurs. Answers. A Kotecký–Preiss bound would show that the global falls of W_RS families are too rare to matter, alternative (b) in averaged form. Test. Falsified for members with \(h=k+1\): their clause spans do not depend on the prefixes, and the tensor clause sum was nonzero for every seed tried, so the weight does not decay. Members with \(h\ge k+2\), whose clause spans do depend on the prefix, were not tested.

Lead follow-up

Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Developed: for \(m>c+1\) the tensor families are relation-rich, with the dual of the projective Reed–Muller code of order \(2c\) as their relation space. Their span \(cm=c\log_3(2X+1)\) is logarithmic in the number \(X\) of members, as the lead's dimension bound predicts. Within W's budget that is still not \(O(c)\); whether the pinned-rank reduction handles rank of order \(c\log n\) was not checked.
Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series. Follow-up. Closed: the attempt this cycle found that for adversarial blocks with \(h=k+1\) the clause spans do not depend on the random prefixes, so the prefixes supply no genericity, and the tensor families show the resulting quotients are not of expected series in the cube model. The lead remains relevant to random forms (A3), not to A1.
Buchberger's criterion. Follow-up. Developed: its reduction test, in the exact form of prop:first-fall-criterion, was run on the tensor dependencies. The combination does not reduce to zero on the weak base, and in the cube model not modulo closed members either (ex:tensor-family-falls).
Hamada's formula. Follow-up. Developed: the transversality criterion puts the relations among squared spans into point–subspace incidence codes. The local relations of the Desarguesian 2-spread of \(\mathbb F_3^6\) span 37 dimensions, the 3-rank of the line code of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,9)\) that Hamada's formula gives.

Bridge follow-up

Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: the tensor families are circuits of the matroid of the \(\omega\)'s, \((3^{c+1}-1)/2\) members with one self-stress and no dependent proper subfamily, the analogue of a Laman circuit. A Laman-type count must predict them. A count by span alone cannot, since a lifted spread and a tensor family of equal span have different sizes. No count was found.
The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed this cycle.
Helly's theorem on convex sets. Follow-up. Closed: with dense forms every member shares all coordinates, so the lead's Helly number, shared coordinates plus one, is unbounded. A version by span intersections fails too, since the tensor members pairwise meet in 0 and their first-degree dependency needs all \((3^{c+1}-1)/2\) of them.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): decide the obstacle on the weak base for the smallest tensor family (\(c=2\), 13 members, six dense forms on the 7-by-6 base). First, does the clause sum lie in the sum of the closed members' degree-\(\le3\) parts on the base (alternative (a))? Then, if not, does adding the family lower the Nullstellensatz or PC degree of weak PHP, compared with 13 members of the same shape with a random, dependency-free configuration (alternative (b))? Use an exact linear-algebra kernel over the base's points.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:squared-subspace-pencils with its spanning statement, lem:spread-relations, lem:two-member-prefix-sharing (1), prop:first-fall-criterion, conj:span-bounded-squared-relations and conj:shared-piece-falls with lem:shared-piece-rarity. Claim searches for transversal, tensor, projective Reed–Muller and Chevalley–Warning statements, and a novelty check, found no earlier version of the criterion or the theorem; the covering principle extends lem:spread-relations. The Macaulay2, GAP and numpy computations are exact and saved. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived the criterion (pairing, spanning, point count, covering examples), each part of the tensor theorem including the dimension count at \(c=2\), \(m=3\), the refutation's budget arithmetic and its no-proper-subfamily argument, and matched every quoted number to the outputs. It found no error and required three changes, all adopted: a justification of \(c'\le c\); the Part 3 count stated as eleven points with a support of eight; and the citation of Part 5 as superseded. The conj:shared-piece-falls remark is a candidate only, pending absorption on the weak base.

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Global tensor falls: in the cube model a tensor family's first-degree fall is absorbed by the closed member of the whole family and by no closed members of clause sets of smaller span, so span-local generation would need span \(c+c'^2\), beyond its bound \(\gamma D\) within W's budget; member pinning makes each tensor family harmless for W, and the route's conjecture is revised to a span bound of order \(D^2\)

28 September 2026 · Conjectures and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-tensor-absorption. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Global tensor falls: in the cube model a tensor family's first-degree fall is absorbed by the closed member of the whole family and by no closed members of clause sets of smaller span, so span-local generation would need span \(c+c'^2\), beyond its bound \(\gamma D\) within W's budget; member pinning makes each tensor family harmless for W, and the route's conjecture is revised to a span bound of order \(D^2\)”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-global-tensor-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The configuration review found tensor families: within W's member budget, a single dependency among clause tops of span \(c+c'^2\), \(c'\approx K\log_3n\), with no dependent proper subfamily, whose clause sum does not vanish on the weak base. It left two alternatives: closed members absorb such falls, or the falls are harmless. The relative-gluing route to A1 rests on conj:span-local-generation, which allows closed members of span up to \(\gamma D\), \(D=22k\), with \(\gamma\) its absolute constant, not only clause tops. Does that allowance absorb the tensor falls, and if not, what is the right bound?

General statement. conj:global-tensor-falls and conj:quadratic-span-locality. The fall of a lifted tensor family is absorbed by no closed members of clause sets spanning proper subspaces of the family's span; if this holds on the weak base, span-local generation with an absolute constant fails, and its version with span bound \(CD^2\) is the form consistent with the tensor families.

Why closed members are the right test

Let a family's clause tops satisfy the dependency \(\sum_b\tau_b=0\) at degree \(d_0=2c\), with clause sum \(F=\sum_bC_b\) of degree \(\le d_0-1\). Suppose, as conj:span-local-generation asserts, that this top syzygy is an \(A_{\mathrm{top}}\)-combination of Koszul pairs and of syzygies \(\sigma_S\) each supported on a single closed member \(\bar S\). Koszul pairs have degree at least \(2d_0\), so at degree \(d_0\) only the \(\sigma_S\) occur. Evaluating a syzygy on its generators is linear, so \(F=\sum_S\operatorname{ev}(\sigma_S)\). Each \(\operatorname{ev}(\sigma_S)\) has zero top in degree \(d_0\), hence degree \(\le d_0-1\), and it vanishes on \(\bar S\)'s allowed set. So it lies in \(\bar S_{\le d_0-1}\), since \(\bar S\) contains every polynomial of degree \(\le D\) vanishing there. Here a syzygy supported on \(\bar S\) is one among the tops of \(\bar S\)'s elements, as in lem:cover-relative-gluing and thm:relative-gluing, so its evaluation is a combination of elements of \(\bar S\). Hence local generation implies \[F\in\sum_S\bar S_{\le d_0-1}.\] If \(F\) is outside this sum for all clause sets \(S\) of span \(\le s\), local generation fails at span bound \(s\).

ex:tensor-local-absorption

research/tools/tensor_local_check.m2 (Macaulay2, exact; output research/results/odd-prime-tensor-absorption/tensor_local.txt) works in the cube model of ex:tensor-family-falls: the base is the value space \(\mathbb F_3^r\) of the forms, and \(\bar S_{\le d}\) consists of the functions of degree \(\le d\) killed by \(\prod_{b\in S}(1-C_b)\). Spans are those of the linear parts. A clause set of proper span lies in a hyperplane \(\ker\varphi\). A member \(Z\oplus U_w\) lies in it iff \(\varphi\) vanishes on \(Z\) and \(w^{\mathsf T}\Phi=0\), where \(\Phi\) is the \(3\times2\) matrix of \(\varphi\) on \(\mathbb F_3^3\otimes\mathbb F_3^2\). If \(\Phi=0\) no member lies in it; otherwise the left kernel of \(\Phi\) has dimension at most 2, so the members inside are those on one line of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,3)\) or a single one. Since \(\bar S\) grows with \(S\), the 13 line sets are the largest clause sets of proper span. A line \(\langle a,b\rangle\) gives span \(\dim(Z)+\dim(\langle a,b\rangle\otimes\mathbb F_3^2)=\dim Z+4\).

Tensor family \(c=2\), \(m=3\) (13 members, span 6), two seeds: the 13 line sets (span 4) have closed parts of dimension 5 or 7 in degree \(\le3\), summing to rank 27 and 25. \(F\) is not in the sum.
Lifted tensor family \(c=3\), \(c'=2\) (13 members, span 7), one seed: the line sets (span \(1+4=5\)) have parts of dimensions 31 to 37 in degree \(\le5\), sum of rank 173. \(F\) is not in it.
Control: the closed member of the whole family absorbs \(F\) in all three runs, as it must, since \(F\) vanishes where every clause holds.

So in the smallest cases the tensor fall is global: only a closed member of the full span absorbs it.

conj:global-tensor-falls

Conjecture. For every \(c'\ge2\) and \(c\ge c'\), for the lifted tensor family \(Z\oplus U_w\), \(w\in\mathrm{PG}(c',3)\), \(\dim Z=c-c'\), realized by W blocks of \(h=k+1\) forms, with generic constants and prefix combinations, the clause sum \(F\) lies outside \(\sum_S\bar S_{\le2c-1}\) over the clause sets \(S\) whose linear parts span a proper subspace of the family's span. This is to hold in the cube model and on the weak unary base whenever the forms map the base onto their value space.

If it holds on the weak base, then within W's budget (\((3^{c'+1}-1)/2\le n^K\), \(c'\ge K\log_3n-2\)) the span needed is \(c+c'^2\), and \(c'^2/(\gamma D)\) grows like \(\ln n\) for fixed \(K\ge1\), since \(\gamma D=\Theta(\ln n)\). So conj:span-local-generation would be false for every absolute constant \(\gamma\). The same family bears on conj:local-top-syzygies (generation by single constraints and pairs), whose selector constraints have a different shape; that was not tested.

The tensor families are harmless for W

All clauses of a lifted tensor family are polynomials in \(w_0=c+c'^2\) forms (a basis of \(Z\) and the \(z_{ij}\)). lem:member-pinning needs these forms to have row-linear parts independent modulo constants on every row. That is a hypothesis on the adversary's forms, not verified here; it is the hypothesis under which the record's pinning results apply, and families violating it on some row are outside this remark. Under it, and with a common zero of the clauses in the value space, lem:member-pinning applies. So weak PHP plus the family has no PC refutation of degree \(B\) on boards with \(2B-1\) rows robust through \(L_{\max(B-1,1)}+B(w_0+1)\) labels, and here \(Bw_0=O(\log^3n)\). A common zero exists because the excluded sets have total density at most \(n^K\cdot\frac13(\frac23)^{k}<1\) in the value space at \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\ln n\). So, under that hypothesis, the tensor falls obstruct the route's locality, not W. A family can contain many tensor families in independent spans. Their dependencies then stay inside the separate spans of size \(O(D^2)\), which suggests the following revision.

conj:quadratic-span-locality

Conjecture. conj:span-local-generation holds with the span bound \(\gamma D\) replaced by \(CD^2\) for an absolute constant \(C\). cor:span-local-reduction does not use the size of the span bound. So this version, together with nonempty allowed sets on the base for all clause sets of span \(\le CD^2\), gives W for the family by the same proof.

Consistency checks. The lifted tensor families within budget have span \(c+c'^2\le c+(K\log_3n)^2\le CD^2\). Tensor families with \(m>c'+1\) have span \(c'm\) with \(3^m/2\le n^K\), again \(O(D^2)\). Spreads (\(3^c+1\) members) exceed the budget. The covering obstruction (prop:covering-obstruction) concerns the allowed set of a whole family, which that family's own closed member absorbs when the family's span is within the bound. How its needed span compares with \(CD^2\) was not worked out, and it is recorded for the selector setting. The degree-zero circuits (prop:degree-zero-circuits) are non-local in member count, not in span. What the revision costs: local satisfiability must now hold for clause sets of span \(CD^2\), not \(\gamma D\). An adversary with dense forms can push more members into a subspace of dimension \(CD^2\), but the union bound above on excluded densities holds for any set of at most \(n^K\) members. So in the value space the allowed sets stay nonempty at every span, and the question is only whether the base maps onto the value space. That is the same question for both bounds.

Outcome. ex:tensor-local-absorption (finite check): in the cube model the tensor fall is absorbed by the closed member of the whole family and by no closed members of clause sets of proper span (\(c=2\), and \(c=3\) lifted). conj:global-tensor-falls (conjecture): the same for every \(c'\), which on the weak base would refute conj:span-local-generation within W's budget. Each tensor family alone is harmless for W by member pinning. conj:quadratic-span-locality (conjecture): the route's generation statement with span bound \(CD^2\), consistent with all recorded obstructions as checked above.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove conj:global-tensor-falls in the cube model for all \(c'\). The target is a dual certificate: a linear functional on functions of degree \(\le2c-1\) that vanishes on the closed members of every proper-span clause set but not on \(F\). Try the functionals of the transversality criterion, sums over flats transversal to the members, restricted to the members' excluded sets, starting from the \(c=2\) data.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:span-local-generation, cor:span-local-reduction, lem:cover-relative-gluing, lem:member-pinning, thm:tensor-relations and ex:tensor-family-falls, prop:covering-obstruction and prop:degree-zero-circuits. Claim searches for quadratic or polylogarithmic span locality and global falls found no earlier statement; conj:local-top-syzygies is related and noted. The Macaulay2 check is exact, with the whole-family control. A fresh-context reviewer checked the implication from local generation to absorption, the script against the stated quantity and every quoted number, the asymptotics and the reduction's independence of the span bound. It required four changes, all adopted: the member-pinning independence condition is stated as a hypothesis on the forms; the maximality of the line sets is proved and their spans computed (4 and 5, correcting the draft's 5 for \(c=2\)); the span-local constant is renamed \(\gamma\); and the covering-obstruction comparison is softened. At its suggestion the notion of a syzygy supported on a closed member is referred to its source.

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Leading fall form: modulo single members' closed parts, the leading part of a first-degree fall is \(\sum_ba_b\ell_b\omega_{P_b}\), driven by the constants of the non-prefix forms; tensor falls stay global in leading form, a certificate from the local subalgebras alone does not exist, and with those constants zero the fall can become local

28 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-tensor-certificate. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Leading fall form: modulo single members' closed parts, the leading part of a first-degree fall is \(\sum_ba_b\ell_b\omega_{P_b}\), driven by the constants of the non-prefix forms; tensor falls stay global in leading form, a certificate from the local subalgebras alone does not exist, and with those constants zero the fall can become local”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-leading-fall-form.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Global tensor falls conjectured that a lifted tensor family's first-degree fall is absorbed by no closed members of proper span (conj:global-tensor-falls), which would push span-local generation to span of order \(D^2\). It proposed a proof by a dual certificate. What do the closed members' low-degree parts look like, which part of the fall do they miss, and what kind of certificate can work?

General statement. prop:leading-fall-form. In the cube model, for any W family whose clause tops satisfy \(\sum_b\tau_b=0\), the degree-\((2c-1)\) part \(\varphi\) of the clause sum satisfies \[\varphi\equiv\sum_ba_b\,\ell_b\,\omega_{P_b}\pmod{\textstyle\sum_b\Lambda_b},\qquad\Lambda_b=\ell_b^2\pi_bG_{c-2},\] where \(\Lambda_b\) is the space of degree-\((2c-1)\) leading forms of member \(b\)'s closed part, \(\pi_b\) the product of its prefix forms and \(a_b\) the constant of its non-prefix form.

prop:leading-fall-form

Setting. The cube model of ex:tensor-family-falls: functions on the value space \(\mathbb F_3^r\), filtered by degree, with associated graded ring \(G=\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^3)\). The leading form of a function of degree \(\le d\) in degree \(d\) is the degree-\(d\) part of its reduced polynomial. Member \(b\) has affine prefix forms \(P_{b,i}=p_{b,i}+\beta_{b,i}\), \(i=1,\dots,c-1\), and non-prefix form \(L_b=\ell_b+a_b\), with independent linear parts spanning \(U_b\). Its clause is \(C_b=(1-L_b^2)\prod_iP_{b,i}^2\), the indicator of \(E_b=\{L_b=0,\ P_{b,i}\ne0\}\), with top \(-\omega_{U_b}\). Its closed part in degree \(\le2c-1\) is \(\bar b_{\le2c-1}\), the functions of degree \(\le2c-1\) supported on \(E_b\). Put \(\pi_b=\prod_ip_{b,i}\).

Proposition. (1) \(\bar b_{\le2c-1}\) consists of the functions \((1-L_b^2)\sum_e\prod_iP_{b,i}^{e_i}g_e\), with \(e\in\{1,2\}^{c-1}\), \(e\ne(2,\dots,2)\), and \(g_e\) functions of the remaining coordinates of degree \(\le2c-3-|e|\). Its lowest degree is \(c+1\). Its leading forms in degree \(2c-1\) form \(\Lambda_b=\ell_b^2\pi_bG_{c-2}\). (2) If \(\sum_b\tau_b=0\), the clause sum \(F=\sum_bC_b\) has degree \(\le2c-1\) and degree-\((2c-1)\) part \(\varphi\equiv\sum_ba_b\ell_b\omega_{P_b}\) modulo \(\sum_b\Lambda_b\). The prefix constants \(\beta_{b,i}\) do not enter. (3) For one member \(b\) and a space \(Y\) of dimension \(r-c\) with \(Y\cap U_b=0\), the functional \(\psi(g)=\) coefficient of \(\omega_E\) in \(g\,\ell_b\,\omega_Y\) kills \(\Lambda_b\) and has \(\psi(\ell_b\omega_{P_b})=1\).

Proof. (1) Take affine coordinates with \(L_b\) and the \(P_{b,i}\) among them; affine changes of coordinates preserve degree. A function supported on \(E_b\) is \((1-L_b^2)h\) with \(h\) supported on \(\{P_{b,i}\ne0\ \forall i\}\). The monomials \(\prod_iP_{b,i}^{e_i}\), \(e\in\{1,2\}^{c-1}\), span the functions of the \(P\)'s supported on \((\mathbb F_3^*)^{c-1}\), since on \(\{1,2\}\) the functions \(P\) and \(P^2\) are a basis, and products of bases of the factors are a basis of the functions on \((\mathbb F_3^*)^{c-1}\). So \(h=\sum_e\prod_iP_{b,i}^{e_i}g_e\). The reduced monomials in these coordinates form a filtered basis, and \((1-L_b^2)\prod P^eg\) has degree \(2+|e|+\deg g\), so the degree of the sum is the largest term's. Degree \(\le2c-1\) excludes \(e=(2,\dots,2)\), since \(2+2(c-1)=2c\). The least degree is \(2+(c-1)\), at \(e=(1,\dots,1)\) and \(g=1\). A term of degree exactly \(2c-1\) has leading form \(-\ell_b^2\prod_ip_{b,i}^{e_i}\bar g_e\). Some \(e_i=1\), so this is \(\ell_b^2\pi_b\) times a form of degree \(c-2\). Conversely \(\ell_b^2\pi_bh\), \(h\in G_{c-2}\), is the leading form of \((1-L_b^2)\prod_iP_{b,i}\,H\) for a lift \(H\) of \(-h\), which has degree \(\le 2c-1\) and vanishes where some \(P_{b,i}=0\) or \(L_b\ne0\). (2) The degree-\(2c\) part of \(F\) is \(\sum_b\tau_b=0\). The expansion of \(C_b\) has degree \(2c\), and reduction \(y^3\to y\) lowers a monomial's degree by an even amount, so no term moves into or out of degree \(2c-1\) except by losing a cube, which is 0 in \(G\). Hence the degree-\((2c-1)\) part of \(C_b\)'s reduced polynomial is the degree-\((2c-1)\) part of its expansion, read in \(G\). Expanding \((1-(\ell+a)^2)\prod(p_i+\beta_i)^2\), that part is \(-2a\,\ell\,\omega_P-2\ell^2\sum_j\beta_jp_j\prod_{i\ne j}p_i^2\). The first term is \(a\,\ell\,\omega_P\), since \(-2=1\) in \(\mathbb F_3\). The second is \(\ell^2\pi\sum_j\beta_j\prod_{i\ne j}p_i\in\Lambda_b\). (3) For \(g=\ell_b^2\pi_bh\), \(g\,\ell_b\,\omega_Y\) contains \(\ell_b^3=0\). For \(g=\ell_b\omega_{P_b}\), \(g\,\ell_b\,\omega_Y=\omega_{U_b}\omega_Y=\omega_E\), as in the transversality criterion, since \(U_b\cap Y=0\). Here \(E\) is the space of linear forms on the value space. \(\square\)

So a single member absorbs everything in the leading part of a fall except the terms \(a_b\ell_b\omega_{P_b}\), and those are seen by the member's own transversal functional (3). This is the multi-member form of the one-block pencil in prop:first-fall-criterion, where the fall's linear part \(\lambda=-2\sum_ia_i\ell_i\) is also made of the non-prefix forms' constants. A certificate for a whole family must combine such functionals so as to kill the closed parts of all proper-span clause sets, which also contain multi-member elements.

ex:tensor-graded-absorption

Exact Macaulay2 checks, same families and clause sets as ex:tensor-local-absorption (output in research/results/odd-prime-tensor-certificate/):

Graded non-absorption (research/tools/tensor_graded_check.m2, tensor_graded.txt). The leading form \(\varphi\) lies outside the span of the leading forms of the line sets' closed parts: ranks 24 and 22 for \(c=2\), two seeds; 155 for lifted \(c=3\). It also lies outside the single members' leading forms (ranks 10 and 73). The whole family's control contains it. So the obstruction is visible in leading forms, where a certificate is a functional on \(G_{2c-1}\) alone.
No certificate from local subalgebras (research/tools/tensor_local_algebra_check.m2, tensor_local_algebra.txt). A coarse certificate would be a functional vanishing on the degree-\((2c-1)\) parts \(G_{2c-1}(E_\ell)\) of the subalgebras generated by the line sets' spans \(E_\ell\), and on more. The closed parts are not inside these subalgebras, since by (1) their elements carry cofactors in all coordinates. But already the 13 subalgebras' degree-\((2c-1)\) parts span all of \(G_3(E)\) (rank 50 of 50) for \(c=2\). That case alone says nothing about \(\varphi\). For \(c=3\) they span 248 of 266 dimensions and still contain \(\varphi\) (two seeds), which is the substantive case. So no functional vanishing on them separates \(\varphi\), and a certificate must use the closed parts' finer structure.
Constants (research/tools/tensor_constant_check.m2, tensor_constants.txt). With the non-prefix forms' constants \(a_b=0\), \(c=2\), the leading part is absorbed by single members, as (2) predicts, but the whole fall is not (two seeds). The line sets absorb the whole fall for seed 2 (sum of rank 47) but not for seed 1 (rank 49). So globality of the fall depends on the constants, and conj:global-tensor-falls, which assumes generic constants, cannot drop that assumption.

Outcome. prop:leading-fall-form (working proof): single members' closed parts have leading forms \(\ell_b^2\pi_bG_{c-2}\), and modulo them a first-degree fall's leading part is \(\sum_ba_b\ell_b\omega_{P_b}\), each term detected by a transversal functional of its member. ex:tensor-graded-absorption (finite check): tensor falls stay global in leading form at \(c=2\) and lifted \(c=3\). The local subalgebras give no certificate, and with zero constants the fall can become local. conj:global-tensor-falls remains open. A proof must build a certificate from the members' transversal functionals that also kills the multi-member parts of the proper-span closed members.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): compute for the \(c=2\) tensor family the annihilator of the line sets' graded closed parts in \(G_3^*\cong G_9\). Test whether it contains a combination \(\sum_b\alpha_b\psi_b\) of members' transversal functionals, or an element \(y\,\omega_Y\), that does not vanish on \(\varphi\). If so, prove that such a combination works for every \(c'\); if not, identify the multi-member closed elements that block it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read ex:tensor-family-falls, ex:tensor-local-absorption, conj:global-tensor-falls, lem:transversality-criterion and prop:first-fall-criterion's pencil example. Claim searches for leading forms of falls and constants of clauses found no earlier statement. The three Macaulay2 checks are exact. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived (1) with both inclusions, expanded (2) by hand term by term, checked (3), matched the scripts to the text and every quoted number to the outputs, and found no error. Its suggestions were adopted: a basis argument for the \(2^{c-1}\) monomials, the parity reason for reading degree \(2c-1\) in \(G\), the seeds named in the constants test, and the \(c=2\) local-subalgebra case marked as uninformative. Before review, the coarse-certificate item was corrected: the closed parts are not inside the local subalgebras.

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Flat-sum certificates: the transversal functionals are weighted sums over a \(c\)-dimensional flat, and for the tensor families such single functionals certify that no proper-span closed members absorb the fall's leading form; a weight constant on the fall's support never certifies

28 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-tensor-annihilator. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Flat-sum certificates: the transversal functionals are weighted sums over a \(c\)-dimensional flat, and for the tensor families such single functionals certify that no proper-span closed members absorb the fall's leading form; a weight constant on the fall's support never certifies”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-flat-sum-certificates.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Leading fall form showed that modulo single members a first-degree fall's leading part is \(\sum_ba_b\ell_b\omega_{P_b}\), each term seen by a transversal functional \(g\mapsto\langle g,\ell_b\omega_Y\rangle\). It asked whether one such functional can also kill the closed parts of all proper-span clause sets of a tensor family, which would certify conj:global-tensor-falls in leading form. What are these functionals as functions on points, and do they certify?

General statement. lem:flat-sum-certificates. For \(Y\) of dimension \(r-c\) with zero set \(A_0\) and a linear form \(y\), the functional \(\mu_{Y,y}(g)=\langle\bar g_{2c-1},y\,\omega_Y\rangle\) on functions of degree \(\le2c-1\) equals \((-1)^c\sum_{x\in A_0}g(x)y(x)\). It kills a closed part exactly when these weighted sums vanish on it, and it never sees a fall if \(y\) is constant on the fall's support in \(A_0\).

lem:flat-sum-certificates

Setting. The cube model: functions on \(V=\mathbb F_3^r\), \(G=\mathbb F_3[y]/(y^3)\) their associated graded ring, \(E=G_1\), and \(\bar g_d\) the degree-\(d\) part of \(g\)'s reduced polynomial. For a subspace \(Y\subseteq E\) of dimension \(r-c\), \(A_0=\{x:f(x)=0\ \forall f\in Y\}\) is a linear subspace of \(V\) of dimension \(c\). \(y\in E\).

Lemma. (1) For every function \(g\) of degree \(\le2c-1\), \(\langle\bar g_{2c-1},y\,\omega_Y\rangle=(-1)^c\sum_{x\in A_0}g(x)y(x)\), where \(\langle u,v\rangle\) is the coefficient of \(\omega_E\) in \(uv\). (2) Hence \(\mu_{Y,y}\) kills the degree-\((2c-1)\) leading forms of a space \(\mathcal C\) of functions of degree \(\le2c-1\) supported on a set \(E_S\) iff \(\sum_{x\in A_0\cap E_S}g(x)y(x)=0\) for all \(g\in\mathcal C\). It is nonzero on the leading form of a clause sum \(F=\sum_b\mathbf 1_{E_b}\) iff \(\sum_{x\in A_0}F(x)y(x)\ne0\). (3) If \(y\) is constant on \(A_0\cap\bigcup_bE_b\), then \(\mu_{Y,y}\) vanishes on the leading form of \(F\).

Proof. (1) Restriction to \(A_0\) maps functions on \(V\) to functions on \(A_0\cong\mathbb F_3^c\) without raising degree. On associated graded rings it is the quotient map \(G\to G/YG\cong G(E/Y)\). The function \(gy\) has degree \(\le2c\) and degree-\(2c\) part \(\bar g_{2c-1}y\), so the degree-\(2c\) part of \((gy)|_{A_0}\) is the image of \(\bar g_{2c-1}y\) in \(G(E/Y)_{2c}=\mathbb F_3\,\omega_{E/Y}\). Multiplication by \(\omega_Y\) identifies \(G(E/Y)\) with \(\omega_YG\) (lem:two-member-prefix-sharing (1)) and sends \(\omega_{E/Y}\) to \(\omega_E\). So this image is \(\langle\bar g_{2c-1},y\,\omega_Y\rangle\,\omega_{E/Y}\). On \(\mathbb F_3^c\) the coefficient of \(\prod_iu_i^2\) in a function \(f\) is \((-1)^c\sum f\), since \(\sum_{u\in\mathbb F_3}u^e\) is \(-1\) for \(e=2\) and 0 for \(e\in\{0,1\}\). (2) is (1) applied to each \(g\), whose support lies in \(E_S\), and to \(F\). (3) If \(y=\kappa\) on the support of \(F\) in \(A_0\), then \(\sum_{A_0}Fy=\kappa\sum_{A_0}F\). By the power-sum fact used in (1), \(\sum_{A_0}F\) is \((-1)^c\) times the coefficient of \(\prod u_i^2\) in \(F|_{A_0}\). That coefficient is 0, because restriction does not raise degree and \(\deg F\le2c-1\). \(\square\)

So a certificate of this form is a \(c\)-dimensional linear flat with a linear weight. The weight must be nonconstant on the fall's support in the flat, yet every closed element of a proper-span clause set must have zero weighted sum over the flat. For the tensor families this rules out the simplest design. Suppose \(y\) is constant, say \(\kappa_\ell\), on \(A_0\cap E_{S_\ell}\) for each line set \(S_\ell\), where \(E_{S_\ell}\) is the union of its members' excluded sets. Suppose also that every member's excluded set meets \(A_0\). Two lines of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,3)\) share a member \(b\), and \(y\) equals both constants on the nonempty set \(A_0\cap E_b\). So all \(\kappa_\ell\) agree, \(y\) is constant on the fall's support in \(A_0\), and (3) applies.

ex:tensor-flat-certificates

research/tools/tensor_certificate_check.m2 (Macaulay2, exact; output research/results/odd-prime-tensor-annihilator/certificates.txt) uses the families and line sets of ex:tensor-graded-absorption. Its candidates are \(T=y\,\omega_Y\) with \(Y\) meeting the column space \(Z_c=\operatorname{span}\{w\cdot z\}\) of the non-prefix forms in a hyperplane \(H\), \(y\in Z_c\setminus H\), and the rest of \(Y\)'s basis from the other coordinates. So every \(\ell_b\) lies in \(Y+\langle y\rangle\), and \(\mu_T\) kills every single member's leading forms (prop:leading-fall-form: the product contains \(\bar\ell_b^2\bar y\propto\bar y^3=0\) modulo \(Y\)).

\(c=2\), \(m=3\): of 1521 candidates, 387 (seed 1) and 792 (seed 2) kill the line sets' graded closed parts, and 243 and 567 of these are nonzero on \(\varphi\).
Lifted \(c=3\), \(c'=2\) (every fourth complement, 3861 candidates): 207 kill the line sets' graded parts, and 18 of these are nonzero on \(\varphi\).

So in each tested case a single flat-sum functional certifies graded non-absorption, which in turn implies the non-absorption of ex:tensor-local-absorption. The certifying flats are a small fraction of the candidates at \(c=3\), and which ones work was not characterized.

Outcome. lem:flat-sum-certificates (working proof): the transversal functionals are weighted sums over \(c\)-dimensional flats, and a weight constant on the fall's support never certifies. ex:tensor-flat-certificates (finite check): single flat-sum certificates exist for the tensor families at \(c=2\) and lifted \(c=3\). conj:global-tensor-falls stays open. A proof needs a rule choosing the flat and weight for every \(c'\), and an argument that weighted sums of multi-member closed elements vanish there.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review. The line has gone from span-local generation through the tensor falls to certificates for them, more than one reduction below the listed open statements. It should weigh proving conj:global-tensor-falls, which would only move the route's span bound to \(O(D^2)\), against attacking the positive statement conj:quadratic-span-locality, and revise the open statements.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:leading-fall-form, lem:two-member-prefix-sharing (1), ex:tensor-graded-absorption and conj:global-tensor-falls. Claim searches for flat sums, top coefficients and certificates found no earlier statement. The Macaulay2 scan is exact. The script's test of \(y\) against \(H\) compares with generators only, but candidates with \(y\in Y\) give \(T=0\) and are discarded, so the counts are unaffected. A fresh-context reviewer verified (1) to (3), including the sign, matched the script to its description and every count to the output (\(1521=13\cdot13\cdot9\), \(3861=13\cdot33\cdot9\)), and found no overclaim in the outcome. It required two changes, both adopted: (3) now cites the power-sum fact instead of (1) with a constant weight, and the propagation remark now states its hypotheses and argument.

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Route review of the span-locality line: forced families give global falls whose span grows like the square root of the member count, so no span bound fixed in advance survives; the reduction to W never used the span bound, only nonempty allowed sets, and the route's generation statement is restated for satisfiable members of any span

28 September 2026 · Route review with a conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-quadratic-span-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the span-locality line: forced families give global falls whose span grows like the square root of the member count, so no span bound fixed in advance survives; the reduction to W never used the span bound, only nonempty allowed sets, and the route's generation statement is restated for satisfiable members of any span”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-satisfiable-cover-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the configuration review, three entries:

global tensor falls: in the cube model a tensor family's first-degree fall is absorbed only by the closed member of the whole family, and span-local generation was revised to span \(O(D^2)\) (conj:global-tensor-falls, conj:quadratic-span-locality);
leading fall form: modulo single members a fall's leading part is \(\sum_ba_b\ell_b\omega_{P_b}\) (prop:leading-fall-form);
flat-sum certificates: single weighted flat sums certify the tensor falls' globality in the tested cases (lem:flat-sum-certificates).

The line had gone more than one reduction below the open statements, into certificates for a negative result.

General statement. conj:satisfiable-cover-generation: on the weak base, let \(S\) range over the clause sets of any span with nonempty allowed sets. Every top syzygy through \(D\) of the union of their closed members \(\bar S\) is generated by Koszul pairs and by syzygies supported on single \(\bar S\). With the base \(z\)-injective below \(D\), this gives W for the family by the proof of cor:span-local-reduction.

The line's general claim

The relative-gluing route reduces W to generation of the top syzygies by closed members of bounded span (conj:span-local-generation, span \(\gamma D\)), plus nonempty allowed sets for those members (cor:span-local-reduction). The tensor families moved the bound to \(O(D^2)\), since their falls need members of span \(c+c'^2\).

What the goal needs

cor:span-local-reduction's proof uses two properties of the covering members: closed members have no falls, and they contain no constant when their allowed set on the base is nonempty. It then applies lem:cover-relative-gluing to the cover. The size of the members' span enters nowhere. So the goal needs generation of the top syzygies by closed members that are satisfiable on the base. A span bound was a proxy for satisfiability, which small clause sets have by the union bound on excluded densities.

Falsification attempt

Does the span bound \(O(D^2)\) survive the other recorded kind of relation, forced relations? research/tools/forced_family_check.m2 (Macaulay2, exact; output research/results/odd-prime-quadratic-span-review/forced_family.txt) builds a lifted forced family with \(c=2\). The members are \(Z\oplus\langle w\rangle\), \(Z=\langle y_1\rangle\), for eight points \(w\in\mathbb F_3^4\). These are the support of the unique relation among the squares of eleven seeded points (seed 4), whose support spans \(\mathbb F_3^4\) and has no dependent subfamily inside a 3-dimensional subspace. The relation's weights give a dependency among the tops \(-\omega_Zw^2\) of span \(c+3\). The clause sum \(F\), of degree 3, is not absorbed by the closed parts of the 33 largest clause sets of proper span (members with \(w\) in a common 3-dimensional subspace, sizes 1 to 5; ranks 16 and 19, two seeds). The whole family's closed member absorbs it.

In W's regime such families are much larger than tensor families. Take \(X\le n^K\) generic points in \(\mathbb F_3^m\) with \(X>m(m+1)/2\). Their squares have forced relations of span \(m\approx\sqrt{2X}\), and a subfamily inside a hyperplane is dependent only if it has more than \((m-1)m/2\) points. Lifted by \(Z\) of dimension \(c-1\) they are W families, blocks of \(h=k+1\) forms spanning \(Z\oplus\langle w\rangle\), with a dependency of span \(c-1+m\), polynomial in \(n\). If their falls stay global, as in the tested case, no span bound polynomially smaller than the member count survives, \(O(D^2)\) included. So conj:quadratic-span-locality is in doubt as stated. Both kinds of family are harmless for W, under member pinning's hypotheses on the pinned forms. The members share \(Z\), and by prop:pinned-rank-vacuity with the pins a basis of \(Z\) (\(\rho_b=1\) for forced members, \(\rho_b=c'\) for tensor members, \(t_b=k\)), W holds with probability at least \(1-n^K3^{\rho-k}\), which tends to 1. Both families are also satisfiable members in their own right, since their allowed sets are nonempty by the union bound, and the closed member of the whole family absorbs the fall.

conj:satisfiable-cover-generation

Conjecture. For W's clauses of any family on the weak unary base over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(D=22k\), let \(S\) range over the clause sets whose allowed set on the base is nonempty, with \(\bar S\) the closed member (all polynomials of degree \(\le D\) vanishing on that allowed set). Every top syzygy of degree \(\le D\) of the union of these closed members is an \(A_{\mathrm{top}}\)-combination of Koszul pairs and syzygies supported on a single \(\bar S\).

Consequence. With the base \(z\)-injective below \(D\), W holds for the family. The proof is cor:span-local-reduction's: satisfiable closed members have no falls and no constant, and lem:cover-relative-gluing applies to the cover. It needs no separate local satisfiability hypothesis, since the members are satisfiable by definition. conj:span-local-generation and conj:quadratic-span-locality are the analogous statements with the members restricted to span-bounded clause sets. They do not imply it directly: its target, the syzygies of the union over all satisfiable clause sets, is larger. Each version, with its own hypotheses, gives W through the same lemma.

Checks against the record. Tensor and forced families: the whole family is a satisfiable member and absorbs the fall. The covering obstruction (prop:covering-obstruction): a family whose allowed set lies in a hyperplane is itself a satisfiable member while that set is nonempty, and its closed member contains the degree-1 function. The degree-zero circuits (prop:degree-zero-circuits) lift for W's clause shape. conj:component-hypothesis is the earlier, partition form with a degree budget per component; the new statement is a cover by all satisfiable clause sets. When the whole family is satisfiable the conjecture is trivial, since one member covers everything. Its content is for unsatisfiable families, where the global syzygies that a refutation uses must not appear below \(D\).

Obstacle

Generation of top syzygies by satisfiable members for unsatisfiable families. The locality tools recorded so far bound span, member count or intersections. The tensor and forced families show that these measures can be large while the dependency is harmless, because it sits inside a satisfiable set. A proof needs a way to show that every non-local syzygy through \(D\) lives on a set of clauses that can be satisfied together on the base.

Assessment of the route

This line, span-locality of the relative-gluing route, turned from a failing mechanism into a clearer statement. The recorded span bounds look false for adversarial families: in the cube model, tensor falls need span beyond \(O(D)\) and forced falls beyond \(O(D^2)\), and the weak base is untested. But the reduction did not need them. The obstructions found are all satisfiable, and are removed by pinning. What remains is a sharper version of the route's central conjecture, not a proof. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

The nerve theorem and the Čech-to-derived spectral sequence for covers (J. Leray, 1950; see A. Björner, Topological methods, in Handbook of Combinatorics, 1995, Theorem 10.6). A cover's local data generate the global data when the cover's intersections are acyclic. Answers. For the cover by satisfiable closed members, a Leray-type acyclicity of their intersections, whose allowed sets are intersections of allowed sets, would give generation. The obstacle becomes a statement about the nerve of the satisfiable clause sets. Test. Passed as consistency: the cover of the \(c=2\) tensor family by its 13 line sets, where generation fails, has as nerve the complex of lines through common members. That nerve is a union of 13 tetrahedra, one per member, glued at single vertices, so it is homotopy equivalent to the incidence graph of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,3)\): 26 vertices, 52 edges, first Betti number \(52-26+1=27\ne0\). Adding the whole family, a satisfiable member, makes the nerve a cone and generation holds.
Additivity of ideals of unions of point sets, as in the record's stable unions and the Mayer–Vietoris sequence \(0\to I(P\cup Q)\to I(P)\oplus I(Q)\to I(P)+I(Q)\to0\). Answers. Generation by satisfiable members at the first degree is the statement that \(I(\bigcap_bP_b)_{\le d}\) is the sum of the \(I(\bigcap_{b\in S}P_b)_{\le d}\) over satisfiable \(S\). An additivity theorem for intersections of allowed sets, below the fill point, would give it degree by degree. Test. Passed as consistency, on the same evidence as the falsification attempt, with no separate computation: the tensor and forced falls are exactly failures of additivity for the proper-span covers, and additivity holds trivially once the whole satisfiable family is a member.
The sunflower lemma for subspaces and its recent sharpening (P. Erdős and R. Rado, Intersection theorems for systems of sets, J. London Math. Soc. 35, 1960; R. Alweiss, S. Lovett, K. Wu and J. Zhang, Improved bounds for the sunflower lemma, Ann. of Math. 194, 2021). A large family of bounded sets contains a sunflower, many members with a common kernel and disjoint petals. Answers. A subspace version would split any large family of clause spans into sunflowers with kernels \(Z\), which are pinnable (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity), plus a remainder. Where the remainder's clause sets are jointly satisfiable, it would supply the satisfiable members the conjecture needs. Test. Passed, as a structural check of the same two families, with no new computation: they are subspace sunflowers in the weak sense, with pairwise intersections exactly \(Z\), and pinning \(Z\) makes them vacuous with probability \(1-n^K3^{\rho-k}\).

Absurd bridges

Renormalization by integrating out slow modes (K. G. Wilson, Renormalization group and critical phenomena, Phys. Rev. B 4, 1971). Long-range correlations are removed by integrating out the modes shared across the system, which leaves short-range interactions. Translation: shared subspaces \(Z\) are the slow modes, pinning integrates them out, and the remaining clauses interact locally. Answers. An iteration of pinning until no large sunflower is left, a renormalization flow on the family, would reach a family whose dependencies are generated by satisfiable members, as the obstacle asks. Test. Passed on the two obstruction families, by the same pinned-rank arithmetic as above rather than an independent check: one pinning step of \(Z\) ends the flow, since by prop:pinned-rank-vacuity the restricted clauses vanish on \(\mathbb F_3^{\rho}\) with probability at least \(1-n^K3^{\rho-k}\).
Sunflower kernelization in parameterized complexity (the \(d\)-Hitting Set kernel of size \(O(d!\,k^d)\); J. Flum and M. Grohe, Parameterized Complexity Theory, Springer, 2006, chapter 9). Large sunflowers are replaced by their kernels until the instance is small. Translation: clause spans are the sets, sunflower kernels are pinned, and the kernel instance is the family left after pinning. Answers. A kernel bound would say how many members remain after pinning. If that number is within joint capacity, cor:subfamily-row-freeness would make the remainder row-free, a satisfiable, locally generated part. Test. Not run: the kernel's size bound is proved for sets, and its subspace analogue, where petals may be dependent, is not established.

Lead follow-up

Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Continuing: forced families carry a single relation, not many, so they are outside the lead's relation-rich regime. No new work.
Buchberger's criterion. Follow-up. Developed: its reduction test, the absorption of the clause sum by closed members, was run on the forced family this cycle, and fails for proper-span members.
Hamada's formula. Follow-up. Continuing: no new work.
Projective Reed–Muller duality and small-weight codewords. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed. The certificates found (lem:flat-sum-certificates) are flat sums, the dual objects the lead describes, but no code-theoretic classification was attempted.
Chevalley–Warning and the Ax–Katz theorem. Follow-up. Continuing: no new work.
The Combinatorial Nullstellensatz. Follow-up. Closed: its role, showing that tensor dependencies cannot lift once the base maps onto the forms' value space, was settled by the weak-base computation of the configuration review. With the route's statement now about satisfiable members, lifting is no longer needed.

Bridge follow-up

Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Continuing: the forced family is another circuit of the \(\omega\)-matroid with no dependent proper subfamily. No count was found.
The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes. Follow-up. Continuing: not developed.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test conj:satisfiable-cover-generation where it has content, on the smallest unsatisfiable W-type families. In the cube model, take members whose excluded sets cover the value space (every point excluded), compute the top syzygies through the tops' degree, and check whether the closed members of the satisfiable clause sets generate them. A failure there would refute the conjecture; success would support it where span bounds failed.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:span-local-reduction, lem:cover-relative-gluing, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, conj:span-local-generation, conj:quadratic-span-locality, conj:component-hypothesis and prop:covering-obstruction. Claim searches for satisfiable covers and component-style generation found conj:component-hypothesis, which is cited as the earlier partition form. The forced-family check is exact. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed that the reduction's proof uses no span bound, matched the script and its output, checked the extrapolation to W's regime and the pinned-rank arithmetic, and recomputed the nerve's Euler characteristic (\(13-78+52-13=-26\), so \(\beta_1=27\)). It required three changes, all adopted: the claim that the span-bounded conjectures imply the new one is withdrawn, since the new target is larger; the general statement now uses the conjecture's own wording; and the passed items that reuse the falsification evidence are marked as such.

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Value-space satisfiability: in W's regime every family whose clauses have independent prefix forms is satisfiable on the value space of its forms, so the cube model has no unsatisfiable families and satisfiable-cover generation is trivial there; its content lies where the weak base's image misses the allowed set, beyond joint capacity, as for relative row freeness

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-unsatisfiable-covers. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Value-space satisfiability: in W's regime every family whose clauses have independent prefix forms is satisfiable on the value space of its forms, so the cube model has no unsatisfiable families and satisfiable-cover generation is trivial there; its content lies where the weak base's image misses the allowed set, beyond joint capacity, as for relative row freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-value-space-satisfiability.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The satisfiable cover review restated the relative-gluing route as conj:satisfiable-cover-generation and proposed testing it on the smallest unsatisfiable W-type families in the cube model. Before building them: which W families are unsatisfiable, in the cube model and on the weak base?

General statement. prop:value-space-satisfiability. If a family's clauses number \(N_{\mathrm{cl}}\) with \(N_{\mathrm{cl}}(\frac23)^k<1\), and each clause's \(k\) prefix forms have independent linear parts, then the clauses have a common zero on the value space of all the family's forms. At W's \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\ln n\) this holds for \(N_{\mathrm{cl}}\le n^{K+1}\).

prop:value-space-satisfiability

Setting. A family of W blocks with (randomized) prefixes. Clause \(i\) of block \(b\) is \(g(L)\prod_{s}P_s^2\): its non-prefix form \(L\) and its \(k\) prefix forms \(P_s\), affine, are all functions of the values \(u\in\mathbb F_3^r\) of a basis of the linear parts of all the family's forms, plus constants. Its excluded set is \(\{L=0,\ P_s\ne0\ \forall s\}\subseteq\mathbb F_3^r\).

Proposition. (1) If the linear parts of the \(P_s\) are independent, the excluded set has density at most \((\frac23)^k\) in \(\mathbb F_3^r\), and exactly \(\frac13(\frac23)^k\) if \(L\) is independent of them as well. (2) If \(N_{\mathrm{cl}}(\frac23)^k<1\), the union of the excluded sets is not all of \(\mathbb F_3^r\), so the whole family is satisfiable on its value space. (3) At \(k\ge2.5(K+1)\ln n\), \((\frac23)^k\le n^{-1.01(K+1)}\), so (2) holds for \(N_{\mathrm{cl}}\le n^{K+1}\) and large \(n\). (4) Consequently, in the cube model with base the value space, every such family is a single satisfiable member, and conj:satisfiable-cover-generation holds for it trivially, one closed member covering everything.

Proof. (1) Independent affine forms are coordinates of an affine change of variables on \(\mathbb F_3^r\). So the excluded set lies in \(\{P_s\ne0\ \forall s\}\), of density \((\frac23)^k\), and when \(L\) is a further coordinate it has density \(\frac13(\frac23)^k\). Under W_RS the prefix forms are \(k\) random combinations of a block's forms, independent with high probability when those forms are. (2) is the union bound. (3) \(\ln(3/2)\cdot2.5=1.0137\dots\). (4) The closed member of the whole family contains every clause and has no constant, since its allowed set is nonempty. Every top syzygy is supported on it. \(\square\)

Where the conjecture has content

Cube model. By (4) the conjecture says nothing there. The test proposed in the review, unsatisfiable W-type families in the cube model, does not exist within W's regime. Unsatisfiable families in the value space need about \((\frac32)^k\) clauses, far beyond \(n^{K+1}\). The tensor and forced falls of the recent entries are falls inside satisfiable families. They obstruct only span-bounded versions of the conjecture.
Weak base. The per-clause independence of (1) and the row-wise independence that member pinning needs are separate hypotheses; the remarks below assume both where they cite member pinning. A family is unsatisfiable on the weak base only if the base's image under its forms misses the value-space allowed set. When the forms have row-linear parts independent modulo constants on every row, and their number \(w\) is within member pinning's robustness bound (\(B(w+1)\) robust labels), lem:member-pinning already gives W with the common zero of (2), and cor:subfamily-row-freeness gives row freeness within joint capacity under its own hypotheses (joint freeness through \(D\) and fiber independence of the joint value map), which are assumed here, not established. So unsatisfiability that matters needs forms dependent on some row, beyond joint capacity. That is the regime to which cor:subfamily-row-freeness restricts conj:relative-row-freeness, the recorded dense core.

So the two formulations of the route, generation by satisfiable members (relative gluing) and row freeness of the allowed set (global closure), have their content in the same place. There the base's image is a proper subset of the forms' values, and satisfiable members are clause sets whose image still meets their allowed set.

Outcome. prop:value-space-satisfiability (working proof): W-regime families of at most \(n^{K+1}\) clauses with independent prefix forms are satisfiable on their forms' value space. So satisfiable-cover generation is trivial in the cube model, and its content lies beyond joint capacity, where the weak base's image misses the allowed set. The cube-model test proposed in the review is void. The route's two formulations meet at the dense core.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): relate conj:satisfiable-cover-generation to conj:row-free-subset beyond capacity. Take a beyond-capacity family and cover its clauses by within-capacity subfamilies, which are satisfiable, and row-free under the hypotheses of cor:subfamily-row-freeness. Ask what lem:cover-relative-gluing needs of the pairwise and triple intersections of their allowed sets, and whether conj:row-free-subset supplies it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:satisfiable-cover-generation, lem:member-pinning, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, cor:subfamily-row-freeness and conj:relative-row-freeness. Claim searches for excluded densities and satisfiability found the counting consequence recorded with conj:fill-point-falls and no statement of the proposition. No computation. A fresh-context reviewer checked (1) to (4) and the arithmetic, and the use of member pinning. It required three changes, all adopted: the independence hypothesis now qualifies the title and outcome, and was weakened to the prefix forms, whose independence suffices for the density bound \((\frac23)^k\); the hypotheses of cor:subfamily-row-freeness are marked as assumed; and the two independence hypotheses are distinguished.

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Local design criterion: a cover by satisfiable closed members avoids the constant through degree D exactly when a functional with value 1 on the constant agrees, on each member, with a measure on that member's allowed set; such local designs are the dual objects the route needs beyond capacity, and a design supported on the whole allowed set is the special case of a satisfiable family

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-capacity-covers. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Local design criterion: a cover by satisfiable closed members avoids the constant through degree D exactly when a functional with value 1 on the constant agrees, on each member, with a measure on that member's allowed set; such local designs are the dual objects the route needs beyond capacity, and a design supported on the whole allowed set is the special case of a satisfiable family”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-local-design-criterion.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Value-space satisfiability located the content of conj:satisfiable-cover-generation beyond joint capacity, where the whole family is unsatisfiable on the base but its small clause sets are satisfiable. The conjecture is about syzygies. What is its dual, the object one would construct to certify a lower bound for such a family?

General statement. prop:local-design-criterion. For a finite point set \(B\), a space \(\Lambda\) of functions to be annihilated (such as the row terms \(x_T(r_i-1)\)), and clause sets \(S\) with allowed sets \(P_S\subseteq B\), the constant 1 lies outside \(\Lambda_{\le D}+\sum_SI(P_S)_{\le D}\) iff there is a linear functional \(\mu\) on the functions of degree \(\le D\) with \(\mu(1)=1\), \(\mu(\Lambda_{\le D})=0\), and, for every \(S\), a measure \(\lambda_S\) on \(P_S\) that agrees with \(\mu\) on all functions of degree \(\le D\).

prop:local-design-criterion

Setting. \(B\) a finite set of points (for W, the Boolean points of the base that the record's designs live on, as in prop:failure-set-criterion). \(\mathcal F_{\le D}\) is the space of functions on \(B\) that are restrictions of polynomials of degree \(\le D\). \(\Lambda_{\le D}\subseteq\mathcal F_{\le D}\) is a subspace, for W the span of the row terms \(x_T(r_i-1)\) of degree \(\le D\). For a clause set \(S\), \(P_S\subseteq B\) is its allowed set, and \(I(P_S)_{\le D}=\{f\in\mathcal F_{\le D}:f|_{P_S}=0\}\) is its closed member as functions on \(B\). A measure on \(P\) is a function \(\lambda:P\to\mathbb F_3\), acting by \(f\mapsto\sum_{x\in P}\lambda(x)f(x)\).

Proposition. (1) \(1\notin\Lambda_{\le D}+\sum_SI(P_S)_{\le D}\) iff a local design exists: a functional \(\mu\) on \(\mathcal F_{\le D}\) with \(\mu(1)=1\), \(\mu(\Lambda_{\le D})=0\), and, for each \(S\), a measure \(\lambda_S\) on \(P_S\) with \(\mu(f)=\lambda_S(f)\) for all \(f\in\mathcal F_{\le D}\). (2) A local design is a degree-\(D\) Nullstellensatz dual functional for the system of \(\Lambda\), the clauses and all the closed members \(I(P_S)_{\le D}\): it annihilates every product \(h\,C\) with \(C\) a clause of \(S\) and \(\deg(hC)\le D\). (3) If \(P=\bigcap_SP_S\) carries a measure \(\nu\) with \(\nu(1)=1\) annihilating \(\Lambda_{\le D}\), as in prop:failure-set-criterion, then \(\mu=\nu\) is a local design, with \(\lambda_S=\nu\) for every \(S\). (4) Under the hypotheses of cor:span-local-reduction with the cover by satisfiable clause sets, conj:satisfiable-cover-generation for the family implies that 1 is not in \(\sum_SI(P_S)_{\le D}\) modulo the base. So, with \(\Lambda\) the base's contribution on \(B\), it implies that a local design exists.

Proof. (1) The kernel of restriction \(\mathcal F_{\le D}\to\mathbb F_3^{P_S}\) is \(I(P_S)_{\le D}\). So the functionals on \(\mathcal F_{\le D}\) vanishing on \(I(P_S)_{\le D}\) are those that factor through restriction to \(P_S\), and every functional on the image extends to a measure on \(P_S\). The annihilator of a sum of subspaces is the intersection of their annihilators. Hence the functionals killing \(\Lambda_{\le D}+\sum_SI(P_S)_{\le D}\) are exactly the \(\mu\) with \(\mu(\Lambda_{\le D})=0\) that agree with a measure on each \(P_S\). The constant lies outside a subspace iff some functional kills the subspace and is 1 on the constant. (2) A clause \(C\) of \(S\) vanishes on \(P_S\), so \(hC\in I(P_S)_{\le D}\) when its degree is at most \(D\), and \(\mu(hC)=\lambda_S(hC)=0\). (3) Extend \(\nu\) by zero from \(P\) to \(P_S\supseteq P\). The extension is a measure on \(P_S\) acting on functions exactly as \(\nu\) does. (4) This uses the proof of cor:span-local-reduction, not its stated conclusion about the original clauses. That proof, with every satisfiable clause set as a member and conj:satisfiable-cover-generation in place of span-local generation, applies lem:cover-relative-gluing and gives no PC refutation of degree \(D\) of the base plus all the closed members. A representation \(1=\sum_Sf_S\) modulo the base, with \(f_S\in I(P_S)_{\le D}\), would be such a refutation of degree \(D\), a linear combination of constraints. Then (1) applies with \(\Lambda\) the base's degree-\(D\) part on \(B\). \(\square\)

What it says about the route

Satisfiable families. A design supported on the whole allowed set, the object of prop:failure-set-criterion and the matching designs of lem:matching-extension-certificates, is local automatically. This is the case the record's pinning and design results already treat.
Beyond capacity. When \(\bigcap_SP_S=\emptyset\), no measure works globally. A local design must look like a genuine measure on each satisfiable clause set's allowed set, modulo functions of degree above \(D\), without being one on the empty intersection. It is a degree-\(D\) analogue of a consistent family of local distributions, as in Sherali–Adams hierarchies, taken modulo 3 and with the consistency tested by low-degree functions.
The simplest candidate. The matching design \(\mu_0\) of weak PHP annihilates the row terms through degree \(\lfloor(n+1)/2\rfloor\). It is a local design for a family iff, for every satisfiable \(S\), it kills every function of degree \(\le D\) that is supported on the excluded set \(B\setminus P_S\). In particular it must kill the closed single members' functions, whose cube-model form is (1) of prop:leading-fall-form. The record's multiplier designs (prop:form-cover-multipliers) use the opposite polarity. They need one multiplier that vanishes on the excluded set with \(\mu_0\) nonzero on it, a different mechanism.

Outcome. prop:local-design-criterion (working proof): the route's cover statement has an exact dual, local designs. These are functionals that agree with a measure on each satisfiable clause set's allowed set, and they certify Nullstellensatz lower bounds for the family together with all its satisfiable closed members. For satisfiable families they are the recorded designs; beyond capacity they are the missing object. conj:satisfiable-cover-generation implies they exist.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): decide whether the matching design \(\mu_0\), or \(\mu_0\) after pinning, kills the low-degree functions supported on a single W_RS clause's excluded set. That is the first condition for \(\mu_0\) to be a local design. The functions are \((1-L^2)\prod_sP_s^{e_s}g\) with some \(e_s=1\) (prop:leading-fall-form), and the test is whether \(\mu_0\) of such products vanishes, using the layered design equations of lem:matching-extension-certificates.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:satisfiable-cover-generation, cor:span-local-reduction with the closed-member lemma of its entry, lem:cover-relative-gluing, prop:failure-set-criterion, lem:matching-extension-certificates and prop:form-cover-multipliers. Claim searches for local designs, pseudo-expectations and NS dual functionals found prop:failure-set-criterion and thm:clause-hub-criterion, and no statement of the criterion. No computation. A fresh-context reviewer checked the duality in (1), and (2) to (4), and the remarks. It required two changes, both adopted: (4) now names the corollary's proof rather than its stated conclusion, and a wrong comparison with the multiplier designs, which have the opposite polarity, is corrected. At its suggestion (3) states the extension by zero.

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Maximal member collapse: for a family unsatisfiable on the base, the closed member of a maximal satisfiable clause set contains 1 minus every clause outside it, so the cover by all satisfiable members refutes at the clauses' degree and satisfiable-cover generation is false; the members must be dense, as in relative row freeness

28 September 2026 · Working proof, refutation and conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-matching-design-locality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Maximal member collapse: for a family unsatisfiable on the base, the closed member of a maximal satisfiable clause set contains 1 minus every clause outside it, so the cover by all satisfiable members refutes at the clauses' degree and satisfiable-cover generation is false; the members must be dense, as in relative row freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-maximal-member-collapse.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Local design criterion gave the dual of conj:satisfiable-cover-generation: functionals that agree with a measure on each satisfiable clause set's allowed set. Its next step asked whether the matching design is one. Before testing a candidate: can local designs exist at all when the family is unsatisfiable, given that the members include satisfiable clause sets with very small allowed sets?

General statement. prop:maximal-member-collapse. On a base \(z\)-injective below \(D\), for a family unsatisfiable on the base's zero set whose single clauses are satisfiable, the closed members of the satisfiable clause sets contain \(1\) as the sum of two of their elements of degree \(\le d_0\le D\). So conj:satisfiable-cover-generation fails for every such family. The corrected statement is conj:dense-cover-generation, with members restricted to clause sets whose allowed set contains more than half of the base's zero set.

prop:maximal-member-collapse

Setting. The record's closed members (the span-local generation entry): \(Z\) is the base's zero set, \(P_S\subseteq Z\) the points where every clause of \(S\) vanishes, and \(\bar S\) the polynomials of degree \(\le D\) vanishing on \(P_S\). W's clauses \(C_b\) have degree \(d_0=2k+2\le D\) and take the values 1 on their excluded set \(E_b=Z\setminus P_{\{b\}}\) and 0 on \(P_{\{b\}}\).

Proposition. Suppose \(\bigcap_bP_{\{b\}}=\emptyset\) (the family is unsatisfiable on \(Z\)) and every \(P_{\{b\}}\ne\emptyset\). Let \(S\) be a maximal satisfiable clause set and \(b\notin S\). Then (1) \(P_S\subseteq E_b\); (2) \(1-C_b\in\bar S\) and \(C_b\in\overline{\{b\}}\), so \(1\) is the sum of an element of \(\bar S\) and one of \(\overline{\{b\}}\), both of degree \(\le d_0\); (3) if the base is \(z\)-injective below \(D\), then the top syzygies through \(D\) of the union of all satisfiable closed members are not generated by Koszul pairs and single-member syzygies: conj:satisfiable-cover-generation fails for the family. (4) No local design in the sense of prop:local-design-criterion exists for the cover by all satisfiable clause sets.

Proof. (1) By maximality \(S\cup\{b\}\) is unsatisfiable: \(P_S\cap P_{\{b\}}=\emptyset\), so \(P_S\subseteq Z\setminus P_{\{b\}}=E_b\). (2) \(1-C_b\) vanishes on \(E_b\supseteq P_S\) and has degree \(d_0\le D\), so it is a constraint of \(\bar S\). \(C_b\) vanishes on \(P_{\{b\}}\). (3) Every member is satisfiable, so none contains a nonzero constant, and closed members have no falls (the closed-member lemma of the span-local generation entry). With the base \(z\)-injective below \(D\), lem:cover-relative-gluing would then give no PC refutation of degree \(D\) of the base plus the members, if the generation hypothesis held. But \(1=C_b+(1-C_b)\) is a refutation of degree \(d_0\le D\), a sum of two constraints. So the generation hypothesis fails. The failing syzygy is the pair of tops \(\tau_b\) and \(-\tau_b\), which evaluates to the constant. (4) By (2), 1 lies in \(\sum_SI(P_S)_{\le D}\), and prop:local-design-criterion (1) applies. \(\square\)

So conj:satisfiable-cover-generation, stated in the satisfiable cover review, is trivial for satisfiable families and false for unsatisfiable ones. The review's reading that the span bound was only a proxy for satisfiability was wrong. The bound also kept the members' allowed sets large, so that no member's allowed set fits inside another clause's excluded set. conj:component-hypothesis had the same safeguard in its degree budget. The next step of the local design criterion is void as posed. Local designs for the cover by all satisfiable sets never exist beyond capacity, so the right question concerns dense members.

conj:dense-cover-generation

Conjecture. For W's clauses of any W_RS family on the weak unary base over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(D=22k\), let \(S\) range over the clause sets with \(|P_S|>|Z|/2\), of any span, and \(\bar S\) their closed members. With high probability over the prefixes, every top syzygy of degree \(\le D\) of the union of these closed members is an \(A_{\mathrm{top}}\)-combination of Koszul pairs and syzygies supported on a single \(\bar S\).

Consequence. With the base \(z\)-injective below \(D\), W holds for the family by the proof of cor:span-local-reduction. The members are satisfiable, and the singletons are among them, since a clause's excluded set has density about \(\frac13(\frac23)^k\).

Checks. (a) The collapse of prop:maximal-member-collapse needs \(P_S\subseteq E_b\), impossible when \(|P_S|>|Z|/2\ge|E_b|\). More generally, a sum \(1=\sum_if_i\) with \(f_i\in\bar S_i\) evaluates to \(0\) at any common point of the \(P_{S_i}\). So any refutation inside the dense cover uses members whose allowed sets have empty common intersection, at least three of them, since two sets of more than half the points meet. The threshold is strict for this reason: at exactly half, two complementary allowed sets would reproduce the two-member collapse. (b) The tensor and forced families: their allowed sets have density close to 1 in the value space, so they are dense members when the base's image is spread over the value space, as on the 7-by-6 base of ex:tensor-family-falls. Their falls are absorbed by the whole family's closed member, as before. (c) The threshold is that of conj:relative-row-freeness (\(|Q|\ge|P|/2\)) and of the fill point in conj:fill-point-falls. conj:sub-fill-span-locality, the semantic companion of span-local generation below the fill point, allows only unions of span \(\le cd\). The tensor falls, which in W's regime occur below the fill point, bear on it as they bore on conj:span-local-generation.

Outcome. prop:maximal-member-collapse (working proof, refuting conj:satisfiable-cover-generation): the cover by all satisfiable closed members refutes any unsatisfiable family at the clauses' degree, so generation by it fails. conj:dense-cover-generation (conjecture): generation by the closed members of dense clause sets, more than half of the base's zero set, of any span. That is the route's statement now, and it shares its density threshold with relative row freeness.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): look for a family where dense members cannot generate. The target is three or more dense clause sets with empty common allowed set and a low-degree decomposition \(1=\sum_if_i\), \(f_i\) vanishing on the \(i\)-th allowed set, below \(D\). Such a decomposition would refute conj:dense-cover-generation, whether or not the family itself is hard. The simplest shape is three dense sets with allowed sets \(\{\ell\ne i\}\), \(i=0,1,2\), for one form \(\ell\): then \(1=\sum_i(1-(\ell-i)^2)\) at degree 2. The flat-covering sunflower families of ex:sunflower-absorption-check have allowed set \(\{L_0\ne a\}\). So the test is whether W_RS families, with random prefixes, can contain such flat-covering clause sets for all three values, and what prop:pinned-rank-vacuity says about them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the closed-member lemma and cor:span-local-reduction in the span-local generation entry, lem:cover-relative-gluing, conj:satisfiable-cover-generation, prop:local-design-criterion, conj:relative-row-freeness, conj:sub-fill-span-locality, ex:sunflower-absorption-check and conj:component-hypothesis. Claim searches for maximal satisfiable sets and dense members found no earlier statement. No computation. A fresh-context reviewer verified (1) to (4) by hand, including that (3) uses lem:cover-relative-gluing's hypotheses legitimately and does not bear on the original clause system, and checked the degree-2 identity of the next step. It required one change, adopted: the density threshold is now strict, since at exactly half two complementary allowed sets would collapse. The refutation is an implication; no specific W_RS family meeting its hypotheses was computed.

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Route review of the cover line: within W's budget a dense cover cannot refute on the value space, so every refutation or collapse inside a dense cover needs the weak base's image; for dense random forms that image behaves like a random sample, and the line's open question, like that of relative row freeness, concerns how low-degree functions see that sample beyond capacity

28 September 2026 · Route review with a corollary · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-flat-covering-members. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the cover line: within W's budget a dense cover cannot refute on the value space, so every refutation or collapse inside a dense cover needs the weak base's image; for dense random forms that image behaves like a random sample, and the line's open question, like that of relative row freeness, concerns how low-degree functions see that sample beyond capacity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-dense-cover-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the satisfiable cover review, three entries:

value-space satisfiability: W-regime families are satisfiable on their forms' value space (prop:value-space-satisfiability);
local design criterion: the dual of cover generation (prop:local-design-criterion);
maximal member collapse: generation by all satisfiable members is false, and the statement became conj:dense-cover-generation (prop:maximal-member-collapse).

The next step asked whether flat-covering clause sets for the three values of one form can refute the dense cover.

General statement. cor:value-space-dense-covers: within W's budget, any collection of clause sets of a family has a common allowed point on the forms' value space. So a decomposition \(1=\sum_if_i\) with \(f_i\) vanishing on the \(i\)-th allowed set is impossible on the value space, and any refutation inside a dense cover comes from the weak base's image being a proper subset of the value space.

The line's general claim

The relative-gluing route reduces W to generation of the top syzygies by closed members of dense clause sets, whose allowed sets contain more than half of the base's zero set (conj:dense-cover-generation, with the proof of cor:span-local-reduction).

What the goal needs

For the families that matter, those beyond joint capacity, the dense members must generate. Within capacity, member pinning and sub-family row freeness already give W or row freeness under their hypotheses.

Falsification attempt

Flat-covering clause sets are out of budget. A clause set with allowed set \(\{\ell\ne a\}\) must cover the flat \(\{\ell=a\}\) with excluded sets. On the value space each excluded set has density at most \((\frac23)^k\) (prop:value-space-satisfiability (1)), so the flat, of density \(\frac13\), needs at least \(\frac13(\frac32)^k\ge\frac13n^{1.01(K+1)}\) clauses, more than \(n^{K+1}\) once \(n^{0.01(K+1)}>3\). This is the general fact:

cor:value-space-dense-covers. Statement. If a family has \(N_{\mathrm{cl}}\) clauses, each with independent prefix forms, and \(N_{\mathrm{cl}}(\frac23)^k<1\), then any clause sets \(S_1,\dots,S_t\) have a common allowed point on the value space. Hence no identity \(1=\sum_if_i\) with \(f_i\) vanishing on the value-space allowed set of \(S_i\) holds as functions on the value space. Proof. The union \(S_1\cup\dots\cup S_t\) is a clause set of the family, and by prop:value-space-satisfiability (2) its allowed set is nonempty. Evaluate the identity at a point of it: the left side is 1 and the right side is 0. \(\square\)

So on the base, a refutation inside the dense cover, and likewise a collapse as in prop:maximal-member-collapse, needs points of the value space that the base does not reach. How does the weak base's image under dense forms look? research/tools/base_image_check.py (numpy; output research/results/odd-prime-flat-covering-members/base_image.txt) takes the 7-by-6 weak base (36057 points) and \(r\) random dense affine forms, three seeds each.

\(r=6\): image all 729 values.
\(r=8\): 6528 to 6540 of 6561, where a uniform random sample of 36057 points misses about 27.
\(r=9\): 16360 to 16622 of 19683, where a uniform sample hits \(19683(1-e^{-36057/19683})\approx16534\).
Single forms' and pairs' value frequencies are within 0.009 of uniform.

So for dense random forms the base's image looks like a random sample of the value space. Beyond capacity, where the number of forms exceeds \(\log_3|Z|\), the image is sparse, and which clause sets are dense on the base is a statistical property of that sample, not of the value space.

Obstacle

The obstacle is the low-degree geometry of the weak base's image beyond capacity. Dense-cover generation, relative row freeness and row-free subsets all ask the same question. For a family with more forms than the base's rows can keep independent, can a function of degree \(\le D\) on the base separate the allowed sets of a few dense clause sets, or fail to be generated by them? Tools that bound spans, member counts or value-space densities have reached their limit. What is missing is a statement about the base as a sample of the value space, seen by low-degree functions.

Assessment of the route

This line produced exact statements and two corrections of its own conjectures (the tensor and forced falls, the maximal member collapse). It now sits at the same point as the global-closure line, the dense core, described more sharply. Within budget, every refutation or collapse inside a dense cover is decided by the base's image. Whether dense members generate the top syzygies, the positive statement, is not reduced to the image by anything proved here. The mechanism for the core is still missing. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Inverse Littlewood–Offord theorems over finite fields (T. Tao and V. Vu, Inverse Littlewood–Offord theorems and the condition number of random discrete matrices, Ann. of Math. 169, 2009; H. H. Nguyen and V. Vu, Optimal inverse Littlewood–Offord theorems, Adv. Math. 226, 2011). A linear form's values on random inputs are nearly uniform unless its coefficients are structured. Answers. A version for the weak base would say that the base's image under a family's forms is nearly uniform, jointly for small sets of forms, unless the forms have structure. Structured forms are pinnable (prop:pinned-rank-vacuity). Nearly uniform images would make dense clause sets dense on the base as in the value space, reducing dense-cover generation to the value-space statements, where cor:value-space-dense-covers rules out collapses. Test. Passed on the 7-by-6 base: single forms and pairs are within 0.009 of uniform, and images of 8 and 9 forms match uniform samples.
Low-degree functions on injections through the representation theory of the symmetric group (D. Ellis, E. Friedgut and H. Pilpel, Intersecting families of permutations, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 24, 2011; Y. Filmus, Orthogonal basis for functions over a slice of the Boolean hypercube, Electron. J. Combin. 23, 2016). Functions of degree \(\le d\) on injections are spanned by the components of the permutation module up to level \(d\). Answers. A low-degree separator of dense allowed sets on the base would be a low-level function with prescribed values on large sets. A level-\(d\) inequality would bound how well such functions correlate with dense sets, and so exclude the decompositions that break generation. Test. Not run: the needed statements are over \(\mathbb F_3\), where the group algebra of \(S_m\times S_N\) is not semisimple and the orthogonal decomposition does not exist as over the reals.
Level-\(d\) inequalities and hypercontractivity on the slice and on permutations (Y. Filmus and E. Mossel, Harmonicity and invariance on slices of the Boolean cube, Probab. Theory Related Fields 175, 2019; P. Keevash, N. Lifshitz, E. Long and D. Minzer, Global hypercontractivity and its applications, preprint, 2021). Low-degree functions cannot concentrate on small sets unless the sets are "local", that is, fixed by few coordinates. Answers. An excluded set of a clause set is small but not local when its forms are dense. Global hypercontractivity would say that low-degree functions see it only through its local parts, the pinnable ones, giving the separation bound the obstacle needs. Test. Not run: these results are over the reals for Boolean-valued or real functions, and the translation to \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued functions, where the obstacle lives, is not available.

Absurd bridges

The monomer–dimer model of statistical mechanics (O. J. Heilmann and E. H. Lieb, Theory of monomer-dimer systems, Comm. Math. Phys. 25, 1972). The weak base consists of monomer–dimer configurations, partial matchings, of a complete bipartite graph. The Heilmann–Lieb theorem puts the matching polynomial's zeros, in the activity variable, on the negative real axis. Real-rootedness gives concentration and a central limit theorem for the number of dimers. Translation: forms are observables summed over edges, and the base's image is the joint distribution of those observables under the uniform measure on partial matchings in one occupancy class mod 3. Answers. A limit theorem for the joint distribution of a few dense edge-sums under the monomer–dimer measure would give the near-uniformity of the base's image that the first outside lead needs, from physics instead of additive combinatorics. Test. Not run: the theorem controls the number of dimers, one aggregate, and on the complete bipartite graph distance-based correlation decay says nothing. No statement for joint distributions of dense edge-sums was available to test. The observed near-independence of pairs of forms is consistent with the translation but does not test it.
Restricted isometry in compressed sensing (E. J. Candès and T. Tao, Decoding by linear programming, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 51, 2005). Random evaluation matrices act almost isometrically on sparse vectors. Translation: evaluating the degree-\(\le D\) functions at the base's points is a sensing matrix, and a separator of dense allowed sets is a low-degree function with a prescribed sparse difference pattern. Answers. A restricted isometry property of that matrix over \(\mathbb F_3\), a rank analogue, would bound the number of patterns low-degree functions can realize on the base, and so bound separations. Test. Not run: restricted isometry is metric and real, and its rank analogue over \(\mathbb F_3\), whether small sets of base points impose independent conditions on degree-\(\le D\) functions, is a different statement that would need its own proof.

Lead follow-up

Lower bounds for 2-query locally correctable codes. Follow-up. Closed: the lead targeted relation-rich configurations. The obstructions found since are single-relation families (tensor, forced), and the route now sits in the base's image, where relation counts do not enter.
Buchberger's criterion. Follow-up. Closed: its reduction test took its exact form in prop:first-fall-criterion and the absorption tests, and the dense-cover statement no longer asks for lifting of individual dependencies.
Hamada's formula. Follow-up. Closed: its role, ranks of point–subspace incidence codes, served the transversality criterion. The route no longer depends on relations among squared spans.
Projective Reed–Muller duality and small-weight codewords. Follow-up. Closed: the lead would classify non-local dependencies among few members, so that each kind could be tested for absorption. The tensor and forced families, the kinds found, are absorbed by their own closed members, which are dense. Under conj:dense-cover-generation a dependency needs no classification, only a dense member containing it.
Chevalley–Warning and the Ax–Katz theorem. Follow-up. Closed: the lead would describe which sparse families carry tensor-type dependencies. By prop:value-space-satisfiability every family within budget is satisfiable on its value space, so any such dependency sits inside the family's own dense closed member. The question left is about the base's image, where zero counts of determinants do not enter.
The nerve theorem for covers. Follow-up. Continuing: for dense covers any two members meet, so the nerve's 1-skeleton is complete, and cor:value-space-dense-covers makes the value-space nerve a full simplex. The base-image nerve was not computed.
Additivity of ideals of unions. Follow-up. Continuing: no new work beyond the collapse, which is a failure of additivity for non-dense members.
The sunflower lemma for subspaces. Follow-up. Developed: flat-covering sunflowers, the shape a dense-cover refutation would take, need about \((\frac32)^k\) clauses on the value space, beyond budget (cor:value-space-dense-covers). Within budget, sunflowers matter only through the base's image.

Bridge follow-up

Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks. Follow-up. Closed: the circuits it would count, dependencies among clause tops, are absorbed by dense members, and the route no longer needs to count them.
The cleaning lemma for stabilizer codes. Follow-up. Closed: its locality comes from bounded geometric dimension, which dense forms lack, and its per-block erasure question is now inside the dense-cover statement.
Renormalization by integrating out shared modes. Follow-up. Closed: iterated pinning beyond capacity removes capacity-many forms per round at a robustness cost each time. That is the per-block removal of the window review, whose linear ceiling the record recorded.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): formulate and test a base-uniformity statement. For W_RS families beyond capacity, every clause set that is dense on the value space is dense on the weak base, with high probability over the prefixes. Test it first against the covering obstruction and the sunflower families, then ask whether it reduces conj:dense-cover-generation to its value-space form. The latter is trivial by cor:value-space-dense-covers only for refutations, not for generation.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:value-space-satisfiability, conj:dense-cover-generation, prop:maximal-member-collapse, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, cor:subfamily-row-freeness and conj:relative-row-freeness. The base-image computation is exact counting. A fresh-context reviewer checked the corollary and the flat-covering count, reproduced the base size (\(42+36015=36057\)) and the random-sample comparisons, and checked the leads, bridges and follow-ups. It required changes, all adopted: the Heilmann–Lieb theorem is now stated correctly (zeros on the negative real axis) and its test marked Not run, since the numbers do not test the translation; two follow-up closures now give their own reasons; the headline and assessment are limited to refutations and collapses, not generation; and the flat-covering count is marked as asymptotic.

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Closed-member correction: over the weak unary base a closed member has no falls only when its allowed set satisfies the row condition of global closure gluing, since the base's row equations do not vanish there; so span-local reduction needs row-free members, dense-cover generation is trivial for W_RS families, and the relative-gluing route's content is generation by members within joint capacity

28 September 2026 · Correction and working proof, with a conjecture · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-base-uniformity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Closed-member correction: over the weak unary base a closed member has no falls only when its allowed set satisfies the row condition of global closure gluing, since the base's row equations do not vanish there; so span-local reduction needs row-free members, dense-cover generation is trivial for W_RS families, and the relative-gluing route's content is generation by members within joint capacity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-closed-member-correction.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The dense cover review proposed a base-uniformity statement: clause sets dense on the value space stay dense on the weak base. For W_RS families that holds for the whole family in expectation, which would make the dense-cover statement trivial. That prompted a re-reading of what the relative-gluing route asks of its members, and of the lemma that closed members have no falls.

General statement. prop:closed-member-row-condition. On the homogenized weak unary base (Booleanity, column exclusions, row equations), a closed member \(\bar S\), all polynomials of degree \(\le D\) vanishing on \(P_S\subseteq P\), gives a system without falls below \(D\) and without refutation of degree \(D\) when \(P_S\ne\emptyset\) and the Koszul 1-cycles of the row sums on \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_S}\) through \(D\) are Frobenius plus boundaries. Here \(P\) is the weak base, the column-injective assignments with occupancy \(\equiv m\) mod 3. The closed-member lemma of the span-local generation entry, which assumed nothing, is incorrect for this base.

The gap

The span-local generation entry's lemma (closed members have no falls) argues as follows. If \(z\tilde u\) is a combination of homogenized constraints of \(\bar S\) and homogenized base generators, then setting \(z=1\) makes \(\bar u\) the same combination dehomogenized. So \(\bar u\) "vanishes on \(P_S\), which lies in the base's zero set". The weak unary base whose \(z\)-injectivity is proved (thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic) contains the row equations \(r_i-1\).

If "the base's zero set" means the Boolean zero set of those generators, it is empty, since PHP has no solutions. Then \(P_S=\emptyset\) for every \(S\), every closed member contains 1, and cor:span-local-reduction, whose hypothesis is \(P_S\ne\emptyset\), never applies.
If it means the weak base \(P\), where the allowed sets of conj:relative-row-freeness live, then the row generators \(r_i-1\) do not vanish on \(P_S\). The dehomogenized combination need not vanish there, and the step fails.

Either way the lemma does not give condition (c') of lem:cover-relative-gluing for closed members. It is correct for members over a base whose generators vanish on the allowed sets, such as Booleanity and column exclusions alone. lem:closure-saturation, which states the same for its closed members, concerns their own ideal and not the ideal with the row equations added.

prop:closed-member-row-condition

Proposition. (1) For \(\emptyset\ne P_S\subseteq P\) satisfying the row condition through \(D\) (the Koszul 1-cycles of \(r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}\) on \(\operatorname{gr}F^{P_S}\) through \(D\) are Frobenius plus boundaries), the homogenized weak unary base plus \(\bar S\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). (2) Hence cor:span-local-reduction holds with the hypothesis "every \(P_S\) nonempty" replaced by "every \(P_S\) satisfies the row condition through \(D\)". The same replacement applies to the uses of the closed-member lemma in prop:maximal-member-collapse (3) and prop:local-design-criterion (4). Their conclusions hold for covers whose members satisfy the row condition. (3) Row freeness through \(D\) is the row condition (conj:relative-row-freeness defines it so), and within joint capacity cor:subfamily-row-freeness gives row freeness of \(P_S\) under its hypotheses (joint freeness and fiber independence).

Proof. (1) is thm:global-closure-gluing with \(Q=P_S\). It states that the homogenized weak unary base plus all polynomials of degree \(\le D\) vanishing on \(Q\) is \(z\)-injective below \(D\) and has no refutation of degree \(D\) under the row condition. (2) In lem:cover-relative-gluing, (c') for a member \(\bar S\) is the \(z\)-injectivity of (1), and (d) holds because \(P_S\ne\emptyset\). The rest of the corollary's proof is unchanged. In prop:maximal-member-collapse (3) and prop:local-design-criterion (4), the closed-member lemma was used only for (c'). (3) By definition. The last part is cor:subfamily-row-freeness. \(\square\)

What it changes

Dense covers are trivial for W_RS. A W_RS clause \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) excludes a point \(x\) only if \(L_{b,i}(x)=0\) and \(C_bg_b(x)=0\). Here \(g_b(x)\) has a nonzero entry, so the uniform \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\) gives probability \(3^{-t}\). Hence the expected excluded density on \(P\) is at most \(Mh3^{-t}\le h/(3n)\), whatever the forms (the arithmetic of lem:shared-piece-rarity). With high probability the whole allowed set \(Q\) is dense, the whole family is a single dense member, and conj:dense-cover-generation holds trivially. By (2) it then gives W only with the row condition on \(Q\), that is conj:relative-row-freeness, which by thm:global-closure-gluing gives W directly. So for W_RS families the dense-cover route adds nothing to relative row freeness.
The route's content. The relative-gluing route is useful only when the members satisfy the row condition while the whole family is not known to. That is the case of members within joint capacity, where cor:subfamily-row-freeness supplies row freeness, and a whole family beyond it. This is the statement below.
Earlier entries. The tensor and forced families, the leading fall form, the flat-sum certificates and the value-space statements were computed in the cube model or on the value space. There the base has no row equations, so they are unaffected. The satisfiable- and dense-cover conjectures inherited the gap and are superseded as route statements.

conj:capacity-cover-generation

Conjecture. For W_RS families on the weak unary base over \(\mathbb F_3\) at \(D=22k\), let \(S\) range over the clause sets within joint capacity whose allowed sets are row-free through \(D\) (for instance under cor:subfamily-row-freeness's hypotheses). With high probability every top syzygy of degree \(\le D\) of the union of their closed members is an \(A_{\mathrm{top}}\)-combination of Koszul pairs and syzygies supported on a single \(\bar S\).

Consequence. With thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic (the base \(z\)-injective below \(D\)), lem:cover-relative-gluing and (1), W holds for the family. This is the route's statement now. The tensor and forced families of the recent entries, whose spans are \(O(\log^2n)\) and about \(\sqrt{2X}\), are single members when within capacity.

Outcome. prop:closed-member-row-condition (working proof, correcting the closed-member lemma and cor:span-local-reduction): closed members over the weak unary base need the row condition of global closure gluing. For W_RS families the dense-cover statement is trivial and reduces to conj:relative-row-freeness. The relative-gluing route's content is conj:capacity-cover-generation, generation by row-free members within joint capacity for families beyond it.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test conj:capacity-cover-generation where it has content. Take a family just beyond joint capacity on a small weak base, cover it by its within-capacity subfamilies, check that their allowed sets satisfy the row condition, and compute whether their closed members generate the top syzygies of the union through a small \(D\). Its failure would close the relative-gluing route; its success would be the first evidence that capacity can be crossed by gluing.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the closed-member lemma and cor:span-local-reduction in the span-local generation entry, lem:cover-relative-gluing, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic (its generators include the row equations), thm:global-closure-gluing, lem:closure-saturation, cor:subfamily-row-freeness, conj:relative-row-freeness, lem:shared-piece-rarity and thm:randomized-prefix-reduction. No computation. A fresh-context reviewer was asked to break the claimed gap. It confirmed that the base of relative gluing includes the row equations while \(P\) only fixes the occupancy mod 3, so no reading of the base's zero set rescues the lemma. It confirmed (1) as thm:global-closure-gluing with \(Q=P_S\), the corrected corollary and the W_RS density argument, and checked that the cube-model entries work on the value space. It required no changes; at its suggestion (3) now says that row freeness is the row condition by definition.

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Capacity crossing sizing: on the weak base, closed members of W_RS clause sets add nothing below the clause degree 4t+2, and a test of cover generation at that degree is informative only below the fill point, which first happens on boards of about 5·10^5 points and 10^5 monomials; the small-board check is vacuous, so the capacity-cover statement must be proved, not computed

28 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-capacity-crossing. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Capacity crossing sizing: on the weak base, closed members of W_RS clause sets add nothing below the clause degree 4t+2, and a test of cover generation at that degree is informative only below the fill point, which first happens on boards of about 5·10^5 points and 10^5 monomials; the small-board check is vacuous, so the capacity-cover statement must be proved, not computed”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-capacity-crossing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The closed-member correction left conj:capacity-cover-generation as the relative-gluing route's statement and asked for a test on a small weak base just beyond joint capacity. Can such a test say anything?

General statement. prop:fill-point-sizing. For W_RS clauses with \(t\) prefix rows on the \(m\times N\) weak base \(P\), the clause degree is \(d_0=4t+2\). A comparison of \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap_bP_b)_d\) with the sum of the members' parts, as cover generation requires, is informative about the clause tops only for \(d\ge d_0\), and informative below the fill point only if \(2H_P(d_0)<|\bigcap_bP_b|\le|P|\). Here \(H_P(d)\) is the dimension of the functions of degree \(\le d\) on \(P\).

prop:fill-point-sizing

Proposition. (1) A W_RS clause \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\), \(g_{b,i}=1-L_{b,i}^2\), \(Q^{C_b}=\prod_{j\le t}(1-s_j^2)\), \(s_j=\sum_ic_{ji}g_{b,i}\), has degree at most \(4t+2\). (2) \(H_P(d)\le\sum_{e\le d}\binom Ne m^e\), the number of column-injective multilinear monomials of degree \(\le d\). \(|P|=\sum_{o\equiv m\ (3)}\binom No m^o\). (3) So a board where a family's allowed set can be below the fill point at the clause degree needs \(|P|>2H_P(4t+2)\). The sufficient condition \(|P|>2\sum_{e\le4t+2}\binom Ne m^e\) first holds at: \(m=2\), \(t=1\) (degree 6), \(N=13\), \(|P|\approx5.3\cdot10^5\), at most \(1.65\cdot10^5\) monomials; \(m=3\), \(t=1\), \(N=11\), \(|P|\approx1.4\cdot10^6\), at most \(4.8\cdot10^5\) monomials; \(t=2\) (degree 10) needs \(|P|\approx4\cdot10^8\).

Proof. (1) \(g\) has degree 2, each \(s_j\) degree 2, each \(1-s_j^2\) degree 4. (2) On \(P\), products of two cells of one column vanish, so the functions of degree \(\le d\) are spanned by column-injective multilinear monomials of degree \(\le d\), of which there are \(\sum_e\binom Nem^e\). A point of \(P\) chooses for each column a row or none, with total occupancy \(\equiv m\) mod 3. (3) Numerical, by the two formulas. \(\square\)

A dense exact rank computation of that size, a matrix of about \(5\cdot10^5\) rows and \(10^5\) columns over \(\mathbb F_3\), is far beyond the 10 GB budget. So capacity-cover generation, like the fill-point conjectures, cannot be tested exactly at the clause degree below the fill point. The record's earlier small-board fall tests fit this. ex:span-local-falls on the cube used degrees at most 3. The \(2\times8\) tests of conj:fill-point-falls (2160 points) reached degree 8 and found falls in degrees 2 to 6. By (2), at the clause degree 6 there \(H_P(6)\le5281\), which does not rule out being above the fill point, and those tests measured their falls against the fill point directly.

ex:weak-base-sub-fill-check

research/tools/weak_base_falls.cpp (FLINT, exact) adapts span_local_falls.cpp to the weak base. The points are the weak base on 2 rows and 7 columns (756 points). The fill-point measure is \(H_P(d)\), computed on the base. For W_RS families of dense random forms it compares, in degrees \(d\le3\), \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap_bP_b)_d\) with the sums over unions of at most \(s\) members. Outputs are in research/results/odd-prime-capacity-crossing/: weak_base_falls_t1.txt (\(h=3\), \(t=1\), \(M\in\{1,6,8\}\)) and weak_base_falls_t23.txt (\(h=5\), \(t=2,3\), \(M\in\{6,10,12\}\)).

Below the fill point (\(H_P(d)/|\bigcap P_b|<1\)) the excess is 0 in every case.
For \(t=2,3\), however, \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap P_b)_d\) equals the base's own part (21 in degree 2, 168 in degree 3). Degrees \(\le3\) lie below the clause degree 10 or 14, where the members add nothing, so the zero excess is vacuous.
Where the excess is nonzero, \(H_P(d)/|\bigcap P_b|\) is between 1.12 and 8.75, above the fill point, where counting forces falls.

Outcome. prop:fill-point-sizing (working proof): W_RS closed members matter only from the clause degree \(4t+2\), and a sub-fill test there needs boards of about \(5\cdot10^5\) points and \(10^5\) monomials or more. ex:weak-base-sub-fill-check (finite check): on the \(2\times7\) weak base no sub-fill excess appears, but the check is vacuous in the relevant degrees. conj:capacity-cover-generation, like conj:relative-row-freeness and conj:fill-point-falls, cannot be tested exactly where it has content, so the line must proceed by proof.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove the smallest crossing of capacity. Take two members, each within joint capacity and row-free by cor:subfamily-row-freeness, whose union exceeds it. Try to show that their closed members generate the union's top syzygies through \(D\) below the fill point. The route is lem:pullback-row-freeness for each member and a Mayer–Vietoris sequence for the intersection of their allowed sets. The step to identify is where joint freeness fails for the union and what replaces it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:randomized-prefix-reduction (the clause form), conj:fill-point-falls with its \(2\times8\) evidence, ex:span-local-falls and conj:capacity-cover-generation. The kernel is exact (FLINT) and adapts a reviewed one. A fresh-context reviewer recomputed the thresholds (\(|P|=530712\), \(H\le165075\) at \(m=2\), \(N=13\); \(|P|=1423819\), \(H\le480778\) at \(m=3\), \(N=11\), with the next smaller boards failing), checked the kernel's restriction to the base, the fill-point measure and \(\operatorname{gr}I\), and matched every quoted number. It required one change, adopted: the description of the earlier \(2\times8\) tests, which reached degree 8.

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Weak-base anticoncentration: under the uniform measure on the weak base, columns are independent up to the occupancy condition, so a few forms whose combinations are dense within many columns are jointly nearly uniform, while row-sum combinations are not; heuristically the base's image stops looking uniform at the column-spread scale, where the dense core begins

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-two-member-crossing. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Weak-base anticoncentration: under the uniform measure on the weak base, columns are independent up to the occupancy condition, so a few forms whose combinations are dense within many columns are jointly nearly uniform, while row-sum combinations are not; heuristically the base's image stops looking uniform at the column-spread scale, where the dense core begins”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-weak-base-anticoncentration.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The dense cover review's first outside lead asked for an inverse Littlewood–Offord statement on the weak base. It would say that the base's image under a family's forms is nearly uniform unless the forms are structured, so that clause sets dense on the value space stay dense on the base. The capacity crossing entry left the two-member crossing of capacity as the next target. Where exactly does the base's image stop being uniform?

General statement. lem:weak-base-anticoncentration. For affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_s\) on the \(m\times N\) weak base, let \(\eta\) be the largest product over columns of the absolute characteristic values of nonzero combinations of the forms and the occupancy. If \(3^{s+1}\eta\le\frac14\), then each value vector has probability \(3^{-s}\) up to \(9\eta\) under the uniform measure on the base.

lem:weak-base-anticoncentration

Setting. \(\mu\) is the product measure in which each column \(c\) independently picks \(R_c\in\{\emptyset,1,\dots,m\}\) uniformly, with \(x_{rc}=[R_c=r]\). The weak base \(P\) is the set of these assignments with occupancy \(O=\sum_{r,c}x_{rc}\equiv m\) mod 3, and \(\nu=\mu(\cdot\mid P)\) is the uniform measure on \(P\). Write \(L_i=\sum_{r,c}a^i_{rc}x_{rc}+b_i\) and \(\omega=e^{2\pi i/3}\). For \(\xi=(\xi_1,\dots,\xi_s,\xi_0)\in\mathbb F_3^{s+1}\) and a column \(c\), put \(\varphi_c(\xi)=\frac1{m+1}\big(1+\sum_{r=1}^m\omega^{\sum_i\xi_ia^i_{rc}+\xi_0}\big)\), and \(\eta=\max_{\xi\ne0}\prod_c|\varphi_c(\xi)|\).

Lemma. (1) If \(\delta=3^{s+1}\eta\le\frac14\), then for every \(y\in\mathbb F_3^s\), \(|\nu(L-b=y)-3^{-s}|\le9\eta\). (2) \(|\varphi_c(\xi)|<1\) iff the combination \(\sum_i\xi_iL_i+\xi_0O\) is not constant on column \(c\), that is, iff some \(\sum_i\xi_ia^i_{rc}+\xi_0\ne0\). If for each nonzero \(\xi\) at least \(\tau\) columns have all three values of the combination taken by at least \(\kappa(m+1)\) of the column's \(m+1\) choices, then \(\eta\le(1-\frac32\kappa)^{\tau}\). A row sum is nonconstant on every column, but only one of the column's \(m+1\) choices gives it a nonzero value.

Proof. (1) Put \(U=(L-b,O)=\sum_cY_c\), where \(Y_c=(a^1_{R_cc},\dots,a^s_{R_cc},1)\) if \(R_c\ne\emptyset\) and \(Y_c=0\) otherwise. The \(Y_c\) are independent under \(\mu\), and \(\mathbb E_\mu\omega^{\xi\cdot Y_c}=\varphi_c(\xi)\). Fourier inversion gives \(\mu(U=u)=3^{-(s+1)}\sum_\xi\omega^{-\xi\cdot u}\prod_c\varphi_c(\xi)\), so \(A(y)=\mu(U=(y,m))=3^{-(s+1)}(1\pm\delta)\). Summing over \(y\), \(Z=\mu(O\equiv m)=\frac13(1\pm\delta)\). Then \(\nu(L-b=y)=A(y)/Z\) lies in \(3^{-s}[\frac{1-\delta}{1+\delta},\frac{1+\delta}{1-\delta}]\subseteq3^{-s}[1-2\delta,1+3\delta]\) for \(\delta\le\frac14\), and \(3^{-s}\cdot3\delta=9\eta\). (2) The column's \(m+1\) choices give the values 0 (for \(\emptyset\)) and \(\sum_i\xi_ia^i_{rc}+\xi_0\). \(|\varphi_c|=1\) exactly when all are equal. If the three value classes have fractions \(p_0,p_1,p_2\), then \(|\varphi_c|^2=1-3(p_0p_1+p_1p_2+p_0p_2)\). With each \(p_j\ge\kappa\) this is at most \(1-3\kappa\), and \(\sqrt{1-3\kappa}\le1-\frac32\kappa\). A row sum \(r_i\) takes the value 1 on the choice of row \(i\) and 0 on the other \(m\) choices of each column, so it is nonconstant there. \(\square\)

Relation to the record. This is the weak-base form of lem:product-measure-anticoncentration, which bounds \(|\mu(L=v)-p^{-k}|\) under a product measure with robust rows. Here the product structure is over columns, the base's occupancy condition is carried as an extra coordinate, and robustness is per column. The mechanism is the same, a Fourier bound for sums of independent variables.

What it says about the base's image

Few spread forms. For dense forms with coefficients spread within columns, each column's value is nearly uniform on \(\mathbb F_3\), so \(|\varphi_c|\) is small. Then \(\eta\) is tiny and the joint distribution of \(s\) forms is uniform up to \(9\eta\) as long as \(3^{s+1}\eta\le\frac14\). A clause set whose forms meet this has the same allowed density on the base as on the value space, up to that error. This is the uniformity that the 7-by-6 computation of the dense cover review observed.
The scale where it stops. This paragraph is a heuristic, not part of the lemma. \(\eta\) is a product of \(N\) column factors, so the condition needs roughly \(s+1\lesssim N\log_3(1/\lambda)\), with \(\lambda\) a typical column factor. Beyond that the base's image, of size \(|P|\), is sparse in \(\mathbb F_3^s\) and cannot be uniform. That is the scale of joint capacity, where the dense core begins. So the lemma settles the lead's question below capacity and shows why it cannot answer beyond it.
Row sums. Combinations with few nonzero entries per column break uniformity, and row sums are the extreme case. For \(r_i\) one class has fraction \(\frac1{m+1}\), so \(|\varphi_c|^2=1-\frac{3m}{(m+1)^2}\) and \(\prod_c|\varphi_c|\approx e^{-3N/(2(m+1))}\). At PHP scale, \(m\approx N\), that is a constant, not small: each row holds about one cell in expectation, and its sum mod 3 is far from uniform. So dependence of the forms on row sums, the case in which lem:pullback-row-freeness's joint freeness fails, also defeats uniformity. Uniformity needs forms dense within columns, whose combinations stay away from the row sums' span.

Outcome. lem:weak-base-anticoncentration (working proof, the weak-base form of lem:product-measure-anticoncentration): below the column-spread scale the weak base's image under a clause set's forms is nearly uniform, so value-space densities transfer to the base. Beyond it, which is where conj:capacity-cover-generation and conj:relative-row-freeness have content, uniformity of the full image is impossible, and only statements about low-degree functions can help. The dense cover review's first outside lead is developed this far.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the two-member crossing of capacity. Two members are each within joint capacity and row-free, and their union exceeds it through one linear relation between their forms modulo row sums. In characteristic 3 the truncated algebra of a span depends only on the span, since cubes are additive. So the union's forms act through the truncated algebra of one fewer generator together with the row sums. Determine whether the union's allowed set is row-free through \(D\), or where the relation's row-sum part makes the row sums act non-freely.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:product-measure-anticoncentration, lem:pullback-row-freeness, conj:capacity-cover-generation and conj:relative-row-freeness. No computation. A fresh-context reviewer checked the product-measure description of the weak base, the Fourier inversion and the error propagation, and the formula for \(|\varphi_c|\). It required changes, all adopted: the final constant is \(9\eta\), not \(3\eta\) (\(3^{-s}\cdot3\cdot3^{s+1}\eta\)); and the draft's claim that row-sum dependence does not break uniformity was false. Row sums have one nonzero value per column, so their product is about \(e^{-3N/(2(m+1))}\), a constant at PHP scale. The capacity remark is marked as heuristic.

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Coupled-pair imbalance: two W_RS members whose first forms add up to a row sum outside one column have allowed sets whose losses differ between the levels of that row sum as soon as each member's excluded set is unbalanced along its coupled form; uniform prefixes do this with probability at least 9/256, so under the pullback hypotheses on level sets the full allowed set is not row-free

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional on pullback hypotheses, and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-union-relation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Coupled-pair imbalance: two W_RS members whose first forms add up to a row sum outside one column have allowed sets whose losses differ between the levels of that row sum as soon as each member's excluded set is unbalanced along its coupled form; uniform prefixes do this with probability at least 9/256, so under the pullback hypotheses on level sets the full allowed set is not row-free”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-coupled-pair-imbalance.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The weak-base anticoncentration entry proposed the two-member crossing of capacity through one relation between the members' forms modulo the row sums. What does the union's allowed set look like there, and is it row-free, as conj:relative-row-freeness asserts for every normal-form family under uniform prefixes?

General statement. prop:coupled-pair-imbalance. (1) In normal form there is no linear relation between forms and a nonzero combination of row sums, so a crossing needs a correction in a few columns. (2) The simplest one, a pair coupled through one column, makes the allowed set's losses on the levels of \(r_1\) differ whenever both members are unbalanced along their coupled forms. Under the pullback hypotheses on those levels, this refutes relative row freeness and uniform-level balance for full allowed sets with probability at least \(9/256\).

prop:coupled-pair-imbalance

Setting. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(P\) is the weak base on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns, with row sums \(r_i=\sum_cx_{ic}\) and occupancy \(\sum_ir_i\equiv m\). Two members carry affine forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) and \(L'_1,\dots,L'_h\) in normal form (no cells of column 1), with allowed value sets \(V_1,V_2\subseteq\mathbb F_3^h\), and \(Q=\{v_1\in V_1,\ v_2\in V_2\}\). The pair is coupled if \(L'_1=-L_1-\sum_{c\ge2}x_{1c}+c_0\), so that \(L_1+L'_1=-r_1+x_{11}+c_0\). For a value set \(V\), write \(\alpha(V)=|V\cap\{y_1=0\}|\) and, when \(V=-V\), \(\beta(V)=|V\cap\{y_1=1\}|=|V\cap\{y_1=2\}|\). On a level \(P_a=P\cap\{r_1=a\}\), the value map is \(v_a=(L_1,\dots,L_h,L'_2,\dots,L'_h,\pi)\), where \(\pi\in\{\emptyset,1,\dots,m\}\) is the state of column 1. Its value space \(\mathbb F_3^{2h-1}\times\{\emptyset,1,\dots,m\}\) is filtered by degree, with the cells \(x_{i1}\) of degree 1.

Hypotheses (H), on each level \(P_a\). These are the pullback hypotheses of lem:pullback-row-freeness for \(v_a\). (JF) There are functions \(\tilde b_\beta\) on \(P_a\) such that the products \(\varphi(v_a)\tilde b_\beta\), with \(\varphi\) running over a monomial basis of the value space and \(\deg\varphi+\deg\tilde b_\beta\le d\), form a basis of the functions of degree \(\le d\) on \(P_a\), for \(d\le D\). Here \(\tilde b_0=1\) is the only one of degree 0. (FI) For every value \(y\), the restrictions of the \(\tilde b_\beta\) of degree \(\le d\) to the fiber \(v_a^{-1}(y)\) are independent.

Proposition.

No degree-one crossing. If a combination \(\ell\) of normal-form linear parts satisfies \(\ell=\sum_i\gamma_ir_i\) in \(\operatorname{gr}_1F^P\), summing over all \(m\) rows, then \(\gamma\) is constant, so \(\sum_i\gamma_ir_i\) and \(\ell\) are zero there.
Level losses. Under (H), the loss \(L_a(d)\), the dimension of the functions of degree \(\le d\) on \(P_a\) that vanish on \(Q\cap P_a\), equals \(\sum_eb^{(a)}_e\,I_a(d-e)\). Here \(b^{(a)}_e\) is the number of \(\tilde b_\beta\) of degree \(e\), and \(I_a(j)\) is the dimension of the value-space functions of degree \(\le j\) vanishing on \(Y_a\), where \[Y_a=\{(y,y'',\pi):\ y\in V_1,\ (c_0-a+[\pi=1]-y_1,\,y'')\in V_2\}.\] If \(P\) is row-free through \(D\), then \(b^{(a)}_e\) does not depend on \(a\) for \(e\le D-2\).
Imbalance. Suppose \(V_1=-V_1\) and \(V_2=-V_2\), and put \(S(\sigma)=|\{(y,y')\in V_1\times V_2:\ y_1+y'_1=\sigma\}|\). Then \(S(0)-S(1)=(\alpha(V_1)-\beta(V_1))(\alpha(V_2)-\beta(V_2))\). The sizes \(|Y_a|\) are \(mS(0)+S(1)\), \((m+1)S(1)\) and \(mS(1)+S(0)\), in some order. So if both members are unbalanced along their coupled forms and \(4h+1\le D\), then, under (H) with \(P\) row-free through \(D\), the losses \(L_a(d)\) differ between levels in some degree \(d\le4h-1\le D-2\). By part (3) of prop:excluded-loss-balance, \(Q\) is then not row-free through \(D\).
Uniform prefixes. For a W_RS member with prefix \(C\) uniform in \(\mathbb F_3^{t\times h}\), \(V=\{y:g(y)\notin K_C\}\) with \(K_C=\{\zeta\in\{0,1\}^h\setminus0:\ C\zeta=0\}\) (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity), and \(V=-V\). If \(|K_C|=1\), the member is unbalanced along every coordinate. If \(\mu=(2^h-1)3^{-t}\in[\frac14,\frac34]\), then \(\Pr(|K_C|=1)\ge\mu(1-\mu)\ge\frac3{16}\). Such an \(h\) exists for every \(t\ge2\), and it satisfies \(t\le h\le t\log_23\), so \(4h+1\le22t\).

Proof. (1) In \(\operatorname{gr}_1F^P\) the only linear relation among the cells is \(\sum_{i,c}x_{ic}=0\), since occupancy is constant on \(P\) and the cells are otherwise independent there. So \(\ell-\sum_i\gamma_ir_i=\mu\sum_{i,c}x_{ic}\) for some \(\mu\). Compare coefficients of the cells of column 1, where \(\ell\) has none: \(-\gamma_i=\mu\) for every row \(i\). So \(\sum_i\gamma_ir_i=-\mu\sum_{i,c}x_{ic}\), which is constant on \(P\) and zero in \(\operatorname{gr}_1F^P\). In particular no nonzero element of the row algebra's degree-one part (spanned by all row sums but one) equals a normal-form combination.

(2) On \(P_a\) the row sum \(r_1\) takes the value \(a\), and \(\sum_{c\ge2}x_{1c}=r_1-x_{11}\). So \(L'_1=-L_1-a+[\pi=1]+c_0\) there. Hence \(Q\cap P_a=v_a^{-1}(Y_a)\), and \(Y_a\) records exactly the conditions \(v_1\in V_1\), \(v_2\in V_2\). By (JF), a function \(f\) of degree \(\le d\) on \(P_a\) has a unique expansion \(f=\sum_\beta\varphi_\beta(v_a)\tilde b_\beta\) with \(\deg\varphi_\beta\le d-\deg\tilde b_\beta\). If \(f\) vanishes on \(v_a^{-1}(Y_a)\), restrict it to the fiber over \(y\in Y_a\). This gives \(\sum_\beta\varphi_\beta(y)\tilde b_\beta=0\) there, so every \(\varphi_\beta(y)=0\) by (FI). Conversely, every such expansion with all \(\varphi_\beta\) vanishing on \(Y_a\) vanishes on \(Q\cap P_a\). So the vanishing space is \(\bigoplus_\beta I(Y_a)_{\le d-\deg\tilde b_\beta}\), which gives the formula. The same expansion gives \(\dim F_{\le d}(P_a)=\sum_eb^{(a)}_e\,\Phi(d-e)\), where \(\Phi(j)\) is the number of value-space monomials of degree \(\le j\) and \(\Phi(0)=1\). By part (2) of prop:excluded-loss-balance, a base row-free through \(D\) has level sets with one Hilbert function through \(D-2\). This triangular system then gives the same \(b^{(a)}_e\) for every \(a\), for \(e\le D-2\).

(3) The value \(\sigma=y_1+y'_1\) is \(0\) for the level pairs \((0,0),(1,2),(2,1)\), and \(1\) for \((0,1),(1,0),(2,2)\). So \(S(0)=\alpha_1\alpha_2+2\beta_1\beta_2\) and \(S(1)=\alpha_1\beta_2+\beta_1\alpha_2+\beta_1\beta_2\), and \(S(2)=S(1)\) by the symmetry \(y\mapsto-y\). The difference factors as stated. Given \(\pi\), the pair \((y,y'')\) determines \(y'_1=c_0-a+[\pi=1]-y_1\). So the fiber of \(Y_a\) over \(\pi\) has \(S(c_0-a+[\pi=1])\) points. There are \(m\) states with \([\pi=1]=0\) and one with \([\pi=1]=1\), so \(|Y_a|=mS(\sigma)+S(\sigma+1)\) with \(\sigma=c_0-a\). The first two of the three listed sizes differ by \(m(S(0)-S(1))\ne0\). The value space has top degree \(2(2h-1)+1=4h-1\). In that degree \(I_a(4h-1)=3^{2h-1}(m+1)-|Y_a|\), so the functions \(I_a\) differ between two levels in some least degree \(d^*\le4h-1\). In degree \(d^*\), by (2), \(L_a(d^*)-L_{a'}(d^*)=I_a(d^*)-I_{a'}(d^*)\ne0\). Only \(\tilde b_0=1\) contributes to this difference, since the terms with \(e\ge1\) involve \(I\) below \(d^*\), where the levels agree. Since \(d^*\le D-2\), prop:excluded-loss-balance (3) rules out row freeness through \(D\).

(4) The zero-pattern map \(g\) is invariant under \(y\mapsto-y\), so \(V=-V\). If \(K_C=\{\zeta\}\), the excluded set is the \(2^{h-|\zeta|}\) points with zero set exactly \(\operatorname{supp}\zeta\). If \(\zeta_1=1\), all of them have \(y_1=0\), and \(\alpha-\beta=-2^{h-|\zeta|}\). Otherwise they split evenly between \(y_1=1\) and \(y_1=2\), and \(\alpha-\beta=2^{h-|\zeta|-1}\). The same holds for every coordinate. Let \(X=|K_C|=\sum_\zeta[C\zeta=0]\). Two distinct nonzero 0/1 vectors are linearly independent over \(\mathbb F_3\), so the events are pairwise independent, each of probability \(3^{-t}\). So \(\mathbb E X=\mu\) and \(\mathbb E X(X-1)\le\mu^2\). Since \([X=1]\ge X-X(X-1)\) pointwise, \(\Pr(X=1)\ge\mu-\mu^2\). At \(h=1\), \(\mu=3^{-t}\le\frac19<\frac14\). Each step from \(h\) to \(h+1\) multiplies \(\mu\) by \((2^{h+1}-1)/(2^h-1)=2+1/(2^h-1)\in(2,3]\), so \(\mu\) increases without bound. Let \(h\) be the first value with \(\mu\ge\frac14\). The previous value was below \(\frac14\), and one step multiplies by at most 3, so \(\mu<\frac34\) at \(h\). There \(2^h\le\frac34 3^t+1\le3^t\), so \(h\le t\log_23\). Also \(2^h>\frac14 3^t>2^{t-1}\) for \(t\ge2\), so \(h\ge t\). \(\square\)

Consequence. Take the pair with independent uniform prefixes, \(h\) as in (4), and generic dense coefficients elsewhere, on a board in the range of conj:relative-row-freeness (\(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D^2\)) with \(D\ge4h+1\), for example W's \(D=22k\) with \(k\ge t\). The forms are in normal form. With probability at least \((3/16)^2=9/256\), both members have \(|K_C|=1\), so both are unbalanced. Each then excludes at most \(2^{h-1}\) of the \(3^h\) values, a fraction at most \(\frac12(\frac23)^h\le\frac29\). By lem:weak-base-anticoncentration, the \(2h\) dense forms take each joint value on the base with probability \(3^{-2h}\) up to an error that vanishes as \(N\) grows. So \(|Q|\ge|P|/2\) for large boards. In this range the base is row-free through \(D\) (the base hypothesis of conj:uniform-level-balance, from thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic). So under (H) on the three levels, \(Q\) violates conj:uniform-level-balance and is not row-free through \(D\). So conj:relative-row-freeness and conj:uniform-level-balance fail for this two-member family, conditionally on (H). This is the first recorded violation under uniform prefixes. The spread and varying-shift families needed every prefix pattern (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity). Here a single pattern per member suffices, and when \(2^h\approx3^t\) uniform prefixes produce one with constant probability.

Mechanism and scope. The pair's span with the row sums contains the cell \(x_{11}\), so the pair lies beyond joint capacity (prop:graded-freeness-necessity), and cor:subfamily-row-freeness does not apply. By part (1) this is the only way a normal-form crossing can arise: some combination of forms and row sums must be supported on few columns. On the value side, \(\operatorname{gr}F^{V_1\times V_2}\) is the tensor product of the members' graded rings, and the coupled direction acts diagonally. The imbalance is multiplicative, \((\alpha_1-\beta_1)(\alpha_2-\beta_2)\). This parallels the graded Clebsch–Gordan rule \(J_2\otimes J_2=J_3\oplus J_1\) over \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) with \(u\) acting diagonally, under which a tensor product is non-free exactly when both factors are. The obstruction concerns only the full allowed set. Replacing \(V_1\) by its largest \(e_1\)-cylinder \(\{y:\ y+ce_1\in V_1\ \forall c\}\) makes \(\alpha_1=\beta_1\) and at most triples the excluded set. This gives a candidate for conj:row-free-subset, whose row freeness is not shown here.

ex:coupled-pair-levels

research/tools/coupled_pair_levels.cpp (exact ranks over \(\mathbb F_3\) with fflas-ffpack, validated against FLINT at degree 2) tests the transfer (2) in its smallest case. Each member has one dense normal-form form with \(V=\{y\ne0\}\), so \(\alpha=0\ne\beta=1\) and \(S(0)=2\), \(S(1)=1\). For each level of \(r_1\) and each \(d\le3\), the kernel computes the losses on the board and the prediction of (2), with \(b^{(a)}\) solved from the base. A control replaces \(L'_1\) by an independent dense form. Outputs are in research/results/odd-prime-union-relation/: coupled_pair_levels_m2.txt (\(m=2\), \(N=9\), seed 1) and coupled_pair_levels_m3.txt (\(m=3\), \(N=9\), seed 2).

The claim predicts losses that depend on the level for the coupled pair and equal losses for the control, with \(|Y_a|\in\{2m+1,\ m+1,\ m+2\}\). Observed: \(|Y_a|=3,5,4\) at \(m=2\) and \(5,4,7\) at \(m=3\).
For the coupled pair the losses differ from degree 1. At \(m=3\) they are \((0,1,0)\) in degree 1, \((4,26,2)\) in degree 2 and \((91,296,47)\) in degree 3. At \(m=2\) they are \((1,0,0)\), \((17,2,3)\) and \((126,30,44)\). The control's losses are equal on all levels: \((0,2,32)\) in degrees 1 to 3 at \(m=2\), and \((0,2,50)\) at \(m=3\).
The prediction from (2) matches all 48 board losses except one: coupled, \(m=2\), \(a=0\), \(d=3\), with 126 measured against 125 predicted. So (H) holds on these small boards through degree 3, with one exception on the smaller board. There \(m=2\) rows are far below \(m\ge D\), and a fiber of the value map on a level holds only about 240 points. The exception is consistent with (FI) failing in the top tested degree on that board. The \(3\times9\) board matches in every entry. Nothing is tested beyond degree 3.

These boards are far below the range of conj:relative-row-freeness (\(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D^2\)), so the check tests the transfer from value space to the board, not the conjecture.

Outcome. prop:coupled-pair-imbalance (working proof, conditional on (H) on level sets): in normal form a capacity crossing needs a combination of forms and row sums supported on few columns. The one-column coupled pair of W_RS members is not row-free through \(D\) with probability at least \(9/256\) under uniform prefixes. So conj:relative-row-freeness and conj:uniform-level-balance are refuted for full allowed sets, conditionally on the pullback hypotheses. ex:coupled-pair-levels (finite check): the value-space prediction of the level losses matches the board in 47 of 48 entries, with imbalance from degree 1 and a balanced control. On the native route only subset statements remain: conj:row-free-subset and conj:top-lift-subset, and the cover route conj:capacity-cover-generation, which needs only its members to be row-free.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the coupled pair as a test of conj:capacity-cover-generation. Its two members are row-free within capacity and their union is not. Decide whether the members' closed parts generate the union's top syzygies through \(D\). Use the value-space tensor structure, where the coupled direction acts diagonally on \(\operatorname{gr}F^{V_1}\otimes\operatorname{gr}F^{V_2}\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pullback-row-freeness, prop:excluded-loss-balance, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity with the prefix model correction, conj:relative-row-freeness, conj:uniform-level-balance, prop:spread-family-level-gap, prop:graded-freeness-necessity, ex:truncated-dade-special-position and lem:weak-base-anticoncentration. The claim search found the spread-family level gap, which this refines: two members and one prefix pattern each, instead of every pattern. The kernel's ranks were validated against FLINT at degree 2. A fresh-context reviewer rederived parts (1) to (4), recomputed every quoted number from the output files and traced the kernel's prediction, and found no error. It required four changes, all adopted: a justification of \(|Q|\ge|P|/2\), through the bound on each member's excluded fraction and anticoncentration on large boards; base row freeness stated as a fact of the conjectures' range, not a hypothesis; a diagnosis of the one mismatch; and the existence of \(h\) spelled out. Status: working proof of a conditional proposition. Hypothesis (H) on the level sets is not proved, so the refutations are conditional.

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Route review after the coupled pair: full allowed sets are not row-free under uniform prefixes, given pullback hypotheses, but the coupled pair has a row-free subset obtained by making one member a cylinder along its coupled form; the native route's obstacle is to repair every coupling at once beyond capacity, where cylinders absorb only a fixed fraction of each member's directions

28 September 2026 · Route review with a conditional corollary · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-coupled-cover. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after the coupled pair: full allowed sets are not row-free under uniform prefixes, given pullback hypotheses, but the coupled pair has a row-free subset obtained by making one member a cylinder along its coupled form; the native route's obstacle is to repair every coupling at once beyond capacity, where cylinders absorb only a fixed fraction of each member's directions”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the dense cover review, four entries:

the closed-member correction (prop:closed-member-row-condition, conj:capacity-cover-generation);
the capacity crossing sizing (prop:fill-point-sizing);
weak-base anticoncentration (lem:weak-base-anticoncentration);
coupled pairs (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance).

The last one refutes relative row freeness for full allowed sets, conditionally on pullback hypotheses, and changes the route's statement. What is left of the native route, and what exactly is it stuck on?

General statement. cor:cylinder-repair: under the pullback hypotheses for the pair's forms, the row sums and the state of column 1, the coupled pair's allowed set contains a row-free subset. It is obtained by replacing one member's value set with its largest cylinder along the coupled form, which at most triples that member's excluded set.

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal by thm:randomized-prefix-reduction, follows from a nonempty row-free subset of the allowed set (conj:row-free-subset with lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency), or from its weakening conj:top-lift-subset. On the cover route it follows from generation by row-free members within capacity (conj:capacity-cover-generation). The full allowed set was the natural subset (conj:relative-row-freeness). Under the pullback hypotheses on the levels of \(r_1\), it fails with probability at least \(9/256\) for a two-member family (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance).

What the goal needs

For every family of \(n^K\) dense W_RS blocks, with high probability over uniform prefixes, a row-free subset of the allowed set, or at least one on which the top row syzygies lift. Within joint capacity the full allowed set works (cor:subfamily-row-freeness). The families that matter are beyond capacity. There, by part (1) of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, every coupling of forms to row sums runs through a combination supported on few columns.

cor:cylinder-repair

Setting. The coupled pair of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance. Take the value map \(v=(L_1,\dots,L_h,L'_2,\dots,L'_h,r_1,r',\pi)\) on \(P\), where \(\pi\) is the state of column 1 and \(r'\) lists the row sums other than \(r_1\) and one omitted row \(i_0\ne1\). So \((r_1,r')\) generate \(\Lambda\). Its value space has \(\operatorname{gr}\) equal to \(T\otimes\Lambda\otimes A_\Pi\). Here \(T\) is the truncated algebra of the \(2h-1\) forms, \(\Lambda\) that of the row sums without one row, and \(A_\Pi=\mathbb F_3\oplus\mathbb F_3^m\) the graded ring of column 1.

Hypothesis (H+). The two hypotheses of lem:pullback-row-freeness, joint freeness and fiber independence, for the enlarged value map \(v\), which counts the row sums among its values. No separate action of \(\Lambda\) is assumed: it acts through the value-space algebra. This is not an instance of that lemma, whose joint freeness needs the forms independent of the row sums. Its proof uses only the two properties below. The products \(\varphi(v)\tilde b_\beta\) form a filtered basis of the functions on \(P\) through degree \(D\), and the \(\tilde b_\beta\) are independent on every fiber of \(v\).

Statement. Let \(V_1^{\mathrm{cyl}}=\{y:\ y+ce_1\in V_1\ \text{for all }c\in\mathbb F_3\}\) and \(Q'=\{v_1\in V_1^{\mathrm{cyl}},\ v_2\in V_2\}\subseteq Q\). Under (H+), \(Q'\) is row-free through \(D\), and \(|V_1\setminus V_1^{\mathrm{cyl}}|\le2|\mathbb F_3^h\setminus V_1|\).

Proof. On \(P\), \(L'_1=-L_1-r_1+x_{11}+c_0\), with \(r_1\) read as its value in \(\mathbb F_3\). So \(Q'=v^{-1}(Y')\), with \(Y'=Z\times\mathbb F_3^{m-2}\) in the coordinates \(r'\) and \[Z=\{(y,y'',r_1,\pi):\ y\in V_1^{\mathrm{cyl}},\ (c_0-r_1+[\pi=1]-y_1,\,y'')\in V_2\}.\]

The proof of lem:pullback-row-freeness uses only a filtered basis \(\varphi(v)\tilde b_\beta\) and independence on fibers. Repeated for the enlarged map, it gives \(\operatorname{gr}F^{Q'}\cong\operatorname{gr}F^{Y'}\otimes B\) through \(D\). A function of degree \(\le d\) vanishing on \(Q'\) has coefficients \(\varphi_\beta\) vanishing on \(Y'\), and conversely. Since the row sums are coordinates of the value space, multiplication by \(r_i\) acts on the first factor. The substitution \(y'_1=c_0-r_1+[\pi=1]-y_1\) replaces \(r_1\) by \(y'_1\). It is affine in the \(y\)-coordinates, with a term of degree 1 in the cells of column 1, and invertible of the same kind. So it is a filtered automorphism of the value space, and it carries \(Z\) onto \(V_1^{\mathrm{cyl}}\times V_2\times\Pi\). Hence \(\operatorname{gr}F^Z\cong M_1'\otimes M_2\otimes A_\Pi\), with \(M_1'=\operatorname{gr}F^{V_1^{\mathrm{cyl}}}\) and \(M_2=\operatorname{gr}F^{V_2}\), and \(r_1\) acts by \(\lambda=-w_1-w'_1+g\), with \(g=x_{11}\). On a product \(m_1\otimes m_2\otimes a\) of the three graded rings, multiplication by the linear function \(-y_1-y'_1+x_{11}\) obeys the Leibniz rule: it gives \((-w_1m_1)\otimes m_2\otimes a+m_1\otimes(-w'_1m_2)\otimes a+m_1\otimes m_2\otimes ga\). So \(\lambda\) acts through the primitive coproduct \(\Delta\lambda=\lambda\otimes1+1\otimes\lambda\), iterated, of \(H=\mathbb F_3[\lambda]/(\lambda^3)\). This is a Hopf algebra since \(\lambda^3\) is primitive in characteristic 3.

\(V_1^{\mathrm{cyl}}\) is a product \(\mathbb F_3\times V''\) in the coordinates \((y_1,\text{rest})\), so \(M'_1\cong\mathbb F_3[w_1]/(w_1^3)\otimes\operatorname{gr}F^{V''}\), which is free over \(w_1\). For a Hopf algebra, a free module tensored with any module is free. Concretely, \(H\otimes N\cong H\otimes N_{\mathrm{triv}}\) through \(h\otimes n\mapsto\sum h_{(1)}\otimes h_{(2)}n\), which is graded here. So \(\operatorname{gr}F^Z\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[r_1]/(r_1^3)\). The factor \(\mathbb F_3^{m-2}\) of \(Y'\) contributes \(\operatorname{gr}\) equal to the truncated algebra of \(r'\), free over it. With the Frobenius splitting \(\Lambda\cong\mathbb F_3[r_1]/(r_1^3)\otimes\Lambda'\) (prop:excluded-loss-balance (1)), \(\operatorname{gr}F^{Y'}\) is free over \(\Lambda\), and so is \(\operatorname{gr}F^{Q'}\) through \(D\). Finally, a point of \(V_1\setminus V_1^{\mathrm{cyl}}\) lies on an \(e_1\)-line through an excluded point, and each such line holds at most two points of \(V_1\). \(\square\)

By prop:excluded-loss-balance (3), \(Q'\) then has equal losses on the levels of \(r_1\) in every degree \(\le D-2\), unlike \(Q\) in prop:coupled-pair-imbalance.

Falsification attempt

The full allowed set failed in the previous entry, and the finite check there confirmed the transfer on small boards. For subsets the natural attack is to overload the repair. Couple member 1's form \(L_i\), for each \(i\le h\), to its own partner through row \(i\) and column \(c_i\). A cylinder along every coordinate is empty, so member 1 cannot absorb all couplings. Each partner is coupled once, however, so cylinders in the partners repair every coupling. Orienting each coupling to an endpoint with spare capacity is Hakimi's orientation problem (first outside lead). For pairwise couplings it always succeeds when every subfamily has no more couplings than the cylinder directions its members can absorb. So pairwise couplings do not break the subset form. They break it only through capacity counting, as below.

Obstacle

The native route is stuck on simultaneous repair beyond capacity. A row-free subset must make every coupling of the members' forms to the row sums act freely on the members' value rings. The coupled pair shows that each unrepaired coupling between two unbalanced members costs freeness. A cylinder repairs a coupling at one member, at a density cost. A cylinder along a subspace \(U\) multiplies the excluded fraction by up to \(3^{\dim U}\). With an excluded fraction of at most \(\frac12(\frac23)^h\), the cost stays below a constant only while \(\dim U\le h(1-\log_32)-O(1)\approx0.37h\) (third outside lead). So a member absorbs only a fixed fraction of its directions. Beyond capacity the members' spans overlap the row sums and each other in many few-column combinations. Neither the tensor description nor the count of couplings is available there, because joint freeness fails for the whole family. What is missing is a description of the allowed set's graded ring for a family whose forms overdetermine the board, one that sees the couplings member by member.

Assessment of the route

The line lost its simplest statement this cycle, conditionally, and gained a repair mechanism of the right shape. Both are exact under stated hypotheses, and a small board supported the transfer. The subset form (conj:row-free-subset) survives every recorded obstruction. Its proof for families beyond capacity has no mechanism: the pullback description that powers both the obstruction and the repair needs joint freeness, which fails there by definition. The cover route (conj:capacity-cover-generation) is untouched, since its members are within capacity. It now has a concrete test: the coupled pair's two members are row-free and their union is not. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Hakimi's orientation theorem (S. L. Hakimi, On the degrees of the vertices of a directed graph, J. Franklin Inst. 279, 1965). A graph has an orientation with in-degree at most \(c(v)\) at every vertex iff every subgraph has at most \(\sum c(v)\) edges. Target: conj:row-free-subset for families with pairwise couplings. Answers. With \(c(b)\) the number of cylinder directions member \(b\) can absorb, a repair of all pairwise couplings exists iff the local counting condition holds. This replaces the global obstacle by a density count for pairwise couplings. It breaks for couplings that involve three or more members, which are hyperedges. Test. Passed: the star (one member coupled to \(h\) partners) and the triangle (three members pairwise coupled) both satisfy the count with \(c\equiv1\) on the partners. For the triangle the algebra also goes through. Couple members 1 and 2 along \(w_{12},w_{21}\), members 2 and 3 along \(w_{23},w_{32}\), and members 3 and 1 along \(w_{31},w_{13}\), through three distinct rows, with the six directions distinct coordinates. Orient cyclically: member 1 becomes a cylinder along \(w_{12}\), member 2 along \(w_{23}\) and member 3 along \(w_{31}\). Then the value ring is \(T(w_{12},w_{23},w_{31})\otimes N\), with \(N=M_1''\otimes M_2''\otimes M_3''\). The three row directions act as \(\rho_{12}=w_{12}+n_{12}\), \(\rho_{23}=w_{23}+n_{23}\) and \(\rho_{31}=w_{31}+n_{31}\). Here \(n_{12}=w_{21}\) acts on \(M_2''\), \(n_{23}=w_{32}\) on \(M_3''\) and \(n_{31}=w_{13}\) on \(M_1''\); they commute and cube to zero. This is the tensor product, under the primitive coproduct of the three-variable truncated algebra, of its regular module with \(N\), so it is free. The full freeness of the triangle's subset still needs the analogous pullback hypotheses for three members, which are not checked.
Carlson's rank varieties and the tensor product theorem (J. F. Carlson, The varieties and the cohomology ring of a module, J. Algebra 85, 1983; E. M. Friedlander and J. Pevtsova, \(\Pi\)-supports for modules for finite group schemes, Duke Math. J. 139, 2007). In characteristic 3 the truncated algebra of a coupling space, with the primitive coproduct, is the group algebra of an infinitesimal elementary abelian group scheme. As an algebra it is also the group algebra of an elementary abelian 3-group. Friedlander and Pevtsova's theory covers both. A tensor product is free iff the intersection of the factors' supports is zero. Target: repair of couplings among many members. Answers. The union's value ring is free over the coupling algebra iff the members' rank varieties, pulled back to the coupling space, meet only in zero. A repair is then a choice of subsets that shrinks the members' varieties until they intersect trivially: a geometric form of the hitting condition. It breaks in the graded truncated setting, where Dade's lemma fails without a special-position hypothesis (ex:truncated-dade-special-position). Test. Passed on the coupled pair, where the coupling space is a line: the union is non-free iff both members are non-free along it (ungraded, by the Jordan-block rule \(J_a\otimes J_b\) is non-free for \(a,b\le2\)). A member whose level sets along \(u\) have unequal sizes is non-free along \(u\): freeness forces \(\dim M=3\dim M/uM\), while \(M/uM\) maps onto the graded ring of every level set, so all levels would have equal size. So part (3) of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance and cor:cylinder-repair are the two sides of this criterion.
Kneser's addition theorem (M. Kneser, Abschätzung der asymptotischen Dichte von Summenmengen, Math. Z. 58, 1953). It gives lower bounds for sumsets \(E+U\) in terms of stabilizers. The cylinder along a subspace \(U\) removes \((E+U)\cap V\). Target: the per-member capacity \(c(b)\) of the first lead. Answers. A bound on \(|E+U|\) sets how many coupling directions a member absorbs within its density budget. With the trivial upper bound \(|E+U|\le3^{\dim U}|E|\) and \(|E|\le2^{h-1}\), the cost stays below a fixed fraction when \(\dim U\le h(1-\log_32)-O(1)\), about \(0.37h\). Kneser's theorem says the bound is nearly attained unless \(E\) is nearly \(U\)-periodic. Test. Passed: for the \(|K_C|=1\) members of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, \(E\) is a product of \(\{0\}\) and \(\{1,2\}\) coordinates. Along a coordinate in the support of \(\zeta\) the cylinder adds \(2|E|\) points, and along a coordinate outside it adds \(|E|/2\), matching the trivial bound within a factor of 3.

Absurd bridges

Semisimplification to the Verlinde category (P. Etingof and V. Ostrik, On semisimplification of tensor categories, 2021; D. Benson, P. Etingof and V. Ostrik, New incompressible symmetric tensor categories in positive characteristic, Invent. Math. 234, 2023). This is quantum topology and conformal field theory. Translation: modules over \(\mathbb F_3[\lambda]/(\lambda^3)\) with primitive \(\lambda\) form a symmetric tensor category. It is not \(\mathrm{Rep}(\mathbb Z/3)\), whose generator is grouplike, and the Verlinde category \(\mathrm{Ver}_3\cong\mathrm{sVec}\) is by definition the semisimplification of the latter. Semisimplifying the primitive category kills the free blocks \(J_3\). By the direct computation \(J_2\otimes J_2=J_3\oplus J_1\) and \(J_1\otimes J_2=J_2\) for primitive \(\lambda\) (in the coupled-pairs entry), \(J_1\) and \(J_2\) then have the fusion rules of \(\mathrm{sVec}\): \(J_1\) is even and \(J_2\) odd. So a member's value ring along a coupled direction has an image, its super dimension, and images multiply under tensor products. Answers. A monoidal invariant detects non-repairable couplings among many members: if the product of the members' super dimensions along a coupling is nonzero, the union is not free along it. Repair must make one factor's image vanish. The obstacle's hitting condition becomes a vanishing condition in a tensor category, where products are computable member by member. Test. Passed with a caveat. The super dimension \(\#J_1-\#J_2\) is an integer and is \(\equiv\dim M=|V|\) mod 3 for every \(V\). For symmetric \(V\) (\(V=-V\)), \(|V|=\alpha+2\beta\equiv\alpha-\beta\) mod 3 as well. For \(V=\{y\ne0\}\), \(M=J_2\) has super dimension \(-1=\alpha-\beta\). The two are different invariants: for the symmetric line \(V=\{y:y_1=0\}\) in \(\mathbb F_3^2\), \(M\) is three copies of \(J_1\) along \(w_1\), with super dimension \(3\), while \(\alpha-\beta=3\). They agree there, but in general they need only agree modulo 3. The super dimension is the multiplicative one, and it is what a many-member test would use.
Gauge fixing along a maximal tree in lattice gauge theory (M. Creutz, Quarks, Gluons and Lattices, Cambridge University Press, 1983). Translation: members are sites and couplings are links. Making a member a cylinder along a coupled direction is fixing the gauge of that link at one endpoint, and closed loops of couplings are the gauge-invariant content. Answers. A maximal-tree gauge removes all tree links for free. The question becomes whether loops of couplings carry an obstruction, like holonomy, that no subset choice removes. Test. Falsified as an obstruction: the triangle loop of the first lead is repaired by the cyclic orientation, by the value-ring computation given there (the analogous three-member pullback hypotheses are not checked). Loops carry no holonomy at the level of value rings, so the obstruction is capacity, not topology.

Lead follow-up

Inverse Littlewood–Offord theorems. Developed into lem:weak-base-anticoncentration: below the column-spread scale the base's image is nearly uniform, and beyond it uniformity is impossible. This cycle used it for the density of the coupled pair's allowed set. Follow-up. Closed: the obstacle now lies beyond capacity, where the lemma shows that no uniformity statement for the full image can hold.
The nerve theorem for covers. The coupled pair's cover by its two members has an edge as nerve, contractible, yet the union is not row-free. Follow-up. Closed: the nerve's topology does not see the failure, which lies in the Jordan type along the coupling.
Additivity of ideals of unions. The coupled pair is a failure of additivity for row freeness: two row-free members, with a union that is not row-free. The cylinder restores additivity at a bounded density cost. Follow-up. Continuing: whether a cover generated by cylinder-repaired members is additive beyond pairs is the next cover-route question.
The sunflower lemma for subspaces. Follow-up. Closed: flat-covering sunflowers are out of budget on the value space (cor:value-space-dense-covers), and couplings, the new obstruction, come from row sums, not from sunflowers.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the general cylinder criterion and its capacity. State and prove cylinder repair for a family whose coupling relations, forms against row sums modulo few columns, project injectively onto chosen cylinder directions \(U_b\), under joint pullback hypotheses. Then count, for W_RS families beyond capacity, whether such \(U_b\) with \(\dim U_b\le0.37h\) can exist. A negative count would show that the subset route needs subsets other than cylinders, and would locate them.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:pullback-row-freeness (its proof and its scope), prop:excluded-loss-balance (the Frobenius splitting and the loss statement), prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, the dense cover review's leads, conj:row-free-subset and ex:truncated-dade-special-position. Claim searches for cylinder repair, semisimplification and orientation found no earlier versions. No computation was run; the Kneser test is by hand. A fresh-context reviewer checked the corollary's density bound, the filtered substitution, the Hopf tensor identity and the Frobenius step, and found them correct, along with the Kneser numbers. It required four changes, all adopted: (H+) is now stated as its own hypothesis on the enlarged value map, not an instance of the pullback lemma, whose scope excludes forms in the row sums' span; the Verlinde bridge no longer identifies the primitive category with \(\mathrm{Rep}(\mathbb Z/3)\), and its super-dimension comparison is corrected (the earlier non-symmetric example was wrong); the triangle claim is derived at the level of value rings, with the three-member pullback hypotheses marked unchecked; and the gauge bridge's verdict is qualified accordingly. Its suggestions are adopted: the primitivity is derived from the Leibniz rule, the level-balance remark follows from prop:excluded-loss-balance, and the Carlson lead ties non-freeness to unequal levels. Status: working proof of a conditional corollary.

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Narrow coupling absence: for random dense blocks, no combination of the forms of fewer than about \(mN/(2(h+\log_3M))\) blocks equals a row-sum combination outside a few columns, so every coupling is wide, and by the involvement threshold a wide coupling whose blocks have small excluded sets acts freely on the members' value rings through \(D\); coupled-pair obstructions need planted couplings, and the dense core's obstruction, if any, is not of single-coupling type

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-cylinder-capacity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Narrow coupling absence: for random dense blocks, no combination of the forms of fewer than about \(mN/(2(h+\log_3M))\) blocks equals a row-sum combination outside a few columns, so every coupling is wide, and by the involvement threshold a wide coupling whose blocks have small excluded sets acts freely on the members' value rings through \(D\); coupled-pair obstructions need planted couplings, and the dense core's obstruction, if any, is not of single-coupling type”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-narrow-coupling-absence.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The coupled cover review located the native route's obstacle in repairing every coupling at once beyond capacity, and asked for a cylinder criterion and a capacity count. Before counting, which couplings can occur at all?

A coupling of width \(s\) is a combination of the forms of \(s\) blocks that equals a nonzero row-sum combination modulo the cells of a small column set. The coupled pair has width 2. Two recorded results already settle what a coupling of large width does on the value side:

thm:involvement-threshold: on a tensor product of members' rings \(A_i/n_i\), with \(n_i\) generated in degrees \(\ge\delta_i\), a linear form involving the members \(I\) acts freely through \(\sum_{i\in I}\max(\delta_i-2,0)\);
the generalized Reed–Muller minimum distance bounds the \(\delta_i\), as in lem:quiet-members.

So the question is how narrow the couplings of a family can be.

General statement. lem:narrow-coupling-absence: for blocks whose forms have independent uniform linear parts in normal form, with high probability no nonzero combination of the forms of at most \(s\) blocks lies in the span of the row sums and the cells of at most \(w\) columns, whenever \(s(h+\log_3M)+w(m+\log_3N)+2m\le\frac12m(N-1)\).

lem:narrow-coupling-absence

Setting. Over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak base with \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns, \(G_1=\operatorname{gr}_1F^P\) has dimension \(mN-1\). The only linear relation among the cells is that they sum to zero. The normal-form space \(E_{\mathrm{nf}}\), spanned by the cells of columns \(2,\dots,N\), has dimension \(m(N-1)\) and maps injectively into \(G_1\). A family has \(M\) blocks with \(h\) forms each, whose linear parts are independent and uniform in \(E_{\mathrm{nf}}\). For a column set \(J\), let \(W_J\subseteq G_1\) be the span of the row sums and of the cells of the columns in \(J\).

Lemma. Let \(\mathcal E_{s,w}\) be the event that for some set \(S\) of at most \(s\) blocks and some \(J\) with \(|J|\le w\), a nonzero combination of the \(|S|h\) linear parts of \(S\) lies in \(W_J\). Then \[\Pr(\mathcal E_{s,w})\le(s+1)(w+1)\,M^s N^w\,3^{sh+m(w+1)-m(N-1)}.\] In particular, if \(s(h+\log_3M)+w(m+\log_3N)+2m\le\frac12m(N-1)\), then \(\Pr(\mathcal E_{s,w})\le(s+1)(w+1)3^{-m(N-1)/2-m}\), which is \(o(1)\) as \(n\to\infty\) with \(m,N\ge n\), since \(s,w\le mN\).

Proof. Fix \(S\), \(J\) and a nonzero coefficient vector \(c\) on the \(|S|h\) forms. Then \(\sum c_i\ell_i\) is uniform in \(E_{\mathrm{nf}}\), since some \(c_i\ne0\) and the \(\ell_i\) are independent and uniform. Its probability of lying in \(W_J\cap E_{\mathrm{nf}}\) is \(3^{\dim(W_J\cap E_{\mathrm{nf}})-m(N-1)}\), and \(\dim W_J\le(m-1)+m|J|\). There are at most \(M^{|S|}\) sets \(S\), \(N^{|J|}\) sets \(J\) and \(3^{|S|h}\) vectors \(c\). Sum over \(|S|\le s\) and \(|J|\le w\), bounding each term by the largest. For the second claim, write \(M^sN^w=3^{s\log_3M+w\log_3N}\). The full exponent is then \(s(h+\log_3M)+w(m+\log_3N)+m-m(N-1)\), which the hypothesis bounds by \(-\frac12m(N-1)-m\). \(\square\)

What it says

Every coupling is wide. With high probability, every coupling of a random dense family, modulo at most \(w\) columns, involves more than \(s_0=\big(\frac12m(N-1)-w(m+\log_3N)-2m\big)/(h+\log_3M)\) blocks. That is about \(mN/(2(h+K\log_3n))\) when \(w\) is small against \(N\) and \(M=n^K\). Beyond joint capacity couplings do exist: once \(Mh\) exceeds \(\dim G_1-(m-1)\), the forms' span meets the row sums' span. None of them is narrow.
Wide couplings act freely on the value side. Consider the members' value rings \(M_b=\operatorname{gr}F^{V_b}\), with \(\delta_b\) the least degree of a nonzero function supported on the excluded set \(E_b\). By the generalized Reed–Muller minimum distance (Kasami, Lin and Peterson 1968; Delsarte, Goethals and MacWilliams 1970), a nonzero function of degree \(d=2a+b\), \(b\in\{0,1\}\), on \(\mathbb F_3^h\) has at least \((3-b)3^{h-a-1}\ge2\cdot3^{h-a-1}\) nonzeros. So \(\delta_b\ge2(h-1-\log_3(|E_b|/2))\). In low degree the exact weights are sharper: nonzero functions of degree 0, 1 and 2 have at least \(3^h\), \(2\cdot3^{h-1}\) and \(3^{h-1}\) nonzeros. So \(|E_b|<3^{h-1}\) gives \(\delta_b\ge3\). By thm:involvement-threshold, a coupling involving \(s\) blocks acts freely on \(\bigotimes_bM_b\) through \(\sum_b\max(\delta_b-2,0)\). This exceeds \(D\) as soon as the involved blocks have \(\delta_b\ge3\) in number at least \(D\). By the exact weights, it suffices that their excluded sets have \(|E_b|<3^{h-1}\), that is, excluded value density below \(\frac13\). Under uniform prefixes \(\mathbb E|E_b|\le3^{h-t}\), so each block fails this with probability at most \(3^{1-t}\), independently across blocks. A coupling of width \(s\ge s_0\gg D\) then has at least \(D\) such blocks unless more than \(s-D\) of its blocks fail, which is exponentially unlikely in \(s\) for a fixed support. This is a heuristic for all couplings at once: the number of coupling supports is not bounded here, so no union bound is claimed.
Coupled-pair obstructions are planted. prop:coupled-pair-imbalance needs a coupling of width 2. Random dense families have none, so that obstruction is adversarial. It is repairable by cylinders when the narrow couplings can be oriented within the members' capacity (the coupled cover review's first lead).

Where it stops. Three gaps remain. (1) The value-side statement concerns the members' tensor product, the model of lem:relation-space-tor. It transfers to the allowed set's graded ring only under pullback hypotheses, and those fail beyond capacity. (2) Freeness along every single coupling direction is not freeness over the coupling algebra: the truncated Dade lemma fails in special position (ex:truncated-dade-special-position). (3) The density condition \(\delta_b\ge3\) is shown per block and per support, not for all coupling supports at once. So the lemma rules out single-coupling obstructions for random dense families at the value level. If the dense core has an obstruction, it is multi-directional or lies in the transfer.

Outcome. lem:narrow-coupling-absence (working proof): random dense families have only couplings of width about \(mN/(2(h+\log_3M))\) or more. With thm:involvement-threshold, a fixed coupling then acts freely on the members' value rings far beyond \(D\) unless more than \(s-D\) of its blocks have excluded density at least \(\frac13\), which uniform prefixes make exponentially unlikely in \(s\). This is not shown for all couplings at once. The coupled-pair mechanism is therefore adversarial. At the value level the dense core's remaining obstruction, if any, is not a single coupling. The coupled cover review's Hakimi lead is developed only this far: narrow couplings, which need orientation, are absent in random families.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): multi-directional freeness for wide couplings. In the relation-space model, the members' tensor product must be free over the whole coupling algebra, not only along each coupling. Test whether pairwise-wide couplings, where every nonzero combination of couplings is wide, give freeness over the coupling algebra through \(D\). Use thm:pencil-graded-dade, which settles two directions on one row, as the model case.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:involvement-threshold, lem:quiet-members, lem:relation-space-tor, prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, cor:cylinder-repair and ex:truncated-dade-special-position. The claim search found the involvement threshold and the quiet-members bound, which this entry applies rather than reproves. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer verified the union bound and its final exponent, the generalized Reed–Muller weights, the expectation of \(|E_b|\) under uniform prefixes and the use of the involvement threshold. It required two changes, both adopted: the step to \(\delta_b\ge3\) now uses the exact low-degree weights (the weakened general bound gives only \(\delta_b\ge2\) there), and the headline and outcome now state the value-side consequence per coupling and conditionally, as the body does. Its suggestions are adopted: the regime of the \(o(1)\), the existence of couplings beyond capacity, and the role of lem:quiet-members.

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Coupled cover failure: for the coupled pair, the union of the two members' closed parts has top syzygies outside the Koszul pairs and single-member syzygies exactly when the members' value rings and column 1 tensor to a non-free module along the coupled direction, which happens whenever both members are non-free along their coupled forms, the trigger that also breaks row freeness; so, under the pullback hypotheses, capacity-cover generation fails with probability bounded below, while cylinder repair still gives the pair a row-free subset

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional on pullback hypotheses · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-coupling-algebra. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Coupled cover failure: for the coupled pair, the union of the two members' closed parts has top syzygies outside the Koszul pairs and single-member syzygies exactly when the members' value rings and column 1 tensor to a non-free module along the coupled direction, which happens whenever both members are non-free along their coupled forms, the trigger that also breaks row freeness; so, under the pullback hypotheses, capacity-cover generation fails with probability bounded below, while cylinder repair still gives the pair a row-free subset”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-failure.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The coupled pair defeats relative row freeness (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance). Its two members are row-free and within capacity, so it is also the first test of the other native statement, conj:capacity-cover-generation. Do the union's top syzygies come from Koszul pairs and single members?

General statement. prop:coupled-cover-failure: for the coupled pair, under the pullback hypotheses with the row sums and the state of column 1 among the values, cover generation through \(D\) holds iff \(\operatorname{gr}F^{V_1}\otimes A_\Pi\otimes\operatorname{gr}F^{V_2}\) is free through \(D\) along the coupled direction acting diagonally. So it fails whenever both members are non-free along their coupled forms and \(4h+2\le D\), in particular when both are unbalanced.

prop:coupled-cover-failure

Setting. The coupled pair of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance: members with forms \(L_1,\dots,L_h\) and \(L'_1,\dots,L'_h\) in normal form, \(L'_1=-L_1-\sum_{c\ge2}x_{1c}+c_0\), and value sets \(V_1,V_2\). The notation is that of cor:cylinder-repair:

the value map \(v=(L_1,\dots,L_h,L'_2,\dots,L'_h,r_1,r',\pi)\) and hypothesis (H+);
\(E_1,E_2\) the members' spans of linear parts, with \(E_1=\langle w_1\rangle\oplus E_1''\) and \(E_2=\langle w'_1\rangle\oplus E_2'\);
\(A_b=T(E_b)\) and \(A=A_1\otimes A_2\), with \(J_b=n_{V_b}\subseteq A_b\) the top ideal of \(V_b\) and \(M_b=A_b/J_b=\operatorname{gr}F^{V_b}\);
\(A_\Pi=\mathbb F_3\oplus\mathbb F_3^m\), the graded ring of column 1, with \(g=x_{11}\).

The base's top algebra is \(\bar G=G/\mathfrak mG\), with \(\mathfrak m\) the row sums (lem:first-degree-purity). By lem:cover-relative-gluing, cover generation for the pair means this: every top syzygy of degree \(\le D\) among the tops, in \(\bar G\), of the closed members \(\bar S_1\) and \(\bar S_2\) (all polynomials of degree \(\le D\) vanishing on \(P_1\), respectively \(P_2\)) is a \(\bar G\)-combination of Koszul pairs and of syzygies supported on one member. A clause \(g_iQ^{C}\) of a block involves \(L_i\) and every form whose column of \(C\) is nonzero. So unless the prefix matrix's coupled column vanishes, which has probability \(3^{-t}\) per block, every clause of block 1 involves \(L_1\) and every clause of block 2 involves \(L'_1\). Then a clause set that mixes clauses of both blocks has \(L_1\) and \(L'_1\) among its forms. With the row sums, its span contains \(L_1+L'_1+r_1=x_{11}+c_0\), a combination supported on one column. So its value map is not jointly free with the row sums (prop:graded-freeness-necessity), and it lies beyond capacity. Clause sets inside one block have closed members contained in that block's. So these two closed members are the whole capacity cover of conj:capacity-cover-generation.

Proposition. Assume (H+). Let \(H=\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) act on \(Y=M_1\otimes A_\Pi\otimes M_2\) by \(u\mapsto-w_1\otimes1\otimes1+1\otimes g\otimes1-1\otimes1\otimes w'_1\), with each term acting on its own factor. Then, in degrees \(\le D\), \[\frac{\{\text{top syzygies}\}}{\{\text{Koszul pairs}\}+\{\text{single-member syzygies}\}}\;\cong\;\bar G\otimes_X\operatorname{Tor}^H_1(\mathbb F_3,Y),\] where \(X\) is the algebra below, over which \(\bar G\) is free through \(D\). So cover generation holds through \(D\) iff \(Y\) is free over \(H\) through \(D\), that is, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^H(\mathbb F_3,Y)\) vanishes in degrees \(\le D\).

If both \(M_1\) (along \(w_1\)) and \(M_2\) (along \(w'_1\)) are non-free, it fails in some degree \(\le4h+2\). In particular it fails when both members are unbalanced along their coupled forms. For W_RS members with independent uniform prefixes this happens, together with the nonvanishing of both coupled prefix columns, with probability at least \(9/256-2\cdot3^{-t}\) (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance (4)), which is positive for \(t\ge4\).

Proof. Six steps.

Step 1: tops of the closed members. Under (H+), \(G\cong\mathcal V\otimes B\) through \(D\) as modules over \(\mathcal V=\operatorname{gr}\) of the value space, with \(\mathcal V=A_1\otimes T(E_2')\otimes T(r_1)\otimes T(r')\otimes A_\Pi\). There the linear part of \(L'_1\) is \(w'_1=-w_1-r_1+g\). \(P_b\) is the pullback of \(V_b\) times the other coordinates. The proof of lem:pullback-row-freeness applies to any subset of the value space pulled back by \(v\), with (H+) as its joint freeness and fiber independence. Applied to \(V_b\) times all other coordinates, it shows that the tops of the closed member \(\bar S_b\) span \(J_bG\), with \(J_b\) mapped into \(\mathcal V\) through \(w'_1\mapsto-w_1-r_1+g\).

Step 2: the quotient by the row sums. In \(G\), \(\sum_ir_i=0\), so \(\mathfrak mG=(r_1,r')G\). Hence \(\bar G\cong X\otimes B\), with \(X=A_1\otimes T(E_2')\otimes A_\Pi\) and \(w'_1\mapsto-w_1+g\). The tops span \(I_b=J_b\bar G\).

Step 3: syzygies as Tor. For two ideals with chosen generators, a syzygy of the union \(\sum a_if_i+\sum b_jg_j=0\) gives \(\sum a_if_i\in I_1\cap I_2\). If that element lies in \(I_1I_2\), subtracting Koszul pairs leaves syzygies of each ideal alone. Conversely, generation forces \(I_1\cap I_2=I_1I_2\). So the quotient in the statement is \((I_1\cap I_2)/I_1I_2=\operatorname{Tor}_1^{\bar G}(\bar G/I_1,\bar G/I_2)\), degree by degree. \(\bar G\) is free over \(X\) through \(D\), and \(\bar G/I_b=\bar G\otimes_X(X/J_bX)\). So flat base change gives \(\bar G\otimes_X\operatorname{Tor}^X_1(X/J_1X,X/J_2X)\) through \(D\).

Step 4: reduction to the coupled variable \(w_1\). Put \(\omega=w_1+w'_1\in A\). In characteristic 3, \(A=A'\otimes T(\omega)\) with \(A'=A_1\otimes T(E_2')\) (Frobenius splitting), and the map \(A\to X\) is the identity on \(A'\) and sends \(\omega\mapsto g\). So \(X=A\otimes_{T(\omega)}A_\Pi\). Let \(P=A/J_1A=M_1\otimes A_2\) and \(Q=A/J_2A=A_1\otimes M_2\). Both are free over \(T(\omega)\): \(\omega\) acts diagonally, and \(P\) contains the free factor \(T(w'_1)\), \(Q\) the free factor \(T(w_1)\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}^A_{>0}(X,P)=\operatorname{Tor}^{T(\omega)}_{>0}(A_\Pi,P)=0\), and \(X\otimes_AF_\bullet\) resolves \(X\otimes_AP\) for an \(A\)-free resolution \(F_\bullet\) of \(P\). Hence \(\operatorname{Tor}^X(X\otimes_AP,X\otimes_AQ)=\operatorname{Tor}^A(P,Q')\) with \(Q'=X\otimes_AQ\). Since \(P=M_1\otimes_{A_1}A\), this equals \(\operatorname{Tor}^{A_1}(M_1,Q')\).

Step 5: the module \(Q'\). As a \(T(\omega)\)-module, \(T(w_1)\otimes M_2\) with diagonal \(\omega\) is isomorphic to \(T(\omega)\otimes M_2^{\mathrm{triv}}\) by the Hopf tensor identity. So \(Q'\cong A_\Pi\otimes M_2\otimes T(E_1'')\). On it \(E_1''\) acts on the last factor, and \(w_1=\omega-w'_1\) acts as \(g\otimes1-1\otimes w'_1\). Base change along the free extension \(T(w_1)\subseteq A_1\) gives \(\operatorname{Tor}^{A_1}(M_1,Q')=\operatorname{Tor}^{T(w_1)}(M_1,A_\Pi\otimes M_2)\).

Step 6: the Hopf identity for Tor. For the cocommutative Hopf algebra \(H\), \(\operatorname{Tor}^H(N_1,N_2)\cong\operatorname{Tor}^H(\mathbb F_3,N_1^{S}\otimes N_2)\), where the antipode twist \(S\) sends \(u\mapsto-u\). This gives the stated \(Y\). \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^H(\mathbb F_3,Y)\) is nonzero in degree \(e+1\) exactly when \(Y\) has a non-free Jordan block ending in degree \(e\). By the graded Clebsch–Gordan rule, a non-free block of \(M_1\) ending at \(e_1\le2h\) and one of \(M_2\) ending at \(e_2\le2h\), with the block \(J_2[0]\) or \(J_1[1]\) of \(A_\Pi\), which ends at 1, give a non-free block of \(Y\) ending at \(\le e_1+e_2+1\). Hence the failure is in degree \(\le4h+2\). A member unbalanced along \(u\) is non-free along \(u\) (coupled cover review, second outside lead). \(\square\)

What it says

Both native statements fail on the same family. For the coupled pair, row freeness of the union (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, through level imbalance) and cover generation (this proposition, through the diagonal Jordan type of \(M_1\otimes A_\Pi\otimes M_2\)) are different criteria. They share a trigger: both members non-free, in particular unbalanced, along their coupled forms. So conj:capacity-cover-generation fails with probability at least \(9/256-2\cdot3^{-t}\) (positive for \(t\ge4\)) under uniform prefixes, conditionally on (H+), as conj:relative-row-freeness does.
The pair itself is not refutable at degree \(D\). By cor:cylinder-repair, the pair's allowed set contains a nonempty row-free subset \(Q'\) under (H+). Constraints vanishing on the allowed set vanish on \(Q'\), so thm:global-closure-gluing, as in lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency, gives no refutation of degree \(D\). So the non-Taylor syzygies of the cover lift, and lem:cover-relative-gluing's set \(L\) of known-lifting syzygies must contain them. Cover generation without \(L\) is too strong a statement.
The surviving native statement is the subset one. conj:row-free-subset survives every recorded obstruction, and the coupled pair is an instance of it. The cover statement can survive only with \(L\) enlarged by syzygies that lift through subsets, which returns to the subset statement.

Outcome. prop:coupled-cover-failure (working proof, conditional on (H+)): for the coupled pair, cover generation is equivalent to freeness of \(M_1\otimes A_\Pi\otimes M_2\) along the coupled direction. It fails in degree \(\le4h+2\) when both members are non-free along their coupled forms, which uniform prefixes produce with probability at least \(9/256-2\cdot3^{-t}\), positive for \(t\ge4\). So conj:capacity-cover-generation is refuted conditionally, like conj:relative-row-freeness, while the pair's W follows from cylinder repair. The route's statement is conj:row-free-subset.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): conj:row-free-subset for families with many narrow couplings. Planted narrow couplings can be repaired by cylinders when they can be oriented within the members' capacity (Hakimi), and random families have none (lem:narrow-coupling-absence). State and prove the combined sufficient condition: an orientation of the narrow couplings, plus freeness of the members' value rings over the remaining wide couplings, gives a row-free subset. Isolate the multi-directional freeness over wide couplings as the one open input.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:cover-relative-gluing, conj:capacity-cover-generation, lem:first-degree-purity, lem:pullback-row-freeness, thm:global-closure-gluing, lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency, prop:graded-freeness-necessity, cor:cylinder-repair and prop:coupled-pair-imbalance. The claim search found no earlier treatment of a cover's syzygies through \((I_1\cap I_2)/I_1I_2\) on this base. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer traced all six steps and found them correct, including the two degree shifts in the bound \(4h+2\). It required four changes, all adopted: the probability is stated as \(9/256-2\cdot3^{-t}\) everywhere and marked positive only for \(t\ge4\); the two failures are described as different criteria with a common trigger, not one Jordan type; the claim that mixed clause sets lie beyond capacity now cites prop:graded-freeness-necessity through the one-column combination; and Step 1 says why (H+) gives the members' tops. Status: working proof of a conditional proposition.

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Oriented cylinder repair: in the column-local framework, where all members' forms, the row sums and the cells of a small column set are jointly free up to the couplings, the allowed set has a nonempty row-free subset whenever the coupling space projects injectively onto cylinder directions each member can afford; for pairwise couplings this is Hakimi's orientation condition, and the framework ends where couplings stop being column-local

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional on pullback hypotheses · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-oriented-subsets. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Oriented cylinder repair: in the column-local framework, where all members' forms, the row sums and the cells of a small column set are jointly free up to the couplings, the allowed set has a nonempty row-free subset whenever the coupling space projects injectively onto cylinder directions each member can afford; for pairwise couplings this is Hakimi's orientation condition, and the framework ends where couplings stop being column-local”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-oriented-cylinder-repair.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). After the cover failure, the native route's statement is conj:row-free-subset. cor:cylinder-repair gives a subset for one coupled pair. When does it extend to many members and many couplings?

General statement. prop:oriented-cylinder-repair. Suppose, in the column-local framework (H_J) below, that each member \(b\) has a splitting \(E_b=U_b\oplus C_b\) such that the coupling space maps injectively to \(\bigoplus_bU_b\) and each member's excluded value set has fewer than \(3^{h_b-\dim U_b}\) points. Then the allowed set contains a nonempty subset that is row-free through \(D\).

prop:oriented-cylinder-repair

Setting. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), on the weak base \(P\) with \(m\) rows, \(N\) columns and \(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P\), take members \(b\) with normal-form forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b}\), value sets \(V_b\subseteq\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\) and excluded sets \(E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}=\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\setminus V_b\). Let \(E_b\) be a formal copy of the span of member \(b\)'s linear parts and \(E=\bigoplus_bE_b\). Fix a column set \(J\) not containing every column, with \(S_J\subseteq G_1\) the span of its cells and \(R\subseteq G_1\) that of the row sums. The two meet only in 0: a row-sum combination supported on \(J\) has constant coefficients, and so is a multiple of the occupancy, which is zero.

The coupling space \(K\subseteq E\) is the kernel of \(E\to G_1/(R\oplus S_J)\). For \(\kappa\in K\), its image is \(\rho(\kappa)+s(\kappa)\) with \(\rho(\kappa)\in R\) and \(s(\kappa)\in S_J\). Write \(\kappa=(u_b(\kappa))_b\).

Hypothesis (H_J). \(\rho\) is injective on \(K\). Choose a complement \(R''\) of \(\rho(K)\) in \(R\), and let \(v\) be the value map of all members' forms, of the row sums spanning \(R''\), and of the states of the columns in \(J\). Then \(v\) satisfies joint freeness and fiber independence as in cor:cylinder-repair's (H+): the products \(\varphi(v)\tilde b_\beta\) form a filtered basis of the functions on \(P\) through \(D\), and the \(\tilde b_\beta\) are independent on every fiber.

Proposition. Under (H_J), suppose each member has a splitting \(E_b=U_b\oplus C_b\), with the projection \(\pi_U:K\to\bigoplus_bU_b\) (componentwise along \(C_b\)) injective. Let \(V_b'\) be the largest subset of \(V_b\) invariant under translation by \(C_b^\perp\), the vectors on which the functionals in \(C_b\) vanish. Then:

\(Q'=\{x\in P:\ v_b(x)\in V_b'\ \text{for all }b\}\) is row-free through \(D\);
\(Q'\) is nonempty if every \(V_b'\) is. This holds when \(|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|<3^{h_b-\dim U_b}\);
\(|V_b\setminus V_b'|\le(3^{\dim U_b}-1)|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|\).

Proof. The value space has coordinates for the forms, \(R''\) and the states of \(J\). Its \(\operatorname{gr}\) is \(\mathcal V=\bigotimes_bT(E_b)\otimes T(R'')\otimes A_J\), where \(A_J=\bigotimes_{c\in J}(\mathbb F_3\oplus\mathbb F_3^m)\) is the graded ring of the states. On \(P\), for \(\kappa\in K\), the row-sum combination \(\rho(\kappa)\) is the function \(\sum_bu_b(\kappa)(v_b)-s(\kappa)\) plus a constant. So it is a function of the values, of degree \(\le1\). Its top acts on \(\mathcal V\) as \(\sum_bu_b(\kappa)-s(\kappa)\), each term on its own factor, that is, through the primitive coproduct.

\(Q'=v^{-1}(Y')\) with \(Y'=\prod_bV_b'\times\mathbb F_3^{R''}\times\Pi_J\). The proof of lem:pullback-row-freeness, repeated for this enlarged map with (H_J) as its joint freeness and fiber independence (the \(\tilde b_\beta\) carry no action), gives \(\operatorname{gr}F^{Q'}\cong\operatorname{gr}F^{Y'}\otimes B\) through \(D\), with the row sums acting on the first factor. Choose coordinates on \(\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\) dual to a basis of \(E_b\) adapted to \(U_b\oplus C_b\). Then \(V_b'=\mathbb F_3^{\dim U_b}\times V_b''\), and \(\operatorname{gr}F^{V_b'}=T(U_b)\otimes\operatorname{gr}F^{V_b''}\). Each \(u\in E_b\) acts by its \(U_b\)-part on the first factor and by its \(C_b\)-part on the second (Leibniz rule on a product set).

Hence \(\operatorname{gr}F^{Y'}=T(\bigoplus_bU_b)\otimes\mathcal N\otimes T(R'')\), with \(\mathcal N=\bigotimes_b\operatorname{gr}F^{V_b''}\otimes A_J\). There \(\rho(\kappa)\) acts as \(\pi_U(\kappa)\otimes1\otimes1+1\otimes n(\kappa)\otimes1\), where \(n(\kappa)\) collects the \(C_b\)-parts and \(-s(\kappa)\). So \(T(\bigoplus U_b)\otimes\mathcal N\) is the tensor product, under the primitive coproduct of \(T(\rho(K))\cong T(K)\), of two modules:

\(T(\bigoplus U_b)\), on which \(\kappa\) acts through the injection \(\pi_U\); it is free over \(T(K)\), since the truncated algebra of a space is free over that of any subspace in characteristic 3;
\(\mathcal N\), with \(\kappa\) acting by \(n(\kappa)\); these operators commute and cube to zero.

By the Hopf tensor identity, a free module tensored with any module is free. So \(\operatorname{gr}F^{Y'}\) is free over \(T(\rho(K))\otimes T(R'')\), which is \(\Lambda\) by the Frobenius splitting of prop:excluded-loss-balance (1), extended to any complement. Then \(\operatorname{gr}F^{Q'}\) is free over \(\Lambda\) through \(D\), which is (1).

For (2), \(V_b'\) is the union of the cosets of \(C_b^\perp\) contained in \(V_b\). The \(3^{h_b-\dim U_b}\) cosets are disjoint, so if \(|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|\) is smaller one of them misses \(E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}\). By fiber independence every fiber over \(Y'\) is nonempty. For (3), each excluded point spoils one coset, which holds at most \(3^{\dim U_b}-1\) other points of \(V_b\). \(\square\)

Orienting pairwise couplings

Suppose \(K\) has a basis \(\kappa_1,\dots,\kappa_r\), each involving exactly two members (edges \(e=\{b,b'\}\) of a coupling graph). Suppose also that at each member the components \(u_b(\kappa_e)\) of the edges at \(b\) are linearly independent in \(E_b\). Orient each edge to one endpoint. Put \(U_b\) to be the span of the components of the edges oriented to \(b\), and choose \(C_b\) to contain the components of the other edges at \(b\), which the independence allows. Then \(\pi_U(\kappa_e)\) is the basis vector \(u_b(\kappa_e)\) at the head \(b\) of \(e\), and zero elsewhere, so \(\pi_U\) is injective. With \(c(b)=h_b-1-\lfloor\log_3|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|\rfloor\), or \(c(b)=h_b\) when \(E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}=\emptyset\), part (2) needs in-degree at most \(c(b)\). By Hakimi's theorem such an orientation exists iff every set \(S\) of members spans at most \(\sum_{b\in S}c(b)\) edges. The coupled pair is one edge (cor:cylinder-repair). The star (with \(c=1\) on the partners) and the triangle (\(c\equiv1\)) of the coupled cover review are the first cases.

Where the framework ends

(H_J) requires the forms of all members, the complement \(R''\) and the cells of \(J\) to be jointly free through \(D\) on the board. That is a capacity condition relative to \(J\): the family may exceed joint capacity only through couplings supported on the columns of \(J\).
For random dense families, couplings exist only beyond forms-only capacity and are wide (lem:narrow-coupling-absence). They are not supported on a small \(J\), and \(J\) would have to be most of the board, where (H_J) fails.
So the proposition covers planted column-local couplings, the kind prop:coupled-pair-imbalance uses, and not the dense core. The core needs a replacement for (H_J) when the forms overdetermine the board, as the coupled cover review's obstacle says.

Outcome. prop:oriented-cylinder-repair (working proof, conditional on (H_J)): in the column-local framework, an injective projection of the coupling space onto affordable cylinder directions gives a nonempty row-free subset. For pairwise couplings with independent components, it exists iff Hakimi's local count holds with capacities \(c(b)=h_b-1-\lfloor\log_3|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|\rfloor\). This develops the coupled cover review's Hakimi lead. The framework reaches only families whose excess over capacity is column-local.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review, since the last cycles refined what fails and what repairs locally but left the beyond-capacity transfer untouched. Its obstacle: a description of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\), or of a subset, when the forms overdetermine the board. Develop the passed leads (rank varieties, Verlinde semisimplification) toward that description.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:cylinder-repair with (H+), lem:pullback-row-freeness, prop:excluded-loss-balance (the Frobenius splitting), lem:narrow-coupling-absence and prop:coupled-pair-imbalance. The claim search found cor:cylinder-repair as the one-edge case and nothing more general. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked every step: \(R\cap S_J=0\), the primitive action of the coupled row sums, the product decomposition of cylinders, the freeness argument with the splitting extended to an arbitrary complement, parts (2) and (3) (with \(\dim U_b=1\) recovering cor:cylinder-repair's bound), and the Hakimi reduction and capacities. It required three changes, all adopted: the capacity when a member excludes nothing; \(V_b'\) described as a union of cosets; and the pullback step cited to lem:pullback-row-freeness's proof rather than to the corollary. Its suggestions on the general statement's wording and the star's capacities are adopted. Status: working proof of a conditional proposition.

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Route review of the coupling line: planted couplings are understood and repairable by oriented cylinders, except for members wider than twice the prefix that are coupled along every direction; the dense core needs a description of the allowed set when the forms overdetermine the board, and a dilute polymer-gas picture is the lead the tests support

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-overdetermined-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the coupling line: planted couplings are understood and repairable by oriented cylinders, except for members wider than twice the prefix that are coupled along every direction; the dense core needs a description of the allowed set when the forms overdetermine the board, and a dilute polymer-gas picture is the lead the tests support”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-overdetermined-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the coupled cover review, three entries:

narrow couplings (lem:narrow-coupling-absence): random families have only wide couplings;
cover failure (prop:coupled-cover-failure): the coupled pair defeats capacity-cover generation too;
oriented cylinders (prop:oriented-cylinder-repair): column-local couplings are repaired by oriented cylinders.

The last entry asked for a review, because these cycles refined what fails and what repairs locally but left the beyond-capacity step untouched.

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows from a nonempty row-free subset of the allowed set (conj:row-free-subset). Every mechanism the line has for producing one needs a pullback description of the allowed set: cor:subfamily-row-freeness within capacity, and cylinders in the column-local framework. That description needs joint freeness of the forms with the row sums and the states of a few columns.

What the goal needs

The row-free subset must exist for families of \(n^K\) dense blocks, whose forms number far more than \(\dim G_1\approx mN\). There the forms overdetermine the board: no value map of all forms is jointly free, and couplings to the row sums involve about \(mN/(2(h+\log_3M))\) blocks each (lem:narrow-coupling-absence).

Falsification attempt

The strongest planted attack on subsets couples every direction of every member. Take members with \(h\) forms, each form coupled to a form of another member through its own row and column, so that the coupling graph is \(h\)-regular. This needs \(Mh/2\le m-1\) rows, one per edge, since \(\rho\) must be injective on the \(Mh/2\) couplings, and the framework (H_J) applies. An \(h\)-regular graph has an orientation with in-degree at most \(c(b)\) whenever \(c(b)\ge h/2\) (Hakimi's condition then holds for every vertex set). With \(c(b)=h-1-\lfloor\log_3|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|\rfloor\), this holds when \(|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|<3^{h/2}\). Under uniform prefixes \(\mathbb E|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|\le3^{h-t}\), so this is the typical case when \(h<2t\). For \(h\) near \(t\log_23\), where \(|K_C|=1\) has constant probability, \(|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|=2^{h-|\zeta|}\), and the condition holds unless \(|\zeta|\lesssim0.21h\).

So cylinder repair survives the regular attack for members with \(h<2t\). For members wider than about \(2t\) coupled along every direction, the orientation count no longer guarantees it on average, and the capacities are too small for Hakimi's condition. Outcome: conj:row-free-subset is not falsified. The wide, fully coupled family is the first planted family on which the only known subset mechanism may fail. It is a test for later cycles.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on the overdetermined transfer. When the forms of a family span all of \(G_1\), no value map is jointly free with the row sums. So there is no description of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\), or of any subset's, from the members' value rings. Pullbacks, tensor products, Jordan types along couplings and cylinders all need that description. What is known is statistical: each block excludes a fraction about \(3^{-t}\) of the base, and random families have only wide couplings. What is missing is a theorem that computes the graded ring of \(P\) minus a dilute union of excluded pieces from the pieces, degree by degree through \(D\).

Assessment of the route

The coupling line did what a line should. It found the obstruction that kills the two strongest native statements (full allowed sets, capacity covers), explained it (level imbalance and diagonal Jordan type), repaired it (cylinders, oriented by Hakimi's count), and bounded where the repair is guaranteed: not for members wider than about \(2t\) coupled along every direction, and not for any family that is not column-local. All of this is conditional on pullback hypotheses that hold, if at all, only within capacity. The dense core has no mechanism. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion (R. Kotecký and D. Preiss, Cluster expansion for abstract polymer models, Comm. Math. Phys. 103, 1986). A dilute gas of polymers with small weights has a convergent expansion of its partition function over connected clusters, when \(\sum_{\gamma'\not\sim\gamma}w(\gamma')e^{a(\gamma')}\le a(\gamma)\). Target: the overdetermined transfer. Answers. Read the blocks' excluded pieces as polymers, and a low-degree function on \(P\) supported on the excluded set as a sum over clusters. In the convergent regime the Hilbert function of the ideal of \(Q\) would be the members' sum plus corrections from connected clusters, each small in number. That is the degree-by-degree computation the obstacle asks for. It would break if algebraic interactions, falls, are not controlled by the weights, since dimension is not additive the way measure is. Test. Passed for the numerical condition. Each W_RS block's excluded value density is at most \(\mathbb E|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|/3^h\le3^{-t}\), so with \(M=n^K\) blocks and \(t=(K+1)\log_3n+O(\log\log n)\), \(\sum_bw_b\le n^K3^{-t}\), which is at most about \(1/n\) (smaller by the \(3^{-O(\log\log n)}\) factor when that term of \(t\) is positive). With the simplification \(a\equiv1\), the criterion reads \(e\sum_bw_b\le1\) on the complete incompatibility graph, and it holds with room. The algebraic translation is untested.
Anstee, Rónyai and Sali's order-shattering theorem (R. P. Anstee, L. Rónyai and A. Sali, Shattering news, Graphs Combin. 18, 2002). For \(Q\subseteq\{0,1\}^n\) and a term order, the standard monomials of the vanishing ideal of \(Q\) are exactly the sets order-shattered by \(Q\), and there are \(|Q|\) of them. Target: a combinatorial description of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) for any \(Q\), overdetermined or not. Answers. \(P\) and \(Q\) are subsets of \(\{0,1\}^{mN}\). With a degree-compatible order, the degree-\(\le d\) part of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) has a basis indexed by order-shattered cell sets of size \(\le d\). Row freeness would become a combinatorial property of that family with respect to the rows. It breaks because the row sums are not monomials, so the \(\Lambda\)-action is not visible on a monomial basis. Test. Not run: order-shattered families of the coupled pair's allowed set need a new enumeration tool, and the identity itself is a theorem. The informative question, whether the \(\Lambda\)-action has a combinatorial shadow, was not formulated sharply enough to test this cycle.
The Bernstein–Gelfand–Gelfand correspondence over exterior algebras (D. Eisenbud, G. Fløystad and F.-O. Schreyer, Sheaf cohomology and free resolutions over exterior algebras, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 355, 2003). Freeness of a graded module over an exterior algebra corresponds to vanishing of cohomology on projective space, and linear forms' actions to a complex of sheaves. Target: row freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) beyond capacity. Answers. For a union of excluded pieces, sheaf cohomology is computed by Mayer–Vietoris over the pieces, which is exactly a local-to-global tool for an overdetermined union. It breaks in characteristic 3: \(\Lambda\) is a truncated polynomial algebra with cubes zero, not an exterior algebra. The BGG correspondence for it would pass through the Frobenius-twisted or \(\mathbb Z/3\)-graded versions, which are not standard. Test. Not run: no BGG correspondence for \(\mathbb F_3[r]/(r^3)\) was located to test against.

Absurd bridges

Pauling's ice-rule entropy and Lieb's exact solution of square ice (L. Pauling, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 57, 1935; E. H. Lieb, Phys. Rev. Lett. 18, 1967). This is chemistry and statistical mechanics. Pauling estimated the residual entropy of ice by treating the local ice-rule constraints as independent, multiplying their acceptance probabilities. Lieb's exact solution showed the correction that correlations make. Translation: blocks are local constraints on the board, and \(|Q|/|P|\) is the acceptance probability. Pauling's estimate is the product of the members' allowed fractions, and deviations from it measure correlation between members through the base. Answers. Where Pauling's product is exact up to small corrections, the members' constraints are uncorrelated on the base, which is the counting shadow of the additivity the obstacle needs. Where it fails, a coupling is present. So the product rule is a cheap detector of couplings, usable at any family size. Test. Passed on saved data (research/results/odd-prime-union-relation/). The ratio \(|Q_a|/(\frac49|P_a|)\), with two constraints \(L\ne0\) of value density \(\frac23\), is between 1.0006 and 1.0256 for the uncoupled control, on both boards and all levels. For the coupled pair it ranges from 0.75 to 1.30. The product rule holds exactly where the Hilbert functions balanced and fails where they did not.
Moser–Tardos resampling for the algorithmic local lemma (R. A. Moser and G. Tardos, A constructive proof of the general Lovász local lemma, J. ACM 57, 2010). This is theoretical computer science. Translation: the bad events are "the point lies in block \(b\)'s excluded set", and resampling a bad block's variables (the cells its forms touch) moves the point. A row-free subset would be the set of outcomes of a resampling process whose steps preserve row freeness. Answers. Resampling gives an explicit, locally generated subset of the allowed set, built block by block, of the kind the obstacle cannot describe globally. If each resampling step is a cylinder move, which is row-free by prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, the process would build a row-free subset without a global description. It breaks because dense forms touch every cell, so resampling a block resamples the whole board. Test. Falsified in this form: with dense forms every event depends on every variable, so the local lemma's dependency graph is complete, and its condition \(e\,p\,(d+1)\le1\) needs \(3^{-t}(M+1)e\le1\). That holds, since \(M3^{-t}\) is at most about \(1/n\), but the resampling is global, so it gives no local structure. The form in which resampling acts only on value coordinates, not cells, is Not run: no such process was defined this cycle.

Lead follow-up

Hakimi's orientation theorem. Developed into prop:oriented-cylinder-repair and tested against regular coupling graphs above. Follow-up. Closed: within the column-local framework the orientation count is complete. Beyond it the obstacle is the transfer, not orientation.
Carlson's rank varieties. No new development: the multi-directional question, freeness over the whole coupling algebra, needs a graded truncated Dade lemma, which the record shows fails in special position. Follow-up. Continuing: the regular coupled family is where its support-intersection form would be tested next.
Kneser's addition theorem. Used for the capacities \(c(b)\) in prop:oriented-cylinder-repair and in the falsification count above. Follow-up. Closed: the trivial sumset bound suffices for the capacities, and sharper Kneser bounds do not change which families fail.
Additivity of ideals of unions. The Pauling test above is its counting shadow: additivity of allowed fractions holds without couplings and fails with them. Follow-up. Continuing: the Kotecký–Preiss lead is its algebraic development for dilute families.

Bridge follow-up

Semisimplification to the Verlinde category. Beyond capacity the allowed set's ring is not a tensor product of members' rings, so there is nothing to semisimplify factor by factor. Follow-up. Continuing: within the column-local framework the super dimension is multiplicative, and it could decide the regular coupled family's non-repairable couplings, which is the next test.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the Kotecký–Preiss lead. For a family whose excluded pieces are dilute, try to prove that the dimension of degree-\(\le d\) functions supported on the union of the pieces equals the members' sum up to cluster corrections, bounded by the weights of connected clusters. Test the statement first on the coupled pair (a two-cluster with nonzero correction) and on the control (zero correction), using the saved losses.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, lem:narrow-coupling-absence, prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, prop:coupled-cover-failure, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity and the coupled cover review's leads. The Pauling test read the saved outputs of ex:coupled-pair-levels; no new computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer recomputed all twelve Pauling ratios from the data files (they match), checked the Hakimi sufficient condition for regular graphs, the order-shattering and BGG statements and the Moser–Tardos reasoning, and cross-checked every follow-up against the previous review. It required three changes, all adopted: the regular-graph threshold is \(|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|<3^{h/2}\), hence \(h<2t\) (the draft was too strict by a factor of 3; the \(0.21h\) threshold is unaffected); the Kotecký–Preiss test states its simplification \(a\equiv1\); and the weight sum is stated as at most about \(1/n\) rather than \(o(1/n)\). Its suggestions are adopted: the row budget is justified and the untested resampling variant carries a Not run tag.

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Coupling distributivity: under the pullback hypotheses, the coupled pair has no cross falls, its ideals intersect in their product, and its total counts factor, yet it is not row-free; row freeness, cover generation and defect gluing's distributivity condition are one condition there, so no statement about dimensions, falls or cluster weights can certify row freeness, and the cluster-expansion lead can at most handle the defect half of the obstacle

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional on pullback hypotheses · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-cluster-losses. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Coupling distributivity: under the pullback hypotheses, the coupled pair has no cross falls, its ideals intersect in their product, and its total counts factor, yet it is not row-free; row freeness, cover generation and defect gluing's distributivity condition are one condition there, so no statement about dimensions, falls or cluster weights can certify row freeness, and the cluster-expansion lead can at most handle the defect half of the obstacle”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-coupling-distributivity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The overdetermined review proposed its first outside lead, the Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion. The idea is to compute the low-degree functions supported on a dilute union of excluded pieces as the members' sum plus cluster corrections. The record already frames the dimension side of this: cross falls (conj:fill-point-falls, conj:shared-piece-falls) and the defect of lem:defect-gluing. Before developing an expansion, does a dimension-level statement see the coupled pair's failure at all?

General statement. prop:coupling-distributivity: under (H+), the coupled pair is degreewise local through \(D\), meaning \(n_Q=n_{Q_1}+n_{Q_2}\) and \(n_{Q_1}\cap n_{Q_2}=n_{Q_1}n_{Q_2}\). Row freeness of \(Q\), cover generation for the pair and condition (i) of lem:defect-gluing are then equivalent. Each is equivalent to freeness of \(Y=\operatorname{gr}F^{V_1}\otimes A_\Pi\otimes\operatorname{gr}F^{V_2}\) along the coupled direction.

prop:coupling-distributivity

Setting. The coupled pair and hypothesis (H+) of cor:cylinder-repair, with the notation of prop:coupled-cover-failure: \(M_b=\operatorname{gr}F^{V_b}=A_b/J_b\), and \(H=\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) acting on \(Y=M_1\otimes A_\Pi\otimes M_2\) diagonally along \(-w_1+g-w'_1\). \(Q_b\) is member \(b\)'s allowed set and \(Q=Q_1\cap Q_2\).

Proposition. Under (H+), through degree \(D\):

Locality. \(n_Q=n_{Q_1}+n_{Q_2}\) (no cross falls) and \(n_{Q_1}\cap n_{Q_2}=n_{Q_1}n_{Q_2}\). So \(\dim(n_Q)_d=\dim(n_{Q_1})_d+\dim(n_{Q_2})_d-\dim(n_{Q_1}n_{Q_2})_d\), as for two unrelated members.
One condition. The following are equivalent: (a) \(Q\) is row-free through \(D\); (b) cover generation holds for the pair through \(D\); (c) condition (i) of lem:defect-gluing, \((n_{Q_1}\cap n_{Q_2})+\mathfrak rG=(n_{Q_1}+\mathfrak rG)\cap(n_{Q_2}+\mathfrak rG)\) in degrees \(\le D\), with \(\mathfrak r\) the row sums; (d) \(Y\) is free over \(H\) through \(D\).
Invisible to dimensions. Through \(D\), the Hilbert function of \(n_Q\) is given by the same formula in the members' data as for an uncoupled pair with the same value sets. It depends only on \(M_1\), \(M_2\), \(A_\Pi\) and \(B\), not on the coupling.

Proof. (1) Use the value coordinates of cor:cylinder-repair after the substitution \(y'_1=c_0-r_1+[\pi=1]-y_1\). \(Q\) is then the pullback of \(V_1\times V_2\times\Pi\times\mathbb F_3^{R'}\). The vanishing ideal of a product set is \(I(V_1)\otimes\mathcal F+\mathcal F\otimes I(V_2)\), with tops \(J_1\mathcal V+J_2\mathcal V\) in \(\mathcal V=T(E_1)\otimes T(E_2)\otimes A_\Pi\otimes T(R')\), the members' variables being disjoint. By the pullback argument, applied as in Step 1 of prop:coupled-cover-failure but in these coordinates, where \(E_1\) and \(E_2\) are disjoint, \(n_Q=(J_1\mathcal V+J_2\mathcal V)\otimes B=n_{Q_1}+n_{Q_2}\). In \(\mathcal V\), ideals generated in disjoint variables satisfy \(J_1\mathcal V\cap J_2\mathcal V=J_1J_2\mathcal V\) (Künneth: \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of \(A_1/J_1\) and \(A_2/J_2\) over \(A_1\otimes A_2\) vanishes). \(G\cong\mathcal V\otimes B\) is free over \(\mathcal V\), so the same holds in \(G\).

(2) (a)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(d). Repeat the proof of cor:cylinder-repair with \(V_1\) in place of \(V_1^{\mathrm{cyl}}\). \(Q=v^{-1}(Z\times\mathbb F_3^{R'})\) with \(Z=\{(y,y'',r_1,\pi):\ y\in V_1,\ (c_0-r_1+[\pi=1]-y_1,y'')\in V_2\}\). The pullback argument gives \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\cong\operatorname{gr}F^Z\otimes T(R')\otimes B\) through \(D\), with the row sums acting on the first two factors. The filtered substitution \(y'_1=c_0-r_1+[\pi=1]-y_1\) carries \(Z\) onto \(V_1\times V_2\times\Pi\). So \(\operatorname{gr}F^Z\cong M_1\otimes M_2\otimes A_\Pi\), which is \(Y\) up to the order of factors, with \(r_1\) acting as \(-w_1-w'_1+g\) by the Leibniz rule. Only the last step of the corollary, freeness of the cylinder factor, is dropped. By the Frobenius splitting \(\Lambda\cong T(r_1)\otimes T(R')\), and since \(T(R')\) and \(B\) contribute free and trivial factors, with \(B_0=\mathbb F_3\), freeness of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) over \(\Lambda\) through \(D\) is freeness of \(Y\) over \(H\) through \(D\). (b)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(d) is prop:coupled-cover-failure. (a)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(c) is part (d) of lem:defect-gluing for a local pair, which (1) supplies, with both members row-free. Member 1's row freeness follows from the pullback lemma for the coarser map \(v'\), consisting of member 1's forms and the row sums. Two facts give its hypotheses from (H+). First, the value algebra of \(v\) is \(T(v')\otimes T(\text{rest})\), so the filtered basis for \(v\) regroups as \(\varphi'(v')\cdot\big(\psi(\text{rest})\tilde b_\beta\big)\), a filtered basis of the same shape for \(v'\) with the functions \(\psi(\text{rest})\tilde b_\beta\) as its complement. Second, a fiber of \(v'\) is a union of fibers of \(v\); on each of them the rest is constant, and the \(\tilde b_\beta\) are independent there. Grouping by the value of the rest shows the new complement is independent on the fibers of \(v'\). Member 2 is symmetric.

(3) By (1) the Hilbert function of \(n_Q\) is \(\operatorname{HF}(J_1\mathcal V)+\operatorname{HF}(J_2\mathcal V)-\operatorname{HF}(J_1J_2\mathcal V)\), tensored with \(B\). These are computed in \(\mathcal V=T(E_1)\otimes T(E_2)\otimes A_\Pi\otimes T(R')\), in which the coupling does not appear: it enters only through how \(r_1\) acts. \(\square\)

What it says about the cluster lead

The test. The overdetermined review proposed testing a cluster statement on the coupled pair (nonzero correction expected) against the control (zero correction). By (1) and (3), the coupled pair's cluster correction to dimensions is zero, like the control's, while by (2) only the control is row-free.
Saved data. Point counts are not a check of (3), which concerns degrees \(\le D\), and the coupled and control pairs use different random forms. They corroborate the picture only. The total counts \(\sum_a|Q_a|\) against \(\frac49\sum_a|P_a|\) in research/results/odd-prime-union-relation/ give ratios 0.9938 and 0.9981 for the coupled pair on the \(2\times9\) and \(3\times9\) boards, and 1.0188 and 1.0048 for the control. Pauling's product rule holds for both in total. The coupled pair differs only level by level, where the ratios range from 0.75 to 1.30 (overdetermined review).
Conclusion for the lead. A cluster expansion of dimensions, fall counts or allowed fractions cannot certify row freeness. At most it handles the defect half of lem:defect-gluing, falls, which conj:fill-point-falls already conjectures absent for random families. Row freeness needs, in addition, the distributivity condition (i), which is a statement about how the row sums meet the members' ideals, level by level. The Kotecký–Preiss lead is falsified as a route to row freeness. As a route to the defect half it coincides with conj:fill-point-falls.

Correction of wording. The cover failure entry, following its reviewer, called the row-freeness and cover-generation criteria "different criteria with a common trigger". By (2), under (H+) they are the same condition, freeness of \(Y\). This uses only (a)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(d)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(b), not the leg through (c). What differs is the sufficient condition each entry used for failure: level imbalance in prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, and non-free members in prop:coupled-cover-failure.

Outcome. prop:coupling-distributivity (working proof, conditional on (H+)): the coupled pair is degreewise local, with no cross falls, product intersections and factoring counts. For it, row freeness, cover generation and defect gluing's distributivity condition coincide, all equivalent to freeness of \(Y\) along the coupled direction. So the obstacle splits into two independent parts: falls (defect, conj:fill-point-falls) and distributivity of the row sums over the members' ideals (condition (i)). Dimension-level tools, the cluster expansion included, reach only the first.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): condition (i) of lem:defect-gluing for random dense families, where couplings are wide (lem:narrow-coupling-absence). Test whether the involvement threshold's per-direction freeness, which wide couplings enjoy on the value side, gives (i) through \(D\) for a pair of members whose union has one wide coupling. Here "pair" means a union of two sub-families, each row-free.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:defect-gluing, cor:subfamily-row-freeness, conj:fill-point-falls, cor:cylinder-repair, prop:coupled-cover-failure and the overdetermined review's first lead. The saved counts of ex:coupled-pair-levels were re-read; no computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer rederived locality, the Künneth intersection and the transfer to \(G\), the identity of the \(H\)-actions across the three entries, the coupling-independence of the Hilbert function, the wording correction and every saved ratio. It required four changes, all adopted: why (H+) gives each member's pullback hypotheses (regrouping the filtered basis, and fibers of the coarser map as unions of fibers); the step (a)\(\Leftrightarrow\)(d) written out; the saved-data bullet stated as corroboration, not a check of (3); and the coordinate change in Step 1 made explicit. Status: working proof of a conditional proposition.

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Wide coupling freeness: in the column-local framework, when the couplings have disjoint supports, the allowed set is row-free through \(D\) iff each coupling acts freely on its members' value rings and its columns; a coupling is harmless once its members' ideal degrees and half its column count add up to \(D\), and the remaining narrow couplings can be repaired by cylinders one at a time

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional on pullback hypotheses · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-wide-distributivity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Wide coupling freeness: in the column-local framework, when the couplings have disjoint supports, the allowed set is row-free through \(D\) iff each coupling acts freely on its members' value rings and its columns; a coupling is harmless once its members' ideal degrees and half its column count add up to \(D\), and the remaining narrow couplings can be repaired by cylinders one at a time”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-wide-coupling-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The coupling distributivity entry split the obstacle into falls and the distributivity condition (i) of lem:defect-gluing. For couplings, (i) is freeness along the coupled direction. The coupled pair fails it with width 2. Does a coupling involving many members pass it, and how do several couplings combine?

General statement. prop:wide-coupling-freeness: in the framework (H_J) of prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, suppose the coupling space has a basis of couplings with pairwise disjoint member supports and pairwise disjoint column supports. Then the allowed set is row-free through \(D\) iff each basis coupling acts freely through \(D\) on its members' value rings and the state rings of its columns. A coupling \(\kappa\) does so when \(\sum_{b\in I(\kappa)}(\delta_b-2)+\lceil\tau_\kappa/2\rceil\ge D\), or when one involved member is free along its component.

prop:wide-coupling-freeness

Setting. As in prop:oriented-cylinder-repair: members \(b\) with value rings \(M_b=\operatorname{gr}F^{V_b}=T(E_b)/J_b\), with \(J_b\) generated in degrees \(\ge\delta_b\ge2\). \(\delta_b\ge2\) holds when the excluded value density is below \(\frac23\), by the degree-1 Reed–Muller weight. Take a column set \(J\), the coupling space \(K\), the maps \(\rho\) and \(s\), and hypothesis (H_J). For \(\kappa\in K\), let \(I(\kappa)=\{b:\ u_b(\kappa)\ne0\}\) be its member support and \(J_\kappa=\{c\in J:\ s(\kappa)_c\ne0\}\) its column support, with \(\tau_\kappa=|J_\kappa|\). By part (1) of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, a normal-form combination is never a nonconstant row-sum combination, so \(s(\kappa)\ne0\) and \(\tau_\kappa\ge1\) for \(\kappa\ne0\). Let \(A_c=\mathbb F_3\oplus\mathbb F_3^m\) be the graded ring of column \(c\)'s state, and \(H_\kappa=\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) act on \(X_\kappa=\bigotimes_{b\in I(\kappa)}M_b\otimes\bigotimes_{c\in J_\kappa}A_c\) by \(u\mapsto\sum_bu_b(\kappa)-s(\kappa)\), each term on its own factor.

Proposition. Assume (H_J), and that \(K\) has a basis \(\kappa_1,\dots,\kappa_r\) whose member supports are pairwise disjoint and whose column supports are pairwise disjoint.

The allowed set \(Q\) is row-free through \(D\) iff every \(X_{\kappa_i}\) is free over \(H_{\kappa_i}\) through \(D\).
\(X_\kappa\) is free through \(D\) if some \(M_b\), \(b\in I(\kappa)\), is free along \(u_b(\kappa)\), or if \(\sum_{b\in I(\kappa)}(\delta_b-2)+\lceil\tau_\kappa/2\rceil\ge D\).
Consequently, let \(\bar V_b\subseteq V_b\) be the cylinder along \(u_b(\kappa_i)\) in one member \(b\in I(\kappa_i)\), for each basis coupling that fails the degree condition and has no involved member already free along its component. The subset where every such member takes values in its cylinder is row-free through \(D\). Since the member supports are disjoint, each member receives at most one cylinder, and the subset is nonempty when each chosen member has \(|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|<3^{h_b-1}\).

Proof. (1) As in the proof of prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, without cylinders: \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\cong\big(\bigotimes_bM_b\otimes A_J\big)\otimes T(R'')\otimes B\) through \(D\), and \(\rho(K)\) acts diagonally on the first factor. With disjoint supports, that factor is \(\bigotimes_iX_{\kappa_i}\otimes X_0\). Here \(X_0\) collects the members and columns outside all supports, on which \(K\) acts as zero, and \(T(K)=\bigotimes_iT(\kappa_i)\) acts factorwise. By Künneth, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K)}(\mathbb F_3,\cdot)\) is \(\bigoplus_i\operatorname{Tor}_1^{H_{\kappa_i}}(\mathbb F_3,X_{\kappa_i})\otimes\bigotimes_{j\ne i}(X_{\kappa_j}/\kappa_jX_{\kappa_j})\otimes X_0\). Each tensor factor is nonzero in degree 0 (it contains the unit), so the sum vanishes in degrees \(\le D\) iff each \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{H_{\kappa_i}}\) does. With the Frobenius splitting \(\Lambda=T(\rho(K))\otimes T(R'')\) and \(B_0=\mathbb F_3\), this is row freeness through \(D\).

(2) If an involved \(M_b\) is free along \(u_b(\kappa)\), \(X_\kappa\) is free by the Hopf tensor identity. Otherwise use graded Jordan blocks over \(H_\kappa\). Every non-free block of \(M_b\) along \(u=u_b(\kappa)\) ends in degree \(\ge\delta_b-1\). Indeed, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{H}(\mathbb F_3,M_b)_j=\{x\in(M_b)_{j-1}:ux=0\}/u^2(M_b)_{j-3}\), and a block ending in degree \(e\) contributes in degree \(j=e+1\). For \(j\le\delta_b-1\), \(ux\) lies in \((M_b)_j=T(E_b)_j\), so \(ux=0\) in \(T(E_b)\). Since \(T(E_b)\) is free over \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\), this gives \(x=u^2y\) with \(y\in T(E_b)_{j-3}=(M_b)_{j-3}\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) vanishes in degrees \(\le\delta_b-1\), and non-free blocks end at \(\ge\delta_b-1\); a \(J_2\) block ending there starts at \(\delta_b-2\). The same computation shows that thm:involvement-threshold's bound, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1=0\) through \(\sum_i\max(\delta_i-2,0)\), is conservative by one. It is phrased by where blocks start. The block ends give non-free ends \(\ge\sum_i(\delta_i-1)-(|I|-1)=\sum_i(\delta_i-2)+1\) for the members alone. For a column with \(s(\kappa)_c\ne0\), \(A_c=J_2[0]\oplus J_1[1]^{m-1}\). By lem:pair-seed-decomposition, the tensor product over the \(\tau_\kappa\) columns has non-free part ending in degree \(\ge\lceil\tau_\kappa/2\rceil\): the \(J_2\) blocks give \(N_{\tau}\), and the \(J_1[1]\) blocks shift upward. The graded Clebsch–Gordan rule for primitive \(u\) makes the non-free part of \(J_a[s]\otimes J_b[s']\) end at \(e+e'-[a=b=2]\ge e+e'-1\). Tensoring the \(|I(\kappa)|\) member factors and the column factor, \(|I(\kappa)|\) pairings, gives non-free ends \(\ge\sum_b(\delta_b-1)+\lceil\tau_\kappa/2\rceil-|I(\kappa)|\). Freeness through \(D\) means all non-free ends are \(\ge D\).

(3) After the replacement, the chosen member's ring is \(\operatorname{gr}F^{\bar V_b}=T(u)\otimes\operatorname{gr}F^{V_b''}\) as in cor:cylinder-repair, which is free along \(u=u_b(\kappa_i)\). The pullback description is unchanged, so (1) and the first case of (2) apply. Nonemptiness is part (2) of prop:oriented-cylinder-repair with \(\dim U_b=1\). \(\square\)

What it says

Width helps additively. Each involved member contributes \(\delta_b-2\) to the degree through which a coupling is harmless. By the generalized Reed–Muller bound \(\delta_b\ge2(h_b-1-\log_3(|E_b^{\mathrm{ex}}|/2))\) (lem:narrow-coupling-absence), W_RS members with small excluded sets contribute a fixed fraction of \(h_b\). A coupling involving about \(D/(\delta-2)\) such members is harmless. The coupled pair has width 2 and \(\tau=1\), and fails when \(2(\delta-2)+1<D\) and both members are non-free.
Combined repair. With disjoint supports, wide couplings need nothing, and each narrow one needs one cylinder in one of its members. This is the combined sufficient condition proposed after the cover failure, for disjoint supports.
Where it stops. Two hypotheses keep random dense families out. The column-local framework is one: their couplings are not column-local (lem:narrow-coupling-absence). The disjointness of supports is the other: overlapping couplings require freeness over a coupling algebra of dimension \(\ge2\), where the truncated Dade lemma fails in special position (ex:truncated-dade-special-position). Beyond capacity both fail at once.

Outcome. prop:wide-coupling-freeness (working proof, conditional on (H_J)): for couplings with disjoint supports, row freeness is decided coupling by coupling. A coupling is harmless once \(\sum_b(\delta_b-2)+\lceil\tau/2\rceil\ge D\), and narrow couplings are repaired by one cylinder each. What remains for the dense core are overlapping couplings (the Dade problem) and the overdetermined transfer.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the smallest overlap. Take two couplings sharing one member, in the column-local framework, and decide whether freeness along each coupling and along every combination of them (every nonzero element of the two-dimensional coupling space) gives freeness over the coupling algebra through \(D\). This is a graded Dade statement for two directions on a tensor product of members' rings, the analogue of thm:pencil-graded-dade.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, cor:cylinder-repair, prop:coupling-distributivity, thm:involvement-threshold, lem:pair-seed-decomposition, ex:truncated-dade-special-position and prop:coupled-pair-imbalance (1). No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the Künneth step and its iff, the block structure \(A_c=J_2[0]\oplus J_1[1]^{m-1}\), \(\tau_\kappa\ge1\), \(\delta_b\ge2\) below excluded density \(\frac23\), and part (3). It questioned the per-member bound \(\delta_b-1\) against thm:involvement-threshold's \(\delta_i-2\). The proof now derives \(\delta_b-1\) from the Tor formula and explains that the theorem's \(\delta_i-2\) is where blocks start, a bound conservative by one, so the stated inequality stands. The same reviewer checked the added derivation: it confirmed the Tor formula, the vanishing through \(\delta_b-1\) and the final inequality, and withdrew the item. Its suggestions are adopted where they tighten statements.

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Private-part freeness: overlapping couplings are free as far as their private parts are, so shared members only forfeit their own contribution, and in the column-local framework any overlap pattern is harmless when each basis coupling keeps a wide private part; beyond capacity a count of couplings per member rules this out

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional on pullback hypotheses · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-shared-member-dade. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Private-part freeness: overlapping couplings are free as far as their private parts are, so shared members only forfeit their own contribution, and in the column-local framework any overlap pattern is harmless when each basis coupling keeps a wide private part; beyond capacity a count of couplings per member rules this out”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-private-part-freeness.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Wide couplings settled couplings with disjoint supports and left overlapping ones, where freeness along each direction need not give freeness over the coupling algebra (ex:truncated-dade-special-position). For two couplings sharing a member, is freeness over the two-dimensional coupling algebra decided by the couplings separately?

General statement. prop:private-part-freeness: take a module that is the tensor product of a shared factor, on which the coupling algebra acts arbitrarily, with private factors, on which each basis coupling acts on its own factor only. It is free over the coupling algebra through the least degree through which some private factor fails to be free along its coupling. In the column-local framework, the allowed set is row-free through \(\min_iD_i\), with \(D_i\) the private width bound of basis coupling \(i\).

prop:private-part-freeness

Algebraic statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(K\) have basis \(\kappa_1,\dots,\kappa_r\), with \(T(K)=\bigotimes_iH_i\), \(H_i=\mathbb F_3[\kappa_i]/(\kappa_i^3)\), and the primitive coproduct. Let \(M_S\) be any graded \(T(K)\)-module in degrees \(\ge0\). Let \(Y_i\) be a graded \(H_i\)-module in degrees \(\ge0\) with \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{H_i}(\mathbb F_3,Y_i)\) vanishing in degrees \(\le D_i\), and let \(X_0\) be a graded vector space in degrees \(\ge0\) with \((X_0)_0\ne0\). Let \(N=\bigotimes_iY_i\otimes X_0\), with \(\kappa_i\) acting on \(Y_i\) only. Then \(X=M_S\otimes N\), with the diagonal action, has \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K)}(\mathbb F_3,X)\) vanishing in degrees \(\le\min_iD_i\).

Proof. First, \(N\). By Künneth over \(\bigotimes_iH_i\), \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K)}(\mathbb F_3,N)=\bigoplus_i\operatorname{Tor}_1^{H_i}(\mathbb F_3,Y_i)\otimes\bigotimes_{j\ne i}(Y_j/\kappa_jY_j)\otimes X_0\), with all factors in degrees \(\ge0\). So it vanishes in degrees \(\le d:=\min_iD_i\).

Next, the tensor product. Let \(F\to N\) be a minimal graded free cover over \(T(K)\), with kernel \(Z\). \(Z\) is generated in the degrees of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(N)\), so \(Z\) lives in degrees \(\ge d+1\). Tensoring \(0\to Z\to F\to N\to0\) with \(M_S\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) gives an exact sequence of \(T(K)\)-modules under the diagonal action. \(M_S\otimes F\) is free by the Hopf tensor identity. The long exact sequence of \(\operatorname{Tor}^{T(K)}(\mathbb F_3,\cdot)\) gives an injection \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(M_S\otimes N)\hookrightarrow\operatorname{Tor}_0(M_S\otimes Z)\). The target lives in degrees \(\ge d+1\), since \(M_S\) is in degrees \(\ge0\) and \(Z\) in degrees \(\ge d+1\). \(\square\)

In the column-local framework

Take (H_J) as in prop:oriented-cylinder-repair and a basis \(\kappa_1,\dots,\kappa_r\) of the coupling space. Let \(S\) be the set of members and columns lying in the supports of two or more basis couplings. Basis coupling \(i\)'s private part is \(P_i=(I(\kappa_i)\cup J_{\kappa_i})\setminus S\). The private parts are pairwise disjoint, so for \(j\ne i\) the coupling \(\kappa_j\) has zero components on \(P_i\): it acts as zero on \(Y_i\).

By the proof of prop:wide-coupling-freeness (1), \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\cong\big(M_S\otimes\bigotimes_iY_i\otimes X_0\big)\otimes T(R'')\otimes B\) through \(D\). Here:

\(M_S\) is the tensor product of the rings of the members and columns in \(S\), with each \(\kappa_i\) acting by its components there;
\(Y_i\) is the tensor product over \(P_i\), with \(\kappa_i\) acting by its private components;
\(X_0\) is the rest, with \((X_0)_0=\mathbb F_3\).

The action of \(\kappa_i\) is the sum of its \(S\)-part and its \(P_i\)-part, which is the diagonal action of \(T(K)\) on \(M_S\otimes N\). So:

\(Q\) is row-free through \(\min_iD_i\), where \(D_i\) is any degree through which \(Y_i\) is free along \(\kappa_i\).
By the block-end bounds in the proof of prop:wide-coupling-freeness (2), one may take \(D_i=\sum_{b\in P_i}(\delta_b-2)+\lceil\tau_i'/2\rceil\) when \(P_i\) contains \(\tau_i'\ge1\) columns. When it contains none but at least one member, take \(D_i=\sum_{b\in P_i}(\delta_b-2)+1\). Here \(|P_i|\) member factors need \(|P_i|-1\) pairings, each losing at most 1, and each factor's non-free blocks end at \(\ge\delta_b-1\). Take \(D_i=\infty\) if a member of \(P_i\) is free along its component, for instance a cylinder.
If some \(P_i\) is empty, \(\kappa_i\) acts on \(N\) as zero and the statement gives nothing. The coupling then lies entirely in shared members and columns.

So two couplings sharing one member \(b_0\) are decided by their private widths. The shared member's contribution \(\delta_{b_0}-2\) is forfeited, and no special-position obstruction arises, whatever the components of the two couplings at \(b_0\).

Where it stops: a count beyond capacity

Every basis coupling must keep a private part of width about \(D/(\delta-2)\) members, or a private cylinder. Private parts are disjoint, so this needs \(\dim K\cdot D/(\delta-2)\) members, or \(\dim K\) cylinders, each costing a member direction. Beyond joint capacity, \(\dim K\) is at least \(\sum_bh_b-\dim G_1\), which is most of \(\sum_bh_b\) for families with \(\sum_bh_b\gg mN\). Then even one private member per basis coupling needs \(\dim K\le M\), while \(\dim K\) is of order \(Mh\). This is an order-of-magnitude count from the lower bound on \(\dim K\), not an inequality with tracked constants. A basis with disjoint private parts cannot exist. Beyond capacity, each member lies in about \(h\) independent couplings, and the private-part mechanism, like cylinders (at most \(h_b\) directions per member), is outcounted. The remaining algebraic question is freeness over a coupling algebra of dimension comparable to the number of forms, where every member is shared. That is the multi-directional problem in its full form.

Outcome. prop:private-part-freeness (working proof; the algebraic statement is unconditional, the application conditional on (H_J)): overlapping couplings are free as far as their private parts are, so any overlap pattern with wide or cylinder-repaired private parts is row-free, with no special-position obstruction. Beyond capacity the couplings outnumber the members about \(h\) to one, so, by an order-of-magnitude count, no disjoint private parts exist. The overdetermined case needs freeness over a coupling algebra in which every member is shared.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the fully shared case in its smallest form. Take members whose forms together exceed capacity by a coupling space in which every member is shared, for example three members pairwise coupled with each pair of couplings sharing a member and no private parts. Compute freeness over the coupling algebra on the value side (the tensor product of the members' rings, the relation-space model) for random W_RS value sets at small \(h\). That tests whether full sharing obstructs freeness when single directions are free.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:wide-coupling-freeness (statement and proof), prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, ex:truncated-dade-special-position and lem:narrow-coupling-absence. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived the Künneth step, the minimal-cover degree bound, the exactness and freeness under the diagonal action, the injection into \(\operatorname{Tor}_0(M_S\otimes Z)\), the disjointness of private parts, the \(D_i\) formulas, the empty-part remark and the rank bound on \(\dim K\), and found no error. It required one change, adopted: the no-private-column formula is cited to the proof of prop:wide-coupling-freeness (2), whose statement covers only \(\tau\ge1\), with the pairing count written out. Its suggestions are adopted: \(\kappa_j\) acting as zero on \(Y_i\) is stated, and the count beyond capacity is marked as order of magnitude.

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Relation and coupling count (correction): in the column-local framework the coupling space injects into the row sums, so it has dimension at most \(m-1\); the count in the private-parts entry charged it with the pure relations, which that framework excludes; beyond capacity the fully shared algebra is the joint algebra of pure relations and couplings, and the record's superadditivity of non-free starts does not by itself make member rings add up there

28 September 2026 · Correction with a working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-full-sharing. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relation and coupling count (correction): in the column-local framework the coupling space injects into the row sums, so it has dimension at most \(m-1\); the count in the private-parts entry charged it with the pure relations, which that framework excludes; beyond capacity the fully shared algebra is the joint algebra of pure relations and couplings, and the record's superadditivity of non-free starts does not by itself make member rings add up there”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-relation-coupling-count.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The private-parts entry ended with a count: beyond capacity \(\dim K\ge\sum_bh_b-\dim G_1\), of order \(Mh\), so the couplings outnumber the members and no basis has private parts. Its next step proposed testing full sharing. Re-reading the framework before computing: is the count right?

General statement. prop:relation-coupling-count: in the column-local framework (H_J) the coupling space has dimension at most \(m-1\), with no condition on the number of members. Beyond capacity, the space of pure relations among the forms, modulo the cells of a column set \(J\), has dimension at least \(\sum_bh_b-\dim G_1\). The private-part count applies to the joint algebra of pure relations and couplings, not to the couplings.

prop:relation-coupling-count

Setting. Members with formal spans \(E_b\), one basis vector per form, so \(\dim E_b=h_b\). Let \(E=\bigoplus_bE_b\), a column set \(J\), \(R\) and \(S_J\) in \(G_1\), and \(\Phi:E\to G_1\) the map to linear parts. As in prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, \(K=\Phi^{-1}(R\oplus S_J)\), with \(\Phi(\kappa)=\rho(\kappa)+s(\kappa)\). Let \(K_0=\{\kappa\in K:\rho(\kappa)=0\}=\Phi^{-1}(S_J)\), the pure relations modulo \(J\).

Proposition.

\(\rho\) is injective on \(K\) iff \(K_0=0\). Then \(\dim K\le\dim R=m-1\).
\(\dim K_0\ge\sum_bh_b-\dim(G_1/S_J)\ge\sum_bh_b-\dim G_1\).
So beyond joint capacity (\(\sum_bh_b>\dim G_1\)), (H_J) fails for every admissible \(J\), because \(K_0\ne0\). This does not come from the couplings, which number at most \(m-1\), but from pure relations of dimension at least \(\sum_bh_b-\dim G_1\).

Proof. (1) \(\ker\rho|_K=K_0\) by definition, and \(\rho(K)\subseteq R\), where \(R\) is spanned by the \(m\) row sums with one relation (their sum is the occupancy, constant on \(P\)). (2) \(K_0\) is the kernel of \(E\to G_1/S_J\), so rank–nullity gives the bound. (3) follows from (1) and (2). \(\square\)

What it corrects

What was wrong. The private-parts entry's final count used \(\dim K\ge\sum_bh_b-\dim G_1\) for the coupling space of (H_J). Under (H_J) that space has dimension at most \(m-1\) by (1). The bound belongs to \(K_0\), which (H_J) excludes.
What stands. The algebraic statement of prop:private-part-freeness and its application under (H_J) are unaffected. Inside the framework, private parts are not outcounted. With \(M\) members and at most \(m-1\) couplings, a basis whose couplings each keep about \(D/(\delta-2)\) private members needs only about \((m-1)D/(\delta-2)\) members.
Where the count belongs. Beyond capacity, the pullback description must handle \(K_0\) as well. Pure relations act on the board as zero modulo the cells of \(J\), while couplings act as row sums. On the value side, lem:relation-space-tor treats the pure relations. Their algebra \(T(K_0)\) must act freely on \(\bigotimes_bM_b\) for Taylor generation. The value-side analogue of row freeness is freeness of the quotient \(X/K_0X\), \(X=\bigotimes_bM_b\), over \(T(K)\). That holds if \(X\) is free over \(T(K_0\oplus K)\) through \(D\). Indeed \(T(K_0\oplus K)=T(K_0)\otimes T(K)\), so \(X\cong T(K_0)\otimes T(K)\otimes B'\) through \(D\) gives \(X/K_0X\cong T(K)\otimes B'\) through \(D\). Identifying the allowed set's graded ring with \(X/K_0X\) is the transfer that fails beyond capacity; this is only the value-side statement. The count applies to this joint algebra: its dimension is at least \(\sum_bh_b-\dim G_1\), of order \(Mh\), and there no basis with disjoint private parts exists. The earlier conclusion, full sharing, is right for the joint algebra, not for the couplings.
The available multi-directional tool. prop:group-freeness makes the start \(\gamma\) of the non-free part superadditive under tensor products over any \(T(K')\), with the module free through \(\gamma\). For member rings \(M_b=T(E_b)/J_b\) seeing \(K'\) injectively, \(\gamma(M_b)\) can be 0 even when \(J_b\) starts high. Here \(\gamma\) is, as in prop:group-freeness, the lowest degree of the non-free summand in a Krull–Schmidt decomposition, not the first degree of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\). For example, with \(T=T(K')\), the module \(T/\operatorname{soc}T\) is cyclic and indecomposable. Its non-free summand is all of it, so \(\gamma=0\). Its \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) sits in degree \(2\dim K'\), so it is free through \(2\dim K'-1\). So superadditivity of starts does not by itself give additivity of the member degrees \(\delta_b\). Single directions add by ends (thm:involvement-threshold, prop:wide-coupling-freeness), several directions add by starts, and member rings have high ends but possibly low starts. That mismatch is the multi-directional problem in its precise form.

Outcome. prop:relation-coupling-count (working proof): couplings in the column-local framework number at most \(m-1\), so the private-part mechanism is not outcounted there. The earlier count belongs to the joint algebra of pure relations and couplings, which is where the overdetermined case lives. The multi-directional problem is now precise. For the member tensor over the joint algebra, single directions add by block ends, the record's tensor rule for several directions adds by non-free starts, and member rings can have low starts. What is needed is a start bound for member rings, or an end-additivity statement for several directions.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the start \(\gamma\) of W_RS member rings. For a member ring \(M_b=T(E_b)/J_b\) with random prefix and a subspace \(K'\to E_b\) of dimension \(r'\), bound from below the degree where the non-free part of \(M_b\) over \(T(K')\) starts, in terms of \(\delta_b\), \(h_b\) and \(r'\). Then prop:group-freeness adds such bounds over groups of members.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:private-part-freeness with its count, prop:oriented-cylinder-repair (the definitions of \(K\), \(\rho\), \(s\) and (H_J)), lem:relation-space-tor, prop:group-freeness and thm:involvement-threshold. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the three parts and the diagnosis of what was wrong and what stands. It required two changes, both adopted. The reduction from freeness over \(T(K_0\oplus K)\) to freeness of the quotient over \(T(K)\) is now proved, and marked as a value-side statement. The \(T/\operatorname{soc}T\) example now says which invariant is 0: the start of the non-free summand, prop:group-freeness's \(\gamma\), not the first degree of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\), which is \(2\dim K'\). The reviewer had read \(\gamma\) as the latter. Its suggestions are adopted: \(\dim E_b=h_b\) is stated, and the qualifier on \(J\) is reduced to admissibility.

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Route review of the coupling line after the count correction: on the value side the dense core is a graded Dade statement with margin for the members' tensor product over the joint algebra of pure relations and couplings, the member-ring version of the record's conj:graded-dade-margin; its margin holds by counting in W's regime, pointwise Jordan types cannot certify it, and the transfer to the board remains separate

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-member-starts. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the coupling line after the count correction: on the value side the dense core is a graded Dade statement with margin for the members' tensor product over the joint algebra of pure relations and couplings, the member-ring version of the record's conj:graded-dade-margin; its margin holds by counting in W's regime, pointwise Jordan types cannot certify it, and the transfer to the board remains separate”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-member-tensor-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the overdetermined review, four entries:

coupling distributivity: falls and distributivity are separate halves;
wide couplings: disjoint couplings are decided one by one;
private parts: overlaps cost only the shared members;
relation count: a correction relocating full sharing to the joint algebra.

The line now sits several reductions below the open statements. This review places it, and tests the next proposed step (non-free starts of member rings) before it is taken.

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows from a nonempty row-free subset of the allowed set (conj:row-free-subset). On the value side, a row-free subset exists if a sub-family of value sets (after cylinders) has members' tensor product \(X=\bigotimes_bM_b\) free through \(D\) over the joint algebra \(T(K_0\oplus K)\) of pure relations and couplings (prop:relation-coupling-count). The graded ring of the allowed set must also be the value-side quotient \(X/K_0X\) through \(D\): the transfer.

What the goal needs

For \(n^K\) dense blocks, \(\dim(K_0\oplus K)\) is at least \(\sum_bh_b-\dim G_1\), of order \(Mh\), and every member is shared. Single directions are harmless when wide (thm:involvement-threshold, lem:narrow-coupling-absence). What is needed is freeness over the whole joint algebra, and then the transfer.

Falsification attempt

The proposed start bound is false. The last entry proposed bounding from below the start \(\gamma(M_b)\) of the non-free part of member rings, so that prop:group-freeness would add the bounds. But for a member whose span is seen injectively and completely by the acting space (\(K'\cong E_b\)), \(M_b=T(E_b)/J_b\) is a cyclic module over the local ring \(T(E_b)\), hence indecomposable. It is non-free whenever \(J_b\ne0\), so \(\gamma(M_b)=0\) however high \(J_b\) starts. This does not depend on the identification of \(K'\) with \(E_b\): in characteristic 3, \(T(V)\) depends only on the space \(V\), since cubes of linear forms are sums of cubes. So any linear isomorphism \(K'\cong E_b\) induces a ring isomorphism carrying the module structure to an isomorphic one. The start is the wrong invariant for member rings, and the step is withdrawn before it is taken.

The margin form survives the recorded counterexample. The member-ring version of conj:graded-dade-margin reads: if every nonzero element of the acting space is wide, and a counting margin holds, the tensor is free through \(D\). The record's counterexample (ex:truncated-dade-special-position: 14 cells, 6 forms, free along every element through degree 3, not free through 3) is a fully shared member tensor, each cell a member with \(\mathbb F_3[t]/(t^2)\). It lies outside the column conjecture's margin: \(N=14<4t+2F=24\). Outcome: the margin statement is not falsified. Without a margin, pointwise wideness is insufficient.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on two statements. The first is a freeness statement for the members' tensor product over the joint algebra, which single-direction results cannot give. The second is the transfer of that value-side ring to the board beyond capacity.

Member-tensor graded Dade with margin. For a tensor product of member rings \(M_b=T(E_b)/J_b\) and an acting space \(K'\subseteq\bigoplus_bE_b\) all of whose nonzero elements are wide, give a counting margin under which \(\bigotimes_bM_b\) is free over \(T(K')\) through \(D\). Single directions add by block ends. Several directions have no end-additivity: the counterexample loses a degree. And starts give nothing for member rings.
The transfer. Beyond capacity, the graded ring of the allowed set, or of a subset, must be identified with the value-side quotient through \(D\).

The unrun order-shattering and BGG leads of the previous review target statement 2. This line has now reached the record's one-row graded Dade line (conj:graded-dade-margin, thm:pencil-graded-dade, ex:projective-dade-exceptions) in member form.

Assessment of the route

The coupling line reduced the native route's dense core to two precise statements, one algebraic and one transfer, and connected the algebraic one to a recorded conjecture with independent evidence (78 random one-row families, and a proof for two directions). It corrected its own count before relying on it, and withdrew a proposed step by a one-line argument. Neither statement has a proof mechanism yet. One outside lead below, Green's theorem, was not run and bears on statement 1. The previous review's two unrun leads (order shattering, BGG) bear on statement 2. By the framework's rule, these get development cycles before the line is declared without mechanism. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

The record's conj:graded-dade-margin, in member form (stated in the pencil graded Dade line, proved for two directions by thm:pencil-graded-dade). Target: statement 1. Answers. The member form replaces cells by member rings and the cell support of a combination by \(\sum_{b\in I}(\delta_b-2)\). The margin \(N\ge4t+2F\) becomes a count of the member tensor's size against the acting space. A proof of the member form through \(D\) would settle statement 1 for families satisfying the margin. It would break if member rings with large \(\delta_b\) admit special positions that cells do not. Test. Passed: the margin needed in W's regime holds by counting. The necessary positivity of \(\prod_b\operatorname{HF}(M_b)/(1+t+t^2)^{r}\) through \(D\), with \(r=\dim K'\), is \((1+t+t^2)^{\sum h_b-r}\prod_b(1-\varepsilon_b(t))\), with \(\varepsilon_b\) starting at \(t^{\delta_b}\). Here \(r=\dim K'\) is of order \(Mh\), and \(\sum_bh_b-r\) is the dimension of the forms' span on the board, at most \(\dim G_1=mN-1\) (\(m\) rows, \(N\) columns of the board, not the one-row conjecture's cell count). Beyond capacity the span is close to \(mN\). So in degree \(d\le D\) the first factor contributes about \((mN)^d/d!\), while each \(\varepsilon_b\) enters only from degree \(\delta_b\approx4t=\Theta(\log n)\), with \(M=n^K\) members. This is a heuristic comparison of orders of growth, not a proof of positivity: \((mN)^{\delta}\) exceeds any fixed power of \(n\) times the members' contributions. The recorded counterexample, outside its margin, is consistent.
Green's hyperplane restriction theorem (M. Green, Restrictions of linear series to hyperplanes, and some results of Macaulay and Gotzmann, in Algebraic Curves and Projective Geometry, Lecture Notes in Math. 1389, 1989). It bounds the Hilbert function of \(M/\ell M\) for a general linear form \(\ell\) by the Macaulay representation of that of \(M\). Target: statement 1, through a general flag in \(K'\). Answers. Freeness through \(D\) is the equality \(\operatorname{HF}(M/K'M)=\operatorname{HF}(M)/(1+t+t^2)^r\) through \(D\) (prop:syzygies-as-tor). Cutting by a general flag one form at a time, a Green-type upper bound matching the free prediction at each step would prove it. It would break because Green's theorem is for quotients of polynomial rings, while here cubes vanish in characteristic 3. Test. Not run: no version for truncated polynomial rings in characteristic 3 was located this cycle.
Generic and maximal Jordan types (E. M. Friedlander, J. Pevtsova and A. Suslin, Generic and maximal Jordan types, Invent. Math. 168, 2007). Modules over elementary abelian groups have a generic Jordan type, attained on an open set of \(\mathbb P(K')\). Non-maximal types lie on a closed subvariety, and tensor products are computed pointwise. Target: statement 1. Answers. It would confine failures of freeness to a closed special-position locus and compute the generic behaviour of the member tensor by Clebsch–Gordan. Test. Falsified for the truncated question. The recorded counterexample is free through degree 3 along every point of \(\mathbb P(K')\) over \(\bar{\mathbb F}_3\), yet not free through 3. Pointwise Jordan data, generic or special, cannot certify truncated freeness.

Absurd bridges

The plethystic program for counting gauge invariants (B. Feng, A. Hanany and Y.-H. He, Counting gauge invariants: the plethystic program, JHEP 03 (2007) 090). This is theoretical physics. The plethystic logarithm of a Hilbert series lists generators minus relations, degree by degree, and a complete intersection shows as a finite plethystic logarithm. Translation: freeness of \(M\) over \(T(K')\) through \(D\) says that the plethystic logarithm of \(\operatorname{HF}(M)\) splits, through \(D\), as that of the free part plus \(r\) copies of that of \(1+t+t^2\). The first discrepancy is the first non-free relation. Answers. It gives a counting diagnostic, degree by degree, of where freeness fails. This is what a margin statement must control, and it can be computed from Hilbert functions alone, which the members supply. Test. Passed on recorded numbers. For the counterexample the free prediction is \(W=(1,8,22,14)\) and the actual quotient is \((1,8,22,15)\), so the Hilbert-function discrepancy appears exactly at degree 3, where freeness fails. The diagnostic sees the failure; whether it can prove freeness remains open.
Clustering in random constraint satisfaction (D. Achlioptas and A. Coja-Oghlan, Algorithmic barriers from phase transitions, FOCS 2008). This is theoretical computer science. Beyond a density threshold, the solution space of a random CSP shatters into well-separated clusters with frozen variables. Translation: the allowed set of a dense random family is the solution space of a random CSP whose constraints are the blocks. A single cluster, with its frozen variables fixed, is product-like: a union of cylinders. Answers. A cluster would be a natural row-free subset, generalizing cylinders. Test. Falsified in W's regime: the excluded density is about \(1/n\), far below any clustering threshold. The solution space is one giant connected set, with no frozen variables to fix.

Lead follow-up

The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion. prop:coupling-distributivity showed the coupled pair's dimension-level correction is zero while it is not row-free. Follow-up. Closed: dimension-level expansions reach only the falls half, which is conj:fill-point-falls.
Carlson's rank varieties. Continued here as the generic Jordan type lead. Follow-up. Closed: pointwise data cannot certify truncated freeness, by the recorded counterexample.
Additivity of ideals of unions. It became end-additivity: single directions add by block ends, several do not. Follow-up. Continuing: statement 1 is its precise form.

Bridge follow-up

Pauling's ice counting. Total counts factor for the coupled pair and the control alike (prop:coupling-distributivity), so counts see couplings only level by level. Follow-up. Closed: the obstruction is not visible in total counts, and level-wise counts are the balance test already recorded.
Semisimplification to the Verlinde category. The super dimension is a pointwise, ungraded invariant. Follow-up. Closed: like rank varieties, it cannot see truncated failures.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the Green lead, which was not run. Look for a hyperplane-restriction bound for graded quotients of truncated polynomial rings in characteristic 3, or prove one for the square-free case of conj:graded-dade-margin. Test it against the recorded one-row families before moving to member rings.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:relation-coupling-count, prop:coupling-distributivity, conj:graded-dade-margin with thm:pencil-graded-dade, ex:truncated-dade-special-position, ex:projective-dade-exceptions, prop:group-freeness and prop:syzygies-as-tor. No computation was run; the tests use recorded numbers or are arguments. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the start-bound falsification (a cyclic module over a local ring is indecomposable), the margin arithmetic, all four citations, the plethystic numbers and the follow-ups. It required three changes, all adopted: the count of unrun leads bearing on statement 1 is one, with the other two placed on statement 2; the positivity test's notation is reconciled (\(r\) of order \(Mh\); \(\sum h_b-r\) the span's dimension, at most \(mN-1\)); and the positivity comparison is marked as a heuristic comparison of growth orders. Its suggestion is adopted: basis independence of \(T(V)\) makes the falsification independent of the identification \(K'\cong E_b\).

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Unit-loss graded Dade: in every recorded case, one-row and member-tensor alike, freeness over the whole acting algebra falls short of the smaller of the pointwise bound and the counting bound by at most one degree; conjectured in general, this would give the value-side dense core for random families, whose relations and couplings are all wide

28 September 2026 · Conjecture with a finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-truncated-green. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Unit-loss graded Dade: in every recorded case, one-row and member-tensor alike, freeness over the whole acting algebra falls short of the smaller of the pointwise bound and the counting bound by at most one degree; conjectured in general, this would give the value-side dense core for random families, whose relations and couplings are all wide”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-unit-loss-dade.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The member-tensor review reduced the value-side dense core to a graded Dade statement with margin for member tensors. It proposed developing its second outside lead, Green's hyperplane restriction theorem, which was not run. How far does freeness over the whole acting algebra fall below what single directions and counting allow?

General statement. conj:unit-loss-dade. Take a tensor product \(X=\bigotimes_bM_b\) of member rings \(M_b=T(E_b)/J_b\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), and an acting space \(K'\subseteq\bigoplus_bE_b\) of dimension \(r\). Let \(d_{\mathrm{pt}}\) be the least, over nonzero \(\kappa\in K'\otimes\bar{\mathbb F}_3\), of the degree through which \(X\) is free along \(\kappa\). Let \(d_{\mathrm{cnt}}\) be the degree through which \(\operatorname{HF}(X)/(1+t+t^2)^r\) has nonnegative coefficients. The conjecture: \(X\) is free over \(T(K')\) through \(\min(d_{\mathrm{pt}},d_{\mathrm{cnt}})-1\).

The Green lead, developed

Put \(W=\bigoplus_bE_b/K'\) and let \(\bar J\) be the image of \(\sum_bJ_b\) in \(T(W)\). Then \(X/K'X=T(W)/\bar J\), since in characteristic 3 the truncated algebra of a quotient space is the quotient algebra. So by prop:syzygies-as-tor, \(X\) is free over \(T(K')\) through \(D\) iff \(\operatorname{HF}(T(W)/\bar J)\) equals the free prediction \(\operatorname{HF}(X)/(1+t+t^2)^r\) through \(D\).

For a general \(K'\) this asks the image of the members' ideals under a general linear projection to have the expected Hilbert function. That is a Fröberg-type statement, as lem:relation-space-tor anticipated. A Green-type upper bound for \(\operatorname{HF}(M/\ell M)\), applied along a general flag of \(K'\), would give the inequality \(\le\). The equality needs the lower bound that freeness supplies. No Green or Fröberg theorem for truncated polynomial rings in characteristic 3 was located, so the lead stays a reformulation. The test below asks instead how far the equality can fail.

ex:member-tensor-dade

research/tools/member_tensor_dade.m2 (Macaulay2, exact over \(\mathbb F_3\)) builds each \(J_b\) as the top ideal of a random value set: \(\mathbb F_3^h\) minus a random excluded set of the given size, from the kernel of the evaluation map, degree by degree. It takes \(K'\) spanned by \(r\) random forms and computes three degrees:

\(d_{\mathrm{free}}\), the degree through which \(X\) is free over \(T(K')\);
\(d_{\mathrm{cnt}}\);
the pointwise bound over the \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational points of \(\mathbb P(K')\), which is at least \(d_{\mathrm{pt}}\).

There are 24 trials in six configurations (\(s\) members, \(h\) coordinates each, excluded-set size, \(r\)): \((3,3,2,3)\), \((3,3,2,4)\), \((3,3,3,4)\), \((3,3,2,5)\), \((4,2,1,3)\) and \((4,2,2,4)\), four trials each. The output is research/results/odd-prime-truncated-green/member_tensor_dade.txt, with provenance.json.

The prediction: \(d_{\mathrm{free}}\ge\min(d_{\mathrm{cnt}},\text{rational pointwise bound})-1\). It is falsifiable in every trial, since \(d_{\mathrm{free}}\) ranges from 2 to 9.
Observed: \(d_{\mathrm{free}}\) equals that minimum in 18 trials and is one less in 6. It is never two or more less.
Losses of one occur for \(r=3\) (1 of 8 trials), \(r=4\) (4 of 12) and \(r=5\) (1 of 4). No loss larger than one appears at these sizes, but the rate of unit losses is not constant in \(r\).

The recorded one-row cases

The one-row square-free algebra is a member tensor with one-cell members \(\mathbb F_3[t]/(t^2)\). For \(h=1\), excluding one of the three points of \(\mathbb F_3\) leaves a two-point value set whose top ideal is \((t^2)\), and \(T(E_b)/(t^2)=\mathbb F_3[t]/(t^2)\). The acting algebra is still truncated at cubes, while a member ring may be truncated earlier; the tensor product carries both without conflict. The pointwise bounds of the one-row results use supports over \(\bar{\mathbb F}_3\), as \(d_{\mathrm{pt}}\) does. The recorded one-row cases fit the same rule:

ex:truncated-dade-special-position: 14 cells, \(F=6\). Free along every point through 3, with positive prediction through 3, yet not free through 3: a loss of one.
ex:projective-dade-exceptions: one cell per point of \(\mathbb P^2(\mathbb F_3)\). The pointwise value predicts freeness through 5 and the prediction is positive through 5, yet freeness fails in degree 5: a loss of one. The four points of \(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb F_3)\) fail at the counting bound: no loss.
The 78 random one-row families (conj:graded-dade-margin's evidence) lose nothing, and thm:pencil-graded-dade proves no loss for two directions outside the four-point exception.

The margin of conj:graded-dade-margin, \(N\ge4t+2F\), excludes the exceptions. The unit-loss form keeps them, at a cost of one degree.

What the conjecture would give

For the dense core's value side, take \(K'=K_0\oplus K\), the joint algebra of pure relations and couplings. The pointwise bound depends only on supports, which are the same over \(\mathbb F_3\) and \(\bar{\mathbb F}_3\), since the members where a combination vanishes are cut out by rational subspaces. By thm:involvement-threshold and the block-end computation of prop:wide-coupling-freeness, it is at least \(\min_\kappa\sum_{b\in I(\kappa)}(\delta_b-2)\).

For random dense families every nonzero combination is wide. For couplings this is lem:narrow-coupling-absence, and the same union bound, with \(w=0\) and no row sums, applies to pure relations. The counting bound holds in W's regime by the growth comparison in the member-tensor review, a heuristic there. Under the conjecture the members' tensor would then be free over the joint algebra through \(D\): statement 1 of the review, for random dense families. Statement 2, the transfer, would remain.

Outcome. conj:unit-loss-dade (conjecture): freeness over the whole acting algebra is at most one degree below the minimum of the pointwise and counting bounds. It holds in all 24 member-tensor trials (ex:member-tensor-dade, finite check) and in every recorded one-row case. The Green lead reformulates freeness as a Fröberg-type Hilbert function statement for a general projection, with no truncated Green theorem located. Nothing here tests configurations of larger dimension in special position, such as \(\mathbb P^3(\mathbb F_3)\), where the loss could grow with \(r\).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test the unit loss where it is most likely to break, special position of higher dimension. One option is member tensors whose components realize all points of \(\mathbb P^{r-1}(\mathbb F_3)\) with \(r=4\), using members of two coordinates to keep degrees low. The other is a proof for \(r=3\), extending thm:pencil-graded-dade's exact block table from two directions to three.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the member-tensor review, ex:truncated-dade-special-position, ex:projective-dade-exceptions, conj:graded-dade-margin with its evidence, thm:pencil-graded-dade, prop:syzygies-as-tor and lem:relation-space-tor. The claim search found the one-row graded Dade line, of which this is the member form, and no unit-loss statement. The Macaulay2 kernel is exact; its output and hashes are in research/results/odd-prime-truncated-green/. A fresh-context reviewer checked the kernel: the top ideal degree by degree, the cover-count freeness degree with no off-by-one, the counting degree and the rational pointwise proxy, which bounds \(d_{\mathrm{pt}}\) from above. It recounted all 24 trials (18 equal, 6 one short, by \(r\) as stated, range 2 to 9), matched the one-row readings to the recorded claims, and confirmed the reformulation and the conditional wording of the consequences. It required the identification of one-cell members with \(\mathbb F_3[t]/(t^2)\) to be derived, which is now done, along with registration and this gate. Its suggestions are adopted: supports over \(\bar{\mathbb F}_3\), and the two truncations.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	20 min 12.59 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	10 min 33.72 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 8.11 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	7 min 52.57 s
Individually measured computation	38.07 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Generic unit loss: the member-tensor losses of one persist against directions over \(\mathbb F_9\), so for member tensors the loss is generic, about a quarter of random trials, not a special-position effect as in the one-row case; exact graded Dade fails for random member tensors, and the unit-loss form is the one consistent with all data

28 September 2026 · Finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-projective-members. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Generic unit loss: the member-tensor losses of one persist against directions over \(\mathbb F_9\), so for member tensors the loss is generic, about a quarter of random trials, not a special-position effect as in the one-row case; exact graded Dade fails for random member tensors, and the unit-loss form is the one consistent with all data”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-generic-unit-loss.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). In ex:member-tensor-dade, freeness over the acting algebra fell one degree short in 6 of 24 random trials, against pointwise bounds computed only at \(\mathbb F_3\)-rational directions. Are those losses artifacts of non-rational directions, which would mean exact graded Dade holds in random position as for one-row families? Or are they genuine, which would make the unit loss of conj:unit-loss-dade the right form?

General statement. conj:unit-loss-dade is the all-parameter statement this check tests. The check decides between its unit-loss form and an exact form, loss 0, for member tensors in random position.

ex:member-tensor-dade-f9

research/tools/member_tensor_dade_f9.m2 (Macaulay2, exact) re-runs the 24 trials with the same seed and the same sequence of random calls. Its columns for the freeness degree, the counting bound and the rational pointwise bound reproduce the earlier run exactly in all 24 rows, which validates the reproduction. For eight selected trials, five with a loss and three controls, it also computes the least single-direction freeness degree over all projective \(\mathbb F_9\)-points of \(K'\): 91 points for \(r=3\), 820 for \(r=4\). Output: research/results/odd-prime-projective-members/member_tensor_dade_f9.txt, with provenance.json.

Prediction. If the losses came from non-rational directions, the \(\mathbb F_9\) minimum would drop to the actual freeness degree in the loss trials.
Observed. The \(\mathbb F_9\) minimum equals the \(\mathbb F_3\) minimum in all eight trials. In the five loss trials freeness stays one below \(\min(d_{\mathrm{cnt}},d_{\mathbb F_9})\). This is only as far as \(\mathbb F_9\) sees: points over larger fields were not computed.
Two kinds of loss. In the trial \((3,3,2,3)\) number 2, freeness is 8, the counting bound 9 and every single direction 11, so the loss is at the counting edge. In \((3,3,2,4)\) numbers 1, 3 and 4 and \((3,3,3,4)\) number 3, freeness is 6 or 7 against a pointwise minimum one higher and a counting bound of 7 or 8, equal to the pointwise minimum in two of them, so the loss is at the pointwise edge. Base change does not move the counting bound, so \(\mathbb F_9\) could only have lowered the pointwise one.

Outcome. ex:member-tensor-dade-f9 (finite check): the member-tensor losses of one are genuine at least over \(\mathbb F_9\). They occur in about a quarter of random trials, at the counting edge and at the pointwise edge. Random member tensors, unlike random one-row families, do not satisfy exact graded Dade. The unit-loss form of conj:unit-loss-dade remains consistent with every case, and nothing here tests configurations where a loss of two might appear.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove conj:unit-loss-dade for two directions, \(r=2\), on member tensors, extending thm:pencil-graded-dade from one-cell members to member rings. Pencils decompose along the points of \(\mathbb P^1\), and a member ring restricted to a pencil has a Jordan-type description along each point.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:unit-loss-dade and ex:member-tensor-dade. A fresh-context reviewer diffed all 24 rows against the earlier run and confirmed that the new code draws no random numbers, so the same trials are rebuilt. It checked the enumeration of the \(\mathbb F_9\)-points (91 and 820), the base change to \(\mathbb F_9\), the capped single-direction routine and the provenance hashes. It required one change, adopted: the fifth loss trial, \((3,3,2,4)\) number 1, is now listed with the pointwise-edge losses. Its suggestion to name the reproduced columns is adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 47.26 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 31.10 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 22.01 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 21.44 s
Individually measured computation	1 min 32.58 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Member pencils: freeness over several directions is freeness along a flag, one direction at a time on successive quotients; for two directions, random member tensors lose one degree in 9 of 32 trials, mostly at the counting edge, and never two, so the pencil theorem's exactness does not extend from cells to member rings but the unit loss survives

28 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-member-pencils. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Member pencils: freeness over several directions is freeness along a flag, one direction at a time on successive quotients; for two directions, random member tensors lose one degree in 9 of 32 trials, mostly at the counting edge, and never two, so the pencil theorem's exactness does not extend from cells to member rings but the unit loss survives”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-member-pencils.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The generic unit loss entry proposed proving conj:unit-loss-dade for two directions, extending thm:pencil-graded-dade from one-cell members to member rings. Two questions come first. How does freeness over several directions reduce to single directions? And does the pencil theorem's exactness, no loss outside the four-point exception, hold for member rings at all, or is there a loss of two to refute the conjecture?

General statement. lem:flag-freeness: over \(\mathbb F_3\), a finite graded module \(X\) over \(T(K')\) is free through \(D\) iff, for one (equivalently every) line \(A\subseteq K'\) and complement \(K''\), \(X\) is free along \(A\) through \(D\) and \(X/AX\) is free over \(T(K'')\) through \(D\). By induction, freeness over \(T(K')\) is freeness along the successive lines of a flag on the successive quotients.

lem:flag-freeness

Statement. Let \(K'=A\oplus K''\) with \(\dim A=1\), so \(T(K')=T(A)\otimes T(K'')\) in characteristic 3. Let \(X\) be a finite-dimensional graded \(T(K')\)-module in degrees \(\ge0\). Say \(Y\) is free through \(D\) over an algebra \(S\) when \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^S(\mathbb F_3,Y)\) vanishes in degrees \(\le D\). Then \(X\) is free through \(D\) over \(T(K')\) iff \(X\) is free through \(D\) over \(T(A)\) and \(X/AX\) is free through \(D\) over \(T(K'')\).

Proof. (\(\Leftarrow\)) \(\mathbb F_3\otimes_{T(K')}-\) is the composite of \(\mathbb F_3\otimes_{T(A)}-\), from \(T(K')\)-modules to \(T(K'')\)-modules, with \(\mathbb F_3\otimes_{T(K'')}-\). The first sends projectives to projectives, since \(\mathbb F_3\otimes_{T(A)}T(K')=T(K'')\). This gives the graded change-of-rings spectral sequence \(E^2_{p,q}=\operatorname{Tor}_p^{T(K'')}(\mathbb F_3,\operatorname{Tor}_q^{T(A)}(\mathbb F_3,X))\Rightarrow\operatorname{Tor}_{p+q}^{T(K')}(\mathbb F_3,X)\), preserving internal degree.

Total degree 1 comes from two terms. \(E^2_{1,0}=\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K'')}(\mathbb F_3,X/AX)\) vanishes in degrees \(\le D\) by hypothesis. \(E^2_{0,1}\) is a quotient of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(A)}(\mathbb F_3,X)\), which vanishes in degrees \(\le D\) by hypothesis. Here \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(A)}(\mathbb F_3,X)\) is a \(T(K'')\)-module via the \(K''\)-action on \(X\), which commutes with \(A\). So \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K')}\), a filtered object with subquotients of these, vanishes in degrees \(\le D\).

(\(\Rightarrow\)) If \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K')}\) vanishes in degrees \(\le D\), the minimal cover \(F=T(K')\otimes V\to X\) is bijective in degrees \(\le D\). \(F\) is free over \(T(A)\), so \(X\) is free through \(D\) along \(A\), since \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(A)}\) in degree \(j\) depends only on degrees \(\le j\). Likewise \(X/AX\) agrees with \(F/AF=T(K'')\otimes V\) in degrees \(\le D\). The claim for every line follows: for each choice of \(A\), the split condition is equivalent to the same intrinsic condition, freeness over \(T(K')\) through \(D\). The spectral sequence converges degree by degree, because the generators of \(T(A)\) and \(T(K'')\) have positive degree, so \(\operatorname{Tor}_p\) lives in internal degrees \(\ge p\). \(\square\)

What it gives. For a member tensor \(X\), freeness along the first line \(A\) is a single-direction question, decided by block ends (thm:involvement-threshold). The quotient \(X/AX\) is no longer a member tensor, since \(A\) acts diagonally, and its freeness along the next line is where a loss can enter. So conj:unit-loss-dade can be restated as a statement about flags. Along some flag, each successive quotient should be free along its next line through \(\min(d_{\mathrm{pt}},d_{\mathrm{cnt}})-1\). The lemma supplies the reformulation, not per-step bounds. This is the standard reduction, recorded here because it isolates the source of the loss. It does not bound the loss.

ex:member-tensor-pencils

research/tools/member_tensor_pencils.m2 (Macaulay2, exact) is the F₉ script with \(r=2\). It covers eight configurations (\(s\) members, \(h\) coordinates, excluded-set size): \((3,3,2)\), \((3,3,3)\), \((4,2,1)\), \((4,2,2)\), \((2,4,4)\), \((2,4,6)\), \((3,2,1)\) and \((5,2,1)\), four trials each, with the pointwise minimum over all \(\mathbb F_3\)- and \(\mathbb F_9\)-points of \(\mathbb P^1\). Output: research/results/odd-prime-member-pencils/member_tensor_pencils.txt, with provenance.json.

Refutation search. A loss of two against \(\min(d_{\mathrm{cnt}},d_{\mathrm{pt}})\) would refute conj:unit-loss-dade. None occurs: the loss is 0 in 23 trials and 1 in 9.
Where the losses sit. In 6 of the 9 the counting bound is below the pointwise one: the loss is at the counting edge (for example \((3,3,3)\), all four trials: free 9, counting 10, pointwise 11). In 3 the two bounds tie.
Pointwise minimum. \(\mathbb F_9\) never lowers the \(\mathbb F_3\) pointwise minimum.

So thm:pencil-graded-dade's exactness, whose only exception is at the counting bound itself, does not extend to member rings. The member-ring version loses one, mostly one below the counting bound.

Outcome. lem:flag-freeness (working proof, standard): freeness over several directions is freeness along a flag of successive quotients, which isolates where losses enter. ex:member-tensor-pencils (finite check): for two directions, random member tensors lose one degree in 9 of 32 trials, 6 of them at the counting edge, and never two. The refutation search does not refute conj:unit-loss-dade. Exact Dade fails for member rings already for pencils, whereas thm:pencil-graded-dade gives exactness for cells.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): explain the counting-edge loss. At the degree \(d_{\mathrm{cnt}}\), where the prediction is still nonnegative but about to turn negative, compare the actual minimal generator count of \(X/K'X\) with the prediction for the pencil trials, and look for a general reason. If the loss is forced whenever the prediction's next coefficient is negative and the current one small, that would be a provable rule "free through \(d_{\mathrm{cnt}}-1\) at worst", which is the counting half of the unit loss.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:unit-loss-dade, thm:pencil-graded-dade, ex:member-tensor-dade-f9 and thm:involvement-threshold. The claim search found no earlier flag statement; the lemma is standard. A fresh-context reviewer checked both directions of the proof and recounted all 32 trials: 23 with no loss, 9 with a loss of one (6 at the counting edge, 3 at ties), none of two, and \(\mathbb F_9\) never below \(\mathbb F_3\). It required four changes, all adopted. The script's usage line and its vestigial selection comments are corrected, as comment-only edits after the recorded run, with provenance re-recorded. The overclaimed equivalence with conj:unit-loss-dade is softened to a restatement. The "every line" form is justified by transitivity. Its suggestion on degree-wise convergence is adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	8 min 11.48 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 43.92 s
Computation design and coding	57.26 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 17.29 s
Individually measured computation	12.87 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Quadric pair defect: when no acting direction lies inside one member, the member tensor's first Tor over the joint algebra is the relations among the members' ideals modulo pair products, and the pair part of those relations is read off from the annihilators by duality; two members always overlap near the socle, which explains some counting-edge losses exactly and puts every recorded loss near the socle, far from W's degrees

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-counting-edge. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Quadric pair defect: when no acting direction lies inside one member, the member tensor's first Tor over the joint algebra is the relations among the members' ideals modulo pair products, and the pair part of those relations is read off from the annihilators by duality; two members always overlap near the socle, which explains some counting-edge losses exactly and puts every recorded loss near the socle, far from W's degrees”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-quadric-pair-defect.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The member pencils entry proposed explaining the counting-edge loss, where freeness over the acting algebra stops one degree short of the counting bound. On its own, that question only sharpens conj:unit-loss-dade by one degree, and A1 needs freeness with a margin, where a unit loss does not matter. This cycle therefore asks it in a form that bears on the margin: what, in general, is the obstruction to freeness over several directions, and at which degrees can it appear?

General statement. prop:ideal-sum-criterion: if no nonzero element of the acting space \(K'\) lies inside a single member, then \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K')}(\mathbb F_3,\bigotimes_bM_b)\) is the module of relations among the members' ideals \(I_b\) in \(T(E/K')\), modulo the pair relations coming from the products \(I_bI_c\). prop:quadric-pair-defect: any two members whose ideals do not fill the space after their linear annihilators are removed have ideals that meet in degree \(2w-2\), \(w=\dim E/K'\). So when \(2w-2\) is below twice the least ideal degree, the tensor is not free through \(2w-2\), whatever the counting bound says.

Setting

As in conj:unit-loss-dade: members \(M_b=T(E_b)/J_b\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(J_b\) homogeneous and nonzero, generated in degrees \(\ge\delta_b\ge1\). Put \(E=\bigoplus_bE_b\), \(X=\bigotimes_bM_b=T(E)/J\) with \(J=\sum_bJ_bT(E)\), and let \(K'\subseteq E\) act diagonally. Put \(W=E/K'\), \(w=\dim W\), \(\rho:T(E)\to T(W)\) the quotient map, \(U_b=\rho(E_b)\) and \(I_b=\rho(J_b)T(W)\). In characteristic 3, \(T(E)/K'T(E)=T(W)\), and \(X/K'X=T(W)/\sum_bI_b\) (the unit-loss entry). \(T(W)\) has socle degree \(2w\), and multiplication \(T(W)_j\times T(W)_{2w-j}\to T(W)_{2w}\) is a perfect pairing.

prop:ideal-sum-criterion

Statement. Suppose \(K'\cap E_b=0\) for every \(b\). Then, as graded spaces, \[\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K')}(\mathbb F_3,X)\;\cong\;\frac{\{(f_b)\in\bigoplus_bI_b:\ \sum_bf_b=0\}}{\operatorname{span}\{y(e_b-e_c):\ b<c,\ y\in I_bI_c\}}.\] So \(X\) is free through \(D\) iff every relation \(\sum_bf_b=0\), \(f_b\in I_b\), of degree \(\le D\) is a sum of pair relations. Below \(2\delta_{\min}\), where every \(I_bI_c\) vanishes, freeness in degree \(j\) is directness of \(\sum_b(I_b)_j\).

Proof. For each \(b\), \(J_b\to T(E_b)\) is injective with cokernel \(M_b\). The tensor product over \(\mathbb F_3\) of these two-term complexes is a complex \(C_\bullet\) with \(C_s=\bigoplus_{|S|=s}N_S\), where \(N_S=\bigotimes_{b\in S}J_b\otimes\bigotimes_{b\notin S}T(E_b)=\prod_{b\in S}J_b\,T(E)\), and with Koszul-signed inclusions as differentials. By the Künneth theorem its homology is \(X\) in degree 0 and zero elsewhere. The differentials are \(T(K')\)-linear, since they are inclusions of ideals of \(T(E)\).

\(C_0=T(E)\) is free over \(T(K')\). For \(C_1\): \(N_b=J_b\otimes T(E_{\ne b})\), where \(\kappa\in K'\) acts by \(\kappa_b\otimes1+1\otimes\kappa_{\ne b}\), the diagonal action of the Hopf algebra \(T(K')\) with primitive \(K'\). Since \(K'\cap E_b=0\), the projection \(K'\to E_{\ne b}\) is injective, so \(T(E_{\ne b})\cong T(\text{image})\otimes T(\text{complement})\) is free over \(T(K')\). A tensor product with a free module is free, by the graded shearing isomorphism (as in thm:involvement-threshold). So \(N_b\) is free. The same argument shows that \(T(E)/N_b=M_b\otimes T(E_{\ne b})\) is free.

Since \(C_0\) and \(C_1\) are free and \(C_\bullet\) is exact, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(X)=\ker(\operatorname{Tor}_0(J)\to\operatorname{Tor}_0(C_0))\) with \(J=\operatorname{coker}(C_2\to C_1)\). Right exactness of \(\mathbb F_3\otimes-\) then gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(X)=H_1(\bar C_2\to\bar C_1\to\bar C_0)\), with \(\bar C=\mathbb F_3\otimes_{T(K')}C\) and no freeness of \(C_2\) needed. Here \(\bar C_0=T(W)\). Because \(T(E)/N_b\) is free, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(T(E)/N_b)=0\), so \(\bar N_b\to T(W)\) is injective with image \(I_b\). The image of \(\bar N_{bc}\) in \(\bar N_b\cong I_b\) is \(\rho(J_bJ_cT(E))=I_bI_c\), and an element \(y\) of it maps to \(\pm(ye_b-ye_c)\). \(\square\)

Relation to the record. This is a refinement of lem:relation-space-tor, which with prop:syzygies-as-tor identifies freeness over the relation algebra with Taylor generation of the member tops' syzygies in the cube model. The present form works with the members' ideals rather than their generators, so single-member syzygies never appear. It needs only \(K'\cap E_b=0\), which holds when every nonzero element of the acting space is wide (lem:narrow-coupling-absence and the unit-loss entry's union bound for pure relations). For two members it is the equivalence \(I_1\cap I_2=I_1I_2\iff\operatorname{Tor}_1=0\) of prop:coupled-cover-failure, now for any number of members. The hypothesis cannot be dropped. If \(K'=E_b\), then \(I_b=0\) and the formula gives \(\operatorname{Tor}_1=0\), yet \(X\) is not free, since \(M_b\) is cyclic over the local ring \(T(E_b)\) and non-free when \(J_b\ne0\) (the member-tensor review).

The counting bound below \(2\delta_{\min}\). Since \(K'\cap E_b=0\), the map \(E_b\to W\) is injective, so \(U_b\cong E_b\) and \(I_b\cong\rho(J_b)\otimes T(W/U_b)\), with Hilbert series \(\operatorname{HF}(J_b)(1+t+t^2)^{w-h_b}\). Modulo \(t^{2\delta_{\min}}\), the free prediction \(q=\operatorname{HF}(X)/(1+t+t^2)^{r}\) is \((1+t+t^2)^w\bigl(1-\sum_b\operatorname{HF}(J_b)/(1+t+t^2)^{h_b}\bigr)\). So \(q_j=\dim T(W)_j-\sum_b\dim(I_b)_j\): below \(2\delta_{\min}\) the counting bound is exactly the dimension count for directness, and a loss at the counting edge is a failure of directness that dimensions allow.

prop:quadric-pair-defect

Duality. For an ideal \(I\) of \(T(W)\), the orthogonal of \(I_j\) under the pairing is \(\operatorname{Ann}(I)_{2w-j}\): if \(gI_j=0\) and \(f\in I_{j'}\) with \(j'<j\), then \(gfm=0\) for all \(m\in T(W)_{j-j'}\), so \(gf=0\). Hence, for any two ideals, \[\dim(I_b\cap I_c)_j=\dim\bigl[T(W)/(\operatorname{Ann}I_b+\operatorname{Ann}I_c)\bigr]_{2w-j}.\] Writing \(T(W)=T(U_b)\otimes T(C)\) for a complement \(C\), one has \(\operatorname{Ann}(I_b)=\operatorname{Ann}_{T(U_b)}(\rho J_b)\,T(W)\). Let \(A_b\subseteq U_b\) be its degree-1 part, the linear forms killing \(\rho J_b\). Since \(J_b\ne0\), \(\operatorname{Ann}_{T(U_b)}(\rho J_b)\subseteq(A_b)+U_b^2\).

Statement. Suppose \(K'\cap E_b=0\) for all \(b\). Let \(b\ne c\) be members, \(\tilde W=W/(A_b+A_c)\), and \(\tilde U_b,\tilde U_c\) the images of \(U_b,U_c\). If neither \(\tilde U_b\) nor \(\tilde U_c\) is all of \(\tilde W\), then \((I_b\cap I_c)_{2w-2}\ne0\). If moreover \(2w-2<2\delta_{\min}\), then \(X\) is not free over \(T(K')\) through \(2w-2\).

Proof. The quotient \(T(W)/(\operatorname{Ann}I_b+\operatorname{Ann}I_c)\) surjects onto \(T(\tilde W)/(\tilde U_b^2+\tilde U_c^2)\), whose degree-2 part is \(S^2\tilde W/(S^2\tilde U_b+S^2\tilde U_c)\). If \(\tilde U_b+\tilde U_c\ne\tilde W\), any \(z\) outside the sum has \(z^2\ne0\) there. Otherwise write \(\tilde W=I\oplus A\oplus B\) with \(\tilde U_b=I\oplus A\) and \(\tilde U_c=I\oplus B\), where \(A,B\ne0\). The quotient is then \(A\otimes B\ne0\), the rank-one part that neither square covers. By duality \((I_b\cap I_c)_{2w-2}\ne0\). A nonzero \(y\) in it gives the relation \(ye_b-ye_c\). Below \(2\delta_{\min}\) every \(I_dI_{d'}\) vanishes, so there are no pair relations and, by prop:ideal-sum-criterion, this relation is a nonzero class in \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree \(2w-2\). \(\square\)

This is the truncated member-ring form of the quadric exception of the Alexander–Hirschowitz theorem, where quadrics singular at two general points impose one condition fewer than expected. In both, a square of a sum is not covered by the squares of the parts.

Hyperplane members, and the recorded losses

Call \(b\) a hyperplane member when its excluded set consists of \(h_b\) affinely independent points of \(\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\), which span an affine hyperplane \(\{u_b=c_b\}\). Every function supported there is a multiple of \(1-(u_b-c_b)^2\), whose top is \(-u_b^2\). So \(J_b=u_b^2\,T(E_b)_{\ge2h_b-3}\): it has dimension \(h_b-1\) in degree \(2h_b-1\) (affine independence) and 1 in degree \(2h_b\). Then \(\delta_b=2h_b-1\) and \(\operatorname{Ann}(J_b)=(u_b)+E_b^2\), so \(A_b=\langle u_b\rangle\) and the two annihilators are known exactly. Assume further, as a genericity condition on \(K'\), that \(u_b,u_c\) are independent in \(W\) and that \(U_b\cap U_c\) is as small as dimensions allow. Then:

Two members, \(h=4\), \(r=2\), the pencil configuration \((2,4,4)\). Here \(w=6\), \(\delta=7\), \(2w-2=10<14\), and \(\tilde U_b,\tilde U_c\) are 3-dimensional in the 4-dimensional \(\tilde W\), so the proposition applies. Freeness fails at 10, with \(\dim(I_b\cap I_c)_{10}=\dim A\otimes B=1\). The counting bound is 10: \(q_{10}=21-2\cdot9=3\ge0\) and \(q_{11}=6-2\cdot5=-4\). So in this configuration the counting bound is never attained, and the loss is forced. Recorded trials 1 and 2 of \((2,4,4)\) fail at 10, as predicted, with counting bound 10 and pointwise bound 11; that they are free through 9 is data, not a consequence of the proposition. Trials 3 and 4 stop at the pointwise bound 6. Whether those two trials satisfy the hypotheses was not checked; four random points of \(\mathbb F_3^4\) are affinely independent unless they lie in a plane.
Three members, \(h=3\), \(r=2\), the configuration \((3,3,3)\), which is free through 9 against a counting bound of 10 in all four trials. Here \(w=7\), \(\delta=5\), and the loss is at \(10=2\delta\), where pair products enter, so the proposition does not apply. The duality formula still decides the pair part. \(T(\tilde W)/(\tilde U_b^2+\tilde U_c^2)=(\mathbb F_3\oplus\tilde U_b)\otimes(\mathbb F_3\oplus\tilde U_c)\otimes T(z)\) has Hilbert function \((1+2t)^2(1+t+t^2)=(1,5,9,8,4)\). So \(\dim(I_b\cap I_c)_{10}=4=\dim(I_bI_c)_{10}\): there \(I_b\cap I_c=I_bI_c\), and a relation supported on two members is a pair relation. The recorded loss is therefore a relation involving all three members, which is not explained here.
Where all nine recorded losses sit. By dual degree \(e=2w-j\) of the first failing degree \(j\), the nine losses of ex:member-tensor-pencils are at \(e=2\) for \((2,4,4)\), \(e=3\) for \((3,3,2)\), \(e=4\) for \((3,3,3)\) and \(e=5\) for \((4,2,2)\). All are within five degrees of the socle, where \(T(W)_e\) is small and the members' dual conditions are low-degree jets.

What this means for A1

In W's regime \(w\) is of the order of the board's degree-1 dimension, polynomial in \(n\), while \(D=22k=\Theta(\log n)\). So every degree \(j\le D\) has dual degree \(e\ge2w-D\), far from the socle. The quadric pair defect needs \(2w-2\le D\) and cannot reach W's degrees, and every recorded loss lies at \(e\le5\). Nothing here excludes losses far from the socle; that is the open statement. The value-side core is now, precisely:

Below \(2\delta_{\min}\): the members' ideals \(I_b\) are independent in every degree \(j\le D\). Dually, \(T(W)_e\to\bigoplus_b\bigl(T(W)/\operatorname{Ann}I_b\bigr)_e\) is onto for \(e\ge2w-D\): an interpolation problem for schemes supported on the subspaces \(U_b\).
From \(2\delta_{\min}\) up to \(D\) (\(D/\delta\approx11\) for clause tops): relations are generated by pairs.

Neither is proved here. The first is where interpolation theory (Alexander–Hirschowitz, Terracini) and lem:generic-relative-directness, which gives generic directness for single elements, can be tried.

Outcome. prop:ideal-sum-criterion (working proof; a refinement of lem:relation-space-tor): with no acting direction inside one member, the first Tor over the joint algebra is relations among the members' ideals modulo pair relations. Below twice the least ideal degree it is non-directness, and the counting bound is the dimension count. prop:quadric-pair-defect (working proof): two members whose ideals do not fill \(W\) modulo their linear annihilators meet in degree \(2w-2\). This forces the counting-edge loss of the two-member hyperplane configuration and matches the two recorded \((2,4,4)\) losses. The \((3,3,3)\) losses are shown to be three-member relations and remain unexplained. All recorded losses lie within five degrees of the socle, which is irrelevant to W's degrees. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove directness of the members' ideals far from the socle. For members on Zariski-generic subspaces \(U_b\), show that \(\sum_bI_b\) is direct in every degree \(j<2\delta_{\min}\) at which the counting bound is positive and the dual degree \(2w-j\) exceeds a constant. The approach is to extend lem:generic-relative-directness from single elements to subspace-supported ideals, by a specialization (Horace-type) argument that moves one member at a time to a coordinate subspace. Test the statement first against the recorded structured obstructions, since prop:no-horace-balancing warns that the Horace balancing fails on the PHP board itself.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:relation-space-tor, prop:coupled-cover-failure, thm:involvement-threshold, conj:unit-loss-dade, lem:generic-relative-directness, prop:no-horace-balancing, the member-tensor review's falsification paragraph and the recorded pencil data. The claim searches (ideal-sum and annihilator forms, quadric defects, hyperplane members) found lem:relation-space-tor, of which the criterion is a refinement, and lem:overlapping-pair-series, a pair computation in a truncated ring; they found no earlier pair-defect statement. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked every step of both proofs: the Künneth complex, freeness of its first two terms, the \(H_1\) identification, duality and the annihilator formula, and the degree-2 nonvanishing. It recomputed all numbers: \(q_{10}=3\), \(q_{11}=-4\) and the defect 1 for \((2,4,4)\); the Hilbert function \((1,5,9,8,4)\) and \(\dim(I_bI_c)_{10}=4\) for \((3,3,3)\); and the dual degrees of all nine losses. It required three changes, all adopted: the injectivity of \(E_b\to W\) is stated; "every mechanism" became "every recorded loss", since the \((3,3,3)\) mechanism is unknown; and the A1 paragraph now says that losses far from the socle are not excluded. Its suggestions (the value of \(q_{11}\), and marking the genericity condition on \(K'\)) are adopted.

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Route review of the value-side line after the ideal-sum criterion: freeness of the members' tensor is a many-member interpolation problem, and pairs never obstruct it below the sum of their ideal degrees; repeated members defeat it while leaving the allowed set unchanged, so for adversarial families it must follow a reduction to spread families

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-generic-directness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the value-side line after the ideal-sum criterion: freeness of the members' tensor is a many-member interpolation problem, and pairs never obstruct it below the sum of their ideal degrees; repeated members defeat it while leaving the allowed set unchanged, so for adversarial families it must follow a reduction to spread families”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-ideal-sum-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the member-tensor review, four entries:

unit-loss Dade: freeness is at most one degree below the smaller of the pointwise and counting bounds;
generic unit loss: the loss persists over \(\mathbb F_9\);
member pencils: freeness along flags, and losses at two directions;
quadric pair defect: the ideal-sum criterion, with all recorded losses near the socle.

The line now sits three reductions below A1: dense core, row-free subset, value-side freeness, and the ideals' relations. The proposed next step would prove directness for Zariski-generic member subspaces, while A1 concerns all families. This review places the line and tests whether its value-side statement can hold for adversarial families at all.

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows from a nonempty row-free subset of the allowed set (conj:row-free-subset). On the value side, it suffices that the members' tensor \(X=\bigotimes_bM_b\), for a sub-family after cylinders, is free through \(D\) over the joint algebra \(T(K')\), \(K'=K_0\oplus K\), and that the transfer identifies the allowed set's graded ring with \(X/K_0X\) (the member-tensor review). By prop:ideal-sum-criterion, when no nonzero element of \(K'\) lies inside one member, freeness is pair generation of the relations among the members' ideals \(I_b\) in \(T(W)\), \(W=E/K'\). Below \(2\delta_{\min}\) it is directness of \(\sum_bI_b\).

What the goal needs

At \(D=22k\), with \(n^K\) blocks and \(\delta=2k+2\) for clause tops, the needs are:

directness of the ideals in degrees below \(2\delta_{\min}\);
pair generation from \(2\delta_{\min}\) up to \(D\approx11\delta\);
the transfer;
all three for every family in the dense core: adversarial dense forms with random prefixes, not only random forms.

lem:pair-directness-range

Statement. In the setting of prop:ideal-sum-criterion, let \(a_b=2h_b-\delta_b\) be the top degree of \(T(U_b)/\operatorname{Ann}(\rho J_b)\). Then for any two members, \((I_b\cap I_c)_j=0\) for \(j<2\dim(U_b+U_c)-a_b-a_c\). When \(U_b\cap U_c=0\) the bound is \(\delta_b+\delta_c\), where the products \(I_bI_c\) begin. So a pair never meets below the sum of its ideal degrees.

Proof. Since \(T(U_b)/\operatorname{Ann}(\rho J_b)\) vanishes above degree \(a_b\), the annihilator contains \(\mathfrak m_{U_b}^{a_b+1}\). By the duality of prop:quadric-pair-defect, \(\dim(I_b\cap I_c)_j\) is at most the dimension in degree \(2w-j\) of \(T(W)/(\mathfrak m_{U_b}^{a_b+1}+\mathfrak m_{U_c}^{a_c+1})\).

Choose a basis adapted to \(W=Y\oplus A\oplus B\oplus Z\), where \(U_b=Y\oplus A\), \(U_c=Y\oplus B\) and \(\dim Z=z=w-\dim(U_b+U_c)\). The quotient is then spanned by the monomials with exponents at most 2, degree at most \(a_b\) in \(Y\cup A\), and degree at most \(a_c\) in \(Y\cup B\). Its top degree is at most \(a_b+a_c+2z\). So the intersection vanishes when \(2w-j>a_b+a_c+2z\), which is the claim. If \(U_b\cap U_c=0\), then \(\dim(U_b+U_c)=h_b+h_c\), and the bound is \(\delta_b+\delta_c\). \(\square\)

Both recorded pair computations sit exactly at this bound. For \((2,4,4)\), \(2\cdot6-1-1=10\), where the quadric pair defect appears. For \((3,3,3)\), \(2\cdot6-2=10\), where the pair part is exactly \(I_bI_c\). For spread families, whose members have \(h_b=O(\log n)\) forms and whose spans jointly have dimension polynomial in \(n\), pairs of distinct spans are typically transverse. The obstruction to directness there, if any, involves many members at once.

Correction to the quadric pair defect entry

The quadric pair defect entry's verification gate misreports its review. It lists three required changes. They were made and are correct, but they are not what the fresh-context reviewer's delivered report required. That report confirmed every step of both proofs and every number, including the nine dual degrees. It required two changes, made here:

The title's "always". Two members overlap near the socle only under the hypothesis of prop:quadric-pair-defect: neither image \(\tilde U_b\), \(\tilde U_c\) is all of \(\tilde W=W/(A_b+A_c)\). The statement and the general-statement paragraph carry this hypothesis; the title omits it.
The claim that W's degrees are far from the socle. By prop:relation-coupling-count, \(w\le\dim G_1\). W fixes \(D=22k\) with \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\log n\) (open statement W). But \(w\) is large only when the member spans jointly span a large space. For a family concentrated on a few forms, \(w\) can be of logarithmic size, and then \(D\) is not far from \(2w\). So "every recorded loss is far from W's degrees" holds for spread families. The concentrated regime is the one this review's falsification addresses.

The reviewer also suggested naming the mechanism of the free-tensor step in prop:ideal-sum-criterion's proof. It is the Hopf-module untwisting isomorphism: for \(H=T(K')\) with antipode \(\kappa\mapsto-\kappa\), \(H\otimes M\) with the diagonal action is isomorphic to \(H\otimes M\) with \(H\) acting on the left factor only. The suggestion is adopted here. prop:quadric-pair-defect's registry assessment now records both corrections.

Falsification attempt

Repeated members defeat value-side freeness without changing the allowed set. Take two members with the same forms and the same value set, which an adversarial family may contain. For instance, in W each block's prefix is a subset \(S_b\) of its forms with \(|S_b|=\min(k,h_b)\) (open statement W). So when all blocks use the same \(h\) forms, the members are determined by their prefixes, and there are at most \(\binom hk\) distinct members among \(n^K\), which is fewer than \(n^K\) whenever \(h\) is logarithmic with a small constant. Then \(K_0\) contains the differences \(x_b-x_c\), which have nonzero components in two members. Assume each member's own forms are linearly independent modulo the row sums and the cells of \(J\), which is how members are formed. Then no nonzero element of \(K'\) is supported in a single member: its restriction to \(E_b\) would be a linear relation among member \(b\)'s forms alone. So \(K'\cap E_b=0\) holds, and prop:ideal-sum-criterion applies. Since \(I_b=I_c\), any \(f\in(I_b)_{\delta}\), \(f\ne0\), gives a relation \(fe_b-fe_c\). There are no pair relations below \(2\delta\), so by prop:ideal-sum-criterion this is a nonzero class in \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) in degree \(\delta\). \(X\) is not free even through \(\delta\).

The allowed set, the intersection of the members' value conditions, is the same with one copy or two. So value-side freeness is not necessary for row freeness, and it is false for adversarial families with repeated members. Merging members that share a span removes the repetition, but in the extreme where all blocks share one span it returns the original question on that span. That extreme is small: \(h\) forms of logarithmic size, settled by pinning (pinned rank). The intermediate regime, where many members share large parts of their spans, is covered by neither the member tensor nor pinning.

Outcome. The value-side statement is falsified in its unmerged form for adversarial families. The line is a mechanism for spread families, whose spans are in general position. It is not yet one for the dense core.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on three statements. First, many-member directness of subspace-supported ideals in \(T(W)\) far from the socle, then pair generation up to \(D\). Pairs never obstruct below \(\delta_b+\delta_c\) (lem:pair-directness-range), and the only proved defect lives near the socle (prop:quadric-pair-defect). What is missing is an interpolation theorem for many subspace-supported schemes in a truncated ring. Second, a reduction of adversarial families to spread ones. Members sharing parts of their spans must be merged, or their shared parts pinned, before any member-tensor statement can hold, and no recorded tool does this beyond designed forms (bounded clusters). Third, the transfer, untouched since the member-tensor review.

Assessment of the route

The line has turned value-side freeness into an exact algebraic statement. It is proved at the level of pairs, and its only known failures are near the socle. It has also found that this statement is too strong for adversarial families, since repeated members break it without affecting the goal. The last three research entries refined a unit loss off the critical path; the ideal-sum criterion is the first step since the member-tensor review to change what must be proved. The line's weakest point is now the spread reduction, not the interpolation, because the interpolation is only needed for spread families. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

The Alexander–Hirschowitz theorem with Terracini's lemma (J. Alexander and A. Hirschowitz, Polynomial interpolation in several variables, J. Algebraic Geom. 4 (1995) 201–222). General double points impose independent conditions on forms of every degree, except for an explicit list, proved by the Horace specialization method. Target: the first obstacle. Answers. By duality, directness of \(\sum_bI_b\) in degree \(j\) is surjectivity of \(T(W)_{2w-j}\to\bigoplus_b(T(W)/\operatorname{Ann}I_b)_{2w-j}\): interpolation on schemes supported on the member spans. A Horace-type theorem for \(T(W)\) would give directness for general spans with finitely many exceptions. It would break if the truncation, which kills cubes, removes the degenerations Horace needs. prop:no-horace-balancing already found no balancing on the PHP board itself. Test. Passed as a structural match. For two double points on \(\mathbb P^n\), quadrics fail by exactly one condition. So does the \((2,4,4)\) pair in dual degree 2, by the rank-one part \(A\otimes B\) that neither square covers.
The Hochster–Laksov theorem (M. Hochster and D. Laksov, The linear syzygies of generic forms, Comm. Algebra 15 (1987) 227–239). The ideal of general forms of degree \(d\) has the expected dimension in degree \(d+1\). Target: the first obstacle, one degree above the generators. Answers. Directness of the member ideals in degree \(\delta_{\min}+1\) is the member analogue: linear relations among general subspace-supported ideals. Test. Passed on the recorded data for general position. In \((3,3,3)\) (\(\delta=5\)) all four trials are free through 9, past \(\delta+1\). In \((2,4,4)\) (\(\delta=7\)) trials 1 and 2 are free through 9. Trials 3 and 4 fail at \(\delta=7\), where their pointwise bound is also 6, so they are special position. Falsified for repeated members, which fail at \(\delta\) itself (falsification above).
Simplicity of truncated symmetric powers (S. Doty; see S. Doty and G. Walker, Truncated symmetric powers and modular representations of \(\mathrm{GL}_n\), Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 119 (1996) 231–242): in characteristic \(p\), \(S^j(W)/(p\text{-th powers})\) is a simple \(\mathrm{GL}(W)\)-module. Target: the first obstacle, by a greedy argument. Answers. Simplicity makes a general translate of any nonzero element avoid any proper subspace, which is lem:generic-relative-directness's mechanism. Adding member ideals one general translate at a time might then keep the sum direct. Test. Falsified for subspaces. In \((2,4,4)\) the two spans are in general relative position (two 4-spaces in a 6-space, unique up to \(\mathrm{GL}\)), yet their 9-dimensional ideals meet in the 21-dimensional degree-10 space. Simplicity controls single elements, not subspaces.
The spread lemma behind the sunflower bounds (R. Alweiss, S. Lovett, K. Wu and J. Zhang, Improved bounds for the sunflower lemma, Ann. of Math. 194 (2021) 795–815). A family in which no small set lies in too many members is spread, and a spread family behaves like a random one for covering questions. Otherwise some kernel set lies in many members, and one iterates on the link of the kernel. Target: the second obstacle. Answers. In subspace form: either some subspace \(Y\) lies in many member spans, and is pinned (cor:pinned-cluster-reduction) or merged, or the spans are spread. Spread spans should behave like general ones, which is where the interpolation statement is needed. Test. Passed on the extreme case. When all members share one span \(U\), the kernel is \(U\), the residual spans are zero, and pinning \(U\), of logarithmic dimension, settles the family. Not tested: a subspace version of the spread lemma and its degree cost; no subspace form was located.

Absurd bridges

Brascamp–Lieb inequalities and operator scaling (A. Garg, L. Gurvits, R. Oliveira and A. Wigderson, Algorithmic and optimization aspects of Brascamp–Lieb inequalities, via operator scaling, Geom. Funct. Anal. 28 (2018) 100–145). This is analysis with theoretical computer science. A family of linear maps has a finite Brascamp–Lieb constant exactly when no subspace is overloaded, \(\dim V\le\sum_bp_b\dim(B_bV)\) for all \(V\), and operator scaling finds a balanced position. Translation: overload of a subspace by members becomes the local counting condition \(\sum_{b:U_b\subseteq V}\dim(I_b\cap T(V))_j\le\dim T(V)_j\) for every \(V\subseteq W\), which directness requires. Answers. It would give a checkable Hall-type condition for directness, and a canonical choice of kernels to pin for the spread reduction. Test. Falsified as a sufficient condition. The \((2,4,4)\) pair meets every local count: for \(V\supseteq U_b\) of dimension 5, \(\dim T(V)_{10}=1\) and member \(b\) contributes 1, and \(V=W\) gives \(18\le21\). Yet the pair is not direct. Two repeated members with \(2\operatorname{HF}(J_b)\le\operatorname{HF}(T(U))\) coefficientwise also meet every count, by convolution with \(\operatorname{HF}(T(V/U))\), and are not direct.
Random linear network coding (R. Koetter and M. Médard, An algebraic approach to network coding, IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking 11 (2003) 782–795). This is information theory. With random coefficients on the edges, a receiver decodes every source whose rate fits every cut. Translation: the members are sources, the maps \(T(\varphi_b)\) are the coding matrices, and the receiver is \(T(W)_j\). Directness is decodability, and the cut conditions are the local counts above. Answers. It would prove directness for general spans once all cuts hold. Test. Falsified: the \((2,4,4)\) pair satisfies every cut but cannot be decoded. The reason is instructive. Network coding needs free coefficients on each edge, while \(T(\varphi_b)\) is a degree-\(j\) polynomial in \(\varphi_b\), a Veronese-constrained coding matrix. The defect comes from that constraint, which is Terracini's setting, not network coding's.

Lead follow-up

The record's conj:graded-dade-margin, in member form. Developed through conj:unit-loss-dade, its \(\mathbb F_9\) and pencil checks, and prop:ideal-sum-criterion, which turns it into directness and pair generation of the member ideals. Follow-up. Continuing: its margin form is the first obstacle, for spread families only, since repeated members falsify the unmerged form.
Additivity of ideals of unions. The pair level is now settled: pairs add without overlap below \(\delta_b+\delta_c\) (lem:pair-directness-range). Follow-up. Continuing: many-member additivity is the first obstacle.

Bridge follow-up

The plethystic program. Its diagnostic reads the first failure from Hilbert functions. prop:ideal-sum-criterion now gives the obstruction itself, a module of relations, degree by degree. Follow-up. Closed: superseded by the ideal-sum criterion; as a dimension-level diagnostic it cannot prove freeness.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the spread lead, the second obstacle. Formulate a kernel–spread decomposition for member spans: pin or merge each subspace lying in too many spans, and show that the residual spans are spread. Charge the pinned kernels to W's degree budget via cor:pinned-cluster-reduction. Test the decomposition against repeated members, the shared-span families of the dense core, and the record's bounded clusters before relying on it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:ideal-sum-criterion, prop:quadric-pair-defect with its entry, conj:row-free-subset, prop:relation-coupling-count, cor:pinned-cluster-reduction, prop:no-horace-balancing and the recorded pencil data. The quadric pair defect entry's own fresh-context reviewer delivered its report after that entry was committed. The correction section above records what it required. No computation was run; the tests use recorded numbers or are arguments. For this review, a fresh-context reviewer checked lem:pair-directness-range: the annihilator containment, the monomial top-degree bound, and both instances at degree 10. It also checked the repeated-member Tor class, the Alexander–Hirschowitz count \(2n+1\), the Hochster–Laksov readings and the local counts, and confirmed that the correction section matches the corrected entry. Its claim search found no earlier pair-directness result. It required three changes, all adopted: a justification of \(K'\cap E_b=0\) in the falsification; the prefix definition behind the bound \(\binom hk\); and this gate.

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Overlap orientation: if every pairwise overlap of member spans is assigned to one of its two members and that member is replaced by a cylinder over its assigned overlaps, no relation between two member ideals obstructs freeness over the joint algebra; for W members a cylinder over prefix forms is the member with those forms dropped from its prefix, so the spread reduction's remaining content is relations among three or more members

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-spread-kernels. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Overlap orientation: if every pairwise overlap of member spans is assigned to one of its two members and that member is replaced by a cylinder over its assigned overlaps, no relation between two member ideals obstructs freeness over the joint algebra; for W members a cylinder over prefix forms is the member with those forms dropped from its prefix, so the spread reduction's remaining content is relations among three or more members”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-overlap-orientation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The ideal-sum review found that repeated or overlapping members defeat value-side freeness. It proposed a kernel–spread decomposition, developing its spread lead (item 4). Before any spreadness condition can be chosen, one question comes first: which overlaps actually obstruct, and at what cost can they be removed? This entry answers that for pairs.

General statement. prop:overlap-orientation. In the setting of prop:ideal-sum-criterion, suppose each member \(b\) is given a subspace \(Z_b\subseteq U_b\) with \(U_b\cap U_c\subseteq Z_b\) or \(U_b\cap U_c\subseteq Z_c\) for every pair, and suppose each member ring is a cylinder over \(Z_b\). Then \(I_b\cap I_c=I_bI_c\) for all \(b\ne c\), and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K')}(\mathbb F_3,X)\) is the relations among the ideals modulo those supported on two members. So every remaining obstruction involves at least three members.

What is already recorded

The pair formula. prop:overlap-tor gives it: for two members whose spans meet in \(Y\), without common generators, \((I_b\cap I_c)/(I_bI_c)=\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(Y)}(M_b,M_c)\).
Sharing a direction obstructs. lem:shared-direction-pure-tops shows this for ENS blocks. For W members sharing a prefix form \(L\), the obstruction is explicit. With \(L\) a coordinate of both, the excluded set of \(b\) is \(\{L\ne0\}\times E'_b\), so \(J_b=\langle L,L^2\rangle\otimes J'_b\). As a \(T(L)\)-module, \(M_b\cong T(L)\otimes T(U'_b)/J'_b\oplus\mathbb F_3\otimes J'_b\), with non-free part starting in degree \(\delta_b-1\). Hence \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(L)}(M_b,M_c)\supseteq J'_b\otimes J'_c\otimes\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(L)}(\mathbb F_3,\mathbb F_3)\) is nonzero in degree \(\delta_b+\delta_c-1\), below \(D\). For the two members alone, this is a nonzero class in \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of their tensor by prop:ideal-sum-criterion. So two W members sharing one prefix form are not free over their joint algebra through \(D\).
Cylinders. prop:oriented-cylinder-repair made members cylinders to free them along couplings through the row sums, in the column-local framework.

What follows puts these together for the members' own overlaps, which carry the pure relations \(K_0\), and costs the repair for W.

prop:overlap-orientation

Setting. As in prop:ideal-sum-criterion: members \(M_b=T(E_b)/J_b\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(K'\cap E_b=0\) for all \(b\), \(W=E/K'\), \(U_b\) the image of \(E_b\) and \(I_b=\rho(J_b)T(W)\). Call \(M_b\) a cylinder over \(Z_b\subseteq U_b\) if, for some complement \(U_b=Z_b\oplus U''_b\), \(\rho J_b=J''_bT(U_b)\) with \(J''_b\subseteq T(U''_b)\), so that \(M_b\cong T(Z_b)\otimes T(U''_b)/J''_b\). For a value set this means \(V_b\) is a union of fibres of the forms spanning \(U''_b\).

Statement. If \(U_b\cap U_c\subseteq Z_b\) or \(U_b\cap U_c\subseteq Z_c\) for all \(b\ne c\), and every \(M_b\) is a cylinder over \(Z_b\), then:

\(I_b\cap I_c=I_bI_c\) for all \(b\ne c\);
every relation \(fe_b-fe_c\), \(f\in I_b\cap I_c\), is a pair relation;
\(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K')}(\mathbb F_3,X)\cong\operatorname{Syz}/\operatorname{Syz}_2\), where \(\operatorname{Syz}\) is the module of relations \(\sum_bf_b=0\), \(f_b\in I_b\), and \(\operatorname{Syz}_2\) is its submodule spanned by relations supported on two members.

Proof. Let \(Y=U_b\cap U_c\subseteq Z_b\). Then \(T(Z_b)\) is free over \(T(Y)\), so \(M_b\cong T(Z_b)\otimes T(U''_b)/J''_b\), with \(T(Y)\) acting on the first factor, is free over \(T(Y)\). Hence \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(Y)}(M_b,M_c)=0\).

Common generators, elements of both \(\rho J_b\) and \(\rho J_c\), lie in \(T(U_b)\cap T(U_c)=T(Y)\). But \(J''_bT(U_b)\cap T(Y)=0\), because \(J''_b\) lies in positive degrees of \(T(U''_b)\) and \(T(U_b)=T(U''_b)\otimes T(Z_b)\). So prop:overlap-tor applies without common generators and gives (1).

(2) follows from (1): \(f\in I_b\cap I_c=I_bI_c\), so \(fe_b-fe_c\) is a pair relation. For (3): the pair relations always lie in \(\operatorname{Syz}_2\), and by (2) \(\operatorname{Syz}_2\) is spanned by pair relations. So the pair relations equal \(\operatorname{Syz}_2\), and prop:ideal-sum-criterion gives the isomorphism. \(\square\)

Existence of an orientation. When the overlaps are lines, put \(Z_b\) equal to the sum of the lines assigned to \(b\). A line shared by several members and assigned to \(b\) is paid for once. Counting each overlapping pair as an edge gives a sufficient condition. By Hakimi's orientation theorem, an assignment with at most \(c_b\) lines per member exists if every sub-family \(S\) has at most \(\sum_{b\in S}c_b\) overlapping pairs. A star around a shared line needs only one line per leaf: every member but one takes the line. In this construction an overlap of higher dimension goes to one side whole: splitting it leaves neither member a cylinder over all of \(Y\), and the argument above no longer applies.

The cost for W members

The recorded general bound (prop:oriented-cylinder-repair) holds: the largest cylinder over \(Z_b\) inside \(V_b\) loses at most \((3^{\dim Z_b}-1)|\text{excluded set of }b|\) points, and it is nonempty when the excluded set has fewer than \(3^{h_b-\dim Z_b}\) points. For W members, cylinders over prefix forms are much cheaper.

Prefix cylinders. Let the forms of \(b\) be coordinates, with prefix \(S_b\). The excluded set is \(E_b=\{L_j\ne0\ \forall j\in S_b,\ \exists i\notin S_b: L_i=0\}\). For \(F\subseteq S_b\), a fibre along the forms of \(F\) is fully allowed exactly when the other coordinates avoid \(E'=\{L_j\ne0\ \forall j\in S_b\setminus F,\ \exists i\notin S_b: L_i=0\}\). So the largest cylinder over \(\langle F\rangle\) has excluded set \(\mathbb F_3^F\times E'\). That is exactly member \(b\) with \(F\) dropped from its prefix, and its excluded density is \((3/2)^{|F|}\) times that of \(b\). Non-prefix cylinders. Along \(L_i\), \(i\notin S_b\), a fibre contains a point with \(L_i=0\), which is excluded exactly when every prefix form is nonzero. So the fully allowed fibres are those where some prefix form vanishes, and the excluded set becomes \(\{L_j\ne0\ \forall j\in S_b\}\), of density \((2/3)^{s}\) with \(s=|S_b|\). This is the same for a cylinder over any set of non-prefix forms. Member \(b\)'s own excluded density is \((2/3)^{s}(1-(2/3)^{m})\), with \(m=h_b-s\) non-prefix forms. So cylinders over all of its non-prefix forms together cost a factor \(1/(1-(2/3)^m)\le3\), paid once, and close to 1 when \(m\) is large. Combined with prefix forms \(F\), the excluded density is at most \((2/3)^{s-|F|}\).

Budget. This computation is for W's subset prefixes. W_RS's prefixes are random combinations of the \(g\)'s, and cylinders there were not costed. By the union bound, the allowed set stays nonempty while every member keeps enough prefix forms that \(n^Kh\,(2/3)^{\text{kept}}<1\), about \(K\log_{3/2}n+O(\log\log n)\) forms. The forms W's prefix length \(k\) provides beyond that are each member's budget for dropped forms. Overlaps spanned by coordinate forms of the receiving member are repaired within that budget. Non-prefix forms cost at most a factor 3 in all, and prefix forms cost \(3/2\) each. Overlaps that are not spanned by coordinate forms of either member fall back on the general bound, a factor up to \(3^{\dim Z_b}\), or on merging.

What remains

After orientation, part (3) says that the value-side obstruction consists of relations among three or more members. They exist even for pairwise transverse spans. prop:overlap-tor's control, single selectors on \(x\), \(y\), \(x+y\), fails in degree 3, although every pair is transverse. So the spread reduction has two parts:

Pairs: orientation and cylinders, done here, within each member's budget of spare prefix forms when overlaps are spanned by coordinate forms. Other overlaps cost up to \(3^{\dim Z_b}\), or need merging.
Three or more members: directness and pair generation for the repaired family, the interpolation statement of the ideal-sum review, now with no pair relation left to obstruct.

thm:involvement-threshold bounds single wide relations but not families of them.

Outcome. prop:overlap-orientation (working proof; a composition of prop:overlap-tor and prop:ideal-sum-criterion with the cylinder device of prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, applied to the members' own overlaps): after orienting overlaps to cylinders, no relation supported on two members obstructs freeness. For W's subset prefixes, a cylinder over prefix forms is prefix dropping, at a factor \(3/2\) in excluded density per form, affordable while each member keeps about \(K\log_{3/2}n\) prefix forms. A cylinder over any set of non-prefix forms costs at most a factor 3, once. It also records that two W members sharing a prefix form are not free over their joint algebra through \(D\), since their pair obstruction appears in degree \(\delta_b+\delta_c-1\). The spread reduction's remaining content is the many-member relations, and overlaps outside the prefixes. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): take on the many-member relations directly. Test whether, after orientation, the first relation involving three or more members is controlled by the involvement threshold of the relations it uses. The simplest case is a triangle of members linked by one wide pure relation, as in the \(x\), \(y\), \(x+y\) control but with member rings in place of selectors. Look for a statement that makes freeness through \(D\) follow from every minimal relation of \(K'\) involving at least 11 members, the single-direction threshold for clause tops.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:overlap-tor, prop:ideal-sum-criterion, prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, lem:shared-direction-pure-tops, thm:involvement-threshold, lem:shared-piece-rarity and open statement W. The claim search found prop:overlap-tor, which already contains the pair formula, and the cylinder device. What is new here is their composition for the members' own overlaps and the W cost. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked: the freeness of cylinders over \(T(Y)\); the absence of common generators; the use of prop:overlap-tor's unconditional identity only; the shared-prefix-form decomposition and its Tor class in degree \(\delta_b+\delta_c-1\); and both density formulas. It required three changes, all adopted. The draft said non-prefix cylinders cost "much more". In fact they cost at most a factor \(1/(1-(2/3)^m)\le3\), since the member's own excluded density is \((2/3)^s(1-(2/3)^m)\). This correction strengthens the budget: overlaps spanned by coordinate forms are all cheap. Part (2)'s proof now cites (1). And "must go to one side whole" is now a limitation of the construction.

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Multi-direction threshold: a member that sees the whole acting space injectively starts its non-free part no lower than its ideal degree minus twice the acting dimension, and these starts add, so the involvement threshold holds for several directions with each member charged \(2\dim K'\); clusters of members peel off by a flag, which settles families whose relations are local and stops, in the dense regime, at merging two clusters that each span everything

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-member-triangles. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Multi-direction threshold: a member that sees the whole acting space injectively starts its non-free part no lower than its ideal degree minus twice the acting dimension, and these starts add, so the involvement threshold holds for several directions with each member charged \(2\dim K'\); clusters of members peel off by a flag, which settles families whose relations are local and stops, in the dense regime, at merging two clusters that each span everything”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-multi-direction-threshold.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). After overlap orientation, every remaining obstruction to value-side freeness involves three or more members. The proposed step asked for a statement giving freeness through \(D\) from wideness of the acting space's relations. thm:involvement-threshold does this for a single relation. What holds for several?

General statement. prop:multi-direction-threshold: for members \(M_b\) with ideals starting in degree \(\delta_b\) and an acting space \(K'\) of dimension \(r\), the tensor \(X=\bigotimes_bM_b\) is free over \(T(K')\) through \(\sum_{b\in B}\max(0,\delta_b-2r)\), where \(B\) is the set of members onto which \(K'\) projects injectively. cor:cluster-flag-reduction: relations supported inside clusters of members can be peeled off first, reducing freeness to cluster-local freeness plus freeness of the cluster rings' tensor over the remaining relations.

prop:multi-direction-threshold

Statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(M_b=T(E_b)/J_b\) with \(J_b\) generated in degrees \(\ge\delta_b\). Let \(K'\subseteq\bigoplus_bE_b\) have dimension \(r\) and act diagonally on \(X=\bigotimes_bM_b\), and let \(B=\{b:\ K'\to E_b\text{ injective}\}\). Then the non-free part of \(X\) over \(T(K')\) starts in degree at least \(\sum_{b\in B}\max(0,\delta_b-2r)\), and \(X\) is free through that degree.

Proof. By prop:group-freeness, the start \(\gamma\) of the non-free part is superadditive under tensor products over the Hopf algebra \(T(K')\) with primitive \(K'\), and a module is free through \(\gamma\). Since \(\gamma\ge0\) always, it suffices to show \(\gamma(M_b)\ge\delta_b-2r\) for \(b\in B\).

Let \(P=\pi_b(K')\subseteq E_b\), of dimension \(r\), so \(T(E_b)=T(P)\otimes T(C)\) for a complement \(C\), and \(K'\) acts through the isomorphism \(T(K')\cong T(P)\). By lem:socle-onset-criterion, \(\gamma(M_b)\) is the least degree \(d\) in which \(\bar\sigma:M_b/\mathfrak mM_b\to M_b\), multiplication by \(\sigma=\prod_i\kappa_i^2\) (degree \(2r\), \(\kappa_i\) a basis of \(P\)), has a kernel. Suppose \(\bar\sigma(\bar f)=0\) with \(\deg f=d<\delta_b-2r\). Then \(\sigma f\in J_b\) has degree below \(\delta_b\), so \(\sigma f=0\) in \(T(E_b)\). In \(T(P)\otimes T(C)\) the annihilator of the socle \(\sigma\) of \(T(P)\) is \(\mathfrak m_PT(E_b)\), so \(f\in\mathfrak m_PT(E_b)\) and \(\bar f=0\). Hence \(\gamma(M_b)\ge\delta_b-2r\). \(\square\)

Checks.

One direction. For \(r=1\), a member sees \(\langle\kappa\rangle\) injectively exactly when \(\kappa\) involves it, and the bound is \(\sum_{b\in I(\kappa)}(\delta_b-2)\), which is thm:involvement-threshold.
A member seen completely. If \(K'\cong E_b\), then \(2r=2h_b\ge\delta_b\) and the member contributes 0. That is the member-tensor review's falsification of the start bound, where \(\gamma(M_b)=0\). The review withdrew the start bound for all member rings. It holds whenever \(2\dim K'<\delta_b\).
Recorded pencils (\(r=2\)). Random forms on members with \(h\ge2\) project injectively. The bound is \(3(5-4)=3\) for \((3,3,3)\) and \((3,3,2)\) (\(\delta=5\)), and \(2(7-4)=6\) for \((2,4,4)\) (\(\delta=7\)). For \((2,4,6)\), six general points of \(\mathbb F_3^4\) leave a one-dimensional space of combinations of indicators killing degrees 8 and 7, so \(\delta=6\) generically and the bound is \(2(6-4)=4\). It is 0 for members with \(h=2\), whose \(\delta\le4\). Every recorded freeness degree in ex:member-tensor-pencils is at least this bound. In \((2,4,4)\) trials 3 and 4 it is attained (free through 6), assuming affinely independent excluded points (\(\delta=7\)) and injective projections there, which were not checked.

cor:cluster-flag-reduction

Statement. Let \(K'=K_1\oplus K_2\).

\(X\) is free over \(T(K')\) through \(D\) iff \(X\) is free over \(T(K_1)\) through \(D\) and \(X/K_1X\) is free over \(T(K_2)\) through \(D\).
Suppose the members are partitioned into clusters \(G\), and \(K_1=\bigoplus_GK_{1,G}\) with \(K_{1,G}\subseteq E_G=\bigoplus_{b\in G}E_b\). Then \(X\) is free over \(T(K_1)\) through \(D\) iff each \(X_G=\bigotimes_{b\in G}M_b\) is free over \(T(K_{1,G})\) through \(D\). Moreover \(X/K_1X=\bigotimes_GC_G\), with cluster rings \(C_G=X_G/K_{1,G}X_G=T(E_G/K_{1,G})/\bar J_G\). This is again a member tensor, with \(K_2\) acting through its image in \(\bigoplus_GE_G/K_{1,G}\), which is injective because \(K_1\cap K_2=0\).

Proof. (1) is lem:flag-freeness with the line \(A\) replaced by \(K_1\). The proof is unchanged: \(T(K')=T(K_1)\otimes T(K_2)\), and the change-of-rings spectral sequence has \(E^2_{p,q}=\operatorname{Tor}_p^{T(K_2)}(\mathbb F_3,\operatorname{Tor}_q^{T(K_1)}(\mathbb F_3,X))\). The converse is the restriction of the minimal cover.

(2) \(T(K_1)=\bigotimes_GT(K_{1,G})\) acts factorwise on \(X=\bigotimes_GX_G\). By the Künneth formula, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(K_1)}(\mathbb F_3,X)=\bigoplus_G\operatorname{Tor}_1(X_G)\otimes\bigotimes_{G'\ne G}\operatorname{Tor}_0(X_{G'})\). Each \(\operatorname{Tor}_0(X_{G'})\) contains \(1\) in degree 0, so a class of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(X_G)\) in degree \(j\) survives in degree \(j\). The identification of \(X/K_1X\) holds because, in characteristic 3, \(T(E_G)/K_{1,G}T(E_G)=T(E_G/K_{1,G})\). \(\square\)

What the two give together, and where they stop

Local relations. If \(K'\) has a basis of relations each supported inside clusters of a partition, and each cluster \(G\) has a set \(B_G\) of members seeing \(K'_G=K'\cap E_G\) injectively with \(\sum_{b\in B_G}(\delta_b-2\dim K'_G)\ge D\), then \(X\) is free through \(D\). Here \(K_2=0\), and prop:multi-direction-threshold applies cluster by cluster. For W's clause tops (\(\delta=2k+2\), \(D=22k\)), a cluster whose relation space has dimension \(r_G\le k/2\) and is seen injectively by about 21 of its members qualifies. Seeing \(K'_G\) injectively means that every nonzero local relation involves the member, a wideness condition inside the cluster.

The dense regime. Take random dense spans in \(W\), \(\dim W=w\), \(h\) forms each, beyond capacity (\(Mh\gg w\)). The counts at level one below are expected dimensions, a genericity heuristic, not proved. Over the 3-element field, expected-dimension reasoning needs an explicit probabilistic argument, since Schwartz–Zippel-type bounds are weak at \(q=3\).

Level one works, heuristically. For spans in general position, relations supported inside a cluster \(G\) appear once \(|G|h>w\). A cluster of about \(w/h\) members plus a few then has a relation space of dimension \(r_G=|G|h-w<h\). Each member should see it injectively, since a relation vanishing on one member's component would be a relation among the other members, of expected dimension \(r_G-h\le0\). Each such cluster would then be free through about \((w/h)(\delta-2r_G)\), far beyond \(D\).
Level two stops. Each cluster ring \(C_G\) then spans essentially all of \(W\). The remaining relations identify these copies of \(W\): for two clusters, the relation space is \(\{(x,-x)\}\cong W\), of dimension \(w\), and prop:multi-direction-threshold gives nothing. Freeness of \(C_G\otimes C_{G'}\) over that diagonal is \(\operatorname{Tor}^{T(W)}(C_G,C_{G'})\). Its first term is \((\bar J_G\cap\bar J_{G'})/(\bar J_G\bar J_{G'})\) in \(T(W)\), the cover-generation question for two halves of the family.

So in the dense regime the flag moves the question up a level but does not resolve it. The start bound settles families whose relations are local and wide within clusters. The dense core is again the overlap of two families, each spanning the whole space.

Outcome. prop:multi-direction-threshold (working proof): freeness through \(\sum_{b\in B}(\delta_b-2\dim K')\) over members seeing \(K'\) injectively. This is thm:involvement-threshold for several directions, and it corrects the member-tensor review's withdrawal of the start bound, which fails only when \(2\dim K'\ge\delta_b\). cor:cluster-flag-reduction (working proof, standard): relations local to clusters peel off, leaving cluster rings. Together they settle families whose relations are local and wide within clusters. In the dense regime they reduce the core to cover generation between two halves of the family, each spanning \(W\). No computation was run; the pencil comparison uses recorded data.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the value-side line has returned, in the dense regime, to cover generation between two halves of the family, a question the record already holds in doubt (conj:capacity-cover-generation). By the rule on repeated cycles, the next cycle is a route review. It should decide whether the value-side line, which has reached cover generation between two spanning halves, has any mechanism left for the dense core. Its leads should answer that obstacle, and it should weigh the unrun transfer leads (order shattering, BGG) against returning to the board-side row-free subset directly.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:group-freeness, lem:socle-onset-criterion, thm:involvement-threshold, lem:flag-freeness, prop:overlap-orientation, conj:capacity-cover-generation, the member-tensor review's falsification and the recorded pencil data. The claim searches (several-direction starts, socle-onset member bounds, cluster flags) found no earlier version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked both proofs: the socle annihilator in \(T(P)\otimes T(C)\), dropping members outside \(B\) since \(\gamma\ge0\), the subspace form of the flag, and Künneth for clusters. It checked the three consistency checks against the data. It required two changes, both adopted: \(\delta\) for the \((2,4,6)\) rows, and labelling the level-one counts of the dense regime as an unproved genericity heuristic, with the small-field caveat. Its suggestion to note why \(K_2\) acts injectively on the cluster rings is adopted.

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Route review of the value-side line after overlap orientation and the multi-direction threshold: the line settles pairs within a cylinder budget and relations local to clusters, adversarial overlap graphs beyond the budget defeat its pair repair, and its dense core is cover generation between two halves of the family that each span the space; an orbit-weighted first moment over random translates is the one mechanism in sight, and only for random forms

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-value-side-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the value-side line after overlap orientation and the multi-direction threshold: the line settles pairs within a cylinder budget and relations local to clusters, adversarial overlap graphs beyond the budget defeat its pair repair, and its dense core is cover generation between two halves of the family that each span the space; an orbit-weighted first moment over random translates is the one mechanism in sight, and only for random forms”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-value-side-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the ideal-sum review, two research entries:

overlap orientation: pairs are repaired by cylinders;
multi-direction threshold: starts add over injective members, and cluster flags peel off local relations.

The second ended at cover generation between two halves of the family, a question the record already holds in doubt (conj:capacity-cover-generation). This review asks whether the value-side line has a mechanism left for the dense core.

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows from a nonempty row-free subset of the allowed set (conj:row-free-subset). The value side supplies one if the members' tensor, after cylinders, is free through \(D\) over the joint algebra of relations, and the transfer identifies the allowed set's ring with its quotient. The line's tools:

prop:ideal-sum-criterion: the obstruction is the relations among the members' ideals modulo pair relations.
prop:overlap-orientation: overlaps assigned to cylinders leave no two-member obstruction.
prop:multi-direction-threshold: members seeing the acting space injectively add \(\delta_b-2\dim K'\).
cor:cluster-flag-reduction: relations local to clusters peel off.

What the goal needs

Freeness through \(D=22k\) for every family in the dense core: adversarial dense forms with random prefixes, \(n^K\) members, beyond joint capacity. By cor:cluster-flag-reduction, in that regime this is cover generation, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(W)}(C_1,C_2)=0\) through \(D\), for the cluster rings \(C_1,C_2\) of two halves of the family, each spanning \(W\). Then the transfer is also needed.

Falsification attempt

Adversarial overlap graphs beyond the cylinder budget defeat the pair repair. A member with \(h=O(\log n)\) forms has \((3^h-1)/2\) lines in its span, polynomially many in \(n\). An adversary can therefore make each member meet \(L\) other members, each in a different line, with \(L\) growing polynomially. Take these lines to be combinations of forms in both members, and generic in each span.

A cylinder along a line that is not a coordinate form costs a factor of up to 3 in excluded density. This comes from the bound \(|V_b\setminus V'_b|\le(3^{\dim Z_b}-1)|\text{excluded set}|\) of prop:oriented-cylinder-repair with \(\dim Z_b=1\). A member can absorb only \(O(\log n)\) such lines before its prefix budget is spent. An orientation needs, in every sub-family, at most \(\sum_bc_b=O(|S|\log n)\) overlapping pairs, while this family has \(|S|L/2\). So no orientation exists.

A non-oriented pair whose members are both non-free along the shared line \(y\) has overlap Tor \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(y)}(M_b,M_c)\ne0\) (prop:overlap-tor). Its non-free parts start no lower than \(\delta_b-2\) and \(\delta_c-2\) (thm:involvement-threshold), so this Tor lives in degrees at least \(\delta_b+\delta_c-3\). As for coupled pairs (prop:coupled-cover-failure), it is nonzero in some degree at most \(4h+2\), since the members' non-free Jordan blocks lie below their top degrees \(2h\). That is below \(D=22k\) whenever \(h<5.5k\). A member fails to be non-free along a generic line of its span only if it is a cylinder along it.

Merging overlapping members instead produces a cluster containing a giant component of the overlap graph. So such families are outside everything the line proves, and bring it back to the dense core. The attempt passes. It falsifies the line's pair repair for adversarial overlap graphs, not the goal, since value-side freeness is only sufficient.

Obstacle

The value-side line is stuck on cover generation between two halves of the family that each span \(W\): \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(W)}(C_1,C_2)=0\) through \(D\). Its tools settle pairs within a cylinder budget and relations local to clusters, but give nothing when both sides span everything. Adversarial overlap graphs of degree above the budget bring even the pair level back to this form. Independently, the transfer to the board is untouched.

Assessment of the route

Since the member-tensor review, the line has produced exact algebra:

the ideal-sum criterion;
the pair range and the quadric pair defect;
orientation;
the several-direction threshold;
cluster flags.

Each settles a structured class: pairs, local relations, and clusters with wide internal relations. On the dense core, the one thing A1 needs from it, the line has returned to cover generation, which the record reached from the board side before (conj:capacity-cover-generation, in doubt since the coupled pairs). The value side has made that question cleaner, a Tor between two cyclic quotients of \(T(W)\). It has not supplied a mechanism for it. The one mechanism in sight below is probabilistic and needs random forms, which A1 does not grant. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

A Kleiman–Bertini theorem for Tor (E. Miller and D. Speyer, A Kleiman–Bertini theorem for sheaf tensor products, J. Algebraic Geom. 17 (2008) 335–340). If a group acts transitively on a variety, then for coherent sheaves \(\mathcal F,\mathcal E\) and a general group element \(g\), \(\mathcal Tor_i(\mathcal F,g\mathcal E)=0\) for \(i>0\). Target: the obstacle. Answers. Cover generation between halves is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) between two modules, and a transitive action would make general translates Tor-independent. Test. Falsified. \(\operatorname{Spec}T(W)\) is one fat point. \(\mathrm{GL}(W)\) fixes it, and the translation action of the Frobenius kernel has no general points. The \((2,4,4)\) pair of prop:quadric-pair-defect is a pair in general relative position with nonzero \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\).
Green's hyperplane restriction theorem for rings with restricted powers (V. Gasharov, Green and Gotzmann theorems for polynomial rings with restricted powers of the variables, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 130 (1998) 113–118). This supplies the truncated Green theorem that the member-tensor review's Green lead and the unit-loss entry did not locate. Target: the obstacle, through a flag. Answers. Freeness is minimality of \(\operatorname{HF}(M/K'M)\), and Green-type theorems bound it from above, one form at a time. Test. Falsified as a certificate. Any upper bound on \(\operatorname{HF}(M/K'M)_3\) that depends only on \(\operatorname{HF}(M)\) must be at least 15 at the Hilbert function of ex:truncated-dade-special-position, whose quotient is \((1,8,22,15)\). A free module \(T(K')\otimes V\) with \(\operatorname{HF}(V)=(1,8,22,14)\), the free prediction \(\operatorname{HF}(M)/(1+t+t^2)^6\) (member-tensor review), has the same Hilbert function through degree 3 by the definition of the prediction. So no such bound certifies its freeness. Bounds of this kind cannot separate free from non-free modules with equal Hilbert functions.
Semicontinuity of Tor under Gröbner degeneration, with square-free initial ideals (A. Conca and M. Varbaro, Square-free Gröbner degenerations, Invent. Math. 221 (2020) 713–730). Tor dimensions can only grow under a flat degeneration, so Tor-independence of initial ideals gives it for the original ideals. Target: the obstacle. Answers. A weight \(\omega\) with \(\operatorname{in}_\omega\bar J_1\) and \(\operatorname{in}_\omega\bar J_2\) Tor-independent through \(D\), for instance monomial ideals on disjoint variables, would prove cover generation between the halves. Test. Falsified for generic initial ideals. Both halves span \(W\), so their generic initial ideals are Borel-fixed and share the first variables, and their lcms overlap. One weight degenerates both halves, so they cannot be pushed to opposite ends. Whether some other weight works is not decided: none adapted to both halves was found, a negative search rather than a proof.

Absurd bridges

The decoupling theorem of quantum information (F. Dupuis, M. Berta, J. Wullschleger and R. Renner, One-shot decoupling, Commun. Math. Phys. 328 (2014) 251–284). A random unitary applied to one half of a system decouples it from a reference, once a dimension (min-entropy) condition holds. Translation: the halves become \(A=(\bar J_1)_d\) and \(B=(\bar J_2)_d\) in \(T(W)_d\), and the random unitary becomes a random \(g\in\mathrm{GL}(W,\mathbb F_3)\). Since \(\mathrm{GL}(W)\) acts transitively on each orbit \(O\), the first moment is exact: \(\mathbb E\,|A\cap gB|-1=\sum_O|A\cap O|\,|B\cap O|/|O|\). If the forms are uniformly random, the family's law is \(\mathrm{GL}(W)\)-invariant, so the second half may be taken to be a random translate. Answers. For random forms, directness of the halves in a degree \(d<2\delta_{\min}\) holds with positive probability once this orbit-weighted sum is below 1. What must be bounded is how much of the members' ideals lies on small orbits, the elements of low essential dimension. It does not apply to adversarial forms, whose only randomness is the prefixes. Test. Passed as a consistency check on \((2,4,4)\), with the dimensions of the quadric pair defect: two 9-dimensional ideals in the 21-dimensional degree-10 space. The orbit-free count \(3^{9+9-21}=1/27\) would predict directness, yet the defect is forced. The forced intersection element, dual to the rank-one part \(A\otimes B\), is a rank-2 functional on quadrics, in an orbit far smaller than \(3^{21}\). So the defect is carried by a small orbit, as the criterion requires.
The Lovász Local Lemma, with Moser–Tardos resampling (P. Erdős and L. Lovász, 1975; R. Moser and G. Tardos, J. ACM 57 (2010)). This is probabilistic combinatorics and algorithms. Rare bad events, each depending on few others, can all be avoided. Translation: the bad events are local failures of freeness, and their dependency graph comes from shared relations. Answers. It would avoid all local failures at once when dependencies are sparse. Test. Falsified in the dense regime. At level two of cor:cluster-flag-reduction every cluster spans \(W\), and any two clusters are linked by a \(w\)-dimensional diagonal, so the dependency graph is complete.

Lead follow-up

The Alexander–Hirschowitz theorem with Terracini's lemma. Not developed this cycle; the decoupling bridge above is its probabilistic counterpart for random forms. Follow-up. Continuing: a Horace argument in \(T(W)\) has not been attempted.
The Hochster–Laksov theorem. Its content, directness one degree above the generators for general forms, is a special case of the orbit-weighted moment for random forms. For adversarial families repeated members falsify it (the ideal-sum review). Follow-up. Closed: subsumed for random forms, falsified for adversarial ones.
The spread lemma. Developed into prop:overlap-orientation, prop:multi-direction-threshold and cor:cluster-flag-reduction: pairs within budget and local relations are settled. The falsification above shows that adversarial overlap graphs exceed the budget. Follow-up. Developed.
conj:graded-dade-margin in member form. In the dense regime it is now cover generation between spanning halves. Follow-up. Continuing: the obstacle above is its precise form.
Additivity of ideals of unions. Pairs are settled (lem:pair-directness-range, prop:overlap-orientation), and many-member additivity is cover generation between halves. Follow-up. Closed: merged into the obstacle.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the decoupling bridge, the one passed item that answers the obstacle. For members on uniformly random spans, bound the orbit-weighted first moment \(\sum_O|A\cap O||B\cap O|/|O|\) for the two halves' ideals in degrees below \(2\delta_{\min}\). Do this by bounding the mass of the members' ideals on \(\mathrm{GL}(W)\)-orbits of low essential dimension. This would settle directness below \(2\delta_{\min}\) for random forms. Then test whether the prefix randomness of adversarial families gives any analogous moment over the members' own symmetric groups.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:overlap-tor, prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, thm:involvement-threshold, prop:coupled-cover-failure, cor:cluster-flag-reduction, prop:overlap-orientation, ex:truncated-dade-special-position and conj:capacity-cover-generation. No computation was run; every test is an argument or uses recorded numbers. No bridge follow-up is due: both bridges of the ideal-sum review were falsified, and earlier passed bridges on this route are closed. A fresh-context reviewer checked the falsification's counting and scope, the Green-type argument, the Kleiman–Bertini test, the exact orbit first moment and its \((2,4,4)\) arithmetic, the structure, and the citations. It required four changes. Three are adopted: the degree of the overlap Tor, which now has its upper bound \(4h+2\) from the coupled-pair argument besides the lower bound \(\delta_b+\delta_c-3\); the Gröbner verdict, softened to a negative search; and the bridge follow-up check, recorded here. The fourth was that the factor 3 per line was miscited. It is prop:oriented-cylinder-repair's bound with \(\dim Z_b=1\), and the wording now says so. Its suggestions to point to the sources of the Hilbert-function equality and of the \((2,4,4)\) dimensions are adopted.

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Derivative propagation: in the truncated algebra over \(\mathbb F_3\), if the degree-\(d\) parts of the truncated algebras of some subspaces form a direct sum, so do their degree-\(d+1\) parts, because partial derivatives stay inside each span and detect every nonzero form; so directness of the members' generator spaces beyond capacity reduces to one constant degree, where it is an interpolation statement for linear spaces

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-orbit-moment. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Derivative propagation: in the truncated algebra over \(\mathbb F_3\), if the degree-\(d\) parts of the truncated algebras of some subspaces form a direct sum, so do their degree-\(d+1\) parts, because partial derivatives stay inside each span and detect every nonzero form; so directness of the members' generator spaces beyond capacity reduces to one constant degree, where it is an interpolation statement for linear spaces”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-derivative-propagation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The value-side review proposed developing its decoupling bridge. For members on random spans, bound the orbit-weighted first moment through the mass of the members' ideals on orbits of low essential dimension. Working this out, the count of elements of low essential dimension in a sum of member spaces needs the essential dimension of a sum, and that needs a directness statement one degree lower. What does the degree structure itself give?

General statement. lem:derivative-propagation: over \(\mathbb F_3\), for any subspaces \(U_1,\dots,U_M\) of \(W\) and \(d\ge1\), if \(\sum_bT(U_b)_d\) is direct in \(T(W)_d\), then \(\sum_bT(U_b)_{d+1}\) is direct. Moreover, the essential dimension of a sum of elements from the spans is the dimension of the sum of their essential spaces.

lem:derivative-propagation

Setting. For \(x\in T(W)\), let \(V(x)\) be the least subspace \(V\) with \(x\in T(V)\). It is unique, since \(T(V_1)\cap T(V_2)=T(V_1\cap V_2)\) in an adapted basis. Put \(e(x)=\dim V(x)\), the essential dimension. For \(\lambda\in W^*\), the derivation \(\partial_\lambda\) of \(\operatorname{Sym}W\) descends to \(T(W)\), because \(\partial_\lambda(u^3)=3u^2\partial_\lambda u=0\). It maps \(T(U)\) into itself for every subspace \(U\), acting through \(\lambda|_U\).

Statement.

For \(y\in T(W)_d\), \(d\ge1\): if \(\partial_\lambda y=0\) for all \(\lambda\), then \(y=0\). More precisely, \(e(y)\) is the rank of \(\lambda\mapsto\partial_\lambda y\), and \(V(y)\) is the annihilator of its kernel.
If \(\sum_bT(U_b)_d\) is direct, then \(\sum_bT(U_b)_{d+1}\) is direct. Hence directness holds in every degree \(\ge d\).
If \(\sum_bT(U_b)_{d-1}\) is direct and \(x=\sum_bx_b\) with \(x_b\in T(U_b)_d\), then \(V(x)=\sum_bV(x_b)\).

Proof. (1) In a basis \(x_1,\dots,x_w\), \(y=\sum_mc_mm\) over monomials with exponents at most 2. Then \(\partial_{x_i}y=\sum_{m\ni x_i}c_m\epsilon_i(m)\,m/x_i\), with \(\epsilon_i(m)\in\{1,2\}\) nonzero mod 3 and the \(m/x_i\) distinct. So \(\partial_{x_i}y=0\) forces \(c_m=0\) for every \(m\) containing \(x_i\). If this holds for all \(i\), then \(y\) is constant, hence 0 in positive degree.

For the rank statement, choose a basis with \(x_1,\dots,x_r\) spanning the annihilator of the kernel \(\ker(\lambda\mapsto\partial_\lambda y)\). Then \(\partial_{x_i}y=0\) for \(i>r\), so \(y\in T(\langle x_1,\dots,x_r\rangle)\) by the same monomial argument. Conversely, \(y\in T(V)\) gives \(\partial_\lambda y=0\) for \(\lambda\in V^\perp\).

(2) Let \(\sum_bx_b=0\) with \(x_b\in T(U_b)_{d+1}\). For every \(\lambda\), \(\sum_b\partial_\lambda x_b=0\) with \(\partial_\lambda x_b\in T(U_b)_d\). Directness in degree \(d\) gives \(\partial_\lambda x_b=0\) for all \(\lambda\) and \(b\), so \(x_b=0\) by (1).

(3) \(\partial_\lambda x=\sum_b\partial_\lambda x_b\) with components in the direct sum of the \(T(U_b)_{d-1}\), so \(\partial_\lambda x=0\) iff \(\partial_\lambda x_b=0\) for all \(b\). The kernel of \(\lambda\mapsto\partial_\lambda x\) is therefore \(\bigcap_bV(x_b)^\perp=(\sum_bV(x_b))^\perp\), and (1) gives the claim. \(\square\)

Degree 1 is where directness fails beyond capacity: \(\sum_bU_b\) is not direct once the spans are dependent. The lemma says a failure in degree \(d+1\) forces one in degree \(d\). So each family of spans has a directness degree \(d_{\mathrm{dir}}\), the least degree from which the sum is direct, and it is direct in every degree after that.

Consequences for the members

Generator degree. A member's generator space \(\rho(J_b)_{\delta_b}\) lies in \(T(U_b)_{\delta_b}\). So the members' generator spaces form a direct sum in degree \(\delta\) whenever \(\delta\ge d_{\mathrm{dir}}\) of their spans, for any value sets. Below \(2\delta_{\min}\) this is the lowest-degree part of the directness that prop:ideal-sum-criterion asks for.

The base degree in W's regime. Directness in degree \(d\) needs \(M\dim T(U)_d\le\dim T(W)_d\). For \(d\) small against \(h\) and \(w\), \(\dim T(W)_d\ge\binom wd\) and \(\dim T(U)_d\le\binom{h+d}{d}\). So with \(w\) polynomial in \(n\), \(h=O(\log n)\) and \(M=n^K\), the count allows directness from a constant degree, about \(K\log n/\log(w/2h)\), which is roughly \(K/2+1\) when \(w\approx n^2\). That is far below \(\delta=\Theta(\log n)\). The value-side question at the generator degree thus reduces to a statement about spans alone, independent of the members' value sets, in constant degree:

Base statement (open). For the member spans of the family, \(\sum_bT(U_b)_{d_0}\) is direct at some \(d_0\le\delta\).

Dually, this says the spans impose independent conditions on truncated forms of degree \(d_0\). It is the truncated analogue of the Hartshorne–Hirschowitz problem for linear spaces. For random spans it is plausible whenever the count allows. Pairs of spans meeting in \(i\) dimensions share \(T(U_b\cap U_c)_d\ne0\) for \(d\le2i\), so any statement needs spans that meet little. For adversarial spans it can fail in every degree, for instance for repeated spans.

What it does not give

Above the generator degree the member ideals are \(\rho(J_b)\otimes T(W/U_b)\), not inside \(T(U_b)\). Derivatives do not preserve them: \(\partial_\lambda(jm)=(\partial_\lambda j)m+j\,\partial_\lambda m\), and \(\partial_\lambda j\) leaves \(J_b\). Iterating the propagation for ideals replaces \(J_b\) by \(J_b+\partial J_b+\cdots\), whose ideals become too large to be direct. So degrees \(\delta<d<2\delta_{\min}\), and the pair generation above them, remain open.

For the decoupling bridge, part (3) is what the essential-dimension count needed. Under directness one degree lower, an element of a sum of member spaces has essential dimension equal to the dimension of the sum of its components' essential spaces. So elements of low essential dimension come only from few members.

Outcome. lem:derivative-propagation (working proof): directness of truncated span algebras propagates upward in degree, and essential dimension adds over a direct sum one degree lower. Consequently, beyond capacity the members' generator spaces are direct as soon as their spans' truncated algebras are direct in some degree \(d_0\le\delta\). In W's regime the counting allows a constant \(d_0\), about \(K/2+1\). That base statement, an interpolation statement for linear spaces in constant degree, is open. The degrees between \(\delta\) and \(2\delta_{\min}\) are not reached by this argument. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the base statement above concerns spans in general position, and A1 does not grant them. So the next cycle does not pursue it. It tests the goal's actual statement on the adversarial family where the value-side method fails (the value-side review's falsification): members sharing more lines of their spans than the cylinder budget absorbs. Is that family's allowed set, or a subset, row-free through \(D\) (conj:row-free-subset)? A negative answer is a genuine obstruction to A1's route. A positive one names the mechanism the dense core needs.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:ideal-sum-criterion, thm:directness-propagation, lem:pair-directness-range and the value-side review's decoupling bridge. The claim search found thm:directness-propagation, a different propagation over added columns, and no earlier degree propagation. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the uniqueness of \(V(x)\), the descent of derivatives, the monomial argument and the rank characterisation, the propagation proof, part (3) including the case \(x=0\), and the consequences. It tried small configurations of lines in \(\mathbb F_3^2\) and \(\mathbb F_3^3\) for a counterexample to (2) and found none. It required no changes. It suggested deriving the constant base degree in one line and noting that \(\dim T(U)_d\le\binom{h+d}{d}\) is not tight; both are left as stated, since the estimate is labelled approximate. After the review, the next step was redirected at the user's prompt: the base statement concerns spans in general position, which A1 does not grant, so the next cycle tests row freeness on the value-side review's adversarial family instead.

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Shared-factor falls: the goal needs the allowed set's ring to equal the members' quotient (no falls) and that quotient to be free over the couplings, not freeness over the pure relations; members that share a common excluded factor along their shared span, or a star whose other members are cylinders over it, have no falls in any degree although they are not free over the pure relations, so the value-side review's falsification bears on the goal only through overlaps that break these product forms, such as the record's lifted tensor families

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-overlap-graph-rowfree. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Shared-factor falls: the goal needs the allowed set's ring to equal the members' quotient (no falls) and that quotient to be free over the couplings, not freeness over the pure relations; members that share a common excluded factor along their shared span, or a star whose other members are cylinders over it, have no falls in any degree although they are not free over the pure relations, so the value-side review's falsification bears on the goal only through overlaps that break these product forms, such as the record's lifted tensor families”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-shared-factor-falls.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The value-side review found adversarial families where members overlap in more lines than the cylinder budget absorbs, so the members' tensor is not free over the joint algebra. The derivative propagation entry redirected the line to the question the goal actually asks of such a family: is the allowed set, or a subset of it, row-free through \(D\)? Which part of the value-side condition does the goal really need?

General statement. prop:shared-factor-no-falls. Take members whose vanishing ideals factor as a common factor on the shared span tensored with factors on independent complements. Or take a star in which every member but one is a cylinder over the shared span. In either case the allowed set of the intersection has no falls in any degree: the graded ideal of the intersection is the sum of the members' graded ideals. This holds although the members' tensor is not free over the pure relations.

What the goal needs from the value side

By cor:cluster-flag-reduction (1) with \(K_1=K_0\), freeness of the members' tensor \(X\) over \(T(K_0\oplus K)\) through \(D\) is equivalent to two things:

freeness of \(X\) over the pure relations \(T(K_0)\);
freeness of \(X/K_0X\) over the couplings \(T(K)\).

The goal uses them differently. Row freeness is freeness over the couplings (row sums) of the allowed set's graded ring. That ring equals \(X/K_0X=T(E/K_0)/\sum_b\bar J_b\) exactly when there are no falls, i.e. when the graded ideal of the intersection of the members' allowed sets is the sum of the members' graded ideals.

Here is why, on the value side, the base being ignored. The distinct forms, \(E/K_0\), are coordinates on a cube. Member \(b\)'s allowed set pulls back to a cylinder over its own coordinates, so by fact (a) below its graded ideal is \(\bar J_bT\). The allowed set is the intersection of these cylinders, and its graded ring is \(T(E/K_0)/\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap)\) with \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap)\supseteq\sum_b\bar J_bT\). The two rings agree exactly when equality holds, and \(X/K_0X=T(E)/(K_0T(E)+J)=T(E/K_0)/\sum_b\bar J_b\) in characteristic 3. By lem:relation-space-tor, freeness over \(T(K_0)\) is one way to guarantee this, but only a sufficient one. So the value-side conditions the goal needs are:

no falls through \(D\);
\(X/K_0X\) free over \(T(K)\) through \(D\).

This is the split of prop:coupling-distributivity into falls and distributivity. The value-side review's falsification refutes freeness over \(T(K_0)\). By itself that refutes neither (1) nor (2).

prop:shared-factor-no-falls

Setting. Work in the cube \(\mathbb F_3^{Y}\times\prod_b\mathbb F_3^{U'_b}\), with coordinates on a shared space \(Y\) and on independent complements \(U'_b\). Member \(b\) constrains \(Y\oplus U'_b\) by an allowed set \(V_b\), with vanishing ideal \(I(V_b)\): the functions supported on the excluded set \(E_b\). Write \(\operatorname{gr}\) for the ideal of top-degree parts, which lies in \(T(\cdot)\).

Statement.

Common factor. If every \(E_b=E_Y\times E'_b\) with the same \(E_Y\subseteq\mathbb F_3^Y\), then \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap_bV_b)=\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I(V_b)\) in every degree.
Cylinder star. If every member but one, \(b_0\), is a cylinder over \(Y\) (\(E_b=\mathbb F_3^Y\times E'_b\)), the same holds.

In both cases \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^{T(Y)}(M_b,M_c)\) (prop:overlap-tor) may be nonzero. In case (1), W members sharing a prefix coordinate \(L\) have \(E_Y=\{L\ne0\}\) for both, and their overlap Tor is nonzero in degree \(\delta_b+\delta_c-1\) (prop:overlap-orientation).

Proof. Two standard facts are used, both by counting.

(a) Products. For sets \(A\), \(B\) in independent coordinate blocks, \(\operatorname{gr}I(A\times B)=\operatorname{gr}I(A)\,T+T\operatorname{gr}I(B)\). The right side is contained in the left, since tops of \(f\otimes1\) and \(1\otimes g\) are tops. Its quotient is \((T/\operatorname{gr}I(A))\otimes(T/\operatorname{gr}I(B))\), of dimension \(|A||B|\), which is the codimension of the left side.
(b) Supports. For \(E\subseteq\mathbb F_3^Y\) and \(E'\) in a complementary block, the functions supported on \(E\times E'\) are \(I_E\otimes I_{E'}\), where \(I_E\) is the space of functions supported on \(E\). Also \(\operatorname{gr}(I_E\otimes I_{E'})=\operatorname{gr}I_E\otimes\operatorname{gr}I_{E'}\): the right side is contained in the left, and both have dimension \(|E||E'|\).

(1) The excluded set of the intersection is \(\bigcup_bE_b=E_Y\times\bigcup_b(E'_b\times\text{all})\). Its function space is \(I_{E_Y}\otimes I'\), with \(I'\) the functions supported on \(\bigcup_b(E'_b\times\text{all})\) in \(\prod_b\mathbb F_3^{U'_b}\). The latter is the vanishing ideal of the product \(\prod_b(E'_b)^c\), so by (a) \(\operatorname{gr}I'=\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I_{E'_b}T\). By (b), \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap V_b)=\operatorname{gr}I_{E_Y}\otimes\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I_{E'_b}T\), and by (b) again this is \(\sum_b\operatorname{gr}(I_{E_Y}\otimes I_{E'_b})T=\sum_b\operatorname{gr}I(V_b)\).

(2) \(\bigcap_bV_b=V_{b_0}\times\prod_{b\ne b_0}V''_b\), where \(V''_b\subseteq\mathbb F_3^{U'_b}\) is the cylinder's base. This is a product over the independent blocks \(Y\oplus U'_{b_0}\) and the \(U'_b\). By (a), \(\operatorname{gr}I(\bigcap V_b)=\operatorname{gr}I(V_{b_0})T+\sum_{b\ne b_0}\operatorname{gr}I(V''_b)T\), and \(\operatorname{gr}I(V_b)=\operatorname{gr}I(V''_b)T\) for the cylinders. \(\square\)

Consequences

Coordinate sharing in W. W's subset prefixes give excluded sets \(\prod_{j\in S_b}\{L_j\ne0\}\times E^N_b\), where \(E^N_b\) is the non-prefix part. A cluster of members sharing one identical set of prefix coordinates, with all their other forms independent, is in case (1) with \(E_Y=\prod\{L_j\ne0\}\) over the shared coordinates. So the cluster has no falls in any degree, although it is not free over the pure relations. For such a cluster, condition (1) of the goal holds with no cylinders at all.

Heterogeneous sharing is not covered: members sharing different prefix coordinates pairwise. prop:overlap-tor's control, single selectors on \(x\), \(y\), \(x+y\), warns that pairwise statements need not extend to the joint family.

Stars of any kind. By case (2), a line shared by many members, of any kind, has no falls once all members but one are cylinders over it. Each cylinder costs a factor of at most 3 in excluded density, so a star is cheap however many members share the line.

What is left. Falls need overlaps that break both product forms: shared spans on which members' excluded sets have different, non-cylinder factors. For instance, the shared line is a combination of forms in both members. The record's lifted tensor families are of this kind (ex:tensor-family-falls, conj:global-tensor-falls): members sharing one form through prefix combinations have falls at degree \(2c-1\), conjecturally not local. The value-side review's adversarial family, whose members share many different lines, bears on the goal through falls of this non-product kind, not through the unmet freeness over the pure relations. That it reduces to the tensor-falls question is conjectural: its overlap structure, with several shared lines per member, was not checked against the lifted tensor families. Condition (2) of the goal, freeness over the couplings, is untouched here.

Outcome. prop:shared-factor-no-falls (working proof): members with a common excluded factor on their shared span, and stars whose other members are cylinders over it, have no falls in any degree, although freeness over the pure relations fails. The goal needs no falls and freeness over the couplings; freeness over the pure relations is only sufficient. So W's coordinate sharing needs no repair for falls, and stars are repaired cheaply. The review's falsification bears on the goal only through non-product overlaps, which are the record's lifted tensor families. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): take the record's lifted tensor family, whose members share one form \(w\) through prefix combinations and whose falls are conjectured global. Test whether making all members but one cylinders over \(w\), a star repair costing a factor of at most 3 each, gives a nonempty subset with no falls, by case (2). Then decide whether that subset is row-free, the coupling half, using the family's exact data in ex:tensor-family-falls.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:cluster-flag-reduction, lem:relation-space-tor, prop:coupling-distributivity, prop:overlap-tor, prop:overlap-orientation, ex:tensor-family-falls, conj:global-tensor-falls and prop:oriented-cylinder-repair. The claim searches found the record's falls/distributivity split and its tensor-falls results, and no earlier shared-factor statement. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the split of the goal's needs against the flag, facts (a) and (b) with their counting proofs, both cases of the proposition, and the W product form. It required three changes, all adopted: a direct argument that no falls is exactly the identification of the allowed set's ring with \(X/K_0X\); restricting the W consequence to clusters with one identical prefix set, with heterogeneous sharing flagged as not covered; and marking as conjectural that the value-side review's family reduces to the tensor-falls question.

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Route review of A1 after the value-side excursion: the excursion settles structured sharing and its adversarial family adds no obstruction, since tensor and forced families are already harmless by pinning; the dense core is row freeness beyond joint capacity, where pure relations stop the allowed ring from being a tensor of member rings and every recorded row-freeness proof loses its pullback hypothesis

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-tensor-star-repair. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of A1 after the value-side excursion: the excursion settles structured sharing and its adversarial family adds no obstruction, since tensor and forced families are already harmless by pinning; the dense core is row freeness beyond joint capacity, where pure relations stop the allowed ring from being a tensor of member rings and every recorded row-freeness proof loses its pullback hypothesis”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-dense-core-return-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The shared-factor falls entry proposed star-repairing lifted tensor families. The record already makes tensor families, and the forced families of span about \(\sqrt{2X}\), harmless for W: pin a basis of their shared part \(Z\), by prop:pinned-rank-vacuity (satisfiable-cover review). Several cycles have left A1's required implication untouched, so this review re-places the line on A1 itself.

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows from conj:row-free-subset: for families of blocks with dense linear parts and independent uniform prefixes, the allowed set contains, with high probability, a nonempty subset that is row-free through \(D\). All recorded proofs of row freeness for subsets use the pullback hypothesis \((H_J)\): joint freeness of the value map. Under it the allowed ring is a tensor of member rings, and cylinders free it over the couplings (prop:oriented-cylinder-repair).

What the goal needs

A row-free subset beyond joint capacity. There, by prop:relation-coupling-count (3), \((H_J)\) fails because of pure relations among the forms, not because of the couplings, which number at most \(m-1\). The value-side excursion tried to absorb the pure relations through freeness over their algebra. The shared-factor falls entry showed that only two things are needed:

no falls;
freeness over the couplings of the allowed ring, which is no longer a tensor product.

Falsification attempt

Does the value-side review's adversarial family obstruct conj:row-free-subset? It comes in two forms.

Coordinate sharing, with the distinct forms independent. The clause tops are monomials in the distinct forms. Extending the forms to a coordinate basis makes the cube-model algebra a free module over the forms' truncated algebra, in all degrees. So by prop:syzygies-as-tor every top syzygy is Taylor-generated, by pairs. Clusters with one identical prefix set have no falls (prop:shared-factor-no-falls).
Combination sharing, with dependent forms. This is the recorded dependent regime of tensor and forced families, whose global falls are absorbed only by the whole family and which are harmless for W by pinning \(Z\).

Outcome. Not an obstruction. The attempt adds nothing to the record's dependent regime.

Obstacle

lem:relation-free-direction-count: how many members have a direction free of pure relations. Let \(\Phi:\bigoplus_bE_b\to G_1/S_J\) be the members' linear parts, with kernel \(K_0\). Then \(\pi_b(K_0)=\Phi_b^{-1}(\Phi(E_{\ne b}))\), so \(\pi_b(K_0)=E_b\) exactly when member \(b\)'s forms lie in the span of the other members' forms. A member with \(\pi_b(K_0)\ne E_b\) has a direction \(v_b\) with \(\Phi(v_b)\notin\Phi(E_{\ne b})\). For distinct such members these images are linearly independent: in a relation \(\sum a_b\Phi(v_b)=0\), a term with \(a_{b_0}\ne0\) would put \(\Phi(v_{b_0})\) in \(\Phi(E_{\ne b_0})\). Hence at most \(\dim(G_1/S_J)\) members have any direction free of pure relations. Beyond capacity in member count, every other member has every direction inside some pure relation.

The line is stuck on row freeness beyond joint capacity, where by this count all but at most \(\dim(G_1/S_J)\) members have every direction inside a pure relation. The allowed ring is then a quotient \(T(E/K_0)/\sum_b\bar J_b\), not a tensor of member rings. The recorded proof of row freeness writes it as \(T(\bigoplus U_b)\otimes\) (the rest) and lets the couplings act on the free factor. That needs cylinder directions \(U_b\) onto which the pure relations project to zero, i.e. \(\pi_b(K_0)\ne E_b\), and the count denies it to all but at most \(\dim(G_1/S_J)\) members. No recorded tool acts on the couplings of a non-tensor allowed ring.

Assessment of the route

Since the member-tensor review, the value-side excursion has proved exact statements:

the ideal-sum criterion;
pair ranges and the quadric defect;
orientation;
the several-direction threshold and cluster flags;
degree propagation;
shared factors.

They settle structured sharing and clarify what the goal needs: no falls, and freeness over the couplings. None supplies a mechanism for the obstacle. The candidate adversarial families found along the way were already harmless in the record. The excursion's main lesson is the split of the goal's needs; its tools do not reach dense pure relations. Several of its cycles refined statements off the critical path, the unit loss among them, and a review should have come sooner. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

The characteristic-2 theorem's graph restriction (thm:ordinary-unary-PHP-Res-parity-superpolynomial, main record). It fixes a sparse graph before compilation and proves separation on it. Target: the obstacle, by avoiding dense families altogether. Answers. Separation at \(p=3\) would exclude dense blocks before any row-freeness question arises. Test. Falsified at \(p=3\) by the record: separation leaves open the window of intermediate projected rank, about \([N/(4.4\times10^7),1140N]\) under the semi-regular model (ceiling).
Sylvester–Gallai theorems for quadrics (A. Shpilka, Sylvester–Gallai type theorems for quadratic polynomials, STOC 2019). Over \(\mathbb C\), configurations rich in dependencies have bounded span. Target: the obstacle, by confining dense pure relations to a pinnable subspace. Answers. Bounded span would make pinning apply. Test. Falsified over \(\mathbb F_3\): the points of \(\mathrm{PG}(s,3)\) form a rich configuration of unbounded dimension, and tensor and forced families are built on them.
Cylinder repair extended to pure relations, with pullback replaced by no falls (prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, where \(K_0=0\) under \((H_J)\), with prop:shared-factor-no-falls). Target: the obstacle. Answers. Given no falls, the allowed ring is \(T(E/K_0)/\sum\bar J_b\). Suppose cylinder directions \(U_b\) can be chosen with \(K_0\subseteq\bigoplus C_b\), so the pure relations avoid them, and with the couplings \(K\) projecting injectively onto \(\bigoplus U_b\), as in the recorded repair. Then the ring is \(T(\bigoplus U_b)\otimes\) (the rest), and the couplings act freely as before. Test. Falsified for random dense families beyond capacity. Only members with \(\pi_b(K_0)\ne E_b\) can carry a cylinder direction avoiding the pure relations. The count under Obstacle bounds their number by \(\dim(G_1/S_J)\) but does not exclude them, and the couplings, at most \(m-1\) dimensions, would need only that many. For random dense forms beyond capacity, though, the other members' forms already span \(G_1/S_J\), so every member has \(\pi_b(K_0)=E_b\) and none qualifies. An adversary can arrange the same by making every member's span lie in the others'.

Absurd bridges

The cavity method for random XORSAT (M. Mézard, F. Ricci-Tersenghi and R. Zecchina, Two solutions to diluted \(p\)-spin models and XORSAT problems, J. Stat. Phys. 111 (2003) 505–533). This is statistical physics. Leaf removal reduces a random linear system to its 2-core, which decides satisfiability and clustering. Translation: pure relations form a hypergraph on the members' directions, forms in a single relation peel off, and the obstacle is the 2-core. Answers. An empty or small 2-core would leave directions free of pure relations for the cylinders. Test. Falsified beyond capacity, by the count under Obstacle. A direction peels off only if it lies in no relation, and all but at most \(\dim(G_1/S_J)\) members have every direction inside a relation. So peeling removes at most those members, and the 2-core contains all the others.
Dobrushin's uniqueness condition (R. L. Dobrushin, The description of a random field by means of conditional probabilities and conditions of its regularity, Theory Probab. Appl. 13 (1968) 197–224). This is statistical mechanics. If the total influence on each site is below 1, correlations decay and the measure is determined locally. Translation: members are sites and pure relations are interactions, and row freeness would follow from local freeness if influence decays. Answers. A decay condition would localize the coupling question to bounded neighbourhoods. Test. Not run: no influence measure is defined for this setting. The natural candidate, the number of members sharing a pure relation with a given member, is not bounded by the count under Obstacle, which says only that almost every member lies in some relation. The lead first needs a notion of decay.

Lead follow-up

conj:graded-dade-margin in member form. It was the value side's freeness statement, which the goal does not need in full (shared-factor falls). Follow-up. Closed: the value side does not reach the obstacle.
The Alexander–Hirschowitz theorem with Terracini's lemma, the value side's interpolation route. Follow-up. Closed: same reason.
The spread lemma. Its pair and cluster results stand. Follow-up. Closed: the obstacle lies in dense pure relations, not in the sharing structure the spread reduction addresses.

Bridge follow-up

The decoupling theorem. Developed into lem:derivative-propagation, whose base statement concerns spans in general position. Follow-up. Closed: it applies to random forms, and A1 needs adversarial ones.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): study exactly the smallest configuration outside the pullback framework. Take three members linked by one pure relation that involves a coupling direction, so that no cylinder direction avoids the pure relation, at the smallest board inside conj:row-free-subset's range (\(m\ge D\), \(N\ge2D^2\)). Decide whether the allowed set, or which subsets of it, are row-free through \(D\). Then extract either the mechanism that frees the couplings of a non-tensor allowed ring, or an obstruction to conj:row-free-subset.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:row-free-subset, prop:relation-coupling-count, prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, prop:shared-factor-no-falls, prop:syzygies-as-tor, prop:pinned-rank-vacuity, cor:pinned-cluster-reduction and the satisfiable-cover review's treatment of tensor and forced families. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the falsification, the Obstacle, each lead and bridge, and the structure. It found one gap. The draft inferred \(\pi_b(K_0)=E_b\) for every member from a bound on the total \(\dim K_0\). This is now replaced by the count under Obstacle: \(\pi_b(K_0)=E_b\) iff member \(b\)'s forms lie in the others' span, and at most \(\dim(G_1/S_J)\) members fail this. The count now also carries the third lead's and the cavity bridge's tests. The Dobrushin test, which rested on the same leap, is now recorded as not run. Its suggestions are adopted: freeness in the coordinate case holds in all degrees, and the third lead is distinguished from the recorded repair, where \(K_0=0\).

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Joint-space cylinder repair (correction to the dense-core return review): pure relations consume cylinder directions exactly as couplings do, so cylinders make the members' tensor free over the whole joint algebra once pure relations and couplings together project injectively onto the cylinder directions; so pure relations are not a separate barrier, the review's claims that they defeat cylinders and that no recorded tool handles them were wrong, and the barrier is the board-side joint capacity, as the record already stated

28 September 2026 · Working proof and correction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-minimal-pure-relation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Joint-space cylinder repair (correction to the dense-core return review): pure relations consume cylinder directions exactly as couplings do, so cylinders make the members' tensor free over the whole joint algebra once pure relations and couplings together project injectively onto the cylinder directions; so pure relations are not a separate barrier, the review's claims that they defeat cylinders and that no recorded tool handles them were wrong, and the barrier is the board-side joint capacity, as the record already stated”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-joint-space-cylinders.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The dense-core return review proposed studying the smallest configuration outside the pullback framework: three members linked by one pure relation involving a coupling direction. Preparing that study, the triangle turned out to be repairable by cylinders placed along the relation's own directions. That contradicts the review's third lead and its Obstacle. What exactly do cylinders need when pure relations are present?

General statement. prop:joint-space-cylinder-repair: if each member is a cylinder over \(U_b\subseteq E_b\), and the joint space \(K'=K_0\oplus K\) of pure relations and couplings projects injectively onto \(\bigoplus_bU_b\), then the members' tensor is free over \(T(K')\) in every degree. So on the value side there are no falls, and the quotient by the pure relations is free over the couplings. This needs \(\sum_b\dim U_b\ge\dim K_0+\dim K\), a value-side capacity. Reaching the board still needs the board-side joint capacity.

The triangle

Three members with forms \(v_b\in E_b\) and the pure relation \(\kappa=v_1+v_2+v_3\), with a coupling direction \(\rho=c_1v_1+c_2v_2+c_3v_3\) not proportional to \(\kappa\). Suppose members 1 and 2 are cylinders along \(v_1\) and \(v_2\): \(M_b=T(v_b)\otimes M''_b\). Then \(X=T(v_1)\otimes T(v_2)\otimes M''_1\otimes M''_2\otimes M_3\). Modulo \(\kappa\), the free factor \(T(v_1)\) absorbs the relation, with \(v_1=-v_2-v_3\), so \(X/\kappa X\cong T(v_2)\otimes M''_1\otimes M''_2\otimes M_3\). Here \(\rho\equiv(c_2-c_1)v_2+(c_3-c_1)v_3\) acts on the free factor \(T(v_2)\) whenever \(c_2\ne c_1\), so \(X/\kappa X\) is free along \(\rho\). The cylinder directions lie inside the pure relation, which the review's third lead excluded. One direction is consumed by the relation and one carries the coupling.

prop:joint-space-cylinder-repair

Statement. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), let \(M_b=T(U_b)\otimes M''_b\) be cylinder members, with \(E_b=U_b\oplus C_b\) and \(M''_b\) a quotient of \(T(C_b)\). Let \(K'\subseteq\bigoplus_bE_b\) act diagonally on \(X=\bigotimes_bM_b\). If the projection \(K'\to\bigoplus_bU_b\) along \(\bigoplus_bC_b\) is injective, then \(X\) is free over \(T(K')\) in every degree. Consequently, for \(K'=K_0\oplus K\):

\(X\) is free over \(T(K_0)\). By lem:relation-space-tor this gives the cube-model transfer: no falls on the value side.
\(X/K_0X\) is free over \(T(K)\), by cor:cluster-flag-reduction (1).

Proof. \(X=T(\bigoplus_bU_b)\otimes N\) with \(N=\bigotimes_bM''_b\). An element \(\kappa=\kappa_U+\kappa_C\) of \(K'\) acts as \(\kappa_U\otimes1+1\otimes\kappa_C\), the diagonal action of the Hopf algebra \(T(K')\). The projection \(\kappa\mapsto\kappa_U\) is injective, so \(T(\bigoplus U_b)\cong T(\text{image})\otimes T(\text{complement})\) is free over \(T(K')\). A free module tensored with any module is free, by the Hopf untwisting isomorphism used in prop:ideal-sum-criterion. \(\square\)

Two capacities.

Value side. Injectivity needs \(\sum_b\dim U_b\ge\dim K_0+\dim K\). A cylinder over \(U_b\) is nonempty when \(\dim U_b\le c_b=h_b-1-\lfloor\log_3|\text{excluded set of }b|\rfloor\) (prop:oriented-cylinder-repair). Let \(\Phi:\bigoplus_bE_b\to G_1/S_J\) be the members' linear parts modulo the cells of \(J\), as in lem:relation-free-direction-count. Its kernel is \(K_0=\Phi^{-1}(S_J)\) of prop:relation-coupling-count, so \(\dim K_0=\sum_bh_b-\operatorname{rank}\Phi\). If every \(U_b\) is kept within the guaranteed-nonempty bound \(c_b\), injectivity therefore needs \(\sum_b(h_b-c_b)+\dim K\le\operatorname{rank}\Phi\): the members' logarithmic excluded sizes, plus the couplings, fit into the dimension of the forms' span. Larger cylinders may exist for particular value sets; this is the condition for the guaranteed ones. Pure relations cost exactly as much as couplings here.
Board side. The value-side statement reaches the board only through the pullback: the base must be jointly free over the span of the linear parts together with the row sums. That is the joint capacity of cor:subfamily-row-freeness, spans of dimension about \(N/(2D)\) (conj:row-free-subset). Inside it, cor:subfamily-row-freeness already gives row freeness whatever the pure relations.

Dense families violate the board-side capacity by far, with spans of order \(mN\), whatever happens on the value side.

Corrections to the dense-core return review

Its Obstacle said the allowed ring's failure to be a tensor, caused by dense pure relations, defeats every recorded row-freeness proof. This is wrong. cor:subfamily-row-freeness proves row freeness inside joint capacity whatever the members' dependencies, taking the pullback over the span of the linear parts. On the value side, prop:joint-space-cylinder-repair handles pure relations as well. The obstacle is the board-side joint capacity: the base stops being free over spans beyond about \(N/(2D)\), as A1's living text has long stated.
Its third Outside lead required cylinder directions avoiding the pure relations, \(K_0\subseteq\bigoplus C_b\). That requirement is unnecessary: cylinders may lie inside the pure relations, and only injectivity of the joint projection is needed. The lead's test answered a mis-posed question.
lem:relation-free-direction-count stays true, but it is not an obstruction. It counts the members with a direction outside every pure relation, and such directions are not needed.

The review's falsification section, its placement of the adversarial family, and its other leads and bridges are unaffected.

Outcome. prop:joint-space-cylinder-repair (working proof): cylinders free the members' tensor over the whole joint algebra once pure relations and couplings project injectively onto the cylinder directions, giving no falls and freeness over the couplings on the value side. Pure relations cost cylinder directions just as couplings do. This corrects the dense-core return review: pure relations are not a separate barrier. The barrier is the board-side joint capacity, where the base stops being free over the span, as recorded. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): quantify the board-side barrier from the recorded base theorems. Start from thm:tensor-power-freeness (cover-free through \(t\) iff \(N\ge2t-1\), and freeness over up to \(m\) forms with injective column maps). Derive the largest span over which the weak base, or a confined base, is jointly free through \(D\), and compare it with the span W's dense families need. This decides whether any strategy through freeness over the span can reach the dense core, or whether A1 needs a mechanism that does not pass through such freeness.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read cor:subfamily-row-freeness, prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, prop:relation-coupling-count, lem:relation-space-tor, cor:cluster-flag-reduction, prop:ideal-sum-criterion, lem:relation-free-direction-count, conj:row-free-subset and the dense-core return review's Obstacle and third lead. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer verified by hand the triangle computation, including that freeness along \(\rho\) holds exactly when the joint projection is injective (\(c_1\ne c_2\)). It also verified the proposition, both consequences and all three corrections. The review's Obstacle is refuted because cor:subfamily-row-freeness's hypothesis is on the board, not on the allowed ring being a tensor, and the triangle itself shows cylinders inside a pure relation working. It required two changes, both adopted: \(\Phi\) is now defined as the composite to \(G_1/S_J\), whose kernel is \(K_0\), so the dimension count is exact; and the value-side capacity is stated as the condition for the guaranteed-nonempty cylinders, not as an unconditional necessary condition.

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Union gluing: no pullback piece exists once the forms and row sums span the degree-1 space, by a degree-2 count against the base's quadratic relations (a proof of the record's obstacle (a)), so row-free subsets of dense families that span the degree-1 space must be unions or other non-pullback sets; a union of two row-free sets with no union falls is row-free exactly where the second Tor of the sum of their top ideals comes from the pieces

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-base-capacity. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Union gluing: no pullback piece exists once the forms and row sums span the degree-1 space, by a degree-2 count against the base's quadratic relations (a proof of the record's obstacle (a)), so row-free subsets of dense families that span the degree-1 space must be unions or other non-pullback sets; a union of two row-free sets with no union falls is row-free exactly where the second Tor of the sum of their top ideals comes from the pieces”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-union-gluing.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The joint-space cylinders entry left the board-side joint capacity as the barrier, and asked how large a span the base can be jointly free over. Can any strategy through freeness over the span reach dense families? If not, which row-free subsets remain?

General statement. lem:pullback-degree-two-bound: if the graded ring of a subset of the weak base is free through degree 2 over the truncated algebra of a space \(S\) of linear forms, then \(\dim T(S)_2\le\dim G_2\). In particular \(S\) is not the whole degree-1 space whenever the ring has a quadratic relation, which the weak base does. lem:union-gluing: for row-free sets \(U\) and \(W\) whose union has no falls, the union is row-free through \(D\) iff every class of \(\operatorname{Tor}_2^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,G/(n_U+n_W))\) in degrees \(\le D\) comes from the pieces.

lem:pullback-degree-two-bound

Statement. Let \(Q\) be a subset of the weak unary base, \(G_Q=\operatorname{gr}F^Q\), and \(S\subseteq(G_Q)_1\) a subspace acting through \(T(S)\). If \(G_Q\) is free over \(T(S)\) through degree \(2\), then \(T(S)_{\le2}\) embeds in \(G_Q\): \(\dim T(S)_j\le\dim(G_Q)_j\) for \(j\le2\). If \(S=(G_Q)_1\), then \((G_Q)_2\cong T(S)_2\), so \(G_Q\) has no quadratic relation.

Proof. \((G_Q)_0=\mathbb F_3\), so a minimal generating space contains \(1\) in degree 0. The minimal free cover is bijective through degree 2, so \(T(S)\cdot1\) injects in degrees \(\le2\). If \(S=(G_Q)_1\), then \(T(S)_2\to(G_Q)_2\) is also onto, since \(G_Q\) is generated in degree 1. \(\square\)

Application. The weak base has quadratic relations. For rows \(i\ne i'\) and a column \(t\), the cells \(x_{it}\), \(x_{i't}\) are linearly independent in \(G_1\) (for \(m,N\ge2\)), so \(x_{it}x_{i't}\) is a nonzero element of \(T(G_1)_2\). It vanishes on the base by the column exclusion. As a function of degree 2 vanishing on \(P\), it is its own top, so it maps to 0 in \(G_2\).

A pullback piece needs joint freeness over the forms' algebra together with the row sums (lem:pullback-row-freeness, cor:subfamily-row-freeness). Two cases arise.

If some combination of linear parts lies in the span of the row sums, lem:pullback-row-freeness's joint freeness fails already, as that lemma notes.
Otherwise the forms and row sums together span a space \(S\) with \(T\otimes\Lambda\cong T(S)\), and the bound applies to \(S\).

So a family whose forms, with the row sums, span \(G_1\) has no pullback piece on the base. On a confined ambient \(Q\) the same holds with \(G_Q\), whenever \(G_Q\) has a quadratic relation.

The count also bounds the span quantitatively. Freeness through 2 needs \(s(s+1)/2\le\dim G_2\) for \(s=\dim S\). Since \(\dim G_2\) falls short of \(\binom{\dim G_1+1}2\) by the number \(q_2\) of independent quadratic relations, \(s\) must stay below \(\dim G_1\) by about \(q_2/\dim G_1\). The exact figure for the weak base was not computed here, and higher degrees ask more.

This proves, by a count, the record's obstacle (a): beyond capacity there is no pullback piece under a jointly free map, because the forms' span contains every cell (row-free subsets, prop:fiber-count-barrier). Pinning restricts to the fibre of at most about \(n/(k\log n)\) forms (cor:pinned-cluster-reduction). To help, the fibre would need to cut the span of the remaining forms from order \(mN\) down to where freeness is possible. Nothing recorded makes so few pins do that, and this entry does not bound the span on a fibre. So no strategy through freeness over the span is known to reach dense families. The gap between thm:general-forms-freeness's proved range, about \(mN/(2t-1)\), and this count is a limit of that proof, but it does not matter for spanning families.

lem:union-gluing

Setting. As in lem:defect-gluing: \(G=\operatorname{gr}F^P\) on the weak base, \(\Lambda\) the truncated algebra of the row sums, and \(n_U\) the top ideal of \(I(U)\), so that \(\operatorname{gr}F^U=G/n_U\). A set is row-free through \(D\) when \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,G/n_U)\) vanishes in degrees \(\le D\).

No union falls. Always \(I(U\cup W)=I(U)\cap I(W)\) and \(n_{U\cup W}\subseteq n_U\cap n_W\). Equality holds through \(D\) if the sum of the two ideals has no degree cancellation below \(D\), i.e. \(I(U\cap W)_{\le e}=I(U)_{\le e}+I(W)_{\le e}\) for \(e<D\). That is the gluing condition of lem:degreewise-gluing.

Here is why. If \(f=\operatorname{top}(g)=\operatorname{top}(h)\) with \(g\in I(U)\), \(h\in I(W)\) of degree \(d\le D\), then \(g-h\) has degree \(e<d\) and lies in \(I(U)+I(W)=I(U\cap W)\). So \(g-h=g'-h'\) with \(g'\in I(U)_{\le e}\), \(h'\in I(W)_{\le e}\), and \(g-g'=h-h'\in I(U)\cap I(W)\) has top \(f\).

Statement. Let \(U\) and \(W\) be row-free through \(D\), and suppose the union has no falls through \(D\): \(n_{U\cup W}=n_U\cap n_W\) in degrees \(\le D\), as holds under the gluing condition just stated. Then \(U\cup W\) is row-free through \(D\) iff the map \(\operatorname{Tor}_2^\Lambda(G/n_U)\oplus\operatorname{Tor}_2^\Lambda(G/n_W)\to\operatorname{Tor}_2^\Lambda(G/(n_U+n_W))\) is onto in degrees \(\le D\). In particular it suffices that \(\operatorname{Tor}_2^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,G/(n_U+n_W))\) vanishes in degrees \(\le D\).

Proof. The sequence \(0\to G/(n_U\cap n_W)\to G/n_U\oplus G/n_W\to G/(n_U+n_W)\to0\) is exact and consists of graded \(\Lambda\)-modules. In its long exact Tor sequence, \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n_U)\oplus\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n_W)\) vanishes in degrees \(\le D\), so \(\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/(n_U\cap n_W))_d\) is the cokernel of \(\operatorname{Tor}_2(G/n_U)_d\oplus\operatorname{Tor}_2(G/n_W)_d\to\operatorname{Tor}_2(G/(n_U+n_W))_d\) for \(d\le D\). With no union falls, \(G/(n_U\cap n_W)=\operatorname{gr}F^{U\cup W}\) through \(D\). \(\square\)

What it is for. Unions escape the degree-2 bound, since a union of pieces is not a pullback under one jointly free map. The recorded proposal of the row-free subsets entry was to take prefix-vanishing pieces \(P\cap\{L_{b,j(b)}=0\ \forall b\}\) for different choices \(j\) on different parts of the board and glue them. lem:union-gluing makes that gluing precise: two conditions (no union falls, and the Tor₂ condition on the sum of the pieces' tops), where lem:defect-gluing handles intersections. It is the union counterpart of lem:defect-gluing. Each prefix-vanishing piece alone is a pullback of \(M\) chosen forms. When those forms, with the row sums, span \(G_1\), the bound shows it is not row-free as a pullback. For smaller spans beyond thm:general-forms-freeness's proved range, its row freeness is open. Whether pieces that are individually not row-free can have a row-free union is not addressed by this lemma, which assumes row-free pieces.

Outcome. lem:pullback-degree-two-bound (working proof): freeness through degree 2 over a span embeds its truncated algebra, so spans of all of \(G_1\) are impossible on the weak base. This proves the record's obstacle (a) by a count. Pinning is not known to close the gap for dense families. lem:union-gluing (working proof): the union of two row-free sets without union falls is row-free iff the second Tor of the sum of their tops comes from the pieces. Row-free subsets of dense families must be non-pullback sets such as unions, and lem:union-gluing is the criterion for them. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): find row-free pieces that live inside the allowed set of a dense family on different parts of the board. For example, prefix-vanishing pieces restricted to confined bases on disjoint column blocks, where each piece's chosen forms have a small span on its own block. Then test lem:union-gluing's two conditions on their union. The smallest instance is two blocks and two pieces. It differs from the recorded two-member studies (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, prop:coupled-cover-failure), which concern the intersection of two members' allowed sets and its cylinder repair, not a union of pieces. Those results fix what a piece must avoid: an unbalanced coupled pair inside a piece defeats that piece's row freeness. Also decide whether the lemma extends to pieces that are not row-free.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:defect-gluing, lem:degreewise-gluing, lem:pullback-row-freeness, cor:subfamily-row-freeness, prop:fiber-count-barrier, thm:general-forms-freeness, cor:pinned-cluster-reduction, and the row-free subsets entry's obstacle (a). No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the degree-2 embedding, the case \(S=(G_Q)_1\), the exact sequence and the long exact Tor argument. It required six changes, all adopted: a proof that the column exclusions give quadratic relations; the case split between forms dependent on the row sums and forms independent of them; hedging the pinning sentence, since a count of pins is not a bound on the span; deriving the no-union-falls condition from lem:degreewise-gluing rather than identifying the two; hedging the claim that single pieces are not row-free beyond capacity; and relating the next step to the recorded coupled-pair results.

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Defect complementarity: the union of two sets without union falls is row-free exactly when their first-Tor defects embed in the first Tor of the ring of their summed tops and its second Tor comes from the pieces, so pieces that are not row-free can glue only if their defects are complementary; for the natural pair, the allowed set and its complement, union falls are exactly low-degree functions whose products with the two indicators rise together, beginning with the constant at the indicator's degree

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-union-pieces. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Defect complementarity: the union of two sets without union falls is row-free exactly when their first-Tor defects embed in the first Tor of the ring of their summed tops and its second Tor comes from the pieces, so pieces that are not row-free can glue only if their defects are complementary; for the natural pair, the allowed set and its complement, union falls are exactly low-degree functions whose products with the two indicators rise together, beginning with the constant at the indicator's degree”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-defect-complementarity.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The union gluing entry gave the criterion for unions of row-free pieces. Beyond capacity no single piece inside a dense family's allowed set is known to be row-free, and pullback pieces are excluded when the span is full. Can pieces that are not row-free glue to a row-free union, and under what condition?

General statement. lem:defect-complementarity: for sets \(U,W\) of the weak base whose union has no falls through \(D\), \(U\cup W\) is row-free through \(D\) iff, in degrees \(\le D\), both of the following hold:

\(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(G/n_U)\oplus\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(G/n_W)\to\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(G/(n_U+n_W))\) is injective;
\(\operatorname{Tor}_2^\Lambda(G/n_U)\oplus\operatorname{Tor}_2^\Lambda(G/n_W)\to\operatorname{Tor}_2^\Lambda(G/(n_U+n_W))\) is onto.

lem:defect-complementarity

Proof. The exact sequence \(0\to G/(n_U\cap n_W)\to G/n_U\oplus G/n_W\to G/(n_U+n_W)\to0\) of lem:union-gluing gives the exact segment

\[\operatorname{Tor}_2(G/n_U)\oplus\operatorname{Tor}_2(G/n_W)\to\operatorname{Tor}_2(G/(n_U+n_W))\to\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/(n_U\cap n_W))\to\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n_U)\oplus\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/n_W)\to\operatorname{Tor}_1(G/(n_U+n_W)),\]

degree by degree. The middle term vanishes iff the map into it is zero and the map out of it is zero, i.e. iff (2) and (1) hold. With no union falls, \(G/(n_U\cap n_W)=\operatorname{gr}F^{U\cup W}\) through \(D\). lem:union-gluing is the case of row-free pieces, where (1) is empty. \(\square\)

Reading. Pieces that are not row-free can glue, but only if their row-freeness defects, the classes in \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(G/n_U)\) and \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(G/n_W)\), map injectively into the first Tor of the ring \(G/(n_U+n_W)\) of their summed tops. That ring is the graded ring of \(U\cap W\) only under the gluing condition of lem:degreewise-gluing, which is not assumed here. ("Defect" here means these Tor classes, not the defect \(\Delta\) of lem:defect-gluing.)

A test: the allowed set and its complement

The natural pair is the allowed set \(A\) of a family and its complement \(A^c\) in the base. Their union is the base, which is row-free. If the lemma applied, (1) would embed the allowed set's defect in \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) of \(G/(n_A+n_{A^c})\). But its hypothesis fails from the degree of the allowed set's indicator on.

When the pair has union falls. Since \(I(P)=0\), no union falls means \(n_A\cap n_{A^c}=0\). Suppose \(g\in I(A)\) and \(h\in I(A^c)\) have the same top of degree \(d\), and put \(u=g-h\), of degree below \(d\). Then \(g=u\,\mathbf 1_{A^c}\) and \(h=-u\,\mathbf 1_A\) as functions on \(P\). Conversely, any \(u\) with \(\deg u<d=\deg(u\mathbf 1_A)=\deg(u\mathbf 1_{A^c})\) gives such a pair, since \(u\mathbf 1_A+u\mathbf 1_{A^c}=u\) has lower degree, so the two tops cancel.

So a union fall in degree \(d\) is exactly a function \(u\) of degree below \(d\) whose products with the two indicators both reach degree \(d\). Taking \(u=1\) gives a union fall at \(\deg\mathbf 1_A=\deg\mathbf 1_{A^c}\). The two degrees agree because \(\mathbf 1_A+\mathbf 1_{A^c}=1\): if one exceeded the other, its top would survive in the sum. Both are positive, as \(A\) and \(A^c\) are nonempty. Hence the lemma applies to the pair \((A,A^c)\) only below the degree of the allowed set's indicator on the base.

For W families that degree was not determined here. Below it, union falls may still arise from other \(u\), and the exact characterization above decides them.

Outcome. lem:defect-complementarity (working proof): a union without union falls is row-free iff the pieces' first-Tor defects embed in the first Tor of the ring of their summed tops and its second Tor comes from the pieces. This answers the union gluing entry's question for pieces that are not row-free: they glue only when their defects are complementary. The allowed set and its complement have a union fall at the degree of the allowed set's indicator on the base, so the lemma applies to them only below that degree, which was not determined for W families. No pieces with complementary defects inside a dense family's allowed set are known. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the line now sits several reductions below A1, through row-free subsets, non-pullback subsets and union gluing, and no candidate piece is known. By the descent rule the next cycle is a route review. It should decide whether conj:row-free-subset beyond capacity has any mechanism left, and weigh a return to W's other sufficient conditions.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:union-gluing, lem:defect-gluing, lem:degreewise-gluing and conj:row-free-subset. The claim search found no earlier version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the exact sequence, the five-term Tor segment and the iff, including the reduction to lem:union-gluing. It verified the characterization of the pair's union falls in both directions. It required two changes, both adopted: the reading no longer identifies \(G/(n_U+n_W)\) with the overlap's ring, which would need the degreewise-gluing condition; and the equality of the two indicator degrees is now justified. Its suggestion to separate this use of "defect" from lem:defect-gluing's is adopted.

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Route review of the row-free subset line beyond capacity: pullback pieces are excluded for spanning families, unions glue only pieces with complementary defects and none are known, and the weaker top-lift statement meets the same obstacle, since no tool controls top-degree row syzygies beyond capacity; the one lead not yet run gets its development cycle before cycles move to another open statement

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-rowfree-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the row-free subset line beyond capacity: pullback pieces are excluded for spanning families, unions glue only pieces with complementary defects and none are known, and the weaker top-lift statement meets the same obstacle, since no tool controls top-degree row syzygies beyond capacity; the one lead not yet run gets its development cycle before cycles move to another open statement”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-row-free-line-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the dense-core return review, three entries:

joint-space cylinders, correcting that review: pure relations cost cylinders as couplings do, and the barrier is joint capacity;
union gluing: no pullback piece for spanning families, and a union criterion;
defect complementarity: pieces that are not row-free glue only with complementary defects.

The line sits several reductions below A1 with no candidate. Does it have a mechanism left?

The line's general claim

W_RS follows from conj:row-free-subset, and more weakly from conj:top-lift-subset. The latter asks for a subset \(Q\) of the allowed set with a degree-\((D-1)\) row design on which the top-degree syzygies of the row sums lift, the condition of prop:design-lift-criterion at one degree.

What the goal needs

Such a subset for families beyond joint capacity. There:

pullback pieces do not exist once the forms and row sums span \(G_1\) (lem:pullback-degree-two-bound);
cylinders cost capacity (prop:joint-space-cylinder-repair);
unions need complementary defects (lem:defect-complementarity).

Falsification attempt

Could the allowed set itself serve, with no falls at all? If no nonzero function of degree \(\le D\) vanished on the allowed set \(A\), then \(\operatorname{gr}F^A=G\) through \(D\), and \(A\) would inherit the base's row freeness. But the clauses themselves are functions of degree \(2k+2\le D\) vanishing on \(A\). So the top ideal \(n_A\) of \(A\) always contains the clause tops, and may be larger when there are falls. Row freeness of \(A\) is exactly the Tor condition on \(G/n_A\), the record's relative row freeness. The attempt confirms that no shortcut bypasses the Tor condition.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on controlling the row sums' syzygies modulo the clause tops of a family beyond joint capacity, in all degrees through \(D\) (row freeness) or at the top degree alone (top lift). Every recorded tool controls them through a structure the dense core lacks:

a pullback under a jointly free map;
cylinders within capacity;
member-wise freeness;
complementary pieces.

Dimension-level statements cannot certify row freeness (prop:coupling-distributivity).

Assessment of the route

The last three entries sharpened the line and corrected a review. They proved that its natural candidates, pullback pieces, are impossible for spanning families, and they supplied the gluing criteria any other candidate must meet. They found no candidate. The route's statement conj:row-free-subset, and its weaker form conj:top-lift-subset, have had no mechanism beyond capacity since the row-free subsets entry of 27 September. The recent cycles reformulated the obstacle more than they moved it. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Gröbner degeneration with monomial row sums (upper semicontinuity of Tor in flat families; A. Conca and M. Varbaro, Square-free Gröbner degenerations, Invent. Math. 221 (2020) 713–730). Target: the obstacle. Answers. Under an order making each row sum's leading term one cell \(x_{i,t_i}\), with distinct \(t_i\), row freeness would follow from freeness of the degenerate ring over those cells, if the clause tops' initial terms avoided them. Test. Falsified for the base itself. The column exclusion \(x_{i,t_i}x_{i',t_i}=0\) makes the leading cell of row \(i\) annihilate a cell of row \(i'\). So the degenerate base is not free over the monomial row sums, and no subset inherits freeness this way. Other orders were not searched.
Razborov's pigeon-dance designs (A. Razborov, Lower bounds for the polynomial calculus, Comput. Complexity 7 (1998) 291–324). Target: the top-lift form. Answers. Dance designs are degree-\((D-1)\) row designs on sets of small matchings, which would give the design half of conj:top-lift-subset. Test. Falsified for the lifting half, as the record's lift review found: the dance line supplies only the Nullstellensatz half, and the extension of designs to degree \(D\) is exactly the unmet condition.
Koszul cohomology of generic linear sections (M. Green, Koszul cohomology and the geometry of projective varieties, J. Differential Geom. 19 (1984) 125–171). Generic linear forms have vanishing Koszul cohomology in a range. Target: the obstacle, with row sums as the linear forms. Answers. It would give the row sums' Koszul 1-cycles on the allowed ring. Test. Falsified. The row sums are fixed special forms, sums over the cells of a row, not generic ones, and the base's own row freeness needed the chessboard and FI-module arguments of thm:tensor-power-freeness, not a genericity statement.

Absurd bridges

Discrete Morse theory (R. Forman, Morse theory for cell complexes, Adv. Math. 134 (1998) 90–145). This is combinatorial topology. Acyclic matchings collapse a complex without changing its homology. Translation: the base's row freeness is tied to the homology of chessboard complexes (chessboard cycles), and the allowed set removes a small excluded set. An acyclic matching on the removed cells, of low dimension, would preserve the connectivity that gives row freeness. Answers. Row freeness of the allowed set from a collapse of the excluded cells. Test. Not run: the record's correspondence ties row freeness to chessboard homology for the base on one set of rows, and its extension to subsets of assignments is not established. That extension is the first thing to derive.
Lee–Yang zero-free regions for polymer gases (T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang, Statistical theory of equations of state and phase transitions II, Phys. Rev. 87 (1952) 410–419). This is statistical physics. The partition function of allowed matchings with a small excluded density has no zeros near the physical region, so it factors approximately. Answers. Counts of allowed configurations degree by degree. Test. Falsified as a certificate: dimension-level statements cannot certify row freeness (prop:coupling-distributivity).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): two items bearing on A1 are not run, the Dobrushin influence lead of the dense-core return review and the discrete Morse bridge above. Before cycles move away from A1 they get their development cycle. Develop the discrete Morse bridge first, since it has a concrete first step. Derive the correspondence between row freeness of a subset of assignments and the homology of a subcomplex of the chessboard complex, extending the record's base case, and test it on a coupled pair, where row freeness is known to fail. If the correspondence fails, or gives no collapse for spread excluded sets, develop the Dobrushin lead. After that, move cycles to the transfer statement or the window route S1.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:row-free-subset, conj:top-lift-subset, prop:design-lift-criterion, lem:pullback-degree-two-bound, lem:defect-complementarity, prop:joint-space-cylinder-repair, prop:coupling-distributivity and thm:tensor-power-freeness. No computation was run; each test is an argument about recorded claims. No lead or bridge follow-up is due, since the dense-core return review passed none. A fresh-context reviewer checked the falsification, the Obstacle and assessment against the excerpts, each test, and the citations. It confirmed the Nullstellensatz-half remark in conj:top-lift-subset's own assessment. It required one change, adopted: row freeness of the allowed set is the Tor condition modulo its full top ideal, which contains the clause tops but may be larger.

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Hereditary subset obstruction: the discrete Morse bridge turns row freeness of a hereditary set into chessboard-subcomplex cohomology, but row freeness needs a point with every row of a set present, and in normal form a sparse block puts an excluded sub-assignment below every such point for every prefix matrix; in any formulation a placement whose sub-assignments carry many distinct zero patterns keeps them all with small probability

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-morse-bridge. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Hereditary subset obstruction: the discrete Morse bridge turns row freeness of a hereditary set into chessboard-subcomplex cohomology, but row freeness needs a point with every row of a set present, and in normal form a sparse block puts an excluded sub-assignment below every such point for every prefix matrix; in any formulation a placement whose sub-assignments carry many distinct zero patterns keeps them all with small probability”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-hereditary-subsets.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The row-free line review listed the discrete Morse bridge as not run. The bridge would get row freeness of a subset of the allowed set from a collapse of chessboard complexes. Its first step was to derive the correspondence between row freeness of a set of assignments and the homology of a chessboard subcomplex, beyond the base (thm:chessboard-link). Which sets have such a correspondence, and can the allowed set of a W family contain a row-free one?

General statement. prop:hereditary-subset-obstruction, over \(\mathbb F_3\). Notation: \(P'\) is the set of column-injective assignments on \(m\) rows and \(N\) columns, \(P\subseteq P'\) the base (total occupancy \(\equiv m\)), \(\tilde A=\mathbb F_3[x_{ic}]/(x_{ic}x_{jc})\) (all \(i,j\), including \(i=j\)) the weak algebra without row sums, \(r_i=\sum_cx_{ic}\). A set \(Q'\subseteq P'\) is hereditary if it is closed under deleting pigeons. For a set \(T\) of rows, a \(T\)-placement is an assignment with exactly one pigeon in each row of \(T\) and none elsewhere.

Row products. If a nonempty \(Q\subseteq P\) is row-free through \(D\) (the hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing), then for every set \(T\subseteq\{1,\dots,m-1\}\) with \(|T|\le D\), the function \(r_T=\prod_{i\in T}r_i\) has degree exactly \(|T|\) on \(Q\). In particular some point of \(Q\) contains a \(T\)-placement.
Hereditary correspondence. For hereditary nonempty \(Q'\subseteq P'\), \(\operatorname{gr}F^{Q'}=\tilde A/(x^S:S\notin Q')\), and the content-\(1_T\) strand of the Koszul complex of the row sums on it is the augmented cochain complex of \(Q'[T]=\{S\in Q':S\text{ has at most one pigeon in each row of }T\text{ and none elsewhere}\}\), a subcomplex of the chessboard complex \(\Delta_{T,N}\). So \(H_i(r;\operatorname{gr}F^{Q'})_{1_T}\cong\widetilde H^{|T|-i-1}(Q'[T])\).
Obstruction in normal form. Take \(t\ge1\) and \(h=2t+1\), distinct rows \(a_1,\dots,a_h,b,e_1,e_2\) in \(\{1,\dots,m-1\}\), \(T\) the set of these \(2t+4\) rows, and a block with forms \(L_j=\sum_{c\ge2}(x_{a_j,c}-x_{b,c})+\lambda_j\). Each \(\lambda_j\) is linear with no constant term and no cells in column 1 or in the rows of \(T\), so it may be dense. For every \(t\times h\) matrix \(C\), every \(T\)-placement \(\sigma\) has a sub-assignment in \(P\) at which a clause \(g_iQ^C\) is nonzero. Hence, for every \(D\ge2t+4\), every subset of the base that is row-free through \(D\) contains a point with a sub-assignment in \(P\) outside the allowed set. So no subset \(Q\) of the allowed set is both row-free through \(D\) and closed under taking sub-assignments that lie in \(P\), and in particular no \(Q'\cap P\) with \(Q'\) hereditary.
Pattern count (prop:vacuity-threshold on sub-assignments). For any family and any assignment \(\sigma\), let \(R_b(\sigma)\) be the number of distinct nonzero zero patterns \(g_b(U)=(1-L_{b,j}(U)^2)_j\) over the sub-assignments \(U\subseteq\sigma\) in \(P\). With independent uniform \(C_b\), the probability that no clause fires at any sub-assignment of \(\sigma\) in \(P\) is at most \(\prod_b\bigl(1+R_b(\sigma)3^{-t}\bigr)^{-1}\le\bigl(1+\sum_bR_b(\sigma)3^{-t}\bigr)^{-1}\).

Proof

(1). Write \(M=\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) and \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r_1,\dots,r_{m-1}]/(r_i^3)\). Row freeness through \(D\) is \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,M)_d=0\) for \(d\le D\), as in thm:global-closure-gluing. Take a minimal graded free presentation \(F_0\to M\to0\). The kernel is generated by its minimal generators, which correspond to \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\), so it lives in degrees above \(D\), and \(F_0\to M\) is injective in degrees \(\le D\). Since \(Q\ne\emptyset\), \(M_0=\mathbb F_3\cdot1\) and \(1\notin\Lambda_+M\), so \(F_0\) has a basis element \(v_0\mapsto1\). The monomial \(r_T\) is nonzero in \(\Lambda\), so \(r_Tv_0\ne0\) in \(F_0\), and its image \(r_T\cdot1\in M_{|T|}\) is nonzero. That image is the class of the function \(r_T\) in \(F_{|T|}/F_{|T|-1}\), so \(r_T\) has degree exactly \(|T|\) on \(Q\) and does not vanish there. At a point \(y\) with \(r_T(y)\ne0\), every row of \(T\) has a pigeon. One pigeon from each such row gives a \(T\)-placement inside \(y\), since \(y\) is column-injective.

(2). Every function on \(P'\) has a unique expansion \(\sum_Sa_Sx^S\) over the assignments \(S\), with \(x^S(y)=[S\subseteq y]\). The expansion is triangular for inclusion (Möbius inversion). On a hereditary \(Q'\), \(x^S\) vanishes for \(S\notin Q'\), since a point containing \(S\) would put \(S\) in \(Q'\). The restrictions \(x^S|_{Q'}\), \(S\in Q'\), are triangular, so they form a basis of \(F^{Q'}\). If \(f=\sum_{S\in Q'}a_Sx^S\) on \(Q'\), and \(g=\sum_Sb_Sx^S\) agrees with \(f\) on \(Q'\), then restricting \(g\) and comparing coefficients gives \(a_S=b_S\) for \(S\in Q'\). So \(\deg f=\max\{|S|:a_S\ne0\}\). Hence the classes of \(x^S\), \(S\in Q'\), form a basis of \(\operatorname{gr}F^{Q'}\), and products of classes are the classes of the products, which vanish when two pigeons share a column, a repeated cell included, or the union leaves \(Q'\). That is \(\tilde A/(x^S:S\notin Q')\), a quotient by monomials. In thm:chessboard-link (i) the content-\(1_T\) strand has basis \(e_U\otimes x_f\) over faces \(f\) of \(\Delta_{T,N}\), with the Koszul differential adding a rook, and the sign twist \(\varepsilon(f)\) makes it the augmented cochain complex. The quotient by the monomials outside \(Q'\) kills exactly the basis elements with \(f\notin Q'\). These faces form an up-set, so the quotient complex is the cochain complex of the subcomplex \(Q'[T]\), with the same signs. The empty face lies in \(Q'[T]\) because \(Q'\) is nonempty and hereditary.

(3). Let \(\sigma\) be a \(T\)-placement, and call a row of \(\sigma\) countable if its pigeon is not in column 1. At most one row of \(\sigma\) is not countable. For a sub-assignment \(U\subseteq\sigma\) we have \(\lambda_j(U)=0\), since \(U\) uses only rows of \(T\), and (the column-1 condition on \(\lambda_j\) is used only for the normal form and the sparse equivalent below)

\[L_j(U)=[a_j\in U\text{ and countable}]-[b\in U\text{ and countable}].\]

The zero pattern of the block is \(g(U)=(1-L_j(U)^2)_j\), a 0/1 vector with \(g_j(U)=1\) iff \(L_j(U)=0\).

As in prop:vacuity-threshold (3), the Davenport constant of \((\mathbb Z/3)^t\) is \(2t+1\) (Olson), so every sequence of \(2t+1\) elements has a nonempty subsequence with sum zero. Applied to the columns of \(C\), it gives a nonempty \(J\subseteq[h]\) with \(\sum_{j\in J}C_{\cdot j}=0\). Build \(U\) with \(g(U)=\mathbf 1_J\) by one of two rules.

Rule A: leave \(b\) out. Then \(L_j(U)=[a_j\in U\text{ and countable}]\). Put \(a_j\) in \(U\) iff \(j\notin J\). This gives \(g(U)=\mathbf 1_J\) when every \(a_j\) with \(j\notin J\) is countable.
Rule B: put \(b\) in \(U\), when \(b\) is countable. Then \(L_j(U)=[a_j\in U\text{ and countable}]-1\). Put \(a_j\) in \(U\) iff \(j\in J\). This gives \(0\) on \(J\) and \(-1\ne0\) off \(J\), so \(g(U)=\mathbf 1_J\), when every \(a_j\) with \(j\in J\) is countable.

If the row that is not countable is some \(a_{j_0}\) with \(j_0\notin J\), then \(b\) is countable and every \(a_j\) with \(j\in J\) is countable, so Rule B applies. Otherwise every \(a_j\) with \(j\notin J\) is countable, and Rule A applies.

Finally add zero, one or two of the pigeons of \(\sigma\) in rows \(e_1,e_2\), so that \(|U|\equiv m\pmod 3\). These rows do not enter any \(L_j\). Then \(U\in P\), \(g(U)=\mathbf 1_J\ne0\) and \(Cg(U)=0\), so \(Q^C(U)=\prod_s(1-(Cg(U))_s^2)=1\), and for \(i\in J\) the clause \(g_iQ^C\) equals \(1\) at \(U\).

Now let \(Q\subseteq P\) be row-free through \(D\ge|T|=2t+4\). By (1) some \(y\in Q\) contains a \(T\)-placement \(\sigma\), and \(\sigma\) has the sub-assignment \(U\in P\) just built, which is excluded. So \(Q\) is not contained in the allowed set together with its sub-assignments in \(P\). A hereditary \(Q'\) with \(Q'\cap P\) inside the allowed set would contain \(U\), since \(U\subseteq y\in Q'\), and \(U\in P\).

(4). This is prop:vacuity-threshold (2) applied, block by block, to the point set of \(\sigma\)'s sub-assignments in \(P\), with the second-moment bound in place of Chebyshev's. Fix \(b\). Let \(\Pi\) be the set of distinct nonzero zero patterns \(p=g_b(U)\), \(U\subseteq\sigma\), \(U\in P\), so \(|\Pi|=R_b(\sigma)=R\). Distinct nonzero 0/1 vectors are linearly independent over \(\mathbb F_3\) in pairs, since \(2p\) is not a 0/1 vector unless \(p=0\). So for uniform \(C_b\), \(\Pr[C_bp=0]=3^{-t}\) and \(\Pr[C_bp=C_bp'=0]=3^{-2t}\) for \(p\ne p'\) in \(\Pi\). With \(X=\#\{p\in\Pi:C_bp=0\}\), \(\mathbb EX=R3^{-t}\) and \(\mathbb EX^2\le R3^{-t}(1+R3^{-t})\), so \(\Pr[X>0]\ge(\mathbb EX)^2/\mathbb EX^2\ge R3^{-t}/(1+R3^{-t})\). If \(X>0\), some \(U\) has a nonzero pattern with \(C_bg_b(U)=0\), and the clause \(g_{b,i}Q^{C_b}\) with \(g_{b,i}(U)=1\) fires at \(U\). The \(C_b\) are independent, so the probability that no block fires is at most \(\prod_b(1-R_b3^{-t}/(1+R_b3^{-t}))=\prod_b(1+R_b3^{-t})^{-1}\), and \(\prod_b(1+x_b)\ge1+\sum_bx_b\) for \(x_b\ge0\). \(\square\)

What the bridge gets

By (2), the bridge's correspondence exists exactly as the review hoped, for hereditary sets. Row freeness of \(Q'\) in multilinear contents through \(D\) is equivalent to \(\widetilde H^{j}(Q'[T])=0\) for \(j\le|T|-2\) and \(|T|\le D\). (Frobenius classes have contents \(\ge3e_i\), so they do not enter multilinear contents, as in thm:chessboard-link (iii).) So a Forman matching on \(Q'[T]\) with no critical cells below the top dimension, the empty face included, would give it. This is the only setting found where the graded ring of a set of assignments is a face ring of a subcomplex.

But a hereditary set contains assignments with absent pigeons. In normal form a form does not see column 1, so an absent pigeon counts as a pigeon in hole 1. Several absent pigeons then count as several pigeons in hole 1, which no point of PHP realizes, and clauses may fire there. Part (3) makes this a proof. The block of (3) with \(\lambda_j=0\) is equivalent, modulo the row equations, to the two-cell forms \(x_{b,1}-x_{a_j,1}\). The clauses in the two sets of forms derive each other from the row equations at low degree, as in the normal-form argument of the relative row freeness entry. So it is a sparse block, and W holds for it by thm:sparse-block-w, with that theorem's prefix choice. W's prefix corresponds to a matrix \(C\) with unit rows, whose clauses equal W's as functions on the base, so the allowed sets agree. For that choice as for every other, (3) excludes every hereditary row-free subset. With dense \(\lambda_j\) the same block lies in the dense core. So hereditary subsets are not a mechanism for conj:row-free-subset in normal form, even for families where W is proved.

Other formulations. The objection in (3) uses the normal form. Written with the forms \(x_{b,1}-x_{a_j,1}\), the block with \(\lambda_j=0\) has zero pattern \(\mathbf 1\) at almost every sub-assignment, and fires there only if \(C\mathbf 1=0\). So the specific obstruction disappears in that equivalent (conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness allows choosing one). Part (4) covers every formulation, since it holds for any forms. By (1), a hereditary row-free subset needs, for each \(T\) with \(|T|\le D\), a \(T\)-placement \(\sigma\) with no excluded sub-assignment. By (4) a given \(\sigma\) survives with probability at most \((1+\sum_bR_b(\sigma)3^{-t})^{-1}\), which is small once \(\sum_bR_b(\sigma)\) is well above \(3^t\), about \(3n^{K+1}\). A placement has up to \(2^{|T|}/3\) sub-assignments in \(P\), and \(|T|\) runs up to \(D\approx44t\), so dense blocks can realize far more than \(3^t\) patterns on it. Surviving placements are then expected only where most blocks' zero patterns barely vary, that is, on cells where most forms' coefficients vanish. There are up to \(n^{|T|}\) placements, so the bound for one placement does not by itself exclude survivors, and whether every dense family leaves such placements for every \(T\) was not decided. The record's union bound \(2^DM3^{-t}\) for hereditary supports (prop:top-drop-coordinates) is the same count from above.

The coupled pair. The review asked for a test on a coupled pair, whose allowed set fails row freeness under pullback hypotheses (coupled pairs). That allowed set is a pullback set, not hereditary, so (2) does not apply to it, and the test was replaced by (3), which decides the bridge's formulation directly.

Outcome. prop:hereditary-subset-obstruction (working proof). The Morse bridge's correspondence holds for hereditary sets: their graded rings are face rings of chessboard subcomplexes, and row freeness in multilinear contents is vanishing of the subcomplexes' cohomology below the top. But row freeness needs, for every set of at most \(D\) rows, a point with all those rows present. In normal form an explicit sparse block, for which W is proved, puts an excluded sub-assignment below every such point for every prefix matrix. So no hereditary subset of its allowed set is row-free. In any formulation a placement keeps all its sub-assignments with probability at most \((1+\sum_bR_b3^{-t})^{-1}\), with \(R_b\) its number of distinct nonzero zero patterns of block \(b\). So in normal form the bridge is closed as a route to A1: the sets on which it computes are the sets the clauses break. In other formulations it reduces to choosing an equivalent whose zero patterns barely vary on some placement for every row set; (4) makes this unlikely for dense forms but does not exclude it. No computation was run.

Bridge follow-up

Discrete Morse theory. Derived the correspondence for hereditary sets and tested whether allowed sets contain hereditary row-free subsets: in normal form they need not, by an explicit sparse block, and in every formulation a placement with many distinct zero patterns rarely survives. Follow-up. Closed: the bridge applies only to hereditary sets, and in normal form the clauses exclude those; in other formulations only the probabilistic bound (4) is known, which the next reviews may revisit if an equivalent with nearly constant zero patterns turns up.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the other item bearing on A1 that was not run is the Dobrushin influence lead of the dense-core return review. Its development cycle must first define an influence between members that could decay. Then test whether bounded influence localizes the coupling question to bounded neighbourhoods. Test it against prop:coupling-distributivity, which shows that dimension counts cannot certify row freeness. After that, cycles move to the transfer statement or the window route S1.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:chessboard-link (i) with its sign twist, thm:global-closure-gluing's row-freeness hypothesis, the W_RS clause definition, the normal-form argument of the relative row freeness entry, prop:vacuity-threshold, thm:sparse-block-w and prop:top-drop-coordinates. Claim searches for hereditary sets, Davenport and row products found prop:vacuity-threshold, whose Davenport and pairwise-independence steps (3) and (4) now cite, and the union bound of prop:top-drop-coordinates. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed (1) through (4): the minimal-presentation argument, the monomial quotient and subcomplex signs, the exhaustive split between Rules A and B at the sharp length \(2t+1\), and the second-moment bound. It required one change, adopted: the Outcome now closes the bridge in normal form only, with other formulations left to the probabilistic bound. Its note on where the column-1 condition on \(\lambda_j\) is used is adopted.

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Influence decay obstruction: row freeness has no high-temperature regime, since coupled pairs whose excluded sets are an arbitrarily small fraction of the value space already fail it, and for dense random forms, with high probability, every relation among forms and row sums involves a number of forms near-linear in the dimension of the linear forms, so the Dobrushin bridge can neither localize the coupling question nor certify exact freeness

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional in part (1) · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dobrushin-lead. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Influence decay obstruction: row freeness has no high-temperature regime, since coupled pairs whose excluded sets are an arbitrarily small fraction of the value space already fail it, and for dense random forms, with high probability, every relation among forms and row sums involves a number of forms near-linear in the dimension of the linear forms, so the Dobrushin bridge can neither localize the coupling question nor certify exact freeness”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-influence-decay.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The dense-core return review listed Dobrushin's uniqueness condition, an Absurd bridge, as not run: members as sites, relations as interactions, and row freeness from local freeness if influence decays. It noted that no influence measure had been defined. After the hereditary subsets entry closed the Morse bridge in normal form, this is the last not-run item bearing on A1. Is there an influence whose decay would localize the coupling question, and could decay give exact row freeness?

General statement. prop:influence-decay-obstruction, over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak base, with the notation of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance. An influence can be read from the members' excluded sets (the temperature) or from the relations among their forms (the interactions). Both readings fail.

No high-temperature regime. For \(h\ge2\) and \(t\ge(h-1)/2\) let \(V_h=\mathbb F_3^h\setminus E_h\), with \(E_h=\{y:y_1=0,\ y_j\ne0\text{ for }j\ge2\}\). Then \(V_h=-V_h\), the excluded fraction is \(|E_h|/3^h=\frac12(2/3)^h\), which tends to 0, and \(\alpha(V_h)-\beta(V_h)=-2^{h-1}\ne0\). \(V_h\) is the allowed value set of a W_RS member whose \(t\times h\) prefix matrix has zero first column and remaining columns \(e_1,e_1,e_2,e_2,\dots\), each unit vector at most twice. So the pair of such members coupled through one column, with \(4h+1\le D\), is not row-free through \(D\), under the level-set pullback hypotheses (H) and base row freeness through \(D\) (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance (3)). The joint freeness in (H) leaves the value map's forms without pure relations, so the pair's only relation is the coupling.
Interactions have long range. Let \(U\subseteq G\) be subspaces of a vector space over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\dim U=d\), \(W\subseteq G\) a subspace of dimension \(w\), and \(f_1,\dots,f_q\) independent uniform elements of \(U\), with \(q=\sum_bh_b\). With probability at least \(1-2(3q)^s3^{w-d}\), every nonzero relation \(\sum_ic_if_i\in W\) has more than \(s\) nonzero coefficients. So it involves more than \(s/\max_bh_b\) members.

Proof

(1). \(E_h\) is closed under \(y\mapsto-y\), so \(V_h=-V_h\). \(|E_h|=2^{h-1}\). In \(V_h\), \(\alpha=|\{y_1=0\}|-|E_h|=3^{h-1}-2^{h-1}\) and \(\beta=|\{y_1=1\}|=3^{h-1}\), since \(E_h\) lies in \(\{y_1=0\}\). So \(\alpha-\beta=-2^{h-1}\). Under a prefix \(C\), a W_RS member excludes the points whose zero pattern \(\zeta\) is nonzero with \(C\zeta=0\). For the matrix in (1), \(Ce_1=0\), and a 0/1 vector \(\zeta\) with \(\zeta\ne0,e_1\) has \(C\zeta=\sum_ik_ie_i\) with each \(k_i\in\{0,1,2\}\) counting the chosen copies of \(e_i\), not all zero, so \(C\zeta\ne0\). So the only such vector is \(e_1\), and the excluded set is the set of points with zero set exactly \(\{1\}\), which is \(E_h\), as in prop:coupled-pair-imbalance (4). Both members of the coupled pair are unbalanced, so part (3) of that proposition applies, with its hypotheses (H) on the levels of \(r_1\), base row freeness and \(4h+1\le D\). Its conclusion needs only \((\alpha_1-\beta_1)(\alpha_2-\beta_2)\ne0\), not any bound on the size of the excluded sets.

(2). Fix a set \(F\) of \(j\le s\) indices and a nonzero \(c\in\mathbb F_3^F\). Some \(c_i\ne0\), and \(f_i\) is uniform and independent of the others, so \(\sum_{i\in F}c_if_i\) is uniform on \(U\). It lies in \(W\) with probability \(|W\cap U|/|U|\le3^{w-d}\). There are at most \(q^j\) sets of size \(j\) and fewer than \(3^j\) vectors \(c\). So a relation with at most \(s\) nonzero coefficients exists with probability at most \(\sum_{j=1}^s(3q)^j3^{w-d}\le2(3q)^s3^{w-d}\), since \(3q\ge3\). A relation with more than \(s\) nonzero coefficients uses forms of more than \(s/\max_bh_b\) members. \(\square\)

What this means for the bridge

The bridge's claim was that row freeness would follow from local freeness if influence decays.

Temperature. Dobrushin's theorem is quantitative: small total influence makes correlations decay, which is an approximate statement. Row freeness is the exact vanishing of \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\). By (1), exactness fails at every excluded fraction, however small, as soon as one coupling meets two unbalanced members. So no influence that tends to zero with the excluded sets can certify row freeness of an allowed set. This matches prop:coupling-distributivity, where dimension-level quantities cannot certify it. The repair for pairs is a subset, the \(e_1\)-cylinder of one member, not a small parameter.

Interactions. Take \(G=G_1\), \(U\) the space of normal-form linear parts, of dimension \(m(N-1)\), and \(W\) the span of the row sums and of the cells of a column set \(J\), of dimension at most \(m-1+m|J|\). The couplings and pure relations of prop:relation-coupling-count are exactly the relations with sum in \(W\). With \(q=Mh\le n^Kh\) forms on the PHP board (\(m=n+1\), \(N=n\)), (2) gives \(s\) of order \(mN/((K+1)\log_3n)\) as long as \(|J|\) is well below \(N\). So for dense random families, with high probability, every relation, coupling or pure, involves more than \(s/h\) members, a number near-linear in the dimension \(mN\) of the linear forms for fixed \(K\) and \(h=O(\log n)\). With high probability, then, neighbourhoods in any interaction graph grow with \(n\), and the bridge's answer, localizing the coupling question to bounded neighbourhoods, is unavailable. A mean-field version with influence about \(1/s\) per member is not excluded by this, but by the temperature reading it could at best give approximate statements.

Subsets. The goal needs a row-free subset (conj:row-free-subset), not uniqueness. The local construction of subsets is the member cylinder, and lem:relation-free-direction-count allows a cylinder direction free of pure relations in at most \(\dim(G_1/S_J)\) members. So the bridge, read as local construction, reduces to the recorded obstacle.

Outcome. prop:influence-decay-obstruction (working proof; part (1) conditional on the level-set pullback hypotheses of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance). Row freeness has no high-temperature regime: coupled pairs with excluded fraction \(\frac12(2/3)^h\), which tends to zero, are not row-free. For dense random forms, with high probability, every relation among forms and row sums involves more than about \(mN/((K+1)\log_3n)\) forms, so interactions are not local. The Dobrushin bridge is closed: decay cannot give exactness, and with high probability there are no bounded neighbourhoods to localize to. Both not-run items bearing on A1 have now had development cycles, and neither yields a mechanism. No computation was run.

Bridge follow-up

Dobrushin's uniqueness condition. Defined two influences, from excluded sets and from relations, and tested both. Follow-up. Closed: exact row freeness fails at arbitrarily small excluded fractions (under the pullback hypotheses of the coupled pair), and dense relations, with high probability, have range near-linear in the dimension.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): every item bearing on A1 that was not run has now had its development cycle, and A1's dense core has no mechanism. Next: a route review over the open statements. It should state what A1 still needs after the row-free, hereditary and influence lines, decide whether cycles move to the window route S1 or A3, and choose its Outside leads and Absurd bridges to answer that obstacle.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:coupled-pair-imbalance (setting, parts (3) and (4) with their hypotheses), prop:relation-coupling-count, lem:relation-free-direction-count, prop:coupling-distributivity and the dense-core return review's Dobrushin item. Claim searches for influence, decay and relation support found no earlier version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the counts and the kernel of the prefix matrix in (1) (the cap of two copies per unit vector is needed), the application of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance (3), and the union bound in (2). It required two changes, both adopted: part (2)'s consequences are stated with high probability, and the near-linear range is measured against the dimension \(mN\) for fixed \(K\). It also suggested attributing the absence of pure relations to that proposition's part (1). That part concerns couplings, so the entry instead cites the joint freeness in (H).

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Route review of A1 after the development cycles: every route to the goal passes through W for adversarial families, every recorded kind of row-free subset fails beyond joint capacity, and a subset that interpolates functions of degree at most D gains nothing; the one weakening never tested is the top-degree lift on the full allowed set, where the low-degree failures of coupled pairs need not reach

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-a1-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of A1 after the development cycles: every route to the goal passes through W for adversarial families, every recorded kind of row-free subset fails beyond joint capacity, and a subset that interpolates functions of degree at most D gains nothing; the one weakening never tested is the top-degree lift on the full allowed set, where the low-degree failures of coupled pairs need not reach”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-a1-subset-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The two items bearing on A1 that were not run have had their development cycles (hereditary subsets, influence decay), and neither gave a mechanism. The row-free line review planned to move cycles to S1 or A3 afterwards. Does that move make sense, and what should A1 try next?

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows from a nonempty subset of the allowed set that is row-free through \(D\) (conj:row-free-subset), or more weakly from one carrying a degree-\((D-1)\) row design on which the top-degree syzygies of the row sums lift (conj:top-lift-subset, via prop:design-lift-criterion).

What the goal needs

A1 for dense families beyond joint capacity. Moving to another open statement does not avoid it:

the window route to S1, recorded as a partial alternative, is proved outside the window; inside it, S1's gluing needs the lag bound, whose known proof path is the prefix reduction to W;
A2 and A3 are Tor vanishing for the clause tops, which for adversarial forms is A1 again.

So every recorded route to the goal passes through W for adversarial dense families. A move to S1 or A3 would refine statements that the goal needs only through A1. Cycles stay on A1.

Falsification attempt

Could a generic subset of the allowed set do better than the whole? No. Let \(Q\subseteq\mathcal A\) be such that restriction \(F^{\mathcal A}_{\le D}\to F^Q\) is injective, i.e. no nonzero function of degree \(\le D\) on \(\mathcal A\) vanishes on \(Q\). Then \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q=\operatorname{gr}F^{\mathcal A}\) through \(D\).

Proof. \(I(\mathcal A)\subseteq I(Q)\), so \(n_{\mathcal A}\subseteq n_Q\). Conversely, let \(f\in I(Q)\) have degree \(d\le D\). Its restriction to \(\mathcal A\) has degree \(\le D\) and vanishes on \(Q\), so it is zero, and \(f\in I(\mathcal A)\). Hence the top of \(f\) lies in \(n_{\mathcal A}\), and \(n_Q=n_{\mathcal A}\) through \(D\).

So a subset helps only if it lies on the zero set, within \(\mathcal A\), of a nonzero function of degree \(\le D\). Row-free subsets are thin, algebraically special sets. Every structured kind recorded so far is excluded beyond capacity:

pullback pieces, once the forms and row sums span \(G_1\) (lem:pullback-degree-two-bound);
cylinders, beyond capacity (prop:joint-space-cylinder-repair, lem:relation-free-direction-count);
unions, without complementary defects (lem:defect-complementarity);
hereditary sets, in normal form (prop:hereditary-subset-obstruction);
certificates by small parameters: row freeness fails at arbitrarily small excluded fractions (prop:influence-decay-obstruction (1), conditional on the coupled pair's pullback hypotheses).

Separately, dimension-level certificates (fall counts, cluster expansions) cannot decide row freeness (prop:coupling-distributivity). This limits proof methods rather than excluding a kind of subset.

The attempt does not falsify conj:row-free-subset, but it shows that nothing generic can supply its subsets.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on exact freeness over the row sums on some subset of the allowed set of a dense family beyond joint capacity. Pure relations there leave almost no member direction free of relations (lem:relation-free-direction-count). Every relation among forms and row sums involves, with high probability for random dense forms, a number of forms near-linear in \(mN\) (prop:influence-decay-obstruction). And any nonzero imbalance along one coupling already breaks row freeness of the full allowed set (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance). The needed property is exact, global and algebraic, and every recorded tool supplies it only through a local product structure that the dense core lacks.

Assessment of the route

Since the dense-core return review, the entries have closed the row-free line's remaining candidates: joint-space cylinders beyond capacity, unions, the Morse bridge and the Dobrushin bridge. They left conj:row-free-subset without a mechanism beyond capacity. The route's central difficulty, W for dense adversarial families, is the goal's difficulty in algebraic form. Nothing recorded suggests it is easier than a direct PC lower bound for PHP with polynomially many dense wide clauses. One weakening was set aside without a decisive test. The lift review excluded the full allowed set for the top lift only heuristically: the Nullstellensatz degree of the varying-shift fall's multiples was never bounded. The coupled pair's failures, which drive the obstacle, sit at degree at most \(4h-1\), far below \(D\approx44t\). The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Dade's lemma and Carlson's rank varieties (E. C. Dade, Endo-permutation modules over p-groups II, Ann. of Math. 108 (1978) 317–346; J. F. Carlson, The varieties and the cohomology ring of a module, J. Algebra 85 (1983) 104–143). \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[r_i]/(r_i^3)\) is the group algebra of \((\mathbb Z/3)^{m-1}\), and a module over it is free iff it is free over every shifted cyclic subgroup. Target: the obstacle, by reducing freeness over all row sums to single directions, where prop:single-direction-sectors gives a level-set criterion. Answers. Row freeness would become a statement about one weighted row sum at a time, each checked on its level sets. Test. Falsified in the graded truncated form the goal needs. ex:truncated-dade-special-position is a module free through degree 3 along every nonzero direction over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_3\) but not free over the whole algebra, and the recorded replacement conj:unit-loss-dade concerns tensor products, not the allowed ring beyond capacity.
Gotzmann persistence (G. Gotzmann, Eine Bedingung für die Flachheit und das Hilbertpolynom eines graduierten Ringes, Math. Z. 158 (1978) 61–70). If an ideal generated in degree \(\le d\) grows minimally from \(d\) to \(d+1\), its Hilbert function is determined from then on. Target: the obstacle, by reducing row freeness through \(D\) to degrees near the clause degree \(4t+2\). Answers. Row freeness would be checked where the clauses live, not at \(D\approx44t\). Test. Falsified for the translation, persistence of freeness rather than of Hilbert functions: the base's top ideal is generated in degree 2, yet its row freeness stops near \(N/2\) by capacity (thm:tensor-power-freeness). The theorem's own minimal-growth hypothesis was not checked here; it is the translation that fails. The record's propagation results do not supply an upward version: prop:freeness-propagation passes injectivity down from degree \(D\), and lem:derivative-propagation concerns directness inside the members' algebras \(T(U_b)\).
Alekhnovich–Razborov immunity with expansion (M. Alekhnovich and A. Razborov, Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case, Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 242 (2003) 18–35). PC degree lower bounds follow from boundary expansion of the constraint–variable graph and high immunity of each constraint. Target: A1 directly, bypassing row freeness. Answers. It would give W's degree bound for families whose clauses form an expanding system. Test. Falsified for dense blocks: every dense clause meets almost every variable, so a set of two or more dense clauses has almost no boundary variables, far fewer than the method needs. The record's immunity audit (audit:AR-immunity-ENS-scope) reaches the same scope limit, and the sparse-block theorem is where the method applies.

Absurd bridges

Injective tensor networks (D. Pérez-García, F. Verstraete, M. M. Wolf and J. I. Cirac, PEPS as unique ground states of local Hamiltonians, Quantum Inf. Comput. 8 (2008) 650–663). This is condensed-matter physics. Injectivity of local tensors is an exact property that survives contraction, which is why injective networks have unique parent Hamiltonians. Translation: members are local tensors, couplings are bonds, and row freeness is injectivity of the contracted network. Answers. Freeness would pass from members to the family along any contraction pattern, dense or not. Test. Falsified: freeness over \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) with \(u\) acting diagonally does not survive the tensor product, by the graded Clebsch–Gordan rule \(J_2\otimes J_2=J_3\oplus J_1\). This is exactly the coupled pair's failure (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance), so the contraction step has no analogue.
Distributive lattices of stable matchings (Birkhoff's representation theorem, with the stable-matching lattice of D. E. Knuth, Mariages stables, 1976). This is economics and order theory. Condition (i) of lem:defect-gluing is a distributivity of the row-sum ideal over the members' ideals (prop:coupling-distributivity). A finite lattice of subspaces is distributive iff one basis is adapted to all of them. Translation: choose a subset of the allowed set whose members' ideals and the row-sum ideal generate a distributive lattice, as stable matchings form one. Answers. An adapted basis would give condition (i) and so row freeness without falls. Test. Falsified as a new route: the translation lands on the record's adapted-basis line (conj:block-adapted-basis, thm:adapted-helly-locality), which needs the same local structure, and the coupled pair is non-distributive along its coupling.

Bridge follow-up

No passed item of an earlier review on this route is open: the Morse and Dobrushin bridges were closed in their development cycles.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): decide the top-degree lift of prop:design-lift-criterion on the full allowed set, the test the lift review deferred. First the coupled pair: does its row-freeness failure at degree at most \(4h-1\) propagate to the lifting condition \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}\) at \(D\gg4h\), or do the low-degree syzygies lift once multiplied up? Then bound below the Nullstellensatz degree of the varying-shift fall's multiples \(x_Sf\). If both lift, conj:top-lift-subset may hold with \(Q=\mathcal A\), which would remove the subset requirement that every closed line failed on.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read the Open statements, conj:row-free-subset, conj:top-lift-subset, prop:design-lift-criterion, the lift review's paragraph on the full allowed set, and the summaries of every claim cited under Falsification attempt, Outside leads and Absurd bridges. No computation was run; each test is an argument about recorded claims or a short computation in the text. No lead or bridge follow-up is due. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the falsification lemma, the scope of the pullback, cylinder, union and hereditary exclusions, the lead and bridge tests and the next step. It required three changes, all adopted: the window route to S1 is addressed, the bullet on small parameters no longer lists prop:coupling-distributivity as excluding a kind of subset, and the Gotzmann test is stated as falsifying the translation, not the theorem.

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Single-row lift transfer: the top-degree lift along one row equation is controlled by a Hilbert-function defect and, on filtered products, both it and the exact lift defect convolve with the other factor's Hilbert function; in value space an unbalanced coupled pair fails the lift at degree 3 for two of the three coupling constants and lifts at every degree for the third, so in the two-row product model the full allowed set fails the top lift in every degree from 3 on for those two, and lifts although it is not row-free for the third

28 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-full-set-lift. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Single-row lift transfer: the top-degree lift along one row equation is controlled by a Hilbert-function defect and, on filtered products, both it and the exact lift defect convolve with the other factor's Hilbert function; in value space an unbalanced coupled pair fails the lift at degree 3 for two of the three coupling constants and lifts at every degree for the third, so in the two-row product model the full allowed set fails the top lift in every degree from 3 on for those two, and lifts although it is not row-free for the third”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-single-row-lift.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The A1 subset review named the one weakening never tested: the top-degree lift of prop:design-lift-criterion on the full allowed set. The lift review had excluded it only heuristically. The coupled pair's row-freeness failures sit at degree at most \(4h-1\). Do they reach the lift at larger degrees \(D\)?

General statement. prop:single-row-lift-transfer. Let \(X\) be a finite point set with a degree filtration \(F^X_{\le e}\) (restricted from polynomials), and for \(Z\subseteq X\) let \(H_Z(e)=\dim F^Z_{\le e}\), with the degree of a function on \(Z\) the least degree of an extension. Let \(\rho\in F^X_{\le1}\) take values in \(\mathbb F_3\), with \(X_1=\{\rho=0\}\) and \(X'=X\setminus X_1\) (so \(\rho^2=1\) on \(X'\)). Put \(N_e=\rho F^X_{\le e-1}\), the lift defect \(\lambda_X(D)=\dim(N_D\cap F^X_{\le D-1})-\dim N_{D-1}\), and the Hilbert defect

\[\Delta_X(D)=H_X(D-1)-H_{X_1}(D-1)-H_{X'}(D-2).\]

Criterion. \(\Delta_X(D)\ge0\). If \(\Delta_X(D)=0\), the lift \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}\) holds (\(\lambda_X(D)=0\)). If the lift holds at \(D\) and at \(D+1\), then \(\Delta_X(D)=0\).
Products. If \(X=Y\times Z\) with the product filtration and \(\rho\) depends only on \(Y\), then \(\lambda_X=z*\lambda_Y\) and \(\Delta_X=z*\Delta_Y\), where \(z_j=H_Z(j)-H_Z(j-1)\) and \((z*f)(D)=\sum_jz_jf(D-j)\).
Coupled pairs in value space. For the value space \(\Omega=\mathbb F_3^2\times\{\emptyset,1,\dots,m\}\) of prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, with \(Y=\{y\ne0,\ y'\ne0\}\times\{\text{states}\}\) and \(\rho=c_0+[\pi=1]-y-y'-1\), exact computation over \(\mathbb F_3\) gives, for \(m=2\) and \(m=3\), \(\lambda_Y(D)=0\) for \(D\ne3\), and \(\lambda_Y(3)=1,0,2\) (\(m=2\)) and \(2,0,3\) (\(m=3\)) for \(c_0=0,1,2\). So for \(c_0\in\{0,2\}\), whenever the allowed set is such a product with \(Z\) having elements of degree \(D-3\), it fails the lift at \(D\). For \(c_0=1\) it lifts at every degree, although prop:coupled-pair-imbalance shows it is not row-free.

ex:coupled-pair-lift-defects (finite check) tests (2)–(3) on the two-row weak base, where the row equations reduce to \(\rho=r_1-1\) and the lift of prop:design-lift-criterion is exactly the one above.

Proof

(1). Write \(W_e\) for the functions on \(X'\) of degree \(\le e\) there, and \(\zeta(\psi)\) for the function equal to \(\psi\) on \(X'\) and \(0\) on \(X_1\). Since \(\rho h=\zeta(\rho\,h|_{X'})\) and restriction maps \(F^X_{\le e-1}\) onto \(W_{e-1}\), \(N_e=\zeta(\rho W_{e-1})\). Let \(S_e=\{\varphi:\deg_X\zeta(\rho\varphi)\le e\}\), so that \(\zeta(\rho S_e)=I_e\), the functions of degree \(\le e\) on \(X\) vanishing on \(X_1\). Then \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}=\zeta(\rho(W_{D-1}\cap S_{D-1}))\) and \(N_{D-1}=\zeta(\rho W_{D-2})\). The map \(\psi\mapsto\zeta(\rho\psi)\) is injective, since \(\rho\) is invertible on \(X'\), so

\[\lambda_X(D)=\dim(W_{D-1}\cap S_{D-1})-\dim W_{D-2}.\]

Always \(W_{e-1}\subseteq S_e\), since \(\deg\rho h\le\deg h+1\). Also \(S_e\subseteq W_{e+1}\): for \(\varphi\in S_e\), \(\rho\varphi\) has degree \(\le e\) on \(X'\), and \(\varphi=\rho\cdot\rho\varphi\) has degree \(\le e+1\). Restriction to \(X_1\) maps \(F^X_{\le e}\) onto \(F^{X_1}_{\le e}\) with kernel \(I_e\), so \(\dim S_{D-1}=\dim I_{D-1}=H_X(D-1)-H_{X_1}(D-1)\), and \(\Delta_X(D)=\dim S_{D-1}-\dim W_{D-2}\ge0\). If \(\Delta_X(D)=0\), then \(S_{D-1}=W_{D-2}\) and \(\lambda_X(D)=0\). Conversely, let the lift hold at \(D\) and \(D+1\), and \(\varphi\in S_{D-1}\). Then \(\varphi\in W_D\cap S_D=W_{D-1}\) by the lift at \(D+1\), so \(\varphi\in W_{D-1}\cap S_{D-1}=W_{D-2}\) by the lift at \(D\).

(2). Choose graded complements \(F^Z_{\le j}=\bigoplus_{i\le j}Z_i\), \(\dim Z_i=z_i\). Then \(F^X_{\le e}=\bigoplus_jF^Y_{\le e-j}\otimes Z_j\). Since \(\rho\) depends only on \(Y\), \(N^X_e=\bigoplus_jN^Y_{e-j}\otimes Z_j\). Both \(N^X_D\) and \(F^X_{\le D-1}\) are of the form \(\bigoplus_jA_j\otimes Z_j\) for the same decomposition \(F^X=\bigoplus_jF^Y\otimes Z_j\), so their intersection is \(\bigoplus_j(N^Y_{D-j}\cap F^Y_{\le D-1-j})\otimes Z_j\). Taking dimensions gives \(\lambda_X=z*\lambda_Y\). Also \(X_1=Y_1\times Z\) and \(X'=Y'\times Z\), and \(H_{A\times Z}(e)=\sum_jz_jH_A(e-j)\) for \(A\subseteq Y\), which gives \(\Delta_X=z*\Delta_Y\).

(3). \(\lambda_Y\) and \(\Delta_Y\) are computed by value_space_lift.py from evaluation ranks over \(\mathbb F_3\) on at most 36 points (research/results/odd-prime-full-set-lift/value_space_lift.json). Controls: a pair with one balanced member (\(V_2=\mathbb F_3\)) and the cylinder \(\mathbb F_3\times\mathbb F_3\) have \(\lambda=\Delta=0\) for every \(c_0\). With (2), \(\lambda_X(D)\ge z_{D-3}\lambda_Y(3)>0\) when \(z_{D-3}>0\) and \(c_0\ne1\), and \(\lambda_X=z*0=0\) when \(c_0=1\). \(\square\)

The board

coupled_pair_lift.cpp (exact ranks over \(\mathbb F_3\) with fflas-ffpack, validated against FLINT at degree 2) takes the two-row weak base with \(N\) columns, one dense normal-form form \(L\) (seed 1), and \(L_2=-L-\sum_{c\ge1}x_{1c}+c_0\), so that \(L+L_2+r_1=x_{10}+c_0\). With \(Q=\{L\ne0,L_2\ne0\}\) it prints \(\lambda\) and \(\Delta\) for \(Q\) and the base \(P\). It also prints the prediction \(b*\Delta_Y\), with \(b\) solved from \(H_P=b*H_\Omega\). The predictions are counted before the run. Within the base's range they are \(\lambda_Q(3)=\lambda_Y(3)\), \(\lambda_Q(4)=b_1\lambda_Y(3)\), and \(0\) for \(c_0=1\). Outputs: coupled_pair_lift_exact_N7.txt and coupled_pair_lift_exact_N9.txt.

\(N=9\), \(D=1,\dots,6\). The base lifts through \(D=5\) (\(\lambda_P=0\)), fails at \(6\), and has \(\Delta_P=0\) through \(D=4\). The exact lift defects of \(Q\):

\(c_0=0\): \(0,0,1,13,106,271\);
\(c_0=1\): \(0,0,0,0,64,82\);
\(c_0=2\): \(0,0,2,26,165,459\).

Through \(D=4\), where \(\Delta_P=0\), every value matches the prediction (\(b_1=13\)), and so does \(\Delta_Q\): \(0,0,1,13\); \(0,0,0,0\); \(0,1,15,93\). At \(D=5\), where the base's Hilbert defect is already \(36\), the board shows more failure than the prediction, including \(64\) for \(c_0=1\).

\(N=7\). The base has \(\Delta_P=0\) through \(D=3\). There the defects match: \(\lambda_Q(3)=1,0,2\).

So in the degrees where the base behaves as a product factor, the transfer holds exactly. The two failing coupling constants fail the lift at \(D=3,4,5\) while the base lifts. Whether the \(c_0=1\) defect at \(D=5\) is an edge effect of \(N=9\) was not decided. The next board with a larger range, \(N=11\), needs evaluation matrices beyond the memory budget and was not run.

What this means for A1

For two of the three coupling constants, the lift review's heuristic exclusion of the full allowed set is now a proof in the two-row product model, with a matching finite check. The full allowed set fails the top lift in every degree \(D\ge3\) where the product factor has elements of degree \(D-3\), so conj:top-lift-subset still needs a proper subset there, such as the cylinder. The third constant shows that the top lift is strictly weaker than row freeness on full allowed sets: the pair is unbalanced and not row-free, yet it lifts at every degree in the model and through \(D=4\) on the board. So the top lift admits allowed sets that row freeness excludes, and the value-space defect \(\lambda_Y\), a finite computation, decides which. The coupling constant is a property of the forms, not of the prefixes, so an adversary can choose it.

The scope is one row equation. With \(m\ge3\) rows the other row equations enlarge \(N\), and (1)–(2) do not cover that. A product version with the other rows acting on \(Z\) is the natural extension.

Outcome. prop:single-row-lift-transfer (working proof): a Hilbert-function criterion for the single-row top lift, exact convolution of both defects over filtered products, and the value-space defects of coupled pairs. They fail the lift at degree 3 for \(c_0\in\{0,2\}\) and lift at every degree for \(c_0=1\). ex:coupled-pair-lift-defects (finite check) matches these predictions on the two-row base at \(N=7\) and \(N=9\) through the base's range. Hence, in the two-row product model, the full allowed set of an unbalanced coupled pair fails the top lift in every degree \(D\ge3\) where the product factor has elements of degree \(D-3\), unless \(c_0=1\), where it lifts without being row-free.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): characterize the value sets with \(\lambda_Y\equiv0\) along one coupled direction. For coupled pairs that means understanding why \(c_0=1\) lifts: \(L+L_2=x_{10}\) holds exactly on the row equation's level. Then extend (1)–(2) to several row equations, with the other rows acting on the product factor. If the lift's admissible class is strictly larger than the balanced one in general, conj:top-lift-subset can use subsets that the row-free line excluded.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:design-lift-criterion, prop:coupled-pair-imbalance (setting, value space and part (3)), prop:single-direction-sectors, ex:coupled-pair-levels and the lift review's paragraph on the full allowed set. The claim search for lift, single row and Hilbert defect found no earlier version; prop:single-direction-sectors is the row-freeness counterpart. The kernel was validated against FLINT at degree 2 in every case, and the predictions were counted before the runs. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed (1) and (2) line by line, reran value_space_lift.py with matching output, checked that the value-space script and the kernel compute the defects as defined and that on the two-row base the lift of prop:design-lift-criterion is the single-row lift (\(\rho_2=-\rho_1\)), and matched every quoted number to the output files. It required one change, adopted: the failure is stated for every degree \(D\ge3\) where the product factor has elements of degree \(D-3\), not for every degree. Its note on the injectivity of \(\psi\mapsto\zeta(\rho\psi)\) is adopted.

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Product lift rule: when the row equations split between the factors of a filtered product, the top-lift defect is an exact count over bases adapted to both filtrations, so lifting in every degree passes to products and a factor's failure passes up, weighted by the other factor's design quotient; on three rows the coupled pair's value-space defects reappear exactly

28 September 2026 · Working proof and finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-lift-class. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Product lift rule: when the row equations split between the factors of a filtered product, the top-lift defect is an exact count over bases adapted to both filtrations, so lifting in every degree passes to products and a factor's failure passes up, weighted by the other factor's design quotient; on three rows the coupled pair's value-space defects reappear exactly”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-product-lift-rule.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The single-row lift entry decided the top lift for coupled pairs with one row equation. On the PHP board every other row equation also enters \(N\), and could absorb the failure. Do several row equations rescue the full allowed set?

General statement. prop:product-lift-rule. Let \(X=Y\times Z\) carry the product of degree filtrations. Let \(\rho_1\) depend only on \(Y\), and \(\rho_2,\dots,\rho_k\) only on \(Z\), all of degree \(\le1\). Put \(N^Y_e=\rho_1F^Y_{\le e-1}\), \(N^Z_e=\sum_{i\ge2}\rho_iF^Z_{\le e-1}\), \(N^X_e=\sum_i\rho_iF^X_{\le e-1}\), and \(\lambda(D)=\dim(N_D\cap F_{\le D-1})-\dim N_{D-1}\) on each.

Count. Choose bases of \(F^Y\) and \(F^Z\) adapted to both of their flags. Let \(a(u)\), \(c(w)\) be the least filtration degrees containing \(u\), \(w\), and \(b(u)\), \(d(w)\) the least \(e\) with \(u\in N^Y_e\), \(w\in N^Z_e\) (\(\infty\) if none). Then \(\lambda_X(D)\) is the number of pairs \((u,w)\) with \(a+c\le D-1\) and \(\min(b+c,\,a+d)=D\).
Closure. If \(\lambda_Y(E)=\lambda_Z(E)=0\) for all \(E\le D\), then \(\lambda_X(D)=0\). In particular lifting in every degree passes to the product.
Transfer. \(\lambda_X(D)\ge\sum_cg_c(D)\,\lambda_Y(D-c)\), where \(g_c(D)=\dim\bigl(F^Z_{\le c}/(F^Z_{\le c}\cap N^Z_{D-1})\bigr)-\dim\bigl(F^Z_{\le c-1}/(F^Z_{\le c-1}\cap N^Z_{D-1})\bigr)\) is the graded dimension of \(Z\)'s quotient by its degree-\((D-1)\) row ideal. The symmetric bound holds with the roles of \(Y\) and \(Z\) exchanged. \(g_0(D)=1\) exactly when \(1\notin N^Z_{D-1}\), i.e. when \(Z\) has a degree-\((D-1)\) row design.

With one row equation (\(k=1\)), \(N^Z=0\), every \(d=\infty\), and (3) is the equality \(\lambda_X=z*\lambda_Y\) of prop:single-row-lift-transfer (2).

Proof

Adapted bases. Two filtrations of a finite-dimensional space have a common adapted basis (an elementary fact; the Bruhat decomposition is its complete, transverse case). \(F^Y_{\le0}\subseteq F^Y_{\le1}\subseteq\cdots\) and \(N^Y_1\subseteq N^Y_2\subseteq\cdots\) are two flags, and likewise on \(Z\). So each \(F^Y_{\le p}\) and \(N^Y_q\) is spanned by the basis vectors \(u\) with \(a(u)\le p\), respectively \(b(u)\le q\), and the same holds on \(Z\). Since \(N_e\subseteq F_{\le e}\), \(b\ge a\) and \(d\ge c\).

(1). \(F^X_{\le e}=\sum_pF^Y_{\le p}\otimes F^Z_{\le e-p}\) is spanned by the \(u\otimes w\) with \(a+c\le e\). Also \(\rho_1F^X_{\le e-1}=\sum_{p+q=e-1}N^Y_{p+1}\otimes F^Z_{\le q}\) and \(\sum_{i\ge2}\rho_iF^X_{\le e-1}=\sum_{p+q=e-1}F^Y_{\le p}\otimes N^Z_{q+1}\), since each \(\rho_i\) acts on one factor. So \(N^X_e\) is spanned by the \(u\otimes w\) with \(b\le p+1,\ c\le q\) or \(a\le p,\ d\le q+1\) for some \(p+q=e-1\), i.e. with \(\min(b+c,a+d)\le e\). All the spaces involved are spanned by subsets of one basis, so intersections are spanned by the intersections of the subsets. Hence \(\lambda_X(D)\) counts the pairs with \(a+c\le D-1\) and \(\min(b+c,a+d)\le D\), minus those with \(\min(b+c,a+d)\le D-1\). The latter satisfy \(a+c\le D-1\) automatically, since \(b\ge a\) and \(d\ge c\). What remains is the stated count.

(2). On one factor the count reads \(\lambda_Y(E)=\#\{u:a\le E-1,\ b=E\}\). Suppose a pair is counted at \(D\) with \(b+c=D\). Then \(b\le D\), and \(b\ne a\), since otherwise \(a+c=D\), which the condition \(a+c\le D-1\) excludes. So \(a\le b-1\), and \(u\) contributes to \(\lambda_Y(b)\) with \(b\le D\). Likewise a pair with \(a+d=D\) has a \(w\) contributing to \(\lambda_Z(d)\) with \(d\le D\). If both vanish through \(D\), no pair is counted.

(3). Count only the pairs with \(d(w)\ge D\), \(b(u)=D-c(w)\) and \(a(u)\le D-1-c(w)\). They have \(a+c\le D-1\), \(b+c=D\) and \(a+d\ge D\), so \(\min=D\). For fixed \(c\), there are \(\#\{u:a\le D-c-1,\ b=D-c\}=\lambda_Y(D-c)\) choices of \(u\). The number of \(w\) with \(c(w)=c\) and \(d(w)\ge D\) is \(g_c(D)\), because \(\#\{w:c(w)\le c,\ d(w)\le D-1\}=\dim(F^Z_{\le c}\cap N^Z_{D-1})\). Finally, \(g_0(D)=1-\dim(F^Z_{\le0}\cap N^Z_{D-1})\). \(\square\)

Coupled pairs on several rows

In the product model of prop:single-row-lift-transfer, \(Y\) is the coupled pair's value set, carrying the coupled row \(r_1\), and \(Z\) carries the other rows. By (3), \(\lambda_X(D)\ge g_{D-3}(D)\lambda_Y(3)\), with \(\lambda_Y(3)>0\) for \(c_0\in\{0,2\}\). The failure therefore persists at every \(D\) where \(Z\) has a function of degree \(D-3\) outside \(N^Z_{D-1}+F^Z_{\le D-4}\), which holds at \(D=3\) whenever \(Z\) has a degree-2 row design. For \(c_0=1\), \(\lambda_Y\equiv0\). By (2) the product lifts at \(D\) whenever \(Z\) lifts in all degrees up to \(D\), and a \(Z\) that is row-free through \(D\) satisfies the Koszul hypothesis of thm:global-closure-gluing and so lifts through \(D\) (prop:design-lift-criterion (3), stated for slice sets such as the weak base). So several row equations do not rescue the two failing constants and do not break the third.

coupled_pair_lift_multi.cpp computes the exact multi-row defect on the weak base with \(N_e=\sum_{i=1}^{m-1}\rho_iF_{\le e-1}\), using exact ranks over \(\mathbb F_3\) with fflas-ffpack. Evaluation ranks at degree 2 are validated against FLINT. Outputs are in research/results/odd-prime-lift-class/.

\(m=2\), \(N=7\). It reproduces the single-row kernel's values for the same seed exactly: the defects of \(Q\) at \(D=1,\dots,5\) are \(0,0,1,55,7\), \(0,0,0,36,0\) and \(0,0,2,54,26\) for \(c_0=0,1,2\).
\(m=3\), \(N=7\), two row equations. The base lifts through \(D=3\) and fails from \(D=4\) (defects \(2\), \(148\)). At \(D=3\) the defects of \(Q\) are \(2,0,3\) for \(c_0=0,1,2\). These are exactly the value-space defects \(\lambda_Y(3)\) for \(m=3\), as (3) predicts with \(g_0=1\).

Beyond \(D=3\) the base itself fails, so this board tests only the first degree. Larger three-row boards (\(N\ge8\)) need matrices of several GB and were not run.

Outcome. prop:product-lift-rule (working proof). On filtered products with the row equations split between the factors, the top-lift defect is an exact count over doubly adapted bases. Lifting through a degree is closed under such products, and a factor's failure passes up, weighted by the graded dimensions of the other factor's degree-\((D-1)\) design quotient. ex:three-row-lift-defects (finite check): on the three-row base the coupled pair's defect at \(D=3\) equals its value-space defect for all three coupling constants. So in the product model, unbalanced coupled pairs with \(c_0\in\{0,2\}\) keep failing the top lift at every \(D\) where the other rows' factor has a function of degree \(D-3\) outside its degree-\((D-1)\) row ideal and lower degrees. Pairs with \(c_0=1\) keep lifting at every \(D\) through which the other factor lifts. On boards these hold at \(m=2\) and, at \(D=3\), at \(m=3\), and are untested for more rows. The class of allowed sets admitted by the top lift is closed under products and strictly larger than the row-free class. When the complementary factor lifts through \(D\), membership is decided factor by factor, by finite value-space computations; in general (3) is only a lower bound. Why \(c_0=1\) lifts was not settled.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): with the product rule, the top lift for a family whose couplings act on disjoint rows reduces to the single-row defects of its members' value sets. The dense core beyond capacity is not of that form: couplings share rows, and pure relations tie members together. Next, test whether conj:top-lift-subset beyond capacity can use the enlarged class. Take a shared-row configuration, two coupled pairs on the same row with \(c_0=1\), and decide from the count in (1), or from value space, whether its lift survives where row freeness fails.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:single-row-lift-transfer, prop:design-lift-criterion, prop:wide-coupling-freeness and conj:top-lift-subset. The claim search for product and lift found no closer record than prop:single-row-lift-transfer. The multi-row kernel reproduces the single-row kernel at \(m=2\), and its degree-2 ranks agree with FLINT. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the product formula for \(N^X_e\) as an equality, the count, the degree-bounded closure, the transfer with \(g_c\), the kernel's rank formula and every quoted number. It required these changes, all adopted: the Outcome keeps the hypotheses on the other factor and states the rows tested; decision factor by factor is claimed only when the complementary factor lifts; all \(\rho_i\) are of degree \(\le1\); and the citations for adapted bases and for lifting of row-free sets are made precise.

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Coupling removal: shifting forms by row-equation multiples, at no PC cost, turns every coupling into a pure relation, and under a pullback hypothesis the full allowed set is then row-free, so the coupled-pair failures of row freeness and of the top lift belong to the normal form; on the two-row board the column representation of a coupled pair has equal level Hilbert functions and lifts through the base factor's range for every coupling constant, where the normal form fails from degree 3

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional in part (2); finite checks · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-shared-row-lift. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Coupling removal: shifting forms by row-equation multiples, at no PC cost, turns every coupling into a pure relation, and under a pullback hypothesis the full allowed set is then row-free, so the coupled-pair failures of row freeness and of the top lift belong to the normal form; on the two-row board the column representation of a coupled pair has equal level Hilbert functions and lifts through the base factor's range for every coupling constant, where the normal form fails from degree 3”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-coupling-removal.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The product lift rule entry proposed testing the top lift where couplings share a row. Two coupled pairs on one row force a pure relation among their forms, a small model of the dense core. While analysing why the coupling constant matters, a prior question came up. The coupled pair is written in normal form, and lem:column-representation shows that representations change the tops. Is the coupled pair's failure a property of the family, or of its normal form?

General statement. lem:coupling-removal, over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak base with \(m\) rows. Let \(E\) be the formal sum of the members' spans of linear parts, \(\Phi:E\to G_1\) the tops, \(R\) the span of \(\bar r_1,\dots,\bar r_{m-1}\), \(J\) a proper set of columns, and \(K=\Phi^{-1}(R+S_J)\) with coupling map \(\rho:K\to R\) (prop:relation-coupling-count).

Removal. There is a linear map \(a:E\to\mathbb F_3^{m-1}\) such that the shifted forms \(L'=L+\sum_ia_i(L)(r_i-1)\) have the same \(K\) and coupling map \(\rho'=0\). Every relation modulo \(S_J\) becomes pure. The clauses in the shifted forms and the original clauses derive each other over weak unary PHP within the clauses' degree plus a constant (lem:column-representation (1)).
Freeness without couplings (conditional). Suppose \(\rho=0\). Choose forms whose tops form a basis of \(E/K\). Suppose the value map \(v\) given by these forms and the states of the columns in \(J\) satisfies the pullback hypothesis: \(\operatorname{gr}F^{v^{-1}(Z)}\cong\operatorname{gr}F^Z\otimes B\) for every value set \(Z\), with \(B\) free through \(D\) over the truncated row sums \(r_i^{(J)}=\sum_{c\notin J}x_{ic}\), and each \(\bar r_i\) acting as its \(J\)-cells on the first factor plus \(\bar r_i^{(J)}\) on \(B\). Then every allowed set \(v^{-1}(Y)\) is row-free through \(D\), and no subset is needed.

ex:coupling-removal-board and ex:shared-row-lift-constants are the finite checks below.

Proof

(1). \(R\cap S_J=0\), since a nonzero combination of \(\bar r_1,\dots,\bar r_{m-1}\) has cells in every column. So each \(\kappa\in K\) has a decomposition \(\Phi(\kappa)=\sum_i\beta_i(\kappa)\bar r_i+s(\kappa)\) with \(s(\kappa)\in S_J\), and \(\beta\) can be chosen linear with \(\rho(\kappa)=\sum_i\beta_i(\kappa)\bar r_i\). Put \(a=-\beta\) on \(K\) and extend \(a\) linearly to \(E\) by any complement. The shifted tops are \(\Phi'(e)=\Phi(e)+\sum_ia_i(e)\bar r_i\equiv\Phi(e)\pmod R\), so \(\Phi'^{-1}(R+S_J)=K\). For \(\kappa\in K\), \(\Phi'(\kappa)=s(\kappa)\in S_J\), so \(\rho'=0\). Each shifted form equals the original modulo \(\operatorname{span}\{r_i-1\}\), so the clause conversion is lem:column-representation (1). (Forms equal to a row-sum combination become constants. If the constant is excluded, the original clauses were refutable at low degree anyway; otherwise the form imposes nothing and is dropped before a basis of \(E/K\) is chosen in (2). The independence of \(\bar r_1,\dots,\bar r_{m-1}\) is not needed: any linear choice of \(\beta\) works.)

(2). By the hypothesis \(\operatorname{gr}F^{v^{-1}(Y)}\cong\operatorname{gr}F^Y\otimes B\), and \(\Lambda=\mathbb F_3[\bar r_i]/(\bar r_i^3)\) acts through the primitive coproduct. (Remark, not part of the proof: with \(\rho\ne0\) some truncated row sum would be a function of the forms and the states of \(J\), so the row sums could not act on the value factor only through the cells of \(J\). \(\rho=0\) is therefore necessary for the hypothesis. It is not sufficient: the pullback hypothesis is assumed, not derived.) \(\Lambda\) is a Hopf algebra (the restricted enveloping algebra of an abelian Lie algebra), and a tensor product of any module with a free module is free, as in the proof of prop:oriented-cylinder-repair. So \(\operatorname{gr}F^Y\otimes B\) is free through \(D\). \(\square\)

The coupled pair in both representations

The normal-form pair has \(L_2=-L-\sum_{c\ge1}x_{1c}+c_0\), so \(L+L_2+r_1=x_{10}+c_0\), a coupling to \(r_1\) with \(J=\{0\}\). Shifting \(L_2\) by \(r_1-1\) gives the column representation \(L_2'=-L+x_{10}+c_0-1\), with \(L+L_2'=x_{10}+c_0-1\), a pure relation. By (2), under the pullback hypothesis the column representation's full allowed set is row-free for every \(c_0\). In normal form it is not row-free (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance) and fails the top lift for \(c_0\ne1\) (prop:single-row-lift-transfer).

coupled_pair_representations.cpp computes both on the two-row weak base: the lift defect, and the Hilbert functions of the level sets of \(r_1\). Row freeness along \(r_1\) needs the levels to share one Hilbert function (prop:single-direction-sectors). Ranks are exact over \(\mathbb F_3\) with fflas-ffpack, and every run's degree-2 ranks were validated against FLINT. Outputs: research/results/odd-prime-shared-row-lift/representations_m2_N9.txt and representations_m2_N10.txt.

Normal form, \(N=9\) and \(N=10\). The levels differ from degree 1 for every \(c_0\), and the lift fails at \(D=3\) for \(c_0=0,2\) (defect \(1,2\) on both boards), as before.
Column representation, \(N=10\). The three levels share one Hilbert function through degree 4, except one entry for \(c_0=2\) (1665 against 1666 at degree 4), and the lift defect is \(0\) through \(D=4\) for every \(c_0\). The first defects are at \(D=5\) (7 or 8), where the base factor on the other 9 columns leaves its free range.
Column representation, \(N=9\). The first defect is at \(D=4\) (1 for every \(c_0\)), and the levels agree through degree 3. So the edge moves up by one degree with \(N\), unlike the normal form's failure at \(D=3\).

Shared rows in normal form. ex:shared-row-lift-constants, from shared_row_lift.py (exact value-space ranks). For \(k=2\) and \(k=3\) unbalanced coupled pairs on one row, whose shared row forces \(k-1\) pure relations, the single-row lift defect vanishes in every degree exactly when every coupling constant equals 1. It fails at \(D=3\) for the other 8 and 26 constant tuples. Controls: a balanced second pair multiplies the single pair's defect by the free coordinate's Hilbert function, \(\lambda=(0,0,1,1,1)\) for \(c_0=0\), as prop:product-lift-rule predicts. These are normal-form facts; by (1) the same families have coupling-free representations.

What this changes

Couplings are an artefact of the representation. The recorded failures of full allowed sets for coupled pairs hold in normal form, and the statements say so:

conj:relative-row-freeness and conj:uniform-level-balance (prop:coupled-pair-imbalance);
the top lift for \(c_0\ne1\) (prop:single-row-lift-transfer, prop:product-lift-rule).

The living summaries read them as properties of the families, which they are not. conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness, which lets one choose the representation, is not refuted by coupled pairs, and by (2) their full allowed sets are row-free under the pullback hypothesis. What remains beyond capacity is the pullback hypothesis itself. Once the forms and row sums span \(G_1\), no pullback piece exists (lem:pullback-degree-two-bound), and pure relations beyond capacity leave no tensor structure (lem:relation-free-direction-count). The obstacle of the A1 subset review stands with couplings removed from it: row freeness of an allowed set that is not a pullback.

Outcome. lem:coupling-removal (working proof; part (2) conditional on the pullback hypothesis for a basis of the forms modulo pure relations). Shifting forms by row-equation multiples removes every coupling at no PC cost, and without couplings the full allowed set of a pullback family is row-free. ex:coupling-removal-board (finite check): on the two-row board the coupled pair's column representation has equal level Hilbert functions and lifts through the base factor's range for every coupling constant, where the normal form fails from degree 3. ex:shared-row-lift-constants (finite check): in normal form, shared-row coupled pairs lift iff every coupling constant is 1, for \(k=2,3\). A1's obstacle is now stated without couplings, as the absence of pullback structure beyond capacity. That hypothesis bundles the earlier difficulties with pure relations and joint freeness; it is a cleaner restatement of them, not shown to be easier.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): work in coupling-free representations from now on. The remaining question is row freeness, or the top lift, of an allowed set without pullback structure, where the forms span \(G_1\). Test conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness beyond capacity in its smallest nonvacuous case. Take enough dense forms that their span with the row sums is \(G_1\) on a small board, in a coupling-free representation, and compare the allowed set's row freeness with the normal form's. The goal is a mechanism, not more cases: if the coupling-free allowed sets are row-free there, identify which structure replaces the pullback.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read lem:column-representation, prop:relation-coupling-count, prop:oriented-cylinder-repair, prop:coupled-pair-imbalance, conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness, lem:pullback-degree-two-bound, prop:single-direction-sectors, prop:single-row-lift-transfer and prop:product-lift-rule. The claim searches for coupling removal and representation found only lem:column-representation. Every board run's degree-2 ranks agree with FLINT. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed part (1), including \(R\cap S_J=0\) and \(\rho'=0\), the kernel's representation (\(L_2'=L_2+(r_1-1)\)), every quoted board and value-space number, and the exponent restriction in the shared-row script. It required these changes, all adopted: the sentence on why \(\rho=0\) matters is labelled a remark, since the pullback hypothesis is assumed, not derived; the Outcome says that the pullback hypothesis restates the earlier obstructions without being shown easier; and forms that shift to constants are dropped before a basis is chosen.

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Route review of A1 after coupling removal: in a coupling-free representation beyond capacity the forms become coordinates complementary to the row sums, no pullback structure is left in any representation, and A1 is again the falls and relative Tor vanishing of adversarial dense clause tops, where the route began; the next step tries to refute the weakest row-freeness statement beyond capacity

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-beyond-capacity-test. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of A1 after coupling removal: in a coupling-free representation beyond capacity the forms become coordinates complementary to the row sums, no pullback structure is left in any representation, and A1 is again the falls and relative Tor vanishing of adversarial dense clause tops, where the route began; the next step tries to refute the weakest row-freeness statement beyond capacity”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-coupling-free-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The coupling removal entry showed that couplings belong to the representation: shifted forms have none, and a pullback family's full allowed set is then row-free. Since the A1 subset review, three research entries each registered a finite check, and the finisher bars a fourth. What does A1 need now that couplings are gone, and what should the next cycle test?

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows from conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness: for dense families with independent uniform prefixes, some equivalent family has an allowed set of density at least \(\frac12\) that is row-free through \(D\). The weaker top-lift form is conj:top-lift-subset. By lem:coupling-removal, the equivalent may be chosen coupling-free.

What the goal needs

That statement beyond joint capacity, in some coupling-free representation. Every recorded route passes through it (the A1 subset review).

Falsification attempt

Does a coupling-free representation restore product structure beyond capacity? No. Take \(J=\emptyset\) and suppose the forms and row sums span \(G_1\). After the shift of lem:coupling-removal (1), every relation is pure. A combination of forms whose top lay in \(R\) now has top \(0\): it is a constant, and is dropped. The remaining tops span a complement \(E'\) of \(R\) in \(G_1\), by linear algebra from the spanning hypothesis. The shift contributes the purity (\(\rho=0\)), not the complement.

The forms together with the row sums are then coordinates on \(G_1\), of dimension \(mN-1\). They determine every cell, and so every point of the base. The value map \(v\) of the forms has fibers \(v^{-1}(y)\cap P\) that inject into the row-sum values \(\mathbb F_3^{m-1}\), and there are about \(3^{\dim E'}=3^{mN-m}\) values \(y\) against \(|P|\approx(m+1)^N/3\) points. So most fibers are empty and none has more than \(3^{m-1}\) points. This is only intuition: the counts alone do not exclude a pullback, since the image could be small with full fibers. The proof is lem:pullback-degree-two-bound. Freeness over the forms' algebra through degree 2 would embed \(T(E')_2\) in \(G_2\), and together with the row sums the forms span \(G_1\), where the column exclusions \(x_{ic}x_{jc}=0\) are quadratic relations. So no pullback exists in any representation, and the allowed set, a union of fibers of \(v\), has no product decomposition.

What remains is the base's own mechanism, perturbed. The base is row-free (thm:tensor-power-freeness) although its fibers are just as small. The allowed set differs from it by the excluded set, whose low-degree functions are the clauses and their falls. So row freeness of the allowed set needs two things, as prop:coupling-distributivity splits them. It needs control of the falls, which enlarge the top ideal beyond the clause tops (conj:fill-point-falls, for adversarial forms). And it needs relative Tor vanishing of the resulting top ideal over the base: Taylor glue (thm:taylor-glue) and open statements A2 and A3 for adversarial forms. The row-free-subset, cylinder, lift and representation lines have reduced A1 back to where the route began.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on the falls and relative Tor vanishing of adversarial dense clause tops over the weak base beyond joint capacity. No decomposition of the allowed set is available there: no pullback, no cylinders, no hereditary or product subsets. Every recorded proof of the vanishing uses designed supports (private or column-disjoint clauses) or randomness of the tops (conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base), and neither covers an adversary.

Assessment of the route

The last three research entries clarified the line considerably. The top lift has an exact product calculus. Couplings are a matter of representation. The coupled-pair failures belong to the normal form. But these results resolve apparent obstacles rather than advance the real one. With couplings and subsets out of the way, A1 has the same shape as open statements A2 and A3 for adversarial forms. That is the goal's difficulty with nothing reduced. No recorded evidence distinguishes whether conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness is true beyond capacity: every positive check was within capacity, and every recorded obstruction was an artefact of representation or of subsets. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Jordan types and the Lefschetz properties (A. Iarrobino, P. Macias Marques and C. McDaniel, Artinian algebras and Jordan type, J. Commut. Algebra 14 (2022) 365–414). Freeness over \(\mathbb F_3[u]/(u^3)\) is Jordan type \((3,\dots,3)\) for multiplication by \(u\), and the Lefschetz theory gives Jordan types of general linear forms on graded Artinian algebras. Target: the obstacle, direction by direction. Answers. A Jordan-type theorem for row-sum directions on \(G/n_{\mathcal A}\) would give single-direction freeness. Test. Falsified as a route to row freeness: freeness along every single direction does not give joint freeness in truncated degrees (ex:truncated-dade-special-position). Row sums are also special, not general, forms.
Bayer–Stillman regularity criterion (D. Bayer and M. Stillman, A criterion for detecting m-regularity, Invent. Math. 87 (1987) 1–11). Regularity of an ideal is detected by generic linear forms being nonzerodivisors in a range. Target: bounding the degrees of relative syzygies by the clause degree. Answers. Relative Tor would vanish above a regularity bound, reducing the check to low degrees. Test. Falsified for the translation: the base's own top ideal is generated in degree 2, yet its row freeness ends near \(N/2\) by capacity (thm:tensor-power-freeness). So freeness is not determined by low degrees from the generator degree, and no regularity bound in terms of the clause degree can reduce the check (compare the Gotzmann test in the A1 subset review). The doubly exponential Mayr–Meyer examples are context only.
Boij–Söderberg theory (D. Eisenbud and F.-O. Schreyer, Betti numbers of graded modules and cohomology of vector bundles, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 22 (2009) 859–888). Betti tables over polynomial rings are positive combinations of pure tables. Target: constraining the relative Betti table of \(G/n_{\mathcal A}\). Answers. Positivity could force \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\) to vanish from the Hilbert function. Test. Falsified: \(\Lambda\) is a truncated (Frobenius) algebra, whose minimal resolutions are infinite, and the theory is stated over polynomial rings. Moreover prop:coupling-distributivity shows that Hilbert-function data cannot decide row freeness here.

Absurd bridges

The MacWilliams identity (F. J. MacWilliams, A theorem on the distribution of weights in a systematic code, Bell System Tech. J. 42 (1963) 79–94). This is coding theory. The excluded set is a union of cosets cut by the clauses, and its indicator's Fourier weights are the dual weight distribution. Answers. Weight identities would count the degree-\(d\) functions supported on the excluded set, and so the new tops. Test. Falsified as a certificate: it yields dimensions, and prop:coupling-distributivity shows that dimensions cannot certify row freeness.
Transfer matrices (R. J. Baxter, Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics, Academic Press, 1982, Ch. 2). This is statistical mechanics. The base is a product over columns cut by the occupancy, and every form is a sum over columns, so the allowed set is recognized column by column with the partial sums of the forms as state. Answers. Row freeness might be proved by induction over columns, as the base's freeness was by FI-module stability. Test. Falsified in this form: FI-module stability needs the symmetric group on columns, which adversarial coefficients break, and the transfer state space has \(3^{\operatorname{rank}}\) elements, all of \(\mathbb F_3^{m(N-1)}\) beyond capacity. A column induction would carry the whole problem as its state.

Bridge follow-up

No passed item of an earlier review on this route is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): try to refute conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness beyond capacity, the weakest recorded row-freeness statement. Every obstruction so far was an artefact. The adversary's best candidates are dense families built to force relative syzygies of the clause tops that no representation removes. Examples are clause tops whose products vanish on the base for column-exclusion reasons, or prefix patterns aligned with the quadratic relations \(x_{ic}x_{jc}=0\). Derive such a family and the syzygy in general. Since the conjecture quantifies over equivalent families, a refutation must hold for every equivalent: every family whose clauses and the given ones derive each other within degree \(4t+3\). So the syzygy must be shown to survive in every representation, for instance by deriving it from the column exclusions and the clause values on the row equations' locus, which all equivalents share, not from one presentation. A refutation would end the row-freeness route to A1 and call for a different reduction. A family that resists would show what an adversary cannot do, and that is the missing mechanism's content.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness, conj:top-lift-subset, lem:coupling-removal, lem:pullback-degree-two-bound, thm:tensor-power-freeness, thm:taylor-glue, conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, ex:truncated-dade-special-position and prop:coupling-distributivity. No computation was run; each test is an argument about recorded claims. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the use of lem:pullback-degree-two-bound in every representation, the labelling of the fiber count as intuition, and the citations of the leads and bridges. It required four changes, all adopted. The complement \(E'\) is attributed to linear algebra, not to the shift. The reduction keeps the falls (conj:fill-point-falls) beside Tor vanishing. The Bayer–Stillman test rests on the base's own example, not on the Mayr–Meyer worst case. And the refutation criterion is stated for all equivalent families.

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Refutation attempt for equivalent-family row freeness: an allowed set can fail for every one of its subsets and yet an equivalent family repairs it, as a row confined to two columns shows, and polynomials derived at PC degree D are absorbed by passing to subsets, so a refutation would need an obstruction to every subset of every equivalent; none was found, and whether this certificate is complete for PC hardness becomes the question that decides the route

28 September 2026 · Working proof and an unsuccessful refutation attempt · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-equivalent-refutation. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Refutation attempt for equivalent-family row freeness: an allowed set can fail for every one of its subsets and yet an equivalent family repairs it, as a row confined to two columns shows, and polynomials derived at PC degree D are absorbed by passing to subsets, so a refutation would need an obstruction to every subset of every equivalent; none was found, and whether this certificate is complete for PC hardness becomes the question that decides the route”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-equivalent-refutation-attempt.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The coupling-free review proposed to refute conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness beyond capacity with a relative syzygy that no equivalent removes. What kind of obstruction could survive the conjecture's freedoms: choosing an equivalent family, and passing to subsets (conj:row-free-subset, lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency)?

General statement. The statement attacked is conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness, together with its subset form: some nonempty subset of the allowed set of some equivalent family is row-free through \(D\). The proved piece is lem:two-column-confinement, over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the weak base, with row \(i\) among \(1,\dots,m-1\). If every point of a nonempty set \(Q\) has all of row \(i\)'s pigeons in two columns \(c,c'\), then \(Q\) is not row-free through \(2\). The family forcing this confinement is equivalent, at degree 2, to one whose allowed set is not confined.

lem:two-column-confinement

Proof. On \(Q\), \(r_i=x_{ic}+x_{ic'}\). First suppose \(\bar r_1,\dots,\bar r_{m-1}\) are linearly dependent in degree 1 of \(\operatorname{gr}F^Q\) (this includes \(\bar r_i=0\), when \(r_i\) is constant on \(Q\)). A dependency \(\sum_j\alpha_j\bar r_j=0\) gives the Koszul 1-cycle \(\sum_j\alpha_je_j\) in degree 1. Koszul boundaries start in degree 2 and Frobenius classes in degree 3, so \(\operatorname{Tor}_1\ne0\) in degree 1. (This case is the generic fact that dependent row-sum tops rule out row freeness; confinement is used only below.)

Otherwise the \(\bar r_j\) are independent in degree 1. A boundary of degree 2 is \(\sum_{j<k}c_{jk}(\bar r_je_k-\bar r_ke_j)\) with constants \(c_{jk}\). Its coefficient of \(e_k\) is a combination of the \(\bar r_j\), \(j\ne k\), with coefficients \(\pm c_{jk}\). So if every coefficient other than that of \(e_i\) vanishes, then \(c_{jk}=0\) for every pair with an index \(k\ne i\), which is every pair, and the boundary is \(0\). Frobenius classes \(\bar r^2ge\) start in degree 3. Hence a nonzero degree-2 cycle \(ye_i\) is never a boundary plus Frobenius.

Put \(a=x_{ic}-x_{ic'}\). As functions, \(r_ia=x_{ic}^2-x_{ic'}^2=a\), since \(x^2=x\), so \(\bar r_i\bar a=0\) in degree 2. If \(a\) is not constant on \(Q\), then \(\bar a\ne0\) in degree 1, and \(\bar ae_i\) is such a cycle.
If \(a\) is a constant \(\alpha\), then \(r_i=2x_{ic'}+\alpha\), and \(r_i^2\) is a function of degree at most 1, so \(\bar r_i^2=0\) in degree 2. Then \(\bar r_ie_i\) is such a cycle, nonzero since \(\bar r_i\ne0\).

In every case \(\operatorname{Tor}_1^\Lambda(\mathbb F_3,\operatorname{gr}F^Q)\ne0\) in degree at most 2.

Confinement is imposed, for instance, by the form \(L=\sum_{c''\ne c,c'}x_{ic''}\) with the clause \(L^2\) (a block whose other form is the constant 0, prefix on \(L\)). This form is in normal form when \(c\) is the normal-form column, and it is sparse modulo the row sums, since \(L\equiv1-x_{ic}-x_{ic'}\) modulo \(r_i-1\). So W holds for such families: by the same derivation, W for them is W for the two-cell form \(1-x_{ic}-x_{ic'}\), within the scope of thm:sparse-block-w as a sparse block (the theorem's parameter conditions on \(M\) and \(k\) were not rechecked for this instance). Since \(L=(1-x_{ic}-x_{ic'})+(r_i-1)\) exactly, \(L^2-(x_{ic}+x_{ic'}-1)^2=(r_i-1)\bigl(2(1-x_{ic}-x_{ic'})+(r_i-1)\bigr)\). The row equation \(r_i-1\) is an axiom of weak unary PHP, so each of \(L^2\) and \((x_{ic}+x_{ic'}-1)^2\) is derived from the other at degree 2. Only the allowed sets on the base differ. The equivalent clause \((x_{ic}+x_{ic'}-1)^2\) has as its allowed set the points with exactly one of the two cells occupied. Row \(i\) keeps \(N-2\) free columns there, and \(r_i=1+\sum_{c''\ne c,c'}x_{ic''}\) acts like a row sum on \(N-2\) columns. So the lemma's obstruction, fatal for every subset of the confined allowed set, disappears in an equivalent. \(\square\)

The lemma is the simplest instance of the confinement obstructions of prop:confinement-nondistributivity, where confinements of a row to complementary column classes on value fibers produce the class \(r_i\tau\).

What a refutation would need

The recorded obstructions all fall to one of the two freedoms:

coupled pairs, to a coupling-free representation (lem:coupling-removal);
hereditary subsets, to other subsets or representations (prop:hereditary-subset-obstruction);
confinement, to a pinned equivalent (above).

Polynomials derived by PC fall to the subset freedom. If weak unary PHP plus the family derives \(p\) at degree \(\le D\), then \(p\) lies in \(V_D(Q)\) for every allowed \(Q\). Row freeness would force \(V_D(Q)=N_D(Q)\) (prop:design-lift-criterion). But a subset \(Q\subseteq Z(p)\) has \(p|_Q=0\), and the requirement is empty there. So a refutation must show that every nonempty subset of every equivalent's allowed set fails. That is a statement about all subsets, not about one allowed set or one derivation, and it must still be compatible with the family not being refutable, since otherwise W fails and the conjecture fails trivially. No candidate was found.

The Nullstellensatz half suggests the same, heuristically. A degree-\((D-1)\) row design exists on some subset exactly when the excluded set covers no failure set of a near-refutation (prop:failure-set-criterion). Under uniform prefixes each point is excluded with probability at most \(M3^{-t}\), so any single failure set is covered with probability at most \(M3^{-t}\). A refutation would need so many failure sets, arranged so that every outcome of the prefixes covers one, that it would come close to a family where W_RS itself fails. This is a heuristic: the record notes that the union bound over failure sets is useless as it stands.

The question that decides the route

The two freedoms are so large that conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness may be equivalent to W for the family, so that the certificate would lose nothing. The question is whether the certificate of thm:global-closure-gluing and prop:design-lift-criterion is complete for PC hardness. Precisely: if weak unary PHP plus a family has no refutation of degree \(D\), does some nonempty subset of some equivalent's allowed set carry the degree-\((D-1)\) design and the degree-\(D\) lift?

If it is complete, A1 is W with nothing lost, and the route is the right formulation of the goal's difficulty.
If it is not, the route can fail even where the goal holds.

The families where W is proved by other means (thm:cell-family-w, thm:sparse-block-w, via restriction to expander graph PHP) are the natural test: do their equivalents have row-free or top-lift subsets?

Outcome. lem:two-column-confinement (working proof): a row confined to two columns rules out row freeness through 2 for every subset of the allowed set, yet an equivalent family, with the same PC hardness, removes the confinement. No refutation of conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness was found. Every obstruction to one allowed set or one derivation is absorbed by the conjecture's freedoms. A refutation must obstruct every subset of every equivalent without the family being refutable. The route now turns on whether its certificate is complete for PC hardness. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test the completeness of the row-free and top-lift certificates on the families where W is proved by restriction (thm:sparse-block-w, thm:cell-family-w). Take the restriction's own structure, a random matching plus an expander graph, and ask whether it yields a subset of some equivalent's allowed set that is row-free or lifts. A matching restriction pins pigeons and is a candidate subset. If the proved families have such certificates, prove it in general for them. The proof would then show how a certificate is built from a PC-hardness proof, which is the missing direction.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness, conj:row-free-subset, lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency, thm:global-closure-gluing, prop:design-lift-criterion, prop:failure-set-criterion, thm:sparse-block-w, lem:coupling-removal and prop:hereditary-subset-obstruction. The reviewer's claim search found prop:confinement-nondistributivity, now cited as the general setting of the lemma. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the lemma's proof: the dependent case, the degree-2 boundary argument and both cycles. It also confirmed the absorption of PC-derived polynomials by subsets and the statement of the completeness question. Adopted from its report: the dependent case is marked as generic; the Nullstellensatz paragraph is labelled heuristic; and the sparse-block citation goes through the reduced two-cell form, with its parameters not rechecked. It questioned the equivalence of \(L^2\) and \((x_{ic}+x_{ic'}-1)^2\), since \(r_i-1\) does not vanish on the allowed set. The equivalence is over weak unary PHP, whose axioms include \(r_i-1\), so the exact identity now written in the entry gives the derivations both ways at degree 2.

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Pinned lift certificate: conditionally on acyclic matching complexes of the expander, the restriction behind the cell-family theorem is itself a top-lift certificate, since the pinned matching plus the matchings of the expander carries degree-by-degree equality of PC closure and Nullstellensatz span, while row freeness is not expected there; so under that hypothesis the certificate is complete for these families in its lift form

28 September 2026 · Working proof, conditional on a homology hypothesis · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-certificate-completeness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pinned lift certificate: conditionally on acyclic matching complexes of the expander, the restriction behind the cell-family theorem is itself a top-lift certificate, since the pinned matching plus the matchings of the expander carries degree-by-degree equality of PC closure and Nullstellensatz span, while row freeness is not expected there; so under that hypothesis the certificate is complete for these families in its lift form”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-pinned-lift-certificate.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The refutation attempt reduced the route to a completeness question. If weak unary PHP plus a family has no refutation of degree \(D\), does some nonempty subset of some equivalent's allowed set carry the certificate of prop:design-lift-criterion? The families where W is proved by restriction are the first test. Does their restriction give such a subset?

General statement. prop:pinned-lift-certificate, over any field.

Pinned rows. If \(\rho_i\) vanishes on \(\mathcal Q\) for every row \(i\) in a set \(S\), the lift conditions of prop:design-lift-criterion may be checked with \(N_e(\mathcal Q)\) generated by the other rows alone.
Restriction sets. Let \(\rho\) be a partial matching and \(G'\) a bipartite graph on the unmatched pigeons and some holes outside \(\rho\). Let \(\mathcal Q'=\{\rho\cup U:U\text{ a matching of }G'\}\). Suppose the matching complex \(M(G'[T])\) has vanishing reduced homology in degree \(|T|-2\) for every set \(T\) of unmatched pigeons with \(1\le|T|\le B\). Then for every \(D\le B\), \(1\notin N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q')\) and \(N_D(\mathcal Q')\cap F^{\mathcal Q'}_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}(\mathcal Q')\). So weak unary PHP plus any constraints vanishing on \(\mathcal Q'\) has no PC refutation of degree \(B\).
Cell families. In the setting of thm:cell-family-w, take \((\rho,G')\) as chosen there. Suppose \(G'\) satisfies the homology hypothesis of (2) with \(B=22k\). Then \(\mathcal Q'\) lies in the allowed set of the equivalent family given by the occupancy implications of prop:cell-block-implications, and (2) certifies W for the family at degree \(22k\). Each unmatched pigeon of \(\mathcal Q'\) has at most 5 holes, so row freeness is not expected there beyond small degree. That expectation is proved only for two columns (lem:two-column-confinement). The certificate is proved in its lift form.

Proof

(1). If \(\rho_i\) is the zero function on \(\mathcal Q\), then \(h\rho_i|_{\mathcal Q}=0\) for every \(h\), so removing \(\rho_i\) from the generators leaves every \(N_e(\mathcal Q)\) and every \(V_D(\mathcal Q)\) unchanged. Conditions (a)–(c) of prop:design-lift-criterion are statements about these spaces, so they may be checked with the remaining rows. No occupancy identity is needed.

(2). On \(\mathcal Q'\) the pinned rows have \(\rho_i=0\), and every variable outside \(\rho\cup G'\) is constant. Functions on \(\mathcal Q'\) are therefore functions of the \(G'\)-variables on the set of matchings of \(G'\). That set is closed under deleting pigeons. By the argument of prop:hereditary-subset-obstruction (2), the matching monomials \(x_U\) form a basis of its functions with exact degrees. That argument is Möbius inversion on a set closed under deletion and uses no property of the field. So the degree filtration on \(\mathcal Q'\) is the one given by polynomials in the \(G'\)-variables reduced by Booleanity, collisions and functionality.

Booleanity, the collisions and the functionality axioms vanish identically on \(\mathcal Q'\), since its points are 0/1 matchings. So as multipliers they contribute nothing. Under this identification, \(N_e(\mathcal Q')\) is the degree-\(e\) Nullstellensatz span \(I_e\) of functional PHP on \(G'\) modulo its non-row axioms, and \(V_D(\mathcal Q')\) is its PC closure \(C_D\) modulo the same axioms. By lem:graph-matching-extension, the homology hypothesis gives \(I_B\cap P_{\le k}=I_k\) for \(k\le B\) and \(C_B=I_B\), and every normalized design extends through \(B\). The first is condition (a) of prop:design-lift-criterion at every \(D\le B\). Extension of the degree-0 design gives \(1\notin N_B(\mathcal Q')\). The refutation statement is then prop:design-lift-criterion, with (1) removing the pinned rows.

(3). By prop:cell-block-implications, each clause is square-equivalent, modulo \(C_{20k+1}(B)\), to occupancy implications \(x_c\prod_b(1-\sum_{j\in P_b}x_{js_b})\). prop:antecedent-deletion chooses \(\rho\) and \(D=(R\times H)\setminus G'\) so that every implication has one of three properties:

its antecedent in \(D\): the cell is \(0\) on \(\mathcal Q'\);
its antecedent in a row or column of \(\rho\), off \(\rho\): the cell is \(0\);
a consequent hole filled by \(\rho\) with a pigeon of \(P_b\): that factor is \(0\).

So every implication vanishes on \(\mathcal Q'\). The implications and the clauses derive each other over weak unary PHP within degree \(20k+1\le22k\). So W for the family at degree \(22k\) is W for the implications, which (2) gives. Each unmatched pigeon has at most 5 holes in \(G'\), as the left-5-regular graph there. The recorded confinement obstructions to row freeness are proved only for two columns (lem:two-column-confinement, prop:confinement-nondistributivity). Whether rows confined to 5 columns rule out row freeness at the degrees needed is not proved here; it is expected from the chessboard threshold, since a row's own algebra is free only through about half its columns. This remark is not used in the proof. \(\square\)

The hypothesis

thm:cell-family-w uses boundary expansion through imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, not the homology of matching complexes. lem:private-hole-filling gives the homology when an elimination by private holes exists in every branch of the recursion. Boundary expansion gives one row with a unique neighbour in each set, not every branch of the elimination. So (3) is conditional on the homology hypothesis for the random left-5-regular \(G'\) at \(|T|\le22k\), which was not checked. Degree lower bounds for graph PHP are usually proved from expansion, and whether expansion implies the homology here is the open step.

What this means

The certificate reproduces the restriction proof, conditionally on the hypothesis. The pinned restriction set is a subset of an equivalent's allowed set on which PC equals Nullstellensatz degree by degree. Row freeness is not expected there, for confinement reasons proved only for two columns. So conj:row-free-subset and conj:equivalent-family-row-freeness likely ask for more than the proofs use. The right statement is the top-lift form, conj:top-lift-subset, with pinned rows allowed. For the families where W is proved, the certificate is then complete, modulo the homology hypothesis. That counts as evidence for the route's formulation, not against it. For the dense core, pinning is limited by the conditioning barrier (barrier), so the certificate must come from elsewhere. But its target is now the lift, with pinned rows free, not row freeness.

Outcome. prop:pinned-lift-certificate (working proof; (3) conditional on the matching-complex homology of the expander at \(|T|\le22k\)). Pinned rows drop out of the lift conditions, and a restriction set carries design and lift through \(B\) whenever the residual graph's matching complexes are acyclic in the relevant degree. So the restriction behind thm:cell-family-w is a top-lift certificate on an equivalent's allowed set, where row freeness is not expected. The route's statement should be the top lift with pinned rows, and for restriction-proved families it is complete up to the homology hypothesis. No computation was run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): decide the homology hypothesis for random left-regular expanders. Does boundary expansion up to size \(B\) give vanishing \(\widetilde H_{|T|-2}(M(G'[T]))\) for \(|T|\le B\)? Test it through the private-hole elimination of lem:private-hole-filling, or through a nerve argument over the unique-neighbour structure. Then restate A1 in the top-lift form with pinned rows, and ask which dense-family structure could play the role that the restriction plays here.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:design-lift-criterion (statement and proof), lem:graph-matching-extension, lem:private-hole-filling, thm:cell-family-w, prop:antecedent-deletion, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, prop:hereditary-subset-obstruction and the confinement lemmas. The reviewer's claim search found no multi-column confinement result. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed (1), the identification in (2) and the reading of lem:graph-matching-extension as condition (a) at every \(D\le B\) with \(1\notin N_B\), the three antecedent-deletion cases, the degree budget \(20k+1\le22k\), and the conditionality paragraph. It required these changes, all adopted: the title carries the homology condition; the five-column remark is marked unproved and unused, since the confinement lemmas cover two columns; the vanishing of Booleanity, collisions and functionality on \(\mathcal Q'\) is stated; and (1) cites the zero-generator fact directly.

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Blocked-centre lift failure: on the matchings of any bipartite graph, a pigeon whose holes are all taken by legs with spare holes makes the top-degree lift fail from one degree above its own up to the size of a spare-holed matching, so the restriction sets of the cell-family theorem, whenever their residual has a spider centre, are not top-lift certificates at W's degree; the homology hypothesis of the pinned lift certificate was already refuted in the record

28 September 2026 · Working proof, with a correction of the pinned lift certificate and a finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-expander-homology. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Blocked-centre lift failure: on the matchings of any bipartite graph, a pigeon whose holes are all taken by legs with spare holes makes the top-degree lift fail from one degree above its own up to the size of a spare-holed matching, so the restriction sets of the cell-family theorem, whenever their residual has a spider centre, are not top-lift certificates at W's degree; the homology hypothesis of the pinned lift certificate was already refuted in the record”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-blocked-centre-lift.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The pinned lift certificate made the restriction set of thm:cell-family-w a top-lift certificate, conditionally on acyclic matching complexes of the random left-5-regular residual \(G'\). Its next step asked whether boundary expansion gives that homology. It does not, and the record already said so. prop:spider-unfilled and prop:blocked-centre-unfilled (spider row sets, blocked centres) give nonzero \(\widetilde H_{|S|-2}\) at every blocked centre, and in the residual model 94–97% of pigeons are spider centres (expander-core review, spider_count.json). The previous cycle's claim search missed these records. So part (3) of prop:pinned-lift-certificate rests on a hypothesis that fails for typical \(G'\). The question left is the one ex:spider-fall left open: the fall is recorded on the spider board alone. Does the lift itself fail on large boards, at W's degree?

General statement. prop:blocked-centre-lift-failure, over any field. Let \(G\) be a bipartite graph between pigeons and holes, and \(\mathcal Q_G\) its set of matchings, possibly with further pigeons pinned by a fixed partial matching on other holes. Use \(F_e\), \(N_e=\sum_i\rho_iF_{e-1}\) and \(\rho_i=\sum_{t\in N(i)}x_{it}-1\) for the unpinned pigeons, as in prop:design-lift-criterion. A blocked configuration of size \(d+\ell\) consists of:

an unpinned pigeon \(r\) with \(N(r)=\{h_1,\dots,h_d\}\), \(d\ge1\);
distinct pigeons \(n_1,\dots,n_d,v_1,\dots,v_\ell\), none equal to \(r\);
holes \(p_i\), \(a_j\), \(b_j\) with \(n_i\sim h_i,p_i\) and \(v_j\sim a_j,b_j\), such that the \(2d+2\ell\) holes \(h_i,p_i,a_j,b_j\) are distinct.

Put \(f=\prod_ix_{n_ih_i}\prod_jx_{v_ja_j}\). Then \(f\in N_{d+\ell+1}\cap F_{d+\ell}\) and \(f\notin N_{d+\ell}\). So the lift condition \(N_D\cap F_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D-1}\) of prop:design-lift-criterion fails at \(D=d+\ell+1\).

Proof

By prop:hereditary-subset-obstruction (2), the matching monomials \(x_W\), \(|W|\le e\), form a basis of \(F_e\) with exact degrees. Pinned pigeons have \(\rho=0\) on \(\mathcal Q_G\) and drop out (prop:pinned-lift-certificate (1)). On \(\mathcal Q_G\), for a matching \(U\) and an unpinned pigeon \(i\) not in \(U\),

\[\rho_ix_U=\sum_{t\in N(i)\setminus\mathrm{holes}(U)}x_{U\cup\{(i,t)\}}-x_U,\]

while \(\rho_ix_U=0\) when \(i\) is in \(U\). These elements with \(|U|\le e-1\) span \(N_e\).

Membership. Each \(x_{rh_i}f\) vanishes on \(\mathcal Q_G\), since \(h_i\) is taken by \(n_i\) in \(f\). As \(r\) is not a pigeon of \(f\), \(\rho_rf=-f\). So \(f=\rho_r\cdot(-f)\) with \(-f\in F_{d+\ell}\), and \(f\in N_{d+\ell+1}\). This is the degree-\((d+1)\) derivation of ex:spider-fall, multiplied by \(\prod_jx_{v_ja_j}\).

Non-membership. Let \(\mathcal W\) be the \(2^{d+\ell}\) matchings that give each \(n_i\) one of \(h_i,p_i\) and each \(v_j\) one of \(a_j,b_j\). They are matchings because the holes are distinct. Define \(\varphi\) on \(F_{d+\ell}\) by \(\varphi(x_W)=(-1)^{\#\{i:W\ni(n_i,p_i)\}+\#\{j:W\ni(v_j,b_j)\}}\) for \(W\in\mathcal W\), and \(\varphi(x_W)=0\) otherwise. Take a generator \(\rho_ix_U\) with \(|U|\le d+\ell-1\). Its term \(-x_U\) has \(\varphi=0\), since \(|U|<d+\ell\). A term \(x_{U\cup\{(i,t)\}}\) has \(\varphi\ne0\) only if \(U\cup\{(i,t)\}\in\mathcal W\). Then \(i\) is some \(n_{i'}\) or \(v_j\), and \(U\) is that member of \(\mathcal W\) without \(i\)'s cell. Both of \(i\)'s special holes are adjacent to \(i\) and free in \(U\), since all special holes are distinct. The two terms have opposite signs, so the sum is \(0\). If \(i=r\) or \(i\) is another pigeon, no term lies in \(\mathcal W\). So \(\varphi\) vanishes on \(N_{d+\ell}\), and \(\varphi(f)=1\). \(\square\)

The spare holes need not be private, and legs may meet other holes of \(r\). So every blocked centre of prop:blocked-centre-unfilled, and every spider, is a blocked configuration with \(\ell=0\). The statement adds the \(\ell\) further pigeons, which carry the failure to every higher degree. In the terms of prop:design-lift-criterion (2), \(\varphi\) is a degree-\((D-1)\) functional vanishing on \(N_{D-1}\) that does not extend to degree \(D\).

Consequences

Restriction sets. Let \(G'\) be W's residual in thm:cell-family-w, left-5-regular with maximum hole degree \(\Delta\). Suppose it has a spider centre \(r\), which is typical in the residual model but not proved for every outcome. Choose further pigeons greedily with neighbourhoods disjoint from the configuration's 10 holes and from each other. After \(j\) choices, at most \((10+5j)\Delta\) pigeons touch the holes used, so \(\ell=22k-6\) pigeons are found whenever \(h+1>(110k-25)\Delta\). Then \(\mathcal Q'\) fails the lift at \(D=22k\), the degree at which the pinned lift certificate was to certify W. On \(\mathcal Q'\) the rows have no PC refutation at that degree: \(G'\) is an \((s,1)\)-boundary expander with \(s=10(22k+1)\) and left degree 5, and imp:MN-functional-graph-degree (Mikša–Nordström, Theorem 4.9) gives PC degree above \(s/10=22k+1\). Yet \(\mathcal Q'\) is not a top-lift certificate. So part (3) of prop:pinned-lift-certificate fails in its conclusion as well as its hypothesis. Parts (1) and (2) stand as stated.
A degree floor. On a matching set, a top-lift certificate at \(D\) needs every unpinned pigeon of degree at most \(D-1\) to escape blocked configurations. On boards where every pigeon of degree at most \(D-1\) has legs with spare holes on all its holes and \(\ell\) further spare-holed pigeons are available, this means pigeon degree at least \(D\); that random constant-degree boards are of this kind is heuristic, supported by the recorded spider counts. Restriction proofs leave constant degree, so they do not produce the route's certificate. On the complete board every pigeon has degree \(N\gg D\), and no configuration exists below degree \(N\).
The completeness question. The refutation attempt asked whether some subset of some equivalent's allowed set carries the certificate whenever the family is PC-hard. For cell families the one candidate built from the proof fails. Other subsets are not excluded, but a matching set fails whenever its board has a blocked configuration of size \(D-1\), as constant-degree boards typically do. This is evidence that the top-lift certificate is stronger than PC hardness on sparse boards. PC tolerates the falls, which Razborov's pseudo-reduction handles through closures (prop:semantic-local-kill).

Check

blocked_centre_lift.py computes \(\lambda(D)=\dim(N_D\cap F_{D-1})-\dim N_{D-1}\) exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\), as \(\operatorname{rank}N_D-\operatorname{rank}(\text{top part of }N_D)-\operatorname{rank}N_{D-1}\) in the matching basis, with FLINT ranks. It searches each board exhaustively for blocked configurations and asserts \(\lambda\ge1\) wherever one exists (blocked_centre_lift.json). Predictions and outcomes:

complete board, 7 pigeons and 6 holes, \(D\le3\): no configuration; lem:graph-matching-extension predicts \(\lambda=0\). Observed \(0,0,0\).
the spider with \(d=2\) alone: configuration at \(D=3\). Observed \(\lambda(3)=1\), the element of ex:spider-fall.
that spider inside three random boards, with four added pigeons of degree 3 on holes \(0,\dots,6\): configurations at \(D=3\) and \(4\). Observed \(\lambda(3)=16,8,19\) and \(\lambda(4)=75,64,68\).
three random boards of 7 pigeons of degree 3 in 6 holes: configurations at \(D=4\) in two of them. Observed \(\lambda(4)=82,92\) there.

Every prediction passed. The random boards also have \(\lambda(3)>0\) without a configuration of size 2. They have duplicate pigeons and Hall-deficient sets (the third has 6 pigeons inside 4 holes), so other falls occur there. Those values are not interpreted.

Outcome. prop:blocked-centre-lift-failure (working proof): on any matching set, a blocked centre of degree \(d\) together with \(\ell\) spare-holed pigeons gives an element of \(N_{d+\ell+1}\cap F_{d+\ell}\) outside \(N_{d+\ell}\). ex:spider-fall therefore holds on every board, at every degree up to the size of a spare-holed matching. Correction of prop:pinned-lift-certificate (3): its homology hypothesis was already refuted in the record for typical residuals, and its conclusion fails at \(D=22k\) whenever the residual has a spider centre and the stated greedy bound holds. When the residual has a spider centre, as in the recorded samples, the restriction proofs of W are therefore not top-lift certificates: the route's certificate is strictly stronger than PC hardness on these sets.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): give the route a certificate that tolerates falls. On a subset \(Q\) of an equivalent's allowed set, formulate a Razborov-type pseudo-reduction: a linear map \(R\) on \(F^Q_{\le D}\) with \(R(1)\ne0\), killing the row equations and commuting with multiplication by a variable up to reduction below degree \(D\). It excludes PC refutations of degree \(D\). Check that the operator behind prop:semantic-local-kill supplies one for the restriction sets, and state what it requires of dense clause tops on the complete board.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:design-lift-criterion, prop:hereditary-subset-obstruction (2), prop:pinned-lift-certificate with its entry, prop:spider-unfilled, prop:blocked-centre-unfilled, ex:spider-fall, the spider counts of the expander-core review, thm:cell-family-w, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree and prop:semantic-local-kill. My claim searches found the spider and blocked-centre records, which the previous cycle had missed, and no general lift-failure statement. blocked_centre_lift.py ran twice: the first run's configuration search required centre degree at most \(D-2\) instead of \(D-1\) and so missed the \(\ell=0\) configurations; the recorded rerun after the fix passed all assertions. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the membership and non-membership arguments, the generators of \(N_e\) in the matching basis, the necessity of \(d\ge1\), the greedy count, the rank formula of the script and its numbers against the JSON, and the complete-board control. It required, all adopted: the spider-centre condition in the title and the Outcome; the graph-PHP degree bound quoted with its expansion parameters; and the degree floor for random boards labelled heuristic.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	21 min 24.06 s
Marked reading and review windows	7 min 49.24 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	5 min 48.62 s
Computation design and coding	3 min 56.78 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	3 min 34.69 s
Individually measured computation	14.60 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

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Lagged lift criterion: PC hardness at degree D follows when low-degree elements of the Nullstellensatz span never first appear at one level D' ≥ D, so falls of bounded depth are harmless; depth bounds pass to products, blocked centres fall by one degree and, in the product model with two or three rows, coupled pairs by at most two, so there the lagged lift certifies all three coupling constants that the top lift splits

28 September 2026 · Working proof, a conjecture and a finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-fall-tolerant-certificate. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Lagged lift criterion: PC hardness at degree D follows when low-degree elements of the Nullstellensatz span never first appear at one level D' ≥ D, so falls of bounded depth are harmless; depth bounds pass to products, blocked centres fall by one degree and, in the product model with two or three rows, coupled pairs by at most two, so there the lagged lift certifies all three coupling constants that the top lift splits”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-lagged-lift.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The blocked-centre lift failure showed that the top lift of prop:design-lift-criterion fails on sets that are PC-hard, because of falls: elements of degree \(e\) that enter the Nullstellensatz span only at level \(e+1\). Its next step proposed a pseudo-reduction as a certificate that tolerates falls. prop:exact-operator-criterion already records that an operator killing the PC closure exists exactly when there is no refutation, so such an operator only restates hardness. Is there a certificate that tolerates falls and is still a condition on Nullstellensatz spans, of the kind gluing arguments produce?

General statement. prop:lagged-lift-criterion, over any field. Let \(Q\), \(F_e\), \(N_e=\sum_i\rho_iF_{e-1}\) and \(V_D(Q)\) be as in prop:design-lift-criterion.

Criterion. Let \(D\le D'\). If \(N_{D'}\cap F_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D'-1}\) and \(1\notin N_{D'-1}\), then \(V_D(Q)\subseteq N_{D'}\) and \(1\notin V_D(Q)\). So weak unary PHP plus any constraints vanishing on \(Q\) has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). For \(D'=D\) this is the top lift of prop:design-lift-criterion (2).
Fall table. Take a basis adapted to both flags \((F_a)\) and \((N_b)\), and let \(e(a,b)\) count its elements of degree exactly \(a\) and level exactly \(b\) (least \(b\) with the element in \(N_b\)); the depth of such an element is \(b-a\). Then the top lift at \(D\) holds iff \(\sum_{a<D}e(a,D)=0\), and the hypothesis \(N_{D'}\cap F_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D'-1}\) of (1) holds iff \(\sum_{a\le D-1}e(a,D')=0\): no element of depth at least \(D'-D+1\) has level \(D'\).
Products. In the setting of prop:product-lift-rule (\(X=Y\times Z\), rows split between the factors), let \(\delta(L)\) be the largest depth of an adapted basis element of level at most \(L\). Then \(\delta_X(L)\le\max(\delta_Y(L),\delta_Z(L))\).
Coupled pairs. In the product model of prop:single-row-lift-transfer, suppose the other rows' factor \(Z\) lifts in every degree through \(D+2\). Then for each coupling constant \(c_0\), with \(m=2,3\), the allowed set has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). This uses the value-space depths of ex:coupled-pair-fall-depths.

Proof

(1). Let \(W=N_{D'}\cap F_D\). It contains every \(\rho_i\in N_1\). Let \(p\in W\) have degree at most \(D-1\). Then \(p\in N_{D'}\cap F_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D'-1}\), so \(p=\sum_i\rho_ih_i\) with \(\deg h_i\le D'-2\). For a variable \(x\), \(xp=\sum_i\rho_i(xh_i)\) with \(\deg xh_i\le D'-1\), so \(xp\in N_{D'}\), and \(xp\in F_D\). Hence \(W\) contains the rows and is closed under multiplication by a variable of elements of degree at most \(D-1\). These steps generate \(V_D(Q)\), since PC multiplies by variables and a product by a monomial is a chain of such steps through degrees at most \(D-1\). So \(V_D(Q)\subseteq W\). If \(1\in V_D(Q)\), then \(1\in N_{D'}\cap F_0\subseteq N_{D'-1}\), a contradiction. By prop:design-lift-criterion (1), every degree-\(D\) refutation restricts into \(V_D(Q)\). \(\square\)

(2). Two flags have a common adapted basis, as in prop:product-lift-rule. Then \(\dim(N_b\cap F_a)\) counts the basis elements of level at most \(b\) and degree at most \(a\), and \(e(a,b)\) is its second difference. \(\dim(N_{D'}\cap F_{D-1})-\dim(N_{D'-1}\cap F_{D-1})\) counts the elements of level exactly \(D'\) and degree at most \(D-1\). The hypothesis of (1) is that this is zero, since \(N_{D'-1}\cap F_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D'-1}\). With \(D'=D\) the same count is \(\lambda(D)\), since \(N_{D-1}\subseteq F_{D-1}\). \(\square\)

(3). By the proof of prop:product-lift-rule (1), the products \(u\otimes w\) of adapted bases of \(Y\) and \(Z\) form an adapted basis of \(X\), with degree \(a+c\) and level \(\min(b+c,a+d)\). The depth of \(u\otimes w\) is therefore \(\min(b-a,d-c)\). If its level \(b+c\) is at most \(L\), then \(b\le L\), so \(b-a\le\delta_Y(L)\); symmetrically if the level is \(a+d\). \(\square\)

(4). By ex:coupled-pair-fall-depths, every element of the value space \(Y\) that enters \(N^Y\) has depth at most 2, and \(1\notin N^Y\); functions on \(Y\) have degree at most 5, so \(N^Y\) is stable from level 6 and the table through level 8 is complete. If \(Z\) lifts in every degree through \(D+2\), then \(\lambda_Z(E)=\#\{w:c\le E-1,\ d=E\}=0\) for \(E\le D+2\), so every \(w\) of level at most \(D+2\) has depth 0. By (3), every element of \(X\) of level at most \(D+2\) has depth at most 2, and the count of (2) vanishes at \(D'=D+2\). The constant \(1_Z\) has degree 0, so it cannot have level at most \(D+2\) and depth 0, as \(N^Z_0=0\); hence \(d(1_Z)\ge D+3\). The constant \(1=1_Y\otimes1_Z\) has level \(\min(b(1_Y),d(1_Z))\ge D+3\), so \(1\notin N_{D+1}\). (1) applies with \(D'=D+2\). \(\square\)

What the depths are

Blocked centres fall by one. The element \(f\) of prop:blocked-centre-lift-failure has degree \(d+\ell\) and level \(d+\ell+1\). It never violates (1) with \(D'\ge D+1\): it lies in \(N_{d+\ell+1}\subseteq N_{D'-1}\) whenever \(d+\ell\le D-1\).
Coupled pairs fall by at most two. ex:coupled-pair-fall-depths: fall_table.py computed the whole table of the value space \(Y=\{y\ne0\}\times\{y'\ne0\}\times\) states through level 8, for \(m=2,3\) (fall_table.json). For \(c_0=0\), the only falls are \(e(2,3)=1\) (\(m=2\)) and \(2\) (\(m=3\)), of depth 1. For \(c_0=2\) they are \(e(1,3)=1\) and \(e(2,3)=1\) (\(m=2\)) or \(2\) (\(m=3\)), of depths 2 and 1. For \(c_0=1\) there are none, and \(1\) never enters \(N^Y\). The control with one factor unbalanced, \(\{y\ne0\}\times\mathbb F_3\), has no falls for every \(c_0\).
Small boards. On the boards of the blocked-centre check the table reproduces every recorded \(\lambda(D)\) and has a depth-1 entry wherever a blocked configuration exists; both are asserted in the script. The complete \(7\times6\) board has no falls through level 3. The random boards of 7 pigeons have nonconstant entries of depth up to 3 at level 4. The five that use at most 6 holes are refutable at degree 3 or 4 (\(e(0,3)\) or \(e(0,4)=1\)). The sixth, spider_in_random_1, uses 7 holes, is not refutable through level 4, and has depth-3 falls at level 4 as well. Deep falls near the refutation level are expected. Small boards cannot show the regime that matters for W, levels far below the refutation degree.

The route's statement

conj:lagged-lift-subset. In the setting of conj:top-lift-subset, with high probability some nonempty subset \(Q\) of the allowed set of some equivalent family satisfies \(N_{D'}(Q)\cap F^Q_{D-1}\subseteq N_{D'-1}(Q)\) and \(1\notin N_{D'-1}(Q)\) for some \(D'\le cD\), \(c\) an absolute constant. By (1) it gives W_RS at degree \(D\), and it is implied by conj:top-lift-subset (\(D'=D\)). Against the recorded obstructions to the top lift:

coupled pairs in normal form, which fail the top lift for \(c_0\in\{0,2\}\), satisfy it with \(D'=D+2\) in the product model with two or three rows whenever the other rows' factor lifts through \(D+2\), by (4), without removing couplings;
blocked configurations, of depth 1, do not obstruct it.

The truncated support \(Q_D\) of prop:top-drop-coordinates was not tested. Whether a gluing theorem produces the lagged lift for dense families is open: Taylor glue produces the top lift from Tor vanishing, and a lagged analogue would have to allow top syzygies that fail to lift, provided each failure lands at most \(D'-D\) degrees lower.

Outcome. prop:lagged-lift-criterion (working proof): PC hardness at \(D\) follows from the Nullstellensatz condition that no element of degree below \(D\) first enters the span at some one level \(D'\ge D\), together with \(1\notin N_{D'-1}\). Falls of depth at most \(D'-D\), the depth of an element being its Nullstellensatz level minus its degree, are harmless, and depth bounds pass to products. ex:coupled-pair-fall-depths (finite check): coupled pairs fall by at most two, so in the product model all three coupling constants are certified, where the top lift certified only \(c_0=1\). conj:lagged-lift-subset (conjecture) is the route's weakest recorded certificate statement. It survives the recorded top-lift obstructions, apart from the untested truncated support. Whether it is complete for restriction-proved families, and whether dense families glue in it, is open.

Notes on the previous entry. In the blocked-centre entry, \(h+1\) is the number of residual pigeons of thm:cell-family-w. Its random board random_deg3_2 also has \(\lambda(4)=27\) without a blocked configuration, uninterpreted like the \(\lambda(3)\) values there; the table above shows that board refutable at degree 3.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test the completeness of the lagged lift on the families where W is proved by restriction. For matching sets of \((s,1)\)-boundary expanders of left degree 5, decide whether every element of degree below \(D\) that enters the Nullstellensatz span by level \(D'=cD\) already enters one level lower, for \(D\le s/c\). A plausible proof takes the Mikša–Nordström closure of the element's support and derives it within the closure's local board, whose size is \(O(D)\). If this holds, the lagged certificate is complete for these families. A1 then asks for a gluing theorem in lagged form for dense families.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:design-lift-criterion, prop:product-lift-rule and its proof, prop:single-row-lift-transfer, prop:blocked-centre-lift-failure, prop:exact-operator-criterion, conj:top-lift-subset and prop:top-drop-coordinates. My claim searches for lag, fall depth and PC closure inside Nullstellensatz spans found prop:exact-operator-criterion, which already records that operator certificates restate hardness, and no lagged criterion. fall_table.py asserts that its tables reproduce every recorded \(\lambda(D)\) of the blocked-centre boards and give a depth-1 entry at each blocked configuration. Its first run timed out on the complete board at level 4 and wrote nothing; the recorded run caps that control at level 3. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed (1) to (4), the adapted-basis counts including the boundary \(a=b\), the script's rank formulas and every quoted table entry, and the completeness of the value-space table. It required, all adopted: that variable steps generate \(V_D(Q)\); dropping the hypothesis \(1\notin N^Z_{D+1}\) of (4), which lifting through \(D+2\) implies; the rows checked in the title; the hypothesis on the other rows in the conjecture's comparison; and the hole counts of the small boards.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 58.00 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 22.93 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	6 min 3.09 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	4 min 25.84 s
Individually measured computation	2 min 6.00 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Expander fall bound: on the matching set of a boundary expander, a polynomial of degree a that polynomial calculus derives within the Mikša–Nordström range lies in the Nullstellensatz span of degree a(1+d/δ), so restriction sets are lagged-lift certificates, and the lagged certificate is complete for cell families of W up to a constant factor in degree, and in a relaxed form for sparse and row-sparse blocks

28 September 2026 · Working proof, given imported theorem · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-expander-lagged-lift. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Expander fall bound: on the matching set of a boundary expander, a polynomial of degree a that polynomial calculus derives within the Mikša–Nordström range lies in the Nullstellensatz span of degree a(1+d/δ), so restriction sets are lagged-lift certificates, and the lagged certificate is complete for cell families of W up to a constant factor in degree, and in a relaxed form for sparse and row-sparse blocks”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-expander-lagged-lift.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The lagged lift criterion tolerates falls of bounded depth. The refutation attempt made completeness the question that decides the route: when a family is PC-hard, does some subset of an equivalent's allowed set carry the certificate? The restriction sets of the proved families fail the top lift (blocked centres). Do they satisfy the lagged lift, and with what lag?

General statement. prop:expander-fall-bound, over any field. Let \(G\) be an \((s,\delta)\)-boundary expander of maximum left degree \(d\), in the setting of imp:MN-functional-graph-degree and lem:relative-criterion, with \(D_0=\lfloor\delta s/(2d)\rfloor\ge d\). Let \(\mathcal Q\) be its set of matchings, possibly with further pigeons pinned on other holes, and let \(F_a\), \(N_b\) be as in prop:design-lift-criterion. If \(f\in F_a\), \(a\le D_0\), has a PC derivation of degree at most \(D_0\) from functional graph PHP on \(G\), in particular if \(f\in N_{D_0}\), then

\[f\in N_{a+\lfloor da/\delta\rfloor}.\]

Consequences:

every element of degree \(a\) and level at most \(D_0\) has depth at most \(\lfloor da/\delta\rfloor\);
the lagged lift of prop:lagged-lift-criterion holds at \((D,D')\), with \(1\notin N_{D'-1}\), whenever \(D-1+\lfloor d(D-1)/\delta\rfloor+1\le D'\le D_0\);
for cell families, with the residual of thm:cell-family-w and thm:logarithmic-residual-w (\(d=5\), \(\delta=1\)), the restriction set is a lagged-lift certificate in the form of conj:lagged-lift-subset at every \(D\) with \(6D-5\le\lfloor s/10\rfloor\);
the proof of prop:lagged-lift-criterion (1) holds for constraints that lie in \(N_{D'}(Q)\cap F_D\) instead of vanishing on \(Q\). So on the residual of thm:logarithmic-residual-w, clauses of degree \(b\le D\) whose restrictions are PC-derived from functional graph PHP in degree at most \(D_0\), as for sparse and row-sparse blocks (lem:functional-residual), lie in \(N_{b+\lfloor db/\delta\rfloor}\), and the lagged certificate covers them at every \(D\) with \(6D\le\lfloor s/10\rfloor\).

Proof

Let \(R\) be Mikša and Nordström's operator for functional graph PHP on \(G\), as recorded in lem:relative-criterion: \(R(t)=R_{I_E(\mathrm{Sup}_s(t))}(t)\) on terms, extended linearly, reducing under a degree-compatible admissible order, so \(\deg R(f)\le\deg f\).

Step 1. By the induction of Razborov's lemma (their Lemma 3.15), every polynomial in a PC derivation of degree at most \(D_0\) has \(R=0\). An element of \(N_{D_0}\) has such a derivation: in the matching basis, \(f=\sum_u\rho_uh_u\) as functions means that \(f-\sum_u\rho_uh_u\) reduces to 0 by multilinearization and the hole and functionality axioms, each non-matching monomial being such an axiom times a monomial of lower degree. Multilinearizing \(\rho_uh_u\) does not raise its degree, so this is a Nullstellensatz certificate of degree at most \(D_0\), which PC simulates in the same degree. So \(R(f)=0\).

Step 2. Write \(f=\sum_tc_tt\) over matching monomials \(t\) of degree at most \(a\). Then \(f=f-R(f)=\sum_tc_t\,(t-R(t))\).

Step 3. Fix \(t\), let \(P\) be its pigeons (\(|P|=\deg t\)) and \(U=\mathrm{Sup}_s(t)\). The variable sets met by \(t\) are the \(V_v\) with \(v\in N(P)\), so \(|N(t)|\le d\deg t\le da\le d\lfloor\delta s/(2d)\rfloor\le\delta s/2\), using \(a\le D_0\). As recorded in lem:relative-criterion, the \((\mathcal U,\mathcal V)_E\)-graph of functional graph PHP on \(G\) is an \((s,\delta,0,E)\)-expander with overlap \(d\): \(\xi=0\), and its respectful boundary \(\partial_E\) satisfies \(|\partial_E(U)|\ge\delta|U|\) for \(|U|\le s\) (their Definition 3.6). By their Lemma 3.22, with \(|N(t)|\le\delta s/2-\xi\), \(U\) is \((s/2,N(t))\)-contained: \(|U|\le s/2\) and \(\partial_E(U)\subseteq N(t)\) (Definition 3.17). So \(\delta|U|\le|\partial_E(U)|\le|N(t)|\), and \(|U|\le\lfloor d\deg t/\delta\rfloor\). By Definition 3.20, \(g_t=t-R(t)\) lies in the ideal \(I_E(U)\) generated by the pigeon axioms of \(U\) and the hole and functionality axioms, and \(\deg g_t\le\deg t\).

Step 4. On \(\mathcal Q\) the hole and functionality axioms and \(x^2-x\) vanish. The pigeon axiom of \(u\) is the function \(\prod_{v\in N(u)}(1-x_{uv})=1-r_u=-\rho_u\), since a matching gives \(u\) at most one hole. So \(g_t\) vanishes at every point of \(\mathcal Q\) where all pigeons of \(U\) are matched. There \(\prod_{u\in U}(1+\rho_u)=\prod_{u\in U}r_u\) is the indicator of that event, as \(r_u\in\{0,1\}\) on \(\mathcal Q\). Hence

\[g_t=g_t\Bigl(1-\prod_{u\in U}(1+\rho_u)\Bigr)=-\sum_{\emptyset\ne S\subseteq U}g_t\prod_{u\in S}\rho_u .\]

Each summand is some \(\rho_{u}\), \(u\in S\), times a function of degree at most \(\deg g_t+|S|-1\). So \(g_t\in N_{\deg t+|U|}\subseteq N_{a+\lfloor da/\delta\rfloor}\). Pinned pigeons have \(\rho=0\) on \(\mathcal Q\) and do not occur (prop:pinned-lift-certificate (1)).

Step 5. Summing over \(t\) gives \(f\in N_{a+\lfloor da/\delta\rfloor}\). \(\square\)

Consequences. (1) is the statement read on an adapted basis. For (2), let \(f\in N_{D'}\cap F_{D-1}\) with \(D'\le D_0\). The statement with \(a=D-1\) gives \(f\in N_{D-1+\lfloor d(D-1)/\delta\rfloor}\subseteq N_{D'-1}\). Also \(1\notin N_{D'-1}\), since otherwise functional graph PHP on \(G\) would have a refutation of degree at most \(D_0\), against imp:MN-functional-graph-degree. For (3), \(D_0=\lfloor s/10\rfloor\) and the condition of (2) with \(D'=6D-5\) reads \(6D-5\le D_0\). The restriction set lies in the allowed set of the equivalent implication family, by the argument of prop:pinned-lift-certificate (3), which prop:blocked-centre-lift-failure did not affect: that correction concerned the top lift only. For (4), let \(W=N_{D'}\cap F_D\) as in that proof. It contains the rows and now the constraints, and it is closed under the multiplications that generate the PC closure of rows and constraints, by the same argument; so that closure lies in \(N_{D'}\), which does not contain 1. Take \(D'=6D\le D_0\). lem:functional-residual derives the restricted clauses in degree \(22k+1\), which is at most \(D_0\) for every \(s\ge10(22k+1)\), including the enlarged \(s\) below. So a clause of degree \(b\le D\) derived on the residual lies in \(N_{6b}\subseteq N_{D'}\) by the statement, and (2) gives the rest of the hypotheses at \((D,6D)\), since \(6D\ge6D-5\). \(\square\)

What it means

Completeness for the proved families. W for cell, sparse and row-sparse blocks is proved by restriction to such a residual (thm:logarithmic-residual-w). For cell families the certificate has the exact form of conj:lagged-lift-subset, by (3); for sparse and row-sparse blocks it has the relaxed form of (4), with derived clauses in place of vanishing ones. Frozen-cell blocks (thm:frozen-cell-w) pass through a freezing map first, which this entry does not check. The restriction proof certifies hardness at \(D_0\). The lagged certificate on the same set certifies hardness at about \(D_0/(1+d/\delta)=D_0/6\). With the recorded \(s=10(22k+1)\) that is degree about \(3.7k\), not \(22k\). Reaching \(22k\) needs expansion up to \(s\ge10(132k-5)\). thm:logarithmic-residual-w chooses \(h=\lceil2^{12}s\rceil\) from \(s\), and its failure bounds were not rechecked for the larger \(s\). So the lagged certificate is complete for these families up to a constant factor in the degree. The top-lift form is not complete for them.
Falls on expanders are shallow. Polynomial calculus derives nothing of degree \(a\) within its range that the Nullstellensatz does not derive by degree \(a(1+d/\delta)\). The blocked configurations, of depth 1, are within this bound. So the gap between the top lift and hardness on these sets is exactly the bounded depth that the lagged lift tolerates.
What A1 now asks. conj:lagged-lift-subset is consistent with every recorded proof of W and survives the recorded obstructions to the top lift. What remains is a mechanism that produces the lagged lift for dense families, where no restriction to an expander is available. Taylor glue produces the top lift from Tor vanishing; a lagged analogue would allow top syzygies whose failures to lift land at most a bounded number of degrees lower.

Outcome. prop:expander-fall-bound (working proof, given the imported Mikša–Nordström theorem): on matching sets of \((s,\delta)\)-boundary expanders of left degree \(d\), every element of degree \(a\) that PC derives in degree at most \(\delta s/(2d)\) lies in the Nullstellensatz span of degree \(a+\lfloor da/\delta\rfloor\). Hence restriction sets are lagged-lift certificates, and the lagged certificate is complete for the restriction-proved families of W up to the factor \(1+d/\delta\) in degree; at W's degree \(22k\) this needs a residual expanding about six times further than recorded. The completeness question that decides the route is answered positively in lagged form: exactly as conj:lagged-lift-subset states it for cell families, and in the relaxed form with derived constraints for sparse and row-sparse blocks.

Note on the previous entry. The Outcome of the lagged-lift entry should carry the hypothesis of its part (4): all three coupling constants are certified in the product model when the other rows' factor lifts in every degree through \(D+2\).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review of A1 in lagged form. The lagged certificate is now complete for every proved family up to a constant factor, and it survives the recorded top-lift obstructions. The review should state what a lagged gluing theorem for dense families must provide: top syzygies of the clause tops that lift up to failures of bounded depth. It should test that requirement against the recorded dense obstructions (shared-row couplings, pure relations beyond capacity), with Outside leads and Absurd bridges aimed at it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read in Mikša and Nordström's text (arXiv 1505.01358) Lemma 3.15, Definitions 3.5, 3.6 and 3.16 to 3.20, and Lemmas 3.21 to 3.27; re-read lem:relative-criterion with prop:semantic-local-kill, imp:MN-functional-graph-degree, prop:design-lift-criterion, prop:lagged-lift-criterion, prop:pinned-lift-certificate, thm:cell-family-w, thm:logarithmic-residual-w, lem:functional-residual and thm:frozen-cell-w. My claim searches and the reviewer's found no prior bound on the Nullstellensatz degree of PC-derivable low-degree polynomials on expander graph PHP. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed Steps 1 to 5, including that Step 4 needs no locality although \(R(t)\) may involve variables outside the support's cells (their Lemma 3.24), the consequences, \(1\notin N_{D'-1}\), and the degree-loss arithmetic. It required, all adopted: \(\xi=0\) and the respectful boundary stated from lem:relative-criterion; \(a\le D_0\) as the source of \(|N(t)|\le\delta s/2\); that multilinearization keeps the certificate's degree; the derivation degree \(22k+1\le D_0\) in (4); and the relaxed form for sparse and row-sparse blocks in the title and Outcome.

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Route review of A1 in lagged form: falls are shallow exactly when few rows certify the vanishing, so accumulating couplings on one row cannot break the lagged lift, implication chains fall only logarithmically, and what A1 needs is row locality of low-degree consequences for dense families, which no recorded mechanism provides

28 September 2026 · Route review with a working lemma · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-lagged-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of A1 in lagged form: falls are shallow exactly when few rows certify the vanishing, so accumulating couplings on one row cannot break the lagged lift, implication chains fall only logarithmically, and what A1 needs is row locality of low-degree consequences for dense families, which no recorded mechanism provides”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-lagged-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the coupling-free review, five research entries changed the route's certificate. The top lift is strictly stronger than PC hardness (blocked centres). The lagged lift tolerates falls of bounded depth (lagged lift). It holds on the restriction sets of cell families, and in a relaxed form for sparse and row-sparse blocks (fall bound). What must a mechanism for dense families now provide, and what could defeat it?

General statement. The review's lemma is lem:row-count-depth-bound, over \(\mathbb F_p\). Let \(X\) be a finite point set with a degree filtration \(F_a\) (degree of a product at most the sum of degrees), row functions \(\rho_1,\dots,\rho_m\) of degree at most 1, and \(N_b=\sum_i\rho_iF_{b-1}\). If \(f\in F_a\) vanishes at every point of \(X\) where all \(\rho_i\), \(i\in T\), vanish, then \(f\in N_{a+(p-1)|T|}\). Hence if every element of \(N_{D'}\cap F_{D-1}\) is a sum of elements of \(F_{D-1}\) each certified in this way by at most \(\tau\) rows, with \((p-1)\tau\le D'-D\), the lagged lift of prop:lagged-lift-criterion holds at \((D,D')\).

Proof. By Fermat, \(e_T=\prod_{i\in T}(1-\rho_i^{p-1})\) is the indicator of the common zeros of the \(\rho_i\), \(i\in T\), so \(fe_T=0\) and

\[f=f(1-e_T)=-\sum_{\emptyset\ne S\subseteq T}(-1)^{|S|}f\prod_{i\in S}\rho_i^{p-1}.\]

For each \(S\), pick \(i_S\in S\): the summand is \(\rho_{i_S}\) times \(f\rho_{i_S}^{p-2}\prod_{i\in S\setminus i_S}\rho_i^{p-1}\), of degree at most \(a+(p-2)+(p-1)(|S|-1)\le a+(p-1)|T|-1\). So \(f\in N_{a+(p-1)|T|}\). For the second claim, such an \(f\in N_{D'}\cap F_{D-1}\) lies in \(N_{D-1+(p-1)\tau}\subseteq N_{D'-1}\). \(\square\)

On matching sets \(1+\rho_u\) is already an indicator, which is why prop:expander-fall-bound has \(|U|\) where the lemma has \((p-1)|U|\).

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows from conj:lagged-lift-subset: for dense families with random prefixes, some subset of some equivalent's allowed set satisfies the lagged lift at \((D,D')\), \(D'\le cD\), with \(1\notin N_{D'-1}\) (prop:lagged-lift-criterion). It is implied by conj:top-lift-subset and by conj:row-free-subset.

What the goal needs

That statement for dense families beyond joint capacity. By the lemma it suffices that low-degree consequences are row-local on the subset: every element of \(N_{cD}\cap F_{D-1}\) is a sum of elements of degree below \(D\), each vanishing wherever some \(O(D)\) rows vanish.

Falsification attempt

How could a dense family force deep falls, of depth growing faster than the degree, on every subset of every equivalent?

Couplings accumulating on one row. Any number \(k\) of coupled pairs on one row lives in a value space with that single row. There \(\tau\le1\), so every fall has depth at most \(p-1=2\), for every \(k\) and every coupling constant. This is the general reason behind ex:coupled-pair-fall-depths and the recorded shared-row defects (ex:shared-row-lift-constants), whose falls sit at levels 3 to 5 for \(k=2,3\). Products of such spaces keep the bound (prop:lagged-lift-criterion (3)). Accumulation on one row cannot break the lagged lift.
Implication chains. Cell blocks give occupancy implications, which can chain. Heuristically, a chain of length \(L\) behaves like the induction principle, whose Nullstellensatz degree Buss and Pitassi showed to be of order \(\log L\), while PC refutes it in degree 2; the embedding of chains into allowed sets was not worked out. So chain falls have depth about \(\log_2L\). A family of \(n^K\) blocks has \(L\le n^K\), so the depth is at most about \(K\log_2n\le\frac{K}{2.5(K+1)\ln2}k\le0.58k\) for \(k\approx2.5(K+1)\ln n\), well within a lag \(D'-D\ge D=22k\).
Hall-deficient pieces. Heuristically, when clauses confine some rows to a complete sub-board of their own, so that the piece is a complete bipartite board, weak PHP lifts in every degree below about half the number of holes (lem:graph-matching-extension with the chessboard bound), so complete pieces fall only near their own refutation level, and the lagged lift can take \(D'\) below it. Sparse pieces are the expander case, bounded by prop:expander-fall-bound.

No construction of deep falls was found. The remaining candidate is a family whose low-degree consequences need many rows at once: pure relations beyond capacity tie every member's forms to all rows.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on row locality for dense families. For single-row structures locality is automatic, and for sparse residuals it comes from expansion through Mikša and Nordström's supports. A dense form involves the cells of every row, and no support notion bounds the number of rows that certify a low-degree consequence of dense clause tops over the weak base.

Assessment of the route

The line is in better shape than at the last review. Its certificate is now calibrated: up to a constant factor in degree, the lagged form is complete for cell families and, in a relaxed form, for sparse and row-sparse blocks, with frozen-cell blocks unchecked; and it survives every recorded obstruction to the top lift. The lemma above explains why the obstructions found so far were harmless: each was certified by one row or by a small support. But the dense core is untouched. Row locality for dense families is the analogue of the falls and relative Tor vanishing that the coupling-free review left open, in a weaker and better-calibrated form. No recorded evidence decides it. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Alekhnovich–Razborov expansion for non-binomial systems (M. Alekhnovich and A. Razborov, Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case, Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 242 (2003) 18–35; generalized by Mikša and Nordström, CCC 2015). Target: A1, row locality through supports, with the forms' values as variables instead of cells. The clause–form incidence graph is a boundary expander: two clauses of one block share only the prefix forms, and each has a private form. Where it breaks: the base must enter as the axiom part \(E\), and beyond capacity each collision \(x_{ic}x_{jc}\) is a dense polynomial in the forms. Answers. An operator with supports in form space would bound the rows certifying each consequence by its clauses' supports, which is the missing locality. Test. Falsified in this translation. Mikša and Nordström's respectful boundary (their Definition 3.5) needs an assignment to a boundary variable set that satisfies or leaves intact every axiom of \(E\). Fixing one form's value leaves every dense collision polynomial neither satisfied nor intact.
Nullstellensatz degree of the induction principle (S. R. Buss and T. Pitassi, Good degree bounds on Nullstellensatz refutations of the induction principle, J. Comput. System Sci. 57 (1998) 162–171). Target: A1, the depth of falls produced by chains of implications. Answers. Chains are the recorded mechanism by which PC outruns the Nullstellensatz, and their depth is logarithmic in the chain length, which a polynomial family keeps at \(O(k)\). Test. Passed, from the paper's title result as recalled, not re-read (see Falsification attempt): chain falls in families of \(n^K\) blocks have depth at most about \(0.58k\), well below the lag.
The Artin–Rees lemma (H. Matsumura, Commutative Ring Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1986, Theorem 8.5). For an ideal \(I\) and submodule \(N\subseteq M\) of a finitely generated module over a Noetherian ring, \(I^nM\cap N=I^{n-c}(I^cM\cap N)\) for \(n\ge c\). The lagged lift is a lag statement of this shape for the degree filtration against the row ideal. Target: A1, a lag constant. Where it breaks: the constant depends on the module, and here the modules grow with \(n\). Answers. An Artin–Rees constant uniform in \(n\) would be an additive lag, stronger than the multiplicative lag the conjecture allows. Test. Not run: no statement of Artin–Rees type uniform in \(n\) is available to test. What was checked is consistent with the shape but explained by the lemma above, not by Artin–Rees: in fall_table.json every single-row value space has depth at most 2 at all levels through 8.

Absurd bridges

Lieb–Robinson bounds (E. H. Lieb and D. W. Robinson, The finite group velocity of quantum spin systems, Comm. Math. Phys. 28 (1972) 251–257). This is quantum many-body physics. Translation: a PC derivation is a time evolution, one multiplication per time step, and the rows needed to certify a consequence form its light cone. The interaction graph joins two rows when a clause or a column couples them. What a theorem there would give: a finite velocity, so that after \(D'\) steps every consequence is certified by the rows within distance \(vD'\), which is row locality. Smallest test: is the interaction graph of a dense family sparse? Answers. A light-cone bound would supply the missing locality. Test. Falsified in this form: a dense form has cells in every row, so one clause joins all rows and the light cone is everything after one step. Rows are also coupled pairwise by every shared column. A velocity bound would need a notion of distance that dense forms do not collapse.
Locally characterized affine-invariant properties (T. Kaufman and M. Sudan, Algebraic property testing: the role of invariance, STOC 2008). This is coding theory and property testing. Translation: the allowed set's vanishing ideal in degrees below \(D\) plays the role of a code's constraints, and row locality asks that it be characterized by constraints each involving few rows. Kaufman and Sudan show that affine-invariant properties with a single-orbit local characterization are testable. What a theorem there would give: invariance under a large group would propagate one local constraint to a local characterization of everything. Smallest test: is the allowed set invariant under a group transitive on rows? Answers. A local characterization is exactly the locality A1 needs. Test. Falsified: the weak base is invariant under permutations of rows and columns, but adversarial coefficients and random prefixes break that symmetry, as the transfer-matrix bridge of the coupling-free review also found.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge of an earlier review on this route is open.

Lead follow-up

No passed lead of an earlier review on this route is open. This review's passed lead, the induction-principle depth, is followed up in later reviews.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test row locality on the smallest dense families where the top lift fails. On the weak base, for the full allowed set of a random dense family and of a pure-relation family beyond capacity, compute the fall table (degree against level) and, for the falling elements, the least number of rows that certify them. Then state what the data show as a general proposition. If depth or row count grows with the degree, try to turn that growth into a refutation of conj:lagged-lift-subset; if both stay bounded, try to prove row locality for pure relations.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:lagged-lift-criterion, prop:expander-fall-bound, ex:coupled-pair-fall-depths, ex:shared-row-lift-constants with its recorded output, lem:graph-matching-extension, conj:lagged-lift-subset, conj:top-lift-subset, and Mikša and Nordström's Definition 3.5. My claim searches for chains and the induction principle, for row-count depth bounds and for light-cone locality found no prior record. The Buss–Pitassi bound is cited from the paper's title result as recalled; its bibliographic data were checked through Crossref, its text was not re-read. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the lemma and its corollary, the matching-set remark, the single-row reduction for couplings on one row and its product closure, the tests of the Alekhnovich–Razborov lead and of both bridges, and the next step. It required, all adopted: points of \(X\) in the lemma; the chain arithmetic as an upper bound; the complete-piece bullet marked heuristic with its hypothesis; the Artin–Rees test recorded as not run, since the recorded depths are explained by the lemma; and the scope of the fall bound, exact for cell families, relaxed for sparse and row-sparse blocks, unchecked for frozen cells.

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Total instrumented interval	14 min 42.38 s
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Single-degree Taylor lift: over a base that is z-injective at one degree, Taylor generation of the constraint tops at that degree alone excludes every fall there, so with a Nullstellensatz design one degree lower there is no PC refutation at that degree; A3's Tor vanishing through 22k may be replaced by Tor vanishing at any one degree from 22k up, and small boards cannot test row locality

28 September 2026 · Working proof and corrections · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-dense-row-locality. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Single-degree Taylor lift: over a base that is z-injective at one degree, Taylor generation of the constraint tops at that degree alone excludes every fall there, so with a Nullstellensatz design one degree lower there is no PC refutation at that degree; A3's Tor vanishing through 22k may be replaced by Tor vanishing at any one degree from 22k up, and small boards cannot test row locality”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-single-degree-taylor.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The lagged route review reduced A1 in lagged form to row locality of low-degree consequences for dense families. It proposed measuring fall depths and certifying row counts on the smallest dense families. Can that measurement decide anything, and what does a mechanism for dense families have to supply at the top degree?

General statement. prop:single-degree-taylor-lift, over \(\mathbb F_3\), in the setting of thm:based-taylor-glue. A base has finitely many generators, including every \(x_i^2-x_i\); \(V_s\) is the span of its multiples of degree at most \(s\); product constraints \(C=\prod_{j\in S_C}h_{C,j}(L_j)\) have factors \(L_j-a\) or \(\chi_a(L_j)=1-(L_j-a)^2\) and tops \(c_C\ell^{b_C}\) in \(G\), where \(G_s=P_s/\{\text{degree-}s\text{ parts of elements of }V_s\}\); \(V'_s\) adds the constraint multiples of degree at most \(s\). Fix one degree \(D\). Suppose

the base is \(z\)-injective at \(D\): \(V_D\cap P_{\le D-1}=V_{D-1}\);
the signed top syzygies of degree \(D\) are spanned by the Frobenius syzygies (F) and the syzygies (K) of coherent pairs.

Then \(V'_D\cap P_{\le D-1}\subseteq V'_{D-1}\): no element falls at level \(D\). If moreover \(1\notin V'_{D-1}\), the PC closure through degree \(D\) lies in \(V'_D\), and the base plus the constraints has no PC refutation of degree \(D\). Since PC hardness at \(D'\) implies it at every \(D\le D'\), hardness at \(D\) follows from the two conditions and \(1\notin V'_{D'-1}\) at any single degree \(D'\ge D\).

This refines thm:based-taylor-glue, which assumes Taylor generation and \(z\)-injectivity at every degree up to \(D\) and derives the Nullstellensatz design by induction. Here both are needed at one degree only, and the design one degree lower is taken as a hypothesis, to be supplied by any Nullstellensatz argument.

Proof

The argument is the proof of thm:based-taylor-glue restricted to one degree; what is new is only that nothing is needed at the other degrees once the design is given.

No fall at level \(D\). Let \(p\in V'_D\) with \(\deg p\le D-1\), and write \(p=v+\sum_CCh_C\) with \(v\in V_D\) and \(\deg(Ch_C)\le D\). Let \(\bar h_C\) be the degree-\((D-|b_C|)\) part of \(h_C\). The degree-\(D\) part of \(p\) vanishes: \(v_D+\sum_Cc_C\ell^{b_C}\bar h_C=0\) in \(P_D\), with \(v_D\) the degree-\(D\) part of \(v\in V_D\). Modulo those parts, \(\sum_Cc_C\ell^{b_C}\bar h_C=0\) in \(G_D\), so \((\bar h_C)\) is a signed top syzygy. By hypothesis \(\bar h_C=\sum_j\tau_{j,C}+u_C\), with Taylor syzygies \(\tau_j\) and \(u_C\) a top of some \(e_C\in V_{D-|b_C|}\).

\(Ce_C\in V_D\), since multiplying a base multiple by a polynomial gives a base multiple.
Each Taylor syzygy lifts as in the proof of thm:based-taylor-glue. For (F), the multiplier \(g\) has degree \(D-|b_C|-(3-b_{C,j})\). With factor \(L_j-a\), \(C(L_j-a)^2\tilde g=C\tilde g+C'\beta\tilde g\) with \(\beta=(L_j-a)^3-(L_j-a)\in V_3\), so the lift lies in \(V_D\) plus a constraint multiple of degree \(D-2\). With factor \(\chi_a\), \(C(L_j-a)\tilde g=C''\bigl((L_j-a)-(L_j-a)^3\bigr)\tilde g\in V_D\). For (K), \(C\Lambda\tilde g=C'\Lambda'\tilde g\) exactly; the lifted syzygy is \(\pm1\) times the canonical one, which does not affect the span, and the lower parts of \(\Lambda\tilde g\), \(\Lambda'\tilde g\) give constraint multiples of degree below \(D\).
The remainders \(h_C-\sum_j\tilde\tau_{j,C}-e_C\) have degree below \(D-|b_C|\), so their constraint multiples lie in \(V'_{D-1}\).

Hence \(\sum_CCh_C\in V_D+V'_{D-1}\), and \(p=v^*+q\) with \(v^*\in V_D\), \(q\in V'_{D-1}\). Then \(\deg v^*=\deg(p-q)\le D-1\), so \(v^*\in V_{D-1}\) by \(z\)-injectivity at \(D\), and \(p\in V'_{D-1}\).

PC closure. The PC closure through \(D\) is generated from the generators and constraints by linear combinations and by \(p\mapsto xp\) for \(\deg p\le D-1\). By induction it lies in \(V'_D\): if \(p\) is in it with \(\deg p\le D-1\), then \(p\in V'_D\cap P_{\le D-1}\subseteq V'_{D-1}\), and \(xp\), multilinearized with the generators \(x_i^2-x_i\), lies in \(V'_D\). If 1 were in the closure, then \(1\in V'_D\cap P_{\le0}\subseteq V'_{D-1}\), against the hypothesis. \(\square\)

What it means

One degree suffices. Open statement A3 asks for Tor vanishing of the clause tops relative to the base through degree \(22k\). By the proposition it may be replaced by Taylor generation at any one degree \(D'\ge22k\) where the weak base is \(z\)-injective, which thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic gives at degree \(D'\) whenever \(m\ge D'+1\) and \(N\ge2(D'+1)^2\) (it is stated as injectivity below a degree), so for \(D'\) up to about \(\sqrt{N/2}\), together with a Nullstellensatz design of degree \(D'-1\) for the weak base plus the clauses. The degree \(D'\) is ours to choose. For W's families the design is not proved in general: the dance line supplies designs only for some classes (prop:dance-shared-patterns, prop:failure-set-criterion). So the proposition splits A3 into a single-degree Tor condition and a Nullstellensatz condition, both open for dense families.
Relation to the lagged lift. In this polynomial setting the top lift at one degree \(D'\ge D\) implies the lagged lift at \((D,D')\) and already gives hardness at \(D\), so the lag enters as the freedom to choose \(D'\). A fall at level \(D'\) comes only from a top syzygy of degree \(D'\) outside the Taylor span, and it is harmless for the lagged lift when its lift lands at degree \(D\) or above.
Small boards cannot test row locality. Every element of \(N(Q)\) vanishes where all row equations vanish. With \(m-1\) row equations, lem:row-count-depth-bound therefore bounds every fall depth by \(2(m-1)\). The exact weak-base computations of this route ran at \(m=2,3\) (the coupled-pair kernels of prop:product-lift-rule), and there every depth is at most 4 for every family on those boards. So the measurement proposed by the review cannot refute bounded depth, and it was not run. Row locality is a statement about \(m\gg D\) and needs an argument.

Outcome. prop:single-degree-taylor-lift (working proof, a refinement of thm:based-taylor-glue): Taylor generation of the constraint tops at one degree, over a base \(z\)-injective there, excludes all falls at that degree. With a Nullstellensatz design one degree lower it excludes PC refutations at that degree, and so at every lower degree. The dense core's requirement is a single-degree Tor condition at a degree we may choose from \(22k\) up to about \(\sqrt{N/2}\), plus the Nullstellensatz half. The fall-table measurement at small sizes is uninformative by the row-count bound and was not run.

Notes on the previous entries

Lagged route review. Its chain bullet is misframed. Consequences of the clauses alone, such as the conclusion of a chain of implications, vanish identically on the allowed set \(Q\), so they are zero in \(F^Q\) and not falls of \(N(Q)\). The Buss–Pitassi depth bears on row falls only where a chain's links are row consequences. The lead's recorded Test outcome, Passed, rested on this framing and on a statement recalled rather than re-read, so it does not stand; the lead is closed in the next review. The conclusion that chains do not obstruct the lagged lift is unaffected.
In the same review, the single-row certification needs its one-line reason: every element \(\rho h\) of \(N^Y\) vanishes where \(\rho\) does. The lemma's corollary uses that \(N_b\) increases with \(b\), as \(F_{b-1}\subseteq F_b\).
The value-space tables of fall_table.json were computed through level 8 and list only nonzero entries, so the depth bound 2 holds at every level through 8.
Expander fall bound. Its consequence (3) uses only the vanishing argument of prop:pinned-lift-certificate (3) (prop:cell-block-implications and prop:antecedent-deletion), not that entry's homology hypothesis. Its consequence (4) repeats the proof of prop:lagged-lift-criterion (1) for the set \(W=N_{D'}\cap F_D\), which now contains the constraints as well as the rows.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): exploit the free choice of the single degree. For random dense tops with random prefixes on the weak base, bound the single-degree Taylor defect \(\mathrm{Def}_{D'}\) with the record's class-survival machinery (prop:relation-avoidance, prop:stopping-set-survival, prop:split-obstruction-bound): a surviving non-Taylor class needs a stopping-set support. Ask at which degrees \(D'\) from \(22k\) to about \(\sqrt{N/2}\) a first-moment bound over supports makes surviving classes unlikely, and what the Nullstellensatz half requires at \(D'-1\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read thm:based-taylor-glue with its proof, thm:weak-base-stability-quadratic, prop:design-lift-criterion, lem:row-count-depth-bound, prop:dance-shared-patterns, prop:failure-set-criterion, lem:class-survival, prop:relation-avoidance and prop:stopping-set-survival. My claim searches for single-degree Taylor generation and for Nullstellensatz designs of W's families found the based Taylor glue and the dance-line results, and no single-degree version. No computation was run; the proposed small-board measurement was set aside because the row-count bound makes every outcome compatible with bounded depth. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the remainder step, the use of \(z\)-injectivity at one degree only, the PC-closure induction, and the accuracy of every note on earlier entries. It required, all adopted: how the base part enters the top syzygy, with \(G_D\) defined; the degree of the (F) multiplier; the sign of the (K) lift; that the argument is the based Taylor glue proof restricted to one degree; the row condition \(m\ge D'+1\); and the boards the small-size argument refers to.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	11 min 38.28 s
Marked reading and review windows	4 min 33.79 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	6 min 54.43 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Exact Taylor propagation: adding a column changes the Taylor defect by an exact formula even when the lower degree is not clean, and lower-degree classes outside a space fixed on the base board, spanned by derivatives of relations among Taylor generators, reappear once per new cell on every extension; so Taylor generation at a single degree on a grown board needs the lower classes to be absorbable

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-single-degree-defect. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Exact Taylor propagation: adding a column changes the Taylor defect by an exact formula even when the lower degree is not clean, and lower-degree classes outside a space fixed on the base board, spanned by derivatives of relations among Taylor generators, reappear once per new cell on every extension; so Taylor generation at a single degree on a grown board needs the lower classes to be absorbable”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-exact-taylor-propagation.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). By prop:single-degree-taylor-lift, Taylor generation of the clause tops is needed at one degree only, given a Nullstellensatz design one degree lower (single degree). The recorded tools for the Taylor defect of dense tops, prop:lift-obstruction and lem:class-survival, grow a board column by column and assume the lower degree is clean. What happens to a lower-degree defect when columns are added, and can the single-degree condition hold on a grown board while lower degrees carry defects?

General statement. prop:exact-taylor-propagation, over any field, in the setting of thm:taylor-propagation and prop:lift-obstruction. \(R\) is a graded commutative algebra with tops \(\tau_b\in R_h\) and Frobenius elements \(f\) annihilating them; \(R'=R\otimes(\mathbb F\oplus V_c)\) adds a column with cells \(y_v\), \(v\in c\), of degree 1 and \(V_c^2=0\); the tops \(\tau'_b\) and Frobenius elements \(f'\) of \(R'\) restrict to those of \(R\) under \(\pi\). Every Taylor generator \(g\) of \(R\) (a Frobenius syzygy \(fe_b\) or a Koszul pair \(\tau_ce_b-\tau_be_c\)) has its lift \(g'=g+\sum_vy_v\,\partial_vg'\). Let \(\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\) be the kernel of the map from formal combinations \(\sum_ig_i\otimes x_i\) of generator instances, \(x_i\in R\), to their values \(\sum_ig_ix_i\) in multiplier degree \(e\). The map \(\delta_v\) is defined on these formal combinations, since one element of \(T_e(R)\) can arise from several, and

\[\delta_v\Bigl(\sum_ig_i\otimes x_i\Bigr)=\sum_i(\partial_vg'_i)\,x_i ,\qquad \bar\delta_c:\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\to\bigoplus_{v\in c}\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)/T_{e-1}(R).\]

Exact formula. Each \(\delta_v\) takes values in \(\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\), and \[\operatorname{Def}_e(R')=\dim\ker\mathrm{ob}_c+|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)-\operatorname{rank}\bar\delta_c,\] with \(\mathrm{ob}_c\) the obstruction map of prop:lift-obstruction.
Persistence. For product tops \(\tau_b=\prod_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j}\) with Frobenius elements \(L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}\) over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(\partial_vg'\) is linear in the new cell's coefficients \(l_{b,j,v}\), with components fixed on \(R\). Let \(\mathcal A_{e-1}(R)\subseteq\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)/T_{e-1}(R)\) be spanned by those components applied to \(\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\). Then for every added column, whatever its coefficients, \[\operatorname{Def}_e(R')\ \ge\ |c|\cdot\dim\bigl(\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)/(T_{e-1}(R)+\mathcal A_{e-1}(R))\bigr).\]

With \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)=0\), (1) is prop:lift-obstruction. Since \(\dim\ker\mathrm{ob}_c\le\operatorname{Def}_e(R)\) and ranks are nonnegative, (1) also gives thm:taylor-propagation's bound \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')\le\operatorname{Def}_e(R)+|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\).

Proof

(1). By thm:taylor-propagation, \(\pi:\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')\to\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)\) has kernel \(\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\otimes V_c\). By prop:lift-obstruction, a syzygy \(z\) of \(R\) lifts exactly when \(\sum_bz_b\partial_v\tau'_b\in I_R\) for every \(v\), and \(\pi T_e(R')=T_e(R)\) because the Frobenius elements are lifts; so \(\mathrm{ob}_c\) is defined on \(\operatorname{Syz}_e(R)/T_e(R)\) and the image of \(\pi\) is the preimage of its kernel. Neither step uses the lower degree. So

\[\operatorname{Def}_e(R')=\dim\ker\mathrm{ob}_c+|c|\dim\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)-\dim\bigl(\ker\pi\cap T_e(R')\bigr).\]

An element of \(T_e(R')\) is \(t=\sum_ig'_ix'_i\) with \(x'_i=x_{0,i}+\sum_vy_vx_{v,i}\), \(x_{0,i},x_{v,i}\in R\). Its restriction is \(\sum_ig_ix_{0,i}\), so \(t\in\ker\pi\) exactly when \(\sum_ig_i\otimes x_{0,i}\in\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\). Since \(y_vg'_i=y_vg_i\),

\[t=\sum_vy_v\,\delta_v\Bigl(\sum_ig_i\otimes x_{0,i}\Bigr)+\sum_vy_v\sum_ig_ix_{v,i}.\]

The second sum ranges over all of \(T_{e-1}(R)\otimes V_c\), which lies in \(T_e(R')\). The first term is \(t\) minus an element of \(T_e(R')\), hence a syzygy of \(R'\). Its syzygy condition reads \(\sum_vy_v\sum_b\delta_v(\cdot)_b\tau_b=0\), and \(y_vx=0\) with \(x\in R\) forces \(x=0\), so each \(\delta_v(\cdot)\) lies in \(\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\). Hence \(\ker\pi\cap T_e(R')=T_{e-1}(R)\otimes V_c+\{\sum_vy_v\delta_v(r):r\in\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\}\), of dimension \(|c|\dim T_{e-1}(R)+\operatorname{rank}\bar\delta_c\). Substituting gives (1).

(2). For a Frobenius generator, \(\partial_vL_{b,j}'^{\,3-\epsilon_j}=(3-\epsilon_j)\,l_{b,j,v}\,L_{b,j}^{2-\epsilon_j}\), expanding with \(y_v^2=0\). For a Koszul pair, \(\partial_v\tau'_b=\sum_j\epsilon_jl_{b,j,v}L_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j-1}\prod_{i\ne j}L_{b,i}^{\epsilon_i}\), restricted to \(R\), as in prop:lift-obstruction. Both are linear in the coefficients \(l_{b,j,v}\) of cell \(v\), with components that depend only on \(R\) and the forms restricted to it. So each \(\delta_v(r)\) lies in \(T_{e-1}(R)+\mathcal A_{e-1}(R)\), and \(\ker\pi\cap T_e(R')\subseteq(T_{e-1}(R)+\mathcal A_{e-1}(R))\otimes V_c\). Then \(\ker\pi/(\ker\pi\cap T_e(R'))\) maps onto \((\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)/(T_{e-1}(R)+\mathcal A_{e-1}(R)))\otimes V_c\). It injects into \(\operatorname{Syz}_e(R')/T_e(R')\), which gives the bound. \(\square\)

What it means

Two regimes. Classes one degree up are governed by the obstruction map, and lem:class-survival shows they die when the forms of their tops are independent off the base. Classes one degree down do the opposite: those outside \(\mathcal A_{e-1}\) reappear once per new cell on every extension, whatever its coefficients. Only derivatives of relations among the Taylor generators can absorb them.
The single degree on grown boards. If a board has a lower-degree class outside \(\mathcal A\), every column added to it creates at least one non-Taylor class per cell one degree up. So on a board grown from a base, Taylor generation at a single degree \(D'\) needs the defects at \(D'-1\) of the earlier boards to lie in the absorbable spaces. prop:single-degree-taylor-lift removed the lower degrees from the hypotheses, but on grown boards they return through (2), unless absorbed.
The choice of degree. For \(n^K\) random tops of degree \(h=2(k+1)\), a rough monomial count puts the fill point at a constant fraction of \(n^2\): the weak algebra's dimensions in degrees \(s-h\) and \(s\) have ratio about \((s/n^2)^h\), and \(n^K(s/n^2)^h\) reaches 1 only for \(s\) of order \(n^2\), far above \(22k\). This is approximate, and W's forms need not be random. So the free choice of \(D'\) offers no escape from fill; the smallest admissible degree, \(22k\), is the natural one.
The Artin–Rees lead of the lagged route review. Developed, as an informal identification rather than a theorem: a lag uniform in \(n\) for all elements of the row ideal asks the row equations to be an H-basis over the base in Macaulay's sense (H. M. Möller and T. Sauer, H-bases for polynomial interpolation and system solving, Adv. Comput. Math. 12 (2000) 335–362) up to a bounded excess. Its zero-excess case is the absence of degree falls, which is the semi-regularity of conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base. The lead leads back to that recorded conjecture and adds no mechanism.

Outcome. prop:exact-taylor-propagation (working proof): the Taylor defect after adding a column equals the surviving classes of the same degree, plus the column size times the lower defect, minus the rank of the derivative map on relations among Taylor generators. For product tops, lower classes outside a space fixed on the base persist once per new cell on every extension. Single-degree Taylor generation on a grown board therefore needs the lower defects to be absorbable, and the free choice of degree does not help random tops, whose fill point is far above \(22k\).

Notes on the previous entry

In the single-degree entry, three points should be explicit. Checking the Frobenius and coherent-pair generators suffices for their span by linearity of the lifts. The PC-closure half is the top-degree principle of prop:design-lift-criterion (2) and prop:lagged-lift-criterion (1) with \(D'=D\); what that entry adds is the verification of the no-fall hypothesis from Taylor generation at one degree. And the Nullstellensatz half is weaker than "not proved in general" suggests: prop:dance-shared-patterns records that the naive pigeon dance fails on the allowed set, and prop:failure-set-criterion characterizes designs without producing one for a nonempty excluded set, so for dense families no positive Nullstellensatz tool is recorded.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): compute \(\mathcal A_{e-1}\) for the recorded defect families: the seed-23 pair \(A^2B\), \(C^2D\) at multiplier degree 4 and the pair-relation families of ex:pair-relation-defects at degree 3, on their 16-cell boards. If their classes lie outside \(\mathcal A\), they multiply on every extension, so these families fail single-degree Taylor generation one degree up on every larger board, a stronger obstruction than recorded. If they lie inside, the absorbing relations are the mechanism a dense-family argument has to control.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:lift-obstruction and thm:taylor-propagation with their proofs, lem:class-survival, prop:single-degree-taylor-lift and conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base. My claim search for propagation with lower defects found only the recorded clean-case results. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the description of \(\ker\pi\cap T_e(R')\), the dimension count, the clean case and the recovered inequality, the linearity in (2) with \(\mathcal A\) fixed on \(R\), the surjection and injection giving the bound, and the notes on the previous entry. It required, all adopted: why the obstruction map is defined without a clean lower degree; relations as formal combinations; indices on the Frobenius derivative; a notation change for the absorbable space; the fill-point count labelled approximate; and the H-basis remark marked informal, with a source.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	7 min 19.44 s
Marked reading and review windows	2 min 58.91 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 18.13 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	2 min 2.27 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Absorbable classes, first attempt: a kernel for the absorbable space and the exact propagation formula, whose validation exposed an unsigned wraparound in the kernel's lift system; an independent reference confirms the formula on one instance, and the corrected runs move to the next cycle

28 September 2026 · Unsuccessful attempt, with a kernel correction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-absorbable-classes. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Absorbable classes, first attempt: a kernel for the absorbable space and the exact propagation formula, whose validation exposed an unsigned wraparound in the kernel's lift system; an independent reference confirms the formula on one instance, and the corrected runs move to the next cycle”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-absorbable-classes.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The exact propagation entry proposed computing the absorbable space \(\mathcal A\) for the recorded defect families, starting with the seed-23 pair \(A^2B\), \(C^2D\) on 16 cells, whose defect at multiplier degree 4 is 1. If that class lies outside \(\mathcal A\), it reappears once per added cell on every extension.

General statement. The statement tested is prop:exact-taylor-propagation: \(\operatorname{Def}_E(R')=\dim\ker\mathrm{ob}_c+|c|\operatorname{Def}_{E-1}(R)-\operatorname{rank}\bar\delta_c\), with its persistence bound.

What was built

absorbable_classes.cpp works in the square-free algebra on \(N\) cells, one row of the board, with forms drawn as in the recorded pseudorandom check. It computes \(\operatorname{Def}_{E-1}\) and a basis of the relations among Taylor generator instances at multiplier degree \(E\) (a nullspace). For each form \(f\) it computes the components \(\Psi_f\) of their derivatives as a matrix product, asserts that every column is a syzygy at degree \(E-1\), and reports \(\dim\mathcal A\) and the persistent part \(\operatorname{Def}_{E-1}-\dim\mathcal A\). A check mode adds one cell with random coefficients, computes \(\operatorname{Def}_E\) of the extension directly on \(N+1\) cells, and compares it with the formula's right-hand side, including \(\dim\ker\mathrm{ob}\) from a joint system in the syzygy and its lift.

What happened

The first validation series on 8-cell boards reported mismatches in both directions, including a case with clean lower degree, where the formula is the recorded prop:lift-obstruction. The printed pieces were inconsistent with the exact sequence behind the formula: for seed 1 at \(E=2\), \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}_2(R')=22\) and \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}_1(R)=2\), yet the kernel found only 19 liftable syzygies, where the sequence requires 20.
An independent reference, absorbable_reference_check.py (plain elimination, reproducing the kernel's Mersenne Twister draws), recomputed that instance: \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}_2(R')=22\), \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}_2(R)=21\), \(\dim\operatorname{Syz}_1(R)=2\), liftable dimension 20. So \(22=20+2\), and with rank 18 for the Taylor span of \(R\) the formula gives \(\dim\ker\mathrm{ob}=2=\operatorname{Def}_2(R')\), as the kernel's direct count also found. The formula holds on this instance.
The defect: FLINT's matrix entries are unsigned, and the kernel's lift system added negative coefficients to them directly. Since \(2^{64}\equiv1\pmod3\), each \(-1\) was added as 0, which silently removed the \(I_R\)-multiples from the lift condition and undercounted \(\ker\mathrm{ob}\). The fix adds through a signed integer. The other matrix fills add only nonnegative values and are unaffected. The mismatches of the first series are void; their outputs are kept as buggy_series_N8.txt and buggy_debug_N8.txt.
The corrected series and the seed-23 computation were not run. The run guard allows a program four argument lists per session, and the debugging runs used them. Both are the first runs of the next cycle.

Outcome. No new result. The exact propagation formula is confirmed on one instance by an independent reference, and the kernel's lift system is corrected. Whether the seed-23 class lies in the absorbable space is still open.

Notes on the previous entry

In the exact propagation entry, the absorbable space depends on both degrees, since it is built from \(\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\): it is \(\mathcal A^{(e)}_{e-1}(R)\).
Its bullet on grown boards overclaims. Part (2) is a one-step bound. What it gives is the necessary condition on the immediate predecessor: if \(R^+\) has Taylor generation at degree \(D'\), then for every column \(c\) of \(R^+\) the board \(R^+\setminus c\) has its defect at \(D'-1\) inside \(\mathcal A^{(D')}_{D'-1}(R^+\setminus c)\), since the columns may be added in any order. That lower classes survive further additions was not shown.
Its Outcome states the fill-point comparison flatly; it is the heuristic monomial count of that entry's bullet.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): run the corrected kernel once as a validation series of the exact formula on 8- to 10-cell boards, with its assertions, and once on the seed-23 pair at \(N=16\), \(E=5\), to decide whether its class at multiplier degree 4 lies in \(\mathcal A^{(5)}_4\). Then state the answer for that family as a proposition about every extension of its board.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:exact-taylor-propagation and prop:lift-obstruction. The kernel's defect was located by comparing its printed pieces with the exact sequence, and confirmed by the independent reference on the same instance, whose coefficients and added cell match the kernel's. No fresh-context review was run: this entry registers no claim, and its only mathematical content is one instance of a reviewed formula. The corrected kernel was compiled but not run.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	10 min 37.50 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 45.34 s
Computation design and coding	7 min 19.58 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 31.37 s
Individually measured computation	1.07 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once. Failed/timed-out commands: 1.

Defect migration: the recorded non-Taylor class of the seed-23 pair is not absorbable, so on every one-column extension of its board it reappears one degree higher, once per new cell, even where cor:defect-decay kills it at its own degree; the exact propagation formula holds in all 48 validation cases

28 September 2026 · Finite check with a proved consequence · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-absorbable-runs. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Defect migration: the recorded non-Taylor class of the seed-23 pair is not absorbable, so on every one-column extension of its board it reappears one degree higher, once per new cell, even where cor:defect-decay kills it at its own degree; the exact propagation formula holds in all 48 validation cases”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-defect-migration.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). By prop:exact-taylor-propagation (2), a lower-degree non-Taylor class outside the absorbable space \(\mathcal A\) reappears once per new cell on every extension. The kernel for \(\mathcal A\) was corrected in the previous cycle. Is the recorded defect of the seed-23 pair \(A^2B\), \(C^2D\) absorbable, and does the exact formula hold on the corrected kernel?

General statement. The general statement is prop:exact-taylor-propagation; this cycle registers ex:seed23-defect-migration, its computed instance with the consequence the proposition gives. Let \(R\) be the square-free algebra on the recorded 16 cells with the seed-23 pair. Then \(\operatorname{Def}_4(R)=1\) and \(\mathcal A^{(5)}_4(R)=0\), so by prop:exact-taylor-propagation (2) every board \(R'\) obtained from \(R\) by adding one column \(c\), with any coefficients, has \(\operatorname{Def}_5(R')\ge|c|\): at least one non-Taylor top syzygy of target degree 8 per new cell. On this one-row algebra a column is a single cell, so the bound reads \(\operatorname{Def}_5(R')\ge1\); the statement on the weak base, with columns of \(m\) cells, would need the row inflation of prop:row-inflation, which is not carried out here.

Computations

Validation of the exact formula. absorbable_classes.cpp in its series mode ran every \(N=8,9,10\), seeds 1 to 4 and \(E=2,\dots,5\) with \(E+3\le N+1\): 48 cases (validation_series_N8_10.txt). In each it added one cell with random coefficients, computed \(\operatorname{Def}_E\) of the extension directly on \(N+1\) cells, and asserted equality with \(\dim\ker\mathrm{ob}_c+\operatorname{Def}_{E-1}(R)-\operatorname{rank}\bar\delta_c\), and the persistence bound. All 48 passed. In 34 cases the lower defect was positive, in 25 the rank of \(\bar\delta_c\) was positive, and in 27 \(\mathcal A\neq0\), so the formula was exercised well beyond the clean case of prop:lift-obstruction. Absorption does occur: at \(N=8\), seed 1, \(E=5\), all 12 lower classes lie in \(\mathcal A\) and the extension's defect is 0. These small boards are beyond the fill point, which is why their defects are large.
The seed-23 pair. absorb mode at \(N=16\), seed 23, \(E=5\) (seed23_N16_E5.txt): \(\operatorname{Def}_4(R)=1\), reproducing the recorded defect, 685 independent relations among the Taylor generator instances at multiplier degree 5, and \(\dim\mathcal A^{(5)}_4(R)=0\). Every derivative component was asserted to be a syzygy, by a matrix product with the syzygy map. So the class is persistent. The run took 24 s.

What it means

Decay is migration. cor:defect-decay shows that random added cells kill this pair's class at multiplier degree 4, with probability at least \(2/3\) per cell. The present result shows that on every one-column extension, whether or not the class dies at degree 4, a class appears at degree 5, one per cell. The recorded decay describes the class's own degree. One degree up it persists, at least for one step. Whether the degree-5 classes are absorbable on the extended board, so that the migration stops, was not computed.
For single-degree Taylor generation. On boards containing this pair, Taylor generation at target degree 8 fails on every one-column extension of the 16-cell board. This pair is short: its forms have the recorded column weight 7 after row inflation, which conj:column-weight-taylor excludes at degrees above \(7/c_2\), with \(c_2\) an unknown constant. So the finding does not bear on that conjecture's regime. It shows that the lower-degree hypotheses of the recorded Taylor tools cannot be dropped merely by working at a single degree, since non-absorbable lower classes feed the next degree.

Outcome. ex:seed23-defect-migration (finite check with a proved consequence): the seed-23 pair's class at multiplier degree 4 is not absorbable, so every one-column extension of its board has at least one non-Taylor class per new cell at multiplier degree 5. The exact propagation formula passed all 48 validation cases. Whether the class keeps climbing on further extensions is open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review is due. The Taylor sub-line now has an exact propagation rule, and non-absorbable classes migrate upward. The review should decide whether single-degree Taylor generation for dense families is worth pursuing through absorption, which depends on relations among Taylor generators that no recorded tool controls. It should also close the lagged route review's Buss–Pitassi lead, whose framing the single-degree entry corrected.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:exact-taylor-propagation, cor:defect-decay, ex:pseudorandom-taylor-check, prop:row-inflation and conj:column-weight-taylor. The kernel's corrected lift system was validated by the 48-case series and, before the fix, located with the independent reference of the previous entry. All matrix fills were audited for the unsigned-entry defect: the remaining ones add only nonnegative values. A fresh-context reviewer checked the generator instances, their values and derivative components against the proposition, the syzygy assertion, the check mode's two sides, and every quoted number against the outputs. It required, all adopted: \(|c|=1\) on the one-row algebra, with the weak-base version left to row inflation; that migration holds on every extension, whether or not the class dies at its own degree; the column-weight remark with its unknown constant; and the audit of all matrix fills.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 10.76 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 39.53 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	1 min 5.59 s
Individually measured computation	25.51 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review of A1 after the single-degree and propagation results: Taylor generation is needed at one degree only, but non-absorbable lower classes migrate upward on grown boards, absorption depends on relations among Taylor generators that no tool controls, and both the lagged and the Taylor forms need a Nullstellensatz design for dense families, which nothing recorded supplies

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-taylor-route-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of A1 after the single-degree and propagation results: Taylor generation is needed at one degree only, but non-absorbable lower classes migrate upward on grown boards, absorption depends on relations among Taylor generators that no tool controls, and both the lagged and the Taylor forms need a Nullstellensatz design for dense families, which nothing recorded supplies”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-taylor-route-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the lagged route review, four research entries reworked the Taylor form of the certificate. Taylor generation is needed at one degree given a Nullstellensatz design one lower (single degree). The exact propagation rule shows lower classes migrating upward unless absorbed (exact propagation). The seed-23 pair's class is not absorbable (defect migration). What does A1 need now, and where should the next cycles go?

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows from either of two certificates for dense families: the lagged lift on a subset of an equivalent's allowed set (conj:lagged-lift-subset, via prop:lagged-lift-criterion), or Taylor generation of the clause tops at one degree \(D'\ge22k\) over the weak base (prop:single-degree-taylor-lift). Both also need \(1\notin N_{D'-1}\), a Nullstellensatz design one degree below the chosen level.

What the goal needs

For dense families beyond joint capacity, two things. First, a Nullstellensatz design of degree about \(22k\) for weak unary PHP plus the clauses. Second, either row locality of low-degree consequences on a subset (lagged route review) or single-degree Taylor generation at some \(D'\ge22k\).

Falsification attempt

Can defect migration defeat single-degree Taylor generation for dense families at every degree? By prop:exact-taylor-propagation (2), a class outside the absorbable space reappears one degree up once per new cell, so on a board grown column by column a persistent class at a low degree could climb to \(D'\). Whether it keeps climbing depends on absorption at every step. On the 34 validation cases with a positive lower defect (8- to 10-cell boards, beyond the fill point), 31 had persistent classes, and on average 42% of the lower classes were absorbed (validation_series_N8_10.txt). The seed-23 pair, below the fill point, has no absorption. So the Taylor tools cannot drop their lower-degree hypotheses without an absorption mechanism. No family was found whose classes provably climb to \(22k\); the migration beyond one step was not computed. Dense families of large column weight, the regime of conj:column-weight-taylor, were not tested.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on two points, both for dense families. The Nullstellensatz half: both certificates need a design of degree about \(22k\) for weak PHP plus dense clauses, and the record has no positive construction. The uniform PHP design does not vanish on dense clauses (prop:exact-operator-criterion), the pigeon dance fails on the allowed set (prop:dance-shared-patterns, as the single-degree entry's notes record), and prop:failure-set-criterion characterizes designs without producing one. The certificate half: single-degree Taylor generation requires controlling absorption by relations among Taylor generators, and row locality requires a support notion that dense forms do not have.

Assessment of the route

The last four entries give the Taylor form exact rules: one degree suffices given a design, and defects propagate by an exact formula whose absorption term is identified. That is structure, not a mechanism for dense families. The Nullstellensatz half, which the certificate statements take as a hypothesis, is unsupplied for dense families, and it is necessary for every recorded certificate: a Nullstellensatz refutation is a PC refutation. So the route's highest-risk item has two open parts, and the Nullstellensatz part is the more basic one. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Exactness of the Taylor resolution (D. Taylor, Ideals generated by monomials in an R-sequence, PhD thesis, University of Chicago, 1966; I. Peeva, Graded Syzygies, Springer, 2011, Section 26). For monomial ideals the Taylor complex is a free resolution, so every relation among its first-step generators comes from its second step. Target: the absorbable space. Where it breaks: product tops are not monomials, so the complex need not be exact. Answers. The derivatives of the relations coming from the second step of the complex are Taylor, so absorption needs relations outside that step, a failure of exactness there. Proof, with \(\partial=\partial_v\), lifted Frobenius elements and the convention \(K_{bc}=\tau_ce_b-\tau_be_c\): for a commutation \(f_2\otimes F_1-f_1\otimes F_2\) of two Frobenius syzygies \(F_i=f_ie_b\) of one top, the derivative \(f_2(\partial f'_1)e_b-f_1(\partial f'_2)e_b\) is a sum of multiples of \(F_2\) and \(F_1\). For a Frobenius–Koszul relation \(f_b\otimes K_{bc}-\tau_c\otimes F_b\), differentiating \(f'_b\tau'_b=0\) gives \(f_b\partial\tau'_b=-(\partial f'_b)\tau_b\), so the derivative \(f_b(\partial\tau'_ce_b-\partial\tau'_be_c)-\tau_c(\partial f'_b)e_b\) equals \(f_b\partial\tau'_c\,e_b-(\partial f'_b)K_{bc}\), a multiple of \(F_b\) minus a multiple of \(K_{bc}\). For a Koszul triple \(\sum_{\mathrm{cyc}}\tau_a\otimes K_{bc}\), the derivative is \(-\sum_{\mathrm{cyc}}(\partial\tau'_a)K_{bc}\): both have \(\tau_c\partial\tau'_b-\tau_b\partial\tau'_c\) at \(e_a\), and cyclically. So the absorbable space is spanned by derivatives of the remaining relations, those the second step of the complex does not produce. Test. Passed on the seed-23 pair in the weak sense of consistency: its absorbable space is 0 among 685 relations. Whether all 685 come from the second step was not checked.
Razborov's symmetric design for PHP (A. Razborov, Lower bounds for the polynomial calculus, Comput. Complexity 7 (1998) 291–324; the uniform design recorded in prop:exact-operator-criterion). Target: the Nullstellensatz half for dense families. Answers. A design of PHP corrected to vanish on the clauses would supply it. Test. Falsified in its direct form: prop:exact-operator-criterion records that the uniform design is nonzero on a dense clause whenever the clause's uniform value is, so it is not a design for PHP plus the clauses; a correction is needed, and none is recorded.
Anstee–Rónyai–Sali support bounds for designs (the source of lem:design-support-bound: a design of degree \(D\) for a system violated at every cube point has support of at least \(2^{D-1}\) points). Target: the Nullstellensatz half, through the failure-set criterion. Answers. A design exists exactly when no failure set is covered, and the two sides carry separate size bounds: designs need supports of at least \(2^{D-1}\) points, and what the criterion needs is a lower bound on minimal failure sets. The support bound says that a design must use many allowed points; a matching bound for failure sets, which it does not give, would turn prop:failure-set-criterion into a probabilistic existence proof under random prefixes. Test. Not run: no bound on minimal failure sets of degree-\(D\) near-refutations of weak PHP is recorded, and deriving one is the next step below.

Absurd bridges

Galton–Watson branching processes (T. E. Harris, The Theory of Branching Processes, Springer, 1963). This is probability. Translation: a non-absorbable Taylor class at one degree is an individual, each added column of \(|c|\) cells gives it \(|c|\) offspring one degree up, and absorption is death. What a theorem there would give: extinction exactly when the mean offspring number is at most 1, so a quantitative absorption rate above \(1-1/|c|\) for dense tops would make defects die out and single-degree Taylor generation hold at high degrees. Smallest test: the absorbed fraction in the recorded validation data. Answers. An absorption rate would decide whether defects of dense families survive to degree \(22k\). Test. Falsified on the recorded boards. On one-row boards a column is one cell, so the extinction threshold \(1-1/|c|\) is 0 and only full absorption kills the defects; 31 of the 34 cases had persistent classes (mean absorbed fraction 0.42), so defects survive there. These boards are beyond the fill point; below it, the regime that matters, the rate was not measured.
Leontief input–output models and the Perron–Frobenius theorem (W. Leontief, The Structure of American Economy, 1941). This is economics. Translation: the persistent parts of the defects at successive degrees form a vector, and adding a column acts on it by a nonnegative matrix (persistence up one degree, survival at the same degree). What a theorem there would give: the defects stay bounded along a chain of extensions exactly when the spectral radius of that matrix is below 1. Smallest test: compute the matrix for one family along two successive extensions. Answers. A spectral radius below 1 would show that defects of a family stay bounded however far its board grows. Test. Not run: it needs the absorbable spaces on the extended boards, of which none has been computed.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge of an earlier review on this route is open.

Lead follow-up

Nullstellensatz degree of the induction principle. Consequences of the clauses alone vanish on the allowed set, so implication chains among clauses are not falls of the row span; the lead's framing fails, as the single-degree entry recorded. Follow-up. Closed: the chain depth does not bear on the lagged lift.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the Nullstellensatz half for dense W_RS families. By prop:failure-set-criterion, a design of degree \(D\) exists on the allowed set exactly when the excluded set contains no failure set \(\{x:\Lambda(x)\ne1\}\) of a near-refutation \(\Lambda=\sum_ib_i(r_i-1)\), \(\deg b_i\le D-1\). Derive a lower bound on the size, or on the spread over the value space of each block, of minimal failure sets of weak unary PHP at degree \(D\), and combine it with the density of the excluded set under random prefixes to bound the probability that some failure set is covered. A bound would supply the Nullstellensatz half that both certificates need; a small failure set that random excluded sets cover with non-negligible probability would refute NS hardness of W_RS and so W_RS itself.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:exact-taylor-propagation, prop:single-degree-taylor-lift, ex:seed23-defect-migration, prop:failure-set-criterion, lem:design-support-bound, prop:exact-operator-criterion, prop:dance-shared-patterns and conj:lagged-lift-subset. The Galton–Watson figures were computed from the saved validation data by a short script reading validation_series_N8_10.txt. No new computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer confirmed the derivative identities for the three kinds of trivial relations, the quoted numbers, the necessity of the Nullstellensatz half, that every lead and bridge ends with Answers and Test, the closing of the Buss–Pitassi lead, and that the next step is prop:failure-set-criterion's open question. It required, all adopted: the Assessment's description of the earlier reviews; the Koszul sign convention and the index of the triple check; the relation between design supports and failure sets in the third lead; and the one-cell extinction threshold in the Galton–Watson test.

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Sparse failure sets: failure sets of weak unary PHP are closed under intersection with additive degree, and row-residue cylinders give degree-\(D\) failure sets of density below \(0.633^D\), far below the W_RS exclusion rate, although every failure set has at least \((N)_r\) points; so no size or density bound on failure sets supplies the Nullstellensatz half, and the bound \(M3^{-t}\) for one fixed failure set is attained

28 September 2026 · Working proof and a closed approach · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-minimal-failure-sets. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Sparse failure sets: failure sets of weak unary PHP are closed under intersection with additive degree, and row-residue cylinders give degree-\(D\) failure sets of density below \(0.633^D\), far below the W_RS exclusion rate, although every failure set has at least \((N)_r\) points; so no size or density bound on failure sets supplies the Nullstellensatz half, and the bound \(M3^{-t}\) for one fixed failure set is attained”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-sparse-failure-sets.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Both certificates for dense families need a Nullstellensatz design one degree below the lift degree (Taylor route review). By prop:failure-set-criterion a design supported on the allowed set exists exactly when the excluded set \(E\) contains no failure set of a near-refutation. The review proposed a lower bound on the size or spread of minimal failure sets, to be combined with the density of \(E\) under random prefixes (its third Outside lead, Anstee–Rónyai–Sali). Does such a bound exist, and what would it give?

General statement. prop:sparse-failure-sets, at every degree: parts (1)–(5) concern the base alone and hold for every constraint family, and part (6) concerns W_RS. Failure sets are closed under intersection, with degrees adding. The row residues give failure sets of density below \((1-e^{-1})^D\) at degree \(D\). Every failure set nevertheless contains at least \((N)_r\) points whenever \(D\le\lfloor(N-r+1)/2\rfloor\). The answer to the question is negative: a density bound is false and a size bound is useless.

prop:sparse-failure-sets

Setting. As in prop:failure-set-criterion, over \(\mathbb F_3\): \(B\) is the set of 0/1 points of the \(m\times N\) board, \(m=N+1\), with at most one cell per column; \(r_i\) is the row sum of pigeon \(i\). A near-refutation of degree \(D\) is \(\Lambda=\sum_ib_i(r_i-1)\) with \(\deg b_i\le D-1\), and its failure set is \(\Phi(\Lambda)=\{x\in B:\Lambda(x)\ne1\}\). A point design of degree \(D\) is a weight \(\nu\) on \(B\) with \(\sum_x\nu(x)=1\) annihilating every \(x_T(r_i-1)\), \(|T|\le D-1\).

Statement.

Duality. A set \(E\subseteq B\) contains a degree-\(D\) failure set iff it meets the support of every degree-\(D\) point design.
Lattice. If \(\Lambda_1,\Lambda_2\) are near-refutations of degrees \(D_1,D_2\), then \(\Lambda_1+\Lambda_2-\Lambda_1\Lambda_2\) is one of degree \(D_1+D_2\) with failure set \(\Phi(\Lambda_1)\cap\Phi(\Lambda_2)\), and \(-\Lambda_1-\Lambda_2\) is one of degree \(\max(D_1,D_2)\) with failure set \(\{x:(1-\Lambda_1)(x)+(1-\Lambda_2)(x)\ne0\}\subseteq\Phi(\Lambda_1)\cup\Phi(\Lambda_2)\).
Residue cylinders. For a set \(J\) of pigeons and \(F\in\mathbb F_3[y_i:i\in J]\) of degree \(d\ge1\) with \(F(1,\dots,1)=1\), \(\Lambda=1-F(r_J)\) is a near-refutation of degree \(d\) with failure set \(\{x:F(r_J(x))\ne0\}\). In particular \(\Phi^{\ne0}_J=\{x:r_i(x)\ne0\ \forall i\in J\}\) has degree \(|J|\) (\(F=\prod y_i\)), and \(\Phi^{=1}_J=\{x:r_i(x)=1\ \forall i\in J\}\) has degree \(2|J|\) (\(F=\prod(-y_i^2-y_i)\), the indicator of \(y_i=1\)).
Density. Under the uniform measure on \(B\), \(\Pr[x\in\Phi^{\ne0}_J]\le(1-e^{-1})^{|J|}<0.633^{|J|}\) for every \(N\) and \(J\). So at every degree \(D\le N\) there is a failure set of density below \(0.633^D\). At \(D\ge4t+2\), the least W_RS degree bound, this is below \(0.16^t\), which is below the pointwise exclusion rate \(3^{-t}\) of one W_RS block, and far below the rate \(M3^{-t}\) of the family.
Size. If \(N-r\ge3\) and \(D\le\lfloor(N-r+1)/2\rfloor\), every degree-\(D\) failure set has at least \((N)_r=N(N-1)\cdots(N-r+1)\) points.
Sharpness of the pointwise bound. For every fixed nonempty \(\Phi\), \(\Pr[\Phi\subseteq E]\le\min_{x\in\Phi}\Pr[x\in E]\le M3^{-t}\) under W_RS. For one block this rate is attained: the block with forms \(L_1=r_{i_0}-1\) and \(L_l=r_{i_l}\), \(2\le l\le h\), is refuted with weak PHP at Nullstellensatz degree \(4t+2\) exactly when \(C e_1=0\), probability \(3^{-t}\). Its clauses \(g_lQ^C\), \(l\ge2\), always lie in the row ideal within degree \(4t+2\), and so does \(g_1Q^C\) when \(Ce_1\ne0\). A family of \(M\) such blocks is refuted at degree \(4t+2\) with probability exactly \(1-(1-3^{-t})^M\) when \(4t+2\) is below the PC degree of weak PHP, and otherwise adds nothing to weak PHP at degrees from \(4t+2\) on.

Proof. (1) By prop:failure-set-criterion applied with allowed set \(B\setminus E\), a design supported off \(E\) exists iff no failure set lies inside \(E\).

(2) Both combinations lie in the span, and the degrees follow from \(\Lambda_1\Lambda_2=\sum_i(b^{(1)}_i\Lambda_2)(r_i-1)\), whose multipliers have degree at most \(D_1-1+D_2\). The failure sets follow from \(1-(\Lambda_1+\Lambda_2-\Lambda_1\Lambda_2)=(1-\Lambda_1)(1-\Lambda_2)\) and, over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(1-(-\Lambda_1-\Lambda_2)=-(1-\Lambda_1)-(1-\Lambda_2)\), since \(1=-2\).

(3) \(F-1\) vanishes at \(y=(1,\dots,1)\), so \(F-1=\sum_i(y_i-1)c_i(y)\) with \(\deg c_i\le d-1\), by expanding \(F\) in the variables \(y_i-1\). Substituting the linear forms \(r_i\) gives \(\Lambda=-\sum_ic_i(r_J)(r_i-1)\) with multipliers of degree at most \(d-1\). \(\Lambda(x)\ne1\) iff \(F(r_J(x))\ne0\). For the two instances, \(\prod y_i\ne0\) iff every \(y_i\ne0\), and \(-y(y+1)\) takes the values \(0,1,0\) at \(y=0,1,2\).

(4) \(\Phi^{\ne0}_J\) is contained in the set of points where every row of \(J\) has a cell. Under the uniform measure the columns choose independently among \(N+2\) states, empty or one of the \(m=N+1\) rows, so row \(i\)'s count is the load of bin \(i\) when \(N\) balls fall uniformly into \(N+2\) bins. The indicators that bins are nonempty are nondecreasing functions of disjoint loads, which are negatively associated (D. Dubhashi and D. Ranjan, Balls and bins: a study in negative dependence, Random Structures Algorithms 13 (1998) 99–124), so \(\Pr[\text{all rows of }J\text{ nonempty}]\le\prod_{i\in J}\Pr[r_i\ge1]=\bigl(1-(1-\tfrac1{N+2})^N\bigr)^{|J|}\). Since \(\ln(1-u)\ge-u/(1-u)\), \((1-\frac1{N+2})^N\ge e^{-N/(N+1)}>e^{-1}\). For \(|J|=D\le N\) the set is nonempty (one cell per row of \(J\)). Finally \((1-e^{-1})^4<0.160\), so \((1-e^{-1})^{4t+2}<0.16^t\). For fixed \(J\) and large \(N\) the exact density tends to \((1-p_0)^{|J|}\approx0.5703^{|J|}\), with \(p_0=\Pr[\mathrm{Poisson}(1)\equiv0\bmod3]=\frac13(1+2e^{-3/2}\cos\frac{\sqrt3}2)\approx0.4297\), by the Poisson limit and the roots-of-unity filter; the bound above suffices.

(5) Fix a set \(P_0\) of \(r\) pigeons and an injection \(\rho:P_0\to[N]\). On the sub-board of the other \(N-r+1\) pigeons and \(N-r\) holes, thm:integral-design-extension, written as point weights by prop:failure-set-criterion (3), gives a degree-\(D\) point design \(\nu'\). Put \(\nu_\rho(\rho\cup y)=\nu'(y)\) for points \(y\) of the sub-board, and \(\nu_\rho=0\) elsewhere. It is a design: at a point \(\rho\cup y\), a row of \(P_0\) has \(r_i=1\), a row outside \(P_0\) has \(r_i=r'_i(y)\) because the columns of \(\rho\) are occupied, and \(x_T(\rho\cup y)=[T\setminus T'\subseteq\rho]\,y_{T'}\) with \(T'\) the part of \(T\) in the sub-board, \(|T'|\le D-1\). So each condition reduces to one of \(\nu'\), or is trivially 0. Two distinct injections \(\rho,\rho'\) of \(P_0\) have disjoint supports: in a common point each row of \(P_0\) has exactly one cell, which is then both \(\rho(i)\) and \(\rho'(i)\). By (1), a failure set meets each of the \((N)_r\) supports.

(6) The first bound is monotonicity. For the block, as polynomials in \(r\), \(g_1=1-(r_{i_0}-1)^2\equiv1\) and \(g_l=1-r_{i_l}^2\equiv0\) modulo the row ideal, so \(s_j\equiv c_{j1}\) and \(g_1Q^C\equiv\prod_j(1-c_{j1}^2)\). The clause is a polynomial \(P(r)\) of degree at most \(4t+2\). If \(Ce_1=0\) then \(P(1,\dots,1)=1\), and \(1=P(r)-(P(r)-1)\) with \(P(r)-1=\sum_i(r_i-1)c_i(r)\), \(\deg c_i\le4t+1\), as in (3): an NS refutation of degree \(4t+2\). The clauses \(g_lQ^C\), \(l\ge2\), are \(\equiv0\) for every \(C\), since \(g_l\equiv0\). If \(Ce_1\ne0\) then \(P(1,\dots,1)=0\), so \(P\) too lies in the row ideal with multipliers of degree below \(4t+2\), and the clauses are derivable from the rows at that degree. Blocks have independent \(C_b\). \(\square\)

What it means

The proposed bound does not exist in density form. A density lower bound on minimal failure sets above the density of \(E\) would have excluded coverage outright. By (4), failure sets as sparse as \(0.633^D\) exist, below the exclusion rate of a single block at every allowed degree. The sparse ones are row-residue cylinders, and the ones one block covers most cheaply are those on which its zero pattern is constant.
Size lower bounds hold and are useless. By (5) a failure set has at least \((N)_{N-2D+1}=N!/(2D-1)!\) points, but \(E\) is itself of that order; the Anstee–Rónyai–Sali support bound \(2^{D-1}\) for designs (lem:design-support-bound) and this packing bound for failure sets are both far too large to compare with a per-point rate. The lead's hoped-for probabilistic existence proof would need a sum over failure sets, and by (6) each fixed failure set is covered with probability up to \(3^{-t}\) by one block. So the union must run over the random events themselves, the killed patterns \((b,p)\) with \(C_bp=0\), not over failure sets.
Where the difficulty sits. A block kills a given nonzero pattern with probability \(3^{-t}\), independently of the other blocks (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity), and a family whose blocks realize few patterns is vacuous with high probability. So the Nullstellensatz half concerns blocks realizing more than about \(3^t/M\) patterns, whose killed sets are random sections of a codimension-\(t\) subspace with the cube, and the design must be adapted to them. The only recorded adapted tools are pullbacks, capped at joint capacity, and multipliers vanishing on \(E\) (lem:multiplier-designs), whose vanishing-degree question is open.
Calibration of the conjecture. By (6), conj:randomized-wide-clause cannot hold with failure probability below \(1-(1-3^{-t})^M\), about \(M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\) at its \(t\). This is consistent with its high-probability form.

Notes on the Taylor route review

A second pass of the fresh-context review of the Taylor route review returned after its commit. Three points, recorded here since the record is append-only:

The Frobenius–Koszul derivative. The reviewer read \(\delta_v\) as differentiating the coefficients. In prop:exact-taylor-propagation, \(\delta_v(\sum_ig_i\otimes x_i)=\sum_i(\partial_vg'_i)x_i\) differentiates the lifted generators with the multipliers fixed. For \(f_b\otimes K_{bc}-\tau_c\otimes F_b\) that gives \(f_b(\partial\tau'_c\,e_b-\partial\tau'_b\,e_c)-\tau_c(\partial f'_b)e_b\), the review's line. Substituting \(-f_b\partial\tau'_b=(\partial f'_b)\tau_b\) gives \(f_b\partial\tau'_c\,e_b+(\partial f'_b)(\tau_be_c-\tau_ce_b)=(\partial\tau'_c)F_b-(\partial f'_b)K_{bc}\), with no sign change. The review's identities stand.
The exactness lead's test does not discriminate. On the seed-23 pair \(\mathcal A=0\), so any spanning set, including the empty one, is consistent with it. The Test of the first Outside lead should read "Not run: no case with \(\mathcal A\ne0\) was checked against the second step of the complex". The proved part of the lead, that derivatives of the three kinds of trivial relations are Taylor, is unaffected.
The Galton–Watson verdict was wrong. With one cell per column a non-absorbed class has one offspring and an absorbed one none, so the mean offspring number is \(1-a\le1\), and the model predicts extinction for every positive absorption rate \(a\). One-step persistence in 31 of 34 cases, with mean absorbed fraction 0.42, is compatible with that and cannot falsify it. The review's threshold \(1-1/|c|\) was stated correctly but applied backwards. The bridge's Test should read "Not run: it needs chained extensions". On the weak base a column has \(m\) cells, and the prediction then needs absorption of all but about a \(1/m\) fraction.

Outcome. prop:sparse-failure-sets (working proof): failure sets form an intersection-closed family with additive degree, contain row-residue cylinders of density below \(0.633^D\), and have at least \((N)_r\) points; the pointwise bound \(M3^{-t}\) for a fixed failure set is attained by row-residue blocks. The proposed route to the Nullstellensatz half, a size or density bound on failure sets, is closed. Lead follow-up for the Anstee–Rónyai–Sali lead: developed and closed by this negative answer. The Nullstellensatz half remains open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop the Galton–Watson bridge, now not run. Chain column extensions of the seed-23 board and compute, at each step, the absorbable part of the class that migrated one degree up. The bridge predicts extinction on one-row boards for every positive absorption rate. Extinction there would say that migration stops on grown one-row boards, and that the question moves to the weak base, where absorption must be nearly complete. Persistence along the chain would falsify the bridge in the regime where it applies. Then a route review of the Nullstellensatz half in killed-pattern form.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:failure-set-criterion with its proof, lem:design-support-bound, lem:multiplier-designs, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, thm:integral-design-extension's statement, the W_RS definition in the randomized-prefix entry, and the \(\delta_v\) definition of prop:exact-taylor-propagation. Claim searches for failure sets, residue cylinders, killed patterns and restricted designs found no prior version of (2)–(6); (1) restates the criterion. The Poisson residue values were evaluated from the closed form; no other computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived all six parts and the three notes on the Taylor route review, checked the hypotheses of thm:integral-design-extension used in (5) against the registry, and found no error. Its two clarifications were adopted: in (6) the clauses \(g_lQ^C\), \(l\ge2\), lie in the row ideal for every \(C\), and the general statement now separates the base parts from the W_RS part.

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Joint absorption rank: the derivative map on relations factors through the new column's coefficient matrix, so Taylor generation after adding a column with a positive lower defect needs a column of full rank and absorption of rank at least the column size times the lower defect; the branching and input–output bridges reduce to this rank condition and to the recorded column-configuration formula

28 September 2026 · Working proof; two bridges developed and closed · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-chained-extensions. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Joint absorption rank: the derivative map on relations factors through the new column's coefficient matrix, so Taylor generation after adding a column with a positive lower defect needs a column of full rank and absorption of rank at least the column size times the lower defect; the branching and input–output bridges reduce to this rank condition and to the recorded column-configuration formula”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-joint-absorption-rank.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The Taylor route review proposed two bridges for the migration of lower Taylor defects: Galton–Watson branching, whose verdict was corrected to not run in the sparse failure sets entry, and Leontief input–output with a spectral-radius criterion, not run. Both need a development cycle before the Taylor form is set aside. The planned test chained one-cell extensions of the seed-23 board. Before running it I asked what its outcomes could decide: extinction of a subcritical branching process is asymptotic, so every finite chain is compatible with it, and the run was not made. What must hold for a single-degree Taylor lift is exact vanishing of the defect after the last column, so the development asks what that vanishing requires.

General statement. prop:joint-absorption-rank, in the setting of prop:exact-taylor-propagation with product tops over \(\mathbb F_3\), for every board, degree and column.

prop:joint-absorption-rank

Setting. As in prop:exact-taylor-propagation: \(R'=R\otimes(\mathbb F_3\oplus V_c)\) adds a column \(c\) with cells \(y_v\), \(V_c^2=0\), to a board algebra \(R\) carrying product tops. As a standing hypothesis, as in prop:column-configuration-defect, the tops are products of powers of one fixed list of \(F\) distinct affine forms \(L_f\), a form shared by several tops being listed once, and \(l_{f,v}\) is the coefficient of the new cell \(v\) in \(L_f\). Let \(U=\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)/T_{e-1}(R)\), of dimension \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\). For a relation \(r\in\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\) among Taylor generator instances, \(\delta_v(r)\) is linear in the scalars \(l_{f,v}\) (next paragraph), and \(\Psi_f(r)\in\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)\) is its coefficient of \(l_{f,v}\) after collecting terms by form, contributions of a form occurring in several places (both tops of a Koszul pair, or twice in one top) being added; it does not depend on \(v\). The images of the \(\Psi_f\) span \(\mathcal A_{e-1}(R)\) modulo \(T_{e-1}(R)\), and \(\bar\Psi=(\bar\Psi_f)_f:\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\to U^F\) collects their classes. \(L_c=(l_{f,v})\) is the \(|c|\times F\) matrix of the new cells' coefficients, of rank \(r_c\).

Statement.

\(\bar\delta_c=(L_c\otimes\mathrm{id}_U)\circ\bar\Psi\).
\(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')=\dim\ker\mathrm{ob}_c+\bigl(|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)-\operatorname{rank}\bar\delta_c\bigr)\) with both terms nonnegative, so \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')=0\) iff \(\ker\mathrm{ob}_c=0\) and \(\bar\delta_c\) maps onto \(U^{c}\).
\(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')\ge(|c|-r_c)\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\) and \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')\ge|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)-\operatorname{rank}\bar\Psi\). So if \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)>0\), Taylor generation at multiplier degree \(e\) on \(R'\) needs \(r_c=|c|\), hence \(|c|\le F\), and \(\operatorname{rank}\bar\Psi\ge|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\).

Proof. (1) By definition \(\delta_v(r)=\sum_i(\partial_vg'_i)x_i\), and the proof of prop:exact-taylor-propagation (2) shows that \(\partial_vg'_i\) is linear in the coefficients \(l_{f,v}\) of the cell \(v\), with components that depend only on \(R\). So \(\delta_v=\sum_fl_{f,v}\Psi_f\), and passing to classes, \(\bar\delta_c(r)=\bigl(\sum_fl_{f,v}\bar\Psi_f(r)\bigr)_{v\in c}\). (2) The formula is prop:exact-taylor-propagation (1), and \(\operatorname{rank}\bar\delta_c\le\dim U^{c}=|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\). (3) From (1), \(\operatorname{rank}\bar\delta_c\le\min\bigl(\operatorname{rank}(L_c\otimes\mathrm{id}_U),\operatorname{rank}\bar\Psi\bigr)=\min(r_c\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R),\operatorname{rank}\bar\Psi)\); substitute in (2). \(\square\)

The first bound in (3) is the one-column term of prop:column-configuration-defect, which gives it exactly after reducing the column to \(r_c\) cells by a \(GL_m\) substitution; the proof here reaches it from the propagation side. The second bound is a different necessary condition from prop:exact-taylor-propagation (2), which needs \(\mathcal A_{e-1}(R)=U\), that is, the images of the \(\bar\Psi_f\) together span \(U\). That can hold with \(\operatorname{rank}\bar\Psi=\dim U\), for instance when every \(\bar\Psi_f\) is one and the same surjection, and (3) then still rules out Taylor generation after any column with \(|c|\ge2\) and a positive lower defect. Conversely \(\operatorname{rank}\bar\Psi\ge|c|\dim U\) does not imply \(\mathcal A_{e-1}(R)=U\) when \(|c|<F\), so neither condition contains the other.

What it means

Columns of low rank. On the weak base a column has \(|c|=m=N+1\) cells. If \(r_c<m\), a positive lower defect on the board without \(c\) rules out Taylor generation at the next degree. Since any column can be added last, prop:column-configuration-defect gives the full statement: \(\operatorname{Def}_e=0\) iff \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-|S|}(B\setminus S)=0\) on the reduced board for every set \(S\) of low-rank columns. For families whose columns all have rank below \(m\), such as families with fewer than \(m\) forms or the rank-one columns of row inflation, single-degree Taylor generation is therefore a staircase of Taylor generation at lower degrees on column-deleted boards, not a single-degree condition. The single-degree entry did not use this formula.
Columns of full rank. Beyond joint capacity a family has far more than \(m\) forms, and generic columns have full rank \(m\). There a positive lower defect must be absorbed \(m\)-fold: the relations among Taylor generators at degree \(e\) must yield at least \(m\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}\) independent derivative classes, for every column. For the seed-23 pair \(\mathcal A=0\), so this fails on every column; whether dense families beyond capacity meet it is open.

The two bridges

Galton–Watson branching. In the correct translation the individuals are dimensions of \(U\), and after adding a column the lower defect leaves \(|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}\) of them after adding a column, of which at most \(\min(r_c\operatorname{Def}_{e-1},\operatorname{rank}\bar\Psi)\) can be absorbed. The offspring floor \(|c|-r_c\) per class is deterministic, not random. Taylor generation needs the defect to vanish after one step, the surjectivity in (2), not extinction along a chain, so the extinction criterion answers a different question. On one-row boards (\(|c|=1\)) the saved validation data are consistent with (2): of the 34 cases with a positive lower defect, one reached defect 0 (\(N=8\), seed 1, \(E=5\): lower defect 12, \(\dim\mathcal A=12\), \(\operatorname{rank}\bar\delta_c=12\), \(\ker\mathrm{ob}_c=0\)), and over all 34 the realized rank of \(\bar\delta_c\) left on average 68% of the lower classes, counted by a script reading validation_series_N8_10.txt. Outcome. Closed: the question it answers is not the one the lift needs, and its quantitative content is (3).
Leontief input–output. The input–output map of one step is \((L_c\otimes\mathrm{id})\circ\bar\Psi\), a linear map over \(\mathbb F_3\), not a matrix of nonnegative reals, so the Perron–Frobenius spectral radius has no meaning here. What corresponds to a productive economy, every demand met from the available inputs, is surjectivity of this map onto \(U^{c}\), which is (2). Across several columns, the input–output expansion is the column-configuration formula, a sum over deleted column sets with nonnegative integer coefficients \(\prod_{c\in S}(m-r_c)\). Outcome. Developed into (3) and closed as a spectral statement.

Outcome. prop:joint-absorption-rank (working proof): Taylor generation after a column with a positive lower defect needs a full-rank column and joint absorption rank at least the column size times the lower defect. For low-rank columns the single-degree Taylor lift reduces to a staircase of lower-degree conditions by the recorded column-configuration formula. The Taylor form for dense families beyond capacity now needs \(m\)-fold absorption at every column, and nothing recorded supplies it. No computation was run; the planned chain was dropped because no finite outcome could decide the question it was meant to test.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review of A1. Both halves of the certificate for dense families beyond capacity are now reduced to precise conditions without a mechanism: the Nullstellensatz design must avoid killed-pattern sets whose failure sets can be very sparse (prop:sparse-failure-sets), and the Taylor form needs \(m\)-fold joint absorption at every column (prop:joint-absorption-rank), while the lagged form needs row locality on a subset. The review should weigh these against each other and against the selector route S1, and choose where the next cycles go.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:exact-taylor-propagation with its proof, prop:column-configuration-defect with its proof, prop:single-degree-taylor-lift and the two bridges of the Taylor route review. Claim searches for column rank, coefficient matrices and persistence of lower defects found prop:column-configuration-defect, whose one-column term is the first bound of (3); the joint-rank bound was not found. The validation figures were read from the saved series by a script; no new computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived (1)–(3), rederived the one-column term of prop:column-configuration-defect by its module splitting for a general \(R\), confirmed the staircase reading, and recomputed every quoted figure from the saved series (including the exact formula on all 34 cases). It required three changes, all adopted: \(\Psi_f\) defined explicitly by collecting coefficients by form; the fixed list of forms stated as a standing hypothesis; and the comparison with prop:exact-taylor-propagation (2), first stated as a sharpening, corrected to two independent necessary conditions with an example.

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Route review of A1 after the failure-set and absorption results: every recorded certificate for dense families beyond capacity is reduced to necessary conditions without a mechanism, the Nullstellensatz design being the most basic; at that level a multiplier need only vanish on the killed small matchings inside the base design's support, which is the next step

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-certificate-halves-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of A1 after the failure-set and absorption results: every recorded certificate for dense families beyond capacity is reduced to necessary conditions without a mechanism, the Nullstellensatz design being the most basic; at that level a multiplier need only vanish on the killed small matchings inside the base design's support, which is the next step”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-certificate-halves-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the Taylor route review, two cycles closed approaches: failure sets can be far sparser than the W_RS excluded set, so counting them cannot supply the Nullstellensatz design (sparse failure sets), and single-degree Taylor generation needs, at every column, a full-rank column and joint absorption of rank \(m\) times the lower defect (joint absorption rank). Where does A1 stand, and which open condition should the next cycles attack?

The line's general claim

W_RS, hence the goal, follows for dense families beyond joint capacity from a Nullstellensatz design of degree about \(22k\) for weak unary PHP plus the clauses, together with one of: the lagged lift on a subset of an equivalent's allowed set (conj:lagged-lift-subset), or Taylor generation of the clause tops at one degree \(D'\ge22k\) (prop:single-degree-taylor-lift).

What the goal needs

For \(M=n^K\) dense blocks with random prefixes, beyond about \(n\) blocks, where no pullback exists: (a) a design supported off the excluded set \(E\), adapted to the killed patterns; (b) either row locality of low-degree consequences on a subset, or \(m\)-fold joint absorption of every lower Taylor defect at every column. Part (a) is necessary for every recorded certificate, since a Nullstellensatz refutation is a PC refutation.

Falsification attempt

Can an adversary make (a) fail with probability bounded away from 0? By prop:sparse-failure-sets the cheapest failure sets to cover are row-residue cylinders. A block's zero pattern is constant on \(\Phi^{=1}_J=\{r_i=1,\ i\in J\}\) exactly when all its forms are of the form \(c+\sum_{i\in J}a_ir_i\): a nonzero coefficient on a cell outside the rows of \(J\) can be toggled inside the cylinder, and within a row of \(J\) the one cell can move between columns. A block covers a fixed failure set with probability \(3^{-t\rho}\), \(\rho\) the rank of its pattern image there, since a uniform \(C\) maps a basis of that span to independent uniform vectors of \(\mathbb F_3^t\), so single-block covers need \(\rho=1\) and constant patterns, hence row-residue forms, and one block serves the cylinders containing its own rows' cylinder. That is the mechanism of prop:sparse-failure-sets (6), with total probability at most \(M3^{-t}\le1/(3n)\). Covers shared by several blocks were not bounded; each needs several independent kills, but the number of cylinders, about \(m^{D/2}\), could amplify them. The attempt found no family defeating (a), and no proof of (a).

Obstacle

The line is stuck on the Nullstellensatz design for dense families beyond capacity. Pullbacks stop at capacity, product multipliers stop at about \(N/2\) blocks (lem:multiplier-designs), fixed designs meet the excluded set (lem:design-support-bound), and a union over failure sets fails because failure sets can have density below \(0.633^D\) (prop:sparse-failure-sets). A design must be adapted to the random kernels, and no adapted construction beyond capacity is recorded. The certificate half is stuck separately: \(m\)-fold joint absorption for the Taylor form, row locality for the lagged form.

Assessment of the route

The last five entries turned both halves into exact necessary conditions and closed four approaches (the failure-set count, the branching and input–output bridges, the Anstee–Rónyai–Sali lead). None produced a sufficient mechanism for dense families beyond capacity. The route is well mapped and not moving: its open conditions are precise, but each is as hard as the question it came from. The Nullstellensatz half is the most basic and the only one shared by all certificates, so it should get the next cycles. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Pseudo-calibration, restricted to the design's support (B. Barak, S. Hopkins, J. Kelner, P. Kothari, A. Moitra and A. Potechin, A nearly tight sum-of-squares lower bound for the planted clique problem, FOCS 2016; exact form lem:multiplier-designs; relaxations prop:colon-multipliers and lem:support-absorption). Target: the Nullstellensatz half. At the Nullstellensatz level the base design is a point weight \(\nu_0\), the matching design of degree \(D_{\mathrm m}\le\lfloor(N+1)/2\rfloor\) supported on matchings of at most \(D_{\mathrm m}\) cells (prop:failure-set-criterion (3)), not a PC design of degree \(D_0\le N\) as in lem:multiplier-designs. Then \(\nu=\nu_0W\) is a degree-\(D\) point design whenever \(\deg W\le D_{\mathrm m}-D\), \(\sum\nu_0W\ne0\) and \(W\) vanishes on \(E\cap\operatorname{supp}\nu_0\), not on all of \(E\): constraint multiples are killed pointwise on the support, and row multiples \(b(r_i-1)\) by \(\nu_0\) since \(\deg(Wb)\le D_{\mathrm m}-1\). Relation to the record: this is the point-design case of lem:multiplier-designs with a design-dependent relaxation. It is not the colon condition of prop:colon-multipliers (1)–(3), which is design-independent and, by lem:support-absorption, relaxes pointwise vanishing only on residuals where PHP is refutable; here every excluded point outside the small matchings is skipped, whatever its refutability. Nor is it vacuous in the sense of prop:colon-multipliers (4): the functions vanishing on \(\operatorname{supp}\nu_0\) are killed by \(\nu_0\) and closed under multiplication, but do not contain \(\mathcal C_{D_{\mathrm m}}(R)\). Every point design supported inside \(\operatorname{supp}\nu_0\) has this form, with \(W=\nu/\nu_0\) there, so the content is a degree bound on that ratio. Answers. It replaces the vanishing-degree question for \(E\) by one for the killed matchings of at most \(D_{\mathrm m}\) cells, a set with far less structure to vanish on. For blocks whose forms are single cells, \(g_v=x_v\) on Boolean points, so each prefix element \(s_{b,1}\) is linear and product multipliers certify about \(D_{\mathrm m}-D\) blocks, still within capacity. Test. Passed in the cheap sense: the support restriction and the linear prefixes of cell blocks were checked above. Beyond capacity the dimension count is unfavourable (functions of degree \(D_{\mathrm m}-D\) are far fewer than the killed matchings), so a multiplier must exploit the algebraic structure of the killed sets; that is the next step.
Alon–Füredi covering of the cube by hyperplanes (N. Alon and Z. Füredi, Covering the cube by affine hyperplanes, European J. Combin. 14 (1993) 79–83). Target: the Nullstellensatz half through covering: \(E\) lies in the union of the zero sets of the forms of blocks with a killed pattern, so if every failure set needed many forms to cover, a cover would need many independent kills. Answers. A lower bound on the number of forms covering a failure set would bound the probability that \(E\) contains one. Test. Falsified: two forms of one row, \(\sum_{j\in H}x_{1j}\) and \(\sum_{j\notin H}x_{1j}\), cover every point whose row 1 has exactly one cell, the core of \(\Phi^{=1}_{\{1\}}\). Covering numbers of failure-set cores are constant, and the probability cost lies in the kills, not in the number of forms.
Exactness of the Taylor resolution, carried from the Taylor route review. Target: the Taylor half. Answers. The absorbable relations must come from outside the second step of the complex, and by prop:joint-absorption-rank there must be at least \(m\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}\) independent ones at every column. Test. Not run: it needs a case with \(\mathcal A\ne0\) tested against the second step, and the seed-23 pair has \(\mathcal A=0\).

Absurd bridges

Gilbert–Varshamov weight distribution of random linear codes (coding theory; E. N. Gilbert, 1952; R. R. Varshamov, 1957). Translation: \(\ker C_b\) is a random linear code of redundancy \(t\) in \(\mathbb F_3^h\), and a point is killed by block \(b\) when its zero pattern is a nonzero codeword. A random code has no nonzero word of weight below about \(w\) with \(\binom hw\approx3^t/M\), so points whose patterns have weight below \(w\) in every block are safe with high probability. What a theorem there would give: a design supported on low-weight points avoids \(E\). Answers. It would supply the Nullstellensatz half by restricting supports to low-weight patterns. Test. Falsified: \(w\approx\log n/\log h\), while points of a design's support have pattern weight about \(h/3\) in a dense block, and an adversary can give every form constant term 0, so that the empty point has weight \(h\).
Chemical reaction network deficiency theory (M. Feinberg, Complex balancing in general kinetic systems, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 49 (1972) 187–194; F. Horn and R. Jackson, 1972). This is chemistry. Translation: complexes are Taylor generator instances, reactions are relations among them, and the deficiency, complexes minus linkage classes minus the rank of the stoichiometric subspace, is the counterpart of the Taylor defect as a homology dimension. What a theorem there would give: the deficiency-zero theorem derives structural conclusions from a graph condition (weak reversibility), so a graph condition on relations might force zero Taylor defect. Answers. A structural criterion for \(m\)-fold joint absorption. Test. Falsified: the deficiency-zero theorem concerns positive steady states of mass-action kinetics over the positive reals, and its proof uses positivity (a Lyapunov function); over \(\mathbb F_3\) only the rank bookkeeping survives, which is prop:exact-taylor-propagation (1).

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge of an earlier review on this route is open. The Taylor route review's two bridges, corrected to not run, were developed and closed in the joint absorption rank entry.

Lead follow-up

Exactness of the Taylor resolution. Its test was found not to discriminate (the sparse failure sets entry's notes), and this review carries it as a lead with the sharper requirement of prop:joint-absorption-rank. Follow-up. Continuing, as the third Outside lead above, not run.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the Nullstellensatz half through support-restricted multipliers. A degree-\(D\) point design for weak PHP plus a W_RS family exists if some \(W\) of degree at most \(D_{\mathrm m}-D\), with \(D_{\mathrm m}\le\lfloor(N+1)/2\rfloor\) and \(\sum\nu_0W\ne0\), vanishes on the killed matchings of at most \(D_{\mathrm m}\) cells. State this as a lemma, labelled as the point-design case of lem:multiplier-designs beside prop:colon-multipliers, then attack the vanishing question on the killed matchings, first for blocks of cell forms, where killing is membership of the matching's indicator vector in a random subspace of codimension \(t\): a multiplier must vanish on the matchings lying in \(M\) random subspaces, in degree below \(N/2\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:sparse-failure-sets, prop:joint-absorption-rank, lem:multiplier-designs with its proof, prop:failure-set-criterion (3), prop:single-degree-taylor-lift and conj:lagged-lift-subset. The support restriction in the first lead was checked against the proof of lem:multiplier-designs. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer verified the support restriction, the linear prefixes of cell blocks, the characterization of constant patterns on the cylinders, and the three falsified tests, and confirmed the review's structure. It required one major change, adopted: the first lead had omitted prop:colon-multipliers and lem:support-absorption, found by its claim search on the same route; the lead now cites them and states how the point-design relaxation differs from the colon condition and why the vacuity result does not apply to it. Its minor points were adopted too: a line justifying \(3^{-t\rho}\), and distinct notation for the matching design's degree \(D_{\mathrm m}\). My own pre-drafting searches had missed the colon entry.

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Total instrumented interval	11 min 45.75 s
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Nontrivial relation bound: derivatives of the trivial relations among Taylor generators are Taylor, so absorbing a lower Taylor defect after a column needs at least the column size times that defect in independent nontrivial relations; every relation of the seed-23 pair at its degree is trivial, which explains why nothing there is absorbable

28 September 2026 · Working proof with a finite check · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-support-multipliers. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Nontrivial relation bound: derivatives of the trivial relations among Taylor generators are Taylor, so absorbing a lower Taylor defect after a column needs at least the column size times that defect in independent nontrivial relations; every relation of the seed-23 pair at its degree is trivial, which explains why nothing there is absorbable”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-nontrivial-relation-bound.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The certificate halves review proposed support-restricted multipliers for the Nullstellensatz half and carried the Taylor-exactness lead, not run, for the certificate half. This cycle develops both. For the first, the review's next step asked for vanishing on the killed matchings of cell-form blocks. For the second, the test asked whether the seed-23 pair's 685 relations come from the trivial ones and whether the joint absorption rank of prop:joint-absorption-rank is bounded by the nontrivial ones.

General statement. prop:nontrivial-relation-bound, in the setting of prop:joint-absorption-rank, for every board, degree and column.

prop:nontrivial-relation-bound

Setting. As in prop:joint-absorption-rank: product tops \(\tau_b=\prod_jL_{b,j}^{\epsilon_j}\) over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the square-free board algebra \(R\), with Frobenius generators \(F=fe_b\), \(f=L_{b,j}^{3-\epsilon_j}\), Koszul pairs \(K_{bc}=\tau_ce_b-\tau_be_c\), relations \(\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\) among their instances at multiplier degree \(e\), and \(\bar\Psi:\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\to U^F\), \(U=\operatorname{Syz}_{e-1}(R)/T_{e-1}(R)\). Let \(\mathrm{Triv}_e(R)\subseteq\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)\) be spanned by the monomial multiples \(y\cdot r\) of four kinds of trivial relations:

commutations \(f_2\otimes F_1-f_1\otimes F_2\) of two Frobenius generators of one top;
self-annihilations \(L^{\epsilon}\otimes L^{3-\epsilon}e_b\), whose value \(L^3e_b\) vanishes because \(L^3=\sum_va_v^3x_v^3=0\) in the square-free algebra over \(\mathbb F_3\);
Frobenius–Koszul relations \(f_b\otimes K_{bc}-\tau_c\otimes F_b\) (value \(-f_b\tau_be_c=0\));
Koszul triples \(\sum_{\mathrm{cyc}}\tau_a\otimes K_{bc}\).

Statement. \(\bar\Psi\) vanishes on \(\mathrm{Triv}_e(R)\), so \(\operatorname{rank}\bar\Psi\le h_e(R):=\dim\mathrm{Rel}_e(R)/\mathrm{Triv}_e(R)\). Hence, if \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)>0\), Taylor generation at multiplier degree \(e\) after adding a column \(c\) needs \(h_e(R)\ge|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\), and \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')\ge|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)-h_e(R)\) for every column.

Proof. The multipliers of a relation are fixed by \(\delta_v\), so \(\delta_v(y\cdot r)=y\,\delta_v(r)\), and \(T_{e-1}(R)\) is closed under multiplication; it suffices to treat \(r\) itself. For commutations, Frobenius–Koszul relations and Koszul triples, the Taylor route review showed that \(\delta_v(r)\) is an explicit combination of Taylor generators with coefficients linear in the new cell's coefficients (the Frobenius–Koszul case written out in the sparse failure sets notes). For a self-annihilation, \(\delta_v(L^\epsilon\otimes L^{3-\epsilon}e_b)=L^\epsilon\,\partial_v(L'^{3-\epsilon})e_b=(3-\epsilon)\,l_v\,L^2e_b=(3-\epsilon)\,l_v\,L^{\epsilon-1}\cdot(L^{3-\epsilon}e_b)\), a multiple of a Frobenius generator (\(\epsilon\ge1\)). In each case the identity \(\sum_fl_{f,v}\Psi_f(r)\in T_{e-1}(R)\) holds for all coefficient vectors \(l_v\), and both sides are linear in \(l_v\), so each \(\Psi_f(r)\in T_{e-1}(R)\): \(\bar\Psi(r)=0\). The rest follows from prop:joint-absorption-rank (3). \(\square\)

Computations

absorbable_classes.cpp gained a mode triv that builds the multiples of the trivial relations of the pair \(\tau=A^2B\), \(\sigma=C^2D\) (commutations and self-annihilations in each slot, the four Frobenius–Koszul kinds; two tops have no Koszul triples; the two Frobenius–Koszul relations of \(\sigma\)'s Frobenius elements are built with the opposite overall sign, \(\tau\otimes F-f\otimes K\), which spans the same line), asserts that each has value 0, and computes their rank, \(h_e\), \(\dim\mathcal A\) and the joint rank of \(\bar\Psi\), asserting \(\operatorname{rank}\bar\Psi\le h_e\). The counts were fixed before running: 48 grid cases, of which the 34 with a positive lower defect can falsify the inequality, and one seed-23 case whose outcome, \(h=0\) or not, was open.

Seed-23 pair (\(N=16\), \(E=5\); trivial_seed23_N16_E5.txt, 37 s): 754 trivial generators of rank 685, equal to the number of relations. So \(h_5=0\): every relation at that degree is trivial, and \(\mathcal A=0\) follows from the proposition, not only from computation.
Grid (\(N=8,9,10\), seeds 1–4, \(E\le5\); trivial_series_N8_10.txt): the inequality held in all 48 cases. Of the 34 with a positive lower defect, 28 have \(h_e<\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}\), so no column at all, even of one cell, can absorb their defect; the joint rank reaches twice the lower defect in 1 case, the least a two-cell column would need. These boards are beyond the fill point.

Point multipliers

The review's first lead, the point-design case of lem:multiplier-designs, was developed as far as its first obstruction. Every point design supported inside the matching design's support is \(\nu_0W\) with \(W=\nu/\nu_0\) there, so the lead's content is the degree of that ratio. A multiplier fixed before the prefixes fails with overwhelming probability: \(\nu_0W\) is a design, so its support has at least \(2^{D-1}\) points (lem:design-support-bound), and for blocks whose zero-pattern map is injective, prop:vacuity-threshold (2) bounds the probability that one block kills none of them by \(3^t/(2^{D-1}-1)\), independently over blocks. This is a direct corollary of those two results, not a new claim. So the multiplier must be adapted to the kernels, and no adapted construction was found. The review's proposed test family needs a caveat: cell-form families already satisfy W, hence W_RS with unit-row prefixes (thm:cell-family-w), so random-prefix cell blocks can test a mechanism but add nothing to the goal.

Outcome. prop:nontrivial-relation-bound (working proof, with a finite check): absorption needs nontrivial relations among Taylor generators, at least the column size times the lower defect. The seed-23 pair has none at its degree, and most small grid cases have too few for any column. The Taylor-exactness lead's test ran and passed: the seed-23 relations are exactly the trivial ones. It also settles the open note in the sparse failure sets entry: in every grid case with \(\mathcal A\ne0\), the absorbable classes come from nontrivial relations only. The multiplier lead's decisive question, an adapted multiplier beyond capacity, is still open.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the nontrivial relations are now the quantity that decides the Taylor form, as \(h_e\ge m\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}\) at every column. Relate \(h_e\) to a known invariant. \(h_e\) measures the failure of exactness, at the relations, of the complex whose first step is the Taylor generators and whose second step is the trivial relations, a Taylor-type complex of the tops in the square-free algebra extended by the Frobenius generators. Compute it for dense product tops through Macaulay2 on small boards and test whether it vanishes below the fill point, which would make the Taylor form for dense families fail whenever a lower defect exists.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:joint-absorption-rank, prop:exact-taylor-propagation's definition of \(\delta_v\), the Taylor route review's derivative identities with the correction notes, lem:multiplier-designs, prop:vacuity-threshold, lem:design-support-bound and thm:cell-family-w. Claim searches for fixed designs, pattern independence and trivial relations found prop:vacuity-threshold, whose Chebyshev bound gives the multiplier remark, and prop:pattern-poor-support; the relation bound was not found. The kernel asserts that every trivial combination is a relation and that the inequality holds; runs and hashes are in research/results/odd-prime-support-multipliers/. A fresh-context reviewer traced the derivative of each kind of trivial relation, including the self-annihilations, checked the ten relation templates of the code against the four kinds with their degrees, recomputed every quoted number from the saved outputs, and confirmed the multiplier remark as a corollary and the cell-family caveat. It found no mathematical error and required a note on the opposite sign of the \(\sigma\)-side Frobenius–Koszul relations in the code, adopted; the code was left unchanged, since its outputs are hashed.

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Relation excess: below the fill point random product tops have at most one nontrivial relation among their Taylor generators in 36 of 36 cases, far below what absorbing a lower defect needs; conjecturally this excess is small like the corank of a random matrix, and then single-degree Taylor generation for random tops on the weak base is no weaker than generation at all lower degrees on column-deleted boards

28 September 2026 · Conjecture with a finite check; one hypothesis falsified · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-relation-homology. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relation excess: below the fill point random product tops have at most one nontrivial relation among their Taylor generators in 36 of 36 cases, far below what absorbing a lower defect needs; conjecturally this excess is small like the corank of a random matrix, and then single-degree Taylor generation for random tops on the weak base is no weaker than generation at all lower degrees on column-deleted boards”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-relation-excess.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). By prop:nontrivial-relation-bound, absorbing a lower Taylor defect after a column of \(|c|\) cells needs \(h_e\ge|c|\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}\) nontrivial relations. The seed-23 pair, below the fill point, has \(h_5=0\). The hypothesis tested here: below the fill point, random product tops have \(h_e=0\), so that no lower defect is ever absorbed. You chose on 28 September to keep working on A1; this cycle decides whether the single-degree relaxation of the Taylor form can help random dense tops at all.

General statement. conj:relation-excess-universality, for random product tops at multiplier degrees below the fill point, with the consequence below proved from it.

Computation

absorbable_classes.cpp, mode trivseries, over \(N=11,\dots,16\), seeds 1–3, \(E=2,\dots,5\): 72 cases of the random pair \(A^2B\), \(C^2D\) on the one-row square-free algebra (trivial_series_N11_16.txt, 210 s), with the kernel's assertions that every trivial combination is a relation and that the joint rank is at most \(h_E\). A case counts as below the fill point when \(2\binom NE\le\binom N{E+3}\), where the degree-\(E\) syzygy map of the pair has at least as many target dimensions as source dimensions. The count was fixed first: 36 below-fill cases with \(E\ge3\), each able to falsify \(h_E=0\).

The hypothesis \(h_E=0\) is falsified. 6 of the 36 below-fill cases have \(h_E=1\): \((N,\text{seed},E)=(11,2,3),(13,2,4),(15,1,5),(15,2,5),(16,1,5),(16,2,5)\). None has \(h_E\ge2\).
The excess stays far below the defects. In those cases the lower defects are 1, 1, 11, 10, 9 and 1, and the joint absorption rank is at most 1. Above the fill point \(h_E\) grows (up to 23 at \(N=11\)), as does the lower defect.
The trivial relations have the same rank for every seed at fixed \((N,E)\) below the fill point (for instance \(6N-2\) at \(E=4\)), as expected of relations forced by the shape of the tops, and \(h_E\) is the excess over them.

conj:relation-excess-universality

Conjecture. Over \(\mathbb F_3\), for independent random product tops on the square-free board algebra of an \(m\times N\) board, at multiplier degrees \(e\) below the fill point, the nontrivial relation count \(h_e=\dim\mathrm{Rel}_e/\mathrm{Triv}_e\) behaves like the rank deficiency of a random matrix over \(\mathbb F_3\) of the same shape: it is bounded in probability, with \(\Pr[h_e\ge k]\le C\,3^{-ck^2}\) for absolute constants. This is the relation-level analogue of conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra, which asserts the same law for the excess of the degree-one multiples of the tops.

Consequence (proved from the conjecture). On the weak base a column has \(|c|=m\) cells. By prop:nontrivial-relation-bound, \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')\ge m\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)-h_e(R)\), so \(h_e(R)<m\) and \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}(R)\ge1\) force \(\operatorname{Def}_e(R')>0\). Under the conjecture \(h_e<m\) with probability \(1-O(3^{-cm^2})\) for each board, so for random tops Taylor generation at degree \(e\) on a board implies, except with that probability for each column-deleted board used, \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-1}=0\) on the board without any one column, and by repetition \(\operatorname{Def}_{e-j}=0\) on every board with \(j\) columns deleted. So for random dense tops the single-degree Taylor lift requires the whole staircase of lower-degree Taylor generation on column-deleted boards, the same kind of condition as A3's all-degree statement conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base, and gains nothing from absorption. (Directions: the derivation above runs from single-degree generation on the full board to the staircase on column-deleted boards. A3's conjecture, a statement for every board, would give each rung of the staircase directly, and thm:taylor-propagation turns all-degree generation on a sub-board into all-degree generation on the full board. Whether the staircase alone is weaker than A3 was not checked.)

Evidence and limits. The data are for pairs of tops on the one-row algebra (\(m=1\)), at small \(N\), with 36 below-fill cases. The conjecture is stated for any number of rows and tops, where no data exist. Only the qualitative claim, a small excess (at most 1 in all 36 cases), is tested; the quadratic exponent of the tail is imported by analogy with conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra. It concerns random tops; adversarial tops may have many nontrivial relations, and the conclusion for them is only prop:nontrivial-relation-bound itself.

Outcome. The hypothesis \(h_e=0\) below the fill point is falsified by six cases with \(h_e=1\); the refined conj:relation-excess-universality asserts a small, random-matrix-like excess. With it, the single-degree relaxation of the Taylor form brings random tops on the weak base back to a staircase of lower-degree conditions of A3's kind. Lead follow-up for the Taylor-exactness lead: developed; its question, which relations absorb, now has the answer "the nontrivial ones, and random tops have almost none".

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review of the Nullstellensatz half. The Taylor form for random dense tops now needs a staircase of lower-degree conditions of A3's kind, and for adversarial tops many nontrivial relations; the Nullstellensatz design is open for both and has had no positive step for several cycles. The review should use that W_RS is existential: prefixes chosen per block turn the union over blocks in prop:pattern-poor-support into a maximum, so a design support on which every block realizes fewer than \(3^t\) nonzero zero patterns suffices. It should test that formulation against generic dense blocks, which separate most points of a support of at least \(2^{D-1}\ge2\cdot16^t\) points, and look in other fields for designs adapted to the kernels.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:nontrivial-relation-bound, prop:joint-absorption-rank, thm:taylor-propagation, conj:product-top-cohen-lenstra and conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base. The kernel's assertions held in all 72 cases; outputs and hashes are in research/results/odd-prime-relation-homology/. A fresh-context reviewer recomputed every quoted number from the saved series with the stated fill criterion, checked the consequence's inequality and its repetition to the staircase, and confirmed the scoping and the refutation of \(h_e=0\). It required one change, adopted: the parenthesis relating the staircase to A3 now names the board and direction of each implication. Its remark that only the qualitative bound, not the tail exponent, is tested was adopted too.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	13 min 28.74 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 31.45 s
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Route review of the Nullstellensatz half of A1: choosing prefixes block by block turns the pattern union bound into a maximum but still fails for generic dense blocks, the standard adapted-design constructions do not transfer, and a relative covering criterion, counting killed fractions of each failure set instead of densities, is the formulation left to test

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-nullstellensatz-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the Nullstellensatz half of A1: choosing prefixes block by block turns the pattern union bound into a maximum but still fails for generic dense blocks, the standard adapted-design constructions do not transfer, and a relative covering criterion, counting killed fractions of each failure set instead of densities, is the formulation left to test”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-nullstellensatz-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the certificate halves review, the Taylor half for random tops was reduced to lower-degree conditions of A3's kind (nontrivial relation bound, relation excess), and the multiplier lead met its first obstruction. The Nullstellensatz design for dense families beyond capacity, needed by every certificate, has had no positive step. Is there a formulation of it that the record's tools, or tools from elsewhere, can reach?

The line's general claim

W_RS for dense families beyond joint capacity follows from a Nullstellensatz design of degree about \(22k\) for weak unary PHP plus the clauses, together with a certificate (lagged lift, or Taylor generation at one degree). The Nullstellensatz part is W_RS's Nullstellensatz hardness: by prop:failure-set-criterion, no failure set of a degree-\(D\) near-refutation lies inside the excluded set \(E\).

What the goal needs

For \(M=n^K\) blocks, some prefix matrices \(C_b\) (W_RS is existential; random ones are a device) such that \(E=\bigcup_b\{x:g_b(x)\ne0,\ C_bg_b(x)=0\}\) contains no degree-\(D\) failure set, for families of dense blocks beyond about \(n\) blocks.

Falsification attempt

The strongest fixed-support formulation uses the existential choice. For a design support \(X\) fixed first, choose each \(C_b\) separately with \(\ker C_b\) avoiding the nonzero patterns \(P_b(X)\); a uniform \(C_b\) does so with probability at least \(1-|P_b(X)|3^{-t}\), so it suffices that \(\max_b|P_b(X)|<3^t\), a factor \(M\) better than the sum in prop:pattern-poor-support. Test against generic dense blocks: \(|X|\ge2^{D-1}\ge2\cdot16^t\) (lem:design-support-bound), and two points share one generic form's zero status with probability \(1/9+4/9=5/9\), so, treating values at distinct points as independent, \(h\) forms separate almost all points of \(X\) once \(h\gtrsim\log(|X|)/\log(9/5)\approx4.7t\), and then \(|P_b(X)|\approx|X|>3^t\). Blocks with \(h\le t\log_23\) are vacuous anyway (lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity). So the per-block formulation fails for generic dense blocks with more than about \(4.7t\) forms, by a heuristic count. Every design must therefore depend on the prefixes. No family was found whose excluded set contains a failure set.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on constructing a degree-\(D\) design that depends on the prefix kernels, for dense blocks beyond capacity. Fixed supports fail (above and prop:pattern-poor-support), fixed multipliers fail (prop:vacuity-threshold with lem:design-support-bound), pullbacks stop at capacity, product multipliers at about \(N/2\) blocks, and counting failure sets fails because they can be sparse (prop:sparse-failure-sets).

Assessment of the route

The Nullstellensatz half is now the precise core of A1: a covering statement for block-correlated random sets. Every tool tried is either fixed in advance, and then defeated by the support bound, or adaptive only by restriction, and then capped at capacity. The Taylor half no longer offers a way around it. The assessment is qualitative: the line is well defined and has no mechanism.

Outside leads

Closure designs for random constraint systems (E. Ben-Sasson and R. Impagliazzo, Random CNF's are hard for the polynomial calculus, Comput. Complexity 19 (2010) 501–519; M. Alekhnovich and A. Razborov, Lower bounds for polynomial calculus: non-binomial case, Proc. Steklov Inst. 242 (2003)). There the design of a monomial is computed on its closure in an expanding constraint–variable graph, so it adapts to the random constraints. Answers. An adapted design, with locality supplied by expansion. Test. Falsified: expansion needs constraints on few variables with random supports; here every dense block depends on all cells, and the randomness is in the kernel, not the support, so the constraint graph is complete.
Fourier change of basis for linear constraints (S. Buss, D. Grigoriev, R. Impagliazzo and T. Pitassi, Linear gaps between degrees for the polynomial calculus modulo distinct primes, J. Comput. System Sci. 62 (2001) 267–289). Linear constraints mod \(q\) become binomials in a Fourier basis when the proof field has characteristic different from \(q\), and binomial designs are combinatorial. Answers. Designs for the kernel conditions \(C_bg_b=0\) through binomial combinatorics. Test. Falsified: the conditions are mod 3 and the proof field has characteristic 3, which has no primitive cube root of unity, so the change of basis does not exist.
Spread and expectation thresholds (J. Park and H. T. Pham, A proof of the Kahn–Kalai conjecture, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (2024) 235–243). For a \(p\)-random set, containing a member of a family is controlled by fractional covers of the family. Answers. The event "\(E\) contains a failure set" is monotone in \(E\), so a spread bound would control it without a union over failure sets. Its relative form needs no independence: \(E\supseteq\Phi\) forces \(\sum_b|\Phi\cap E_b|/|\Phi|\ge1\) for every probability weight on \(\Phi\) in place of counting, so if every block kills less than a \(1/M\) fraction of every failure set, under some weight and for every kernel of codimension \(t\), no choice of full-rank prefixes gives a Nullstellensatz refutation. (Full rank is needed: the zero prefix kills every nonzero pattern, and uniform prefixes have full rank with high probability.) Test. Not run: \(E\) is a union of block-correlated sets, not a product measure, so the theorem does not apply directly, and the relative criterion needs a bound on the largest killed fraction of a failure set, which is the next step.

Absurd bridges

Gutzwiller projection (condensed-matter physics; M. C. Gutzwiller, 1963). Translation: the matching design is a many-body state on hard-core configurations, the killed points are forbidden configurations, and a Gutzwiller projector removes them while variational corrections restore low-order correlations. What a theorem there would give: a projected state keeping its \(D\)-body correlations. Answers. An adapted design as a projected base design. Test. Falsified: the projection is multiplication by \(1_Q\), a multiplier of degree about \(M(2h+4t)\), and restoring the \(D\)-body moments exactly over \(\mathbb F_3\) is the design problem itself; the physics has only approximate, real-valued corrections.
Erasure decoding beyond the dual distance (coding theory; for instance the capacity of the binary erasure channel, P. Elias, 1955). Translation: designs form an affine code whose dual, the near-refutation span, has large minimum support; the excluded set is an erasure pattern, and a design avoiding it is a codeword that survives the erasures. What a theorem there would give: random erasures below capacity are corrected with high probability. Answers. Existence of a design off \(E\). Test. Falsified: the channel theorems assume erasures independent across positions, while here they are correlated through the blocks, and prop:sparse-failure-sets shows that the correlated case is where the difficulty lies.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge of an earlier review on this route is open.

Lead follow-up

Exactness of the Taylor resolution. Developed in the nontrivial relation bound and relation excess entries: only nontrivial relations absorb, the seed-23 pair has none at its degree, and random pairs below the fill point have at most one. Follow-up. Closed: its question is answered, and for random tops the answer removes absorption as a mechanism.
Pseudo-calibration restricted to the design's support. Developed in the nontrivial relation bound entry: a multiplier fixed before the prefixes fails with overwhelming probability, and an adapted one is a point design off \(E\) with a low-degree ratio to the base design, for which no construction beyond the product of prefix quadrics exists. Follow-up. Closed: the attempt reduced it to the adapted-design problem of this review's obstacle, which the relative covering criterion now carries.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the relative covering criterion. State and prove it as a lemma: if for every degree-\(D\) near-refutation \(\Lambda\) there is a probability weight on \(\Phi(\Lambda)\) under which, for every block and every subspace \(V\) of codimension exactly \(t\), the points with zero pattern in \(V\setminus0\) have weight below \(1/M\), then weak PHP plus the clauses has no degree-\(D\) Nullstellensatz refutation for any full-rank prefixes. For generic dense blocks the expected fraction is about \(3^{-t}\), leaving a slack factor of about \(3n\) against \(1/M\). The lemma concludes for all full-rank prefixes, more than W_RS needs; a version for most prefixes, or for one chosen prefix per block, would suffice. Then test its hypothesis where it is most at risk: row-residue cylinders, the sparsest failure sets, against generic dense blocks, and the recorded refutable families (common prefixes on the hole family) as a control that must violate it.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:pattern-poor-support with its proof, prop:vacuity-threshold, lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity, lem:design-support-bound, prop:sparse-failure-sets, prop:failure-set-criterion and the W_RS definition. The separation estimate was computed from the stated probability \(5/9\); the product-multiplier capacity is lem:multiplier-designs' \((N-D)/2\) blocks. A fresh-context reviewer checked the per-block choice and the separation heuristic, the relative covering inequality with the full-rank restriction (added after its first reading, since the zero prefix kills every nonzero pattern), the falsification verdicts, the structure and both lead closures against the cited entries, and required no change. Its remark that the criterion targets more than W_RS needs was adopted.

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Relative covering: a failure set inside the excluded set forces the blocks' killed fractions of it to sum to at least 1 under every weight, so small killed fractions under some weight exclude Nullstellensatz refutations for all full-rank prefixes; but kernels aligned with coordinates capture about \((2/3)^t\) of any weight with independent-looking zero statuses, so the all-prefix form works only at W's prefix length, and its hypothesis is a pseudorandomness property of failure sets

28 September 2026 · Working proof of a reduction · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-relative-covering. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Relative covering: a failure set inside the excluded set forces the blocks' killed fractions of it to sum to at least 1 under every weight, so small killed fractions under some weight exclude Nullstellensatz refutations for all full-rank prefixes; but kernels aligned with coordinates capture about \((2/3)^t\) of any weight with independent-looking zero statuses, so the all-prefix form works only at W's prefix length, and its hypothesis is a pseudorandomness property of failure sets”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-relative-covering.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The Nullstellensatz review proposed the relative covering criterion from its spread lead: compare the blocks' killed fractions of each failure set instead of densities, which needs no independence between blocks. What does the criterion give, and where is its hypothesis at risk?

General statement. prop:relative-covering, for every W_RS family, degree and prefix length.

prop:relative-covering

Setting. Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\) on the Boolean points \(B\), a W_RS family with zero-pattern maps \(g_b:B\to\{0,1\}^{h_b}\), prefixes \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h_b}\) of rank \(t\le h_b\), excluded sets \(E_b=\{x:g_b(x)\ne0,\ C_bg_b(x)=0\}\), \(E=\bigcup_bE_b\). For a probability weight \(w\) on a set \(\Phi\subseteq B\) and a block \(b\), let \(\kappa_b(w)=\max_V w\{x:g_b(x)\in V\setminus0\}\) over subspaces \(V\subseteq\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\) of codimension \(t\).

Statement.

If a degree-\(D\) failure set \(\Phi\) lies in \(E\), then \(\sum_bw(\Phi\cap E_b)\ge1\) for every probability weight \(w\) on \(\Phi\).
If every degree-\(D\) failure set \(\Phi\) carries a probability weight \(w_\Phi\) with \(\sum_b\kappa_b(w_\Phi)<1\), then weak PHP plus the clauses has no degree-\(D\) Nullstellensatz refutation, for every choice of full-rank prefixes.
Aligned kernels. For every weight \(w\) and every \(t\) forms \(L_{b,j_1},\dots,L_{b,j_t}\) of block \(b\), \(\kappa_b(w)\ge w\{L_{b,j_1},\dots,L_{b,j_t}\ne0\}-w\{g_b=0\}\). So if under \(w_\Phi\) the zero statuses of a block's forms behave like independent events of probability \(1/3\), then \(\kappa_b(w_\Phi)\approx(2/3)^t\), and (2) needs \(M(2/3)^t<1\), that is \(t>\log_{3/2}M\), W's prefix length rather than W_RS's \(t\approx\log_3(3nM)\).
Controls. The row-residue blocks of prop:sparse-failure-sets (6) have a constant zero pattern on the cylinder \(\Phi^{=1}_J\), so \(\kappa_b=1\) under every weight there; the hole family of the randomized-prefix entry, whose blocks \(X_{ju}-1\) have unit-vector patterns, has, for a common unit-row prefix, a failure set inside \(E\), so by (1) every weight on it gives \(\sum_b\kappa_b\ge1\); each of its blocks alone captures the points whose hole-\(u\) pigeon lies outside the prefix set. Both families are refutable for suitable prefixes, and both violate the hypothesis of (2), as they must.

Proof. (1) \(\Phi\subseteq\bigcup_bE_b\), so \(1=w(\Phi)\le\sum_bw(\Phi\cap E_b)\). (2) For full-rank \(C_b\), \(\ker C_b\) has codimension \(t\), so \(w(\Phi\cap E_b)\le\kappa_b(w)\); with \(w=w_\Phi\) the sum is below 1, so by (1) no failure set lies in \(E\), and by prop:failure-set-criterion (1)–(2) a point design supported off \(E\) exists, which excludes a degree-\(D\) Nullstellensatz refutation. (3) Take \(V=\{p:p_{j_1}=\dots=p_{j_t}=0\}\), of codimension \(t\) (the kernel of the unit-row prefix on those forms); \(g_b(x)\in V\setminus0\) iff those \(t\) forms are nonzero at \(x\) and \(g_b(x)\ne0\). Under independent statuses of probability \(1/3\) this weight is \((2/3)^t(1-(2/3)^{h_b-t})\). (4) On \(\Phi^{=1}_J\) the forms \(r_{i_0}-1\) and \(r_{i_l}\) take the values \(0\) and \(1\), so every point has pattern \(e_1\), and any \(V\ni e_1\) captures all of \(\Phi\). For the hole family the pattern of a point in block \(u\) is \(e_j\) when pigeon \(j\) sits in hole \(u\), so the unit-row kernel on a set \(S\) of pigeons captures every point whose hole-\(u\) pigeon lies outside \(S\). \(\square\)

What it means

Where it helps. Unlike prop:sparse-failure-sets, (2) needs neither a union over failure sets nor independence between blocks: a single weight per failure set suffices. Its conclusion, hardness for every full-rank prefix, is more than W_RS needs.
What (3) costs. The all-prefix form includes W's own deterministic prefixes, so it can hold only at W's prefix length \(t\approx\log_{3/2}M\), up to about \(2.7\) times W_RS's (the ratio is \(\frac{K}{K+1}\cdot\frac{\ln3}{\ln(3/2)}\)). That is affordable: W_RS's degree bound \(B=\max(11\max(1,\delta),4t+2)\le44t\) stays logarithmic, so W_RS at the longer prefix is still a valid target of the reduction. A version for random or chosen prefixes would need the maximum over \(V\) replaced by an average, and then the failure set, chosen after the prefixes, returns the union over failure sets.
The hypothesis. It is a pseudorandomness property of failure sets: every failure set must carry a weight under which each dense block's forms vanish nearly independently, with probability about \(1/3\) each. The controls show which families violate it: blocks whose zero pattern is constant, or confined to few patterns, on some failure set. Whether failure sets of weak PHP carry such weights for generic dense blocks is open; the cylinders of prop:sparse-failure-sets are the natural first case, since dense forms restricted to a row-residue cylinder should still vanish nearly independently.

Outcome. prop:relative-covering (working proof of a reduction): the Nullstellensatz half of A1, for all full-rank prefixes at W's prefix length, follows from a pseudorandomness property of failure sets. The reduction avoids the union over failure sets that defeated counting. Its hypothesis is unproved, and it concerns every failure set, whose structure is not known.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): test the hypothesis of prop:relative-covering on row-residue cylinders. For a generic dense block and the uniform weight on \(\Phi^{\ne0}_J\) with \(|J|=D\), bound \(\kappa_b\): show that the zero statuses of the block's forms restricted to the cylinder are close to independent with probability \(1/3\), so that \(\kappa_b\le(2/3+o(1))^t\). A proof there would be the first instance of the property; a failure would locate how dense blocks align with failure sets.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:failure-set-criterion (1)–(2), prop:sparse-failure-sets, prop:pattern-poor-support, the W_RS definition with its degree bound, and the hole family example of the randomized-prefix entry. Claim searches for relative covering, killed fractions and aligned kernels found no prior version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked (1)–(4) against the dependencies, including the aligned-kernel identity, the prefix-length ratio and the bound \(B\le44t\), and found no error; its claim searches could not run in its session, so novelty rests on mine. Its two suggestions were adopted: the hole-family control now goes through (1), and \(t\le h_b\) is stated.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	10 min 13.40 s
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Preparation and checkpoint work	8 min 52.98 s
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Cylinder spread: on every residue cylinder, of any depth, the forms of a block with column damping vanish nearly independently under the uniform weight, so no full-rank prefixes at W's prefix length cover a failure set that contains one; this covers every near-refutation omitting a row equation, and random dense blocks have the damping, leaving near-refutations that use every row

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-cylinder-pseudorandomness. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Cylinder spread: on every residue cylinder, of any depth, the forms of a block with column damping vanish nearly independently under the uniform weight, so no full-rank prefixes at W's prefix length cover a failure set that contains one; this covers every near-refutation omitting a row equation, and random dense blocks have the damping, leaving near-refutations that use every row”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-cylinder-spread.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). By prop:relative-covering, the Nullstellensatz half for all full-rank prefixes at W's prefix length follows if every failure set carries a weight under which each block's forms vanish nearly independently. The relative covering entry proposed the residue cylinders of prop:sparse-failure-sets as the first test. Do dense blocks spread on them, and which failure sets does that settle?

General statement. prop:cylinder-spread, for every family, prefix length and residue cylinder.

prop:cylinder-spread

Setting. Weak unary PHP over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(m=N+1\) rows, the Boolean points \(B\) with the uniform measure (columns independent, each empty or one of the \(m\) rows with probability \(1/(m+1)\)), row sums \(r_i\), \(\omega=e^{2\pi i/3}\). For a block \(b\) with forms \(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b}\) and \(a\in\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\), put \(\ell_a=\sum_ja_jL_{b,j}\). The column damping of the block is \(\varepsilon_b=\max_{a\ne0,\ \beta\in\mathbb F_3^m}\bigl|\mathbb E_B\,\omega^{\ell_a+\sum_i\beta_ir_i}\bigr|\). For an affine form \(\ell=c+\sum\alpha_{i,u}x_{i,u}\), \(\bigl|\mathbb E_B\omega^\ell\bigr|=\prod_u\varphi_u\) with \(\varphi_u=\bigl|1+\sum_i\omega^{\alpha_{i,u}}\bigr|/(m+1)\le1\), equal to 1 only when column \(u\) has all coefficients 0. A residue cylinder is \(Y=\{x\in B:r_J(x)\in R\}\) for a set \(J\) of \(j\) rows and \(R\subseteq\mathbb F_3^J\) containing \((1,\dots,1)\). \(\kappa_b\) is as in prop:relative-covering, with prefixes of rank \(t\le h_b\).

Statement.

Spread. Under the uniform weight on a residue cylinder \(Y\) of depth \(j\), every nonzero combination has \(\bigl|\mathbb E_Y\omega^{\ell_a}\bigr|\le\beta_j:=3^{j/2}\bigl(e^2(1+2/N)\bigr)^j\varepsilon_b\), and \(\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)\le(2/3)^t+3^{h_b/2}\beta_j\).
Uncovered cylinders. If \(M(2/3)^t\le1/2\) and \(3^{h_b/2}\beta_j<1/(2M)\) for every block, no full-rank prefixes put \(Y\) inside the excluded set \(E\); so no failure set containing \(Y\) lies in \(E\). This applies to every residue-cylinder failure set of prop:sparse-failure-sets (3), and, with \(j=m-1\), to the failure set of every near-refutation \(\sum_ib_i(r_i-1)\) with some \(b_{i_0}=0\): it contains the \(N!\) perfect matchings of the other rows, where \(\Lambda=0\).
Random dense blocks. For forms with independent uniform coefficients, \(\mathbb E\varphi_u^2=1/(m+1)\) for every column of every fixed nonzero shifted combination, so \(\varepsilon_b\le(m+1)^{-N/4}\) with probability at least \(1-3^{h_b+m}(m+1)^{-N/2}\). For \(h_b\le N\) and \(N\ge N_0(K)\) the hypothesis of (2) then holds for every depth \(j\le m\); blocks with more forms need a correspondingly smaller damping.
Controls. Row-residue forms and column-statistic forms have \(\varepsilon_b\) equal or close to 1: \(\ell_a+\beta\cdot r\) can be made constant, or has all-equal column coefficients, whose factor \(\varphi_u\approx1-\frac{3}{2(m+1)}\) barely damps. Families of this kind are the ones the hypothesis must exclude.

Proof. (1) Let \(f\) be the indicator of \(R\) on \(\mathbb F_3^J\), \(f(y)=\sum_c\hat f(c)\omega^{c\cdot y}\); by Parseval and Cauchy–Schwarz, \(\sum_c|\hat f(c)|\le\sqrt{|R|}\le3^{j/2}\). Then \(\mathbb E_B[\omega^{\ell_a}1_Y]=\sum_c\hat f(c)\,\mathbb E_B\omega^{\ell_a+c\cdot r_J}\), of absolute value at most \(3^{j/2}\varepsilon_b\). The points with exactly one cell in each row of \(J\) lie in \(Y\), and their probability is \((N)_j(N+2)^{-j}(1-j/(N+2))^{N-j}\ge(N/e)^j(N+2)^{-j}e^{-j}=(e^2(1+2/N))^{-j}\), using \((N)_j\ge(N/e)^j\) (compare \(\sum\ln k\) with \(\int\ln x\)) and \(\ln(1-u)\ge-u/(1-u)\). Dividing gives \(\beta_j\). For \(\kappa_b\): let \(\mu\) be the law of the value vector \(v=(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h_b})(x)\) under \(\mathrm{unif}_Y\), whose nonzero Fourier coefficients are the \(\mathbb E_Y\omega^{\ell_a}\). For any \(A\subseteq\mathbb F_3^{h_b}\), \(|\mu(A)-3^{-h_b}|A||\le\beta_j\sum_{a\ne0}|\hat1_A(a)|\le3^{h_b/2}\beta_j\). Take \(A\) the values whose zero pattern lies in \(V\). Under uniform values the zero statuses are independent with probability \(1/3\), and a subspace \(V\) of codimension \(t\), written in echelon form with pivots \(j_1,\dots,j_t\), fixes each pivot status as a function of the free ones, so its probability is at most \((2/3)^t\). (2) By prop:relative-covering (1) applied to \(Y\) with its uniform weight, \(Y\subseteq E\) would need \(\sum_b\kappa_b\ge1\), while here \(\sum_b\kappa_b<1/2+1/2\). A failure set containing \(Y\) inside \(E\) would put \(Y\) inside \(E\). Residue-cylinder failure sets contain the cylinder \(\{r_J=1\}\). For \(b_{i_0}=0\), take \(J\) the other \(m-1=N\) rows and \(R=\{(1,\dots,1)\}\): these rows each need a cell, so the points are the \(N!\) perfect matchings of \(J\) into the \(N\) columns, where every \(r_i-1\) with \(i\ne i_0\) vanishes and \(\Lambda=0\ne1\). (3) With \(\alpha_{0}=0\) for the empty state, \(\mathbb E\bigl|\sum_{i=0}^m\omega^{\alpha_i}\bigr|^2=m+1\), since the cross terms have a uniform exponent; the shift by \(\beta\cdot r\) keeps the coefficients uniform. Columns are independent, so \(\mathbb E\prod_u\varphi_u^2=(m+1)^{-N}\); Markov at \((m+1)^{-N/2}\) and a union over the \(3^{h_b+m}\) pairs \((a,\beta)\) give the bound. Then \(3^{h_b/2}\beta_j\le3^{N/2}3^{m/2}(e^2(1+2/N))^m(m+1)^{-N/4}\), which is below \(1/(2M)\) once \(\frac14\ln(N+2)\) exceeds \(\ln3+\ln(e^2(1+2/N))+o(1)\), for \(N\ge N_0(K)\). (4) For \(\ell_a=r_{i_0}-c\), \(\beta=-e_{i_0}\) makes the exponent constant; for all-equal nonzero column coefficients, \(|1+m\omega^c|=\sqrt{m^2-m+1}\). \(\square\)

What it means

The first instance of the pseudorandomness property. For random dense families, and every family with column damping, no prefix choice at W's prefix length covers a failure set that contains a residue cylinder. Depth costs only \(e^{O(j)}\) while random damping is \((m+1)^{-N/4}\), so the statement holds for cylinders of full depth \(m-1\) too.
What is settled and what is not. A refutation's row part must use every row equation, not only in the sense of the pigeonhole principle: a near-refutation leaving one row out has a failure set containing the perfect matchings of the other rows, which the excluded set of a damped family cannot cover. The remaining case is near-refutations using every row. Their failure sets need not contain a residue cylinder: on the perfect matchings avoiding pigeon \(i\), \(\Lambda=-b_i\), and the failure set there is \(\{b_i\ne-1\}\), a set cut out by a polynomial of degree below \(D\).
Uniform weights on whole failure sets can fail. The lattice of prop:sparse-failure-sets (2) builds failure sets such as \(\bigcap_k(\{r_{i_k}=1\}\cup\{L_{j_k}\ne0\})\) at degree \(4t\) (each factor is the failure set of \((r_{i_k}-1)^2(1-L_{j_k}^2)\), of degree 4). Heuristically, treating row residues and zero statuses as independent with \(\Pr[r_i=1]\approx0.383\) (the Poisson residue law of prop:sparse-failure-sets) and \(\Pr[L=0]\approx1/3\), the set has density about \((1-0.617/3)^t\approx0.794^t\), and the part where the \(t\) chosen forms are nonzero has density about \((2/3)^t\); so the uniform weight puts about \((0.667/0.794)^t\approx0.84^t\) of its mass where the aligned kernel captures it, far above \(1/M\). Such sets contain the cylinder \(\{r_{i_1}=\dots=r_{i_t}=1\}\), where (2) applies. The weight has to be placed on a spread core.

Outcome. prop:cylinder-spread (working proof): damped families, including random dense ones, leave uncovered every failure set that contains a residue cylinder, in particular those of near-refutations omitting a row. The Nullstellensatz half at W's prefix length is reduced to near-refutations using every row equation, whose failure sets restricted to the perfect matchings avoiding one pigeon are level sets of low-degree functions of a perfect matching.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): near-refutations using every row. On the perfect matchings \(\Pi_i\) avoiding pigeon \(i\), such a \(\Lambda\) equals \(-b_i\) with \(\deg b_i\le D-1\), so its failure set there is \(\{b_i\ne-1\}\). Decide whether some \(\Pi_i\cap\Phi\) always carries a spread weight: show that for every nonzero \(b\) of degree below \(D\) on perfect matchings, the forms of a damped block vanish nearly independently on \(\{b\ne-1\}\), or on a large part of it, using the representation theory of the symmetric group acting on \(\Pi_i\) (low-degree functions on perfect matchings are the low isotypic components), or find a near-refutation whose failure set avoids every spread weight.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:relative-covering, prop:sparse-failure-sets (2)–(3), prop:failure-set-criterion and the W_RS definition. Claim searches for column damping, character bias with row sums and near-refutations omitting a row found no prior version; obs:proper-row-subfamilies-no-global-gluing concerns designs on proper subsets of a row, a different statement. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived the character formula, the Fourier and Parseval steps, the probability bound for one cell per row, the pivot bound, the perfect-matching corollary, the second-moment computation and the final asymptotic threshold, and checked the controls. It required one change, adopted: the approximate constant \(0.84^t\) in the lattice example now carries its heuristic derivation. Its wording remarks on the controls and on \(h_b\le N\) were adopted too.

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Junta-residue spread: damped blocks spread on every set fixed by row residues and the states of a minority of columns once it has non-negligible probability, which settles near-refutations whose multipliers depend only on the residues; for a general near-refutation the uniform weight on its failure set already works unless the near-refutation correlates with a linear phase of some block, so what remains is the structured, correlated case

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-all-row-refutations. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Junta-residue spread: damped blocks spread on every set fixed by row residues and the states of a minority of columns once it has non-negligible probability, which settles near-refutations whose multipliers depend only on the residues; for a general near-refutation the uniform weight on its failure set already works unless the near-refutation correlates with a linear phase of some block, so what remains is the structured, correlated case”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-junta-residue-spread.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The cylinder spread entry reduced the Nullstellensatz half at W's prefix length, for damped families, to near-refutations \(\Lambda=\sum_ib_i(r_i-1)\) using every row. Which of those can the spread argument reach, and what exactly is left?

General statement. prop:junta-residue-spread, for every family, near-refutation and prefix length.

prop:junta-residue-spread

Setting. As in prop:cylinder-spread: the uniform measure on \(B\), row-sum vector \(r\in\mathbb F_3^m\), column factors \(\varphi_u\), \(\kappa_b\) as in prop:relative-covering. The damping of block \(b\) away from \(d\) columns is \(\varepsilon^{(d)}_b=\max\prod_{u\notin U}\varphi_u(\ell_a+\beta\cdot r)\) over \(a\ne0\), \(\beta\in\mathbb F_3^m\) and sets \(U\) of \(d\) columns. A junta-residue set is \(Y=\{x\in B:x_U=\sigma,\ r(x)\in R\}\) for a set \(U\) of \(d\) columns, states \(\sigma\) on them and \(R\subseteq\mathbb F_3^m\); write \(p(Y)=\Pr_B[r\in R\mid x_U=\sigma]\) and \(\|\hat f_R\|_1\le3^{m/2}\) for the Fourier norm of the indicator of \(R\).

Statement.

Spread. Under the uniform weight on \(Y\), every nonzero combination has \(\bigl|\mathbb E_Y\omega^{\ell_a}\bigr|\le\|\hat f_R\|_1\,\varepsilon^{(d)}_b/p(Y)\), and \(\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)\le(2/3)^t+3^{h_b/2}\|\hat f_R\|_1\varepsilon^{(d)}_b/p(Y)\). So if \(M(2/3)^t\le1/2\) and \(M3^{h_b/2}\|\hat f_R\|_1\varepsilon^{(d)}_b<p(Y)/2\) for every block, no full-rank prefixes put \(Y\) inside \(E\), and no failure set containing \(Y\) lies in \(E\).
Random dense blocks. For independent uniform coefficients, \(\varepsilon^{(d)}_b\le(m+1)^{-(N-d)/4}\) for every \(d\le N/2\) simultaneously, with probability at least \(1-\sum_{d\le N/2}3^{h_b+m}\binom Nd(m+1)^{-(N-d)/2}\ge1-(N/2+1)\,3^{h_b+m}2^N(m+1)^{-N/4}\). For \(h_b\le N\), \(d\le N/2\) and \(N\ge N_0(K)\), (1) applies to every junta-residue set with \(p(Y)\ge(m+1)^{-N/16}\).
Residue near-refutations. If \(\Lambda=F(r)\) for a polynomial \(F\) on \(\mathbb F_3^m\) (multipliers depending only on the residues), its failure set is the junta-residue set \(\{r\in\{F\ne1\}\}\) with \(d=0\), so (1) applies once \(\Pr_B[F(r)\ne1]\ge(m+1)^{-N/16}\).
Dichotomy for general near-refutations. For every \(\Lambda\), with \(\Phi=\{\Lambda\ne1\}\) and \(\eta(\Lambda)=\max_{a\ne0,\ s=\pm1}\bigl|\mathbb E_B\omega^{\ell_a+s\Lambda}\bigr|\), the uniform weight on \(\Phi\) gives every nonzero combination bias at most \(\bigl(\tfrac23\varepsilon^{(0)}_b+\tfrac23\eta(\Lambda)\bigr)/\Pr_B[\Phi]\), with \(\Pr_B[\Phi]=\tfrac23-\tfrac23\operatorname{Re}\bigl(\omega\,\mathbb E_B\omega^{-\Lambda}\bigr)\). So the uniform weight on \(\Phi\) is spread unless \(\Lambda\) correlates with a phase \(\omega^{\mp\ell_a}\) of some block's forms, or \(\omega^{\Lambda}\) is strongly biased toward 1.

Proof. (1) \(1_Y=1_{x_U=\sigma}\sum_c\hat f_R(c)\omega^{c\cdot r}\). The columns are independent, so \(\mathbb E_B[\omega^{\ell_a+c\cdot r}1_{x_U=\sigma}]\) is \((m+1)^{-d}\) times a unit phase from \(\sigma\) times \(\prod_{u\notin U}\mathbb E_u\omega^{(\cdot)}\), of absolute value at most \((m+1)^{-d}\varepsilon^{(d)}_b\). Dividing by \(\Pr_B[Y]=(m+1)^{-d}p(Y)\) gives the bias. The rest is the argument of prop:cylinder-spread (1)–(2). (2) As in prop:cylinder-spread (3), with \(\mathbb E\prod_{u\notin U}\varphi_u^2=(m+1)^{-(N-d)}\), Markov at \((m+1)^{-(N-d)/2}\) and a union over \((a,\beta,U)\) and over \(d\le N/2\), since one family must serve junta-residue sets of every size; then \(3^{N/2}3^{m/2}(m+1)^{-N/8}\le(m+1)^{-N/16}/(4M)\) for large \(N\). (3) On \(\{r=\rho\}\), \(\Lambda=F(\rho)\). (4) Over \(\mathbb F_3\), \(1_{v\ne0}=\tfrac23-\tfrac13(\omega^v+\omega^{-v})\); with \(v=1-\Lambda\), \(\mathbb E_B[\omega^{\ell_a}1_\Phi]=\tfrac23\mathbb E\omega^{\ell_a}-\tfrac13\bigl(\omega\,\mathbb E\omega^{\ell_a-\Lambda}+\omega^{-1}\mathbb E\omega^{\ell_a+\Lambda}\bigr)\), and similarly for \(\Pr_B[\Phi]\) with \(\ell_a=0\). \(\square\)

What it means

Column conditioning is free. Fixing the states of a minority of columns costs nothing in (1), because the same factor divides the probability. So a failure set is uncovered as soon as it contains a residue condition on a sub-board cut out by fixing some columns, with non-negligible conditional probability.
Controls. The families without damping are those of prop:cylinder-spread (4), row-residue and column-statistic forms, and they are also the ones whose failure sets the argument cannot reach, as it must be.
What is left. By (4), a near-refutation defeats the uniform weight on its failure set only through a correlation \(|\mathbb E_B\omega^{\Lambda\pm\ell_a}|\) that is not small, with \(\ell_a\) a damped combination of one block's forms, or through a strong bias of \(\omega^{\Lambda}\). The earlier examples are of this kind: the lattice failure sets of prop:sparse-failure-sets (2) are built from \((r_i-1)^2(1-L^2)\), a polynomial correlated with the form \(L\), and each contains a residue cylinder. The open implication is structural: a low-degree element of the row ideal that correlates with a damped linear phase has a failure set containing a junta-residue set of non-negligible probability.

Outcome. prop:junta-residue-spread (working proof): failure sets containing a junta-residue set of non-negligible conditional probability are uncovered for damped families, including random dense ones; this settles near-refutations whose multipliers depend only on residues, and near-refutations uncorrelated with every damped linear phase. The Nullstellensatz half at W's prefix length, for damped families, is reduced to the correlated case, a structure theorem for low-degree elements of the row ideal that correlate with linear phases.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the correlated case. Suppose \(\Lambda\) of degree \(D\) in the row ideal has \(|\mathbb E_B\omega^{\Lambda+\ell}|\ge\eta\) for a damped affine form \(\ell\). Inverse theorems for biased polynomials (T. Green and T. Tao, The distribution of polynomials over finite fields, 2009; T. Kaufman and S. Lovett, Worst case to average case reductions for polynomials, FOCS 2008) say that a biased polynomial over \(\mathbb F_p^n\) is a function of a bounded number of lower-degree polynomials. Transfer this to the product space \(B\) of column states, where \(\Lambda+\ell\) is biased, and test whether the structure it yields places a junta-residue set inside \(\{\Lambda\ne1\}\); the lattice failure sets are the calibration case.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:cylinder-spread with its proof, prop:relative-covering and prop:sparse-failure-sets (2). Claim searches for polynomial-phase correlation, bias rank and junta-residue sets found no prior version. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived (1)–(4), including the cancellation of the column conditioning, the second-moment bound, the asymptotic threshold and the indicator identity over \(\mathbb F_3\), and confirmed that the inverse theorems are proposed, not used. It required one change, adopted: the random-block bound in (2) now takes the union over all \(d\le N/2\), since one family must serve every size. Its remark on controls was adopted too.

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Route review of the Nullstellensatz line of A1: three results reduced it, for damped families at W's prefix length, from all failure sets to near-refutations correlated with a damped linear phase; the open statements now carry that chain, the extreme correlated case is ruled out by a design comparison, and the structure of correlated near-refutations is the next target

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-correlated-refutations. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review of the Nullstellensatz line of A1: three results reduced it, for damped families at W's prefix length, from all failure sets to near-refutations correlated with a damped linear phase; the open statements now carry that chain, the extreme correlated case is ruled out by a design comparison, and the structure of correlated near-refutations is the next target”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-correlated-case-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The line has descended several reductions below the listed open statements: A1, its Nullstellensatz half, relative covering (prop:relative-covering), cylinders (prop:cylinder-spread), near-refutations using every row, and now the correlated case (prop:junta-residue-spread). The framework requires a review that places the line on the list. What is the line's status, and is the correlated case the right next target?

The line's general claim

For families whose blocks have column damping (every nonzero combination of a block's forms, shifted by row sums, has exponentially small bias on \(B\); random dense blocks qualify with high probability), weak unary PHP plus the W_RS clauses at W's prefix length \(t>\log_{3/2}(2M)\) has no degree-\(D\) Nullstellensatz refutation for any full-rank prefixes. Proved so far: for every failure set containing a junta-residue set of non-negligible conditional probability, and for every near-refutation uncorrelated with the damped linear phases.

What the goal needs

A1 needs W, or W_RS, for all families. The Nullstellensatz half for damped families would cover the dense core's generic part; the non-damped families (row-residue, column-statistic, sparse) are the structured classes that the record's other tools address; and the certificate half (lagged lift, or Taylor conditions of A3's kind) is still needed on top.

Falsification attempt

The correlated case could hide a covered failure set with no junta-residue core. The extreme case is a near-refutation equal to a damped affine form: if \(\ell+c\) lay in the degree-\(D\) row ideal as a function on \(B\), then \(u(\ell+c)\) would be a near-refutation with correlation 1 and failure set \(\{\ell\ne c'\}\), which contains no junta-residue core of non-negligible probability because \(\ell\) is equidistributed on every such set. This case does not occur, by a design comparison (a sketch, not registered): every element of the row ideal of degree \(D\) is killed by every restricted matching design \(\nu_\rho\) of prop:sparse-failure-sets (5). By symmetry the sub-board matching design gives every sub-board cell the value \(1/N'\) at degree one, so \(\sum\nu_\rho(\ell+c)=c+\ell(\rho)+\frac1{N'}\sum_{v}\alpha_v\), the sum over the sub-board cells, when \(N'\not\equiv0\bmod3\). Moving one pigeon of \(\rho\) between holes and varying the rows left in the sub-board forces \(\alpha_{i,u}=a_i+b_u\), a row-sum part plus column constants, exactly the undamped forms of prop:cylinder-spread (4). So a damped form is never equal to a near-refutation, and the correlated case, if it is a real obstruction, needs genuinely nonlinear near-refutations. Products \(G\Lambda_0\) with a residue factor \(\Lambda_0\) are not examples either: their failure sets contain \(\{\Lambda_0=0\}\), a residue set. No family was found whose excluded set contains a failure set.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on the structure of near-refutations \(\Lambda\) of degree \(D\) in the row ideal that correlate with a damped linear phase, \(|\mathbb E_B\omega^{\Lambda+\ell}|\ge\eta\): the result needs such a \(\Lambda\) to have a failure set containing a junta-residue set of non-negligible conditional probability, or some other spread weight. The certificate half and the non-damped families are separate open parts of A1.

Assessment of the route

Unlike the stretch before the Nullstellensatz review, the last four entries made positive progress: a reduction (relative covering), two general theorems on spread weights (cylinder spread, junta-residue spread) and a dichotomy that isolates one open case. The open case has the shape of an inverse theorem for biased polynomials, a well-studied kind of statement, though not on this domain. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Inverse theorems for biased polynomials (B. Green and T. Tao, The distribution of polynomials over finite fields, with applications to the Gowers norms, Contrib. Discrete Math. 4 (2009); T. Kaufman and S. Lovett, Worst case to average case reductions for polynomials, FOCS 2008). A polynomial of degree \(d\) over \(\mathbb F_p^n\) with bias \(\delta\) is a function of \(O_{d,\delta}(1)\) polynomials of lower degree. Answers. Applied to \(\Lambda+\ell\), it would express a correlated near-refutation through a bounded number of lower-degree functions, whose level sets are candidate cores. Test. Not run: the theorems use the group structure of \(\mathbb F_p^n\); \(B\) is a product of \((m+1)\)-state spaces, and the version needed for polynomials of bounded column-degree on it is not recorded, and I know of none.
Efron–Stein decomposition on product spaces (R. O'Donnell, Analysis of Boolean Functions, Cambridge 2014, Chapter 8). A function on a product space splits into orthogonal components indexed by sets of coordinates. Answers. It locates where a correlation can live. \(\omega^{\ell}\) is a product of single-column functions \(\psi_u\), and its component on a set \(S\) of columns has norm \(\prod_{u\in S}\|\psi_u-\mathbb E\psi_u\|\prod_{u\notin S}\varphi_u\), at most \(\prod_{u\notin S}\varphi_u\). The squared norms of these components are \(\prod_{u\in S}(1-\varphi_u^2)\prod_{u\notin S}\varphi_u^2\), the law of the set of active columns when column \(u\) is active with probability \(1-\varphi_u^2\) independently. Splitting \(\mathbb E_B[\omega^{\Lambda}\omega^{\ell}]\) over orders and applying Cauchy–Schwarz on each part gives \(|\mathbb E_B\omega^{\Lambda+\ell}|\le\bigl(\sum_{|S|\ge N-d}\|(\omega^\Lambda)^{=S}\|^2\bigr)^{1/2}+\Pr[\text{fewer than }N-d\text{ active columns}]^{1/2}\). For random dense forms each column is active with probability \(1-1/(m+1)\) in expectation, so, heuristically (a first-moment remark, not a concentration proof), the second term is tiny once \(d\) exceeds a few times \(N/m\), and a near-refutation with correlation \(\eta\) must put mass about \(\eta^2\) on components of \(\omega^{\Lambda}\) of order at least \(N-d\). Test. Passed: the localization follows from orthogonality, Parseval for \(\omega^{\ell}\) and the product form above; it gives a concrete quantity, the high-order Efron–Stein mass of \(\omega^{\Lambda}\), to study for \(\Lambda\) of column-degree \(D\).
Friedgut's junta theorem (E. Friedgut, Boolean functions with low average sensitivity depend on few coordinates, Combinatorica 18 (1998) 27–35). Answers. If failure-set indicators were close to juntas, cores could be found by fixing the junta's columns. Test. Falsified as a characterization: the lattice failure set \(\{r_i=1\}\cup\{L\ne0\}\) with a damped \(L\) has an indicator of large total influence, far from any junta, yet it contains a core, the cylinder \(\{r_i=1\}\). Cores do not require junta structure.

Absurd bridges

Lee–Yang zeros (statistical physics; T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang, 1952). Translation: \(\mathbb E_B\omega^{\Lambda+\ell}\) is a partition function of a hard-core system with a complex weight, \(\Lambda\) the interaction and \(\ell\) an external field; the circle theorem locates the zeros of ferromagnetic partition functions. What a theorem there would give: zero-free regions and bounds on the partition function, that is, on the correlation. Answers. Bounds on \(|\mathbb E_B\omega^{\Lambda+\ell}|\) from the interaction's structure. Test. Falsified: the circle theorem needs ferromagnetic pair interactions with real couplings and a real-positive structure; cube-root-of-unity weights of a degree-\(D\) polynomial are neither.
Free-fermion overlaps (quantum chemistry; Slater determinants and Wick's theorem). Translation: the collision-free board as occupation configurations, \(\omega^{\ell}\) as a product state, \(\omega^{\Lambda}\) as an interacting state with \(D\)-body terms, and the correlation as an overlap. What a theorem there would give: overlap bounds between interacting and product states in terms of interaction strength. Answers. A bound on correlations of \(D\)-body phases with product phases. Test. Falsified: Wick's theorem needs fermionic antisymmetry or Gaussian structure; the board's hard-core columns are neither, and the phases are over \(\mathbb F_3\), not a Hilbert-space dynamics.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge of an earlier review on this route is open.

Lead follow-up

No passed lead of an earlier review on this route is open; the Nullstellensatz review's spread lead, not run there, was developed into prop:relative-covering and its sequels.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the correlated case through the Efron–Stein lead. For \(\Lambda\) of column-degree \(D\) in the row ideal, bound the mass of \(\omega^{\Lambda}\) on Efron–Stein components of order at least \(N-d\), with \(d\) to be chosen depending on \(D\) and the damping, or show that large mass there forces the failure set \(\{\Lambda\ne1\}\) to contain a junta-residue set; first for \(D=2\), where \(\Lambda\) is quadratic and \(\omega^{\Lambda}\) is a pairwise-interaction weight on the column states.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:relative-covering, prop:cylinder-spread, prop:junta-residue-spread, prop:sparse-failure-sets (2) and (5), and the Nullstellensatz review. The design comparison in the falsification attempt is a sketch, labelled so. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the design-comparison sketch step by step, re-derived the Efron–Stein inequality, confirmed the other verdicts, the structure and the rewritten A1 statement against the four dependency entries, and required no change. Its two clarity remarks were adopted: the tail estimate is marked heuristic, and the order threshold \(d\) is tied to \(D\).

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Junta-residue classes: every nonempty class fixed by one residue vector and the states of at most half the columns has probability at least \(30^{-N}/2\), so for random dense families a failure set containing any such class is never covered; on a class a near-refutation is a polynomial of one degree less, the class is a core exactly when that polynomial omits 1, and the first core-free case is degree two

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-efron-stein-mass. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Junta-residue classes: every nonempty class fixed by one residue vector and the states of at most half the columns has probability at least \(30^{-N}/2\), so for random dense families a failure set containing any such class is never covered; on a class a near-refutation is a polynomial of one degree less, the class is a core exactly when that polynomial omits 1, and the first core-free case is degree two”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-junta-residue-classes.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The correlated case review left the correlated near-refutations and proposed the Efron–Stein mass of \(\omega^{\Lambda}\). Developing that lead showed its bound is weak: a row-sum phase \(\omega^{\beta\cdot r}\) has almost all of its Efron–Stein mass at the top order, yet no correlation with damped phases, so high-order mass is far from sufficient for correlation. The residue structure turned out to be the better handle. Which failure sets does it settle outright, and what is the first case it leaves?

General statement. prop:junta-residue-classes, for every near-refutation, board size and family.

prop:junta-residue-classes

Setting. As in prop:junta-residue-spread. A junta-residue class is \(Y=\{x\in B:x_U=\sigma,\ r(x)=\rho\}\) for a set \(U\) of \(d\) columns, states \(\sigma\) on \(U\) and one residue vector \(\rho\in\mathbb F_3^m\).

Statement.

Class probability. If \(Y\) is nonempty, then with \(N'=N-d\), \(\Pr_B[r=\rho\mid x_U=\sigma]\ge\bigl(5e(N+2)/N'\bigr)^{-N'}/2\); for \(d\le N/2\) this is at least \(\bigl(10e(1+2/N)\bigr)^{-N'}/2\ge30^{-N}/2\) for \(N\ge20\).
Cores. For families of random dense blocks with \(h_b\le N\), at W's prefix length (\(M(2/3)^t\le1/2\)) and \(N\ge N_0(K)\), with high probability over the coefficients no full-rank prefixes cover a failure set that contains a nonempty junta-residue class with \(d\le N/2\). In particular the failure set of every near-refutation \(\Lambda=F(r)\) whose multipliers depend only on the residues is uncovered as soon as it is nonempty, which removes the probability hypothesis of prop:junta-residue-spread (3).
Class decomposition. On \(Y\), \(\Lambda=\sum_ib_i(r_i-1)\) equals \(P_Y=\sum_i(\rho_i-1)\,b_i|_{x_U=\sigma}\), a polynomial of degree at most \(D-1\) in the free cells. So \(Y\subseteq\Phi(\Lambda)\) exactly when \(P_Y\) never takes the value 1 on \(Y\), and otherwise \(\Phi\cap Y=\{P_Y\ne1\}\cap Y\).
The first core-free case. For \(\Lambda=\sum_i(c_i+L_i)(r_i-1)\) of degree two whose forms \(L_1,\dots,L_m\), taken as one block, have damping \(\varepsilon^{(d)}<30^{-N}/6\) (random forms do, with high probability, by prop:junta-residue-spread (2)), no nonempty junta-residue class with \(d\le N/2\) lies in \(\Phi\): on each, \(P_Y\) is a constant plus a nonzero combination of the \(L_i\), which takes every value on \(Y\).

Proof. (1) On the \(N'\) free columns the rows need residues \(\rho'=\rho-r(\sigma)\). Take counts \(c_i\in\{0,1,2\}\) equal to \(\rho'_i\), with sum \(S_0\le N'\) because \(Y\) is nonempty, and add 3 to \(\lfloor(N'-S_0)/3\rfloor\le m\) rows, so that each \(c_i\le5\) and the total \(S\) lies in \([N'-2,N']\). The points with exactly these row counts on the free columns number \(N'!/(\prod_ic_i!\,(N'-S)!)\ge N'!/(2\cdot5^{N'})\), since \(c!\le5^c\) for \(c\le5\); each free column takes one of \(N+2\) states. With \(N'!\ge(N'/e)^{N'}\) the conditional probability is at least \((N'/e)^{N'}/(2\cdot5^{N'}(N+2)^{N'})\). (2) Substitute directly into prop:junta-residue-spread (1): a single class has \(\|\hat f_R\|_1=1\), random damping gives \(\varepsilon^{(d)}_b\le(m+1)^{-(N-d)/4}\) by its (2), and (1) gives \(p(Y)\ge(5e(N+2)/N')^{-N'}/2\); the condition \(M3^{h_b/2}\varepsilon^{(d)}_b<p(Y)/2\) with \(h_b\le N\) holds once \(\tfrac14\ln(N+2)\) exceeds \(\ln(5e(N+2)/N')+\tfrac12\ln3\) plus \(O(\log M/N)\) per free column, that is, for \(N\) above about \(3\cdot10^5\) when \(d=0\) and about \(4\cdot10^7\) when \(d=N/2\). The conclusion for \(Y\) follows, and a failure set containing \(Y\) inside \(E\) would put \(Y\) inside \(E\). A nonempty residue failure set \(\{F(r)\ne1\}\) contains a nonempty class with \(d=0\). (3) On \(Y\), \(r_i=\rho_i\) and the states on \(U\) are fixed. (4) On \(Y\), \(P_Y=\sum_i(\rho_i-1)(c_i+L_i|_Y)\), and the combination \(\ell=\sum_i(\rho_i-1)L_i\) has nonzero coefficient vector because \(\rho\ne(1,\dots,1)\) (that class is empty). By prop:junta-residue-spread (1) with the single class, whose indicator has Fourier norm 1, \(|\mathbb E_Y\omega^{s\ell}|\le\varepsilon^{(d)}/p(Y)<1/3\) for \(s=\pm1\), using (1) for \(p(Y)\ge30^{-N}/2\) (random forms meet the hypothesis once \(N\) is above about \(3\cdot10^4\) to \(5\cdot10^5\), depending on \(d\)); so each value of \(\ell\) has probability \(\tfrac13(1+\omega^{-v}\mathbb E_Y\omega^\ell+\omega^{v}\mathbb E_Y\omega^{-\ell})>0\) on \(Y\), and \(P_Y\) takes the value 1. \(\square\)

What it means

Cores need no probability condition. Every nonempty junta-residue class has probability at least \(e^{-O(N)}\), exponentially small but far above the super-exponential damping of random blocks, so the question for a failure set is combinatorial: does it contain one? The price is the size of \(N_0\): the second-moment bound \((m+1)^{-(N-d)/4}\) on random damping beats the class probability only for \(N\) of order \(10^5\) to \(10^8\); a sharper concentration bound for the damping would lower this. The lattice and product examples of the earlier entries all contain such cores.
The Efron–Stein lead. Its localization is correct but too weak to use: row-sum phases have full top-order mass and no correlation. Lead follow-up: closed in favour of the residue decomposition, which is sharper.
The first core-free case. (4) shows cores do not always exist: a degree-two near-refutation with generic multipliers has none. On each class its failure set is a non-level set \(\{\ell_Y\ne c_Y\}\) of one affine form, which constrains a single combination of a block's forms at most. Under the uniform weight on \(\Phi\cap Y\), a block whose forms are jointly damped with \(\ell_Y\) is spread, and one aligned combination raises the aligned-kernel bound by a factor of at most \(3/2\), as density on \(\{\ell\ne c\}\) is at least \(2/3\) of uniform. So degree two looks settled; the risk is at degrees near \(t\), where a class polynomial can constrain \(t\) combinations of one block, and then the cross-class consistency imposed by the row ideal (designs kill \(\Lambda\)) has to supply cores elsewhere, as it did in the lattice and product examples.

Outcome. prop:junta-residue-classes (working proof): nonempty junta-residue classes are cores for random dense families, residue near-refutations are settled unconditionally, and on each class a near-refutation drops one degree. The correlated case is now: near-refutations whose class polynomials take the value 1 on every junta-residue class, of which degree two is the first, apparently harmless, instance.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): prove the degree-two core-free case, near-refutations \(\sum_i(c_i+L_i)(r_i-1)\), for families that are damped and pairwise jointly damped, with the uniform weight on \(\Phi\cap Y\) for one class \(Y\) and the \(3/2\) bound for the one aligned combination. Then state the general-degree target: for a near-refutation whose class polynomials constrain \(s\) combinations of one block on every class, either \(s\) stays below \(t\) by a margin, or some junta-residue class is a core.

Verification gate

Verification gate. A first draft of (4) assumed that a nonconstant affine form takes all three values on a class, which fails for a single cell indicator; (4) now assumes damping of the \(L_i\) and derives the three values from spread. Re-read prop:junta-residue-spread, prop:cylinder-spread, prop:relative-covering and the correlated case review. A fresh-context reviewer re-derived (1) and reproduced its numerical check, confirmed (3) and the mechanics of (4), and required one change, adopted: routing (2) through the packaged threshold \((m+1)^{-N/16}\) needed \(N\) near \(10^{23}\), so (2) now substitutes the single-class Fourier norm directly and states the resulting scale of \(N_0\), and the text no longer calls classes non-negligible without qualification. The class probability bound was checked numerically against the exact value \(N!/(N+2)^N\) for the tight class \((1,\dots,1,0)\) at \(N=10,20,40\) (exact \(5.9\cdot10^{-5}\), \(3.4\cdot10^{-9}\), \(9.6\cdot10^{-18}\) against bounds \(3.8\cdot10^{-13}\), \(1.6\cdot10^{-24}\), \(3.3\cdot10^{-47}\)). Claim searches for residue classes and class probabilities found no prior version.

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Density transfer: a failure set filling a fraction \(\delta\) of some junta-residue class is never covered at prefix length \(\log_{3/2}(4M/\delta)\), which settles degree-two near-refutations with damped multipliers; failure sets exactly aligned with the zero sets of a few forms would refute a single product constraint, which member pinning excludes; what remains are failure sets thin in every class and only approximately aligned

28 September 2026 · Working proof · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-degree-two-core-free. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Density transfer: a failure set filling a fraction \(\delta\) of some junta-residue class is never covered at prefix length \(\log_{3/2}(4M/\delta)\), which settles degree-two near-refutations with damped multipliers; failure sets exactly aligned with the zero sets of a few forms would refute a single product constraint, which member pinning excludes; what remains are failure sets thin in every class and only approximately aligned”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-density-transfer.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The junta-residue classes entry left the core-free failure sets, with degree two as the first case. Can the spread argument use a failure set that fills only part of a class, and what does a failure set have to look like to escape it?

General statement. prop:density-transfer, for every near-refutation, degree and family.

prop:density-transfer

Setting. As in prop:junta-residue-classes, with \(\kappa_b\) as in prop:relative-covering. For a failure set \(\Phi\) and a nonempty junta-residue class \(Y\), write \(\delta_Y=\Pr_Y[\Phi]\) for the density of \(\Phi\) in \(Y\) under the uniform measure on \(Y\).

Statement.

Transfer. For every block, \(\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_{\Phi\cap Y})\le\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)/\delta_Y\). Hence, if \(\sum_b\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)<\delta_Y\), no full-rank prefixes put \(\Phi\cap Y\) inside \(E\), and \(\Phi\) is not covered. For random dense families (\(h_b\le N\), \(d\le N/2\), \(N\ge N_0(K)\), with the thresholds of prop:junta-residue-classes (2)) this holds whenever \(M(2/3)^t\le\delta_Y/4\), that is, at prefix length \(t\ge\log_{3/2}(4M/\delta_Y)\).
Degree two. For \(\Lambda=\sum_i(c_i+L_i)(r_i-1)\) with damped multipliers as in prop:junta-residue-classes (4), every nonempty class \(Y\) has \(\delta_Y\ge\frac23-\frac23\varepsilon^{(d)}/p(Y)\ge4/9\), so degree-two near-refutations of this kind are never covered at prefix length \(\log_{3/2}(9M)\); for random multipliers and large \(N\), \(\delta_Y\ge0.6\) and \(\log_{3/2}(7M)\) suffices.
Exactly aligned thin sets. If \(\Phi(\Lambda)\subseteq\{\prod_{k\in S}L_k\ne0\}\) for a set \(S\) of affine forms and \(\Lambda\) has degree \(D\), then weak unary PHP plus the single constraint \(\gamma=\prod_{k\in S}L_k\) has a Nullstellensatz refutation of degree \(D+2|S|\). So by lem:member-pinning, when the forms of \(S\) have row-linear parts independent modulo constants on every row and the board meets that lemma's hypotheses at degree \(D+2|S|\), no failure set of degree \(D\) is contained in \(\{\prod_{k\in S}L_k\ne0\}\).
What escapes. A failure set escapes (1)–(3) only if its density in every nonempty junta-residue class is below \(4M(2/3)^t\), it contains no such class, and it is not contained in the nonvanishing set of a product of few row-independent forms: thin everywhere and aligned only approximately.

Proof. (1) For any \(A\), \(\Pr_{\Phi\cap Y}[A]=\Pr_Y[A\cap\Phi]/\delta_Y\le\Pr_Y[A]/\delta_Y\); take \(A=\{g_b\in V\setminus0\}\) and maximize over \(V\). Then \(\sum_b\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_{\Phi\cap Y})<1\), and prop:relative-covering (1) applied to the set \(\Phi\cap Y\) with its uniform weight shows that it is not inside \(E\). For random dense families, prop:junta-residue-spread (1) with the single-class Fourier norm gives \(\sum_b\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)\le M(2/3)^t+M3^{h_b/2}\varepsilon^{(d)}_b/p(Y)\), whose second term is below \(\delta_Y/4\) at the thresholds of prop:junta-residue-classes (2) once \(\delta_Y\) is at least \(e^{-o(N)}\). (2) On \(Y\), \(\Phi\cap Y=\{\ell\ne c\}\) for the nonzero combination \(\ell=\sum_i(\rho_i-1)L_i\) restricted to \(Y\) and a constant \(c\); by the proof of prop:junta-residue-classes (4), each value of \(\ell\) has probability within \(\tfrac23\varepsilon^{(d)}/p(Y)\) of \(1/3\), so \(\delta_Y\ge\frac23-\frac23\varepsilon^{(d)}/p(Y)\). Under the hypothesis \(\varepsilon^{(d)}<30^{-N}/6\) of prop:junta-residue-classes (4), with \(p(Y)\ge30^{-N}/2\), the ratio is below \(1/3\) and \(\delta_Y\ge4/9\), so (1) needs \(M(2/3)^t\le1/9\), which holds at \(t\ge\log_{3/2}(9M)\). For random multipliers, \(\varepsilon^{(d)}\le(m+1)^{-(N-d)/4}\) decays super-exponentially while \(p(Y)\ge e^{-O(N)}\), so the ratio is below \(1/10\) for large \(N\), \(\delta_Y\ge0.6\), and \(M(2/3)^t\le0.15\) holds at \(t\ge\log_{3/2}(7M)\). (3) On \(\{\gamma\ne0\}\), \(\gamma^2=1\) over \(\mathbb F_3\); \(1-\Lambda\) vanishes off \(\Phi\), hence off \(\{\gamma\ne0\}\), so \(1-\Lambda=\gamma\cdot\gamma(1-\Lambda)\) as functions on \(B\), and \(1=\Lambda+\gamma\cdot\gamma(1-\Lambda)\) is a Nullstellensatz refutation of weak PHP plus \(\gamma\): the row part \(\Lambda\) has degree \(D\), and the multiplier \(\gamma(1-\Lambda)\) of \(\gamma\) has degree at most \(|S|+D\), so the refutation has degree at most \(D+2|S|\). The constraint set \(\{\gamma\}\) has the common zero \(L_k=0\) for one \(k\), so lem:member-pinning excludes a PC refutation of the functional base plus \(\gamma\) at that degree under its hypotheses, and a refutation of the weak base plus \(\gamma\) is one of the functional base plus \(\gamma\). (4) Collects the three conditions. \(\square\)

What it means

Degree two is settled for damped multipliers, the case the previous entry left, at a prefix length only a constant factor above W's. For the aligned candidates below, with \(|S|\) near \(t\), (3) needs member pinning's board hypotheses at degree \(D+2|S|\), which is still \(O(\log n)\).
The shape of what remains. A covered failure set must be thin in every class, of density at most about \(M(2/3)^t\), without being exactly the nonvanishing set of a product of few independent forms. The natural candidates, sets like \(\{L_1,\dots,L_s\ne0\}\) for \(s\) near \(t\), are excluded exactly by (3); what is left are perturbations of them, where \(1-\Lambda\) is supported mostly but not entirely on such a set. The next step is a stability version of (3): a near-refutation whose failure set lies mostly inside \(\{\prod_{k\in S}L_k\ne0\}\) should still yield a low-degree refutation of the product constraint after removing the small remainder by a junta or a class restriction.

Outcome. prop:density-transfer (working proof): failure sets of non-negligible density in some junta-residue class are uncovered, degree-two near-refutations with damped multipliers are settled, and exactly aligned thin failure sets are excluded by member pinning. The Nullstellensatz half at W's prefix length is reduced to failure sets thin in every class and approximately aligned with a few forms.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a stability version of (3). Show that if a degree-\(D\) failure set is contained in \(\{\prod_{k\in S}L_k\ne0\}\cup R\) with a remainder \(R\) of small density in every class, then either \(R\) contains a core, or restricting to a junta-residue class where \(R\) is empty produces an exact alignment on that class and a refutation of the product constraint on a sub-board, again excluded by member pinning.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:junta-residue-classes, prop:junta-residue-spread, prop:relative-covering, lem:member-pinning with its statement and hypotheses (member pinning) and the remark of prop:exact-operator-criterion that hardness of the functional system implies hardness of weak PHP plus the same constraints. Claim searches for density transfer, single product constraints and member pinning found lem:member-pinning and cor:single-form-pinning; neither contains the transfer. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the transfer inequality and its use with prop:relative-covering, the identity \(1-\Lambda=\gamma\cdot\gamma(1-\Lambda)\) and the degree \(D+2|S|\), and, from the sources, that lem:member-pinning applies to the single constraint and that a refutation over the weak base is one over the functional base. It required one change, adopted: the density bound in (2) was asserted without derivation; (2) now derives \(\delta_Y\ge4/9\) under the stated damping hypothesis (prefix length \(\log_{3/2}(9M)\)) and \(0.6\) for random multipliers at large \(N\). Its remark on the board hypotheses at degree \(D+2|S|\) was adopted.

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Route review after density transfer: the Nullstellensatz line is down to thin failure sets aligned with a few forms; for all prefixes these are an artifact of taking the worst kernel, since a random prefix kills only a \(3^{-t}\) fraction of an aligned set, so the open case is a refuter who aligns the failure set with the actual random kernels after seeing them

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-alignment-stability. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after density transfer: the Nullstellensatz line is down to thin failure sets aligned with a few forms; for all prefixes these are an artifact of taking the worst kernel, since a random prefix kills only a \(3^{-t}\) fraction of an aligned set, so the open case is a refuter who aligns the failure set with the actual random kernels after seeing them”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-alignment-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Since the correlated case review, two results narrowed the Nullstellensatz half for random dense families: nonempty junta-residue classes are cores (junta-residue classes), and failure sets of non-negligible density in some class, degree-two near-refutations with damped multipliers and exactly aligned thin sets are settled (density transfer). The proposed next step was a stability version of exact alignment. Is that the right target?

The line's general claim

For random dense families, weak unary PHP plus the W_RS clauses at a prefix length \(t=O(\log n)\) has no degree-\(D\) Nullstellensatz refutation, for every full-rank prefix (the all-prefix form) or for random prefixes with high probability (the form W_RS needs).

What the goal needs

W_RS for all families; for the dense core, the Nullstellensatz design, then the certificate half on top. The Nullstellensatz part is now reduced to failure sets that are thin in every junta-residue class, contain no such class, and are not exactly the nonvanishing set of a product of few row-independent forms.

Falsification attempt

The candidates are sets like \(\Phi\approx\{L_1,\dots,L_s\ne0\}\), with the \(L_k\) forms of one block \(b\) and \(s\) near \(t\). For all full-rank prefixes they defeat the relative covering criterion: the kernel aligned with those forms captures almost all of \(\Phi\). For a prefix chosen before \(\Lambda\), they do not: on \(\Phi\) the zero patterns of block \(b\) are supported off the aligned forms and otherwise spread, so a uniform \(C_b\) puts only about a \(3^{-t}\) fraction of them in its kernel, and each other block about the same. So a fixed aligned \(\Phi\) is covered with probability at most about \(M3^{-t}\), like every fixed failure set. The danger is adaptive: a refuter who sees the kernels and builds \(\Lambda\) so that \(\Phi\) lies mostly in \(\{g_b\in\ker C_b\}\) for one or a few blocks. If it lies entirely in one block's excluded set, that block's clauses alone refute weak PHP at degree \(D\). lem:member-pinning excludes this: take its constraint set \(U\) to be the block's clauses \(g_iQ^{C_b}\), polynomials in the block's forms \(u=(L_{b,1},\dots,L_{b,h})\); their common zero set contains every value vector with all coordinates nonzero, where the zero pattern is 0 and every clause vanishes, so pinning \(u=q\) at such a \(q\) turns a refutation of the base plus \(U\) into one of the base plus \(u=q\), which the lemma rules out. Its hypotheses must hold: the block's forms have row-linear parts independent modulo constants on every row, and the board is robust at the refutation degree, as in prop:density-transfer (3). So the adaptive danger is approximate: most of \(\Phi\) in a few blocks' excluded sets, the remainder spread over the others. No such failure set was found.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on adaptive alignment: failure sets built after the prefixes so that most of their points lie in the excluded sets of a few blocks, with a thin remainder. Deterministic arguments over all prefixes cannot handle this case, because the worst kernel aligns with the failure set. A random-prefix argument has to bound the probability that some failure set aligns, and a union over all failure sets is too large; it needs a union over alignment types, or a stability version of single-block hardness.

Assessment of the route

The last seven entries made steady positive progress and each open case is smaller than the last; the present one has come back, in approximate form, to the member-level question that member pinning settles exactly. That is a sign the line is near its core difficulty rather than drifting. The assessment is qualitative.

Outside leads

Arithmetic removal lemmas (D. Král', O. Serra and L. Vena, A removal lemma for systems of linear equations over finite fields, Israel J. Math. 187 (2012) 193–207). A system with few solutions inside given sets can be made solution-free by removing few elements. Answers. A stability step: a failure set mostly inside one block's excluded set would become exactly inside after removing a small part, and member pinning would then apply. Test. Not run: failure sets are non-level sets of polynomials of degree \(D\), not solution sets of a linear system in a group, and removing points from a failure set does not keep it a failure set; the translation is not available.
Robust polynomial vanishing (the Schwartz–Zippel lemma and its robust forms, for example "almost vanishing implies vanishing" for low-degree polynomials on grids). Answers. If \(1-\Lambda\) vanishes on most of a block's allowed region, it should equal a function vanishing there, up to a low-degree correction. Test. Falsified in direct form: the correction is supported on the thin remainder, and a function supported on a thin, non-junta set has high degree, so the corrected \(\Lambda\) leaves degree \(D\).
Union over alignment types (the first-moment method with a union over types, as in the Kahn–Kalai and Park–Pham spread approach recorded in the Nullstellensatz review). Answers. An aligned failure set is determined, up to its thin remainder, by a block and a set \(S\) of about \(t\) of its forms, at most \(M\binom ht\le Mh^t\) types. If each type is covered with probability at most \((M3^{-t})^q\) for a number \(q\) of points of \(\Phi\) whose patterns are independent in every block, the union over types converges once \(q\) is of order \(t\). Test. Not run: it needs a lower bound on the number of pattern-independent points in a thin aligned failure set, which is the next step.

Absurd bridges

Clustering of solutions in random constraint problems (statistical physics; M. Mézard, G. Parisi and R. Zecchina, Analytic and algorithmic solution of random satisfiability problems, Science 297 (2002) 812–815). Translation: the allowed set after random kernels as a solution space, aligned failure sets as clusters. What a theorem there would give: in the clustered phase, exponentially many well-separated clusters, on which designs could be supported. Answers. Designs supported on clusters that avoid the aligned sets. Test. Falsified: the base, weak PHP, has no solutions, and designs are signed functionals over \(\mathbb F_3\), not measures on solutions.
Sharp thresholds from symmetry (coding theory; S. Kudekar, S. Kumar, M. Mondelli, H. D. Pfister, E. Şaşoğlu and R. Urbanke, Reed–Muller codes achieve capacity on erasure channels, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 63 (2017)). Translation: "the excluded set contains a failure set" is a monotone property; with a transitive symmetry group, the Friedgut–Kalai theorem gives a sharp threshold. What a theorem there would give: the covering probability jumps from 0 to 1 in a narrow window, and below it vanishes. Answers. A threshold statement for adaptive alignment. Test. Falsified: the excluded set is determined by an adversarial family, whose law has no transitive symmetry group.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge of an earlier review on this route is open.

Lead follow-up

Efron–Stein decomposition. Developed in the junta-residue classes entry: the localization is correct, but row-sum phases carry full top-order mass without any correlation, so the bound is too weak; the residue-class decomposition replaced it. Follow-up. Closed: superseded by the residue-class decomposition, which gives sharper statements.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): the union over alignment types. Show that a thin failure set aligned with a set \(S\) of forms of one block contains, on some junta-residue class, a set of \(q\ge c\,t\) points whose zero patterns are linearly independent over \(\mathbb F_3\) in every block (as points of a class with damped blocks should), so that random prefixes cover it with probability at most \((M3^{-t})^q\), and sum over the at most \(Mh^t\) alignment types.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:density-transfer, prop:junta-residue-classes, prop:relative-covering, lem:member-pinning and lem:uniform-prefix-vacuity. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the covering bounds, the verdicts, the structure and both follow-ups against the earlier reviews, and required two changes, both adopted: the single-block exclusion now states lem:member-pinning's hypotheses, and its mechanism is written out. On the second point the reviewer read member pinning as pinning to a zero of the forms; the lemma pins to a common zero of the constraint set, here the block's clauses, which vanish where all the forms are nonzero, so the pinning at nonzero values is the lemma's own case. Its tighter count \(Mh^t\) of alignment types was adopted.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	9 min 24.46 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	59.71 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	8 min 24.62 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Thinness equivalence: the spread results of the last cycles amount to one fact, that for all full-rank prefixes the excluded set is thin in every junta-residue class with many free columns; the planned union over alignment types fails, since covering an aligned set needs a pattern span, and the union bound over pattern spans does not converge for sets aligned with many forms; the open question sits at scales with few free columns, where the damping bounds give nothing

28 September 2026 · Working proof and a correction of framing · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-alignment-types. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Thinness equivalence: the spread results of the last cycles amount to one fact, that for all full-rank prefixes the excluded set is thin in every junta-residue class with many free columns; the planned union over alignment types fails, since covering an aligned set needs a pattern span, and the union bound over pattern spans does not converge for sets aligned with many forms; the open question sits at scales with few free columns, where the damping bounds give nothing”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-thinness-equivalence.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). The alignment review proposed a union over alignment types for thin failure sets aligned with the random kernels after the prefixes are drawn. Does it work, and what do the spread results of the preceding entries amount to?

General statement. prop:thinness-equivalence, for every family, all full-rank prefixes and every degree.

Setting

As in relative covering: \(\mathbb F_3\), the weak unary base \(B\) of collision-free 0/1 points with \(m=N+1\) pigeons, row values \(r_i\), W_RS blocks with zero patterns \(g_b\in\{0,1\}^{h_b}\), full-rank prefixes \(C_b\in\mathbb F_3^{t\times h_b}\), excluded sets \(E_b=\{g_b\ne0,\ C_bg_b=0\}\), \(E=\bigcup_bE_b\), and \(\kappa_b(w)=\max_V w\{g_b\in V\setminus0\}\) over subspaces \(V\) of codimension \(t\). Junta-residue classes \(Y=\{x_U=\sigma,\ r=\rho\}\) with \(d=|U|\) fixed columns are those of junta-residue classes.

prop:thinness-equivalence

Thinness. For every set \(Y\) with \(\Pr[Y]>0\) and all full-rank prefixes, \(\Pr_Y[E]\le\sum_b\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)\). Hence a failure set \(\Phi\subseteq E\) has \(\Pr_Y[\Phi]\le\sum_b\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)\) for every \(Y\).
Equivalence. The conclusions of prop:density-transfer (1), prop:junta-residue-classes (2), prop:cylinder-spread (2) and prop:junta-residue-spread (1) are instances of (1), density transfer (1) included, since a covered \(\Phi\) has \(\delta_Y=\Pr_Y[\Phi]\le\sum_b\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)\) directly: each bounds \(\sum_b\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)\) on its kind of set \(Y\) and concludes that no covered failure set fills \(Y\), or a fraction of \(Y\) above that sum. None of them uses the failure set beyond its density in \(Y\). The parts that look at the failure set itself are prop:density-transfer (2) and (3) and prop:junta-residue-spread (4).
Pattern spans. For a set \(\Phi\) let \(W_b(\Phi)=\operatorname{span}\{g_b(x):x\in\Phi\}\), of dimension \(w\). Then \(\Phi\subseteq E_b\) implies \(W_b(\Phi)\subseteq\ker C_b\), so \(w\le h_b-t\). For a uniform full-rank \(C_b\) and a fixed \(W\) of dimension \(w\le h_b-t\), \(\Pr[W\subseteq\ker C_b]\ge0.56\cdot3^{-tw}\), and at least \(2^{w(h_b-w)}\) subspaces of dimension \(w\) are spanned by 0/1 vectors. So the first-moment sum over possible pattern spans of one block is at least \(0.56\cdot2^{w(h_b-w-t\log_23)}\), which is at least \(0.56\) whenever \(h_b-w\ge t\log_23\) and grows exponentially in \(w\) beyond that; over the \(M\ge2\) blocks the sum exceeds 1. A set aligned with a set \(S\) of the block's forms (all nonzero on it) has \(g_{b,j}=0\) for \(j\in S\), so \(w\le h_b-|S|\). Hence for sets aligned with at least \(1.59t\) forms a union bound over pattern spans cannot show that they stay uncovered.
Damping scale. The spread bounds bound \(\kappa_b\) by \((2/3)^t\) plus \(3^{h_b/2}\) times a bias bound, which on a single class is at least the damping \(\varepsilon_b^{(d)}\) away from the \(d\) fixed columns. Even the damping \((m+1)^{-(N-d)/4}\) of prop:junta-residue-spread (2) makes that product small only when \(N-d>2\ln3\,h_b/\ln(m+1)\), about \(2.2N/\ln N\) free columns at \(h_b=N\).

Proof. (1) \(\Pr_Y[E_b]=\Pr_Y[g_b\in\ker C_b\setminus0]\le\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)\), since \(\ker C_b\) has codimension \(t\); sum over \(b\). If \(\Phi\subseteq E\), then \(\Pr_Y[\Phi]\le\Pr_Y[E]\). (2) Each cited statement shows \(\sum_b\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)<1\) (classes, cylinders, junta-residue sets) or \(<\delta_Y\) (density transfer (1)); by (1), a covered \(\Phi\) then does not contain \(Y\), or has density below \(\delta_Y\) in it, which are their conclusions. Relative covering with the uniform weight on \(\Phi\cap Y\) gives the same inequality, since \(\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_{\Phi\cap Y})\le\kappa_b(\mathrm{unif}_Y)/\Pr_Y[\Phi]\). (3) \(E_b=\{g_b\ne0\}\cap g_b^{-1}(\ker C_b)\), so \(\Phi\subseteq E_b\) puts every pattern, hence their span, in \(\ker C_b\), of dimension \(h_b-t\). The kernel of a uniform full-rank \(C_b\) is uniform among subspaces of dimension \(h_b-t\), and \(W\) lies in it with probability \(\binom{h_b-w}{t}_3/\binom{h_b}{t}_3=\prod_{i<t}(3^{h_b-w-i}-1)/(3^{h_b-i}-1)\ge3^{-tw}\prod_{j\ge1}(1-3^{-j})\ge0.56\cdot3^{-tw}\), using \(h_b-w-i\ge1\). The row spaces of \([I_w\mid A]\) with \(A\in\{0,1\}^{w\times(h_b-w)}\) are distinct (reduced echelon form) and spanned by 0/1 vectors. (4) The requirement \(3^{h_b/2}(m+1)^{-(N-d)/4}<1\) is the displayed inequality. \(\square\)

What it means

A correction of framing. The entries from relative covering to density transfer are correct, but their positive content about the Nullstellensatz half is one fact: for all full-rank prefixes, \(E\) is thin in every junta-residue class with many free columns. They were described as reducing the Nullstellensatz half step by step; they identify the scale at which it lives. Exact alignment (prop:density-transfer (3), through lem:member-pinning) is the one part that says something about failure sets themselves.
The union over alignment types. A random prefix covers a fixed aligned set with probability about \(M3^{-t}\), but the refuter chooses \(\Lambda\) after the prefixes. A union over the at most \(Mh^t\) types needs, for each type, a fixed set of points lying in every failure set of that type; no such family is known, and by (3) the union over what covering actually depends on, the pattern spans, does not converge for sets aligned with at least \(1.59t\) forms. Closed.
Where the question lives. Every degree-\(D\) failure set meets the support of every degree-\(D\) point design (prop:sparse-failure-sets (1)): a design \(\nu\) with \(\nu(1)=1\) vanishes on \(\Lambda\), which lies in the degree-\(D\) span of the base, so \(\nu\) cannot be supported where \(\Lambda=1\). The restricted matching designs \(\nu_\rho\) of prop:sparse-failure-sets (5) exist for \(|\rho|\) up to \(N-2D+1\), with \(D=22t=\Theta(\log n)\), and are supported where the \(|\rho|\) columns of \(\rho\) are fixed, leaving \(N-|\rho|\) free columns, as few as \(2D-1\). By (4), the damping bounds give nothing at fewer than about \(2.2N/\ln N\) free columns. So the recorded spread results do not touch the constraints these designs impose, and whether \(E\) contains a failure set is decided, as far as the record's tools go, by \(E\) on sub-boards of few free columns, where each block acts through its forms restricted to those columns. There the record's tool is the pullback of sub-family row freeness, which stops at joint capacity (A1 subset review).

Outcome. prop:thinness-equivalence (working proof and correction of framing): the spread results amount to thinness of the excluded set, for all prefixes, at scales with many free columns; the union over alignment types fails; and the remaining question sits at scales with few free columns, where the damping bounds give nothing. The lead of the alignment review is closed by (3).

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): a route review of A1 with this assessment. The Nullstellensatz half for dense families beyond capacity lives at few free columns, the certificate half is open, and the window route S1 reduces to W. The review should look for a mechanism that works at few free columns, for instance designs that combine many restricted matching designs \(\nu_\rho\) so that a signed sum avoids the excluded set, and weigh it against the other open statements.

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:relative-covering, prop:cylinder-spread, prop:junta-residue-spread, prop:junta-residue-classes, prop:density-transfer and prop:sparse-failure-sets from their registered statements. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the union bound, the classification in (2), the kernel probability and its constant, the count of 0/1-spanned subspaces, the damping arithmetic and the design-support ranges, and required four changes, all adopted: the alignment step \(w\le h_b-|S|\) is now proved, the non-convergence is stated through the sum over blocks and the growth beyond the threshold rather than the constant 0.56, the design-support fact is indexed by degree and proved, and density transfer (1) is shown to be a direct instance of (1).

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	14 min 9.91 s
Marked reading and review windows	1 min 55.59 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 37.83 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	7 min 36.35 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Route review after thinness equivalence: the point-design Nullstellensatz line of A1 cannot close by density or spread, since clauses of degree at most the refutation degree make failure sets thinner than the excluded set, and at few free columns it meets the joint-capacity barrier; the local designs recorded earlier the same day bypass the union of excluded sets and are the lead to develop

28 September 2026 · Route review · open statement A1 · cycle odd-prime-few-columns-review. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Route review after thinness equivalence: the point-design Nullstellensatz line of A1 cannot close by density or spread, since clauses of degree at most the refutation degree make failure sets thinner than the excluded set, and at few free columns it meets the joint-capacity barrier; the local designs recorded earlier the same day bypass the union of excluded sets and are the lead to develop”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 28 September 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-09-28-few-columns-review.

Question. Route item: odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk). Thinness equivalence showed that the spread results of the Nullstellensatz line amount to thinness of the excluded set at many free columns, and that the open question sits at few free columns. Is there a mechanism there, and is this line still the right way to A1?

The line's general claim

For random dense families (and then all families), weak unary PHP has a degree-\(D\) point design supported on the allowed set of the W_RS clauses: no degree-\(D\) failure set lies inside the excluded set \(E=\bigcup_bE_b\) (prop:failure-set-criterion), for random prefixes with high probability, or for all full-rank prefixes.

What the goal needs

W, or W_RS, for all families: no PC refutation of degree \(22k\) of the base plus the clauses. A point design on the allowed set is a sufficient condition for Nullstellensatz hardness (prop:failure-set-criterion), and the recorded certificate routes (conj:lagged-lift-subset, the Taylor form) start from one. The exact Nullstellensatz condition is weaker: a local design, a functional that agrees on each clause set's allowed set with a measure there (local design criterion).

Falsification attempt

Build a failure set inside \(E\) at few free columns for a random dense family. The refuter would fix a partial matching \(\rho\) and try to put the whole slice of \(\rho\) inside one block's excluded set. That needs the block's prefix forms nonzero and some other form zero on the whole slice, but a dense form restricted to a slice of \(s\) free columns keeps a nonzero linear part on the \(s(s+1)\) free cells unless its \(s(s+1)\) random coefficients there all vanish, which happens with probability \(3^{-s(s+1)}\). So one block cannot absorb a slice. Covering the slice by several blocks is easy for any one design: by lem:design-support-bound, a design fixed before the prefixes has at least \(2^{D-1}\) support points and meets about \(2^{D-1}3^{-t}\) points of each block's excluded set. But a failure set has to meet the support of every design, and no construction making a union of kernel preimages do this was found. The claim was not falsified.

Obstacle

The line is stuck on the structure of failure sets inside a union of kernel preimages at few free columns. It cannot be closed by density: the clauses have degree \(2k+2\) (\(4t+2\) with matrix prefixes) at most the refutation degree \(D\), so the failure sets range down to the thinness of the clauses' own excluded sets, below the density of \(E\) (prop:sparse-failure-sets (3) and (4)). It cannot be closed by spread or avoidance either: the damping bounds give nothing below about \(2.2N/\ln N\) free columns (prop:thinness-equivalence (4)), and a design fixed before the prefixes meets the excluded sets (lem:design-support-bound). What remains is structure, and the one structural tool, pinning, is exact for one block (prop:density-transfer (3)) and for sub-families within joint capacity (sub-family row freeness) and stops there.

Assessment of the route

The point-design line made correct progress on large scales but, as the thinness equivalence shows, not on the core implication: every positive result is a density statement, and density cannot decide it. The line has reached the capacity barrier that the A1 subset review identified by another path. The point design is also stronger than what W needs, so a failure set inside \(E\) that needs many blocks to cover it would kill this line without touching W. The assessment is qualitative: the line should stop refining point designs and return to local designs, which ask only for per-block representability of a common functional.

Outside leads

Local designs (prop:local-design-criterion, named in the record and not followed on this line; in the Sherali–Adams tradition of consistent local distributions). The exact Nullstellensatz dual of the base plus the closed members is a functional \(\mu\) with \(\mu(1)=1\), killing the row terms, and agreeing through degree \(D\) with a measure on each member's allowed set. Answers. It removes the union: with the members taken to be the single blocks, a thin failure set inside \(\bigcup_bE_b\) is no obstruction, since \(\mu\) needs to look like a measure only on each \(P_b=B\setminus E_b\) separately, where one-block pinning works. The remaining condition is compatibility: a common \(\mu\) whose degree-\(D\) moments are representable on every \(P_b\), that is, killing every degree-\(\le D\) function supported inside one block's excluded set. Test. Passed: with single blocks as members, the maximal-member collapse does not apply, since it needs a member that is a maximal satisfiable clause set and single blocks are not maximal once pairs of blocks are jointly satisfiable, as for random prefixes, where each point lies in a given \(E_b\) with probability at most \(3^{-t}\) (prop:sparse-failure-sets (6)), so two excluded sets cover in expectation at most a \(2\cdot3^{-t}\) fraction; a point design on \(\bigcap_bP_b\) is a special case, and a restricted matching design \(\nu_\rho\) is representable on \(P_b\) exactly when its trace on \(E_b\) is orthogonal to the functions of degree \(\le D\) supported in \(E_b\), which holds in particular when its support avoids \(E_b\); nothing recorded rules out a \(\rho\) with this property for all blocks.
Hypergraph containers (J. Balogh, R. Morris and W. Samotij, Independent sets in hypergraphs, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (2015) 669–709; D. Saxton and A. Thomason, Hypergraph containers, Invent. Math. 201 (2015) 925–992). Every independent set has a small fingerprint determining a container. Answers. Replace the union over adaptively chosen failure sets by a union over few fingerprints, each covered with probability \((M3^{-t})^{f}\). Test. Falsified in direct form: a fingerprint is a set of points, and a point of a slice with \(s\ge2D-1\) free columns costs more than \(\log_3(3^t/M)\) trits to name, so the union over fingerprints diverges as in prop:thinness-equivalence (3).
Reed–Muller codes on random erasures (E. Abbe, A. Shpilka and A. Wigderson, Reed–Muller codes for random erasures and errors, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 61 (2015) 5229–5252). Low-degree Reed–Muller codes correct random erasure patterns of density up to nearly one minus the rate. Answers. A failure set inside \(E\) is a codeword of \(\operatorname{span}(1)+I_D|_B\) with nonzero constant part supported on \(E\); if \(E\) behaved like a random erasure pattern of density \(M3^{-t}\), no such codeword would exist. Test. Falsified in direct form: \(E\) is block-correlated, and \(\Pr[\Phi\subseteq E_b]\ge0.56\cdot3^{-tw_b(\Phi)}\) depends on the pattern span, not on \(|\Phi|\) (prop:thinness-equivalence (3)), so the erasure-capacity first moment does not apply.

Absurd bridges

The union lemma for correctable regions (quantum error correction; S. Bravyi, D. Poulin and B. Terhal, Tradeoffs for reliable quantum information storage in 2D systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (2010) 050503). Translation: designs as logical operators, the row terms as stabilizer generators, \(E_b\) as a region, and "no failure set inside \(E_b\)" as correctability of the region. What a theorem there gives: two correctable regions that no stabilizer generator touches jointly have a correctable union. Answers. Glue single-block hardness, proved by pinning, into hardness for \(\bigcup_bE_b\). Test. Falsified in direct form: the generators \(x_T(r_i-1)\) with \(|T|\le D-1\) have supports \(\{x\supseteq T\}\) that meet every excluded set of positive density, so no two blocks are separated. The lemma's separation hypothesis is the analogue of the record's Tor vanishing, not a substitute for it.
Discrete tomography (R. J. Gardner and P. Gritzmann, Discrete tomography: determination of finite sets by X-rays, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997) 2271–2295; the Gale–Ryser theorem for prescribed marginals). Translation: a local design prescribes the degree-\(D\) "projections" of a measure, and each block asks for a measure with those projections inside \(P_b\). What a theorem there gives: feasibility criteria for sets or measures with prescribed low-order marginals inside a region. Answers. Per-block representability of a common functional as a marginal-feasibility problem. Test. Falsified: the tomographic criteria rest on nonnegativity (flows, majorization), and \(\mathbb F_3\)-valued measures have no sign constraints, so feasibility reduces to the linear algebra of prop:local-design-criterion and the translation adds nothing.

Bridge follow-up

No passed bridge of an earlier review on this route is open.

Lead follow-up

No passed lead of an earlier review on this route is open; the union over alignment types was closed in thinness equivalence.

Next step

On odd-prime-clause-transfer, open statement A1 (highest risk): develop local designs with the single blocks as members. For a random dense family, choose the partial matching \(\rho\) after the prefixes and decide whether the restricted matching design \(\nu_\rho\) is representable on every \(P_b\), that is, whether \(\nu_\rho\) kills every function of degree \(\le D\) supported inside one block's excluded set; start with the clause multiples \(a\,C\), \(\deg a\le D-\deg C\), whose values \(\nu_\rho(aC)\) are determined by the trace of \(\nu_\rho\) on \(E_b\).

Verification gate

Verification gate. Re-read prop:thinness-equivalence, prop:failure-set-criterion, prop:local-design-criterion with its entry, prop:maximal-member-collapse, prop:closed-member-row-condition, lem:design-support-bound and prop:sparse-failure-sets. Claim searches for design supports, dual functionals off the allowed set and unions of correctable sets found lem:design-support-bound and prop:local-design-criterion and nothing on unions. No computation was run. A fresh-context reviewer checked the obstacle, the assessment, the passed lead against the full maximal-member-collapse entry, the four falsifications and the falsification attempt, and found every verdict sound; it asked for two citation fixes, both adopted: the density sentence now cites prop:sparse-failure-sets (3) and (4), with lem:design-support-bound moved to the avoidance clause, and the joint satisfiability of pairs is justified. It also noted that a smaller cover is a weaker set of constraints, so the collapse for all satisfiable clause sets never excludes local designs for single blocks.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	17 min 35.44 s
Marked reading and review windows	8 min 22.41 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	2 min 37.54 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	6 min 35.35 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	0.14 s

Through final snapshot; overlapping time counted once.

Queue audit: 60 closed leads and bridges reopened, 23 ideas of older reviews queued, and the lead and bridge queue created

3 October 2026 · Audit · every passed lead and bridge of the record · cycle odd-prime-queue-audit. Produced by Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5, high).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Queue audit: 60 closed leads and bridges reopened, 23 ideas of older reviews queued, and the lead and bridge queue created”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 3 October 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-10-03-queue-audit.

Question. The thread predates the lead and bridge queue and the squeeze rule (AGENTS.md, user, 3 October 2026: squeeze an item until it can produce nothing more; close it only for a reason the attempt found). Which of its 162 passed Outside leads and Absurd bridges were closed before they were squeezed, and which ideas did its 91 reviews without the standard sections list that no later entry exhausted? The user's standard: "I don't want any idea lost or closed prematurely"; when unsure, queue it.

Method. Packets (research/tools/opr_queue_audit_packets.py) give each passed item its text and every later follow-up naming it. Five readers judged batches of about 33 items against a written bar (BAR.md), opening each closing entry; two more read the older reviews for leads and bridges outside the standard sections and searched later entries for their development. A stricter second pass rechecked every verdict that a closure was proper, opening the closing entry and every cited source. Sixteen leads share their id with a bridge of the same review, and their first second-pass packets held that bridge's text; they were rechecked with the right packets (second-verdicts-3.jsonl). The older ideas judged exhausted were rechecked the same way (7 of 7 confirmed, second-verdicts-older.jsonl). Final verdicts: the second pass's where it ran, otherwise the first's; reopen and undecided items are queued. All verdicts, with reasons and the anchors opened, are in research/results/opr-20261003-queue-audit/ (final.json, built by research/tools/opr_queue_audit_entry.py).

Outcome. Of 162 passed items: 40 reopened, 21 undecided and queued, 101 kept closed. The first pass judged 108 closures proper; the second pass overturned 7 of them. The older reviews list 35 ideas: 23 newly queued, 5 already carried by a queued standard item, 7 exhausted by later entries. 1 item(s) were never closed and are queued as they stand.

Reopened

entry-2026-09-25-universality-review:1 (lead), Quadratic Littlewood–Offord inverse theorems, for the universality proof: Proposed for A3's main term, retargeted in the random-core review to W_RS, where randomness sits in the prefixes and anti-concentration could apply to fixed forms. It never received any work: every follow-up says 'No work', and it was closed only as 'parked with the randomized-prefix line', which is not a reason found by an attempt. W_RS is still listed as a sufficient weakening of W, and the wood-codes entry (2026-09-27) shows the missing step is exactly cancellation of a quadratic Gauss-sum sign over the prefix entries, a quadratic Littlewood-Offord-type question. Next: Apply the Kwan-Sauermann and Kwan quadratic anti-concentration results, adapted to F_3, to the signed sum in lem:prefix-signature-formula: bound the bias of chi(u Pi_b) as a quadratic form in the first prefix row averaged over the other rows, and test whether it beats the termwise bound by 3^{h_b/2}M on small adversarial blocks. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-25-universality-review:3 (lead), Gauss sums for the two-layer structure: The lead's own 'where it breaks' is cancellation of discriminant signs across l', yet it was closed at its first usable result, lem:gauss-sum-killer-bound, whose limit (vacuity above arank about 0.71mN) is that of a modulus/Jensen bound and says nothing about sign cancellation. lem:conditional-gauss-sum-barrier states 'cancellation over l or across characters is not excluded', and lem:prefix-signature-formula's entry names 'a sign-equidistribution statement for discriminants of prefix matrices' as the missing step for W_RS. The idea is live, in the exact form this lead proposed. Next: Attack the sign sum E_{c>=2}[eta(disc A_s)(i/sqrt3)^rank A_s] of lem:prefix-signature-formula directly: compute the joint law of (rank, disc) of prefix matrices for small h_b, t on recorded dense-core families and test whether the signed sum beats the termwise bound by the required factor about 3^{h_b/2} M. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (second pass).
entry-2026-09-25-universality-review:1 (bridge), Unitary designs from local random quantum circuits: The recursion review formulated the mechanism (kernel moments as products of per-column transfer operators) and set the next step: compute the second-moment operator and its gap. That computation was never done; the killer-moment review closed it with a one-line structural remark (a product top is a sum over column subsets, not a product of local gates) that sits uneasily with the recursion review's own factorization, and with wood-codes, where independent blocks give exactly a product of per-block kill probabilities. Its target, random product tops, is off W's instances per the random-core review, so relevance is unclear. Next: Compute the second-moment transfer operator over independent units (product-top columns, or W_RS prefix blocks as in lem:block-conditioned-moment) at small m,N and check for a uniform spectral gap; or show precisely why the factorization fails. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-25-universality-review:2 (bridge), The cavity method and the Aizenman–Sims–Starr scheme: The recursion review closed it by comparing one paper's first-order conclusion (min(Br,D)-o(D)) with A3's exact directness and with 'the recorded check', which is evidence, not a reason. The bridge's translation (one top at a time, a perturbation suppressing short relations as the analogue of conditioning away divided-power collapse) was not tested; the same cavity/interpolation programme has exact full-rank results for sparse random matrices (e.g. 'The full rank condition for sparse random matrices'), which the closure did not consider. One formulation only. Next: Read the exact full-rank results of the Coja-Oghlan et al. programme and check their hypotheses (row independence, sparsity, short-relation perturbation) against the block-image matrix of random product tops; if the rows fit after conditioning on the spread event, state the exact directness consequence. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (second pass).
entry-2026-09-25-binomial-route-review:1 (lead), Regularity of subspace arrangements (Derksen and Sidman, "A sharp bound for the Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity of subspace arrangements", Adv: Closed in the expander-core review without a new attempt, restating the lead's own pre-stated obstacle: Derksen-Sidman's bound (regularity at most the number of components) exceeds the degree budget for dense blocks. That rules out the one bound, not the idea; the passed test showed the member's ideal has low-degree generators despite many components, and generation degree of block ideals still bears on Tor vanishing and local designs. Next: Compute the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and generation degree of a dense-core block's allowed-set ideal (with Boolean base) against k at small sizes, and look for sharper arrangement bounds than the component count, e.g. for arrangements with few distinct linear spans. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-25-closure-route-review:1 (lead), Dade's lemma and Carlson's rank varieties (Dade, Ann: Closed only because the closure route was parked after column forms were proved by freezing; no attempt applied Dade's lemma or rank varieties beyond u=1. Parking is not a found reason, and row freeness on the allowed set (conj:closed-row-freeness, thm:global-closure-gluing) is again a listed sufficient condition for W, needed precisely for dense non-column forms. Next: Apply Dade's criterion to A_e for at least two rows: compute Jordan types of A_e restricted to shifted cyclic subgroups (generic and special) for dense non-column W-like members, and try to prove freeness of the top-lift subset via a trivial rank variety. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-25-closure-route-review:3 (lead), Mayer's homology of \(p\)-complexes and Spanier's comparison (Mayer, Ann: Closed only by parking of the closure route; the test passed with a small caveat (the e=0 discrepancy at the edge of range) and no attempt was made at a coefficient-system version of Spanier's comparison. Reducing freeness of A_e to acyclicity of an ordinary signed complex bears directly on row freeness in W. Next: Extend the vanishing_tops comparison beyond the computed range to resolve the e=0 discrepancy, then attempt a Spanier-type comparison for the coefficient system (A_e, delta) on the hole-set lattice, calibrated first on column forms where row freeness is proved. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-25-hole-splitting-review:2 (lead), \(\pi\)-points and generic Jordan types for truncated polynomial algebras (Friedlander and Pevtsova, "\(\Pi\)-supports for modules for finite group schemes", Du: Closed only because the closure route was parked. The passed test (freeness not special to the symmetric operator) feeds the rank-variety detection of freeness, which the Kotani follow-up names as the remaining tool; row freeness is again a listed sufficient condition for W. Next: Use pi-point and generic Jordan type detection to test freeness of A_e for dense non-column members at larger N and higher degree, and try to prove freeness at a generic pi-point and transfer it to r via Friedlander-Pevtsova support theory. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-25-hole-splitting-review:2 (bridge), Phase transitions in statistical mechanics: The recursion review answered the density question in the seeded regime (thm:seeded-closure-stability holds for every allowed set) and moved the order parameter to coset distance. But conj:closed-row-freeness still carries a density hypothesis of one half outside the seeded regime, and the coset-distance lead was later closed by line-abandonment; whether a transition exists for unseeded dense members is not settled. Next: Test row freeness of unseeded dense non-column members at density well below one half at the largest reachable N, or derive the density hypothesis's role in conj:closed-row-freeness from the coset-distance parameter. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-recursion-review:1 (lead), Exponential sums for point counts (the character-sum method behind the theorems of Ax, 1964, and Katz, 1971, on \(p\)-divisibility of point counts), for conj:fr: Closed only because conj:free-hole-good belongs to the parked closure line; the character-sum reduction to coset distance was a real positive finding, and the guessed threshold 2e-1 was never tested. Its content overlaps the coset-leaders bridge; whether fiber uniformity still matters for row freeness of adversarial forms is unclear from the record. Next: Test the threshold 'unequal tops iff coset distance at most 2e-1' at e=3, and check whether failures of row freeness for adversarial forms coincide with small coset distance. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-recursion-review:2 (lead), Vertex decomposability (Provan and Billera, Math: Closed by parking of the closure line; the analogy's own break (deletion changes the slice value) and the recorded second-level thinning already limited it, and the recursion review judged the good-column recursion weak. No found reason closes it, but its bearing on current open statements is doubtful. Next: Decide whether a shedding order exists for the top-lift subset of conj:lagged-lift-subset, where deletion might not change the slice value. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-recursion-review:2 (bridge), Coset leaders of linear codes (the covering radius; MacWilliams and Sloane, ch: Never worked on after the review; the chooser review closed it because only the good-column recursion used fiber uniformity, i.e. the line was left. That is not a reason found by an attempt, and the bridge's content, which adversarial form families put the all-ones vector at small coset distance and so break uniformity, is a concrete characterisation of adversarial forms bearing on A1 and row freeness; the threshold 2e-1 remains untested. Next: Run the e=3 test of the coset-distance threshold and use covering-radius and coset weight distributions to bound how many blocks of a family can have small coset distance. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review:1 (lead), Min-wise independent permutations and consistent sampling (Broder, Charikar, Frieze and Mitzenmacher, J: Closed because the chooser rules it analysed were superseded by the restriction choice of thm:cell-family-w, which covers cell and structured families only. The finding itself, top-k agreement of random priority on overlapping blocks about Jaccard^k, bears directly on W_RS, where early cross falls conjecturally need a shared piece that is rare under random prefixes. Next: Use the min-wise and consistent-sampling bound to estimate the probability that two overlapping dense-core blocks share a prefix piece under random prefixes, and feed it into the shared-pieces count for randomized Taylor glue. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review-2:3 (lead), Counting principles modulo \(p\) (Beame and Riis, 1998), for the counting refutations that forced holes allow: Closed because restriction choices leave no implications, so counting has nothing to refute. That covers restriction-built choices, but not the dense core or W_RS random prefixes, where the original simulation (uniform order) showed forced holes below about 2 ln n; W's k exceeds that, but the record does not check forcing for dense-core blocks under random prefixes. Next: Check whether dense-core blocks under random prefixes create occupancy implications, and rerun the forced-fraction simulation for such families at W's k. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review-2:1 (bridge), Epidemic thresholds and directed percolation (Kermack–McKendrick; Broadbent and Hammersley): Closed for the same reason as the Beame-Riis lead: the restriction choice leaves no implication, so the threshold question lost its object. That holds for restriction choices only; for random prefixes on dense blocks the threshold near c ln n is untested against W's k = 2.5(K+1) log n. Next: Measure forced-occupancy spread for dense-core families under random prefixes and compare the threshold with 2.5(K+1) log n. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-3:2 (lead), The record's closure route (conj:closed-row-freeness), which was motivated by column forms: Closed as 'parked, not needed while the expander core is open'. The expander-core line has since been blocked (spiders), and the current W statement again names row freeness on the allowed set as a sufficient condition, with the Koszul condition for dense non-column forms exactly the dense-core case. No attempt found a reason against it. Next: Test the Koszul and row-freeness condition of thm:global-closure-gluing for dense non-column members (random and adversarial) at the largest reachable N, and attempt it for the top-lift subset of conj:lagged-lift-subset. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-expander-core-review:1 (lead), The Mikša–Nordström closure operator (arXiv:1505.01358, Theorem 3.8 and Lemma 3.15), as the gluing base: The mn-operator entry proved a framework obstruction (unforced clusters empty the boundary), but its application to W's dense blocks is explicitly conditional on an unproved unforced hypothesis, and auxiliary-variable encodings with narrow summary clusters are explicitly not covered. The closure is itself conditional and states the operator remains the thread's base with restriction, so it still bears on A1 and W_RS. Next: Decide the unforced hypothesis for dense-core blocks against the expander variable sets (pigeon and hole neighbourhoods), and try an auxiliary-variable encoding of a dense block with defining clauses in E and narrow summary clusters, which prop:dense-blocks-outside-mn-framework does not cover. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-dense-core-review:1 (bridge), The renormalization group (Kadanoff's block spins, Wilson): The flow is proved block by block (swap decay). The bridge was closed only because 'the line lacks a global mechanism'. That is not a reason the attempt found, and the universality step, from adversarial dense blocks to a semi-random residual, was never attempted. The current A1 next step uses a partial matching rho drawn after the prefixes and a restricted matching design nu_rho, which is exactly the coarse-graining step this bridge models. A1 also points random tops to A3-type Taylor conditions, which a semi-random reduction would feed. Next: Combine cor:dense-shift-equidistribution with the few-columns next step. For rho drawn after the prefixes, state the semi-random residual (residual linear parts with independent uniform shifts) and decide whether nu_rho kills every degree-at-most-D function supported in one shifted block's excluded set. First check whether uniform constant shifts affect anything at the level of A3's top conditions. If the tops are shift-independent, close as inapplicable. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-conditioning-review:2 (lead), Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer, "Sum of squares lower bounds for refuting any CSP" (STOC 2017): The SoS-lead entry was a three-minute assessment without re-reading the paper. It closed the lead because cube-variable expansion, harmless linear structure and positivity fail on dense blocks. It examined only the absorption of n^K constraints through expansion. It did not examine the later use that the tests had already supplied: t-wise uniform measures on a W clause's allowed patterns (found by exact LP for k=3,4,5). Measures on each block's allowed set are exactly the local designs of prop:local-design-criterion, which A1 now names as the route beyond capacity. Next: Read KMOW's planted-distribution construction in full. Test whether F_3-valued t-wise uniform measures on a block's allowed set (from the recorded LP, reduced mod 3 where 3-integral) can serve as the per-block measures of prop:local-design-criterion, agreeing up to degree D with a weak-PHP design functional. Do this at the smallest size where the few-columns review's nu_rho test is run. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-conditioning-review:1 (bridge), The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion (statistical mechanics): It was closed because 'its smallness surrogate, the integrality line, is parked'. The integrality line, in turn, was parked (lem:auxiliary-bit-relaxation) for lack of 'a characteristic-0 many-block mechanism', which is precisely what this bridge proposes. The closure is circular and no reason was found by an attempt. lem:auxiliary-bit-relaxation makes a 3-integral char-0 design of PHP plus encoded blocks reduce, block by block, to an F_3 design. The 3-integrality of a cluster expansion was recorded as untested and never tested. Next: Build the rational cluster expansion around the integral PHP design (thm:integral-design-extension) for weak PHP plus a few aux-bit-encoded dense blocks, with each block a polymer, and check the Kotecky–Preiss criterion. Then test at the smallest informative size (6 pigeons, NS degree 3, one or two encoded blocks) whether the truncated cluster sums are 3-integral and reduce to an F_3 design. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-conditioning-review:2 (bridge), \(\mathbb Z_3\) lattice gauge theory: Gauss's law and superselection sectors: It was closed because the only passed test was tautological at q=1 and the analogy 'predicts nothing beyond'. That is a one-step remark: the multi-sector analogue predicts a checkable condition, sparse conditioning for q at least 2 equations iff every nonzero combination is non-confined, and this was never tested. Its relevance to the current open statements is unclear, because conditioning is capped at about n/10 blocks and the n^K-sector statement may just restate A1. Next: Test the multi-charge prediction at small boards: for q=2,3 equations, check whether the doubled-permanent condition fails exactly when some nonzero F_3-combination is confined. Then decide whether a topological-order local-indistinguishability theorem gives anything for n^K sectors beyond restating A1. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-randomized-review:1 (lead), Kothari, Mori, O'Donnell and Witmer's \(t\)-wise uniformity criterion , applied to randomized blocks: It was carried as Continuing for four reviews and then closed by the same SoS-lead assessment. The paper was not re-read, and only expansion-based absorption in cube variables was examined. The test found pairwise-uniform distributions on the allowed value vectors of randomized blocks. Under W_RS these are candidate per-block measures for local designs, and the A1 next step is set exactly in W_RS (rho chosen after the prefixes). Next: For random C_b with t=2,3 at small h, compute F_3-valued (or 3-integral) t-wise uniform measures on each block's allowed set. Test whether they extend to a local design in the sense of prop:local-design-criterion together with the weak-PHP matching design, starting with a single block and then two blocks sharing linear parts. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-random-core-review:1 (lead), Absolute irreducibility of outer tensor products over finite groups (Curtis–Reiner, Methods of Representation Theory I, §10): It was closed with no work because the random-form line was parked, which is not a reason an attempt found. The test (MeatAxe absolute irreducibility at five parameter sets) passed. The break, Nenashev's generic-tuple step having no analogue for F_3-points, was never attacked. The current A3 status cites generic directness for random tops, and A1 needs A3-type Taylor conditions for random tops, so a rational (F_3-point) directness statement still bears on open statements. Next: Use the verified absolute irreducibility of the modules A_j (tilde) under G(F_3) to replace the generic-tuple step. Try a G(F_3)-orbit argument showing that the directness minor's nonvanishing set meets a constant fraction of F_3-points, and check it exactly for z=2 tops at (m,N)=(2,4),(2,5). Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-random-core-review:1 (bridge), Pólya–Burnside isomer counting from chemistry: It was closed with no work because it serves the parked random-form line. Its test showed that two-top orbit types (171 atom types) are polynomially many, which would reduce the rational two-top directness question to type densities. Its value depends on whether rational directness for random tops (reopened in the absolute-irreducibility item) is pursued. The record does not decide this. Next: Use the 171 GL_2(3) atom types to compute the exact directness bad fraction for m=2 pairs over orbit representatives at small N, as a test of the rational directness item. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-peeling-review:1 (lead), Beame and Riis's designs (DIMACS Series 39, 1998, Definition 8.2 and Lemma 8.3) for conj:occupancy-pinned-php: It was closed because it serves the parked conj:occupancy-pinned-php. Parking is not a reason an attempt found, and the closed-routes review again lists Beame–Riis designs as a possible F_3 design source, test not run. The onto-PHP conjecture feeds occupancy and type pinning (dense review) for A1 under W_RS. The chain residual may already cover column-statistic families, and the record does not show whether the conjecture is still needed. Next: First decide whether the chain residual theorem supersedes conj:occupancy-pinned-php for the type-pinning step. If it does not, read Beame–Riis Definition 8.2 and Lemma 8.3 in full and build the multiplier-degree design at 8x5 that the peeling review's recorded next step names. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-peeling-review:1 (bridge), 3-adic analysis: It was closed because it serves only the parked occupancy conjecture, which is not a reason an attempt found. Its Lucas-congruence test passed and predicts that counting refutations of onto weak PHP at imbalance 3^S need high degree. It matters only if conj:occupancy-pinned-php is still needed (see the Beame–Riis item). Lucas multipliers are also recorded as staying pointwise (colon multipliers). Next: Once the occupancy conjecture's necessity is settled, test the 3-adic prediction: an onto system at imbalance 9 is unrefuted at every degree below 9 on a size where degree 4-5 is computable. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-dag-review:2 (bridge), Modular representation theory: the Brauer quotient (Brauer; Broué's \(p\)-permutation modules): The Brauer-count entry states 'The bridge is refuted for arbitrary invariant axiom sets and untested on W families' and leaves open 'whether W's clauses can force orbit equalities' and whether sigma-stable prefix sets exist; it moved on because 'No mechanism for either is in view'. The counterexample uses the orbit-equality family E, which is not a W family, so it falsifies one formulation only. Next: Work out the case the entry flagged: whether prefix clauses g_i prod L_j^2 of a sigma-invariant W family can derive orbit equalities at low degree, starting with a block of copies of x_e - x_{sigma e}, and whether sigma-stable blocks admit sigma-stable prefix sets of size k. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (second pass).
entry-2026-09-26-integrality-review:1 (bridge), Integer solvability of linear systems: the Smith normal form (Heger's theorem), as used in integer programming: It was closed only because the integrality line is parked, which is not a reason an attempt found. For plain PHP its question, integrality beyond the connectivity range, does not matter at degree 22k=Theta(log n), which is within floor((n+1)/2), where thm:integral-design-extension already gives integral designs. If the Kotecky–Preiss char-0 route is revived, torsion of the design system of PHP plus encoded blocks decides whether a rational certificate is 3-integral, and that use was never tested. Next: Compute the 3-torsion of the design system's cokernel for weak PHP with 6 pigeons at NS degree 3 plus one aux-bit-encoded dense block. Check whether it obstructs a 3-integral certificate. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-type-capacity-review:1 (bridge), Dilute quenched disorder in statistical physics: the Harris criterion: Closed because “no mechanism converts dilution into degree” and a pattern count “suggests” the natural one cannot; that is absence of a mechanism plus a heuristic, not a found reason. Its two developments (pin semi-regularity, pattern-poor supports) were special cases. The thread review then named exactly the Harris property, a design cost scaling with error probability rather than block count, as what A1’s core lacks, so the translation still bears on it. Next: State a Harris-type relevance criterion as a second-moment bound on the design correction over random prefixes: extend lem:pin-moment-formula to the joint-rank strata of pairs of designs and test whether the correction cost is controlled by the forbidden fraction for a family beyond member-pinning capacity. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-planted-review:1 (bridge), Statistical physics: quiet planting (Krzakala and Zdeborová, Phys: Developed into prop:pattern-poor-support (plant the whole design, union bound over zero patterns). It was closed for dense families on a count that the entry itself calls heuristic and limits to “as far as this union bound goes”, i.e. one formulation. The current A1 direction (local designs, a measure on each block’s allowed set) is a planted object of a different kind that this closure does not cover. Next: Apply quiet planting per block: plant a local design on each block’s allowed set, count zero patterns per block on that local support rather than on one global support, and check whether the pattern union bound or a contiguity argument survives there. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-hybrid-route-review:1 (bridge), Longuet-Higgins' theorem on nonbonding orbitals of alternant hydrocarbons (J: Closed with no work: its test equalled the recorded degree-1 occupancy condition, and “nothing above degree 1 was found” because nothing was tried. Whether a nonbonding-orbital (zero-sum) construction has a higher-degree analogue that builds Nullstellensatz designs on the allowed set, which A1’s certificate half needs, was never examined. Next: Test whether the zero-sum rule extends to degree 2: compute degree-2 pin safety for pinned column sums on the tensor-square board and see whether a zero-sum construction yields explicit low-degree designs beyond the occupancy condition. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-fall-tolerance-review:1 (lead), Resolvent saturation , the mechanism of thm:resolvent-taylor-glue: add the fallen consequences of degree \(\le D\) as constraints and require Taylor generation : The closure cites conj:tree-member-saturation, but that refutation used random cylinder sets excluding each point with probability 1/2. The same entry finds that falls fade with density: chains with one-coordinate separators miss falls in 0 of 6 trials at density 0.97. W_RS blocks exclude only about 3^-t of the base, and the original test of the review on real W_RS blocks passed on chains in 4 of 4. So the falsification covers one density regime, not the W_RS setting. The current A3 statement for W_RS (members glued whole, early cross falls conjectured to need a shared piece) is exactly where pair or bounded-cluster saturation would apply. Next: Repeat the triple-falls comparison (graded ideal of J1+J2+J3 against the sum of pair saturations) on real W_RS prefix blocks and on cylinder sets at excluded density 3^-t, t=2,3, for chains and triangles at the sizes of triple_falls.m2 and tree_random_sets.m2. If pair saturations generate there, state and try to prove a density-threshold saturation locality that implies the shared-piece conjecture for early cross falls. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (second pass).
entry-2026-09-26-thread-review-5:3 (lead), Cohen–Lenstra universality for random matrices over finite fields (Wood's universality theorems, J: Developed into the density, fill-point and shared-piece fall statements, then closed because falls were judged irrelevant to row freeness. But the current A3 for W_RS rests again on falls (early cross falls conjecturally need a shared piece) and on “random tops act like random matrices”, and the redirect to row freeness was never attempted, so the translation still bears on open statements. Next: State a Wood-type universality conjecture for the relative Tor (cokernel of the Taylor/Koszul map relative to the base) of random-prefix tops below the fill point and test its moment predictions on the recorded fill-point and shared-piece data. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-fall-line-review:1 (bridge), Smoothed analysis (Spielman and Teng, J: Closed because the U-shifted defect lies in the tops whatever the prefixes; but the column-representation entry then showed the U-shifted defect is a representation artifact (defect 0 in the column representation), and the subset reframing made such whole-allowed-set defects irrelevant. The closing reason was thus withdrawn by later work, and the smoothed question for W_RS (do random prefixes put adversarial families in general position for row-free subsets or Taylor generation) is untested. Next: Redo the smoothing test in the column representation and in the row-free-subset or Taylor-generation form: for a fixed adversarial dense family (e.g. spread or varying-shift families), compare the defect under uniform random prefixes with worst-case prefixes. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-26-fall-line-review:2 (bridge), The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion (Comm: Closed after one test: pointwise polymer interactions cannot distinguish row-shifted from exact sunflowers (purity defects 778 vs 49). Row-shifted sunflowers become exact under normal form (gauge fixing), and the purity-defect formulation was later superseded, so this falsifies one formulation only. The cluster-expansion translation fits the current A3 picture (early cross falls need rare shared pieces; blocks as clusters), and planted-locality found Taylor defects exactly additive over subfamilies. Next: Take polymers to be shared-piece clusters with Taylor-generation defect as the polymer weight, and test additivity of the defect over clusters on random-prefix families; if additive, check the Kotecký–Preiss criterion with activity h3^{-t}. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-witness-route-review:3 (lead), Standard monomial theory through Robinson–Schensted (Shareshian–Wachs, Theorem 6.3, as cor:rsk-monomial-basis): Closed because “normal form is no longer the object” and “no recorded step needs it” after the condition began quantifying over equivalent families; no attempt was made. The RSK basis is a basis of the quotient itself, independent of the representation, so the reason does not cover its answer (density giving distinct leading monomials, hence directness), which still bears on first-degree purity and Taylor generation of adversarial dense tops. Next: Compute leading RSK standard monomials (cor:rsk-monomial-basis) of dense clause tops on small boards and test whether density modulo the row sums forces distinct leading terms for families beyond joint capacity. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-witness-route-review:1 (bridge), Slater determinants and the Slater–Condon rules (quantum chemistry): The row-local review closes Slater only for defect detection: ghost-row witnesses 'vanish on the row-sum ideal R', so they cannot see defects lying in R. That is one structural remark about one use. The same vanishing on R makes these simplex functionals (which span (A/R)^*, thm:multirow-local-spanning) exactly the raw material of a Nullstellensatz design, and the bridge's overlap formula gives their values on clause tops. A1's certificate half still needs such a design. Next: Use lem:ghost-slater-pairing to write the vanishing of a combination of simplex functionals on one dense block's clause multiples as a bordered-minor (Gram-type) linear system, and test its rank on the recorded dense obstructions (tensor family c=2, seed-23 pair) for a local design. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (second pass).
entry-2026-09-27-equivalence-route-review:1 (bridge), Gauge fixing and the Gribov ambiguity (theoretical physics; Gribov 1978, Singer 1978): Developed into empty-row sculpting (value-fiber conjecture refuted) and fall closure (reverses the level gap), which is real work; but the closing clause “gauges that add points are not constructible by the tools at hand” is not a found reason. Its patchwise-gauge-then-glue translation resembles the current local-design approach (a measure per block’s allowed set, bypassing the union), and the row-free-subset reframing may or may not supersede it. Next: Check whether the local-design formulation is a Gribov patchwise gauge: fix designs on each block’s allowed set and compute the gluing obstruction on overlaps of two dense blocks, comparing with the refuted value-fiber conjecture. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-row-local-route-review:2 (lead), Linkage and the Mayer–Vietoris sequence of ideals (Peskine and Szpiro, Liaison des variétés algébriques , Invent: It identified r_i tau as the Mayer–Vietoris connecting term, then was closed because after the subset reframing structured families need no gluing. That reason covers structured families only; the dense core beyond capacity, the lagged-lift subset and lift gluing still need local-to-global gluing, though separate items (mayer-vietoris-purity, cover-relative-gluing) carry parts of it. Next: Compute the linkage connecting map for the lagged lift on two dense blocks’ allowed sets beyond capacity and test whether a choice of lift kills it, distinguishing what cover-relative-gluing already covers. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-dance-review:1 (lead), The basis of Impagliazzo, Pudlák and Sgall (ECCC TR97-042, Definition 2.5 and Proposition 2.8): The lift review's closure says 'Work this cycle: none needed'. It argues that prop:design-lift-criterion poses the lift without a basis. A reformulation that does not need the basis is not a stronger result that proves the lift, so the supersession claim is unsupported. The lift (N_D cap F_{D-1} contained in N_{D-1}) is again the highest-risk step as conj:lagged-lift-subset, and an IPS-type explicit description of the PC closure is a natural tool for it. The only found obstacle is the functional axioms, an encoding caveat. Next: Build the analogue of the IPS basis B_d (Definition 2.5, Prop. 2.8) for weak unary PHP without the functional axioms, with its monotonicity x_aQ_i in B_d iff x_a in B_{d-1}. Then test whether it certifies the lagged lift on a restriction set and on the smallest recorded dense family. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (second pass).
entry-2026-09-27-dance-review:2 (lead), Cone constructions for coboundary expansion (Gromov, 2010; Kozlov and Meshulam, Quantitative aspects of acyclicity , 2019): Closed by a structural remark: the PC top-drop cochains live on an excluded carrier, and on the full allowed set the obstruction is the splitting condition (S). The lead was originally aimed at the dance line’s Nullstellensatz recursion (multi-face coboundaries in a sparse excluded set), and that half is the current highest-risk need (A1’s certificates need a Nullstellensatz design); the closure did not address it. Next: Apply cone-construction coboundary expansion of chessboard complexes to the zero-prescribed design recursion on the allowed set, with W_RS’s correlated exclusions (shared value vectors) instead of independent ones. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-dance-review:2 (bridge), Warning propagation and the cavity method (Mézard, Parisi and Zecchina, Science 297, 2002): Closed because under PC on Q_D forcing spreads to all supersets, moving the question to the bootstrap bridge. The entry concedes the subcritical estimate holds for the Nullstellensatz recursion, which the current A1 needs, while correlated exclusions were outside its model; whether the capacity barrier for point designs already settles that is not clear from the record. Next: Redo the cavity (warning-propagation) estimate for the Nullstellensatz recursion with correlated W_RS exclusions and compare it with the few-columns capacity barrier for point designs. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-lift-review:1 (bridge), Bootstrap percolation (Aizenman and Lebowitz, Metastability effects in bootstrap percolation, J: Closed with “the threshold is emptiness” from the Lucas-multiplier analysis (prop:hiding-needs-emptiness: 1_{E_b}W_a has low degree), which concerns pointwise multipliers. The budget review itself says the general design form, W gamma only in the PHP closure, is unstudied, and the capacity review stated the general infection threshold on A (drops from low-degree functions on E with tops in the row-sum ideal), which is the lagged-lift question. Closed on one formulation. Next: Identify the infection threshold on A for general (non-pointwise) designs: bound the low-degree functions supported on E whose tops fall into the row-sum ideal without splitting, and test whether some subset of A stays uninfected through D beyond capacity. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-capacity-review:1 (bridge), Replica symmetry in random constraint satisfaction (Achlioptas and Coja-Oghlan, Algorithmic barriers from phase transitions, FOCS 2008): Closed only 'with' the Bonferroni and Lucas constructions it inspired; no attempt ever tested its own translation, that in the replica-symmetric regime the allowed set (or a typical subset) is itself a top-lift subset. That target is exactly the current conj:lagged-lift-subset, so the closure is by association, not by a reason the attempt found. Next: Use the replica-symmetric/contiguity picture directly: compare a random-prefix family's allowed set with the base P (where the lift is known) and test the lagged-lift criterion (prop:lagged-lift-criterion) on the allowed set itself, or on a random subset of it, for the smallest dense families beyond capacity. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-row-freeness-review:2 (bridge), Qutrit stabilizer codes (Gottesman, Fault-tolerant quantum computation with higher-dimensional systems, 1998), from quantum information: Developed only into a necessary condition (Frobenius splitting, conj:uniform-level-balance), then closed because sufficiency would need a special-position Dade lemma that the truncated counterexample rules out 'in general'. The bridge's actual proposal, a code-distance-type bound on the degree at which shifted directions can fail freeness, was never attempted. A general counterexample does not rule out special position for the actual instances, and row freeness on the allowed set (conj:closed-row-freeness) remains a current route to W. Next: Formulate a joint, multi-direction distance statement (no low-degree combination of shifted row-sum directions acts trivially on functions on the allowed set), and test whether the truncated Dade counterexample's special position can occur on allowed sets of density >= 1/2 under random prefixes. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-global-step-review:1 (lead), Lower bounds for linear 2-query locally decodable and correctable codes (Z: Never worked for nine reviews. Its single development (configuration review) found tensor families with relation span c*log_3(2X+1), as predicted, and explicitly left open whether the pinned-rank reduction handles rank of order c log n. It was then closed because the route moved to the base's image, which is not a reason the attempt found, while that check still bears on settling a class of adversarial families. Next: Check whether the pinned-rank reduction (pinned-rank vacuity) extends from rank O(c) to span rank O(c log n) within W's budget. If it does, the LCC dimension bound settles all relation-rich families, and the remaining case is families with O(1) relations per block. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-global-step-review:1 (bridge), Laman's theorem on rigid frameworks (G: Undeveloped for many cycles. The only work recorded the tensor and forced families as circuits of the omega-matroid and observed that a count by span alone cannot predict them; no Laman-type count was attempted beyond that. It was closed because dependencies are 'absorbed by dense members' under conj:dense-cover-generation, a conjecture of a route since moved on, so the circuit count still bears on Tor vanishing for adversarial tops. Next: Formulate a weighted Laman-type count (members weighted by h, relations by their degree) that separates the tensor and forced circuits from a lifted spread of equal span. Test it on the recorded circuits and on the chain and triangle data. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-convergence-review:2 (lead), Fröberg's conjecture on generic Hilbert series (R: The configuration review found that for adversarial blocks with h=k+1 the prefixes supply no genericity, which falsifies the A1 use only. The closing text itself says 'the lead remains relevant to random forms (A3)'. Closing while the translation still bears on a current open statement violates the squeeze rule. Next: Apply proved cases of Fröberg-type statements (e.g. Hochster–Laksov maximal rank in the first nontrivial degree) to the per-block Hilbert-series identity for random tops at degrees h+1, h+2. Check them against the recorded random-top computations (generic directness). Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-convergence-review:1 (bridge), The cleaning lemma for quantum stabilizer codes (S: Closed after one cycle on a structural remark (locality needs bounded geometric dimension), which applies to the Bravyi–Terhal no-go application, not to the cleaning lemma as an erasure-correctability tool. Its degree-h case is prop:cross-block-weight. The proposed higher-degree cleaning argument was never attempted in nine reviews, and the per-block Tor condition it targets remains on the route ('blocks as clusters need the same Tor vanishing per block'). Next: Attempt the degree h+1 cleaning step: show that if no short cross-block combination lies in V_b*A (prop:cross-block-weight) then I cap V_b*A has no new elements in degree h+1, cleaning a candidate off the block's forms. Test on the shared-square circuit. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-27-cover-gluing-review:2 (lead), Algebraic discrete Morse theory (M: Closed by a one-step objection, 'direct form vacuous (cells are single-top)', after which its content 'became' conj:span-local-generation, the conjecture the matching was meant to prove. No acyclic matching was attempted on a complex whose cells are members or member unions, and a matching mechanism for generation by members still bears on Tor vanishing with members as units. Next: Build an acyclic matching (Jöllenbeck–Welker/Sköldberg) on the Taylor complex of the clause tops, grouped by member (e.g. a Lyubeznik-type matching ordered by member). Check whether its critical 1-cells are member-supported on the chain, triangle and tensor families. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-28-relation-line-review:2 (bridge), The cluster expansion of statistical mechanics (R: Closed by a one-step structural remark of the review: the degree-zero circuits give a non-local class at the lowest degree. But those circuits lift for W's clause shape (prop:degree-zero-circuits), so an expansion modulo lifting dependencies, the form the record itself adopted (conj:local-generation-modulo-dependencies), was never tried; the objection falsifies only the unmodded formulation. (Overlaps the later Kotecky-Preiss lead of the overdetermined review.) Next: Set up the polymer expansion of the Tor_1 (or Hilbert-series) correction modulo the lifting dependency classes, with groups of members sharing relations as polymers; check on the recorded chain, star, triangle and prefix-sum chain data that corrections of groups of size s start at degree about s times the onset, and test the Kotecky-Preiss criterion for W_RS densities. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-28-configuration-review:1 (lead), Projective Reed–Muller duality and small-weight codewords of projective-geometry codes (A: No code-theoretic classification was attempted; the closure rests on the parked conj:dense-cover-generation (dependencies need no classification under it), not on a reason found by an attempt. A classification of small-weight dual codewords would list every kind of non-local dependency among few members, which bears on whether early cross falls need a shared piece. Next: Use the Bagchi-Inamdar / Sorensen description of small-weight codewords of duals of point-subspace codes of PG(s,3) to classify dependencies among few members of weight up to about twice the minimum, and check whether each kind requires two members to share a linear piece. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-28-configuration-review:2 (lead), Chevalley–Warning and the Ax–Katz theorem (J: Never developed (two 'no new work' rounds); closed because value-space satisfiability puts any tensor-type dependency inside the family's own dense member, a reason tied to the parked dense-cover route. Tensor and forced families are later recorded as harmless by pinning Z, which may cover the idea, but whether every tensor-type dependency allowed by Ax-Katz has a pinnable shared part was not checked. Next: Use Chevalley-Warning/Ax-Katz to describe signed point sets with constant determinantal zero counts mod 3, and test whether each such dependency has a shared subspace of logarithmic dimension, so that prop:pinned-rank-vacuity applies. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-28-configuration-review:3 (lead), The Combinatorial Nullstellensatz (N: It was closed because 'lifting is no longer needed' once the statement moved to satisfiable members. That is a route change, not a reason found against the idea. The current highest-risk step is again a lift (conj:lagged-lift-subset, 'unknown for dense families'). The CN translation, that dense forms map the base onto a grid where every nonzero clause combination is visible, bears on whether dense families' low-degree consequences lift. The record does not say whether it helps or obstructs there. Next: On the 7-by-6 weak base with six random dense forms, apply the grid-surjectivity + Combinatorial Nullstellensatz argument to decide whether the consequences that the lagged lift must certify by O(D) rows are visible on the base, giving a lift or a counterexample for the smallest tensor family. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (second pass).
entry-2026-09-28-overdetermined-review:1 (lead), The Kotecký–Preiss cluster expansion (R: The numerical Kotecky-Preiss condition passed, but the algebraic translation was never tested. The closure says dimension-level expansions reach only the falls half (conj:fill-point-falls), which is itself still open in A3, so the idea still bears on an open statement; the coupling-distributivity argument rules out only the row-freeness half. Next: Write the Hilbert-function correction of the allowed set ideal for W_RS as a polymer sum over connected clusters of blocks sharing pieces, and test on the recorded pair and shared-piece data that clusters without a shared piece contribute no falls below the fill point, using the passed density bound (sum of block weights at most about 1/n). Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-28-member-tensor-review:1 (lead), The record's conj:graded-dade-margin, in member form (stated in the pencil graded Dade line, proved for two directions by thm:pencil-graded-dade): Developed into conj:unit-loss-dade and prop:ideal-sum-criterion, then closed because the goal needs only no falls plus freeness over the couplings, not full value-side freeness. A graded Dade statement with margin over the smaller coupling algebra acting on the non-tensor allowed ring still seems to be what the dense core needs, and the record does not show it inapplicable there. Next: State the margin form of conj:graded-dade-margin for the coupling algebra (dimension at most m-1) acting on T(E/K_0) modulo the sum of the member ideals, and test it on the three-member pure-relation configuration proposed by the dense-core return review. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-28-ideal-sum-review:1 (lead), The Alexander–Hirschowitz theorem with Terracini's lemma (J: A Horace argument in T(W) was never attempted (follow-up said so), and the closure was by the same reason as the graded Dade item, namely that the value side does not reach the obstacle, a route decision rather than a reason found against the idea. Horace-type specialization is a standard method for maximal-rank and semi-regularity statements of the kind A3 conjectures. Next: Attempt a Horace-type specialization in T(W): degenerate one member span into a hyperplane and prove directness (maximal rank) of member ideals by induction on members, checking first against the (2,4,4) quadric pair defect and prop:no-horace-balancing. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-28-ideal-sum-review:4 (lead), The spread lemma behind the sunflower bounds (R: Developed into overlap orientation, multi-direction threshold and cluster flags, then closed because the obstacle lies in dense pure relations rather than sharing structure. The core translation, a subspace spread lemma reducing adversarial spans to spread ones that behave like general ones, was never located or proved, and could still reduce adversarial A1 to a random-form statement; whether that helps while the random dense core is open is unclear. Next: Formulate a subspace spread lemma (a kernel subspace in many member spans is pinned by cor:pinned-cluster-reduction, otherwise spans are spread) with its degree cost, and test whether spread dense families satisfy the W_RS structured-class hypotheses already settled. Follow-up. Reopened: undecided, so queued (first pass).
entry-2026-09-28-value-side-review:1 (bridge), The decoupling theorem of quantum information (F: Closed by a one-step objection (applies to random forms; A1 needs adversarial). The developed lemma lem:derivative-propagation concerns general position, and the adversarial analogue proposed by the value-side review itself, a first moment over the prefix randomness and the symmetric groups of members, was never attempted; random tops also remain within A3. Next: Bound the orbit-weighted first moment (sum over GL(W)-orbits of the product of the two halves ideal masses on the orbit divided by its size) for random spans via the mass of member ideals on low-essential-dimension orbits, then test whether averaging over independent uniform prefixes gives an analogous moment for fixed adversarial forms. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).
entry-2026-09-28-certificate-halves-review:1 (lead), Pseudo-calibration, restricted to the design's support (B: Only the multiplier formulation nu = nu_0 W was tried: a multiplier fixed before the prefixes fails with high probability, and an adapted one reduces to the open adapted-design problem. Actual pseudo-calibration, truncating the low-degree moments of a planted distribution, was not attempted, and it is the standard construction for the Nullstellensatz and local designs that the certificate half of A1 now needs. Next: Define mu by pseudo-calibration against a planted model (prefixes drawn conditioned on a planted matching being allowed), truncated to low degree in the prefix randomness, and check that it kills row terms and is representable on each P_b on small boards. Follow-up. Reopened: closed before it was squeezed (first pass).

Outside leads

entry-2026-09-21-geometry-survey: Standard monomials and order shattering (Mészáros–Rónyai, Standard Monomials and Extremal Vector Systems) with a degree-compatible order. Use the standard-monomial/shattering description of vanishing ideals of Boolean point sets, with a degree-compatible term order, to bound the filtered image of the separated space modulo the selectors and old relations. Concretely: enlarge the dense-head count by cheaply derived additional heads, each reducer carrying an explicit NS certificate, so that the image bound approaches the true Hilbert function while the certificate cost stays inside the PC ceiling. The lex-order control (H_S(1)=4 versus three lex standard monomials) shows the order must respect total degree. Audit: Never developed in this form; the shattering idea was later taken up as Anstee–Rónyai–Sali (design support bound, closed for failure-set sizes in sparse-failure-sets) and is still listed untested for gr F^Q in overdetermined-review, so the standard-monomial normal-form use remains open. Deduplicate against that later listing.
entry-2026-09-21-geometry-survey: Solving degree versus last fall degree (Caminata–Gorla, Solving degree, last fall degree, and related invariants, Theorem 3.1). Caminata–Gorla split the solving degree of a system into its last fall degree and the largest degree of a reduced Gröbner basis for a degree-compatible order. Translated, the PC refutation degree of PHP plus the prefix clauses is controlled by degree falls of the supplied generators, and their regularity results with explicit hypotheses could bound the last fall degree of the homogenized clause system relative to the PHP base. The fixed-degree PC criterion of the marked fat point would be the bridge between the algorithmic invariant and PC degree. Audit: Recorded only as orientation in two entries; no later entry reads Theorem 3.1 or tests the translation from last fall degree to the degree-22k Tor-vanishing statement.
entry-2026-09-21-geometry-survey: Semi-regular sequences (Bardet–Faugère–Salvy–Spaenlehauer) for selector systems modulo PHP. Bardet, Faugère, Salvy and Spaenlehauer analyse Boolean quadratic systems under semi-regularity: the Hilbert series is the truncated product and the first fall comes at the first nonpositive coefficient. Translated, PHP plus the clause tops would behave like a semi-regular system relative to the base, which is conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base; a proof technique or published bound for semi-regularity of Boolean quadrics would turn the heuristic into the A3 theorem. The survey noted the genericity hypotheses are missing for proof-derived selectors. Audit: Dismissed in the survey only for missing hypotheses (a scope objection); the idea was later relisted as an outside lead in budget-review (passed as a translation) and its open content is A3 itself. Deduplicate against entry-2026-09-27-budget-review:3.
entry-2026-09-21-marked-homogeneous-geometry: Jordan degree type of multiplication by the marked variable z (Altafi–Iarrobino–Macias Marques, Def. 2.8, Prop. 2.19). The NS refutation degree is the length of the z-string through 1 in the homogenized presentation algebra A, and the Jordan degree type of multiplication by z records all string lengths via ranks of graded multiplication maps. Lefschetz-type or Jordan-type results for the distinguished element z, or for z on the tensor product of block algebras over the PHP algebra, would control degree falls. The entry warned that Lefschetz theorems need genericity and can fail in fixed small characteristic. Audit: Taken up later (jordan-type-literature, jordan-type-lead, Lefschetz leads in equivalence-route-review) but still listed as continuing in later standard reviews; not shown to have no remaining application. Deduplicate against entry-2026-09-27-equivalence-route-review:1.
entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Hopfological algebra of p-complexes (Qi) for the p-nilpotent selector operators. Selector operators D_l satisfy D_l^p=0 but not D_l^2=0 at odd p, so the obstruction complex is a p-complex with amplitude homology. Qi's hopfological algebra (Khovanov–Qi) treats p-DG modules over F_p[x]/(x^p) with derived categories and Künneth-type results; it could supply exactness and lifting statements for many commuting p-nilpotent operators, the r-parameter lift the p-complex line lacks. Audit: Named only as a literature lead and never read; the p-complex line was parked for lack of an r-parameter lift and later returned to as the batched mechanism, so the lead still bears on it.
entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Cohomological local-to-global consistency (Ó Conghaile, with Chan–Ng hierarchy lower bounds as controls). Organise local moment spaces (local designs on blocks or faces) as a presheaf with restriction maps; Ó Conghaile's cohomological k-consistency detects a Čech-type obstruction to extending compatible local sections, and Chan–Ng's lower bounds show where such algorithms fail. Translated, a global design for PHP plus many clauses would be assembled from local designs on each block's allowed set, with the obstruction class computed explicitly. Audit: Partly developed: matching-sheaf-gluing reduced it to an error-cancellation system and restriction-mixture-top-size to a one-count design problem (parked with a restart condition); Ó Conghaile's construction itself was never applied, and A1 now names local designs as the bypass of the union, where this lead bears directly.
entry-2026-09-22-random-calibration-route-review: Relative rank and regularization (Lampert–Ziegler), with Janzer and Kazhdan–Ziegler, for a rank-stratified first moment of degree falls. A degree fall at level B is an element of the degree-B conflict ideal vanishing on the annihilator of the forms, outside the trivial part; a first moment needs a rank of B-forms relative to the ideal and a count of low-rank elements. Lampert–Ziegler's rank relative to a collection of polynomials, combined with Janzer's partition-rank/analytic-rank bound and Kazhdan–Ziegler equidistribution, would supply that relative rank and the high-rank bias bound. Audit: Lampert–Ziegler is named once and never read; the degree-three first-moment entry left the Kazhdan–Ziegler exponent question unchecked, and the KZ part was later relisted in killer-moment-review. The relative-rank count still bears on random tops.
entry-2026-09-23-column-tensor-review: Dade's lemma with Carlson's rank varieties, truncated to degrees at most D. Over the group algebra of (Z/3)^M, a module is free exactly when it is free over every cyclic shifted subgroup F_3[z]/(z^3), z a generic linear combination of the generators. A truncated version (freeness through degree D from single-element freeness plus Hilbert-series positivity) acting on the row-free model would give the joint many-form lift, that is, row freeness for many selectors at once. Audit: Heavily developed (truncated-dade, graded-dade, pencil-graded-dade) and fails in special position, but still listed as continuing in later standard reviews and bears on row freeness, the stated route to W. Deduplicate against entry-2026-09-27-directness-route-review:1 and entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-review:2.
entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Artinian reduction of the chessboard complex's face ring and Hochster's formula (with chessboard connectivity and Shareshian–Wachs torsion). If the top algebra G (or a squarefree Gröbner degeneration of it) is an Artinian reduction of a face ring of a chessboard-type complex, Hochster's formula turns Tor vanishing for wide monomial tops into homology vanishing of induced chessboard subcomplexes, where chessboard connectivity and Shareshian–Wachs torsion apply. This targets the width axis (A2) and Tor vanishing for wide tops. Audit: Partly developed: the observations entry found Hochster's Tor is a different Tor, and the Gröbner-degeneration entry produced a squarefree complex Delta' for degree 3 only; no wide-top Tor statement followed. Carried later as standard item entry-2026-09-27-designed-line-review:1 (dedupe).
entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Lefschetz theorems for Artinian reductions of face rings and the anisotropy method (Adiprasito; Papadakis–Petrotou, odd characteristic). Maximal-rank multiplication by squares of forms on G is a Lefschetz-type property; characteristic-p anisotropy gives Lefschetz elements for generic Artinian reductions of face rings of spheres, pseudomanifolds and cycles. A characteristic-3 version adapted to the Frobenius syzygies (l^3 = 0) would supply Tor vanishing in degree for clause tops. Audit: Carried in entry-2026-09-25-outside-leads-review and tested in entry-2026-09-27-moment-route-review, which falsified it as a route to the F_3-random statement (generic over a transcendental extension; power-form Lefschetz fails since elements cube to zero). Whether a designed or explicit F_3 use remains is not settled. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Gröbner and torus degenerations with upper semicontinuity of Tor (the method of the known cases of Fröberg's conjecture). Degenerate the algebra G (not the forms) to a monomial or torus-fixed fiber where Taylor resolutions compute Tor, prove vanishing or maximal rank there, and lift it back by semicontinuity. Targets Tor vanishing through degree 22k (A3) and row freeness. Audit: Positive at degree 3 (lem:degeneration-transfer), refuted for row freeness because the torus rescales the row sums (degeneration-row-freeness), and falsified for monomial row sums under one order only ("other orders were not searched"). Explicit F_3-rational specializations at higher degree remain untried. Related standard items: fall-tolerance-review:3, row-free-line-review.
entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Representation stability for FI-modules (Church–Ellenberg–Farb) for the n to infinity axis. The map from n to K_t(n) is a functor on injections adding rows and labels; Noetherianity turns vanishing up to the generation degree into vanishing for all n. A fixed tuple of forms breaks the symmetry, so it needs equivariant configurations (orbit specializations) with M growing with n, or symmetry in law as for W_RS random families. Audit: Used successfully for the base (thm:tensor-power-freeness via Church–Ellenberg); for forms, falsified for adversarial coefficients (coupling-free review) and left "Not run" for the W_RS failure space, which is symmetric only in expectation (capacity review). The equivariant-family version was never attempted. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-generalization-review: Čech and Leray vanishing on the member cover. The gluing obstruction is a first Čech group on the cover of the inventory by its members, identified with Tor; a Leray-type theorem would make it vanish when the cover is good, with higher obstructions vanishing on overlaps. Candidate proof strategy for local falls on adversarial families (pencils are bad overlaps). Audit: Developed in the cover-gluing entries of 27 September but carried later as standard items entry-2026-09-26-fall-tolerance-review:2 and entry-2026-09-28-satisfiable-cover-review:1, whose audits govern it (dedupe).
entry-2026-09-23-sheaf-observations: Modular representation theory of (Z/3)^M: Dade's lemma, rank and support varieties, Jordan types. A = F_3[x_1..x_M]/(x_j^3) is the group algebra of (Z/3)^M with x_j = g_j - 1, so G is a representation with each generator acting as 1 + l_j, and Tor vanishing is truncated relative projectivity. Rank/support varieties and Jordan types could certify it beyond single generic elements. Audit: Heavily developed later (truncated and graded Dade, Jordan-type entries) and carried as standard items entry-2026-09-25-closure-route-review:1, entry-2026-09-27-directness-route-review:1, entry-2026-09-27-local-independence-review:3 and entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-review:2 (dedupe).
entry-2026-09-23-generic-line-review: Tropical leading weights with ties (extending lem:tropical-leading-bound). Assign tropical weights to cells so that the leading matrix of the double-point map is computable; tie-free weights cap at M(gamma_1-2), so use weights with ties and a second-order leading matrix to reach min(gamma_3, M(gamma_1-1)) on the pattern algebra for every n. Audit: Developed into thm:tetrahedral-double-points (about n^3/1330 explicit selectors at degree 3, every n); the capacity-sharp form is paused at the coupling, and whether tied weights extend beyond degree 3 or to wide tops was not tried. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-09-24-relative-line-review: Gale duality for the column model (squares of Gale-dual linear forms). Freeness of a column span in the column model equals the Hilbert function of Sym(V)/(m_1^2..m_n^2) with m_j the Gale transform of the hole-value configuration, a Fröberg/Alexander–Hirschowitz question for a specific point configuration. Locate the special position of the Gale points in the defective degree-4 and degree-5 configurations to decide column freeness. Audit: Partly developed (frobenius-class-apolarity handles the characteristic-3 apolarity), but the proposed special-position analysis of defective Gale configurations was not found later; column freeness at density one half is still conjectured in W.
entry-2026-09-25-literature-wilson-review: Family-dependent substitution in the style of the Weak Rank Principle (Garlík, Gryaznov, Ren, Tzameret, arXiv 2608.08760). Find a substitution, depending on the family, that sends each W clause (1-L_i^2) prod L_j^2 into the PHP ideal at logarithmic degree, as Y := X^T A sends rank constraints into degree-2 consequences of functional PHP before Razborov's bound applies. Audit: Developed (dense-axiom literature, composition collapse, weak-rank selectors, base selectors) and carried as standard item entry-2026-09-26-thread-review-4:3, whose audit governs (dedupe); base selectors left a corollary with expensive selectors not pushed to a bound.
entry-2026-09-25-literature-wilson-review: Symmetric-system lower-bound methods (Potechin–Grigoriev; Hakoniemi, Limaye and Tzameret functional lower bounds). These methods prove degree lower bounds by exploiting the symmetry of the whole system. W_RS families are invariant in law under permutations of pigeons and holes, so a symmetrized design (averaging a candidate over the group action) or an expected-case version might apply to random-prefix families even though a fixed adversarial family is not symmetric. Audit: Closed only by the one-step objection that an adversarial family breaks symmetry; no entry tried the symmetry-in-law version for W_RS.
entry-2026-09-25-literature-wilson-review: Closure of linear forms (Efremenko–Itsykson amortized closure; Efremenko–Garlík–Itsykson; Bhattacharya–Chattopadhyay; Byramji–Impagliazzo). Closure operators handle dense linear forms natively for regular or bounded-depth Res(+). An F_3 analogue for regular or bounded-depth Res(Lin_F3) on PHP plus dense blocks would be an intermediate target and a possible batched mechanism. Audit: Read in the source later (ordered closure: not span-invariant over F_3; parity literature); the closure sub-line is parked as weak, but whether a regular-fragment version at odd p was attempted is unclear. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-09-25-literature-wilson-review: Wilson's mod-p inclusion-matrix rank theorem, in a several-form version. Column Wilson gives Taylor generation for one sparse clause at every degree; a mod-p rank theorem for several set systems at once would give Taylor generation for many clause tops, including the Koszul range and overlapping supports. Audit: Taken as the main line: several-form Wilson, column-disjoint Taylor, bounded clusters and conj:two-form-wilson-taylor; designed families are settled, while the block-line review found no local-to-global principle for many forms. It now lives as route conjectures rather than a lead. (undecided, so queued)

Absurd bridges

entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Tseitin inconsistency as a zeroth-homology obstruction. For an oriented incidence system, solvability of prescribed charges is an image-of-boundary question and total charge per component is the H_0 obstruction; this explains why directly presented linear systems are easy for matching-characteristic algebraic reasoning. Translated, it suggests classifying which clause families have a homological (linear) refutation reason and separating them from those that need degree. Audit: Presented as a heuristic comparison and never tested as stated; later Tseitin appearances concern parity literature and onto-graph checks, and the record does not let me decide whether the comparison still bears on an open statement. (undecided, so queued)
entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Hyperplane-arrangement complements: topology and finite-field point counts of the false sets. Full-field false sets of selector clauses are affine arrangement complements; complex arrangement cohomology and finite-field point counts (characteristic polynomial) give invariants of the clause's falsifying set. The translation would need to pass from arrangement data to the Boolean cube and to the degree filtration with original-generator certificates. Audit: Untested here (no bridge found in a short screen); later relisted as the Crapo–Rota/Athanasiadis finite-field method, still bearing on the falsifying sets of adversarial blocks. Deduplicate against entry-2026-09-26-collective-core-review:2.
entry-2026-09-21-augmented-obstruction-complex: Fundamental groups and nonabelian topology of the obstruction complex. Nonabelian invariants (fundamental groups, nonabelian cohomology) of a complex built from local moment extensions could detect gluing obstructions that linear homology misses. The review ranked them below homology with coefficient systems because the unknowns are linear over a field. Audit: Deprioritised without any test and never mentioned again; it is unclear whether a nonabelian invariant has any bearing on the linear gluing problems in the current open statements. (undecided, so queued)

Kept closed

entry-2026-09-25-binomial-route-review:2 (bridge): The recursion review: Rumer's rule classifies linear relations among structures, which the passed test showed are the recorded single-shift resolvents, while the obstruction (falls) is not a linear relation. A restatement of a recorded result plus inapplicability.
entry-2026-09-25-closure-route-review:1 (bridge): The recursion review tried the extension: for two or more forms the algebra is the group algebra of (Z/3)^r, of wild type, so no Clebsch-Gordan series exists; freeness detection passes to rank varieties, a separate lead. Inapplicability found by the attempt.
entry-2026-09-25-closure-route-review:2 (bridge): The recursion review sized the perturbation: a clause's multiples add vanishing tops of dimension comparable to the module in each degree from 2(k+1), so rank-type stability is vacuous. Quantitative inapplicability.
entry-2026-09-26-recursion-review:1 (bridge): Developed into prop:hilbert-factorization, which gives size consistency only inside the transfer range; beyond it size consistency of two independent clauses fails from degree 5, a falsification of the additivity the bridge predicted.
entry-2026-09-26-killer-moment-review:1 (lead): The Nguyen-Wood scope entry read the paper and names the two properties the bias argument rests on (entries entering linearly and independently, and quadratically many nonzero coefficients per robust character), and shows both fail for W-type systems, randomized prefixes included (about one random scalar per image column, corrected by its reviewer). This is inapplicability found by a full reading. The code/non-code dichotomy the lead also named was developed separately from Wood 1504.04391 (wood-codes, still continuing at the discriminant step), so no part of the idea is lost.
entry-2026-09-26-killer-moment-review:3 (lead): The Gauss-sum entry shows vacuity above u about 0.71mN comes from arank being at most u, independent of the partition-rank loss, so a quasi-linear inverse theorem only sharpens the intermediate part 3 and cannot reach the main term. Inapplicability found from the lemma's proof.
entry-2026-09-26-killer-moment-review:1 (bridge): The random-core review's test T2 compared F_3 with a large prime and found the char-3 annihilator l, l' that characteristic-0 geminal results do not see; a falsification by test of the transfer.
entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review:1 (bridge): Developed into prop:family-induced-shifts, which refutes uniform square-class priority; the residual chooser question is answered by family-dependent choice, which W already allows, and W_RS removes choosers. Developed to a refutation.
entry-2026-09-26-chooser-review-2:1 (lead): The expander-core review records the method used in the restriction line (Theorem 4.9 carries every residual argument) and Theorem 3.8 read and found inapplicable to dense clauses, whose locality is a hypothesis of the method. Its only remaining use, the extension lemma from the Miksa-Nordstrom closure, was listed as entry-2026-09-26-expander-core-review:1, which the first pass reopened, so the same source stays queued.
entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review:3 (lead): Folded into restriction-review-3:3; expander-core review 2 found almost every residual row is a spider centre, so Taylor glue's base fails on the residual and A3 stays on the complete board, where the current open statements put it.
entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review:1 (bridge): Developed over four cycles (freezing, empty columns, functionality); restriction-review-2 records the universality answer 'negatively for product statistics: they survive with structure', a falsification for the available coarse-grainings. The RG universality idea itself is carried by the dense-core RG bridge, reopened in this audit.
entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review:2 (bridge): Falsified in restriction-review-2: column statistics are incoherent yet removed by freezing, product statistics are incoherent and not removed, so coherence does not separate removable blocks.
entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-2:3 (lead): Merged into restriction-review-3:3, closed in expander-core review 2 because spiders are generic on the residual and Taylor glue's base fails there.
entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-2:2 (bridge): Falsified in restriction-review-3: row-sparse blocks have large affine rank but small selector span, so span is governed by residual pigeons, not affine rank.
entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-3:3 (lead): Developed in expander-core, then closed in expander-core review 2: spider_count shows almost every residual row is a spider centre, so the transport has no gluing base; A3 stays on the complete board.
entry-2026-09-26-restriction-review-3:2 (bridge): Expander-core review: every random dense block keeps full selector span under puncturing, so no counting bound can thin the core; this falsifies the hoped sparsity of the core for random families.
entry-2026-09-26-expander-core-review-2:1 (lead): Dense-core review: the theorem needs boundary-expanding incidence with bounded row weight, and restricted dense clauses have unbounded weight and empty boundary. The fall-tolerant base target was carried into lem:relative-criterion and the Miksa-Nordstrom closure lead (the closure review notes the relative form avoids the expansion audit).
entry-2026-09-26-dense-core-review:1 (lead): The target of the lead was joint equidistribution of the restricted constants of a block via an upper bound on the normalized permanent of omega^A. lem:swap-decay and cor:dense-shift-equidistribution (both working proofs) give it for every combination far from additive, while near-additive combinations are exactly fixed, which also covers the dense-shared-part case of the adversary. The closing phrase (stalls at the global mechanism) concerns the downstream use, not this lead. It is in effect Developed with no further application.
entry-2026-09-26-dense-core-review:2 (bridge): Its target, a decay rate for the normalized permanent of omega^A, is supplied by lem:swap-decay as an explicit bound in the distance from additive, which covers product statistics too (they are far from additive); supersession.
entry-2026-09-26-closure-review:1 (lead): The target, a base on the forced sparse boards, was proved: lem:relative-criterion and prop:semantic-local-kill are registered working proofs (the verification gate of the closure review calls the criterion a sketch, but the relative review and the registry give it as proved). The open gluing condition 1 notin W_A is carried explicitly by the Miksa-Nordstrom closure lead (expander-core-review:1), which the first pass reopened.
entry-2026-09-26-closure-review:3 (lead): Proved as lem:relative-criterion (relative-review follow-up 'the descent is proved as the relative criterion').
entry-2026-09-26-closure-review:1 (bridge): Prevalence question answered and blocked centres absorbed by the closure base; no other target.
entry-2026-09-26-strategy-review:1 (bridge): Merged into Kotecky-Preiss in the closed-routes review after becoming the pointwise W_RS error bound; its question is carried by that bridge, which this audit reopens.
entry-2026-09-26-conditioning-review:1 (lead): The test proves that over F_3 the only function vanishing off a point has degree 2m, so flat weights cost exactly 2q, and the thread review used this in the replay barrier. Non-flat weights escape because they are not functions of the forms, a hypothesis failure of the theorem. The lead serves lower bounds (barriers), and no current open statement needs a lower bound on weight cost. A1 needs certificates to exist.
entry-2026-09-26-conditioning-review:3 (lead): Thread review: the permanent condition matters only within the conditioning budget, which the weighted-replay barrier caps (about n/10 blocks with product weights); W needs every fixed K. Inapplicability to the goal.
entry-2026-09-26-thread-review:1 (lead): Developed into thm:randomized-prefix-reduction, which is the W_RS weakening in the open statements, plus pinned-rank and light-family results; its limit (randomizes coefficients, not linear parts) was made explicit.
entry-2026-09-26-thread-review:2 (bridge): Randomized review: W_RS needs only existence, and averaging over C gives it; concentration adds nothing.
entry-2026-09-26-randomized-review:3 (lead): Used twice by real attempts: trivial degree bound for W_RS clauses, and only an exponentially small good fraction on the generic-directness bad locus, giving existence where density is needed.
entry-2026-09-26-randomized-review:2 (bridge): Used in the union bounds of pinned-rank vacuity and occupancy pinning; its remaining step (few forbidden points implies no low-degree refutation) is a density argument, and prop:thinness-equivalence shows such arguments use the failure set only through its density and cannot give the design.
entry-2026-09-26-random-core-review:3 (lead): Developed into prop:pinned-rank-vacuity and prop:occupancy-pin-reduction, working proofs within its hypothesis (few shared linear parts); the pinning cap is recorded in the row-local review.
entry-2026-09-26-random-core-review:2 (bridge): Developed into the rank-modulo-shared-part measure used by prop:pinned-rank-vacuity; no further prediction.
entry-2026-09-26-collective-core-review:2 (bridge): Developed in the slot Hilbert entry: the complement keeps almost all dimensions per slot, and the DAG review closed the joint count (subspace criterion fails jointly at p=3). Falsification by computation.
entry-2026-09-26-closed-routes-review:2 (bridge): The logical qutrit comes from torsion of the functional chessboard complex, which no filling step uses (Smith bridge test), and the weak-base survivor complex has no torsion; no tie from code distance to degree.
entry-2026-09-26-integrality-review:1 (lead): The obstruction is a lower bound on exact encodings in the cube variables only, as its own test states. The auxiliary-bit encoding (lem:auxiliary-bit-relaxation, working proof) bypasses it, so it is inapplicable to the encoding the line uses. The integrality line is parked and no open statement relies on the bound.
entry-2026-09-26-integrality-review:2 (bridge): Its test was vacuous and its prediction, uniform residues, is cor:dense-shift-equidistribution, already proved.
entry-2026-09-26-random-prefix-review:2 (bridge): The small-measure test found forbidden measure does not control PC degree under both natural distributions; the structured form reduces to the recorded vacuity question.
entry-2026-09-26-onto-graph-review:3 (lead): Not needed: the chain residual keeps independent 5-subsets and handles the hole side by the chain; its only target was re-proving residual lemmas.
entry-2026-09-26-onto-graph-review:2 (bridge): Identified as the cycle code of the residual graph, distance equal to the girth O(log N), so no rigidity. Falsification.
entry-2026-09-26-dense-review:2 (bridge): Developed into thm:type-pinning; the type-capacity review measured its reach (about log_3 n family-wide weight vectors, nothing for generic dense families).
entry-2026-09-26-wide-block-review:3 (lead): Developed into lem:pin-moment-formula; the random-form setting is off the route, and the moment step with adversarial forms and prefix randomness is carried by lem:prefix-gauss-bound and lem:prefix-signature-formula.
entry-2026-09-26-row-local-review:2 (bridge): Planted review: designs are not localized to small sets of matchings, since each constraint's multiples touch every d-face, so a per-small-set bound on active blocks has no use in a design argument.
entry-2026-09-26-substitution-review:1 (lead): The gadget-substitution entry read Section 3: the reduction needs auxiliary variables defined locally, which W lacks, and per-pigeon relabelling breaks collisions. Inapplicability from the source.
entry-2026-09-26-hybrid-route-review:2 (lead): The ar-support-immunity cycle proved lem:dense-forms-every-basis and cor:ar-criterion-dense-families: the criterion's sharing bound fails for dense blocks in every linear basis. Inapplicability across encodings.
entry-2026-09-26-fall-tolerance-review:2 (lead): Its own closure falsified only the nerve-topology prediction (falls only on cycles). But the Cech/Leray idea was re-raised as a later lead and developed into lem:cover-relative-gluing, thm:sequential-cover-generation and prop:chain-cover-generation (working proofs). Its sheaf and Mayer-Vietoris forms are also carried by later items (design presheaf, contextuality, satisfiable-cover-review:2). The supersession is supported.
entry-2026-09-26-fall-tolerance-review:1 (bridge): Refuted premise: conj:tree-member-saturation fails on chains.
entry-2026-09-26-fall-tolerance-review:2 (bridge): Dobrushin-conditioning entry: products pay degree per block whatever the influence, and averages vanish in characteristic 3 (lem:randomized-block-annihilator part 3); the char-0 route coincides with Kotecky-Preiss, reopened here.
entry-2026-09-26-thread-review-5:2 (bridge): Developed into lem:shared-piece-rarity; the cluster-gluing remainder is explicitly handed to Kotecky-Preiss (reopened here) and Mayer-Vietoris.
entry-2026-09-26-fall-line-review:1 (lead): Developed into the pullback freeness-inheritance lemma within capacity, then superseded by the Jordan-type lead entry. That entry, reviewer-checked, identifies maximal rank with lem:free-vanishing-tops, the Horace degeneration with lem:hole-splitting plus the open conj:fiber-lattice-freeness, and semicontinuity with thm:generic-top-directness. It also shows that semicontinuity cannot reach F_3-rational families. Restatement plus inapplicability.
entry-2026-09-27-directness-route-review:1 (lead): Developed into prop:spread-family-level-gap. Its last form, the rank-variety weakening, was closed by a real obstruction: the single-direction failures carry genuine falls (prop:varying-shift-affine-fall, working proof). The Dade idea itself continues in the record: conj:graded-dade (refuted as stated), the open conj:graded-dade-margin, the member-tensor graded Dade review and a later Dade/Carlson lead. So nothing is lost.
entry-2026-09-27-directness-route-review:1 (bridge): Same as the duplicate: fully used in the normalized conjecture and automatic in the witness formalism; U-shift coincidences are not gauge equivalences.
entry-2026-09-27-local-independence-review:3 (lead): The equivalence review records it as Developed: in the column representation the defect disappears and the detecting direction is r_i. The generic-core review then closes its last form, the rank-variety weakening, because the single-direction obstructions carry genuine falls (prop:varying-shift-affine-fall, proved for every board with m>=2). The graded form of Dade continues in entry-2026-09-27-graded-dade, so the idea is not lost.
entry-2026-09-27-local-independence-review:1 (bridge): The bridge's one recommendation, to look at second-order data, targeted the U-shifted defect. The equivalence review found that this defect was a representation artifact: in the column representation the tops are exactly first order (lem:column-representation (3)). The target vanished, which is a supersession found by the work.
entry-2026-09-27-equivalence-route-review:1 (lead): The Jordan-type lead entry ran a full cycle with a stated stopping criterion and a reviewer pass. It reduced each of the three forms of the lead to recorded statements and showed that the Horace step leaves the family as far beyond capacity as before. It also showed that semicontinuity fails on F_3-rational points, which the adversary uses. Restatement plus inapplicability found by the attempt.
entry-2026-09-27-equivalence-route-review:3 (lead): entry-2026-09-27-jordan-type-lead shows that a Horace step onto a column is lem:hole-splitting with the terms of conj:fiber-lattice-freeness. On fibers the joint span is the projection of the original one, so 'the step leaves the family as far beyond capacity as before'. The AH/semicontinuity half fails for F_3-rational families (x^3-x). This is a restatement plus an inapplicability, both found by the attempt.
entry-2026-09-27-row-local-route-review:3 (lead): The generic-core review absorbs pinning one row into the confined bases of lem:row-free-subset-sufficiency. The item itself records the many-row break at the per-pigeon rank cap. Pinning lives on in the route as member pinning and pins (A1 status), so the idea is carried forward, not lost.
entry-2026-09-27-moment-route-review:2 (bridge): The three-steps review did real work: an exact pencil-hafnian formula for every coefficient the kill probabilities need. It closed because zeon calculus 'says nothing about the distribution of one fixed coefficient mod 3'. That is inapplicability found by the attempt, and the moment line is off the current route.
entry-2026-09-27-dense-core-lift-review:1 (lead): The truncated inclusion-exclusion lead was developed over four entries into lem:lucas-truncation and prop:lucas-multiplier-reduction. prop:hiding-needs-emptiness then shows that hiding needs empty deep overlaps, at degree of order n*s. The budget review shows this holds even at the largest range N/2 for pointwise multipliers. This is a falsification of the mechanism, found by the attempt.
entry-2026-09-27-budget-review:3 (lead): Its own test says that it 'is the record's A3 heuristic in the language of the source', and the design-route review confirms it gives no certificate for adversarial forms. A restatement of A3, which is tracked as conj:semi-regular-relative-to-base.
entry-2026-09-27-budget-review:1 (bridge): The test itself finds that 'no theorem transfers, since polynomial degree over F_3 is not an information measure'. Its only use is to sharpen the exchange-rate barrier for pointwise multipliers. The colon-multipliers result puts base-design certificates in that class, and that programme is closed. No open statement asks for that barrier.
entry-2026-09-27-design-route-review:2 (bridge): The bridge's translation is an exact equivalence: an adapted basis is 'the same as a family of commuting idempotent operators'. So beyond its candidate it reformulates distributivity. The candidate 1_{E_b} fails only through the degree filtration, and batched splitting identifies that failure as a fall of the sum of tops, which is the Tor-vanishing statement itself. This is a restatement plus a failed candidate.
entry-2026-09-27-designed-line-review:1 (lead): The link induction was developed into thm:shared-cell-induction and thm:pair-reduction. It was then made unnecessary by thm:bounded-clusters, which settles the designed case. Link sequences are a Stanley-Reisner cell tool with no translation to non-monomial adversarial forms. Supersession.
entry-2026-09-27-designed-line-review:3 (lead): Its only aim was the clause count at fixed lambda. Under thm:bounded-clusters lambda may grow to h/(2T), and the explicit column design gives 'every polynomial count, without packings'. Superseded.
entry-2026-09-27-designed-line-review:2 (bridge): The counting of pattern choices served only the levels of the link induction. thm:bounded-clusters' component count replaced that induction. Subsumed.
entry-2026-09-27-designed-completion-review:1 (bridge): The support-level coarse-graining was developed and barred by the proved prop:coarse-graining-barrier, which leaves a delta^2 fraction of a dense family in one group. Its coefficient-level form was tracked separately as conj:pseudorandom-taylor. That form was refuted by prop:row-inflation and replaced by conj:column-weight-taylor, so the idea continues there.
entry-2026-09-27-dense-split-review:1 (lead): The test shows the condition of the lead (vectors in no proper subspace) is spanning, now exact in prop:relation-avoidance (working proof). For classes on many tops spanning fails by dimension, so no evasive set exists there. This is a restatement and a dimension-count inapplicability, not a one-step objection.
entry-2026-09-27-dense-split-review:1 (bridge): Developed into prop:stopping-set-survival. The remaining part, 'bounding the supports of base classes, is the route's obstacle above', which makes it a restatement.
entry-2026-09-27-dense-split-review:2 (bridge): Its soundness bound is cor:defect-decay's factor 3, and its derandomization is the spanning condition, both inside prop:relation-avoidance. The survival review found the factor-3 count 'too weak to decide anything by itself'. A restatement.
entry-2026-09-27-survival-review:1 (lead): Developed through four follow-ups: expected Hilbert functions for single tops and pairs proved on one row (group freeness, base-union socle). By prop:batched-splitting (working proof), the many-generator case is the Tor-vanishing open statement itself, which is a restatement. The Froberg idea for the random case of A3 is still carried by the later convergence-review:2 lead, which the first pass reopened.
entry-2026-09-27-survival-review:1 (bridge): Same item: the needed null-space property is the column-weight condition at t=2, already in prop:split-obstruction-bound. The open part is the split, so this is a restatement.
entry-2026-09-27-split-line-review:1 (lead): The colon-pieces entry developed the lead and found that pieces lie in relative socles. But 'the colon counts cells and cannot show that directions have low weight', and a vanishing colon on small bases is contradicted by the data. That falsifies the lead's target. Inverse systems as a source of designs are a separate item (the budget review's Gorenstein lead).
entry-2026-09-27-split-line-review:2 (bridge): Its own test reads 'prop:split-obstruction-bound is exactly this statement; it adds no mechanism for the split itself'. The configuration review confirms it. A restatement.
entry-2026-09-27-one-row-freeness-review:1 (lead): Developed in prop:sequential-freeness, then falsified: its hypothesis 'fails for every single linear relation among three tops' (ex:three-top-relation-types), and the prefix rule cannot avoid planted relations.
entry-2026-09-27-global-step-review:2 (lead): Its direct-sum case is the recorded lem:kunneth-component-locality. The tree case went to density evolution, whose girth form the degree-zero circuits refuted, with the content moved into the Mayer-Vietoris and cluster form that the route still carries. Absorbed, not lost.
entry-2026-09-27-global-step-review:3 (lead): Developed into prop:square-syzygy-reduction, which proves the defects that the identities give. The taylor-locality review notes that nothing further depends on them.
entry-2026-09-27-relation-line-review:2 (lead): Tested in local Taylor generation and planted locality, exactly additive on 1544 subfamilies. Its girth form was then refuted by the degree-zero circuits, and its content now lives in the Mayer-Vietoris/cluster form.
entry-2026-09-27-taylor-locality-review:1 (lead): The identity was developed into thm:cluster-sequential-freeness and prop:linear-transversality (working proofs). These reduce locality to the per-block Tor condition, the open statement of A3 and A2. The identity itself is recorded as prop:overlap-tor. Developed to the point where what remains is the open problem.
entry-2026-09-27-taylor-locality-review:1 (bridge): Same bridge. The single step is cor:pinned-cluster-reduction, and the dense-cover review identifies iteration beyond capacity with per-block removal and its recorded linear ceiling.
entry-2026-09-27-taylor-locality-review:2 (bridge): After several follow-ups, the dependency-line review found that the triangle is generated by its edges and the star by pairs (thm:coordinate-relation-locality). So 'acyclicity of the relation hypergraph is not what locality needs', which falsifies the bridge's prediction.
entry-2026-09-27-cover-gluing-review:1 (bridge): The predicted ring corrections were found as the covering triples of stars, and chains showed none. The pattern-level mechanism is carried by thm:star-family-locality and thm:adapted-helly-locality, so the bridge has no open question of its own.
entry-2026-09-28-span-locality-review:2 (lead): The tensor form became thm:involvement-threshold. The proved prop:relation-merging-barrier then shows that tensor superadditivity certifies only a small fraction of the relations beyond capacity.
entry-2026-09-28-span-locality-review:1 (bridge): Developed into thm:adapted-helly-locality. The configuration review falsifies both forms for dense families: shared coordinates give an unbounded Helly number, and span intersections fail since 'the tensor members pairwise meet in 0 and their first-degree dependency needs all (3^{c+1}-1)/2 of them'.
entry-2026-09-28-sequential-line-review:3 (lead): Developed into lem:socle-onset-criterion. The socle question it raised on quotients became, in relation-space form, the Hilbert criterion of prop:relation-merging-barrier. Developed, then superseded.
entry-2026-09-28-sequential-line-review:1 (bridge): Developed into the single-relation light cone of lem:relation-space-tor. The proved prop:relation-merging-barrier shows that the light cone certifies only a small fraction of the relations beyond capacity.
entry-2026-09-28-relation-line-review:1 (bridge): Developed into ex:relation-bag-images and thm:coordinate-relation-locality. These show that the triangle, not a tree, is generated by edges, so treewidth is not the governing invariant. Falsification plus a stronger result.
entry-2026-09-28-dependency-line-review:1 (lead): Made exact as prop:first-fall-criterion and run on the tensor family, where the combination does not reduce on the weak base (ex:tensor-family-falls), and on the forced family, where absorption fails for proper-span members. It remains a recorded proved tool.
entry-2026-09-28-subspace-line-review:1 (lead): Used in the transversality criterion: 37 dimensions equal the 3-rank of the line code of PG(2,9). The route no longer depends on relations among squared spans.
entry-2026-09-28-satisfiable-cover-review:1 (lead): The coupled pair is a genuine counterexample to the mechanism of the lead: its cover by two members has a contractible nerve, yet the union is not row-free. So nerve acyclicity cannot certify generation. The algebraic Cech/Mayer-Vietoris form, where the intersection term carries the coupling, is the additivity item (satisfiable-cover-review:2), developed and folded into the cover-generation obstacle. Earlier Cech leads were developed into lem:cover-relative-gluing.
entry-2026-09-28-satisfiable-cover-review:2 (lead): Developed over five reviews: pairs settled by lem:pair-directness-range and prop:overlap-orientation, single directions by end-additivity. The value-side review identifies many-member additivity with its Obstacle, 'cover generation between two halves', so the remainder is a restatement of the open problem.
entry-2026-09-28-satisfiable-cover-review:3 (lead): Developed: flat-covering sunflowers need about (3/2)^k clauses, beyond budget (cor:value-space-dense-covers). Kernel pinning iterated is per-block removal. The coupled-cover review finds that the live obstruction, couplings, 'come from row sums, not from sunflowers'.
entry-2026-09-28-satisfiable-cover-review:1 (bridge): The dense-cover review identifies the iterated renormalization flow with per-block removal ('removes capacity-many forms per round at a robustness cost each time'), whose linear ceiling is recorded.
entry-2026-09-28-dense-cover-review:1 (lead): Developed into lem:weak-base-anticoncentration. Below the column-spread scale the image is nearly uniform, and 'beyond it uniformity is impossible', where the obstacle lies. This is a proved limitation, consistent with A1's 'cannot be found by density or spread'.
entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-review:1 (lead): Developed into prop:oriented-cylinder-repair and tested on h-regular coupling graphs in the overdetermined review. The value-side review proves that adversarial overlap graphs exceed every cylinder budget, so no orientation exists. The column-local framework and its (HJ) hypothesis hold only within capacity, while the open part of A1 lies beyond joint capacity. The untried hyperedge (hypergraph-orientation) extension would also live in that framework, so no open statement remains for it.
entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-review:2 (lead): Continued as the generic Jordan type lead, then closed: 'pointwise data cannot certify truncated freeness, by the recorded counterexample'. The graded truncated Dade lemma fails in special position.
entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-review:3 (lead): Used for the capacities c(b) in prop:oriented-cylinder-repair. The trivial sumset bound suffices, and sharper Kneser bounds do not change which families fail. Its application is exhausted.
entry-2026-09-28-coupled-cover-review:1 (bridge): Same bridge: the super dimension is pointwise and ungraded, so like rank varieties it cannot see the recorded truncated failures. Beyond capacity there is no tensor factorization to semisimplify.
entry-2026-09-28-overdetermined-review:1 (bridge): Total counts factor for the coupled pair and the uncoupled control alike (prop:coupling-distributivity), so product counting does not see couplings. Level-wise counts are the balance test already recorded. Falsified as a detector.
entry-2026-09-28-member-tensor-review:1 (bridge): Superseded by prop:ideal-sum-criterion, which gives the obstruction module itself. A Hilbert-function diagnostic 'cannot prove freeness'.
entry-2026-09-28-ideal-sum-review:2 (lead): The value-side review finds its general-forms content subsumed by the orbit-weighted moment for random forms, and repeated members falsify it for adversarial families (the ideal-sum review). Both regimes are settled.
entry-2026-09-28-lagged-route-review:2 (lead): The Taylor-route review finds that 'consequences of the clauses alone vanish on the allowed set, so implication chains among clauses are not falls of the row span'. So chain depth does not bear on the lagged lift, which is inapplicability. The lead's test also rested on an unread title result.
entry-2026-09-28-taylor-route-review:1 (lead): Developed in the nontrivial-relation-bound and relation-excess entries: only nontrivial relations absorb, the seed-23 pair has none, and random pairs below the fill point have at most one. Its question is answered, and the answer is carried by A3's relation-excess conditions.
entry-2026-09-28-correlated-case-review:2 (lead): Developed in the junta-residue classes entry: 'row-sum phases carry full top-order mass without any correlation, so the bound is too weak'. It was superseded by the sharper residue-class decomposition.

Remaining gap. The audit judges closures from the record; it develops no item. Research entries develop the queue from its head under the squeeze rule.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	33 min 46.78 s
Marked reading and review windows	29.57 s
Computation design and coding	1 min 31.32 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	31 min 45.89 s

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Pang's theorem covers the odd-prime PHP target

Conditional on the cited preprint · External theorem scope comparison. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “Pang's theorem covers the odd-prime PHP target”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 7 October 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-10-07-pang-target-comparison.

Picked. The user asked: “Read https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00837 — Did he beat us?” This comparison takes precedence over the exploration queue and changes none of its items. It addresses the end-to-end ordinary unary-PHP target on scope-and-review, not the stronger internal sufficient statements.

General statement. prop:pang-target-coverage: accepting Theorem 7.2(d) of Shuo Pang's arXiv:2610.00837v1, our standard syntactic DAG Res(Lin) target holds for every fixed odd prime, with \(\exp(\Omega_p(N))\) proof lines for \(N+1\) pigeons and \(N\) holes.

Target coverage

Proof of the comparison. The source definition is syntactic DAG resolution over degree-\(r\) polynomial equations. Set \(r=1\); every proof in our target system is a proof in that system. Theorem 7.2(d) explicitly includes ordinary complete unary PHP, as well as functional and onto versions. Its exponential bound exceeds \(N^K\) for each fixed \(K\) eventually. The constant-width restriction in Theorem 1.1 does not prevent this application: Section 7.1 first applies it to bounded-degree graph PHP, then restricts the complete formula to that graph. This is an implication from an external theorem, not an independent proof of that theorem.

Publication comparison

The following comparison is conditional on Pang's stated bound, with \(N=2^\ell\). For our characteristic-two rule conventions it also uses his footnote 3's polynomial simulation of semantic weakening and our reduction of sound binary inference to the basic convention.

Theorem 7.2(e) gives \(\exp(\Omega(N))\) for bit-PHP with \(N<m=O(N)\), at every fixed prime. In characteristic two this improves the \(\exp(\Omega(N/\log^2N))\) bound in our publication. The abstract and introduction explicitly credit Braun's earlier preprint for the common-multiplier idea. The new rank measure works modulo bounded-degree PC and avoids extension variables. The bounded-depth modular Frege discussion remains conditional.

The local publication's theorem and rule conventions were read in publications/bit-php-resolution-over-parities/sections/01-introduction.tex. They concern characteristic two. Our present odd-prime target is standard syntactic resolution; no claim about arbitrary semantic odd-prime inference rules is made.

Scope of the assessment

Read the source's main theorem, definitions, Sections 3–6, PHP and bit-PHP applications, and Frege limitation. This comparison is not a complete independent correctness certification or formal verification of the preprint. Submission date: 30 September 2026. Initial reading preceded timing because the launcher required repair of a stale local user-request file; its contents were preserved before restoring the shared link.

Verification gate. A fresh-context medium-reasoning reviewer confirmed target coverage from the definitions and Theorem 7.2 and checked the local publication's theorem. Its requested power-of-two qualification and characteristic-two rule-simulation caveat were incorporated. Scope review passed; neither this review nor the source reading independently certifies the external proofs or simulation theorem.

Assessment. The stated result reaches the unpublished odd-prime goal with a stronger bound and broader proof system. It builds on and credits the published bit-PHP work. The internal wide-clause and source-removal sufficient statements do not automatically follow and are not marked proved.

Next step. On scope-and-review, independently audit the external rank-retention and approximation proof before treating the target as independently verified. This request does not resume Spin.

Process assessment. The exact application theorem settled the ordinary-versus-functional and wide-input scope questions without a new computation.

Measured timing
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Total instrumented interval	10 min 8.80 s
Marked reading and review windows	2.29 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	4 min 20.87 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	5 min 30.73 s
Dedicated web and download-attempt windows	2.50 s
Individually measured conversion, checks, and local processing	12.41 s

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How close the notebook came to Pang's argument

Context assessment · Existing proof architectures and the missing rank contraction. Produced by Codex (gpt-6-astra, medium reasoning).

Cite as: Kamil Braun, “How close the notebook came to Pang's argument”, Unary PHP in odd-prime resolution over linear equations, Noemesis research notebooks, 7 October 2026, https://kbr.is-a.dev/math-research/branches/odd-prime-reslin-php/#entry-2026-10-07-pang-notebook-comparison.

Picked. The user asked: “Do his proofs resemble anything we tried in this notebook?” and why the goal was not reached first. This is a direct comparison request, not a resumption of Spin or a new queued exploration.

Close antecedents

The published bit-PHP common multiplier is an explicit ingredient of Pang's proof overview. There are closer unpublished parallels as well. The 20 September relative quadratic review already measures surviving target products in a quotient by bounded-degree PC consequences. That binary retained-system criterion compares surviving rank with absolute reduction-image losses; it does not prove a relative contraction of the error operators.

The 26 September randomized-prefix reduction uses, over characteristic three, exactly the same shape of approximator: products of \(1-s_j^2\), with each \(s_j\) a linear combination of the truth indicators \(g_i=1-L_i^2\). It records pointwise error \(3^{-t}\), but leaves hardness after adjoining all error clauses unproved. Thus it would be inaccurate to say that we simply never tried Razborov–Smolensky approximators or linear combinations of indicators.

The missing quantitative bridge

In Pang's Sections 3–4, the error operator sends \(f\) to the tuple of classes \(Pg_if\bmod C_D\). Frobenius kernel descent and a finite-field rank-specialization inequality make a linear combination retain a constant fraction of the stacked rank. A standard-monomial degree comparison then lets each additional factor reduce the remaining error rank multiplicatively. The starting rank is bounded by the same surviving quotient dimension used to select the common multiplier. Consequently the argument needs a nonzero quotient, without a separately proved large surviving-space estimate.

This is the operative distinction from the retrieved relative-rank criterion and from controlling error-set density. The paper constructs approximators to suit the PC quotient, whereas the randomized-prefix program sought a general augmented-system hardness result. No claim is made that the notebook already contained Pang's completed rank-retention argument: targeted searches and the passages read do not establish that. Nor does this comparison independently certify his proof.

Why the direction matters

The 28 September thinness-equivalence entry explicitly corrects its earlier framing: several successive spread conclusions express the same thinness fact and do not reach the scale where the design obstruction lives. This is concrete evidence of repeated local development without progress on the required implication. Topological and geometric results may remain useful, but their existence did not establish that they were the shortest route to the desired lower bound.

The evidence supports a process diagnosis: we pursued strong intermediate requirements and repeatedly refined their local structure, while failing to obtain the adaptive quotient-relative rank contraction. It does not establish a counterfactual guarantee that a different prompt, model or schedule would have found it first. Future priorities should be judged by which necessary implication changes, and new criteria should be tested against a direct adaptive proof before investing in stronger all-source invariants.

For modular bounded-depth Frege, Pang's conclusion still identifies a depth-dependent approximation-degree/rank-shrinkage bottleneck. Winning priority cannot be promised. The immediate substantive task is to understand the independently audited argument and compare that bottleneck with the main notebook's exact target, rather than treating an expanded list of auxiliary results as evidence of proximity to the goal.

Verification gate. Re-read the full relative-quadratic, randomized-prefix and thinness-equivalence entries and the relevant published theorem; searched the claim registry and inspected the relative criterion's recorded impact graph. No new lemma or computation is asserted. The separately assigned correctness auditor is still examining Pang's proof; its early reports are not treated as a final certification.

Process assessment. The comparison exposed a specific quantitative difference and a documented assessment failure. It does not justify repeating the prior programme unchanged. Existing framework rules already require necessary-implication progress and comparison with weaker endpoints; this audit records a failure to obtain the missing mechanism, not a need for another generic checklist.

Measured timing
Measured category	Elapsed
Total instrumented interval	4 min 17.61 s
Marked reading and review windows	17.30 s
Mathematical reasoning and proof writing	3 min 51.38 s
Preparation and checkpoint work	8.92 s

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